Trump Is Weaponizing the Government Against His Enemies. It Doesn’t Mean He’ll Succeed.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
King Coal 2024, for more than 50 years, sixth paragraph in lol, weak wind and hydro in Europe
... Coal, a major contributor to global warming, was still the world's largest individual source of energy generation in 2024, a position it has held for more than 50 years, according to the IEA. ... in the EU, months of weak wind and hydropower performance led to a rise in coal and gas generation. ... winter wind lulls can last for weeks, requiring backup power sources that batteries alone can't provide - making the system more expensive to build and run. ...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Palisades Fire was lit by a 29-year old pyromaniacal Uber driver, not by fireworks, lightning, power lines, or climate change
The NBC story doesn't mention that last one lol.
How many is that now? All of them?
29-year-old former Uber driver arrested in connection with starting deadly Palisades Fire
... Authorities said the Palisades Fire was a “holdover” fire or a continuation of the Lachman Fire that Rinderknecht allegedly started on New Year’s Day.
Firefighters were able to suppress the Lachman Fire, but did not know that it continued to smolder and burn underground, a criminal complaint states.
On Jan. 7, as heavy winds swept through the area, the fire began to surface and spread, becoming the Palisades Fire. ...
Investigators said other possible factors, including fireworks, lightning and power lines, were determined not to be the cause of the fire.
Senator Ron Johnson squeals like a pig for the Gang of Nine
... none of us were ... targets of this investigation. There's no predicate. ...
Ha ha ha.
Here.
Johnson is not telling the truth about his role in the fake elector scheme.
So far, the Trump administration is projected to have spent about $71,000 on each one of the ~50,000 deported per month to date
H.R. 1 passed in July allocates $170 billion to DHS for immigration and border enforcement over four years.
In September DHS said over 400,000 had been deported since January 20th.
So in eight months that's 50,000 deported per month at a cost of $3.542 billion per month, or $70,833 per person deported.
It would have been far cheaper to cut illegals off at the source, by going after their employers instead of going after each and every illegal employee.
But that would have been a really bad look, in a country where the employer can do no wrong and the full time job is the summum bonum.
The red meat of the current deportation theatre is far more useful to Trump as politics. It must be thrown daily to keep the base energized, the warriors busy, and the emperor in the spotlight.
"Boy, that Trump is really doing a great job! Look at that! He got another one!".
Nevermind that the best he'll ever do like this is 2.4 million deportees, when we've got many millions more than that. The easy pickings are soon to be exhausted, if they aren't already. And it will only get harder from here.
Remember that just a few months ago the goal was 3,000 deportees per day, or 4.38 million in four years. The goalposts have already been moved, and they'll no doubt be moved again. We're down to 1,666 per day on their own accounting.
That's how you know this is not serious.
The spectacle is the whole point.
Year to date spot gold is up ~54%
By comparison, Total Stock Market Index VTSAX is up 14.83% ytd through yesterday.
Total Bond Market Index VBTLX is up 6.4%.
... The [gold] rally has been driven by a cocktail of factors, including . . . a weak dollar. ... -- CNBC
Would these people know a weak dollar if they saw it?
Trying to explain gold like this is just silly.
The Nominal Broad U.S. Dollar Index is 120.51, down 7.4% from the January all time high of 130.21.
The all time low for this index was under Obama in July 2011, at 85.46.
You remember the summer of 2011, right?
The dollar was at its weakest, America lost its AAA rating, and precisely net zero jobs were created that August, the first time since WWII.
We have a strong dollar today, not a weak one.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Democrat Jay Jones who advocated violence against police and Republicans and their families wants to be Virginia's next attorney general, opposes qualified immunity same as libertarian Justin Amash
"... And I said, ‘that’s insane.’ But he firmly believed that if you removed qualified immunity, that police officers would act differently, and I firmly believe that it would not result in good public policy, and it would put police officers and the public’s lives at risk if they have to second-guess themselves on a decision they’re making in a moment where someone is doing something violent.” ...
... The texts come days after the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Jones was caught going 116 miles per hour in a 70mph zone in 2022 and did 500 hours of community service at his own political action committee.
U.S. gold futures surged past the $4,000 per ounce milestone for the first time on Tuesday
Spot gold new high $3,990.85.
Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin appears to have been involved in trying to get a slate of fake electors into the hands of Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th, 2021, but Pence refused them
The text message Senator Johnson sent referred to in the Jamie Dupree post on X, who has been all over this like white on rice since last year, see here for some of the receipts, was recovered by an FBI investigation into the fake elector scheme, which resulted in convictions of Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell, who cooperated with investigators.
Apparently they gave up Kelly (PA-16, lives in Butler!) and the Senators.
Johnson is presently screaming about being surveilled as if there had been no reason for it lol. It is said that Johnson accused Kelly in 2022 of mounting a fake elector scheme in PA in 2020, which sounds kinda like Johnson knew what was coming on all this and was trying to get out ahead of it by pointing the finger at Kelly to deflect from his own involvement.
The blonde in the photos is an aide for Johnson who took the handoff of the fake elector documents from a staff member from Rep. Mike Kelly's office which had also been unsuccessful in persuading Pence to take the documents. They did this on the streets of Washington DC on January 6th.
The video of all this is damning as hell.
Monday, October 6, 2025
Gold makes new high $3958.57, silver highest since May 2011 at $48.55
... Spot gold hit an all-time peak of $3,958.57 an ounce and has climbed 48% so far this year, adding to last year’s gain of 27%. ...
Silver climbed to $48.55 an ounce, its highest since May 2011.
Its rally is supported by the same factors as gold, as well as strong industrial demand and a tight spot market. ...
More.
Will Trump be tried for murdering drug traffickers like former Philippine president Duterte is being tried?
... Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.
Supporters of Duterte criticized the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Duterte's political rival, for arresting and surrendering the former leader to a court whose jurisdiction his supporters dispute. ...
More.
I suppose it depends on a future president giving Trump up to arrest by the International Criminal Court somehow.
... The strikes on Venezuelan narcoterror smuggling boats provide one possible avenue. Shortly after the U.S. Navy destroyed the first such vessel, Ken Roth, a former head of Human Rights Watch, endorsed ICC intervention. “Trump just did what the International Criminal Court has charged former Philippines Pres. Duterte with doing—ordering the summary execution of alleged drug traffickers,” Mr. Roth tweeted. Venezuela is a Rome Statute party, which in the court’s thinking gives it jurisdiction over U.S. officials and servicemen involved in the attacks. The ICC has already launched an investigation against a nonmember state (Israel) based on a single boarding of a vessel flagged by a member state, so it has all the precedents it needs.
Mr. Trump has thus far taken an incremental approach to the ICC. He revived a first-term executive order authorizing sanctions against the court and applied it against four ICC officials. None of this has significantly reduced the risk to the U.S. or led the ICC to change its ways.
The ICC’s supporters don’t see the existing sanctions as an “existential threat.” The tribunal can easily ride it out by lying low until a Democratic president lifts the sanctions, as Joe Biden did. The court takes a long view—its prosecutors and judges have nine-year terms, and its other staffers are part of a global deep state who can expect to remain at their jobs indefinitely.
International lawyers are already developing multiple lines of attack against the administration and its officials. ...
More.
All of our problems with Donald Trump are at root theological
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| Trump turned 6-years old when his pastor first published this in 1952 |
Sunday, October 5, 2025
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