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  1. 6 hours ago, kallend said:

     Mark Meadows,  Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, former campaign aide Mike Roman, former state party chair Kelli Ward, state Sens. Jake Hoffman and Anthony Kern, and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.

    Trump was not charged, but he is described in the indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator. His campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    well that only took 4 years.....  it would appear that the entire justice system is designed to be an enabler for crimes.....

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  3. 21 hours ago, brenthutch said:

    “Energy transition not happening”

    Define energy

    Define transition

    define 'not happening'

    Try not to contradict anything you have said or claimed already in this 30 page thread.

    Oh wait, moving the goalposts and changing definitions is your modus operandi.

  4. 13 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

    From Hydroreview.com 4/8/24
    “The world is burning more fossil fuels than ever before, global energy-related emissions are increasing, and ever-growing energy demand is not being fully met by renewables”

    If renewables can’t even keep pace with the growth in demand, they sure as hell won’t be able replace fossil fuels in time to “save the planet”

    You guys must live in the land of Magical Thinking.

     

    no one debates that - but that is not what you said

  6. 53 minutes ago, brenthutch said:

    Let me bring you up to speed…

    Energy transition, not happening 

    EV transition, not happening 

    End of the world from climate change, not happening.

    How is that?

    patently false.  Solar is still being built at record rates across the country.  wind installations are happening in dozens of states.

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  7. 22 hours ago, metalslug said:

    Most solar panels currently in use will last perhaps 20 years,

     

    Most Industrial gas turbines don't last any longer, in fact generally cost millions of dollars per year to keep them running.  I know this because that is the industry that I work in.

  8. 22 hours ago, kallend said:

    The trial that starts today is not just about hush money.  It's about whether illegally falsifying business records is acceptable in order to deceive voters prior to an election.

    It is quite conceivable that the revelations of his sexual adventures coming out right after the "pussy grabbing" tapes could have influenced sufficient voters** to switch in 2016 giving us a different president in 2017, a different Supreme Court now, with all that followed.

    ** it would only take some 0.5% of voters to switch.

     

    turns out that Trump was trying to cover it up as he thought the Christian conservatives would be upset that he had an affair with a porn star while he was having a baby or whatever the timeline was.

    Turns out that the christian conservatives did not give a fuck, as we have found over the years.... they have no morals and can justify their authoritarian goals because 'god's plan' or whatever other bullshit they believe.

    Trump should have just said "yeah I fucked the porn star" and be done with it, would have saved himself $130K+, a felony conviction, which is coming soon enough,

    but I expect there will be a month of jury selection, calls for mistrials, perhaps even a mistrial thanks to several jurors who no doubt will be rabid trump MAGA types, and so on.  the justice system is a clown show being run by the clown that is under indictment and I have little faith in it anymore.

    Even if Trump is convicted on EVERY felony count in this and every other trial, the christian conservatives and MAGA types will not give a fuck, it will not change a single one of their votes.

  9. On 4/13/2024 at 7:31 AM, billeisele said:

    The  USPS has declined far too much, to the point that's it's unreliable.

    Someone came to my house on Monday from Charleston on the way to Atlanta on a business trip. She left something important in Charleston. On Tuesday her hubby had it sent to her hotel in Atlanta Next Day Delivery. The cost was $30 plus $17.50 for Tracking. By Friday it still had not arrived. Tracking indicated that it had not left Charleston.

    Her options were to have the hotel refuse delivery or cancel the delivery for a fee.

    The response from USPS was, "If you come to our office we'll refund the $30 if you can prove what you're saying."

    How does this make any sense? They take no responsibility, don't care and there's no recourse.

    We're wondering if it will ever arrive at the hotel and IF the hotel will remember to no accept the delivery.

    USPS is controlled by Congress effectively and if they bothered, like so many other things, they could actually fix a lot of the issues.  They effectively defunded the organization years ago by putting unfunded and unrealistic financial burdens on them to fund the pension program without figuring out the money that would be needed to make that happen.

    USPS stamps should be $0.80 and that would solve a lot of issues with their money problems.  service comes by better fudning and the freedom to make decisions that work, as well as the DIRECTIVES to make it work

    Given that it is written into the Constitution, privatizing it is not actually an option, nor would I support that.  The second you put profits at the forefront, the system will become corrupt overnight.

     

    It's not corrupt now, it is just shitty service.  Privatizing it would ensure corruption AND shitty service.  And agree with the earlier comment that it is being run by people that want to dismantle it, much like public schools all over the country.  As long as we keep voting for idiots, this is what we will get

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  10. 15 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:


    You know, like now when the "Freedumb CooCoos" are actively blocking any legislation that benefits America in any way.
     

    felt the need to fix that.....

  12. On 4/3/2024 at 10:03 PM, wolfriverjoe said:

    Not really, Professor.

    A gun dealer in Indiana is NOT allowed to sell to a resident from another state.

    That doesn't mean an Illinois resident couldn't find an Indiana resident to do a 'straw purchase' for him, but it's not legal.

    assuming you buy from a gun dealer.  private sales are pretty much exempt from any or all such things in almost every state.  In many cases that includes gun shows where I can 'privately' sell you my gun in the parking lot.

    The idea that 'gun dealers' have any affect whatsoever on the illegal gun trade is more gun lobby fantasy and used for this kind of talking points.

    ALL gun sales need to be escrowed, whether that is through LEO, gun dealer, whatever..... making private sales illegal unless via a tracking and background check system is the first step at stemming the illegal trade of weapons.

  13. 24 minutes ago, wmw999 said:

    If they're illegal, but close, the same people who feel free to speed on the freeway are going to feel free to buy a gun out of state. It's not like there are any sort of controls at interstate borders.

    Wendy P.

    I always have an issue with the idea of 'illegal guns'.  There is no such thing as an illegal gun.  That's like saying there is an illegal car.  It is another gun lobby/NRA talking point distraction.

    Remington, Winchester, S&W do not have an assembly line that creates illegal guns for criminals to use.  We have guns that are obtained, trafficked, or owned illegally BECAUSE we do not have any laws to track guns.

    If we tracked every gun from its manufacture until its disposal, we would go a long way to finding out how guns get into the hands of criminals.  But we don't do that, nor do we even try to.

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  14. 9 hours ago, billeisele said:

    The FBI says that IL conducts more background checks than any other state. 4 million were done in 2023. They already have some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. Clearly they aren't working. 2,000 murders in 2021, and in the middle of the deaths per 100,000 rankings at 16. Stats of the States - Firearm Mortality (cdc.gov)

    Comparing any gun law to 'the rest of the country' is meaningless given that the rest of the country has ineffective guns laws as well.

    If the country wants to reduce gun violence, then we need to model gun laws on the countries that have less gun violence and stop pretending that the causes are judges, or mental health, or open carry, or good-guy-bad-guy, or suicides or whatever.

    The reason we have so much gun violence is that guns are readily accessible to pretty much anyone in the country and there are no laws worth talking about.  Look at what it took to get two parents convicted of manslaughter when they bought their mentally ill kid a semi-auto rifle and then he shot up his school.  In any other civilized country, that original purchase would never have happened.

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  16. On 12/5/2023 at 7:28 PM, winsor said:

    How about a massive decrease in population?

    At a population of 20 billion, we're screwed regardless.  A stable population of ~1 billion has options.

    Most sociological sciences still predict that the world population will reach 11B - 12B and likely stop there due to resource constraints.  That means as many people will be dying every year as are being born every year

    In other words, MASSIVE human suffering and losses each year.  Grateful that I am white and was born in North America.  But I will not be around to see 10B I expect

  17. 6 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

    Eventually trump will die. All that cash and all those lawyers will need a place to go. You don't think the new capos and their crews won't need legal defense?

    And when he dies, I will be hosting a massive neighborhood BBQ and open an 18 year old bottle of scotch.

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  18. 1 hour ago, Phil1111 said:

    The foundations of American conservative ideology has morphed into distrust of government. Washington, no all forms of government are nothing but a parasite upon the freedoms of Americans for them. The government doesn't function, politicians who are from the other side are all corrupt. This is unique to US conservatives. It has swung from 90% who trusted the government to handle domestic issues in 2002 to 17% who trust it today, twenty years later.

    G.W. Bush was the president in 1991 when the percentage of government spending as a percentage of the economy(gdp) was 36%.. Last year it was 36%. Its too bad that propaganda has blinded you to facts.

    yeah I always get a kick out of right wingers who do not trust the government, and think it should be dismantled and yet claim to 'believe in the constitution', which is apparently all about personal freedoms and nothing else.

    They seem to ignore and gloss over all the parts of the constitution that specifically define the government and in many cases, its widespread and expansive powers to govern.

    cherry picking - much like they do with the bible and so many other things.

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  19. 3 hours ago, sundevil777 said:

    Is it possible to make it more clear - the end justifies the means?  I don't think so.  How can you not see what you've become?  Liberals used to protect the constitution, and the liberties it ensured.  Now their religion is government, they worship it, see the constitution as an obstacle to effective governance, an impediment to doing what is needed to be done for the greater good, determined by...

    Do you recognize it is possible to support policies without supporting the politician?  I don't think you all can have policy debates anymore, so much hate, intolerance, and bigotry has filled your world view.

    Of course you have specific numerous chapter, line and verse examples for your claims right?

  20. 9 hours ago, kallend said:

    What kind of imbecile would donate money to a con-man to help with his penalty for committing fraud?

    Fundraiser by Elena Cardone : Stand with Trump; Fund the $355M Unjust Judgment (gofundme.com) - these people would....  Mind you, they are woefully short, and knowing the history of trump fundraising, there's a pretty good chance that someone will end up with criminal charges related to even this GoFundMe.

  21. 5 hours ago, BIGUN said:

    The real issue is - raising taxes to throw more money at a governmental agency that does not embark on a path of continuous improvement, process enhancement, and quality of service for their "customers." 

     

    The agency follows whatever 'continuous improvement' guidelines/rules they are provided with by congress and legislation and within the boundaries of the funding they have to do just that.

    I am pretty sure that the majority of the problem is capitalism and the false belief (generally in the USA) that it has a solution for every problem.  The goal should be healthcare, but the goal is not that, it is about money/costs and funding, much like the private system.  We do not have a healthcare system in the US, we have a profit driven money making system that sometimes provides healthcare if you can afford it.

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  22. 4 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

    From the article (closing paragraph):
     

     

    I doubt Trump is quaking in his boots at all.  He is a narcissistic sociopath, and he actually believes he has done nothing wrong, and he also believes he can do no wrong and he also believes that he should not be held accountable for anything he does or has done.

    Fear is not something he can comprehend.  he is perfect and he believes that.   The reality will be far different that his perception of it, and all that means as he loses case after case is that he will become more unhinged.... BECAUSE he is a narcissistic sociopath.

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  23. 16 hours ago, BartsDaddy said:

    I had to stop to get mom dinner. I also wanted to add the government is looking to get funding from any new tax they can pass. And the rich is easy pickens cause most people now think the rich should bail out the government that cant pass a balanced budget. California now wants to tax people and corporatins for leaving California and to continue the tax for 5 years. 

    we spend more that we take in, which is why we have a deficit.  Name any program that the majority of Americans want to slash or eliminate and then show us how much money we would actually save by doing that, and I bet it doesn't even make a ding in the deficit.

    The answer is basically 'no programs should be cut' for most people if you really got into the nitty gritty of it.  We have the programs that we want, we just refuse to tax at the level needed to pay for them because "taxes bad, programs good". 

    And if you discuss Americans being unwilling to pay for the things that they demand, the argument invariably shifts to "Well, the government just wastes everything we give them", which accomplishes nothing to solve the problem.  

    but yeah, taxes are very low in the USA, but I think Americans complain more about 'high taxes' than other countries.  I think other countries pay higher taxes, but actually get something for their money, especially education, which gives them the ability to understand what they are getting for their money.

    In the USA there is a concerted effort (falsely believed) that by cutting government, somehow the country will be better off.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

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  24. 16 hours ago, brenthutch said:

    Honda Accord coup: 3500 lbs

    Tesla model 3 3800 lbs

    My wife’s GLS 450 weighs about the same as a Tesla X (5489 respectively 5390) and the GLS is more capable.

    For the sake of the planet I will keep my Honda and Mercedes.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/03/18/electric-vehicle-price-drop/

     

    more affordable than ever

  25. 3 hours ago, kallend said:

    The folks who write the tax laws constitute the best government money can buy.

    yup - try calling your senators.  The best I have gotten in the past 3 years is an answering machine.   I am willing to bet that Bezos (et al) have all the senators phone numbers and I bet they answer when he calls.

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