Meanwhile: You can chat about Biden actually doing what Trump would not; pull troops out of Afghanistan. That will happen this September, less than 9 months after he assumed office. Trump plan to pull out of Afghanistan is in the same place his TrumpCare health plan and his 1500 mile long, 50-foot tall, border fence across fenceless Texas are.
Monkeys Skyping wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
Always.
Freshman Senator Ossoff helps broker a deal between Korean conglomerates to build EV batteries in Georgia. Ford and Voltswagen breathe sigh of relief.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/how-bitter-korean-rivals-settled-a-rift-that-threatened-georgia-battery-plant/B7J76F3Q7NGJ5EUXVCMY2P2LOA/No available picture of him ripping his shirt off and flexing . . .
The AJC story is behind a paywall so I couldn't read it.
I do know that the factory was mostly built before Ossoff was elected. I'm not sure how much he was involved in settling the dispute to allow SKI to start production. Probably, Ossoff and Warnock didn't really make a big difference but it never hurts to have a US senator calling the CEO's to try and get something done.
What I do know is that lithium batteries will be the world's most important commodity in the next ten years. The US needs to do everything it can to catch up to the Chinese and make sure batteries are researched, developed, and produced here in the USA. It's one of the reasons that the jobs and infrastructure bill is the most important legislation of our lifetimes.
Sultan of Track wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
Always.
Hammerin Hank is Sally Vix. Hambo is Jamin. Ignore them.
Don't respond to us but please respond to this:
It’s humiliating for President Joe Biden that in the almost three weeks since he appointed Kamala Harris as his border point woman, she still hasn’t visited the disaster zone, come up with a plan or held a press conference on the migrant crisis.
Instead, she’s visited a water treatment plant in California and a bakery in Chicago, where the press pool reported on her sweet tooth last week.
"Her favorite is German chocolate, and [she] gets that for her birthday each year, and her staff had pre-ordered a slice for her. The bakery’s specialty is caramel cake, and she said she was looking forward to that too."
Fat hurts wrote:
The AJC story is behind a paywall so I couldn't read it.
I was able to read it. You might try clearing cookies in your browser and trying again, perhaps with an alternate browser to make sure you don't lose some setting of value.
The gist of the problem seems to be this:
Back in February, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of LG that SK stole trade secrets. It ruled SK could only make batteries for Ford for four years and Volkswagen for two years. After that it banned SK from importing components needed for making batteries for 10 years.
Gov Kemp and others were lobbying Biden to veto the ruling, but apparently this can be over ruled by the ITC and that seemed a likely outcome. Presuming the article is accurate, it gives Ossoff a great deal of credit as the government lead in brokering the settlement with quotes from the company executives to that effect.
Fat hurts wrote:
Monkeys Skyping wrote:
Freshman Senator Ossoff helps broker a deal between Korean conglomerates to build EV batteries in Georgia. Ford and Voltswagen breathe sigh of relief.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/how-bitter-korean-rivals-settled-a-rift-that-threatened-georgia-battery-plant/B7J76F3Q7NGJ5EUXVCMY2P2LOA/No available picture of him ripping his shirt off and flexing . . .
The AJC story is behind a paywall so I couldn't read it.
I do know that the factory was mostly built before Ossoff was elected. I'm not sure how much he was involved in settling the dispute to allow SKI to start production. Probably, Ossoff and Warnock didn't really make a big difference but it never hurts to have a US senator calling the CEO's to try and get something done.
What I do know is that lithium batteries will be the world's most important commodity in the next ten years. The US needs to do everything it can to catch up to the Chinese and make sure batteries are researched, developed, and produced here in the USA. It's one of the reasons that the jobs and infrastructure bill is the most important legislation of our lifetimes.
Are you really this slow-witted? It is NOT an infrastructure bill. It expands on progressive programs. Please quit with your dogma and think, Fat Hurts. You embarrass yourself.
Monkeys Skyping wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
The AJC story is behind a paywall so I couldn't read it.
I was able to read it. You might try clearing cookies in your browser and trying again, perhaps with an alternate browser to make sure you don't lose some setting of value.
The gist of the problem seems to be this:
Back in February, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled in favor of LG that SK stole trade secrets. It ruled SK could only make batteries for Ford for four years and Volkswagen for two years. After that it banned SK from importing components needed for making batteries for 10 years.
Gov Kemp and others were lobbying Biden to veto the ruling, but apparently this can be over ruled by the ITC and that seemed a likely outcome. Presuming the article is accurate, it gives Ossoff a great deal of credit as the government lead in brokering the settlement with quotes from the company executives to that effect.
I knew all the background as I've been following the story closely.
I switched browsers to read the story. It does sound like Ossoff went the extra mile on this one.
And like I said, we are way behind the Chinese right now in battery production. There is this one in Georgia, LG/Chevy are opening a factory in Ohio, and Tesla is opening its second US GigaFactory in Austin, TX. I think that's it. Four big battery factories in total for the US.
But we need a lot more factories and especially need the R&D funding that is in the jobs and infrastructure bill. If China owns the lithium battery market, they own the future.
Hambo wrote:
agip wrote:
anyone still want to have a substantive discussion of politics?
Show of hands.
Sure. Let’s start with dementia joe’s crisis at the border. Anyone want to defend dementia joe’s decision to not let the press see what was going on down there? How about commala’s defiance toward dementia Joe? How about dementia Joe and commala’s refusal to admit the problem of and create a plan to deal with 20,000 unaccompanied minors at the border who also happen to have not been tested for COVID?
But please please please. No more beefcake pictures from the Beefcakeinator. Keep them on the other site.
it's not a crisis.
and
media has been in the tents.
Are they allowed everywhere? Probably not.
Still not a crisis.
a few thousand immigrants in a nation of 330,000,000 is not a crisis.
10,000/330,000,000
= not a crisis.
How about an actual crisis - got any of those to bring up?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/media-donna-border-tent/2021/03/30/4c8ea342-9189-11eb-9af7-fd0822ae4398_story.htmlThis is well overdue - Biden wants to put pressure on rich people to pay their legal taxes.
Right now people with regular jobs have withholding so they have to pay their taxes.
But
If you are rich or own your business it's basically an honor system with very little enforcement.
Republicans have been defunding the IRS for years in a misguided sense of revenge. Which has allowed trillions to go uncollected. Thanks, GOP.
This will be an interesting test...the Dems have actual pro-working class policies like this one.
But middle class white people hate the Dems and vote GOP.
On the other hand. the GOP has policies that help rich people and screw over the middle class.
So here's the Dems trying to reverse that and get some votes. Can Dems sell it to the Trumpentariat?
Probably not. Because you know, boys in girls bathrooms and whatnot.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/547367-biden-proposes-12b-increase-in-irs-budget
Calamity Joe wrote:
Sultan of Track wrote:
Hammerin Hank is Sally Vix. Hambo is Jamin. Ignore them.
Don't respond to us but please respond to this:
It’s humiliating for President Joe Biden that in the almost three weeks since he appointed Kamala Harris as his border point woman, she still hasn’t visited the disaster zone, come up with a plan or held a press conference on the migrant crisis.
Instead, she’s visited a water treatment plant in California and a bakery in Chicago, where the press pool reported on her sweet tooth last week.
"Her favorite is German chocolate, and [she] gets that for her birthday each year, and her staff had pre-ordered a slice for her. The bakery’s specialty is caramel cake, and she said she was looking forward to that too."
Remember how trump always got a pass from the right on his piss poor handling of immigration? Suddenly you are laser focused on the newly elected president fixing it all immediately and crying humiliation... your hypocrisy is lame.
agip wrote:
This is well overdue - Biden wants to put pressure on rich people to pay their legal taxes.
Right now people with regular jobs have withholding so they have to pay their taxes.
But
If you are rich or own your business it's basically an honor system with very little enforcement.
Republicans have been defunding the IRS for years in a misguided sense of revenge. Which has allowed trillions to go uncollected. Thanks, GOP.
This will be an interesting test...the Dems have actual pro-working class policies like this one.
But middle class white people hate the Dems and vote GOP.
On the other hand. the GOP has policies that help rich people and screw over the middle class.
So here's the Dems trying to reverse that and get some votes. Can Dems sell it to the Trumpentariat?
Probably not. Because you know, boys in girls bathrooms and whatnot.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/547367-biden-proposes-12b-increase-in-irs-budget
Uh oh. You are touching a very sensitive topic. Here comes Gary breathing fire. But but Obama made the IRS discriminate against Rs!
Nothing that can be spun as wasteful spending and a detriment to rich people will sell well with the right, never.
agip wrote:
Hambo wrote:
Sure. Let’s start with dementia joe’s crisis at the border. Anyone want to defend dementia joe’s decision to not let the press see what was going on down there? How about commala’s defiance toward dementia Joe? How about dementia Joe and commala’s refusal to admit the problem of and create a plan to deal with 20,000 unaccompanied minors at the border who also happen to have not been tested for COVID?
But please please please. No more beefcake pictures from the Beefcakeinator. Keep them on the other site.
it's not a crisis.
and
media has been in the tents.
Are they allowed everywhere? Probably not.
Still not a crisis.
a few thousand immigrants in a nation of 330,000,000 is not a crisis.
10,000/330,000,000
= not a crisis.
How about an actual crisis - got any of those to bring up?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/media-donna-border-tent/2021/03/30/4c8ea342-9189-11eb-9af7-fd0822ae4398_story.html
That surely won’t prevent FOX from continuing to peddle lies. The only major crisis is COVID which directly ties in with the economy, and Biden is crushing it right now. The right has nothing so they have to focus on nothingburgers, or how Biden’s dog looks, or him tripping, or Dr Seuss, Mr Potato Head, or Britney Spears.. you know the really critical stuff.
Calamity Joe wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
The AJC story is behind a paywall so I couldn't read it.
I do know that the factory was mostly built before Ossoff was elected. I'm not sure how much he was involved in settling the dispute to allow SKI to start production. Probably, Ossoff and Warnock didn't really make a big difference but it never hurts to have a US senator calling the CEO's to try and get something done.
What I do know is that lithium batteries will be the world's most important commodity in the next ten years. The US needs to do everything it can to catch up to the Chinese and make sure batteries are researched, developed, and produced here in the USA. It's one of the reasons that the jobs and infrastructure bill is the most important legislation of our lifetimes.
Are you really this slow-witted? It is NOT an infrastructure bill. It expands on progressive programs. Please quit with your dogma and think, Fat Hurts. You embarrass yourself.
Wrong dumba$$
agip wrote:
Hambo wrote:
Sure. Let’s start with dementia joe’s crisis at the border. Anyone want to defend dementia joe’s decision to not let the press see what was going on down there? How about commala’s defiance toward dementia Joe? How about dementia Joe and commala’s refusal to admit the problem of and create a plan to deal with 20,000 unaccompanied minors at the border who also happen to have not been tested for COVID?
But please please please. No more beefcake pictures from the Beefcakeinator. Keep them on the other site.
it's not a crisis.
and
media has been in the tents.
Are they allowed everywhere? Probably not.
Still not a crisis.
a few thousand immigrants in a nation of 330,000,000 is not a crisis.
10,000/330,000,000
= not a crisis.
How about an actual crisis - got any of those to bring up?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/media-donna-border-tent/2021/03/30/4c8ea342-9189-11eb-9af7-fd0822ae4398_story.html
Hahaha. It was a crisis when fewer came across the border. But now it’s not. You libs crack me up. Even lib reps down there have called it a crisis.
Biden kept the press out for WEEKS. He even admitted that he wasn’t going to let anyone in until he got an area cleaned up. You libs don’t see anything wrong with that?
Dementia Joe wants you to wear a mask but he doesn’t give a sh1t about crowding illegal immigrants in cages during a pandemic. And then he ships them across America.
Kids in cages isn’t a crisis? It was a humanitarian tragedy before. Not now though 😂😂😂
The person now in charge of the border CRISIS thinks ICE and border agents are the KKK.
I know the left has cancelled the word “crisis” but you people are idiots if you don’t think it is one and that dementia Joe has done a horrendous job with the border crisis.
He’s been a failure. 🤡🤡💤💤🍗👌
Trollminator wrote:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-turned-the-gop-into-matt-gaetzs-freak-flag-party
You can’t defend dementia joe’s policies and multiple failures. I can smell the sweet sweet odor of your desperation. You reek of it.
But hey....
LOOK!!! Matt Gates!!! 🐿😂
Hammering Hank wrote:
Hambo wrote:
Whataboutinator. WTF dude?
Ginamator needs to pull a Joy Reid and claim (falsely) that his Twitter account was hacked.
But but but Mike Gates!!!
Trollminator wrote:
There was also this great news today. Here comes the avalanche of whining from the right.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-withdraw-us-forces-afghanistan-911-defense-official/story?id=77046353&cid=social_twitter_abcn
In December, Congress BLOCKED Trump from withdrawing troops before he left office to deny him credit. Again, this is Senile Biden taking credit for something Trump had already negotiated.
Whataboutinator believes in fake news.
Truly amazing to what lengths these corrupt people will go. Truth prevails in the end.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
Truly amazing to what lengths these corrupt people will go. Truth prevails in the end.
I think truth--reality--eventually *does* prevail, but you can't count on getting it from ZeroHedge or Project Veritas.
"Overall, we rate ZeroHedge an extreme right-biased conspiracy website based on the promotion of false/misleading/debunked information . . . ."--really nothing more than a Bulgarian click-bait site.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/zero-hedge/"Overall, we rate Project Veritas . . . Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of misleading videos [for one of which its founder had to pay $100k to his victim] and several failed fact checks."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/project-veritas/