Oh look - the latest article in the ongoing series - “Sure we’ve turned America into a shithole, but why are young people avoiding sex/marriage/parenthood?”

Not coincidentally pretty much exactly so.

Sort of the clinical equivalent of a big, blinking neon sign that says, “I am a psychopath.”

Exactly what’s happening here is that addressing climate change would affect the executive pay packages and stock dividends of the wealthy few, and they aren’t going to allow that, no matter what it takes. So they’re employing their political cronies and operatives to hide the truth.

Which neatly demonstrates how it is that the wealthy few are not simply passively harmful, by concentrating too much wealth in too few hands, but actively and deliberately harmful, by using their wealth and the influence it buys to serve their own ill-considered, short-term self-interest no matter the harm it does to other people or even to the civilization of which they’re a part.

South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

The dirty little secret here is that Sourh Texas is causing the shortage.

Far and away the biggest waste of water in the region is the government-subsidized South Texas rice farming industry.

Just like virtually everything else in the current US, a relative handful of wealthy parasites and ther politician cronies are directly responsible for the problem, but blame it on poor and not coincidentally disempowered innocents.

Actually, there’s no basis for any doubt whatsoever.

Israel has zero integrity and they WILL violate any ceasefire, guaranteed.

It’s things like this that make me suspect that the Republicans are actively trying to destroy the US.

If the goal is to benefit the US broadly, and into the future, there’s no possible way that discouraging alternatve energy (or EVs) is a sound strategy. It’s basically just handing China hegemony in the coming world order.

So it’s pretty much either the case that Republican politicians are impossibly stupid, or that their actual goal is to guarantee Chinese hegemony and reduce the US to a bankrupt has-been.

No question about it IMO.

At this point, I don’t even think they’d bother pretending otherwise. Trump would go on Truth.social and post an unhinged screed that pretty much boiled down to “Serves 'em right.”

And the media wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow.

I don’t doubt it for even a second.

Um… yeah. We knew that already.

The point obviously never was eliminating supposed waste.

It was, blatantly, a purge, meant solely to get rid of anyone who wasn’t a Trump sycophant, anyone who was currently or ever had been involved in investigating the myriad lies, scams and crimes of Trump and his cronies and/or anyone who might stand in the way of their future lies, scams and crimes.

Did you really not know that? Where have you been the last few months?

I would assume that maritime would be much easier, since battery weight would be more easily dealt with, and propellers and screws can be turned by motors more or less as effectively as by engines.

I hadn’t really thought about it, but aviation is potentially going to be a challenge. Traditional jets won’t work - they’ll need to use propellers or rotors or something like a turboprop, which means lower altitudes and slower speeds.

Hmm…

Guaranteed that future histories of the collapse of the US will include the phrase “rampant corruption.”

It was a brilliant bit of theater, just like their mass drone response to Israel’s last provocation.

In both cases now, Iran has managed to make Israel, and now the US, look both antagonistic and foolish. Their precisely measured responses really highlight the fact that they didn’t provoke either of these fights, that they have no intention of engaging in pointless bloodshed, but that, if pressed, they can and will respond in kind.

It makes them look like the only adults in the room.

Israel is a rogue state.

And this is why DOGE gutted the Office for Vehicle Automation Safety at the NHTSA.

Even MTG is more principled and rational than Trump.

Between the Duterte family and the Marcos family, there really isn’t much question as to why Filipinos see politicians as a top source of disinformation, is there?

…Congress to claw back…

That would require courage and determination, which means it’s not going to happen, because those are qualities Congress no longer possesses.

Surely now at least some few of the people in authority who have ignored Trump’s grossly obvious unfitness for office will do something, right?

Right?

Then next up is to finish criminalizing homelessness so that those people (and many more) can be converted into slaves to the new generation of robber barons.