Benny Johnson
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Karine Jean-Pierre: "Election deniers are a threat to democracy & are all insurrectionist s"

Peter Doocy: "You tweeted in 2016 that Trump stole the election."

KJP: *panic, sweating* "...um...thats different, ok?"

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"If denying an election is extreme now, why wasn’t it then?”

Karine Jean-Pierre: "Election deniers are a threat to democracy & are all insurrectionist s"

When one drills down a few strata into the Biden agenda, one finds a few pay zones capable of producing enough truth to make the well worth completing.

Today, I happened to pull into our local Sam’s Club to fill up my carbon emitting pickup and notice a couple of people pushing a Tesla over to the charging stations in the parking lot. It seemed the Tesla ran out of juice about fifty yards from the station and good old people power was needed to complete the trip.

I immediately thought about the ironic, contradictory situation in California of Gavin Newsom calling for no more internal combustion powered cars to be sold by 2035 and the announcement from the power folks asking people not to charge their EV’s due to a strain on the power grid.

Then I thought about the image of a $100,000 Tesla Model S being charged in the parking lot of a middle-class mainstay, a Big Box Retail Store.

The incongruity of that image made me wonder if the middle class is compatible with an all-electric future and the conclusion I drew is that the two are entirely incompatible.

The Biden administration is forcing the Green New Deal on America through various avenues, even though there are several significant limitations. First, as California can attest, there isn’t enough generating capacity to service all the EVs now, even though these vehicles form a distinct minority of the cars on the road. If that wasn’t enough, the purchase prices and repair costs are exorbitant as compared to good old dinosaur juice fueled vehicles and then we need to consider the car manufacturers simply aren’t capable of producing enough EVs to replace hydrocarbon burners retiring from the national fleet. Looking to the supply chain, even of the car folks could produce, they couldn’t because there aren’t enough rare earth materials to build enough batteries.

So, as I noted – significant limitations.

Given these constraints, why would Biden and the Secretary of Energy, Scary Spice Granholm continue to push this agenda?

Well, it probably won’t surprise you, but it isn’t really about electricity or electric vehicles.

It is about eliminating the middle class completely.

The aspirations of the American middle class are the primary reason communism never took hold here. I don’t remember which Soviet official said it, but it was said that as long as the happiness and optimism of the American middle class existed, there never would be enough unhappiness to sell communism. The problem was that even though a person in the middle class might never become rich, they all believed it was always possible. Combine that optimistic outlook with a good job and the American dream, and commies couldn’t find a receptive audience anywhere.

It seems that for the authoritarianis m inherent in communism to work, one can’t have three classes because it is tough to engender class conflict if there is too much social an economic mobility, therefore, one class must go. The rich aren’t going anywhere, and the poor are already dependent upon government, so the middle class is the odd man out.

To get rid of the middle class, you just attack the things they use every day. Raise the price of energy, food, housing through artificial scarcity created through policy edicts – like forcing everyone who drives to buy a new $60-100K car while oil and gas is prohibitively expensive. Then, if they can afford an EV, when electricity becomes scarce, those prices rise, squeezing even harder. In short, you break the middle class by making them poor and forcing them into public transportation, which of course, is owned by the government.

Pop goes the weasel, now the mobility of the former middle class is controlled.

It is only a short hop to there being only two classes with which to deal.

The move to EVs most certainly isn’t about the environment, it is about subjugating the middle class.

As opposed to the MSM propaganda machine Weeb Union is one of the sane and intelligent reporters on the Ukraine conflict.

The long-awaited Ukraine Kherson front counter-offensi ve is (as expected) running out of steam, with the Ukrainians suffering massive losses of men and equipment.

In what is probably the biggest impending disaster for Ukraine a large force of Ukrainians (they easily outnumber the Russians on the ground) crossed the Inhulets River using three pontoon bridges and then advanced creating a narrow salient deep into Russian held territory. The Russians stopped their advance and then blew up all three pontoon bridges trapping the Ukrainians and preventing their retreat.

It seems that these encircled troops (several thousand) will have to surrender or try to fight their way out — wasted young lives if they choose the later.

As opposed to the MSM propaganda machine Weeb Union is one of the sane and intelligent reporters on the Ukraine conflict.

Biden has already started walking back the speech - but it's too late, the Prog Zombies smell guts and brains, and are on the march.

The scary thing is they don't get that Biden is filled to the eyeballs with bullshit rhetoric and like Ron Burgundy, will literally read anything put up on a teleprompter... and he is so far around the bend mentally, he probably doesn't remember what he said fifteen minutes ago.

His zombie horde believes there is an organization called Ultra MAGA that is led by the Criminal Mastermind, the Grand Trumpian. They are idiot zombies of course, but idiot zombies do stupid and dangerous things without adult supervision.

but idiot zombies do stupid and dangerous things without adult supervision.

Astronomer Frank Drake, who pioneered the modern search for intelligent life in the universe, passed away Friday (Sept. 2) at the age of 92.

Drake is best known for the equation that bears his name, a formula that estimates how many detectable alien societies may exist in our Milky Way galaxy. Drake devised his famous equation in 1961, a year after he initiated Project Ozma, which used a radio telescope to hunt for possible signals from extraterrestria l civilizations.

Astronomer Frank Drake, who pioneered the modern search for intelligent life in the universe, passed away Friday (Sept. 2) at the age of 92.

Drake is best known for the equation that bears his name, a formula that estimates how many detectable alien societies may exist in our Milky Way galaxy. Drake devised his famous equation in 1961, a year after he initiated Project Ozma, which used a radio telescope to hunt for possible signals from extraterrestria l civilizations.

Project Ozma was a milestone, bringing new technology and a new way of thinking to the previously haphazard search for extraterrestria l intelligence (SETI). And that approach has stood the test of time.

Astronomer Frank Drake, who pioneered the modern search for intelligent life in the universe, passed away Friday (Sept. 2) at the age of 92.

Incredible: More racial agitation....
The University of Maryland seeks a 'Writing Consultant', but applicants must PROVE they have experience in (get this) Anti-Racism.

Definition: "Antiracism is the active dismantling of systems, privileges, and everyday practices that reinforce and normalize the contemporary dimensions of white dominance."

Examples of racist microaggression s:
"All lives matter.”
"We’re all one human race/big happy family.”
"I’m colorblind; I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow, green or purple."

Applicants MUST show/ prove they combat these microaggressions.

Astronomer Frank Drake, who pioneered the modern search for intelligent life in the universe, passed away Friday (Sept. 2) at the age of 92.

The rumblings and outright statements by notables and political groups like WEF of a goal of massive population destruction.... .

Humans are not a blight on the earth, they are the culmination of evolution, a being capable of carrying high consciousness, capable of brilliant creativity, capable of great nobility, a huge advance on the animals of the earth. Humans have self determination, they are not totally controlled by their instincts. They have self consciousness, not simple consciousness of the animals that drift on whatever forces they encounter. Some humans even attain super consciousness and more and more are gaining that. Humans give the earth meaning. It is not just a ball of mud crawling with ephemeral insects in a quiet corner of a meaningless universe. Humans have the spark of the divine.

The population numbers were climbing but reaching stabilization. The incredible modern civilization and advance in longevity and lifestyle came out of the growing population numbers. This has happened in the past 400 years. A nearly miraculous jump in evolution for humans.

This is my theory. It takes a level of population to produce geniuses and the engineers and mathematical expertise to build an enlightened civilization. Geniuses comprise 3% of the population. A tiny, approximately 5% of the population with the characteristics required maintain and pull the mass population around, feed, house, maintain them in an advancing lifestyle, this is a noble endeavor. Supporting artists and all other higher fine endeavors of humans. We were reaching stabilization numbers.

When political or economic groups of so called elites call for reduction in population, they are destroying themselves and the structure of civilization. Their dreams of a world of 500 million slaves to support their potentate lifestyles is not possible, a small population will not form such a world for the elites. It will devolve back to the stone age, become feral with tribal warfare and the elites will be eaten for dinner.

Thoughts?

The rumblings and outright statements by notables and political groups like WEF of a goal of massive population destruction.... .

Pretty much every invention has been brought to life because it made the human condition better in some way. It is simply impossible to think of all the innovations just since we landed on the moon and not think, "Dang. What would we do without stuff like that?"

Each one of those innovations has been a response from the free market to some demand, some need. No collective mind sitting in a concrete walled office said, "You know what would make life easier for people? Little pieces of colored paper with a light, reusable adhesive strip on them. We'll just order the Federal Department of Sticky Paper to invent something."

Nope.

Post-It notes came in 1968, when Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, attempted to develop a super-strong adhesive and failed. Miserably. What he did develop was a low strength, reusable adhesive he then tried to get 3M product managers interested in, but couldn't. Long story short, a colleague named Art Fry, picked up on the idea to create a reusable bookmark using Silver's glue. Still didn't catch on. It wasn't until 3M gave free samples to consumers in Boise, Idaho, and 94 percent of those who tried them indicating they would buy the product. Post-It notes then went national after people stuck them to everything and soon, everybody in the US had them in their desks at work and at home.

Silver and 3M didn't force people to use the products, eventually people figured out they would work better than any current solution - and the products took off.

Their time had come. There was a market for them.

If there had already been something better suited for use, nobody alive today would know what a Post-It note is.

So why hasn't that same philosophy worked with "green" energy?

The answer to that question is that there already is something better suited to the problem at hand.

They are called fossil fuels. There is nothing that has the high energy density, the lifetime of safety, the abundant and constant supply, the portability, the ease of use, and the relatively low cost of fossil fuels.

The main issue is portability, which gives rise to the question, just what energy need are we trying to solve?

Transportation use of fossil fuels only accounts for 33% of all usage of fossil fuels (data from Statista dot com), the rest goes to residential, commercial, industrial and the rest for generating electricity (over 60% of all electricity is generated using coal or natural gas). The issue for the electricity zealots is the fossil fuels are not only fuels, but they are also the feed stocks, the raw material, for thousands and thousands of products necessary for modern life. From fertilizer to plastics to medicine, things are made from fossil fuels.

Electricity cannot match that usefulness.

Electricity is not a prime resource, unlike fossil fuels, it must be manufactured.

But beyond the inability to compete, no matter how many of the technical issues that exist today are improved, the transportation economy based on electricity will always carry significant limitations a fossil fueled economy never will.

So-called "renewable" energy sources simply cannot compete with all the advantages of fossil fuels, so rather than the people discovering a need for them (thereby creating a demand), government is forcing the market to accept them through a variety of carrot and stick approaches. Forcing Obamacare into the insurance market did not meet any of its stated goals, just the opposite – while it did subsidize people in the lower brackets, it disrupted the insurance industry, raised premiums and deductibles, and generally made insurance more expensive for everyone.

The real story of Obamacare is that there are just as many uninsured today (adjusted for population increases) as there were when Obamacare was fully implemented, only now it is more expensive.

That is what happens when something the market doesn’t want or need is forced on it by government.

If the so-called "Greens” truly wanted a win, nuclear power could eliminate every coal and natural gas fired power plant – but they don’t want a win, they just want to fight.

The "climate wars” are now a moral crusade. The environment has taken a back seat.

The reason Post-It notes succeeded is that there was a market for them. The reason so much of the "green economy” isn’t successful is the opposite – there is no market for a product that only works part of the time, can be shut off at will and cannot be used as a raw material.

The Green economy is just the next Obamacare.