Politics Thread

[Masterofreality]

No, she just sarcastically clapped right at the back of his head during the speech and was celebrated by your ilk for doing so. She was the Speaker of the House...3rd in line. Why do you always have to qualify things? You should have just stopped after your first sentence.

And consciously undermined a duly elected President for 4 years- the last two with BS impeachments rather than taking care of the Country’s business.
Talk about whining like 3rd graders cause they didn’t get their way.
Sounds awful like a threat to Democracy and the Democratic process when the Houses of Government are sidetracked from functioning.

[Masterofreality]

Um, what infrastructure has been built?

A lot has started in a year. You can check here, including state-by-state plans.
The bridge in Cincinnati I think is included.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-...etter-america/

Hmmm. Just to reconnect on this “Infrastructure” discussion. See, Paul tries to obfuscate the issue by cutely using the word “plans” as if that is the same as actually “started”. No, those two things are absolutely not the same.
Wanna know why there has been no “Infrastructure” construction started? Because Biden ignores Republican proposals to streamline the permitting process.
It’s one thing to claim a “win”. It’s something else all together to get things actually done. Biden has not “gotten it done”.
Per the Wall Street Journal:
“ President Biden’s speech writers put a bipartisan coat of paint on his State of the Union address on Tuesday, but only in service of lecturing Republicans to pass the same agenda he couldn’t pass when Democrats ran the House. He barely mentioned anything Republicans want, and the bipartisanship that didn’t bark was any mention of permitting reform for public works and other projects.

Remember permitting reform? It’s a Republican priority, and Democrats promised Sen. Joe Manchin a vote on it in return for signing off on the Inflation Reduction Act. The issue failed to pass the Senate last year because the West Virginian didn’t write his bill with serious GOP input. One provision would have given federal regulators broad authority to approve electricity transmission lines, including socializing their costs. Some Democrats opposed Mr. Manchin’s plan because they want to stop all fossil-fuel projects.

Mr. Biden could help cut this Gordian knot, but he never mentioned the issue. Instead he told the country that drillers shouldn’t be afraid to invest in new production, because “we’re going to need oil for at least another decade.” Try not to laugh, although many Members of Congress couldn’t help themselves. Only a decade? American energy consumption in 2021 was 79% fossil fuels, 12% renewables and 8% nuclear.

Mr. Biden’s target is 100% clean electricity by 2035. To hit his climate goals, according to a report last year in E&E News, “annual installation of new wind and solar generation would have to increase from two to seven times historical levels.” How does he expect to do that without cutting the red tape that ties up construction of all kinds?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bid...ks-11675894110

[bobbiemcgee]

Ford building 950 acre battery plant. Maybe they know something.

[XU_Lou]

Ford building 950 acre battery plant. Maybe they know something.

Yea, that they're going to get massive fed and state subsidies!! What a great business model to employ in Joe Biden's America!!!

https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/ford-i...ant-in-ev-bet/

https://www.thecentersquare.com/mich...6f99ffff0.html

[Strange Brew]

Yea, that they're going to get massive fed and state subsidies!! What a great business model to employ in Joe Biden's America!!!

https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/ford-i...ant-in-ev-bet/

https://www.thecentersquare.com/mich...6f99ffff0.html

We are being led by very stupid people.

Bobbie, bless your heart…

From where do you “feel” that energy comes to fuel your/those battery cells?

[paulxu]

Imagine, state subsidies to an American company.
Why, it could have been billions promised to a Chinese company like Foxcomm.

[GoMuskies]

Nikki Haley seems relatively normal. So, she's going to get absolutely crushed in the Presidential race.

[Xuperman]

We are being led by very stupid people.

Bobbie, bless your heart…

From where do you “feel” that energy comes to fuel your/those battery cells?

Hey, let's not put the stupid green cart in front of the flatulent horse.

How about the massive amount of energy required to produce/transport materials, then build this massive facility. What about the invasive mining technics required to produce the necessary elements for these batteries and the energy to build them? Only expanded Nuclear is feasible at this moment in time, and that simply doesn't fit the Green narrative.

This ridiculously large portion of the worlds population ACTUALLY BELIEVE it can be done with WIND/SOLAR.... it's sheer lunacy. How much longer can this charade continue?

I have family in Hillsboro. If you head north on 62 off of 32, you will see acres and acres of what appear to be solar farm "bones". These are thousands of posts set in concrete bases look to have wiring under ground.....there is usually some sort of transport building among them. These were built before Trump and are getting zero maintenance.....weeds and rust.

Histories biggest con game.

[UCGRAD4X]

Hey, let's not put the stupid green cart in front of the flatulent horse.

How about the massive amount of energy required to produce/transport materials, then build this massive facility. What about the invasive mining technics required to produce the necessary elements for these batteries and the energy to build them? Only expanded Nuclear is feasible at this moment in time, and that simply doesn't fit the Green narrative.

This ridiculously large portion of the worlds population ACTUALLY BELIEVE it can be done with WIND/SOLAR.... it's sheer lunacy. How much longer can this charade continue?

I have family in Hillsboro. If you head north on 62 off of 32, you will see acres and acres of what appear to be solar farm "bones". These are thousands of posts set in concrete bases look to have wiring under ground.....there is usually some sort of transport building among them. These were built before Trump and are getting zero maintenance.....weeds and rust.

Histories biggest con game.

OMG! It goes on for MILES. It's ridiculous.

[XU_Lou]

Meanwhile, while our country disintegrates internally, the brain dead idiot in the Whitehouse continues to push us closer to WWIII.

And yes, WE ARE THE BELIGERENTS!

Here's how the Indians (no not Cleveland, or Native Americans) see it:

https://twitter.com/VeraVanHorne/sta...78247184814080