The Soul of the Republican Party
There is a reason that MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky calls the Republican Party “the most dangerous organization in human history.”
Deliberately Misevaluating the EV Adoption Curve
It’s pathetic to see garbage like this (at left).
General Motors sold 6 million gas-powered cars and light-duty trucks last year. Their target for 2026? Zero. Not a single one.
GM, market cap $46 billion, has placed 100% of its chips on electric transportation. It would be interesting to know what percentage of $46 billion the brave little author of the “20 Reasons” piece here has in the game.
I get, on average, one solicitation per day, telling me what a fool I’ll be if I don’t “make my fortune” investing in the next oil boom. Big Oil continues to target idiots to jump into the industry. And, let’s be clear, there are tens of millions of prospects for them, in the U.S. alone. Whether these people have two nickels to rub together (or two brain cells) is anyone’s guess.
The “boom” is obviously not going to happen, and anyone who wants to profit from the suffering and death of Earth’s life forms needs to hope, in earnest, that there is no hell.
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Optimism in the Face of Reasons to Doubt
Bernie’s right: Many Americans with progressive values have bought into the idea that real chance is impossible. We may shop organic, drive electric, and teach peace, but we remain concerned that it’s too late for a culture in which Donald Trump is a key political player.
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead had something to say about this too:
Leave the Politics Out of It
The meme here reminds me of life in this small, God-and-country town in rural California. Here, we have entrepreneurs who promote themselves and their small business with a bit of political posturing. As an example, you’ll see a Joe’s Plumbing truck, carrying both Joe and his equipment, with a Trump sticker prominently displayed on its tail bumper.
This doesn’t seem too smart. Would I hire Joe to unplug my drain? Never. Why alienate a significant portion of your audience?
Now, if you have a gun shop, go for it. Trump supporters far outnumber progressives when it comes to weapons’ purchases.
The Voting Rolls Are Swelling with Young People: What This Means
About 5 million Americans turn 18 each year, thus achieving the right to vote, where about 3.5 million, mostly old people, die. This is a factor that significantly affects the demographics of the U.S. electorate.
While there are exceptions, older people tend to watch more right-wing garbage on television and vote Republican, where younger people tend to be strong on gun control (as suggested at left) and human rights of all kinds, and vote Democratic.
It is for this reason that, barring a miracle, the Republican party is going to have one hell of a hard time in the 2024 election. Instead of developing a platform that has broad appeal, it has been squirting to the right with cruel, inane, and extremely unpopular ideas like homophobia and banning abortion.
The GOP has abandoned the concept of “live and let live,” and, in response, American voters are increasingly abandoning the GOP.
Examples are all around us, take Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his war against Disney as one of the most glaring. Disney is an extremely highly regarded company that has been charming our children for nearly a century, while helping them learn the difference between right and wrong. By contrast, DeSantis, in his vicious attack against Disney has the approval rating of a clump of maggots on a dung heap.
I’d love to meet the people who are driving the Republicans into this miasma in which they currently find themselves. In all honesty, I have to thank them.
First Amendment Limitations
What Tucker Carlson says here is categorically incorrect, but he speaks to people who are ignorant of the fact that there are numerous types of speech that are not protected by the First Amendment: obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, fighting words, true threats, speech integral to criminal conduct, and child pornography.
Hypocrisy
People have been talking about religious hypocrisy, especially among Christians I guess, for far longer than I’ve been on this planet.
Yet it seems that the right-wing religious extremists have taken all this to a new level.
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Pete Buttigieg
America isn’t ready for a gay president.
Which is too bad, because other than his sexual orientation, Pete Buttigieg is arguably the single most qualified person for the job in this country.
Voting Policies and the Proper Role of Government
According to my Fox News-loving mom: The radical left wants to loosen voter registration laws, allowing as many poor/undocumented people as possible into the country, so as to elect a president whose platform is built around government handouts. Once this process fully takes hold, there will never be another Republican president elected.
My view is that encouraging as many citizens as possible to vote, as is done in Europe and Scandinavia, is actually a good thing. Who has a problem with a government that reflects the will of the people?
We’re talking about a government that helps people escape poverty, keeps our environment clean, educates our young people, and ensures that no one dies of a treatable disease.
It’s vehemently opposed by our billionaires, but it is, to the degree that it can be effected, a boon to the common American.
Apparently, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich agrees.
Calling All Investors
The company looking for investors to build and market this new form of transportation (see left) points out a key driver of the product’s ultimate success: No Pilot’s License Needed.
I see a day when the air is filled with people flying these to work, to the grocery store, etc. These are people with no pilot’s license, no flight training, and no flight plans, simply buzzing along through the skies.
All this follows an announcement from an FAA spokesperson: “Regulation? Why? What are you going to do, regulate everything that flies? We don’t regulate bees, do we?”
Actually, wait a sec. Maybe this won’t really happen.
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