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[“Five-minute EV charging, while ambitious, is being actively developed by companies like BYD and CATL. BYD's "Super e-Platform" promises 400 km of range in 5 minutes. CATL, with its battery technology, aims for even greater range gains in the same timeframe. This is achieved through megawatt charging and advanced battery chemistry.”  This will completely change the EV landscape.  I wonder why it’s not getting more press.  gjr]

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185 responses to “Sandbox – 16jun25”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Polling update: Trump: Favorable/Unfavorable polling
    unfavorable 14
    favorable 2

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not so fast ya po ol ponytail of ignorance –
    Here is something you wont see on the walking dead so-called news channels like cnn, msnbc etc. –
    Over the five polling days between June 8-12, Rasmussen surveyed 1,772 likely voters and found that Trump enjoys an overall 53 percent job approval rating. This includes 54 percent approval from black voters and 53 percent support from Hispanic voters. White voters come in at 53 percent. I don’t think I ever remember a Republican president enjoying a higher job approval rating from black voters compared to white voters.
    A total of 59 percent of men approve of the job Trump is doing, compared to 49 percent of women.
    What must be especially demoralizing about these polling results for Democrats is that it was during this same time (June 9-12) that the corporate media launched a jihad against Trump for deporting illegal immigrants out of Los Angeles. The media and Democrats even attempted to blame the two-term president for the violent, left-wing riots in Los Angeles that were encouraged by elected Democrats and only brought under control when Trump sent in the U.S. Marines after federalizing the National Guard.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/16/nolte-trump-enjoys-majority-support-from-black-and-hispanic-voters/
    😉

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not bad for 3 months, not bad at all. At this rate the scale will move back in favor of citizen workers before too long and they will have swept out the illegals. Sweet. –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/one-million-foreign-born-workers-have-fled-workforce-since-march-report/vi-AA1GOp2N?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=d28fee4f553b43beb6310c23c1c93717&ei=521
    😉

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Five-minute EV charging, while ambitious”
    I’ll say. Consider the charging station required or even the wire. 500,000 watts? Are they 1000V or something? Jeez.
    I think the low hanging fruit in EVs will end up being reductions in battery weight (lower range, newer battery tech), although aero might remain unchanged. It’s sure hard to beat liquid fuels for energy density.
    Now, back to your regularly scheduled psul puling about Trump.

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    A quick bit of research shows me that Tesla fast charging is already at 250 kW (and Cybertruck can accept 350 kW).
    That doesn’t even seem right. Crazy. Maybe double that is reasonable.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    re scenes 743am – And now we come to the electric power grid. From where are we going to get all those joules to pump the (thousands of?) 5-min charging stations?

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GR@11:55AM
    No doubt the Tesla EV refueling stations load balance in some way, so you don’t need the maximum amount, but I agree it’s something of a problem.
    I seem to remember that passenger car electrification takes something like 25% of the grid. Since the power grid is run right on the ragged edge (gotta be efficient doncha know) I can imagine the build-out required. Double bonus points for electric heat, electric hot water.
    All designed by people with PowerPoint charts in Sacramento. No doubt the cost will be foisted off on the public (WE’LL USE YOUR EV AS A STORAGE BATTERY! YOU MUST PUT SOLAR ON YOUR HOUSE!!). Gack.
    The best part is how all of post-1900 society goes away if some fool runs into the wrong pole. Cascading failures galore. It looks good on paper though.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don
    You are right Rasmussen is one of only two polls that come out in Trumps favor only two out of 16. The numbers are 14 negative two positive historic low numbers for a President in the first summer after the election.

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So, Punch, make your numbers even better by starting new polling organizations that are Dem leaning.
    Imagine, ten more Dem polls would give you truly spectacular numbers.
    Rasmussen is historically accurate.

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Hmmm.
    Can you explain they why Fox polls show Trump with a pathetic -10 negative favor-ability rating. Do you consider then Fox to be Dem leaning?
    You are always on Trumps side even in this case where only 2 out of 15 polls show Trump with a favorability edge?

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The po ol ponytail of ignorance is whistling by the graveyard ignoring the facts that minority citizens have lost faith in the illegal alien and man with a beard in dresse loving socialist dems. LOL
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Greasy gavin set for another loss –
    While judges on the panel dropped few definitive hints about which direction they were actually leaning, the bulk of their questions appeared to go against California.
    “Where does the statute say that issuing it through the governor requires either the governor’s consent, requires consultation with the governor? Where in the text do you take that from?” Judge Mark Bennett, a Trump appointee, asked at one point.
    Bennett then floated the possibility that the panel may disagree with that interpretation and view the statutory phrasing “through the governors” as a “ministerial task,”
    “It’s a very roundabout way of imposing a consultation requirement,” Judge Eric Miller, another Trump appointee, remarked at one point about the language of that statute.
    The statute in question laid out three possible conditions — the risk of invasion, rebellion, or inability to execute US laws — in which a president “may call into federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary.”
    “If we were writing on a blank slate, I would tend to agree with you, but the problem that I see for you is that [Martin v.] Mott seemed to be dealing with very similar phrasing,” Sung said at one point. “It seemingly rejected the exact argument that you’re making.”
    Martin v. Mott was a 1827 Supreme Court case that dealt with a New York militiaman who refused to serve during the War of 1812 and ruled that a president had the ability, under a different, but somewhat similar law, to call upon state militias.
    Judges brought up Martin v. Mott a few times during oral arguments and noted similarities between the language in the statute Trump invoked and the law at the center of the 1827 case.
    “I think the plaintiffs have an extraordinarily dangerous interpretation of that statute,” Brett Shumate, the recently confirmed head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division, argued.
    “In their very reading of the statute, Governor Newsom could pocket veto the president’s orders, not convey them and wait for somebody to come down to Sacramento and consult with him before he issues that order,” he added.
    “That’s not what the statue said. The statute says ‘through the governor,’ it doesn’t say ‘by the governor.’”
    Trump’s move marks the first time a president has mobilized the National Guard to address upheaval in Los Angeles since the Rodney King riots in 1992.
    It’s the first time a president has federalized a state’s National Guard since President Lyndon Johnson did so against Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1965 to safeguard civil rights marchers.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/appeals-court-hounds-california-s-attorney-seeking-to-scrap-trump-s-national-guard-order/ar-AA1GUzYK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f06417480b3440d0a1f7f6c5e5c85f90&ei=201
    😉

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Bad more bad news for team lefty –
    By a 12-point margin in the latest Harvard-Harris poll, voters support President Trump using the National Guard to quell the recent anti-law enforcement riots in Democrat-run Los Angeles.
    On June 11 and 12, Harvard-Harris surveyed 2,097 registered voters and asked, “Do you support or oppose the decision to bring in the national guard to help suppress anti-ICE riots?” A clear majority of 56 percent said they support the decision, while only 44 percent oppose.
    Another argument the regime media are losing is what to do with criminal illegals. When asked do “you favor or oppose sending illegal immigrants who are convicted and imprisoned to El Salvador or another country to serve their sentences?”, 61 percent said yes, while only 39 percent said no.
    When asked specifically about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal alien deported by Trump and turned into a saint and “Maryland Man” by Democrats and the legacy media, 62 percent believe he is an MS-13 gang member, while only 32 percent said he “should have been defended.”
    A recent Pew poll found that 83 percent of those surveyed favored all (32 percent) or some (51 percent) illegal aliens should be deported.
    A league of American Workers poll taken earlier this month shows that 53 percent of Hispanics “somewhat” or “strongly” support Trump’s deportation policy.
    We all saw CNN freak out over the American people’s broad support for Trump’s immigration policies:
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/17/nolte-by-12-points-voters-support-trump-using-national-guard-to-quell-l-a-riots/
    😉

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don
    What does your 3:44 have to do with Trumps miserable poll numbers?
    What does that have to do with Trumps miserable poll numbers

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Ha
    My statement was so profound I doubled it.

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Raymond Emery | 17 June 2025 at 06:37 PM
    Ha
    My statement was so profound I doubled it.

    Ha
    You’re a moron who probably loses his false teeth.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So its obviously too hard for the po ol ponytail of ignorance to deal with the reality of the mood of the nation. # LOL
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like the end game for those mutha mullahs –
    G7 Joint Statement: ‘Iran Can Never Have a Nuclear Weapon’
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/06/17/g7-joint-statement-iran-never-have-nuclear-weapon/
    😉

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don-Huh?
    Don’t the polls reflect the “mood of the nation, this time being anti Trump. Once again trump only polled positive in 2 of 15 polls this week.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like a sad old man does not understand push polling! LOL
    😉

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    Hilarious – “this time being anti Trump”
    This time? TDS took over millions of peoples’ brains long ago and has rendered them hopeless.
    Like you, they have no positive solutions to anything.
    All they have is Trump-hate and intellectual blindness.
    Trump is a lame duck POTUS. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass what you fools think.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott
    Just reporting the facts Scott that Trump is a loser in the polls even on the Conservative Fox News poll.
    What is Trumps solution to the War in Ukraine? This is what he promised, Direct Quote:
    “At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
    Was that an outright lie or was it just plain stupid Scott?
    Which was it

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    I claim Paul has no solutions and he quickly posts two more Trump-hate posts with…
    No solutions.
    Thanks for proving my point, Paul.

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    So…all your whiny nonsense about “who will pick my fruit?”…..

    ”The notion that illegal immigrants became a significant part of the labor pool in the United States because Americans just decided to stop working is absurd. American workers were replaced with cheaper options, plain and simple. Employers got addicted to their off-the-books, substandard pay laborers. It never had anything to with concern for illegal immigrants or the lack of available American workers.”

    Was that an outright lie or was it just plain stupid Paul Raymond Emery?
    Which was it?
    https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/06/18/the-morning-briefing-dems-fave-argument-for-illegals-just-took-a-kick-to-the-groin-n4940889

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  25. George Rebane Avatar

    Just a thought. These Trump polling conversations in the Sandbox are very long of tooth and beyond boring to any but the eager participants for reasons unknown. A better place to hold them would be under the category ‘All Things Trump’, there I’ll post a receptacle for your future polling debates.

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Whaddya expect…..he’s from Illinois….they make “looking the other way” an art form!

    Dick Durbin Plays Supercut of Trump’s ‘Cognitive Decline’ at Hearing on Biden’s Mental Acuity

    Funny….much like our Paul Raymond Emery, Durbin missed the entirety of President “I’m little more than a vegetable” Brainstem’s obvious mental deficiencies.
    https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/dick-durbin-plays-supercut-of-trumps-cognitive-decline-at-hearing-on-bidens-mental-acuity/

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    George, just a thought, Punchy is stuck on a very bizzare notion of polling, that the number of polling organizations on one side or the other is more important than their accuracy.

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  28. gjrebane Avatar

    Gregory 1223pm – Agreed, but it’s his cross to bear. I’m just tired of wading through the never ending polling wars which tend to hide some of the more interesting stuff discussed in the Sandbox.

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The cross he should be bearing is instead thrown at the feet of others.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Finally some sanity on mutilating children –
    Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law restricting gender-affirming care for minors
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-tennessee-law-143555670.html
    😉

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    NYT’s headline for the sheeple:
    “Images of Handcuffed Democrats Start to Pile Up in Trump’s Crackdown”
    “Federal agents have arrested a growing number of the party’s elected officials, fueling liberal outrage and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.”
    “…a growing number…”
    Yeah – it was zero and now it’s what? 3?
    Boy Howdy – really stacking up!
    Of course they’re publicity stunts. The NYTs knows that. But liars gonna lie.

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Just reporting on the numbers Gregory as they exist. Sorry they are disappointing to you.

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    YO YO YO po ol ponytail of ignorance take it to the polling thread not the sandbox as directed by Dr R.
    😉

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Raymondo Emery | 18 June 2025 at 05:34 PM
    Scurry over to the Polls thread nitwit…our genial host made you your own sandbox where you can play with yourself!

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punch 534p
    No, you aren’t. You might as well be making them up yourself.
    You don’t have the slightest idea what polls are.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You chose to ignore them Gregory because you don’t want to see the bad news about you’re guy Trump. Remember, ignore is the first half of the word ignorance which is what you are demonstrating in this matter. You better believe the Repub and Dem strategists and political analysts check the polls daily.

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    off to the polls place psul. Begone.

    I did like this story:
    “Pressed by @KarenAFox17 at a gaggle, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell refused to call his public listing of ICE and HSI agents’ names “doxing.”
    Instead, he claimed the real problem is “masked” ICE agents arresting criminal illegal aliens.
    ICE agents and their families are not safe because of Freddie’s reckless actions. And he’s not even sorry.
    The pushback was so intense, O’Connell had to abruptly end the press gaggle.”
    https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1935420404627042483

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    This struck me as a good example of our civil war.
    Team R: Regular guy who is a patriot.
    Team B: Whacked-out heiress (Qualcomm) little girl with light experience (non-profits, Clinton campaign, Congresswoman) and lots of feelz.
    https://x.com/liz_churchill10/status/1935488884130857185

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The po ol ponytail of ignorance is totally flying his freak flag insulating G man suffers with his own maladies. But the fact remains TAKE IT TO THE POLL thread. We must ignore any more po ol ponytail crowing about his delusions.
    Fact to face old man, he will be the prez for 3.5 years! You suffer the TDS still because you failed to get the balm in time last time.
    😉

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  40. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Most punchable face, Ted Cruz, says Genesis tells us we must support Israel or else we will be cursed…
    Can you say NeoCon War Hawk…
    I know you can…

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Progressives in Action, Part 110.
    “@scrowder’s team captured a trans person threatening federal officers and agents who were deployed to Los Angeles to protect federal property from open-border and leftist rioters. The man in the wig tells them he wants to fight them on the street.”
    https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1935482252353487098
    roflmao. You know, I would pay good money to watch that.
    This is who you are dealing with folks. I’m not sure that a political party built on a platform of mental illness is the way to go.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 19 June 2025 at 07:22 AM
    This is who you are dealing with folks. I’m not sure that a political party built on a platform of mental illness is the way to go.

    The first political movement in history that failed due to the sheer ridiculousness of the participants! At least with Marxism it looked good on paper! You could always rope in the soft heads who were clueless about economics because it sounded great! But this….loser Antifa types and “chix with dix”….people on the bubble politically have to see that and think….nahh, no thanks!
    https://nypost.com/article/who-is-kayla-lemieux-trans-teacher-with-prosthetic-breasts/

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Sounds like a great time to emigrate….

    IIham Omar claims US turning into one of ‘worst countries’ in the world

    And take that brother….err….husband of yours with you!
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/ilhan-omar-claims-us-turning-194048168.html

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  44. Resurrected Hillbilly Avatar
    Resurrected Hillbilly

    Scenes finds one freak in a street who is trash talking authorities… concludes, “This is who you are dealing with folks”.
    No, that was a trans freak that the law enforcement personnel were dealing with for 5 minutes one day.

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Dilapidate Jeffybelly | 19 June 2025 at 08:29 AM
    Scenes finds one freak in a street who is trash talking authorities… concludes, “This is who you are dealing with folks”.

    ….and whenever a guy in a dress catches any flak whatsoever….you are there in defense!
    Why am I not surprised?

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Now because it’s the mainstream ….or dead media as it is more properly described this is probably completely wrong. But if it isn’t now you fucking dimwits would have something to impeach Trump for!

    Defense Officials Float Tactical Nuke To Destroy Iran’s Fordow Site As World Awaits Trump Decision

    …..he’s usually not stupid! This would be an exception!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/missile-causes-extensive-damage-israeli-hospital-idf-bombs-inactive-iranian-heavy

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Excitement beckons.
    Lobster fer everybody
    https://x.com/WarPath2pt0/status/1935694893415907422.

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  48. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Holy shit, Whoopi Goldberg said it’s not different to live in the US and Iran in 2025. How can you be this clueless? Her co-host, who has Iranian heritage, is trying to point out that women can’t even dress like she is on the show. Gets shouted down:”
    https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1935364540381700169
    This is who you are dealing with folks.

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