55 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

Pleads guilty day before trial and agrees to testify in future trials 

 

  Release the Kraken  

I wonder if Trump will offer to flip if they give him a deal?   “It wasn’t me, it was Rudy,  I wanted to go back to reality tv and assaulting women at my golf course but they made me. I could have had a fine retirement selling state secrets “. 

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

Fucking morons.

 

 

Evidently you don’t know how a plea deal works. 🤣 

8 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

You're an idiot.

Where were you getting your stolen election information?  Sidney Powell, Fox News, Rudy, Mike the pillow biter?

Or do you still blindly follow Trump who evidently thinks he ran against Obama. 

1 hour ago, HSR said:

Wow are you serious? He did that shit too?

Guy has as much credibility as Jeffrey Dahmer telling us to not eat meat.

It was off the hook. It wasn’t all his fault. I was being a typical asshole.  But you know how it is here. If you are right of David Duke, they’ll make excuses.  If you have a social conscience they lose their collective shit. 

1 hour ago, Bontz said:

You are such an angry little guy ... I've said it before, you can literally feel the anger of every typed word in your posts.  It's quite funny, especially coming from a Canuck who's so obsessed with US politicians 

 

I’m actually fascinated by the entire shit show. What are there 30 people here that blindly believe a serial liar?  Convinced themselves that a rapist needed to be impeached in 1999 but voted for one in 2016 and laughed while he continued to victimize her. 

It’s fun to present facts and watch people do backflips to avoid the topic. 

12 minutes ago, racer254 said:

Bingo, took 9 pages to understand why jordan doesn't have the votes yet and why he doesn't have the magical "bill count".  But he should leave because he believes in term limits.  You dimwits can't actualky believe what you type can you?

He should leave because he’s a piece of shit. 

29 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

It would be some time before I looked as foolish as you do, and your understanding of our government.  Your hostility to anything conservative is another matter for discussion as well.   

I watched Republicans go after Bill Clinton for a BJ. Talk about a witch hunt. Balanced budgets, kept Iraq in line for 8 years, no Iran Contra bullshit or other deals with the Taliban or South American drug lords. But yeah he has a shrew of a wife and got his knob polished by an eager intern. 
 

What do you replace him with a war criminal who lied so his family and friends could skim billions while the taxpayers pay trillions in two mismanaged and unnecessarily endless wars.  Remember he destroyed 30 million messages before he left office, was sanctioned for it. Hillary’s 30,000 paled in comparison but you lot wanted to lock her up.  
 

0 Family scandals from Obama. So you family value people start talking shit about his wife.  Talk about swamp creature behaviour.  
 

Then along comes Trump to drain the swamp. Tax dodging bank fraud, who paid his way out of Vietnam, claimed he was a genius but hid all school records, cheated on all his wives, talked shit about his opponents wives, admitted to sexual assault, friends with Epstein and had a sham charity. 
But yeah Hillary was crooked. 
 

That’s still the lead Republican. The other ones that are leading the party are shitty people too.  Name some decent ones. 

12 hours ago, Rigid1 said:

Just ignore them, at this point it's not going to stop, or you'll probably get the boot..I 💯 get your current stance, it's not like it's not valid..

I ignore Barbara, he doesn't mention me at all anymore, so it works..

I Ignore you because you lost your shit. looking back you should be able to admit that staying up all night to downvote all of my posts going back years was a little insane. Bunny boiler shit.  Then claiming you were going to get your kid to attack my business on tick toc was fucked up. Why would you even involve a child in the bullshit that goes on here? 
 

40 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

 

Compared to about 98% of Democrats?  Math is hard.

It’s weird but it seems that republicans believe lies about Democrats so they can convince themselves it’s ok to support Jim Jordan and a slew of other shitty humans.  If the people who you claim are draining the swamp weren’t the absolute scum of the earth you may look less foolish 

15 hours ago, XCR1250 said:

We must put a stop to the electric vehicle revolution – before someone gets hurt

Allison Pearson

Wed, October 18, 2023 at 2:00 AM CDT·7 min read

 

What the blazes is going on? We are familiar with the stand-up rows caused by a chronic lack of charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) but, so far, there has been remarkably little debate about their safety. Manufacturers deny that EVs have an unfortunate tendency to burst into flames, but fire brigades across the world beg to differ. They have taken to producing an amusing annual calendar with a different Tesla in flames for each month of the year. So frequent are these blazes that the ‘Burning Tesla 2024’ calendar is already full.

One wag posted a video of an EV with a small bonfire on the backseat with the caption: “Tesla Holiday Version with built-in fireplace”.

In the past couple of years, two huge ships carrying thousands of cars have gone up in flames, apparently because of battery electric vehicles. A fire on board car carrier Felicity Ace in February 2022 led to the vessel sinking in the Atlantic, along with its cargo of 4,000 vehicles. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries were cited as a factor in keeping the fire ablaze.

More recently, the Fremantle Highway cargo ship caught fire in the North Sea. It was alleged that batteries in EVs on board had overheated. During the salvage operation, all the cars were washed to remove any chemicals from the fire before they came off the ship. One charred vehicle, in which the fire appeared to be extinguished, actually reignited as it was lowered into the water. Investigators were quick to say: “No fire on board a ro-ro [roll on/roll off] or PCTC [Pure Car Truck Carrier] has been proven to have been caused by a factory-new EV.”

It was the same nothing-to-see-here story with the towering inferno this month at Luton airport. At least 125 flights were cancelled after a huge fire, which started on level three of the airport’s multi-storey car park, caused the entire £20 million structure to collapse. Up to 1,500 vehicles are unlikely to be salvageable. A huge deal, you might think. A topic for a heated debate at the very least, particularly as people could have been hurt but, once again, the conflagration has been tamped down. Authorities said the blaze “appeared to have been accidental and began in a parked car, believed to be a diesel vehicle”.

Well, not according to one witness, who managed to snap a picture of the vehicle that was suspected of causing the fire, which looked very like a Range Rover Evoque. There was none of the thick black smoke you would expect with a diesel fire. Instead, the blaze was focused on the front left seat of the car under which – well, I never! – the lithium-ion battery happens to be located in some hybrid Range Rovers.

 

The aftermath of the fire at Luton airport - John Robertson

It’s not just cars. My gardener friend says he knows of two gazebos that burnt down when the battery pack powering their fairy lights burst into flames, causing third-degree burns to one owner.

Such fires can be fatal. An e-bike left charging is believed to have caused the house fire that tore through a maisonette in Cambridge over the summer, killing a mother and her two young children. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) has warned that e-bike fires are up 60 per cent this year. Firefighters have been called to an e-scooter or e-bike fire every two days since the start of 2023. At least 12 people have died and a further 190 have been injured in suspected e-bike and e-scooter blazes in the UK since 2020. (Data from the London Fire Brigade for 2019 showed an incident rate of 0.04 per cent for petrol and diesel cars fires, while the rate for plug-in vehicles is more than double at 0.1 per cent) The LFB has even started a campaign called #ChargeSafe to alert people to the potential dangers of the bikes’ lithium-ion batteries.

They say there is no smoke without fire, but vested interests are creating as much smoke as possible to obscure the cause of these fires, I reckon. Why? Well, meeting the notably insane and economically disastrous net zero target by 2050 is predicated on the UK giving up fossil fuels. Rishi Sunak recently pushed the ban on new petrol and diesel cars back to 2035, but even meeting that will require a huge number of us to switch to battery electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries. What if those dense concentrations of electrochemical energy and lithium are prone to catching fire unexpectedly or exploding and the ensuing inferno is very hard to put out? To maintain the momentum in decarbonising transport, I would guess it’s rather convenient if that question doesn’t get answered.

Someone who really does know the answer is Professor Peter Edwards. He holds the chair in inorganic chemistry at the University of Oxford and tells me he is extremely worried about the “real danger” posed to the public and emergency services by lithium-ion batteries which were developed by his predecessor in the chair, the late Professor John B Goodenough, the so-called “Father of the Lithium Battery”.

“Lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles can develop unstoppable so-called ‘thermal runaway’ fires which burn uncontrollably,” says Prof Edwards. “As well as intense heat, during a battery fire, numerous toxic gases are emitted, such as hydrogen cyanide and hydrogen fluoride. The emission of these gases can be a larger threat than the heat generated.”

Sounds really good for the atmosphere, doesn’t it? Just to add to the fun, Prof Edwards says a “potential catastrophe” awaits with all the large-scale lithium-ion battery storage sites sprouting up all over the country, especially on solar farms.

“These are not normal fires,” he says of the recent blazes in electric vehicles. “They are triggered and fuelled by an internal chemical reaction that generates and releases a huge amount of heat and, in complete contrast to a conventional fossil fuel car, can continue without a supply of oxygen or indeed a visible flame. Furthermore, the large amount of stored electrical energy presents significant challenges in any attempt to mitigate these battery fires.”

Basically, they’re a bugger to put out. One fire brigade used 20,000 gallons of water to bring a single EV fire under control.

Imagine if an EV were to self-combust in the Channel Tunnel, in an underground car park or in the garage next to your house. It would be disastrous, so where is the official investigation into the safety of these vehicles? Silence.

Prof Edwards believes there is a “concerted campaign” to demonstrate how safe EVs are, regardless of the evidence. “Official statements discounting any possibility of battery fires are issued in unwarranted haste after any such event. One has a clear feeling that any fatalities, injuries and environmental damage are seen as acceptable collateral damage for a transition to a renewable energy future.”

Ironically, the Father of the Lithium Battery foresaw all this. When Prof Edwards was working with Prof Goodenough, he says his Oxford predecessor “did wonder whether safety issues with lithium might preclude the battery’s widespread adoption. Particularly so, given the fire brigade had been called to his laboratory to put out a lithium battery fire... nowadays politely called a thermal runaway event.”

What a fiasco the whole electric car thing has become. Too few charging machines and then too many charging machines out of service, forcing people to drive around for a viable charging point, only to end up calling breakdown services for run-down batteries. The mileage the cars can do is a lot lower than advertised, unless you drive at 20mph (perfect in Wales, but hopeless everywhere else). The cars are too expensive, their second-hand value is risible, the batteries only last about 15 years and cost thousands to replace. If, that is, you get lucky and they don’t burst into flames first.

Towards the end of his distinguished life, the Father of the Lithium Battery told colleagues in Oxford that he didn’t think a mass rollout was wise because of the considerable fire hazard. How lucky we are that our country’s entire future energy strategy isn’t riding on an invention that can explode at will and cause fires it’s impossible to put out…

I know the excited right like to be scared of everything,  electric cars, trans folks, Dems gunna take yer guns .  But really you should like ev’s they don’t have trannies so you have less to be frightened about. 

7 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

No he didn't.

 

It's idiots like you who believe that.

Did they release the Kracken?  I must have missed it in all the fake news about fox admitting they lied, the 91 indictments against trump and the fake electors scheme.  
Did you notice that lying Jim Jordan wouldn’t say whether he still believes the election was stolen?  

1 hour ago, racer254 said:

You don't understand what the swamp is.

75 % of republicans are swamp creatures. 

6 hours ago, DriftBusta said:

Man, you were one bitter angry dude.   I would like to see a link of that because I am pretty much 100% sure that is complete bullshit. I never said it. I know others did, but that’s what you get when you look for a constant arguments in this crowd. You pop in here about twice a year for a couple weeks at a time and basically just looked to argue with people and insult them. When is your next vacation from here?  

You stupid fucking moron. You started in with Wife comments and all I did in response was repeat what you posted on this very forum about your wife and a baseball bat. If you didn’t have double standards, you wouldn’t have any at all.  

Wow, look at you go!   So impressive.

I seem to recall a story about a baseball bat.

you don’t think there is plenty of free speech here? Is asking for a minimal level of decorum just too much to bear for you guys?

Jesus guy, calm down. Do you think you could be any more triggered?  😄

Yeah, isn’t that funny?  Badger got the ax because he dared crack a joke about HSR’s son. I ask the same fucking asshole to leave. the marital cracks out and he thinks it’s a big joke.   I’m not sure how many people who don’t come here anymore point the finger at one guy as the reason. But I know a bunch of them are on belly pan now because they have said so publicly. I guess not being able to tell somebody’s that their wife has venereal warts is just too much of a limitation and considered a safe space.   

Yes, apparently he does. Have you noticed the reactions they give each other?

 

Well, that was a cathartic back read…..  went about exactly how I would expect it to

Oh, and Jerry, fuck you

Of course it wasn’t you. It never is. 

Would Republicans respect a representative that put the functioning of the government ahead of party loyalty?  If they buried Jordan by saying they couldn’t vote for a piece of shit. 

They are still trying to get Jordan in?  So do Republicans like people who cover up multiple sexual assaults?  Or do they think the wrestlers were lying?

2 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

This is so rich  Imagine the 🤡 Posse on a forum where they are in the minority  

They need their safe space and even that isn’t enough for some. 

1 hour ago, Highmark said:

To be in the worlds 1% income you only need to make about $35K per year.  

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/

So by global standards, America’s middle class is also really, really rich. To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic. The average family in the United States has more than three times the income of those living in poverty in America, and nearly 50 times that of the world’s poorest. Many of America’s 99 percenters, and the West’s, are really 1 percenters on a global level.

Western middle classes actually get back a good deal more from government than they pay in. Political scientists Vincent Mahler, David Jesuit, and Piotr Paradowski examined the benefits — from pensions to child welfare payments — that taxpayers, rich and poor, in 12 European countries and the United States received. They found that the middle 60 percent of the population had a larger income share after taxes and transfers than before. Thanks to the good folks at the Internal Revenue Service, the broad slice of the U.S. middle class gets 3 percent more of the income pie after taxes and transfers. And that doesn’t account for a range of state subsidies for public goods like colleges and universities that disproportionately benefit the middle classes

I was talking about the US. But hey if the 1% can buy their way to tax cuts and the Supreme Court and you are cool with that, keep justifying. 

7 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

Granted, the Powell Fed is making up for two big errors. The first was in 2019, when Powell bowed to then-President Donald Trump’s bullying. As the Fed began cutting rates to placate Trump, it added stimulus the economy didn’t need.

whuuuuut? 

 

 

However, 35% of Americans reported that they’re in the most debt of their lives. New York Fed data shows that U.S. household debt swelled to $17.06 trillion last quarter, with credit card balances making up about $1.03 trillion of it — a new high for credit card debt. 

https://money.com/average-american-personal-debt-amount/

 

 

The richest 1% own as much as the next richest 60%. 50% of the 60% believe if the government would give just a few more tax breaks to the 1% that would help them join the 1%. 
 

Reality check. That’s not wealth trickling down, they’re pissing on you. 

1 minute ago, ArcticCrusher said:

FF is for faggots.

Hey man, you be you.  If you like quoting that movie it’s not proof you suck dick. It’s just suspect.  Be careful Governor Ron doesn’t find out, he’ll put you on a bus to New York. 

35 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

Question since this is obviously important to you. A couple of years ago when you were saying Cuck cuck cuck like a chicken to everyone that disagreed with you…..

Did you know you were accusing their wives of cheating or were you just parroting Steve Bannon because you liked the way it sounded?

Perhaps I should start a poll to bet on whether Driftbusta will give an honest answer to this question. 

2 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Why, want to use your maglite?  

Perhaps you should wash the sand out of your labia.

How dare you ignore his desire to identify as a man. As Mans man at that. 

Why does it need saving? It’s a fucking gold mine. Sell access to Trump. A private place where  75% people believe everything he says and will repeat it for him would be a great place to try out his new material. He could milk this crowd for so much needed help with legal fees. 

Or maybe Musk needs another place to try out his conspiracy theories or people that think everyone who disagrees with them is a pedo  

Either way you should double the asking price and get half up front so you aren’t out any money when they try to weasel out of paying. 

43 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Family is family whether they are current, past or future.

Didn't Hall Monitor take a spaz when Badger said only an idiot would pay that much for a steak (true) and he thought that implied his son or shit like that.

Family is Family past present or future. 
ohhh Man that is so beautiful. Have you been bing watching fast and Furious? 🤣 

Fun fact Im haven’t seen the last approx 20 or so FF films but evidently in the new one his Vin’s estranged brother shows up. His actual family. I find that funny much like the person who started this poll. 

29 minutes ago, racer254 said:

What "facts" are you referring to?

The facts about Jim Jordan that the Democrat was repeating. Witch hunts are bad because witches (the baby boiling, spell casting type don’t exist) but if witches really existed they probably should be hunted. 

Going after Jordan for his terrible performance and history of trying to help people get away with crime is legit.

It shows how weak the Republican Party is that he is even being considered for anything better than janitor  

50 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Simple question.  Your votes are private.  At least I hope so, as I don't have the keys to this place.

Question since this is obviously important to you. A couple of years ago when you were saying Cuck cuck cuck like a chicken to everyone that disagreed with you…..

Did you know you were accusing their wives of cheating or were you just parroting Steve Bannon because you liked the way it sounded?