Princess (and heir apparent) of the House speaks

" a nation so poor, so scarce and in such dire straits as we were in that time"

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!  This woman is pure gold!!!

Of course the diktat towards renewable energy will create jobs!

Bureaucrats will be required to administer the maze of regulations.

Accountants and lawyers will be required to advise on proper strategies for meeting regulations.

Prosecutors will be required to investigate everyone for compliance with obtuse regulations and prosecute those who violate the regulations.

Defense lawyers will be required to negotiate plea settlements.

Lucre from the plea settlements will be redistributed to the favored disadvantaged (heaven forbid it go to those actually harmed).  

As a second order effect, economic activity leveraging traditional fossil fuels will be driven underground, so additional prosecutors and defense lawyers will be required to bring such scofflaws into compliance with the diktat.  

The world will switch away from fossil fuels as the primary source of energy when we...1) Run out of them, or 2) a cheaper alternative is found.

Until then, forget it.

As for O-C.....in all seriousness, I don't give a rats arse what she says aside from the comedic value.

Three of my daughters texted me that PETA deal yesterday morning on a group text.....they were howling with laughter.  For the rest of the day we texted each other with animal references and cracked each other up. 

PETA.....some more chit I don't care about.

There is much here that I agree with......but I have found that the left WILL NOT be happy with anything less than everything they want.....so I'm happy to just say no to all of it.  I think it'll all come to a head one day and we'll be forced to find some real common ground....and that'll be good.  For now, saying no to all of it seems, to me, to  be the fastest way to get to that point.....so that's where I am.  Nope.

Oh....don't misunderstand what I'm saying.  I don't think anyone is coming to the table on their own.  This deal ends in a fiery crash.  I'm just a proponent of getting there as fast as we can. 

I'm good for it,  I just don't want my kids to have to deal with that fight....let's get it done.

I don't see any way around it at the current direction.  Most of the people I deal with every day take great joy in telling us that an armed revolution is coming.  They don't have any idea what they are asking for, but it's a very pervasive theme.  Then the folks I run around with (I don't hang around with cops so I'm not insinuating that the police feel that way) say the same thing, and some of them don't have any idea what they are asking for either.....although most absolutely do and are preparing in varying degrees.

The political ideology and, on a lesser level (but not much), societal differences between the folks who live in the cities and those in rural areas are 180 degrees from each other.....not 179 or 181.....exactly opposite. I am almost 60 and I've never seen anything like it in the 31+ years I've been dealing with the public.....or before.

If you want me to pin it down I'd say it's a possibility......but it gets closer to a probability, in small increments, day by day.  All we are lacking right now is a flash point to move the needle monumentally.....look at France......and our right is France's right on steroids.

My point is that if we can't reconcile these differences soon then let's get on with it.  I'm not advocating for that, I just don't want to leave it for my kids to deal with.

I'll take your word for it.....I only know what I see on the news....and I know how skewed that is.  

Still.....the left here likes to do that stuff too.....but they won't yet try it in rural areas where the right largely resides, because it won't be tolerated.  That's really the only thing keeping this country from imploding.....the fact that the left mostly stays to itself in large urban areas and their policies have only marginally affected those living in rural areas....if at all.  Watch what happens if the left gets a majority and tries a gun ban, for instance.....rural people on the right just start laughing if you even bring it up.  But come to their homes to get them and you'll have bedlam like this country hasn't seen in nearly 200 years.  Or tax them, like France did, on a commodity they need to earn a living and preserve their way of life for their families.....just watch.

Like I said, it will take a flashpoint, but once you wake up the BIG bear it won't be pretty.

The same way I'd like it to come to a head sooner than later....no, much more so, I hope my country can find a way toward common ground.  I'd say the smart money is against that happening any time soon.
 

That's actually awesome as hell.  I would blow my house up.....or at least burn it to the ground.