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A Socratic debate among republicans can never work. It takes at least one agile mind. ... Ok one mind...... Well sooner or later there will be a short squeeze trying to find out who among them has a mind.

You nailed it. "Masks", so outrageous. Especially as compared to the number of Americans killed by trump's failure to take covid seriously. "Masks" is the new "Benghazi" for the dysfunctional republican brain.

There were at least 12 mass shootings across the US this weekend Then one today. Oh well at least Texas is safer with its new law.

Engine No. 1 wins at least 2 Exxon board seats as activist pushes for climate strategy change "Activist firm Engine No. 1 has won at least two board seats at Exxon following a historic battle over the oil giant’s board of directors. The vote over a third candidate proposed by Engine No. 1 was too close to call as of 1:15 p.m. on Wall Street. The group, which has a 0.02% stake in Exxon, has been targeting the company since December, pushing Exxon to reconsider its role in a zero-carbon world." Dutch court rules oil giant Shell must cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 in landmark case "A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled oil giant Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. That’s a much higher reduction than the company’s current aim of lowering its emissions by 20% by 2030. The landmark ruling comes at a time when the world’s largest corporate emitters are under immense pressure to set short, medium and long-term emissions targets that are consistent with the Paris Agreement. The climate accord is widely recognized as critically important to avoid an irreversible climate crisis." So in 24 hours the two largest oil companies in the world are forced with a gun to the head, to face climate change. At Exxon Blackrock and other large shareholders stood by the activists. At shell lawyers and scientists forced the hand of Shell. Neither company was able to hold the day that profits and shareholders was all that they had to answer to. Soon only in the old dinosaur GOP rural areas of America will big oil still hold sway.

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Why not make your point W/O moving the goalposts. Many major manufactures have plans to go all electric in 10 years or so. Given the average trade in life of a vehicle at ? seven years. That would put the majority of vehicles being EV. by about 2038.

You also understand why some EV's are so much more. When you can plug into 240v and 100 amps!

Fauci Says Military Who Refuse Covid-19 Vaccine Are ‘Part Of The Problem’ After High Rate Of Service Members Refuse Jab Soldier who called on troops to refuse vaccine distribution faces mutiny related charge Who is going to protect all the vaccinated Canadian troops?

You may find these interesting. How Long Does it Take to Charge an Electric Vehicle? What's an electric car really like to live with? Pros and cons revealed Electric cars: EV buying advice and information

Some day cultural anthropologists will talk about the last Brent. How the Luddites keep reappearing every fifty years or so.

I was just yanking ur chain.

Ford announced that it already has over 40,000 deposits. Ford "said it will partner with SK Innovation, a Korean supplier that also makes batteries for Volkswagen and Kia, to assemble 60 gigawatts' worth of batteries each year in Commerce, Georgia. That adds up to roughly 400,000 of the Lightning's longest-range packs—a massive undertaking that, in sheer volume, represents nearly half of all F-series sales—and by 2030, Ford wants to quadruple that output from all of its battery plants worldwide. The joint venture is to be called BlueOvalSK, Ford said."

So now some poor veteran who can't afford much is sitting by the side of the road with no wheels. I thought you were a veteran with some heart!

Agree Somewhat true but the fence sitters and indifferent can be pulled by prizes and pushed by sanctions. When the ignorant end up in hospital everyone pays. When they pass it on to others everyone pays. If they just walked to the grave I might be indifferent to their self inflicted stupidity. But we all know stupid costs us all.

Privilege is difficult to understand until you travel or understand immigrants and what they have gone through.

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How quickly we forget. Republicans love to go to church on Sundays to praise the lord. Then live vicariously through Donald "grab them by the pussy" trump. It all is a part of their privileged white man concept that women are to serve. Especially the young ones.

Shown here in shades of blue, for example, are places where less than 50 percent of the populace believe humans are behind global warming: OR IN OTHER TERMS THE CENTER OF ANTI-SCIENCE President Biden and his party believe in climate change. The GOP "there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. All 139 of these climate-denying elected officials have made recent statements casting doubt on the clear, established scientific consensus that the world is warming—and that human activity is to blame. These same 139 climate-denying members have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries. These climate deniers comprise 52 percent of House Republicans; 60 percent of Senate Republicans; and more than one-quarter of the total number of elected officials in Congress. Furthermore, despite the decline in total overall deniers in Congress, a new concerning trend has emerged: Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis’ definition.**

Well the GOP house members that voted for the Jan. 6th commission show there are still a few around. But its disheartening to see so many trump bag _____ers.

FIFY If it wasn't for a few adults around trump. He would have sold Alaska back to Putin. Withdrawn every US troop from every base in the world. Then gone to war with Iran. With the rewriting of voting laws in the US underway now. Its amusing that any US current or former armed forces members still support the GOP. Obviously the constitution was never a high priority subject in military education.

I guess the GOP was too busy during the four years of Mr. trump's administration to get around to locking Hillary up and finishing Benghazi. "Claims that Obama and Biden "directly participated in a plot" to murder members of SEAL Team Six are wrong....We rate it Pants on Fire! Republicans launched more investigations. They created a House committee on Benghazi, which—as Issa and others would later admit—aimed to tarnish Clinton and cripple her candidacy. In hours of public interrogation and in the committee’s final report, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said Clinton had neglected warning signs before the attack and had played up the protests to avoid acknowledging the terrorism. At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Sen. Marco Rubio alleged that Clinton had “turned her back on the fallen heroes in Benghazi.” Sen. Ted Cruz, taking Clinton’s words out of context, accused her of shrugging off “the death of Americans at Benghazi.” Five years later, at least five people are dead after last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. That’s more than the number of Americans killed in Benghazi. But this attack wasn’t inspired by radical Islamists. It was inspired by Republicans.

The European Parliament has demanded construction stop on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The controversial pipeline will double the capacity of an already existing natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. "The controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, disliked for geopolitical and climate reasons, is nearly complete. The German Greens, who are riding high in the polls ahead of the federal election, want to stop it. “For a long time we have been looking for leaders in Germany to look seriously at the climate impacts of Nord Stream 2,” says Roche. “It will be one of the tests of the new government, whether it can shift away from a Germany reliant on fossil fuels to a truly renewable-energy-based economy.”

I don't think the issue would be cutting off the supply of gas to a European ally. The issue is initiating a new cash customer for Russia, Putin and his kleptocratic clique. This gas line will make the EU dependent upon Russian energy. Which can be cut off at the whim of Putin. Most importantly it provides Putin with hundreds of billions in cash. The money to continue his realm of oppression. "The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Russian global shipments during 2020. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Russia. Mineral fuels including oil: US$141.3 billion (42.1% of total exports) Gems, precious metals: $30.4 billion (9%)"

Everything possible should be done to kill Nord Stream 2. Nothing but nothing will bring Putin to heel like attacking his cash machine. Energy exports.

It may take till midterms to put the final nail into the coffin of trump's political career. Or not. But subsequent to his November election defeat he had some ideas on how to shape the US military presence in the world. Sort of his ideas that he never got around to. Now there were a couple political allies of trump in the backrooms so to speak. Stephen Miller and President Putin. keep them in mind as you read this. Episode 9: Trump's war with his generals Axios' "Off the rails" series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol.