What’s about Venezuela, NATO, Greenland, tariffs and … you now all the wacky dumb shit he has done?

Sounds like Funny Games.

I had a BBQ going one time and one of my friends was going through a rough patch and didn’t really feel very sociable but would disappear into the woods, come back with a log, chop it into firewood and then poke the fire a bit while adding fuel.

He didn’t say much that day and spent at least 12 hours just tending the fire and one of my friends who didn’t know him said “Man theres always gotta be the fire guy”

It’s like yea… Before we had much technology we had the fire and if we were fortunate enough we had a guy who really liked doing that. People have probably been saying something like this for a million years.

“Will the things help?”

“No the ones that help will be illegal”

This doesn’t seem to be a very good article. How can you talk about China’s energy policy without talking about its massive build out of nuclear power and renewables?

The United States plays many games but very few of them take any kind of long view certainly not our energy policy.

Could have been any number of reasons, but in America they really do push you to get a C-section. They do everything they can to sort of set you up to need it, and then give you the hard sell until you accept.

Like so many things it’s motivated by money.

I thought I made good Mac until my to-be wife made I for my birthday one year early on in our dating.

Even bad mac and cheese is good but really good mac and cheese is so incredibly good. I went out and bought more cheese so she could teach me to make it right the very next weekend.

It’s part of the Israeli strategy that they use on their own people. By implicating as many people as possible in the crime you create allies out of people by binding them to the common cause of not getting prosecuted for crime.

It’s gangster mechanics. Mob mentality. You know crime.

Sanctions are used to bully that’s true. The only people really victimized are the common people in a country as the leadership doesn’t face any amount of want or change in lifestyle.

But the narrative, the excuse that is sold to people who believe themselves to live in “free” and “democratic” countries is that sanctions are used to force the citizens to put pressure on their government. It is a flawed idea and really just translates to “we will punish their peasants because their nobles don’t pay patronage”.

I’m not saying this is good, correct, righteous or effective, but I am saying it is how this is done. Americans fundamentally do no think the same rules apply to them as does the rest of the world and have smugly defended the kinds of trade sanctions that lead directly to mass starvations in other countries.

Americans are also generally deaf to the privation that persists all over our own nation and generally rationalize starving children whether here or abroad to a lack of motivation to simply walk down the street to the grocery store and buy food with plentiful money that you get from working every job.

I am not confident that enough Americans will blame Republicans and Trump for the economic collapse and Even less confident that they will remember that all the way through to November. November might not even get here and Americans will probably have excuses lined up for that too. I don’t think you can reach these people, I think we’re all in for a really bad time.

Trying to explain to my fellow Americans why we put sanctions on other countries makes perfect sense until I say, “and that’s why other countries may have to put sanctions on us.”

They follow the pieces like, “How is that not collective punishment?!” and “they should only put the sanctions on red states” (they kind of already tried that, and capitalism routed around it).

What Donald Trump has convinced the world to do is even worse than sanctions, He’s convinced them to look at a future without reliance upon the United States.

Americans don’t seem to understand who actually pays for all of our shit. Through the petro dollar we were able to hide the damage as we inflated the currency. We kept inflating it just to keep showering money on rich people. That gravy train has ended but we are still showering money on rich people.

The government doesn’t even have to print money to cause hyperinflation. The world just has to stop using our money to do stuff and we fold like soggy cardboard.

Yeah when I was a kid my dad used to say, “If everywhere you go, you’re surrounded by asshole, you need to take your head out of your ass.”

Stuff only burns for so long. We might learn more about the geometry of space and that there is more out there at greater distances where maybe even other Big bangs are possible but there is a certain maximum amount of time that a star can exist.

Over the time scales of the life of a proton the maximum variability in the amount of time a star can burn is a rounding error against the scale of numbers needed to express the amount of time it takes for hawking radiation to reduce black holes to ultra long wavelengths of infrared radiation.