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White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House::The bill would prevent the EPA from enforcing tougher new pollution standards.

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[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 100 points 2 years ago

Good. This is just theater for the knuckle-dragging Republican base anyway. The dems who went along with it can eat a bag of dicks.

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

Anyone notice how many news stories nowadays start with "Republicans block or halt or shut down or remove something.... They aren't doing anything... Just keeping anyone else from doing anything

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People are probably getting sick of me saying this by now, but of course Republicans aren't doing anything, this is their philosophy. Their core beliefs are in conserving traditional hierarchies and norms. God over man, men over women and children, white over black, rich over poor, cis-het over LGBT people and other hierarchies.

Their actions are best understood through the lens of conservative philosophy and the maintenance or restoration of socio-economic hierarchies.

To achieve their goals, they really only need to do a few things legialativly,

  1. Stop progress and change
  2. Rollback change

You see 1 all the time, they dont even need to be in power to do it. They just need to get in the way. If they get power, you see 2, and since they're trying to rollback generational change, not even decades old precedent is safe (see Roe vs. Wade).

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

And then Jesus said: "White power sieg heil! " - The Bible according to you

[-] mercury 12 points 2 years ago

He's just explaining conservative ideology

[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Seems clear to me that my explanation covers pretty well the reasons white power groups and orthodox/conservative Christians are right wing. They aren't the same groups, necessarily, but they both want to conserve their respective hierarchies.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You can't call them "Christians". They are just racists with a Bible in their hand.

[-] HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes and Russia and China are democracies because they said so.

The Bible is pretty clear on racism and feeding the poor etc.

Learn your fallacies.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not that people disagree with you about the hypocrisy here, but rather that you're being a real cockface about every interaction you're having.

They are just racists with a Bible in their hand.

I grew up in churches around religious people, you just described 99% of "Christians" in the American South.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Moses recieved the 10 commandments from Mt Sinai, notably among them being "thou shalt not kill" immediately after massacring an entire army and then immediately went to war and wiped out an entire nation in a genocide.

And thats in the Bible.

The only good Christian, by Christians' own admission, was Christ himself.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not gonna defend the entire Bible here but that story was about Amalek, a specific people not humanity in general. Also they had some voodoo stuff in there about them transforming into animals. It was kinda out there.

The water of the sea drowning the Pharaos army chasing the israelites doesn't seem like a moral dilemma to me.

The not killing part refers to not just killing anyone or stealing their stuff etc. Actual self defense is fine.

You can focus on the few war stories but I know a bunch of good Christians who have adopted kids, feed the poor and do a lot of charity stuff etc. The actual good stuff.

[-] jasondj@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

The best part is that they got us fighting each other so much. They’ve managed to divide us across whatever line you can think of.

All of this is a distraction. While racism and sexism absolutely exist, they fortunately aren’t the cornerstones of our hierarchies anymore. Thats great, but now we have a caste system, and nobody wants to acknowledge it.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 20 points 2 years ago

Considering their whole M.O. is regression or conservation of the status quo, that's not surprising

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

That's all they ever do when Democrats are in control. So annoying

[-] grayman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Democrats suck ass and do the same thing. Two parties my ass. It's a game and we're the pawns.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

If you want to be "the party of no" you can't allow things to happen.

[-] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org 2 points 2 years ago

It could be that. It could also be where you're getting your headlines from.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Except we've been trying everything else for decades now

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

And there's still plenty more to try. They've barely even scratched the surface of the whole genocide-your-own-population thing

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

He never said that, but it's still a heck of a good quote.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but it's on a picture and I agree with it, because it's shitting on Americans, so I'm going to mindlessly parrot it!

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

As an American I can honestly say "No lies detected".

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago

Fucking dipshit asshole bastard republiQans. Evil, stupid, sociopathic, and cheating every way possible. As usual.

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 56 points 2 years ago

Are you telling me, that my US rep Tim Fucking Walberg, that useless fuck, actually accomplished something? I'm actually kind of impressed. The bill is straight up dogshit, but he actually submitted something and dogged it through committee and got the full chamber to vote on something.

I call bullshit. Someone else did this, and pawned it off onto Tim. Either because they didn't want to be responsible for it, or they felt sorry for him. Hell, I feel sorry for him.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 17 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The White House's plan to boost electric vehicle adoption came under heavy fire in Congress on Wednesday.

Five Democratic Representatives joined the Republican majority to pass a bill that would prohibit the US Environmental Protection Agency from enacting stricter new corporate average fuel efficiency regulations that would require automakers to sell many more EVs by the year 2032.

But burning fewer hydrocarbons has become anathema to the modern Republican Party, and former President Donald Trump's administration focused some of its attention on undermining the EPA's ability to regulate tailpipe emissions or cut gasoline dependence.

A pair of Texas Democrats (Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzales), as well as Jared Golden (D-Maine), Donald Davis (D-N.C.), and Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) all voted with the Republican Party.

It says the EPA cannot "finalize, implement, or enforce" new vehicle pollution regulations that are meant to go into effect in 2027.

The White House strongly condemned the legislation, which it says would "catastrophically impair" the EPA's ability to regulate vehicle pollution, and President Joe Biden has threatened to veto the bill should it pass the Senate and be sent to his desk.


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[-] Conyak@lemmy.tf 10 points 2 years ago

Why threaten, do it already.

[-] quigat@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

The bill has been passed by the House but not the Senate. It is not yet ready to be signed or vetoed.

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