11/16-18/21: Once again, right-wing news is all over a story about Joe Biden, going to his homes in Delaware on weekends, and sometimes even during the week. So far, he has cost aggrieved taxpayers something in the range of $3 million for Secret Service protection and other costs.
That bastard!
I go checking. To be fair, Fox News did report, way back when, that Donald J. Trump’s first two trips to Mar-a-Lago, cost taxpayers $1.2 million.
Then Fox noted that Trump’s first four trips to Mar-a-Lago actually cost “We the People” $13.6 million, if you included costs of flying Air Force One. And those trips all came in February and March 2017.
And, during the pandemic, Fox reported in September 2020, that Trump’s Bedminster golf club charged taxpayers $1.1 million for Secret Service protection – even while closed.
For comparative purposes, then, we’re getting off really cheaply, with “Sleepy Joe” in the White House.
(And
he doesn’t tweet out hate for large segments of the people he was elected to
serve every day, either, as did Donald J.)
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AT LAST, some really big voter fraud news! My conservative friends keep sending me grumpy messages on Facebook, insisting that
1.
Donald J. Trump really won the 2020 election.
2.
Vaccinations will kill us all, and Big Bird is in
on the plot.
3.
They heard there was massive proof of voter fraud,
and they believe it.
4.
I am a commie, because I ask for evidence.
So, I keep looking, as time and interest allow. Sometimes I google general categories, like, “Arizona man arrested for voter fraud.” I don’t turn up stories of massive fraud. I turn up stories like this – where two more individuals voted illegally, this time persons already convicted of felonies. The story mentions two others arrested for the same reason, but does not indicate for whom the felons voted.
Four illegal votes – not exactly the kind of proof
Donald J. Trump keeps insisting is out there, waiting to be revealed.
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RIGHT-WING TYPES still don’t get it and if they can bash Biden over rising gas prices they will do so with glee.
Meanwhile, the reality of climate change causes growing concern in circles where logic, not political calculations, prevails. Exxon Mobile has announced it will be carbon-neutral by 2050.
The company has already created a plan, listing 150 modifications to make to begin reducing carbon emissions from its gas and oil fields and plants.
Shell Oil also plans to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
Amazon
has plans to purchase an
additional 100,000 electric vans and promises by 2030 that at least half its
deliveries will be carbon-neutral.
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POINTING OUT THE FLAWS in the way capitalism works today does not a communist make.
Consider this. You run a fracking company named MDC Energy in Texas. A tank at one of your facilities is leaking methane badly (methane can be as much as 86 times as potent in contributing to climate change, compared to C02.)
By one estimate, it would take $40 million to clean up MDC wells; but the company has filed for bankruptcy.
In the months before filing for bankruptcy, however, MDC
Energy thought it would be a fine idea to pay its chief executive $8.5 million
in consulting fees.
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