I wonder if Trump even knows what he's talking about when saying "legal obligations", or if he just thinks "they have to do what I say because I'm Emperor of the United States".
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Again, utter horseshit.
If Republicans cared about creating more energy they wouldn't be trying to get rid of windmills and solar farms to be replaced with more coal and oil. Their policies have nothing to do with trying to produce more energy more efficiently and everything to do with lining the pockets of oil and coal companies, extracting as much profit as possible from the planet, and propping up the dying industries that are bribing them.
Knee-capping human progress is exactly what Republicans are doing when they pull shit like this:
Trump temporarily halts leasing and permitting for wind energy projects
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily halting offshore wind lease sales in federal waters and pausing the issuance of approvals, permits and loans for both onshore and offshore wind projects.
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I need you to understand, fully, how utterly moronic you sound when you say this.
The power sources you want us to stay dependent on- oil, coal, natural gas- are finite. Once we run out, it's a several-hundred-million year wait before we can get more. Weaning ourselves off of them now, while we have the ability, isn't "kneecapping human progress"; it's ensuring that progress can continue. Because if we don't have alternatives by the time the easy stuff runs out, that's it for human civilization- we will, at best, regress to stone-age agrarian societies that can't support the eight billion humans alive today (leading to massive numbers of deaths), and at worse wipe ourselves out warring for what little remains. Combatting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a fantastic side benefit.
But then I remember who I'm talking to, and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if you believed "God will put more oil in the ground once we get rid of all the gays".
We'll have to wait and see on that. I am certainly for permitting wind projects, but I'm also aware that policies implemented by Democrats have a tendency to be some combination of underhanded, corrupt, or ineffective, so there's very few things they could "temporarily halt" for review and not feel justified. The Democratic Party would absolutely do something like permit the rights to their buddies, subsidize the construction, and then pocket the money without accomplishing anything.Knee-capping human progress is exactly what Republicans are doing when they pull shit like this:
Trump temporarily halts leasing and permitting for wind energy projects
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order temporarily halting offshore wind lease sales in federal waters and pausing the issuance of approvals, permits and loans for both onshore and offshore wind projects.
Edit: I will concede that Trump is dumb enough to cancel windmills cause he likes golf or something.
It's not that I want us to stay dependent on them, it's that we are currently dependent on them, and the pace of human progress is dependent on them. The idea that we can just stop using these things without being hindered is delusional. The replacements are developing, and in many ways being implemented now. If we decide to reduce oil production, the consequence is every single aspect of human life at the moment becoming more difficult and more expensive. Literally everything gets more difficult and expensive. And when everything is more difficult, you have fewer resources available to develop and deploy the replacements. Trying forcibly to wean off now will likely lead to more fossil fuels being burnt long term.
The world of renewable energy only exists because of the world of fossil fuels that precedes it. Oil is giving us the opportunity to build better things.
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What is far right that the majority of the country wants Trump (or any president) to do?
What progressive policy is Trump rolling back? And why don't you look at the books that Trump's NIH appointment wrote? Why would I think Harris would do anything for healthcare? Biden didn't even do anything and that was during a freaking pandemic.
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It|Paperback
New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year--Association of Business JournalistsFrom the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it-...
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Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health|Hardcover
An Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what...
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You never actually explain any of your positions, you call people names. How is Trump actually far right?
California has the 2nd highest cost of living (only Hawaii is higher) and it's about to get higher after all the insurance rates go up. So many people are leaving California that U-Haul actually ran of trucks to rent. If California is so great, why are so many people leaving, and why does it have such a high cost of living?
This already aged horribly. The Columbian president already caved and is sending a presidential plane to pick up their citizens.
Sadly this is likely very popular with many conservative Columbian-Americans.
It’s also sad DJT is killing who knows how many man-hours and money being send to stabilize the country from FARC.
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It has a high cost of living BECAUSE it's great. You know where the cost of living is low? Where people don't want to live.
The funny thing is, a pretty large number of people who leave California end up wanting to come back. 3/4 of the people I know who left California when they went to college ended up coming back afterward. Most of the people I know who got jobs out of state ended up trying to find new jobs in California to come back.
All those people who moved to Texas during the pandemic to escape the high cost of living in California? A lot of them regret it, and a lot of them found out that their taxes in Texas ended up actually being higher than California. Funny that. California is actually the second most popular state for people to move to.
Why Many Regret Moving to Texas Post-Pandemic
Everything's bigger in Texas -- including housing woes.
www.gobankingrates.com
Californians who left for remote work have shown 'signs of returning'
California was the second most popular state for Americans to move to in 2022, according to National Association of Realtors' report.
www.newsweek.com
The high cost of living is because policies in California don't let people build houses.It has a high cost of living BECAUSE it's great. You know where the cost of living is low? Where people don't want to live.
The funny thing is, a pretty large number of people who leave California end up wanting to come back. 3/4 of the people I know who left California when they went to college ended up coming back afterward. Most of the people I know who got jobs out of state ended up trying to find new jobs in California to come back.
All those people who moved to Texas during the pandemic to escape the high cost of living in California? A lot of them regret it, and a lot of them found out that their taxes in Texas ended up actually being higher than California. Funny that. California is actually the second most popular state for people to move to.
Why Many Regret Moving to Texas Post-Pandemic
Everything's bigger in Texas -- including housing woes.
Californians who left for remote work have shown 'signs of returning'
California was the second most popular state for Americans to move to in 2022, according to National Association of Realtors' report.
Why California Can't Build Affordable Housing
For nearly a decade California has been in the grips of a housing crisis, however, despite the urgent need for affordable housing, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit found hundreds of vacant lots and empty sites meant to provide affordable housing to thousands of Bay Area residents, currently...
www.nbcbayarea.com
California actually lost population in the last census year. So more people left California than new people moving in + babies being born too.
California leaving: State population declines for first time
California's population declined in 2020 for the first time since state officials have been measuring it.
apnews.com
California's exodus could get even worse
Five of the top ten relocation routes searched with a leading company in 2024 involved leaving California.
www.newsweek.com
In 2024, California saw the most movers leaving and the least new arrivals.
Map shows top five states people are leaving and where they're going
The average American is thought to move nearly 12 times throughout their life, according to Steinway Moving and Storage.
www.newsweek.com
The #1 issue people had with moving out of California was the weather, which would be obvious as many most states obviously can't compete with that. Also, after the whole fire situation in California and I guess "weather" isn't as much of a regret. If the #1 regret is something the state can't do anything about, that's not much of an issue then. Your source didn't say taxes ended up actually being higher than California.
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I don't disagree with that, we do need to build significantly more housing. Even so, the cost of living in California is always going to overall be higher than the cost of living in other states specifically because the demand to live here is very high. There's also places in California where the cost of living is comparable to other parts of the US, but those are also the places that are less desirable to live in. Bakersfield for example is a pretty affordable part of California, but if you're going to live in Bakersfield you might as well live in Texas or Indiana.The high cost of living is because policies in California don't let people build houses.
Why California Can't Build Affordable Housing
For nearly a decade California has been in the grips of a housing crisis, however, despite the urgent need for affordable housing, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit found hundreds of vacant lots and empty sites meant to provide affordable housing to thousands of Bay Area residents, currently...
Again, I don't disagree that California is overall losing people, but like I said, a significant number of the people who left California during covid have ended up regretting it.California actually lost population in the last census year. So more people left California than new people moving in + babies being born too.
California leaving: State population declines for first time
California's population declined in 2020 for the first time since state officials have been measuring it.California's exodus could get even worse
Five of the top ten relocation routes searched with a leading company in 2024 involved leaving California.
In 2024, California saw the most movers leaving and the least new arrivals.
Map shows top five states people are leaving and where they're going
The average American is thought to move nearly 12 times throughout their life, according to Steinway Moving and Storage.
And, while California overall lost people in 2024, the population actually increased in 2023 by 67,000 people, so it's not like it's just a straight decline of people only leaving and no one moving in.
California’s Population is Increasing | Governor of California
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: More people are moving to California and the state’s population is expected to continue to experience positive growth. SACRAMENTO – California’s population increased by 67,000…
www.gov.ca.gov
Additionally, California is the state immigrants are most likely to move to.
From my source:
Additionally here's another source that talks about the overall average tax burden, not just property taxes:
Theoretically a country should take back its own citizens.
However that would require the identify every single one and confirm their citizen status. That Columbia does not want to take several flight of randomly rounded up people with no papers is logical.
Which is weird since members of “hurler 2’s” inner circle openly go around doing Nazi salutes
Well they'll be able to fundraise for 4 years off him, so the mealticket's preserved. Anyone with that kind of job security is relaxing.