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PSEUDO-POPULUST?

WEST WING ABBY

COUNTRY WESTERN MUSIC?

CONFED FLAG

trms

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/too-much-right-sees-conservative-base-marks-n1237637

the conservative group called We Build the Wall presented donors with a relatively straightforward idea: it would collect private donations and use the money to build barriers along the U.S./Mexico border. On the surface, the pitch was effective: the outfit raised $25 million for the venture, and donors were assured that every penny would go toward wall construction.

Below the surface, according to federal prosecutors, the operation was a scam. As part of a broad criminal indictment, which included charges against former White House strategist Steve Bannon, prosecutors alleged money was used to pay for "home renovations, payments towards a boat, a luxury S.U.V., a golf cart, jewelry, cosmetic surgery, personal tax payments and credit card debt."

As jarring as these accusations are, there's also a degree of familiarity to the circumstances. As the New York Times' Michelle Goldberg noted in her new column:

Bannon's arrest comes just two weeks after New York's attorney general sought to dissolve the National Rifle Association, claiming that its leadership "looted" it. On Thursday, Politico reported that Jerry Falwell Jr., recently suspended as president of Liberty University, has "repeatedly used a 164-foot yacht owned by NASCAR mogul Rick Hendrick for family vacations after the university committed to a lucrative sponsorship deal with Hendrick Motorsports."

The trifecta is neatly tied together with a common thread: the NRA, Jerry Falwell, and We Build The Wall each stand accused of, among other things, swindling unsuspecting conservatives who put their trust in powerful political voices on the right.

But if the allegations prove true, the perpetrators are hardly the first to try to fleece their own base. It was seven years ago when MSNBC's Chris Hayes wrote, "Much of movement conservatism is a con and the base are the marks."

The observation was true at the time, but it's even more important now.

As regular readers know, many prominent Republican voices --Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, et al. -- have created lucrative mailing lists used for highly dubious purposes. Similarly, the rise of the Tea Party in the Obama era led to the creation of "**scam PAC**s" that targeted conservative donors, but existed "mostly to pad the pockets" of the consultants who ran them.

Donald Trump, not surprisingly, was similarly eager to separate those he perceived as fools from their money, running a fraudulent charitable foundation and creating a fraudulent "university," which was designed to do little more than rip off its "students."

If the latest criminal indictments are accurate, groups like the NRA and We Build The Wall also saw conservatives as suckers.

The Washington Post's Paul Waldman added yesterday, "Conservative operatives such as Bannon have always viewed the right's rank-and-file with utter contempt, as little more than a collection of fools to be taken advantage of."

Similarly, Amanda Carpenter, a conservative who's worked with GOP leaders such as Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz, delivered an important message to the right yesterday: "Conservatives should be very angry. You got used.

dead end, wrong guy

Landon Huffman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon_Huffman

Landon D. Huffman^[1] (born January 30, 1996) is an American esports entrepreneur and professional stock car racing driver. He owns the esports company Total Advantage, and has raced in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and CARS Tour.^[2] He is the son of Robert Huffman.^[3]

Racing career

Gander Outdoors Truck Series

Huffman drove in two races in 2017. He made his Truck Series debut in Bristol, driving the No. 63 truck for MB Motorsports. There he finished 20th.^[4][5] Later that season, he returned at Martinsville, driving the No. 83 truck for MB Motorsports. He improved on his last result, finishing 17th on the lead lap.

On January 22, 2018, NextGen Motorsports announced that the team would like to have Huffman drive between ten and fifteen races in the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season.^[6] However, the deal fell through.

On October 12, 2018, it was announced that Huffman joined Niece Motorsports' No. 38 truck at Martinsville.

In August 2019, Huffman replaced an injured Spencer Boyd in the No. 20 of Young's Motorsports at Eldora.^[7]

Xfinity Series

On January 22, 2018, NextGen Motorsports announced that they would like to have Huffman drive for the team in five 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series events, starting at Bristol in April.^[8] However, the deal never came to fruition.

Spotting

Huffman previously was the spotter for Zane Smith and his MDM Motorsports team in the ARCA Racing Series,^[9] and Anthony Alfredo's MDM entry in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.^[10]

Esports

In 2019, Huffman founded esports team Total Advantage, which competes in Call of Duty games and iRacing Road to Pro.^[11]

Motorsports career results

DAD: Robert Huffman (born March 12, 1968) is a former NASCAR driver from Claremont, North Carolina. He drove in eleven NASCAR Busch series between 1991 and 1993. He next raced two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races in 1997. He returned to the series full-time in 2004; that year he had six Top 10 finishes in 24 (of 25) events to finish 23rd in season points. He most recently drove the No. 12 Toyota Tundra in 2005; he raced in 14 events with two Top 10 finishes.

He also won five championships in NASCAR's Goody's Dash Series. He is also known for campaigning a Toyota on that series, becoming the first successful driver using a Toyota in any NASCAR serie

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/nascar-driver-who-quit-over-confederate-flag-ban-slammed-dems-over-checks-to-illegals/

https://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/08/9369/dirtiest-sport

The Dirtiest Sport

Submitted by Maxwell Abbott on August 13, 2010 - 2:25pm

The recession affected every sector and industry of the economy. Amongst those hardest hit was the sport that some feel rivals baseball as America's pastime: NASCAR. With less spending money in the average American's pocket, all professional sports leagues suffered -- but NASCAR, which experienced tremendous growth in the early 2000s, saw reduced attendance at every race this past year. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that NASCAR added new elements to its races to lure fans into spending huge sums of money once again. The league's executives have cut ticket prices, worked with hotels to waive minimum-stay requirements, and encouraged drivers to be more vocal in criticism of their competition. But as the consequences of the BP oil spill are just beginning to be felt, it is an opportune time to take a closer look at professional stock car racing, the most polluting sport in America by far. Perhaps something should be done to ensure it does not make a return to its glory days.

Massive Numbers

A NASCAR race consists of 43 cars circling a track for between 250 to 500 miles. The NASCAR season consists of 36 "point races," which count towards the Nextel Cup, and "non-point races" for up-and-coming drivers who have not qualified to compete for the cup. In addition, there are practice-races before each official race. These numbers may not seem to shocking on their own, but when one considers that each stock car in the race gets only five miles per gallon, the harm done to the environment by this sport becomes more apparent. Most street cars operate at about 20 miles per gallon and some hybrid cars top out at 60 miles per gallon. But it just wouldn't be fun unless NASCAR can burn off 2 million gallons of gasoline per year at this ridiculous mileage rate. The carbon footprint of NASCAR is equally amazing. In one weekend, 120,000 pounds of carbon dioxide are emitted. That number is equivalent to the yearly footprint of three average houses. The gasoline burned also contains particulate matter, sulfur oxides and a host of other pollutants that destroy air quality.

A Free Ride

Since its inception, NASCAR has not received adequate scrutiny for the environmental impact it causes. There seem to be more positive references to NASCAR (including conservative romanticizing of NASCAR dads) than there are serious investigations into the problems associated with the sport. What is most striking is that NASCAR stock cars are unregulated by Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA mandates certain levels of of cleanliness from everyday passenger cars, but NASCAR cars have been granted a loophole and can spew toxins in the air without using mufflers, catalytic converters or any sort of emissions control devices. All that matters to NASCAR and its fans is speed, and the government has turned a blind eye to the amount of pollutants these cars are allowed to generate. Maybe NASCAR will never recover from the recession and become a relic of the ancient past, like Roman Gladiators. If this destructive sport does rebound, the very least we should ask is for a sensible set of regulations that will bring these toxic machines under the control of technology that can make a big difference to the well-being of the planet, and our lungs.

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https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/nascar-environment1.htm

When you see a car doing dozens of laps at close to 200 mph (322 kph), it becomes pretty obvious that aside from the internal-combustion thing going on under the hood, a race car has little in common with the cars we drive to work. But there are more differences than meet the eye.

First, all that power means the gas in the tank doesn't go far. While many commuters grumble if their car gets less than 20 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, and some cars out there get 50 mpg, 5 miles per gallon is standard for a NASCAR car. Also, the devices that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated on normal cars to keep emissions to a safe level, like catalytic converters, are not built into race cars. NASCAR race cars are only regulated by NASCAR.

:{This all adds up to some serious fuel consumption. In a single typical NASCAR race weekend, with more than 40 cars at high speeds for 500 miles (804 kilometers) -- plus practice laps -- at 5 mpg of gas, you're looking at, conservatively, about 6,000 gallons (22,712 liters) of fuel source: :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:[Finney:{]. Each gallon burned emits about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of carbon dioxide, so that's about }:120,000 pounds (54,431 kilograms) of CO₂ for a race weekend:{ source: :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:[FuelEconomy:{].}::{ Multiply that by roughly 35 races per year, and NASCAR's annual carbon footprint is in the area of 4 million pounds}::{ (1.8 million kilograms).}:

Yes, that's a lot. The energy expended in one race could power more than three houses or drive seven cars for a whole year source: [Shelby]. But is it a lot in the grand scheme of things?

It depends on how you look at it. That 6,000 gallons (22,712 liters) of gas over two days starts to look somewhat reasonable when you consider that the United States eats up about 400 million gallons (1.5 billion liters) per day, any old day of the year source: [Finney]. And 4 million pounds a year doesn't seem like much compared to the world's 6 billion tons (5.4 billion metric tons) of CO₂ emissions every year, or the 1 million tons (907,184 metric tons) emitted for the one day of the 2005 Super Bowl source: [Fulton].

But it's an extravagantly high number next to the 45,000 pounds (20,411 kilograms) of CO₂ the average American life emits in a whole year.

So where does that leave us? With a sport that, while it may not be single-handedly sending the human race into a warm extinction, could definitely use some greening up. And change is actually not that far ...