Donavan Spencer

Not the usual twit

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Overriding local control, Albany politicians have massively ramped up their railroading of upstate communities, forcing them to take on the burden of far more solar farms on farmland. While in the southern tier this morning, I spoke out on behalf of the many upstate residents who are having their voices and opinions ignored and rejected by Governor Hochul and her henchmen of power hungry, out of touch Albany bureaucrats.

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

Greenwashed grift

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

The New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) is actively investing in the very foreign solar and wind corporations that lobby ORES (Office of Renewable Energy Siting) to issue them a final siting permit.

Many New Yorkers are probably unaware if they are part of the public state system, their retirements are actively investing in NextEra Energy, Brookfield Renewable, AES, Repsol, and Avangrid (foreign or foreign-led boards).

This creates a major conflict of interest that places pressure on ORES and the DPS to issue final siting permits as part of the other financial obligations the state quietly agreed to without making state workers aware.

That's one of the reasons why ORES issues these permits 100% of the time.

By having the NY pension fund buy stock in a company such as Brookfield Renewable, it provides demand for that stock. Higher investor demand supports the company's valuation and makes raising capital easier.

Brookfield Renewable is a multinational corporation out of Canada that recently acquired Boralex, another Canadian renewable corporation that is behind Fort Edward Solar. New York State and the politicians running our state are selling out our natural resources, farmland, grasslands, and water to foreign corporations while helping to boost the value of their stock.

How is this not a national security issue?

If you work for New York State, were you aware your retirement is invested in foreign renewable corporations?

Looking at just one example above, NextEra Energy, you can publicly see this in the New York State Common Retirement Fund:

-Shares: 98,010,811
-Fair Value: $208.1 million

In addition, the fund held over $122 million of bonds issued by NextEra Energy Capital Holdings.

Do you get it yet? The "green" in green energy is MONEY.

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

@FrankBr05713205 2011 Honda CRZ

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

Got any suggestions what to do with this???
@FrankBr05713205

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

All Americans should have at least the same legal right to carry as the Sikhs apparently do. All gun control is infringement.

Also, public schools should be abolished & education privatized.

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

Thank you to @epaleezeldin for calling out what’s happened to our home rule at the hands of the NY Office of Renewable Energy Siting.

It’s like a scene out of the Hunger Games. They’re pillaging our Upstate NY rural communities to appease the bureaucrats in Albany and NYC.

We need help!

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

Reminds me of how my X became a "strong independent woman" by paying her mortgage with my children's child support.

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

@JimDartt257400

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

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[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

@SeattleIndepen1 Send the owners to obedience school so that they can teach the dogs to behave.

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

But you've said nothing about the more important mechanism.

Do you acknowledge that changing Earth's albedo will lead to a change in temperature?

And then: Are you asserting that atmospheres with different surface pressures would be expected to have different surface temperatures??

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

@JamesAbbott2013 @lunadog422806 Perhaps the deficiency is in your ability to understand rather than Mike's ability to attend to the presented ideas.

Please proceed with your refutation.

Are insults the best you are capable of presenting?

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

I think Jefferson considered his aspirations to a very great extent. His personal pursuit of those aspirations however was sadly lacking.

Maybe it was Jefferson who inspired the phrase "Once you go black you can never go back?"

@Jtodd601 presents us a unique opportunity to deny the duopoly and AIPAC one of their chosen candidates. We really should Defy tRump and the "Lesters" their candidate.

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

@omgsidewalks We mock because so many are either ignorant or seemingly evil.

Solar panels on farmland in regions where it snows half the year is idiocy.

Nuclear has the least habitat destruction.

Healthy forests require management, not less CO2

And the climate has always had variations.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, and others continue to support Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner, despite comments he made that offended feminist Democrats and an accusation of violence by a former girlfriend. “Look, he has apologized for that,” said Warren, referring to Platner’s comments on social media in 2013.

In response to a Reddit post titled “shorts that prevent you from being raped,” Platner had written, “how about people just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f----ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?”

At the same time, all four Senators refused to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court after a woman alleged that he had tried to sexually assault her while they were in high school. Warren opposed the nomination, citing “credible allegations” of sexual assault. “I listened to Dr. Ford, and I listened to Judge Kavanaugh,” said Sanders. “I believe Dr. Ford.” Said Schumer, “For too long, when women have made serious allegations of abuse, they have been ignored. That cannot happen in this case.” And yet that’s precisely what Schumer has done in the case of Platner.

Some may object that the charge against Kavanaugh was more serious, but it was no more credible than the ones against Platner. An ex-girlfriend, Lindsey Fifield, said Platner “regularly grabbed her by the shoulders,” reported the New York Times, “sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm.’”

Fitfield’s accusation is difficult, if not impossible, to prove, and the same can be said of Ford’s. None of the individuals whom Ford said were at the party, including her lifelong friends, corroborated her account, and one told the Senate she had no memory of it. And a different man told Senate investigators that he was the man who assaulted Ford, not Kavanaugh.

Moreover, there is evidence of Platner misrepresenting the truth. For example, he denied he had a serious relationship with his accuser, but the Times’ reporters said they saw a text he sent her in 2016, which read, “Lyndsey, I love you in a way I can’t even describe. “You are literally everything to me.”

Platner denied knowing that a tattoo on his chest was the symbol of a Nazi death squad, but last August, “months before Mr. Platner acknowledged the tattoo himself,” noted the Times, “Ms. Fifield told friends that her ex-boyfriend-turned-Senate candidate ‘has a Nazi tattoo on his chest.’ ‘It’s a Totenkopf,’ she told them on Aug. 20, according to a screenshot she shared with The Times. ‘An actual one.’”

And Platner said he was treated in 2016 for PTSD, one of whose symptoms is uncontrolled anger and “hyperarousal and reactivity,” which is the feeling of being constantly on the lookout for danger. Platner’s campaign team did not deny Fitfield’s accusation that he fantasized about someone breaking into his home so he could rape them. “Asked about those remarks, a Platner campaign official did not dispute them,” noted the Times.

For years, Democrats have accused their political opponents, particularly Donald Trump, of being Nazis, rapists, or soft on Nazis and violence against women. And yet here Democrats are supporting a person facing credible accusations of being sympathetic to Nazism, and accusations of violence that are no less credible than the ones Sanders, Warren, Schumer, and others made against Kavanaugh.

While one interpretation of the remarks and positions taken by Sanders, Warren, and Schumer toward Platner is that they are hypocrites putting ends-justify-the-means politics before principles.

At the same time, the difference in reactions to Franken and Platner shows that accusations of sexual harassment have less salience today than in 2017. Back then, Senate Democrats did not defend Democratic Senator Al Franken after he was accused of sexual harassment, even though some progressives later said the evidence for it was weak, as they have done with Platner.

Meanwhile, the accusations against Platner do not appear to have changed the minds of many Democrats on social media nor among many voters in Maine. And even a Republican strategist told Jesse Watters on Friday that the allegations were unlikely to change the minds of many swing voters. What changed?

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[Dr Robert Ian Holmes PhD @1000Frolly]

It's not hard.
Fewer clouds = Global Warming.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

March, 2024. 60 Minutes does a segment on the "rampant disinformation" on X since Elon Musk purchased the site.

Leslie Stahl: "The site is rife with trash talk and lies."

60 Minutes actually used a post that had gotten a Community Note for being fake as evidence that X is now "rife with disinformation."

60 Minutes warned that the "disinformation" on X could ruin elections and threaten democracy. 😂

Fun facts. Before the 2020 election Leslie Stahl told the world that Hunter Biden's laptop was just a conspiracy and that it had been discredited. Both lies. Before the 2024 election 60 Minutes edited Kamala's answers to make her sound coherent. Watch out for those posts with Community Notes on X though.

[Donavan Spencer @twit4thot]

@JamesAbbott2013 @lunadog422806 Prove it wrong.

If it's so incredibly ignorant and stupid that ought to be a dead simple thing to do.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

This is a total betrayal…Do not even dare to speak on behalf of wounded women.

An Afghan man, perfect English, telling you women in Afghanistan are fine. Just fine. Don't worry.

This is not nuance. This is normalization. This is normalizing Taliban.

Let’s women in Afghanistan talk.
Women who have been flogged. Women who have been imprisoned. Women who have been denied an education. Women who have watched their lives disappear under gender apartheid.

We the women of Iran have seen this movie before. Just watch the second video.

An Iranian man, same perfect English, so relax, saying IRGC the terrorist organization that massacres protesters, and morality police are not that bad, they’re just fine and women if you don’t have fun with them!

To every Afghan woman, every Iranian woman: Be louder than these men.
Do not let anyone with microphones, normalize what is being done to your bodies, your lives, your freedom.

@UAGApartheid