THE MORNING RANT: The TVA in the Biden Era – Blackouts & Rural De-Electrification

Thanks to the TVA (“Tennessee Valley Authority,” electricity had been abundant and inexpensive for Tennessee and six surrounding states for most of the past century. Coal, hydro, nuclear, and natural gas were the fuels that electrified Appalachia.

But anti-carbon leftists have infiltrated the organization, and its future is now geared toward renewables and “sustainability.”

In other words, scarcity is the future of electricity in the TVA service area.

The extreme cold snap this past weekend was not common, but neither was it unprecedented. But what was unprecedented is that the TVA is no longer able to reliably provide electricity in cold snaps.

Tennessee Valley Authority Calls For Rolling Blackouts Amid Winter Freeze

Tennesseans saw a lot of this on local TV stations the past couple of days:

Rolling Blackouts - Tennessee - TV 3.JPG

The TVA famously brought rural electrification to Appalachia in the 1930s. 90 years later, the TVA is hopelessly distracted by anti-carbon, net-zero politics, promising to reduce its carbon output 80% by 2035. Now to be fair, a massive reduction in carbon output could be achieved by replacing coal plants with natural gas and nuclear plants, but President Biden is loading the TVA board up with net-zero activists who believe that sun, wind, and unicorns can provide all the energy that people need. (By the way, they don’t think you should “need” a lot of electricity anyhow, as they have determined that a spartan lifestyle is quite sufficient for you.)

So forget rural electrification. What the TVA is now delivering is de-electrification. When you really need electricity, you won’t be able to rely on the TVA to provide it to you.

Who are the people that Biden is nominating to run the TVA?

Biden Nominates New Directors For TVA Board; Appointments will diversify all-white panel, add labor and green energy supporters [Chattanooga Times Free Press – 4/20/2021]

The board nominations for TVA by the Biden White House include a long-time labor leader in Chattanooga, the former chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore, an Alabama businesswoman who was the first Black female elected chair of the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce, and the head of a nonprofit that promotes solar energy and other green power.

Yikes. Not an energy expert among them, unless you consider eco-communists with an agenda of eliminating reliable carbon-based energy to be energy experts.

Here’s a more detailed biography of two of the people who Biden wants to transform the TVA.

BETH GEER: Hailing from, Nashville, Tennessee, Geer is Chief of Staff to former Vice President Al Gore and serves on Nashville’s Sustainability Advisory Committee. She has sustainability and climate change policy experience and has had previous roles in the White House, Department of Labor, and Senate.

MICHELLE MOORE: Moore has roots in rural Georgia and a background as a social entrepreneur. Moore worked on sustainability in the Obama White House, and currently serves as CEO of Groundswell, a nonprofit that “builds community power through equitable community solar projects and resilience centers, clean energy programs that reduce energy burdens, and pioneering research initiatives that help light the way to clean energy futures for all.

Senate Republicans actually dragged their feet on one of the nominees, but it was not because of her radical green-energy views. Beth Geer’s confirmation was held up because she insulted Republican Senator Joni Ernst.

During a Senate confirmation hearing in April, Geer was blasted by Ernst for a tweet in 2015 when she posted "hideous" after Ernst's Republican response to the State of the Union address by Obama.
"I'm not sure if you have made it a habit of calling women that you disagree with hideous," Ernst told Geer at the hearing, "but this is not Iowa nice, and I'm calling you out." Geer apologized for the tweet, which she said was not a reflection on Ernst's appearance. But Ernst said she will oppose Geer's nomination because of the lack of civility in Geer's social media post.

Ms. Geer’s scientifically illiterate goal of turning the TVA into a green energy company was not an issue for Senate Republicans, they were just offended that one of their members had been disrespected.

The same article notes that “Biden wants the electricity sector to be totally carbon free by 2035 to help limit greenhouse gas emissions linked with global warming.”

The White House is being urged by some environmentalists to try to force TVA, as the nation's biggest public utility, to meet the carbon-free target.
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said he hopes the nominees endorsed by his committee will soon be confirmed by the Senate to help TVA move forward.

Senator Carper got his way. Just before breaking for the Christmas holiday, the Senate confirmed all of Biden’s radical appointees to the TVA board, including Ms. Geer. With radical net-zero zealots now in position to control the TVA board, we should expect blackouts to become the norm, and when the blackouts they impose on us occur, they will blame climate change.

Now that the TVA has shown it can’t even produce enough electricity to handle a cold snap, what happens if more drivers start switching to electric vehicles?

Right now, despite all the hype about EV plants being built in Tennessee, the number of actual EVs on the road in Tennessee barely warrants an asterisk. There are about 6 million registered vehicles in Tennessee. Of those, less than 20,000 are EVs, or less than one-half of one percent. Yet, the same radical greens who plan to make the TVA carbon-free also want to get you out of your gas-powered car and into an EV.

Ryan Stanton, TVA’s “Senior Project Manager for EV Evolution,” has been advocating for EVs and stating that TVA is ready and able for the big increase in electricity demand resulting from a mass conversion to EVs.

Can The Grid Handle Millions Of EVs? In Tennessee, distribution systems will be ‘canary in the coal mine’ [Utility Dive – 5/22/2022]

Electrifying all 10 million vehicles in the Tennessee Valley Authority service territory would add 25-30% to existing load, a level the transmission system could handle, according to utility studies.
Transportation electrification is a way to fulfill TVA’s core missions of energy, environment and economic development, Stanton said. If Tennessee reaches its EV adoption goal, it will result in about $200 million in annual consumer savings, he said. And over the last decade, there have been about $20 billion in EV manufacturing investments in TVA’s territory, he added.
The utility believes it can handle the load associated with full electrification of the transportation system.

Spoiler alert. TVA cannot handle “full electrification of the transportation system.” It is overwhelmed and already inflicting blackouts on its customers with less than 1% of the transportation system electrified.

Whatever happens with EVs, Tennessee’s population is also growing rapidly, with a flood of blue-state refugees pouring in. The TVA can’t even keep up with population growth, much less with demand to power EVs.

One more thing, the TVA’s CEO, Jeff Lyash, is the nation’s highest paid federal employee, receiving compensation of $9.8 million for the fiscal year that ended on September 30.

As I documented back in 2020, Donald Trump tried to get Lyash fired for replacing TVA staff with foreign labor.

CEO Lyash followed the True Conservative™ playbook of terminating employees, making them train their inexpensive foreign replacements, then rewarding himself with a 7 or 8-figure salary for all the labor expense he eliminated.

Lyash is apparently so busy managing the fortune that flows from TVA customers to himself, that he doesn’t have time to worry about actually providing electricity to those same customers when they’re at risk of freezing to death.

Going forward, energy scarcity and rolling blackouts will no longer be problems for the TVA. They’ll be policy.

(buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com)

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 Get used to blackouts

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:01 AM (aV4nk)

2 I wish I knew how to get rid of these leftist vermin

Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 11:01 AM (Zzbjj)

3 Many outage around country this weekend

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 11:01 AM (xhxe8)

4 Natural disaster not man made

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 11:01 AM (xhxe8)

5 So...huge baby boom coming in 9 months then eh?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2022 11:02 AM (anj39)

6 Equity means everybody is in the dark.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:02 AM (aV4nk)

7 New normal

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2022 11:03 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Good Lord, the stupidity of these cretins just drips off the screen, doesn't it?

I wouldn't trust these fools to pedal a bicycle-powered generator.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2022 11:04 AM (BpYfr)

9 TVA gonna give up on 'flood control', too?

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

10 What Ernst promised: emasculating government

What Ersnt delivered: Boner pills for every government agency - and not the cheap gas station ones.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:04 AM (lc5cP)

11 I'm willing to pay top dollar for people who bring top dollar results. CEO Lyash isn't one of those people.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 11:05 AM (eOEVl)

12 The TVA was the concrete-and-steel realization of the regulatory authority at the heart of the New Deal. In this sense, the massive dams in the Tennessee Valley were monuments to the New Deal, just as the New Cities in the Pontine Marshes were monuments to Fascism … But beyond that, TVA propaganda was also directed against an internal enemy: the capitalist excesses that had led to the Depression… Nobody finds it odd that within 20 years after Woody Wilson, the first American Progressive President who created the Federal Reserve Bank (which isn't Federal, has no Reserves and isn't a Bank) specifically to prevent Market crashes? Then FDR used the crash that the Federal Reserve created on purpose to create the New Deal . See how this works?

Posted by: Fisht at December 26, 2022 11:05 AM (ZRarh)

13 CEO Lyash followed the True Conservative™ playbook of terminating employees, making them train their inexpensive foreign replacements, then rewarding himself with a 7 or 8-figure salary for all the labor expense he eliminated.

Out: High paying jobs for Americans

In: Government funded euthanasia.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:06 AM (lc5cP)

14 My electric service provider is under the TVA umbrella. I was told this past week's rolling blackouts were the first such events in the past 50 years.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2022 11:06 AM (qoGsy)

15 Old leftism at least built things like damns.

New leftism builds NOTHING.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:07 AM (lc5cP)

16 Gee, it almost sounds like what a hostile and criminal regime would inflict upon the population.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 11:07 AM (jTmQV)

17 Why not appoint Hunter? He has a lot of experience in the oil and gas sector.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 11:07 AM (ZLI7S)

18 One more thing, the TVA’s CEO, Jeff Lyash, is the nation’s highest paid federal employee,

* grumbles *

Posted by: Dr. Tony F. at December 26, 2022 11:07 AM (nfrXX)

19 My electric service provider is under the TVA umbrella. I was told this past week's rolling blackouts were the first such events in the past 50 years.

Imagine telling Americans in 1962 that in 2022 we'd have rolling power blackouts...out and constant shortages of basic goods without being at war.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:07 AM (lc5cP)

20 20th!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 11:07 AM (xT8gx)

21 But anti-carbon leftists have infiltrated the organization, and its future is now geared toward renewables and “sustainability.”

Chinese embeds are making critical infrastructure decisions in the DOE.

Posted by: kallisto at December 26, 2022 11:08 AM (8WLxa)

22 I wouldn't trust these fools to pedal a bicycle-powered generator.

I have uncovered video of leftists doing precisely that.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxv9n2t

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 11:08 AM (eOEVl)

23 Gee, it almost sounds like what a hostile and criminal regime would inflict upon the population.

Not only are they stealing our wealth but they are doing that barbarian thing of turning our kids into "dancing boys"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:08 AM (lc5cP)

24 The moral of the story is to prepare. Expect that there will be blackouts and that you need alternate ways to cook and stay warm. And that will be harder if you rent.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 26, 2022 11:08 AM (uz3Px)

25 I'm sure the rolling blackouts are totally unrelated to the unqualified people running the system.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:08 AM (aV4nk)

26 Something about TVA, dams on rivers, and Joe Biden.

Why am I hearing Dueling ‘BanJOEs’ now?

Posted by: Rex B at December 26, 2022 11:08 AM (WtkHN)

27 What's so bad about carbon?

Posted by: Just Wondering at December 26, 2022 11:09 AM (DhOHl)

28 What's so bad about carbon?

It's the basic atom of all life on Earth. Obviously, we need less of it.

-- Your Betters

Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 11:11 AM (nfrXX)

29 Iowa is now deep red. I wonder if (hope) Joni Ernst will get a MAGA primary challenge? Ha… I crack myself up. Honestly I thought Ernst sold herself as the tough military vet…. But she’s that thin-skinned? Clownworld

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 11:11 AM (xT8gx)

30 What's so bad about carbon?

A interesting premise for a sci fi story would be that earth's leaders are beholden to a non-carbon based alien civilization that literally finds carbon disgusting and therefore wants to destroy the carbon cycle on earth.

Of course our actual elites are in league with someone that hates all life anyway so, uh, welcome to our "sci fi" future.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:11 AM (lc5cP)

31 resilience centers?

WTF

Posted by: Infidel at December 26, 2022 11:11 AM (ZEa+g)

32 Honestly I thought Ernst sold herself as the tough military vet…. But she’s that thin-skinned? Clownworld

Lese Majeste.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (eOEVl)

33 What's so bad about carbon?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Actually, carbon dioxide is the problem, and people just keep emitting it. People are the primary point source for carbon dioxide.

I think the ideal solution is government regulation of breathing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (EPGqv)

34 Klaus smiles.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (RoQjZ)

35 We have enough coal to cheaply provide energy for as long as we need to and yet...we are mostly leaving it in the ground and building worthless windmills.

Insanity.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (lc5cP)

36 Going forward, energy scarcity and rolling blackouts will no longer be problems for the TVA. They’ll be policy.

Trying to care about this, but really I don't. If you vote for Democrats, if you let them steal elections, if you let animals like Geer, Moore and Lyash wakeup and go to bed in peace, then freeze in the dark. And pretend that in 2024 you can 'vote' your way back to warmth, energy and security.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 26, 2022 11:13 AM (AW0uW)

37 Klaus smiles.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (RoQjZ)
-

Atlas shrugged.

Posted by: Biden's Dog, Secret Russian Ass Hat, at December 26, 2022 11:14 AM (IOu4z)

38 Will it draw the city people back into the cities? In that case, I could handle some rolling blackouts out here.

Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 11:14 AM (CaJIi)

39 (By the way, they don’t think you should “need” a lot of electricity anyhow, as they have determined that a spartan lifestyle is quite sufficient for you.)

A single 60w bulb...and maybe a hotplate?

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

40 resilience centers?

WTF
Posted by: Infidel

Places where people can camp. Fun! And they'll be easy to support because they'll be concentrated.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 26, 2022 11:15 AM (pi2uC)

41 What did liberals use before candles?

Lightbulbs.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:15 AM (lc5cP)

42
Places where people can camp. Fun! And they'll be easy to support because they'll be concentrated.

I did not see that joke coming!

Posted by: Adolf Schicklgruber at December 26, 2022 11:15 AM (lc5cP)

43 32 - I don’t remember the details, but after her first “tough military vet” campaign (soon after IIRC) Ernst made some kind of dramatic victim announcement about rape or sexual harassment. If it actually happened I of course do not want to minimize the awfulness of that…. But the timing was peculiar. She went from military tough to victim rapidly

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 11:16 AM (xT8gx)

44 It's all going down a hole on the energy front.

I just dropped my American Nuclear Society membership, since they're clearly going down the same path. I refuse to pay for that by any means possible.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 26, 2022 11:16 AM (ZSK0i)

45
Equity means everybody is in the dark.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:02 AM (aV4nk)

___________

Not everybody

Posted by: The American Nomenklatura at December 26, 2022 11:17 AM (MoZTd)

46 Once upon a time plants loved me.

Posted by: Carbon Dioxide at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (DhOHl)

47 It’s especially frustrating that Texas, which separated itself from the rest of the country’s grid, has also succumbed to this murderous ideology.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (EXyHK)

48 Ian Miles Cheong@stillgray
Admiral Rachel Levine calls for tech companies to censor all gender related so-called “misinformation” to protect the “health equity of sexual and gender minorities.”

-
Well, two pieces of misinformation you should get on is you're not an admiral and you're not a Rachel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (FVME7)

49 32 Honestly I thought Ernst sold herself as the tough military vet…. But she’s that thin-skinned? Clownworld

Lese Majeste.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (eOEVl)

When you try to figure out the political moves of Ernst, Noem in South Dakota, and other Grain Belt politicians, you first have to figure out what Big Ag, Big Meat, Big Fertilizer and Pesticide, and a few other Big outfits want. It may be woke sh!t on any given topic.

Posted by: Gref at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (AMIL/)

50 Not everybody
Posted by: The American Nomenklatura at December 26, 2022 11:17 AM (MoZTd)
---
These idiots don't realize that the only reason their extravagant lifestyle is possible is because of abundant energy and the economy of scale.

When every lightbulb has to be handmade, they might reconsider their stupid policies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2022 11:19 AM (BpYfr)

51 Spoiler alert. TVA cannot handle “full electrification of the transportation system.”

We're eventually going to ban heating buildings with oil and natural gas, too. Only electricity will be allowed.

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:19 AM (KCOCK)

52 It’s especially frustrating that Texas, which separated itself from the rest of the country’s grid, has also succumbed to this murderous ideology.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (EXyHK)

Blackouts...think maybe we're being conditioned?

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:20 AM (AwYPR)

53 What did liberals use before candles?

Lightbulbs.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 26, 2022 11:15 AM (lc5cP)

Oh most certainly not.
Liberals will make sure that grid updates and redundancies will keep their lights and power on.
You flyover folks who haven't any real representation in DC will be the ones to suffer, as you should.
The belief that liberals actually buy into what they are selling needs to be discarded. The Acela corridor will be the last area to have rolling blackouts and heating shortages, you can bet on that. All the while they prance in their "green" skinsuits and feel good about themselves for the saving of the earth someone else gets to do.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2022 11:20 AM (FCbAQ)

54 If nothing else, the collapse has been spectacular.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 26, 2022 11:22 AM (Xrfse)

55 Spoiler alert. TVA cannot handle “full electrification of the transportation system.”

In addition to rolling blackouts, we're going to need 'non-rolling' blackouts, too, where nobody is allowed to drive (in order to show support for our electric vehicle brethren)

Posted by: TVA at December 26, 2022 11:23 AM (CaJIi)

56 Once upon a time plants loved me.
Posted by: Carbon Dioxide at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (DhOHl)

I'm calling bullshit! Why on earth would carbon based life forms want to be exposed to a pollutant? Even if that pollutant provides and sustains life on earth?

You don't see greenhouses pumping in CO2 to kill their plants off do you?

Posted by: OneEyedJack, you can breathe in for free, gonna have to pay to exhale at December 26, 2022 11:24 AM (FCbAQ)

57 Atlas Shrugged as a user manual. It's amazing how accurate Rand (yes, I know she had issues) was about this shit.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at December 26, 2022 11:24 AM (j+FHS)

58 "Chinese embeds are making critical infrastructure decisions in the DOE." Posted by: kallisto

More effective than bombing runs.
And our "elite" sell America for pennies on the dollar.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 26, 2022 11:24 AM (Cus5s)

59 On the plus side, the death of the electrical grid means we won't have to worry about robot dogs decorating our Christmas trees anytime soon:

https://youtu.be/7Wm6vy7yBNA

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2022 11:25 AM (BpYfr)

60 Going forward, energy scarcity and rolling blackouts will no longer be problems for the TVA. They’ll be policy.

No problem - we'll have "time of use" rates to screw you peasants if you try to use electricity when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.

For an electric utility that has deployed smart meters, the meters would signal to customers – perhaps via text message – that the price of power will increase over the next six hours. This would alert consumers to shut down computers and reduce discretionary power use.

Get used to organizing your life around when we're willing to supply cheaper power, peasants.

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:25 AM (KCOCK)

61 When will tarring, feathering and running officials out on a rail return as a tool to ensure good governance?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:25 AM (fs1hN)

62 MICHELLE MOORE: Moore has roots in rural Georgia and a background as a social entrepreneur.

Soooo... lap dancer?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 26, 2022 11:25 AM (cupoy)

63 You flyover folks who haven't any real representation in DC will be the ones to suffer, as you should.
_____

Hear, hear!
-Joni Ernst

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:28 AM (fs1hN)

64 Just to blow as many minds as possible, I'm eating the most heretical French toast possible this morning. Banana swirl bread, dipped in egg/egg nog wash, served with maple syrup.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 26, 2022 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

65
Imagine telling Americans in 1962 that in 2022 we'd have rolling power blackouts...out and constant shortages of basic goods without being at war.
Posted by: 18-1

We're NOT at war?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 11:29 AM (63Dwl)

66 Just had to restart the lappy after it overheated. I'm sure the 2-3" dog hairs I dug out of the fan exhaust ports had NOTHING TO DO WITH IT WHATSOEVER.

Posted by: pookysgirl, having one of THOSE mornings at December 26, 2022 11:29 AM (XKZwp)

67 I don't want to shock you but the FBI conspired with Big Media to preach a false narrative on covid and to suppress truthful information.

https://bit.ly/3hSw7nf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (FVME7)

68 Dec 20 Intel Update: More Substation Attacks
S2 Underground
youtube.com/watch?v=JeLQRLzo_-c

128,580 views Dec 20, 2022

00:00 - Moore County, NC Update 10:43 - Northeastern Region 11:03 - Southeastern Region 14:27 - East Central Midwestern Region 16:40 - West Central Midwestern Region 22:29 - Southwestern Region 29:13 - Western Region 33:57 - Western Europe 40:09 - Closing Thoughts

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (MFZ8i)

69 We're NOT at war?

Ukraine comes ahead of your puny needs, traitor.

Posted by: The Uniparty! at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (KCOCK)

70 Actually, carbon dioxide is the problem, and people just keep emitting it. People are the primary point source for carbon dioxide.

I think the ideal solution is government regulation of breathing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM (EPGqv)
***

Hey, I'm just doing my part for photosynthesis.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (anj39)

71 Banana swirl bread, dipped in egg/egg nog wash, served with maple syrup.
Posted by: Grimmy at December 26, 2022 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

Egg nog wash? Sounds awful, but probably isn't.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (FCbAQ)

72 Either people tolerate this shite, or they won't.

That's how these things always go, and usually, they do. Tolerate it, I mean. Then after the fact, when the totalitarians and the oligarchs are wreaking havoc, people point fingers at each other, saying "you should have known."

We all should have.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:32 AM (QBaJw)

73 Saw an article that Teslas won't charge in freezing temps.

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:32 AM (AwYPR)

74 Everything is not bad news. Here's a pick me up.

https://tinyurl.com/kasjpchh

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2022 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

75 rolling blackouts
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Is that like circling back, only with electrons?

Posted by: Biden's Dog, Secret Russian Ass Hat, at December 26, 2022 11:33 AM (IOu4z)

76 >>Admiral Rachel Levine calls for tech companies to censor all gender related so-called “misinformation” to protect the “health equity of sexual and gender minorities.”

Produce Smuggler says what?

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:33 AM (aFKim)

77 And pretend that in 2024 you can 'vote' your way back to warmth, energy and security.
____

Unfortunately too many of our fellow citizens have been conditioned to believe that this is all for their own good, these inconveniences are but a small sacrifice to avoid whatever disastrous effects from a 1.5 degree increase in average global surface temperature 100 years hence will bring.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:33 AM (fs1hN)

78 70 Actually, carbon dioxide is the problem, and people just keep emitting it. People are the primary point source for carbon dioxide.

I think the ideal solution is government regulation of breathing.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 26, 2022 11:12 AM

The WEF and communist Greens want to eliminate 90% of the world's population, but we'll fight to make sure that won't happen! No more than 60% of the population will be sacrificed to fight global warming, and probably not a percentage more, unless they really push us!

Posted by: GOPe at December 26, 2022 11:34 AM (NCgXW)

79 We've figured out a way to keep people from moving to red states!

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:34 AM (KCOCK)

80 When will tarring, feathering and running officials out on a rail return as a tool to ensure good governance?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:25 AM (fs1hN)

One could only wish for such a vigorous populous.
That would indicate something other than the on/off switch mode we're currently operating under.
So far the switch stays in the off position, so the other side keeps pushing harder, convinced that the switch will never be thrown.
They've not been proven wrong yet.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2022 11:35 AM (FCbAQ)

81 >>Biden wants the electricity sector to be totally carbon free by 2035

Anytime you see "by 2035" or "by 2050" it is a WEF goal., not a Biden/Trudea/whoever policy.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:35 AM (im7mX)

82 >>We're NOT at war?

Given that we installed the government in Ukraine and continue to fund not just the war in Ukraine but the Ukrainian government and economy a pretty strong case can be made that Ukraine is our 51st state.

Our establishment in partnership with the intel community and other corrupt government agencies have been screwing around in Ukraine for years. That's a big reason Trump had to go, he was getting too close to ruining everything for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2022 11:35 AM (ZLI7S)

83 We're NOT at war?
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Ukraine comes ahead of your puny needs, traitor.
Posted by: The Uniparty! at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (KCOCK)

I think somebody somewhere at some point said something like some wars are more equal than others.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:36 AM (QBaJw)

84 The energy sector is now being run a LGBT-commissar-Stasi-Gaia priesthood with outcomes that are foreseeable. The only part of this that is not clear, if they gain complete control, is how many millions this political religion will end up executing until the demand for energy matches their glorious Gaia new deal. Something tells me this is a planned feature and not a bug.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 26, 2022 11:36 AM (c7ca9)

85 71 Egg nog wash? Sounds awful, but probably isn't.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM

Actually, it's good and easy. Eggs, cream, cinnamon and nutmeg (maybe even some booze)...it's like a pre-made French toast dredging liquid, actually

Posted by: Grimmy at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (NCgXW)

86 My birdbath is STILL frozen solid !

Posted by: JT at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (T4tVD)

87 Sundowner just mouths what he is told

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (tleUr)

88 69 We're NOT at war?

Ukraine comes ahead of your puny needs, traitor.
Posted by: The Uniparty! at December 26, 2022 11:31 AM (KCOCK)

What if we can launder tens of billions of dollars to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funds?

would that be something you might be interested in?

We could call it, "The American Federation of Teachers," if that name hasn't been taken yet.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (cupoy)

89 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (T4tVD)

90 Biden wants the electricity sector to be totally carbon free by 2035

2040 Or Fight!

Posted by: The GOPe at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (CaJIi)

91 Anytime you see "by 2035" or "by 2050" it is a WEF goal., not a Biden/Trudea/whoever policy.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:35 AM (im7mX)

It's almost like the politicians aren't really running things.

Almost.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (QBaJw)

92 get rid of these leftist vermin
Posted by: CN

There's a lot of potential gravitational energy in a helicopter ride.

Posted by: DaveA at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (FhXTo)

93 >>Our establishment in partnership with the intel community and other corrupt government agencies have been screwing around in Ukraine for years. That's a big reason Trump had to go, he was getting too close to ruining everything for them.

Twitter Files 9 is covered up in CIA / FBI trying to set the table for a Ukrainian Conflict...from 2020.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (aFKim)

94 Our establishment in partnership with the intel community and other corrupt government agencies have been screwing around in Ukraine for years.

If you think this is bad, wait until we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to "reconstruct" Ukraine!

It will be party time!

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (KCOCK)

95 Biden wants the electricity sector to be totally carbon free by 2035

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Carbon clogs the wiring.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (FVME7)

96 Hope everyone has a hand crank flashlight. My son put a tiny one in everyone's stocking this year. He bought them at Five-Below specifically because of the product "charctoristics" on the box. Here they are with all errors in punctuation, spelling, typing, etc. included:

1. This product is a new science and technology produ t and made with high and new science and technology. It can illuminate only by placing it in rhythm.
2. No need any power,no environmental pollution. Low noise and health. Conparing with commontorch.it can be several times on lift.
3. Con stantly using this health torch, it can benefit to your palm, arm and shoulder stretching and blood circulation, so as to let your hands relax and brain clever,hand and brain coor dinate and promote your brain memory and health composition.

Posted by: Bob from DOJ at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (3ImbR)

97
25 years ago, who would have thought we'd have winter blackouts except from massive blizzards?

Forward!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (MoZTd)

98 Fun fact: the "E" in "Communism" stands for Electricity.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (YJwUM)

99 The WEF and communist Greens want to eliminate 90% of the world's population, but we'll fight to make sure that won't happen! No more than 60% of the population will be sacrificed to fight global warming, and probably not a percentage more, unless they really push us!
____

Well, they did push pretty hard, but we're ready to work with our friends in the global community. We are pledging no more than 95% for the first 3 years, and only then will we consider the 98% figure, but it will be tied to defense appropriations that are so vital to Ukraine's security needs, and America's of course.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (fs1hN)

100 81 >>Biden wants the electricity sector to be totally carbon free by 2035

Anytime you see "by 2035" or "by 2050" it is a WEF goal., not a Biden/Trudea/whoever policy.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:35 AM

He probably wants his pants to be 100% feces free by this afternoon, but he won't achieve that goal, either.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 26, 2022 11:38 AM (NCgXW)

101 Changing socks.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 26, 2022 11:39 AM (3ImbR)

102 Who would be surprised if a fleet of alien food factory spaceships showed up in 2035?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 26, 2022 11:39 AM (PSViO)

103 Our carbon-free future will be us burning wood.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2022 11:39 AM (yQpMk)

104 Gotta feed the Climate Goblin

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 26, 2022 11:39 AM (sJHOI)

105 Biden wants the electricity sector to be totally carbon free by 2035

Meanwhile, China emits more CO2 than the United States and European Union combined, and India isn't far behind.

They're both building lots of new coal plants.

This is why you're not going to be allowed to own a gasoline-powered vehicle, peasant.

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:40 AM (KCOCK)

106 Egg nog wash?

Re-run from food thread:

The Best Holiday Breakfast is this Egg Nog French Toast!
Cowboy Kent Rollins
https://youtu.be/PVDTpqwd_fE

Guess what he pours over it!

Posted by: mindful webworker - run over by a reindeer at December 26, 2022 11:40 AM (UZ2lA)

107 Excel Energy in Colorado decided to overhaul its grid, and as a result, bills doubled (at minimum) -- and they say this will be the case until at least 2024.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:40 AM (im7mX)

108 >Egg nog wash

Granny used to bathe in egg nog. Said it helped with her Arthur Write Us.

Posted by: Jed Clampett at December 26, 2022 11:41 AM (DhOHl)

109 Excel Energy in Colorado decided to overhaul its grid, and as a result, bills doubled (at minimum) -- and they say this will be the case until at least 2024.

LOL. You think your electrical bill will ever go down?

All part of the plan.

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:41 AM (KCOCK)

110 Bill Ayers is somewhere fapping

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 26, 2022 11:42 AM (sJHOI)

111 "Solar farms" are an ecologic and land use catastrophe.

They despoil the landscape, destroy habitat, destroy farmland, and will in go on to eat up even more land when you have to landfill all toxic glass panels.

It's akin to strip mining rural America in the name of "Green."

Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 11:42 AM (5FPX4)

112 You realize that your higher electrical bills are all Putin's fault, right?

Blame him!

Posted by: TVA! at December 26, 2022 11:43 AM (KCOCK)

113 Our carbon-free future will be us burning wood.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2022 11:39 AM (yQpMk)

Switchgrass! Switchgrass is the future!

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

114 >>"Solar farms" are an ecologic and land use catastrophe.

Yep. And they start in a resource hole so deep that they will NEVER get out of it.

Small price to pay for insufficient energy and FEELZ, though.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:43 AM (aFKim)

115
1922: Communism = Soviet Power + Electrification of the Whole Country

2022: Globalism = Elite Power + Widespread Blackouts

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 11:43 AM (MoZTd)

116 "Now that the TVA has shown it can’t even produce enough electricity to handle a cold snap, what happens if more drivers start switching to electric vehicles? "

Here's the problem. We have a nation of coddled children still living at home with their parents who have had everything provided for them. Why shouldn't electricity be free? Everything else in their lives is.

Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (S/NWs)

117 Professor Whoopsie on the Holocaust from last weekend.

'The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They're Nazis. Why believe what they're saying?'

She said the Holocaust 'wasn't originally' about race.

'Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision.'

She said being Jewish was not a race like being black, because it was not identifiable.

https://bit.ly/3HZSKkr

More succinct: But they were Jews!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (FVME7)

118 >>1. This product is a new science and technology produ t and made with high and new science and technology. It can illuminate only by placing it in rhythm.
2. No need any power,no environmental pollution. Low noise and health. Conparing with commontorch.it can be several times on lift.
3. Con stantly using this health torch, it can benefit to your palm, arm and shoulder stretching and blood circulation, so as to let your hands relax and brain clever,hand and brain coor dinate and promote your brain memory and health composition.

I'm surprised they didn't get "best customer value friendly service" in there somewhere. You can always tell a CCP company on Amazon by a description that includes that, and always in the same disjointed grammar as your flashlight instructions.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (im7mX)

119 Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
Steven D’Antuono, braintrust of Whitmer fednapping, newly retired head of DC FBI field office who didn’t catch the pipe bomber and raided Mar-A-Lago, lands a cushy gig at one of the top accounting firms in US.
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The firm is KPMG, which, in a subsequent tweet, Kelly explains that KPMG is the firm responsible for auditing the FBI.

You really can't make this crap up.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (3ImbR)

120 It's akin to strip mining rural America in the name of "Green."

Quit giving them ideas!

Posted by: t-bird at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (CaJIi)

121 When you try to figure out the political moves of Ernst, Noem in South Dakota, and other Grain Belt politicians, you first have to figure out what Big Ag, Big Meat, Big Fertilizer and Pesticide, and a few other Big outfits want. It may be woke sh!t on any given topic.
Posted by: Gref at December 26, 2022 11:18 AM (AMIL/)

Yup, most of your so-called "conservative" pols are beholden to their own oligarchs.

Just not the same ones who get all the bad press on Faux Nooz and other so-called "conservative" media outlets.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (QBaJw)

122
The Acela corridor will be the last area to have rolling blackouts and heating shortages, you can bet on that.

Where will they get their energy?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (63Dwl)

123 >>>"Solar farms" are an ecologic and land use catastrophe.

Bird Slaughter Farms
Same goes for the solar panel farms that fry the poor birds immediately.

But THEY CARE so darn much about nature, you guys!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (im7mX)

124 >>'Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision.'

Great point.
Too bad it isn't a fact or she'd really have something there.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (aFKim)

125 I don't mind the Jews at all....except the Shape-Shifting ones, and the ones what control the weather....and global banking

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (sJHOI)

126 Here's the problem. We have a nation of coddled children still living at home with their parents who have had everything provided for them. Why shouldn't electricity be free? Everything else in their lives is.
Posted by: squid

The best thing I did for my children was to push them out of the nest.

For some, it was a shove.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (qoGsy)

127
Our carbon-free future will be us burning wood.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2022 11:39 AM (yQpMk)

Switchgrass! Switchgrass is the future!
Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

______________

Nothing runs out faster than a renewable resource.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 11:47 AM (MoZTd)

128 Report: Biden Increasingly “Annoyed” By Kamala Harris…

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Well, Joe, now you know how Obama felt.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 11:47 AM (FVME7)

129 Among many other negative attributes, leftists are impossibly arrogant. They think they can control climate?? Absurd…. It’s a God complex. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the creature for the Creator. Romans 1

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 11:48 AM (4IClK)

130 The firm is KPMG, which, in a subsequent tweet, Kelly explains that KPMG is the firm responsible for auditing the FBI.
____

Great, now the Big Audit is going to start enforcing whatever crap the FBI wants.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:48 AM (fs1hN)

131 you first have to figure out what . . . Big Meat, . . . . .
Posted by: Gref

The Paolo had no, how you say, involvement with this.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 26, 2022 11:48 AM (qoGsy)

132 Meanwhile, the Ukrainians attacked Russia's Engels air base again, which is the home of Russia's strategic nuclear bomber fleet.

Russian nuclear doctrine allows for the use of nuclear weapons in the event of conventional attacks against Russia's strategic nuclear systems.

Let's get this party started!

Posted by: The Uniparty! at December 26, 2022 11:48 AM (KCOCK)

133 >>Report: Biden Increasingly “Annoyed” By Kamala Harris…

'As a VP. Well. She kind of Blows', he continued.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:48 AM (aFKim)

134 >>> I'm surprised they didn't get "best customer value friendly service" in there somewhere.
~~~~~

They probably just ran out of space since the box itself is only 2"X4". LOL

Posted by: IrishEi at December 26, 2022 11:49 AM (3ImbR)

135 Ha Ha Ha!

Tennessee's Guv is asking the Titans to postpone their kickoff cuz of rolling blackouts.

This is Poverty and Misery by Choice of their gov't.

TN voters need to recall their governor if possible.

If you can't make sure to provide and maintain power and energy for the citizens of your state, you do not belong in gov't.

TVA needs a reckoning with the people of TN.

Via Insty.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 11:49 AM (KLPy8)

136 Professor Whoopsie on the Holocaust from last weekend.

Gawd. What a thoroughly disagreeable person.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2022 11:49 AM (anj39)

137 Excel Energy in Colorado decided to overhaul its grid, and as a result, bills doubled (at minimum) -- and they say this will be the case until at least 2024.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:40 AM (im7mX)

The time I was there, every election cycle had a measure on the ballot, asking for more money for the electric company.

They passed, every time.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:49 AM (QBaJw)

138 Cold, alone in the dark and eating the bugs. You'll own nothing and be "happy" you stupid serfs.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (PWI4f)

139 Jews were identifiable by the yellow star.

Duh

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (sJHOI)

140 God damn these leftists, their destructive childish policies and everyone who sustains the leftist stranglehold on power.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (roH4R)

141 >> They think they can control climate?? Absurd

Right?!?!?

Like, you really think your choice in lightbulb and parsimonious toilet paper use will have ANY impact, idiot?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (im7mX)

142 IIRC the FedGov complex in D.C., the Capitol, Exec building and maybe some other buildings have their own powerplant. I think it runs on NG. I doubt they've converted running the Capitol to solar or wind, right? Might be a pertinent question to ask of our political establishment about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (Q4IgG)

143 In their own words, we should destroy the basis of modern civilization to reduce a gas "associated with" climate change. Sounds compelling to me.

Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (5FPX4)

144 The best thing I did for my children was to push them out of the nest.

When I went away to college, my mother remodeled my bedroom out of existence.

I said (jokingly): "You could have just told me not to come back."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 26, 2022 11:51 AM (KCOCK)

145 I did not want to go to the mess that would be WalMart the day before Christmas so I chose an alternative market. Did not know until I entered that they were on auxiliary power with only half lights lit.
The main reason I was there was for butter and milk but they had blocked off all dairy and the meat dept. with expandable gates and clerks standing in front of them, just in case. Made me realize how devastating it must be for all food storage facilities when there are black-outs.

I ended up going to the mess that was WalMart the day before Christmas. Good grief.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 26, 2022 11:51 AM (hlSun)

146 Yup, most of your so-called "conservative" pols are beholden to their own oligarchs.
____

Hey, we paid for these, why don't you get your own Senators? leave ours alone.
-Oligarchs

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:51 AM (fs1hN)

147
It’s a God complex. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the creature for the Creator. Romans 1
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 26, 2022 11:48 AM (4IClK)

_________

The self-made man who worships his creator.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 11:51 AM (MoZTd)

148 Imagine the size of the wind turbine we could fit on the Washington Monument.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2022 11:52 AM (yQpMk)

149 'Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective.'
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (FVME7)
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Whoopie would've been a 2fer.

Posted by: Biden's Dog, Secret Russian Ass Hat, at December 26, 2022 11:52 AM (IOu4z)

150 >>Like, you really think your choice in lightbulb and parsimonious toilet paper use will have ANY impact, idiot?

They have no idea how much energy is involved in the things they value...like, Social Media and Cat Photo Filters.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:52 AM (aFKim)

151 Calling solar farms, farms, is like saying a chorus line of drag queens are actual queens.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 26, 2022 11:53 AM (c7ca9)

152 Imagine the size of the wind turbine we could fit on the Washington Monument.

Ban air conditioning in Federal buildings.

It's for the Erf.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 26, 2022 11:53 AM (KCOCK)

153
Every time a Tik-Tok video is posted, a sparrow dies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 11:53 AM (MoZTd)

154 Might be an impertinent question to ask of our political establishment about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2022 11:50 AM (Q4IgG)

Watcher mouth there, serf.

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:53 AM (AwYPR)

155 The firm is KPMG, which, in a subsequent tweet, Kelly explains that KPMG is the firm responsible for auditing the FBI.

You really can't make this crap up.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM (3ImbR)
***

Convenient huh?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2022 11:53 AM (anj39)

156 years ago, they labeled CO2 a pollutant...and the sheeple nodded.

Guess what every human exhales?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 26, 2022 11:54 AM (sJHOI)

157 Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"

Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2022 11:55 AM (2h0ek)

158 116 "Now that the TVA has shown it can’t even produce enough electricity to handle a cold snap, what happens if more drivers start switching to electric vehicles? "
Posted by: squid at December 26, 2022 11:44 AM

(Creepy Whisper) Your electric car battery powers your home during an emergency.

(Normal, angry shouting) C'mon man! This ain't rocket science! Your roof solar panels charge your car battery, and your car powers your home for a few days during the storm!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 26, 2022 11:55 AM (NCgXW)

159 Human sacrifice on Chichen Itza was "associated with" the return of the sun after eclipse.

Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 11:55 AM (5FPX4)

160 Kentucky is part of TVA. Given the Senate approved these monsters, Kentuckians need to get rid of McConnell and then go after him and his sleazy wife personally. Destroy them.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 26, 2022 11:56 AM (KSNKu)

161 >>Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"

A guess?
Someone who figured out a way to make money via social media.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:56 AM (im7mX)

162 29
'But she’s that thin-skinned?'

The first things these arrogant senators get when they are installed in office is a 300% inflation of the sense of importance.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 11:56 AM (roH4R)

163 Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"

Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2022 11:55 AM (2h0ek)

grifter

Posted by: BignJames at December 26, 2022 11:56 AM (AwYPR)

164
Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"
Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2022 11:55 AM (2h0ek)

__________

The old name was "asshole".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2022 11:56 AM (MoZTd)

165 In the TVA's energy plan, there is "savings of up to 1800MW" via energy efficiency

Of course, that means they are going to have less power available, so it's either anti growth or rolling blackouts (or both)

Posted by: JD at December 26, 2022 11:57 AM (xb9Ub)

166 >>Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"

A Hooker. Or, a Day Spa Handjob Technician?

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:57 AM (aFKim)

167 Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"

Someone who takes risk with someone else's money.

Posted by: Zek at December 26, 2022 11:57 AM (5FPX4)

168 Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"
Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2022 11:55 AM (2h0ek)

Runs a whore house?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:57 AM (QBaJw)

169 Human sacrifice on Chichen Itza was "associated with" the return of the sun after eclipse.
Posted by: Zek

It worked didn't it? The sun always shone brightly again.

-- Thinking similar to our politized medical/scientific/leadership mob

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2022 11:57 AM (qoGsy)

170 'But she’s that thin-skinned?'

The first things these arrogant senators get when they are installed in office is a 300% inflation of the sense of importance.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 11:56 AM

Joni Ernst is different! She wore bread bags over her shoes as a kid in winter! She worked with hogs! She's one of us!

Posted by: LIV Iowans at December 26, 2022 11:58 AM (NCgXW)

171 The firm is KPMG, which, in a subsequent tweet, Kelly explains that KPMG is the firm responsible for auditing the FBI.

You really can't make this crap up.

Oh, but I'm sure it's a totally different department of KPMG. Maybe even on a whole different floor of the building with their own coffee makers and everything.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 26, 2022 11:58 AM (nfrXX)

172 "The firm is KPMG, which, in a subsequent tweet, Kelly explains that KPMG is the firm responsible for auditing the FBI."

This is pure Leninism, 100 years later.
Occupy the offices of your political opposition.
Become the opposition, which you then control.
Dude was a genius, albeit evil as can be.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 26, 2022 11:58 AM (jTmQV)

173 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 26, 2022 11:13 AM (AW0uW)

You're trying pretty hard to blame this shit on me and people like me instead of the criminal culprits.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 26, 2022 11:58 AM (roH4R)

174 Wtf is a "social entrepreneur?"
____

The modifier "social" renders the thing that it is modifying into something that is no longer the thing, i.e. "social justice" is something other than "justice" or more simply, "not justice". So a social entrepreneur means "not an entrepreneur".

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 26, 2022 11:59 AM (fs1hN)

175 19 "Imagine telling Americans in 1962 that in 2022 we'd have rolling power blackouts...out and constant shortages of basic goods without being at war."

Oh, we're at war all right... it just isn't declared, and the enemy aren't foreigners!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 26, 2022 11:59 AM (gMml8)

176 I wish I knew how to get rid of these leftist vermin
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 11:01 AM (Zzbjj)

Oooh, oooh, cal me! Call me!! Helicopters may be involved.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy Now With Twice The Crazy at December 26, 2022 11:59 AM (Zvtjl)

177 Morning.

Ayn Rand predicted all of this.

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at December 26, 2022 11:59 AM (cUxq3)

178 The federal guvmint is half assed and retarded.

Submitted a NFA item for an SBR on December 1, 2022 electronically. Received the approval and tax stamp back via email on December 24, 2022. 23 days.

Submitted two NFA items for happy happy pew pew fun times on April 3, 2022 electronically. Still waiting for approval. 8 months and 23 days.

It is to laugh.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2022 11:59 AM (R/m4+)

179 Remember when power companies used to send out pamphlets in winter telling people to use more power?

That’s what all those Christmas cookbooks sponsored by the power companies were for. (And they were often very good cookbooks.)

I still see them in thrift stores up through the seventies and, I think, into the eighties.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 26, 2022 12:00 PM (EXyHK)

180 Every time a Tik-Tok video is posted, a sparrow dies.

Pfft. Birds aren't real.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 26, 2022 12:00 PM (e+csY)

181 They have no idea how much energy is involved in the things they value...like, Social Media and Cat Photo Filters.
Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 11:52 AM (aFKim)

Probably, the stupidest use of energy, if you're going to start rating its use is....Social Media. It's a worldwide "waste".

China, which Our Betters see as the perfect governing model, has already figured out that social Media is mostly a danger to the gov't and its power because of its power to drive opinion.

It only has utility if they can control and limit everything on the internet including social media.

Look at the worldwide screaming that accompanied Musk's buying of twitter. They know.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this year we see a lot of the internet shut down for the purpose of "Saving Gaia."

Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2022 12:00 PM (KLPy8)

182 >>(Creepy Whisper) Your electric car battery powers your home during an emergency.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU THEN CAN'T FLEE YOUR HOME IF YOU'VE USED YOUR CAR BATTERY FOR NON-DRIVING STUFF.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 26, 2022 12:01 PM (im7mX)

183 wish I knew how to get rid of these leftist vermin
Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 11:01 AM (Zzbjj)

I have all kind of ideas.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 26, 2022 12:01 PM (8Rf1z)

184 >TN voters need to recall their governor if possible.

"TN voters"

Heh, that's cute.

Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at December 26, 2022 12:01 PM (DhOHl)

185 >>> What's so bad about carbon?
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 26, 2022 11:09 AM (DhOHl)

What has carbon ever done for us?

Posted by: The People's Front of Gaia at December 26, 2022 12:01 PM (0fVbu)

186 She had thought that industrial production was a value not to be questioned by anyone; she had thought that these men's urge to expropriate the factories of others was their acknowledgment of the factories value. She, born of the industrial revolution, had not held as conceivable, had forgotten along with the tales of astrology and alchemy, what these men knew in their secret, furtive souls, knew not by means of thought, but by means of that nameless muck which they called their instincts and emotions: that so long as men struggle to stay alive, they'll never produce so little but that the man with the club won't be able to seize it and leave them still less, provided millions of them are willing to submit—that the harder their work and the less their gain, the more submissive the fiber of their spirit—that men who live by pulling levers at an electric switchboard, are not easily ruled, but men who live by digging the soil with their naked fingers, are—that the feudal baron did not need electronic factories in order to drink his brains away out of jeweled goblets, and neither did the rajahs of the People's State of India.

Posted by: Ayn Rand at December 26, 2022 12:02 PM (yQpMk)

187 Nood. ace is up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2022 12:03 PM (CsVWE)

188 >> wish I knew how to get rid of these leftist vermin

Soylent Green Industries : Solving The World's Problems. With People.

Posted by: garrett at December 26, 2022 12:03 PM (aFKim)

189 TVA needs to be taken away from the fed and divided up between the six states to run. i've really developed an extreme dislike to those (federal civil servants of all stripes and agencies, present Moron company exclided of course) incompetent sonsabitches.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 26, 2022 12:03 PM (3CCua)

190 Putting the Gaia Priesthood in charge of the energy sector is like putting 5 year olds in charge of NASA: hope you like your cardboard box rockets. Vrooom, Vrooom, Vrooom. To zero and divide!

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 26, 2022 12:03 PM (c7ca9)

191 Every time a Tik-Tok video is posted, a sparrow dies.

Pfft. Birds aren't real.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Well, SOMETHING keeps eating the birdseed I put out !

Posted by: JT at December 26, 2022 12:03 PM (T4tVD)

192 >Pfft. Birds aren't real.

Yeah, but I'm still frozen.

Posted by: JT's birdbath at December 26, 2022 12:06 PM (DhOHl)

193 It's almost like the politicians aren't really running things.

Almost.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 26, 2022 11:37 AM (QBaJw)

Well WEF is a whorehouse where political whores sell favors to oligarchs with evil ideas. The pols are running things to get a big financial payoff.

Posted by: CN at December 26, 2022 12:07 PM (Zzbjj)

194 The Acela corridor will be the last area to have rolling blackouts and heating shortages, you can bet on that.

Where will they get their energy?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2022 11:46 AM (63Dwl)

Rerouted from the TVA states, silly.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy Now With Twice The Crazy at December 26, 2022 12:10 PM (Zvtjl)

195 Looked up Michelle Moore of Groundswell. She was making $184K as the CEO. All the former board members made over a million, so she is really moving up! Highly paid to reduce TN to third world austerity status.

Posted by: Ultra pj at December 26, 2022 12:13 PM (G1dq6)

196 Putting the Gaia Priesthood in charge of the energy sector is like putting 5 year olds in charge of NASA: hope you like your cardboard box rockets. Vrooom, Vrooom, Vrooom. To zero and divide!
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 26, 2022 12:03 PM (c7ca9)

Hahaha....Concur.

Rush used to have a comedy bit about the guy driving his cardboard box "car".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2022 12:19 PM (R/m4+)

197 Yep. Eco-dictatorship is here. WEF has implemented it in every Western nation in Europe and it will be implemented here in the USA as well.

It is not a matter of 'if', but 'when'. Does not matter if 90% of people do not believe in "global warming" or "climate change", when 100% of the people in positions of power are all leaders of the cult of "climate change" and there is absolutely no one who can stop them implementing their policies across the world.

They have been implementing this piece by piece in USA for decades. People have just kept accepting it and doing nothing to stop it. Now we're screwed.

Paul Joseph Watson - Hidden in Plain Sight - Eco-Dictatorship

https://bit.ly/3WE5npq

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 26, 2022 12:22 PM (Do5/p)

198 The scale and scope of the coordination/collusion/conspiracy between the Democrats, the Biden candidacy/administration, the various three letter federal legal/law/spy agencies, media companies and Twitter (presumably the canary in the coal mine) to censor what can be said and who can speak leaves me with one conclusion: we are living in fascist state whose police state enforcement is only limited by what they haven't tried to employ to date. When FJB causally tossed off that resistance to his fist was futile because he had nuclear weapons at this disposable was an instance of his 2 or 3 functioning brains cells speaking freely as to the extent, he would go to take out those that oppose him.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 26, 2022 12:39 PM (c7ca9)

199 Anytime you see "by 2035" or "by 2050" it is a WEF goal., not a Biden/Trudea/whoever policy.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 26, 2022 11:35 AM

Yep. It is in our company's mandatory "electrification" training materials. One of the Big3. I have no doubt that every Big3 auto company is using the same training and has the same WEF goals. The entire American auto industry and entire American energy industry is controlled by the WEF.

And the Right still keeps blaming Biden and Democrats and the American establishment for this. Obvious that hardly anyone pays attention to what is going on in the world and bothers to look at the big picture. This is a global takeover of Western nations and culture across the world. Has been happening for decades and now that the Left has full control of institutions and corporations, they are executing all of their policies without fear of consequence.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 26, 2022 12:43 PM (Do5/p)

200 California and New York are on target to eliminate fossil fuels by 2035 if not sooner. New York says no more gas appliances in 2023 can be installed in new homes. Stoves, gas fireplaces, heaters, etc....Thats next year. Meanwhile no new power sources can be built unless its wind turbines and solar. Good luck around Buffalo during storm a snow storm emergency.

Posted by: Colin at December 26, 2022 12:56 PM (4p2ug)

201 Rural electrification was termed "socialism" back when that commie Roosevelt pushed it through. Doesn't Buck remember ?

Posted by: Paul at December 26, 2022 01:26 PM (Crh3h)

202 catching those unicorns really does provide 100% of all power needs. anyone caught one yet??

Posted by: gov't here to help at December 26, 2022 01:27 PM (tr6R7)

203 We just can't stop ourselves!! The victimization of the right will continue.
Embrace victimhoid!

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Posted by: Tom at December 26, 2022 02:40 PM (nKUQu)

205 Carbon based energy is evil, evil, EVIL!

Of course, all the things that carbon based energy does is pretty handy, like, power my home, my furnace, all my appliances and entertainment. Powering clean water, easy transportation, delivery of goods and services I could not provide for myself, medical, communication and security.

So, I guess what I am saying is I want to keep all the good things that carbon based energy provides just without actually using carbon based energy to produce it. That should not be so hard, right?

Posted by: JB1000 at December 26, 2022 02:44 PM (ZWTDr)

206 Biden the Dunderhead wants to ban gas stoves over all this Global Warming/Climate Change scam

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 26, 2022 04:22 PM (FLiOE)

207 Since they cannot vote our guns away down south so they take over the electric grid. Another nail in our coffin.

Posted by: Roger Culpepper at December 26, 2022 06:52 PM (Dl48T)

208 Posting late, no one will see this.

TVA can provide around 36,000 MWh, and the max load was roughly 31,500 MWh during the cold snap. The rolling blackouts were not necessary, but were inflicted as a designed punishment. Plan accordingly.

Posted by: Abe Froman at December 26, 2022 11:44 PM (2pqVS)

209 What? You mean I cannot charge my Tesla? Whah-hah, boo-hoo. You told me to go electric and now you cut me off. What? I have to shut down my computer? My iPad? My iPhone? How did this happen? We cleared the forests and built solar farms. We kill thousands of birds with whirly-gigs. We are green, and now we are getting mean. Next, they will cut back on food due to fertilizer, and we will become lean. But without hot water, we are not likely to be clean.

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