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“The proposed rules would establish a credit system for automakers supplying California car dealerships and take effect in 2026. In that year, 35% of all new cars an auto manufacturer sells to California dealerships would need to be either zero-emission, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen-powered vehicles. That would increase to 68% in 2030 and 100% by 2035”
While Mississippi continues to live in the past, making buggy whips for their horse drawn carriages, California is preparing for the future. A future that must come because oil supplies can’t last forever and burning fossil fuels is causing global warming and harmful to the environment.
So California will lead and make the sometimes painful transition to clean energy while Mississippi continues with the old ways. It’s only proper. When has Mississippi ever led on anything? Women’s rights? No. Slavery? No. Technology? No. Education? No.
California has the money and the numbers in population to lead on necessary change. The rest of the country will follow, no doubt kicking and screaming all the way.
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And yet we get crap like the Iraq debacle,
Incompetent leadership from Bush and Cheney. Don’t elect republicans.
Ukraine corruption
What are you talking about? Trump’s attempt to blackmail Ukraine?
Patriot act
Perfectly appropriate
Covid lockdowns,
Absolutely appropriate
unsustainable debt,
Caused by Republicans’ refusal to increase taxes and the American people’s refusal to pay for the government they demand.
Examples: Medicare for housewives who never paid into the system. Social Security benefits that are not based on what people contribute.
planned inflation, race baiting policies based on skin color, destruction of private health insurance plans, unsustainable government regulated housing, unsustainable green energy mandates, mandatory sexualization and sterilization of children against a parent's wishes, mandatory taxes to support illegal invaders, massive crony bank and corporate bailouts, and a mandatory sketchy vax subsidizing crony corporate big Pharma.
These last complaints are more deranged than the others above.
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Both of these are happening. The child rate is at 1.94 right now. Anything below 2 is below replacement level.
That’s why new arrivals from other countries is so important. Because people like you aren’t able to produce.
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Using Trump as an excuse for bad behavior on both the left and the right.
That is an odd and nonsensical definition of TDS.
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I disagree, America achieved unique prosperity through the trust of the people to manage most of their own affairs without institutions. The Bill Of Rights is one unique American thing that keeps institutions out of the way of the people. The Bill of Rights entrusts the people with liberty and freedom.
The preamble to the Constitution says its purpose is to “promote the general welfare”.
The Federal Government is supposed to promote the general welfare of every American.
I mean look at yourself, if you hadn’t inherited your mother’s house and had an adult life with a wife and kids, you would likely be struggling to make ends meet.
If all Americans lived their lives like yours, our economy would collapse and our population would be shrinking.
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Vivek or RFK
Right now, GP says he likes Vivek or RFK.
VIVEK never even voted for president until very recently, and you think this guy is a good candidate? He’s 38 years old. I bet you said Obama was too young when he became President at 44. Vivek went to private school for high school. Doesn’t that make him an elitist?
He was an intern for the hedge fund Amaranth Advisors and the investment bank Goldman Sachs. Ramaswamy worked at the hedge fund QVT Financial from 2007 to 2014. Uh oh, he was hanging out with the billionaires. You hate billionaires.
His company created numerous subsidiaries,[38][41] including Dermavant (focused on dermatology), Urovant (focused on urological disease), and China-based Sinovant and Cytovant, focused on the Asian market. He’s awfully cozy with the CCP, isn’t he?
In September 2017, another of his companies, Axovant announced that intepirdine had failed in its large clinical trial.[36][45] The company's value plunged; it lost 75% in one day and continued to decline afterward.[36] Shareholders who lost money included various institutional investors, such as the California State Teachers' Retirement System pension fund. Sounds like a sheister.
He is a big big Trump supporter. But you say above that you don’t like Trump. You have never criticized Trump or said what you don’t like about him, presumably to keep your options open.
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@Sidewalker
Isn't that what the Greyparrot crime family does? Get paid to speak in front of a group of students.
He’s a substitute teacher. So only part time, but he does get paid by the government.
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Just because it's legal does not mean it isn't ill-gotten gains.
Classic
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@ebuc
Who is your current choice for next president of USA?
He will never tell you what or who he supports. He only is against things. Typical Libertarian.
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Let’s be clear, because some people including Chris Christie last night, keep getting it wrong.
“Christie is in the ballpark, but his numbers are a bit low. According to the Treasury Department, the nation’s total public debt, including intragovernmental holdings, climbed from about $20 trillion to $27.8 trillion under Trump, a gain of $7.9 trillion.”
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Because you cant afford 400 million dollars of real estate on the salary of a Senator.
The Bidens’ primary residence is a three-bed, four-and-a-half-bath house in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden built the 6,850-square-foot mansion on land he purchased in 1998 for $350,000, according to Realtor.com. The property is now estimated to be worth at least $2 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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The Pakman Show first aired in August 2005 on WXOJ-LP, a radio station located in Northampton, Massachusetts, later being nationally syndicated, and eventually achieving broader international distribution in a number of countries, as well as online.
Yes, no doubt it started long before SAN. Pakman is independent from SAN. I was wrong.
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As far as I know, Straight Arrow pays Pakman a fee for rebroadcasting their content.
And how do you know that?
I suppose FOX News pays Sean Hannity a fee to rebroadcast his show too.
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What about Biden with his 4 houses?
Don’t be an idiot. I own 5 houses. It’s not difficult if you’re not a moron.
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I found zero sources for this. In fact, the entire article describing the Pakman Show has no reference at all.
Did you got to the Straight Arrow News website? Did you open my links?
Republicans did this with Obama by saying Obama knew Louis Farrakhan and was involved in the weather underground because Obama knew Bill Ayers. Wild claims like these belong in the trashcan.
First of all, don’t pretend to be defending Obama. Second, there is nothing wild here.
Ricketts owns Straight Arrow News
The David Pakman Show is part of Straight Arrow News.
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Does it matter that WAPO is owned by a multi Billionaire? Since when did news get more credible the richer the owner was?
It’s not that they are rich. The problem is Murdoch and Ricketts are morons. And they are actively involved in their media business.
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@Double_R
So you learned something today.
Dave Pakman works for Joe Ricketts. The same way Sean Hannity works for Rupert Murdoch.
And Ricketts is a known Trump supporter and a bigot. A bigot against blacks and Muslims.
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@Double_R
You stated that he was funded by Joe Ricketts. First of all what does that even mean?
Pakman’s show is part of SAN, Straight Arrow News. Joe Ricketts is the founder and CEO of SAN
Second, when was this?
Now, it’s happening now. Pakman is an employee of Joe Ricketts.
Ricketts is a Trump supporter and a MAGA Moron
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@cristo71
Trump’s prominence is also a reaction— to the rise of political correctness,
Ya, conservatives are pissed they can’t use the N word anymore.
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No news here. Doesn’t matter. Facts don’t matter to republicans. So he’s a liar and a cheat. That doesn’t matter to republicans. He dodged the draft. So what?
He cheats on his wives and his taxes, so what? He lied about the election being rigged and instigated a violent insurrection breaking a 200+ year history of a peaceful transfer of power - BFD.
“Defendants’ conduct in repeating these frivolous arguments is egregious,” Judge Engoron wrote. “The defenses Donald Trump attempts to articulate in his sworn deposition are wholly without basis in law or fact.”
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Today, Trump said that his former opponent Jeb Bush led us to war in the Middle East. I don’t think Trump is getting Alzheimer’s, he’s just really stupid.
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Thank the lord WAPO, our lord and savior.
No! Jimmy Dore is our lord and savior. He is a lonely man’s best friend.
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@Double_R
I find him just as credible if not more credible than any other prime time host.
I find it hard to believe that he is a credible source of news. What resources does he have at his disposal? Does he have a team of fact checkers and investigative reporters? Does he have an editor to keep him honest? Do you verify any information you get from him?
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@Double_R
It's political commentary, not really all that different from any of the other prime time cable news shows.
Hopefully you get your news mainly from Newspapers.
There’s all kinds of political commentary. There’s Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh kind of commentary, and there’s CNN and MSNBC. Big difference.
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No. Why would that matter, and if you really think it does a citation would be nice.
Why would that matter?
Does is matter that FOX News is owned by the Murdochs?
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It hasn’t been 24 hours since I posted that only 3 Democrat Senators had called for Menendez to resign.
Now we are up to 18 Democratic Senators and zero Republican.
Democrats are the party of anti-corruption. Republicans are the party of corruption
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Republican goals:
1. cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis.
2. Forcing more than 1 million women and children onto the waitlist of a nutritional assistance program for poor mothers with young children.
3. Reducing federal spending on home heating assistance for low-income families by more than 70 percent with energy prices high heading into the winter months.
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When the Federal Reserve decides to boost the money supply, it buys Treasury bonds on the open market. The cash it pays to the sellers of those bonds (almost all of which take the form of electronic bits) goes into the banking system. The Fed doesn’t just hand that cash over to a bank; it makes it available to a bank to lend.
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@Double_R
Not sure if you'd consider me an intelligent viewer, I am subscribed to his channel and watch his show regularly. In fact I consider him to be the political figure I would align myself with moreso than any other.
Did you know his show was financed by Joe Ricketts?
I can evaluate a show by knowing its structure. I know a podcast is not as structured as The NY Times newspaper. A podcast is not regulated internally or externally the way a newspaper is. Imagine if the medical profession wasn’t regulated. It would be pretty difficult to trust a doctor’s opinion in that case, right? You couldn’t be sure any given doctor knew what they were talking about or had been properly trained. He could be a quack.
A podcaster is a quack of the News profession. At best it’s a place to hear opinions. It’s not a credible source of news. They can say whatever they want.
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There is about $750 billion in U.S. currency in circulation; the Fed estimates that most of it is outside the United States.
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Printing money was entirely a Biden thing starting in 2020.
Another lie from the resident liar.
Biden did not print money.
The POTUS has no control over the Central Bank
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@Double_R
I think you're confused about who Pakman is. His show is entirely catered to the intelligent left wing viewer. He recently wrote a children's book called "think like a detective" to teach kids critical thinking as a way of fighting back against MAGA type extremism.
I’m an intelligent left wing viewer and I’ve never heard of this guy until about a week ago here on DART.
Intelligent people who follow politics don’t watch his kind of crap funded by a Joe Ricketts kind of guy.
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Only 3 Senate Democrats have called for Senator Menendez to resign.
36 had called for Al Franken to resign when some women accused him of sexual harassment.
Of course Republicans haven’t called for Menendez to resign. They want to make the case against FBI investigators.
Senate Democrats need to make it clear that Menendez must go. He has a presumption of innocence in a criminal court but not in life in general.
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Does President Newsom sound like a better idea than President Trump?
Of course, Newsom never tried to steal an election with a Big Lie like Trump did.
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@cristo71
You don’t think the press has been doing its job properly?
Well if you haven’t noticed, years ago, Republicans started banning real media from their events because they don’t like the questions or the scrutiny. Republicans need friendly media like FOX News so they can spew their nonsense unchallenged.
The press responded by being friendlier to conservatives when they lie, letting their nonsense go unchallenged so they will come back again. Ever since Tim Russert died and FOX News became big, Republicans have been less and less available to credible, professional journalists.
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I wonder why so many people are ashamed to wear a Biden hat?
Wearing ball caps is a MAGA Moron thing. Imagine being an adult and saying, oh I need to put on a ball cap before I leave the house. They are like children. They have the brain of a child. I’m surprised they don’t wear pin wheel hats.
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@cristo71
every administration which does NOT issue an exhortation to the press DOES have a compliant media?
By compliant you mean a cozy relationship? No, that also makes no sense. But not making sense is what Republicans do best.
If the press is doing their job of reporting the facts, then there is no need to send them a letter asking them to do their job.
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@cristo71
The Whitehouse memo and CNN article betray a rather “cozy” relationship between government power and the “free and independent”institution charged with keeping that power in check, which undermines the public trust in its institutions.
That makes no sense. If they had a cozy relationship, Biden wouldn’t have sent the letter in the first place.
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there is still 40%+ of the country that flips the middle finger at both established elite parties
95% of Americans are low information voters. They don’t know what’s going on. Independents have know idea what they want, or who they are voting for.
We live in a country where the people elect idiots like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump..
A country where people watch FOX News instead of The NewsHour.
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@FLRW
Defending Portnoy says a lot about how GP thinks, or doesn’t think.
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I think you're confused about who Pakman is. His show is entirely catered to the intelligent left wing viewer. He recently wrote a children's book called "think like a detective" to teach kids critical thinking as a way of fighting back against MAGA type extremism.
Straight Arrow News (Pakman works there) was created by businessman Joe Ricketts. Founder of TD Ameritrade and owner of the Chicago Cubs.
This guy is not a liberal. He is anti-union.
On May 17, 2012, The New York Times published a story by Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg reporting that The Ending Spending Action fund had been presented with a 54-page proposal entitled, "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good."
“As of mid-2014, his Ending Spending SuperPac had supported only Republicans.”
You need to do more research and be more careful with your critical thinking skills
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Pakman holds a graduate degree in communications from a far-left University.
That’s another lie. You always lie. He went to Bentley University for his MBA. You always make shit up because Libertarians can’t make an effective argument on the facts.
Bentley University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Bentley moved to Waltham in 1968. Bentley awards Bachelor of Science degrees in 14 business fields and Bachelor of Arts degrees in 11 arts and sciences disciplines, offering 36 minors in arts and science and business disciplines.
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Every one of his watchers is a far left, WAPO reading Biden supporter. Most of his shows read off the exact same headlines as WAPO.
As you know, talk radio and other nonsensical types of programming are not particularly popular with liberals because liberals use critical thinking skills and want responsible politics.
There are likely 20 conservative talk shows for every one liberal show.
Serious people who subscribe to WAPO do not listen to talk radio or political podcasters like Pakman. Because we are intelligent adults, not MAGA MORONS
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It's really great leftists worship a millionaire comic like Colbert, because multi-millionaires really care.
Are there any Libertarians who are millionaires?
Is that douchebag Rand Paul a millionaire?
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When she resigned as UN ambassador after 2 years, Haley had this to say:
“Jared is such a hidden genius that no one understands,” Ms. Haley said. “And Ivanka has been just a great friend, and they do a lot of things behind the scenes that I wish more people knew about, because we’re a better country because they’re in this administration.”
Ms. Haley, who has long been seen as a potential presidential candidate, said on Tuesday that she had no intention of running in 2020, as has been speculated. Instead, she said, she plans to campaign for Mr. Trump’s re-election.
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Democrats don’t rally around Menendez and cry Witch Hunt because Democrats live in reality.
Why can’t Republicans be normal?
In his first corruption trial, Democrat voters did not stay supportive of the Senator although he won reelection after a deadlock jury.
“Throughout the trial, poll after poll found that his approval numbers were plummeting, and a Quinnipiac poll released in September showed that 50 percent of likely New Jersey voters said that Mr. Menendez did not deserve to be re-elected”
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@cristo71
He’s not a journalist. I would never watch Pakman and think I’m getting real news.
He has no ethical standards to abide by. He has no editor to supervise his “reporting”
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@cristo71
It’s funny that you truly believe that reality itself exhibits a bias on the political spectrum.
You have it backwards. Reality doesn’t exhibit a bias to liberals, the left is biased towards reality. Because liberals choose to use critical thinking skills and live in reality.
“Reality has a well known liberal bias” is just a funny way that Colbert (and I) uses to mock conservatives
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@cristo71
Incorrect. You are making assumptions. Emphasis on the ass. As a reminder, you are the one who didn’t “get” my post 15, Captain Reality.
Yes, I didn’t “get” post 15 because you were stating a fact, (reality has a liberal bias) which you just conceded, but you thought you were being sarcastic.
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Colbert played that character to illustrate how dumb conservatives are.
But dumb conservatives watch it and think, hey I like this guy, he thinks like me.
You thought the joke was about liberals when in reality it was a joke about conservatives. Now that you showed that you didn’t understand the joke, the joke is on you. Perfect!
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