Scumbag Steve

I think Americans from every state can agree that banning straws is stupid, considering the bigger problems facing California.

People in other states should just be glad that straws are still legal where they live.

Yes, in the heartland of America we are VERY GLAD that liberal insanity hasn't infected our state!

Since when was keeping the environment clean insanity?

In and of itself, it's not. But when you ratchet up environmental laws and regulations to the point that millions of acres go up in a firestorm and many dozens of people DIE, THAT IS INSANITY. PEOPLE COME FIRST.

Moreover, banning straws reflects the mypoic and asinine liberal mentality perfectly; it totally accomplishes nothing as far as the original reason for the ban, which is millions of pounds of plastic floating in the middle of the Pacific because of ALL THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES AND CHINA THAT DUMP GARBAGE - ESPECIALLY PLASTIC - IN THE OCEAN.

The bigger problem is that ALL LIBERALS virtue signal to other liberals by demanding statist solutions that kill the free-market economy, strangle the rights of individuals, and undermine the republican constitutional form of government that our forefathers bequeathed to us.

You say it's all the third world countries and China that dump garbage, especially plastic, into the ocean, but that's because California already banned them. The ban will at least contribute slightly to cleaning up the ocean.

Also, the fires are primarily caused by climate change, not bad forest management. Haven't you realized that the wildfires in recent years have been SO MUCH WORSE than before? And, not coincidentally, temperatures have also been higher than average?

Lastly, please stop generalizing all liberals as communists. I would honestly never generalize all conservatives as Nazis.

Your circular logic is amazing, dumbass. I said that the CAUSE of the plastic in the ocean WAS NOT US. IF ANY plastic from Commiefornia made it into the ocean BEFORE the ban, it was ABSOLUTELY NEGLIGABLE (in first-grade math, that means ALMOST ZERO). And zero pollution does NOT equal pollution removal!

The fires were caused by Commiefornia's dumbass environmental regulations that effectively banned any kind of back-burn, clearing of underbrush, or other pre-wildfire mitigation. THAT'S EXACTLY WHY FIRES KEEP GETTING WORSE. As for the global mean temperature, it's actually decreasing. Global warming is a left-wing myth created to justify more and more taxation and government control.

When liberals/socialists exhibit the same sociopathic tendencies as communists, over all areas of human activity, then Liberals = socialists = communists. Change my mind.

What I meant was that we are not dumping ANY MORE trash into the ocean AFTER the straw ban. And I want the source that says global mean temperatures are decreasing.

Ok I see you're changing your tune. I'll dig up where I saw that.