TxTiger82

Wait ... people still send their kids to public schools? ...

I can tell you on very good authority that the DoD is treating solar and battery tech as a national security issue. We need to jumpstart our domestic industries to safeguard energy independence, but that is increasingly difficult to do when China is over-producing cheap-arse panels and batteries usin...

[quote]I'm showing why it's not an ideal object. The consumer gets fricked and our economy devolves. [/quote] Amazon operated at a loss for years in order to corner markets and kill off competition. Now that they're the only game in town (functionally, if not literally), they're steadily increasi...

Twilight of globalization. This is not a left---right thing. Both parties now agree that free trade is a thing of the past. World is fragmenting and the best any president can do is blunt the impacts. We're not going back to 2019. ...

Energy requirements of tech are going up just as the "global middle class" is coming online. Billions of people in India, Indonesia, China, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa moving into global middle class. World energy demand is going way up, not sideways, definitely not down. Renewables sho...

[quote]“We must have a revolution so we can have a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America,” said rally speaker Sean Blackmon, member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation [/quote] He says without a hint of irony as he attends a private university that charges $80k per year ...

Students have a *limited* right to protest on campus, but they have no right to set up a "liberation zone" and impede others' movement through it. Not sure if these rights differ according to whether the university is public/private (I don't think they do). ...

Not sure why anyone would be surprised by the RFK effect. The guy is an anti-vaxxer and very few self-respecting Democrats would call themselves anti-vaxxers. He's a Trump spoiler, 100%. In fact, this is some of the best evidence of that we have yet. We now that Trump is the net loser when he is on ...

Factor in RFK, Jr. who is clearly siphoning votes from Trump rather than Biden, and you'll get a decisive Biden victory in 2024. ...

[quote]For likely voters, the sample size is 674, with a margin of error is +/-4.9 percentage points.[/quote] That's a huge MOE, and it means the poll has no clear leader. ...