KJP roasted for comparing debt ceiling debate to monthly car payment: 'So how about student loans?'

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“If you buy a car youre expected to make payments”

Jean-Pierre displays the complete and utter incompetence of the Biden administration.  The people in charge don't know how any of this works and are trying to baffle the American public with bullshit. Hey, KJP, if the debt limit was really like making mortgage payments or car payments then why...

Biden, McCarthy face serious time crunch to reach debt ceiling deal

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“The House and Senate each have roughly a dozen working days left before Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's June 1 default warning.”

Biden will  be out of the country for a week.  The Senate will be taking a week recess without having done anything.  Chuck Schumer will waste some of the available time on public hearings on the House bill trying to influence public opinion.  And it's all Republicans' fault? The Republican...

Russia says U.S. was behind Kremlin drone attack, drawing quick denial

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“Russia has said it reserves the right to retaliate”

The drone attack is inconsequential.  The real news is that Russian hardliners are becoming more prominent with their demands to escalate the war.  These aren't brave words from a demoralized and defeated enemy.  Russian hardliners are pushing to step across Biden's red line.  The increasing...

FAA launches faster East Coast routes to avoid congestion

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

“The FAA estimated that the new routes would reduce about 6,000 minutes of travel time a year.”

Hey, way to address climate change.  More CO2 generators at higher altitudes won't cause any problem whatsoever.  Those carbon emissions can be offset by simply banning gas ranges.

How can we store solar and wind energy?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

“We can't truly switch to renewable energy without a breakthrough.”

Nature has been storing solar energy longer than there have been humans.  Coal is stored solar energy.  Peat is stored solar energy.  A lot of naturally occurring methane is stored solar energy.  Humans have just been too lazy to learn how to utilize that stored solar energy efficiently and...

From transgendered to 'transabled': Now people are 'choosing' to identify as handicapped

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  32 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  last year

“The Oath of Hippocrates adjures physicians to do no harm. Denial of reality is anti-scientific.”

Have we lost our grip on reality?  When subjective desires outweigh the cold facts of reality then civilization, itself, is imperiled.  In a subjective reality can we even understand truth?

Adams rebukes Texas governor for 'targeting' cities with Black mayors to bus asylum-seekers

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  14 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  last year

“Put plainly, Abbott is using this crisis to hurt Black-run cities.”

When ya got nuthin' else, play the race card.  That does seem to be the gold standard for liberal political speech. So, busing 'migrants' to NYC is morally bankrupt and unconcerned about the well-being of asylum seekers?  Gee, that's a rousing endorsement for NYC as a place to live.  Maybe Adams...

Schumer announces Senate hearings to 'expose' GOP debt limit bill starting this week

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  4 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  last year

“The Senate will show the public what this bill truly is”

Default looms.  And the priority for Schumer is to play politics.  The Federal government defaulting on its debt will be far, far worse than anything Republicans have put forward.  Democrats claim that raising the debt allows government to pay its bills.  That's a blatant lie.  Democrats could...

EU rejects Ukraine grain bans by Poland and Hungary

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  2 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

“The two countries say the measures are necessary to protect their farming sectors from cheap imports.”

What's the difference between being under Moscow's thumb and being under Brussel's thumb?  Dumping cheap grain onto Poland doesn't benefit Ukrainian farmers or Polish farmers.  But its a gravy train for middlemen.  We shouldn't be surprised that European technocrats will slow walk the issue...

Volcanic microbe eats CO2 'astonishingly quickly', say scientists

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  last year

“Discovery of carbon-capturing organism in hot springs could lead to efficient way of absorbing climate-heating gas”

No, no, a thousand times no.  Thinking we could harness nature is just a crazy hoax.  Climate change (or is it global warming again) can only be addressed by technological gadgetry.  Probably built in China.  There is absolutely no other way.