Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Agip - I probably shouldn't ask this here but I respect your investment expertise and can't find the Dow thread - do you think NASDAQ might have a monster year? It has started off like gangbusters and seems like it could do quite well.

Where do you live? Can we bus 20,000 migrants to your hometown to be a drain on your city's resources?

anything can happen. My bet is that it takes a few years for tech to get its mojo back, but that' only a 60/40 likelihood.

Today I am here in Texas so sure but I really wish they would find their own ride.

So what's in the letter ?

Bussing out immigrants saves more money than it costs them. Every state (red and blue alike) should give their surpluses back to the feds to pay down the deficit. The American Rescue Plan was unnecessary and led to crippling inflation.

Cooking with gas is fine (and even a little better for the environment in most parts of the country) so long as you have electric spark ignition and use your fume hood. I just got an induction cooktop, and have to admit it is pretty awesome. Gives you the control of gas and is more efficient than standard electric cooking.

GOP Crime Blotter

A complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission accused Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has admitted to fabricating key details of his biography, of wide-ranging campaign finance violations.
The alleged wrongdoing includes masking the true source of his campaign’s funding, misrepresenting his campaign’s spending and using campaign resources to cover personal expenses.
The complaint, filed by the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, could propel a formal investigation into Santos by the federal regulator, the latest chapter in a saga testing the boundaries of political falsehood. Santos has been revealed to have lied about his heritage, education and professional qualifications during his campaign for Congress last year.

GOP Crime Blotter

The Georgia grand jury conducting a criminal investigation into whether there were any “coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections” in the state by former President Donald Trump and his allies has completed its work, a judge said in a ruling issued Monday.
The grand jury was convened for an investigation into "'the facts and circumstances relating directly or indirectly to possible attempts to disrupt the lawful administration of the 2020 elections in the State of Georgia' and to prepare a report on whether anyone should be prosecuted for such potential crimes," Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney recounted in a ruling.

Democrat crime blotter - happening in every Dem-run city ...

foxnews.com

New Orleans closes 2022 with sky-high homicide rate not seen in decades: 'Horrific'

New Orleans, a city renowned for tourism, set a 26-year high in homicide in 2022 after overtaking St. Louis as America's murder capital in September.

Link:www.foxnews.com/us/new-orleans-closes-...

Right Wing Crime Blotter

At least 1,200 protesters were detained for questioning in the wake of the storming of Brazil’s capital buildings, a spokesman for the civil police said on Monday, as the authorities began dismantling the tent city where supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right former president, had been camping out since he lost October’s election.
The detentions came a day after one of the worst attacks on the country’s democracy in the 38 years since the end of the military dictatorship. Thousands of Bolsonaro supporters broke into government buildings in the capital, Brasília, on Sunday to protest what they falsely claim was a stolen election. In the weeks after the vote, Brazil’s military and independent experts said they found no credible evidence of fraud.

Government regulation again saves the day. Right wingers would have the market try to solve problems like this. Which makes absolutely zero sense. One of the main roles of government is wise regulation like reduction of chemicals that will kill us. Right wingers think...right wingers think....I dunno. Something about Ayn Rand and the deep state.

Airborne chemicals that destroy ozone are now declining for the first time, helping to repair the atmospheric layer that protects humans from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays, according to a new report by a U.N.-backed panel of scientists.
In a report released Monday by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization, researchers found a significant thickening of the ozone layer, a region of the atmosphere from 9 to 18 miles high that absorbs ultraviolet rays and prevents them from reaching the Earth’s surface.
This layer has been fragile for decades as the result of chemicals used as refrigerants and propellants that destroy ozone, a compound made of three oxygen atoms. When these long-lasting chemicals mix with cold temperatures and meteorological conditions above Antarctica, the reaction creates an ozone hole over the region each spring that varies in size and depth each year.

wsj.com

Earth’s Ozone Layer Recovers as Airborne Chemicals Decline

Eric Niiler

A U.N. report found a significant thickening in the atmospheric region, helping protect humans and other life while slowing climate change.

Link:www.wsj.com/articles/earths-ozone-laye...

Yeah because now gas stoves are a leading cause of death /s

This approach to regulation has ruined other appliances like dishwashers. Takes forever to run a cycle now and the dishes don't get cleaned.

If I take this at face value, it VERY well may be silly, bleeding heart liberal stuff. And I'll be the first one to admit that sometime bleeding heart liberal stuff goes well past merely "silly" (see affirmative action, and plenty of other things).

And pre-Trump, someone who pointed out such things could easily be assumed NOT to be a moran.

But since Trump, pointing something out like this on a thread like this HIGHLY suggests that one is a moran.

Why? Because this thread is full of things - pointed out over and over again - that the current R party stands for that are nearly infinitely worse than what you've cited from these Ds. So, it makes looks like you're PROBABLY not able to properly weigh good and bad things. In fact, that you're probably REALLY, REALLY bad at it.

It should be embarrassing to you guys. And I'll give you an example of how EASY it is to be non-moranic: Liz Cheney likely agrees mostly or completely with your D mockery above. Yet, she also EASILY sees that the R party has sold its' soul.

SEE HOW EASY THAT IS ?? YOU CAN DO IT !!

Not sure you are fighting the right battle here. The science is pretty clear that gas stoves are harmful, especially to children. Poor people have smaller spaces and therefore the pollutants from gas stoves are more concentrated. I think there are better 'anti-regulation' fights you can pick.

There are over-regulated things and we should support cutting red tape around them. this is not that.

I'd push for getting rid of local and state licensing for things like haircutting. Make it easier for non-college people to make a living.

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However, the report says, “a meta-analysis looking at the association between gas stoves and childhood asthma found children in homes with gas stoves have a 42 percent increased risk of experiencing asthma symptoms (current asthma), a 24 percent increased risk of ever being diagnosed with asthma by a doctor (lifetime asthma), and an overall 32 percent increased risk of both current and lifetime asthma.”

Lower-income households are more likely to have more people living in smaller spaces, with less ventilation. That puts them at greater risk of unsafe NO2 exposure, as does the heartbreaking practice among low-income homeowners, uncovered in several studies, of using their gas stoves as a source of heat to supplement weak or broken furnaces.
Lower-income, African American, and Hispanic children already suffer asthma at higher rates than the national average, mainly because they are more likely to live near sources of outdoor air pollution (like roads and industrial facilities), which makes them more vulnerable to sources of indoor air pollution. Another 2018 study found that asthma costs the US $82 billion a year in “medical expenses, missed work and school days, and deaths,” all of which fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable.

vox.com

Gas stoves can generate unsafe levels of indoor air pollution

https://www.facebook.com/davidrobertswrites/

An accumulating body of research suggests gas stoves are a health risk.

Link:www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/202...

Wrong! The only era of worthy repute is the Age of America, which Trump attempted to reinstigate, but was thwarted by liberals who fundamentally despised the beholden underpinnings of America so much that they have re-written America's historical beacon on the hill of shining liberty and freedom guaranteed to us, along with the pursuit of happiness, by the Founding Fathers of this nation, once so revered and now so reviled by liberal ilks.

Actually, the market has solved most pollution problems in the US thanks to the cap-and-trade system pioneered by Nixon. This requires a light-touch government approach to establish the emissions trade, but otherwise allows the free market to figure out how to ensure clean air and water, which works better than the command and control/mandate approach.

streeeeeeeeeettchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Modest suggestions for the liberals:

- If you have reason to believe that something is bad on minorities BECAUSE they're minorities, then by all means, point it out and complain about it and fight it.

- If you have reason to believe that something is bad on poor people, writ large, then say "poor people." And be clear that you're feeling bad for an fighting for all poor people. Not just "brown and black" poor people.

It really seems like this has gotten WORSE over the years. It seems that "black and brown" is tagged on to "poor people issues" more than it used to be, regardless of whether there appears to be an actual racial component to it. And in those cases, it's really not right.

And one is really naive if you don't think that poor and working class white people don't notice this. And unfortunately, it makes them more receptive to the us-versus-them crap coming from Trump and so many other Rs.