Jan 30, 2025 The Intersection with Popok
Popok Takes a hard look at the alleged business genius and examines where he will be when Trump ends clean energy tax credits and sends bitcoin into a tailspin.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
LOOKS LIKE TRUMP II WILL BE ONE SPECTACULAR FAILURE AFTER ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER…THIS TRUMP PROJECT 2025 IMPLEMENTATION KILLED PEOPLE. TRUMP GUTS AVIATION SAFETY. 7 DAYS LATER PEOPLE DIE.
Trump GUTS Aviation Safety... Then The UNTHINKABLE HAPPENS
Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
JOSH FUNK
— AP
Jan 22, 2025, 11:54 AM EST
YOU KNEW THAT RACIST DONALD WOULD BLAME HIS GUTTING OF AIRCRAFT SAFETY THAT LED TO THE DEATHS OF 67 PEOPLE ON BLACKS & TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY!!!
The
Guardian
Rescuers search Potomac river after plane collides with military helicopter near Washington DC – follow live
TRUMP A MAN WHO NEVER ADMITTED MAKING A MISTAKE AND NOT CAPABLE OF CONSIDERING HIS GUTTING OF AVIATION SAFETY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE COLLISION SAYS, 'WHY DIDN'T THE HELICOPTER GO UP OR DOWN?"
"US President Donald Trump responded to the mid-air collision between a passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, calling the incident "NOT GOOD" and questioning helicopter's flight path on a "CLEAR NIGHT."
In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned why the helicopter didn’t avoid the plane, writing, "The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!”
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THE TIMES OF INDIA
'Why didn't the helicopter go up or down': Donald Trump on mid-air collision in Washington
TOI World Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Updated: Jan 30, 2025
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
A no SH* interview with people who know their SH* “Trump’s First Week Was a SH*TSTORM (w/ David French) | Bulwark Podcast
Jan 24, 2025 The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller
Get a cup of coffee and learn from David French:
“Trump launched his first week back in office signaling to loyal followers that they are free to break the law on his behalf, while telling political opponents—including John Bolton and Mike Pompeo—that he'll put their lives at risk. Meanwhile, an office full of white faces is not evidence of a meritocracy, a shortage of VA nurses or prosecutors at the DOJ is not government efficiency, and Putin is different from the man he was during Trump's first term. Plus, the dangers of the word "invasion" in the immigration context. David French joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.”
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I’m an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, where I write about law, culture, religion, and armed conflict. You can sign up for my weekly newsletter.
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I’m a new kid on the block in Opinion. I joined in January 2023, and while I write on a wide range of topics, a common theme is that I like to explore the story behind the story. What are the reasons for American polarization and dysfunction? Why do so many Americans feel lonely and anxious? Why is religious affiliation in such sharp decline? I’m just as likely to write about faith, friendship, marriage and parenting as I am to write about the war in Ukraine or the latest developments in American constitutional law. I also write quite a bit about religion in America, with a particular focus on the health of the evangelical church.
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MOST RECIENT COLUMN:
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DAVID FRENCH
How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Jan. 26, 2025
By David French
Opinion Columnist
Monday, January 27, 2025
Stalinesque/Trumpesque - Trump is Stalin with facial recognition, digital files on everyone, FBI/KGB, automatic weapons carrying, body armored police warrantless invasion of homes. Trump doesn’t want to be president. “Trump wants to be the savage tyrant.”
Trump’s PHOTO STUNT SET UP Gets QUICKLY REVEALED
“We are used to thinking however mad he is he plays in a political context where you have to worry about coalitions…
He cares about being feared, like a military strongman.”
“Trump wants to be the savage tyrant.”
“This is the most dangerous, charmless, low class, piece of crap who has ever approached the oval office.”
Jan 27, 2025 Harry Litman
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and Talking Feds host Harry Litman report on Trump attempt to set up a dystopian photo op to promote his dangerous agenda.
The New York Times tries to explain President Trump but it’s clear he doesn’t want to be president. “Trump wants to be the savage tyrant.”
The New York Times
In Exacting Retribution, Trump Aims at the Future as Well as the Past
The president made good on promises to seek revenge against enemies during his first week back in power, signaling in the process that anyone who crosses him in the future could also suffer.
By Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Swan Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt
Jan. 27, 2025
Updated 2:10 p.m. ET
After a lot of failures I can finally make a good omelet. I’m going to miss eggs. Get ready for normal to be extreme. FIRE, HURRICANES, DROUGHT, FLOODS, NO EGGS, MEAT or MILK at SUPERMARKETS MASS MIGRATION CAUSED BY STARVATION
This is a non-political YouTube site:
YOU CAN’T BLAME TRUMP FOR BIRD FLU AND NO EGGS AT SUPERMARKETS.
But you ABSOLUTELY CAN BLAME THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:
If Republicans had ALLOWED AL GORE THE WINNER OF THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS TO BE PRESIDENT HUMAN EXISTENCE ON EARTH MIGHT NOT BE THREATENED BY GLOBAL WARMING. BIRD FLU WOULD NOT HAVE THREATENED OUR EGGS.
"An analysis of the NORC data by University of Pennsylvania researcher Steven F. Freeman and journalist Joel Bleifuss concluded that, no matter what standard is used, after a recount of all uncounted votes, Gore would have been the victor.[39"
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“We’re on the last kick,” he said. “The bulk water is gone.”
This article was published 12 years ago:
“HASKELL COUNTY, Kan. — Forty-nine years ago, Ashley Yost’s grandfather sank a well deep into a half-mile square of rich Kansas farmland. He struck an artery of water so prodigious that he could pump 1,600 gallons to the surface every minute.
Last year, Mr. Yost was coaxing just 300 gallons from the earth, and pumping up sand in order to do it. By harvest time, the grit had robbed him of $20,000 worth of pumps and any hope of returning to the bumper harvests of years past.
“That’s prime land,” he said not long ago, gesturing from his pickup at the stubby remains of last year’s crop. “I’ve raised 294 bushels of corn an acre there before, with water and the Lord’s help.” Now, he said, “it’s over.”
The land, known as Section 35, sits atop the High Plains Aquifer, a waterlogged jumble of sand, clay and gravel that begins beneath Wyoming and South Dakota and stretches clear to the Texas Panhandle. The aquifer’s northern reaches still hold enough water in many places to last hundreds of years. But as one heads south, it is increasingly tapped out, drained by ever more intensive farming and, lately, by drought.
Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry. In many other places, there no longer is enough water to supply farmers’ peak needs during Kansas’ scorching summers.
And when the groundwater runs out, it is gone for good. Refilling the aquifer would require hundreds, if not thousands, of years of rains.
This is in many ways a slow-motion crisis — decades in the making, imminent for some, years or decades away for others, hitting one farm but leaving an adjacent one untouched. But across the rolling plains and tarmac-flat farmland near the Kansas-Colorado border, the effects of depletion are evident everywhere. Highway bridges span arid stream beds. Most of the creeks and rivers that once veined the land have dried up as 60 years of pumping have pulled groundwater levels down by scores and even hundreds of feet.
On some farms, big center-pivot irrigators — the spindly rigs that create the emerald circles of cropland familiar to anyone flying over the region — now are watering only a half-circle. On others, they sit idle altogether.
Two years of extreme drought, during which farmers relied almost completely on groundwater, have brought the seriousness of the problem home. In 2011 and 2012, the Kansas Geological Survey reports, the average water level in the state’s portion of the aquifer dropped 4.25 feet — nearly a third of the total decline since 1996.
And that is merely the average. “I know my staff went out and re-measured a couple of wells because they couldn’t believe it,” said Lane Letourneau, a manager at the State Agriculture Department’s water resources division. “There was a 30-foot decline.”
Kansas agriculture will survive the slow draining of the aquifer — even now, less than a fifth of the state’s farmland is irrigated in any given year — but the economic impact nevertheless will be outsized. In the last federal agriculture census of Kansas, in 2007, an average acre of irrigated land produced nearly twice as many bushels of corn, two-thirds more soybeans and three-fifths more wheat than did dry land.
Farmers will take a hit as well. Raising crops without irrigation is far cheaper, but yields are far lower. Drought is a constant threat: the last two dry-land harvests were all but wiped out by poor rains…
But as long as there is enough water, most farmers will favor corn. “The issue that often drives this is economics,” said David W. Hyndman, who heads Michigan State University’s geological sciences department. “And as long as you’ve got corn that’s $7, then a lot of choices get made on that.”
Of the 800 acres that Ashley Yost farmed last year in Haskell County, about 70 percent was planted in corn, including roughly 125 acres in Section 35. Haskell County’s feedlots — the county is home to 415,000 head of cattle — and ethanol plants in nearby Liberal and Garden City have driven up the price of corn handsomely, he said.
But this year he will grow milo in that section, and hope that by ratcheting down the speed of his pump, he will draw less sand, even if that means less water, too. The economics of irrigation, he said, almost dictate it.
“You’ve got $20,000 of underground pipe,” he said. “You’ve got a $10,000 gas line. You’ve got a $10,000 irrigation motor. You’ve got an $89,000 pivot. And you’re going to let it sit there and rot?
“If you can pump 150 gallons, that’s 150 gallons Mother Nature is not giving us. And if you can keep a milo crop alive, you’re going to do it.”
Mr. Yost’s neighbors have met the prospect of dwindling water in starkly different ways. A brother is farming on pivot half-circles. A brother-in-law moved most of his operations to Iowa. Another farmer is suing his neighbors, accusing them of poaching water from his slice of the aquifer.
A fourth grows corn with an underground irrigation system that does not match the yields of water-wasting center-pivot rigs, but is far thriftier in terms of water use and operating costs.
For his part, Mr. Yost continues to pump. But he also allowed that the day may come when sustaining what is left of the aquifer is preferable to pumping as much as possible.
Sitting in his Ford pickup next to Section 35, he unfolded a sheet of white paper that tracked the decline of his grandfather’s well: from 1,600 gallons a minute in 1964, to 1,200 in 1975, to 750 in 1976.
When the well slumped to 500 gallons in 1991, the Yosts capped it and drilled another nearby. Its output sank, too, from 1,352 gallons to 300 today.
This year, Mr. Yost spent more than $15,000 to drill four test wells in Section 35. The best of them produced 195 gallons a minute — a warning, he said, that looking further for an isolated pocket of water would be costly and probably futile.
“We’re on the last kick,” he said. “The bulk water is gone.”
FROM:
The New York Times
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
May 19, 2013
SOMETIME IN THE NEXT 30 YEARS U.S. CITIZENS WILL MIGRATE SEEKING WATER & FOOD.
ZURICH
There could be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. Here’s what you need to know
October 23, 2024
By Sean McAllister
Déjà vu 1929 ALL OVER AGAIN. THIS TIME SPIRALING DOWN IN MILLISECONDS. “Trump SENDS MARKET into DOWN SPIRAL after FIRST WEEK?!?!”
Jan 27, 2025 The Intersection with Popok
in what's going on.
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Trump FAILS on CAMPAIGN PROMISE... Supporters PISSED
Jan 27, 2025 The Intersection with Popok
Trump failed to mention Cryptocurrency in his warped inaugural address and failed to immediately establish what the Crypto Bros wanted -- a Trillion dollar National Crypto Strategic Reserve in his executive order, establishing a "working group" to one day look into it, pissing off the digital assets community leading to a major sell-off worldwide. Popok with his Wall Street and cryptocurrency background reports.
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Trump is an idiot who bankrupts every business he controlled. He wants to the implement tariffs of President McKinley’s days that started the economic depression of 1893 to 1898 only surpassed by the Great Depression.
“Yet Trump spent months talking up McKinley’s supposed virtues on the campaign trail, largely because he was (like most Republicans of the 1890s) an advocate of high tariffs. “In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs,” Trump told one audience. In his second inaugural address, Trump even gave McKinley credit for the Panama Canal, which was not begun until nearly three years after his assassination.
Trump claimed that the deceased McKinley “gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal,” before going on to complain that President Jimmy Carter “foolishly” gave the canal to Panama. Trump claimed the United States “lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.” (In reality, around 5,600 laborers died, about 350 of them Americans.) And “We have been treated very badly.” (We haven’t.) And “China is operating the Panama Canal.” (It isn’t.)” Trump promised, “We’re taking it back,” without specifying how. (Earlier, he promised to measure his success by “the wars we never get into.”) This was part of a more sweeping pledge to turn America into a “growing nation” that once again “expands our territory.”
Trump has been talking in recent months about buying Greenland and even making Canada the 51st state, although, mercifully, neither warranted a mention in his inaugural address. The latter suggestion appears to be a joke, but the former seems earnest. He is even trying to rewrite maps by renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and changing Denali’s name back to Mount McKinley.
Thus, Trump’s affinity for McKinley would appear to run deeper than mere tariffs. McKinley is remembered, after all, primarily for his promotion of U.S. imperialism: He fought a “splendid little war” against Spain and subsequently turned the Philippines into a U.S. colony, took possession of Guam and Puerto Rico, annexed Hawaii, and made Cuba into a protectorate. Trump seems eager to inaugurate a new era of territorial expansion and high tariffs, à la McKinley. A glance back at the 1890s suggests why these are both really bad ideas to resurrect.
McKinley did not make America incomparably rich: In 1900, at the height of protectionism, U.S. GDP per capita was, in inflation adjusted terms, $11,519 — less than Kazakhstan’s today. By contrast, after decades of free trade policies, U.S. per capita GDP in 2023 was $82,769. The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 — sponsored by McKinley when he was a House member — proved so unpopular that it led to the Democratic landslide of 1892, and it certainly did not set America on the path to limitless prosperity: The economic downturn from 1893 to 1898 was one of the worst in the nation’s history. Unemployment in 1894 spiked to 18.4 percent, the highest level until the Great Depression.”
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The Washington Post
Why McKinley makes an alarming Trump presidential role model
William McKinley was at best a mediocre president, but he had attributes that appeal to Trump.
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 a.m. EST Yesterday at 6:30 a.m. EST
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