Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Gina.. wrote:

Trump fan boys proclaiming that Trump lost to a candidate with dementia.

That’s embarrassing for Trump.

ENJOY YOUR LOSS ??

No it's even more embarrassing that you voted for a senile candidate where Congressional leadership can't trust him with the nuclear codes.

"The likely reason is the fact that his cognitive skills continue to fade, perhaps more rapidly than they had hoped. He’s been showing signs of mental acuity challenges, potentially full-blown dementia, since a few weeks after he announced his candidacy in 2019. We witnessed him slip rapidly, particularly in the months following his nomination. Ever since Inauguration Day, he’s been limited in when he’s allowed to speak."

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

Gina.. wrote:

Trump fan boys proclaiming that Trump lost to a candidate with dementia.

That’s embarrassing for Trump.

ENJOY YOUR LOSS ??

No it's even more embarrassing that you voted for a senile candidate where Congressional leadership can't trust him with the nuclear codes.

"The likely reason is the fact that his cognitive skills continue to fade, perhaps more rapidly than they had hoped. He’s been showing signs of mental acuity challenges, potentially full-blown dementia, since a few weeks after he announced his candidacy in 2019. We witnessed him slip rapidly, particularly in the months following his nomination. Ever since Inauguration Day, he’s been limited in when he’s allowed to speak."

https://populist.press/democrats-accelerate-president-harris-plans/

I didn’t vote for either of them, thanks for playing, better luck next time.

Tears for Trump ??

ENJOY YOUR LOSS ??

1101 wrote:

Any chance you two could take your debate to a separate EV thread?

Thank you for your consideration.

THIS^^^

WTF does this discussion have to do with Joe Biden? Cripes, you're as bad as Flagpole. ("I'm right, so I *have to* respond!") Actually you're worse, because FP actually will sometimes admit when he is wrong and apologize.

And WTH is it with your continuing inability to delete interior posts? What are you, simple?

Are there no decent Republican Americans who will tell their representatives to knock it off?

Are there not enough Rs who believe in democracy?

If not, we're probably doomed.

One guy. One guy did this. That's 1) how weak-kneed autocrats make right wingers and 2) how good a salesman DJT is.

Astonishing. This is the guy right wingers have been waiting decades for. This guy. Criminal, liar, autocrat, thief, destructor of his family, areligious. THIS is the guy American right wingers have been waiting for.

God help us. I hope there are enough decent people left in the country to stop the Republican Party.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/republican-voter-suppression.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

“The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing,” Kenneth Mayer, an expert on voting and elections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said. “Here the response is to try to keep people from voting. It’s dangerously antidemocratic.”

Calamity Joe wrote:

For Fat Hurts and other Global Warming alarmists. You guys don't understand climate science. I can help educate you.

If you have some insight to add, just go ahead and do so. It's an open forum.

Otherwise, it just looks like you're trolling to provoke a reaction.

record for vaccinations today in the US: 2.35 million

And the floodgates are about to open, next week, with a jump in deliveries. Could be good.

Monkeys typing wrote:

Otherwise, it just looks like you're trolling to provoke a reaction.

What else do trolls do??

agip wrote:

“The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing,” Kenneth Mayer, an expert on voting and elections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said

No, it's not. The typical response by a losing party is to accuse the other party of cheating. That's EXACTLY what Democrats did in 2000, 2004, and 2016, not to mention countless mid-terms.

The Biden Gap is still holding steady at 16.x%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

another poll of the day wrote:

agip wrote:

“The typical response by a losing party in a functioning democracy is that they alter their platform to make it more appealing,” Kenneth Mayer, an expert on voting and elections at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said

No, it's not. The typical response by a losing party is to accuse the other party of cheating. That's EXACTLY what Democrats did in 2000, 2004, and 2016, not to mention countless mid-terms.

total bs

but have fun excusing Republican anti-democracy fervor with false equivalences. It's fun, sure, but horrific to the nation. But yeah have fun with it. Whatever gets you to sleep better.

I like Biden more than Trump as a person but as much of a racist tool Trump was, I respected the fact he understood and got the economy.

$2.79/gal. gas after 1/20? Hmm...

In fairness to Biden some of the gas price hike is due to the Texas issue. But the problem is EVERYONE is $2.79 in Columbus. No variance. I think I also missed a big opportunity to invest in Oil and Gas stocks last year. Very upset with myself.

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

Gina.. wrote:

Trump fan boys proclaiming that Trump lost to a candidate with dementia.

That’s embarrassing for Trump.

ENJOY YOUR LOSS ??

No it's even more embarrassing that you voted for a senile candidate where Congressional leadership can't trust him with the nuclear codes.

"The likely reason is the fact that his cognitive skills continue to fade, perhaps more rapidly than they had hoped. He’s been showing signs of mental acuity challenges, potentially full-blown dementia, since a few weeks after he announced his candidacy in 2019. We witnessed him slip rapidly, particularly in the months following his nomination. Ever since Inauguration Day, he’s been limited in when he’s allowed to speak."

https://populist.press/democrats-accelerate-president-harris-plans/

I wanted Trump to win, but come on don't stoop to saying President Biden is having cognitive problems, Lets see how he does, he is just starting lets judge him AFTER he has been there for almost 4 years and vote in November 2024 to decide whether he gets another 4 years, I kind of Hope Trump and Biden have a rematch in 2024 as was shown by the Popular vote these are the 2 most popular candidates in history, Biden ran a fantastic campaign props to him over 81 Million about 15 Million more than Obama who was very popular among Democrats in his own right, and Trump well great entertainment, the media could not stop talking about him, Even Steve Colbert the Modern day Johnny Carson rarely went a show without mentioning his name. Lets have a rematch in 2024 and even though I will likely vote for Trump again, I hope Biden is successful and achieves his goal of Unity of all Americans, and he gets all Americans to be Happy, Healthy and Wise, and goes down in History as one of the greatest Presidents ever, if he is Successful the USA is successful, remember Biden, Trump and all other American Politicians all want from the bottom of their hearts, to do what is best for WE THE PEOPLE, although they have different ideas of how to do it, they are ALL working in our best interest's and to keep us on the path our Founding Fathers through The Constitution and Bill Of Rights set for us.

Looks like the uptick in covid deaths and cases was weather related...numbers are falling back and vaccinations are soaring over 2m per day.

Best States

HI

MN

AK

Worst States

NY

RI

NJ

DE

CA

VA

Congrats to AZ, with a rare drop off the bad list after being on it for weeks and weeks.

How about you, NY and RI? Can you get out of the doghouse for once?

Hear, hear!

jecht wrote:

I like Biden more than Trump as a person but as much of a racist tool Trump was, I respected the fact he understood and got the economy.

$2.79/gal. gas after 1/20? Hmm...

In fairness to Biden some of the gas price hike is due to the Texas issue. But the problem is EVERYONE is $2.79 in Columbus. No variance. I think I also missed a big opportunity to invest in Oil and Gas stocks last year. Very upset with myself.

Really, he understood the economy SO well that he pretended that a pandemic wasn't a pandemic? A nearly catatonic person with an ounce of decency could have done nearly infinitely better by simply mumbling agreement with the huge mass of expertise at a US president's disposal. And yet.....

(and yes, the fact that all experts aren't always correct is utterly irrelevant, here)

Trump got nothing about being president. Or being a decent human being. The one thing he GETS is pushing the buttons of Americans with weak minds and/or weak characters. Which we've learned is at least half of us.

Yikes! Have you not been following along?

Come on Man!

First, let's just acknowledge that the Wall Street Journal is not the best place to get your automotive news. The author gets some basic facts wrong about charging, which I talk about at the end*. These are basic charging facts that any experienced EV driver would know.

His thesis is blown away by the very survey he cites. If you actually go to the Plug In America survey, the very first item in the summary says, "EV drivers are very satisfied with their vehicles, with 96% reporting that they are likely to purchase an EV as their next vehicle." That doesn't sound like people who are horribly frustrated with the charging experience. I'll link the survey below.

For the part of the survey he does use he says, "These problems were worse for respondents who drove non-Tesla vehicles; almost 60% of those reported issues. The most common complaint was a non-functional charger." The actual number was 54%, not 60%. And the most common complaint was a non-functional charger, which is no big deal. You just move to the next stall and use a different charger. I'm sure most of us have had the same experience with a broken gas pump.

The article did get some things right. It's true that Tesla has a much better charging network than the rest. And a Tesla charges up to five times faster than a Bolt. But other manufacturers will catch up quickly. Charging is not rocket science. It mostly uses technology that has been around for 100 years.

Non-functional chargers used to be a problem. Back in 2017 and 2018 I had to plan for that possibility on long trips. But they are much more reliable now. I can't remember the last time I was unable to charge. And you can always check on plugshare.com to see if a charger is out of order.

I'm calling BS on a 30 hour trip that took him 58 hours. Even in a Bolt, that just doesn't happen. Any day he drove six hours or less would have been the same trip time as a gas car. The reason is because on the first stop you will eat lunch while charging and you probably would have stopped for food in a gas car as well. It's only once you get beyond about six hours that a gas car starts to beat an EV. In a Tesla, charging is much faster so it's practically a non-issue.

To make such a trip, you would likely break it up into at least 3 days of driving. That's true whether in a gas car or electric. So you would stay overnight in a hotel with a charger and start each day with a full battery. Then you make 2 or 3 charging stops each day. And it's only the 2nd and 3rd stops that cost you time relative to a gas car. Assuming it's 3 stops per day for 3 days, that's about 90 minutes per day for the two extra stops. So a super-long trip in a Bolt takes about 4 to 5 hours longer than a gas car. And that's a very extreme case in a car that charges very slowly.

Yes, we do need a lot more charging stations and I'm glad that Biden has pledged to fund 500,000 new chargers. But it's not so much because people can't find a place to charge today.

Surveys show that when people notice chargers available then they are more likely to consider an EV. But chargers are usually located in inconspicuous areas of a parking lot or even in back of a store. If you aren't looking for chargers you don't notice them. So by building a lot more chargers people will notice them, which will drive EV adoption.

I'd also like to mention that the build-out of charging infrastructure is a whole lot easier than it was to build out gasoline infrastructure. The grid is already everywhere and chargers are little more than glorified extension cords. But to build out gas stations you had to buy expensive real estate, dig underground storage tanks, and set up an entire refining and distribution system to get fuel from oil well to your car.

Putting chargers in place for the shift to EVs is a piece of cake.

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* The article says that home charging tops out at 7.2kW, which is wrong. My home charging station goes up to 9.6kW. "Home" charging is actually split into Level 1 and Level 2. Level 1 just uses an ordinary 120V AC plug. Level 2 is probably what the author means here by "home" charging. This is 240V AC charging, and rates above 7.2kW are very, very common. The fastest home chargers can go all the way up to 19.2kW, though you probably wouldn't install one in a private residence.

* The article also says that "Fast charging is 50kw and up." This is also wrong. "Fast charging" is defined as anything that uses direct current. You will see the term "DCFC", for DC Fast charging. Furthermore, DCFC units start at 25kW, not 50kW. 25kW units are typically found at dealerships. The highest DCFC units currently in the US go up to 350kW.

The survey:

jecht wrote:

I like Biden more than Trump as a person but as much of a racist tool Trump was, I respected the fact he understood and got the economy.

$2.79/gal. gas after 1/20? Hmm...

In fairness to Biden some of the gas price hike is due to the Texas issue. But the problem is EVERYONE is $2.79 in Columbus. No variance. I think I also missed a big opportunity to invest in Oil and Gas stocks last year. Very upset with myself.

Oil is done.

If you invest in oil and gas you will lose your shirt. Invest in Tesla instead. I've already made a small fortune off it and there is plenty of room for the stock to go up another 300% in the next two to three years.