I wrote my senator, Thom Tillis, again. He did write me a concerned letter about the murders in Minnesota, but it is still not enough, and I told him so:
Thank you Senator for your letter about the unnecessary death of the American citizen at the hands of the ICE agents. I still believe the whole thing is out of hand. We have masked thugs chasing down children and there is talk of warehousing immigrants. Deportations continue.
Senator, this is Nazi Germany, the KKK, and and the Gestapo all over again. Nothing less than shutting the whole thing down will do. AG Bondi answers no questions and yells at Committee members. A majority of the Epstein Files remain hidden while the survivors have yet to receive justice. Unless you want a North Korea in this hemisphere, you and your colleagues need to get a spine and defend this nation.
The rest of the world is afraid of us, and rightfully so. Is that what you want? A nation of rich white folks, poor white folks, and enslaved and incarcerated black and brown folks? And at the head of it all a man who wants golden statues and triumphal arches erected to himself and a ballroom to have lavish parties?
That vision of the US belongs in Hell, and that is where we all will be if this continues. You need to impeach or remove the president with the 25th amendment before he does any more damage. That you and the Republicans in US Senate have allowed this to go on for so long is a crying shame and nothing less than deliberate action to correct this will do.
You all have already lost future elections, so you have nothing left to lose. We will not stand for this insanity and criminality any longer. Unless you do something, the "peasants with pitchforks and torches" will be coming for you because you harbor a monster and it won't be pretty.
Okay, we watched (more like fast-forwarded through most of) ABC Whirled News Tonight with David Muir. I caught the segment where SCROTUS announced he had rescinded all of the EPA standards and regulations set for clean air emissions, claiming they are all a hoax. (I did not know that he, alone, could do that?)
Then it struck me that SCROTUS is finally, LITERALLY going full "Scorched Earth" as a way to avoid the Epstein Files.
Over +1M times he comes up in them; reported on multiple sources.
But there is, of course, an easy way for coal to compete on price. You see, renewables have to pay for labour. Historically, mining activities did not. Free labour to be sourced from East Montana in Texas
Yes, I'm (and Gaz, if I understood correctly) are talking about mine labor. The contrast was with renewable energy, which Gaz said has to pay for its needed labor, just like almost every other business.
There is a lot of history in the fossil fuel industry, especially in coal, of labor exploitation. Company towns, miners being paid in script which was only accepted in company stores (16 tons, would do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.) No need for a pension fund because all the miners died of black lung by 60. It was slavery in all but name.
I'm sure there is exploitation of labor in the renewable energy sector as well, but it is only the normal capitalist friction, not the locked in lifetime exploitation of coal mining. (Not to mention the externalization of environmental damage coal causes. It is horrible in many different ways. No wonder Trump loves it.)
Yeah, the point of my first reply was that renewable has no labour requirements for getting the fuel, the sun comes up all by itself. It's just equipment installation and maintenance, which is less work than installation and maintenance for coal mining equipment.
Yes, renewables do have manufacturing, installation and maintenance labor, but no direct energy labor. Fossil fuels also have those, but much of the cost is the labor for mining, drilling and transporting the fuel, all of which are extremely exploitative.
How can electricity generated from one source be better than electricity generated from another? Does he think coal generated electricity has more electrons per watt or what?
Ta, Dok. We'll be so much more comfortable when we insulate the side of the house that needs it, put solar panels on the roof, plant a little windmill somewhere on our property, and install battery storage. We stand with the sane parts of the world. Coal serves a great purpose when it's left in the ground. IT CLEANS WATER. That Thing in the Offal Office must be the most moronic "leader" this world has ever seen (and yes I know about baby emperors and such).
If he thinks about it, those Trump Battleship might be coal powered, There;s nothing like black clouds of smoke along the horizon to say where your fleet is at.
You silly libs. Can you imagine what the great Trump Battleships (and, no, there is no reason no one has built a battle ship since the 1940s, why would you even ask that?) with hundreds of young black men, their sweaty backs glistening in the flames in the bowels of the ship, shoveling coal into the boilers like they did in the days before we had to allow people of color do something more than grunt work or being porters and valets? That is what a real, non woke military should be like!
There is no way any modern navy, let alone air force, would ever be able to spot these slow, smokey ships that will no doubt stealthily sneaking up on their opponents. Heck, look at Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet:
Heck, now that I'm thinking of it, how could the proven rapist Trump want anything other than a "Great White Fleet" built to the same standards that Made America Great in 1901? It's his dream that he now will share with us all.
Most larger military bases at leaat the larger ones, have their own power plants. They don't "buy" power from outside sources.
When I was in the service in the 70's, we had coal as a backup. But even though not used much, it needed constant attention. It had to be bulldozed and aerated at all time to prevent it from spontaneously combusting, especially if it got wet. A large, smoldering coal fire is almost impossible to put out.
Of course, Trump knows none of that. Or much of anything else for that matter.
Nothing says “national security” like forcing the military to cosplay the Industrial Revolution.
Coal is expensive, dirty, and obsolete, but it makes great trophies and even better nostalgia for men stuck in 1917.
Blessed be the microgrid Trump buried so a coal pile could feel special.
I wrote my senator, Thom Tillis, again. He did write me a concerned letter about the murders in Minnesota, but it is still not enough, and I told him so:
Thank you Senator for your letter about the unnecessary death of the American citizen at the hands of the ICE agents. I still believe the whole thing is out of hand. We have masked thugs chasing down children and there is talk of warehousing immigrants. Deportations continue.
Senator, this is Nazi Germany, the KKK, and and the Gestapo all over again. Nothing less than shutting the whole thing down will do. AG Bondi answers no questions and yells at Committee members. A majority of the Epstein Files remain hidden while the survivors have yet to receive justice. Unless you want a North Korea in this hemisphere, you and your colleagues need to get a spine and defend this nation.
The rest of the world is afraid of us, and rightfully so. Is that what you want? A nation of rich white folks, poor white folks, and enslaved and incarcerated black and brown folks? And at the head of it all a man who wants golden statues and triumphal arches erected to himself and a ballroom to have lavish parties?
That vision of the US belongs in Hell, and that is where we all will be if this continues. You need to impeach or remove the president with the 25th amendment before he does any more damage. That you and the Republicans in US Senate have allowed this to go on for so long is a crying shame and nothing less than deliberate action to correct this will do.
You all have already lost future elections, so you have nothing left to lose. We will not stand for this insanity and criminality any longer. Unless you do something, the "peasants with pitchforks and torches" will be coming for you because you harbor a monster and it won't be pretty.
Okay, we watched (more like fast-forwarded through most of) ABC Whirled News Tonight with David Muir. I caught the segment where SCROTUS announced he had rescinded all of the EPA standards and regulations set for clean air emissions, claiming they are all a hoax. (I did not know that he, alone, could do that?)
Then it struck me that SCROTUS is finally, LITERALLY going full "Scorched Earth" as a way to avoid the Epstein Files.
Over +1M times he comes up in them; reported on multiple sources.
That fucker needs to be removed. Now.
SCROTUS - So Called Ruler Of The United States.
https://radmorningcoffee.blogspot.com/2025/02/scrotus-be-thy-name.html
But there is, of course, an easy way for coal to compete on price. You see, renewables have to pay for labour. Historically, mining activities did not. Free labour to be sourced from East Montana in Texas
What renewable labour? Do you think the sun gets hoisted up with ropes every morning and let down again in the evening?
I think he is referring to involuntary, unpaid labor, e.i. slavery.
I think that's about the mining activiies, not the labour needed for renewables.
Yes, I'm (and Gaz, if I understood correctly) are talking about mine labor. The contrast was with renewable energy, which Gaz said has to pay for its needed labor, just like almost every other business.
There is a lot of history in the fossil fuel industry, especially in coal, of labor exploitation. Company towns, miners being paid in script which was only accepted in company stores (16 tons, would do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.) No need for a pension fund because all the miners died of black lung by 60. It was slavery in all but name.
I'm sure there is exploitation of labor in the renewable energy sector as well, but it is only the normal capitalist friction, not the locked in lifetime exploitation of coal mining. (Not to mention the externalization of environmental damage coal causes. It is horrible in many different ways. No wonder Trump loves it.)
Yeah, the point of my first reply was that renewable has no labour requirements for getting the fuel, the sun comes up all by itself. It's just equipment installation and maintenance, which is less work than installation and maintenance for coal mining equipment.
Yes, renewables do have manufacturing, installation and maintenance labor, but no direct energy labor. Fossil fuels also have those, but much of the cost is the labor for mining, drilling and transporting the fuel, all of which are extremely exploitative.
This needs to be referred to incessantly as socialism.
Some Fruits Are Orange
How can electricity generated from one source be better than electricity generated from another? Does he think coal generated electricity has more electrons per watt or what?
Yes. That’s exactly what he thinks. But to make up for it he thinks the same about about a 35-year old woman and a 12-year old one.
Ta, Dok. We'll be so much more comfortable when we insulate the side of the house that needs it, put solar panels on the roof, plant a little windmill somewhere on our property, and install battery storage. We stand with the sane parts of the world. Coal serves a great purpose when it's left in the ground. IT CLEANS WATER. That Thing in the Offal Office must be the most moronic "leader" this world has ever seen (and yes I know about baby emperors and such).
If he thinks about it, those Trump Battleship might be coal powered, There;s nothing like black clouds of smoke along the horizon to say where your fleet is at.
You silly libs. Can you imagine what the great Trump Battleships (and, no, there is no reason no one has built a battle ship since the 1940s, why would you even ask that?) with hundreds of young black men, their sweaty backs glistening in the flames in the bowels of the ship, shoveling coal into the boilers like they did in the days before we had to allow people of color do something more than grunt work or being porters and valets? That is what a real, non woke military should be like!
There is no way any modern navy, let alone air force, would ever be able to spot these slow, smokey ships that will no doubt stealthily sneaking up on their opponents. Heck, look at Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet#/media/File:Tr_great_white_fleet_from_photo_nh100349_USS_Connecticut_1907.jpg
All that black smoke will just confuse everyone.
Heck, now that I'm thinking of it, how could the proven rapist Trump want anything other than a "Great White Fleet" built to the same standards that Made America Great in 1901? It's his dream that he now will share with us all.
Are we sure the mascot is called "Coalie" and not called "That hardest crumbly Type 1 there on the Bristol Scale"?
His end cannot come too soon for the planet.
Where are the Molly Maguires when you need 'em?
What does the Pentagon have that needs coal to run?
The Budget
Most larger military bases at leaat the larger ones, have their own power plants. They don't "buy" power from outside sources.
When I was in the service in the 70's, we had coal as a backup. But even though not used much, it needed constant attention. It had to be bulldozed and aerated at all time to prevent it from spontaneously combusting, especially if it got wet. A large, smoldering coal fire is almost impossible to put out.
Of course, Trump knows none of that. Or much of anything else for that matter.
Statue should be a coal miner sitting on an exam table wearing an oxygen mask while a doctor holds an X-ray with a sad look on his face.