Author Topic: Political Thread Right now the voices in my head are telling me....... (Read 42595 times)

Tish · « **Reply #12096 on:** March 14, 2025, 08:33:19 am »

"Your customer doesn't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

positronium · « **Reply #12097 on:** March 14, 2025, 09:08:15 am »

Quote from: Tish on March 14, 2025, 08:06:57 am

Where's the proof, and/or the auditors, of the "massive fraud"? Fraud is a legal issue. Why hasn't anyone been arrested/charged with all this, all this/any of this, fraud?

You are a fool if you don't think there is massive fraud within our government.....and every other government on this planet...

Tish · « **Reply #12098 on:** March 14, 2025, 12:17:28 pm »

Quote from: positronium on March 14, 2025, 09:08:15 am

You are a fool if you don't think there is massive fraud within our government.....and every other government on this planet...

That is a mighty big if.

positronium · « **Reply #12099 on:** March 14, 2025, 01:05:17 pm »

Quote from: Tish on March 14, 2025, 12:17:28 pm

That is a mighty big if.

Absolutely huge.....Most know that fraud and money laundering within our government is rampant....

Chucky · « **Reply #12100 on:** March 14, 2025, 02:52:03 pm »

Elon Musk never even heard of em… just popped up like a zit or the internet… Donald Trump we all know him… He’s the real Ebenezer Scrooge … goood for them I guess good for somebody… I’m government proof… walked the Canadian road along time ago… Be fked up and wrong tho if Trump hurts the American people through harsh economic tactics against allies … something strange … Oh well… more surprises coming… it ain’t just America either… The Russians and Chinese actually want to take over America… sounds stranger don’t it… Bet they’re getting rich laughing taking advantage of the American people…

Chucky · « **Reply #12101 on:** March 14, 2025, 02:58:22 pm »

Ain’t no sugarcoating that stuff

positronium · « **Reply #12102 on:** March 14, 2025, 04:13:38 pm »

Our economy is going to rock very soon.......FOR EVERYBODY (citizens)

Tish · « **Reply #12103 on:** March 15, 2025, 04:20:53 pm »

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Chucky · « **Reply #12104 on:** March 15, 2025, 08:47:32 pm »

Don’t fall for it Huckleberry… it’s a twap

positronium · « **Reply #12105 on:** March 15, 2025, 09:10:49 pm »

Quote from: Tish on March 15, 2025, 04:20:53 pm

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Try telling that to the innovator.....Or the Chinese....

positronium · « **Reply #12106 on:** March 15, 2025, 09:12:33 pm »

Quote from: Chucky on March 15, 2025, 08:47:32 pm

Don’t fall for it Huckleberry… it’s a twap

I fall for nothing....I experience optimism coming true....

Tish · « **Reply #12107 on:** March 17, 2025, 10:54:44 am »

The only thing trump ever won is an election.

positronium · « **Reply #12108 on:** March 17, 2025, 11:08:49 am »

VIVA TRUMP! WINNING!

positronium · « **Reply #12109 on:** March 17, 2025, 11:15:17 am »

Alright, I'll wait.

odyssey · « **Reply #12110 on:** March 17, 2025, 08:10:14 pm »

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Tish · « **Reply #12111 on:** March 18, 2025, 08:44:58 am »

Quote from: positronium on March 17, 2025, 11:08:49 am

VIVA TRUMP! WINNING!

Making Polluting Legal Again
The new EPA head wants to abandon any semblance of environmental protection

DAN RATHER AND TEAM STEADY

No one who has been paying attention thought Donald Trump would ever be a champion of the environment. But what occurred yesterday goes further than our worst nightmares when it comes to protecting the earth and human life.

Time again to ask, what are they thinking? Are they thinking? As it has been so often with the Trump administration, what is happening is dangerous — for our country and for the world.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to have undergone an overnight rebrand, one that looks as if it were written and directed by the oil and gas industry.

The core mission of the EPA, since its inception during the Nixon administration, has been to protect human health and the environment. No longer. Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, who, by the way, is a lawyer and former congressman — his only qualification for running the agency is fealty to Trump — said yesterday that the new mission of the agency is to “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.”

This anti-environmental agenda comes at a time when global temperatures continue their steep rise and weather events become more frequent, more costly, and more deadly. Last year was the hottest year on record, after 2023. Twenty-seven weather disasters — hurricanes, floods, wildfires — costing more than $1 billion each hit the U.S. last year. In 1980 there were only three. You’d have to live in a cave to believe our climate isn’t changing, and quickly.

Zeldin announced a barrage of regulation rollbacks, promising to drive “a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion.” He added that yesterday “marks the death of the Green New Scam.”

He went on to say that when the EPA creates new policies, it would no longer consider the cost of wildfires, droughts, storms, and other disasters to society that might be made worse by pollution connected to that policy.

Among the draconian changes Zeldin and Trump are seeking:

Reduce emissions standards for vehicles — 2024 saw the lowest CO2 car emissions to date.
Overturn rules to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants — this would allow some of the oldest and dirtiest plants to stay online.
Eliminate efforts that protect poor and minority communities from pollution.
Ease limits on mercury emissions from power plants — mercury poisoning can cause developmental damage in children.
Get rid of the “good neighbor rule” that requires states to curb pollution when the wind carries it to neighboring states.
Eliminate the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit — which would cause a predicted 27% drop in sales of EVs.
Upend the EPA’s own “endangerment finding,” that greenhouse gases are warming the planet and that it presents a public health threat — this is the lynchpin for all of the agency’s greenhouse gas regulations.
“All of the climate protection rules, the rules to cut greenhouse gases from cars, trucks, power plants, from the oil and gas industry — all those rules are grounded in the [endangerment] finding,” explained David Doniger, a senior strategist and attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, to NBC News.

Reversing that foundational finding has been the ultimate goal of climate change deniers. But there is a reason it has never been tried before: An Everest-sized mountain of evidence, collected over decades, shows that greenhouse gas pollution causes climate change. Trump would have to prove the opposite in a court of law.

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As for upending the rest of the regulations, that won’t be easy either.

“These are all rules and regulations. They can’t just wish them away with a press release. You have to tear a regulation down the same way it was built up. They have to make a proposal for each one of these things and explain reasoning and show evidence, and they have to have public comment and respond to public comment and then reach a final decision and defend it in court,” Doniger said.

The court of public opinion may be a challenge for Trump too.

After decades of declining consumption, 2024 saw a surge in electricity demand. Data centers needed to hold huge amounts of storage for AI and advanced manufacturing are the two big reasons.

Before Trump, progress was being made. In 2024, wind and solar generated more power than coal for the first time ever, according to Ember, a clean energy think tank. Wind and solar are on pace to see record growth this year.

Years of pro-renewable energy policy helped the industry grow rapidly, capped by billions of dollars for clean energy projects from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Decreasing technology costs, tax incentives, and big contracts with big tech companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google can also be credited with the clean energy boom.

Good thing, because renewable energy will be crucial to meeting the increasing demand. Building renewable energy and battery plants is faster and cheaper than building natural gas plants, the current No. 1 provider of energy. And those tariffs Trump keeps imposing and lifting will make building those plants even more expensive.

Dave Jones, chief analyst for Ember, believes we are in a new phase of energy creation. “Solar did more to meet the rising demand for electricity last year than natural gas. And that’s at odds with the current narrative and expectations going forward, where so much of the discussion has switched towards building more gas plants,” he said.

Though most Republicans in Congress are walking in lockstep with the administration’s pro-business, pro-fossil fuel, anti-protection agenda, 21 Republicans have asked to preserve tax credits for renewable energy.

They likely recognize that eliminating those tax credits will increase energy costs for everyone. And maybe they realize that the world they are leaving for their children and grandchildren will suffer mightily at the hands of Donald Trump.

Tish · « **Reply #12112 on:** March 18, 2025, 08:57:36 am »

Quote from: positronium on March 17, 2025, 11:15:17 am

Alright, I'll wait.

You are pathetic...then, now, always.

While you wait...many Americans are hurting. They can’t afford the rising price of groceries. Millions could lose health insurance. Social Security may be next. Trump’s reaction? “There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big. We’re bringing wealth back to America.” Really? America is the richest nation in the world. How much more money do the already-wealthy need? And is lowering taxes for the rich at the expense of the poor and disadvantaged really good for the country — short- and long-term?

positronium · « **Reply #12113 on:** March 18, 2025, 09:01:45 am »

Quote from: Tish on March 18, 2025, 08:44:58 am

Making Polluting Legal Again
"The new EPA head wants to abandon any semblance of environmental protection"

So much winning....I just can't take much more...

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