RE: The Absurd GOP
May 28, 2023 at 12:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2023 at 1:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
Texas Senate Moves To Shut Down Renewable Energy Permanently
Texas Republicans in the Senate are hoping to permanently cripple the renewable energy industry in the state with amendments on a must-pass bill.
For years, solar and wind energy in Texas has been helped along by generous subsidies and public support. In fact, Texas now produces more wind energy than any other state in the nation, thanks partially to support from official channels.
That started to change once renewable energy began to challenge the supremacy of fossil fuels. Renewable energy, which is far cheaper to produce, accounted for more than a quarter of the state’s electricity last year. That’s more than a 2,000 percent increase since 2022.
It’s unsurprising considering that much of the Republican Party in Texas is guided by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, itself funded by two Texas oil and gas moguls. The TPPF has repeatedly lobbied against accountability for fossil fuel generators and overstated the dangers of renewable power.
https://www.reformaustin.org/texas-legis...rmanently/
Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy
A recently elected GOP District Chair in Georgia, would like to know why Big Globe won’t stop shoving round-Earth propaganda down our throats.
In an interview with David Weiss (AKA “Flat Earth Dave”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers.”
“All the globes, everywhere” Taylor said later in the discussion. “I turn on the TV, there’s globes in the background … Everywhere there’s globes. You see them all the time, it’s constant. My children will be like ‘Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe’ — they’re everywhere.”
“That’s what they do, to brainwash,” she added. “For me if it’s not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I’m like, it doesn’t make sense.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...234741082/
Texas Republicans in the Senate are hoping to permanently cripple the renewable energy industry in the state with amendments on a must-pass bill.
For years, solar and wind energy in Texas has been helped along by generous subsidies and public support. In fact, Texas now produces more wind energy than any other state in the nation, thanks partially to support from official channels.
That started to change once renewable energy began to challenge the supremacy of fossil fuels. Renewable energy, which is far cheaper to produce, accounted for more than a quarter of the state’s electricity last year. That’s more than a 2,000 percent increase since 2022.
It’s unsurprising considering that much of the Republican Party in Texas is guided by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, itself funded by two Texas oil and gas moguls. The TPPF has repeatedly lobbied against accountability for fossil fuel generators and overstated the dangers of renewable power.
https://www.reformaustin.org/texas-legis...rmanently/
Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy
A recently elected GOP District Chair in Georgia, would like to know why Big Globe won’t stop shoving round-Earth propaganda down our throats.
In an interview with David Weiss (AKA “Flat Earth Dave”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers.”
“All the globes, everywhere” Taylor said later in the discussion. “I turn on the TV, there’s globes in the background … Everywhere there’s globes. You see them all the time, it’s constant. My children will be like ‘Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe’ — they’re everywhere.”
“That’s what they do, to brainwash,” she added. “For me if it’s not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I’m like, it doesn’t make sense.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...234741082/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
