brenthutch

I guess if you live in the land of make-believe it can be dominant when ever you wish. However, given the fact that fossil fuels make up roughly the same percentage of global energy use as they did a century ago it won’t happen in the real world for a long long time (several decades).

That’s a big family

Tenacious D

https://swiftheadline.com/college-football-fans-keep-chanting-fck-joe-biden/ It looks like I am not the only one critical of Joe Biden. Record inflation, unvaccinated illegals and drugs flowing through our southern border, covid spreading, real wages dropping, labor shortage, rampant crime, terrorist safe haven established in Afghanistan…..”you’re doing a hell of a job Joey”

China is powering its solar panel factories with coal. When one compares the percentage of energy China gets from wind and solar with that of fossil fuels, the phrase “horse and rabbit stew” comes to mind.

If solar were truly the more economical option, market forces would make it the dominant source of energy. But it’s not, so……

With the pink haired gorilla mask wearing “Karen” constituency

“China is the world’s biggest polluter, responsible for 27 per cent of global emissions of greenhouse gases – and that’s about to get worse. It is opening new coal-fired power stations and increasing emissions at an annual rate that is greater than the savings of the rest of the world put together. Last year, coal plants with a combined capacity of 37.75 gigawatts were retired globally, more than half in the United States and European Union, according to an analysis by Global Energy Monitor, which analysis fossil fuel trends. During that time, China opened 38.4 gigawatts of new plants – that’s three times more new coal fired capacity than the rest of the world combined.” https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-china-s-climate-promises-just-a-load-of-hot-air- I must respect the mental gymnastics required to delude oneself into believing we can alter this reality with some EVs, windmills and solar panels. The West is just exporting our CO2, our manufacturing, our jobs and our money to China. In exchange we get skyrocketing energy costs and rolling blackouts (thanks California for the foreshadowing)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/01/biden-pushed-afghanistan-president-project-different-picture/5679373001/ “I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban, and there’s a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture." This is another example of Biden lying. The guy has a much difficulty with the truth as he does with walking

Biden is dropping and will probably continue to drop as it looks like his massive spending plan is DOA (according to Joe Manchin). More lies from Biden https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/tree-of-life-synagogue-disputes-joe-bidens-claim-he-visited/ ““I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the Tree of Life synagogue, speaking with them,” BTW the midterms will be decided state by state and district by district not a general ballot.

Biden is now less popular than Trump https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033433959/biden-approval-rating-afghanistan-withdrawal

Where did you come from, and where have you chosen to live? Presumably you moved up from a somewhat shit hole to something more desirable.

It’s just like the “body count” numbers being pushed by the Johnson administration. I put most of the blame on Bush and the neo-cons/neo-McNaramans that were all too clever by half.

Absolutely, he owns the good with the bad in regard to the US’s absence. If bad actors run amok in Afghanistan in our absence, he owns it. OTOH Biden owns the chaos of the hasty withdrawal. Think about it. Had Trump been re-elected and given a withdrawal date of May 1, he would have likely started to remove civilians in February and March (when the Taliban was snowbound) giving much more time to get our citizens and our allies extricated. Then would have had the additional month of April to deal w any unforeseen contingencies and avoided the spectacle of babies being thrown over (and sometimes into) concertina wire, and desperate people plunging to their deaths having futility clung to the landing gear of a C-17.

That Trump ended the war in Afghanistan? Although true, I hadn’t seen it framed that way on SC.

According to the Biden administration Trump stuck them with the agreement with the Taliban to pull out US troops this year. (Remember Biden’s “hands being tied” and “hospital pass”?) All Biden did was to execute (poorly) a plan that Trump had already put into place. I’m not a fan of Trump, but we have to give credit where credit is due.

https://www.boem.gov/environment/environmental-assessment/nepa-activities-gulf-mexico While begging OPEC to produce more. Looks like the political realities of high gas prices are starting to sink in.

Again you are high jacking the thread. If you want to start a Biden fan boy thread be my guest.

Makes Joe less bad than Joe really is.

And you can’t get rid of him. If Harris ascends to the throne you can kiss your progressive wet dream goodbye. With a 50/50 Senate and no tie breaker in the VP’s office, all roads go through Mitch.

Just because Trump is worse doesn’t make Joe less terrible than he is. Bad orange man gone Biden is the President. There are plenty of “Trump Bad” threads. This one is called “President Biden’s Critics Corner” act accordingly or BillV will give you a one month time-out for high jacking the thread.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/gavin-newsom-california-recall/619848/ “If Newsom is recalled, his potential replacements include the radio host Larry Elder” Thats right, Larry Elder, an African American, just may be California’s next Governor. We will just have to wait and see which California shows up in two weeks. Will it be one that celebrates diversity or one that perpetuates white privilege?

Olof appears to be “stuck on Brent”. I’ll try to get us back on topic

Wow, even after Wendy posts an admonition to get back on target, everyone seems to still be stuck on me. I feel privileged to be taking up so much bandwidth.

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view facts, brother, just the facts.