American Politics

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]That is a puzzling conclusion similar to the one everybody in Winger Media makes about Trump and almost everybody in Mainstream Media makes about him; that he is interested in and [I]trying[/I] to Make America Great, interested in and [I]trying[/I] to accomplish positive results for the USA economy, the American people, world peace and starving children everywhere. But that, darn it all, he keeps making these blatantly obvious policy mistakes, miscalculations and clumsy blunders that everyone with a working brain can predict would produce the exact disastrous results they are producing. And that if we just gently advise him to adjust his methods in a more intelligent way he might surely change everything about him that has been who he is since the first day anyone outside of his immediate family ever heard of him. LOL.

Serious question; what in the world would support such a conclusion?

Trump ran for office as a Repub because he observed for decades that is the Party for deadbeat charlatans whose only skill and mission is to con as much money and power out if as many dumb Repub hillbilly suckers in the vicinity as possible and that even a lousy con man can squeeze out of them..[/QUOTE]Trump only cares about himself. He ran so he can stay out of prison. He has been using the office to line his pockets. What would you or Fox News would have said if Barack Obama tried to gift himself an airplane at taxpayers expense?

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3089379]Trump only cares about himself. He ran so he can stay out of prison. He has been using the office to line his pockets. What would you or Fox News would have said if Barack Obama tried to gift himself an airplane at taxpayers expense?[/QUOTE]My response to that would have been the same as it is for Trump; that he was being bribed by a country in the region who wanted the USA to plunge itself into another Forever War of Choice Based on Lies with its oil producing competitor, Iran. And if in fact Obama had then plunged America into that War, as Trump has done, it would have confirmed my conclusion about him being personally bribed into it.

Ditto for the bribes of Billions of Dollars paid to Trump and his Crime Family from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

But most significantly for Donnie Trump personally the bribe from Netanyahu in critically delaying honoring the May 2024 ceasefire negotiated by Biden until AFTER the November election in order to stoke and maintain just enough anti-Biden Administration animosity in the Muslim Community of voters in the only 3 swing states that mattered to squeak out the Electoral Votes he needed to win a 2nd term, as it turned out only needing a swing of about 114,800 of them spread across those 3 swing states to do it for him and without which he would have lost to Harris.

Trump doesn't give a shit what happens now regarding his Repub Forever Iran War. He did his part to payback those interested parties by plunging America into it.

Trump is a classic deadbeat that never pays back anything he owes to anyone with the telling exceptions of Netanyahu, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Putin and Jeffrey Epstein.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]That is a puzzling conclusion similar to the one everybody in Winger Media makes about Trump and almost everybody in Mainstream Media makes about him; that he is interested in and [I]trying[/I] to Make America Great, interested in and [I]trying[/I] to accomplish positive results for the USA economy, the American people, world peace and starving children everywhere.[/QUOTE]Damn bro! Another one of your infinite run on sentences.

A [B]run-on sentence[/B] occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions, making the text difficult to read. There are two primary types: [I]fused sentences[/I], where clauses are merged with no punctuation, [U]and [i]comma splices[/i], where clauses are separated only by a comma[/U].

Now in many posts throughout the many threads that are here on ISG you have questioned my ability to read, write and comprehend the English Language. Perhaps you should look in the mirror.

[B]The conclusion is not puzzling[/B] Every President of the United States of America takes a oath (not going over it again here). They enter office with the intent to make things better than they are and leave us with a better country when they leave office. There is no reason at all to think the current Article 2 leader is not doing the same.

[B]EihTooms[/B] has presented zero evidence that the current Article 2 leader is not acting in the best interests of the Dis United States of America other than is own well known partisan views. [B]Correlation is not Causation[/B]. This is a statistical principle. I have seen no numbers presented by EihTooms that proves anything he has to say about the political superiority of Democrats.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]But that, darn it all, he keeps making these blatantly obvious policy mistakes, miscalculations and clumsy blunders that everyone with a working brain can predict would produce the exact disastrous results they are producing.[/QUOTE]Present the proof that backs up your statement. Otherwise it is just your partisan opinion.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]And that if we just gently advise him to adjust his methods in a more intelligent way he might surely change everything about him that has been who he is since the first day anyone outside of his immediate family ever heard of him. LOL.[/QUOTE]There is no reason for anyone to advise him nor is there incentive for the current Article 2 leader to listen. I've been told by a certain person over and over that prostitution is legal in Thailand. I don't listen to them because they are not a member or the bar in Thailand. Nor have they been able to present a legal opinion from a member of the bar in Thailand that backs up what it is they have to say. So, I don't listen to them. They claim expert knowledge without having any credentials outside of the their own claims.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]Serious question; what in the world would support such a conclusion?[/QUOTE]The conclusion can be supported because not everyone thinks like you. Just because you think something is true does not make it so. It's easy to see why you disagree with actions of the current Article 2 leader. You are a Democrat. Period. Full Stop!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]Trump ran for office as a Repub because he observed for decades that is the Party for deadbeat charlatans whose only skill and mission is to con as much money and power out if as many dumb Repub hillbilly suckers in the vicinity as possible and that even a lousy con man can squeeze out of them.[/QUOTE]You made this statement because you are a Democrat. Period. Full Stop!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]There is no "justification" for his Iran War other than at that particular moment it seemed like a nifty idea to him to use the power, standing, blood and money of America to pay back Netanyahu for being the single most important reason he squeaked out a razor-thin win in 2024 and an opportunity to stay out of prison while conning billions of dollars out of Americans and trade American assets for billions more from America's enemies.[/QUOTE]There are many arguments that can be made for the illegal undeclared military action against Iran:

[QUOTE]The U.S. and Israel justified their military action against Iran primarily as a [u]preemptive act of self-defense[/u] to neutralize imminent threats from Irans nuclear program, ballistic missile capabilities, and support for proxy groups.

[u]The core legal and strategic arguments include[/u]:
[b]Article 51 Self-Defense[/b]: U.S. officials argued that Irans decades-long pattern of aggression, including proxy attacks and missile strikes, constituted an ongoing armed conflict, triggering the inherent right of self-defense under the UN Charter without requiring a new imminent threat for each strike.

[b]Prevention of Nuclear Arsenals[/b]: Leaders stated that diplomacy had been exhausted and that Iran posed an unacceptable security threat by pursuing nuclear weapons and building a "conventional umbrella" of missiles to protect that pursuit.

[b]Protection of Allies[/b]: The strikes were framed as necessary to defend U.S. forces in the region and allies like Israel from anticipated Iranian retaliation following Israeli operations.

[b]Regime Change and Human Rights[/b]: While secondary in legal filings, some officials cited the need to end the Iranian regimes oppressive rule and prevent large-scale loss of life among Iranian civilians, referencing the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.[/QUOTE][URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_2026_Iran_war[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]Whatever would happen after he plunged America into that Repub Forever War of Choice Based on Repub Lies is of zero interest to him. Whatever the fallout, he is poised and ready to con whatever he can con out of that situation as well. Good news for him or bad news for him, it doesn't matter one whit. He has a con to fit every situation or outcome to benefit him at the great expense of everyone else. He has devoted his life to that skill and mission.[/QUOTE]Present the proof that backs up your statement. Otherwise it is just your partisan opinion.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]The same for the midterms. Trump doesn't give a shit how the midterms turn out. His only interest now is to go on another Trump Brand Infomercial Tour to scoop up whatever accolades and money he can pluck out of however many dumb Repub hillbillies are still dumb enough to show up.[/QUOTE][B]ROTFLMAO![/B]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089302]Otherwise, Trump is way past Stage 9 of The Big Con, the steamer trunk is packed with conned billions and it is being loaded on the ship that is about to sail. Of course, that doesn't mean he won't be scoring any and every con he thinks he has the power to score on the way to the dock. He will. And it is entirely possible that the most damaging of them for everyone else is yet to come no matter how effective the incoming Dem Conressional Majority / ies are at stifling his pathological drive to con everyone out of everything.[/QUOTE][B]This Republican Administration has been better for my than the previous the Democratic Administration[/B] Even Obama moved against Crypto.

[U]Operation Choke Point 2.0[/U] was a coordinated effort by USA Federal banking regulators during the Biden Administration to pressure banks into severing ties with the digital asset and cryptocurrency industry, effectively "de-banking" crypto firms and individuals.

[URL]https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/operation-choke-point-2-0-how-u-s-regulators-fight-bitcoin-with-financial-censorship-[/URL]

The initiative, a successor to the [B]Obama-era[/B] Operation Choke Point, utilized informal supervisory guidance, "pause" letters, and vague "reputational risk" determinations from agencies like the*FDIC,*Federal Reserve, and*OCC*to restrict banking access.

[URL]https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/crypto-house-confirms-choke-point-2-0[/URL]

Senator Elizabeth Warren formally launched her 2024 re-election campaign in March 2023 by pledging to build an "anti-crypto army, a phrase originally coined by [U]Politico[/U] to describe her recruitment of bipartisan allies against cryptocurrency.

[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/03/30/elizabeth-warren-is-building-an-anti-crypto-army-feeding-serious-us-bitcoin-ban-warnings/[/URL]

Democratic hostility toward crypto is currently driven less by ideological opposition and more by opposition to President Trump's personal crypto profits. While the party has historically included vocal critics like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who called for banning "non-green" cryptocurrencies, recent legislative blocks are explicitly tied to conflict-of-interest concerns rather than a blanket rejection of the technology.

[URL]https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5988877-democrats-balk-crypto-bill/[/URL]

The Democrats have made is personal. This democrat is following the same party line.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3085534]Until it is practical to buy a cheeseburger with a bitcoin I'll pass on the latest Tulip Mania or Ponzi Scheme and leave it to Democrats to do the best thing regarding legislation for it.[/QUOTE][B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3089259]How has Trump made life better? Do you not drive a car, fly on planes and shop at grocery stores? Trump is sinking in the polls for reason![/QUOTE]TRump is succeeding. Regulations are simplified Wages are up. Taxes are lower. Inflation still better than Biden's record inflation. A record amount of factories being built. Investment in USA at record level. Unemployment low. 401 K's are high. Just unbelievably better than the Biden years.

[QUOTE=Canada;3089570]TRump is succeeding. Regulations are simplified Wages are up. Taxes are lower. [u]Inflation still better than Biden's record inflation[/u]. A record amount of factories being built. Investment in USA at record level. Unemployment low. 401 K's are high. Just unbelievably better than the Biden years.[/QUOTE]Under Joe Biden's presidency (20212025), the average year-over-year inflation rate was 4.95%, with the Consumer Price Index rising a cumulative 21.5% over his term. Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, the highest level in 40 years, driven by post-pandemic supply chain disruptions, fiscal stimulus, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[URL]https://www.investopedia.com/us-inflation-rate-by-president-8546447[/URL]

By the end of his term, inflation had cooled significantly to 2. 9% in December 2024 and 3. 0% in January 2025.

[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/15/politics/trump-using-fictional-inflation-numbers[/URL]

[B]The latest CPI report under the current Article 2 leader was 3.7%[/B]! The economy of the Dis United States of America is running hot. Interests rates off the chain. Brent Spot hit 110 USD / barrel. I called it!

[QUOTE]Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts - [b]Bernard Baruch[/b], 1946[/QUOTE]

What is it about the various clear and in plain language legal definitions of prostitution around the world that continues to stump you?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089472][B]Prostitution is not legal in the Dis United State of America[/b][/QUOTE]Actually, prostitution even according to your podunk country of birth's legal definition of it is legal in the USA. Last we all checked, every county in the state of Nevada is in the USA, including those specific rural counties where prostitution as legally defined in the USA is legal.

Which, granted, is radically different from the legal definition of it in our current country of residence, Thailand. As everyone who has researched it knows, there is no law in any legally enforceable Thai document or legislation forbidding and penalizing the agreement between consenting adults to exchange money for sex, exchange sex for money or their engaging in that exchange in private quarters.

By stark contrast, the police will be all over either or both of those behaviors with sting operations, arrests, criminal charges, convictions and scandalous headlines in the media for anyone of any age engaging in exactly that behavior everywhere in the USA except those specific places in the state of Nevada. It's one of the many reasons I enjoy living in Thailand rather than in Podunk, Texas, USA.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089277]But, but, but...who needs MAGA propaganda fossil fuels "bug-a-boo" land arguments and math, when you can essentially create a near 1 GWh power plant and additional new energy to the grid, essentially "out of thin-air?[/QUOTE]Just like with SWB and coal, you missed the point. You go about it here again.

"Thousands of Tesla Powerwalls and Sunrun home batteries kicked into action. These weren't just helping individual homes—they were working together as one giant, invisible power plant. "

Of course, you missed the second part, "For two hours, this virtual power plant delivered 535 megawatts of electricity to the grid.

You are orgasmic about 2 hours? LOL!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089277]Yes, it would be if that is what Rhode Island did with their 7 to 10 data centers, according to you and your co-signer, Elvis 2008's MAGA math.[/QUOTE]What?

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089277]So then, show me the real world data and evidence, that Rhode Island, was dumb enough (like your MAGA Math says they are) to install 5% of the island with solar, to power just one (1), let alone the roughly 5 to 10 data centers, I think they have?

Go on now, show me![/QUOTE]OMG. Are you serious? Data centers typically require between one and two gigawatts of juice, and you know how many data centers get one gigawatts worth of juice from SWB? Uh, that would be none.

Here are the top ten: [URL]https://datacentremagazine.com/top10/top-10-data-centres-using-100-renewable-energy[/URL]

Here are what is said about the second biggest SWB data center, one in Texas, Connected directly to the ERCOT grid via its own 345 kV transmission line, "the 576-acre campus has grown from an initial 200 megawatts towards a targeted 750 megawatts. ".

Yeah, SWB works great as long as you have backup power by plugging into a wall outlet with electricity generated by fossil fuels.

And the number one SWB data center, Powered entirely by renewable energy in a country where nearly 90% of electricity already comes from clean sources, the campus is targeting 1.2 gigawatts of capacity by 2030.

They are "targeting" that.

The 5% number comes from Rhode Island having 600,000 acres of land and the need to use 30,000 or so acres of land to power one average data center. That you took that literally shows you do not know what the fuck you are talking about.

In fact, you remind me of a joke the Soviets used to say about their president Brezhnev back in the day. When the Americans landed on the moon, Breznev was mad and said that he wanted the Soviets to land a space ship on the sun. When his scientists told Breznev the sun was too hot, he said, "No problem! We will land at night."

For someone crowing about facts, generating solar power is based on square footage AKA land you dummy! And yet you go off on this idiotic MAGA conspiracy rant when the facts do not match your fucked up cult beliefs.

Europe fucked themselves when they listened to you climate change nuts. Shit, France thought air conditioning was an unnecessary luxury that was going to threaten the planet and then there was a heat wave and thousands died because of the heat.

You climate change nuts are really fucking dangerous. I am grateful to the oil and gas industry because when I turn on my lights or use my AC, I know that in large part those things work because of fossil fuels whereas you want to kick them in the balls.

Are you spending a summer without AC? Are you using power 2 hours a day? And if not, why not? It is the same shit with you. You never put your money where your mouth is or have any skin in the game. You look to government to do everything.

[QUOTE=Canada;3089570]TRump is succeeding. Regulations are simplified Wages are up. Taxes are lower. Inflation still better than Biden's record inflation. A record amount of factories being built. Investment in USA at record level. Unemployment low. 401 K's are high. Just unbelievably better than the Biden years.[/QUOTE]The only thing Trump is succeeding at is lining his own pockets. On 1/3/27 that will change. All of those ill gotten gains will be returned to the Treasury. Than man is at 30% in the polls which explains why democrats are competitive in red states.

We don't want dictators or a monarchy here. You are certainly free to move to Russia if love to live under a dictator. Let's see how long that would last!

[QUOTE=Canada;3089570]TRump is succeeding. Regulations are simplified Wages are up. Taxes are lower. Inflation still better than Biden's record inflation. A record amount of factories being built. Investment in USA at record level. Unemployment low. 401 K's are high. Just unbelievably better than the Biden years.[/QUOTE]Sure. Also, up is down, left is right, the Sun revolves around the Moon and any minute now SubCmdr will certainly quote every word, phrase and sort of sentence in your post to parse every syllable of it, demand proof of every one of them and slam you for being partisan.

The A. I. Summary on Investment in America:

[QUOTE]Summary Comparison

Under Biden: Saw a historic, government-incentivized boom in domestic manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, and clean tech infrastructure construction.
Under Trump: Emphasized large-scale foreign investment commitments, deregulation, and corporate tax cuts, [b]though independent fact-checkers and media reports frequently dispute administration tallies by overlapping projects initiated under prior policies.[/b][/QUOTE]Inflation under Biden was far below record highs for America as well as farther below the highs suffered by other major countries during the recovery from Trump's Pandemic.

Wages are lagging behind Trump's rate of inflation, which is substantially higher than the rate of inflation under Biden after he produced his historic recovery from Trump's Pandemic.

The unemployment rate is higher today than it was when Trump took over from Biden. And increasing.

Trump's 1st term vs Biden's term:

[B]New Report Compares US Manufacturing Record of Biden-Harris and Trump Administrations[/B]

[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-compares-us-manufacturing-record-161100378.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAL3MyBR_rYrzTmh_f1UGFaVRI-cExPvIvcggnY2xdATx2cGUWicgKYhtvqTCoxtjyDyFoR351PVDIFKPkI4Vy0zg1GLHAnRspSly8lYJ4h-Jt-Ur6nzWNqIMNUakkIkKwZWLdoNL7H1T5ehHalQp5Dzm6SxwMKBaEvSqCX5GQcgc[/URL]

[QUOTE]Since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, more than 775,000 manufacturing jobs have been added to the economy. The growth is expected to continue, with the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and CHIPS and Science Act estimated to create 336,000 manufacturing jobs a year until 2035.

In contrast, more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during former President Donald Trump's single term. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic manufacturing job growth had all but plateaued under the Trump administration.

"The Inflation Reduction Act is a huge boost to the U.S. manufacturing sector," said. BlueGreen Alliance Vice President of Manufacturing and Industrial Policy Ted Fertik. "On several key metrics including job creation, investment in manufacturing, investment in cleaning up industrial emissions, and domestic momentum in growing industries we see that the Biden-Harris administration outperformed the Trump administration."[/QUOTE]Trump's 2nd term vs Biden's term:

[URL]https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HQzj4Ma5N/[/URL]

[QUOTE](2 days ago, see charts and sources in the above link) Factory construction hit a historic record under Biden and has fallen 31% under Trump.[/QUOTE][B]Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His Latest Interview With TIME[/B]

[URL]https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-fact-check/[/URL]

[QUOTE][b]What Trump Said: [/b]Look, we're building more automobile plants in the United States, and bigger ones, than we've ever built before.

[B]The Facts: [/b]Instead of building new factories, automakers appear to be largely adapting current ones.
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[B]What Trump Said: [/b]We got more manufacturing jobs coming online than at any time in the history of our country.

[B]The Facts:[/b] Manufacturing employment peaked in [b]1979[/b] with 19.6 million jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While 16,000 manufacturing jobs were added in August, the total number is 12.6 million, well below the [b]1979[/b] peak. [/QUOTE]Thanks, Jimmy.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089605]What is it about the various clear and in plain language legal definitions of prostitution around the world that continues to stump you?[/QUOTE]The same exact ones that stump you and prevent you from answering for the behavior of the Democrats towards crypto currently holding the offices outlined in Article 1 of the United States Constitution.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3089605]Actually, prostitution even according to your podunk country of birth's legal definition of it is legal in the USA. Last we all checked, every county in the state of Nevada is in the USA, including those specific rural counties where prostitution as legally defined in the USA is legal.[/QUOTE][B]Prostitution is illegal in 49 U.S. states[/B], with the sole exception of Nevada, where it is legal only in licensed brothels located in certain rural counties.

Are you ever going to address the issues I brought up about the Democrats stance on crypto or will you continue to side step it because you have no answers?