American Politics

[The Cane]

Come to find out that the tariffs aren't even based on the tariffs other countries charge us but on trade deficits! What an ignorant motherfucker! Gone from just ruining the American economy to spinning the whole world up for a recession using false numbers. You knew stupidity is behind (and in front) of it all!

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/03/...-figures-.html

[Tiny 12]

Please note that Trump did NOT bring whatever Democratic Party philosophies and agenda you think he ever possessed to the Republican Party or to his presidential campaign or to his 1st Trump's Pandemic term or to his 2nd Trump's Pandemic term.

He chose to run as a Repub because he knew very well that any lazy fuck who knows nothing and does nothing but play golf and cheat on his scorecard can Crash the USA Economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit with nothing of value to show for it and still be glorified and praised by his Party, the Mainstream Media and every numbskull who would not vote all Dem straight up and down the ballot every time as "better at handling the economy" than Democrats.

Moreover, Trump is doing exactly the same things, spouting the exact same rhetoric and is aimed at achieving the exact same horrific economic results that EVERY Repub since Lincoln was shot (possible single exception being Teddy Roosevelt) would have spouted and been as openly honest about wanting to do to violate the Constitution, create chaos, produce economic disaster and all of Classic Repub Trump's other economic, national security and foreign policy Catastrophes.

The ONLY reason the pre Trump Repubs did not openly pull the same shit Trump has gotten away with is because a certain very specific set of events had not yet occurred to give them the same license to violate the Constitution, abandon the Rule of Law, produce any worldwide economy-destroying Pandemic they want, Crash the stock market, Crash the economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit and still not lose one vote from their Repub Voter Base after that Repub Voter Base was driven stark raving insane by that very specific set of events that happened just prior to the Repub rise of Repub Trump.

Namely;.

- The election of a black man to the presidency. A Democrat.

- The amazing accomplishment of that first black president to recover us from one of the worst Great Repub Recessions and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction of All Time, something many had thought impossible so why not shovel that impossible to clean up shit into the lap of the first black president.

- The first woman presidential candidate of a major political party, the Democratic Party. And she won the majority of votes, otherwise known as "winning the presidential election" in every other country that holds free and fair elections.

- The first woman VP candidate of a major political party. The Democratic Party. She was also of mixed minority ethnicity. And she won.

- That woman VP then served a presidential Administration that, again, recovered us from another Great Repub Economic, National Security and Foreign Policy Disaster of All Time and turned it into the Envy of the World Economy, zero engagement by the USA Military anywhere on the planet, reduced crime rate and having created more jobs than all three of the previous Repub presidents combined and a good portion of the fourth previous Repub president.

Those were some of the events that drove the Repub Party absolutely batshit crazy and willing to forgive and in fact love their lord and savior Trump for any and every America-hating, anti-American, economy-destroying, Constitution-violating crap he wants to pull, even if it does more damage to them than anyone else.

Coolidge, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes et al did not run for the Repub Party presidential nomination after any of those events had occurred. Only Trump did. If they had, they most certainly and without doubt would have known their Voter Base would give them the full license to say and do everything they love Trump for saying and doing.

They ALL would have been 100% MAGA.

I wanted to reply "You're hopeless," but that would be obnoxious. So I asked ChatGPT how to finesse a better response. She told me to say, "Well, at least you're consistent!" And I'll add, "You see the world through blue colored glasses. ".

[Elvis 2008]

Ok Tooms, you got me. I've said repeatedly that the President generally has little influence on the economy compared to other factors. Well Trump just proved me wrong. In the Rose Garden today he said the Great Depression never would have happened if we'd kept the tariffs. What a dumb ass!

Yeah, Tiny, this is the MAGA movement. Look at this: https://www.investopedia.com/financi...an-iphone.aspx.

According to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the reason to build in China is not because of the lower labor costs. If this were the case, Apple could make its phones in even cheaper locations. The main reason, according to Cook, is the skill required in tooling engineering. He claims that the specific skill set is no longer available in the USA, but in China, the expertise is prevalent.

Meanwhile, there was this interesting video with a divorce attorney, and the attorney lets its slip, he charges $750 an hour, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnj_63ZHNq8.

Do you think we would have a problem with tooling engineers if they could make $750 an hour? Hell, I wish we had a software engineer come up with a computer program to separate assets and we could leave the lawyers out of the process.

Then look at medications:

The cost of Ozempic varies significantly around the world. In the USA, a 30-day supply of Ozempic has a list price of around $935 a month, though it can be purchased for as low as $906.54 with a GoodRx coupon. In contrast, the drug is priced much lower in other countries. For example, in Germany, the list price is $103 for a 30-day supply, and in Sweden, it is $96.

In France, the price is $83.

The blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic could be manufactured for less than $5 a month, even as Novo Nordisk charges almost $1,000 per month for the injection in the USA Before insurance, a new study suggests.

And by the way, Novo Nordisk is a Dutch company. Given how cheap and easy it is to make, there have been a ton of independent pharmacies making this peptide on their own.

Then look at what the FDA says: A compounded drug might be appropriate if a patient's medical need cannot be met by an FDA-approved drug, or the FDA-approved drug is not commercially available.  However, compounded drugs are not FDA approved. This means the agency does not review compounded drugs for safety, effectiveness or quality before they are marketed.

https://qz.com/novo-nordisk-fda-ozem...ovy-1851679536

Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk wants the FDA to crack down on knockoff weight loss drugs.

This is the modern American economy. A Dutch company makes a product, way overcharges us for it, then employs USA bureaucrats and lawyers, whom we the tax payers pay for, to enforce their astronomical prices.

MAGA means you make a product, charge what the market bears, and quit relying on bureaucrats and lawyers to make you your money. And if the market takes a plunge in the mean time, then so be it. I am sick of these businesses that succeed on financial engineering.

[SubCmdr]

Hell yeah, fuck racists. All 12 of them left. Thank god 99.999999% of Americans don't give a fuck about skin color!

It is a good thing the Educational Department is being eliminated. It certainly didn't help this guy. . 000001 X 300,000,000.00 = 30. The formula that he provided indicates there are 30 racists left in the United States of America. First of all I wonder why he did not get his calculator out. Lastly where did he get his formula from? Did he make it up? Or did he just quote it but not give the original source credit.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-racist-is-america/

[EihTooms]

Ok Tooms, you got me. I've said repeatedly that the President generally has little influence on the economy compared to other factors. Well Trump just proved me wrong. In the Rose Garden today he said the Great Depression never would have happened if we'd kept the tariffs. What a dumb ass!

The Republicans should have kicked his dumb ass to the curb when he came over from the Democratic Party. If Peter Navarro is right, he's succeeded in increasing taxes by $700 billion a year, all by himself, without Congress. Rand Paul is right, this is unconstitutional.

Please note that Trump did NOT bring whatever Democratic Party philosophies and agenda you think he ever possessed to the Republican Party or to his presidential campaign or to his 1st Trump's Pandemic term or to his 2nd Trump's Pandemic term.

He chose to run as a Repub because he knew very well that any lazy fuck who knows nothing and does nothing but play golf and cheat on his scorecard can Crash the USA Economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit with nothing of value to show for it and still be glorified and praised by his Party, the Mainstream Media and every numbskull who would not vote all Dem straight up and down the ballot every time as "better at handling the economy" than Democrats.

Moreover, Trump is doing exactly the same things, spouting the exact same rhetoric and is aimed at achieving the exact same horrific economic results that EVERY Repub since Lincoln was shot (possible single exception being Teddy Roosevelt) would have spouted and been as openly honest about wanting to do to violate the Constitution, create chaos, produce economic disaster and all of Classic Repub Trump's other economic, national security and foreign policy Catastrophes.

The ONLY reason the pre Trump Repubs did not openly pull the same shit Trump has gotten away with is because a certain very specific set of events had not yet occurred to give them the same license to violate the Constitution, abandon the Rule of Law, produce any worldwide economy-destroying Pandemic they want, Crash the stock market, Crash the economy, wipe out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocket the deficit and still not lose one vote from their Repub Voter Base after that Repub Voter Base was driven stark raving insane by that very specific set of events that happened just prior to the Repub rise of Repub Trump.

Namely;.

- The election of a black man to the presidency. A Democrat.

- The amazing accomplishment of that first black president to recover us from one of the worst Great Repub Recessions and Massive Repub Jobs Destruction of All Time, something many had thought impossible so why not shovel that impossible to clean up shit into the lap of the first black president.

- The first woman presidential candidate of a major political party, the Democratic Party. And she won the majority of votes, otherwise known as "winning the presidential election" in every other country that holds free and fair elections.

- The first woman VP candidate of a major political party. The Democratic Party. She was also of mixed minority ethnicity. And she won.

- That woman VP then served a presidential Administration that, again, recovered us from another Great Repub Economic, National Security and Foreign Policy Disaster of All Time and turned it into the Envy of the World Economy, zero engagement by the USA Military anywhere on the planet, reduced crime rate and having created more jobs than all three of the previous Repub presidents combined and a good portion of the fourth previous Repub president.

Those were some of the events that drove the Repub Party absolutely batshit crazy and willing to forgive and in fact love their lord and savior Trump for any and every America-hating, anti-American, economy-destroying, Constitution-violating crap he wants to pull, even if it does more damage to them than anyone else.

Coolidge, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes et al did not run for the Repub Party presidential nomination after any of those events had occurred. Only Trump did. If they had, they most certainly and without doubt would have known their Voter Base would give them the full license to say and do everything they love Trump for saying and doing.

They ALL would have been 100% MAGA.

[RamDavidson84]

Senator Cory Booker will go down in history as giving the longest speech in the history of the Senate.

A true American Hero!

It is especially ironic that he broke the record of the man who previously held the record trying to prevent individuals such as Senator Booker from being able to be elected to the Senate in the first place.

Two middle fingers up to all of my fellow Americans that are racists currently residing in the United States of America and traveling abroad!

Hell yeah, fuck racists. All 12 of them left. Thank god 99.999999% of Americans don't give a fuck about skin color!

[Tiny 12]

Ok Tooms, you got me. I've said repeatedly that the President generally has little influence on the economy compared to other factors. Well Trump just proved me wrong. In the Rose Garden today he said the Great Depression never would have happened if we'd kept the tariffs. What a dumb ass!

The Republicans should have kicked his dumb ass to the curb when he came over from the Democratic Party. If Peter Navarro is right, he's succeeded in increasing taxes by $700 billion a year, all by himself, without Congress. Rand Paul is right, this is unconstitutional.

[SubCmdr]

Senator Cory Booker will go down in history as giving the longest speech in the history of the Senate.

A true American Hero!

It is especially ironic that he broke the record of the man who previously held the record trying to prevent individuals such as Senator Booker from being able to be elected to the Senate in the first place.

Two middle fingers up to all of my fellow Americans that are racists currently residing in the United States of America and traveling abroad!

[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."