American Politics

[EihTooms]

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...nt-to-treason/

I am a fan of anyone whose intentions are to honor their Oath of Office and to make America a better place to live, work and invest. Even a minor mistake in that endeavor is bound to produce better results than from those whose intentions are clearly to exploit the position for the exact opposite results or to only enrich themselves at the great expense of everyone else.

By definition the former would mean virtually anyone who runs for office as a Democrat while the latter would be practically anyone who runs for office as any other party member.

Obviously.

That is a pattern impossible to ignore since it has been that way for about 100 years so far.

[MarquisdeSade1]

AI scanned the universe of reports, data and evidence to arrive at this overview to the question:

Why did panels of non-partisan historians rank Trump the Worst President in U.S. History?

Most of those assessments were before the disastrous Tariffs and economic policies of his 2nd term added Trillions and Trillions to his deficits in order to "buy" the worst jobs creation record for any non Great Repub Depression or Great Repub Recession year, numbering a total of 181,000 new jobs. No, not per month. For the entire year of 2025!

And the weakest S&P 500 Index performance of any first year of a new presidential. Administration ever. Trump's favorite measure of economic success or failure.

And his trade wars with China once again further enriching China while impoverishing American farmers and manufacturers.

And his bombing and starting wars in several countries as well as threatening in invade and go to war with several allies including Canada, Mexico and Greenland.

And his sending masked and armed marauders into some of America's biggest and most important cities to hassle, harass, shoot and kill law-abiding American citizens.

And his Secretary of HHS bringing measles and polio back to the country.

And his taking extraordinary measures to protect and defend not the USA Constitution but pedos and kiddie sex traffickers.

And so on.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...nt-to-treason/

[MarquisdeSade1]

Full failure, despite DT and swallowing Putin, for Ukraine. Greenland hate USA. Tourists boycott USA. But yes, crazy senile too old Trump kill citizens, not even Black now, with ICE. Democracy falling like jobs under Trump. Only inflation increasing. I think our world, when USA are only 5%, look forward he dies, like Putin and Netanyahou, for a better world.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...st-was-told-no

[Sirioja]

First, let's be frank about what is happening in the world and why Trump's presidency continues to matter unlike any other.

And why his critics feel compelled to create a phony health crisis rather than debate his record.

Donald Trump is doing well in national polling, buoyed by strong approval among his base and solid support among likely voters.

Despite relentless attacks from much of the mainstream press, his numbers have remained resilient.

I recently reviewed a McLaughlin poll that asked voters whether President Trump is truly putting "America First" as a priority. An astonishing 65% said yes.

That's a seismic admission by such a majority..

Full failure, despite DT and swallowing Putin, for Ukraine. Greenland hate USA. Tourists boycott USA. But yes, crazy senile too old Trump kill citizens, not even Black now, with ICE. Democracy falling like jobs under Trump. Only inflation increasing. I think our world, when USA are only 5%, look forward he dies, like Putin and Netanyahou, for a better world.

[MarquisdeSade1]

AI scanned the universe of reports, data and evidence to arrive at this overview to the question:

Why did panels of non-partisan historians rank Trump the Worst President in U.S. History?

Most of those assessments were before the disastrous Tariffs and economic policies of his 2nd term added Trillions and Trillions to his deficits in order to "buy" the worst jobs creation record for any non Great Repub Depression or Great Repub Recession year, numbering a total of 181,000 new jobs. No, not per month. For the entire year of 2025!

And the weakest S&P 500 Index performance of any first year of a new presidential. Administration ever. Trump's favorite measure of economic success or failure.

And his trade wars with China once again further enriching China while impoverishing American farmers and manufacturers..

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...-destabilizing

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...eep-deep-state

The Deep state aka the puppets of the oligarchs.

[Elvis 2008]

LOL! Dude get over yourself and don't be so freakin' conceited, energy debates and discussions have been going on here, for the last several months at least!
Also an LCOE is what is. Until the financial energy industry uses something else, quit y'all belly-aching! Ya don't see me belly-aching about an LCOE, that does not take into account the massive fossil fuels cradle to grave inefficiencies of 50% to 70%, when used to generate electricity.

LOL. Tell me Spidy if alternative energy is so damned great, why are electricity prices higher in places like California and Europe who are shoving alternative energy up everyone else's nose? Tell me, oh wise one, why is LCOE better than what is on people's damned electric bill?

Solar cost of electricity beats lowest-cost fossil fuel even without tax credits, July 1st, 2025

LOL. If solar were cheaper, why do guys like you have to keep beating your chests about it? People will do it on their own.

Here is a real life example. I have solar panels on the RV, and they charge the RV's battery. Last night, there was a rain storm, and the battery that powers the generator runs off of solar power but there was not enough sun yesterday to charge it. My generator runs off gasoline in the main tank, and the generator would not start. I had to turn on the truck engine which charged the battery to turn on the generator. So the solar I do have failed.

I have bought 12,000 watts of batteries to run a second AC unit for the summer. I have not had them installed because it is not hot enough yet, and I am up in the air to use added solar to charge them or not, but these batteries are crazy heavy, 300 pounds for all of them, so I bought a smaller one, a 2000 watt than I can carry. I use A / see in my home to charge up the battery and it is at 100%.

This battery had one function, to keep a space heater running for the night. Temp outside is 50 degrees. You know how long it lasted? Four fucking hours! And now the 2000 watt battery won't charge. It has been sitting in the RV for weeks as dead weight. I have not had the RV that long, and it has been fail, fail, fail with solar and batteries.

You know what has not failed? The generator that runs off of the gasoline tank in the RV. It has worked perfectly. You know what also has not failed? The heater that runs off of propane. So when the damned 2000 watt battery failed, I turned on the generator and ran the propane heater and all was well.

And you are going off of this crap about transmission lines, transformers, and grid stability, when the reality is, the alternative power is not reliable in my fucking RV! Every time I have given alternative energy a chance, it has sucked ass.

And the other part that cracks me up is that the first time I charged the battery, it was A / c power which is 60% fossil fuels. And this is what cracks me up, how many of these solar plants have batteries that are really charged by the sun and how many of these batteries are being charged by fossil fuels like mine were?

The entire basis for the alternative energy nonsense to begin with was "saving the planet" right? Oceans were going to rise and swallow us whole. Then we found out all the elites putting this horseshit had condos on the coast. I remember reading AlGore saying the combustion energy would lead man into extinction while flying everyone on a private jet!

And now the elites and their experts took their latest tumble with the Epstein release.

[EihTooms]

First, let's be frank about what is happening in the world and why Trump's presidency continues to matter unlike any other.

And why his critics feel compelled to create a phony health crisis rather than debate his record.

Donald Trump is doing well in national polling, buoyed by strong approval among his base and solid support among likely voters.

Despite relentless attacks from much of the mainstream press, his numbers have remained resilient.

I recently reviewed a McLaughlin poll that asked voters whether President Trump is truly putting "America First" as a priority. An astonishing 65% said yes.

That's a seismic admission by such a majority.

Even many voters who may not agree with every decision concede deep down that he is putting the country's interests first.

And the results of those policies are tangible..

AI scanned the universe of reports, data and evidence to arrive at this overview to the question:

Why did panels of non-partisan historians rank Trump the Worst President in U.S. History?

Panels of non-partisan historians, political scientists, and presidential expertsmost notably in the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey (2018, 2021, 2024) and the C-SPAN Presidential Historians Survey (2021)have consistently ranked Donald Trump at or near the bottom of U.S. presidents.

These rankings are based on an average of ratings across various leadership categories. Experts argue that his presidency was "singular" in its departure from established institutional norms and that he caused significant harm to democratic institutions.

Here are the primary reasons cited for the low rankings:

1. Undermining Democratic Norms and Institutions
Historians heavily weigh a president's respect for the Constitution and the peaceful transfer of power.
2020 Election and Jan. 6: Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, are frequently cited as a primary reason for the last-place ranking. This is seen as a direct attack on the democratic process.
Distrust of Institutions: Experts point to his rhetoric against the judiciary, the intelligence community, and the electoral system, arguing this weakened public trust in foundational American institutions.

2. "Worst" Rankings in Moral Authority and Administration
In surveys that break down leadership into categories, Trump consistently received the lowest scores in:
Moral Authority: Critics pointed to his rhetoric, personal conduct, and divisive language, arguing he failed to unify the country or adhere to the dignity of the office.
Administrative Skills: Experts often cited high turnover rates within his cabinet, chaotic decision-making processes, and a disregard for established policy-making protocols.

3. Two Impeachments
Trump is the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice (2019 and 2021). While he was acquitted by the Senate both times, historians see the House chargesabuse of power/obstruction of Congress, and incitement of insurrectionas significant marks against his leadership.

4. Handling of Major Crises
COVID-19 Pandemic: Many historians viewed his administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as lacking in scientific guidance, chaotic in its federal response, and damaging to public trust, leading to unnecessary loss of life.
Foreign Policy and Alliances: His "America First" approach led to strained relationships with traditional allies (NATO) and a withdrawal from international agreements, which critics argued diminished American influence globally.

5. Partisan and Regulatory Behavior.

Most of those assessments were before the disastrous Tariffs and economic policies of his 2nd term added Trillions and Trillions to his deficits in order to "buy" the worst jobs creation record for any non Great Repub Depression or Great Repub Recession year, numbering a total of 181,000 new jobs. No, not per month. For the entire year of 2025!

And the weakest S&P 500 Index performance of any first year of a new presidential. Administration ever. Trump's favorite measure of economic success or failure.

And his trade wars with China once again further enriching China while impoverishing American farmers and manufacturers.

And his bombing and starting wars in several countries as well as threatening in invade and go to war with several allies including Canada, Mexico and Greenland.

And his sending masked and armed marauders into some of America's biggest and most important cities to hassle, harass, shoot and kill law-abiding American citizens.

And his Secretary of HHS bringing measles and polio back to the country.

And his taking extraordinary measures to protect and defend not the USA Constitution but pedos and kiddie sex traffickers.

And so on.

[Elvis 2008]

I haven't been there yet, but I don't agree with your comment about the gene pool.

Well, you need to buff up on your history then. The reason Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia all have red, yellow, and blue flags is they were all a part of the same country for a while.

Either their body is whacked or their face is or both.
I like a very thin and very pretty with smaller breasts.
Kinda like Veronica Rodriguez the Porn Star, I met her at a Porn Convention, she wanted to cum to my room for $$ and was texting and calling me later that day.

There are plenty of women like Rodriguez in Colombia. Shakira is thin with small boobs. Thing is the women who look like that are more European (AKA whiter), and they have more well to do and protective parents, and you are not gong to see many in hooker venues. In Venezuela, the only people with money are the thieves in government or people bringing in it from abroad.

My apologies if your GF is Colombian but Colombian chicas are not attractive to me. My theory is men with the most money breed with the best looking women money can buy, that affects the gene pool.

Now you sound like JJbee. First off, you are imagining that all men want looks first and everytrhing else second. Next, my gal was not the most attractive woman I met in Colombia. She was #2. #1 was a materialistic, self absorbed gold digger. I was shocked #1 was not awful in bed.

Your comment is not well thought out. If Veronica Rodriguez is your ideal woman, would you introduce her to your parents? Would you want to have children with her? What would your friends say if you said this is my GF? You do not distinguish between a woman who is a trophy fuck and a mother to be.

As for why my woman is different, I will make it easy. A hooker will blow you for money. A sugar baby will blow you, care about giving you a good BJ because she likes you, but she will still expect to get paid. A wife will blow you doing a courtship phase and maybe for six months to a year and then she will stop. She will say your dick tastes funny; she has a headache, or shame you for wanting sex. And when a wife pulls the power move of refusing sex, her sisters applaud her for standing up to her man.

Things are so fucked up we have feminists who say a man can rape his wife. Not only does a wife have to consent to sex even that is not enough. Women can say that regretting sex is rape, and male desire has been demonized. I have had to tell many a woman if your daddy was not a horny bastard, you would not be alive so STFU about demonizing male sex drive.

A hooker and sugar baby know if they do not provide for a man's sexual needs, they are out. And yet wives think they can withhold sex and their man is not going to leave them or cheat? How fucked up is that that people have lower expectations from wives than they do from sugar babies or mistresses?

So my criteria for monogamy was you have to show more desire than the hooker or sugar baby and stay attractive to me. So while your comparing your trophy fuck to my women, would Veronica Rodriguez be thrilled to suck your dick and not expect to be compensated? You already said you were arguing about price. Well, then she is a totally different animal than my woman.

How many married men do you know whose women have quit giving them BJs when they want? I would be hard pressed to name one that does not have that issue. Well, there is the kids. She had a headache: blah, blah, blah. How hard is it to give a blow job? Even with my SBs, over time, they would be less interested in sexually pleasing me and when that happened, I would get rid of them.

And to the married men who do not want to divorce their wives over sexual frigidity by choice, I would say why the fuck would you not get rid of them? If your wife is not even willing to put in the effort to give you a BJ, then why should you put any effort into her? Men have become such wimps. Stop feeling ashamed of having a sex drive. If men did not have that, we would all not exist.

The problem with this forum and mongers is they are conditioned to think there is just money for sex. For me to be monogamous, I have to feel like it is not quid pro quid with a hooker, and the woman better project to the world that she loves to suck my dick. It is on you to show the world that we do not have a john-hooker relationship and it has not come up with us despite the difference in age and beauty.

It is incredibly fucked up that I had to go to a third world country to find a woman to service the most basic of male needs, but I did. Worse than that, MDS, you do not even think that such a woman exists. So yeah, I get it. On here, I am just this bullshit artist. In my real life, my friends are thrilled that someone is in a happy relationship. It gives them hope that there are women like men that actually exist.

Better yet, she has set a different standard for other women. When we were on a vacation with another couple, they were fighting. Even my gal who is not that fluent picked up on it, but we were talking to the wife, and I told her that my gal and I have not had a fight, and she got defensive and said, "Well, we have not either" and right then and there, she shaped up, and their fighting stopped.

I have had so many guys say that they could never be with one woman, and I thought that too, but I know now the problem is not me. The reason I could not be faithful to one women is the pool of women out there sucks ass.

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.newsmax.com/world/global...12/id/1245975/

First, let's be frank about what is happening in the world — and why Trump's presidency continues to matter unlike any other.

And why his critics feel compelled to create a phony health crisis rather than debate his record.

Donald Trump is doing well in national polling, buoyed by strong approval among his base and solid support among likely voters.

Despite relentless attacks from much of the mainstream press, his numbers have remained resilient.

I recently reviewed a McLaughlin poll that asked voters whether President Trump is truly putting "America First" as a priority. An astonishing 65% said yes.

That's a seismic admission by such a majority.

Even many voters who may not agree with every decision concede — deep down — that he is putting the country's interests first.

And the results of those policies are tangible.

On the home front, recent GDP figures have shown robust growth, with third-quarter numbers in 2025 reaching 4.3%.

Compared to the final full quarter of the Biden administration, that represented a 79% increase in the growth rate.

On foreign policy, the Trump administration has moved aggressively and unapologetically.

Working with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the president has pushed forward diplomatic efforts in regions long considered intractable.

Agreements or ceasefires have been reached involving India and Pakistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Gaza hostage standoff was brought to an end after intense negotiations.

NATO allies have committed to dramatically increasing defense spending, with a 5% benchmark no one thought possible.

[Spidy]

Iron-air (or Rust) batteries, companies like Ore Energy (EU) and Form Energy (US), with their extremely low cost ($6/kw) 100-hour (4-days) battery systems, represent a pivotal breakthrough for long-duration energy storage (LDES) coupled with solar and wind, that are emerging as a cost-effective complementary, supplemental and / or alternative, beyond the 4 to 8 hour fast delivery of lithium-ion battery storage.

Form Energy, With manufacturing and commercial successes, early deployments of their Iron-Air batteries, are now underway with utility companies like Great River Energy, Xcel Energy and Georgia Power in Minnesota, Colorado and Georgia, respectively.

Iron-Air Batteries: Transforming Renewable Energy Storage, December 3rd, 2025. https://energydigital.com/news/iron-...energy-storage.

He fails to consider that storage for wind and solar is expensive. And extremely expensive more than 6 hours out. Please note on an average day with good weather you can only get meaningful solar generation for about 4 to 6 hours. For wind the average is 6 to 10 hours a day.

Once again, what the many champions of dirty fossil fuels, don't seem to realize, is that the many breakthroughs in clean energy tech, coming from companies like Ore Energy, Form Energy and Rondo Energy (heat batteries), is that clean tech areas like the global battery storage sector, are solving our most challenging and difficult to abate energy and grid problems, at break-neck speeds.

Is 2026, the Year of the Battery?

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/c...06/id/1245151/

Ruddy is one of Our Lord and Saviors Jewish neighbors in Miami.

Ruddy is a billionaire and Owner of Newsmax, walking around Caracas, ID like to see the military escort lolololololol.

If I could get visa ID be in Caracas right now.

https://www.newsmax.com/world/global...12/id/1245975/

[Sirioja]

Crazy senile Trump, after being a danger for our world, now wants to kill our planet, same than China. He doesn't care about future, when he will die soon, but killing our children. This guy is really a shame for so many points. USA compete with China to kill our planet.

[Spidy]

Hot damn, an energy discussion!

LOL! Dude get over yourself and don't be so freakin' conceited, energy debates and discussions have been going on here, for the last several months at least!

For the bigger picture, ignoring weather events, by focusing just on LCOE, he ignores a lot of costs. For example, the cost of transmission build-out, new and upgraded substations, etc.

Again, just freakin' hubris! As if a weather storms, downed powerlines, transmission outages and new grid transition costs don't also exist for fossil fuel power plants.

Also an LCOE is what is. Until the financial energy industry uses something else, quit y'all belly-aching! Ya don't see me belly-aching about an LCOE, that does not take into account the massive fossil fuels cradle to grave inefficiencies of 50% to 70%, when used to generate electricity.

He fails to consider that storage for wind and solar is expensive. And extremely expensive more than 6 hours out. ... BAHAHAHAHAHA!

So instead of flapping your gums and laughing (like an old maid windbag spinster), perhaps you should just try providing the evidence, with regards to your claims of fossil fuels (or nuclear), today having a lower LCOE than solar/wind + battery storage. At best, the only fossil fuel, is gas-CCGT (the most efficient use of gas to generate electricity) and is only slightly lower or on par with and LCOE for S+W+B. Yes, while solar and wind remain the lowest LCOE, even with storage many cases, worldwide.

Lazard’s analysis of levelized cost of electricity across fuel types finds that new-build utility-scale solar, even without subsidy, is less costly than new build natural gas, and competes with already-operating gas plant. ... On an unsubsidized $/MWh basis, renewable energy remains the most cost-competitive form of generation. ... both the lowest-cost and quickest-to-deploy generation resource.”

Solar cost of electricity beats lowest-cost fossil fuel – even without tax credits,, July 1st, 2025 https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/07/...t-tax-credits/

The "baseload" grid of yesteryear, is not your electricity grid future of tomorrow:

And doesn't appear to understand that you must have natural gas, coal, and/or nuclear plants for reliable baseload power, unless you live someplace like Quebec or New Zealand.

I think AEMO CEO, Daniel Westerman said it best, when referring not only to the Australia's grid for the future, but what he thinks the grids of the world will transition to and become:

• "Australia’s operational paradigm is no longer ‘baseload-and-peaking’, but increasingly it’s a paradigm of ‘renewables-and-firming". It’s a crucial point to understand."
  
  " 'Baseload' is not so much a technical virtue as a business model – the people who invest in coal generators, and nuclear in particular, count on those machines operating at or near full capacity most of the time."

I couldn't agree more with that profound statement, from the AEMO CEO, as he calls out fossil fuel "baseload", NOT a "technical virtue", but rather the case of a "business virtue", of the fossil fuel overlords.

And let's not get it twisted ...in a renewables future grid of tomorrow, as clean green renewable tech gets better and more robust, fossil fuels may still play role, just less and less of a role, as time marches on.

I think, many of the energy sources powering the renewables grid around the world of tomorrow, will be dynamically digitally software/firmware engineered to operate in complement to provide continual power demand (that also simulates any traditional "baseload" as needed and are NOT necessarily required to generate electricity 24/7, on their own.

[EihTooms]

Yep, we've got typically crap Repub jobs creation numbers, typically crap Repub high business bankruptcy numbers, typically crap Repub high private-sector jobs layoffs numbers, typically crap Repub broad USA Stock Market gains vs the previous Dem gains, etc, etc, etc and now typically crap Repub lower opportunities to achieve The American Dream.

Gee, who could have predicted such a thing? I mean, other than everyone who could have and did vote for Kamala Harris.

Realtors report a 'new housing crisis' as January home sales tank more than 8%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/janu...ndroidappshare

Sales of previously owned homes in January dropped a wider-than-expected 8.4% from December.

The median price for a home sold in January was $396,800, up 0.9% year over year and the highest January price on record.

Inventory came down from December but was still up 3.4% year over year.

Hmm. I wonder if 5 years of zero American iInfrastructure Week "anything" under Trump out of the past 9 years of him playing golf, golf and more golf while putting Russia Russia Russia and China First had anything to do with this all new Repub Housing Crisis.

Oh well. We tried.

[EihTooms]

A Rasmussen Poll of Xi and the Chinese Communist Party would almost certainly show an overwhelming preference for Trump and Trumpanomics over Biden and Bidenomics.

A year into Trump tariffs, Chinese factories and ports are buzzing with activity.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/trum...ndroidappshare

Factories and ports appear as busy as ever ahead of the Lunar New Year pre-holiday rush.

Major ports in China saw a surge in containers activity, pushing up freight prices.

For shipments to the U.S., large containers were running above levels during the same period in 2024 and 2025 for most part of January and into February.

China's trade surplus hit record $1.2 trillion in 2025.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china...073006417.html

Last year's bruising trade war between Washington and Beijing -- which at one point saw reciprocal tariffs in the triple digits -- led to a 20 percent plunge year-on-year in China's exports to the United States, with imports falling 14.6 percent.

But other trade partners more than filled the gap, increasing Chinese exports overall by 5.5 percent in 2025, while imports stayed flat in dollar terms.

MAGA Repubs and your facilitating relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims in the only 3 swing states that mattered and gave Trump the presidency in 2024, Xi and China thanks you very, very much for your vote.