He really POMPEO’d that.
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Hey Mike, as a citizen of the country whose sovereign territory you apparently think you can violate freely for your “trade routes” let me be the first to tell you to get bent. KYFHO
PS: You’re welcome to try and go around the long way. We’ll send ice breakers, I promise.
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Hey, are you Pomp… never mind.
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Not at all long ago, that CNN piece would fit perfectly at The Onion.
So hard to think we’re not totally fucked at this point.
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Huh. Similar thinking to the Russian stance over the last couple of decades…
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Ship rat said:
Ships don’t sink! Let’s eat that grain before it gets all wet!
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How about we trade Pompeo? Or feed him to the last polar bear.
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No, this is the sort of thing villains in Captain Planet cartoon say.
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He also said this in that same speech:
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That whole Rovaniemi ministerial meeting wasn’t very good.
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Look at all those new opportunities for trade! /s
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You just know that if these guys could devise a way to make air proprietary, they’d jump at it.
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This is why absolutely nothing will be done to halt/slow/reverse global warming: the only people who could do something about won’t, because they see an opportunity for profit and they are incapable of looking at anything else.
Look at the Paris agreement: a bunch of people got together and decided to hold a meeting in three years. Three years later they got together and decided to hold another meeting in one year. Meanwhile CO2 continued to climb and continues to climb. They accomplished exactly nothing. The only reason for the existence of such committees is to placate the public: “See, we’re doing something.”
Politics is powerless in the face of finance.
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and when I searched for that, I ran across the following. Life imitating art, perhaps not in the most encouraging way.
This man sells fresh air to people in China for £80 a bottle https://t.co/0ZMq5FNogA
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) February 8, 2016
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Extra points for forcing me to look up KYFHO!
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Guy running around screaming on fire
Pompeo “Hey look at that, this guy has free heating the rest of his life now!”
Guy falls to ground no longer making noise and is just a husk burning
Pompeo “Well look at that, I wanted to plant a garden and now… Free fertilizer!”
Remember folks, everything is an opportunity if you spin it right and have the moral compass of a henchman.
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These interesting times are getting mighty boring.
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We all laughed at Kevin Costner when he made Waterworld.
Prescient bastard.
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Well he’s got access to all the nukes now so I’m sure he’ll soon see the economic value in blasting canal routes through the ice caps.
