Gawd that’s insane. Hydro is the single best most efficient power generation. It makes sense that they would want to destroy it. Not enough ways to profit off it. And that’s the ONLY reason. Fish be dammed. (I’m so Punny)

As soon as they can no longer fool their sheeple base with the flu scare or any other contemptible schemes they want to try.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the base of 'philanthropic' billionaires who are still so anti Trump, they still think he is in office....
Blue Alzheimers....

It is the matter of the "Sanctum of the Victim" where the victim does the enforcement for the government, just as now were Biden issues a directive ( executive order) and citizens police themselves for compliance to the order.

I have not seen anything about the Democrats that would have anything to do with them having any form of pride for their collectivized miserable lives.

For all those people who BELIEVE Higher Taxes are BETTER...

I agree with them. Lets tax ALL INCOME 200%

Then they say "That's insane!", and I reply "Why? I thought higher taxes are better!"
Them "But nobody would work.. They would be PAYING to go to work!"

Me: "So you do agree... At some point, taxes are a deterrent to do MORE business?"

Them: "Yeah, but when you get to 100% that's crazy, above that is insane!"
Me: "Now, WHERE do YOU draw the line? 99% Would you work?"
Them: "We are talking about taxing the rich people!"
Me: "Oh, so you want DIFFERENT rules for you, because YOU WOULD NOT PLAY ALONG. Do you THINK rich people will?
Keeping in mind, that states that implemented REALLY high taxes on Millionaires, ended up with THEM LEAVING, and the state
collecting LESS money in tax revenue!"
Them: "Well, I'm not rich, I can't afford those taxes"
Me: "NOBODY Should have to THINK about paying anything CLOSE to HALF of their income, yet here we are!"

So, once the government gets involved... The corruption soon follows. And "Here We Are!"

At this rate, the EO deluge will flood this country with total confusion. There will be crooked mid-term elections resulting in the complete leftist dominance of government. By the 2024 elections, the president, whoever she is, will declare a national emergency and lock us down. No elections, no travel, no broadcasting except for approved copy. Long before that, we will go Galt and try to survive the ensuing insanity that erupts. Where we are now is okay for in-place, but not for what's on the horizon.

Sure enough ... and there is serious talk underway here in the Pacific NW -- to remove four perfectly reliable hydro power dams ("For The Fish!")... and replace them with windmills. $34 Billion buys a whole lot of political pull.

I wonder if its producing cereal now. I kind of doubt it

The other possibility is, since it is now taken over by the government, the workers will be standing around doing nothing because they can't get raw materials to make product, but will still be collecting a government paycheck. So yeah, the "workers" took it over, but there's nothing to do - perfect union job of no work at top pay - guaranteed by law.

I bet its completely closed down now that the "workers took it over"

Just heard on the radio that this record cold snap in Texas froze the windmills and they are experiencing rolling blackouts now. To thaw the windmills out, they have helicopters spraying a petroleum-based deicer fluid on them. Sounds like California after they shut down some of their power plants and experienced rolling blackouts last summer.

I see volts but not kilowatts, not yet. Bob Heinlein's water bed was sf too.

It's not as far out as FTL, where we can ask, as Fermi and his buddies did, "If it's possible, it should already be in use, with LGM here, right now. But where are they?"

The atmospheric Electrical Motor isn't science fiction. There are experimenters/maker who are working on such devices. There is an experimental power station that is doing that: https://youtu.be/ENeDkGce5-4. Experimenters like that will eventually perfect the equipment to make Atmospheric Electricity and viable power supply.

And, of course, 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-...
They just made regulations that made it impossible to remain open without losing money. Then they made it illegal to close shop.

Helicopter Money:
o The latest Covid relief bill is for $1.9 Trillion. This is just the start…
o We will get an Infrastructure bill in the Summer – to kickstart the economy and Go Big, Go Green ™ I predict this – the price tag: $3.5 Trillion.
o Example – real life – The Pacific NW is going to get $35B to … hold on to your hat … tear down four perfectly good hydroelectric dams on the Snake River … “For The Fish (Salmon)” -- $2B to tear down the dams, $10-15B for windmills and solar (total financial fraud both of them) Green Power to replace the Dams, plus $Billions for the Tribes, Ports, Cities, Farmers, and a thousand gravy train agencies and bureaucracies that will be necessary to spend all that money. It will be a $2 Billion a year welfare gravy train for 15+ years here in the Pacific NW. The Hanford Nuclear “Clean Up” since the end of the Cold War is a similar White collar welfare scheme. The spent nuclear waste could have been cleaned up 20 years ago – but there is no incentive to do so – better to keep spending $2B a year on Clean Up. They just dump helicopter money. Where does it all go? Into Jobs. Good paying Green Bureaucrat Jobs -- $100k-$200k a year jobs with benefits. All these folks continue to build nicer, bigger houses, which means more real estate development, infrastructure, buy $90k new trucks, play golf, take trips and spend the helicopter money. The 5 acre parcel in the country with water rights might go for $200k today. In two years, that sweet parcel will go for $500k … lots of cash sloshing around. And that One real example that I gave is just One Percent of the $3.5 Trillion. The entire nation will be swimming in obscenely massive pork barrel projects. Essentially, everyone will become a grifter. Did you get your UBI, er Covid checks last year? It’s like a key of coke. You get used to it. Gotta get some more.
o Long story short – they are going to keep kicking the can down the road with vast swaths of Helicopter money.
o I think that it can, and will, have the Appearance of working, for another few (3-5 years) – I mean, they are talking about several thousand new Windmills on 80k acres of land (that must be acquired) and acres of solar panels – that’s a Whole Lot of Doing that will be going on (The Illusion of Action) here in the Pacific Northwest – and the Bonus – We Saved the Salmon!

CORRECT - 2018 - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-441...

I had a similar thought -- and I have read AS six times.
In the book, many business owners and workers just closed up their shops, dropped their tools and walked off. There was no enforcement -- mainly because so many individuals just walked.
I see muzzle mandates and ignore them. I await someone in authority to Do something, but nothing happens.

Similar -- my spending went down as well. What if they toss me in jail for not following some edict? Now I am a cost center for the State.

The Directive gives the State lots of latitude to exercise arbitrary control. So whereas you might be left alone in the middle of your living room, another individual could be physically removed from their living room (that person might be someone that is vocal in their political opposition and can now be silenced).

The ratcheting actions in the financial sector concern me the most -- advances in the UBI and FedCoin.

We must hide in plain sight, and stay below the radar

Oh, just wait for the enforcement. It will be there soon enough. Look at what happened when that gym owner tried to stay open- the power of the state fell on him hard. Try to thwart IRS rules, and see what happens. Its jail time for that one.

10-289 is a logical consequence of power hungry politicians needing to exert their power over normal citizens. Its pretty predictable actually.

She showed what will ultimately have to happen under an irrational philosophy. We have such an irrational philosophy in the country now, and thats why what she wrote is not so far away from actual reality. If you want to see in real life what will happen in a few years, just look at venezuela.

It is good that I wont live to see this happen, and I am happy I have no kids. The USA is mortally wounded by bad philosophy, and is effectively dead already

they will control wages- not too low, and definitely not too high, and then make it so you cant fire anyone, and in fact that you have to hire certain people.

exactly

Very curious. Dyed in the wool democrats are an evil bunch and should be ostracized from the rest of humanity