#NOTMYCLIMATEALLIANCE

@1:

Yeah, along with Syria and Nicaragua - great company we're keeping there, you gorbellied, flap-mouthed clotpole.

Fuck Syria. Nicaragua didn't think the plan went far enough, cudos to them. #1 .........Shout all you want but apparently you are not a reader or a thinker.

Donald dear, you are welcome to move to Nebraska or Alabama or someplace, where you'll be among your sort of people. I think we'd even be willing to take up a collection for you - just as long as you promised never to post again after you moved.

@3:

So, basically we're now playing second-fiddle to a tiny Central American nation that generates a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of the greenhouse gases we produce. Also, IIRC, their main objection was that rich countries (read: countries like the U.S.) weren't going to contribute enough towards paying to reverse Global Climate Change. Technically, by unilaterally dropping out of the Paris Accords, we're actually perpetuating the very neglect of the climate that prompted them to withhold their support in the first place.

Our screeching, Cheeto-faced shit-gibbon of a president apparently believes he can cut a better "deal"; as if stopping the destruction of the planet we all depend upon for our very existence was a zero-sum game that we have to "win" at some other - or many other - country's expense in order to make it worth our while.

@5 Hey. And you're welcome to move back to whatever state spawned you because the locals here are fed up with you ruining our state too.

As for the subject at hand, yeah, the Paris Agreement sure did a bang up job making sure India And China is cleaning up air and water pollution. Because entire ecosystems in those countries aren't getting wiped out and endangered species like the Yangtze Dolphin haven't gone extinct.

Maybe if you Slog trolls would actually focus on eliminating pollution - much of it coming from copper, heavy metals and rare earth element mining used to create supposedly "sustainable wind turbines and solar panels - instead of chasing after some nebulous "climate change" bugaboo, then you environmentalists might actually gain a modicum of respect.

When I arrived in WA in 1993, most people east of the Rockies had no idea that Washington was a state. If you had mentioned that you were from Washington State, people would express polite confusion, and then ask, "Has DC achieved statehood?".

Not any more. Washington's population is exploding in size, as refugees from conservatives states- Muslims, LGBTs, progressives, workers, women, Latinx, African-Americans, immigrants, and other people who just want a fair shake- flood into the state. The next census is likely to give us ever increasing Congressional delegations. Jay Inslee's name is bandied about as a potential Presidential candidate for 2020 in places like Baltimore and Northern Virginia. Bob Ferguson's name is spoken with awed tones in Chicago. Not only has the rest of the country learnt how to find Seattle on a map, they've begun to adjust their moral compasses so that True North points directly at our city. Kshama Sawant is an icon among Millenial socialists. I've even heard Jon Grant's name mentioned frequently since I came to Baltimore last August.

There was a time when NY and CA were the country's only concept of the progressive Left. WA is now their peer. We matter in ways we never have before.

@9: I have lived on the East Coast my whole life, and no one cares about WA, WA politics, or WA politicians. Sorry.

Donald dear, you must try no to live in the past. You may be from here (are you one of those slack-jawed types that drives a car with a "Washington Native" plate?) but your politics are straight out of Omaha. You have been left behind by your fellow citizens.

@12:

He won't be moving back - he KNOWS what an utter shit-hole SC is. OTOH, to paraphrase the old saw: "you can take the boy out of the shit-hole, but you can't take the shit-hole out of the boy..."

Donald, sorry Seattle isn't the 3rd world fly-over America you long for. You can go back to scamming disability checks with your southern & mid-west hayseed pals anytime.

Great, now Washington can do nothing over the next 4 years too!

I'm wondering if the Paris Climate Accord hype is an exercise in how the left processes viral news. Like, do people understand that staying in commits the US to, literally, no action, at any point, ever?

@9 No one cares about Washington politicians. And you're smoking something if you think anyone outside of the 206 area code and specifically the 43rd Legislative District cares about Jay Inslee's political ambitions.

@11 And your politics are straight out of the Bay Area. Try moving back?

@12 Riverton General Hospital is in South Carolina huh? God out-of-staters are ignorant about everything.

@13 Says the guy who has helped to turn Seattle into an unlivable shithole.

Donald dear, calm yourself. I can see you feel cornered, but we're all chums here.

We are not talking about "my" politics. We are talking about the politics of Washington State. Even a lot of the population of central and eastern Washington agree on the basic premises (the intelligent ones who own the land and rule the region, that is. Not so much the yokels, but they are largely inconsequential.)

@15: It is basically the inverse of congress passing some shitty legislation and naming it the "Freedom for Little American Babies and Stopping Puppy Murder Act."

Morons do not think it they have to read it because of the title.

So morons see "Climate Accord" and figure they do not have to know what it is, because it must be good and LITERALLY THE ONLY THING KEEPING US ALIVE.

@18 The politics of Washington State are 55 to 45 with the preponderance of the "55" clustering in a handful of legislative districts around Seattle. This has acted as an electoral thermostat allowing the "45" to still maintain political viability in the state legislature.

You have a similar split with the Congressional Districts at 6 to 4.

So Washington state is hardly a monolithic voting block, despite the voting habits of King County and - particularly - Seattle.

And nationwide, it is actually a benefit for Republicans that Democrats from out-of-state are clustering in Seattle. Every Democrat who moves from swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to Seattle improves the GOP's chances, as evidenced by the President's victory there last November.

@17) Seattle is unaffordable to willfully stupid, "woe-is-me" hayseeds such as yourself - which you vividly portray in your attempts to articulate thought in this thread. Get a job! And try showing up for a job interview with actual skills. Or better yet, some get education and bring that, too! It's a tall ask for country hayseed donalds, we know. We have all seen your type crying over your jumbo big gulps about how Seattle is so unfair to dummies.

A big big complicated city like Seattle is so frustrating for country donald. They have interwebs and wi-fis and stoplights and smart peoples who are DIFFERENT and they do smart DIFFERENT things that the country donalds just can't fathom! And if the country donalds can't fathom then jeebus becomes butt-sore and has sads!! That's not an 'uhmurka country donald can thrive in! PSSST! The world will not dumb down to your level, country donald.

When your health care is removed (as you requested) you will die off quickly and not only will your opinion have no weight but nobody will even remember you were there. Because whining wingnuts, country donald, have nada but cheap, hot air to back them up. Fuckin rube.

The Paris Accord was just panned by Charles and Cliff the other day. They both conceded that doesn't really accomplish much.
Personally, I'd like to see Washington state implement much better vehicle emissions standards. I'm sure we've all seen vehicles blowing smoke out the tailpipe that need to be impounded.
We should ban plastic bottled water. We have good tap water and the bottles are ending up in the ocean.
We should ban burning wood in fireplaces. It's extremely had for our health. "Ambience" is not enough justification for it.
Those are just a few things we could do locally or statewide that would make a huge difference for the environment. We don't need Trump or the Paris Accord to do so. They are not stopping us.

GO, Washington, California, and New York! Yaaay, Governors Jay Inslee, Jerry Brown, and others! Continue to pledge the Paris Climate Agreement WITHOUT Trumpzilla. Viva le Resistance! It's up to the state and local levels to curb global warming, and let the rest of the world know how many of us actually care about preserving the planet from global warming destruction.

@1: If Nebraska or Alabama don't work out, you're welcome to move your sorry, ignorant ass to Oklahoma or West Virginia at any time. Bury your head in a 19th century coal bin and good luck with pushing a dead industry that isn't coming back from the dead.
@5 Catalina Vel-DuRay: I knew I liked you.

@8 & @20: You can return to your darkened bass-ackwards shit hole any time you like.
I certainly won't stop you.

@16 Donald Doofus: Your ignorance is appalling, and further validation of responding comments from Achaiwoi and others. Bury yourself in a coal mine and call it a day. Good luck when you choke on your next SuperSize BigMac meal and die in the ER from lack of health coverage that YOU--and idiots like you--ecstatically voted to cancel. Trumpzilla and its swamp creatures are laughing at you.
You obviously don't know shit about Governor Jay Inslee, either.

Don, we get it. A politician for whom you voted was actually elected (thanks to a voting system devised by and for slaveholders, but let's not quibble). He has now yanked the U.S. out of an environmental accord you've been told to oppose. Suddenly,before you could even savor your meaningless "victory", a local political leader against whom you have ineffectually voted has reconstituted that same environmental accord, with the help of governors in other states you hate.

We understand your rage, Don. What we don't understand is how you can possibly be unused to such swift and easy political defeat. (You *do* still have front-page posting privileges at unSound Politics, right?)

Oh, and bonus points for, "...anyone outside of the 206 area code and specifically the 43rd Legislative District cares about Jay Inslee's political ambitions." Given his easy re-election just last year, I doubt Jay Inslee is too worried about his political ambitions. He's cruising for a cabinet seat in the next Democratic administration, which is looking to be in place just under four years from now, thanks to the current occupant of the Oval Office engaging in pointless antics like the one described in this article.