We’re often reminded of how nonsensical our world is.
Until recently, the U.S. electorate would not stand for complete gibberish emanating from a president’s mouth. In 2016, however, that standard went as far out of mainstream American life as chrome bumpers, black and white television sets, and drive-in burger joints.
I’m amazed to find legitimate, intelligent environmental activists support Elon Musk because of the role he’s playing in forwarding the cause of electric transportation.
Let’s imagine a world where both the energy and the transportation sectors have made great progress in decarbonization, but MAGA Republicans have brought Donald Trump back into position as the most powerful person on the planet.
We’ve gone a long way to mitigating climate change, but we are now living in a world in which the wealthiest country on Earth is no longer a democracy, nor is it a nation of laws. It’s run by a cruel dictator, whose every whim, regardless of how grossly unfair and illegal, is carried out without question or recourse. Dissidents are hunted down like pheasants.
If you’re not a similarly amoral person sitting on at least five or ten million dollars, you find yourself in a living nightmare.
Some days, good news just rains down upon us. Not only did we learn today that the DoJ is getting closer to indicting Trump on charges of stealing classified government documents and obstructing justice, but, on another front, the EU took a big step towards removing coal from its grid-mix.
Coal accounts for 12% of the EU’s grid-mix, and the vast majority of this comes from Poland. The replacement: (near) zero-carbon nuclear.
Well, Jo, I would think your position as laid out here is shared by the vast majority of American women.
Having said that, the values and sensibilities of U.S. voters today are difficult to understand by traditional standards.
I took two little kids around trick-or-treating last night and wound up in the garage of a house with a sign on the wall, must have been at least 8′ X 15′, that read “TRUMP – MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – 2024.”
God only knows what the woman of the house believes about abortion rights. I certainly wasn’t about to ask.
The Department of Justice has assigned David Raskin to the investigation of the former president in the case involving stealing classified documents and obstructing justice by hiding them at his home.
Why is this significant? As discussed here, Raskin is currently prosecuting a low-level FBI agent for taking classified documents home with her. She didn’t lie about it; she immediately cooperated with law enforcement, but she was in possession of (much less sensitive) documents at an inappropriate place.
This woman is going to jail for something that is a tiny fraction of the magnitude of the crime that Trump clearly committed.
To choose not to prosecute Trump at this point would be a direct admission to the nation and the world that, in the United States, laws do not apply to wealthy and powerful people, a statement that the Justice Department, and Merrick Garland in particular, seems extremely unlikely to make.
From this:
A woman who accused Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker of pressuring her into having an abortion defended her claims in an exclusive interview with ABC News, saying he is not fit for office and that “honesty matters.”
That’s funny, because it’s so obviously untrue, especially in this case. Herschel Walker is a pathological liar, and everyone on both sides of the aisle understands that. Yet prominent Republicans passionately endorse him; Nikki Haley calls for us to support her “friend.”
The woman has no shame, and that’s specially what has taken her to such stratospheric heights.
Congratulations to the people of Brazil, who tossed out an authoritarian strong man and elected a man of peace, honor, and environmental responsibility.
Lula won by almost two points, which is good, because had this been any tighter, Brazil could have found itself in the constitutional crisis we’re fighting our way through here in the United States, where Trump, who lost by seven million votes, is still claiming to have won the 2020 election, even though there is zero evidence to that effect.
Donald Trump still has tens of millions of supporters, and nothing can change that. Not even the criminal prosecution for any of the litany of felonies for which he’s about to be charged is going turn his MAGA base away from him.
The only silver lining here is that the majority of U.S. voters see through him, and are quite happy to be recognized for having done that. The young lady here with the clever t-shirt and the broad smile on her face is a good example of that.
Want a futuristic car that gets unlimited amounts of attention? Well, if this hydrogen-powered wow-machine is ever actually built, it will most certainly be for you.
There is a reason, however, that this prototype will never be brought into production, most obviously that the whole thing is fraudulent.
Fuel-cell vehicles don’t roar like dragsters.
Hydrogen hasn’t gained any significant ground in the 50+ plus years since “hydrogen economy” entered our lexicon, and there are a few immutable reasons why that’s the case.
Chief among them is gross inefficiency of electrolyzing water. If you have X amount of energy at hand, you’ll do one hell of a lot better to charge a battery with it than creating hydrogen with less than two-thirds of that chemical energy.
It seems there is a torrent of early voting for the midterms. In Pennsylvania’s hotly contested senate race between Fetterman and Oz, for instance more than one million ballots have already been cast.
This usually favors Democrats, and that’s a good thing, because there are plenty of insane people, whose votes count just as much as a rational and intelligent person’s.
