DONALD TRUMP NATIONAL THANKSGIVING MESSAGE NOVEMBER 27TH, 2025 11:26 PM

A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being "Politically Correct," and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration. The official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels. They and their children are supported through massive payments from Patriotic American Citizens who, because of their beautiful hearts, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape, or form. They put up with what has happened to our Country, but it's eating them alive to do so! A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for "prey" as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst "Congressman/woman" in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how "badly" she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc. Even as we have progressed technologically, Immigration Policy has eroded those gains and living conditions for many. I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden's Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization. These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won't be here for long!    

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IT READS BETTER IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE

С Днём благодарения всем нашим замечательным американским гражданам и патриотам, которые так любезно позволили нашей стране быть разделённой, разрушенной, поделённой, убитой, избитой, ограбленной и высмеянной, как и некоторым другим неразумным странам по всему миру, за их «политическую корректность» и просто ГЛУПОСТЬ в вопросах иммиграции. Официальная численность иностранного населения Соединённых Штатов составляет 53 миллиона человек (по данным переписи), большинство из которых живут на социальное обеспечение, являются выходцами из неблагополучных стран, тюрьмами, психиатрическими больницами, бандами или наркокартелями. Они и их дети получают огромную поддержку от патриотически настроенных американских граждан, которые, благодаря своим прекрасным сердцам, не желают открыто жаловаться или создавать проблемы каким-либо образом, в какой-либо форме или виде. Они мирятся с тем, что случилось с нашей страной, но это съедает их заживо! Мигрант, зарабатывающий 30 000 долларов с грин-картой, будет получать около 50 000 долларов ежегодного пособия для своей семьи. Реальное число мигрантов гораздо больше. Бремя беженцев – главная причина социальной дисфункции в Америке, чего не было после Второй мировой войны (неудовлетворительное качество школ, высокий уровень преступности, упадок городов, переполненные больницы, нехватка жилья, огромный дефицит и т. д.). Например, сотни тысяч беженцев из Сомали полностью захватили некогда великий штат Миннесота. Сомалийские банды бродят по улицам в поисках «добычи», пока наши замечательные люди заперты в своих квартирах и домах, надеясь, что их оставят в покое. Серьёзно отсталый губернатор Миннесоты Тим Уолц ничего не делает, либо из-за страха, либо из-за некомпетентности, либо из-за того и другого, в то время как худший «конгрессмен/женщина» в нашей стране Ильхан Омар, вечно закутанная в хиджаб и, вероятно, нелегально приехавшая в США, поскольку здесь нельзя выходить замуж за своего брата, только и делает, что с ненавистью жалуется на нашу страну, её Конституцию и на то, как «плохо» с ней обращаются, в то время как её родина — разлагающаяся, отсталая и охваченная преступностью страна, которая по сути даже не является страной из-за отсутствия правительства, армии, полиции, школ и т. д. Несмотря на наш технологический прогресс, иммиграционная политика подорвала эти достижения и условия жизни многих. Я навсегда приостановлю миграцию из всех стран третьего мира, чтобы позволить системе США полностью восстановиться, прекращу все миллионы нелегальных въездов Байдена, включая те, что были подписаны Сонным Джо Байденом по программе Autoopen, и вышлю всех, кто не является чистым активом для Соединенных Штатов или неспособен любить нашу страну, прекращу все федеральные льготы и субсидии негражданам нашей страны, лишу гражданства мигрантов, которые подрывают внутреннее спокойствие, и депортирую любого иностранного гражданина, представляющего собой общественную обузу, угрозу безопасности или несовместимого с западной цивилизацией. Эти цели будут преследоваться с целью значительного сокращения численности нелегального и дестабилизирующего населения, включая тех, кто был принят по несанкционированной и незаконной процедуре одобрения Autoopen. Только ОБРАТНАЯ МИГРАЦИЯ может полностью исправить эту ситуацию. В остальном, СЧАСТЛИВОГО ДНЯ БЛАГОДАРЕНИЯ ВСЕМ, кроме тех, кто ненавидит, ворует, убивает и разрушает все, за что выступает Америка — вы здесь недолго! S Dnom blagodareniya vsem nashim zamechatel'nym amerikanskim grazhdanam i patriotam, kotoryye tak lyubezno pozvolili nashey strane byt' razdelonnoy, razrushennoy, podelonnoy, ubitoy, izbitoy, ograblennoy i vysmeyannoy, kak i nekotorym drugim nerazumnym stranam po vsemu miru, za ikh «politicheskuyu korrektnost'» i prosto GLUPOST' v voprosakh immigratsii. Ofitsial'naya chislennost' inostrannogo naseleniya Soyedinonnykh Shtatov sostavlyayet 53 milliona chelovek (po dannym perepisi), bol'shinstvo iz kotorykh zhivut na sotsial'noye obespecheniye, yavlyayutsya vykhodtsami iz neblagopoluchnykh stran, tyur'mami, psikhiatricheskimi bol'nitsami, bandami ili narkokartelyami. Oni i ikh deti poluchayut ogromnuyu podderzhku ot patrioticheski nastroyennykh amerikanskikh grazhdan, kotoryye, blagodarya svoim prekrasnym serdtsam, ne zhelayut otkryto zhalovat'sya ili sozdavat' problemy kakim-libo obrazom, v kakoy-libo forme ili vide. Oni miryatsya s tem, chto sluchilos' s nashey stranoy, no eto s"yedayet ikh zazhivo! Migrant, zarabatyvayushchiy 30 000 dollarov s grin-kartoy, budet poluchat' okolo 50 000 dollarov yezhegodnogo posobiya dlya svoyey sem'i. Real'noye chislo migrantov gorazdo bol'she. Bremya bezhentsev – glavnaya prichina sotsial'noy disfunktsii v Amerike, chego ne bylo posle Vtoroy mirovoy voyny (neudovletvoritel'noye kachestvo shkol, vysokiy uroven' prestupnosti, upadok gorodov, perepolnennyye bol'nitsy, nekhvatka zhil'ya, ogromnyy defitsit i t. d.). Naprimer, sotni tysyach bezhentsev iz Somali polnost'yu zakhvatili nekogda velikiy shtat Minnesota. Somaliyskiye bandy brodyat po ulitsam v poiskakh «dobychi», poka nashi zamechatel'nyye lyudi zaperty v svoikh kvartirakh i domakh, nadeyas', chto ikh ostavyat v pokoye. Ser'yozno otstalyy gubernator Minnesoty Tim Uolts nichego ne delayet, libo iz-za strakha, libo iz-za nekompetentnosti, libo iz-za togo i drugogo, v to vremya kak khudshiy «kongressmen/zhenshchina» v nashey strane Il'khan Omar, vechno zakutannaya v khidzhab i, veroyatno, nelegal'no priyekhavshaya v SSHA, poskol'ku zdes' nel'zya vykhodit' zamuzh za svoyego brata, tol'ko i delayet, chto s nenavist'yu zhaluyetsya na nashu stranu, yeyo Konstitutsiyu i na to, kak «plokho» s ney obrashchayutsya, v to vremya kak yeyo rodina — razlagayushchayasya, otstalaya i okhvachennaya prestupnost'yu strana, kotoraya po suti dazhe ne yavlyayetsya stranoy iz-za otsutstviya pravitel'stva, armii, politsii, shkol i t. d. Nesmotrya na nash tekhnologicheskiy progress, immigratsionnaya politika podorvala eti dostizheniya i usloviya zhizni mnogikh. YA navsegda priostanovlyu migratsiyu iz vsekh stran tret'yego mira, chtoby pozvolit' sisteme SSHA polnost'yu vosstanovit'sya, prekrashchu vse milliony nelegal'nykh v"yezdov Baydena, vklyuchaya te, chto byli podpisany Sonnym Dzho Baydenom po programme Autoopen, i vyshlyu vsekh, kto ne yavlyayetsya chistym aktivom dlya Soyedinennykh Shtatov ili nesposoben lyubit' nashu stranu, prekrashchu vse federal'nyye l'goty i subsidii negrazhdanam nashey strany, lishu grazhdanstva migrantov, kotoryye podryvayut vnutrenneye spokoystviye, i deportiruyu lyubogo inostrannogo grazhdanina, predstavlyayushchego soboy obshchestvennuyu obuzu, ugrozu bezopasnosti ili nesovmestimogo s zapadnoy tsivilizatsiyey. Eti tseli budut presledovat'sya s tsel'yu znachitel'nogo sokrashcheniya chislennosti nelegal'nogo i destabiliziruyushchego naseleniya, vklyuchaya tekh, kto byl prinyat po nesanktsionirovannoy i nezakonnoy protsedure odobreniya Autoopen. Tol'ko OBRATNAYA MIGRATSIYA mozhet polnost'yu ispravit' etu situatsiyu. V ostal'nom, SCHASTLIVOGO DNYA BLAGODARENIYA VSEM, krome tekh, kto nenavidit, voruyet, ubivayet i razrushayet vse, za chto vystupayet Amerika — vy zdes' nedolgo!

THE "SERIOUSLY RETARDED GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA" RESPONDS:

"Release the MRI results."  

NOV 27TH CODA: 
STEPHEN MILLER, THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE 

 

MY RETORT TO UBERBIGOT STEPHEN MILLER

 

READ UP ON STEPHEN MILLER

STEPHEN MILLER WAS CENTER STAGE. He grinned at the sea of red baseball caps in the San Diego Convention Center on May 27, 2016. In a slim suit with a pocket square, he adjusted the podium microphone and told spectators that his boss—the man who would “save” the country—was about to come out. The crowd erupted. “Are you ready to secure that border?” Miller asked, lifting a finger in the air. “Are you ready to stop Islamic terrorism? And are you ready to make sure that American children are given their birthright in their own country?” 

 Miller could hardly contain himself. He rocked back and forth on his heels. He swung side to side. Long dismissed as a sideshow, the svelte pale thirty-year-old was months from becoming one of the most powerful people in the US government. He coaxed cheers from thousands in his home state of California, where once he had faced hisses and boos. “I want you to shout so loud that all the people who betrayed you can hear you!” he cried. “Every single person who’s beaten you down, and ignored you, and said that you were wrong, and mocked and demeaned and scorned you, every person who’s lectured you sanctimoniously while living the high life in DC—shout so loud that their conference tables will shake!” 

 Outside the convention center, more than a thousand people had gathered to protest Trump’s campaign as xenophobic, racist and sexist. They waved signs exclaiming BULLY and BIGOT. They were upset about Trump’s characterizations of Mexicans as “rapists” and “criminals” and his call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Trump’s fans confronted his critics, ready to brawl. A white man spat the N-word in a black man’s face. Someone screamed “Hitler!” A paunchy Trump supporter with a bullhorn told black men they were going to Hell. “You hate Trump! You despise God!” he said. One responded: “God is black!” The white man replied, “God’s not black!” He continued, “When God puts you in Hell, you’re not gonna play the race card with him.” He added, mockingly, “I’m just a minority member! I’m just a minority member!” 

Trump took the stage. He called his rally a “lovefest.” He said people protesting were “thugs.” The magnate lamented all of the “young children killed by illegal immigrants.” He had hired Miller as a speechwriter and senior policy advisor a few months before. The California native helped craft Trump’s attacks on Mexicans and Muslims, drawing from dubious sources, such as research bankrolled by eugenicists and white nationalist websites and texts. He was inspired in part by The Camp of the Saints, a virulently racist book by French author Jean Raspail that depicted “the end of the white world” after it was overrun by the Third World, with refugees described as “a single, solid mass, like some gigantic beast with a million legs.”1 The title of the novel comes from the Christian Bible’s Book of Revelation, in which Satan and his armies “marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints,” God’s beloved city, “but fire came down from heaven and consumed them.” 

Outside, the racially charged tension and vitriol reached fever pitch. People threw punches. They lit rags on fire. Objects flew. Police showed up in riot gear, wielding batons, and declared an unlawful assembly. “If you refuse to move, chemical agents and other weapons will be used,” authorities declared in Spanish and English. Helicopters buzzed overhead, the skies turned from blue to gray. People linked arms, determined to stay. By the time the sun set over the bay, dozens of people were handcuffed and jailed. 

It’s impossible to understand the Trump era, with its unparalleled polarization, without tracing Miller’s journey to the White House. Miller is the architect of Trump’s border and immigration policies. Prematurely balding and with a penchant for bespoke suits, he has long, articulate fingers that fit a man often depicted as a behind-the-scenes puppeteer. Many are baffled at how someone so young, with little policy or legal expertise, gained so much power—outlasting and overtaking his mentor, Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist. Before joining Trump, Miller was communications director for Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. He had little other work experience. But it’s no accident that a public relations flack guides Trump’s central agenda. Trump has long derived power from mythmakers. Author Tony Schwartz made him an American business icon in The Art of the Deal. Producer Mark Burnett turned him into a reality TV star in The Apprentice. Bannon turned him into an alt-right hero on the blog Breitbart. Miller helped make him president. 

In a White House where people are frequently forced out, Miller has survived...

Guerrero, Jean. Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda (pp. 1-3). (Function). Kindle Edition. 

Bad newa, this dude.

Charlie Kirk

 

From his speech:

"Please welcome to the stage Stephen Miller…"

Hello Turning Point. Hello Patriots. Hello to our fearless President, Donald J. Trump. And hello to millions of Americans all across this land who are gathered in sadness and sorrow to mourn Charlie Kirk, but also to dedicate ourselves to finishing his mission and achieving victory in his name.

The day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears have been turned into fire in our hearts. And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand.

When I see Erica and her strength and her courage, I am reminded of a famous expression. The storm whispers to the warrior that “you cannot withstand my strength.” And the warrior whispers back, "I am the storm."

Erica is the storm. We are the storm, and our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion. Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry.

Erica stands on the shoulders of thousands of years of warriors, of women who raised up families, raised up cities, raised up industry, raised up civilization, who pulled us out of the caves and the darkness into the light. The light will defeat the dark. We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil.

They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us. Because we stand for what is good, is virtuous, what is noble. And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity.

You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk. You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk. And now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion.

You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us. We will carry Charlie and Erica in our hearts every single day and fight that much harder because of what you did to us.

You have no idea the dragon you have awakened. You have no idea how determined we will be to save this civilization, to save the West, to save this republic. Because our children are strong and our grandchildren will be strong and our childrens’ childrens’ children will be strong.

And what will you leave behind? Nothing. Nothing. To our enemies, you have nothing to give. You have nothing to offer. You have nothing to share but bitterness. We have beauty. We have light. We have goodness. We have determination. We have vision. We have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation. And we will defend this world. We will defend goodness. We will defend light. We will defend virtue. You cannot terrify us. You cannot frighten us. You cannot threaten us. Because we are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God.

And to my friend Charlie, to my brother Charlie, I know you are looking at us right now. I know you're watching Erica right now. I know you're watching your children right now. And I promise you, my friend, I promise you, my brother, we will prove worthy of your sacrifice. We will prove worthy of your time on earth. We will make you proud.

We will finish the job. We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil. And we will stand every day for what is true, what is beautiful, what is good. And we will achieve victory for our children, for our families, for our civilization, and for every patriot who stands with us.

God bless you. God bless Turning Point. God bless Erica. God bless the Kirk family. God bless our heroes. And God bless the United States of America.

—Stephen Miller, Sept 21st, 2025, Charlie Kirk Memorial. From the full live video transcript, 07:31.

"I never lose sight of the many things for which I must stay grateful. Chief among them of late is that I am NOT Stephen Miller. It must be exhausting to be that venomously angry with nearly everyone every day."
—@BobbyGvegas

Stephen Miller

 They devoted the entire episode to Miller. Read his lengthy Wiki piece.

“We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”—Stephen Miller, to CNN's Jake Tapper, Jan 5th, 2026

See my Sept 2025 post discussing Miller at Charlie Kirk's memorial.

Climate change mass migration implications: "On The Move"

Read about this in Science Magazine.  Goes to my "Covering Climate" riffs.

 

Photo from the Science Magazine review. Been there, seen that fiery, smoky sky.

2018 wildfire haze, in front of my house in Antioch, looking W. toward SF mid-day.

 

AMAZON BLURB FOR THE BOOK

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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On the Move explains how we got here and where we're headed. It's crucial guide to the world we are creating." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction



 

A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly.



 

Abrahm Lustgarten’s On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As he shows, the United States will be rendered unrecognizable by four unstoppable forces: wildfires in the West; frequent flooding in coastal regions; extreme heat and humidity in the South; and droughts that will make farming all but impossible across much of the nation.



 

Reporting from the front lines of climate migration, Lustgarten explains how a pattern of shortsighted policies encouraged millions to settle in vulnerable parts of the country, and introduces us to homeowners in California, insurance customers in Florida, and ranchers in Colorado who are being forced to make the agonizing choice of when, not whether, to leave. Employing the most current climate data and predictive models, he shows how America’s population will be squeezed northward into a shrinking triangle of land stretching from Tennessee to Maine to the Great Lakes. The places many of us now call home are at risk, and On the Move reveals how we’ll deal with the consequences.

These are the opening book lines from the Prologue:

 

I totally get it. In 2017, my late younger daughter was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. There were days when her chemo sessions had to be canceled because the area wildfire smoke was so heavy in the air. Four months after she died, I had to have aortic valve replacement heart surgery. My postop PT rehab sessions had to be canceled several times for the same reason. In 2019 we left California and moved to Baltimore—only to then get slammed with COVID-19 shutdowns the following year, and then persisent fire smoke from massive Canadian wildfires.

Below, the author's cool web page (click the image).

FROM SCIENCE MAGAZINE:

American climate migration
Increasingly inhospitable conditions will change the nation’s demography, argues a journalist

Currently, less than 1% of Earth is too hot to support human life, but researchers estimate that by 2070 nearly 20% of the planet’s surface will be outside humanity’s comfort zone. The “bubble of unlivability” could include up to a third of the people on Earth, and existing inequalities will likely increase conflict. In the United States, vulnerable populations will be prone to disproportionate risk.

On the Move, by journalist Abrahm Lustgarten, is a poignant and meticulously researched exploration of climate change and both its imminent and long-term effects on human migration in the US. Through analysis, personal narratives, and projected future scenarios, Lustgarten unveils the stark reality of a world on the brink of massive demographic shifts driven by an increasingly inhospitable climate.

Lustgarten begins with a personal account of the moment he recognized the climate crisis as a reality that no region will escape. His usual view of the San Francisco skyline was replaced by “a sepia-toned, smoke-filled universe,” he writes. “Just twelve miles away as the crow flies, behind the ridge of parched and brittle redwoods I could see from my window, the Point Reyes National Seashore was burning. Tall gray towers of smoke billowed upward, raining down soot.” He then details how climate-driven migrations are not a future possibility but rather a current event, with historical precedents and emerging patterns that signal a profound shift in how and where people can live.

Lustgarten predicts that Americans will see an influx of migrants from the south and will experience considerable internal migration as well. Increasingly frequent and severe wildfires, extreme weather patterns, and sea level rise will make some areas uninhabitable. “The poorest neighborhoods— many of them predominantly Black and Latinx—are in the lowest-lying areas, and they will suffer first,” he observes.

The book begins with an analysis of climate change pressures, providing a glimpse into what life might look like within several decades. Here, Lustgarten highlights the risks many Americans have unknowingly accepted by living in vulnerable areas and how economic policies have exacerbated these risks.

In subsequent chapters, Lustgarten projects the demographic shifts that are likely to occur within the United States. These include coastal residents moving inland because of rising sea levels and hurricanes, as well as migration from the drought-stricken Midwest to regions with stable water sources...

Amid the growing body of literature on climate change, Lustgarten’s book provides a crucial examination of the impacts—realized and projected—in our own backyards and how these changes are remaking society. Importantly, it is both a call to action and a blueprint for how to weather the coming storm, highlighting historical injustices and charting an equitable path forward. review

No "praise-criticism-praise" dings. 100% positive review assessment. I've just begun reading the book. 

 

It's reminding me that I am remiss, in not yet finishing Michael E. Mann's latest:

We live on a Goldilocks planet. It has water, an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and an ozone layer that protects life from damaging ultraviolet rays. It is neither too cold nor too hot, seemingly just right for life. Despite our ongoing search—which, with the recent advent of the James Webb telescope, now extends out nearly fourteen billion light years—we have thus far found no other planet in the universe with such benevolent conditions. It’s almost as if this planet, Earth, was custom made for us. And yet it wasn’t.

For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. The first hominids—proto-humans—emerged a little more than two million years ago. Only during the past 200,000 years have modern humans walked the Earth. And human civilizations have existed for only about 6000 or so years, 0.0001 percent of Earth’s history—a fleeting moment in geological time.

What is it that made this fragile yet benevolent moment of ours possible? Ironically, it’s the very same thing that now threatens us: climate change…

Mann, Michael E.. Our Fragile Moment (p. 8). PublicAffairs. Kindle Edition.

apropos of On The Move, Dr. Mann notes

The fact that the rate of warming today far exceeds that during the PETM presents its own unique challenges. We saw that mammals and other species migrated away from regions that became too warm, or literally—as in the curious case of the shrinking horses—adapted to the warmth. But the rate of warming today, as we’ve seen, is more than ten times greater, exceeding the rate at which plants and animals can be expected to migrate or adapt. And adding insult to injury, we’ve built all sorts of obstacles—in the form of cities, highways, and other infrastructure—that stand in the way of likely migration routes.

Now what about a worst-case scenario, where we actually regress, reversing the climate policies we’ve already enacted, proceeding instead to burn all of the reasonably accessible fossil fuel reserves? The state-of-the-art model projections used in the most recent assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate a most-likely warming, in that case, of about 7°F by 2100, plateauing in 2300 to an approximate 14°F warming. That is a huge, devastating amount of warming, but it’s not a “runaway” greenhouse scenario, nor is it a PETM hothouse scenario. What if we instead take the most extreme end of the IPCC simulation range? In that worst-case scenario we’re looking instead at as much as 11°F by 2100, plateauing to about 23°F in 2300. That would put global average temperatures at around 83°F two centuries from now. That scenario is extremely unlikely as it assumes a reversal of climate policy progress already made and is based on the most extreme of the more than fifty climate models analyzed by the IPCC. Though it still falls several degrees short of the PETM, it’s uncomfortably close, and possibly hot enough that much of the planet would be uninhabitably hot for humans and other large mammals. So yeah, if we try really, really hard, we could make at least most of this planet unlivable for human beings… [Our Fragile Moment, pp, 182-183]

Ugh.

HEAT, DROUGHTS, FLOODS,  FAMINE, WARS?

WHAT OF MASS MIGRATION POLITICS?

… [Stephen] Miller and another Breitbart editor, Julia Hahn, became close. With rosy cheeks and fair skin, Hahn had grown up in Beverly Hills, another wealthy hub of Los Angeles County. During a social gathering at Hahn’s apartment, Miller didn’t want to talk about anything except immigration. “That was all he was fixated on,” McHugh says, “even in a social gathering.”

He recommended that Breitbart do a story about the racist-dystopian book The Camp of the Saints. It was the book that helped inspire Tanton and May to create anti-immigration think tanks, the one filled with degrading descriptions of refugees, such as “kinky-haired, swarthy-skinned, long-despised phantoms,” and “teeming ants toiling for the white man’s comfort.”

Miller suggested that Breitbart “point out the parallels” between the novel and real life. Days later, Julia Hahn wrote a four-thousand-word ode to the book. She compared Pope Francis to Raspail’s fictional pope who preaches universal love, suggesting the book was prophetic. “Pope Francis is urging America to throw open her borders,” she wrote. (In fact, he had urged the United States to treat migrants “in a way which is always humane.”) Hahn compared Hollywood celebrities to the book’s “celebrity elites” who “throw bacchanalian bashes to celebrate and raise funds” for refugees. She likened Rubio to “one of the most dangerous characters . ... ‘full of the milk of human kindness,’ ” Albert Durfort, who fights for an immigration policy that will “seal their doom.” She wrote: “Importing millions of migrants from failed countries with different values and customs will not raise standards of living but will instead merely remake the West in the image of those failed countries.”

After that, Bannon repeatedly cited the book to describe the situation at the border. “It’s not a migration. It’s really an invasion. I call it the Camp of the Saints,” he said.

Guerrero, Jean. Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda (pp. 149-150). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. 

It behooves us to recall the explicit 2024 promises of The Verminator, should he return to The White House, along with his seething xenophobic White Nationalist in Chief Stephen Miller.

Stay tuned. More shortly...

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"EVERY oil empire thinks that THIS time js going to be different"

Jacob Ward's Rip Current

    

Jacob Ward is consistently worth your time.

One of the historical conflicts Jacob cites.

 

 I think I was 10 at the time.

 

2026 INCOHERENCE AT THE U.S. STATE DEPT

 

"Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper, the CNN host, after being asked repeatedly whether he would rule out using military force.

The remarks were part of a vocal push by Mr. Miller, long a powerful behind-the-scenes player in Trump administration policy, to justify American imperialism and a vision for a new world order in which the United States could freely overthrow national governments and take foreign territory and resources so long as it was in the national interest.

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”"

That is not the U.S. I have been a part of for 80 years.

January 6th, 2021 

ANY Dissent is now "Radical Left Terrorism"

Whitehouse.gov

Today, the Trump Administration convened senior officials from governments around the world to launch an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism. Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.

* Secretary of State Rubio exposed the longstanding, willful blindness to left-wing violence: “Our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left. Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream.”

* Secretary Rubio warned that left-wing terrorism has surged to levels not seen in decades: “Today, we face a new wave of this old evil. Here in the United States, the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades… Americans have seen what those numbers mean.”


* Secretary Rubio detailed the transnational nature of the threat: “Antifa militants and their comrades travel from across Europe and to the Americas to participate in each other’s attacks, to funnel propaganda and training, materials, and target information through shared encrypted channels — moving through underground networks of safe houses, and finance and sustain their operations through transnational funds.”


* Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced powerful tools to combat illicit funding: “At President Trump’s direction, Treasury is expanding its efforts to identify organizations that abuse charitable and nonprofit structures as vehicles for illicit finance. We are examining where tax-exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence activity…”


* Secretary Bessent vowed to dismantle the financial infrastructure sustaining left-wing terrorism: “We will identify illicit funding, however artfully it is concealed. We will dismantle the networks that sustain political terrorism, however respectable their fronts may be. We will pursue those who enable political violence, however distant their jurisdictions.”


* Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”


* Miller outlined the historic actions already taken by the Trump Administration: “Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our republican form of government.”

This is a sustained campaign to eradicate a violent ideology that targets police, civilians, and the very foundations of free societies.

Last year, President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and unleashed a relentless campaign to dismantle the left-wing terrorism and bring its perpetrators to justice. Their funding is now being cut off, and international partners are now coordinating to shut down their safe havens, propaganda channels, and cross-border operations.

Under President Trump, Radical Left terrorism is finally being confronted as the organized, transnational threat it actually is.

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Dissent is now "terrorism." 

The U.S. White Nationalist Flea Market of Ideas.

 a.k.a. The “Claremont Institute”

   

 

On one level, the jokes just write themselves. However, this stuff is really not funny. Stay tuned for some serious fracking on this poignant, sorry motherlode of rhetorical fallacies and Incel-resonant White Male Victimhood pearl-clutching and indignantly harrumphing MEGO sophistry.

[Note: "The Claremont Institute" is not affiliated in any way with the SoCal Claremont Colleges. I called the school to confirm that.]

FOR STARTERS, A BIT MORE CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT READING

The movement now called MAGA has long existed in the American political bloodstream; fittingly, Trump’s companion motto, “America First,” originated in 1940 among isolationists at the outbreak of World War II. Across every iteration, this movement’s ideology was and is loosely defined by nationalism and traditional social values, fierce opposition to liberalism as a slippery slope to communism, and a tendency toward paranoia and conspiratorial thinking. For most of the postwar era, this worldview remained on the fringe of American politics—that is, unpersuasive to most Americans, and systematically frozen out by the two major parties. In contrast to the mainstream GOP, the fringe passionately opposed immigration and trade and rejected bipartisan compromise, even tolerating violence.

In spite of, or maybe because of, being so marginalized, a core tenet of this belief system was that its adherents were surely right, and most Americans surely agreed with them, if only their views could be heard—that America was inherently and immovably a right-of-center, conservative country, no matter how many times the voters said otherwise. This faction managed to persist and even grow despite the repeated electoral setbacks that befell its champions, from Barry Goldwater to Pat Buchanan. By the 2010s, with the rise of the Tea Party backlash to Barack Obama’s election, the coarser side of the American right was gaining strength but still decidedly an outside force pressuring the Republican Party. The movement lacked someone with the political talent, charisma, fame, or resources to popularize its ideology (as Ronald Reagan did for his sunny small-government conservatism)—until Trump. The America of Trump’s first inaugural—“this American carnage”—sounded shockingly dark to anyone not already steeped in the harsh pessimism that had long festered on the outer edge of the American right. To those who were, listening to Trump sounded like finally, for the first time, being recognized and represented.

Trump never missed an opportunity to use his presidential megaphone to elevate these views, from defending white nationalist marchers in Charlottesville to railing against “deep state” enemies. He both welcomed more people from the radical fringe into the Republican fold and at the same time mainstreamed their views to steadily radicalize the existing rank and file. In his final year in office, two genuine crises collided to radicalize millions more Republicans with astonishing speed. First, the pandemic upended all semblance of normalcy, injected politics into daily life, and fueled a spasm of conspiracy theories that presented attractive alternatives to experts asking for major sacrifices; suddenly, as government officials started exercising powers unseen in living memory, many Republicans found it a little less far-fetched, a little more credible, to believe that Democrats wanted to control their lives and take away their freedoms. Then, massive street demonstrations responding to the murder of George Floyd created an atmosphere of social upheaval, racial unrest, and, based on portrayals in right-wing media, rampant lawlessness and destruction. Trump’s campaign messaging rolled it all up—the “China virus” and the “thugs”—into a vast voter-fraud conspiracy arrayed against him and his supporters. The widespread misinformation about the virus and the protests primed Trump’s supporters to reject the result of the election. The names, dates, and places of the supposed theft, to the extent they were ever specified, were always changing and never really mattered. The essence of the stolen-election myth was the latest, biggest expression of insisting America must tilt right, that, as Trump would repeat at his rallies, “this nation does not belong to them, this nation belongs to you.”

Arnsdorf, Isaac (2024-04-08T23:58:59.000). Finish What We Started. Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition. 

Click the cover page above.

QUICK OFF-TOPIC ERRATUM

I am an inveterate Rick Wilson fanboy. After a brain-numbing day of reading everything, I never wanted to know about the hatemongering AntiWoke non-cosmopolitan Stephen Miller, (See prior post; I finished the Miller bio) this provides a good respite, for me, anyway. Not that I totally, uncritically buy into all of this AI Gartner hype cycle.

More shortly…

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The Donroe Doctrine

NY Times article photo

“We live in a world, the real world, Jake [Tapper/CNN], that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning
of time.” —Stephen Miller

...On Tuesday, giddy after the success of a daring weekend raid to capture the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump’s White House put out a statement threatening Denmark, a nato ally, with military action if it did not hand over Greenland—a threat so reminiscent of Vladimir Putin’s bald demands in the run-up to his invasion of Ukraine that it had Russian officials openly cheering. In the days since, Trump has insisted that the United States simply must have the vast, sparsely populated, and resource-rich territory. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet with Denmark’s leaders next week to present terms. Seven European nations put out a joint statement condemning the threats, leading to yet another Trump statement claiming that it was the Europeans who could not be trusted to defend their fellow alliance members.

What some of Trump’s own senior officials once viewed as the delusional musings of a dilettante have now become a genuine international crisis, one that could lead—or maybe it already has led—to the effective end of nato. After this week, is there anyone who can credibly claim to be sure that the United States, under Trump, would honor the commitment to mutual defense that is the foundation of the alliance?

Greenland, it turns out, is not a punch line but a template that explains much about Trump’s foreign policy: it’s about a power-grabbing President who looks at territory on a map and says he wants to own it. Trump could not articulate a rationale for acquiring Greenland—“from a strategic standpoint, from a locational standpoint, from a geography standpoint, it’s something that we should have,” he told us—any more than he can elaborate on what his plan is for Venezuela now that he’s toppled the country’s leader and seized some of its oil. Asked by reporters from the Times, on Wednesday, why he couldn’t just settle for the terms of the existing 1951 treaty with Denmark, which grants the U.S. military nearly unlimited use of Greenland’s territory, Trump replied, “Ownership is very important.” He added, “because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.” There are no limits to his global powers, Trump said, except one thing: “My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

In light of all of this stuff (including the ICE agent killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis this week forward one day later by new federal CBP agent shootings in Portland, Oregon), igs it hyperbolically unwarranted at this point to wonder whether Insurrection Act martial law may soon arrive?

 

Susan Glasser concludes. 

Welcome to 2026. Trump’s apologists may be right when they say that the martial bluster is no more than a bargaining tactic. It appears that’s what Maduro thought, too, right up until the moment Trump sent the Delta Force into his bedroom in the middle of the night.

ON DECK

Now running on NetFlix. A film production of the live Broadway play. Could scarcely be more timely. Brilliantly done. George Clooley!

 

From his closing speech:

These instruments can teach, they can illuminate, they can even inspire, but they can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use them to those ends. Otherwise, they're merely wires and lights in a box. 

There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance, indifference. It's a fight for the very soul of this republic.

And so the question is a very simple one. Not what power unchecked can do. We have seen that answer. No. The question is what are you prepared to do?

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Good night and good luck. 

Selected Murrow quotes. 

 

Thinking about Ed Murrow brings to my mind the late CBS newsman Eric Sevareid.

 

Eric and Ed were CBS News colleagues (I'd place a Polymarket bet that the poignant Bari Weiss does not know this). Eric's memoir was published in 1946, the year I was born. I bought the updated 1976 release when it came out. It is one of my treasured hardbounds. Below: one of my website taglines...

 

Word.
 

My late Bell Labs semiconductor R&D technocrat Pop liked to snipe derisively "Jack of all Trades, Master of None."

 

His recurrent admonition to me as I grew up was "find an expert niche and fill it."

 

My eventual Sevareidian reaction echoes Eric.

 

 

And, then, from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” —Heinlein 

Sorry, Pop.

 

One last fav tagline of mine for now.

"Nature may be red in tooth and claw, but it is not merely so." —Sam Harris (props to Tennyson)

One hopes.

 

JANUARY 10TH UPDATE

 

It has been a very bad week, on a number of exigent fronts. Seems like it's always Miller Time of late.

 

 

More to come...