American Politics

[SubCmdr]

The charging infrastructure still needs to be addressed. Where does an apartment dweller charge a EV overnight?

[EihTooms]

This is so perplexing. Hasn't Trump been telling his dumb Repub MAGA sucker hillbillies that other countries will pay his Tariffs, giving the American people Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars with which we can all buy anything we want, pay for Childcare because Childcare is Childcare and for our groceries, damn I'm glad Trump invented that word, and everybody gets rich?

Then how in the world can this happen?

Trump tariffs will hurt lower income Americans more than the rich, study says.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trum...ndroidappshare

Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump are expected to raise costs on products for U.S. consumers.

However, tariffs would hurt lower income households with a minimal impact on the top one percent of earners in 2026, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

And now come to find out Trump knew he was lying to his dumb Repub MAGA hillbillies about, well, everything!

Trump finally admits his Tariffs are taxes added to products and paid by the American Consumers who buy those products, not by the country selling us the product.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EKxJL8tx8/

BREAKING: Donald Trump accidentally admits that his disastrous tariffs are increasing inflation because they get added to the "price of a product" and as a result a "lot of those products aren't going to sell."

Every MAGA fool who supported these tariffs is eating crow now...

"Are you worried about what the 145% tariffs are doing to small businesses in the U.S.? Is that why you're bringing it down?" a reporter asked Trump.

"No... No..." he replied. "No... No... No... I haven't brought it down. I haven't brought It's still 145%, I haven't brought it down. I said it's a high tariff," said Trump. "It is a high tariff but I haven't brought it down."

Yesterday, he announced that the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods would "come down substantially."

"It basically means China isn't doing any business with us essentially because it's a very high number," Trump continued. "So when you add that to the price of a product it's you know... A lot of those products aren't going to sell."

"But China's not doing any business. They were doing uh, $1.11 trillion, think of that," he added.

Trump has repeatedly falsely claimed that tariffs do not affect inflation and that foreign countries end up paying them. The truth, of course, is that the increased costs are passed on to American consumers.

This man has such disdain for the intelligence of his supporters that he thinks he can state in one breath that he's not worried about the tariff effects on small businesses which are suffering terribly right now to due to skyrocketing margins and then turn around and admit that tariffs do in fact increase prices and lower consumption.

This entire debacle will go down in history as one of the most idiotic economic wounds ever inflicted on the American people. Donald Trump isn't steering us into a new "Golden Age," he's driving us right off a cliff.

ADD his Tariff Taxes to the price of the product?

WTF!

He told us China was going to pay those Trump Tariffs and that beautiful word, the most beautiful word in the dictionary, was going to make us all rich beyond our wildest dreams!

Just as soon as Mexico pays for that wall he never built.

In about "two weeks. ".

[Sirioja]

At CATL 2025 Tech Day, unveiled a game-changing lineup of four new next-gen batteries, each targeting a critical bottleneck in EV adoption, that haters, obliterates and debunks, the haters and their tired arguments and disinformation pushed by you EV and battery skeptics.

CATLs lineup of 1st and 2nd generation batteries, the Qilin (NCM), Shenxing Plus (LFP), Naxtra (Na-Ion) and the Freevoy Super Dual/Hybrid Battery (LFP + NCM or Na-ion, optimized for PHEV or EREV's), put to bed and dismantles the most common outdated myths, perpetrated by the EV haters, looking to spread disinformation.

CATL shocks the world (again) with Sodium-ion and 1.3 Megawatt LFP Batteries, (16 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNY4kxNkqc

CATL TECH DAY 2025, (1 hr 20 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gaDQL64AY

My Two (2) biggest game-changing take-aways (out of probably 10x the number of "game-changing" tech unveiled), was first, the Naxtra 300km per charge x 10,000 charging cycle, that could mean +3 million km of driving range. Beat that EV haters and skeptics?

And second, was their Freevoy Super Dual Hybrid Battery, that should address a growing niche of "range anxiety" ICE vehicle owners, looking to bride the divide with the purchase of an PHEV or EREVs (Extended-Range Electric Vehicles), providing better ranges of 250 Km/150 miles (LFP + Na-ion) or 450+ km/300 miles (NCM + LFP) before using the ICE/fossil fuel onboard generator and polluting the atmosphere, for another 800 Km, for a total of about 1100 to 1300 km (BEV + ICE).

So maybe just one more! The Naxtra (Na-ion)'s cold weather 5C performance, in -30 to -40C and power density of 175 Wh/kg, is better than most current LFP batteries, is just mind-blowingly sooooo good! With an abundance of salt (Na), that can be found anywhere and is 99.6% recyclable, gives the haters even less environment issues to gripe about. Also announced, is a dynamic Sodium Na-ion 12v battery, that undoubtedly should soon replace most lead-acid batteries, in future vehicles.

Okay y'all, EV and battery haters, tell me your not impressed? And when was the last time the ICE and legacy auto, introduced this much new tech for vehicles?...What 50 years ago, when drill by drill only was still hip? (...kkkk!)

Just several great reasons, why China is kicking ass in the EV, Battery, AI and Tech industry and the U.S. is left with a lame duck president, with memes trending on social media of 250 million views, that read, "Trump chickened out...", as the bully lies about China calling him to talk tariffs.

China strikes back and tells the American Fuhrer, "CANCEL tariffs, then we'll talk!" (...kkkk!)

When You like cars, You don t drive EV and of course no chinese. I won t, when I love my atmospheric V8 , making me as hard as a natural beauty. Cars are really not biggest pollution, compare to chinese, USA and Indian industries, planes, big boats, trucks. And your stupid Trump wants to increase USA pollution.

[Spidy]

At CATL 2025 Tech Day, unveiled a game-changing lineup of four new next-gen batteries, each targeting a critical bottleneck in EV adoption, that haters, obliterates and debunks, the haters and their tired arguments and disinformation pushed by you EV and battery skeptics.

CATLs lineup of 1st and 2nd generation batteries, the Qilin (NCM), Shenxing Plus (LFP), Naxtra (Na-Ion) and the Freevoy Super Dual/Hybrid Battery (LFP + NCM or Na-ion, optimized for PHEV or EREV's), put to bed and dismantles the most common outdated myths, perpetrated by the EV haters, looking to spread disinformation.

CATL shocks the world (again) with Sodium-ion and 1.3 Megawatt LFP Batteries, (16 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNY4kxNkqc

CATL TECH DAY 2025, (1 hr 20 min)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gaDQL64AY

My Two (2) biggest game-changing take-aways (out of probably 10x the number of "game-changing" tech unveiled), was first, the Naxtra 300km per charge x 10,000 charging cycle, that could mean +3 million km of driving range. Beat that legacy auto, ICE vehicles, EV haters and skeptics!

And second, was their Freevoy Super Dual Hybrid Battery, that should address a growing niche of "range anxiety" ICE vehicle owners, looking to bride the divide with the purchase of an PHEV or EREVs (Extended-Range Electric Vehicles), providing better ranges of 250 Km/150 miles (LFP + Na-ion) or 450+ km/300 miles (NCM + LFP) before using the ICE/fossil fuel onboard generator and polluting the atmosphere, for another 800 Km, for a total of about 1100 to 1300 km (BEV + ICE).

So maybe just one more! The Naxtra (Na-ion)'s cold weather 5C performance, in -30 to -40C and power density of 175 Wh/kg, is better than most current LFP batteries, is just mind-blowingly sooooo good! With an abundance of salt (Na), that can be found anywhere and is 99.6% recyclable, gives the haters even less environment issues to gripe about.

Also announced, is a dynamic Sodium Na-ion 12v battery, that undoubtedly should soon replace most lead-acid batteries, in future vehicles.

Okay y'all, EV and battery haters, tell me your not impressed? And when was the last time the ICE and legacy auto, introduced this much new tech for vehicles?...What 50 years ago, when drill by drill only was still hip? (...kkkk!)

Just several great reasons, why China is kicking ass in the EV, Battery, AI and Tech industry and the U.S. is left with a lame duck president, with memes trending on social media of 250 million views, that read, "Trump chickened out..." or "The 10K Tariff Grandpa...", as the bully lies about China calling him to talk deals on tariffs.

China strikes back and essentially tells the American Fuhrer, "CANCEL tariffs, then we'll talk!" (...kkkk!)

[Sirioja]

With his friend Vladimir who hold his balls, from with prostitutes in Mockva party.

Too senile, shameful Trump forgot his administration refused in 2018, Crimea robbery by his now friend he sucks, criminal dictator Putin.

[Sirioja]

Stupid Trump still sucking criminal, liar Putin. Good, Zelensky has balls to resist, not to let Ukrainians being fucked by shameful USA.

With his friend Vladimir who hold his balls, from with prostitutes in Mockva party.

[Newton York]

Welp, there goes the economy. Shit. What's it going to take for stocks to go up again. Damnit AAPL, Damnit NVDA!

[Spidy]

President MuskTrump might not have gotten, read, comprehended or believed the Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies memo.

But he sure got that Our Glaring Repub MAGA Failures Are Just A Democrat Party Hoax memo, read it, comprehended it and perhaps blitheringly believed it, although that last part has nothing to do with him and all the other MAGAs repeating it.

Here is a hilarious 7 minute video showing the millions of anti-President MuskTrump protestors all around the country, in every state really, that Musk's MAGA Mental Misalignment has concluded is a "hoax", they actually love him but are either paid "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money to protest against him or are all so addicted to the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money, NONE of which he and his Dogies have yet to discover, uncover and indict for, that they come out en masse merely "pretending" to oppose him and his methods so the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money keeps flowing in making everyone as rich as he is. Er was.

LOL. It is a MUST SEE video:

https://youtu.be/wU23jm417-k?si=Hplv3iO8H3g9ruUQ

(...kkkk!) So very true!

While I agree the "Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies" memo, was obviously somehow overlooked by the jumping jack-ass president Musk, the QAnon\MAGA predilection to constantly "project" and "lie" memo, evidently was NOT lost on him, as he claimed in true "Trumpian" fashion, these surveys were "a hoax", and paid by his "enemies".

I say this, due to the recent similar survey, in Germany, where 94% of Germans (100K) say they won't buy a Tesla car. Then mysteriously, just a couple of days later, 70% of Germans (400K) say they would by a Tesla. https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla...y-a-tesla-car/ I did think to myself, this sounds sneakingly suspicious, like Musk was paying German Afd supporters to take that survey. But naturally it was something more "efficient" and even more nefarious...

Turns out:

• "On Tuesday, Musk reposted a Tweet on X (formerly Twitter) that showed the survey now says 70% of people in Germany would buy a Tesla again. This sudden shift in the poll's results raised suspicions. And sure enough, T Online has now reported that bots manipulated the survey, with 253,000 votes originating from just two U.S.-based IP addresses. Now, with sales plummeting, Tesla faces an uphill battle to regain consumer trust." https://www.autoblog.com/news/94-of-...a-survey-finds

Sales in Germany reflect the survey, and are in a downwards spiral and have not yet recovered from YoY or MoM sales in 2025. Tesla is losing market share in Europe, as sales drop over 30% in Q1 2025.

Not the first or last time, the non-elected president Musk, has tried to bribe, buy, fudge and cheat his way to a win. Just recently, of course, in Wisconsin and FAILED!

[Elvis 2008]

But I still pay Federal and State taxes on my passive income and rental property every year..

So what? If you are paying $10,000 to the government and getting $50,000 in benefits, you think that is virtuous? The reason the country is in such debt is no one is willing to sacrifice all their handouts. You literally have no concerns with trillion dollar deficits. All you care about is you getting your check.

You didn't go to public school?

No I did not and when I would have gone, my local community would have paid for the school not you, and my community would not have paid for the "education" on all this LGBTQ bullshit. You could get a good education then. Thanks you to Democratic douches, schools are no longer about learning but teaching young people to vote Democrat.

Don't drink clean and safe tap water?

We had well water.

Never drive or walk on a public road?

When I drive, I am paying gasoline taxes to do so. I did not rely on you. With walking, government does not need to pay for roads for people walking. If that is why they are building roads, they should knock it off. When government pays for needed roads, they often generate revenue with tolls and or increased commerce. If the roads are truly needed, they are revenue generators not costs. You did not pay for one road that I ever used.

Of course, this is the problem with you Democratic douches. You think Republicans are against spending taxes for clean water and roads. No, that is the one-third of our taxes we least object to. What we object to is the income redistribution.

Why the fuck should I and people in my age distribution have to pay for our own health insurance and for slugs like people with you? You have the money to pay for your own health care, and seniors like yourself have more assets than any other age group. Your generation is so fucking greedy that the amount I and others pay is not enough. No, the government has to borrow money to pay for slugs like you, and your generation of slugs scream bloody murder at even the thought of not getting a freebie.

[EihTooms]

Yes, you are getting a $4000 check from the government and your paying back $500 of that $4000 is what you consider paying taxes.

As for paying taxes when abroad, you are lying about that too. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/inte...come-exclusion.

For tax year 2023, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $120,000 per qualifying person. For 2023, the housing amount limitation is $36,000; for 2024, it is $37,950. So you can make $158,000 or so abroad and not pay taxes and if you made that in Thailand, you would be living like a king.

Typical Democratic douche. I have not taken a dime in government money my whole life. As for paying taxes, I bet you are getting more money back from the government than you are putting in.

OMG, you have a study where my giving you money is a good thing? I am shocked, shocked by such a study.

Who said anything about foreign earned income? I don't have any foreigner earned income. Thanks to the stock market returns under Dem presidents for the past several decades of my life, that I worked and bought in a beautiful Blue State throughout my working life, I have not needed to be gainfully employed in order to have a lovely and comfortable retirement since I was 58 years old.

But I still pay Federal and State taxes on my passive income and rental property every year.

You didn't go to public school? Never drive or walk on a public road? Don't drink clean and safe tap water?

The fact that you have been enjoying those and countless more privileges in the USA over the past 13 years thanks to my tax dollars while I have not enjoyed one physical reality of the USA in all that time tells me you owe me a refund.

[Elvis 2008]

Moving to Thailand does not exempt anyone from paying USA Federal taxes, State Property Taxes or any number of other taxes even if you are not gainfully employed there, including FICA if you are still employed by a USA based enterprise.

Yes, you are getting a $4000 check from the government and your paying back $500 of that $4000 is what you consider paying taxes.

As for paying taxes when abroad, you are lying about that too. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/inte...come-exclusion.

For tax year 2023, the maximum foreign earned income exclusion is the lesser of the foreign income earned or $120,000 per qualifying person. For 2023, the housing amount limitation is $36,000; for 2024, it is $37,950. So you can make $158,000 or so abroad and not pay taxes and if you made that in Thailand, you would be living like a king.

I have paid Thousands in USA Federal taxes and California State People taxes every year I have lived in Thailand, 13 so far, and therefore have been paying USA Federal and State taxes annually for 58 consecutive years. In part, to keep your ass out of poverty.

Typical Democratic douche. I have not taken a dime in government money my whole life. As for paying taxes, I bet you are getting more money back from the government than you are putting in.

IAnd on the issue of why you or anyone else should pay the FICA tax that funds Social Security, here are a couple of links for how life was shit even for younger Americans pre Social Security and a recent Wisconsin study that could easily be extrapolated to every state.

OMG, you have a study where my giving you money is a good thing? I am shocked, shocked by such a study.

[Sirioja]

And Tesla and tourism in USA keeping on falling, when USA have so bad image with Trump and his gang: Vance, Musk. Failure, not MAGA.

[Elvis 2008]

Dude, when your logic is flawed, there is no amount of math or FOXY Muse, right-wing propaganda that's gonna make it right.

I still haven't seen the links where gov't spends 2/3 of tax dollars "...to lazy asses like yourself" as you claimed. Last I checked Social Security, Medicare and the national debt/interest, were all part of gov't services.

And who do you think pays for those "services" oatmeal for brains? And unlike roads, defense, and museums, please tell me as a taxpaying citizen how paying for my own health insurance and that of another person benefits me? How does paying your social security so you can bang hookers helps me? You are so stupid that you think government does the paying when it takes that money from people like me and Elon Musk.

But let's be REAL! The president Musk, DOGE fiasco, isn't really about finding "gov't inefficiencies", but rather to gut those American governmental institutions, as if they were kind of corporate business in a "private equity" takeover whereby "move fast and break things", is the order of the day.

https://abc7.com/does-elon-musk-pay-...esla/11402993/

With a top tax rate of 40.8%, he faces of a federal tax bill of about $10.7 billion from the exercise of these shares.

This is the most in taxes any American has paid in history, and you Democratic douches are protesting he does not have the right to see where it goes? Oh, no, Elon, you are going to pay hundreds of millions for Democratic douche causes like DEI and LGBTQ in Cambodia and Zimbabwe, and you are going to like it.

Taxpayers have no right to say where their tax dollars go should be the Democratic douche slogan of the year.

And the people protesting Musk are being paid, and the funny part is after the US AID scandal we have been seeing that a lot of that money that has been paid to protesters has come from the government taxing Elon. Oh, the government pays these NGOs and they do the end runs around the Constitution and the censorship and pay the protestors. Working people are too fucking busy working to protest oatmeal for brains. I guess your dream scenario is all the people working at Tesla lose their jobs.

As for interest payments on the debt, that goes to some of the richest people in the world. It also goes to countries holding the bonds like Japan and China. And please enlighten me on how my paying interest on the national debt to the CCP is a "government service" that benefits me.

And half of that 39 cents in interest payments was accumulated during Covid oatmeal for brains. And you do not want to talk about that? Yeah, that is because you are not the one paying taxes.

It is funny we hear ad nauseam that women are underpaid compared to men. Why does no one bring up that men are paying a shitload more in taxes?

The USA is mum about this but the UK has been honest, In the last tax year men paid 92 billion in income tax whereas women paid 36.8 billion, which is 60% less. https://fullfact.org/economy/are-wom...-tax-men/There are more women in the workforce than ever before, and yet they still contribute 60% less in income tax than men.

And when you demonize tax paying men, they leave. https://hannity.com/media-room/come-...ou-dinner/This was governor of New York Andrew Cuomo during the pandemic "I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, 'You got to come back! We'll go to dinner! I'll buy you a drink! Come over, I'll cook! The Democratic governor said Monday.

Why in the fuck would Elon want to invest in the USA after this stupid shit? People can not only move from New York to Florida, they can move from the USA to Thailand and work there and not pay any USA taxes. That is the same douche move you and Tooms did. Hell, Elon has already moved from California to Texas, and California lost out on billions in taxes.

What really cracks me up is the guy who mentioned the two out of every three tax dollars goes to someone else was Aaron Clarey. He wrote a book called a world without men and it was an eye opener but what really should scared Democratic douches like you is he advocates for a minimalist life style. He thinks as I do the reason men work hard is to get women, and given how ungrateful American women are, you buy used, do your own repairs, and try to get by with generating as little income as possible because when you make money, the government steals so much. He estimates that a man living the minimalist lifestyle can get by on $20,000 per year and if that happens, you can kiss your social security goodbye.

[EihTooms]

Why oh why oh why did Trump suddenly "soften his stance" on the people of the United States of America being given Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars from other countries to pay for everything we want from Childcare, we need Childcare because Childcare is Childcare and groceries, damn I'm glad Trump invented that word, without it costing the people of the USA anything?

How dare he!

Especially since all those other countries have been ripping us off bigly and taking us for a ride on the Trade Deals previous presidential administrations stupidly negotiated to allow them to rip us off and take us for a ride!

Such as the Trade Deals the previous Donald J. Trump administration, well, Donald J. Trump himself, spent years stupidly negotiating with China, Mexico, Canada, etc allowing them to do that to us just a few years ago.

And now, just as the American people were finally going to be given Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars those stupid previous presidential administrations, well, stupid previous presidents like Donald J. Trump ripped off from us up until now he has decided to let those other countries keep all that money they ripped us off for, leaving the American people high, dry and still medium sized ripped off!

Dow rallies 1,000 points after Trump softens stance on Powell, China tariffs.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/stoc...ndroidappshare

And, BTW, don't even think this sudden "softening stance" for Trump has anything to do with the stock market, which Trump barely pays any attention to, or his meeting with these elite corporate CEOs or those "Democrat Party Hoax" protests or that his number one political donor's wealth is plunging by the hour! Just DON'T! Because Trump is so smart and so wealthy and he doesn't need anybody else's money and his main mission is never ever ever to CAVE on these things while really teaching that Xi guy a lessen he will never forget!

Trump hosts Walmart, Target and Home Depot CEOs for tariff meeting.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/21/trum...ndroidappshare

President Donald Trump met with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Target CEO Brian Cornell and Home Depot CEO Ted Decker to discuss tariffs.

Walmart is in a better position to weather Trumps protectionist trade agenda than many of its competitors.

Trumps aggressive tariff policies have caused uncertainty both for investors and business leaders, many of whom rely heavily on imported goods.

Really.

Swear to god.

It's true.

Really.

Well. He might flip on this decision and change his mind about it.

But, either way, it will make all of us rich.

Really.

Swear to god.

[EihTooms]

(...kkkk!) Tell me again, why record number of Americans from Alaska to Alabama are protesting Musk-Tesla and the Fuhrer and billionaire robber barons, in nationwide demonstrations, dubbed "Hands Off!" and "Tesla Takedown"? So much for your "all for show", workman and working class empathy, you love to sling about, when it's convenient and especially when the Dems are in office.

Leave it to Elvis 2008, to think Repub gov't ineptitude, trampling on the rights and civil liberties of Americans, bad governance, an even worst stewardship and the worst stock market performance in April, for a starting presidents in their first 100 days, is somehow...a win? (...kkkk!)

What don't you get about, millions of Americans protesting on "50 State Hills" all around the country, in the streets, wanting to oust your "tone-deaf" president. Pay attention to the American people and what they're telling you, about your inept governing Repub party and Fuhrer.

So Yeah, when protestor plaques say "Trump do the world a favor and S T F U!" tells you, American's have lost confidence in your Fuhrer! Is it any wonder Buffett, went to mostly cash!

President MuskTrump might not have gotten, read, comprehended or believed the Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit And Dies memo.

But he sure got that Our Glaring Repub MAGA Failures Are Just A Democrat Party Hoax memo, read it, comprehended it and perhaps blitheringly believed it, although that last part has nothing to do with him and all the other MAGAs repeating it.

Here is a hilarious 7 minute video showing the millions of anti-President MuskTrump protestors all around the country, in every state really, that Musk's MAGA Mental Misalignment has concluded is a "hoax", they actually love him but are either paid "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money to protest against him or are all so addicted to the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money, NONE of which he and his Dogies have yet to discover, uncover and indict for, that they come out en masse merely "pretending" to oppose him and his methods so the "wasteful, fraudulent and abusive" money keeps flowing in making everyone as rich as he is. Er was.

LOL. It is a MUST SEE video:

https://youtu.be/wU23jm417-k?si=Hplv3iO8H3g9ruUQ