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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

One has to laugh.

At this point it appears nearly certain that Trump will, in fact, lose his protection from the Secret Service.  But, unless he leaves the country in favor of a nation that has no mutual extradition policies with the United States, his personal safety will be provided by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

One has to look upon the faces of the Secret Service agents here and feel sorry for them.  They were groomed, then hand-selected, to protect the very best people who ever served America.  And they wound up body-guards to a cold, calculating criminal.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Pardon the vulgarity, but this prompts me to make a point: There will come a day when buildings with the name “Trump” no longer exist.

Even today, hotel stays and conference event bookings at such locales are very low.  Who on Earth would have a trade show for anything (except guns, or white supremacy, or evangelical Christianity) at a place like that?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Charged with seditious conspiracy, Oath Keepers’ leader Stewart Rhodes suddenly wants to testify in front of the January 6th Committee, in an effort to avoid dying in prison a few decades from now.

This, of course, raises the question: What does he have to say?  If it’s that there was no coordination between his hate group and the White House, that hardly seems to hold any value in getting at the truth as to how the coup attempt was architected.

This is going to be great.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Another great meme on the eco-lawn.

One good thing about today’s world is its dismissal of traditions that add no value in our lives.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It wasn’t that long ago that the United States was well regarded around the globe for its fairness and highly functioning democracy.

Then came Donald Trump and three Supreme Court justices who rocked the world with a series of decisions from hell.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles
Here’s a meme that makes an absurd claim, but readers are eating it up, with comments including:
 • No water, no electricity, empty store shelves. Way to go turn us into a third world country.
 • Keep those electric cars charges (sic) if your (sic) lucky!
 • How am I supposed to charge my electric car – oh wait never mind I still have a gasoline powered vehicle(s).
 • Good thing we have all these electric cars and a war on fossil fuels to keep us powered up! FJB and his administration.
 • Yessir, right when we all plug our electric cars in to charge!
Well, let’s look at a few facts, if that’s not too great an inconvenience.
The U.S. grid reliability is over 99%.  In 2020, this figure hit 99.91% (on average, eight hours downtime during the year).  The few outages we experience are either due to planned maintenance or thunderstorms.  Except in rare situations, neither materially impacts EV use.  Most Americans have an intuitive understanding of this; after all, we live here, and we immediately see that this 2/3 figure couldn’t possibly be true.
OK, since this is completely wrong, we then know that it didn’t come from the Wall Street Journal or any other credible news source. Even Fox News would not present utter bullshit like this.  This is QAnon / Alex Jones stuff, geared to the most intellectually impaired people in this sad nation.
People who are looking for total crap that conforms with their hate and ignorance can always find something (like this) online; there are no exceptions of which I’m aware.  Hillary Clinton running a child porn ring?  No problem.
This is one of the key reasons this country is in its current pathetic condition.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There are limitless punch lines here, when you think about it.

They could have been gunned down by a crazed teen with an assault rifle because our society was unable to pass legislation to protect itself.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics, Sustainability

“Dr. Oz,” a truly repulsive conman who plays in the same league of deceit as Donald Trump himself, has no more chance of beating John Fetterman in the Pennsylvania senate race than he does replacing Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister of England.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Eugene Debs was a turn of the 20th Century American political activist and labor organizer, whose words here represent precisely what’s happening in the United States today.  Our nation is comprised in part, of religious fanatics who think of themselves as patriots, and represent the core of the Republican base. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Great quote here from Cicero.

There is no doubt that the United States was under intense attack in the form of “treason from within,” but it appears our nation has quelled the rebellion.

The “infection of the body politic” that Trump had achieved is now slowly subsiding. As more testimony is gathered as to precisely how he attempted to overturn the election, thus overthrowing the federal government, supporting him becomes ever more indefensible, not to mention self-destructive to those who don’t see it that way.

We can expect this entire process to drag out over a number of months, and even years, but at this point, the evidence that Trump did, in fact, commit treason appears overwhelming, and we can expect his voters and his congressional backers to quietly disperse.

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