The best posts of the week of September 29, 2024.
Kristoffer Kristofferson, June 22, 1936., Brownsville, Texas,.
September 28, 2024 (aged 88), Hana, Hawaii, U.S.
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The Japanese captured Fuzhou, the last seaport China had controlled.
The Battle of Memel commenced.
German reduced civilian food rations.
An ME 262 was shot down for the first time in combat. The RCAF scored the victory.
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How on earth can people vote for somebody saying something so monumentally stupid?
People are not affecting climate change. You’re going to tell me that back in The Ice Age, how much taxes did people pay and how many changes did governments make to melt the ice?
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
What the crap? The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago.
How can anyone vote for somebody so profoundly ignorant?
It seems like we're getting closer and closer to a full-time legislature, which is a bit scary.
June 18, 2024
Related to this, and acknowledging that electric vehicles are coming, a draft bill for the 2025 legislature proposes to tax electric vehicle charging. While that sounds punitive, the thought it that it will make up for lost gasoline taxes used for roads. The introductory part of that bill:
September 24, 2024
The final makeup of the 2025 legislature isn't known yet, but as some other things posted today demonstrate, its fairly likely, although not certain, that the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, a populist (not conservatives) entity that's really a political party in its own right, will control the House.
If this comes to pass, it'll make for a massively contentious legislative session. The populist have already been extremely disruptive in the legislature, and now they'll be expected to advance their agenda, which in some instances are actually completely unworkable. Should their views on taxation advance, for instance, it'll bankrupt local governments and reduce Wyoming to an overall sort of Appalachia in terms of government services.
Additionally, the hypocrisy of Wyoming positions on the Federal government will rapidly come to the forefront. Can we really give the US government the middle finger, while accepting highway and disaster money?
Are we going to fight wildlands fires on our own?
Indeed, the Wyoming Freedom Caucus may be the biggest gift to the Wyoming Democratic Party imaginable.
In the meantime, it's the outgoing legislature, not the incoming one, that's working on bills for the 2025 session. These are the ones being considered right now.
October 4, 2024.
