Today is Earth Day.

There would seemingly be little to celebrate this year.  A demented octogenarian doesn't acknowledge climate change and will be dead as a doornail before it has a chance to bother him, not that the well funded indoor lifestyle of Trump would be much impacted anyway, unless of course it disrupted golf somehow.  

But, accidentally, there might be some reason to take hope.

Trump is so bad, and his administration is so horrific, that it may very well be like the refiners fire.  It's burning the stupidity out of American politics but putting it fully in place and putting it to the test.  When this is over, and it will be soon, very few Republican politicians close to Trump or supporting his policies will survive the test.  The Democrats are coming back into power, and a in a chastised form.

Whether they learned their lessons or not we have yet to see.  The Republicans show no sign that they have, but the public has made their opinions known. They do not like land rape. They do not like selling off public lands.  They are noting that the environment isn't right.  The validity of science is being demonstrated by the opponents of science being put into power.

It took World War Two to drive militarism out of the Germans and Japanese.  It might have taken Trumpism to wake up Americans to science and reality.

Related threads:

Donald Trump. Flagellum Dei?

Republicans. You have reached July 20, 1944. You can either act with the insurgents and save your party (maybe) or go down in the bunker and destroy it for a generation, or more.

Lex Anteinternet: Ascendant Ignorance in the Age of Donald Trump. Ignoramus* Watch Part 1.

Lex Anteinternet: Ascendant Ignorance in the Age of Donald Trump. I...:   Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King Jr. Ignoramus, Latin for we ...

This is off topic here. . . well, actually, no it isn't.

Ascendant Ignorance in the Age of Donald Trump. Ignoramus* Watch Part 1.

 Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ignoramus, Latin for we do not know.*

Etymology of the word Ignoramus.

October 31, 2025. 

Claims ‘chemtrails’ poison citizens spur Wyoming lawmakers to advance ‘geoengineering’ ban: Claims ‘chemtrails’ poison citizens spur Wyoming lawmakers to advance ‘geoengineering’ ban Nano particles released from Department of War jets are sterilizing soils, blocking sun, lawmakers hear from Wyomingites and YouTuber before backing bill.

What the f***?

"Chemtrails" for those who are unfamiliar with this, is a conspiracy theory.  As Wikipedia summarizes it:

The chemtrail conspiracy theory /ˈkɛmtreɪl/ is the erroneous belief that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological agents, sprayed for nefarious purposes undisclosed to the general public.   Believers in this conspiracy theory say that while normal contrails dissipate relatively quickly, contrails that linger must contain additional substances. Those who subscribe to the theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be solar radiation management, weather modification, psychological manipulation, human population control, biological or chemical warfare, or testing of biological or chemical agents on a population, and that the trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.

Uff. 

The fact that this passed committee suggest that every member of this committee needs to return to kindergarten save for Barry Crago and Karlee Provenza

So who is on it?

Bob Ide

Barry Crago (voted no).

Taft Love

Troy McKeown

Laura Pearson

John Winter

Dalton Banks

Bob Davis

John Eklund

Steve Johnson

Pepper Ottman

Karlee Provenza (voted no).

Mike Schmid

Tomi Strock

Apparently global warming coming up with some blaming that on chemtrails.  How ignorant can a person be?  It's amazing that they actually will acknowledge that its occuring, and man made, but has to be caused by some bat shit crazy conspiracy theory.

Don't vote for anyone on this list after this, save for Provenza and Crago.  You can judge them on their merits otherwise, but they didn't fall for this whacky shit or tolerate it.

Simply amazing, and depressing.

Footnotes:

*I'm using the word Ignoramus in its original English connotation, as derived from the Latin. I.e., an ignorant person.  

Not a stupid person.

To willfully believe something stupid is ignorant, particularly when done by intelligent people.  Some of these people are undoubtedly highly intelligent, and I don't know that any of them are stupid, but they're willfully voting for something that is just a weird silly conspiracy theory.

And that makes it all the more shameful.

Related threads:

The ascent of the ignorant.

The Agrarian's Lament: What an Eejit

Part of what Wyoming is now facing is the rise of real ignorance in the state's salon.  We've gone from a rancher/lawyer dominated legislature to a Freedom Caucus one which wants to put George Wallace in the Governor's mansion, raise the Stars and Bars over the state house, and thinks science of all types is a fib.

It'd be comical if not so horrific.

This is of interest here as this ignorance is hunting the environment, and everything else.

Don't vote for those voting yes for this.