I understood it in 1979 when Jane Fonda and Jackson Brown chained themselves to the Diablo Nuclear plant and Hollywood followed with “ The China Syndrome “ . Most people are not smart or educated . They can be led anywhere . Covid ? Transgenderism?
The "experts" did NotSee what was coming. Or maybe them NotSee'ing has been the plan the whole time? Maybe we should start calling them NotSee's? Of course any similarity in the phonetics of such a term is purely coincidental...right?
Many are incompetent, but many are CORRUPT... They may not have started out corrupt, or intending to become corrupted, but as the gubmint has their fingers in virtually every institution via funding...
The old saying goes something like, "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
When I was young, I thought our Founders' limitation of the franchise to property-owning males was tragically undemocratic. The older I get, the wiser they become.
"When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years."
Indeed. Better late than never, but this was indeed clear to anyone capable of doing a back of the envelope calculation. I agree that we need energy-dense, on-shore and reliable power generation:
'This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it was as strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on a reliable, affordable source of low-emission power. This should change'
Mistakes Were Made! Hopefully you will not remember they were made by me!
Don't worry, they'll fall back on the trusty "it was based on the best information available at the time" canard soon enough.
And what's up with Merz? "That decision is irreversible" - really? Did some disaster wipe out all knowledge of nuclear power around the world? Is some divine force stopping Germany from building nuclear power plants?
All guns have been confiscated. The last ones, in the hands of Canadians are about to be "Voluntarily" surrendered on pain of 5 to 10 years of imprisonment.
Carney knows what Net Zero will be like. People will be angry and dying for the ordinary man will be preferable to a life of slavery and poverty.
It is irreversible because it will take 20-25 years to construct new plants and get them operational. This will never happen because no politician wants to take on a cost that will provide a benefit to an administration that is not theirs.
Total lack of accountability. They can make the biggest, most costly, mistakes conceivable, and then, innocently smile, 20 years later, and say “mistakes were made”. No one should hold her position for more than two years, but I think she wants to do a Putin.
They've made it very costly for anyone to hold them accountable. That's why you don't wait for the mice to take the second bite out of the provisions in your pantry.
A "1789 and the storming of the Bastille" should happen for the elites every couple of centuries or so. It helps them to remember that they are elite only on sufferance - that sooner or later the pitchforks and torches will come for them.
"God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion... And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure." --THOMAS JEFFERSON
I know I started this but that's only because our populaces remain as lazy as they were throughout Our Plague Era, now proven to be neverending. I love boycotts, yet it's only the rabid left that organizes religiously to attempt and enforce them.
We get exactly as much as they can make us swallow and if we haven't the strength to spit...
I think that that kind of performative measure for the first 50 to 100 will be salutary for anyone who thinks of following in their footsteps. After that, ordinary execution will suffice.
Well if one follows procedure, they need tying to a hurdle behind the horse. Anyway, rope can be made of natural fibres which can be recycled. Those green supporting politicians can then take some comfort they are doing their bit for the environment.
The cure has always been waiting for us to employ it. Lock all these people up in a comfortable but spartan room and play Bach unceasingly until signs of restoration of sanity begin to manifest. I doubt it will take as long as we might currently fear. Full exposure to Bach will rewire deformed thinking probably better than any other treatment in the universe.
German government makes irreversible decision, continues catastrophic fight in face of obvious impending doom. History might not repeat itself but it rhymes. Badly.
Agreed. The only question is when Germans start fleeing the sinking ship. Since Germany is the economic heart of the EU, it's inevitable that German bungling will bring it down as well.
Because the Green Agenda, now called UN Agenda 2030, never really was about "green". It always was about subjugation, impoverishment, control, deindustrialization and depopulation. Club-of-Rome, WEF "you will own nothing" goals. Last thing on Earth they want is real solutions. Just listen to what their stooges say:
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) president Philip Mountbatten who stated in a 1981 interview with People magazine:
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed—not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they’ll do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily.”..."
" Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it. "
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
" The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. "
Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
" Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. "
Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
" A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation "
I’ve always loved that line of reasoning: “The greatest threat to human survival is human survival.” You can tell it’s all about whatever stupid message they can use to justify reduction of the “wrong” kind of humans.
It's not technologically difficult, compared to routine tech mass produced today. Far simpler than a Tesla, for instance. The only reason it's expensive is because our governments have deliberately made it so by extreme regulatory interventions. Using the scam: "SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY", as a means to blockade what is the safest form of energy generation on the planet.
I was once a member of a union, and we'd use the "SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY" scam to push management into signing a good contract without having to go on strike. You can slow a job down 4X easily by using the safety scam. Do everything by the book, no shortcuts.
So your car is speeding toward a cliff. You've always saved your brakes by slowly rolling to a stop. So your logic tells you to go ahead and careen off the cliff, knowing you've at least saved the wear on your brakes.
"THE GERMAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY DECIDED TO PHASE OUT NUCLEAR ENERGY” AND “THAT DECISION IS IRREVERSIBLE.”
It isn’t stupid. As already posted, it’s because the only way Merz has of staying in power is to cosy up to the Greens, the classic case of politicians abandoning the principle of ‘doing the right thing’ for personal gain.
All this could be avoided of course, if they would abandon their stupid ‘firewall’ and give the >50% of the German electorate who vote for right of centre policies what they want.
They could even call it something catchy, “Protecting our Democracy“, maybe?
I agree entirely. But remember, Germany has a history of bad collective decision-making. The NSDAP was one such. Backing Austro-Hungary against the Tsar was another. Disliking the fact that a foreign ruler would be a woman (Maria Theresa) would be a third. The general rule is that if there's a stupid choice to be made, among a range of possibilities, Germany will choose the stupid choice. It tends to result in the smashing and burning of cities and vast destruction of invested capital and infrastructure.
no one was even curious about why the Russians would supposedly destroy their pipeline that they spent billions on just when it was ready to use. This is the narrative the MSM media passed on. Even though the US fought that pipeline development for years and threatened Germany about using it.
And threatened again only a mere week before the boom-boom.
Yes this is the narrative the MSM passed on. And every non-braindead person here KNEW it was bullshit and made zero sense. And all the alt media published much more rational explanations. But in the end all the low-information voters were gulled, and that was the entire point of the MSM charade.
Nothing is irreversible, unless you are in agreement with the choice already made and you wish to fool low information voters and green energy grifters.
Decades ago, Douglas Adams proposed the B Ark as a solution to the problems created by useless people gumming up the world. It is no longer clear that we can contemplate this without double letter Arks.
Perhaps the EU and specifically Brussels is the result of a bistromath algorithm gone wrong, leading to improbably stupid bureaucrats as a consequence of fusing humanoids with brussels sprouts within the improbability drive.
Of course, most normal people understood this at the time, but the Eurocrats really are that stupid.
I understood it in 1979 when Jane Fonda and Jackson Brown chained themselves to the Diablo Nuclear plant and Hollywood followed with “ The China Syndrome “ . Most people are not smart or educated . They can be led anywhere . Covid ? Transgenderism?
His namesake on the Supreme Court?
Miss Ketanji ?
I can never remember her name. I just refer to her as Ferengi Jackson Brown.
The woman who cannot be identified.
How dare you question the "experts"! /s
Then they wonder why people are losing trust in institutions around the world. Maybe because they are constantly being exposed as being incompetent?
The "experts" did NotSee what was coming. Or maybe them NotSee'ing has been the plan the whole time? Maybe we should start calling them NotSee's? Of course any similarity in the phonetics of such a term is purely coincidental...right?
Remember in Men in Black when the giant parasite was going around in the Edger suit? Most libtardic libtard NotC’s are like that.
Since you pulled out the MIB card, gotta drop this scene here I'm partial to sharing with/about panicans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvij1rqNnn4
Very underused meme material...sometimes I'll think of it for my own perspective readjustments!
Many are incompetent, but many are CORRUPT... They may not have started out corrupt, or intending to become corrupted, but as the gubmint has their fingers in virtually every institution via funding...
The old saying goes something like, "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
Yes but the people follow like sheep
When I was young, I thought our Founders' limitation of the franchise to property-owning males was tragically undemocratic. The older I get, the wiser they become.
"When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years."
MARK TWAIN
🎶 its a hard habit to break 🎵
This is what happens when a government is beholden to the Green movement. Look at the recent Baden-Württemberg election.
What that really an "election" or a S-election???
Moot point - you’ll never know. No nuclear reactors for you.
Good!!! 😉
They’re not stupid, they’re evil. The whole point of the exercise was to control the masses.
The tragedy of Democracy is that it must encourage stupidity to survive, and in the end, stupidity overwhelms it.
Eurocrats? More like Eurotards.
Or Euroturds.
Yes, most normal people understood that the frequent tsunamis hitting Germany were too much of a risk to their nuclear power stations.
I don’t know that to be true about ‘normal people’ even today. I reference this as evidence: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/stupid-people-in-baden-wurttemberg
Unfortunately “ normal “ means not very bright and poorly educated
Both, you will notice, being products of government programs (education and immigration).
They eliminated the SAT at UC San Diego 3 years ago .
60% of incoming freshman in September 2025 could NOT “ round 274,518 to the nearest hundred “ …5 th grade math
Another diploma mill now. So sad.
Baden-Württemberg can anagram to:
- badmen gutter brew
- bet dumb green wart
- me brew butt danger
A dangerous place clearly. :<)
Indeed. Better late than never, but this was indeed clear to anyone capable of doing a back of the envelope calculation. I agree that we need energy-dense, on-shore and reliable power generation:
https://wildhorsewisdom.substack.com/p/dark-horses-win-the-race?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4lmddr
'This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it was as strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on a reliable, affordable source of low-emission power. This should change'
Mistakes Were Made! Hopefully you will not remember they were made by me!
Don't worry, they'll fall back on the trusty "it was based on the best information available at the time" canard soon enough.
And what's up with Merz? "That decision is irreversible" - really? Did some disaster wipe out all knowledge of nuclear power around the world? Is some divine force stopping Germany from building nuclear power plants?
It implies that Merz thinks his only chance of surviving the next few years lies with the Greens.
it means that the CCP owns your government leaders and they don't want their industries to have to compete with Germany on equal ground.
The "divine force" is the puppet masters at the top. But, they, too, are not truly immune from replacement.
All guns have been confiscated. The last ones, in the hands of Canadians are about to be "Voluntarily" surrendered on pain of 5 to 10 years of imprisonment.
Carney knows what Net Zero will be like. People will be angry and dying for the ordinary man will be preferable to a life of slavery and poverty.
It means that issues those in power feel strongly about aren't "safe" to leave to democracy to decide.
I think he’s stating that he’s the boss of Germany, not her! (SFX: Stomping of foot). 🦶
It is irreversible because it will take 20-25 years to construct new plants and get them operational. This will never happen because no politician wants to take on a cost that will provide a benefit to an administration that is not theirs.
Exactly.
As much as I love my European heritage, most modern European leaders are fundamentally unserious gasbags.
“that decision is irreversible.”
How a person gets to this level of insanity is a mystery.
How a person with this level of insanity is allowed anywhere near the levers of power is a mystery on steroids.
Merz is simply following orders... And, he got placed in that position BECAUSE he would follow orders. As the saying goes, "follow the money".
I was about to comment using that exact quote!
To actually state this is simply insane...
When AfD wins, the unthinkable will have become thinkable; the impossible, possible; and the irreversible, reversible. Can't happen soon enough.
Do you think having all of them drawn and quartered would be a little bit of overkill?
[if this comment is perilous to you I will gladly delete it]
Total lack of accountability. They can make the biggest, most costly, mistakes conceivable, and then, innocently smile, 20 years later, and say “mistakes were made”. No one should hold her position for more than two years, but I think she wants to do a Putin.
They've made it very costly for anyone to hold them accountable. That's why you don't wait for the mice to take the second bite out of the provisions in your pantry.
Titter
overkill?
You should always imagine me saying these things out loud instead of just typing them out on the cyberwebs.
A "1789 and the storming of the Bastille" should happen for the elites every couple of centuries or so. It helps them to remember that they are elite only on sufferance - that sooner or later the pitchforks and torches will come for them.
Oliver Cromwell is good for them and us.
"God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion... And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms... What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure." --THOMAS JEFFERSON
I know I started this but that's only because our populaces remain as lazy as they were throughout Our Plague Era, now proven to be neverending. I love boycotts, yet it's only the rabid left that organizes religiously to attempt and enforce them.
We get exactly as much as they can make us swallow and if we haven't the strength to spit...
Couple centuries? . . . How about every other generation.
Seems like a rather tame option, to me.
I cannot help but think so.
I think that that kind of performative measure for the first 50 to 100 will be salutary for anyone who thinks of following in their footsteps. After that, ordinary execution will suffice.
I'd say they've got admirably firm kishkes if they can hold out beyond the third.
“they” being whom?
I think you are being a bit soft on them , actually …….
I always recognize that I'll never be a gentlewoman but I do try to imagine how having such a temperament might soften my natural inclinations.
You forgot the hanging bit first. :<)
Why waste rope?
Well if one follows procedure, they need tying to a hurdle behind the horse. Anyway, rope can be made of natural fibres which can be recycled. Those green supporting politicians can then take some comfort they are doing their bit for the environment.
I'd like to achieve the desired result without too many intervening steps.
A reasonable first step
The cure has always been waiting for us to employ it. Lock all these people up in a comfortable but spartan room and play Bach unceasingly until signs of restoration of sanity begin to manifest. I doubt it will take as long as we might currently fear. Full exposure to Bach will rewire deformed thinking probably better than any other treatment in the universe.
It was a strategic mistake - not “we made a strategic mistake.”
Yes - maintain third person passive voice at all costs!!
“It wasn’t me, nobody saw a thing “. Bart Simpson 🙄
German government makes irreversible decision, continues catastrophic fight in face of obvious impending doom. History might not repeat itself but it rhymes. Badly.
Agreed. The only question is when Germans start fleeing the sinking ship. Since Germany is the economic heart of the EU, it's inevitable that German bungling will bring it down as well.
So much for the “Thousand Year 4th Reich!”
Germany continuing its path of enshitification.
That decision is irreversible only because they fear a backlash from greenies!
Exactly.
Why are the greenies against nuclear?
Because the Green Agenda, now called UN Agenda 2030, never really was about "green". It always was about subjugation, impoverishment, control, deindustrialization and depopulation. Club-of-Rome, WEF "you will own nothing" goals. Last thing on Earth they want is real solutions. Just listen to what their stooges say:
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) president Philip Mountbatten who stated in a 1981 interview with People magazine:
“Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We’re in for a major disaster if it isn’t curbed—not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they’ll do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily.”..."
" Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it. "
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
" The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. "
Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
" Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. "
Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
" A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation "
John Holdren Obama Science Czar
Excellent selection of incriminating quotes, thanks.
I’ve always loved that line of reasoning: “The greatest threat to human survival is human survival.” You can tell it’s all about whatever stupid message they can use to justify reduction of the “wrong” kind of humans.
Beats me, it’s the cleanest energy source available when constructed properly!
Because what the greenies want isn’t really clean energy, it’s the dismantling of capitalism and western civilization.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
"That decision is irreversible." Whaaaaaaaaaaat????? (insert my best impression of comedian Ron White here).
The U.S. military has an expression that applies here: don't get stuck on stupid.
“ you might be a redneck….”
Well then, I guess the answer is coal.
How many BTUs in a bureaucrat?
Which they've been doing with their dirty coal. Danke Greens!
Technologically difficult and expensive, probably. But "irreversible"?
It's not technologically difficult, compared to routine tech mass produced today. Far simpler than a Tesla, for instance. The only reason it's expensive is because our governments have deliberately made it so by extreme regulatory interventions. Using the scam: "SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY", as a means to blockade what is the safest form of energy generation on the planet.
I was once a member of a union, and we'd use the "SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY" scam to push management into signing a good contract without having to go on strike. You can slow a job down 4X easily by using the safety scam. Do everything by the book, no shortcuts.
It shows the complete lack of leadership and competence on the part of Merz, plus a breathtaking arrogance.
Here’s a puzzle from my own ignorance— why don’t the nuclear reactors on board Navy ships and submarines qualify as safe, affordable, SMNRs?
Other than the fact that any military system that works really well gets classified for it?
But even if expensive, that doesn't make it an unthinkable choice if the alternatives are worse.
So your car is speeding toward a cliff. You've always saved your brakes by slowly rolling to a stop. So your logic tells you to go ahead and careen off the cliff, knowing you've at least saved the wear on your brakes.
"THE GERMAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS ALREADY DECIDED TO PHASE OUT NUCLEAR ENERGY” AND “THAT DECISION IS IRREVERSIBLE.”
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
It isn’t stupid. As already posted, it’s because the only way Merz has of staying in power is to cosy up to the Greens, the classic case of politicians abandoning the principle of ‘doing the right thing’ for personal gain.
All this could be avoided of course, if they would abandon their stupid ‘firewall’ and give the >50% of the German electorate who vote for right of centre policies what they want.
They could even call it something catchy, “Protecting our Democracy“, maybe?
I agree entirely. But remember, Germany has a history of bad collective decision-making. The NSDAP was one such. Backing Austro-Hungary against the Tsar was another. Disliking the fact that a foreign ruler would be a woman (Maria Theresa) would be a third. The general rule is that if there's a stupid choice to be made, among a range of possibilities, Germany will choose the stupid choice. It tends to result in the smashing and burning of cities and vast destruction of invested capital and infrastructure.
It’s much better to rely on energy pipelines that your allies can blow up for you
and nary a word of complaint
Well, don't rely on the US MSM to do the heavy lifting for you.
Their pet houseplant in the Oval Office could do no wrong.
no one was even curious about why the Russians would supposedly destroy their pipeline that they spent billions on just when it was ready to use. This is the narrative the MSM media passed on. Even though the US fought that pipeline development for years and threatened Germany about using it.
And threatened again only a mere week before the boom-boom.
Yes this is the narrative the MSM passed on. And every non-braindead person here KNEW it was bullshit and made zero sense. And all the alt media published much more rational explanations. But in the end all the low-information voters were gulled, and that was the entire point of the MSM charade.
Nothing is irreversible, unless you are in agreement with the choice already made and you wish to fool low information voters and green energy grifters.
Decades ago, Douglas Adams proposed the B Ark as a solution to the problems created by useless people gumming up the world. It is no longer clear that we can contemplate this without double letter Arks.
I did always think that was a brilliant proposal.
But I'm biased—Douglas Adams is the closest thing I have to a personal deity.
Perhaps the EU and specifically Brussels is the result of a bistromath algorithm gone wrong, leading to improbably stupid bureaucrats as a consequence of fusing humanoids with brussels sprouts within the improbability drive.