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10-12-22 22:28 #10636
Posts: 1131Right-Wing "shock-jock" media host Alex Jones's billion consequencies
Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies
https://apnews.com/article/shootings...gn=position_01
And the hits, just keep on coming for the bombastic, vile, sadistic, lying, hate spewing right-wing "shock-jock" media host Alex Jones. Proving lies have consequences, albeit right-wing media hosts, oil & gas, big pharma or big tobacco.
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10-12-22 21:37 #10635
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
While Scarborough occasionally says he's a conservative, he swings to the left as or more often than the right these days. He has to. He doesn't have a stable of hot, horny young vixens like you do. And his wife, a Democrat by breeding and inclination, would cut him off if he sounded too Republican. He left the Republican Party some time ago.
MSNBC's viewership is left wing. They don't want to watch shows with Republicans. MSNBC wants high ratings, to sell commercials, so it complies. Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell and Joy Reid sound just as nutty from time to time as Tucker Carlson on COVID or Sean Hannity on Hunter Biden. And the daytime crew at Fox, after 9:00 AM, is definitely more "fair and balanced" then their equivalents at MSNBC.
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10-12-22 21:12 #10634
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
I really believe you have to look at the overall performance of China on greenhouse gas emissions. The bottom line is what are the green house gas emissions, and it doesn't make any difference if you get there from renewables, substituting natural gas for coal, or improving energy efficiency. If you take renewables from 5% of total power consumption to 10%, but continue to spew lots of CO2 from coal fired power plants, you haven't accomplished much.
China's coal consumption was flat from around 2014 to 2020 but up to an all time high in 2021,
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...il-equivalent/
Coal consumption in the USA has declined at a rate of 7.3% per year since 2014, from 852 million tons per annum to 501 million tons per annum,
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...ion-in-the-us/
I don't believe the statement in your link that "China is the country that has been the fastest at trying to go green completely. " According to the link below, China generates 28.8% of its electricity from renewables," compared to 20.5% from the USA. Undoubtedly, if you included cement and steel (which require lots of coal to manufacture) in the mix along with electricity, China wouldn't look as good. Spain, Portugal, Germany and Italy clock in from 40% to 65%, and other countries, mostly with abundant hydroelectric power, are higher.
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/renewa...ion-share.html
If China is going to spend more than the USA on renewables that's probably mostly because China generates so much more power than the USA. And it's adding a lot more capacity than the USA.
China can supply most or all of its coal needs internally. So from a national security perspective, they'll prefer coal over natural gas, even though generating electricity from natural gas emits considerably less CO2 per gigawatt hour than coal. The domestically produced coal in China BTW on average is dirtier and produces more CO2 per gigawatt hour than the higher BTU coal burned by European and Japanese power plants.
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10-12-22 20:12 #10633
Posts: 1604What a laugh
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
Rank State Federal Share ratio of Pct. Of.
Of state revenue Fed Fed Govt Workers.
Funding.
To Income.
Taxes paid.
1 West Virginia 45.16% 2. 36 4. 08%.
2 New Mexico 41.80% 1. 87 6. 06%.
3 Mississippi 47.31% 2. 53 3. 23%.
4 Alabama 41.20% 1. 25 3. 33%.
5 Alaska 50.83% 1. 62 6. 83%.
6 Idaho 41.08% 0. 91 2. 75%.
7 Louisiana (Tie) 52.27% 1. 60 2. 13%.
7 Maine (Tie) 43.27% 1. 19 2. 31%.
9 Wyoming 56.43% 1. 36 3. 37%.
10 Montana 46.58% 1. 04 3. 54%.
So much for the myth of the "hard working Repub tax payers". But I guarantee that you'll find some insane way to spin this.
The upshot is that the Moron Brigade has lied once again.
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10-12-22 20:07 #10632
Posts: 3320Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
The other day Spidy posted something that made my jaw dropped. He said that the reason electric cars were popular were because of consumer choice. The subsidies on electric cars are $7500 apiece and like I said it is $7200 more in the USA than Mexico to convert your car to run on natural gas. That $14,7000 can buy people a used car, and it certainly influences what people do when buying cars.
A buddy of mine went to some political event. He is a Republican and was called out for being one as he was like one of three Republicans there. He then told me that the big donors were harassing the crap out of the Dem pols for electric car subsidies. They were like we helped you win so now you got to help us.
So when Newsome said that California would only be selling EVs a few years from now, it was not for the environment or climate change or any of that. No, he was giving his big Democratic donors a big wet sloppy blowjob. And if you know about the economics of EVs, that is really the only thing that makes any sense.
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10-12-22 19:56 #10631
Posts: 3320Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
"The American people think the reason for inflation is government spending money. Simply not true. ".
Inflation can be caused by increased demand for a good or decreased supply.
However, it can also be caused by increasing the amount of money in relation to the number of goods. It is on this point I have blamed Biden, Trump, and the Fed for inflation but not equally. Biden gets more of the blame because he has actively suppressing American oil production. Even smart Dems know this. If you think cancelling the keystone pipeline his first day in office did not send a message to oil producers, think again. And then there is the incessant hassling of refiners. The Biden administration has been calling for more refining capacity today while in the same breath saying we will not need refiners in six years.
So IMO Trump gets 20% of the blame on inflation, the Fed gets 30%, and Biden gets 50%, and it sure as hell would help if Biden knew what fucking caused inflation to begin with.
And you Dems keep making this a partisan thing, and it is not. Clinton knew what caused inflation and so did Obama but not this clown. All Biden is about is enriching his perceived allies and bankrupting his opponents. Everything Biden does is for the benefit of Biden.
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10-12-22 18:57 #10630
Posts: 1068I agree
Originally Posted by CaliGuy [View Original Post]
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10-12-22 15:07 #10629
Posts: 1604Except
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
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10-12-22 06:19 #10628
Posts: 5495Right on cue MSNBC and CNN in final full court press to help Repubs win elections
The next thing you know, typically pro Repub Mainstream Media will try to float the hogwash that crashing the economy and grounding auto travel, shutting down factories and businesses due to horrible Repub economic stewardship is a fine way to reduce green house gas emissions by almost 10%!
MSNBC's Morning Joe echoes right-wing talking points ahead of the midterms
https://www.mediamatters.org/morning...ahead-midterms
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10-12-22 05:41 #10627
Posts: 1131More red herrings...
Originally Posted by Tiny 12 [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by Tiny 12 [View Original Post]
However, I will say that the more I look at the problem, the more I realize we may never know as long as Repubs keep blocking bills to identify donors with more than $10K in contributions.
But then ask yourself why would they (want a bill to identify donors), when thanks to a right-wing POTUS in 1972, they got exactly what they wanted, ...legalized bribery! Ergo, why Repubs have always benefitted more.
Republicans block bill requiring dark money groups to reveal donors
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...reveal-donors/
Originally Posted by Tiny 12 [View Original Post]
China leads the world in clean renewable energy.
Which Country Is The World Leader In Renewable Energy In 2021
https://tfetimes.com/which-country-i...nergy-in-2021/
Originally Posted by Tiny 12 [View Original Post]
But seriously, it stands for Board Member(s), as in other ISGer(s), or as in another person(s) who posts here, on the forums boards. Is that English clear enough for you?
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10-12-22 03:43 #10626
Posts: 428Criminals, illegals or on government assistance?
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
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10-12-22 03:23 #10625
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
Your third paragraph contains a few misconceptions and fallacies. The appropriate way to look at tourism as to its effect on the economy of Thailand versus the USA is as a percent of GDP. If your numbers are correct, tourism accounts for 17% of Thailand's GDP and 0.4% of the USA's GDP. For a long while it was much easier traveling to the USA than Thailand. You didn't have to quarantine if you came to the USA.
Prominent Democrat economists Larry Summers and Jason Furman agree that the Democrats' ill conceived $1. 9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) supercharged inflation. From the time that Biden's $1400 per person checks hit peoples' mailboxes, inflation started its steady March upwards in the USA. And yes, inflation in certain European countries now, at this point in time, is comparable to current inflation in the USA. However, it was slower developing in Europe, because Europe didn't have the massive, overdone stimulus in 2021, that we did because of the ARP. Furman says as much on his Twitter feed. The fact that, say, UK inflation is NOW as high as ours doesn't do much for the American workingman. The American is farther behind the eight ball, because of lost purchasing power in 2021 and the first quarter of 2022. For example, at 7/31/2021, YoY CPI inflation was only 2% in the UK. It was 5.4% in the USA.
As Furman put it, according to the Washington Post,
"The USA Fiscal response in 2020 was among the largest in the world. It was comparable to, or slightly smaller than, the responses in a few other countries like Germany and Canada, but roughly the same. The fiscal response in 2021 so far in the United States is massively larger than what any other country has done to date or is currently discussing."
Furman, if you've forgotten, was chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors.
Do a search on my username and "Summers" for similar thoughts expressed by Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury and Obama's Director of the NEC, Larry Summers.
And no, Biden and the Democrats aren't entirely responsible for inflation in the USA. Like Thailand, you can blame central bank policy and supply chain glitches too. Commodity prices were a factor, but thanks in part to the strong dollar, that's not necessarily still the case.
I'd even go so far as to admit the Fed should shoulder more of the blame than Biden for inflation in the USA. It'll be a cold day in hell before Tooms admits something similar about Bernanke and George W. Bush and the 2008/2009 recession.
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10-11-22 22:25 #10624
Posts: 1604Nope
Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]
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10-11-22 21:59 #10623
Posts: 2579Well Bravo
I think she could make a fine VP for our Lord and Savior.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ocratic-party/
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10-11-22 21:58 #10622
Posts: 1807Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]
At the party level, Democrats and Republicans raise about the same amount of money:
https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/...te=&cycle=2022
At the candidate level I believe Democrats raise more, although I don't have a hallowed link to support that.
You conveniently fail to mention all those left wing billionaire campaign donors. Democrats now make greater use of dark money than Republicans:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/u...ey-donors.html
On China, here are more hallowed links, related to your belief that China is making great strides in renewable energy:
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/usa/
In the last 15 years, USA emissions are down from about 7.4 billion tons per year to 6.3 billion tons in 2021. That's thanks largely to the substitution of natural gas, produced by American oil companies, for coal. The same oil companies that some constituencies of the Democratic Party want to put out of business for their "lies." Meanwhile, China's emissions of GHG's have risen from 8.5 billion tons per year to 13 billion tons per year.
Also, Tooms, if you read this, look at the great strides made by President Trump at the end of his term! In the last year of his administration, green house gas emissions fell by almost 10%! If we'd kept that up, emissions would be down to about 1 billion tons by 2040, just 14% of the level fifteen years ago!
Unfortunately Biden and Democrats were elected in 2020. And you know what happens under Democrats. The whole world falls apart. We're in the middle of the Biden Recession. The Biden Inflation is the highest since 1981! And still CO2 emissions are going up! Biden's going to destroy the world as we know it!!
BTW Spidy, I have no idea what a BM is. Bowel movement? Please speak English.
Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]