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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If I were designing a shirt that promotes Trump’s virtues, I’m not sure I’d use this “prison” theme, but I have to say that I love the foreshadowing.

In any case, I was on a call earlier today with a guy I grew up with who became the dean of Columbia Law School and later the president of Rice University.  He said, when asked about the Trump documents case, “The first thing one needs to understand about him is that he has no relationship with the truth.  The truth has no meaning to him, which is why he can go on television and defend himself by inventing laws that do not exist.”

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There is not a germ of truth in the meme here at all.

It’s impossible to believe that there is an iota of moral goodness in this man, or that anything he does is for an ethical purpose.

If Chris Christie really wanted to damage the former president’s chances of reelection, he would be laying bare the facts associated with Trump’s acts of treason in his multi-pronged attempts to overthrow the United States federal government.

We either want, or do not want, a traitor in the White House; it’s really just that simple. We don’t need the blubbering of some clown blurring the distinction.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

I like the point this guy’s making.

Alternatively, we can ban books that enable our kids to think critically, and remove our best and brightest teachers, resulting in the United States’ drifting down into deeper levels of ignorance and illiteracy, so as to enable a whole new generation of Donald Trumps to hold the highest office in the land.

Again, I like this fellow’s idea as an alternative.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Here’s Steve Bannon promoting the Birch Gold Group:

We’re in uncharted territory. 2023 is going to be absolutely incredible as far as what is happening to the American economy. Now is the time to shift your IRA or 401k into precious metals and gold.

And the best way to do that today is through something called a Birch Gold Group IRA. This account allows you to keep PHYSICAL GOLD inside of a tax-deferred account… without paying a DIME in penalties or taxes when you transfer the funds into gold.
When I first came across this, I thought it was a joke.  Do people really take financial advice from criminals who were convicted of fraud?
But no, it’s dead serious.  Wow.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

Not sure where you’re going to sell this.

Can’t go on freeways.

Driver’s cramped and terrified.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The answer at left is a good one.

But, if Donald Trump beats his criminal cases against him, his “Big Lie” will have successfully set a precedent that any future U.S. president can attempt to overthrow the federal government and walk away a free man.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

In an uncountable number of cases that happen around the world, on a daily basis, we treat our dogs and cats with far more concern and compassion than we do human beings.

Here at home in the U.S., we have the Republican’s unflagging support for the fetus, and their complete dismissal of the child’s well-being the moment it’s born.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Before he left us, Carl Sagan bemoaned our society’s lack of interest in science. “Our mainstream newspapers have daily astrology columns, but not even weekly coverage of breakthroughs in science,” he said.

Were it not for its horrific consequences, this might simply be a trivial, quirky little fact about life here in the U.S. Unfortunately, however, it opens us up to all the crap we absorb from the right-wing “news” sources: e.g., that vaccinations are dangerous, that climate change is a hoax, that Donald Trump is being unfairly persecuted, and that the radical left wants to open our borders and turn us into homosexual socialists.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

From this:

When Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger got an email notification last June, it read: “Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy on the weather.”

“What’s your address,” another asked Gloninger a few days later. “We conservative Iowans would like to give you an Iowan welcome you will never forget.”

Par for the course, especially in states like Iowa, where Trump won in 2020 by more than 8%.

One thing we need to admire about conservatives is their tenacity.  They have reached into essentially every area in which science impacts human well-being, and are doing their best to dismantle it.

And meteorologists in red states aren’t the only ones who risk their lives as part of their careers.  Think of election workers, school administrators, gun control advocates, union and community organizers, investigative journalists, and providers of abortions. How about epidemiologists?  How many thousands of death threats do you think Dr. Anthony Fauci received?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It will be interesting to see how history comes to regard Republicans’ efforts to protect the 45th U.S. president from the justice system.

There are really only two possible eventualities: a) Trump is honestly prosecuted for his crimes, or b) the former president is somehow let off the hook, and the presidency becomes a cloak by which all future holders of the highest office in our nation are permitted to do what they can to overthrow the government and become autocrats.

This, of course, is what the world suffers under in Russia, China, and the majority of states around the globe.

Below is a graphic that displays what the world looks like under autocracy.  We’re teetering on the edge.