American Politics

[EihTooms]

So there is no such thing is an illegal immigrant? LOL.

Oh, I see. So if you are a Republican, then you can break the law. That is why I call you a Democratic douche. You think there should be one set of laws for Democrats and another for Republicans. Just admit it, Tooms. You do not have one objective bone in your whole damned body.

When a border crosser's request for asylum has been duly investigated and found to be unjustified, bingo, ya' finally got your illegal immigrant. Unless they can qualify for a work visa, student visa, green card, whatever.

That is a process that used to take perhaps 6 weeks under Obama. Then Trump fucked up the Asylum investigation and visa system on his way out the door in 2020 and afterwards it took about 6 months. Hence, the build up of border crossers waiting for their USA Constitutional rights to be determined.

Look, we can all see you and other MAGALoon Wingers are deeply, deeply embarrassed over how you getting so thoroughly scammed, suckered and bamboozled by one of the most blatantly obvious grifters, charlatans and conmen of all time, Donald Trump, has plunged America into the biggest existential crisis, economic chaos and likely destruction of some of the truly greatest programs for American Greatness in history, probably including shoving your own dick and tits in a wringer.

LOL. So now you have to double and triple down on how disgracefully and unfairly "partisan" it is to dare to prefer Great Economic Expansions, Historic Jobs Creation, the creation of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, Affordable Healthcare, etc, etc, etc over Great Depressions, Great Recessions, Massive Jobs Destruction, absolutely zero programs any sane American would give one tiny shit about at the cost of Trillions and Trillions and Trillions added to the deficit and so on.

I mean, how silly and unfair it is for anyone to much prefer the former over the latter, right?

But, seriously, we can all forgive you if only you will admit you made a huge mistake to ever so much as consider voting for Donald Trump over any Democrat, that you are obviously suffering crippling Buyers Remorse over it and that you will promise to either only vote for Dems all up and down your ballot from now on or will abstain from voting altogether until you examine your conscious and figure out just what the hell it is about Great Repub Drepressions, Great Repub Recessions, Massive Repub Jobs Destruction and getting exactly zero in return for the Trillions and Trillions and Trillions Repubs have added to the deficit that you love so much.

[Spidy]

So while California's grid is increasingly capable of running on 100% renewables for hours at a time, and have flipped the switch, and now only rely on fossil fuel power generation as backup during the evening demand peaks and multi-day cloudy periods, is remarkable proof positive, that renewables can indeed power their grid.

In 50 of 82 Days in 2025, Solar, Wind, & Water Surpass 100% of Electricity Demand in California for Part of Day , March 27th, 2025

Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and author of seven books, including No Miracles Needed, shared on BlueSky last night that in 50 of the first 82 days of 2025, wind, water, and solar power combined for greater than 100% of California's electricity demand for at least part of the day.

In fact, on that 50th day, Sunday, at their peak, wind, water, and solar power plants provided 149% of electricity demand in the state. Solar power alone provided 122%. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/25...r-part-of-day/

As more California BESS are being buildtout, to store the excess solar (of 149%) and wind energy, coupled with the addition of the Western Interconnect and Pacific DC Intertie, to the Pacific Northwest, will undoubtedly improve California's grid flexibility, reliability and increase their push, closer to a 100% percent renewable grid.

Although there's still remains, a lot of political unresolved challenges, with w/r to high electricity costs for Californians and how to best integrate a modernization grid, the recent 50 days of 100% renewables for part of the day and the excess solar and wind, is largely seen, as a "good problem" to have.

Californians pay too much for electricity. Here are three bold solutions, Mar 27th, 2025.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/...-boiling-point

So while California, figures out, its affordable electricity dilemma, as a "top priority in 2025", that doesn't negate the historic strides made in their smart, renewable, cleaner and modernized grid.

[Elvis 2008]

BTW, a "border crosser" is not necessarily here illegally. Not according to the USA Constitution.

So there is no such thing is an illegal immigrant? LOL.

Elon Musk worked illegally in US at start of his career.

Oh, I see. So if you are a Republican, then you can break the law. That is why I call you a Democratic douche. You think there should be one set of laws for Democrats and another for Republicans. Just admit it, Tooms. You do not have one objective bone in your whole damned body.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Making the rounds on Facebook:

Here is the end result.

https://www.heritage.org/event/the-o...nd-how-recover

[Elvis 2008]

Given the Reubs, lack of common sense and their penchant for crooks, charlatans and grifters, undeniably the Dems, where NEVER going to, in any possible earthly scenario, allow such an incompetent jack-ass and snake-oil salesman, to be entrusted with such authority, let alone have a job as a 5th grade children's crossing guide.

Thanks for admitting that Democrats believe in rigging elections. You are more demented than Biden if you think Kamala and Biden are an upgrade over RFK Jr.

PS: Leave it to Elvis 2008, to gloss over all the harm being done to innocent children, due to the right-wing "woke" anti-vax ignorance of RFK Jr. and MAGA cultists like himself.

I did not get into RFK's positions. When on Joe Rogan's podcast, RFK Jr. Said he was a Democrat and you, the ultimate douche, is so full of the name calling, you have the nerve to say, "Oh, no he is not. " Why are you a Democrat and he is not? Was your uncle JFK?

[Spidy]

RFK Jr. Is a liberal Democrat. He would have been your nominee if you Democratic allowed people to vote for the Democratic nominee as opposed to handing the nomination to the elites.

Not chance of that happening! Whether RFK Jr, is a Dems as you claim, or a sycophant MAGA Repub, as he's now come to be, there is a difference.

Given the Reubs, lack of common sense and their penchant for crooks, charlatans and grifters, undeniably the Dems, where NEVER going to, in any possible earthly scenario, allow such an incompetent jack-ass and snake-oil salesman, to be entrusted with such authority, let alone have a job as a 5th grade children's crossing guide.

RFK Jr., is where he belongs, amongst the lunatic fringe, right-wing "woke" establishment!

PS: Leave it to Elvis 2008, to gloss over all the harm being done to innocent children, due to the right-wing "woke" anti-vax ignorance of RFK Jr. and MAGA cultists like himself.

[EihTooms]

Making the rounds on Facebook:

Poignant and sad words from Charles Pierce in Esquire:

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.

Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.

Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

[EihTooms]

It is funny how with you Democratic rule of law does not apply to illegal immigration. There is a legal process to immigrate. I guess you Democratic do not know about that.

Elon Musk worked illegally in US at start of his career.
Oct. 26, 2024

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/elon...d-illegally-us

A report from The Washington Post reveals that Elon Musk, who posts more about illegal immigration and voter fraud than any other topic on social media, worked illegally in the U.S. when he started his career.

BTW, a "border crosser" is not necessarily here illegally. Not according to the USA Constitution.

[Elvis 2008]

How immigrants are helping keep job growth hot while inflation cools.
June 17, 2024

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/17/immi...ndroidappshare

Immigration has helped the U.S. job market sustain a fiery run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say.

The U.S. economy added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, but the consumer price index was unchanged.

This dynamic a hot job market and cooling inflation is in part the result of increased inflows of immigrants.

Recent spikes in immigration at the southern border and elsewhere in the U.S. have helped keep the labor pool full even as job gains kept apace.
Oh, and if this mythical "mess" was supposed to be about an increase in violent crime due to that demonstrably economically beneficial increase in immigration, well, the data clearly shows Trump was wrong about that too:

It is funny how with you Democratic rule of law does not apply to illegal immigration. There is a legal process to immigrate. I guess you Democratic do not know about that.

[Elvis 2008]

JFK's vitamin A and cod liver oil, measles anti-vax propaganda cure, causes mass treatment for kid's liver damage, from vitamin A toxicity, in unvaccinated kids with severe cases of measles.

RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick, Mar 28, 2025
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-j...b086a4e8de55cf

Another great example of when dumbass right-wing "woke" culture-wars and their asymmetric false equivalencies, that inevitably cause mass systemic harm and often death, on a large societal scale.

RFK Jr. Is a liberal Democrat. He would have been your nominee if you Democratic allowed people to vote for the Democratic nominee as opposed to handing the nomination to the elites.

[EihTooms]

I just wanted to post this official assessment from Goldman Sachs for what to expect after TrumpMusk gets more of his beautiful favorite word economic plans into the system in a couple of days. Or if he flips and decides he isn't going to do it. Or maybe he will. Or maybe not. Whatever. It all depends on what Russia Russia Russia Russia Putin and Tesla Xi tells him to do I suppose.

Either way, his uncertainty and cognitively incapacitated incoherence still works wonders to achieve his contractually-obligated Repub Party goal of crashing the USA Economy, wiping out millions upon millions of jobs or skyrocketing the deficit with practically nothing of value to show for it other than possibly one of the worst jobs creation records ever as was achieved, wildly coincidentally only of course, by virtually every Repub presidency for the past 100 years.

And he launched into that mission within hours of succeeding in bamboozling 77.3 million direct and a few stray Third Party suckers into squeezing out a razor-thin win for him in early November.

And, most critically of all, those Muslim Community leaders in PA, MI and WI who really made all the difference by a scant swing of less than 0. 75 of a percentage point of votes in those three states.

Goldman sees tariffs spiking inflation, stunting growth, raising recession risk.
March 30. 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/tari...ndroidappshare

Goldman Sachs expects aggressive duties from the White House to raise inflation and unemployment and drag economic growth to a near-standstill.

In a note Sunday, the firm said we continue to believe the risk from April 2 tariffs is greater than many market participants have previously assumed.

The firm raised its forecast for inflation this year to 3.5%, cut its GDP outlook to just 1% and raised its unemployment view to 4.5%.

Now that this has been published and posted, TrumpMusk and his Cult Followers can easily be further shown to be the pathological liars they are when they try to pull the ol' Trumpian "Gee, nobody knew this kind of shit would happen" or "It's all Biden's fault" conman bit, right?

[Newton York]

I'm not a conspiratorial type guy and I would never give anyone any credit, at the end of the day most people just want to 'watch the world burn' as Alfred would say from Dark Knight Returns. But trying out for some copium I found this youtubes video, which is giving me a teeny, tiny bit of hopium.

Might give you guys some hopium too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNDJ-l8aUw.

It's weirdly about how a huge market crash is a good thing. And fine, I get it. It's always a buying opportunity. When the covid crash happened, I made some money too, so did everyone else. But right now, sadly I'm out of cash to buy in. Damnit, these things can never be timed right.

[SubCmdr]

The declined in the US Stock market means people won't be able to fuck there no mo. I disagree. I think Musk fucking with Social Security will have a much greater affect on the majority of Ex-Pats living in Thailand and abroad in other places in the world. Don't feel bad, only Silver and Gold are going up. Crypto market is in a major correction also. With no sign the bottom is in. I am buying the dip!

Below you will find an excellent post on why I relentlessly take profit put it into gold/silver/Bitcoin!

It qualifies as a Crash because the near double digit decline in the Wall Street preferred go-to measure of the S&P 500 Index happened so fast. In fact, that Index closed into a double digit decline once already.

But I see the S&P 500 Index reached its All Time Closing High of 6144 on February 19. Today it closed at 5580, a 9. 15% decline since that ATCH. Which means we are generally only in Sell-Off territory, not yet even into Correction territory, a decline of 10% - 20%.

If it declined to the 5000 level you cited, it still would not quite have reached a Bear Market Decline. At an 18.6% decline it would be just shy of the 20% decline level needed to be generally considered a Bear Market Decline.

Oh for sure TrumpMusk is trying damn hard to get us there and below, along with as Great of a Great Repub Recession or Great Repub Depression and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction as they can accomplish to satisfy their apparent Repub Party contractual obligation to deliver at least one per Repub presidency.

[EihTooms]

I am not happy with Trump at all. This policy he has been putting into place is not what I voted for.

With that being said, There have been so many times where I was not educated about a certain subject and I thought Trump was being crazy and he ended up being right. 2016 Russian Collusian was a Hoax. Pandemic lock downs were stupid and the virus came from a lab in China. Border was a mess and needed more awreness. Too many fentanyl deaths. The list can go on for a while about the things he was right about. Even when I first heard back in 2016 that he was running for President, I said what the fuck, this is insane. This guy is a con man! He ended up being the politician who could stand up to dems and bring awareness to the issues Americans care about most. So, being we are only a few months into his presidency, I will hold back on more criticism.

But Fuck though, economy is not good and that is always issue number one for me.

Interesting. I can't recall a single important matter about which Trump was right and / or supported by the data, all available evidence, even Repub-led invesitagtions or his own words and actions, except for the one matter where he himself contradicts what you suggest he was right about.

1) 2016 Russian Collusian was a Hoax.

The Republican-led Senate investigation refutes the idea that Trump was right about that:

U.S. Senate committee concludes Russia used Manafort, WikiLeaks to boost Trump in 2016.
Aug. 19. 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/worl...idUSKCN25E1UZ/

The report found President Vladimir Putin personally directed the Russian efforts to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Clinton.
Asked about the report at an event in Yuma, Arizona, Trump said: "I don't know anything about it. I didn't read it."

It's all a hoax," Trump told reporters.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and "Russian intelligence officer" Konstantin Kilimnik, before, during, and after the election.

2) Pandemic lock downs were stupid.

So-called president Trump refutes the idea that so-called president Trump was right about that:

'This is a very bad one': Trump issues new guidelines to stem coronavirus spread.
March 16, 2020

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...-people-132323

President Donald Trump on Monday acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic, releasing strict new guidelines to limit peoples interactions in an increasingly urgent bid to slow the virus in the next two weeks before U.S. hospitals are overwhelmed.

"We have an invisible enemy, the president said at a news conference, where he released guidelines that called for people to avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, steer clear of eating and drinking at bars, restaurants and food courts, and work or attend school from home whenever possible. This is a bad one. This is a very bad one.

2 a) and the virus came from a lab in China.

Ok. Then all the more reason that Trump was dead wrong about defunding and removing the highly successful Pandemic Prevention and Response team leadership from those Chinese labs in 2018 and 2019 contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid.

Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak.
March 26, 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/worl...idUSKBN21C3NE/

Separately, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the global relief program which had a role in helping China monitor and respond to outbreaks, also shut their Beijing offices on Trumps watch. Before the closures, each office was staffed by a U.S. official. In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) transferred out of China in 2018 the manager of an animal disease monitoring program.

That disastrous Trump decision was eerily similar to the decisions he is making this very day to increase the chances of a Trump's Pandemic Part 2 occurring as perhaps a wonderful combination of Tuberculosis, Ebola, Human-mutated Avian Flu and Drug-Resistant HIV.

3) Border was a mess and needed more awreness.

The data and all available evidence supports the notion that a steady flow of immigrants during the recovery from Trump's Pandemic's economic crash was far from being a "mess" and instead one of the main reasons the USA recovered from it faster, stronger and with lower rates of inflation than countries that behaved otherwise. Trump was wrong about that:

How immigrants are helping keep job growth hot while inflation cools.
June 17, 2024

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/17/immi...ndroidappshare

Immigration has helped the U.S. job market sustain a fiery run in recent months without reigniting inflation, economists and analysts say.

The U.S. economy added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, but the consumer price index was unchanged.

This dynamic a hot job market and cooling inflation is in part the result of increased inflows of immigrants.

Recent spikes in immigration at the southern border and elsewhere in the U.S. have helped keep the labor pool full even as job gains kept apace.

Oh, and if this mythical "mess" was supposed to be about an increase in violent crime due to that demonstrably economically beneficial increase in immigration, well, the data clearly shows Trump was wrong about that too:

Debunking the Myth of the Migrant Crime Wave.
May 29, 2024

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-wo...ant-crime-wave

Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.

3 a) Too many fentanyl deaths.

CDC Reports Nearly 24% Decline in U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths.
Feb. 25, 2025

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2...se-deaths.html

New provisional data from CDC's National Vital Statistics System predict a nearly 24% decline in drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12 months ending in September 2024, compared to the previous year. This is the most recent national data available and shows a continued steep decline in overdose deaths. Provisional data shows about 87,000 drug overdose deaths from October 2023 to September 2024, down from around 114,000 the previous year. This is the fewest overdose deaths in any 12-month period since June 2020.

"It is unprecedented to see predicted overdose deaths drop by more than 27,000 over a single year," said Allison Arwady, MD, MPH, Director of CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

First of all; Thanks, Joe.

And, besides that:

Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers.
Sept. 14, 2022

https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-s...asylum-seekers

Of course, I am always anxious to hear what else Trump has ever been right about.

[EihTooms]

TrumpMusk and the other Repub MAGAs in Congress have 20 months left to do their absolute worst for the USA Economy, National Security and Foreign Policy before any further damage they can inflict on America and the American people is mercifully reduced to a comparative dull roar.

After that, roughly 3 1/2 years from now, the incoming Dem Administration will have perhaps the worst of the worst possible Repub catastrophic messes of everything to clean up and from which to recover America and the rest of the World they have ever been handed by an outgoing Repub Administration.

It will almost certainly be the post-Repub Coolidge / Hoover, post-Repub Eisenhower, post-Repub Nixon / Ford, post-Repub Reagan / Bush1, post-Repub Bush2, post-Repub Trump's Pandemic Part 1 catastrophic mess of All Time on Steroids to clean up.

So count on all of the Repub MAGAs on the sidelines and all of the typically pro-Repub Mainstream Media to snipe and scream and blame those incoming Dems for the whole thing while they are performing historic herculean feats to accomplish what most will say is impossible. Lolol.

And count on this too; it WILL cost money to pull us out of this Repub mess. A LOT of money. MORE money than whatever pittence TrumpMusk can scratch out on a faked golf scorecard to falsely claim they "saved" by laying off thousands of veterans and Social Security Help Staff.

It always does cost more money to pull us out of these Great Repub Economic and National Security Catastrophes than the Repubs piss away getting us into them.

BREAKING: Canada officially cuts ties with Trumps America.
Canada is the First Nation to Walk Away from MAGA. Proudly. Finally.
March 27, 2025

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/...ally-cuts-ties

Huge. "Canada just walked away from the United States. We ended our economic and security ties with Trumps America, but it was historically stunning nonetheless. Not in some passive, were disappointed way. Not a strongly-worded letter. Not a polite diplomatic eye-roll. No Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a full break-up speech on live TV.

The era of deep economic, security, and military ties between Canada and the United States is over.

And just like that, 150+ years of the worlds most peaceful, "mutually beneficial, boring-but-beautiful border relationship... done - dismantled by one orange blowhard/rapist/felon cosplaying as a capable President when hes just a Russian asset in a fucking diaper.

"This comes after Trump allegedly tried to set up a phone call with Carney, to which Carney said nah.

"Donald Trump in what might be the most unhinged foreign policy week since buy Greenland slapped a 25% tariff on Canadian auto imports, called Canada a national security threat, and floated the idea of annexing us as the 51st state.

"Yes. Annexing. Like Putin-lite. Except fatter and with worse grammar.

"Then, when Canada pushed back by deepening economic ties with the European Union, Trump jumped on Truth Social and typed this out with his whole chest:

CANADA IS TRYING TO UNDERMINE AMERICA. IF THEY THINK THEY CAN PARTNER WITH THE EU AGAINST US THERE WILL BE HARSHER SANCTIONS. CANADA AND EUROPE BE WARNED.

"Carney called that bluff today most soberly and seriously. Canada isnt taking a break for its economic and security alliance - were torching it and betting on ourselves with a few other deomcratic superpowers not led by a fucking dotard Putin Puppet.

"Today, Mark Carney made the most consequential announcement of any Canadian Prime Minister in modern history. Visibly pissed but composed, he said enough was enough:

We have to look out for ourselves. And we will do that.

He,Trump, wants to break us so America can own us. And it will never ever happen.

We will defend our workers. We will defend our companies. We will defend our country.

"It felt less like a press conference and more like Churchill with better lighting. That wasnt a press conference. That was world history in the making. A moment that will come to define us as the worlds biggest energy superpower, and it will be done in an unimaginably short period of time because it has to be. Canada will do things not thought possible. And were here, so it has to get done.

"Trump did this. Not Canada. Not Mark Carney. HOWEVER, maybe we should think about sending him a gift basket because the butterfly effect of having the dumbest fascist alive be the 47th president of the United States

"The Global Fallout. This wasnt just a press hit it was a geopolitical earthquake. Heres whats happened in just 12 hours:

The Canadian dollar surged as markets responded to Carneys leadership and a pivot toward Europe.

The Dow dropped 700 points after U.S. automakers panicked over retaliatory tariffs and global realignment.

EU leaders released a joint statement backing Canada and fast-tracking trade + defense integration.

American allies from Germany to Japan are quietly freaking out not because Canada left, but because it finally did what theyve all been thinking.

Canada is now the first country on Earth to formally sever close ties with Trumps America.

And its about damn time."