“I’m gonna be President!” Kamala sang as she lumbered around the office in a grotesque parody of human joy. “I’m gonna be President!”
“Is Biden OK? Did something happen?” Astrid asked, alarmed. She smacked the side of her phone as if it had betrayed her. “Why didn’t you send me an alert?” she yelled at its home screen.
“He’s fine,” Kamala said. “He’s just not going to run for a second term.”
“Oh, good,” Astrid said. “I got really worried there for a second.”
“What does that mean?” Kamala asked, her eyes narrowing as her dance wound down.
As Astrid screamed inside over her mistake, Seresto stepped between them.
“Who wants to inherit a Presidency?” she asked. “Win it! Beat Trump in 2024 and have a mandate. You don’t want to be Jerry Ford.”
“Who’s Jerry Ford?” Kaylieburrow asked absently.
“Jesus,” Astrid snorted.
“What?” Kaylieburrow asked. “What?”
“Just, I, fuck…” Kamala said tiredly.
“I’m not stupid,” Kaylieburrow said. “My PoliSci degree cost $300,000 dollars! I’m not some sort of idiot.”
“Holy fuck!” Seresto shouted. “How much in student loans do you have?”
“Oh, Daddy paid all of that,” Kaylieburrow said dismissively. “It was in the divorce argument.”
“SHUT UP!” Kamala screamed. “Do you know how many abortions I had to get where I am today? How many old dicks I…”
“Just be happy for me!” Kamala said. “I’m going to be President!” She scampered through the office, knocking things off people’s desks and tipping over trash cans.
“We’re all very happy for you, Ma’am,” Astrid said and ducked the stapler Kamala threw at her head.
I guess I missed the news…
Secret DNC directive. Real, hush-hush.
I can’t think of a better match-up than Kamala vs deSantis.
The potential for fun is tremendous.
I was First ounce but not as First as I once was.
First ounce of what?
First ounce of cocaine Hunter snorted off of anyone’s ass.
Good, to the last first.
I just want to know how SF got access to the Whitehouse surveillance feeds.
It’s not technological, it’s a form of scrying.
But the damage to the soul may be irreparable. SF really does sacrifice for his art.
My PoliSci degree cost $300,000 dollars! I’m not some sort of idiot.
I’m sorry, that just killed me, but I died laughing.
This is why student loan “cancellation” is so vital.
This confirms that Kalieburrow is an American University graduate.
I think the combination of the dollar sign and the word dollars is the real hidden gem in that.
A subtle decimal rather than a comma would have thrown it all over the top and the internet would have ceased to exist.
You don’t want to be Jerry Ford
She’d be goddam lucky to attain Jerry Ford’s stature.
He played football and was in The Big One,
She sucked a big one…..
Jerry Ford? Kamala is gonna be lucky to be Spiro Agnew.
I’m not some sort of idiot.
She knows what she needs to know.
Don’t confuse her with common idiots.
Also Happy.
“Oh, Daddy paid all of that,” Kaylieburrow said dismissively. “It was in the divorce argument.”
Flawless.
*nods approvingly*
I did not expect Soresto to protect Astrid like that. I apologize to Soresto for misjudging her.
Worried about area-of-effect damage.
Radiation burns.
I can’t keep those people straight (no pun). Would you consider writing a guide to Joemala supporting characters?
What makes you think SugarFree can keep them straight?
He really did it!?!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-migrant-bus-arrives-washington-d-c
Nice.
Awesome. I hope they keep it up and the other border states join in.
I don’t get what happens. They just walk off the bus and go wherever they want to?
I wonder what would happen if they wandered into the Capitol…
“Texas Governor Launches Foreign Invasion of U.S. Capitol”
/TMITE
Insurrection Dos
And Don’ts?
Pretty much what they do everywhere else.
They have court dates. Its not like they’ll just disappear.
*insert eyeroll emoji*
At least Biden has the decency to fly them under cover of darkness to a nice place like White Plains.
These poor suckers get a bus to DC? Plotz.
I don’t see the value in helping the admin flood the country with illegal economic migrants. Should have shipped them back over the border.
Balancing the line between having their own immigration policy versus just providing transportation for them.
“We’re shipping you to the capital district of Colombia.”
*sends them to south america*
Should have shipped them back over the border.
The states don’t have the authority to do that. This is much, much better anyway. I just doubt they’ll be able to keep it up for long.
They are illegally in the country. They crossed the state border illegally. The feds refuse to enforce the TX national border. The states are sovereign political entities. I’d do it anyway and see what happens. I’d also offer border patrol working in TX jobs in the TX border patrol as I moved for secession. But maybe I’m old fashioned.
You think the US Border guards, not to mention the Federales, are going to let Texas just run bus caravans into Mexico?
I expect the people to travel back from whence they came. The manner how is up for negotiation.
Maybe this is the significance of the passage of time she was talking about.
She needs to do what she’s been doing, and that time to do what she’s been doing in the passage of time is now.
Together.
Kamala drops some truth bombs about inflation.
“What I can say is that people deserve to know that their president, that our administration, is concerned enough to do something about it, so that is what we are doing,” she added.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/listen-kamala-harris-brilliant-answer-asked-biden-admin-combat-inflation/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
And that time is everyday.
Holy shit. The stupidity and incompetence is astonishing.
By now SNL and every late-night show would be running constant skits of
BushismsKamalisms. Such is the state we are in I guess. Time to find some good Saudi parody shows apparently.Remember Dan Quayle being stupid?
How many jokes did they milk out of that?
Even Ford, Gore, and others used to get the treatment. Now its all tailored propaganda.
They did some good Clinton skits.
The one with Clinton jogging through McDonalds is a classic (played by the late great Phil Hartman, of course).
Hartman did a better Clinton than Clinton.
At least the Saudis are picking up the slack. https://twitter.com/AsaadHannaa/status/1513681354348716035
Wow. The Saudis must be pissed. Bye bye petrodollar.
The Saudi thing was poorly done, but they got all the main points. They get it.
I almost want her to fail upwards again just so we can get more bons mots like these every day.
Jerry Ford displaced as President Malaprop.
*cackles*
Every example of inflation she used was a progressive talking point. No mention of actual cross the board inflation:
Drug costs – we need to do something
Child Care – we need to do something
Student Loans – we need to do something
Then a lot of BS of concern.
Release of strategic oil reserves – No mention of removing the >18% tax on gas and >24% of taxes on fuel.
Announcing the return of masking in D.C.: be a good citizen wear your mask it will eventually be over.
Bright side: when Kamala wins the 2024 election, I’ll win $20 from Spud.
Dark side: By then, $20 will barely buy a candy bar.
At least with modern technology we won’t need to haul around wheelbarrows full of
Deutsch MarksDollars.I just got a 10% merit raise. I was happy for about a day, until I realized with inflation, I’m still behind.
Yeah, unless you got about 15%, you took a pay cut. And most people aren’t getting 15%.
I got a promotion and it was only worth 4.5%
3% this year. so, massive pay cut.
I’ll end up doing better on SocSec which at least adjusts upward with inflation. I’ve had one pay raise (~1.5%) in three years.
For now.
I gave myself a 33.33% raise last year.
Got my 4% yesterday. W0000t! ?
Mine is coming any day now(beginning of May, I think), but they haven’t announced amount yet. I think they are trying to see what they will need to give to retain people, so I am hoping 8.5% or something is standard. I expect to get about 2/3rds of the standard based on starting last July. But no idea how this company handles it yet.
I know they are worried about retention, so would be surprised at 3% or something like that.
They won’t run her in 2024.
Wanna bet?
I don’t bet.
Besides, you move every time I’m going to be driving nearby.
That should tell you something…
That I’m too old and too male for OMWC?
At first I was gonna jump in and say I’ll take that bet, because they couldn’t possibly be that stupid, but then I thought for a second and realized they most certainly could.
Yeah, I was tempted myself, but my thought processes went the same way. I mean, just when you think these people couldn’t get any dumber…
Who else could they run?
They can’t pass over the first black vice president, can they?
Well, the shitstorm if they tried would certainly be entertaining as hell.
Remember, per Harris’ campaign mouthpiece – Democratic primary voters didn’t vote for her because they are racist and sexist.
They can but it won’t be pretty.
Not sure how she does in the primary, considering the utter absence of Harris delegates at the ’20 convention.
It will be fortified as needed. DNC will ensure that.
Fortifications can be built. The DNC decides who will run, debate, and get support.
Its like an echo! 🙂
Look, they’re pretty good at fending off the Bernie insurgency, but that ain’t likely in ’24.
No convention. Just a coronation.
The question of “who else?” arises, and that’s why I’m convinced that a check-all-boxes marionette is going to be their only choice. Buttgag is a funny-looking dwarf. Comb Salad has basically disappeared. Stacey Abrams is one checkbox back from Kamala and her name sounds too suspiciously Jewy. AOC is not old enough. Hillary is already too old to actually kill people herself. Omar is foreign born. Tlaib is too ugly for words.
Yeah, it’s Harris.
At this point, a strategy of picking somebody the public hasn’t heard of might serve them better than the bench.
And besides, using the same criteria you’ve applied, I ruled out Gropey Joe as a 2020 possibility for candidate. We might end up with Chuck or Nancy.
picking somebody the public hasn’t heard of
Perhaps another no-name, single term senator from Illinois?
‘Beto has a sad.
Oprah.
I remember William F Buckley, unable to recall her name, referring to her as, “That black woman who is alternately large and small.”
The Wookie
Of course, if Michelle Obama throws her wig in the game, that might mess things up. But I don’t see that happening; the Obamas are enjoying a comfy taxpayer-funded retirement. Why take on that hassle?
Ego
Power
Exactly. Why go back to being scrutinized when they’ve got all that sweet Netflix cash.
I bet the DNC had to grovel to come in and put lipstick on the Biden-Harris pig last week.
Who in their right mind would want to own what’s coming?
I don’t think the Obamas are that insane.
Klobuchar.
If Sunset hadn’t opened his pie-hole and trapped them into Kamala, she would have been the VP.
Also this.
They need to go a different direction.
What kinda odds can I get on Tulsi?
The proggies hate her as much as OMB.
I need odds for a reason. With the odds I will require, I will also demand payment up front. I will happily refund it after the convention.
“Wins”…
The context, I refuse to see it.
Throwing their life away for the wokeness and vapid foreign policy, not to mention the vaccination. But no, virtuous Dan thinks that going into the military today is just the same as it ever was. Don’t be dumb like virtuous Dan.
Yeah, she makes several valid points there.
Greene is brighter than people give her credit for. She is not drinking the Ukraine Kool-Aid either.
2008 I still had a view that Navy or USAF I would be okay with my kids going into as they got older. That all has disappeared from my talks with them. Now it is trade schools or an education that has job potential behind it.
Or get in an industry that you want to be in and work your ass off from the ground floor.
Throwing your life away by joining the United States military? Really?
I believe it is literally signing away your life when you agree to become a pawn of power-hungry, war-mongering pols that will through you into a hornets nest that has no vital interest for the country and get you maimed/killed so they can play politics and get rich.
It is but there was always a payoff or trade for that. Now? Rather than Duty, Honor, Love of Country, blah blah its Equity, Inclusion, Diversity
Dobbs and Greene recounted various grievances with U.S. foreign policy in general and Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal in particular, as well as “woke” training within the military. These are entirely fair arguments, and it is fair as well to note that they are not going to help the military recruit people.
Why wouldn’t it help the military recruit people, Dan? If you accept Greene’s observations, her conclusion is essentially rational.
Its not Dobbs and Greene pointing out various major problems that is going to hurt recruiting. Its the various major problems that are going to hurt recruiting. These people are completely unable to think beyond messaging, PR, narrative, etc. and have no conception of the difference between the map and the territory.
Uh, I work in a pretty conservative county, plenty of ex military in the office. I’ve heard people here saying they wouldn’t recommend enlisting now. Not sure she’s as removed from the ordinary conservative as national review (nation of the common man though they are) thinks.
https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-e603a9dfc361ad095733bc868ebeba74
In a surprise to no one here…masks on transit gets extended.
Don’t those busses, trains, and planes already have air filters? Why do the vehicles need to wear masks?
I used to get sick every time I took a business trip across the ocean. Breathing recirculated air for 10 to 20 hours is guaranteed to spread illness. Mask do jack shit to change that.
It’s not raw recirculated, it’s filtered and then mixed with bleed and ram air from outside.
Yes.
But it doesn’t filter out viruses or bacteria.
I spent many transatlantic flights trapped with Europeans that would chain smoke in the bad old days. Filtering has limitations.
Their contempt for plebs knows no bounds.
Don’t forget:
“Severe illnesses and deaths tend to lag infections by several weeks.”
Severe illness lags infection by a matter of days, perhaps 10 at the outside.
Death, yeah, that tends to get spread out from a week to months.
They’ll keep doing it until enough people stop putting up with it.
Fifteen more days I will refuse to commute to the office if they ask.
Just 2 weeks to flatten…no, wait.
2 years? Decades? Generations? Epochs?
Walensky should be raped to death. Fauci should be drawn and quartered by four horses. The rest of them should be swinging from lamp posts upside down so that the public can smash their skulls with baseball bats.
I think gibbeting while still alive is totally appropriate.
Scaphism.
Can we make a stele afterward?
Throwing their life away
It’s hard to argue with.
Join the army and get treated like shit? Who wouldn’t want to do that?
There is a reason skilled enlisted specialties have a high turnover. I spent a few years in an office with civilians. The civilian sitting next to you doing the same job was paid a lot more and had to put up with less bullshit.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/mick-mulvaney-says-one-of-trumps-only-serious-2024-gop-challengers-is-the-rock/
Wait, what?
Bread and circuses – keep the mob entertained. Convince me he’s wrong.
She scampered through the office, knocking things off people’s desks and tipping over trash cans.
Kamala is one of those Barstool Sports idiots?
“My PoliSci degree cost $300,000 dollars! I’m not some sort of idiot.”
🙂
In a surprise to no one here…masks on transit gets extended.
I’m back in Montana for a few days. Last night the bartender was telling everybody about some guy who got kicked off a plane she was on for not wearing his mask properly and being a meanie to the stewardess.
And all the hens clucked, “Follow the rules! Follow the rules! Bkaaawk!”
I had to tell them there was no fucking way anybody was going to get me on an airplane again. Pointing out that masks are nothing more than superstitious mumbo jumbo would have been a waste of time.
“Follow the rules! Follow the rules! Bkaaawk!”
And that, dear children, is the entire point of the mandates. Conditioning the population to comply and obey authority without question.
Applies Sn Foil Hat: It’s almost like a test to see what the obedience level is within a certain population. If the level is too low, let loose something horrible in the latest news cycle to determine the effect on compliance. Did it work? -> No: apply another treatment maintain masking requirements and measure in 3 months; Yes: remove restrictions after a few months.
Periodic sampling required to assure reliability of treatment and level of compliance.
No need for a tinfoil hat. This isn’t a test… we’re well beyond that. This is the direct implementation of control wherever it is accepted. The places with the greatest level of acceptance have the most extensive restrictions that are slowest to let up.
Look at what’s happened to Canada and Australia.
It’s not just COVID. #BLM and Ukraine are also compliance tests.
This should be all the evidence you need.
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/urgent-my-video-call-with-the-who
I don’t know whether to believe that or not.
It’s so out there that it’s hard to swallow.
But the WHO is definitely pursuing this. The only question is whether individual governments submit to it. It will either provide legal and moral cover for what those governments already want to do or it precipitates the end of the WHO.
Why not? Is anything that shocking at this point?
Scruffy it sounds like WHO wants to become the government, supplanting the local potentates. They won’t go for it, since it means losing their own power.
Yesterday I said “nothing’s shocking” in response to some preposterous happening or other but this one… it’s so over the top.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
@rhywun:
https://www.rebelnews.com/nz_court_bans_unvaxxed_dad_from_seeing_his_own_kids
I can see some 3rd World shitholes submitting hoping to get cash, and some European countries that love the EU, but I don’t see how the US submits to this. It would take a constitutional amendment…or a civil war.
@Sean
Sigh, that one is all too believable. And enraging.
Equitable access to vaccines also means just because your country develops or manufactures a drug, you’re not entitled to them (priority access, bulk prepurchase, prohibiting export, etc). They must be shared with all countries around the world in a scheme administered by someone. Probably WHO or it’s cronies.
Yes, that was the real angle. Many places had their panties in a knot because the US had priority access.
I think some of the biggest panty twisters were right here in the SJW/public health nexus.
And all the hens clucked, “Follow the rules! Follow the rules! Bkaaawk!”
America was founded on blindly following the rules. It is known.
In Montana, oh no.
Hey. I am moving to Montana soon. Going to be a dental floss tycoon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ialhaxhr7iA
Yippee yi yo tie yay?
Get a plump wife and raise rabbits.
A real bunny boiler?
If she can raise it up, and wax it down –
I’ll put it in a little white box
That I can sell uptown.
Oooo, Sugar free Wednesdays! I must be getting hardened to the effects because I only had mild convulsions this time.
Conspiracy theory: what if they’re driving up inflation in order to make people more susceptible to central bank digital currencies?
“Oh, we can’t control inflation. We’ve been trying but the old ways are not working and can’t keep up with a globalized economy, therefore we are implementing the first ever CBDC. Here’s your free wallet. Just like we asked you to wear masks, we encourage everyone to convert your dollars to CBDCs, it will reduce inflation by taking real dollars out of circulation. We’ve already partnered with big names like Amazon, who have announced they will be the first to accept CBDCs!
Don’t worry about control, we would never control your purchases *wink wink nudge nudge*”
So what you’re saying is, I need to buy more silver.
Does it really need to be said?
You assume Ag / Au will be convertible to Joe Coin.
Joe coin will only be converted from and between physical dollars and electronic dollars. All other transactions are subject to audit and prosecution as they are an attempt to by pass taxation and must be for black market illegal purchases.
Two wallets.
One is used to keep suspicion away.
The other is used to buy what you need.
Why would I convert it?
And how do you audit a transaction you don’t know about?
“Nice new (car, boat, motorcycle, necklace, etc.) you got there, there is no record of the transaction in your account. we will recommend a full audit.”
Unlike drug dealers, you can’t launder money as there is not any “legitimate” transactions that are conducted outside of Joe Bucks.
You don’t use specie for large purchases. You use it for essentials.
And there will be a gray and black market economy. There always is.
If I’m buying everything {and getting paid} sub rosa anyway, then there’s nothing to stop me from pulling up stakes and relocating, after digging a few shallow graves for nosy tax snitches…
The “Alex Jones was right” jar already overfloweth, so I’m gonna go with yes just because my instinct was “no, can’t be”.
Well yeah…
A bank holiday is incoming at some point, along with revaluation of loans to the new currency and a generally robust fucking of middle America.
Look at it from the perspective of the largest equity firms and banks (JP Morgan, Citibank, Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard). They cannot endure the coming fiscal flood. They will utilize every tool in their chest to survive and that includes their massive influence over the Fed and all of DC in general.
Their incentive to cheat their way to survival is massive. They’re not stupid and and they didn’t get to where they are by being honest. They intend to come out on top.
But in response to their motivations about inflation. They’re not causing it specifically to get to the Great Reset. They’ve just been fiscal morons for decades and now they have no escape path.
Not so much a conspiracy theory as a spoiler alert.
Starts out rhetorical guns a blazin’! Good stuff.
Also, I missed the morning links:
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Je t’ai vaincu:
Quordle Quotidien 79
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
fr.quordle.com
⬜?⬜⬜⬜ ???⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜? ⬜⬜⬜⬜?
?⬜⬜?⬜ ⬜?⬜?⬜
⬜?⬜⬜? ⬜??⬜?
???⬜? ??⬜⬜⬜
⬜?⬜?⬜ ?????
????? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜??⬜⬜ ⬜????
⬜⬜⬜?? ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜?⬜?⬜ ?????
⬜???? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
?⬜⬜⬜? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜?⬜?? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
?⬜⬜⬜? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
????? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
There is a minor cheat, however, in that it won’t let you guess non-words, so for the bottom left I just had to go through the used letter board until I got a valid word.
Do you actually need to know the language to solve a quordle or is having a dictionary sufficient enough?
I took three years of French in high school. Knowing enough words to start off definitely helps, and I’d guess knowing the language better would probably help, too.
Look at how many people bitched about getting tripped up by LORRY the other day.
Conspiracy theory: what if they’re driving up inflation in order to make people more susceptible to central bank digital currencies?
“Putin’s black marketeers are to blame. This is how we stop them.”
Commie ammo enthusiasts, SGammo has 7.62×39 on sale for $349.50.
https://www.sgammo.com/product/tula-ammo-sale/1000-round-case-762×39-122-grain-fmj-tula-ammo-ul076240-or-ul076210
Given the state of everything, that’s decent.
Still can’t get CCI Green Tags for love nor money. And when the hell will someone start making a decent 16 gauge trap load? **Grumbles**
16 ga – why aren’t you reloading?
Because I have to set up my loading bench, but first I have to completely remodel the inside of my workshop building.
Flexible
When the Transportation Security Administration, which enforces the rule for planes, buses, trains and transit hubs, extended the requirement last month, it said the CDC had been hoping to roll out a more flexible masking strategy that would have replaced the nationwide requirement.
Day by day. Flight by flight.
Keep that mask handy, because you’ll never know when you might need it.
Look at it from the perspective of the largest equity firms and banks (JP Morgan, Citibank, Blackrock, State Street, Vanguard). They cannot endure the coming fiscal flood.
Mark-to-market won’t be pretty.
They all landed on their feet after the Great Recession. Why would this be any different?
They’re planning ahead this time.
Daily Quordle 79
4️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
So, I got an email from Monster.com:
91%. JFC. Where’s that freaking comet at?
Utter horseshit.
Watching trucking or trades videos and seeing what you can do and earn without a degree?
Probably more along the lines of how to find available jobs, nail interviews, and write attention getting resumes.
I need to learn all three of those skills.
They’ll grow up or burn out.
I’m not your daddy.
Knock yourselves out, kids.
I won’t be listening to your bullshit, is all.
A broken generation, at least if they have been through the college mill. The hard times that are coming are going to be very hard indeed for these fragile flowers.
What I’m hearing here is, “For the love of God, don’t ever hire anyone under thirty.”
Completely OT but I didn’t realize the name of the Brooklyn subway guy. Historic.
So….gang-related?
Yes!
I don’t catch the significance but looks like they got him.
LOL so he just went along with his day while there was a massive manhunt after him?! Unreal.
Notice it was the cops who found him, not the FBI.
“What? Keep tabs on our asset? Who do you think we are?”
It wasn’t even a cop who found Tsarnaev, IIRC.
And the tipster called the crimestoppers line, not 911. I can guess why but jeezus.
Did it have something to do with a $50k reward?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/brooklyn-subway-shooting-suspect-arrested-in-new-york-city-live-updates/ar-AAWamGB
I’m not seeing anything here about the gun jamming any more and 33 rounds is what an extended mag holds.
Never learned to reload and just threw the gun away?
That’s how they do it in the movies.
And Superman ducks, every time!
Obligatory.
Depends. Mine hold 21 (Magpul) or 23 (factory mags with TTI basepads).
The malfunction could have happened when he reloaded, and the first round failed to chamber. This happens a lot with crap magazines.
I was thinking these.
*shrug*
Certainly could have been.
I finally heard the vest described as “green AND orange”
the #1 reason Gen Z candidates ghost employers is because a recruiter was “rude.”
Awwww, poor babies.
Glengary Glen Ross should be mandatory viewing in high school…
Did you know that 30% of non-college grads say that YouTube and Tik Tok helped them find a job?
I suppose if you looked at that claim as people saying, “I had no idea you could get paid to do that” it might make sense.
I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone… Went to the DMV for the new plates and annual registration. No line. 2 clerks free. In less than 5 minutes I’d paid, got the new registration and plate, upon which the clerk put the stickers. AND, emissions testing is no longer required here in Rutherford County. Registrations will be online from now until there’s another new plate design.
Tragic
President Joe Biden’s plan to reduce the price of gas by allowing the sale of higher-ethanol fuel this summer may make corn farmers and their elected representatives happy. But the move also has irked environmentalists who see ethanol as a climate-change villain.
Biden made his announcement Tuesday during a trip to Iowa, where corn — and ethanol — are crucial to the state economy. He said the Environmental Protection Agency would issue an emergency waiver from the Clean Air Act that will permit the sale of gasoline that is 15 percent ethanol, 5 percent more than the typical blend, from June 1 to Sept. 15. The change will lower gas prices by about 10 cents a gallon at the 2,300 gas stations equipped to pump it, the Biden administration says.
To environmentalists, that’s a small benefit compared to the damage the decision could do to efforts to reduce the country’s carbon emissions.
“What the president is doing is the definition of short-term thinking,” said Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law. “The goal here shouldn’t be to bring gas prices down by 10 cents in the near term by increasing emissions that will endanger large parts of the population.”
This is our big chance to make fossil fuels prohibitively expensive and force people away from private transportation. Don’t blow it Joe. Everybody already hates you. Stick to the plan.
I agree with her. Although thinking is a bit strong.
So not only will the fuel be more expensive but it will be a bit more harmful to your car and less efficient.
We’re expecting shortages of wheat and barley, meat prices to rise so let’s burn more corn.
Since it’s SF Wednesday
https://youtu.be/q2cJXdBMI9E
NSF lunch.
?
He did warn you.
Except you have already lost.
Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk – the list will be continued. Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with Heavy Weapons. #ArmUkraineNow
Continuing the flow of weapons will prolong the conflict and increase the bloodshed. You should start negotiating with Russia in good faith.
Fixed
You should start negotiating with Russia in good faith.
They tried that once. Russia broke the deal with *counts on fingers* three invasions. It takes two to negotiate in good faith.
You don’t get it. Zelensky sided with Western elites RS doesn’t like, therefore Ukraine deserves to be subjugated by Russia.
Recall Putin saying (and not just immediately before the invasion) that Ukrainians and Russians are one people and should “integrate”.
Ukraine was the second republic in the Soviet Union. From 1953 to 1985 the USSR was ruled by the people who grew up in Ukraine or were ethnic Ukrainians. Yes, only Andropov had no close connection to Ukraine.
I think of it like watching a country get pulled apart by a tug of war.
We pulled them into the globalist west with a violent coup in 2014 (against a “democratically elected” government). Since then, they really have been fucking with the Russians in eastern provinces.
This is Russia pulling back hard. The Ukraine is going to be partitioned, that’s now inevitable.
A lot of the people wanted to be out of Russia’s orbit.
So many people seem to want to give the Ukrainians no agency and have them be just pawns of western powers, incapable of thinking for themselves.
And a lot of people didn’t. The ethnic Russians in the Eastern provinces getting killed by the Azov Battalion probably weren’t to keen on getting out of Russia’s orbit. What do you tell them? “Screw you. Go to Russia if you’re so unhappy?” If that’s the case, what basis was there not to tell something similar to the Ukrainians when they wanted out of Russia’s orbit? And the fact is, like or not, it was the Russians who tried to offer up some kind of compromise. Only to get rebuffed by the Americans and Ukrainians.
And what precipitated those invasions, out of curiosity?
Negotiations in which the Ukrainian government failed to concede to any of Russia’s demands I believe. The primary demands did not sound particularly out of line to this person of Ukrainian descent.
<=
Blinken talking up Ukrainian NATO membership – which has always been a red-line. And Putin takes his red-lines more seriously than Obama.
^
Considering the advance of NATO (and other things allegedly being done by the west in Ukraine)…call me a Russian whatever but this position held by Russia is not illegitimate.
After consuming a shit-ton of information and opinions, I am left wondering why we didn’t do what a lot of the righties back during the fall of the Soviet Union recommended: no NATO expansion and bring Russia into the real world. But then I realized that the expansion of NATO and kicking Russia would make some unpleasant people obscenely wealthy.
A lot of Russia’s actions look pretty rational to me.
Well, dissolve nato entirely.
It’s wholly reasonable that many countries that were either invaded by the Soviets or faced a credible threat would want to join an alliance that offers a fig leaf of protection against the same. And that western countries would want to bring those Warsaw bloc countries back into the main European orbit. One could argue that Bush I’ appeasement Chicken Kiev speech and policy started this current mess with Kleenex thin promises of security.
And what precipitated those invasions, out of curiosity?
Crimea, because Putin and the Russians have always wanted Crimea. Remember, Russia made a deal, which it broke, around Urkainian borders and sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes.
The “breakaway” provinces, because Putin and the Russians have always wanted to, err, integrate Ukraine, and there were enough separatists (and Ukrainian abuses) to provide a casus belli.
The current unpleasantness? A combination of Putin and the Russians always wanting to integrate Ukraine, and the idiot West poking the paranoid Russian bear. Although, given that Ukraine had already been invaded twice, I think its understandable that the Ukrainians, at least, were looking for some big friends. This is a textbook case of tit for tat escalation, and I can’t help thinking that Russia has on net been the initiator. On account of all the invasions.
As to the rationality of Russia’s position, I think its understandable but unconvincing. I get their paranoia, following WWII, but seriously, nobody is going to invade Russia. Get over it already. I get their desire for a sphere of influence, but not on measured by how far their tanks have driven recently.
Add in Ukrainian nationalists pissing all over all ethnic minorities, not just the Russian ones in the east.
Although, given that Ukraine had already been invaded twice, I think its understandable that the Ukrainians, at least, were looking for some big friends.
How DARE those Russkies invade when we replace their allies in a coup d’etat?!!
Like I said, tit for tat. I do find the Russian invasion of Crimea in response to be inappropriate. Who bites off a province of a neighbor because of coup d’etat?
When one of your key naval bases is in that province and the new government is demanding you abandon it?
Pretty much any Great Power.
The Bee fucking weeps.
I’m not even going to try to decipher that word salad.
They need a better bot.
https://www.techradar.com/best/ai-writer
Imma say CBD been hittin’ the THC.
Glibot. Your automated writing service. Charge a steep monthly fee and then do all the writing yourself.
Everyone except straight, white males is disproportionately affected by everything it seems.
American women and gender-diverse individuals are disproportionately affected by climate change
Gender-benders of the world unite!
I’m really going to have to read some Waugh.
Waugh was assigned reading in my son’s Catholic high school. He seemed to enjoy it.,
The Loved One is funny and slim. Brideshead can be turgid.
Radar Users Council is a two hour meeting….im going off camera and opening a beer for this.
?