Darkness Descending Upon America

Chris

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Darkness Descending Upon America
Biden bans incandescent light bulbs.
By Robert Spencer

Old Joe Biden and his sinister handlers are doing just what they threatened to do. On July 5, 2020, Old Joe’s Twitter ghostwriter tweeted: “We’re going to beat Donald Trump. And when we do, we won’t just rebuild this nation — we’ll transform it.” They have done so. They have transformed the nation that was once known as the leader of the free world into a crime-ridden, open-borders free-for-all where opponents of the regime are arrested on bogus charges. Meanwhile, there seems to nothing that Biden’s handlers won’t do in order to torment Americans and fill their lives with petty annoyances: now they are banning incandescent light bulbs. What’s next? FBI agents standing on streetcorners and poking us with sharp sticks?

Fox News reported Saturday that Biden and his henchmen are “preparing to implement a sweeping nationwide ban on commonly used light bulbs as part of its energy efficiency and climate agenda.” Yes, the nation is going to go dark because of a hysterical junk science myth. “No credible scientific body,” wrote energy and environmental researcher Michael Shellenberger in 2019, “has ever said climate change threatens the collapse of civilization, much less the extinction of the human species.” In fact, the whole idea that temperatures are rising to catastrophic levels is based on circular reasoning. But the Biden regime is all in on the climate change myth, and as always, ordinary Americans are the ones who have to pay the price.

You may recall that we have been here before. Barack Obama banned incandescent light bulbs, and the Trump administration rolled back that ban in Sept. 2019. Fox notes that the Department of Energy (DOE) devised the new restrictions to reverse Trump’s action back in April 2022, meanwhile, and adds that Trump himself “was also personally opposed to LED light bulb adoption, remarking in 2019 that they are often more expensive, not good and make him ‘look orange.’” Ah, so that’s it! How can we all properly hate the Left’s Emmanuel Goldstein if we keep seeing him in lighting that doesn’t show him as Bad Orange Man?

The new rules go into effect on Aug. 1, so you still have some time to stock up on the good light bulbs, if you can find any. According to Fox, the DOE “will begin full enforcement of the ban on that date, but it has already urged retailers to begin transitioning away from the light bulb type and, in recent months, begun issuing warning notices to companies.” The way the Biden regime is going, if a store is selling incandescent light bulbs after Aug. 1, watch for ATF or FBI agents to come bursting through the door, armed to the teeth, pointing their guns at dumbfounded, slack-jawed clerks and screaming: “Throw down your light bulb and back away from the cash register!”

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm assures us that all this petty authoritarianism is for our own good: “The lighting industry is already embracing more energy efficient products, and this measure will accelerate progress to deliver the best products to American consumers and build a better and brighter future.” Yeah, authoritarian socialist regimes that arrest their political opponents are always building toward a better future, but it never seems to arrive. Journalist Mindy Robinson tweeted Sunday: “They can make lightbulbs that would last longer than I’ll be alive…but they won’t do it because ‘repeat business.’ Now this tyrannical regime wants to ban incandescents and push LEDs…which are garbage, distort colors, and give people like me headaches.”

Rising gas prices, rising food prices, rising crime, and now enforced harsh lighting in order to feed the regime’s climate fantasies. Are Biden’s handlers intentionally trying to annoy the American people? If they actually had that as a goal, would they be doing anything different from what they’re doing now? It is a constant of history: the Leftist regimes that are the most inhuman and inflict the most suffering upon their own citizens are those that most loudly proclaim how dedicated they are to the welfare of the people and how humane and democratic they are.

That’s why the Soviet Union was the workers’ paradise, and the appalling hellscape that is North Korea calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Biden’s America is not quite that far along yet; we just have the corrupt and authoritarian kleptocrats in Washington constantly nattering at us about how they’re saving “our democracy.” Sure they are. That’s why they’re nodding in approval as the leading critic of the regime is arrested on charges that wouldn’t have gotten anyone else arrested. As we sit in darkness or harsh institutional lighting in our apartments and eat our bugs, we can contemplate how selfless and wonderful the guardians of our democracy really are.

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Kitten

Member
I really hate all of this. I know that I'm preaching to the choir, so to speak, as we all feel the same way. My parents have both passed on in the last 6 months, and to be honest, as much as I miss them terribly, it's a blessing that they won't have to endure the coming darkness. Now we await the Rapture, so that we Christians may be spared as well....
 

Ghoti Ichthus

Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
I have astigmatism, so if the bulb is anything other than an old type incandescent (not the new energy-efficient kind), I can't read because the print is fuzzy, jumps, rotates, swims, etc., and I get a horrible headache. Glasses or contacts don't fix it. Only surgery for cataracts and insertion of a specific type of lens will (according to doc, anyway). Unfortunately, my cataracts aren't anywhere near bad enough for the VA to take care of (yet).

One of the churches I go to has CFLs in some fixtures that makes it impossible for me to use a hymnal or read the Bible along when Scripture is read if I sit in certain seats/areas. Unfortunately, if Dad goes with me, this is where we have to sit because of his rollator and intense fear of getting "something" :mad :cry (worth it for Dad to go with me, though . . . he actually went with me to accept the invitation for anyone in the cogregation to get up and sang the Hallelujah Chorus with the choir on Resurrection Sunday!)

Warm white LEDs aren't as bad as cool LEDS, halogens, "energy-efficient" incandescents, CFLs, or even regular incandescents, but for reading and other similar distance tasks, in the wrong lighting, I'm essentially blind :frown It's even worse than the humming and screeching of every fluorescent bulb (and some LEDs) on the planet. Astigmatism, the completely avoidable, "new" disability, caused by "going green" :mad
 

Ghoti Ichthus

Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
How so, Ghoti? I was born with an astigmatism 64 years ago, well before anybody "went green."

Before the new bulbs, so long as I didn't try to read or use a computer under fluorescents, and the light wasn't extremely bright too bright or too dim, I could read without correction. Glasses or contacts didn't make my astigmatism any better, no matter what we tried, and I don't need correction for anything else). Under the new bulbs, I can't read or use the computer with or without correction. The last eye doc I saw said I'm not the only one of his patients with this problem, but we all have astigmatism. He also said not all of his patients with astigmatism have this problem, just the ones that can't get a good correction [sigh]

I see a new eye doc later this year at the VA, so hoping she has some other ideas.
 

Ghoti Ichthus

Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
GE used to have a light bulb factory in a very poor community in Missouri that provided a lot of decent paying jobs with good benefits and advancement potential. They ended up closing the plant :cry Closing the plant also reduced money going into the municipality :cry
 

Wally

Choose Your Words Carefully...
Manufacturing and raw material processing are root business to many communities.

Pennsylvania still suffers from the fall of steel, coal, railroads, and textiles.

Most of the plants have been closed and turned into stores for hecho en China, or low income apartments for the displaced.

Way to go Brandon.
 

Ghoti Ichthus

Pray so they do not serve alone. Ephesians 6:10-20
Manufacturing and raw material processing are root business to many communities.

Pennsylvania still suffers from the fall of steel, coal, railroads, and textiles.

Most of the plants have been closed and turned into stores for hecho en China, or low income apartments for the displaced.

Way to go Brandon.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before Biden, Trump, or Obama.

Within 24 hours of NAFTA being passed, a cardboard box factory in Pennsylvania was closed and packed on trucks. When the workers came in the next day, they were told they were not being fired or laid off. Their jobs (87 of them) were moving to Mexico and if they wanted to keep them they could move to Mexico and work at the factory for Mexican wages :furious :rant :mad :frust :cry

Ray Stevens' song "sucking Sound" is apropos. Lyrics not available free (copyright), but there are several UTubes (no link per RF rules)

Ross Perot was right in some ways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound

Now, China is finishing and expanding what NAFTA started, and sucking up jobs from Mexico, Taiwan, and various countries throughout the Pacific. Replacing with fentanyl, etc. empire, run by the cartels, who employ gangs and captive local labor
:apostasy :banning :furious :rant :mad :wild :frust :cry


With "everyone" producing and/or on drugs, who will be left to grow and raise food :eek :eek: :eek2


:pray :pray :amen :amen
 

NewWine2020

Well-Known Member
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before Biden, Trump, or Obama.

Within 24 hours of NAFTA being passed, a cardboard box factory in Pennsylvania was closed and packed on trucks. When the workers came in the next day, they were told they were not being fired or laid off. Their jobs (87 of them) were moving to Mexico and if they wanted to keep them they could move to Mexico and work at the factory for Mexican wages :furious :rant :mad :frust :cry

Ray Stevens' song "sucking Sound" is apropos. Lyrics not available free (copyright), but there are several UTubes (no link per RF rules)

Ross Perot was right in some ways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound

Now, China is finishing and expanding what NAFTA started, and sucking up jobs from Mexico, Taiwan, and various countries throughout the Pacific. Replacing with fentanyl, etc. empire, run by the cartels, who employ gangs and captive local labor
:apostasy :banning :furious :rant :mad :wild :frust :cry


With "everyone" producing and/or on drugs, who will be left to grow and raise food :eek :eek: :eek2


:pray :pray :amen :amen
.I loved Ross Perot...shame so many idiot American voters thought he was a crackpot..
 

Andy C

Well-Known Member
.I loved Ross Perot...shame so many idiot American voters thought he was a crackpot..
Yes, the voters were the idiots, not Perot, who handed the win to Clinton by taking 18 percent of the vote, most of which would have voted for the GOP.

It was hard not to like him, but he was definitely a few cards short of a full deck.
 

NewWine2020

Well-Known Member
Yes, the voters were the idiots, not Perot, who handed the win to Clinton by taking 18 percent of the vote, most of which would have voted for the GOP.

It was hard not to like him, but he was definitely a few cards short of a full deck.

You have a very valid point. :) I often roll with my emotions and your perspective is very often the more reasoned, logical counter-point to that. lol.

I really hope that Trump and DeSantis inflated egos don't cause a similar schism in the Repub voting for the 2024 election.
 
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