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The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Scarface281, Jan 25, 2025.

  1. Amiga

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    billion-$ gift and no strings attached

    you aren't even listening to yourself; like half your brain is isolated from the other half
     
  2. No Worries

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    #2003 astros123, Aug 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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    Bad jobs report? Fire the person who prepares the report
    Climate change getting worse? Destroy the satellites!

    Unhinged man child
     
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  7. rimrocker

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    By the way, there is nothing in the Presidential Records Act or the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act that allows for anything close to what they are trying to do with that jet airplane. And there is a specific clause in the Constitution that prohibits it.
     
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    Not according to @StupidMoniker
     
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    The people prefer cheap energy over reducing the global temperature by MAYBE by 1 degree over 100 years. Trump is acting on behalf of the will of the voters.


    GOOD DAY
     
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    Wholesale electricity prices are literally SKYROCKETING bcz you dumbasses eliminated all renewable subsidies which was the primary driver of new electricity growth at a time electricity demand is through the roof

    You are in a low iq cult and a very dumb individual
     
  12. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    I can tell you with 100% certainty that there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the military from receiving a gift from a foreign power. In fact, the United States has received more than one vehicle as a gift, including at least one warship and a train. The Emoluments clause disallows PERSONAL gifts and titles of nobility (and they have already carved out exceptions even for that, like the Nobel Peace Prize and the $1,000,000 accompanying it).
     
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    Keep playing stupid. Trump will fly on the newely renovated plane after taxpayers spend a billion dollars upgrading it and anyone with a brain knows this. Keep embarrassing yourself cuz youre making yourself look dumb for literally no reason
     
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    you were also 100% certain that the City of Irvine,
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    is not diverse.

    your rationale was that whites/asians make up ~ 80% of the population, :oops::oops::oops:
     
  15. El_Conquistador

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    Electricity capacity takes a very long time to bring online -- usually measured in years. To think that the recent elimination of subsidies (OBBA passed in July 2025) has already changed the available power capacity for all of 2025 (we are in month 8 here) is peak absurdity. Your graph was from PJM -- a single regional power market. But the hilarious irony of it all is that it was the recent retirement of coal fired power plants in that region that significantly reduced power supply, thereby driving up energy prices. So it's literally the opposite of your conclusion. It was taking fossil fuels offline that caused the increase. By encouraging the use of all forms of energy, Trump is counteracting what happened in PJM and helping to reduce power prices for consumers.

    You sir, have just been OWNED.


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    Pjm added more 5000 GW of solar on the grid the past 12 months
    Pjm retired less than 1000 of coal which was very unprofitable

    1GW Retirement of unprofitable coal isnt why rates of high. If it wasn't for the booming growth of solar we would all be extra screwed which is what will happen moving forward. No matter how much you morons want to gaslight people solar is much more efficient and profitable than coal.

    When historians look back at this time period nobody will ever believe that you morons doubled down on coal only to eliminate solar. You sir are a dumbass
     
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  17. El_Conquistador

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    You can't even get your units correct! Look at this ignorance on full display -- my belly laughs are so severe that I am having trouble breathing!

    1,000MW (1GW) of coal fired plants were retired in PJM recently, and around 4000MW (4 GW) are expected to be retired this year. You are only off by a factor of 1000. Energy prices are moving way up, pounding the consumer... for what purpose? To maybe reduce the temperature by 1 degree in Nantucket in the year 2075?

    Amigo, you might want to sit down. You are embarrassing yourself!

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    GOOD DAY
     
  18. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Yes, the City of Irvine has a high percentage of low crime demographics and a low percentage of high crime demographics. You think this is some sort of gotcha, but it isn't. There is no disputing the fact that White and Asian Americans have lower crime rates than Hispanic and Black Americans. Facts are facts. Every time you bring this up, it is an admission of your failure to come up with a cogent counter-argument. You can be excused, because there is no cogent counter-argument. It turns out diversity does not corelate strongly with low crime statistics, lack of Black and Hispanic people does.
     
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    The data I've seen shows that Hispanics commit crimes at roughly the same percentage as their population share in the USA. Blacks are just off the charts -- 2x crimes compared to their population share and shockingly over HALF of homicides in America are committed by blacks, despite being just 13% of the population. That is a staggering statistic.

    But in other countries that are diverse and track crime by race, it's the same story for blacks. Check the stats on England, for example. Very similar crime stats for this racial demo as compared to what we see in the USA. So this makes it really hard to chalk it up to racism -- since it's a global issue.

    It's a problem that we'd love to fix, as it takes a serious toll on the country. Huge costs involved, not to mention the human side of it.


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  20. astros123

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    I was typing from my phone. My point being pjm has added 5x the amount of solar that they retired from coal. Retiring 1gw of coal isnt the reason why electricity prices are skyrocketing. 90% of all new electricity capacity in texas was done by solar. Mass deploying solar isnt just about climate change but about expanding the grid and making electricity prices cheaper.

    The only person who continues to embarrass themselves is you. You just claimed the reason electricity prices are going up is bcz they retired 1gw of coal which shows how dumb your argument is.

    You are truly a dumbass
     

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