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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,545 posts)
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:45 AM May 2024

Ferguson goes after Reichert for suggesting 'guy upstairs' is causing climate change

For the last 12 years as Washington’s governor, Jay Inslee has led the state in the epic global battle to save the planet from the harms of climate change.

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This week, Ferguson moved to burnish his environmental credentials, while painting Republican candidate Dave Reichert as out of touch.

He cited comments earlier this year by Reichert as evidence that the former congressman doesn’t accept the science on causes of climate change and will undo the state’s work to address its negative impacts.

Reichert is heard on a recording of an event in March saying current state policies cannot counter the effects of climate change because only “the guy upstairs” is responsible for controlling the weather.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/05/09/ferguson-goes-after-reichert-for-suggesting-guy-upstairs-is-causing-climate-change/

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Ferguson goes after Reichert for suggesting 'guy upstairs' is causing climate change (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2024 OP
Reichert is a meathead. Aristus May 2024 #1
Maybe he's right. SarahD May 2024 #2
Reichert was brilliant and relentless in his pursuit of the Green River Killer.. Permanut May 2024 #3

Aristus

(68,658 posts)
1. Reichert is a meathead.
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:56 AM
May 2024

He is implying that, since God controls the weather, any attempt to reverse the effects of climate change is tantamount to blasphemy.

He might have a harder time explaining why a benevolent God would wreak such deadly havoc on the planet where his supposedly beloved children live.

He might, as the Chrstianists always do, hand wave it as part of "God's beautiful plan"...



 

SarahD

(1,732 posts)
2. Maybe he's right.
Fri May 10, 2024, 11:58 AM
May 2024

I sometimes suspect God hates us and is just fucking with us to see how far it will go before we stop breeding like cockroaches.

Permanut

(6,714 posts)
3. Reichert was brilliant and relentless in his pursuit of the Green River Killer..
Fri May 10, 2024, 12:08 PM
May 2024

Gary Ridgway.

It has been disappointing to see him throw his reputation and his credibility in the dumpster

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