Thank you NYTimes, and thank you President Trump for bringing this into focus. I actually had a warm feeling towards the Times this morning and it wasn't the usual flush of anger. This is how we protest President Trump's policies when they are wrong, facts and focus!

From what I read, Trump's team accepts the fact that we are in a period of global warming. What they don't accept is that it is mostly if not all man made. So, that's our challenge.

THE CONFIRMATION HEARINGS and the INAUGURATION are nothing but a SIDESHOW. Trump is the master of manipulating the shiny object -- writing outlandish Tweets, sending cabinet appointees to the Hill who say ridiculous or ridiculously uninformed things -- while planning the real changes through shock troops being put together behind the scenes.
An article posted on The Hill this morning -- hardly a left-wing screed ( "Trump Team Prepares Dramatic Cuts") describes how the Trump Admin. is planning to follow the plan of the Heritage Foundation in gutting govt. services. It describes the "swat" teams being put together to go into Federal agencies at 12:01 on Friday and immediately start whacking. Have you noticed that his dictate that so many govt. servants resign has the earmarks of a hostile coup?
While the cabinet nominees still have not been confirmed -- and some of them may have little insight to what is actually being planned -- these bands of 2d tier appointees (who are not subject to confirmation) will already have made the changes. There is a reason why military generals were his first choices -- these are battlefield tactics often used by corporate CEO's but not well understood by the American public.
Some of those specific changes planned in blueprint of the Heritage Foundation and described in The Hill's article:
"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized. ..
"At the Department of Justice, the blueprint calls for eliminating the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Violence Against Women Grants and the Legal Services Corporation and for reducing funding for its Civil Rights and its Environment and Natural Resources divisions.
"At the Department of Energy, it would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions."
The election is over. The coup has begun. It's time to rethink what resistance actually means in the era of Trump.
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What's worse is that I've begun to wonder whether I would even feel the impact of any of these rollbacks of a tone-deaf bureaucracy? When during the past Democratic admins. did any of these agencies actually make any real differences in most people's lives? We think of them as a bulwark of our rights but try calling the Social Security administration when they make a mistake on a check or getting the EPA to actually take a progressive role in a fracking dispute. A huge issue here is the absolute neglect of Democratic administrations for the real concerns of ordinary people and for social justice.
So the govt. agencies will come down in a bloodless coup -- and Trump will put out some bribes and crumbs to keep the masses believing that somehow this is all good for them. It's late -- the empire is crumbling -- and perhaps with it democracy and even lip service to human rights.
While Bernie is out hollering as loud as he can about class issues, Hillary will sit on the podium and smile at the Donald, as people who thought her candidacy was legitimate will risk getting their heads cracked -- without her even appearing to notice. But then too, Bernie keeps foolishly insisting that change is possible in the DNC. It's time to get very serious about what it would take to reclaim ground for the 99%. I agree with CSTS -- the demo on Saturday is just people saying Hillary should have won -- and likely not even noticing that legal protections for women are being dismantled as they march with pussyhats on. (But take heart -- Mika on Morning Joe, great friend of Ivanka, tells us that women will soon have greater access to capital -- hey, we can all become successful capitalists too -- regardless of gender!)

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And only for the last couple of years eh? When they start talking a bit more about what Exxon knew and when they knew it, maybe they'd get some credibility back. And maybe when they mention how Mr Obama, hope and change himself, has not only done nothing but accelerated more drilling in both the US and the rest of the world maybe they can be "real news." But I for one will never subscribe to that rag ever again. While I was maybe a little surprised to see that hit the front page, not really. They'll probably "argue" about the causes for the next four years while nothing gets done and then bury further discussion on the back pages. After all, they'll have the daily abomination of the Rump to talk about. They have to appear to have some "distance" between an outright denier and themselves and here's their first round.

colors. Wowie. Red now, no, green. A light show. It takes so little to please me now, or something. Refuse to look at NYT.