American Politics

[QUOTE=Canada;3074907]Business is tough. Especially the real estate business. One day your property is worth millions then a recession it is not worth the debt you owe. Most people that go bankrupt stay bankrupt. It takes a real business person to rebound to billions. Very few are successful but Trump was smart enough to succeed. He may not be the nicest guy in the world but he is a great negotiator and businessman. Even if you don't like him.[/QUOTE]Oh really? Name someone who had their daddy's business handed to them to claim bankruptcy 6 times? LOL.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3075063]Oh really? Name someone who had their daddy's business handed to them to claim bankruptcy 6 times? LOL.[/QUOTE]Exactly. Thanks for confirming my post. I don't know any business owner that was good enough and smart enough to recover 6 times. Thanks again!

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3074908]Sirioja, FYI in the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump received more votes nationwide than Kamala Harris. Trump also won with 312 Electoral College votes vs Harris's 226 Electoral College votes.

The US 2026 midterm elections are a different animal. Trump is not running in 2026 and that fact will affect Republican turnout. Historically, the out of power party usually wins or picks up seats in the Senate and House. The 2028 national presidential election is another story and Trump is not running in 2028 despite the fear and loathing of far left loons.

So, before you start criticizing our form of representational government which has been around for 250 years, far longer than France's, you should at least attempt to understand the reason why the electoral college exists in the 1st place. Hint: have you ever heard of the concept of the "tyranny of the majority"?

And despite your claims otherwise, France has a lot of existential problems on its hands. I would never consider moving to France now. I went there once in the 80's. I had a good time, but tragically, that France no longer exists.[/QUOTE]The only people who matter that clearly do not or refuse to understand how that Electoral College for the presidential elections and the popular vote for Congressional elections thingy works in America is Donald J. Trump and the razor-thin Repub majorities in Congress.

Please forward this post in unredacted email form to them immediately!

"Make sure I win!" - Donald J. Trump to China's Xi in 2020. However, under censorship pressure from the White House, the publisher of the book dropped the verbal quote cited by Trump's National Security Advisor and changed it to "pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win."

Ah. That's much better.

[B]John Bolton: Trump sought Xi's help to win re-election
18 June 2020[/B]

[URL]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53086042[/URL]

[QUOTE]"Trump, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election in 2020, alluding to China's economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Mr Bolton wrote.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Canada;3075073]Exactly. Thanks for confirming my post. I don't know any business owner that was good enough and smart enough to recover 6 times. Thanks again![/QUOTE]Is that why Trump filed a 10 billion dollar junk lawsuit against the government so he settle with himself. Not going to fly especially the provision to relive himself and crime family from pending 100 million dollars in unpaid taxes.

He going to have to pay. You act like it's your money! LOL.

[QUOTE=Canada;3075051]Great that we won't see you in USA for the next 10-20 years. Good news for America.[/QUOTE]But you never listed 8 peaces made by Trump, when no peace, but war again for him in Iran and lies and inflation for Americans. And do You see NY and Chicago under so big pollution, his ignorance is making. I won't need to wait for so long to spend again money in USA. Do you think your old senile crazy will live till 100 , when so fat. I doubt and wish for our world, mid terms will kick him off, when our world don't need and deserve such stupid.

Man, those "Worst since a previous Repub economic disaster!" citations are coming fast and furious lately!

Oh well.

We tried.

[B]Import prices post surprise gain as costs of goods from China hit highest since 2008.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/import-prices-post-surprise-gain-as-costs-of-goods-from-china-hit-highest-since-2008.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Import prices were up 0.3% for the month, as a drop in energy was more than offset by increases elsewhere.

On an annual basis, prices jumped 7.1%, the biggest move higher since August 2022.

China played a role, with import prices rising 0.9%, the biggest monthly move since January 2008, a possible reflection of tariff impacts.[/QUOTE]Wait until those Repub Trump Tariffs Taxes on the American Consumer are combined with the recent increase in the average price of a gallon of regular gas in America starting this month, which already has returned to a higher price today under Repub Trump than yesterday, those prices are higher than last week, those prices are higher than last year and in fact now those prices are again higher under Repub Trump than it was under Dem Biden for all but about 4-5 months in 2022.

Oh, and that price in 2022 was due to the deal Repub Trump made with OPEC in 2020 to increase the price of oil and gas during the historically low demand period of Repub Trump's Pandemic.

As everyone knows.

I'm just looking forward to WW3, what's it going to take at this point? Everything points towards Armageddon and yet here we are still blue balling it waiting for the apocalypse. Sheesh.

So why is CATL the king of lithium batteries, making sodium batter? This past June, the world's biggest battery company walked on stage in Munich and revealed a grid storage system with [B]zero lithium inside[/B], suddenly pouring billions into sodium, a chemistry?

Well, CATL's Tener Sodium grid BESS, runs entirely on sodium batteries [I](no supply-chain issues, no lithium, no cobal, no nickel, no fossil fuels for the naysayers to nit pick about mining practices they themselves abuse at every turn)[/I] just an abundance of sodium (found anywhere) and groundbreaking clean electrotech in the form of a BESS.

Groundbreaking Tener Sodium-ion Battery Specs:

- the first Sodium BESS proven out in the real-world (not sure what CATL means by that, as it is not the 1st sodium BESS to be established)
- 30+ MWh per unit
- 10,000+ cycles (Note: Rick Roy says 15,000 charge cycles? at around 25 to 30 years of service-life)
- hold greater than 90% capacity in -20 C (Note: Rick Roy says hold 92% of its capacity at -20 c and then he states at 15:00, that it holds its state of charge at 90% om -40C weather??)
- largest battery constract to a single company in battery manufacturing history, with a 60 GWh for its sodium batteries
- Naxtra Sodium for EVs, Tener Sodium for BESS grid solutions.

[I][b]Meanwhile back in the good ol' Trumpland and MAGA World,[/b][/I] [NOPARSE]the debackle, clown show admin 2.0, incompetance, corruption, inept failure and utter disregard for American hard earn taxpayers dollars not be spent like drunken sailors, bribing energy companies billions not move forward building clean tech wind projects (due to the MAGA Fuhrer's own vanity dislike of wind farms), but fossil fuel plants instead, and top it all off yet another stupid Republican war (that they dumbfoundly can't seem to win)...rages [/NOPARSE]on!

2026 The Year of the Battery.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3075097]Is that why Trump filed a 10 billion dollar junk lawsuit against the government so he settle with himself. Not going to fly especially the provision to relive himself and crime family from pending 100 million dollars in unpaid taxes.

He going to have to pay. You act like it's your money! LOL.[/QUOTE]$100 million dollars to Trump is equivalent of $100 for you to pay. He can easily pay $100 million like you can easily pay $100. I am pretty sure Trump has paid hundreds of Millions more in taxes than you. The way you talk you think you are much more successful than Trump.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3075143]But you never listed 8 peaces made by Trump, when no peace, but war again for him in Iran and lies and inflation for Americans. And do You see NY and Chicago under so big pollution, his ignorance is making. I won't need to wait for so long to spend again money in USA. Do you think your old senile crazy will live till 100 , when so fat. I doubt and wish for our world, mid terms will kick him off, when our world don't need and deserve such stupid.[/QUOTE]President Trump has ended 8 wars in just 8 months with the title the president of peace. His latest addition to his list of wars ended is the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The other seven were between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Please stay in France.

[QUOTE=Canada;3075198]President Trump has ended 8 wars in just 8 months with the title the president of peace. His latest addition to his list of wars ended is the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The other seven were between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Please stay in France.[/QUOTE]Trump failed for Ukraine, agress Greenland and Denmark, Spain, Germany, Cuba, Venezuela. If you think we made peace between Israel and Hamas or Iran, then you live in a deep hole, when he didn't make any peace since he was re elected and I look forward his death, when I know will be a great day for our world.

[QUOTE=Canada;3075198]President Trump has ended 8 wars in just 8 months with the title the president of peace. His latest addition to his list of wars ended is the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The other seven were between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Please stay in France.[/QUOTE]Yeah Trump put on his cape and boots and saved the planet. LMAO.

[QUOTE=Canada;3075198]President Trump has ended 8 wars in just 8 months with the title the president of peace. His latest addition to his list of wars ended is the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

The other seven were between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.

Please stay in France.[/QUOTE]Ah. Found some links for you!

In the AI Overview:

[QUOTE][b]Did Donald Trump end 8 wars?[/b]
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[B]No[/b], Donald Trump's claim that he ended eight wars is heavily exaggerated and not supported by independent analyses or the involved countries. While his administration facilitated several ceasefires and peace agreements, fact-checkers and foreign policy experts point out that his list includes border disputes, non-existent active wars, and agreements that quickly collapsed.The 8 Conflicts CitedTrump's list of eight conflicts that he claims to have resolved includes:

[B]Israel and Hamas:[/b] The U.S. helped broker a ceasefire, but a definitive end to the conflict remains elusive.

[B]Israel and Iran:[/b] Ceasefires were announced, but direct military strikes and regional tensions have continued.

[B]India and Pakistan:[/b] Both countries agreed to a ceasefire, but India explicitly denied that the U.S. or Trump mediated the truce.

[B]Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda:[/b] An agreement was signed, but fighting and regional skirmishes have persisted.

[B]Cambodia and Thailand:[/b] A ceasefire was brokered, but violence and border clashes broke out again months later.

[B]Armenia and Azerbaijan:[/b] Peace agreements were signed, but the long-standing geopolitical region remains volatile.

[B]Egypt and Ethiopia:[/b] This was a diplomatic dispute over a major hydropower dam (the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) rather than an active war.

[B]Serbia and Kosovo:[/b] This involved an agreement on economic normalization, but there was no active fighting to end, and deep political tensions remain unresolved.

Why the Claims are Disputed. Independent fact-checkers identify three main reasons why the "eight wars ended" narrative is misleading:Redefining "War": Several of the situations listed were regional tensions, border skirmishes, or diplomatic impasses rather than active, full-scale wars.Fragile Truces: Some of the ceasefires Trump took credit for organizing fell through, with violence resuming shortly after the photo-ops.Disputed Mediation: In several cases (most notably India and Pakistan), the nations involved rejected or downplayed Trump's claims of playing a significant role in brokering their peace.For more in-depth fact-checking on these claims, you can read full reports from BBC, Forbes, The Times, and AP News.How many wars has President Trump ended?Oct 15, 2568 BE How many wars has President Trump really ended? ... President Trump has claimed that he has "ended 8 wars in just 8 months" in a social media post with the titl...BBCDid Trump really end eight conflicts in 10 months? WION fact-checks the US presidents big war claims Written by Prajvi MathurFeb 25, 2569 BE Did Trump really end eight conflicts in 10 months? WION fact-checks the US president's big war claims Written by Prajvi Mathur * Alfonso Avina. What 8 wars? Sus...FacebookWhat ten wars did Trump end? His claims fact-checked - The TimesApr 16, 2569 BE After brokering an agreement to end the fighting in Gaza, he claimed to have resolved eight wars: Armenia and Azerbaijan; the Democratic Republic of the Congo a...The TimesFACT FOCUS: Trump says he's ended eight wars. His numbers are off - AP NewsDec 29, 2568 BE Trump says he's ended eight wars. His numbers are off | AP News. ... Your guide to the biggest stories in politics, policy and U.S. elections. ... Get special a...AP NewsDid Donald Trump end 8 wars? Figure mentioned in SOTU address inflatedFeb 24, 2569 BE Those include: * Armenia and Azerbaijan - The two former Soviet republics and Trump signed a peace agreement at the White House on Aug. 8, ending a decades-long...YahooWhat 8 wars did Trump refer to? Fact checking his SOTU addressFeb 24, 2569 BE President Donald Trump said he solved eight wars during his State of the Union address on Feb. 24. "We're proudly restoring safety for Americans at home, and we...USA Today[/QUOTE]Now, I looked for a link for the one war Trump appears to be most proud of ending because he has mentioned it multiple times; The War between "Aberbijian" and Albania. But I have yet to find any information on how that one has been going since he ended it.

Interesting that Trump never mentions the War in Afghanistan when he lists the wars that America was engaged in that lasted longer, so far, than his latest quagmire Repub War of Choice in Iran based on his lies. You know, "The Vietnam War lasted 19 years!" and so on? Which is odd since Repub GW Bush's quagmire War of Choice in Afghanistan based on his lies was the longest war America was engaged in.

Weird, huh? Why doesn't Trump mention that one in his list of long American wars?

Oh, I know why! It's because Trump is so lame and incompetent about ending any REAL wars, he happily presided over that Repub War of Choice based on a Repub lie for the entirety of his first term, every day, hour and minute of it, and left the actual ending of it to a much better man and much better president, Joe Biden, who did end it with the least deadly withdrawal from an occupied country by the losing side in a War in the history of modern warfare. And that was despite the horrifically bad negotiation and USA troop conditions Trump had handed him in January 2021.

That was also after another much better man and president than Trump, Barack Obama, had previously ended another quagmire Repub War of Choice in Iraq based on a Repub lie.

See how that works?

If Trump ever had the slightest clue how or the ability to end any war, why couldn't he end the only war over which he served as Commander-in-Chief for the entirety of his first presidential term? Instead, there is only overwhelming evidence that he is very good at starting quagmire Repub Wars of Choice Based on his lies. Where next? Cuba? Greenland? Denmark? Canada? Oh, you ought to really enjoy that one.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3075227]Yeah Trump put on his cape and boots and saved the planet. LMAO.[/QUOTE]He hasn't saved the planet yet. He still needs to stop Iran which is difficult but probable. Eliminating Iran nuclear threat and eliminating Iran support of terrorists will be his greatest accomplishment. The only people in the world that won't be happy about it will be the democrats / socialist / communist party.

[QUOTE=Canada;3075244]He hasn't saved the planet yet. He still needs to stop Iran which is difficult but probable. Eliminating Iran nuclear threat and eliminating Iran support of terrorists will be his greatest accomplishment. The only people in the world that won't be happy about it will be the democrats / socialist / communist party.[/QUOTE]In other words the only people rooting for the IRCG terrorists and murderers are nihilists, totalitarians, Jacobins, haters, and the "useful idiots" with TDS who hate Trump, America and Western Civilization so much that they actually want to see the IRCG fascists win this war no matter what that will subsequently mean for the entire world. Amazing!