Category: Climate / Environment
White-opia – The MAGA Secession Paradise!
Can cannabis help clean up the earth? – BBC REEL
Thank you to Ten Bears for the link to the video. https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2024/03/01/five-oclock-shadow-2/ Yes another great reason to support the legalization of cannabis without the crap laws republicans are trying to impose due to religion. Hugs. Scottie
PRESIDENT BIDEN VS PRESIDENT TRUMP — A CONSTRAST IN SUCCESSES
I want to thank Rawgod for this post. See, it is hard for me to hold the information in my head of all of Biden’s hard fought achievements and the ones he is still fighting to accomplish. But Rawgod put it in an easy to read and understand format. See that is what the republicans are trying desperately to obscure. They need and want to keep the public from seeing all the good Biden has done because their candidate screwed everything up only helping out the wealthy with a huge tax cut that benefited … him with large cutouts for real estate developers. WTF! Nothing Biden has managed to do profits him personally, but tRump did. Hugs. Scottie
TX GOP Chair Worked For Funder Of Extremist Group
This goes along with my last post, Christian take over of the US pushed by Churches, leaders with money, and wealthy older people who see it as a way to enforce their bigotry to remain a white cis straight 1950s society. I really want to emphasize the hard right bigotry and hate these billionaires have and the changes they are making to society. They fund the very rabid right wing media that is trying hard to change all of our society and political leanings, increasing hate for LGBTQIA and hate against blacks / brown people. They push a pro Christian white cis straight male in charge of society. Dunn & Wilks also control influential legal, policy, & advocacy organizations. One of those orgs argued in court that pharmacies shouldn’t sell birth control. The lawyer who argued that case later became a federal judge. He banned the abortion pill. And they’ve even created their own right-wing media bubble. Dunn & Wilks fund Texas Scorecard, the top far-right publication. Wilks owns the Daily Wire and bankrolls PragerU, a right-wing “education” platform they’re trying to force into our schools. Prager U is now being used in red state public schools as instruction materials. Florida pushes their message hard. There is a serious push by really wealthy old Christian bigots to turn the US into a Christian Iran, a Christian Saudi Arabia, a Christian Afghanistan. Do we the poor majority want to allow this? Hugs. Scottie
January 13, 2024
The Texas Tribune reports:
For more than three months, Republican Party of Texas Chair Matt Rinaldi has vigorously attacked critics of Defend Texas Liberty, and rebuffed calls to distance the state party from the powerful group over its ties to white supremacists. As he did so, Rinaldi was also working as an attorney for one of the group’s two billionaire funders, Farris Wilks, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Since 2021, Wilks has given nearly $5 million to Defend Texas Liberty, which last year was the state party’s largest financial supporter. With Rinaldi’s help, the group has sought to purge the Texas GOP of more moderate voices by bankrolling far-right causes and primary candidates. Publicly, Rinaldi has also been silent about Defend Texas Liberty as the Tribune extensively reported on ties between the group and other white supremacists and Nick Fuentes acolytes.
Read the full article. There’s much more. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load because they illuminate how deep this goes. The final tweet links to a grimly fascinating deep dive into Defend Texas Liberty’s leader.
Let’s talk about cold weather and what to remember….
The Experiment
US Oil Production Has Broken Records Under Biden
Let’s shout this from the rooftops. This is for the fox / right wing media watching jerks that think gas prices are up because we don’t pump enough oil out of the ground, ruining the environment. They shout under tRump the US was energy independent. They are showing how clearly they don’t understand the oil to gas production. The US has always pumped the most oil. What we don’t do is refine most of it to the kinds of fuel we need most here, because as I understand it, the refineries are set up for a different type of oil. The oil from the US is mostly not the right kind to make the fuels we use. Also oil is sold on a worldwide market and oil companies can make more money selling it over seas than here. We need more refineries to refine the oil into the fuels we need here, but again that cuts into the profit margin of the oil / gas companies. And in the US, profit is king. The Saudis pump the kind of oil we need, it is imported. They can screw with us to keep us doing what they want by restricting the amount they pump / sell. The right wing people are too uninformed to know that they are bowing to the Saudi government every time they scream at and blame Biden for gas prices. And compared to a lot of advanced countries, the US has relatively cheap gas. Oh and closing the Keystone 2 pipeline before it could operate did not cause a fuel price increase / shortage. The pipeline was never used. Plus the oil that would run in it was destined to be sent out of the country. Hugs. Scottie
December 31, 2023
The Washington Post reports:
You won’t hear President Biden talking about it much, but a key record has been broken during his watch: The United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. The flow of huge amounts of crude from American producers is playing a big role in keeping prices down at the pump, diminishing the geopolitical power of OPEC, and taming inflation.
The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline nationwide has dropped to close to $3, and analysts project it could stay that way leading up to the presidential election, potentially assuaging the economic anxieties of swing state voters who will be crucial to Biden’s hopes of a second term.
But it is not something the president publicly boasts about. The politics of oil are particularly tricky for Democrats, whose chances for victory in the 2024 elections could hinge on whether young, climate-conscious voters come out in big numbers.
Read the full article.
Too fucking old, my ass.
And he’s just getting started.
Biden 2024!
It’s not like Trump is much younger, either. But people have drunk the Fox News kool-aid on this, and (of course) the Dems haven’t done enough to counter that messaging.
I’m looking forward to seeing Dark Brandon this year, pulling out ALL the stops and hitting the Do Nothing House…. hard!!!!
Volcano … !
I like this video because the people learned how to use something already existing to create the power we need to live without using more fossil fuels. I also think there is a lesson here where if the land might someday make you dead with little to no warring, you maybe shouldn’t live there. Oh, and Thanks to Ten Bears for the video. Hugs. Scottie
What *Really* happens to used Electric Car Batteries? – (you might be surprised)
Thanks again to Ten Bears for a wonderful video. In case you are not aware, Ten Bears posts daily lists of links to a diverse collection of stuff. His site is well worth a daily visit but you may end up with a lot more stuff to watch or read. Hugs. Scottie
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