American Politics

[Canada]

Here are a list of solar projects contracted out at less than $25 unsubsidized. You are deluding yourself if you think solar and wind are not going to keep putting coal out of business. Gas will be around for a while as a on / off supplier.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/artic...-megawatt-hour

Then again pretty much everything you write shows how much you delude yourself.

Anybody can find any info to support their thinking on the internet. Look at your electric bill. How much has it gone down with all this wind and solar. And if you live in California you can ask your electric company is charging you 60% for the solar power. Your bill is your proof and if your bill is higher this year and doubles over the next 5 years you will still believe those liberal politicians. You liners must be prows today.

Catch and release back on again with criminals coming in again with no Covid tests.

Stimulus money going to illegals instead of our citizens.

[Beijing4987]

Check out the movie dramatizing this takedown of the full of hubris Tricky Dick Nixon.

[ScatManDoo]

Great post indeed and spot on. Only thing I would add is that I believe the modern-day decline of the GOP started even before Palin and the Tea Party with Newt Gingrich.

What about Nixon's 'Southern strategy"?

The Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.

Dixiecrats emerged after Truman's 1948 integration of the military.

In the south, in the 1960's, the democratic party was deeply divided, with George Wallace tugging the party apart from President Johnson's big, dominant, civil rights expansion.

That gave President Nixon the space to attract southern racists into the GOP in large numbers.

[The Cane]

This is an incredible post. So True..

Great post indeed and spot on. Only thing I would add is that I believe the modern-day decline of the GOP started even before Palin and the Tea Party with Newt Gingrich.

[ShooBree]

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[Artisttyp]

Agree with your description of the orange ape but remember that Trump was not the cause, he was just the vessel (the container) that vocalized what a significant part of the populace was already feeling.

Those people have always been around, but the formation of the Tea Party movement was the official christening of that vessel (the ship). Even before that movement, there were already signs that these people desired a voice. John McCain in 2008 didn't pick Sarah Palin as his running mate because they shared identical platforms and ideologies. He knew something was already brewing in the Republican Party and chose to court those people.

To me, as much as I liked McCain, his selection of Palin as Vice Presidential nominee foreshadowed the end of any good outcomes for the Republican Party. It's sad as the Tea Party had good intent consistent with ideal conservative / libertarian values: small government, less spending, a higher threshold for foreign military involvement, etc.

Unfortunately due to the decentralized nature of the movement, some sectors began incorporating social issues into the sphere of platforms. Those social issues derailed the good intents of a reformed government and led to what the Republican Party has become; shortsighted, xenophobic cultural conformists, irrational, anti-intellectual. I held on to see if the GoP would gather some sense only to see Donald Trump become the Kamikaze ending to that hope.

In short, it's not the bowing to the emperor that we have to worry about. It's the actual sentiments of at least half of the party. It saddens me to say that this IS the Republican party now, with or without Trump.

This is an incredible post. So True.


Thank You.

[Beijing4987]

Even Sarah Huckaberry Sanders can tell the truth, that is, under oath with Special Counsel and Boyscout Republican Robert Mueller breathing down on her. Anybody here read the results of his investigation? He put some bad boys in jail and the ones in Russia he incited can't venture too far from home. Fat Nixon took the fifth, rather than testify in front of the Senate.

[Paulie97]

https://apnews.com/article/smartmati...dd85f92f4fd7ef

And word to the wise for all the tin foil hat, conspiracy theory peddlers among us. Accusations require proof. Without you at best look like a moron, and at worst are sued.

[Spidy]

... Unfortunately due to the decentralized nature of the movement, some sectors began incorporating social issues into the sphere of platforms. Those social issues derailed the good intents of a reformed government and led to what the Republican Party has become; shortsighted, xenophobic cultural conformists, irrational, anti-intellectual. I held on to see if the GoP would gather some sense only to see Donald Trump become the Kamikaze ending to that hope.

In short, it's not the bowing to the emperor that we have to worry about. It's the actual sentiments of at least half of the party. It saddens me to say that this IS the Republican party now, with or without Trump.

Preach, preach on!

In his latest round of in sanity, it's more of the same crap of insane mental conspiracy, as he fires recent lawyers (or they quit because he wasn't going to pay them), still claiming he won the election. Next Up!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-Poll-Who-Next

[PVMonger]

Agree with your description of the orange ape but remember that Trump was not the cause, he was just the vessel (the container) that vocalized what a significant part of the populace was already feeling.

Those people have always been around, but the formation of the Tea Party movement was the official christening of that vessel (the ship). Even before that movement, there were already signs that these people desired a voice. John McCain in 2008 didn't pick Sarah Palin as his running mate because they shared identical platforms and ideologies. He knew something was already brewing in the Republican Party and chose to court those people.

To me, as much as I liked McCain, his selection of Palin as Vice Presidential nominee foreshadowed the end of any good outcomes for the Republican Party. It's sad as the Tea Party had good intent consistent with ideal conservative / libertarian values: small government, less spending, a higher threshold for foreign military involvement, etc.

Unfortunately due to the decentralized nature of the movement, some sectors began incorporating social issues into the sphere of platforms. Those social issues derailed the good intents of a reformed government and led to what the Republican Party has become; shortsighted, xenophobic cultural conformists, irrational, anti-intellectual. I held on to see if the GoP would gather some sense only to see Donald Trump become the Kamikaze ending to that hope.

In short, it's not the bowing to the emperor that we have to worry about. It's the actual sentiments of at least half of the party. It saddens me to say that this IS the Republican party now, with or without Trump.

Excellent analysis.

I'm not sure that 50% of Republicans are racist or xenophobic or homophobic or misogynistic or? But certainly a large percentage of them are. My fond hope is that all of these idiots will leave the GOP and form their own party.

[GDreams]

Those social issues derailed the good intents of a reformed government and led to what the Republican Party has become; shortsighted, xenophobic cultural conformists, irrational, anti-intellectual. I held on to see if the GoP would gather some sense only to see Donald Trump become the Kamikaze ending to that hope.

A perfect description of Evangelicals.

[Mursenary]

Maybe because hundreds of elected republicans are still willing to foolishly obey that empty, orange suit full of shit.

Agree with your description of the orange ape but remember that Trump was not the cause, he was just the vessel (the container) that vocalized what a significant part of the populace was already feeling.

Those people have always been around, but the formation of the Tea Party movement was the official christening of that vessel (the ship). Even before that movement, there were already signs that these people desired a voice. John McCain in 2008 didn't pick Sarah Palin as his running mate because they shared identical platforms and ideologies. He knew something was already brewing in the Republican Party and chose to court those people.

To me, as much as I liked McCain, his selection of Palin as Vice Presidential nominee foreshadowed the end of any good outcomes for the Republican Party. It's sad as the Tea Party had good intent consistent with ideal conservative / libertarian values: small government, less spending, a higher threshold for foreign military involvement, etc.

Unfortunately due to the decentralized nature of the movement, some sectors began incorporating social issues into the sphere of platforms. Those social issues derailed the good intents of a reformed government and led to what the Republican Party has become; shortsighted, xenophobic cultural conformists, irrational, anti-intellectual. I held on to see if the GoP would gather some sense only to see Donald Trump become the Kamikaze ending to that hope.

In short, it's not the bowing to the emperor that we have to worry about. It's the actual sentiments of at least half of the party. It saddens me to say that this IS the Republican party now, with or without Trump.

[Travv]

USA —Democrat leaders around the country are declaring it is now safe to reopen since the federal government's tests have come back negative for Trump.

"The key indicator we were looking for before we could begin the reopening process was that Trump wasn't president," said Governor Gavin Newsom. "While we are at the worst point yet in this pandemic, it now makes sense to open-- even though the science said the exact opposite last year when it was comparably mild. Because now, all the tests are indicating we have tested negative for Trump."

Governor Cuomo agreed, saying that all his key science experts -- the ones who haven't quit yet in disgust -- are advising him to go ahead and reopen since the tests are coming back negative for Trump. "When the tests were positive some weeks ago, we were pretty concerned," Cuomo told a reporter down by the docks as he threw a dead senior into the harbor. "Now, the tests are all looking really good for Democrats, so we're going to go ahead and get started."

Governor Whitmer last year cast a spell on Michigan so it would be always winter and never Christmas, but she says she is canceling the spell now and encouraging Michiganders to celebrate "the true Christmas: Biden getting elected."

[GDreams]

California's high prices largely skewed the national average roughly a third of USA Solar capacity is located in California, where the average wholesale price of electricity is more than double the the national average of $36/ MWh.

Here are a list of solar projects contracted out at less than $25 unsubsidized. You are deluding yourself if you think solar and wind are not going to keep putting coal out of business. Gas will be around for a while as a on / off supplier.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/artic...-megawatt-hour

Then again pretty much everything you write shows how much you delude yourself.

[Goatscrot]

Gold or silver backed currency has the effect of encouraging countries to manufacture and export to gain gold or silver to maintain the value of their currency. On gold and silver backed dollars, the USA became a major manufacturer. Once Nixon went off the gold backed dollar, the USA no longer needed to export to gain gold and silver from other countries. Thus the USA did not protest when China bought up large numbers of US factories and shipped them to China. We went from manufacturing hard goods to manufacturing green pieces of paper with dead politicians printed on the front. As one analyst put it, the USA has the export profile of an agrarian colony of China. We ship them soybeans, corn and meat and cardboard / wood and they ship us manufactured goods. Sort of like the American colonies and Great Britain before the revolutionary war. This works great until you go to war and realize you are no longer "the arsenal of democracy" and other countries can cut off your war supplies. . .

Huh? Capitalism by its nature chases cheap labor. As Nations develop economically cheap labor is no longer available. I would argue this has nothing to do with using a fiat currency but it is simply the nature of corporate capitalism and one of its extreme shortcomings. Many European nations have been able to maintain if not improve quality of life for their citizens even though they do not have the manufacturing base that they used to. Unfortunately the United States is going in the opposite direction.