Enigma noted that he couldn't have w conversation with anyone who had preconceived notions presumably about Biden and his mental state, then detailed his preconceived notions about Trump. I pointed that out, and you said your notions were die to observing Trump behavior. Then I replied that Zen and others' notions on Biden's mental health were also formed from observation.
Oh OK. Well I guess you can make that point to enigma.
I am ignoring GT because he is a fucking piece of shit and I don't want to violate nyc's call for decorum any more than is absolutely necessary. So I won't be responding to him.
Yes LNG can be sold on the spot market but not without a permit. And no one is going to spend 15 billion dollars on a plant for the spot market. The technology to make LNG from NG is fairly new driven by the shale revolution. It is certainly not a declining industry but growing at around 8% per year for several years now. LNG saved Europe when Russian gas was stopped. Some of the US plants are partial financed by Japan and South Korea because of their growing needs to offset coal consumption, a good thing. The IEA expect LNG capacity to increase 50% in the next 5 years. These plants are already built anyway, are legal and should be permitted.
It is 100% about bias and ethics. Are you saying you prefer effectiveness over ethics and non bias? Because effectiveness without non bias and ethics would kill democracy and should be feared as we do nuclear weapons.
Would the new candidate have been hand picked as well or was any thought of having a democratic process going to be considered
I don't think lawtig's point was that bias and ethics don't matter (though having ethics is much more important than not having bias, which is functionally impossible anyway), but that there is a non-partisan problem with journalistic quality that is independent of any concerns about bias or ethics (which I agree with).
Oh so NOW we found something you think puts the republic at risk?
That is so not the point.By the way, here's the EO Johnson was talking about, which you can pretty clearly see does not pause LNG exports to Europe:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Temporary Pause on Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports | The White House
President Biden has been clear that climate change is the existential threat of our time – and we must act with the urgency it demands to protect thewww.whitehouse.gov
The US was still easily able to meet Europe's LNG demands, and in fact European demand for LNG fell in 2024, causing us to have to expoert some of our supply elsewhere:
Upvote for absolutely necessary violations of decorum...
Do you know what the spot market is? Every time you fill up your tank, you're buying on the spot market. Last I checked, the economic investment in servicing the gasoline spot market is well in excess of 1T USD. So when you say "no one is going to spend 15 billion dollars on a plant for the spot market," you're just being silly.
Everything from the GOP is a lie. If someone had told me that story, I might have believed it. The minute I saw it came from Mike Johnson, I knew it was a lie.
Yes, I think that's specifically the problem lawtig is talking about - the major journalistic institutions are too afraid to call a lie a lie, among other things. That's not entirely their fault - they have been the target of a relentless, decades-long campaign to undermine the media by calling them biased and making it harder for them to do their job. Media organizations have struggled to deal with that environment - look to how so many botched and have now abandoned the concept of "fact checking" - but the deck has absolutely been stacked against them by people whose explicit goal was to undermine the media and its ability to be a check on power.
You know, you can keep clinging to that narrative since the pubs told you too, but at the point that Biden stepped down it wasn't logistically possible to go through a normal vetting period.
Yes, all of that, but the difference I’m seeing now is that it’s not just about the media being afraid to call a lie a lie. Now, the media is not even doing the work to identify the lies. Or, in the case of Trump’s TikTok EO, whether it’s even legally possible for him to do what he was promising to do. I suspect it’s the pace at which information is coming out and the dramatic shrinking of the resources the media has to examine it. But whatever the cause, it means we’re not hearing the most basic, important parts of stories from the traditional media, which is like throwing fertilizer on the GOP’s disinformation farm.
That might be correct in general. I'm not sure the Tiktok EO is the best example. I mean, does anyone understand it? TikTok is still operating. How? Why? Do we even know? Is Oracle helping them? Are they hosting data outside the US? What does it mean if Trump says he won't enforce the act?
I agree. But even if they don’t have the answers, it seems like identifying those questions shouldn’t be too hard for them. The law makes it clear the deadline can no longer be extended and massive fines should be accruing. Instead, TikTok is still operating on a promise by Trump that he can’t legally keep. Why is that not being reported? Why are we just hearing that Trump bought another 90 days so he can try to negotiate a deal with China? That’s just flat out bad information.
Also, where the hell is big-talking Tom Cotton now that Trump appears to have publicly depantsed him?