Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout

Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by ninkendo on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:22PM (#46641867)

> The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

I remember that day vividly.

It was the middle of the Great Recession, it was the worst our economy was doing in a long time. Millions were out of work. People were looking to the government to see what the plan was to get the country back on track.

A reporter asks McConnell what the senate’s number one priority was.

The answer? Not fixing the economy, not helping out every day Americans. Not finding the root cause of the crash and making sure it doesn’t happen that way again.

No, the answer was “make sure Obama is a one term president.” That’s all we would expect from the senate for the next 6 years.

The day McConnell said that, I said out loud: “I will never vote Republican again for the rest of my life.” (Prior to that point I mostly voted D but not 100% of the time.)

And I plan to keep that promise until I die.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by raziel2p on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:29AM (#46643622)

have democrats not made similar statements about Trump, him being a danger to democracy and such?

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by defrost on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:33AM (#46643637)

Sure. And Republicans, and many world leaders.

Trump is well outside the norms of POTUS's through history.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by azernik on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:17AM (#46645714)

In 2008-9 Republicans did not even make the pretense of Obama being a threat to democracy. (Which would have been absurd in a way it isn't for Trump, who tried to overthrow an election he lost.)

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by komali2 on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:07PM (#46654604)

I remember when some lady called Obama "Muslim" (in the same tone of voice as she'd say "demon" or something) and Mitt Romney took the microphone from her and said "no, no, we disagree politically but he's a good man."

Shows how poorly those politicians understood the constituency they were fomenting. He was boo'd for it by people that had come to see him specifically, and about 15 years later, republican voters built a scaffold outside the Capital they were breaking into while chanting about hanging the Republican vice president.

I feel like American politicians often play with fire without understanding its nature as something that burns.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by alex43578 on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:09PM (#46649696)

You don’t understand, it’s different when the democrats do it - just like when Obama deported more people than Trump.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by quinndexter on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:01AM (#46678007)

The way deportations were calculated by the administration was changed to include certain types of border rejections, IIRC.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by mindslight on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:05PM (#46652199)

Sit down.

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