American Politics

[KeviKev68]

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-...pinion-1976128

Neither party is mine!

They elected a black man as president and a black woman as vice president. Let me know when Republicans will do the same.

[Spidy]

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-...pinion-1976128

Neither party is mine!

SubCmdr, I thought you were a man of FACTS verses opinions? So if I missed the FACTS in that OPINION piece, let me know!

The opinion piece you shared is provocative, and has a juicy (albeit inaccurate) headline, and all but focuses on what could be seen as internal party racial squabbling and bickering, and less about the real legislative FACTS, policies and political record, that still show Democrats are championing civil rights, women's rights, and LGBTQ rights, equal rights and racial injustice, rather than the infactual racist party, that the author suggests it has become.

The Democrat political record, policies and FACTs around which party has done more for civil, minority or equal rights, speaks for itself and is a stark asymmetrical historical pattern of trying to do and doing the right legislative thing, for minority groups, when compared to Republicans.

Despite the laughable misconceived notion of Democrat internal party racism, as a some planned, carried out mass party policy, that "pales in comparison" to the Lee Atwater's Southern strategy, is ludicrous. FACT: Dems have had "racist" temerity, put forth a NOT one, BUT two (2) Black candidates and two (2) women candidates for president. Repubs NOT one in either category (not that this is an indicator of being racist or sexist, but it sure is telling).

Don't forget, Lee Atwater's Southern strategy, was indeed a planned systemic, state-sanctioned political project designed to win and hold power by codifying racial hierarchy into law and policy, designed to inflict cultural conflicts, about holding White power, representation, and resource distribution.

Needless to say, the Democratic Party has been the primary architect of nearly every major piece of civil rights, women's rights, and LGBTQ rights legislation, while the modern Republican Party has, for decades, has been the primary source of opposition to those efforts.

[Elvis 2008]

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.

Your graph puts costs at $125 per mwh, but hey, a climate change nut is lying. What else is new?

From google, Current natural gas costs for electricity generation vary significantly by region and market structure. In the United States, wholesale electricity prices driven by natural gas in June 2026 ranged from $19.14/ MWh in New York City to $35.42/ MWh for Central Appalachian coal, with Henry Hub natural gas converting to approximately $25.19/ MWh. For new combined-cycle natural gas plants, the total levelized cost (including fuel, operations, and capital) typically ranges from $60 to $150 per MWh, with an average of $90/ MWh.

Because you have lived off government handouts your whole life, you do not understand the concept of investing. While you and the climate change nuts tried to say we were all going to be swallowed up by the ocean, those of who live in the real world have to make educated guesses about where pricing is going to be. When you invest and screw up, it costs millions and billions of dollars. When you and the climate change nuts screwed up your projections, you did the typical Democratic bullshit and said, "Never mind". So what if it cost the world trillions of dollars?

The point is that if you want to invest in energy, there is a futures market where you can lock in the price with oil and natural gas. Here is the price with oil futures: https://oilprice.com/futures/natural-gas/.

And one for natural gas https://oilprice.com/futures/natural-gas/. So if you want to invest in a project, you can pay for the right to sell the oil and gas you are going to produce at a set price. Does your graph have any such assurance that solar and wind are going to cheaper or is that just more hopium bullshit from your so called experts?

And if you didn't notice, your solar and wind, even after the hopium bullshit, costs double the price to produce electricity from coal.

My RV has one Ecoflow power station with 4000 watts and two spare batteries also with 4000 watts for a total of 12,000 watts, and it has worked to run my AC unit all night. I can go 12 hours with night time AC and that has been a success. I no longer need a generator to stay cool at night.

By far, the fastest and easiest way to charge the power station is to plug it into a wall socket. I was stuck where I did not have one though. At first, I used the RV generator but that was financially costly so I bought a small generator about 50% bigger than the size of a toaster.

So now with two gallons of gas and in six to eight hours, I can charge the whole power station at a much cheaper cost than the RV generator.

And I thought solar was even cheaper. It's free right? No oil or gas costs right? The Ecoflow has two inputs and you can put in 2600 watts into the power station. It is set up perfectly for solar or so I thought. I was hoping that I could just plug in 2600 watts of solar and be home free.

I like this woman and her real world tests and she had one on solar panels here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSFOgZ1DE98.

So the first thing I learn is the rooftop solar panels are damned near worthless for my needs. The wattage is just paltry. The only panels that seem to be worth a damn are the ZoupWs, and they do 400 to 500 watts per hour but do you see how fucking big they are? To charge my station in five hours, I would need five or six of these huge panels, and I would need the space of a mid-sized back yard to put down these panels. That is $3000 to get "free" electricity.

And then there is all the issues with having these panels out like getting damaged, stolen, or the sun just does not shine. In comparison to the solar and the $3000 up front cost, the small generator was $400, and I can charge the whole station much more quickly with a whopping $6 in gasoline.

If I used the RV on a daily basis, and I do not, it would be years to get a return on the solar and that is assuming it is not damaged or stolen. Once again, the math for solar just does not work.

[Elvis 2008]

We all know that the Democrats are the racists. You don't want Caucasians to have equal rights. You're obsessed with Caucasians. It's sad to see.

If you are a Democrat, you are perfectly okay with this, https://twitter.com/i/status/2099948154556985396

[Elvis 2008]

We all know that the Democrats are the racists. You don't want Caucasians to have equal rights. You're obsessed with Caucasians. It's sad to see.

Well, the prototypical male voting Republican cares little about race and all about values. Are you a productive person or a victim? Are you helping your fellow man when you are capable of doing so or are you a leach? Are you obsessed with government because you want to see it serve the nation and the public or are you obsessed because you want more money from government?

The latest brouhaha that we have seen was the Lindsay Clancy case. Oh boy. A mother kills her three children and the feminists blamed everyone but her. It was the drugs; it was her medical providers (all women by the way); it was her husband's fault. Eight obviously activist Democratic jurors bullied the other jurors into trying to get her off on an insanity defense. There was one sole male juror who would not bend and the Democratic machine did all it could to have him tossed from the jury.

If you want to know who the racists are in society, you can watch this video and the anchor Gayle King. She loses it when she finds out the holdout juror is a black male. (Gasp!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySTuYw9ogFw

"I have to sit with that for a second", she says. Gee, why Gayle? Is it because in your racist mind the holdout juror had to be an old white MAGA dude? If it makes you feel any better, Gayle, he admitted to being a Republican. You can defend being biased against men and Republicans but race not so much. You just showed the world that you and Democrats like you are the REAL racists.

So now we really know what it is to be a Democrat. The only ones responsible for anything are working men. A woman can literally kill her children and it is the fault of working men. It had to be the husband. Never mind that he made $400 k a year took off work to help more at the home, paid for a nanny, paid for a mansion, and paid for her to see all these health care providers. He was supposed to do more dammit!

And now we have women out claiming how hard it is to be a mother. You men just do not understand how hard it is. No, personally, I do and if today's women cannot handle the stress of being a mother, then I will take them at their word and say that they cannot handle doing other stressful jobs. It is not like a dumb animal can be a mom and raise their young. Oh wait.

The American woman and their Democratic simps have gotten to the point where feminism means a complete absence of any accountability. If you are an American man, you would be stupid to not get yourself a surrogate woman, a nanny, and a hooker abroad to have your fun.

With the average American woman, the only time an American man has any ownership with children is when it comes time to pay the bills. Outside of that, to the average American woman, men can fuck off.

Just remember. A woman admitted to killing her children, and American women wanted her to be not guilty and to blame her husband. Does anyone need to know anything else when it comes to how batshit crazy Democrats are?

[SubCmdr]

They will! The Fed will raise interest rates three times before the year ends. Inflation is running at 4. 1% annually. The oil shock will take six months to flow through the economy. Food prices will be up 30% in the Dis United States of America, before the end of the year.

I'm on the record. On January 1, 2027, call me out if I'm wrong. I'll stand and take my grade.

I received some push back.

3rd, yeah with Trump's guy at the head of the FED I see only one possible rate increase between now and the end of the year based on current data. But if the Fed does decide to raise interest rates, it most likely will not happen until after the election unless there is hard new evidence of significant new inflation growth.

I predicted 3 interest rates hikes before the end of the year. One down! And it happened before the election. Two more to go. The jury is not in yet!

The Federal Reserve unanimously raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points on September 16, 2026, increasing the target range to 3.75%-4.00%

The most interesting fact of the last week was seeing oil prices decline and the stock market rally after the "truce" ended and the bombing of Iran resumed indicating the IRGC may be running out of cards to play and its ability to influence oil prices is waning. And this is very good news even for Trump haters even though they will never admit it.

Oil Prices are currently over 100 USD a barrel.

Anyone checked the price of diesel lately?

[Sirioja]

Good point for association between Canada and EU, UK have also to join, versus crazy stupid Trump. USA are not king of the world, but less than 5% on our planet. 40% inflation for gasoline in USA because of Trump, even they have at home.

[SubCmdr]

Hey Spidy,

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

No doubt my brother. The most civil and intelligent discussion I have had on ISG since I have been posting.

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?

Yes, let's do it!

Still think nuclear/SMRs are the solution for DR?

No, I have come around to your way of thinking. SWB is the way to go. Because of 3 things:

1. Length of time it takes to bring SMRs online.

2. SWB technology has developed and will continue to develop it may make SMR obsolete before they can ever come on line an produce power.

3. I am personally pursing that route for my business in the Dominican Republic.

Good to have you back Spidy!

[SubCmdr]

The Democratic Party Is the Most Racist Organization in America

The Democratic Party, once the champions of civil rights in response to real injustices, is now the primary driver of racial division in America today. Lee Atwater's Southern strategy pales in comparison to the modern DNC's approach. No organization is more systematically racist.

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-...pinion-1976128

Neither party is mine!

[ShooBree]

Republicans' white supremacist problem is a threat to America.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...eat-to-america

Neither party is mine!

It's hilarious to see you quote a far left website as they care about facts.

[ShooBree]

Spot On!

While the Democrat Party has never been perfect on their political race, gender, equality or crime policies or governing, historically they have championed these human rights, meaningfully, but again, it's not always going to be everyone's satisfaction. For the most part, they have always served hardworking American people and not the just the billionaire donor class.

The Republican Party, on the other had have only ever championed, their White Racist agenda, meant to keep Americans divided, taken away American rights and freedoms, and suckered their base into stupid culture-wars, strategically away from the real political issues of the day. While they sever their real slave masters and overlords, their billionaire buddies, always enriching themselves and picking the pockets, at the cost and lives of hardworking Americans.

As the MAGA claims Dems are racist, and yet no clear cut examples or evidence to prove it, allow me to show you just how racist, Republicans are:

We all know that the Democrats are the racists. You don't want Caucasians to have equal rights. You're obsessed with Caucasians. It's sad to see.

[Spidy]

Welcome to the 1960's flip. Racists in the South were pulled away from voting for Democrats due to their far, far superior economic policy results by Republican Party race-baiting tactics to make them hate blacks more than they like jobs creation and wage gains.

Suckers.
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Republican Party Campaign Consultant and Strategist Lee Atwater was a revered giant in the Republican Party's Southern Strategy methods for making sure White Racists understood that Reagan,
It wasn't about which Party got the White Racist votes prior to the 1960's flip or after the 1960's flip. It's about the voters who want the White Racist agenda and which Party's candidates will deliver it for them. And since the 1960's it has been Republican Party candidates. It has been a great way for them to sell their policies that further enrich their millionaire, billionaire and now trillionaire donors at the expense of everyone else as long as they can convince suckers that Blacks, transgenders and "communists" are after their jobs, sons, daughters and freedom.

Spot On!

While the Democrat Party has never been perfect on their political race, gender, equality or crime policies or governing, historically they have championed these human rights, meaningfully, but again, it's not always going to be everyone's satisfaction. For the most part, they have always served hardworking American people and not the just the billionaire donor class.

The Republican Party, on the other had have only ever championed, their White Racist agenda, meant to keep Americans divided, taken away American rights and freedoms, and suckered their base into stupid culture-wars, strategically away from the real political issues of the day. While they sever their real slave masters and overlords, their billionaire buddies, always enriching themselves and picking the pockets, at the cost and lives of hardworking Americans.

As the MAGA claims Dems are racist, and yet no clear cut examples or evidence to prove it, allow me to show you just how racist, Republicans are:

• Republicans claim they're NOT racist, as they shutdown close to 100 polling stations in a key battleground district, in the predominately Black neighborhood in Forth Worth, Texas, ahead of the 2026 mid-Terms elections.

So I guess, with SCOTUS denying the MAGA Fuhrer's illegal attempt to shutdown mail-in voting, it's back to "good old fashion" Jim Crow, election suppression tactics?

[Sirioja]

The phrase "Neither party is mine" is a political quote by ChuckD 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.

And Trump as Taco Nacho as tell Americans, and senile, stupid and ignorant for me as a European. Worst ever president of USA for our world. When I wish Israel will get rid of Netanyahou, get rid of your cheating golfer playing with your taxes on November, when we are so bored of his bullshits and USA are just shameful under him.

[SubCmdr]

Republicans' white supremacist problem is a threat to America.

The Republicans road to perdition required mastery of coded racist policy language, such as welfare queen, forced busing and law and order, to lure disaffected white people out of the Democratic party and into the Republican party. The Southern Strategy was so ruthless in its lurch to the right that it actually neutralized the moderates and drove the majority of African Americans out of the party.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...eat-to-america

Neither party is mine!

[EihTooms]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...6a124_hgci.pdf

The Supreme Court comes through for regular people yet again!

Neither party is mine not the donkey or the elephant!

Led by Blue state California. I'm sure you saw the only state in your link specifically cited in the title of the lawsuit against democracy-hating Trump was "v California. ".

Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions ahead of midterms

https://apnews.com/article/trump-mai...d1c865529fc65f

State officials and voting rights groups pushed back

Democratic state officials and voting rights groups challenged the restrictions in court, arguing that the president has no constitutional authority to set election rules that would virtually eliminate mail voting on the eve of a major election.

Did you honestly think a gaggle of Repub Trump ass-lickers in Red states were going to lead the charge against the latest Repub attempt to shitcan a free and fair election and get this done? LOL.