General Politics Discussion (IX) [ARCHIVED] • Page 1897

thanks nancy

 

Pretty cool that the climate will continue to be destroyed because the second-in-line for President wanted some soup dumplings.

 

PREPARED REMARKS: Sanders Says Inflation Reduction Act Doesn’t Meet Needs of the American People » Senator Bernie Sanders

Im glad at least someone can be honest enough to vote for this bill while acknowledging it still sucks and is really nothing to be proud of

 

“Now, M. President, if the CEO of Exxon Mobil, a company that has done as much as any to destroy this planet, is “pleased” with this bill then I think all of us should have some very deep concerns about what is in this legislation.

Further, under this bill, up to 2 million acres of public lands must be offered up for sale each and every year to the oil and gas industry before leases can move forward for any renewable energy development on public lands.

In total, this bill will offer the fossil fuel industry up to 700 million acres of public lands and waters to oil and gas drilling over the next decade – far more than the oil and gas industry could possibly use.”

how can this still even be considered!? If you think the methane releases from this alone won’t put a serious dent in those emissions reductions calculations you haven’t been following this industry

 

I would call him the 21st century Carter but only in the fact that meek half measures to address glaring concerns and alarm bells ringing will lead to galvanization on the right and apathy on the left which will in turn lead us into getting ratfucked by the hard right for the next decade. Can't wait.

Not intended to shit on Carter, just a semi-apt comparison in my mind, but probably faulty.

 

jfc fuck Israel

 

eh Biden has been a suckfest but there have been some truly abysmal presidents for the bottom 5

 

Plenty of money to take from him.

 

biden is worse than trump imo

 

Disagree

 

All of my supporters are just out of frame

 

Not defending that obviously it’s bad. But how much of that land that is “offered” to the fossil fuel industry will actually end up being taken up by them? With all the money and resources the bill lends for clean energy, and the direction the market is already leaning into toward clean and renewable, I’d have to think we wouldn’t see any significant increase in production from that land offered up for sale. And how much land is that compared to what the current policy is?

Not arguing, genuinely asking these things because I don’t know the answers

 

I really wish Jesus would return, just so I could see the faces of Christian Zionists as he casts them into the pit.

 

he can inch his way off the podium when he leaves

(jk but I'm not going to argue with anyone with a bias for the present. It sucks.)

 

biden's inability to do.....anything when faced with so many fucking problems (ukraine, inflation, the fucking pandemic and the mass unhousing that has resulted from the unprecedented loss of jobs and rising housing costs, etc. etc. etc.!!!!!!!!) puts him pretty damn low in my opinion. maybe not as outwardly bad as presidents who did truly evil shit but still pretty fucking terrible and as someone pointed out is going to result in apathy on the left and a galvanization on the right that will have has fucked for decades

 

Meanwhile

 

ya dont say

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