SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Now We Are Spreading Freedom Gas Around the World and We Are Definitely Doomed

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Freedom gas. Getty Images. Front photo by Mario Tama/ Getty Images

What fresh hell is this. Today we found out not only is our Sociopath-in-Chief escalating the war on reality ie climate change and our Toddler-In-Chief insisted the USS McCain be hidden from his fragile sight in Japan, but his minions have now taken fossil fuel capitalism to its logical, rapacious, demented extreme by rebrand our increased natural gas exports, often via lethal fracking, as "freedom gas" and "molecules of freedom," even if en route they also worsen freedom global warming, cause freedom cancers and ignite people's freedom drinking water.

Thus in an otherwise boiler-plate press release did the Energy Department tout approval of more exports by a Freeport LNG terminal off the coast of Texas - exports "critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy.”

Also: additional exports will help American energy, jobs, blah blah and allow for "molecules of U.S. freedom to be exported to the world.” The response by most right-thinking people was best summed up in, "As a physicist may I say what - and I cannot stress this enough - the F**K?"

This latest imbecility reportedly originated with alleged Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, who earlier this month signed an order doubling U.S. liquefied natural gas shipments to Europe. At a press briefing, he said that by helping European nations diversify their energy supply away from Russia, the U.S. was "delivering a form of freedom" to them; when a reporter wryly suggested the term “freedom gas,” a small, dumb, unironic lightbulb evidently went off in Perry's wee brain, and the rest is stupid jingoistic history.

We are now beyond parody, Orwell, The Onion and the many wisecracks offered about freedom gas being second cousin to freedom fries, only more stinky. "Awesome," wrote one long-suffering patriot who clearly didn't think any of this was. "All my molecules would officially like to get off the clown timeline and back to sanity, please."

We're kinda more with the person who wrote, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHweareallgoingtodieHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"

Turns out Dr. Strangelove was right all along.