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You are here: Home / War in Ukraine / President Zelensky To Address the House of Commons at noon Eastern + Biden Announces New Actions (LIVE)

President Zelensky To Address the House of Commons at noon Eastern + Biden Announces New Actions (LIVE)

by WaterGirl|  March 8, 202211:30 am| 98 Comments

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President Zelensky is set to address the House of Commons at noon Eastern time.

It sounds like there will be live simultaneous translation via headphones for the House of Commons.  I am assuming that there will be subtitles on here, but I don’t know for sure.

This one for sure has English in the feed.

ETA: Also, President Biden is set to announce new actions to continue to hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine.

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  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    March 8, 2022 at 11:37 am

    I hope there are subtitles!

    if not and you find a link where it is simultaneously translated or one that has subtitles, please add the link in the comments. I am in the parking lit at the vet school where they are trying to get Henry’s allergies figured out, so I’m not doing a lot of googling.

  2. 2.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 11:43 am

    Why the NYTimes needs to die an ignominious death, installment #312,589. Hed on an article yesterday “Zelensky is seen in his office in Kyiv for the first time since invasion began.” Written by “breaking news reporter” Jesus Jiménez, sitting comfortably in NY, presumably having never set foot in Kyiv, where Zelensky has been – obviously and publicly – every fucking day since the Russian war of genocide began. Having been called out on Twitter a couple of thousand times, @jesus_jimz has done precisely what you would expect from a NYT reporter: nothing. No retraction, no correction, no “hey, maybe I misunderstood the situation.” The NYT of Walter Duranty is back, baby!

  3. 3.

    zhena gogolia

    March 8, 2022 at 11:47 am

    @Gin & Tonic: Wow. They’re outdoing themselves.

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    March 8, 2022 at 11:47 am

    @Gin & Tonic: The entire organization is allergic to introspection, from top to bottom. They must either hire for that trait or drill it into every new hire’s brain during the onboarding process.

  5. 5.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 11:49 am

    The UN is no better:

    The United Nations died in 1991 when the so-called Russian Federation usurped the seat that belonged to the USSR.

    Today, the moldering corpse of the UN twitched in its grave. pic.twitter.com/X5AZFKsBKy
    — Michael MacKay (@mhmck) March 8, 2022

  6. 6.

    japa21

    March 8, 2022 at 11:49 am

    @Gin & Tonic:  How can somebody lead a country if he is not sitting in his actual office? The stupidity hurts.

  7. 7.

    Yarrow

    March 8, 2022 at 11:51 am

    I hope he tears the current British government a new one. They deserve it for their pathetic sanctions on Russian oligarchs (sanctioning very few of them), the fact they’ve given oligarchs 30 days to move their money out of the UK, and their appalling response to the Ukrainian refugees (“You need a visa! The visa office is closed!”).

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    March 8, 2022 at 11:53 am

    @Betty Cracker: Betty, could you please add this to the post up top? I just sent you email.

    https://youtu.be/riIbml4OyOY

    still in the parking lot with no mobile access to the back end. I guess I should remedy that!

  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    March 8, 2022 at 11:56 am

    @Gin & Tonic: I saw the photo earlier and thought WTF….  x 1 million

  10. 10.

    Cameron

    March 8, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: What, by next week it will be ‘The War of Ukrainian Aggression?”

  11. 11.

    citizen dave

    March 8, 2022 at 12:03 pm

    Subtitles from English to American?

     

    Hear hear!

  12. 12.

    schrodingers_cat

    March 8, 2022 at 12:03 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Back? It never left. They have been making excuses for despots since forever.

  13. 13.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 8, 2022 at 12:04 pm

    @Cameron:

    “How dare them commit the war crime of fighting back.”

  14. 14.

    Yarrow

    March 8, 2022 at 12:07 pm

    If they do this they’re going to get a bargain.

    EXCLUSIVE: China considers buying or increasing stakes in Russian energy and commodities companies, such as gas giant Gazprom https://t.co/IRyrkzwJCA
    — Bloomberg (@business) March 8, 2022

  15. 15.

    citizen dave

    March 8, 2022 at 12:07 pm

    On my cell at least, Zelensky’s english is being crowded out by the simultaneous Ukranian translation.

  16. 16.

    Sloane Ranger

    March 8, 2022 at 12:08 pm

    There’s live translation. But I’m sure anyone watching will already have worked that out

    They were running the translation at the same sound level as Zelinsky’s speech but have since muted the President so English speakers can hear the translation.

  17. 17.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    March 8, 2022 at 12:08 pm

    Friend I’m staying with returned from the gym and announced that, because of the Russian oil cutoff, we were going to costco right that minute to gas up my car for the return trip. The line there wasn’t too bad–three or four cars. Gas was just under $4 for costco members, which she is

  18. 18.

    Alison Rose ???

    March 8, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    Hmmm…can barely hear the translation, to the point that I can’t even tell if it’s English being spoken by the second person. Hopefully there will be a post-live version with subtitles

  19. 19.

    Alce_e_ardillo

    March 8, 2022 at 12:10 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Has he started whining about how the little people have no idea how hard he works flipping through rolodexes, and collecting quotes from spokespersons on background?

  20. 20.

    Sloane Ranger

    March 8, 2022 at 12:12 pm

    Ooh! Channelling Churchill just a bit there.

    Calling for increased sanctions from UK, but thanking him for what he’s done so far.

    Speech bookended by standing ovations.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    March 8, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    This isn’t the oil embargo of the 70s.

  22. 22.

    john b

    March 8, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    from below (because of course a new thread appears as soon as I decide to reply to someone):

    @Starfish: NEW: McConnell is forcefully opposing a provision in the omnibus spending bill that would extend waivers that have allowed schools to serve universal free meals during the pandemic, per sources close to the talks.

    I know this is from hours ago now, but this has been such an unmitigated good from the pandemic. Eliminating the barrier / stigma to ensuring kids get fed at school is such a cheap way to improve / simplify the lives of kids and families. Of course McConnell / the GOP oppose it.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    March 8, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    @john b:

    Righties ♥️ stigma.

  24. 24.

    ETtheLibrarian

    March 8, 2022 at 12:16 pm

    The thing about really being f**ked is that it can free you throw away some of the conventional niceties and strictures people (and yourself) place on one’s actions and it can just mean going all out and doing whatever needs to be done.

  25. 25.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 8, 2022 at 12:17 pm

    Reuters has just the English translator in its video feed.

  26. 26.

    Raoul Paste

    March 8, 2022 at 12:19 pm

    A recent image of Zelensky  showed him with dark circles under his eyes.  It’s worrying, and it definitely contrasts with the comfortable politicians sitting in Parliament

  27. 27.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    March 8, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    @Baud: The oil companies are engaged in war profiteering as far as I’m concerned

  28. 28.

    Baud

    March 8, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Why let a good war go to waste?

  29. 29.

    Jeffro

    March 8, 2022 at 12:37 pm

    Looking forward to the Fox unholy trio (Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham) tonight…the topic: “Why Biden Banning Russian Oil Isn’t REALLY About Helping Ukraine”.

    subtext: “It’s ALLLLLLLL about sticking it to oil companies and ushering in the soshulist Green New Deal”

    Nickel bet.

  30. 30.

    MisterForkbeard

    March 8, 2022 at 12:39 pm

    @john b: We send our kids to school with lunch every day, and they take advantage of this once or twice a week. It’s just normal to them now – they have options, and lots of kids eat school lunch

    No stigma at all.

  31. 31.

    Kay

    March 8, 2022 at 12:41 pm

    Glenn Greenwald
    @ggreenwald
    ·Mar 7
    From a Feb. 23 poll, just over 2 weeks ago: “A majority of Americans oppose a major US role in the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia.”
    When both parties’ leaders fully unite in messaging with almost all of the US corporate media, it’s potent.

    When the polling supports Glenn Greenwald’s position- a bad poll for Biden for example, which he gleefully cites- it’s the organic, unmediated expression of the views of the American People. When the polling doesn’t support his position it’s a manipulated result based on “corporate media”.
    The “corporate media” influence is very selective.

  32. 32.

    catclub

    March 8, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: ummm. Oil prices are fairly transparent.  The spot market price is effectively the acquisition price for the refinery.

    Are you suggesting that oil companies SET the spot market price? I don’t think they do.

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    Proud Boys leader just indicted on Jan. 6 conspiracy charges.

  34. 34.

    Kay

    March 8, 2022 at 12:47 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    I was on a school council for years and honestly it doesn’t make a lot of sense to charge them. When I was there there were three categories- free, reduced and full price and just setting those up at the start of every year was a PITA. Then there are the accounts and monitoring the delinquent accounts and carrying the fucking delinquent accounts over to the next year and then putting in the various escalating sanctions – it’s dumb. Let’s stop making people do dumb useless work.

  35. 35.

    Calouste

    March 8, 2022 at 12:48 pm

    @Yarrow: You’d think the Moscow Stock Exchange would have to reopen for that first, and that hasn’t happened yet. It was closed yesterday and today because of International Women’s Day, so maybe tomorrow.

  36. 36.

    Calouste

    March 8, 2022 at 12:49 pm

    @Kay: Two weeks ago was a different world.

  37. 37.

    MisterForkbeard

    March 8, 2022 at 12:50 pm

    @Kay: Yep. Just fund the thing, let schools actually do their jobs: school kids.

  38. 38.

    zhena gogolia

    March 8, 2022 at 12:52 pm

    @Kay: Oh, fuck, you mean our local commenter didn’t write that? It’s fucking real? For reals?

    ETA: I take back any time I complained to that commenter for making up GG quotes.

  39. 39.

    Yarrow

    March 8, 2022 at 12:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Surprise, surprise…

    IMPORTANT: Prosecutors say TARRIO met with Oath Keepers leader STEWART RHODES in “an underground parking garage” on Jan. 5.

    Rhodes was charged with seditious conspiracy in January. https://t.co/5isNArSJpc pic.twitter.com/CEIpGrhOI4
    — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 8, 2022

  40. 40.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2022 at 12:53 pm

    @MisterForkbeard: I wonder how the opinion on getting involved in a major international crisis changed in the US from 11/30/1941 to 12/08/1941.

  41. 41.

    Sebastian

    March 8, 2022 at 12:54 pm

    Slava Ukraini! Saint Javelin, watch over the heroes!

  42. 42.

    JanieM

    March 8, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    @Kay: Yeah, “ongoing tensions.” To call them weasel words would be an insult to weasels, never mind the rest.

  43. 43.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 8, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    @Yarrow:

    “Ni hau – I’ll give you 43 Renminbi and some pocket lint for a controlling share of Gazprom. Deal?”

  44. 44.

    zhena gogolia

    March 8, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: See Kay’s #31 and my #38.

  45. 45.

    Yarrow

    March 8, 2022 at 12:58 pm

    @Kay:  Greenwald is pretty predictable with this stuff and has been for ages. He’s got lots (lots!) of words that can be boiled down to Republicans/Putin/some leftists/authoritarians = good and Democrats = bad.

  46. 46.

    Baud

    March 8, 2022 at 12:58 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    ?

  47. 47.

    MisterForkbeard

    March 8, 2022 at 1:01 pm

    @Yarrow: Greenwald’s “Good Leftists” is anyone willing to kneecap Democrats or attack Biden.

  48. 48.

    Kay

    March 8, 2022 at 1:02 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    He’s kind of scraping the bottom. He’s featuring that Fox News general now.

    It’s amusing to me because Zelensky himself is the best argument for the validity and authenticity of an independent Ukraine. He behaves like a democratic leader who assumes he has to govern by consent. He persuades. Over and over and over, to really any audience he can find. This is someone who thinks he can get you over to his side without arresting you. Compare to…. the other one.

  49. 49.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 1:04 pm

    More of this, please: Italian fascist Matteo Salvini goes to Przemysl, Poland, to pretend to express concern for refugees. The Mayor is having none of it.

    https://t.co/mzZ5H0SKln
    — Jack L Cargill (@JackLCargill1) March 8, 2022

  50. 50.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 8, 2022 at 1:04 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    *chuckle*

    I always knew.

  51. 51.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 1:05 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yeah, I’m thinking another month of this and China buys Russia for pennies on the dollar.

  52. 52.

    Kay

    March 8, 2022 at 1:07 pm

    Here’s Glenn’s expert:

    Julia Davis
    @JuliaDavisNews
    · Mar 6
    #Russia’s state TV keeps broadcasting clips of @FoxNews repeatedly inviting retired Army Col. Doug Macgregor (who gave multiple interviews to the Russian state media in the past). He does nothing but bash Ukraine & defend Russian “interests.” Very useful for Putin’s war efforts.

    I thought we had to know who was paying retired generals who appear on cable?!? No more?

  53. 53.

    Jackie

    March 8, 2022 at 1:07 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: We topped off the tanks Sat. Long lines at Costco, but apparently the majority were also topping off, as the lines moved rapidly.

  54. 54.

    debbie

    March 8, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    There was a clip on Twitter yesterday or the day before where Zelensky starts by saying he’s back in his office. I’d bet that reporter took that a bit too literally. ??‍♀️

  55. 55.

    debbie

    March 8, 2022 at 1:13 pm

    @Jackie:

    I topped off this morning only because I didn’t want to lose any expiring discount points.

  56. 56.

    Gravenstone

    March 8, 2022 at 1:14 pm

    @Kay: Gee Glenn, it’s almost like something might have happened a couple weeks ago or so that might, maybe, just possibly have swayed public opinion towards getting involved. Inconceivable, I know…

  57. 57.

    Jeffro

    March 8, 2022 at 1:15 pm

    Help America out by doing your part now, snooze media!  Plenty of opportunities to report on:

    • oil company profits
    • green energy initiatives, savings, and the potential for tens of thousands of new, not-exportable jobs
    • how domestic energy independence promotes our national security

    What’s that?  Too busy taking stenography from Big Oil, the RNC, and Fox news?  Oh well…maybe next time!

  58. 58.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 8, 2022 at 1:15 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Wonder how much those 50+ year old Russians I saw interviewed who are so affirming of whatever Putin does are going to enjoy learning a servile form of Mandarin?

  59. 59.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 1:17 pm

    @Kay: I think an Army that promotes people like Doug Macgregor and Mike Flynn to General level needs to take a long, hard look at its personnel practices.

  60. 60.

    raven

    March 8, 2022 at 1:20 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Or makes Rusty Calley an officer.

  61. 61.

    geg6

    March 8, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Shockingly, I saw report on our local CBS station (owned by the network, no less) that actually discussed your second two bullets.  No mention at all of the first, though.

  62. 62.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: 50+ year olds? Try 20 year olds:

    “we are not fascists! the ukrainians are the nazis! and here’s the video to prove i—ooooooh, okay. right right right right right.” pic.twitter.com/xBdH8d0NoY
    — Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) March 5, 2022

  63. 63.

    dm

    March 8, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: When it happens we’ll start to wonder if Xi got Putin to delay the invasion until after the Olympics in part because he knew mud-season would be underway and he was hoping Putin’s military would get bogged down (at the other end of the continent — bonus!).

    Of course, Xi is no doubt in favor of Putin’s success, because he has his own bit of territory off the coast that he’d like to “reclaim”.

  64. 64.

    raven

    March 8, 2022 at 1:21 pm

    @Jackie: I went to the VA hospital in Augusta last Thursday and the line at the Costco was huge. All the sudden our 50 mpg Kia Niro is looking better and better.

  65. 65.

    Soprano2

    March 8, 2022 at 1:25 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: How do you explain their blatant profiteering before war broke out? I think they’ve been profiteering since sometime in 2021. They’re trying to make back the money they didn’t make in 2020.

  66. 66.

    Spanky

    March 8, 2022 at 1:25 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    still in the parking lot with no mobile access to the back end

    I had dates in high school like that.

  67. 67.

    debbie

    March 8, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    @dm:

    Doubtful. It seems more likely Xi’s rooting for injuries to all involved parties.

  68. 68.

    geg6

    March 8, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    @raven:

    Yep, my Jetta and my 2 1/2 mile commute to campus is looking pretty damn good right about now.  I hate living here in suburban hell but right now it’s convenient and cheap.

  69. 69.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 8, 2022 at 1:30 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    “When your gym keeps PEDs in giant bowls next to the lift stations….”

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2022 at 1:32 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: To be fair, Doug stalled out at Colonel.  It is interesting that MacGregor and McMaster both got their inititial fame and reputations from their performance in 2/2ACR during the 1991 Gulf War.  MAJ MacGregor was the squadron operations officer and CPT McMaster was a troop commander. Both went on to write books critical of army brass and gain reputations as innovators.  Both also did well as armor commanders in the initial phases of the Iraq War.  I think both peaked as operational commanders and field grade officers.  Neither turned out to be a great strategist.

  71. 71.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    March 8, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    All joking aside, I wonder how much those folks are going to enjoy being conscripted in order to operate the broken down dregs of 50s and 60s era hardware?

  72. 72.

    Soprano2

    March 8, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Part of me feels sorry for people having to buy lots of gas – I was in a conversation this morning where people were talking about paying $60 or more to fill up their tank, and that was before yesterday’s increase from $3.59 to $3.79, which will probably be $3.99 by the time I go home. Part of me wants to say snarkily “Well, no one made you buy that 8 mpg gas hog that you really don’t need, or live out 30 miles from town” (lots of city employees don’t actually live in the city where they work – they think it’s way too dangerous here *rolleyes*, or they just like being in the country).” I interjected the idea that maybe we need to get completely off gasoline and go toward electric powered vehicles. Most of them don’t actually need those big pickups or SUV’s, they just like having something big. One of our supervisors has a little tiny car that’s not quite a Smart car – he’ll be smiling for awhile.

  73. 73.

    Geminid

    March 8, 2022 at 1:38 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’ve read that Michael Flynn was an efficient intelligence staffer when he had McChrystal overseeing him. When they put him on his own as DIA chief he was intolerable to work with.

  74. 74.

    Spanky

    March 8, 2022 at 1:40 pm

    I saw this morning that in our little Tidewater corner of the People’s Republic of Maryland Except Don’t Mind The Governor, regular gas was $4.19 for the 4 stations I went past. You can subtract 3 or more cents/gal for the various discounts, but definitely getting up there.

  75. 75.

    geg6

    March 8, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    @Spanky: ​
     
    That’s about where our prices are here in WPA. I have my Giant Eagle points that will get me 60 cents off a gallon, though.

  76. 76.

    Jeffro

    March 8, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    @geg6: whaaaaat?  no way!

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    March 8, 2022 at 1:45 pm

    @Geminid: I really do think that a lot of these guys functioned under the external discipline of the military.  Once they were out, they couldn’t function normally.  They were “institutionalized” in the Shawshank sense.

  78. 78.

    Geminid

    March 8, 2022 at 1:51 pm

    @debbie: Xi does want a revived JCPOA to limit Iran’s nuclear program. I think he’s going to get it, maybe by this weekend.

  79. 79.

    debbie

    March 8, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    @Geminid:

    There’s more plotting and conniving than Agatha Christie could ever have imagined.

  80. 80.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 8, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    @raven: Yeah, but a 1LT you can fuck up, and figure it out eventually. A General means you’ve been there for decades and have undergone countless promotion reviews. Figuring out that he’s loyal to an adversary, after he’s retired, is a little late.

  81. 81.

    Miss Bianca

    March 8, 2022 at 2:07 pm

    @geg6: Baby steps, baby steps…

  82. 82.

    Baud

    March 8, 2022 at 2:12 pm

    @Geminid:

    Will we get more Iranian oil as a result?  That could be useful right now.

  83. 83.

    James E Powell

    March 8, 2022 at 2:16 pm

    @Jackie:

    Everybody deciding to “top off” at the same time is the surest way to cause a shortage & panic.

  84. 84.

    Geminid

    March 8, 2022 at 2:17 pm

    @Baud: Iran will export more oil, although it may take a while for them to gear up production. I’ve read that they have a lot stored up on land and in ships, waiting for the green light.

  85. 85.

    The Moar You Know

    March 8, 2022 at 2:20 pm

    regular gas was $4.19 for the 4 stations I went past. 

    @Spanky: I’d take that.  It’s a minimum of $5.49 in San Diego since yesterday.  That’s for regular.

  86. 86.

    Baud

    March 8, 2022 at 2:23 pm

    @Geminid: Nice.

  87. 87.

    Geminid

    March 8, 2022 at 2:27 pm

    @Geminid:

     

    @Baud: Also, not all U.S. sanctions will be lifted immediately. For instance, I think some of them are tied the first stage of the agreement, where Iran has to give up most of their 7200 lbs. of enriched uranium, including the portion enriched to 60% U-235.

  88. 88.

    Stuart Frasier

    March 8, 2022 at 2:32 pm

    This is your periodic reminder that getting off fossil fuels will cut off the power of rogue states such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Texas.  Electric cars are cheaper to operate and nicer to drive.  You can do your best smug liberal impression as you drive past the gas station.

  89. 89.

    Geminid

    March 8, 2022 at 2:54 pm

    @Baud: U.S. officials visited Venezuela recently, talking with their Venezuelan counterparts about increasing that country’s oil production. That would be a medium and long range project. Venezuela has very large reserves, but their infrastructure is decrepit. Also, the oil is very heavy and requires a special refinery setup.

  90. 90.

    WaterGirl

    March 8, 2022 at 3:10 pm

    @Spanky: I’m just gonna let that pass right on by.  :-)

  91. 91.

    patroclus

    March 8, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    I think it’s amazing that Zelenskyy totally aped Churchill’s most famous address ever – the 6/4/40 “we shall fight on the beaches” speech that he gave after Dunkirk that rallied America to enact the Two Ocean Navy Act, pass a peacetime draft, do the destroyer-for-bases deal, pass the first massive appropriations bill and, ultimately to enact lend-lease.  Perhaps the most powerful rhetoric ever and Zelenskyy just channeled it a few hours ago.

  92. 92.

    Kay

    March 8, 2022 at 3:14 pm

    @Stuart Frasier:

    Love my electric mower. I’m almost ready for an electric car. It has to be used though :)

  93. 93.

    Aziz, light!

    March 8, 2022 at 3:21 pm

    @Stuart Frasier: Be sure to let us know when no coal or natural gas is used to generate electricity.

  94. 94.

    patroclus

    March 8, 2022 at 3:27 pm

    @patroclus: And the invocation of Shakespeare with the “to be or not to be” quote was particularly apt as well.  The Commons was enraptured – there is a rule in parliament that there can be no applause (which is why you always hear “hear hear” and other non-clapping), but he got two standing ovations and everyone was tremendously moved.

  95. 95.

    Rand Careaga

    March 8, 2022 at 3:32 pm

    @The Moar You Know: I passed a Shell station in Oakland yesterday. Premium was going for $6.29.

  96. 96.

    Geminid

    March 8, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    • @Aziz, light!:

    @Aziz, light!: I read that renewable sources exceeded 95% of Scotland’s consumption last year. Transitioning to renewable electricity is not that heavy a lift now. It’s heavy transport and industrial sources of carbon emmissions that are tge tough problems.

  97. 97.

    Stuart Frasier

    March 8, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    @Aziz, light!: 
    Electric cars use less fossil fuels than gas cars even when the grid is relatively dirty. The average equivalent emissions for an EV in the US was 88mpg in 2018. The best thing about electric cars is that they get cleaner as the grid does, unlike gas cars that pollute more as they age.

  98. 98.

    Aziz, light!

    March 8, 2022 at 3:44 pm

    @Stuart Frasier: Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for EVs replacing ICEs, but we are a long way from eliminating the 61% of our power generation from fossil fuels. We also need a great many more charging stations (not just in big cities/interstate highways) and longer EV ranges to make this transition possible.

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