American Politics

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3051090]Was he the MittWitt economic campaign advisor who told MittWitt to assure the American people that his historically brilliant Repub economic policies that brought us every Great Depression, Great Recession and Massive Jobs Destruction of the past 100 years would also lower the unemployment rate to 6% within 4 years? Then Obama / Biden went on to lower it below 5% in 6 months or something like that? LOL.

Oh, and please cite the posts and quotes where I "bash Muslims".

I have only pointed out that a tiny handful of angry Muslims who swung their usual vote for the Dem candidate to the Repub candidate in the only 3 swing states that mattered gave the presidency to Trump, that's all. A swing of less than about 114,900 votes from that one demographic out of hundreds of thousands of them in those 3 swing states did it. A swing of about 0. 75 of a single percentage point of them spread across those three states did it.

No blue states flipped from Harris to Trump. None. So whatever percentage of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Men, whatever Trump gained and Harris lost momentarily on any particular isdue did not matter and had nothing to do with the players on the field or who won the presidency.[/QUOTE]Yes you constantly bash and use the "Dog whistle" here for your fellow racists / bigots that hate Caucasians (most Muslims are Caucasians).

I'm sure many many more very wise black males voted for Our Lord and Savior to help him handily win the Electoral College and the Popular vote.

BTW I have always extremely loathed Mitt (and have never voted for him).

And I'm sure Mitt hates Oren, which is an Economic Nationalist / Populist and Awesome Patriot.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3051129]Yes you constantly bash and use the "Dog whistle" here for your fellow racists / bigots that hate Caucasians (most Muslims are Caucasians).

I'm sure many many more very wise black males voted for Our Lord and Savior to help him handily win the Electoral College and the Popular vote.

BTW I have always extremely loathed Mitt (and have never voted for him).

And I'm sure Mitt hates Oren, which is an Economic Nationalist / Populist and Awesome Patriot.[/QUOTE]Was there an uncharacteristically large surge in black male votes for Trump in PA, MI and WI? Because those were the states whose Electoral College appointments gave the presidency to Trump in 2024. There was no surge of any typically Dem demographic voters that flipped a Blue state's EC appointments to Trump. Since that didn't happen, where are you getting that a move in Black, Latino or any other typically Dem demographic vote from Harris to Trump won him a single decisive EC appointment?

In the only 3 swing states that mattered, PA, MI and WI, there is plenty of evidence that the targeting of the Muslim Community in those 3 states and swinging just enough of those potential votes from Harris to Trump, less than a single percentage point swing among them, is the sole reason the USA now has to pay higher prices for groceries, there have been massive private-sector jobs layoffs, private-sector jobs creation has been practically non existent for over a year, Trillions and Trillions have been added to Trump's deficits with nothing to show for it and on and on.

[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/02/swing-state-muslim-leaders-biden-00129758[/URL]

[URL]https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/us-muslims-drive-trumps-win-sparking-debate-among-pundits[/URL]

[URL]https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/11/08/muslim-voters-in-battle-ground-states-boosted-donald-trump-to-victory/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-earns-endorsement-highly-respected-muslim-leaders-battleground-state[/URL]

And this was a major deciding factor in their tiny handful of swing votes from Harris to Trump that "gave Trump the presidency"; Netanyahu simply delayed honoring the Biden-negotiated May 2024 ceasefire agreement until after the election:

[URL]https://www.trtworld.com/article/18254320[/URL]

An Always Welcome Bonus Video:

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[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3050710]The problem with this TDS madness is that it gets blamed for everything. Yeah, Bennie, when I looked into Canada and their hydroelectric potential, it was great. Then you look at real estate prices, immigrants surging, crime rates in Canada, the political leadership, and especially the shit Ottawa pulled with the Covid trucker's strike, and I would not want to put a penny into Canada right now.

I grew up near Canada and I considered Canadians and Americans interchangeable. Even when W Bush came into power, and one USD would buy $1. 50 Canadian, I thought Canada was greatly undervalued. They balanced their budget, were not fighting stupid wars, and even provided free / national healthcare. Their cities were crime free models many American cities that many American city wanted to emulate. And ten years, the Canadian and American dollar were equal in value.

But Canada cow towed to their women who were no longer having kids, and Canada tried to fix their population problem with immigration and unlike the USA (well, unlike the USA except under Biden) they let in so many immigrants they lost their culture. Housing prices skyrocketed, crime rates soared, and the Canadian culture IMO is dead replaced by a version of liberalism that would make California blush.

In 2001, Canada was nirvana for the monger. Lap dances were $14 not $20, and the escorts were beautiful, plentiful, and legal. Now we are at one USA dollar buying $1. 37 Canadian and I think the USA dollar is undervalued. The nanny state is so strong there that Americans with one DWI are not let into the country. If you invest in Canada, you often cannot get your money out. The hostility towards the USA, even before Trump, is unreal..[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/chris-ruddy-rob-schmitt-trump/2026/02/06/id/1245151/[/URL]

Ruddy is one of Our Lord and Saviors Jewish neighbors in Miami.

Ruddy is a billionaire and Owner of Newsmax, walking around Caracas, ID like to see the military escort lolololololol.

If I could get visa ID be in Caracas right now.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3051184]Was there an uncharacteristically large surge in black male votes for Trump in PA, MI and WI? Because those were the states whose Electoral College appointments gave the presidency to Trump in 2024. There was no surge of any typically Dem demographic voters that flipped a Blue state's EC appointments to Trump. Since that didn't happen, where are you getting that a move in Black, Latino or any other typically Dem demographic vote from Harris to Trump won him a single decisive EC appointment?

In the only 3 swing states that mattered, PA, MI and WI, there is plenty of evidence that the targeting of the Muslim Community in those 3 states and swinging just enough of those potential votes from Harris to Trump, less than a single percentage point swing among them, is the sole reason the USA now has to pay higher prices for groceries, there have been massive private-sector jobs layoffs, private-sector jobs creation has been practically non existent for over a year, Trillions and Trillions have been added to Trump's deficits with nothing to show for it and on and on.

[URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/02/swing-state-muslim-leaders-biden-00129758[/URL]

[URL]https://www.dailysabah.com/world/americas/us-muslims-drive-trumps-win-sparking-debate-among-pundits[/URL]

[URL]https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/11/08/muslim-voters-in-battle-ground-states-boosted-donald-trump-to-victory/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-earns-endorsement-highly-respected-muslim-leaders-battleground-state[/URL]

And this was a major deciding factor in their tiny handful of swing votes from Harris to Trump that "gave Trump the presidency"; Netanyahu simply delayed honoring the Biden-negotiated May 2024 ceasefire agreement until after the election:

[URL]https://www.trtworld.com/article/18254320[/URL]

An Always Welcome Bonus Video:

[URL]https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4yoQ-EXd8/?igsh=bXEydzY1a3EwZ3Jn[/URL][/QUOTE]The erosion of the Democratic base is accelerating.

Black voters have been — and still are — the most reliable Democratic voters. But in his three presidential campaigns, Mr. Trump made serious inroads in heavily Black counties, across the Deep South and beyond.

Those incursions predated 2024: More counties with a majority of Black voters shifted toward the Republicans in each of the last three elections than the total number of counties nationwide that trended toward Democrats.

Democrats increased their share of the vote in all three elections in only two majority-Black counties in the entire country, Rockdale and Douglas, both outside Atlanta in Georgia, a hotly contested battleground state.

Percentage of Black population, by county.

Shifted left three times.

Shifted right three times.

80%.

70.

60.

Rockdale.

County.

50.

Counties.

In Georgia.

40.

30.

20.

10.

Note: Circle size indicates county population.

Measuring electoral performance by race using countywide results is imprecise; voters of any race could play a role in a partisan shift. But all signs point toward the same conclusion, including the fact that Mr. Trump's support continued to grow in each of the six most predominantly Black counties in the country.

In last year's election, Republicans gained ground in 193 of the country's 200 most predominantly Black counties — even as former Vice President Kamala Harris stood to become the first Black female president.

The slippage is even more pronounced and profound in Latino communities.

Percentage of Hispanic population, by county.

Shifted left three times.

Shifted right.

90%.

Counties.

In Texas.

80.

70.

60.

50.

No counties with a Hispanic.

Population of more than.

30 percent shifted to the left.

40.

30.

20.

10.

Note: Circle size indicates county population.

Of the 67 counties in America with a majority Hispanic population, 66 voted more Republican in 2024 than in 2012.

Even more arresting is that the average swing toward the G. O. P. In those 66 Hispanic-majority counties was 23 percentage points — a political earthquake with which both parties are still coming to terms.

Mr. Trump improved his results in each of his three presidential runs in about two-thirds of majority-Hispanic counties.

Democrats, by contrast, steadily improved their share of the vote in not a single county in America where Latinos account for a third or more of the population.

The DNC is clearly the party of Anti American Feminists, Trannies and all those from Asia that hate America from birth even if they were shit out here.

There was an aphorism going around after the election, seems everyone hates Trump except Blacks Whites and Hispanics (Jews Muslims and Hispanics are Caucasians).

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3051315]The erosion of the Democratic base is accelerating.

Black voters have been and still are the most reliable Democratic voters. But in his three presidential campaigns, Mr. Trump made serious inroads in heavily Black counties, across the Deep South and beyond.

Those incursions predated 2024: More counties with a majority of Black voters shifted toward the Republicans in each of the last three elections than the total number of counties nationwide that trended toward Democrats.

Democrats increased their share of the vote in all three elections in only two majority-Black counties in the entire country, Rockdale and Douglas, both outside Atlanta in Georgia, a hotly contested battleground state.

Percentage of Black population, by county.

Shifted left three times.

Shifted right three times.

80%..[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFsmLTS360s[/URL]

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3051315]The erosion of the Democratic base is accelerating.

Black voters have been and still are the most reliable Democratic voters. But in his three presidential campaigns, Mr. Trump made serious inroads in heavily Black counties, across the Deep South and beyond.

Those incursions predated 2024: More counties with a majority of Black voters shifted toward the Republicans in each of the last three elections than the total number of counties nationwide that trended toward Democrats.

Democrats increased their share of the vote in all three elections in only two majority-Black counties in the entire country, Rockdale and Douglas, both outside Atlanta in Georgia, a hotly contested battleground state.

Percentage of Black population, by county.

Shifted left three times.

Shifted right three times.

80%.

70.

60.

Rockdale.

County.

50.

Counties.

In Georgia.

40.

30.

20.

10.

Note: Circle size indicates county population...[/QUOTE]Again, I see zero assertion and zero link for when, where, how and which typically Blue State flipped from Harris to Trump due to an "erosion" of Black, Latino or any other usual Dem voters that gave Trump so much as a single decisive or winning Electoral College appointment to give him the presidency and launch into his 2nd disastrous term of wiping out private-sector jobs while skyrocketing his deficits.

None.

Only one typically Dem voting demographic in the only 3 swing states that mattered and where that demographic was specifically targeted on a single issue with Netanyahu in more control over that issue than anyone else on the planet produced the deciding Electoral College appointments to give Trump the presidency in 2024 and launch into his destruction of America and the American economy.

You have provided zero assertion or link to support any other conclusion.

Right down there with zero quotes or links for me "bashing Muslims. ".

[URL]https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4yoQ-EXd8/?igsh=bXEydzY1a3EwZ3Jn[/URL]

Maybe your link guy was distracted by Trump's racist cartoon.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3051359][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFsmLTS360s[/URL][/QUOTE][B]Black Americans, stand up for immigrants. ICE is terrorizing our communities, too.
If there ever was a time for solidarity, the time is now. The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for everyone.[/B]

[URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/11/15/ice-us-citizens-black-americans-chicago-south-side/87210498007/[/URL]

[QUOTE]When I read headlines about Immigration and Customs Enforcement and National Guard deployments in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and now possibly Charlotte, North Carolina, and New Orleans childhood trauma resurfaces. As a Black, first-generation citizen born in the United States, who grew up in an overpoliced immigrant community, I feel echoes of painful memories.

I lived in a mixed-immigration status household in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a melting pot of Caribbean ethnicities including St. Lucian, Jamaican, Haitian, Dominican and Guyanese. I was always struck by how normal the militarization of our neighborhood seemed to some locals, even though it was anything but. When I visited Manhattan or somewhere more racially diverse, I noticed people there didnt face constant police checkpoints, frequent stops or fear of armed officers conditions proven to traumatize those repeatedly exposed to them.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=BennieBen;3050926][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generating_stations_in_Quebec[/URL]

I never said they was building one by day, my point was that Dam arent like people think they are, they are not all single huge concrete wall who can be blowed with 1 explosion to shut down the electricity all over america in a single shot. So trying to produce it localy with coal for some knid of safety issue is bullshit, expensive and poisonning the air.

USA is sit next to a state who would happily sell enough clean energy for all the usa needs and all of this in canadian pesos. But american are so dumb and they are totaly mesmerized by their billionaire oligarch verbal diarrhea.[/QUOTE]Thanks for the explanation, Bennie!

But I'm afraid, the more you explain, the more convoluted and befuddling it becomes.

Thanks anyways!

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3051224][URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/chris-ruddy-rob-schmitt-trump/2026/02/06/id/1245151/[/URL]

Ruddy is one of Our Lord and Saviors Jewish neighbors in Miami.

Ruddy is a billionaire and Owner of Newsmax, walking around Caracas, ID like to see the military escort lolololololol.

If I could get visa ID be in Caracas right now.[/QUOTE]If you are going to Caracas for women, you will likely be disappointed. Venezuela is home of all these Miss Universes and Jim Rogers, who did a world tour, went to Caracas on his worldwide tour and said something to the effect that it was not what he expected. I went after he did and I will tell you it is a flat up disappointment. In fact, I would have said the Venezuelan women were overrated if not for the stunning Venezuelans I have met abroad.

Colombian and Venezuelan women are in the same gene pool, and that is the reason Colombia has been so accepting of Venezuelans. What I have learned about the culture is the best women are held very closely by their families and the brothers / parents are very protective of these women.

American women have gotten so pathetic that if you do not have a kid, a mental illness, huge debt, a drug problem, or are obese, you are in the top 1% of all women even if you are a plain jane looks wise. In contrast, my gal's daughter and her friends would be in the top 0.1% of all American women because most are in shape and attractive, and they are all virgins. You might ask how I know, but I can tell you how tightly the parents are in control of their kids. The issue is when these women go to university and are out of the homes that many go nuts with men.

On the flip side if you are going to buy land, that is a no-brainer. I kicked myself for not buying land / a house in Buenos Aires after that country's economy collapsed. The region in Buenos Aires where all the embassies is goes by the name Palermo, and it is the last place any new administration is going to steal land from. So buying land / a house around the USA embassy in Caracas now is a great idea. The prices in BA tripled in like five years.

Thing is Caracas is a hot as fuck shithole. Yeah, there are a few nice parts, but you have to drive through the slums on the way to and from the airport and maybe traffic is better now that so many people have left the country but the road to the city would often get backed up in the slum area. You are a sitting duck there for any armed punk.

The area I am looking at is LOS Roques. [URL]https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=%22los[/URL]+roques+venezuela%22.

Everybody outside of Venezuela thinks the best beaches are on Margarita Island but in Venezuela everyone mentions LOS Roques. I am not sure there are better beaches in South America or anywhere really and in the Southern Caribbean hurricanes are much less of a problem than areas like the Gulf coast.

I have not been to the city of Merida but that is where I would go if I were looking for women. It is in the mountains and cooler and is home to some of the best universities in the country.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3051783]If you are going to Caracas for women, you will likely be disappointed. Venezuela is home of all these Miss Universes and Jim Rogers, who did a world tour, went to Caracas on his worldwide tour and said something to the effect that it was not what he expected. I went after he did and I will tell you it is a flat up disappointment. In fact, I would have said the Venezuelan women were overrated if not for the stunning Venezuelans I have met abroad.

Colombian and Venezuelan women are in the same gene pool, and that is the reason Colombia has been so accepting of Venezuelans. What I have learned about the culture is the best women are held very closely by their families and the brothers / parents are very protective of these women.

American women have gotten so pathetic that if you do not have a kid, a mental illness, huge debt, a drug problem, or are obese, you are in the top 1% of all women even if you are a plain jane looks wise. In contrast, my gal's daughter and her friends would be in the top 0.1% of all American women because most are in shape and attractive, and they are all virgins. You might ask how I know, but I can tell you how tightly the parents are in control of their kids. The issue is when these women go to university and are out of the homes that many go nuts with men.

On the flip side if you are going to buy land, that is a no-brainer. I kicked myself for not buying land / a house in Buenos Aires after that country's economy collapsed. The region in Buenos Aires where all the embassies is goes by the name Palermo, and it is the last place any new administration is going to steal land from. So buying land / a house around the USA embassy in Caracas now is a great idea. The prices in BA tripled in like five years..[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/02/08/today-is-the-day-fans-of-pro-trump-nicki-minaj-announce-move-to-republican-party/[/URL]

I wouldn't visit for pussy I think the scene is still too unstable for that, I want to visit some people I know and I want to explore early.

Before ISGs flood it like Colombia SEA et al.

Maracay is supposed to be a nice military town.

I wish I was brave enough buy a place near the beaches in Aragua, but not unlike the Oil execs.

The Chavistas have a terrible track record of taking things that don't belong to them.

I haven't been there yet, but I don't agree with your comment about the gene pool.

My apologies if your GF is Colombian but Colombian chicas are not attractive to me.

Either their body is whacked or their face is or both.

I like a very thin and very pretty with smaller breasts.

Kinda like Veronica Rodriguez the Porn Star, I met her at a Porn Convention, she wanted to cum to my room for $$ and was texting and calling me later that day.

But I wasn't interested in her price.

I can give you an example, the women in Poland are pretty ugly, walk around Germany and you will probably never see an Ugly woman (ethnically German) I never have.

My theory is men with the most money breed with the best looking women money can buy, that affects the gene pool.

I'm pretty sure this is the case with Venezuela and Colombia.

And Japan and South Korea the Korean face is whacked.

There are several polling services showing more Americans and likely voters ranking Bidenomics higher than Trumpanomics. But none is no doubt more hurtful to poor baby Trump than his and his MAGA Repubs' favorite polling service, Rasmussen. And its head polster grudgingly admits that Biden would trounce Trump again if another election were held today:

[B]Trump Friendly Pollster Stuns With Survey Comparing Biden And Trumps Job Performance.
Feb. 11, 2026[/B]

[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-friendly-pollster-stuns-survey-204752162.html[/URL]

[QUOTE]According to a Rasmussen survey released on Tuesday, 56% of likely U.S. voters disapprove of Trumps performance thus far in the White House. The numbers got worse from there, especially when his performance was compared to that of former President Joe Biden.

When asked who did a better job as president, 48% answered with Biden and 40% answered Trump. Another 8% say they have performed about the same. The survey was conducted between February 2-4 among more than 1,000 likely voters. It carries a margin of error of 3%.
...........
Rasmussen Reports head pollster Mark Mitchell argued that while he would likely not agree with voters who would choose Biden over Trump today, the numbers are undeniable.

"If an election were held TODAY between Trump and Biden, Biden would win, he wrote on Tuesday on X. There are a million valid arguments you can make that explain why thats retarded, and I would agree with most of them. But that doesnt change the fact Biden would win.[/QUOTE]BTW, that poll was conducted BEFORE the January 2026 BLS Jobs Report was released showing a revised net LOSS of 1000 jobs for the entire 2nd half of 2025 after Trump enacted his "Liberation From Your Job" Day tariffs along with the 130,000 jobs created last month being dwarfed by the 230,000+ average per month we had under Biden, along with the 256,000 created in December 2024, a 4. 1% Unemployment Rate and a 2.9% inflation rate at the handoff.

Oh, and while we're at it, might as well mention 2024 already saw a decades' long low rate of violent and property crime under Biden after both had spiked up to decades' long highs rates in 2020 under Trump.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3051409]Maybe your link guy was distracted by Trump's racist cartoon.

[B]Black Americans, stand up for immigrants. ICE is terrorizing our communities, too.
If there ever was a time for solidarity, the time is now. The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for everyone.[/B]

[URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/11/15/ice-us-citizens-black-americans-chicago-south-side/87210498007/[/URL][/QUOTE]Against Vile Libertarians like Chas Koch Thomas Massie and Rand Paul.

And the likes of posters like you, FUCK Asia in all of its filthy disgusting holes!!

[URL]https://www.wsj.com/opinion/foreign-countries-bear-the-burden-of-tariffs-86794b27[/URL]

Post Script: and fuck Canada the EU and Mexico as well!

A Rasmussen Poll of Xi and the Chinese Communist Party would almost certainly show an overwhelming preference for Trump and Trumpanomics over Biden and Bidenomics.

[B]A year into Trump tariffs, Chinese factories and ports are buzzing with activity.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/trump-tariffs-cny-chinese-factories-and-ports-are-buzzing-with-activity.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Factories and ports appear as busy as ever ahead of the Lunar New Year pre-holiday rush.

Major ports in China saw a surge in containers activity, pushing up freight prices.

For shipments to the U.S., large containers were running above levels during the same period in 2024 and 2025 for most part of January and into February.[/QUOTE][B]China's trade surplus hit record $1.2 trillion in 2025.[/B]

[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-trade-surplus-hit-record-073006417.html[/URL]

[QUOTE]Last year's bruising trade war between Washington and Beijing -- which at one point saw reciprocal tariffs in the triple digits -- led to a 20 percent plunge year-on-year in China's exports to the United States, with imports falling 14.6 percent.

But other trade partners more than filled the gap, increasing Chinese exports overall by 5.5 percent in 2025, while imports stayed flat in dollar terms.[/QUOTE]MAGA Repubs and your facilitating relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims in the only 3 swing states that mattered and gave Trump the presidency in 2024, Xi and China thanks you very, very much for your vote.

Yep, we've got typically crap Repub jobs creation numbers, typically crap Repub high business bankruptcy numbers, typically crap Repub high private-sector jobs layoffs numbers, typically crap Repub broad USA Stock Market gains vs the previous Dem gains, etc, etc, etc and now typically crap Repub lower opportunities to achieve The American Dream.

Gee, who could have predicted such a thing? I mean, other than everyone who could have and did vote for Kamala Harris.

[B]Realtors report a 'new housing crisis' as January home sales tank more than 8%[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/january-homes-sales.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Sales of previously owned homes in January dropped a wider-than-expected 8.4% from December.

The median price for a home sold in January was $396,800, up 0.9% year over year and [b]the highest January price on record.[/b]

Inventory came down from December but was still up 3.4% year over year.[/QUOTE]Hmm. I wonder if 5 years of zero American iInfrastructure Week "anything" under Trump out of the past 9 years of him playing golf, golf and more golf while putting Russia Russia Russia and China First had anything to do with this all new Repub Housing Crisis.

Oh well. We tried.

[QUOTE=Tiny12;3051054]Hot damn, an energy discussion! [/QUOTE]LOL! Dude get over yourself and don't be so freakin' conceited, energy debates and discussions have been going on here, for the last several months at least!

[QUOTE=Tiny12;3051054]For the bigger picture, ignoring weather events, by focusing just on LCOE, he ignores a lot of costs. For example, the cost of transmission build-out, new and upgraded substations, etc.[/QUOTE]Again, [NOPARSE]just freakin' hubris! As if a weather storms, downed powerlines, transmission outages and new grid transition costs don't also exist for fossil fuel power plants.

Also an LCOE is what is. Until the financial energy industry uses something else, quit y'all belly-aching! Ya don't see me belly-aching about an LCOE, that does not take into account the massive fossil fuels cradle to grave inefficiencies of 50% to 70%, when used to [/NOPARSE]generate electricity.

[QUOTE=Tiny12;3051054] He fails to consider that storage for wind and solar is expensive. And extremely expensive more than 6 hours out. ... BAHAHAHAHAHA![/QUOTE]So instead of flapping your gums and laughing [I](like an old maid windbag spinster),[/I] perhaps you should just try providing the evidence, with regards to your claims of fossil fuels (or nuclear), today having a lower LCOE than [I]solar/wind + battery storage.[/I] At best, the only fossil fuel, is gas-CCGT (the most efficient use of gas to generate electricity) and is only slightly lower or [I]on par with and LCOE for S+W+B.[/I] Yes, while solar and wind remain the lowest LCOE, even with storage many cases, worldwide.

[QUOTE=PVMagazineUSA]Lazard’s analysis of levelized cost of electricity across fuel types finds that new-build utility-scale solar, even without subsidy, [b]is less costly than new build natural gas, and competes with already-operating gas plant.[/b] ... On an unsubsidized $/MWh basis, renewable energy remains the most cost-competitive form of generation. ... both the lowest-cost and quickest-to-deploy generation resource.”[/QUOTE][B]Solar cost of electricity beats lowest-cost fossil fuel – even without tax credits,[/B], July 1st, 2025 [URL]https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/01/solar-cost-of-electricity-beats-lowest-cost-fossil-fuel-even-without-tax-credits/[/URL]

[U]The "baseload" grid of yesteryear, is not your electricity grid future of tomorrow:[/U]

[QUOTE=Tiny12;3051054] And doesn't appear to understand that you must have natural gas, coal, and/or nuclear plants for reliable baseload power, unless you live someplace like Quebec or New Zealand.[/QUOTE]I think AEMO CEO, Daniel Westerman said it best, when referring not only to the Australia's grid for the future, but what he thinks the grids of the world will transition to and become:[LIST][i]"Australia’s operational paradigm is no longer ‘baseload-and-peaking’, but increasingly it’s a paradigm of ‘renewables-and-firming". It’s a crucial point to understand."

"[b] 'Baseload' is not so much a technical virtue as a business model[/b] – the people who invest in coal generators, and nuclear in particular, count on those machines operating at or near full capacity most of the time." [/i][/LIST]I couldn't agree more with that profound statement, from the AEMO CEO, as he calls out fossil fuel "baseload", [B]NOT a "technical virtue",[/B] but rather the case of a [B]"business virtue",[/B] of the fossil fuel overlords.

And let's not get it twisted [I]...in a renewables future grid of tomorrow,[/I] as clean green renewable tech gets better and more robust, fossil fuels may still play role, just less and less of a role, as time marches on.

I think, many of the energy sources powering the renewables grid around the world of tomorrow, will be dynamically digitally [I]software/firmware engineered[/I] to operate in complement to provide continual power demand (that also simulates any traditional "baseload" as needed and are NOT necessarily required to generate electricity 24/7, on their own.