Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Hardloper wrote:

Real Obvi wrote:

Loosely following this conversation.

Question for you - Where does the 14 million tons figure come from?

Google. And I did say "even if that's off by a factor of 10" because it could be a low estimate.

But if we're talking about a 10 year timeframe, it doesn't even matter, because we won't have mined and refined that much. Last year, about 100k tons of lithium were mined. Even if that increases by a factor of 10 in 10 years, we still won't have mined even 10 million tons worldwide, let alone refined it, manufactured batteries, deployed to grid storage, etc.

And apparently there's a lot more lithium in seawater, but like sodium batteries, it probably won't go from hypothetical to mass filtering and production and refining in under 10 years. Finally, I don't know how to estimate US storage capacity needs but I'm guessing it's a LOT more than 200M tesla batteries.

agip wrote:

president mcscandal is still scandaling, while he sweats in NJ and Mar-a-Trasho.

he clearly sicced the IRS on Comey and McCabe, two law enforcement offers who dared go after trump's crimes. This is what we are in for when trump is re-elected. Or DeSantis - he's shown he's 100% for using government apparatus to go after opponents.

We're doomed.

1 in 950 million chance this happened innocently. Rs will try to brush it under the rug.

Among tax lawyers, the most invasive type of random audit carried out by the I.R.S. is known, only partly jokingly, as “an autopsy without the benefit of death.”
The odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are tiny — out of nearly 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, for example, the I.R.S. targeted about 5,000, or roughly one out of 30,600.
One of the few who received a bureaucratic letter with the news that his 2017 return would be under intensive scrutiny was James B. Comey, who had been fired as F.B.I. director that year by President Donald J. Trump. Furious over what he saw as Mr. Comey’s lack of loyalty and his pursuit of the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump had continued to rail against him even after his dismissal, accusing him of treason, calling for his prosecution and publicly complaining about the money Mr. Comey received for a book after his dismissal.
Mr. Comey was informed of the audit in 2019. Two years later, the I.R.S., still under the leadership of a Trump appointee after President Biden took office, picked about 8,000 returns for the same type of audit Mr. Comey had undergone from the 154 million individual returns filed in 2019, or about one in 19,250.
Among those who were chosen to have their 2019 returns scrutinized was the man who had been Mr. Comey’s deputy at the bureau: Andrew G. McCabe, who served several months as acting F.B.I. director after Mr. Comey’s firing.

Link:www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/politics...

agip wrote:

president mcscandal is still scandaling, while he sweats in NJ and Mar-a-Trasho.

he clearly sicced the IRS on Comey and McCabe, two law enforcement offers who dared go after trump's crimes. This is what we are in for when trump is re-elected. Or DeSantis - he's shown he's 100% for using government apparatus to go after opponents.

We're doomed.

1 in 950 million chance this happened innocently. Rs will try to brush it under the rug.

Among tax lawyers, the most invasive type of random audit carried out by the I.R.S. is known, only partly jokingly, as “an autopsy without the benefit of death.”
The odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are tiny — out of nearly 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, for example, the I.R.S. targeted about 5,000, or roughly one out of 30,600.
One of the few who received a bureaucratic letter with the news that his 2017 return would be under intensive scrutiny was James B. Comey, who had been fired as F.B.I. director that year by President Donald J. Trump. Furious over what he saw as Mr. Comey’s lack of loyalty and his pursuit of the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump had continued to rail against him even after his dismissal, accusing him of treason, calling for his prosecution and publicly complaining about the money Mr. Comey received for a book after his dismissal.
Mr. Comey was informed of the audit in 2019. Two years later, the I.R.S., still under the leadership of a Trump appointee after President Biden took office, picked about 8,000 returns for the same type of audit Mr. Comey had undergone from the 154 million individual returns filed in 2019, or about one in 19,250.
Among those who were chosen to have their 2019 returns scrutinized was the man who had been Mr. Comey’s deputy at the bureau: Andrew G. McCabe, who served several months as acting F.B.I. director after Mr. Comey’s firing.

Link:www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/politics...

Just Another Hobby Jogger wrote:

agip wrote:

president mcscandal is still scandaling, while he sweats in NJ and Mar-a-Trasho.

he clearly sicced the IRS on Comey and McCabe, two law enforcement offers who dared go after trump's crimes. This is what we are in for when trump is re-elected. Or DeSantis - he's shown he's 100% for using government apparatus to go after opponents.

We're doomed.

1 in 950 million chance this happened innocently. Rs will try to brush it under the rug.

Among tax lawyers, the most invasive type of random audit carried out by the I.R.S. is known, only partly jokingly, as “an autopsy without the benefit of death.”
The odds of being selected for that audit in any given year are tiny — out of nearly 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, for example, the I.R.S. targeted about 5,000, or roughly one out of 30,600.
One of the few who received a bureaucratic letter with the news that his 2017 return would be under intensive scrutiny was James B. Comey, who had been fired as F.B.I. director that year by President Donald J. Trump. Furious over what he saw as Mr. Comey’s lack of loyalty and his pursuit of the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump had continued to rail against him even after his dismissal, accusing him of treason, calling for his prosecution and publicly complaining about the money Mr. Comey received for a book after his dismissal.
Mr. Comey was informed of the audit in 2019. Two years later, the I.R.S., still under the leadership of a Trump appointee after President Biden took office, picked about 8,000 returns for the same type of audit Mr. Comey had undergone from the 154 million individual returns filed in 2019, or about one in 19,250.
Among those who were chosen to have their 2019 returns scrutinized was the man who had been Mr. Comey’s deputy at the bureau: Andrew G. McCabe, who served several months as acting F.B.I. director after Mr. Comey’s firing.

Link:www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/us/politics...

Wait, I thought IRS was targeting at conservatives. That's what Fox News told us.