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      03-28-2024, 01:44 PM   #7415
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I think that politicians will be worth so much less in the future.
They are priceless for their stupidity
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Wait till after November. Watch EPA get defunded.
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They are priceless for their stupidity
They'll be ten a penny when a people's gubment eventually comes in.
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Wait till after November. Watch EPA get defunded.
Even if Trump wins and guts EPA like he did between 2016-2020, industry knows that it gets flipped back once he's out. They knew this back in 2016-2020 and planned for it. I'm an environmental consultant and saw this first hand with my industrial/manufacturing clients. Plus, most companies now are international and tend to follow the most stringent environmental policies when it comes to their own internal directives, environmental stewardship, etc. Sometimes EPA/States are more stringent and sometimes the European Union or country specific regs are more stringent. And yes, some Chinese environmental regs are more stringent than EPA's and in China, you don't want to be breaking the law as courts are swift and you'll go to jail.

20+ years ago, publicly-held companies saw little value in environmental stewardship, reduce/reuse/recycle, ESG, etc. Now, there is real money in it (i.e. saved money) and shareholders expect companies to be good stewards of the environment. There has been a MASSIVE shift in the last 10 years in how companies view environmental stewardship. In most cases, only the smaller companies I work with struggle with it, throw their arms up in frustration, and thumb their noses at it. It's my job to show them that it isn't remotely as expensive as they think and in many cases, I can help them avoid many of regulatory hurdles by simple and cheap/free process changes.
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Wait till after November. Watch EPA get defunded.
I just don't see how with this going on.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ered-voters-26
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I just don't see how with this going on.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ered-voters-26
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Trust, but verify and see my signature line. YOU are being suckered. Be smarter.
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ICE cars are going to be worth so much money in the future
2032 will be here soon
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Bozo promised to install thousands of EV charging stations. Only 7 have been built.
03/28/2024
But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states.
But after two years, that program has only delivered 7 open charging stations with a total of 38 spots where drivers can charge their vehicles, according to a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration. (The funding should be enough to build up to 20,000 charging spots or around 5,000 stations, according to analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy.) Stations are open in Hawaii, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania and under construction in four other states.

Wow to these guys really suck, no wonder they are in government, they would have had their ass's fired in the private sector by now. Where is Pete Buttigieg? Maternity leave again?
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Even if Trump wins and guts EPA like he did between 2016-2020, industry knows that it gets flipped back once he's out. They knew this back in 2016-2020 and planned for it. I'm an environmental consultant and saw this first hand with my industrial/manufacturing clients. Plus, most companies now are international and tend to follow the most stringent environmental policies when it comes to their own internal directives, environmental stewardship, etc. Sometimes EPA/States are more stringent and sometimes the European Union or country specific regs are more stringent. And yes, some Chinese environmental regs are more stringent than EPA's and in China, you don't want to be breaking the law as courts are swift and you'll go to jail.

20+ years ago, publicly-held companies saw little value in environmental stewardship, reduce/reuse/recycle, ESG, etc. Now, there is real money in it (i.e. saved money) and shareholders expect companies to be good stewards of the environment. There has been a MASSIVE shift in the last 10 years in how companies view environmental stewardship. In most cases, only the smaller companies I work with struggle with it, throw their arms up in frustration, and thumb their noses at it. It's my job to show them that it isn't remotely as expensive as they think and in many cases, I can help them avoid many of regulatory hurdles by simple and cheap/free process changes.
This is not about Trump. The backlash against ESG by stockholders is just getting started. To say companies 20 years ago saw little value in environmental stewardship is a bald-faced lie. There have always been bad apples in in every endeavor, everyone wants them held accountable.
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This is not about Trump. The backlash against ESG by stockholders is just getting started. To say companies 20 years ago saw little value in environmental stewardship is a bald-faced lie. There have always been bad apples in in every endeavor, everyone wants them held accountable.
You couldn't be more wrong. ESG is going nowhere and most shareholders expect/demand companies to be good stewards of the environment. The increase in ESG services during mergers and acquisitions has been exponential over the past 5 or so years. I work directly in international M&A. ESG is often a M&A evaluation task of the private equity and large publicly held companies I work with. It's only increasing and is one of the largest growing sectors in my firm, book of business wise.

You can say otherwise but I work in this arena. I see and work in it daily.
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"Key areas focussed by Synergy to build a value creation led, customer satisfaction prioritized culture."

Guess that was BS, huh?
Sounds like a bunch of corporate BS word salad most companies and managers use. Makes me want to punch babies
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Can this be true?
Bozo promised to install thousands of EV charging stations. Only 7 have been built.
03/28/2024
But now, more than two years after Congress allocated $7.5 billion to help build out those stations, only 7 EV charging stations are operational across four states.
But after two years, that program has only delivered 7 open charging stations with a total of 38 spots where drivers can charge their vehicles, according to a spokesperson for the Federal Highway Administration. (The funding should be enough to build up to 20,000 charging spots or around 5,000 stations, according to analysis from the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy.) Stations are open in Hawaii, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania and under construction in four other states.

Wow to these guys really suck, no wonder they are in government, they would have had their ass's fired in the private sector by now. Where is Pete Buttigieg? Maternity leave again?
Bozo is not a liar surely
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You couldn't be more wrong. ESG is going nowhere and most shareholders expect/demand companies to be good stewards of the environment. The increase in ESG services during mergers and acquisitions has been exponential over the past 5 or so years. I work directly in international M&A. ESG is often a M&A evaluation task of the private equity and large publicly held companies I work with. It's only increasing and is one of the largest growing sectors in my firm, book of business wise.

You can say otherwise but I work in this arena. I see and work in it daily.
It's costing stockholders money by fostering stupid decisions, companies are most definitely reacting to that heat. The dumbest metric on Schwab is its ESG scale. Stock buyers actually use it as a reverse scale. The higher the company score, the less desirable it is to buy, ironic.
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The TGP is a very reliable source of information

Trust, but verify and see my signature line. YOU are being suckered. Be smarter.
And this? And I coulda post a 1000 of these from every source imaginable and I'm sure your response will be the same. You and people like you are the ones that need to be smarter. And I should know. My grandfather went around taking names from headstones at cemeteries and putting them on ballots to get Johnson elected.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/s...5Es1_&ref_url=
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And this? And I coulda post a 1000 of these from every source imaginable and I'm sure your response will be the same. You and people like you are the ones that need to be smarter. And I should know. My grandfather went around taking names from headstones at cemeteries and putting them on ballots to get Johnson elected.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/s...5Es1_&ref_url=
2,000 mules documented D controlled locations sending out people to stuff remote drop off ballot boxes. They didn't even count the lazy ones who were supposed to visit multiple boxes and just dumped them all in one and took the paycheck.
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Blows my mind that grown arse adults can watch videos of the shenanigans and then turn right to your face and screech CONSPIRACY THEORIES!
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Be careful, spooks could show up.

Recently in Oklahoma...for posting Joe memes on Fb. Kid you not.

https://x.com/realJoelFischer/status...347698829?s=20
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Be careful, spooks could show up.

Recently in Oklahoma...for posting Joe memes on Fb. Kid you not.

https://x.com/realJoelFischer/status...347698829?s=20
Like the proverbial 'men in black' that were known to visit people who had vid footage or even some thing pertaining to a 'UFO'.
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