Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? by 6ixStringJack

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Wind is a low(er) carbon way to generate electricity (altho I wonder about lifetime carbon emissions) but the biggest problem with that, and solar, is that it's NOT CONSISTENT.

And I don't mean over a few hours or days or even weeks, but sometimes MONTHS. Britain had a whole season where the sun didn't shine (much) and the wind didn't blow (much). No battery is going to carry you thru that problem. So you need baseline fueled capacity AND ability to massively and efficiently shuttle electricity from a surplus region ... say, the midwest ... to a deficient region ... the northeast, for example.

Aside from that, we really need to rethink our "investment" in data centers, which suck up a LOT of electricity for little apparent benefit. Same for "coin mining".

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"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 8:34 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wind is a low(er) carbon way to generate electricity (altho I wonder about lifetime carbon emissions) but the biggest problem with that, and solar, is that it's NOT CONSISTENT.

And I don't mean over a few hours or days or even weeks, but sometimes MONTHS. Britain had a whole season where the sun didn't shine (much) and the wind didn't blow (much). No battery is going to carry you thru that problem. So you need baseline fueled capacity AND ability to massively and efficiently shuttle electricity from a surplus region ... say, the midwest ... to a deficient region ... the northeast, for example.

Aside from that, we really need to rethink our "investment" in data centers, which suck up a LOT of electricity for little apparent benefit. Same for "coin mining".

There was a Santa who gave away $100 bills on Christmas Eve. No one refused the free money despite it not being available 365 days per year. As with free $100 bills, do not refuse free electricity just because it might not always be available. The wind blows free. The sun shines free. Accept the free electricity. (Trump would prefer you buy natural gas to make electricity.)

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 8:41 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wind is a low(er) carbon way to generate electricity (altho I wonder about lifetime carbon emissions) but the biggest problem with that, and solar, is that it's NOT CONSISTENT.

And I don't mean over a few hours or days or even weeks, but sometimes MONTHS. Britain had a whole season where the sun didn't shine (much) and the wind didn't blow (much). No battery is going to carry you thru that problem. So you need baseline fueled capacity AND ability to massively and efficiently shuttle electricity from a surplus region ... say, the midwest ... to a deficient region ... the northeast, for example.

Aside from that, we really need to rethink our "investment" in data centers, which suck up a LOT of electricity for little apparent benefit. Same for "coin mining".

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

The carbon footprint of windmills is basically break even. It costs so prohibitivley much just in the fabrication of the blades up front that they need to run for years to make that back. Then when we're done we can't recycle a single piece of them and they either get buried, dumped into the ocean or, worst of all, burnt to ash.

And unless we find some space age material we don't know about yet, or there is some major breakthrough in thermodynamics, there will never be a legitimate battery solution for storing any temporary power created by solar and wind.

Nuclear Power is our ONLY way forward. Ever.

You can supplement that with some wind and solar where it makes any sense to do it, but neither of those entire industries are going to do fuck all when it comes to serious talks of getting off of fossil fuel. Ever.

It is not even worth discussing this topic with anybody who does not admit the above statements are true.

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 10:15 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I'm sure there are different figures out there, but this is what I found:

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How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials — steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and more exotic stuff like neodymium and dysprosium used in permanent magnets.

All of it has a carbon footprint. Making steel requires the combustion of metallurgical coal in blast furnaces. Mining metals and rare earths is energy intensive. And the manufacture of concrete emits lots of carbon dioxide.

In the case of wind and solar power, those emissions are nearly all front-loaded. That contrasts with fossil-fueled electric power plants, where emissions occur continuouisly as coal and natural gas are combusted.

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Citing data from the likes of National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, and Bernstein estimates, Venkateswaran determined that the biggest contributors to the carbon footprint of wind turbines are steel, aluminum and the epoxy resins that hold pieces together — with the steel tower making up 30% of the carbon impact, the concrete foundation 17% and the carbon fiber and fiberglass blades 12%.

Good news: amortizing the carbon cost over the decades-long [how many decades?] lifespan of the equipment, Bernstein determined that wind power has a carbon footprint 99% less than coal-fired power plants, 98% less than natural gas, and a surprise 75% less than solar.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/04/28/how-green-is
-wind-power-really-a-new-report-tallies-up-the-carbon-cost-of-renewables/

Still, you need a robust baseline generating capacity for those days when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow...

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"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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Sunday, August 3, 2025 11:20 PM

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I'm sure there are different figures out there, but this is what I found:

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How green is wind power? It’s not a simple question. Of course the wind blows without carbon emissions, but catching it isn’t easy. Building and erecting wind turbines requires hundreds of tons of materials — steel, concrete, fiberglass, copper, and more exotic stuff like neodymium and dysprosium used in permanent magnets.

All of it has a carbon footprint. Making steel requires the combustion of metallurgical coal in blast furnaces. Mining metals and rare earths is energy intensive. And the manufacture of concrete emits lots of carbon dioxide.

In the case of wind and solar power, those emissions are nearly all front-loaded. That contrasts with fossil-fueled electric power plants, where emissions occur continuouisly as coal and natural gas are combusted.

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Citing data from the likes of National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, and Bernstein estimates, Venkateswaran determined that the biggest contributors to the carbon footprint of wind turbines are steel, aluminum and the epoxy resins that hold pieces together — with the steel tower making up 30% of the carbon impact, the concrete foundation 17% and the carbon fiber and fiberglass blades 12%.

Good news: amortizing the carbon cost over the decades-long [how many decades?] lifespan of the equipment, Bernstein determined that wind power has a carbon footprint 99% less than coal-fired power plants, 98% less than natural gas, and a surprise 75% less than solar.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/04/28/how-green-is
-wind-power-really-a-new-report-tallies-up-the-carbon-cost-of-renewables/

Still, you need a robust baseline generating capacity for those days when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow...

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

But that's false information.

I wish I saved all the research I did and posted here or Jaynez could find it. I spent 6 hours doing math on top of all of the numbers I sourced from both government websites and independent sources. It's all listed out with all my work on this website somewhere.

Those wind powered claims against other sources of power are asinine once you consider the upfront carbon footprint and the burning, burying or simply throwing the blades out to sea when they're done. (And the real up-front costs are daunting. It's a stupid amount of carbon made by that concrete process. Like stupid, stupid, stupid amount. I had no idea until I was looking this up, and never thought about it once before despite concrete being all around us, and how much I've actually worked with it in my life).

And I'm sure that whatever numbers he's making up are factoring it all in as these blades are in operation 24/7/365 with optimal performance and longevity alongside minimal maintenance costs and unforseen problems/accidents (absolute best case scenario on the 2nd, and blatantly false on the first), and there is simply no math done to remove any wasted potential because they aren't wired to make the most of it and/or there aren't enough batteries to store anything close to what they are capable of generating when weather conditions are optimal.

That's what they were doing 4 or 5 years ago when I dug that info up the first time. I had all the numbers before doing the math. Numbers like the actual average lifespan of the blades based off of real world data (vs. the optimal age repeatedly stated by the government and the corporations PR side to the public), as well as the actual average amount of hours per day/week/year the blades are actually in rotation and doing anything at all. Even during a lot of wind, you'll see half the blades not in operation at all. And there's a lot of different reasons for that.

There are so, so, so many factors that go into the math to get to the bottom of whether or not those windmills have any real efficiency in the first place (both financially when/if they're not government subsidized, and purely from a carbon footprint standpoint), and none of the people presenting you with any of them are being honest with you about them.

Bottom line is that we're not even remotely close to consider either of these technologies as a sufficient replacement for fossil fuel at the current level of technology, no matter how much time and money is wasted on it unless people across the board of all classes around the world are on board with making their lives about 80% Amish going forward, and abandoning dreams like Electric Vehicles and A.I. completely.

If we switch to Solar/Wind without making them simply a backup/hobby behind Nuclear Power, we're going to need our electricity strictly for lights, refrigeration, our shipping infrastructure, keeping the lights/heat/refrigeration going at grocery stores, keeping hospitals running, necessary local public service operations, and for as much A/C as we can ration off so old people don't start dropping like flies every summer. The ones doing without are the residential customers getting the rations. I'd bet that people like me who need a sump pump regularly running would need to have a government inspection done to approve the additional use of electricity to take things like that into account. Probably wouldn't even qualify for much extra for A/C in the summer for another 10 years or so, although I'd probably get at least some minor bump in the hot weather that people my age without kids would get for the diabetes.

Hell... I bet they'd still manage to find a way to find enough electricity for at least a certain number of EVs in that situation. It would be the first time that EV's were really useful. A useful way for the rich people to buy a license to use additional electricity every month, and they can just keep those unused EVs parked in the garage all year while they maintain access to a lot more monthly electricity rations than people who can't afford an extra EV to hide away in the garage.

California can't even keep the A/C on 24/7 for a lot of people during the summer as it is. What happens when 5 million more people in your state alone are charging their cars every day during peak summer heat days/hours? That is still a dream that will require a CRAZY amount of mining activity to happen first before it gets fueled.

It's all noble intentions, but we're simply just not there on any of this tech. If you want a meaningful amount of people to be able to charge anything larger than a laptop to start doing so by the millions and eventually tens of millions, we need to start building Nuclear Plants yesterday.

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Monday, August 4, 2025 2:26 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Interesting.

I wish somebody could dig up those calcs.

I did the same for EVs v regular gasoline engines. Since mpg depends so much on the weight of the vehicle and the traffic, I compared the efficiency of an EV (efficiency of electricity generation, efficiency of transmission, efficiency of charging, electric motor efficiency ranges) versus efficiency of typical gasoline burning engines (engine efficiency, transmission efficiency etc). EVs had a slight ... and I mean slight ... edge over gasoline engines, but it wasn't a slam dunk.

I know when we had solar installed, it had passed the breakeven point only maybe eight years before. (It takes a helluvalotta energy to melt all that quartz to form those big crystals, yanno?)
Maybe that thin film solar that they've been researching for 30 years will finally become a reality.

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Monday, August 4, 2025 3:39 AM

Yeah. I mean, I want it to happen. Desperately. It would be great if we could somehow get solar and/or wind up to any sort of level of cost/maintenance/reliability/renewable/not-burning-up-super-finite-resource novelties.

But they're really none of that. Some of them may be some of them some of the time. A very rare few may be most of them most of the time. As you already know, the variables on when and where solar/wind power is worthwhile or even viable shifts. Sometimes on yearly and/or quarterly cycles we can predict most of the time. But not all of the time. And in many areas of the world, either or both wind and solar do not help anybody at all.

And without a REAL, maintainable, affordable and renewable battery solution is presented, none of that other stuff really matters other than getting it ready for the batteries.

Nuclear Power is safe. Our means of disposing of it is not only safe, but it's surprisingly cheap. But the problem is that it takes the better part of a decade to plan for, locate a good, safe spot for and build a plant that is given the Okay to be fired up. If we started today, it's probably somewhere around a coin flip that you or I are going to still be around when they're all ready to rock and roll.

Even if I'm not here, it needs to be done.

*I bet that they would take at least 1 year running probability algorithms while doing surveys before even picking a spot, if somebody isn't currently always monitoring likely spots already.

And I know that a usual skeptic like me should be saying right now "oh yeah... it's perfectly safe... until you put human error into the equation".

True that, and fair enough... But I don't see any alternatives, and it's not as if we haven't come along decades in technology since the last time we tried. What kind of monochrome computers and oscillator machines were surrounded by mechanical buttons and knobs when Chernobyl shit the bed?

Hubris of man and all of that. Murphy's Law.

Meh... Whatever...

Do, or do not. There is no try.

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Monday, August 4, 2025 6:51 AM

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She’s Not My Type

By Andrew Tobias | August 4, 2025

https://andrewtobias.com/124196-2/

“When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

But no, actually, they don’t — and you can’t.

At least not in the case of E. Jean Carroll.

I keep coming back to her book, She’s Not My Type, because it’s a stand-in for . . . everything.

There is just no way anyone can listen (best at 1.3X speed) and not know for certain that Trump violently assaulted Carroll against her will and then lied and lied and lied and lied about it. So Carl won’t read it. If he doesn’t read it, it’s easier to deny.

Similarly, there’s no way anyone can read the voluminous Mueller Report and possibly think “Russia, Russia, Russia” is a hoax or that Trump did not obstruct justice. But if you don’t read it, it’s easier to deny.

There is no way a serious person can look at the facts and not know for certain that the 2020 election was not rigged.

Or that the latest jobs report was not rigged.

Or that Trump’s 2016 Inaugural crowd was not the largest in history.

Or that Trump did not willfully conceal top-secret documents he took from the White House.

Or that the January 6 rioters, many of them sentenced by Trump-appointed judges, deserved to be pardoned.

And yet a sizeable portion of the country won’t allow itself to know these things. It’s chosen sides and, having done so, has chosen to adopt “alternative facts.”

Can you imagine if Obama had done any of these things?

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Monday, August 4, 2025 6:56 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

But that's false information.

I wish I saved all the research I did and posted here or Jaynez could find it. I spent 6 hours doing math on top of all of the numbers I sourced from both government websites and independent sources. It's all listed out with all my work on this website somewhere.

I admire your digressions. Thousands of words from 6ix and Signym with zero citations, all in the service of making Trump's foaming-at-the-mouth hatred of renewable energy seem "reasonable". It is very Trumptard of you.

The week the US president’s vendetta against renewables went global
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/climate-change-tru
mp-renewables

Trump's insane war on renewable energy
America needs energy abundance, not polarization and culture war
https://www.slowboring.com/p/trumps-insane-war-on-renewable-energy

Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting ‘Unreliable’ Clean Energy Options
Donald Trump doesn’t hate renewable energy because it is clean. He hates it because it’s cheap.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08072025/trump-executive-order-targ
ets-solar-wind/

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Monday, August 4, 2025 7:09 AM

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Trump is Getting Desperate
We're in an extremely dangerous moment

By Paul Krugman | Aug 04, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-getting-desperate-and-dang
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Last week’s big non-Epstein news was Friday’s very bad jobs report and Donald Trump’s immediate reaction — which was not to rethink his policies but to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

What will he do when his tariffs and deportations start showing up in inflation numbers? I don’t know how much we’ll see in the next release, coming Aug. 12. But anecdotal evidence suggests that companies, which have been holding back on passing tariff costs on to consumers in the hope that Trump would back down, are getting ready to raise prices. And private surveys, like the S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index, suggest that a significant inflation bump is just around the corner:

Source: S&P Global

The thing is, official economic data are basically starting to confirm what mainstream economists have been saying all along. Erratic policy that creates uncertainty depresses growth and job creation; tariffs raise prices. Trump has been betting that he’s smarter than economists warning about the downsides of his policies. After all, they’re all at Marxist institutions like … Goldman Sachs. And he may try to order the statistical agencies to report better news. But nobody will believe it.

All of this takes place against a political background in which Trump faces massive public disapproval, not just overall but on every issue:

Source: gelliottmorris.com

So does this mean that Trump is done — that a weak economy will sap his political support, leading to big Democratic wins in this year’s gubernatorial elections and next year’s midterms? I wish I were sure of that. Unfortunately, one possible effect of the bad economic news may be to induce MAGA to put the real Project 2025 — the plot to destroy American democracy — on an accelerated schedule.

Or as I think of it, I don’t think we’re in Hungary anymore.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about: Many observers, myself included, have looked at Hungary’s descent into soft authoritarianism as a model for what can happen here. (And right-wingers have seen Hungary as a role model.) Since taking power in 2010 Viktor Orban and Fidesz, the ruling party, have systematically undermined democratic institutions, creating a de facto one-party state. But the process has been gradual and relatively nonviolent: Salami tactics that sliced off effective opposition a bit at a time rather than tanks in the streets and detention camps.

Why did Orban take a gradualist approach to destroying democracy? Partly, no doubt, because too overt a power grab might finally have roused the rest of the European Union from its slumber. But it’s also true that Fidesz had the luxury of time because until recently the party remained quite popular with the Hungarian public:

Source: Politico EU

Some of this popularity may have resulted from Fidesz’s takeover of the news media. But it was also true that for a long time Orban could claim to have made Hungary prosperous. He took power at a time of extremely high unemployment: Hungary, like much of the European periphery, was caught up in the disastrous slump caused by Europe’s debt panic. And he was able to preside over a large fall in unemployment as austerity was relaxed:

It's now clear, by contrast, that Trump and MAGA don’t have the luxury of time. Trump’s approval has already cratered. He inherited an economy with low unemployment and subdued inflation, but is now presiding over a weakening job market and will soon face a burst of inflation, with nobody but himself to blame. He may manage to bully government statisticians into cooking the books and making the numbers look good, but that’s harder than it looks. And even if the official numbers say everything is great, nobody will believe it.

So if Trump and MAGA want to hold on to power, they’ll have to do so in the face of low public approval and poor economic performance. This, unfortunately, doesn’t necessarily mean that they can’t demolish democracy. It does mean that they’ll have to do it quickly and blatantly.

Indeed, as CNN reported the other day, Republicans are trying in multiple ways to, in effect, rig the midterm elections. Their actions include a plan for an extreme, mid-decade gerrymandering in Texas that could cost Democrats multiple House seats; attempts to interfere in voting procedures, for example by banning states from accepting mail-in ballots after election day and forcing states to require proof of citizenship. Much of this is clearly unconstitutional, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

And what if these actions aren’t enough? Remember, Trump supporters, with his clear encouragement, already tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The important point is that right now Trump has immense power, thanks in large part to the cowardice of many of the institutions that should be holding him in check. But he’s also rapidly bleeding support, in large part because he’s completely failing to deliver on his economic promises.

That combination makes this an extremely dangerous moment. And if authoritarianism does come to America, don’t count on it being soft.

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Monday, August 4, 2025 7:23 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

But that's false information.

I wish I saved all the research I did and posted here or Jaynez could find it. I spent 6 hours doing math on top of all of the numbers I sourced from both government websites and independent sources. It's all listed out with all my work on this website somewhere.
I admire your digressions.

There's plenty of citations.

You, however, provide none that lead back to anybody other than so-called "experts" that get everything wrong, all the time.

You worry about your dead party or it's not going to matter in the slightest what Trump's popularity is come election day, mkay?

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Monday, August 4, 2025 7:29 AM

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Why Praising Trump Is Destructive
As The Last Few Days Make Very Clear

By Phillips P. OBrien | Aug 04, 2025

https://tinyurl.com/2wzcvf63

Hi All,

I’ve been asked (sometimes attacked) over the last few months because I do not praise Trump for the supposedly rare good things that he does. These criticisms have become more pointed as a some Patriot batteries (maybe two) are set to arrive in Ukraine that Trump could have held up.

Note, he is not paying for them, the Germans are, so he is not giving Ukraine anything. He is allowing the US to benefit to protect Ukrainians.

At other times people have said that he has been good on the Middle East (which I certainly fail to see) or seems to be “winning” as he is forcing other states to pay higher tariffs to send their goods to the USA (which again I believe is of doubtful benefit to the US—and is humiliating for others).

However, say he did something actually important and “good”. Imagine Trump finally did put real and crippling sanctions on Russia this week; that he could no longer accept all the insults and derision that Putin and other Russians have heaped on him, and does something tangible. Well. yes I would support that move strongly and be pleased (though always cognizant that Trump has basically hung Ukraine out to dry for well more than half a year).

Even then, praising Trump would seem to me counterproductive tactically and morally questionable.

Indeed, praising Trump for anything seems to achieve little or nothing beyond demeaning the flatterer. On the other hand, praise in any form helps erode the remaining buttresses that are holding up US democracy (or you might say helps Trump further weaken them).

This last week made this even clearer. We have had two quite extraordinary moves (one might call them cancers) aimed at the heart of democracy and legitimacy in the US. The first is the Texas redistricting and the second was Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Normally either of these moves would/should cause an overwhelming societal and political revulsion. That neither is (so far) reveals to me what not opposing Trump entirely has done to the USA.

The Texas redistricting is a blatant attempt by the Republicans, urged on by Trump, to disenfranchise non-Republican voters across the state. It is only happening because Trump urged it in the first place, entirely on the grounds of political benefit. There was no concept of valuing democracy or even of following clearly laid out rules (Texas is supposed to do redistricting every 10 years). If Trump could convince Texas Republicans to redraw the map, he would. Trump said:

“There could be some other states we’re going to get another three, or four or five in addition. Texas would be the biggest one…Just a simple redrawing we pick up five seats.”

This goes beyond normal political self-interest. Its a special (possibly illegal) attempt to redraw an already lopsided political map that gives Texas a large GOP majority in the House and make it entirely out of whack with the popular vote. At present, the Republicans control 26 out of Texas’s 38 seats.

Under the revised map, this figure could rise to 31 (or 82% of the total seats). Just as a comparison with the general breakdown in Texas, Trump beat Harris there by 56%-42% and in the US House voting, the Republicans overall received 58% of the vote to the Democrats 40%.

Btw, if the Democrats do not respond to this by retaliating in kind, they really are one of the worst opposition parties in history. From Schumer’s decision to roll over on the budget to this, the Democrats have been divided in message and weak in action. When I mentioned to a political friend that the Democrats are always bringing knives to a gun-fight, he said that’s wrong, the Democrats are always bringing dildos to a cannon-duel. Hard to disagree at this point.

Unbalanced House delegations are normal—what is not is simply redrawing the map in the middle of a ten year census cycle. What this does is destroy one of the last buttresses to full-gerrymandering every election. If this goes through, why wont every majority in every state redraw the map every election in the way that helps them? As I said, its corrosive to the whole idea of free US elections.

If this is what can be called a meta-cancer on US democracy, what Trump did with the Head of the Bureau of Labor statistics is a more focussed act of destruction. When the bureau, using its basic (and non-partisan) methodology to calculate new job creation did what it always does and release revised figures from the previous two months, it was clear that the earlier figures had been too optimistic. The figures for May and June (after Trump brought in his tariffs) actually showed a significant slowdown, not healthy growth which the preliminary figures indicated—as this graph shows.

Btw, this makes sense as the tariffs are going to cause economic instability and raise prices.

And what Trump did was fire the head of the department that calculates the statistics. He was fine with her when the bureau reported numbers, but could not take revised numbers that he did not like.

And Republicans have mostly shut up and accepted this.

Now, this is a real failing state move. Its the kind of move that Greece did when it was hiding its budget deficit and Argentina did when its whole economy was heading towards collapse. It strikes right at the heart of the supposedly free market which Trump claims to support. If USG data is not to be trusted (and after this how can it be) than the whole integrity of the US investing structure is being undermined.

Its monstrous…and what’s more these steps are being accepted. Odds are both will stand.

And that’s the thing about Trump—is that he is in the process of destroying much of what makes the US system work—for his own benefit and nothing else. Trump is winning now—partly enabled by those who understand what he is doing but still find ways to praise some of his policies.

And these steps make anything that Trump does that is “good” unworthy of praise. The whole superstructure of his actions is to set up a system to destroy what made the USA, for all its flaws, great. If he stumbles into a few good decision as part of that process, that does change the fundamentals of his policy. I believe those that do search out for positives in this morass actually demean themselves and I do not think I can ever do that.

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Monday, August 4, 2025 7:58 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

But that's false information.

I wish I saved all the research I did and posted here or Jaynez could find it. I spent 6 hours doing math on top of all of the numbers I sourced from both government websites and independent sources. It's all listed out with all my work on this website somewhere.
I admire your digressions.

There's plenty of citations.

You, however, provide none that lead back to anybody other than so-called "experts" that get everything wrong, all the time.

You worry about your dead party or it's not going to matter in the slightest what Trump's popularity is come election day, mkay?

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There is no gentle way to say this. A Trumptard I knew had melanoma. When I told him what I see, he said that since I wasn't a doctor, it wasn't cancer. Time passes and the Trumptard dies from melanoma that metastasized. 6ix, Trump is cancer and that is as plain to see as a cancer growing on a Trumptard's face.

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The Politics of Fear

As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.

By David Remnick | August 3, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/the-politics-of-fear

The young Donald Trump was the Nelson Muntz of Jamaica Estates. (Or was he its Draco Malfoy? Scholars will debate such questions for generations.) https://www.google.com/search?q=Nelson+Muntz

In any case, Trump was, from his formative years, a spoiled bully. The Trump family, whose fortune was made in outer-borough real estate, had a cook and a chauffeur, and “Little Donny” was a pigtail puller, an unruly loudmouth who tormented his teachers and hurled insults and rocks at other kids. When Trump was thirteen, his father, Fred, shipped him off to a military school, in Cornwall, New York. This was just the sort of place, it was hoped, where Donald would mature into a young man of rectitude and self-regulation.

That, in fact, did not happen. Trump made it plain that his delight in domination was the immutable core of him. Marc Fisher, who co-authored “Trump Revealed,” an astute early biography and character analysis, once told PBS that, as a cadet, Trump “used a broomstick as a weapon against classmates who didn’t listen to him when he told them what to do. He was in part enforcing the rules of the academy, but he was equally so enforcing the rules of Donald Trump.”

At home, Trump apprenticed with his father, collecting rents and learning the finer points of discriminatory housing. He eventually came under the tutelage of the attorney and sybarite Roy Cohn. What lessons Trump learned from Cohn were entirely malevolent: Never show weakness. Never apologize, never explain. Attack, never defend. Engender loyalty through intimidation. With his curious coif and self-satisfied expression, Trump made himself a presence in Page Six. Indecency and aggression were his brand. Cruel, narcissistic, duplicitous—the list is long and by now so familiar that even some of Trump’s supporters concede that his most poisonous attributes are, to use the D.C. lingo, baked into the cake.

In 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in the New York papers after the arrest of five Black and Latino teen-agers who became known as the Central Park Five. (Their convictions for rape were eventually overturned.) His screed resonates as a credo today:

Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes. . . . I recently watched a newscast trying to explain the “anger in these young men.” I no longer want to understand their anger. I want them to understand our anger. I want them to be afraid.

The ad led Murray Kempton, New York’s greatest columnist, to consider the spectacle of Trump—“the man demeans anything he touches—” as he moved through the big city:

To boast of hating used to be an embarrassment for the worst of people. I knew the Birmingham police commissioner who jailed [the civil-rights activist] Fred Shuttlesworth, again and again. He was always a mean man and now and then a vicious one, but he went to his grave denying that he had ever hated anyone. Time was when people who sent hate letters had the shame to keep themselves anonymous.

But not Trump. His insistence on a message of contempt was not something that he concealed. To the contrary, his hunger for attention was, then as now, embodied by his preposterous signature. As a businessman, he was often accused of cheating his contractors; as the star of “The Apprentice,” he was himself only more so, a puffed-up cartoon C.E.O. who relished making his would-be employees stammer, quake, and cry. As a Presidential candidate, he made his world view clear: there was “us” and there was “them.” And, with him in the White House, the fear factor would prevail. (Or, as he once told Bob Woodward, “Real power is—I don’t even want to use the word—fear.”)

“I’m scared,” a twelve-year-old girl in North Carolina told Trump during his first Presidential campaign. “What are you going to do to protect this country?”

“You know what, darling?” Trump said. “You’re not going to be scared anymore. They’re going to be scared.”

Six months into his second term, Trump has made it evident who “they” are; the population of the unnerved is diverse. (If that word is still legal.) It includes immigrants, university presidents, media executives, the heads of cultural institutions, librarians, scholars, scientists, trans people, government contractors, and dedicated federal employees. Some suffer for the President’s pique and are deported in handcuffs and leg-irons. Some are forced to pay millions in tribute in order to go on conducting scientific research or broadcasting the news. Others must hire lawyers to fend off phony accusations of treason. In Congress, fear keeps the Republican majority in line and causes all too many Democrats to mind their language. Trump once derided his own Secretary of State and national-security adviser as “Little Marco,” and he has been an entirely obedient satrap ever since. The Cabinet is a quivering collection of yea-sayers.

This response brings the President no end of titillation. “They’re all bending and saying, ‘Sir, thank you very much,’ ” he bragged, after certain law firms started making their pitiful arrangements with the White House. “They’re just saying, ‘Where do I sign?’ ”

Fortunately, there are encouraging instances of self-possession in various corners of the country. There are civil-rights groups and judges who have refused Trump’s most blatant challenges to the rule of law. Some artists, too, have set an example. Lately, there is Amy Sherald, who withdrew her solo show scheduled for September at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., rather than have her painting “Trans Forming Liberty” “contextualized” by an accompanying video. And then came Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s still vital, still scabrous “South Park,” which recently ran an episode about a naked President, his shortcomings pitilessly exposed.

But, even as Trump’s disapproval ratings climb, the Democratic Party continues to languish; its leadership is woefully scattered and deficient. Still, resolve comes in many forms. Cartoon bullies do not inevitably prevail. If individuals and institutions can muster that resolve in far greater numbers, neither will this President.

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How the Constant Noise Distracts From the True Peril of Trump’s Misrule

His policies are making Americans less safe, less healthy, and more dead.

By Robert L. Borosage | August 4, 2025

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-corruption-climate-ch
ange-pandemics-greed/

Epstein’s list, charging Obama with “treason,” on and off Liberation Day tariffs, thuggish ICE raids and its global gulag, abetting Gaza horrors, bullying Columbia, brazen corruption, gelding law firms, depriving millions of healthcare while larding more tax cuts on the wealthy, Truth Social fulminations and lies—the daily Trump grotesqueries drive the headlines, troll the liberals, foul the public debate and trample the laws and the Constitution.

The constant noise often distracts from the true perils of Trump’s misrule. At a time when this country faces ever more threatening interlocking crises, Trump is perversely exacerbating the most dangerous threats to our nation’s security, a dereliction of duty that will cost lives and wreak ever greater destruction.

For example, the congressional presentation of the Annual Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment in March was consumed with the brouhaha over Defense Secretary Hegseth’s reckless “Signal call.”

In its overview, with new prominence accorded drug cartels in otherwise routine reviews of the threats posed by Islamic terrorists, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, no mention was made of the two most deadly security threats to Americans—catastrophic climate change and global pandemics.

Climate change had been included for over a decade. Astounded at the omission, Maine Senator August King asked, “Has climate change been solved? Why is that not in this report?” Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, who has debauched the office to cater to the president’s whims, replied that while “we are aware of occurrences within the environment…. we’re focused on direct threats to American safety.”

Over the past 10 years, the US has been hit by 190 separate billion-dollar disasters, that killed more than 6,300 people and cost an estimated $1.4 trillion in damage. This year, fires in California, 200 million suffering under record “heat domes,” more than 120 dead in central Texas Hill country from flash floods. Record temperatures are producing blackouts, buckling roads and filling emergency rooms. Yet somehow this doesn’t count as a “direct threat to American safety.”

And as any sane person knows, the loss of lives and property will get worse. For example, drought has led to increasing draining of groundwater, leaving millions short of water, and, among other effects, sinking cities—New York, Denver, and Houston among them—threatening havoc in everything from building safety to transit. This real and present national security threat demands an all-of-government mobilization—more intelligence on what’s happening, accelerated transition to renewable energy and energy efficiency, a massive investment in adaptation and resilience to offer greater protection from inevitable calamities, greater global coordination to deal with accelerating dislocation.

Instead, the Trump administration isn’t just ignoring the threat; it is literally dismantling our capacity to address it. Trump calls climate change an “expensive hoax” and has made it part of his assault on “wokism,” scorning “climate lunatics” while suggesting that rising seas would create “more oceanfront properties.”

On his first day in office, he declared a national energy emergency to open the way to more production of coal and oil, even as the US is producing more oil than any nation in history. His EPA is now moving to repeal the 2009 finding that climate change poses a danger to the public which would revoke the grounds for addressing it. The administration will no longer track the major sources of greenhouse gases. “We’re not doing that climate change, you know, crud, anymore,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox Business in May.

His administration has launched an all-out government effort to weaken or eliminate the programs that address it. He took the US out of the Paris Climate Accord and moved to defund the Biden initiatives on alternative energy. As the US and the world suffer the hottest years on record, Trump is dismantling the capacity needed to track the growing threat, gutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s chief climate agency responsible for weather forecasting, slashing capacity at the National Weather Service. The White House moved to dismantle FEMA—the Federal Emergency Management Agency—that deals with weather catastrophes and defunded its program to pay for infrastructure that would help limit disaster damage. Even after backing away from that, FEMA’s dysfunction puts more and more Americans facing catastrophe at risk. And, of course, Trump is assiduously pursuing the oil industries wish list, as he promised when he dunned oil executives for a billion in campaign contributions.

While he is putting lives and property at greater risk, Trump is ceding to China the industries of the future—from solar to wind to electric vehicles to batteries and storage. China will dominate the coming industrial revolution. Trump’s climate denial is an astonishing dereliction of the president’s primary duty to protect and defend the country and its citizens.

Global Pandemics

Covid-19, the deadliest disaster in US history, took the lives of over 1 million Americans, the most of any country in the world and left millions more impaired from long Covid. An estimated 40 percent of those deaths might have been averted if the US response had corresponded to that of other high-income countries.

Americans died in greater numbers in part because of our degraded public health system, exacerbated by the number of people without health insurance. Contradictory public policy—masks, no masks; overselling vaccines—sapped public confidence. Trump’s risible public interjections—predicting the disease would magically disappear, recommending injection of a household disinfectant, pushing responsibility to the states, touting and then souring on vaccines and more—surely contributed.

Pandemics have never been part of the National Threat Assessment, but it is hard to find a greater and more direct ongoing threat to Americans. The potential spread of deadly pandemics is an inevitable product of the modern world—with more international travel, greater urbanization, greater human encroachment on nature. Last year, H5NI bird flu ravaged US chicken farms, and threatened to infect humans. This year witnessed this country’s worst spread of measles this century.

The threat surely demands a strengthening of our public health system, a guarantee of health insurance to all, and a stronger commitment to strengthening global public health programs and alarm systems. International cooperation, greater research early warning capacity and education are vital. Surely a basic first step would be a nonpartisan evaluation of our response to the Covid pandemic, probing the mistakes that were made, the lessons that could be learned, the reforms needed to prepare better for the next challenge.

Perversely, Trump has chosen not to strengthen the institutions tasked with addressing the threat but to lay waste to them. No doubt resentful that his mishandling of Covid contributed to his defeat in 2020, he appears to be retaliating against our public health institutions.

On taking office, he announced that the US would leave the World Health Organization and withdrawing funding for the organization. He eliminated the Directorate of Global Health Security that coordinates government efforts from the National Security Council. The closing of USAID resulted in deep cuts in global health programs, reductions built into his 2026 budget request. His spending legislation will strip an estimated 17 million Americans of health insurance coverage. His HHS Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr., fired thousands of HHS employees, decimated the FDA, and dismissed the experts on the CDC’s federal vaccination committee, while elevating charlatans and crackpots. NIH and America’s health research programs have also been slashed. The content of the threat assessment was largely ignored. Now the supposed head of the White House Office of Pandemic Prevention and Response Policy has resigned after six months—and it turns out he was never appointed in the first place. The office is leaderless.

This isn’t a sideshow; it is not cutting waste and fraud. It is putting the lives of Americans at risk in the face of real and present dangers. If Trump does pull the US out of WHO, for example, as Gordon Brown notes, US officials—including those stationed abroad—will lose access to its global networks that collect information about infectious threats and respond to outbreaks. Already, with the H5NI bird flu the absence of adequate testing and reporting makes it impossible to know the extent of the threat.

“We have not even remotely maintained the level of pandemic preparedness—which needed a lot of work, as we saw from the Covid pandemic,” reports Angela Rasmussen, an American virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. “But now, we essentially have no pandemic preparedness.”

Trump’s ruinous policies extend to other elements of the polycrisis. His tax policies and wanton corruptions only exacerbate the obscene inequality that is corrupting our democracy. The preposterous “golden dome”—his recycled version of Reagan’s Star Wars fantasy—and his relish for a “mad man” theory of the presidency only add to the precariousness of a tripolar nuclear arms race that now includes China, a new generation of nuclear weapons, a collapse of virtually all arms control arrangements. This list can go on.

While cursing his supporters for fixating on the Epstein flip-flop, Trump claimed that “we are about to achieve more in six months than any other Administration has achieved in over 100 years.” And no question, in unleashing masked ICE thugs in warrantless raids on American streets, terrorizing government employees, larding tax cuts on the rich while taking food from children, fostering a new era of Gilded Age corruption, Trump has been an “impactful” president. What’s also clear after six months is that his policies are making Americans more vulnerable to real and present threats to our security, making people, as Rasmussen summarized, less safe, less healthy, and more dead.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

But that's false information.

I wish I saved all the research I did and posted here or Jaynez could find it. I spent 6 hours doing math on top of all of the numbers I sourced from both government websites and independent sources. It's all listed out with all my work on this website somewhere.
I admire your digressions.

There's plenty of citations.

You, however, provide none that lead back to anybody other than so-called "experts" that get everything wrong, all the time.

You worry about your dead party or it's not going to matter in the slightest what Trump's popularity is come election day, mkay?

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There is no gentle way to say this. A Trumptard I knew had melanoma. When I told him what I see, he said that since I wasn't a doctor, it wasn't cancer. Time passes and the Trumptard dies from melanoma that metastasized. 6ix, Trump is cancer and that is as plain to see as a cancer growing on a Trumptard's face.

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Your stories are bullshit and nobody believes anything you say.

Say hi to Kevin Drum for me.

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How the Constant Noise Distracts From the True Peril of Trump’s Misrule

So shut the fuck up already.

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Interesting.

I wish somebody could dig up those calcs.

I did the same for EVs v regular gasoline engines. Since mpg depends so much on the weight of the vehicle and the traffic, I compared the efficiency of an EV (efficiency of electricity generation, efficiency of transmission, efficiency of charging, electric motor efficiency ranges) versus efficiency of typical gasoline burning engines (engine efficiency, transmission efficiency etc). EVs had a slight ... and I mean slight ... edge over gasoline engines, but it wasn't a slam dunk.

I know when we had solar installed, it had passed the breakeven point only maybe eight years before. (It takes a helluvalotta energy to melt all that quartz to form those big crystals, yanno?)
Maybe that thin film solar that they've been researching for 30 years will finally become a reality.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

Don't know if you saw my last reply that got buried under Second's daily bouts of TDS.

It's up there after your post.

Found this just today too.

Why Nuclear Tops Renewables in Almost Every Way

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/08/05/why_nuclear_tops_rene
wables_in_almost_every_way_1125457.html

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 4:13 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

My big beef with nuclear is nuclear waste and safety. Germany shut down its reactors after Fukushima ... which is still hemorrhaging nuclear waste into the ocean.

Every nation that has nuclear reactors has had a major accident

UK, Windscale fire, 1957. #5 Apparently bits of highly radioactive pieces were still being found in local beach sand as recently as 10 years ago. Covered up by the government.

USA has a long and storied history of mishandling radioactive materials and processes, including

* The meltdown of an experimental reactor in the Santa Susanna Mountains, just outside of LA (1959) # unrated
America’s Worst Nuclear Disaster Was in California. Who Knew? https://www.engineering.com/americas-worst-nuclear-disaster-was-in-cal
ifornia-who-knew/

* Rocky Flats, near Denver, fires resulting in widespread contamination of the area with plutonium
The Nuclear Legacy of Rocky Flats: Health, Contamination Concerns Linger
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2023/04/the-nuclear-legacy-of-rocky-
flats-health-contamination-concerns-linger/53105/

* The horror that is Hanford in Washington State
The radioactive legacy of the Hanford nuclear reservation will live on, even as plans for cleanup evolve
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/12/hanford-radioactive-nuclear-ric
hland-washington-plutonium-world-war-2-manhattan-project/

But most people know about
Three Mile Island (1979) #5

Ukraine, USSR
Chernobyl (1986) #7

France, with its reliance on nuclear power, has had many accidents

Fukushima,
Daichi (2011) #7

Many more around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_count
ry

One possible fix is to make the reactors smaller, which makes them easier to control and safer. You lose economies of scale but hopefully have a better track record.

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The government let me kiss nuclear waste.

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Found this just today too.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

https://bsky.app/profile/theonion.com/post/3lv4osdqjc22z

"At press time, Democratic strategists were reportedly looking for new ways to appeal to the essential pedophile voting bloc to avoid a disastrous midterm election."

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The Paranoid Style in American Economics

Remember, every accusation is a confession

By Paul Krugman | Aug 05, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-paranoid-style-in-american-econ
omics

In economist-speak, Friday’s jobs report brought the “hard data” into line with the “soft data.” Before Friday, anecdotal evidence and independent surveys generally pointed to an economy facing major headwinds as a result of erratic policy, but official employment numbers still said that growth was solid.

On Friday, however, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported weak job growth in July and, more important, revised down its estimates for May and June. The official numbers now show a slowing economy — not a recession, at least yet, but a marked slowdown. Here’s the three-month moving average of job growth:

Most economists found this report entirely credible. The BLS has a sterling reputation for careful, objective analysis, and as I said, Friday’s report brought the official estimates into line with other evidence. What about those revisions? As Jared Berstein explained in a Substack post yesterday, revisions are normal. Without getting too deep into the weeds, the BLS wants to be timely, so it issues preliminary reports based on incomplete data, then routinely revises them as more data come in. Revisions tend to be especially large around turning points; what we saw Friday is exactly what we’d expect if the economy is in fact experiencing a significant slowdown, which would show up more strongly in revised data than in the initial reports.

But Donald Trump screamed “conspiracy” and fired the head of the BLS, because of course he did:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Last weeks Job's Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged. That's why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats. Those big adjustments were made to cover up, and level out, the FAKE political numbers that were CONCOCTED in order to make a great Republican Success look less stellar!!! I will pick an exceptional replacement. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAGA!
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I don’t want to spend much time debunking Trump’s claim that there was a conspiracy to make the job numbers look bad. Suffice it to say that rigging the job numbers would be a complicated process, requiring the cooperation of many people, and we’d almost surely have whistleblowers telling us that it was happening. In fact, we will know that it’s happening when, as seems highly likely, Trump’s people politicize the BLS.

And as I said, independent indicators also point to a job slowdown. For example, Automatic Data Processing, which does many companies’ payrolls, produces independent estimates of private employment. People I know who follow these things closely consider ADP’s numbers noisy and less reliable than BLS, but if BLS were rigging the numbers to hide the glories of the Trump economy, we’d expect to see that hidden Trump boom in the ADP estimates. We don’t:

So Trump’s claim that disappointing economic numbers are fake news disseminated by radical leftists is ugly nonsense. But it was also predictable. Claiming that economic data you don’t like is fraud perpetrated by a deep state conspiracy has been standard practice on the right for a long time, going back to the “inflation truthers” of the Obama years.

Here's the story: U.S. unemployment soared in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. To mitigate the slump, the Obama administration enacted a fiscal stimulus program, while the Federal Reserve engaged in “quantitative easing” — roughly speaking, printing a lot of money.

Many on the right went wild, insisting that these moves would lead to runaway inflation, even hyperinflation. More or less Keynesian economists like me, however, dismissed these warnings. Our models said that in a depressed economy with high unemployment expansionary fiscal and monetary policy would not be inflationary — in fact, I warned that the Obama stimulus was much too small.

The Keynesians were right. Here, for example, is a comparison of the “monetary base” — bank reserves plus currency in circulation — with consumer prices in the aftermath of the financial crisis:

The big inflation Obama critics predicted just didn’t happen.

But rather than admit that they had been wrong and rethink their economic models, many on the right insisted that runaway inflation actually was happening, but that government statisticians were hiding the ugly truth. For a while many right-wingers were eagerly citing quack analysts — sort of the economics equivalent of anti-vaxxers or climate deniers — to support outlandish claims about inflation. And I’m talking about influential voices, not obscure fringe figures. For example, in 2010 the historian Niall Ferguson, whom many still consider an important public intellectual, insisted that the official numbers were wrong and “double-digit inflation is back.” As far as I know, he has never owned up to his mistake.

By the way, this isn’t a case of “everybody does it.” When inflation temporarily surged under Joe Biden, I’m not aware of any Democratic-leaning economist, inside or outside the administration, who denied the reality of the inflation numbers, let alone attributed them to a political conspiracy. The paranoid style in American economics is very much a right-wing thing.

And because on today’s right every accusation is a confession, I predicted even before Trump took office that his administration would do what he falsely accused Democrats of doing, and begin manipulating economic data.

However, even I didn’t expect Trump to react to the very first bad jobs number of his administration by summarily firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nor did I expect Trump officials to be so blatant about their intention of politicizing the statistical agency.

But that’s what they’re doing. It took just hours for Trump’s chief economist to endorse his conspiracy theories and declare the administration’s intention to replace BLS staff with political loyalists. On CNBC Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, said that “All over the U.S. government, there have been people who have been resisting Trump everywhere they can” and declared that “To make sure that the data are as transparent and as reliable as possible, we’re going to get highly qualified people in there that have a fresh start and a fresh set of eyes on the problem.”

I assume that I’m not the only economist already looking for alternative data sources that we can use to figure out what’s happening behind the façade of the Potemkin economy Trump will surely try to create.

The thing is, Trump’s refusal to accept bad economic news and his likely attempt to corrupt official data probably won’t fool many people. But he is, of course, surrounded by people who will tell him what he wants to hear, so he may succeed in fooling himself. And this means that when the economy starts to have serious problems, Trump won’t even admit that bad things are happening, let alone make a serious effort to fix those problems.

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Don't know if you saw my last reply that got buried under Second's daily bouts of TDS.

It's up there after your post.

Found this just today too.

Why Nuclear Tops Renewables in Almost Every Way

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/08/05/why_nuclear_tops_rene
wables_in_almost_every_way_1125457.html

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6ix, you and Signym are reinventing the wheel. Why don't either of you check what has already been done before you try to reinvent a solution?

100% Clean Electricity by 2035 Study

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/100-percent-clean-electricity-by-2035-st
udy

An NREL study shows there are multiple pathways to 100% clean electricity by 2035 that would produce significant benefits exceeding the additional power system costs.

For the study, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, NREL modeled technology deployment, costs, benefits, and challenges to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035, evaluating a range of future scenarios to achieve a net-zero power grid by 2035.

The exact technology mix and costs will be determined by research and development, among other factors, over the next decade. The results are published in Examining Supply-Side Options To Achieve 100% Clean Electricity by 2035. https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf

To examine what it would take to achieve a net-zero U.S. power grid by 2035, NREL leveraged decades of research on high-renewable power systems, from the Renewable Electricity Futures Study, to the Storage Futures Study, to the Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study, to the Electrification Futures Study, and more.

NREL stands for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory focused on research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Located in Golden, Colorado, NREL works with private partners to transfer these technologies to the marketplace.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 7:25 AM

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Don't know if you saw my last reply that got buried under Second's daily bouts of TDS.

It's up there after your post.

Found this just today too.

Why Nuclear Tops Renewables in Almost Every Way

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/08/05/why_nuclear_tops_rene
wables_in_almost_every_way_1125457.html

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6ix, you and Signym are reinventing the wheel. Why don't either of you check what has already been done before you try to reinvent a solution?

100% Clean Electricity by 2035 Study

https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/100-percent-clean-electricity-by-2035-st
udy

An NREL study shows there are multiple pathways to 100% clean electricity by 2035 that would produce significant benefits exceeding the additional power system costs.

For the study, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, NREL modeled technology deployment, costs, benefits, and challenges to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035, evaluating a range of future scenarios to achieve a net-zero power grid by 2035.

The exact technology mix and costs will be determined by research and development, among other factors, over the next decade. The results are published in Examining Supply-Side Options To Achieve 100% Clean Electricity by 2035. https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf

To examine what it would take to achieve a net-zero U.S. power grid by 2035, NREL leveraged decades of research on high-renewable power systems, from the Renewable Electricity Futures Study, to the Storage Futures Study, to the Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study, to the Electrification Futures Study, and more.

NREL stands for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. It is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory focused on research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Located in Golden, Colorado, NREL works with private partners to transfer these technologies to the marketplace.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

How long did it take California to make that new space age rail system and how many billions of dollars did it cost?

Oh... Right...

They spent the Billions but they didn't lay a single track.

How many new charging stations did we make with the $1.5 Trillion dollar infrastructure bill?

How are you going to fuel 5 to 10 Million more EVs in California when they can't even keep the electricity on all the time when A/C usage is high during the summer?

SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS!!!!!

Fuck your lies by "experts".

Also known as the Appeal to Authority Fallacy. It's your bread and butter and it doesn't work on anyone anymore.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 7:52 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

How long did it take California to make that new space age rail system and how many billions of dollars did it cost?

Oh... Right...

They spent the Billions but they didn't lay a single track.

How many new charging stations did we make with the $1.5 Trillion dollar infrastructure bill?

How are you going to fuel 5 to 10 Million more EVs in California when they can't even keep the electricity on all the time when A/C usage is high during the summer?

SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS!!!!!

Fuck your lies by "experts".

Also known as the Appeal to Authority Fallacy. It's your bread and butter and it doesn't work on anyone anymore.

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Trump feels the same way you do about experts. He heard your complaints and moved immediately to cut the experts:

Trump, Congressional Republicans propose big cuts for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

August 4, 2025

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/08/04/trump-congressional-republicans
-propose-cuts-western-renewable-energy-labs-research/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 8:07 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

How long did it take California to make that new space age rail system and how many billions of dollars did it cost?

Oh... Right...

They spent the Billions but they didn't lay a single track.

How many new charging stations did we make with the $1.5 Trillion dollar infrastructure bill?

How are you going to fuel 5 to 10 Million more EVs in California when they can't even keep the electricity on all the time when A/C usage is high during the summer?

SOLAR FREAKIN' ROADWAYS!!!!!

Fuck your lies by "experts".

Also known as the Appeal to Authority Fallacy. It's your bread and butter and it doesn't work on anyone anymore.

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Trump feels the same way you do about experts. He heard your complaints and moved immediately to cut the experts:

Trump, Congressional Republicans propose big cuts for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Excellent.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 8:17 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Excellent.

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Trump is also cutting funding for the healthcare of angry poor white trash with diabetes who abuse substances such as tobacco and illegal drugs.

Special for 6ixStringJack: Despite frustrated men rallying behind a president who promises to restore them (and America) to their former glory, a peek over the tech horizon doesn’t suggest a golden age for the postfeminist American male.

Such men generally find themselves in worse health than women, job or no job: They are sicker, they become addicted to drugs and alcohol more regularly, they go to the doctor less often, and they die earlier. The male loneliness epidemic has by now been well covered. And as it stands, more than 10 percent of prime-age working men in America are out of the workforce and not even looking for jobs. Add that to the 3.5 percent who are unemployed, and roughly 1 in every 8 American men between 25 and 54 isn’t working.

Unemployment in men is concentrated among those without college degrees and overrepresented among those whose lives go badly off the rails: those who wind up in jail, or struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, or dying the now-notorious “deaths of despair” that have ravaged working-class communities (suicides, overdoses). Correlation, of course, is not causation, and it stands to reason that men who struggle with addiction or impulse control probably also struggle to stay employed. But one study published in 2024 found a strong link between these deaths and a combination of unemployment and social disengagement — stronger, even, than psychological and economic distress.

More about 6ixStringJack and his abysmal future before an early death at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/ai-future-men-crisis-lonel
iness-unemployment.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 10:05 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Donald Trump just debunked his own lie — and it should get him sued

By Sabrina Haake | August 05, 2025 | 08:14AM ET
Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney

https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-lie-debunked/

Presidents are not immune from civil prosecution

Dr. Erika McEntarfer, a widely respected statistician, enjoyed bipartisan support, including confirmation votes from Marco Rubio and JD Vance. Appointed BLS commissioner under the Biden administration, she holds a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech, and served at the Census Bureau for two decades under both parties prior to her BLS appointment.

By federal law, McEntarfer’s appointment ends in 2028. Trump fired her anyway because he was embarrassed by jobs data that didn't match his own hype.

Trump slurred McEntarfer based on his own “opinion” to avoid defamation liability, but an opinion that implies a false fact is still defamatory, it is still actionable, and presidents are not immune from civil lawsuits for defamation.

The four legal elements of defamation are easily found here: false statement; publication; negligence in repeating the falsehood; and reputational harm.

A president has immunity from civil lawsuits only for actions taken in furtherance of his core constitutional powers. One of the main “core constitutional powers” of a president is ensuring the faithful execution of laws, such that acting to impede the execution of federal law would fall outside core official responsibilities.

Trump knowingly and intentionally lied about the BLS commissioner in a manner that directly conflicts with the Department of Labor’s statutory mission; as such, it was not a “core Constitutional function.” Announcing that previous labor reports were “falsified” causes immediate reputational harm to the Commissioner, the Department of Labor, and the US economy overall. It directly impedes the accurate compilation of labor data, a charge mandated by the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act.

By implicitly directing that all future US data should be falsified to suit his own political narrative, Trump’s statements not only harm America’s economy, but they hinder rather than aid the faithful execution of laws.

As McEntarfer’s predecessor puts it, McEntarfer’s “totally groundless firing” sets a dangerous precedent and “undermines the statistical mission of the bureau.”

“We need accurate Jobs Numbers,” Trump told reporters, suggesting McEntarfer’s jobs numbers weren’t.

“She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he added, suggesting McEntarfer was neither.

Missing the risible irony as he seeks manipulated jobs data for his own political purposes, Trump added, “Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate; they can’t be manipulated for political purposes.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 11:47 AM

THG

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Nothing is happening.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 2:27 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Yanno, you two guys .... you know who you are... spend way too many posts on the irrelevant. So even if you land on something important, it get swamped in so much bullshit and hyperventilation that you dilute your own point.

Honestly, I don't care about Trump's supposed "tax cheating". There are so many loopholes in the tax code that NO wealthy person with a decent tax lawyer pays much in taxes. AFA Trump's past alleged criminal acts ... well, that's between Trump and law enforcement. Bill Clinton has more in his past than Trump, and even when Clinton was President my concern wasn't about his "character" but about his connections and policies.

So, about Trump's performance and policies

What concerns me is his overall erratic, irascible, thoughtless reactions, especially in foreign policy, but domestic policy as well.

Trump, IMHO, is behaving like a man running scared. He's afraid to confront the neocon Graham-Blumenthal cabal in the Senate. He's desperate to take credit for anything positive (he "ended" five or six wars already!) and desperate to end the war in Ukraine without having a defeat on his record. (An impossibility.) By sending more weapons to Ukraine and putting himself in the middle, "Biden's war" is becoming Trump's war, and his base is getting fed up.

He's running around the world, shaking down any nation that he can, and making "deals" like the mineral deal in Ukraine and the trade deal in the EU that -literally- can't happen in the real world. Imposing tariffs on the world that will eventually boomerang on the USA. Threatening secondary tariffs (sanctions) on Russia's trade partners - China, India, and Brazil - that appear to be driving the BRICS nations together to de-dollarize.

Joining Israel in attacking Iran and torpedoing a perfectly reasonable nuclear deal. Supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Worse, refusing to begin START renegotiations.

Promising debt reduction then gifting the DOD with a trillion dollars.

WTF????

There are many positive things being done, but where Trump is directly involved all hell is breaking loose. It's as if he's being pressured, bit by bit, away from his original intentions. Something is going seriously wrong.

Some say he's slipping, mentally. (PTSD can push a marginal neurology over the edge.) Some say he's being blackmailed by Epstein info. Some say he's playing the madman and playing 5D chess (not sure that makes sense). Whatever the cause, his avowed foreign policy is making a giant U turn.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 3:59 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Thank you, Tulsi!
And thank you, Pam Bondi!

Quote:
DOJ To Present Russiagate Hoax To A Grand Jury For Criminal Charges

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-present-russiagate-hoax-grand-
jury-criminal-charges

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"Constant monitoring of behavior, emotion, and identity breeds conformity, judgment, and fear."

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 5:08 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Nothing is happening.

Be sure to tell Tim Walz's wife that it's not burning tires, it doesn't smell like freedom, and to keep the fucking windows shut.

The A/C is on.

Thank you. That is all.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 5:37 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Excellent.

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Trump is also cutting funding for the healthcare of angry poor white trash with diabetes who abuse substances such as tobacco and illegal drugs.

Special for 6ixStringJack: Despite frustrated men rallying behind a president who promises to restore them (and America) to their former glory, a peek over the tech horizon doesn’t suggest a golden age for the postfeminist American male.

Such men generally find themselves in worse health than women, job or no job: They are sicker, they become addicted to drugs and alcohol more regularly, they go to the doctor less often, and they die earlier. The male loneliness epidemic has by now been well covered. And as it stands, more than 10 percent of prime-age working men in America are out of the workforce and not even looking for jobs. Add that to the 3.5 percent who are unemployed, and roughly 1 in every 8 American men between 25 and 54 isn’t working.

Unemployment in men is concentrated among those without college degrees and overrepresented among those whose lives go badly off the rails: those who wind up in jail, or struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, or dying the now-notorious “deaths of despair” that have ravaged working-class communities (suicides, overdoses). Correlation, of course, is not causation, and it stands to reason that men who struggle with addiction or impulse control probably also struggle to stay employed. But one study published in 2024 found a strong link between these deaths and a combination of unemployment and social disengagement — stronger, even, than psychological and economic distress.

More about 6ixStringJack and his abysmal future before an early death at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/ai-future-men-crisis-lonel
iness-unemployment.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Yup. And your party was responsible for all of that.

Want a cookie?

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 8:38 PM

THG

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Thank you, Tulsi!
And thank you, Pam Bondi!

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DOJ To Present Russiagate Hoax To A Grand Jury For Criminal Charges

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-present-russiagate-hoax-grand-
jury-criminal-charges

MAGA is full of pedophiles comrade and you are without morels. Bet, Tulsi and Bondi will get destroyed by the intel report led by Marco Rubio.

Senators stand by 2016 Russia election meddling report despite Gabbard’s claims

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senators-stand-by-2016-russia-
election-meddling-report-despite-gabbard-s-claims/ar-AA1J8cZI?ocid=BingNewsSerp

T

Trump Goes NUCLEAR After FOX News Epstein Footage SURFACES!!!

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 9:05 PM

Oh yeah, Ted. Somebody run a compilation of tranny clownshows where kids were in attendance over the last 5 years.

None of them voted Republican. And all your college "educated" brainwashed kids were perfectly fine with that behavior.

Don't pretend like you have any moral high ground on this issue. All the kid-diddling and woman-raping people making our movies (propaganda) in Hollywood all vote Democrat too.

This is one of those issues where you should just follow my lead and shut the fuck up and see how it all plays out.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 9:15 PM

THG

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Oh yeah, Ted. Somebody run a compilation of tranny clownshows where kids were in attendance over the last 5 years.

None of them voted Republican. And all your college "educated" brainwashed kids were perfectly fine with that behavior.

Don't pretend like you have any moral high ground on this issue. All the kid-diddling and woman-raping people making our movies (propaganda) in Hollywood all vote Democrat too.

This is one of those issues where you should just follow my lead and shut the fuck up and see how it all plays out.

Somebody huh. You're a fucking moron. Cites asshole...

T

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025 9:16 PM