American Politics

[Elvis 2008]

AEMO boss Daniel Westerman -- "Australia's operational paradigm is no longer 'baseload-and-peaking', but increasingly its a paradigm of 'renewables-and-firming'. It's a crucial point to understand:

Baseload is not so much a technical virtue as a business model the people who invest in coal generators, and nuclear in particular, count on those machines operating at or near full capacity most of the time.

Now Australia is the new shining star of what to be? LOL. You need to follow the news better.

https://ieefa.org/resources/its-time...its-oil-demand

Australia has the largest trade deficit in refined oil products in the world, is the largest importer of diesel, and has the lowest oil stockpiles of all IEA members – all by a wide margin. Imports of Russian oil are currently banned in Australia; imports from the Middle East are disrupted; China recently banned exports of those three fuels; and its distance makes Europe unlikely to be a realistic supplier. The remaining candidates to provide fuel to Australia are the US, Singapore, South Korea and India.

And now the next link:

Hundreds of petrol stations across Australia run out of fuel as Labor inks supply deal with Singapore.

Concerns are now broadening to supplies of fertilizer and other chemicals, heaping more pressure on the Albanese government's leveraging of overseas exports of coal and gas in a bid to handle of the crisis.

"It's the only way, that coal and gas, that we're going to be able to keep our fuel and fertilizer coming to our country," he told a press conference.

"We are in the very lucky position that the countries we do import a lot of our food and fertilizer from are also the countries that rely on our coal and gas. So we should be making that point. ".

The shadow resources spokesperson, Susan McDonald, reportedly told the Nine newspapers that "if we can't get the straits open quickly, then lifting sanctions on Russian-produced fertilizer would be required".

End of link. Australian energy policy has left it with two options: send money to Putin or starve to death. Meanwhile, a nation dripping with fossil fuels does not have a way for most of its vehicles to run. You cannot make this stuff up.

You have neglected to mention that China, your ideal electrostate, has masssive refining capacity, and several of the regions where you climate nuts are active like Australia and California have pushed their evil refineries towards "clean" China. Well, those chickens are coming home to roost big time now. Will you climate nuts accept responsibility for your disasterous "clean energy" policies? Of course not! Hell, you are still pushing for them.

[Elvis 2008]

Or will you change the subject to something about some dude named Simpson again since you changing the subject so dramatically and often whenever you slam into a brick wall on these issues seems not to bother fellow Repub MAGA Elvis at all?

Because unlike you, Tiny lives and works in the USA, and he knows how many jobs are mobile. Look at this stat: https://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2025...-out-of-state/

Yes, one in four pension dollars paid into the Connecticut pension system is distributed elsewhere.

According to google, Connecticut is generally more expensive than Florida, with overall cost of living estimates ranging from 12% to 17% higher depending on the data source and specific cities compared. Connecticut is generally 20.1% to 27.9% more expensive than Texas, with housing and childcare being the primary drivers of this difference.

California is 21.8% to 30% more expensive than Florida overall, driven primarily by significantly higher housing costs which are 16% to 18.9% higher in California. Texas is significantly more affordable than California, with overall cost of living indices averaging 91.5–93.9 compared to California's 140–150, making Texas roughly 40–50% cheaper to live in.

So let's be real what you mean when you say that the people who live in blue states are carrying the nation. That means they are living on less and doling out 2/3 of their tax dollars to people like yourself who no longer live in the state and are using their hard earned money to be paying for your hookers.

You can call those living in blue states patriots; I prefer the word suckers to describe them.

[Canada]

Yes almost, but not as proud as you are, having your MAGA Fuhrer, increase the national debt by $2.25 trillion, in the first year back in charge, https://fortune.com/2026/01/20/how-m...ice-president/

Yes almost, but not as proud as you are, having your MAGA Fuhrer, interfere in an sovereign election and give Argentine $40 billion (and not USA Farmers and businesses).

Yes almost, but not as proud as you are, having your corrupt MAGA Fuhrer, pick-pocket American taxpayers (so far) to the tune of $3.4 bn, into his own pockets and family pockets, while in his second term in office. https://factually.co/fact-checks/pol...-office-847256

Yes almost, but not as proud as you are, having your MAGA Fuhrer, plunge the United States into insolvency. https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-go...al-crisis-fix/

Yes almost, but not as proud as you are, having your MAGA Fuhrer, in illegal war after illegal war, costing $1+ billion a day (by some estimates).

What is amazing that you keep claiming all the bad things Trump is doing but the majority of Americans voted Trump in because they knew that he couldn't and wouldn't be as bad as Biden was. And they knew Harris would be worse than Biden trainwreck. Regardless of what Trump does he is still better than Biden. Those are the facts and Americans were smart enough to vote for it. As for Canada we survived the Trudeau train wreck and Carney will probably be as bad. We are screwed. Thank your lucky stars you have Trump and not a Carney. Most of the people that hate Trump hate the USA also. Liberal news in USA is cheering for Iran. Hoping Trump plan fails. Iranians love what Trump is doing. He is their only hope for freedom.

[Tiny 12]

What does that have to do with the fact that Blue states "run by Dems" contribute more to the Fed coffers than they get back in order to carry the load for deadbeat Red states "run by Repubs" who get back more than they pay and can't or won't cut it by paying for their own damn government entitlements and handouts they need so desperately?

Or will you change the subject to something about some dude named Simpson again since you changing the subject so dramatically and often whenever you slam into a brick wall on these issues seems not to bother fellow Repub MAGA Elvis at all?

Please show a little initiative instead of always expecting me to spoon feed you. Look up Simpson's Paradox and you'll see it's a phenomenon in probability and statistics in which a trend appears in several groups of data but disappears or reverses when the groups are combined. And it's very relevant to the matter at hand.

If you combine all the people in all the states and counties and cities, you see that historically, before Trump, Republicans paid a lot more of the federal income tax than Democrats did. Republicans have historically subsidized Democrats. And yeah you may have 7 Democrat deadbeats in New Jersey for every three hardworking Republicans who paid a lot of federal tax. That doesn't change the fact that the Democrats were screwing the Republicans, based on your logic after considering Simpson's Paradox. Actually, what I truly believe is that everyone is getting screwed, Democrat and Republican alike, by a wasteful, inefficient federal government.

[EihTooms]

Inflation Spikes!
Inflation is up. But, we know the clown in the White House will continue to threaten, harass, and harangue the Fed to lower interest rates. Which would only serve to drive inflation up even more! What an incredible bozo of a clown we have in the White House right now! A totally stupid, ignorant, dangerous, and ineffective clown of a little man!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/cpi-...arch-2026.html

Yep. Biden-Harris handed him a dramatically declined CPI Inflation Rate down from the peak due to Trump's Pandemic to a more manageable 2. 9% at the end of 2024. But from that moment on Trump has been determined to drive it right back up to and beyond what his disastrous economic and national security policy decisions produced in his first term. Again, after inheriting historically positive economic results and trajectories from Obama-Biden in 2017. As GW Bush did from Clinton-Gore in 2001, Reagan-Bush did from Carter-Mondale in 1981, Nixon-Agnew did from Johnson-Humpfrey in 1969 and on and on all the way back to the beginning of the Republican MAGA Party.[/QUOTE]Not that Trump owes anything to those MAGA suckers for squeaking out that razor-thin election win in 2024 anyway. He knows full well the sole reason for that happening was that relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims in the only three swing states that mattered that Netanyahu stirred up to vote against anyone from the Biden Administration by his crafty timing of not honoring thr May 2024 Biden-negotiated ceasefire agreement until after the election.

America shedding its blood, lives and money for Trump's Iran War of choice is his payback to Netanyahu and Muslims from a few Gulf States that might benefit from it. He knows there is no need to payback USA steel or other USA manufacturing suckers he conned into supporting him for anything having to do with him squeaking out that razor-thin election win.

[EihTooms]

We have a steeply progressive income tax system. The more money you make, the higher the tax rate. So a Republican who pays at an effective tax rate of 15% probably pays much more than 2 X the tax that a Democrat with a rate of 7. 5% pays.

Yummy!

What does that have to do with the fact that Blue states "run by Dems" contribute more to the Fed coffers than they get back in order to carry the load for deadbeat Red states "run by Repubs" who get back more than they pay and can't or won't cut it by paying for their own damn government entitlements and handouts they need so desperately?

Or will you change the subject to something about some dude named Simpson again since you changing the subject so dramatically and often whenever you slam into a brick wall on these issues seems not to bother fellow Repub MAGA Elvis at all?

[FFlintstone69]

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...77422440266990

A video for all those that want ICE defunded and Trump impeached, you sick fucks.

[Tiny 12]

AEMO boss Daniel Westerman -- "Australia's operational paradigm is no longer 'baseload-and-peaking', but increasingly its a paradigm of 'renewables-and-firming'. It's a crucial point to understand:

• Baseload is not so much a technical virtue as a business model the people who invest in coal generators, and nuclear in particular, count on those machines operating at or near full capacity most of the time. https://reneweconomy.com.au/dan-teha...se-on-nuclear/

From ChatGPT, here's South Australia's total energy consumption by source. I believe SA's share of consumption from renewables should be higher than other states based on what I recall you posting, but could be wrong. These numbers are adjusted for Victoria interconnects.

Liquid petroleum products 42% to 45%
Natural Gas 30% to 34%
Renewables (wind, solar, bioenergy) 14% to 18%
Coal 3% to 6%
Other 3% to 5%

Coal use dropped in China and India in 2025. It rose in USA, hiking energy costs, January 19th, 2025 https://electrek.co/2026/01/19/coal-...-energy-costs/

So in the USA, higher natural gas prices and the policy shift by the MAGA Fuhrer and his shit-show administration, which included issuing orders to keep open coal-fired plants slated for closure, led to the country posting an 8% to 13% increase in demand in 2025 and the largest absolute gains and approximately 37 million tons, leading to a 2.4% increase in carbon emissions in the United States.

Did Trump really issue orders to companies to keep coal fired power plants open? I doubt it.

According to ChatGPT, more of the increase in coal consumption was caused by higher natural gas prices than MAGA Fuhrer shit-show policies. The average price of natural gas (Henry Hub) was $2.41/MMBTU in 2024 and $3.62 in 2025. That's a 50% increase.

Something similar happened in 2021 during the Biden administration. The price of natural gas shot up from an average of $2.13 per MMBTU in 2020 to $3.72 in 2021, resulting in an increase from 477 million short tons annual coal consumption to 546 million tons. And you can't blame the increase mostly on the rebound from COVID. According to ChatGPT, electricity demand in 2021 rose 3% to 4%, while coal consumption rose 14.4%.

The Energy Information Administration projects coal consumption will fall from 452 million tons in 2025 to 417 million tons in 2026.

As to the increase in carbon emissions, blame data centers. Coal is a reliable, 24 hour a day power source, which is what data centers want.

Btw, coal consumption during the first Trump Administration went down. Here's production in short tons, from the EIA,

2017 717 million tons
2018 687 million tons
2019 587 million tons
2020 477 million tons

Consumption was down by a whopping 100 million tons per year in each of 2019 and 2020. Should we give Trump all the credit for 2020? Well, by Tooms logic, we sure should. He blames the COVID recession, huge COVID deficits, and COVID deaths on Trump. If you do that you have to give him credit for the coal too!

To some extent though I share your concerns. The way to address them IMHO is through a reasonable carbon tax, designed not to affect exports. Use the proceeds to reduce the deficit or the income tax. And perhaps an equivalent tax on particulates and SO2, that would be a function of the population density in the vicinity of the power plant. That would sure beat Biden's huge corporate welfare or Obama's mandates to promote renewables, which waste taxpayer money and make markets less efficient.

We agree that the Chinese are no dummies. And they're installing new coal fired capacity. That should tell us something. The USA is not only the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, it's also the Saudi Arabia of coal.

And while China is the largest annual CO2 emitter, it is worth mentioning, that while is not everything, it's not nothing either, as they move to electrify everything and mitigate as much of their carbon foot print as possible and how for example Autonomous electric trucks drive China's shift to smart, green mining, https://english.news.cn/20260204/070...a3a0e8b/c.html

Yeah, how about that, just checkout China's smart (5 G technology) green, electrotech coal mining operations. EV mining trucks, autonomously hauling coal, to be used as electricity to power China and themselves, while saving millions in diesel fossil fuel, operation costs.

Chinese driverless, autonomous electric mining trucks ...the U.S. not so much!

You realize those big electric trucks involved in mining operations are mostly used to extract dirty, dirty coal? I wonder how much of the electricity used to charge those trucks comes from coal? I don't know the answer to the second question.

[KeviKev68]

And here your own hypothesis blows up in your face. Trump is irrationally bound to Israel but so is 90% of the Senate. And? Does that mean 90% of the Senate is irrational as well? Or does it mean 90% of the Senate and Trump are rational? Or is 90% of the Senate and Trump irrational but you are the rational one?

BTW, Kamala was not just married to a white guy but married to a Jewish white guy and was a senator to boot. So in your opinion, do you think she would have acted differently? LOL.

So now we have Kamala, 90% of the Senate, and Trump are rational but you are sane? LOL. It must be nice to be so confident that you are right and everyone else is off their rocker.

Here's something that just came out. Netanyahu has worked 5 US presidents. He asked G. W Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. He asked all 5 including Trump in his first year to attack Iran. Only one president agreed to this and it was Trump in last term.

We are being used!

[The Cane]

Inflation is up. But, we know the clown in the White House will continue to threaten, harass, and harangue the Fed to lower interest rates. Which would only serve to drive inflation up even more! What an incredible bozo of a clown we have in the White House right now! A totally stupid, ignorant, dangerous, and ineffective clown of a little man!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/cpi-...arch-2026.html

[Tiny 12]

Estimated tax rates on how much income?

We have a steeply progressive income tax system. The more money you make, the higher the tax rate. So a Republican who pays at an effective tax rate of 15% probably pays much more than 2 X the tax that a Democrat with a rate of 7. 5% pays.

Melania said the baby was delicious...

Yummy!

[EihTooms]

Seeing as how two out of three tax dollars is just redistributed, the fucking blue states can keep right on paying for your hookers abroad. God, what a thing for someone banging hookers in Thailand to say! Here is novel idea for you and the other parasites: Pay for your own hookers and leave taxpayers the fuck alone!

At most an employer kicked in 6.75% or so of income they could have paid me but paid into FICA instead while I was delivering far more value to them than I was getting back in compensation.

Similar to Blue states like California relative to America in general and Red states in particular.

But, yeah, in a sense you are absolutely right that Blue states are now and will in the future be paying you and other deadbeat Repub MAGAs in Red states a disproportionately high percentage of any Social Security income and Medicare reimbursement you Repub MAGA Red staters need and enjoy in your retirement years.

To continue an ongoing theme over the past several decades, we American tax-payers from Blue states like California offer a very heartfelt "You're welcome" to Aunt Bea, Jethro, Granny, Gomer, Goober, Barney Fife, Uncle Jed, Tony, you and Ellie-Mae, whose butt was too big for me to be interested in fucking her, 3-4 kilos bigger than the butts of the sweet young Asian girls I prefer to fuck and get royally blown by for my well-earned retirement income money.

[Elvis 2008]

It takes a level of derangement that I am incapable of even fathoming to say "But just because Trump is rational ". I cannot fathom how any sane person could see rationality in any of this.

The DF got roped into this by the nefarious nation of Israel which holds America by the balls and America does its bidding. Not because of Epstein but because 90% of the senate are taking money from AIPAC. And that's just scratching the surface. America is subservient to Israel. If you don't know that then your level of delusions are more than I can deal with.

And here your own hypothesis blows up in your face. Trump is irrationally bound to Israel but so is 90% of the Senate. And? Does that mean 90% of the Senate is irrational as well? Or does it mean 90% of the Senate and Trump are rational? Or is 90% of the Senate and Trump irrational but you are the rational one?

BTW, Kamala was not just married to a white guy but married to a Jewish white guy and was a senator to boot. So in your opinion, do you think she would have acted differently? LOL.

So now we have Kamala, 90% of the Senate, and Trump are rational but you are sane? LOL. It must be nice to be so confident that you are right and everyone else is off their rocker.

[HotDog666]

With your spiel about porn stars and dems, and election losses.

It takes a level of derangement that I am incapable of even fathoming to say "But just because Trump is rational ". I cannot fathom how any sane person could see rationality in any of this.

The DF got roped into this by the nefarious nation of Israel which holds America by the balls and America does its bidding. Not because of Epstein but because 90% of the senate are taking money from AIPAC. And that's just scratching the surface. America is subservient to Israel. If you don't know that then your level of delusions are more than I can deal with.

There was no other reason for America to go to war- for the Uranium? The one they "obliterated" last year? Or the one that they were in active negotiations on with Iran? But wait, that's not the reason that he morphed into: it was regime change. But wait, it wasn't even that. It was liberating the Iranian people. In life when people throw out reasons like darts, the fact usually is that all of them are bullshit reasons and excuses. In life if you have a purpose for doing something, it's clear and lucid and doesn't need multiple other supposed reasons. And a cassus bellus needs to be just that.

Don't BS me with your "he's rational". That's crap as hell. He is capricious, naive beyond hell, has little ability to see beyond his nose let alone 2 steps ahead, and got roped into this by the Israelis who saw an opportunity to rid themselves of their biggest adversary in the region using America as their tool as they always do. THAT is the truth of the matter, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Keep bullshitting yourself if you wish but that won't change the reality.

And this is why you have TDS. You are so anti-Trump that you do not even get what the mission is. Yes, Israel roped Trump into this war but why? Because of how much uranium Iran has. This is like Maduro all over again. You are so anti-Trump that you wanted 30 million Venezuelans to suffer. And now you have such TDS that you are okay with Iran having the bomb and being able to kill millions.

As for the "I am a fucking crazy loon" tactic, Trump keeps playing that card, and you dumb Dems (and now the Iranians) keep buying it. It just blows me away how much this tactic keeps working. You have lost two (and probably three) elections to him and you TDS fools still do not get how you are being played. You keep coming up with all these dumb excuses for why you have been so wrong about Trump, but you do not get the truth: Trump is rational, and his "I am a crazy loon" tactic keeps working because you all want him to be that crazy..

[Elvis 2008]

However, the AI response to your question does underscore that Blue states have higher average tax burdens to help pay more for America's needs than do Red states. As I have asserted and repeatedly shown.

Seeing as how two out of three tax dollars is just redistributed, the fucking blue states can keep right on paying for your hookers abroad. God, what a thing for someone banging hookers in Thailand to say! Here is novel idea for you and the other parasites: Pay for your own hookers and leave taxpayers the fuck alone!