Electrostate vs Petrostate: Lessons in Clean Energy Electrification
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3047385]No, this is me telling you that you are an arrogant ass. I understand Dems who vote the way they do because it is in their best interest, but you have no clue as to why people vote Republican. ... And if you are voting Democrat as a form of identity ...
You and Tooms go on and on about how terrible the economy is. But do you talk to people who actually live here?.[/QUOTE]No not really, but good rant! But do get back to me and the debate, once you've figured out, what an LCOE is.
[QUOTE=RamDavidson84;3047625]You posted an article about German wind farms, I was just once again pointing out to you one of the many flaws of wind power.[/QUOTE]Same goes for you, once you've figured out what an LCOE is, and perhaps explain why, despite all the "downsides" of wind turbines (and solar), when in 2025, approximately [B]150 gigawatts (GW) of new wind capacity[/B] and around 380 GW of new solar capacity were installed worldwide, compared to ONLY a paltry 12 GW of nuclear worldwide, which was mostly in China? Explain, what exactly, makes this much clean energy [I](12x/30x wind/solar vs nuclear),[/I] a so called "Green SCAM", according to your MAGA ignorance?
[U]Electrification lessons from the illegal attack on Venezuela:[/U]
What you guys fail to realize, is that when right-wing dictators, tyrannical regimes (especially petrostate ones, like MAGA and your MAGA Fuhrer), invade other sovereign countries, on such pretexts as, [B]"narco terrorism"[/B] or [B]"weapons of mass destruction"[/B] or [B]"harboring terrorist groups"[/B] or [B]"national security",[/B] without first providing concrete evidentiary proof or the approval of congress or the people, it usually represents a clear signal, these petrostate regimes only wish to pillage, plunder and exploit, these sovereign nations for their natural assets and resources.
[U]The Weaponization of Venezuelan Oil and Gas:[/U]
So while the low hanging fruit of [I]"narco terrorism",[/I] and bogus claims and pretexts of [I]"oil being transported to terrorist organizations",[/I] will always appealed to a gullible MAGA base, when it was ALWAYS clear to the rest of America (and the world), this was the MAGA Fuhrer, weaponizing Venezuelan oil and gas, as a means to bring other sovereign nations, to heel, like China, that have an clear international right to trade with Venezuela, for their oil, whether the USA Likes it or not.
[U]The Electrification Message is Clear:[/U]
Thanks to the MAGA Fuhrer and his fake strongman bullying, in this part of the world, as he has now slapped name on and dubbed [I]"his hemisphere"[/I], if it wasn't already clear by now, to the rest of the Americas (Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Panama, Argentina), and to many other countries around the world, [I][b]"...START electrifying everything...NOW!"[/b][/I] and diversify away from the reliance of fossil fuels and petrostate influences.
China's ability to weather risks 'significantly enhanced', thank to guess who?
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3047453]Nobody has been better for the CCP and its economy than Donald Trump.
Nobody.
[B]China's trade ends 2025 with record $1.2 trillion surplus despite Trump tariff jolt.
Jan. 14, 2026[/B]
[URL]https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-trade-ends-2025-with-record-trillion-dollar-surplus-despite-trump-tariffs-2026-01-14/[/URL]
Wait til you see how well Trump serves Putin's Russia Russia Russia and other dictatorships now that he will be very busy as Venezuela's new dictator and continues to initiate and wage new Wars Against America for the next 3 years. LOL.[/QUOTE]What happened to the MAGA Fuhrer's economic policies, where "the other countries would be paying the tariffs"? LOL!
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Repub voters became a genuine loony fringe under Trump
Immediately after many of the 2020 Biden voters who decided to stay home and not bother to vote in 2024 because they were perfectly fine with their financial circumstances and had allowed themselves to be bamboozled by pro Repub pretend "bothsiders / neithersiders" into assuming it really doesn't matter all that much which Party is in the White House and that tiny handful of angry Muslims in the only 3 swing states that mattered foolishly switched their usual Dem vote to a Repub vote, the horrible realization set in that those disastrous decisions meant Donald Trump squeaked out a razor-thin win and would again produce the crap results he has been producing his entire life and most notably disastrous as a so-called president.
Consequently, Dem Party identification and Dem-leaning Independent affiliation has surged, as shown in this year-end Gallop Poll, many other polls and virtually every special or off-year election since January 20,2025:
[B]New High of 45% in U.S. Identify as Political Independents.
More independents lean Democratic than Republican, giving Democrats edge in party affiliation for first time since 2021.[/B]
[URL]https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-political-independents.aspx[/URL]
[QUOTE][b]Democratic-Leaning Independents Give Democrats Edge[/b]
Gallup has regularly asked political independents since 1991 whether they lean more toward the Republican or Democratic Party.
Last year, more political independents said they lean toward the Democratic Party than the Republican Party, with [b]the 45% of political independents breaking down into 20% Democratic leaners, 15% Republican leaners[/b] and 10% non-leaners. That is a shift from 2024, representing a three-point decline in Republican leaners and a three-point increase in Democratic leaners.[/QUOTE]Doing the math, it is inarguable that people who still identify with, support and vote for Repubs are the genuine loony fringe in America.
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Oh, that's nice but way too little and way too late
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3047876]Did you have an orgasm after all that mental masturbation? You seem to be saying that these angry Muslims cost Harris the election. Somehow I do not think the Somali Minnesota muslims changed their vote.
The problem with your dumb rewrite is you blow things off that did matter to people. With 2020, your dumb comments about an election not being rigged blow off the literal conspiracy to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. With 2024, you missed how grotesque the DOJ was weaponized to disqualify Trump. You blow off Biden lying his ass off when he said that he would not pardon Hunter Biden and go crazy when Trump pardoned that ex-president from Honduras.
Trump did not even offer up an excuse for the ex-president's pardon. It was, "I looked into his prosecution and it was bullshit. " Uh, okay. I heard those critical of Trump for doing this, but you all have been so critical about EVERYTHING with Trump, it is hard to listen to you all. I really could not defend Trump on this; I could only trust him. Was Trump messing around in Latin American politics which he had no business doing?
With Maduro, the answer was yes. Thing is Maduro was pure evil and I was in favor of getting him, but Trump got the crazy idea that he could be rigging elections and engaging in actions such that he could and should be choosing who heads up foreign nations. Trump is doing the same thing you Democrats have been doing. He and you have no respect for the will of the people. You Dems only agree with the people when they vote for you. .[/QUOTE]Your newfound pretend "bothsider / neithersiderism" will still help your beloved Trump and his MAGA Repub Cult in Congress fuck up America's economy and national security every day of every week of every month until a Dem House and possibly Senate Majority can stop him but even then only partially stop him a full horrible year from now.
Gee, thanks for your sudden awareness about the total shitstorm your 2024 Trump vote has and will continue to inflict on America and the American people.
But it is way too little and way too late for your sudden concern to do a damn bit of good for anybody or to keep you out of a well-deserved eternity of the tortures of hell after your demise.
Sorry. Take it up with God at the Pearly Gates. But I seriously doubt he will throw a pardon at you for what you have done.
Proud to be an American LOL!
[QUOTE=Spidy;3047670]What happened to the MAGA Fuhrer's economic policies, where "the other countries would be paying the tariffs"? LOL![/QUOTE]Trump just got the Nobel Peace Prize from a Venie hahahaha.
Guy is unstoppable. Ends wars before they begin and takes over whole nations without losing a soldier. Love him or hate him, he produces real results.
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More unstoppable Trump's real results
Unstoppable Repub Trump is already on track in his 2nd term to surpass the real results he produced in his 1st term when for the first time since Repub Herbert Hoover he left office with fewer jobs in the economy than existed when he took office yet somehow managed to jack up the deficit my Trillions more than all the presidents before him and, amazingly, without laying a single brick or erecting a single support beam for infrastructure improvement anywhere in the country after 4 solid years of promising us his "Infrastructure Week" concepts of a plan were coming in "two weeks".
All of which results helped earn him the rank of Worst President in USA History by a group of non partisan historians.
Here are some of his unstoppable real results so far just in his first 2nd term year after inheriting the Envy of the World Economy from Dems Biden-Harris:
[B]Trumps tariffs trigger rising rate of job layoffs inside supply chain: ASCM/CNBC survey.
Jan. 12, 2026[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/trump-tariffs-jobs-layoffs-economy.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Rising costs associated with President Trumps tariffs have resulted in increased layoffs and less capital for investments, according to supply chain professionals surveyed by Association for Supply Chain Management and CNBC.
65% of survey respondents reported at least a 10%-15% increase in their supply chain costs, and business tell CNBC that even if the Supreme Court rules IEEPA tariffs illegal, refunds wont recover many costs they have incurred.[/QUOTE][B]Bankruptcies soared to a 15-year high in 2025 as companies struggled to cope with Trumps trade wars.
Among the firms that filed for bankruptcy this year were Spirit Airlines and solar company PosiGen.
Dec. 27, 2025[/B]
[URL]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/corporate-bankruptcies-increase-trump-trade-wars-b2890965.html[/URL]
[QUOTE]Corporate bankruptcies soared to a 15-year high in 2025 as companies struggled to cope with President Donald Trumps trade wars, among other factors, according to a new report.
No fewer than 717 companies filed for Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 bankruptcy between January and November, according to S&P data reviewed by The Washington Post. This marks a 14 percent increase from the same period in 2024 and the highest rate since 2010, when the country was recovering from the Great Recession.[/QUOTE][B]2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, December jobs report shows.
The U.S. added 50,000 jobs last month, a mixed report capping off a difficult year for the labor market.
Jan. 9, 2026[/B]
[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/december-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-rcna253115[/URL]
[QUOTE]Just 584,000 jobs were created in 2025, far below the more than 2 million added in each of the prior two years, and the more than 4 million hires in 2022, the height of the post-pandemic recovery.
Last year, the labor market added jobs at an average pace of 48,000 jobs per month, after revisions.
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President Donald Trumps administration has also pursued aggressive immigration restrictions, and as a result many companies have taken a cautious approach to hiring noncitizens
Economists have said that rising immigration in recent years helped to address persistent U.S. labor shortages and bolstered the jobs market as a whole.[/QUOTE]Of course, as always, the "worst since a previous historic Repub policy and stewardship economic disaster" comparison fully applies.
Trump just abandoned US allies who defeated ISIS terrorists
Trump just abandoned US allies who defeated ISIS terrorists in Syria, namely the SDF who consist of secular Kurds, Arabs and other ethnicities. Leaving them to the mercy of former Al Qaeda leader a terrorist group who was the planner and committer of 9-11 attacks on world trade center.
Electrostate vs. Petrostate: Nuclear advance lessons from China's ACP100 SMR
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3047405]The best power source for Data Centers is nuclear energy. Data Centers: they cannot be turned off.
[B]Bitcoin mining operations[/B] are the best for renewable energy. They can be located where powered is stranded. They can be turned off when demands of the grid are exceeded.
[b]The beauty of electricity it is not political.[/b] It cannot be created by the will of politicians. It is a true currency. You only get electricity if you put in the work. Something that cannot be said for political actors.[/QUOTE]I would also add, that the other beauty of electricity, is that there is [B]an abundance[/B] of it, that can be created and harvested "freely" anywhere in the world.
So while the lame-duck MAGA Fuhrer and it's zombie admin 2. 0, hamstrings America, with its dumbass "drill-baby-drill" policies and its Epstein Pedo Sex File distractions, China's ACP100 SMR, is quietly redefining and perfecting small nuclear reactor technology.
And although, there is still some finalization work to be done, on the commercial viability of the ACP100, the good news is, China's ACP100 SMR, has just completed and passed its non-nuclear turbine test run. China's ACP100 is not the world's first SMR, but it is the first of its kind and the front-runner, in a new class of smaller, safer, [B]factory-built reactors[/B] could reach practical and commercially viability.
[B]Chinese SMR completes non-nuclear steam start up test,[/B] Thursday, 8 January 2026, [URL]https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chinese-smr-completes-non-nuclear-steam-start-up-test[/URL].
If proven viable with a true "modular" style build, from factory to plant site, with a significant decrease in construction time and "Lego-like" assembly and scalability, of about 2-3 years or less, it could be prove to be a game changer, towards a more electrostate world.
