THE MORNING RANT: From Peter Clack - “A society dismantled simultaneously by energy delusion and the abandonment of its sovereign borders”

Amidst all the daily political battles, as well as the internecine arguments among the right, it’s sometimes important to remember just who the left is, what their agenda is, what they have wrought, and how important it is to politically defeat the left.

Peter Clack wrote an excellent short essay on Twitter a few days ago, cutting right to the core of the need to save western civilization. He focuses on the hollowing out of industry, the green energy delusion, and the erasure of national sovereignty. The full essay is below, but his concluding sentence is worth singling out: ”A society that abandons its industrial base and surrenders its borders eventually surrenders its future.”

The one thing I’d add is that the abandonment of Christianity in the West was supposed to bring about a secular enlightenment. Instead, a new apocalyptic religion rose to fill the void – one with an angry climate God imposing bizarre woke sacraments, including the sterilization and mutilation of children. Islam also raced across open borders to provide a replacement religion.

Here is Mr. Clack’s excellent essay:

The economic hollow-out of the West was only stage one of globalism’s experiment.

What is unfolding now is the broader collapse of Western institutional confidence—a society dismantled simultaneously by energy delusion and the abandonment of its sovereign borders.

The push for a wind and solar transition was sold as a technological leap forward. In reality, it ignores the fundamental laws of energy density. Weather-dependent generation can produce electricity for household lighting, but it cannot deliver the continuous, ultra-high thermal energy required for heavy industry, blast furnace steel production, chemical manufacturing, ocean freight or commercial aviation.

By handicapping its own domestic energy grid with high-cost, intermittent generation, the West did not eliminate fossil fuels—it simply outsourced its industrial emissions and heavy manufacturing to Asia.

The irony is stark: to build a green grid, the West must import energy-intensive components manufactured overseas using coal-fired power, creating a new, highly destructive industrial footprint while crippling domestic energy security.

Compounding this industrial retreat is a complete paralysis regarding border integrity and social cohesion. Western political elites, transfixed by the doctrines of multiculturalism, have allowed uncontrolled and unvetted migrant flows to overwhelm public infrastructure, dilute civic identity and erode the rule of law. They are becoming dangerous crime states.

What should be a basic duty of the nation-state—protecting its sovereign borders—has been abandoned in favor of fawning globalist posturing.

When you dismantle domestic industry, enforce artificially expensive energy, and dissolve national borders, you do not create a globalist utopia. You destroy real capital.

Without capital and productive sovereign industry, the fundamental pillars of Western life will (and are) falling apart. The reward for hard work disappears, upward mobility stalls, and the purpose of a long-term career is replaced by managing decline.

A society that abandons its industrial base and surrenders its borders eventually surrenders its future.

In my introductory paragraphs up top, I mentioned “internecine arguments” on the right. It’s important to remember that a great many faux-conservatives are fully on board with the agenda that Mr. Clack decries. The GOPe and the legacy conservative media embraced and still defend the hollowing out of American industry. They rejoice when American plants close and Americans lose their jobs. They have fought for open borders and for the importation of slave-adjacent labor. They have played footsie with the climate hoax by accepting the false pretext of global warming, and by engaging in “venture communism” via the redistribution of taxpayer money to “green” startups. The battle against these anti-American, globalist “conservatives” is not internecine. They are on the other team.

Other Stuff I’m Writing About

My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published: “ James Talarico’s Political Reversals Stir Trouble in Texas Senate Race; The Democrat’s changing positions on transgender issues have provoked criticism from activists and raised questions about his campaign strategy”

This article discusses the perils of attempting the “Trust me, I’m lying” strategy, because activists on the left see it as a betrayal akin to heresy, while everyone else can see that it’s a pandering lie.

Many of Talarico’s supporters are feeling betrayed. A Mediate piece titled “Trans Advocates Slam James Talarico for Flip-Flopping on Trans Views” quoted several angry Texas voters who are reconsidering their support for Talarico. While there is no chance that they will vote for Paxton, they might withhold their vote from Talarico. Emily Oswin-Welborn was quoted as saying “I feel like I can’t in good conscience be responsible for putting a Democrat in office that is willing to compromise on trans rights.” That is the risk of attempting the “Trust me, I’m lying” tactic with uncompromising true believers.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 12, 2026 11:00 AM (7HDzS)

2 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 12, 2026 11:01 AM (7HDzS)

3 >>>Here is Mr. Clack’s excellent essay:

Thanks for this, Buck.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 12, 2026 11:02 AM (dK+Kv)

4 Thanks Buck

Posted by: RandomDave at October 12, 2026 11:02 AM (aJQbY)

5 They have played footsie with the climate hoax by accepting the false pretext of global warming

Strangely, nobody on the left has mentioned that Isiaiaiaiaiihh was the first Atlantic hurricane to hit the US this year, and it was a bit of a squib. Usually, any weather phenomenon at all is attributed to climate change. I think they know the grift has run its course, and continuing to harp on it just makes them look stupid.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

6 Willowed:

A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.

https://tinyurl.com/yc664xx9

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at October 12, 2026 10:45 AM (dkM11)

This is always a huge vulnerability. Our power and water and food systems. If terrorists take out a large high-voltage transformer, it could take a year to replace it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 12, 2026 10:50 AM (l3cgK)

I'm waiting for rioters to break into Louvre and destroy all the irreplaceable art,

cuz, you know, that's a muslim specialty.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 12, 2026 11:05 AM (YSUhf)

7 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2026 11:05 AM (sgkY8)

8 Thanks for letting us Click on Clack.

Posted by: Ridn' That Train, High On... at October 12, 2026 11:06 AM (EdP2u)

9 Even if I were a voting Democrat in Texas I would probably sit out the election, because why would I want to have someone in office who lied to get elected and then changed his views, (?) because even Pastor Babs sounds like she doesn't like it ,but it's something he has to do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 12, 2026 11:06 AM (JrHfD)

10 Has anyone studied Sydney Sweeney's effect on localized global warming?

Bulg could volunteer for it as part of the control group.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 12, 2026 11:07 AM (0sNs1)

11 9 Even if I were a voting Democrat in Texas I would probably sit out the election, because why would I want to have someone in office who lied to get elected and then changed his views, (?) because even Pastor Babs sounds like she doesn't like it ,but it's something he has to do.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 12, 2026 11:06 AM (JrHfD)
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Because lying to get into office is a democrat's stock-in-trade?

Because democrats don't have any actual standards other than whatever gets them more power?

Because they're godless loons who would love to see American society crumble?

I could go on.

Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2026 11:09 AM (oqH4h)

12 When the nood is issued for Buck, would that be a Throckmorton Sign?

Also, Internet of Things is Stupid.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 12, 2026 11:09 AM (ENA4W)

13 The Left are mostly made up of useful idiots led by lying mentally ill American hating con men and women.

Attempting to change their minds would be like trying to teach first graders advanced calculus.

Okay maybe just simple algebra because you might have one idiot savant in the group of first graders.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:10 AM (KC5Lt)

14 Canada has vast resources of many kinds, but would rather be a Chinee Vassal. Seems short-sighted. I guess Kung Pao Chicken at 3 AM is more important than being an actual country.

Posted by: America's Hat Needs To Be Cleaned And Blocked at October 12, 2026 11:11 AM (EdP2u)

15 It almost sounds like there's been a conspiracy by globalists that's been going on for decades to destroy western civilization and statehood and replace it with rule by unelected bureaucrats much like the EU and only whack job conspiracy theorists have been fighting back.

We few. We happy few. We band of morons.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2026 11:12 AM (viF8m)

16 If terrorists take out a large high-voltage transformer, it could take a year to replace it...

I read somewhere that Trump has developed a plan to start building transformers in the US again. I don't know where that stands, but at least his admin is thinking about it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

17 14 Canada has vast resources of many kinds, but would rather be a Chinee Vassal. Seems short-sighted. I guess Kung Pao Chicken at 3 AM is more important than being an actual country.
Posted by: America's Hat Needs To Be Cleaned And Blocked at October 12, 2026 11:11 AM (EdP2u)
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Their leadership are all softcock cucks and harridans. They haven't had to work for shit for 4+ generations on account of having Daddy on their southern border protecting them from the big bad world.

Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2026 11:12 AM (oqH4h)

18 I'm still digesting the massive morning bolus which Sefton dropped on us.
Douglas Cotton's theory of adding gravity (pressure-gradient) to the atmospheric temperature models seems Big If True. Can it lead to reproducible models of the "ice giants"' atmospheres? Because there are some wildly different models out there (which is why we need more missions).

Posted by: 88C+u at October 12, 2026 11:13 AM (88C+u)

19 Upon entering the temple Jesus fastened a whip, turned over the tables and drove out the pagans. Ever been bit by a bull whip?
If Jesus entered the temple today and found it full of Muslims would he accept them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:14 AM (nqf1u)

20 Canada has vast resources of many kinds, but would rather be a Chinee Vassal. Seems short-sighted. I guess Kung Pao Chicken at 3 AM is more important than being an actual country.

I remember when NAFTA was being debated, some Canadians were screeching about how they would be subsumed by the US. I guess they're okay with being subsumed by Xi Jinping.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

21 Ilhan got raided at dawn. On Columbus Day! The intercepted Reddit transmissions will be good today.

She didn't get her panty drawer raided or frog marched out of her home, I assume. so silver linings.

If they can't bust her on evidence on her bro marriage, but can find other illegal shenanigans, like her tax issues or her wine business fraud, I'll take it! Capone style justice.

Posted by: LizLem at October 12, 2026 11:15 AM (Toos7)

22 >>>and it was a bit of a squib

I guess because it wasn't a Cat 4 or 5 you could call it that.

But I spent all day Saturday and Sunday running a chainsaw and a skid steer helping remove fallen trees from Hwy 87 in the Berrydale area well north of Milton, FL.

The area was devastated by a sting jet on the western side of the eyewall with over 100 mph winds.

Posted by: one hour sober at October 12, 2026 11:15 AM (J4Dwc)

23 The left-Muslim alliance is one of the strange ones that happen fairly often in history. Not going to work out well for the left...

Posted by: steevy at October 12, 2026 11:15 AM (YwEeS)

24 We do have a National Religion.
It's recycling.
Drive through any suburban American neighborhood on the right night of the week and you'll see the religious practice on display.
All of the bins at the curb with the duly sorted items offered as a tithe.
No one is paid for the effort or the materials, but it is more frequently practiced than any religious rite.
Why are we washing our garbage?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 12, 2026 11:15 AM (gSZpL)

25 I remember when NAFTA was being debated, some Canadians were screeching about how they would be subsumed by the US. I guess they're okay with being subsumed by Xi Jinping.

I do wonder, though, what fraction of legacy Canadians are okay with what Carney and his ilk are doing. My guess is it's a lot smaller than one might think.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:16 AM (Riz8t)

26 ***Emily Oswin-Welborn was quoted as saying “I feel like I can’t in good conscience be responsible for putting a Democrat in office that is willing to compromise on trans rights.”
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Ms. Welborn should consult with Sweet Polly Purebred on this matter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:17 AM (nqf1u)

27 Canada has vast resources of many kinds, but would rather be a Chinee Vassal. Seems short-sighted. I guess Kung Pao Chicken at 3 AM is more important than being an actual country.
Posted by: America's Hat Needs To Be Cleaned And Blocked at October 12, 2026 11:11 AM (EdP2u)
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Vast resources, yes. But it takes investment, effort, technology, and sane governmental regs to exploit natural resources. It's often easier -- and more profitable for the grafting government -- to outsource most if not all of that.

What is the continent with probably the most natural resources on the planet? Arguably Africa. What is the continent that's easily the most backward, dangerous, corrupt, and barbaric? Also Africa.

I think Canada is selling itself and its resources out to China. We can laugh but the USA almost did so too, and probably would have if not for Trump.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 12, 2026 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

28 15 It almost sounds like there's been a conspiracy by globalists that's been going on for decades to destroy western civilization and statehood and replace it with rule by unelected bureaucrats much like the EU and only whack job conspiracy theorists have been fighting back.

We few. We happy few. We band of morons.
Posted by: JackStraw

What fools these mortals be!

cTHIEL reaping billions from the fiction of "Managable War", the separation of "Regional Conflict" from "Strategic Terror" and the deluded LIB masses who Proudly do unto their own People, PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries -- to not only sponsor them, but actively defend them as well; they'll be first into the bunkers, not because they value their own lives, but rather to displace someone else who does.

This is Normal.

LET'S GO BRANDON.
NOW'S NOT THE TIME TO WOBBLE.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 12, 2026 11:19 AM (8GUqI)

29 >>Ms. Welborn should consult with Sweet Polly Purebred on this matter.


When Miss Poly's in trouble I am not slow.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2026 11:20 AM (viF8m)

30 >>>I do wonder, though, what fraction of legacy Canadians are okay with what Carney and his ilk are doing.

It's probably small, but they hope to legally euthanize them all within 20 years.

It's strange to think Canada was once so mighty in fighting spirit they got their own beach on D-Day, and now this.

France is also revolting against their leaders but it might be too late.

Posted by: LizLem at October 12, 2026 11:20 AM (Toos7)

31 I hate the Talarico weasel words commercials. I hate it when our side use weasel words because it's unnecessary to indict or tell the truth about the Left.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:20 AM (KC5Lt)

32 It almost sounds like there's been a conspiracy by globalists that's been going on for decades to destroy western civilization and statehood and replace it with rule by unelected bureaucrats much like the EU and only whack job conspiracy theorists have been fighting back.


There was a time in the not so distant past that I thought what you describe was a fever dream, but it's become quite clear that that's exactly what has been happening. I also think the people are now awake and paying attention. Things are going to change, and probably rapidly.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

33 Hurricane Isawyoass did slay four people, so although Florida has seen worse it was still pretty bad.
It's certainly nice we haven't seen worse this year. And Al Gore should go release his chakras by himself

Posted by: 88C+u at October 12, 2026 11:22 AM (88C+u)

34 While there is no chance that they will vote for Paxton, they might withhold their vote from Talarico.

Nope. Saying that they might is just cheap "purer than thou" virtue signaling. They'll fall in line like always. Remember PUMA?

Posted by: Oddbob at October 12, 2026 11:22 AM (vTZFs)

35 We have resources here that we let lie dormant because of the watermelons.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:22 AM (KC5Lt)

36 17 14 Canada has vast resources of many kinds, but would rather be a Chinee Vassal. Seems short-sighted. I guess Kung Pao Chicken at 3 AM is more important than being an actual country.
Posted by: America's Hat Needs To Be Cleaned And Blocked at October 12, 2026 11:11 AM (EdP2u)
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Their leadership are all softcock cucks and harridans. They haven't had to work for shit for 4+ generations on account of having Daddy on their southern border protecting them from the big bad world.
Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2026 11:12 AM (oqH4h)

The last jobs numbers were about 60+ thousand jobs lost in a month so our trade war is going great!!

Someone wrote that would be like the US losing 500,000 jobs. I'm indifferent.

Anecdotally, a lady at the beer store told me business was WAY down. She guessed people don't have money or are scared to spend. After Covid, I don't care. We don't deserve nice things. Jail toilet wine all around.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 12, 2026 11:22 AM (Sco7b)

37 I hate the Talarico weasel words commercials.

I keep getting YT ads with him saying "I'm reducing my ask". I wouldn't give him a cent based on that grammatical abomination alone.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

38 >>>Despite the dubious polls showing Talarico leading Paxton in the Senate race, it will take a near-perfect confluence of events for Talarico to eke out a victory.
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Well known preacher Jim Baker recently passed leaving a spot open on the Christian Grifter Network.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:23 AM (nqf1u)

39
Memo to the AWFLs: No making TikToks between sundown and sunrise.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 12, 2026 11:24 AM (eRlcH)

40 If we want industry back - because manufacturing jobs are The Only Jobs That Matter - we are GOING to HAVE to be business friendly on all levels of government, and we will need an education system that is worth a damn, teaching math skills needed for manufactures, not “we have six genders”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 12, 2026 11:24 AM (1UOiF)

41 Locally -
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network operates as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Pro-development critics point out that its operations are heavily sustained by large private foundations and elite philanthropic funds—such as the William Penn Foundation ($500,000 grant) and the Schmidt Family Foundation. Critics argue this allows wealthy donors to dictate local energy policies from a distance without experiencing the job losses they cause.

Opponents of these groups argue that their "real job" is filing endless lawsuits and using open-records laws to block economic progress. The Riverkeeper Network routinely uses litigation to stall major infrastructure—such as suing the Delaware River Basin Commission over the Gibbstown LNG port project or appealing state pipeline permits. Labor advocates view these legal tactics as deliberate strategies to delay projects until developers run out of money and walk away, killing potential union jobs.
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OTOH, the eco nuts shove a huge port operations into roughly the same areas they're fighting LNG projects; creating safety & health hazards for the local communities, providing jobs for outside the area, and creating drug pipelines.

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 12, 2026 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

42 I guess because it wasn't a Cat 4 or 5 you could call it that.

Florida has spoiled the nation because Andrew was such an apocalypse, a mere disaster over there is no longer rated.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 12, 2026 11:24 AM (88C+u)

43 Apologies to our Canadian morons because you have no control but I've always disliked Canada because they gave aid and comfort to our deserters and draft dodgers.

And I say this as the grandson of a man who served in the Canadian Armed Services.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:25 AM (KC5Lt)

44 "I'm reducing my ask".

With what? Carbon monoxide?

Posted by: 88C+u at October 12, 2026 11:25 AM (88C+u)

45 28 15 It almost sounds like there's been a conspiracy by globalists that's been going on for decades to destroy western civilization and statehood and replace it with rule by unelected bureaucrats much like the EU and only whack job conspiracy theorists have been fighting back.

We few. We happy few. We band of morons.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Make Slavery Great Again!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:26 AM (nqf1u)

46 Nukes are making a (small) comeback.

The US military has a program to use small, portable reactors for their bases. Not just here, but remote ones as well that need lots of power for "stuff."

Like lasers. And radars. And shit.

One would power several Google AI datacenters. Or several CIA or NSA datacenters. Or both.

It'll likely be decades before us unwashed masses see any benefits. Never if the left regains power.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 12, 2026 11:26 AM (RORbl)

47 Billion dollar (of our money) solar mirror plant in NV sold for near pennies on the dollar.
Not the one near Vegas but another boondoggle.

I'm all for real-world testing but even I ran the numbers on those and there's just too much heat loss.
And the molten salt is good on paper but it really relied on tech not yet invented, eg to keep the entire system liquid at all times.
And the only way any of it works is if you can have it seamlessly switch between solar and natural gas.
Besides demanding intermittent, high-demand gas delivery, they lose all their green energy grants/credits.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 12, 2026 11:27 AM (3cUTc)

48 Make Slavery Great Again!
Posted by: Braenyard

*fap* *fap* *fap*

Posted by: Jonathan A.C. Brown at October 12, 2026 11:27 AM (88C+u)

49 Question - what is the guiding moral authority for any culture that is guided by a belief system of secularism, humanism, materialism?

Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar8)

50
Getting hit by a hurricane of any category sucks mud. Power out from a Cat 1 is the same power out from a Cat 5.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 12, 2026 11:28 AM (eRlcH)

51 >>>we are GOING to HAVE to be business friendly on all levels of government, and we will need an education system that is worth a damn, teaching math skills needed for manufactures, not “we have six genders”.

Posted by: Cow Demon
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#1 word in business: Dependable

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:28 AM (nqf1u)

52 France is going bankrupt some time this month. The reason they are all talking about the UK going back into the EU without a vote is because the EU itself is going down. Only Germany is left paying the freight, and they are broke too.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 12, 2026 11:29 AM (0U5gm)

53 The EU needs all of the money and borrowing power of the UK to avoid default.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 12, 2026 11:30 AM (0U5gm)

54 France is going bankrupt some time this month. The reason they are all talking about the UK going back into the EU without a vote is because the EU itself is going down. Only Germany is left paying the freight, and they are broke too.

Not to worry. They'll make it up on volume.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 12, 2026 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

55
Question - what is the guiding moral authority for any culture that is guided by a belief system of secularism, humanism, materialism?
Posted by: tubal at October 12, 2026 11:28 AM (Gqar

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It's the residue of Judeo-Christian morality. Get rid of that and you're in the Marquis de Sade territory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 12, 2026 11:30 AM (eRlcH)

56 With the collapse of the soviet union, commies moved into different avenues to attack The West. From climate doomsayers to homo fag churches to muslims being airlifted to Minnesota, they took advantage pf a people grown fat and lazy and too preoccupied with greed to counter it.

Posted by: The National Debt at October 12, 2026 11:30 AM (NkqBW)

57 > Getting hit by a hurricane of any category sucks mud. Power out from a Cat 1 is the same power out from a Cat 5.
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It doesn't even have to be a hurricane. We've had wind events that knocked down trees, power poles, etc. And during the winter, ice can be a real bummer.

Sometimes the affected area can rival that of a major hurricane.

We are not exactly "prepared" in some regards for any of it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 12, 2026 11:30 AM (RORbl)

58 43 Apologies to our Canadian morons because you have no control but I've always disliked Canada because they gave aid and comfort to our deserters and draft dodgers.

And I say this as the grandson of a man who served in the Canadian Armed Services.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:25 A

No problem. There's nothing wrong with Canada that the elimination of 70% of our population couldn't fix.

Same goes with most countries in Western Europe.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 12, 2026 11:31 AM (Sco7b)

59 The big manufacturing /construction companies are going to have to establish their own trade schools. I know a few have started smaller programs but they need to be larger and publicized.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:31 AM (KC5Lt)

60 their "real job" is filing endless lawsuits and using open-records laws to block economic progress. The Riverkeeper Network routinely uses litigation...

Posted by: L - No nic...
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>>>routinely uses litigation... - routinely uses litigation...

There's the problem. Judges allowing frivolous lawsuits instead of castigating lawyers for bringing foolishness into their court.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:33 AM (nqf1u)

61 Math and science is where a society can make strides in innovation. We rank #17 in science and #26 in math. The fucktons of money in education isn't helping.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 12, 2026 11:33 AM (zcI95)

62
We have well and septic. Also two 7500 watt dual-fuel generators, the 4000 watt in the RV, a 3500 and a 1200. Plus a transfer switch on the breaker.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 12, 2026 11:33 AM (eRlcH)

63 55 Question - what is the guiding moral authority for any culture that is guided by a belief system of secularism, humanism, materialism?
Posted by: tubal

The consensus of philosophers who define "humanism".

Posted by: madame guillotine at October 12, 2026 11:33 AM (88C+u)

64 There's the problem. Judges allowing frivolous lawsuits instead of castigating lawyers for bringing foolishness into their court.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 12, 2026 11:33 AM (nqf1u)
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The judges are probably getting something under the table...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 12, 2026 11:33 AM (FZ29D)

65 46 Nukes are making a (small) comeback.

The US military has a program to use small, portable reactors for their bases. Not just here, but remote ones as well that need lots of power for "stuff."

Like lasers. And radars. And shit.
+++

You don't say.

Posted by: The US Navy at October 12, 2026 11:34 AM (gSZpL)

66 I don't know how more expensive it is to build and maintain and whether even feasible but underground power lines is the way to go.

Posted by: polynikes at October 12, 2026 11:34 AM (KC5Lt)

67 Gee Buck when will someone invent some where to store intermittently generated electricity?
If they ever do I have a good name for it. We can call it a battery
Of course solar generated best in the day and wind at night do probably we could get 90% efficient storage just by pumping water back up hydro generated dams

Posted by: President Trump at October 12, 2026 11:34 AM (yhX3X)

68 >>There was a time in the not so distant past that I thought what you describe was a fever dream, but it's become quite clear that that's exactly what has been happening. I also think the people are now awake and paying attention. Things are going to change, and probably rapidly.

Been saying it for years. Usually followed by people telling to go sit in the corner and wear the dunce cap.

Almost gave up hope until a loudmouth real estate developer from Queens came along and shocked the world. We are very much back.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 12, 2026 11:34 AM (viF8m)

69 I don't know how more expensive it is to build and maintain and whether even feasible but underground power lines is the way to go.
Posted by: polynikes

Much more expensive.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 12, 2026 11:35 AM (zcI95)

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