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  1. 50 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    It’s Tom Cotton.

    Cotton said Wednesday that Greenland's mineral reserves could make it valuable strategically to the U.S. He added that Greenland has great economic potential and that the island is “vital to our national security.”

    “Anyone who can’t see that is blinded by Trump derangement,” he said.



    If the island is "vital to our national security,"  it would seem that a good strategy would NOT be to piss off the people who own it.

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    So my Facebook feed blew up with family/friends who are Jewish and really fucking pissed off.  Had to go see what the fuss was about, and of course Trump doubles-down on twitter this morning.

    Un-fucking-real.

    Oh, and getting pissed at Denmark.  And backing down on background checks.

    This all good though, this is really waking up a lot of people, and getting them to think about voting against him, rather than being their normal apathetic selves.


    The Denmark thing is the fucking worst.   He dreams up this CRAZY idea that somehow Greenland is up for sale then gets in a snit because the Danes tell him they don't want to sell it.  It staggers me.   I am 100% certain that he's suffering from dementia.

    My friend said to me "if Trump has a heart attack, a huge portion of the population is going to believe that he was actually attacked by the deep state."   

  3. You know, if we bought Greenland, we'd either have to a) raise taxes to fund the purchase 2) borrow money from the Chinese and from future generations of taxpayers and pay interest on that loan. 

    Imagine saying to your kids "I bought this worthless, ice-covered piece of property and I borrowed from your future earnings to do it. Sorry about the debt."

     

     

  4. Ted Cruz:  "Trump would nuke Denmark"

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    “I wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing Donald has tweeted, because he’s losing it,” Cruz told reporters in Goffstown, New Hampshire. “We need a commander in chief, not a Twitterer in chief. We need someone with judgment and the temperament to keep this country safe. I don’t know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the button,” Cruz continued. “I mean, we’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would have nuked Denmark. That’s not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe.”



    https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-donald-trump-denmark-218694

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  5. 1 minute ago, housious said:

    No doubt. I’d sign up to be a garbage man over being a cop. 


    My understanding is that, relative to other public servants, cops are doing fairly well economically speaking.  But, man, they see the worst of humanity on a daily basis. Everything from showing up to Cedric Benson's crash site to whatever kind of crazy you can think of. Bless them for doing their jobs. 

  6. I know that cops have been guilty of the worst kinds of abuse, but I think it would be really hard to be a cop these days. Body cams. Cell phones.  You're making decisions in the heat of the moment, the split second between life and death, and everybody gets to judge your actions after the fact.


     

  7. 7 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:

    This chart confirms what I said.


    You said "what happened was that renewables  alone couldn't replace what the nuclear energy provided."

    That is false. Renewables COULD replace what the nuclear energy provided, and did.  



     

  8. 6 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:

    What happened was that renewables alone couldn't replace what the nuclear energy provided and so coal consumption increased to fill the gap.  

     

    Here's a chart of German coal consumption.  From late 2010, when Energiewende was adopted, to 2019:

    1)  the percentage of renewables that feed the German electricity grid grew from 10.0% to 14%   

    2) German consumption of coal has dwindled   

    3) the population of German grew by 1.5 million people.


    So despite the fact that the population of Germany grew by 1.5 million people and despite the fact that Germany has been retiring nuclear reactors, coal consumption in Germany is roughly 14% less than it was when Energiewende was passed.  

    You were saying?



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