American Politics

[QUOTE=NewtonYork;3055826]History will tell you just how fast WW1 exploded. Some archduke dude gets killed, and bam! WW1 ignites, it's exciting as hell. WW2, Poland gets invaded and bam! The world explodes in furious war.

Fucking 9 days and we're still not in WW3? What is this bullshit?

Coupla dinky drones hitting the sides of buildings, and then what? Nothing.

You idiots voted for the orange man. You wanted this. So make it entertaining at least! I remember Vietnam, now that was actual War! Not this cowering behind bullshit drones nonsense. Jeeze.

What a bunch of pussies. This is probably what young people these days think war is. It ain't no video games folks. This shit is real.

And what are the GCC countries waiting for? All talk, no game.[/QUOTE]I agree this shit isn't a war! Why the fuck are China and Russia on the sidelines not attacking the orange piece of shit!

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3055865]He's warning you and all the other America haters.[/QUOTE]Then why has Trump survived 5 full years after his disastrous decisions in his 1st term mass murdered a million Americans?

KegsBreath is just another tough-talking drunk.

LOL. Haven't those incoherent Trumpsters realized that every time they crow about how easy it is for America to bomb, attack or kidnap leaders of other countries due to the "unrivaled power, force, superiority and majesty" of the USA military they are proving the point of anyone smart enough not to use that power, force and majesty to attack these sitting duck countries like Iran and Venezuela?

Duh.

No kidding?

Gee, only everyone on Earth knew that about the USA military already. Has anyone in any previous administration ever doubted that we could bomb, attack and win a War against Iran or Venezuela? Lolol.

That's why Obama and Biden were never shaking in their boots over every stupid thing a Supreme Leader said or did. Bombing and attacking other countries is nothing for the USA. Especially since Obama and Biden were strong enough to get us the fuck out of every quagmire, no-win, Repub War on the Planet in order to free them up to swoop in and kidnap any world leader that a commander-in-chief with nothing else to do with his military toys might want to do. That was never in question, you MAGA numbskulls.

The real problem is what will the American civilians and taxpayers do for the next few generations after some numbskull president and SOW figures the only way to keep themselves from shaking in their boits with fear over every stupid thing somebody in another country says is to shed other Americans' blood and spend other Americans' Trillions to help them sleep better at night.

BTW, when are Barron and Melania going to take one of those very safe boating "excursions" through the Strait of Hormuz thatTrump, KegsBreath and all the MAGAs on Fux News are telling us anybody with guts would take this very day?

[QUOTE=TheCane;3055914]As a Vietnam veteran friend of mine once said an enemy that is well-armed, ready to die, and in great numbers is a formidable enemy indeed.[/QUOTE]I don't support them, when I hate religions and mine, but Mollahs are proud to die as martyrs, so they won t give up. When they are killed, new ones grow to celebrate martyrs. Trump is not clever enough to understand this. Only population could kick them out, but many citizens would die and not sure they would not return. Netanyahou makes wars with everybody, when he knows he is supported by Trump and to avoid Israelian justice. Vietnam couldn't compete for weapons with USA, but, same like Ukraine, they fought for few they have, and defeated big powerful USA. USA now led by a fool idiot, not helping to succeed.

[QUOTE=EnterTheV;3055967]I agree this shit isn't a war! Why the fuck are China and Russia on the sidelines not attacking the orange piece of shit![/QUOTE]Putin attacked Ukraine and must be happy to get money from Trump. Trump suck him and give him big money with oil increasing. China make economics war, they are now above USA of Trump.

The first coupla days, it was wall to wall coverage on every major news outlet, now it's like a few minutes here and there. No one cares anymore.

The only way to get anyone to care about this again is if it becomes an actual 'WAR'! Like the way Vietnam went. Now that was some real action!

I wish I was in Thailand now. It's been a while since I got myself any poon. WW3 and the end of the world would help me to forget how shitty my life is.

Remember the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln: "The only way to feel better about your life, is if other people have it way worse than you".

So I do appreciate this damp squib of a 'war' for making me kinda grateful-ish that I'm not living in a war zone, I guess. Just wish I was dead though. Satan knows I've lived long enough.

Life sucks.

Except Americans, others don t trust idiot, always bullshiting Trump for their safety in Ormuz pass. The American idiot is destroying Teheran, but not Mollahs, when he killed more than 150 young girls, same like criminal Netanyahou destroyed Gaza with women and children, and now Lebanon. 2 war criminals.

[QUOTE=NewtonYork;3056156]The first coupla days, it was wall to wall coverage on every major news outlet, now it's like a few minutes here and there. No one cares anymore.

The only way to get anyone to care about this again is if it becomes an actual 'WAR'! Like the way Vietnam went. Now that was some real action!

I wish I was in Thailand now. It's been a while since I got myself any poon. WW3 and the end of the world would help me to forget how shitty my life is.

Remember the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln: "The only way to feel better about your life, is if other people have it way worse than you".

So I do appreciate this damp squib of a 'war' for making me kinda grateful-ish that I'm not living in a war zone, I guess..[/QUOTE]Tell 150 young girls parents and jump from a bridge.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3056158]Except Americans, others don t trust idiot, always bullshiting Trump for their safety in Ormuz pass. The American idiot is destroying Teheran, but not Mollahs, when he killed more than 150 young girls, same like criminal Netanyahou destroyed Gaza with women and children, and now Lebanon. 2 war criminals.[/QUOTE]Idiot Trump who doesn't know what is war, spend a lot of money, billions USD each day, but Mollahs are blocking worldwide economics. This war, once again, is really not a success for USA, but oil rate exploding, making big inflation, because of USA led by a senile idiot. If he could disappear from our world, even Putin should be really happy to receive so big money from USA, when only way to stop Putin is not the old orange DT BJ swallowing him, but to make Russia broke, not to be able anymore to pay to keep on war.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3055981]Then why has Trump survived 5 full years after his disastrous decisions in his 1st term mass murdered a million Americans?

KegsBreath is just another tough-talking drunk.

LOL. Haven't those incoherent Trumpsters realized that every time they crow about how easy it is for America to bomb, attack or kidnap leaders of other countries due to the "unrivaled power, force, superiority and majesty" of the USA military they are proving the point of anyone smart enough not to use that power, force and majesty to attack these sitting duck countries like Iran and Venezuela?[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections/dp/B09PMHYVQ4[/URL]

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000010766599/trump-false-claim-election-stolen-impact-2026-midterms.html?smid=url-share[/URL]

The shithole blue cities of Milwaukee Detroit Atlanta and Philadelphia stuffed the boxes with bogus mail-in ballots to swing the Electoral College to Scumbag Joe.

I believe all it took was 150000 rigged mail-in ballots, I'm sure I could fit those in 1 large suitcase.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3056289][URL]https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections/dp/B09PMHYVQ4[/URL]

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000010766599/trump-false-claim-election-stolen-impact-2026-midterms.html?smid=url-share[/URL]

The shithole blue cities of Milwaukee Detroit Atlanta and Philadelphia stuffed the boxes with bogus mail-in ballots to swing the Electoral College to Scumbag Joe.

I believe all it took was 150000 rigged mail-in ballots, I'm sure I could fit those in 1 large suitcase.[/QUOTE]Why oh why couldn't the Dems have come up with these brilliantly effective yet also brilliantly invisible to virtually all investigative and legal scrutiny eyes and ears means of "rigging" the elections in 2000,2004, 2016 and 2024? Why only 2020, long after so much Repub damage had been done and right as the most Repub damage in history was about to be done?

Imagine an America with no Repub / GW Bush First Recession, no Repub / GW Bush Attack on 9/11, no Repub / GW Bush quagmire, no-win Wars based on Repub lies in Iraq and Afghanistan, no Repub / GW Bush 2nd and Great Recession, no Repub / GW Bush bear market crashes, both of them, no Repub / Trump TCJA that flushed $ Trillions down a deficit shithole only to produce a million fewer jobs with it than without it, no first Repub / Trump disastrously failed trade war with China that plunged American Agriculture and Manufacturing industries into Recession so deep Trump had to add $Billions more to his deficits by issuing them emergency welfare checks just to keep them afloat, no Repub / Trump bear market crashes, both of them, no Trump's Pandemic and the millions of deaths, worldwide economic destruction, global supply-chain collapse, the millions and millions of lost jobs, closed business, closed schools, travel and recreation venue closures, the historic decline in the quality of international mongering forever, the global hyper-inflation that unavoidably followed, no Repub / Trump leading his mob of cop-killing, America-hating Insurrectionists into bloody battle on American soil to wage Trump's War Against America, overthrow American democracy and assassinate a few duly-elected officials along the way, no higher prices for virtually everything due to Repub / Trump's second failed trade war with everyone, no historically high Taxes imposed on the American Consumer from his Liberation Day Tariffs, no Repub / Trump quagmire, no-win American War in Iran, no skyrocketing gas and food prices and on and on and on.

I mean, it's great that the Dems supposedly 'rigged" the 2020 election so Biden-Harris could produce a historic and Envy of the World Economy and Recovery from the deadly and financial ravages of Trump's 1st term.

But, damn, America and the rest of the World sure would have benefitted immeasurably if only the Dems had "rigged" those other critical elections too.

[QUOTE=TheCane;3055914]As a Vietnam veteran friend of mine once said an enemy that is well-armed, ready to die, and in great numbers is a formidable enemy indeed.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLTN-6P8HuY[/URL]

Iranians do the 'Trump dance' to YMCA to thank the president for killing Ayatollah Khamenei.

And they are ready to die for the Ayatollahs? You have a terminal case of TDS, Cane.

Oh, but Elvis, you and the MAGA folks are hive minds totally in sync with Trump. Uh, wrong. I do not like what Trump is doing in Iran. I think he had this great plan with Venezuela and Maduro and thought "I can do the same thing in Iran", and the situation there is much trickier. However, it could work out. The other Persian Gulf Arab countries have a much different attitude than before.

Still, I am willing to wait before making any final judgments whereas you and the Trump TDS brigades will criticize anything Trump does. He could cure cancer and you all would find something to complain about. Anyone who was pro-Maduro, and some of you dumb Dems actually did not want him removed, is sick in the head.

As predictable as night following day, a Repub in the White House will always find a way to turn the USA economy to shit:

[B]Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1%[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/fourth-quarter-gdp-revised-down-to-just-0point7percent-growth-january-core-inflation-was-3point1percent.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]GDP rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted annual rate of just 0.7% in the fourth quarter, according to a Commerce Department revision Friday.

The first revision of the GDP reading was a sharp step down from the previous estimate of 1.4% and well below the Dow Jones consensus forecast for 1.5%.

The core PCE inflation rose 0.4% in January and 3.1% on a 12-month basis. The ex-food and energy reading was 0.1 percentage point higher than December.
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[B]For the full year, GDP posted a 2.1% increase, or one-tenth of a percentage point lower than the previous reading. In 2024, the economy rose at a 2.8% pace.[/b][/QUOTE]Oh, BTW, for any Trumpian / MAGA Cult Members with True TDS who are worried about how the sane World might react if Trump cures cancer, you can relax in the knowledge that Trump will never cure cancer or any other disease since he and his fellow Repubs work very hard to defund cancer research.

Just sayin'.

[B]Trump administration health research cuts total $1.8 billion, analysis finds[/B]

[URL]https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-health-research-cuts-total-18-billion-analysis-finds-2025-05-08/[/URL]

[B]'A Devastating Setback Funding for Childhood Cancer Research Cut From U.S. Spending Bill[/B]

[URL]https://www.pcrf-kids.org/2024/12/31/a-heartbreaking-outcome-funding-for-childhood-cancer-research-cut-from-u-s-spending-bill/[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3056376]As predictable as night following day, a Repub in the White House will always find a way to turn the USA economy to shit:

[B]Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1%[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/fourth-quarter-gdp-revised-down-to-just-0point7percent-growth-january-core-inflation-was-3point1percent.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

Oh, BTW, for any Trumpian / MAGA Cult Members with True TDS who are worried about how the sane World might react if Trump cures cancer, you can relax in the knowledge that Trump will never cure cancer or any other disease since he and his fellow Repubs work very hard to defund cancer research.

Just sayin'.[/QUOTE]Wait until those fuel prices kick in. We're stuck now!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3055749] So the future is putting up solar panels in places [b]where the sun does not shine,[/b] and the reason I do not understand that sentiment is that I voted for Trump. Then there is this trash about Trump and Israel that I fail to see has anything to do with energy. So this is textbook TDS. [/QUOTE]LOL! Sure dude, as you are a vetern MAGA lundite, [NOPARSE]I'll wait...whilst you, Elvis 2008, "has a think" and tells the [/NOPARSE] world, [I][b]"where the sun does not shine",[/b][/I] and thus not allowing you to use solar panels?

[B]Why solar panels are still a smart investment, even in less sunny climates[/B], January 9, 2025. [URL]https://solarascent.ca/2025/01/09/why-solar-panels-are-still-a-smart-investment-even-in-less-sunny-climates[/URL].

[B]Photovoltaics and Energy Security in the Greater Arctic Region,[/B] for PV deployment above 60°and latitude, concludes that, with climate-adapted engineering and robust performance analysis, PV can make a meaningful contribution to Arctic energy systems. [URL]https://iea-pvps.org/key-topics/t13-security-greater-arctic-region-2026/[/URL].

Let me [NOPARSE]also hazard a guess, that in this imaginary MAGA world-view place of yours, where the sun don't shine...does the wind also not blow as [/NOPARSE]well?

[QUOTE=Tiny12;3051054]Hot damn, an energy discussion! ... And extremely expensive more than 6 hours out. Please note on an average day with good weather you can only get meaningful solar generation for about 4 to 6 hours. For wind the average is 6 to 10 hours a day.[/QUOTE]With the renewables [I](S+W+B) energy era, [/I] flying at warp speed and dominating the energy revolution transition, and the ever increasing synergies with their digitized electrical tech energy capabilities, are far and away greater than fossil fossil, [I][b]at integrating and dovetailing perfectly with the advances in AI energy digital modelling[/b][/I] and are innovating and doing more with less.

Envision Energy and their EnOS AI-powered software, provides advanced liquid-cooled BESS and smart software to enhance safety, efficiency, and energy density. They also claim EnOS AI-software, is able to extend battery duration, doubling duration in many cases.

Watch this space!

P. S. Is 2026 the year of the battery?