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The Clown sure knows how the economy works.
And another thing, alot of the job loss is electric vehicle related, green job related stuff that was insecure to begin with.
Green jobs are only insecure, if your politicians decide that taking money from Big Oil
is more important than providing your country with cheap energy and less pollution.
He's so predictable!
You're so predictable dude!
With lower fuel cost comes lower transport cost and more travel during our holiday season which means more money flowing in the economy.
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He's ready to take over one of the largest in area countries in the world:
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phart must be delighted that his leader is acting as a pissmaker.
He must also be delighted I quoted fox "news" rather than an extreme left source like NY times.
You mean every day, every hour.
That guy is violating the laws every minute.
It's #10 in this summary of the "Dictator’s Playbook":
Dictator’s Playbook: Common Tactics Used by Autocrats
1. Systematic Disinformation and Falsehoods
Dictators deliberately spread lies, distort facts, and flood the information environment with contradictory or false narratives to confuse and overwhelm audiences, weakening public trust in objective truth and fact-based reporting. Methods include high-volume, multichannel false messaging that makes truth hard to discern.
2. Delegitimizing and Attacking the Media
Independent media are portrayed as hostile, biased, or “fake news” to erode public trust. By undermining the credibility of objective reporting, dictators make people doubt realistic or critical accounts of their actions. Modern autocrats often manipulate rather than fully censor media, using legal, economic, or rhetorical pressure to silence dissent.
3. Controlling and Manipulating Information Channels
Beyond attacks on the press, dictators control or co-opt broadcast and social media, sponsor proxy outlets, and use state propaganda to shape narratives domestically and sometimes internationally. This includes bot networks and troll factories to amplify regime messaging and drown out critical voices.
4. Politicizing or Capturing Institutions
Independent institutions (judiciaries, election authorities, regulators, law enforcement) are systematically weakened or staffed with loyalists so they no longer act as checks on executive power. This erodes democratic safeguards.
5. Quashing Criticism and Dissent
Critics, opposition figures, and civil society actors are harassed, criminalized, or intimidated. This can take legal, economic, or extra-legal forms, creating a climate of fear that discourages open criticism.
6. Scapegoating and Dividing the Population
Dictators often blame social, ethnic, religious, or external “enemies” for societal problems, fostering an “us vs. them” mentality that distracts from governance failures and mobilizes support through fear or tribalism.
7. Corrupting or Manipulating Elections
Even when elections nominally occur, dictators rig or coerce outcomes through gerrymandering, fraud, voter suppression, legal changes to term limits, or claims of fraud when they lose, all to maintain a veneer of legitimacy.
8. Reinforcing Executive Power and Weakening Checks and Balances
Emergency powers, constitutional changes, and legal reinterpretation expand the ruler’s authority at the expense of other branches of government.
9. Creating a Cult of Personality
Leaders often project an image of indispensable savior or national guardian to build unquestioning loyalty. This ties popular identity to the individual rather than to institutions or shared governance.
10. Distraction Through Major Events or Manufactured Crises
When a dictator faces embarrassment, scandal, or a legitimacy threat, they often launch a big action, controversy, or crisis narrative to shift public attention. This may include major military moves, controversial policies, “provocations,” or spectacle-driven events that overwhelm or bury negative news. These distraction tactics serve to reroute public scrutiny away from problems that could weaken their grip.
Why These Tactics Work:
- Erosion of shared facts: If truth is contested and people can’t agree on basic facts, collective criticism and accountability become much harder.
- Information overload: Flooding citizens with numerous, contradictory messages creates confusion and apathy, reducing resistance.
- Delegitimization of critics: By attacking institutions and critics as traitors or enemies, autocrats weaken social cohesion and independent oversight.
- Spectacle over scrutiny: Large distractions or crises capture collective attention, pushing deeper systemic issues out of the public eye.
Thanks for putting these things together so nicely.
Much appreciated.
It nicely summarizes all the research on the tactics used by autocrats.
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I haven't read books on the subject, but obviously someone in the Trump regime
studied this for many years. Or, it was just Trump getting private courses from
Vladimir Poetin and Kim Jong-un. For all we know, Kim Jong-un presented Trump
with the exact same list, in one of his "beautiful letters". He follows it to the letter.
Are you an idiot?
Don't reply.
You are.
Idiot? You are a useful idiot for the liberal socialist.
He's ready to take over one of the largest in area countries in the world.
you only care about it for the US, and NO ONE ELSE.
That lie collapsed a long time ago.
They voted for — and still defend — an adjudicated rapist, a convicted felon, a serial adulterer who insults women and openly brags about sexual assault. And now? They’re actively blocking the release of the Epstein files, protecting powerful abusers instead of standing with the children who were molested.
Let’s be clear:
This isn’t about conservatism.
This isn’t about Christianity.
This is about power, loyalty, and cruelty.
At some point, “owning the libs” became more important to the GOP than protecting minors and delivering justice to survivors. That’s not political strategy — that’s moral rot.
As someone who once belonged to this party, I’m asking the question they refuse to answer:
👉 When did cruelty replace conscience?
👉 When did loyalty to Trump become more sacred than protecting children?
Silence is complicity.
Cover-ups are violence.
And history will remember who stood on the side of truth — and who didn’t.
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They branded themselves as the representatives of many values, but that has always been debatable, and now if varies from debatable to utterly ridiculous:
1. The Party of National Security / Strong Defense:
Traditionally, Republicans emphasized a robust military and foreign policy leadership
(e.g., Reagan era). National security is now changed to serving Trump and attacking liberals. Kash Patel is loyal to Trump and not to the American people, and utterly incompetent. (He is also spending millions on private jets, the main thing he criticized his predecessors over). Foreign policy decision-making is chaotic, short-sighted and self-serving. The US is doing what is good for Israel and not what is good for the US.
Their aggression towards allies destroys alliances that benefited the US. The new alliances with dictatorships are useless. Trump just like to do "business" with them, because he burned all trust with 'honest' business people.
2. The Party of Small Government / Limited Regulation:
Historically, championed lower taxes, deregulation, and limiting federal reach. Now, the party is ramping up the surveillance state and is cracking down on personal freedoms, social issues. Big brother is following you into the bedroom and the doctor's office.
3. The Party of Moral Leadership / Ethics:
“Family values” often implied integrity and moral standards in public office. Repeated scandals and tolerance for ethically questionable behavior have weakened this brand. Rudeness, Hate Speech, Gaslighting, Stonewalling, Racism and Misogyny are the new normal.
4. The Party of Free Markets / Capitalism:
Traditionally, advocated for market-driven economics, competition, and entrepreneurship. New normal: Support for tariffs, subsidies, and protectionist policies in recent years has muddied this stance. Even within the US, free enterprise promoting competition has been swapped for serving the monopolies, with subsidies and tax deductions only favoring the big players.
5. The Party of Individual Responsibility / Self-Reliance:
Culturally, emphasized personal responsibility and minimal reliance on government programs.
The truth: Corporate bailouts and socialism for the wealthy.
6. The Party of Patriotism / American Exceptionalism:
Historically, leaned into national pride and institutions.
Under Trump: Internal division, attacks on democratic norms, or contentious stances toward U.S. allies challenge this image. No president before Trump has spoken this negatively about the country and got away with it.
7. The Party of Law and Order:
Traditionally, associated with supporting police and the justice system.
Trump is getting away with shitting all over the Emoluments Clause, Collusion with Russia, Obstruction of justice, Falsifying Business Records, Stealing and hiding classified documents, Conspiracy to steal the election, Business Fraud, Pardoning violent criminals, and many schemes to personally enrich himself from his presidency, that would take days to research and summarize.
8. The Party of Religious Freedom:
Historically, aligned with Christian conservative principles.
The truth: Weaponizing "Christian Religious Freedom" to crack down on the Rights and Freedoms of people with other or no religions.
9. The Party of the Working Class / Middle Class:
Often marketed itself as protecting blue-collar jobs and upward mobility.
Trump cuts taxes for the Wealthy and Corporations, while cutting benefits for working people, gutting Labor Rights, raising Consumer Prices with tariffs, lying about unemployment numbers, trying repeatedly to repeal or weaken the Affordable Care Act without a replacement, and cutting Social Safety hard.
10. The Party of American Values / Tradition:
Traditionally, emphasized preserving cultural and social traditions.
Trump: Replaced respect for Institutions, with fascist nationalism, Erasing parts of The Constitution from the government website, constantly ignoring the First Amendment cracking down on journalist and media, the Fourth Amendment letting ICE raid whole apartment buildings, the Fifth Amendment, depriving detainees of liberty without due process, the Sixth Amendment by kidnapping immigrants on their way to their Immigration Court Hearings, setting up detention far from legal aid, limiting access to phones and attorneys, the Eighth Amendment by serving Indefinite detention for misdemeanors, Dangerous detention conditions, Medical neglect and Family separation trauma, the Fourteenth Amendment by Targeting based on nationality or ethnicity, and constant harassment on Latino communities.
11. (last but not least) The Party of fiscal responsibility:
Completely abandoning the core principles of balanced budgets, limited government spending, and long-term economic stewardship. Traditionally, “fiscal responsibility” meant prioritizing deficit control, curbing wasteful spending, and ensuring that tax policy did not mortally compromise the nation’s financial health. Under Trump, the party championed massive tax cuts heavily skewed toward the wealthy, engaged in unprecedented borrowing, and ballooning deficits even during a strong economy. At the same time, spending increased sharply in areas like defense, emergency relief, and politically motivated projects, often with little concern for offsetting costs. This combination of reckless tax policy, uncontrolled spending, and disregard for long-term debt contradicted the very idea of conservative fiscal prudence. In effect, the Republican brand of careful money management was replaced by short-term political expediency, turning what was once a hallmark of reliability into a running joke among critics and economists alike.
“This woman CAT52! shows a lot racist behavior. Thats why she is getting attacked all the time”
I answered, “That’s not true, Bibi52!. You are just accepting that from others. However, if you would like to list the occasions where I sounded racist maybe I could explain myself.”
And, then I transferred this here. I just want to be able to expand the chat and bring up a few points about Bibi52!.
Number of members who befriended bibi52!: 0
Number of members who blacklisted bibi52!: 2 (Why?)
Number of members whom bibi52! has blacklisted: 4
Overall rating of bibi52! is: unfriendly
Blacklist reasons for bibi52!
1. Asshole
2. Harassment. Clearly PITBULL‘s alt account for harassing users
If you visit his gallery you’ll notice he joined on June 3, 2025 and so far, he has no friends. Another fact? He has not posted ANY pics. I don’t think he’s qualified to pass judgment on me. So, let’s see what he comes up with.
Why can’t you say what you mean?
Both is illegal speech, but I don't see repetitive behavior here.
Any more examples?
You're talking to a socialist, who knows the difference. If she was a communist, that is not illegal in the US (yet).
I see lots of racist and homophobic comments in these forums, all coming from the right-wingers. I have never seen either of you care about it.
I will do my best to be a neutral observer.
Is there a possibility that you stop making attack moves?
See what happens if you just let her be?
You know, Christmas spirit, or something.
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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