@jjGravitas @TheAbbotTrithemius

I hear you.

And it gets worse if you know how dirty mining is (and how dangerous).

TODAY, we really don’t need nuclear power. It is and expensive way to generate power. No generator has ever lived up to “cheap energy” — there is an economic cost that everyone pretends doesn’t exist.

Even the touted “small nuclear reactors” are expensive ways to generate power. But we have to pretend they are competitive or no one will buy them.

@TheAbbotTrithemius

"We were assured that regulators would not pick a site that would be harmful to the environment or local communities in Texas"

Huh?

Money was already pouring into the area and it hadn’t even been signed into law.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/1997-10-17/518605/

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-low-level-radioactive-waste-disposal-authority

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Partner was explaining to me about “Millonaire Koolaid”—that once you reach a certain income level, the rich hand you a champagne glass of “Millionaire Koolaid” which is a sparkling wine of rich complicity.

It is full bodied with hints of stock options and cocaine through hundred dollar bills.

@InUnfunky

It assumes that the Right Wing Media will allow Democrats to do that.

If we are going to call Trump a Nazi we also need to understand the complicity of the news organizations during that time.

History is not about just one thing—it’s about a LOT of things coming together creating a horror show (which, in a fit of irony, is a corruption of the Russian khorosho which translates to “good”).

ANYWAY, I’m glad she feels optimistic.

@GrazingintheGrass

… that they look and “see IBM doing it, then they must know something we don’t so we cut employees. It only makes sense.”

The thing about CEOs is they love to talk and they will tell you some really weird shit if you listen.

Rarely is it inspiring.

And frequently it’s scary as fuck.

@GrazingintheGrass

It’s economics.

It’s what the press didn't put in their headlines. They could have, but they didn’t. Because they wanted to normalize Trump.

Again.

BTW, much of today’s business uses Chinese goods to make products. That will also raise the price of American goods (inflation). An increase of those goods will result in people not buying them which will result in people not having jobs.

Other companies will follow suit (seriously, I was told by a CEO… 1/2

@gshevlin @TheLegend_AZ

Not to mention people who LIKE national parks.

@TheLegend_AZ

Who is going to build them?

@TheAbbotTrithemius

Sanders also was on the gang that wanted to plant a “low-level” nuclear waste dump in a poor Hispanic community.

From nrc.gov:

“The radioactivity can range from just above background levels found in nature to very highly radioactive in certain cases such as parts from inside the reactor vessel in a nuclear power plant.“

🤔😳😳😳😱😱😱

And Sanders was FOR this.

Either he didn’t understand the issue or didn’t care.

I’m sorry it bothers me.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/28/Sanders-Nuclear-Waste-Votes-Divide-Texas-Activists/

Avoid the Bring-Your-Dog-To-Work day.

“President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CNN reported, citing two sources familiar with the decision.”

Civil servants need to create a honey-pot of garbage that will keep Trump and his lackeys harmless for four years. Create four years of salacious but obviously false information that will keep Noem running around in circles.

Idiocy against idiots.

@InUnfunky

“However, "low-level waste" is a deceiving term because according to the nuclear industry about 85% of the waste also comes from nuclear facilities. The waste may encompass reactor core control rods, resins, sludges, and piping that may include hazardous elements such as plutonium, iodine-129, nicle-59, and strontium-90. These radioactive isotopes would be hazardous for thousands, even millions of years.”

2/2

https://websites.umich.edu/~snre492/blanca.html

@InUnfunky

Sanders is duplicitous—so much so he was willing to sell out poor Hispanics to put a nuclear waste dump in Texas. To argue he feels the pain of the working class pisses me off.

What’s more galling? He said it was just “medical waste” as if that was better.

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/28/Sanders-Nuclear-Waste-Votes-Divide-Texas-Activists/

You know who fought it?

Sierra Club.

https://www.sierraclub.org/texas/big-bend/radioactive-waste-west-texas

1/2

@mfioretti

Look, I didn’t make people make the wrong choice. But blaming Harris was dumb.

That’s not me, that’s history.

“The chart also shows monthly job growth under Biden is significantly higher than that under other presidents, going back to Ronald Reagan. The closest president to Biden is Bill Clinton, with 239,000 average monthly job growth during his two terms in office.”

Harris would continue the trend. Trump will reverse decisions.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/bidens-job-growth-chart-ignores-impact-of-pandemic/

@mfioretti

2/2

Under Trump millions were out of a job.

Today gas is at $3.078. But if you take inflation into account, Trump’s gas prices were $2.91 in today’s dollars.

In other words 16.8 cents cheaper.

Yes, there was inflation. Yes, corporations took advantage and jacked prices up. At the same time MORE people are working than in 50 years.

People traded that in for losing their jobs and higher inflation.

@mfioretti

No. That’s what life the news says there is.

Look, we live on a fixed income in Texas. The only way I could retire is that partner gets a modest pension from the state. We have a tiny IRA (maybe two years then it’s tapped if the pension disappears).

You cannot have low unemployment and economic disaster. We were being gaslit. We were being told bullshit.

What did you actually see that told you that gave you the impression things were worse?

Gas when Trump left was $2.393. 1/2

What he didn’t do is act like a Russian asset. He didn’t steal government documents. He didn’t hawk food at the Resolute desk. He didn’t spend his time watching TV and bitching writing about how he had it worse than anyone especially Lincoln. He wasn’t impeached twice or call for the deportation of anyone with a brown skin.

There is much to loathe about Reagan, but to argue he was similar either shows INCREDIBLE naïveté or just plain ignorance of history.

This is a moronic take.

Stewart is also lying about Reagan: he wasn’t a man who was voted in because he was a criminal, a rapist, a sexist and stole sensitive government records. In fact, as bad as he was, he wasn’t even close to being as bad as Trump. No candidate has been as bad as Trump.

This idea this is normal is one based on delusion or unfounded optimism. It sure as fuck not based on history.

Stewart is gaslighting.

Reagan cut taxes for the rich and middle class. True. He also made the US a debtor nation.

Jon Stewart gets it wrong—surprise me 😑

“They didn’t do the woke thing. They acted like Republicans for the last four months. They wore camo hats and went to Cheney family reunions. Do you know how dangerous it is to wear a hunting hat around the Cheneys?”

Several things here:

1) Dissing supporters is a bad thing

2) A 30 year old reference makes you sound like Dennis Miller who is conservative and also out of touch

Republican “woke” means being kind.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jon-stewart-blows-key-theory-050530124.html