Random thoughts/comments

[Zinjanthropos]

A lot of praying to God just so for the next 4 years Americans can ask ‘How in God’s name did that happen?” At least the divine appeal was direct, the nod to the left a bit more inconspicuous. Good luck Yanks. Joe too.

[Leigha]

Biden’s speech wasn’t bad. Uplifting and encouraging. Not a dynamic speaker like say, Obama, but a message about unity. We’ll see . . .

[Zinjanthropos]

Biden’s speech wasn’t bad. Uplifting and encouraging. Not a dynamic speaker like say, Obama, but a message about unity. We’ll see . . .

I expect relations with Canada to sour in the coming months. Biden about to cut off our oil & gas and kill some pipelines. Although Trudeau will probably like it. Don't know what Biden has in store for the American oil & gas industry. When some states start freezing we'll see what happens.

[Magical Realist]

Just having a president who expresses empathy and honest moral ideals is such a welcome change from all the ranting and bragging over the past 4 years and is like healing balm to the soul. Here is a man that has suffered and overcome devastating tragedy in his life. This is a man with a humble soul and a spiritual rootedness. He knows firsthand what healing is like. He is exactly what we need at this time in our history.

[Syne]

Biden’s speech wasn’t bad. Uplifting and encouraging. Not a dynamic speaker like say, Obama, but a message about unity. We’ll see . . .

Pandering lies.

Just having a president who expresses empathy and honest moral ideals is such a welcome change from all the ranting and bragging over the past 4 year and is like healing balm to the soul. Here is a man that has suffered and overcome huge tragedy in his life. This is a man with a humble soul and a spiritual rootedness. He is exactly what we need at this time in our history.

Apparently you fall for the usual politician bullshit. He's a career politician, used to duping the gullible.

[Zinjanthropos]

Out of curiosity, in the USA alone, what will the cost be to the American taxpayer to replace all gas powered vehicles owned by all levels of govt? Couldn’t find updated stats on Google but there is mention of federal govt owning over 200,000 gas guzzlers in 2012 with over 150 limos. Going to have to be done. Good for auto industry and scrap dealers.

[Syne]

The US is no where near having the charging infrastructure to go 100% electric, much less a sufficient electrical grid, especially in the states most pushing EVs.

[Leigha]

Sometimes, things get lost in translation...

https://marktconard.com/2014/05/07/nietz...%20himself.

[confused2]

I must admit I've only ever seen the:
“Whoever battles monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself...”.
and not the chickenshit:
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.."
The latter would not fit the path of even the humblest of warriors.

[Magical Realist]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021...asers.html

How Many House Republicans Believe the Jews Attacked California With a Space Laser?
We asked party leaders about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s theory.

"On Thursday, it was reported that freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had endorsed a theory that wealthy Jewish bankers had started California’s 2018 Camp Fire by firing a laser from space in order to benefit themselves financially.

You can read her Facebook post, uncovered by Media Matters reporter Eric Hananoki, here:

https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/ma...eadly-2018

In it, Greene postulates that the “Vice Chairman of Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” may have used “space solar generators … beaming the sun[’]s energy back to Earth” to fire a “laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth” to “cause” the 2018 Camp Fire in California in order to manipulate the stock market and line the pockets of “Rothschild Inc,” “Solaren,” and Sen. Dianne “Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum.”

Feinstein and her husband are Jewish, and conspiracy theories involving the Rothschilds are a long-standing anti-Semitic trope. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean and director of global social action of the Wiesenthal Center, told me “anyone who used the term ‘Rothschild banker,’ that’s shorthand for Jews.” Cooper called on Greene to apologize and said she should not be on the House Committee on Education and Labor.

When told of a video Greene once posted on social media in which a narrator says “an unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists, and Zionist supremacists has schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation, with the deliberate aim of breeding us out of existence in our own homelands,” Cooper said: “This is clearly a person that has an anti-Semitism problem.”

Democrats have been calling for weeks to expel Greene from the House of Representatives, based on her anti-Semitism, conspiracy-mongering, and insurrection-backing. Given her popularity with former President Donald Trump and with the QAnon movement, and its overall interest in owning the libs, the institutional Republican Party has been much more reluctant to respond. But after the latest revelations, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel called the comments “disgusting” and said there is “no place for anti-Semitism in our party” and that the comments “should be looked into.” And a spokesperson for California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, told Slate, “These comments are deeply disturbing and Leader McCarthy plans to have a conversation with the Congresswoman about them.”

Before that conversation could occur, Greene put out a statement denouncing “the radical, left-wing Democrat mob and the Fake News media trying to take me out” and saying “I will never back down.”

“I will lead the charge to be a voice for the Silent Majority,” she wrote.

Speaking of silent majorities: I asked every member of House Republican leadership whether or not they believe, as Greene has speculated, that the 2018 Camp Fire might have been caused by powerful Jewish interests shooting an energy beam from space, or if such comments were appropriate.

Here is a list of their responses or nonresponses, which will be updated if and when these Republican House leaders get back to Slate.

A spokesperson for Rep. Steve Scalise, the House minority whip, said, “No, of course he does not believe that.”

Rep. Tom Emmer, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee: “We don’t support any hate-driven conspiracy theories.”

A spokesman for Rep. Liz Cheney, chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, replied in response to both questions, “no.”

Rep. Mike Johnson, the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, responded “of course not” and “of course not.”

Rep. Jason Smith, the secretary of the House Republican Conference, did not respond when his office was asked if he believed that “Rothschild Inc” had fired space lasers to start the 2018 Camp Fire, or if such comments were appropriate.

Rep. Gary Palmer, the chair of the House Republican Policy Committee, did not respond when his office was asked if he believed that “Rothschild Inc” had fired space lasers to start the 2018 Camp Fire, or if such comments were appropriate.

This lack of widespread condemnation is a marked departure from how the House reacted to Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar over 2019 statements that congressional support for Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby.” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leadership described the remarks as “anti-Semitic tropes” and asked Omar to apologize, which she “unequivocally” did.

This didn’t stop House Republicans from sponsoring a resolution to condemn Omar. Of the three Republican sponsors of that failed resolution who remain in the House—Rep. Greg Steube, Rep. Jeff Duncan, and Rep. Louie Gohmert—none responded when asked whether or not they shared Greene’s belief that “Rothschild Inc” may have fired space lasers to start the 2018 Camp Fire."