It's either because counting is harder for the Dumbocrats, or corruption.
I know where my vote lies.
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I know where my vote lies.
Not by the sword, komrade. Rather by the magic wand. The global warming/climate change magic wand.
- Norway has some very aggressive domestic green energy policies. Sounds great. Good for them.
- At the same time, Norway has nationalized their fossil fuel industry. A large portion of their GDP is generated from exporting fossil fuels. Top 3 exports: natural gas, crude petroleum, refined petroleum.
- They buy carbon credits from other countries to “offset” and to look good in the carbon emissions rankings yet almost all of the dollars used to purchase said carbon credits are generated from selling fossil fuels to other countries.
Round and round we go…as they wave their magic wand.
- Norway’s “Oil Fund”, which was originally set up in 1990 (they now call it their “Global Government Pension Fund” because it sounds “greener”) benefits ONLY Norwegians and is funded almost exclusively by the profits from the sale of fossil fuels to other European countries and beyond. Sounds pretty nationalistic to me. The Oil Fund currently has $1.5 trillion in assets which is 3 times more than Norway’s GDP. Almost 25% of the Norwegian government’s income comes from fossil fuel revenues.
- The Norwegian government has awarded 700 NEW fossil fuel drilling licenses in the past decade. SEVEN HUNDRED!!! Just in the last 10 years alone. The oil and gas within fields already licensed but not yet developed in Norway will generate an additional three billion tons of CO2emissions — 60 times Norway’s current annual domestic emissions.
I don’t care what they do energy wise domestically because Norway is a tiny little country with 5 million citizens & their energy consumption barely shows up as a tiny blip on the global radar. The bottom line is that Norway’s GLOBAL carbon footprint has gotten much worse since 1990 and exponentially worse in the last decade…if you factor in the huge expansion of their nationalized fossil fuel licensing, extraction & export program. It is ridiculously naive and disingenuous to do otherwise.
One could easily make the case that the main reason they have “gone green” domestically is because it is much more profitable for them to sell the fossil fuels on the global market then it is to consume them domestically. They know that those reserves will run out eventually so they are capitalizing on export profits now and enriching their citizens via the Oil Fund. Even to the extent that they are currently exploiting countries hit the hardest by the energy shortages caused by the Ukraine/Russia war. Enriching Norwegian citizens at the expense of killing the planet all while exploiting their European neighbors. That’s the epitome of nationalistic.
Not to mention the fact that 80% of their population is made up of white, Norwegian born citizens who are at least third generation or beyond. Sounds pretty nationalistic to me.
Also, with very few exceptions, the only immigration to speak of is from other European nations and almost exclusively “white” immigrants. At the very least it is about as far from “global citizenry” as you can get. “Nationalistic” would be the nicest way to describe their immigration policy. But if we actually applied your standards that you spew on this site daily then we would have no choice but to call Norway’s immigration policy “racist” & “xenophobic”. Yet you don’t do that. Instead, you call America racist & xenophobic & you crown Norway as the gold standard country of the global community. Why is that, komrade?
So yeah, Norway is 100% one of the most nationalistic countries in the world. That’s not even debatable. They are looking out for Norway…and ONLY Norway…and their GLOBAL Carbon Footprint per capita is as bad as any country out there BECAUSE they are extremely motivated by nationalism.
It’s just that useful idiots like you have fallen for their sleight of hand magic trick.
The funniest part about all of this is that you championing Norway as the gold standard exposes you as a closeted Trump fan. You’re just too blinded by the MSM’s portrayal of Trump as “literally Hitler” and by your own utopian socialistic democracy nonsense gibberish agenda to realize it. Two of Trump’s biggest campaign promises…
1) Drill, baby, drill!!!
2) Shut down the border.
Norway beat him to the punch on both policies about 35 years ago and they have done nothing short of doubling down on both policies in the last decade. Sooo…
Welcome to Team MAGA, komrade!!!
They call it...Celine...
If you all want a good laugh... Disney has spent over $400 million and reshot this movie 3 times and it's apparently so bad in focus groups that Disney is hiding the trailer... LOL
They need over $1billion to break even on this movie. LOL. Just a week ago the stock surged after Iger "lied" about their economic situation... I wonder what Disney stock will look like in the spring? $115 today.... Tick Tock.
Longtime lurker of GYERO and recently started reading this as a way to understand the more conservative side. I have no intention on debating, I just want a good discussion from both parts of the spectrum.
Not my business but DARN the time you wasted on Celine...
Didn’t he have those fake tits and pretend to breastfeed? If so he is probably ok and good with squandering billions. I’d even bet he has a political future.
I also should have said, “chest feeding”, so it was culturally appropriate.
Remember this when the media starts telling you that deportations are really unpopular, and it will cost politicians their jobs....
Want a real treat. How'd you like to see how all the individual donors to the Demo communist party are "produced".... Think bots, AI, and scripts used in username production, account payments, and one-payer or a few payer accounts are created by the thousands or tens of thousands plus... Power BI as well....
It would not, make your day ....
All that needs to happen is let lawsuits get to the discovery phase ... Yeah, right in my best Nipsey Russell voice....
It would not, make your day ....
All that needs to happen is let lawsuits get to the discovery phase ... Yeah, right in my best Nipsey Russell voice....
Are they down that much or did they just stop lying about how many people believe that shit?
This is murder. The people involved need to be arrested and held until trial. Preferably in a tent in the yard of a prison north of where this took place.
But hey, the roads are less racist now, right?
No name calling, just a rational look at state of world affairs, link to article in tweet.
30 yrs ago he'd have been shtcanned or worse for this. Time to bring back accountability for all of this graft and kickbacks
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Didn’t see this mentioned in the article, but china’s youth unemployment is at a 20 year high. It’s rivaling the peak height from 1989.
I am cautiously optimistic that Trump and his staff will be bullish enough towards China that this added stress combined with the thing I mentioned earlier forces China to ramp down the rhetoric.
Department of defense has been getting fleeced for decades by Boeing and others. I am hopeful that this is also corrected.
Wrong,...much more than half.
Steal from taxpayers and the penalty should be capital punishment and recoup the funds no matter WHERE they are at. Take relatives money to get it all back
It's not 2016 anymore. Even Rand has had enough of this shit. LOL
Sunny finding out she's a racist slave owning hypocrite... IT's a big LOL.
In fairness, DoD is not a business and will never be able to comply with business accounting rules. Consider purchasing an aircraft, it isn't "depreciated" over time as one example. There needs to be rules for DoD accounting. If the DoD eliminated all the DEI bullshit, then we'd be off to a good start.
I get what you're saying but it's not like we are talking about missing a few million dollars that can be written off as depreciation. They can't tell you where billions went. Like Jon said... You should be able to tell me where $1billion is spent even if it isn't stolen or wasted.
The DOD has plenty accounting rules. The issue is the expenditures do not balance with the purchases. The figures spent cannot be "married" to what was purchased.
If some examples are required, check the rules...
The standards are simple. The "paper-based" procurements do not add up. Bet you the electronic version isn't implemented as it should be..... Just postponed... Indefinitely for the areas of expenses used....
And for the record... Macron said he was going to put French troops in Ukraine... When people speculated 18k to 20k wouldn't be enough to do anything Macron proved how inept his threat was by saying he only willing to send 2000. These people aren't serious. They just want to force the US into the war to clean up their mess just like always.
Something not being said here, is that Russia through extension of the Wagner group have basically turned all former African French colonies against the French.
I believe the French government is more pissed about this than most of us over here understand. Lots of revenue through exports is now lost and several have began to reject the franc as their currency. Will be interesting to see what happens.
Yea. Macron damn near lost his election to a lady who was wanting to pull out of Africa altogether.
Harvey pointing how conspicuously quiet Hollywood is with Diddy allegations. For such morally superior humans you'd think they would be outraged at the allegations against one their "friends".... Weird right.
Macron, Trudeau, Biden, the adults are in charge? Each has made the world worse in their own unique way.
This is picking up more and more steam. It's not '16 anymore. People are going to jail this time. Lot big talk right now in Dem strongholds.
Need action, not talk, tired of talk
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