Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 14, 2026, 07:41 PMTrump is starting wars everywhere.  Rubber bullets in MLPS right now as I type.  This is very existential.  There must be a dead girl in the Epstein files.  Has to be.

On the international level,  Trumpolini is trying to control the oil trade by preventing anyone with oil available for export to sell to anyone he perceives as an enemy, aka shithole countries populated by brown people with socialist goobermints.  For the exporters, this starves them of FOREX needed for food imports, thus raising the price of food in those countries.  This is destabilizing gooberments of both exporters and importers in South America, the Middle East and Africa.  Economic sanctions alone weren't sufficient because of the so-called "shadow fleet" of tankers, so he has escalated it to using the Navy to pirate these ships.  As a result of the destabilizattion, war is breaking out just about everywhere now.

Nationally, he is trying to ethnically cleanse Amerika not just by shutting down immigration, but also deporting any brown people who migrated to the FSoA over the last 30 years or so.  Cities like MPLS which have large easily identifiable communities of these immigrants are the primary target.  The escalating violeence gives him still more excuse to send more Gestapo and double down on the whole process.  That bizness is destabilizing the goobermint here and further polarizing the population.

With Free Elections, I'm pretty sure at this point the Repugnants would lose both houses of CONgress, we'd get an impeachment and there might be some chance of stepping back from the brink.  I'm just not real hopeful we'll get free elections.  By Nov I expect more federal gestapo in the cities. challenges to election results and refusal to seat newly elected Demodopes.  I would not be surprised by a major false flag terrorist event here to justify Martial Law in the next 6 months either.

RE

Quote from: RE on Jan 14, 2026, 07:25 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 14, 2026, 06:20 PMIt isn't lively much now.

Bringing us round to where we began, which is why it's well past time to let it go and focus on more proximal existential problems.

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Just a lyric in the song I edited out.  Not too relevant.

I read an account of a guy who pulled up next to ICE and then started following them.  He followed ICE all the way back to his own house.  Using the MN state resources obviously.  I can relate to his existential dread when he realized what was going on.  Freaky.

Trump is starting wars everywhere.  Rubber bullets in MLPS right now as I type.  This is very existential.  There must be a dead girl in the Epstein files.  Has to be.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 14, 2026, 06:20 PMIt isn't lively much now.

Bringing us round to where we began, which is why it's well past time to let it go and focus on more proximal existential problems.

RE

More Minneapolis mayhem.



Words were passed, three shots were blast, troubled times had come

To my hometown, to my hometown
My hometown, to my hometown


CBSNEWS.COM • 2026-01-14

ICE officer shoots man in leg in north Minneapolis after shovel attack, officials say

A shooting occurred Wednesday night in north Minneapolis after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were attacked by men with shovels

Quote from: RE on Jan 13, 2026, 07:43 PMSteve had a lot more than Triangle of Doom.  You missed quite a bit of good stuff.

Maybe. But I had scientists within the government, academic PhDs of various stripes from a couple of countries, ex-industry experts writing books, and legions of enthusiastic amateurs....including "lawyers"...all arriving with the internet, building sites trumpeting the end and spouting off the most entertaining interpretations of....stuff.

Quote from: REFar as changing ideas, when I began I wasn't interested in Peak Oil and energy at all.  Just curiouss about the reasons behind the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros.  I ran across a paper by Antal Fekete that led toexploring the debt which led to energy costs which led to resource depletion.  I spent more time on economics blogs than Peak Oil at the beginning, but PO was livelier back then.

It certainly was. I got involved on the economics side, but it took half a decade or so or untangling the techinal malfesance first.

Quote from: REAs you collect more data and do more research, over 20 years your thinking has to evolve,otherwise you haven't learned anything.

But of course. So after learning everything everyone else thought about peak oil, it became time to solve it. Once that was done...well....after that it was just waiting around to see the ending to an interesting fad.

It isn't lively much now.

Quote from: REAnyhow, I'm not going to die too soon, I just don't get why I deserve so much attention.  Why waste the time?  I have no credibility.  Seems silly.

RE

The number of data points certainly matters, but the temporal component can't be ignored, in terms of how, after decades, and with hindsight, their previous positions have evolved.

And as most have ghosted their audience and websites and whatnot (or been abandoned by their audience?), the data points are far fewer with increasinng longevity. 

SCHEERPOST.COM • 2026-01-14

"Federal Invasion" of Minnesota

Thousands of masked DHS officers flooding neighborhoods, residents being seized off the streets, and local governments scrambling to defend constitutional protections that are being shredded in real time.


SCHEERPOST.COM • 2026-01-14

Richard Wolff: ICE Terror, Executive Policing, and Why a General Strike Could Flip the Script

The escalating ICE crackdowns and the creation of a new federal police force signal not strength but a presidency under mounting pressure.

SCHEERPOST.COM • 2026-01-14

'ICE Has Gone Rogue': Khanna Demands Arrest, Prosecution of Jonathan Ross for Murder of Renee Good

Rep. Ro Khanna on Monday called for the arrest and prosecution of the federal immigration officer who killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good last week.

THEM.US • 2026-01-14

Federal Prosecutors Resign as DOJ Launches Investigation into Renee Good's Widow

At least 10 staffers in the department have left their posts.


THECANARY.CO • 2026-01-14

At least 6 federal prosecutors resign over DOJ investigating murdered Renee Good

At least six prosecutors working for federal law enforcement in Minneapolis have resigned over the US Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting the widow of ICE's murder victim Renee Good.

TECHDIRT.COM • 2026-01-14

Prosecutors Flee DOJ After Being Told To Investigate The Murdered Woman, Not The Murderer

Six Justice Department prosecutors who've spent their careers putting away fraudsters, drug dealers, and actual criminals said we want no part of this.

They say everyone in America is a child of immigrants.  ( I have a great-grandfather who was naturalized, this is not strictly true.)

No so for this GI Joe apparently.


His great-grandparents emigrated from Calabria to Pennsylvania in 1909, becoming naturalized citizens in 1927.


The mans Karma account is seriously overdrawn.



Dude has issues.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 13, 2026, 05:43 PM

Here is a pic with a victim 'protected'.  This pic was pulled from the guvmint website.  They did an Ooops and took it down, but we have our own copy of Trump playing daddy.

My opinion is that the 19 year old looks more like a Cosco Rotisserie Chicken than a 19 year old.  Small and bony for her age indeed.

RE

RAWSTORY.COM • 2026-01-13

'Put your big boy pants on': Ex-RNC chair tears into Trump after wild meltdown at heckler

President Donald Trump debased his office when he lost control and flipped the bird at a heckler in Detroit who called him a "pedophile protector,"


Not how I would put it, but it is true, Trump is protecting himself, so that does makes him a pedo-protector.