how does a letter from the Acting AG have any force behind it? The Democrats need to obsessively take actions, more than sternly-worded letters; subpoenas would be the first step. Yes I know anyone in the Trump admin can ignore them with no fear of retaliation but it's a place to start. They need to exert some power and see what happens.
It is seriously underreported that in addition to crude oil the clusterfuck in the strait of Hormuz is holding up significant global supplies of important foundational chemicals like sulfur and urea.
These last two are principally used to create fertilizers. Spring planting is over for the northern hemisphere for this year.
Globally, farmers have planted less than they have in recent years. In the American Midwest, the government reports that plantings of wheat this spring are lower than every other year except 1919, when records began.
Making the situation worse is that the Trump USDA really fucked up last year and its crop estimates, so we know we can't trust the numbers. But we don't know whether the numbers that have been published overestimate or underestimate farm activity.
We do know this. There's a lot less fertilizer being applied. From an environmental standpoint this might be a good thing. But from a human being who likes to eat everyday point of view this is a disaster.
Fewer acres, in the real likelihood of less produced per acre because of the fertilizer shortage.
Then consider if, or rather when, there is drought during this growing season. Droughts cut into yields. That's a huge number of downward pressures on the amount of food grown in the United States. And of course you can multiply this in Northern hemispheric agricultural zones around the world.
I would argue that next to the war, this is the most pressing issue on the face of the planet right now. Now. What are we going to do at the end of this growing cycle, when agricultural production is many, many tons less than what is needed to keep the world fed? What are we going to do in the first or second or third quarter of 2027 when commodity stores, where Rich Nations have squirreled away food supplies in previous attempts to keep agricultural prices up, go empty?
The people remaining on the Earth will then live season to season, until there is a series of annual bumper crops that will fill out the system and begin to replenish storage.
But what is the likelihood of that given global climactic instability? And what about the effect of the super El nino building in the equatorial Pacific over the last several months?
Even if, the war was to stop in the next half hour. Even if somehow there was a major global sea lift to get fertilizer and diesel fuel out through the agricultural regions, what would that do? the growing season is determined by the position of the Earth in space. There's no way humanity has any control over that. What an international program to build greenhouses?
This generation of humanity? We assholes? We're going to save humanity and the Earth from ourselves? Are there enough of us who can see past our own self-interest to actually do that before the worst arrives?
You know what's going to happen next in Washington, right? The asshole's in charge are going to go back to saying that there's not enough money to feed people to let them see the doctor to patch roads and highways to keep schools warm and lighted. They might even point to the fact that well you had to give us $2 billion because of all the evil done by the people you elected before us. And that leaves the cupboard bare.
It won’t. The whole thing is absurd. These idiots don’t have the power to bind future heads of their departments from making prosecutorial and investigative decisions.
If you still own a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, and can't afford to park it for the next 6 months to a year, it would probably be a good idea to change its motor oil in the next few days.
There are too many signals, including messages from two major auto manufacturers to their their dealership networks, and a purported internal message by a large national chain. Auto parts stores, that the first measurable secondary effect of the bullshit in the strait of hormuz may hit American store shelves in less than weeks.
Formulations of the increasingly esoteric weights of synthetic motor oils require feedstock chemicals that are also caught up in the clusterfuck. It's possible that within weeks or less owners of newer and or sophisticated vehicles will not be able to find the precise oil weights required by their vehicles manufacturer.
If all this turns out as some in the automotive press are beginning to expect, these vehicle owners will have choices to make. Switch to another weight and risk violating their warranty, or beginning huge searches through a crippled supply chain to find exactly what they need.
And as with any supply disruption, we may see declining inventories and rising prices for what's left. People who drive for a living, especially rideshare folks, maybe the first class of Americans to pay personally and miserably for the the American military adventure in the Gulf.
Even if there was a law it would be up to a president to enforce it.
Our entire constitutional order rests on the idea that the chief executive, the person who can launch nuclear weapons unilaterally, is not so evil or stupid as to fail to enforce every law.
For those of an administrative bent, a body was found which was believed to be Sqn Ldr Fidler so buried in a named grave. It later became clear that was not his body so his name was added to a memorial to the missing and the gravestone charged to “An airman known unto God”. When the recently discovered body was identified as Sqn Ldr Fidler he received a named grave and in due course his name will be removed from the memorial.
Senator John Kennedy says the billion for the ballroom is being cut from the reconciliation bill, after Mad Lord Yam demanded John Thune fire the Senate Parliamentarian for the crime of telling Mad Lord Yam "no".
I've mentioned this before, in most deliberative bodies the Parliamentarian's opinion is only advisory and the presiding officer has the final say (subject to appeal by the body). Is it different in the Senate? If not, why isn't Thune being blamed?
Her decision are advisory, but in practice only once in the last 50 years has the parliamentarian's ruling been overruled by the chair (Nelson Rockefeller overruled the parliamentarian on a cloture process in 1975) and the backlash was so severe that Senators immediately agreed not to do that again.
how does a letter from the Acting AG have any force behind it? The Democrats need to obsessively take actions, more than sternly-worded letters; subpoenas would be the first step. Yes I know anyone in the Trump admin can ignore them with no fear of retaliation but it's a place to start. They need to exert some power and see what happens.
This is like the deal the Sacklers got, except stupider.
It is seriously underreported that in addition to crude oil the clusterfuck in the strait of Hormuz is holding up significant global supplies of important foundational chemicals like sulfur and urea.
These last two are principally used to create fertilizers. Spring planting is over for the northern hemisphere for this year.
Globally, farmers have planted less than they have in recent years. In the American Midwest, the government reports that plantings of wheat this spring are lower than every other year except 1919, when records began.
Making the situation worse is that the Trump USDA really fucked up last year and its crop estimates, so we know we can't trust the numbers. But we don't know whether the numbers that have been published overestimate or underestimate farm activity.
We do know this. There's a lot less fertilizer being applied. From an environmental standpoint this might be a good thing. But from a human being who likes to eat everyday point of view this is a disaster.
Fewer acres, in the real likelihood of less produced per acre because of the fertilizer shortage.
Then consider if, or rather when, there is drought during this growing season. Droughts cut into yields. That's a huge number of downward pressures on the amount of food grown in the United States. And of course you can multiply this in Northern hemispheric agricultural zones around the world.
I would argue that next to the war, this is the most pressing issue on the face of the planet right now. Now. What are we going to do at the end of this growing cycle, when agricultural production is many, many tons less than what is needed to keep the world fed? What are we going to do in the first or second or third quarter of 2027 when commodity stores, where Rich Nations have squirreled away food supplies in previous attempts to keep agricultural prices up, go empty?
The people remaining on the Earth will then live season to season, until there is a series of annual bumper crops that will fill out the system and begin to replenish storage.
But what is the likelihood of that given global climactic instability? And what about the effect of the super El nino building in the equatorial Pacific over the last several months?
Even if, the war was to stop in the next half hour. Even if somehow there was a major global sea lift to get fertilizer and diesel fuel out through the agricultural regions, what would that do? the growing season is determined by the position of the Earth in space. There's no way humanity has any control over that. What an international program to build greenhouses?
This generation of humanity? We assholes? We're going to save humanity and the Earth from ourselves? Are there enough of us who can see past our own self-interest to actually do that before the worst arrives?
You know what's going to happen next in Washington, right? The asshole's in charge are going to go back to saying that there's not enough money to feed people to let them see the doctor to patch roads and highways to keep schools warm and lighted. They might even point to the fact that well you had to give us $2 billion because of all the evil done by the people you elected before us. And that leaves the cupboard bare.
Nighters sheeple, be kind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7F1k358i4&ra=m
This shouldn't hold up under scrutiny. Blanche threw in a made-up word in there- "Lawfare." I would think defining that would get the document voided.
It won’t. The whole thing is absurd. These idiots don’t have the power to bind future heads of their departments from making prosecutorial and investigative decisions.
It’s so stupid.
It is almost certain to be challenged.
The case of Trump vs. Trump calls for rewriting the classic line from Gilbert & Sullivan.
He is the very model of a modern sovereign citizen.
The Trump v Trump case is at the heart of Bleak House 2: Representatives Boogaloo.
Nice.
If you still own a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, and can't afford to park it for the next 6 months to a year, it would probably be a good idea to change its motor oil in the next few days.
There are too many signals, including messages from two major auto manufacturers to their their dealership networks, and a purported internal message by a large national chain. Auto parts stores, that the first measurable secondary effect of the bullshit in the strait of hormuz may hit American store shelves in less than weeks.
Formulations of the increasingly esoteric weights of synthetic motor oils require feedstock chemicals that are also caught up in the clusterfuck. It's possible that within weeks or less owners of newer and or sophisticated vehicles will not be able to find the precise oil weights required by their vehicles manufacturer.
If all this turns out as some in the automotive press are beginning to expect, these vehicle owners will have choices to make. Switch to another weight and risk violating their warranty, or beginning huge searches through a crippled supply chain to find exactly what they need.
And as with any supply disruption, we may see declining inventories and rising prices for what's left. People who drive for a living, especially rideshare folks, maybe the first class of Americans to pay personally and miserably for the the American military adventure in the Gulf.
I got the oil changed a month ago.
Too bad there isn't a law that a POTUS only has 90 days to nominate people for cabinet positions. Blanche is here to stay.
Even if there was a law it would be up to a president to enforce it.
Our entire constitutional order rests on the idea that the chief executive, the person who can launch nuclear weapons unilaterally, is not so evil or stupid as to fail to enforce every law.
Speaking of taxes, the Bozo guy opined today…
Referring to one of his Amazon workers in New York making around $50,000 a year, Jeff called the idea of taxing them "absurd."
"Why are you taxing them so much? I really am puzzled by this."
Oh fuck off, Bezos.
Why are YOU paying them so little?
Why? Because walking butt sores like yourself DON'T pay taxes.
Yeah, fuck that fuck. In other news a WW2 pilot has been brought in from the cold.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w41ydpgj3o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2wgx8j91o
The slight problem in this case is that someone else was buried under his name. The CWGC is on it though.
They know he's Fidler from the proof.
Wayhey!
For those of an administrative bent, a body was found which was believed to be Sqn Ldr Fidler so buried in a named grave. It later became clear that was not his body so his name was added to a memorial to the missing and the gravestone charged to “An airman known unto God”. When the recently discovered body was identified as Sqn Ldr Fidler he received a named grave and in due course his name will be removed from the memorial.
"Forever barred," my ass.
The next President has all kinds of immunity, so he needs to use it.
hooraaaay for yr
smoking lamp [it lit nao okay!],
but vry sad to lose those puppers in the lede image :/
(fingers crossed for a non-creepy visage in the day's last post!)
But his state tax returns aren't, and those were filed in New York for many years before I think Florida. That might mean something in the future.
New York, do us a solid!
Although, I'm definitely going to be interested in why NOTHING was done for decades when everyone knew he was a crooked swindler
Senator John Kennedy says the billion for the ballroom is being cut from the reconciliation bill, after Mad Lord Yam demanded John Thune fire the Senate Parliamentarian for the crime of telling Mad Lord Yam "no".
I've mentioned this before, in most deliberative bodies the Parliamentarian's opinion is only advisory and the presiding officer has the final say (subject to appeal by the body). Is it different in the Senate? If not, why isn't Thune being blamed?
Her decision are advisory, but in practice only once in the last 50 years has the parliamentarian's ruling been overruled by the chair (Nelson Rockefeller overruled the parliamentarian on a cloture process in 1975) and the backlash was so severe that Senators immediately agreed not to do that again.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mmccuoyycf2c
He's hoping to invade Panama and Cuba. Which we already knew, but he's saying it again.
Welcome to the Trump Canal.
Anyone even thinking of making a nomination to the Nobel people can just hang it up.
President Trump, Sir, is a shoo-in for the 2027 Peace Prize. No one else stands a chance.
Panama again, eh?
Wonder how Xi's gonna take to 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.
WE ARE CRIMING. NO IVESTIGAYING OUR CRIMING EVER NEVER.