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Governmnnt shut downs, see what happens! Trump, SMH just unreal. Trump wins election and our military starts shooting at each other 🤷‍♂️ https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-navy-shoots-down-own-plane-as-fresh-strikes-target-houthi-rebels-in-yemen-7b6a4d27 Two U.S. Navy pilots ejected from their jet fighter over the Red Sea after being caught in “an apparent case of friendly-fire,” U.S. Central Command said Sunday, as American forces conducted a new round of attacks against the Houthi militant group in Yemen overnight. The military said the two pilots safely ejected from their F/A-18 after it was hit by fire from the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg. The jet fighter had flown off the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and both ships are part of the same strike group. One of the crew members sustained minor injuries and an investigation is under way, the military said. The incident came as U.S. Central Command said its forces had conducted airstrikes against a missile storage facility and a command and control facility operated by the Houthis in Yemen. It wasn’t immediately clear if the friendly-fire incident and the U.S. attack on Houthi targets are connected. The Iranian-backed Houthis control much of northwestern Yemen. They have snarled international trade by attacking cargo ships passing through one of the world’s most important trade routes, in what the group describes as a campaign of support for Palestinian militants fighting Israel in Gaza. Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, a Houthi official, condemned the U.S. strikes. “These American terrorist attacks further confirm the lawlessness and criminal actions being carried out in the region,” he said on X. “Such reckless terrorist actions against Yemen will not stop the support for Gaza.” <----On Musk's terrorist friendly web place, formerly known as twitter

Yup, old WV and Mississippi not really attracting much interest from people looking for a better life.

West Virginia had a loss in population. Trump won WV by over 40% and its a dying state. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-AA1wee0T In the last year, the population of the United States grew at the fastest rate in more than 20 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. New data shows that the U.S. population increased by almost 1% this year, or by 3.3 million people, surpassing 340 million. The South experienced the most population growth of all the regions by far, increasing by 1.8 million people. Also helping to increase the population was the fact that births outnumbered deaths by nearly 519,000 between 2023 and 2024. The voting-age resident population (ages 18 and over) grew to nearly 267 million in the last year, while the population of people ages 17 and under actually declined by 0.2 million to 73.1 million in 2024. “An annual growth rate of 1.0% is higher than what we’ve seen over recent years but well within historical norms,” said Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Census Bureau’s Population Division. “What stands out is the diminishing role of natural increase over the last five years, as net international migration has become the primary driver of the nation’s growth.” Only three states—Vermont, Mississippi, and West Virginia—lost population in the last year. West Virginia had the largest population loss, as the state lost 516 residents.

Political theater. Nothing accomplished accept Trump and a few other flunkies got some extra tv time, yippie

Def Leppard does suck

The ethanol subsides should go, don't you agree? It's still in there And no, they are not cutting anything, this is all show. The shutdowns are just political theater

What the heck can he do about plastics? Banning them would not be popular

You don’t love our republic? Not a perfect government but what is? God all mighty

Isn't Elon Musk a "statist"? All those contracts from NASA and the US military sure sounds statist to me

Gum? I don’t chew gum. Sorry about your wife, hope that turns out ok. I have a decent diet, try and get in lots of greens, fiber and variety of plant foods Still love chicken wings though

But but but, they are going to cut the government I thought?!?!?

I know, but it would be easier to support something that makes sense. They want to cut spending yet Trump is calling for a debt limit increase? Heck, he wants to abolish ANY limits to borrow! Wow, don’t remember him campaigning for that

How will he cut spending by increasing the debt? That just seems like a scam or something. I mean, he is going to cut, right?

A new type of addict is showing up at Gamblers Anonymous meetings across the country: investors hooked on the market’s riskiest trades. At Gamblers Anonymous in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, one man called options “the crack cocaine” of the stock market. Another said he faced hundreds of thousands of dollars in trading losses after borrowing from a loan shark to double down on stocks. And one young man brought his mom and girlfriend to celebrate one year since his last bet. They were among a group of about 60 people, almost all men, who sat in rows of metal folding chairs in a crowded church basement that evening. Some shared their struggle with addiction—not on sports apps or at Las Vegas casinos—but using brokerage apps like Robinhood. https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/stock-market-trading-apps-addiction-afecb07a

Here, this better? Not just a right wing wacko, but a far right wing loon!

The Big Oil companies doing the Trump dance, they got their shrill in the WH who is threatening to make average Americans pay more for goods if Europe doesn't unnaturally tilt oil markets towards the US. Poor Donald, he probably misses @Irv soft hands stroking him awake in the morning 🤣 https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/trump-says-european-union-must-buy-us-oil-and-gas-in-trade-ultimatum.html

And yet these Republicans, with Trump's support, trying to extend the debt limit? How screwed up is that? Same old, same old. Nothing different

_____ Wait a second...these flunkies are going to extend the debt ceiling? You mean Trump is borrowing even more money that we tax payers don't have? Do not pass any bills! Screw this, even more debt? I thought they were fixing this? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/19/house-republicans-say-they-have-deal-to-avert-government-shutdown.html

Is Murphy talking about Trump? Screaming from sidelines... Ya? How much you think they will cut, lol?

Pretty interesting how it was Elon that led the charge against the governmnet bill, and Trump later on joined in. Whatever, this relationship bears watching as we go forward. Bernie says Elon is the President

@sherpa @Coffeesforclosers I totally agree with this: https://www.tipranks.com/news/can-archer-aviation-stock-continue-its-bull-run-heres-what-this-analyst-expects Both Trump and Elon Musk have voiced support for expanding drone use in combat and logistics over traditional manned aircraft. In typical fashion, Musk recently criticized the F-35 program on X, calling it “obsolete in the age of drones,” and that it is being run by “idiots” and endangers pilots. Meanwhile, Trump shared a video promoting growth in the U.S. VTOL aircraft industry to counter China’s dominance.

Oh, I don't hate Musk, he is a pretty interesting person, very accomplished and an innovator. Not sure how he will do as governmnet cost cutter, but we will see, won't we

It means he picked former Dems which is Uni like, or something. Rubio is a good pick, the drunk guy isn't and I have not seen many of the others. I saw his commerce secretary called Trump a free-trader, which is a relief Trump has to keep the train on the tracks. He has inherited a good economy so he will not want to mess with that.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/18/trump-ukraine-gas-mineral-russia-peace-deal/ Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine is not only the breadbasket of Europe; it is also a mineral superpower with some of the largest reserves of 117 of the 120 the most widely used minerals in the world. Of the 50 strategic minerals identified by the United States as critical to its economy and national security, many of which are quite rare yet key to certain high-value applications, Ukraine supplies 22. Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter Ukraine possesses the largest reserves of uranium in Europe; the second-largest reserves of iron ore, titanium and manganese; and the third largest reserves of shale gas — as well as large deposits of lithium, graphite and rare earth metals, according to a 2022 report by the Canadian geopolitical risk-analysis firm SecDev. These minerals are essentia The question for the president-elect is: Does he want Russia and China to get that treasure trove of natural resources? Or does he want to develop them with Ukraine to the benefit of the American people? One of the main reasons Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine (aside from his delusional historical fantasies about how Ukrainians and Russians are “one people”) was to seize these natural resources, which are valued at an estimated $26 trillion, according to SecDev. Follow Marc A. Thiessen That effort nearly succeeded. In early 2022, Russian forces reached the outskirts of Kyiv and came close to taking the capital and installing a puppet regime. But with U.S. assistance — including the Javelin missiles that Trump supplied (reversing Barack Obama’s lethal weapons ban) — Ukraine forced Russia back. In so doing, it not only liberated its citizens from brutal Russian occupation; it also successfully defended roughly 80 percent of Ukraine’s known mineral deposits, according to the SecDev report — including 73 percent of its iron ore, 75 percent of its lithium and graphite, 90 percent of its titanium, and 92 percent of its uranium and other radioactive elements. Early on, Russia seized control of an estimated 80 percent of Ukraine’s massive offshore hydrocarbon deposits. But over the past three years, Ukraine has wiped out roughly half of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet using explosive unmanned sea drones to drive the Russian navy from its territorial waters. With that successful offensive, Ukraine has reopened its shipping lanes and recaptured many of its Black Sea oil and gas deposits. Today, Ukraine maintains control of 96.5 percent of its proven oil reserves and 96 percent of its proven natural gas reserves — as well as all of its aluminum, cobalt, copper, nickel, tin and beryllium deposits. Natural gas About 96 percent of Ukraine’s natural gas reserves remain under Ukrainian control. Russia did succeed in seizing about 57 percent of the country’s known coal reserves (worth about $11.9 trillion) and about half of its deposits of certain rare earths (though many of those were captured in 2014 when Russia first invaded and seized Crimea). But those losses notwithstanding, Ukraine has prevented Russia from seizing $13.6 trillion in mineral and hydrocarbon wealth. That has been a massive defeat for Putin — and a huge opportunity for the United States. The American people have already invested about $183 billion to help Ukraine defend its mineral-rich land from Russian aggression. Though the vast majority of the military portion of that aid has been spent here in the United States — strengthening our defense production capacity and creating good manufacturing jobs for American workers — that amount remains a staggeringly large investment in helping Ukraine defend itself from unjust aggression. Shouldn’t U.S. taxpayers get a return on that investment? Do we want Ukrainian titanium going into American planes, or into Russian and Chinese fighter jets that will threaten the United States and its allies? Do we want Ukraine’s lithium and rare earths powering American-made electronics and electric vehicles, or Chinese ones? Trump has pledged to “bring Americans the lowest-cost energy and electricity on Earth” as well as expand artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency mining, which require data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity. The only proven way to lower electricity costs while simultaneously increasing electricity demand is to dramatically boost our supply of clean nuclear power. And Trump has pledged to approve the construction of nuclear plants powered by small innovative reactors.

Off topic a little, but funny