American Politics

[KeviKev68]

https://theconversation.com/what-hav...00-days-255139

The Republicans control both houses of Congress and the Executive. They are running the country into the ground like Trump did with the Taj Mahal.

[Iguana Six]

Repub MAGAs rail against DEI hires while the only atrocious outcomes from diverse profile hires have been theirs.

Now they have finally broken that stubborn glass ceiling that made it so difficult for their bestiality proponents to produce atrocious results for the country.

Are not these memes based on crude, racist stereotypes?

Kash Patel isn't even Arab.

I know you are angry, but you are better than this.

[EihTooms]

Trump's Approval vs Disapproval ratings in the demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' poll of polls has gotten worse and the preference for Dems to control Congress has gotten better since Trump offered to pay every American adult $5000 if they would vote in a way to prevent Dems from taking majority control in either house of Congress so he and his Party can continue to shit on America with ever bigger and wetter turds for the next two years. See screenshots below.

[SubCmdr]

If the Democratic party flips the house in the midterms, what are they going to do about this?

A week ago you could argue that was a one-and-done insurance move or a one and maybe December hike). Todays price action says investors no longer believe that, he added. Bottom line, you cant fool or hide in the bond market unless the Fed gets inflation under control the long end of the curve is going to continue to come under pressure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/trea...ation-fed.html

[SubCmdr]

Lest you forget, the (neither party is mine) MAGA Fuhrer and the shit-show Republican admin, are the ones in power (both houses).

Read The Constitution of the United States of America.

https://www.tned.uscourts.gov/sites/...1023civics.pdf

The Senate grants equal representation to each state regardless of population, allowing smaller states to check the will of larger, more populous states. Same goes for the power of the political parties in the Senate.

As noted in The Federalist Papers, while the will of the majority should generally prevail, it must be "reasonable" and cannot violate the "equal rights" of the minority. The system is a constitutional democracy, not a pure democracy, specifically engineered to ensure that majority rule does not become a tool for oppression.

The Democrats have failed as the loyal opposition.

a minority party especially in a legislative body whose opposition to the party in power is constructive, responsible, and bounded by loyalty to fundamental interests and principles

Neither Party is mine!

[Spidy]

... Fossil fuels are in such demand for electricity the wait for natural gas turbines is like five years now. The USA needs to double its electricity production to win the AI war ASAP and with new gas greatly slowed down, that means nukes and / or coal and in the USA with nukes, nothing ever happens fast. I would prefer nukes to coal any day but yeah, I expect electricity from coal use to skyrocket while everyone talks up the nuclear game while nothing gets done.
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And while you are giving Europe its props for its "electrostate" status, you fail to notice that their electric costs are so high, they are effectively priced out of the AI race so thank God

Yes, you prefer coal and nuclear, while admitting nothing get done. And yet in subsequent debates, you've been arguing like a Mad Hatter, that the U.S. is somehow winning (and will win) the AI race, ahead of China and Europe, because it has better electricity prices (and that fossil fuel generating electricity energy (or just energy in general), is the key to winning the AI race?

To which I replied:

If the USA (under the MAGA Fuhrer) want to burn fossil fuels, be it coal or gas and build multi-billion dollar boondoggle unproven SMRs and money-pit nuclear reactors and ignore the low cost renewables, as the cheapest form of energy production today, then. GOOD LUCK with that! Not too mention, it has probably lost the AI race already, if we are to believe your cooked up "theory", that based on electricity prices, that will determine, who will win the AI race or be most successful.
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Simply put, your electricity argument...is an oversimplification, of who will succeed. There will be many key factors, that make up which companies/countries will win the AI race. And while the price of electricity maybe a one key factor, among many, nothing you've said, leads me to believe, it is the prevailing key factor, above all others, that will determine success.

Here is an update from Huang:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently sat down on the All-In Summit 2026 (on September 14,2026) and shared a blunt, practical perspective on the global AI race, open-source technology, STEM talent pipelines, and domestic chip manufacturing and reiterated what he'd said in November 2025 and said again at the summit:

• "China is going to win the AI race"
  
  The reasons he explained were, (1) a massive AI talent pool, (2) energy and infrastructure advantages, (3) the pivot towards an robust home-grown independent domestic AI and semiconductor stack and ecosystem driven due to the impact of US sanctions and export controls, and (4) open-source and (5) their innovation velocity speed (aka. "China Speed")

Still remains to be seen, but how's that, Elvis 2008, on the clear clarification, as to why and who will win the AI race, from Jensen Huang himself, rather than the propagandized crap from MAGA and the fossil fuel industry.

[EihTooms]

https://theconversation.com/what-hav...00-days-255139

There are approximately 250,000,000 American citizens who were eligible to register and vote in 2016,2020 and 2024.

Yet only 67,000,000 of them were smart enough and patriotic enough to be registered and vote for Clinton in 2016 and only 75,000,000 of them were smart enough and patriotic enough to be registered and vote for Harris in 2024.

Sure, almost 3,000,000 more of them voted for Clinton than Trump. And, sure, they managed to reduce House seats for Repubs in 2024, but not enough to flip the House control to the Dems. Close, but not quite enough. And they managed to prevent the Repubs from winning a single Blue state Senate seat. Not bad for a "change" election year.

Otherwise, the number of Americans who voted for Clinton and Harris vs the number that COULD have voted for them suggests the majority of American adults is pretty damn stupid. Now they're crying like big dogs over why oh why haven't the Dems saved us from the crap results Repub Trump and his Party dumped on them in his first term and the now even bigger crap he and his Party are dumping on them in his 2nd term. Lolol.

For starters, instead of crying like big dogs over why oh why haven't the Dems who don't occupy the White House, don't control the House, don't control the Senate and don't control the SCOTUS save America from the utterly predictable crap results Repubs have been dumping on America every time Repubs are foolishly handed the levers of power for at least the past hundred years, what did those stay-at-home voters do in MI, PA and WI in 2024 while a relatively tiny handful of angry Muslims goaded into abandoning Harris by Netanyahu's decision to delay honoring that ceasefire until after the election decided the outcome of the presidential election?

The USA is in a World of Shit today because Americans who have or perhaps by now had the power to vote for the polar opposite outcome for themselves, their family and their friends didn't bother to do it. That isn't "the Democrats" fault. They were on the ballot. All it took was for less than a single percentage point of voters spread across the only 3 swing states that mattered, states that generally choose a president in sync with each other, to have swung their vote to Harris instead of somebody else.

But they didn't.

Oh well.

We tried.

[SubCmdr]

Democratic opposition to crypto regulation is nearly universal across the party. Why is that?

Bitcoin has surged to $86,000, continuing its upward trajectory despite the Federal Reserve's recent interest rate hike. The influx of nearly $1 billion into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds reflects robust investor confidence. Additionally, the CLARITY Act's failure to pass seems to have alleviated concerns, prompting a positive market reaction.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com.../134420082.cms

Not a investment recommendation

[Spidy]

https://theconversation.com/what-hav...00-days-255139

The better question is, what have (or haven't) the MAGA Fuhrer and the Repubs Admin done?

To answer my own question, I would say, less than nothing administratively, and are every bit the lame-duck administration, I knew they'd turnout to be. But then again, they have done, everything politically possible, within their collective MAGA ideological power, to fuck-up, screw-up and mess-up America and turn it to a MAGA shit-wasteland.

Lest you forget, the (neither party is mine) MAGA Fuhrer and the shit-show Republican admin, are the ones in power (both houses).

[Spidy]

And your dumb Earth 1 bullshit assumes all climates are the same. If you are in a desert like climate where there is a lot of sun and free space and temps plummet at night where you need little to possibly no night time AC, then the solar-battery combination might be a cost effective solution. But where it stays hot at night like where I am in Texas, the solar-battery combo makes no financial sense.

Yeah, I forgot, on Earth #2, the sun doesn't shine everywhere and the wind doesn't blow everywhere either!

On Earth #2, while not all regions get the same amount of radiated solar energy (aka. Sunshine), does not 80-85% of population live in The Global South?

Here is what the Republican from Texas misses:

That is each and every application for the use of Solar and Wind is different. ...

You could have stop there and IMHO, you'd think most people would get. But naturally, MAGA has to politicize everything and twist it to their idiotic MAGA ideology, while they desperately try to hang on to power. And energy is one of the more critical levers of power!

Every application is different, but that's the flexibility and scalability of renewables (SWB) and electrotech. Take the application of renewables (SWB) and the example of RVing verses sailing, in what I like to call RV Elvis 2008 vs. Sailing Uma. While Elvis 2008 in his RV, has the luxury of pulling up to the local gas-station and fueling-up his RV and generator, very conveniently, out on the ocean, in the middle of nowhere, where are you going to find a gas-station?

The trends for renewables (SWB) is clear, no matter, where on earth or in what climate you happen to preside in, renewables (SWB), electricity demand and end-case usage are slowly (and in some cases rapidly) replacing fossil fuels.

In a recent post, Elvis 2008, was complaining about the cost of solar, portable power stations, batteries and the weight of everything would be too much for his RV capacity. Fair enough, since Elvis 2008, sought out, what he said was a viable cheap fossil fuel solution. But now a few months later, he tells us, he's bought a portable power station and a couple of batteries ...so go figure?.

SWB Facts in Texas

https://rmi.org/resources/wind-and-s...million-a-day/

Those are pretty good cost saving facts on Texas energy!

Undeniably, whether it's MAGA zealots, Texas SWB growth, Elvis 2008 flip-flopping on RV solutions or Australia's richest person, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, publicly criticizing green policies and funds climate skepticism, while her own backed mining operations heavily utilize renewables (SWB), in the end, none of them can escape the economics of renewables (SWB) or the electrotech trend.

[SubCmdr]

The Democratic response to the first 100 days of Donald Trumps second term has been sluggish. It has made many Congressional Democrats, and party members, anxious about what the party can do to push back against the presidents fast-moving agenda.

None of this feels like youre fighting for us The words are great, but Im really not seeing any action, said an exasperated constituent at a town hall event held in March by Colorado Democratic Senator Michael Bennet.

https://theconversation.com/what-hav...00-days-255139

[SubCmdr]

And your dumb Earth 1 bullshit assumes all climates are the same. If you are in a desert like climate where there is a lot of sun and free space and temps plummet at night where you need little to possibly no night time AC, then the solar-battery combination might be a cost effective solution. But where it stays hot at night like where I am in Texas, the solar-battery combo makes no financial sense.

Here is what the Republican from Texas misses:

Rooftop solar allows my fellow citizens in the Dis United States of America to begin to take back their independence. That is priceless. It is not subject to cost benefit analysis. Now, when I looked the cost of connecting to the grid for my land in the Dominican Republic, it was more economical to build an off grid system that generates power using solar panels. Plus no monthly electrical bill for 30 years. ROTFLMAO! I am still trying to figure out how integrate wind into the installation.

That is each and every application for the use of Solar and Wind is different. The generation of energy for a society is political. You have to have permission from the government to build a power generating station (of any type). On private land you do not. I did not have to ask anyone for permission to place a solar panel on my land.

The Republican from Texas should just say he has a philosophical problem with SWB power systems. Instead of using examples that are not really proper examples and trying to extrapolate them to the larger population at large.

SWB Facts in Texas

Solar and wind power are cheaper than fossil fuels in Texas for new generation projects, with unsubsidized costs for wind ($28$54/MWh) and solar ($32$44/MWh) falling below those of natural gas ($44$68/MWh) and coal ($66$152/MWh).

This cost advantage has allowed renewables to save Texas consumers billions, with reports indicating $7.4 billion in wholesale savings in the first eight months of 2022 and an average daily avoidance of $20 million in fossil fuel costs.

https://rmi.org/resources/wind-and-s...million-a-day/

[SubCmdr]

Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees.

In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America. The South African government has repeatedly rejected the idea that the white South Africans, who are Afrikaners, are a persecuted minority in the home country.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026...ican-refugees/

[Sirioja]

Medias like CNN refused in White House by Trump. After Musk corruption, now 5000 USD corruption by Trump to try to save midterms, USA under him are not anymore a democracy, but a new dictator with ICE, like his friend he sucks, Putin who threaten to vote for him.

After most US artists boycotting Trump, now most medias boycott the dictator. Only 14000 followers on his new created channel, just ridiculous, but dangerous dictator. Wishing for still democracy to get rid of him and his messe all over the world, on midterms.

[DwayneJohnson]

Repub MAGAs rail against DEI hires while the only atrocious outcomes from diverse profile hires have been theirs.

Now they have finally broken that stubborn glass ceiling that made it so difficult for their bestiality proponents to produce atrocious results for the country.

It's hard for outside observers to follow who is liberal and who is conservative these days. MAGA leadership seems very liberal when it comes to sex with beasts, inanimate objects, kids and marriage with sex workers. They are also great at inflation game so prostitution could flourish. All that remains is for Americans to stop paying onlyfans e-girls.