Those dern progressives. These new auto-mobiles are going to put blacksmiths out of business. There goes the dang economy (1905). Please get a grip, Lisa and try using your, ummm, brain (if that’s possible).
Biden’s plan calls for building a lot of charging stations for electric vehicles. Lisa apparently believes we have a shortage of gas stations instead. This cartoon is surpassingly stupid.
The Green New Deal (which is a blueprint to develop plans) and any other green plans all contain information about gradual conversions. No one says that all oil and gas should be turned off NOW – but their subsidies should be eliminated NOW.
It always amazes me when the RW people with children keep pushing fossil fuels – do they think they are immune from the effects in some way?
Been waiting for my electric car, jet pack, FLYING car!, for a long time now. E-car price, efficiency and range aren’t quite there yet. Getting close though. In any case, having a small apple farm and cattle pasturage I need a truck and the new E-Trucks starting to show up are spendyeeee. Some major concerns I have is the power grid, electricity available and price. If we have a major government mandated (don’t see how that’s going to work) transition to e-vehicles the current power grid isn’t going to be able to handle the capacity. Solar and wind farms aren’t going to make up for the additional need certainly not on a continuous basis. That leaves coal and hydroelectric plants both of which are anathema to the the environmentalists. Now we get to nuclear power which are becoming more acceptable to but the most extreme environmental purists. Technology has marched on and there are now safe, viable nuclear power plants which cannot melt down, blow up or otherwise have a catastrophic failure releasing radioactive particles into the environment. Molten Salt Reactors are extremely safe and do not require the expensive containment buildings needed by current High Pressure Water Reactors in case of high pressure steam/hydrogen explosion (think Fukashima). Possibly the best of all worlds would be the Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors of which there are several safe designs. One concepts would even generate hydrogen as an additional clean fuel source. If the Biden administration is serious about this then they seriously need to streamline the licensing, permit and construction of a new generation of safe nuclear power plants into their ‘infrastructure’ plans.
Lisa, I realize this must be very traumatic for you. Having had to endure SO much change in your life probably gives you a version of PTSD. My understanding is the last time big changes around electricity in your life happened there was an artist who captured your response to the devastating consequences…..
The music from your Victrola never sounded as good again after that awful, awful, societal shift away from gas lights. You have made it very clear that when you see America you only see it through the lens of gaslighting.
But just as you came to accept the awfulness of electricity (over the decades), driving your Edsel, and watching “talkies” on your Betamax this too is something you will one day figure out how to accept.
Sure – lets go back to being dependent on OPEC for oil. At least under Trump, we were self-sufficient and actually exporting oil. But – OPEC is our friend and would never stick it to us, right?
‘Psychotic’ fundraising tactics show how unhinged the Republican Party has become
In a Times article published in early April, journalist Shane Goldmacher reported that Trump donors had been slammed with recurring bills that they didn’t agree to. By not unchecking prechecked boxes in fundraising e-mails and texts, they ended up being subjected to recurring billing when all they want to do was make single donations.
Levin explains, “The Trump campaign ripped off unwitting supporters for tens of millions of dollars. It did so through an extremely simple yet wildly deceitful scheme in which the default option for donations authorized the campaign to transfer the pledged amount from people’s bank accounts not once, but every single week. Later, the campaign introduced a second prechecked box that doubled a person’s contribution and was known internally as a ‘money bomb.’”
The Vanity Fair columnist notes that according to Goldmacher’s reporting, one of the victims was 78-year-old California resident Victor Amelino — “whose $990 donation,” Levin writes, “turned into nearly $8000.”
Levin goes on to discuss some recent fundraising from the NRCC, which — like Trump’s campaign — wanted recurring donations. If donors wanted to uncheck a box that would have signed them up for recurring monthly donations, they were told, “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR…. Make this a monthly recurring donation.”
Fossil fuels will not be going away anytime soon, so there’s another thing you can stop lying about.
Horses didn’t disappear from everyday use the moment automobiles appeared. Letter writing didn’t come to an abrupt halt when the telephone appeared. The phonograph didn’t signal the death-knell for live music.
But fossil fuels are NOT the future of any 1st world economy, and over time will be replaced by renewables and electricity; it’s imperative that the U.S. act now to not be left hopelessly behind. Just because YOU don’t give a damn about the climate-related hardships or economic disadvantages coming generations may face, as long as it doesn’t impact you, doesn’t mean it’s not a real problem that forward-thinking people are working to avert.
Yes Lisa, you are right. Our economy is out of date. We rely on old, inferior technology and filthy, dirty energy sources and if anything at all, anywhere in the process goes wrong the whole thing is disrupted.
Lisa, if we don’t modernize the world is going to leave us behind.
Poor Lisa, unable to do the math. About 410,000 renewable energy jobs in 2019 and a little over 500,000 oil jobs, but oil has very little room to grow and it is estimated renewables will add around 465,000 jobs over the next 5 years. See where I’m going here? Taking our infrastructure into the 21st Century is a good thing, especially since that number is only the base on which all new technologies will advance. But don’t worry too much about those oil jobs because, well look around you, oil provides you with so much that cannot be easily replaced and energy is really just a minor part of that.
And what, exactly, is the jobs plan from the GOP? Oh yes, that’s right, tax cuts for the wealthy and then the wealth will trickle down. A report by Swiss bank UBS found that billionaires increased their wealth by more than a quarter (27.5%) at the height of the crisis from April to July, just as millions of people around the world lost their jobs or were struggling to get by on government schemes.The report found that billionaires had mostly benefited from betting on the recovery of global stock markets when they were at their nadir during the global lockdowns in March and April. UBS said billionaires’ wealth had hit “a new high, surpassing the previous peak of $8.9tn reached at the end of 2017”. The number of billionaires has also hit a new high of 2,189, up from 2,158 in 2017. (Guardian October 12, 2020). The economic collapse sparked by the pandemic is triggering the most unequal recession in modern U.S. history, delivering a mild setback for those at or near the top and a depression-like blow for those at the bottom, according to a Washington Post analysis of job losses across the income spectrum.
Recessions often hit poorer households harder, but this one is doing so at a scale that is the worst in generations, the analysis shows. (Washington Post Sept 2020). Where pray tell, is the GOP solution, other than simply saying no? Where are their policies? Pfffftt!!
Admittedly, we support the efforts of Mr. Musk to lead us to new frontiers, and if helping Tesla helps that it can’t be all bad, despite the environmental issues surrounding the batteries, and the carbon footprint of the way the electricity for the charging stations may be generated, and the people not yet rich enough to buy one of his cars, but we also support women in cartooning! :)
Abbott slammed for claim Biden ‘threatening 2nd Amendment rights’ hours before Texas mass shooting
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is facing criticism after responding to President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that he is focusing on reducing gun violence by demanding Congress get to work and by signing six executive orders. Biden’s Rose Garden address comes just weeks after two major mass shootings captivated the nation, one at an Atlanta spa that left eight people dead, another in Boulder that left ten people dead. “Biden is threatening our 2nd Amendment rights," Gov. Abbott falsely claimed – a charge Biden refuted even before Abbott made it.
Well, at least Lyin’ Lisa isn’t advocating having to have a person with a red flag walk 50 feet in front of every electric car to warn farmers and others that one of them new-fangled contraptions is coming…
And SOMEONE please try to crowbar into her cranium the FACT that any switchover to EV’s is NOT going to be an overnight thing, but is a long-term, gradual phase-in.
Kentucky Ken Premium Member about 3 years ago
Those dern progressives. These new auto-mobiles are going to put blacksmiths out of business. There goes the dang economy (1905). Please get a grip, Lisa and try using your, ummm, brain (if that’s possible).
Aliquid about 3 years ago
Riiiight, because green jobs are impossible
Judge Magney about 3 years ago
Biden’s plan calls for building a lot of charging stations for electric vehicles. Lisa apparently believes we have a shortage of gas stations instead. This cartoon is surpassingly stupid.
LeeCharlesHughes about 3 years ago
..I like the way she put the cartoon together, though…
Patjade about 3 years ago
Lyin’ Lisa misses takes a swing and another miss.
Nantucket Premium Member about 3 years ago
The Green New Deal (which is a blueprint to develop plans) and any other green plans all contain information about gradual conversions. No one says that all oil and gas should be turned off NOW – but their subsidies should be eliminated NOW.
It always amazes me when the RW people with children keep pushing fossil fuels – do they think they are immune from the effects in some way?
Kracklin Rosie - “Tolo Dan Nan Galad” Premium Member about 3 years ago
Been waiting for my electric car, jet pack, FLYING car!, for a long time now. E-car price, efficiency and range aren’t quite there yet. Getting close though. In any case, having a small apple farm and cattle pasturage I need a truck and the new E-Trucks starting to show up are spendyeeee. Some major concerns I have is the power grid, electricity available and price. If we have a major government mandated (don’t see how that’s going to work) transition to e-vehicles the current power grid isn’t going to be able to handle the capacity. Solar and wind farms aren’t going to make up for the additional need certainly not on a continuous basis. That leaves coal and hydroelectric plants both of which are anathema to the the environmentalists. Now we get to nuclear power which are becoming more acceptable to but the most extreme environmental purists. Technology has marched on and there are now safe, viable nuclear power plants which cannot melt down, blow up or otherwise have a catastrophic failure releasing radioactive particles into the environment. Molten Salt Reactors are extremely safe and do not require the expensive containment buildings needed by current High Pressure Water Reactors in case of high pressure steam/hydrogen explosion (think Fukashima). Possibly the best of all worlds would be the Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactors of which there are several safe designs. One concepts would even generate hydrogen as an additional clean fuel source. If the Biden administration is serious about this then they seriously need to streamline the licensing, permit and construction of a new generation of safe nuclear power plants into their ‘infrastructure’ plans.
ferddo about 3 years ago
Building out a charging infrastructure provides jobs too… but the haters can only imagine losses to their status quo…
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Republicans won’t do a thing to help the USA.
Vidrinath Premium Member about 3 years ago
Lisa, I realize this must be very traumatic for you. Having had to endure SO much change in your life probably gives you a version of PTSD. My understanding is the last time big changes around electricity in your life happened there was an artist who captured your response to the devastating consequences…..
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8qcy9y/antielectricity_cartoon_from_1900/
The music from your Victrola never sounded as good again after that awful, awful, societal shift away from gas lights. You have made it very clear that when you see America you only see it through the lens of gaslighting.
But just as you came to accept the awfulness of electricity (over the decades), driving your Edsel, and watching “talkies” on your Betamax this too is something you will one day figure out how to accept.
WCraft Premium Member about 3 years ago
Sure – lets go back to being dependent on OPEC for oil. At least under Trump, we were self-sufficient and actually exporting oil. But – OPEC is our friend and would never stick it to us, right?
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
‘Psychotic’ fundraising tactics show how unhinged the Republican Party has become
In a Times article published in early April, journalist Shane Goldmacher reported that Trump donors had been slammed with recurring bills that they didn’t agree to. By not unchecking prechecked boxes in fundraising e-mails and texts, they ended up being subjected to recurring billing when all they want to do was make single donations.
Levin explains, “The Trump campaign ripped off unwitting supporters for tens of millions of dollars. It did so through an extremely simple yet wildly deceitful scheme in which the default option for donations authorized the campaign to transfer the pledged amount from people’s bank accounts not once, but every single week. Later, the campaign introduced a second prechecked box that doubled a person’s contribution and was known internally as a ‘money bomb.’”
The Vanity Fair columnist notes that according to Goldmacher’s reporting, one of the victims was 78-year-old California resident Victor Amelino — “whose $990 donation,” Levin writes, “turned into nearly $8000.”
Levin goes on to discuss some recent fundraising from the NRCC, which — like Trump’s campaign — wanted recurring donations. If donors wanted to uncheck a box that would have signed them up for recurring monthly donations, they were told, “If you UNCHECK this box, we will have to tell Trump you’re a DEFECTOR…. Make this a monthly recurring donation.”
https://www.rawstory.com/psychotic-fundraising-tactics-show-how-unhinged-the-republican-party-has-become-columnist/
Concretionist about 3 years ago
Lisa may not be the dumbest bump on the swamp-cured log, but she gets paid to play one… and she does it VERY well !!
Scoutmaster77 about 3 years ago
Hey petroleum fuels will never run out, right?
T Smith about 3 years ago
Fossil fuels will not be going away anytime soon, so there’s another thing you can stop lying about.
Horses didn’t disappear from everyday use the moment automobiles appeared. Letter writing didn’t come to an abrupt halt when the telephone appeared. The phonograph didn’t signal the death-knell for live music.
But fossil fuels are NOT the future of any 1st world economy, and over time will be replaced by renewables and electricity; it’s imperative that the U.S. act now to not be left hopelessly behind. Just because YOU don’t give a damn about the climate-related hardships or economic disadvantages coming generations may face, as long as it doesn’t impact you, doesn’t mean it’s not a real problem that forward-thinking people are working to avert.
Durak Premium Member about 3 years ago
Yes Lisa, you are right. Our economy is out of date. We rely on old, inferior technology and filthy, dirty energy sources and if anything at all, anywhere in the process goes wrong the whole thing is disrupted.
Lisa, if we don’t modernize the world is going to leave us behind.
NRHAWK Premium Member about 3 years ago
Poor Lisa, unable to do the math. About 410,000 renewable energy jobs in 2019 and a little over 500,000 oil jobs, but oil has very little room to grow and it is estimated renewables will add around 465,000 jobs over the next 5 years. See where I’m going here? Taking our infrastructure into the 21st Century is a good thing, especially since that number is only the base on which all new technologies will advance. But don’t worry too much about those oil jobs because, well look around you, oil provides you with so much that cannot be easily replaced and energy is really just a minor part of that.
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
2 more shootings in the last 24 hours, time for gun control.
grumpypophobart about 3 years ago
And what, exactly, is the jobs plan from the GOP? Oh yes, that’s right, tax cuts for the wealthy and then the wealth will trickle down. A report by Swiss bank UBS found that billionaires increased their wealth by more than a quarter (27.5%) at the height of the crisis from April to July, just as millions of people around the world lost their jobs or were struggling to get by on government schemes.The report found that billionaires had mostly benefited from betting on the recovery of global stock markets when they were at their nadir during the global lockdowns in March and April. UBS said billionaires’ wealth had hit “a new high, surpassing the previous peak of $8.9tn reached at the end of 2017”. The number of billionaires has also hit a new high of 2,189, up from 2,158 in 2017. (Guardian October 12, 2020). The economic collapse sparked by the pandemic is triggering the most unequal recession in modern U.S. history, delivering a mild setback for those at or near the top and a depression-like blow for those at the bottom, according to a Washington Post analysis of job losses across the income spectrum.
Recessions often hit poorer households harder, but this one is doing so at a scale that is the worst in generations, the analysis shows. (Washington Post Sept 2020). Where pray tell, is the GOP solution, other than simply saying no? Where are their policies? Pfffftt!!
Flower Girl about 3 years ago
Cute cartoon, Lisa.
Admittedly, we support the efforts of Mr. Musk to lead us to new frontiers, and if helping Tesla helps that it can’t be all bad, despite the environmental issues surrounding the batteries, and the carbon footprint of the way the electricity for the charging stations may be generated, and the people not yet rich enough to buy one of his cars, but we also support women in cartooning! :)
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Republicans make it easier to get guns and harder to vote.
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Abbott slammed for claim Biden ‘threatening 2nd Amendment rights’ hours before Texas mass shooting
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is facing criticism after responding to President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday that he is focusing on reducing gun violence by demanding Congress get to work and by signing six executive orders. Biden’s Rose Garden address comes just weeks after two major mass shootings captivated the nation, one at an Atlanta spa that left eight people dead, another in Boulder that left ten people dead. “Biden is threatening our 2nd Amendment rights," Gov. Abbott falsely claimed – a charge Biden refuted even before Abbott made it.
Rawstory
dafydd liam about 3 years ago
Plagarized.
Masterskrain Premium Member about 3 years ago
Well, at least Lyin’ Lisa isn’t advocating having to have a person with a red flag walk 50 feet in front of every electric car to warn farmers and others that one of them new-fangled contraptions is coming…
And SOMEONE please try to crowbar into her cranium the FACT that any switchover to EV’s is NOT going to be an overnight thing, but is a long-term, gradual phase-in.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 3 years ago
Kentucky Ken – Hope you’ll be able to afford the electric wonders?
washatkc Premium Member about 3 years ago
you sure hurt the lefty lemmings feelings Lisa. really funny reading there tears and hate they sling at you. But truth nah they never use that.