1/23/20: President Trump realizes that he shouldn’t have admitted he would look at cuts to Social Security and other entitlements if he won re-election. That means, time to tweet out a few lies.
He’ll be the one to “save” Social Security, he says.
Meanwhile, Fox News admits that projected federal deficits are expected
to reach $1.2 trillion annually through Fiscal Year 2029, as “red ink
explodes.” That’s almost funny, if you remember how much deficits half that
size used to make Fox News blood boil when Mr. Obama was in charge.
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Scientists are worried. |
THEN AGAIN, we might not have to worry about red ink exploding, because scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock forward again. Meant to represent the gravest threats to mankind, the clock was first set in 1947 at five minutes to midnight, at the dawn of the Atomic Age. Now experts move the hands closer than ever: 100 seconds away. It’s the third time in the last four years that experts, including thirteen Nobel Laureates, who help assess dangers to the human race, have moved the clock up.
Two simultaneous existential dangers.
The experts explain:
Humanity continues to face two
simultaneous existential dangers – nuclear war and climate change – that are
compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that
undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is
dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have
allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode.
Someone should probably mention this to President Trump. Go
look in the bathroom. He’s probably still flushing the toilet.
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