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[QUOTE=Spidy;3078640]Since the Republicans, under your MAGA Fuhrer rule, have adopted a communist style administration, then the communist shoe fits![/QUOTE]Meanwhile in reality the Democrats have gone full blown islamists and communists.
This will not end well. The polarization of American politics is quickly reaching new disastrous levels.
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3078629]Yes I did. Here it is:
[URL]https://youtube.com/shorts/NR8oEmsH_Tg?si=aj69ABNOhDk9t5m6[/URL]
He is keeping real!
The Tax Code is written for people who have capital and invest it. If you are [B]poor[/B] like me then you don't get any benefits from tax code. All you get is ass raped without lube by the IRS.
[B]ROTFLMAO![/B][/QUOTE]Poor people will always benefit from the taxation system.
If the taxes are too high or to low for people of a certain income bracket is another question.
But it seems a bit sanctimonious to cash in your welfare checks while complaining over how the "rich" aren't giving you enough of their money.
With that said it's hard to deny that there are some extremely rich people in the US.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3078668]Poor people will always benefit from the taxation system.[/QUOTE]Explain the reasoning behind your opinion. Facts and data are always helpful.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3078668]If the taxes are too high or to low for people of a certain income bracket is another question.[/QUOTE]If the government of the Dis United States of America prints the money, why do they need to collect taxes in the first place? Why doesn't the government of the Dis United States of America just print the money it needs instead of stealing mine?
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3078668]But it seems a bit sanctimonious to cash in your welfare checks while complaining over how the "rich" aren't giving you enough of their money.[/QUOTE]I guess you are speaking from experience. Because I don't know nothing about the particular experience that you referencing. Who cashes checks anymore these days?
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3076335]Let's talk Bonds.
Bonds are for people who have already made money and are simply looking to collect rent and preserve their capital. Let's say I want to generate 10,000 a month income in order to retire to Thailand, because I am a ungrateful crybaby who has given nothing back to my fellow citizens in the Dis United States of America. That would make me a Rich, Racist Republican.
[U]Generating $10,000 per month (or $120,000 per year) in income using only US Treasury bonds[/U] requires a principal investment of approximately $2. 53 million to $2. 54 million, depending on the bond yield. Based on recent rates cited in March 2025, where 20-year T-bonds offered 4. 750% and 30-year T-bonds offered 4. 625%, the required capital is calculated as follows:
At 4.750% yield: You need $2,526,316 invested to generate $120,000 annually.
At 4.625% yield: You need $2,594,595 invested to generate $120,000 annually.[/QUOTE]The welfare payments you receive. [B]I fund them[/B]. I am taxed on my worldwide income as a citizen of the Dis United States of America no matter where I am posted up in the world. If you are living in the Dis United States of America you are living on my tax dollars that I get zero benefit from but still pay. [B]Put that in your pipe and smoke it![/B]!
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3078668]With that said it's hard to deny that there are some extremely rich people in the US.[/QUOTE]This is a understatement my man. Check out this article.
[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-wealth-gap-widest-in-three-decades-federal-reserve/[/URL]
Wealth inequality in the United States has reached its widest gap in more than three decades, with the top 1% of households holding 31.7% of all USA Wealth as of the third quarter of 2025. This concentration amounts to approximately $55 trillion, roughly equal to the combined wealth of the bottom 90% of Americans.
[B]Check Ball![/B]
[QUOTE=Spidy;3076117]Clueless as usual![/QUOTE]Even if comments where I blow you dumb Dems off the roof without any name calling like I did with batteries. It is ridiculous, but your post about batteries was so pathetic it deserved a second response.
In the latest episode of pretzel twisting, you called the Republicans communist to compensate for Dems literally reading from the Communist Manifesto, and this post, where you are slobbering all over China, is just more of the same. In fact, China is the country you Democratic douches wish you could be: one party rule, state run economy, politicians picking candidates versus the public. It is just you all lie your asses off of and won't own it. You lie and say Republicans are the real communists not us Dems. Get the fuck out of here!
This sodium battery is your latest China jerk off. China is this electro not petrostate and they have the batteries to prove it. LOL. Never mind that China is the largest polluter in the world. Never mind that their electrostate bullshit is pure propaganda. Suckers like you eat it up.
[QUOTE=Spidy;3076117]So Elvis 2008, riddle me this, if your so called power deficiency assumptions on sodium-ion batteries are correct...why are sodium-ion battery in trucks, completing successful 15,000 km real world tests and look posed for deployment in China?[/QUOTE]And here we go again. Competing huh? Here are two power stations. This is the sodium one: [URL]https://*******.com/3buj8kj8A[/URL]
And a competing Lithium battery that has more juice than the sodium one at half the cost: [URL]http://********/i658101[/URL].
Just looking at the specs, the lithium battery has more juice, is seven pounds lighter, and is half the price. Is that any reason for you to be having orgasms about sodium batteries?
When you look at the head to head, the sodium battery is not even that much more impressive in the cold than Lithium. [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9k8dsApWIM[/URL]
You electrical purists cannot accept the notion that batteries do not work that well in the cold so you say, "let's find one that does". It kills me. Here we go again. You all cannot be happy with a 90% reduction. No, it has to be 100%. All gasoline cars must die! LOL. This is so stupid. There is no realism with you Democratic douches and your power generation. None!
In the mean time, I finally, finally found someone to put a second AC in my RV. They also rigged up a plug for the second AC unit. The included generator got the first AC unit cranking without issue. The generator powers an AC outlet, and I plugged in the second AC unit from the AC outlet on the RV and it worked but the generator made a haunting sound so I unplugged the second AC unit.
I have paid $5000 for Lithium batteries to run the AC. I plugged in the AC unit from the 12 volt, 15 AMP outlet on the power station and the AC would not even come on. LOL. I could not believe it. I have paid $5000 for Lithium batteries to run the AC, and so far, it is a total miss. The power station does have a 30 AMP outlet, and I will try that tomorrow. As of now, the AC unit is plugged into a shore outlet and the second AC is running like a champ. My fantasy of having a RV with two AC units to tame the Texas heat is now a reality.
Thing is the batteries were not charging all that great when using the plug powered by the generator. I got from 50 to 60% charged over six hours. Plugging into the shore power and I went from 60 to 100% in two hours.
I talked to the installer about solar panels to charge the power station and he thought it would take two days to charge the power station from solar panels and did not recommend it.
The only issue now is what to do if there is no outlet. What kills me is I was so certain that I could run a second AC off of batteries even when everyone said I could not. The issue is what do I do now if the batteries do not work and I have no access to shore power.
The answer was so stupid I am kicking myself. If you want a second AC unit, you just get a second generator. This one is $450 and my bet is that it will work better and longer than the $5000 of batteries.
[URL]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BS7B3YMG?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1[/URL]
It just kills me though that you Democratic douches cannot be happy with reductions. EVs have their place. They work great when driving around cities, have less than a 100 miles a day of driving, and you can plug in at night. When you start talking about going long distances, EVs suck ass. They cannot compete with internal combustion engines, but you climate change nuts insist we have to have EVs for everything.
2026 is not the year of the battery not even fucking close. I paid $5000 for batteries and I am not sure how or when I am going to use them. The generators work so much better, and it is not close.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3078668]But it seems a bit sanctimonious to cash in your welfare checks while complaining over how the "rich" aren't giving you enough of their money.[/QUOTE]I see you feel very strongly about people who do not have as much money as you do.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3076913][u]It's good that we have money in abundance,[/u] maybe you should save the little money you have instead of spending on it girls that [b]the white man[/b] can do better?[/QUOTE]Can you give the context behind this statement? Because from my perspective it doesn't look to good. Seems to support what I say about Republicans up in this thread.
Is it true that you think you are better than others who have less money than you do?
[B]ROTFLMAO![/B]
Didn't Trump just call credible news sources "fake news" for asking him questions about his typically crap Repub policy economic results that he would much rather they describe as "The Greatest Ecomomy Ever, as everybody knows, especially his greatest ever jobs creation"?
LOL. Trump just gave himself an [B]A+[/B] on his economy.
Uh.
Well, I suppose since he has yet to plunge America into the second Recession of his presidency, his economic grade might very well be an [B]A+[/B] compared to most other Repub so-called presidents. But certainly not compared to any ordinary Dem President of at least the past 100 years, especially Joe Biden.
The only question about Repub Trump's economy and jobs numbers is whether or not Repub Donald J. Trump will leave office after two terms, 8 miserable years, with his economic policies and stewardship having failed to create so much as one single net gain private-sector job compared to when he first took office or will it be a net loss of about a million private-sector jobs or will it be a loss of many, many more than a million private-sector jobs.
[B]U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July.
July 7, 2026[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/jobs-report-july-2026.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]Nonfarm payrolls fell by a seasonally adjusted 23,000 for the month, compared with a downwardly revised 20,000 for June. The Dow Jones consensus forecast had been looking for a gain of 83,000.
At the same time, the unemployment slipped to 4.1% as the labor force participation rate fell further to 61.4%, its lowest in more than five years, another indication that fewer Americans were working or looking for jobs.
In addition to the weak numbers for June and July, the final count for May was revised down to 63,000, or 66,000 lower than the prior estimate. The revised numbers brought the 12-month average down to just 34,000.[/QUOTE]Imagine how bad the reported numbers would be if the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics' employees hadn't been threatened with getting fired and losing their jobs in this typically horrific Repub economy jobs market if they didn't report better numbers than Trump's classic Repub policies were actually producing.
[QUOTE=TheCane;3078171]According to him he already ended the regime. We took out a few layers of it, but then the next wave espousing the same views (or even worse) stepped into place. That's not regime change. That's causing the enemy to just dig in even deeper. I'm not a big proponent of regime change anyway. How well did that turn out for us in Iraq and Afghanistan? Even in Venezuela we didn't get true regime change. Short of total war and complete annihilation (Nazi Germany & Imperial Japan for example), which comes at a terrible price on all sides, regime change doesn't seem to be working out too well. I'm more for "behavioral modification" in most cases than I am for regime change. Make it hurt enough, and the enemy will change its behavior. Trump's problem is that he's acting like he can deal with these people like he's trying to get a Manhattan real estate deal or something! Once we started, we should not have stopped until the job was done. Don't just talk about it.[/QUOTE]That's one of the most disgusting posts I've read lately. You're openly advocating for the use of a weapon of mass killing because these people are defending themselves against a disgusting and illegal aggression from your country? If you had an once of knowledge you would have known that the usage of gas is [B]prohibited in war under international law[/B]since last century. Your post is also filled with inaccuracies, for instance, Irak used mustard gas and sarin from the early days of their war imposed on Iran in the eighties, and Iran still fought back for 8 years against an opponent using illegal weapons of mass killing, so it seems they still didn't get your memo that these guys only understand the usage of force. That's a non negligible sign that Black or White, Americans are all the same, just a bunch of supremacists who can't stand other peoples fighting them back.
We in the world outside of the US, have been eating popcorn while watching the [B]US terrorist Army[/B] get their asses whopped in the middle east in these last few months. And we can't express how much we're happy to see their dirty asses getting kicked off an area they have been wreaking havoc these last twenty years and from where they don't even belong to.
All of this thanks to Donald Jerusalem Epstein The Great, could you believe it? You, the [B]Black American Supremacist[/B]?The first openly admitted American Supremacist President and all of a sudden you lose all your beloved terrorist bases in the middle east in a matter of five months. We're glad we've witnessed it live because there's little doubt your fabulous Hollywood filmmakers are going to distort reality and teach our kids the US was the good guy in this mess.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3078719]I have paid $5000 for Lithium batteries to run the AC. I plugged in the AC unit from the 12 volt, 15 AMP outlet on the power station and the AC would not even come on.
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2026 is not the year of the battery not even fucking close. I paid $5000 for batteries and I am not sure how or when I am going to use them. The generators work so much better, and it is not close.[/QUOTE]I wasn't quite sure what Elvis 2008's latest round of fossil fuel woes are, trying to solve powering his RV air conditioner, heater and appliances, (last I checked you were getting free gas propane, but only in certain parts of Texas). But I'm sure you still realize the sun is also free and shines freely in all 50 states.
But [NOPARSE]alas, there maybe no getting over "renewable intermittency syndrome"...but thanks for the latest [/NOPARSE]update! [I]Again, no shame in using diesel generators to solve your RV problems,[/I] if that solution fits the bill.
[B]Meanwhile,[/B] for [NOPARSE]those who can figure out how to use and implement battery tech successfully, and have embraced solar panels on their recreational vehicles or small boats, will be going without shore power for days on end...if needing it at [/NOPARSE]all.
Take YouTubers from the channel, Sailing Uma, are just finishing up their 18 month rebuild of their small sailing boat and in episodes 490 to 492, they've managed to outfit and install a massive 3. 6 kW solar array (on the deck, dodger and haul), along with a installed 50 kWh Li-ion battery bank, all on their tiny 36-foot sailboat. [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRr0lfPSanI[/URL].
[U]NO diesel backup generator needed[/U], just good ol' wind in your sails, sunshine in your solar panels and free clean renewable energy in your Li-ion batteries.
The point of this post, is to show that clean electrotech is advancing to solve your recreational needs, if you're willing to take off the fossil fuel shackles and blinders.
2026 The Year of the Battery [I](...for some...LOL!)[/I]
A Texas startup called Base Power, has introduced surprisingly new battery payment scheme and a cleaver adaptive way of selling energy / power, back to the grid, in what some pundits say, could signal the end for gas-peaker plants.
Base Power (TX), is offering a up to a 78.4 kWh home backup battery (roughly three times the capacity of a standard Tesla Powerwall 3), for for a tiny upfront cost of $95 to $695, plus a $19 monthly fee. The system pays for itself by allowing the company to sell excess stored energy back to the grid, giving homeowners affordable multi-day outage protection.
[B][i]Electrek[/i] - Base Power raises $1B to roll out its giant new home battery,[/B] Aug 4th, 2026. Base Power has just unveiled Core, a supersized 39.2-kWh home battery that it says can keep a house running for up to 36 hours and be installed in under an hour. [URL]https://electrek.co/2026/08/03/base-power-raises-1b-to-roll-out-its-giant-new-home-battery/[/URL].
According to Base Power, they genuinely see the home battery, [B]not as a solar accessory, but instead as [u]grid infrastructure,[/u][/B] saving the home owners 20% or more on their power bills. Great idea, although very puzzling, as to why investors, are valuing the company at US $13 billion dollars.
2026 the Year of the Battery.
[QUOTE=AssAddict;3078808]That's one of the most disgusting posts I've read lately. You're openly advocating for the use of a weapon of mass killing because these people are defending themselves against a disgusting and illegal aggression from your country? If you had a once of knowledge you would have known that the usage of gas is [B]prohibited in war under international law[/B]since last century.[/QUOTE]And absolutely ready for such a typical response! First of all, I'm well aware of what international law is around this. And second, how about you actually try reading and comprehending exactly what I said and stop putting words into my mouth? I did not call for the use of gas! I specifically said there was no need to go that far. I used it as an example of taking enough action to inflict enough pain to get the enemy to change its behavior, something that so far Trump hasn't shown the balls to do. As much as I can't stand Netanyahu, I know he has the balls (look at Gaza now). And I did not limit inflicting the pain through just weaponry, but also through economics and diplomacy! Bring enough military, diplomatic, and economic pain to truly have the enemy begging for peace rather than lying to the American people about that. That's what I said, but in your hysteria you choose to try to make my words into something else. But they are clear. We don't need gas (I said that). We don't need nukes. But we do need to bring enough pain to make the enemy say enough is enough and start bargaining in good faith rather than trying to hold on to their secret, not so secret, nuclear weapons program while spreading terror throughout the region and broader world. Rather than doing that, the crooked zealots of Iran ought to be spending all that money on bettering the lives of their own people versus killing 10's of thousands of their own! What was that you were saying about "mass destruction"? I think the religious zealots in Iran know plenty about that, and they are hanging on for dear life, because they know if their regime falls? They will die at the hands of their own people for their heinous crimes! As bad as things may be for us, they will always be 1,000 times worse for Iran in any armed conflict. Keep fucking around and push the West to its limits, and Tehran will end up like Persepolis. Burned to the ground! I don't care if you like what I say or not. But, I never let anyone tell lies about what I said. I did not advocate for the use of gas. I advocated for the use of sufficient (military, economic, diplomatic) force to get the enemy to change its behavior. And we don't need weapons of mass destruction to do that. The evil ayatollahs of Iran have already brought enough mass destruction to their own people by killing 10's of thousands of them in the streets for demanding a freer and better Iran.
[QUOTE=AssAddict;3078808]Your post is also filled with inaccuracies, for instance, Irak used mustard gas and sarin from the early days of their war imposed on Iran in the eighties, and Iran still fought back for 8 years against an opponent using illegal weapons of mass killing, so it seems they still didn't get your memo that these guys only understand the usage of force. That's a non negligible sign that Black or White, Americans are all the same. We in the world outside of the US, have been eating popcorn. [/QUOTE]Who said gas hadn't been used at different times throughout the war? The point made was that he was willing to use it to bring the pain, and as the following excerpt from some research I looked up states, things got to the point that it was a significant reason why Iran chose to agree to stop the fighting:
"Strategically, by the end of the war Iraqi chemical warfare had crippled Iranian morale. The threat that Iraqi Scud ballistic missiles, used with conventional warheads in the conflict's war of the cities, would carry chemical weapons caused fleeing of Iranian urban areas. Alongside 1988 ground and naval defeats, this is considered one of the reasons Iran accepted the United Nations-brokered ceasefire in August 1988".
No inaccuracies about what I said. Bring enough pain, and the enemy will quit! And you don't know anything about my race or ethnicity (as I like it and as it shall remain as it's irrelevant), and I don't know why you think you do. You don't. Only my nationality is unmistakably known, so save it man! Better start popping some more popcorn though. Because this shit is far from over! We're not finished with the delusional Iranian zealots, the nature of whose murderous regime you choose to look the other away from. I say to you, who was or is worse? The Shah, who chose to leave rather than slaughter his own people to remain on the throne? Or the crooked regime of the Islamic Republic which is estimated to have killed up to 30,000 of its own people to hold onto power? Riddle us that? And you have the gall to object to "mass destruction" when the IRGC is doing that to their own populace, and yet you express no outrage over that? What disgusting hypocrisy!
Its Civil War in the Democratic Party, but is it too late to save the Democratic Party from the crazies?
[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/media/dem-attorney-backs-gop-hopeful-michigan-race-against-el-sayed-jumping-ship-partys-lunatics[/URL]
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3078778]Didn't Trump just call credible news sources "fake news" for asking him questions about his typically crap Repub policy economic results that he would much rather they describe as "The Greatest Ecomomy Ever, as everybody knows, especially his greatest ever jobs creation"?
LOL. Trump just gave himself an [B]A+[/B] on his economy.
Uh.
Well, I suppose since he has yet to plunge America into the second Recession of his presidency, his economic grade might very well be an [B]A+[/B] compared to most other Repub so-called presidents. But certainly not compared to any ordinary Dem President of at least the past 100 years, especially Joe Biden.
The only question about Repub Trump's economy and jobs numbers is whether or not Repub Donald J. Trump will leave office after two terms, 8 miserable years, with his economic policies and stewardship having failed to create so much as one single net gain private-sector job compared to when he first took office or will it be a net loss of about a million private-sector jobs or will it be a loss of many, many more than a million private-sector jobs.
[B]U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July.
July 7, 2026[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/jobs-report-july-2026.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
Imagine how bad the reported numbers would be if the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics' employees hadn't been threatened with getting fired and losing their jobs in this typically horrific Repub economy jobs market if they didn't report better numbers than Trump's classic Repub policies were actually producing.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz9NWtQ0OWQ[/URL]
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3078855][URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz9NWtQ0OWQ[/URL][/QUOTE]Anyone who references MAGA Bill Maher's Trump Cult Weekly Repub Campaign Rally spin as a premise to prove a point is a bigger ill-informed numbskull than he is.
LOL. He still has no idea that school kids can indeed carry the Trump's Pandemic virus even if they were not the ones getting seriously ill or dying from it, can spread it to each other in crowded school rooms, carry it back to their parents and grandparents, who could then carry it to their friends and so on. That's why school closures were an important mitigating measure to prevent hundreds of thousands more cases of it, filling more hospitals, monopolizing more medical staff and facilities, producing more deaths from Trump's Pandemic.
And I heard on his latest show he was touting how much better Florida handled it than Blue states like California in his ongoing mission to help his beloved Repubs win elections whenever and wherever possible.
Uh. Nope-a-Dope, MAGA Bill:
[B]California vs. Florida: The surprising answer to which handled COVID better.
Nov. 27, 2023[/B]
[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-vs-florida-surprising-answer-110015103.html[/URL]
[QUOTE]But in raw terms, significantly more Floridians died on a per capita basis during the COVID-19 emergency than Californians. Of the four most-populous states, California had the lowest cumulative COVID death rate: 2,560 for every 1 million residents. Florida's rate was 60% worse, with 4,044 COVID fatalities for every 1 million residents, according to a Times analysis of Johns Hopkins University data through early March, when the university ended its data tracking.[/QUOTE]BTW, got any response to my post about Trump's typically crap Repub economic and jobs creation result during his "Golden Age Economy" that you quoted here?
[QUOTE=TheCane;3078832]No inaccuracies about what I said. Bring enough pain, and the enemy will quit! And you don't know anything about my race or ethnicity (as I like it and as it shall remain as it's irrelevant), and I don't know why you think you do. You don't. Only my nationality is unmistakably known, so save it man![/QUOTE]Let's see. A guy who hates Trump, has TDS, but hates Muslims so much he wishes Trump would have killed more of them. Wow, that is a Scoobie Doo mystery. I wonder who that could be. Oh wait, on the seeking forum, he is always complaining about money. Think, Elvis! This is so hard. Let me guess. Is your favorite form of bread, a croissant or a bagel? Are you more likely to find your kind in New York or Bangkok? What is your biggest holiday, Christmas or Hanukkah?
You are right. Your kind is too hard to figure out. It's not like your behavior is the most stereotypical type that there is of your type.