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Jedi Guy

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5. The Republicans will hand-wave this away as more Chinese conspiracies to damage our economy.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 07:46 PM
Feb 2018

Trump will carry on doing his level best (worst?) to prop up the coal industry, rather than advocate for re-training programs for workers in that industry.

But wait, there's more! Quite apart from the rise in sea levels, rising temperatures and other changes will harm phytoplankton populations, which aren't important at all. They only produce most of our oxygen, and who needs oxygen?

The canned air we saw in Spaceballs seems eerily prescient, doesn't it? Beavis and Butthead are probably already working on expanding the family "business" empire...

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