Nine month later it's still flooding in SW Iowa:
https://twitter.com/iowadot/status/1205480642600943618/photo/1

I wonder how many Iowans think that ignoring climate change is going to make us great, probably not many. By doubling down on fossil fuel extraction, and putting us on course for 3+ degC of warming Trump and Republicans signal they could care less about farmers and their way of life, yet somehow their opponents let them get away with it.

Yes, it's IRS Form 211-
The IRS has to actually recover tax funds that should have been collected earlier.
What better time to snitch on your tax cheating neighbor than the holidays?

@3: Other than a poll, you have no idea whether they're ignoring it or not.

Fracked gas, the bridge fuel to business worse than usual (thanks Obama):

2018 Ohio gas fracking site accident turns out to be the largest recorded US release of methane (80x heating potential of CO2) to the atmosphere, more than the total carbon emissions of countries like Norway, France

https://twitter.com/Trevor_Gowan/status/1206688235021381633/photo/1
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/climate/methane-leak-satellite.html

I don't wish to move to Topeka, but I bet a lot of immigrants would.

Best thing about Topeka is that it's just an hour's drive to Kansas City, MO.

@6: Yep, I misread it.

When prisons are business towns fight to have them in their vicinity, hold an opening party for people who pay to be there one night and enact draconian laws to ensure steady “enrollment,” it is no wonder that “keeping costs down” is nothing but an ordinary business decision.
The land of the free and the home of the grave.

@9 "business worse than usual"

Atmospheric methane concentration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane#/media/File:Mlo_ch4_ts_obs_03437.png

In addition to rising methane concentration, 2008 also marks the beginning of the "fracking revolution".

@8
I guess facts2 never saw Kill Bill.

Watch "Kill Bill - Texas Ranger Earl McGraw" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/4qyZQTjS6Ks

@11,

And the only semi-decent thing about Kansas City is that it's not Topeka.

@11, 18,

Seconded... The only reason I'd ever go to Kansas City is to get out of Topeka.

Also, from the "Move to Topeka" article:

"Mr. Callanan said that in a community as small as Topeka, even a few dozen people could make a difference. 'You add 50 or 75 families, that has real impact,' he said. 'Fifty to 75 families in New York, Jiminy Christmas, that’s not going to fill one building.'"

Jiminy Christmas, you're not helping.

Whoopie and Meghan make up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPt4mb8vHkw

According to Charles, I guess we can't blame the drivers of the van and the stolen car for 11 injuries, including a 2 year-old boy and the death of a passenger of a stolen car.

Hmm. Kansas destroyed its state revenue sources, gutted all sorts of services, trashed its schools, and suddenly no one wants to live there. I seem to remember a Republican talking point about "voting with your feet." I guess Reagan was right for a change.

"The Sackler [Crime fambly]s' rainy day fund: During the opioid crisis, the Sackler family, the family in charge of Purdue Pharma, withdrew $10.7 billion from the company and distributed it into family trusts and overseas accounts... "

That's 'cause ... they knew they were gonna get 'Rich People busted' -- that's where you can intentionally addict millions to your Wunderdrug, make Ginormous Profits off them (make a Killing, we used to call it -- but that's no longer PC), and skate off to retire whereverthefuck in Pharoah-type splendor, and never hafta hear about all the masses of Dead you've left in your gilded wake.

In the Olden Days, Repubs knew the meaning of Tough On Crime.

When it happens to be a member of their Class, suddenly they're Soft on Crime.

@30 Give us the sources of the data you're quoting please.

30

When some mad batter goes into an Elementary school and slaughters a bunch of 5 year olds with a bat, then we'll talk. Until then, guns are the issue.

@30’s statement about blunt force trauma is deliberately misleading and wrong. He’s cherry pick facts and not particularly good at it. https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

More people are killed by reported shotguns and rifles than blunt force instruments. If you add handguns and firearms in an unspecified manner the number escalates rapidly. In what it appears he’s based his argument on there is no differentiation between rifles and assault weapons. The AR style weapons could, are are very likely included in the general firearm category. So what we have are more than 10,000 gun related homicides a year compared to about 500 blunt force trauma deaths per year. He can’t even gaslight properly...

@30,

Not even fucking close, fax.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/195325/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-weapon-used/

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/08/fbi-statistics-show-more-people-die-by-blunt-objects-than-rifles/

You're off by an order of magnitude.

@34,

Damn it!