Trump Sought Assurance From Fox News Before Leaving Paris Climate Deal

[Areym]

StarOcean said:

Areym said:

I mean, all big news organization are always pushing their own agenda. I only really follow CNN in the morning and while eating my meals at home but I know they are pushing their own agenda and have been caught editing videos regarding BLM/police shooting to make them seem less volatile. That being said, Fox News are, in my opinion, the worst of the worst. It's just a giant circle jerk in there and most of their host, specially that brain dead sean hannity, are blatantly biased. I can't stand any of them and I'm not surprised there is a cultutre of the men being despicable and abusive asswipes.

OT: Donald Trump is an attention whore, plain and simple. He loves having all eyes on him and he'll do anthing to get it. He didn't have to make an announcement to announce his decision but he wanted everybody to have eyes on him when he did. As far as I understand it, the accord was just a pact of goodwill, it wasn't a binding document, countries were not obligated to do anything, just acknowledge that climate is changing and that steps should be taken to help minimize the heating of the planet. This dummy is making my head hurt.

I understand what it meant. But at the same time you have to keep in mind what that says about the US. Us not supporting it is us saying we're not going to recognize climate change as real. That makes us the only country to be like that. Keep in mind Nicaragua didnt sign it because it wasn't as pro-environment as they wanted and Syria couldn't because theyre all fucked up and weren't present. The US left because it doesn't believe in climate change.

That'd be as if there was a world wide agreement saying "we all know the earth is a sphere" and the US exits it saying, "No. The earth is flat and is supported by elephants which are supported by a tortoise. You understand how stupid it makes us look? We already look bad for not using the metric system... this country is an embarassment

Oh I agree. That is the biggest blow from all of this, we now have the image of a country who ignores sciences at all cost, even if the vast majority of countries agree.  And we get lumped with Syria of all countries. I heard this morning on CNN where Cuomo was asking Chris Collins why Trump would do this and Collins just goes on a tangent that (as always) this was a bad deal for the US and it was costing millions of jobs, that the decision was done for the benefit of the american people and that all the countries were laughing at us because we had 'harder lines' to meet than other countries. The only thing that Trump got was that now all the countries are ACTUALLY laughing at us for leaving. Yes, jobs in certain places will be lost but we can begin to focus on making more job in cleaner energy and in the long run (in theory), it will lead to the benefit of the american people.

You're competely right, we are becoming an embarassment in the eyes of the global community and the civilized world.