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Hmmm ... What's wrong with this picture? Well, let's see, is that not the Governor of California, in the midst of a pandemic in which the State he governs is faring far worse than most of the other States in the Union, using the hood of an electric car to sign an executive order that would require all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035?
And is that Governor, even as infection numbers soar and deaths escalate, doing so without wearing a mask, while those who are masked stand side-by-side completely disregarding the social distancing guidelines published by his own administration for the public to adhere to in order to stop the spread of a deadly virus?
Why, yes it is.
Signing said order is a move the governor says would achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. (Lol) The trillions in costs to do so eclipse the cost of a high-speed rail to Southern California, but the costs to replace the Golden State's entire gas-powered fleet of vehicles in both monetary and CO2 terms is never mentioned. After all, the vehicles are all manufactured out-of-State, so the legerdemain is easily pulled off, and the wool pulled over our proverbial eyes ... mostly because we want it to be.
But his predecessor lorded over the Climate Conference even as he presided over the largest expansion of fracking in the country, while the State he governed refused to report its flaring stats to the EIA. And like a REIT-a-day Brown, Governor Public Nuisance speaks in half-truths and wears his green credentials on his sleeve, while up it he slides his American Express Card:
Governor Greensleeves
Alas, my guv, you do us wrong,
To cast us off discourteously.
For I have voted you into power,
And in return got perfidy.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
Your vows you've broken, like my heart,
Oh, why did you so enrapture me?
Now I'm in a world that's falling apart
While your heart bleeds duplicity.
Greensleeves uses me like a toy
Greensleeves is just a blight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
I have been ready at your hand,
To grant whatever you would crave,
I have both wagered life and land,
While false hope is all you've Gaven me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
While you continue to disdain,
It does the more enrage me,
And even so, I still remain
A captive to your trumpery.
Greensleeves uses me like a toy
Greensleeves is just a blight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
Your supporters are all clothed in green,
And they didst ever wait on thee;
All this was gallant to be seen,
Even as you turned your back on me.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
Thou pretends to desire no earthly thing,
but yet thou hadst it readily.
Thy promises you still play and sing;
Even as you turn your back on me.
Greensleeves used me like a toy
Greensleeves is just a blight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
Well, legal marijuana may keep me high,
that thou inconstancy I may not see,
Yet while more San Quentin's inmates die,
Their deaths unmask your snobbery.
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
Ah, Greensleeves, now farewell, good-bye,
Dissembling is the way you thrive,
For to all your supporters you ever lie,
Hiding the black future awaiting them in '35.
Greensleeves used me like a toy
Greensleeves is just a blight,
Greensleeves took my heart of gold,
And crushed it, did Governor Greensleeves.
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