American Politics

[SubCmdr]

It all started with white people in the Dis United States of America.

Of course there is racism in the US!

While the founders were uniformly white, their views on race and the nation's future were complex and often contradictory. Nearly half were slaveholders, and the new nation's legal framework initially restricted full citizenship and voting rights to white men.

I know that plenty of Asian Americans, Jewish Americans and Latin Americans have faced racism from Afro Americans. So of course racism exists

Scholars and community leaders emphasize that these tensions are frequently exacerbated by white supremacy and political narratives that divide people of color, rather than inherent hostility between these minority groups.

White Alone: Approximately 61.6% of the U.S. population identified as White alone in the 2020 Census, though recent 2025 estimates place this figure at 72.3%

So racism exists within the white community for the most part and there is also racism between the minorities. With anywhere from 61.6% - 72.3% of the population being white, which population do you think has more racists in them?

I'm assuming you have no idea that Reagan kicked off his first presidential campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi or what message he was sending to White Supremists by doing that.

Bad assumption.

George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, delivered the famous phrase "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" in his inaugural address on January 14, 1963.

The speech, which was written by Ku Klux Klan member Asa Earl Carter, was delivered on the same portico of the Alabama State Capitol where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy.

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/01...llace-alabama/

https://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/16908...-not-forgotten

George Wallace was a Democrat.

[Sirioja]

Your post is the truth. But the anti Trump losers here want to blame Trump for the war rather than him saving the world from Iran nuclear and terrorism ambitions. It is amazing that in life there are winners and losers. The winners find a way to benefit regardless of which party is in power. The losers don't benefit financially and are limited to whining and complaining about every great thing the opposition party does. They lie and blame their failures on Trump or the republicans. Losers have only one person to blame: themselves.

And they can never accept that fact.

When you are a Trump blind fanatic, US CIA reported no risk at the moment about nuclear from Iran, but your gourou Trump made big inflation with consequences and only his fault from how he is a stupid and ignorant, what is leading USA for second time. Mollahs are still in Iran and are not afraid to die, but for Allah.

[Sirioja]

Exactly true. Racism is rampant among the democrats. Especially against the Jewish people. But then again democrats have always been racist towards the black communities.

Republicans, Trump, Musk are not racist? And why almost all famous US artists boycott Trump? When they are rich. This will fuck Kennedy center, boycotted because of Trump. Despite his corruption, he seems to worry a bit about mid terms, doesnt he? When more than 60% disagree with his politics, big majority in a real democracy.

[SubCmdr]

The phrase "Neither party is mine" is a political quote by Chuck the of the hip-hop group*Public Enemy, expressing dissatisfaction with both major US political parties (the Democrats and Republicans).

The full sentiment, often cited as "Neither party is mine, not the donkey (actual word redacted by the site) or the elephant," uses the donkey and elephant as symbols for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, to signify that the speaker aligns with neither.

Not sure why you or any black person would hold up Reagan as some kind of model for anything, least of all doing anything significantly positive for ordinary Americans. I'm assuming you have no idea that Reagan kicked off his first presidential campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi or what message he was sending to White Supremists by doing that. I'll give you a hint: Reagan and his Repub Party were sending a clear message to the voters whose mentality and agenda were exactly in line with preventing a black person's vote from counting at all, much less 3/5 of one, that he and his Repub Party are their guys now. Same result Trump and his Repub Party are trying to effect this very day.

Horace Cooper, in his book Put YAll Back in Chains, claims Biden's "woke policies," inflation, and green agenda initiatives devastated Black entrepreneurship, wealth creation, and employment, especially for working-class Black men. Republican officials and polls cited in GOP research assert that Black Americans faced higher prices, lower real wages, and a 34-point drop in Biden's approval among Black voters due to "Bidenflation" and soft-on-crime stances. Additionally, Biden's past support for the 1994 Crime Control Act and opposition to school busing in the 1970's are frequently cited by civil rights commentators as foundational harms that contributed to mass incarceration and educational segregation, which critics argue he failed to adequately rectify during his presidency.

Neither Party is Mine!

[Axel Heyst]

Exactly true. Racism is rampant among the democrats. Especially against the Jewish people. But then again democrats have always been racist towards the black communities.

Yes, the Dems are racists and always have been. But you have to hand it to them, from abortion to welfare, to lower expectations, to open borders, nothing has harmed black Americans more than Democrat Party governance. They are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, and their latest and perhaps their greatest injury to blacks; LBJ's great society and yet some how they have convinced blacks to vote Democratic for the last 70 years. You got to hand it to these magicians and mind benders: they really know how to manipulate their audience.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da8XNeypVGk/

[KeviKev68]

Your post is the truth. But the anti Trump losers here want to blame Trump for the war rather than him saving the world from Iran nuclear and terrorism ambitions. It is amazing that in life there are winners and losers. The winners find a way to benefit regardless of which party is in power. The losers don't benefit financially and are limited to whining and complaining about every great thing the opposition party does. They lie and blame their failures on Trump or the republicans. Losers have only one person to blame: themselves.

And they can never accept that fact.

It's ironic to have a Canadian Trump nut hugger on here. Anyone with any sense knows that Canada is not our enemy. Anyone who knows history or happened to be around when the Iranians seized the American embassy inTehran. Circa 1979.

It was the Canadians who were risked their lives and were the masterminds behind allowing 6 potential hostages escaping. We also learned that supporters of Reagan were working hand in glove with terrorists to ruin President Jimmy Carter's re-election campaign.

Talking about hypocrisy!

[Canada]

The Ayatollah started the war 47 years ago when he came to power and he authorized the storming of the US Embassy in Teheran on November 4, 1979. Iranian militants kept 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days. Since then, Iran or Iran-backed groups have killed 1,200+ Americans and countless numbers of middle eastern people including their own.

The long-term goal of these religious fanatics to conquer: 1st the region and then 2nd Western Civilization which, don't shrug this off, is straight out of Mohamed's play book. Thus, Iran in possession of nuclear weapons is an existential threat to the region, to Europe and to the USA which has been acknowledged by every American President since Reagan and all the national leaders of every Middle Eastern country not just Israel.

"The central concern among defense analysts is not simply that Iran would acquire a nuclear weapon, but that the entity most likely to exercise control over such a weapon the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps operates with an ideological framework that complicates traditional deterrence models. The IRGC was established in 1979 specifically to protect the Islamic Revolution and its theocratic principles, giving it a dual mandate: conventional military defense and ideological preservation. Unlike professional military establishments in most nations, the IRGC's upper command has demonstrated a willingness to absorb enormous costs including international sanctions that have devastated the Iranian economy in pursuit of strategic and theological objectives..

Your post is the truth. But the anti Trump losers here want to blame Trump for the war rather than him saving the world from Iran nuclear and terrorism ambitions. It is amazing that in life there are winners and losers. The winners find a way to benefit regardless of which party is in power. The losers don't benefit financially and are limited to whining and complaining about every great thing the opposition party does. They lie and blame their failures on Trump or the republicans. Losers have only one person to blame: themselves.

And they can never accept that fact.

[Canada]

Of course there is racism in the US!

I know that plenty of Asian Americans, Jewish Americans and Latin Americans have faced racism from Afro Americans. So of course racism exists, I just happen to be of the opinion that it's a lot worse to commit the extremely serious and violent crimes that is being committed to a disproportionate degree by a certain group of people that you want to paint out to be "victims".

You can't pick and choose what you want acknowledge and what you want to turn a blind eye to.

People like you sure make me appreciate President Donald J Trump and Pete Hegseth!

Two great Americans that values quality over DEI and victim mentality.

Exactly true. Racism is rampant among the democrats. Especially against the Jewish people. But then again democrats have always been racist towards the black communities.

[ShooBree]

Sadly USA is the only country on earth to have used the atomic bomb on a civilian population and has already killed millions of people across the middle east since the last twenty years. The US backed Israeli terrorist regime stole their nuclear weapons from western countries and are not even a signatory to the treaty of non proliferation which The Islamic Republic of Iran is. Not to mention that the US backed Israeli terrorist regime is currently cleansing the Gaza Strip of their whole population, killing as much as more than 650000 civilians so far, around half of them being children. The US backed Israeli terrorist regime is not even trying to hide their goal, it is openly stated by members of their terrorist regime, as per mr smotrich or ben gvir.

Before quoting and repeating the dumbest propaganda you've found on the internet, you should realize that USA and its proxy terrorist allies in the middle east are the real threat to the civilian population of all these countries and your post just reminds us of the preferred strategy used by the US backed terrorist Israeli regime, crying in pain while they constantly bomb every neighboring countries (especially weddings and schools full of children, the us terrorist army and its proxies love to send their powerful bombs on these defenseless people).

Hahaha, don't you ever think before you speak? It's becoming absurd to see your propaganda, not even close to 650'000 people have died in Gaza. Why would you tell such a blatant lie? Israel has done a great job eradicating terrorists and their terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and southern Lebanon. Israel has been so effective killing terrorists that Hamas won't even report the number of members "martyred" by Israel.

You don't want to mention how Christians in southern Lebanon are harassed and targeted by the terrorist in hezbollah. You don't want to mention the genocide the Iranian terrorist regime has committed against the civilian Iranian people. Not even girls showing their hair are allowed to live when the Iranian terrorist regime starts their genocide against the Iranian people.

I support Israel to 110 percent, we all know that Iran and turkey are trying to control the entire Middle East and parts of Europe.

Just ask Greece, Armenia, Cyprus and the Kurds, Alawites, Druizes, and Christians suffering in Syria under the ISIS regime controlled by turkey and Erdogan.

Or ask Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Yemen getting attacked and invaded by Iran and their proxies. Or ask the Lebanese President that declared the Iranian ambassador persona non grata.

[Ass Addict]

Believe what you want. What I have outlined is reality. This insane, totalitarian, theocracy that just mowed down 47,000 of its own people in the streets of Teheran must be defeated and overthrown if there is to be any peace in the region and the world. They are a threat to us all.

Sadly USA is the only country on earth to have used the atomic bomb on a civilian population and has already killed millions of people across the middle east since the last twenty years. The US backed Israeli terrorist regime stole their nuclear weapons from western countries and are not even a signatory to the treaty of non proliferation which The Islamic Republic of Iran is. Not to mention that the US backed Israeli terrorist regime is currently cleansing the Gaza Strip of their whole population, killing as much as more than 650000 civilians so far, around half of them being children. The US backed Israeli terrorist regime is not even trying to hide their goal, it is openly stated by members of their terrorist regime, as per mr smotrich or ben gvir.

Before quoting and repeating the dumbest propaganda you've found on the internet, you should realize that USA and its proxy terrorist allies in the middle east are the real threat to the civilian population of all these countries and your post just reminds us of the preferred strategy used by the US backed terrorist Israeli regime, crying in pain while they constantly bomb every neighboring countries (especially weddings and schools full of children, the us terrorist army and its proxies love to send their powerful bombs on these defenseless people).

[EihTooms]

In plain language.

Reagan's presidency (19811989) featured a volatile start followed by a sustained economic boom, marked by real GDP growth averaging 3.23.6% annually, a drop in inflation from 13% to under 4%, and unemployment falling from a peak of 11% in 1982 to 5.3% by 1989.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/.../pdf/pa261.pdf

If it was up to the Democrats I would still be 3/5 of a person. So I am not buying that social issues don't matter. You cannot pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots because you are not allowed to buy any. Racism in the Dis United States of America is real. Democrats have not done a thing about it.

https://www.hoover.org/research/long...lack-americans

But lets clear one thing up, I vote with my feet and my money. And you do too.

You don't live in the Dis United States of America. Care to share the reason for that? Care to let us know why while wearing your cheerleading skirt and waving your Democratic pom poms for them in the Dis United States of America you think social issues do not matter?

Inquiring minds want to know. I want to know!

The rate of inflation was already steadily declining for almost a year before Reagan took office thanks to the Carter-appointed Fed Chair Paul Volcker's funds rate decisions beginning in 1979. Same with the unemployment rate. Reagan had nothing to do with it. However, Reagan's Repub Supply-Side / Trickle-Down and Reaganomics policies that were fast-tracked into the economy in his first year did produce a return to upticks in inflation and a reversal of the steadily declining unemployment rate he inherited from Carter. That continued well into his first year in office to the point that it climbed to more than 10% in his SECOND year in office and spanned over the 10 consecutive months into his THIRD year in office.

I guess that is the "volatile" beginning they were talking about. His policies and stewardship produced what was then the worst economic downturn since the Great Repub Depression of the late 1920's / early 1930's. He did not inherit even a mild recession from Carter. But he sure did create a Great Recession on his own. He inherited better economic conditions and trajectories from Carter than any incoming Dem has ever inherited from an outgoing Repub.

Ultimately, Reagan tripled the national debt and for the first time converted USA from the world's greatest lender nation to the world's greatest borrower nation. And what did the American working men and women get in exchange for that? No more jobs created in his 8 years with all that deficit spending than Carter's economy created in just 4 years without any extraordinary spending.

https://www.multpl.com/inflation/table/by-month

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Not sure why you or any black person would hold up Reagan as some kind of model for anything, least of all doing anything significantly positive for ordinary Americans.

I'm assuming you have no idea that Reagan kicked off his first presidential campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi or what message he was sending to White Supremists by doing that.

I'll give you a hint: Reagan and his Repub Party were sending a clear message to the voters whose mentality and agenda were exactly in line with preventing a black person's vote from counting at all, much less 3/5 of one, that he and his Repub Party are their guys now. Same result Trump and his Repub Party are trying to effect this very day.

[Axel Heyst]

Left Wing New York Times "Report Exposes Power Struggle at Top of the Regime".

"A fierce power struggle is gripping the top of Iran's regime, with hardline security figures pushing to escalate the conflict with the United States as questions mount over who is actually wielding authority in the absence of the country's unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

A sweeping New York Times report published Sunday details how those divisions erupted into open conflict after a hardline faction allegedly launched attacks on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in July without the knowledge of President Masoud Pezeshkian, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, or Iran's Supreme National Security Council — helping derail a USA -Iran agreement reached just weeks earlier.

The episode reportedly set off shouting matches, threats of resignation, and accusations of betrayal and treason within Tehran's leadership, while exposing a more fundamental problem: Pezeshkian has questioned whether communications attributed to Khamenei — who has not appeared publicly since being badly wounded in the opening USA -Israeli strikes in February — are even authentic.

The turmoil began after Iranian forces attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait overnight July 6-7, including a Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker, while Pezeshkian was in neighboring Iraq attending mourning ceremonies for Khamenei's father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the opening strikes of the conflict on February 28.

An enraged Pezeshkian called Vahidi and demanded answers, according to five Iranian officials and two members of the IRGC cited in the report. Vahidi reportedly told the president that he had neither authorized the attack nor known about it beforehand, while the Supreme National Security Council was also unaware of the operation.

The United States responded with strikes the following morning, and fighting resumed, effectively ending the June memorandum of understanding that had offered a pathway toward ending hostilities.

The resulting turmoil reportedly produced some of the fiercest infighting within Iran's leadership since the conflict began, with two senior generals threatening to resign as rival factions traded accusations of betrayal and treason. The fallout also contributed to an overhaul of the Supreme National Security Council and the appointment of veteran politician and former IRGC commander Gen. Mohsen Rezaei to lead the body, in part because he was viewed as capable of mediating between the competing factions.

Investigations by Iran's government and security forces subsequently traced the decision to attack the vessels to Hossein Taeb, an influential hardliner and longtime intelligence figure who had opposed the agreement with Washington from the outset, according to three Iranian officials cited in the report.

"The attack on the ships was orchestrated with the goal to blow up the memorandum of understanding with Trump and to kill the prospects of any future negotiations and deal," Alireza Namvar Haghighi, an Iranian analyst with contacts inside the regime, told the outlet.

Taeb, who spent more than two decades in senior intelligence positions and previously headed the IRGC's intelligence organization, had reportedly argued to Khamenei that Iran made a mistake by ending the fighting and agreeing to the deal.

"Negotiations that ignore the rights of our people and concede to the excessive demands of the enemy have no place in Iran's politics," Taeb recently told a gathering of military families.

Taeb's role is particularly significant because of his relationship with Khamenei. After being removed as IRGC intelligence chief by Ali Khamenei in 2022 following a series of security failures, Taeb returned to prominence after the elder Khamenei's death and reportedly played a central role in securing Mojtaba's elevation as his successor.

Khamenei subsequently appointed Taeb to command the Basij, the regime's paramilitary force used to suppress domestic unrest, directing the veteran intelligence chief to strengthen its grassroots intelligence network as Tehran confronts mounting concern that the country's deteriorating economy could fuel renewed protests.

Yet when Pezeshkian sought to determine who had actually authorized the July attacks, generals privately told him that Khamenei had approved them.

Pezeshkian reportedly demanded proof.

The confrontation strikes at the heart of the uncertainty surrounding Khamenei, who was wounded in the February 28 strikes that killed his father and much of Iran's senior leadership and has not made an authenticated public appearance or released audio or video since becoming supreme leader.

His absence has become increasingly conspicuous. Khamenei did not attend his father's elaborate funeral in July even as three of his brothers appeared publicly, and Pezeshkian acknowledged in August that communicating with the supreme leader was "very difficult. ".

President Donald Trump later said he believed Khamenei was alive but had been "very seriously wounded," describing extensive injuries to the left side of his body.

"I don't think he's dead. He was very seriously wounded. The left side of his body, the arm, the leg, the whole thing," Trump said in an August interview with Glenn Beck.

The recent report goes further, revealing that Iranian officials, including Pezeshkian, have questioned the authenticity of written statements and other communications attributed to Khamenei.

Questions also surround whether the president has actually communicated directly with the supreme leader.

Pezeshkian said in May that he had met with Khamenei, but two Iranian officials and a former senior official described an extraordinary encounter in which the president was transported in an ambulance with tinted windows and connected by secure video to a man who identified himself as an intermediary and purported to relay messages between the two leaders.

Pezeshkian later told an ally that he was uncertain whether he had actually communicated with Khamenei, according to the report.

Last month, Pezeshkian claimed he received permission for another meeting with Khamenei that lasted roughly seven hours, during which they discussed sanctions, unemployment, the cost of living, national unity, and other issues facing Iran. He offered no details about the circumstances of the purported meeting or what Khamenei told him.

The uncertainty over who is exercising Khamenei's authority comes as rival factions inside Tehran battle over whether to seek an agreement with Washington or dramatically escalate the conflict in hopes of forcing the United States to end its naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Hardline commanders have pushed a plan to attack American targets, damage USA Navy vessels, inflict American casualties, and drive up global oil prices, according to the investigation. The strategy would also call on Iran-aligned groups in Yemen and Iraq to intensify attacks, including against oil infrastructure across the region, in an effort to increase the military and economic costs of the conflict.

Pezeshkian and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf have warned that such a course could drag Iran into an "abyss," risking further USA Strikes while worsening the economic conditions already confronting the regime.

Pezeshkian has publicly acknowledged the need for an exit, arguing that "war has to end at some point" and that it would be better to end the conflict "today, while we are in a position of strength and dignity."

Ghalibaf has issued an even starker warning about Iran's ability to sustain the confrontation.

"No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we do not have financial circulation and economic growth, we will not endure," he said.

Trump, meanwhile, said Sunday that Iran "wants to make a deal so bad" and claimed Iranian officials are "calling constantly," while insisting he would agree only to terms acceptable to Washington.

"They've got to make the right deal," Trump said. "I'm not going to make a deal that's no good."

For now, however, the hardline faction advocating greater confrontation appears to have gained the upper hand, according to the report.

"The war between Iran and the United States has entered the phase of escalation," Mahdi Mohammadi, a senior adviser to Ghalibaf, said."

[Spidy]

For the MAGA fossil fuel "drill-baby-drill", renewable naysayers, the "...but, but, but, solar and wind are INTERMITTENT..." and the China is not a electrostate, denier crowd, take note and pay attention, as solar, wind and batteries (SWB), projected new low LCOE of $33/ MWh (per megawatt-hour).

The economics of clean renewable energy, solar, wind and batteries (SWB), is once again smashing anything the best fossil fuels (gas CCGT, coal-fired plants, petroleum oil / diesel) generators or nuclear power plants, can muster today at between $77 and $110+ / MWh.

IRENA. The Rise of around-the-clock-renewable power, May 10,2026 https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/...ables_2026.pdf, shows SWB LCOE for China (33 MWh), Brazil (41 MWh), India (47 MWh) and Australia (50 MWh), with a firm LCOE trajectory for solar PV and BESS projected at 95% reliability 2020-2035, all much lower than the current Trumpland USA ($59 MWh).

And for the MAGA fossil fuel "drill-baby-drill" and naysayers, I know, I know you're going to say, "...but, but, but, solar and wind are INTERMITTENT!", but perhaps slow down your MAGA horses and crazed ideology, and take a good look at the economics of firm solar and wind?

[Spidy]

Thailand is introducing SMRs in order to move past chaos in the middle east

Remember when we had the discussion about SMR in the Dominican Republic? Well Thailand just announce today that they are going to pursue them. Target for commercial operation is 2037.

https://solarquarter.com/2026/08/26/...acity-by-2050/

Yeah, how can I forget, the convo about SMRs in the DR and energy related strategies for the island, was epic!

We should do a follow up discussion or an update, as to what are your current ideas, on what the DR should do for energy? Still think nuclear/SMRs are the solution for DR?

As for Thailand pursing 9 GW of SMRs, by 2050, I think it's admirable, but in the giant scheme of things and the reliability, scalability and speed of installation of SWB renewables, I think they'll have by 2050, it will dwarf any 9 GW SMR aspirations they have by 2050. Nonetheless, if SMR proves scalable in 2050, the tech will be a good addition to their clean energy mix.

In the same article I did like the reference to the fact, Thailand To Launch Subsidised Rooftop Solar Programme For 1 Million Households", https://solarquarter.com/2026/09/11/...on-households/, 11th September 2026. Personally, I think these type of programs will do far more for the Thai people, by 2037 or 2050, much like rooftop solar has done for Pakistan and Australia.

Spidy, please come back. We need more intelligent input into this thread. I am holding it down by myself right now.

LOL! Hey, SubCmdr, just happened to be taking a little hiatus, (something I picked up from you back-in-the-day), but I think you and EihTooms, are doing at great job holding downing the fort. This is just the latest wave of MAGA crazed ideological zealots that don't know any better than what their MAGA Fuhrer, suckers them into believing.

MAGA zealots, come and go! It too shall pass!

[ShooBree]

A bunch of propaganda. Did the USA honor the MOU? Who started the war??

Iran started the war in 1979.