Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.
@SecretaryWright you are celebrating this like it’s some grand free-market correction, but that’s not what’s happening.
What ends on July 4 are specific tax credits for new wind and solar projects that haven’t started construction. Existing projects keep their credits, and projects already underway can still qualify. So right out of the gate, framing it as “ending subsidies” broadly is a lie. It’s narrowing one set of incentives, not eliminating government support for energy.
The bigger problem is the selective outrage. Fossil fuels have been subsidized for more than a century through tax breaks, below-market leasing, royalty relief, and direct support. This administration just pushed hundreds of millions into coal. So if you are “thrilled” about ending subsidies, you should explain why coal still gets taxpayer money. Otherwise it’s not about subsidies.
Wind and solar are now among the cheapest new power sources in much of the country. Cutting these credits doesn’t magically make electricity cheaper. It makes new renewable projects more expensive, which means utilities either pass higher costs to consumers or delay building new capacity. That tighten supply and raise prices.
And of course you are doing this when demand is climbing fast, especially with AI data centers, electrification, and population growth. Killing off cheaper generation while claiming you’re protecting consumers is backwards.
So the stupid part isn’t changing tax policy. Governments do that all the time. The stupid part is pretending this is ending “market distortion” while actively subsidizing fossil fuels and making some of the cheapest forms of new electricity harder to build. That’s not the free market. That’s ideology dressed up as economics. Oh and stupid.
@lynam@mattvanswol@JohnKasich You should ask that question directly to the party that's in charge right now. FEMA stands for the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE and os managed by the DHS.
@ikonix360@BrendaJeanCDN@Suzierizzo1 Your hypothetical is more of the same MAGA pointless Biden comparisons y'all like to do. You guys don't even respond to legitimate questions let alone hypothetical.
Sellers: “We are going to be the first generation to actually leave this country worse than the one that we inherited.
Bakari: And I think for black millennials, uh the the the progress that our parents and grandparents gave us, that we're watching being ripped away from us is something that our generation is going to have to really wrestle with and and figuring out how we get out of this conundrum.
If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a TV show and we wear nice suits.
They they swapped out clan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits. And and that is the problem.
I mean, Plessy v. Ferguson was 7-1 and it gave birth to 50 years of Jim Crow.
What we have with this court right now, what we're seeing is is watching people who have fought and died and bled so that we would have access to the ballot box, so that we would have access to our voices being heard in Congress, being ripped away.
And and I think that there is a casual laughter from people we believe to be our friends on the right who are showing us true colors today because the most sacred or one of the most sacred acts you have in the United States of America is the ability to cast a ballot and elect someone and send them to Congress, the state house or mayoral seat that represents your interest and now black folks throughout the South are being silenced.
This is the disgusting world trump has cultivated. While minding their business doing their work, they get harassed for no other reason because of the color of their skin.
Two Puerto Rican brothers, U.S. citizens from Connecticut were harassed while landscaping in a Middletown neighbourhood.
Jose Martin (owner of J. Martin Landscaping) and his brother were trimming trees and cleaning a customer's yard when a couple confronted them over noise.
The pair yelled insults, demanded to see work visas, accused them of being illegal, and said, "This is why we need a border wall right here."
Jose stayed calm, recorded the encounter on his phone, and called police. The brothers, Puerto Rico natives who have lived in Connecticut for decades, needed no visas as American citizens.
Robert Shaw, 62, and Sharon Bourgeois-Williams, 58, were charged with disorderly conduct. The mayor condemned the incident as unrepresentative of the community.
Trump fell asleep with his face drooping in the Oval Office during a meeting today. This is a real video that should concern every American. He’s not fit to serve.