Indeed, people should take in the full context here, not just platitudes. They should look at how China has interacted with Europe and the US in the context of world wars, trade wars, cultural exchange and economic interdependence. ...then they should call Xi on his tantrums and fragility. He chooses to be this way.

Not sure who you're railing against, because you are incorrect as far as the US goes.

In the US, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 obligated the Department of Energy to provide long-term storage of nuclear waste, and it funded this mandate with a per-kilowatt-hour tax on nuclear fuel. The funds thus collected paid for about 75% of the Yucca mountain facility construction, with the other 25% paid by the federal government in order to store waste products of nuclear weapons production.

The fund collected from these taxes currently stands at about $45 billion dollars. With the delays in opening Yucca mountain, nuclear waste from energy production is currently sitting around the country in dry fuel storage facilities at individual nuclear sites.

Let's split this cake the old-fashioned way. You get your anti-hate speech laws, and then I get to define what constitutes hate speech.

Oh? You thought to keep all this power to yourself?

You prove my point. You have only accused. You have no substance.

I found a USA today article with the quote you cited in it, and the article says why: They claimed they couldn't come up with $8,000,000 to do so, and they sought money from the community to do the work. Doing some back of the envelope calcs about the potential revenue from a 4.8 MW hydro plant, and knowing nothing about Boyce's other holdings, this is a credible claim on it's face. Certainly after their ability to sell electricity as a FERC participant was terminated, their financial abilities decreased further.

But if you're trying to let the governor off the hook, the USA Today article you cited has another interesting quote:
"With its power permit revoked, the Edenville Dam's regulation fell to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. However, an EGLE inspection of the dam in October 2018 found it in "fair" condition, despite FERC's alarming findings only about a month earlier."

'Dog whistling' is the new version of 'THAT'S RACIST'; it's the argument of last resort when the lefty has no real arguments for their position.

Since there's no basis for the charge of 'dog whistling' besides the sentiment of the accuser, it can only be an attempt to shut down all conversation through shaming.

For everyone else reading, if someone accuses you of being racist or engaging in 'racist dog-whistling', thank them for their surrender in the current debate. It's just another ad-homonym attack when they've run out of intelligently founded arguments.

I swear some of these people have been pathologically conditioned to fall back on 'RACIST' whenever their destructive ideas are effectively challenged.

Because the federal government tries to 'help' by making more money available, by way of grants and low-interest, unbankruptle loans, which has enabled colleges to raise prices by the amount of the 'help.'
The money available by this 'help' has increased at a rate far above inflation, so the cost of colleges has likewise increased. Sure, most of the colleges involved are 'non-profit', but the people running them still like high salaries, huge staffs, and fancy buildings.

Then, I suppose, the question is this- Are you going to build a legacy your kids can build further from? Or are you going to contribute to class warfare and jealousy, and ensure no crabs get out of the bucket?

So, if you're out looking to hurt someone, then you select an unarmed driver. It makes victim selection so much easier.

Statements like yours baffle me. Do you think the only dangerous people out there are law abiding citizens who own firearms? You do know there are real, actual people out there with evil in their hearts who look to do terrible things to others?

Owning a gun to protect yourself from such evil is a legitimate and even desirable thing. Some people are only kept in check by the prospect of an immediate, lethal response to the wickedness they'd like to do. And if they aren't stopped by the prospect of an armed response, they may well be stopped by that actual armed response. Usually an armed response doesn't end with someone dying; the credible threat is enough.

Well, clearly, 'sod off' would have been much more succinct. Aren't you going to tell me your country so I can tell you everything wrong with it?
Happy New Year!

I'll take that as a yes, you live among Democrats in a Democratic party controlled area. You're surrounded by lefties, and you're all terrible to each other.
Your politics requires that you view yourself as more moral then anyone who disagrees with you, so if all you progs are vicious and nasty to each other, you must believe that people you disagree with are far, far worse.
May this haze of hate leave you sooner rather than later.

How about you tell me your country, and I'll tell you all it's faults and what I think of your leaders. Then you can tell me how much of a rat's ass you give about my opinion.
Then you might realize I'm similarly unconcerned with your evaluation of my nation.

Maybe were you live. Some of us live in places with decent, honorable people. We much prefer it. Do you happen to live in a large city controlled by Democrats?

... of the Last Jedi, because they're the end customers. The product was purportedly made for them.
If the customers aren't happy the product is bad. And The Last Jedi was bad. The writers, producer and director made it perfectly clear they hate Star Wars, they hate the fans, and they really hate men.
May the film be remade and the producer and directors names be stricken from Star Wars history.
The Rise of Skywalker would have been better if they didn't lose so much time cleaning up the mess of Episode 8.

He's 'transphobic' only if you redefine 'phobia' to include 'dislike' and 'disagreement' on top of the actual definition of 'irrational fear.'
That points to a big problem these days. The hard left keeps redefining words to ensure their innocence and every one else's guilt. When you're talking to someone who is 'woke' you can't be sure there's agreement on the meaning of words, let alone anything else, so piercing their newspeak becomes damn near impossible.