We've seen that claim again and again!

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Times keeps looking away: We've just returned from a two-block hike to our voting place. Based upon the votes we cast after perhaps a three-minute wait, Harris and Walz will be elected today, along with Senator Alsobrooks.

Kweisi Mfume will return to the House. That said, our focus here will be this:

On a totally separate topic, Kevin Drum has presented (at least) his second post about EV charging stations—and about the ongoing, round-the-clock efforts to misinform us the people. 

Kevin starts in the manner shown below. We're omitting several graphics, which you can see at his site:

EV charging station update

Remember the old meme about how the federal government has spent $7.5 billion on EV charging stations but only three had been built? The meme needs to be updated. As of June, 17 stations have been built:

[Graphic] 

Hmmm. Still not very impressive, is it? But this is like looking at Hoover Dam in 1933 and being indignant that the government has spent a billion dollars and only poured one bucket of concrete.

At this point, we'll offer this:

In fact, we do remember that "old meme" about the EV charging stations! We remember it because we've seen the boys at the Fox News Channel pimp that mandated script again and again and again!

According to the standard messaging, it's just as Kevin relates! According to the children at Fox, the federal government has blown billions of dollars on this project—but almost no charging stations have ever been built!

(Was the number of charging stations as low as three at some point in time? In this report by Kevin from back in July, the number in the standard meme apparently stood at eight.)

We've seen Gutfeld and Watters sell that story again and again and again. As we've noted in the past, we've also seen Gutfeld refer to climate change as a "hoax," but also as "one of the major hoaxes."

That said, Kevin says this messaging about EV stations been nothing but bunk. Continuing directly, he concludes his new report with this:

The EV charging station project was designed from the start to finish in 2030. Here's how it looks if you extrapolate the current growth rate:

[Graphic]

We probably won't hit a thousand stations until the end of 2025. That's just the way exponential growth goes. But like Hoover Dam, the EV project is actually ahead of schedule even though there isn't much to see yet.

A project of this sort can't be accomplished overnight. Today, as back in July, Kevin reports that the project is proceeding as designed, or is perhaps a bit ahead of schedule.

On our own, we know nothing about this topic. That, of course, would also be true of almost everyone else. including the millions of people who (unknowingly) receive their programmed misinformation from the Fox News Channel.

Once again, Kevin is saying that the project in question is actually ahead of schedule. Assuming his report is accurate, Gutfeld and Watters have been misinforming us the people as they've laughed and smirked and chuckled and clowned about the completely ridiculous lack of charging stations which have been built to date.

We've seen this again and again on Fox. We've never seen this conflict reported, or resolved, by the high-minded keepers of the flame at the New York Times.

To appearances, the New York Times simply doesn't want to scuffle with the lesser breed over at Fox. Corporate tools like Gutfeld and Watters are allowed the run of their playpen, as long as they stay Over There, misinforming Red America's voters.

We live in two Americas now. Over there, on the Fox News Channel, the flyweights can do and say whatever they like. Under current arrangements, they 're allowed to behave this way without any fear of correction.

How much are these flyweights paid for this service? It's considered a breach in protocol if you even ask!

(This is a problem at Blue cable too. We'd say it's much worse Over There.)