American Politics

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3085021]Medias like CNN refused in White House by Trump. After Musk corruption, now 5000 USD corruption by Trump to try to save midterms, USA under him are not anymore a democracy, but a new dictator with ICE, like his friend he sucks, Putin who threaten to vote for him.[/QUOTE]After most US artists boycotting Trump, now most medias boycott the dictator. Only 14000 followers on his new created channel, just ridiculous, but dangerous dictator. Wishing for still democracy to get rid of him and his messe all over the world, on midterms.

Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 [U]white[/U] South African refugees.

[QUOTE]In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African government has repeatedly rejected the idea that the white South Africans, who are Afrikaners, are a persecuted minority in the home country.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/22/trump-white-south-african-refugees/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085164]And your dumb Earth 1 bullshit assumes all climates are the same. If you are in a desert like climate where there is a lot of sun and free space and temps plummet at night where you need little to possibly no night time AC, then the solar-battery combination might be a cost effective solution. But where it stays hot at night like where I am in Texas, the solar-battery combo makes no financial sense.[/QUOTE]Here is what the Republican from Texas misses:

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3084974]Rooftop solar allows my fellow citizens in the Dis United States of America to begin to take back their independence. [U]That is priceless[/U]. It is not subject to cost benefit analysis. Now, when I looked the cost of connecting to the grid for my land in the Dominican Republic, it was more economical to build an off grid system that generates power using solar panels. Plus no monthly electrical bill for 30 years. ROTFLMAO! I am still trying to figure out how integrate wind into the installation.[/QUOTE]That is each and every application for the use of Solar and Wind is different. The generation of energy for a society is political. You have to have permission from the government to build a power generating station (of any type). On private land you do not. I did not have to ask anyone for permission to place a solar panel on my land.

The Republican from Texas should just say he has a philosophical problem with SWB power systems. Instead of using examples that are not really proper examples and trying to extrapolate them to the larger population at large.

[U]SWB Facts in Texas[/U]

[QUOTE]Solar and wind power are cheaper than fossil fuels in Texas for new generation projects, with unsubsidized costs for wind ($28$54/MWh) and solar ($32$44/MWh) falling below those of natural gas ($44$68/MWh) and coal ($66$152/MWh).

This cost advantage has allowed renewables to save Texas consumers billions, with reports indicating $7.4 billion in wholesale savings in the first eight months of 2022 and an average daily avoidance of $20 million in fossil fuel costs.[/QUOTE][URL]https://rmi.org/resources/wind-and-solar-are-saving-texans-20-million-a-day/[/URL]

[QUOTE]The Democratic response to the first 100 days of Donald Trumps second term has been sluggish. It has made many Congressional Democrats, and party members, anxious about what the party can do to push back against the presidents fast-moving agenda.

None of this feels like youre fighting for us The words are great, but Im really not seeing any action, said an exasperated constituent at a town hall event held in March by Colorado Democratic Senator Michael Bennet.[/QUOTE][URL]https://theconversation.com/what-have-the-democrats-achieved-in-trumps-first-100-days-255139[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085164] And your dumb Earth 1 bullshit assumes all climates are the same. If you are in a desert like climate where there is a lot of sun and free space and temps plummet at night where you need little to possibly no night time AC, then the solar-battery combination might be a cost effective solution. But where it stays hot at night like where I am in Texas, the solar-battery combo makes no financial sense. [/QUOTE]Yeah, I forgot, on Earth #2, the sun doesn't shine everywhere and the wind doesn't blow everywhere either!

On Earth #2, while not all regions get the same amount of radiated solar energy (aka. Sunshine), does not 80-85% of population live in The Global South?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085224]Here is what the Republican from Texas misses:

That is each and every application for the use of Solar and Wind is different. ...[/QUOTE]You could have stop there and IMHO, you'd think most people would get. But naturally, MAGA has to politicize everything and twist it to their idiotic MAGA ideology, while they desperately try to hang on to power. And energy is one of the more critical levers of power!

Every application is different, but that's the flexibility and scalability of renewables (SWB) and electrotech. Take the application of renewables (SWB) and the example of RVing verses sailing, in what I like to call [I][b]RV Elvis 2008 vs. Sailing Uma.[/b][/I] While Elvis 2008 in his RV, has the luxury of pulling up to the local gas-station and fueling-up his RV and generator, very conveniently, out on the ocean, in the middle of nowhere, where are you going to find a gas-station?

The trends for renewables (SWB) is clear, no matter, where on earth or in what climate you happen to preside in, renewables (SWB), electricity demand and end-case usage are slowly (and in some cases rapidly) replacing fossil fuels.

In a recent post, Elvis 2008, was complaining about the cost of solar, portable power stations, batteries and the weight of everything would be too much for his RV capacity. Fair enough, since Elvis 2008, sought out, what he said was a viable cheap fossil fuel solution. But now a few months later, he tells us, he's bought a portable power station and a couple of batteries [I]...so go figure?[/I].

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085224][U]SWB Facts in Texas[/U]

[URL]https://rmi.org/resources/wind-and-solar-are-saving-texans-20-million-a-day/[/URL][/QUOTE]Those are pretty good cost saving facts on Texas energy!

Undeniably, whether it's MAGA zealots, Texas SWB growth, Elvis 2008 flip-flopping on RV solutions or Australia's richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, publicly criticizing green policies and funds climate skepticism, while her own backed mining operations heavily utilize renewables (SWB), in the end, none of them can escape the [B][i]economics of renewables (SWB)[/i][/B] or the electrotech trend.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085262][URL]https://theconversation.com/what-have-the-democrats-achieved-in-trumps-first-100-days-255139[/URL][/QUOTE]The better question is, what have (or haven't) the MAGA Fuhrer and the Repubs Admin done?

To answer my own question, I would say, [B]less than nothing administratively,[/B] and are every bit the lame-duck administration, I knew they'd turnout to be. But then again, [U]they have done,[/U] everything politically possible, within their collective MAGA ideological power, to fuck-up, screw-up and mess-up America and turn it to a MAGA shit-wasteland.

Lest you forget, the (neither party is mine) MAGA Fuhrer and the shit-show Republican admin, are the ones in power (both houses).

Democratic opposition to crypto regulation is nearly universal across the party. Why is that?

[QUOTE]Bitcoin has surged to $86,000, continuing its upward trajectory despite the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate hike. The influx of nearly $1 billion into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds reflects robust investor confidence. Additionally, the CLARITY Act's failure to pass seems to have alleviated concerns, prompting a positive market reaction.[/QUOTE][URL]https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/bitcoin-price-today-how-did-btc-usd-hit-86000-after-999-million-bitcoin-etf-inflow-defied-fed-rate-hike-and-clarity-act-failure/articleshow/134420082.cms[/URL]

[I]Not a investment recommendation[/I]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085262][URL]https://theconversation.com/what-have-the-democrats-achieved-in-trumps-first-100-days-255139[/URL][/QUOTE]There are approximately 250,000,000 American citizens who were eligible to register and vote in 2016,2020 and 2024.

Yet only 67,000,000 of them were smart enough and patriotic enough to be registered and vote for Clinton in 2016 and only 75,000,000 of them were smart enough and patriotic enough to be registered and vote for Harris in 2024.

Sure, almost 3,000,000 more of them voted for Clinton than Trump. And, sure, they managed to reduce House seats for Repubs in 2024, but not enough to flip the House control to the Dems. Close, but not quite enough. And they managed to prevent the Repubs from winning a single Blue state Senate seat. Not bad for a "change" election year.

Otherwise, the number of Americans who voted for Clinton and Harris vs the number that COULD have voted for them suggests the majority of American adults is pretty damn stupid. Now they're crying like big dogs over why oh why haven't the Dems saved us from the crap results Repub Trump and his Party dumped on them in his first term and the now even bigger crap he and his Party are dumping on them in his 2nd term. Lolol.

For starters, instead of crying like big dogs over why oh why haven't the Dems who don't occupy the White House, don't control the House, don't control the Senate and don't control the SCOTUS save America from the utterly predictable crap results Repubs have been dumping on America every time Repubs are foolishly handed the levers of power for at least the past hundred years, what did those stay-at-home voters do in MI, PA and WI in 2024 while a relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims goaded into abandoning Harris by Netanyahu's decision to delay honoring that ceasefire until after the election decided the outcome of the presidential election?

The USA is in a World of Shit today because Americans who have or perhaps by now had the power to vote for the polar opposite outcome for themselves, their family and their friends didn't bother to do it. That isn't "the Democrats" fault. They were on the ballot. All it took was for less than a single percentage point of voters spread across the only 3 swing states that mattered, states that generally choose a president in sync with each other, to have swung their vote to Harris instead of somebody else.

But they didn't.

Oh well.

We tried.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3041942] ... Fossil fuels are in such demand for electricity the wait for natural gas turbines is like five years now. [b]The USA needs to double its electricity production to win the AI war ASAP[/b] and with new gas greatly slowed down, that means nukes and / or coal and in the USA with nukes, nothing ever happens fast. I would prefer nukes to coal any day but yeah, I expect electricity from coal use to skyrocket while everyone talks up the nuclear game while nothing gets done.
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And while you are giving Europe its props for its "electrostate" status, you fail to notice that their electric costs are so high, they are effectively priced out of the AI race so thank God [/QUOTE]Yes, you prefer coal and nuclear, while admitting nothing get done. And yet in subsequent debates, you've been arguing like a Mad Hatter, that [I]the U.S.[/I] is somehow winning (and will win) the AI race, ahead of China and Europe, because it has better electricity prices (and that fossil fuel generating electricity energy (or just energy in general), is the key to winning the AI race?

To which I replied:

[QUOTE=Spidy;3042494]If the USA (under the MAGA Fuhrer) want to burn fossil fuels, be it coal or gas and build multi-billion dollar boondoggle unproven SMRs and money-pit nuclear reactors and ignore the low cost renewables, as the cheapest form of energy production today, then. GOOD LUCK with that! Not too mention, it has probably lost the AI race already, if we are to believe your cooked up "theory", that based on electricity prices, that will determine, who will win the AI race or be most successful.
...

[B]Simply put, your electricity argument...[u]is an oversimplification[/u], of who will succeed.[/B] There will be many key factors, that make up which companies/countries will win the AI race. And while the price of electricity maybe a one key factor, among many, nothing you've said, leads me to believe, it is the prevailing key factor, above all others, that will determine success.[/QUOTE]Here is an update from Huang:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently sat down on the All-In Summit 2026 (on September 14,2026) and shared a blunt, practical perspective on the global AI race, open-source technology, STEM talent pipelines, and domestic chip manufacturing and reiterated what he'd said in November 2025 and said again at the summit:
[LIST][b][i]"China is going to win the AI race"[/i][/b]

The reasons he explained were, [b](1) [/b]a massive AI talent pool, [b](2) [/b]energy and infrastructure advantages, [b](3) [/b]the pivot towards an robust home-grown independent domestic AI and semiconductor stack and ecosystem driven due to the impact of US sanctions and export controls, and [b](4) [/b]open-source and [b](5) [/b]their innovation velocity speed (aka. "China Speed")[/LIST]
Still remains to be seen, but how's that, Elvis 2008, on the clear clarification, as to why and who will win the AI race, from Jensen Huang himself, rather than the propagandized crap from MAGA and the fossil fuel industry.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085294]Lest you forget, the (neither party is mine) MAGA Fuhrer and the shit-show Republican admin, are the ones in power (both houses).[/QUOTE]Read The Constitution of the United States of America.

[URL]https://www.tned.uscourts.gov/sites/tned/files/1023civics.pdf[/URL]

The Senate grants equal representation to each state regardless of population, allowing smaller states to check the will of larger, more populous states. Same goes for the power of the political parties in the Senate.

As noted in The Federalist Papers, while the will of the majority should generally prevail, it must be "reasonable" and cannot violate the "equal rights" of the minority. The system is a constitutional democracy, not a pure democracy, specifically engineered to ensure that majority rule does not become a tool for oppression.

The Democrats have failed as the [I]loyal opposition[/I].

[QUOTE]a minority party especially in a legislative body whose opposition to the party in power is constructive, responsible, and bounded by loyalty to fundamental interests and principles[/QUOTE]Neither Party is mine!

If the Democratic party flips the house in the midterms, what are they going to do about this?

[QUOTE]A week ago you could argue that was a one-and-done insurance move or a one and maybe December hike). Todays price action says investors no longer believe that, he added. Bottom line, you cant fool or hide in the bond market unless the Fed gets inflation under control the long end of the curve is going to continue to come under pressure.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/treasury-yields-oil-inflation-fed.html[/URL]

Trump's Approval vs Disapproval ratings in the demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' poll of polls has gotten worse and the preference for Dems to control Congress has gotten better since Trump offered to pay every American adult $5000 if they would vote in a way to prevent Dems from taking majority control in either house of Congress so he and his Party can continue to shit on America with ever bigger and wetter turds for the next two years. See screenshots below.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3084860]Repub MAGAs rail against DEI hires while the only atrocious outcomes from diverse profile hires have been theirs.

Now they have finally broken that stubborn glass ceiling that made it so difficult for their bestiality proponents to produce atrocious results for the country.[/QUOTE]Are not these memes based on crude, racist stereotypes?

Kash Patel isn't even Arab.

I know you are angry, but you are better than this.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085262][URL]https://theconversation.com/what-have-the-democrats-achieved-in-trumps-first-100-days-255139[/URL][/QUOTE]The Republicans control both houses of Congress and the Executive. They are running the country into the ground like Trump did with the Taj Mahal.

[QUOTE=IguanaSix;3085355]Are not these memes based on crude, racist stereotypes?

Kash Patel isn't even Arab.

I know you are angry, but you are better than this.[/QUOTE]I'm not angry. If Kash met her / him and they fell in love who am I to judge? His new rules for FBI agent acceptance is all about tolerance of diversity in who you love. His partner apparently doesn't mind that he is not an Arab. Why should we?

There are so few less than disastrous things to say about the Trump Cabinet and Administration. Let's at least give them credit for this.

A new favorite:

[QUOTE=DwayneJohnson;3085165]It's hard for outside observers to follow who is liberal and who is conservative these days. MAGA leadership seems very liberal when it comes to sex with beasts, inanimate objects, kids and marriage with sex workers. They are also great at inflation game so prostitution could flourish. All that remains is for Americans to stop paying onlyfans e-girls.[/QUOTE]Apologies for posting your great meme worth repeating!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085186]Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 [U]white[/U] South African refugees.

[URL]https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/09/22/trump-white-south-african-refugees/[/URL][/QUOTE]Because the Afrikaners are being persecuted and victims of genocide in South Africa.

I applaud President Trump for his courage to take this excellent decision.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085152][URL]https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/strait-of-hormuz-crisis--fertilizer-scarcity-will-affect-next-harvests-and-food-supplies--fao-warns/en[/URL]

[B]Chokepoint: How the War with Iran Threatens Global Food Security[/B]

[URL]https://www.csis.org/analysis/chokepoint-how-war-iran-threatens-global-food-security[/URL]

If the Republicans are willing to do this, what makes anyone think they care about you as citizen of the Dis United States of America?

Thomas Massie (KY) on September 15,2026, who introduced eight articles accusing Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution, conducting extrajudicial killings, and illegally retaliating against critics.

[URL]https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/articles_of_impeachment_sec._hegseth.pdf[/URL]

Massie invoked House Rule IX to force a vote, though Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned Congress to delay it until after the midterms.

In my opinion, there is at least one (1) Republican trying to do the right thing.[/QUOTE]I'm sorry but you have to get your facts straight, it's the Iranian regime that's terrorizing the Strait of Hormusz and they are the sole reason of why 100 million people might face starvation.

This is in the interest of the Iranian regime, President Trump and his administration are obviously against this Iranian terrorism and the consequences that might arise from it.

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3085404]I'm sorry but you have to get your facts straight[/QUOTE]The 2026 Iran war was initiated by the United States and Israel on February 28,2026, through joint airstrikes codenamed Operation Epic Fury (US) and Operation Roaring Lion (Israel).

[QUOTE]On February 28, 2026, U.S. forces launched Operation Epic Fury (OEF) as a U.S.-Israeli partnered campaign to destroy Irans ability to project military power in the region by striking Iranian nuclear, missile, naval, and regime security targets.*[/QUOTE][URL]https://news.usni.org/2026/09/16/pentagon-inspector-general-report-on-operation-epic-fury[/URL]

I ask again, what facts do I need to get straight? Feel free to present some of them yourself instead pretending your opinions are facts.

[QUOTE]White House blames big banks for killing the CLARITY Act over fears stablecoins would drain their deposits. White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt says opposition to the bill was "a wildfire that was started by larger banks that ultimately spread to community banks." He says Trump was willing to divest his crypto or place it in a blind trust, calling it the most restrictive ethics provision "that has ever been agreed to by any president." Witt called the attacks on Trump "somewhat ironic," given that "a lot of senators on banking committees" actively trade stocks in the financial companies they regulate.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.kucoin.com/news/insight/USDT/6ab46d2874fd460007c51a18[/URL]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085341]Read The Constitution of the United States of America.

[URL]https://www.tned.uscourts.gov/sites/tned/files/1023civics.pdf[/URL]

The Senate grants equal representation to each state regardless of population, allowing smaller states to check the will of larger, more populous states. Same goes for the power of the political parties in the Senate. ...

Neither Party is mine![/QUOTE]Oh I've read [I]the U.S. Constitution,[/I] (not in it's entirety, but) in various sections and places where it applied to certain issues of the day, I was investigating. But I would be lying, if I said, I fully and clearly understood in totality, what I read and what ALL of what means, to all Americans. [I]I'm no constitutional lawyer![/I].

But this much is clear, to prevent corruption like the current unprecedented MAGA Fuhrer's corruption, the framers of the constitution, built a system of [B]"checks and balances",[/B] designed to prevent corruption and remedy abuses of power through structural safeguards and specific removal procedures.

When one party, the (neither party is mine) Republican Party, which is currently in power (both houses), fails to uphold their sworn constitutional duties and rule-of-law, that governs and prevents a corrupt MAGA president, then typically [B]...impeachment[/B] should follow, due to acts of [I]"Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"[/I].

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085341]As noted in The Federalist Papers, while the will of the majority should generally prevail, it must be "reasonable" and cannot violate the "equal rights" of the minority. The system is a constitutional democracy, not a pure democracy, specifically engineered to ensure that majority rule does not become a tool for oppression.

The Democrats have failed as the [I]loyal opposition[/I][/QUOTE]On this score, several times over the (neither party is mine) [B][i]"loyal Democrats"[/i][/B] have upheld their sworn constitutional duties [U]and impeached the bastard.[/U] I submit your argument of "failure as the loyal opposition" is unfounded IMHO and almost at every turn, the Democrats have upheld their sworn constitutional duties, as much as constitutionally possible given, they don't hold power in either house. But lets see what happens if they gain power in either or both houses, come the 2026 mid-terms.

So the question still remains, [I]"What has the administrative party in power (both houses), the Repubs, done for Americans?"[b] (...Answer: Bupkis!)[/b][/I].

Have Repubs, upheld their sworn constitutional duties? [I](...I think we all know the answer to that! They've shucked their duties like cowards!)[/I].

So While [I]"neither party is yours",[/I] let be perfectly clear on who's done what and who's upheld their sworn constitutional duties!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085152]Thomas Massie (KY) on September 15,2026, who introduced eight articles accusing Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution, conducting extrajudicial killings, and illegally retaliating against critics.

[URL]https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/articles_of_impeachment_sec._hegseth.pdf[/URL]

Massie invoked House Rule IX to force a vote, though Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned Congress to delay it until after the midterms.

In my opinion, there is at least one (1) Republican trying to do the right thing.[/QUOTE]Yes, that's the cowardly Repubs for you, as it's so easy now, to take a moral stand, pretend to be the hero and [I]"do the right thing",[/I] [B]when you've already lost your primary,[/B] to a Trump-backed opponent.

But speaking of cowardly Repubs, good ole "Mikey" Johnson is up to his old bag of tricks again, as once again, he has adjourned Congress, for fear of an impeachment vote against criminal Reupbs, this time being, Pete Hegseth. Which I hear, by all accounts, would have had enough bipartisan votes to pass, and impeach his criminal ass.

What a shame, as that would have been a nice treat, right before mid-terms. But perhaps he's only delaying the inevitable!

[QUOTE]New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is giving herself a deadline. The 36-year-old ascendant leader of the Democratic Partys progressive movement will decide whether to run for president in 2028 after the upcoming midterm elections.

In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez said she is weighing everything from gender to ethnicity and her age. Shes also cognizant that no woman has been elected president and that the decision could shape her personal life.

Pretty candidly, I think about my identity, Ocasio-Cortez told the Times. Im not nave to the fact that we are living under a very regressive administration, and I happen to be a woman, and I, you know, happen to be Latina. And I think that theres a lot of conversation about electability, and I dont kind of shy away from those realities.[/QUOTE]Damn straight the Dis United States of America is racist and sexist. But she would have my support.

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B]

No it is not. Anyone who does not agree with me put of some facts. Not your opinions.

[QUOTE]As the worlds largest oil producer since 2018 and a net exporter of oil, the United States has been somewhat insulated by the global oil supply shortfallnotwithstanding the rise in domestic product prices. The United States produces over 13 million b/d of oil, exceeding output from Saudi Arabia and Russia.

But total crude oil balances only tell part of the story when it comes to the impact on prices of refined products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. The Middle Eastern oil that is currently shut in tends to be heavier in composition than oil produced in the United States. As a result, a barrel of Middle Eastern oil will on average yield more diesel and jet fuel than a barrel of U.S. oil.[/QUOTE][URL]https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/why-the-iran-conflict-is-affecting-diesel-and-jet-fuel-prices-more-than-gasoline/[/URL]

Inflation being driven up. Fed losing credibility. Treasury secretary is a joke. 6 billion dollar buy back is like one man urinating into the ocean to raise it's levels. Secretary of War is incompetent. Republicans are not handling their business.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085430]The 2026 Iran war was initiated by the United States and Israel on February 28,2026, through joint airstrikes codenamed Operation Epic Fury (US) and Operation Roaring Lion (Israel).

[URL]https://news.usni.org/2026/09/16/pentagon-inspector-general-report-on-operation-epic-fury[/URL]

I ask again, what facts do I need to get straight? Feel free to present some of them yourself instead pretending your opinions are facts.[/QUOTE]If you had read and quoted my entire post that I wrote you wouldn't have to ask that question, but I will repeat it again for you, it's the Iranian regime that's bragging that they have closed down the strait of Hormusz by targeting civilian ships trying to exit the strait of Hormusz.

Let's pray that the Iranian regime stops holding poor people in poverty.

So you are saying the [B]Pentagon Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury[/B] is a lie? Let's face it. You are expressing your opinion. I quoted a factual, credible source. Where is your link backing up your statement?

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3085469]If you had read and quoted my entire post that I wrote you wouldn't have to ask that question, but I will repeat it again for you, it's the Iranian regime that's bragging that they have closed down the strait of Hormusz by targeting civilian ships trying to exit the strait of Hormusz.

Let's pray that the Iranian regime stops holding poor people in poverty.[/QUOTE]

Anyone who has actually read The Constitution of the United States of America as I have several times knows that political parties are not mentioned. Not a single word.

[URL]https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/political-party-system-and-supreme-court/[/URL]

The Founding Fathers did not anticipate their formation, viewing them as dangerous "factions" that could undermine national unity.

[URL]https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/rise-political-parties[/URL]

George Washington specifically warned against the "baneful effects of the spirit of party" in his 1796 farewell address, and Alexander Hamilton and James Madison similarly expressed concerns about partisan divisions in the Federalist Papers.

[URL]https://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/we-the-people/political-parties/[/URL]

Political parties serve no benefit to me or my fellow citizens who are poor like me. It is only the stupidity of my fellow citizens that has allowed this system that does not serve the people and only serves the parties to exist for so long. There is no real reason why there are only effectively two parties that exist in the Dis United States of America. Since neither on of them serve my interests:

[B]Neither party is mine![/B]

Still waiting for a Democrat posting here and taking issue with me about my posts to address their lack of support for crypto and crypto regulations being passed and signed into law.

When I ask the question, what do read as a reply, nothing!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085447]Oh I've read [I]the U.S. Constitution,[/I] (not in it's entirety, but) in various sections and places where it applied to certain issues of the day, I was investigating. But I would be lying, if I said, I fully and clearly understood in totality, what I read and what ALL of what means, to all Americans. [I]I'm no constitutional lawyer![/I].[/QUOTE]Sorry brother, you don't get that crutch with me. The full text is on the internet, along with a version with legal explanations in plain English.

[URL]https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript[/URL]

[URL]https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/[/URL]

Reference made to The Constitution of the United States of America and political parties in my previous post. I am the only person making an argument based on The Constitution of the United States of America. Why?

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3084740]Anyone can read, discuss, and form their own interpretation of the Constitution. It was deliberately written in plain language to be understood by the public as Justice Owen Roberts put it in a unanimous 1931 decision. Roberts is noted for asserting that the Court's duty was to [I]lay the article of the Constitution which is involved beside the statute which is challenged and to decide whether the latter squares with the former.[/I].[/QUOTE]Here is quote from that ruling:

[QUOTE]It cannot be assumed that the framers of the constitution and the people who adopted it, did not intend that which is the plain import of the language used. When the language of the constitution is positive and free of all ambiguity, all courts are not at liberty, by a resort to the refinements of legal learning, to restrict its obvious meaning to avoid the hardships of particular cases. We must accept the constitution as it reads when its language is unambiguous, for it is the mandate of the sovereign power.

United States v. Midwest Oil Co., 1931[/QUOTE]I don't need to be a constitutional attorney to provide my lay interpretations of The Constitution of the United States of America. As a citizen it is MY document.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3084740]That is why I can quote or explain the issues regarding The Constitution of the United States of America. It is not even a requirement to be a an attorney to be a Justice of The United States Supreme court. You are a citizen of the Dis United States of America right? But you haven't read the founding documents in their entirety of the country you were born into?[/QUOTE]The United States Supreme Court is the supreme arbiter of interpretations of The Constitution of the United States of America and the law being challenged for its constitutional validity.

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. I know they will.

I also know Repubs will not do the best thing for it. That just isn't what they do about anything. They will only do the worst thing for it.

[NOPARSE]For any such U.S. Constitutional "crutch" and/or shortcomings, you may think I have, I still stand behind my original statement.

Meaning, that while the U.S. Constitution is written in plain English for anyone to read and[/NOPARSE] understand [I](although somehow still needs translating sites),[/I] it remains a board abstract framework (often vague IMHO) and still requires constitutional law and lawyers to determine its operational legal meaning in specific cases.

[U]So the question still remains:[/U]

Well speaking of [I]The U.S. Constitution,[/I] and the REAL argument of your previous post about [I][b]"the loyal opposition",[/b][/I] which BTW I found to be a real novel idea, but an infactual and moot argument, since there is no section in any article, [I]in The U.S. Constitution,[/I] giving credence to your of notion of "the loyal opposition", despite any such non-reference in the "Federalist Papers" you're trying to concoct, with this British Parliamentary construct.

So the question still remains, [I]"What has the administrative party in power (both houses), the (neither party is mine) Repubs, done for Americans?"[/I]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085473]So you are saying the [B]Pentagon Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury[/B] is a lie? Let's face it. You are expressing your opinion. I quoted a factual, credible source. Where is your link backing up your statement?[/QUOTE]So you claim that the Iranian regime isn't attacking civilian ships in the Strait of Hormusz?

So you claim that President Trump doesn't want the Strait of Hormusz to be open and free for traffic?

I'm just writing the facts; I thought it was a known fact for the majority of people that the Iranian regime is attacking civilian ships in the Strait of Hormusz. Even the Iranian regime is saying it, I'm surprised you haven't heard of it.

Democrats are the do nothing party. I am a minority in the Dis United States of America. Yet, I still was relatively successful for a poor person. The Democrats are just taking up the victim status claiming they can do nothing because they are in the minority. I am not buying it. They are just sitting on their hands and collecting their checks because that's what is easiest for them to do.

[QUOTE]The jump in Treasury yields this week is delivering a reality check about a strong economy, stubborn inflation and the growing cost of the national debt.

The economys recent strength has also come on the back of a flood of government deficit spending, driven in part by large tax cuts under the first and second Trump administrations, with Iran war spending piling on. The federal deficit is set to come in above 6% of gross domestic product this year, based on data from the Congressional Budget Office. The agency projects that the tax and policy law passed last year will raise deficits by $4.7 trillion over 10 years, though tariffs will offset some of that.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/treasury-yields-warsh-bessent-fed-national-debt-analysis.html[/URL]

This is the fault of the Democrats!

Still making your arguments from the stand point of party instead of independently thinking for yourself. Which is the problem I have with [I]political parties[/I] in the first place. Are you going to stipulate to the fact that there is not a single word in The United States Constitution that refers to [I]political parties[/I]?

The [B]loyal opposition[/B] in the United States refers to the institutionalized role of the political party out of power, which is expected to challenge the governing party's policies and seek electoral victory while remaining committed to the constitutional framework and peaceful transfer of power.

[QUOTE]Designed to make space for the political party out of power to dissent and hold the majority party accountable without facing accusations of treason, the concept of a loyal opposition depends on the deference of non-governing parties to the authority of democratic institutions and the normative framework in which they operate.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-new-meaning-of-the-loyal-opposition[/URL]

Unlike the British parliamentary system with its formal shadow cabinet, the USA Lacks a concrete legal definition for the concept but enforces it through [B]First Amendment rights[/B], congressional rules (such as committee hearings and the filibuster), and norms of comity between parties.[QUOTE]Since the American system doesnt allow for a formal opposition like the UKpolitical parties and leaders are not even mentioned*in the U.S. Constitution we establish responsible majority rule and respect the loyal opposition through a mix of First Amendment free speech rights and technical congressional rules that evolved over time to allow for minority dissent through committee hearings, floor debates, legislative amendment processes, the Senate filibuster, and other measures. Given our systems elaborate separation of powers and checks and balances, the American government also requires effective norms between the political parties to work well.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/majority-rule-and-the-loyal-opposition[/URL]

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3085358]The Republicans control both houses of Congress and the Executive.[/QUOTE]Democratic cop out. Victim status. Whoa is me. I am in the minority party now. I lost my chairmanship of a committee.

[QUOTE]Even if a party controls both branches of Congress and the presidency, as is the case now under Trump and in 2021 under Biden, they still will need some consultation with the minority partyand perhaps actual votes if margins are tightto pass important legislation or overcome Senate filibuster rules to end debate on bills.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/majority-rule-and-the-loyal-opposition[/URL]

I grew up in the Dis United States of America when this concept is often viewed as a cornerstone of American democracy. It legitimized political dissent and ensured that opposition is seen as a patriotic duty rather than disloyalty.

[QUOTE=Canada;3082781]I can't believe how many posters on this site are cheering for Iran in this war and are Anti American just because Trump is president. These posters are either not American or traitors.[/QUOTE]I pulled the quote up in just a quick search of the word [I]traitor[/I]. I have already posted a definition of the word in this thread. But it is used repeatedly in this thread to describe speech that is only political dissent and does not rise to the legal level of [I]treason[/I].

It is my first example of how recent political discourse indicates that the concept of [B]The Loyal Minority[/B] is under strain. With the extreme polarization and the unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud and rejection of election results the meaning of "loyalty" has shifted from democratic principles to [U]strict party obedience[/U]. In my opinion, this undermines the stability of the system and makes the Dis United States of America resemble nothing of the place I spent so many of my formative years in. In fact, it is gotten to the point where I don't really want to step foot in the Dis United States of America if I don't have to.

Some scholars also argue that [B]federalism[/B] serves as a distinctively American form of loyal opposition, allowing local and state governments to institutionalize dissent and minority rule within the national framework. So, my position is still that the Democrats are making excuses are not performing there role as the loyal opposition. They need to do so in order to make the American System work.

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B]

[U]It should be noted[/U]

Bitcoin is fully legal in the United States for individuals to buy, sell, hold, and use, though it is not recognized as legal tender (the USA Dollar remains the only official fiat currency). [B]Commodity Status:[/B] The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) designates Bitcoin as a commodity, granting it authority over Bitcoin derivatives and futures markets. [B]Property Status:[/B] The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) classifies Bitcoin as property, meaning all gains from sales or spending are subject to capital gains taxes and must be reported on tax returns.

Each Bitcoin breaks down into 100,000,000 units called Sats.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3085534]Until it is practical to buy a cheeseburger with a bitcoin[/QUOTE]You can buy a cheeseburger with Bitcoin at select locations, primarily through the [U]Steak 'and Shake[/U] chain, which accepts BTC directly and offers a limited-edition [U]Bitcoin Steakburger[/U] with a logo-stamped bun. [U]Burger King[/U]locations in Germany, Venezuela, and the Netherlands have historically accepted direct Bitcoin payments, though availability varies by region. .

For most other restaurants, you can use Bitcoin debit cards (e. G. , BitPay, Binance) that convert crypto to fiat at the point of sale, or purchase*gift cards*via services like*Bitrefill*for chains like McDonald's or Chipotle.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3085534] I'll pass on the latest Tulip Mania or Ponzi Scheme [/QUOTE][B]Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme![/B] It lacks the central operator, fraudulent promises of guaranteed returns, and mechanism of using new investors' funds to pay earlier ones that define such schemes.

[URL]https://river.com/learn/is-bitcoin-a-ponzi-scheme/[/URL]

[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-leaders-push-back-boris-103800184.html[/URL]

[URL]https://www.bitstack-app.com/en/learn-bitcoin/bitcoin-is-not-a-ponzi-scheme?c=EUR[/URL]

[B]Decentralization:[/B] Bitcoin is a protocol for digital money. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network with no central authority controlling funds or orchestrating payouts, unlike the centralized fraud inherent in Ponzi schemes.

[B]Transparency:[/B] The Bitcoin protocol, including its supply cap and transaction ledger, is open-source and public, whereas Ponzi schemes rely on secrecy and deception.

[B]Value Source:[/B] Bitcoin's price is driven by market supply and demand rather than artificial returns; while some critics argue it resembles a "greater fool" game or bubble, it does not meet the legal or structural definition of a Ponzi fraud.

Bitcoin is a opt in system. I do not have a problem with individuals who do not wish to opt in. There are only 21 million Bitcoin that will ever exist in the world. So, more for me. But I will not let mis-information on Bitcoin to unchallenged.

[QUOTE=Canada;3082781]These posters are either not American or traitors.[/QUOTE]The traitors are in the White House. Paid by foreign agents to send the US terrorist army fight wars they can't fight themselves.

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3085469]Let's pray that the Iranian regime stops holding poor people in poverty.[/QUOTE]Let's pray the US backed Israel terror regime stops killing children, toddlers, women and civilians across their neighboring countries. We won't hold our breath given their disgusting behaviour since they stole the land of the People of Palestine.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085590]Still making your arguments from the stand point of party instead of independently thinking for yourself.[/QUOTE]Yes, thanks for the always enigmatic critique the opposition debtor's way thinking and whom they choose to politically support, instead of focusing on the debate issue at hand. But for the record, I think just fine for myself and support those (people or parties) that foster, a more equalized form of democracy, in all it's forms, in this ever changing world of ours. Hope that's clear enough!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085590]Which is the problem I have with [I]political parties[/I] in the first place.[/QUOTE]That is your cross to bare, my friend!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085590]Are you going to stipulate to the fact that there is not a single word in The United States Constitution that refers to [I]political parties[/I]?[/QUOTE]Knowing [I]the U.S. Constitution,[/I] as well as you do, wouldn't you have posted evidence to this information by now?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085590]The [B]loyal opposition[/B] in the United States refers to the institutionalized role of the political party out of power, which is expected to challenge the governing party's policies and seek electoral victory while remaining committed to the constitutional framework and peaceful transfer of power.

[URL]https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-new-meaning-of-the-loyal-opposition[/URL]

Unlike the British parliamentary system with its formal shadow cabinet, the USA Lacks a concrete legal definition for the concept but enforces it through [B]First Amendment rights[/B], congressional rules (such as committee hearings and the filibuster), and norms of comity between parties.[URL]https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/majority-rule-and-the-loyal-opposition[/URL] ...

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B][/QUOTE]Oh, I'm well aware the the meaning with regards to the [B]"loyal opposition"[/B], and its intended framing of the term, as explained and defended in my previous post. However, I do take issue with your use of it, taking political license with it, by trying to attribute it, as some kind of article in [I]the U.S. Constitution[/I].

But since you've not produced any evidence (because there is none) from [I]the U.S. Constitution[/I] (a document you know so well), with regards "the loyal opposition", despite the false inferences you maybe trying to make with the British Parliamentary construct of "the loyal opposition", the fact is there is nothing in the [I]The U.S. Constitution[/I].

Currently there is no such thing as the "loyal opposition" in [I]the U.S. Constitution,[/I] but it does sound to me like, your "loyal opposition" argument, is the very thing that constitutional law and lawyers are need for and are meant to argue in the courts, as to whether or not it pertains to the constitution.

So the question still remains, [I]"What has the administrative party in power (both houses), the (neither party is mine) Repubs, done for Americans?"[/I]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085590]Some scholars also argue that [B]federalism[/B] serves as a distinctively American form of loyal opposition, allowing local and state governments to institutionalize dissent and minority rule within the national framework. So, my position is still that the Democrats are making excuses are not performing there role as the loyal opposition. They need to do so in order to make the American System work.[/QUOTE]Sure it may make a good argument someday, but until constitutional lawyers make that case, who cares since its not a legal constitutional law, rule or duty the minority government has to perform. So once again a moot point!

Bitcoin is already regulated. So that shows how little you actually know about the subject. The [B]Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025[/B] It is formally tracked in the USA Congress as [U]H.R. 3633[/U] during the 119th Congress. It doesn't addressed Bitcoin in several ways.

[B]Statutory commodity classification:[/B] Bitcoin is explicitly classified as a digital commodity under CFTC jurisdiction, locking in what is currently just agency policy into federal law.

CFTC spot-market jurisdiction: The CFTC would gain exclusive regulatory authority over spot trading in digital commodities, including Bitcoin.

[B]Banking access (Section 401):[/B] Banks, credit unions, and financial holding companies would be permitted to custody Bitcoin, lend against it as collateral, operate nodes, and provide brokerage / clearing services without extra prior approval.

[B]Developer & self-custody protections (Sections 604605):[/B]*Bitcoin developers, node operators, and non-custodial wallet makers get explicit immunity from money-transmitter liability, and self-custody becomes a legally protected right.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3085534]leave it to Democrats to do the best thing regarding legislation for it. I know they will.[/QUOTE]Actually they won't and they didn't.

That said, the bill stalled in the Senate the cloture motion was rejected 4950 on September 15,2026, so it has not been enacted. As of now, Bitcoin's commodity status rests on agency practice (reinforced by a March 2026 joint SEC-CFTC classification) rather than statute.

My understanding is that jobs are important to you. From your posting about job creation.

The USA Cryptocurrency industry directly employs 34,000 people and supports a total of 232,000 jobs across the broader economy in 2026. [U]Democrats continue to threaten those jobs.[/U]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085306]Yes, you prefer coal and nuclear, while admitting nothing get done. And yet in subsequent debates, you've been arguing like a Mad Hatter, that the U.S. is somehow winning (and will win) the AI race, ahead of China and Europe, because it has better electricity prices (and that fossil fuel generating electricity energy (or just energy in general), is the key to winning the AI race?

To which I replied:

Here is an update from Huang:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently sat down on the All-In Summit 2026 (on September 14,2026) and shared a blunt, practical perspective on the global AI race, open-source technology, STEM talent pipelines, and domestic chip manufacturing and reiterated what he'd said in November 2025 and said again at the summit:
[/QUOTE]Yeah, in your fucked up head, China is the model electrostate while they pollute more than anyone in the world and are putting up coal plants like no tomorrow. 3 in 4 of the solar panels you are gushing about are not working and the Chinese solar industry is going bankrupt as it loses money like crazy.

In the mean time, USA oil and gas companies are raking it in which bugs the shit out of libtards like you. China making money and winning the AI race is good. American companies earning money is not. LOL. It is no longer a surprise that the modern Democratic party and people like you are more pro-China than pro-USA.


[QUOTE=Spidy;3085306]While Elvis 2008 in his RV, has the luxury of pulling up to the local gas-station and fueling-up his RV and generator, very conveniently, out on the ocean, in the middle of nowhere, where are you going to find a gas-station?[/QUOTE]Generally, a large cruise ship up to 1,100 feet in length can carry as much as two million gallons of diesel on board. [URL]https://www.cruisehive.com/how-much-fuel-does-a-cruise-ship-hold/104177[/URL]

One gallon of diesel contains 40.7 killowatts of energy. [URL]https://www.convertunits.com/from/gallon[/URL]+USA +of+diesel+oil / to / kilowatt-hour.

Multiply the two and you get 81.4 billion watts of energy. If you have a 10 day cruise, that is about 8 billion watts of energy per day.

What a bird brain like you does not get is that solar energy generation is based on square footage and how much space do you need to generate 8 billion watts of energy per day?

Per google, to generate 8 billion watts (8 gigawatts) of solar energy daily, you require approximately 17,500 square miles of land area, which is equivalent to about 11.2 million acres. That just happens to be an area that is 1.5 times the size of the state of Maryland.

And you would need battery capacity to store 4 billion watts of power when the sun went down and you are still going to need hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel in case there is not adequate sun.

Oh yeah, that is the future!

But there is a successful solar boat. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya_[/URL](boat).

It carries 75 passengers at a time and makes trips that are a whopping one and a half miles at a time.

It does not use fossil fuels! It uses totally "renewable" energy!

And then there is this: Cloudy-day charging via 32 A shore charger adds 21 kWh in 3 hours.

Just like the fact that China is burning coal and polluting like no tomorrow, you climate change nuts think that plugging in your vehicle into a wall socket somehow is not using fossil fuels.

It has been kind of fun to see Europe waking up to how listening to dumb ass climate change nuts like yourself has led them into the mess they are in now. This past summer when Europe was burning up, they had little of those "luxury" AC units, and thousands died of heat stroke.

One huge reason that the Europeans were so blown away by American standards of living with the world cup is because we Republicans tuned out you climate change nuts, and China has done the same thing. You are just too dense to notice.

[QUOTE=DwayneJohnson;3085669]That monkey is directly impacting my flight path to Thailand. [/QUOTE]When did you book your flight genius? I am flying GRU to BKK. I had a simple choice: book the cheaper middle eastern route or pay up and fly thru AMS. I chose the Amsterdam route. Sometimes it is smart to think about geopolitics ahead of time. Can you cancel your flight without a penalty? That is another option worth considering next time you make a reservation.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648]So the question still remains, [I]"What has the administrative party in power (both houses), the (neither party is mine) Repubs, done for Americans?"[/I][/QUOTE]This is not a question to be directed at me. The question needs to be directed at the Republicans posting in this thread. Lest I remind you:

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648]Knowing [I]the U.S. Constitution,[/I] as well as you do, wouldn't you have posted evidence to this information by now?

Oh, I'm well aware the the meaning with regards to the [B]"loyal opposition"[/B], and its intended framing of the term, as explained and defended in my previous post. However, I do take issue with your use of it, taking political license with it, by trying to attribute it, as some kind of article in [I]the U.S. Constitution[/I].[/QUOTE]There is no mention of [B]political parties[/B] nor a [U]loyal opposition[/U] in the United States Constitution.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648]That is your cross to bare, my friend![/QUOTE]Thank you for the religious reference. But the meaning is lost on me in this political debate.

Under the current system the party candidate for POTUS picks his running mate. That means the people do not get a separate vote for vice president. Under the original constitutional system, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes for president, with the candidate receiving the most votes becoming president and the runner-up becoming vice president. To resolve these issues, the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, requiring electors to cast separate ballots for president and vice president. Since the 1804 election, candidates have run together on a single ticket, with the president and vice president elected as a unified team. Prior to this amendment, there were no distinct vice presidential candidates on the ballot.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648]Yes, thanks for the always enigmatic critique the opposition debtor's way thinking and whom they choose to politically support, instead of focusing on the debate issue at hand.[/QUOTE]That is your opinion. You make fun of my political position all the time. When you write [I]the (neither party is mine) Repubs, done for Americans?"[/I] in italics when you should have just written Republicans.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648]But for the record, I think just fine for myself and support those (people or parties) that foster, a more equalized form of democracy.[/QUOTE]Which party in the Dis United States of America does that?

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648]in all it's forms, in this ever changing world of ours. Hope that's clear enough![/QUOTE]I hope it is clear enough for you if you read The Constitution of the United States of America (the founding document of the country you live in) was formed as a constitutional federal democratic republic. The Dis United States of America is actually a plutocracy.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085653]Sure it may make a good argument someday, but until constitutional lawyers make that case, who cares since its not a legal constitutional law, rule or duty the minority government has to perform. So once again a moot point![/QUOTE]The party in the minority is not powerless. Giving the Democrats no excuses. It retains significant negative power to block, delay, or shape legislation.

Like they did for the [B]Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025[/B].

Other sources of power include:

[B]Procedural Veto Points:[/B] In the USA Senate, the filibuster allows the minority to block legislation requiring 60 votes, whereas the House has fewer such formal barriers.

[B]Amendment and Oversight:[/B] Minorities can force votes on amendments to expose majority weaknesses, conduct oversight hearings, and use public messaging to hold the majority accountable.

Research indicates that minority influence is strongest when the majority party is constrained (e. G, by supermajority requirements or internal divisions) and the minority is cohesive and motivated to legislate rather than just campaign.

So lack of a codified law on the [B]Loyal opposition[/B] the minority party and those that support it does not give them an excuse for not performing their duties. Otherwise why not just back up and go home. Why? Because they want to collect their salaries for doing nothing.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085601][U]It should be noted[/U]

Bitcoin is fully legal in the United States for individuals to buy, sell, hold, and use, though it is not recognized as legal tender (the USA Dollar remains the only official fiat currency). [B]Commodity Status:[/B] The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) designates Bitcoin as a commodity, granting it authority over Bitcoin derivatives and futures markets. [B]Property Status:[/B] The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) classifies Bitcoin as property, meaning all gains from sales or spending are subject to capital gains taxes and must be reported on tax returns.

Each Bitcoin breaks down into 100,000,000 units called Sats.

You can buy a cheeseburger with Bitcoin at select locations, primarily through the [U]Steak 'and Shake[/U] chain, which accepts BTC directly and offers a limited-edition [U]Bitcoin Steakburger[/U] with a logo-stamped bun. [U]Burger King[/U]locations in Germany, Venezuela, and the Netherlands have historically accepted direct Bitcoin payments, though availability varies by region. .

For most other restaurants, you can use Bitcoin debit cards (e. G. , BitPay, Binance) that convert crypto to fiat at the point of sale, or purchase*gift cards*via services like*Bitrefill*for chains like McDonald's or Chipotle.[/QUOTE]And what is the final cost of a cheeseburger paid for with that bitcoin vs a less than $10 USD cash or bank transfer purchase?

Do they give you change back for the 100,000,000 Stats?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085569]Democrats are the do nothing party. I am a minority in the Dis United States of America. Yet, I still was relatively successful for a poor person. The Democrats are just taking up the victim status claiming they can do nothing because they are in the minority. I am not buying it. They are just sitting on their hands and collecting their checks because that's what is easiest for them to do.

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/treasury-yields-warsh-bessent-fed-national-debt-analysis.html[/URL]

This is the fault of the Democrats![/QUOTE][QUOTE]The economys recent strength has also come on the back of a flood of government deficit spending, driven in part by large tax cuts under the first and second Trump administrations, with Iran war spending piling on.[/QUOTE]Since the only part of that attributable to Democrats was the "economy's recent strength" part leading into 2025 and none of the deficit skyrocketing large Trump / Repub tax cuts for the wealthy or Trump's Netanyahu Payback War in Iran, the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of every American who was eligible to register and vote for Dem Clinton and all the other Dems on the ballot in 2016 and Dem Harris and all the other Dems on the ballot in 2024 but didn't do that. And if we are only counting the players on the field, one could reasonably specifically attribute everything that happened over the past 20 months to about 114,800 angry Muslims spread across MI, PA and WI.

It is funny how the hate comes at me from both Democrats and Republican. It is just more proof in my mind that individuals who are part of political parties cannot think for themselves. There is no room for independent thought. Only the party platform matters. Repeat it. Attack anyone who does not agree with it.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

Exactly how is the generation of energy political beyond zoning and permission from the government? All my fellow citizens need electricity.

Crypto should not be a issue that divides along party lines.

[QUOTE=DwayneJohnson;3085669]I hope orange-utan chokes on a cheeseburger or something. That monkey is directly impacting my flight path to Thailand. Entire world has become anti-terror regime, you probably have only handful of magatards and Indians left supporting terrorists.[/QUOTE]The Iranian terrorists are not supported by Trump voters, democrats seem to prefer the Iranian regime over President Trump.

It's sad to see how people are affected by the President Trump Derangement Syndrome.

[QUOTE=AssAddict;3085628]Let's pray the US backed Israel terror regime stops killing children, toddlers, women and civilians across their neighboring countries. We won't hold our breath given their disgusting behaviour since they stole the land of the People of Palestine.[/QUOTE]Israel belongs to the Israeli people, we all saw on 9/11 and 7th October how children and toddlers were murdered by terrorists. We see how Jewish, atheists and Christians are being brutally murdered by terrorists way too often in Europe.

I'm not religious but if I was I would have thanked God every day for sending King Bibi to earth to lead Israel and IDF in the war against terrorism to keep the world safe.

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3085763]The Iranian terrorists are not supported by Trump voters, democrats seem to prefer the Iranian regime over President Trump.

It's sad to see how people are affected by the President Trump Derangement Syndrome.[/QUOTE]Yes, it is really weird how left-wing groups in America and Western Europe like the LGBTQ people and women's rights groups have aligned themselves with Islamic terrorists like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood who routinely throw trannys off rooftop buildings whenever they find one and kill their fellow Christian countrymen whenever they feel like it.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. All Israeli Muslim citizens have full rights of citizenship and have members of their own community in the Israeli parliament. They can be gay, fag, trans, socialist, religious, or whatever. They have freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The Muslims living on the West Bank under the dictatorship of the Palestinian Authority have no such rights. But none of this seems to matter to the Left Wingers who are becoming more unhinged, more antisemitic every passing day. I speculate that part of this is due to Trump Derangement Syndrome, but another part is due to a deep anti-Jewish hatred that most of us thought had died out in the West after the horrors of WW 2. The reaction of the Left to October 7 is deeply disturbing to put it mildly.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085692]Yeah, in your fucked up head, China is the model electrostate while they pollute more than anyone in the world and are putting up coal plants like no tomorrow. 3 in 4 of the solar panels you are gushing about are not working and the Chinese solar industry is going bankrupt as it loses money like crazy.

In the mean time, USA oil and gas companies are raking it in which bugs the shit out of libtards like you. China making money and winning the AI race is good. American companies earning money is not. LOL. It is no longer a surprise that the modern Democratic party and people like you are more pro-China than pro-USA.

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One huge reason that the Europeans were so blown away by American standards of living with the world cup is because we Republicans tuned out you climate change nuts, and China has done the same thing. You are just too dense to notice.[/QUOTE]Here is a fun fact: "China agrees to buy 10 million tons of USA Coal in 2027 and 2028".

[URL]https://tradersunion.com/news/commodities/show/3512394-china-to-buy-10/[/URL]

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3085765]Israel belongs to the Israeli people, we all saw on 9/11 and 7th October how children and toddlers were murdered by terrorists. We see how Jewish, atheists and Christians are being brutally murdered by terrorists way too often in Europe.

I'm not religious but if I was I would have thanked God every day for sending King Bibi to earth to lead Israel and IDF in the war against terrorism to keep the world safe.[/QUOTE]Thank you to remind us the architects of the 9/11 were the Israeli terrorists, using dumb al Saud terrorists as pawn. No Iranians had anything to do with it (no Irakis too, but they still have been the victims as directed by the US backed Israel terror regime to the us terrorist army). Thank you to remind us the original terrorists are the creators of the Israel terror state, as the Polish terrorists David Brun or menachem begin and their terrorist gangs (Hagana, Irgun, Stern and Palmach) who slaughtered thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem long before any other group of people would be taught (by Israelis) to use these same tactics so that everyone would forget Israelis are the masterminds of these killings and destructions.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3085776]Here is a fun fact: "China agrees to buy 10 million tons of USA Coal in 2027 and 2028".

[URL]https://tradersunion.com/news/commodities/show/3512394-china-to-buy-10/[/URL][/QUOTE]They are also assisting Iranians in Trump's war of choice!

Must See TV:

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, speaks the truth at a rigged Oxford Union debate full of Lefties and Palestinian Extremists.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Efkrrz5q0[/URL]

In my previous post I gave the Oxford link to the Oxford Debate with Mossab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.

The link below in this post is Mossab Yoseph Haddad's full speech at Oxford. It is interesting to see how the Oxford Moderator tried to cut him off throughout the speech and especially at the end. I guess woke, left wing Oxford did not want to offend the terrorists. The outcome of the debate was already foregone conclusion. The fix was in.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcATzU09Kiw[/URL]

[QUOTE=DwayneJohnson;3085844]Your terrorist regime is now root cause of flights to Thailand taking extra long with higher cost. I really tried hard to ignore the genocide your terrorist regime has been doing in Palestine and pedophile ring your people have been running but flight path uncertainty was my red line.[/QUOTE]Poor little you! Trump is the bad guy because your little "fuck" trip to the LOS might be interrupted. Like making sure the fanatical Iranian terrorist regime that butchers 42,000 of its own people in the streets of Teheran does not obtain nuclear weapons is less important than you getting your dick wet. Your self conceit is amazing! Imagine some a-hole in 1942 saying, "damn that FDR; because of that cripple SOB and his gas rationing, I can't fly down to Miami for a little winter fun in the sun. Yeah, the Mullahs in Iran today and Emperor Hirhito in 1942 had nothing to do with either flight plan complications.

But as I already told you in a previous post: look in the mirror genius before you blame anyone else other than the terrorists. Before you made your reservations you had 2 simple choices: 1. You could have booked a 100% reliable but more expensive flight through northern Europe and avoided the Gulf States problem entirely or 2. You could have paid a little extra for flight insurance or free flight cancelation. Face it dude: you are where you are via your travel plans on account of Iran and the short-sighted decisions you made on your own accord. I will think of you, NOT, when I am walk into Nana on my first night back in BKK.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3085722]And what is the final cost of a cheeseburger paid for with that bitcoin vs a less than $10 USD cash or bank transfer purchase?[/QUOTE]Same price or less, with much lower transaction fees for the vendor that takes Bitcoin.

[U]Steak n Shake[/U]*reports that accepting*Bitcoin*payments via the*Lightning Network*has reduced its*payment processing fees by approximately 50%*compared to traditional credit card transactions.

[QUOTE]Steak and Shake is saving roughly 50% on payment processing fees by accepting Bitcoin, and projecting $6 million in annual savings if its full credit-card customer base made the switch.[/QUOTE][URL]https://99bitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-btc/steak-and-shake-bitcoin-payment-processing-savings[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3085722]Do they give you change back for the 100,000,000 Stats?[/QUOTE]There is actually no need to give change back. The payment is made digitally. You always have exact change. The price is in SATS.

[B]Stack SATS![/B]

[QUOTE=AssAddict;3085795]Thank you to remind us the architects of the 9/11 were the Israeli terrorists, using dumb al Saud terrorists as pawn. No Iranians had anything to do with it (no Irakis too, but they still have been the victims as directed by the US backed Israel terror regime to the us terrorist army). Thank you to remind us the original terrorists are the creators of the Israel terror state, as the Polish terrorists David Brun or menachem begin and their terrorist gangs (Hagana, Irgun, Stern and Palmach) who slaughtered thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem long before any other group of people would be taught (by Israelis) to use these same tactics so that everyone would forget Israelis are the masterminds of these killings and destructions.[/QUOTE]The amount of insanity and hatred you display pretty much explains why Israel is forced to act.

If Israel lost their military advantage they would all be dead. That's the difference between Israel and their enemies, Israel wants peace but their enemies wants to do what they did on 7th October.

Israel is fighting pure evil, I'm very proud of the fact that IDF is the most moral military in the world. I'm proud of the fact that Israel is able to strike the terrorists.

We all know that 9/11 was planned and executed by Usama bin Laden and Al Qaida, jihadi extremists. You don't even have a case, that's why you make up lies and ignore reality.

The people in Lebanon and particularly in the southern parts are being threatened and persecuted by Iran and their Hezbollah terrorists. I know for a fact Christians in southern Lebanon supports Israel, they know that Israel doesn't want to attack their villages. This is a war caused by Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and their desire to slaughter Jews and Christians.

While the Democrats hug trees and sit round talking about a [I]green new deal[/I] the Republicans are putting the A back in the first A in NASA!

[QUOTE]A legendary spy plane has [u]vanished from a California military base[/u] it comes as NASA teases a mysterious new aircraft sparking speculation the two could be related. In the service of the first A (aeronautics) in NASA, we are rebuilding our X-plane fleet. The X-59 is researching quiet supersonic flight, but it's just the beginning," Isaacman. It will not be long before NASA once again is flying as high and as fast as we had in decades past, and then even more.[/QUOTE]The SR-71 Blackbird consumed approximately 36,000 to 38,000 pounds of fuel per hour (roughly 16,000 to 17,000 kg / h) while cruising at its maximum operational speed of Mach 3. 2 to Mach 3. 3. One USA Gallon of kerosene-type Jet A or Jet A-1 fuel contains approximately 39.5 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy. So, that is 1,422,000 kWh an hour.

Under optimum Standard Test Conditions (STC) defined as 1,000 W / m irradiance and 25 celsius temperature a 500-watt solar panel generates a maximum instantaneous power output of 500 watts. This peak capacity translates to an hourly energy production of 500 watt-hours (0. 5 kWh) per hour of peak sunlight.

[B]The new X-59 will NOT be solar powered![/B]

[QUOTE=DwayneJohnson;3085844]Terrorists for rest of the world are those who wear orange makeup and molest children on Mossad spy island. [u]Your terrorist regime is now root cause of flights to Thailand taking extra long with higher cost[/u]. I really tried hard to ignore the genocide your terrorist regime has been doing in Palestine and pedophile ring your people have been running but flight path uncertainty was my red line.[/QUOTE]What is the purpose of ISG? The purpose of ISG is to share information on having sex with girls.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3085860]Poor little you! Trump is the bad guy because your little "fuck" trip to the LOS might be interrupted.[/QUOTE]Actually on ISG that is the priority. Now I understand this is the [B]American Politics[/B]. But not having empathy for the plight of the situation for another [B]International Trick[/B] is for me beyond the pale.

I also oppose the illegal, undeclared military action against Iran also. My travel plans are not affected because I take the pacific route back to my country of origin when needed. But I know many friends have had theirs delayed or altered.

The war is bankrupting the Dis United States of America. Driving inflation higher. Driving interest rates higher. Driving the cost of diesel fuel higher. I don't see it helping out me or my fellow citizens who are poor like me at all. Opt out of the system. STACK SATS.

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B]

[B]Newsom admits democratic socialist ideas mainstream in Democrat party: Pretty aligned[/B]

[QUOTE]In an interview discussing his rumored 2028 presidential run, California Gov. Gavin Newsom asserted that the Democratic Party is "pretty aligned" with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), especially when it comes to universal healthcare, climate change and moving away from fossil fuel usage.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-admits-democratic-socialist-ideas-mainstream-democrat-party-pretty-aligned[/URL]

[U]Neither Party is Mine[/U]!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086003][B]Newsom admits democratic socialist ideas mainstream in Democrat party: Pretty aligned[/B]

[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-admits-democratic-socialist-ideas-mainstream-democrat-party-pretty-aligned[/URL]

[U]Neither Party is Mine[/U]![/QUOTE]It was Trump who had State dinner last week with the dictator of China Xi. Talking about hypocrisy!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085969]What is the purpose of ISG? The purpose of ISG is to share information on having sex with girls.

Actually on ISG that is the priority. Now I understand this is the [B]American Politics[/B]. But not having empathy for the plight of the situation for another [B]International Trick[/B] is for me beyond the pale.

I also oppose the illegal, undeclared military action against Iran also. My travel plans are not affected because I take the pacific route back to my country of origin when needed. But I know many friends have had theirs delayed or altered.

The war is bankrupting the Dis United States of America. Driving inflation higher. Driving interest rates higher. Driving the cost of diesel fuel higher. I don't see it helping out me or my fellow citizens who are poor like me at all. Opt out of the system. STACK SATS.

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B][/QUOTE]What are you talking about? There are flights from NYC to Bangkok and back for 800 bucks! I want to thank President Trump for these cheap flights!

The flights are cheap, the war is 100% legal and what you write has nothing to do with reality.

Why would I want more mongers to come to Thailand to drive up the prices? It's pretty weak if you ask me to not be able to fly to Thailand because it cost you 800 bucks. It's laughable.

I'm even considering canceling my flight to Tel Aviv for the elections and head to Bangkok instead, because I can afford it easily.

I mean, we all can have opinions about President Trump but in the end of the day we have to look ourselves in the mirror and take responsibility for the choices we have made in our lives and the financial outcome of those decisions. I feel pretty darn good! Hopefully President Trump will keep up the great work and not let the Iranian regime off the hook.

Finally things are looking up!

I thought this was more or less obvious, but perhaps I was wrong, so let me explain these variables using myself as a real-life example.

1. So, I was in Sao Paulo in May & June 2026 having a real good time with my branca mistress every night and hitting the SP clinicas every other afternoon for a little variety. But then I started thinking it was a fucking long time since I was in the LOS, and I kind of missed the place.

2. But the Iran War was kicking up a fuss (the interruption of gulf oil tanker flow) and WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil prices had gone over $100/ barrel. I knew that would have a negative effect on Airline tickets to BKK, but I took a look see anyway and yep, prices were sky high, so I put my idea on hold.

3. In July I was back home in the free state of Florida (mango season) and all the news was about a possible deal between the USA and the Mullahs and WTI (crude oil) prices were back around $72/ barrel, so I took a look at Airline ticket prices to BKK again and guess what? They had gone down more than the price of crude. I guessed that demand for air travel and declined substantially when oil was above $100 and had not picked up sufficiently YET since oil was back under $75/ barrel and thus the airlines' nonlinear profit maximizing algorithms were telling the airlines to lower their seat price to sell a bunch of tickets and stimulate demand. In other words, I saw an opportunity to get what I wanted, a ticket to BKK as part of an around the world series of flights at a really good price.

4. So, I started shopping around for tickets to fly from MIA to GRU to BKK to FLL. The cheapest flights from GRU to BKK changed planes in the Gulf. The next cheapest flights changed planes in Istanbul. And the most expensive flights, although historically still a pretty good, changed flights in Paris or Amsterdam, or Germany. There were no transpacific flights from GRU to BKK. I knew instantly the Emirates were too risky no matter how cheap it was. The Istanbul route was the most reasonable and made a lot of sense, but what got me to pay up for one of the most expensive route was that GRU to AMS was on KLM and the connecting flight to BKK was Thai Airlines (always a favorite of mine and usually too expensive to consider), but not this time, so I booked GRU to BKK with KLM / Thai. And I also booked separately all the other necessary flights my travel plans required, all at a very good prices thanks to the prevailing momentary view that Iran and the USA were close to a deal and the airlines were offering big bargains to stimulate demand as a result.

5. So, guess what: the Mullahs and the USA did not reach a deal, and it looks like Trump is going to wipe them off the face of the planet after the November elections. Anyway, this is the current worldwide opinion and whether it foretells the future or not, WTI crude oil prices are back up to $100/ barrel AND Airline tickets to BKK are super expensive again. Quelle surprise!

6. Thus, this is my best advice to all ISG punters who want to visit BKK or Pattaya, or CGK or MNL and do not have airline tickets: Relax and take it easy. Oil prices will go back to the $70 range once the world has a better idea of what is going to happen in the Gulf. Trump and the Mullahs may reach a deal and then oil prices will fall big time. Trump and the Mullahs may not reach a deal in which case Trump will hit the Iranian infrastructure and wipe out their electric grid. Oil may go higher after that in the short run, but eventually the regime will crumble and when it does oil prices will drop below $70/ barrel and airline tickets to BKK will be offered at bargain basement prices for a short time thereafter.

7. So, buckle your seatbelts, it may be a bumpy ride, but eventually everything will be ok. In the meantime, Americans who want to get their dick's wet should go to Tijuana or Costa Rica, or Cartagena for some fun and you Europeans should stay put and enjoy your FKK's. Me, I played the game pretty good even if I do say so myself, so I will be with the Missus in Sao Paulo in October and do my long-awaited BIG TRIP starting in early March 2027 in Sao Paulo and then landing in BKK right after Songkran.

I understand that we all enjoy shagging pretty girls, but at the same time I think we all should keep in mind that there ARE more important issues at hand. Getting rid of this terrorist regime in Iran will give the entire middle east a chance at a new way of living without killing and terrorizing each other. Think what it would be like to fly into Teheran one day and have great times in some nightclubs with the local girls. 555/ KKK.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3085860]Poor little you! Trump is the bad guy because your little "fuck" trip to the LOS might be interrupted. Like making sure the fanatical Iranian terrorist regime that butchers 42,000 of its own people in the streets of Teheran does not obtain nuclear weapons is less important than you getting your dick wet. Your self conceit is amazing! Imagine some a-hole in 1942 saying, "damn that FDR; because of that cripple SOB and his gas rationing, I can't fly down to Miami for a little winter fun in the sun. Yeah, the Mullahs in Iran today and Emperor Hirhito in 1942 had nothing to do with either flight plan complications.

Face it dude: you are where you are via your travel plans on account of Iran and the short-sighted decisions you made on your own accord. I will think of you, NOT, when I am walk into Nana on my first night back in BKK.[/QUOTE]He does not know how to shop and just wants to gripe. One way ticket from LA to Bangkok on October 25 is a whopping $400.

Airlines have the right to play the futures markets and can dictate what they want to pay for fuel. This is gasoline not jet fuel but this is the same chart with all refined products, and the trend has been the same whole war. [URL]https://oilprice.com/futures/gasoline/[/URL]

Today you can buy gasoline at $3.41 a gallon or you can say, "No, I would rather pay $2.80 in three months" because that is what the future's price is. So the spot price can be $4 in three months but you have locked in $2. 80 per gallon as an airline.

Point is that unless you know for a fact a given airline has not locked in prices you do not know what is causing higher airfares.

And AH, you need to know how to shop for fares too I used the flexible dates feature on [URL]skyscanner.com[/URL] to find the lowest prices and then you look for hubs where there is airline competition. In general, that means the NYC area for Europe, San Fran and LA for Asia, and the Miami area for South America.

I found a one way ticket on Azul from Lauderdale to Sao Paulo for $314 on October 11 and one on Latam from Miami for $454.

That is cheaper than when I flew to Brazil twenty years ago.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3086020]It was Trump who had State dinner last week with the dictator of China Xi. Talking about hypocrisy![/QUOTE]This is true. But that was foreign policy.

[B]Richard Nixon was the first sitting U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China in 1972[/B], ending over two decades of diplomatic isolation. This historic trip, which Nixon famously dubbed "the week that changed the world," resulted in the Shanghai Communiqu and paved the way for full diplomatic normalization in 1979.

[U]What The Cmdr is doing[/U]

I am quoting a news report on something TGOC said.

[QUOTE]In an interview discussing his rumored 2028 presidential run, California Gov. Gavin Newsom asserted that the Democratic party is pretty aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), especially when it comes to universal healthcare, climate change and moving away from fossil fuel usage.[/QUOTE][URL]https://nytimespost.com/newsom-admits-democratic-socialist-ideas-mainstream-in-democrat-party-pretty-aligned/[/URL]

[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.[/QUOTE]Bitcoin is a opt in system. If that is what you have decided to do. As you like to say to me [I]you do you[/I]. That leaves more Bitcoin for me to buy. There will only be 21 million of them in the entire world.

Everyone gets to buy Bitcoin at the price at which they deserve it. I first mentioned Bitcoin in 2023 (not a investment recommendation). Feel free to look up the price is was selling at then and compare it to the price it is selling at now.

As of 2026, approximately 30% of American adults (70.4 million people) own cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin remaining the most popular asset alongside Ethereum, Solana, and Dogecoin.

[URL]https://www.security.org/digital-security/cryptocurrency-annual-consumer-report/[/URL]

The USA Government has significantly integrated Bitcoin into its financial framework, most notably through the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve established by executive order in March 2025, which mandates that government-held BTC be maintained as a reserve asset and not sold.

[URL]https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/[/URL]

The country also leads globally in Bitcoin ownership, holding an estimated 40% of all circulating Bitcoin, and dominates mining infrastructure with 38% of global hashrate since China's 2021 ban.

[URL]https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/u-s-leads-the-world-in-bitcoin-ownership-new-report-shows[/URL]

The Dis United States of America owes 40 Trillion United States Dollars. Somebody has to pay it back.

[B]Luke Gromen[/B] defines the [B]debasement trade[/B] as a long-term structural regime shift rather than a short-term speculative bet, driven by high sovereign debt levels that force governments to inflate away liabilities through currency debasement. He views [U]gold[/U] as the primary hard asset hedge, noting that central banks have shifted reserves from US treasuries to gold, while Bitcoin is seen as a longer-term, higher-risk expression of the same debasement theme.

[URL]https://youtu.be/1UiIEvVILY0[/URL]

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3086040]ISo, guess what: the Mullahs and the USA did not reach a deal, and it looks like Trump is going to wipe them off the face of the planet after the November elections. Anyway, this is the current worldwide opinion and whether it foretells the future or not, WTI crude oil prices are back up to $100/ barrel AND Airline tickets to BKK are super expensive again.[/QUOTE]Everyone in the world pays those higher prices.

What is more important on the Geopolitical front is the spread between WTI and Brent. Usually it is between 2 - 8 USD. The current spread of 11+ USD shows the markets are calling [B]male bovine excrement[/B] on the Article Two (2) leader of the Dis United States of America.

I disagree with the undeclared military action against Iran. I consider it illegal. It is driving up the cause of fuel in the Dis United States of America and worldwide. It is driving up inflation in the Dis United States of America. It is driving up the PPI in the Dis United States of America. It is driving up interest rates that the [B]bond vigilante[/B] are demanding in order to loan the Dis United States of America the nearly 40 Trillion Dollars it needs to operate the government. Plus the Government of the Dis United States of America is adding 2 Trillion more to the deficit each year.

[QUOTE]Under U.S. domestic law, the strikes were conducted without a formal declaration of war or specific congressional authorization. While the War Powers Resolution requires the president to terminate hostilities within 60 days unless Congress acts, the administration argues that Article II grants the commander-in-chief inherent authority to use force for "sufficiently important national interests" as long as the operation does not constitute "war in the constitutional sense." Critics, including several legal scholars and senators, contend that the scale and duration of "Operation Epic Fury" exceed presidential authority, noting that no existing Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) covers Iran.[/QUOTE][URL]https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2026/03/05/without-a-congressional-declaration-of-war-do-the-attacks-on-iran-violate-the-u-s-constitution/[/URL]

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3086033]What are you talking about? There are flights from NYC to Bangkok and back for 800 bucks! I want to thank President Trump for these cheap flights!

The flights are cheap, the war is 100% legal and what you write has nothing to do with reality.

Why would I want more mongers to come to Thailand to drive up the prices? It's pretty weak if you ask me to not be able to fly to Thailand because it cost you 800 bucks. It's laughable.

Finally things are looking up![/QUOTE]Hey ShooBree, While I agree with you that the final outcome in the war is a forgone conclusion, the mullahs are still not finished yet and like a wounded predatory animal they can still cause pain and suffering to those in the line of fire. All the left wing & pro terrorist histeria reminds me of how the left behaved in the 1980's when President Reagan put ballistic missiles into NATO countries and told the world about a "star wars" new defensive military shield he would erect over North America. The left called him President Rayguns and there were riots in England and Brussels. Then Reagan met with Gorbachev in Iceland and told the leader of the Soviet Union in calm and certain terms the US would spend the Soviets under the table on military outlays. Gorbachev knew his nation could not keep up with the spending and that was the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. Soon thereafter that meeting Poland broke free and then the Berlin Wall came down, Germany was reunited and Eastern Europe became free again. On a mongering note: the best girly scenes in the world were in Hungary and the Ukraine shortly after the Soviet collapse.

There will always be the crazies who for some reason want to see more bloodshed and terrorism in the world because they hate Western Civilization and want to see it destroyed. They are a sorry lot and more insane than ever before. The DSA are openly rooting for the murderous thugs in Teheran, no prisons, open borders, chemical castration of minors, trans men in women's sports and woman's bathrooms, stacking the Suprem Court of the US, doing away with the Presidency and the Senate of the US, and the indoctrination of our children in public schools. That is what they are running on in the US midterm elections. We live in extraordinary times.

I just did a very fast Google flight search and prices seem high to me. I believe that this is partly due to late seasonal pricing, but mainly due to the temporary high price of oil. Tourist punters wanting to travel to the LOS during high season and who have not purchased tickets already are out of luck and will have to pay up or they could wait a little bit until oil prices go back to the $75/ barrel range. It is up to them. Me, I would never go to Thailand during high season and if I lived in Thailand, I would have already made plans to leave and take a vacation somewhere else during the seasonal time of November through February. Talk about high prices: take a look at BKK hotels during December and January. We experience the same thing here in the free state of Florida and most Floridians can't wait until the "snow birds" go back home at the end of the season.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086050] I found a one way ticket on Azul from Lauderdale to Sao Paulo for $314 on October 11 and one on Latam from Miami for $454.

That is cheaper than when I flew to Brazil twenty years ago.[/QUOTE]Hey Elvis, let me know how the flight on Azul goes if you decide to fly with them. They fly out of FLL which is a big plus as far as I am concerned because MIA is such a hassle. My only issue with Azul is trying to book an enlarged legroom seat is difficult on their website. But the idea of flying into VCP sounds intriguing because I would take advantage of that arrival destination and visit Fazendinha Night Club for a few nights at long last before driving down to SP.

P.S. My Brazilian cleaning lady flies Azul and she says the airline is OK.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086068]Bitcoin is a opt in system. If that is what you have decided to do. As you like to say to me [I]you do you[/I]. That leaves more Bitcoin for me to buy. There will only be 21 million of them in the entire world.

Everyone gets to buy Bitcoin at the price at which they deserve it. I first mentioned Bitcoin in 2023 (not a investment recommendation). Feel free to look up the price is was selling at then and compare it to the price it is selling at now.

As of 2026, approximately 30% of American adults (70.4 million people) own cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin remaining the most popular asset alongside Ethereum, Solana, and Dogecoin.

[URL]https://www.security.org/digital-security/cryptocurrency-annual-consumer-report/[/URL]

The USA Government has significantly integrated Bitcoin into its financial framework, most notably through the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve established by executive order in March 2025, which mandates that government-held BTC be maintained as a reserve asset and not sold.

[URL]https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/establishment-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-united-states-digital-asset-stockpile/[/URL]

The country also leads globally in Bitcoin ownership, holding an estimated 40% of all circulating Bitcoin, and dominates mining infrastructure with 38% of global hashrate since China's 2021 ban.

[URL]https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/u-s-leads-the-world-in-bitcoin-ownership-new-report-shows[/URL]

The Dis United States of America owes 40 Trillion United States Dollars. Somebody has to pay it back.

[B]Luke Gromen[/B] defines the [B]debasement trade[/B] as a long-term structural regime shift rather than a short-term speculative bet, driven by high sovereign debt levels that force governments to inflate away liabilities through currency debasement. He views [U]gold[/U] as the primary hard asset hedge, noting that central banks have shifted reserves from US treasuries to gold, while Bitcoin is seen as a longer-term, higher-risk expression of the same debasement theme.

[URL]https://youtu.be/1UiIEvVILY0[/URL][/QUOTE][B]Vanguard Slams BitcoinBut Now Has Billions Tied To It Thanks To Index Exposure[/B]

[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vanguard-slams-bitcoin-now-billions-144612435.html[/URL]

[QUOTE]In a twist of fate, Vanguard has become the largest shareholder of the most established Bitcoin equity play.
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Now Vanguard is the largest shareholder in MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), a firm whose value proposition is that it is the most established Bitcoin proxy in the stock market, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
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The disconnect between Vanguard's professed cryptocurrency stance and its financial holdings primarily comes from its passive index fund strategies through funds like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index (NASDAQ:VITSX), Vanguard Extended Market Index (NASDAQ:VIEIX) and the Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF (NYSE:VUG).[/QUOTE]In one form or another that Total Stock Market Index Fund has contributed to a more comfortable life and retirement for me. Glad I have been in it under one or another name for decades. I appreciate the incomparable level of critical diversification it has provided over the typically great Dem presidential times and the typically crap Repub presidential times.

The inarguable pattern continues. I'll take the previous 20 months under Biden vs the recent 20 months under Trump anytime.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085692]One gallon of diesel contains 40.7 killowatts of energy. [URL]https://www.convertunits.com/from/gallon[/URL]+USA +of+diesel+oil / to / kilowatt-hour.

Multiply the two and you get 81.4 billion watts of energy. If you have a 10 day cruise, that is about 8 billion watts of energy per day.

What a bird brain like you does not get is that solar energy generation is based on square footage and how much space do you need to generate 8 billion watts of energy per day?[/QUOTE]Who cares about your arcane propaganda fossil fuel math, when countries like Pakistan stands to save US $6.3 billion over the course of the year through reduced oil and gas imports, following an estimated US $12 billion saved between 2021 and early 2026, using simple rooftop solar. [URL]https://energyandcleanair.org/the-hedge-that-paid-off-how-pakistans-solar-boom-is-shielding-it-from-the-hormuz-crisis/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085692]Per google, to generate 8 billion watts (8 gigawatts) of solar energy daily, you require approximately 17,500 square miles of land area, which is equivalent to about 11.2 million acres. That just happens to be an area that is 1.5 times the size of the state of Maryland.

And you would need battery capacity to store 4 billion watts of power when the sun went down and you are still going to need hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel in case there is not adequate sun.[/QUOTE]Oh really! Has anyone in Trumpland and MAGA world, on Earth #2, heard of:
[LIST] [b]Rooftop solar?[/b] On/Offshore wind? Tidal-wave power? Where NO illegal wars to misappropriate land, Venezuelan oil, Iranian LNG or propaganda MAGA math is need.[/LIST][LIST] Converting just [b]1% of the world's agricultural land to solar,[/b] could theoretically meet global electricity demand. [URL]https://vegetablegrowersnews.com/news/ag-lands-ripe-for-solar-panels-new-study-shows/[/URL][/LIST][LIST] A well know fact, that the top 10 countries in the world, with the most golf courses, with dedicated land to golf, is significantly larger than the land used for utility-scale solar or wind. In the UK specifically, there is roughly six times more land for golf courses than for solar. [URL] https://www.sheffieldfoe.co.uk/2026/09/do-solar-panels-on-farms-really-create.html[/URL][/LIST]
[U]So who cares about your fossil fuel propaganda math? NOT Pakistan or the Philippines![/U]

The next shoe to drop (or domino to fall) is the Philippines (nipping at the heels of Pakistan), who in a single year, installed five times more rooftop solar than it had in the previous 10 years combined. [B]Sky-high power bills push Pinoys to go solar,[/B] September 1st, 2026. [URL]https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/09/01/2553115/sky-high-power-bills-push-pinoys-go-solar#1[/URL]

And in Pakistan, their rooftop solar boom has been so rapid that in only two years, they've added as much generating capacity, [I][b]as the country's entire fleet of fossil-fueled power plants[/b][/I].

But the other thing that links, both of these countries, is that they have some of the highest electricity prices in the world. So the Philippines, right behind Pakistan, is one of many countries in the Global South, following China's solar boom, and no doubt soon followed by batteries [I]and EVs...etc,[/I] due to heavy load shedding and blackouts caused by your dumbass MAGA Fuhrer / Bonkers BiBi Israel illegal war against Iran.

2026 The Year of the Battery.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3086271][B]Vanguard Slams Bitcoin But Now Has Billions Tied To It Thanks To Index Exposure[/B]

[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vanguard-slams-bitcoin-now-billions-144612435.html[/URL][/QUOTE][B]You don't own any Bitcoin and neither does Vanguard![/B]

Vanguard does not own Bitcoin in self-custody. The firm has explicitly stated it has no plans to launch its own Bitcoin ETF or hold cryptocurrency directly. Vanguard's policy restricts direct ownership and self-custody of digital assets for its clients. Period. Full Stop!

[QUOTE]Vanguard is one of the world's largest asset managers and for years, it wanted nothing to do with Bitcoin.
That changed in December 2025, when the firm reversed course and opened its brokerage platform to third-party crypto ETFs.
But here's the key distinction investors need to understand: Vanguard now allows Bitcoin ETF trading on its platform it has not launched a Vanguard Bitcoin ETF of its own.
[b]Vanguard does not offer its own Bitcoin ETF there is no Vanguard-branded product with a Vanguard ticker symbol.[/b][/QUOTE][URL]https://www.mexc.co/learn/article/does-vanguard-have-a-bitcoin-etf-what-investors-need-to-know/1l[/URL]

As I said before, Bitcoin is a opt in system. No one owns it that does not deserve to. I am available for any further questions any of you [B]International Tricks[/B] may have about Bitcoin. Even if you are a [I]no coiner[/I] and are skeptical. I already put down much mis information in this thread about Bitcoin. My information has not been refuted.

Regulatory rule making has shifted from Congress to federal agencies after the CLARITY Act failed to advance due to the Democrats on September 15,2026. The SEC, CFTC, and Federal Reserve are rapidly drafting rules using existing authority to fill the void, with the SEC unveiling a tokenized-stock exemption and the Fed proposing stablecoin reserve rules under the GENIUS Act. [B]The Trump Administration is a friend of Crypto[/B]. The Democrats are not.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085713]This is not a question to be directed at me. The question needs to be directed at the Republicans posting in this thread. Lest I remind you:

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B][/QUOTE]Uh! Since when do you need to be in support of a particular party, to answer a question about another political party (or non-political entity)?

Why all the hestantancy? You posted stuff on the (neither party is mine) Repubs or Dems, before, when criticizing or praising them, when it suit your needs, over stuff like one single-issue voting, only about 3 or 4% of Americans, even care about. So what's so different or difficult, about me asking the following question?

[B]So the question still remains,[/B] [I]"What has the administrative party in power (both houses), the (neither party is mine) Repubs, done for Americans?"[/I].

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085713]There is no mention of [B]political parties[/B] nor a [U]loyal opposition[/U] in the United States Constitution.[/QUOTE]While the Constitution says nothing about political parties or "the loyal opposition" it also says nothing about primaries, the cabinet, executive agencies, judicial review, the filibuster, the administrative state, either, but they exist as extra-constitutional institutions or articles and rules of law, that have emerged after ratification and are now regulated in part by constitutional law.

Again, as I've explained before, this is why we have constitutional law and constitutional lawyers, that give operational legal meaning in specific cases, since the constitution is a framework, in which to work within and not codified code.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085713]Thank you for the religious reference. But the meaning is lost on me in this political debate. ... [/QUOTE]Pity!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085713]That is your opinion. You make fun of my political position all the time. When you write [I]the (neither party is mine) Repubs, done for Americans?"[/I] in italics when you should have just written Republicans. [/QUOTE]Uh! Whether it's italics or not, I'm 100% pretty sure my italics, are only there to convey, the very wording you yourself have ardently used on multiple occasions to describe your political position and apparent disdain for the ("Neither Party is Mine") Repubs or Dems.

But when I write (neither party is mine) Repubs or (neither party is mine") Dems, [U]how is this NOT an accurate description,[/U] describing your political position, as you've repeatedly written and told us as such, on multiple occasions?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085713]Which party in the Dis United States of America does that?[/QUOTE]I'm also pretty sure, by now you know, which party [I]in the U.S.,[/I] I think, does that, the best or at the very least, better than the other!

To be clear once again, [B]The Constitution is a framework charter[/B] of powers and limits, not a blueprint for every single specific institutional, political, judicial or civil case. The space in the administrative framework of the Constitution, is it left open by the Framers, so that through legislation, executive practice, judicial interpretation, and political involvement, can be filled in, through articles of law, statutes, precedent, and custom, over time.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3085713]There is no mention of [B]political parties[/B] nor a [U]loyal opposition[/U] in the United States Constitution.[/QUOTE]Yes, thank you for confirming what I'd told you in a previous post, to the one you've just posted.

Here:

[QUOTE=Spidy;3085648][b]Currently there is no such thing as the "loyal opposition" in [I]the U.S. Constitution,[/I][/b] but it does sound to me like, your "loyal opposition" argument, is the very thing that constitutional law and lawyers are need for and are meant to argue in the courts, as to whether or not it pertains to the constitution.[/QUOTE]Now that we both agree on your argument for "loyal opposition" and it's NOT contained [I]in the U.S. Constitution,[/I] it remains moot point, but nonetheless a point of constitutional law to be argued in the courts (or in debate forums) as to it's relevance or necessity as codified law.

[QUOTE][b]The Constitution is a framework charter, NOT codified code[/b][/QUOTE]I disagree!

The Constitution of the United States of America is the first principles document that governs the entire political structure of the Dis United States of America The concept of [B]first principles thinking[/B] in the context of the The Constitution of the United States of America, refers to the foundational, self-evident truths from which the entire structure of the Dis United States of America government is derived.

These principles are not merely procedural rules but the essential standards that answer fundamental questions about who rules, for what ends, and how power is structured. These [B]first principles[/B] are "first" in two ways:

1. They must be addressed chronologically before other subjects.

2. They deal with the most important matters of a political community.

[U]The core first principles underpinning The Constitution of the United States include:[/U]

[B]Popular Sovereignty:[/B] The axiom that all political power emanates from the [U]people, who are the sole source of legislative authority and can alter or abolish governments[/U]

[B]Limited Government:[/B]*The radical conception, introduced by [U]James Otis Jr.[/U] in 1761 and codified by the Framers, that government possesses only those powers explicitly granted to it by the Constitution, [U]acting as a creature of the law rather than the other way around[/U]

[B]Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances:[/B] The division of authority into distinct branches to prevent tyranny and ensure that no single entity concentrates power.

[B]Natural Rights and Equality:[/B] The belief that individuals are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights (such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) that predate and limit government authority.

These principles were deliberately chosen over analogical reasoning from ancient models like Greece or Rome, which the Founders recognized contained contradictions (such as slavery) incompatible with their new political experiment. The Constitution was designed as a "written contract" that prescribes the only lawful methods for amendment, [U]ensuring that the government remains subordinate to the law and the consent of the governed[/U]

Try to build a house without a blueprint and without a frame. Constitutional Attorneys to do not determine the law in the Dis United States of America. The Supreme Court of the United States of America does that. I am the people. The government is mine. The power is mine. I will not ceed that power to political parties or the government. Neither party has done a damn thing for The Cmdr! They are both equally useless.

[B]Neither Party is mine![/B] Power to the people! Not the parties!

Unless of course it is a sex party! Because that meets with my objective. What is my objective? My objective is to nut! ROTFLMAO!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085692]Per google, to generate 8 billion watts (8 gigawatts) of solar energy daily, you require approximately 17,500 square miles of land area, which is equivalent to about 11.2 million acres. That just happens to be an area that is 1.5 times the size of the state of Maryland.

And you would need battery capacity to store 4 billion watts of power when the sun went down and you are still going to need hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel in case there is not adequate sun.[/QUOTE]Late additional questions, if anyone in Trumpland and MAGA world, on Earth #2, has also heard of the follow variations of solar, that work with nature's resources and don't take up additional land?:
[LIST][b]Agrivoltaics?[/b] In harmony with land, nature and the farmers[/LIST][LIST][b]Floating Solar? [/b]Again, in harmony with the sea, nature and fish & wildlife conservation[/LIST][LIST][b]Canal Solar?[/b] At the same time conserving water, for farmers. California and India projects, have yielded good results[/LIST][LIST][b]Vertical Solar?[/b] Like on the side of residential homes, commercial buildings OR[/LIST][LIST][b]Solar as Fencing Panels?[/b] Since solar panels are often cheaper than other fencing materials FWIW[/LIST][LIST][b]Canopy Solar:[/b] Parking Lots, Gas/Charging Stations, Rest Stop Areas? Also provides vehicle, weather and road protection[/LIST][LIST][b]Balcony Solar?[/b] Option of apartments as a nominal way to participate in creating their own energy[/LIST][LIST][b]Desert/Mountain Solar?[/b] China has just about perfected the reuse and revitalization of what was unusable land, hillsides or desert with solar[/LIST][LIST][b]Unused/Abandoned Mining Solar?[/b] China has built the largest single coal mining subsidence area photovoltaic project in Ningxia (ie. big-time use of marginal unused land)[/LIST]AND the latest and greatest solar, no one in Trumpland and MAGA World, on Earth has every heard of, that doesn't take up land is:
[LIST][b]Railway Track Solar[/b] Pilot project in Switzerland, with more than 11,000 trains having rolled over the setup without causing damage, safety issues, or glare for drivers. Italy and others are seriously considering this solar[/LIST][LIST][b]Solar Noise Barriers?[/b] Photovoltaic modules integrated directly into noise barriers along highways or railways[/LIST]I know that, since the sun and wind doesn't shine or blow everywhere on Trumpland and MAGA world on Earth #2, tell me, do none of these various implementations of solar, also not exist in either?

2026 The Year of the Battery.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086318]Who cares about your arcane propaganda fossil fuel math, when countries like Pakistan stands to save US $6.3 billion over the course of the year through reduced oil and gas imports, following an estimated US $12 billion saved between 2021 and early 2026, using simple rooftop solar. https://energyandcleanair.org/the-hedge-that-paid-off-how-pakistans-solar-boom-is-shielding-it-from-the-hormuz-crisis/[/QUOTE]That is complete bullshit. I cannot even make sense of this more honest assessment. [URL]https://electronics.alibaba.com/question/solar-power-in-pakistan-price-guide-2026[/URL]

High-efficiency bifacial 700 W panels cost PKR 42–45 (or 16 cents) per watt. Is solar power in Pakistan cheaper than electricity from the grid?

Yes — over a 10-year horizon. Grid electricity costs PKR 28–45/ kWh (9 to 16 cents) with annual increases of 8–12%. A solar system averages PKR 8–12 (3 to 4 cents) / kWh lifetime cost (including financing, maintenance, replacement). Break-even occurs between Year 2 and Year 4.

I am not sure how you get from 16 cents per watt to 3-4 cents per watt. What I can say is that solar requires a huge upfront cost and therefore any cost savings is theoretical bullshit. Where do they get 8 to 12% price increases in grid power from? And what yield are you getting on the money you do not spend on solar?

And that is not even getting into real world costs. If you got a refrigerator using 250 watts per hour with $100 of perishable food in it, the batteries on the Pakistani systems are going to back up that refrigerator for 20 hours, and that is assuming you use the battery for nothing else. So if you have a day or two without sun, you are fucked, and that $100 worth of food is going to go bad.

That 5,000 watt battery is going to weigh in the 100 to 150 pound neighborhood, and it is going to cost $1000 to $3000. That is for 20 hours of juice.

5 gallons of diesel can run that refrigerator for almost 2 weeks, weights 42 pounds, and even with higher fuel costs, runs a person $30.

Whether it is a data center losing billions in down time or a refrigerator with $100 of food in it, it is not just the cost of generation but the reliability of the generation that affects cost, and sun and wind are not reliable.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086318]Who cares about your arcane propaganda fossil fuel math[/QUOTE]Uh, everyone in the world who uses electricity? To a dumb Dem, math is now political.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086318]In the UK specifically, there is roughly six times more land for golf courses than for solar.[/QUOTE]England is about 50,000 square miles. That is enough to power three cruise ships. The UK is 90,000 square miles. That is enough to power five cruise ships with solar.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086318]Rooftop solar?[/QUOTE]Rooftops do not add to the square footage of a country.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086318]On/Offshore wind? Tidal-wave power?[/QUOTE]This is an admission that you have lost the debate on solar.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086318]2026 The Year of the Battery.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoFlow-4096Wh-DELTA-Pro-3-4000-Watt-Output-LFP-Power-Station-Home-Backup-Camping-Push-Button-Start-Battery-Generator-EFDELTAPRO3-US/330847837[/URL]

This is the power station I own. $2500,4000 watt capacity, 113 pounds.

When used in a generator, diesel gets about 16,000 watts per gallon. So for 4000 watts, that requires 1/4 of a gallon of diesel at $1. 50 which weighs less than 2 lbs.

And your case is batteries are cheaper? You are out of your damned mind.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086346][B]You don't own any Bitcoin and neither does Vanguard![/B]

Vanguard does not own Bitcoin in self-custody. The firm has explicitly stated it has no plans to launch its own Bitcoin ETF or hold cryptocurrency directly. Vanguard's policy restricts direct ownership and self-custody of digital assets for its clients. Period. Full Stop!

[URL]https://www.mexc.co/learn/article/does-vanguard-have-a-bitcoin-etf-what-investors-need-to-know/1l[/URL]

As I said before, Bitcoin is a opt in system. No one owns it that does not deserve to. I am available for any further questions any of you [B]International Tricks[/B] may have about Bitcoin. Even if you are a [I]no coiner[/I] and are skeptical. I already put down much mis information in this thread about Bitcoin. My information has not been refuted.

Regulatory rule making has shifted from Congress to federal agencies after the CLARITY Act failed to advance due to the Democrats on September 15,2026. The SEC, CFTC, and Federal Reserve are rapidly drafting rules using existing authority to fill the void, with the SEC unveiling a tokenized-stock exemption and the Fed proposing stablecoin reserve rules under the GENIUS Act. [B]The Trump Administration is a friend of Crypto[/B]. The Democrats are not.[/QUOTE]Who said anything about me owning bitcoin? I didn't say that.

From my linked article:

[QUOTE]The views come as Vanguard now already offers its customers [b]indirect cryptocurrency exposure[/b] through its funds, but refuses to offer customers access to products like Bitcoin ETFs on its brokerage platform. [/QUOTE]Did you think bitcoin is the same as indirect crypto currency exposure?

Interesting. You might want to read up on the topic a bit more.

Or did you mistakenly think you saw the plain language word "bitcoin" in the Subject of my post and somewhere in my comments about the article I linked when it isn't in there at all?

[QUOTE]I own it whether I like it or not. Same as some other investments.[/QUOTE]I do not see the words indirect crypto currency exposure.

[QUOTE] Interesting. You might want to read up on the topic a bit more.[/QUOTE][U]Owning Bitcoin[/U] technically means possessing the private key that grants exclusive control and the ability to sign transactions for a specific balance recorded on the blockchain. Unlike traditional assets, Bitcoin is not a physical object or a file stored on your device; it is a record in a decentralized public ledger where ownership is defined by cryptographic proof rather than a central authority. [U]Bitcoin has delivered significantly higher historical returns than [I]stocks[/I][/U]

[B]Plain Language.[/B] ROTFLMAO!

You Fucked Around And Found Out, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

I guess more of your eligible registrants and voters should have gotten off their butt and voted for Harris in 2024 in at least the scant few more numbers necessary to override the totally presidential election determinative votes for someone else that a tiny handful of votes cast by angry Muslims on a single issue decided for the entire USA.

[B]Pennsylvania measles cases cross 900 as outbreak grows[/B]

[URL]https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pennsylvania-measles-cases-cross-900-outbreak-grows-2026-09-28/[/URL]

[B]Michigan households hit hardest per person by Trump-era tariffs: report[/B]

[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/michigan-households-hit-hardest-per-154650927.html[/URL]

[B]Mapped: The U.S. States Hit Hardest by Canadas Tariffs[/B]

[URL]Mapped: The U.S. States Hit Hardest by Canadas Tariffs[/URL]

See the map where MI, PA and poor WI are featured prominently among the states hardest hit by Trump's American Consumer Taxes and Trade War with Canada.

Oh well.

We tried.

[B]Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads[/B]

[QUOTE]WASHINGTON (AP) The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afoul of anti-propaganda law.

In a letter Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, two top Democratic senators said that the money is being drawn from Trumps so-called One Big Beautiful Bill and was supposed to go for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

We should not have to remind you that using government funding to create or air political ads like the ones that have been running over the last few days is illegal and a shockingly corrupt misuse of taxpayer dollars, wrote Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee that handles Homeland Security funding.

The senators demanded answers within the next 48 hours about how this president is literally stealing their tax dollars to air campaign ads celebrating himself.

They asked the secretary if the department plans to use additional federal funds to air these ads or create new ones, and if so to share contracting information with Congress. They also asked Mullin if he had spoken to Trump about using the taxpayer funds for the ads.

The political uproar over Trumps hagiographic ads, which started running last week during popular TV shows, including college and National Football League programming, has not abated as critics on the left and right raise alarms about the use of taxpayer funds, particularly so close to the midterm elections.

The White House has defended the advertisements, which disclose that they are funded by the U.S. government, as public service announcements.

Asked for a request for comment Tuesday on the senators letter, Homeland Security referred to the earlier White House response.

[b]Ad spend is up to $2.5m as criticism and legal scrutiny grow[/b]
The unusual commercials, which echo the GOPs midterm election slogans, against imagery of Trumps tenure in office one with a Love me, Love me song refrain in the background appear to violate a law against congressionally appropriated funds being used for propaganda.

Experts also have said the ads, which are airing on network and cable TV and streaming, differ from other administrations PSAs because they arent designed to help Americans access any specific program.

Over the weekend, a new ad promoting the president resembles a black-and-white video from his own 2024 campaign that shows Trump walking down a hallway as his voice can be heard warning of a final battle against globalists and warmongers. It ends with Trump staring straight into the camera lens with the Paid for by the U.S. Government message printed.

Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, has compared Trumps ads to those used by authoritarian former leader Viktor Orban of Hungary. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said it shouldnt be paid for with taxpayer dollars.

Data from the outside firm AdImpact shows more than $2.5 million was spent on the three ads over the past seven days. The actual amount spent could be significantly more, depending on whether networks classified the ads as political.

The senators said in their letter that DHS has committed $20 million to the campaign.

A person who was not authorized to discuss the situation and who was granted anonymity confirmed the findings, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

[b]Trumps ads use taxpayer dollars, likely skirting the law[/b]
The unusual ad campaign comes as Republicans face an increasingly volatile midterm election season with their control of the House and Senate and Trumps future agenda all at risk.

[u]Voters say they are struggling with high prices of gas and groceries[/u], and are concerned about the lengthy U.S. war against Iran, now in its seventh month. Democrats are gearing up for vast oversight of Trump and his administration if they seize power, and impeachment is not off the table.

House Democrats said Trumps director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, moved $20 million from Homeland Security resources to the ad campaign on Sept. 19.

The next day, a $20 million contract for a National Media Campaign was awarded to the Maryland-based LMD Agency, Inc., according to federal data. LMD Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Homeland Security funds are part of a whopping $175 billion Congress gave the department in the Big, Beautiful, Bill as part of Trumps immigration enforcement and deportation agenda. Democrats voted against that package, which Trump signed into law last summer, in part because of its steep cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security subcommittee, said that after gutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and social services and more than quadrupling funding for mass deportations, it turns out the Trump administration used Republicans One Big Beautiful Bill to pay for President Trumps political ads.

They said if the Democrats regain control, they will work to uncover and reverse misuses of taxpayer money like this and hold those who abused their power accountable.

Whats also striking about the administrations use of taxpayer dollars for the ads is that Trumps own political campaign committee, MAGA Inc., is sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars of funding that could be used during the midterm season. Groups aligned with MAGA Inc. have started shelling out funds for the House and Senate races.

The administration has defended the use of taxpayer dollars for the ads and shown no signs of changing course.[/QUOTE][URL]https://apnews.com/article/trump-ads-taxpayer-money-homeland-security-b869294503c8454db4109ae175ee9e5c[/URL]

Democrats kill crypto legislation Republicans spending my tax dollars for propaganda in the Dis United States of America. Yet senior members have the nerve to ask me: Which party is doing the most for the The Cmdr?

Neither Party is Mine!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086399]Vertical Solar?

2026 The Year of the Battery.[/QUOTE]All the other suggestions are bullshit. Putting solar panels out in the ocean requires a huge and costly infrastructure to set them up and a huge and costly infrastructure to get electricity to land.

Vertical is a way to get more square footage without sacrificing land area, and you could put these in places where infrastructure is already built. The problem? You are depriving others of sunlight, and what gives anyone the right to do that? I cannot even imagine the legal issues with that.

The land in Texas is only 2% owned by government. You go to states like Nevada and it is 85% owned and the state gets a ton of sun and outside of Las Vegas, the state is mostly bare. The bullshit you keep falling for is power generation. You can put a thousand of the panels I mentioned out in the desert and be generating 3 million watts per day but so what? You are forgetting the most expensive parts. You have to have batteries to store said power when it is night, and you have to get people to move to Nevada or build up a huge infrastructure to move the electricity. That is the part you do not get.

But that is not even where the electricity demand is going to come from. There is nothing wrong with slapping up a few solar panels to lower electricity costs or in my case charge the batteries on a RV, however that does not work if you need constant power, and data centers are going to be the big drivers of electricity use, and they cannot afford down time, and neither can people shipping goods that require refrigeration.

I have given you constant examples of how paltry the amount of energy that can be stored in batteries versus nat gas or coal or oil or diesel or gasoline, and you still do not get it. If you do solar with batteries, you still have to back them up with a fossil fuel power source like natural gas or nuclear. So why do it all?

I have 12,000 watts of batteries in my RV and am increasing it to 20,000 but they take hours to charge. When I really need power and do not have time, I can wait hours to charge up the batteries or I can flip a switch and turn on the generator.

With even a climate change nut like you, if you are in my RV, when it is 100 outside and 110 degrees inside, you are going to flip the generator switch on. You can lie and say you are not but you will.

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3085402]Because the Afrikaners are being persecuted and victims of genocide in South Africa.[/QUOTE]Back your statement up with some facts.

[B]FACTS[/B]

[QUOTE]White South Africans are, on average, wealthier and more ​likely to be employed than Black South Africans.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-summons-us-ambassador-again-over-undiplomatic-conduct-official-says-2026-09-30/[/QUOTE][QUOTE]Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa's economy remains deeply divided by race, spurring political debate on the extent to which its flagship Black economic empowerment law has worked.
Here are some facts about South Africa's racial divide:

[u]UNEMPLOYMENT[/u]
South Africa has struggled for years with low economic growth and high unemployment. The official unemployment rate was 33.5% in April-June of this year.
During that period, the unemployment rate was 37.6% among Black South Africans and 7.9% among white South Africans, according to the statistics agency. It was 23.3% among South Africans of mixed race.
The unemployment rate among Black people has consistently been higher than the national average over the past decade, and has risen more than nine percentage points since 2014, Statistics South Africa said.
[u]MANAGEMENT CONTROL[/u]
In the private sector, white people occupied 65.9% of top management level posts while Black people occupied 13.8% in 2022, according to South Africa's Commission for Employment Equity.
South Africa's population of 64 million is about 8% white, official data shows.
The statistics show that the percentage of Black people increases as the job level goes down to senior, professional, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled.
At the unskilled labour level, white people occupied 0.9% of jobs in the private sector and Black people 82.8% in 2022.
[u]OWNERSHIP[/u]
Average Black ownership of companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange was almost 30% in 2022, according to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission, which includes other minority groups such as mixed race and Asian people in its count.
However, the report is based on a small sample size of firms that submitted their information. One economist calculated that actual Black ownership among listed companies was about 1%.
Board membership on listed companies was around 47% Black in 2022, the Commission said in its latest report, adding that this showed potential progress but that limited data meant it did not necessarily represent industry performance.
"No entity registered 100% Black-owned within the JSE listed companies," it said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/racial-divide-south-africas-economy-2024-09-23/[/QUOTE][I]Every man has a right to an opinion but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts[/I] - [B]Bernard Baruch, 1946[/B].

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086428]I do not see the words indirect crypto currency exposure.

[U]Owning Bitcoin[/U] technically means possessing the private key that grants exclusive control and the ability to sign transactions for a specific balance recorded on the blockchain. Unlike traditional assets, Bitcoin is not a physical object or a file stored on your device; it is a record in a decentralized public ledger where ownership is defined by cryptographic proof rather than a central authority. [U]Bitcoin has delivered significantly higher historical returns than [I]stocks[/I][/U]

[B]Plain Language.[/B] ROTFLMAO![/QUOTE]This is the first sentence of my quote from the linked article telling you what I am referring to owning in that fund. And it isn't bitcoin, right?

[QUOTE]Vanguard has become the largest shareholder of the most established [b]Bitcoin equity play[/b].[/QUOTE]Did you really not know that meant owning a share of indirect crypto currency exposure and not directly owning Bitcoin?

I'll have to be very wary of accepting what you "teach" us about Bitcoin, crypto, the stock market and land investments from now on.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086407]And your case is batteries are cheaper? You are out of your damned mind.[/QUOTE]Batteries are not cheaper. Nor is everyone happy with their use and application. Even in the great state of California there is pushback.

[B]California is ground zero for the growing battery backlash[/B]

[QUOTE]The US is in the midst of a battery boom critical to keeping the lights on amid heat waves, winter storms and surging electricity demand from artificial intelligence. But developers are increasingly encountering an implacable foe: communities afraid that large lithium-ion storage farms could spontaneously burst into flames.

As installations grow larger and are placed closer to neighborhoods, on farmland or in high-risk wildfire areas, local opposition is growing. That puts many states in a bind as they depend on renewable energy to meet rising electricity demand and to achieve climate targets. The expansion of solar and wind energy is tied in part to batteries, which can store electricity for use after the sun sets and the wind stops blowing. Theyre also key to the growth of data centers, which face rising resistance as well.

https://www.ocregister.com/2026/04/23/california-is-ground-zero-for-the-growing-battery-backlash/[/QUOTE]Energy production is political only because political parties make it so. I don't care who is in office. Does not matter to me. But whoever it is Republican / Democrat, they better keep the lights on!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086382][b]The Constitution is a framework charter, NOT codified code[/b][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086397]I disagree![/QUOTE]What part of that sentence are you disagreeing with? That [I]"The Constitution is a framework charter..."?[/I] Or that, [I]"...it is NOT codified code"?[/I] Or both parts of the sentence, which concisely describes essentially, what the Constitution is?

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086397]The Constitution of the United States of America is the first principles document that governs the entire political structure of the Dis United States of America The concept of [B]first principles thinking[/B] in the context of the The Constitution of the United States of America, refers to the foundational, self-evident truths from which the entire structure of the Dis United States of America government is derived.

These principles are not merely procedural rules but the essential standards that answer fundamental questions about who rules, for what ends, and how power is structured. These first principles are "first" in two ways:

1. They must be addressed chronologically before other subjects.

2. They deal with the most important matters of a political community.
...[/QUOTE]You say you disagree, but then present the same "foundational" conclusion. That being, The Constitution is foundational and NOT a code, but reached through a different theory. Yours being [B]first principles[/B] verses mine being [B]framework and interpretation.[/B].
[LIST]In the landmark Supreme Court case, Chief Justice John Marshall himself, in [b]McCulloch v. Maryland (1819,)[/b] where Marshall is famously quoted, that a constitution cannot contain, [i]"an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution. For if it did, it, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code."[/i]

[i]"Its nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves."[/i] [URL]https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/mcculloch-v-maryland-2/[/URL]

[b]This is Marshall, explicitly distinguishing The Constitution, from code.[/b] Basically saying, The Constitution marks [i]"great outlines",[/i] but [u]leaves the details to be deduced.[/u] [/LIST]I standby my statement that, [I][b]"The Constitution is a framework charter, NOT a codified code",[/b][/I] as exemplified and argued by Chief Justice John Marshall. Whether you call its foundations "first principles" or a "structural framework," is fine, but it is NOT codified code, that leaves details to be deduced, as the operative legal meaning still comes from the constitutional law and interpretation (argued in the courts by lawyers before justices) and not just from the text alone.

The corrupt Brazilian Communist really put his foot in his mouth this time. The election is on Oct 4. The hope is Brazil will follow the recent election pattern set in the rest of SA.

The headline reads "Lula in Bizarre Pre-Election Rant: Girls Learn to 'Get Touched' from an Early Age."

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Incio Lula the Silva this week claimed that Brazilian girls learn to "get touched" from a young age in what his party affirms are comments on the subject of cervical cancer screening. KKK!

"Lula's outrageous remarks have sparked widespread condemnation from Brazilian politicians and healthcare professionals.

The controversy arose on Monday night during a presidential campaign rally held in the city of Belm, Para one of the president's last scheduled public events before the October 4 presidential election in which Lula is seeking to be reelected for a fourth term. The now-controversial rally took place some hours after the Brazilian president visited the So Joo de Deus Hospital in Belm and toured its renovated facilities, including a new robotic surgery unit which can perform complex surgeries such as those related to prostate cancer.

Poder 360 detailed that during the rally, Lula recounted the story of his mother, Eurdice "Dona Linda" Ferreira de Melo, who passed away from cervical cancer at a time when treatment procedures were more "precarious. " After affirming that men are "cowards" for not undergoing prostate cancer screening, Lula then claimed that women instead learn to "get touched" from a young age. "

Election day is October 4! Can't wait. I will be there on the 6th to party.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3086271][b]I own it whether I like it or not. Same as some other investments.[/b][/QUOTE]Didn't you write this? Did you know exactly what you owned that you didn't like?

Because you quote my post about Bitcoin where I didn't reference you are anything you wrote at all [B]EihTooms[/B].

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3086523]This is the first sentence of my quote from the linked article telling you what I am referring to owning in that fund. And it isn't bitcoin, right?[/QUOTE]What exactly was your meaning and how did it relate to the title of your post.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3086523]Did you really not know that meant owning a share of indirect crypto currency exposure and not directly owning Bitcoin?[/QUOTE]I knew the meaning exactly. But I decided to clear up the word play and games that you often use whenever you reply to my posts.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3086523]I'll have to be very wary of accepting what you "teach" us about Bitcoin, crypto, the stock market and land investments from now on.[/QUOTE]Good! I provide accurate information to those who are interested. I do NOT make investment recommendations. Not trying to [I]teach[/I] a 73 year old man [B]that knows everything[/B] anything.

I stand by my original statements. Both undisputed facts!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086346][B]You don't own any Bitcoin and neither does Vanguard![/B][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086428][U]Bitcoin has delivered significantly higher historical returns than [I]stocks[/I][/U][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][b]Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.[/b]

Argentinian-American writer and immigration advocate recently sued the federal government, demanding that it delete data that he believes was copied off of his phone when he re-entered the United States earlier this month.

According to the seven-page complaint, Thomas Kennedy said that a Customs and Border Protection agent at Miami International Airport physically searched his bags, questioned him about his books and magazines, and then demanded that he hand over his phone.

(The agent) threatened me, saying that if I didn't give him my phone, my interrogation was going to take much longer and they could retain my phone indefinitely, Kennedy wrote. I felt like I had no choice, so I handed my phone to the CBP agent.

The agent took the phone away and only returned after approximately 45 minutes, during which Kennedy believes that data on the phone was copied. He was then released with no charges.

The activist says there is a significant amount of sensitive personal and professional information on his phone, and he is now seeking that the government delete this data.

He collaborates with multiple nonprofit groups, including the Florida Immigration Coalition, Amnesty International and the Community Justice Project. He now believes that he was targeted for this work, in part because he was asked repeatedly what he did for a living and if he was an immigration attorney.

I believe CBP flagged me because of my organizing and political work around immigrants rights in Florida, he wrote in his court filing. This isnt the first time that law enforcement targeted and harassed me because of my political viewpoint: in 2021, after speaking out against Governor (Ron) DeSantis, the Miami Police were surveilling me and barring me from press conferences.[/QUOTE]Suppressing political speech, infringing upon the legal right to vote, depriving individuals of their constitutional rights by shooting them down in the street like dogs, yep sounds like the work of Republicans.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3086164]Hey Elvis, let me know how the flight on Azul goes if you decide to fly with them. They fly out of FLL which is a big plus as far as I am concerned because MIA is such a hassle. My only issue with Azul is trying to book an enlarged legroom seat is difficult on their website. But the idea of flying into VCP sounds intriguing because I would take advantage of that arrival destination and visit Fazendinha Night Club for a few nights at long last before driving down to SP.

P.S. My Brazilian cleaning lady flies Azul and she says the airline is OK.[/QUOTE]I have never done Azul. I looked at a round trip and it is $400 cheaper if you go through Bogota and use Avianca and then Gol.

Pardon the rant, but I saw this video, and it triggered me, [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZxgreSvAAQ&t=29s[/URL]

The woman who made this video is as objective and as level headed as anyone I have seen. These are the talking parts of the new and more popular manosphere, facts and studies to back up what is rational action and not hatred for women.

She did a great job of nailing five things I had issues with my ex-wife and I have friends, a majority of them, who had the same issues with their wives. The first, and the best predictor of divorce, is contempt. This is just talking shit about your spouse. I am sure both sexes do it but for me, the women are much more open. The next is women trying to compete with men in marriage.

The next was women do not reciprocate. This was written in the comments section, and IMO was hilarious. In university, I had a seminar on political corruption. We read and discussed a study that found that men tend to create networks of corruption whilst women did not. Of course the women in the seminar loved this, because they were biased and it confirmed their worldview that men are just worse. We read and discussed the study further and it turned out, that women did not choose to not create networks of corruption, they were unable to create them, because a network of corruption is based in reciprocity, a favor for a favor etc. And the researchers found that female politicians only took favors and gave nothing back, so no reciprocity and therefore no networks.

The fourth was that women cared more about the attention of the masses and being popular and less about what their husband thought of them.

And the final one was about how women can be emotional and violent and men are supposed to be stoic and not violent when women act like complete idiots.

Thing is if the role of wife is to cook, clean, and have sex with you, what guarantee is there for guys that she will continue to do so? How many guys get married and have kids, and the wife becomes fat, lazy, frigid, financially irresponsible, and insulting, and the only reason the guy sticks around is for the kids? IMO the majority of marriages with children have a wife with one or more of these elements.

What gets me is when some mongers want to play in this space. She likes me for me they say. Isn't that what every husband in the above marriage thought too?

To me, it was way smarter getting a cleaning service, a meal service, and paying for sex than having a wife / GF? And the reason is if one of the following does not perform, you quit paying them and get rid of them.

Well, what about having children? We need women there right? I think the Lindsay Clancy case showed we do not. A mother kills her kids, and women want to say it is not her fault? It's the husband, the medical profession, the drug companies, but it is not her. And you see the mothers rallying in support saying it is okay for mothers to kill their kids. So do you even want mothers now over day care or nannies?

This story did not get much publicity, but the last gold medal winner in figure skating did not have a mother. American figure skating champion Alysa Liu was born via gestational surrogacy and an anonymous egg donor, and was raised by her single father, Arthur Liu. And by the way, the outcome of children raised via a single father is equal to that of a married couple. It is the children of single mothers who have the worst outcomes.

I kept seeing the same pattern with American women. Oh, they might try to convince you they are long term worthy for a few months but just with sex alone after a few months, things cooled off, so I was doing the sugar daddy thing: no honey, no money.

So it is not that women are evil; it is that they are not being held accountable when they perform poorly. Even when bragging about how good they are as mothers / parents, the outcomes are shit, so it is rational to keep things short term with them.

The reason guys go abroad is the values are better. The women look better, perform better, and are much less of an expense and a legal system risk. And in today's age, American women do not even have to do that much. How hard is it to load a washer and a dryer and fold and hang clothes? How hard is it to buy a rotisserie chicken and throw some vegetables in the microwave, buy a packet of pre made salad, and have dinner? How hard is it to give a blowjob? And how hard is it to look better and perform better than the American hooker of today? The bar is so fucking low now, and women still gripe and cannot meet it.

Thing is the platonic women in my life got pissed when I did the sugar thing and treated women as disposable when they did not perform, but here is the thing. I was happy unlike so many of my married and miserable friends stuck with their female leeches.

When I got divorced, I would come home and there was this marvelous feeling of peace. I didn't miss my ex. I was pissed I lived in a home that was so fucking stressful for so long, and I was paying for it!

It should not be that I have a unicorn who looks better and fucks better than most hookers, who keeps a clean place, does the laundry, is a good cook, is fun to be with, and does not put me down. She does all that and does not need a legal piece of paper that says she can beat me up if I withdraw from the arrangement. She knows if she takes care of me, I will take care of her.

The funny part is with all the amazing looking and performing women I had as sugar babies there were so many times I had to break it off because they quit performing and like my ex, I had no regrets in doing so. With this woman, I know I would have regrets if I broke it off.

So that is why I am not going to Brazil, dude. I do not have to do so to get a quality woman and have quality sex. My gal should not be a unicorn, but it is not going to get better until guys learn not to commit until they find a woman like I have. Until then, have fun looking, brother! Mongers are the winners not the losers. The losers are the guys being sucked dry by their parasitic wives / GFs. Mongers keep looking for better.

In a move designed to decrease the institutional knowledge, weaken the US Military, sidelining experienced commanders, discouraging dissent and appointing more officers loyal to the current Article 2 to the ranks, for the upcoming second civil war, The current Secretary of War is taking the following actions:

[QUOTE][b]Why is Hegseth cutting 20 percent of US general and admiral positions?[/b]
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced plans to cut the number of positions in the military reserved for generals and admirals by 20 percent, raising concerns about political interference in the militarys leadership amid strained relations with senior Pentagon officials.

Speaking on Wednesday at the US Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, Hegseth argued that the reduction was long overdue and necessary to purge woke elements from the US armed forces."You cant change a culture with the same people who enabled it", he said. Personnel is policy at every single level.

He added that "no fatties, no trannies, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals, just warriors would be allowed in the US armed forces".[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/30/why-is-hegseth-cutting-20-percent-of-us-general-and-admiral-positions[/URL]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086407]Whether it is a data center losing billions in down time or a refrigerator with $100 of food in it, it is not just the cost of generation but the reliability of the generation that affects cost, and [u]sun and wind are not reliable[/u]. Uh, everyone in the world who uses electricity? To a dumb Dem, math is now political.[/QUOTE][B]Solar power is inherently variable, dependent on daylight and weather, while wind fluctuates with atmospheric conditions.[/B]

[QUOTE]Renewable energy production can vary based on the source and season. Solar is less effective in the winter (and obviously useless in the dark), while wind speeds and river flow can change throughout the year. Most of northern Europe can sometimes be hit by [u]dunkelflaute[/u] events, which are periods of low wind and little sunlight, and this can make it tricky for solar panels and wind turbines to be effective. Tidal energy is more reliable since tides happen twice a day, but it's significantly more expensive compared to other sources of renewable energy. It can also be challenging to find suitable locations for projects because of its potential harm to biodiversity. Biomass energy also needs a continuous supply of organic matter, which can lead to deforestation around the world. In 2023, biomass was the second largest source of renewable energy in the UK after wind power, contributing to 5% of the total electricity supply. The best way around this is to use a mixture of renewable energy sources, so that if one isn't working particularly well, others can step in. For instance, a country cant run on solar farms throughout the winter, so wind farms can provide backup. Its also vital that the global switch to renewable energy makes use of battery storage. This enables countries to store up excess electricity, ready for use in emergencies when there simply isn't enough new electricity generation.

Renewable energy systems aren't completely clean.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.sunsave.energy/blog/pros-and-cons-of-renewable-energy[/URL]

I don't consider electricity a political issue. Republican or Democrat if they don't keep the lights on then they will find out from the first principles document called the Constitution of the United States that true power resides with the people.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE]Last year, 10 Death Row inmates filed suit against Tennessee, saying that its primary method of execution, the injection of a drug called pentobarbital, amounted to the cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Constitution.

Christa Pike made the same argument earlier this year in a filing in which her lawyers requested execution by firing squad and said, we have serious reservations about the State of Tennessees ability to prevent a torturous execution.

In retrospect, the filing seems prescient. Its hard to describe the events of the past 24 hours as anything other than cruel and unusual.

Within an hour, Pike was again readied for an execution that, like too many others in recent years, failed to occur. She was still alive after being injected with two syringes of pentobarbital, and according to witnesses, was audibly snoring, per The New York Times. The execution was halted and Pike was taken to a hospital; there has been no formal update on her condition.[/QUOTE]Why trust them with my well being while I am living?

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3086527]"The Constitution is a framework charter, NOT a codified code", as exemplified and argued by Chief Justice John Marshall. [/QUOTE]What a complete crock of shit made up by some lawyer. SC makes the comment about the Constitution and racism and citizenship so in some ways this to me is the most important sentence in the Constitution. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. And no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

This is not just about the white citizens who could vote. The word in the 4th Amendment is people, and the 4th Amendment applies to all Americans: black people, brown people, women even back in the 1700's. The government cannot steal people's stuff and kill them. Before any of those things can happen, there has to be due process with a neutral magistrate presiding. Is that happening now?

Fuck no. Government is not getting warrants; since 9-11, they are doing subpoenas with gag orders. The cops are accusing not the person with money but the money itself. A cop claims he smells marijuana and seizes a vehicle as it probably is involved the drug trade. Fuck due process.

And if government violates the Constitution, the judge lawyers have carved out an excuse, qualified immunity. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for the citizens but the government dickheads can get out of being sued for constitutional violations because they might not have known the law. Since qualified immunity was made the law by dickhead judge lawyers, there have been two successful lawsuits against government workers. So if the government steals your shit, the road to getting it back is long and hard. Civil rights no longer exist.

But there is the ultimate Constitutional clause, the second amendment. The best way to think of the second amendment is enforcement of the others. The reason we have a 2nd amendment is so if the government violates the other amendments, we can kill them. It is not about guns; it is self-defense for dickhead government officials who claim the Constitution is not iron clad but flexible, and the government dickheads are doing all they can so they have a monopoly on violence.

The reason Eric Snowden lives in Russia now is he found a document written up by VP Cheney and his lawyer that essentially eliminated the protections of the 4th Amendment, and he went to journalists and showed them what he found. He did not take this "top secret" document and show it to the world. The dickhead government workers and their judge friends went into overdrive. Snowden was an uneducated no gooder: he broke the law; he needed to be jailed.

Snowden was a genius; he outsmarted the government dickheads at every turn. Snowden said he would come back to the USA and stand trial as long as he was allowed to have a jury of his peers as is his right under the Constitution. Nope, the government dickheads and their "framework" Constitution dickhead judges said that his trial would be a military tribunal, so he stayed in Russia. Of course, I would have found Snowden innocent. He was more patriotic than anyone working in government.

So is this a surprise that a dumb Dem who leeches off his fellow citizens as badly as you do Spidy is for the government stealing from its citizens? Hell no. You do not live in the USA. All you care about is that the government sends you a check. If that check just happens to be made up of stolen funds from the American people, you do not give a fuck. So in your eyes, if the Constitution has to be "modified" so you get cash, that is fine with you, and that is why people like yourself who live abroad and live off government handouts should not have the right to vote.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3086040]I thought this was more or less obvious, but perhaps I was wrong, so let me explain these variables using myself as a real-life example.

1. So, I was in Sao Paulo in May & June 2026 having a real good time with my branca mistress every night and hitting the SP clinicas every other afternoon for a little variety. But then I started thinking it was a fucking long time since I was in the LOS, and I kind of missed the place.

2. But the Iran War was kicking up a fuss (the interruption of gulf oil tanker flow) and WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil prices had gone over $100/ barrel. I knew that would have a negative effect on Airline tickets to BKK, but I took a look see anyway and yep, prices were sky high, so I put my idea on hold.

3. In July I was back home in the free state of Florida (mango season) and all the news was about a possible deal between the USA and the Mullahs and WTI (crude oil) prices were back around $72/ barrel, so I took a look at Airline ticket prices to BKK again and guess what? They had gone down more than the price of crude. I guessed that demand for air travel and declined substantially when oil was above $100 and had not picked up sufficiently YET since oil was back under $75/ barrel and thus the airlines' nonlinear profit maximizing algorithms were telling the airlines to lower their seat price to sell a bunch of tickets and stimulate demand. In other words, I saw an opportunity to get what I wanted, a ticket to BKK as part of an around the world series of flights at a really good price..[/QUOTE]It is good to see a sensible and common sense post on this site. I don't even read most of the posts from the loser socialists. Oil prices will definitely drop soon and be below $70 a barrel. South America seems like a good alternative to Asia. I was in BKK last month and it was great though. It will be great when Iran is subdued and it will be great to go to the Middle East again. I spent a lot of time in the Middle East in the past but most of my lingering was with the Russian and East European ladies. Did get one Iranian girl in Dubai though and look forward to another one.

[QUOTE=ShooBree;3086033]What are you talking about? There are flights from NYC to Bangkok and back for 800 bucks! I want to thank President Trump for these cheap flights!

The flights are cheap, the war is 100% legal and what you write has nothing to do with reality.

Why would I want more mongers to come to Thailand to drive up the prices? It's pretty weak if you ask me to not be able to fly to Thailand because it cost you 800 bucks. It's laughable.

I'm even considering canceling my flight to Tel Aviv for the elections and head to Bangkok instead, because I can afford it easily.

I mean, we all can have opinions about President Trump but in the end of the day we have to look ourselves in the mirror and take responsibility for the choices we have made in our lives and the financial outcome of those decisions. I feel pretty darn good! Hopefully President Trump will keep up the great work and not let the Iranian regime off the hook.

Finally things are looking up![/QUOTE]Did you notice that all the anti Trump and anti America posters are all socialists / democrats and can't afford $800 to go and play in Thailand. I think the difference is that most Republicans work hard and are well off. Most socialists are either lazy or living on government handouts. I can see why they are anti Trump as they are scared the handouts will end. Most never owned a business and never hired workers so they never benefited from the free enterprise capitalism. They hate capitalism because they weren't smart enough to take advantage of it and now they have to monger on their social security checks. I don't feel sorry for them even when they are complaining about Trump on this site. The world will be a better place.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;3085770]Yes, it is really weird how left-wing groups in America and Western Europe like the LGBTQ people and women's rights groups have aligned themselves with Islamic terrorists like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood who routinely throw trannys off rooftop buildings whenever they find one and kill their fellow Christian countrymen whenever they feel like it.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. All Israeli Muslim citizens have full rights of citizenship and have members of their own community in the Israeli parliament. They can be gay, fag, trans, socialist, religious, or whatever. They have freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The Muslims living on the West Bank under the dictatorship of the Palestinian Authority have no such rights. But none of this seems to matter to the Left Wingers who are becoming more unhinged, more antisemitic every passing day. I speculate that part of this is due to Trump Derangement Syndrome, but another part is due to a deep anti-Jewish hatred that most of us thought had died out in the West after the horrors of WW 2. The reaction of the Left to October 7 is deeply disturbing to put it mildly.[/QUOTE]Amazing how there are so many of those Anti American left wingers posting here.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3085692]Yeah, in your fucked up head, China is the model electrostate while they pollute more than anyone in the world and are putting up coal plants like no tomorrow. 3 in 4 of the solar panels you are gushing about are not working and the Chinese solar industry is going bankrupt as it loses money like crazy.

In the mean time, USA oil and gas companies are raking it in which bugs the shit out of libtards like you. China making money and winning the AI race is good. American companies earning money is not. LOL. It is no longer a surprise that the modern Democratic party and people like you are more pro-China than pro-USA.


Generally, a large cruise ship up to 1,100 feet in length can carry as much as two million gallons of diesel on board. [URL]https://www.cruisehive.com/how-much-fuel-does-a-cruise-ship-hold/104177[/URL]

One gallon of diesel contains 40.7 killowatts of energy. [URL]https://www.convertunits.com/from/gallon[/URL]+USA +of+diesel+oil / to / kilowatt-hour.

Multiply the two and you get 81.4 billion watts of energy. If you have a 10 day cruise, that is about 8 billion watts of energy per day.

What a bird brain like you does not get is that solar energy generation is based on square footage and how much space do you need to generate 8 billion watts of energy per day?

Per google, to generate 8 billion watts (8 gigawatts) of solar energy daily, you require approximately 17,500 square miles of land area, which is equivalent to about 11.2 million acres. That just happens to be an area that is 1.5 times the size of the state of Maryland..[/QUOTE]You are totally correct about Europe. I spent 40 days in Europe this summer and they are paying dearly for their climate change decisions. Germany is going back to coal. Most places have no AC. But they have totally screwed up with their open immigration. I was in France when 60,000 illegals stormed the border. Most of those countries would welcome a guy like Trump to run their countries. Climate change and open immigration have come close to destroying Europe.

Repub Trump's ongoing Classic Repub Mission to produce the worst jobs and economic results in USA history are exactly the same mission in kind of every conservative / right wing Repub before him and only a standout from the others since 1860 by marginal degree.

Here is the latest update on his progress in fulfilling that consistent conservative / right wing Repub mission for America and the American people:

[B]U.S. nonfarm payrolls increase by 29,000 in September; unemployment rises to 4.2%[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/jobs-report-september-2026.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Wage growth slipped to its lowest annual level since May 2021.
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In addition to the weakness in September, the August jobs count was revised lower to reflect a gain of 133,000 while July switched from a gain to a loss as payrolls fell by 10,000. The revisions in total showed 60,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.[/QUOTE]At this pace and factoring in the 2. 7 Million to 3 Million jobs Trump's disastrous economic and national security decisions and stewardship wiped out in his first term, Trump is on track to produce and preside over at least a 1,330,000 net LOSS in USA jobs after two full terms, 8 miserable years as president.

Sure, conservative / right wing Repub Herbert Hoover's disastrous policies and stewardship wiped out 12-15 Million jobs among a smaller population almost 100 years ago. But he only served one term, the Great Dem safety-nets and Dem institutional floors had not yet been put in place to help mitigate the consistent historic damage done by these Repub policies that too many dumb hillbilly Repubs insist on voting to be accomplished by their beloved Repub presidents and Hoover didn't also add Trillions and Trillions of inflation-adjusted dollars to the deficit to produce his horrific results the way Trump has added more than any 3-4 previous presidents combined.

The combination of years spent and therefore the years available to produce a different result, the money spent to produce those horrible results and the horrible results themselves can only mark the Repub Trump so-called presidency's jobs and economic results as the Worst in USA History and possibly the Worst of any president of any country ever.

Oh well.

We tried.

When I make a prediction it is not just talk. I have money on it!

[QUOTE=Canada;3086927]I don't even read most of the posts from the loser socialists.[/QUOTE]This is a perfect example of why I dislike political parties. They require group think as shown in the above quote. Because they have already been told what they have to think they no longer think for themselves. They no longer have a mind open to at least consider the opinions of others.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]I think the difference is that most Republicans work hard and are well off.[/QUOTE][B]You actually think the political party determines work ethic and success?[/B]

Jay Pritzker: Governor of Illinois and heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune. He is one of the wealthiest sitting USA Politicians.

Jared Polis: Governor of Colorado, with an estimated net worth of $400 million from his tech and real estate ventures.

Michael Bloomberg: A self-made billionaire and founder of Bloomberg LP. He served as Mayor of New York City as an Independent (later registered Democrat) and is a massive Democratic donor.

Dianne Feinstein: Former USA Senator from California, with an estimated net worth of $99.5 million, largely from her late husband's business dealings.

Reed Hastings: Netflix co-founder, worth over $10 billion, who has given over $20 million to Democratic causes, including a $7 million donation to Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign.

Jeff Yass: Co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, worth $91.1 billion, who has donated over $95 million to Democratic causes ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The Soros Family: George, Alex, and Jonathan Soros are among the largest Democratic donors, contributing over $103 million to the 2026 midterms. George Soros is worth an estimated $9. 7 billion.

[B]The Defense Rests![/B]

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]Did you notice that all the anti Trump and anti America posters are all socialists / democrats and can't afford $800 to go and play in Thailand.[/QUOTE]I did not notice this. Can you point to the specific posts you are talking about?

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]Most socialists are either lazy or living on government handouts.[/QUOTE]Do you have any facts to back up your statement or are you just giving us your opinion?

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]I can see why they are anti Trump as they are scared the handouts will end.[/QUOTE]Define a government handout?

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]Most never owned a business and never hired workers so they never benefited from the free enterprise capitalism.[/QUOTE]Most of my fellow citizens have not owned or operated a business.

[U]FACTS[/U]

7 percent of the American adult population owned and managed an established business in2023.

For a broader view of entrepreneurship, data from 2025 indicates that 19 percent*of USA Adults are actively engaged in starting or running a new business, while 55 percent of adults have started their own business at some point in their lives.

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]They hate capitalism because they weren't smart enough to take advantage of it and now they have to monger on their social security checks.[/QUOTE]Do you have any facts to back up your statement or are you just giving us your opinion?

You do realize that you must be 62 to received a reduced social security check. You do realize that to be eligible for Social Security retirement benefits in the United States, you must earn 40 quarters of coverage (also known as work credits). Since you can earn a maximum of four quarters per year, this generally requires 10 years of work.

[URL]https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/cfr20/404/404-0140.htm[/URL]

Do you consider Social Security to be government hand out? Are the majority of individuals posting on this site even citizens of the Dis United States of America?

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]I don't feel sorry for them even when they are complaining about Trump on this site.[/QUOTE]No one needs your emotional support. We are all grown men here.

[QUOTE=Canada;3086928]The world will be a better place.[/QUOTE]At the end of the current term of the Article 2 leader of the Dis United States of America.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

The entire system of government in the Dis United States of America that Republican contributors to this thread deride so much, set up the conditions within which the building of their wealth was possible. They always leave that out of the equation and their comments because it does not fit their narrative.

Neither Party is Mine!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086980][B]You actually think the political party determines work ethic and success?[/B]

Jay Pritzker: Governor of Illinois and heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune. He is one of the wealthiest sitting USA Politicians.

Jared Polis: Governor of Colorado, with an estimated net worth of $400 million from his tech and real estate ventures.

Michael Bloomberg: A self-made billionaire and founder of Bloomberg LP. He served as Mayor of New York City as an Independent (later registered Democrat) and is a massive Democratic donor.

Dianne Feinstein: Former USA Senator from California, with an estimated net worth of $99.5 million, largely from her late husband's business dealings.

Reed Hastings: Netflix co-founder, worth over $10 billion, who has given over $20 million to Democratic causes, including a $7 million donation to Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign.

Jeff Yass: Co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, worth $91.1 billion, who has donated over $95 million to Democratic causes ahead of the 2026 midterms.[/QUOTE]Most of my friends in USA and Canada are either Republican or conservative. Most started their own companies and hired multiple workers and some worked their way up into major public companies. I have a few friends that are liberal or democrats. None had their own companies. Most were teachers, lawyers working 40 hour weeks. In my experience republicans and conservatives work harder at harder jobs hire more people and are just more productive than democrats or liberals. Yes there are some wealthy democrats but I am speaking about the regular middle class people. Maybe all your liberal democrats and liberals are all super wealthy but the ones I know are not.

[QUOTE=Canada;3087055][u]Most of my friends in USA and Canada are either Republican or conservative[/u]. Most started their own companies and hired multiple workers and some worked their way up into major public companies. I have a few friends that are liberal or democrats. None had their own companies. Most were teachers, lawyers working 40 hour weeks. In my experience republicans and conservatives work harder at harder jobs hire more people and are just more productive than democrats or liberals. Yes there are some wealthy democrats but I am speaking about the regular middle class people. [b]Maybe all your liberal democrats and liberals are all super wealthy but the ones I know are not.[/b][/QUOTE]I can respect your opinion. I don't agree with it. I don't have any friends that I talk politics with. Furthermore I don't get all into someone else's financial affairs unless they share that information with me or ask me for my financial advice. [B]International Trickin[/B] is universal across party lines. I never understood how Republicans and Conservatives square being a [B]International Trick[/B] with family values. But hey that is just me. Care to offer me some insight in to that issue from the Republican / Conservative perspective?

I don't agree with Republicans that simply want financial slaves working on the Corporate / Government plantations.

I don't agree with Democrats who care more about where someone goes to the bathroom than actually helping my fellow citizens better themselves financially.

Financially Conservative! Socially Liberal!

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086977]When I make a prediction it is not just talk. I have money on it!

This is a perfect example of why I dislike political parties. They require group think as shown in the above quote. Because they have already been told what they have to think they no longer think for themselves. They no longer have a mind open to at least consider the opinions of others.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B][/QUOTE]Interesting.

I have never been told what to think by any political party, never been prevented from thinking for myself by any political party, never felt owned by any political party, never felt I owned any political party nor can I recall ever meeting anyone else who expressed those feelings.

Have you ever felt that way or know people who feel that way, presumably the majority of whom are registered to vote under some political party?

I also have no idea what is meant by or what purpose is served by anyone "liking" or "disliking" a political party rather than liking or disliking a political party's typical economic and / or national security results.

I registered to vote for the first time in 1971. Since then I have easily and of total free will voted for Republicans, Independents, at least once a write-in vote for someone who was not a nominee for an elected position of any party.

If I had flipped a coin and registered originally as a Republican instead of a Democrat in 1971 and was too lazy or disinterested to change my registered party status ever since then I still would have stopped cold voting for any Repub for any office at any time since the middle of Reagan's first presidential term and then voted exclusively for Dems for every office up and down my ballots since Clintons 2nd term.

I made those decisions because ever since those two major inflection points the dramatic difference between crap Repub Party results and far superior Dem Party results as benefits America first and me second has been too blatantly obvious to ignore and fantasize differently. I didn't make those decisions because anyone from the Dem Party told me to and mind-controlled me into doing it. I did it based on all the unavoidable and inarguable available facts, evidence, data, record of results and easily observable reality.

[QUOTE=Canada;3087055]Most of my friends in USA and Canada are either Republican or conservative. Most started their own companies and hired multiple workers and some worked their way up into major public companies. I have a few friends that are liberal or democrats. None had their own companies. Most were teachers, lawyers working 40 hour weeks. In my experience republicans and conservatives work harder at harder jobs hire more people and are just more productive than democrats or liberals. Yes there are some wealthy democrats but I am speaking about the regular middle class people. Maybe all your liberal democrats and liberals are all super wealthy but the ones I know are not.[/QUOTE]Wow. Just wow.

[B]List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate[/B]

[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate[/URL]

[B]25 Poorest States in America[/B]

[URL]https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/25-poorest-states-in-america-1169110/[/URL]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087098]I can respect your opinion. I don't agree with it. I don't have any friends that I talk politics with. Furthermore I don't get all into someone else's financial affairs unless they share that information with me or ask me for my financial advice. [B]International Trickin[/B] is universal across party lines. I never understood how Republicans and Conservatives square being a [B]International Trick[/B] with family values. But hey that is just me. Care to offer me some insight in to that issue from the Republican / Conservative perspective?

I don't agree with Republicans that simply want financial slaves working on the Corporate / Government plantations.

I don't agree with Democrats who care more about where someone goes to the bathroom than actually helping my fellow citizens better themselves financially.

Financially Conservative! Socially Liberal!

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087104][b]Have you ever felt that way or know people who feel that way, presumably the majority of whom are registered to vote under some political party?[/b][/QUOTE][QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087098] I don't have any friends that I talk politics with.[/QUOTE]Asked and answered!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087104]I also have no idea what is meant by or what purpose is served by anyone "liking" or "disliking" a political party rather than liking or disliking a political party's typical economic and / or national security results.[/QUOTE]I don't like the idea of political parties. I've been over this. Perhaps you didn't get the memo. No mention of them in The Constitution of the United States of America.

The Founding Fathers generally viewed political parties with deep skepticism, labeling them "factions" that threatened national unity and the republic's stability. They feared that party loyalty would override the common good, leading to division, corruption, and potentially civil war, mirroring the conflicts that had torn England apart.

[URL]https://www.history.com/articles/founding-fathers-political-parties-opinion[/URL]

And they were right. We are witnessing this live and in person.

[B]Anecdotal:[/B] [I]Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis[/I].

Is a plain language as you get!

EihTooms is simply one man and is presenting anecotal evidence base on his person experiences only.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087104]Interesting.

I have never been told what to think by any political party, never been prevented from thinking for myself by any political party, never felt owned by any political party, never felt I owned any political party nor can I recall ever meeting anyone else who expressed those feelings.

[b]Have you ever felt that way or know people who feel that way, presumably the majority of whom are registered to vote under some political party?[/b]

I also have no idea what is meant by or what purpose is served by anyone "liking" or "disliking" a political party rather than liking or disliking a political party's typical economic and / or national security results.

I registered to vote for the first time in 1971. Since then I have easily and of total free will voted for Republicans, Independents, at least once a write-in vote for someone who was not a nominee for an elected position of any party.

If I had flipped a coin and registered originally as a Republican instead of a Democrat in 1971 and was too lazy or disinterested to change my registered party status ever since then I still would have stopped cold voting for any Repub for any office at any time since the middle of Reagan's first presidential term and then voted exclusively for Dems for every office up and down my ballots since Clintons 2nd term.

I made those decisions because ever since those two major inflection points the dramatic difference between crap Repub Party results and far superior Dem Party results as benefits America first and me second has been too blatantly obvious to ignore and fantasize differently. I didn't make those decisions because anyone from the Dem Party told me to and mind-controlled me into doing it. I did it based on all the unavoidable and inarguable available facts, evidence, data, record of results and easily observable reality.[/QUOTE][B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

I asked why the Democrats killed the legislation on crypto. This is the answer I received:

[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 [u]leave it to Democrats to do the best thing regarding legislation for it[/u]. I know they will.[/QUOTE]Prime example of a individual who is not thinking for himself but allowing his party to think for him. He does not realize that the Federal Reserve System and the issuance of the United States Dollar using debt is the biggest Ponzi Scheme in the history of the world.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087209]I asked why the Democrats killed the legislation on crypto. This is the answer I received:

Prime example of a individual who is not thinking for himself but allowing his party to think for him. He does not realize that the Federal Reserve System and the issuance of the United States Dollar using debt is the biggest Ponzi Scheme in the history of the world.[/QUOTE]The Republican Party tells me they have the best answer for whatever ails America.

The Democratic Party tells me they have the best answer for what ails America.

Researching, observing and thinking for myself, I can easily see my votes for McGovern, Carter, Clinton, Obama and Harris were the exactly right ones and anyone's vote for anyone other than a Democrat along the way, including my own, was a huge mistake for the sake of America and, consequently and inevitably, for me.

In my lifetime, the legislative decisions Dems make are by and large the best ones available under the given circumstances. That is what they do for a living. That's their Party brand.

By stark contrast, the legislative decisions Repubs make are only luckily, inadvertantly and rarely less than horrible and more often than not a total disaster. That is what they do for a living. That is their Party brand.

And any vote for someone other than a Dem is ultimately a vote to help Repubs get elected or at least improve their position of power when and if they are elected.

When Putin tries to fuck elections, fantazying for new USSR, USA which are not anymore a democracy under Trump, try to fuck Brazil elections, after Venezuela and let s see for facists in Israel.

[QUOTE]Republicans are reeling over an apparent erosion of support from Latino voters, a voting bloc that boosted the party in 2024, in Tuesdays off-year elections.

According to CNN exit polling, New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D) won the support of 68 percent of Latino voters, while Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) received 67 percent support from Latino voters.

The results mark a shift from just one year ago, when the voting bloc helped propel President Trump to victory. Republicans say the time is now to course-correct ahead of next years midterms.

Unfortunately Latinos are leaving the Republican Party after giving us a monumental chance in 2024, said Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) in an video posted on the social platform X after Tuesdays results. In New Jersey and Virginia, Hispanics moved back more than 25 points to the Democratic Party.

This is our wake-up call, she said.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5595939-hispanic-voters-leaving-republican/
[/QUOTE][B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE]The Democratic Party tells me they have the best answer for what ails America.[/QUOTE]I disagree.

[URL]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/are-racial-and-ethnic-minority-voters-abandoning-the-democrats/3A80720A53876AD78BF2CE4BA41E5234[/URL]

[QUOTE]And any vote for someone other than a Dem is ultimately a vote to help Repubs get elected or at least improve their position of power when and if they are elected.[/QUOTE]I disagree.

[URL]https://ccis.ucsd.edu/_files/journals/23racial_winners_and_losers_in_american_party_politics.pdf[/URL]

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3087295]When Putin tries to fuck elections, fantazying for new USSR, USA which are not anymore a democracy under Trump, try to fuck Brazil elections, after Venezuela and let s see for facists in Israel.[/QUOTE]Bro, you need to take a big picture look at the Dis United States of America. The Democratic Party is no better nor worse than the Republican Party. Neither party cares about my fellow citizens. They are only interested in pursuing the policies that enrich themselves.

The Dis United States of America is in the process becoming a regional power. The wars you see are conflict resolution through the use of force. It is a [U]hard[/U] method of deal making. Offers you cannot refuse. Has nothing to do with the the current Article 2 leader of the Dis United States of America or his political party. The world is changing bro. Embrace it!

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087209]I asked why the Democrats killed the legislation on crypto. This is the answer I received:

Prime example of a individual who is not thinking for himself but allowing his party to think for him. He does not realize that the Federal Reserve System and the issuance of the United States Dollar using debt is the biggest Ponzi Scheme in the history of the world.[/QUOTE]You can live in China or Russia and not have to worry about political parties you only have one shop: a strongman dictator. Is that better than what we have here?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086407]That is complete bullshit. I cannot even make sense of this more honest assessment. [url]https://electronics.alibaba.com/question/solar-power-in-pakistan-price-guide-2026[/url]
...
Uh, everyone in the world who uses electricity? To a dumb Dem, math is now political.[/QUOTE][B]Solar boom: Pakistan and Philippines turn to rooftops as power costs soar,[/B] September 23,2026, [URL]https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/solar-boom-pakistan-and-philippines-turn-to-rooftops-as-power-costs-soar-1.500683960[/URL] Take the recent, solar revolution wave in The Philippines and how the Philippines' rooftop solar surge can flip the energy emergency script. [URL]https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/how-the-philippines-rooftop-solar-surge-can-flip-the-energy-emergency-script/[/URL].

"When the Strait of Hormuz closed earlier this year due to the US-Iran conflict, Filipinos responded in a surprising way: households and businesses overwhelmingly went for rooftop solar. ", became the second largest destination (behind Pakistan) of solar panels from China, far outpacing its neighbors in Southeast Asia. " [URL]https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jhessetenano_stressed-by-high-electricity-prices-filipinos-activity-7498723813279444993-dsLZ[/URL].

[B]Stressed by High Electricity Prices, Filipinos Switch to Rooftop Solar,[/B] MANILA, Aug 19th, 2026. Philippina journalist, Jhesset Enano, interviewed a Filipino, NJ Villafuerte, who'd installed rooftop solar, in a matter of days, after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, after seeing the dumbass US-Israel attacks on Iran, that sent LNG gas and diesel prices skyrocketing.
[LIST][i]"The gains were immediate: [b]Villafuerte saw a 98.5% drop[/b] in the first electricity bill he received after switching to solar power. From roughly 20,000 Philippine pesos (324 US
dollars) a month previously, it fell to just 300 pesos (5 dollars)."[/i] [url]https://www.reportingasean.net/stressed-by-high-electricity-prices-filipinos-switch-to-rooftop-solar/[/url][/LIST]
The fact remains, the Philippines and Pakistan both face some of the highest and fastest rising electricity costs in Asia, despite any strawman arguments about the cost of purchasing solar (which can be drastically different for everyone around the world). Nonetheless, the raise of rooftop solar in these countries is proof-positive, that regardless of what Pakistanis and Filipinos, are paying for solar panels (which is often an out-of-pocket) investment, the ROI makes perfect sense to them, because electricity prices are so high, especially after two (2) fossil fuel energy price shocks in four (4) years.

BTW, the very same rooftop solar scenario, is playing out in Australia, where electricity price have dropped.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086407][URL]https://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoFlow-4096Wh-DELTA-Pro-3-4000-Watt-Output-LFP-Power-Station-Home-Backup-Camping-Push-Button-Start-Battery-Generator-EFDELTAPRO3-US/330847837[/URL]

This is the power station I own. $2500,4000 watt capacity, 113 pounds.

When used in a generator, diesel gets about 16,000 watts per gallon. So for 4000 watts, that requires 1/4 of a gallon of diesel at $1. 50 which weighs less than 2 lbs.[/QUOTE]Look dude, Elvis 2008, I don't care if your solution, is [B]solar + a spinning wheel,[/B] or [B]wind + a treadmill[/B] or in your case [B]batteries + fossil fuels,[/B] to generate power in your RV. What matters is that renewables and electrotech are opening up all-kinds of new and cleaner, pure or hybrid solutions to our energy problems. [U]Again, there's no shame in using fossil fuels![/U].

Sure fossil fuels have been around forever and have been used industrially for the last 250 years. That said, the new kid on the block, is renewables and electrotech, and they are here to challenge, the incumbent. For me, many of the areas in which we use energy, the trend is clear,[I]...it is renewables and electrotech[/I].

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086407]And your case is batteries are cheaper? You are out of your damned mind.[/QUOTE]Could you be anymore obtuse, than usual?

As I write 2026 is the year of the battery, it appears that yet you have somehow failed to grasp the notion, that the very solution to your RV problem, the EcoFlow Delta Pro 3, [B]is essentially a large, advanced battery.[/B] Albeit, one with combined electrical components, into one single smart device, and options for power generation, but at its core nonetheless, [I]a battery.[/I].

2026 the Year of the Battery (even if MAGA doesn't see it).

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086407]Whether it is a data center losing billions in down time or a refrigerator with $100 of food in it, it is not just the cost of generation but the reliability of the generation that affects cost, and sun and wind are not reliable. Uh, everyone in the world who uses electricity? To a dumb Dem, math is now political.[/QUOTE]The best form of RELIABILITY is AVAILABILITY!

So tell me Elvis 2008, when The Global South, can't get ANY oil and gas (or sufficient amounts, because large quantities are often diverted to richer European countries), for everyone to power their everyday needs, like cooking dinner, or light their homes due to blackouts, brownouts and load shedding, because of your MAGA Fuhrer's and Bonkers Bibi's illegal war against Iran, [I]...do you still call that RELIABLE?[/I].

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086814][B]Solar power is inherently variable, dependent on daylight and weather, while wind fluctuates with atmospheric conditions.[/B]

[URL]https://www.sunsave.energy/blog/pros-and-cons-of-renewable-energy[/URL][/QUOTE]SubCmdr, there's no need to keep restating the obvious about SWB, as I don't think Elvis 2008 is really that dense to the intermittent nature of SWB, is he?

After all, you don't see the renewable community, restating the obvious about fossil fuels, telling the petrol-heads, at every turn in a debate, NOT TO FORGET and remember:
[LIST] that fossil fuels are "one-and-done", you burn it and it's gone, up in the air, polluting our plant's atmosphere for 100's of years; AND[/LIST][LIST] that each and every year, we need dig-up another 15 billion tonnes of the fossil fuel (the "3-headed hydra" of coal, oil, and natural gas), and have to pay for 100% for it, only to have use 1/3 of it as useful final energy, and again send 2/3 of it to pollute the atmosphere[/LIST]If it is not obvious to Elvis 2008, by now (or other MAGA debating energy), I'm afraid there's no amount of documentation, that is going to help.

[QUOTE=Canada;3086932]You are totally correct about Europe. I spent 40 days in Europe this summer and they are paying dearly for their climate change decisions. Germany is going back to coal. Most places have no AC. [/QUOTE]How is Germany, going back to coal, any different than what your MAGA Fuhrer is doing with coal?

Apparently you aren't aware, that your MAGA Fuhrer and his clown-show administration, is once again wasting taxpayer's money, and has spent $2.7 bn of taxpayer's money on its personal crusade against wind power, while pouring more than $1.125 bn into losing coal mining operations, that don't want to stay open, while pushing up Americans' energy bills ever higher. [URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/bills-trump-clean-energy-coal[/URL]

His dumbass petty pet projects and personal crusades and using taxpayer's money to fund them, is what kills American innovation and prosperity. So much for those MAGA taking heads, that don't like government to tell us, what should be funded with their tax dollars.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087355]Bro, you need to take a big picture look at the Dis United States of America. The Democratic Party is no better nor worse than the Republican Party. Neither party cares about my fellow citizens. They are only interested in pursuing the policies that enrich themselves.

The Dis United States of America is in the process becoming a regional power. The wars you see are conflict resolution through the use of force. It is a [U]hard[/U] method of deal making. Offers you cannot refuse. Has nothing to do with the the current Article 2 leader of the Dis United States of America or his political party. The world is changing bro. Embrace it!

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B][/QUOTE]When I don t live in USA, problem for our world where USA are less than 5% population, are not Republicans nor Democrats, but enormous problem is crazy, stupid, ignorant Trump, Americans elected twice. So stupid old senile with his war, when Irak never blocked Ormuz before. When more than 60% disagree with him, if USA are still a democracy, he should be fired, if elections are not fucked and I wish same for Netanyahou and his facists in Israel, Netanyahou who used to support Hamas before, to divide Palestine and CIS Jordania. Our world would be better without these 2 and schizophrene Musk back in your crazy s team.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087243]The Republican Party tells me they have the best answer for whatever ails America.

The Democratic Party tells me they have the best answer for what ails America.

Researching, observing and thinking for myself, I can easily see my votes for McGovern, Carter, Clinton, Obama and Harris were the exactly right ones and anyone's vote for anyone other than a Democrat along the way, including my own, was a huge mistake for the sake of America and, consequently and inevitably, for me.

In my lifetime, the legislative decisions Dems make are by and large the best ones available under the given circumstances. That is what they do for a living. That's their Party brand.

By stark contrast, the legislative decisions Repubs make are only luckily, inadvertantly and rarely less than horrible and more often than not a total disaster. That is what they do for a living. That is their Party brand.

And any vote for someone other than a Dem is ultimately a vote to help Repubs get elected or at least improve their position of power when and if they are elected.[/QUOTE]I agree and well said!

The fact is, that while some people are telling others they don't think for themselves, just because they identify (at one time or another) with one political party or the other, is clearly IMHO a misstep and a "misread the room".

It is just a huge and colossal mistake, IMHO, to always take a person's independent way of thinking, no matter what political, racial, ethnic or gender group they identify with, [B]as "group think".[/B] But I'll let those that wish to wax lyrically ad nauseam, with regards to conflating political identity and an individual's thinking, is always in lock-step, continue to make that mistake.

While our independent way of thinking, may align with the beliefs, values and norms of our identity groups, for our own personal reasons, this by no means, prevent us from thinking DIFFERENTLY and expressing our own unique perspectives, outside of, so called group think.

The don't let political parties tell them how to think. Most democratic countries operate with multi-party systems, where three or more political parties regularly compete for office and often form coalition governments.

This system is prevalent across Europe (e. G. , Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Austria, Switzerland), the Americas (e. G. , Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Colombia), Asia (e. G. , India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Philippines, Thailand), Africa (e. G. , Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana), and Oceania (e. G. , New Zealand, Australia).

In contrast, two-party systems are relatively rare among democracies. The Dis United States of America is the primary example of a dominant two-party system. Other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ghana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, exhibit characteristics of a two-party system where two major parties dominate national elections, though minor or regional parties often hold significant legislative influence.

As of 2026, there are 43 sovereign states with a monarch as head of state, including 13 in Asia, 12 in Europe, 9 in the Americas, 6 in Oceania, and 3 in Africa. These monarchies vary significantly in power, [U]ranging from ceremonial figureheads to absolute rulers[/U].

[U]Absolute and Semi-Constitutional Monarchies[/U]

In these nations, the monarch retains significant or total executive power.

Absolute: Brunei (Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah), Eswatini (King Mswati III), Oman (Sultan Haitham bin Tariq), [B]Saudi Arabia[/B] (King Salman), and Vatican City (Pope Francis).

[U]Constitutional Monarchies[/U]

In these states, the monarch serves as a ceremonial head of state while elected governments hold political power.

Commonwealth Realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu all share King Charles III as their monarch.

Other Constitutional Monarchies: Andorra (Co-Princes Emmanuel Macron and Joan-Enric Vives), Belgium (King Philippe), Cambodia (King Norodom Sihamoni), Denmark (King Frederik X), Japan (Emperor Naruhito), Lesotho (King Letsie III), Luxembourg (Grand Duke Guillaume V), Malaysia (Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ibrahim Iskandar), Netherlands (King Willem-Alexander), Norway (King Haakon VIII), Spain (King Felipe VI), Sweden (King Carl XVI Gustaf), and [B]Thailand[/B] (King Rama X).

Individuals who are not myopic understand that the people of the world organize their governments as they choose. Each individuals can choose once they are of the age of majority in the country they live in to vote with their feet and find a country with a government they prefer and live there. I am not arrogant enough to make the assumption of what is best for other people.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3087367]You can live in China or Russia and not have to worry about political parties you only have one shop: a strongman dictator. Is that better than what we have here?[/QUOTE]I don't really see the either or choice (in your question) as being the only two options. What seems to have happened is instead something more complex: a blurring of the border between democracy and authoritarianism. Though not quite representing an alternative to the age of democratisation, the Russian and Chinese systems have essentially become adjustments to it. Broadly speaking, the Russians are faking democracy while the Chinese are faking Communism.

Edward Snowden lives in Russia, where he has resided in exile since June 2013. He was granted Russian citizenship in September 2022 by President Vladimir Putin, making extradition to the United States legally impossible. Mr. Snowden seems to be fine with living in Russia. Works for him.

Here is an article that may open your mind:

[QUOTE]What seems to have happened is instead something more complex: a blurring of the border between democracy and authoritarianism. Though not quite representing an alternative to the age of democratisation, the Russian and Chinese systems have essentially become adjustments to it. Broadly speaking, the Russians are faking democracy while the Chinese are faking Communism.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/is-china-more-democratic-than-russia/[/QUOTE]I don't have anything for you. Please review the linked article and answer your own question.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087368]BTW, the very same rooftop solar scenario, is playing out in Australia, where electricity price have dropped.[/QUOTE][B]Rooftop solar[/B] in Australia presents several significant drawbacks, primarily centered on grid stability, installation barriers, and maintenance burdens.

[U]Grid Instability and Curtailment[/U]

The massive scale of adoption, with over 4 million systems installed, causes "tidal" swings in power flows that strain local networks. High solar generation during mild, sunny days can push local voltage limits, forcing grid operators to curtail or disconnect systems to prevent blackouts. This is particularly acute in states like South Australia, where solar has occasionally supplied over 100% of grid demand, leading to low feed-in tariffs and reduced financial returns for homeowners.

[URL]https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2025/october/ocean-of-electricity[/URL]

[U]Installation and Equity Barriers[/U]

Access to solar is unevenly distributed, with millions of apartment dwellers facing complex hurdles regarding shared roof space, body corporate rules, and metering.

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/18/apartments-rooftop-solar-power-energy-divide-renewables-incentives-australia[/URL]

Additionally, commercial and industrial buildings lag behind residential uptake due to leasing complexities and inconsistent tariffs. For homeowners, maintenance has become an unrecognized burden, often falling on residents rather than skilled engineers, creating potential equity issues.

[URL]https://theconversation.com/australians-are-installing-rooftop-solar-like-never-before-who-is-burdened-with-taking-care-of-it-at-home-184840[/URL]

[U]Technical and Financial Challenges[/U]

Systems require batteries for nighttime use, but storage remains expensive and has a limited lifespan. Homeowners may also face higher evening electricity rates under Time of Use tariffs, which can negate daytime savings if self-consumption is not optimized. Furthermore, improper installation has led to safety concerns, including roof leaks and fire risks, highlighting the need for rigorous regulatory oversight.

Energy production is not political. Or at least it shouldn't be. Neither Party is Mine!

That is the nature of all political parties. Closed minded thinking.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087371]SubCmdr, there's no need to keep restating the obvious about SWB, as I don't think Elvis 2008 is really that dense to the intermittent nature of SWB, is he?[/QUOTE]Is it your personal nature or the nature of your political party that drives your desire to stifle dissent about [B]SWB[/B] and prevent others from presenting views that do not agree with you or the political party you belong to?

After all I would be willing to bet 100 USD that I have more personal experience than you do about actually operating an installation that generates electricity using Solar energy. In my particular application I have come to the conclusion that a backup generator is more economical than a battery system. I have 1 day worth of electricity in my batteries to get me through a cloudy day then I fire up the generator. I will not be shamed into not using fossil fuels that are currently available. Wind is something I am looking into. But for small scale applications it is difficult to instal and expensive. I welcome your extensive [I]book knowledge[/I] of the subject if you have any new applicable technologies in this particular area for me to review.

Neither Party is Mine!

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3087385]When I don t live in USA, problem for our world where USA are less than 5% population, are not Republicans nor Democrats, but enormous problem is crazy, stupid, ignorant Trump, Americans elected twice. So stupid old senile with his war, when Irak never blocked Ormuz before. When more than 60% disagree with him, if USA are still a democracy, he should be fired, if elections are not fucked and I wish same for Netanyahou and his facists in Israel, Netanyahou who used to support Hamas before, to divide Palestine and CIS Jordania. Our world would be better without these 2 and schizophrene Musk back in your crazy s team.[/QUOTE]This was made for you Siri and ISGs Tokyo Rose.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087353][B]A vote for a Democrat is a vote against my own financial self interests![/b]

I disagree.

[URL]https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/are-racial-and-ethnic-minority-voters-abandoning-the-democrats/3A80720A53876AD78BF2CE4BA41E5234[/URL]

I disagree.

[URL]https://ccis.ucsd.edu/_files/journals/23racial_winners_and_losers_in_american_party_politics.pdf[/URL]

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B][/QUOTE]Sure, sure, sure. Not voting for a Dem helps Repubs win to again and again produce historic economic downturns as they have for 100 years.

But, hey, if you help Repubs win you're guaranteed to get a check for $5,000! And that'll be great for your financial interests.

Lolol.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087379]How is Germany, going back to coal, any different than what your MAGA Fuhrer is doing with coal?

Apparently you aren't aware, that your MAGA Fuhrer and his clown-show administration, is once again wasting taxpayer's money, and has spent $2.7 bn of taxpayer's money on its personal crusade against wind power, while pouring more than $1.125 bn into losing coal mining operations, that don't want to stay open, while pushing up Americans' energy bills ever higher. [URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/bills-trump-clean-energy-coal[/URL]

His dumbass petty pet projects and personal crusades and using taxpayer's money to fund them, is what kills American innovation and prosperity. So much for those MAGA taking heads, that don't like government to tell us, what should be funded with their tax dollars.[/QUOTE]USA needs a reliable power supply. A great amount of reliable power that is not attainable with wind and solar. Trump is obviously smarter than the European leaders that committed to the great green power supply. Now they have an unreliable expensive power supply. Only a fool would try to run a country with unreliable wind and solar. Only a fool would think that was an option. Europe is learning the hard way. Just as USA would have learned the hard way if Harris was president. We would have no AC this summer with a Harris presidency. China is building hundreds of coal fired power plants this year. Chinese aren't stupid either.

[QUOTE]I agree and well said![/QUOTE]I disagree and it was not well said.

[QUOTE]The fact is, that while some people are telling others they don't think for themselves, just because they identify (at one time or another) with one political party or the other, is clearly IMHO a misstep and a "misread the room".[/QUOTE]I don't know who the OP is talking about but I suggest that he reviews the title of this thread: [B]American Politics[/B]. Under the Opinion and Editorials sub forum. That means that by definition [I]fact[/I] are NOT required. The only people reading a room are individuals of a particular political party looking for votes or campaign contributions. I am neither. I don't give a (compound profanity redacted) what anybody thinks. I will continue to express my opinion.

[QUOTE]It is just a huge and colossal mistake, IMHO, to always take a person's independent way of thinking, no matter what political, racial, ethnic or gender group they identify with, [B]as "group think".[/B] But I'll let those that wish to wax lyrically ad nauseam, with regards to conflating political identity and an individual's thinking, is always in lock-step, continue to make that mistake.[/QUOTE]What is funny is that the OP has nothing to do with it. Only The Administrator decides what content makes it to this forum. The OPs only option is to decide to read it and reply to it or not to read it.

[QUOTE]While our independent way of thinking, may align with the beliefs, values and norms of our identity groups, for our own personal reasons, this by no means, prevent us from thinking DIFFERENTLY and expressing our own unique perspectives, outside of, so called group think.[/QUOTE]If only this was true. I see no evidence of that.

Neither Party is Mine!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3086068]Bitcoin is a opt in system. If that is what you have decided to do. As you like to say to me [I]you do you[/I]. That leaves more Bitcoin for me to buy. There will only be 21 million of them in the entire world.

Everyone gets to buy Bitcoin at the price at which they deserve it. I first mentioned Bitcoin in 2023 (not a investment recommendation). Feel free to look up the price is was selling at then and compare it to the price it is selling at now.

As of 2026, approximately 30% of American adults (70.4 million people) own cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin remaining the most popular asset alongside Ethereum, Solana, and Dogecoin.

[URL]https://www.security.org/digital-security/cryptocurrency-annual-consumer-report/[/URL]

The USA Government has significantly integrated Bitcoin into its financial framework, most notably through the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve established by executive order in March 2025, which mandates that government-held BTC be maintained as a reserve asset and not sold.[/QUOTE]I am glad you made millions on bitcoin. You must be a savy crypto trader.

[QUOTE=Canada;3087408]I am glad you made millions on bitcoin. You must be a savy crypto trader.[/QUOTE]Thank you! I am glad you noticed and recognized greatness!

Even with money I wouldn't be a Republican. ROTFLMAO!

Neither Party is Mine!

[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.

[U]Key Considerations[/U]

[B]Principal Preservation[/B]: This calculation assumes you hold the bonds to maturity and receive the full face value back, meaning your initial investment remains intact while providing the monthly interest payments.

[B]Rate Volatility[/B]: Interest rates fluctuate. The figures above are based on specific recent auctions; current market rates may be higher or lower, altering the exact principal required.

[B]Tax Implications[/B]: Interest from US Treasury bonds is exempt from state and local income taxes but is subject to federal income tax, which would reduce your net monthly income.

[B]Inflation Risk[/B]: Fixed-rate bonds do not adjust for inflation, so the purchasing power of your $10,000 monthly income may decrease over time unless you invest in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), which typically offer lower nominal yields.

So, if as others have stated I have a income of over 100,000 USD a year, Am I a Rich Racist Republican or am a [B]Strong but Poor Black Man[/B]!

It is not possible to generate $10,000 USD per month solely from US bonds with a standard portfolio. According to financial analysis for 2026, you would need a principal investment of $12 million or more to achieve this level of income through bonds alone.

[B]Viability[/B]: Bonds are recommended as a portfolio foundation rather than a sole income source for high monthly payouts.

[B]Scale[/B]: Generating $120,000 annually (the equivalent of $10 k / month) requires a capital base that exceeds typical individual savings, making this strategy impractical for most investors.

[B]Alternatives[/B]: Investors typically use a bond ladder strategy to create predictable income, but this requires substantial upfront capital to match high monthly cash flow needs.

[B]Keep in mind that there are individuals out there who say I am not financially savvy.[/B]

[U]10-Year Treasury Note[/U]

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is 4.71%, reflecting a slight increase of 0.01 percentage points from the previous session. This marks the highest level seen in the past year. Over the last month, the yield has risen by approximately 0.31 percentage points.

[U]20-Year Treasury Bond[/U]

The 20-year Treasury bond yield stands at 5.17%, continuing an upward trend observed over recent weeks. This rate is part of a broader increase in long-term yields amid shifting market expectations.

[U]30-Year Treasury Bond[/U]

The 30-year Treasury bond yield is currently 5.17%, showing stability compared to recent sessions. Like the 20-year bond, it reflects investor sentiment around long-term inflation and growth forecasts.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3087401]This was made for you Siri and ISGs Tokyo Rose.[/QUOTE]More than 60% Americans and almost whole world except Netanhyaou and Bolzonaro, disagree with your crazy and stupid Trump mollahs fucked. He made USA losing a new war.

When Trump is just ignorant, same like for mollahs who fucked him deep in his old ass, be careful about red diesel, modern engines won t like, with big risk of problems and expensive cost to repair. Only old engines, meaning from more than 20 years ago, may work good and for a while. After really noble atmospheric V8, but I didn't like Audi engine security blocking around 285/289 km / h, so I decided for now V8 bi turbos which should reach 680/690 HP when fully sure for reliability and of course powered with French E85 costing 0,85 €, for around 12 € cost for 100 kms, but not like a snail with electric. And starting those 2 V8 make me so hard, compare to ridiculous ugly Chinese electric, same like Prius was so ugly. Only Americans fuck their ugly women.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087404]Sure, sure, sure. Not voting for a Dem helps Repubs win to again and again produce historic economic downturns as they have for 100 years.[/QUOTE]I am not interested in historical performance. Past performance does not insure future results.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087404]But, hey, if you help Repubs win you're guaranteed to get a check for $5,000! And that'll be great for your financial interests.[/QUOTE]In case you didn't get the memo, I just learned I am Rich from crypto. It was just announced by a member of this site. [B]Democrats are against crypto[/B].

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087404]Lolol.[/QUOTE]Not really that funny. Unless you are laughing at the loser democrats for not having the ability to sell people on not having separate bathrooms for men and women.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087371]The best form of RELIABILITY is AVAILABILITY!

SubCmdr, there's no need to keep restating the obvious about SWB, as I don't think Elvis 2008 is really that dense to the intermittent nature of SWB, is he? After all, you don't see the renewable community, restating the obvious about fossil fuels, telling the petrol-heads, at every turn in a debate, NOT TO FORGET and remember:
[LIST] that fossil fuels are "one-and-done", you burn it and it's gone, up in the air, polluting our plant's atmosphere for 100's of years; AND[/LIST][LIST] that each and every year, we need dig-up another 15 billion tonnes of the fossil fuel (the "3-headed hydra" of coal, oil, and natural gas), and have to pay for 100% for it, only to have use 1/3 of it as useful final energy, and again send 2/3 of it to pollute the atmosphere[/LIST]If it is not obvious to Elvis 2008, by now (or other MAGA debating energy), I'm afraid there's no amount of documentation, that is going to help.[/QUOTE][B]Europes energy grid cant keep up with the renewables boom. Which country will suffer the most?[/B]

[QUOTE]Upgrading Europes insufficient grid is a matter of urgency for the continent's energy security.
Bottlenecks triggered by Europes outdated energy grid are putting more than 120 GW of anticipated renewables at risk.

Planned clean energy projects used to power millions of households in 20 EU countries could be stranded, a new report by energy think tank Ember warns.

The analysis found that one in every two grid operators has insufficient grid capacity to connect upcoming wind and solar projects to the grid including rooftop solar panels.

Experts have described barriers to rapid renewable rollout as a matter of urgency amid the war on Iran, which has seen oil and gas prices soar.

With power costs spiking, Europes grids are a crucial enabler in the race to install renewables to replace imported fossil fuels and protect households against volatile prices, says Elisabeth Cremona, an energy analyst at Ember.

Grid bottlenecks are no longer simply a technical issue. They are a security risk.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/01/europes-energy-grid-cant-keep-up-with-the-renewables-boom-which-country-will-suffer-the-mo[/QUOTE]Energy production should not be political. Just keep the (compound profanity redacted) lights on!

Neither Party is Mine!

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3087385]When I don t live in USA, problem for our world where USA are less than 5% population, are not Republicans nor Democrats, but enormous problem is crazy, stupid, ignorant Trump, Americans elected twice. So stupid old senile with his war, when Irak never blocked Ormuz before. When more than 60% disagree with him, if USA are still a democracy, he should be fired, if elections are not fucked and I wish same for Netanyahou and his facists in Israel, Netanyahou who used to support Hamas before, to divide Palestine and CIS Jordania. Our world would be better without these 2 and schizophrene Musk back in your crazy s team.[/QUOTE]My brother, do you really think that electing a democrat would make anything better? My brother, to you really think the Dis United States of America is a democracy? The Dis United States of America is a Plutocracy. Follow the money!

[I]with liberty and justice for the rich![/I]

Neither Party is Mine!

Since when do you attack another country and the country you attacked plans an attack on your [I]military targets[/I] is that terrorism? No, that is called, a counter attack.

The person who said that is an idiot. What is worse is that he could become the next POTUS. I look skyward for help.

Neither Party is Mine!

[URL]https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/politics/us-air-force-bombers-removed-fairford-iran[/URL]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087446][b]I am not interested in historical performance. Past performance does not insure future results.[/b]

In case you didn't get the memo, I just learned I am Rich from crypto. It was just announced by a member of this site. [B]Democrats are against crypto[/B].

Not really that funny. Unless you are laughing at the loser democrats for not having the ability to sell people on not having separate bathrooms for men and women.[/QUOTE]That's probably what some voters told themselves after the Great Repub Crash of 1929, The Great Repub Depression and right before they cast a vote for Eisenhower.

Then there were the three Recessions under Eisenhower and one of the worst jobs creation records in presidential history.

Then there were the significant Recessions under Nixon / Ford and again one of the worst jobs creating records in presidential history.

Hell, I hadn't even paid proper attention to the Repubs' disastrous economic record of results vs Dems when I fooloshly and now shamefully voted for Reagan in 1980!

Then came Reagan's Great Repub Recession, his tripling of the National Debt, his transforming America from the World's Greatest Lender Nation into the World's Greatest Debtor Nation for the first time, his 8 years of only producing about as many jobs with all that spending and all that time as Carter and Biden each did in only 4 years and with far less relative deficit spending.

Then came the pathetic jobs creating GHW Bush, the historically disastrous on every metric GW Bush, the even more historically disastrous Trump and, waddayaknow, full circle from Trump back to The Great Repub Crash and Great Repub Recession Herbert Hoover with Trump finding a way to be the one and only so-called president since Herbert Hoover to leave office after 4 years having lost more jobs than were created!

And guess what else? Classic Repub Trump is exactly on track to leave office after two terms, 8 full years, having wiped out more private-sector jobs than his policies created, to the tune of more than a million net loss in those jobs, and all while adding Trillions and Trillions of dollars more to the deficit than any 3-4 other presidents combined!

Some past performance very much do predict future results. Repubs producing historic crap economic results over and over and over again is one of them. As predictable as night following day for about 100 years so far.

And I doubt where trannies pee was the one issue that the one demographic in the only three swing states that mattered swinging a fraction of a single percentage point of votes spread across those three swing states away from Harris and thereby giving Trump his squeaker of a razor-thin win in 2024.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087452]My brother, do you really think that electing a democrat would make anything better? My brother, to you really think the Dis United States of America is a democracy? The Dis United States of America is a Plutocracy. Follow the money!

[I]with liberty and justice for the rich![/I]

Neither Party is Mine![/QUOTE]The last 2 years have been bad. That's on Trump. It was much better when Biden was president. You are free to leave if you don't like it here!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087452]My brother, do you really think that electing a democrat would make anything better? My brother, to you really think the Dis United States of America is a democracy? The Dis United States of America is a Plutocracy. Follow the money!

[I]with liberty and justice for the rich![/I]

Neither Party is Mine![/QUOTE]For our world and I think millions of Americans, Obama was much more clever than the crazy stupid putting shame on USA. Problem is Trump and his gang with Musk.

There are many poster here quick to use the word [I]treason[/I] without understanding the true meaning of it.

As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind.

[QUOTE]FBI counterintelligence squads specialized units dedicated to tracking and ferreting out foreign spies have been hit with deep cuts across the country, even as the U.S. faces a growing array of adversaries intent on stealing the nation's secrets, according to five people familiar with the matter.

The staffing shortages are so significant that in many of the FBI's 56 field offices, counterintelligence squads only have 50% to 60% of positions filled. In multiple field offices, the number of squads doing such work has been reduced by half.

The cuts come as the U.S. is mired in a war with Iran, and as China a geopolitical strategic rival wages what American officials say is a relentless campaign to steal U.S. government secrets as well as cutting-edge research and technology. Russia also remains a formidable adversary with highly capable and aggressive intelligence services.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g-s1-145511/fbi-trump-counterintelligence-units-cuts[/URL]

Is the Dis United States of America being sold out to foreign powers [I]quietly[/I]?

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3087538]The last 2 years have been bad. That's on Trump. It was much better when Biden was president.[/QUOTE]You give way more credit to POTUS that he deserves. Post some facts that show causation backing up your opinion. There is a registered democrat posting here you can contact via PM for back up!

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3087538]You are free to leave if you don't like it here![/QUOTE]Thank you for giving me permission to use my constitutional rights. You are free to exercise your [B]5th Amendment Rights[/B]. Namely the right to remain silent.

Good, bad or indifferent; Those of us of independent minds understand the rent has to be paid, the electric bill has to be paid and food needs to be bought. I am not one waiting around for the Dis United States of America to solve my basic problems in life. We do what we got to do to make sure we take care of ourselves and our loved and liked ones.

POTUS says Straight of Homuz is territory of the Dis United States of America. Markets say differently. Brent Crude spot as I write this (I am looking at the chart) is at 104.666.

Markets calling [B]male bovine excrement![/B]!

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3087535]Some past performance very much do predict future results.[/QUOTE]Those without a numeric or scientific background don't understand the sample size being used is too small and that correlation does not equal causation.

Period. Full Stop!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087563]You give way more credit to POTUS that he deserves. Post some facts that show causation backing up your opinion. There is a registered democrat posting here you can contact via PM for back up!

Thank you for giving me permission to use my constitutional rights. You are free to exercise your [B]5th Amendment Rights[/B]. Namely the right to remain silent.

Good, bad or indifferent; Those of us of independent minds understand the rent has to be paid, the electric bill has to be paid and food needs to be bought. I am not one waiting around for the Dis United States of America to solve my basic problems in life. We do what we got to do to make sure we take care of ourselves and our loved and liked ones.[/QUOTE]It was Trump himself who said he would make things better. You can't have it both ways say that you can fix things and when you make it worse claim that nothing can be done. Talking about hypocrisy!

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3087696]It was Trump himself who said he would make things better. You can't have it both ways say that you can fix things and when you make it worse claim that nothing can be done. Talking about hypocrisy![/QUOTE]You cannot have it both ways. I said POTUS. So, your reply to me was absolutely correct.

What I should have said was people give the office of POTUS too much credit. I personally don't believe the actions of the individuals sitting in the big chair are responsible for all the things (both good and bad) people attribute to the position.

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3087696]It was Trump himself who said he would make things better. You can't have it both ways say that you can fix things and when you make it worse claim that nothing can be done. Talking about hypocrisy![/QUOTE]Blame it on Biden or Obama or even Bush, none of whom have been in office for years and years. Trump is a liar, and people who voted for him are stupid, especially those who voted for him 2 or 3 times. If you didn't know who and what he was before his first term, then you should have known for certain after that first, treasonous term when he tried to overturn a free and fair election in the world's greatest democracy. Shame on you! History won't view Trump and all who kissed his fat ass kindly.

I had hoped Trump's typically disastrous classic Repub economic agenda results and typical self-serving corruption would have been even worse than this 2-3 weeks before the election. But I'll take whatever he can vomit up. There's still time for his moves to get much, much worse. And, of course, the worst of the worst decisions, moves and results of this Worst President in History will come in those last weeks and days of his 2nd term entirely, presumably November and December of 2028.

[B]Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/inflation-tariffs-trump-fed-consumer-goods.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[B]Ex-U.S. defense secretary Esper: No end in sight for the Iran war [/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/trump-iran-war-mark-esper.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[B]Trump bought up to $25 million in Meta and millions in SpaceX debt in August[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/trump-august-trades-meta-spacex-financial-disclosure.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

It's just so bizarre that there are still political pundits in the media who scratch their heads and wonder why doesn't Trump do this or why doesn't Trump do that, gee, it would be so much better for the economy, national security, whatever. LOL. How on earth could anyone have been so dumb to think Donald Trump was in this since 2015 to do anything whatsoever "good" for America rather than simply to con every sucker within eye- and ear-shot out of every penny and lever of power he can con out of them? Lolol.

Oh, yeah. But Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris had an annoying laugh.

Oh well.

We tried.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087398]That is the nature of all political parties. Closed minded thinking.

Is it your personal nature or the nature of your political party that drives your desire to stifle dissent about [B]SWB[/B] and prevent others from presenting views that do not agree with you or the political party you belong to?[/QUOTE]Nah!

Don't confuse your (neither party is mine) Repub's MAGA Fuhrer or Elvis 2008's view on SWB, with sound logical FACTS, the I use to the debate, on the energy and renewables (SWB) revolution, transition and trends that are taking place around the world before our very eyes, regardless of [B]"neither party is mine"[/B] politics, that ultimately play a key roll in all our energy security.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087396][B]Rooftop solar[/B] in Australia presents several significant drawbacks, primarily centered on grid stability, installation barriers, and maintenance burdens.

[U]Grid Instability and Curtailment[/U]

The massive scale of adoption, with over 4 million systems installed, ... [URL]https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2025/october/ocean-of-electricity[/URL][/QUOTE]Yeah OK, so most of your post, simply addresses what I would call [I]"grid growing pains",[/I] with regards to the evolution and transition of the world's electrical grids of tomorrow. But what [I][b]a wonderful problem[/b][/I] to have! Even you, have to marvel at the wonders of the solar and wind abundance problem, that comes with clean free energy from nature?

Here is and example of Australia's renewables abundance in effect:
[LIST]While electricity consumption is up, the latest Australian Energy Statistics show [i][u]energy use fell 0.5% in 2024-25,[/u] while the economy grew 1.4%.[/i] Energy use is now [b]4.9% below its 2019 peak.[/b] [URL]https://www.miragenews.com/energy-efficiency-rises-as-australias-economy-1755965/[/URL] (see diagram pic below)[/LIST]
Grid instability and curtailment, is nothing new, as most countries are adjusting to, what it means to install an abundance of clean, cheap renewable energy. From China, Britain, Pakistan, Hungry, Chile, Uruguay to California and Texas [I]the U.S.[/I], are all dealing with upgrading [B]an aging grid and electricity infrastructure[/B] [I](some better than others)[/I] and the boundless possibilities of a new type of electrical grid with a majority of renewables (SWB) and electrotech, infused with AI, at its core.

Luckily the onslaught of smart batteries (and electrotech), the other clean green headed spear of "the Clean Green Renewables (SWB) Trinity", is poised to solve and help alleviate many of these bottlenecks, along with intelligent AI electrotech. [URL]https://energy-solutions.co/articles/battery-storage-grid-stability[/URL].

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087396][U]Installation and Equity Barriers[/U]

Access to solar is unevenly distributed, ...

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/18/apartments-rooftop-solar-power-energy-divide-renewables-incentives-australia[/URL]

Additionally, commercial and industrial buildings lag behind ...

[URL]https://theconversation.com/australians-are-installing-rooftop-solar-like-never-before-who-is-burdened-with-taking-care-of-it-at-home-184840[/URL][/QUOTE]Just like Europe, especially in Germany, balcony solar and now home storage battery plug-play systems are being introduced for renters and apartment dwellers. Good news is that everyday more electrotech options are being made available for everyone.

Like my suggestions above, your article also mentions, [I]"Apart from solar, there are a lot of other opportunities for people in apartments to save money on energy, Bradshaw says. They can consider switching to a different electricity plan, shifting to electric appliances, and there are plenty of smaller, lower-cost options for reducing energy use."[/I] And the same goes for Australia's industrial sector, which is making great strides towards renewables (SWB) [URL] https://www.australianindustrygroup.com.au/resourcecentre/research-economics/economics-intelligence/2025/progress-in-industrial-energy-transition/[/URL], Australian Industry Group 2025 Report.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087396][U]Technical and Financial Challenges[/U]

...but storage remains expensive and has a limited lifespan. ... [/QUOTE]Battery prices have declined by 99% over the last 25 years, are way cheaper and no longer considered expensive to other forms of energy storage, or with regards to a project's total energy solution, or the bigger picture of a nation's (or state's) energy security.[LIST]Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are no longer just "renewables enablers", they are a controllable power-electronics resource used for frequency response, congestion relief, peak capacity, and reliability. [URL]https://energy-solutions.co/articles/battery-storage-grid-stability[/URL][/LIST]
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087396]Energy production is not political. Or at least it shouldn't be. Neither Party is Mine![/QUOTE]Energy and energy security, will [U]always[/U] remain political, regardless of anyone's "neither party is mine" points-of-view (POV).

[QUOTE=Canada;3087406]USA needs a reliable power supply. A great amount of reliable power that is not attainable with wind and solar. Trump is obviously smarter than the European leaders that committed to the great green power supply. Now they have an unreliable expensive power supply. [b]Only a fool would try to run a country with unreliable wind and solar.[/b] Only a fool would think that was an option. Europe is learning the hard way. Just as USA would have learned the hard way if Harris was president. We would have no AC this summer with a Harris presidency. China is building hundreds of coal fired power plants this year. Chinese aren't stupid either.[/QUOTE]Well I guess your MAGA Fuhrer is a bigger FOOL and you give him credit for!

Once again, do I (as well as other ISG members) need to remind you, that is a DEBATE! Where are your FACTS, to backup that anything you say? It ALL nonsense, MAGA propaganda and a waste of ISG bandwidth, if when you post, it's all about [B]your FEELINGS and OPINIONS[/B] with no evidentiary data or FACTS, to back it up.

Tell me Canada, if you can't run [I]the U.S.[/I] on renewables (SWB):[LIST]Why (despite your MAGA Fuhrer's best efforts to stall, ban or stop renewables), in the Trump 2.0 era, solar, wind, and battery storage have dominated new additions to the U.S. power grid, accounting for over 79% to 90% of all newly installed electricity generation capacity.

Why has [i]the U.S.[/i] renewable energy and battery capacity continue to hit all-time highs, with solar, wind, and battery projects expected to account for roughly 93% of new power capacity added to the grid, during the current MAGA Fuhrer's 2.0 administration. [URL]https://www.fastcompany.com/91474000/clean-energy-is-still-booming-in-the-u-s-despite-trumps-best-efforts[/url], Jan 15th, 2026.

Why for the past several years has [I]the U.S.[/I] grid operators, the Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), had their energy interconnection proposal queues very close to 100% full ONLY of renewables (SWB).

FACT is:[LIST]Over 94% of active capacity in U.S. RTO and ISO interconnection queues consists of zero-carbon renewables and energy storage, though not quite 100%. [b]How the Interconnection Queue Backlog Is Slowing Energy Growth[/b], Jul 25th, 2025. [url]https://sustainabilitydialogue.uchicago.edu/news/how-the-interconnection-queue-backlog-is-slowing-energy-growth/[/url][/LIST][/LIST][U]Just the FACTS Ma'am:[/U].

BTW, I'm not interested in your FEELINGS, or your [U]baseless[/U] OPINIONS, if not presented with credible evidence. You can save those "feelings" for your MAGA compatriots, who wish to debate your feelings with.

Understand I'm here to debate the issues, with facts and or opinions, if based on credible evidence.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087881]Nah! Don't confuse your (neither party is mine) Repub's MAGA Fuhrer or Elvis 2008's view on SWB, with sound logical FACTS, the I use to the debate, on the energy and renewables (SWB) revolution, transition and trends that are taking place around the world before our very eyes, regardless of [B]"neither party is mine"[/B] politics, that ultimately play a key roll in all our energy security.[/QUOTE][B]I have no confusion other than how your facts have any relationship to politics[/B]

[B]SWB[/B] tech is based in science. I have more real experience than you do in the actual application of solar energy generating systems. The system I built is based on science and engineering composed of components using money that I earned and saved. I designed using my own mind. I assembled the components using my own hand. Have you ever done that?

My politics has nothing to do with that. So even your reply shows how closed minded you are thinking that only [U]Democrats[/U] know what is right when it comes to energy policy. When you get back to debating the facts and stop talking about my politics you will sound a lot more intelligent than you have been lately.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3087450][B]Europes energy grid cant keep up with the renewables boom. Which country will suffer the most?[/B]

Energy production should not be political. Just keep the (compound profanity redacted) lights on![/QUOTE]Just grid growing pains!

I know everyone likes to primarily focus on the source of electricity generation, but today, much of the failures of the electrical grids around the world, remain in the [B]transmission[/B] and [B]distribution[/B] of electricity, mostly due to neglect of an aging grid infrastructure, and the updated manufacturing of key components, especially [I]in the U.S.[/I].

So while renewables (SWB) are by no means a panacea by themselves, you'd be surprised at how fast and quickly, with the aid of AI driven smart software for electrotech and advancements in renewables technology (specially batteries), are solving many of these problems and boosting grid inefficiencies. [URL]https://www.renewableinstitute.org/how-ai-is-making-renewable-energy-smarter/[/URL].

Renewables will win as the majority energy form that comprise the electricity grids of tomorrow. Primarily, because they are a semiconductor, electron-based, stackable and scalable technology. [B]You don't BURN a technology, you USE it![/B].

[B]P.S.:[/B]

Yeah, FWIW, I guess you'd win that $100 bucks, you'd mention in an earlier post, when it comes to practical "hands-on" experience with solar and batteries. However, that doesn't mean I can't be knowledgeable in the practical, theoretical or analytical parts, to any good debate of the issues present here, [U]if I think for myself[/U] and do my homework, so to speak. Or for that matter, ask pertinent and challenging questions, to further a better understanding, clarification and perspective.

[B]Howard Cosell, never boxed a day in his life:[/B] I look at it like this, if you're old enough to remember who Howard Cosell was (a personality, whom I coincidentally, didn't care much for), you'd know he'd never boxed a lick or a day in his lifetime. But that didn't stop him from becoming one of the most renowned all-time, top boxing and sports journalist (mostly on the boxing metaphoric back of Muhammad Ali), for covering boxing and all-kinds of other sports he never played in.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087916]Once again, do I (as well as other ISG members) need to remind you, that is a DEBATE! Where are your FACTS, to backup that anything you say? It ALL nonsense, MAGA propaganda and a waste of ISG bandwidth, if when you post, it's all about [B]your FEELINGS and OPINIONS[/B] with no evidentiary data or FACTS, to back it up.[/QUOTE]It should be noted, what is the name of this thread: [B]American Politics[/B].

Where is this thread in the ISG Forum? Opinions & Editorials: Opinions.

Now that we have established what the purpose of this thread is [B]Spidy[/B] can debate all he likes. But he should understand fully at this point he does not set the posting rules of this thread.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087916]BTW, I'm not interested in your FEELINGS, or your [U]baseless[/U] OPINIONS, if not presented with credible evidence. You can save those "feelings" for your MAGA compatriots, who wish to debate your feelings with.[/QUOTE]If you don't want to read another persons post then you need to place that person on your ignore list. Instructions for doing so can be found through using the FAQ link in this forum. Also, look up the meaning of [B]opinion[/B].

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087916]Understand I'm here to debate the issues, with facts and or opinions, if based on credible evidence.[/QUOTE]Oh, we understand! Do you understand no one else has to play by your [I]self designated rules[/I]?

Personally, [B]I am not here to debate[/B]. I am here to write my personal thoughts on issues related to the Dis United States of America. If someone does not agree I am perfectly fine with it. Attack my ideas. But no one should engage in [B]ad hominem[/B] attacks. If you step to me with your [B]male bovine excrement[/B], then be aware this is not the NBA. There are no free shots. I don't care if you never played the sport. Learn the rules before your mouth writes checks that your ass can't cash.

If I am sitting in the big chair I push for nuclear power plants first! Period. Full Stop.

If energy security is the issue I would not want to be dependent upon a country hostile to my interests. [B]SWB[/B] requires a lot of raw materials that the Dis United States does not control.

I believe in renewable energy. All forms of it. But I would first supply 100% of my power needs with nuclear power plants and then have [B]SWB[/B] as bonus / back up.

I would encourage [U]Bitcoin Mining[/U] to use up excess solar / wind power.

Trump's Portfolio Bought up to $5M in SpaceX Bonds Two Days Before Policy That Could Benefit Elon Musk's Firm.

[QUOTE]Donald Trump's investment accounts bought between 740,000 ($1 million) and 3.7 million ($5 million) of SpaceX bonds two days before he signed a national policy aimed at expanding commercial space launches and reentries.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-accounts-bought-spacex-bonds-before-launch-policy-1824692[/URL]

I call that a good deal!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088100]Trump's Portfolio Bought up to $5M in SpaceX Bonds Two Days Before Policy That Could Benefit Elon Musk's Firm.

[URL]https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-accounts-bought-spacex-bonds-before-launch-policy-1824692[/URL]

I call that a good deal![/QUOTE]Yep.

The King of America wants more bucks for his pockets. Not Gods own country any more.

And such a disgrace represents the population ...

May be, the terrorists were not wrong, when fighting the Big Evil.

[QUOTE=ReinerOtto;3088107]Yep.

The King of America wants more bucks for his pockets. Not Gods own country any more.

And such a disgrace represents the population ...

May be, the terrorists were not wrong, when fighting the Big Evil.[/QUOTE]This lady has some nerve racking of charges she can't afford and using her government position for purposes of grifting.

[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/guilfoyle-associate-says-she-asked-224000801.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3088133]This lady has some nerve racking of charges she can't afford and using her government position for purposes of grifting.
[/QUOTE]Not the only one, to use the boss as an example.

We have a popular saying: "The fish stinks on his head, first".

And Trump sucking so good Putin. Giving money to Putin to keep on killing Ukrainians.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088100]Trump's Portfolio Bought up to $5M in SpaceX Bonds Two Days Before Policy That Could Benefit Elon Musk's Firm.

[URL]https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-accounts-bought-spacex-bonds-before-launch-policy-1824692[/URL]

I call that a good deal![/QUOTE][QUOTE]Donald Trump's investment accounts bought between 740,000 ($1 million) and 3.7 million ($5 million) of SpaceX bonds two days before he signed a national policy aimed at expanding commercial space launches and reentries.[/QUOTE]If you pull $100 out of your friends wallet and put it in your pocket when he left it on the table to take a shower is that a "good deal" in your mind too? At least some profit from a trade that hinged entirely on the "investor's" signature or not two days later steals money from everyone in the world who did not wield the pen and have the power to write that signature.

What if Trump hadn't bought those bonds but he hated somebody that he knew did buy those bonds and therefore declined to sign that deal at the last minute, is that another "good deal" for Trump and a "bad deal" for whoever else bought those bonds?

I would think a "good deal" implied someone had looked into an investment, did his due diligence and concluded there is plenty of upside in this investment and then investing in it. Some fat slob numbskull buying bonds because someone else told him his signature on a policy in two days will increase the value of those bonds but his not signing it won't is no more a "good deal" than a pig eating at a trough because a bucket of slop was poured in it.

[I]the use of words that mean the opposite of what one intends to say especially in order to insult, to show irritation, or to be funny : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on ironic and usually bitter and caustic language often directed against an individual[/I]

The [U]Art of the Deal[/U] written 1987 business memoir and advice book co-authored by [B]Donald J. Trump[/B] and journalist [B]Tony Schwartz[/B], published by Random House. It served as Trump's first major publication, helping to establish his public image as a savvy dealmaker and reaching number one on The New York Times Best Seller list, where it remained for 13 weeks. Although credited to Trump, Schwartz was the primary ghostwriter who followed Trump for months to draft the narrative. In 2019, [B]Schwartz[/B] expressed regret for his involvement, suggesting the work be recategorized as fiction due to later revelations about Trump's financial representations.

I have read it. If it was true it was above my pay grade. I am just a poor (insert color of your choice here) citizen of the Dis United States of America. But the truth I took from it is that at the highest levels of business and politics there are insiders and outsiders and you better know the group you are in. You know I have always wondered if I could sit in the big chair. I never answered that question because I have never run for president of the Dis United States of America and won. So, like every other poster he in this thread, I remain a keyboard politician.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE]If you pull $100 out of your friends wallet and put it in your pocket when he left it on the table to take a shower is that a "good deal" in your mind too? At least some profit from a trade that hinged entirely on the "investor's" signature or not two days later steals money from everyone in the world who did not wield the pen and have the power to write that signature.

What if Trump hadn't bought those bonds but he hated somebody that he knew did buy those bonds and therefore declined to sign that deal at the last minute, is that another "good deal" for Trump and a "bad deal" for whoever else bought those bonds?

I would think a "good deal" implied someone had looked into an investment, did his due diligence and concluded there is plenty of upside in this investment and then investing in it. Some fat slob numbskull buying bonds because someone else told him his signature on a policy in two days will increase the value of those bonds but his not signing it won't is no more a "good deal" than a pig eating at a trough because a bucket of slop was poured in it.[/QUOTE]Some people posting here understand the meaning of the English language. Other either don't because they a blinded by political bias or simply have a personal axe to grind against another individual.

The Dis United States of America is so racist that the fans of a white player in the WNBA make racial slurs to other black players in the WNBA. Are her fans Democrats or Republicans?

[QUOTE]Caitlin Clark's name is often used to advance false, hateful and often racist narratives. The Indiana Fever guard has denounced those individuals in the past and did so again Thursday, reiterating: "That's not something I stand for."

"That's not how I was raised, so that's really disappointing when people do that," Clark said Thursday during her end-of-season news conference. "It gets into this larger discussion in mainstream sports of what people go through. Just recently I saw I think it was (tennis player) Coco Gauff who talked about her experience (with online hate), as well. Anytime I see something like that, it makes me upset. It makes me sad. And it makes me really disappointed, because that's not who I am. It's not what I'm about. For my teammates, there's a lot of really great things that come with playing here too."[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/basketball/wnba/fever/2026/10/08/caitlin-clark-exit-interview-hate-racism-indiana-fever-fans-kelsey-mitchell-comments/92134003007/[/URL]

[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep/26/wnba-and-players-condemn-racist-abuse-as-caitlin-clarks-fever-lose-in-playoffs[/URL]

[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/former-espn-anchor-smears-caitlin-clark-fans-sweeping-false-accusations-racism[/URL]

Both parties should speak out against racism. They should state those mentalities will not be tolerated within their ranks. It should be a bi-partisan issue. Otherwise the true ideals of the the Dis United States of America will never be fulfilled.

[QUOTE]We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.[/QUOTE][B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3088156]And Trump sucking so good Putin. Giving money to Putin to keep on killing Ukrainians.[/QUOTE]Inflation more than 60% for diesel in USA. I hope all middle west farmers understood this is only because of how Trump is stupid and ignorant, with no morality, to give money to Putin, to kill Ukrainians. Same than Netanyahou who was informed by UAE about Hamas he supported versus CIS Jordania, and Netanyahou didn't inform secret services and tsahal, letting Hamas kill more than 1000 people, to have reason to make war and avoid justice which wait him.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088008]It should be noted, what is the name of this thread: [B]American Politics[/B].

Where is this thread in the ISG Forum? Opinions & Editorials: Opinions.

Now that we have established what the purpose of this thread is [B]Spidy[/B] can debate all he likes. But he should understand fully at this point he does not set the posting rules of this thread.

If you don't want to read another persons post then you need to place that person on your ignore list. Instructions for doing so can be found through using the FAQ link in this forum. Also, look up the meaning of [B]opinion[/B].

Oh, we understand! Do you understand no one else has to play by your [I]self designated rules[/I]?
[/QUOTE]Dude, don't be such a hypocrite now!

As you, yourself, have asked for the same level of FACTS, evidentiary data and less "feelings" and baseless opinions, from the vary same ISG member, Canada, previously in recent post, here in the American Politics forum. So what the hell are you talking about?

SubCmdr, perhaps you should focus on taking your own advice and [B]less grandstanding[/B][I]....hmmm?[/I].

[B]PS:[/B] BTW, if this is too harsh a realization for you, just IGNORE the post!

As CATL, rolls out significant advancements in the future of commercial trucking and vehicle transportation, with its TechTrans II platform (at the 2026 IAA Transportation show, in Germany), that offers a new 1000 km truck battery, guaranteed for 1. 5 million kilometers and 80% charging in 25 minutes with megawatt-level fast charging, the TechTrans II platform looks to provide five (5) key industry logistical areas of support: Range, Charging Speed, Service Life, Reliability and Safety. [URL]https://www.batterydesign.net/catl-tectrans-ii/[/URL].

Meanwhile, back [I]in the U.S.[/I], with at least 16 more trucking companies filing for bankruptcy protection in less than a month, adding to the already all-time trucking bankruptcies during this MAGA administration, but leading up to the 2026 mid-terms, it's just more MAGA gimmicks, corruption, taxpayer pick-pocket thievery and snake-oil-salesmanship, seems to be the order of the day.

[I]"American trucking firms have been filing for bankruptcy and laying off hundreds of workers as logistics businesses struggle amid soaring fuel costs. The price of diesel stood at $6.39"[/I] [B]Mass Layoffs, Trucking Bankruptcies Mount Amid Diesel Price Shock[/B], October 1st, 2026. [URL] https://www.newsweek.com/trucker-firms-hit-by-bankruptcies-layoffs-amid-diesel-shock-12512597[/URL].

So as the MAGA Fuhrer and war-monger-in-chief's botched forever illegal wars, loom large over the American economy, MAGA rolls-out yet another off-the-cuff, band-aid ('dye-diesel' gimmicky and patch-work of (no doubt) unthought though policies, to address the ever increasing cost of diesel and grocery prices for hardworking Americans and a disseminated trucking industry, due to said botched illegal wars, continued administrative incompetence and failures.

But at what cost to Americans, truckers and especially farmers? [B]What does Trumps executive order on diesel really mean for farmers?[/B] [URL]https://www.farmanddairy.com/news/what-does-trumps-executive-order-on-diesel-really-mean-for-farmers/931385.html[/URL] As farmers and truckers sound-off, that it offers very little relief, [URL]https://apnews.com/article/diesel-prices-fuel-farmers-agriculture-trump[/URL], October 7th, 2026.

2026 The Year of the Battery.

P.S. : As of the this writing, the MAGA Fuhrer, again "pimps-out" America to Russia, as his master and overload, Putin, orders him to make a deal to buy Russian diesel. What a joke!

Trump loves him some Putin jizz so much he can't quit him.

Little wonder why. Trump must feel there is no way he would have squeaked into a razor-thin win either time, stayed out of prison and put in a perfect position to scam so many billions of dollars from the American working men and women that he might actually have some left over after paying back the Russian Russian Russian oligarch lenders who kept him afloat during the years when no USA bank was foolish enough to lend him a dime without the help of Russia Russia Russia that he will repeatedly skirt around enforcing the sanctions imposed on his beloved Russia Russia Russia.

Previously when Trump pulled this kind of Anti-American Democracy, Pro-Communism crap in his first term the Democrats in Congress busted him for it and forced him to enforce those sanctions against a top enemy of democracy and proponent of Communism.

Now Trump is maneuvering his typical Repub wide-stance into a back-door way of lifting sanctions against his Longtime Communist Companion, who clearly loves Trump for his typical Repub wide-stance easy back-door access way as well.

[B]Trump's diesel agreement with Putin accused of contradicting Russia sanctions law [/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/trump-putin-diesel-russia-sanctions-ukraine.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]President Donald Trump announced Russia will supply diesel fuel to the global market.

Trump claimed the move, unveiled with less than a month left in an affordability-focused midterm election, would swiftly bring down record-high diesel prices.

Commentators and critics highlighted contradictions between the new policy and recent efforts by the U.S. to curtail Russian energy exports.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a searing statement that the U.S. easing sanctions on Moscow plays into Russias hands.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3087903]Energy and energy security, will always remain political, regardless of anyone's "neither party is mine" points-of-view.[/QUOTE]LOL. I agree that is true. Sadly, what SHOULD be true is energy generation should be apolitical.

I would not get giddy about new power generation. It takes years to get power generation on line, and this increase seems like the Biden plan at work. There is also a huge waiting list for natural gas turbines, and the slow down of delivery of turbines has contributed to more solar and wind as much as anything.

And of course, you miss the obvious downsides with solar and wind, The amount of land required to produce enough electricity for 1,000 households per year at a natural gas power plant is just 0. 18 acres, including the land required both for the power plant itself and for the production and transportation facilities to supply natural gas to the plant. By comparison, it would take 6 acres to produce that much electricity with wind power and 8. 4 acres to produce the same amount of electricity with solar power.

Kinder Morgan's engineers have estimated that it would take more than one billion Tesla Powerwall batteries at a cost of more than $3 trillion dollars to store the equivalent amount of energy in one of KM's larger natural gas storage fields.

Solar power generates electricity approximately 25-30% of the time, while onshore and offshore wind produce power up to 35% and 55% of the time, respectively; compared to 48 percent for conventional coal-fired power plants, 57 percent for natural gas-fired plants, and 93 percent for advanced nuclear plants.

When Texas had its grid fail with a snow / ice storm in 2021, it was an embarrassment as the state, which had prided itself on consistent power generation, became like California with its constant blackouts and brownouts.

When the final grades came in, the scorecard was not particularly kind to "renewables" nor fossil fuel backed production. Nuclear was the clear winner. [URL]https://www.americanexperiment.org/wind-energy-fails-grading-the-reliability-of-energy-sources-during-the-texas-power-outages/[/URL].

And just as natural gas and fossil fuels kick battery's ass when it comes to storage space, cost, and weight, nuclear kicks fossil fuels ass in that regard.

As for why nuclear has not taken off, that is nearly entirely because of you dumb Dems and your anti-nuke hysteria. Granted, a few Dems like Oliver Stone have jumped on that train, but your incessantly babbling about solar and wind versus fossil fuels is the exact kind of us versus them drivel that has stopped nukes in their tracks. You conveniently leave off nuclear and under your dumb Dem climate change nut definition, ethanol and biodiesel, which would also quality as "renewables", are left off as well.

The part that should be political is the planning. What is instructive is now long it takes for a plant to go from the construction to generation phase. If you look at China, they can get solar, wind, and natural gas up and running in less than 2 years. Coal is like a year longer, and nuclear is at around six years.

Because of all the Democratic red tape, a nuclear power plant in the USA is in the 10 to 15 year range, and coal is about half of that. I think that would be close to 50 years for both in California.

So between your demonizing natural gas such that turbines are backed up for years and the regulation burdens you Dems have put on nukes and coal, it is not that solar and wind are that fucking great, it is that they are all that is left that can be installed quickly to meet surging demand.

The one I thing I do find reassuring though is the parts of the country that are the worst with regards to getting solar and wind are in blue states. Of course, freezing your ass off in winter in the USA or dying of heat stroke in Europe is something you do not have to face. Why an ex-pat like you cares so much about this so much is beyond me. For you, this probably has more to do with hurting Republican donors, AKA big oil, more than anything.

Notwithstanding this war, the funny part is the more you dumb Dems demonize fossil fuels the rarer they get and the more money those companies make.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088262]Trump loves him some Putin jizz so much he can't quit him.

Little wonder why. Trump must feel there is no way he would have squeaked into a razor-thin win either time, stayed out of prison and put in a perfect position to scam so many billions of dollars from the American working men and women that he might actually have some left over after paying back the Russian Russian Russian oligarch lenders who kept him afloat during the years when no USA bank was foolish enough to lend him a dime without the help of Russia Russia Russia that he will repeatedly skirt around enforcing the sanctions imposed on his beloved Russia Russia Russia.

Previously when Trump pulled this kind of Anti-American Democracy, Pro-Communism crap in his first term the Democrats in Congress busted him for it and forced him to enforce those sanctions against a top enemy of democracy and proponent of Communism.[/QUOTE]Trump made gas inflation, more than 60% for diesel, with his war and now giving money to Putin and claiming Zelensky should leave. After Greenland, USA really became so shameful under with no morality Trump. Use free weapons and learn to shoot other than 13000 per year with a lot of children, when only way to stop Putin is to make Russia broke and Russians suffering from starvation, to eat him. I wish Ukraine will shoot Russian gas factories.

Even Republican party seem now to have problem with so stupid and crazy Trump. Yes, he put big shame on whole USA. Time to fire him, when too dangerous, ignorant senile.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088262]Previously when Trump pulled this kind of Anti-American Democracy, Pro-Communism crap in his first term the Democrats in Congress busted him for it and forced him to enforce those sanctions against a top enemy of democracy and [u]proponent of Communism[/u]. Now Trump is maneuvering his typical Repub wide-stance into a back-door way of lifting sanctions against his Longtime [u]Communist Companion[/u], who clearly loves Trump for his typical Repub wide-stance easy back-door access way as well.[/QUOTE][B]Russia is not communist today[/B]!

The country ceased to be a communist state with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26,1991, transitioning to a federal semi-presidential republic with a market-based economy and private property.

[URL]https://geographyworlds.com/blog/is-russia-communist-today/[/URL]

The Dis United States of America is not a democracy. It is a [B]Pultocracy[/B]. Democrat or Republican the country is run by corporations who are people and can speak with their money.

The Democrats have no back bone and like [B]Elvis2008[/B] says lack intelligence. The statement made by [B]EihTooms[/B] validates the ideas proffered by [B]Elvis2008[/B] about the lack of intelligence of Democrats. Why would they oppose a move to ease the supply for diesel fuel and lower prices over all for my fellow poor citizens of the Dis United States of America.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3086878]What a complete crock of shit made up by some lawyer. SC makes the comment about the Constitution and racism and citizenship so in some ways this to me is the most important sentence in the Constitution. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.

And no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[/QUOTE]Huh! Not exactly sure, what conversation this post of yours is referring to, that I had with SubCmdr, but none recently, that I know of, covered racism, citizenship or a passage relating to [I]"The right of the people..."[/I] etc.

But I'm pretty sure our constitutional disagreements, stemmed from whether the [I]"the loyal opposition"[/I] is constitutional or not and then later on in the conversational debate, it focused on, [I]"What is the U.S. Constitution?[/I].

Don't think your post addresses either of those talking points, so feel free to circle-back and check our conversational debate on those two (2) constitutional subject matters, or correct my understanding of what you posted and chime in again, with your two-cents worth, when you have something credible to add.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]LOL. I agree that is true. Sadly, what SHOULD be true is energy generation should be apolitical.[/QUOTE]Yes, if only your dumbass MAGA Fuhrer understood this!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]I would not get giddy about new power generation. It takes years to get power generation on line, and this increase seems like the Biden plan at work. There is also a huge waiting list for natural gas turbines, and [b]the slow down of delivery of turbines has contributed to more solar and wind as much as anything[/b].[/QUOTE]If anything you should be thanking President Biden and VP. Harris and President Obama, for putting American on the right "ALL OF THE ABOVE" energy path, to include clean energy renewables (SWB), that have been hugely instrumental, in cushioning and managing the increased upswing in additional electricity usage in the US.

Your so called luckily raise of renewables (SWB), due to a pathetic [I]"slow down of delivery of turbines",[/I] is more a tale to be told about the arrogance the fossil fuel industry, than anything else. Which BTW, has had it great for 125+ years, but no more, since there's a new kid on the block, and a new heavy-weight challenger in the energy ring.

The raise of renewable (SWB) energy, is just more about the cheapest cost of energy. Period. Renewables will win the day, going forward because most of the tech is a semiconductor, electron-based, stackable and scalable technology. [B]You don't BURN a technology, you USE it!.[/B].

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]And of course, you miss the obvious downsides with solar and wind, The amount of land required to produce enough electricity for 1,000 households per year at a natural gas power plant is just 0. 18 acres, including the land required both for the power plant itself and for the production and transportation facilities to supply natural gas to the plant. By comparison, it would take 6 acres to produce that much electricity with wind power and 8. 4 acres to produce the same amount of electricity with solar power.[/QUOTE]What now?

Is [I][b]"land"[/b][/I] now the latest fossil fuel fallacy (FFF), renewables [I]"boogeyman"[/I] and / or scare tactic to come out of the fossil fuel industry? My short answer to this inquiry and most of the rest of your post, is that almost on any metric, [U]except energy density[/U] (but better watchout, as batteries are fast becoming increasing more dense as), renewables will win the day.

What you often fall to articulate, in your "bogus" land argument is that natural gas (or oil) is largely a pipeline story, with the upstream and midstream network production is responsible for nearly three-quarters of the total land surface footprint, making it much larger than renewables (SWB). As I explained before renewables (SWB) are more inline with nature and land use (ie. Agrivoltaics, rooftop solar, canal solar, floating solar, vertical solar, parking lot rooftop solar. Basically a myriad of places, that dovetail brilliantly with land and space usage).
[LIST][i][b]Re-analysis of land used for energy: Comparison of spatially explicit observations and literature sources:[/b] ... This impending energy sprawl, as well as the current state of energy infrastructure, drives the reported values of land use intensity through reviews, case studies, and life-cycle assessments.

In their review, Fthenakis and Kim (2009) found biomass to have the largest land use, followed by nuclear, with solar as the least land intensive renewable energy technology. Whereas, Stevens et al., 2017 found renewables to have larger spatial footprints, with more ability for land versatility compared to nonrenewable technologies. Although these assessments are helpful, their perspective remains general.

Case studies and life-cycle assessments offer [b]a deeper dive into specific energy technologies.[/b] These include case studies for solar (Ong et al., 2013; Hernandez et al., 2014) and natural gas (Jordaan et al., 2017). Hernandez et al., 2014 found 93 % of solar installments to be PV instead of concentrating solar power (CSP), with higher land use efficiency on private lands as opposed to public lands. Ong et al., 2013 found their land use estimates for PV and CSP consistent with literature values. Regarding the natural gas sector, [b][u]Jordaan et al., 2017 found power plants to have the highest footprint followed by pipelines, then processing facilities.[/u][/b][/i]

[url]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772783125000421?fr=RR-2&ref=pdf_download&rr=a13c03f3d93aedc3#1[/url][/LIST]
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]Solar power generates electricity approximately 25-30% of the time, while onshore and offshore wind produce power up to 35% and 55% of the time, respectively; compared to 48 percent for conventional coal-fired power plants, 57 percent for natural gas-fired plants, and 93 percent for advanced nuclear plants.[/QUOTE]Still buying into the [B]"Primary Energy Fallacy",[/B] of generating electricity, I see. Well good luck with that and all the other antiquated FFFs, like the grand-daddy of them all "baseload". [URL]https://knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-world/article?id=139309[/URL].

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]Notwithstanding this war, the funny part is the more you dumb Dems demonize fossil fuels the rarer they get and the more money those companies make.[/QUOTE]LOL! Only in your head, do [I]"dumb Dems demonized fossil fuels",[/I] unlike the dumb Repubs, who hold an unhealthy, unnatural and irrational relationship with dirty fossil fuels, that are polluting the plant.

But remember as ALWAYS, I offer no shame in using fossil fuels!

Our [B]Howard Cosell[/B] of energy policy is making a intellectually dishonest argument for [B]SWB[/B] technology [B]SWB[/B] ALONE cannot run a country right now and provide for all of the electricity needs of their citizens.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088407].........The Democrats have no back bone and like [B]Elvis2008[/B] says lack intelligence. The statement made by [B]EihTooms[/B] validates the ideas proffered by [B]Elvis2008[/B] about the lack of intelligence of Democrats. Why would they oppose a move to ease the supply for diesel fuel and lower prices over all for my fellow poor citizens of the Dis United States of America.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B][/QUOTE][B]Russia is aiding Irans war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/russia-aiding-iran-targeting[/URL]

Russia Russia Russia is aiding and abetting Iran in Trump's Repub Forever War of Choice Based on a Repub Lie, to kill and maim American troops and destroy American interests.

Trump is aiding and abetting Russia Russia Russia by choosing to financially benefit Russia Russia Russia rather than simply increase fuel imports from America's most important ally, Canada.

Does that tell you anything about Trump's allegiance to America's enemies instead of America itself and our allies? Or is that too many dots for you and Elvis to connect even by joining forces to work on it?

As far as losing money for Americans goes, the numbskulls who could have but did not vote for Harris in 2024 have cost me personally at least $150,000 on lost property values over the past 20 months due to the depressed economy, pathetic jobs creation numbers, wage losses vs his rate of inflation, higher prices on everyday items, disastrous tariffs, border policies, Iran War increasing gas prices and jacking up interest rates. But I am sure those numbskulls lost even more money for more Americans and, if there is a god, for themselves than that.

Luckily for me, I have no interest in selling my rental properties at this time and since Trump has made it more difficult for Americans to achieve the American Dream of home-ownership, my rent rolls have continued to increase quite nicely over these past months as they have for most of us California property owners for many decades.

However, the financial pain that has caused most Americans thanks to numbskulls not voting for Harris in 2024 has not been lost on us California rental property owners just the same.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088407][B]Russia is not communist today[/B]!

The country ceased to be a communist state with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26,1991, transitioning to a federal semi-presidential republic with a market-based economy and private property.

[URL]https://geographyworlds.com/blog/is-russia-communist-today/[/URL]

The Dis United States of America is not a democracy. It is a [B]Pultocracy[/B]. Democrat or Republican the country is run by corporations who are people and can speak with their money.

The Democrats have no back bone and like [B]Elvis2008[/B] says lack intelligence. The statement made by [B]EihTooms[/B] validates the ideas proffered by [B]Elvis2008[/B] about the lack of intelligence of Democrats. Why would they oppose a move to ease the supply for diesel fuel and lower prices over all for my fellow poor citizens of the Dis United States of America.[/QUOTE]Putin is very rich capitalist with his hidden huge castle, when millions of Russians are poor and suffering from Putin inflation. Americans suffer from Trump inflation.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088409]Huh! Not exactly sure, what conversation this post of yours is referring to, that I had with SubCmdr, but none recently, that I know of, covered racism, citizenship or a passage relating to "The right of the people..."etc.

But I'm pretty sure our constitutional disagreements, stemmed from whether the "the loyal opposition" is constitutional or not and then later on in the conversational debate, it focused on, "What is the U.S. Constitution?

Don't think your post addresses either of those talking points, so feel free to circle-back and check our conversational debate on those two (2) constitutional subject matters, or correct my understanding of what you posted and chime in again, with your two-cents worth, when you have something credible to add.[/QUOTE]LOL. To an ex pat leech like you living off the government dole in Brazil, the phrase the Constitution is a "framework not a codified code" is the perfect excuse for the government to raid the possessions of others and you are accepting as long as you get a piece of the stolen pie in exchange for your vote.

That is why you have such vitriol with regards to billionaires. You want the government to steal from them and give some of their money to you.

The 4th Amendment makes it clear that is not allowed, and you and a bunch of fucking lawyers and lawyer judges dressing that up and saying it is just a "framework" is the excuse to do so.

This is bullshit lawyer speak and ranks up there with "that depends on what your definition of is is".

The reason the USA is the world's greatest economic power is because of the 4th Amendment. That you are a China humper and think the state should own and control everything (except your money of course) is practically a given.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088416]Is "land"now the latest fossil fuel fallacy (FFF), renewables "boogeyman" and / or scare tactic to come out of the fossil fuel industry? My short answer to this inquiry and most of the rest of your post, is that almost on any metric, except energy density(but better watchout, as batteries are fast becoming increasing more dense as), renewables will win the day.[/QUOTE]And this is why anyone who knows anything about energy knows why you are so cult like in your beliefs. What you don't get is that China where the government controls all is still cranking out nuclear and coal by the ton and putting up solar and wind just to fool dumb Dems like you into thinking they are an electrostate.

The issues with solar are land and the amount of sunlight. So in the USA, you have places like West Texas, Nevada, hell even Eastern California, where there is cheap land literally sitting there where solar makes sense. Yes, I said that. Solar makes sense in those places. Wind makes sense in part of Texas as well.

But when you go to the American East Coast or the Eastern parts of China and the cost of land skyrockets and the amount of sunlight goes way down, solar makes zero sense. Not only is coal widely available in the Northeast, the #2 state with regards to natural gas production in the USA is Pennsylvania! So of course, coal and natural gas make way more sense on the East Coast than solar does.

And while you go babbling on about solar being cheaper, it is NOT cheaper. It is a huge upfront investment that takes years to pay off. The fact that your tiny brain cannot comprehend what that means speaks volumes. If it really were cheaper, China would be abandoning coal and nuclear and they are not. They are building coal and nuclear like crazy!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088407][B]Russia is not communist today[/B]!

The country ceased to be a communist state with the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26,1991, transitioning to a federal semi-presidential republic with a market-based economy and private property.

[URL]https://geographyworlds.com/blog/is-russia-communist-today/[/URL]

The Dis United States of America is not a democracy. It is a [B]Pultocracy[/B]. Democrat or Republican the country is run by corporations who are people and can speak with their money.

The Democrats have no back bone and like [B]Elvis2008[/B] says lack intelligence. The statement made by [B]EihTooms[/B] validates the ideas proffered by [B]Elvis2008[/B] about the lack of intelligence of Democrats. Why would they oppose a move to ease the supply for diesel fuel and lower prices over all for my fellow poor citizens of the Dis United States of America.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B][/QUOTE]While you can't pick a side to support in this election year but have no problem siding with Elvis and his Dear Leader Trump in characterizing Democrats as dumb "Dumocrats", where has your history lesson been for Trump about this?

[B]Trump attacks Democrats as communists while acquiring government stakes in private companies.
Trumps actions have drawn criticism even from Republicans, who caution that their party shouldnt abandon long-held beliefs about the governments role in a free-market economy.[/B]

[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-democrats-communists-acquiring-government-stakes-companies-rcna589642[/URL]

And then you might invite Putin to your classroom, too:

[B]Putins brain is back in the USSR[/B]

[URL]https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5519747-putins-brain-is-back-in-the-ussr/[/URL]

[QUOTE]The acquisition of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova is the initial phase of Russian President Vladimir Putins plan to reunite the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. His assumption was that the three non-NATO and non-European Union countries could be brought back under Soviet rule in short order without any interference from the West.[/QUOTE]Putin's motivation in invading Ukraine and Trump's unqualified support for him in his endeavor is to restore Russia Russia Russia to its USSR glory.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088558]While you can't pick a side to support in this election year but have no problem siding with Elvis and his Dear Leader Trump in characterizing Democrats as dumb "Dumocrats", where has your history lesson been for Trump about this?[/QUOTE]It's not that I cannot pick a side. It that: [I]Neither Party is Mine[/I]!

[B]Since you don't seem to understand it, let me delve into more deeply[/B] The Democrats are hostile to my personal interests. I do not care about their tremendous interest in making sure there are no more bathrooms for men and women. One of the high profile members of the Democratic Party in the Senate formed a [I]anti-crypto army[/I]. They killed the crypto regulation legislation. And have been completely ineffective as a minority party. So, why should I join a party that in [B]2026[/B] is a lame as lame gets. Because once again, I don't give a [I]compound profanity redacted[/I] about the history lessons that [B]EihTooms[/B] gives us about the Democratic performance of Democratic Presidents The sample size is not statistically significant nor the correlation imply causation.

[QUOTE]The phrase "correlation does not imply causation" means that observing a statistical association between two variables is not sufficient to conclude that one variable causes the other to change.[/QUOTE]Those of us with statistical background and that are good with numbers understand this. I have no need to provide the current Article 2 leader with a history lesson. There are people way above my pay grade who's job is to do that. Namely the Democrats that hold federal office.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088558]Trump attacks Democrats as communists while acquiring government stakes in private companies.[/QUOTE]That is correct and the Democrats have done nothing about it.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088558]Trumps actions have drawn criticism even from Republicans, who caution that their party shouldnt abandon long-held beliefs about the governments role in a free-market economy.[/QUOTE]No dog in the fight.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088558]And then you might invite Putin to your classroom, too[/QUOTE]I've been to Moscow twice. Enjoyed my visits. If Mr. Putin requested my presence for anything I would take the meeting.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088558]Putin's motivation in invading Ukraine and Trump's unqualified support for him in his endeavor is to restore Russia Russia Russia to its USSR glory.[/QUOTE][B]Completely incorrect[/B] The West provoked Russia. You want to get into it, it will be a subject for another exchange in another post. But before you shoot your mouth off, think Cuban Missile Crisis.

[U]I would like to add[/U]:

[B]Spidy is a smart democrat[/B] I respect him even when I disagree with him. And honestly it isn't that much. Because the majority of information he provided about SWB is spot on! Sometimes we get into a personal disagreement. But that does not lower my respect for him. In other words, I don't hold that he is a member of the Democratic Party against him.

[B]EihTooms[/B] well that is a different story. Considering the word games and spin with very few facts to back up his assertions. Damn straight I agree with the assessment of [B]Elvis2008[/B] when it comes to most democrats and especially [B]EihTooms[/B]. He is a individual I have zero (0) respect from a [B]podunk[/B] country. The reason why I can agree with people on both sides is because I pay attention to the ideas someone presents, not the party affiliation they represent. I can thing for myself. I do not have my thinking done for me by the party leaders.

I rarely agree with [B]Elivs2008[/B] but in this case he is spot on!

The 100 years long correlation and causation of Repubs in the White House and especially when they also control the House and Senate with every Great Depression, Great Recession and Historic Jobs Destruction during that time and none of the great economic recoveries, great economic expansions and historic jobs creation cannot be ignored or dismissed and have instead been highly predictive of future results as I have so blissfully easily and accurately been predicting it since Reagan's first presidential term.

Or maybe the learned statisticians out there prefer to chalk up that uninterrupted 100 years long pattern to "bad luck" for Repubs, "good luck" for Dems, bizarro world economic cycles that only punish Repubs and never Dems or the ever-popular with "Bothsider-Neithersiders" Witch's Curse on Repubs.

Whatever lamebrained excuse anyone who doesn't notice or can't figure out which side to vote for in order to produce far superior USA economic results vs truly horrific USA economic results wants to float in the face of 100 years of correlation, causation, bad luck vs good luck, bizarro world economic cycles and the inevitable witch's curse excuse, none of those things change the historical record of results.

Oh lookie. More results due to mere correlation and a witch's curse and nothing to do with Repub Trump's lamebrained tariffs and Repub Trump's lamebrained Iran War of Choice Based on His Lies just as the high Inflation from 2020 to 2022 was a direct result of him ushering in Trump's Pandemic and his 2020 deal with OPEC to reduce global oil production specifically to increase the price of oil during the historically low-demand Trump's Pandemic era.

As learned statisticians apparently are quick to argue, that is just due to so much bad luck for those poor witch's cursed Repubs:

[B]The latest inflation data is expected to show price increases are accelerating.[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/september-consumer-price-index-inflation.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Economists expect the consumer price index for September to rise 0.6% on the month and 3.6% year over year.

Core CPI is forecast to show a 0.2% gain on the month and 2.5% annual increase.

Oil-related prices could drive the headline figure even higher, one economist warned.[/QUOTE]Oh well.

We tried.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088529]LOL. To an ex pat leech like you living off the government dole in Brazil, the phrase the Constitution is a "framework not a codified code" is the perfect excuse for the government to raid the possessions of others and you are accepting as long as you get a piece of the stolen pie in exchange for your vote. ... That you are a China humper and think the state should own and control everything (except your money of course) is practically a given. [/QUOTE]Silly comments, guessing about my lifestyle, is all the thanks I need, for verifying my suspicions, that [B]you indeed know nothing,[/B] about what [I]The U.S. Constitution[/I] is, or how Constitutional Law arguments like the [I]"loyal opposition"[/I] (posed by SubCmdr), could be or could not be considered constitutional or contained in the Constitution.

But by all means, feel free to chime in again, when you really have something more intellectual, to add on the subject of [I]"What is the U.S. Constitution?[/I]

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088420]Our [B]Howard Cosell[/B] of energy policy is making a intellectually dishonest argument for [B]SWB[/B] technology [B]SWB[/B] ALONE cannot run a country right now and provide for all of the electricity needs of their citizens.[/QUOTE]Sure, it's all well and good, to boldly claim intellectual dishonesty, but where are the RECEIPTS of said dishonesty? C'Mon. Now, don't you too fall for the MAGA "Rope-a-Dope" (to coin a Muhammad Ali boxing phrase, often used by Howard Cosell) and think baseless opinions and no facts, is the way to conduct a discussion or debate.

I'd love for you to show me, where I posted that, countries can currently run their entire electricity grid on SWB alone.

I've ALWAYS said and stated that, renewables (meaning non-fossil fuels, not just SWB) in many countries around the world, are starting to make-up, consist and be the majority forms of energy, in their grid's energy mix, as they transition to a cleaner grid and phaseout more and more fossil fuels.

So when calling someone "intellectually dishonest" or otherwise, rest assured, I have and do bring RECEIPTS!

[B]P.S.:[/B] [I]BTW, thanks for the chuckles w/r to your "Howard Cosell of Energy", representation of my energy intellectual analysis! ...LOL![/I].

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088532]And this is why anyone who knows anything about energy knows why you are so cult like in your beliefs. What you don't get is that China where the government controls all is still cranking out nuclear and coal by the ton and putting up solar and wind just to fool dumb Dems like you into thinking they are an electrostate.[/QUOTE]So now energy FACTS are now "beliefs" to MAGA that supposedly know anything about energy?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088532]The issues with solar are land and the amount of sunlight. So in the USA, you have places like West Texas, Nevada, hell even Eastern California, where there is cheap land literally sitting there where solar makes sense. Yes, I said that. Solar makes sense in those places. Wind makes sense in part of Texas as well.

But when you go to the American East Coast or the Eastern parts of China and the cost of land skyrockets and the amount of sunlight goes way down, solar makes zero sense. Not only is coal widely available in the Northeast, the #2 state with regards to natural gas production in the USA is Pennsylvania! So of course, coal and natural gas make way more sense on the East Coast than solar does.
[/QUOTE]Why do you keep bringing up the well know FACT, that solar and wind are intermittent. Or is this you being obtuse again?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088532]And while you go babbling on about solar being cheaper, it is NOT cheaper. It is [b]a huge upfront investment[/b] that takes years to pay off.[/QUOTE]You've yet to provide any DATA or FACTS, showing SWB today IS NOT the LCOE. Dude, your MAGA brain, should tell you, ANY energy project is going to have, "a huge upfront investment". Difference being, not only do renewables (SWB) have the lowest LCOE, they also have a better ROI and total cost of ownership (TCO), for energy projects in most places around the world.

As explained to your "no facts provided" MAGA cohort, Canada, that for the past several years, [I]the U.S.[/I] grid operators, the Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), have had their energy interconnection proposal queues very close to 100% full, ONLY of renewables (SWB).

So your solar problems and "land" arguments are a REAL joke, IMHO, when near 100% of [I]U.S. energy operator queues[/I] are ONLY looking to implement SWB projects, indicating there are [B]no such fossil fuel "bug-a-boo" land problems[/B] for them. [URL]https://sustainabilitydialogue.uchicago.edu/news/how-the-interconnection-queue-backlog-is-slowing-energy-growth/[/URL].

Elvis2008 was right again!

Senator Elizabeth Warren has cited the USA Government's $1. 2 billion fine against Bank of America as evidence supporting her long-standing argument that cryptocurrency is a primary vehicle for money laundering and sanctions evasion.

Here is the problem, the fine has nothing to do with crypto. This is another example of how dumb Democrats are when it come to technology.

Can we say: [B]It was a traditional bank stupid![/B]!

[URL]https://apnews.com/article/treasury-bank-of-america-money-laundering-29013b2c8f08a3a8d579a96721ed1aa4[/URL]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088756]Why do you keep bringing up the well know FACT, that solar and wind are intermittent. Or is this you being obtuse again?[/QUOTE]Because you keep exhibiting cult like behavior and blowing off the facts.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088756]You've yet to provide any DATA or FACTS, showing SWB today IS NOT the LCOE.[/QUOTE]WTF are you talking about? I have gone on ad nausea about how much more expensive solar is than fossil fuels, and your dumb ass thinks that electricity generation and storage for my RV do not follow the same principles of math and physics when it comes to massive generation of power. It would take me going through hundreds of gallons of gasoline to make an investment in solar worthwhile.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088756]ANY energy project is going to have, "a huge upfront investment". Difference being, not only do renewables (SWB) have the lowest LCOE[/QUOTE]That is the biggest lie being told, and you are out of your damned mind if you believe it.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088756]So your solar problems and "land" arguments are a REAL joke[/QUOTE]No, your inability to do math is the fucking joke. I know how much land it takes to power up my RV with solar versus a generator twice the size of the average toaster, and your dumb ass does not. Instead of acknowleding the energy generation and land requirements, you spew out personal insults and personal comments about my electricity issues and yell MAGA while you make an ass of yourself.

And this is the latest time you are making an ass of yourself. Data centers on average require a gigawatt of power to function. To generate that much electricity via solar, you need 33,000 acres of land.

That is 5% of all the land in Rhode Island to power ONE data center.

And how many data centers does the USA have?

5,427.

And how many acres does it take to generate that much electricity with one natural gas plant?

30 acres. That is 30 versus 33,000.

Now I do not know how the fuck you and the climate change nuts come up with the notion then that solar is cheaper. Yes, solar has free input costs and natural gas does not but you have to go through burning a shitload of natural gas for the solar plant to break even.

And your dumb ass is so stupid it never even occurs to you that there is a huge diffence in land costs. You think land in Rhode Island costs the same as land in West Texas? Get the fuck out of here!

Your OWN fucking data showed solar was more expensive, and this is the part you do not get.

There are no land costs when the government owns 90% of the land in Nevada, and you can throw up all the solar panels you want and outside of the panel costs and batteries, it would be "free". The problem is the billions and trillions you have to invest into power lines to move that electricity to densely populated areas, and that is just one factor.

I can be a climate change nut too. I can charge my batteries fully with a $200 rooftop solar panel versus a $400 generator, and I can do so without increased land usage and without the use of fossil fuel. So it is cheaper than fossil fuel! You see how smart you are Spidy!

Of course, there is the rub. It takes 10 to 20 days to charge the batteries with solar versus 5 hours with a gas generator. So as I keep saying, solar has its place. It is fine to charge the RV batteries via solar when I am not using the RV but when I am, solar does not generate enough juice when you use an AC, stove, refigerator, computer, and TV, and that is something your dumb Dem binary brain cannot compute.

It is solar good, fossil fuels bad, Dems good, Republicans bad. Like with everything else, it is obvious you have no skin in the game. If you actually did, you woule have a clue as to what I am saying.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088756]So now energy FACTS are now "beliefs" to MAGA that supposedly know anything about energy?

Why do you keep bringing up the well know FACT, that solar and wind are intermittent. Or is this you being obtuse again?

You've yet to provide any DATA or FACTS, showing SWB today IS NOT the LCOE. Dude, your MAGA brain, should tell you, ANY energy project is going to have, "a huge upfront investment". Difference being, not only do renewables (SWB) have the lowest LCOE, they also have a better ROI and total cost of ownership (TCO), for energy projects in most places around the world.

As explained to your "no facts provided" MAGA cohort, Canada, that for the past several years, [I]the U.S.[/I] grid operators, the Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), have had their energy interconnection proposal queues very close to 100% full, ONLY of renewables (SWB).

So your solar problems and "land" arguments are a REAL joke, IMHO, when near 100% of [I]U.S. energy operator queues[/I] are ONLY looking to implement SWB projects, indicating there are [B]no such fossil fuel "bug-a-boo" land problems[/B] for them. [URL]https://sustainabilitydialogue.uchicago.edu/news/how-the-interconnection-queue-backlog-is-slowing-energy-growth/[/URL].[/QUOTE]Alberta had very cheap power years ago and then the Canada government decided that we needed to go green and put up hundreds of wind mills and solar. After a 40% increase in our power bills Alberta decided against putting up many more wind mills. Now Alberta stuck with high electricity costs. The windmill scam has cost Alberta residents millions. And it is going to cost more when they have to be removed. The joke is on the simpletons who beleive wind and solar reduce costs.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3088453]Putin is very rich capitalist with his hidden huge castle, when millions of Russians are poor and suffering from Putin inflation. Americans suffer from Trump inflation.[/QUOTE]Yes Putin is rich and all the people are poor. That is what socialism and communism are all about. The poor don't get richer under communism. Only the leaders.

Against my better judgment I will wade back in the the energy discussion.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088754]Sure, it's all well and good, to boldly claim intellectual dishonesty, but where are the RECEIPTS of said dishonesty?[/QUOTE]When you write [I]Electrostate[/I] aren't you implying that an entire [I]state[/I] can be run on [B]SWB[/B]?

I wrote my statement knowing you would bite. We both know that the countries that run on renewables are NOT using [B]SWB[/B] as their MAIN method of energy production.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088754]C'Mon. Now, don't you too fall for the MAGA "Rope-a-Dope" (to coin a Muhammad Ali boxing phrase, often used by Howard Cosell) and think baseless opinions and no facts, is the way to conduct a discussion or debate.[/QUOTE]I am willing to give my opinion in this discussion.

[B]Opinion[/B] [I]noun: A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof[/I].

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088754]I'd love for you to show me, where I posted that, countries can currently run their entire electricity grid on SWB alone.[/QUOTE]You got me there!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088754]I've ALWAYS said and stated that, renewables (meaning non-fossil fuels, not just SWB) in many countries around the world, are starting to make-up, consist and be the majority forms of energy, in their grid's energy mix, as they transition to a cleaner grid and phaseout more and more fossil fuels.[/QUOTE]But the only other main forms of renewables is hydro thermal and geothermal. If that is not available then what?

I tell you what the answer is [B]nuclear[/B].

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088754]So when calling someone "intellectually dishonest" or otherwise, rest assured, I have and do bring RECEIPTS![/QUOTE]I personally don't give a fuck. I thought we were not going to take it personally. We are on the same side of the energy issue. I just see more drawbacks than you do, because I have actually used Solar Panels to general electricity and currently there are drawbacks to it. I have experienced them. I use fossil fuel to overcome them. Not to say that someday in the future it might not be needed. But right now in the real world, my business operations requires fossil fuels until AI can run a SMR on my facility. That way I don't have to be a nuclear scientist. Researching, designing, purchasing component, installing the components of my solar electricity generating system taxed my body and brain. But it was very satisfying to turn on a light at night and know that I simply had to monitor my electricity usage and I was NEVER going to pay the electric company a single Dominican Peso.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088754][B]P.S.:[/B] [I]BTW, thanks for the chuckles w/r to your "Howard Cosell of Energy", representation of my energy intellectual analysis! LOL![/I].[/QUOTE]It's all good my brother! You inspired it.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]When Texas had its grid fail with a snow / ice storm in 2021. Nuclear was the clear winner. [URL]https://www.americanexperiment.org/wind-energy-fails-grading-the-reliability-of-energy-sources-during-the-texas-power-outages/[/URL][/QUOTE]LOL! If nuclear was the "winner", I can't wait to see Texas build more "winning" nuclear plants, and STOP filling up the ERCOT interconnection queue, will frivolous renewable (SWB) projects. Since when did Repub Texans, decide to ignore energy economics?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]Because of all the Democratic red tape, a nuclear power plant in the USA is in the 10 to 15 year range, and coal is about half of that. I think that would be close to 50 years for both in California.[/QUOTE]Last I checked, frickin' Texas hasn't build any overrun on cost, overrun on time and over budget nuclear plants since 1993, over 33 years ago. That must be the "drill-baby-drill" Repub Red Tape, you're so fond of.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]Solar power generates electricity approximately 25-30% of the time, while onshore and offshore wind produce power up to 35% and 55% of the time, respectively; compared to 48 percent for conventional coal-fired power plants, 57 percent for natural gas-fired plants, and 93 percent for advanced nuclear plants.
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If you look at China, they can get solar, wind, and natural gas up and running in less than 2 years. Coal is like a year longer, and nuclear is at around six years.[/QUOTE]Don't forget to deduct the 2/3 wasted and rejected heat that goes up in the air and pollutes the atmosphere, adding to [I]the U.S.'s total cumulative world leading biggest emitter of CO2 emissions[/I]. That's what happens when you're blinded and devoted to the fossil fuel [B]'Primary Energy'[/B] fallacy. [URL]https://knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-world/article?id=139309[/URL] Remember: [B]You don't BURN a technology, you USE it![/B].

Since you continue to ignore the economics, scalability and intermittent reliability of SWB, over currently implementing nuclear, let me remind you once again what China is really doing with solar.
[LIST]China IS NOT scaling nuclear faster than solar, wind, and batteries (SWB)[/LIST][LIST]The gap is not marginal, it is several orders of magnitude, larger, [b]in 2025[/b]:[LIST] In 2025, China added roughly 430 GW of new wind and solar capacity alone, while nuclear added just 1.1 GW. Even accounting for nuclear's much higher electricity generation capacity factor (around 89% verses 12-23% for solar and 20-45% for wind)[/LIST][LIST]The annual generation added by new SWB in 2025, dwarfed that of new nuclear by a factor of roughly over 50 to 1.[/LIST][LIST]New Capacity Added in 2025 - [b]Solar:[/b] 317 GW, [b]Wind:[/b] 120 GW, [b]Batt:[/b] 62 GW / 183 GWh, [b]Nuclear:[/b] 1.1 GW (400x more/faster installed base S+W)[/LIST][LIST]Approx. Annual Generation Added - [b]Solar:[/b] 414 TWh, [b]Wind:[/b] 282 TWh, [b]Batt:[/b] N/A, [b]Nuclear:[/b] 13 TWh (53x less than SWB)[/LIST][/LIST]Even China moving at "China speed" and is the global leader in nuclear construction, with 36 reactors underway, China still can't scale it's nuclear activities, faster, more economical or deliver more power to the their electricity grid, than it's renewables (SWB) buildouts. [URL]http://www.cctdcoal.com/show-528-187638-1.html[/URL].

China's solar and wind targets have been met consistently and massively faster, as its 2030 renewable goals were reached six (6) years earlier, while its nuclear capacity targets have been repeatedly missed, even at "China speed".

[B]China Keeps Beating Renewable Targets And Missing Nuclear Ones. [/B] China builds both, but they do not scale the same way. [B]July 25th, 2026.[/B] [URL]https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/25/china-renewable-targets-nuclear-delivery/[/URL].

So I know you MAGA petrolheads, love to ignore the real FACTS and data, but not even China, can add enough nuclear capacity to outpace and beat new additional renewables (SWB) capacity added to their grids to cope with the surge and spike in electricity demand, even with nuclear's higher electricity capacity gap.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3088297]I wish Ukraine will shoot Russian gas factories.[/QUOTE]Ukraine can't do shit. Your wishing mi6 and CIA keep targeting Russian gas. Your wishing your own suffering, Russian gas is not only for Russians, it is part of the world energy resources.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088853]Against my better judgment I will wade back in the the energy discussion.

When you write [I]Electrostate[/I] aren't you implying that an entire [I]state[/I] can be run on [B]SWB[/B]?

I wrote my statement knowing you would bite. We both know that the countries that run on renewables are NOT using [B]SWB[/B] as their MAIN method of energy production.[/QUOTE]Fair Enough! But for everyone else, the title heading [I]Electrostate vs. Petrostate[/I] is meant to convey, the transitional world of energy or the status quo, happening in the world. It has a very board category of energy meaning.

Google AI Overview:
[LIST][i][b]"An electrostate[/b] is defined in policy and industry analysis as a modern strategic counterpart to the 20th-century "petrostate". Instead of building national power and economic wealth around the extraction and export of fossil fuels, an electrostate derives its geopolitical strength, industrial policy, and economic foundation from clean-energy technologies and deep electrification."[/i][/LIST]
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088853]I am willing to give my opinion in this discussion.

[B]Opinion[/B] [I]noun: A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof[/I].

You got me there![/QUOTE]Hey it all good! And yeah, I can be a prick about asking some ISG members for FACTS and evidentiary data, but it is just that, [B]an ask,[/B] should they wish to properly continue to said debate.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088853]But the only other main forms of renewables is hydro thermal and geothermal. If that is not available then what?

I tell you what the answer is [B]nuclear[/B].[/QUOTE]I did say non-fossil fuels! (ie. Non-gas, coal or oil).

And yes nuclear is a clean, low-carbon energy source, but not a renewable. Other additional forms are tidal wave (not yet mature) and biomass energy. And all the forms of clean battery storage tech, from pumped hydro to heat batteries.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088853]I personally don't give a fuck. I thought we were not going to take it personally. [/QUOTE]This is me not taking it personally. But nonetheless, saying what I've always said and asked ISG members to bring FACTS and evidentiary data to the discussion or debate to backup their baseless opinions, as noted in your definition above.

Asking for RECEIPTs (like evidentiary data), is only natural, if you're going to categorize a post as "Intellectually Dishonest".

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088853]We are on the same side of the energy issue. I just see more drawbacks than you do, because I have actually used Solar Panels to general electricity and currently there are drawbacks to it. I have experienced them. I use fossil fuel to overcome them. Not to say that someday in the future it might not be needed. But right now in the real world, my business operations requires fossil fuels until AI can run a SMR on my facility. That way I don't have to be a nuclear scientist. Researching, designing, purchasing component, installing the components of my solar electricity generating system taxed my body and brain. But it was very satisfying to turn on a light at night and know that I simply had to monitor my electricity usage and I was NEVER going to pay the electric company a single Dominican Peso. [/QUOTE]Great anecdotal story! Your story and experience, is emblematic of what 's playing out all over the world, especially the Global South, where people are transitioning with the economic benefits of renewables.

Again, the drawbacks to renewables are well known, as they are for fossil fuels, but unlike some, I don't feel to mention it at every go. With regards a slightly deeper dive into solar vs. Nuclear or SMRs, with its drawbacks and all, see my latest post to Elvis 2008.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3088853]It's all good my brother! You inspired it.[/QUOTE]Ditto.

[QUOTE=Canada;3088842]Alberta had very cheap power years ago and then the Canada government decided that we needed to go green and put up hundreds of wind mills and solar. After a 40% increase in our power bills Alberta decided against putting up many more wind mills. Now Alberta stuck with high electricity costs. The windmill scam has cost Alberta residents millions. And it is going to cost more when they have to be removed. [b]The joke is on the simpletons who beleive wind and solar reduce costs.[/b][/QUOTE]Sounds to me, like it was poor planning by the idiot right-wing Conservative Party (that have been in power for most of 50 years) and the grid operators, that didn't plan to have to manage and upgrade their transmission and distribution lines to account for the much need increase in electric generation power, from the new renewable sources, leading to transmission and distribution bottlenecks and curtailment.

[B]Failure to build new transmission set to cost Albertans $260 million per year in higher electricity bills, [/B]May 12,2026. Inadequate transmission infrastructure means even on sunny and windy days, renewable energy production is being needlessly shut-in because generators can't get their power to consumers. [URL]https://www.pembina.org/media-release/failure-build-new-transmission-set-cost-albertans-260-million-year-higher[/URL]

Could the I joke be on MAGA simpletons, who believe their MAGA Fuhrer's lies about windmills? I mean after all, Elvis 2008, said the same dumb stuff, about the recent winter storms [I]in the U.S.[/I] and when grid operators investigated, it was the very same thing Alberta is facing, an aging grid, poor planning by grid operators and the failure and felling of transmission and distribution lines in the network.

Your post once again, sound like more baseless opinions. Do you have any FACTS, evidentiary data and / or information to back them up?

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088832]That is 5% of all the land in Rhode Island to power ONE data center.[/QUOTE]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=AssAddict;3088907]Ukraine can't do shit. Your wishing mi6 and CIA keep targeting Russian gas. Your wishing your own suffering, Russian gas is not only for Russians, it is part of the world energy resources.[/QUOTE]The Russians also use to help the Iranians who we are in a war against. How does it make any sense for us to help the Russian aid the Iranians?

[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/politics/us-troops-latin-america.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=Canada;3088843]Yes Putin is rich and all the people are poor. That is what socialism and communism are all about. The poor don't get richer under communism. Only the leaders.[/QUOTE]You seem to have very low knowledge, about Trump politics and Russia which is not anymore communist since more than 20 years. World is not only money USD.

[QUOTE=AssAddict;3088907]Ukraine can't do shit. Your wishing mi6 and CIA keep targeting Russian gas. Your wishing your own suffering, Russian gas is not only for Russians, it is part of the world energy resources.[/QUOTE]Trump wants to give money to Putin, buying him gasoil, after he put messe in Ormuz which was never blocked before Trump. To try to stop Putin, we have to boycott Putin and not give him money to kill Ukrainians. Same about Israel to boycott when they are real shame about CIS Jordania where they are illegal and Gaza genocide. When Netanyahou was informed about Hamas before 7 October, but didn't do anything to try to protect more than 1000 killed, when he preferred to have a reason to make war, to avoid justice which is waiting for him.

Electrostate vs. Petrostate: Show me the real world math, not propaganda MAGA math.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088832]That is 5% of all the land in Rhode Island to power ONE data center.[/QUOTE]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 [B]5% of the island with solar,[/B] to power just one (1), let alone the roughly 5 to 10 data centers, I think they have?

Go on now, show me!

P.S: If my previous post was posted, it should have read, "5% of the state with solar".

When Trump is the only responsible for gas inflation, when mollahs fucked him deep, blocking Ormuz for first time ever, he now sacrifices Ukrainians to try not to lose midterms, when nearly 70% Americans and many in Republican party disagree with him, when Putin is the only responsible for this war, but Trump prefers to suck him, maybe he needs proteins. We will see if USA are still a democracy and if Americans have a brain. Now limiting starlink for Ukraine is protecting Putin and giving him money is killing Ukrainians. Trump really put shame on USA, like Netanyahou on Israel. Sad world with such shameful parasites.

Period. Full Stop!

[URL]https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/china-electricity/[/URL]

61% Coal Fired Plants. Who is ignoring facts now?

[B]Neither Party is Mine[/B]

Trump's classic crap Repub economic and national security policy results continue to perform as predicted they would by everyone who voted straight Dem up and down their ballot in 2016, 2020 and 2024 as well as for every midterm in between. Now his wholesale prices have jumped more than any time since Biden-Harris were busy producing their historic recovery from the deep and disastrous global economic ravages of Trump's Pandemic in 2021 and after Trump made that 2020 deal with OPEC that ran into 2022 to reduce global oil production in order to raise the price of oil and gas.

[B]Wholesale prices jumped 6.3% annually in September, biggest gain since 2022[/B]

[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/september-producer-price-index-retail-sales-data.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]

[QUOTE]Energy drove a sizable chunk of those increases as the Middle East conflict curtailed oil supply and sent prices surging.
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But theres signs that soaring energy prices are having down-stream effects on other categories. The BLS said in Thursdays release that almost half of Septembers increase in processed goods for immediate demand was connected to the rise in diesel fuel prices.

Its the latest report in recent days showing that inflation continues to hit consumers and companies.[/QUOTE]Combine that with his pathetic private-sector jobs numbers that are on track to produce a net loss of perhaps a million American private-sector jobs over the course of his two presidential terms and that he will have added Trillions of dollars more to the USA national debt than any other president in order to produce those across-the-board crap results and his ranking by panels of bi-partisan historians as the Worst President in USA History is sure to prevail for a very, very long time.

Oh well.

We tried.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088946]Electrostate vs. Petrostate: Show me the real world math, not propaganda MAGA math.

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 [B]5% of the island with solar,[/B] to power just one (1), let alone the roughly 5 to 10 data centers, I think they have?

Go on now, show me!

P.S: If my previous post was posted, it should have read, "5% of the state with solar".[/QUOTE]Rhode Island is not very smart. Wyoming on the other hand is looking at building the data centers and building mini nuclear plants to power them. Construction has started on the nuclear plants. Get rid of commercial wind and solar and go nuclear. Only makes sense.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3088918]Sounds to me, like it was poor planning by the idiot right-wing Conservative Party (that have been in power for most of 50 years) and the grid operators, that didn't plan to have to manage and upgrade their transmission and distribution lines to account for the much need increase in electric generation power, from the new renewable sources, leading to transmission and distribution bottlenecks and curtailment.

[B]Failure to build new transmission set to cost Albertans $260 million per year in higher electricity bills, [/B]May 12,2026. Inadequate transmission infrastructure means even on sunny and windy days, renewable energy production is being needlessly shut-in because generators can't get their power to consumers. [URL]https://www.pembina.org/media-release/failure-build-new-transmission-set-cost-albertans-260-million-year-higher[/URL]

Could the I joke be on MAGA simpletons, who believe their MAGA Fuhrer's lies about windmills? I mean after all, Elvis 2008, said the same dumb stuff, about the recent winter storms [I]in the U.S.[/I] and when grid operators investigated, it was the very same thing Alberta is facing, an aging grid, poor planning by grid operators and the failure and felling of transmission and distribution lines in the network.

Your post once again, sound like more baseless opinions. Do you have any FACTS, evidentiary data and / or information to back them up?[/QUOTE]There is no MAGA in Alberta. Only a conservative province being run by a socialist government. Alberta has enough hydroelectric power to easily supply Alberta with no high cost wind and solar that drives our costs up. But Alberta was forced by the socialists to go green. Yes stupidity at its finest. Solar is not efficient with 2 feet of snow and ice on it and windmills produce nothing when it is 40 below. Would you live in Northern Alberta with only wind power in the winter. Is anyone that dumb? Probably only a socialist that lives in a warm climate would be that dumb.

Ignoring data? Well I guess that would be anyone still presenting and still looking at data for China, from 2024.

As of the first half of the 2026 year, non-fossil fuel sources, surpassed coal, in China for the 1st time.
[LIST][b]China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter, [/b]July 24th, 2026. [url]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html#1[/url]

[i]By the end of June, total solar power capacity had caught up with coal, effectively tying it as the country's largest primary power source, says the mid-year report released by the China Electricity Council (CEC) cited by local media. ...

As the share of coal slipped, electricity generation from renewable energy rose by about 9% from a year earlier, according to the data from China's National Energy Administration (NEA).

Renewable energy accounted for 41.2% of China's total electricity generation in the first half of 2026, with wind and solar combined generating almost 25% of the total power output.
"Official Chinese data showed earlier this week that [b][u]the share of coal in China's electricity output fell in the first half of 2026 to below 50%,[/u][/b] for the first time on record, in a landmark achievement of the Chinese policy to boost non-fossil power sources." [/i][/LIST]
Yes, as of June 2026, China still relies on coal, but is now only 49.7% (and less than non-fossil fuel sources) of their energy mix and falling fast. So who is ignoring facts now?

[U]Facts from The Cmdr about power generation in China[/U]

Capacity vs. Generation: While solar leads in installed capacity, coal supplies more actual power because it is dispatchable and reliable, whereas solar output fluctuates with daylight and weather.

[QUOTE]The crossover does not mean China will immediately generate more electricity from solar than from coal. Installed capacity describes how much power could be produced under ideal conditions. While coal plants can operate continuously, solar output fluctuates with daylight and weather.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/news/china-solar-power-capacity-coal-first-time-b2912940.html[/URL]

No need to lie, unless individuals don't understand the difference between [B]Capacity vs Generation[/B].

Continued Coal Expansion: China continues to build new coal plants (adding 78 GW in 2025) to ensure energy security and grid stability as renewable penetration increases.

[QUOTE]China continues to add coal capacity at a pace that sits uneasily alongside the surge in renewables. In 2025, the country brought 78GW of new coal power capacity online, following a wave of permits issued after power shortages and rolling blackouts in 2021 and 2022 intensified concerns about supply reliability.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.the-independent.com/climate-change/news/china-solar-power-capacity-coal-first-time-b2912940.html[/URL]

[QUOTE]The average capacity factor for solar in China is about 14 per cent and for coal 50 per cent, so coal power plants still generate about 3.5 times as much electricity as solar power.[/QUOTE]The reality is China is increasing Solar energy capacity. While continuing the actual generation of electricity through coal.

[B]Neither Party is Mine[/B]

[U]It should be noted[/U]

"Every man is entitled to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. " - [B]Bernard Baruch[/B].

In 2026, China's electricity generation remains dominated by fossil fuels, with coal providing approximately 54-60% of total power and natural gas contributing around 3%.

[URL]https://lowcarbonpower.org/region/People[/URL]'s_Republic_of_China.

Despite this reliance on thermal power, the country has achieved a historic milestone where renewable and low-carbon capacity exceeds fossil fuel capacity, with wind and solar installations significantly outpacing new coal builds.

[URL]https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-5-february-2026-clean-energys-share-of-economy-record-renewables-thawing-relations-with-uk[/URL]

[B]Whoop There it is (Again)[/B]!

The difference between capacity and actual electricity generation.

[I]"Every man has a right to an opinion but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."[/I] - [B]Bernard Baruch[/B], 1946.

Although the sun will always be there (until it goes Super Nova) and wind also it feel it important to point out that the equipment that is used to generate the actual electricity wears out over time.

All solar panels lose efficiency over time, a process known as degradation. High-quality panels typically degrade at an average rate of 0. 5% to 0. 8% per year, meaning they retain approximately 80% to 85% of their original capacity after 25 years.

[URL]https://bluebirdsolar.com/blogs/all/the-real-reasons-solar-panel-efficiency-drops-with-age[/URL]

The typical operational lifespan of a wind turbine is 20 to 25 years, though with proper maintenance and favorable environmental conditions, this can be extended to 30 years or more.

[URL]https://www.avaada.com/blog/how-long-do-wind-turbines-last-can-their-lifetime-be-extended/[/URL]

[U]It should be noted[/U]:

Nuclear's cost is driven almost entirely by capital expenditure ($12,300 $17,570/ kW vs. $1,250 $2,950/ kW for solar). Its fuel and O&M costs are very low.

Nuclear's cost is driven almost entirely by capital expenditure ($12,300 $17,570/ kW vs. $1,250 $2,950/ kW for solar). Its fuel and O&M costs are very low.

The gap narrows when you account for reliability. Nuclear runs at 94% capacity factor 24/7. Solar and wind require storage, overcapacity, or grid backup to deliver firm power. Lazard's "LCOE+" with 2-hour storage pushes solar to $50 $131/ MWh and onshore wind to $70 $140/ MWh.

On raw generation cost, solar and onshore wind are the cheapest sources available. Nuclear sits in the middle more expensive than onshore renewables but cheaper than offshore wind and gas peaking. Its main economic argument is dispatchability: it delivers firm, low-carbon power without needing storage, which becomes increasingly valuable as grids add more variable renewables.

[URL]https://solartechonline.com/blog/cost-of-renewable-energy-guide/[/URL]

[U]Just Say No[/U] was a prominent anti-drug campaign launched by First Lady Nancy Reagan in the 1980's, encouraging American youth to refuse illegal recreational drugs by simply saying the word "no. " The slogan originated in 1982 when Reagan advised a schoolgirl in Oakland, California, on how to respond to drug offers, and it quickly evolved into a nationwide movement featuring Just Say No clubs, public service announcements, and celebrity endorsements.

[URL]https://www.businessinsider.com/watch-nancy-reagan-just-say-no-war-on-drugs-2016-3[/URL]

Tough to argue with her postion.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;3088934][URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/us/politics/us-troops-latin-america.html[/URL][/QUOTE]Why do you post articles behind pay walls?

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089025]Ignoring data? Well I guess that would be anyone still presenting and still looking at data for China, from 2024.

As of the first half of the 2026 year, non-fossil fuel sources, surpassed coal, in China for the 1st time.
[LIST][b]China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter, [/b]July 24th, 2026. [url]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html#1[/url]

[i]By the end of June, total solar power capacity had caught up with coal, effectively tying it as the country's largest primary power source, says the mid-year report released by the China Electricity Council (CEC) cited by local media. ...

As the share of coal slipped, electricity generation from renewable energy rose by about 9% from a year earlier, according to the data from China's National Energy Administration (NEA).

Renewable energy accounted for 41.2% of China's total electricity generation in the first half of 2026, with wind and solar combined generating almost 25% of the total power output.
"Official Chinese data showed earlier this week that [b][u]the share of coal in China's electricity output fell in the first half of 2026 to below 50%,[/u][/b] for the first time on record, in a landmark achievement of the Chinese policy to boost non-fossil power sources." [/i][/LIST]
Yes, as of June 2026, China still relies on coal, but is now only 49.7% (and less than non-fossil fuel sources) of their energy mix and falling fast. So who is ignoring facts now?[/QUOTE]But China liars, like for covid, still make the biggest pollution on our planet, followed by Trump country. After atmospheric V8 4.2, now V8 4.8 bi turbo again powered, programmed for E85 costing 0,86 € and turbos work so good with E85 , giving more powerful engine. Again, good job for our planet. E85 made with beet.

If the Democrats win the midterms, in my opinion, it will be a disaster for the Dis United States of America!

Her prediction appears to be emerging exactly as she predicted. She obviously knows the methods of Russia Russia Russia fascist dictators and wannabe ones like Trump very well:

[URL]https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeZmL-hNuqO/?psln=MXhsNjBodm93aTAwdA==[/URL]

[QUOTE]Three children and an adult were killed in a shooting at an Oregon elementary school Thursday, and the suspected gunman is also dead, shot by an armed good Samaritan. The shooter was a 16-year-old Bend resident armed with a shotgun who was killed by an [b]armed bystander with a concealed carry permit[/b], federal law enforcement sources told Fox News. The bystander "definitely prevented more deaths," one source said.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.foxnews.com/us/3-children-1-adult-killed-oregon-elementary-school-shooting-suspected-gunman-dead-police[/URL]

Democrats do not want me and my fellow citizens to own guns.

[U]Community Safety Firearms Act (SB 243)[/U]

Passed in 2025, SB 243 bans rapid-fire activators (such as bump stocks) and allows local governments to prohibit concealed carry license holders from carrying firearms into public buildings where official meetings occur. The bill passed both chambers along party lines, with [U]Democrats supporting it[/U] as a measure to prevent mass shootings and [B]Republicans opposing it as an infringement on Second Amendment rights[/B].

[QUOTE=Canada;3089022]There is no MAGA in Alberta. Only a conservative province being run by a socialist government. Alberta has enough hydroelectric power to easily supply Alberta with no high cost wind and solar that drives our costs up. But Alberta was forced by the socialists to go green. Yes stupidity at its finest. Solar is not efficient with 2 feet of snow and ice on it and windmills produce nothing when it is 40 below. Would you live in Northern Alberta with only wind power in the winter. Is anyone that dumb? Probably only a socialist that lives in a warm climate would be that dumb.[/QUOTE]And there is no MAGA in Europe either. Spidy just blames operators when the plans of the climate change nuts fail as they often do. As I have said a million times, solar and wind make sense in some places. It is when the climate change nuts try to ram it down everyone's throat, it is a disaster. The climate change nuts in Europe are awful with Germany taking the cake. They shut down nukes, put up solar panels, and when that turned out to be unreliable, became dependent on Russian natural gas. Nordstream is blown up, and Germany is now burning coal like no tomorrow. Way to go, guys!

I did not think there could be more stupid than solar in Germany but solar in Alberta one ups it. The damage these climate change nuts have done to the world economy has been staggering. If China and Russia were not sponsoring the climate change nuts, they should have been.

Thing is solar and batteries are not all bad. To have AC all night, I had to leave my RV generator on which I hated. I got the more power efficient AC and loaded up the RV with batteries such that I can run the AC off them every night. I will be powering up the batteries with solar but the issue like I said is time and sunlight. Is there enough time and sun to charge the batteries? So let's say I have enough juice for 4 hours of AC. Well, I am not going to get up at 4 AM to turn on the generator so I was just leaving it on all night.

Thing is Ecoflow has come out with an intelligent generator that works with its power stations such that when the batteries run down to a given percentage, the generator kicks on. So instead of running a generator for 8 to 10 hours at night, I might be using it for two or three. This is an intelligent way to cut down on fossil fuel use.

And I did go out and get a Tesla for someone in the family to use the FSD or full service driving. It is nice but it would be a 10 X better vehicle if it had a little generator in it to help with range. I used to think Elon Musk did that to please the climate change nuts, but now I do not. If you recall the climate change nuts started burning down his dealerships once Musk tried cutting out the fat in government, so he no longer needs to please them. I think Musk does not want to give up the money he makes on his Tesla charging stations.

I was wrong about something. I said the reason that natural gas turbine production was backed up was because of the climate change nuts, but that is not so. The reason there is such a backlog is the electricity demands from the people building data centers. The SpaceX offering contained Grok, Musk's version of AI, and he is building data centers himself and he needs the natural gas turbines too. So Elon Musk, the original climate change guy, is now building natural gas parts to speed up his own need for gas powered electricity. [URL]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-build-gas-turbine-parts-meet-ai-demand-2026-8[/URL]

In a post on X, Musk wrote that SpaceX and Tesla were both racing to build their own massive solar panel factories "as fast as possible" — but added that this would not be enough to meet surging demand for electricity.

"Natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years," Musk said, adding that SpaceX would seek to build its own gas turbine blades and vanes — which are notoriously difficult to manufacture — to speed up production.

"By doing in-house casting at SpaceX, we can accelerate natural gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months, which is a profound game-changer," the billionaire said.

That part about bootstrapping solar is bullshit. A data center cannot be 100% dependent on solar.

This next part is funny when you consider Amazon and Microsoft are huge Democratic donors. OpenAI, Amazon, and Microsoft have all struck partnerships to power data centers with natural gas, while Meta's "Hyperion" data center in northern Louisiana will require 10 new gas power plants to supply it with electricity.

The rush to secure natural gas generators has sparked a global shortage of gas turbines and pushed some aerospace startups to repurpose their jet engines into turbines to fuel AI data centers.

Apparently, they didn't get the memo Spidy has been putting out. We don't need fossil fuels anymore.

I would ask how the data centers are coming along in Canada, but I have a feeling I already know. Well, at least you guys now have a leader who is not a bat shit crazy climate change nut. Everyone in Canada should be kissing the ass of Alberta and the oil companies that are working there. If Canada did not have them, their economy would be God awful and much worse than it already is. But they don't kiss your ass; they piss in your face. I hope Alberta does become the 51st American state. It would serve those dumb libtards right.

The Democrats are doing everything within their power to deprive me and my fellow citizens of that future. I don't care if 73 year old registered Democrats living in Bangkok, Thailand understand Bitcoin and crypto. Republicans understand it and are actively working make complete access to me and my fellow citizens available in the Dis United States of America.

[U]Lets start with StableCoins[/U]:

Stablecoin issuers like [U]Tether[/U] and [U]Circle[/U] have become major purchasers of USA Treasuries, collectively holding approximately $166 billion in government debt as of mid-2025. This surge in demand is driven by regulatory requirements, such as the GENIUS Act, which mandates that stablecoins be backed 1:1 by high-quality assets like short-term Treasury bills to maintain their dollar peg.

Stablecoins provide a reliable source of demand for short-term debt, helping offset reduced buying by traditional holders like [B]China[/B] and [B]Japan[/B]. Analysts estimate that stablecoin issuers could become the third-largest buyer of Treasury bills in the coming years, potentially influencing yield curves and issuance strategies.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;3088994]Combine that with his pathetic private-sector jobs numbers that are on track to produce a net loss of perhaps a million American private-sector jobs over the course of his two presidential terms[/QUOTE]Job creation is irrelevant.

Over the last two years, 175,796 USA Jobs have been directly attributed to AI-related cuts since tracking began in 2023, with the vast majority occurring in 2025 and 2026.

10.4 million jobs are projected to be lost (due to AI) between now and 2032. Not going to matter who holds office.

[B]Neither Party is Mine![/B]

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3089138]And there is no MAGA in Europe either. Spidy just blames operators when the plans of the climate change nuts fail as they often do. As I have said a million times, solar and wind make sense in some places. It is when the climate change nuts try to ram it down everyone's throat, it is a disaster. The climate change nuts in Europe are awful with Germany taking the cake. They shut down nukes, put up solar panels, and when that turned out to be unreliable, became dependent on Russian natural gas. Nordstream is blown up, and Germany is now burning coal like no tomorrow. Way to go, guys!

I did not think there could be more stupid than solar in Germany but solar in Alberta one ups it. The damage these climate change nuts have done to the world economy has been staggering. If China and Russia were not sponsoring the climate change nuts, they should have been.

Thing is solar and batteries are not all bad. To have AC all night, I had to leave my RV generator on which I hated. I got the more power efficient AC and loaded up the RV with batteries such that I can run the AC off them every night. I will be powering up the batteries with solar but the issue like I said is time and sunlight. Is there enough time and sun to charge the batteries? So let's say I have enough juice for 4 hours of AC. Well, I am not going to get up at 4 AM to turn on the generator so I was just leaving it on all night.

Thing is Ecoflow has come out with an intelligent generator that works with its power stations such that when the batteries run down to a given percentage, the generator kicks on. So instead of running a generator for 8 to 10 hours at night, I might be using it for two or three. This is an intelligent way to cut down on fossil fuel use.

And I did go out and get a Tesla for someone in the family to use the FSD or full service driving. It is nice but it would be a 10 X better vehicle if it had a little generator in it to help with range. I used to think Elon Musk did that to please the climate change nuts, but now I do not. If you recall the climate change nuts started burning down his dealerships once Musk tried cutting out the fat in government, so he no longer needs to please them. I think Musk does not want to give up the money he makes on his Tesla charging stations.

I was wrong about something. I said the reason that natural gas turbine production was backed up was because of the climate change nuts, but that is not so. The reason there is such a backlog is the electricity demands from the people building data centers. The SpaceX offering contained Grok, Musk's version of AI, and he is building data centers himself and he needs the natural gas turbines too. So Elon Musk, the original climate change guy, is now building natural gas parts to speed up his own need for gas powered electricity. [URL]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-build-gas-turbine-parts-meet-ai-demand-2026-8[/URL]

In a post on X, Musk wrote that SpaceX and Tesla were both racing to build their own massive solar panel factories "as fast as possible" but added that this would not be enough to meet surging demand for electricity.

"Natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years," Musk said, adding that SpaceX would seek to build its own gas turbine blades and vanes which are notoriously difficult to manufacture to speed up production.

"By doing in-house casting at SpaceX, we can accelerate natural gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months, which is a profound game-changer," the billionaire said.

That part about bootstrapping solar is bullshit. A data center cannot be 100% dependent on solar.

This next part is funny when you consider Amazon and Microsoft are huge Democratic donors. OpenAI, Amazon, and Microsoft have all struck partnerships to power data centers with natural gas, while Meta's "Hyperion" data center in northern Louisiana will require 10 new gas power plants to supply it with electricity.

The rush to secure natural gas generators has sparked a global shortage of gas turbines and pushed some aerospace startups to repurpose their jet engines into turbines to fuel AI data centers.

Apparently, they didn't get the memo Spidy has been putting out. We don't need fossil fuels anymore.

I would ask how the data centers are coming along in Canada, but I have a feeling I already know. Well, at least you guys now have a leader who is not a bat shit crazy climate change nut. Everyone in Canada should be kissing the ass of Alberta and the oil companies that are working there. If Canada did not have them, their economy would be God awful and much worse than it already is. But they don't kiss your ass; they piss in your face. I hope Alberta does become the 51st American state. It would serve those dumb libtards right.[/QUOTE]Well said. It would be great if Alberta separated and bankrupt Canada.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089107]If the Democrats win the midterms, in my opinion, it will be a disaster for the Dis United States of America![/QUOTE]Yes you are 100% correct.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089037]No need to lie, unless individuals don't understand the difference between [B]Capacity vs Generation[/B][/QUOTE]Well if you think that's what I was doing, you'd be wrong! However, then by the same token, there's no need for you to lie either, unless individuals don't understand, there is no difference between, [B]"electricity output"[/B] and [B]"electricity generation"[/B].

If a reader doesn't understand the difference, between electricity [B]Capacity vs Generation[/B], that is on them to seek understanding. For those folks that read the article, it's should be very clear.

But clearly some folks, couldn't make it past the article's headlines [B]"China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter",[/B] and jumped to conclusions and either don't know, or have forgotten how to read a simple report on energy and how various 'words' in the industry are used to convey the same meaning.

So while the article reported on the uptick in solar capacity, [U]it also clearly reported[/U] on the historic milestone "this week", where for the first-time coal's [B]"electricity output",[/B] (not capacity) fell below 50%, making non-fossil fuels the majority energy generation. As I clearly also [U]underlined this[/U] in my post.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089025] "Official Chinese data showed earlier this week that [b][u]the share of coal in China's electricity output fell in the first half of 2026 to below 50%,[/u][/b] for the first time on record, in a landmark achievement of the Chinese policy to boost non-fossil power sources."[/QUOTE][U]The undisputed FACTS:[/U]

It's not a "lie" or a "lie by omission", when those, that don't know how to read a simple article on energy and understand the words that are being written. It's on them to seek understanding (or ask for clarification), given the many tools available today, it shouldn't be that hard.

To make my point [U]perfectly clear,[/U] here is another article, that uses YOUR very same words, [B]"coal-fired generation"[/B], to describe the very same historical milestone event described in the first article China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter, July 24th, 2026. [URL]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html#1[/URL], that used "electricity output".

[B]China's coal-fired generation falls below 50% for first time, signalling structural shift in Asia's largest power market,[/B] 31st, Jul 2026. [URL]https://www.bigmint.co/insights/detail/chinas-coal-fired-generation-falls-below-50-for-first-time-signalling-structural-shift-in-asias-largest-power-market-775498#1[/URL].

The [B]Undisputed FACTS[/B] are, that as of June 2026, China's non-fossil fuel sources of energy, now make-up the majority of electricity power generation (ie. Electricity output) on their electricity grid. PERIOD. FULL STOP!

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089037]"Every man is entitled to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. " - [B]Bernard Baruch[/B].[/QUOTE]Ditto! Right back at ya!

[QUOTE=Canada;3089019][b]Stupidity[/b]

Rhode Island is not very smart. Wyoming on the other hand is looking at building the data centers and building mini nuclear plants to power them. Construction has started on the nuclear plants. Get rid of commercial wind and solar and go nuclear. Only makes sense.[/QUOTE]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. You said it, "stupidity", again exemplified when one MAGA co-signs another, without knowing and understanding discussion or debate, especially when it comes to propaganda MAGA math.

BTW, I wish Wyoming the best of luck, with their mini nuclear plants. You should keep us abreast of said project! And BTW, when are they set to come on line, in Wyoming?

[QUOTE=Canada;3089022]There is no MAGA in Alberta. Only a conservative province being run by a socialist government. Alberta has enough hydroelectric power to easily supply Alberta with no high cost wind and solar that drives our costs up. But Alberta was forced by the socialists to go green. Yes stupidity at its finest. Solar is not efficient with 2 feet of snow and ice on it and windmills produce nothing when it is 40 below. Would you live in Northern Alberta with only wind power in the winter. Is anyone that dumb? Probably only a socialist that lives in a warm climate would be that dumb.[/QUOTE]I'm beginning to wonder if you really come from Alberta or not. I mean, your knowledge on Alberta (that anyone can easily Google and investigate / research) is IMHO historic and woefully bad reporting here on ISG.

According the to FACTS investigated, Alberta hydro is [B]a puny 2% to 3%[/B] of their electricity generation. While renewables (solar, wind, biomass) are 18-19% of Albert's electricity generation.

So does that mean, "shit-ton" of Alberta hydro, Canada says they have, when operating in [I]-40C winter conditions[/I] and under 2-feet of snow, can only produce 2-3%, while renewables in Alberta [B]under the same conditions[/B] [I]6x to 9x times more[/I].
[LIST]Note: I said "electricity generation" for those that still confused.[/LIST]Either the FACTS are lying or Canada is. I wonder which one it is? Or maybe Canada, is confused with British Colombia, Canada, where their hydro is like 89-91%.

So you see, once readers push past the MAGA propaganda and the MAGA math, by either co-signing MAGA posters on Alberta (neither of which seem to know anything about Alberta, although one claims to be from Alberta, while the other just chimes-in nonsensically), may I suggest do a little research and provide real would facts, rather than the usual MAGA propaganda and math.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234]Well if you think that's what I was doing, you'd be wrong! However, then by the same token, there's no need for you to lie either, unless individuals don't understand, there is no difference between, [B]"electricity output"[/B] and [B]"electricity generation"[/B].[/QUOTE]Yep, continue your word play like the Registered Democrat that lives in Bangkok, Thailand that ignores the difference between correlation and causation. I am wrong because [B]Spidy[/B] says I am wrong. Yes, I understand that.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234]If a reader doesn't understand the difference, between electricity [B]Capacity vs Generation[/B], that is on them to seek understanding. For those folks that read the article, it's should be very clear.[/QUOTE]Only a closed minded reader insists that a individual interprets the facts in exact the same way. It is like a jury trial. Why have them? If the facts are always interpreted the same way, then why not just have a judge decide all cases like they do in Thailand?

[QUOTE][b]China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter[/b]

The share of coal averaged 49.7% of China's total electricity output in the first half of this year, official data showed on Thursday. Despite the milestone of reducing coal power output to below 50% of total generation for the first time ever, China continues to rely on coal for power for industry and to maintain the reliability of the power grids.[/QUOTE][URL]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html[/URL]#1.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234]But clearly some folks, couldn't make it past the article's headlines [B]"China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter",[/B] and jumped to conclusions and either don't know, or have forgotten how to read a simple report on energy and how various 'words' in the industry are used to convey the same meaning.[/QUOTE][B]Spidy[/B] you need to actually read the article you posted. You also need to allow for the interpretation of others of the information you present.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234]So while the article reported on the uptick in solar capacity, [U]it also clearly reported[/U] on the historic milestone "this week", where for the first-time coal's [B]"electricity output",[/B] (not capacity) fell below 50%, making non-fossil fuels the majority energy generation. As I clearly also [U]underlined this[/U] in my post.[/QUOTE]Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah like Charle Browns teacher.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234][U]The undisputed FACTS:[/U][/QUOTE]The undisputed fact is that coal is still a MAJOR component of [B]China's[/B] energy generation.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234]It's not a "lie" or a "lie by omission", when those, that don't know how to read a simple article on energy and understand the words that are being written. It's on them to seek understanding (or ask for clarification), given the many tools available today, it shouldn't be that hard.[/QUOTE]I disagree with you. You are also a member of the Democratic Party. Party mentality does not allow for dissent.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234]To make my point [U]perfectly clear,[/U] here is another article, that uses YOUR very same words, [B]"coal-fired generation"[/B], to describe the very same historical milestone event described in the first article China's Solar Capacity Set to Overtake Coal This Quarter, July 24th, 2026. [URL]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html#1[/URL], that used "electricity output".[/QUOTE]If you wish to argue with me about use of the English Language you got the wrong person. Read the articles you post. If I read the EXACT same article and come to a different conclusion then that is that. Your need to win is quite a irritation to me. There is nothing to win [B]Spidy[/B]. Especially since you have never played the sport. ROTFLMAO!

[QUOTE=Spidy;3089234][B]China's coal-fired generation falls below 50% for first time, signalling structural shift in Asia's largest power market,[/B] 31st, Jul 2026.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.bigmint.co/insights/detail/chinas-coal-fired-generation-falls-below-50-for-first-time-signalling-structural-shift-in-asias-largest-power-market-775498#1[/URL]

[QUOTE]The [B]Undisputed FACTS[/B] are, that as of June 2026, China's non-fossil fuel sources of energy, now make-up the majority of electricity power generation (ie. Electricity output) on their electricity grid. PERIOD. FULL STOP![/QUOTE][U]Undisputed fact[/U]

[QUOTE]Despite the milestone of reducing coal power output to below 50% of total generation for the first time ever, China continues to rely on coal for power for industry and to maintain the reliability of the power grids.[/QUOTE][U]What I am going to do[/U]

[QUOTE]"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." - [b]Winston Churchill[/b] June 1, 1940[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Canada;3089226]Yes you are 100% correct.[/QUOTE]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=SubCmdr;3089248]Yep, continue your word play like the Registered Democrat that lives in Bangkok, Thailand that ignores the difference between correlation and causation. I am wrong because [B]Spidy[/B] says I am wrong. Yes, I understand that.

Only a closed minded reader insists that a individual interprets the facts in exact the same way. It is like a jury trial. Why have them? If the facts are always interpreted the same way, then why not just have a judge decide all cases like they do in Thailand?

[URL]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html[/URL]#1.

[B]Spidy[/B] you need to actually read the article you posted. You also need to allow for the interpretation of others of the information you present.

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah like Charle Browns teacher.[/QUOTE]I expected much better argument from you than "blah, blah, blah", but I guess when the undeniable and UNDISPUTED FACTS, in just one (1) but two (2) articles, clearly show China has turned the corner and its non-fossil fuel energy sources is the MAJORITY make-up, in it electricity grid mix, it's hard for some folk to believe.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089248]The undisputed fact is that coal is still a MAJOR component of [B]China's[/B] energy generation.[/QUOTE]49.7% to be exact. But the MAJOR component of non-fossils fuels make-up 50.3%, to be exact. But yes, coal still play a significant but diminishing role, as China tends to marches forward.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089248]I disagree with you. You are also a member of the Democratic Party. Party mentality does not allow for dissent.

If you wish to argue with me about use of the English Language you got the wrong person. Read the articles you post. If I read the EXACT same article and come to a different conclusion then that is that. Your need to win is quite a irritation to me. There is nothing to win [B]Spidy[/B]. Especially since you have never played the sport. ROTFLMAO![/QUOTE]Oh, sorry brother, you don't get that crutch with me! I said before, it is on [U]the reader to seek understanding (or ask for clarification[/U]), given the many tools available today, it shouldn't be that hard. As far as I can tell, most of the article is written in plain English [URL]https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Solar-Capacity-Set-to-Overtake-Coal-This-Quarter.html#1[/URL], and the other article used your exact words of [B]"coal-fired generation"[/B], to describe the milestone event.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3088264]And of course, you miss the obvious downsides with solar and wind, The amount of land required to produce enough electricity for 1,000 households per year at a natural gas power plant is just 0. 18 acres, including the land required both for the power plant itself and for the production and transportation facilities to supply natural gas to the plant.
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And just as natural gas and fossil fuels kick battery's ass when it comes to storage space, cost, and weight, nuclear kicks fossil fuels ass in that regard.[/QUOTE][I]But, but, but...[/I]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 [B][i]"out of thin-air?[/i][/B].

Yes, California, essentially just got a new power plant on their existing grid (with no addition fossil fuel fallacy "land", needed or required, although many brain-washed MAGA would have you believe otherwise), as nothing was physically built and no "lands" were expropriated.

A California Tesla irtual Power Plant (VPP) officially broke records by delivering a peak of 601 megawatts (MW) of power and 932 megawatt-hours (MWh) of total energy to the grid.

This massive grid-support event occurred during peak energy demand on October 6, 2026. [URL]https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/future-of-energy/power-to-the-people--california-s-biggest-battery-test-ever-just.html[/URL].

The scale of the event, saw a traditional, centralized power station, create this "invisible" power plant, that was stitched together using software:
[LIST]85,774 homes equipped with Tesla Powerwall batteries participated simultaneously.
634 MW was the absolute peak reached when counting the entire fleet (including some non-participating standby units).
$2 per kWh is the compensation rate participating California homeowners receive through utility programs like PG&E for feeding electricity back when the grid is strained.[/LIST]
I'm kidding, but really [I]...who the fuck needs land?[/I] Ya got to luv the power of renewables! Best of all about this story, is that taxpaying, hard working, [I]"woke" Californians got paid ($$$)[/I].

2026 The Year of the Battery.

[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]I suspect the current Article 2 leader of the Dis United States of America thought he could conclude the [I]illegal undeclared military action against Iran[/I] and take a victory lab before the midterms. He was listening to his boy Putin. Who made the same miscalculation. That is what happens when your advisors don't tell you the truth or you are too hard headed to listen to them when they do.

[B]DOJ reaches settlement with Mississippi police department it found routinely violated civil rights[/B]

[QUOTE]The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday it reached a settlement forcing reforms in a Mississippi city and its police department, which the DOJ found [b]discriminated against Black people[/b], used excessive force and retaliated against critics.[/QUOTE][URL]https://apnews.com/article/doj-civil-rights-violations-lexington-mississippi-police-e083e5acee15abedba78ed3aa37b0620[/URL]

I wrote a post addressing energy security. What was the response?

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2226161]Crickets?[/QUOTE]I care about the Dis United States of America. [B]China controls over 80% of global solar manufacturing capacity[/B]!

[QUOTE]Energy security today extends well beyond securing fuel supplies. It increasingly encompasses securing access to clean energy technologies themselves. Countries that rely heavily on imported solar components risk exposure to pricing volatility, trade disruptions, export controls, and geopolitical uncertainties. Consequently, governments are increasingly viewing domestic solar manufacturing as a strategic capability rather than merely an industrial investment.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/24/the-geopolitics-of-solar-manufacturing-and-how-can-india-build-a-china-alternative-supply-chain/[/URL]

[B]Why anyone want to make the Dis United States of America dependent upon a hostile foreign power to supply it's energy is beyond me?[/B]

The United States produces sufficient fossil fuels to power its electrical power plants, as it is a net exporter of energy. Fossil fuels (petroleum, natural gas, and coal) account for approximately 75% of total USA Energy production and 57-60% of electricity generation.

[URL]https://usafacts.org/articles/what-are-the-top-energy-production-sources-in-the-us/[/URL]

[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]There's a reason that guy is called Donald Judas Epstein. A child-killing war criminal pedo who backstabbed every people who helped him get in power, the MAGA idiots, the US backed Al Saud terror regime, the little midget scumbag Israeli agent in Kiev and many others. The only ones he did not backstab yet are his masters, the scumbags Israel terrorist supporters billionaires.

[QUOTE=Sirioja;3088961]Now limiting starlink for Ukraine is protecting Putin and giving him money is killing Ukrainians. Trump really put shame on USA, like Netanyahou on Israel. Sad world with such shameful parasites.[/QUOTE]The little midget scumbag Israel agent from Kiev is the one to blame for the death of millions of unfortunate Ukrainian men. That pos sold the Ukraine in exchange of money for the benefit of the same parasitic scumbags foreign agents polluting the American politics. He should never have listened to the clown Boris Jonson in the early months of the war when a peace deal was about to be signed.

[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3089279]I suspect the current Article 2 leader of the Dis United States of America thought he could conclude the [I]illegal undeclared military action against Iran[/I] and take a victory lab before the midterms. He was listening to his boy Putin. Who made the same miscalculation. That is what happens when your advisors don't tell you the truth or you are too hard headed to listen to them when they do.[/QUOTE]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.

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.

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.

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.

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]The 9th Stage of the Big Con:[/b]

9. Blowing him off: "Cooling out" the markmanaging their reaction or cutting contact so they realize too late they've been robbed.[/QUOTE]

[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.
..........
[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?