First, as everyone knows by now, the Bernie Sanders-run Democratic party is pulling out all the stops on stopping climate change in its tracks by mandating reductions in carbon emissions in various ways, including elimination of coal-fired power plants and requiring electric vehicles. Of course, no one’s got answers for two critical problems. One, that an electric car has to last at least 100,000 miles BEFORE it becomes carbon “neutral” or saves energy overall simply because of the energy needed to produce its electric batteries. Two, that unless something pretty amazing happens, the charging of all these cars (assuming you can find a charging station, and assuming you can wait the hours needed for a charge, as opposed to five minutes at the gas pump, and assuming that there’s enough electricity during the night to charge these cars notwithstanding the fact that the sun doesn’t power solar panels during the night) is going to be way more than a mere inconvenience. In any event, Biden and the Sanders crowd want non-renewable energy today. And of course on his first day in office he cancelled the Keystone oil pipeline.
On the other hand, today the price of gas is rising rapidly due to OPEC production cutbacks during the pandemic. So what does Biden want to have happen? He’s pressing OPEC to increase production so americans can have cheaper gas and use more! HA! HA! You can’t make this stuff up. Where does this action come into the climate-change-busting plan? Not to mention that putting the “progressive” Democrats in charge of anything is a recipe for disaster, as they have proven time and time again.
Second, Biden and lots of others supposedly are “surprised” that the Taliban is so quickly taking over Afghanistan. Duh. The British couldn’t subdue Afghanistan. Then the Russians tried and failed. Now the Americans have tried and failed and finally are waving the white flag. The political cover for that was years of negotiations with the Afghans and the Taliban about America exiting the country. As if any “agreement” with the Taliban is worth the paper it’s on. Only an moron believes anything other than that the Taliban, like cockroaches, would simply hid out in their caves and wait for the Americans to leave, and then they would take over. This ass-covering “negotiations” business was all for show. No sane person would “negotiate” with the Taliban with any hope that they would comply with any agreement once the Americans were gone. To at any point in the last 20 years believe that the Afghans themselves were capable of defending against the Taliban (or the local Girl Scout troop, for that matter), or to believe that the Taliban would not take over the country the instant the Americans left, is the height of folly and self-deception. And so it has come to pass…
Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Afghans, are going to suffer and die because of American stupidity, cupidity and disingenuousness, just like Vietnam. And the poor Afghan women, they’re just totally screwed, it’s back to the 13th century for them. It didn’t have to be this way.