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It looks as though Trump won’t press ahead with a Supreme Court nominee this side of the election –
It looks as though Trump won’t press ahead with a Supreme Court nominee this side of the election – politicalbetting.com
The White House has confirmed that there is not enough time on the Senate calendar to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.https://t.co/A4KdukIghW via @politicususa
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Just as Boris left his Brexit deal hanging over an election.
From last thread - tool to compare journey fuel cost EV vs ICE (Enables you to put in electricity and petrol/diesel costs. Charging overnight can be REALLY cheap on some suppliers)
https://www.zap-map.com/tools/journey-cost-calculator/
Also need to bear in mind maintenance
https://insideevs.com/news/317307/ev-vs-ice-maintenance-the-first-100000-miles/
Total cost of ownership if buying from new is worth comparing.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1307306114476920833
We might see a split between what Trump thinks is best for Trump and what the Republican party thinks is best for the country.
But I haven't yet seen anything that alters my view that we are still a long way from having mass electric cars. Certainly unless there are dramatic improvements in the next six months (that being about the time I will need to replace my car) I don't think I will be going for one given how much and where I drive.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1307321159113936896?s=21
https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1307337295377428482?s=20
This also struck me as an interesting comment:
https://twitter.com/ChrisPolPsych/status/1307334786617356288
Next year could see Tesla prices start to come down and range to improve, see what Elon has to say on Tuesday.
I think you will be surprised at how fast the changeover happens once the prices are right - the 'S' curve is quite steep. I'm seeing Plenty of Teslas locally already.
https://marketrealist.imgix.net/uploads/2015/12/Technology-Adoption.png?w=660&fit=max&auto=format
1) Do you think what happened in 2016 was shit?
2) Do you agree there should be confirmation hearings in 2020?
is a different proposition from
1) Is it okay to delay nomination when voting has already started for an election 50 days out?
2) Do you think it was right to block a nomination for 9 months?
https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1307335403935019008?s=20
Socialist Worker Gruaniad
There's a fin-de-l'ete feel about the day as the realities of autumn are drawing nearer.
There's also a state poll from Missouri which shows Trump up 53-45.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2020/MO_Scout_September_2020.pdf
In 2016, Trump won Missouri 57-38 so that's a 5.5% swing to Biden which we've been seeing in some of the GOP strongholds. Margin of Error on the poll is 3%.
https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1307297033674526727?s=21
Encouraging people to breach the rules is asinine
When ranges have doubled (to a standard of all cars being between 400-800 miles depending on what you’re looking for), 150-350kW charging capability is routine (a 150kW charger can put 60 miles charge in a battery in 6 minutes; a 350kW charger can do 140 miles in the same time), and prices are comparable to ICE cars, it’s done.
And the rate of improvement in battery density and prices is going that way, as is the adoption of ultra-fast charging. It’s there or thereabouts for many people already, and more and more people will be in the category of “it suits me now” as time goes on.
And that's against people not from Yorkshire. People are increasingly openly against anyone who isn't exactly like them, and foreigners are an easy target. Its not hard right racism, just petty bigotry. And the kind of seats like Lavery mentions are riddled with exactly the kind of white working class people like Rochdale's Mrs "Bigoted Woman" Duffy and frankly my dad who whilst not being explicitly racist are more than happy to label non-whites by their skin colour and cast aspersions based on that.
The media have a lot of the blame for whipping this up though. Anti-foreigner stories endlessly in their newspapers is how you end up with white people in a town that is almost entirely white saying that the country is too full of migrants like the ones that they can't see as they don't exist locally.
Re-elect Trump and He will appoint a God-fearing real American who will defend your way of life
Or vote for Biden and he will appoint a liberal anti-Christ who will make it illegal not to eat Quinoa
What a finish to Tour de France. What odds could you have got on that?
Pogacar overturns a 57 second deficit on final time trial to win by nearly a minute.
I sometimes nod my head when I'm listening, I must be more careful as I never thought it implied agreement.
https://twitter.com/themajorityscot/status/1307303075225403393?s=20
Edit - I see he's from Carsnootie, which would explain a lot....
No and thank God for that.
Social democrats are in charge now
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1307030660390027264?s=20
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1307030664798240770?s=20
Kind and compassionate Tory Party
"Are you a Leave voter? Sir Keir Starmer thinks you're racist"
https://twitter.com/BrianSpanner1/status/1307299956965990401
I was watching an interview with Gabriel Pogrund last night, he was nodding his head a lot and I highly doubt he agreed with anything Aaron Bastani was saying
If I have misunderstood please do correct me but that's not good at all
In 2017 55 million barrels of oil were used to power our transport network. The whole of our electrical output was equivalent to just 17.1 million barrels of oil.
So just to convert transport, we need to more than triple our electricity supply. OK, it will be less than that because ships and probably lorries will not be converted to electricity (more probably hydrogen) and that will amount to at a guess 50% of consumption. But it's still a large figure.
And that's before we talk about gas, which the government also wants to replace, and which was used for the equivalent of 34 million barrels of direct energy (not including gas used to generate electricity)
Add those together and we're looking at a need for a sixfold increase in electricity generation to stand still - and demand is also set to grow.
Finally we need to make sure our grid can cope with that level of demand.
So it's not just about the technology.
As an example my mother got offered the chance to buy her council house under right to buy and looked into it and found she couldn't afford it even with the maximum discount. Her two bedroom prefab 1960's bungalow apparently had a market price of 500K
Why shouldn't the locals resent that?
In 2008 McCain's share of evangelicals fell to 74% but their share of the electorate rose to 26%
In 2012 Romney increased his share of evangelicals back to the 78% Bush got though their share of the electorate remained unchanged at 26%
In 2016 Trump got the highest share of the evangelical vote yet at 81% though their voteshare again remained at 26%.
In November Trump will therefore not only be aiming to keep his share of evangelicals over 80% but to drive their turnout close to 30% of the electorate given the chance of a pro life Justice to replace a pro choice Justice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election
The last Democrat to win the evangelical vote was Carter in 1976, since then they have played a key part in the winning Republican campaigns of Reagan, Bush 41 once and Bush 43 twice and Trump
So really he has to work hard to stand still with them.
My concern would be around - for example - that say "Romanians are coming here to steal our jobs". They aren't coming here to steal anything, in many cases they're doing jobs the British refuse to do like cleaning loos. Or working in the NHS, or keeping our elderly people alive.
Are we to resent those "incomers"? Or you agree that we should make distinctions.
As to the demand for electricity - yes, it will require an enormous build out.
Which even if he does, the optics are not good at all.
I am sure many in the country resented the vikings when they used to visit but I think it would be hard to put that down purely to xenophobic bigotry
Trump's price has shortened a bit on Betfair, back to where it was a few days ago. The Spreads are unmoved. Somehow I think replacing Ginsburg is not going to determine the Election.
Do I think the media whipped up hatred for people from abroad and pretended they caused a lot of problems in our society? Also, yes
Violins.
For example, hating Eastern Europeans because Polish people come here to work. Do you think that's reasonable? I don't.
I REPEAT IN CAPS BECAUSE YOU SEEM TO BE UNABLE TO READ WHAT I WROTE ......IN SOME PLACES....IE NOT ALL
Clearly Scotland is getting its stats out faster than EW. Given a lot of the testing is via UK "Lighthouse" labs, why does EW have a lag Scotland does not?
https://twitter.com/gerardaraud/status/1307361317695692800?s=21
I think we need to distinguish between views which we hold in private - which may well be right or wrong - and those that we air as a party. Too much - as you say - our private views have become party policy.
For example, I do think racism informed the Brexit vote for some. Do I think it's useful to air those views to the public? No.
But this is about clever politics and something far above my paygrade, it is turning around the policies to who they target and the way we sell them.
You could sell railway nationalisation in a far more patriotic and working-class focussed way than Labour has done historically.
I recalled that in the past you cited immigration that came from abroad as being one of your issues and it was a motivation for Brexit.
Announcing this while Manchester United are trailing Crystal Palace due to sloppy defending.
I see what you did there Spurs.
https://twitter.com/SpursOfficial/status/1307360050294521857
Scotland puts out data faster, mainly because of centralisation. It did take them a long, long time to start collecting data by specimen date, though. They are also doing much less pillar 2 testing, I believe.