"A Democratic operative who has seen private polling on how a number of issues could move the 2024 presidential election — like health care, the economy and immigration — told NOTUS that, improbably, no issue was benefiting Democrats more than Project 2025. And, predictably, Democrats are capitalizing on the unpopular plan.”
Not literally true; the most recent figures I’ve seen make it look like US field production of crude oil has been going down since November 2023. But you sort of have a point as regards continued extraction going up and up, which is a problem. If anything I am saying sounds like “and that’s why everything is fine and we don’t need to reduce anything else at this point,” I am not saying that.
There’s a huge amount of the impact of the Democrats’ action in the last 4 years which is not simply extraction, though. Here’s a summary of the estimate of the impact, and here’s a followup about how it’s been going.
If you want to have a conversation about how the law is working in practice, which is based on analysis instead of on talking points, then sure we can do that. But I feel like the direction of “and that’s why it doesn’t matter who is president” (if that is something that would argue – not putting words in your mouth, just getting to the heart of the matter) will be incompatible with almost any conceivable fact based analysis of what’s going on.
Faaaascinating
So you’re super upset about the tariffs on Chinese EVs, but you don’t really care about other aspects of recent legislation regardless of their impact on the landscape? Do I have that right?
Depends on how you measure. This is the first result I came up with when looking into it – however, there’s an important aspect of it that that doesn’t delve into. Working class wages rose by about 32% during that period, unadjusted – meaning that yes inflation ate up 20 percentage points of that gain, but also, the poorest Americans actually saw wages go up by a massive amount even under the punishing 2022 inflation. That, to me, is notable, and highly unusual even for a Democratic president (because yes they are corporate friendly scum quite a lot of the time; on that we can agree). No? I’m not bothered that tech workers at the top of the scale lost 3% of their wages relative to inflation, if you pick the exact right start and end points.
Fuckin citation needed lol
True dat
Fuck the DNC; on that we can agree
here’s an article i read not too long ago from a reputable organization that proves that this is literally true
the policies are put in place to guarantee american hegemony and it doesn’t matter if it’s the chinese or the americans that will continue to fuck over the world for their own interests; i need these green products to continue earning a living in this country and so do many other people.
nice cherry picking
this one is literally in recent living memory and so easy to find on google that it’s crystal clear you’re sealioning.
then why did you use it as an example that democrats have changed?
Yes. It was true in October and November of 2023, and then it stopped being true as domestic production fell from the peak it achieved in those months. Pretty sure I touched on this.
Your link is actually a really good overview of a lot of the issues involved, why this is still a massive problem whatever level of “progress” has been made, and the successes and failures of the current administration. Like I said, if you’re up for a fact based discussion, that sounds great. It sounds like maybe you are not though. Like you didn’t even seem to be aware that both of our arguments give the same date for the peak; you offered the October 2023 article as a sort of counterargument for me saying the peak was November 2023…
This is a fascinatingly specific type of non-answer to what I asked you. I asked whether climate-friendly policies that don’t directly impact China were of interest to you. It kinda sounds like the answer is “no”…
Focusing on working class wages is not cherry-picking. I care more about what happens to working-class wages than I do about overall wages (although, it’s also relevant that the biggest decline that I could find for overall wages relative to inflation was 3 percentage points). Doesn’t that seem like a good thing to focus on? Or no?
Yeah. Biden used to be much more conservative; he was part of that whole Clinton revolution of right-wing Democrats that was so horrifying in the 1990s. I didn’t expect all that much out of him and then he somehow wound up being this super-progressive president, by the standards of Washington, and the Democratic congress more or less (with some fuckin HUGE asterisks on that it’s true) went along with it. I was surprised. We need more of that; he was, of course, only progressive by the fairly low standards of Washington.
But it’s still weird to me that you’re clinging to the talking points when I’m clearly open to the conversation. IDK. Good luck I guess. You’re giving me a chance to air out some of the factual details and expand on them, so I’m fine with talking about it even if you don’t seem like you can really make sense of what I’m saying.
You are aware that “the Democrats” are not a monolith; that they have multiple people and even multiple subgroups within them? I used Bernie Sander’s almost-successful candidacy as an example. The group of Democrats that kneecapped his presidency, I don’t like, no. Replacing those jerks sounds great.
you’re assuming it was only 2023; here’s another article that shows fossil fuel generation is increase is trend upwards and estimated to continue onwards into 2025
my response converts the theory into impact; people are hurting because of these policies and the biden administration is ignoring that damage; as biden has always done.
biden hasn’t changed; the issues around him have changed and it only seems that biden has evolved because he needed to votes from the people that he had been shitting on for decades; as biden has also always done.
you only shared justification for shitty policies and minimized of the only facts presented with citations in this entire exchange.
I am getting the strong impression that my attempts to engage in good faith are wasted on you
Good luck with your talking points I guess
Turns out, if you’re reductive enough, you can make anything seem like it’s the same as anything else.