American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

As was easily predictable by every American smart and patriotic enough to have voted for Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024, nobody has been better for Russia Russia Russia and China and worse for America than Donald J. Trump.

Nobody.

There are two winners in Iran. Neither one is America.
Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China.
March 9, 2026

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ia-china-cost/

Dear MAGAs,

Thank you for your vote.

Sincerely and Love You Forever.

Vladimir and Xi.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...led-hate-right

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...ulgarian-trump

[Sirioja]

Ah yes, that is the non-thinking cultist POV. Let's start with an easy error of omission. Here is Chucky Schumer, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QRRq_ss9bz4.

So your dumb ass war includes Democrats participating too, you dimwitted cultist.

150 dead school children? That is a tragedy to be sure, however the Iranian leadership recently killed nearly 7000 of their own. There is another error of omission.

The strait of Hormuz is not closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9K2klBcb5U.

As for oil prices, they have been remarkably stable given all that is happening.

Of course, what matters is not what the price is now but what the futures say. If you could use the futures market and lock in $100 a barrel prices, the drilling party would be on.

https://oilprice.com/futures/wti/

In 2033, the expected price per barrel is $60. In December 2026, it is guessed to be $80. Ugh. It is not drilling party time..

At least 150 young girls killed in a school is a war crime, even was probably a target mistake, but US IA leading tomawak is not reliable enough, same than burning Gerald Ford nuclear. Are US weapons aging too much, same than Trump?

About China making biggest, 30%, pollution on our planet and sending us too many dangerous products, for our children safety, for our health, I can only say: cheap, but don't buy such bad dangerous quality, a bit same than Trump, NATO and Europe don t want to help in his craziness, when he doesn't make peace, but war with Netanyahou. 2 dangerous.

[Elvis 2008]

This must be like when your MAGA Fuhrer said the following, at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos:

• "China makes almost all of the windmills and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that?"

FACT: China (on Earth #1) has 640 GW total capacity and more wind farms then the next 18 countries combined.

I guess on Earth #2, in MAGA World, where the sun doesn't shine in some places, it would seem according to your MAGA Fuhrer, the wind doesn't blow places like China either, LOL!

Talk about your perfect timing. Here is what is really going on in China, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ch...h_author_alert.

The financial newsletter Doomberg recently published a devastating analysis of China's energy reality versus its media portrayal. The core finding: China burns 56% of the world's coal, has tripled consumption since 2000 and is building coal plants at the fastest pace in a decade. Yet the Davos crowd continues to celebrate Beijing's "climate leadership" with the enthusiasm of a golden retriever greeting a burglar.

China installed a record-setting 277 gigawatts of solar capacity in 2024. Headlines everywhere. The energy transition is here, they told us, and China is leading it.

What nobody mentioned: China's solar industry lost $60 billion that same year.

This is not a typo. Sixty billion dollars. China's solar industry's total losses exceeded the GDP of Luxembourg. More than 40 solar manufacturers have gone bankrupt or delisted since 2024. One-third of China's 121 listed solar producers are operating in the red. The top four manufacturers — the giants that were supposed to dominate the 21st century — collectively lost $1. 5 billion in the first half of 2025 alone. The previous year was worse. This year looks worse still.

In 2024, solar capacity grew by 45% while generation increased only 28%. Do the math and the implied capacity factor drops toward 11% or 12%. IEEFA data shows utilization hours collapsed from 1,030 in 2020 to just 473 in 2024.

That means that roughly five-sixths of the time China's solar installations sit there doing nothing. They are the world's most expensive decorations — a clean-energy Potemkin village stretched across the provinces.

China is building solar capacity faster than it can use it, faster than its grid can absorb, faster than any economic logic would justify. The result is panels producing power that nobody can buy, connected to a grid that cannot handle the load, owned by companies that cannot turn a profit.

This is not an energy transition. This is an energy traffic jam.

China's power system runs on medium- and long-term coal purchase agreements. Utilities commit to buying specific volumes of coal-fired electricity, often years in advance. Miss your quota? Pay a penalty. These contracts guarantee coal's market share regardless of whether cleaner alternatives are available.

So when the sun shines bright over Shandong province and solar panels are ready to deliver cheap electrons, the grid often says, "No, thank you. " The coal contracts must be honored. Renewables get curtailed. The system is not designed to optimize for clean energy. It is designed to protect coal.

The structural lock-in gets worse. In 2024, more than 75% of newly approved coal-power capacity in China was financed by coal-mining companies or energy groups with coal-mining operations.

Read that again. The companies digging coal out of the ground are now buying the power plants that burn it. They are not hedging against the energy transition. They are building walls against it. By owning both supply and demand, they guarantee themselves customers for decades regardless of what happens to solar costs or battery technology or climate policy.

Climate coverage loves a solar-farm photograph. Blue panels gleaming under blue skies. Very shareable. Very inspiring.

Nobody photographs methane.

China's coal mines are responsible for 70% of global coal-mine methane emissions from large-scale operations. If all currently proposed mining projects are completed, that share rises to 75%. Methane is roughly 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas over a 20-year horizon. It is the silent partner in every coal operation, and China's operations are enormous.

The green-energy transition will eventually arrive. Physics and economics guarantee it. Battery costs will fall. Grid technology will improve. Solar efficiency will increase. The math will eventually become undeniable even to bureaucrats with coal contracts to protect.

But China will not lead this transition. China is not the future of clean energy. China is the present of coal, dressed in solar-panel camouflage, marketed to a Western audience eager to believe that someone, somewhere, is solving the climate problem.

China is selling the T-shirt, pocketing the markup and burning coal to print more.

End of link. And you Spidy, #1 on the Democratic "I love China" cult chart, are buying those t-shirts by the case.

[Elvis 2008]

LOL! You can't be that MAGA blind...can you? Or does your browser and search functions also not work?

Really, you "fail to see", any connections between the Bonkers Bibi and your MAGA Fuhrer's dumbass gulf-war, "has anything to do with energy"?

AS if, the recent headlines indicating the energy volatility, shortage in supply and the spike in fossil fuel energy prices and markets, due to their boneheaded dumbass gulf-war, wasn't a big enough clue?

AS if, the tens of thousands Iranians, the 150 dead Iranian school girls and the more than 50+ Americans killed (more than the 8 reported) and the blowing up of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, wasn't a big enough clue for you?

Ah yes, that is the non-thinking cultist POV. Let's start with an easy error of omission. Here is Chucky Schumer, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QRRq_ss9bz4.

So your dumb ass war includes Democrats participating too, you dimwitted cultist.

150 dead school children? That is a tragedy to be sure, however the Iranian leadership recently killed nearly 7000 of their own. There is another error of omission.

The strait of Hormuz is not closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9K2klBcb5U.

As for oil prices, they have been remarkably stable given all that is happening.

Of course, what matters is not what the price is now but what the futures say. If you could use the futures market and lock in $100 a barrel prices, the drilling party would be on.

https://oilprice.com/futures/wti/

In 2033, the expected price per barrel is $60. In December 2026, it is guessed to be $80. Ugh. It is not drilling party time.

But, but, but Elvis, you are a Trump cultist who goes along with everything Trump does. Bullshit! If you follow the Maduro plan, you take out the #1 and put one of the other top guys in charge as your puppet. Israel was so filled with blood lust they found a meeting of leaders, and we blew them up at their insistence, and our puppets were gone.

Whomever is in charge of Iran is going to purge the fuck out of any other top officials. If you are not 100% clean, you are as good as dead. So what is the mission now? It looks like Trump has backed himself into a TACO retreat or a forever war. Not good.

Thing is if you do the TACO retreat then Iran will be back to building up its drones and missiles. That is not good, and Trump would be whipped by the Israelis leading him around by the nose. A forever war means Republicans get trounced in the midterms.

But as of now, this war has little to do with the future of energy. In fact, the lack of price increases in the oil markets considering the recent events have been remarkably tame. Some are saying the Trump administration is manipulating the futures markets.

But you dumb Dems are all talk and no action. We saw no one here betting on Kamala in the futures markets, and if If Trump's team were manipulating oil futures, a bet on future oil prices skyrocketing would pay off bigly, but none of you dumb Dems will put down any of your own money. You refuse to put your any skin in the game. All you is lay claim to the money of others.

So this war has nothing to do with the future of energy prices or what method of energy generation will be chosen.

[Spidy]

So the future is putting up solar panels in places where the sun does not shine ...

This must be like when your MAGA Fuhrer said the following, at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos:

• "China makes almost all of the windmills and yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China. Did you ever think of that?"

FACT: China (on Earth #1) has 640 GW total capacity and more wind farms then the next 18 countries combined.

I guess on Earth #2, in MAGA World, where the sun doesn't shine in some places, it would seem according to your MAGA Fuhrer, the wind doesn't blow places like China either, LOL!

[Sirioja]

As was easily predictable by every American smart and patriotic enough to have voted for Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024, nobody has been better for Russia Russia Russia and China and worse for America than Donald J. Trump.

Nobody.

There are two winners in Iran. Neither one is America.
Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China.
March 9, 2026.

Yes, Trump help Putin to get money for his war attacking Ukraine. Trump thought this war would be for economics versus China, but now he ask Europe to help him, after having asked Ukraine for drones, when NATO refuse to help him for his war when he attacked and was not attacked. And Gerald Ford nuclear not working don t help claimed powerful USA. Better to have working, not broken, weapons at war.

[EihTooms]

As was easily predictable by every American smart and patriotic enough to have voted for Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024, nobody has been better for Russia Russia Russia and China and worse for America than Donald J. Trump.

Nobody.

There are two winners in Iran. Neither one is America.
Oil disruption benefits Russia, as does less U.S. aid for Ukraine. And Iran distracts from China.
March 9, 2026

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ia-china-cost/

Russia is already benefitting from the Iran war. The rise in oil prices (over $100 a barrel on Sunday from $73 a barrel on the eve of war) and Trumps decision to relax sanctions on India for buying Russian oil will help bankroll the Russian war machine. The U.S. is also rapidly burning through limited stockpiles of missiles, especially air-defense interceptors, that are badly needed in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky has said more Patriot missiles were expended in just three days of fighting with Iran than have been used by Ukraine since 2022. Imagine how much Ukrainian energy infrastructure and how many Ukrainian civilians might have survived the winter if Trump had sent more Patriots to Ukraine rather than to what one journalist dubbed a war of whim with Iran.
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While Trump has been bombing various countries, imposing tariffs, discouraging foreign students from coming to America and cutting research funding, China has been making massive investments designed to dominate the industries of the future.
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China is also charging ahead in military power. The Pentagon reports that Beijing continues to make steady progress toward Xi Jinpings goal of being able to fight and win a war on Taiwan by the end of 2027. China has the worlds largest navy and is rapidly expanding its ballistic missile and nuclear forces. China is even challenging Americas undersea dominance by building submarines that can launch nuclear strikes from close to the U.S. mainland.

Dear MAGAs,

Thank you for your vote.

Sincerely and Love You Forever.

Vladimir and Xi.

[Spidy]

MAGA Bill Maher's audience "didn't see that coming"? LOL. Then they haven't been paying much attention to his show since at least the year 2000. MAGA Bill loves Trump. So he knows a few Iranian-Americans in Hollywood who are happy that Trump plunged America into another Repub quagmire, no-win War in Iran as payback for the huge personal bribes and favors he got from Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Netanyahu only to trade one hardline 86 year old and dying Supreme Leader for an even more hardline 56 year old Supreme Leader.

Remember how Trump boasted that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose the devotion and fidelity of even one of his Trumpian / MAGA Cult members?

Trump's Cult is only about 11 years old.

The Islamic Revolution Cult goes back to 1953. They have been doing for 73 years what Trump has only been doing for 11 years.

Yes, you highlight a good topic of conversation, when it comes to any of the stupefying reasons, why the MAGA Fuhrer, illegally attacked Iran. Add Miriam Adelson (among others), to the list and things start to look a little clearer.

Campaign contributions, to the MAGA Fuhrer and various right-wing conservative PACs, totaling $430 million, in 2024 from Miriam Adelson, a known Israel / Netanyahu proxy, according to modicum of political pundits, in coordination with Netanyahu and Israel, has easily bought the newly for sale WH, the always self-serving transactional MAGA Fuhrer and purchased an entire wing of American Foreign policy, on an unprecedented level.

Does begs the question, what American Foreign policy favors were purchased?

Dallas Mavericks owner Miriam Adelson urges Trump to run for third term. "Adelson whispered something to Trump, who announced that she pledged to donate another $250 million if he runs. ", December 18,2025. https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/d...-term/3958248/

Hmmmmmm...makes you wonder if the MAGA Fuhrer, is trying to collect on that Adelson $250 million "3rd term" money, as they both snub their noses, at the rule of law and the constitution, with the lives of American soldiers and the tens of thousand Iranians and the 150 Iranian dead school girls?

[EihTooms]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDfTY8vZ90

https://x.com/cbschicago/status/2033228093343604801

MAGA Bill Maher's audience "didn't see that coming"? LOL. Then they haven't been paying much attention to his show since at least the year 2000. MAGA Bill loves Trump. So he knows a few Iranian-Americans in Hollywood who are happy that Trump plunged America into another Repub quagmire, no-win War in Iran as payback for the huge personal bribes and favors he got from Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Netanyahu only to trade one hardline 86 year old and dying Supreme Leader for an even more hardline 56 year old Supreme Leader.

Remember how Trump boasted that he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose the devotion and fidelity of even one of his Trumpian / MAGA Cult members?

Trump's Cult is only about 11 years old.

The Islamic Revolution Cult goes back to 1953. They have been doing for 73 years what Trump has only been doing for 11 years.

There are millions more current Iran regime blind followers than the handful of Iranian-Americans MAGA Bill has ever met who are delighted by Trump's Iran War. If any.

I suspect MAGA Bill has met about as many of those as the Dem leaders he's met who think men can get pregnant, that children ought to get sex change operations and that the police should be defunded. Which is zero.

[Spidy]

Then there is this trash about Trump and Israel that I fail to see has anything to do with energy. So this is textbook TDS.

LOL! You can't be that MAGA blind...can you? Or does your browser and search functions also not work?

Really, you "fail to see", any connections between the Bonkers Bibi and your MAGA Fuhrer's dumbass gulf-war, "has anything to do with energy"?.

AS if, the recent headlines indicating the energy volatility, shortage in supply and the spike in fossil fuel energy prices and markets, due to their boneheaded dumbass gulf-war, wasn't a big enough clue?

AS if, the tens of thousands Iranians, the 150 dead Iranian school girls and the more than 50+ Americans killed (more than the 8 reported) and the blowing up of oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, wasn't a big enough clue for you?

AS if, Tweedledum and Tweedledee dragging 14 more nation states into their dumbass gulf-war with Iran, as gasoline prices shot up, to over $5. 30 per gallon (in some places) the highest levels in either of your MAGA Fuhrer's incompetence terms, wasn't a big enough clue for you?

Are you seriously telling me you "fail" to see the connection, this latest gulf-war has with energy, that Tweedledum and Tweedledee started? So if checking your browser doesn't work, then may I suggest seeking stronger help, whatever that may be?

P.S. :BTW, the gulf-war that Tweedledum and Tweedledee started, is the biggest boost for global decarbonization of fossil fuels, for China and electrostates, we've seen thus far.

[Spidy]

But no, you continue your stupid ways with an article that states, In fact, Germany -a global leader in solar energy -has far fewer sunny days than Halifax and still reaps the rewards of solar power!

LOL! Yeah, for a few less days, but nonetheless, the sun still shines!

Don't forget to read the study that unequivocally states, and reminds the luddites, solar panels still generate energy, even on cloudy days, when the sun isn't shinning.

So the future is putting up solar panels in places where the sun does not shine ...

While the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow in MAGA World on Earth #2, rest assured on Earth #1, 88% of the worlds population and the global south, live in some of the sunniest places on the earth.

And yet the other 12%, in the global north, that don't get as much sunshine, are still installing solar panels at an increase rate, as communities look to decrease their carbon foot print and reduce energy costs.

Grab yourself some solar panels and electrical heaters and move to Alaska in December while using no fossil fuels and let us know how it goes.

New report offers insights into the future of community solar in Alaska, Dec. 18,2024 "Community solar has a great potential to reduce energy cost for Alaskans," http://New report offers insights in...olar in Alaska currently with enough solar installed to power 4,473 homes and growing https://seia.org/state-solar-policy/alaska-solar/

Seems solar panels work just fine in Alaska, even with fewer sunny days! To bad the sun don't shine everywhere on MAGA World Earth #2!

[MarquisdeSade1]

Maybe there is something wrong with your Search function:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dubais...anian-strikes/

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...ded-rcna261272

https://youtu.be/_blpFAqIAMM?si=RqF1uqu9_1T99cjA

https://youtu.be/BMD3uMRrDf0?si=R3TX9HI1nOEtL04g

There appears to be very little elbo room for or interest in dancing in this much, much bigger gathering of demonstrators in Iran:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDfTY8vZ90

https://x.com/cbschicago/status/2033228093343604801

[Villainy]

The shithole blue cities of Milwaukee Detroit Atlanta and Philadelphia stuffed the boxes with bogus mail-in ballots to swing the Electoral College to Scumbag Joe.

I believe all it took was 150000 rigged mail-in ballots, I'm sure I could fit those in 1 large suitcase.

And yet Trump Attorney General Bill Barr said the claims of election fraud were investigated and they found nothing that would have changed the result in any state.

https://apnews.com/article/barr-no-w...1a9061a6c7f49d#.

[EihTooms]

Something's really fishy. Why isn't Dubai, or Doha, or Saudi, or Manamana show any footage of explosions and shit? It's not like them to hide stuff. This is really weird dudes. Something's off here. We're even getting footage of bombs going off in Iran, but not in them other Ayrab places? This can only mean one thing. That they're NOT being bombed! What the hell is going on? What's the actual truth?

Are there dead people or not?

This "war" has been incredibly frustrating and dull. No wonder those rich comedians went to the Riyadh comedy festival.

There's nothing but good news coming out of Dubai, it's business as usual apparently. Is any of this stuff actually happening then? Why can't we get actual information from anyone anymore?

Fucking Christ on a stick.

Start WW3 already!

Maybe there is something wrong with your Search function:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dubais...anian-strikes/

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...ded-rcna261272

https://youtu.be/_blpFAqIAMM?si=RqF1uqu9_1T99cjA

https://youtu.be/BMD3uMRrDf0?si=R3TX9HI1nOEtL04g

There appears to be very little elbo room for or interest in dancing in this much, much bigger gathering of demonstrators in Iran:

[Newton York]

Something's really fishy. Why isn't Dubai, or Doha, or Saudi, or Manamana show any footage of explosions and shit? It's not like them to hide stuff. This is really weird dudes. Something's off here. We're even getting footage of bombs going off in Iran, but not in them other Ayrab places? This can only mean one thing. That they're NOT being bombed! What the hell is going on? What's the actual truth?

Are there dead people or not?

This "war" has been incredibly frustrating and dull. No wonder those rich comedians went to the Riyadh comedy festival.

There's nothing but good news coming out of Dubai, it's business as usual apparently. Is any of this stuff actually happening then? Why can't we get actual information from anyone anymore?

Fucking Christ on a stick.

Start WW3 already!