Summary
At a Missouri town hall, Rep. Mark Alford faced backlash after telling fired federal workers that “God has a plan” for them and urging them to find new jobs, insisting the economy would improve.
Constituents, angered by Trump’s sweeping government cuts and Elon Musk’s influence, heckled Alford throughout the event. Similar protests have erupted nationwide, reflecting growing discontent.
Critics, including both Democrats and some conservatives, compared the movement to the Tea Party backlash in 2009.
Many federal employees fear further uncertainty under Trump’s policies.
God is the invention and tool of charlatans and the refuge of the wilfully ignorant, and it always has been. 🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
It’s demoralizing at this late hour, with our own habitat turning against us by our own hands, that the two great banes of human civilization, God and Capitalism, still hold near universal sway over our species. Both toxic and incompatible with a lasting technological civilization in homeostasis/equilibrium with its environment.
Why care about this world or your species if your “eternal reward” is somewhere else in your deluded mind? How can you find equilibrium with your environment if metastasis/growth is your only practiced priority?
Unfortunately for us, and fortunately for the Earth and most life on it long term, the physics of the greenhouse effect can be neither suckered nor bribed. The Earth will recover on its own timetable after we are dealt with. Just another problematic evolutionary mistake like the trees of the carboniferous period that couldn’t yet efficiently decompose (the bacteria to do so hadnt yet evolved), causing the opposite problem of the one we’re causing, leading to an Ice age.
The tragedy of our species is that we had the agency and knowledge to NOT destroy the climate of our habitat, and simply chose to do so anyway. Don’t worry though, Gawd’ll save us!