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Here's a list of French Dictators since the French Revolution:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis-Napolon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)
Philippe Ptain
Charles de Gaulle
Here's a list of American Dictators since the American Revolution:
.Charles de Gaulle was never a dictator and even decided to leave presidence, when Trump is kind of, when he fucked your constitution, capitol and police. Trump give a so shameful image of USA in front of the world, except for his bad friends.
GDP per capita:
USA $69,231.
France: $41,500.
Car ownership rate:
USA 0.88/ person.
France 0.6/ person.
Average home size:
USA 2500 square feet.
France 1200 square feet.
Percentage of population with air conditioning:
USA 90%.
France 20%.
Percentage of population with a university degree:
USA 44%.
France 32%.
Investment in New Technologies:
USA 5. 6% of GDP.
France 2. 5% of GDP.University degree don t mean being clever, to elect Trump for second time, nor to perform in life. Facts are USA threaten blackmail to rob Ukraine and try same with Greenland, when little France is number 1 for tourism, showing culture and way of life aura and try to help Ukraine, working with EU and UK, so I m much more proud to be 100% french since Charles Martel in 732 , when I would feel so shameful to be American, but was happy Vance was insulted in Vermont, go to ski in Russia and suck Putin. Tok tok, X, insta, snap, face de bouc are just shit to lower people brain for me and when I had 2 cars I really liked, I understood I couldn t drive both at same time, so, rather than EV, Tesla, I chose to buy a so beautiful S5 with white leather, the real one with atmospheric V8 engine and of course with manual gear box for real drivers, clutch having now more than 200000 kms, I don think many reached, Audi are amazed, and I improved engine, with french E85 powering and R8 cup admission, for much more powerful, to aim 300 km / h. Where are EVs and Teslas?
Mandating Electric Vehicles
I worked long and hard on this. I hope you enjoy it. ....
Thanks, I appreciate the effort! And the mandate for consumers buying EVs?
Are you fucking kidding me?
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/20/should-california-back-off-on-2026-zero-emission-car-mandates/
Starting next year, at least 35% of manufacturers' new passenger car and truck sales must be electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids or hydrogen-fuel cell vehicles, known as ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles) for short. The percentages step up each year until hitting 100% in 2035.
If you are going to be that fucking arrogant, here is an idea. Be right once in a while!
(...kkkk!) You guys are too funny!
You both need to need to slow your roll, take a chill pill, take a breather and pay attention!
If either of you had bothered to follow the chain of posts, regarding "mandates", you'd know that, on several other occasions, I've already mentioned (to SubCmdr in a couple different posts) the only mandates I know of are those for the manufacturers, I'm not aware of one mandated for consumers to buy an EV?
Here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2987976&viewfull=1#post2987976
And here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2987163&viewfull=1#post2987163
So when I responded to Elvis 2008's post, it was all w/r to addressing the "BUYING of EVs", when I told him "I don't freakin' care what you wanna drive or buy...", when dear ol' Elvis 2008 responded here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2988256&viewfull=1#post2988256
Now that you know, I was perfectly aware of manufacturer's mandates, please show me a U.S. gov't consumer's mandate to buy EVs?
And as for "fucking arrogant", perish the thought!
PS: Still waiting on that post, where I'm said to have, "jam them down everyone's throat", to buy an EV?
Axel Heyst
03-09-25, 14:02
If Musk is a "racist" you will have to prove it to me because I HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE OF THIS. I understand, however, that this is the latest BS line of attack from the Dems and their talking heads. Business as usual with these fucks. The real question is why is the left so virulently against finding corruption and waste in Gov't spending? Everybody should be interested in exposing and eliminating this crap. The national debt is over 30 trillion and rising. It is becoming a real threat to our very well being. It says a hell of a lot about what the left's priorities truly are. Apparently, they live and breathe on the corruption.
Axel Heyst
03-09-25, 14:23
The French have always been full of themselves. Just compare their revolution to ours. BUT, I do like the look of their women, their baguettes, and some of their truly classic movies. Check out "Mississippi Mermaid" (La sirne du Mississipi) by Franois Truffaut now streaming on Prime, "Daybreak" (LE jour se lve) by Marcel Carne, "The Rules of the Game" (La Aregle du Jeu) by Jean Renoir, "Belle de Jour" by the master Luis Buuel, and Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bete) by Jean Cocteau and you will know what I mean.
(yeah, I know Bunuel was a Spainard, but his masterpiece was made in France.).
GDP per capita:
USA $69,231.
France: $41,500.
Car ownership rate:
USA 0.88/ person.
France 0.6/ person.
Average home size:
USA 2500 square feet.
France 1200 square feet.
Percentage of population with air conditioning:
USA 90%.
France 20%.
Percentage of population with a university degree:
USA 44%.
France 32%.
Investment in New Technologies:
USA 5. 6% of GDP.
France 2. 5% of GDP.
What's the complaint SubCmdr?Learn the difference between the definition of the word complaint and observation. If after you have reviewed the definition of both of those words get back with me.
Observation
Why is Trump erasing certain groups of my fellow Americans from the historical record visually documenting their service to the The Constitution of the United States of America?
If Musk is a "racist" you will have to prove it to me because I HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE OF THIS. I understand, however, that this is the latest BS line of attack from the Dems and their talking heads. Business as usual with these fucks. The real question is why is the left so virulently against finding corruption and waste in Gov't spending? Everybody should be interested in exposing and eliminating this crap. The national debt is over 30 trillion and rising. It is becoming a real threat to our very well being. It says a hell of a lot about what the left's priorities truly are. Apparently, they live and breathe on the corruption.New name was found for your shameful schizophrene robber Trump = andéron and his fool Musk. Robin Wood robbed rich to give to poor, but your shame threaten blackmail rob poor to give to rich.
The French have always been full of themselves. Just compare their revolution to ours. BUT, I do like the look of their women, their baguettes, and some of their truly classic movies. Check out "Mississippi Mermaid" (La sirne du Mississipi) by Franois Truffaut now streaming on Prime, "Daybreak" (LE jour se lve) by Marcel Carne, "The Rules of the Game" (La Aregle du Jeu) by Jean Renoir, "Belle de Jour" by the master Luis Buuel, and Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bete) by Jean Cocteau and you will know what I mean.
(yeah, I know Bunuel was a Spainard, but his masterpiece was made in France.).For sure, USA can't compete for culture and without french de La Fayette, maybe never USA but under UK.
What does the worlds richest man have against the agency that helps the worlds poorest people? Well, it was investigating his satellite company Starlinks contracts in Ukraine. But also, in their quest to cut trillions from the federal budget to finance tax cuts for billionaires like themselves, Musk and Trump have to believe they can get that money from things other than Social Security and Medicaid. So theyre tapping into Americans collective misbelief that we spend about a quarter of the budget on foreign aidin actuality, it is about 1 percentto claim they can square that math. And theyre flooding the zone with disinformation with claims of USAID waste and abuse, because this is their playbook. Never mind that they clearly dont know what USAID does, or that gutting it is also having devastating impacts on US farmers, who grow a lot of the food we provide as relief.
Who benefits from eviscerating USAID? Basically foreign dictators like Vladimir Putin, who hates that this soft power was part of Americas Ukrainian relief effort, or Xi Jinping, who sees our food aid to African countries as a plot to undermine Chinas belt and road program of development. We dont just lose moral stature when we renounce foreign aid, we lose our competitive advantage in global relations too. So when Trump states in an executive order that USAID efforts destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries, please realize that this is echoing the talking points of Putin and Xi.
But no matter, Musk and Trump wanted to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king. Slashing USAID scratches a racist itch central to the MAGA cause. Lets not forget how Trump slurred shithole countries. Trump, who says Hitler did some great things, and says he wants generals like Hitler had. Trump, who believes he has good genes. Trump, you know the list: housing discrimination, Central Park Five, birtherism, Mexican rapists, very fine people, go back where they came from, theyre eating the dogs, theyre eating the cats.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
Is the OP who has a problem with my statements going to address them directly to me like a man, or will he continue to express his emotions in a passive / aggressive fashion like a girl man (in other words like a *****)?
Elvis 2008
03-09-25, 17:31
If either of you had bothered to follow the chain of posts, regarding "mandates", you'd know that, on several other occasions, I've already mentioned (to SubCmdr in a couple different posts) the only mandates I know of are those for the manufacturers, I'm not aware of one mandated for consumers to buy an EV?That is really, really weak. I agree with Tiny. You showed real knowledge with EVs and China. The problem with the climate change weirdos is they have to sell their wares with the world is going to end crap. Solar and wind make sense for a lot of places. EVs do too. You were blasting Trump for getting rid of a program that never should have existed in the first place. What he did made total sense to me.
I did not even get into the new and more reliable plug standard Tesla is rolling out and how the government charging stations were already out of date. That Biden program was a total waste. As of now, EVs are massively inferior to ICE or hybrid vehicles for long trips, and government subsidies were not going to change that.
If Musk is a "racist" you will have to prove it to me because I HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE OF THIS. I understand, however, that this is the latest BS line of attack from the Dems and their talking heads. Business as usual with these fucks. The real question is why is the left so virulently against finding corruption and waste in Gov't spending? Everybody should be interested in exposing and eliminating this crap. The national debt is over 30 trillion and rising. It is becoming a real threat to our very well being. It says a hell of a lot about what the left's priorities truly are. Apparently, they live and breathe on the corruption.If President Musk was really concerned about reducing the debt, deficit, waste, fraud and abuse, he would have backed Harris and every other Democratic Party candidate on the ballot over any Repub Party candidate but especially Trump:
Democrats vs. Republicans: Who Had More National Debt?
Dec. 16, 2024
https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-had-more-national-debt-8738104
The national debt passed the $36 trillion threshold in November for the first time ever, as the combined debt held by the U.S. public and the federal government grows.
Republican presidents have added slightly more to the national debt per term than Democratic presidents, according to inflation-adjusted data from the U.S. Treasury Department and the Bureau of Labor Statistics dating back to 1913.
Looking at U.S. presidents since 1913, Republican presidents added about $1.4 trillion per four-year term, compared to $1.2 trillion added by Democrats.Think that $0. 2 Trillion difference is a fair trade as long as Repubs keep a tranny out of the toilet stall next to yours? Bear in mind that difference is more than all the cuts President Musk will ever produce with his Chainsaw.
And then there is this:
Trump added twice as much to the national debt as Biden: Analysis.
6/24/24
https://thehill.com/business/4736740-trump-biden-fiscal-policy-deficit/
Trumps administration borrowed $8.4 trillion during the former presidents time in office, while Biden has borrowed $4.3 trillion, according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a Washington think tank.
Ignoring the pandemic relief measures enacted by both presidents, the proportion of debt addition still holds around 2-to-1, with former President Trump adding $4.8 trillion in non-pandemic-aid fiscal debt and Biden adding $2.2 trillion.A special note about the difference between Trump's $4. 8 Trullion non Trump's Pandemic expenditures vs Biden's $2. 2 Trillion; Trump's produced no discernable benefit to the USA Economy, producing at least a Million fewer jobs pre Trump's Pandemic with it than without it and not one sentence of Infrastructure projects and improvements vs Biden's record-breaking jobs recovery and creation and historic Infrastructure projects that corrupt Repub liars who voted against them are still falling over each other to falsely claim credit for passing them in their Red States.
And this:
Despite DOGE, Trump's agenda calls for adding trillions of dollars to U.S. debt.
Budget experts say Trumps tax and spending priorities would increase red ink, even as he boasts of balancing the budget. I dont think their rhetoric matches reality," one says.
Feb. 19, 2025
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-trumps-agenda-calls-adding-trillions-dollars-us-debt-rcna191665
Seriously. You know all this President Musk DOGE theatrics is just a scam to make way for the Trillions more he, Trump and the corrupt Repub Party want to add to the deficit in order to further enrich the Repub Party donor class and impoverish everyone else, right?
Axel Heyst
03-09-25, 20:29
Learn the difference between the definition of the word complaint and observation. If after you have reviewed the definition of both of those words get back with me.
Observation
Whatever you say, SubCmdr, but you did post this:
A South Carolina man is executed by firing squad, the first US prisoner killed by this method in 15 years.
Wat da fuc?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-carolina-man-executed-firing-231942156.html
America, what a country!Which in my humble opinion is more than a mere observation since the post appears to have all the hallmarks of an opinion. Note the highlight in Bold of "what the fuc" and your final sentence followed by an exclamation point! So, in follow up, I asked a simple question:
What's the complaint SubCmdr? I could have just as easily asked what is your point? Or let's phrase it this way: what is your "apparent" objection to the execution of this convicted murderer? Is it that you object to capital punishment or this particular form of capital punishment? It is a fair question, and obviously you don't have to answer it if you don't want to. I just wanted to know your opinion on the subject. It is not a biggie or a gotcha moment. There are legitimate points of view on both sides of the issue.
A. H.
Elvis 2008
03-09-25, 20:33
That's unlikely to happen for Elvis' example. The call price of a bond is set higher than the issue price. For example, say a bond was originally sold at 100 with a coupon rate of 8%. The call price, being the price at which the company has the right to repurchase the bond, might be 105. Now, say the price of the bond has fallen from 100 to 50, so that instead of 8%, it yields 16%. The company won't pay 105 to call the bond. It may try to buy bonds back on the open market at 50 though, if it can get the money to do so from the banks.SC said it is a problem if you buy something for $500 and sell it for $1050? LOL. Yeah, he had best stick to speculative stuff.
The French have always been full of themselves. Just compare their revolution to ours. BUT, I do like the look of their women, their baguettes, and some of their truly classic movies. Check out "Mississippi Mermaid" (La sirne du Mississipi) by Franois Truffaut now streaming on Prime, "Daybreak" (LE jour se lve) by Marcel Carne, "The Rules of the Game" (La Aregle du Jeu) by Jean Renoir, "Belle de Jour" by the master Luis Buuel, and Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la bete) by Jean Cocteau and you will know what I mean.
(yeah, I know Bunuel was a Spainard, but his masterpiece was made in France.).We Americans like to make fun of the "Frenchies", but the truth is that many of our notions about liberty, freedom, and justice actually came from them. And they admired us so for going down that same path, gifting the United States the Statue of Liberty.
Trump tried to smooth the way for domestic and foreign corporate corruption during his Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term but didn't have enough corrupt Repubs on his team to make it happen. He has rectified that oversight now during his Trump's Pandemic Part 2 second term:
President Trump Orders FCPA Freeze; DOJ Announces Major Policy Realignment De-Emphasizing Corporate Investigations and Enforcement.
https://natlawreview.com/article/president-trump-orders-fcpa-freeze-doj-announces-major-policy-realignment-de
The much-heralded end to prosecutions brought pursuant to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)1 never materialized during the first Donald Trump administration, but the second Trump administration has the potential to bring major change to the US Department of Justices (DOJ) approach to FCPA enforcement.
On.10 February 2025, President Trump issued an executive order2 freezing the initiation of all new FCPA investigations and enforcement actions for 180 days. The executive order also instructs newly confirmed Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi to promulgate guidelines on FCPA enforcement and conduct a comprehensive review of existing and historical FCPA investigations and resolutions.
President Trumps directive comes on the heels of more than a dozen policy memoranda3 issued by AG Bondi on 5 February 2025, that will fundamentally realign DOJs operations and enforcement priorities during the second Trump administration. Two key DOJ directivesthe memorandum on "Total Elimination of Cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO Memo) and DOJs new General Policy Regarding Charging, Plea Negotiations, and Sentencing (General Policy Memo)when taken in concert with the new executive order, have the potential to bring about a seismic shift in DOJs approach to corporate investigations and enforcement.Political and Corporate Corruption has always been the life-blood of the Repub Party. It could not exist without it.
LOL. Imagine a Political Party spending Trillions more, adding Trillions more to the USA debt and deficit than its Democratic Party counterpart for more than 100 years yet, even when it controls the White House, House and Senate, still NEVER managing to propose, fight for and pass a single piece of legislation to benefit the majority of the American people destined to become revered and defended to this day?
Not one Repub legislation comparable to ANY of ALL of them proposed, fought for and passed by The Democratic Party when they controlled the White House, House and Senate, even though they spent less of the American tax-payers' money to accomplish it!
Amazing.
Social Security (nothing like a Ponzi Scheme, BTW).
Unemployment Insurance.
Medicare.
Medicaid.
The 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Affirdable Care Act.
The American Rescue Plan Act.
The Inflation Reduction Act.
The Science and Chips Act.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
And so on.
Meanwhile, in more than 100 years Repubs have only managed to make America's wealthiest people wealthier, widen the income gap between them and everyone else, produce every Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction and facilitate domestic and foreign corporate corruption.
And they spent Trillions more than the Dems in ordee to accomplish that!
Repubs' Sucker Social / Culture Issues vs Dems' Legitimate Economic Issues in a nutshell:
New name was found for your shameful schizophrene robber Trump = andron and his fool Musk. Robin Wood robbed rich to give to poor, but your shame threaten blackmail rob poor to give to rich.Roman Neron for Trump new name given. Good, Canada want to resist to Trump. More and more in our world start to hate crazy Trump and USA. Shameful Trump gives new image of USA, kind of aggressive robbers.
... when little France is number 1 for tourism, showing culture and way of life aura ...
Yeah, but no doubt, to preserve that French culture and way of life, in 42 cities, including Paris and Lyon, effective Jan 1st, 2025, EVs are welcomed and ICE vehicles are not. C'est la vie!
Regulations have again increased and tightened, surrounding the French Low Emission Mobility Zones (ZFE), as outlined in the Climate and Resilience Act, against ICE vehicles and banned them, from driving in the city center of major French cities.
So, whatever the type of "E85 "zero 0% CO2 emissions, on technical control" fuel you put in your Audi ICE fuel tank, it won't matter, you still won't be allowed to drive, in or near any major French city centers. And don't forget your 12 pass tickets to drive into the city centers!
Remember, if push comes to shove, you can always ditch your Audi ICE-E85 vehicle, on the outskirts of Paris (or Lyon...etc) and "leg it", into city center! (...kkkk!)
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #35: Peace is good for Business!Nice, apropos Trekkie reference!
"Peace is Good for Business," I agree. Ferengi's may be ugly, short mother fuckers, but they're damn smart! They're like the Swiss used to be.I don't know for sure, but I've watch enough Star Trek, that it wouldn't surprise me, if the Ferengi, do not have a rule of acquisition, that said, "War is good for business!" (...kkkk!).
Like the Ferengi, the American Fuhrer, the fascist war mongers and billionaire robber barons on the right, have both war and peace covered. (ie. The bodies are still warm and Gaza is already being eyed and spied, for its real estate. The Ukraine for its minerals and rare earth, with more to follow, if the American Fuhrer, continues to suck Putin's dick).
You can book it!
PS: Oh wait, I think they do have a rule, #34 before "Peace is good... ", or #43. Depending where you look!
Yeah, but no doubt, to preserve that French culture and way of life, in 42 cities, including Paris and Lyon, effective Jan 1st, 2025, EVs are welcomed and ICE vehicles are not. C'est la vie!
Regulations have again increased and tightened, surrounding the French Low Emission Mobility Zones (ZFE), as outlined in the Climate and Resilience Act, against ICE vehicles and banned them, from driving in the city center of major French cities.
So, whatever the type of "E85 "zero 0% CO2 emissions, on technical control" fuel you put in your Audi ICE fuel tank, it won't matter, you still won't be allowed to drive, in or near any major French city centers. And don't forget your 12 pass tickets to drive into the city centers!
Remember, if push comes to shove, you can always ditch your Audi ICE-E85 vehicle, on the outskirts of Paris (or Lyon...etc) and "leg it", into city center! (...kkkk!)Do You want to explain me about France or even Western EU? With my from 2008 , V8 S5 and even without E85 , even with gas 98 , I can go everywhere in France and Germany and when I want. I drive almost daily in Paris and my more than 200000 kms clutch cry. ZFE are allowed with Crit air 1 and 2 . No EV for me, not real cars, but a exceptionnal engine to make me hard when I press engine start. EVs and Tesla will fall in Europe.
Nice, apropos Trekkie reference!
I don't know for sure, but I've watch enough Star Trek, that it wouldn't surprise me, if the Ferengi, do not have a rule of acquisition, that said, "War is good for business!" (...kkkk!).
Like the Ferengi, the American Fuhrer, the fascist war mongers and billionaire robber barons on the right, have both war and peace covered. (ie. The bodies are still warm and Gaza is already being eyed and spied, for its real estate. The Ukraine for its minerals and rare earth, with more to follow, if the American Fuhrer, continues to suck Putin's dick).
You can book it!
PS: Oh wait, I think they do have a rule, #34 before "Peace is good... ", or #43. Depending where you look!USA behave like shameful robbers, when Ukrainians keep on dying, killed by criminal Putin who feel the support of your schizophrene. Our world have to resist to such shameful USA now.
What boggles the mind is that Axel is not your typical MAGA cultist. When Elvis spews his own brand of nonsense, you know where it comes from -- Elvis is a conspiracy theorist, he's a guy MAGA IS MADE OF. But Axel is not like that. I've communicated with him, he's a worldly, intelligent person. How is it possible that people like that can't see Trump's incessant lies and empty boasts, his crazy rants and off-the-charts boorishness worthy of a drunken vagrant, his fantastical stories from his own alternative universe? And did I mention his pure LIES -- lies so patently obvious that even a 9-year-old could easily cut through them -- and yet, these grown-up fellas keep coming here to mindlessly and exuberantly defend the pure-evil incompetent scamster and his team of sycophants, no matter what they say and do.
...
Seriously, MAGA, why?
When those that you're inquiring about, are literally quoting, revelling and celebrating, the likes of Charlie Kirk "(Maga Man {whatever that is?})", a well known INCEL, misogynist, racist and anti-Semite, is it not obvious?
Or they openly and knowingly support, people like ex-Lt.Gov. Mark Robinson, also a know anti-Semite, Nazi-sympathizer, misogynist, homophobe, racist and closet porn sex shop wanker. Or an alleged pedo Matt Gaetz, rapist in Pete Hegseth or robber baron, goose-stepping Nazi-sympathizer in President Elon Musk.
Is it really that hard to comprehend? And are you really sure you don't know why?
I didn't post one. What I posted was a honest reaction to a new story I read. Lots of countries have the death penalty. Sorry, I don't usually keep up with news in the DisUnited States of America. But with the RACIST (that is an opinion) Musk a heartbeat away from the Presidency I am fearful for my fellow Americans. So, I guess my sudden clicking on stores about the DisUnited States of America cause the algorithm to put the story about a man being KILLED by firing squad in my news feed.
Which is precisely why I have no internet in returning to the Disunited States of America. You see they have death squads that roam the country in uniforms. They are call the POLICE. They have orders to execute individuals who look like me on sight. By firing squad.You want my opinion? I think you are trying to play word games. And when I served up an ace game (2 up the T and two out wide) on ya, you had an apoplectic fit. Triggered by a man who simply posted his reaction to a news story. That is what I think.
It is also my opinion that you read a lot into posts. I am a direct man. So you should read them that way. But I will give you respect for at least asking me what my post was about after telling me what you had decided it was about. ROTFLMAO!.
Whatever you say, SubCmdr, but you did post this:
Which in my humble opinion is more than a mere observation since the post appears to have all the hallmarks of an opinion. Note the highlight in Bold of "what the fuc" and your final sentence followed by an exclamation point! So, in follow up, I asked a simple question:
I could have just as easily asked what is your point? Or let's phrase it this way: what is your "apparent" objection to the execution of this convicted murderer? Is it that you object to capital punishment or this particular form of capital punishment? It is a fair question, and obviously you don't have to answer it if you don't want to. I just wanted to know your opinion on the subject. It is not a biggie or a gotcha moment. There are legitimate points of view on both sides of the issue.
A. H.
SC said it is a problem if you buy something for $500 and sell it for $1050? LOL. Yeah, he had best stick to speculative stuff.Is that what I said. Perhaps you should take me off of ignore and read my posts more carefully. This is what I wrote:
The OP never tell the whole story. Familiarize yourself with the term: callable or redeemable bonds.
Guess what happens when interest rates been to drop again. Those bonds are called in and reissued into the capital market. Ending your juicy yield plans.
His narrative on NVDA is wrong also. But I'll take on his logical errors in another post.
That's unlikely to happen for Elvis' example. The call price of a bond is set higher than the issue price. For example, say a bond was originally sold at 100 with a coupon rate of 8%. The call price, being the price at which the company has the right to repurchase the bond, might be 105. Now, say the price of the bond has fallen from 100 to 50, so that instead of 8%, it yields 16%. The company won't pay 105 to call the bond. It may try to buy bonds back on the open market at 50 though, if it can get the money to do so from the banks.So how does what Elvis said (with his usual arrogance and projection of superiority) will happen in the markets happen?
SC said it is a problem if you buy something for $500 and sell it for $1050? LOL.Who is buying the bond for 1050?
Was it speculation to realize the Deep Seek was hype when NVDA crashed to 116 and I picked up at 118 then sold it days latter for 141?
No, it was good trading and market knowledge. Deep Seek was a software breakthrough. The premise I have seen presented is that there is no longer a need for fast chips. People need to just shut their mouth like you would tell a child. NVDA cannot make chips as fast as people want to buy them. There will always be a market for power. It is like saying before 80% of the population does not need fast chip in their computers the other 20% will not either. When it comes to AI the individuals that need fast chips need them. And they need them yesterday.
Elvis needs to stick with being bonds and stay out of the area where analysis rules if you have the testicular fortitude to make the trade. Something Elvis does not have.
My fellow Americans and I are being told by POTUS himself that a rescission is coming. I hope someone is listening. The Bond market is broken and is going to implode. Since when does speculation consist of investing in gold, silver. Real estate and your personal business?
Wealthy people in China have stopped investing in real estate and are buying hard assets. Gold remains the only asset that I know of that will consistently hold its purchasing power over time. I am the first to admit that although I believe Bitcoin will surpass gold in total market value, I don't see it happening until 2035.
Hope I am alive to see it!
Axel Heyst
03-10-25, 16:27
you had an apoplectic fit. Triggered by a man who simply posted his reaction to a news story. So, I was "triggered" and had an "apoplectic fit" for asking you a very simple question? That is really rich coming from you. Do you ever read your own posts and insults? You are out of sight man. Question: Why are you always unloading on fellow board members over nothing? I guess this means we are no longer ISG pals and we won't be hooking up in Pat to have a few drinks and compare notes. Oh well. I only hang out with sane people. Good luck mate. You are going to need it.
Axel Heyst
03-10-25, 18:57
A few days ago I posted a link to Governor Newsom's podcast interview with Maga operative Charlie Kirk. The significance of this interview was lost on Spidy who instead chose to denigrate me instead of dealing with what Newsom was saying. How dumb is that? Pretty dumb. In any case, this is the what all reasonable political observers left or right should take from the interview:
1) Newsom is running for President in 2028 campaign.
2) Newsom is a pretty smart politician and capable of holding his own in any interview (unlike dumbo Biden and word salad Kamela) neither of whom could handle even a puff interview with notes and all the questions known in advance.
3) Newsom correctly understands that sticking with Woke ideology especially when it concerns men / boys participating in women's / girls sports is a loser. And he came out against it.
Now, lets move on to the Van Jones recent commentary on CNN. Van is no Kool-aid drinking idiot either and he understands the situation facing the Dems as well as anyone, including myself. KKK /555. Here is a link to his comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIOioExykQ&t=30s.
As well as the transcript:
Jones said, "Can we ask another question? Do I keep talking about my own party? Can we talk about Ukraine or something? No, look, man, we're we're we're screwed. I mean, we don't know, Democrats don't know what to do. This is a nightmare. You know, somebody like Donald Trump, we thought we'd at least have Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker's chair to hold him back. If we didn't have Kamala in there to do the right thing."
He added, "Listen, the Democratic Party is going through a massive set of internal crises. You have a party that got trapped two ways. One, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse. But when you're defending the status quo, you're going to lose. And then offending most people in the country, calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name, and then saying, please follow us. That's not a good strategy, folks. Defending a broken status quo and offending most of the country, turns out, is not as popular as my party thought it was going to be. And so it's going to take a while for people to get it figured out."
Anybody of you left leaning BM's care to comment on the substance of Newsom's interview or Jones's comments or do you prefer to continue to critique the messenger? Hahaha. As I said before, if the moderates in the Democrat Party cannot take back their party, the Democrat party will continue to lose and lose and lose election after election. Choosing to die on the hill of trans rights to participate in women's sports is political suicide. Now who wants another glass of cyanide laced kool-aid?
You honestly know a lot about EV's, more than anyone here. Thanks for your contributions in that area.
No, I don't for a second think, I know more than anyone here on EVs. As another BM put it, that would be "fucking arrogant"
What I can say is, if much of what's being said about EVs is bunk and dis-misinformation, I'll continue to debunk it, to the best of my knowledge.
However, you did not educate me about the constituents of flue gas and their significance to air quality, except to provide insight into the Dunning-Kruger effect.
If you're as smart as Elvis 2008, thinks you are, and honestly know a lot about flue gas/Dunning-Kruger effect, more than anyone here, that's perfectly fine, as that's between YOU and Elvis 2008.
You'll probably get no argument from me, as you both seem to enjoy (from on high), prattling and blathering on, about whom (which ISGer), you both believe to be "intelligent", "smart" or a "total imbecile".
However, if you still wanna stick to natural gas (methane), is a "clean burning gas" and not just simply a "cleaner burning gas" than coal, which was the topic that I called you out on...then by all means have at it.
But if you stubbornly continue to be antithetical, and stick to the notion that, it is a "clean burning gas", meaning it emits ZERO 0% CO2 emissions, then I'll be right there to correct you, on that bunk piece of disinformation.
Only the gullible MAGA nation, is likely to believe YOU, about methane gas, just like they believe your American Fuhrer, when he says "...beautiful clean coal."
When those that you're inquiring about, are literally quoting, revelling and celebrating, the likes of Charlie Kirk "(Maga Man {whatever that is?})", a well known INCEL, misogynist, racist and anti-Semite, is it not obvious?
Or they openly and knowingly support, people like ex-Lt.Gov. Mark Robinson, also a know anti-Semite, Nazi-sympathizer, misogynist, homophobe, racist and closet porn sex shop wanker. Or an alleged pedo Matt Gaetz, rapist in Pete Hegseth or robber baron, goose-stepping Nazi-sympathizer in President Elon Musk.
Is it really that hard to comprehend? And are you really sure you don't know why?All good points, but this calamity AKA Donald Trump has been elected by 50% of Americans. Twice! That's simply stunning. And sure as hell, a lot of them are anti-Semites, Nazi-sympathizers, misogynists, homophobes and racists, but we're talking 70,000,000 people! They can't all be like this, can they? Because if so, this country is positively and irrevocably fucked.
A few days ago I posted a link to Governor Newsom's podcast interview with Maga operative Charlie Kirk. The significance of this interview was lost on Spidy who instead chose to denigrate me instead of dealing with what Newsom was saying. How dumb is that? Pretty dumb. In any case, this is the what all reasonable political observers left or right should take from the interview:
1) Newsom is running for President in 2028 campaign.
2) Newsom is a pretty smart politician and capable of holding his own in any interview (unlike dumbo Biden and word salad Kamela) neither of whom could handle even a puff interview with notes and all the questions known in advance.
3) Newsom correctly understands that sticking with Woke ideology especially when it concerns men / boys participating in women's / girls sports is a loser. And he came out against it.
Now, lets move on to the Van Jones recent commentary on CNN. Van is no Kool-aid drinking idiot either and he understands the situation facing the Dems as well as anyone, including myself. KKK /555. Here is a link to his comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBIOioExykQ&t=30s.
As well as the transcript:
Jones said, "Can we ask another question? Do I keep talking about my own party? Can we talk about Ukraine or something? No, look, man, we're we're we're screwed. I mean, we don't know, Democrats don't know what to do. This is a nightmare. You know, somebody like Donald Trump, we thought we'd at least have Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker's chair to hold him back. If we didn't have Kamala in there to do the right thing."
He added, "Listen, the Democratic Party is going through a massive set of internal crises. You have a party that got trapped two ways. One, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse. But when you're defending the status quo, you're going to lose. And then offending most people in the country, calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name, and then saying, please follow us. That's not a good strategy, folks. Defending a broken status quo and offending most of the country, turns out, is not as popular as my party thought it was going to be. And so it's going to take a while for people to get it figured out."
Anybody of you left leaning BM's care to comment on the substance of Newsom's interview or Jones's comments or do you prefer to continue to critique the messenger? Hahaha. As I said before, if the moderates in the Democrat Party cannot take back their party, the Democrat party will continue to lose and lose and lose election after election. Choosing to die on the hill of trans rights to participate in women's sports is political suicide. Now who wants another glass of cyanide laced kool-aid?Both of them simply conceded the most important, critical, existential, life-altering, obsessive issue on the mind of MAGAs, what are Trannies doing with their pee-pees, in order to shelf it and move on to real issues.
Neither of them is lost on the awareness that the Dem candidates in 2016 and 2020, hardly ancient history, were chosen over Trump by 10 Million votes and he almost had his ass handed to him again on actual votes vs the Repub-rigged EC system but for a shift of less than 1 percentage point in the vote again in 2024. By a mixed race female. And despite him campaigning on all forms of media to squeak out that razor-thin win since 12 Noon on January 20,2017 vs her (and Biden) being pretty damn busy over the past 4 years recovering us and the rest of the world from the colossal mess of everything Trump left in his wake the last time.
The reports of the Death of The Democratic Party are greatly exaggerated. But both of those guys know the racist, self-loathing and America-hating audience for those MAGA liars love to hear it and will tune in and quote them on it over and over again, increasing their name recognition with that crowd. Which is fine for their political ambitions.
Frankly, I am surprised anyone paying attention to politics at all needed this to be pointed out to them. With Bill Clinton it was known as "Triangulation. ".
Elvis 2008
03-11-25, 00:42
I have read with amusement the antics of you and the Medellin morons as you have now travelled the Pacific and are littering the board again with your trash talking and insistence that your fucking ugly women is equivalent to those seeking the best. You proudly boast that you are fucking 6's as the chemistry is better. So instead of getting up off your ass and trying to do better and find better looking women, you and the crew of Medellin morons have flamed anyone trying to do better. When I went you on this topic, you griped to Gabacho and that lying Mexican baby ran crying to an admin to give me points. Gabacho is so fucking stupid he even bragged who the admin is and like the baby he is, boasted about getting other guys posts. Since that time, I have put the two of you on ignore and things have been much better. Unlike the child Gabacho, you actually like to argue and you PMed me begging me to respond, and I told you to fuck off. I am not going to debate someone who cannot take a punch.
Thing is I can tell from your posts you are a narcissist. So even when I have you on ignore, I predicted the insults and the narcissistic chest beating, and I signed out and read your post, and you did not disappoint. Trudging through the multiple insults and chest beating, your three objective posts were bonds are callable and redeemable and people will pay for the fastest chips and Nvidia cannot sell all the chips they make.
I gave the person who asked the question the wrong advice. If he is not good at stock picking, he should buy a bond fund and not individual bonds. That is not what I am doing. That is the advice I gave to someone at his level.
OTOH, you took the moment to put me down and beat your chest and brag about your stock trades. And everybody on line who trades stocks wins with every trade and so do you. Of course, it is ALWAYS after the fact. I have seen this bullshit a million times before.
As for the rest of it, it is pretty obvious you do not understand how bonds work. In fact, you pointed to an issue with bonds that was completely irrelevant to the scenario I described, and you still do not get it, and I am not going to waste my time explaining the why. Tiny already did, and before you pissed him off, AH even gave a very diplomatic message as to why. Of course, it went right over your head as it always does.
As for Nvidia, I gave two reasons why it was going to go down. You did not refute either reason. That is the sign of a bad investor.
So, I was "triggered" and had an "apoplectic fit" for asking you a very simple question? That is really rich coming from you. Do you ever read your own posts and insults? You are out of sight man. Question: Why are you always unloading on fellow board members over nothing? I guess this means we are no longer ISG pals and we won't be hooking up in Pat to have a few drinks and compare notes. Oh well. I only hang out with sane people. Good luck mate. You are going to need it.Here you go again. Engaging in Ad Hominem attacks because I disagree with you. I'm good. Keep your company for your ratchet Thai Bitches. I don't need it. I am here to talk politics in the United States of America. Are you a mental health professional? If not then keep you Lay person diagnoses to yourself. I don't need them. I got professionals that I will consult if I need help with my mental health (which I don't). Lastly, if you want to talk about race then do it directly. I'm a man and if you wish to express your ideals of racial superiority like individuals such as Elvis2000 please feel free to do so. As long as you can handle a frank and honest response from your fellow American who may disagree with your perspectives.
If Musk is a "racist" you will have to prove it to me because I HAVE SEEN NO EVIDENCE OF THIS.
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
― Leonardo da VinciWhich class are you my man?
Elon Musk is a racist Look at the battle with the Secretary of State. This is because the Secretary of State is not white.
Your serve!
Elvis 2008
03-11-25, 02:48
When those that you're inquiring about, are literally quoting, revelling and celebrating, the likes of Charlie Kirk "(Maga Man {whatever that is?})", a well known INCEL, misogynist, racist and anti-Semite, is it not obvious?
Or they openly and knowingly support, people like ex-Lt.Gov. Mark Robinson, also a know anti-Semite, Nazi-sympathizer, misogynist, homophobe, racist and closet porn sex shop wanker. Or an alleged pedo Matt Gaetz, rapist in Pete Hegseth or robber baron, goose-stepping Nazi-sympathizer in President Elon Musk.
Is it really that hard to comprehend? And are you really sure you don't know why?https://scottsauls.substack.com/p/a-prayer-for-prostitutes-and-against
We are grieved and sickened by the way that shame, fear, manipulation, exploitation, injustice, and abuse destroy the lives and crush the spirits of girls around the world and also girls in our own state, municipality, and neighborhoods. We are comforted to know that you are sickened tooand that you, Lord, hold the power and will to change things. And so, Father, we ask, please.
Put an end to this wicked and ridiculous industry.
Bring justice. Crush evil under your feet.
Save the girls who are trafficked and exploited. Give them a chance to be physically, spiritually, relationally, and emotionally whole.
Protect all children, youth and adults who are the targets of abusers and human traffickers. Guard their lives and hold their hearts.
For the traffickers, for those who facilitate trafficking, and for those who buy their illicit services. Frustrate their efforts. Bring them down and take them out. Bring them to justice. Change their hearts so they will forsake their ways.
https://www.everystudent.com/wires/nineteen.html
I figured I really just wanted three things: to make money, have nice things, and be "happy. " After talking to some guys on campus who worked at a local strip club, I figured becoming an exotic dancer was the easiest way to get all three.
Once I looked around and thought about all the things I could buy with the money I said, "I'll try it out". And after a couple of weekends, I got the hang of it. But that was only the beginning, because I kept talking to people and got in deeper and deeper into making fast money. Not long after I started, I began "taking dates" which is prostituting.
But about nine months later, my life was about to take an unexpected 180-degree turn when Jesus stepped in.
There was a white guy nearly twice my age in the car. We made small talk and he invited me to have lunch with him.
At the end of the meal, he invited me to join him at his church's Wednesday Night Bible Study. That night at church God dealt with me about all that I had been doing. And I always stood on the excuses, "God knows my heart. I'm a good person. I have to eat. " But I knew that enough was enough. I went to the altar and gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was also able to publish my personal story in a book entitled, 19 Men Later: How Someone Truly Loved Me.
End of links. Spidy, when I call you fucking arrogant, I mean you are totally out of touch with societal norms. You embrace them even when these two members of society would condemn you for the monger lifestyle. Have you ever been with a gay man? No, then you must be homophobic. You could be called a misogynist because you feel the need to dominate women with your money. And if you do or do not see Jewish or black women, you can be called a racist or antisemite.
What is so interesting and this is why I use the term Democratic douche is you think being a Democrat today absolves you of all those accusations. Thing is when I mentioned gay rights in the 80's, some of the most homophobic people I met are now Democrats. I have had suburban white women in their 80's, who have never had a black friend or acquaintance in their life, lecture me about how hard blacks have had it when I have had black people in my life since I was 15.
It has gotten to the point where your labels are meaningless to me and to so many others. You all thought pinning the phrase convicted felon on Trump would do him in. Just being Republican today means you are a racist, sexist, homophobic, Nazi rapist which means these terms are not about hate but purely political. If you guys want to win, you have to be better than just labeling and condemning people. You have to make better arguments for your POV.
Here you go again. Engaging in Ad Hominem attacks because I disagree with you. I'm good. Keep your company for your ratchet Thai Bitches. I don't need it. I am here to talk politics in the United States of America. Are you a mental health professional? If not then keep you Lay person diagnoses to yourself. I don't need them. I got professionals that I will consult if I need help with my mental health (which I don't). Lastly, if you want to talk about race then do it directly. I'm a man and if you wish to express your ideals of racial superiority like individuals such as Elvis2000 please feel free to do so. As long as you can handle a frank and honest response from your fellow American who may disagree with your perspectives.Look at what Musk did with Vivek Ramiswamy. Had him kicked off of DOGE after a couple of weeks. Lol
Not being satisfied to simply put me on ignore and continue about your business after I give a intellectual BEAT DOWN of epic proportions, You felt the need to strike back yet again in a effort to continue your flame war with me throughout ISG.
I have read with amusement the antics of you and the Medellin morons as you have now travelled the Pacific and are littering the board again with your trash talking and insistence that your fucking ugly women is equivalent to those seeking the best. You proudly boast that you are fucking 6's as the chemistry is better. So instead of getting up off your ass and trying to do better and find better looking women, you and the crew of Medellin morons have flamed anyone trying to do better.Well when I look at this thread the name of it is American Politics. As I see you have opened with personal attacks after reading my extensive posts from around the world (something you don't have) I am wondering if we well see anything about the actual subject of this thread.
When I went you on this topic, you griped to Gabacho and that lying Mexican baby ran crying to an admin to give me points. Gabacho is so fucking stupid he even bragged who the admin is and like the baby he is, boasted about getting other guys posts. Since that time, I have put the two of you on ignore and things have been much better. Unlike the child Gabacho, you actually like to argue and you PMed me begging me to respond, and I told you to fuck off. I am not going to debate someone who cannot take a punch.As you continue to show your emotional imbalance please post the PM. The one I allegedly sent to you and your response. You have my permission. I want people to see what I actually wrote not your interpretation of it.
Thing is I can tell from your posts you are a narcissist.AH is also a lay mental health professional. As I told him, I will not be seeking treatment from him or from you as I don't need it and you are both quacks.
So even when I have you on ignore, I predicted the insults and the narcissistic chest beating, and I signed out and read your post, and you did not disappoint.Anything about politics? Not yet. ROTLMAO.
Trudging through the multiple insults and chest beating, your three objective posts were bonds are callable and redeemable and people will pay for the fastest chips and Nvidia cannot sell all the chips they make.Are these facts inaccurate?
I gave the person who asked the question the wrong advice. If he is not good at stock picking, he should buy a bond fund and not individual bonds. That is not what I am doing. That is the advice I gave to someone at his level.I don't take financial advice from International Tricks and he shouldn't either.
OTOH, you took the moment to put me down and beat your chest and brag about your stock trades. And everybody on line who trades stocks wins with every trade and so do you.Please quote where I said that. Right now after the drop I am looking at losses in AMD, DEMRF, BHP, COIN and UROY. Once again I want you to post the quote that says I aways win. If you can't post it shows that your personal hate for me overwhelms your ability to reason and speak the truth.
Of course, it is ALWAYS after the fact. I have seen this bullshit a million times before.Once again I want you to post the quote that says I aways win. If you can't post it shows that your personal hate for me overwhelms your ability to reason and speak the truth.
As for the rest of it, it is pretty obvious you do not understand how bonds work. In fact, you pointed to an issue with bonds that was completely irrelevant to the scenario I described, and you still do not get it, and I am not going to waste my time explaining the why. Tiny already did, and before you pissed him off, AH even gave a very diplomatic message as to why. Of course, it went right over your head as it always does.This is true. I don't know how bonds work. If I need income I buy a dividend paying stock or residential real estate. One should not invest in something one does not understand. So I have never bought a bond or a bond fund in my entire life. Do you count money market funds? I do not!
You Elvis 2008 do not understand crypto. I have explained it extensively here. From the time you had negative thoughts about Crypto we come to the point of WhiteHouse meetings on the subject. I am not going comment on your ability to invest or knowledge. But using the same logic I will have to say when you have Blackrock indicating that a diversified portfolio should include of 5% Bitcoin, maybe just maybe you need to get with the program.
As for Nvidia, I gave two reasons why it was going to go down. You did not refute either reason. That is the sign of a bad investor.You are allowed to believe what you are going to believe. In our many exchanges I have not been able to change your mind on anything. Why would this be different. Yes, I am bad investor that is why my brokerage account shows a gain on NVDA of 172. % and on my overall portfolio of 28.18% after taking out more than I invested into to it. That means I am playing with house money. I am comfortable with your need to feel superior to me because of who you are and who I am. But the only thing that matters to me is the numbers in my account. Since I seem to be able to manage my lifestyle overseas do you care to present any other evidence that I am poor and a bad investor? ROTFLMAO.
American Politics
Elon Musk is a racist Do you support what he is doing Elvis2000?
Do yourself a favor. Put me back on ignore and stay in your own lane. Because every time you come at me with your superior attitude I am going to give you a intellectual beat down that is EPIC.
This is where Elvis2008 started a unproved flame war with me
All hookers are hookers but all johns are different? I cannot make up something this fucking stupid.
And with pricing, are all women the same when it comes to demand? Who the fuck is saying if you pay more you get better performance? The law of supply and demand is the good in higher demand gets a higher price. Does this idiot get the concept of supply and demand or is he another socialist that he thinks that he deserves better service because of his virtue signaling?Before this moment I had never heard of Elvis 2008! So, he has decided to pick yet another unprovoked fight with me. Now he's complaining because I give a much more than he can take to the point of forcing him to put me on ignore due to my withering intellectual barrage.
When you see me bow!
Newton York
03-11-25, 04:40
Well, I guess this is it. My whole brokerage account is so deep in the red now, there's no point even looking at it anymore until or unless there's some kind of calm coming back to the markets. I guess we're going into a recession now. Hell, even Apple, MSFT, Google, and AMZN are down. So much for the invincibility of the Mag 7. I don't know gents, I'm thinking of just closing out all my positions at a substantial loss and just sit on the cash.
How do you even catch a falling knife when it keeps falling? There's no way to know if this is the bottom. Granted, it's not a loss until you sell, but it's looking really bad these days. Odds are pretty good that NVDA's going to go all the way down back to 70 bucks. 70 bucks! Satan wept. I got no money left to dca my way down anyway. There's almost no good thing about this, am I really trapped in my job now because the stock market just destroyed my account? Thanks life, why don't you kill me already?
Those of you lucky enough to have a 401 k, you should still be doing ok. Me? No such luck. Even my own IRA is down *sigh*
I ain't got no luck fellas. I just ain't got no luck. Not in life, not in love and sure as shit, not in the stock market either. FML.
Thailand never seemed so far away, how am I ever gonna get back there now? The money I'm about to lose by closing out my positions, that cash coulda funded trips to Thailand for me. Instead I 'invested' in the stock market like an idiot. Woulda been better if I just stashed that money under my bed. Jeez. Christ on a stick.
Axel Heyst
03-11-25, 12:11
Well, I guess this is it. My whole brokerage account is so deep in the red now, there's no point even looking at it anymore until or unless there's some kind of calm coming back to the markets. From it's all-time closing high of 540.81 the Nasdaq (QQQ) is down roughly 14.4% and some smart investors are starting to get interested and beginning to buy the damn thing. There is no guarantee the index will not drop another 15%. Boy, would that be a buying opportunity! In any case, this market correction (the bear market) is long overdue. I have been anticipating it for over a year. And once again, I offer you my best advice: if you are cought long the stock market IN solid companies, HOLD ON! DO NOTHING! But if you must do something, go to amazon and buy "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton G. Malkiel. This can be a learning opportunity for you. Be calm and do not do something stupid like selling the bottom.
Big fall, boycott and burned for Tesla, because of Musk behavior, kind of Trump hidden son. Way for people to protest about both not respectful behavior. Higher inflation, but not big improvement for USA economics, when USA cars brands asked Trump for no tax for Mexico and Canada, when they need these countries and Trump knows nothing about reality of business, only knowing to bullshit about everything.
Elvis 2008
03-11-25, 18:13
From it's all-time closing high of 540.81 the Nasdaq (QQQ) is down roughly 14.4% and some smart investors are starting to get interested and beginning to buy the damn thing. There is no guarantee the index will not drop another 15%. Boy, would that be a buying opportunity! In any case, this market correction (the bear market) is long overdue. I have been anticipating it for over a year. And once again, I offer you my best advice: if you are cought long the stock market IN solid companies, HOLD ON! DO NOTHING! But if you must do something, go to amazon and buy "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton G. Malkiel. This can be a learning opportunity for you. Be calm and do not do something stupid like selling the bottom.We are nowhere near the bottom. This is the 1st half of the 1st inning. The two things causing the market to rise were government massively expanding the amount of cash in the system and AI. I saw what Trump and Musk were doing. When Musk repeated the things I saw about the debt and deficit, I was excited because he knew what the problem was. What shocked me is he was actually willing to take the bullets to fix it, and Trump has totally bought in.
The next question I had was, "Does Trump get that what he is doing is going to crash the market?" And I got my answer.
He responded to this on Sunday, https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/trump-says-transition-period-likely-for-economy-and-you-cant-watch-the-stock-market.html Asked whether he thinks a recession is imminent, Trump said, "I hate to predict things like that. " he later added, "Look, we're going to have disruption, but we're OK with that. " and this "What I have to do is build a strong country," he said. "You can't really watch the stock market. ".
Deepseek has blown up the models with regards to future earnings with AI. And the government is saying we are okay with the stock market going down. So I cannot even come up with a bull case right now.
If you are a real Democrat and care about the poor and middle class, this is not a bad thing. Housing has been ridiculously overpriced in the USA. With the piercing of the asset bubble, interest rates will come down as will housing prices, and some of those millenials will actually be able to afford a home!
But yeah, the Democratic douche will latch onto the falling stock market as a symptom of Trump incompetence. Truth is the market was a Biden blown bubble of epic proportions.
USA Fisker EV fell with company stop.
Elvis 2008
03-11-25, 18:41
Like most your posts, there was the idiotic name calling of racism and the typical dick measuring contest that resides in all your posts. If you did not have your butt buddy and fellow racist victim Gabacho going down on a moderator, chances are you would be banned by now.
And after all the bullshit, you admit you know nothing about bonds. So basically the last two posts are what I would expect from a narcissist, pleas for attention. Well, you are not going to get it from me.
I just admitted I gave bad advice to the poster who asked for it, and I corrected it. As far as not convincing me of anything, you are right. Maybe try posting on facts and showing knowledge versus patting yourself on the back, and I will listen.
As for crypto, I have been reading about that for decades and bought a little myself. It is an alternative to the dollar as a store of value, and I apologized to you when you said it was an alternative to the dollar versus what I thought you were doing which was hawking it as an investment be.
Ut people think that means it goes the opposite way of the dollar. The diversification myth was throtled by Peter Lynch who called it deworsification. As the government starts pulling money out of the system, everything will go down including bitcoin. Look at the prices in the last few crashes. What goes up when the overall market goes down? You do not have real diversification until you invest in whatever that is.
Axel Heyst
03-11-25, 19:36
Big fall, boycott and burned for Tesla, because of Musk behavior, kind of Trump hidden son. Yeah, I really feel like going out and buying a Tesla. Too bad I don't like EV's.
Instead, I bought a few shares of QQQ around 10:30 am today. Just a little bit to get my toes wet. Funny thing, I as I was making final risk calculations the price was kind of free falling. The 1st live quote I saw was 470.3. Then as I placed my order the stock broke 470 and my open order was filled at 469.63. Like I said, I just placed a small bet to get a feel for things. The 52-week low is 413.07, so there is plenty of room at the bottom to fall further. "The Harder They Come, the Harder They Fall. " And then rise again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAbj1pIT4g
Mandating Electric Vehicles
I worked long and hard on this. I hope you enjoy it. ....
That is really, really weak. I agree with Tiny. You showed real knowledge with EVs and China. ...
As of now, EVs are massively inferior to ICE or hybrid vehicles for long trips, and government subsidies were not going to change that.
Since you guys, put so much effort into those manufacturing mandates, let me say, believe IT or NOT, your well intentioned efforts, haven't been lost on me! Those mandates, you quoted, that are reportedly suppose to STOP consumers, from buying new ICE vehicles,...really don't!
How's that you ask? Well allow me to debunk, yet another EV mandate myth, and explain it, in a way, you QAnon\Repub\MAGA cultists, I think well understand:
Okay...I'll need you guys, to pretend for a second, that...you're a pregnant women. (Work with me, now...you'll see were this is going!)
1. More precisely, a pregnant women in a red state, with an abortion ban.
- (ie. This represents an ICE vehicle owner (in a clean-air mandated blue state), who has perhaps neglected car maintenance, or about to have engine failure, or the car just gets hobbled in a crash or nearly destroyed in freak storm...etc)
2. So you're pregnant (in red state) and disaster strikes, pregnancy complications ensue and you're and bleeding out and laying on the hospital/clinic bathroom floor (but no way near dead for them to attend to you), or worse held up in a gas service station bathroom. What do you do?
- (ie. Your ICE vehicle has just conked-out, or oil-n-gas spewing all over the highway, or worse you've crashed and is FUBAR'd, near dead, or barely drivable. So naturally being MAGA, this means a new manly he-man ICE vehicle. So what do you do?)
3. So now what do you do, since there's an abortion ban in your ruby red state?...Well, according to ex-Gov Kari Lake (AZ), just pick-up your bleeding-out pregnant ass and "eh, just go out of state...and you can go three (3) hours that way", to California.
- (ie. Regardless of what condition your ICE vehicle is in, fit to drive (or NOT), leaking out oil/gas (or NOT), take your ass and/or your ICE vehicle, outta state).
4. Be it, 500 or 1000 miles, take your pregnant ass and fly, drive, bus, walk or crawl to the nearest state, with abortion access to healthcare and have that abortion.
- (ie. In order to buy your new ICE vehicle, just fly, drive, bus, hitch-a-ride, walk or crawl for hours and hundreds of miles until you find a nice friendly ICE red state with anti-clean air laws, that will sell you, a new ICE vehicle. Eh Voila!)
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST (my fav):
5. If your pregnant ass, makes it back alive to your red state, we'll fine you a $10K bounty (as someone no doubt, will snitch on you), prosecute you to the full extent of the law and throw your ass in jail.
- (ie. Having made it back, as the proud owner of new ICE vehicle, no $10K bounty snitch awaits you, no prosecutorial justice awaits you and no jail time. Just scowls of disapproval and "eco-shaming from the libs!")
But I'm sure, many of you QAnon\MAGA\Repubs conservative types, would rather be dragged over hot coals, than face the scowls of disapproval from the libs, for buying/driving a new ICE vehicle and ignoring the state's cleaner automotive emission standards and their ambitious Clean Air Act mandate, RIGHT!
So you see, Tiny 12 and Elvis 2008, my TIP to you guys is, when the time comes and you do indeed, need a new ICE vehicle, is to pretend like you're a pregnant women, in need of abortion, due to complications, in a red state and high-tail-it outta town (...kkkk!), when states like California's ban on sales of new ICE vehicles, eventually come into effect.
Yet another myth busted and debunked, about buying and owning EVs!
Elvis 2008
03-11-25, 21:40
But I'm sure, many of you QAnon\MAGA\Repubs conservative types, would rather be dragged over hot coals, than face the scowls of disapproval from the libs, for buying/driving a new ICE vehicle and ignoring the state's cleaner automotive emission standards and their ambitious Clean Air Act mandate, RIGHT!
So you see, Tiny 12 & Elvis 2008, my TIP to you guys is, to pretend like you're a pregnant women in a red state(...kkkk!), in need of an abortion and high-tail-it outta town, when states like California, ban on sales of new ICE vehicles, eventually come into effect.
Yet another myth about buying/owning EVs debunked!Are you proud of this post?
Yeah, women may bleed a little bit during pregnancy. You can check for heart tones after 5 weeks and do an ultrasound to see if the fetus is in the uterus as it should be. If there is massive bleeding, that usually means the woman is further along in her pregnancy and the fetus is already dead. There would not be heart sounds and the fetus may not be in the uterus. If the miscarriage is not complete, the uterus is scraped much like it is with an abortion to get rid of the fetal tissue that is causing the bleeding. To not do this would be medical malpractice in both red and blue states.
The difference between red and blue states has to do with ELECTIVE abortions not when women are bleeding to death.
I hear you bragging about how you do not respond to me. Let me guess. You are not going to respond to this one.
You see what I mean when I say how fucking arrogant you are. We take care of our women in the blue states! No, you all get played by your women in the blue states. Did one of them come up with this idiotic pregnancy scenario or did you think this up all by yourself?
Greenland prime minister say no to Trump, after his unrespectful behavior with Ukrainians, saying: we can t trust Trump. At least, he said what the world think.
Newton York
03-12-25, 04:17
Trapped by all these falling knives, and an impending recession, clearly the bears have complete control of the market now. At this point, whatever hell I go through in the office, I can't even quit anymore. I'm trapped in a shitty work environment and my money is trapped in all these so called mag 7 stocks, until a miracle happens and the stock market recovers. I can't sell, I got no cash to dca down. This fucking sucks, and it sucking fucks.
There is a glimmer of hope though, following the reverse Cramer thesis, he just said it's time to abandon ship on the mag 7, which means it's time to load up. But then if I start buying, then it'll definitely crash. There's just no winning here *sigh* FML.
Gentlemen, Please remember the bastards are the politicians, not fellow board members. I'm reluctant to wander back in here right now for fear of plodding around in feces.
Xpartan, it's no great mystery why intelligent people like Axel and Elvis favor Trump. They believe he was the lesser of evils. I can't think of anything both big and really good that Biden did. Trump on the other hand cut the corporate tax rate and deregulated. And for a time got North Korea to stop long range and intermediate range ballistic missile tests, just by buddying up to Kim. Unfortunately he then proceeded to destroy his legacy by trying to steal an election. And his second round of trade wars won't help either.
By virtue of where I live and the industry I've worked in, the majority of my friends are like Elvis and Axel. Most of them are very intelligent, and like Trump more than Axel and Elvis. And I can say with respect to my friends, most are not racists. A couple are. One told me he would off me it it was desirable to improve the gene pool.
SubCmdr brought up an important point about bonds. If you're buying junk bonds issued at close to par value, and they can be called at slightly higher prices than what you're paying, the risk / reward ratio is probably out of whack. Like him, I prefer equities because I understand them better and believe there's more value in investing in them in the long term. I believe there are some tax traps associated with high yield bonds too if you hold them to maturity, although they could be avoided if you purchase them in an IRA.
Spidy, I agree with you, and I suspect Elvis would too, about abortion in some red states. What Texas is doing borders on nuts. I gladly put up with it because of otherwise efficient, well run government.
Tooms, I hope someday you'll realize that the national debt was a bipartisan affair. And presidents don't have as much to do with the economy as you think they do. On a % of GDP basis, I imagine the biggest jump in the national debt occurred during FDR's presidency. And if you're going to pin the debt from COVID on Trump, then you've got to pin the debt from WWII on FDR.
Sirioja, While France may make bad cars, and kill lots of people in African countries, and have dictators from time to time along with big government that impoverishes the people, the food is very good. Arguably the best in the world.
That's all I have to say right now. I'll wade back when the shit and dead bodies decompose, hopefully in a few days.
We are nowhere near the bottom. This is the 1st half of the 1st inning. The two things causing the market to rise were government massively expanding the amount of cash in the system and AI. I saw what Trump and Musk were doing. When Musk repeated the things I saw about the debt and deficit, I was excited because he knew what the problem was. What shocked me is he was actually willing to take the bullets to fix it, and Trump has totally bought in.
The next question I had was, "Does Trump get that what he is doing is going to crash the market?" And I got my answer.
He responded to this on Sunday, https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/trump-says-transition-period-likely-for-economy-and-you-cant-watch-the-stock-market.html Asked whether he thinks a recession is imminent, Trump said, "I hate to predict things like that. " he later added, "Look, we're going to have disruption, but we're OK with that. " and this "What I have to do is build a strong country," he said. "You can't really watch the stock market. ".
Deepseek has blown up the models with regards to future earnings with AI. And the government is saying we are okay with the stock market going down. So I cannot even come up with a bull case right now.
If you are a real Democrat and care about the poor and middle class, this is not a bad thing. Housing has been ridiculously overpriced in the USA. With the piercing of the asset bubble, interest rates will come down as will housing prices, and some of those millenials will actually be able to afford a home!
But yeah, the Democratic douche will latch onto the falling stock market as a symptom of Trump incompetence. Truth is the market was a Biden blown bubble of epic proportions.It is astonishing how the inarguable superiority of Great Dem Recoveries, Expansions, Historic Jobs Gains and oh yes Stock Market Gains vs Great Repub Depressions, Great Recessions, Historic Jobs Destruction and oh yes Stock Market Crashes has finally come to this;.
Trump takes credit for the Economy and Stock Market when he is NOT President and blames the Crap Jobs Numbers and Stock Market Crashes when he IS president on Obama and Biden!
Perfect. LOL.
"Never woulda' happened on my watch" was appropriate for Obama and Biden to have said about Trump's Pandemic Part 1 and the Trump's Pandemic Part 2 that Trump is working so hard to create. And it sure as hell was worse for America, killed more Americans, destoyed more jobs and businesses than any war between other countries anywhere else. But, being responsible adults more interested in cleaning up the colossal Repub mess of everything they were handed than laying blame, they never pulled that shit.
By stark contrast, that is the ONLY shit Trump and his MAGAs have got in their bag of crap to throw.
The only time Great Repub Depressions, Great Repub Recessions and Historic Repub Jobs Destruction "transitioned" into something better was AFTER Dems took office and cleaned up the colossal mess of everything the Repubs handed them as FDR did and JFK / LBJ did and Carter did and Clinton did and Obama did and Biden did and for damn sure the next incoming Dem will after Trump's Pandemic Part 2 is mercifully over.
And when that "transition" to a better America and better economy happens it will be as always was the case for the past 100 years or more primarily Big Blue States with Big Blue Cities bailing out, rescuing and carrying the load of Recovery for Red States who suffered and could not handle the abuse visited upon them by their Repub pol abusers.
And all the while, the Red State MAGAs will blame the rescuing First Responder Dems for their plight and seek to punish them for it in the next election. Lolol.
As sure as night follows day.
Tiny 12, I agree with your completely! E2008 once a called me a socialist:
Does this idiot get the concept of supply and demand or is he another socialist that he thinks that he deserves better service because of his virtue signaling?The idiot in question that E2008 is referring to is me. Just click on the view original post link.
Gentlemen, Please remember the bastards are the politicians, not fellow board members.
SubCmdr brought up an important point about bonds. If you're buying junk bonds issued at close to par value, and they can be called at slightly higher prices than what you're paying, the risk / reward ratio is probably out of whack. Like him, I prefer equities because I understand them better and believe there's more value in investing in them in the long term. I believe there are some tax traps associated with high yield bonds too if you hold them to maturity, although they could be avoided if you purchase them in an IRA.E2008 you seem to know a lot about my posts even through you have me on ignore. I am flattered. I have not been banned because I have not violated the code of conduct on ISG. I have received plenty of infractions though. My last one does not drop off until.
So I am no angel. The real difference between me an you is that I can take an infraction like a man. Just like when I went to Dominican Jail. I don't need to project my homosexual fantasies as you do.
If you did not have your butt buddy and fellow racist victim Gabacho going down on a moderator, chances are you would be banned by now.To make excuses for my behavioral errors that result in me taking an infraction. Much like crypto I take responsibility for myself and my actions.
Maybe try posting on facts and showing knowledge versus patting yourself on the back, and I will listen.Ok, let's just stick to the facts and see if you are speaking truth or just more of your lies and insults.
Here is what you wrote and my factual response
If you have not gotten out, you better now. It is not going up now. NVIDIA makes video cards for gaming. They just lucked into the fact that their chips are the best ones for AI for now. This was part of the whole AI is going to change the world nonsense. Sure, AI may change the world but no one knows who is going to benefit from it.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/26/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q4-2025.html
NVIDIA is not sitting on it's achievements. They have already announced the Blackwell 200 GPU unit which the next generation of GPU platform.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-a4-vms-powered-by-nvidia-b200-gpu-aka-blackwell The owner of NVIDIA is a billionaire. Is Elvis2000 a billionaire?
So the recent black swan event was deep seek from China. It showed with some software tweeks, you do not have to pay through the nose for high end chips. Is Deep seek now going to be the darling of Wall Street? I doubt it. What they did can easily be replicated.Not a black swan event. Throughout time improvements in computing power come from two sources, hardware and software. It is no surprise that innovative software engineers could come up with a way to get more with less. But what E2008 misses is that the training was done using the LLMs that had already been developed. Sort of like saying a Professor used his graduate students to teach his classes after he instructed them how do to it. So that freed up his time and allowed him to save money by billing his university at his rate while using his graduate students who are getting paid a significance lower rate to teach his undergraduate classes.
Using logic from the OP he thinks that because the Professor did that there will no longer be a need for Professors (powerful chips). I think differently. I think the DeepSeek development shows that AI can be for everyone. Not just the multi-billion dollar Corporate spenders out there. The computers the racist Musk uses in his rocket science are WAY more advanced that my desktop. The DeepSeek development will drive demand and may create a situation of doing more with more and make the current chips even more powerful. Currently NVDA cannot make enough chips to meet demand. Their current closest competitor is AMD. They have a good chip but they are having production problems which are delaying the launch. In the current stock market correction AMD is taking a price hit also. Just like almost everything else in the market.
You said I was a bad investor How about a real world test. You put up four bonds you have bought, the date and the prices. Here is my equity portfolio for the test. I have real USD on this. This is not a paper portfolio.
Mark the date - Tuesday March 11, 2025
Closing Prices
NVDA - 109.415; MSTR - 259.40; COIN - 191.98; AMD - 97.08.
My Purchase Prices
NVDA - 117.97; MSTR - 250.00 ; COIN - 211.50; AMD - 99.00.
Let's check back in a year and see how the number looks despite the what the Racist Musk and King Trump are doing to destroy the economy in the United States of America and the lives my fellow American who are not billionaires. Same Same me.
Gentlemen, Please remember the bastards are the politicians, not fellow board members. I'm reluctant to wander back in here right now for fear of plodding around in feces.
Xpartan, it's no great mystery why intelligent people like Axel and Elvis favor Trump. They believe he was the lesser of evils. I can't think of anything both big and really good that Biden did. Trump on the other hand cut the corporate tax rate and deregulated. And for a time got North Korea to stop long range and intermediate range ballistic missile tests, just by buddying up to Kim. Unfortunately he then proceeded to destroy his legacy by trying to steal an election. And his second round of trade wars won't help either.
By virtue of where I live and the industry I've worked in, the majority of my friends are like Elvis and Axel. Most of them are very intelligent, and like Trump more than Axel and Elvis. And I can say with respect to my friends, most are not racists. A couple are. One told me he would off me it it was desirable to improve the gene pool.
SubCmdr brought up an important point about bonds. If you're buying junk bonds issued at close to par value, and they can be called at slightly higher prices than what you're paying, the risk / reward ratio is probably out of whack. Like him, I prefer equities because I understand them better and believe there's more value in investing in them in the long term. I believe there are some tax traps associated with high yield bonds too if you hold them to maturity, although they could be avoided if you purchase them in an IRA.
Spidy, I agree with you, and I suspect Elvis would too, about abortion in some red states. What Texas is doing borders on nuts. I gladly put up with it because of otherwise efficient, well run government.
Tooms, I hope someday you'll realize that the national debt was a bipartisan affair. And presidents don't have as much to do with the economy as you think they do. On a % of GDP basis, I imagine the biggest jump in the national debt occurred during FDR's presidency. And if you're going to pin the debt from COVID on Trump, then you've got to pin the debt from WWII on FDR.
Sirioja, While France may make bad cars, and kill lots of people in African countries, and have dictators from time to time along with big government that impoverishes the people, the food is very good. Arguably the best in the world.
That's all I have to say right now. I'll wade back when the shit and dead bodies decompose, hopefully in a few days.No Neron in France since 80 years and we were not born before. You know nothing about french cars, a Megane RS or a thermic Alpine 110 are more efficient than my original Audi S5 and Mercedes used french engines. Number 1 for tourism because of higher aura than much larger USA. I worry about now 47% adults are too fat in France, meaning weight divided by height square is more than 25 . Obesity when more than 30 . Thanks MacDo and Cola, when we have salers meat and other so good foods. Mine is 22 , when I love to drink water from mountains when I bicycle climb, but no doping like Armstrong or Landis, fakers like Musk.
Political and Corporate Corruption has always been the life-blood of the Repub Party. It could not exist without it.
LOL. Imagine a Political Party spending Trillions more, adding Trillions more to the USA debt and deficit than its Democratic Party counterpart for more than 100 years yet, even when it controls the White House, House and Senate, still NEVER managing to propose, fight for and pass a single piece of legislation to benefit the majority of the American people destined to become revered and defended to this day?
Not one Repub legislation comparable to ANY of ALL of them proposed, fought for and passed by The Democratic Party when they controlled the White House, House and Senate, even though they spent less of the American tax-payers' money to accomplish it!
Amazing.
Social Security (nothing like a Ponzi Scheme, BTW).
Unemployment Insurance.
Medicare.
Medicaid.
The 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Affirdable Care Act.
The American Rescue Plan Act.
The Inflation Reduction Act.
The Science and Chips Act.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
And so on.
All great moments or "Hills to Die On", as it were IMO. Where the cost of silence was no doubt, greater than the cost of defiance.
A few of my own "Hills to Die On":
• The Wagner Act
• Civil Rights Act
• Clean Air Act
• Women’s Suffrage
• Marriage Equality
• Federal Mandate for Seat Belt Safety
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Lead Paint/Gasoline Ban
• LGBTQ and Anti-Discrimination Laws
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Family and Medical Leave Act
• Occupational Safety and Health Act
Evidently, some hills are worth dying on!
That is undeniably, a helluva lot of "Hills to Die On", but they are undeniably, the reasons why many of us, enjoy the cleaner living, better working standards, rights and freedoms of today.
And yet you'll always get, the dismissive arrogance, from many of those MAGA sanctimonious insufferable blowhards, that scoff at those hard fought battles for, equal rights, civil rights and freedoms, that they now, so easily take for granted.
"Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and cure the common cold. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it."
Gentlemen, Please remember the bastards are the politicians, not fellow board members. I'm reluctant to wander back in here right now for fear of plodding around in feces.
Xpartan, it's no great mystery why intelligent people like Axel and Elvis favor Trump. They believe he was the lesser of evils. I can't think of anything both big and really good that Biden did. Trump on the other hand cut the corporate tax rate and deregulated. And for a time got North Korea to stop long range and intermediate range ballistic missile tests, just by buddying up to Kim. Unfortunately he then proceeded to destroy his legacy by trying to steal an election. And his second round of trade wars won't help either.
By virtue of where I live and the industry I've worked in, the majority of my friends are like Elvis and Axel. Most of them are very intelligent, and like Trump more than Axel and Elvis. And I can say with respect to my friends, most are not racists. A couple are. One told me he would off me it it was desirable to improve the gene pool.
SubCmdr brought up an important point about bonds. If you're buying junk bonds issued at close to par value, and they can be called at slightly higher prices than what you're paying, the risk / reward ratio is probably out of whack. Like him, I prefer equities because I understand them better and believe there's more value in investing in them in the long term. I believe there are some tax traps associated with high yield bonds too if you hold them to maturity, although they could be avoided if you purchase them in an IRA.
Spidy, I agree with you, and I suspect Elvis would too, about abortion in some red states. What Texas is doing borders on nuts. I gladly put up with it because of otherwise efficient, well run government.
Tooms, I hope someday you'll realize that the national debt was a bipartisan affair. And presidents don't have as much to do with the economy as you think they do. On a % of GDP basis, I imagine the biggest jump in the national debt occurred during FDR's presidency. And if you're going to pin the debt from COVID on Trump, then you've got to pin the debt from WWII on FDR.
Sirioja, While France may make bad cars, and kill lots of people in African countries, and have dictators from time to time along with big government that impoverishes the people, the food is very good. Arguably the best in the world.
That's all I have to say right now. I'll wade back when the shit and dead bodies decompose, hopefully in a few days.This forum should really have a up / down vote and save post function.
I haven't followed the thread, but Tiny's comments are all 100%- apart from the French food comment. No decent person would eat snails or frogs, and such acts should be regarded with disgust.
Trump vs the cackling woman was the classic dilemma facing America- it was fucked no matter who it chose.
Most people don't understand the American / Chinese relationship up to now. It's not been one of China leaching of America, but a symbiotic economic one in which the Chinese lent the money to America to buy their cheap goods: America bought chinese goods, China recirculated the money into Treasury's. If that derails, American debt yields rise massively, so does inflation, so do your taxes. The tariffs are the icing on the cake. Musk is an idiot who is not making any material difference. If he were going to reform your healthcare system (the most expensive in the world yet still unjust and crap) I would be impressed.
It's looking bleak for America, but EU is arguably even more fucked. Still, I am optimistic about the power of science and technology and 10-20 years from now the world will probably be in a better place.
Gentlemen, Please remember the bastards are the politicians, not fellow board members. I'm reluctant to wander back in here right now for fear of plodding around in feces.
Xpartan, it's no great mystery why intelligent people like Axel and Elvis favor Trump. They believe he was the lesser of evils. I can't think of anything both big and really good that Biden did. Trump on the other hand cut the corporate tax rate and deregulated. And for a time got North Korea to stop long range and intermediate range ballistic missile tests, just by buddying up to Kim. Unfortunately he then proceeded to destroy his legacy by trying to steal an election. And his second round of trade wars won't help either.
By virtue of where I live and the industry I've worked in, the majority of my friends are like Elvis and Axel. Most of them are very intelligent, and like Trump more than Axel and Elvis. And I can say with respect to my friends, most are not racists. A couple are. One told me he would off me it it was desirable to improve the gene pool..If you can't think of anything big and good that Biden did, then you aren't thinking very much at all and being totally unfair. In any event, Biden wasn't the candidate. It was the VP Harris. That said, I'm not here to try to prove the case. I'm not interested in trying to change anyone's mind. That's just a waste of time. So, believe what you want to. I just say you're wrong and move on. People say you can't easily change someone's mind by starting out with telling them they are wrong. Well again, I'm not interested in changing minds! But if I feel strongly about it, then I just might say the other side is wrong. How someone can think Trump the convicted felon (and that's just to start) is the lesser of evils and a suitable leader and representative of America on the world stage is beyond me! He's the worst President ever if you ask me due to a lack of respect for the Constitution and his attempt to overturn a free and fair election in what used to be the world's greatest democracy.
Neron Trump wants to suck Putin, but after killing Ukrainians and still doing, Putin may fuck Trump and USA. Putin is not trustable, when he didn t respect what he signed 10 years ago. Most sure way to stop Putin is to make Russia broke with no more money for weapons and meats sent to war, otherwise he won t stop to kill. Our world have to isolate Russia and block their money, not to make business sucking him.
If you can't think of anything big and good that Biden did, then you aren't thinking very much at all and being totally unfair. In any event, Biden wasn't the candidate. It was the VP Harris. That said, I'm not here to try to prove the case. I'm not interested in trying to change anyone's mind. That's just a waste of time. So, believe what you want to. I just say you're wrong and move on. People say you can't easily change someone's mind by starting out with telling them they are wrong. Well again, I'm not interested in changing minds! But if I feel strongly about it, then I just might say the other side is wrong. How someone can think Trump the convicted felon (and that's just to start) is the lesser of evils and a suitable leader and representative of America on the world stage is beyond me! He's the worst President ever if you ask me due to a lack of respect for the Constitution and his attempt to overturn a free and fair election in what used to be the world's greatest democracy.LOL. For me, Ultra MAGA Winger Tiny pulled this straw man argument out of his ass:
Tooms, I hope someday you'll realize that the national debt was a bipartisan affair. And presidents don't have as much to do with the economy as you think they do. On a % of GDP basis, I imagine the biggest jump in the national debt occurred during FDR's presidency. And if you're going to pin the debt from COVID on Trump, then you've got to pin the debt from WWII on FDR.I had JUST posted a link showing that adjusted for inflation and going back to 1913 the Dems and Repubs increased government spending and the debt by almost equal amounts but that the Repubs added more to it by $0. 2 Trillion.
And ANOTHER link showing that Trump spent TWICE what Biden spent on Covid AND non Covid expenditures. With NO mention that it was evil Covid that forced poor put upon Trump to jack up his government spending to record highs. The fact that his non Covid expenditures were already TWICE what Biden's non Covid expenditures were is proof enough that in typical classic Repub fashion Trump was determined to spend TWICE as much as the nearest Dem and break all government spending records regardless whether he had found and embraced a golden opportunity like Covid to do it or not. That is just what they do.
The larger point was Trump's record breaking government spending and deregulation produced exactly zero net gain for the economy and jobs creation in light of the fact that his classic Repub general legislative nothingness and blithering stewardship produced the worst jobs creation and business crashing results of all time.
Oh, so he cut corporate tax rates and deregulated, did he? Impressive. Are we supposed to love that process and ignore the results? Every Repub seeks to lower tax rates for corporations and top margins and deregulate. Hooray. Let's just ignore the fact that whatever process they apply to accomplish it, Repubs' policies and stewardship has RESULTED in every Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction in the millions of the past 100 years and none of the Great Recoveries, Great Expansions and Historic Jobs Creation. Oh, but their tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation was beautiful. Lolol.
And, again, along the way they somehow spent MORE than Dems but still managed not to propose, fight for and pass one solitary Great Legislative Program when they controlled the WH, House and Senate in all that time equal to so much as the least of those produced by Dems. Hell, forget anything close to Social Security and Unemployment Benefits. Trump cut corporate tax rates, deregulated, plunged America into the worst economic downturn and jobs destruction since Hoover and still somehow managed not to pass one sentence of Infrastructure Legislation after 4 years of pretending to try while Biden passed a historic Infrastructure bill and a Science and Chips Act that even virulent America-hating Winger Repubs are rushing to protect from President Musk's Chainsaw.
Results count. Process is interesting but ultimately meaningless compared to Results.
Not only do Wingers like Tiny not notice anything Biden accomplished (historic positive results), but apparently the only thing they can recall that FDR accomplished after top marginal tax cutters and deregulator Repubs Coolidge / Hoover handed him one of the worst economic results in history was to spend government money. LOL.
Ok, let's just stick to the facts and see if you are speaking truth or just more of your lies and insults.Nvida chips are the ones that have allowed for the RACIST Musk to advance further than anyone other vehicle manufacture on the autonomous driving feature using AI.
Despite developing its own chip, Tesla still relies on Nvidia GPUs for training its deep neural networks on a massive scale. Tesla uses an in-house supercomputer named Dojo, which is powered by Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs to train its neural networks for Autopilot and self-driving capabilities. This supercomputer can achieve an industry-leading 1.8 exaflops of performance.
Tesla's Autopilot system is classified as Level 2 under the SAE six levels of vehicle automation, meaning it requires active driver supervision and is not fully autonomous.
Nvidia, on the other hand, works closely with Tesla to provide the necessary hardware and software for training and development of autonomous driving features.
Tesla's decision to use Nvidia GPUs for training its neural networks is crucial for continuous improvement and validation of its Autopilot features. The company collects data from over 1 million cars driving on the road to refine and build new features for its autonomous driving technology.
In summary, while Tesla has developed its own custom chip for autonomous driving, it continues to use Nvidia's GPUs for training its neural networks, highlighting the ongoing collaboration between the two companies.Taking the rock straight to the hole and dunking right in his face.
Oooooooh that was nasty!
With Trump and his ketamine asperger fool, many lost jobs and economics recession and inflation to come. Enjoy to be deeply fucked, no brained USA. Putin will keep on his war. Other countries will resist to USA gang of crazies. I support Mexico, Canada and Greenland / Denmark versus Neron shameful schizophrene threatening blackmailing Trump.
If low level brained Trump was more clever, rather than sucking Putin to find new market, when he is losing versus Europe and China, he should know Russia economics is about to fall on 2025 , then no more money for war and his friend Putin would lose and return home. Rather than threatening blackmailing poor Ukrainians to rob them, maybe, if they kept their land and freedom, they could be happy to make business with USA for metals and minerals. But from his behavior, most of the world hate Trump and USA at the moment.
Elvis 2008
03-13-25, 14:13
If you can't think of anything big and good that Biden did, then you aren't thinking very much at all and being totally unfair. In any event, Biden wasn't the candidate. It was the VP Harris. That said, I'm not here to try to prove the case.
Not only do Wingers like Tiny not notice anything Biden accomplished (historic positive results)It is funny how neither of you listed anything. When I read through Biden's accomplishments, they all involved printing money to pay for something or just being in place when the pandemic ended. In fact, cranking up the government printing press is what Trump did as well. I do not see any difference between Biden's and Trump's policies.
But the real point is if Biden was so damned great, why did you all get rid of him before the 2024 election? We all know the reason is because he would not win.
As far as that goes, Ronald Reagan was showing signs of dementia towards the end of his last term, and he was so popular I think he would have won in 1988 had he run.
I think the biggest difference with Biden and Trump has to do with war and the loss of life. Trump and Putin both have said the Ukraine war would not have happened on his watch, and I think Trump would have reigned in Netanyahu more than Biden did. The Biden administration was awful in foreign affairs.
Elvis 2008
03-13-25, 15:26
Most people don't understand the American / Chinese relationship up to now. It's not been one of China leaching of America, but a symbiotic economic one in which the Chinese lent the money to America to buy their cheap goods: America bought chinese goods, China recirculated the money into Treasury's. If that derails, American debt yields rise massively, so does inflation, so do your taxes. The tariffs are the icing on the cake. Musk is an idiot who is not making any material difference. If he were going to reform your healthcare system (the most expensive in the world yet still unjust and crap) I would be impressed. China did not lend the USA money. They bought bonds that were already issued on the open market. If China did not buy them, someone else would have. But having goods produced in China did lower prices and allowed the USA to keep inflation down which in turn allowed for lower interest rates.
The notion though that the USA has mountains of debt while China has none is ridiculous. China has more debt than the USA as it borrows to build things today that no one uses or needs to keep people employed. China just has a tendency to push this debt down to the city and state level.
Elvis 2008
03-13-25, 16:52
Trapped by all these falling knives, and an impending recession, clearly the bears have complete control of the market now. At this point, whatever hell I go through in the office, I can't even quit anymore. I'm trapped in a shitty work environment and my money is trapped in all these so called mag 7 stocks, until a miracle happens and the stock market recovers. I can't sell, I got no cash to dca down. This fucking sucks, and it sucking fucks.
There is a glimmer of hope though, following the reverse Cramer thesis, he just said it's time to abandon ship on the mag 7, which means it's time to load up. But then if I start buying, then it'll definitely crash. There's just no winning here *sigh* FML.The market has been overpriced for years, and the reason it was going up is Biden was going into massive debt and flooding the system with cash. Then there was the promise of AI. After trudging through all of SC's post, he finally got to why he bought Nvidia and why. I was not convinced but I did a deep dive on the subject just to be sure.
Best piece I found was here, and it is a free download: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/top-of-mind/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit.
This is the bull case: Again, I readily acknowledge that the return on invested capital (ROIC) visibility is currently low, and the transformative potential of AI will remain hotly debated until that becomes clearer. But AI skeptics miss three key things.
One, training on existing / historical data to inform and drive analytic outcomes in the future sounds exactly like going to.
Universitypeople go to learn and then improve productivity and efficiency for decades after graduation, and machines can.
Absolutely do the same. Two, machines today can do a whole host of tasks more productively and efficiently than humans.
And that will remain true for decades into the future. And three, people didn't think they needed smartphones, airbnb, or uber.
Here is the best one line of the bear case: But eighteen months after the introduction of generative AI to the world, not one truly transformativelet.
Alone cost-effectiveapplication has been found.
So my response to point one of the bulls is learn what? For point two, we knew machines could do things better than humans before AI was even being talked about. And third, I knew the internet and smart phone were cool when I first used them and continued to do so. I have played with chatgpt and after doing so, put it away, but I did not put away my internet use or cell phone.
Back to the bear:
Since the substantial spend on AI infrastructure will continue despite my skepticism, investors should remain invested in the beneficiaries of this spend, in rank order: chip.
Manufacturers, utilities and other companies exposed to the coming buildout of the power grid to support AI technology.
And the hyperscalers, which are spending substantial money themselves but will also garner incremental revenue from the.
AI buildout. These companies have indeed already run up substantially, but history suggests that an expensive valuation.
Alone won't stop a company's stock price from rising further if the fundamentals that made the company expensive in the first.
Place remain intact.
So as long as Nvidia has buyers for their chips, keep investing in it.
I do not think people get that Nvidia was in gaming, and gaming more than anything pushed computers to be faster and better. A $100 PC today can do almost everything people need it to. It can even run old games just fine. In fact, only 5 of the top 20 games on metacritic were produced in the last 5 years. Newer, bigger, and more powerful did not mean better.
So what Nvidia is doing is building better and faster chips for the AI world, there are no fucking games / must have apps yet. You can download a deepseek program that has been tweaked to not have Chinese censorship and put the whole thing on your computer. Sure, open AI can create faster and more expensive models, but no one knows if they will be needed. Again, there are no fucking games / apps that are must haves. If deepseek is enough to run the future killer apps, if there even are any, then Nvidia is fucked.
The other bump in the road is these super fast AIs need huge amounts of power. The bull case for growth is limited by quantity of electricity. It is like EVs and lithium. There is not enough lithium for everyone to have an EV. The manic modeled growth for AI is dependent on doubling the amount of power in our grids. That is not an easily done.
And back to the bull:
So, I don't expect companies to scale back spending on AI infrastructure and strategies until we enter a tougher part of the economic cycle, which we don't expect anytime soon. That said, spending on these experiments will likely be the one of the first things to go if and when corporate profitability starts to decline.
What has changed since this correct statement is that Trump is president and he seems to be pulling money out of the system and deepseek has made the tech big boys question if their investment is necessary.
I have read how AI is going to take over war. The fighter pilot cannot take on things like changes in g force like AI can. Then you read this: The human brain is 10,000 x more effective per unit of power in performing cognitive tasks vs. Generative AI. This means you are like a century away from AI fighter pilots. In fact, AI along with humans will likely happen first.
And I abhor the use of the term investor. You invest a product. These guys are likening the growth of AI to smart phones when they do not even have a fucking product. So you are not investing in anything with AI, you are speculating and when you speculate, you have no idea what something should cost.
It is funny how neither of you listed anything.It's like I said. I'm not here to convince you of shit. It's funny that you think I am.
A couple of serious USA Stock Market watchers have spoken about Trump's blithering, blathering, cognitive incapacity Trade War and Tariffs Disaster's negative influence on the forward-looking USA Stock Market.
And, uh, it has nothing to do with Biden's multiple all-time record closing Stock Market highs or the Envy of the World Economy he handed Trump on a silver platter or his historic legislative achievements, all of which will be the only things that prevent Trump from producing another contractually-required Great Repub Depression / Great Repub Recession as soon as he is obviously trying very, very, very hard to produce one:
One of Wall Street's biggest bulls cuts his S&P 500 outlook, blaming tariffs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/one-of-wall-streets-big-bulls-cuts-sp-500-target-blaming-trumps-tariffs.html?__source=androidappshare
Widely followed strategist Ed Yardeni, one of the biggest bulls on Wall Street, lowered his market forecast, saying President Donald Trumps tariffs raise the risk of stagflation.
"It has dawned on Wall Street (and us!) that President Trumps tariffs arent negotiating chips to help the U.S. lower tariffs around the world, promoting free trade", Yardeni said in a note to clients Thursday. "They're trade barriers, triggering other countries to respond in kind, and they jeopardize U.S. inflation and economic growth."
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Yardeni said, "U.S. trade policy is disorganized. We can't ignore the potential stagflationary impact of the policies that Trump 2.0 is currently implementing haphazardly."
"In response to the now heightened risk of stagflation, we are lowering our S&P 500 valuation expectations and year-end price targets", Yardeni said. "If tariffs stick, the one-time price increase and uncertainty regarding its impact on inflation expectations are likely to be enough to keep the FOMC on pause", he said, referring to the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee of the U.S. U.S. Federal Reserve.
Goldman Sachs this week became the first major sell-side bank on Wall Street to slash its S&P 500 target, lowering its objective to 6,200 from 6,500.
It is funny how neither of you listed anything. When I read through Biden's accomplishments, they all involved printing money to pay for something or just being in place when the pandemic ended. In fact, cranking up the government printing press is what Trump did as well. I do not see any difference between Biden's and Trump's policies.
But the real point is if Biden was so damned great, why did you all get rid of him before the 2024 election? We all know the reason is because he would not win.
As far as that goes, Ronald Reagan was showing signs of dementia towards the end of his last term, and he was so popular I think he would have won in 1988 had he run..I often cite 2-3 Biden legislative accomplishments, which is already 1-2 more than you could cite for Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term. And the RESULTS are easily researched in, say, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the months and months and months of jobs reports. And I have several times posted links for how typical American Working Men and Women's purchasing power in the past couple of years already surpassed that of 2019 by hundreds of dollars per year.
But if you really want a complete list from a perfectly non-partisan source, here ya' go.
Enjoy:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Celebrates Accomplishments for Servicemembers and Military Families.
January 16, 2025:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-celebrates-accomplishments-for-servicemembers-and
And, yes, that same non-partisan source covered the Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term as well. In fact, it covers his political life from the time he announced his candidacy. I encourage you and others to by all means look it up. Lololol.
Spoiler Alert: The first Trump so-called presidency is carefully documented by almost nothing by thousands and thousands of idiotic tweets about every nonsensical incoherent thought that crossed his mind with precious little if ANY actual accomplishments for four solid horrific and blithering, blathrring years.
Oh, what the hell. OK, I'll do all the work for you. Here is the link:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/people/president/donald-j-trump-1st-term
China did not lend the USA money. They bought bonds that were already issued on the open market. If China did not buy them, someone else would have. But having goods produced in China did lower prices and allowed the USA to keep inflation down which in turn allowed for lower interest rates.
The notion though that the USA has mountains of debt while China has none is ridiculous. China has more debt than the USA as it borrows to build things today that no one uses or needs to keep people employed. China just has a tendency to push this debt down to the city and state level.China did not lend the USA money. They bought bonds that were already issued on the open market. If China did not buy them, someone else would have. But having goods produced in China did lower prices and allowed the USA to keep inflation down which in turn allowed for lower interest rates.
Yes, it's correct that China bought Treasuries but this is pretty much tantamount to lending money to USA. Ultimately, the yield on the treasuries is governed by supply demand and having a massive demand from China has been critical to keeping Treasury yields low for America. The corollary of this is that removal of Chinese demand would have inevitably pushed up yields. However yes, Chinese goods also aided lower inflation and lower interest rates.
The notion though that the USA has mountains of debt while China has none is ridiculous. China has more debt than the USA as it borrows to build things today that no one uses or needs to keep people employed. China just has a tendency to push this debt down to the city and state level.
There is one critical feature that people often forget when comparing debt / GDP ratios of countries like China and Japan vs USA: the fact that China and Japan have huge countervailing savings in the forms of household savings, which do not exist in America. This offsets to a great degree the admittedly huge debt overhangs. I agree China has been stupid in its massive over development of real state funded by debt but I don't see this turning into a Japanese type deflation, they will get the debt inflation out of the system (even if it takes time). American debt is scarely high, and with the economy now looking bleak, it's not a great time for America.
When I posted this reply earlier I inadvertently only included a link for the Biden-Harris Administration's accomplishments on behalf of our Military Servicemembers and their Families. Which is already far greater than anything Trump ever accomplished in his 1st term. But I actually meant to include the link for his and Harris' entire presidential accomplishments but neglected to include it.
So I have now rectified that oversight here:
It is funny how neither of you listed anything. When I read through Biden's accomplishments, they all involved printing money to pay for something or just being in place when the pandemic ended. In fact, cranking up the government printing press is what Trump did as well. I do not see any difference between Biden's and Trump's policies.
But the real point is if Biden was so damned great, why did you all get rid of him before the 2024 election? We all know the reason is because he would not win.
As far as that goes, Ronald Reagan was showing signs of dementia towards the end of his last term, and he was so popular I think he would have won in 1988 had he run..I often cite 2-3 Biden legislative accomplishments, which is already 1-2 more than you could cite for Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term. And the RESULTS are easily researched in, say, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the months and months and months of jobs reports. And I have several times posted links for how typical American Working Men and Women's purchasing power in the past couple of years already surpassed that of 2019 by hundreds of dollars per year.
But if you really want a complete list from a perfectly non-partisan source, here ya' go.
Enjoy:
FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration Record.
January 15, 2025:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-record
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Celebrates Accomplishments for Servicemembers and Military Families.
January 16, 2025:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-celebrates-accomplishments-for-servicemembers-and
And, yes, that same non-partisan source covered the Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term as well. In fact, it covers his political life from the time he announced his candidacy. I encourage you and others to by all means look it up. Lololol.
Spoiler Alert: The first Trump so-called presidency is carefully documented by almost nothing by thousands and thousands of idiotic tweets about every nonsensical incoherent thought that crossed his mind with precious little if ANY actual accomplishments for four solid horrific and blithering, blathrring years.
Oh, what the hell. OK, I'll do all the work for you. Here is the link:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/people/president/donald-j-trump-1st-term
After trudging through all of SC's post, he finally got to why he bought Nvidia and why. I was not convinced but I did a deep dive on the subject just to be sure.
Best piece I found was here, and it is a free download: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/top-of-mind/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit.Thank you Elvis 2008. You pointed me to a very informative report. You also made an excellent logical argument the lays out why you have taken the positions that you have. We can all make money in our preferred ways. I am not going to let the report, or the arguments by Elvis deter my investments in to NVDA or AMD. But he will also make money buying bonds. Which one of us will achieve greater returns. Who knows? Because I have never concerned myself the the value of things that I don't own.
I'm comfortable with my NVDA returns so far. I will continue to accumulate AMD. Yes, this is a 10 year play.
Axel Heyst
03-13-25, 22:18
Yes, Biden was a great president. That is why he enjoyed lower favorability when he left office than Nixon when he took that last helicopter ride. BKK Bob, what are you smoking? I want some of that weed! But this is old news.
I want to talk about another hill the Dems seem to want to die on: Chuckie Schumer's latest plan to shut down the Government. I hope the Demwits go through with it. It will be more entertaining than the latest episode of "White Lotus".
Xpartan, it's no great mystery why intelligent people like Axel and Elvis favor Trump. They believe he was the lesser of evils. I can't think of anything both big and really good that Biden did. Trump on the other hand cut the corporate tax rate and deregulated. And for a time got North Korea to stop long range and intermediate range ballistic missile tests, just by buddying up to Kim. Unfortunately he then proceeded to destroy his legacy by trying to steal an election. And his second round of trade wars won't help either.Kindly leave Elvis out of your assessment. Intelligence and a cult membership -- well, I can't connect the dots, sorry.
Now, what Axel believes is not something I care about. Unlike religious faith that doesn't require a proof, personal beliefs that contradict the obvious are also an opposite to intelligence, IMHO. The facts that Trump is an insurrectionist, asset of a foreign power, autocratic bafoon, convicted felon, serial liar, immoral narcissist, crooked businessman and greedy profiteer have been well-known, well-established and, in some cases, proven in a court of law. How can -- again -- intelligent people think ALL THAT was a "lesser evil" than Kamala Harris is way way way beyond me.
So no, you haven't explained anything. And no, Trump's falling in love with a mass-murdering monster WAS NOT a good thing either.
Axel Heyst
03-14-25, 00:45
1. His broken promise to the American people to govern as a moderate and heal America.
2. The 23% loss in purchasing power for all Americans resulting from his idiotic Executive orders.
3. The open border and more than 15 million illegal aliens allowed and financed by his administration to enter the country. Treason.
4. The disastrous and cowardly retreat from Afghanistan.
5. His replenishment of Putin's coffers.
6. #4 & #5 combined with his mental incompetence allowed Putin to invade Ukraine.
7. he replenishment of the Ayatollah's coffers.
8. #4 & #7 combined with his mental incompetence directly led to the Hamas War.
9. Lawfare: the unprecedented and unbridled use of the Federal Judiciary in an attempt to destroy his political opponent. An Impeachable offense.
Now when I say "Biden was the 2nd worst President in American History" what I really mean is the Biden Administration was the 2nd worst in American History because Biden the man was mentally incompetent to serve as President from day one and everybody around him in his inner circle knew it. Shame on the Democratic Party!
Thank you Elvis 2008. You pointed me to a very informative report. You also made an excellent logical argument the lays out why you have taken the positions that you have. We can all make money in our preferred ways. I am not going to let the report, or the arguments by Elvis deter my investments in to NVDA or AMD. But he will also make money buying bonds. Which one of us will achieve greater returns. Who knows? Because I have never concerned myself the the value of things that I don't own.
I'm comfortable with my NVDA returns so far. I will continue to accumulate AMD. Yes, this is a 10 year play.
The market has been overpriced for years, and the reason it was going up is Biden was going into massive debt and flooding the system with cash. Then there was the promise of AI. After trudging through all of SC's post, he finally got to why he bought Nvidia and why. I was not convinced but I did a deep dive on the subject just to be sure.
Best piece I found was here, and it is a free download: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/top-of-mind/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit.
This is the bull case: Again, I readily acknowledge that the return on invested capital (ROIC) visibility is currently low, and the transformative potential of AI will remain hotly debated until that becomes clearer. But AI skeptics miss three key things.
One, training on existing / historical data to inform and drive analytic outcomes in the future sounds exactly like going to.
Universitypeople go to learn and then improve productivity and efficiency for decades after graduation, and machines can.
Absolutely do the same. Two, machines today can do a whole host of tasks more productively and efficiently than humans.
And that will remain true for decades into the future. And three, people didn't think they needed smartphones, airbnb, or uber.
Here is the best one line of the bear case: But eighteen months after the introduction of generative AI to the world, not one truly transformativelet.
Alone cost-effectiveapplication has been found.
So my response to point one of the bulls is learn what? For point two, we knew machines could do things better than humans before AI was even being talked about. And third, I knew the internet and smart phone were cool when I first used them and continued to do so. I have played with chatgpt and after doing so, put it away, but I did not put away my internet use or cell phone.
Back to the bear:
Since the substantial spend on AI infrastructure will continue despite my skepticism, investors should remain invested in the beneficiaries of this spend, in rank order: chip.
Manufacturers, utilities and other companies exposed to the coming buildout of the power grid to support AI technology.
And the hyperscalers, which are spending substantial money themselves but will also garner incremental revenue from the.
AI buildout. These companies have indeed already run up substantially, but history suggests that an expensive valuation.
Alone won't stop a company's stock price from rising further if the fundamentals that made the company expensive in the first.
Place remain intact.
So as long as Nvidia has buyers for their chips, keep investing in it.
I do not think people get that Nvidia was in gaming, and gaming more than anything pushed computers to be faster and better. A $100 PC today can do almost everything people need it to. It can even run old games just fine. In fact, only 5 of the top 20 games on metacritic were produced in the last 5 years. Newer, bigger, and more powerful did not mean better.
So what Nvidia is doing is building better and faster chips for the AI world, there are no fucking games / must have apps yet. You can download a deepseek program that has been tweaked to not have Chinese censorship and put the whole thing on your computer. Sure, open AI can create faster and more expensive models, but no one knows if they will be needed. Again, there are no fucking games / apps that are must haves. If deepseek is enough to run the future killer apps, if there even are any, then Nvidia is fucked.
The other bump in the road is these super fast AIs need huge amounts of power. The bull case for growth is limited by quantity of electricity. It is like EVs and lithium. There is not enough lithium for everyone to have an EV. The manic modeled growth for AI is dependent on doubling the amount of power in our grids. That is not an easily done.
And back to the bull:
So, I don't expect companies to scale back spending on AI infrastructure and strategies until we enter a tougher part of the economic cycle, which we don't expect anytime soon. That said, spending on these experiments will likely be the one of the first things to go if and when corporate profitability starts to decline.
What has changed since this correct statement is that Trump is president and he seems to be pulling money out of the system and deepseek has made the tech big boys question if their investment is necessary.
I have read how AI is going to take over war. The fighter pilot cannot take on things like changes in g force like AI can. Then you read this: The human brain is 10,000 x more effective per unit of power in performing cognitive tasks vs. Generative AI. This means you are like a century away from AI fighter pilots. In fact, AI along with humans will likely happen first.
And I abhor the use of the term investor. You invest a product. These guys are likening the growth of AI to smart phones when they do not even have a fucking product. So you are not investing in anything with AI, you are speculating and when you speculate, you have no idea what something should cost.That's the spirit gentlemen! Great distressed debt investors like Seth Klarman and great tech investors like Stanley Druckenmiller (who's also a Bitcoin fan) have both made a ton of money. There's more than one way to skin a cat!
I can't think of anything both big and really good that Biden did.
If you can't think of anything big and good that Biden did, then you aren't thinking very much at all and being totally unfair. In any event, Biden wasn't the candidate. It was the VP Harris. That said, I'm not here to try to prove the case. I'm not interested in trying to change anyone's mind. That's just a waste of time. So, believe what you want to. I just say you're wrong and move on. People say you can't easily change someone's mind by starting out with telling them they are wrong. Well again, I'm not interested in changing minds! But if I feel strongly about it, then I just might say the other side is wrong. How someone can think Trump the convicted felon (and that's just to start) is the lesser of evils and a suitable leader and representative of America on the world stage is beyond me! He's the worst President ever if you ask me due to a lack of respect for the Constitution and his attempt to overturn a free and fair election in what used to be the world's greatest democracy.OK Cane, I've thought about it some more. The best I can come up with is getting us out of Afghanistan. That was big. And it was good. But was it really good? Not when 13 American service members died withdrawing. And not when we left tens of thousands of Afghans who assisted the United States behind, at the mercy of the Taliban. I promise I tried Cane, I really tried, and I thought a lot. So I guess I must be totally unfair.
Perhaps my standards are high for the leader of the free world. I don't think the USA has had a decent president since Clinton in his second term.
Most people don't understand the American / Chinese relationship up to now. It's not been one of China leaching of America, but a symbiotic economic one in which the Chinese lent the money to America to buy their cheap goods: America bought chinese goods, China recirculated the money into Treasury's. If that derails, American debt yields rise massively, so does inflation, so do your taxes. The tariffs are the icing on the cake. Musk is an idiot who is not making any material difference. If he were going to reform your healthcare system (the most expensive in the world yet still unjust and crap) I would be impressed.
It's looking bleak for America, but EU is arguably even more fucked. Still, I am optimistic about the power of science and technology and 10-20 years from now the world will probably be in a better place.
Yes, it's correct that China bought Treasuries but this is pretty much tantamount to lending money to USA. Ultimately, the yield on the treasuries is governed by supply demand and having a massive demand from China has been critical to keeping Treasury yields low for America. The corollary of this is that removal of Chinese demand would have inevitably pushed up yields. However yes, Chinese goods also aided lower inflation and lower interest rates.
The notion though that the USA has mountains of debt while China has none is ridiculous. China has more debt than the USA as it borrows to build things today that no one uses or needs to keep people employed. China just has a tendency to push this debt down to the city and state level.
There is one critical feature that people often forget when comparing debt / GDP ratios of countries like China and Japan vs USA: the fact that China and Japan have huge countervailing savings in the forms of household savings, which do not exist in America. This offsets to a great degree the admittedly huge debt overhangs. I agree China has been stupid in its massive over development of real state funded by debt but I don't see this turning into a Japanese type deflation, they will get the debt inflation out of the system (even if it takes time). American debt is scarely high, and with the economy now looking bleak, it's not a great time for America.Great posts Hot Dog. My only quibble is that I believe the Chinese have been dumping USA Debt, in part because of what they saw happen to Iran and Russia, and still interest rates have remained low. You could probably change my mind though. You likely know more about economics than anyone who's posted in this thread during the time I've followed it. But I shall not be intimidated, because I know more about flue gas than you do!
There's an identity in economics.
Current Account = Savings - Investment
As you know, the current account is the trade surplus, plus investment income received from overseas.
So, what does this mean? Basically, if the American government and American people are going to spend like drunken sailors (that is, the savings rate is low), and if investment is to remain at levels sufficient to (a) keep our government afloat (that is, buy the treasuries and municipal bonds to finance the government debt) and (b) keep our businesses from being starved of capital, we must run a trade deficit.
So you say, I don't like running huge trade deficits. How about getting Americans to save more instead? Or get the government to start running surpluses? Fat chance of that!
You could say the Chinese are our sugar daddies. They work hard, don't consume a lot, save a lot of money. And send us lots of cheap stuff! And what do we give them in return? Paper! It's a great deal!
And hey, we may just have a way out of this. Undoubtedly the politicians will keep running huge deficits. Maybe Donald will make a few key replacements at the Fed, people who will listen to his advice to keep interest rates low. VERY LOW. In fact, negative, like Japan and Germany used to do. Meanwhile, you're already seeing some loss of faith in the USA Currency as a result of the Trade Wars. That will help. We just start rolling over our debt at short maturities. With those negative interest rates the Chinese and other foreigners will be paying us money to hold our debt! Meanwhile, with inflation rolling along at 70% or 80%, that debt will get down to manageable levels in a hurry! What do you think?
Axel Heyst
03-14-25, 03:42
OK Cane, I've thought about it some more. The best I can come up with is getting us out of Afghanistan. That was big. And it was good. But was it really good? Not when 13 American service members died withdrawing. And not when we left tens of thousands of Afghans who assisted the United States behind, at the mercy of the Taliban. I promise I tried Cane, I really tried, and I thought a lot. So I guess I must be totally unfair.
Perhaps my standards are high for the leader of the free world. I don't think the USA has had a decent president since Clinton in his second term.Clinton in his 2nd term was a pretty good President until he fucked up. Pun intended. He worked with Gingrich and the Republican majority in the House, signed into law some significant legislation including the capital gains tax cut in 1997, and as a direct result of his moderate governance, the economy under his watch prospered, and he balanced the budget. The only President to do that in now over 60 years!
Unfortunately, he was a cocky bastard who thought he could sweet talk his way out of anything, and when he got caught receiving BBBJ's (LOL) from an intern in the oval office all hell broke out. As a direct result of this dalliance, his shitbag wife was handed a Senate seat for her continued political support and she became the fucking **** she was destined to be. She really harmed the country IMHO and Bill gave us Hillary! I will never forgive him for that.
I want to talk about another hill the Dems seem to want to die on: Chuckie Schumer's latest plan to shut down the Government. I hope the Demwits go through with it. It will be more entertaining than the latest episode of "White Lotus".Democrats? Shut down government? Hahahahahahahaha! Good one Axel!
Chuckie's about as likely to shut down or reduce the size of government as he is to stop pulling strings behind the scenes to keep carried interest alive.
Clinton in his 2nd term was a pretty good President until he fucked up. Pun intended. He worked with Gingrich and the Republican majority in the House, signed into law some significant legislation including the capital gains tax cut in 1997, and as a direct result of his moderate governance, the economy under his watch prospered, and he balanced the budget. The only President to do that in now over 60 years!
Unfortunately, he was a cocky bastard who thought he could sweet talk his way out of anything, and when he got caught receiving BBBJ's (LOL) from an intern in the oval office all hell broke out. As a direct result of this dalliance, his shitbag wife was handed a Senate seat for her continued political support and she became the fucking **** she was destined to be. She really harmed the country IMHO and Bill gave us Hillary! I will never forgive him for that.You've totally overlooked the worst part Axel. That intern was fat and ugly! The leader of the free world was getting blow jobs from a fat, ugly, intern! How could Clinton go head to head with someone like Vladimir Putin after that? The USA has never been so disgraced.
Newton York
03-14-25, 04:41
I don't know fellas, I'm pretty desperate, Monica Lewinsky in her 20's looked kinda attractive. I probably would pay money to get a blowjob from her in a Bahnofvierstel type brothel place, but if she was giving it out for free, so much the better.
Besides, it's not about her looks, it's about having the power to have a somewhat attractive chick give you a blowjob, just cause. And she's one of the few cases we know of. I'm sure the dude had way hotter chicks blow him. I bet every president has. Why wouldn't they? Yes, money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac, but so is power.
Great posts Hot Dog. My only quibble is that I believe the Chinese have been dumping USA Debt, in part because of what they saw happen to Iran and Russia, and still interest rates have remained low. You could probably change my mind though. You likely know more about economics than anyone who's posted in this thread during the time I've followed it. But I shall not be intimidated, because I know more about flue gas than you do!
There's an identity in economics.
Current Account = Savings - Investment
As you know, the current account is the trade surplus, plus investment income received from overseas.
So, what does this mean? Basically, if the American government and American people are going to spend like drunken sailors (that is, the savings rate is low), and if investment is to remain at levels sufficient to (a) keep our government afloat (that is, buy the treasuries and municipal bonds to finance the government debt) and (b) keep our businesses from being starved of capital, we must run a trade deficit.
So you say, I don't like running huge trade deficits. How about getting Americans to save more instead? Or get the government to start running surpluses? Fat chance of that!
You could say the Chinese are our sugar daddies. They work hard, don't consume a lot, save a lot of money. And send us lots of cheap stuff! And what do we give them in return? Paper! It's a great deal!
And hey, we may just have a way out of this. Undoubtedly the politicians will keep running huge deficits. Maybe Donald will make a few key replacements at the Fed, people who will listen to his advice to keep interest rates low. VERY LOW. In fact, negative, like Japan and Germany used to do. Meanwhile, you're already seeing some loss of faith in the USA Currency as a result of the Trade Wars. That will help. We just start rolling over our debt at short maturities. With those negative interest rates the Chinese and other foreigners will be paying us money to hold our debt! Meanwhile, with inflation rolling along at 70% or 80%, that debt will get down to manageable levels in a hurry! What do you think?In German brothels, Chinese pay most often more expensive than us, for getting less, because they are Asian. Girls love their money, small size and most often not demanding, just happy to get a milky skin with big eyes with make up girl, not always even pretty.
Mr Enternational
03-14-25, 10:34
If you can't think of anything big and good that Biden did, then you aren't thinking very much at all and being totally unfair. In any event, Biden wasn't the candidate. It was the VP Harris. You mean like the build back better? Or all the billions paid out for car charging stations and putting up only 1 new station? Or telling everyone they had to have Teslas by 2034 and everybody cheering, but after losing the race those same cheerers trying to destroy the Tesla brand and literally the dealerships?
Yes Biden was the candidate, but after bullshitting people so long and no longer being able to hide that he was not in his right mind, they decided to abandon his ass. He showed them though by endorsing Headboard Harris before they could put forward a suitable candidate. How does someone go from being forced out of the race due to having only 8% of poll numbers and no money in the previous primary to being god's gift to the country? They don't. But the party was painted into a corner by Biden's endorsement and not being able to use the money previously raised had they chosen someone that was not already on the ticket.
They had a choice of bullshit in one hand and horseshit in the other. They decided to rally around the woke and DEI shit (how Harris ended up as the VP pick in the first place), not realizing most Americans are tired of it being forced on them. But they still have not learned their lesson, because they continue to double down on what the majority has made clear they do not want.
Bi-partisan historians had 2 shots at assessing Trump's presidency, once right at the end of the horror and national disgrace in 2021 and another in 2024 after they'd had time to give it more thought and factor in Biden's presidency.
Conclusion? His ranking went from "Among the worst in USA history" to "THE Worst President in USA History.
Historians rank Trump among worst presidents in US history, new C-SPAN survey shows.
June 30, 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/historians-rank-trump-among-worst-presidents-us-history-c-span-2021-6
Historians rank Trump as worst president.
Feb. 19, 2024
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th
Obama #7.
Clinton #12.
Biden #14.
Reagan #16.
Trump #45 Dead Last.
Yeah, I'm going with the fact that these historians know a hell of a lot more about what Trump and Biden did and didn't accomplish than anyone posting on this site.
LOL. Seriously, can even the most devoted Trump Cult Followers here doubt for one minute that a bi-partisan group of historians would rank Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term as anything other than The Worst Presidency of All Time On Any Planet At Any Time Past, Present And Future even if it came to a complete halt at the 54 day mark? LOL.
Come on A. H. , Tiny, Elvis. 'Fess up. Lolol.
who criticizes a man for getting his dick sucked?
If they do, are they really a man?
Please, can one of you step forward and say that a man should not accept a free dick suck (from a girl) each and every opportunity it is offered.
Can that man also please relate a story where they were offered a free dick suck and said no.
The Defense Rests!
Axel Heyst
03-14-25, 11:43
You've totally overlooked the worst part Axel. That intern was fat and ugly! The leader of the free world was getting blow jobs from a fat, ugly, intern! How could Clinton go head to head with someone like Vladimir Putin after that? The USA has never been so disgraced.For the most part I prefer high quality lookers and I am willing to pay up for it. Evidence: I love Macua Sauna "emperor model" girls, BKK Soapie girls like I used to find in (now deceased) the Lord, and currently I am enamored with smokin' hot Brazilian FL's in Scandallo nightclub / bordello in Sao Paulo. But occasionally I like to go slumming. HaHaHa. There is something about it that turns me on especially when an ordinary looking girl is able to turn me on in bed. You ever been to Pattaya, Tiny? They have Go Go's like Pin Up with lots of hot girls. It is kinda expensive, but totally worth it when you find the right girl, but on the same trip I might find a 5. 5 * girl in a gentlemen's club who throws me a certain sexy smile and away we go. I am sure that Bill saw something in Monica that turned him on. And how in the world could any red-blooded punter conceive that a young girl would save her cum stained dress as a souvenir. Bill was a punter. One of us. I liked him but hated his friggin' wife. I think he probably felt the same way. I mean Hillary, what a shrew. 555.
Axel Heyst
03-14-25, 11:56
Hey Newton, your post made me laugh. 555. Yes, I can almost imagine what it felt like to get blow job's from an adoring, wide-eyed intern. See my previous post on shagging average looking girls. 555. Clinton could have had his pick of hot Hollywood actresses and probably did, but Monica baby turned him on as well plus doing it in the oval office. Yeah, man, that's punting! No rational explanation for it sometimes. The mind is a sexual organ.
I don't know fellas, I'm pretty desperate, Monica Lewinsky in her 20's looked kinda attractive. I probably would pay money to get a blowjob from her in a Bahnofvierstel type brothel place, but if she was giving it out for free, so much the better.
Besides, it's not about her looks, it's about having the power to have a somewhat attractive chick give you a blowjob, just cause. And she's one of the few cases we know of. I'm sure the dude had way hotter chicks blow him. I bet every president has. Why wouldn't they? Yes, money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac, but so is power.
You mean like the build back better? Or all the billions paid out for car charging stations and putting up only 1 new station? Or telling everyone they had to have Teslas by 2034 and everybody cheering, but after losing the race those same cheerers trying to destroy the Tesla brand and literally the dealerships?
Yes Biden was the candidate, but after bullshitting people so long and no longer being able to hide that he was not in his right mind, they decided to abandon his ass. He showed them though by endorsing Headboard Harris before they could put forward a suitable candidate. How does someone go from being forced out of the race due to having only 8% of poll numbers and no money in the previous primary to being god's gift to the country? They don't. But the party was painted into a corner by Biden's endorsement and not being able to use the money previously raised had they chosen someone that was not already on the ticket.
They had a choice of bullshit in one hand and horseshit in the other. They decided to rally around the woke and DEI shit (how Harris ended up as the VP pick in the first place), not realizing most Americans are tired of it being forced on them. But they still have not learned their lesson, because they continue to double down on what the majority has made clear they do not want.Well, I guess it's just shit to the left and shit to the right and shit all over then isn't it? That makes it a good time for me to be punting in Brazil!
You mean like the build back better? Or all the billions paid out for car charging stations and putting up only 1 new station? Or telling everyone they had to have Teslas by 2034 and everybody cheering, but after losing the race those same cheerers trying to destroy the Tesla brand and literally the dealerships?
Yes Biden was the candidate, but after bullshitting people so long and no longer being able to hide that he was not in his right mind, they decided to abandon his ass. He showed them though by endorsing Headboard Harris before they could put forward a suitable candidate. How does someone go from being forced out of the race due to having only 8% of poll numbers and no money in the previous primary to being god's gift to the country? They don't. But the party was painted into a corner by Biden's endorsement and not being able to use the money previously raised had they chosen someone that was not already on the ticket.
They had a choice of bullshit in one hand and horseshit in the other. They decided to rally around the woke and DEI shit (how Harris ended up as the VP pick in the first place), not realizing most Americans are tired of it being forced on them. But they still have not learned their lesson, because they continue to double down on what the majority has made clear they do not want.Trump Misleads on the Cost of Electric Vehicle Chargers.
Posted on August 16, 2024 | Updated on December 9, 2024
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trump-misleads-on-the-cost-of-electric-vehicle-chargers/
In recent speeches, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Biden administration has spent $9 billion to build only eight electric vehicle charging stations or even, just eight chargers. Thats not accurate.
Trump is likely referring to $7.5 billion approved by Congress to help build a network of EV chargers across the U.S. over five years. But not all of the money has been spent, or even made available to states yet. Experts say the funds are expected to help build thousands of charging stations and more than 30,000 individual charging ports.
According to the Federal Highway Administration, as of mid-August, the funds that have been deployed have helped produce 61 charging ports at 15 stations, with another 14,900 ports in progress.
Update, Dec. 9: As of Dec. 9, federal funds have been used to complete 226 charging ports at 37 stations across 13 states, with more than 24,000 ports in progress, according to an FHWA spokesperson. We asked the FHWA for the most recent information after Rep. Michael Rulli claimed on X that Pete Buttigieg will leave his post as Transportation Secretary having spent $7.5 BILLION to build 8 EV charging stations. A spokesperson for FHWA told us Rullis claim is not true.See link for more.
General Rules of Thumb:
If Trump says it there is 100% chance it is not true.
If Fux News spends more than 30 seconds reporting it there is 99.9% chance it is not true.
Newton, SubCmdr and Axel, You make compelling arguments. I have to admit that when I was younger, I was God's Gift to Fat Women. And in more recent times, yes, if I were in a diddling bar in Bangkok or a strip club in the USA, I might have actually paid, or at least given a tip, for what Bill got for free.
My question, should we expect a higher standard from the President of the United States than we demand of ourselves? I say hell yes! JFK was smuggling Marilyn Monroe and other assorted beauties into the White House. Now that's something to be proud of if you're an American!
Axel, to answer your question, I've never been to Pattaya. But yes, otherwise, been there, done that.
Trump Misleads on the Cost of Electric Vehicle Chargers.
Posted on August 16, 2024 | Updated on December 9, 2024
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trump-misleads-on-the-cost-of-electric-vehicle-chargers/
See link for more.
General Rules of Thumb:
If Trump says it there is 100% chance it is not true.
If Fux News spends more than 30 seconds reporting it there is 99.9% chance it is not true.True that, but I have no interest in wasting a lot of time responding to Mr. E, or anybody else up in here for that matter. Thinking I want to try to change their minds hahahaha! It's more than a waste of time. It's a waste of life LOL!
Axel Heyst
03-14-25, 17:52
Great post MR. E. I admire your succinct way of getting straight to the point.
You mean like the build back better? Or all the billions paid out for car charging stations and putting up only 1 new station? Or telling everyone they had to have Teslas by 2034 and everybody cheering, but after losing the race those same cheerers trying to destroy the Tesla brand and literally the dealerships?
Yes Biden was the candidate, but after bullshitting people so long and no longer being able to hide that he was not in his right mind, they decided to abandon his ass. He showed them though by endorsing Headboard Harris before they could put forward a suitable candidate. How does someone go from being forced out of the race due to having only 8% of poll numbers and no money in the previous primary to being god's gift to the country? They don't. But the party was painted into a corner by Biden's endorsement and not being able to use the money previously raised had they chosen someone that was not already on the ticket..
You mean like the build back better? Or all the billions paid out for car charging stations and putting up only 1 new station? Or telling everyone they had to have Teslas by 2034 and everybody cheering, but after losing the race those same cheerers trying to destroy the Tesla brand and literally the dealerships?
What, you mean like your American Fuhrer just shamefully did, by promoting the White House lawn as a makeshift Tesla dealership, as he pretends to "supposedly buy" a Tesla EV from Musk?
I wonder, if he paid for it, what taxpayers, dollars? No doubt!
Was this the sign MAGA nation, you've all been waiting for, to buy that EV? I mean now that you've been given the permission to take a EV fart, from the Fuhrer...go ahead! (...kkkk!)
Bi-partisan historians had 2 shots at assessing Trump's presidency, once right at the end of the horror and national disgrace in 2021 and another in 2024 after they'd had time to give it more thought and factor in Biden's presidency.
Conclusion? His ranking went from "Among the worst in USA history" to "THE Worst President in USA History.
Historians rank Trump among worst presidents in US history, new C-SPAN survey shows.
June 30, 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/historians-rank-trump-among-worst-presidents-us-history-c-span-2021-6
Historians rank Trump as worst president.
Feb. 19, 2024
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th
Obama #7.
Clinton #12.
Biden #14.
Reagan #16.
Trump #45 Dead Last.
Yeah, I'm going with the fact that these historians know a hell of a lot more about what Trump and Biden did and didn't accomplish than anyone posting on this site.
LOL. Seriously, can even the most devoted Trump Cult Followers here doubt for one minute that a bi-partisan group of historians would rank Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term as anything other than The Worst Presidency of All Time On Any Planet At Any Time Past, Present And Future even if it came to a complete halt at the 54 day mark? LOL.
Come on A. H. , Tiny, Elvis. 'Fess up. Lolol.If it's at all possible, I'm betting he'll actually beat he record for #45 and the absolute WORST PRESIDENT in USA HISTORY, this term! (...kkkk!).
Tiny 12, morbid idea of the lesser of two evils, indeed. It is like choosing between a paper cut and a shark bite, both suck, are extremely annoying and its not even a contest, but if Tiny 12, had to choose, it seems he'd still rather have the shark bite (...kkkk!)
PS: BTW, a past post of his, did seem to mention something about, "with a gun to the head, he'd still...", so there you go, Tiny 12, always one for hyperbole!
Bi-partisan historians had 2 shots at assessing Trump's presidency, once right at the end of the horror and national disgrace in 2021 and another in 2024 after they'd had time to give it more thought and factor in Biden's presidency.
Conclusion? His ranking went from "Among the worst in USA history" to "THE Worst President in USA History.
Historians rank Trump among worst presidents in US history, new C-SPAN survey shows.
June 30, 2021.You know they can. And will, LOL.
Nope. It is all Trump, all the time.
Consumers are starting to crack as tariffs add to inflation, recession concerns
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/delta-walmart-warn-about-consumer-spending-amid-tariffs-inflation.html?__source=androidappshare
Its not just Walmart.
The leaders of companies that serve everyone from penny-pinching grocery shoppers to first-class travelers are seeing cracks in demand, a shift after resilient consumers propped up the U.S. economy for years despite prolonged inflation. On top of high interest rates and persistent inflation, CEOs are now grappling with how to handle new hurdles like on-again, off-again tariffs, mass government layoffs and worsening consumer sentiment.
Across earnings calls and investor presentations in recent weeks, retailers and other consumer-facing businesses warned that first-quarter sales were coming in softer than expected and the rest of the year might be tougher than Wall Street thought. Many of the executives blamed unseasonably cool weather and a dynamic macroeconomic environment, but the early days of President Donald Trumps second term have brought new challenges perhaps none greater than trying to plan a global business at a time when his administration shifts its trade policies by the hour..If Joe Biden had ever spouted as much blithering, blathering, incoherent nonsense as Trump and President Musk have been spouting since the election with the exact same economic turmoil and crippling uncertainty that has resulted, the liars who have repeatedly misrepresented Biden's clear cognitive capacity superiority to Trump at any age and right up to this very day might have a valid point.
But he never did and they don't.
You mean like the build back better? Or all the billions paid out for car charging stations and putting up only 1 new station? Or telling everyone they had to have Teslas by 2034 and everybody cheering, but after losing the race those same cheerers trying to destroy the Tesla brand and literally the dealerships?
Yes Biden was the candidate, but after bullshitting people so long and no longer being able to hide that he was not in his right mind, they decided to abandon his ass. He showed them though by endorsing Headboard Harris before they could put forward a suitable candidate. How does someone go from being forced out of the race due to having only 8% of poll numbers and no money in the previous primary to being god's gift to the country? They don't. But the party was painted into a corner by Biden's endorsement and not being able to use the money previously raised had they chosen someone that was not already on the ticket.
They had a choice of bullshit in one hand and horseshit in the other. They decided to rally around the woke and DEI shit (how Harris ended up as the VP pick in the first place), not realizing most Americans are tired of it being forced on them. But they still have not learned their lesson, because they continue to double down on what the majority has made clear they do not want.Go through a few pages of this thread and you'll see all the great legislative accomplishments that Tooms believes Democrats are responsible for. The only one I recall agreeing with him about was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And a much higher percentage of Republicans voted for that than Democrats. If Tooms wet dream were a reality back then, and there were 100 Democratic Senators, we might just be still living in an apartheid state. You needed a 2/3 rds vote then to defeat a filibuster, and Texan President LBJ and Senate President Hubert Humphrey had to do a lot of arm twisting to get the legislation passed because of intransigent Democrats.
You could correctly argue that the Democratic and Republican parties then are very different from the parties today. And that's true. But Tooms is not allowed to make that argument. That's because he conveniently goes back to Herbert Hoover to argue Republican presidents produce inferior economic results. And back to Lincoln to show that the number of young American men killed isn't much, much larger for wars that started under Democratic presidents.
And yes, as to your points, Biden's "great" accomplishments were mostly pork and handouts.
Edit: Oops, you were replying to Cane, not EihTooms. Oh well, its funner arguing with Tooms
Elvis 2008
03-14-25, 19:26
Kindly leave Elvis out of your assessment. Intelligence and a cult membership -- well, I can't connect the dots, sorry.This from the guy calling Arabs living in Gaza "Palestinians" and Russian soldiers "orcs". When you dehumanize your fellow man, you are the one in the cult.
Now, what Axel believes is not something I care about. Unlike religious faith that doesn't require a proof, personal beliefs that contradict the obvious are also an opposite to intelligence, IMHO. The facts that Trump is an insurrectionist, asset of a foreign power, autocratic bafoon, convicted felon, serial liar, immoral narcissist, crooked businessman and greedy profiteer have been well-known, well-established and, in some cases, proven in a court of law. How can -- again -- intelligent people think ALL THAT was a "lesser evil" than Kamala Harris is way way way beyond me.
So no, you haven't explained anything. And no, Trump's falling in love with a mass-murdering monster WAS NOT a good thing either.This degree of name calling is going to make Spidy blush.
Bi-partisan historians had 2 shots at assessing Trump's presidency, once right at the end of the horror and national disgrace in 2021 and another in 2024 after they'd had time to give it more thought and factor in Biden's presidency.
Conclusion? His ranking went from "Among the worst in USA history" to "THE Worst President in USA History.
Historians rank Trump among worst presidents in US history, new C-SPAN survey shows.
June 30, 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/historians-rank-trump-among-worst-presidents-us-history-c-span-2021-6
Historians rank Trump as worst president.
Feb. 19, 2024
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/19/presidents-survey-trump-ranks-last-biden-14th
Obama #7.
Clinton #12.
Biden #14.
Reagan #16.
Trump #45 Dead Last.
Yeah, I'm going with the fact that these historians know a hell of a lot more about what Trump and Biden did and didn't accomplish than anyone posting on this site.
LOL. Seriously, can even the most devoted Trump Cult Followers here doubt for one minute that a bi-partisan group of historians would rank Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term as anything other than The Worst Presidency of All Time On Any Planet At Any Time Past, Present And Future even if it came to a complete halt at the 54 day mark? LOL.
Come on A. H. , Tiny, Elvis. 'Fess up. Lolol.The historians surveyed probably were mostly academics in liberal arts who have the same biases you do. I call bull shit on it. Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge aren't even in the top 10. Obama at #7 is rated higher than they are. I can't think of anything big and really good he did besides getting us out of Iraq. Obamacare may have improved health care for many, but it also doubled down on a failed health care system that costs much more and produces worse outcomes compared to other developed countries.
Elvis 2008
03-14-25, 20:10
I don't know fellas, I'm pretty desperate, Monica Lewinsky in her 20's looked kinda attractive. I probably would pay money to get a blowjob from her in a Bahnofvierstel type brothel place, but if she was giving it out for free, so much the better.
Besides, it's not about her looks, it's about having the power to have a somewhat attractive chick give you a blowjob, just cause. And she's one of the few cases we know of. I'm sure the dude had way hotter chicks blow him. I bet every president has. Why wouldn't they? Yes, money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac, but so is power.Yeah, it really changed things for me. Clinton gets a BJ. First, Monica gets a "job" for $40,000 a year not because she is qualified but because one of Clinton's supporters whisks her away. Linda Tripp tried to use this information to advance her way up the government ladder. I wonder how many Linda Tripps there are in government right now.
Bill Clinton has been put through absolute hell. He is impeached, made fun of, crucified, but hangs on. Lewinsky then gets a $2 million Weight Watchers deal. She was giving TED talks about shame and embarrassment and probably getting paid to do so. She shows her ass to Clinton before the BJs and was with an older man before Clinton. My own mother and God knows how many other women called what Clinton did "child abuse".
The entire basis for Clinton being under oath was being sued by Paula Jones, and it is because she did not advance in government, even though she did, after Clinton came onto her. After the Monica incident comes out, her lawsuit is settled and she gets like $700,000.
Hiliary Clinton, whom everyone knows knew about Clinton's affairs, never polled higher than when she called the attack on Clinton's morals a "vast right wing conspiracy". The sympathy for her after what Bill had done propelled her to a USA senate seat and with that momentum, she almost flew into the presidency.
Trump pays $140,000 to a porn star and the porn star and a sleaze bag lawyer are shoved into the limelight by the Dems, and the woman is sued by Trump and loses and the lawyer ends up in jail. E. Jean Carroll gets a $83 million verdict against Trump for sexual assault and not rape, and this and the criminal hush money case actually work to Trump's favor.
The Republicans used Paula Jones and apparently she sounded so stupid that they would not let her talk. The Democrats let E. Jean Carroll talk and you could see Cooper Anderson literally looking at her like she was nuts. George Stephanopoulos was harassing a Republican rape victim for supporting Trump, and she did not come out it say what was on everyone's mind, "George, this E. Jean Carroll woman is a lying fool. I was really raped. ".
I am not sure Trump gets elected if the Lewinsky thing does not happen. It is a little hard to take any guy being as pro "woman" as Spidy is, and Tooms is like asking what waste there is in government. You look at all the women listed above, and is there any of them in this entire web who thought hard work and competence were the keys to getting ahead (no pun intended) in the world? It seems to me there is a helluva lot more money in shaming men than doing a good job.
This is where I think the other nations of the world are laughing at us. American men have been so pussified.
Elvis 2008
03-14-25, 20:16
And yes, as to your points, Biden's "great" accomplishments were mostly pork and handouts.And Trump was doing the same thing. I do not get why there is so much hate towards Trump as he was doing the same thing as Biden was doing in his first term.
The big difference between the two was how pro war Biden was. He never met a war that he did not like. If the American people were at all down for a war, he would have sent troops off to fight. He even tried to say we were going to fight Russia until his staff corrected him.
A vote for Trump was a vote for peace. That was the big difference between the two and making peace in Ukraine was one of Trump's best campaign points. Unlike what Xpartan wants, I hope Trump succeeds with it. There has been too much dying in Ukraine.
Elvis 2008
03-14-25, 22:49
And hey, we may just have a way out of this. Undoubtedly the politicians will keep running huge deficits. Maybe Donald will make a few key replacements at the Fed, people who will listen to his advice to keep interest rates low. VERY LOW. In fact, negative, like Japan and Germany used to do. Meanwhile, you're already seeing some loss of faith in the USA Currency as a result of the Trade Wars. That will help. We just start rolling over our debt at short maturities. With those negative interest rates the Chinese and other foreigners will be paying us money to hold our debt! Meanwhile, with inflation rolling along at 70% or 80%, that debt will get down to manageable levels in a hurry! What do you think?Tiny, I am mostly in T bills and bonds for the moment. I have a small speculative short on the NASDAQ with SQQQ but I am not adding to that position as of now. I am waiting on the jobs number to get worse before adding to that position. The PPI comes before the CPI, producers will lower or raise consumer prices as their costs go up or down, and the PPI was negative last month. Year over year CPI was 2. 8% now and egg prices are plummeting, https://www.newsweek.com/price-eggs-rising-falling-cost-2042992.
The Fed was left on its own to fight Biden's inflation. I am not sure if Trump's tariffs costs will be offset by spending costs. Probably not. Sadly, it does not look like the Republicans are being all that serious yet on cutting costs, but with the USA spending like 30 to 40% of the income in gets in taxes on interest payments on the debt, the easiest way to reduce these payments is to cut interest costs. You will see Trump blasting the Fed in the next month or two if they do not do so. There is no reason for them NOT to if inflation stays where it is now.
Thing about federal spending people do not get is that the government grants money to groups but the groups often have a hard time spending the money. As a taxpayer, that sickens me, they always ask for more than they need but I know it is true. Given how Musk is scrutinizing spending, even with Congress passing the money it did does not mean that money is going to find its way into the system.
I am not criticizing SC per se, but in the short term, the market is a voting machine not a weighing machine. So when you propose returns over a year, I am not doing that. My best bets have taken three and even four years to pay off, and the catalyst for a reassessment of valuation is always something out of the blue. Nvidia getting pummeled on deepseek was just the latest example of that. Good luck predicting something like that. I can say what a stock or bond should be valued not what it is valued by others in this exact second.
In reality, the market goes up when the government turns the spigot on or off. The Fed tried to close the spigot and I thought they were going to be successful but Biden kept it going so I got that wrong although I guess you could say it was inflation as much as anything that caused Biden to lose his seat.
God knows what inflation would have been had the Fed not turned on the brakes to some degree. Trump seems to be willing to cut spending until inflation is better under control. Once that happens, I think we will start to see a cutting of rates as that decrease in spending takes its toll.
But yeah, interest rates HAVE to come down, and I think Trump is willing to have a recession to make that a reality.
A vote for Trump was a vote for peace.Pure unadulterated male bovine excrement..
There has been too much dying in Ukraine.Has Russia accepted the ceasefire?
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And Trump was doing the same thing. I do not get why there is so much hate towards Trump as he was doing the same thing as Biden was doing in his first term.
The big difference between the two was how pro war Biden was. He never met a war that he did not like. If the American people were at all down for a war, he would have sent troops off to fight. He even tried to say we were going to fight Russia until his staff corrected him.
A vote for Trump was a vote for peace. That was the big difference between the two and making peace in Ukraine was one of Trump's best campaign points. Unlike what Xpartan wants, I hope Trump succeeds with it. There has been too much dying in Ukraine.Did Biden pick up the phone and call Putin, even once, after February of 2022? That's a rhetorical question.
This is not a Bidenomics Hangover.
Nope. It is all Trump, all the time.
Consumers are starting to crack as tariffs add to inflation, recession concerns
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/delta-walmart-warn-about-consumer-spending-amid-tariffs-inflation.html?__source=androidappshareYeah, Trump's Trade Wars make "0" sense. So why didn't your party nominate a sane Democrat politician with some economic sense, someone like Kyrsten Sinema, for president? I would have voted for her!
Oh, er, I forgot, the Democrats ran her out of the party, because she was sane.
...the liars who have repeatedly misrepresented Biden's clear cognitive capacity superiority to Trump at any age and right up to this very day might have a valid point.
But he never did and they don't.Yes, Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump, the battle of two intellectual giants! Are you a fan of midget racing too Tooms? How about the Special Olympics? Golf tournaments for people with 30+ handicaps?
I don't know fellas, I'm pretty desperate, Monica Lewinsky in her 20's looked kinda attractive. I probably would pay money to get a blowjob from her in a Bahnofvierstel type brothel place, but if she was giving it out for free, so much the better.
Besides, it's not about her looks, it's about having the power to have a somewhat attractive chick give you a blowjob, just cause. And she's one of the few cases we know of. I'm sure the dude had way hotter chicks blow him. I bet every president has. Why wouldn't they? Yes, money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac, but so is power.
who criticizes a man for getting his dick sucked?
If they do, are they really a man?
Please, can one of you step forward and say that a man should not accept a free dick suck (from a girl) each and every opportunity it is offered.
Can that man also please relate a story where they were offered a free dick suck and said no.
The Defense Rests!
....I might find a 5. 5 * girl in a gentlemen's club who throws me a certain sexy smile and away we go. I am sure that Bill saw something in Monica that turned him on.
Newton, SubCmdr and Axel, You make compelling arguments. I have to admit that when I was younger, I was God's Gift to Fat Women.Gentlemen, given that we've all been known to scrape the bottom of the barrel from time to time, or at least the sides, I'd like throw this out for your consideration, the next time you're in Cartagena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKWLC87Uzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNFbX1mk18I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rgzmxn-M0Y
The VICE video is worth signing in to view, if you've got a Youtube account.
This is on my bucket list now, along with Scandollo, an FKK and Black Caviar!
The historians surveyed probably were mostly academics in liberal arts who have the same biases you do. I call bull shit on it. Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge aren't even in the top 10. Obama at #7 is rated higher than they are. I can't think of anything big and really good he did besides getting us out of Iraq. Obamacare may have improved health care for many, but it also doubled down on a failed health care system that costs much more and produces worse outcomes compared to other developed countries.So now we can add Obama's historic recovery from the likewise historic GW Bush's Great Repub Recession, Economic Disaster and Massive Jobs Destruction to FDR's historic recovery from Coolidge / Hoover's Great Repub Depression, Economic Disaster and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction and Biden's historic recovery from Trump's Great Repub Economic Disaster, Repub Recession and Massive Repub Job Desstruction to your list of "nothing big or important" Winger Selective Amnesia symptoms. LOL.
Which is it that triggers this classic Winger Selective Amnesia in you? Is it the fact that every one of those classic Repub Supply-Side / Trickle-Down policies RESULTED in predictable Great Repub Depressions / Great Repub Recessions, Economic Disasters and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction or the classic Dem Recoveries, Expansions and Historic Job Gains that followed? Both?
Did Biden pick up the phone and call Putin, even once, after February of 2022? That's a rhetorical question.Biden was more lucid, cognitively capable and certainly more informed and prepared regarding Russia, Putin and all other foreign policy matters than Trump has been or will ever be to know exactly how pointless to the level of grossly counterproductive a phone call to Putin on this issue would have been.
See, again, a phone call is only a "process. " It is not a "result. ".
If, as those phone calls Trump made to Putin did, they ended with Putin ratcheting up his bombing of Ukraine, killing more Ukrainians, dumping megatons more horseshit on America and our (former) Western Democracy Alliances with Putin only taking the opportunity to add more demands to the already "damn near everything" Trump already lavished on him while "negotiationg" bupkiss for Ukraine as Biden, Zelenskyy and, hell, even I knew such a phone call would accomplish, then, hip hip hooray, there's your "result. ".
Or, as I am sure your boy Trump would characterize it, "another perfect phone call. ".
This from the guy calling Arabs living in Gaza "Palestinians" and Russian soldiers "orcs". When you dehumanize your fellow man, you are the one in the cult.1. That's because calling them Palestinians is vastly inaccurate. You want to know why? I've explained on more than one occasion why I refuse to discuss the Middle East in these threads. If you so desire, start the relevant topic in the Israel section of the forum, and I'll meet you there.
2. Dehumanize? Putin's hordes are not my fellow men. People who kill civilians for sport, rape girls and women, torture and murder POWs, and steal everything they can grab -- including women's underwear, toilets and washing machines -- I'd say "Orcs" is charitable.
This degree of name calling is going to make Spidy blush.You think? Let's ask him. Spidy, are you blushing?
Tiny, I am mostly in T bills and bonds for the moment. I have a small speculative short on the NASDAQ with SQQQ but I am not adding to that position as of now. I am waiting on the jobs number to get worse before adding to that position. The PPI comes before the CPI, producers will lower or raise consumer prices as their costs go up or down, and the PPI was negative last month. Year over year CPI was 2. 8% now and egg prices are plummeting, https://www.newsweek.com/price-eggs-rising-falling-cost-2042992.
The Fed was left on its own to fight Biden's inflation. I am not sure if Trump's tariffs costs will be offset by spending costs. Probably not. Sadly, it does not look like the Republicans are being all that serious yet on cutting costs, but with the USA spending like 30 to 40% of the income in gets in taxes on interest payments on the debt, the easiest way to reduce these payments is to cut interest costs. You will see Trump blasting the Fed in the next month or two if they do not do so. There is no reason for them NOT to if inflation stays where it is now.
Thing about federal spending people do not get is that the government grants money to groups but the groups often have a hard time spending the money. As a taxpayer, that sickens me, they always ask for more than they need but I know it is true. Given how Musk is scrutinizing spending, even with Congress passing the money it did does not mean that money is going to find its way into the system.
I am not criticizing SC per se, but in the short term, the market is a voting machine not a weighing machine. So when you propose returns over a year, I am not doing that. My best bets have taken three and even four years to pay off, and the catalyst for a reassessment of valuation is always something out of the blue. Nvidia getting pummeled on deepseek was just the latest example of that. Good luck predicting something like that. I can say what a stock or bond should be valued not what it is valued by others in this exact second.
In reality, the market goes up when the government turns the spigot on or off. The Fed tried to close the spigot and I thought they were going to be successful but Biden kept it going so I got that wrong although I guess you could say it was inflation as much as anything that caused Biden to lose his seat.
God knows what inflation would have been had the Fed not turned on the brakes to some degree. Trump seems to be willing to cut spending until inflation is better under control. Once that happens, I think we will start to see a cutting of rates as that decrease in spending takes its toll.
But yeah, interest rates HAVE to come down, and I think Trump is willing to have a recession to make that a reality.Like I said, there's more than one way to skin a cat Elvis. My biggest winners were held for 10+ years. But there are a number I wish I'd ditched earlier. At the other end of the spectrum, I have a friend, a day trader who specialized in arbitrage and was self-schooled in antitrust law, who turned $25,000 into $3,000,000 in a few years. He no longer trades, because outfits like Renaissance Technologies with armies of PhD's and huge investments in computer hardware and software outcompete him. Renaissance makes returns of 50%+ per year! And they somehow figured out how to channel massive sums of money into their tax free Roth IRA's, although I believe they got into a lawsuit with the IRS over that.
On the subject of the economy, I believe the Fed screwed up in 2021 and 2022 when it was way behind the curve in raising interest rates. They should have seen inflation coming when the Democrats' American Rescue Plan was passed, pumping $1. 9 trillion into an economy that needed about "0" in additional stimulus spending. Larry Summers and Jason Furman saw that coming. Even I saw that coming, although admittedly it was because I was reading what people like Summers were writing.
Yes, $27 trillion federal debt held by the public x 4% per annum interest rates = $1 trillion per year. If you don't consider social security and Medicare contributions, I believe your estimate that the interest is 30% to 40% of taxes is pretty darn reasonable.
I wholeheartedly applaud the goal of reducing the size of federal government, by shunting more responsibility onto the states and municipalities, reducing fraud, increasing efficiency, and doing away with wasteful spending. I don't think however Musk is going to make a big difference unless he slows down, gets off the ketamine, and approaches this more rationally and methodically. And Congress cooperates by legislating lower expenditures. As to entitlements, the politicians aren't going to tinker radically with social security or Medicare and Medicaid. They will however have to raise employer and employee contributions a lot.
I don't like what's coming down the pike in decades to come.
I don't normally post quotes without my own comments, but seriously, there is just nothing to add, it's so good.
Angry and erratic: Trump Cabinet official admits the president is acting on emotion
The president of the United States, the man with the nuclear codes, is angry, emotional and acting erratically. Thats basically what his own Cabinet defenders are saying.
On Thursday, Donald Trumps Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick joined Bloomberg Television to talk about how the president is shocked that the trade war he launched against Americas closest allies, Canada and the European Union, is suddenly blowing up in his face.
The president was totally annoyed that the Europeans did this, Lutnick said. He cares about America, and he wants to take care of Americans. And why are Europeans picking on Kentucky bourbon, Harley-Davidson motorcycles? When Lutnick was asked if this was an emotional response from the president, he called the E.U.s move disrespectful.
He wants these countries to respect him, and all of this showed you is that Europe and Canada do not respect Donald Trump, Lutnick added. If you make him unhappy, he responds unhappy.
On Wall Street, stocks continue to fall amid fears of higher prices from Trumps tariffs and threats. The S&P 500 fell 10% below its all-time high on Thursday, raising concerns among investors that a sell-off might be happening soon. The Nasdaq is already in that worrying territory. The Dow Jones was on track for its worst week since that string of high-profile bank failures in 2023.
All of this is happening for literally no reason whatsoever, other than the fact Trump is picking a fight with our neighbors. Now that our neighbors are fighting back, Trump is big mad, throwing out new threats of massive tariffs and annexation of foreign territories.
In a vicious cycle of escalation, Canada and the E.U. responded to Trumps tariffs by imposing new taxes on U.S. exports, including on signature American products like, as Lutnick mentioned, whiskey and motorcycles. When Trump heard about that retaliation, he basically lost it and made an unhinged post on Truth Social:
The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.
Now, to be clear, the U.S. does not technically have any Champagne businesses, but we are the biggest market for Champagne and many other French wines. Trump is threatening a tax at such a high level that the price of a bottle of wine would essentially double for Americans. Everybody who understands trade understands this is insane. I think even people who dont understand trade understand this is insane.
It was a point that even Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the right-leaning Wall Street Journal, made on Thursday. The mood has shifted pretty much since all the tariffs started coming in, Tucker said on Fox Business. I think businesses realize now Trump is serious about this, but the problem theyve got is that theyre being imposed in a very haphazard way, and thats creating so much instability. When asked if companies would pass costs on to consumers, Tucker said eventually theyre gonna have to.
An hour after that interview, Trump posted to Truth Social again:
The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of screwing the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA.
Later in the White House, sitting next to the secretary-general of NATO, Trump took a question about his tariffs and started musing, yet again, about the territorial conquest of Canada, a fellow NATO member. Trump also talked about annexing Greenland from Denmark.
All in all, the American president spent his day annoyed and emotional about the trade war he started, and then obsessed some more about making Canada and Greenland part of America. All while CEOs, investors and regular people are absolutely freaking out about the economy.
And it looks like no one is going to stop him at least, certainly not Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who tried and failed to put a positive spin on this unfolding economic disaster. During an interview on CNBC on Thursday, Bessent said the Trump administration was focused on the real economy.
Im not concerned about a little bit of volatility over three weeks, Bessent said. The reason stocks are a safe and great investment is because youre looking over the long term. If you start looking at micro-horizons, stocks become very risky.
Its gotten so bad that even Tesla, the electric car company owned by Trumps unelected co-president Elon Musk, is worried about the impact of tariffs on its bottom line. In an unsigned letter, the company warned Trumps trade representatives that the presidents trade war would make it more expensive to build cars in America.
One person familiar with the process of sending the letter told the Financial Times: Its a polite way to say that the bipolar tariff regime is screwing over Tesla. The person added: It is unsigned because nobody at the company wants to be fired for sending it.https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/angry-and-erratic-trump-cabinet-official-admits-the-president-is-acting-on-emotion/ar-AA1AWBpO
Yeah, Trump's Trade Wars make "0" sense. So why didn't your party nominate a sane Democrat politician with some economic sense, someone like Kyrsten Sinema, for president? I would have voted for her!
Oh, er, I forgot, the Democrats ran her out of the party, because she was sane.
Yes, Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump, the battle of two intellectual giants! Are you a fan of midget racing too Tooms? How about the Special Olympics? Golf tournaments for people with 30+ handicaps?Typically pro Repub Mainstream Media's over-the-top Repub-enabling collective gasp over Biden's minor vocal tick at a debate did its intended job of terrifying big money donors into forcing Biden out of a race he would have won. Again. In a debate that 30% of the viewers thought Biden won compared to 20% thinking Obama won against Romney in 2012, BTW.
At that point, with 100 days left, the campaign money could only go to Harris.
And, given she was up against Trump's 7 solid years of constant campaigning for his 2nd term election when he wasn't playing golf, racking up record high deficits with nothing to show for it, happily presiding over a genuine USA Combat War in the Middle East for the entirety of his 1st term and leading his violent mob of cop-killing insurrectionists into battle on American Soil in his War Against America, as a "man of peace", of course, producing and exacerbating Trump's Pandemic Part 1, locked in as he knew he would be with at least 49.8% of the Dumb Repub Hillbilly Cult Member Electorate, Harris was the best candidate to run against him.
As the election results clearly showed; but for a shift of less than 1 percentage point of votes from Trump to Harris in just 3 swing states, the only three that mattered and where most of the campaigning was done, the only typical Blue States that Trump flipped and those flips only due to less than 115,000 angry Muslims across those 3 states, a less than 1 percentage point shift across those three states, "giving him the presidency" because Netanyahu carefully timed his cease-fire agreement to come into effect after the election.
LOL. The idea that a Trump-supporting Repub, pretend "Bothsider / Neithersider" whose idea of supporting Trump this time was to vote for someone whose name, Clark something or whatever, nobody can even remember, is "schooling" anyone on who the Dems should have nominated, is pretty funny. LOL.
As this Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term unfolds with the economic and national security disasters it is sure to bring as it is already bringing, I sure hope with all my heart that he gets everything he campaigned on for those 7 solid years and then some. And I want the tariffs and tariffs blather, the mass deportations and production of another Trump's Pandemic to do as much damage to America as possible. And especially to the only three states with enough highly motivated and mobilized angry Muslims that mattered and determined the presidential election outcome; PA, MI and WI.
God willing.
I want this election outcome to teach America a lesson and a really, really hard one that it will not forget for many decades to come, especially those 3 "Blue Wall" states.
I am even hoping that the "man of peace" Trump makes good on his post-election promise to take Canada, Greenland and Panama "one way or another"! LOL.
Can't wait to see how the voters in Michigan and "lower" Red States where the auto industry employs millions react to the Great Move of their jobs to the New Great USA State of Canada where there are already lots of auto factories and opportunities to poach from Michigan and other states starting on Day One! Lololol.
True that, but I have no interest in wasting a lot of time responding to Mr. E, or anybody else up in here for that matter. Thinking I want to try to change their minds hahahaha! It's more than a waste of time. It's a waste of life LOL!We do it to organize and confirm our accurate assessment of the issues and for the fun in revealing how wrong the dumb Repub hillbilly MAGAs are about truly important matters.
I don't know fellas, I'm pretty desperate, Monica Lewinsky in her 20's looked kinda attractive. I probably would pay money to get a blowjob from her in a Bahnofvierstel type brothel place, but if she was giving it out for free, so much the better.
Besides, it's not about her looks, it's about having the power to have a somewhat attractive chick give you a blowjob, just cause. And she's one of the few cases we know of. I'm sure the dude had way hotter chicks blow him. I bet every president has. Why wouldn't they? Yes, money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac, but so is power.They are just going with what they were fed in the media about it at the time.
The same way they to this day think one of the best Presidents of all time, Joe Biden, "didn't know who he is, where he is or what he is doing". LOL. They are slaves to whatever spin the MSM feeds them without opening their eyes and ears to what is clearly and easily observable as well as fully reported if they take the time to focus on it beyond the spin.
The idea that a president is supposed to be ushing into the Oval Office the latest movie star hottie to fuck and suck him without worry about it leaking into the headlines is the stuff of the old Pentouse Forum articles aimed at a 14 year old boy mindset.
Especially a President like Bill Clinton who had to fend off Nude Grinbitch's constant Repub attempts to thwart and reverse the Great Dem / Clinton Economic Recovery from 12 years of Reagan / Bush mismanagement and skyrocketing debt and deficits. A recovery that began a year before Grinbitch and his Repubs took control of Congress and with historic economic legislation in 1993 that did not get a single Reoub vote.
So Clinton was supposedly somehow a sexual slacker for not making sure a hotter intern than a 21 year old Monica Lewinsky had reason to go in and of the Oval Office throughout the day without raising alarm and occasionally give him a free blowjob, is it?
LOL. Yeah. Right.
And Trump was doing the same thing. I do not get why there is so much hate towards Trump as he was doing the same thing as Biden was doing in his first term.
The big difference between the two was how pro war Biden was. He never met a war that he did not like. If the American people were at all down for a war, he would have sent troops off to fight. He even tried to say we were going to fight Russia until his staff corrected him.
A vote for Trump was a vote for peace. That was the big difference between the two and making peace in Ukraine was one of Trump's best campaign points. Unlike what Xpartan wants, I hope Trump succeeds with it. There has been too much dying in Ukraine.Biden didn't start any war, putin did. Biden should be respected for his resistance against the russian war machine. USA used to be, and still is, a great country but I have never seen USA act so weak as it is today under trump. Trump is letting USA get bullied by russia! No other US president would have that lack of confidence in their country!
I have not seen trump end any war, all I have seen trump do is to strengthen putin and putin is not interested in peace. Ergo trump has prolonged the war at the expense of the Ukrainian people!
Churchill words still rings true to this very day: You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war!
Trump is either colluding with russia or just the worst negotiator and president the US ever had.
It's also important to note that the truth is that trump doesn't have any policies, morals or values. He's just doing the opposite of his predecessor and tries to ruin anything the former president accomplished. Spite and pettiness, that's the leading star for trump's presidency.
During his last presidency trump withdrew from the Iran deal and now suddenly he wants to reinstate Obama's deal with Iran.
This is the first cult leader in the White House, never before have so many Americans stopped thinking for themselves and just followed their leader blindly. It's unworthy of USA and its unamerican! This is what people do in countries like North Korea and Russia. Absolutely disgraceful.
I wonder how much this has to do with the deep scars from the financial crisis in 2008-2009?
Typically pro Repub Mainstream Media's over-the-top Repub-enabling collective gasp over Biden's minor vocal tick at a debate did its intended job of terrifying big money donors into forcing Biden out of a race he would have won. Again. In a debate that 30% of the viewers thought Biden won compared to 20% thinking Obama won against Romney in 2012, BTW.
At that point, with 100 days left, the campaign money could only go to Harris.
And, given she was up against Trump's 7 solid years of constant campaigning for his 2nd term election when he wasn't playing golf, racking up record high deficits with nothing to show for it, happily presiding over a genuine USA Combat War in the Middle East for the entirety of his 1st term and leading his violent mob of cop-killing insurrectionists into battle on American Soil in his War Against America, as a "man of peace", of course, producing and exacerbating Trump's Pandemic Part 1, locked in as he knew he would be with at least 49.8% of the Dumb Repub Hillbilly Cult Member Electorate, Harris was the best candidate to run against him.
As the election results clearly showed; but for a shift of less than 1 percentage point of votes from Trump to Harris in just 3 swing states, the only three that mattered and where most of the campaigning was done, the only typical Blue States that Trump flipped and those flips only due to less than 115,000 angry Muslims across those 3 states, a less than 1 percentage point shift across those three states, "giving him the presidency" because Netanyahu carefully timed his cease-fire agreement to come into effect after the election.
LOL. The idea that a Trump-supporting Repub, pretend "Bothsider / Neithersider" whose idea of supporting Trump this time was to vote for someone whose name, Clark something or whatever, nobody can even remember, is "schooling" anyone on who the Dems should have nominated, is pretty funny. LOL.
As this Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term unfolds with the economic and national security disasters it is sure to bring as it is already bringing, I sure hope with all my heart that he gets everything he campaigned on for those 7 solid years and then some. And I want the tariffs and tariffs blather, the mass deportations and production of another Trump's Pandemic to do as much damage to America as possible. And especially to the only three states with enough highly motivated and mobilized angry Muslims that mattered and determined the presidential election outcome; PA, MI and WI.
God willing.
I want this election outcome to teach America a lesson and a really, really hard one that it will not forget for many decades to come, especially those 3 "Blue Wall" states.
I am even hoping that the "man of peace" Trump makes good on his post-election promise to take Canada, Greenland and Panama "one way or another"! LOL.
Can't wait to see how the voters in Michigan and "lower" Red States where the auto industry employs millions react to the Great Move of their jobs to the New Great USA State of Canada where there are already lots of auto factories and opportunities to poach from Michigan and other states starting on Day One! Lololol.Get a grip Tooms. Biden is not some kind of intellectual giant. He's suffering from dementia. He would have lost. You're using a similar argument with those 118,000 Muslims as election deniers use to explain how Biden purportedly stole the 2020 election. And it should be obvious to you Democrats should have run someone besides Harris. Your party has increasingly moved to the left and that's a mistake. Democrats like Bill Clinton make good presidential general election candidates. People like Kamala Harris do not. There was no way I'd vote for her because she wanted to raise the capital gains tax to 43.4%, more than the 28% rate that would maximize government revenue. And in 2020 she campaigned to ban fracking. Others had different reasons not to vote for her. If you want to win, nominate candidates with sane policies, instead of those who pander to Progressives.
I don't normally post quotes without my own comments, but seriously, there is just nothing to add, it's so good.
Angry and erratic: Trump Cabinet official admits the president is acting on emotion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/angry-and-erratic-trump-cabinet-official-admits-the-president-is-acting-on-emotion/ar-AA1AWBpOChris Hayes is full of shit about half the time. He's spot on here though. One correction, the wholesale price of champagne would go up 3 X, not 2 X, showing again that math is not Democrats' strong suit.
Lutnick may have drunk the Kool Aid. Shame on Scott Bessent, he knows better.
They are just going with what they were fed in the media about it at the time.
The same way they to this day think one of the best Presidents of all time, Joe Biden, "didn't know who he is, where he is or what he is doing". LOL. They are slaves to whatever spin the MSM feeds them without opening their eyes and ears to what is clearly and easily observable as well as fully reported if they take the time to focus on it beyond the spin.
The idea that a president is supposed to be ushing into the Oval Office the latest movie star hottie to fuck and suck him without worry about it leaking into the headlines is the stuff of the old Pentouse Forum articles aimed at a 14 year old boy mindset.
Especially a President like Bill Clinton who had to fend off Nude Grinbitch's constant Repub attempts to thwart and reverse the Great Dem / Clinton Economic Recovery from 12 years of Reagan / Bush mismanagement and skyrocketing debt and deficits. A recovery that began a year before Grinbitch and his Repubs took control of Congress and with historic economic legislation in 1993 that did not get a single Reoub vote.
So Clinton was supposedly somehow a sexual slacker for not making sure a hotter intern than a 21 year old Monica Lewinsky had reason to go in and of the Oval Office throughout the day without raising alarm and occasionally give him a free blowjob, is it?
LOL. Yeah. Right.For goodness sake! It's a joke Tooms. We've established that I would fuck a donkey. Monica Lewinsky is a step up from a donkey.
So now we can add Obama's historic recovery from the likewise historic GW Bush's Great Repub Recession, Economic Disaster and Massive Jobs Destruction to FDR's historic recovery from Coolidge / Hoover's Great Repub Depression, Economic Disaster and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction and Biden's historic recovery from Trump's Great Repub Economic Disaster, Repub Recession and Massive Repub Job Desstruction to your list of "nothing big or important" Winger Selective Amnesia symptoms. LOL.
Which is it that triggers this classic Winger Selective Amnesia in you? Is it the fact that every one of those classic Repub Supply-Side / Trickle-Down policies RESULTED in predictable Great Repub Depressions / Great Repub Recessions, Economic Disasters and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction or the classic Dem Recoveries, Expansions and Historic Job Gains that followed? Both?How many times have I replied to this? RTF. You ignore Congress, wars, a pandemic, oil price shocks, the business cycle, what's happening in other countries, Fed policy, the effects of globalization and technology on the economy, and the effects of policies that extend past presidential terms. You look only at what party the president belongs to. Republicans may have fucked up around the time of Hoover, close to 100 years ago, but since it's been the luck of the draw. The president doesn't have much effect on GDP growth or employment during his term compared to other factors.
Chris Hayes is full of shit about half the time. He's spot on here though. One correction, the wholesale price of champagne would go up 3 X, not 2 X, showing again that math is not Democrats' strong suit.
Lutnick may have drunk the Kool Aid. Shame on Scott Bessent, he knows better.If he's spot on here, what exactly are you complaining about? That Trump's minions don't keep their pieholes shut? Or that Trump's tariffs will hit Americans even harder than Chris suggests?
Can you (begrudgingly, of course) drop your doubletalk and finally admit that Trump is simply catastrophic for the US economy?
How many times have I replied to this? RTF. You ignore Congress, wars, a pandemic, oil price shocks, the business cycle, what's happening in other countries, Fed policy, the effects of globalization and technology on the economy, and the effects of policies that extend past presidential terms. You look only at what party the president belongs to. Republicans may have fucked up around the time of Hoover, close to 100 years ago, but since it's been the luck of the draw. The president doesn't have much effect on GDP growth or employment during his term compared to other factors.Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know; luck of the draw, wild 100 years' long coincidences, crazy economic cycle that hates Repub presidents and loves Dem presidents, Witch's Curse on Repubs, etc, etc, etc.
Tell that to President Defund and Remove the Pandemic Prevention team leaders from those Chinese labs contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
Or is it President Blather on and on about imposing 25%-200% tariffs on our closest and best trading partners.
Or how about President Cut Taxes for Corporatons supposedly to "stimulate" the economy, create jobs and drive up GDP Growth to 3% annually, 4%, 5% maybe 6% even when the CEOs it benefited the most assured him they had no intention of doing any such thing with that windfall money and, sure enough, they were right.
Just luck of the draw. Shit happens. Any President following Obama from 2017 to 2021 would have been ranked The Worst President in USA History with the Worst Jobs Creation Since Herbert Hoover.
It was simply destined to happen to whoever won in 2016 because, hey, what about Congress, the guy who delivers coffee to the BLS Offices, Melania's latest hairstyle, oh so many other critical factors.
Get a grip Tooms. Biden is not some kind of intellectual giant. He's suffering from dementia. He would have lost. You're using a similar argument with those 118,000 Muslims as election deniers use to explain how Biden purportedly stole the 2020 election. And it should be obvious to you Democrats should have run someone besides Harris. Your party has increasingly moved to the left and that's a mistake. Democrats like Bill Clinton make good presidential general election candidates. People like Kamala Harris do not. There was no way I'd vote for her because she wanted to raise the capital gains tax to 43.4%, more than the 28% rate that would maximize government revenue. And in 2020 she campaigned to ban fracking. Others had different reasons not to vote for her. If you want to win, nominate candidates with sane policies, instead of those who pander to Progressives.The 2020 election deniers are claiming millions of fake votes, fake ballots, were laughed out of court 60 times and can not show a single shred of compelling evidence of significant election fraud.
The less than 115,000 vote swing from Trump to Harris, less than a 1 percentage point swing in just PA, MI and WI, the "Blue Wall", changing the outcome from All Blather All The Time About Tariffs to No Blather About Anything Stupid is irrefutable math based on the actual number of votes for both candidates and nothing whatsoever to do with unclaimed "election fraud" .
That irrefutable math proves beyond all possible doubt that the election was very, very close. No landslide. No Mandate.
Trump did not flip any other typically Blue State thanks to any typical Dem demographic switching to his side on any of his claimed issues of the economy, immigration, inflation, crime, what trannies do with their pee-pees, pronouns or anything of the kind except for those 3 Blue Wall states that happened to have some 400,000 - 600,000 Muslim voters whose Community Leaders made it their business to punish the Biden Administration for supporting Israel in its War in Gaza, which they conflated to mean supporting Netanyahu, who held all the cards on swinging their votes depending on when he decided to honor a cease-fire agreement.
And then it only took less than 115,000 of those angry Muslim votes out of the hundreds of thousands of them in those 3 swing states to "give the presidency to Trump."
Nobody is claiming Trump won the swing on those primarily single-issue votes due to election fraud.
Just that those were the deciding number and percentage (less than 1 point) of votes based on the Players on the Field and the uncontested math proves it.
Meanwhile, in an era of "Change" around the world, the Dems flipped House seats until the GOP now has maybe 1 to spare and my oh my so the Red States of Ohio, Montana and West Virginia elected Repub Senators. Impressive.
Biden didn't start any war, putin did. Biden should be respected for his resistance against the russian war machine. USA used to be, and still is, a great country but I have never seen USA act so weak as it is today under trump. Trump is letting USA get bullied by russia! No other US president would have that lack of confidence in their country!
I have not seen trump end any war, all I have seen trump do is to strengthen putin and putin is not interested in peace. Ergo trump has prolonged the war at the expense of the Ukrainian people!
Churchill words still rings true to this very day: You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war!
Trump is either colluding with russia or just the worst negotiator and president the US ever had.
It's also important to note that the truth is that trump doesn't have any policies, morals or values. He's just doing the opposite of his predecessor and tries to ruin anything the former president accomplished. Spite and pettiness, that's the leading star for trump's presidency.Claiming a vote for Trump was a vote for Peace has to be one of the most delusional, idiotic assertions anybody has ever made.
Trump declared War on America and led his violent mob of cop-killing insurrectionist "patriots" into battle on American Soil to initiate it!
For 200 plus years America had built an economy, foreign policy and standing as the World's Greatest Nation.
And now a MAGA Cult has empowered a ridiculous, fully-scripted game show host, con man, pathological liar, all-time Worst negotiator, 34 times convicted Felon and officially all-time Worst previous president to tear it apart brick by brick with absolutely zero concept of what to put in its place and a 100% certainty that whatever it is will not be as good as much less better than what they tore down.
I don't normally post quotes without my own comments, but seriously, there is just nothing to add, it's so good.
Angry and erratic: Trump Cabinet official admits the president is acting on emotion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/angry-and-erratic-trump-cabinet-official-admits-the-president-is-acting-on-emotion/ar-AA1AWBpOChris Hayes as well as several other MSNBC hosts used to be classic "bothsiders", hanging on to the bewildering notion that Repubs love the country as much as Dems do and whatever horrific results their policies and stewardship produce is just the luck of the draw, shit happens, surely they meant well but it just didn't turn out well.
So it has been a pleasure to watch him and others finally come around to the unavoidable conclusion that those horrific results are hardly an accident and instead they are exactly what Repubs craft their policies to produce and, if there is the slightest chance that their policies won't Crash the economy and wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, then that is when they will rush in with whatever blithering, blathering Repub stewardship is required to get it back on that intended track.
Newton York
03-15-25, 22:30
Is there any hope NVDA will ever recover? Or Goog for that matter? Or even AAPL at this point? *sigh*
Sure, NVDA is back to 120, but it's still no where near it's all time highs, FML
I'm about to sell everything fellas, so get your dry powder ready, cause almost every single time I sell, that stock will rocket. It's uncanny, sometimes within the hour. I've seen on many occasions when I buy shares of a stock, like fucking clockwork, within minutes, it will crash. So I'm feeling very down and despondent now, ready to call it quits on my positions in the Mag 7, so all of yous get ready to buy.
I don't know how people do it. Willing to take tens of thousands of Dollars in realized losses so they can get back in at a lower price, to then maybe break even months or years later? In that case, why not just hold? Keep dollar cost averaging down? Why do I have to sell? Doesn't make any sense. I get it, it's probably day traders, or people buying puts, but I'm no Jordan Belfort, I'm not a stock market whiz like Charlie Sheen in that movie, or like Rogue Trader guy of Barings Bank (anybody remember him? I'm just a schmuck that was too stupid and bought stocks in the mag 7. I am indeed one of the sheeple. A schmuck that's too scared to get into options.
But like they say, scared money don't make money. Hence I don't make money. Except in my shitty job that's already laying off people. But weirdly they haven't laid me off yet. Such is life my friends, people who want to be fired, get to stay. People who love their jobs, get fired. People who actually want to live die, while people like me who want to die, are still somehow alive.
Folks, I'm the reverse Cramer thesis embodied in human form. Buy what I sell, sell what I buy.
Elvis 2008
03-15-25, 23:53
Like I said, there's more than one way to skin a cat Elvis. My biggest winners were held for 10+ years. But there are a number I wish I'd ditched earlier. At the other end of the spectrum, I have a friend, a day trader who specialized in arbitrage and was self-schooled in antitrust law, who turned $25,000 into $3,000,000 in a few years.Tiny, I went to a conference of legendary investors. No one had returns like that. It makes no sense for somebody that good to stop.
Renaissance makes returns of 50%+ per year! And they somehow figured out how to channel massive sums of money into their tax free Roth IRA's, although I believe they got into a lawsuit with the IRS over that.Yeah, and they are all private too and not taking money from outside investors. Funny how that works. The two funds they have opened up to the public were stinkers. They are huge political donors which smells a lot like the scammer SBF was.
The problem I have with this whole Renaissance story is that they brought in math guys and came up with a formula. Investors do not work like that. The problem with the efficient market hypothesis among other things is it does not factor in emotions. Short term, the market is driven by greed and fear, and math guys are not very emotionally well tuned. These Rennaissance guys are doing something sleazy.
People who actually want to live die, while people like me who want to die, are still somehow alive.
You may want to try getting exercise and a decent amount of sleep every day. Vigorous exercise if you're in decent shape, and if not work up to it.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-exercise-more-effective-than-medication-for-depression-and-anxiety
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/health-effects
Don't sweat the finances. You're most likely doing better than 99% of the world's population, even after your recent paper losses.
https://medium.com/publishous/do-you-make-34-000-a-year-youre-part-of-the-one-percent-1cdf9ca842ff
Newton York
03-16-25, 03:21
You may want to try getting exercise and a decent amount of sleep every day. Vigorous exercise if you're in decent shape, and if not work up to it.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/is-exercise-more-effective-than-medication-for-depression-and-anxiety
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep-deprivation/health-effects
Don't sweat the finances. You're most likely doing better than 99% of the world's population, even after your recent paper losses.
https://medium.com/publishous/do-you-make-34-000-a-year-youre-part-of-the-one-percent-1cdf9ca842ffThat Medium article about 34 k a year really puts things into perspective Tiny12. I appreciate it, so many times when I'm down, and I'm thinking of finally eating that bullet, I try to remind myself there are people way worse off than me out there. Last coupla months I even try to remind myself by watching this video over and over again. It's about illegal coal mining in India and how people have to do it just to survive. Living in what can only be described as a kind of hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-gyH88JPM
Yet within hours, I start to fall into the trap of feeling despondent. In a lot of ways, we in the industrialized countries can't really see how good we have it, cause we don't have the poverty and abject horror of the rest of the world in our faces. Instead, what we have shoved into our faces is all this social media nonsense, and shit like keeping up with the joneses, never being good enough, never having enough, etc.
I've seen so much of this world, I'm still living with some form of depression and PTSD from the time I was in South East Asia decades ago courtesy of uncle Sam, that'll haunt me till the day I die. Maybe that's why I have such a love for Bangkok, cause it was an oasis of peace and sexual joy for me back then when I was surrounded by death.
It's ironic, I go back there to remember, but more than that, to forget.
That Medium article about 34 k a year really puts things into perspective Tiny12. I appreciate it, so many times when I'm down, and I'm thinking of finally eating that bullet, I try to remind myself there are people way worse off than me out there. Last coupla months I even try to remind myself by watching this video over and over again. It's about illegal coal mining in India and how people have to do it just to survive. Living in what can only be described as a kind of hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-gyH88JPM
Yet within hours, I start to fall into the trap of feeling despondent. In a lot of ways, we in the industrialized countries can't really see how good we have it, cause we don't have the poverty and abject horror of the rest of the world in our faces. Instead, what we have shoved into our faces is all this social media nonsense, and shit like keeping up with the joneses, never being good enough, never having enough, etc.
I've seen so much of this world, I'm still living with some form of depression and PTSD from the time I was in South East Asia decades ago courtesy of uncle Sam, that'll haunt me till the day I die. Maybe that's why I have such a love for Bangkok, cause it was an oasis of peace and sexual joy for me back then when I was surrounded by death.
It's ironic, I go back there to remember, but more than that, to forget.If the "much worse than the worst case scenario" occurs -- you get laid off and NVDA and your other shares go to "0" (which they won't) -- you can go to Bangkok and live a pretty darn good life on social security and pensions. Now, you may not be able to afford a 2000 Baht a night bar-girl budget. BUT, Tooms found some young vixen who worships the ground he walks on and he doesn't appear to be paying her much, if anything. If he can do it you can too.
Seriously, you should get some serious exercise if you're not already. It really improves your mood.
If the "much worse than the worst case scenario" occurs -- you get laid off and NVDA and your other shares go to "0" (which they won't) -- you can go to Bangkok and live a pretty darn good life on social security and pensions. Now, you may not be able to afford a 2000 Baht a night bar-girl budget. BUT, Tooms found some young vixen who worships the ground he walks on and he doesn't appear to be paying her much, if anything. If he can do it you can too.
Seriously, you should get some serious exercise if you're not already. It really improves your mood.Yes, but be careful what you wish for. Very, very careful. LOL.
I wasn't even looking for that. In fact, I left USA and moved to Thailand in order to escape all that real GF shit. It just landed in my lap and I was too weak to reject the offer and conditions. It requires much tweaking to get it back to my preferred way of life but with the mostly nice addition of a real GF.
Tiny, I went to a conference of legendary investors. No one had returns like that. It makes no sense for somebody that good to stop.
Yeah, and they are all private too and not taking money from outside investors. Funny how that works. The two funds they have opened up to the public were stinkers. They are huge political donors which smells a lot like the scammer SBF was.
The problem I have with this whole Renaissance story is that they brought in math guys and came up with a formula. Investors do not work like that. The problem with the efficient market hypothesis among other things is it does not factor in emotions. Short term, the market is driven by greed and fear, and math guys are not very emotionally well tuned. These Rennaissance guys are doing something sleazy.I assure you he did it Elvis. He stalled out after that and I suspect 20 years or more later his net worth is less than $10 million. The secret was leverage. Nominally he was working for his brokerage firm, which allowed him to get around limits on margin lending. But in reality he was trading for his own account and paying commissions to the brokerage. An example, when a company was being taken over, some institutions are too lazy to do the paperwork to accept the tender offer. On the last day of the tender, when you knew with 100% certainty it would happen, shares might be trading for $19.90 when the tender price was $20. His firm would loan him $20 million or $30 million to buy shares. He submits the paperwork. His firm gets a per share commission and interest on the borrowed funds and he ends up with a good profit. That's just one example. He was often doing things that were riskier. His firm had enough confidence in him that it was willing to loan him the money
He says he stopped because a lot of his strategies didnt work so well because algorithmic trading was beating him to the punch and shaving the profits. He probably got a little lazy after he had a decent nest egg. He could have paid a programmer to implement some of his strategies, and pursued others without one. And he still does from time to time, but not as successfully as in the past. These days HFT firms pay millions to have slightly faster connections to the exchanges, and have large teams of computer scientists and PhD scientists, mathematicians and engineers. It’s hard to compete with that.
Yes, but be careful what you wish for. Very, very careful. LOL.
I wasn't even looking for that. In fact, I left USA and moved to Thailand in order to escape all that real GF shit. It just landed in my lap and I was too weak to reject the offer and conditions. It requires much tweaking to get it back to my preferred way of life but with the mostly nice addition of a real GF.Well there's a big, beautiful world out there. Let's hope Newton gets out of his funk and starts to enjoy it more.
The full, fair, and true narrative: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/16/trump-biden-economy
Newton York
03-16-25, 21:23
When life gets you down cause we're trapped in this shitty disunited States of America, I watch this to make myself feel better.
This is how I remember Bangkok, a bright, sunny, highly saturated colors, a place full of joy and happy people. And hot babes dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfqJyKm20Z4
When you feel like you want to catch that bus to unalive town, that video always helps me a bit.
Elvis 2008
03-16-25, 21:36
I assure you he did it Elvis. He stalled out after that and I suspect 20 years or more later his net worth is less than $10 million. The secret was leverage. Nominally he was working for his brokerage firm, which allowed him to get around limits on margin lending. But in reality he was trading for his own account and paying commissions to the brokerage. An example, when a company was being taken over, some institutions are too lazy to do the paperwork to accept the tender offer. On the last day of the tender, when you knew with 100% certainty it would happen, shares might be trading for $19.90 when the tender price was $20. His firm would loan him $20 million or $30 million to buy shares. He submits the paperwork. His firm gets a per share commission and interest on the borrowed funds and he ends up with a good profit. That's just one example. He was often doing things that were riskier. His firm had enough confidence in him that it was willing to loan him the money..But Tiny, that is not advisable or open to most people. Unless you have lock solid information, one bad deal with that much leverage and you can lose everything.
He says he stopped because a lot of his strategies didnt work so well because algorithmic trading was beating him to the punch and shaving the profits. He probably got a little lazy after he had a decent nest egg. He could have paid a programmer to implement some of his strategies, and pursued others without one. And he still does from time to time, but not as successfully as in the past. These days HFT firms pay millions to have slightly faster connections to the exchanges, and have large teams of computer scientists and PhD scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Its hard to compete with that.Sure, if you have a microsecond advantage and you can lever up big like your friend did, you can cash in huge, but the best investors do not care about saving a penny or even a tenth of a penny when buying a position. Thing is when you have a model like this it gets copied by others and then it no longer works.
But the best moves I ever made were not because of some math or science. In fact, my first mistake was being secure in the math of investing and seeing how people were allowed to lie about the numbers. Only after I corrected for what were allowed lies and not allowed lies did the math work.
The funny part is going to shareholder meetings. Yeah, supposedly, the information shared there cannot be something investors not going to the meetings can get. In reality, I got to see the attitudes of those in the companies. I met CEOs who were so stupid or crooked, I would not let them manage a Dairy Queen or lend them a dime, and on the other end, I met some guys sharp as fuck. I got to see if workers thought that shareholders should be respected or whether they were out to get every dime they could.
That is why I am so skeptical of your friend. I am not saying he did not do it. Maybe he did come up with a better mouse trap and had the leverage to make it big, but I mean when you talk about acquisitions and the like, just one lie, one regulator, one bad bolt or nut somewhere, and the whole thing comes apart.
In fact, the entire basis of this bull market is one not of math and physics but one of faith. AI is going to do something great. That is not math or science. It is religion, and that is why I am so uncomfortable with it.
Despite the Russian bots' script and images of supposedly real Americans asserting that, "These are the best two months in four years" and such silliness, and until the demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics site rushes in another Rasmussen and Trafalgar poll to save the MAGA day, Trump is already underwater with higher Disapprovals than Approvals on all the important issues of Job Performance, The Economy, Inflation, Foreign Policy, Direction of the Country etc except one; Americans are apparently relieved to look around and discover that immigrants are no longer eating the cats and eating the dogs!
That has to be it. It can't be about Trump's fizzled promise of Mass Deportations because he is deporting far fewer illegal immigrants than Biden did and, most importantly, at a much higher cost in our tax-payer dollars than Biden did due to him using those ridiculously expensive military aircraft to do it.
Yes, illegal border crossings are down but they were already plummeting under Biden over the past year since he started imposing stricter regulations on it after the increase in immigration had served its purpose in contributing so much to recovering us from the Trump's Pandemic historic economic crash by increasing consumer spending, creating jobs and keeping Trump's Pandemic Inflation down more than it would have been otherwise:
Trump announced mass expulsions, but the pace of deportation flights has been slower than Biden's.
Countries that received more deportation flights haven't seen major changes and predict that 2025 will end with fewer deportees than previous years.
March 14, 2025
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-announced-mass-expulsions-deportation-flights-slower-bidens-rcna195223
(so-called)
President Trump Job Approval
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
See screenshots below:
If I was Ukrainian, I would worry a lot about senile schizophrene Trump sucking Putin in private when he hold orange balls, to organize to fuck poor weak Ukrainians. When the big fall for Tesla, will become also for F35 and military ships and submarines when can t trust anymore USA, so they have now only robbery, when Trump will make fall USA economics. USA already knew him when re electing, after he fucked constitution, capitol and police. I wish good luck to Ukraine to keep their borders and freedom, when they were already robbed Crimea by Putin. Also good luck to Greenland. Canada and UK would be welcome in EU extension, not Turkey with dictator Erdogan and should be better to get rid of Orban Hungary, then I m pretty sure, even very nationalist, but Hungarians would get rid of him.
More great news from MAGALAS.
Donald Trump Sends Warning To Enemies As He Says Biden Pardons Void
President Donald Trump has said that Joe Biden's 11th-hour pardons of members of Congress who investigated the January 6 attack are "void, vacant and of no further effect."
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the pardons issued by his predecessor are not valid because they were allegedly signed using an autopena device that replicates a person's signature.
Trump also warned members of the former January 6 House select committee that they would now be "subject to investigation at the highest level."Regardless of what anyone might feel about presidential pardons, this seems to be insane, right? Because what would prevent a future president to void Trump's pardons and throw his own minions and sycophants into the slammer after he's done? Well, not so fast.
Guy Grossman, professor of global politics and international relations at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote on Bluesky: "If Trump voids Biden's pardons, then the next Democratic president can void his pardons, exposing him and his cronies to criminal charges. This only makes sense if you are dumb or have no plans ever giving up power. Trump is not dumb." If anyone doubted that Trump and his co-conspirators are cooking a coup, this is the proof.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-sends-warning-to-enemies-as-he-says-biden-pardons-void/ar-AA1B3Zgw
Axel Heyst
03-17-25, 20:16
This is a nice little diddy. I mentioned Newsom attempted political shift in order to win the 2028 Democrat nomination. The lefties on ISG didn't get it. Apparently neither did CA voters. BEAUTIFUL! I want the party to remain bar shit "crazy" and nominate another far-left loon. What America needs is a third party to replace the Woke party.
" Failed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) recently launched a high-profile podcast and the response from voters can only be described as a backlash.
CA 120 surveyed 1,000 California voters specifically about Newsom's podcast with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Overall, the numbers were not good for Newsom, a 2028 presidential-wannabe.
Only 24 percent of those surveyed said the podcast helped them see Newsom as more moderate, while 17 percent said it made them less likely to see him as a moderate. A majority of 59 percent said it made no difference.
Only 13 percent of those surveyed said the podcast improved their perception of Newsom, while 26 percent said it harmed their perception — that's negative 13 points on that question. A majority of 58 percent said nothing changed in their perception.
Prior to the podcast, Newsom somehow had a 52 percent favorable to 48 percent unfavorable rating with Golden State voters. After the podcast, that number dipped a net ten points to just 47 percent favorable.
His "very favorable rating" tanked from 25 percent to 18 percent.
Among liberals, the podcast dropped Newsom's favorability rating from 46 to 30 percent — a 16-point collapse.
Only one in five of those who heard Newsom's podcast said they wanted to tune into future episodes.
This polling does not take into account the reaction to Newsom hosting former White House advisor Steve Bannon, which resulted in an even bigger backlash among such high-profile Democrats as Oscar winner Jane Fonda.
Like the national Democrat Party and the legacy media, Newsom has painted himself into a corner where the only way to survive is through fealty to the 20 percent of hard leftists that make up the left's base of activist and financial support.
Democrats like Newsom and fake news outlets like CNN, NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times cannot survive without the support of that 20 percent, which is why they are forced to take the 20-percent side on common sense issues where 80 percent of the public agree: border enforcement, flying gang members out of the country, expelling foreign radicals who paralyze universities, removing men from women's sports and private spaces, cheap energy, law and order, etc.
Newsom cannot "moderate" without killing his chances of winning the 2028 Democrat presidential primary. In the same way, CNN and the Washington Post cannot moderate without their customer base dropping to zero.
With all their lies and lunacy in support of things like open borders and this transsexual nonsense, Newsom, Democrats, and the corporate media have alienated all the Normal People, probably forever. So that 20 percent is all they've got.
Democrats are trapped and cornered, and it is glorious. ".
President Biden's IRA legacy in renewables, sees solar smashing US records, with 50 GW of new capacity added to the grid, in one year (2024). The most in the last 20 years, in U.S. history.
According to Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, solar and storage, account for 84% of all new electric generating capacity added to the grid last year.
Meanwhile, over at CERAweek, the "drill baby drill" fossil fuel choirboys, continue to sing the "praises" of fossil fuels and continue to march the U.S. two-steps backwards and one forward, with the misinformation and attitude surrounding renewables. As the American Fuhrer's energy secretary, Chris Wright, falsely rants on about natural gas and downplays the impact solar is having in the U.S., in light of record solar capacity.
Chris Wright (at CERAweek) -- "there is simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas."
Solar smashes US records with 50 GW added in one year, as Trumps energy secretary gushes about gas https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-smashes-us-records-with-50-gw-added-in-one-year-as-trumps-energy-secretary-gushes-about-gas/
Obviously, the dude, just hasn't been paying attention to China's impressive buildouts of solar, wind, batteries (S+W+B) and pumped hydro, at a staggering pace, the equivalent of five (5) nuclear reactors a week. Or Britain and South Australia, who've both reduced their energy mix to zero (0%) coal and just 25% natural gas.
Less than 5% natural gas, will happen in the next few years, for these places, as S+W+B and other renewable take their place. But not in the U.S., as the MAGA Fuhrer, rips out revenue earning charging stations and "drills baby drill".
Let see him rip out 50 GW of solar!
I m really happy Mercedes keep on for V8 and even V12 engines, real engines for real cars and Ok for Euro 7 . Keep your Teslas in USA, when Europeans feel shame about Musk behavior.
Elvis 2008
03-17-25, 22:09
More great news from MAGALAS.
Regardless of what anyone might feel about presidential pardons, this seems to be insane, right? Because what would prevent a future president to void Trump's pardons and throw his own minions and sycophants into the slammer after he's done? Well, not so fast.
If anyone doubted that Trump and his co-conspirators are cooking a coup, this is the proof.
Yes, if Republicans do anything in court, it is a coup. LOL. If the Trump DOJ goes after the individuals criminally, there is a lot that has to be determined. First off is a pre-empitive pardon even legal. I think that is bullshit. It is carte blanche for any administration to commit a crime.
Second, the DOJ investigated and indicted Trump for having classified documents in his possession, which looks stupider than ever now, but did not prosecute Biden for the same charge. All the bullshit excuses not withstanding, they literally are alleged to have broken the same law.
The reason given for prosecuting Trump and not prosecuting Biden was the DOJ determined that Biden was not mentally competent to stand trial. So if you are not mentally competent to stand trial, how can you be handing out pardons? So there will be a fight over Biden's competence if there is a case, and I predict the Democrat side will lose.
But this is just you in the cult Xpartan. Shit, your candidate is run out as being the candidate because of mental incompetent, and you are so full of shit, you think these machine signatures from Biden are okay without any trial or knowledge of Biden's competence? Shit, Xpartan, you do not just drink the fucking Kool Aid. You bathe in it. You have no fucking clue as to the competence of Biden in those last few days in office but you swear that you do. That is not factually certain, Xpartan. That is literal delusion masking as fact in your brain.
MarquisdeSade1
03-18-25, 00:25
President Biden's IRA legacy in renewables, sees solar smashing US records, with 50 GW of new capacity added to the grid, in one year (2024). The most in the last 20 years, in U.S. history.
According to Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, solar and storage, account for 84% of all new electric generating capacity added to the grid last year.
Meanwhile, over at CERAweek, the "drill baby drill" fossil fuel choirboys, continue to sing the "praises" of fossil fuels and continue to march the U.S. two-steps backwards and one forward, with the misinformation and attitude surrounding renewables. As the American Fuhrer's energy secretary, Chris Wright, falsely rants on about natural gas and downplays the impact solar is having in the U.S., in light of record solar capacity.
Solar smashes US records with 50 GW added in one year, as Trumps energy secretary gushes about gas https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-smashes-us-records-with-50-gw-added-in-one-year-as-trumps-energy-secretary-gushes-about-gas/
Obviously, the dude, just hasn't been paying attention to China's impressive buildouts of solar, wind, batteries (S+W+B) and pumped hydro, at a staggering pace, the equivalent of five (5) nuclear reactors a week. Or Britain and South Australia, who've both reduced their energy mix to zero (0%) coal and just 25% natural gas.
Less than 5% natural gas, will happen in the next few years, for these places, as S+W+B and other renewable take their place. But not in the U.S., as the MAGA Fuhrer, rips out revenue earning charging stations and "drills baby drill".
Let see him rip out 50 GW of solar!Harry you're AWESOME!
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/17/cnns-enten-holy-toledo-support-for-democratic-party-plunging/
They aren't even in power and everyone HATES them.
I know what they need they need to swap out NYC Chucky with Ru Paul w / AOC for VP.
Has anyone ever seen "Idiocracy" LMFAO.
I propose Ru Paul as the nominee for the Democrats in 2028!
ROTFLMMFAO!
I m really happy Mercedes keep on for V8 and even V12 engines, real engines for real cars and Ok for Euro 7 . Keep your Teslas in USA, when Europeans feel shame about Musk behavior.Musk is the fall guy. He is going to need a presidential pardon in the end. You watch!
https://youtube.com/shorts/zsGwdhTFaJI?si=_QyopVztrYUL2BOS
From the greatest Governor the great state of California ever had!
Newton York
03-18-25, 03:01
Even with the GTC happening now, NVDA is still tanking. Well, there goes the economy. I don't ever remember a time when MSFT was this low for this long. Come on portfolio! Turn green for me! Christ on a stick!
Google? Even AAPL is tanking! Apple stock! That's supposed to be invincible *sigh* FML.
Axel Heyst
03-18-25, 04:13
The political event that I am most amazed by since Trump was inaugurated is the one where Democrat politicians, judges, and useful idiots are fighting tooth and nail over 80/20 issues where 80% of American people support one thing like 1) the deportation of Venezuelan criminal illegal gang members to Salvador, or 2) banning men's participation in woman's athletic events, or 3) supporting Doge in uncovering waste, fraud, corruption and mismanagement in Government spending among others. It is so unbelievably stupid on the part of the Democrats! But this is exactly what is happening, at the moment, and it proves beyond a doubt that the Democratic Party is run by the 20% hard core radical left-wing nut jobs. So, I am beginning to wonder if moderates / liberals / non crazies can actually take back their party or more and more plausibly whether the Democrat Party is finished as the majority party in American politics. Just keep on doing what you are doing, boys, and we shall see. HAHAHA!
Anyway, here is the latest polls from CNN & NBC and they are devastating news for the Democratic party. CNN: "Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at 29% a record low in CNN's polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 "attack" at on Capitol". NBC: "Just over a quarter of registered voters (27%) say they have positive views of the Democratic party, which is the party's lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990". So, the question is, will the left keep fighting the 80/20 issues. It looks like they will. Personally, I hope they do. I want to see AOC run in the primary against Chuckie Schumer for his NY Senate seat. Oh, what fun that will be.
And now to change the subject a wee little bit, we have the Autopen and which Executive Orders Biden actually signed as "President"? The answer is we don't know. The next question then becomes, of the EO's that he actually did sign, how many of those did Biden fully understand what he was signing. I love this headline: "Trump Raising Question: Was Autopen Used to Pardon J6 members Without Biden's 'Consent or Knowledge?" Man, does Trump have the amazing ability to drive the Wokes bat shit crazy. HAHAHAH!
The reason given for prosecuting Trump and not prosecuting Biden was the DOJ determined that Biden was not mentally competent to stand trial. So if you are not mentally competent to stand trial, how can you be handing out pardons? So there will be a fight over Biden's competence if there is a case, and I predict the Democrat side will lose. But this is just you in the cult Xpartan. Shit, your candidate is run out as being the candidate because of mental incompetent, and you are so full of shit, you think these machine signatures from Biden are okay without any trial or knowledge of Biden's competence? Shit, Xpartan, you do not just drink the fucking Kool Aid. You bathe in it. You have no fucking clue as to the competence of Biden in those last few days in office but you swear that you do. That is not factually certain, Xpartan. That is literal delusion masking as fact in your brain.
Yes, if Republicans do anything in court, it is a coup. LOL. If the Trump DOJ goes after the individuals criminally, there is a lot that has to be determined. First off is a pre-empitive pardon even legal. I think that is bullshit. It is carte blanche for any administration to commit a crime.
Second, the DOJ investigated and indicted Trump for having classified documents in his possession, which looks stupider than ever now, but did not prosecute Biden for the same charge. All the bullshit excuses not withstanding, they literally are alleged to have broken the same law.
The reason given for prosecuting Trump and not prosecuting Biden was the DOJ determined that Biden was not mentally competent to stand trial. So if you are not mentally competent to stand trial, how can you be handing out pardons? So there will be a fight over Biden's competence if there is a case, and I predict the Democrat side will lose..You know everything you said about the law regarding classified documents and why the DOJ indicted Trump but not Biden is a lie and has been roundly refuted since the day each happened, right?
Just checking the mental competence of a typical MAGA here since one has to do that every now and then after 77 million of them voted for higher prices on almost everything and Trump's Pandemic Part 2.
This is a nice little diddy. I mentioned Newsom attempted political shift in order to win the 2028 Democrat nomination. The lefties on ISG didn't get it. Apparently neither did CA voters. BEAUTIFUL! I want the party to remain bar shit "crazy" and nominate another far-left loon. What America needs is a third party to replace the Woke party.
" Failed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) recently launched a high-profile podcast and the response from voters can only be described as a backlash.
CA 120 surveyed 1,000 California voters specifically about Newsom's podcast with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Overall, the numbers were not good for Newsom, a 2028 presidential-wannabe.
Only 24 percent of those surveyed said the podcast helped them see Newsom as more moderate, while 17 percent said it made them less likely to see him as a moderate. A majority of 59 percent said it made no difference.
Only 13 percent of those surveyed said the podcast improved their perception of Newsom, while 26 percent said it harmed their perception that's negative 13 points on that question. A majority of 58 percent said nothing changed in their perception.
Prior to the podcast, Newsom somehow had a 52 percent favorable to 48 percent unfavorable rating with Golden State voters. After the podcast, that number dipped a net ten points to just 47 percent favorable.
His "very favorable rating" tanked from 25 percent to 18 percent.Trump's VP, Shady Pants, isn't going to win California in 2028.
Blond talking for USA, masturbating in front of her image in mirror, should know without de la Fayette, probably never USA. Real fact is USA are now led by a shameful robber and we will see how he will suck criminal dictator Putin who is a liar.
MarquisdeSade1
03-18-25, 13:58
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/03/17/breitbart-business-digest-the-case-for-strategic-tariffs-from-ricardo-to-reagan/
POTUS orders deportation flights in defiance of judges order
The Constitution crisis has begun!
Blond talking for USA, masturbating in front of her image in mirror, should know without de la Fayette, probably never USA. Real fact is USA are now led by a shameful robber and we will see how he will suck criminal dictator Putin who is a liar.
Axel Heyst
03-18-25, 17:45
Trump's VP, Shady Pants, isn't going to win California in 2028.What are you talking about? I never said anything about how CA would vote in the next Presidential election. My post was about Democrats, specifically Newsom, running or attempting to run in the 2028 Democratic Presidential primaries and the difficulty moderates / realists will have taking back their party from the insane Wokies. The Wokes are still calling the tune. It looks like it is going to take several election cycles before the Party gets the message. And personally, I hope they never get the message.
The political event that I am most amazed by since Trump was inaugurated is the one where Democrat politicians, judges, and useful idiots are fighting tooth and nail over 80/20 issues where 80% of American people support one thing like 1) the deportation of Venezuelan criminal illegal gang members to Salvador, or 2) banning men's participation in woman's athletic events, or 3) supporting Doge in uncovering waste, fraud, corruption and mismanagement in Government spending among others. It is so unbelievably stupid on the part of the Democrats! But this is exactly what is happening, at the moment, and it proves beyond a doubt that the Democratic Party is run by the 20% hard core radical left-wing nut jobs. So, I am beginning to wonder if moderates / liberals / non crazies can actually take back their party or more and more plausibly whether the Democrat Party is finished as the majority party in American politics. Just keep on doing what you are doing, boys, and we shall see. HAHAHA!
Anyway, here is the latest polls from CNN & NBC and they are devastating news for the Democratic party. CNN: "Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at 29% a record low in CNN's polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 "attack" at on Capitol". NBC: "Just over a quarter of registered voters (27%) say they have positive views of the Democratic party, which is the party's lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990". So, the question is, will the left keep fighting the 80/20 issues.That same NBC poll shows Democrats with a small but trending advantage over Repubs in the Generic Ballot Control of Congress question:
See Screenshot Below
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
I did a quick search but did not find that the CNN polluters even bothered to ask that far more significant question since a Congressional election is really the only pertinent event in the offing.
I wonder why they didn't. Maybe the same reason most typically pro Repub Mainstream Media rarely if ever mentions that Preference to Control Congress question response in the NBC poll (Spoiler Alert: they prefer Democrats) and only focus on that low general Approval Rating. Which is likely more about wanting the Dems to do more and work harder to stop TrumpMusk from destroying America, I'm guessing, and obviously nothing to do with which Party they intend to vote for to control Congress in about 20 months.
Chief Justice of the United States of America just slapped down POTUS like a *****!
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose".
Oh that was nasty!
Elvis2008, read it and weep!
Criminal Netanyahou and Putin keeping on killing with big support of USA Trump, a real shame.
POTUS orders deportation flights in defiance of judges order
The Constitution crisis has begun!Trump already fucked USA constitution on 2021 . Policeman was killed and capitol destroyed.
I m really happy Mercedes keep on for V8 and even V12 engines, real engines for real cars and Ok for Euro 7.
Not so fast...the EV trend in Europe, is still positively up!
In both the months of January and February, 2025, saw EVs take a significant share of the European passenger plugin vehicle market. EVs scored 244,000 registrations in January, and in Europe's biggest market take a 27.3% share in Germany, up from 19.3% share year on year (YoY).
100% Electric Vehicles = 17% Of New Car Sales In Europe In January
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/27/100-electric-vehicles-17-of-new-car-sales-in-europe-in-january/
EVs Take 27.3% Share In Germany Volkswagen ID.7 Still Leading
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/10/evs-take-27-3-share-in-germany-volkswagen-id-7-still-leading/
Should be very interesting to see, if the big European car manufacturers, will be still profitable, going against consumer trends in some of the worlds biggest car markets, fighting labor disputes and dealing with the influx of Chinese EVs. Not too mention stupidly, paying Tesla, a few billion dollars, to avoid even bigger EU emissions fines (...kkkk!)
Will producing more ICE vehicles work, as more countries ban new ICE sales? Or will it be more losses from Mercedes, to the tune of $10.8 billion (2024) and Porsche SE's $21.7 billion (2024)?
Keep your Teslas in USA, when Europeans feel shame about Musk behavior.
Musk is the fall guy. He is going to need a presidential pardon in the end. You watch!
The goosestepping wannabe President Musk, maybe done in more ways than one, but I wouldn't hold your breath!
Is Tesla finished in Europe's biggest car market? According to a 100K online survey from Germans, it might be so, as 94% of Germans say, they wouldn't buy one. https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-say-they-wont-buy-a-tesla-car/
PS: Breaking News --This just in...Audi to slash 7,500 jobs, as the Germany's auto industry struggles, in it's transition and production to EVs. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/business/audi-volkswagen-germany-job-cuts-intl/index.html
Yeah, you are so right, they should keep making those V8 and even V12 engines, despite, "...the writing on the wall."
The political event that I am most amazed by since Trump was inaugurated is the one where Democrat politicians, judges, and useful idiots are fighting tooth and nail over 80/20 issues where 80% of American people support one thing like- Or if you pulled them out of the same place most right-wingers get their news from -- but even if they are, I'm curious: do your 80% of American people support Trump violating courts orders to achieve the results they favor?
Can the government break the law and do whatever they feel like as long as the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives?
I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.
POTUS orders deportation flights in defiance of judges order
The Constitution crisis has begun!The Constitutional crises began in 2020 with MAGALAS' called for their supporters to overturn the results of the US election and got away with it.
It continued in 2021-2024 when the inept DOJ wasted its precious time and failed to prosecute him for what amounts to no less than High Treason. What's happening today is a direct result of the monumental cowardice and failures of our law enforcement. It's scary to even think about what might be coming next.
It took Hitler 18 months to complete the transformation from winning a democratic election to the absolute power, but he didn't have Trump's lawyers back then.
MarquisdeSade1
03-19-25, 01:59
The political event that I am most amazed by since Trump was inaugurated is the one where Democrat politicians, judges, and useful idiots are fighting tooth and nail over 80/20 issues where 80% of American people support one thing like 1) the deportation of Venezuelan criminal illegal gang members to Salvador, or 2) banning men's participation in woman's athletic events, or 3) supporting Doge in uncovering waste, fraud, corruption and mismanagement in Government spending among others. It is so unbelievably stupid on the part of the Democrats! But this is exactly what is happening, at the moment, and it proves beyond a doubt that the Democratic Party is run by the 20% hard core radical left-wing nut jobs. So, I am beginning to wonder if moderates / liberals / non crazies can actually take back their party or more and more plausibly whether the Democrat Party is finished as the majority party in American politics. Just keep on doing what you are doing, boys, and we shall see. HAHAHA!
Anyway, here is the latest polls from CNN & NBC and they are devastating news for the Democratic party. CNN: "Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability rating stands at 29% a record low in CNN's polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 "attack" at on Capitol". NBC: "Just over a quarter of registered voters (27%) say they have positive views of the Democratic party, which is the party's lowest positive rating in NBC News polling dating back to 1990". So, the question is, will the left keep fighting the 80/20 issues. It looks like they will. Personally, I hope they do. I want to see AOC run in the primary against Chuckie Schumer for his NY Senate seat. Oh, what fun that will be.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eCi2YngY2iI check out Scumbag Autopen Joe, this clip is 3 or 4 months BTW.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/16/exclusive-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-details-trumps-tariff-plans-there-will-be-no-tariffs-for-companies-that-move-their-manufacturing-here/
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/03/18/jd-vance-cheap-labor-is-bad-for-u-s-productivity-innovation-society/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/15/jd-vance-warns-europe-against-embarking-on-civilizational-suicide-through-open-borders/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-signs-chinas-decline
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-03-14/real-cause-market-selloff-recession
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/14/globalist-magazine-admits-jd-vance-is-correct-migration-spikes-housing-prices/
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/02/25/foreign-companies-bail-out-of-chinas-tottering-economy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig446isvXlI
Has anyone ever seen Idiocracy? AKA Obama / Biden 2008-2016 AKA DUM and DUMMER Idiocracy 2. 0 Biden / Harris lolololol.
Idiocracy 3. 0 RuPaul POTUS and AOC VP 2028 LMFAO.
Those right wingers who are the most adamant and self-righteous are also the ones most likely to be hiding something in the closet:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minor
What are you talking about? I never said anything about how CA would vote in the next Presidential election. My post was about Democrats, specifically Newsom, running or attempting to run in the 2028 Democratic Presidential primaries and the difficulty moderates / realists will have taking back their party from the insane Wokies. The Wokes are still calling the tune. It looks like it is going to take several election cycles before the Party gets the message. And personally, I hope they never get the message.But you omitted the "devastating news" for REPUBS that the NBC poll that you and your Repub Party's Mainstream Media benefactors love to selectively quote show Dems with an advantage over Repubs on the Generic Ballot Control of Congress question even while those same poll respondents are giving Dems their lowest Favorability Ratings.
So according to your unlinked source, Newsom's Favorability rating even after engaging with one of the Repub Party's favorite America-hating Racist MAGALoons, Charlie Kirk, fell to 47% with his constituents.
I did not find a current National Favorability Rating for Gavin Newsom, which is no surprise considering no one governor is top of mind or even well known enough to register much of a National Poll response. But there are certainly plenty of National Favorability Ratings for Trump and JD Vance from their constituents:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/political-leaders
Trump = 46.5% Favorable.
JD Vance, a hypothetical 2028 Newsom nominee's most likely Repub opponent = 41.7% Favorable.
Oh, and this is also after the California Climate Change fires and during what I presume you would characterize as a "winning" streak for Trump and Vance as they and President Musk chainsaw away thousands of Federal jobs not even remotely associated with a shred of evidence for Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
Now, on JOB Approval Ratings we also have some numbers for Newsom and Trump from their constituents, in addition to Trump's RCP Consensus Job Approval of 47.9% as seen in the link above:
President Trump's approval ratings: How does he score in US, against Newsom in California?
March 14, 2025
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/03/14/donald-trump-approval-rating-latest-polls-vs-newsom-us-california-doge-republican-support/82379200007/
I won't cite each and every poll mentioned in that report. But reading the link it is Real Clear to me I would much rather have Gavin Newsom's Job Approval Ratings from his constituents than Donald Trump's Job Approval Ratings from his constituents.
If you can find any current JOB Approval Ratings for JD Vance from his constituents to compare to anyone, please let me know.
And so it begins!
POTUS orders deportation flights in defiance of judges order
The Constitution crisis has begun!The TrumpMusk War on America and Free and Fair Elections has officially surged into a War on Free Speech, The Rule of Law and Due Process.
And the decades-long Repub Party MAGALoons' premise for that Declaration of War Against America was always abundantly clear:
Newton York
03-19-25, 04:21
I'm so tired of the stock market collapsing *sigh*.
Can the government break the law and do whatever they feel like as long as the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives?No!
I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.Personally I do not think you can get one out of anyone that has not taken the OATH to the Constitution before. I have. I carried a pocket size copy of the document I took a OATH to for the entire time I was under oath. I was asked many times to violate my oath and refused preferring to get fired instead. But each and every time my superiors backed down.
We live in different times now!
Trump already fucked USA constitution on 2021 . Policeman was killed and capitol destroyed.And also fighting versus justice, when laws are not for such schizophrene. Ukrainians feel fucked when he suck Putin.
Not so fast...the EV trend in Europe, is still positively up!
In both the months of January and February, 2025, saw EVs take a significant share of the European passenger plugin vehicle market. EVs scored 244,000 registrations in January, and in Europe's biggest market take a 27.3% share in Germany, up from 19.3% share year on year (YoY).
100% Electric Vehicles = 17% Of New Car Sales In Europe In January
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/02/27/100-electric-vehicles-17-of-new-car-sales-in-europe-in-january/
EVs Take 27.3% Share In Germany Volkswagen ID.7 Still Leading
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/10/evs-take-27-3-share-in-germany-volkswagen-id-7-still-leading/
Should be very interesting to see, if the big European car manufacturers, will be still profitable, going against consumer trends in some of the worlds biggest car markets, fighting labor disputes and dealing with the influx of Chinese EVs. Not too mention stupidly, paying Tesla, a few billion dollars, to avoid even bigger EU emissions fines (...kkkk!)
Will producing more ICE vehicles work, as more countries ban new ICE sales? Or will it be more losses from Mercedes, to the tune of $10.8 billion (2024) and Porsche SE's $21.7 billion (2024)?
The goosestepping wannabe President Musk, maybe done in more ways than one, but I wouldn't hold your breath!
Is Tesla finished in Europe's biggest car market? According to a 100K online survey from Germans, it might be so, as 94% of Germans say, they wouldn't buy one. https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-say-they-wont-buy-a-tesla-car/
PS: Breaking News --This just in...Audi to slash 7,500 jobs, as the Germany's auto industry struggles, in it's transition and production to EVs. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/business/audi-volkswagen-germany-job-cuts-intl/index.html
Yeah, you are so right, they should keep making those V8 and even V12 engines, despite, "...the writing on the wall."My meaning is most best brands keep on developping thermic engines, even in USA, and I m very happy about this. And for Europe, succeeding Euro 7 .
Criminal Netanyahou and Putin keeping on killing with big support of USA Trump, a real shame.Yep.
Netanyahu says fighting has resumed in Gaza with 'full force'.
March 18, 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/czje23jd779t
Factoring in only the Players on the Field, the Voters Who Showed Up To Vote, and disregarding the millions of 2020 Biden voters who were so satisfied with their personal financial and job situation after Biden's historic recovery from Trump's Pandemic Part 1 and had been bamboozled by lying, pro Repub "Bothsiders" into mistakenly concluding that "presidents don't have much control over the economy and jobs creation" and therfore did not bother to vote for the Dem again this time, those less than 115,000 Muslims across the only three swing states that mattered, roughly 0. 75 of a single percentage point of voters in those three states that were the sole reason for Trump's razor-thin election win, must feel like even bigger suckers today after what they brought to America than they felt immediately after they "gave Trump the presidency" on November 5th.
Oh well.
............
And now to change the subject a wee little bit, we have the Autopen and which Executive Orders Biden actually signed as "President"? The answer is we don't know. The next question then becomes, of the EO's that he actually did sign, how many of those did Biden fully understand what he was signing. I love this headline: "Trump Raising Question: Was Autopen Used to Pardon J6 members Without Biden's 'Consent or Knowledge?" Man, does Trump have the amazing ability to drive the Wokes bat shit crazy. HAHAHAH!So was the joke supposed to be that Trump lied for the 35,000 plus plus plus time and, boy does that delight the MAGAs and annoy normal Americans or that he has admitted he's really just a big sarcastic kidder who can't be taken seriously about anything, such as, that he would stop Putin's War in Ukraine in 24 hours, would stop The War in Gaza in 24 hours, would bring down the price of groceries, damn I'm glad he invented that word, on Day One and so on? Or something else?
Well, either way, since you declined to include any link or substantiation for anything you asserted in that post I decided to flesh out a few more pertinent details about that obscure "joke" Trump apparently was trying to tell:
Trump claims Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 committee are 'void' because he used an autopen.
Trump has argued that the committee members are guilty of unspecified major crimes.
March 17, 2025
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-bidens-pardons-jan-6-committee-are-void-used-autopen-rcna196670
Trump went on to allege that Biden didnt know about the pardons or approve them and that therefore all the committee members would be subject to investigation at the highest level.
However, the U.S. Constitution makes it clear that the president has unique executive powers to issue pardons and makes no provision for subsequent presidents to rescind them for issues relating to the choice of pen or anything else.Fact-checking Trumps claim that Biden pardons are void because he used an autopen.
March 18, 2025
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-trumps-claim-that-biden-pardons-are-void-because-he-used-an-autopen
"Everything was signed by autopen almost everything, Trump said March 13. Nobody has ever heard of such a thing.
Biden is not the first U.S. president to use an autopen. Presidents Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson used autopens or mechanized signing devices.
We found universal agreement among legal scholars that the Constitution doesnt require a pardons direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopens use for similar purposes. Legal scholars also agreed that there is no constitutional mechanism to overturn pardons once granted.Of course, if the lame joke was supposed to have something to do with Trump's claim that Biden didn't know who he was pardoning, that naturally begs the question, "Could cogitively incompetent Donald Trump identify by name more than 3 of the 1500 cop-attacking, maiming and killing insurrectionists in his War Against America on American Soil that he Pardoned"?
Chief Justice of the United States of America just slapped down POTUS like a *****!
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose".
Oh that was nasty!
Elvis2008, read it and weep!But Trump is just a stupid new Neron and a liar, robber. Sad shameful USA, not at all MAGA. I wish he will make fall USA economics, to make understand no brained.
When most EVs, or hybrid Toyota are just ugly, for me, this is like paying for a ugly girl who is limited for sex, when I only want to pay for high beauties with fresh GFE, like for my 2008 V8 4. 2 32 S5 with white leather I like to sleep inside. Each one own eyes and brain, when I m not a good follower sheep.
Senile stupid Neron Trump who wants to tax everybody, but now begging Europe for eggs. He really loves dictators and criminals, buying to Erdogan. Tur, after supporting criminal Netanyahou and Putin.
Axel Heyst
03-19-25, 17:28
I don't know why I have to do your homework Xpartan. But here are a few recent polls on the 80/20 issues I spoke of in my posts for your enlightenment. I noticed that in your post to me you are trying to obfuscate and change the subject to more contentious issues. How do You stand on the issues below #1), #2), #3) AND #4). I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.
1 a) Harvard CAPS / Harris poll March 3: 76% of Americans favor DOGE's efforts to reduce government waste.
1 b) Harvard Poll Feb 2025:70% of respondents believe government spending is rife with waste and fraud, 69% support cutting spending by $1 trillion, and 60% of voters support DOGE's efforts to make significant cuts.
2 a) Axios / Ipsos poll January 19,2025 66% support deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally. Republicans (93%) are more likely to show support than Democrats (43%) and independents (67% Few Americans (11%) support deporting immigrants who are in the country legally.
2 b) It is too early to see a poll on recent Tren de Aragua gang deportation, but I bet you it is higher than 75% favorable. Only a Woke moron would be against this one.
3) New York Times / Ipsos poll: 79% of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men competing in women's sports.
4) ICC Poll 1000 USA Adults surveyed: 81% support Israel's right to defend itself and, 82% believe a final ceasefire deal should require Hamas' removal from power in Gaza.
- Or if you pulled them out of the same place most right-wingers get their news from -- but even if they are, I'm curious: do your 80% of American people support Trump violating courts orders to achieve the results they favor?
Can the government break the law and do whatever they feel like as long as the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives?
I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.
Yep.
Netanyahu says fighting has resumed in Gaza with 'full force'.
March 18, 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/czje23jd779t
Factoring in only the Players on the Field, the Voters Who Showed Up To Vote, and disregarding the millions of 2020 Biden voters who were so satisfied with their personal financial and job situation after Biden's historic recovery from Trump's Pandemic Part 1 and had been bamboozled by lying, pro Repub "Bothsiders" into mistakenly concluding that "presidents don't have much control over the economy and jobs creation" and therfore did not bother to vote for the Dem again this time, those less than 115,000 Muslims across the only three swing states that mattered, roughly 0. 75 of a single percentage point of voters in those three states that were the sole reason for Trump's razor-thin election win, must feel like even bigger suckers today after what they brought to America than they felt immediately after they "gave Trump the presidency" on November 5th..Netanyahou and Putin kill many women and children and Trump knows this and let keeping on. Also criminal. Shameful not MAGA USA.
My meaning is most best brands keep on developping thermic engines, even in USA, and I m very happy about this. And for Europe, succeeding Euro 7 .
Question is...as the countries that legacy auto can sell those V8/12's to (including their own), ban those new ICE vehicles (in 2030), sales will start to rapidly shrink. So who the hell is gonna buy those overpriced, over rated and over-the-top fossil fuel dinosaurs?
Tesla German Survey Correction:
Hold the presses...according to the very same survey, now that nearly 444K people have taken the survey (up from 100K), 70% of Germans would BUY A TESLA. I guess Musk, must have paid off enough AfD fascists to change the results. So it looks like Germans don't care, they are still gonna buy his EVs. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-germany-t-online-poll-debunks-94-percent-wont-buy-tesla-narrative/
Well so much for "surveys", as Feb 2025 sale numbers don't reflect the current sentiment of said survey. Tesla sales in Germany for the month of Feb 2025, have dropped 76% (YoY).
PS: Coincidentally, FRANCE sold the 2nd most Teslas in Europe, in Jan and Feb of 2025, with 1,141 and 2,395 respectively! It looks like your fellow Frenchmen, didn't get your memo on NOT BUYING Teslas (...kkkk!)
Newton York
03-20-25, 02:48
All the Americans here in this forum, aren't we tired of all this winning yet? Wow, it's so amazing. Stock market tanks, economy in the shitter, everybody's 401 k and IRA are basically worthless now, but at least eggs are cheap again. Wait a doggone minute! Eggs are more expensive than they've ever been! I'm so tired of all this winning. I can't wait for even more good news. I don't give 2 fucks about the end of a department of education, cause I ain't got no damn annoying kids and I'm too damn old be ever be edumecated again.
Apparently no one believes in vaccines anyway and everyone loves measles. I guess I have to love measles too now. To hell with all of that. Just make me my damn brokerage account green again! I'm so tired of seeing all this red. Just red everywhere. Let's make America Recession again! Let's get those interest rates down so my damn REITS can go up 1 percent at least. Christ on a stick!
To hell with this, let's just fast forward to WWIII, I'm so tired of all this great news. Can you guys imagine if things get even better? Might as well stab myself in the neck.
I don't know why I have to do your homework Xpartan. But here are a few recent polls on the 80/20 issues I spoke of in my posts for your enlightenment. I noticed that in your post to me you are trying to obfuscate and change the subject to more contentious issues. How do You stand on the issues below #1), #2), #3) AND #4). I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.
1 a) Harvard CAPS / Harris poll March 3: 76% of Americans favor DOGE's efforts to reduce government waste.
1 b) Harvard Poll Feb 2025:70% of respondents believe government spending is rife with waste and fraud, 69% support cutting spending by $1 trillion, and 60% of voters support DOGE's efforts to make significant cuts.
2 a) Axios / Ipsos poll January 19,2025 66% support deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally. Republicans (93%) are more likely to show support than Democrats (43%) and independents (67% Few Americans (11%) support deporting immigrants who are in the country legally.
2 b) It is too early to see a poll on recent Tren de Aragua gang deportation, but I bet you it is higher than 75% favorable. Only a Woke moron would be against this one.
3) New York Times / Ipsos poll: 79% of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men competing in women's sports.
4) ICC Poll 1000 USA Adults surveyed: 81% support Israel's right to defend itself and, 82% believe a final ceasefire deal should require Hamas' removal from power in Gaza.Of course, Xpartan can and probably will reply in his own way. But since this issue is also a pet peeve of mine or at least an often cited problem with MAGA obfuscation that I have pointed out, I'm chiming in too.
And I will just reference your very first unlinked "quote" here:
1a)Harvard CAPS / Harris poll March 3: 76% of Americans favor DOGE's efforts to reduce government waste.Uh. Where is the actual link for that poll? The fact that MAGAs resist so often to include links for their assertions strongly suggests THEY know there is more information in that link that refutes or greatly diminishes their supposed point. And when I do their homework for them to search out and post that link, sure enough that is what we discover.
On that 1 a) point, I don't know anyone of any political leaning who doesn't want Waste, Fraud and Abuse found and eliminated.
Has any "Lib / Dem" spearheaded an effort to FIRE Inpectors General whose ongoing job has been to find Waste, Fraud and Abuse and whose records show they manage to do exactly that every year?
Nope.
Only TrumpMusk has spearheaded an effort to FIRE them and did so as one of their first moves.
Without an actual link for the "quote" you posted, I would naturally suspect the whole report would tell us that the big objection anyone has is on the methods TrumpMusk and their Hitler Youth Hackers are using to NOT find Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Especially since to this day they have not produced a single shred of evidence of Waste, Fraud or Abuse as a result of their Chainsaw methods. Contrary to what the IGs they immediately fired accomplished quite regularly.
Trump, Musk claim government 'fraud' without proof. How common is federal fraud, abuse?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-musk-claim-government-fraud-110450412.html
So far, neither Musk nor the Trump White House have shown evidence of criminal activity.
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Trump has torn down governmental fraud-finding tools. He fired more than a dozen inspectors general whose job was to ferret out fraud and inefficiencies. He paused the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits businesses from taking bribes from foreign officials.
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Government reports show that fraudulent spending is a measurable problem for the federal government. But the evidence that DOGE has uncovered new examples has not yet been proved.
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The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency issued an annual report for 2023 that highlighted federal efforts to combat fraud, waste and abuse. The report showed that inspectors general work led to more than 4,000 prosecutions and that inspectors general identified nearly $93.1 billion in potential savings.As of this writing, TrumpMusk's ineffective, wasteful, fraudulent and abusive Chainsaw methods have possibly, possibly uncovered about 4. 8 billion in unproven waste, fraud and abuse. Which is a tiny fraction of what the IGs they and only they FIRED find and prodecute in a year.
I guess we're lucky he's such a sarcastic kidder about everything important.
Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy.
https://theintellectualist.com/black-saturday-us-constitutional-crisis-2025/
Saturday, March 15,2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans. But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy.
For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court orderand nothing happened. No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences.
A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it.
Inside the White House, the decision was not about lawit was about power. A federal judge ruled against the administration. The debate inside Trump's team was not whether the ruling was legal, but whether they could get away with ignoring it. They decided they could. And they were right.
This was not a clash between equal branches of government. It was the moment the judiciary was exposed as powerless. The courts do not have an army. They rely on compliance. But a court that cannot enforce its rulings is not a courtit is a suggestion box.
And a presidency that can ignore the courts without consequence is no longer constrained by lawit is an untouchable executive.
Trump did not declare the end of judicial authority in a speech. He demonstrated it in practice.
This is how democratic systems collapsenot with a single act, but with the normalization of defiance, the expectation that a ruling can simply be brushed aside.
This moment did not happen in isolation. It happened because every prior attempt to hold Trump accountable has failed. The system tried and at every turn, it proved incapable of stopping him.
Impeachment failed twice.
Criminal cases stalled.
The Supreme Court refused to rule on his disqualification.
Congress never moved to check his power.
At each step, Trump tested the systemand the system flinched.
He learned that laws are only as strong as the institutions willing to enforce them. And so, when faced with a court ruling, he did what he had been conditioned to dohe ignored it. And nothing happened.
The Supreme Court's Role in Making the Presidency Untouchable.
The judiciary was already weakened by years of erosion, but in 2024, the Supreme Court itself ensured that when this moment arrived, there would be no legal recourse left.
In a landmark ruling, the Court expanded presidential immunity to such an extent that the office of the presidency is now functionally above the law.
A president can commit crimes while in office and face no immediate accountability.
And now, with Black Saturday, Trump has proven that he can ignore court rulings entirely without consequence.
This is not the separation of powers.
It is the absorption of power into a single branch. The courts were supposed to be the last line of defense. Instead, they have been reduced to issuing rulings the executive can freely ignore.
If he's spot on here, what exactly are you complaining about? That Trump's minions don't keep their pieholes shut? Or that Trump's tariffs will hit Americans even harder than Chris suggests?
Can you (begrudgingly, of course) drop your doubletalk and finally admit that Trump is simply catastrophic for the US economy?I don't think he is catastrophic Xpartan. As I've told Tooms repeatedly, the President doesn't have nearly as much to do with the economy during his term as other factors. However, Biden with his overboard spending and stimulus, and Trump with his tariffs seem to have done their darndest to fuck things up.
The OECD revised its forecasts, assuming the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are imposed, and the tariffs on China and steel and aluminum are maintained. Here are the numbers from their December forecast ("before") and the forecast on Monday ("after" for 2026, the first full year after the tariffs would take effect, for the USA.
Before: 2. 1%.
After: 1. 6%.
The OECD also revised its estimates for inflation up by 0. 7 percentage points for 2025 and 0. 6 percentage points in 2026.
That's not catastrophic.
But it's possible he's just getting started with the tariffs. As a big believer in comparative advantage, and a big critic of crony capitalism, I believe he's chosen the wrong path.
Is this more harmful than what Biden and the Democrats did? I suspect not. The $1. 9 trillion American Rescue Plan ignited inflation, which rose by 7%. If you calculate inflation the way Larry Summers does, using the method used before the early 1980's, inflation rose over 15%. That's a lot more than what the OECD's predicting. After adjusting for inflation, median wages and salaries didn't go up during his term in office, even though we were rebounding from a deep recession. Biden's over-the-top spending did boost GDP, but at what cost? It also made the national debt higher than it would be otherwise and increased the size of government relative to the private sector.
Would Kamala Harris and a Republican Congress and Senate have worked out better for the country than a Trump presidency and Republican Congressional control? I don't know. Possibly. Normally divided government is better for controlling budget deficits But Trump appears to be set on decreasing the size of government during this term. I'd say that would be a good thing, but I don't like what's happening to aid to third world countries, in healthcare in particular. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions will die. Perhaps you believe that shouldn't be a priority for us when we're running huge deficits. Fair enough, but withdraw the money gradually over two or three years so the countries can adjust. I like what Trump is doing in Ukraine, and you don't, but I guess that's neither here nor there as to the economy, except if he's successful it will lower USA Government expenditures, and energy prices, a little.
What's a piehole?
- Or if you pulled them out of the same place most right-wingers get their news from -- but even if they are, I'm curious: do your 80% of American people support Trump violating courts orders to achieve the results they favor?
Can the government break the law and do whatever they feel like as long as the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives?
I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.
I don't know why I have to do your homework Xpartan. But here are a few recent polls on the 80/20 issues I spoke of in my posts for your enlightenment. I noticed that in your post to me you are trying to obfuscate and change the subject to more contentious issues. How do You stand on the issues below #1), #2), #3) AND #4). I would appreciate a direct, non-evasive answer if possible.
1 a) Harvard CAPS / Harris poll March 3: 76% of Americans favor DOGE's efforts to reduce government waste.
1 b) Harvard Poll Feb 2025:70% of respondents believe government spending is rife with waste and fraud, 69% support cutting spending by $1 trillion, and 60% of voters support DOGE's efforts to make significant cuts.
2 a) Axios / Ipsos poll January 19,2025 66% support deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally. Republicans (93%) are more likely to show support than Democrats (43%) and independents (67% Few Americans (11%) support deporting immigrants who are in the country legally.
2 b) It is too early to see a poll on recent Tren de Aragua gang deportation, but I bet you it is higher than 75% favorable. Only a Woke moron would be against this one.
3) New York Times / Ipsos poll: 79% of Americans do not want transgender-identifying men competing in women's sports.
4) ICC Poll 1000 USA Adults surveyed: 81% support Israel's right to defend itself and, 82% believe a final ceasefire deal should require Hamas' removal from power in Gaza.I asked if it was OK for the government to break the law even if the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives.
The fact that you chose to ditch this simple question makes me believe that you approve or don't care when Trump and his sycophants break the law as long as you support his actions.
I don't think he is catastrophic Xpartan. As I've told Tooms repeatedly, the President doesn't have nearly as much to do with the economy during his term as other factors. However, Biden with his overboard spending and stimulus, and Trump with his tariffs seem to have done their darndest to fuck things up.
The OECD revised its forecasts, assuming the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are imposed, and the tariffs on China and steel and aluminum are maintained. Here are the numbers from their December forecast ("before") and the forecast on Monday ("after" for 2026, the first full year after the tariffs would take effect, for the USA.
Before: 2. 1%.
After: 1. 6%.
The OECD also revised its estimates for inflation up by 0. 7 percentage points for 2025 and 0. 6 percentage points in 2026.
That's not catastrophic.
But it's possible he's just getting started with the tariffs. As a big believer in comparative advantage, and a big critic of crony capitalism, I believe he's chosen the wrong path.
Is this more harmful than what Biden and the Democrats did? I suspect not. The $1. 9 trillion American Rescue Plan ignited inflation, which rose by 7%. If you calculate inflation the way Larry Summers does, using the method used before the early 1980's, inflation rose over 15%. That's a lot more than what the OECD's predicting. After adjusting for inflation, median wages and salaries didn't go up during his term in office, even though we were rebounding from a deep recession. Biden's over-the-top spending did boost GDP, but at what cost? It also made the national debt higher than it would be otherwise and increased the size of government relative to the private sector.
Would Kamala Harris and a Republican Congress and Senate have worked out better for the country than a Trump presidency and Republican Congressional control? I don't know. Possibly. Normally divided government is better for controlling budget deficits But Trump appears to be set on decreasing the size of government during this term. I'd say that would be a good thing, but I don't like what's happening to aid to third world countries, in healthcare in particular. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions will die. Perhaps you believe that shouldn't be a priority for us when we're running huge deficits. Fair enough, but withdraw the money gradually over two or three years so the countries can adjust. I like what Trump is doing in Ukraine, and you don't, but I guess that's neither here nor there as to the economy, except if he's successful it will lower USA Government expenditures, and energy prices, a little.
What's a piehole?And when you factor in Trump adding TWICE as much government spending than Biden did for his Trump's Pandemic AND his non Trump's Pandemic government spending, I would say that would qualify as a Spectacular Historic Economic Catastrophe!
Yes, I know it was the Biden-Harris economic hand off this year that was justifiably characterized as The Envy of the World Economy. But the positive economic trajectories handed to Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term by Obama-Biden could just as well have qualified as such too.
As could the positive economic trajectories handed to Bush2-Cheney by Clinton-Gore.
And the positve economic trajectories handed to Reagan-Bush1 by Carter-Mondale.
And from JFK / LBJ to Nixon.
And FDR / Truman to Eisenhower.
And in every case the incoming Repub squandered the gifts handed to him on a silver platter, At Best, and / or converted it into Crap, At Worst. More commonly the latter.
With the Worst of the Worst turn-around being in Trump's Pandemic Part 1 term, even surpassing Bush2's Spectacular Historic Economic Catastrophic turn-around.
There is zero reason to expect what Trump has been doing with the latest Envy of the World Dem Economy he inherited from Biden-Harris will lead to anything but another Trump's Pandemic Spectacular Historic Economic Catastrophe.
But, ok, let's be optimistic about it this time; it is possible the Biden-Harris Envy of the World Economy Trump inherited was SO DAMN GOOD even TrumpMusk can't totally fuck it up in the next 2-4 Lame-Duck Trump Years with a typical Great Repub Depression or Great Repub Recession and maybe it will turn out to only be as dreadful as, say, the Eisenhower 3 middle-sized Resession and one of the worst jobs creation record presidency with just the usual 2-3 times as much government spending to get there as with Reagan instead of another one of his Worst Presidency in USA History and Worst Jobs Record since Hoover results.
Trump's piehole is his big fat mouth suitable only as a hole into which he can shove large portions of pie and never useful as a source of truthful or positive communication.
Axel Heyst
03-20-25, 14:29
The headline read "Florida city council members tear up at vote over ICE partnering with local officers" What morons. They keep on giving. Catch the video here:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/florida-city-council-members-tear-up-vote-over-ice-partnering-local-officers
The bottom line is "Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson argued in favor of the memorandum, emphasizing that it would not give officers the authority to go out in search of illegal immigrants "kicking in doors," but simply the ability to arrest and process illegal immigrants who had been charged or convicted of a crime. ".
But "the motion failed to pass on a 3-3 vote with one council member not in attendance. " So Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier responded to the vote on Tuesday with a letter demanding the city council change its position or risk civil or criminal penalties for being a sanctuary city. " Saying, "Sanctuary policies are illegal in Florida. Your vote last night makes you a sanctuary city. Fix this problem or face the consequences," Uthmeier wrote on X, along with a copy of his letter.
FANTASTICO! I LOVE this Shit.
Axel Heyst
03-20-25, 17:21
YOU DID NOT ANSWER MY SIMPLE QUESTION ON WHERE YOU STOOD ON THESE 4 ISSUES! What are you afraid of?
I asked if it was OK for the government to break the law even if the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives.
The fact that you chose to ditch this simple question makes me believe that you approve or don't care when Trump and his sycophants break the law as long as you support his actions.AND what the fuck law are you talking about? If you are asking where I stand on the Democrat party's continued tactic of Lawfare, that is finding friendly left-wing judges to make a temporary rulings to preventing many of Trumps EO's from being carried out, I say it is futile stalling tactic because the Trump administration will win most of these legal suits on appeal in the Supreme court.
Now I haven't got the time or inclination to clue you in on all these specific court actions, but let's just take one: the Tren de Aragua deportation. "This is not going to be successful for the lefties or this judge who held it up. Why? Because the president has designated the group Tren de Aragua from Venezuela, a criminal gang, as terrorists. US government can shoot them. We're doing a favor deporting them. They could shoot them, just like we did with ISIS, because of that designation. The Military can just walk in and wipe them out. And that is a law that was passed after 9-11 and signed by George W. Bush. So, Trump's not shooting them. He's deporting them. And the judge goes, oh, I want to see. Okay. Then the White House lawyers go in and appeal it. ".
The point is: "The left-wing activists are seeking liberal judges to stop everything Trump's trying to do. The Supreme Court knows that. They have the power to stop it. It'll eventually happen, and Trump will win all of those cases, but what the left is hoping is it just drains and drains and drains and drains and demoralizes, demoralizes, demoralizes, and the left-wing press is going to prop it all up. And that's what's happening. " Duh! Bada bing bada boom.
Now I answered your question, how about you answer mine.
Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.
Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. Meanwhile...
China's Green Energy buildouts == 5 nuclear reactors a week:
The expansion of green energy continues at a record pace in China, and is showing the world, they are on pace to meet their greenhouse emissions goals.
Last year (2024), solar and wind power equivalent to approximately 320 nuclear reactors were installed, March 16 2025 https://swedenherald.com/article/chinas-green-energy-boom-like-320-nuclear-reactors
China is consolidating its dominance in the green energy revolution, deploying solar, wind, and pumped hydropower, at a scale that dwarfs global competitors, adding more renewable capacity last year than the rest of the world combined, all at a staggering pace, equivalent to 5 reactors a week.
China is kicking ass and revolutionizing their country!
PS: And what is the U.S. doing? Arhhh...yes, let me guess, "drill baby, drill!" and dismantling democracy!
FFlintstone69
03-20-25, 19:30
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/world/asia/china-canada-drug-executions.html
The US should start today with Ross Ulbricht on LIVE TV.
Question is...as the countries that legacy auto can sell those V8/12's to (including their own), ban those new ICE vehicles (in 2030), sales will start to rapidly shrink. So who the hell is gonna buy those overpriced, over rated and over-the-top fossil fuel dinosaurs?
Tesla German Survey Correction:
Hold the presses...according to the very same survey, now that nearly 444K people have taken the survey (up from 100K), 70% of Germans would BUY A TESLA. I guess Musk, must have paid off enough AfD fascists to change the results. So it looks like Germans don't care, they are still gonna buy his EVs. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-germany-t-online-poll-debunks-94-percent-wont-buy-tesla-narrative/
Well so much for "surveys", as Feb 2025 sale numbers don't reflect the current sentiment of said survey. Tesla sales in Germany for the month of Feb 2025, have dropped 76% (YoY).
PS: Coincidentally, FRANCE sold the 2nd most Teslas in Europe, in Jan and Feb of 2025, with 1,141 and 2,395 respectively! It looks like your fellow Frenchmen, didn't get your memo on NOT BUYING Teslas (...kkkk!)Same misunderstanding than for french ZFE which allow many thermic cars, so many Europeans feel so shameful owning a Tesla, many try to sell, but even discounting, nobody wants to buy from Musk. USA have now so bad image in the world, robbers threatening, blackmailing, but begging for eggs. It would be good to tax them 25% , to feed USA.
Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.
Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. Meanwhile...
China's Green Energy buildouts == 5 nuclear reactors a week:
The expansion of green energy continues at a record pace in China, and is showing the world, they are on pace to meet their greenhouse emissions goals.
Last year (2024), solar and wind power equivalent to approximately 320 nuclear reactors were installed, March 16 2025 https://swedenherald.com/article/chinas-green-energy-boom-like-320-nuclear-reactors
China is consolidating its dominance in the green energy revolution, deploying solar, wind, and pumped hydropower, at a scale that dwarfs global competitors, adding more renewable capacity last year than the rest of the world combined, all at a staggering pace, equivalent to 5 reactors a week.
China is kicking ass and revolutionizing their country!
PS: And what is the U.S. doing? Arhhh...yes, let me guess, "drill baby, drill!" and dismantling democracy!But big, number 1 USA elected a crazy shameful dangerous schizophrene for second time, a robber, so I wish he will fuck them deep, with starting inflation and recession, many lost jobs, to make them understanding. At least, very bad image in highest level countries.
MarquisdeSade1
03-21-25, 05:21
Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.
Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. Meanwhile...
China's Green Energy buildouts == 5 nuclear reactors a week:
The expansion of green energy continues at a record pace in China, and is showing the world, they are on pace to meet their greenhouse emissions goals.
Last year (2024), solar and wind power equivalent to approximately 320 nuclear reactors were installed, March 16 2025 https://swedenherald.com/article/chinas-green-energy-boom-like-320-nuclear-reactors
China is consolidating its dominance in the green energy revolution, deploying solar, wind, and pumped hydropower, at a scale that dwarfs global competitors, adding more renewable capacity last year than the rest of the world combined, all at a staggering pace, equivalent to 5 reactors a week.
China is kicking ass and revolutionizing their country!
PS: And what is the U.S. doing? Arhhh...yes, let me guess, "drill baby, drill!" and dismantling democracy!https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/communist-china-is-our-enemy/
You really should stop publicly rimming and blowing them 24/7 its not a good look.
Unity? OMFG how unifying was Scumbag Autopen Joe? He is the most divisive piece of shit on the planet!!
But I don't remember you ever bitching about it, not once.
BTW I'm just telling you now I'm stealing Mein MAGA Fuhrer.
Ever hear of paybacks are a mofo?
You bastards fraudulently tried to impeach him twice.
Raided his castle in Florida with SWAT.
To charge him with 93 Kangaroo court felonies to put him in prison to die.
Fabricated a complete BS lawsuit to bankrupt him financially and tried to let two assassin's actually kill him.
I'm sure this will go down in history of the most deserving cases of poetic justice the world has ever seen.
320 reactors in CCPland? Awesome 320 Fukashimas coming right up LMFAO ET you better start running now lololololololololololol.
Maybe they will use them to make some nukes to reach all the blue cities that love them so much and wipe out all the loons Mein MAGA Fuhrer doesn't.
BTW you like to use that inane platitude I'm sure you picked up from MSNBC "dismantling democracy".
Please elaborate if you dare ROTFLMMFAO.
Lastly as the axiom states "If you come for the King you had better kill him".
If not, it will suck to be you! LMFAO.
Allahu Akbar.
77.3 Million voters and a few stray "Bothsider / Neithersider" Third Party voters gave this dude access to the Nuclear Codes. Lolol.
https://youtu.be/G6IBF3YpYuA?si=LEIzHTIISNheWAQT
I fully support the next Dem President designating anyone who speaks, writes or implies anything positive about Repubs and negative about Dems as "terrorists" or "enemy combatants" and therefore subject to Constitutionally-sanctioned execution or transference to a foreign prison without a moment of due process.
Starting on Day One.
Elvis 2008
03-21-25, 14:13
I asked if it was OK for the government to break the law even if the majority of the population might be supportive of some of their objectives.
The fact that you chose to ditch this simple question makes me believe that you approve or don't care when Trump and his sycophants break the law as long as you support his actions.Yes, it is totally okay for a president to break the law and you know who said it was? You democratic douches! Because not only was Biden not prosecuted for breaking the law when he had documents in his gargage (and you all said it was fine that happened), he also gave out pre-emptive pardons. So anytime anyone wants to charge anyone in the Trump administration of breaking the law, hell, we will just get an autopen pardon and it does not matter if Trump knew about the pardon or not. You cannot question any aspect of a pardon.
Thing with you Xpartan but you are in the biggest cult going. When Arabs or Christians die, well, they are just a "Palestinian" or orc. When a Jewish person dies in war, OMG, the world must come to an end.
You are completely against one rule for all. You think there should be one law for Democrats and another for Republicans. Yeah, it does not work that way. You douches went waaay overboard with your lawfare and J6 convictions and Covid censorshp. Who the fuck was making "the law" with Covid because it sure as fuck was not Congress?
And shit we saw how "the law" really worked with Biden. A fucking SWAT team was sent for illegal documents with Trump while nothing happens with Biden when classified documents are in his fucking garage. We saw him swear he would respect the legal process and not pardon Hunter and do just that. You Democratic douches have no standing to bring up "the rule of law" argument anymore because when Democrats break the law, you say nothing.
Meet the guy who still doesn't see the correlation between voting for MAGALAS and his own life turned into hell.
Trump Voter Says He Doesn't Regret Choice Despite Wife's ICE Arrest
A man who voted for President Donald Trump says he does not regret his decision, even after federal immigration authorities arrested his wife as the couple returned home from their honeymoon.
Bradley Bartell's wife, Camila Muoz, is a Peruvian citizen who overstayed her initial visa but was working toward obtaining permanent residency in the United States.
Despite the couple's ordeal, Bartell still supports Trump, who has vowed to conduct the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history. "I don't regret the vote," Bartell told Newsweek in an exclusive statement.
Earlier this month, ICE detained Jensy Machado, a naturalized U.S. citizen, in northern Virginia.
"They just got out of the car with the guns in their hands and say, turn off the car, give me the keys, open the window, you know. Everything was really fast," he told Telemundo 44 and NBC 4 Washington.
Machado added: "I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be the things, you know, like just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals."
Reports have emerged that several legal residents and even some American citizens have been caught up in recent ICE raids and enforcement actions.https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voter-regret-choice-wife-ice-bradley-bartell-camila-munoz-2046988
MarquisdeSade1
03-21-25, 16:27
Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.
Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. Meanwhile...
China's Green Energy buildouts == 5 nuclear reactors a week:
The expansion of green energy continues at a record pace in China, and is showing the world, they are on pace to meet their greenhouse emissions goals.https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/21/caitlyn-jenner-mocks-walzs-claim-his-masculinity-scares-conservatives-i-am-more-masculine-than-tim/
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/how-the-2020-election-was-rigged/
Ok Capt Obvio, yes "Cait" is more masculine than any XY chromosomes remaining on the left LMFAO!
Yes, it is totally okay for a president to break the law and you know who said it was? You democratic douches! Because not only was Biden not prosecuted for breaking the law when he had documents in his gargage (and you all said it was fine that happened), he also gave out pre-emptive pardons. So anytime anyone wants to charge anyone in the Trump administration of breaking the law, hell, we will just get an autopen pardon and it does not matter if Trump knew about the pardon or not. You cannot question any aspect of a pardon.
Thing with you Xpartan but you are in the biggest cult going. When Arabs or Christians die, well, they are just a "Palestinian" or orc. When a Jewish person dies in war, OMG, the world must come to an end.
You are completely against one rule for all. You think there should be one law for Democrats and another for Republicans. Yeah, it does not work that way. You douches went waaay overboard with your lawfare and J6 convictions and Covid censorshp. Who the fuck was making "the law" with Covid because it sure as fuck was not Congress?
And shit we saw how "the law" really worked with Biden. A fucking SWAT team was sent for illegal documents with Trump while nothing happens with Biden when classified documents are in his fucking garage. We saw him swear he would respect the legal process and not pardon Hunter and do just that. You Democratic douches have no standing to bring up "the rule of law" argument anymore because when Democrats break the law, you say nothing.*When Arabs or Christians die, well, they are just a "Palestinian" or orc. When a Jewish person dies in war, OMG, the world must come to an end.
You got it wrong, Elvis. When Palestinians (muslims or Christians) die they are just "Arabs", When Russian soldiers die they are Orcs. When you criticise Israel you are an anti-semite because. Because. The Americans State department says so. This is how fucked up this guy's thinking is. But he is thinking along the same lines as many of the zionist hypocrites who run America also think.
Busted!
Those right wingers who are the most adamant and self-righteous are also the ones most likely to be hiding something in the closet:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minorThere is definitely a pattern emerging. Sexual assault, adjudicated rape, sexual exploitation of children, it just goes on and on with Trump, his Administration, Fux News contributors and the MAGAs:
Social media personality Ricci Wynne, who spotlights San Francisco crime and drug use, indicted on child porn charges.
March 20, 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ricci-wynne-san-francisco-child-porn-charges-human-trafficking/
The message in the memo has been well-known and inarguable for many decades:
Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit and Dies
Why didn't President Musk get it?
Tesla faces a brand crisis tornado. The one guy who can fix it is MIA.
March 21, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/business/tesla-stock-musk-doge-nightcap/index.html
Tesla is one of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 so far this year. Sales are falling around the globe. The US resale market is crumbling. Teslas militaristic Cybertruck is under a recall order because of an exterior panel that can fall off the vehicle while driving. The company was abruptly booted from this weeks Vancouver International Auto Show over unspecified safety concerns. And according to an analysis by the Financial Times, theres about $1.4 billion that just sort of disappeared from the companys balance sheet.
Thats to say nothing of the companys brand identity. Tesla was once a badge of pride for upwardly mobile, environmentally conscious lefties. More recently, it has become a talisman of an increasingly authoritarian right wing..This guy's losing money and status faster than Trump is losing Federal Court Rulings on his effort to destroy America and its economy.
320 reactors in CCPland? Awesome 320 Fukashimas coming right up LMFAO ET you better start running now lololololololololololol.
(...kkkk!) If you just took a minute from your MAGA Fuhrer's "drill baby drill" and Breitbart propaganda, and properly read what was written, you'll see those are the very impressive 320 nuclear reactor equivalents worth of solar, wind and BESS, China installed, just in the last year alone.
You do understand what the difference is and what is meant by an "equivalent", RIGHT?
BTW, the U.S. has the most operational nuclear reactors on the planet, with 96.
So MDS1, it would seems you're the one who better get to steppin', then runnin' and then haul some "Fukashima-ASS", the hell outta here! (...kkkk!)
Worlds largest offshore solar project with 1 GW power now operational in China
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-world-largest-offshore-solar-project?group=test_b
China has achieved a milestone in renewable energy with the connection of its first 1-gigawatt offshore photovoltaic (PV) project to the power grid. The project is expected to generate enough electricity to power 2.67 million homes in China.
I wonder how much "drill baby drilling" and "...beautiful clean coal" digging, the U.S. would have to do, to power 2.67 million homes?
Same misunderstanding than for french ZFE which allow many thermic cars, so many Europeans feel so shameful owning a Tesla, many try to sell, but even discounting, nobody wants to buy from Musk.We shall see what the sales numbers for Tesla, in the month of March and April reveal for sales in Europe and the rest of the world. It should be very interesting and should tell us, whether or not, the sentiment really is "shameful".
Tracking global data on electric vehicles
https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
Once Again as ICE sales plummet, in the biggest car markets around the world, good luck to the German, Japanese and U.S. auto manufacturers, if they choose to keep making V8/12's and go on ignoring the global vehicle sales trends. China's electric car sales grew in 2024 as sales of gasoline cars plunged. https://apnews.com/article/china-autos-evs-exports-3f5860634a1d146446dd0dd9e78c2abb
Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.
Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. And what's not to love indeed?
Here's gleeful Putin's "press secretary" Peskov enlightening us how Trump's actions are aligned with Putin's vision.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/02/kremlin-us-foreign-policy-pivot-largely-coincides-vision
Here's their Chief TV-propacondom musing about the new era of Trump / Putin onslaught on old "provincial" Europe.
English Subs:
https://youtu.be/54rl-Z8F62U?t=198
This is Putin making Trump wait for him for 2 hours and publicly bragging about it.
https://youtu.be/HRzOiPPfFe8
He wants respect? Here's your respect. Loads of it. Putin's style.
As for non-cultists, they're fine. They just love it when America gets slapped on a face by a country who's economy is about to collapse.
The Russian economy is on the brink of collapse and Putin knows it
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-economy-putin-ukraine-war-deal-talks-trump-b2714371.html
MarquisdeSade1
03-22-25, 00:03
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-puke-after-china-reports-new-coronavirus-pandemic-potential-discovered
At least Dirtbag Fauci is gone, I will never cooperate with their lies again, I was one of the 1st people vaxxed for Covid in the world with a drug trial for Moderna.
With Mein MAGA Fuhrers Operation Warp Speed at the University of Chicago, I will go full anti vax full anti lockdowns full anti mask, we must riot in the streets if they ever try it again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/health/covid-post-vaccination-syndrome.html
Hey Dr Elvis what do you think of this!!
The "Turns To Shit" part always comes before the "And Dies" part of the consistent, inarguably true adage and warning about what happens to everything Donald J. Trump touches:
RECALL
Tesla Recalls Every Single Cybertruck After Glued Stainless Steel Trims Fall Off.
151 Cybertruck owners filed warranty claims after noticing the roof trim panel above the windows was coming loose.
March 20, 2025
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesla-recalls-every-single-cybertruck-over-stainless-steel-trims-falling-off/
Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks due to roof panels potentially detaching during driving.
Issue stems from cant rail panel using a faulty structural adhesive prone to embrittlement.
This recall adds to the growing list of Cybertruck issues since deliveries started in 2023.Numbskull President Musk is certainly not alone in either not getting or, more likely, not comprehending the widely-distributed memo on that. 77.3 Million direct and a few stray Third Party numbskull voters apparently totally missed it before this past election too.
Oh well.
MarquisdeSade1
03-22-25, 02:49
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David Brooks, Ross Douthat, David French and Bret Stephens.
Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why.
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By David BrooksRoss DouthatDavid French and Bret Stephens.
Mr. Brooks, Mr. Douthat, Mr. French and Mr. Stephens are Opinion columnists.
Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with four Times Opinion columnists about the Trump administration's popularity among Republicans and why so many in the party believe the country is heading in the right direction.
Patrick Healy: David, Bret, David, Ross: Donald Trump is the only president in our lifetimes who's had a net-negative job approval rating in his first 100 days in office. Trump also has the largest gap in approval ratings in 80 years — 90 percent of Republicans like his performance, while only 4 percent of Democrats do. Those Trump supporters are really on board with him; more registered voters think America is on the right track than at any point since 2004, according to a new NBC News poll. To be clear, a majority still say America's on the wrong track, and Trump's polling on the economy is sagging. But I want to dig into why more voters feel better about America's direction now than compared with under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Trump 1. 0.
And I wanted to do so through the eyes of my more conservative colleagues. The four of you span the ideological spectrum on the right, and you've all written extensively about Trump. Why do so many Republicans like the direction Trump is taking the country in? Is it about his style, or his policies, or the mind-set and mood of the G. O. P. , or something else?
David Brooks: I'the start with the world we've been living in for the last decade or so. According to an Ipsos survey last year, 59 percent of Americans think our country is in decline. Sixty percent believe "the system is broken. " Sixty-nine percent believe the "political and economic elite don't care about hard-working people. " If those are your priors, then you're going to be happy with a president who wields a wrecking ball.
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Healy: As Trump liked to say while campaigning, "What the hell do you have to lose?
Brooks: I'the add another phrase: "brokenism. " This is the belief system popularized by Alana Newhouse in Tablet magazine in 2022. It's the idea that everything is broken and we just need to burn it all down. Personally, I think some things are broken and some things are OK, but most of my Trump-supporting friends are brokenists. They get this from media consumption. Do you remember that 2013 study that people who consumed a lot of media about the Boston Marathon bombing experienced "higher acute stress" than those who were actually at the bombing? There's something about screens that contributes to a catastrophizing mind-set.
David French: In addition to the brokenism that David talks about, there's a strong undercurrent of raw animosity in our politics. Republicans and Democrats have very negative views of each other, and many Republicans (sadly!) want their opponents to suffer. They're actually happy to see people lose their jobs or to see nonprofits lose funding if those people are perceived as part of the "deep state" or RINOs.
So, yes, Republicans want a disruptive president, but who's being disrupted really matters — and if it's the government or institutions that many Republicans believe are hostile to them, then Republicans are just fine with the pain. Many Republicans dislike foreign aid. Or loathe elite universities. Or hate big liberal law firms. Students and professors at elite universities have a long track record of targeting the free speech rights of their conservative colleagues, and Republicans are rationalizing their own constitutional violations as fighting fire with fire.
Healy: That element of gleeful animosity comes through on Trump's social media posts, David — like a "Take that!" smack, sticking it to universities or shutting down the. E. I. One of Trump's most effective rallying cries in the last campaign was "I am your retribution. ".
Ross Douthat: I think there are all kinds of ways in which Trump's popularity is connected to distinctive shifts in the culture in the last 15 years — the trends on both left and right that have boosted populists all over the Western world. But it's also important to stress that part of what Republicans like about Donald Trump is just that Donald Trump is a Republican.
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His biggest policy accomplishment so far is shutting down illegal immigration — something Republican voters strongly support. His signature legislative goal is extending his first-term tax cuts — a classic Republican policy goal. He wants to fire federal bureaucrats, downsize and devolve the Department of Education, cut regulations — this isn't some populist rebuke of Ronald Reagan's conservatism, this IS Ronald Reagan's conservatism! So is picking fights with liberal judges and liberal universities. And if you told someone in, say, 2004 that a Republican president was stretching the boundaries of civil liberties to deport noncitizens accused of sympathizing with Hamas and Hezbollah, absolutely nobody would regard his popularity with G. O. P. Voters as a puzzle in need of explanation.
There are important ways in which Trump's style and tactics and some of his policy goals — the trade and tariff agenda, above all; foreign policy to some degree — are not old-school Republican politics as usual. But we shouldn't exaggerate the break or make a deep mystery of why Republican voters would react favorably to much of what he's doing.
Bret Stephens: Patrick, Alexander Hamilton supplied one part of the answer in Federalist No. 70: "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. " So leave to one side questions about what Trump is doing. What most Americans notice is that Trump is doing: bombing the Houthis, tariffing our neighbors, strong-arming President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, threatening Hamas, abolishing USA I. The. He's the guy supporters and opponents alike struggle to keep pace with — while he grips their attention.
A second part — and this is especially important for Trump critics like me to acknowledge — is that at least some of what he's doing is succeeding. It is important that we finally have regained control over the southern border — proving, if nothing else, that we aren't helpless in the face of these vast migratory flows. Getting rid of the. E. I. Programs that had become a pervasive system of racial gerrymanders is, by my lights, another achievement. Demanding that Columbia University ban face-covering masks and enforce meaningful discipline on menacing and disruptive pro-Palestinian protesters in exchange for continued government funding strikes me as a good conclusion. And I really don't think the nation will miss the Department of Education when it's gone.
Brooks: Bret, you now live in a country in which "tariffing" is a verb. I feel like this signifies the end of Western civilization. It started when consultants began using "learnings" as a noun. The path to perdition is slow, but accelerating.
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Stephens: It's a legit verb, David. For realz.
French: I'm glad Bret brought up the border and the Houthis. These were two areas where the Biden administration failed (without good excuse), and the ease with which Trump pivoted to a different and better course highlights that many Democrats still don't quite understand how poorly the Biden administration performed in its approach to both crises.
Healy: And you're seeing in poll numbers now that the Democratic Party is at a nadir in popularity. It boils down to trust, ideas and leadership.
Brooks: I'the offer up one more word for consideration: "exclusion. " Progressives really have spent the last few decades excluding conservative and working-class voices from a lot of institutions. Trump has gone after these institutions big time — the universities, the Department of Education, the State Department. Of course, the MAGA crowd feels justified revenge.
Stephens: An important point, David. I know liberals love to point out that MAGA politicians like Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley and Elise Stefanik all went to Ivy League schools (as did Donald Trump, though I doubt it was on account of merit). But those campus conservatives were always ideological minorities at elite colleges, and it's where they learned to loathe the contempt they felt coming from liberal professors and peers.
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Douthat: Fortunately, all of us have learned to rise above it instead.
Stephens: At the University of Chicago, Ross, I was almost a liberal. Almost. Relatively speaking.
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French: I never did, Ross. That's why I sued so many universities during my litigation career, but always with an eye toward protecting constitutional rights, not denying them to my political opponents.
Brooks: A lot of elite conservatives continue to struggle with what I call the near-abroad problem. They may dislike MAGA, but they (we) are mostly around progressives or moderates on a day-to-day basis, by virtue of being elite. These progressives sometimes make our teeth hurt. We react more strongly to minor sins of the people across campus than the major sins of the people far away. This is something I'm working on.
Healy: I want to bear down on the idea that more Americans think the country is on the right track with Trump. I have three theories to stress-test with you — or else I want to hear your own.
One: Authoritarians are popular, until they aren't — that's how it works.
Two: The enthusiasm is a honeymoon stemming from the November election, where Democrats got a big comeuppance from Trump.
Three: A lot of Americans think Trump is generally right in both his diagnosis and Rx of government — that nothing terribly bad is going to happen, that the State Department can run foreign aid and the Treasury and the states can run Education Department programs, that tariffs will be a net positive in the long run, and that for all the sound and fury (and illegality), Trump 2. 0 is trying to help America avoid becoming like societies struggling with long-term decline, weak national identities and sclerotic economies.
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And I'm open for business on a fourth theory, or more.
Douthat: First, I would stress that Trump is not terribly popular, and undoubtedly will become less so if the stock market trends down and recession fears mount. He has a commanding position within his party, but even at his apotheosis his approval ratings barely got over 50 percent.
Second, Americans lived through the first Trump term, when sky-is-falling rhetoric was commonplace, but the average American did not experience a crisis until Covid hit. Then, through the Biden term, the media dialed back the crisis rhetoric dramatically, but in reality, inflation soared, the border seemed wide open, the world became much more dangerous, and the president was manifestly incapable of doing his job. So, while you can make a plausible case that this time is different, that Trump is more empowered and therefore more dangerous, you should still expect many Americans to wait for proof of that in their daily lives before they immediately re-embrace his first term's narrative of crisis.
Brooks: I'the take you back to a 1971 Clint Eastwood movie, "Dirty Harry," or a 1974 Charles Bronson movie, "Death Wish. " Both of those were produced in a time of social decay, and they're both about a guy who is willing to break or bend the rules to restore order. To this day, there is a large chunk of Americans who think the system is so broken, we need someone who will break the rules. That's what's happening.
Plus, the unfortunate fact is that there is almost always a kernel of truth to Trump & Co. 's assaults. The most noxious thing they have done in my view is eviscerate USA I. The. Millions will die. But it was true that USA I. The. Was a bureaucratic nightmare. A generation of administrators there tried to fix it. The problem — which the Trumpies don't understand — is that a lot of the sinecures were established by members of Congress who insisted they not be removed. Trump policies are not 100 percent wrong; they are just overreactions. Destroying an agency rather than fixing what is wrong and saving what is right.
Stephens: Unless you happen to live within a few miles of Capitol Hill, you probably don't give two figs whether our (sometimes misspent) foreign aid is distributed via a semiautonomous agency called USA I. The. Or directly through the State Department itself. You also probably think it's no tragedy that government workers should experience the periodic layoffs that the rest of American workers have lived through since forever. The sort of inside-the-Beltway moves that feel like political earthquakes to a certain kind of Washington insider leave Trump voters somewhere between indifferent and pleased.
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The other point that can't be emphasized enough: Trump wouldn't be as popular as he is with his side of the country if Democrats and progressives weren't as unpopular with most sides of the country. Just the fact that he drives the Rachel Maddows of the world into fits of rage and despair and thoughts of European exile is reason enough for many Americans to support him. Sometimes even including me.
French: Those of us who follow politics closely always seem to forget that we're the strange ones. I really question how much the average rank-and-file Republican even knows about most of these early controversies. If you're watching Fox News or other right-wing outlets, you're hearing a lot of stories about strange, "woke" programs funded by USA I. The. They don't know about the lives that are saved or the lives that are at risk.
That means they won't know, much less care, about any given political controversy until it affects them personally.
Healy: I want to return to a word I used in the last question: illegality. Democrats and plenty of independents, and not a few judges, see illegality or evidence of it in some of Trump's actions on federal spending, agency dismantlement, deportations, defiance of judicial rulings. Why do some conservatives see illegality differently?
Douthat: First, some of these moves are not obviously illegal, and exist in a zone of contestation over presidential power and constitutional interpretation where a normal partisan naturally takes his own side's side.
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Healy: We'll get to some specific moves a bit later. Go on.
Douthat: Second, I would emphasize that many Americans experienced the recent period of liberal power, especially under Covidian conditions, as much more authoritarian and lawless-feeling in its everyday impact — schools closed and masks mandated, ideological double standards for different forms of public gathering and protest, ideological speech codes tacitly or explicitly imposed — than anything they experienced under Trump.
This sense of things may change as Trump pushes the envelope of presidential power or as the right embraces its own forms of censoriousness. Indeed, already you can see some factions that aligned with Trump because they were anti-woke start to break away or critique MAGA excesses.
But it's still important to grasp that for many Americans, the fights over presidential prerogatives within the federal bureaucracy feel much more distant from their own liberties than liberalism's recent agenda did.
Stephens: What I see is a president doing things that are, if not outright illegal, genuinely scary, like trying to go after the Washington law firm representing Jack Smith, the former special counsel. At a minimum, Trump represents an almost unprecedented stress test to the judicial system and the separation of powers. And if he starts openly defying Supreme Court rulings ŕ la Andrew Jackson, that's when you'll find me at the barricades.
That said, some of what Trump is doing is simply a turbocharged version of what his liberal predecessors did while the mainstream press remained mostly mum. Remember Barack Obama's threats of unilateral executive action through his phone and his pen? Or Joe Biden's almost open flouting of the Supreme Court with his student loan forgiveness schemes? I also think millions of Americans are tuning out some of the claims of Trump's unconstitutional behavior as so much partisan noise. That's one of the downsides of some of the more doubtful efforts by liberal prosecutors to put Trump in jail.
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French: First, I sincerely doubt that most Republicans think or believe that Trump has done anything illegal so far. Right-wing media is full of legal talking heads telling their loyal audiences that the various district judges are lawless. The right is even attacking Amy Coney Barrett, calling her a grifter or a RINO for exercising her independent judgment.
We've seen this pattern throughout the Trump years. Trump will advance an illegal or unconstitutional policy, MAGA lawyers will spring to MAGA media to rationalize and justify it, and then, when even conservative judges or justices block Trump's actions, they scream that the courts are lawless, not Trump.
Brooks: As a matter of principle, Democrats should be screaming bloody murder about Trump's threat to the Constitution. As a matter of political tactics, I think they're better off emphasizing Trumpian incompetence. Determining the constitutionality of some act requires a law degree, but incompetence is something we all recognize — and there is a lot of it.
Healy: On the economy, I ask in all seriousness: Are Republicans really OK if Trump drives America into a recession? Listening to Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, this week, stock market corrections are healthy and recessions may be sometimes necessary. Putting aside the macroeconomic finer points there, I'm confused that so many Republicans think we're on the right track when that track may be leading to recession. Are they not paying attention?
French: It's so important to distinguish between the core of MAGA — which dominates discourse online — from the bulk of voters who put Trump back in the White House. Online MAGA will pay any price and bear any burden for Trump; they'll even buy electric cars to keep the DOGE dream alive. But the people who actually made him president were primarily concerned about prices, and it wasn't close. If the economy tanks, MAGA will stay with Trump, but we know from the 2020 election that enough voters will step off the Trump train to swing the balance of power back to the Democrats.
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Douthat: It's not unique to MAGA, though — real partisans don't change their vote just because the economy goes bad, and especially not under polarized conditions. It's not like the inflation under Biden suddenly made partisan Democrats open to a vote for Trump. But as David says, Trump's current coalition includes a lot of not-that-partisan nonloyalists who voted for him because they thought he'the be good for the economy, and those voters will be voting Democratic in the midterms without a second thought if we're in a recession.
Brooks: I do think Trump's popularity will plummet if the economy really heads south. People will tolerate a lot from their government, but not unnecessary chaos.
Healy: And not when Trump promised an economic boom from Day 1.
Brooks: People forget how many voters like Trump mostly because he's a businessman who, they think, knows how to "grow the economy" (speaking of words that should have never been verbs). If that myth is busted, things will head south fast. In fact, I worry the political momentum will shift so fast that the Democrats won't be ready to take advantage. They'll still be dealing with their own trauma, intellectual incoherence and recriminations. They won't have time to offer something new, which is why parties recently have not reformed themselves after defeat. The other side screws up too fast.
Stephens: Well, Treasury Secretary Bessent is right. Market corrections are healthy. Recessions should sometimes happen. Having the government or the Federal Reserve ensure that markets only go up is the road to inflating bubbles that ought to be pricked, and to zombifying large parts of the economy that ought to be allowed to die. The practice by presidents of both parties to ensure that profits are privatized and risk is socialized is a road to ruin.
The problem is, trying to go about this by jacking up tariffs in incoherent and unpredictable ways is the worst possible way of pricking bubbles. But I wouldn't be so sure that the economy is going to tank. Markets usually like deregulation, permitting reform, "Drill, baby drill," an extension of the 2017 tax cuts. And Trump can always lift the tariffs. Like Soviet diplomacy under Andrei Gromyko, Trump has a gift for creating crises so that he can take credit for solving them.
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Healy: I'the like to do a lightning round and go through actions Trump has taken and learn if you agree or disagree with each of them — to help readers understand how the four of you with histories on the right see these issues. First: Trump's negotiations with President Vladimir Putin of Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
Brooks: Let's not overthink this — siding with a villainous dictator against a brave democrat is repulsive. That said, I don't think we're going to return to the postwar international order. The 21st century was bound to look a lot different from the 20th. Those of us internationalists have some thinking to do.
Douthat: Negotiating with Putin in some form is an absolute strategic necessity, given the situation of the war and American power overall. Which doesn't mean that Trump will produce a good deal.
French: Of all the outrages of Trump's first two months, his betrayal of Ukraine is likely to be the most consequential. If he continues on this course, he'll hand Russia a military victory, rip the heart out of the Western alliance, and place a diminished America in a bystander role as great power competition likely leads to nuclear proliferation and greater international instability.
I agree with David that the 21st century is going to look different from the 20th. But this does not mean our alliances are somehow less valuable, and that it's better for America to alienate Europe for the sake of embracing Russia.
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We should want the European powers to increase defense spending as partners and friends, not as angry, estranged former allies. We need their help.
Stephens: Trump at his absolute worst. A betrayal of the free world and its courageous champions in Ukraine. A betrayal of the promises of the Atlantic Charter and 80 years of American global leadership against totalitarian aggression. And a portent of betrayal for every other small country — whether it's Latvia, Taiwan or Israel — that looks to America for the protection of independence and liberty. I can only hope Putin's refusal to agree to a cease-fire does something to sober Trump's judgment.
Healy: The federal government sending hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, deciding they were gang members even as a federal judge was assessing their cases, and doing so even though the judge ordered the deportation flights to turn around and head back to the United States.
Stephens: I'the need to learn a few more details, but it sounds legally iffy. Still, not the hill Trump's critics should want to die on.
Douthat: Deporting gang leaders is good. But claiming wartime powers to go around the normal deportation system seems guaranteed — as in the War on Terror, to stress again Trump's continuity with past Republicans — to yield abuses and mistakes, and that may have already happened in this case.
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Healy: Trump calling for the impeachment of that judge — and the notion of impeaching or disregarding judges generally whom Trump disagrees with.
Stephens: Terrible. I only stop to observe that all the liberals who went berserk over John Roberts's nomination to the court 20 years ago owe the chief justice an apology, especially after his intervention in this case. He's a model of conservative jurisprudence.
Douthat: Trump's rhetoric against his opponents, judicial or otherwise, always goes too far. But I think elected officials aggressively attacking judges who make aggressive rulings is a completely normal part of democratic politics in a country with a powerful judicial branch, and I would say the same about many sweeping liberal attacks on the Roberts court and its conservative justices in the last few years.
Brooks: Atrocious. As usual, Trump is being patrimonialist — treating the USA Government like his own family business.
French: It's not just dreadful, but it's also part of a calculated attack on the role of the judiciary in the constitutional order. Russell Vought, Trump's influential head of Office of Management and Budget, has said that the right "needs to throw off the precedents and legal paradigms that have wrongly developed over the last 200 years, and to study carefully the words of the Constitution and how the founders would have responded in modern situations to the encroachments of other branches. ".
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Healy: Trump's confidence in Elon Musk as an essential partner in reinventing government, to use an old Al Gore phrase.
Douthat: Let's just say I was more optimistic about this experiment two months ago than I am today.
Brooks: Elon Musk knows as much about the government as I know about rocketry. But deregulation could be my favorite thing Trump accomplishes. There is a pretty compelling link between overregulation and economic stagnation. See: Europe.
French: Government inefficiency and overregulation are very real and very serious problems, and Elon Musk is the wrong person to take on the challenge. He's a perfect illustration of the reality that accomplishment and expertise in one field do not translate into every field. Or, to put it another way, focus on getting us to Mars, Elon. You're out of your depth on the budget.
Stephens: In 2018, I wrote a column calling Elon Musk "the Donald of Silicon Valley. " Not bad, except that I completely misjudged where Tesla's stock price was heading. Musk is off to a bad start in his government career, but I sincerely wish him success. The federal government isn't just too big, it's obese. Elon may yet be its Ozempic.
Healy: Trump trying to ban transgender people from serving in the military, which a federal judge ruled as unconstitutional on Tuesday.
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Brooks: Pure cruelty. This is one of those issues where anecdotes prevail over reality. We need to be able to defeat China in a possible naval confrontation. Is this really what we should be thinking about?
Stephens: I don't think the military was "cruel" when transgender people were barred from military service for the first seven and a half years of Barack Obama's presidency. This is an example of the deep disconnect between the moral certitudes of the part of the country that rarely serves in the military and the cultural convictions of the part of the country that often does — and on whom we all depend for our safety.
French: I see the matter primarily as a question of readiness, not rights. Medical transitions can be very physically challenging, sometimes including physically debilitating treatments. That can affect readiness a great deal. In that circumstance, the question is less about transgender status and more about the physical realities of complex medical procedures.
Douthat: I will just say that the policy seems to be obviously within the commander in chief's constitutional powers, and the judicial ruling to the contrary is a good example of why many conservatives don't feel they need to take the wider run of anti-Trump rulings all that seriously.
Healy: Here's my last question — I've been asking a lot about specific policies. A lot of Republicans like what they are seeing. But are they missing the forest for the trees? Do the individual policies matter if America's economy tanks, if there's a constitutional crisis over defying court orders, if there's geopolitical upheaval in Ukraine or Eastern Europe or Taiwan?
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Douthat: We are two months into the presidency, and we just lived through four years of dramatic global and domestic upheaval under a Democratic president whose manifest incapacity was deliberately concealed from the country. I have a million concerns about where this administration is going, but it's a bit soon to attack the president's supporters for being irrationally loyal.
Brooks: Personally, I think Trump has set the world record for over-reading his mandate. I think his incompetence and bad character will drag him far lower this term than they did in his first. (This term, Trump is actually trying to do things.) But I wake up each morning and ask: What if I'm wrong? What if Trump wins the next four years? We're entering an era of junkyard dog politics. Maybe Trump is the guy to stand up to Xi Jinping. Maybe governments need a pummeling cleanse before they can reinvent themselves. Maybe the vibe shift is permanent and the progressive March through the institutions is over. Maybe the American economy is a wonder to behold and it survives what Trump is throwing at it while our allies continue to stagnate.
If people like me focus on all the Trump failures that make us feel good, we may once again get run over by reality.
French: The big disasters (or big triumphs) always swamp individual policies, and most people judge presidents through the prism of their own personal situation. That's exactly why Jan. 6, 2021, didn't end Trump's political career. Very few voters liked it, but they didn't see it as relevant to their lives — at least not nearly as relevant as the price of groceries or disorder in the streets.
I completely agreed with the Democratic message that the rule of law was on the ballot in 2024, but I also know that voters will put up with an enormous amount of scandal and misconduct if the economy is strong and have no patience for corruption when the economy is weak. The "rule of law" is abstract. The price of eggs is concrete.
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That's why Trump's incompetence is a greater threat to his presidency than his cruelty. A malicious man can win over the masses if jobs are plentiful and gas is cheap.
Stephens: On most days since Trump took office, the line that has run through my head is from the movie "Airplane! "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. " It's just one damn thing after another.
But like David Brooks, I am a chastened Trump critic. I viewed his first term as a national embarrassment culminating in the epic disgrace of Jan. 6. Clearly, plenty of Americans didn't see it my way, or they noticed things to which I was mostly indifferent: growing prosperity, a new attentiveness to the proverbial forgotten man — and the vapid, arrogant, hypocritical awfulness of many a Trump scold.
So, to adapt Larry David, I'm going to Curb My Nausea. Just please pass me the Dramamine, will you, Patrick?
It is very weird but of course not surprising that I am seeing a lot of assertions by MAGAs all over the Internet that "the price of gas is down under our lord and savior Trump" in relation to those Russian AI-generated memes about how much better life is since Trump was elected and all that crap.
Uh. The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the USA was lower and declining under Biden before the November 5th election than it is today. It was lower still under Biden in December than it is today.
In fact, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the USA under Trump DID NOT decline one penny lower than it was under Biden and has been increasing notably since the newly-elected Trump started blathering about his big Tariffs and Mass Deportation plans, right up to this very week:
https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/us-gas-prices/
In 2024, monthly prices peaked at $3.61 in April before gradually declining to a low of $3.02 in December. So far in 2025, the average gas price was $3.08 per gallon in January and $3.12 in February.NATIONAL AVERAGE GAS PRICES
https://gasprices.aaa.com/
MarquisdeSade1
03-22-25, 05:17
The "Turns To Shit" part always comes before the "And Dies" part of the consistent, inarguably true adage and warning about what happens to everything Donald J. Trump touches:
RECALL
Tesla Recalls Every Single Cybertruck After Glued Stainless Steel Trims Fall Off.
151 Cybertruck owners filed warranty claims after noticing the roof trim panel above the windows was coming loose.
March 20, 2025
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesla-recalls-every-single-cybertruck-over-stainless-steel-trims-falling-off/
Numbskull President Musk is certainly not alone in either not getting or, more likely, not comprehending the widely-distributed memo on that. 77.3 Million direct and a few stray Third Party numbskull voters apparently totally missed it before this past election too.
Oh well.If you are a retarded NYT gay crippled poodle you shouldn't take a bite at the Rottweiler.
When it bites your fucking head off because most, and espec me are going to ROTFLMMFAO.
Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.
Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. Meanwhile...
China's Green Energy buildouts == 5 nuclear reactors a week:
The expansion of green energy continues at a record pace in China, and is showing the world, they are on pace to meet their greenhouse emissions goals.
Last year (2024), solar and wind power equivalent to approximately 320 nuclear reactors were installed, March 16 2025 https://swedenherald.com/article/chinas-green-energy-boom-like-320-nuclear-reactors
China is consolidating its dominance in the green energy revolution, deploying solar, wind, and pumped hydropower, at a scale that dwarfs global competitors, adding more renewable capacity last year than the rest of the world combined, all at a staggering pace, equivalent to 5 reactors a week.
China is kicking ass and revolutionizing their country!
PS: And what is the U.S. doing? Arhhh...yes, let me guess, "drill baby, drill!" and dismantling democracy!
(...kkkk!) If you just took a minute from your MAGA Fuhrer's "drill baby drill" and Breitbart propaganda, and properly read what was written, you'll see those are the very impressive 320 nuclear reactor equivalents worth of solar, wind and BESS, China installed, just in the last year alone.
You do understand what the difference is and what is meant by an "equivalent", RIGHT?
BTW, the U.S. has the most operational nuclear reactors on the planet, with 96.
So MDS1, it would seems you're the one who better get to steppin', then runnin' and then haul some "Fukashima-ASS", the hell outta here! (...kkkk!)
Worlds largest offshore solar project with 1 GW power now operational in China
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-world-largest-offshore-solar-project?group=test_b
China has achieved a milestone in renewable energy with the connection of its first 1-gigawatt offshore photovoltaic (PV) project to the power grid. The project is expected to generate enough electricity to power 2.67 million homes in China.
I wonder how much "drill baby drilling" and "...beautiful clean coal" digging, the U.S. would have to do, to power 2.67 million homes?
We shall see what the sales numbers for Tesla, in the month of March and April reveal for sales in Europe and the rest of the world. It should be very interesting and should tell us, whether or not, the sentiment really is "shameful".
Tracking global data on electric vehicles
https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
Once Again as ICE sales plummet, in the biggest car markets around the world, good luck to the German, Japanese and U.S. auto manufacturers, if they choose to keep making V8/12's and go on ignoring the global vehicle sales trends. China's electric car sales grew in 2024 as sales of gasoline cars plunged. https://apnews.com/article/china-autos-evs-exports-3f5860634a1d146446dd0dd9e78c2abbChina started construction of 94.5 GW of coal power capacity in 2024, the most in 10 years! For comparison, Mexico's total electric generation capacity from all sources, including nuclear, renewables, coal and gas, is 86 GW. France's is 144 GW. And how about that 1 GW offshore PV capacity you mentioned that China's installing? Well, if it's enough to power 2. 67 million homes in China, that means the coal plants that just started construction in 2024 will be enough to power 252 million homes!
https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Also, China approved 66.7 GW of new coal-fired capacity in 2024, which will start construction in future years.
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/when-coal-wont-step-aside-the-challenge-of-scaling-clean-energy-in-china/?
Too bad China doesn't have abundant natural gas like the USA does. If so it could have used clean burning natural gas to generate reliable baseload power instead of coal. And the air over Chinese cities would be even cleaner than it is now!
But yes, China is adding renewable capacity even faster than coal plants! It's a cheap and a cleaner source of power, as long as the wind's blowing and the sun's shining.
I've got a great idea Spidy. Since you believe the air is cleaner in China than many USA Cities, and since you're extremely intrigued by EV's and renewables, how about moving to the country that's dominating the development of these technologies! Go West young man! Here's something to get you started.
https://en.nia.gov.cn/n147423/n147478/n147715/c158291/content.html
I'd be willing to chip in and pay for a one way ticket (economy class) to Beijing!
And now, you will know the truth Spidy, and the truth shall set you free! Too bad the Biden administration tried to stop permitting of LNG plants, which would have marginally decreased worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, while providing jobs and income to Americans. And remember Spidy, perfect is the enemy of good!
Excerpts from.
The Biden LNG Pause Deception
Now we learn that the Granholm DOE buried a study that it didnt want Americans to read.
The Energy Department on Wednesday approved the Venture Global CP2 liquefied natural gas export project that became a cri de coeur for climate activists. Good call. Meantime, we are learning more about how the Biden team deceived Americans about its 2024 LNG export "pause. ".
President Biden, prodded by climate adviser John Podesta, announced a supposedly temporary suspension of LNG project approvals in January of the election year. The stated purpose was so Energy could do a study to determine if increased exports are in the "public interest. " It turns out that DOE career staff had already completed such a study by autumn 2023.
A draft of that study, which was shared with us, shows that increased USA LNG exports would have negligible effects on domestic prices while modestly reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The latter is largely because USA LNG exports would displace coal in power production and gas exports from other countries such as Russia.
"The majority of the additional USA Natural gas substitutes for other global sources of natural gas," the study notes. "Global and USA GHG emissions do not change appreciably" across various scenarios that DOE staff modeled.
The study projected that, even assuming countries meet their net-zero pledges, global natural gas consumption would grow through 2050. This is notable because the climate lobby claims building more LNG projects would result in "stranded assets" as countries wean themselves off fossil fuels.
The climate lobby also says more LNG exports will increase USA Energy costs. But the study forecast that wholesale gas prices in the USA Would rise less than in the "study DOE commissioned on the economic impacts from USA LNG exports in 2018. " Residential gas prices would increase by a mere 4% by 2050.
DOE staff and lawyers rigorously reviewed the models and findings because these conclusions "are going to receive a lot of scrutiny" and we "need to be able to explain why the model shows reduced emissions," as one commented in the study's margins. Another recommended "full tabulated results in an Excel workbook be made available to provide transparency to the public. ".
That isn't what the Biden crowd wanted to hear. They shelved the staff study and imposed their "pause" to motivate progressives during last year's election. In December, Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm released a different study, which purported to show that "unfettered" LNG exports would increase global emissions and domestic gas prices.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/biden-lng-export-pause-energy-department-study-jennifer-granholm-04a280ea?mod=opinion_feat1_editorials_pos3
*When Arabs or Christians die, well, they are just a "Palestinian" or orc. When a Jewish person dies in war, OMG, the world must come to an end.
You got it wrong, Elvis. When Palestinians (muslims or Christians) die they are just "Arabs", When Russian soldiers die they are Orcs. When you criticise Israel you are an anti-semite because. Because. The Americans State department says so. This is how fucked up this guy's thinking is. But he is thinking along the same lines as many of the zionist hypocrites who run America also think.Why do you expect Westerners to care more about the lives of russian soldiers than the russian leaders and people do themselves?
Here's an crazy idea; if you don't want to die, don't start a war against your peaceful neighbors.
The same goes for the palestinians; their leaders even publicly talked about how the blood of palestinians had to be flooding the streets to "improve" support for their "cause".
I'm genuinely scared after seeing what's going on in the palestinian Territories; little children are being taught to murder Israelis and even their mothers, which should be protecting their children!, are openly saying to their little sons that they will grow up to become martyrs.
It truly is horrific. In gaza suicide bombers are celebrated and their parents are proud!
China started construction of 94.5 GW of coal power capacity in 2024, the most in 10 years! For comparison, Mexico's total electric generation capacity from all sources, including nuclear, renewables, coal and gas, is 86 GW. France's is 144 GW. And how about that 1 GW offshore PV capacity you mentioned that China's installing? Well, if it's enough to power 2. 67 million homes in China, that means the coal plants that just started construction in 2024 will be enough to power 252 million homes!
https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Also, China approved 66.7 GW of new coal-fired capacity in 2024, which will start construction in future years.
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/when-coal-wont-step-aside-the-challenge-of-scaling-clean-energy-in-china/?
Hey, I'm okay with China, continuing to use coal, in the short term. They are using what they have in abundance. The U.S. and much of Europe, have been burning coal for decades and still haven't yet gotten off coal entirely. So it wouldn't surprise me, if China shutdown and/or shuttered all their coal power plants, before the U.S. and many other western countries.
Many conflicting reports, on whether China has put the brakes on coal permits and have seen peeked coal production. Just back in Aug 2024, reports were China had halted new permits https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-cut-new-coal-power-plant-permits-by-nearly-80-greenpeace-says-2024-08-21/ and some have them reaching peek coal in 2025 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241127-china-expected-to-hit-peak-coal-consumption-in-2025-report.
Even though your article is more recent, and China appears to be ramping up coal again, to me it doesn't matter as long as it's done in parallel, to China offsetting coal, with twice the amount of renewables, it all good IMHO, because this ramp up is only short term. Still, China is on pace and should meet their carbon emission goals by 2030 and 2050. Question is, will the U.S.?
Too bad China doesn't have abundant natural gas like the USA does. If so it could have used clean burning natural gas to generate reliable baseload power instead of coal. And the air over Chinese cities would be even cleaner than it is now!
Nah, who needs dirty natural gas, when even your MAGA Fuhrer, has reservations, doubts and perhaps thinks, it's just dirty smelly gas. Yeah, natural gas must be so dirty, your MAGA Fuhrer, vowed to bring back, "...beautiful clean coal" (...kkkk!)
Trump vows to immediately ramp up U.S. production of beautiful, clean coal, Mar 18, 2025
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-18/trump-ramp-up-production-of-beautiful-clean-coal
Maybe that's why China is ramping up coal again? They heard it was "...beautiful clean coal",(...kkkk!)
But yes, China is adding renewable capacity even faster than coal plants! It's a cheap and a cleaner source of power, as long as the wind's blowing and the sun's shining. Thanks for stating the obvious, but try not to trip yourself up, on the "Primary Energy Fallacy", the oil and gas industry would have you believe, is needed, when it comes to replacing the true "usable energy" needed with renewables. Renewables will always be 3 to 5 times more efficient than fossil fuels, in converting energy into usable electricity.
Just like South Australia (SA), I believe China will cover the buildout of their grid, with enough HVDC/HVAC, S+W+B and an increasing amount of pumped hydro, and one or two costly nuclear reactors, thrown in for good measure. (Note: Reactors for China not SA). And like SA, the coal power plants in China will decrease, plateau and decline, as more cheaper renewables come online to replace them, as many observers have predicted, judging by China's maga-projects success rate.
So tell me Tiny 12, how many MAGA suckers, will fall for the Fuhrer's "...beautiful clean coal", this time?
... And remember Spidy, perfect is the enemy of good! Tiny 12, not sure how or why the likes of Elvis 2008, has bamboozled you, into this somewhat flawed nonsensical line of thinking, w/r to "perfect is the enemy of good", but Elvis 2008, should know "better" than to present such binary thinking, by implying the only choice, is between "perfect" and "good".
First of all, other than you guys, who said anything about "perfection"? Who said anything about striving for "perfection", other than Elvis 2008, interjecting "perfection" into the argument?
Your logic is flawed, for the simple fact that, you guys always rocket, straight to "perfection" from "good", with your binary thinking, while overlooking "better" and "best" (among others) as available options, to a more suitable incremental approach or middle ground, way before anyone logically arrives at "perfection".
So yeah, while S+W+B and other renewables have there downsides, they will always be "better" and cleaner, than fossil fuels at converting energy into usable electricity.
Striving for "better", when the fossil fuel bar is set so low, is NEVER hard goal to achieve!
Netanyahou and Putin kill many women and children and Trump knows this and let keeping on. Also criminal. Shameful not MAGA USA.Trump is complicit hand in glove in the zionist genocide of women and children in Gaza, and he is turning a blind eye to Ukraine too, which will shortly become two blind eyes.
The zionist tail wags the American dog.
The zionists are pursuing bloody genocide and ethnic cleansing.
America has fallen. I do fear a civil war in America.
Trump is complicit hand in glove in the zionist genocide of women and children in Gaza, and he is turning a blind eye to Ukraine too, which will shortly become two blind eyes.
The zionist tail wags the American dog.
The zionists are pursuing bloody genocide and ethnic cleansing.
America has fallen. I do fear a civil war in America.Trump is a senile schizophrene non stop bullshiting, thinking all what he wants will happen, like if he was single on our planet. Just a stupid guy for no brained low level USA. Really no MAGA, but big shame. Enjoy inflation, recession and lost jobs in down USA.
I think your meme is extremely funny, I'm sure it won him millions of votes LMFAO
If you are a retarded NYT gay crippled poodle you shouldn't take a bite at the Rottweiler.
When it bites your fucking head off because most, and espec me are going to ROTFLMMFAO.It's hard to argue with a MAGA over just how fervently determined he and his fellow MAGAs were to Turn America Into Shit And Then Kill It.
So I am perfectly happy to go with your personal MAGA expertise and insight and say ALL 77.3 Million direct Trump voters and a few stray Third Party voters did so in order to give Trump the means to touch America a 2nd time and really make sure he Turns It To Shit Before he Kills It.
Elvis 2008
03-22-25, 23:06
Tiny 12, not sure how or why the likes of Elvis 2008, has bamboozled you, into this somewhat flawed nonsensical line of thinking, w/r to "perfect is the enemy of good", but Elvis 2008, should know "better" than to present such binary thinking, by implying the only choice, is between "perfect" and "good".
First of all, other than you guys, who said anything about "perfection"? Who said anything about striving for "perfection", other than Elvis 2008, interjecting "perfection" into the argument?
Your logic is flawed, for the simple fact that, you guys always rocket, straight to "perfection" from "good", with your binary thinking, while overlooking "better" and "best" (among others) as available options, to a more suitable incremental approach or middle ground, way before anyone logically arrives at "perfection".
So yeah, while S+W+B and other renewables have there downsides, they will always be "better" and cleaner, than fossil fuels at converting energy into usable electricity.
Striving for "better", when the fossil fuel bar is set so low, is NEVER hard goal to achieve!
Tiny 12, not sure how or why the likes of Elvis 2008, has bamboozled you, into this somewhat flawed nonsensical line of thinking, w/r to "perfect is the enemy of good", but Elvis 2008, should know "better" than to present such binary thinking, by implying the only choice, is between "perfect" and "good".
First of all, other than you guys, who said anything about "perfection"? Who said anything about striving for "perfection", other than Elvis 2008, interjecting "perfection" into the argument?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
In the English-speaking world the aphorism is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Questions "Il meglio č l'inimico del bene".
It sounds like someone needs to redo high school English. LOL.
In your binary world, it is China good and the USA bad. When it to dirty air, China ranks as 21st worst in the world. The USA? #116.
https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-countries
And part of being a Democratic douche is playing the never mind game. Oh, we love EVs but now we hate Elon Musk. I have enclosed the perfect meme for you never mind Democrats.
Elvis 2008
03-22-25, 23:48
So yeah, while S+W+B and other renewables have there downsides, they will always be "better" and cleaner, than fossil fuels at converting energy into usable electricity.
Striving for "better", when the fossil fuel bar is set so low, is NEVER hard goal to achieve!No, solar / wind / battery are not better than fossil fuels. They are not as energy dense as fossil fuels like gasoline and natural gas. Obviously, you generate no power when the sun is down, and the wind is not blowing, and there is already a limit on how many Lithium ion batteries can be manufactured because of limits on Lithium production.
Then you have the problem of overproduction of electricity with solar, https://www.newsweek.com/california-producing-too-much-clean-energy-paying-other-states-take-it-1995346.
California is producing so much clean energy using solar farms that it sometimes has to pay utilities in other states to take some of it away.
The news comes in a LOS Angeles Times report which also says in the past 12 months California has forgone enough solar energy to power 518,000 homes for a year (three million megawatt-hours), due to supply exceeding demand and an inability to store the surplus.
When California's solar farms produce a surplus which battery storage cannot handle, to prevent grid overload, the state exports power. This is frequently sold at below the market rate, essentially subsidized by California energy consumers, and at times other states have to be paid to take surplus electricity if they have no demand for it.
According to a CAISO report, in 2022 California sold surplus electricity cheaply to the Public Service Company of New Mexico, which said it saved $34 million through the scheme, along with PacifiCorp, Avista Corp. And Tacoma Power.
When asked how much California had paid for utility companies to take its surplus electricity CAISO official Guillermo Bautista-Alderete replied: "We don't track that number specifically. ".
LOL. Of course not.
And then there is the kicker:
However California's power grid has at times struggled with extreme heat in the state, and in September 2022 the state was forced to deploy temporary gas-fired power plants to prevent supplies running out according to Bloomberg.
This summarizes alternative energy issues. There is too much when you do not need it and too little when you do.
The way around this is with better battery technology, and I do not think what we have is good enough to go as hog wild on alternative energy as we have in many places. EVs can serve many markets today but the PHEVs and ICE make way more sense if you are going long distances in driving.
The key is the battery then and there is progress being made in battery technology. This is a video on sodium anode technology and being produced by a NBC network of course they had to give a shout out to Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj0siYi4h0o.
A buddy of mine swears that Tijuana Rogers, who is not a liberal, and Enovix are going to lead in that space. They already have produced batteries everyone wants. They have not done it at scale yet.
Sodium anode batteries for an EV can be 80% charged in 6 minutes. That is where things get interesting and is competition for ICE vehicles.
The issue when you go ga-ga over a new technology is what happened in California. If sodium anode batteries can be made at scale, the whole game with EVs and alternative energy could change, but it is simplistic and foolish to say alternative energy "is better" than fossil fuels.
MarquisdeSade1
03-23-25, 02:00
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Ross Douthat.
It's About Ideology, Not Oligarchy.
March 22,2025, 7:00 am ET.
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The Democrats, casting about for an anti-Trump narrative, have found a word: "oligarchy. " It was part of Joe Biden's farewell address; it's central to Senator Bernie Sanders's barnstorming; it shows up in the advice given by ex-Obama hands. It aspires to fold together President Trump's self-enrichment, Elon Musk's outsize influence, the image of Silicon Valley big shots at the inauguration with a familiar Democratic criticism of the G. O. P. As the party of the superrich.
I don't want to pass premature judgment on its rhetorical effectiveness. But as a narrative for actually understanding the second Trump administration, the language of "oligarchy" obscures more than it reveals. It suggests a vision of Trumpism in which billionaires and big corporations are calling the shots. And certainly, the promise of some familiar Republican agenda items like deregulation and business tax cuts fits that script.
But where Trump's most disruptive and controversial policies are concerned, much of what one might call the American oligarchy is indifferent, skeptical or fiercely opposed.
Start with the crusade against wokeness and the. E. I. , a fight spreading beyond the federal bureaucracy to everything (state policymaking, university hiring) influenced by federal funding. Is this a central oligarchic agenda item? Not exactly. Sure, some corporate honchos were weary of activist demands and welcomed the rightward shift. But before the revolts that began with politicians like Ron DeSantis and activists like Christopher Rufo, the corporate oligarchy was an ally or agent of the Great Awokening, either accepting new progressivism's strictures as the price of doing business or actively encouraging the. E. I. As both a managerial and a commercial strategy.
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Capital, in other words, is flexible. It can be woke or unwoke, depending on the prevailing winds, and it will adapt again if anti-the. E. I. Sentiment goes away.
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Next, consider Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with its frantic quest to slash contracts, grants and head counts at government agencies. Is this oligarchy? No doubt some corporations stand ready to fill spaces left open by the public-sector retreat. But the American corporate sector as a whole is deeply enmeshed with governmental contracting, heavily invested in public-private partnerships, accustomed to cozy lobbying relationships and eager to take advantage of government largess.
So there is no deep corporate investment in reducing head count at random federal agencies, and there is plenty of corporate angst about what DOGE might mean for the specific kinds of private-sector power that have metastasized all around Washington.
And even with Musk himself, the first oligarch: For all the ways he might use his access to game the system, the immediate effect of his crusade has been to undermine Tesla, his most important company, and substantially diminish his (yes, still world-beating) net worth. (The risks to his position if and when Republicans lose power are even more considerable.) So we should take him at least somewhat seriously when he talks like a libertarian or debt-crisis true believer; he's putting his net worth in the service of those ideas rather than just leveraging power to increase his wealth.
Finally, populist ideas rather than oligarchic self-interest are clearly the motivating factor behind Trump's highest-risk move, the great tariff experiment. Of course, there is a tycoon who stands to benefit from protectionism out there somewhere, but the generalization still holds: When it comes to the lords of the American economy, nobody wants this.
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The people who do want it are the right's version of the critics of neoliberalism who influenced Biden's administration: outsider intellectuals and dissenting members of officialdom who see themselves as champions of downscale constituencies ill served by a globalized system designed to benefit investors, corporations and billionaires. There are all kinds of ways in which Trump has failed to follow through on populist promises, but the vision of a new trade order is populism in its truest form; it rejects a consensus shared by academic experts and the upper class, and it promises long-term benefits for the working man in exchange for short-term pain for rich investors.
As such, it can't really be attacked coherently along the lines favored by Sanders or any left-wing Democrat. It's not a giveaway to Trump's biggest donors. (They hate it.) It's not a sop to the Wall Street players. (They're against it.) It's not an intensification of neoliberal capitalism but a rejection of its premises.
Instead, the opportunity it offers Democrats, like the opportunity that Biden's attempt at postneoliberalism offered Republicans, is contingent on its actual economic effects. A future where the economy sputters even as Muskian cuts lead to foul-ups with popular government programs offers Democrats the clearest path back to power. But they won't be leading a revolution against the oligarchy; they'll be promising a restoration.
More on political economy.
MarquisdeSade1
03-23-25, 07:54
It's hard to argue with a MAGA over just how fervently determined he and his fellow MAGAs were to Turn America Into Shit And Then Kill It.
So I am perfectly happy to go with your personal MAGA expertise and insight and say ALL 77.3 Million direct Trump voters and a few stray Third Party voters did so in order to give Trump the means to touch America a 2nd time and really make sure he Turns It To Shit Before he Kills It.Is this this best you've got?? WoW Have you no sense of decency? The US is back and will be the ONLY Superpower again and you and your fellow vile American HATING Trump haters.
Are lost, you've got nothing but the lamest memes I've ever seen I think a 5 yr old could do better, I think your lame efforts to gaslight everyone here just keep getting lamer and lamer.
You and Spidy should hang up your keyboards and give it up, the jig is up, Globalism is as dead as dead gets WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP to all you ANTI American Scumbags, I wish you ADIEU.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/19/exclusive-peter-narvarro-china-is-the-worlds-biggest-cheater-but-the-eu-and-vietnam-run-close-seconds/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/trump-oligarchy-populism.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/19/exclusive-peter-navarro-virtually-all-new-jobs-under-joe-biden-were-taken-by-illegal-immigrants/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/opinion/trump-administration-polling.html
Why do you expect Westerners to care more about the lives of russian soldiers than the russian leaders and people do themselves?
Here's an crazy idea; if you don't want to die, don't start a war against your peaceful neighbors.
The same goes for the palestinians; their leaders even publicly talked about how the blood of palestinians had to be flooding the streets to "improve" support for their "cause".
I'm genuinely scared after seeing what's going on in the palestinian Territories; little children are being taught to murder Israelis and even their mothers, which should be protecting their children!, are openly saying to their little sons that they will grow up to become martyrs.
It truly is horrific. In gaza suicide bombers are celebrated and their parents are proud!The fact that you actually say and believe all of this in the wake of the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians by the Israelis shows the extent of your depravity, wickedness and hypocrisy of people like you.
"Peaceful Neighbors". What a sick comment. What a shameless sick excuse of a man you are.
Is this this best you've got?? WoW Have you no sense of decency? The US is back and will be the ONLY Superpower again and you and your fellow vile American HATING Trump haters.
Are lost, you've got nothing but the lamest memes I've ever seen I think a 5 yr old could do better, I think your lame efforts to gaslight everyone here just keep getting lamer and lamer.
You and Spidy should hang up your keyboards and give it up, the jig is up, Globalism is as dead as dead gets WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP to all you ANTI American Scumbags, I wish you ADIEU.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/19/exclusive-peter-narvarro-china-is-the-worlds-biggest-cheater-but-the-eu-and-vietnam-run-close-seconds/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/trump-oligarchy-populism.html
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/19/exclusive-peter-navarro-virtually-all-new-jobs-under-joe-biden-were-taken-by-illegal-immigrants/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/opinion/trump-administration-polling.htmlOh, do you like reading about polls again?
Here are a couple of stories for you. One to read to long-time China benefactor, President Musk and one to read to his assistant, Putin & Xi Ass-Kisser Trump.
The first story is called, The Boys Who Were Touched By Trump.
The second story is called, After Just Two Months, The RCP Trump Job Approval Poll Concensus That Even Rasmussen Could Not Save.
See screenshots below:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
MarquisdeSade1
03-23-25, 23:17
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/23/rolls-royce-planning-to-shift-production-to-united-states-to-avoid-trump-tariffs-report/
All Praise and Glory goes to Mein MAGA Fuhrer.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/23/rolls-royce-planning-to-shift-production-to-united-states-to-avoid-trump-tariffs-report/
All Praise and Glory goes to Mein MAGA Fuhrer.Breitbart alludes to it in passing, but just to be clear; Rolls-Royce ALREADY has production facilities in the USA.
And the company had ALREADY reported "stellar annual results on profits" under Biden, considering it was Biden whose brilliant economic stimulus led America and the rest of the World to a historic Recovery from the Trump's Pandemic Economic Catastrophe without so much as an iddy-biddy Global Recession, much less a Great Repub Global Recession or, more likely if Russia's influence had succeeded in placing their boy Trump in the White House again in 2021, a Great Repub Global Depression.
https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2096242-rolls-royce-mulls-shifting-engine-making-to-us-amid-tariff-scare
Rolls spokesperson said: We have additional capacity within some of our US operations and continuously seek to explore options to ensure that our global internal supply chain is optimised for delivery to customers in the US.
The news comes just weeks after Rolls-Royces share price hit record highs on the back of stellar annual results, which showed underlying profit rise from 1.26bn to 2.29bn last year. The business is forecasting its 2025 adjusted operating profit to come in between 2.7bn and 2.9bn.And, ah yes, the beauty and incomparable economic advantages of GLOBALISM. Rolls-Royce ain't giving up on the concept, you know. They are just mulling exploiting it even more.
MarquisdeSade1
03-24-25, 04:17
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mccarthy-democrat-trump/2025/03/23/id/1203970/
The GOP establishment tried to destroy him, instead he destroyed them all McCain Romney Paul Ryan Murdoch McConnell Flake Desantis Bush Cheneys et al.
The DNC tried to destroy him and instead he eviscerated them.
Includ Silicon Valley Hollywood Wall St The Global Media The Deep State Big Tech Big Media Big Money, MAGA and Mein MAGA Fuhrer are truly invincible.
Its A New Damn for Gods Chosen People!!
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Ross Douthat.
It's About Ideology, Not Oligarchy.
March 22,2025.
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The Democrats, casting about for an anti-Trump narrative, have found a word: "oligarchy. " It was part of Joe Biden's farewell address; it's central to Senator Bernie Sanders's barnstorming; it shows up in the advice given by ex-Obama hands. It aspires to fold together President Trump's self-enrichment, Elon Musk's outsize influence, the image of Silicon Valley big shots at the inauguration with a familiar Democratic criticism of the G. O. P. As the party of the superrich.
I don't want to pass premature judgment on its rhetorical effectiveness. But as a narrative for actually understanding the second Trump administration, the language of "oligarchy" obscures more than it reveals. It suggests a vision of Trumpism in which billionaires and big corporations are calling the shots. And certainly, the promise of some familiar Republican agenda items — like deregulation and business tax cuts — fits that script.
But where Trump's most disruptive and controversial policies are concerned, much of what one might call the American oligarchy is indifferent, skeptical or fiercely opposed.
Start with the crusade against wokeness and the. E. I. , a fight spreading beyond the federal bureaucracy to everything (state policymaking, university hiring) influenced by federal funding. Is this a central oligarchic agenda item? Not exactly. Sure, some corporate honchos were weary of activist demands and welcomed the rightward shift. But before the revolts that began with politicians like Ron DeSantis and activists like Christopher Rufo, the corporate oligarchy was an ally or agent of the Great Awokening, either accepting new progressivism's strictures as the price of doing business or actively encouraging the. E. I. As both a managerial and a commercial strategy.
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Capital, in other words, is flexible. It can be woke or unwoke, depending on the prevailing winds, and it will adapt again if anti-the. E. I. Sentiment goes away.
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Next, consider Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with its frantic quest to slash contracts, grants and head counts at government agencies. Is this oligarchy? No doubt some corporations stand ready to fill spaces left open by the public-sector retreat. But the American corporate sector as a whole is deeply enmeshed with governmental contracting, heavily invested in public-private partnerships, accustomed to cozy lobbying relationships and eager to take advantage of government largess.
So there is no deep corporate investment in reducing head count at random federal agencies, and there is plenty of corporate angst about what DOGE might mean for the specific kinds of private-sector power that have metastasized all around Washington.
And even with Musk himself, the first oligarch: For all the ways he might use his access to game the system, the immediate effect of his crusade has been to undermine Tesla, his most important company, and substantially diminish his (yes, still world-beating) net worth. (The risks to his position if and when Republicans lose power are even more considerable.) So we should take him at least somewhat seriously when he talks like a libertarian or debt-crisis true believer; he's putting his net worth in the service of those ideas rather than just leveraging power to increase his wealth.
Finally, populist ideas rather than oligarchic self-interest are clearly the motivating factor behind Trump's highest-risk move, the great tariff experiment. Of course, there is a tycoon who stands to benefit from protectionism out there somewhere, but the generalization still holds: When it comes to the lords of the American economy, nobody wants this.
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The people who do want it are the right's version of the critics of neoliberalism who influenced Biden's administration: outsider intellectuals and dissenting members of officialdom who see themselves as champions of downscale constituencies ill served by a globalized system designed to benefit investors, corporations and billionaires. There are all kinds of ways in which Trump has failed to follow through on populist promises, but the vision of a new trade order is populism in its truest form; it rejects a consensus shared by academic experts and the upper class, and it promises long-term benefits for the working man in exchange for short-term pain for rich investors.
As such, it can't really be attacked coherently along the lines favored by Sanders or any left-wing Democrat. It's not a giveaway to Trump's biggest donors. (They hate it.) It's not a sop to the Wall Street players. (They're against it.) It's not an intensification of neoliberal capitalism but a rejection of its premises.
Instead, the opportunity it offers Democrats, like the opportunity that Biden's attempt at postneoliberalism offered Republicans, is contingent on its actual economic effects. A future where the economy sputters even as Muskian cuts lead to foul-ups with popular government programs offers Democrats the clearest path back to power. But they won't be leading a revolution against the oligarchy; they'll be promising a restoration.
Did the MAGA Project 2025 authors forget the part about "collecting revenues" to offset the Trillions their tax cuts for Billionaires will add to Classic Repub Trump's record high Deficits?
Tax revenue collected by the IRS set to plummet, report says.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/tax-revenue-collected-by-the-irs-set-to-plummet-report-says.html?__source=androidappshare
IRS officials are expecting tax revenue to drop by more than 10% by April 15, The Washington Post reported.
Officials said the prediction is directly linked to shifting taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trumps cuts at the IRS, the paper said.
The loss of tax receipts is expected as more individuals and businesses dont file taxes or attempt to avoid paying balances owed to the IRS. The amount of lost federal revenue could top $500 billion, the paper said..Oh, that's right; the missing revenue will come from the extra, extra, extra high prices the American Working Men and Women Consumer will pay for Trump's Tariff Taxes!
MarquisdeSade1
03-24-25, 19:09
Breitbart alludes to it in passing, but just to be clear; Rolls-Royce ALREADY has production facilities in the USA.
And the company had ALREADY reported "stellar annual results on profits" under Biden, considering it was Biden whose brilliant economic stimulus led America and the rest of the World to a historic Recovery from the Trump's Pandemic Economic Catastrophe without so much as an iddy-biddy Global Recession, much less a Great Repub Global Recession or, more likely if Russia's influence had succeeded in placing their boy Trump in the White House again in 2021, a Great Repub Global Depression.
https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2096242-rolls-royce-mulls-shifting-engine-making-to-us-amid-tariff-scare
And, ah yes, the beauty and incomparable economic advantages of GLOBALISM. Rolls-Royce ain't giving up on the concept, you know. They are just mulling exploiting it even more.Always the Top never the bottom like you leftists love to be so much.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/03/24/bill-maher-says-fk-you-to-critics-of-his-scheduled-trump-white-house-meeting/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-official-americans-were-most-miserable-theyve-ever-been-under-biden-regime
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ed-dowd-fears-short-deep-recession-coming-doge-exposes-mind-shocking-fraud-propped-bidens
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-03-14/real-cause-market-selloff-recession
AMERICA FIRST!
The fact that you actually say and believe all of this in the wake of the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians by the Israelis shows the extent of your depravity, wickedness and hypocrisy of people like you.
"Peaceful Neighbors". What a sick comment. What a shameless sick excuse of a man you are.This forum is for the discussion of ideas and opinions. Not your personal vendettas and ad hominem attacks over issues you disagree with others.
Respectfully, if I want to read the pure unadulterated excrement that you wrote I read your posts one of the RANTs Thread.
In the picture for you is it lotion, a facial moisturizer or lube?
MarquisdeSade1
03-24-25, 21:56
Trump put 10% tax, China put back 15% . Such a loser casino player.Look at all the tariffs he put on the CCP includ during 2016-1020.
Then look at what the CCP buys from the USA and vice versa.
https://www.ft.com/content/cf030e98-80b3-4e29-adb5-8c5674753b66
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-signs-chinas-decline
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/02/25/foreign-companies-bail-out-of-chinas-tottering-economy/
How Democracies Die.
Book by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky.
I've started reading this and so far it's eye opening. Anyone who doesn't think Trump is on his way to destroy America needs to read this.
No, solar / wind / battery are not better than fossil fuels. They are not as energy dense as fossil fuels like gasoline and natural gas. Yeah, your opening statement, would be correct in terms of "energy density", if I'd been taking about powering a Boeing 747. I WAS NOT! Renewables being 3 to 5x more efficient at powering the electrical grid, was the focus of my post.
S+W+B and other renewables, will always be 3 to 5X BETTER or EFFICIENT at converting primary energy into "usable electricity" or electrical energy, with about +92% efficiency, from input energy to consumable "usable energy".
Elvis 2008, don't be fooled like Tiny 12, and try trip yourself up, on the "Primary Energy Fallacy", that O&G companies want you to believe. IT IS NOT ABOUT "energy density", when it comes to producing and consuming electricity.
If you haven't yet checked out the "Primary Energy Fallacy", you should also checkout a U.S. Sankey Chart, while you're at it. https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/13/why-arent-energy-flows-diagrams-used-more-to-inform-decarbonization/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
In the English-speaking world the aphorism is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Questions "Il meglio l'inimico del bene".
It sounds like someone needs to redo high school English. LOL.(...kkkk!) Sure dude, sure!
Wiki: "Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism that means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements." --Thanks, that about sums up, my illustration of "BETTER", if that's what your trying to say!
BTW, more S+W+B and other renewables are exactly, those "...implementation of good improvements", that Voltaire was referring to, w/r to the next phase and transition to an even cleaner U.S. electrical grid. NOT MORE dirty fossil fuels!
As I said in my post, it's only you, Elvis 2008 and Tiny 12, that sky rocket, straight from good to perfection. I've always insisted the "PERFECTION" narrative on energy solutions, has only ever existed in the wasted minds of you MAGA Fuhrer cultists.
Elvis 2008, again for clarity, show me one (1) post, where I mentioned anything about the "PERFECT" or "PERFECTION" in a energy solution, other than renewables being BETTER or more efficient, than fossil fuels, when it comes to the grid electricity generation and consumption?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
In the English-speaking world the aphorism is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Questions "Il meglio l'inimico del bene".
It sounds like someone needs to redo high school English. LOL.
In your binary world, it is China good and the USA bad. When it to dirty air, China ranks as 21st worst in the world. The USA? #116.
https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-countries
And part of being a Democratic douche is playing the never mind game. Oh, we love EVs but now we hate Elon Musk. I have enclosed the perfect meme for you never mind Democrats.Yes, Spidy has some real misconceptions. Remember this one?
Can't speak to India, but the air quality in most large Chinese cites, is on par or better per capita, than most USA cities like N.Y.Well, it turns out that 397 of the 500 "most polluted cities by particulate matter concentration" are in China. And not one is in the USA.
Spidy thinks China is some kind of renewable energy utopia. Well, I can damn well guarantee you that the USA produces less CO2 emissions per gigawatt-hour of power than China. Why? Because of clean burning natural gas, that's why. We rely more on natural gas than coal for electricity generation, and China does the opposite. A great example of PERFECT being the enemy of good. China started construction on 94.5 GW of coal capacity in just 2024! Compare to total installed capacity, from all sources (renewables, coal, natural gas, nuclear) of about 104 GW in Australia, Turkey or Mexico.
Who cares how efficient renewables are when they don't work when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing and you don't have the battery capacity to store the energy? What you end up with are sky high electricity prices in places like California or South Australia, and like you said brown outs.
And how efficient is it removing millions of tons of overburden, then processing lithium, nickel, copper, and cobalt ores? Then transporting them from places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and China to manufacturing plants? And finally moving manufactured components by sea, truck and train to their final destinations? The guru who wrote the last piece of green propaganda that Spidy posted apparently isn't even happy using green hydrogen to power the ships to transport the ore and the metals and the solar cells and the wind mills. Because that's not "efficient. " What a load of crap.
Speaking of which, if Spidy gave a you-know-what about energy security, he'd be a strong supporter of President Trump and his plan to take over Canada and Greenland. If we're going to produce all those battery minerals to replace our domestic oil and gas production, well then, by damn, we're going to need them! Yes, if Spidy were self aware, he'd be a MAGA Fuhrer Cultist!
This sounds to me like another excuse to put people in petro states like Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming onto the unemployment rolls so they'll rely on government checks. Because one of the key constituencies of the Democratic Party are people who sit home on their asses. Those Democrat politicians in blue states and Washington D.C. may be crafty, but this will backfire on them. People from God's country would rather work, no matter how much money the government pays them. Their master plan didn't work in West Virginia and it won't in Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-polluted_cities_by_particulate_matter_concentration
MarquisdeSade1
03-25-25, 04:15
How Democracies Die.
Book by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky.
I've started reading this and so far it's eye opening. Anyone who doesn't think Trump is on his way to destroy America needs to read this.
I'm reading a book with a similar title "How the Democrats Die".
It all starts with Ross Perot jumping into the 1992 race and throwing the election to Scumbag Bubba if not for that the world would be very very different today.
He liked the BS concept of the 3rd way, aka selling the party to Wall Street for some kickbacks via the CF after leaving office.
He pushed thru Glass Stegall NAFTA and installed the CCP into the WTO for Wall St, the people would never of accepted any of these things from a GOPer let alone all of them.
But Scumbag Bubba from a shack in the hills of Arkansas convinced the voters to trust him, he would never cum in their mouth if they asked him not to.
And with cheap con man lines like "I feel your pain" or calling himself the 1st black POTUS while he gutted welfare.
Fast forward 8 yrs Barry Barack Hussein was elected and again with tons of help from Wall Street he was going to be Scumbag Bubba 2. 0 in blackface.
Like when they called him to shutdown the 99% movement, he did swiftly just like a good house slave would.
And he's collecting his kickbacks just like Scumbag Bubba did thru his "foundation" 60 million from Netflix for nothing other than his loyal house slave subservience to the man.
And 100 million from Bozo for not laying a finger on his cash making machine for 8 whole yrs.
But the people had seen enough of these grifters so they elected the Resurrection of Adolph Hitler himself DJT at least according to the media.
That was going really well until the election rolled around and Wall street and Silicon valley conspired to install Scumbag Joe, well as we all know that didn't work out to well.
Who would of thought open borders and Trannies running amok would be popular with the voters.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/how-the-2020-election-was-rigged/
And now we are left with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ for the 3rd time.
As for the title of this book "How the Democrats Died".
It starts way before Jan 20,2025 but gets kicked into high gear in earnest at that point.
The Democrats fought as dirty as dirty could get, and they failed miserably just like the LOSERS they are (in case you don't know fighting dirty generates very very bad karma) ie Mike Tyson was the POS loser that bit off Holyfields ear, just a couple yrs later he found himself rotting in an Indiana prison for 6 yrs for raaape, and that was the end of his boxing days so to speak.
They Tried to destroy Mein MAGA Fuhrer every way you could imagine.
And now its PAYBACK TIME and boy are they are crying for mercy.
You Scumbags tried to destroy DJT and MAGA so you could destroy the rest of what's left of America.
We are only 60 days in, 1400 more to go LMFAO.
He has been given Carte Blanche to wipe out the Scumbags and he is off to a great start.
2 months into 48 months, and things are looking very very SWEEEEEEET.
When all else fails...tell more lies!
Sure dude, sure!
Wiki: "Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism that means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements." --Thanks, that about sums up, my illustration of "BETTER", if that's what your trying to say!...Elvis 2008, again for clarity, show me one (1) post, where I mentioned anything about the "PERFECT" or "PERFECTION" in a energy solution, other than renewables being BETTER or more efficient, than fossil fuels, when it comes to the grid electricity generation and consumption?You're putting words into Elvis' mouth. I don't believe he's posted anything about perfect or perfection as those apply to energy, except to kindly provide a definition.
And yes, many carbon cultists refuse to accept that natural gas, by substituting for coal, has reduced carbon and NOx emissions somewhat, and drastically lowered emissions of particulate matter and sulfur dioxide. All the while providing reliable baseload electric power, which solar and wind cannot at present. Yes indeed, don't let perfect be the enemy of good..
How Democracies Die.
Book by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky.
I've started reading this and so far it's eye opening. Anyone who doesn't think Trump is on his way to destroy America needs to read this.I wish Neron Trump and his gang will make fall USA, with the world resisting to them, because this is, unfortunately, only way to make no brained USA to understand. Same like only way to stop Putin is to make Russia broke and not anymore able to pay war, but stupid Trump prefer to try business, sucking Putin and fucking Ukrainians.
Iguana Six
03-25-25, 05:44
Did the MAGA Project 2025 authors forget the part about "collecting revenues" to offset the Trillions their tax cuts for Billionaires will add to Classic Repub Trump's record high Deficits?
Tax revenue collected by the IRS set to plummet, report says.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/tax-revenue-collected-by-the-irs-set-to-plummet-report-says.html?__source=androidappshare
Oh, that's right; the missing revenue will come from the extra, extra, extra high prices the American Working Men and Women Consumer will pay for Trump's Tariff Taxes!There was so much insurrection of January 6, 2021, that not a single person was charged with insurrection.
There was so much insurrection of January 6, 2021, that not a single person was charged with insurrection.Nobody needed to indict them for that specific crime for it to still qualify as the literal definition of an insurrection:
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a violent uprising against an authority or government.
"the insurrection was savagely put down"However, we are still waiting for that first person to be charged with Fraud in the midst of President Chainsaw Musk's claim to be finding so much evidence of it.
You're putting words into Elvis' mouth. I don't believe he's posted anything about perfect or perfection as those apply to energy, except to kindly provide a definition. Am I Now?
You evidently DO NOT seem to understand the very quote you, Tiny 12 and Elvis 2008 are using, in which you accuse me of wanting, "the perfect solution", for the U.S. grid. If it's anybody putting words in Elvis 2008's mouth...IT IS YOU!
And yes, many carbon cultists refuse to accept that natural gas, by substituting for coal, has reduced carbon and NOx emissions somewhat, and drastically lowered emissions of particulate matter and sulfur dioxide. All the while providing reliable baseload electric power, which solar and wind cannot at present. Yes indeed, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. (...kkkk!) Did you not see where I told you, fossil fuels (especially coal) have such a low bar, that striving for "better", is NEVER hard goal to achieve! Sure dirty methane gas is "better" than coal, but not by much.
S+W+B, pumped hydro, DO NOT emit CO2 GHG emissions. Wayyyyyyyyyyyy BETTER, by light-years, than dirty methane gas!
So for your dirty methane gas, to trump coal, in reducing emissions is a joke, when "Leaking From US Oil and Gas Is 8 Times Higher Than Agreed Targets https://www.newsweek.com/methane-leaking-us-oil-gas-8-times-higher-agreed-targets-1932878. Methane gas leaks occur all the time and puts 80x more pollutants into the atmosphere than coal, when leaks occur.
I beg to differ on the baseload. Renewables (all forms) can and do provide baseload power. Renewables have already flipped the script on fossil fuel baseload power, in some places like China (certain places, with newer renewable gigawatt projects coming online nationwide every week), South Australia, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, California), where fossil fuels are only needed and are being used, as backup during peak demand hours.
Isn't it just like Tiny 12, to provide half-truths and obfuscate events/matters. Hey, don't forget to tell the readers, I already owned up, about being incorrect on that data point, about China, here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2986138&viewfull=1#post2986138.
But you, Tiny 12, of course continue to act all high and mighty like you've never made incorrect data point assumptions. Or shall I count the ways, of thine errors? Much like your ONGOING bag of lies and disinformation, with regards to your MAGA Fuhrer's "...beautiful clean coal" and your "clean burning methane gas" (...kkkk!)
At least one of the more oblivious Repub MAGAs here suggested Trump would fire Falling Down Drunk Pete Hegseth if he fucks up.
Uh. OK. We're waiting.
Top Trump officials accidentally shared war plans with media.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/russia-kremlin-donald-trump-ukraine
Top Trump officials accidentally shared war plans with media.
Hegseth reportedly assured chat participants that "we are currently clean on OPSEC" despite the accidental inclusion of a journalist.And there's always more of this:
Trump pledges auto, pharma tariffs in 'near future,' sowing more trade confusion.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/trump-tariffs-autos-pharmaceuticals-sectoral-reciprocal.html?__source=androidappshare
President Donald Trump said he will soon announce tariffs targeting automobiles and pharmaceuticals.
Trump later added the lumber and semiconductor industries to his list.
It was unclear whether the newly announced sector-specific tariffs would take effect after the tit-for-tat reciprocal tariffs, which are set for April 2.
The presidents latest comments at a Cabinet meeting came hours after he unveiled a plan to slap 25% tariffs on all countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela.Everyone knows President Musk and his Assistant Trump are both dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to the National Economy and Foreign Policy. There is no way they are the masterminds behind anything regarding either including knowing enough about them to put this much chaos, uncertainty, incompetence and fuckups for both in motion this quickly in the Trump's Pandemic Part 2 term.
Clearly it requires an entire double-decker Greyhound Bus-load of Repub MAGA clowns working in sync to accomplish that.
The Repub MAGA Project 2025 authors are apparently telling TrumpMusk what to do and say on a near hourly basis. When Putin is not telling them what to say, that is. See link below.
So they and TrumpMusk are the clown passengers in that double-decker Greyhound Bus-load of Repub MAGA clowns, Putin is the driver and Xi is right there to collect the fare.
Russian state TV brags that Trump is echoing Kremlin talking points: 'It's not a coincidence'
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/russia-kremlin-donald-trump-ukraine
There was so much insurrection of January 6, 2021, that not a single person was charged with insurrection.I wonder why not same riot about Trump and his gang behavior, when many in USA will suffer a lot from crazy Trump.
I am surprised at how many posts I read that seem to indicate to me that many mother fucks making comments up in here do not really understand how the United States Government works.
Article III
Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
If the Supreme Court can rule on a case, then a district court or appellate court rulings are valid also. The President of the United States of America is NOT above the law. He is restrained by the law. The Judicial Branch is a separate but equal part of the United States Government.
Full Stop!
Great posts Hot Dog. My only quibble is that I believe the Chinese have been dumping USA Debt, in part because of what they saw happen to Iran and Russia, and still interest rates have remained low. You could probably change my mind though. You likely know more about economics than anyone who's posted in this thread during the time I've followed it. But I shall not be intimidated, because I know more about flue gas than you do!
There's an identity in economics.
Current Account = Savings - Investment
As you know, the current account is the trade surplus, plus investment income received from overseas.
So, what does this mean? Basically, if the American government and American people are going to spend like drunken sailors (that is, the savings rate is low), and if investment is to remain at levels sufficient to (a) keep our government afloat (that is, buy the treasuries and municipal bonds to finance the government debt) and (b) keep our businesses from being starved of capital, we must run a trade deficit.Thanks for the interesting views, Tiny.
I had to look up some of the data. So you are quite correct, China has been reducing its debt holdings in Treasurys over the last several years. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/holdings-of-us-treasury-securities/holdings-of-us-treasury-securities.
And here is what the Treasury's yield looks like: https://ycharts.com/indicators/5_year_treasury_rate#text=5%20 Year%20 Treasury%20 Rate%20 is, a%20 maturity%20 of%205%20 years.
So you can see that the yield has gone up massively, which is exactly what you would expect with these supply / demand features of China pulling out.
* You could say the Chinese are our sugar daddies. They work hard, don't consume a lot, save a lot of money. And send us lots of cheap stuff! And what do we give them in return? Paper! It's a great deal!
Precisely, it has been this symbiotic relationship which has kept America being able to fund its trade deficit. But frankly its true, this cannot carry on in perpetuity. Yes, America has been able to max out its Credit Card but just like when you or I max out ours the Hookers are Us etc Mastercard company may still fund your lifestyle but it will increase your rate, so the same applies to America (and indeed the profligate west).
* Maybe Donald will make a few key replacements at the Fed, people who will listen to his advice to keep interest rates low. Very low. In fact, negative, like Japan and Germany used to do.
That's the thing though, this is an impossibility- even if the Fed were to adjust base rates, the market rates are set by supply demand factors as mentioned above not necessarily by the base rates- the two usually correlate but they don't necessarily have to. Investors look at things like inflation, security of repayment, political risk etc. In the good old days, eg 3 years ago, investors were piling in at negative yields (not rates) into Japanese debt or even German because they were seeking safe parking for the immense amount of liquidity. What trump is doing is completely the opposite of giving safe parking for foreign money.
Just as a segue, my two cents.
America is fucked under the current scenario. You definitely need to get spending and debt under control but this is not through destroying livelihoods, social security and healthcare entitlement. Take the latter as an example: there is something rotten in the state of America. It spends more than any other country on healthcare yet it's still a bad, bad system. Is musk had any real balls, he would take it on and commit to making it cheaper AND better, like Germany or Japan or Singapore. Tinkering around the edges won't go very far. The fundamentals won't change. And the downsides of tariffs far exceed the upsides.
I cannot see a way out of this, other than a growing economy. Perhaps AI will come to the rescue.
How Democracies Die.
Book by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky.
I've started reading this and so far it's eye opening. Anyone who doesn't think Trump is on his way to destroy America needs to read this.
I'm reading a book with a similar title "How the Democrats Die".
It all starts with Ross Perot jumping into the 1992 race and throwing the election to Scumbag Bubba if not for that the world would be very very different today.
He liked the BS concept of the 3rd way, aka selling the party to Wall Street for some kickbacks via the CF after leaving office.
He pushed thru Glass Stegall NAFTA and installed the CCP into the WTO for Wall St, the people would never of accepted any of these things from a GOPer let alone all of them..We are only 60 days in, 1400 more to go LMFAO.
If I were a betting man, I would bet Trumpet will be forced out of office, or there will be a civil war.
At least one of the more oblivious Repub MAGAs here suggested Trump would fire Falling Down Drunk Pete Hegseth if he fucks up.
Uh. OK. We're waiting.
Top Trump officials accidentally shared war plans with media.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/russia-kremlin-donald-trump-ukraineYeah, what an A-one clusterfuck, this is indeed! This is what you get with racist reverse-DEI unqualified crony incompetent hires!
I knew it was coming, but I am just so surprised at how fast, this colossal bungle occurred. I mean, "sex with unconscious woman isn't rape", Pete Hegseth, wasn't even drunk. (...kkkk!) Buckle-up when, he does hit the source.
Serbians, take that "hill to die on" and claim it as "VICTORY HILL" and forces the Serbian government resigns.
After months of mass protests and several days after the largest historical rally ever gathered in Belgrade, of some 325,000 people peacefully protesting, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8v32q30o, the Serbian people forces the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, resignation along with President Aleksandar Vucic, saying he may call fresh elections in early June. https://www.politico.eu/article/serbia-government-resign-milos-vucevic-aleksandar-vucic-floats-new-elections/
So while those with no backbone and very little stomach to fight for their rights and freedoms on those "hills to die on", and instead scoff, and hide behind the fake veneer of sarcasm and privilege, take a good look at the Serbians, who for months now, have being saying "ENOUGH!..."
When your done looking at Serbia, take a good look at the level of protests, ramping up in the U.S. Are Americans, unflinchingly declaring, that some hills are worth dying on?
So, whether it's the civil rights, 40-hour workweek, marriage equality, clean air laws or in the case of Serbians, corruption and shoddy crony construction, that resulted in a collapsed concrete canopy at a railway station, where 16 died. The Serbian people, did not go "gentle into that good night", like cowards void of a backbone or spine, but instead stood their ground, on their "Hill to Die On", and spoke truth to power, against authoritarian rule, until it become their "VICTORY HILL"
Is that "enough" moment or "victory hill", on the horizon for the U.S., given the current MAGA levels of ineptitude, corruption, authoritarianism and cronyism, we're seeing in America?
PS: Is Turkey up next? Hopefully with more peaceful protests, in the face of the brutal authoritarian fascist Erdogan?
Another one Busted!
There is definitely a pattern emerging. Sexual assault, adjudicated rape, sexual exploitation of children, it just goes on and on with Trump, his Administration, Fux News contributors and the MAGAs:
Social media personality Ricci Wynne, who spotlights San Francisco crime and drug use, indicted on child porn charges.
March 20, 2025
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ricci-wynne-san-francisco-child-porn-charges-human-trafficking/
But it wouldn't surprise me, if there's a huge uptick in QAnon/MAGA/Repubs degenerates found to be committing similar criminal behavior, as I'm sure many of them probably feel, their MAGA Fuhrer, will simply pardon them. Naturally, with the right amount of a bribe, their MAGA Fuhrer will absolutely grant them, that "GET OUT OF JAIL CARD!"
After all, the Fuhrer, is nothing more than a sellout!
Busted!
Those right wingers who are the most adamant and self-righteous are also the ones most likely to be hiding something in the closet:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minor
Absolutely Right! Yet more MAGA pedos!...It's shameful!
And you wonder why they are so many ISG QAnon/MAGA/Repubs choirboys that are so quick to run to their defense, sympathize or just freakin' delusional to their own hypocrisy, that knows no bounds when those who claim moral child transgender authority, are revealed to perpetuate the very harm, they condemn. Yes, just another case of QAnon/MAGA/Repub scapegoating and marginalizing LGBTQ communities, to distract from their own crimes.
Just the kind of right-wing "woke" hypocritical garbage, the QAnon/MAGA loony-tunes imbecilic choirboys, are always trying to "own the libs" with.
Well I guess those Russian cosmonauts, were seeing more than just thousands of bright spots all over mother Russia, but all over the world, especially in the biggest areas of oil and gas (O&G) production in the U.S., according to a new study of satellite images, of methane gas flares and leaks.
Satellite images reveal the extent of methane leaks across the world, March 19th, 2025
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/planet/satellite-images-reveal-the-extent-of-methane-leaks-across-the-world/
• In 2022, scientists revealed significant methane emissions using TROPOMI data; two-thirds of the events are related to oil and gas production.
• In 2018, a team pointed out that emissions from the oil and gas sector in the United States exceeded those estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency by 60%.
With the latest advances in better detecting dirty methane gas leaks, it has become abundantly clear, that the horrendous, dirty methane gas leaks, most often compromises it's said ability, to be cleaner than coal. But this is probably just another PR problem, right?
The Food and O&G Industries have more in common then you'd think:
Take for example, the fake labeling of the word "natural", applied to methane gas, as a marketing ploy and deceptive practices, similar to the food industry's use of "natural flavors" or "all natural".
So rather then deal with the actual problems of their products, both industries, decide a "rebranding" of their products, with the use of the word "natural", would solve their PR problems.
Or at the very least, it should confuse, obfuscate or obscure methane gas’s climate destruction, and convince consumers, their product is pure, safe, harmless and eco-friendly.
Now that dirty methane gas, can be seen for what it is, as it's spewed plumage are caught on satellite, polluting the atmosphere, the so called watch agencies (if there are any still around), can no longer leave it to good ol' O&G to "self-monitor" and "self-report", and hide, just how much, dirty methane gas (80x more potency then CO2) spew into our atmosphere.
Although, I'm sure it won't be long before the Fuhrer's cronies, cry foul and have him put the kibosh, on the technology and science.
MarquisdeSade1
03-26-25, 01:23
We are only 60 days in, 1400 more to go LMFAO.
If I were a betting man, I would bet Trumpet will be forced out of office, or there will be a civil war.Ever hear of the axiom, a fool and his money soon part.
Or even more so, A Fools Bet.
Don't bet against the future the stakes are too high.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/24/trump-estimates-4-trillion-worth-of-companies-are-moving-back-to-u-s/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/19/exclusive-peter-narvarro-china-is-the-worlds-biggest-cheater-but-the-eu-and-vietnam-run-close-seconds/
Gambling is for chumps.
But I'm guessing the Polymarket big money would be on the red team with all the guns LMFAO.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/400000000-firearms-why-gun-control-america-doomed-209214
Well I guess those Russian cosmonauts, were seeing more than just thousands of bright spots all over mother Russia, but all over the world, especially in the biggest areas of oil and gas (O&G) production in the U.S., according to a new study of satellite images, of methane gas flares and leaks.
Satellite images reveal the extent of methane leaks across the world, March 19th, 2025
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/planet/satellite-images-reveal-the-extent-of-methane-leaks-across-the-world/
In 2022, scientists revealed significant methane emissions using TROPOMI data; two-thirds of the events are related to oil and gas production.
In 2018, a team pointed out that emissions from the oil and gas sector in the United States exceeded those estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency by 60%.
With the latest advances in better detecting dirty methane gas leaks, it has become abundantly clear, that the horrendous, dirty methane gas leaks, most often compromises it's said ability, to be cleaner than coal. But this is probably just another PR problem, right?
The Food and O&G Industries have more in common then you'd think:
Take for example, the fake labeling of the word "natural", applied to methane gas, as a marketing ploy and deceptive practices, similar to the food industry's use of "natural flavors" or "all natural".
So rather then deal with the actual problems of their products, both industries, decide a "rebranding" of their products, with the use of the word "natural", would solve their PR problems.
Or at the very least, it should confuse, obfuscate or obscure methane gass climate destruction, and convince consumers, their product is pure, safe, harmless and eco-friendly.
Now that dirty methane gas, can be seen for what it is, as it's spewed plumage are caught on satellite, polluting the atmosphere, the so called watch agencies (if there are any still around), can no longer leave it to good ol' O&G to "self-monitor" and "self-report", and hide, just how much, dirty methane gas (80x more potency then CO2) spew into our atmosphere.
Although, I'm sure it won't be long before the Fuhrer's cronies, cry foul and have him put the kibosh, on the technology and science.As I've said several times, the industry in the USA should and is doing more to control methane emissions. But how big a problem are they? Your link indicates methane emissions from oil and gas worldwide are 78 million tons per year. Of that, the USA accounts for about 8.5 million tons. The chart in your link says global emissions from agriculture are 142 million tons per annum, and emissions from waste are about 73 million tons. So the oil and gas industry in the USA accounts for about 2. 5% of global methane emissions. And the emissions from agriculture are much higher than oil and gas.
If you're really concerned about methane emissions, you should give up eating meat and dairy products. Also get a Flatus Containment Device AND USE IT.
I would trust the EPA's estimate of methane emissions over a statement from climate and environmental researcher Marielle Saunois that "a team" said its estimate is 60% higher than the EPA's. She doesn't even identify the team!
It's difficult to de-program you because you don't have a handle on the chemistry and properties of natural gas.
I've been careful to say that natural gas is a "clean burning" fuel, when used for generation electricity. I never wrote that natural gas is clean. The hydrogen sulfide in some natural gases, which is removed through processing, is deadly. Furthermore, if you have an extremely low tolerance for risk, it would make sense not to use natural gas for cooking or heating your home, as the health risks which are low, are higher than for electric.
The carbon dioxide produced by the combustion of natural gas in producing electricity is not dirty, nor is pure methane. They're colorless, odorless, and don't cause death unless inhaled in massive quantities.
The quantity of particulate matter, which is the largest culprit for dirty or polluted air, produced by combustion of natural gas in power plants is insignificant. The quantity of sulfur dioxide produced by combustion of natural gas is insignificant. The quantity of nitrogen oxides is significant but half or less of coal.
Worldwide, particulate matter is responsible for 4.2 to 6.7 million premature deaths per year.
Hundreds of thousands of premature deaths can PARTLY be attributed to sulfur dioxide.
Several hundreds of thousands of premature deaths can PARTLY be attributed to NOx compounds.
I asked ChatGPT (subscription version with Python) to produce a chart showing deaths per Terawatt Hour for various energy sources and this was what it came up with:
Coal 24.6
Natural Gas 2.8
Nuclear 0.07
Solar 0.02
Wind 0.04nat
So again, if you're extremely risk intolerant, like the kind of person who's been living in a cocoon since COVID hit, maybe natural gas is not acceptable.
So how many deaths are caused by CO2 and by pure methane, as a result of global warming? Well, by some estimates, to date they've actually saved more lives than they've caused. That's because a lot more people die annually from cold than heat.
Politicians who think like you let perfect be the enemy of good. If they're successful in banning natural gas production in and exports from the USA, the air over some cities will be somewhat more polluted, and CO2 emissions will probably be a little bit higher. And they'll put a lot of people in the USA out of jobs. On the other hand they'll create more jobs in places like Russia and Saudi Arabia.
IThe President of the United States of America is NOT above the law. He is restrained by the law. The Judicial Branch is a separate but equal part of the United States Government.
Full Stop!Absolutely.
Am I Now?
You evidently DO NOT seem to understand the very quote you, Tiny 12 and Elvis 2008 are using, in which you accuse me of wanting, "the perfect solution", for the U.S. grid. If it's anybody putting words in Elvis 2008's mouth...IT IS YOU!
(...kkkk!) Did you not see where I told you, fossil fuels (especially coal) have such a low bar, that striving for "better", is NEVER hard goal to achieve! Sure dirty methane gas is "better" than coal, but not by much.
S+W+B, pumped hydro, DO NOT emit CO2 GHG emissions. Wayyyyyyyyyyyy BETTER, by light-years, than dirty methane gas!
So for your dirty methane gas, to trump coal, in reducing emissions is a joke, when "Leaking From US Oil and Gas Is 8 Times Higher Than Agreed Targets https://www.newsweek.com/methane-leaking-us-oil-gas-8-times-higher-agreed-targets-1932878. Methane gas leaks occur all the time and puts 80x more pollutants into the atmosphere than coal, when leaks occur.
I beg to differ on the baseload. Renewables (all forms) can and do provide baseload power. Renewables have already flipped the script on fossil fuel baseload power, in some places like China (certain places, with newer renewable gigawatt projects coming online nationwide every week), South Australia, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, New Zealand, California), where fossil fuels are only needed and are being used, as backup during peak demand hours.
Isn't it just like Tiny 12, to provide half-truths and obfuscate events/matters. Hey, don't forget to tell the readers, I already owned up, about being incorrect on that data point, about China, here: http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2986138&viewfull=1#post2986138.
But you, Tiny 12, of course continue to act all high and mighty like you've never made incorrect data point assumptions. Or shall I count the ways, of thine errors? Much like your ONGOING bag of lies and disinformation, with regards to your MAGA Fuhrer's "...beautiful clean coal" and your "clean burning methane gas" (...kkkk!)Again, I'd trust the EPA's numbers over the greenies (Environmental Defense Fund) any day.
Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yes. But it only stays in the atmosphere for 10 to 12 years. CO2 is up there for hundreds of years.
And the quantities leaked from oil and gas operations in the USA are small and becoming smaller, see post below. Yes, government should continue to pressure industry to reduce methane leaks even more.
Pure methane does not contribute to dirty air. Again, it's colorless and odorless and not toxic unless breathed in sufficient quantities to crowd out Oxygen.
I challenge you to find a single city or contiguous region in the developed world with a population of over one million that only uses solar or wind power except for peak demand. I don't believe you can find a single one where battery storage is such that they can do away with fossil fuels, nuclear or hydro when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.
While I have a lot of problems with Trump, thankfully he's not a Green Cultist, unlike many of the politicians in your party.
Thanks for the interesting views, Tiny.
I had to look up some of the data. So you are quite correct, China has been reducing its debt holdings in Treasurys over the last several years. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/holdings-of-us-treasury-securities/holdings-of-us-treasury-securities.
And here is what the Treasury's yield looks like: https://ycharts.com/indicators/5_year_treasury_rate#text=5%20 Year%20 Treasury%20 Rate%20 is, a%20 maturity%20 of%205%20 years.
So you can see that the yield has gone up massively, which is exactly what you would expect with these supply / demand features of China pulling out.
* You could say the Chinese are our sugar daddies. They work hard, don't consume a lot, save a lot of money. And send us lots of cheap stuff! And what do we give them in return? Paper! It's a great deal!
Precisely, it has been this symbiotic relationship which has kept America being able to fund its trade deficit. But frankly its true, this cannot carry on in perpetuity. Yes, America has been able to max out its Credit Card but just like when you or I max out ours the Hookers are Us etc Mastercard company may still fund your lifestyle but it will increase your rate, so the same applies to America (and indeed the profligate west).
* Maybe Donald will make a few key replacements at the Fed, people who will listen to his advice to keep interest rates low. Very low. In fact, negative, like Japan and Germany used to do.
That's the thing though, this is an impossibility- even if the Fed were to adjust base rates, the market rates are set by supply demand factors as mentioned above not necessarily by the base rates- the two usually correlate but they don't necessarily have to. Investors look at things like inflation, security of repayment, political risk etc. In the good old days, eg 3 years ago, investors were piling in at negative yields (not rates) into Japanese debt or even German because they were seeking safe parking for the immense amount of liquidity. What trump is doing is completely the opposite of giving safe parking for foreign money.
Just as a segue, my two cents.
America is fucked under the current scenario. You definitely need to get spending and debt under control but this is not through destroying livelihoods, social security and healthcare entitlement. Take the latter as an example: there is something rotten in the state of America. It spends more than any other country on healthcare yet it's still a bad, bad system. Is musk had any real balls, he would take it on and commit to making it cheaper AND better, like Germany or Japan or Singapore. Tinkering around the edges won't go very far. The fundamentals won't change. And the downsides of tariffs far exceed the upsides.
I cannot see a way out of this, other than a growing economy. Perhaps AI will come to the rescue.Hey HotDog, if the Current Account / Savings / Investment relationship interests you, this may be worth a look.
https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/lets-stop-trade-deficit-blame-game
The person who brought my attention to the link knows more about macroeconomics than anyone I know.
My "solution" to get rid of the USA's national debt was tongue in cheek by the way. That would be a great way to go down the same path as Argentina, towards hyperinflation. But if Trump controlled the Fed, then perhaps he could keep short term rates low and refinance maturing debt with short maturity T-bills. Yes, longer term rates would be set by the market, and demand for the shorter term rates would suffer too.
I agree with you 100% about the USA's healthcare system. I'm a big admirer of Singapore's system.
I am surprised at how many posts I read that seem to indicate to me that many mother fucks making comments up in here do not really understand how the United States Government works.
Article III
Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
If the Supreme Court can rule on a case, then a district court or appellate court rulings are valid also. The President of the United States of America is NOT above the law. He is restrained by the law. The Judicial Branch is a separate but equal part of the United States Government.
Full Stop!Making the rounds on Facebook:
If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here's the breakdown:
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel cofounded a company that became PayPal.
Other executives at PayPal went on to found or lead other huge tech companies including YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Affirm, and many VC firms.
This group became known as the PayPal mafia because they exerted an outsized influence on Silicon Valley.
Peter Thiel mentored a young JD Vance and helped him get set up in his first VC firm.
Peter Thiel and the PayPal mafia funded JD Vance's successful Senate run. Amazing because he had absolutely zero political experience.
Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug.
Yarvin preaches that the media and academia represent "The Cathedral" that secretly controls power and must be dismantled.
He advocates for a corporate run, monarchy, led by a CEO-Dictator.
Says that Democracy is an "outdated software" and openly opposes it and that:
- Government agencies should be dismantled and The U.S. should be broken up into "patchworks" controlled by tech oligarchs.
- That the elite tech billionaires should rule because they have the intelligence to "fix" society
- That the "masses are asses" too dumb to govern themselves.
The strategy is to gut the government via R.A.G.E - Retire All Govt Employees to make government incapable of operating.
Then to replace government with private corporations.
To eliminate elections because they are "obsolete"
To use distraction and chaos to prevent public resistance.
Trump is their useful tool to be disposed of as soon as they can wrest control.
This is why Elon wears a black MAGA hat. They are not Trump supporters, they are "Dark MAGA"
This isn't a hypothetical. The plan is already in motion:
- Musk, Thiel, and their network are actively dismantling democratic institutions.
- JD Vance, the MAGA heir, is being positioned to help implement this transition.
- The public is too distracted to realize whats happening.
- If successful, democracy in America will be permanently replaced by a corporate-run authoritarian state.
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That's it. Now that you understand that you can see how everything that's happening fits within that lens.
Now the only question is what do we do about it?BTW, it's interesting that Jaydee Vance openly oposed Trump's War Plan decision and pointed out his blithering mental state on that Signal group chat of incompetents and DEI hires, isn't it?
Why, someone might reasonsbly conclude Jaydee Vance has more influence and protections from the REAL Powers That Be in the White House than blithering blathering Trumpty-Dumpty does himself.
Vance broke with Trump admin over Houthi airstrikes, group chat report says.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/vance-broke-with-trump-over-houthi-airstrikes-group-chat-report-says-00245996
"I think we are making a mistake," Vance said to the group chat, which included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, according to the report. It doesnt appear that the president was included in the group chat.
"I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now," Vance added. "Theres a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc."
Newton York
03-26-25, 04:07
Yes, we're all fucked. But why everyone be all doom and gloom, when so many people, me included can't even be sure we can pay the rent? Who cares if there's world war 3 when homelessness is just around the corner. Jeez guys, get your priorities straight. You know why? Cause you guys have more to lose. For people like me with literally nothing, I can't wait for the apocalypse and the total collapse of the global financial markets. I want the damn world to end. We all should expire together. Let's fucking do it.
Alfred said "some men just want to watch the world burn".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPiIwFOQtU
Hmmm, now if only NVDA would go up.
Yes, we're all fucked. But why everyone be all doom and gloom, when so many people, me included can't even be sure we can pay the rent? Who cares if there's world war 3 when homelessness is just around the corner. Jeez guys, get your priorities straight. You know why? Cause you guys have more to lose. For people like me with literally nothing, I can't wait for the apocalypse and the total collapse of the global financial markets. I want the damn world to end. We all should expire together. Let's fucking do it.
Alfred said "some men just want to watch the world burn".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPiIwFOQtU
Hmmm, now if only NVDA would go up.I don't wish to sound insensitive or impolite but am genuinely curious about this: how do you get yourself into a situation whereby you can't afford to pay the rent? Especially when it seems you are. Advanced in age and have had a lifetime to accumulate savings to tide through rainy days?
With regards to the American stock market, for every multi millionaire that it made on its years up (who are convinced that they are financial geniuses and not just got lucky) there's 10 who get sucker punched out. I blame social media in facilitating the idea of getting rich quickly which these Gen Z's think is their entitlement. It's probably why the west is in terminal decline, while China keeps its head down, until that day dawns when it's too late and they do hold all the cards.
USA robbers are really not welcome by Greenland, but just treated like shit, what they deserve from their behavior. Go to ski in Russia, as was told Vance in Vermont. Should add: suck Putin.
If you're really concerned about methane emissions, you should give up eating meat and dairy products. Also get a Flatus Containment Device AND USE IT.
(...kkkk!) That's a good point! But I'm hardly the first to pass gas and won't be the last. But passing gas, (in my books anyways), is always better than being constipated and full of shit, right!
Dude, Tiny 12, since you mentioned it, renewable energy can indeed help, with our meat and protein dietary needs, and assist with producing, alternative sustainable protein sources. Renewable energy systems can take role in tackling protein scarcity. Microbial protein industry links renewable energy system and food security. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032121013034
As I've said several times, the industry in the USA should and is doing more to control methane emissions. But how big a problem are they?
What you often fail to omit, is that when good ol' O&G are left to "self-monitor" and "self-report", ...THEY DON'T report those dirty methane leaks, that occur upwards of 8x more than what's reported, for fear being fined and exposing, just how problematic, methane leaks really are.
Methane Leaking From US Oil and Gas Is 8 Times Higher Than Agreed Targets, Jul 31, 2024,
https://www.newsweek.com/methane-leaking-us-oil-gas-8-times-higher-agreed-targets-1932878
US natural gas pipeline accidents pose big, unreported climate threat, March 8, 2024, Pipeline mishaps unintentionally released nearly 9.7 billion cubic feet of gas into the atmosphere between 2019 and late 2023 https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-natural-gas-pipeline-accidents-pose-big-unreported-climate-threat-2024-03-08/
So you tell me, where is the incentive, for the "self-monitoring" and "self-reporting" O&G companies, to report the actual numbers of dirty methane leaks? Their "incentive" is too keep the methane leakage number low. As low as possible!
Unlike the often larger fines in Europe, the fines in U.S. are way below, what they should be for the climate damage caused and only amount to what is essentially a slap on the wrist. But now that there's stronger satellite monitoring, revealing a greater number of methane leaks and flares, this may force more bigger and tougher penalties.
Your link indicates methane emissions from oil and gas worldwide are 78 million tons per year. Of that, the USA accounts for about 8.5 million tons. The chart in your link says global emissions from agriculture are 142 million tons per annum, and emissions from waste are about 73 million tons. So the oil and gas industry in the USA accounts for about 2. 5% of global methane emissions.
Yes, the article says 1/3 of global methane GHG gas emissions is produced by O&G and coal companies and emit 128 million tons per year. Coal companies, although they capture far less methane than they emit, they are nonetheless, producers and sellers of dirty methane gas.
But what you fail to realize, in this report and overall what the report is telling you, is that O&G sector has been under reporting their numbers, for years. It's only until just recently that the technology has given, industry watch dogs, the means to detect, the wide spread leakages.
In this report, as much as 60% higher. In the article above, as much as 8x times higher for methane GHG gas emission, than reported or estimated.
Politicians who think like you let perfect be the enemy of good. If they're successful in banning natural gas production in and exports from the USA, the air over some cities will be somewhat more polluted, and CO2 emissions will probably be a little bit higher.
You foolishly put too much stock into winger MAGA politicians to do anything consequential, let alone "create jobs" for hard working American. We can all agree your winger job creation record, is dismal and pathetic.
And they'll put a lot of people in the USA out of jobs. On the other hand they'll create more jobs in places like Russia and Saudi Arabia.
(...kkkk!) Judging by this wrongheaded statement, I guess the irony of what the current clown show, of winger politicians and the Fuhrer/President Musk gong show, is doing, is lost on YOU, right!
Tell me again, just where exactly where is the job creation/growth, you're prattling on about, with this current MAGA admin?
Again, I'd trust the EPA's numbers over the greenies (Environmental Defense Fund) any day. Now, that's not saying much at all, really!
O&G companies have had the EPA, in their back pockets for years, with very favorable and often soft regulatory measures, being ever softly applied to O&G (or coal) companies. Wouldn't surprise me if the EPA along the way, were a who's who of O&G alumni.
Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yes. But it only stays in the atmosphere for 10 to 12 years. CO2 is up there for hundreds of years.
And the quantities leaked from oil and gas operations in the USA are small and becoming smaller, see post below. Yes, government should continue to pressure industry to reduce methane leaks even more.
(...kkkk!) So now you're making my point for me! Thanks!
Methane GHG gas, has an 80x the warming effect on our atmosphere, and CO2 has a 1x (baseline) warming effect. When methane GHG gas, breaks down over those 12 years, it still leaves a significant deposit of CO2, that lingers for those 100+ years (as you've so kindly stated). So basically, what this means is, dirty methane GHG gas emissions, speeds up global warming and is no better than coal, when you take into account the massive amount of leaks.
If it hasn't already dawned on you, the use of more oil, coal or methane gas, released into our atmosphere for next 100+ years, is NOT what's needed, when alternative cleaner energy sources, exist.
Don't forget the Obama administration, only meant for methane gas, to be used as a temporary transitional energy source.
But greedy O&G companies, lack fortitude and the constitution for zero CO2 emissions and cleaner solutions and haven't reduced dirty fossil fuels, in the face of clean renewables. Nor do I blame them, if there's a demand for it. So it's up to us, to change that trend, which I think is happening.
Yes, some O&G production will probably always exist, but what governments need to really do, is place more emphasis, on renewables. See my past post, on those countries, that are producing more grid renewable energy, than fossil fuels.
Pure methane does not contribute to dirty air. Again, it's colorless and odorless and not toxic unless breathed in sufficient quantities to crowd out Oxygen.(...kkkk!) Is that what ChatGOP is telling you! Or was ChatGOP, just playing with you and provided you the appropriate greenwashing answer?
Do I really need to explain to you, that when methane gas is used or burnt, it releases CO2 emissions. So greenwash with terms like "pure" and "natural" all you want, the answer will always come up DIRTY!
How Common Are Gas Leaks And Explosions? Our Team Set Out to Find The Truth
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Despite assurances from the administrators that the issue had been resolved, it turned out that the root problema broken gas boilerhad not been addressed. While it is difficult to gauge the level of exposure for the students and staff, it is known that long-term exposure to gas can increase the risk of respiratory problems, especially in children.
Often called natural gas, thanks to decades of misleading marketing from the oil and gas industry, methane gas is a climate super pollutant that contains harmful air toxins like benzene and nitrogen dioxide linked to cancer and respiratory issues.
https://gasleaks.org/the-gas-leaks-project-tracked-all-gas-leaks-and-explosions-reported-in-the-united-states-in-may-finding-140-incidents/
BTW, while methane gas is by nature, colorless and odorless, that rotten egg smell associated with commercial and residential use of dirty methane gas, is the odorant called mercaptan, which is added, so that we can detect, when we're about to be poisoned or blown up, by dirty methane gas leaks.
I challenge you to find a single city or contiguous region in the developed world with a population of over one million that only uses solar or wind power except for peak demand. I don't believe you can find a single one where battery storage is such that they can do away with fossil fuels, nuclear or hydro when the sun's not shining and the wind's not blowing.
Yeah, I met that challenge several posts ago. And you can check my last post for the all those countries, that have flipped the switch and are using renewables as baseload power and supplement there peak demand with fossil fuels.
While I have a lot of problems with Trump, thankfully he's not a Green Cultist, unlike many of the politicians in your party.Again, you're not saying very much about anything when you talk about your MAGA Fuhrer, now are you!
BTW, he's never considered himself a politician, perhaps that's because, he's a grifter, corrupt and criminal gangster, masquerading as a wannabe dictator.
MarquisdeSade1
03-27-25, 01:59
Until now, hopefully someone will be.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/donald-trump-newsmax-greg-kelly/2025/03/25/id/1204352/
The only person MURDERED on Jan 6 during the rigged election protests RIP Ashley maybe she will receive some justice after all.
Newton York
03-27-25, 02:38
So much for NVDA. Goddamn.
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