Yesterday, a conservative friend asked me what I thought was going to happen in November.
I responded that I don’t have any insight into this that isn’t available to the rest of the world, but, if we’re simply extrapolating the future from the president, i.e., barring anything unforeseeable, it looks like a Biden victory.
I base this on:
• A starting point: Biden’s 7 million vote win in 2020.
• The president’s accomplishments, albeit not well publicized.
• The 91 felony charges against Trump, and the likely path of progress in the criminal trials between now and November.
• The probable effect of Biden’s advancing age.
• The results of the GOP primaries, in which an average of about 40% of Republicans voted against Trump.
It just seems that Trump has hit a hard limit in terms of his appeal to angry, easily persuaded, uneducated people. There are tens of millions of them, but their numbers can’t grow much further.
Let me ask this about the meme above. Yes, there are some voters who regard it as a fair and meaningful representation of the issue at the southern border, but, if we were guessing at a percentage, what would we estimate? It really couldn’t be more than about 25%.
Most people understand that illegal immigration is a serious, though complicated issue. There are laws, both domestic and international, that must be complied with. This is seen as the ultimate political football to some. But there are people on both sides of the aisle who are working to resolve the situation with intelligence and compassion.
As we’ve noted in the past, the idea of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere is completely unfeasible, since 99.96% of the air around is something other than CO2 (mostly nitrogen). However, there are environments that change this equation radically, cement plants being one of them, where the concentration of CO2 emissions is as high as 30% (versus .04%).
Now, this brings the subject of synthetic fuels into the realm of possibility. Sure, if you want to make gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, you’ll need two other things: hydrogen (which can come from electrolyzing water), and a considerable amount of energy, as these processes are heavily endothermic, meaning that energy must be supplied from external sources.
The good news is that we have enormous amounts of off-peak wind and nuclear that are wasted every day. Please see: Doty WindFuels.
With each passing day, there are fewer and fewer American voters who believe the bullshit at left.
Is Trump working hard to stay out of prison? Enrich himself and his family? Of course.
Could be possibly care less about anything else? Obviously not.
What’s the thought process of people in the rest of the developed world when it comes to visiting the U.S.?
Conversely, would you or I want to visit some country with a deeply corrupt regime that is systematically committing atrocities all around the globe, and whose leader is lining his pockets?
I’m glad I don’t own a resort in New England that counts on a flow of visitors from Canada. If I were a Canadian, I’d be thinking I’d rather visit hell.
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