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Should be a wild four years.

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And its actively celebrated by everyone involved. Which is why, to your follow up question,


Very little. They're already starting to see foundational issues with their older infrastructure - nothing explicitly negligent or incompetent, just that shit like mega highways and dams wear out over forty years. But their face saving is demanding they don't acknowledge it, as the decay and eventual destruction being addressed now makes someone look retarded or incompetent for letting it get this bad, and spending money on maintenance instead of letting it get bad means your paying to fix someone else's future problem rather than buffing your reputation and legacy here and now. Waiting until it implodes is just an unfortunate act of god, we didn't do anything wrong. This attitude will destroy so much of what they built.
It's what happens when you want to follow Mao's old modernization plan to the date. The deadline on that long March is coming up soon. They don't intend to miss it. It could destroy them in the end. It's what broke the Soviets frankly
 
Trump seems intent on keeping the allies he has in Congress rather then consolidating ideological control. Graham was against Trump in 2016 but ever since his first term he has sucked up to him hard but there is a good chance he is merely acting as an opportunist.

The Senator notably supported Trump's election recount efforts in 2020, said that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are lawfully elected after the events of January 6, 2021, voted against Trump's second impeachment and was against the January 6 commission. He has also criticized Trump for not supporting a federal abortion ban and said it was "a mistake" for Trump to pardon criminal defendants who pleaded guilty to or were convicted of violent crimes during the events of January 6 but at the same time he later defended Trump's decision to fire the 17 Inspectors General early into his second term.

He seems quite "fair-weather" with his political support at times to say the least.

Here is Graham getting booed in his own home state a few years ago and then immediately being defended by Trump:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b_oOyPsQ3T8
Yeah, but about that whole 'drain the swamp thing'.... I guess it's OK when we do it? Again?
 
It's that simple, but people want to kick and scream and cry over it. I don't like graham, I think he's a scumfuck and a closeted faggot, but he wins elections.
And that just means that instead of there being light on the horizon like we thought we're actually nowhere near bottom yet. Things will have to get much worse.
 
As for emergency alerts, it grinds my gears when they are overused to the point people ignore them. In my part of Kiwi Land, we get alerts for potential bad weather - a lot of which never materializes or it shifts and goes elsewhere. It's gotten to the point people treat these alerts like the boy who cried wolf and ignore them, so it's not surprising people would ignore alerts for actual bad weather happening when they get so many small alerts that prove to be over hyped nothing.
It's worse than that, it's my understanding that the alerts have the same emergency alert tone that is used for Amber / Silver / Blue??(this one is new to me and only just happened yesterday) alerts which refer to Child kidnapping in progress, Old person missing, and apparently a cop being shot(???) respectively but the range you get them from is ridiculous and so they're way too common and almost never relevant to you.

I'll get an alert about a custody dispute at 2AM and it's in an entirely different town. I wouldn't be surprised if I unconsciously turn it off in my sleep by this point.
 
It took Kristin Norm an entire 3 days to authorize search and rescue teams,l. Guess Barbie was too busy doing her nails and hair help those drowning kids, huh?
1. There were multiple warnings issued by the NWS (days in advance as well) so i do not know what "you had no warning" means here
2. The US coast guard was already deployed and on the ground at the time, and the state responders already had people on the ground as well.Apparently the FEMA delay was because of budget threshold issue? Dumb if you ask me.

But surely FEMA is more skilled at navigating floods than the COAST GUARD right?

I do not mind that you think trump is a fat pedophile and you hate MAGAts, but please attempt to hold in your retarded takes and tendencies, otherwise i implore you to get free rope.

When you're surrounded by enemies, you have to pick a direction and commit to it.

It appears like Biden importing 18 million foreign nationals forced that issue to the top of the pile.
I will say seeing the neocons still exist is exhuasting
 
I'm guessing gathering the radioactive stuff for reactors is out of the question?
No. It could be useful. If there was a demand and a need, it would absolutely be economical to separate the uranium and thorium from the tailings for commercial use. The main issues are that they are very, very low concentrations, and therefore less economically viable than conventional uranium mines, the demand for that amount of uranium and thorium isn't there, and the processing sites are not set up to separate the materials which are not rare earths. If there was some kind of large scale expansion of nuclear power and it became economically viable, it would be relatively trivial to set up a parallel processing site to extract those elements.

It's actually similar to the coal ash thing I mentioned earlier. It would actually be rather economically viable to process existing coal ash waste pools for rare earths, as the ash waste has a higher yield than most rare earth fields, but the environmental protection costs and startup costs make it unprofitable. Obviously when talking about processing hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic, slightly radioactive coal ash, we're talking about real environmental concerns beyond the abstract greenhouse gasses or whatever. Accidentally dumping ten thousand tons of coal ash slurry laden with arsenic and antimony wet with sulfuric acid into a local river would be an environmental nightmare which would Palestine, Ohio look like spilled milk.

That's not to say it shouldn't be done, or that it isn't still a good idea, just that if it is done, we need to be careful and invest in redundant protections for the environment and local communities.
 
The US coast guard was already deployed and on the ground at the time, and the state responders already had people on the ground as well.Apparently the FEMA delay was because of budget threshold issue? Dumb if you ask me.
Didn't they have a delayed response during the storms in 2024 because of budget issues? Namely the spending their funds rehousing illegal immigrants in hotels so there was nothing left for citizens? Does anyone want FEMA around at all?
 
Didn't they have a delayed response during the storms in 2024 because of budget issues? Namely the spending their funds rehousing illegal immigrants in hotels so there was nothing left for citizens? Does anyone want FEMA around at all?
Those storms were still Drumfs fault! If the Climate Denying MAGAts just handed over more power to Climate Change activists, then the floods and hurricanes would not have happened!

The experts declared as much, so it is now fact :smug:
 
I dunno if anyone is still paying attention but Biden's personal doctor has plead the 5th before every question when in front of the House Committee.

I'm not American but can you plead the 5th before what is just a investigation? And doesn't that really incriminate him, that he won't answer a single question under oath about Biden's health or his actions during that time?

I hope the DoJ puts the screws to him, he was the person most responsible for Biden's health and alerting people to his decline so the fault lies heavily on him.
 
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