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Did you not notice the video, where his power lasted 5 days from his Ioniq 5? If power is out for a week or more, then you have many more issues than just the lack of home power. Why will the batteries discharge? Again, maybe you are the batteries as a power source for your home but that...

I'm curious why it is from four years ago, when Trump was President and the effects of the Pandemic were just beginning to be felt? It is worth pointing out that much of why Trump lost in 2020 was his actions in the last 8 months of his Presidency, which is part of the "4 years ago."

Are you thinking Biden has a copy of these Suspicious Activity Reports and can just hand them to the media? Or are you saying he should order the government to release them, something no president has ever done? Particularly since most of those reports have to do with Hunter Biden, not Joe (that...

Blackouts already cause major disruptions, even with the entire country depending on gasoline for their travel. Yes, there are ways that stations can pump gasoline when there is no power, if they are prepared and chose to. Of course, then the issues are how people pay for the gasoline, since...

No, the Justice Department is not, this has nothing to do with the Department of Justice. Instead, this is the Manhattan DA that filed the charges and got a Grand Jury to indict.

Then why was former VP Pence not charged?

From what I've seen, it comes from "Liberty or Death" which, in American History, allegedly originates from a speech Patrick Henry gave at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775. In the speech, he argues for war and his last line was, "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give...

That's nice. At the same time, Texas has had just as many blackouts as California over a similar time period and has not led in EV adoption. As such, I'm not sure what the point is. Except you need to do the similar graph for gasoline, if you are going to be fair. My issue wasn't that a 5 cent...

Yes, there is the supply and demand issue, though they also subject to state regulations as to electrical pricing -- though that will vary by state (some states are more customer friendly), and it will be worst in states that do not have competition between electrical companies. To give an...

Did I say they were directly comparable? You appear to be building a straw man. What I'm saying is you have densely populated countries (much of North Western Europe, Japan, etc.), you have extremely large countries with smaller populations that are somewhat more diverse (Canada). You have South...

You say this but basically every first world nation, other than the US, has some type of government paid health care for all. It doesn't just work in Sweden, but in Japan, Canada, etc -- despite the fact all the various countries are quite different, with different sized nation, different sized...

I've toyed with the idea before and quickly realized that food, from a grocery store, should largely not be taxed. Of course, you still might add a "basic" sales tax to many prepared foods (bread might be an example, prepared dinner kits, etc.) and possibly tax high fat, high sugar items (chips...

Because it is a very regulated industry. We are? Why? As a general rule, there is more electricity than there is demand for. I know in Texas, when they tended to have those large scale outages, the issue was typically that some plants were offline for maintenance or similar issues, because...

Not really, no. Supply and demand should not exist for electricity. First, "the grid" should produce more electricity than there is demand for -- though we have seen some issues and need to continue to build out and update the grid. Next, every state I'm aware of does not allow the "free market"...

No, defendants are not released from jail to attend Supreme Court (or other appellate court) hearings. Yes, people will be brought from jail for their trials but not for the appeals, as no testimony is given during appeals. Interestingly, I don't recall Trump attending any of his other Supreme...

Why pick another random starting year? Why not do it from 1983, when pay was caught up to what it should be, rather than going back to the 60s? It is particularly true because the 60s had a draft -- and draftees tended to be poorly paid for their time in service -- so it would make sense pay had...

No, you really didn't. You mentioned that you paid about $30K, not a specific price. You mention you paid $3.25 for gasoline yesterday but not what you had to pay when you filled up your car a year ago, or 18 months ago, or when you first bought it. Yes, gas prices are cheaper now than they were...

I don't know why you keep trying to argue "voter ID" with me, since I didn't say we shouldn't have it. My only comment was the double standard that a Democratic sponsored law (that, from what I recall, did call for voter ID) was bad because of "state's rights" but it is just fine when...

Having joined that Air Force in the early 80s, it is worth pointing out that was a time period of some big pay raises under Reagan (as you can see in the graph). At the end of the 70s, the military was drastically underpaid, so one of the things Reagan campaigned on and implemented was huge...

That's nice; it doesn't change the hypocrisy over "state's rights."