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Millenium Frinklin retweeted
these people spent my entire life telling me climate change was an imminent existential risk and now are saying that mild curbs on the ability to bog down clean energy projects in historic preservation lawsuits are a far more important problem
Last Tuesday, Americans resoundingly voted against a Trump administration that has bullied, dictated, and destroyed American history and treasure for Trump's own vanity. The American people demanded transparency, accountability, and a voice. This secretive, backroom permitting deal is the exact opposite. It ignores and silences the voices of so many and only empowers Trump to continue to trample on the American people who are fed up.
America’s greatness lies not just in innovation and technological advancement, but also in our deep commitment to protecting the places that make our country truly beautiful – our historical, cultural, and sacred places. In New Mexico, we celebrate our Tribal communities, our Hispano heritage, and our diversity. This legislation would hand over more authority to Trump to destroy what New Mexicans have protected and cherished for centuries. Across New Mexico, it is opposed by so many, including tribal leaders, acequias, and environmentalists.
The proposed manager’s amendment does not resolve the fatal flaws in the bill’s changes to our historic preservation process. The legislation would still give “sole discretion” to the Trump administration to determine whether a sacred or historic site deserves protection. It would even restrict federal courts from overturning destructive projects – including data centers, mining, and fossil fuel projects. As we have seen time and time again, Trump will certainly corrupt and abuse this unprecedented power.
Our nation’s growth and development in the future can move forward while honoring its past. We can reform and expedite permitting for major renewable energy projects while protecting historical places and upholding our trust and treaty obligations with Tribal governments. The reality is that our historic preservation laws don’t stop projects, they just require that consultation and communication occur before bringing in the bulldozers. Americans don’t want to be kept in the dark about what is being built, they want to have transparency and input.
Democrats have just won control of both the House and the Senate. This rush to pass something in the lame-duck session ignores Tuesday’s great victory. We should be united around a democratic process that includes those most impacted by legislation in the process of developing that legislation. We can develop reforms that allow renewable energy projects to be built, without giving such extraordinary power to a President and an administration that has proven it cannot be trusted.
I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass permitting reform legislation that includes the voices of the American people.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
Leftists would rather have a Republican trifecta to boost their cultural clout and power over Democrats than be a part of a Democratic mandate and actually participate in passing the progressive legislation they pretend they want.
Watching the Left’s descent into madness over the Democrats’ victories all over the country has been fascinating to watch.
It’s clear from all their talking points that they were not expecting us to win at these levels.
They’re malfunctioning. They think screaming “AIPAC” “corporations” and “genocide” is going to change things.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
I find it fascinating all the people touting ~economic populism~ as the key to political success have nothing to say about the BAAJA divide and whether Dems will side with affordability and labor allies or degrowth green donors.
Damnit. Thought Minshew was gonna get his shot
Sources: #AZCardinals starting QB Gardner Minshew is feared to have suffered a torn UCL in his throwing arm, an injury he had before halftime and played with.
Minshew is getting more tests, but he could be out for the season, facing months of rehab. Carson Beck would be up.
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Millenium Frinklin retweeted
Of the seven Democrats who flipped senate seats, one supports the bill.
It’s not going to pass.
What is the point of platforming a bill that will divide the new caucus rather than writing health care legislation that will pass?
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
Sirota can’t make up his mind from day to day whether seats were flipped by people he likes and who are being betrayed by nefarious “corporate” democrats or whether he’s furious the seat-flippers didn’t run on his preferred ideas.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
Pork barrel spending, particularly earmarks, were not just a tiny part of the budget, but they were also key in allowing congressmen to make agreements between each other and and get cross-party support for bills.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
it's time to BAAJA blast.
Tell your Senators to vote yes!!!
The 2-minute case for BAAJA
After 46 years of failed attempts, we have the chance to pass freedom-to-build legislation that will make everything more affordable, from energy to housing.
America has a building crisis due to an endless permitting process
Despite the fact that technology has made it easier than ever to build great things quickly and cheaply, America has never been so slow and expensive at building.
The affordability crisis is really a building crisis: it’s too slow and expensive to build things in America, which prevents supply from keeping up with demand.
We pay much more for electricity than we should because it’s too hard to build power plants, power lines, and fuel pipelines.
We pay much more for housing than we should because it’s too hard to build housing and apartment complexes.
The leading cause of the building crisis is an endless permitting process that makes it much more expensive to build energy infrastructure, housing developments, and factories.
“BAAJA” is the best chance we’ve had in 46 years to fix permitting
We need to dramatically but responsibly reform permitting, so that any permitting process efficiently confirms a project is not a real threat to neighbors or their environmental quality.
Permitting reforms need to be made by Congress so that they are part of the law. This way, reasonable permitting requirements endure from administration to administration.
We’ve seen from the last 46 years of failed negotiations that it’s extremely hard to get a bipartisan deal that a President will sign.
Senate Democrats and Republicans, with Presidential support, and building on House legislation, have a breakthrough with BAAJA: Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act.
BAAJA responsibly streamlines permitting for all kinds of projects
BAAJA reforms permitting processes to make them faster and more focused, without compromising environmental quality.
BAAJA limits the abuse of bonus reviews (NEPA) to block projects by years.
BAAJA limits the abuse of the Clean Water Act to stop the vital, 100% water-safe gas pipelines and power lines our grid needs.
BAAJA modestly improves electric transmission by making it easier to build cost-effective projects while somewhat constraining utilities from building wasteful projects.
Some of BAAJA’s reforms improve environmental quality, such as expediting the permitting of wildfire-protection measures such as controlled burns or brush-clearing.
Any politician who wants America to build again should work to pass BAAJA this Congress.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
Sure, data centers don't produce food, and Krispy Kreme doesn't accelerate software development, answer questions, or solve math problems. Ultimately this is just "Things I don't personally value should be banned."
We have a perfectly good system for allocating scarce resources among people who value different things: Market pricing. Refusal to use market pricing is why there are frequent water shortages in the American Southwest.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
Yes these are the reasons he wins in a swing state and would be a juggernaut in a national general election.
Please keep posting this clip it will own him soooo bad.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
The right is comparing female teachers enforcing classroom discipline on boys with being a Holocaust victim.
I never want to hear about how tough, stoic, and masculine men are. Or that the right has these virtues.
They’re whiny baby victims, worse than the wokest woke.
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Millenium Frinklin retweeted
The Sunrise Movement is full of such unrepentant liars that they won’t admit that EVERY serious model of BAAJA’s impact says it would significantly DECREASE emissions
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
“Florida retiree” when I was a kid was a Jewish New Yorker who voted straight Democratic and “Florida retiree” now is an evangelical from Missouri who thinks the world is 5,000 years old.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
It's damning that operatives in this white house regime thought he meant the latter.
Millenium Frinklin retweeted
It’s not Islamaphobic to recognize that what is happening in Afghanistan cannot even be imagined by the worst islamaphobe.
