American Politics

[Newton York]

I think we can all agree that these disunited States really sucks now. Thing is what can anybody do? More than half the country wanted all this chaos. I say let's focus on a way to get ourselves to Thailand to retire there, where it's always nice, and nothing bad ever happens. *sigh* Now, if only I can find the guts to quit my shitty job.

[SubCmdr]

The FBI announced the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin for allegedly obstructing an immigration enforcement operation, causing alarm as the Trump administration steps up its confrontational approach towards the judiciary.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveb...tion-operation

[SubCmdr]

The charging infrastructure still needs to be addressed. Where does an apartment dweller charge a EV overnight?

[EihTooms]

This is so perplexing. Hasn't Trump been telling his dumb Repub MAGA sucker hillbillies that other countries will pay his Tariffs, giving the American people Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars with which we can all buy anything we want, pay for Childcare because Childcare is Childcare and for our groceries, damn I'm glad Trump invented that word, and everybody gets rich?

Then how in the world can this happen?

Trump tariffs will hurt lower income Americans more than the rich, study says.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trum...ndroidappshare

Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are expected to raise costs on products for U.S. consumers.

However, tariffs would hurt lower income households with a minimal impact on the top one percent of earners in 2026, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

And now come to find out Trump knew he was lying to his dumb Repub MAGA hillbillies about, well, everything!

Trump finally admits his Tariffs are taxes added to products and paid by the American Consumers who buy those products, not by the country selling us the product.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKxJL8tx8/

BREAKING: Donald Trump accidentally admits that his disastrous tariffs are increasing inflation because they get added to the "price of a product" and as a result a "lot of those products aren't going to sell."

Every MAGA fool who supported these tariffs is eating crow now...

"Are you worried about what the 145% tariffs are doing to small businesses in the U.S.? Is that why you're bringing it down?" a reporter asked Trump.

"No... No..." he replied. "No... No... No... I haven't brought it down. I haven't brought It's still 145%, I haven't brought it down. I said it's a high tariff," said Trump. "It is a high tariff but I haven't brought it down."

Yesterday, he announced that the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods would "come down substantially."

"It basically means China isn't doing any business with us essentially because it's a very high number," Trump continued. "So when you add that to the price of a product it's you know... A lot of those products aren't going to sell."

"But China's not doing any business. They were doing uh, $1.11 trillion, think of that," he added.

Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that tariffs do not affect inflation and that foreign countries end up paying them. The truth, of course, is that the increased costs are passed on to American consumers.

This man has such disdain for the intelligence of his supporters that he thinks he can state in one breath that he's not worried about the tariff effects on small businesses which are suffering terribly right now to due to skyrocketing margins and then turn around and admit that tariffs do in fact increase prices and lower consumption.

This entire debacle will go down in history as one of the most idiotic economic wounds ever inflicted on the American people. Donald Trump isn't steering us into a new "Golden Age," he's driving us right off a cliff.

ADD his Tariff Taxes to the price of the product?

WTF!

He told us China was going to pay those Trump Tariffs and that beautiful word, the most beautiful word in the dictionary, was going to make us all rich beyond our wildest dreams!

Just as soon as Mexico pays for that wall he never built.

In about "two weeks. ".

[EihTooms]

Of course as a part of the Republican Racists he lies. That is what they do. He wrote this about me:

Reference made too Post #17549 American Politics where Elvis 2008 is quoted as saying:



Another lie by Elvis 2008. Never told anyone to buy NVDA. He knows that I have owned for years.

Elvis 2008 lies? Say it ain't so!

Two vicious body blows and a upper cut that has him on the floor. He is down. He better stay down!

ROTFLMAO!

Elvis has not moved from Point A to Point B nor put an fork full of food into his mouth in his life that wasn't made possible by USA Federal Income Tax Dollors paid by you, me and everyone else with the possible exception of Tax Cheating Deadbeats like Donald Trump.

Lolol. Well water. Lolol. Then he dipped his twig-weaved bucket into the well and toted that bucket into Mom's mud hut kitchen where the skunk Dad caught in a hemp net was roasting on the spit over the bull dung fire. Lolol. Great stuff.

[Sirioja]

At CATL 2025 Tech Day, unveiled a game-changing lineup of four new next-gen batteries, each targeting a critical bottleneck in EV adoption, that haters, obliterates and debunks, the haters and their tired arguments and disinformation pushed by you EV and battery skeptics.

CATLs lineup of 1st and 2nd generation batteries, the Qilin (NCM), Shenxing Plus (LFP), Naxtra (Na-Ion) and the Freevoy Super Dual/Hybrid Battery (LFP + NCM or Na-ion, optimized for PHEV or EREV's), put to bed and dismantles the most common outdated myths, perpetrated by the EV haters, looking to spread disinformation.

CATL shocks the world (again) with Sodium-ion and 1.3 Megawatt LFP Batteries, (16 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNY4kxNkqc

CATL TECH DAY 2025, (1 hr 20 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gaDQL64AY

My Two (2) biggest game-changing take-aways (out of probably 10x the number of "game-changing" tech unveiled), was first, the Naxtra 300km per charge x 10,000 charging cycle, that could mean +3 million km of driving range. Beat that EV haters and skeptics?

And second, was their Freevoy Super Dual Hybrid Battery, that should address a growing niche of "range anxiety" ICE vehicle owners, looking to bride the divide with the purchase of an PHEV or EREVs (Extended-Range Electric Vehicles), providing better ranges of 250 Km/150 miles (LFP + Na-ion) or 450+ km/300 miles (NCM + LFP) before using the ICE/fossil fuel onboard generator and polluting the atmosphere, for another 800 Km, for a total of about 1100 to 1300 km (BEV + ICE).

So maybe just one more! The Naxtra (Na-ion)'s cold weather 5C performance, in -30 to -40C and power density of 175 Wh/kg, is better than most current LFP batteries, is just mind-blowingly sooooo good! With an abundance of salt (Na), that can be found anywhere and is 99.6% recyclable, gives the haters even less environment issues to gripe about. Also announced, is a dynamic Sodium Na-ion 12v battery, that undoubtedly should soon replace most lead-acid batteries, in future vehicles.

Okay y'all, EV and battery haters, tell me your not impressed? And when was the last time the ICE and legacy auto, introduced this much new tech for vehicles?...What 50 years ago, when drill by drill only was still hip? (...kkkk!)

Just several great reasons, why China is kicking ass in the EV, Battery, AI and Tech industry and the U.S. is left with a lame duck president, with memes trending on social media of 250 million views, that read, "Trump chickened out...", as the bully lies about China calling him to talk tariffs.

China strikes back and tells the American Fuhrer, "CANCEL tariffs, then we'll talk!" (...kkkk!)

When You like cars, You don t drive EV and of course no chinese. I won t, when I love my atmospheric V8 , making me as hard as a natural beauty. Cars are really not biggest pollution, compare to chinese, USA and Indian industries, planes, big boats, trucks. And your stupid Trump wants to increase USA pollution.

[Spidy]

At CATL 2025 Tech Day, unveiled a game-changing lineup of four new next-gen batteries, each targeting a critical bottleneck in EV adoption, that haters, obliterates and debunks, the haters and their tired arguments and disinformation pushed by you EV and battery skeptics.

CATLs lineup of 1st and 2nd generation batteries, the Qilin (NCM), Shenxing Plus (LFP), Naxtra (Na-Ion) and the Freevoy Super Dual/Hybrid Battery (LFP + NCM or Na-ion, optimized for PHEV or EREV's), put to bed and dismantles the most common outdated myths, perpetrated by the EV haters, looking to spread disinformation.

CATL shocks the world (again) with Sodium-ion and 1.3 Megawatt LFP Batteries, (16 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNY4kxNkqc

CATL TECH DAY 2025, (1 hr 20 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gaDQL64AY

My Two (2) biggest game-changing take-aways (out of probably 10x the number of "game-changing" tech unveiled), was first, the Naxtra 300km per charge x 10,000 charging cycle, that could mean +3 million km of driving range. Beat that legacy auto, ICE vehicles, EV haters and skeptics!

And second, was their Freevoy Super Dual Hybrid Battery, that should address a growing niche of "range anxiety" ICE vehicle owners, looking to bride the divide with the purchase of an PHEV or EREVs (Extended-Range Electric Vehicles), providing better ranges of 250 Km/150 miles (LFP + Na-ion) or 450+ km/300 miles (NCM + LFP) before using the ICE/fossil fuel onboard generator and polluting the atmosphere, for another 800 Km, for a total of about 1100 to 1300 km (BEV + ICE).

So maybe just one more! The Naxtra (Na-ion)'s cold weather 5C performance, in -30 to -40C and power density of 175 Wh/kg, is better than most current LFP batteries, is just mind-blowingly sooooo good! With an abundance of salt (Na), that can be found anywhere and is 99.6% recyclable, gives the haters even less environment issues to gripe about.

Also announced, is a dynamic Sodium Na-ion 12v battery, that undoubtedly should soon replace most lead-acid batteries, in future vehicles.

Okay y'all, EV and battery haters, tell me your not impressed? And when was the last time the ICE and legacy auto, introduced this much new tech for vehicles?...What 50 years ago, when drill by drill only was still hip? (...kkkk!)

Just several great reasons, why China is kicking ass in the EV, Battery, AI and Tech industry and the U.S. is left with a lame duck president, with memes trending on social media of 250 million views, that read, "Trump chickened out..." or "The 10K Tariff Grandpa...", as the bully lies about China calling him to talk deals on tariffs.

China strikes back and essentially tells the American Fuhrer, "CANCEL tariffs, then we'll talk!" (...kkkk!)

[SubCmdr]

You cannot list one benefit I have received from paying federal taxes.

Elvis 2008 does not have a passport. Elvis 2008 has never been in another country overseas and used the US Consulate Services provided by the US State Department. Elvis 2008 had never traveled on the Interstate Highway System.

What is the Highway Trust Fund, and how is it financed? The Highway Trust Fund finances most federal government spending for highways and mass transit. Revenues for the trust fund come from transportation-related excise taxes, primarily federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel.

The Defense Rests!

[Sirioja]

With his friend Vladimir who hold his balls, from with prostitutes in Mockva party.

Too senile, shameful Trump forgot his administration refused in 2018, Crimea robbery by his now friend he sucks, criminal dictator Putin.

[Sirioja]

Stupid Trump still sucking criminal, liar Putin. Good, Zelensky has balls to resist, not to let Ukrainians being fucked by shameful USA.

With his friend Vladimir who hold his balls, from with prostitutes in Mockva party.

[Elvis 2008]

As already mentioned, public schools and roads

Nope. I went over that.

bridges, airports, fire and police services

Bridges are covered by gasoline taxes. Airports taxes are paid for when you buy a ticket. Fire and police services are paid for with property taxes.

or FDA-approved food and drugs

Since when are medications free?

"Paycheck Superhero", claiming they've "I've never taken a dime from the government!" You didn't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, but stood on a mountain of taxpayer funded systems.

You can keep lying but at this point, you have totally whiffed. You cannot list one benefit I have received from paying federal taxes. But that is not even what I was talking about.

"Paycheck Superheros", love to reduce everything about the government, to a dollar figure, while conveniently disregarding things like our honored military men and women, that have given their lives in service for their country, just so dudes like Elvis 2008, can play.

While you are saluting the military, I am paying for them you dumb Democratic douche. Everything being reduced to the dollar amount is your way of saying you pay nothing. As for the wars and service, most military guys I know understand they are being used and are quickly disillusioned after joining. I cannot think of a war in my lifetime that was truly about protecting the homeland. They were blowjobs to the MIC.

You would do well to REMEMBER the following:

The right balance for government lies in acting as a steward of public good sensuring essential services (defense, infrastructure, safety nets) while fostering economic growth through smart regulation and targeted investment.

This from a Democratic douche who takes his government check and buys hookers. Dictating what is right while paying nothing is the epitome of being a Democratic douche.

The vast majority of federal tax dollars (about 70%) go to programs people actually rely on things like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These are called mandatory spending because the government has to pay for them by law.

Well, the laws can be changed you dumb douche but at least you have finally gotten around to where two out of every three dollars or more like seven in ten is not for essential government services but income redistribution.

You think waving a flag is going to save the country when in reality, you vote based on how much government steals from others for you so you can bang hookers, and you completely ignore the fact that the country is going into massive amounts of debt to pay for your so called essential services.

So you can stop with the government is good bullshit that deflects from the reality of income redistribution. 39 cents on every tax dollar is going to interest payments and your dumb ass is saying everything is fine. In fact, you dumbshit Democratic douches are hostile to anyone like Elon Musk who is trying to fix the problem.

The country is going broke, and all your sorry ass cares about is your slice of the pie. You are not patriotic. You are selfish as hell.

[Spidy]

Really. Stop lying.

Who said anything about foreign earned income? I don't have any foreigner earned income. Thanks to the stock market returns under Dem presidents for the past several decades of my life, that I worked and bought in a beautiful Blue State throughout my working life, I have not needed to be gainfully employed in order to have a lovely and comfortable retirement since I was 58 years old.

But I still pay Federal and State taxes on my passive income and rental property every year.

You didn't go to public school? Never drive or walk on a public road? Don't drink clean and safe tap water?

The fact that you have been enjoying those and countless more privileges in the USA over the past 13 years thanks to my tax dollars while I have not enjoyed one physical reality of the USA in all that time tells me you owe me a refund.

(...kkkk!) Absolutely correct, on all accounts!

Yep, every once in a while the "I've never taken a dime from the government!" crowd, rear they ugly heads, to proudly pronounce themselves, as "Paycheck Superheros", as if anyone really cares.

As already mentioned, public schools and roads, things like bridges, airports, fire and police services, or FDA-approved food and drugs, all paid for by tax dollars, also goes without saying.

• Now remember, many of these QAnon\MAGA\Repub wannabe "Paycheck Superheros", love to reduce everything about the government, to a dollar figure, while conveniently disregarding things like our honored military men and women, that have given their lives in service for their country, just so dudes like Elvis 2008, can play:
  
  "Paycheck Superhero", claiming they've "I've never taken a dime from the government!"

News flash Elvis 2008: You didn't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, but stood on a mountain of taxpayer funded systems.

Even if, the "I've never taken a dime from the government!", crowd, have never touched welfare, their entire lives are ran on gov't infrastructure, safety nets, military service and sacrifice and the "just" and "fair" laws in a democratic society, carried out by gov't workers, ensuring they'll always get to play, the gullible "Paycheck Superhero", in their MAGA moronic minds.

The Bottom Line

Through his persistent arguments and public statements, Warren Buffet has argued that the current tax system in the U.S. disproportionately benefits wealthy individuals and corporations and supports changes that would raise their tax obligations to bring about a fairer system, even if that means he would also have to pay a higher tax bill.

https://www.investopedia.com/buffett...taxes-11687391

[Spidy]

https://abc7.com/does-elon-musk-pay-...esla/11402993/

With a top tax rate of 40.8%, he faces of a federal tax bill of about $10.7 billion from the exercise of these shares.

This is the most in taxes any American has paid in history, and you Democratic douches are protesting he does not have the right to see where it goes? Oh, no, Elon, you are going to pay hundreds of millions for Democratic douche causes like DEI and LGBTQ in Cambodia and Zimbabwe, and you are going to like it.

Taxpayers have no right to say where their tax dollars go should be the Democratic douche slogan of the year.

(...kkkk!) Get back to me when your REALLY know the EXACT amount of taxes he ACTUALLY pays and not these so called speculation on "...what he suppose to pay". You knuckleheaded, gullible MAGAs are so easily duped!

I seem to remember vividly, over the years and recently, when Warren Buffett (being the part of the world's top 5 richest men), has lamented on the shame of it all and the fact that he was paying less taxes per se than his secretary, due to fact he pays a much lower tax rate, than his secretary!

• Why Billionaire Warren Buffett Doesn't Mind Paying the Highest Tax Bill in History: April 17, 2025
  
  "Buffett views taxes as the opportunity to transfer money from the rich to people who got the short end of the stick in life. He says as much in the annual letter to his shareholders. Spend it wisely, Buffett told Uncle Sam. Take care of the many who, for no fault of their own, get the short straws in life. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-b...130051810.html

You would do well to REMEMBER the following:

• The right balance for government lies in acting as a steward of public good sensuring essential services (defense, infrastructure, safety nets) while fostering economic growth through smart regulation and targeted investment.
  
  The vast majority of federal tax dollars (about 70%) go to programs people actually rely on things like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. These are called mandatory spending because the government has to pay for them by law.
  
  The rest (about 30%) is discretionary spending, where Congress gets to haggle each year stuff like the military, schools, roads, and NASA. So hardly "nothing" and "nobody" or "no one" as you claim.

So perhaps you should take it up with your inept, knuckle dragging Fuhrer and clown show Repub congresspersons, about changing the laws on how much and what your federal (or state) tax dollars are spent on?

[Newton York]

Welp, there goes the economy. Shit. What's it going to take for stocks to go up again. Damnit AAPL, Damnit NVDA!

[Spidy]

President MuskTrump might not have gotten, read, comprehended or believed the Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies memo.

But he sure got that Our Glaring Repub MAGA Failures Are Just A Democrat Party Hoax memo, read it, comprehended it and perhaps blitheringly believed it, although that last part has nothing to do with him and all the other MAGAs repeating it.

Here is a hilarious 7 minute video showing the millions of anti-President MuskTrump protestors all around the country, in every state really, that Musk's MAGA Mental Misalignment has concluded is a "hoax", they actually love him but are either paid "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money to protest against him or are all so addicted to the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money, NONE of which he and his Dogies have yet to discover, uncover and indict for, that they come out en masse merely "pretending" to oppose him and his methods so the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money keeps flowing in making everyone as rich as he is. Er was.

LOL. It is a MUST SEE video:

https://youtu.be/wU23jm417-k?si=Hplv3iO8H3g9ruUQ

(...kkkk!) So very true!

While I agree the "Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies" memo, was obviously somehow overlooked by the jumping jack-ass president Musk, the QAnon\MAGA predilection to constantly "project" and "lie" memo, evidently was NOT lost on him, as he claimed in true "Trumpian" fashion, these surveys were "a hoax", and paid by his "enemies".

I say this, due to the recent similar survey, in Germany, where 94% of Germans (100K) say they won't buy a Tesla car. Then mysteriously, just a couple of days later, 70% of Germans (400K) say they would by a Tesla. https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla...y-a-tesla-car/ I did think to myself, this sounds sneakingly suspicious, like Musk was paying German Afd supporters to take that survey. But naturally it was something more "efficient" and even more nefarious...

Turns out:

• "On Tuesday, Musk reposted a Tweet on X (formerly Twitter) that showed the survey now says 70% of people in Germany would buy a Tesla again. This sudden shift in the poll's results raised suspicions. And sure enough, T Online has now reported that bots manipulated the survey, with 253,000 votes originating from just two U.S.-based IP addresses. Now, with sales plummeting, Tesla faces an uphill battle to regain consumer trust." https://www.autoblog.com/news/94-of-...a-survey-finds

Sales in Germany reflect the survey, and are in a downwards spiral and have not yet recovered from YoY or MoM sales in 2025. Tesla is losing market share in Europe, as sales drop over 30% in Q1 2025.

Not the first or last time, the non-elected president Musk, has tried to bribe, buy, fudge and cheat his way to a win. Just recently, of course, in Wisconsin and FAILED!