Turning The Ballot Box Against Republicans

The problem is not clean oil or dirty oil it is oil itself.

And the problem with using rail to transport oil is that our rails still depend on fossil fuels to operate.

We depend on oil for transportation because republicans take bribes from oil companies and vote enmasse against environmentally friendly, cheaper, more efficient alternatives.

Oil companies look only towards the short term profits instead of the long term damage to our environment.
They would damage a pristine Alaskan refuge for a few barrels of oil and do we need a pipeline for sludge from Alaska now too?

Misdirecting technology for profit so oil is used instead of cheaper, clean energy is criminal.

What are the ecological risks of a pipeline and extending the use of dirty fuels?
The risks far outweigh any possible benefits whatsoever.

Especially when there are clean alternatives that can also employ Americans, though, republicans may not get rich off the, "misdirection".

TheCobbler wrote:

Oil companies look only towards the short term profits instead of the long term damage to our environment.
They would damage a pristine Alaskan refuge for a few barrels of oil and do we need a pipeline for sludge from Alaska now too?

The Alaskan pipelines are already built.

Oralloy wrote:

The Cobbler wrote:

Oil companies look only towards the short term profits instead of the long term damage to our environment.
They would damage a pristine Alaskan refuge for a few barrels of oil and do we need a pipeline for sludge from Alaska now too?

The Alaskan pipelines are already built.

Really? I'd read that there was no infrastructure or pipeline to carry oil out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Really? I'd read that there was no infrastructure or pipeline to carry oil out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

His supporters see his second impeachment, a historic first, as the culmination of years of unfair treatment. The belief’s ubiquity shows the resilience of his message and the power of conservative media.
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For much of the American public and for the historical record, the second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump represented a blistering censure from a coequal branch of government whose members’ lives had been imperiled days earlier by a mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol.

But many of his defenders saw the second impeachment, a first for an American president, as something else: the culmination of years of unfair treatment by a Washington establishment that was always hostile to Mr. Trump and is now trying to end his political career once and for all. Republican senators voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday against trying him for “incitement of insurrection,” in a strong sign that the Senate did not have the votes to convict him; the impeachment trial and conviction vote is set to come in February.

The rallying behind Mr. Trump serves as a powerful reminder of the lasting influence of the former president and his grievance-fueled politics, still inescapable in a country where a new leader has taken charge, a pandemic rages and reality blends with falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

Now, supporters of Mr. Trump whose blood boiled at the first impeachment are galvanized anew by the second, rising to his defense with the familiar refrains they have soaked up for years from conservative talking heads, from social media or from the president himself. Cries of a witch hunt and commands to “stop the steal.” Calling opponents “radical left Democrats” and the media “fake news.” Repeating the campaign slogan of “Keep America Great” as hundreds of thousands died of the coronavirus and the economy tanked.
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For many people, their defense of the former president can be summed up as a feeling they have deep in their gut telling them Mr. Trump was never really given a fair shake.

Or, as Mr. Duty said, “It just doesn’t feel right to me.”

With the debate over impeachment bubbling in the background of a nascent Biden presidency, the country finds itself in the middle of a fight over whether to turn the page on division or bear down on a need for accountability.

Wrangling over the impeachment of the last president has dominated the first days of the new president’s term, which was ushered in by thousands of rifle-toting troops patrolling outside the Capitol, the White House, the downtown Dunkin’ Donuts and the 7-Eleven.

For some of Mr. Trump’s supporters, the fact that a mob coalesced behind him in such a shocking manner at the Capitol was a logical outcome of the past four years.
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His supporters see his second impeachment, a historic first, as the culmination of years of unfair treatment. The belief's ubiquity shows the resilience of his message and the power of conservative media.

For much of the American public and for the historical record, the second impeachment of former President Donald J. Trump represented a blistering censure from a coequal branch of government whose members' lives had been imperiled days earlier by a mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol.

But many of his defenders saw the second impeachment, a first for an American president, as something else: the culmination of years of unfair treatment by a Washington establishment that was always hostile to Mr. Trump and is now trying to end his political career once and for all.

Sickening, ain't it?

I thought the impeachment would turn into a political story instead a rightful action taken against a lawless President.

The republican party are now the same as the President and the treasonous rioters making war against the United States.

What's worse is that 40% of Americans agree with them. Terrible era we are living in. I am not sure it is going to get better in my lifetime

because of the stupid people who thought Trump would be a better bet than Hillary back in 16, setting up the judicial branch against the majority of the people of the US. Minority rules and will for a long time.

the R's are in total disarray...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”

Law-enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio’s denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that “he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.”

They are poised to block the rest of his illegitimate agenda as well.