But no, we have officially pulled out of the Paris accords. And that isā¦ Donāt let anybody tell you thatās not a big deal. The way theyāre trying to handle that is, āWell, you know, the Paris accords werenāt really that big a deal. It was just a framework! It was just a document where nations of the world were committing their preferences.ā Yeah, thatās what they say when it falls apart on āem. Thatās what they say when it blows up. It is a huge deal that the United States is pulling out. Obama had signed us up for it.
Trump is pulling us out. It is a huge deal. It is a major blow, because, as goes the United States, so goes the world. And Iām telling you that leftists around the world are shocked and ticked off like you canāt believe. So Trumpās rewriting environmental rules. Trump overhauling public lands administration. This is the Department of the Interior, where major changes have taken place in terms of regulations and public use.
We have already, the Trump administrationās already green lighted major ā green lit, I should say ā major infrastructure projects and the Trump administration is appointing figures, people, who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come. Bingo! And all of this in 200 days.
Now, people donāt know it because none of this is covered in the Drive-By news, which is Russia, Russia, Russia, collusion, collusion, collusion, Mueller, Mueller, Mueller. Trumpās a pig, Trumpās a pig, Trumpās a pig. Or whateverās going on in the White House briefing, or whatever argumentās Trump is having with the media. But in the real world things are happening, and they are significant things.
Let me find ā there is a companion piece to this major infrastructure pieces going on. Oh, have you seen the story, theyāre trying to warn you that your petās environmental footprint is bigger than you think and that your pets may be contributing to climate change, too? But of course theyāre not preaching to you to change anything. No, no, no. Goreās not telling you to do anything. But hereās a story, your pets, your dogs, your cats, your hamsters, whatever, your gerbils, they are creating more climate change damage than you ever knew. You might want to think about getting rid of some, says the story.
This is from a website called Eureka Alert: āHow to Pave Over Our Big Butt Problem.ā Now, wait, before you have a knee-jerk reaction. Thatās the headline. Itās a story about recycling and the thing thatās been discovered here is mixing cigarette butts with asphalt. āAsphalt mixed with cigarette butts can handle heavy traffic and also reduce thermal conductivity. This means the product could not only solve a huge waste problem but would also be useful in reducing the urban heat island effect common in cities.ā
What is that? Very simply, what color is asphalt? Itās black. What happens when the sun shines on black surfaces? The black surface absorbs the heat, correct? And then that heat is reflected back off of the surface. In certain circumstances you can literally feel the heat waves, can you not? This happens frequently in major cities. You can feel the heat waves coming up. In fact, I remember back in the late seventies, eighties when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, the artificial surface in those days, AstroTurf, Tartan Turf, it was on asphalt. Did you know this? A bed of black asphalt was laid, and thatās what the carpet was put on top of. There was black asphalt underneath the green AstroTurf or Tartan Turf. And that stuff was very thin. There wasnāt any padding under it.
And I can remember on sunny Sunday day games in August where in our dugout there would be buckets and buckets of ice where players ā outfield ā well, the whole turf, there was no dirt except in the base pits. Players would come stand in the ice to cool off their shoes. You could be 120 degrees on the field with the heat waves rising. I wonder what impact asphalt has on temperature readings where they are measuring climate change temperatures.
Oh. And have you heard that in Australia they discovered that the official weather service there had been monkeying with the official temperature? You know how? They were not reporting accurate low temperatures. They were making up low temperatures by adding to them. The entire heat graph of Australia now needs to be changed because of this fraud.
So, anyway, cigarette butts mixed with asphalt reduces the heat absorption aspect of asphalt, and it also withstands the heavy traffic use that asphalt gets and it would help with these endless cigarette butts that are all over the place, cleaning up the mess, mixing them in with asphalt. Who knew? Itās part of whatās happening in all of this infrastructure innovation thatās taking place.
So IBD, Investorās Business Daily talks about this Atlantic piece, goes on to detail these achievements and more. Border crossings are down. They have plummeted, in fact, even though all Trumpās done so far is to promise to enforce existing laws. The EPA is dismantling Obamaās coal-killing Clean Power Plan. How about coal coming back? Obama really did promise and fulfilled it, to tear down the coal industry. Trumpās bringing it back.
The point is, in 200 days major significant changes have taken place, and Iāll tell you this. This is also panicking the people in Washington, in the swamp, in the establishment. This just canāt stand. They canāt let this go on if they have any say-so over it at all.
So many people say, āWhy donāt the Republicans just get up behind Trump?ā Somebody over the weekend said to me, āDo you realize how much more Trump could have gotten done if his own party would get behind him?ā I said, āYeah.ā I said, āWhy do you think theyāre not?ā Iāve often found it to be more persuasive if you can encourage people to answer their own questions, ācause then they will believe themselves. āMan, if the Republicans would just help him.ā
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