The thought process behind this would also justify higher prices for food, medical care and other services based in your income.

Stella!!??? is that you?

Funny, I looked for that phrase, "political speech", in the text of the 1st...didn't find it.

You're just sucking up to the American people.

But that's the point. It's the linguistic equivalent of relative morality. If there not a single morality, then there is no morality. If there are no fixed and unchanging rules, then there may as well be no rules. A common frame of reference is required.

How would a physics work if the rules of physics changed at the whim of the physicist? How could programmers work if they were able to change the syntax on a whim? When they do, they call it a new language.

If you don't follow the rules, then you can't order chicken or fish

Why they ain't be nothing such as "Proper English"

...is no Language.

Fracking will come and go with the price of a barrel, true, but it will always be here, just waiting to pound down prices when they start back up.

You may have missed it, but there's this whole thing called Fracking which pretty much upped our output to the same level as Saudi Arabia, give or take a few hundred thousand barrels.

...These kinds of finds are just fueling stations for future inter-planetary ships.

I support a bounty on cats.

Especially my ex-wife's cat that pissed everywhere.

You just wait until my big brother Fusion shows up. He'll kick all of ya'lls asses!

He said he'd be here any decade now.

This is an implicit acknowledgement that he could, under these new regs, if he wanted.

1. Heavily regulate coal, increasing costs.
2. Force plants to close, decreasing generating capacity.
3. Crow about the fact that Solar out generated coal and is cost competitive.

Solar hasn't improved. Coal has been artificially handicapped.

Mmm....breasts.