Hi, Sam Stone! -- I Pit the Blathering Bullshit about Stock Market movements

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This one is pretty dreadfully out of touch,

@Sam_Stone

… The big gain in Trump support didn’t come from Republicans - it came from blue-collar Democrats who felt disaffected by the Demoxrat party’s turn away from working class issues and towards identity politics and hard leftism.

The “Demoxrat” Party has gone hard left? What kind of shit-stained bubble does one have to abide to be thinking that? I think maybe he used to be kind of articulate, but his braincells are dropping like flies.

Then, we see him respond to irony,

@Sam_Stone

@marshmallow

Opening up of the Arctic for further energy exploration, which melts more ice, which allows for further energy exploration, which increases profits.

Or, you know, opening up northern sea lanes, which would reduce the energy required for worldwide shipping.

Also the conversion of millions of acres of tundra into arable land. And the reduction in heating energy in the populous and wealthy northern regions of the globe.

The truth is, moderate global warming (2C or less) may actually be a net economic benefit to the planet for these reasons and others, while still being damaging to equatorial countries and coastal regions. At some point the costs outweigh the gains, but the exact temperature at which this point is reached is really unknowable. The economy and ability of humanity to adapt to new conditions makes this a very hard thing to figure out.

(Follow marshmallow’s link to get the joke.) … with his insane hard-line Austrian-school economics. He has a one-track mind, and where that track leads, no one wants to go.