Showing posts with label plastic straws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plastic straws. Show all posts

Friday, September 6, 2024

Kamala Harris: 10 issues she may have "Trumpified"



With Kamala Harris having to walk back most everything she believes that will hurt her presidential chances, most of us wouldn't be surprised if she sleeps with Stormy Daniels and dyes her hair just to give the illusion she's like Trump only black and a woman.

Harris has walked back on so many issues, it's hard to take her seriously. I suspect if she wins the presidency, she will do exactly what she wants, and that's to follow her estranged father's socialist philosophy and Make America Ache.

1. She was outspoken about banning fracking during her 2020 short-lived campaign that ended up getting her zero primary votes. But now she pretends her stance has changed and no longer supports a ban. Some people will believe her and others will be happy if it does change back to the ban. Kamala is now getting in line with the more centrist Democrats in her fake approach to energy policy and tut-tuts global warming, at least until the second week in November. 

Do you trust her?

2. She has also proposed a smaller increase in long-term capital gains tax rate compared to what Biden suggested. This is a change from her former stance of taxing the wealthy. And now while supporting an increase in corporate tax, she sees how unpopular it is, and has suggested a lower tax hike than previously discussed.


3. In a move to kick the Second Amendment in the butt, she supported mandatory buy-back programs for "assault weapons" but her new 'elect me, guys' stance is less aggressive because she has no other political philosophy than to get elected by any means necessary. Her current stance focuses more on background checks and other less controversial measures. But it isn't background check improvement that's so needed, it's the enforcement of the laws that are already in place.

4. Harris and health care are a fiscal joke. She once supported Medicare For All and a single-payer health care system, which would end private health insurance, remove people's choices for health care, and destroy thousands of jobs. Suddenly, her campaign claims she no longer supports this, but Harris herself has not stated this openly. 

Do you trust her?

5. For Harris, the ability for mothers to kill their babies in the womb has always been a soft spot in her heart. While she still believes women have the right to do this right up to the baby's crowning she is now emphasizing these rights as a large focal point of her campaign. 


6. Back when she was first running for president, she wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings. But with Trump going full-on border defense, Harris believes she has evolved and suddenly supports stronger border controls and enforcement, at least for now. Maybe even a wall on the southern border. 

Do you trust her?

7. She had, but no longer has, a federal jobs guarantee initiative that was part of her Green New Deal proposal. Harris loves her some Green New Deal--it's what daddy would have wanted, although he's nowhere to be found. 

8. In an effort to kick capitalism in the symbolic nuts, Harris was for a mandate for automakers to build only electric and hydrogen vehicles by 2035. While it's not certain whether she is still for it or against the idea, once she's in office [heaven forfend] anything is possible.

Do you trust her?

9. Slavery reparations were also big for the giggling Vice President. In this case too, her position is unclear and since she wasn't asked in the only powder puff interview she had [for 16 minutes] it's likely she's still for it. Who knows where she stands since she hides from the disinterested media.

10. But the most important issue she was dead set to impose on the American people was the banning of plastic straws to save the environment. Never mind that plastic bags, plastic pens, and so on, are not being banned, but Axios recently reported that Kamala Hahahaharris is no longer for the ban.

Sip away.

Friday, July 27, 2018

San Francisco banning straws, banning free lunch, banning thought

San Francisco is having a phenomenal week. They've banned plastic straws to save the world from total annihilation and now they're banning free lunches to save restaurants.

It would be funny if it wasn't true.

President Trump referred to certain foreign countries as "S**t-holes. He was wrong to use that term but he certainly would be accurate if he referred to San Francisco as such.

While the city is concerned about the use of plastic straws destroying the environment, (one town is fining restaurant servers $1,000 or 6 months in jail for providing a straw and the same fine for every straw thereafter to a customer) they don't seem to care about the homelessness problem and the environment that is being ruined by the depositing of human feces and garbage by this population on the streets of their town.

The straw ban also prevents vendors from using takeout containers made with fluorinated chemicals while also preventing people with debilitating oral problems from drinking or eating liquified food. Screw 'em!

"The legislation prohibits eateries from using plastic anti-splashers, stirrers and other plastic items that environmentalists say are too small to be recycled properly," Newsmax reported. "Retailers would no longer be able to sell the items starting July 2019. In addition, food and drink vendors would be allowed to dispense cutlery, napkins, condiments and lids only on request or through self-service stations."

Feces on the streets, however, will remain intact.

"It's a movement not just happening in San Francisco but nationally and internationally," said Peter Gallotta, a moron who works for the city's Department of Environment. "The larger elephant in the room," he said, trying to sound original, "is the single-use disposable culture [how redundant] we find ourselves in, and straws are the epitome of this unnecessary daily waste."

The city will probably soon consider the banning of disposable diapers if this nonsense continues.

The statistic often cited that suggests Americans use 500 million straws per day is not only crazy, it's based on the research of a 9-year-old. With only about 300 million people living in the USA, everyone would have to use more than one straw per day on average.

As far as all plastic waste being dumped into the ocean, five countries are responsible: China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, according to a study by Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey. The United States ships much of our waste plastic to China for recycling and they reportedly dump it in the ocean.

But the nanny state isn't finished with merely a straw problem, man, they're upset with companies that provide their employees with free lunches. It's hurting the businesses of neighborhood eateries and they're complaining and might get their way.

It's possible that companies that provide free lunch want their employees happy and maybe not have to go out onto the streets where they then have to walk looking down to avoid human excrement. Plus, it would probably destroy their appetites anyway.

Straws are not the problem in San Francisco. According to Yahoo News, the city hands out an estimated 400,000 drug syringes every month to reduce HIV among drug users, they say, and out of that number, 245,000 syringes get properly discarded in the city's 13 syringe access and disposal sites. But the remaining 155,000 end up on the streets, sidewalks and parks, making the straw problem a non-issue.

The city spends about $30 million a year to clean human feces and syringes off the sidewalks, according to NBC News.

Now who in the world would want to walk the streets to go to lunch when they can stay at work and get it for free?

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