Mastodawn

Every pro-renewables politician should be working at 100% capacity to flip the "the greens are making your life more expensive" narrative into "the fossil fuel lobbyists are making your life more expensive" right now, but I fear our side is too nice to effectively exploit a situation like this

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Veza85UE Mar 20

@Techaltar ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

https://social.heise.de/@heiseautos/116261010832945910

@Veza85UE sigh...

@Techaltar Imagine thinking for a second that Manfred WEBER would ever honour this or any deal with them. If you want to use 2035 as leverage on the EPP (as dumb as it is to cling to internal combustion), start with demanding they defenestrate Weber as a *starting point*.

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TechAltar Mar 20

@Veza85UE I don't know enough about EU politics to answer intelligently here 😅

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Veza85UE Mar 20

@Techaltar The origin story of his failure to become EU Commission President. He's now a bitter, resentful husk who will stop at nothing to claw back some semblance of relevance. The EP Greens and German Greens in particular do know all this though, which makes their dumbo behaviour here even more frustrating.

https://index.hu/english/2019/03/20/epp_fidesz_red_line_expulsion_viktor_orban_manfred_weber_joseph_daul_manfred_weber/

Of Red Lines and Red Herrings: The EPP’s Delusions about Restraining Orbán

Of Red Lines and Red Herrings: The EPP’s Delusions about Restraining Orbán - The EPP recently got tough on Fidesz, even though the group has legitimated and sanitized Orbán's rule for years, even as it descended into autocracy.

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