US Steel isn't even the biggest US steel company. That would be Nucor, and there are dozens of other steel companies in the US. Even if a Japanese firm comes and buys US Steel, it won't be able to take the mines overseas. Possibly the mills, but given the bulk and weight of steel, that doesn't make sense, either. Downsizing can happen even if the company stays US-owned, so it's not really clear that you're not confused on this. Companies are bought and sold in the US every day.

As far as wind and solar go, it's not like the land can't be used for other things at the same time. Farmers grow crops under and between solar panels and wind turbine towers. In the US we install solar panels on rooftops, too.

Try doing that with a coal or gas power plant.

Lastly, it's OK if other countries make jokes about Biden. They laughed at Trump, too. At least biden is getting the job done, and not breaking laws while at it.

Good response Bart. I do not like long writing like you
do on here. Especially to ridiculous replies. I know people personally in FL. NC. TX. and other States.

What freedoms?🤷You lot live in a fantasy World over there! 🤣🤣🤣You can't even send your kids to School, each day without worrying if some lunatic, is going to show up and start a shooting spree, in the School. People carry guns, to make them feel safe?🤷Aye, that's a real free sounding Country you have there? At least here in the UK, I can send my son to School, without worrying about him getting shot. I can walk down the street, without carrying a weapon, or a firearm, of any description. That's because I feel safe, walking down the streets, even at night! Even our Police, don't even carry guns and if in the eventuality that the Police need any firepower asap, their armed units are always about 5 minutes away, but still you hardly ever see them. All I ever hear is brainwashed Americans, thinking that they're the greatest, free nation, on Earth and believe me you're not. You want to see a real free Country, then visit Scotland, where I live? Oh and if you do visit and need any medical attention of any sort, it's free, even to tourists. Your prescription will be free also. You see we can actually see where the money that we pay our taxes to, is being used for over here in the UK. Can you say the same, except for when you see new Aircraft Carriers, etc, that your military have bought. America, the land of the free? Land of the fee, more like!

Weird take. Crime rates are down, continuing the trend over the past couple decades, and despite the spike from 2020. If you have a source that shows crime is up, I'd like to see it..

I knew the Presidential Greatness Rankings would break your brain. Sure, it doesn't really matter, but it does shine a light on the ineffectiveness of the Trump Administration and the quiet results of Biden's. Trump is a criminal and a failure, and totally deserves the last place. Putting Reagan below Biden is a sober assessment of Reagan's failures that Republicans happily forgot. "Trickle-down" economics was always a scam and breaking laws to arm Nicaraguan rebels behind Congress' back was a bad idea, too.
Reagan should've been lower in the rankings, but he was telegenic and well-liked, if forgetful toward the end.

Biden's gotten lots of things done, despite Republicans in Congress sandbagging the country as much as they can, to abide Trump's calls to wreck the economy.

Did you see the recent Presidential rankings? Trump came in dead-last. Biden made 14th place--beating Reagan!

https://thehill.com/homenews/4476288-presidential-experts-rank-biden-14th-among-presidents-in-survey-trump-comes-in-last/

Just because the map is flat (2D) doesn't mean the earth is flat. That map is just a way of representing the earth in a computer system. It's an analog. Here in the real world, the Earth is still round.

The Flat Earth model falls apart when explaining sunrises, or why vehicles disappear over the horizon from the bottom or satellite orbits. But good luck with your criminal charges.

NASA has published numerous photographs of the round Earth. Can you find a photograph of the flat Earth?

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N31S27S/

It's not paying. It's spending. National defense isn't just weapons and ammunition. It's not even just the military, and all those NATO members that "aren't paying" are probably still paying--just not in terms recognized by NATO guidelines. Here in the USA, we can easily separate national defense from our daily lives, as we have a huge military and well-defined separation from the public. In some countries around the world, especially smaller countries, people just live with their militaries. We have state National Guards where members have to sign up and get regular training. In other countries, the state reaches out to eligible citizens and issues equipment and time in service may not even be paid. Just because the government doesn't spend 2% doesn't mean the cost to the nation is less than 2%. Either way, Trump is an idiot and misrepresents the situation.

You don't seem to understand. NATO is not a loan or a subscription. When the US or any other NATO member spends money on the military, it's not dropped into NATO's bank account. There are no delinquency notices. NATO member states pledge to spend 2% of their GDP on defense. Maybe you can point to where some conservative blogger or Donald Trump said that other nations are behind in their payments, but Trump is a moron. Don't be like Trump.

Defence expenditures and NATO’s 2% guideline

That's not how NATO works. Member countries don't pay into NATO like a country club. They merely pledge to spend 2% of their GDP on defense, and while several countries are falling short, they're not delinquent. They all paid a fee to join.

The Paris Accords is a little different, and it's also way bigger than NATO, and only pledges to work toward slowing down climate change and researching ways to do it. Again, nobody's delinquent in that. Trump claimed that it hurts the US to work toward climate change when other countries don't, but that's not true either. Our research into renewable energy is already paying off, and solar and wind power is now cheaper and employs several times more people than coal and natural gas powerplants. Slowing down climate change helps everybody.

Lastly, helping Ukraine is not about furthering war, but about helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion and diminishing Russia's ability to extend its war into other countries, including NATO countries.

Political affiliations, and mental health
issues aside, 99.9% of the schitbags
elected to public office, should have
been sent to prison.
... But, voters have been conditioned
to believe soundbites over actions.

There's been virtually no discernible
difference between the two main parties
in the U.S., in nearly 40 years.
It doesn't matter if the dick weasel has
a D, or an R next to their name.
They're all still dickweasels, and they're
all still corrupt.

Biden, as well as the five peckerheads
who served before him, should all be
doing life sentences in prison solitary
confinement.


And, since Bush Sr. has already passed,
dig his azz up, and rebury him on
prison grounds.

Weird take. You think Biden will be remembered for things that happened 40 years ago while he's passing laws now? Having gotten his Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS Act passed, that pump $trillions into the US economy and return semiconductor manufacturing to the US, with $billions still being spent today, or maybe the $35/month cap on insulin? How about his work to eliminate junk fees from banks and airlines? Biden's the first US President to stand and walk with Union workers. He's the first US President to pick a female VP. A lot of other first go there, too, but until you typed about his votes on busing and desegregation (on which he wasn't alone at the time) I had forgotten about, and I follow politics pretty closely.

I admit that Biden isn't at his best, and some of his positions disappoint me. But this year isn't between Biden and my ideal candidate. It's just Biden v. Trump again. Trump was an unmitigated disaster as a President. DJT lied and cheated every day. Took foreign emoluments every day, and because Republicans controlled Congress, and the Constitution wasn't clear enough, nothing was ever done about it. And even with Republican control of the White House, and Congress, Trump got almost nothing done. They couldn't even make basic government work.

The choice is easy: Four more years for Biden and Trump to Prison in 2024.

While Trump's supporters are losing to a point, they're only losing some money and time and any maybe some friends. Trump's spending their donations on his legal bills. I suspect they know it, and are mostly OK with it.

Have you even read the indictment? Trump's charges are nothing like what Willis & Wade are accused of. The defendant's attorneys are trying everything they can to delay the case, but the allegations had no merritt and their witness was soundly impeached. She's just a disgruntled former employee, and even if the allegations were true, they aren't sufficient to support Willis' or Wade's recusal. That case will move forward and Trump et. al., are going to trial soon enough.

This case was never about ruining Trump's chances at being President again. It was only about holding him accountable for the laws he broke. Taking hundreds of $millions from the guy while he needs money for his campaigns is just an added bonus.

Yeah, inflation and crime rates are dropping and Trump's had more than his share of verbal flubs. Give it a few more months and Republicans will have nothing left to say, as Trump's criminal convictions pile up. His case on campaign finance violations starts next month. I get that Republicans like to point at Biden's gaffs, but even Biden can keep Pelosi & Hailey straight.

1. Inflation started going up in 2020, and only reached its peak after Biden got to work, but it's back down now.
the annual inflation rates for dozens and dozens of goods routinely purchased by American households - including food - were already at their highest levels in a decade before Biden entered the White House

2. Maybe you could be more specific about world-wide opinions about The United States, but Biden's not the one pulling out of treaties and trying to dismantle NATO. That's Trump. Biden is working with our allies in Europe and Asia and elsewhere, unlike Trump, who was actually laughed at during world summits.
https://apnews.com/general-news-821dafb0b18a4dadb086216c08067df3

3. The US has several allies in the Middle East and while Israel may be the closest, they're not perfect. They apparently commit war crimes, targeting civilians in their fight against Hamas, but Biden is still working to get foreign aid to them and to the Palestinian civilians. Trump would've never been able to handle that kind of diplomacy.

4. And again, you bring up the curious statistic that 7/10 of Americans blame Biden for everything wrong. Got a link for that? Your claim looks like BS to me.
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The proof of his miserable failure is visible in the grocery stores , the housing market, our schools, on the streets w/ crime, our judicial system is a joke, his misstatements and garbled speeches to our overseas allies and his pathetically weak warnings to our adversaries is doing a great deal of damage to our values and financial status and our sovereignty.. just listen to other forms of information besides the liberal gurus that you blindly follow and bough down to…that is where you can get a true glimpse of the popularity of Joe…. It’s not good for Sleepy Joe!

Judge orders Trump and his companies to pay $355 million in New York civil fraud case

* Trump fined $355 million (not the $370 million D.A. James asked for)
* Not including the $88 million Trump was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll
* Don Jr. & Eric Trump each fined $4 million
* Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg fined $1 million
* Trump's lawyers pledged to appeal the ruling.

So Trump's lying and cheating has cost him almost a half billion dollars so far. Ah ha ha ha!

Oh please. Shrinkflataion isn't this week. That's been going on since the '50s. It's not like Biden or any other president has control on what the consumer market bears. All he can do is ask Congress for reforms and sign acts of Congress into law. Biden asked Congress for a fairer tax system, and Republican's won't have it. So, higher corporate profits go up with inflation.