Elections; 2024
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Vote for Republicans because “Congressman proves global warming scare is just silly.”
'What Percent Of Our Atmosphere Is CO2?': Doug LaMalfa Stumps Entire Panel With Climate Questions
House Transportation Committee Holds Hearings On Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
…..in which Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) gives master class in lying without telling a single lie . . . all in a calm and reasonable voice.
He asks the panel: What percent of our Atmosphere is CO2?
They don’t know. He presses them to guess. They guess 5%, 7%, 8%.
He tells them the answer is 0.04%.
They are stunned.
Why that’s just too small to have to worry about!
I just wanted to mention that all this depends on the complete ignorance of the people, the panelists, and especially the online commenters who believe the congressman has just proved how silly the whole climate change hoax is. He has saved the country from the ignorance of those who want to save us from a meaningless level of carbon dioxide.
He continues in a quiet and reasonable voice,”I just wanted to underline this as we get all giddy about making everything electric. Especially when they are taking out power grids and shutting down dams and barely avoided closing the nuclear plant” “ as a farmer I wouldn’t be happy to be running out and replacing a million dollar piece of equipment because someone wants it to be electric.” “contorted into doing tiny change in CO2.” “if we get below .02 plant life starts to die off”. “why would anyone be changing out all that equipment you’ve been upgrading?” “all this all that”
All of his terrible examples assume no one is going to build the grid, or that the nuke doesn’t need to be closed for reasons having nothing to do with changing to electric vehicles, and no one is going to make you throw away your brand new farm equipment, though you may want to replace it when it is worn out with more efficient electric farm equipment, after the grid brings electricity to your farm (something FDR did in the thirties which the LaMalfa’s at the time called “socialism”).
0.04% is a pretty small number. Can’t have any importance in the real world. Small numbers are like that. you don’t have to pay attention to them.
0.0003% of potassium cyanide in your body will kill you instantly, but that’s a hundred times less than the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere so you don’t have to worry about it. Right?
Note that he gives himself away: “if it gets down to .02% plant life will start to die off.” Apparently a small change (0.02% is half of 0.04%) can make a big difference. But no one noticed.
https://angrybearblog.com/2023/04/what-percent-of-our-atmosphere-is-co
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Vote for Republicans! Iowa Senate Pulls All-Nighter to Roll Back Child Labor Protections
The bill, Senate File 542, would let 14-year-olds work six-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds “perform light assembly work” and move items of up to 50 pounds, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol, if their parent or guardian signs a waiver. The Senate voted 32-17, with one Republican representative joining all 16 Democrats in opposition, and the bill passed at 4:52 a.m.
“This is important precisely because it doesn’t fit into pre-existing patterns,” said Eric Blanc, an author and professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. “It goes above and beyond previous attacks on workers’ rights, which have tended to focus on things like preventing unions, preventing increases to the minimum wage law.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9bwx/iowa-senate-pulls-all-nighter-t
o-roll-back-child-labor-protections
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Or you could vote Democrat and support pedophilia and cutting boys penises off at 3 years old.
Your choice. 
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Or you could vote Democrat and support pedophilia and cutting boys penises off at 3 years old.
Your choice.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Heh heh heh!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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US ‘National Divorce’ Appears to Already Be Happening
Analysis finds that large numbers of Americans moved from blue to red counties
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-national-divorce-appears-to-already-b
e-happening_5206738.html
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Vote Republican if you think this is a good idea! Why so many top Republicans want to go to war in Mexico
An astonishingly bad idea that’s gotten popular very quickly.
One of the hottest new ideas in Republican politics is, apparently, launching a war in Mexico.
Three recent articles — in Rolling Stone, Politico, and Semafor — traced the rise of the proposal from obscurity to the party’s highest levels, finding ample evidence of the idea’s popularity in the GOP ranks. Former President Donald Trump, for example, has been asking for a “battle plan” to “attack Mexico,” specifically targeting drug cartel strongholds in the country. Every single declared Republican presidential candidatehas endorsed treating cartels like terrorist organizations. And in both the House and the Senate, leading Republicans have proposed authorizing the use of military force in Mexico to fight cartels.
Launching cross-border raids into the territory of the US’s neighbor and third-largest trading partner, a vital partner on many issues, is just about the worst idea, ever. The US and Latin American partners have been waging a literal war on drugs for decades; military campaigns like Plan Colombia have repeatedly failed to stop narcotics from entering the United States. Attacks on Mexican soil seem no more promising — and considerably more likely to backfire in dangerous ways.
In reporting this piece, I spoke to four different experts on foreign policy and/or the Mexican border from across the ideological spectrum; not one of them thought these proposals contained anything like a workable idea. “The planning would embarrass Paul Wolfowitz,” quipped Justin Logan, the director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.
What this exposes, more than anything else, is an important way the Republican party hasn’t changed in the Trump era.
As much as Trump billed himself as a kind of isolationist critic of the Republican foreign policy consensus, his actual track record as president shows that he was quite willing to use force aggressively. He used force in somewhat different ways, and for different reasons, than his predecessors — but very clearly accepted that some of America’s big foreign policy problems could be solved by bombing them into oblivion.
The enthusiasm for a new Mexican-American war illustrates the same sort of principle.
More at https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/21/23686510/mexico-invade-bomb-tru
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Vote Republican if you want the US to default!
The deadline to raise the debt ceiling is getting closer, and investors are getting more jittery. According to the Wall Street Journal's experts, the current cost of insuring treasury debt corresponds to a belief in a 2% chance of default. There are a whole lot of caveats about this, but the conclusion nonetheless is that things are getting dicey.
Meanwhile, Republicans fiddle while Washington DC burns.
https://jabberwocking.com/investors-are-getting-nervous-about-the-debt
-ceiling/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Vote as if you believe Trump will make his plans for the future happen (but which way you vote depends on what you think of his idiosyncratic "future"):
Trump touts authoritarian vision for second term: ‘I am your justice’
The former president is proposing deploying the military domestically, purging the federal workforce and building futuristic cities from scratch
By Isaac Arnsdorf and Jeff Stein
April 21, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2023/04/21/trump-agenda-polic
ies-2024/
Mandatory stop-and-frisk. Deploying the military to fight street crime, break up gangs and deport immigrants. Purging the federal workforce and charging leakers.
Former president Donald Trump has steadily begun outlining his vision for a second-term agenda, focusing on unfinished business from his time in the White House and an expansive vision for how he would wield federal power. In online videos and stump speeches, Trump is pledging to pick up where his first term left off and push even further.
Where he earlier changed border policies to reduce refugees and people seeking asylum, he’s now promising to conduct an unprecedented deportation operation. Where he previously moved to make it easier to fire federal workers, he’s now proposing a new civil service exam. After urging state and local officials to take harsher measures on crime and homelessness, Trump says he is now determined to take more direct federal action.
“In 2016, I declared I am your voice,” Trump said in a speech last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference and repeated at his first 2024 campaign rally in Waco a few weeks later. “Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
Trump’s emerging platform marks a sharp departure from traditional conservative orthodoxy emphasizing small government, which was famously summed up in Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Trump, by contrast, is proposing to apply government power, centralized under his authority, toward a vast range of issues that have long remained outside the scope of federal control.
Experts called some of Trump’s ideas impractical, reckless, self-defeating, potentially illegal and even dangerous. Some of Trump’s specific proposals are admittedly underdeveloped, such as a plan for building futuristic cities from scratch on unused federal land, which has been compared to projects in repressive regimes such as Saudi Arabia.
But Trump has a track record of floating ideas that stoke widespread outrage or confusion, then roiling government and legal institutions to realize them, such as banning citizens of several majority-Muslim countries from coming to the United States and imposing trade barriers. Trump is currently facing federal and local criminal investigations arising from his unsuccessful efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, which ultimately inspired a deadly riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
“As with so many things Trump, it’ll be sticky to sort out where what he’s proposing is literally unlawful, which some things would be, and where what he’s proposing would fly in the face of well-established and deeply principled norms,” said Steve Vladeck, an expert on constitutional and national security law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Trump campaign advisers said the former president will continue rolling out new policy ideas, with the goal of being upfront with voters about his agenda and letting them vote based on policy, similar to how he released a list of his potential Supreme Court nominees during the 2016 campaign. They identified Trump’s top priority as public safety and law enforcement, while stressing a commitment to collaborating with state authorities and working within the law.
“Together, we are going to finish what we started,” Trump said at the Waco rally last month. “With you at my side, we will totally obliterate the deep sta
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What would be your suggestion to fix all of these problems, Second?
We can't have an honest discussion about anything until you at least admit that there are some real problems here and that they are not being addressed under our current leadership.
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Quote:Who are you kidding about "honest discussion"? You want Trump as the solution to all problems. And that is what Trump is selling this month. He was selling that same idea since 2015 "Only I can fix it" and you bought that solution without thinking that it depends completely on Trump being a sterling character. There is a different way that doesn't depend on a Hero - Trump or Biden - being the only one who can fix it.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What would be your suggestion to fix all of these problems, Second?
We can't have an honest discussion about anything until you at least admit that there are some real problems here and that they are not being addressed under our current leadership.
Unfortunately, the Republican voters don't understand any of the Democrats' solutions, don't want to understand, and their Congressmen want to repeal every Democratic solution. See the law called the "Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023".
https://www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LSGA_xml.pdf
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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