Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.
Jack Smith’s report (***the report is 174 pages long) detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday.
Following the insurrection on 6 January, 2021, Smith was appointed as special counsel to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. His investigation culminated in a detailed report, submitted to the attorney general, Merrick Garland.
Volume one of the report meticulously outlines Trump’s actions, including his efforts to pressure state officials, assemble alternate electors and encourage supporters to protest against the election results.
The Covid response taught me we’re doomed.
If we can’t get people to wear masks and get vaccinated for a disease that’s actively killing millions we ain’t gonna do shit over climate change.
The empires will fall but the species will remain. We would have to kill the entire planet’s ecology for humanity to go extinct, we’re too good at adapting.
We’re working on that. The methane hydrate problem is terrifying
Sure, but I’m unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean. Desertification of huge swaths not near the poles, ocean pH plummeting from carbonic acid causing a mass extinction of most plankton, algae, and the life that depends on them, and the end of countless evolutionary lines. But if there’s a temperate zone in Antarctica, or even a swampy tropical jungle, there’s gonna be humans eating snails and xylem for however long it takes something to start sequestering carbon again.
We bounced back from a 100,000 year bottleneck with a population of 1200. We’d seal that many in an underground cave complex with naught but lichen and crickets to eat before we rolled over and died out.
Not entirely. The wars over increasingly scarce resources (such as farmable land and water) will do a lot of the extermination as well.
Sure, but consider that North Sentinel Island has been mostly isolated for tens of thousands of years. 23 square miles. That’s how small of a rock we can cling to. Resource availability is the big question mark of course, and the exact nature of global ecosystem collapse and the water wars can’t be known exactly, but my money is on “at least one sustainable holdout” somewhere.
Hopefully they can eventually scavenge the good bits of our mountains of waste.