American Politics

**Spidy** · 03-03-25 01:52

Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]

Bro, I don't agree with your opinions that much. But I had a visceral negative reaction to the Oval Office Performance by POTUS.

He is in my opinion a: punk ass ***** sitting up in the White House with his thumb on the nuclear button acting more like a gangster than a US President. He appears to be on his knees in front of Putin. It is a crying shame. I am embarrassed for me and my fellow Americans.

We need Obama, Clinton, Bush Sr. hell even Regan back!

We are on the path to dictatorship if the courts and congress do not put a check on dis mother fucker!

Well said...but none of this, comes as a surprise to me!

Project 2025, as was foretold by us Dems, over and over again, to the American people (and to ISGers), is alive and well!

Next stop...for the American Fuhrer and MAGA, ..."The Hunger Games"??

Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]

So far has produced nothing of substance for the CRYPTO industry. Next election Democrats need to fight to the crypto vote!

• Speaking of deadbeat presidents and crypto, I was very surprised nobody had reported on the other one in Argentina, who's embroiled in the $LIBRA scandal. I mean that story came out like about two weeks ago...and crickets here at ISG?

Since I know very little about the subject of crypto, I was leaving it up to experts like yourself to report on the story and weigh in, on what it all, could possibly mean?

My limited understanding like 2-weeks ago: Like 5 people held 75% of the value and cashed out as soon as the value spiked from nothing to $5. Now president is accused of "rug pulling" and corruption.

Yet another right-wing president who hasn't quite figured out how "greed" works and how NOT to incentivize "greedy" ponzi schemes in right-wing political regime?

Argentina's $4.6 Billion Crypto Scandal; Largest-Ever Crypto Theft
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital...-crypto-theft/

What say you, crypto experts?

PS: And to all you wingers, where's the love now, for Argentine President Javier Milei? Not to worry though, doesn't President Musk, have enough crypto, to bailout his Argentinian bro-president like, 4x over? (...kkkk!)

**Xpartan** · 03-03-25 00:08

Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]

Let us be honest, trump is not looking for peace, he wants Ukraine to surrender unconditionally while he is praising putin and begging a war torned Ukraine for money. What the fuck is going on? Your president is begging for money like a crackhead.

I remember a time when usa was a Great country, nowadays USA have to do any and everything to appease russia and harass small third world countries for money. There's absolutely zero dignity in the White House today. It is tragic to see how Marco Rubio betrays what ha used to believe in, the same goes for Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham in the senate.

The White House is like a clown car, but instead of clowns it's full of pro-Putin, right-wing weirdos.

I understand that the current administration isn't interested in contributing a single dollar to support the defense of democracy; but why do they have give in to every command coming from Kremlin? Trump and jd Vance are actively working to strengthen putin.

The answer is on the surface even if it sounds as a conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, all other logical explanations fail.

**Xpartan** · 03-03-25 00:02

Originally Posted by Tiny12 [View Original Post]

I wish you were right, that DOGE will take an axe to the defense budget. We spend more on defense than the next 9 highest-spending countries combined. But you're not right.

The USA is now spending 850 billion annually on defense. In the budget resolution just approved by the Senate, this will go up even more, to $1 trillion! Any cost savings for the military from DOGE will be insignificant.

We spend 8 X more on defense than Russia. We're armed to the teeth. I don't understand why you're so worried about the threat from Moscow.

Of course, they won't save their money to taxpayers, that's not why they're there. Instead, they're removing career personal from Pentagon and security agencies including top military and intelligence leaders for no reason at all! Man, you're not brainless MAGA cultist, how can you possibly NOT see this?

**Axel Heyst** · 03-02-25 23:23

How about this hybrid: 1200 hp and check out the powertrain on this baby. Don't scoff boys. It is all about innovation. This is how the free market works. The Ferrari F80 is already sold out, proving there is demand for hybrids. You just have to make cars that people want to own and not force crap on them with regulations and mandates.

**Tiny 12** · 03-02-25 23:10

Originally Posted by Xpartan [View Original Post]

DOGE was designed with one goal in mind -- to destroy the military preparedness of this country. No foreign enemies would be able to inflict the damage the DOGE has already done without a single shot fired. And this is just the beginning, we ain't seen nothing yet.

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ay/ar-AA1A0kIc

I wish you were right, that DOGE will take an axe to the defense budget. We spend more on defense than the next 9 highest-spending countries combined. But you're not right.

The USA is now spending 850 billion annually on defense. In the budget resolution just approved by the Senate, this will go up even more, to $1 trillion! Any cost savings for the military from DOGE will be insignificant.

We spend 8 X more on defense than Russia. We're armed to the teeth. I don't understand why you're so worried about the threat from Moscow.

**Newton York** · 03-02-25 23:06

I just want NVDA to go back up again *sigh*.

**Tiny 12** · 03-02-25 22:53

Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]

EV's are on my list of consideration for my next vehicle. But I want a SUV. I'm even considering an electric scooter. But I have to investigate the logistics of charging it up. Scooters get between 80 - 100 MPG so I'm not sure how much of a contribution an electric scooter would actually make.

My take on renewable is they should be the priority. Oil should be reserved for products like aviation and the production of materials. I am not ready to fly in an electrically powered airplane just quite yet. LOL!

I'd leave it up to free markets SubCmdr. If you mandate BEV's here in God's Country where I live, there'd be a revolution. Elvis posted about a hybrid truck recently, that would appear to make a lot more sense than BEV's for anyone who drives longer distances.

That said, I understand your enthusiasm for renewables, particularly in the Dominican Republic. Until researching Spidy's claims, I didn't realize the air was so polluted in the DR. I guess I was lucky when I visited Santo Domingo. Six of the 500 cities with the highest particulate matter concentration in the world are in the tiny DR. Yes, perhaps mandating renewables, if they work given the climate and don't create undue hardship on the people, makes sense there.

**The Cane** · 03-02-25 19:56

Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]

So far has produced nothing of substance for the CRYPTO industry. Next election Democrats need to fight to the crypto vote!

Well what did you really expect man? The guy is a serial liar and full of bluster! He's going to end the Ukraine war in just a matter of hours. He's going to bring the price of groceries down. And yadda, yadda, yadda! People hang on to his bullshit words with hope, but anybody with any sense knows that cocksucker isn't going to do shit but fuck everything up! Just like he did last time! He didn't create a strong economy. After Bush and the Republicans fucked it up, Obama and the Democrats fixed it and handed it to his ass. Then what did Trump and the Republicans do? Of course, they fucked it up again, and Biden and the Democrats had to deal with all the turds left on the ground (no good deed goes unpunished)! Fasten your seat belt and hold on! It's only March 2025, and we have a long way to go until this piece of shit is out of office! FAFO (Fuck Around and Find Out)!

**Elvis 2008** · 03-02-25 19:53

Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]

Let us be honest, trump is not looking for peace, he wants Ukraine to surrender unconditionally while he is praising putin and begging a war torned Ukraine for money. What the fuck is going on? Your president is begging for money like a crackhead.

If that is your version of events, I am not going to convince you of anything.

Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]

I remember a time when usa was a Great country, nowadays USA have to do any and everything to appease russia and harass small third world countries for money. There's absolutely zero dignity in the White House today. It is tragic to see how Marco Rubio betrays what ha used to believe in, the same goes for Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham in the senate.
The White House is like a clown car, but instead of clowns it's full of pro-Putin, right-wing weirdos.

This sounds like a European making criticism. When Russia first attacked Ukraine, I was very skeptical as it seemed like a psyop to get Covid off the front pages. The more I have read, the worst it has become. Matt Taibbi, is a reporter I trust and he was chasing down the money that went to Ukraine and I could just read in his face how exacerbated he was by the corruption and how few dollars were actually making it to the Ukrainian front line.

Originally Posted by ShooBree [View Original Post]

I understand that the current administration isn't interested in contributing a single dollar to support the defense of democracy; but why do they have give in to every command coming from Kremlin? Trump and jd Vance are actively working to strengthen putin.

What Democracy? Europeans got together with the Democrats and tried to sabotage the will of the American voters in 2016. Besides Christopher Steele being a Democrat puppet, we have the UK banning free speech and the rest of Europe following. Romania elected a conservative candidate, and the election was overturned by the EU. German's conservative AFD party was attempted to be banned. Zelensky has banned the opposition parties, does not have a free press, is jailing peace preaching pastors, and will not hold elections.

Trump does not want to send American dollars earmarked for Ukraine any more because the Ukrainians cannot keep track of where it is going. He wants out of NATO, and he has said the EU was formed to screw the USA, and he is going to put 25% tariffs on the EU.

So with Zelensky, the MAGA guys cheered and the Democrats booed. That was predictable. What changed is Zelensky now has zero support among Republican Congressmen and the loathing of European political leaders, who came to Zelensky's support after this debacle, has begun.

I thought the USA leaving NATO, which it should have done after the fall of the USSR, was not going to happen. Now I think the odds are better than 50-50. I suspect whatever European tariffs cost us can be offset by the amount we save in getting out of NATO and withdrawing support from Ukraine.

The most offensive thing Zelensky said was that he was saving the USA from Russia. He did not say thank you. He did not have to. We should be thanful he is willing to take our money, and that is the attitude of most Europeans.

Europe is the perpetual kid getting in family fights that we American adults have had to bail out of jail. Europe is like the child telling the American adults we are lucky to be paying the bail money. I am done with that. It is time for Europe to take the diaper off and grow up.

**SubCmdr** · 03-02-25 13:07

So far has produced nothing of substance for the CRYPTO industry. Next election Democrats need to fight to the crypto vote!

**EihTooms** · 03-02-25 11:21

Originally Posted by SubCmdr [View Original Post]

Not proud to be from the United States of America right now!

Bro, I don't agree with your opinions that much. But I had a visceral negative reaction to the Oval Office Performance by POTUS.

He is in my opinion a: punk ass ***** sitting up in the White House with his thumb on the nuclear button acting more like a gangster than a US President. He appears to be on his knees in front of Putin. It is a crying shame. I am embarrassed for me and my fellow Americans.

We need Obama, Clinton, Bush Sr. hell even Regan back!

We are on the path to dictatorship if the courts and congress do not put a check on dis mother fucker!

It was one of the greatest understatements of all time when The Speaker of the House stood up at a meeting, looked Trump square in the face and declared, "All roads with you lead to Putin. ".

As overwhelming as the evidence always was and conclusively acknowledged as such even by Investigation Committees headed by Repubs, Russia Russia Russia Russia has now taken a clear and unambiguous turn for the worse, if that is possible, by the America-hating Traitors in the White House:

Two Must-See videos, one 12 minutes in length:

https://youtu.be/Zn9BTALjtLY?si=NQSStN8lRMoyXOVN

Another one 5 minutes in length:

https://youtu.be/iSW8ezOmYHs?si=4DIcxYiRf8KfsCpY

And they are simply brief recaps of seemingly endless and ongoing evidence for what the World is witnessing as the downfall of America at the tiny hands of Trump.

**Xpartan** · 03-02-25 09:27

DOGE was designed with one goal in mind -- to destroy the military preparedness of this country. No foreign enemies would be able to inflict the damage the DOGE has already done without a single shot fired. And this is just the beginning, we ain't seen nothing yet.

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ay/ar-AA1A0kIc

**Spidy** · 03-02-25 07:57

Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]

Thing about Spidy is I grew tired of his constant name calling and saying nothing in his posts. When it has come to the energy discussion, he still brings his usual partisan hip checks but at least this time he is bringing facts and knowledge to his credit. Maybe it is not fair, but I am suspicious as to why. LOL.

(...kkkk!) Coming from the king of the D-BAG and Double D-BAG word usage. With a horrendous ISG reputation for instigating name calling and having more deleted posts by Admin, then you can shake a stick at, I think you need to check yourself in the mirror.

Dude, I bring the "facts and knowledge" to my credit, ALL THE TIME! Which I can't honestly say about YOU and the constant gish gallop you bring to the debate table.

I seem to remember, it wasn't too long ago, our esteemed colleague, Eihtooms, was excoriating you, for your woeful lack of sources, facts, links and evidence to back up all your MAGA gish gallop (...kkkk!).

Although, as of late, I will say, that the recent debates (with me at any rate), you have tried to provided more factual information. Kudos!

**MarquisdeSade1** · 03-02-25 05:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCZzilSoa9k

**ShooBree** · 03-02-25 04:35

Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trump speaks to Putin and says that Putin hates Zelensky, and Zelensky hates Putin, and in your mind, Trump is sucking Putin's dick. I could see your interpretation of events a mile away. With Democratic douches, the only thing you can say about Putin is that he sucks.

Given that is your mindset, do you have a peace deal that you can offer up that does not involve Putin? Or is it just more dead bodies, more debt, and more empty slogans (we are with Ukraine until they achieve victory, whatever the fuck that means)?

Let us be honest, trump is not looking for peace, he wants Ukraine to surrender unconditionally while he is praising putin and begging a war torned Ukraine for money. What the fuck is going on? Your president is begging for money like a crackhead.

I remember a time when usa was a Great country, nowadays USA have to do any and everything to appease russia and harass small third world countries for money. There's absolutely zero dignity in the White House today. It is tragic to see how Marco Rubio betrays what ha used to believe in, the same goes for Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham in the senate.

The White House is like a clown car, but instead of clowns it's full of pro-Putin, right-wing weirdos.

I understand that the current administration isn't interested in contributing a single dollar to support the defense of democracy; but why do they have give in to every command coming from Kremlin? Trump and jd Vance are actively working to strengthen putin.