American Politics

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So when are they going to find Trump visited Epstein Island? Still waiting here. Love all the hoaxes while Trump does not but produce results.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3046897]Obama killing an American citizen without a trial? Saying we are good at killing people? Clinton lying under oath? Biden pardoning Hunter Biden after saying he would not? Biden serving as president when he clearly was incapacitated? The robot pardon signatures? Those are all good with you Dems. Capturing Maduro? It is completely illegal and going to lead to problems elsewhere!

Yeah, the world leaders are going to gripe in public about Maduro and state sovereignty in public. Behind closed doors, they are glad that fucker Maduro is gone. Chavez / Maduro stole from everyone!

That you Dems are all up in arms about legality kills me. The only reason that you are griping is because Trump did something that could end up being great, and you hate it. Your TDS is so extreme that you care more about Trump potentially looking good than 30 million people having better lives. That is pretty fucked up.[/QUOTE]At least Biden was sleeping while cameras are rolling. Who is "running" the country while he sleeping during daylight hours? He needs hospice care. Let's see if we can't procure care for those "cankles" and some of Melania's hand cream for Dumold's use. LOL.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3046929]So when are they going to find Trump visited Epstein Island? Still waiting here. Love all the hoaxes while Trump does not but produce results.[/QUOTE]Which results? War in Minneapolis versus citizens? Trying to rob Ukraine, Venezuela and now Cuba. Bad, he is not able to create as many jobs as previous. Not real MAGA but more bullshits every day. So boring to hear how he is so stupid. USA look so low level people under his image, Vance and Musk.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3046931]At least Biden was sleeping while cameras are rolling. Who is "running" the country while he sleeping during daylight hours? He needs hospice care. Let's see if we can't procure care for those "cankles" and some of Melania's hand cream for Dumold's use. LOL.[/QUOTE]Why LOL? If Trump is incompetent, why did you dumb asses try to put him in jail? There is a lot that is fair game to criticize Trump and his policies over about but him being mentally incompetent like Biden is not one. Your TDS is so out of control that you need to be ignored.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3046899]Yep, here we go again. And it was as predictable as night following day for anyone with at least two brain cells to rub together and enough cognitive capacity to remember or simply research as far back as, oh, 2024 vs 2020,2017 vs 2008,2001 vs 1992 and so on and so on and so on for the past 100 years.

Otherwise known by Trump and his MAGA Cult as "TDS / Trump Derangement Syndrome. " Lolol.

Gee, who could have predicted such a thing? Everyone who voted for Kamala Harris.

[B]We're in a 'hiring recession,' economist says how job seekers can stand out[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/hiring-recession.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL][/QUOTE]How many Democratic jobs were Minnesota day care workers? How many Democratic jobs were on the California high speed rail where not even one mile of track has been built? I talked to a friend in Atlanta. Atlanta had been killing it taking jobs from Hollyweird. Thing is the Teamsters Union has insisted that truckers get paid while their trucks were idled. The movie studios are so sick of it they are moving production abroad and away from Atlanta and those bullshit policies, and my friend has suffered because of that.

Adam Carolla put up a garage, and it pissed him off to see inspectors sitting in their cars while he was paying them. He could not believe how building a garage was so fucking hard and costly in California. He said that he is going to his kid's graduation in a you-haul because as so as his kid graduates he is out of California. And now his house has burnt down. Where were the fucking safety experts then?

It took Bill Maher two years to put up solar panels. Solar panels! How many Democratic jobs are these bullshit "safety" inspectors and "experts"? OMG.

And with real work, I got a buddy running a biz in New York. He needs help but he cannot compete with people on unemployment insurance, but New York has plenty of money for inspectors, and a friend of his is a fireman. He hit 50 and is getting $200,000 a year in retirement pay. That is $6 million if he dies at age 80.

And then we have all the immigrants that are being purged. Yeah, why would we expect job growth if they are tossed? Of course, job growth is going to slow then.

Time after time, all the jobs you Dems brag about is bullshit work. The teamsters job, the safety inspector's job, the Minnesota day care workers, the professors in colleges who teach about white supremacy? They are not doing any real work. If the unemployment rate goes up because they are all fired, that would be an economic boom for the nation.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3046926][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/world/americas/trump-latin-america-politics.html[/URL][/QUOTE]LOL. That ranks up there with Spidy's cheap European energy article. God, that is a load of horseshit. The reality is that Maduro's shit politics has loaded Venezuela's neighbors to the gills with costly and often destructive Venezuelan refugees. Like the people Woodman is helping, a lot of the Vennies, more than the majority, are good folks, but there are a lot of thugs among those Vennies too.

Thing is if I put on my conspiracy hat and wanted to rig an election, I would use the Vennies. They are poor, desperate, and in too many cases, immoral. I think there is 2 million Vennies in Colombia. Colombian president Petro owns those people and can deport them at any time. Thing is Petro could give the Vennies passports. If you have a Colombian passport, you can go to Mexico visa free and then storm the border. You are not going to catch all the Vennies if they come it any once.

And we know these Democrats are promoting election fraud with immigrants. Have you noticed not one Dem here has even broached what is going on in Minnesota? I have needled the shit out of them, and they won't talk about it. Instead of being outraged at the fraud, the Democratic lunes are hassling law enforcement / ICE that is trying to clean it up.

Thing about Floyd and Garner is that they were involved in petty crime. Garner sold loose cigarettes to avoid the NY cigarette tax. Floyd was passing a fake $20 bill at a convenience store. Maybe he knew it was fake, but I died of embarrassment one time when I handed a store a fake $10 bill. I did not know the bill was fake so I am sympathetic that even a career criminal like Floyd may not have known either. And the cops are putting those guys in choke holds or putting their knees on necks for THAT? No, no, no. I don't want to hear that Fentanyl Floyd crap. The police force was excessive. Period.

In the recent shooting, this woman was egged on by her lesbian wife to protest ICE. She was there to harass ICE and parked her vehicle the middle of the road. She turned towards an ICE agent and the guy who was afraid for his life shot her. If you are living your life, and the cops fuck with you, you have my sympathy. If you are there to fuck with the cops who are trying to capture thieves and people trying to rig elections, you get no sympathy from me. Hell, I hope more of you supporting cheaters and fraudsters get shot. It saves us the expense of a trial.

If Tampon Timmy was innocent, he would not be stepping down. If the Dems were real Americans, they would be outraged by the taxpayer fraud and election fraud and not outraged by ICE or by Trump enforcing the law. Their silence about Minnesota literally speaks more about election fraud than anything else.

And BTW, the Venezuelan oil that Trump and the USA majors are going to start pumping out after a few years is going to go to China after our refineries have their crack at it. Our refineries are the only ones that can handle Venezuelan sour crude in volume.

There was a book about a British guy in China, and this Chinese manager tried to steal his business, and the Brit hung in there. For 3 years, the Chinaman pulled every stunt he could to steal the guy's business until finally he gave up. Once he realized that he could not pull off that stunt, they worked out a fair deal in less than an hour.

The point is that the Chinese would rather buy from fair minded Americans than the Russians or Iranians any day despite the rhetoric. When you are in business, you want stable and dealing with the Russians who are at war and their supply is not dependable or the crazy Mullahs is anything but stable.

Back in 1995, I took a cruise to see the part of the world destined for growth. I went to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Hong Kong. My takeaway was if this was the up and coming part of the world, I wanted no part of it. It was so crowded, so hectic, and so polluted. The only country I was interested in returning to was Singapore.

The best part of the cruise was an old vet, a Brit in the textiles game who spent decades in India and China. Man, he had some great stories. Anyway, we go from wealthy Singapore to Malaysia which is poorer but okay to Indonesia which is at third world as it gets.

He asked me if I noticed that as we went South the countries that were richer in resources. I said I did, but he also pointed out they were poorer in general. I noticed that too. He then made one other point about the race of the people. He said the more Chinese you have, the more wealth you do, and this is when China was shit economically, and I thought to myself he was right. Singapore was loaded with Chinese whereas Indonesia had very few.

China is always going to be about the buck then. That is what they care about. It is in their genes. If they can get a reliable supplier of fairly priced oil, they will be thrilled.

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3046753]But what about the polution, land waste, and turning USA into China's pawn over rare earth minerals? We will keep doing these loops. Every one knows you make know sense and you are a snake charming green scam pusher by now.[/QUOTE][B]China Launches 1GW Offshore Solar Giant While America Watches From Shore,[/B] January 1, 2026 [URL]https://sustainablepowernews.com/china-launches-offshore-solar-giant/[/URL]

New Clean Energy / Environmental Impact:
[LIST] 1GW offshore solar farm combines innovative marine technology with clean energy production, [b]powering 2.6 million homes[/b][/LIST][LIST] Its avoiding 1.34 million tons of CO2 emissions each year. That's equivalent to [b]saving over 500,000 tonnes of coal. [/b][/LIST][LIST] Farming under these panels of fish, seaweed, who knows what else, produces a dual-use marine space, [b]one area, two revenue streams.[/b][/LIST]
[NOPARSE]Hmmm....I wonder if NJ "rubbed their rocks" hard enough together, if they could produce the same amount of clean energy to power 2.6 million [/NOPARSE]homes?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3046738]And in the USA? "Texans on average are paying 16 cents per kilowatt hour which is 12.3% below the national average. The average for the USA in 2024 was 16.5. In 2020, it was 13 cents. So Europe is going from 35 to 34 cents and the USA is gong up from 16 to 17 cents, and the point is we need to do what Europe is doing. Really?[/QUOTE]Texas has nothing on Virginia (the data capital center of the world), when it come to data centers. [URL]https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2025/08/06/electricity-costs-bills-data-centers-ai-virginia[/URL] Whom, BTW, saw Dems sweep and win 13 state seats, for a majority in the house, in the 2025 Elections "Big Blue Wave", in Virginia, based primarily on two election issues; the rise in electricity prices and affordability. Let's hope Texas suffers the same fate, with their data center ambitions!

Yes, we know Texas, has some of the lowest electricity in the country, but tell that to Virginians, facing significant increases in electricity costs due to data centers, with estimates suggesting that data centers accounted for 63% of electricity price increases, for the coming year. [B]Virginia Regulators Approve New Dominion Rates, Assign More Costs to Data Centers,[/B] January 7, 2026, [URL]https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07012026/virginia-regulators-approve-new-dominion-rates/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3046738]"By contrast, rising electricity prices in the USA Have become a growing source of voter discontent as utilities race to build more capacity to feed skyrocketing demand from AI data centers. "

Yeah, no shit, who wants to build a data center in Europe given their nose bleed electricity costs? ...

And you and the Dems want Texas and the USA to mimic Europe? You all are out of your damned minds. [/QUOTE]Right, cause idiots like Bill Gates, decide to invest $10 billion dollars in the largest data center in the world, located in Europe's Portugal, SINES Start Campus, 1 GW data center, for no good reason, right? [URL]https://sustainabilitymag.com/articles/about-sin01-start-campus-new-ai-and-hpc-ready-data-centre[/URL] AND [URL]https://www.startcampus.pt/[/URL].

Funny, you once said Europe couldn't compete in the AI and data center arena. How wrong you were, thinking such nonsense. So much for MAGA think!

[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3046929]So when are they going to find Trump visited Epstein Island? Still waiting here. Love all the hoaxes while Trump does not but produce results.[/QUOTE]Still watching FOXY Muse are we? Good luck with that!

BTW, is NJ, still looking at "rubbing rocks" together to generate gigawatts of energy?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3047022]How many Democratic jobs were Minnesota day care workers? How many Democratic jobs were on the California high speed rail where not even one mile of track has been built? I talked to a friend in Atlanta. Atlanta had been killing it taking jobs from Hollyweird. Thing is the Teamsters Union has insisted that truckers get paid while their trucks were idled. The movie studios are so sick of it they are moving production abroad and away from Atlanta and those bullshit policies, and my friend has suffered because of that.

Adam Carolla put up a garage, and it pissed him off to see inspectors sitting in their cars while he was paying them. He could not believe how building a garage was so fucking hard and costly in California. He said that he is going to his kid's graduation in a you-haul because as so as his kid graduates he is out of California. And now his house has burnt down. Where were the fucking safety experts then?

It took Bill Maher two years to put up solar panels. Solar panels! How many Democratic jobs are these bullshit "safety" inspectors and "experts"? OMG..[/QUOTE]ADP and the BLS have always been well aware of and note the difference between private-sector jobs created and government jobs created. In fact, private-sector jobs is the only thing ADP tracks.

In both cases, their reports are that Trump's 2025 policies created only 25-30% of the jobs created by Biden's policies in 2024.

Don't you even read the links I post that you think I don't read?

That link states the big drop off in 2025 jobs created due to Trump's failed policies started in April of that year. That was when his "Liberation From Your Job Day" of across-the-board tariffs was established.

The Minnesota scandal has been prosecuted and perps have been convicted and jailed for it since 2022. Nothing new occurred regarding any of it last year or this year except MAGAs digging it up as potential distraction from their lord and savior's disastrous 2nd term as so-called president.

Adam Carolla is such a Winger idiot about politics and the economy he repeatedly complains about how impossible it was for him to find a job at the worst time to find a job in his lifetime because "there were NO jobs available and I tried everything" and then cites that year as 1983. But he is too stupid to know 1983 was Repub Ronald Reagan's THIRD year as so-called president and his economic philosophy, tax and economic policies were modeled after those of The Great Depression architects Repubs Coolidge and Hoover and have continued to be the template followed by almost every Repub since, including Worst Jobs Creation President Since Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump.

And Bill Maher is such a Lying MAGA Talking Points Liar now he continues to repeat some total bullshit about Dems thinking a man can get pregnant, want to conduct sex change operations on children and tried to defund the police when he has never in his life met a Dem or Dem policy leader who believes or ever tried to legislate such a thing. And he lives happily in Hollywood / Southern Califirnia with zero plan to ever move away from that area and "those people" to live among MAGALoons the same as Adam Carolla.

[QUOTE=Woodman09;3046903]Why don't you post the fake photos? -- You American hating dickheads are hilarious -- Cry harder.[/QUOTE]Yes, both used fake photos about Venezuela. Musk fake from AI and the old orange used a photo which was not about Venezuela. Except no brained who re elected him after he fucked constitution and Capitol, we can't trust these 2 who try to fuck our world. Can only wish it won t last for too long.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3047050][B]China Launches 1GW Offshore Solar Giant While America Watches From Shore,[/B] January 1, 2026 [URL]https://sustainablepowernews.com/china-launches-offshore-solar-giant/[/URL]

New Clean Energy / Environmental Impact:
[LIST] 1GW offshore solar farm combines innovative marine technology with clean energy production, [b]powering 2.6 million homes[/b][/LIST][LIST] Its avoiding 1.34 million tons of CO2 emissions each year. That's equivalent to [b]saving over 500,000 tonnes of coal. [/b][/LIST][LIST] Farming under these panels of fish, seaweed, who knows what else, produces a dual-use marine space, [b]one area, two revenue streams.[/b][/LIST]
[NOPARSE]Hmmm....I wonder if NJ "rubbed their rocks" hard enough together, if they could produce the same amount of clean energy to power 2.6 million [/NOPARSE]homes?[/QUOTE]How much gas was used to mine for the batteries and rare earth metals which will back up this system that is destroying ocean environment? How much energy is lost on misty days? In ten years when the panels need to be replaced, that is literally 5 square miles of plastic panels wasted and polluting the environment. How much did the batteries cost?

5 square miles of pristine ocean to generate electricity than can't even produce electricity at night or in bad weather. Yea that makes a ton sense.

Keep up the scam though.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3047018]Why LOL? If Trump is incompetent, why did you dumb asses try to put him in jail? There is a lot that is fair game to criticize Trump and his policies over about but him being mentally incompetent like Biden is not one. Your TDS is so out of control that you need to be ignored.[/QUOTE]I was wrong to have the nerve to criticize Trump. I remember as small child learning about ALDS -Abraham Lincoln Derangement Syndrome. Now that Trump has declared himself the acting president of Venezuela he will move there and give us Americans a break from his nonsense that is truly deserved.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3047078]The Minnesota scandal has been prosecuted and perps have been convicted and jailed for it since 2022. Nothing new occurred regarding any of it last year or this year except MAGAs digging it up as potential distraction from their lord and savior's disastrous 2nd term as so-called president.[/QUOTE]Sometimes, a response is so dumb it needs to sit by itself. Uh, Tooms, why is Tampon Timmy sitting down? Why did CBS news say they were going to cover the news differently?

Those are rhetorical questions. I have zero interest in your response.