Politics/Religion Consolidated Megathread Extravaganza

[DKG]

Two things that Trudeau's government do not want you to know:

1. Their obsession with our own emissions will not stop the climate from changing.

2. There will be enormous costs to lower Canada's emissions and it will be the middle class and the poor who will bear those costs.



Liberals attack parliamentary budget officer for telling truth



Every time Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux points out there are costs to Canadians because of the Trudeau government's climate action plan, Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, among other Liberals, blows a gasket.



His latest eruption is over Giroux's report released Thursday about the cost of the government's clean fuel regulations.



Guilbeault, called it "unbalanced," which is odd, since Giroux's report says many of the same things Guilbeault's ministry said in June 2022, in its impact analysis of the regulations.



They take effect in July, aimed at lowering the carbon intensity of gasoline and diesel fuel.



Giroux's main conclusion is that the CFR is regressive because the costs faced by lower-income families represent a larger percentage of their disposable income than higher-income households.



That's what Guilbeault's ministry said last year in its analysis of the CFR:



"Low-income households may be disproportionately affected by the Regulations as they may incur higher transportation costs relative to their income. Moreover, low-income households tend to have a lower ability to absorb higher fuel costs compared to high-income households."



The report said single mothers and seniors on fixed incomes, among others, would be particularly impacted.



Giroux said the CFR will increase the cost of gasoline by up to 17 cents per litre and the cost of diesel fuel by up to 16 cents per litre in 2030 — which he noted were upper-range estimates based on modelling by Guilbeault's ministry.



Giroux said the CFR will decrease Canada's GDP by up to 0.3%, or $9 billion, in 2030, with the economic impact varying by province, the same as Guilbeault's ministry said last year.



Giroux says the CFR is expected to lower Canada's greenhouse gas emissions by about 26 million tonnes annually by 2030, same as Guilbeault's ministry.



Guilbeault criticized Giroux for failing "to recognize the cost of climate change to Canadians, like extreme weather."



Except there won't be savings to Canadians from milder weather by lowering Canada's emissions —and certainly not by 2030 — because, as Giroux noted, [size=150]"Canada's own emissions are not large enough to materially impact climate change[/size] and therefore their reduction would not materially affect the Canadian economy ... Canada's primary means of limiting the economic costs of climate change are through participation in a globally coordinated emissions reduction regime."



On that point, Guilbeault's ministry said the same thing a year ago, noting, "the only way to effectively address climate change is through global action."



Guilbeault complained Giroux didn't factor in the potential cost savings to Canadians from future technological improvements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.



But to expect significant savings by 2030 from technologies not yet invented is a fantasy and, as Giroux's noted, while "numerous past technological changes have transformed economies — and societies — because they were so much cheaper than their predecessors, it is not predictable."

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[Adolf Oliver Bush]

Or someone who buys their influence.

Unfortunmately, that is already happening.

Good thing the name "Clinton" is synonymous with "asshole" or we might not know to treat her as one.  ac_biggrin

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

Fetterman, doing his best Koopa impersonation....



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Hey dickhead, we know thee deal about how speech (in your ears) sounds like Charlie Brown's schoolteacher, but you claimed an ability to read, so read this:







Nobody is questioning the debt, you bumblefuck. We ARE however adamant as fuck that you fiscally incompetent dribblers not be allowed to create MORE of it. Stop spending money, and you stop creating more debt... get it Gumby?



Fucks sake...

That is so fuckin pathetic. This shit has to be part of a plan to utterly destroy America.

Pretty obvious I would say, but apparently there are still those out there who think the problem will magically evaporate if only the government would print mo money.

[Frood]

29 has got nothing on 24+



Start planting popcorn and tweaking your stills....



   ac_drinks

[DKG]

Unfortunmately, that is already happening.

Good thing the name "Clinton" is synonymous with "asshole" or we might not know to treat her as one.  ac_biggrin

I would say it's synonymous with criminal. But, still asshole.

[Herman]

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Democratic gun-grab bill SB 83 on Monday. This law will enable family members, quacks, cops, roommates, and others to petition to void another citizen's Second Amendment rights if they can halfway persuade a judge it might prevent the targeted citizen from doing future harm either to themselves or to others.

[Herman]

DeSantis said today he would seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president. He and his advisers were determined to wait to enter the race until the Florida Legislature could hand him a series of policy victories – and lawmakers have done just that.



He signed measures that severely restricted abortions in the state, made it easier for residents to carry concealed weapons, expanded a voucher program to allow students to attend private schools and eliminated funding for diversity programs at public universities, among other things.

[Herman]

What do you folks think of venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy.



Ramaswamy's message wasn't the usual mix of promises on jobs, wages, health care, and foreign policy. It was instead about identity. Namely, in his view, Americans have become so consumed with their differences that they have lost sight of what unites them. His mission is to restore a sense of national pride and community.



The demands of running a pharmaceutical company didn't stop Ramaswamy from turning his talents toward cultural criticism. His issue? Corporate America's embrace of socially conscious investing. He sees it as hypocrisy that allows companies to obscure how they are damaging the fabric of American society. His criticism quickly made him a fixture on Fox News. Does this mean that Ramaswamy is a conservative? Perhaps not. "I feel like I recoil when I see someone describe me as a conservative," he told an interviewer. "Not that there's anything wrong with being a conservative. It's just not how I would describe myself."



Ramaswamy stepped down from Roivant Sciences in 2021. He kept up his attacks on "wokeness." But in addition to his cultural criticism, he founded a new investment company, Strive Asset Management, with the backing of libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel. Strive's self-proclaimed mission is "to restore the everyday citizens in the American economy by leading companies to focus on excellence over politics." That is, no socially conscious investing.  



One of Ramaswamy's law school friends was J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly Elegy, and now the junior senator from Ohio. Ramaswamy says he considered running for the Senate seat that Vance won. He eventually decided against throwing his hat in the ring. Why? "One of your main jobs as a senator is to make laws, and I came to understand that many senators were not interested in engaging in that job," he said. "Their goal was to get on cable television, and I was already on cable television."

[Herman]

Ramaswamy's Message



Ramaswamy contends that the central problem facing the United States is identity. As he told Tucker Carlson last month: "We are in the middle of this national identity crisis where we have celebrated our diversity and our differences for so long that we forgot all of the ways we're really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago."  



He thinks, for example, that affirmative action is a "national cancer." Indeed, he says that his first step as president will be to cancel Executive Order 11246, which has been in place since 1965 and "requires affirmative action and prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin." 



When it comes to the positive steps he would take to focus Americans on their common interests, Ramaswamy turns to generalities about how he wants to reaffirm "those basic rules of the road: meritocracy, the idea that you get ahead in this country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character."

[Herman]

Justine  explains on Twitter that absolutely nothing is his fault - it's yours.



According to Justine, everything that is broken in Canada is the result of billions of decisions YOU & I made - not him.

Voting for Polievre won't fix anything. You simply need to "be better," he says.

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

DeSantis said today he would seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president. He and his advisers were determined to wait to enter the race until the Florida Legislature could hand him a series of policy victories – and lawmakers have done just that.



He signed measures that severely restricted abortions in the state, made it easier for residents to carry concealed weapons, expanded a voucher program to allow students to attend private schools and eliminated funding for diversity programs at public universities, among other things.

I did notice there was a Newsweek poll that indicated a swing against him in party support, though it could be an outlier (it's why I prefer to look at aggregates of various polls and even then only for trending interest levels instead of actual figures) and of course way too soon for it to reflect the results of his announcement on policy.



As for Vivek wanting to kick affirmative action to the curb, it makes sense to do so and it wouldn't be the first constructive suggestion to come from that guy. No real way of determining his being genuine on the matter until he's in there of course and politicians are known for talking a big game until they're actually in the position. I can only think of one in recent memory that actually followed through on much of his policies and he was vilified for it.

[Herman]

DeSantis said today he would seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president. He and his advisers were determined to wait to enter the race until the Florida Legislature could hand him a series of policy victories – and lawmakers have done just that.



He signed measures that severely restricted abortions in the state, made it easier for residents to carry concealed weapons, expanded a voucher program to allow students to attend private schools and eliminated funding for diversity programs at public universities, among other things.

I did notice there was a Newsweek poll that indicated a swing against him in party support, though it could be an outlier (it's why I prefer to look at aggregates of various polls and even then only for trending interest levels instead of actual figures) and of course way too soon for it to reflect the results of his announcement on policy.



As for Vivek wanting to kick affirmative action to the curb, it makes sense to do so and it wouldn't be the first constructive suggestion to come from that guy. No real way of determining his being genuine on the matter until he's in there of course and politicians are known for talking a big game until they're actually in the position. I can only think of one in recent memory that actually followed through on much of his policies and he was vilified for it.

I saw that Vivek guy. I say he is the real deal.

[Herman]

I like what Ronnie has to say.

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[Herman]

After DeSantis announced a presidential bid on Wednesday, his campaign claimed that it had scored more than $1 million in an hour.

[Oerdin]

I strongly prefer DeSantis over Trump because DeSantis can get the centrists and so win the election where as Trump cannot.  BTW Republicans still haven't got an organization to harvest ballots like the Democraps did in 2020.  Elections changed in 2020 with legalize ballot harvesting and universal mail in voting so which ever side does better at ballot harvesting will win.  Democraps know that dirty trick is how they plan to win every election going forward.