Who gains from chaos in US politics?

Watching what is going on in US parliament is like watching a Netflix comedy. But the script would get rejected because it's too unrealistic: 'A gay, jewish, Latina criminal who escaped prosecution by fleeing from Brazil to the USA who stole his ex-boyfriend's phone, sleeps on his sister's couch because he got kicked out of his own place because he couldn't afford the rent but mysteriously and suddenly had a few hundred thousand dollars to fund a political campaign? Come on! Who would believe that?'

As we all know by now, being able to lie as easily as you can breathe and suddenly getting a lot of money from undisclosed (click) but probably foreign sources is a big plus to make it to the top of the hierarchy within the current Republican Party.

Meaning George Santos (click) is their perfect poster boy.

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The only spanner in the works is George's (if that is actually his name. He lied about so many things. It's hard to tell if anything he states is real) lie that he is 'a proud American Jew!'. Actual jews within the Republican Party don't take too kindly to his lies about his 'jew-ish' background and want George Santos removed from office. Probably from the planet. 

There are also some two dozen Republican Senators who strongly oppose bipartisan politics. They hate seeing Democrats and Republicans working peacefulluy together to help the American people. Like when President Joe Biden and Republican leader Mitch McConnell worked together on better infrastructure and re-opened the Brent [Spiner] Spence Bridge (click). As a show of force and to make people aware you can accomplish more if you are only willing to work together. 

Contrary to the members of the House Freedom Caucus, a group with around 40 members. This group includes Senators like Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert. Mr. Gaetz has already admitted that he doesn't care if the current chaos leads to a government being unable to work and the Republican Party to fall apart. One can't help to wonder: are that really his words or is it simply the objective from the 'unknown but probably foreign' (click. Why are these politicians pro-Russia?) sources that pay for his luxurious lifestyle? Or do Matt Gaetz' (click) handlers have pictures and videos of him having s*x with minors?   

Interesting fact: Republicans receive over four times more in donations from oil-companies than Democrats.

Do you think politicians should be paid by the people they should work for, or by large companies they seem to work for?

The old Town (a circle #poem)

Walking around the old town

he felt the memories

of the town and its people

and of his own lost love.

Here was the bridge

where they stopped

for a romantic photoshoot

And there was the shop

of an old friend,

now home to a place for tourists.

Along the way he spoke to people

he thought he knew

and on his way home

he simply smiled, thinking of this day,

walking around the old town.

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Climate predictions

"Look, none of those climate change predictions came true so it's a hoax to scare us all!"

Isn't it great scientists made all these predictions about acid rain, the ozon layer, the Great Barrier Reef and so on, so worldwide efforts could work to prevent disasters?

Recently it came to light that the scientists at ExxonMobil knew (click) in the seventies, realised that the oil-, coal- and gas industry was responsible for (the consequenses of) rapid climate change. ExxonMobil directors have not been jailed and the company has yet to be fined for deliberately witholding information that could be crucial to the survival of the human race (and that of trees, whales, birds and those cute little baby otters). Why? I'm guessing because the politicians that should punish ExxonMobil (and most likely others in the same industry) are literally paid (click) by the fossil fuel lobby. 

As a matter of fact: the US Secretary of State under Donald Trump was also the CEO of ExxonMobil. 

For those who still wonder why so many oil pipelines suddenly got permission to be build, even at the cost of sacred Native American lands. It's almost as if older, rich white men (I don't see many others in this group, do you?) don't care about the future, the planet or other people.

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That damage to the ozon layer and The Great Barrier Reef is not as bad as predicted is known as the self-defeating prophecy, also known as 'the prophet's dilemma': If you warn people for a disaster, they can take measures adverting it and you will be known as a false prophet. Very similar to climatologists who predicted many parts of the world would possibly be uninhabetable by 2020. 

Were they wrong? Not really; because scientists predicted floods, cold fronts and heatwaves, governments were prepared to save (some of) their citizens. So they raised dams, invested in wind energy, asked people to grow plants in their gardens instead of tiling them all up, stimulated electric driving, et cetera. 'See, no disaster!' 

Not yet. The danger still lurks and instead of using billions to bail out billionaires who made mistakes with their investments, trading shares in oil companies and supporting war efforts, 

perhaps it's time the people realized we all have one single common enemy: rapid climate change.