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originally posted by: chr0naut
The President's powers in regard to foreign policy are subject to both the advice and consent of the Senate.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
How could there be no quid pro quo? He suspended $400 million dollars in military aid in a time of war. Even a slight slowdown in payments exposes the Ukraine to defeat by Russia.
It was clearly premeditated as means of gaining leverage and shows that Trump is working to the advantage of the country....
We all know there was quid pro quo, there always is... Biden's threat to with hold not 400 mil but a BILLION was no different.
We also know the call was not perfect...OK
Finally we know that Trump needs to defend himself even taking a crap or eating two scoops of ice cream, hopefully not at the same time though.
When he says no quid pro quo it is 100% directed towards the claims he did it for personal gains and to say the call was perfect is just Trump in how he describes just about everything.
In the end he was within his Presidential rights to do it all with none of it illegal in any sense of the word. For you to say "oh poor Ukraine, Russia almost took them out due to Trump" is about as disingenuous as one can get. Was there one life lost, was there any changes at all in Russia's posturing in all this, did Ukraine leadership even blink an eye of concern...lol
originally posted by: chr0naut
Can you conceive that inability to purchase and supply militarily does not have an instantaneous effect but that the ongoing effect of deficit against a superior provisioned enemy will fairly inevitably result in a high probability of defeat?
‘Factoids’ are questionable or spurious statements presented as facts, but which have no veracity. With some 24,700 mentions in cyberspace, the connection between VAD and wind turbines has gone ‘viral’, is now commonly included in submissions to governments by anti‐wind farms activists and is often mentioned in media interviews. The term ‘vibroacoustic disease’ resonates with a portentousness that may foment nocebo effects52 among those hearing about it and assuming it to be an established disease classification, acknowledged in medicine. The cyberspace‐megaphoned relationship between VAD and wind turbine exposure is a classic example of a contemporary health factoid, which was here unleashed by a press release containing the claim that on the basis of two uncontrolled case studies, the association was “irrefutably demonstrate[d]”. Vibroacoustic disease should be considered a candidate for the archives of “non‐diseases”.53 However, in this case, this factoid is contributing to a regulatory environment which is severely limiting the siting of wind turbines in Australia and thus lessening the contribution of wind energy to greenhouse gas reductions.
The Energy Department today released a report which confirms that adding even limited electricity transmission can significantly reduce the costs of expanding wind energy to supply 35% of U.S. electricity by 2050. The report, titled Reducing Wind Curtailment through Transmission Expansion in a Wind Vision Future and authored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), affirms the findings of the Energy Department’s 2015 Wind Vision, which showed that a future in which wind provides 20% of U.S. electricity in 2030 and 35% in 2050 is achievable and would provide significant economic, energy security, and health benefits to the nation.
Prices per megawatt hour from electricity for coal-fired power plants range from a low of $60 to a high of $143, according to Lazard, a financial advisory firm that publishes annual estimates of the total cost of producing electricity. This is the levelized cost, which includes the cost to build, operate, fuel and maintain a power plant.
Wind is significantly cheaper: Unsubsidized, levelized prices per megawatt hour of electricity from wind range from $29 to $56, according to Lazard’s most recent figures. In contrast, a decade ago, wind costs topped out at $70 per megawatt hour, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s most recent report on the wind technologies market.
I do not suffer fools easily.
Take that as it was meant, please.
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originally posted by: burdman30ott6
Get over yourself.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
The excuses seem to be becoming more tenuous.
Are you sure he warrants it?
The excuse for what, that he did what every President did before him... Two scoops...
originally posted by: chr0naut
"Did what every President before him did" and yet he boasts that he has done all sorts of good and exceptional things.
Well, the national debt has never been higher and the 'debt to GDP ratio' has never been higher (it is 106%).
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
"Did what every President before him did" and yet he boasts that he has done all sorts of good and exceptional things.
Well, the national debt has never been higher and the 'debt to GDP ratio' has never been higher (it is 106%).
Yep he boasts a lot, all the time, on everything, he's a showman at his events too... is that grounds for impeachment? I'm not happy he signed two huge bills from Congress, but it is what it is...I tend to say OK that sucked, and then I see what the left is bringing to the table and on the low side they are pushing an increase of 10 trillion to Warren's 31 trillion... and now I'm like WTF is the left trying to do.
My one message to the Left...Stop making crappy Trump look like a God sent compared to the sh!t storms you want to put up against him.
Maybe in the end Trump isn't so crappy after all if what is next in line all look like what we have going up against him. Maybe his inability to filter his thoughts thorough speech or words written is hiding something that would actually do America good.
We will just need to wait and see how he fares after his next 4 years...
originally posted by: chr0naut
They may or may not give a damn about whoever is President this month, but they clearly aren't either 'Trump' nor 'the left'. They are the majority.
The creation of a vast and largely fictional enemy to attack is the story of Don Quixote. Trump is tilting at windmills both figuratively and literally.
My one message to the Left...Stop making crappy Trump look like a God sent compared to the sh!t storms you want to put up against him.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
In my post I said nothing about far anything, so I'll repeat of statement...
My one message to the Left...Stop making crappy Trump look like a God sent compared to the sh!t storms you want to put up against him.
I do find it funny that you suggest Trump is the instigator and not the reactionary. Trump is hugely reactionary as a fault, if the liberals didn't attack him ceaselessly since day one do you think he would be as he is?
Trump doesn't push right wing at all, and has been more center even leaning left. He was the left darling up to he ran for President and won.
This whole narrative is driven by the very left leaning press, Hollywood and liberals in the Government, so lots of money, power and influence there.
I agree 100% that the vast majority of America are centrists and so what do you think they will do when given a choice such as Sanders or Warren compared to Trump that has been more left than right in a number of things? Trump by a long shot has not been bad for the country in all that he has accomplished,
or is still trying to accomplished, AND he been doing this under full frontal attack since day one in office. Compared to Obama that did really bad things that Trump could not even dream of and he was untouchable as the Golden child for 8 years.
In the end I would say that Yang has about the best chance to run centrists and smart enough to hold his own one on one against Trump in debates, but we both know that isn't going to happen.
originally posted by: chr0naut
Before they even knew that Trump existed, he was accusing them of things, most of them now revealed as total bunk.
Remember Obama's birth certificate?
Remember the calls to "lock her up" amid accusations around Benghazi, Uranium One and the DNC e-mails?
Remember that Trump's entire platform was about how 'they' were corrupt and he was going to drain the swamp? Yet look at whose guys are now serving time.
Trump deserves everything he has called down on himself. He IS the instigator.
I would think that 106% of national debt to GDP ratio is an impending economic disaster. It means that the whole of the US economy has been going backwards, costing more than it made, for the entire duration of the Trump Presidency.
You know when a bank forecloses on a home owner who can't pay their mortgage? Multiply that by a nation - for three years!
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
Before they even knew that Trump existed, he was accusing them of things, most of them now revealed as total bunk.
Not really, would you like me to post 100s of pictures with him and all the liberal elite?
Remember Obama's birth certificate?
Hillary's team created all that back in 2012, and Trump ran with it for a very short period..
Remember the calls to "lock her up" amid accusations around Benghazi, Uranium One and the DNC e-mails?
Yep, and she should be held accountable. Everyone of these I can post 100s towards Trump... Are you saying he should not have gone after Hillary during the election?
Remember that Trump's entire platform was about how 'they' were corrupt and he was going to drain the swamp? Yet look at whose guys are now serving time.
Lol we both know that is total bull, people serving time are there for totally non-Trump reasons, they are there because the FBI went after them, and a lot of that is coming out now. BTW the ones in jail came to Trump through the RNC and I don't trust the RNC much more than the DNC.
Drain the swamp is just that...not a partisan statement.
Trump deserves everything he has called down on himself. He IS the instigator.
I think he relishes in it, but they didn't give him even a second did they...lol
I would think that 106% of national debt to GDP ratio is an impending economic disaster. It means that the whole of the US economy has been going backwards, costing more than it made, for the entire duration of the Trump Presidency.
You know when a bank forecloses on a home owner who can't pay their mortgage? Multiply that by a nation - for three years!
And Warren is the answer?
Remember Trump won because of... "anyone but Hillary" He will win again because the Democrats can't find one decent person to compete against him...sad really
originally posted by: chr0naut
Please post them and then I can use a Google image search to find out when they first appeared on the net. I't will be a hoot!
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
Please post them and then I can use a Google image search to find out when they first appeared on the net. I't will be a hoot!
Are you suggesting the whose who of the liberal elite didn't consistently hang with the Donald? lol really?
Next you might suggest they also didn't hang with old Harvey too for decades.
BTW it seems you are down to replying to just a snippet of my posts, I guess time to move on other another topic...
originally posted by: chr0naut
As for "tremendous fumes", I don't think their fabrication would be any dirtier than any other machinery. Probably a lot less than say a factory that produces diesel or coal power plant turbines, which have hundreds of turbine blades to be cast, machined and polished. Not like the windmills that only have three blades to be cast, machined and anodized. The generator part is probably identical and even a big a gearbox is probably similar to the ecological impact of making a fairly standard car gearbox.
So I call BS on nearly everything Trump said in the OP's video.
originally posted by: chr0naut
Umm, way to deflect. You just post your pictures and I'll post mine:
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
As for "tremendous fumes", I don't think their fabrication would be any dirtier than any other machinery. Probably a lot less than say a factory that produces diesel or coal power plant turbines, which have hundreds of turbine blades to be cast, machined and polished. Not like the windmills that only have three blades to be cast, machined and anodized. The generator part is probably identical and even a big a gearbox is probably similar to the ecological impact of making a fairly standard car gearbox.
So I call BS on nearly everything Trump said in the OP's video.
The President reads a lot and grabs an idea and runs with it. As far as windmills go there are a lot where I live and close to 60,000 across America. Some studies have suggest that the very low Infrasound they produce has negative physical reactions on people. That is sound below 20hz range where a person can not hear it, they call it wind-turbine Syndrome.
Newer windmills have sound damping technology that greatly reduces the Infrasound they produce, but like all large scale projects we don't know what long term affects there might be. Take massive solar farms in the desert, what affects would that have on the large area?
As for Trump, he didn't make all that up in his head, so we can call it BS or not without using it as some form of Trump-syndrome sneaking its way into conversations.
BTW they are computer controlled so they spin as fast or slow as the computer regulates it. I have seen them spin rather fast even though they look slow because they are huge, so ya they are moving. The tips can be going 180 MPH with only 15 RPM at the base....
I find your conclusion that the President is total BS rather interesting as it is only based on your observation of one windmill at a distance... REALLY???
Just think of the last 20 feet of this massive blade going 150-180 MPH, now pack 500 of them together. As far as birds and bats go, I don't have a clue, I'm not an expert, but I can see how they CAN take them out. Do 180 MPH in your car and see if a bird can get out of the way if they fly in your path...lol
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: chr0naut
Umm, way to deflect. You just post your pictures and I'll post mine:
The difference is Trump knew him decades ago as they ran in the same billionaire circle and then removed all ties with him a long time ago, hence only pictures of them together are when they were much younger. As for Harvey, the Liberal elites were most likely still hanging with him a week before he was up on charges...lol
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Metallicus
originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: neformore
The Fanta Menace has never had a firm grasp of reality.
Of your distorted reality perhaps. He has a firm grasp of my reality though which is why he is so popular and is going to be re-elected.
We’re in no disagreement you inhabit your own reality.