I watched Biden's presser live last night, I was proud of him.
He is doing such a good job, I wish everyone understood that and refrain from voting for a guy who wants to put all libs in concentration camps (not just immigrants) and weaponize the DOJ against everyone who's ever hurt Trump's fee fees.
A large part of why China ramped up their coal power plants in the last decades is because the entire western world moved their factories over there. In any kind of fair bookkeeping this would be registered as our pollution. But we live in a world where the companies move around production to where it is cheapest, and the cheapest countries get the blame for being the cheapest.
So when China goes green then their production costs will go up, and all companies will move their factories to another country that will then also build coal plants to power those factories.
I'm happy about all the good OHJB does. Kinda wish it didn't have to be at Filoli, because it's beautiful and full of rich old farts from Woodside. Which means it fucks up my horse veterinarian's commute on the first weird-ass rainy day in NorCal, and all the horses have decided to have tummy trouble, including mine. IT'S MY FUCKING FIRST WORLD, AMIRIGHT?
Just a tip, if someone's argument for why we shouldn't do things to combat climate change is that it's because OTHERS are not doing exactly that so we shouldn't be doing it also, then maybe, just maybe, that person isn't being sincere about actually wanting to combat climate change.
Wow. CO2 AND plastic pollution. The astroturf push-back is going to be ferocious. Republican fascists will do everything they can to pitch this as something between capitulation and treason, or fuck it, why not both? Good job President OHJB.
Clearly the way to make EVERYONE happy, and I mean EVERYONE, is to frame this as some great competition to be first to get to 100% renewable sustainable the FASTEST...Turn it into an upbeat version of the space race of the 50s and 60s. Right wingers can get what THEY want by making it ugly and xenophobic and environmentalists in both countries can wink knowingly at each other across the Pond, giddy with the knowledge that we tricked our respective RW authoritarian 'leaders' into doing the right thing...
OUR COLD WAR WITH CHINA OVER WHO WILL BE FIRST SUSTAINABLE!!!
He'd not even been out of bed very long when not long ago paul ambled in here bearing victuals, serving me the warm, melting cheese and a fresh dollop of sour cream adorned remaining half of the bean and cheese burrito I had for supper last night. The fact of the matter is that after accomplish all of the necessary chores early this morning I was feeling a bit peckish and his timing was ideal.
it is, and i'm tired of it being ignored or minimalized. it makes for stupid interviews with college students who really can't quite decide what's best...
I'm sure Herschel is happy that China's bad air won't be coming over to America and pushing our good air to, I guess(?), New Zealand.
Now if we could just cut down all those trees we will be pollution-free by '33.
Reached for comment, Herschel said he will celebrate by paying for two abortions today and splurging by also kicking in Uber fare for the lucky two women.
That's something you can control. Hang around with some teenaged kids, the bright ones. That always does it for me. They're smarter and a helluva lot more kinder than I and my peers were at their age.
So while the Right and the Dead End Left, with an assist from the MSM, has decided Biden is just the most unpopular motherfucker ever to want to appear on a ballot and shouldn't even consider running for re-election, the guy just keeps on doing presidential stuff competently and achieves far more of his agenda than even his supporters hoped for.
My only positive vibes about Biden have come about in the past 3 years, and they've been pretty powerful. He can't control the media, or what voters actually do, of course.
But he hired the people he and Obama won with. Those were the Howard Dean people, because that's who was unemployed and available in 2008. They could have chased away the Socialists, trying to garner votes in the mythical middle. They didn't do that. They expanded the electorate to win, and that expansion could only happen to the left of the Democrats; not to their right. They did it twice. Biden did it again in 2020.
Biden doesn't have to like the Socialists, with their nose-rings and stinky patchouli and B.O. But he does need their votes and he knows it, so he can't just call them immature and tell them to fuck off. And he hasn't. I think he'll continue with what he's personally seen work to his advantage three times before.
Oh, and has the dead-end left gotten a load of the Other Guy? Yes, yes they have. So while they don't like Biden's foreign policy or his coziness with Finance; they can do math. And only a very few of them are nihilistic enough to want to be true hardcore "accelerationists," supporting Trump as a means to crash America so hard the Proletariat rises up. That's just coffee-shop talk, to get the girls all sweaty.
Offer up some more student loan reform, some improvements to access to healthcare, some positive measures on the climate, fewer foreign wars, some hope to buy a house; the things 18-30 year-olds don't see as accessible and are resentful about; I think they'll turn up. And they don't have landlines, so pollsters can't find them.
Really. If Biden had stopped doing anything around the time the infrastructure bills got done I would have been happy with his presidency. Now he's just running up the score.
What angers me most about his liberal critics is he's doing a pretty solid liberal agenda here, and if your conclusion is "fuck him, this is diddly shit" then the lesson for all future presidents is "don't bother doing liberal stuff, it won't pay off electorally".
I especially like hearing Arab voters in Michigan threaten to not vote Biden, because I guess Donnie’s expanded Muslim ban and desire to level Gaza are better than Joe Brandon not stopping Netanyahu.
I watched Biden's presser live last night, I was proud of him.
He is doing such a good job, I wish everyone understood that and refrain from voting for a guy who wants to put all libs in concentration camps (not just immigrants) and weaponize the DOJ against everyone who's ever hurt Trump's fee fees.
A large part of why China ramped up their coal power plants in the last decades is because the entire western world moved their factories over there. In any kind of fair bookkeeping this would be registered as our pollution. But we live in a world where the companies move around production to where it is cheapest, and the cheapest countries get the blame for being the cheapest.
So when China goes green then their production costs will go up, and all companies will move their factories to another country that will then also build coal plants to power those factories.
I'm happy about all the good OHJB does. Kinda wish it didn't have to be at Filoli, because it's beautiful and full of rich old farts from Woodside. Which means it fucks up my horse veterinarian's commute on the first weird-ass rainy day in NorCal, and all the horses have decided to have tummy trouble, including mine. IT'S MY FUCKING FIRST WORLD, AMIRIGHT?
I hope your horse is feeling much improved.
Ta, Dok. I'll take all the Nice Times I can.
Just a tip, if someone's argument for why we shouldn't do things to combat climate change is that it's because OTHERS are not doing exactly that so we shouldn't be doing it also, then maybe, just maybe, that person isn't being sincere about actually wanting to combat climate change.
So the Chinese are going to help solve their own hoax? As if! Someone notify Rep. Higgins.
Okeh, impromptu htps://Wonkzoom.com re: Business development.
Wow. CO2 AND plastic pollution. The astroturf push-back is going to be ferocious. Republican fascists will do everything they can to pitch this as something between capitulation and treason, or fuck it, why not both? Good job President OHJB.
Clearly the way to make EVERYONE happy, and I mean EVERYONE, is to frame this as some great competition to be first to get to 100% renewable sustainable the FASTEST...Turn it into an upbeat version of the space race of the 50s and 60s. Right wingers can get what THEY want by making it ugly and xenophobic and environmentalists in both countries can wink knowingly at each other across the Pond, giddy with the knowledge that we tricked our respective RW authoritarian 'leaders' into doing the right thing...
OUR COLD WAR WITH CHINA OVER WHO WILL BE FIRST SUSTAINABLE!!!
yeah
ok
right, thats it..."cold war"...let's go with that
snicker
"US And China — Yes, THAT China — Agree To Expand Renewable Energy, Ditch Fossil Fuels"
It's a nice thought; let's hope China acts on it. Maybe they've noticed that OHJB has been working on this. He already has one heck of a record going.
With China, there is *ALWAYS* a hidden ulterior motive.
Like reducing pollution and getting cheaper energy?
Like how it also benefits them. That's as hidden an ulterior motive as we can get.
Only one? Pikers!
And they say the same about us, of course.
Nom.
He'd not even been out of bed very long when not long ago paul ambled in here bearing victuals, serving me the warm, melting cheese and a fresh dollop of sour cream adorned remaining half of the bean and cheese burrito I had for supper last night. The fact of the matter is that after accomplish all of the necessary chores early this morning I was feeling a bit peckish and his timing was ideal.
The man is rather nice to have around sometimes.
We're worth keeping, in some cases.
Joe Biden's going to run and win on his record. It's a damn good record.
it is, and i'm tired of it being ignored or minimalized. it makes for stupid interviews with college students who really can't quite decide what's best...
I'm sure Herschel is happy that China's bad air won't be coming over to America and pushing our good air to, I guess(?), New Zealand.
Now if we could just cut down all those trees we will be pollution-free by '33.
Reached for comment, Herschel said he will celebrate by paying for two abortions today and splurging by also kicking in Uber fare for the lucky two women.
I suppose China is going to have a lot of people with experience in overcoming scaling problems...
Hope. I want to have hope for the future.
Keep Hope Alive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZi4qE6Ll6E
Dooo Eeeeet!
That's something you can control. Hang around with some teenaged kids, the bright ones. That always does it for me. They're smarter and a helluva lot more kinder than I and my peers were at their age.
So while the Right and the Dead End Left, with an assist from the MSM, has decided Biden is just the most unpopular motherfucker ever to want to appear on a ballot and shouldn't even consider running for re-election, the guy just keeps on doing presidential stuff competently and achieves far more of his agenda than even his supporters hoped for.
What a fucked up electorate we have.
Oh, I bet in 9 months or so Biden comes up with something to get votes from Socialists.
Biden knows a thing or two about managing a coalition. That's how he won in 2020. That's how Obama and Biden won twice.
I hope it does straighten out by election season.
My only positive vibes about Biden have come about in the past 3 years, and they've been pretty powerful. He can't control the media, or what voters actually do, of course.
But he hired the people he and Obama won with. Those were the Howard Dean people, because that's who was unemployed and available in 2008. They could have chased away the Socialists, trying to garner votes in the mythical middle. They didn't do that. They expanded the electorate to win, and that expansion could only happen to the left of the Democrats; not to their right. They did it twice. Biden did it again in 2020.
Biden doesn't have to like the Socialists, with their nose-rings and stinky patchouli and B.O. But he does need their votes and he knows it, so he can't just call them immature and tell them to fuck off. And he hasn't. I think he'll continue with what he's personally seen work to his advantage three times before.
Oh, and has the dead-end left gotten a load of the Other Guy? Yes, yes they have. So while they don't like Biden's foreign policy or his coziness with Finance; they can do math. And only a very few of them are nihilistic enough to want to be true hardcore "accelerationists," supporting Trump as a means to crash America so hard the Proletariat rises up. That's just coffee-shop talk, to get the girls all sweaty.
Offer up some more student loan reform, some improvements to access to healthcare, some positive measures on the climate, fewer foreign wars, some hope to buy a house; the things 18-30 year-olds don't see as accessible and are resentful about; I think they'll turn up. And they don't have landlines, so pollsters can't find them.
The Jill Stein Left craves Donnie’s return, but are too chickenshit to own it.
Say what you will about the MAGAs, they're at least not pretending to not be MAGAs.
Say what you will about National Socialism, at least it had an ethos.
Really. If Biden had stopped doing anything around the time the infrastructure bills got done I would have been happy with his presidency. Now he's just running up the score.
What angers me most about his liberal critics is he's doing a pretty solid liberal agenda here, and if your conclusion is "fuck him, this is diddly shit" then the lesson for all future presidents is "don't bother doing liberal stuff, it won't pay off electorally".
I especially like hearing Arab voters in Michigan threaten to not vote Biden, because I guess Donnie’s expanded Muslim ban and desire to level Gaza are better than Joe Brandon not stopping Netanyahu.
OHJB is kicking sand into the faces of the RWNJs. For fun.
The deal with China sounds like real progress. More than just fun.
The media never covers the planes that land safely!