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No we are not. As the statement said, the ICE agents were full of fear and anger. Conservative media has made a fortune pumping its audience full of dark emotions. Undoing the damage Rupert Murdoch and others have done to our country is the only way forward.
January 9, 2026 at 6:43 PM
No we are not. As the statement said, the ICE agents were full of fear and anger. Conservative media has made a fortune pumping its audience full of dark emotions. Undoing the damage Rupert Murdoch and others have done to our country is the only way forward.
He started to pull out his gun while Good was backing up her car. Seems clear his mind was on stopping her from driving away and not on his own safety.
I wonder if real police are horrified by the amateurs in ICE. This was a tragedy brought about by untrained clowns drunk on power.
I wonder if real police are horrified by the amateurs in ICE. This was a tragedy brought about by untrained clowns drunk on power.
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 PM
He started to pull out his gun while Good was backing up her car. Seems clear his mind was on stopping her from driving away and not on his own safety.
I wonder if real police are horrified by the amateurs in ICE. This was a tragedy brought about by untrained clowns drunk on power.
I wonder if real police are horrified by the amateurs in ICE. This was a tragedy brought about by untrained clowns drunk on power.
The obsession with GDP is precisely the problem with China's economy. The CCP sets a target and then the local governments borrow and spend whatever it takes to hit that target. Lots of wasteful spending funded by absurd levels of borrowing.
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The obsession with GDP is precisely the problem with China's economy. The CCP sets a target and then the local governments borrow and spend whatever it takes to hit that target. Lots of wasteful spending funded by absurd levels of borrowing.
The obsession the left has with minimum wage is weird. Do they realize that only 850K people worked for minimum wage or less in 2023? A large number of which are kids, seniors, or disabled. If you care about the working class, there are more important things to focus on.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The obsession the left has with minimum wage is weird. Do they realize that only 850K people worked for minimum wage or less in 2023? A large number of which are kids, seniors, or disabled. If you care about the working class, there are more important things to focus on.
860k people made minimum wage or less in 2023. Quite a few are under 18 and can't vote. There are probably more centi-millionaires in the US than there are voters who work 2 minimum wage jobs. This is a very tiny bloc of voters you are talking about.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
860k people made minimum wage or less in 2023. Quite a few are under 18 and can't vote. There are probably more centi-millionaires in the US than there are voters who work 2 minimum wage jobs. This is a very tiny bloc of voters you are talking about.
The opposite is actually happening. China's solar industry is a train wreck of overcapacity and the companies are all losing money. Conversely, the one US manufacturer, First Solar, is very profitable.
August 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The opposite is actually happening. China's solar industry is a train wreck of overcapacity and the companies are all losing money. Conversely, the one US manufacturer, First Solar, is very profitable.
4% of utility solar.
August 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
4% of utility solar.
Anger is the gateway drug to Fox News and conservative media. Once in conservative media, people become rage monkeys who blame everything on Democrats. So the more the Republicans hurt rural America, the redder rural America becomes.
July 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Anger is the gateway drug to Fox News and conservative media. Once in conservative media, people become rage monkeys who blame everything on Democrats. So the more the Republicans hurt rural America, the redder rural America becomes.
In solar, China has added around 1TW of capacity in the past two years. It costs around $300M/GW to build factories, so ~$300B was spent on this. Both Jinko and Canadian Solar added dozens of GW yet their balance sheets didn't change at all. Local governments are footing the bill.
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In solar, China has added around 1TW of capacity in the past two years. It costs around $300M/GW to build factories, so ~$300B was spent on this. Both Jinko and Canadian Solar added dozens of GW yet their balance sheets didn't change at all. Local governments are footing the bill.
China is acting like a late 90s dot com where growth is all important and profit doesn't matter. We know how that turned out. China has debt levels that would make even Trump Republicans blush. It is good to take advantage of China's lunacy but the West shouldn't let its manufacturing die.
July 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
China is acting like a late 90s dot com where growth is all important and profit doesn't matter. We know how that turned out. China has debt levels that would make even Trump Republicans blush. It is good to take advantage of China's lunacy but the West shouldn't let its manufacturing die.
How much of this is because of China's odd economic model where provinces are given a GDP target and then the local governments borrow and spend whatever it takes to hit that number? After their housing market burst, green manufacturing skyrocketed. China selling $s for pennies can't last forever.
July 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
How much of this is because of China's odd economic model where provinces are given a GDP target and then the local governments borrow and spend whatever it takes to hit that number? After their housing market burst, green manufacturing skyrocketed. China selling $s for pennies can't last forever.
The fact that none of the Chinese companies built a fully integrated factory in the US to take advantage of the IRA while First Solar built several is a dead giveaway that thin-film is cheaper to make than silicon. Current module prices are low due to china’s quirky economy and not sustainable.
July 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The fact that none of the Chinese companies built a fully integrated factory in the US to take advantage of the IRA while First Solar built several is a dead giveaway that thin-film is cheaper to make than silicon. Current module prices are low due to china’s quirky economy and not sustainable.
It always amazes me how Bernie Sanders and his ilk are allergic to work yet fancy themselves as champions of the working man.
June 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It always amazes me how Bernie Sanders and his ilk are allergic to work yet fancy themselves as champions of the working man.
Do you realize you are proving my point? The vast majority of the country supported BLM after George Floyd was murdered. Many months of protests later, though, its popularity cratered and racists are now running the government.
June 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Do you realize you are proving my point? The vast majority of the country supported BLM after George Floyd was murdered. Many months of protests later, though, its popularity cratered and racists are now running the government.
The last two large scale protests in the US were over Gaza and the George Floyd murder. Both ended very badly for their causes. The truth is that protests are like fingernails on a chalkboard for the swing voters who determine elections. I really wish folks would be pragmatic about things.
June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The last two large scale protests in the US were over Gaza and the George Floyd murder. Both ended very badly for their causes. The truth is that protests are like fingernails on a chalkboard for the swing voters who determine elections. I really wish folks would be pragmatic about things.
How can someone this stupid become president and also be given free rein to implement all his idiotic mercantilistic ideas?
April 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How can someone this stupid become president and also be given free rein to implement all his idiotic mercantilistic ideas?
It is bad to have a president this ignorant about trade. It is also bad to give one person complete control over tariffs. Having both at once is catastrophic bad for the entire planet.
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It is bad to have a president this ignorant about trade. It is also bad to give one person complete control over tariffs. Having both at once is catastrophic bad for the entire planet.
The moral of the story seems to be to not let Rupert Murdoch into your country. He will destroy it with his disinformation network. This is the 2nd country he and his band of grifting propagandists have done irreparable damage to.
April 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The moral of the story seems to be to not let Rupert Murdoch into your country. He will destroy it with his disinformation network. This is the 2nd country he and his band of grifting propagandists have done irreparable damage to.
Pretty much all of the things we buy from Vietnam are from US based companies that moved their factories from China to Vietnam. Trump just really does not grasp the concept of multinational corporations.
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pretty much all of the things we buy from Vietnam are from US based companies that moved their factories from China to Vietnam. Trump just really does not grasp the concept of multinational corporations.
In Trump's mind, though, the trade deficit is the problem, not the tariffs rates. So even if Vietnam eliminates its tariffs, Trump would still work to screw over the companies that listened to him 8 years ago and moved their factories from China to Vietnam.
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In Trump's mind, though, the trade deficit is the problem, not the tariffs rates. So even if Vietnam eliminates its tariffs, Trump would still work to screw over the companies that listened to him 8 years ago and moved their factories from China to Vietnam.
It can take years to build a small apartment building, while on a whim the president can apparently by himself implement policy that drives the world economy into a depression.
April 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
It can take years to build a small apartment building, while on a whim the president can apparently by himself implement policy that drives the world economy into a depression.
It is definitely 1, but a little inadvertent 3 as well. Putin is putting ideas into Trump's head and Trump is too stupid to know he is getting played.
April 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It is definitely 1, but a little inadvertent 3 as well. Putin is putting ideas into Trump's head and Trump is too stupid to know he is getting played.
There are more billionaires per capita in Sweden than the US. Having a 3 comma net worth does not instantly make someone an awful person, and most of the peddlers of BS are not super rich. The conservative media grift is the problem, not rich people in general.
March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
There are more billionaires per capita in Sweden than the US. Having a 3 comma net worth does not instantly make someone an awful person, and most of the peddlers of BS are not super rich. The conservative media grift is the problem, not rich people in general.
It is depressing to listen to people blame billionaires and the oligarchy for our current state when the problem is clearly the information system. How can you solve a problem when you don't even know the root cause?
March 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
It is depressing to listen to people blame billionaires and the oligarchy for our current state when the problem is clearly the information system. How can you solve a problem when you don't even know the root cause?