If you slept in this morning brothers and sisters, here’s the embarrassing question few have the gumption to ask: “Why do you work harder for others than you do for yourself?”
The most precious resource we have is time. We’re all here as “little gods in training” trying to figure out how we’re going to manage that universe between the ears when we die. Yet, for reasons logic won’t reveal, people piss away whole lifetimes pondering the point instead of beating the clock and scoring consciousness touchdowns.
Flummoxed isn’t the right word for it. But we try to keep it R-17. At least, when school’s out.
Point is, when I was out “tractor-back” – mowing it “all” here is a 3-day project – I noticed a crow trying to use a stick as a tool. Bird-brained, or not, he at least was out of bed and working his action.
If your plans for the day are shaped by a hangover, hydrate, electrolytes, and come back when the fog lifts.
City-State Takeover
My new book Downsizing (ad, right column) goes into fair depth on something to think about: When is America going to wake the f**k up and figure out we’re all lying to one-another? While you’ve been sleeping, globalism’s been landing body-blows and city-states are on the rise.
Think your independence is safe? Not on your life.
Take Microsoft this week: Laying off 9,000 American workers,. Yet, lining up the lobbying for 14,000 H1-B visa-holders. From an All-American company, Microsoft has gone full…whategver it is.
That’s just one blade of grass dying in the American Field of Dreams. There’s a fungus among us and it’s sold to voids betwixt ears. On sale, at a group-think near you. Mean while, question “for whom the axe tolls.”
California’s Gruesome Future?
I pick on California now and then because it’s the “state of our future.” Started off fine. Won in war, people forget it was (what passed for) fair and square. The revolutionaries are back and the U.S. Army’s not chasing them, A “tolerance policy” is being sold – not real equality – based on fear marketing and laziness. Already, the pandering to pickers – felonies and illegal entry overlooked – is the weekend’s hard sell.
The Developer in Chief’s trying to craft a deal to fix (New Trump plan to let farmers vouch for illegal migrants before they get deported). But we hope you remember 2-years ago, we started building greenhouse and water storage space and talk famine plans?
Because there’s a Depression-Like Shift in the air. Smell it as choke…
Winds Behind History
What made the Great Depression (not so great) was the migration to cities because that’s where the jobs were. In 19o0, farmers were “home on the range” raising draft horses. Got to the store to “pick up a few things” involved horses, not horsepower.
The cities flooded, but when the financial Damn! broke in 1929, it was the rural areas that kept feeding America. A rural electrification program, and massive irrigation from federal dams got people working and producing to push back Depression. But they were The Hungry Years and people today? Well, we forget.
When the Cities run the world, it’s not always a good thing. Pull up another cup. Ure’s on a rant.
America’s Roots: Rural Presidents
As fireworks (“snap, crackle, and pop”) this Independence Day, let’s cut through the smoke and ask a hard question: Was Harry S. Truman the last real rural American to sit in the Oval? And more urgently—can anyone outside the urban power club crack the 2028 presidential race?
I’ve told you before, American elections in current form belong on eBay, not “voting machines.”
Dirt Roads to Donor Rolls
Most early presidents came from small towns and farms. Jefferson’s agrarian ideal wasn’t just theory—it was lived reality. Think you could run Monticello? Our asses get run over regularly trying to make 29-acres work. Jefferson was rolling 5,000 acres. Long before Allis-Chalmers was founded in 1901. About the same time as the the other – ironically named ICE farm equipment manufacturers using horsepower instead of hands to do their dirt-work. (The Jefferson foundation still runs 2,500 acres, a docent once told me…)
Lincoln, log cabin. OK, he was a lawyer and we all know there’s an off-ramp in hell for those. But he did understand equality even of modern’s don’t grok it well.
Coolidge, Vermont village. Even Truman, with his glasses and farm-boy grit from Independence, Missouri, won the presidency the old-fashioned way: with trains, elbow grease, and blunt talk. I don’t believe I ever saw a modern pres in a straw hat, come to think of it.
They weren’t perfect, but they weren’t corporate products either. Their loyalty leaned toward dispersed communities, not Wall Street donors and D.C. consultants.
Then came the shift. Or, more properly, the shift hit the fans.
Cities, Corporations, Consolidation
By mid-20th century, the tide had turned on us. Urbanization, mass media, and campaign finance restructured the whole game. FDR used New York’s machines. JFK’s Boston pedigree and Nixon’s California sheen masked elite networks. Even Reagan’s cowboy image came wrapped in Hollywood PR. Skull boners rose in lore.
From Clinton forward, it’s been a parade of presidents who look rural but bank urban. Obama, pure Chicago. Trump, Manhattan real estate. Biden, Delaware credit card country.
80% of Americans live in cities, mostly big. Pensions and inflation driving taxes past incomes. Campaigns cost a quarter-billion. And donors? Mostly city-based, industry-influenced, and tech-tied.
You don’t have leadership, anymore. You have lessees.
Truman: The Last of His Kind?
You might argue Eisenhower or Carter had rural DNA. But Ike was a five-star general with multi- national pull, and Carter’s “peanut farmer” label camouflaged big-donor backing. Truman? He farmed. He failed in business. He worked his way up again through grit, not legacy admissions or IPO wealth. No “secret door knocks” for him.
His 1948 win wasn’t bought—it was walked, whistlestopped, and broadcast to the outback. That’s the last time a rural-rooted American outplayed both media and money.
2028: Urban All-Stars, Faux-Rural Branding
The early read on 2028? Not great for outsiders.
Democrats:
- Pete Buttigieg talks small-town South Bend, but Harvard-McKinsey-NBC screams establishment.
- Tim Walz and Andy Beshear have heartland zip codes but rely on city donors and media handlers.
- Gavin Newsom and AOC? They practically are the urban power bubble.
- The rest—Pritzker, Shapiro, Whitmer—run blue but play for green.
Republicans:
- JD Vance milked “Hillbilly Elegy” for street cred, but he’s knee-deep in VC cash and Trumpworld power.
- Ron DeSantis is suburban, not rural.
- Tulsi Gabbard went rogue but not rural.
- Tucker Carlson? Entertaining, yes. Outsider? Please.
Bottom line: nearly all talk country, walk Wall Street, and policy pension funds.
Can we Be Re-Truman-ized?
Maybe—if lightning strikes. Rural America still swings a few key states. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsyltucky—they’re not as urban as their governors pretend. A candidate with real heartland roots, street-level grit, and national charisma could break through.
We’ve had a “rural datafication” fiber cable sitting in our front yard for 2 years now. Unconnected. Waiting for a vendor to finish the install. Another broken promise to rural residents. We’re used to sketchy out here.
Rural revival and bullshit cleared out? It’s a long shot at best.
Campaigns are now more like IPOs with flags on top and launch budgets. A true outsider would need media magic, donor independence, and a populist wave big enough to scare the suits. The war for the City-States is on, in the meantime: political extremes with the California salsalution and NYC chomping to bring the Middle East mess home.
Still, we never say never.
If the economy turns south or cities get rougher, Main Street might look for a fighter, not a fundraiser.
Shot Heard Round the Ranch
Truman wasn’t slick. He wasn’t rich. But he understood the cost of things, the value of decency, and how to win a fight without hiding behind consultants. We could use another one like that.
Trump was part way there. Many of the right policies. Implemented with a bulldozer and sold like his watches vodka crypto Middle East plays.
Whether 2028 delivers someone with dirt on their boots—or just another resume in wingtips—will say a lot about whether this republic (for which we stand) still belongs to the We the People… or to the highest bidder.
Smart money – truckloads of it – are on the latter.
We’d just like the eBay slice as a class action marketing settlement for pass misdeeds…
Freak Show Finalists
No holiday morning would be complete without a line-up.
Arson, climate change, or environmental malfeasance? You make the call. California’s largest blaze this year explodes in size amid scorching heat, high winds
Russia’s not likely to budge on Ukraine, now that Israel defense has drawn down defensive missile stocks. Russia launches largest aerial attack on Kyiv yet as Trump ‘disappointed’ in Putin. Somewhere, our consigliere is bowing for his Battle of Britain call, Yes, even tech suffers attrition…
Is that Egg on your face, cricket eats, or failing Canadian leadership? Trouble Brewing in WEFer Land. Remember who screwed Canadian truckers, eh, hoser?
Speaking of visuals: Michael Madsen, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Kill Bill’ actor, dead at 67.
What “canned the canner”? 140-year-old Del Monte Foods files for bankruptcy. Will they end up on the dole?
To Market, to Market, etc…
Record Highs at the early close Thursday. What goes up, must be turned into a chart – but in the meantime, BTC is $109,113 at press time. Silver’s hanging out over $37. And oil’s down a bit. So for now the Trump version of diplomacy (“Speak and Sell”) seems to work.
Let’s take two aspirin, get lots of rest, and call us if there’s any change before Monday.
At the Ranch: Mo Mowing
Here’s some of the deliverables:
Off to weld on the solar rack – have to add 8-feet to the existing rack because new panels are larger. No rest for the wicked, though if you had told me earlier in life that I’d be welding up solar panel racks instead of sleeping in on a national holiday at age 76, I would have called you a liar…
Panel rack today, new saw assembly tomorrow, dishwasher install Sunday. Holiday, you say?
Find somewhere no one else wants to live and find a way to make it work. Water with sweat.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
DAMN NICE SPOT ON article this morning’
Happy 4th to you and yours I hope we see some light at the end of this tunnel but it not looking good.
“The cities flooded, but when the financial Damn! broke in 1929, it was the rural areas…..”
Got Island LIfe?
The countervailing trends in my Small Piece of Paradise Hiding in Plain Sight are sending prices North, as the Exodus continues to flee from Dense Ureban. Cliff High’s Diaspora is alive and well.
Happy holiday celebrations.
Been working my garlic harvest this week, dig pull the garlic, then using hedge trimmer cut the stock off leaving a good inch and tray up for in my drying shed. ‘Bout 2/3rds harvested so far.
Can only do in the mornings as we are still in hot sunny. Afternoons are for beers anyways.
We have garlic all over the yard from previous owners 30+ years ago.
We don’t harvest; I just walk around and eat the scapes.
When was the last time you had to vote for the lesser of two evils?
Stay safe. 73
I always vote for the “Lessor of the two Weasels!
Weasel – “A person regarded as sneaky or treacherous”.
The more years in politics the bigger the weasel. Shummer would be a Grand Weasel.
It seems to be the only way it ever goes. Reagan was the only time I ever felt we had the best candidate.
I seen Reagan as if DAD was in office.. just like Jimmy .Jimmy Carter’s tax reform vision was rooted in fairness. he called the tax code a “disgrace” and sought to eliminate loopholes that favored the wealthy. But Congress, driven by competing interests and inflationary fears, diluted his proposals, leaving the middle class exposed to rising costs and stagnant wages.Reagan, meanwhile, inherited that broken momentum and doubled down on supply-side economics. His “trickle-down” policies slashed top tax rates and deregulated industries, which did spark short-term growth—but also widened inequality and ballooned the deficit. The wealthiest gained, while the velocity of money slowed as middle-class purchasing power eroded.
Both presidents had faith in the legislative process. But without moral or ethical stewardship from Congress, Carter’s equity and Reagan’s optimism were twisted into tools of extraction. You’re right: either model could have worked—if the hive had been lit by conscience, not greed we wouldn’t be faced with what we face today.
I am not sure if Grand Weasel ..but not of the grand moron ..which is what I enjoyed about DOGE.. sending trillions of dollars to no where all on the laborers dime.. they don’t have a clue. its not part of their lives..when leadership loses moral gravity, the economy becomes a weapon instead of a tool for uplift.civilizations—from Rome to the Ming Dynasty they all show that even well-run societies fall hardest when their leaders abandoned ethics and social contracts. The moment governance becomes detached from the lived reality of its people, it trades stewardship for spectacle—and war becomes the currency of distraction.once a sign of economic vitality, has slowed to a crawl. Instead of circulating to nourish communities, capital pools at the top, stagnating in speculation and hoarding. Fiat currencies, already weakened by decades of debt and artificial stimulus, now teeter on the edge of collapse—not because money itself failed, but because its purpose was corrupted and nodded on sheets of paper rather than used to keep the noodle moving across the table keeping their local communities vibrant. instead The decay of America’s infrastructure is not merely a technical failure—it’s a moral one, driven by ethical greed that prioritizes personal gain over public good. Instead of investing in resilient grids, safe bridges, and clean water systems, decision-makers funnel resources into war, speculation, and elite profit schemes, leaving communities vulnerable and systems on the brink of collapse. This neglect isn’t accidental—it’s the result of a value system where short-term enrichment for the few outweighs long-term stability for the many, eroding the very foundations of a society meant to serve all.
2012
Stuck In The Middle With You – Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SW4y0PhartY
How beautiful is that little dance he does with that straight razor in his hand?
Stop the presses Kemosabe.
Needz you to go over the “rural datafication” cable in Ure yard thingy again.
2 years ? WTf, over ?
As one of the slower Apes here on planet Urth, I am having issues with the thought of some assholes’ cable sitting buried in front yard, ABANDONED.
I would be claiming Salvage rights to that friggin cable and hooking up some new fangled Antenna to it.
Well Yeah – Of course I dont know the Maths involved, I just dont give a flying F, prefer to find out for myself and experiment with it, thank you very much.
Ownership is 9/10’s of the LAW , charge the bastards rent.
..sign on desk in oval office of the Show Me state President “The Buck Stops Here”
– UNFORTUNATELY the CIA “buck” did not STOP there, and it has morphed into the single DARKEST PERPATRATORS of EVIL on the planet. TRUMAN acknowledged as much on his deathbed – a terrible MISTAKE, that we are ALL paying for nowadays.
I’m not sure how you’d repurpose fiber. I can’t imagine an antenna made of glass, unless plated. I’m as furious as George since I have fiber just beyond the fence that’s been there for a decade and a half. Alas, it’s only for the select, and not for me. At least Elon was gracious enough to provide low latency high speed(relatively) in the countryside.
“globalism’s been landing body-blows”
That’s the way the cake bakes.
“California now and then because it’s the “state of our future.”…. A “tolerance policy” is being sold – not real equality”
It already happened to Detroit way, way back there during the Great Migration. Everyone is headed to Texas and will run up the bills there.
Perhaps a couple of clarifications on your supposed history lesson.
Jefferson had a whole lot of slaves powering his agricultural paradise. That was the industrialism of the late 18th century.
America runs on carbon slaves of heavy oil. That is fast disappering. There will be no rebirth of industrial America.
Yes small communities will be the future with lots of hand labor growing food. Gut the USA as you dream it is dead and gone with the techno feudal barons behind the golden golem.
Jefferson had a whole lot of slaves powering his agricultural paradise. OK, so we have computers asnd btc…um point? People will use what’s at hand to build community…
“Yes small communities will be the future with lots of hand labor growing food.” But less. there is tech (hydroponics, vertica gardens, and that’s not going away… it will be a blend.
“Gut the USA as you dream it is dead and gone with the techno feudal barons behind the golden golem.”
Obviously you haven’t reasd my book yet…
People romanticize small town America. Norman Rockwell and others made collector plates selling the idea.
Ansel Easton Adams romanticized photographs.
Art evokes emotion and when people romanticize the concepts that’s how you know it was art. Back out Fed-Bux to small towns and they’re fields.
Small farming communities need .gov Farm Aid.
Small towns would still be on dial-up without Fed Bux. Or even candlelight without Fed-Bux sponsored rural electrification.
Small towns complain as unprofitable hospitals close.
The Opiloid crisis ring a bell? – most of them on SSDI.
Big towns are the same. Watch Brownstwon, TX grow into Space City, U.S.A. just like the Motor City, U.S.A. or Hollywood, U.S.A. They’ll need sports stadiums.
(“People romanticize small town America. Norman Rockwell and others made collector plates selling the idea.
Ansel Easton Adams romanticized photographs.”)
I once dreamed of becoming another Ansel Adams, capturing beauty through the lens—but life had other plans. Instead, I found myself navigating the chapters of a Divine Comedy, surviving astronomical medical bills and a toxic marriage while fighting to preserve some quality of life. As crappy and unfair as it’s been, I wouldn’t trade the lessons. The hardship taught me to build, to adapt, and most of all, to recognize suffering in others. Just last night, I met a young woman from a hill tribe in the Philippines. She didn’t share much, but when she learned I make wine, her eyes lit up. I rushed home and gifted her and her husband two of my finest bottles—just a small lift, a bit of light. Security would be welcome in my final stretch, sure, but I’ve weathered worse. And these days, I carry what I can, and I give when I can. That’s enough.
small town America, 4th of July parade, 2025
https://northplattebulletin.com/sutherland-july-4th-parade/
also in Sutherlands past,,,
back in the 70s there was a mulitple murder scene as a PEDOPHILE went on a murdreous rampage to cover his sins in this small town in fly over country
Florence was 10 yrs old,,,
“And Simants, who was 29 in October, 1975, killed Florence first, after sexually assaulting her. And then one-by-one; her grandparents, Henry and Audrey Marie Kellie, her Uncle David and her other two cousins, 6-year-old Deanna, and 5-year-old Daniel. Both her grandmother, Audrey Marie, and cousin Deanna were also assaulted after they were shot and killed”
https://www.knopnews2.com/content/news/The-State-v-Simants-564149201.html
should have fried his sorry ass
https://www.wowt.com/2023/09/06/nebraska-murderer-erwin-simants-dies-prison-age-77/
Yes I find the damn pedophiles,,, totally in need of correction
Great point of view! I’m up early even after having picked up a very nice refrigerator yesterday from a friend as she was replacing it! Value as is exceeds 1K. America the bountiful! Literally, we have so much nice or repairable stuff that often goes to the dump! Acquiring money is essential to a degree, but overdoing it is a waste of time, and just financing The Man! Why? Why be the richest man in Babylon when you die? Own a van, truck, and/or trailer and use it effectively. Even at my age, it’s worth watching for value being overlooked in the physical arena. Living rural is more relaxing and more fun, but if don’t bring a likeminded woman with you, don’t plan on finding one. The effort is too great and the odds of finding a compatible one are too low. Of course, most city(and suburban) women turn up their noses at rural life – not sure why.
Folks should aways work for themselves 24/7, even if that involves the essential luxury of sleeping. You can do a seriously professional job for an employer or client while still recognizing the importance of remaining your own first priority and making it so! Today I avoided competitive buying at various sales for the luxury of actually catching up on essential work here.
HAPPY *INDEPENDENCE* DAY!
That’s more important than the fourth day of the month.
Sadly we no longer repair. we throw away.. the cost to repair is more for the parts than it is to buy a new unit..
I have had to force myself to throw out crap I should have dealt with twenty years ago. My downsizing started in 2002, and continues. Personally, I no longer have a toaster. I just don’t use one enough to allocate space for it. My kitchen isn’t tiny, but it has limited space. I use a counter top microwave for most routine heating jobs. and when it breaks, I pay the $120 for the new one.
That refrigerator was and is in perfect shape. She kept it in great condition and only replaced it because she’d had it for a while and was concerned about that. Some people have more money than they know how to spend.
The straw hat wisdom of a simple peanut farmer !!! what a man to admire..used his wisdom and efforts to help as many as he could.
another one I adored was Ford..there to what a decent man.. I believe Reagan believed his plan would work..the trickle down theory if the executives and leaders of industry had the moral and ethical base of the industrialists of his youth..it could of worked..the trickle down went Bernie Madoff on just a number on a sheet of paper for one or buried in a jar..it has to be moving or it loses value.. the velocity of cash.. giving the few a hand up to keep their local economies worming like a well oiled machine. instead the well oiled machine was sent elsewhere to Bernie their bottom lines..
Who in their right mind would pay 250 million dollars to get a job that pays 400 thousand a year for four years.
US Presidents.
Isnt that all the proof we need for corruotion ?
It depends. Where did the 250 million come from? If it’s other people’s money, then it’s OK(pragmatically). If not, then there is either another angle to break even or they just want the bragging rights or have too much money.
…or Mike , the other people are buying “something”.
Of course they are.
When the government can BANKRUPT your business if it dislikes you … or cause it to GROW if it likes you, of course you are going to spend BIG BUCKS so as to protect yourself.
Look what happened to AT&T when the Government (Supreme Court) forced them to open themselves up to competition which they had been protected from for decades as a well entrenched MONOPOLY.
William McGowan who sued ATT had a very small company in Texas, MCI’s predecessor, with just a few dozen employees – about 2 dozen I seem to recall, and was so broke by the time the Supreme Court heard his case that he had cardboard in his shoes because the soles were worn out on the day of the argument and he couldn’t afford a new pair of shoes to go to Court in. ATT was BIG and RICH because of the government .. with legions of well paid lawyers and lobbyists, and if not for those well paid people the government would never have let them be a monopoly for so many decades. ATT lost it’s monopoly status via that lawsuit, first with long distance lines (MCI’s desire to be in that business) and then was forced to break apart it’s various operating companies … which cut the company down from being the one of the most profitable company in the Fortune 100 to within 5 years having to scrap like everybody else for business.
Same thing happened with trucking companies and trucking freight rate deregulation
Same thing happened with the railroads and rail freight rate deregulation.
Recently the government effectively did the same thing in reverse with the Covid 19 Vaccinations, which by Government edict they virtually REQUIRED most people to get if they wanted to keep their jobs. HIGHLY PROFITABLE to a couple of highly favored companies.
YEP … big money is at stake when it comes to government, which is why businesses and rich people spend so much money to get it on their side, and KEEP IT on their side.
hmmm .. it’s only 400 thou by the standard paycheck.. look at the value .. a senator when first running for the house stopped by had coffee we visited .nice man good morals and ethics..not wealthy by any means.. was in the house then voted out.. then in the Senate.. I personally wouldn’t give him the time of day..once they corrupted him he’s worth millions..the gifts and vacations free medical and huge retirement packages.. the free airfare .hell I have coffee with his private pilot and his wife for the private jet all lobbyist sponsored..take away the legalized bribes and make them read and write the bills and get their benefits the same as joe the plumber..and healthcare the same as mom and pop.. no free ride.. punch a time clock..work a forty hour week and only have off the same holidays laborers do.. it would change..
re: Spartan times
Folks,
Yesterday the summer palace of the Danish royal family in Aarhus, Marselisborg Palace, saw a gathering of EU, Danish, and “special invited guests”. VIP types celebrated a start to Denmark’s rotating EU presidency.
President Zelensky received a warm welcome from King Frederik X. The former’s address at the evening Gala Dinner attracted coverage from Ukrainian msm as well as the “Sweden Herald”. Someone has also posted his speech to “Archive” for those so disposed. I don’t know what offerings appeared on the dinner menu.
Meanwhile Wimbledon’s Royal Box who’s-who served up front row spectator Professor Brian Cox for the masses. DJ George may be in tune with the professor’s musical side as well as his particle physics daytime gig. BBC4 radio listeners of course would be banging on the bars to hear more episodes of the Professor presenting his famous program “The Infinite Monkey Cage and the Wonders of”.
I’m at a loss for words over bemoaning potential immigrants who potentially may be felons while elevating a convicted felon (a pretty bad character all around) to the most powerful office in the world.
We the People have found the judge to be in contempt, so we the people elected Trump to be 47 president of these United States
so take your convicted felon feelings and stuff em, as we have pardoned those false CONvictions by re-electing him.
Vox populi
your loss of words are filled with a chorus of celebration
the ILLEGAL immigrants can leave voluntarily and come back through proper channels, of course the criminal minded invaders won’t want to do it
Happy 4th be with you
potentially? as soon as they set foot in the USA they have removed the potentially,,, word-twister goes by the moniker ‘truth’ what a fork in the tongue.
those who worry more about illegal invaders over the citizenship are traitors to our country PERIOD
Happy 4th is a USA Holiday, not a invader celebration
Truth,
It is telling that a CNN moderator of the first 2024 Presidential Debate has opened a pandora’s box of Biden Administration alleged misdeeds by co-authoring a 2025 book, “Original Sin”. Msm reports of this past week suggest a former First Son lately of no fixed address has parted ways with prior legal counsel allegedly due bills in arrears. Do autopen special ink modules accept refills?
Nature lovers scored an unmentioned win: (All is Quietly Saved on the Western Front!) 1 million public land acres in Western States prevented from sale, nixed from BB Bill)
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-29/senator-mike-lee-scraps-plan-to-sell-public-land-fierce-backlash
“This is a victory for everyone who hikes, hunts, explores and cherishes these places, but it’s not the end of the threats to our public lands,” said Athan Manuel, director of Sierra Club’s Lands Protection Program, in a statement. “Donald Trump and his allies in Congress have made it clear they will use every tool at their disposal to give away our public lands to billionaires and corporate polluters.”
Still in Climate Change Denial? 13 dead in historical flash flooding, TX:
https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/texas-flooding-07-04-2025
‘Hunt, in Kerr County, saw about 6.5 inches of rain in just three hours early Friday — a 1-in-100-year event there, meaning it has about a 1% chance of happening in any given year.’
90% of Bitcoin already mined, strangely, mining remaining will take incrementally more energy:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-consumption-transaction-comparison-visa/
A matter of design: why Bitcoin consumes so much energy
‘Of all the 21 million Bitcoins that can exist at the same time, nearly 90 percent was already mined in mid-2021. This, however, does not necessarily mean that the Bitcoin supply is running out as the last Bitcoin was forecast to be mined around the year 2140. This is a design choice in the cryptocurrency: The closer Bitcoin gets to its supply limits, the computing power – and therefore energy – needed to mine goes up incrementally. The BTC mining difficulty or amount of computing power being applied to mine Bitcoin reflects that: Bitcoin mining in, say, 2014 – when there were less Bitcoin in circulation – was easier and less energy consuming than in 2021. By then, there were significantly more coins in circulation and the cryptocurrency’s design essentially tries to halt the creation of more.’
AI energy use, Trump nixed Clean Energy support from BB Bill:
‘Meta and Microsoft are working to fire up new nuclear power plants. OpenAI and President Donald Trump announced the Stargate initiative, which aims to spend $500 billion—more than the Apollo space program—to build as many as 10 data centers (each of which could require five gigawatts, more than the total power demand from the state of New Hampshire). Apple announced plans to spend $500 billion on manufacturing and data centers in the US over the next four years. Google expects to spend $75 billion on AI infrastructure alone in 2025.
by 2028 more than half of the electricity going to data centers will be used for AI. At that point, AI alone could consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households.’
We “the people” all know how they log-rolled several misdemeanors into a so-called “felony.” It resulted in making 47, in the eyes of many, a martyr. So let’s have no more of this sanctimonious claptrap!
it’s a good day to read this from beginning to end
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
I’ll forward this to Hakeem Jeffries…
Sorry, here’s the link to excerpt on AI energy usage:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
(“If you slept in this morning brothers and sisters, here’s the embarrassing question few have the gumption to ask: “Why do you work harder for others than you do for yourself?”)
Let me see..hmm. back in the sixties and seventies mom stayed home as the adult presence to raise their children. then deregulation and outsourcing industry.. mom was forced to go to work and children were left to be raised by others or mainstream media where moral and ethical guidelines were dropped in the name of art, creativity and entertainment… Then In today’s economy, the average American family often works harder for survival than for self-fulfillment my averave workweek was a hundred hours a week buried by medical bills—i did not work those long hours out of choice, but necessity. With the cost of living outpacing wages, families must stretch every dollar to cover housing, food, healthcare, and childcare, leaving little room for rest or personal growth. Many parents juggle multiple jobs or opposite shifts just to stay afloat, sacrificing time, health, and dreams to meet basic needs. The pressure to provide forces them to prioritize others—employers, landlords, even government systems—over themselves, creating a cycle where existence demands more labor than aspiration.
“my average workweek was a hundred hours a week buried by medical bills”
“Healthcare” grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation.
Charles Hugh Smith: I’ve been writing about America’s healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will bankrupt the nation all by itself.
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The truly sad part…is enough money is spent that it could be fixed.. trillions of dollars are spent on healthcare policies where the policy company will refuse or deny or pay only a fraction of the medical expenses. up until the present inflationary episode..an average of a hundred billion is given to the pharmaceutical companies for research on new medications that they are more than willing to charge tens of thousands of percent more to the citizens of the country that paid for the original research.. medical facilities bankrupt and take everything from the people using harsh methods to embarrass and insult the very people that paid for their existance.. refusing or delaying service all due to your status and ability to pay…
the problem isn’t fixing the problem..that could be achieved easily..the problem is.. if the fixed it the. the insurance industry would be put in a position where they wouldn’t reap the huge bonuses they get.
Loob – make sure you got Ure kneepads cleaned and ready, and have some anal-ez on hand, for Mondays’ Empty Victory Celebration, heard netanwahoo was going to plant a star of david flag in donnies’ RUMP on Monday…”ohh do it again bibs, do it again and again”-DT
Ure president..brokeback donnie , will most certainly be on his knees Receiving his master, in the oval orafice.
Brokeback bibi comes bearing..?
Well lets see , he has brought Nuclear material through peterboro airport – see abel danger report Re. 911.
He has brought tons of false, faked intel, including charts and pictures of the BS nukes in Iran.
He will also be receiving MOAR gifts from You, an American Taxpayer (s).. our non stealth, and very slow B2 bombers and remaining GBU bunkerbuster bombs, cause..well you know, WE Are israHells Bitch, now.
Like I always say – everything is FAKE – now July 4th independence is not only fake, but one big fucking LIE.
BOW DOWN – Ure master comes Monday!
The US gets dragged into the “Net” that others have woven for it. (willingly by our bought and paid for DC and NYC elites – only those away from those places and of lower stature, the one who’s blood will be shed, oppose such a development)
The setup for GA Stewart’s interpretation of Nostradamus as it relates to the US is nearly complete. Thousands will die … eventually it will be millions.
See Goodfellas and/or Sopranos for the tRump game plan-next steps..
Bankruptcy is next up for the zionists states of america..
Wee this is soo much fun..WASTING ALL of Our Blood and Treasure on schlomos’ ME nightmare !
All Us serfs need to be working harder this month make up for lost work due that foolish holiday.
Painfully obvious – we have NO INDEPENDENCE what so ever in this country anymore – SOLD.
Just like THEIR forfeit souls.
(“Loob – make sure you got Ure kneepads cleaned and ready, and have some anal-ez on hand, for Mondays’ Empty Victory Celebration, heard netanwahoo was going to plant a star of david flag in donnies’ RUMP on Monday…”ohh do it again bibs, do it again and again”-DT”)
OTFLMAO…you forgot the moist towelette to wipe the Shit off my nose as I kiss the bankers ass or give him a sloppy toppy to pay for the floor repair and dentist bills lol lol lol…
California is a trainwreck, a canary in the coal mine, revealing what happens when the Democratic Party has unfettered dominance of Sacramento politics. The high speed rail project was supposed to run along the efficient Interstate 5 corridor per tue ballot measure that passed, however, Sacramento pork politics moved it along the 99 corridor. My dad has a 160 acre farm in an area called Lakeside, just north of the great Tulare Lake, and I’ve been stunned the last couple years seeing the construction of the high speed rail boondoggle when we visited. There’s no track just unused concrete overpasses dissecting very productive farmland, expensive farmland, raising the price of the project. The rural folks down there hate it, and don’t think it will ever be completed. It runs about about 1 mile west of my dad’s farm. We worked on the farm growing up, my dad told us all we needed to go to college and learn how to support ourselves because his farm wasn’t big enough to do it, he always gave us good advice.
He used to always say the path to hell was paved with good intentions, and this high-speed rail project illustrates it well. California is going to become a red state again, 40% voted for Trump in 2024, and as a California resident, people are getting tired of the high taxes, and failed policies. There’s no way they’re gonna scale California Liberal policies across the United States, this experiment has failed.
Happy 4th of July ?????
Speaking of the book, how can this be accomplished legally, and how large would the male need to be?:
“Point is, there are some good use cases for conversion of midsized to large shopping males into private residences.”
Building regulations and codes box us into inefficient and untenable choices. My house would not serve my needs if it adhered to these stupid modern codes. As guidelines, they are useful. As “law”, they are disgraceful and only encourage graft, corruption, and stagnation.
As one who has seen the “Operating Statements” of what it takes to run and maintain a “mall type” building … the monthly rents would have to be astronomical just to cover it’s monthly operating costs.
The costs per year per square foot to keep a midsize mall open, NOT counting mall related labor, runs from $30 to $50 per square foot PER YEAR … big .malls are higher, pushing $100/sf/yr. A 1500sf apartment would have building operating costs of probably near $60,000 per year, $5,000/mo … and that is before any renovations costs or capital return /profit to the landlord is added in (which would probably take the actual rental cost to at least $10,000/mo- maybe more, a LOT more).
Shopping Malls were NOT built to be efficient buildings … but to make a BOLD statement that would encourage people to spend money there. There “Best Use” when retired as a mall is to rip them down and open up the land for more efficient future uses since the land under them is usually well located and can redeveloped fairly quickly (within 10 years)
(” I don’t believe I ever saw a modern pres in a straw hat, come to think of it.”)
hmm.. Jimmy Carter comes to mind.. and if we had followed his idea of a society. Jimmy Carter’s early tax philosophy was rooted in equity and simplification, aiming to close loopholes and ensure that all Americans, regardless of wealth, contributed fairly to the system. He famously called the tax code a “disgrace” and a “welfare program for the rich,” and proposed reforms that would have flattened the playing field.His vision collided with political and economic headwinds. The Tax Reduction and Reform Act of 1978, which critics dubbed the “Millionaires Tax Relief Program,” ended up favoring upper-income earners more than Carter intended. While the bill included across-the-board rate cuts and a new personal credit for low- and middle-income families, it also preserved or introduced corporate tax breaks, investment incentives, and loopholes that disproportionately benefited the wealthy.Carter’s push for a balanced budget was sidelined by inflation, recession fears, and pressure for stimulus spending. The result? A growing deficit and a tax structure that increasingly leaned on the middle class to shoulder the burden with double digit inflation. Had Carter’s original plan—simplified taxes, shared responsibility, and fiscal restraint—been embraced, it might have laid a more resilient foundation and buffered the U.S. from the debt-fueled inequality we’re grappling with today. During Reagan’s presidency, the groundwork was laid for a massive shift in economic priorities. While deregulation and supply-side policies were sold as revitalizing the economy, they disproportionately benefited the wealthy and corporate elite. The 1983 Social Security amendments, framed as a rescue, actually redirected $2.7 trillion in surplus payroll taxes—meant to secure future benefits—into the general fund, where it was spent on tax cuts, military expansion, and other programs. This maneuver, described by some economists as a “heist,” hollowed out long-term Social Security stability.Fast forwarding to the financial crises that followed banks bailed out with taxpayer money awarded billions in executive bonuses, even as they posted massive losses. The public bore the cost, while the elite reaped the rewards—mirroring your hive metaphor, where the queen’s chamber is gilded while the workers starve.its all just part of the modern societies present business model.Reagan’s policies didn’t just shift wealth upward—they normalized extraction as governance, setting the stage for future administrations to repeat the cycle.Now we see the struggling oligarchs wanting to preserve this business model.. When oligarchs cling to a failing business model—one built on extraction, debt, and illusion—they often reach a point where preservation becomes aggression. The “if I can’t have it, no one can” attitude isn’t just emotional—it’s strategic. War becomes a tool to distract the masses,Protect their assets.. the spoiled kid with the chocolate Easter bunny..Potentially resetting the rules by destroying those in their path. it’s All a last-ditch effort to preserve a dying paradigm. the alternative is instead of having elite status..that could buy a fleet of plane buildings etc..become a ham sandwich as it collapses similar to the Weimar depression that took billions to buy a loaf of bread.
Did you ever wonder why in the end of days that all of the armies show up on foot and horseback with swords? EMP from A CME. Watch, soon the sun will start showing instability. Cities will implode.
I’m not saying you’re wrong.
Generally, the EMP will have to affect everything but the horse moving ships. And the refiners to juice the ships… and the GPS systems the trucks use to move the oil from the wells to the refiners. And the horse food ecosystem. Not to forget all the starving hoards pirating and eating the horses because $WMT pick-up will be down. I don’t know. It would take months and months to build sails for the steel ships.
Not to forget $AMZN will buy the horses switching to horse delivery when the EV fleet stops.
Are you trolling?
I was listening to Brother Stair reruns yesterday. He’s been dead. He mentioned during the broadcast that the end is near and admitted he’s been saying that for over 20 years, “the end is even nearer” he says.
Quote Of The Day
“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?”
– Mae West
Lol lol lol lol…I was always afraid to visit a Pet shop… afraid they would think I was trying to shop lift a python lol lol lo! lol
just kidding there the Mae west comment dragged it out of me lol
So if I’m seeing this correctly illegal Ag, hospitality workers will fall off the work force but be added back as newly employed seasonally verified employees that do not have to leave the country and using the old playbook of adding back new .Gov employees, and newly created company hires the unemployment % will drop like a rock the Trump miracle.
This will be yuge!
UFC confirms Trump’s plan to host a fight at White House in 2026
Trump said he wants the card to be held in front of more than 20,000 people as part of a celebration honoring America’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
Been working on Ure Downsizing book this July 4th weekend. A few typos hear and their, but overall good wordsmithing.
I’m continuing to work on my own chapter: what happens when the sprawl expands everywhere, and you become just another rural holdout against urban blight. In every direction from me there are massive apartments and subdivisions going up in the middle of nowhere, emptying into private sewer plants whose tailwaters run into the creeks and rivers which source the area lakes from which potable water supplies are drawn.
When the music stops, all these people will be shit out of luck and water, and simultaneously knee deep in both. And all of these transplants are armed to the teeth and convinced that their version of god has ordained them to lay waste to the Texas prairie to take what they are entitled to. If you think the open range wars of the 19th century were bad, the water resource war we are headed for will be far worse. There are too many people to provide water for and deal with their shit without technology. A widespread breakdown in utility services will go genocidal in a few short weeks. Under those conditions, the notorious Deagle projections would become a burst of improbable optimism.
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THE FALL OF THE FED BEGINS: TRUMP DEMANDS POWELL’S RESIGNATION OVER $2.5 BILLION PALACE SCANDAL
It’s official — President Trump has called for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to resign immediately or face removal for perjury before Congress. The trigger? A $2.5 billion secret Fed headquarters rebuild
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