How many states made EV's illegal, how much subsidies have been misappropriated by mainstay industries, and what have lobbyists been doing to prevent the fostering of EV technology? That's like, what, 2 decades of corporate meddling and political boot licking for these "job creators"?
Preventing progress and hampering the US's competitive advantage. Why are they not labelled as traitors yet? The door may already have been closed and China owns that house. How do I know that? Let's check historic precedent in another technological field.
Most AMOLED and OLED are manufacturers in either South Korea or Japan. Sharp provides Apple with all its panels for instance. This is because both the south Korean and Japanese governments subsidized the shit out of these technologies in the mid 20th century. That's using subsidies to effectively corner markets - which is a big brain move. China may have done this for EV's already.
This is because Chinese, South Korean and Japanese politicians aren't a bunch of rubes who sold their integrity to the highest bidder and have the wherewithal to see one meter in front of their faces. This is also a problem of neo- and classical liberalism, because they still think that their "free market principles" will prevail.
Obviously not, but I would very much rather he had not directly funded and supplied a genocide and then hypocritically pretend like he didn't do any of that
This... This is an ad. This is literally a recruitment ad for Russian defectors disguised as a common article in CNN.
Lede very much unburied(exhumed?):
“Disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us,” said CIA Director Bill Burns last year during a speech in the United Kingdom. “We’re very much open for business.”
“That business is the exchange of information that the asset or agent would provide for something that they want,” said David McCloskey, former CIA officer and author of Moscow X. “We want people who have some sense of what [Russian] leaders’ priorities are – what they’re trying to accomplish.”
WCPP grants are doing some amazing things throughout the West; even for those who don't give a shit about wildlife, drivers are avoiding crashes.
It's truly unfortunate that the matching requirements are in place for those least available to come up with them and seemingly flies in the face of Biden's Justice40 initiative, which is supposed to ensure disadvantaged communities receive disproportionately more federal funding in situations like these.
many of the bedrock structures of American government, like its electoral process and its judicial system, its media, its intelligence agencies, are fundamentally and unfairly rigged against him
Typical 80% truth + 20% BS.
Of course he doesn't propose how to fix the issues, just scrap it all and get some 100% rigged for him.
That so many people don't see the parallelism with how totalitarian states came to be, is appalling.
I understand the sentiment, but it is important for felons to be allowed to run for office. I would also say that the vast majority of them should be allowed to vote as well (I would only take that away in cases which involve acts against democracy, election interference, etc--which, incidentally, this was).
Sometimes the law is wrong. How many people are felons because they smoked pot, for example?
Meh...the felon population is not supposed to be large enough to influence elections...looks up incarcerated numbers...Louisiana/Oklahoma/Mississipi: nearly 1%...ok...new voting group: the incarcerated...but...who wants to fight for that vote?
because once you take the right away from a group, somehow laws are written and enforced to make targeted population into that group. Look at drug laws. Oh, you have 2 Marijuana cigarettes? 20 years and no vote for you drug kingpen.
Not sure what that has to do with the potential for shenanigans given the public news of a sentencing date being 4 days before the nominating convention, but ok.
The charges against Trump are Class E felonies, the least serious category under New York law. Each count carries a maximum sentence of four years in prison.
Experts tend to think it is highly unlikely that Trump will face any jail time as a result of the hush money verdict.
“I’d be shocked” if Trump is sentenced to jail, Bachner said. He added that a sentence of probation would be normal for the average defendant convicted of the same crime.
[Judge] Merchan has made clear throughout the trial that he is mindful of Trump’s unique political status, and he has previously expressed reluctance to put the ex-president behind bars.
Gershman told CNBC that a jail sentence is “certainly plausible,” and that it “would not be out of bounds” for Merchan to sentence Trump to some time behind bars.
But he acknowledged that, due to the immense and complex challenges of incarcerating a former president, the judge might instead opt for a sentence of house arrest.
“This case goes to the heart of our democracy, according to the judge,” Gershman said. “He views this case as very, very serious.”
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