American Politics

[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."

[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.