American Politics

**EihTooms** · 02-05-26 15:24

Nope. No wild coincidence. No witch's curse. No bad luck for Repubs. No weird economic or business cycle that only favors Dems and punishes Repubs.

Nope.

It's crap Repub economic policies and stewardship. Every time. For about 100 years.

And, sure enough, there's that ol" reliable and utterly predictable Worst Since a Previous Repub Economic Disaster designation!

Layoffs in January were the highest to start a year since 2009, Challenger says

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layo...ndroidappshare

U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago and 205% from December 2025. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009.

At the same time, companies announced just 5,306 new hires, also the lowest January since 2009, which is when Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking such data.

MAGAs and that decisive tiny handful of angry Muslims spread across the only 3 swing states that mattered, PA, MI and WI, sure FAFO real good this time.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4yo...EydzY1a3EwZ3Jn

**EihTooms** · 02-04-26 16:32

Repub Trump is already the only so-called president since Repub Hoover, almost a hundred years ago, to leave office with fewer jobs in the USA economy than when he started his term. Now he very well might become the only so-called president to TWICE leave office in TWO separate terms with fewer jobs in the USA economy than when he started. Wow.

Private payrolls rose by just 22,000, far short of expectations, ADP says

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/adp-...ndroidappshare

The U.S. labor market barely budged in January, with hiring below even muted expectations, according to a report Wednesday from payrolls processing firm ADP.

Private companies added just 22,000 positions for the month and the number would have been negative had it not been for a surge of 74,000 hires in the education and health services category. The total was less than the downwardly revised 37,000 increase in December and below the Dow Jones consensus forecast for 45,000.

You MAGAs really know how to pick them! Lolol.

I wonder if Trump will also outdo himself on the issue of Mass Murder of Americans this 2nd time around. I suppose it will all depend on how much of a distraction from the 38,000 mentions of him in the Epstein Files he calculates another Trump's Pandemic might provide. Due to the disastrous decisions he made in his first term, his Mass Murder victim count for Americans alone has so far numbered over 1 million. Then there were millions more Trump Mass Murder victims around the world.

The Worst Jobs Creation numbers AND the Most Mass Murder Victims numbers all in one presidency is, uh, quite a feat, even for a Repub.

Well, that's what those dumb Repub MAGA hillbillies voted for in an election that was clinched for them by that relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims spread across the only 3 swing states that mattered:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4yo...EydzY1a3EwZ3Jn

**Elvis 2008** · 02-04-26 15:53

Originally Posted by BennieBen [View Original Post]

Trump madness and chaotic governance pushed them to stop their investment in dam construction targeting the American market I suppose. That why they signed contract who are keep the domstic consumption in priority and exportation in 2nd.

The problem with this TDS madness is that it gets blamed for everything. Yeah, Bennie, when I looked into Canada and their hydroelectric potential, it was great. Then you look at real estate prices, immigrants surging, crime rates in Canada, the political leadership, and especially the shit Ottawa pulled with the Covid trucker's strike, and I would not want to put a penny into Canada right now.

I grew up near Canada and I considered Canadians and Americans interchangeable. Even when W Bush came into power, and one USD would buy $1. 50 Canadian, I thought Canada was greatly undervalued. They balanced their budget, were not fighting stupid wars, and even provided free / national healthcare. Their cities were crime free models many American cities that many American city wanted to emulate. And ten years, the Canadian and American dollar were equal in value.

But Canada cow towed to their women who were no longer having kids, and Canada tried to fix their population problem with immigration and unlike the USA (well, unlike the USA except under Biden) they let in so many immigrants they lost their culture. Housing prices skyrocketed, crime rates soared, and the Canadian culture IMO is dead replaced by a version of liberalism that would make California blush.

In 2001, Canada was nirvana for the monger. Lap dances were $14 not $20, and the escorts were beautiful, plentiful, and legal. Now we are at one USA dollar buying $1. 37 Canadian and I think the USA dollar is undervalued. The nanny state is so strong there that Americans with one DWI are not let into the country. If you invest in Canada, you often cannot get your money out. The hostility towards the USA, even before Trump, is unreal.

The notion that Mexico is dangerous and Canada is safe has IMO been tossed on its head and given how much cheaper Mexico is, I would rather put money to work in Mexico, and it is not even close. In fact, the average Mexican worker is outperforming his Canadian counterpart. The ratio of USA dollars to Canadian would have to hit 2:1 before it would interest me.

And why would I put money into an area that is subject to the whims of pols? Hell, the keystone pipeline was this red-blue jerk around with Warren Buffett the Dems biggest antagonist. I cannot even imagine investing in dams and power lines in crazy Canada and the brain dead blue regions in the Northeastern USA. I drive throughout West Texas, and there could be a 100 X more windmills than the huge amounts they have right now. The issue is not building the wind mills but the power lines to get the energy to market. Even in the huge Permian field, there was an issue with getting oil and gas to market from there, and electricity is even more constrained than oil and gas.

And Spidy is a symptom of the liberal left and their lunacy on energy generation. He did not back off one iota when the cold spells left so many people without power when they needed it most. The liberal idiots attacked coal in the USA while China and India were constructing huge coal burning plants. Even today, Spidy is advocating Europe and its green energy policies. Look at what happened in Germany with nuclear: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Ger...er_generation/.

And to meet their mandated carbon reductions, Germany imported massive amounts of natural gas from Putin. For all the Dems and their liberal bullshit talk about Putin, it was their idiotic energy policies that enriched Putin.

So yeah, in theory, Canadian hydroelectric could be a great solution to meet the surging demand for electricity, and kudos to you for bring up a subject I did not know about, but I would not touch it given the political reality.

**FFlintstone69** · 02-04-26 05:56

Originally Posted by Sirioja [View Original Post]

After a mother with 3 children, now a 5 yo child, USA fall really crazy under so dangerous and for citizens, Trump. Wake up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKhUOvlv_I

**FFlintstone69** · 02-04-26 02:28

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

Come on already!

Get on a plane already and visit a DEI "doctor" in Brasilia LOLOL.

https://english.elpais.com/internati...-medicine.html

Nao obrigado.

Just another reason to avoid that God forsaken shithole at all costs.

**BennieBen** · 02-03-26 12:55

Originally Posted by Spidy [View Original Post]

The only thing I can verify, is that, yes indeed, Quebec is a province on the American northeastern boarders. As for the rest of the post, I'll let Elvis 2008, decipher that!

The other point of contention, is that although Quebec, has in the past, been a major supplier of clean electricity to the U.S. Northeast, it appears to be having, its own domestic supply issues.

Why Quebec struck a new hydro deal with Newfoundland and Labrador, December 13,2025, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...deal-1.7409673

Currently, Quebec is negotiating to import power from Newfoundland and Labrador, and to be able to meet contractual obligations with the U.S., as it looks to shore up it own supply, because its own electricity demands are growing faster than its current supply can meet, especially during peak periods.

Trump madness and chaotic governance pushed them to stop their investment in dam construction targeting the amercican market I suppose. That why they signed contract who are keep the domstic consumption in priority and exportation in 2nd.

**Sirioja** · 02-02-26 09:16

Originally Posted by EnterTheV [View Original Post]

It never happened!

Nothing so sure with crazy like Trump or Putin. Fortunately, Netanyahou doesn't have enough power, when war is his business. Americans who miss real democracy should look what happened in Romania on Autumn 1989.

**Spidy** · 02-02-26 05:18

Originally Posted by BennieBen [View Original Post]

Just do what usa is good to do, do business. You have Quebec next to your north-eastern border, massively invest in their dam..

The only thing I can verify, is that, yes indeed, Quebec is a province on the American northeastern boarders. As for the rest of the post, I'll let Elvis 2008, decipher that!

The other point of contention, is that although Quebec, has in the past, been a major supplier of clean electricity to the U.S. Northeast, it appears to be having, its own domestic supply issues.

Why Quebec struck a new hydro deal with Newfoundland and Labrador, December 13,2025, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...deal-1.7409673

Currently, Quebec is negotiating to import power from Newfoundland and Labrador, and to be able to meet contractual obligations with the U.S., as it looks to shore up it own supply, because its own electricity demands are growing faster than its current supply can meet, especially during peak periods.

**BennieBen** · 01-30-26 19:27

Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]

How those solar panels work when covered up by 6 feet of snow? How those windmills churning when their blades are frozen solid? Show me where in the LOC formula where climate is covered. Or are you just once again spouting off a number without knowing what is behind the calculation? Is this climate change all over again?

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/ger...vere-strategic

And while you are praising Europe for going green, they are running the other way going back to natural gas and saying shutting down nuclear was a mistake.

Yeah, the LCOE is going to look real good for solar and wind after natural gas prices went through the roof. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/natural-gas

As for why we still need coal there is this: Coal plants carried weeks sometimes months of fuel on site. That fuel was already purchased, already delivered, and already insulated from real-time weather events. Coal did not compete with residential heating demand. It did not depend on pipeline pressure, compressor stations, or wellhead performance. When the temperature dropped, coal plants did not enter a bidding war with homeowners for survival. They simply ran.

That mattered because coal often sat at or near the margin during winter peaks. And when coal is the marginal fuel, prices behave differently. They move modestly. They reflect cost, not fear. They do not explode because of perceived scarcity three states away.

Contrast that with today's system. Natural gas now sets the price in much of the country. Gas does not need to fail to become expensive; it only needs to be stressed. Cold weather alone is enough. Add pipeline congestion, freeze-offs, or even the risk of nonperformance, and markets immediately inject a scarcity premium. Wholesale electric prices spike even if every generator shows up and no emergency is declared.

It is worth asking a simple, uncomfortable question: If coal still dominated the electric grid the way it once did, would this cold snap even matter?

From a consumer perspective, the answer is largely no.

So yeah, solar and wind may be cheaper but they fail just when you need them most whereas coal is reliable and does not stick the consumer with massive price shocks when winter storms roll in. The batteries used with solar and wind are depleted in no time. Coal stores energy better than anything in freezing cold weather.

In Texas which produces more alternative energy than anywhere, and a cold snap will be a few days. It makes sense there. When you start talking the northern USA, this weather can last for months!

Man, I am so seek of you and Tooms lecture what Americans should do from abroad. You should have been stuck in the Northern USA going without power or paying electrical bills through the nose like everyone else. But you do not practice what you preach!

Just do what usa is good to do, do business. You have Quebec next to your north-eastern border, massively invest in their dam, they are buidling dam under the water now. They are building thousands of them and they are almost impossible to detect without advanced satelite technology. Ask them to give you acces to plant some military base to defend your asset and offer them the deal of the millenium. A long term contract of like a cantury in which they will get richer then any oil producer and on your side do your are doing money by selling it back to amarican citizen and to the south american country. They have like 50% of their land covered of river and lake, its enough to produce enrgy for the whole world. In less then 50 years you could had all the american continent supplied with green energy who could charge your electric vehicule and heat your house. The air pollution would drop so fast, the continent air quality would be back to what it was when you was hunting bison and fighting the native. This is how you can make the place new and different, the current generation are sick of pollution, do something cleaner then every where and you are back on top for the rest of the 21th century.

**Spidy** · 01-30-26 03:00

Originally Posted by Elvis2008 [View Original Post]

How those solar panels work when covered up by 6 feet of snow? How those windmills churning when their blades are frozen solid? Show me where in the LOC formula where climate is covered. Or are you just once again spouting off a number without knowing what is behind the calculation? Is this climate change all over again?

Duh! ...everyone knows, that output drops when snow covers a solar panel, and smart operators should naturally plan for it. But as petrol-heads insistently drown on about the failures of solar and wind, perhaps they should, they should why oil and gas output have also dropped in the 2026 frigid winter cold snap?

US energy sector braces for winter storm as crude and natural gas output fall Jan 24th, 2026. U.S. crude output is set to slip as the cold snap and stormy conditions push operators to shut in production in key basins, according to state regulators and analysts. That could lead to a total loss of around 300,000 barrels per day, said Energy Aspects, adding that the production outage could climb further.

The storm could cut 86 billion cubic feet of natural gas production over the next two weeks, Energy Aspects said, noting that the Appalachia region could lose 35 bcf of output.

https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ll-2026-01-23/

Tell me again, how will a U.S. grid, that runs 60% on fossil fuels, is going to power itself on fossil fuels going forward, when it can even get passed a winter storm, where production levels of oil and gas drastically drop off during a storm?

5th Grade Maths:

However, it seems you still can't do basic 5th grade math, from my last post? Well here allow me to help with your 5th grade math assignment, I left with you.

60 is bigger than 15. In fact it is exactly 4x times bigger. So when the USA Electricity grid is powered by 60% fossil fuels, and only 15% solar and wind, it's only far that when the grid fails, fossil fuels should shoulders 4x times the blame.

Remember though, the real blame (like Texas 2021), in this 2026 winter storm, comes down to poor grid management, downed lines and insufficient preparedness, resulting in grid failure.

PS: By contrast, there was an abundance of wind generation as the storm rips through parts of New Mexico and Oklahoma.

**EihTooms** · 01-29-26 20:02

Shocker. Trump's record high increase in American Consumer Taxes is producing the opposite result of what he said it would do.

Man, he really has those foreign importers on the run, now! LOL. Remember when I said every other world leader would be champing at the bit to get a seat opposite numbskull Trump at any negotiation table anywhere at anytime? Lolol.

Trade balance soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/trad...ndroidappshare

The U.S. deficit with its global trading partners nearly doubled in November as the shortfall with the European Union swelled.

Following a month where the trade deficit hit its lowest level since early 2009, it shot up to $56.8 billion, an increase of 94.6% from October.
...........
On a year-over-year basis, the deficit through November stood at $839.5 billion, or about 4% higher than the same period in 2024.

The increase in the deficit counters Trumps efforts to use tariffs to reduce imbalances around the globe. When announcing so-called reciprocal tariffs in April 2025, the White House used the level of trade deficits with varying countries as a baseline for determining the duties.

They're loving it; Trump declares an "EMERGENCY!" as his lamebrain reason to increase American Consumer Taxes and, consequently, the price of goods the American Consumers want and sometimes must buy, Americans pay those increased prices, and the foreign importers still manage to eat America's lunch on trade even more than before Trump pulled more money out of Americans' pockets for those goods.

Further confirmation that the last people you should call for aid at a time of EMERGENCY is anyone from the Republican Party but most especially any one of them named or associated with Trump.

Add this to The Economy, National Security, Immigration, Infrastructure, Inflation Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Computer Chips, Science, Bi-Partisan Legislation and keeping the USA Government Open and Functioning to the long list of important economic and national security metrics that Joe Biden and his Vice President understood better and produced better results on than anything blithering blathering cognitively impaired Donald Trump ever has, ever will or ever could.

**Enter The V** · 01-29-26 12:40

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

Come on already!

It never happened!

**Sirioja** · 01-29-26 10:06

Originally Posted by NewtonYork [View Original Post]

Come on already!

You have nothing to hope in your life? Beautiful girls to fuck with a not mini dick, or sports, or else, when I dream to free ride my fall then die spots, or bicycle climb my legendary mountains. I wish in not too long, to have full time to perform them. Still so many dreams to live for real, as long I will be able.

**MarquisdeSade1** · 01-29-26 07:38

Originally Posted by Sirioja [View Original Post]

As senile as Trump, and bullshiting here many times, like crazy orange all over the world, but not able to use a free weapon and put in his mouth. I'm fully sure mother and her 3 children would like she still lives to take care of them. Shame on Trump and ICE, behaving like in Iran.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...egals-deported

**Spidy** · 01-29-26 06:23

As the despicable and barbarian MAGA Fuhrer's Gestapo Brownshirts (ICE), murder and gun-down Americans citizens and civilians in cold blood, the shit-show complicit MAGA admin, once again dips, drives and delves into its Orwellian bag of tricks and lies, as they tell Americans, not to believe what your eyes are telling you, in the peaceful protesting deaths of two (2) USA Citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is, January 25th, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...shootings.html.

Twice since the start of the year, federal officers have gunned down protesters in Minneapolis with cellphone cameras rolling, and twice President Trump and his lieutenants have rushed forward with a message to the American people: Dont believe what you see with your own eyes.

So as the MAGA Fuhrer, tells America, to deny what they're seeing and continues to treat Americans, like he's talking to his gullible MAGA base, even as bystander video evidence makes it very clear, for all to see (for those without MAGA rose colored glasses), that he and his corrupt MAGA admin are telling more lies, once again.

Welcome to the MAGA Fuhrer Orwellian era!