American Politics

[Tiny 12]

When all else fails...tell more lies!

Sure dude, sure!

Wiki: "Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism that means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements." --Thanks, that about sums up, my illustration of "BETTER", if that's what your trying to say!...Elvis 2008, again for clarity, show me one (1) post, where I mentioned anything about the "PERFECT" or "PERFECTION" in a energy solution, other than renewables being BETTER or more efficient, than fossil fuels, when it comes to the grid electricity generation and consumption?

You're putting words into Elvis' mouth. I don't believe he's posted anything about perfect or perfection as those apply to energy, except to kindly provide a definition.

And yes, many carbon cultists refuse to accept that natural gas, by substituting for coal, has reduced carbon and NOx emissions somewhat, and drastically lowered emissions of particulate matter and sulfur dioxide. All the while providing reliable baseload electric power, which solar and wind cannot at present. Yes indeed, don't let perfect be the enemy of good..

[MarquisdeSade1]

How Democracies Die.

Book by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky.

I've started reading this and so far it's eye opening. Anyone who doesn't think Trump is on his way to destroy America needs to read this.

I'm reading a book with a similar title "How the Democrats Die".

It all starts with Ross Perot jumping into the 1992 race and throwing the election to Scumbag Bubba if not for that the world would be very very different today.

He liked the BS concept of the 3rd way, aka selling the party to Wall Street for some kickbacks via the CF after leaving office.

He pushed thru Glass Stegall NAFTA and installed the CCP into the WTO for Wall St, the people would never of accepted any of these things from a GOPer let alone all of them.

But Scumbag Bubba from a shack in the hills of Arkansas convinced the voters to trust him, he would never cum in their mouth if they asked him not to.

And with cheap con man lines like "I feel your pain" or calling himself the 1st black POTUS while he gutted welfare.

Fast forward 8 yrs Barry Barack Hussein was elected and again with tons of help from Wall Street he was going to be Scumbag Bubba 2. 0 in blackface.

Like when they called him to shutdown the 99% movement, he did swiftly just like a good house slave would.

And he's collecting his kickbacks just like Scumbag Bubba did thru his "foundation" 60 million from Netflix for nothing other than his loyal house slave subservience to the man.

And 100 million from Bozo for not laying a finger on his cash making machine for 8 whole yrs.

But the people had seen enough of these grifters so they elected the Resurrection of Adolph Hitler himself DJT at least according to the media.

That was going really well until the election rolled around and Wall street and Silicon valley conspired to install Scumbag Joe, well as we all know that didn't work out to well.

Who would of thought open borders and Trannies running amok would be popular with the voters.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/31/h...on-was-rigged/

And now we are left with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ for the 3rd time.

As for the title of this book "How the Democrats Died".

It starts way before Jan 20,2025 but gets kicked into high gear in earnest at that point.

The Democrats fought as dirty as dirty could get, and they failed miserably just like the LOSERS they are (in case you don't know fighting dirty generates very very bad karma) ie Mike Tyson was the POS loser that bit off Holyfields ear, just a couple yrs later he found himself rotting in an Indiana prison for 6 yrs for raaape, and that was the end of his boxing days so to speak.

They Tried to destroy Mein MAGA Fuhrer every way you could imagine.

And now its PAYBACK TIME and boy are they are crying for mercy.

You Scumbags tried to destroy DJT and MAGA so you could destroy the rest of what's left of America.

We are only 60 days in, 1400 more to go LMFAO.

He has been given Carte Blanche to wipe out the Scumbags and he is off to a great start.

2 months into 48 months, and things are looking very very SWEEEEEEET.

[Tiny 12]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfec..._enemy_of_good

In the English-speaking world the aphorism is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Questions "Il meglio l'inimico del bene".

It sounds like someone needs to redo high school English. LOL.

In your binary world, it is China good and the USA bad. When it to dirty air, China ranks as 21st worst in the world. The USA? #116.

https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-countries

And part of being a Democratic douche is playing the never mind game. Oh, we love EVs but now we hate Elon Musk. I have enclosed the perfect meme for you never mind Democrats.

Yes, Spidy has some real misconceptions. Remember this one?

Can't speak to India, but the air quality in most large Chinese cites, is on par or better per capita, than most USA cities like N.Y.

Well, it turns out that 397 of the 500 "most polluted cities by particulate matter concentration" are in China. And not one is in the USA.

Spidy thinks China is some kind of renewable energy utopia. Well, I can damn well guarantee you that the USA produces less CO2 emissions per gigawatt-hour of power than China. Why? Because of clean burning natural gas, that's why. We rely more on natural gas than coal for electricity generation, and China does the opposite. A great example of PERFECT being the enemy of good. China started construction on 94.5 GW of coal capacity in just 2024! Compare to total installed capacity, from all sources (renewables, coal, natural gas, nuclear) of about 104 GW in Australia, Turkey or Mexico.

Who cares how efficient renewables are when they don't work when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing and you don't have the battery capacity to store the energy? What you end up with are sky high electricity prices in places like California or South Australia, and like you said brown outs.

And how efficient is it removing millions of tons of overburden, then processing lithium, nickel, copper, and cobalt ores? Then transporting them from places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and China to manufacturing plants? And finally moving manufactured components by sea, truck and train to their final destinations? The guru who wrote the last piece of green propaganda that Spidy posted apparently isn't even happy using green hydrogen to power the ships to transport the ore and the metals and the solar cells and the wind mills. Because that's not "efficient. " What a load of crap.

Speaking of which, if Spidy gave a you-know-what about energy security, he'd be a strong supporter of President Trump and his plan to take over Canada and Greenland. If we're going to produce all those battery minerals to replace our domestic oil and gas production, well then, by damn, we're going to need them! Yes, if Spidy were self aware, he'd be a MAGA Fuhrer Cultist!

This sounds to me like another excuse to put people in petro states like Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming onto the unemployment rolls so they'll rely on government checks. Because one of the key constituencies of the Democratic Party are people who sit home on their asses. Those Democrat politicians in blue states and Washington D.C. may be crafty, but this will backfire on them. People from God's country would rather work, no matter how much money the government pays them. Their master plan didn't work in West Virginia and it won't in Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._concentration

[Spidy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfec..._enemy_of_good

In the English-speaking world the aphorism is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Questions "Il meglio l'inimico del bene".

It sounds like someone needs to redo high school English. LOL.

(...kkkk!) Sure dude, sure!

Wiki: "Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism that means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements." --Thanks, that about sums up, my illustration of "BETTER", if that's what your trying to say!

BTW, more S+W+B and other renewables are exactly, those "...implementation of good improvements", that Voltaire was referring to, w/r to the next phase and transition to an even cleaner U.S. electrical grid. NOT MORE dirty fossil fuels!

As I said in my post, it's only you, Elvis 2008 and Tiny 12, that sky rocket, straight from good to perfection. I've always insisted the "PERFECTION" narrative on energy solutions, has only ever existed in the wasted minds of you MAGA Fuhrer cultists.

Elvis 2008, again for clarity, show me one (1) post, where I mentioned anything about the "PERFECT" or "PERFECTION" in a energy solution, other than renewables being BETTER or more efficient, than fossil fuels, when it comes to the grid electricity generation and consumption?

[Spidy]

No, solar / wind / battery are not better than fossil fuels. They are not as energy dense as fossil fuels like gasoline and natural gas.

Yeah, your opening statement, would be correct in terms of "energy density", if I'd been taking about powering a Boeing 747. I WAS NOT! Renewables being 3 to 5x more efficient at powering the electrical grid, was the focus of my post.

S+W+B and other renewables, will always be 3 to 5X BETTER or EFFICIENT at converting primary energy into "usable electricity" or electrical energy, with about +92% efficiency, from input energy to consumable "usable energy".

Elvis 2008, don't be fooled like Tiny 12, and try trip yourself up, on the "Primary Energy Fallacy", that O&G companies want you to believe. IT IS NOT ABOUT "energy density", when it comes to producing and consuming electricity.

If you haven't yet checked out the "Primary Energy Fallacy", you should also checkout a U.S. Sankey Chart, while you're at it. https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/13...carbonization/

[HotDog666]

How Democracies Die.

Book by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky.

I've started reading this and so far it's eye opening. Anyone who doesn't think Trump is on his way to destroy America needs to read this.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Trump put 10% tax, China put back 15% . Such a loser casino player.

Look at all the tariffs he put on the CCP includ during 2016-1020.

Then look at what the CCP buys from the USA and vice versa.

https://www.ft.com/content/cf030e98-...5-8c5674753b66

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...chinas-decline

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/...ering-economy/

[SubCmdr]

The fact that you actually say and believe all of this in the wake of the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians by the Israelis shows the extent of your depravity, wickedness and hypocrisy of people like you.

"Peaceful Neighbors". What a sick comment. What a shameless sick excuse of a man you are.

This forum is for the discussion of ideas and opinions. Not your personal vendettas and ad hominem attacks over issues you disagree with others.

Respectfully, if I want to read the pure unadulterated excrement that you wrote I read your posts one of the RANTs Thread.

In the picture for you is it lotion, a facial moisturizer or lube?

[MarquisdeSade1]

Breitbart alludes to it in passing, but just to be clear; Rolls-Royce ALREADY has production facilities in the USA.

And the company had ALREADY reported "stellar annual results on profits" under Biden, considering it was Biden whose brilliant economic stimulus led America and the rest of the World to a historic Recovery from the Trump's Pandemic Economic Catastrophe without so much as an iddy-biddy Global Recession, much less a Great Repub Global Recession or, more likely if Russia's influence had succeeded in placing their boy Trump in the White House again in 2021, a Great Repub Global Depression.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/east...d-tariff-scare

And, ah yes, the beauty and incomparable economic advantages of GLOBALISM. Rolls-Royce ain't giving up on the concept, you know. They are just mulling exploiting it even more.

Always the Top never the bottom like you leftists love to be so much.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainm...house-meeting/

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...r-biden-regime

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...propped-bidens

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-...loff-recession

AMERICA FIRST!

[EihTooms]

Did the MAGA Project 2025 authors forget the part about "collecting revenues" to offset the Trillions their tax cuts for Billionaires will add to Classic Repub Trump's record high Deficits?

Tax revenue collected by the IRS set to plummet, report says.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/tax-...ndroidappshare

IRS officials are expecting tax revenue to drop by more than 10% by April 15, The Washington Post reported.

Officials said the prediction is directly linked to shifting taxpayer behavior and President Donald Trumps cuts at the IRS, the paper said.

The loss of tax receipts is expected as more individuals and businesses dont file taxes or attempt to avoid paying balances owed to the IRS. The amount of lost federal revenue could top $500 billion, the paper said..

Oh, that's right; the missing revenue will come from the extra, extra, extra high prices the American Working Men and Women Consumer will pay for Trump's Tariff Taxes!

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mc...23/id/1203970/

The GOP establishment tried to destroy him, instead he destroyed them all McCain Romney Paul Ryan Murdoch McConnell Flake Desantis Bush Cheneys et al.

The DNC tried to destroy him and instead he eviscerated them.

Includ Silicon Valley Hollywood Wall St The Global Media The Deep State Big Tech Big Media Big Money, MAGA and Mein MAGA Fuhrer are truly invincible.

Its A New Damn for Gods Chosen People!!

Opinion.

Ross Douthat.

It's About Ideology, Not Oligarchy.

March 22,2025.

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Ross Douthat.

By Ross Douthat.

Opinion Columnist.

The Democrats, casting about for an anti-Trump narrative, have found a word: "oligarchy. " It was part of Joe Biden's farewell address; it's central to Senator Bernie Sanders's barnstorming; it shows up in the advice given by ex-Obama hands. It aspires to fold together President Trump's self-enrichment, Elon Musk's outsize influence, the image of Silicon Valley big shots at the inauguration with a familiar Democratic criticism of the G. O. P. As the party of the superrich.

I don't want to pass premature judgment on its rhetorical effectiveness. But as a narrative for actually understanding the second Trump administration, the language of "oligarchy" obscures more than it reveals. It suggests a vision of Trumpism in which billionaires and big corporations are calling the shots. And certainly, the promise of some familiar Republican agenda items — like deregulation and business tax cuts — fits that script.

But where Trump's most disruptive and controversial policies are concerned, much of what one might call the American oligarchy is indifferent, skeptical or fiercely opposed.

Start with the crusade against wokeness and the. E. I. , a fight spreading beyond the federal bureaucracy to everything (state policymaking, university hiring) influenced by federal funding. Is this a central oligarchic agenda item? Not exactly. Sure, some corporate honchos were weary of activist demands and welcomed the rightward shift. But before the revolts that began with politicians like Ron DeSantis and activists like Christopher Rufo, the corporate oligarchy was an ally or agent of the Great Awokening, either accepting new progressivism's strictures as the price of doing business or actively encouraging the. E. I. As both a managerial and a commercial strategy.

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Capital, in other words, is flexible. It can be woke or unwoke, depending on the prevailing winds, and it will adapt again if anti-the. E. I. Sentiment goes away.

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Next, consider Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with its frantic quest to slash contracts, grants and head counts at government agencies. Is this oligarchy? No doubt some corporations stand ready to fill spaces left open by the public-sector retreat. But the American corporate sector as a whole is deeply enmeshed with governmental contracting, heavily invested in public-private partnerships, accustomed to cozy lobbying relationships and eager to take advantage of government largess.

So there is no deep corporate investment in reducing head count at random federal agencies, and there is plenty of corporate angst about what DOGE might mean for the specific kinds of private-sector power that have metastasized all around Washington.

And even with Musk himself, the first oligarch: For all the ways he might use his access to game the system, the immediate effect of his crusade has been to undermine Tesla, his most important company, and substantially diminish his (yes, still world-beating) net worth. (The risks to his position if and when Republicans lose power are even more considerable.) So we should take him at least somewhat seriously when he talks like a libertarian or debt-crisis true believer; he's putting his net worth in the service of those ideas rather than just leveraging power to increase his wealth.

Finally, populist ideas rather than oligarchic self-interest are clearly the motivating factor behind Trump's highest-risk move, the great tariff experiment. Of course, there is a tycoon who stands to benefit from protectionism out there somewhere, but the generalization still holds: When it comes to the lords of the American economy, nobody wants this.

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The people who do want it are the right's version of the critics of neoliberalism who influenced Biden's administration: outsider intellectuals and dissenting members of officialdom who see themselves as champions of downscale constituencies ill served by a globalized system designed to benefit investors, corporations and billionaires. There are all kinds of ways in which Trump has failed to follow through on populist promises, but the vision of a new trade order is populism in its truest form; it rejects a consensus shared by academic experts and the upper class, and it promises long-term benefits for the working man in exchange for short-term pain for rich investors.

As such, it can't really be attacked coherently along the lines favored by Sanders or any left-wing Democrat. It's not a giveaway to Trump's biggest donors. (They hate it.) It's not a sop to the Wall Street players. (They're against it.) It's not an intensification of neoliberal capitalism but a rejection of its premises.

Instead, the opportunity it offers Democrats, like the opportunity that Biden's attempt at postneoliberalism offered Republicans, is contingent on its actual economic effects. A future where the economy sputters even as Muskian cuts lead to foul-ups with popular government programs offers Democrats the clearest path back to power. But they won't be leading a revolution against the oligarchy; they'll be promising a restoration.

[EihTooms]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...ariffs-report/

All Praise and Glory goes to Mein MAGA Fuhrer.

Breitbart alludes to it in passing, but just to be clear; Rolls-Royce ALREADY has production facilities in the USA.

And the company had ALREADY reported "stellar annual results on profits" under Biden, considering it was Biden whose brilliant economic stimulus led America and the rest of the World to a historic Recovery from the Trump's Pandemic Economic Catastrophe without so much as an iddy-biddy Global Recession, much less a Great Repub Global Recession or, more likely if Russia's influence had succeeded in placing their boy Trump in the White House again in 2021, a Great Repub Global Depression.

https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/east...d-tariff-scare

Rolls spokesperson said: We have additional capacity within some of our US operations and continuously seek to explore options to ensure that our global internal supply chain is optimised for delivery to customers in the US.

The news comes just weeks after Rolls-Royces share price hit record highs on the back of stellar annual results, which showed underlying profit rise from 1.26bn to 2.29bn last year. The business is forecasting its 2025 adjusted operating profit to come in between 2.7bn and 2.9bn.

And, ah yes, the beauty and incomparable economic advantages of GLOBALISM. Rolls-Royce ain't giving up on the concept, you know. They are just mulling exploiting it even more.

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...ariffs-report/

All Praise and Glory goes to Mein MAGA Fuhrer.

[EihTooms]

Is this this best you've got?? WoW Have you no sense of decency? The US is back and will be the ONLY Superpower again and you and your fellow vile American HATING Trump haters.

Are lost, you've got nothing but the lamest memes I've ever seen I think a 5 yr old could do better, I think your lame efforts to gaslight everyone here just keep getting lamer and lamer.

You and Spidy should hang up your keyboards and give it up, the jig is up, Globalism is as dead as dead gets WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP to all you ANTI American Scumbags, I wish you ADIEU.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...close-seconds/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...-populism.html

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...al-immigrants/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...n-polling.html

Oh, do you like reading about polls again?

Here are a couple of stories for you. One to read to long-time China benefactor, President Musk and one to read to his assistant, Putin & Xi Ass-Kisser Trump.

The first story is called, The Boys Who Were Touched By Trump.

The second story is called, After Just Two Months, The RCP Trump Job Approval Poll Concensus That Even Rasmussen Could Not Save.

See screenshots below:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

[HotDog666]

Why do you expect Westerners to care more about the lives of russian soldiers than the russian leaders and people do themselves?

Here's an crazy idea; if you don't want to die, don't start a war against your peaceful neighbors.

The same goes for the palestinians; their leaders even publicly talked about how the blood of palestinians had to be flooding the streets to "improve" support for their "cause".

I'm genuinely scared after seeing what's going on in the palestinian Territories; little children are being taught to murder Israelis and even their mothers, which should be protecting their children!, are openly saying to their little sons that they will grow up to become martyrs.

It truly is horrific. In gaza suicide bombers are celebrated and their parents are proud!

The fact that you actually say and believe all of this in the wake of the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians by the Israelis shows the extent of your depravity, wickedness and hypocrisy of people like you.

"Peaceful Neighbors". What a sick comment. What a shameless sick excuse of a man you are.