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  Good riddance. Hopefully his replacement does not come with the same fossil fuel backing.
context: If you are old enough to remember, that’s the guy who brought a snowball on the senate floor as evidence there’s no such thing as global warming >
  
  There is a video of it for those interested in the article.  What an absolute idiot, asshole and a circus performer for industries. >
  
  Former Republican Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe's Snowball >
  
  It’s frightening but also fascinating how a walking, talking, dirty, yellow snowball like him will retire, proud of his actions and accomplishments to the end of his days, never once feeling an ounce of guilt or shame. >
  
  Also have the best healthcare plan for life taxpayers funded 🤑 >
  
  TBF, he's 87, so we won't be paying more than 10 years, tops.
  *sigh* >
  
  How in the fresh hell are politicians allowed to still be in office at that age? That in itself is a fucking travesty. >
  
  Right? My grandpa is like 80. He's a very smart man. Hard working. Has his flaws like everyone. But there is no way he has the mental capacity left for what it takes to make decisions on that level. >
  
  I'm 81, physically fit, and the mental capacity to do that job. However I have never been comfortable telling lies and making other peoples decisions for them. >
  
  Hey! Glad to know it's possible to stay sharp at that age and also be moral! >
  
  The most surprising thing about this list IMO is how little money it takes to buy off politicians in the most powerful country on earth.
  Seriously fuck the billions of people present and future that will harmed by climate change, here's 500k >
  
  Most of them will do it for $5k. >
  
  Ted cruz pays them probably >
  
  He doesn’t know he’s in an MLM. >
  
  Ted Cruz is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist? >
  
  Don’t worry he still has some of that Washington snowball saved in his fridge to protect him from reality. >
  
  You mean the discarded ice shaving he picked outside an ice rink? >
  
  I still can't believe that this MMA goon tried to sneak into Afghanistan via the Tajikistan border, seemingly on some Rambo-esque solo mission to save Americans from the Taliban after the troops were withdrawn from the area. >
  
  Shit is in the water out in Stilwell Oklahoma. It’s amazing these people get elected >
  
  I looked it up thinking you were being tongue-in-cheek, but holy shit the water supply at Stilwell, Oklahoma is actually contaminated with copper, chromium, and arsenic. >
  
  It's a good thing they let the free market decide that sort of thing, eh? >
  
  Yeah, don't celebrate anytime soon.  Mark Wayne (Markwayne) Mullin is not bringing the big brain power to the floor.  Same ol' special interest, backwards ideas. >
  
  Good riddance to this corrupt industry-owned individual. What a legacy. >
  
  Saw the headline. Was hoping he was dead.  Thought I might get two for one today with Pope Benedict. >
  
  I thought so too. Curses >
  
  Fuck Jim Inhofe and fuck the loathsome fucks that sent him to the senate >
  
  And also fuck his corporate owners who are to this day fucking over our planet for their own financial gain. >
  
  I used to think climate deniers were the most irritating people on the internet.
  Then COVID deniers turned up. >
  
  The Venn diagram of the two is a circle. >
  
  Yeah somehow denying climate science is a common thread among the most annoying people. Noticed this during Brexit. >
  
  Oh and he is going to retire in luxury, is children and probably grandchildren will inherit lots of money and live quite nicely while the just of us suffer because of his( and deniers like him) policies. >
  
  Wrecker of earth. >
  
  
  "This is what a lot of alarmists forget: God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons and that cold and heat would never cease as long as the earth remains.” - Senator from Oklahoma Jim Inhofe >
  
  Imagine believing in a higher power creating an entire ass planet for you to live on and your response to receiving this amazing gift is to trash it as much as possible because, hey, God has to clean it up for us, right? >
  
  Jim "it's fine to dig a 1000' well and pump all of the toxic fracking shit down there. oh, we're having a lot of earthquakes now? must be coincidence, gotta go, kthxbye!" Inhofe is a world class piece of shit. When OK finally shakes itself to bits and is completely uninhabitable, hopefully someone will dig up Inhofe, bring him back to life and pump him whole down one of the hundreds of waste wells that he's directly responsible for. >
  
  Who the fuck retires at 87 years old? Once these politicians get in office they don't ever seem to want to give it up. Term limits please. >
  
  Over the past 20 years, it has been my displeasure to have listened to this man speak on several occasions, regarding climate policy, culture-wars, etc. Very few people or even other republican congressmen can match mr Inhofe for his acerbic viciousness, or come closer as a conduit for pigheaded, stubborn, blind, pure evil. This is a man who's rage-filled, hateful, and spiteful demeanor can be seen, etched into the dower perma-scowl on his face. He reminds me of the bitter old villainous Skeksis from Jim Henson's Dark Crystal. He can only look back at the world with dark, black eyes... and it has worn him down. All that can be seen within the twisted soul of this man, is the void staring back. >
  
  It amazes me when I see these guys that are destroying our planet that they look corrupt. Their faces are often rotten through their own evil. I think that is a knock on effect of hate. All hateful people I have ever seen get real ugly. >
  
  It makes sense he’s a fossil fuel advocate considering he’s a dinosaur >
  
  The senate needs to be abolished. Giving a state of 40 million people 2 senators while North Dakota and South Dakota have a combined population of 1.8 million and 4 senators... And then allowing the minority party to veto any bill via declaration of intent to filibuster without actually requiring them to filibuster makes a complete mockery of our democracy >
  
  He was also the one responsible for the current student loan situation. In the early 2000's, student loans were still at adjustable rates that matched fed rates. Many had student loan interest rates <3%. He was the one who made them fixed at 6.8% under the guise of "protecting students from fluctuating markets". The fixed rates were 3-4% higher. This was also when universities started seeing tuition as a way to make up for decreases in public funding. They could still get their public dollars, but leave students footing the bill for it. He's been a horrible senator. >
  
  The sooner the old backwards thinking white men go the better.  They are directly responsible for the carnage of climate change.  Koch can eat a big one.
  
  Search for Jim Inhofe on Google, and you’ll immediately see pictures of the Republican senator from Oklahoma proudly holding a snowball on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
  Inhofe’s career in elected office spans nearly six decades, but the snowball is perhaps his most famous stunt — one of pure, unabashed climate idiocy that will follow him long after he vacates his senate seat.
  
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  Inhofe’s views go far beyond skepticism about the magnitude of the global threat. He’s dismissed global warming as “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” and called for climate scientists to be criminally prosecuted. He’s accused the Environmental Protection Agency of “brainwashing our kids” with “propaganda” about climate change. And he’s characterized carbon dioxide — the main driver of planetary warming — as nothing more than “a form of fertilizer to grow things.”
  
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  For his efforts, the oil and gas industry rewarded Inhofe mightily. Over his long career in Congress, first in the House and then the Senate, oil and gas interests donated a whopping $2.32 million — more than any other industry, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets.com. Only eight members of Congress have received more fossil fuel money.
  
  Article continues... >
  
  Sacrificing the future of the planet for $2 million... What a small minded loser >
  
  Corporate bribe...er, donations to politicians often have the highest ROI. >
  
  This guy’s grandson was involved in a mysterious death of his date from an apartment complex roof in Oklahoma. Guy changed his story too after the lawyers jumped in and called it suicide. Super sketch runs in the family. Good riddance. >
  
  Why are they so often referred to as climate deniers? They should be called science deniers or illiterate assholes. >
  
  Spoiler alert: Don’t celebrate just yet - his successor will be even worse. >
  
  I've always thought of "Inhofe" as the sound of dry-heaving. >
  
  I thought he passed away...
  That's disappointing. >
  
  Hope the door hits him on the way out. Asshole >
  
  Inhofe is totally beholden to the gas and oil industry.
  He voted against citizens interests every chance he got, but the foolish voters kept voting for him against their own best interests. >
  
  I as an okie do apologize and also for the whole EPA mess >
  
  Inhofe was just another Senator who showed, again, that in the United States, most politicians from Senators to local sheriffs are openly for sale, usually to the highest bidder. >
  
  Got that old white guy brain >
  
  Hope the door hits your ass on the way out, Jim. Go fuck a snowball. >
  
  God, I remember when this asshole brought in a
  Snowball as proof that climate change was a hoax >
  
  As an Oklahoman, GOOD RIDANCE. >
  
  Once fossil fuels were identified in Oklahoma, Senator Inhofe decided his donors were far more important than the rest of the human race. >
  
  As an Oklahoman, fucking finally. Lankford needs to fucking go as well. >
  
  Fuck Inhofe all my
  Homies hate inhofe. >
  
  Time for us to cut back on fossil fools >
  
  What a twat this fucker is >
  
  They're not "pro industry" at all. They're "anti-opportunity" and "anti-progress". It's the idea that immediate gains are more important than long-term progress.
  It's a short-sighted denial designed to prevent moving away from the things they already have money invested in. Because heaven forbid there be any kind of new thing like alternative energy to invest in.
  Seriously, that's like the opposite of what's good for industry. >
  
  Good riddance. 
  Denying climate change should be a crime. >
  
  Look how shriveled this asshole is, I hope we look back on how batshit crazy we were to let the same minds govern for far too long and have them willingly avoid relinquishing control even if every move they make is wrong for the greater good. Sickens me. >
  
  So long you crooked  piece of shit! >
  
  Bummer. Thought this was his obit. >
  
  What a legacy.  He was given an opportunity and he squandered it.  Good to see his backside. >
  
  Burn in hell scum >
  
  Trading him for his clone I am sure. >
  
  a true embarrassment to our great state of Oklahoma. >
  
  He’s been my Senator for all of my life and in office for most of my parent’s life. Glad he won’t be representing me anymore, sad that I’ll likely have to deal with Markwayne Mullin for just as long. >
  
  Good fucking riddance to Senator Snowball >
  
  Thats one useless carbon footprint we dont need to deal with anymore. >
  
  Proudly ignorant sack of shit. >
  
  Hey, Senator Snowball is retiring. Good. Fuck that guy. >
  
  I learned from Clerks why he’s called snowball! >
  
  A little write up I did as an Okie of Inhofe a couple of years ago, now: 
  "A career politician through and through, (though he would refute this label), Inhofe has served as one of Oklahoma’s state senators since 1994. He is perhaps the most dangerous politician our state has produced. Inhofe infamously “disproved” climate change by bringing a snowball to the Senate floor. Inhofe has taken money from Oil and Gas Corporations in favor of granting them unethical tax breaks, Telecom companies in support of ending Net Neutrality, and has enacted several insidious legislative measures that directly harm his constituents. 
  Inhofe was most recently caught inside stock trading before the stock market crash caused by the coronavirus in late January of 2020; he apparently sold between $230,000 and $500,000 dollars worth of stock. In 2019, Inhofe snuck in an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits federal oversight of Grand Lake's water levels. The lake floods often which causes costly property damage to communities like Miami. Why would Inhofe do such a thing? He owns property on Grand Lake, and high water levels increase the value of these properties. 
  Inhofe's legacy is that of short-term personal profit at the expense of thousands' well-being; it is that of shameless greed, corporate nepotism, and indifferent, generational destruction by means of immoral political policies." >
  
  Sadly doesn’t matter. He represented Oklahoma- the only direction is down in terms of his replacement.
  Oklahoma isn’t magically going to replace him with someone actually qualified/not bought-and-paid-for by the oil industry. My partner’s family lives there and I visit once a year during the holidays. His family are lovely people but Oklahoma is a fucking cesspool of radioactive shit. Horrible state that I loathe going to. >
  
  Already had the terrible election. Replaced by a terrible excuse for a human being. >
  
  Ah yes, the disingenuous. cynical, hypocritical, snowball performance troll. Good riddance. If only there was a hell where he could rot for eternity for playing a major role in the climate change that will cause suffering for all future humanity. If only. >
  
  We need term limits so aholes like this don’t stay for long >
  
  incumbents staying too long is a symptom, not the problem itself.  Get money out of politics and bad senators have a harder time getting reelected >
  
  Publicly funded. Make outside money illegal and  enforce the rules vigorously. Independent panels draw election maps. 
  We have that in Canada. Election campaigns are 6 weeks long. Six. Weeks. You wouldn't have tyranny by the minority worldview anymore. This sub would be halved. >
  
  Don't let the door hit you on the way out. >
  
  Deuces, Jimmy! >
  
  Roast in Hell you decrepit old skeleton >
  
  Well at least he screwed his grandchildren over >
  
  This guy was very very pro-prison system to my memory. >
  
  As a courtesy to his scientific understanding, it is best to not upset him by referring to him as senator or as a former senator, and since there are still existing senators, he cannot possibly be a retired senator. 
  At least that is how his brain understands climate change. >
  
  He’s being replaced by an even bigger turd. Literally the dude owns a plumbing company. Markwayne Mullin. >
  
  He's replacement will somehow be worse bc OK is shithole of a state >
  
  Good. Fucking. Riddance. Another step closer to actually saving our future from pieces of shit like him who knew they wouldn't live to suffer through it. >
  
  He was also 600+ years old. >
  
  Here’s a perfect example of what happens to people elected to office by their constituents & they sell their dignity and integrity to American Corporations for a fistful of money.
  We’ve seen this movie time and time again.
  And not just Republicans but Democrats as well.
  Take Sinema and Manchin, both betrayed their constituents for the love of $$$.
  This scenario will play out again and again until We stop allowing $$$ to enter the political arena.
  It’s not all that complicated…
  Every Candidate running for office is allotted a certain amount of money.
  That’s it!
  If you can’t get your point across with certain amount of money then more money isn’t going to make any difference.
  Happy new year everyone! >
  
  What a legacy to leave your grandchildren’s children. Ridicule for their grandfathers bought and paid for  ignorance. >
  
  Happy to doom a planet he'll never live in >
  
  Did he retire?  I’d be shocked if he was actually voted out >
  
  I won't miss that piece of garbage. >
  
  Well, he and his people have theirs and that's all that really matters, right?  /s
  His replacement is no better.  Too bad Oklahoma isn't about ready to turn heel and vote in an intellectually honest person, let alone a person who doesn't have an (R) next to their name. >
  
  He exemplifies the Groucho Marx 
  quote: “why should I worry about future generations, what have they ever done for me? “ >
  
  I can’t believe a senator for the great land locked state of Oklahoma was a climate denier. How the hell this happen in a region topping the education charts and leading the nation’s tech industry? >
  
  This bastard won't live long enough to see the hell he created. >
  
  He is responsible for the Pain humans are about to suffer. >
  
  Man looks like he was hit by climate change personally. >
  
  As a civil discussion advocate I have to say...
  Fuck off Mr inhofe! Go die in a ditch. >
  
  Maybe now he can spend all his time doing “the Jesus thing” with corrupt African bureaucrats. >
  
  you know when "climate deniers" will not be climate deniers any more?  when Washington D.C. itself is inundated by the Potomac & the Chesapeake.  or when Lower Manhattan is covered by the Hudson & East River.  and even then they will say - it's just natural >
  
  I truly wonder of these climate deniers in our government are actually this stupid or are they just parroting what their stupid constituents want to hear. >
  
  Yes. >
  
  Doesn’t that describe every Republican senator? >
  
  Not only do we need term limits but age limits- these geezers got to go after 60 >
  
  His replacement is no better. >
  
  Even that giant mole on his upper lip is evil. >
  
  Good riddance!! >
  
  Bye   You dirty old shit >
  
  Yeah. 
  Fuck that guy. >
  
  He served the people that owned the oil companies >
  
  Good riddance >
  
  Denies scientific facts but believes in Jewish space lasers and that the election was stolen. >
  
  God just look at that fucking dinosaur. Out govt is absurd. >
  
  Don’t let the door hit you in the ass, fuckface! >
  
  Inhofe is on my top twenty list of terrible politicians that have damaged this country (and the planet) during the last 20 years either through direct action or the spreading of false information.. >
  
  Shame he won't live long enough for the world to collapse due to climate change. >
  
  Ok great in other news all seditionist leaders who planned j6 are still free and some in positions of power 2 years later. >
  
  He die? >
  
  Senator Jim Fuckoff >
  
  In the early 80’s when he was mayor of Tulsa, he would come into the pawnshop where I worked and buy guns. He was smug and generally unpleasant. No one liked him. >
  
  One of the dumbest and most cynical motherfuckers to ever hold office >
  
  Yeah, climate denial will gain a lot of younger voters - dumbasses. >
  
  Term limits people. Term limits.