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All going according to plan.
Biden Curbs on Power Plant Pollution Collide With Demand
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Jennifer A Dlouhy
2024-04-25 15:30:44GMT
Biden Curbs on Power Plant Pollution Collide With Demand
Bloomberg (archive.ph)
By Jennifer A Dlouhy
2024-04-25 15:30:44GMT
The Biden administration is cracking down on planet-warming pollution from the nation’s electricity sector, with mandates likely to encourage the closure of coal plants that advocates argue are vital to meet surging power demand.
The Environmental Protection Agency regulation unveiled Thursday will force the nation’s current fleet of coal plants to capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions — or close — by 2039. And it will compel similar pollution cuts for many of the new gas-fired plants built to replace them.
Overall, the measure could further drive the nation toward emission-free renewable power and hasten coal plant closures at a time when artificial intelligence, data centers and vehicle electrification are driving up demand. Consumption at US data centers alone is poised to triple from 2022 levels, to as much as 390 terawatt hours by the end of the decade, according to the Boston Consulting Group. The dynamic has prompted warnings that electric reliability is at stake.
The measure represents one of President Joe Biden’s biggest initiatives yet to counter climate change, building on earlier regulations that target greenhouse gas releases from passenger cars, heavy-duty trucks and oil infrastructure. Power plants account for about a third of US greenhouse gas emissions, and slashing them is essential to fulfill the country’s carbon-cutting pledge under the Paris Agreement.
“This is how we win the future,” White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi told reporters, adding that accelerating renewable power deployments show “why we can be ambitious moving forward.”
“The power sector today has more tools than ever before to reduce pollution and to modernize our grid,” he said.
Critics, however, cast the rule as a threat to power reliability.
“We’re already in a tough spot,” given warnings that 19 states are at risk for blackouts even under normal peak demand conditions, said Jim Matheson, chief executive officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. “It creates uncertainty about how we’re going to keep the lights on.”
The EPA’s greenhouse gas regulation is actually one of four rules being finalized Thursday that single out coal plant pollution — with the others slapping requirements on hundreds of coal ash ponds across the country and compelling reductions in wastewater, mercury and other toxic air emissions.
‘Confidently Prepare’
EPA Administrator Michael Regan told environmentalists, students and activists gathered at Howard University Thursday that the approach gives the power sector information it needs to “confidently prepare for the future” without sacrificing “affordable, reliable electricity.”
Together, the rules make clear the scale of investments required to keep operating coal-fired power plants well into the next decade. Plans have already been announced for about half of the nation’s existing coal-fired generating capacity to shutter by 2039. The new suite of rules is likely to encourage more of those closures.
The policies “rightly force the hand of all coal plants that remain: Clean up or make an exit plan,” said Julie McNamara, a deputy policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The measure is almost certain to be challenged in federal court, following previous rulings that narrowed the agency’s legal latitude. And Republicans are preparing to push for repeal on Capitol Hill, with Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia on Thursday dubbing the plan an illegal bid “to shut down the backbone of America’s electric grid through unachievable regulatory mandates.”
The regulation includes new emergency protections meant to ensure the requirements don’t throttle electricity generation when demand suddenly surges. Gas plants will be allowed to operate under less-stringent emission rates under some emergency circumstances.
The foundation of Biden’s plan is a determination that for many power plants the “best system of emission reduction” is carbon capture systems that have been available for decades but are barely in commercial use at the sites today.
The agency cited “multimillion dollar engineering evaluations of CCS technology at multiple US coal and natural gas plants” in justifying the approach. Government subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act also are feeding wider interest in deploying carbon-capture technology.
But the regulation overestimates the possible pace of carbon capture deployment, said Dan Brouillette, chief executive of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents some of the nation’s largest utilities. “CCS is not yet ready for full-scale, economy-wide deployment, nor is there sufficient time to permit, finance and build the CCS infrastructure needed for compliance by 2032,” he said.
The EPA requirements are based around expectations that carbon capture systems arrest 90% of emissions at the sites. However, power plant owners have flexibility to use other technologies to meet the new limits.
Coal plants that intend to keep operating after Jan. 1, 2039 will have to start using carbon capture systems or otherwise pare their emissions 90% by 2032. The EPA’s initial proposal would have set a more lenient closure date — 2040 — but compelled emission cuts two years earlier, in 2030.
No new emissions control requirements are mandated for coal plants that intend to close before 2032.
Carbon capture systems — or equivalent pollution reductions — are required for gas power plants that operate at least 40% of the time as of Jan. 1, 2032. But there are effectively no new restrictions on gas plants operating less than 20% of the time, which are often called on to help meet demand spikes.
All told, the requirements will force “better decisions” by grid operators, utility managers and power companies, said Meredith Hankins, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It’s trying to shift away from that default explosion of new gas and instead think about ‘Hey, maybe we should be looking at other options to generate electricity.’”
(Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP — the parent company of Bloomberg News — committed $500 million to Beyond Carbon, a campaign aimed at closing the remaining coal-fired power plants in the U.S. by 2030 and halting the development of new natural gas-fired plants. He also started a campaign to close a quarter of the world’s remaining coal plants and cancel all proposed coal plants by 2025.)
— With assistance from Mark Chediak
(Updates with comment from EPA administrator and details on repeal threat, from eighth paragraph)
The Environmental Protection Agency regulation unveiled Thursday will force the nation’s current fleet of coal plants to capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions — or close — by 2039. And it will compel similar pollution cuts for many of the new gas-fired plants built to replace them.
Overall, the measure could further drive the nation toward emission-free renewable power and hasten coal plant closures at a time when artificial intelligence, data centers and vehicle electrification are driving up demand. Consumption at US data centers alone is poised to triple from 2022 levels, to as much as 390 terawatt hours by the end of the decade, according to the Boston Consulting Group. The dynamic has prompted warnings that electric reliability is at stake.
The measure represents one of President Joe Biden’s biggest initiatives yet to counter climate change, building on earlier regulations that target greenhouse gas releases from passenger cars, heavy-duty trucks and oil infrastructure. Power plants account for about a third of US greenhouse gas emissions, and slashing them is essential to fulfill the country’s carbon-cutting pledge under the Paris Agreement.
“This is how we win the future,” White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi told reporters, adding that accelerating renewable power deployments show “why we can be ambitious moving forward.”
“The power sector today has more tools than ever before to reduce pollution and to modernize our grid,” he said.
Critics, however, cast the rule as a threat to power reliability.
“We’re already in a tough spot,” given warnings that 19 states are at risk for blackouts even under normal peak demand conditions, said Jim Matheson, chief executive officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. “It creates uncertainty about how we’re going to keep the lights on.”
The EPA’s greenhouse gas regulation is actually one of four rules being finalized Thursday that single out coal plant pollution — with the others slapping requirements on hundreds of coal ash ponds across the country and compelling reductions in wastewater, mercury and other toxic air emissions.
‘Confidently Prepare’
EPA Administrator Michael Regan told environmentalists, students and activists gathered at Howard University Thursday that the approach gives the power sector information it needs to “confidently prepare for the future” without sacrificing “affordable, reliable electricity.”
Together, the rules make clear the scale of investments required to keep operating coal-fired power plants well into the next decade. Plans have already been announced for about half of the nation’s existing coal-fired generating capacity to shutter by 2039. The new suite of rules is likely to encourage more of those closures.
The policies “rightly force the hand of all coal plants that remain: Clean up or make an exit plan,” said Julie McNamara, a deputy policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The measure is almost certain to be challenged in federal court, following previous rulings that narrowed the agency’s legal latitude. And Republicans are preparing to push for repeal on Capitol Hill, with Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia on Thursday dubbing the plan an illegal bid “to shut down the backbone of America’s electric grid through unachievable regulatory mandates.”
The regulation includes new emergency protections meant to ensure the requirements don’t throttle electricity generation when demand suddenly surges. Gas plants will be allowed to operate under less-stringent emission rates under some emergency circumstances.
The foundation of Biden’s plan is a determination that for many power plants the “best system of emission reduction” is carbon capture systems that have been available for decades but are barely in commercial use at the sites today.
The agency cited “multimillion dollar engineering evaluations of CCS technology at multiple US coal and natural gas plants” in justifying the approach. Government subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act also are feeding wider interest in deploying carbon-capture technology.
But the regulation overestimates the possible pace of carbon capture deployment, said Dan Brouillette, chief executive of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents some of the nation’s largest utilities. “CCS is not yet ready for full-scale, economy-wide deployment, nor is there sufficient time to permit, finance and build the CCS infrastructure needed for compliance by 2032,” he said.
The EPA requirements are based around expectations that carbon capture systems arrest 90% of emissions at the sites. However, power plant owners have flexibility to use other technologies to meet the new limits.
Coal plants that intend to keep operating after Jan. 1, 2039 will have to start using carbon capture systems or otherwise pare their emissions 90% by 2032. The EPA’s initial proposal would have set a more lenient closure date — 2040 — but compelled emission cuts two years earlier, in 2030.
No new emissions control requirements are mandated for coal plants that intend to close before 2032.
Carbon capture systems — or equivalent pollution reductions — are required for gas power plants that operate at least 40% of the time as of Jan. 1, 2032. But there are effectively no new restrictions on gas plants operating less than 20% of the time, which are often called on to help meet demand spikes.
All told, the requirements will force “better decisions” by grid operators, utility managers and power companies, said Meredith Hankins, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It’s trying to shift away from that default explosion of new gas and instead think about ‘Hey, maybe we should be looking at other options to generate electricity.’”
(Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP — the parent company of Bloomberg News — committed $500 million to Beyond Carbon, a campaign aimed at closing the remaining coal-fired power plants in the U.S. by 2030 and halting the development of new natural gas-fired plants. He also started a campaign to close a quarter of the world’s remaining coal plants and cancel all proposed coal plants by 2025.)
— With assistance from Mark Chediak
(Updates with comment from EPA administrator and details on repeal threat, from eighth paragraph)
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Pardon me, but wasn't emissions capping power plants struck down by the fucking supreme court in 2022?!
I repeat:
The Biden admin is the most lawless since Lincoln literally arrested the chief justice.
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Protests greet Biden at annual White House correspondents' dinner
Reuters (archive.ph)
By Jarrett Renshaw
2024-04-28 00:12:14GMT
Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests arriving for the annual White House correspondents’ dinner
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Farnoush Amiri and Ellen Knickmeyer
2024-04-28 00:03:36GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — An election-year roast of President Joe Biden before journalists, celebrities and politicians at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday butted up against growing public discord over the Israel-Hamas war, with large protests outside the event condemning both Biden’s handling of the conflict and the Western news’ media coverage of it.
In previous years, Biden, like most of his predecessors, has used the glitzy annual White House Correspondents’ Association gala to needle media coverage of his administration and jab at political rivals, notably Republican rival Donald Trump.
With hundreds of protesters rallying against the war in Gaza outside the event and concerns over the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the perils for journalists covering the conflict, the war hung over this year’s event.
“Shame on you!” protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses who were holding clutch purses, as guests and other participants hurried inside.
Chants accused U.S. journalists of undercovering the war and misrepresenting it. “Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” crowds chanted at one point.
Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia.
Ralliers cried “Free, free Palestine.” They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window.
Criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s 6-month-old military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel. Counterprotests back Israel’s offensive and complain of antisemitism.
Biden’s speech before an expected crowd of nearly 3,000 people was being followed by entertainer Colin Jost from “Saturday Night Live.”
There will also likely be a spotlight on the many journalists detained and otherwise persecuted around the globe for doing their jobs, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia since March 2023.
Law enforcement, including the Secret Service, have instituted extra street closures and other measures to ensure what Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said would be the “highest levels of safety and security for attendees.”
The agency was working with Washington police to protect demonstrators’ right to assemble, Guglielmi said. However, “we will remain intolerant to any violent or destructive behavior.”
Protest organizers said they wanted to bring attention to the high numbers of Palestinian and other Arab journalists killed by Israel’s military since the war began in October.
More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether.
“The toll exacted on us for merely fulfilling our journalistic duties is staggering,” the letter states. “We are subjected to detentions, interrogations, and torture by the Israeli military, all for the ‘crime’ of journalistic integrity.”
One organizer complained that the White House Correspondents’ Association — which represents the hundreds of journalists who cover the president — largely has been silent since the first weeks of the war about the killings of Palestinian journalists. WHCA did not respond to request for comment.
According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants.
“Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price— their lives—to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement.
Sandra Tamari, executive director of Adalah Justice Project, a U.S.-based Palestinian advocacy group that helped organize the letter from journalists in Gaza, said “it is shameful for the media to dine and laugh with President Biden while he enables the Israeli devastation and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.”
In addition, Adalah Justice Project started an email campaign targeting 12 media executives at various news outlets — including The Associated Press — expected to attend the dinner who previously signed onto a letter calling for the protection of journalists in Gaza.
“How can you still go when your colleagues in Gaza asked you not to?” a demonstrator asked guests heading in. “You are complicit.”
Reuters (archive.ph)
By Jarrett Renshaw
2024-04-28 00:12:14GMT
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will give an election-year roast on Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner against the backdrop of protests against his support for Israel's war against Hamas.
Demonstrators holding banners chanted about journalist deaths in Gaza outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the annual gathering. Hundreds of protesters encouraged journalists to boycott the event and shouted down administration officials as they entered.
Biden avoided the large protests at the front of the hotel by arriving through a back entrance, where he was greeted by smaller groups of protesters calling for a ceasefire.
At the century-old event, often referred to as Washington's "nerd prom," hundreds of journalists, politicians and celebrities rub elbows in a massive hotel banquet hall. It often features friendly jabs from the president in a closing speech that takes aim at reporters and other guests in the audience. This year it will be hosted by Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost.
Grassroots movement CODEPINK marched to the venue from a nearby park, arguing that "the United States media perpetuates anti-Palestinian narratives and ignores Israeli war crimes," it wrote on its website.
A growing movement against the war in Gaza has dogged Biden this year including at a $250-per-ticket March fundraiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall, which was disrupted by protesters.
Recently, that movement has expanded to college campuses in the U.S., signifying a growing revolt inside the Democratic base that Biden needs to defeat Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump.
Kelly O'Donnell, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, declined to comment on security measures for the dinner.
"The safety and security of our protectees is the U.S. Secret Service's top priority," said U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Alexi Worley, who declined to comment further.
Israel's six-month old war against Hamas in Gaza, in response to the Oct. 7 attack by the militant group in southern Israel, has killed more than 34,000 people, Palestinian health authorities say, and caused a humanitarian disaster for the enclave's more than 2 million inhabitants.
The Hamas attack killed 1,200 people in Israel, and led to 253 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
The White House Correspondents Association was founded in 1914 and has held a dinner nearly every year since 1921 to celebrate the reporters who cover the presidency and raise money for scholarships.
Demonstrators holding banners chanted about journalist deaths in Gaza outside the Washington Hilton, the site of the annual gathering. Hundreds of protesters encouraged journalists to boycott the event and shouted down administration officials as they entered.
Biden avoided the large protests at the front of the hotel by arriving through a back entrance, where he was greeted by smaller groups of protesters calling for a ceasefire.
At the century-old event, often referred to as Washington's "nerd prom," hundreds of journalists, politicians and celebrities rub elbows in a massive hotel banquet hall. It often features friendly jabs from the president in a closing speech that takes aim at reporters and other guests in the audience. This year it will be hosted by Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost.
Grassroots movement CODEPINK marched to the venue from a nearby park, arguing that "the United States media perpetuates anti-Palestinian narratives and ignores Israeli war crimes," it wrote on its website.
A growing movement against the war in Gaza has dogged Biden this year including at a $250-per-ticket March fundraiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall, which was disrupted by protesters.
Recently, that movement has expanded to college campuses in the U.S., signifying a growing revolt inside the Democratic base that Biden needs to defeat Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump.
Kelly O'Donnell, president of the White House Correspondents' Association, declined to comment on security measures for the dinner.
"The safety and security of our protectees is the U.S. Secret Service's top priority," said U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Alexi Worley, who declined to comment further.
Israel's six-month old war against Hamas in Gaza, in response to the Oct. 7 attack by the militant group in southern Israel, has killed more than 34,000 people, Palestinian health authorities say, and caused a humanitarian disaster for the enclave's more than 2 million inhabitants.
The Hamas attack killed 1,200 people in Israel, and led to 253 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
The White House Correspondents Association was founded in 1914 and has held a dinner nearly every year since 1921 to celebrate the reporters who cover the presidency and raise money for scholarships.
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Farnoush Amiri and Ellen Knickmeyer
2024-04-28 00:03:36GMT
In previous years, Biden, like most of his predecessors, has used the glitzy annual White House Correspondents’ Association gala to needle media coverage of his administration and jab at political rivals, notably Republican rival Donald Trump.
With hundreds of protesters rallying against the war in Gaza outside the event and concerns over the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the perils for journalists covering the conflict, the war hung over this year’s event.
“Shame on you!” protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses who were holding clutch purses, as guests and other participants hurried inside.
Chants accused U.S. journalists of undercovering the war and misrepresenting it. “Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” crowds chanted at one point.
Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia.
Ralliers cried “Free, free Palestine.” They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window.
Criticism of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s 6-month-old military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel. Counterprotests back Israel’s offensive and complain of antisemitism.
Biden’s speech before an expected crowd of nearly 3,000 people was being followed by entertainer Colin Jost from “Saturday Night Live.”
There will also likely be a spotlight on the many journalists detained and otherwise persecuted around the globe for doing their jobs, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia since March 2023.
Law enforcement, including the Secret Service, have instituted extra street closures and other measures to ensure what Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said would be the “highest levels of safety and security for attendees.”
The agency was working with Washington police to protect demonstrators’ right to assemble, Guglielmi said. However, “we will remain intolerant to any violent or destructive behavior.”
Protest organizers said they wanted to bring attention to the high numbers of Palestinian and other Arab journalists killed by Israel’s military since the war began in October.
More than two dozen journalists in Gaza wrote a letter last week calling on their colleagues in Washington to boycott the dinner altogether.
“The toll exacted on us for merely fulfilling our journalistic duties is staggering,” the letter states. “We are subjected to detentions, interrogations, and torture by the Israeli military, all for the ‘crime’ of journalistic integrity.”
One organizer complained that the White House Correspondents’ Association — which represents the hundreds of journalists who cover the president — largely has been silent since the first weeks of the war about the killings of Palestinian journalists. WHCA did not respond to request for comment.
According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants.
“Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price— their lives—to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement.
Sandra Tamari, executive director of Adalah Justice Project, a U.S.-based Palestinian advocacy group that helped organize the letter from journalists in Gaza, said “it is shameful for the media to dine and laugh with President Biden while he enables the Israeli devastation and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.”
In addition, Adalah Justice Project started an email campaign targeting 12 media executives at various news outlets — including The Associated Press — expected to attend the dinner who previously signed onto a letter calling for the protection of journalists in Gaza.
“How can you still go when your colleagues in Gaza asked you not to?” a demonstrator asked guests heading in. “You are complicit.”
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I have a feeling Iran in proxy with the Palestinians or whatever other enemies we got are going to attempt to overthrow the United States probably within my life time. Unless of course we realize that most people's hearts that are bleeding are making the floors slick and treacherous to walk on for everyone else; except for the people who were born into a world with only bloody floors.
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The US has already been overthrown.
Starting at about 1 am election night impossible levels of ballot stuffing happened. (the odds had a denominator with over 500 zeroes)
Then machine judges refused to enforce election laws.
Finally, when people showed up in the 10's of thousands 30,000 troops were marched in to crush them and "install" our current dictator.
We now have regular show trials, executions of dissidents in their homes, and thousands of people in prison without trial at all. Sorry to tell you but the republic is fucking over, has been for nearly 4 years, and we're now trying to get it back.
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I don't even know who to blame for this debacle anymore. Freedom of speech is just an idea while our country is imploding itself. I propose a solution that whoever is adamant for either war, give them a one way ticket there so they can fight the good fight.Less economic opportunities possible than in previous years or the increased regulation making it hard to start a business.
Does Jesus even want to meet Zionist Christians after seeing how much of a rotten egg all of them are.
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That’s not going to happen. The best they can hope for is that sanctions on Iran just get ignored, which is what is increasingly happening anyway. Seems like Russia and China ignore them and as their power grows, other nations will stop giving a fuck. America will just be increasingly incapable of being the world’s policeman, which is good for everyone, except for Israel, which once again is good for everyone. Sanctions are retarded in general and are becoming increasingly ineffective. Its effectiveness peaked during the Food for Oil program in the 90s. It’s a dead and gay policy that doesn’t work in current year plus nine and pisses people off in a world that is no longer unipolar.
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It never even has worked before that.
Cuba and Best Korea.
Sure a lot of cuckolds will say that they are shitholes that all these mud hordes at the Southern Border will never run to. But that wasn't the goal of the sanctions.
It was to destroy them and turn them into 4th world shitholes by trying to get the average pleb desperate enough to riot and do a revolution to overthrow the communists or hope that it collapsed on itself.
And it never happened, both nations are still alive right now.
Same with Saddam's Iraq, where he would have kept on being in power if it wasn't for Dubya trying to get kill him lol.
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How will talk radio hosts, who say they value free speech, explain why Israel cannot be criticized?
This question is likely rhetorical since they will either not allow any callers asking them that or dance around it and give a non-answer.
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Left right middle doesn't matter. They all go the same schools eat at the same places and work for the same corporations. It's the party of one and your not invited
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mostly they focus on more specifically violent threats and actions on the campuses, also specifically citing Hamas as opposed to Gaza or whatever
but there's a lot more people asking
Romulus augustulus
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what is defeatist? believing the doomsday stuff or not believing it? for some reason your sentence is throwing me for a loop.
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Generally, I find I agree the dog needed to be put down but find how she phrased it to be utter trash. Writing how you were glad to put down a dog because you hated it just is terrible optics even if the dog needed putting down. And this dog did, it was clearly very aggressive and was actively attacking both other farm animals and its owner. It was one bite to anyone but her from being put down anyway. Yet... she could not have had a worse way to frame it than what she did.
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I don't think I've ever seen a sentence better summarising US politics.
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They need to be the controlled opposition and the checks still cash, so fuck the voterbase.
And they are fucking salivating at the opportunity to go down on that circumsized cock.
The captain of the Washington Generals didn't get his position because he did what his team's fans want.
In the day of AI? My friend, that era is about to go into overdrive.
(You quoted the wrong section, but no prob.)
It's still a question those politicians need to be asked all the time when they run into the people that vote them into office.
Believing in the doomsday shit to the point that they have to unthinkingly worship Israel. It comes across to me that they think the only way they can change shit here is to allow Israel and jews in general to use them as snack tray holders.
Israel had many chances and it fucking failed. That's the whole point of the New Testament. Continuing to worship jews as the priests above priests is the main thing that makes Christianity so fucking unappealing because it shows such a lack of initiative to actually change things for the better.
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Our taxes just went up due to our school system having their hand out; this on top of an increased county sales tax imposed, then the county supervisors turned around and decided they needed a raise. Our assessment went up over 100 percent last year and now it's increased by $17K.
I don't get the philosophy of property taxes anyway - what other asset does one purchase that is taxed yearly in perpetuity? It also guarantees that you never own that asset outright, you will always be on the hook for that payment and your asset can be seized for non-compliance. How do you truly own your own home in this system?
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I'm going to be skeptical that she correctly judged Fido to be incorrigible and thus needing execution because her judgment in other areas is pretty sus. She doesn't control political issues, she lets them control her. She doesn't lead politically, she follows. She isn't deft in presentation, she's pretty clumsy. Etc. These are all issues of judgment in how she comports herself and acts in general
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JFC, Bitch has a reptilian mind and is incapable of realizing that telling a story of putting a dangerous working dog down with glee is a shit idea. She had a woman moment. Is there nothing else going on? Just the heccin pupperino.
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2024 Election prediction: With the massive number of suspicious voter registrations happening in TX and FL means that on election night will start with a lead for Trump from the red counties reporting in, and then at 4am the blue counties will find enough votes to flip. GOP in both states are of course doing nothing to prevent this obvious play, or actively sabotaging any reforms.
The swing states won't even matter, which is why they are the focus for cuckservatives in on the steal.
Looking forward to the courts looking the other way just like last time. Repeat after me: no standing! Not enough cheating to matter! and other bullshit.
I wonder how the right will react when it becomes apparent that they will never control the white house again? Will be interesting times for sure.
The swing states won't even matter, which is why they are the focus for cuckservatives in on the steal.
Looking forward to the courts looking the other way just like last time. Repeat after me: no standing! Not enough cheating to matter! and other bullshit.
I wonder how the right will react when it becomes apparent that they will never control the white house again? Will be interesting times for sure.
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Not really. Other than the Net Neutrality stuff and other ongoing shit.
Go figure that slow news days hit A&N the same way they do the outlets linked here: stories about animals and references to kooky shit like aliens or reptilians.
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