Great piece, as usual. But, you know, the biggest problem with Trump's claim of $80 billion or $82 billion in profit for Intel is not that the numbers diverge a bit. It is that both numbers are completely baseless and, in fact, completely impossible. None of it can be remotely true. Intel is not that big, profits cannot possibly be that high, and the whole thing is just complete gaslighting BS.
He sounds more and more like a king everyday…I see gold…give me all the gold!! So, where is all this supposed money that is flowing into the US going?? Are the American people going to see any of it? Can we now reinstate SNAP benefits and Medicaid to those who were cancelled? What about early childhood education like Head Start? What about funding FEMA? How about paying back the money that was “borrowed” from Social Security? Nope, we won’t see any of that supposed bounty because it either doesn’t exist or it’s already gone into someone’s pocket. And, does the Idiot-in-Chief know that China…between wind and solar…generated about 22% of their electricity in 2025. They are the world’s largest producer of wind power! We are so far behind China and the rest of the world in developing renewable energy sources. In fact, on August 6th, Trump actually paid the German company, RWE, $1.22 BILLION to GIVE UP three US offshore wind leases off New York, CA, and Louisiana!! We are paying companies to NOT build renewable energy sources! All because oil and coal companies pay him to keep it that way. He is dooming our country to dependence on fossil fuels for generations…fuel that will become more scarce, more expensive, and trigger more wars.
"Trump actually paid the German company .. $1.22 BILLION" - not quite. Not a penny comes out of Trump's pocket. Trump decided (and no one with the power to object, objected) that US TAXPAYERS (so again, not Trump) will pay the German company that amount.
I keep wondering where the money to buy out all these green energy leases comes from. Was it congressionally appropriated? Was it stolen from some other bucket? Did he (or more likely Vought) actually have any authority whatever to do these things?
I realize these are small-potato questions and no matter what the answer are trivial in light of the overall conversion of the US government into a mere kleptocracy, but still...
There are days that the nausea, the utter disgust should sweep over all. How is this possible?How is it possible that people still exist that have the ability to support this vile entity? How is it possible that there are those who just chuckle and giggle like school children over him saying “Let me see the Gold” as if even the crowd is young toddlers all chirping at the Orange-faced toddler who has no self control whatsoever and has temper tantrums at the drop of a hat as an insolent brat? How has it come about that this entity actually decides who lives and dies in this world? People on fishing boats thousands of miles away from the US, gone wiped off the face of the earth for no reason, an entire school of young girls and their teachers and staff dead because of his orders. Protesters in this country shot dead because of him, just dropping your child off to school and saying to an ICE agent, not mad at you dude, shot dead all the while some human beings in this country kneel before him and laugh as he asks to his gold… What is happening it just does not seem possible… but it is. It’s a bad B rated movie but this is our reality. Where’s Charlie Chaplin when needed to play that character in the Great Dictator.. with the bouncing ball…
I want to cry. In addition to having a government that is corrupt beyond measure, our safeguards have been compromised so that the US is now the biggest threat to global warming, and have destroyed environmental protections. Our health is being overseen by a crazy immunizations denier. Measles is rampant. Every health proclamation is totally unsupported by science. There is essentially no oversight or inspection of our food sources, resulting in new food borne illnesses every week. Our underserved communities are now essentially Not Served. Our immigration “policy” is barbaric and immoral.We have a president who needs admiration so much that he said “sure thing!” to Bibi, when no other president would do it, and we are now in a war that has been lost by him and some idiot tv “celebrity,” and there’s no end in sight.
I could rant on and on, and I’m not saying anything that you don’t know, so I’ll stop now, and pick up a horror novel because it’s never as frightening as what’s going on in real life.
I got stuck on his clean coal infatuation. I worked for a company around the year 2000 that was attempting to build a test facility to gasify coal to a product similar to LNG. They were a world leader in gas turbine power generation. They found that the individual components of the process worked yet even before they built the test facility, it became obvious the cost of production was too high. That did not even include the high cost of disposing of or repurposing the hazardous byproducts. There is no such thing as clean coal, no matter how much the felon thinks there is.
Great piece, as usual. But, you know, the biggest problem with Trump's claim of $80 billion or $82 billion in profit for Intel is not that the numbers diverge a bit. It is that both numbers are completely baseless and, in fact, completely impossible. None of it can be remotely true. Intel is not that big, profits cannot possibly be that high, and the whole thing is just complete gaslighting BS.
He has just cried Wolf too many times. Liar liar pants on fire!
He sounds more and more like a king everyday…I see gold…give me all the gold!! So, where is all this supposed money that is flowing into the US going?? Are the American people going to see any of it? Can we now reinstate SNAP benefits and Medicaid to those who were cancelled? What about early childhood education like Head Start? What about funding FEMA? How about paying back the money that was “borrowed” from Social Security? Nope, we won’t see any of that supposed bounty because it either doesn’t exist or it’s already gone into someone’s pocket. And, does the Idiot-in-Chief know that China…between wind and solar…generated about 22% of their electricity in 2025. They are the world’s largest producer of wind power! We are so far behind China and the rest of the world in developing renewable energy sources. In fact, on August 6th, Trump actually paid the German company, RWE, $1.22 BILLION to GIVE UP three US offshore wind leases off New York, CA, and Louisiana!! We are paying companies to NOT build renewable energy sources! All because oil and coal companies pay him to keep it that way. He is dooming our country to dependence on fossil fuels for generations…fuel that will become more scarce, more expensive, and trigger more wars.
"Trump actually paid the German company .. $1.22 BILLION" - not quite. Not a penny comes out of Trump's pocket. Trump decided (and no one with the power to object, objected) that US TAXPAYERS (so again, not Trump) will pay the German company that amount.
I keep wondering where the money to buy out all these green energy leases comes from. Was it congressionally appropriated? Was it stolen from some other bucket? Did he (or more likely Vought) actually have any authority whatever to do these things?
I realize these are small-potato questions and no matter what the answer are trivial in light of the overall conversion of the US government into a mere kleptocracy, but still...
There are days that the nausea, the utter disgust should sweep over all. How is this possible?How is it possible that people still exist that have the ability to support this vile entity? How is it possible that there are those who just chuckle and giggle like school children over him saying “Let me see the Gold” as if even the crowd is young toddlers all chirping at the Orange-faced toddler who has no self control whatsoever and has temper tantrums at the drop of a hat as an insolent brat? How has it come about that this entity actually decides who lives and dies in this world? People on fishing boats thousands of miles away from the US, gone wiped off the face of the earth for no reason, an entire school of young girls and their teachers and staff dead because of his orders. Protesters in this country shot dead because of him, just dropping your child off to school and saying to an ICE agent, not mad at you dude, shot dead all the while some human beings in this country kneel before him and laugh as he asks to his gold… What is happening it just does not seem possible… but it is. It’s a bad B rated movie but this is our reality. Where’s Charlie Chaplin when needed to play that character in the Great Dictator.. with the bouncing ball…
https://youtube.com/shorts/_tDML_tVfSM?is=mihKbHm_kQCBuPqO
touchee-- 100%
I want to cry. In addition to having a government that is corrupt beyond measure, our safeguards have been compromised so that the US is now the biggest threat to global warming, and have destroyed environmental protections. Our health is being overseen by a crazy immunizations denier. Measles is rampant. Every health proclamation is totally unsupported by science. There is essentially no oversight or inspection of our food sources, resulting in new food borne illnesses every week. Our underserved communities are now essentially Not Served. Our immigration “policy” is barbaric and immoral.We have a president who needs admiration so much that he said “sure thing!” to Bibi, when no other president would do it, and we are now in a war that has been lost by him and some idiot tv “celebrity,” and there’s no end in sight.
I could rant on and on, and I’m not saying anything that you don’t know, so I’ll stop now, and pick up a horror novel because it’s never as frightening as what’s going on in real life.
I got stuck on his clean coal infatuation. I worked for a company around the year 2000 that was attempting to build a test facility to gasify coal to a product similar to LNG. They were a world leader in gas turbine power generation. They found that the individual components of the process worked yet even before they built the test facility, it became obvious the cost of production was too high. That did not even include the high cost of disposing of or repurposing the hazardous byproducts. There is no such thing as clean coal, no matter how much the felon thinks there is.