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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle September 13 2023 #142985
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    In Fate of Empires Glubb identifies the following stages of empire:
    – The Age of Pioneers
    – The Age of Conquests
    – The Age of Commerce
    – The Age of Affluence
    – The Age of Intellect
    – The Age of Decadence.
    The impossible buildings and tree lined streets were built in the Ages of Commerce and Affluence which were long ago in the US. We are in the Age of Decadence which is marked by
    – Defensiveness
    – Pessimism
    – Materialism
    – Frivolity
    – An influx of foreigners
    – The Welfare State
    – A weakening of religion
    Decadence doesn’t build, it breaks things down. No more great works, just decay. There are plenty of bad actors but they didn’t write the script; This is just how empires go.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 15 2023 #141357
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    A Tale of Two Cosmologies

    * Theism
    – Everything that exists has a cause and the obvious cause for the universe is God the creator
    – The vastness of the universe with its well-ordered galaxies and solar systems is evidence of a divine creator and his purposes
    – The intelligence and self-awareness of man is also evidence of a divine creator
    – Science can explain physical cause and effect but can’t explain where the physical laws came from and is unable to give meaning to our lives
    – There is no conflict between science and religion when properly understood
    – Religion has been instrumental in human progress
    – Religion has improved the lives of countless people; Atheistic societies like Soviet Russia and Maoist China are disasters
    – Without God and an afterlife this life has no meaning; Atheists have no reason to be moral, ethical people; It’s anything goes and they end up committing atrocities
    – Only with the ultimate punishment and rewards from God can men be responsible for their actions and have integrity
    – You can only be free when you know that God exists and live the way he wants you to live
    – Religions are benevolent organization that encourage people to be selfless givers
    – Countless people have had direct experience with God and feel his love
    – The holy scriptures show the historical workings of God among men and are a reliable guide on how to live a moral life
    – Without religion there is no ultimate justice in the universe
    – Atheists are illogical and suffer from cognitive dissonance; Only a major life upheaval like severe illness or death can help them realize the truth; Even then most won’t change
    – Once they die atheists will realize how wrong they were
    – Atheism is closely aligned with far-left liberalism and spoils everything it comes in contact with

    * Atheism
    – The claim that all things have a cause and the cause of the universe must be God is logically inconsistent because it does not explain what caused God
    – The creation and evolution of the cosmos is due to natural laws such as physics and natural selection; Given an infinity of universes one like ours had to exist and we are in it
    – The universe has a trillion galaxies, each with 100 billion stars; The notion that one consciousness comprehends all of this and personally cares about the potentially trillion trillion souls in the galaxy is ridiculous
    – The intelligence and self-awareness of man shows that belief in a divine creator is an unnecessary pablum
    – There are things we still don’t understand about the cosmos but as science advance we understand more and more
    – Theists start from an unscientific, non-falsifiable position and have been wrong about nearly everything; Only as they accept science do they become more correct
    – Religion has always hampered human progress
    – Religion has led and continues to lead to the repression and death of countless people; Religious societies are unerringly repressive and regressive; State sponsored religion is a disaster
    – Theists believe that the next life is more important than this one and discount this life and don’t put in the work needed to make the world a better place; Without God man is forced to confront the issues of ethics and morality and make the hard choices; With God men outsource their morality which gives them license to commit atrocities
    – Theists believe they are always being watched and ultimately rewarded or punished by God; It is impossible for theists to have integrity; They can never act from innate goodness
    – You can only be truly free when you don’t believe in God and realize this is the only life you have
    – Religions are by and large driven by control and making money
    – People’s so called experience with God are not reproducible; They are emotionally driven wishful thinking
    – So-called religious scriptures are not historical, are full of contradictions and immoral stories and are not a good guide to a moral life
    – Religion’s insistence on divine justice makes its adherents less likely to fight for justice here and now
    – Theists are illogical and suffer from cognitive dissonance; Only a major life upheaval like severe illness or death can help them realize the truth; Even then most won’t change
    – Since there is no consciousness after death theists will never know how wrong they were
    – Religion is closely aligned with far-right conservatism and spoils everything it comes in contact with

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 1 2023 #140458
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    * Psy-op-bait Gonzola Lira was tortured and seeks asylum in Hungary

    * Normies think inside the box

    * Africans and Asians are the new wetbacks; The US is offering $10K investment citizenship except you invest in Mexican drug cartels and hope to get US citizenship; Give me your tired of authoritarianism, your poor at accepting the status quo …

    * Ukraine is not the enemy; We have met the enemy and he is U.S.

    * TAE has been shot in the bow by World of Warships; Jim Kunstler believes the hole in the bow can be plugged while at sea

    * Medieval climate change killed a lot of people and animals; I love the smell of napalm in the morning; So gratifying to watch Bradley fighting vehicles destroyed and their crews burned alive

    * Starbucks killed the coffee shops; Uber killed the cabbies; Video killed the radio star; Thanks to technology we will soon need only one musician to entertain the entire world

    * We are all brutal; Western economies don’t add value; Those that can, do; Those that can’t do, skim

    * Some curse the darkness; Some light a candle; Some wait patiently for the great reset and the blight at the end of the tunnel

    * Lyle: I’ve just dribbled my life away
    – Chuck: Hey, it takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age. Most guys would be ashamed, but you’ve got the guts to just say, ”The hell with it.” You’d rather have nothing than settle for less
    – Lyle: l’ve never thought of it that way
    — Ishtar

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 27 2023 #140076
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    * The Daily Covid
    – Vaxxed people get sick more often
    – Cardiac emergencies are mysterious
    – Heat and altitude thicken your blood
    – Catastrophic Contagion is coming for you
    – Dick Durbin’s third bout of Covid: Blather, Wince, Repeat

    * Shower Thoughts:
    – If men and women are more or less the same why do we never hear men complain about a trans-man with full female genitalia wanting to shower with them?
    – Women don’t think strategically and can’t handle world of warships
    – Victoria Nuland is like Ahab; They are both in a relationship with a whale and a peg is involved
    – Fill in the blank with as many answers as apply: _________ trials are untrustworthy; Stop when you get to ten

    * Interesting exercise: Go to ChatGPT and enter: “Describe the person who wrote the following text: ” and then paste in the text of your comment

    * Types of Change
    Relative change: If something goes from 1% to 2% it went up 100%
    Absolute change: If something goes from 1% to 2% it went up 1%
    Chump change: Conflating relative and absolute change

    * Pro-Tip: When scrolling through TAE use the up and down arrow keys and not the scroll bar

    * Time saving synopsis of the CO2 debate:
    – CO2 is up, making things hotter; CO2 is bad
    – Up or not CO2 doesn’t make things hotter; CO2 is good
    – You’re an idiot
    – No, you’re an idiot

    * I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
    Could not follow it in its flight.

    The Russians followed how it flew
    And where it came from they soon knew
    A lancet came to say hello
    And blew to bits my little bow

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 19 2023 #139404
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    * The bad news: climate change may be an extinction level event
    The good news: it’s not caused by burning fossil fuels so let’s use them all while we can

    * Dogs are creatures of their pack; Cats are creatures of their territory; Chickens are creatures of their pecking order

    * The Amish have no autism, no myocarditis, no SIDS, no SADS, no ADHD, but they suck at World of Warcraft, so there

    * The jabbed will never revolt; It is hard for them to kick against the pricks

    * Peak Oil is nonsense; There is more oil now than there ever has been or ever will be

    * The MSM instills fear to survive; They have nothing to fear but the fear having nothing to fear itself

    * My Tucker’s back and you’re gonna be in trouble, hey la, day la, my Tucker’s back

    * The total world debt of $225 trillion divided among the 7.8 billion people on the earth is only about $29K per person; We could eliminate the debt by declaring a jubilee or better yet by having every person on earth sell just one of their kidneys

    * The Europeans are to blame for all our problems; Never trust anyone over 30 degrees latitude

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 17 2023 #139282
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    * Money Equals Intelligence is the new Might Makes Right

    * Climate Change
    – Heat waves are normal; So are heart attacks; Nothing new here
    – Climate change is not runaway; At most its a fast saunter
    – Silicon doping levels, that is, the amount of impurities needed to change pure silicon to either a good conductor of electrons or holes range from 0.01% to 0.00001%; In physical systems a little of certain substances can go a long way

    * Gender
    – Transgendering children = OK; Degendering children = OK; Misgendering adults = Jail time
    – US Math teachers are being told that the X Y coordinate system is offensive and that in the future all math should be done in polar coordinates using ρ and θ

    * The Biden Administration
    – Secretary Yellen plans on another trip to China and will bring the CEO of J P Morgan to back her up; She is billing the trip “Janet in the Sky with Dimon”
    – White House announces Crayola inspired Food Pyramid
    Salmon
    LaserLemon Asparagus
    Almond NeonCarrot CottonCandy

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 16 2023 #139201
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    * What was reported: “Obama said you didn’t build your own business.”
    What he actually said: “Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.”

    * What was reported: “Trump said drink bleach to fight Covid”
    What he actually said: “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.”

    * What was reported: “Pence said American problems are not his concern.”
    What he actually said: “It’s not my concern. … As president of the United States, we’re going to restore law and order in our cities. We’re going to secure our border, we’re going to get this economy moving again. And we’re going to make sure that we have men and women on our courts at every level that will stand for the right to life and defend all the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution. Anybody that says that we can’t be the leader of the free world and solve our problems at home has a pretty small view of the greatest nation on Earth. We can do both.”

    * What was reported: “RFK Jr. said Covid 19 was designed to infect Blacks and Caucasians but to spare the Chinese and Jews”
    What he actually said: “Covid 19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. Covid 19 attacks certain races disproportionately. … We don’t know if it was deliberately targeted like that or not but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential.”

    * Life is a meteor, let your eyes roam
    Heaven is beautiful, it’s almost like home
    Children, get ready, it’s time to come home
    Amen
    Wait – Paul Simon’s Seventh Psalm

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 10 2023 #139200
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 2 2023 #138255
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    * The Daily Covid
    – Viruses take advantage of imprinting
    – Malaria is the new Covid
    – The vaxxed are smoking guns but claim they aren’t inhaling

    * Politics
    – If DC implodes there will be no election; James Cameron says we shouldn’t have made the government out of carbon fiber because it accumulates damage with each election
    – Biden’s new 2024 campaign slogan: More US made weapons for Ukraine! Let’s go Brandish!
    – To fight global warming the Biden administration plans to limit solar radiation to 8000 lumens for verified users and 800 lumens for unverified users
    – Paris to change its name to The City of Fires
    – Gas prices fall when it heats up but will heat up when it’s Fall
    – Higher prices = more energy extraction = we can inflate our way to energy independence

    * Truth
    – Belief perseverance = Tribal cohesion = Just the way the brain works
    – Theories can only be proven false; Nothing is completely true or false; Truth is fuzzy
    – Models are never reliable and can even trip and fall on the runway

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 30 2023 #138111
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    * The Daily Covid
    – The non-vaxxed got the Hypatia treatment
    – US Supreme court nixes college entrance affirmative action except for for the vaxxed
    – I’m not a vaccine expert who died of Covid but I play one on TV
    – Ed Dowd cut himself on Hanlon’s razor
    – Excessive deaths is a non-story unless it happens in a submersible
    – Competent and Reliable is the new Safe and Effective
    – You can’t cure stupid but an mRNA booster is keeping some of them out of the hospital

    * Russia
    – NATO approaches its summit after which it will all be downhill
    – Russia could destroy the west if they wanted to but the west says they don’t want their help
    – Russia is becoming the world’s most powerful military because hard times create strong men and easy times create trans-men
    – Nuclear war will leave Australia as the last man standing on the beach

    * Musk
    – Elon is experiencing shrinkage after swimming in the cold waters of the real reality
    – If Elon tweets in the forest and no one is signed in does it make a sound?

    * Spirituality
    – No way, truth and life is any better than any other way, truth and life
    – Spiritual seeking is escapism
    – It’s time to die; No, it’s time to evolve; Wait, it’s both
    – Dostoevsky became nothing but still wrote The Idiot

    * Random
    – Schlubocracy : Rule by the clumsy, stupid and unattractive
    – Solar panels are delicate creations
    No weapons in space is the world’s prime directive
    – The rumors of Greta’s demise have been greatly exaggerated because they were based on data taken from ice cores extracted near parking lots

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 23 2023 #137597
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    The Last of the Ukrainians

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 21 2023 #137460
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    * Global warming will liquefy slush funds

    * For only $250K you too can have an authentic Titanic steerage experience

    * The misdemeanor charges will vaccinate Hunter Biden against felony indictments
    – “If you are vaccinated you can return to your previous lifestyle while those not vaccinated may experience severe illness and death” – The Big Guy

    * Obama: “The digital watermark will guarantee info authenticity similar to the guarantee of value from a watermark on paper money”

    * Hotez California
    – Relax said the vaxx man, we are programmed to inject
    – You can check out any time you want but you will still be wrecked

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 20 2023 #137417
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    * Politics
    – Patriots and communists are mutually executive
    – Overthrowing a tyrannical government is constitutional but one man’s tyranny is another man’s sovereignty
    – Donald once was a little child, a little child like me
    – Ukraine is a corpse; Black Rock is a hyena; He who laughs last, laughs best
    – Drones are the future of warfare
    – The BRICS are heterocultural, the West is homocultural
    – The US will roll over for Russia and China and expose its soft, dark underbelly
    – The way of things: Monarchy > Democracy > Corporotocracy
    – It all started with apes, bones and a monolith

    * The Environment
    – Don’t shoot the canary
    – Too many people using too many resources is the problem; This is not overshoot because overshoot is just a nasty rumor
    – Forced degrowth, bad; Voluntary degrowth, good; You will choose to have nothing and you will choose to be happy
    – Greta is beating a pale horse

    * Money
    – Billionaires have too much influences
    – Money and war go hand in hand; Love of money is the root of all evil; Love of truth is the root of all good.
    – The death of a billionaire in a submarine is a tragedy, the death of a million from the vaxx is a statistic

    * People
    – Ted K was a μάρτυρας
    – All races have good and bad people, therefore all races are the same
    – TAE is a little fish in big pond and can slip through the net
    – It’s safer to be the president’s son than the son of a president
    – The West is undergoing a slow motion leukocide
    – People need to take matters into their own feeble hands
    – The earth is flat; You are not on the moon; You are not on the sun; Seriously y’all; Stop it.
    – A flash mob of Hamburglars attacks McDonalds
    – If you have a beef with God take it up with him
    – Morality is a survival instinct

    * Covid
    – The vaccines have wrecked the immune systems of the populace
    – ISNAFU – Immune System Normal: All F$$$ed Up
    – Vaccines cause cancer
    – Sanitation is declining. Major influenza headed our way
    – We all have a ticking-time-bomb illness

    * Though everything passes, in the end will be the Word

    * Night, night. Sleep tight. Don’t let the pillow rats bite.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 8 2023 #136475
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    * In support of Ukraine NATO to change name to North Atlantic Zelensky Initiative

    * Lockdowns worked. The vaccines worked. Masks worked. You just need to understand the goal

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 1 2023 #136079
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    * Flowers Gone Wild

    * Pfizer: We had to destroy your immune system in order to save it; TVASSSSSSSSSSSSSF

    * Social Surveillance: Founded by Hitler in April 1925 the WHO in 2023 as a small protection team, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi the WHO movement and became virtually a state within a state, gathering immense police and military powers.

    * A woman’s glass ceiling is a man’s glass floor

    * War and Peace
    – I have not come to bring peace, but a sword – The Prince of Peace
    – Make casseroles, not war
    -Those with kids in the military are biased and should shut up. Those with no kids in the military have no skin in the game and should shut up.

    * EROEI in 2050:
    1.) Oil is no longer scalable
    2.) A drilling technology is not a source of energy
    3.) Not enough readily available oil
    4.) Huge energy inputs to extract oil
    5.) Petroleum projects are enabled by the current solar and wind economy and could not exist without it

    * I just set them up, I don’t bring them down – Jamie Dimon

    * Divergency, Enmity, Intrusion

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 23 2023 #135656
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    @bosco
    “As displayed well in the USA first; China last meme posted above.”

    So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen
    – Jesus

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 15 2023 #135247
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    So Martha’s a symbol for sex
    Her ancient wares splayed on the decks
    The swimsuit sensation
    Once cause titillation
    It now promotes Oedipal wrecks

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 12 2023 #133338
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    * Macron is a tongue sucking fountain of excrement

    * Switzerland blocks the vaxx because:
    – Les vaccinés sont tellement foutus (LVSTF)
    – Die Geimpften sind so geschraubt (DGSSG)
    – I vaccinati sono così fregati (IVSCF)

    * Nothingness
    – A foolish man tries to be good, And is therefore not good. A truly good man does nothing, Yet nothing is left undone – Lao Tzu
    – Without me ye can do nothing – Jesus
    – I know that I know nothing – Plato
    – I know nothing – Sgt. Schultz
    – To do nothing is to be nothing – Nathaniel Hawthorne
    – Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing? – Kamand Kojouri

    * The State of the World
    – Sometime during this century, it is highly likely that worldwide depletion of natural resources will force an entire reorganization of social and economic structures, perhaps violently – Walter Youngquist
    – The jet streams are a mess
    – Earth is becoming one large, toxic garbage can
    – Burning oil and turning it into plastics is a grand experiment with unknown consequences
    – Capitalism is the bull in the candy store
    – The world needs a better plan
    – How long before they face return fire? – Red
    – Just tell me who I need to go shoot – My Friend Dean

    * Democrats will use their legislative strategy in the upcoming presidential election and won’t announce their candidate until 2025. You’ll have to elect their candidate to find out who it is and what their plans are

    * The Russian Volcano Cloud is coming for us all:
    Russian Volcano Man

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 13 2023 #131141
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    * SVB Failure
    – Bonuses just before failure
    – No one, of course, saw this coming.
    – Talkington, Firestone, Saccocia, Harrington: Silicon Valley Girls aka BILFs
    – No one will be prosecuted

    * The Daily Covid
    – COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines destroy the bone marrow
    – Wait ’till folks find out what they’ve really been injected with (crickets)
    – Vaxx was a DOD (previously known as The War Department) project
    – Utopia predicted the pandemic and vaxx
    – No one will be prosecuted

    * Society at Large
    – J6 provided the uniparty with the emergency they needed to shutdown any challenges to certifying Biden as president.
    – When the US dollar is weaponized only the weaponizers will have US dollars
    – Women don’t know what a woman is and don’t know what a man is, or so they claim
    – Collapsio ad Absurdum
    – WAASF

    * J6 Precedent
    On October 31, 1926, a shot fired at Mussolini, who rode in an open car through Bologna, led to the lynching of the 15-year-old boy, Anteo Zamboni. Terrorism specialist J. Bowyer Bell wrote that the boy was likely innocent and the affair either a put-up job or plot between Fascists. The attempt resulted in laws creating Mussolini’s secret police.
    Anteo Zamboni

    * The Vaxx Mentality
    “Stop! Listen to me. We were tricked! We’ve been made to look like fools. But do we want the entire town laughing at us. No! What we have to do is to leave here quietly, tell the others that it was a great show, and try to get all the men of the town to come to see it. Then we’ll all be fools together.”
    From Huck Finn by Mark Twain

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 23 2023 #129703
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    Cool Tombs

    When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin … in the dust, in the cool tombs.

    And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street, cash and collateral turned ashes … in the dust, in the cool tombs.

    Pocahontas’ body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in November or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she remember? … in the dust, in the cool tombs?

    Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries, cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin horns … tell me if the lovers are losers … tell me if any get more than the lovers … in the dust … in the cool tombs.

    — Carl Sandburg

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 29 2023 #127587
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    A Tale of Two Presidents: Biden vs. Trump

    * Biden is a Great President and Trump was an Awful President

    – Biden
    Appointed a diverse cabinet
    Signed executive orders addressing systemic racism and discrimination
    Passed the infrastructure bill to repair roads and bridges and improve internet access
    Reduced the deficit
    Led NATO in its support of Ukraine and opposition to Vladimir Putin
    Lowered the child poverty rate by increasing the tax credit for children
    Launched a program to protect earth from killer asteroids
    Officially recognized Turkish genocide of Armenians in 1915
    Sidelined the court-packing movement of the left
    Stepped up US support for Taiwan
    Announced a historic trilateral security agreement with Australia and Britain to counter Chinese hegemony
    Accelerate Covid vaccine delivery at home an abroad
    Improved the American economy by championing competition and reining in the power of big business which helped create millions of jobs
    Gave Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices and made the price of things like insulin and hearing aids cheaper
    Attacked hunger and fostered better nutrition in the US
    Funded opioid recovery programs
    Eliminated the statute of limitations for child sex abuse
    Tried to reform student loans
    Issued important cybersecurity regulations
    Chose humanity over politics when getting Brittney Griner released

    -Trump
    Colluded with the Russians to get elected in 2016
    Appointed unqualified family members to important positions in his administration
    Tried to ban TikTok
    Withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Accords
    Increased the deficit every year of his presidency
    Approved the Keystone Pipeline through native lands
    Disallowed transgender students from using the bathroom of their choice
    Attacked John McCain as a loser
    Ended curbs on auto emissions
    Cracked down on legal immigrants
    Impeded regulation against toxic chemicals
    Shrank the food safety net so that over 700K Americans lost their access to food stamps
    Suggested vaccines cause autism
    Accused Barack Obama of spying on his campaign
    Cut corporate taxes to the lowest level since 1939
    Oversaw the longest government shutdown in US history
    Acted as a racist and xenophobe when he implemented a travel ban from Muslim countries, blamed the Chinese for Covid, separated families at the US border, tried to build a wall between the US and Mexico and gave racist speeches
    Tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act which would have left millions without healthcare
    Inadequately responded to Covid, downplaying the dangers
    Use his influence as president to try to get Ukraine to provide damaging narratives about his political opponent
    Challenged the outcome of the 2020 election undermining democratic institutions and the public’s trust in elections which led to the events of January 6th and the deaths of 5 people

    * Trump was a Great President and Biden is an Awful President

    – Trump
    Negotiated three Arab-Israeli peace accords
    Fostered a strong economy and stock market by signing into to law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and other policies
    Started the Space Force
    Attempted the first Defense Department wide audit
    Cracked down on unwanted robo-calls
    Attempted to build a wall on the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration
    Helped American farmers with billions of dollars in aid
    Tried to fix health technology by removing rules blocking the sharing of medical information
    Rescinded rules for federal contractors that protected them from sexual harassment claims
    Made it easier to prosecute financial crimes like money laundering
    Renegotiated trade deals with Mexico, Canada and China which benefitted American workers and businesses
    Appointed three Supreme Court justices and many other conservative judges to federal courts leading to pro-Constitutional decisions like the overturning of Roe
    Passed the VA MISSION Act which improved healthcare access and services for veterans
    Oversaw the defeat of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate in Syria and Iraq
    Kept us out of war
    Signed executive orders and laws combating human trafficking

    -Biden
    Opened the borders to illegal immigrants
    Discharged thousands of troops for refusing the Covid vaccine
    Opposed efforts to stop biological males from competing in women’s sports
    Lied about border patrol agents whipping migrants
    Claimed that January 6th rioters were a bigger threat to democracy than Confederates in the Civil War
    Described terrorism from white supremacy as the most lethal threat to the US
    Oversaw the disastrous withdrawal of American troops for Afghanistan
    Mis-handled the response to Covid mandating vaccines and dividing the nation on the basis of vaccination status
    Supported lockdowns and other pandemic polices which damaged the supply chain and the world economy
    Supported violent protesters instead of the police during the BLM riots
    Lied about Hunter’s laptop saying it was Russain disinformation
    Stated that election reform in the new Jim Crow
    Suppressed first amendment rights by influencing policies of social media outlets
    Supported the war in Ukraine and vilified Russia as our enemy
    Blocked American energy production
    Illegally attempted to forgive student loans
    Printed massive amounts of money causing massive inflation

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 22 2023 #126892
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    Scott Adam’s not having much fun
    Admitting the unvaxxed have won
    Instead of impunity
    He’s wrecked his immunity
    Each twinge, and he’ll fear he’s soon done

    Give Ukros our tanks if you will
    And tell them “Now ride forth and kill
    Make sure if there’s snow
    When you seek the foe
    The enemy’s not up a hill”

    Joe Biden is just one of us
    He goofed up; Let’s not make a fuss
    The classified junk
    They find in his trunk
    Will stop once he’s under the bus

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    * Greta arrested; She saved others; Herself she cannot save

    * We support Russia; Russian success now means more for the West to loot later

    * CO2; We’ve reached 480 trillion parts per quintillion; Time to panic

    * Let lying dogs sleep

    * There are three different justice systems: The blindfold for me, the scale for thee and the sword for him

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 14 2023 #126156
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    A Summary in Limericks

    George Santos, the consummate liar
    His hair and his pants are on fire
    So congressmen shout
    “His needs to get out!
    We won’t have him preach to the choir!”

    Ukraine is in NATO defacto
    The plan is proceeding exacto
    While Joe sports a grin
    So sure he will win
    It’s chess, but he’s playing tic-tac-toe

    Diogenes sought a man truthful
    And spoke Cynic dicta forsoothful
    But some have averred
    That what he preferred
    Was fair Cynicesses quite youthful

    The FDA: No tests on people.
    They’re sure that a public asleep’ll
    Accept as precise
    Drugs tested on mice
    Hurt mice won’t sue as might the sheeple

    Jeff Epstein’s death sidestepped his warders
    All unseen by broken recorders
    He sang us no song
    Of all he did wrong
    Of rich men for whom he filled orders

    Jill Stevenson: Married, and yet
    She borrowed her husband’s Corvette
    And did some joy ridin’
    With Senator Biden
    But afterwards … hadn’t yet met

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2023 #125505
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    * Hymn for the Church of Miracle and Wonder

    All things past are cyclical
    All data is a mess
    All our theories have no base
    The best we do is guess

    Each little flow’r that opens,
    Each bird you see today,
    Soon will face extinction,
    Let’s help them on their way

    J6 was two years ago
    They almost seized control
    Made the Viking man our king
    So sad they missed their goal

    Get a booster every year
    Or monthly better yet
    It could make you healthier
    So do it, place your bet

    Wokesters now are waking up
    Their narrative is broke
    Stunning that they’re still asleep
    While claiming to be woke

    Joe’s will visit border towns
    A big political win
    He’ll give aliens ice cream cones
    And sniff their hair and grin

    Fauci showed his face again
    They asked him to opine
    When he opened up his mouth
    I puked a bit in mine

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 7 2023 #125381
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    Suppose someone came to you and said “Take this shot. You’ll be healthier for 6 months but after that your health is permanently impaired.” Would you take it? That is the argument being made about technology and energy usage. It gives us the brief benefit we all enjoy at the expense of those coming 200 years from now and forever after. I love hot showers. The natural reaction is to make it last at least as long as I’m around.

    …….

    Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.
    And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
    And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.
    Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
    And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
    Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 3 2023 #124990
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    Another Rat Problem Update

    Several people have recently been bitten to death in town. The Mayor is claiming they died from rat bites which shows the need for more pet coyotes. Citizens are horrified and some have asked for an examination of the bite marks to see if the victims are possibly being bitten by pet coyotes rather than rats. The mayor refuses to look into this and assures everyone that coyotes don’t bite humans. He cites a study where coyotes were fed rats in the same room as volunteers for an hour and just ate the rats without bothering the people. He has issued a statement saying that those asking about coyote bites are trying to project their unscientific beliefs and are terrible, horrible people.

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    * 2023 Predictions
    – Gold, Bitcoin and seed potatoes will be the best performing investments
    – Biden will send Zelensky the nuclear football for Easter and Ze will threaten to push the red button using his penis on live TV if Russia doesn’t withdraw
    – To get rid of SADS death from the vaxx will be redefined as suicide; Pundits will debate whether people chose to get the vaxx or whether they were born that way
    – Oil will be priced in Yuan but Ipecac will still be priced in dollars; Only the rich will be able to afford gasoline and only electric cars and Hummers will be seen on the road
    – Crickets and worms will replace beef in the American diet; Conspiracy theorists will claim that crickets and worms fart too but posts saying this will be banned from all social media
    – ChatGPT will identify as a purple tele-sexual autistic quadruple amputee and will replace Karine Jean-Pierre as White House Press Secretary; ChatGPT will be hurled into the void when Peter Doocy asks its favorite color and it can’t decide

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    Brief Rat Problem Update

    In an effort to rid the town of rats people have been pressured into purchasing domesticated coyotes as pets. Some also purchased pet coyotes for their children as young as six months old. At first it was said that all you needed was two pet coyotes but then it was claimed three was better, then four and now the accepted wisdom is that you need an additional coyote every six months because your existing coyotes quit hunting a few months after you get them. Unfortunately people are now seeing that their pet coyotes are developing symbiotic relationships with the rats and actually protecting them so that the more coyotes you have the more rats you get. Some people with pet coyotes now want to get rid of them but the coyotes refuse to leave. Once you get coyotes it appears you have them for life which means you will have rats over and over as long as you live. The city council is offering classes on how to deal with your pet coyote long term.
    People with fenced yards are doing much better. They may have neighbors with lots of rats that occasionally come into their yard but the rats find these yards with possible gopher traps inhospitable and prefer to hang out with their knew friends, the coyotes. Rats are breeding prodigiously in yards with coyotes and it is feared new rat mutations will threaten the community.
    The Mayor’s response to this is a permanent rat mitigation office in the town hall with 25 employees. His strategy will focus on better coyotes. Some residents object to coyote research in the town so the mayor has opened clandestine coyote research centers in surrounding cities. The Mayor has commissioned posters blaming the surge in rats on coyote free yards. He wanted to require all city employees to own coyotes and only buy things from people who own coyotes but this was blocked by the local Justice of the Peace.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2022 #124329
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    A Tale of Two Americas

    * The Progressive America
    – Conservatives are ruining America. Their principles are opposed to what the founding fathers would want for this country.
    – Conservatives are mostly white heterosexuals and hate non-whites and LGBTQ peoples. They need to be replaced as the majority.
    – Conservatives are wrecking the lives of men and women everywhere. They limit the family to their narrow definition. They hate and subjugate women. They mistreat children. Because of conservatives other countries no longer respect us.
    – Conservatives believe in religious fairy tales and use that belief to control the masses.
    – Conservatives are anti-science and their anti-vaccine stance has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Their rejection of universal coverage is ruining health care.
    – Conservatives are climate-change deniers and are responsible for the destruction of the environment.
    – Conservatives don’t believe in the democratic process and falsely accuse Progressives of interfering in elections. They want to limit those who can vote to in person paper ballots.
    – Conservatives are trying to undermine government institutions like the FBI by spread lies and disinformation about them. The supreme court has taken a turn for the worse in destroying rights and the underlying principles in the constitution.
    – Conservatives demonize big tech and the media and are mass purveyors of disinformation. It’s lies, lies, lies with them.
    – Conservatives irrationally love Russia and Putin. Progressives stand with Ukraine as they battle for their rights and democracy. Zelensky is a great man.
    – Donald Trump is surely the worst, most soulless and destructive president ever. Even with his faults Joe Biden is 1000X better.
    – Conservatives believe violence is justified when it supports their cause. At their core they are power-hungry psychopaths. The progressive states and communities would be better off without the conservative states and communities.

    * The Conservative America
    – Progressives are ruining America. Their principles are opposed to what the founding fathers would want for this country.
    – Progressives hate white heterosexuals and are trying to replace them with immigrants and to convince young people to become LGBTQ.
    – Progressives are wrecking the lives of men and woman. They are destroying the family. Progressives hate the unborn. They mistreat children. Because of progressives other countries no longer respect us.
    – Progressives have rejected a belief in God and use satanic doctrines to control the masses.
    – Progressives are anti-science and their pro-vaccine, anti-early treatment stance has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Their attempt at universal coverage is ruining health care.
    – Progressives believe in the climate-change hoax and are responsible for the destruction of the economy.
    – Progressives have subverted the democratic process and elections by over-printing and harvesting mail-in ballots.
    – Progressives have taken over many government institutions like the FBI and use them for political ends. The supreme court has take a turn for the better in protecting the underlying principles in the constitution.
    – Progressives control the media through large corporations and are mass purveyors of disinformation. It’s lies, lies, lies with them.
    – Progressives irrationally hate Russia and Putin. They prefer Ukraine to the US and do nothing to secure US rights and democracy. Zelensky is a con man.
    – Joe Biden is surely the worst, most soulless and destructive president ever. Even with his faults Donald Trump was 1000X better.
    – Progressives believe violence is justified when it supports their cause. At their core they are power-hungry psychopaths. Conservative states and communities would be better off without the progressive states and communities.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 23 2022 #124169
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    Yes, it actually says “States” but even so…
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 22 2022 #124109
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    * Adam Kinzinger: Three days to flatten the Russians; If we start today the troops will be home for Christmas; You can plan on me

    * A friend who ended up high in the US gov’t says the secret to success is to kiss up and piss down; Zelensky before congress is the perfect example; Congress doing the kissing, Zelenskly doing the pissing; Zelensky behind the presidential lectern says it all

    * Calling Mitch McConnell a douchebag is an insult to douchebags; From the sound of Zelensky speaking Ukrainian they probably have a term that describes him better; The number one priority for the uni-party is to wreck the country and the entire world if possible

    * Nancy on J6: Never let a good insurrection go to waste

    * Don’t let the freaks run the show

    * Where will the US fit in a multi-polar world? What does the bully do after high school?

    * Prediction: 2023 will be the worst year in human history, beating out
    1) The world wide famine cause by a year of no sun due to a volcano in Iceland in 536
    2) The black plague in 1350
    3) The continuing depression and start of WW2 in 1939
    Lock, load and buckle up
    Note: The asteroid strike in 65,000,000 BC doesn’t count because there were no humans

    * No group is an eco-system
    Entire of itself
    Every man is a cog in the machine
    A part of the global engine

    Any man’s displacement diminishes me,
    Because I am dependent on the supply chain
    And therefore never ask for whom the shit hits the fan;
    It hits for thee

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    * The Daily Covid
    – The vaxxed blood supply : transfusion = transfection
    – People who drink gasoline and smoke are 250163% more likely to spontaneously combust
    – There are too many people on soccer fields; We need to reduce it from 22 to 10 or fewer by 2030 by any means necessary if soccer is to survive
    – All cause mortality is up but all cause immortality remains disturbingly low
    – What we know of Ivermectin: Designed to combat parasites it doesn’t seem to be working
    – When natural immunity is despised only the despised will have natural immunity
    – Covid response team leader dead at 35; FTV

    * Old is the New New
    – Orthodoxy is the new heresy
    – Computer neural nets match patterns better than human neurons; Only the programmers and the plumbers will still have jobs
    – Thucydides: The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must
    Capitalism: The strong charge what the market will bear, the weak bear what the market will charge
    – The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is to walk barefoot
    – The West are terrorists and can’t negotiated with
    – The future is a murky messy iffy mess of probabilities; Tomorrow never comes; I must kill my enemy today or they will live forever
    – Teaching is impossible. All you can do is hit someone with a factual 2X4 and steal their car keys before they come to
    – Q: Do you promise to tell lies, complete lies and nothing but lies?
    A: I do.
    – SBF owned the grenade but sold the pin to Zhao
    – Politicians and diapers need to be changed often and for the same reason – Mark Twain

    * From Wikipedia
    Rome contrived a justification to declare war on Carthage again in 149 BC, starting the Third Punic War. This conflict was fought entirely on Carthage’s territories in what is now Tunisia. In 146 BC the Romans stormed the city of Carthage, sacked it, slaughtered most of its population and completely demolished it. The previously Carthaginian territories were taken over as the Roman province of Africa. The ruins of the city lie 10 miles east of modern Tunis on the North African coast.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 11 2022 #123168
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    A Tale of Two Narratives : Twitter Edition

    * The Mainstream Narrative
    – As a worldwide ‘public square,’ Twitter should be heavily regulated for misinformation and spamming by hostile interests. Twitter bears a responsibility to take action against disinformation and hate. Content moderation on platforms like Twitter is absolutely necessary to safeguard our democracy. As a private company Twitter is under no legal obligation to protect free speech and everything Twitter has done is within the law. Twitter and other social media platforms were instrumental in combating disinformation about Covid 19, climate change, election integrity and the war in Ukraine
    – Elon Musk is an arrogant, toxic person. He doesn’t really care about free speech. His goals in purchasing Twitter are political. His takeover of Twitter is the most terrifying development in recent history. His purchase of Twitter will destroy it by driving away advertisers and providing a platform for Neo-Nazis and other hate-speechers. Under Musk, Twitter is a scammer’s paradise. Elon Musk decimated the staff of Twitter (breaking Federal labor laws) while restoring accounts that spread disinformation. Control of Twitter involves national security risks and Musk’s takeover should be investigated by the US Government.
    – The so-called “Twitter Files” are a feast for conspiracy theorists and have re-enlivened the influence of entities like QAnon. Journalists like Matt Taibbi writing about the Twitter Files are selling their souls to do PR work for the richest man in the world. The Twitter Files entries are sloppy, anecdotal and devoid of context. They are a nothing event about nothing event. The hysteria surrounding the Twitter Files is being used by Republicans for political gain.
    – The Hunter Biden laptop story was difficult and the truth was not known early and so caution was justified. There is no evidence in the Twitter Files that the government was involved in the suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop story. There is nothing on Hunter Biden’s laptop that actually implicates Joe Biden. James Baker took the careful approach and urged Twitter to weigh both sides of the Hunter Biden Laptop story before proceeding.
    – Hate speech has dramatically increased since Must took over Twitter and these hateful tweets will lead to violence against the already marginalized. Right wing accounts such as those of Donald Trump, Project Veritas and the Babylon Bee should continue to be banned.

    * The Counter Narrative
    – Twitter management was openly against free speech and used techniques such as “Visibility Filtering” to limit the reach of some posts. Twitter had secret blacklist files to limit the distribution of certain tweets specifically targeting right wing users. Twitter and other social media platforms have been instrumental in distributing disinformation and hiding the truth about Covid 19, climate change, election integrity and the war in Ukraine. Twitter censorship was used by the Democrats for political gain
    – Elon Musk is a hero. He bought Twitter to restore free speech. Twitter, pre-Musk, was a major accomplice and enabler in selling-out America’s future. Twitter was bloated with excess and left wing employees.
    – The Twitter Files show that the DNC and FBI were directly involved in suppressing free speech and prove that the 2020 elections were not free and fair. Twitter was clearly involved in election interference. The government interactions with Twitter were similar to Nazi propaganda methods. Twitter employees and their government contacts should be made to answer for their actions before congress. So-called journalists criticizing Matt Taibbi for his work on the Twitter Files are embarrassing in their uniformity and mindless support of a corrupt system.
    – The files on Hunter Biden’s laptop prove that Joe Biden used his office to make money and Twitter’s suppression of the laptop story was done to help get Joe Biden elected. It is a bigger scandal than Watergate. James Baker was involved in RussiaGate at the FBI and the Hunter Biden Laptop suppression at Twitter. Baker deleted some of the content that should have been in the Twitter Files.
    – The claims that hate speech has increased on Twitter since Musk’s takeover are utterly false. Hate speech is not tolerated on Twitter. Twitter largely ignored child trafficking issues until Musk took over. Lifting the ban on Donald Trump, Project Veritas and the Babylon Bee on Twitter are victories for free speech.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle November 20 2022 #121506
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    * Musk Redux
    – Of course his costume was evil
    – He is a high achieving narcissist
    – He is tougher than Trump
    – He wants to be president of life, the universe and everything
    – He is a bot hunter; Wascally Wobots

    Top. Men.
    – Short people got no reason to live so they compensate by amassing power
    – There aren’t elites any more, just philanthropic misanthropes
    – FTK was rigged to fail; Maxine Waters has already committed adultery with SBF in her heart
    – The WEF is bleeding the west out
    – Ukraine will get very messy. Slaughterhouse messy

    * Death, the Universe and Everything
    – To have no doubts is to be full of sh*t
    – The universe wasn’t designed but it is the best of all possible accidents
    – The unvaxxed are mentally deranged
    – It is more socially acceptable to give than to receive
    – How is Kamala Harris is doing? Her silence may indicate disdain toward us
    – When gun ownership is threatened only the threatened will own guns
    – Elizabeth Holmes lost $600M. Her 11 year penance is worth about $150K per day; My friend Billyjoe has been in jail 30 years for stealing $100 (third strike law); His penance is worth about 1 cent per day
    – Joe Biden’s 80’s Rock Star Name: Poopstain Spumoni

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    You Are Here

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    A Tale of Three Narratives, Energy Edition

    * Background
    – We are addicted to high energy use.
    – Each first world citizen has the equivalent of scores of energy slaves.
    – We spend colossal amounts of energy on useless things.
    – Governments and especially militaries are fabulous energy wasters.
    – People and even experts don’t understand energy.

    * The Green Narrative
    – Radical action is required to move to renewable, sustainable energy sources to save the environment from climate change. We need to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 by shifting to renewable energy sources like hydro, solar, wind, tidal and geothermal. Electric cars are our future.
    – Hydrogen can be a green energy source when it is produced from green electricity sources. Nuclear and fusion power are also carbon free and possibly parts of a green energy future. Improving technologies will help solve our energy problems.
    – We need massive investments in green energy. Financial instruments like subsidies, carbon credits and green energy bonds will help us move to a renewable energy future. The world will be better off without fossil fuels.
    – The price of green energy has dropped and is now competitive with fossil fuel energy. Switching to renewables will save most people money. Moving to clean energy will create millions of good paying jobs.
    – By moving to green energy we have a bright future awaiting us.

    * The Abundance Narrative
    – There is plenty of energy but its availability is blocked by those who use energy scarcity to enhance their own power. The real cause of energy insecurity is under-investment in oil and gas. Climate policy is being used as an excuse to limit energy.
    – Energy Cost of Energy is a myth rolled out when energy production is blocked. There are at least 47 years of oil in known reserves in the world and that doesn’t include the trillions of barrels of recoverable shale oil in the US alone. Oil was and is continuously produced by abiotic means in the earth. We will never run out of oil.
    – We need to harness all possible sources of energy including oil, gas, hydro, wind, solar, thermal and tidal energy. Nuclear and fusion power are important parts of our energy solution.
    – Technology will help solve our energy problems. “Clean” energy sources abound within humanity’s grasp. By 2100, we will have quantum reactors creating zero-point energy, air-wired to your car with TeraGigaHertz transmission, and matter synthesizers as well.
    – By using all available sources of energy we have a bright future awaiting us.

    * The Going, Going, Gone Narrative
    – The easily extractable energy is mostly gone. Sane energy policies in the 60’s or 70’s could have mitigated the problems but not much can be done now. New technologies almost always end up using more energy than they produce.
    – Green energy is a mirage. All so-called green energy solutions require fossil fuels as precursors and are not sustainable long term. We don’t have enough lithium, cobalt, etc. for car batteries and our electric grid won’t support charging everyone’s electric cars. People may say they want green energy but are unwilling to significantly sacrifice for it.
    – Infinite growth in a finite world is not possible. We are nearing an energy cliff where there will be drastically less energy available and which will cause an economic depression that never ends. Energy scarcity will be used by those in charge to enhance their own power. We will eventually return to only having local energy from the sun at our disposal, that is, about 1% of the energy we use now. Everything will be mostly local.
    – Our future is not bright. Prepare now.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 23 2022 #119147
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    Coalition of the Willing

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    Collapse? TP disappears
    An endless replacement appears
    You’ll clean up instead
    With Notes from the Fed
    And wipe out foul debt in arrears

    in reply to: Debt Rattle October 6 2022 #117857
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    @Bishko

    I am not an expert on chemistry or global warming but have been re-reading your comments trying to understand them better. You use the ink in the pool analogy. In this analogy, am I correct in thinking the observer represents outer space, the pool light represents IR radiation from the earth and the ink represents CO2? If this is the correct understanding it would seem that this is an argument in favor of CO2 causing global warming because in the analogy all the energy from the light is absorbed and stays near the light rather than making it to the observer. Am I misunderstanding the analogy?

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