tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post9070805032122909457..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Sunday Morning Comin' Downdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-28206900270906375992016-11-30T12:43:23.017-06:002016-11-30T12:43:23.017-06:00Slightly O/T, but the most unforgivable thing Holy...Slightly O/T, but the most unforgivable thing Holy Joe ever did was roll over and present his genitals to the alpha wolf in the VP debates. I have never seen such a cowardly, more traitorous act in politics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518025949949879535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12810856509576472572016-11-29T12:43:45.413-06:002016-11-29T12:43:45.413-06:00I don't know if you're dismissing and call...I don't know if you're dismissing and calling me a douche, but if push came to shove in this country, we would lose and lose hard. Republicans know this! which is why they work to break the government. There's a certain subset that wants democracy to fall and the United States government to fail, so that they can rule over the ashes. Fascism would seize the middle part of America, Chicago would get taken, there's rednecks from 1000 miles in any direction that want a piece of Chicago. There's no action on climate because that's where all the liberals live, on the coasts. America would get split, democracy on the coasts, fascism through the middle, and that's a losing position, split in the middle. Eventually fascism would win. Do you want to get lined up against a wall and shot, in fifteen years, for being a liberal intellectual, because the ideas rattling around in your head can't be allowed to see the light of day? Not me. Republicans literally want to destroy America, and us in the process. They want to break it because then they know they'll win. Liberals and Democrats getter get that through their thick skulls. proverbialleadballoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592049897382920314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34506697956288188852016-11-28T12:56:21.614-06:002016-11-28T12:56:21.614-06:00Right, driftglass, it's about jobs, jobs, jobs...Right, driftglass, it's about jobs, jobs, jobs, and insert good, respectable, and fairly compensated as adjectives in front of each of those jobs. 'The robots are going to come take your job' is a _real thing in ten or twenty years or in the case of fast food, next week. This is crunch time. The direction the country goes in the next ten, twenty years will determine whether this ends up dystopian nightmare (probably) or a land that integrated into the 21st century. And on a personal level, people are concerned about getting a decent career, something they can retire on and pay for the kids to go to college _today. China is leading in solar, other countries in Asia and Europe are known for something, leading the world in something green. And in the US, the best we can do is the republicans want to build an oil pipeline that will create 300 jobs for a month, and the democrats block it because it's an environmental danger. Obama got some green energy started, but the US is a joke when it comes to energy/the future. Certainly not known for leading the world in anything, and we're the flipping USA, more $ more power than any entity ever. driftglass was writing this in 2004, meaning we should have been doing this then, we are that far behind the world. The environment was my issue until around 2010, when I realized that we've gone past the tipping point or wouldn't act in time if it hadn't quite passed yet. We have to focus on the big issue, which is, the future is upon us. The republicans are going to start making things even worse for us come January. We got to _all get together and fight this, and if that means some racists joining the ranks, I'm okay with that, because we are going to need every man and woman that we can get. We need more people on our side, not less, because this shit could get real, real fast. The spectrum runs from bad to worse; 'actively breaking things and making it worse, as republicans do' being our _best case scenario! The time is now, and we need every man and woman that we can get, because if this goes worse case scenario, the other side is the one that hoards guns. And they are crack shots, let me tell you, and they are the ones who would willingly put the boot to the face, forever. And getting back to 2016 the issue that overrides all others is jay oh bees that are viable not only today but twenty years from today. There's a big hole there. The federal government can literally work wonders, NASA and Tennessee Valley in the 21st century. More people need to see that, or we are right fucked, seriously, all of us. We need to get this done today, because we need to win the election in four years, because if the republicans get 8 years of governance, it is going to break this country's back. proverbialleadballoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592049897382920314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84414217289348784492016-11-27T23:43:43.141-06:002016-11-27T23:43:43.141-06:00From out of all of this laid out. What stands out...From out of all of this laid out. What stands out is that America could really use a new horizon. That being Green energy. I most certainly agree. We know why the fossil fuel overlords are against it. Even if it means sounding like Newt Gingrich talking to his 2nd wife about his first wife and why his third to be wife needs to just do as he says and not look at the failure he is.<br /><br />We do know that green energy will displace many fossil energy jobs. Airlines, Tanks, many ships and boats even autos will continue operating from fossil fuels.. We recently heard Mitch "the Turtle" McConnell statement that he cannot bring back the coal industry and the demand for it. For The Turtle, he can use Government to bring back demand for bank schemes but can't seem to go out for coal like providing tax cuts for racehorse owners in his state.<br />Converting energy away from the old combustion engine scares the Dixie Flag sticker right off the good ole boys car bumper.<br />I can't think of any wind turbine springing a leak and poisoning the water supply to farms, rancher, residents and wildlife. Not sure I read any massive problems from solar panel arrays. <br />Don't get me wrong. Fossil fuels will be around for some time. No electric passenger jets around. Semis in the trucking industry aren't going to be replaced soon. Sending up rockets to the space station or new satellites. There will forever be a market for oil in the plastic industry. There will be displacement harms. The government can can be used to buffer this . As it could for the coal miners who sit with their propeller hats waiting for Reagan to return.<br />Many critics can get away in the left behind economy saying things like "no one wants to buy a chevy Volt". The only thing they have to back it up is that no one has the income or expendable money to purchase it.<br />We have all heard someone say it,<br /> "who is going to buy their products when they keep outsourcing jobs to foreign countries, eliminating via technology, and contracting to the lowest bidder".<br />Isn't it obvious to the solar haters? We send a satellite out in space for 20 years, using solar to power it. Not nuclear power? Heck, big oil should be paying us to develop sola onto every American home and business. Oh, no utility company? Solar utility services and parts and improvements will be there. But how does the city and state get funding? If big oil isn't big who will funnel money into republican party campaigns. pay to keep Rush on the Am dial./ Who ?<br /><br />If we could only start with a congress that wasn't so power hungry partisan and greedy. K street to congress and congress to K street. <br />the GOP in Congress in pursuit of making the president a failure won the presidency with Trump because the were successful at making America fail.<br /><br />let me leave you with this , And I mean "Dig it".<br />Youtube<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb8JZ5wQGKI<br />Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90289019538096879652016-11-27T19:19:44.132-06:002016-11-27T19:19:44.132-06:00Monica Lewinsky's got a great thing going, sel...Monica Lewinsky's got a great thing going, selling kneepads to republicans.<br /><br />Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz…among the satisfied customers who've seen the light. Tanbarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14371486058838349902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83972145099739927322016-11-27T15:31:16.371-06:002016-11-27T15:31:16.371-06:00How about "Driftglass for President?"
L...How about "Driftglass for President?"<br /><br />Love you guys!Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49745210064181789402016-11-27T15:10:31.064-06:002016-11-27T15:10:31.064-06:00Good evening, Mr. Glass.
[Not "President Oba...Good evening, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />[Not "President Obama", Wallace. "President-elect Trump".]<br /><br />In all fairness, Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama look very similar...orange being the new black and all.<br /><br />On an unrelated note, you heard about this, yes...<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html?_r=0<br /><br />[TRUMP: Oh, I see. I might have brought it up. But not having to do with me, just I mean, the wind is a very deceiving thing.]<br /><br />Be seeing you.<br />Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.com