My observations are that Democrats place most of their effort into fighting over a larger slice of the pie where as Republicans put a tiny bit more effort (no where near the amount they should) into enlarging the pie so ALL can benefit.

Both parties however seem overly willing to go to war, seem overly preoccupied with their own wealth and power, and unwilling to be responsible.

I won't pretend there are no environmental problems but I will say I am not convinced that global warming is chief among them, nor that it's nearly as urgent as the WEF and cohorts make it seem.

My view is that a lot of the global warming movement is really based upon my first observation of DemonRats, a tendency to fight over their slice of the pie rather than enlarging the pie, and this in my view is contrary to an agenda of environmental responsibility because it takes away from the overall wealth available to put into new research and technology that could actually solve our environmental problems, things like molten salt reactors and nuclear fusion and space mining and vertical farming.

The Earth has finite resources and a reality of any extractive technology is that you always extract the rich deposits first and most cheaply, this included things like surface and near surface oil under natural pressure so we didn't even have to pump it out, just poke a straw into the ground and go.

Then if we are still reliant on those same resources and do not develop new technologies we start to extract more difficult to get at resources, things like shale oil and fracked oil.

If we were able to drill 500 miles deep, surely there are sufficient hydrocarbons that we'd run out of atmosphere first, but the reality is we will never be able to drill that deep and even if we could running out of atmosphere is not a good pursuit.

So we need new energy sources, but we can't adopt them all instantly, it takes around ten years to build a nuclear power plant, our first real plausible and adequately scalable energy solution, and really we should be building molten salt breeder reactors, not pressurized water uranium-235 reactors because we can't afford more Fukashimas and Chernobyls and Three Mile Islands. And because Uranium 235 is only .7% of natural uranium and natural uranium is only 1/3rd as plentiful as Thorium which can be burned in molten salt breeder reactors.

Further, of the nuclear waste that exists today, the only LONG term waste are the actinides, elements heavier than Uranium that were the result of Uranium absorbing neutrons and transmuting into heavier elements rather than fissioning into lighter fission products. The fission products will all decay to levels less than the ore they were derived from within 300 years, but for the actinides it will take as much as a million years and no civilization can keep them isolated from the environment that long BUT these molten salt fast fission breeder reactors can fission them and derive energy leaving only short term products.

So clearly if we want to electrify transportation, we need electricity, but the time frame to build nuclear plants isn't going to make enough available by 2030, the date by which the WEF and morons that follow it want to eliminate internal combustion engines.

The reality also is that we've got eight billion human souls on this planet and we simply can not grow enough food at pre-industrial CO2 levels OR without artificial fertilizers and the WEF and their infiltrators to all of our governments want to eliminate BOTH. They know this will starve 3/4ths of the worlds population but that is what they want.

Because many newer technologies that can help us solve this conundrum rely on heavy metals and these are difficult to extract from Earth ores due to their relatively low concentrations and chemical similarities, but at least the concentration issue can be addressed by space mining because on asteroids, where they are lot large enough for gravitational separation, they are very plentiful on the surface as are valuable metals like gold, platinum, and indium.

The more we impoverish people, the more we hinder these developments which are necessary to mankind's future survival. There are more Elon Musks and other technical and scientific visionaries out there that simply were never able to make a contribution because they were too busy with the basic necessities of survival. Instead of plunging MORE of the world into poverty as the WEF plans, we need to LIFT everybody out of poverty so EVERYONE can achieve their potential and we can get to a better place sooner.

Lastly, I do not like the WEF's idea that man should be separated from nature, because factually we ARE a PART of nature and should not be apart from nature. Instead, we need to learn how to live WITH nature, to create transportation systems that allow us to get to where we want to go without impeding the migration of other species for example. But stacking humans in 3% of the Earth 30 layers deep is the opposite of this, separating us from nature only means we'll know less and have even less respect for it.

TO: Supporters of Tiffany Smiley and Other Interested Parties

FROM: Kristian Hemphill, Campaign Manager, Smiley for Washington

DATE: Monday, November 7, 2022

RE: We’re Winning: What to Expect on Election Night and Beyond

Tiffany Smiley is going to be the next U.S. Senator from the Evergreen State.

We’re now approaching the end of Tiffany Smiley’s “New Mom in Town” Bus Tour and the excitement we’ve seen – from Bellingham to Pullman, from Colville to Vancouver, and everywhere in between – has been nothing short of breathtaking. The momentum we’ve seen over the past month of the campaign is unmistakable, especially after strong wins in two debates.

In one of the last filings with the Federal Election Commission, from October 1 through October 19, Tiffany outraised 30-year incumbent Senator Patty Murray - $3.68 million to $880,000. Tiffany raised just as much in three weeks as Murray did all of last quarter.
A new poll from Moore Information Group shows Smiley leading Murray, 47.4% to 47.0%.
Murray’s image is net negative while Smiley’s image is net positive.
Undecided voters disapprove of Murray by a margin of 53 points.
Other polls have shown this race as a statistical tie, including the Trafalgar Group showing a 1.2% margin (within the poll’s 2.9% margin of error).
Real Clear Politics has moved this race to “TOSS UP” status, while Politico shifted the race from “Likely Dem” to “Lean Dem.”

Along with what we see from ballots that have been returned, we expect a victorious outcome at the end of this process.

What will we see on election night and beyond?

Last week, The Associated Press put together a helpful guide on “what to expect on election night” and beyond.

Washington is a vote-by-mail state and voters are automatically sent a ballot. Once voters return their ballots, either by mail or in a drop box, they can confirm via a state-run website that it’s been received by the county auditor’s office, and where it is in the process. Because a ballot only needs to be postmarked by Election Day, or dropped in a drop box by 8 p.m. election night, about half of the vote is outstanding at the end of the night, making it impossible to quickly determine the winner of close races.

Washington’s 39 counties all post their initial results after 8 p.m. Many counties do daily updates after that, but because of the number of steps involved in ballot verification — including sorting, signature verification and assessment of ballots for extraneous marks — the updates can feel painfully slow for candidates locked in close races and the media organizations covering them. Each county will post one report on election night and again on nights following Election Day ...

Counting is slow in Washington. In 2020, 18.3% of the total vote was not yet counted on election night. Totals didn’t reach 100% until 10 days after the election. Because ballots only have to be postmarked by Election Day, it can take weeks to decide close races. Counties can keep counting up until Nov. 29, the day they certify results ...

People who are in the lead on election night may ultimately lose once all the ballots are counted. Also, because ballots are still arriving at election offices days after Election Day, it’s difficult to know how many ballots are truly outstanding.

BOTTOM LINE: The race for U.S. Senate in Washington State SHOULD NOT be called on election night.

The Smiley for Washington campaign will communicate regularly and as necessary throughout the process.

Tiffany will give remarks on election night on the status of the race after initial returns have been posted. After election night, you should expect to see regular updates from this campaign.

Thank you,

Kristian

https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1526548627669270535

I started this friendica node, friendica.eskimo.com/, two years ago, after being kicked off of Facebook for opposing narratives favoring depopulation, world government, forced vaccination with experimental MRNA vaccines, and the global warming farce.

I voluntarily killed my account at Twitter after being punished for not towing the line on these same narratives.

Now that Elon is kicking all the bots off of Twitter I see they are coming to the Fediverse, especially Mastabatordon nodes, in droves. I want to make it clear in no uncertain terms bots and spammers are NOT welcomed here nor are WEF shills.