brenthutch

Agreed. According to Trump, everything Trump does = fantastic, anything anyone else does is a disaster.

Biden’s stated position is “don’t come, but if you do we will let you in”. The massive surge did not happen during the Trump administration, it happened under Biden.

As long as illegals are released into the country instead of being deported the pull factor will be irresistible. Biden opened up the border in a knee jerk reaction to do the opposite of Trump and we are now seeing the consequences. This administration lacks the backbone to address the problem, so I guess we will just have to continue to bus these folks to sanctuary cities.

Reinstate the remain in Mexico policy. What is your solution?

We did not have a illegal immigration crisis when the GOP was in power.

https://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain/opendocpdf.pdf?docid=4bab55da2&reldoc=y

I say go back to the Obama approach

I believe that is A United Nations standard. Do you really think the current approach is working?

What part of “Demilitarizing Russia for a few billion dollars while avoiding a direct confrontation is money in the bank.” don’t you guys understand? My undergrad was foreign service/international political science. I understand, more than most, what the implications of a Russian victory would be. I fully support Ukraine in this matter. I don’t know why the Biden Administration refuses to secure the border in exchange for funding Ukraine. 75% of Americans think the unchecked illegal immigration needs to be stopped, it would seem to be an easy lift.

All we have to do is direct the billions of wasted dollars trying to control weather and reallocate those funds where they can do actual good. I am just trying to free up those funds. Once we stop wasting billions on windmills and EVs I will call my right wing brethren to task. First things first.

Demilitarizing Russia for a few billion dollars while avoiding a direct confrontation is money in the bank. Take Russia’s chip of the table and manage the collapse of China and we can all enjoy a big peace dividend

1000% agreed

From the New York Times: “The electric vehicles the company owned were also more likely to be involved in collisions, Hertz said, and they proved costly to repair. The company said it planned to buy more gasoline-powered vehicles to replace the 20,000 battery-powered cars it was selling.” More cheap EVs

Bloomberg not good enough for you? It’s funny how the criticism is “it might be true but the source you quoted has an editorial bias that conflicts with my worldview”. Facts are facts.

Bloomberg) -- Electric vehicle sales in the US grew by just 1.3% in the final months of 2023, the latest sign that many American drivers remain cautious about making the leap to battery-powered cars...EV growth will continue to slow, and in the year ahead, we may even report the first quarter-over-quarter sales decline in more than three years https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-electric-vehicle-sales-growth-slowed-in-latest-quarter-1.2020217#:~:text=(Bloomberg) -- Electric vehicle sales,leap to battery-powered cars. Only on Speakers Corner can I post something that is demonstrably true and get 16 pages of pushback in just over two months

When preponderance of my previous predictions proves preposterous I will do as well.

Doing better than Al Gore: Polar bears? Mt. Kilimanjaro? Hurricanes? Floods? Droughts? Arctic sea ice? Tornadoes?

My position is that there is more Arctic sea ice today than a decade (and many ppm of CO2) ago. It supports my position just fine.

https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/Astrup-Jensen-2023-Time-Trend-Arctic-Sea-Ice.pdf “in the last 17 years from 2007 to 2023 the downward trend has also been about zero. Therefore, there is no indication that we should expect the Arctic Sea summer ice to disappear completely, as predicted”

It’s not only the US. This is from the UK The consumer rejection of EVs is a challenge to the electric car market and government goals to move towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Figures sourced by the Mail Online revealed individuals bought 71,984 of the vehicles last year – 23 percent of the total of 314,687. But in 2022 they purchased 88,910 – 33 percent of the total. [emphasis, links added] According to the latest industry data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, subdued growth is driven by private buyers as against other sales attributed almost entirely to large fleet registrations. [EVs made up only 8.8 percent of sales to private purchasers] While the number of car registrations across all fuel types grew 14.3 percent last month, it seems interest in EVs is dying. https://climatechangedispatch.com/ev-sales-slump-to-just-a-quarter-of-new-purchases-uk-data-shows/

It’s not just Ford “Numerous other automakers have backtracked on their EV plans. This includes "Ford announcing it was postponing $12 billion in planned electric vehicle production, GM abandoning a goal to build 400,000 electric vehicles through mid-2024 and Volkswagen Group canceling plans for a new $2 billion EV factory in Germany," Forbes reported. Similar pauses have been seen by Honda, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz. The latter's CFO, Harald Wilhelm, "described the EV market as a 'brutal space' as the company continues to discount vehicles," per Money.”

I feed my mind facts. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t make it wrong. “Indeed, 2023 will end with approximately 1,000 dealerships across the US, down by 47 percent compared to the start of the year. In early 2023, Buick had 1,958 showrooms in the country, based on the numbers included in the annual dealer census by Automotive News. According to Buick-GMC Vice President Duncan Aldred, the remaining dealers still have time to pick between selling EVs and accepting a buyout. The program will "continue to be done in a voluntary and consultive way." About a fifth of Buick's sales in the US were made by the nearly 1,000 dealers that have decided to part ways with GM.” You seem to be conflating EVs with hybrids, I have no problem with hybrids (my wife’s GLS is a hybrid.

Just because it comes from a source that conflicts with your world view, doesn’t make it untrue. Half of Ford dealers won’t stock them, half of Buick dealers would rather quit than switch and Ford is cutting production of the F-150 Lightning. Which of those facts do you take issue with?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/the_electric_vehicle_doom_loop.html “The inevitable, planet-saving, path to universal electric vehicle (EV) ownership is becoming increasingly cratered. Some 4000 dealers recently begged President Biden to stop pushing EVs. They can’t give them away. About half of all Ford Dealers refuse to stock them, and more than 50% of Buick dealers recently went out of business rather than sell them. Ford has largely bet its EV future on the F-150 Lightning pickup. It’s a sucker’s bet. Ford recently announced it was cutting its EV production plans in half. Articles like Motor Trend’s “Our Last Ford F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Road Trip Was A Nightmare” explains why” Car companies are starting to respond to the realities of the market instead of government coercion and have scaled back their EV aspirations. There are not enough charging stations to make EVs viable and there are not enough EVs to make charging stations profitable aka viable. And at the cost of seven billion dollars for a single station the government is not going to be of much help.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwimnqm35c2DAxW0lokEHeFbBw4QtwJ6BAgGEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dz0ok-leJB5k&usg=AOvVaw1Dr0O9wUwD9ui22_rg8Ny0&opi=89978449 Full sized pickup truck sales booming down under. I loved the quote “if you’re worried about gas mileage, get a Prius”