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i wonder what will become of these 2?
hometown heros or hometown zeros?
talk about low approval ratings, damn, jock itch has a higher rating than schumar.
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People don't hate him because they like Trump, but because this gutless fuck
doesn't fight against Trump (hard enough). Can't you understand that?
Want to see Jon Steward mock Chuck Schumer?
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Meanwhile, Bernie and AOC are amassing the biggest protest crows ever.
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By your logic, Schumer must be doing a great job, to be this unpopular.
Phart 3 days ago: "doesn't bother me at all. just tells me he is doing the job i hired him to do. if you aint pissin people off doing your job, you must be part of the problem instead of the solution."
Just a foolish old man peddling dreams that won't ever come to reality!
AOC- look at her own district- it is a disaster!
3.02 in Pennsylvania
is not just because they fuck you on prices,
but mostly because they fuck you on WAGES!!!
You are turning billionaires into trillionaires,
while your minimum wage is $7.25/hour.
THAT'S THE CAUSE, YOU POOR GULLIBLE TOOLS!!!
Are you thinking of defecting to America if you are my i suggest you settle in Pennsylvania because a lot of your ancestors settled here and i would welcome you with open arms but you have to leave the democrat bull shit behind we have enough of them looney bastards already
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PS you can bring your wooden shoes
Trump has an impact on EVERYTHING. Ever heard of tariffs or Ukraine?
I told you that before: your country leads the way in the global economy. What you decide in your elections affects everyone else. When the US elects liberals who make the oligarchs pay the working class better, make the pharmaceutical companies lower their prices, invest in green energy to reduce climate change, make education more affordable, regulate big industry to pollute less and provide safe working environments, crack down on the finance industry to stop scamming customers, etc., that results in the EU doing similar things or better. When you pick Republicans, who only prop up billionaires and fuck over the working class, the EU follows that example more.
Your country is now turning full fascist. If you know any history, you would understand how that could turn out. In WWII those fuckers didn't have nukes.
You do!!
You claimed Trumpp was the anti-war candidate, but he is threatening Iran,
Mexico, Canada, Panama and Greenland and is actively involved in the genocide in Palestine and bombing Yemen for their reaction on that.
He's being directly aggressive to everyone except Russia.
Nothing but love for Putin, and thinking of quitting the aid to Ukraine.
That means that Europe needs to defend Ukraine by ourselves.
Why? Because we are next on Putin's to-do-list.
Why oh why would I be so interested in American politics??
Don't you think your question is a little bit silly???
but you're raining on my parade.
Are you deporting people to fight for Putin already?
I knew you were Putin's bitch, but I didn't imagine it this bad.
Trump is great trump is good let us thank him for our food
to run for president, but I think that's a mistake, because too many of you are racist
and sexist. I want a progressive 55-70 year old white guy to run for president.
Note that you cannot say that Bernie is unpopular, because he has been the most popular senator for decades and is now attracting massive crowds.
i would like for a person to run that is capable of doing what they promise, and stands up for America.
kamala would have open borders, empty prisons and every successful person in the country would penalized for making something of themselves
"i would like for a person to run that is capable of doing what they promise"
Don't you care WHAT they promise?
"and stands up for America."
Can you tell me what that looks like? Is it destroying your (trade) relations
with your best friends and being weak on the worlds enemies?
You're just repeating your indoctrination on Kamala.
She's a weak centrist, who wouldn't have made your country much better,
but she wouldn't destroy it like Trump is doing now.
Are you worried about successful people getting penalized, while billionaires
are turning into trillionaires, while the average American cannot afford TO EAT
and pay RENT, at the same time? HOW GULLIBLE ARE YOU?
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and people who couldn't afford groceries.
Strange how you don't care about anything, as soon as your side wins.
That's clearly looking away from all the chaos and destruction they create.
If my representatives would win and made a fucking mess, I wouldn't vote
for them again. Why don't you have that principle?
And trump can’t run again so I won’t be voting for him next time
Right now I’m working on getting Pennsylvania a republican governor that’s my mission now
Back to the nursing homes and the youth groups
But, at least I will try.
- Trump let Elon Musk rummage around in your government finances and everything the government knows about YOU, to cut and gut whatever a billionaire considers 'waste'. How about if Biden had let George Soros do that?
- Trump starting a trade war with every country on earth, even places where only penguins live, using a formula that was thought-up in 5 minutes, on a napkin. (figuratively, but it couldn't be worse if it was true) Do you think starting a trade war with your biggest trading partners isn't chaos? Of course not, you think that's smart negotiation when Trump does it. He came back on it though, showing him to be WEAK.
- Trump fired a four star general, because black people are by definition "DEI", and replace him with a completely unqualified white guy, with white nationalist tattoos and a history of violence and intoxication on the job. His first action is discussing war plans on Signal. He's the real "DEI candidate": lowering standards to meet his record incompetence level, because of his skin color.
- Trump acts completely on executive orders. He destroys whole government agencies, which were implemented by congress. He craps all over The Constitution and completely ignores judges and even the Supreme Court. Can we agree that Democrats can do that too from now?
- Every modern and free country hates the US now. They are all preparing to shift away from the US, not trusting the US anymore for any important service or product. How do you think that will affect your military industrial complex, your big media companies, your electronics industry. They will all go the direction of Tesla, as soon as they achieve more independence. To achieve that independence takes massive investments into technology and production capacity. Of course they won't invest with dollars, but with euros, because your financial systems cannot be trusted to be independent anymore either. Trump's actions are resulting in the exact opposite of his stated goals. How is that not chaos?
- Which countries still like Trump now? Israel? (Sure, but it's only costing you), Saudi Arabia? (9/11, supporters of al Qaeda), Russia? (only when it serves them), North Korea? (they are crazy and poor as dirt), Hungary? (poor as dirt and on the dole of Europe. If we kick them out of the EU, they collapse completely),
El Salvador? (only good for disappearing people, but poor as dirt).
Your 'friends' are a collection of dwarfs and trolls. They are mostly useless to you, because they are either weak or treacherous. The US became the wealthiest nation in the world, because of friendship with the rest of the modern world and selling stuff, even when others made that stuff. That won't continue. You cannot make anything yourself, because your people are dumb and you cannot live on internal consumption, because your people are poor.
That picture in my mind is so funny that I can’t concentrate on anything you post
in the dyke, until Americans told me.
Actually, I look very much like an American. I'm big, balding, overweight (normal for American standards), white guy with a goatee. I would fit in at any Trump rally, until I started to talk politics. I could probably wear a hat of my party too; it's red with a tomato logo. They would probably think the tomato is a good idea.
You think of the Dutch boy, because it's the ONLY Dutch thing you know.
When I imagine you, my image is probably dead accurate, because I have seen so many Americans on TV and in the media. (also, you just show photos)
Of course your country is much bigger and the center of the world in political issues, while my country is tiny and doesn't make the headlines as often.
Any person on the planet has a good idea about what the US is and does and what the average American looks like. But, it's also that Americans, in general, don't inform themselves about anything that happens in the world. That's because your media, which is owned by large corporations, purposely shuts out any information that could make you criticize the idea that America is the bestest country in the world. It's a very old strategy, that is mostly obsolete, because most Americans now know how fucked-up your country is, but they are used to selling you the fantasy that it isn't, and there is no money in breaking your fantasy.
Trump got elected by telling you how broken America is, but simultaneously you cannot admit to me that it is. You believe Trump AND you still believe the fantasy.
The best way to break that fantasy, is to look beyond your borders.
Instead, you crawled down more into your shell of denial.
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most i paid for gas on a 800 mile road trip was 2.69 , when biden was in office i don't think i got it for less than 3.
Thank you Donald Trump
Did you thank Biden then?
You're just celebrating the beginning of an economic crisis.
It doesn't have to come though. If Trump promises to stop his tariff plans,
the economy will probably go up again.
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could you explain what is so bad about a $5 billion opportunity for new exports for U.S. farmers, ranchers, and producers please>?
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seems to me like if folks like you that hate Trump so bad would just calm the hell down, things would get better than before in due time.
You might have a point that we didn't spend enough on our defense, but everything we did spend was ON YOUR WEAPONS. Now we are putting maximum effort and hundreds of billions of investments in making those weapons in Europe, because we cannot trust you to provide them anymore.
Selling some more produce to UK is peanuts compared to the damage that
Trump has done.
In his first term, Trump already showed the rest of the world, that the US cannot be trusted to keep an agreement, by pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Iran Nuclear Deal, TPP, the INF Treaty, the UNHRC, UNESCO, the Global Compact for Migration, the Open Skies Treaty, the WHO, and he undermined the World Trade Organization.
He has squandered every last bit of trust that other countries had in the US.
No one has any reason to believe that the US will respect ANY deal, ever again, so why would the UK or Europe respect a deal with the US?
Remember that trade deal Trump made with China, during his first trade war? China promised to buy more soy products from the US. That never happened!
That 'historic trade deal with the UK' is as valuable as the paper it's printed on.
It's not just folks like me that hate Trump, it's everyone he ever did business with, it's almost everyone in his first administration, it's his former VP, most of his former lawyers who saw their careers tank, it's old people who donated to him once and found out the money keeps getting transferred periodically, it's everyone who once was loyal as a dog to him and he threw under the bus. Everyone who deals with him ends up regretting it, except you dumb-asses,
SO FAR!
Those government leaders that Trump thinks are groveling for him, are all much smarter than him. They stroke his ego, give him some peanuts, to keep the US on our side in the Ukraine/Russia conflict, for as long as we still need you to. But we are going all in to get our military production and capacity up. And when we don't need you for our protection anymore, we might not want to need you for ANYTHING anymore. America had it's best days as superpower and is flailing, we don't want China to be the new superpower, so the best solution is
to become one ourselves. Europe has 745 million people, much lower debt than the US, a highly educated workforce, innovation strength and has a good reputation with most countries in the world.
(It's not math, it's economics)
However, cooperation can only work, if both parties strive towards
similar goals. Otherwise it turns into -1 + 1 = 0.
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That's from the Economist, phart
No captain of industry is g@mbling hundreds of billions of dollars and an effort of many years, to bring back production to the US, where that production will be more expensive, on the fickle nature of Trump, who could die from his fat heart any day, and who can become a lame duck in the next election. Trump has already caved on his tariffs, and he calls it a negotiation tactic regularly. It's putting the economy on a ledge, so they are all JUST WAITING to see what he's going to do. It's NOT working!
I'm not saying that is CANNOT work, I'm just saying that Trump is to dumb
and unreliable to make it work.
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That was fast!
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wow, just speaking your mind puts you in prison. boy those brits sure do have freedom don't they>?
then you need to understand this is only 4 months into his second term ,after 4 years of joe biden making a mess in his depends and the country
in ukraine, zelenski has seized power because the country is at war, not allowing for a election for the people to select another.
what does north korea have?
what does russia have?
what does england have?a king you say? not much difference.
ukraine, may as well call their leader a dictator,he is not legit now because a election was missed
In 2019, there were 92 countries considered to be dictatorships, while 87 were considered democracies, according to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This indicates that dictatorships outnumbered democracies at that time, with 70% of the world's population living in authoritarian regimes.
As of 2020, there are 52 nations with a dictator or authoritarian regime ruling the country: Three in Latin America and South America, 27 in Asia and the rest in
Some are dictatorships with wide range if citizen right.
England has a monarch as a figure head but parliament and the Prime Minister do the governing and they are elected
There are 8 dictatorships with kings.
There are 120 democracies with presidents.
There are 60 dictatorships with presidents.
That's about the same ratio of democracies vs dictatorships.
By 2020 numbers, the top 5 most democratic countries were:
#1 Denmark: king
#2 Norway: king
#3 Finland: president
#4 Sweden: king
#5 Germany: president
Those kings serve a ceremonial role with limited or no political power.
The UK ranked as #17 most democratic country (Working Democracy)
The US ranked as #36 most democratic country (Deficient Democracy)
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In 2025, the US was demoted to "Flawed Democracy".
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That was just after Elon Musk meddled in the presidential campaign.
I cannot find any more recent assessments of America's democracy,
but we can expect it to drop like a rock.
So they are already having issues with charging electric cars?
Sheesh,what about in 5 years? The power company are not permited to build new power plants.Solar and wind are going to be important to keep the grid up. But that didn't work in Texas did it?
They make a lot of energy in Texas,but how many folks died over the winter this past 1?
Angel1227!
So a private, for profit, company did not plan on a hard winter so their production of electricity was not sufficient? And this utility, regulated by the states, failed to meet the demands? This state (Texas) governed by Repukers was not regulated correctly so this company spent less on production and got richer because of it? This sounds very much like a Repuker business idea.
I fault the power companys in texas to a point but I also fault the citizens for lack of preparedness.
Face it, sometimes you need regulation, especially for basic facilities like power.
And I then mentioned the issues in texas with electricity.
What everyone is missing here is the fact there is NOT enough electricity being produced to meet CURRENT demand.As Ananas has indicated.So imagine if you will,5-10 years from now,when there is GREATER demand? What a mess we are in for.
Regulation is not the solution. that is how you GOT TO THIS POINT. To many regulations preventing new power plants being built and trying to snuff out coal,a effective energy source.
You think that if they are running short they won’t try to catch up? The regulations you protest are there to protect the people and the environment. But, knowing how you think, fuck that. Let coal continue to pollute. We’ll be dead by the time our grandkids die of poisoned air.
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Only 2 under construction according to this chart.
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The US shut down how many? lets see
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Now, we shut down 39 and we are building 2. Does that sound like regulations are helping any? 2, there are 50 states. So state regulation is not changing anything where it may be either.
If you want coal gone,you need to have a replacement handy before hand.
Nuclear power is not the solution. There are 80 sites in the United States where nuclear waste is stored. Some of it is stored temporary in a location that is not safe long term. The best uranium sites are already running out and it's getting ever more expensive to mine the stuff.
That waste has to be looked after for the next 20,000 to 1M years, before it's safe. Humanity probably kills itself before that or there might be a few survivors that don't know how to keep the waste safe and radiation will finish them off. But who cares, right?
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Like nuclear is the only alternative to coal.
I just used nuclear here because MOST tree huggers-liberals,think nuclear is the answer.And it has Ooodles of issues that take Many years to deal with.
Actually, I even prefer fossil fuels over nuclear, even though I'm a tree hugger-liberal. Nuclear might be a bit better on carbon emissions when the reactor is built, but building new ones creates so much emissions, it takes 20 years to recover.
Another problem is that nuclear reactors take ages to start up and stop again, which is not practical as backup for solar and wind. Fossil fuels are at least needed until we have enough geothermal, hydro (incl. wave), biofuel, biogas, hydrogen, chemical storage (formic acid), thermal energy storage, battery storage and whatever I forgot or they think up next.
Then there is off-course the waste and the risk.
Eh so more electric cars will reduce demand?
I know you are not a engineer,but even you should be able to figure out that can't work.
groas violations of human rights, so the US or Europe don't need them as an ally.
If they can't sell us oil ,they will make their money on interest from loans.
We could afford to use fossil fuels if we could finish our pipelines and drill in otherwise useless lands like up north in alaska where there is nothing but woods.
The alaskan pipeline built long ago,was supposed to be such a wildlife disaster,ha,the animals love it,it is warm near the pipeline.
California has MILES of coast line,Why are they not looking into this tech?
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Instead of wasting all that coast line for half naked people to lay around and spread covid,there could be power plants there!
NO pollution! No noise that is not already there,and erosion control! WOW,
Kansas,could be using wind and solar to help of course.
Another non polluting power source,
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When I build a green house,yep,I will use geothermal to help with temp control.
Every bit you can use of it is better than none at all.
Here are some fun do-it-yourself builds on YouTube.
I had seen them before and it made me regret living next to a stationary ditch.
Maybe there are some ideas you can use:
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I DO NOT quite understand the amount of AMPS he is getting from that washing machine motor.
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How many Chernobyl’s do you know? One in the states, one in Japan, and one in Russia. Here, in Miami-Dade county, FP&L has been operating the local one over 50 yrs. Same in other cities around the state. And no pollution
You don't hear about the Mcquire plant here in NC getting to hot but it did a few years ago. The tree huggers were angry because a type of fish was dieing from getting caught in the cooling system water.So they put a screen over the intake. Worked fine for a while. Until the screen clogged up with little fishes.A employee told me about it.
Here is a long list of potential accidents and how to deal with them
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Yea,I know,I got dizzy after 10 minutes of readin!
I can't see a coal plant being any where near as dangerous to operate
They can't even take in water, without sucking up all the fishes
According to the Rainforest Action Network. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous.
Like I said, “What you don’t see can be more dangerous.”
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chernobyl didn just happen and stop.It is still happening today.
Smog will go away at some point.
coal smoke can be filtered.Try filtering radiaton.
So we only would need half that exclusion zone filled with solar panels
and that would cost about 78 Billion Euro's. That would raise our national debt from 56.3% of GDP to 66.2% of GDP.
Jobs for all our unemployed people will pull that debt down soon enough.
Accidents happen. Even if the chance is 1:1M (historically proven it's much higher), when you multiply that risk by the number of nuclear power plants required, something catastrophic will happen at some point. Such catastrophes could cost more than the complete energy transition.
That's not worth it, because nuclear power is only a temporary solution, because the uranium will run out at some point. It's already becoming more and more expensive to mine the stuff.
Even if all those problems didn't exist, it still takes 10 years before any nuclear power plant has compensates his own build. But it first takes 10 years to build any. Then after 20 years, they are just as CO2 effecient as wind and solar. That's too late. We need to lower CO2 emissions ASAP.
Anyone with some money to spare can invest in their own solar panels,
lower their costs and be less dependent on power companies.
It's nice to have air-conditioning in a heat wave, when the government
is telling you not to use power or you can't afford it when power companies are charging you 100x the normal rate.
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There are al sorts of natural disasters, but it can also be a terrorist attack or a hacker or just basic human error.
BTW, instead of Kansas I could have picked West Virginia
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As far as anything else, we have to trust security will prevail. Every thing is a crapshoot. Hopefully we don’t roll snake eyes,
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I also don't like nuclear energy and my arguments are in line with the science on climate change. That uranium has to be mined, which also emits CO2.
A nuclear power plant takes a lot of energy to be built and maintained.
Then afterwards we have to keep the waste safe for the next 20,000 years.
On the short term nuclear is about as energy/CO2 efficient as wind power and even less than solar. In the long term nuclear has a horrible energy/CO2 efficiency, because keeping the waste safe also costs energy. Also, building nuclear power plants takes a long time and lots of materials. It takes about 10 years before a nuclear power plant compensates his own build. That's about 1-1.5 years for wind energy and 2 years for solar. However solar is cheaper
on maintenance.
Other than that, I agree with most of what you said.
All energy technology costs money, materials, energy and land to build and maintain. All energy technology has downsides like pollution, mineral shortages, exploitation of people and CO2 emissions. We just need to stop with the worst energy technologies first and expand on the best ones the most.
It doesn't require completely changing our life or have impact on the quality of our life. However climate change already impacts our life and it will only get worse. We can either choose to accept some changes now and prevent total catastrophe later or we can deny the truth until catastrophe proves us wrong.
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