AlBorlantern Corps posted:

Dumbest question I've ever asked.

Can we just shut off power at night to most people? What if like, use electricity during the day. At night, when it's dark. Just like, go to bed? Could they do that? I feel like maybe that would cut emissions a lot?

Spaced God posted:

I mean.... There are people who work night shifts who would like to be able to use electricity

mdemone posted:

If I kill myself first, I won't have to find out!

mdemone posted:

a single gunshot echoes through the thread

InsertPotPun posted:

"I'm black from the waist down."

Edit: not a joke. That's what he told reporters.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

MSNBC is on and it sounds like the Votes will be soon.

Lightning Knight posted:

In Wisconsin, electricity is tied to heat generation. Also this assumes that no one needs to do anything at night or is even allowed to do things at night, which is bizarre.

Rich Uncle Chet posted:

Every second I’m forced to think about the Mooch’s penis is also a second I want global warming to kill me right now

coffeetable posted:

thanks! but then why was the 16th amendment needed?

The Glumslinger posted:

Wasn't a nude selfie supposedly part of Mueller's giant collection of evidence in some case?

AlBorlantern Corps posted:

Dumbest question I've ever asked.

Can we just shut off power at night to most people? What if like, use electricity during the day. At night, when it's dark. Just like, go to bed? Could they do that? I feel like maybe that would cut emissions a lot?

ewiley posted:

The problem with a wealth tax is liquidating even 1-2% of everyone's wealth annually would lead to the stock market absolutely tanking and a massive shift of wealth to tax havens (even more than now). This might be your desired outcome, but it would not be popular.

OctaMurk posted:

Taking 30% of peoples wealth would either result in them doing even more heinous poo poo to keep that wealth, or an unsustainable tax base once that wealth is all taxed away.

TGLT posted:

Alternatively we could just regulate the companies that are responsible for the majority of climate changing emissions and poo poo. Would be a lot easier and more efficacious than figuring out weird night time power rationing.

Rex-Goliath posted:

hell no. Congress has the right to levy taxes however it sees fit.

quote:

Shortly after Donald Trump’s election, a Disney crew was dispatched to the White House to record the new president’s voice, which would be played through an animatron at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents. It was a typical right of passage for a new president. But Trump was thrilled by the idea. He also had an odd request.

Trump wanted his robotic likeness to tell Disney-goers that Americans had invented the skyscraper and to remind them of his own career in real estate.

“Then I could add a little, ‘Which, of course, I know a thing or two about,’ right?” Trump suggested his robot say, according to an account of his remarks in a new book, Team of Vipers, by former senior White House aide Cliff Sims.

Disney brass objected to the request, saying that Americans hadn’t actually invented the concept of a skyscraper—it’s “just a taller building,” one protested—and Sims agreed to strike the line from the pre-recorded Disney speech. But the anecdote illustrated one of the major themes that has defined the Trump era: The president, and many of his top aides, have had immense difficulty grasping the enormous duties of their office.

“This,” Sims wrote of the Disney encounter, “was a presidential duty that filled the President with unusual boyish excitement.”

AlBorlantern Corps posted:

Dumbest question I've ever asked.

Can we just shut off power at night to most people? What if like, use electricity during the day. At night, when it's dark. Just like, go to bed? Could they do that? I feel like maybe that would cut emissions a lot?

haveblue posted:

There's a ton of stuff that needs electricity to work at night in a modern standard of living. Refrigerators. Heating and cooling. Streetlights and traffic lights. Rapid transit. Communication networks. Hospitals. We can't just stop the world when the sun goes down any more.

Rex-Goliath posted:

so i thought that's what was covered but apparently it is pretty complicated, huh.

ZypherIM posted:

You know, after you pass a tax reform saying "we're taking X amount", you don't have to stop and just sit back and let them gently caress you over anyways. Give the IRS a budget and fund them an extra department to go after people trying to do "even more heinous poo poo".

The number of actual people negatively impacted by poo poo like this is actually really loving small, they just have the money to let them yell the loudest at congress to try to prevent something like this from happening. If they want to take their liquid capital and run and we can't stop them, well they have to leave a lot of material poo poo behind and honestly we'd be better off without them.

quote:

Scaramucci had just finished up an interview on the White House’s north lawn, Sims recalls, when he “was approached by several cameramen from one of the networks, each of whom wanted to take a photo with him.” As he snapped selfies, Scaramucci “put both hands on his belt buckle, leaned in close to the cameramen—each of whom happened to be African American—and said, ‘Can I tell you guys something? We’ve already hit it off, and I think I know one of the reasons why.’ Mooch paused for a few moments to build the anticipation. ‘It’s ’cause I’m black from the waist down.’”

quote:

Asked on Thursday if he’d like to comment about the moment, Scaramucci texted The Daily Beast: “Nah thanks though.”

A year ago, when The Daily Beast had first heard that Scaramucci had a habit of cracking this particularly joke, he had feigned ignorance, suggesting the joke “sounds racist.” When asked if that was a denial, he would only say, “I have no further comments. Ask your editor if he thinks that is a good idea to write that.” The Daily Beast ultimately didn’t run the story on grounds that the former White House comms director’s endowment didn’t have an obvious news hook)

quote:

In Team of Vipers, Sims recounts Trump lavishing praise upon Fox Business host Lou Dobbs—at the mild expense of Sean Hannity, another Fox host and top Trump confidant.

“Lou, I’ve been thinking a lot about it and I really think you might be the best,” the president told “Lou,” according to Vipers. “I’m serious. Honest to God, Lou, I think you’re the best who’s ever done it. You’ve got a certain way that you do things. Now you know Hannity—Sean is wonderful, so good. But I honestly think you may be better. And you know why? It’s not just information, Lou. It’s great information but it’s more than that; it’s entertainment.”

As The Daily Beast previously reported, the president’s affection for Dobbs is so complete that he has even patched the TV anchor in on speaker phone during high-level Oval Office meetings. Trump has also repeatedly mocked Hannity’s interviewing style, decrying it as lazy, boring, “dumb,” and too suck-up-y, three people with direct knowledge told The Daily Beast in November.

“It’s like he’s not even trying,” Trump said, one source recalled, just before the president launched into a rough Hannity impersonation, and complaining that host’s questions about how “great I am” give him nothing to work with.

Xequecal posted:

That depends on how much the political climate has shifted in 12 years and how much people still care about the third world, because it's going to be them doing the dying.

Rex-Goliath posted:

so i thought that's what was covered but apparently it is pretty complicated, huh. Yeah I have no clue- it may require an ammendment

Dick Trauma posted:

https://twitter.com/NBC29/status/1088517995318689795

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cspan/status/1088517476919504897

ZypherIM posted:

You know, after you pass a tax reform saying "we're taking X amount", you don't have to stop and just sit back and let them gently caress you over anyways. Give the IRS a budget and fund them an extra department to go after people trying to do "even more heinous poo poo".

The number of actual people negatively impacted by poo poo like this is actually really loving small, they just have the money to let them yell the loudest at congress to try to prevent something like this from happening. If they want to take their liquid capital and run and we can't stop them, well they have to leave a lot of material poo poo behind and honestly we'd be better off without them.

Critical posted:

The fact that I am suddenly on tenterhooks for news about The Mooch's pumphandle has me in a deep emotional hole.

I'm also on prednisone at the moment so hooray for mood swings. At least I'm worrying about a strangers cock instead playing chicken on the highway.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cspan/status/1088517476919504897

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cspan/status/1088517476919504897

Critical posted:

MOTHER

loving

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Ague Proof posted:

OctaMurk posted:

Yeah.. after you fund programs relying on taxing people at 30% of their wealth.