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Carter sure proved one thing, you go against Big Oil and the propaganda machine will be turned against you. Carter dared to ask Americans to reduce energy consumption, horrible! Big oil and the media lame brains made that a liability. It was not Carter's fault that this great energy producing nation imported so much energy. At least he did something about it, helping to reduce our use and imports of energy. Better economy, more domestic energy. Carter, a Good government guy, in an era of corruption(Nixon/Reagan) who also stood up to big oil and made us cleaner, more efficient and independent. 50% decline in foreign imports after his administration's policies. That's results! He got it that we really don't need gasoline. <---ya really. He was a pretty Conservative Democrat really. Cut government spending to help stop inflation, but too little too late. He was just a victim of circumstances. He inherited stagflation which basically passed, had great economic growth and the Iran blew up. Like Reagan, Carter had hostages to deal with and neither did particularly well. At least Carter got his people out alive, and did not have the sad spectacle Reagan had with Beirut and all those dead Marines. He was not a great politician, like Reagan was, and the media will never forgive that! @Irv Probably enjoying an early New Years over this. Sad!
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But there is little doubt about which side will win. Four of the top founders of what became known as the PayPal Mafia — Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Roelof Botha — are immigrants. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, hails from Taiwan. The CEOs of Google, Microsoft and IBM are all Indian-born. Musk was born in South Africa and came to the United States from Canada. “The reason I’m in America,” Musk wrote to his critics on X, “is because of H1B. Take a big step back and F--- YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.” Strap in, America. A fabulously talented crop of rich guys is now very close to the levers of power. As a result, they stand to enrich themselves even further. I never thought I’d say this, but I liked it better when Silicon Valley ignored Washington and focused instead on inventing the things that made them so wealthy in the first place.
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He was a much better and effective president than the simplistic media portrays him. He laid the economic ground work for the Reagan years and started the deregulation of industry while also taking the sensible step of vetoing the B-1 because it had already been made obsolete by new technology, an example Trump should take good note of! Using a "Good Government" standard of judging Jimmy Carter, he rates pretty high in this boring but important category. The best way to judge a person is by comparing them to people who lived at the same time they did. So while James Earl Carter had an almost perfect record of non-corruption and such, you could not say the same of two other presidents who were contemporaneous of Carter. It's frightful to think that good, honest Jimmy Carter shared a decade as President with that criminal Richard Nixon. Scores of Nixon administration officials were frog marched away to jail for crimes both obscene and inane. It was like a criminal enterprise. Good thing Carter came along so we wouldn't see that anymo... oh wait. The Reagan administration seemed to wonder right back into those criminal ways, though not nearly as bad as Nixon's WH. But still, it's as if Ronnie was asleep at the wheel, zzzz Judging by administrations that preceded his by a few years and one that immediately followed his, Carter ran a clean ship.
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That's what I like about Elon. He is not afraid to take a stand on an issue. Drones are obviously the future and the sooner we stop waisting money on old programs the better. The USS Lexington and Saratoga were originally laid down as battlecruisers in the early 1920's but as Billy Mitchell and his fellow travelers pushed for more use of air power those ships were converted to aircraft carriers. Time to roll with the changes
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/27/china-sixth-generation-fighter-jet-flight/ Images of advanced aircraft cruising at low altitudes in China on Thursday have surprised analysts, who say they could mark the maiden flights of sixth-generation fighter jets, representing a major breakthrough for the country’s military. Sign up for Fact Checker, our weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics. Photos and videos originating on Chinese social media platforms and reposted to X on Thursday show large triangular aircraft making sweeping slow turns at a very low altitude. The images appear to show two different aircraft, one smaller than the other — both featuring a tailless, stealthy design suggesting they rely on advanced computational technology to be piloted. The Chinese display of new military technology also follows criticism from Elon Musk — whom President-elect Donald Trump has tasked with advising on budget cuts — regarding the F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet program, which has been saddled with faulty technology and cost overruns. Musk called the F-35 builders, Lockheed Martin, “idiots” and suggested that manned fighter jets should be replaced with drones. “It seems quite intentional that [the Chinese military] wanted us to see this aircraft flying. I would think personally that the timing on this is really curious because they’re aware of this debate and it almost seems designed to influence that debate,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. Amid uncertainty over the manned fighter project, Pentagon officials have said they want to create an unmanned “hellscape” of drones to defend Taiwan. “[China] might be more worried about the United States Air Force going in that direction,” said Grieco. A sweeping anti-corruption crackdown has ensnared key military units over the past 18 months, including the disappearance of two top defense ministers. The campaign initially targeted the PLA Rocket Force, which oversees the country’s strategic missile systems, but has since widened. This week, two more generals were removed from key positions, overseeing critical aspects of China’s military strategy in the army and the South China Sea navy.
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-------- Go get 'em Elon! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/27/trump-elon-musk-sriram-krishnan Loomer, a renowned anti-immigration provocateur widely credited for persuading Trump to highlight false rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in last September’s presidential debate with Kamala Harris, criticised Krishnan on social media for supporting the extension of visas and green cards for skilled workers. She said it was in “direct opposition” to Trump’s agenda. Hail the broligarchy: why 2024 was the year of the bro Arwa Mahdawi Read more Her comments provoked a riposte from Musk, the Space X and Tesla billionaire who is Trump’s most influential supporter and himself an immigrant from South Africa. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, on Christmas Day. In a later post, he wrote: “It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE. If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE. End of story.” Musk’s stance was supported by Ramaswamy, his partner in the fledgling “department of government efficiency” (Doge), an informal agency Trump claims he will create, under which the two men will be charged with the task of cutting government spending. In a lengthy social media post, Ramaswamy – the son of immigrants from India – argued that the US was doomed to decline without high-skilled foreign workers and suggested American culture had become geared towards “mediocrity”. “The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit,” he wrote. “A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. ‘Normalcy’ doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.” The arguments were met by a fierce backlash from Maga exponents, led by Loomer, who delved into racist arguments.
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Thanks for the booming economy? Yup Those air B&Bs are making the housing shortage
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What a riot! Oh wait, never mind -
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Oh please, the border was a disaster Trump's first term. Remember the wall that never got built? -
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That Trump stopped, right? He doesn't seem to worry about it Just like him screaming about China, but he will help China on Tic Toc ban. All BS -
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No, I don't see a "border crisis" Newsflash, neither does Trump. You are being manipulated. Easily, too 👏