That’s just sad. A waste of life.

They think they’re gonna get in and wait for the poors to kill each other then come out and rebuild society in their image.

What I think will happen is people will try to get in and when that fails they will either seal them inside permanently or just dump some nasty chemicals down the air shafts.

Also they really think that when society breaks down the people with guns they hired are going to follow the billionaire’s orders when they could just be the ones in charge?

What are they even trying to achieve?

Don’t forget the 1.776 billion dollar fund he set up for him and his toadies.

Then impeach him.

If you’re a US citizen remember that each time you pay your taxes you are just paying Donald Trump.

If no one is stopping him from doing so then he has the authority.

She told a 10 year old kid that him and his generation are going to have to pay that debt. Like what part of that debt is because of what the government spent on him and his generation compared to what they spent on wars in the Middle East. Because I highly doubt they spent 1 trillion dollars on the kids of America.

Also Trump is going to settle with the IRS for a good chunk of money, which that kid and his generation are on the hook for. The fact that Americans aren’t stringing these people on lamp posts is beyond me. They are stealing their children’s future.

It was lightly obliterated.

The longer this goes on the more leverage Iran has. The world economy is starting to feel the effects of the blockade and it will only get worse. The effects are not only limited to the price of gas but also to things like fertilizer (we’re right in the middle of planting season right now) and energy (if this is going to be a hot summer, which I have a feeling it’s going to, energy demand for AC will be quite big).

Soldiers didn’t have to follow orders to strike civilian boats in the Carribean either, but here we are with almost 200 dead civilians.

Lol, is Congress gonna finally do their job? I doubt it.

How did that quote go again: “If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”

It’s only too close when it benefits Democrats.

It’s just mind boggling the level of incompetence.

Also the Gulf states must be absolutely pissed since all they got out of this was that they got bombed, they can’t sell their oil anymore and when this is over Iran is most likely going to have even more control over the straight. I wonder if the Saudis are going to ask the Trump spawns for their money back.

Now they’re gonna wait for Iran to fire back and say they broke the ceasefire.

Saudi Arabia realized that if they let him do this they would be hit by Iran in retaliation. Iran already showed that they can hit American bases in the region and they will also hit countries that host those bases as retaliation. As much as Trump and his toadies croak about Iran military being destroyed they still have military capabilities and their drone program is quite advanced because they had a lot of field testing in Ukraine.

That’s what we call sane washing. He’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, his words have weight, this is not some crazy guy on the street corner.

India and Brazil sure are countries that the US has good relations with and has not tariffed at all lately.

Having the reserves and actually using those reserves are a different thing. Even if the US starts setting up mining and processing facilities in North Carolina today it would still take a long time until those facilities become operational and produce the needed quantities.

Not very much actually. Because of the way windmills are designed it would be very hard to spin the blades by applying power to the generator, and even if you overcame that obstacle somehow the design of the blades would make it so it wouldn’t really push that much air.

Windmills gather the torque from the giant blades and pass it to a strong shaft that is connected to a gearbox which converts the torque into high rotational speed. That rotational speed is then transferred from the gearbox to the generator through a smaller shaft that is designed for high speed rotation. If you try to reverse the rotation you would need to put in enough torque through that smaller shaft to overcome the inertia of the blades, since the shaft is not designed for higher torques it would most likely snap.

The blades themselves are airfoils designed to specifically generate the highest lift when wind is applied from a specific direction. Similar to how plane wings are designed to generate lift when air moves over them from a specific direction. That also means that if you make them move in reverse they would not generate that much lift so they wouldn’t actually push the air around. It would be like trying to take off with a plane by accelerating it backwards.