As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule close out the week.  Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

*** Warning, a few definitely off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

My pride, 24/7/365.

 

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Let me be clear:  If The Potato stays in office, America is certainly done.  If Trump gets in, America may still be done.  But at least – even with a fair amount of trepidation – with Trump I believe there’s a chance.

 

 

 

 

 

That’s actually a good point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no “misinformation”.  There is only information TPTB don’t want us to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Slowly, slowly the constrictor tightens its coils.

 

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“Just following orders”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my mind there is ZERO doubt they wanted to provoke a confrontation of some sort.  And, oh look, Trump got shot and killed.  Awwww, what a shame.  Right?

 

 

There is wisdom in the saying “What we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly”.  These days, with women seemingly eager to just give it away, there’s no value anymore in courtship or delayed gratification…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

The plan, all along.  Treason.  And straight from Bertolt Brecht.

 

 

And this is a must-read essay from a few years ago:

How the Left Wins Elections by Transforming Nations – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Demographics is destiny. The left is reshaping countries to match its demographic targets. It is turning nations into one great gerrymandered district composed of populations that are more likely to support it. It is doing this using immigration, economics, social policy and every tool at its disposal. And if conservatives don’t start understanding the demographic game of thrones, then they will lose the war.

 

Stop.  All.  Immigration.  For at least 50 years.  At least.  And deport those who came here illegally – regardless of anchor baby status.  (Because you know every fertile illegal is doubtless working on getting preggers.)

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Also, if you missed it, a mega-size link post from Tuesday by yours truly.

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China’s Urgent Food Crisis: No One Farms, Farmland Gone, Frequent Disasters, High Import Reliance (youtube.com)

Video, about 17 minutes.  I did not know China was THAT dependent on food importation.

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Borepatch: Rubicon

Many analogies to Rome.  Links in the original.

The most important leader at the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic was Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus,  He was the guy who noticed that while the Roman Republic had swept all foreign enemies before it, the working class had suffered despite the great riches of empire.  Tiberius Gracchus decided to run for public office despite his great family wealth, and to put forth his formidable political skills to benefit the Roman Working Joe.  He failed, because the Roman political establishment buried their traditional political differences in the face of Gracchus’ challenge, and in fact had him killed.

In short, the Roman Deep State closed ranks to block needed reform.  It was the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic as long cherished political norms (Mos Maiorum) were cast aside.  And so two generations of the Roman political elite were exterminated in a civil war so profound that what was left of the exhausted Republican Elite welcomed the first Imperator with open arms because he ended the civil wars.

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“NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS”: Fauci Confesses He ‘MADE UP’ Covid Rules Including 6 Feet Social Distancing and Masking Kids – Geller Report

I’m not furious at a psychopath being a psychopath.  I’m furious that, with all this coming out, people don’t make the connections to grasp they got played.  Massively played.  The horrors this man did:

The House That AIDS Built (altheal.org)

But then, the bamboozle has the Covidians by the short and curlies:

 

 

EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Forced retraction of Covid vaccine cancer-risk study, scientist alleges (rebekahbarnett.com.au)

Never mind the stealth depopulation efforts here, there are literally billions of dollars in profits at stake if the Jabs are withdrawn.  You think peoples’ lives matter in this case?

Hospital Insider Testifies: COVID-19 Numbers Were Faked – Slay News

Between this and other things I’m seeing, hopefully the dam breaks on all this soon.

More bad news for those that got “The Jab”.  We’ll pray for you:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/6-major-adverse-reactions-found-among-99-million-vaccine-recipients-new-study-facts-matter-5591300

Related:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Note the deafening silence from mainstream US news media about these admissions

Also related:

Research continues to find the COVID jab caused more deaths than it prevented – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

Somehow, contracts and other “paper trail” documents are coming out showing that the Federal government was discussing Covid-19 (by that name) before it officially “existed”:

https://politicalmoonshine.com/2023/03/06/federal-contracts-timing-and-evidence-private-equity-deals-impossibly-link-bidens-to-covid-19-before-it-ever-existed-how-can-that-be

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US government enforces showing a national ID before boarding domestic flights – The Expose (expose-news.com)

Shutting down air travel.

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Huge Lithium Discovery in PA Could Supply More Than a Third of American Needs

“Could”.  Does anyone seriously think The Potato would allow it to be accessed?

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World War 3 section:

J.D. Vance: Biden ‘Sleepwalking’ America Into World War 3

Not sleepwalking.  Deliberate.

Here We Go | NC Renegades

Ukraine apparently using US weapons to attack Russian territory.

Putin warns Russia could provide weapons to strike West (bbc.com)

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Gerald Grosz: “We Have Abolished Ourselves” | Gates of Vienna

Hard thoughts, hard questions.  Related:

“The EPP is just beginning to see the perils of mass immigration”: An Interview with Geoffrey van Orden ━ The European Conservative

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Number Of ‘Problem Banks’ Climbs In 1st Quarter, New FDIC Report Finds | ZeroHedge

Economic system teetering.

$517,000,000,000 in Unrealized Losses Hit US Banking System, FDIC Says 63 Lenders on Brink of Insolvency – The Daily Hodl

Found this article the other day, and the author paints a pretty stark picture of previous financial crisis’s and why the coming financial collapse will be way worse (too much debt):

Nowhere to run (consciousnessofsheep.co.uk)

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Reminder (Again): “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a fabricated narrative from the Michael Brown case (legalinsurrection.com)

The lie that became The Narrative.

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What effect will a worldwide 5G network with its thousands of satellites have on all life and on Earth itself? – The Expose (expose-news.com)

We don’t know.

The Danger of Electromagnetic Fields – The Expose (expose-news.com)

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Victor Davis Hanson with what one of the persons commenting titled “Epitaph for America”:

The Destructive Generation—Proving America’s Weakest Link › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

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An excellent commentary on why we have “crossed the Rubicon” in our country:

America Has Crossed the Rubicon – American Thinker

Related:  The lawfare continues against Trump supporters:

Democratic State AG Hits 3 Trump Allies With 2020 Election-Related Charges | The Daily Caller

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This is a riot!  A very gay man politely educates a pro-Palestine protester about what happens to gay men under Islamic rule:

https://barenakedislam.com/2024/06/04/gay-man-very-politely-re-educates-one-of-the-totally-ignorant-queers-for-palestine/

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In the Good News department, Virginia is saying Bye-Bye to the EV mandates:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/06/05/breaking-the-first-domino-falls-on-ev-mandates-in-virginia/

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Some more good news:  Many former Dems are getting disgusted with the Democrat party and deciding to vote for Trump because of the damage being done to the country, to our legal system, and our economy:

Common Cents Blog: Meet the prominent Democrats who are voting for Trump TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY! Re-Post (commoncts.blogspot.com)

 

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And per the videos I’ve seen of him, he has some really nice braces on his teeth for someone living in a concentration camp.  More importantly, understand that there is a whole industry in Gaza of making agitprop for the consumption of “useful idiots” in the West.  See the

Like the Vietnamese, they know they can’t win militarily.  But they can tug at heart strings with a complicit and sympathetic enemedia.  One example, a post on a Telegram channel.

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

“Democrat privilege”.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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I’ll show myself out.  TGIF!

 

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Come back next Monday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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The Exodus Movement seems to have died.  But #jexit is still on.

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Kevin Landrigan … a “reporter” who works for the “conservative” Union Leader and who speaks the language of the Left. Males (biological males for you bitter-clingers when you prefer redundancy) playing girls’ sports are “reported” as “trans girls.” That is NOT reporting that is advocating:

And here is “reporter” Kevin amplifying the Woke-Communist propaganda by retweeting their propaganda … and using their rhetoric: “anti trans.”

The Union Leader is a NeverTrump trash-tabloid and Kevin Landrigan is as a practical matter a spokesman for the NH-Democrat Party.

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Have you ever seen someone you used to know whom you thought was put together well? Then you run into them years later, and they look like they just gave up. That’s Vermont.

A shadow of its once great self, unwashed hair but lots of make-up, searching other people’s pants pockets for change to feed the washing machine at the liquor laundromat.

No unfiltered Lucky Strike hanging from one chapped lip – they more or less banned those things. And so it goes. The home state of Calvin Coolidge. A land carved out between New Hampshire and New York in part by a militia and a will to self-govern, and look at it now. It gave up. Democrats rule. The state even banned militias. So, it should be no surprise that this same state has an unconstitutional religious test.

A pair of Christian foster couples is suing the Vermont Department for Children & Families (DCF) for allegedly blocking them from taking on additional foster children due to their Christian views on gender and sexuality. …

Brian and Kaitlyn Wuoti and Michael and Rebecca Gantt began fostering in 2014 and 2016, respectively, with the Wuotis adopting two brothers and the Gantts taking in three children. Brian Wuoti and Michael Gantt are both Christian pastors, as well.

Seeking to renew their license in 2022, the Wuotis were initially hailed by a caseworker who said she “probably could not hand pick a more wonderful foster family,” but mention of their Christian faith and “that they could not say or do anything that went against faith-informed views about human sexuality” prompted their license to be revoked, according to the lawsuit.

If you want more details on that, the internet has plenty. I’m not here to tote that barge or lift that bail. I’m more interested in the culture behind it—the dangerous political undertow visible at a distance, like the flag pole problem in Nashua. It’s just a flag and a pole, but that’s not the matter that should concern you most. As I noted here, yesterday,

What’s the worst that could happen? The City has to stop pretending to be non-partisan and unbiased; no more citizen flags of any stripe. That’s what Boston did after wasting two million dollars defending its viewpoint discrimination and losing. Let them do that and then we get to ask them what else about their administration is just like the flagpole

The answer is probably everything.

Nashua also has a criminal disregard for public records law. That’s a problem, but the real issue is what lies beneath it. So it goes with a State like Vermont, which—without any public announcements or citizen approval—deployed and enforced a religious test for foster parents. You’d be a damned fool to think there isn’t one for other features of State government or that the culture that abets such a thing hasn’t poisoned other wells in “the community.”

The volume of impropriety is a proverbial iceberg.

It is why we pushed back so hard on a bill to charge fees for public documents. It is why we pushed back on a Camel’s Nose red flag bill proposed by a Republican. I don’t care what protections you think you included. You can make all the sensible arguments you want; this will lead to abuses whose risk is far greater to life and liberty than the odds that a mentally unstable person will look for and find a gun-free zone in which to harm others with a firearm (the cure to which is to ban gun-free zones by the way).

We do not open these doors. They are hills to die on. And the religious test is not a fluke. It is evidence that the patients are running the asylum, and if you bother to look, you can see the results. Higher taxes. Declining services. Dumber students. Increased lawlessness. Drug crimes. Drug deaths. And the only answer the inmates can think of is for you to give them more money and power. A cabal that calls you names and tries to destroy you if you dare to push back.

And you voted for this.

So, when you think about the case of the Christian Parents, remember that this has nothing to do with their faith or yours. It is about the demise of a once great state that valued natural rights before political power. That’s what this is about. It is about watching that political system gnaw away at your rights until you have none (in the name of Democracy, no less). And you can choose to continue to ignore it or not.

It’s your state.

But I don’t advise it.

 

Note: More than a few corrections after publication – so this version differs slightly from the original.

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It is sad and unfortunate that this question even comes to the surface. The of voting early and often in Chicago should be behind us. We should have the technology to secure an election so that the outcome is beyond scrutiny. We also know it is terribly naive to think that way. I am not a political or election expert, but I think I can look at a situation objectively and apply logic to my assessment. My take on the 2020 election is there is no way in hell that Joe Biden got 81 million votes legitimately, and the Democrats effectively manipulated the results. I guess that makes me a reluctant election denier. I accept that Joe Biden is our president, but not how he found his way to the Oval Office. With America in the grasp of a global pandemic and Joe Biden rarely leaving his Delaware basement, there is no logical explanation for Biden garnering over 12 million votes more than Barack Obama did when he set the previous record in 2008. Obama was a shooting star hitting the political scene. A Black man with little Washington experience who captured the minds of Democrats and all minorities saw him as a savior. Joe Biden was an aging white man who spent his life in Washington and had little to show for his five decades of playing the system except for a healthy retirement plan he could not account for. Joe was a symbol of the past and certainly not of hope for the future, except he grasped the WOKE culture with a Black female VP and the promise of diversity even at the expense of quality.

The Democrat machine put Joe Biden in the White House, and with the hatred manufactured on the Left for Donald Trump, they probably would have been successful with Bob Menendez. The Democrats used to be the Party of the People, but now they are masters of how to use the People. They had conditioned groups like the Blacks and Browns that they were the only Party that looked out for them, and thus, they were owed their votes. They own the abortion issue and, therefore, have a stranglehold on the women’s vote. And as anti-business as their policies prove, they still command the Union votes. They do a better job of registering new voters, utilizing early voting, and creating votes with ballot harvesting. And don’t forget they have Hollywood and the media shamelessly wearing uniforms with a Big D on their chests.

The Republicans are late to the game. They still think you can win the Presidency by playing by the rules, and now they are going to battle with a man who is either revered or hated and now wears a huge F on his suit coat. Most people cannot tell you what crime Trump committed to become a convicted felon, but that does not matter. The fact that every Democrat can call Trump a convicted felon will pay dividends. Trump’s conviction will be overturned, but probably not until after the election. The damage has been done, and it may be enough to keep Trump out of the Oval and put Biden/Harris, along with whoever is really running things back in.

Do I think Trump can win? Absolutely, but his VP pick is crucial. With either man, voters know this is a one-term deal. People will actually be voting for the VP. We know Harris and her record, and she definitely should not be anywhere near the Oval Office. Trump has some incredible talent to choose from. He may be forced to play the diversity card and go with Tim Scott or Nicky Haley. Either would be a good choice, but the Republicans have to commit to playing a dirty campaign if they want to win the prize. I think they can do it, and the country needs them to do it. Let’s get it done.

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Sorry for the lack of warning about dropping the Comment of the Week again—it is temporary. I was busy and lost track of it last week, making it unlikely I’d get things in order in time for (last) Monday Morning.

This week is similar, as I suspect it will be the next few, so that’s on hold.

As noted previously, the new website, moving to a new server, and some other things that came up during the preparations have taken up the time I had to do other things, so those things will have to take a vacation.

I also suspect there will be an adjustment period when the new website is up. There will be questions about the commenting system and authors who can’t figure out how to use the new editor in the back end as well as getting things to work and look the way they should.

Yes, Growing pains for a website that’s been around for nearly twenty years (that b-day is in 2026).

Hang tight. We’ll get through this, and then I need to pester endlessly about fundraising (joy!).

 

 

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Solar was never green. The lifecycle footprint from manufacture to transportation, installation, and end of life is top-heavy, with materials and processes that produce a lot of pollution. That was true before China captured most of the market.

China made them cheaper.

[T]he majority of experts consulted by Environmental Progress agree that China’s competitive advantage did not lie in an innovative new technological process, but rather in the very same factors the country has always used to outcompete the West: cheap coal-fired energy, mass government subsidies for strategic industries, and human labor operating in poor working conditions.

The IPCC and everyone else, for that matter, had been peddling old data based on manufacturing in places like Europe that use Natural Gas to power their production facilities. But China produces “more than 80 percent of global solar-grade polysilicon, a critical input into solar arrays. It doesn’t stop there; China manufactures 97 percent of the global supply of solar wafers, another essential component.”

IPCC and others “claim solar PV is 48 gCO2/kWh. But, a new investigation started by Italian researcher Enrico Mariotti suggests that the number is closer to between 170 and 250 gCO2/kWh, depending on the energy mix used to power PV production. If this estimate is accurate, solar would not compare favorably with natural gas, which is around 50 gCO2/kWh with carbon capture, and 400 to 500 without.”

According to his findings, the carbon intensity of solar panels manufactured in China and installed in European countries like Italy was off by an order of magnitude. An initial back-of-the-envelope calculation put it at between 170 and 250g of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour (kWh), as opposed to the official estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of 20-40g per kWh. Way off.

The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans. Following Mariutti’s math, the esteemed scientific body underestimates the emissions from the EU’s solar installations built in 2022 alone by 5.4 to 7.6 million metric tons, equivalent to adding 3.4 to 4.8 million cars to the road.

While this makes for an interesting story, there is a bigger one. No one seems to care. They don’t want to invest in finding the truth, which suggests to me it is an inconvenient one, and if word got out, the general public might not be so impressed by billions of tax dollars invested in green technology to buy solar components from Chin made with dirty coal.

That’s not even the biggest act of fraud.

You can’t build any of it without fossil fuels. None of this is possible without large-scale mining operations. The rare earth metals and the not so rare have huge carbon footprints. Things like concrete and steel are impossible without coal, oil, or gas. There is no energy future free from fossil fuels, and the future promised is not cleaner than one without the so-called renewables (that need ot be replaced every decade or two).

Enrico Mariutti’s revelation is unpopular not just because it exposes fraud but because he is one of them. “An environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy.” He’s still on board; he’s just asking everyone to be honest about it, which is more than they can promise or deliver because the lie isn’t just about how dirty the new technology is; it is that it has nothing to do with CO2 or saving the planet.

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A recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) concludes that Tyson Foods is responsible for dumping billions of gallons of contaminated water into American waterways. Though efforts to curtail water pollution are surely important, aspects of the so-called “scientific” report are cause for pause. In the name of “independent public science,” the UCS report reveals pervasive partisan content that suggests the organization – and the attack on Tyson Foods – may have broader implications than merely cleaning up rivers and streams.

Tyson Report Summary

Based on EPA estimates of facility discharges and past “studies,” the UCS report carries the headline-catchy title “Waste Deep” and chronicles the detrimental impact of effluent discharges from Tyson Foods’ meat processing facilities. Certainly, the consolidation of the agricultural and food processing industries in recent decades has fostered a concentration of pollutants at the expense also of human and animal health, food security, local communities, and rural culture. However, the propaganda of the proposed woke Utopian solution would increase government regulatory domination over small operators, a more deadly threat to humanity (and the ecosystem) than polluted waterways.

The report focuses on contaminants being discharged by the company into waterways, though conceding that Tyson Foods has “indicated it was working to address water quality where it operates and put forward a goal to ‘develop Contextual Water Plans at 11 high-risk U.S. locations by 2025.’” UCS does not propose to trust the company to clean up its own operations, instead advocating to regulate the entire industry: to expand EPA, USDA, and other federal oversight of the nation’s 7,000 meat and poultry processors because of the alleged sins of Tyson, which operates 41 plants in the US. This echoes new EPA rules that expand its jurisdiction over nitrogen and phosphorous discharges by meat and poultry processors despite the massive economic compliance costs this will place on small operators.

“Filling Olympic-Size Swimming Pools”

The UCS report employs the bizarre metric of claiming Tyson’s discharges would “fill 132,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.” This unscientific alarmism reflects a politicized assessment. However much cleaning up water discharges may be justified, the attack on Tyson Foods is a Trojan Horse to advance sweeping government control of food and farming in the name of the usual Marxist suspects seen in the European Union assault against farmers there: endangered species, environmental justice, climate change remediation, equity.

UCS claims it is a purveyor not of Big Government servitude but “real science.” Its website proclaims:

“The Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists works for strong, independent public science, a robust, transparent democracy, justice for overburdened communities, and the effective use of science in making policy that serves the common good.

“If these decisions are to be practical and effective, they must be grounded in facts and evidence. If they are to be just and equitable, everyone in the community must have a voice in their making. Thus science and democracy are indispensable partners in ensuring that public decisions serve the public interest.”

The Borg have spoken – in equity-speak. The report is saturated with social justice ideology, including concern for “marginalized communities” and the always dubious “equity” word indispensable to the woke “folks.” The unscientific ideological underpinnings of this purportedly science-based report are reflected in the policy shifts advocated.

Biden’s “Social Justice” Undermines Food Supplies

This assault on small operators for the transgressions of large corporations is a longstanding ruse common to the Biden administration’s supposed environmental initiatives. Although the UCS report glowingly recounts Biden’s support of small processing facilities (nothing partisan there), it ignores that his proposed expansion of federal regulatory power over small processors will undermine profitability and cause many to close – hurting small farms and local food security. Biden’s SEC, EPA, and USDA have all similarly introduced regulatory changes that will disproportionately impact small farms and local food production. The US federal assault on small farms looks more and more like the EU assault on farmers in many nations there.

Biden’s regulations for PFAS reveal a similar inversion: Toxic “forever chemicals” will be “studied” by the EPA for years before any cessation is implemented under new rules, though these discharges will fill more swimming pools than Tyson’s effluent, churned out rapidly thanks to government funding of EVs, heat pumps, wind turbines, and solar panels that spew thousands of these toxins into the air, water, and consumer products. Biden’s vaunted PFAS drinking water standards impose the clean-up costs on the very same marginalized communities for whom the UCS claims it is advocating.

How many Olympic-size swimming pools could have been filled from 2018-2022 with the jet fuel burned in planes for recreational travel, the gasoline used to mow expansive lawns weekly, or the diesel fuel consumed by snow-making machines for ski resorts? None of these produce food, and none are targets of Biden administration environmental justice regulation.

One might think that water cleanup regulations would not exempt such low-hanging environmental fruit in favor of undermining the food supply and driving up prices.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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Nashua refuses to fly the Pine Tree flag, Manchester recognizes Friends of the Piscataquag River Park and then things go downhill fast, kids are too coddled, and who is running for what?



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