The Case For Biden

Going on the responses here, creepy Joe isn't doing much to warrant comment.

Now that the bogus impeachment is over...

I guess that's part of being AI droid life.

Why was the impeachment "bogus"?

Maybe because it lasted a week.

Oh, sorry, maybe because nobody in the DNC could fund the defense?

Oh, maybe it was never meant to go anywhere? Too expensive to start.

I think it’s sort of like an indication of the level of security in the person driving the vehicle.

So, rolling blackouts during blizzards in the southwest on Biden's "watch"?

About 90 percent of Texas’s grid is part of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Save for a few lines, ERCOT is largely cut off from power in neighboring states. That’s because back in 1935, the state government was eager to avoid being regulated under the Federal Power Act. The Federal Power Act was passed to regulate interstate electricity sales, in the wake of massive scandals involving utility holding companies. It established what’s known today as the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission. To this day, Texas exists outside of FERC’s jurisdiction.

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What’s happened to ERCOT should indeed pose a wake-up call, but not the one industry lobbyists have in mind. Climate change will stress energy grids in ways that are all too real, part of a vicious cycle from burning prodigious amounts of fossil fuels. Thanks in no small part to decades of lobbying from fossil fuel interests in shifting the country to the right, federal investment in modernized infrastructure that could better deal with that stress has been severely lacking.

Transforming the grid for the twenty-first century demands exactly the kind of public-serving administrative creativity that fossil fuel political spending has tried to eradicate: not just to transition off fossil fuels—letting power providers accept as well as distribute power, building out transmission lines to get electrons where they’re most needed—but to make cheap and clean power available everywhere in the country. The real message of this week’s episode in Texas is not that renewable power is inherently unreliable. Nor is it that wind can just pull all the weight on a grid (it can’t). The message is that a system that is supposed to be the tip of the spear of decarbonization is buckling under the weight of stresses that will soon look mild, as we see ever-greater changes in weather thanks to global warming.

The storm, among the worst in a generation in Texas, led to the state’s grid becoming overwhelmed as supply withered against a soaring demand. Record-breaking cold weather spurred residents to crank up their electric heaters and pushed the need for electricity beyond the worst-case scenarios planned for by grid operators. At the same time, many of the state’s gas-fired power plants were knocked offline amid icy conditions, and some plants appeared to suffer fuel shortages as natural gas demand spiked nationwide.

“No one’s model of the power system envisioned that all 254 Texas counties would come under a winter storm warning at the same time,” said Joshua Rhodes, an expert on the state’s electric grid at the University of Texas at Austin. “It’s putting major strain on both the electricity grid and the gas grid that feeds both electricity and heat.”

Biden's handlers, and their "plans" for the nation. Bow down, folks.

We don't expect presidents to control the weather.

Rebuilding the nation's electric power grid has been a concern for years; this may stimulate a more effective response.

In 1988, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5206, was enacted to support State and local governments and their citizens when disasters overwhelm them. This law, as amended, establishes a process for requesting and obtaining a Presidential disaster declaration, defines the type and scope of assistance available from the Federal government, and sets the conditions for obtaining that assistance...

...The Governor’s request is made through the regional FEMA/EPR office. State and Federal officials conduct a preliminary damage assessment (PDA) to estimate the extent of the disaster and its impact on individuals and public facilities....

...Normally, the PDA is completed prior to the submission of the Governor’s request. However, when an obviously severe or catastrophic event occurs, the Governor’s request may be submitted prior to the PDA. Nonetheless, the Governor must still make the request.

It must be very difficult for you, not being able to decipher sarcasm and satire from statements.

I guess that's part of being AI droid life.

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Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to suggest that the crisis offered the country an important lesson: Democratic leadership is bad.

“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” Abbott said Tuesday, offering an obviously polished turn of phrase focused on a Democratic proposal for redirecting the economy away from greenhouse-gas-emitting energy sources. About a quarter of the state’s electricity generation in 2020 came from wind and solar, according to data from the unfortunately-named Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT.

“Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis,” Abbott continued, arguing that this showed that “fossil fuel is necessary.”

As many others have noted, this is wildly misleading. Most of Texas’s power generation comes from fossil fuels; nearly 60 percent of its 2020 generation was from coal and natural gas. The majority of the production that went offline was from natural gas plants. As Bloomberg News reported, wind made up a disproportionately small part of what was taken offline due to the freezing conditions.

Abbott’s interview was jarring: The governor of a state sitting in a presumably warm, well-lit room, telling the country that millions of his state’s residents were sitting in cold, dark houses because of those devious Democrats — and that they are coming for you next.

It immediately brings to mind Republican Donald Trump’s odd reelection strategy as racial-justice protests emerged last year. In tweets, speeches and multiple campaign ads, Trump suggested that acts of violence that had occasionally spun off of those protests were a mark of what would happen under his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden — as though they weren’t currently happening with Trump as president. Trump’s campaign literally argued that video images of things happening in 2020 under Trump were a bleak vision of the future in Biden’s America.
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Biden's snub of Netanyahu sets the tone for more evenhanded U.S.-Israel relationship
I hope it is sign of more even handedness between Palestine and Israel by the US.

Why was the impeachment "bogus"?