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« Reply #100 on: January 15, 2021, 05:32:42 PM »
Another scary fact from history:

Hitler and the Nazi party attempted a coup in 1923, which little to no consequence.   In 1933, he rose to power.

Reminds me of "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it".


Germany was mired in prolonged economic despair.  While most of the western countries were enjoying the roaring 20s, Germany was mired in a hyperinflationary economy.  The treaty of Versailles demanded monetary reparations from Germany.  Germany started paying this debts in 1920, but by 1923 was falling behind.  To compensate for the lack of payment, a combined French-Belgium military occupied the Ruhr valley industrial region.  This lead to Germany falling further behind in its debts.  To pay these mounting debts, Germany began printing money uncontrollably.  During 1923, the price of a loaf of bread ballooned from 250 marks to 200 trillion, as the mark was not tied to any hard asset.  To curtail inflation and stabilize its currency, the government issued a new currency (the Reichsmark) in 1924, and started borrowing money from the U.S. to back the currency.  That worked well until the crash of 1929.  The U.S. began to recall the loans, and many German businesses folded, resulting in skyrocketing unemployment, reaching 40% by 1933.  The people had reached a breaking point.  More than a decade of economic despair left the people ready to try anything, and the Nazi party filled the bill. 

Perhaps a dozen from now, if the situation in the U.S. mirrors Germany in the 1920s and 30s, a similar result could happen.  However, Trump would be 86 (if he is still alive).  Hitler was half that.






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« Reply #101 on: January 17, 2021, 01:30:39 AM »
Another scary fact from history:

Hitler and the Nazi party attempted a coup in 1923, which little to no consequence.   In 1933, he rose to power.




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Perhaps a dozen from now, if the situation in the U.S. mirrors Germany in the 1920s and 30s, a similar result could happen.  However, Trump would be 86 (if he is still alive).  Hitler was half that.




History is one of those things that echoes, maybe rhymes at times.    I think most history people would argue that Trump just showed the way to "how IT could be done."  Although, that's probably not going to 'work' the next time someone tries the same thing; especially as Trump continues to perform as expected.   There's still a bit of a chance that some demagogue will try the same thing, but if the consequences from the failed coup are severe the risk will be lower.   (according to my irrelevant opinion)

One could also compare the issues that the USA faces to the ones that existed after their Civil War.    These days the plantation owners are the owners of the large corporations that keep a lot of people as 'wage slaves'.   There's got to be room in the economy for what Lincoln called 'Free Labour' otherwise our corporate overlords could revert to some nasty old ways.   Reconstruction after the Civil War was interrupted, unlike the de-Nazification of Germany.

2021 should be much better than 2020.   
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« Reply #102 on: January 18, 2021, 07:28:43 AM »
Some good news: Sherrod Brown chairs the banking committee and Bernie Sanders the Budget committee in the senate. Wall Street dont like that one bit.

What's Elizabeth Warren up to ? I think she should remain in the senate on a committee with teeth, like the two above.

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« Reply #103 on: January 19, 2021, 04:01:28 AM »
Would it kill you guys to focus on solutions and what can be achieved rather than indulge in the US becoming a dictatorship or lamenting what could be? I don't think that's too much to ask. The rampant negativity on this thread isn't helpful

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« Reply #104 on: January 19, 2021, 06:50:51 AM »
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I thought sherrod as senate banking chair and bernie same on budget is good news. Unless, of course, i were part of the banking mafia.

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« Reply #105 on: January 19, 2021, 05:38:52 PM »
It is good news, but you guys seem to be forgetting reconciliation in the Senate. Also, the idea that conservative Dems along with Repubs in the Senate will curtail climate legislation is unfounded. The only Senate Dem who would do that is Manchin, and he'll go along with most of what Dems want as long as West Virginia gets a piece of the pie

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« Reply #106 on: January 19, 2021, 10:24:29 PM »
mitch mconnell: Capitol hill mob was 'provoked' by trump


See trump it sucks to be thrown in front of a bus by your allies. It is not like you came up with the idea but most people are more strategic about it. mconnell waited until you were no longer usefull to him instead of letting his ego make the decision. Hope to see you in prison soon.

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« Reply #107 on: January 19, 2021, 10:56:29 PM »
It is good news, but you guys seem to be forgetting reconciliation in the Senate. Also, the idea that conservative Dems along with Repubs in the Senate will curtail climate legislation is unfounded. The only Senate Dem who would do that is Manchin, and he'll go along with most of what Dems want as long as West Virginia gets a piece of the pie

During the vote on the new green deal, two other democrats voted with the Republicans, Angus King and Krysten Sinema.  The rest of the Democrats voted present to avoid an awkward confrontation.

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« Reply #108 on: January 19, 2021, 11:35:36 PM »
Joe is getting off to a good start.  The inaugural vigil was inspiring.

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« Reply #109 on: January 20, 2021, 01:45:54 AM »
As do I

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« Reply #110 on: January 20, 2021, 02:43:17 PM »
Despair, depression, and the inevitable rise of Trump 2.0: Glenn Greenwald tells RT his Biden administration predictions
https://www.rt.com/usa/512749-greenwald-biden-elections-prediction/
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“It’s not a coincidence that after eight years of Obama and Biden, we got Donald Trump,” he said. “Obviously, if you go back and do exactly the same thing that the ‘Obiden’ administration did for 8 years, which is what Biden’s preparing to do, any rational person has to expect the same outcome.”

On the other hand, if Joe learns from the last dozen years...
Four rules that should guide Bidenomics
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Rule No. 1: Don’t doubt the power of government to help.
Rule No. 2: Don’t obsess about debt.
Rule No. 3: Don’t worry about inflation.
Rule No. 4: Don’t count on Republicans to help govern.

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« Reply #111 on: January 20, 2021, 02:44:15 PM »
A view from AussieLand

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/20/we-made-it-happy-united-states-presidential-inauguration-day-everyone
We made it! Happy United States presidential inauguration day everyone!
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« Reply #112 on: January 20, 2021, 02:52:56 PM »
A really dumb comic strip. Biden isn't a tool of the so-called military-industrial complex, and he actually does give a damn about climate change. Whoever wrote this junk would know that if they bothered to look at his climate plan.

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« Reply #113 on: January 20, 2021, 06:27:24 PM »
Amanda Gorman was AWESOME!!!! 🙂

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90% of the world is religious, but somehow "love thy neighbour" became "fuck thy neighbours", if they don't agree with your point of view.

WTF happened?

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« Reply #114 on: January 20, 2021, 06:29:00 PM »
what a joy to listen to America's poet laurate , Amanda Gorman . b.c.
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« Reply #115 on: January 20, 2021, 10:27:51 PM »
A really dumb comic strip. Biden isn't a tool of the so-called military-industrial complex, and he actually does give a damn about climate change. Whoever wrote this junk would know that if they bothered to look at his climate plan.
It is cerainly true that the term "military-industrial complex" is somewhat last century (warning by Eisenhower at the end of his Presidency).

The military-industrial complex is very much a junior partner these days.
It has been replaced mostly by Wall Street / Financial Institutions and now also by Big-Tech (though they may have blown it).

It is also certainly true that Biden is a Corporate Democrat to the core. I was interested to note that Amazon was one of the corporate donors invited to the inauguration. (Were any ordinary members of the public invited?)

The smart Wall Street money has clocked that the real money is to be made in the new industries linked to climate change. Fossil fuel companies and legacy automakers are already feeling the chill. Hence a bold climate change plan is pushing at an open door. Though will that just be promoting renewables + EVs, or will it include actively erecting obstacles to fossil fuel investments?

The smart Wall Street money also knows it needs internationalism - including smart immigrants. Though that internationalism is likely to be limited as it seems many Democrats and Republicans share various shades of protectionism.

The real test will be doing something about economic / education / housing etc etc inequality. Infrastructure spending - no problem $$$.

A more progressive taxation regime? Now we are talking hardball.

I hope Biden gets much of his agenda through. Though if he does I will be jealous as our idiot Boris leads us into permanent decline on this side of the pond.
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« Reply #116 on: January 20, 2021, 10:31:26 PM »
A really dumb comic strip. Biden isn't a tool of the so-called military-industrial complex, and he actually does give a damn about climate change. Whoever wrote this junk would know that if they bothered to look at his climate plan.
It is cerainly true that the term "military-industrial complex" is somewhat last century (warning by Eisenhower at the end of his Presidency).

The military-industrial complex is very much a junior partner these days.
It has been replaced mostly by Wall Street / Financial Institutions and now also by Big-Tech (though they may have blown it).

It is also certainly true that Biden is a Corporate Democrat to the core. I was interested to note that Amazon was one of the corporate donors invited to the inauguration. (Were any ordinary members of the public invited?)

The smart Wall Street money has clocked that the real money is to be made in the new industries linked to climate change. Fossil fuel companies and legacy automakers are already feeling the chill. Hence a bold climate change plan is pushing at an open door. Though will that just be promoting renewables + EVs, or will it include actively erecting obstacles to fossil fuel investments?

The smart Wall Street money also knows it needs internationalism - including smart immigrants. Though that internationalism is likely to be limited as it seems many Democrats and Republicans share various shades of protectionism.

The real test will be doing something about economic / education / housing etc etc inequality. Infrastructure spending - no problem $$$.

A more progressive taxation regime? Now we are talking hardball.

I hope Biden gets much of his agenda through. Though if he does I will be jealous as our idiot Boris leads us into permanent decline on this side of the pond.

An excellent analysis

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« Reply #117 on: January 20, 2021, 11:20:36 PM »
His comments on not banning fracking answer that question. IMO oil dies mostly from a reduction in demand not from a drop in supply. The US needs a regulatory frame work that punishes legacy automakers for not selling an increasing fraction of fully electric cars. 10% this year 20% next year etc.

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« Reply #118 on: January 21, 2021, 12:30:04 AM »
Two good things: Biden extends eviction moratorium unti March, pause on (federal) student loan payments until September.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/joe-biden-executive-action-blitz-day-one-460587

buncha other stuff in there too. Those caught my eye because i really hate to see people getting thrown out midwinter. And student loan terms are obscene to begin with.

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« Reply #119 on: January 21, 2021, 04:25:03 AM »
His comments on not banning fracking answer that question. IMO oil dies mostly from a reduction in demand not from a drop in supply. The US needs a regulatory frame work that punishes legacy automakers for not selling an increasing fraction of fully electric cars. 10% this year 20% next year etc.

In order for automakers to sell more electric vehicles, there needs to be more buyers.  Similar to your supply and demand for oil.

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« Reply #120 on: January 21, 2021, 04:26:37 PM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55744470
Tom Hanks hosts star-studded concert for Joe Biden's inauguration
Others suggested a prediction previously made on The Simpsons, that Hanks would address the nation during a moment of "national chaos", had now come true.


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« Reply #121 on: January 22, 2021, 11:17:46 AM »
looks like Joe has done more work in 2 days than donald did in 2 years . To restore some balance he needs to go golfing for the next 9 months ... b.c.
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« Reply #122 on: January 22, 2021, 03:02:28 PM »
Our First Anti-Catholic “Catholic” President
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Cupich’s criticisms of his fellow bishops are themselves also quite unprecedented. Then again, the thing that’s most “unprecedented” – that’s given rise to these recent in-house Catholic squabbles – is the election of a self-described “Catholic” president, who not only believes personally that abortion, gay “marriage” (he performed one as vice-president), transgenderism (“the civil rights issue of our time”), and much more are matters of overriding political urgency, despite the long teachings of the Church and American history. He’s determined – actually seems to be going out of his way – to impose those views. On all of us.
Biden is perfectly free to advocate his views. But since they contradicy Catholic doctrine he should not call himself Catholic. If you don't believe what the Church teaches, just be honest and leave the Church! That's perfectly legal.

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« Reply #123 on: January 22, 2021, 04:22:53 PM »
Tom , are you really so stuck on dogma that you preferred a mad dog to a Christian and now complain that you have a catholic President who puts his Christianity first ?
  'Love one-another ' is the over-riding direction of Jesus . He also said 'judge not .. ' . To find fault in those seeking to express their lives differently to you is simply un-Christian , no matter how 'catholic' your tastes . b.c.
 
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« Reply #124 on: January 22, 2021, 04:49:06 PM »
Biden is perfectly free to advocate his views. But since they contradicy Catholic doctrine he should not call himself Catholic. If you don't believe what the Church teaches, just be honest and leave the Church! That's perfectly legal.
Not at all.  There is no contradiction with any religion to expect government to be secular.  No need to deprive, e.g., transgender people of their rights, or deny women their reproductive rights, just because some religions would see their conduct as "sinful."  A secular government is the best way to protect religious freedom of individuals.

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« Reply #125 on: January 22, 2021, 06:53:35 PM »
Biden is perfectly free to deny Catholic Dogma. But then he should not call himself Catholic. If you wear the mantle of Catholicism, believe and practice what the RCC teaches. You can't have it both ways.

                                __________________________________

.. Tom .. I cannot allow you to argue the case for Catholic dogma against Christianity here . We can leave it to the pope to take up the mantle of your argument . I'm sure they will be meeting in the next year or two ; (although the pope has certainly indicated he believes you can 'have it both ways'). As 'thecatholicthing' describes it , it is an 'in-house catholic squabble' .  b.c.
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« Reply #126 on: January 22, 2021, 10:16:42 PM »
Biden has taken an oath to defemd to the best of his ability the US Constitution.

The US Constitution has embedded within it the separation of Church and State and the rejection of rule by Kings. Much of that came from political thought influenced by events in France where the people were oppressed by the Monarchy and nobility with the total support of the Catholic Church (until 1789)

Biden is bound by his oath of office to refuse to limit by decree the rights of the people or impose laws demanded by the evangelical christians amongst many others. It is a great pity that the following is now embedded in the US psyche.

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It seems to me that Biden is right to be trying a bit more of "E pluribus unum" as opposed to Trump's totally hypocritical "In God We Trust".


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« Reply #127 on: January 22, 2021, 10:59:53 PM »
Biden...ah, a Christian who actually goes to Church! And hasn't had multiple divorces. Hmmm

geront, that 'God' language came in at about the same time as 'under God' was introduced into the pledge of allegiance that all kids were forced to say every day at school. They were both part of the red scare hysteria, seen as a way to weed out 'godless commies.'

We would be a much better (and frankly more truly Christian) nation if we had allowed more Communists and Socialist into policy making decisions and into the national dialogue during these years.
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« Reply #128 on: January 22, 2021, 11:24:52 PM »


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« Reply #129 on: January 25, 2021, 03:07:43 PM »
Ranking the Most Influential Democratic Donors in the 2020 Race
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/most-influential-democratic-donors-2020-elections.html

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« Reply #130 on: January 25, 2021, 03:54:09 PM »
Israel will be happy. They called Trump King Cyrus, Biden has be called Moses.
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« Reply #131 on: January 25, 2021, 04:16:31 PM »
Biden hasn't wasted any time.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1611293792-us-military-convoy-enters-northeast-syria-report

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« Reply #132 on: January 25, 2021, 06:10:57 PM »
Ranking the Most Influential Democratic Donors in the 2020 Race
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/most-influential-democratic-donors-2020-elections.html

follow the money.

Somewhat amazing how more billionaires are contributing to Democratic candidates than Republican.

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« Reply #133 on: January 28, 2021, 04:05:25 PM »
https://www.miningweekly.com/article/coal-wins-curious-reprieve-in-bidens-assault-on-climate-change-2021-01-28/rep_id:3650

Coal wins curious reprieve in Biden’s assault on climate change

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President Joe Biden enlisted the entire US government in the fight against climate change on Wednesday, even telling the Central Intelligence Agency to consider global warming a national security threat.

Yet he left out coal -- the fossil fuel most widely blamed for global warming -- when he froze the sale of leases to extract oil and gas from federal land.

It was a conspicuous omission for a president who has vowed to make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035 and who has said the world’s “future rests in renewable energy.”

“This order should have included all fossil fuel extraction on public lands,” said Mitch Jones, policy director at the environmental group Food and Water Watch, who called the decision to leave out coal both “a disappointment” and “scientifically unsound". “For years we’ve been force fed the false idea that fracked gas -- fracked methane -- is cleaner than coal, but, now, coal gets a pass?” Jones said. “The fight against climate change demands that we remain vigilant against all fossil fuel extraction.”

White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy said coal leasing will still get a review as part of a broad analysis of fossil-fuel leasing. But unlike oil and gas development on federal land, which Biden promised to target when running for president, a pause on selling coal rights “was not part of the commitments on the campaign.”

Administration officials had planned to include coal in the order but the decision was made to leave it off the list by Monday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named describing internal deliberations.

One factor in the White House’s decision was how it would affect litigation over then-President Donald Trump’s reversal of an earlier Obama-era moratorium. Conservation groups and Native Americans last year filed a fresh challenge of the Trump administration’s coal leasing restart, arguing the government did not sufficiently evaluate the environmental harm of the move. That case is still pending before a federal district court in Montana.

It’s not clear that a coal directive from the White House would have interfered with the ongoing litigation. And while federal coal sales have waned along with demand for the fossil fuel, the government has continued issuing new and modified leases, said Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine.

“It’s really important that this administration stop issuing leases that allow for infrastructure commitments for the next 20 years on federal coal when it’s completely avoidable and completely unnecessary,” Harbine said.

Coal is politically treacherous terrain. Just ask former President Barack Obama, who for years was accused of leading a “war on coal” by advancing policies limiting mining techniques and power-plant pollution.

Trump used that claim on the campaign trail in 2016, highlighting miners in hardhats at his rallies and even pantomiming shoveling it out on stage. The appeal helped him notch big wins in the once reliably Democratic state of West Virginia.

Biden has largely avoided explicit talk about his plans for coal, though he’s repeatedly promised that a wave of clean energy investment can put people to work in high-paying, union jobs installing wind turbines and solar panels.

On Wednesday, Biden emphasized he would seek to “revitalize the economies of coal, oil and gas and power plant communities,” starting by creating jobs reclaiming old mines and revitalizing once-polluted sites.

Coal and its workforce have politically powerful champions, including Senator Joe Manchin, the Democrat from West Virginia, now leading the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Manchin said he expected Biden to keep his pledge to protect the jobs of workers displaced by the shift in energy sources.

“I intend to hold the administration to this while ensuring that the burden of any acceleration in already changing markets is not unduly placed on these communities that powered our nation to greatness,” Manchin said in an emailed statement.

Biden ordered the creation of an interagency working group focused on the coordinating investments and other efforts to assist communities tied to coal, oil and natural gas.

“We’re never going to forget the men and women who dug the coal and built the nation,” Biden vowed. “We’re going to do right by them -- make sure they have opportunities to keep building the nation and their own communities and getting paid well for it.”
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« Reply #134 on: January 28, 2021, 08:37:40 PM »
https://www.miningweekly.com/article/coal-wins-curious-reprieve-in-bidens-assault-on-climate-change-2021-01-28/rep_id:3650

Coal wins curious reprieve in Biden’s assault on climate change
President Joe Biden enlisted the entire US government in the fight against climate change on Wednesday, even telling the Central Intelligence Agency to consider global warming a national security threat.

Yet he left out coal -- the fossil fuel most widely blamed for global warming -- when he froze the sale of leases to extract oil and gas from federal land.



And fracking.
This one from the State Official Bulletin no less:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/27/business/fracking-ban-biden-federal-leasing/index.html


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Re: Biden’s Presidency
« Reply #135 on: January 29, 2021, 12:07:28 PM »
    Joe Biden just now in his remarks on climate change:

    "We're not going to ban fracking" pic.twitter.com/9JcFjTTjzv

    — jordan (@JordanUhl) January 27, 2021

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Re: Biden’s Presidency
« Reply #136 on: January 29, 2021, 01:05:10 PM »
Zufall,

Fracking for optimal geothermal outputs may be what is on his mind...

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« Reply #137 on: January 29, 2021, 05:08:49 PM »
Zufall,

Fracking for optimal geothermal outputs may be what is on his mind...
Or maybe Biden's mind is on the 2022 mid-term elections? Remember the Democrat results down-ballot did not live up to the hype in November. Republicans could easily get the House back. Lose the House and his presidency will only have one year max to make a big difference.
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« Reply #138 on: January 29, 2021, 05:32:03 PM »
Zufall,

Fracking for optimal geothermal outputs may be what is on his mind...
Or maybe Biden's mind is on the 2022 mid-term elections? Remember the Democrat results down-ballot did not live up to the hype in November. Republicans could easily get the House back. Lose the House and his presidency will only have one year max to make a big difference.

I suspect you are correct here.  Move too far left, and he risks losing enough voters to swing control.

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« Reply #139 on: February 03, 2021, 01:16:21 AM »
President Biden has been acting on climate change much more quickly and aggressively than expected.

[url][https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55872331/url]

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Biden's climate agenda: Is this the beginning of the end for fossil fuels?

Justin Rowlatt
Chief environment correspondent
31/1/2021

Fossil fuels have been the bedrock of US prosperity for more than a century.

The country's economy, security and society depend on them.

But in the few days since his inauguration, the new American president has gone to war against coal, oil and natural gas with a decisiveness that has caught everyone by surprise.

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In the handful of days the new president has been in office, he has already exceeded expectations.

    We knew he was going to re-join the Paris climate accord, we didn't know that a few days later he'd order his domestic climate "tzar", Gina McCarthy, to draw up plans to commit the US to "the most aggressive" carbon cut possible.
    We expected him to try and kill the giant Keystone XL oil pipeline, but not that he'd pull the permit on his first day in office, stopping the 2,000km pipeline project dead in its tracks.
    We knew he planned to make climate change a priority in policy-making, but not that he'd order the Pentagon to make it an issue of national security.
    It is part of what is being called a "whole government" approach to the issue.

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He believes the flurry of executive orders is designed to make an important point.

The president wants to send "a decisive signal about the end of one epoch and the beginning of another," says Mr McKibben.

That signal is aimed at investors, he says. "Fossil fuel, Biden is making clear, is not a safe bet, or even a good bet, for making real money."


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Re: Biden’s Presidency
« Reply #140 on: March 04, 2021, 03:50:55 AM »
From America's Finest News Source: Joe Biden doing good

"this was one of the good Syrian airstrikes"

"these are the sorts of bombing raids we’re supposed to be doing"

"It’s like when Obama did it, okay? "

https://local.theonion.com/democrat-reassures-friend-this-one-of-the-good-syrian-a-1846366749

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« Reply #141 on: March 04, 2021, 02:42:23 PM »
From America's Finest News Source: Joe Biden doing good

"this was one of the good Syrian airstrikes"

"these are the sorts of bombing raids we’re supposed to be doing"

"It’s like when Obama did it, okay? "

https://local.theonion.com/democrat-reassures-friend-this-one-of-the-good-syrian-a-1846366749

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IDK.  Whenever a Democrat does it, the more liberal sites call it good, and the more conservative sites blast it.  It is the opposite whenever a Republican does it. 

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Re: Biden’s Presidency
« Reply #142 on: March 04, 2021, 11:06:47 PM »
Zufall,

Fracking for optimal geothermal outputs may be what is on his mind...
Or maybe Biden's mind is on the 2022 mid-term elections? Remember the Democrat results down-ballot did not live up to the hype in November. Republicans could easily get the House back. Lose the House and his presidency will only have one year max to make a big difference.

I suspect you are correct here.  Move too far left, and he risks losing enough voters to swing control.

I think losing  2022  election control of Congress, at least from my sources in politics tell me is highly probable.

Republicans did very well in state legislatures last election and redistricting is on their agendas and is happening.

Things like going back in the Paris accords that make the “declining, indebited “ US pay energy credits costing more jobs ,for the next 10 years while wealthy China continues to get a freebie and an unfair advantage, is not going unnoticed .
instead of negotiating for a fair environmental deal or a better Iran Nuke deal, he just gave  china and the Europeans whatever  they wanted.
That’s how Trump was elected in the first place.
This isn’t going unnoticed.
Today he took away the  Covid-19 checks in his bill that were going to the middle class people swing votes who voted against Trump in the last election, the Soccer Moms , who are also pissed he’s supporting Trans  ( former men) playing sports against their daughters.

 The Dems will now try to push through whatever they can, as fast as they can, because they know the second part of his term will be very different.

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« Reply #143 on: March 07, 2021, 12:16:27 PM »
My comment on the Trump Presidency thread, why that thread survives open on his Forum is not well understood except for giving some neolibs an outlet to continue with their stupid obsession on Trump instead of paying attention on the horrendous record that the current president is accumulating in a very short period of time. You know, Trump is fun and for some it is a drug difficult to quit.

Biden: best not mention the over fifty million affected due to our failure on pressing harder and passing the $15 minimum wage while we were obsessed over Neera Tanden
Kamala: hear hear

Because Biden looks more and more like Trump, at least in the number of lies accumulating ($2000 right  at your door on Jan 20 was a dirty lie, border immigration policy NOT discontinued including keeping children detained, $15 minimum wage not strongly pushed, sanctions to Saudi MBS forgiven/forgotten and more), Biden is a very callous LIAR. And while lying, let’s bomb a country just to remind the world that we won’t stop the infinite wars... our industry has a stockpile to distribute. And in the meantime let’s cancel everything that bothers us, right and left, with the help of our Silicon Valley friends.

In fact, Trump never was as powerful as how this administration is shaping up to become.

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« Reply #144 on: March 07, 2021, 01:25:26 PM »
My comment on the Trump Presidency thread, why that thread survives open on his Forum is not well understood except for giving some neolibs an outlet to continue with their stupid obsession on Trump instead of paying attention on the horrendous record that the current president is accumulating in a very short period of time. You know, Trump is fun and for some it is a drug difficult to quit.

Biden: best not mention the over fifty million affected due to our failure on pressing harder and passing the $15 minimum wage while we were obsessed over Neera Tanden
Kamala: hear hear

Because Biden looks more and more like Trump, at least in the number of lies accumulating ($2000 right  at your door on Jan 20 was a dirty lie, border immigration policy NOT discontinued including keeping children detained, $15 minimum wage not strongly pushed, sanctions to Saudi MBS forgiven/forgotten and more), Biden is a very callous LIAR. And while lying, let’s bomb a country just to remind the world that we won’t stop the infinite wars... our industry has a stockpile to distribute. And in the meantime let’s cancel everything that bothers us, right and left, with the help of our Silicon Valley friends.

In fact, Trump never was as powerful as how this administration is shaping up to become.

IMI, the main difference between the two parties is that one will tell you when they are screwing the people, will the other lies about it, pretending to be helping.

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Re: Biden’s Presidency
« Reply #145 on: March 07, 2021, 11:36:58 PM »
It really doesnt matter who holds political power in the USA because the same shit happens regardless..... the only real thing that changes is how they dress it up.

If you want real change, stop buying stuff, become a minimalist, drive less and ride a bike more, and buy local from small businesses.
Reduce and eliminate all debt and save your money, and don't invest in real estate or the stock market.
And move out of the cities.

Do those things and those super-rich and powerful men will struggle and fall from their fragile pedestal

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« Reply #146 on: March 08, 2021, 02:28:33 PM »
With either party the rich still win but if you compare which states deploy renewable energy and which fight to keep fossil fuels it is almost entirely along party lines. With Texas being an anomaly.

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« Reply #147 on: March 08, 2021, 02:48:16 PM »
My comment on the Trump Presidency thread, why that thread survives open on his Forum is not well understood ........
That's because Trump is still the President. I know this is true 'cos Tucker Carlson said so and God would strike him down dead if he lied.
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« Reply #148 on: March 08, 2021, 10:34:21 PM »
With either party the rich still win but if you compare which states deploy renewable energy and which fight to keep fossil fuels it is almost entirely along party lines. With Texas being an anomaly.

Yep, but the cosmetics are relatively the same.... protect those who have the wealth and power.

The cosmetics are how the wealth is created remains the same. Fossil fuels or renewables are sort of irrelevant because both will maintain the wealth of whoever does it.

For example, regardless of how each state produces their energy, all states protect the wealth and provide benefits to the wealthy.

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« Reply #149 on: March 08, 2021, 10:34:33 PM »
Great summary by katie halper on Twitter: “Nothing will fundamentally change” is the only promise (made to rich donors) that so far Biden seems to be willing to keep.