Well, to be fair, there is nothing like contemplating this disaster of a presidential election cycle to wipe the smile off one's face. Except, perhaps, the last presidential election cycle.
Well, to be fair, there is nothing like contemplating this disaster of a presidential election cycle to wipe the smile off one's face. Except, perhaps, the last presidential election cycle.
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"You know… the thing" - President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., vaguely alluding to the Declaration of Independence
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I'm not sure I understood correctly what you mean by saying it is someone else's vision. Biden says he will create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants but fails to explain to why he did not do it as VP. He accuses Trump of being racist but fails to explain what reforms he has pushed to help to fight "the cause". It is really hard to compare two viruses, but did they do great jobs on Swine flu in 2009 to accuse Trump now in terrible handling of Coronavirus?
And that fracking thing is like a cherry on top.
He has 47 years of experience in politics, he wrote 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, he has almost bullied Slobodan Milosevic. Are you saying this man had no influence in politics as VP. If not, I'm glad to learn it, no sarcasm.
And yes, bringing up all that weak and debunked Russian to the conversation over and over again is as annoying as it is lame at this point.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/20...e-on-statehood
Another Presidential election another referendum for Puerto Rico. These referendums usually don't amount to anything but i wonder if the Democrats win control over Congress would they accept Puerto Rico as a US state?
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Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino does an in-depth interview with Rudy Giuliani about the Hunter Biden affair and it is illuminating. The Giuliana portion starts around 32:20 and the video is imbedded in the article for anyone interested to hear just how corrupt Joe Biden is. It is about 15 minutes long:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...joe_biden.html
I agree with that.
On the other hand... do you realize how bloody hard it is to design a nuclear plant?
Now consider changing the established practices trying to find safer ones. And passing them from the local government. You know, that bald finger-waving guy that wants to be elected in the municipal government so that one day he may make it as a state legislator.
Gaidin's take that "100 nuclear power plants instead of one" has some merit but then, with many more plants there are bound to be accidents and scares. And when Township_8_33 makes the national news for their leaking nuclear reactor and how it was found to have increased the birth defects in the nearby towns by 15% in the past 3 years that finger-waving guy will capitalize on that.
To be clear, I am not against such a view but it needs consideration. It would be better to install nuclear plants of 10-15 mini-reactors each in deserts or on mountains... I think.
But it is something wiser than me people should spend more thought than I have so far.
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I've added a key point to my suggestion that you smugly left out in the form of the underlined word in your quote. And I also changed your number from one to ten if you really want to push the idea of 100 small generators. The idea is that for fifty or sixty years the US has known how to safely run small nuclear power generators. Large nuclear power generators, while we do know how to run them, can have a random variable cause issues. Look no further than Fukushima. A smaller building, a smaller plant, a smaller generator, could be more tightly protected against issues like this or anything we need to protect against.
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You said: "this guy is about to do so many great things but he did not do any of it when he was vice-president, why?"
I said, during that time he was there to deliver for Barak Obama's policy platform. Biden was not president. He was not the decision maker. He was the backup. Just like we don't discuss Pence's policies at the moment because Pence delivers on Trump's policy platform. Sure the VP can have influence, and Obama credits him with a lot of assistance - but that is informal.
It's not that hard to understand. But by all means dig your heels in.
If you want a list of Biden's achievements go to his Wikipedia page. I don't like the guy, but I can acknowledge he has a long and active career behind him that is successful enough to put him in the lead in a presidential race when most people are retired. It's easy to sit there and parrot opinion based talking points like "he hasn't done anything". But that's all they are. Opinion.
I think the Democrats want to, but I don't think they will get the numbers in the Senate. Even if they win a majority, they wont get a supermajority.
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You mentioned the nuclear submarines though, you need like 100 of such reactors to replace a nuclear power plant I think.
And yes, the "small" was implied. It was assumed that someone reading my post would have read yours too.
You also put the words "smugly left out". It kinda looks like you think I disagree with you or want to undermine your opinion.
Far from it, I consider it and propose alterations or better, a continuation of that train of thought. I am not sure why you assume we are in disagreement when we're not and that's not the first time in this thread.
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Amazing. This place was leftist headquarters 10 year ago, now Trump is leading (by a bit) on TWC ?! I'm surprised.
Yes its standard election rhetoric "if this guy is gonna do all these things why didn't he do it when he was in office last time etc etc". It works for most candidates because they are typically old guys who have been around the block.
The specific example of Pence is interesting, though. I think Trump is an opportunist with very few actual moral positions. Pence's Pro Life agenda (and especially huge question of court appointments) is actually one of the few consistent elements in a truly chaotic presidency. Trump has lied and flipflopped about a lot but I think he's stayed on message on this point with laser focus: to me that's his ally and VP Pence clearly directing the administration.
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Safe nuclear power plants already exist, so its not like you'd be starting from Kurchatov's notes and nothing else. Technology to safely and efficiently store nuclear waste is already here as well. Just don't do what Ukrainians did in Chernobyl (which is turning off multiple layers of safety systems to fulfill a 5 year energy generation plan in 5 miliseconds), and you'll be fine.
You have a point about inefficient government being the bottleneck for sustainable and clean energy system, but its not due to shortcomings of modern nuclear power plant technology, but rather due to fossil fuel lobbying and pseudo-environmentalist busybodies that criticize nuclear energy with use of hysterical and emotional propaganda, that ironically only helps fossil fuel industry, which is the main culprit behind the global environmental crisis.
Pence brings Trump a guaranteed religious conservative demographic, so I'm sure there is a little quid-pro-quo. But the pro-life stance has been a GOP baseline position for generations. Trump doesn't actually flip-flop a lot in policy. Definitely in what he says, but he's consistent with policy, and with the exception of trade, consistent with a modern Republican base. That's why they all pinch their noses and vote for him anyway.
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I would say that selecting Pence didn't do much more than cement what already existed by then. Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed Trump over Cruz or Carson or anyone before a single primary vote was even cast. As a recent Rolling Stone article suggests, it's likely because Falwell saw a kindred spirit, but it was still a big catalyst for white evangelicals to rationalize their support for Trump. Of course, the awkward love story between Trump and evangelicals + prosperity gospel preachers began soon after.
My disgust over the whole thing is probably what made me leave the GOP more than anything else.
So basically as scarcity and prices increase so should extraction, because people will be eager to extract it an increased profit margin leading to accelerated depletion - which is my original point.
What do you mean they were not even counted? If a reserve is a know field that is intentionally not being exploited, then all discovered oil fields are reserves. You can't undiscover an oil field.
So we can safely eliminate synthetic oil from the list. Which leaves us with LNG, which you agreed is not oil, and biodiesel which may or may not be a form of oil.
So basically, due to the economic factors at play, and the existing alternatives, America has to start / take measures to continue getting off black oil (not biodiesel) and into alternative fuels starting this December if it wants to finish the transition smoothly.
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Biden Trails in Texas Due to Weakness Amongst Hispanic Voters - The New York Times
President Trump maintains a narrow lead in Texas, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll on Monday, as he faces a rebellion in the state’s once overwhelmingly Republican suburbs but survives with support from an unlikely ally, Hispanic voters. ...
In these [suburban congressional] districts, Republicans face a combination of rapid demographic change and previously unthinkable Democratic gains among white college-educated voters. Mr. Trump leads Mr. Biden by just two points among white college graduates in these districts, even though they say they backed Mr. Trump by 24 points over Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Even those who have long embraced the Democratic dream of a “blue Texas,” powered by mobilizing the state’s growing Latino population, probably never imagined such staggering Democratic gains in once-solidly Republican areas. Yet the poll suggests that Hispanic voters might just be the group that keeps the state red a while longer.
Mr. Biden has a lead of only 57 percent to 34 percent among that group, somewhat beneath most estimates of Mrs. Clinton’s support among Hispanic voters four years ago. The finding broadly tracks with national surveys, which have shown Mr. Trump improving among Hispanic voters compared with his 2016 standing.
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White supremacist Brown people.
Perhaps they should be treated like white supremacist Jews in New York:
Family describes horror as violent maskless rioters throw rocks, attack 'Jews for Trump' convoy
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ant...onvoy-new-york
If only these Black white supremacists and Brown white supremacists and Jew white supremacists would do what their betters (white leftists) tell them to do...