We will finish Frontline's The Choice 2016, starting from 1:11:50. This is where both Trump and Clinton have there biggest crisis. For Trump it was the Taj Mahal; for Clinton it was Monica Lewinsky.
So far the election has been about personalities, devoid of serious discussion of issues. Yet most of the issues really cannot be addressed without the cooperation of Congress. But Trump, with just an executive order, can end the EPA Clean Power Plan and thus disrupt the Paris Climate Change Agreement. In the last meeting, I mention that DiCaprio will make his latest movie on climate change, Before the Flood, available for free from October 30 till November 6. HERE is the promo.
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HERE is the link to the movie, Before the Flood. There are direct references to some Republican climate deniers in Congress. The release before the election was no coincidence.
So far the election has been about personalities, devoid of serious discussion of issues. Yet most of the issues really cannot be addressed without the cooperation of Congress. But Trump, with just an executive order, can end the EPA Clean Power Plan and thus disrupt the Paris Climate Change Agreement. In the last meeting, I mention that DiCaprio will make his latest movie on climate change, Before the Flood, available for free from October 30 till November 6. HERE is the promo.
------------------------------------ Update 10/31/16 --------------------------------
HERE is the link to the movie, Before the Flood. There are direct references to some Republican climate deniers in Congress. The release before the election was no coincidence.
I think it was Mark Twain who once observed that history might not repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. Given some of what’s been going on in the current race for President, his words remind me of Kurt Vonnegut’s answer when asked why George McGovern failed so miserably in his effort to unseat Richard Nixon in 1972:
ReplyDelete“He failed as an actor. He couldn’t create on camera a character we could love or hate. So America voted to have his show taken off the air. The American audience doesn’t care about an actor’s private life, doesn’t want his show continued simply because he’s honorable and truthful and has the best interests of the nation at heart in his private life. Only one thing matters: Can he jazz us up on camera? This is a national tragedy, of course—that we’ve changed from a society to an audience. . . . He probably couldn’t have won, though, even if he had been Clark Gable. His opponent had too powerful an issue: the terror and guilt and hatred white people feel for the descendants of victims of an unbelievable crime we committed not long ago—human slavery.”
From Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons, Dell Pub. 1974, pp 272-273