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Yeah. It was a good read and does explain a lot of the issues with progressives.
That said, Peggy helped get Biden elected, so she gets a demerit from me on that.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)GR, I remember your “pretty boy” critiques of Obama.
Trump is almost exactly the opposite. Not pretty at all.
I’m not informed enough on what Trump actively did on Jan 6. I can tell you that when the sitting president attends a protest or rally, and the protest or rally gets out of hand, he has some responsibility no matter what. What I can’t abide is the “coup” or other nonsense. The guy was president. He wouldn’t have needed a bunch of fringe weirdos to do a frontal assault on the Capitol to accomplish a coup.
Jan 6 was an abomination that should never have happened in a civil society. But it was no reichstag fire or storming of the bastille. It was a protest that turned into a low level civil disturbance. Certainly it was nothing approaching the protests and riots against u.s. agencies in Portland and other cities during the prior year. No fires set, no significant graffiti, etc.. I mean, holy smoke, remember the CHOP? Jan 6 may have been the most respectful insurrection of all time.
All the Jan 6 noise is just to do what Trump’s second impeachment couldn’t do: make him ineligible to run again. The dem’s are terrified of that.
that said, I think the gop is better off leaving trump behind. You and I agree on that. However it’s important to remember that trump may go down as the most “American” president of the past 50 to 100 years. He was more like the average American than any exec, and that’s why people respond to him. Brash, aggressive, multiple wives, talks about banging young chicks, bankruptcies and debt…he’s way closer to Joe the plumber than any president ever and that’s saying something since he’s supposedly a billionaire.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)We are in a tough spot. We have institutional leaders that don’t have the balls to do the right thing (at least match nominal interest rates to inflation), and therefore we have people who are going to suffer.
we have negative real interest rates on the order of 6-7 percent, and that’s if you believe the actual cpi, which is doctored whether you like it or not.
Instead, let’s blame Putin. We have gone from operation warp speed-type thinking to operation find someone to blame. Feckless is the word that comes to mind.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I understand the safety argument, but this is ridiculous.
I wonder if a change in tactics would be in order. Rather than lighting up from behind an offending car, do it from in front…
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Wow, that last tweet is a jewel and frames the issue so succinctly that it will probably never see the light of day. A teacher can be suspended and have their name publicly trashed for refusing to call a boy by girl pronouns, but a teacher who props open an automatically closing, locked door to an elementary school and that precipitates a horrific massacre probably won’t be named or disciplined.
That contrast is striking. And I’m only somewhat sympathetic to the plight of the second person, whose stupid actions cost the lives of a number of children (no, maybe not all, but some) in Uvalde. Yes, the consequences of their actions are probably “enough” punishment, but the way it’s trending we don’t yet see a call to compliance for all teachers to be responsible for campus safety. And, they should be…they are the adults in the room.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Lizzie Holmes is a narcissist manipulator who belongs in prison.
I can’t believe she’s not already in jail.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)California: the state that embodies the old adage of being born on third base and thinking it hit a triple.
…all the natural beauty and natural resources of nearly any location in the world, and a political leadership ethos worthy of a banana republic.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s just more grist for the mill. Of course you can find the leaker quickly. I don’t know if the leak constitutes a crime, but it certainly constitutes an ethics breach, and that might not look good on a resume.
It’s not clear to me the authority the court marshall has to interview and investigate.
In any event, yes, this should be rather quick. And, if the SC wants to ensure no suspicion of political activity, it should be quick. But…who knows.
For me, I think it was professor plum in the library.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t know about the legal issues, but I do know an attempt to intimidate a court when I see it.
I hope the leaker is found and prosecuted. It’s a terrifying precedent.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Here’s car and driver on the f150:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36481590/ford-f150-lightning-range-towing/
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6053]Saw on the news this morning that Ford is rolling out an all electric F-150 today, coming out of the same historic plant that built the Model T. I’d imagine the thing can tow. .[/quote]
Electric vehicles can tow capably given their motors can make a ton of torque. The issue isn’t capability it’s range/capacity. I think the F150 you mention has a range of about 100 miles when towing a mid size travel trailer (on flat land). That isn’t going to make your camping trip very fun.
Electric vehicles are runabouts at the moment. They are also really fast and different from internal combustion cars. I couldn’t have one at the moment because of all the limitations. But they are evolving really fast.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)No I’m not sure on the 90 percent number. It’s a swag. I do think a lot of the kinks (including the towing, though there is a huge difference between an electrified semi and a consumer light truck) will be worked out over time.
The infrastructure issue is a real question. Then again just over a hundred years ago oil and gasoline were still delivered in cans and service stations were a glimmer in somebody’s eye. Stuff gets built.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m not familiar with that news outlet but that is a fantastical write up. All the things it asks Biden to do and so few of them that will ever be considered.
The good news on Biden is he’s slowly reinstating Trump policies…because they were good. Just don’t tell him.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6040]A big issue with electrification is storage, especially with because batteries self discharge. Good lithium ion batteries have a self discharge rate of 5% per month and that rate is continuous. As a comparison, if my gas tank holds 20 gallons, it’s like I’ve a leak in the tank that loses a gallon of gas a month. Not good.[/quote]
I didn’t know this.
Went on a hunt earlier this year where one hunter brought a brand new electric UTV. It would hardly make it through a few miles of riding when going up hills. It was really poor. Combine that with how remote our location was and that thing was basically useless.
Electric has its use case and will get better. I do not see it as a viable option for many of the use cases noted (towing being a really good example), but can see it being viable for 90 percent of drivers.
The infrastructure will be the limitation.
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