You're conflating climate change from CO2 emissions with pollution from tires breaking down into microparticles.
I believe you're presented this non sequitur in good faith. But let's straighten this one thing out.
ICE vehicles get you tire pollution and CO2 emissions.
BEVs get you tire pollution and significantly less CO2 emissions.

So BEVs are the superior choice. They still are imperfect because they harm the environment through tires, mining of materials for its components.

But refusing to act until a perfect solution presents itself is not going to end well.

Nothings is stopping anyone from making a better kind of wheels for both ICE and BEVs. That would be a step in a direction that seems very near and dear to you, perhaps it's even of a greater concern to you than climate change.

Why isn't it progress? It seems like incremental progress to me.

Putting seatbelts in cars and ceasing putting ash trays in cars, both of those were progress too. Maybe not mind blowing progress, but little improvements over a long time do add up.

I like the idea of putting straight pipes on my motorcycle. But I don't necessarily like the reality of it.

Busses are fantastic. Not just because of the fuel savings, but you can move a lot more people for a given amount of road surface. There would be very little traffic congestion if most of the commute traffic were busses.

Trains are pretty great as well. But the US didn't invest in rail infrastructure and so doesn't have a viable rail system to usefully place passenger trains on.

I have an ICE vehicle, for a lot of complicated reasons. some of it to move things around on my own property. The other is that Uber and Lyft are a little difficult for people with pets. You can kind of do it. But if your St. Bernard is going to be a panicky drool machine on every trip to the vet, then there's no way to transport him with Uber Pet.

In last place I would put the poorly designed light rail (tram) systems, like the one in Silicon Valley. It used to take me longer to commute 10 miles on that than to ride a bicycle, and I didn't have a fast bike nor was I in very good shape (60-65 minutes versus 75 minutes). A car (or motorcycle in my case) could get my commute done in a fraction of the time, even in heavy commute traffic (under 20 minutes). It is a completely useless service in one of the most expensive cities in the US. And my case couldn't have been more ideal, the stop for the light rail was a block from my apartment and it dropped me off at the corner of my work's campus. If that can't work then I don't understand why anyone would ride it if they had any kind of alternative.

Stephen Miller cannot die. His head will split open and he will molt out of his carapace, then a fresh new Stephen Miller will emerge.

Americans own smell or the smell of other countries? Because for the former, I hardly smell like hot dogs now that I have cut a lot of salty food out of my diet.

I would probably be comfortable living almost anywhere. But I prefer California, which perhaps will become a foreign country one day and save me the trouble of having to immigrate.

Both sides are the same. One side wants to hold a boot to my neck. And the other side wants me to respect a person's preferred pronouns, which to some people is equivalent to having a boot on their neck.

The world is full of idiots. My own country is at least 30% idiot. (150m voted, 90m didn't vote, about 50% that did chose poorly = 30% total)

I'm not just ripping on him because he's not "my" party or "my" candidate, whatever that even means. For example, I voted against Obama both times. I didn't think he was the best candidate. I also didn't vote for Biden in the first primary, and wasn't given a chance to turn him down a second time.
I'm not really one to go after someone just because of their party. Why would I be partisan? I'm not a paid member of any political group. Since nobody is paying me, I am only interested in serving my own political opinion.

I like to think that most people tried to vote according to their conscious, beliefs, and the information they had. But casual voters didn't have much of a chance. There was enough misinformation that muddied everything, making some people give up and ossify and radicalizing others. On top of that, there was a small but significant cult that completely ignored reality on multiple occasions.

Then maybe don't revoke visas, wasting incoming student's time and money. It tends to have a chilling effect when word gets out that the US government is going to use you as a political pawn to pressure places like Harvard University to toe-the-line.

Craven ambition ruins everything.

Politics are integral to human society, it always has been, long before anyone ever organized a formal government.
You can't really erase the humanity from science and mathematics and expect it to still have meaning, purpose, or direction.

A little semantic diversion, but Left or Right aren't a useful measure anymore, at least not in the US. As meaning of liberal and conservative are so warped from where they were just a few decades ago that it's basically a trap to fall into even attempting to discuss it.
People have picked a team, the actual ideology behind a party doesn't even matter much anymore. It can be boiled into two groups, with some overlap between members of either main party in the US. There's a radical faction that wants to completely alter the system of government and the society. And there's a centrist faction that wants to keep things mostly the way they are, although talk up high ideals they never actually act on because the polling numbers don't support it.

Not exactly, he saw taxes as a prerequisite for communism. You've made an inferential leap that is illogical.
Counter example: Egyptian palace economy, Roman republican and empire, among others all famously collected taxes.

"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
- Karl Marx

The greatest resource a country holds is its human resource. Especially a population at a prime working age. They produce more than they consume (which is why businesses are able to hire people and still make money). And the skilled labor of this age are a golden resource for any nation.

Now look at it from the perspective of another country wanting to take on immigrants from the US. That country didn't have to pay to support and feed that person through childhood. That country didn't spent a dime educating them. And generally they get the people who were successful enough to complete college and didn't get bogged down by bad circumstances in life. They will be skimming the cream off the top for themselves, and there's nothing the Trump Administration can do about it.

There's nothing to understand. Just two fellows comparing their local climate. It's essentially meaningless.

There's no way to know that's what the poster meant without asking him yourself.

Yes, the Earth receives a lot of solar radiation. It's almost like we don't need to drill for oil and gas quite so much if we could just put some turbines and panel up. But that makes the wrong people rich, so that's bad from someone's point of view. Changing the political power in controlling energy in a few central places is pretty dangerous. Imagine if everyone had some solar panels and could sell a little bit of excess electricity or skip buying electricity from the grid on most days. Someone rich and powerful would cease being quite so rich.

P.S. my subject line got cut off because I kept revising it to fit then forgot to finish it (my idea was never going to fit)

It makes certain sense that people don't want to admit they were taken advantage of. Nobody wants to be a loser or a rube. The denial will remain strong through Trump's term and it's unlikely anything will be done.

In my head I read it in a Pee-wee Herman voice.

The Bill passed today. More debt, fewer services, tax breaks for the wrong people.

I bet you dollars to donuts that the American people will just accept it and simply grumble when they have to shell out more for everything, and be annoyed that grandma is not getting medical care in her retirement home anymore. Even things that directly affect people seems to have no effect on their politics or voting behavior.

That's normal where I live. Yesterday I was complaining how cold it was in Capitola by the beach (lat 36 deg N). It was below 64 F / 18 C in the middle of the afternoon on the last day of June. The shops in that town must make a fortune selling hoodies and blankets to unprepared tourists.

I sure am glad we are sharing our anecdotes and getting some productive discussion going.

The amount of money people spend on lotteries and scratchers isn't enough to lift them out of the hole they are in. And they aren't necessarily going without food over it, especially in Norway. They are buying imaginary control and influence over their own lives, because they cannot afford actual control.