CURRENT EVENTS July 31-Sept 27

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lawtig02 said:
Trump, in his wholly ineffective way, has called for more nuclear energy -- Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

The problem is that regulation is not the impediment. It's cost and risk. There's nothing we can do to bring down cost. New nuclear plants are outrageously expensive, especially when compared with wind, solar, hydro, etc. And while we could reduce risk for the energy companies in theory, it's 98% Pubs who are preventing that from happening. The Bernie wing also doesn't want it to happen, but that's a small sliver of the opposition.
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Maybe offering incentives and updated regulations for nuclear plants is something the Dems can offer as a bill instead of just being 100% anti Trump all the time. It seems to me that this could be a bipartisan issue. No one seems to be addressing the fact that we're going to need exponentially more energy in the immediate future as we transition to a world of AI, EVs and Crypto - all which need TONS of energy. Sure, solar is fine as part of the solution but it's not the answer to our upcoming demand.

Nuclear is the only way forward (fusion may be an answer but its years away) if you want clean energy. We need to start now. Trump's on board so come up with some ideas and make a deal with him.
 
Ramrouser said:
My point is (and you know it) is that the Dem Mayors are not inviting in, or partnering with, the Federal Government to address big city crime - something Scarborough and Axelrod have supported. Instead, they lazily fall back on their "Resistance" approach to Trump. Plus, it looks like Mayor Bowser wants the Guard to stay past 30 days since she acknowledges the Feds have been a tremendous help. The others should take her lead.
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1. Bowser is great. She's also essentially a federal employee. DC has no correlation to the rest of the nation.

2. Dem mayors, by your standard, have been exceptionally effective at reducing violent crime over the last few years. You've been asked to do this multiple times now, so I don't have any hope you'll do it now, but if you look at violent crime rates per capita, you'll see an exceptionally red trend.

3. You have yet to address the legality of what Trump is doing with the NG. I don't dispute Trump has a lot of latitude in DC. You seem to think Trump won't deploy the NG in other cities. If he does, are you ready to join the resistance? If not, then you might as well STFU right now.
 
Ramrouser said:
Maybe offering incentives and updated regulations for nuclear plants is something the Dems can offer as a bill instead of just being 100% anti Trump all the time. It seems to me that this could be a bipartisan issue. No one seems to be addressing the fact that we're going to need exponentially more energy in the immediate future as we transition to a world of AI, EVs and Crypto - all which need TONS of energy. Sure, solar is fine as part of the solution but it's not the answer to our upcoming demand.

Nuclear is the only way forward (fusion may be an answer but its years away) if you want clean energy. We need to start now. Trump's on board so come up with some ideas and make a deal with him.
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You are so fucking ignorant.

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ADVANCE Act - Wikipedia

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Ramrouser said:
My point is (and you know it) is that the Dem Mayors are not inviting in, or partnering with, the Federal Government to address big city crime - something Scarborough and Axelrod have supported. Instead, they lazily fall back on their "Resistance" approach to Trump. Plus, it looks like Mayor Bowser wants the Guard to stay past 30 days since she acknowledges the Feds have been a tremendous help. The others should take her lead.
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What the fuck are you talking about? Dem mayors have been asking the federal government to address big city crime for decades. It is YOUR SIDE that always thwarts the requests. Because until the last month or so, you didn't give a fuck about American cities. You still don't, but Trump is pretending to and thus you follow. Anyway, the money doesn't flow where it is needed. Cities get the shaft. Just like California has to pay more to the federal government than it receives -- much more! -- so too with cities. They are the economic engines, and you rural or suburban folk just mooch off them.

True story: after 9/11, when the federal government was distributing anti-terrorism money, Wyoming got more than New York City. In fact, Wyoming got more than any American city. Charlotte got more than NYC, IIRC.

If you are saying that mayors should have been asking for the military, I don't know what to say other than your head is further up the Nazi ass than I had previously thought.

And again, why hasn't Louisiana deployed the national guard to Shreveport? Why are you blaming Dem mayors when the real hellholes are in red states?
 
Ramrouser said:
Nuclear is the only way forward (fusion may be an answer but its years away) if you want clean energy. We need to start now. Trump's on board so come up with some ideas and make a deal with him.
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What the fuck are you talking about? Trump is literally cancelling wind power everywhere. He has asked HHS to "study" whether wind power causes dangerous EM fields (it doesn't). He is talking about offshore wind as creating security vulnerabilities, and specifically to underwater drones (risible).

The GOP does not have a pro-energy agenda. It has a pro-fossil fuel agenda, which is just outright stupid. I cannot emphasize enough: coal is not utility positive. Every ton of coal we mine makes us poorer, because the negative effects -- i.e. deaths, disease, pollution -- are worth more than the energy. Does that stop your idiot guy from crowing about clean beautiful coal? Of course not. Because you don't have an agenda outside of Trump's whims.
 
lawtig02 said:
1. Bowser is great. She's also essentially a federal employee. DC has no correlation to the rest of the nation.

2. Dem mayors, by your standard, have been exceptionally effective at reducing violent crime over the last few years. You've been asked to do this multiple times now, so I don't have any hope you'll do it now, but if you look at violent crime rates per capita, you'll see an exceptionally red trend.

3. You have yet to address the legality of what Trump is doing with the NG. I don't dispute Trump has a lot of latitude in DC. You seem to think Trump won't deploy the NG in other cities. If he does, are you ready to join the resistance? If not, then you might as well STFU right now.
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I don't trust the Mayors' crime data. Whistleblowers, for example, have reported DC was grossly underreporting crimes. The "people" tend to agree as no one thinks crime in under control in most big cities. Plus, even if you accept the data, crime is coming down from the unprecedented heights it reached during COVID/Floyd. So, congratulations for that.

If Trump sends in NG it would be litigated as to whether his actions meet one of the exceptions to the PCA: (a) state's request (unlikely, given the political environment); (b) rioting and insurrections; (c) to enforce federal law; (d) to protect civil rights when states are unable/unwilling to do so.
So, it doesn't really matter what I think since the courts (likely SC) will decide whether his actions are legal and constitutional.

I still don't think Trump pulls the trigger. The success of the DC operation, together with Mayor Bowser's cooperation and acknowledgment of success, is placing pressure on Johnson - particularly with the Labor Day shootings.
 
lawtig02 said:
I have no idea how we move forward when Republicans are so incredibly ignorant about what is happening in our world.
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Check out my game theory thread. If you don't like my proposed remedy, that's fine, but there will be no progress until there are consequences to the idiots for their idiocy. Maybe we don't have to de-state. Maybe we can just defund.
 
superrific said:
What the fuck are you talking about? Trump is literally cancelling wind power everywhere. He has asked HHS to "study" whether wind power causes dangerous EM fields (it doesn't). He is talking about offshore wind as creating security vulnerabilities, and specifically to underwater drones (risible).

The GOP does not have a pro-energy agenda. It has a pro-fossil fuel agenda, which is just outright stupid. I cannot emphasize enough: coal is not utility positive. Every ton of coal we mine makes us poorer, because the negative effects -- i.e. deaths, disease, pollution -- are worth more than the energy. Does that stop your idiot guy from crowing about clean beautiful coal? Of course not. Because you don't have an agenda outside of Trump's whims.
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I never mentioned wind. I agree with Trump that it's not a viable energy option. Plus, it's a niche solution. Solar has value in certain parts of the country.

I literally just posted that we need to reach a bipartisan agreement on moving forward with nuclear (so as to transition away from coal).
 
Ramrouser said:
I don't trust the Mayors' crime data. Whistleblowers, for example, have reported DC was grossly underreporting crimes. The "people" tend to agree as no one thinks crime in under control in most big cities. Plus, even if you accept the data, crime is coming down from the unprecedented heights it reached during COVID/Floyd. So, congratulations for that.

If Trump sends in NG it would be litigated as to whether his actions meet one of the exceptions to the PCA: (a) state's request (unlikely, given the political environment); (b) rioting and insurrections; (c) to enforce federal law; (d) to protect civil rights when states are unable/unwilling to do so.
So, it doesn't really matter what I think since the courts (likely SC) will decide whether his actions are legal and constitutional.

I still don't think Trump pulls the trigger. The success of the DC operation, together with Mayor Bowser's cooperation and acknowledgment of success, is placing pressure on Johnson - particularly with the Labor Day shootings.
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"I don't trust the Mayors' crime data."

I believe that. Facts are irrelevant.

"no one thinks crime in under control in most big cities"

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"I still don't think Trump pulls the trigger."

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Ramrouser said:
I don't trust the Mayors' crime data. Whistleblowers, for example, have reported DC was grossly underreporting crimes. The "people" tend to agree as no one thinks crime in under control in most big cities. Plus, even if you accept the data, crime is coming down from the unprecedented heights it reached during COVID/Floyd. So, congratulations for that.

If Trump sends in NG it would be litigated as to whether his actions meet one of the exceptions to the PCA: (a) state's request (unlikely, given the political environment); (b) rioting and insurrections; (c) to enforce federal law; (d) to protect civil rights when states are unable/unwilling to do so.
So, it doesn't really matter what I think since the courts (likely SC) will decide whether his actions are legal and constitutional.

I still don't think Trump pulls the trigger. The success of the DC operation, together with Mayor Bowser's cooperation and acknowledgment of success, is placing pressure on Johnson - particularly with the Labor Day shootings.
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1. No, whistleblowers have not reported anything of the sort. Since I researched the claim, I know. I found evidence of one whistleblower. Her allegation was that thefts under $25 were being charged as lower misdemeanors. That's all.

2. Crime has been coming down for 35 years. It peaked in the early 90s. It has been coming down ever since. Why are you so ignorant of basic facts? It would take you 15 seconds to google that.

3. Sigh. There is no exception to the PCA to "enforce federal law." To the contrary: preventing this is the whole point of the PCA. How can you continue to spout such bullshit? There is also no authority to "protect civil rights" as a free floating measure. There are specific conditions placed on that power.
 
Ramrouser said:
I never mentioned wind. I agree with Trump that it's not a viable energy option. Plus, it's a niche solution. Solar has value in certain parts of the country.

I literally just posted that we need to reach a bipartisan agreement on moving forward with nuclear (so as to transition away from coal).
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You are such a fucking idiot, it's unreal. Wind is the second most widely deployed renewable energy system in the whole world. Why don't you talk to Iowa and Kansas, both of which get over half their electricity from wind. I guess Kansas is right about at 50% but Iowa gets almost 60%.

Wind is the lowest cost energy solution out there:

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Ramrouser said:
I wasn't aware of the Advance Act so thanks for posting. It hasn't received a lot of publicity.
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You have all of human knowledge available to you with a few strokes of the keyboard, and yet you make these excuses. If you had taken 30 seconds to google, you would have found this.

This post is an admission of what everyone says about you.
 
Ramrouser said:
The "people" tend to agree as no one thinks crime in under control in most big cities.
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Except for the people who live in those big cities. We have lots of people on this board who either live or lived in NYC. None of us think that crime is out of control there. Not one, to my knowledge at least.
 
nycfan said:
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Yea, 98% of mass shootings committed by white men and it's too soon to talk about it. 1 is committed by a trans person and all trans people are unstable and none of them should own a gun... makes no sense.

Add white men into the list of those who can't buy or own a gun and I'm sure the results would be better.

Did Zenmode propose this?
 
Ramrouser said:
I wasn't aware of the Advance Act so thanks for posting. It hasn't received a lot of publicity.
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Will you PLEASE, for the love of God, consider the possibility that Dems are trying EVERY DAY to enact laws that you think are reasonable, and the ONLY reason they're not being enacted is because of Mike Johnson and the legislators you voted for, who, for whatever reason, think we should remain locked in the Stone Age.

PLEASE!!! WAKE UP!!! You people are being deceived every single day.
 
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