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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert,

The environmental benefits of electric cars are favorable even after mining and processing the materials for EV batteries, such as lithium and cobalt, the impacts are generally considered to be less than with the extraction and refining of fossil fuels. This assumes that the power companies burn less and less…

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It’s just sweet when people vote with their wallets. Trump has been trash-talking electric cars for years, so this Musk/Trump “partnership” is bullshit from the beginning. It will be even more fun as these aluminum framed/steel skinned “bulletproof”, cyber-“trucks” begin to fatigue. Well, not really bullet proof either. I inherited a few WW2…[Read more]

One thing is true time and time again. Modern corporations and their CEOs have short term financial goals. They measure themselves by the quarter. Exhibit A, The “self-regulating” Boeing Company. Look at the tabaco industry or opioid manufacturers if want to know their true nature. Environment be dammed. When governments are weak this is always…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Are you trying to out-Strawman Unseen? Reducing taxes and untaxing everyone and reducing government spending across the board isn’t “Trickle-Down” or “Trickle- Up,” but a Big Splash. And wouldn’t people of all classes be more resilient against disasters with more of their own earnings in their pocket?

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, A government that kept to Constitutional bounds wouldn’t be worth billionaires buying it off because attempting to buy off such a government would be self-defeating for anyone wanting to accumulate wealth. By the way, accumulating wealth is how the poor stop being poor.

Happy with your trickle-down, are you? I’d b…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Fellow Unbelievers, Wokeism, Antisemitism/Antizionism, and Pseudoscience all at taxpayer expense. And it was all on Biden’s, Obama’s, and Bush’s watches. No big loss if this dies. A Columbia Professor Marched for Hamas—and Received Millions in Public Funding Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million…

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I think the three pillars that made America into the greatest democratic powerhouse ever: (a) strong, dominating military and alliances that promote (b) global trade and (c) the encouragement of trustworthy democratic elections throughout the world.

This established the US dollar as the world’s standard currency and all the advantages that…[Read more]

Hmm, let’s see. Here is the playbook.
Step 1) Destroy the ability of the Social Security Administration and Medicare to function effectively.
Step 2) Point to this as a reason to end it. My hero!

I can’t think of any Mexican immigrants that threaten me. I can think of a South African immigrant who is actively trying to destroy my retirement…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
Robert, colour me shocked. You mean you don’t want to dance with me after all?

Oh, by all means, let’s dance if that song is on.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unapologetic, Some clever answers, but I would go further and take on the premises behind the questions. For instance, why is the efficacy of reason to be questioned and not faith? Why does the Natural Universe need creation instead of having always existed? Can’t any prophesy be said to be true if stated vaguely e…

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Strega wrote:
Well thanks Reg, sorry I was late to the party 🙂

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco. This ain’t no fooling around.

Enco, speaking of food, I asked my waiter how they prepared the chicken here and he said “we flat out just tell ’em they are gonna die”.

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PopeBeanie wrote:
I do wonder if SCOTUS might possibly evolve a change of heart about Trump & Company?

Justice Barrett seems clearly to be signaling that nobody bought her vote.

What…endanger their dismal record of being the most unconstitutional, ass-kissing, political, gift grabbing, SCOTUS in history. Jim Crow has nothing on…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@strega, I agree with you on ‘Fracture’. It has a clever plot with a decent twist to it. He is one of those actors you are compelled to focus on, whatever his role in any specific scene is, even when he is silent.

Yeah, that was a good one. Kinda like a modern, upscale “Colombo” episode.

Bernie is my favorite politician right now. Wants to tax the wealthy more and redistribute. Well, we been going the other way for decades, so we can use more of that. Now Trump and Musk are aiming to finish the job. The super greedy top 5% have 2/3rds of the stack and are growing it every day.

Unseen wrote:
The U.S. is more vulnerable than Trump and his advisors seem to believe. He instituted tariffs supposedly to benefit American workers and the auto industry. In response, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum shows that Mexico actually holds American auto workers’ jobs in her hand. Trump apparently didn’t notice that the Ameri…

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jakelafort wrote:
Incredible actor.

Yes, I agree with you guys…a favorite..

jakelafort wrote:
I started to read adult books at age 6. Just like Reg with 10k steps daily i stepped through at least an hour of reading each night. When i was into a book i would read all day on no school days. Even in college i was always reading. Going to law school is what screwed me up. Felt guilty if i was not reading law. Never got back…

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I’ll say one thing, if Trump’s ultimate goal was to get Western Europe to begin handling more of their own military defense and “ante up” on spending, it is working. This idea that he may be just faking his love affair with Putin to achieve this goal would indicate that he is a very clever man, indeed. LOL !