The New low (I.) Q. Republicans and Ted Cruz
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To be fair I think the Just is qualifying as recently, not minimizing it.
Also. Glenn Beck is what syphilis would be if it could walk.
Sure does stink when that happens…
She employs no common scents.
I read his t-shirt in Ty from AFTV's voice
I hope Beck is aware of the fact that sedition can be worth 20 years in prison according to the US criminal code and that the definition of sedition is what it is. Political prisoner, my ass. He should be lucky that treason charges have not been dished out yet because those could be punishable by death if one is found guilty.
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I thought that was Matt Gaetz for a second and was confused.
He gets that often.
That poor guy (Gertz, not Getz) has embraced it and for a while it was a hilarious bit on Twitter as people were coming at him strong.
Savage 
Former (Trump appointed) ambassador to Denmark revealing the horrible living conditions in our country. Finally the truth is out. Getting to and from work is like a daily polar expedition for us.
I see politics in the States is still mainly about making things up.
This brave public servant lived in Denmark for a whole bunch of months part time and talked to literally 10's of Danes. She lived in a big embassy with a private driver, just like all normal people. She is obviously more of an expert on the lives of normal Danes than you will ever be and you should shut you mouth.
This is terrible, where can I donate some money to #helpdenmark?
Will send my IBAN, and make it gets to the people in need.
Great, hopefully it will help with some skis so people can get to work safely.
Don't be ridiculous, Danish people can't ski.
If you're north of germany, I just assume you can ski from birth.
I would be offended, but the sheer number of people on crutches after week 7 unfortunately tells a clear story.
i think they're using the current crisis to reinforce the idea of rationing personal travel. to accelerate the transition from gas to electric and from personal to collective. could be giving them too much credit because it's not as if they've demonstrated proficiency in longterm planning before, but the climate crisis is coming to a head. i think the goal will be significant alteration the means of production and consumption, including travel in personal vehicles, by 2030.
I'm not big on the everything is perfect in Europe and we need to be like them train but I do find it weird republicans often point at countries like Denmark. They are the few very successful examples of socialist policies, no matter what the reasons are. There are better examples to use or misuse.
Woukd you like to buy a bridge?
Who is "they"?
it's standard economic practice and theory to use crises, real or perceived, to function in other terms. covid is a good example. there are things which will have been learned from that crisis which will be applied elsewhere.
reptiles contolling the government in UFOs mounted on pyramids sending signals to Alex Jones via David Icke. how did you not know?
(alternatively, the capitalist/political class which makes these kinds of decisions. the same people who own the means of production).
the biggest argument against it is the capitalist class itself. defined by shorttermism and irrational production. so likely wishful thinking on my part.
Read newer books.
which ones?
Anything that accurately describes modern day financial markets.
‘They’ (ignoring the fact that there is no collective they) don’t have a plan that involves us consuming less. We are economy drones and they need us to keep feeding the free market furnace.
Any suggestion that there is a force at work that’s trying to make the world better and sees people spend less on tent pole industries…. Is insane. Not happening. Ever.
The billionaires are devoid of morals and long term planning. All they want is money. Consumption is central to everything.
i know this, and it's not what i was getting at. i meant an alteration in the means of production due to necessity not because of benign capitalist dictators. the decision to phase out any kind of commodity is the exact kind of thing i mean, or the decision to impose taxes as kind of rationing device as opposed to outright banning. regulation of supply is what i'm thinking about.
which books most accurately describe modern day financial markets, though? i might be familiar with some but happy to take suggestions.
You said this;
It’s properly mental. They will not stop mining fossil fuels as the entirety of the global economy is underpinned by oil that’s still in the ground, with the future value of those reserves traded daily.
There is no ‘They’ or ‘them’. It’s us, getting trampled on, always.
You can’t honestly believe that there’s an actual plan?
there is a they. it's called the capitalist class which is properly international. there is also literature on longterm planning for the collective phase out of vehicles which run on fossil fuels. there's nothing "mental" about that, unless you take the EU's various economic agenda setting literature as "mental". the targets are all there and incentives/disincentives in the form of taxes are discussed. that's also standard green party logic.
i'm not trying to catch you out, i'm genuinely asking for literary recommendations.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22576994/european-union-gas-vehicle-ice-ban-2035-electric-cars
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/...een-new-deal.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share
You’re less than half as smart as you think you are.
The stuff you’re quoting is punctuation. None of those measures put the smallest dent in fossil fuel extraction. You don’t know what you’re talking about.