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SKYE’S LINKS 07/14/22
This explains a lot. 'Crats versus the Constitution. One reason Jack calls Dems AINOs – Americans In Name Only.
U.S. Constitution ‘Racist’ and ‘Sexist,’ Most Democrats Believe
This explains a lot too. Xiden team very short of business experience:
No wonder then. Inflation still getting worse and doing so more rapidly. Using the 1980 calculation method, it is around 16% year over year, which suggest that this is the worst inflation since the War Between The States:
THE DEMOCRATS’ MID-TERM OCTOBER SURPRISE
Democrats are facing their worst political environment in over a decade heading into November’s mid-term elections.
In response, Democrats have desperately tried to change the narrative by focusing on abortion and guns, but that’s gone over like a lead balloon. The economy and inflation are still at the top of any list of concerns.
In short, the fundamentals are just awful for the Democrats. That means they need to do something to influence the election that goes beyond actually enacting good policy, and if you listen closely, you’ll discern exactly what they are preparing.
THE DEMOCRATS’ MID-TERM SUMMER SURPRISE
As the Hunter Biden story continues to explode in scandal and scope, it’s becoming impossible to hide.
As we learned in last Friday’s (7/08) HFR: Joe Biden Sold Nearly One Million Barrels from U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to CCP-Owned Oil Company Linked to Hunter Biden Firm.
Then over the weekend: Shock As 4chan Cracks Hunter Biden’s Phone Password And Leaks Everything. The validity of the hack has been verified by the Secret Service.
Even if Fake News and Big Tech keep up their efforts to suppress it, it’s so vast and egregious that it’s going to erupt into a campaign issue in the fall — and Democrats can’t have that. So here’s what they’re gonna do.
THE GLOBAL REVOLT AGAINST GREEN TYRANNY BEGINS
Green tyranny has finally provoked mass reactions, and the first government has fallen after imposing insane policies that wrecked the food supply for its people.
Both the president and the prime minister of Sri Lanka are resigning in the wake of massive mobs storming and occupying their residences. The video clip above shows the incredible size of the crowd storming the parliament building.
But it is not just third-world countries that are experiencing mass revolts against top-down green policies. Farmers in Holland are in open revolt against government plans to destroy their livelihoods, and the revolt is spreading to Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland.
The Global Woke should be listening. There’s a Bad Moon Rising for them.
LOVE OF AMERICA IS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
West Newton, Pennsylvania—As the sun dipped below the horizon of the Laurel Mountains off in the distance of the Evergreen Drive-In Theater, families with children were spread out on their sleeping blankets in front of their cars. A cluster of couples was sitting in folding chairs, enjoying each other’s company.
Then, they all stood and placed their hands over their hearts. They joined together in singing the national anthem as it was played across all three screens.
They remained standing and sang along with the images on the screen to Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to be an American” immediately after that. Seasoned attendees can always tell who the newbies are to the experience—they’re the ones moved to tears and wonder on their faces.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY TAKING THE MYSTERY OUT OF PANIC AND ANXIETY
At the famous Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the outnumbered Athenians, led by their brilliant general Miltiades, took the Persians completely by surprise, sending them into a fit of terror thought to have been brought on by the god Pan—a panic—leading to a remarkable victory. The Athenians lost 192 men to Persia’s 6,400.
Panic and panic attacks—anxiety that seems to hit you out of the blue—can be extremely debilitating. It can make it difficult to function, and its unexpected nature can lead to a general feeling of anxiety, wondering and never knowing when we might get hit by it.
Now there’s recent research that shows what we can effectively do when faced with panic or anxiety.
SKYE’S LINKS 07/07/22
I think that West Virginia v EPA is the most consequential SCOTUS decision in the past century. No exaggeration! This 6-3 decision doesn't just affect coal burning power plants - it will eventually affect auto mileage mandates and a vast array of appliance, furnace, hot water heater, and so many more administrative state mandates. Breitbart has no conception of what this means in the long run:
https://www.breitbart.com/news/us-supreme-court-limits-government-powers-to-curb-greenhouse-gases/
While here is the full text of WV v EPA, the Gorsuch concurrence is simply superb.
Justice Gorsuch Concurrence to SCOTUS West Virginia v EPA Majority Decision
Supreme Court Follows Concealed Carry Decision With Pro-2A Rulings In 4 States
GETTING PUTIN THE CHICAGO WAY
Or, to put it in the simpler words of Jim Malone, Eliot Ness’s counselor in The Untouchables, “You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!”
Al Capone is an apt analogy for what the West confronts in Vladimir Putin: a particularly noxious mix of Mafia mentality, hypernationalist ideology, and totalitarian technique. Elegance is not the Putin/Russian way, and it cannot be our way.
This is the light in which one should measure the accomplishments of NATO’s Madrid Summit last week (6/28-30).
SEEKING TO CRACK WESTERN UNITY, PUTIN SUCCEEDS IN SINKING THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY
On the Donbas battlefields, Russian troops still strive to advance, but in the global arena of confrontation with the collective West, Russia keeps losing ground.
A sequence of heavy blows breached Russian defensive geopolitical positions last week, and Moscow’s attempts at counterstrikes only aggravated the sustained damage.
All attempts of Putin to exacerbate the economic difficulties that are supposed to erode Western unity are now inevitably backfiring for Russia, cutting down its petro-revenues and further squeezing crucially needed imports.
FINALLY! A WHINY WOKE EMPLOYEE GOT FIRED FOR WHINY WOKENESS
Michael Lopez worked for a huge subdivision of an even bigger multinational entertainment corporation, the place that most of us imagine as a hotbed of woke virtue-signaling. Certainly, Lopez thought he was taking a snowflake's stand about the Dobbs decision, only to find his employer slapping him down like a mosquito on the wall.
It's just one person, but it's another small sign that the corporate world's love affair with its bullying woke employees is finally ending.
For when his exquisite woke sensitivities made it impossible for him to work after the Dobbs decision, his employer was not at all sympathetic but, instead, fired him. How glorious.
SCOTUS TARGETS THE REAL ENEMY
Justice Gorsuch
The flurry of rulings from the Supreme Court has everyone’s head spinning. The most significant among them, even if it doesn’t capture all the headlines, is West Virginia v EPA. The majority opinion is impressive, but the part I found truly wonderful is the concurring opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
This is where we see things headed, toward a major and much-welcome curbing of the power of the administrative state.
Just to review what this thing is, it’s an unelected bureaucracy that rules the country without oversight from voters or legislatures. It writes its own laws, polices its own laws, and has its own courts to punish you if you disobey its own laws. Gorsuch thinks the whole thing is unconstitutional and he’s right.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH CURIOSITY
An essential ingredient for success at anything – beyond the most mundane of rote tasks – is curiosity.
Curiosity is about exploration and discovery; it creates energy, possibilities, and movement. It also allows us to create relationships, and to grow more deeply and delightfully connected with one another. It allows us to play – and excellence in work can be like play for adults.
Let’s talk about how to expand and grow your curiosity – and how to be aware of the opposite of curiosity. What do you think that might be?
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/01/22
Government Power is Devolving!
This was an amazing week for the good guys. Roe vs. Wade is no more, gun rights are returning, school prayer is now a thing, and the entire global warming, carbon credit, power grab by the Federal Government is reversed.
Astounding.
But what does it mean?
The Fourth Turning, so often discussed, is turning out to be a return to federalism and away from centralized, authoritarian government. They went too far, too fast.
Come join the Independence Day HFR. Liberty is busting out all over.
SKYE’S LINKS 06/30/22
Because his mind is gone; Xiden is demented now, and it’s getting worse rapidly:
Joe Biden Instructive Note Card from Staff: YOU Enter the Room, 'YOU Take YOUR Seat'
Turley on overturning Roe and its wider consequences:
The Dobbs Decision Unleashes Rage And Revisionism
The Ukraine war has shown that America is no longer capable of supplying the ammunition needed for a long war - or even for a relatively short one. Russia is even less so:
RUSSIAS EXPERIMENT OF DE-MODERNIZATION HAS FAILED
Third World poverty on the increase in Russia
The post-Soviet transformation took Russia from a fledgling democracy to a corrupt autocracy.
But, since the start of the war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has taken a new turn, which amounts to a resolute top-down effort at reversing what progress has been achieved in modernizing the state system, economy and society.
The paradox of resorting to the old Soviet way of war based on the massive application of force, while having neither the human resources nor the industrial base necessary to carry it out, undercuts whatever small gains Russian forces are able to make in Donbas (Svoboda.org, June 24).
With every delivery of Western weapon systems, the Armed Forces of Ukraine take a step forward in modernization, while the Russian military falls back to unsustainable World War II patterns (Republic.ru, June 24).
SKYE’S LINKS 12/30/21
“Hillary! I’m up here!”
How about this for nuts?
Alternate Reality Traps Democrats In World Of Dumb
Or this? A Christmas gift from the 'Crats to everyone else:
Report: DCCC to Recruit Campaign Staffers Based on Race, Sexuality
Twitter bans Dr. Robert Malone, mRNA vaccine pioneer. How about suspending Twitter?
Twitter Suspends mRNA Inventor Dr. Robert Malone
NOBODY LIKES JOE
Based on his abysmal job performance, Joe Biden's been unpopular with a lot of voting groups lately, and I'm not talking about just conservatives.
He's managed to alienate Latinos, suburban voters, independents, young people... He's lost a noticeable chunk of black men voters. He's losing with women. Inflation, violent crime, job competition from illegals, and the monstrous Afghanistan pullout are taking their toll on old Joe's presidental approval ratings.
Now we learn that the rot has spread to the core: Even woke progressives can't stand Joe Biden.
Take a look at the just-released (12/27) poll of prog-lefties by Civiqs...
DID THE ZHOU XIDEN REGIME JUST THROW IN THE TOWEL?
And, doesn’t “solved at the state level” sound like, ‘You’re on your own,’ to you? Sure does to me. Apparently, Zhou’s keepers have realized that the insoluble problems generated by injection mandates—such as staffing shortages in critical sectors of the economy, like health care—are coming home to roost
They’ve thrown in the towel – so now we get to win.
HOSEA’S PROPHECY FOR THE DEMOCRATS
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. " Hosea 8:7
What’s the moral of Joe Biden’s and the Democrats’ current troubles? From the Bible and the Greeks and throughout the Western tradition, there is a constant refrain of being wary of hubris, the lying and arrogance that are innate to it, and the divine power that ultimately levels things out.
Biden and the Left so despised Donald Trump that they lost all sense of moderation, of proportion, of logic itself. Thus, they find themselves in the current ridiculous situation of suffering the consequences of their own unhinged rhetoric and actions.
For this irony of blindly speeding over the cliff to one’s own destruction is not limited to Mr. Biden, but explains the self-implosion of Hillary Clinton, our Woke Military, Black Lives Matter and so much else afflicting the Democrats.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/23/21
More data on Omicron being very mild:
South Africa: Only 1.7% Hospitalised From Omicron
Medicine circling the Woke toilet:
23 'Crat House members - so far - have announced that they won't be running for re-election:
Pelosi’s Majority: Three Democrats Announce Retirement Within 24 Hours
Fauci and Collins ROYT - Rats of the Year. Read on…
AMERICA’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT IS A NIGHTMARE CHRISTMAS FOR HATE-AMERICA DEMOCRATS
I love the smell of Joe Manchin in the morning … it smells like … victory.
If you survey the charred ruins of the progressives' hopes and dreams, you will need to have a heart of stone not to burst into hysterical laughter at their pain.
They were so close, so very close, and their heart's desire was ripped from them by a senator from a sane state who had zero desire to commit ritual, political suicide to please the brother-marrying likes of Ilhan Omar.
Cue the gif of a team of Joes carrying a coffin to that catchy EDM song.
WHY IS THE LEFT WORRIED SUDDENLY ABOUT THE END OF DEMOCRACY?
New Dem Party Slogans
What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the Left?
Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024. Others predict the democracy downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and Trump “coups.”
To answer that question, understand first what is not behind these shrill forecasts. After seeing all the reasons what is not, you see why:
The Left is fearful and angry not because democracy does not work, but because it does -- despite their own media and political efforts to warp it.
THE SLOW MELTDOWN OF THE CHINESE ECONOMY
The dictator is unhappy
China is experiencing a slow-motion economic crisis that could undermine stability in the current regime and have serious negative consequences for the global economy. Despite the many warning signs, Western analysts and policy makers are optimistic that Xi Jinping is up to the task of managing the crisis.
Such optimism is misplaced.
The U.S. and its allies have many tools to influence China’s economy and need to weigh the consequences of an acute crisis against the threat its current trajectory poses to the U.S. Policy makers should be thinking of how best to deploy these tools, instead of passively assuming the rapid growth and stability of the Chinese economy will continue.
IS FAUCI A MASS MURDERER?
Does responsibility for the deaths of over 1 million Americans make Tony Fauci a mass murderer? It’s actually worse than that. Consider the basic evidence. It’s all laid out in Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s remarkable book, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”
Haven’t seen Kennedy being interviewed on the network news shows or the late-night talk shows? No book tours? It’s no wonder. There is a wall of silence and fear throughout the media.
Simply put, there is certainly no way the Big Pharma-supported media is going to challenge a primary source of revenue. To Amazon’s credit, Kennedy’s book is available online and currently shows 3,000 ratings with 94% of them earning five stars. So the word on Fauci and his multiple misdeeds has not been totally contained.
JOE MANCHIN RESCUES THE DEMOCRATS
[Note by Jack Wheeler: As the Dems go Full Woketard Freakout, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board here explains how Joe Manchin can save them from political extinction. With any luck, the Dems will ignore the advice.]
Joe Manchin’s decision on Sunday [12/19] to oppose the Build Back Better Act is a service to the country, sparing it from huge tax increases and new entitlements that would fan inflation and erode the incentive for Americans to work. Paradoxically, it is also a blessing for Democrats if they get the message, and it offers President Biden a chance to reboot.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH COMPASSION FOR YOURSELF
There are lots of tricks and techniques for making changes in our lives: goal setting strategies, setting priorities, structuring support for new and better habits, to name just a few. But one of the most important elements has less to do with what we do, and much more to do with how we do it.
If you want to change things for the better, be compassionate with yourself. By not having compassion for ourselves, in a sense we are expecting a miracle to happen… that we can somehow go back in time and have done things differently. But there’s no time machine, and no ability to do this in reality. The best that we can do is to stop doing the harmful behavior, make amends, and do better things now.
And then accepting ourselves, accepting what we’ve done, and having compassion for where we went wrong, will allow us to get on with a better life. And it gets better…
DEMOCRAT DELUSIONAL DOOM
With the price of gas hitting $7 a gallon and a package of Oscar Meyer bacon hitting $9.59 out in California, you can bet inflation is on consumers' minds, and 80% of them know who did it.
Inflation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has now soared 6.8% this year, the highest rise in nearly forty years, back when the U.S. was crawling out from the rubble of the Carter years
And today's inflation is far from done, according to the Fed, which expects to initiate three rate hikes in 2022 to fight it. As the prices soar, it's likely that that 80% might just go higher. And the Democrats’ reaction? To double down in delusional denial, even though they know it leads to their electoral doom.
SKYE’S LINKS 12/16/21
Like a carnival barker con man, the Federalies know how to deal with inflation; simply change the way that they calculate it - again:
And Just Like That, Inflation Is About To Disappear?
The official Consumer Price Index increase of 7% over the past year would be more like 11& if real current housing costs were used:
On Inflation: Friday's 7% Increase In Consumer Prices Is 11% When House Prices Are Added
But it is actually much worse than that. Read on to find out why – and a lot more in this week’s Skye’s Links.
BIDEN VS. THE TORNADOS
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center: https://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/
Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday (12/11), Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on “climate change.” Biden stated, “The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here.”
Biden’s statement is laughably inept and easily disproved. All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues. Here are five data-based reasons why Biden’s blather is ignorant demagoguery.
CRACKED ICONS
Ready for some really good news? The corrupt and mediocre heroes of the Left are imploding.
With fits and starts, we are slowly returning to reality after four years of mass hysteria. Our media-deified, progressive icons are finally being exposed as the deceivers they always were.
Enjoy how they are icons no more: Jussieopath, Cuomo Duo, The Harris Who Never Was, Schiffter, The Late Not So Great BLM, and Basement Biden, losers all in the end.
CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE IS KILLING US — NOT A VIRUS
One month ago (11/15), Tucker interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding his remarkable new book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.
Kennedy ably diagnoses the creation of a “track and trace” surveillance state, “the systematic demolition of our Bill of Rights,” the obliteration of the middle class by tech elites who have profited mightily from COVID. It’s revealing that both Fox and YouTube have removed the Carlson-Kennedy interview from their sites – but thanks to Bitchute, you can watch the entire 52 minutes right here – after you finish reading my article… please!
For frankly, up until a few days ago, I thought we were done with Covid. Surely, I thought, the hysteria is on the wane. Fat chance…
KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH PURPOSEFUL IMAGINATION
Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics called it akrasia – a weakness of will, acting in a way contrary to our consciously held moral values. It’s the quality that most distinguishes criminals from the rest of us; and the quality that most distinguishes less successful people from those who are more successful.
The ability to resist our short term impulses and desires, and to focus instead on our long term values and goals is the most important capacity for living well.
Best news here is we can learn to do this by using “purposeful imagination” – that even four-year-old children with marshmallows can do.
THE HEROISM OF COLUMBUS
Governor Ron DeSantis
[There could not be a greater contrast between the Communist Mayor of New York City, Bill DeBlasio, and the Patriot Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis – both of Italian descent. The contrast is exemplified by 35,000 New Yorkers cheering NYC's Columbus Day parade and booing De Blasio telling schools to call the holiday “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” – and this declaration of Gov. DeSantis celebrating Columbus Day. –JW]
Columbus Day commemorates the life and legacy of the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, who made Europeans conscious of the existence of the New World and whose travels opened the door for the development of European settlements in the Western Hemisphere, which would ultimately lead to the establishment of the United States of America.
Columbus stands a singular figure in Western Civilization who exemplified courage, risk-taking and heroism in the face of enormous odds; as a visionary who saw the possibilities of exploration beyond Europe; and as a founding father who laid the foundation for what would one day become the United States of America, which would commemorate Columbus by naming its federal district after him.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/01/21
Fifty-one percent of immigrants are open to abandoning their birth faith and joining an American Protestant denomination. That ciphers out to 15-million and growing.
What happens if the Evangelical is AWOL? That same 15-million become Godless socialists.
This secret terrifies the combined forces of government, media, tech, and the Davos globalist corporate elites. All those illegals can flip the script on the commies. Fast.
The DOD launched its purge of Christians to force the abandonment of faith or the paycheck. The FBI organized at least three complex, expensive, targeted stings to encourage local law enforcement to arrest Evangelicals. You can bet a box of donuts that the average FBI agent has yet to figure out the big picture. Otherwise, the honorable would resign if they understood that they are the new anti-God squad tasked to keep Protestant Churches down and replace the faithful with the new left.
The executive branch is frightening the entire country with significant effect to prevent evangelizing activities, especially in blue states. California and New York lead the way with criminalizing the conversion of immigrants to Protestant denominations via covid rules.
Folks, it is pretty simple. The entire globalist agenda prohibits American Protestants from approaching the hordes of immigrants and inviting them to join conservative churches. The global left fears the consequence of mass conversion. But the stars have aligned, and it is time to get off the couch and get to work.
Why Protestant churches? Because they know what to do, and nearly every other faith has walked off the field. The Mormons are showing negative growth for the first time. That, thanks to a particular Senator named Willard.
It's go time.
SKYE’S LINKS 09/30/21
Dropping the mask; limousine liberal signals of class distinctions:
I pointed out some time ago that Xiden would have a real problem with vaccine mandates imposed on blacks, since this group has a low vaccination percentage. Black Lives Matter of NYC has revolted:
Black Lives Matter NYC Leader Promises "Uprising" Against City's "Racist" Vaccine Passports
Is Xiden merely amazingly incompetent, or is he actually trying to kill off Trump supporters?
Nolte: Disgraceful Timeline of Biden's Badly Bungled Booster Boosterism
THE COORDINATED ATTACK ON IVERMECTIN IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Just as we saw with hydroxychloroquine last summer, government alphabet agencies, the medical industrial complex, and their willing accomplices in the media have recently made it clear that there is yet another safe, effective treatment for COVID-19 they wish to torpedo.
It’s the latest naughty word which will get you censored on social media and mocked and belittled by late-night “comedians”: Ivermectin.
The U.S. government, the media, and Big Pharma are all playing important roles in the deadly dystopian disinformation campaign against the drug. Those engaged in this campaign are guilty of crimes against humanity.
A STUNNING MAJOR MEDIA ADMISSION OF THE 2020 ELECTION FRAUD
Arguably the most prestigious newspaper in the English-speaking world is The Times of London. As you can imagine, it is far from rabidly conservative. So it should be a clarion call for the world that this headline story, written by prominent Times columnist Rod Liddle, appeared in last Sunday’s (9/26) Times:
So Trump Was Right: The Election Was Rigged. And Our Next One Will Be Too
Liddle is a flaming liberal and anti-Trump. Yet he writes:COWARDICE FROM THE PENTAGON TO THE WHITE HOUSE
COWARDS ALL
In Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods, there’s a point in the story when things have gone terribly wrong for everyone. The characters respond by disavowing personal responsibility and telling everyone else that it’s “Your Fault.”
That song could have been the background music to the nauseating spectacle in the Senate Tuesday (9/28), when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and head of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the debacle in Afghanistan.
THE COLLAPSE OF BIDEN’S WORLD
No one’s paying attention, Joe
Despite his vow to “build back better,” China is forcing all of Joe Biden’s moves. The Asian giant’s decision to pursue its own climate policy, consisting largely of more industrialization with green trimmings, effectively kills the Paris accords, so long a part of the progressive platform. How could it not? Beijing produces more emissions than the EU and U.S. combined.
It’s turning out that the fate of large parts of the U.S. economy consequently depends not on regulatory actions in Washington but on bureaucratic decisions in China. The global world that Joe Biden had hoped to inherit is falling apart right under him, like a comedy car shedding its parts as it rattles down the road.
GREENIE ENERGY LEAVES EUROPE IN THE FREEZING COLD
Greenie energy has been vaunted by politicians such as Barack Obama, Zhou Xiden, and virtually every European politician in power as progress itself, the way forward, the wave of the future. Anyone who's got problems with it, as Obama smarmily assured, is "stuck in the past."
Turns out that's nonsense. After going green and shutting down its coal, fossil fuel, fracking, and nuclear energy production, and feeling mighty virtuous for doing it, Europe is now going cold — freezing cold. The region faces a bad winter ahead with energy shortages across the board.
It’s not even October yet, and here’s a headline (9/27: Record-Breaking Cold Sweeps Europe.
Seems green energy can do everything to make a lefty European feel good except produce the actual energy, even as Xiden is doing his darnedest to take America down that cliff.