Highly unusual list includes 533 businesses and trade organisations
Donald Trump has drawn up a scorecard for corporate America, ranking companies based on their loyalty to his administration.
The highly unusual list ranks 533 businesses and trade organisations based on their efforts to champion the US president’s “one big beautiful bill”, according to reports.
Companies that have fared well deployed a variety of tactics – often trumpeting the benefits of an individual policy, such as Uber’s celebration of Mr Trump’s “no tax on tips” proposal.
The scorecard, which Axios said will aid decision-making on corporate requests, comes as part of Mr Trump’s “America First” agenda and protectionist policies.
As will be most of humanity… The future ain’t looking great
Yeah, I don’t have kids myself and my wife and I have no plans or desire to…
…but we have friends who do and I’m legitimately worried for their future. Or lack thereof. Some think things will “just work out” - but I think that’s wishful thinking and dumb.
I’d love to believe otherwise, but I don’t think anything short of strategic, aggressive pushback, likely violent at times, will change things.
Yeah, having kids has given me lots of hope and optimism. I could always see opportunity for improvement. Even if I can’t improve the world, they can. …… it’s getting tough to hold onto that optimism.
It helped that I thought we were pretty well insulated from some of the worst actors, but especially after being hit with financial aid changes affecting their education, their future, the hope of someone able to build a better tomorrow
That whole “it’ll work out” is such an incredibly privileged mindset. I can’t imagine anyone with that belief has ever really struggled in any way.
1000%. I feel like everyone my parents age has that mindset though and it immediately makes me think, “yeah so you’re an ignorant idiot”.
I’m almost certainly older than your parents and my view is that nothing works out unless we make it work out. The system doesn’t run itself and it’s not self-correcting, either. And the fact that it allowed Trump to seize power is a sign that it’s deeply defective.
I’m glad people like you exist.
My parents are ~80.
Millions of people live that way because that’s thronlu way they get through the day.
No one cares. That’s why
If we don’t start geo engineering real soon… It’s all over indeed.
Seems like the chosen solution is to kill billions instead of individuals (e.g. the rich) living more sustainably.
Yeah… That’s what it feels like to me.
Stop the pollution first. Geoengineering is at best speculative, and at worst, may be a cure that’s worse than the problem.
Stop all pollution today and we’re still done and over with, as will about 90% of all species. Geo engineering is our last chance. I particularly like blocking sunlight as a solution. Any solution will have drawbacks. Huge amounts of water vapor above parts of the ocean sounds tempting to me too.
Edit: for all the down voters: https://presearch.com/search?q=accidental+geo-engineering+experiment
Edit 2: Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
Blocking sunlight? Like the one nearly limitless energy source we have?
How about stuff like… Planting more trees, ending deforestation of the Amazon? How about reducing automobile usage?
Like, these all have no negative impacts, but blocking the sun does, in fact.
Plants don’t use heat to make energy, they use sunlight. And you’re discussing cutting off the energy source of the one type organism capable of cleaning our atmo…
Those are indeed much better examples of changes we need but we are rapidly approaching the point where those changes are too late. Given the severity of the likely impact, we need the urgency to act in greater desperation. By all means we need to go all out with renewable energy, net zero, walkable cities, and so many more transformation of modern society. It is the only sustainable approach. But is it too little, too late? At what point do we need to take more desperate measures?
We need to at least develop a better understanding of terraforming earth because that may quickly become our best hope
We already passed that point. It already is too late. Your proposed solutions are too little too late. All these things had to have happened in the mid 90s at the latest. Instead, we doubled down on energy efficiency, which makes the bad thing only cheaper to use and thus the net pollution increases while sealing our future.
Wrong, If you are correct, though, the only correct way to proceed is to completely exterminate all human life on the planet, since we are obviously the problem.
What we are long past is maintaining the current level of consumption the western world does, and maintain current climate.
Note, the only ones reducing consumption and pollution of the working class. Jeff Bezos still dumps tons of carbon into the air needlessly, just to go golfing.
That is a myth. We are not past the point of healing the planet. If we are, then we should just self-exterminate, so the planet can heal itself, which it will, once we’re gone.
We’re past the point of maintaining the current consumption model of western nations, and maintaining a status quo, or return, to pre-industrialization levels of pollution.
We’re rapidly approaching several possible tipping points that will “rapidly” (over decades or a century) make many of the most populated parts of the world much less livable, disrupt agriculture on a global scale, cause mass die offs, disrupt water supplies and weather patterns.
The only thing “saving” us is the uncertainty: we’re not good at predicting them yet (since they’ve never happened in the history of the earth) so we don’t know how desperate we need to be