He also didn’t use the levers of power he had effectively. He was playing gentleman’s rules whilst the real threat to the country (from within) waited for him to get out of the way.
The Supreme Court nominations is the obvious one, but he should have been reinforcing all the checks and balances in the system, possibly even relinquishing powers away from the Office of the President where they have accumulated over 250 years.
Bin Laden wasn’t the threat. His own position was.
Think a couple of levels deeper.
We already know that establishment democrats are fiscally captured. That’s the whole point of the DSA candidates. This isn’t news. So why now? Obviously, the midterms.
California isn’t in play next week, but lots of other places are. So a story running now doesn’t really harm establishment Californian Democrats. They’re safe. It harms other democratic candidates (probably more socialist leaning candidates) in other knife-edge states by party association.
What does somebody, who’d like these progressive democrats to lose, do a couple of days before national elections? They call up a journalist who is already pro-wealth-taxes and feed them a (true) story about Californian Democrats fighting against wealth-taxes. Story goes viral and a few blue voters stay home because “the Democrats are corrupt”. Republicans edge a seat or two that they’d otherwise had lost.
That’s what they hope, at least.
Who fed the story to the journalist? Don’t know. Could be pro-Trimp factions. Could be a Republican campaign. Could be establishment members of the Democrats that would rather see the midterms lost than lose control within the party.
Regardless, it’s all voter manipulation and needs to be ignored until after the election.
The company hasn’t lost anything. The investors in the company lost money.
That’s not a bubble bursting. It’s not nearly enough fallout. These are the warning signs.
None of those need to be humanoid or dogoid.
Simple truth: if you own a house, you would want house prices to go up, forever.
Hardly. I need a house. If my house price crashes to $5, I’ll be able to get a much nicer one for $10. Just $5 extra investment.
The problem comes when you’ve borrowed against the house at the higher price. Negative equity is no joke, but I don’t care what my house is worth otherwise. It’s value is completely unavailable to me.
Sure, but there was still a bubble and it burst.
Given the grass root opposition they’re getting, there’s still a lot of “could”. It’s also been repeatedly reported as a vote loser in the current US midterm elections.
Yeah. Just bolt bigger blades on it. Simples.
You haven’t heard of a weight battery because the weights need to weigh something close to a lake to be useful.
Companies come up every so often selling the idea and then people realise that the energy stored in the tower, mine, or whatever is about the same as a couple of EV batteries unless you have something the size of a lake.
You have to over build and you have to diversify. As many different types of generation as you can.
Nuclear probably has a role. However it doesn’t fit well in a dynamic generation scenario. It doesn’t like just sitting there waiting to fill in the gaps left by solar and wind. It wants to be a full power all the time just due to economics.
If we could get tidal working, that would be superb. Regular, predictable and almost universal.
The trends on wind and solar have been clear for at least a decade if not more. The time for nuclear was last century when it had no serious competition.
…and I think they’ve all gone “Screw that! Gas turbines are cheaper. Fuck the emissions.”
…and it’s still 20 years away.
Marginally? Wind turbines are close to 15MW each now. 10 years ago it was more like 5-10MW. 30 years ago it was 3MW for an offshore turbine.
You don’t think that’s significant progress? 5x the power. You don’t think that requires improvements in technology?
Even France is replacing nuclear with other sources in the long term.
Ha ha, very funny.
Seriously, what benefits do they see, or are they just blind to the problems?
Libre office certainly exceeds the web edition of office in functionality. I’m not aware of a gap to the desktop version, but I’m not a power user for sure. That lack of multi-user editing is almost a feature for me given how often other people have screwed up my spreadsheets in Excel.
What i think really happens is that people compare whilst trying to swap documents back and fore with MS office. When judged on that level it comes off poorly, but that’s not a fair metric. MS has intentionally worked against compatibility.
…because allegations don’t get it done.
We need him bang-to-rights. No wiggle room. Conclusive evidence. He’s the most powerful man in the world and he shrugs off allegations.