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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business — No Comments ↓

Jesse Holguin offers this video and writes: Trump derangement syndrome is real. Liberals are the enemy within. They’d rather America lose than Trump to (sic) win.

I know exactly what you’re saying, Jesse.

America is winning huge. I just paid $1.98/gallon for gas.  Didn’t I?  I mean, that what you pay, right?

Eggs are so cheap they’re almost giving them away, and my portfolio is up huge since Trump took office. I presume this is everyone’s experience, isn’t it?

The tariffs and trade wars have brought millions of jobs back from overseas, haven’t they? And they’re not increasing prices for all Americans, correct?

We’re the most respected country on the planet, aren’t we?  Let’s be real: We’re better off without all those good-for-nothing allies, aren’t we?

Certainly all this shit is true, isn’t it?

In any case, thanks for your very fair, informative, and well-researched piece.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change — No Comments ↓

There are many Americans who reject science of all types, and climate science in particular.

So, even though storms and wildfires are becoming more frequent and deadly, these folks stand behind Trump’s eliminating the parts of the U.S. government that provide them with advanced warning signs of potentially lethal events, giving them time, if required to avoid drowning in floods being burned to death in their own homes.

When you say, “I’m a proud Trump supporter,” this is the stupidity and cruelty of what you’re claiming about yourself.

You may want to rethink that.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

What is Trump’s endgame?  Obviously, he envies the absolute power of the dictators of Russia, China, North Korea, Turkey, Hungary and the other 50+ around the globe, but if, for some reason, he can’t achieve that level of tyranny in the United States, would a few tens of billions of dollars represent an acceptable substitute?

In truth, no one knows, perhaps even including Trump himself.  He appears to be taking one step at a time, and not getting too attached to any of many modes of taking his own wealth and power into the stratosphere.

One thing we know with create certainly: Every action he takes is all about Trump; it has nothing to do with any notion of integrity, nor his oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, nor the wellbeing of the common American.

This is Trump’s “brand” and it seems likely that it will take him forward until the day he dies.

The MAGA base of tens of millions of American voters would happily re-elect him to a third term and die in the streets of a treatable disease than be led by a gay communist Kenyan-born Muslim like Obama, or Biden, the president who looked over a fabulous economic recovery, though is well-regarded by Trump supporters as the “worst president in history.”

This is the level of stupidity of where we’ve taken ourselves–over an incredibly short period of time.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

For those who may not know too much about the politics of the interior of the U.S., Omaha, Nebraska is one of very few progressive spots in an otherwise bright red state.

That said, this really is good news.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability — No Comments ↓

If by “they” you mean grocery stores, I suppose you have a point, though growing all the dozens of kinds of food you want in your diet sounds like quite a task.  For example, do you like coffee in the morning? It doesn’t grow in the continental United States.

But it gets worse, as there is a great deal more to self-sufficiency than food. Do you propose to make your own cars, gasoline, toilet paper, air conditioners, shoes, network routers, lightbulbs, condoms, and cell phones?

Maybe this meme was created for people with limited capacity to think.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

The simple answer to the simple question is that the United States ran into a “perfect storm” about 10 years ago, where both the level of hatred and ignorance of the common American and the corruptive influence of money in politics hit the levels required to reduce our democracy to ruins.

Trump appears to have pulled off the ultimate coup, usurping the powers that the Founding Fathers were convinced belonged to the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. federal government.

At this point, we can only conclude that an evil and demented man seems to have become the first king of the USA.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels — No Comments ↓

You may think that Big Oil may be at least pretending to get on board the concepts of climate change mitigation and the phasing out of fossil fuels in favorable of low-carbon energy sources.

You’d be wrong.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

A lack of shame isn’t what prevents the Trump MAGA base from being embarrassed by the actions of their leader.

Those who think at that level and believe everything that comes out of the president’s mouth are thrilled that the price of gasoline has fallen below $2/gallon, that Canadians can’t wait to live in the 51st U.S. state, that Trump has successfully negotiated several peace agreements, and that the United States has, since the 2025 inauguration, become the most respected nation of Earth, after being disgraced by the former president, who had ruined the economy, crashed the stock market and caused record unemployment.

The saddest part of all of this is that our country is home to tens of millions of voters with extremely limited capacity to think,  And, though this problem is most on display in the United States, insofar as our economy and military is so large, it’s hardly contained here.

Yesterday, I asked some Englanders about their feelings about Brexit.  They lamented that their country has been set back by the same stupidity and xenophobia that we have here.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

This from former Republican U.S representative Joe Walsh.  And he’s right, what’s worse than Trump’s treasonous behavior is that the majority of congresspeople in both houses are unwilling to intercede.

What’s arguably even worse than that is that almost half of voters think that Trump is proving to be wonderfully effective in Making America Great Again.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability — 1 Comment ↓

No one denies that meat tastes (and smells) good. Anyone who will tell you, for instance, that frying bacon doesn’t smell incredibly good is lying.

The problems are a) bacon is terrible for your health, b) animal husbandry is ruining the planet, and c) factory farming is intensely cruel.

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