Donald Trump has never been popular. He’s still not popular. His unfavorability rating is just as high today as it was heading into Election Day 2020. This group of disengaged voters doesn’t like Donald Trump, and never did. What’s changed, to my mind, is that Joe Biden went from being a broadly appealing person — they didn’t necessarily love him, they didn’t necessarily even like him, but he was acceptable — to someone who many voters do not find acceptable anymore.
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. . . the Baby Boomers destroyed the southern border . . ..
Here.
Immigration policy in the United States was forever radically altered in 1965, by no one born in the Baby Boom.
The average age of a US Representative in 1965 was 51.4, the Congress of which overwhelmingly passed the destructive reform 320-70, which ended the American commitment to social homogeneity prevailing from the 1920s.
This was an act of American hubris, born of victory in WWII. One would think Hanson would know about that.
Their average birth year puts them in 1914, children of the mentally-ill Progressive Era (1896–1917) which gave us the income tax (1909), popular election of senators (1913), prohibition of alcohol (1919), and women's suffrage (1920), all of which were sufferable as long as their was social stability. Well, except for the prohibition.
The biggest problem affecting Baby Boomers is a lazy attention to our own history, and perhaps self-hatred.
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State greenhouse gas reduction Fascist government policies are pushing forcing residents to adopt
electric cars and appliances that will only increase their electricity
consumption.
Utility stocks are on fire — here are Wall Street analysts' top picks :
The S&P 500 Utilities ETF (XLU) is up more than 12% year to date in a reversal from last year when investors soured on the sector due to expensive projects and high interest rates. ...
Constellation Energy (CEG) is the largest owner of nuclear plants in the US. The Baltimore-based company has been a beneficiary of the government's push to transition to green energies and growing power demand from data centers. Constellation shares are up more than 85% year to date as the company forecasts base earnings to grow by at least 10% annually through the decade. ... The analyst highlights that Constellation produces power at roughly $25 per megawatt hour, while the government's Inflation Reduction Act allows for a selling price floor of $45 per megawatt hour, providing a minimum of $20 margin per megawatt hour. ... Constellation has been operating as a standalone energy provider since 2022 after a spin-off from utility giant Exelon (EXC). The company has been buying back shares and recently upped its dividend ahead of its earnings due on Thursday. ...
NextEra Energy (NEE): The $147-billion-market-cap company is one of the largest electric
power generators in the country. While NextEra owns a regulated utility
in Florida, investors are more interested in its non-regulated part of
the business, NextEra Energy Resources, which involves developing
renewable energy in the US. ... "The re-domestication of industry in the US supported by public
policy will drive the need for more electricity," CEO John Ketchum told
analysts in April. The stock is up about 20% year to date. ...
Among the regulated utilities, Southern Company (SO) is one of the best performers inside the Utility sector year to date, with shares up more than 10%.
It's great to be a Democrat.
Even former Trump Vice President Mike Pence, who has refused to endorse Trump, called the verdict an “outrage.” ...
“He might win in a landslide,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) last month about the political impact of a guilty verdict on Trump’s chances in the general election. “It looks so awful.”
Paul noted that New York’s statute of limitations had expired on Trump’s falsification of business records, which forced Bragg to combine them with campaign finance violations to bring his case forward.
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By 2028 alone it is estimated the US will need 38 gigawatts of new peak demand capacity.
Waynesboro, GA
May 31, 2024
Startup of Unit 4 makes Vogtle the largest source of carbon-free power on U.S. electric grid:
To reach our goal of net zero by 2050, we have to at least triple our
current nuclear capacity in this country. That means we’ve got to add
200 more gigawatts by 2050. Okay, two down, 198 to go!
In the old America, this son of a bitch would have been impeached, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, noted that independents in New York are backing Trump by a significant margin.
“Independent voters in New York who traditionally vote for Democrats,
according to exit polling, have flipped to lean toward Trump by a
margin of 10 points, 43% to 33%,” Kimball said in a statement. ...
Last week, the presumptive GOP nominee held his first campaign rally in New York — his birth state — since 2016.
The South Bronx event, permitted for 3,500 attendees, drew a crowd of between 8,000 and 10,000 people, law enforcement sources told The Post. ...
The Emerson College poll surveyed 1,000 New York voters between May 28 and 29. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
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Josh Hammer, here:
The imperative of this late hour of the American republic, in order to even attempt to rebalance our wildly off-balance pendulum, is to respond to the Left as it has acted toward us: by wielding political and prosecutorial power to reward friends and punish enemies -- to reward our side's forces of civilizational sanity and punish their side's forces of civilizational arson -- within the broad confines of the rule of law.
If we want to get back to "neutrality," at this perilous point, it's going to first take bloodying up some noses. That is unfortunate for those Americans who actually do value and cherish neutral enforcement of the rule of law. But yet again, here we are.
Above all, it is imperative that the Right not bat an eyelash. Do not be intimidated by this blatant show of crass thuggery masquerading as a legal proceeding. It's now full steam ahead through November. We must make these miscreants pay for what they have done.
Frankly, sympathetic as I am, I don't see how that will change anything. It will simply validate lawfare, the weaponizing of the legal system for political ends.
Democrats have crossed the Rubicon.
Escalation seems inevitable, but then there will be more escalation after that, and more after that.
That's what this means.
There has to be a better way.
Nominal GDP came in at a revised $28.255 trillion.
Sounds like a lot, right?
Here's the big picture.
From 1947 to 2000, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 7.26%.
From 2000 to 2024, nominal GDP grew at a compound annual rate of 4.42%, 39% lower.
The year 2000 marks the US opening to China, and the great wealth transfer out of the US from the middle class under globalism, creating new middle classes there and elsewhere.
We are poorer for it, but we have lots more billionaires now and you can read all about it on your Apple iPhone made by slave labor while you eat your 40% more expensive hamburger from McDonalds since 2019.
'History of anger problems': Jill Biden mocked for hyping president as 'calm' and 'steady'
The comment drew immediate criticism on social media from conservatives skeptical of the portrayal of Biden as "calm" and "steady."
"This doesn't work this time. Does anything feel calm?" conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller posted on X.
"Narrator: He's incredibly weak, has a history of anger problems, and has so little integrity that he can't give a simple speech without telling multiple, already-debunked lies," Red State writer Bonchie posted on X.
They're selling their brands that's all. These two are mere children who pretend that adults should never have to choose the bad Trump over the worse Biden.
Their ilk pretended over the weekend, for example, that Donald Trump made Memorial Day all about himself and his troubles, which, if you hadn't noticed, are unprecedented no matter how much he has brought them on himself.
The decline of religion in America has made America uglier and more vulgar on both sides, both incapable of showing mercy and of practicing self-examination. To do so is a gotcha, the specialty that provides the clicks and the revenue.
It's still all about the Benjamins.
That half the country still supports Trump is symbolic of its former better self and says less about Trump than it does about what is still right with us.
