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While I agree, what daphuq does Mr. Shekelstein do when his wagies can't even buy gas or have to wait in mile long lines taking hours and cutting into his precious workday?
I lived through the gas shortage in the late 70's and unfortunately had a Field Service job that required driving all over the damn place. Then, you could only get gas on odd/even days based on your license number. It got so bad that 1/2 my day would be spent looking for an open gas station and the other 1/2 spent waiting in line to get it at an outrageous price for the times.
Good times! (NOT). And my deja vu nerve is tingling and tingling that's exactly where we'll be again in pretty short order.
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A conservative Spanish-language media network is about to launch its operations and legacy media is pissed. It is imperative they retain a vicegrip on all minorities.
‘Defcon 1 moment’: New Spanish-language conservative network fuels fresh Dem fears over disinfo, Latino outreach
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More Latino voters show signs of drifting right, and analysts warn of a new wave of disinformation ahead of elections.
MIAMI — The nation’s first Spanish-language conservative network launches Tuesday morning on satellite radio, opening a new front in the political information wars targeting Latinos in the United States and beyond.
The network, called Americano, arrives during a crucial inflection point in U.S. politics, as more Hispanic voters show signs of drifting right and Democrats continue to sound the alarm about Spanish-language right-wing disinformation on social media and local radio, particularly in Miami, which is also Americano’s home base.
It's scheduled to launch first on SiriusXM radio, then on streaming TV this summer, offering a mix of news programming and commentary. The network has close ties to former President Donald Trump's campaign, as well as to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who now represents the more moderate wing of the Republican Party. Ahead of the Tuesday broadcast, Democrats in Florida raised concerns publicly and privately that the programming would contribute to the spread of misleading claims targeted at Spanish-speakers that skyrocketed during the pandemic and the 2020 campaign.
Americano’s founder and CEO, Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo, bristled at the notion that the privately funded network is going to purvey disinformation or misinformation, and accused Democrats of trying to cancel speech they don’t like.
"They’re scared. And they should be,” Garcia-Hidalgo said of Democrats in an interview. "Democrats took Hispanics for granted for too long, and no one thought to create a home for us in conservative media. There is an appetite for this. You see it on social media. You see it in elections."
Nowhere is that more apparent in the United States than in Miami-Dade County, home to a large and dynamic population with roots throughout Latin America, and a location where Trump dramatically improved his performance between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. The former president’s support was fueled by support from exile communities of those who fled leftist regimes or violence in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Colombia.
Aside from tapping into strong anti-socialist sentiment, Trump also broadened his Latino support nationwide with an emphasis on blue-collar, pro-business and anti-Covid lockdownmessages that played better with Hispanic voters — from Florida to Philadelphia to Wisconsin to the Texas border.
Democrats, meanwhile, have attributed Trump’s gains in part to a deluge of Spanish-language disinformation in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and point out that he nevertheless lost Hispanic voters by double-digit margins nationwide. About a third of Latinos consistently vote Republican nationally.
Pollster Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based consultant who oversaw Barack Obama’s successful nationalHispanic outreach, fretted that Americano could be a success — at least politically — even if it doesn’t spread falsehoods or conspiracies.
“For those concerned about the disinformation problem harming Democrats' chances with Hispanics, this is a Defcon 1 moment. We should worry,” Amandi said. “The Democrats’ response to all of this Hispanic outreach from Republicans — whether it's disinformation or conventional campaigning — is to do the bare minimum. Unfortunately, some Democrats are deluding themselves. The ultimate act of disinformation is to pretend that this is not a big problem.”
Democratic consultant Evelyn Pérez-Verdía, who first sounded the alarm about the proliferation of Spanish-language disinformation and conspiracy theories in WhatsApp chat groups and on websites in 2020, called the launch of the network “concerning” amid what she says is a fresh wave of false or misleading information ahead of the midterm elections.
A native of Colombia, she said she fears her home country is a major source of right-wing conspiratorial social media content that ricochets across borders, fueling the rise of an international organized right.
“Is this new network going to be one more organization, one more group, that just amplifies what we see right now? That’s really concerning,” Pérez-Verdía said.
She said she sees the patterns of 2020 repeating themselves, and that it could have electoral consequences in crucial battlegrounds like Florida, Texas and Arizona this year.
“It’s intensifying. It’s getting worse because it’s getting closer to the election,” said Pérez-Verdía, who also addressed a congressional committee that traveled last month to Miami to examine the issue.
In one example of the extent of the disinformation, one Miami pundit compared Black Lives Matter to satanism. Another falsely suggested that Black Lives Matter's activists were behind the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, which was perpetrated by a mob of Trump’s supporters.
Some of the far-right Miami-area Spanish-language pundits who have come under fire from Democrats for spreading disinformation are not part of Americano's lineup of contributors, however.
"To make this work, they have to be as broad-based as possible. It can’t be what you hear on Miami Cuban radio," said one top Hispanic Republican consultant who studied the market but spoke on condition of anonymity to offer an assessment.
An estimated 41 million Spanish speakers live in the U.S., but Americano’s target audience could be about a fraction of that size or smaller, said the consultant, who estimated Americano’s target audience at 10 million potential viewers and listeners.
“The market is just too small for far-right content in order to monetize it,” the consultant said, adding that Americano will likely rely on its private investors for more than a year before hoping to turn a profit.
Considering the political trends, the seemingly growing appetite for conservative views on social media and the surge of deep-pocketed conservatives funding new media ventures, Americano is in a unique position to carve out a niche, according to Joe Peyronnin, a New York University journalism professor who was vice president of news and information programming from 1998 to 2006 at Spanish-language Telemundo, which is owned by NBC News' parent company, NBCUniversal.
“Never before has there been an opportunity for conservative media to target Spanish-language voters and listeners than now because the technology is there and there is a discomfort out there with politics in general. And whoever is behind this has a real opportunity to capitalize on this discomfort,” Peyronnin said, though he wondered about the commercial viability of the network.
“I don’t know what the play is here or how you define profitable,” he said. “Is it a financial play or an ideological play?”
Americano’s chief investment officer, Thomas Woolston, said he’s so certain of the finances that he's its top investor — though the network declined to reveal others. He made his fortune after successfully suing eBay in a $30 million lawsuitafter an appeals court ruled that the e-commerce giant infringed on Woolston's patent for his “Buy It Now” invention, which enables people to sell items and set prices online.
“When I invented online auctioning, there was nothing like it — there was no Yahoo, there was no Google — it was a completely greenfield opportunity,” said Woolston. “This is the same thing. Spanish-language conservative media is a completely open space. For the first mover, it’s going to be a real advantage.”
Americano’s chief strategy officer, former Trump campaign and White House adviser Michael Caputo, said the company “has investors, not donors.” (Caputo is not related to the author of this article.)
“I’m doing this because it’s going to be a profitable business. I could use some money after the Russia investigation,” he said, joking.
Though never charged with wrongdoing, Caputo was swept up in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election because of his past work involving Kremlin-linked Russian propaganda and his aid to the 2016 Trump campaign. This has led to a whisper campaign among Miami Democrats, who said his involvement with Americano was evidence that it would be a breeding ground for disinformation.
Caputo said Americano revolves around former President Ronald Reagan’s maxim that “Latinos are Republicans. They don’t know it.”
“Hispanics are moving toward us,” Caputo said. “They’re jumping into the Republican pond. And we’re giving them a lily pad to land on. Some will land on the Donald Trump pad. Some on Reagan. Some are for Jeb Bush.”
Joaquin Blaya, who helped build Telemundo and the Spanish-language behemoth Univision, questioned whether a Miami-based national network could broadcast effectively to Spanish-speakers of all different backgrounds. Miami is politically dominated by conservative-leaning Cuban Americans, but they’re a minority in the broader U.S. Latino population, which has far more Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, and they tend to vote more Democratic.
“The Miami market is not like any other market in the United States. Miami is a different country,” Blaya said.
Americano’s founders say they don’t have their Miami Cuban American blinders on and want to represent the full spectrum of Republican beliefs in Spanish. Garcia-Hidalgo notes that he was born in Peru and was a surrogate for Trump.
Americano’s president, Jorge Arrizurieta, is Cuban-American and is a close ally of Bush.
“In today’s word, a conservative is in the eye of the beholder. This is a home for all of them,” Arrizurieta said. “Ivan is a Trump guy. I’m a Jeb Bush conservative.”
Americano’s radio broadcast has one irony: It’s made possible partly due to minority set-asides, which conservatives often oppose.
Americano will broadcast on SiriusXM channel 153 in partnership with a company called National Latino Broadcasting, which won the rights to it and channel 152 in 2012 in an effort to ensure satellite radio had content for Hispanic listeners.
The owner of National Latino Broadcasting, Cuban American businessman Nelson Albareda, is a Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning producer who is focused more on Channel 152, “En Vivo,” which plays Latin music.
Albareda said he was never quite able to make a Spanish-language talk show work on his other channel, 153. Called “La Politica Talk,” it's had a smattering of low-performing shows and essentially rebroadcasts Radio Martí, the U.S.-funded networkaimed at an audience in Cuba created in part to undermine communist rule.
In 2016, Garcia-Hidalgo was serving as a Trump surrogate and said he saw a need for a “Rush Limbaugh in Spanish” to counteract what he saw as rampant liberal bias in Spanish-language media. Garcia-Hidalgo landed a few years later at Colombia-based NTN24 and soon had one of its top-rated TV shows, “Batalla Política,” or “Political Battle,” alongside Democrat José Aristimuño, who is joining Americano as a commentator.
Garcia-Hidalgo, who won't have a show while serving as CEO, said that experience made him realize there was not just a U.S. market for conservative Spanish-language content, there was an appetite across the hemisphere and viewers and listeners could be reached like never before via satellite radio, streaming TV and the internet.
He joined forces with Arrizurieta, Caputo and John Wagner, a former U.S. Army spokesman and Trump administration adviser who serves as Americano’s senior vice president of communications. They soon signed a partnership with Albareda’s National Latino Broadcasting.
The first Americano broadcast begins at 6 a.m. ET Tuesday with the show "Amanecer con Dios," or "Sunrise with God," a show about faith hosted by a Roman Catholic priest.
The rest of the day’s programming is more explicitly political. In all, Americano so far has 29 commentators and about 10 reporters, its founders say, and they’ll broadcast from a studio near Casino Miami, one of the region’s last jai alai arenas.
The studio is fully equipped for TV broadcasts — Queen Latifah once shot a movie there, and a host of entertainers from singer Gloria Estefan to rapper Rick Ross have used it. By next month, those involved said, Americano plans to offer its shows through its app and on podcast platforms. By August, the network hopes to stream all of its shows on video through platforms that range from Apple TV to PlayStation.
Ever mindful of the risks — and rewards — of social media de-platforming, Americano’s founders are diversifying the outlets for a reason.
“We might put some snippets on YouTube, but we’re not going to put our entire program on there because they will probably cancel us. That’s what they do,” Garcia-Hidalgo said.
Arrizurieta chimed in: “Might be good for publicity."
More Latino voters show signs of drifting right, and analysts warn of a new wave of disinformation ahead of elections.
MIAMI — The nation’s first Spanish-language conservative network launches Tuesday morning on satellite radio, opening a new front in the political information wars targeting Latinos in the United States and beyond.
The network, called Americano, arrives during a crucial inflection point in U.S. politics, as more Hispanic voters show signs of drifting right and Democrats continue to sound the alarm about Spanish-language right-wing disinformation on social media and local radio, particularly in Miami, which is also Americano’s home base.
It's scheduled to launch first on SiriusXM radio, then on streaming TV this summer, offering a mix of news programming and commentary. The network has close ties to former President Donald Trump's campaign, as well as to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who now represents the more moderate wing of the Republican Party. Ahead of the Tuesday broadcast, Democrats in Florida raised concerns publicly and privately that the programming would contribute to the spread of misleading claims targeted at Spanish-speakers that skyrocketed during the pandemic and the 2020 campaign.
Americano’s founder and CEO, Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo, bristled at the notion that the privately funded network is going to purvey disinformation or misinformation, and accused Democrats of trying to cancel speech they don’t like.
"They’re scared. And they should be,” Garcia-Hidalgo said of Democrats in an interview. "Democrats took Hispanics for granted for too long, and no one thought to create a home for us in conservative media. There is an appetite for this. You see it on social media. You see it in elections."
Nowhere is that more apparent in the United States than in Miami-Dade County, home to a large and dynamic population with roots throughout Latin America, and a location where Trump dramatically improved his performance between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. The former president’s support was fueled by support from exile communities of those who fled leftist regimes or violence in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Colombia.
Aside from tapping into strong anti-socialist sentiment, Trump also broadened his Latino support nationwide with an emphasis on blue-collar, pro-business and anti-Covid lockdownmessages that played better with Hispanic voters — from Florida to Philadelphia to Wisconsin to the Texas border.
Democrats, meanwhile, have attributed Trump’s gains in part to a deluge of Spanish-language disinformation in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and point out that he nevertheless lost Hispanic voters by double-digit margins nationwide. About a third of Latinos consistently vote Republican nationally.
Pollster Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based consultant who oversaw Barack Obama’s successful nationalHispanic outreach, fretted that Americano could be a success — at least politically — even if it doesn’t spread falsehoods or conspiracies.
“For those concerned about the disinformation problem harming Democrats' chances with Hispanics, this is a Defcon 1 moment. We should worry,” Amandi said. “The Democrats’ response to all of this Hispanic outreach from Republicans — whether it's disinformation or conventional campaigning — is to do the bare minimum. Unfortunately, some Democrats are deluding themselves. The ultimate act of disinformation is to pretend that this is not a big problem.”
Democratic consultant Evelyn Pérez-Verdía, who first sounded the alarm about the proliferation of Spanish-language disinformation and conspiracy theories in WhatsApp chat groups and on websites in 2020, called the launch of the network “concerning” amid what she says is a fresh wave of false or misleading information ahead of the midterm elections.
A native of Colombia, she said she fears her home country is a major source of right-wing conspiratorial social media content that ricochets across borders, fueling the rise of an international organized right.
“Is this new network going to be one more organization, one more group, that just amplifies what we see right now? That’s really concerning,” Pérez-Verdía said.
She said she sees the patterns of 2020 repeating themselves, and that it could have electoral consequences in crucial battlegrounds like Florida, Texas and Arizona this year.
“It’s intensifying. It’s getting worse because it’s getting closer to the election,” said Pérez-Verdía, who also addressed a congressional committee that traveled last month to Miami to examine the issue.
In one example of the extent of the disinformation, one Miami pundit compared Black Lives Matter to satanism. Another falsely suggested that Black Lives Matter's activists were behind the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, which was perpetrated by a mob of Trump’s supporters.
Some of the far-right Miami-area Spanish-language pundits who have come under fire from Democrats for spreading disinformation are not part of Americano's lineup of contributors, however.
"To make this work, they have to be as broad-based as possible. It can’t be what you hear on Miami Cuban radio," said one top Hispanic Republican consultant who studied the market but spoke on condition of anonymity to offer an assessment.
An estimated 41 million Spanish speakers live in the U.S., but Americano’s target audience could be about a fraction of that size or smaller, said the consultant, who estimated Americano’s target audience at 10 million potential viewers and listeners.
“The market is just too small for far-right content in order to monetize it,” the consultant said, adding that Americano will likely rely on its private investors for more than a year before hoping to turn a profit.
Considering the political trends, the seemingly growing appetite for conservative views on social media and the surge of deep-pocketed conservatives funding new media ventures, Americano is in a unique position to carve out a niche, according to Joe Peyronnin, a New York University journalism professor who was vice president of news and information programming from 1998 to 2006 at Spanish-language Telemundo, which is owned by NBC News' parent company, NBCUniversal.
“Never before has there been an opportunity for conservative media to target Spanish-language voters and listeners than now because the technology is there and there is a discomfort out there with politics in general. And whoever is behind this has a real opportunity to capitalize on this discomfort,” Peyronnin said, though he wondered about the commercial viability of the network.
“I don’t know what the play is here or how you define profitable,” he said. “Is it a financial play or an ideological play?”
Americano’s chief investment officer, Thomas Woolston, said he’s so certain of the finances that he's its top investor — though the network declined to reveal others. He made his fortune after successfully suing eBay in a $30 million lawsuitafter an appeals court ruled that the e-commerce giant infringed on Woolston's patent for his “Buy It Now” invention, which enables people to sell items and set prices online.
“When I invented online auctioning, there was nothing like it — there was no Yahoo, there was no Google — it was a completely greenfield opportunity,” said Woolston. “This is the same thing. Spanish-language conservative media is a completely open space. For the first mover, it’s going to be a real advantage.”
Americano’s chief strategy officer, former Trump campaign and White House adviser Michael Caputo, said the company “has investors, not donors.” (Caputo is not related to the author of this article.)
“I’m doing this because it’s going to be a profitable business. I could use some money after the Russia investigation,” he said, joking.
Though never charged with wrongdoing, Caputo was swept up in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election because of his past work involving Kremlin-linked Russian propaganda and his aid to the 2016 Trump campaign. This has led to a whisper campaign among Miami Democrats, who said his involvement with Americano was evidence that it would be a breeding ground for disinformation.
Caputo said Americano revolves around former President Ronald Reagan’s maxim that “Latinos are Republicans. They don’t know it.”
“Hispanics are moving toward us,” Caputo said. “They’re jumping into the Republican pond. And we’re giving them a lily pad to land on. Some will land on the Donald Trump pad. Some on Reagan. Some are for Jeb Bush.”
Joaquin Blaya, who helped build Telemundo and the Spanish-language behemoth Univision, questioned whether a Miami-based national network could broadcast effectively to Spanish-speakers of all different backgrounds. Miami is politically dominated by conservative-leaning Cuban Americans, but they’re a minority in the broader U.S. Latino population, which has far more Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans, and they tend to vote more Democratic.
“The Miami market is not like any other market in the United States. Miami is a different country,” Blaya said.
Americano’s founders say they don’t have their Miami Cuban American blinders on and want to represent the full spectrum of Republican beliefs in Spanish. Garcia-Hidalgo notes that he was born in Peru and was a surrogate for Trump.
Americano’s president, Jorge Arrizurieta, is Cuban-American and is a close ally of Bush.
“In today’s word, a conservative is in the eye of the beholder. This is a home for all of them,” Arrizurieta said. “Ivan is a Trump guy. I’m a Jeb Bush conservative.”
Americano’s radio broadcast has one irony: It’s made possible partly due to minority set-asides, which conservatives often oppose.
Americano will broadcast on SiriusXM channel 153 in partnership with a company called National Latino Broadcasting, which won the rights to it and channel 152 in 2012 in an effort to ensure satellite radio had content for Hispanic listeners.
The owner of National Latino Broadcasting, Cuban American businessman Nelson Albareda, is a Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning producer who is focused more on Channel 152, “En Vivo,” which plays Latin music.
Albareda said he was never quite able to make a Spanish-language talk show work on his other channel, 153. Called “La Politica Talk,” it's had a smattering of low-performing shows and essentially rebroadcasts Radio Martí, the U.S.-funded networkaimed at an audience in Cuba created in part to undermine communist rule.
In 2016, Garcia-Hidalgo was serving as a Trump surrogate and said he saw a need for a “Rush Limbaugh in Spanish” to counteract what he saw as rampant liberal bias in Spanish-language media. Garcia-Hidalgo landed a few years later at Colombia-based NTN24 and soon had one of its top-rated TV shows, “Batalla Política,” or “Political Battle,” alongside Democrat José Aristimuño, who is joining Americano as a commentator.
Garcia-Hidalgo, who won't have a show while serving as CEO, said that experience made him realize there was not just a U.S. market for conservative Spanish-language content, there was an appetite across the hemisphere and viewers and listeners could be reached like never before via satellite radio, streaming TV and the internet.
He joined forces with Arrizurieta, Caputo and John Wagner, a former U.S. Army spokesman and Trump administration adviser who serves as Americano’s senior vice president of communications. They soon signed a partnership with Albareda’s National Latino Broadcasting.
The first Americano broadcast begins at 6 a.m. ET Tuesday with the show "Amanecer con Dios," or "Sunrise with God," a show about faith hosted by a Roman Catholic priest.
The rest of the day’s programming is more explicitly political. In all, Americano so far has 29 commentators and about 10 reporters, its founders say, and they’ll broadcast from a studio near Casino Miami, one of the region’s last jai alai arenas.
The studio is fully equipped for TV broadcasts — Queen Latifah once shot a movie there, and a host of entertainers from singer Gloria Estefan to rapper Rick Ross have used it. By next month, those involved said, Americano plans to offer its shows through its app and on podcast platforms. By August, the network hopes to stream all of its shows on video through platforms that range from Apple TV to PlayStation.
Ever mindful of the risks — and rewards — of social media de-platforming, Americano’s founders are diversifying the outlets for a reason.
“We might put some snippets on YouTube, but we’re not going to put our entire program on there because they will probably cancel us. That’s what they do,” Garcia-Hidalgo said.
Arrizurieta chimed in: “Might be good for publicity."
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My response to this word, every single time from now on, "Oh, do you mean propaganda?" Disinformation just means factually incorrect. I wouldn't let someone get away with saying my point is wrong when I can demonstrate that it's correct, or is a perfectly reasonable position to hold. Why would I let them get away with a synonym for wrong called disinformation. Challenging my facts is a conversation. Just putting a label like disinformation on it shuts down discussion. Anyone who says you're engaging in disinformation is just trying to get you to accept their propaganda. Nah, you gotta prove your points.
"They're proselytizing for the wrong religion! They can't do that!"
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They're resorting to begging Venezuela for cheap crude oil now. Sure, even Fox will try to spin it as a 1000 IQ move to split Maduro's regime from Russia, but when we have the same administration begging Saudi Arabia to drill more, it's clear that he and his handlers are so shit-scared of getting scorned by some autistic vegan teenager that they'll source oil from literally anywhere else.
I love the environment. I moved to an area where we have to power-wash moss off of the sidewalk this time of year, it's so green. But damn do I fucking HATE the stranglehold environmentalists have over the Democrat party.
I love the environment. I moved to an area where we have to power-wash moss off of the sidewalk this time of year, it's so green. But damn do I fucking HATE the stranglehold environmentalists have over the Democrat party.
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They already have shown the willingness to do so, during the coof hysteria. I don't get why people here think it's so out of the realm of possibility for them to institute price controls from that alone, as well as the articles seemingly put out to test the waters on the topic a few weeks ago that apparently everyone's forgotten about.
I absolutely expect at some point in the near future for price controls to go into effect and to have exactly the predicted outcome. Bet on it.
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You should organize all of your coworkers to demand transportation pay if they're going to require you to go in to work after 2 years of proving that it isn't necessary. Tell them that otherwise, the increased expense and time burden is like taking a pay cut to do more work. Raise a stink, because you should.
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If you can rally enough coworkers to do it, back up the demand with the threat of a mass walk-out with the reasoning that you can find a job that will pay you to work from home or is at least closer with similar or equal pay. A demand with no negative consequences should the recipient decline isn't a demand, it's a request.
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I think that the environmental aspect is a false premise. IMPO, the real reason that we deemphasize domestic production is that we already control those resources totally. Meanwhile, every drop of oil that we can source from another country by way of printing out infinite money is basically us stealing it from other countries while simultaneously reinforcing the necessary myth of the USD/petrodollar as the world's reserve currency.
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@Oxous
I appreciate the fact that the beans titled their network "Americano", not "Mexican-American", not "Latino"... Literally just American in spanish, one thing i noticed minorities do is they put themselves first, ala "what can this country do for me as a black/asian/gay/chopper person?" the tacos here are putting themselves as Americans first and foremost, and that's refreshing to me
I appreciate the fact that the beans titled their network "Americano", not "Mexican-American", not "Latino"... Literally just American in spanish, one thing i noticed minorities do is they put themselves first, ala "what can this country do for me as a black/asian/gay/chopper person?" the tacos here are putting themselves as Americans first and foremost, and that's refreshing to me
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Tacos are Americans. America encompasses everything from Greenland to Chile and Argentina. They know this keenly.
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I switched to a 100% remote job about 6 years ago and moved to the ass end of nowhere. In the beginning I had to sometimes drive to the airport to go to customer sites for 1-2 weeks/month. Since this mess began I haven't had to leave the house except for the usual non-work reasons. It's glorious.
I think it's worked better for my employer too. When I had to be on-site at a customer I couldn't work for any other customers that day, now I have multiple customers in parallel so if one is blocked I can switch and work on another one transparently. (I'm a "consultant")
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This man is obviously a forceful and persuasive orator. So, no worries, guys- he’s got this!
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Really living up to those green goals, huh? After all of that virtue signaling about cLimATe eMErGenCY, he now has to sheepishly beg the saudis to boost production.
They tried to do too much to shift away from fossil fuels too fast/prematurely, and are now learning that green energy cannot, in fact, pick up the load when our needs and consumption are what they are.
Begging the saudis to produce more oil is anathema to their climate change stances, yet is somehow still preferable to restarting Keystone. Yes, restarting Keystone would do nothing to resolve the crisis in the short term, but I think the optics are what gets to them. Restarting Keystone would be a *huge* mea culpa that they were wrong, considering the autistic reeeee’ing they did against it for years- a 180 would look unbearably embarrassing, considering that we’re the ones being inconvenienced. And, as we all know, politicians can never admit to being wrong. In all likelihood, they probably think that going to the saudis like this makes them look “proactive” and totally not desperate to avoid further humiliation (that would typically come from having to do an about-face re: Keystone).
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Really living up to those green goals, huh? After all of that virtue signaling about cLimATe eMErGenCY, he now has to sheepishly beg the saudis to boost production.
They tried to do too much to shift away from fossil fuels too fast/prematurely, and are now learning that green energy cannot, in fact, pick up the load when our needs and consumption are what they are.
Begging the saudis to produce more oil is anathema to their climate change stances, yet is somehow still preferable to restarting Keystone. Yes, restarting Keystone would do nothing to resolve the crisis in the short term, but I think the optics are what gets to them. Restarting Keystone would be a *huge* mea culpa that they were wrong, considering the autistic reeeee’ing they did against it for years- a 180 would look unbearably embarrassing, considering that we’re the ones being inconvenienced. And, as we all know, politicians can never admit to being wrong. In all likelihood, they probably think that going to the saudis like this makes them look “proactive” and totally not desperate to avoid further humiliation (that would typically come from having to do an about-face re: Keystone).
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I think I have consistently read that the break point for gasoline is 5 dollars a gallon adjusted for inflation for median wage earners and below (30,000 a year or less). At that point, maintaining an automobile and commuting to work no longer makes financial sense for close to half the country. We're already there for a lot of the country.
The millionaires and billionaires can't even tell people to trade in their gas guzzler, high maintenance, high insurance cost automobiles for cheaper cars that can lower insurance costs and be more reliable and be more gas efficient. New and used automobile prices hit all time highs in America over a year ago and are now shattering records. Maybe that's by design, price the plebs out of having cars. Many people don't want plebs having cars and hate American car usage and car culture. I guess the only thing they can do is blubber about saving the planet and pitch green cars and public transport.
Edit: This made me think of another Obama administration chestnut: Cash for clunkers. The American automobile fleet is on average over 12 years old now. Think they'll spin all the hits?
The millionaires and billionaires can't even tell people to trade in their gas guzzler, high maintenance, high insurance cost automobiles for cheaper cars that can lower insurance costs and be more reliable and be more gas efficient. New and used automobile prices hit all time highs in America over a year ago and are now shattering records. Maybe that's by design, price the plebs out of having cars. Many people don't want plebs having cars and hate American car usage and car culture. I guess the only thing they can do is blubber about saving the planet and pitch green cars and public transport.
Edit: This made me think of another Obama administration chestnut: Cash for clunkers. The American automobile fleet is on average over 12 years old now. Think they'll spin all the hits?
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>pitch public transport to U.S. plebs
>public transportation commuters constituted about 5 percent of all workers in the United States in 2019
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- Jan 14, 2020
Public transport wouldn't be so bad if there was no homeless or nigger problem
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- Nov 21, 2020
The number of cities in the US where public transit is a viable option is incredibly low. Even in supposedly 'good' places like Portland, OR. You hear how their 30 minute drive would take 1.5 hours. And those cities where it works it relies on living in the exact right spot, and working in the exact right spot. I've lived in 2 places where I could bicycle to work(safely and close to the same time as driving) and 0 where I could have taken public transit in any reasonable time.
Look at a transit map of any US city, then look at a transit map of Tokyo.
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- May 18, 2014
I know it shouldn't be surprising how out of touch and callow the Biden administration is but it's still kind of shocking to see the response to apocalyptic economic calamity be "buy less and stop complaining peasant."
And these are the compassionate progressive guys? I don't think I've ever heard a Republican tell their constituents to shut up and that famine is a good thing, maybe I missed on idk.
And these are the compassionate progressive guys? I don't think I've ever heard a Republican tell their constituents to shut up and that famine is a good thing, maybe I missed on idk.
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- Aug 13, 2016
Jesus, Joe. You already pissed off BLM with your support the police spiel. The worst that'll come from restarting the Keystone Pipeline is Greta Thunberg making weird faces at you.
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- Nov 29, 2020
Not even that; she outlived her usefulness to TPTB when she grew too old for their tastes/Orange Man got kicked out of office.
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