{"id":2448227,"date":"2019-09-01T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/u-s-brazil-presidents-fit-to-be-tied\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:37:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:37:37","slug":"u-s-brazil-presidents-fit-to-be-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/u-s-brazil-presidents-fit-to-be-tied\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Brazil presidents fit to be tied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I see parallels between American President Donald Trump\u2019s designs on Greenland and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s deforestation and slow response to the wildfires in the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Trump wants to melt what\u2019s left of Greenland\u2019s ice by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere so he can convert what he sees as a vast wasteland into a massive, cash producing island, even though that\u2019d put Mar-a-Lago underwater. Bolsonero has similar plans for the Amazon rainforest, even though that\u2019d eliminate 12% of the earth\u2019s oxygen and 5% of the earth-warming carbon dioxide the forest absorbs each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In fact, Brazil may join the dwindling group of American allies, which now includes only Russia and North Korea. Trump and Bolsonaro have a great deal in common. They\u2019re both misogynistic, racist, materialistic, admiring of dictators, and disdainful of democracy. They could become the Axis powers of the Americas if they can stay in authority long enough and the planet survives their assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/u-s-brazil-presidents-fit-to-be-tied\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see parallels between American President Donald Trump\u2019s designs on Greenland and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro\u2019s deforestation and slow response to the wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. Trump wants to melt what\u2019s left of Greenland\u2019s ice by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere so he can convert what he sees as a vast wasteland into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 00:30:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448243,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448227\/revisions\/2448243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}