2025 May Become the Hottest Year on Record

I believe 2025 will be the hottest year since weather records were kept. Democrats had both houses of Congress and the office of President in 2021 and didn’t fix the ecospheric issues. They elected the worst possible leader for competence on environmental challenges and fixes. I am so tired of the bull.

Environmental economics is a science tangled up with political economy. Sure that makes changing the fundamental way of social economic reality difficult. Yet Joe Biden was so far below the bar of competence that his election reflected on the competence or lack of for the entire party. They are spoilt globalists; not people who would transform the nation to a new environmentally sustainable economic footing.

Maybe the genius required to understand the challenges, and there are several that need be addressed concurrently exceeds the capacity of parties to present an able candidate.

A Comment on Causes of War During the Industrial Revolution

During the industrial revolution kings still ruled nations. Aristocrats had concentrated wealth. People went to war when the royals ordered them to. Even France had the Bourbon restoration, though Napoleon as Emperor had taken over from nascent democracy.  Germany didn't have its revolution until WW I was about lost. Except for American intervention, Crown Prince Ruprecht's final offensive would have clinched victory for the Kaisar. The Franco Prussian war of 1874 was the real stimulus for modernization of continental military technique.

The US civil war was largely one of an industrial zing north versus a lagging behind agrarian slave labor driven oligarchy.

Ortega y Gasset published The Revolt of the Masses in 1930. He anticipated two wars. He basically predicted the second world war and Spanish civil war because of social changes stimulated by mass production.

 Upgrades in technology made competition for mass military equipment production keen. Military industrial complexes haven't ever really got out of the business of war. American military arsenals (and others) need to be spent periodically and replaced with new equipment via a war somewhere or production lines and sales are idled.

A Patriot Keeping His Nation Together Breaks No Laws

Donald Trump faces many challenges from foreign and domestic enemies. He apparently said; "He Who Saves His Country Doesn’t Violate Any Law". Europeans are organizing against America these days- Zelensky is trying to form a European army as if he were Hitler turning N.A.T.O. into his own force without the USA. Europeans have resumed their pre WW2 expansionist belligerence and militancy seeking conflict with Russia and isolating America economically. Democrats are putty in European hands. Trump seeks secure borders and peace with Russia.

A great relationship with Russia is necessary to keep them at least neutral instead of joking de facto with China in a super-state leading BRIC nations in global competition with US. Democrats fundamentally are clueless on conserving national interests and have zero interest in a sustainable federal budget.

Patriots keeping a nation together-Trump, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln sometimes work in a sphere where social realty places demands that cannot be met with legal arguments. For that matter international boundary disputes and circumstances for understanding require more than legal or paper empowerment for stability. Historical circumstances and the will of a people will overpower laws made by an oppressive, incompetent or obsolete power sometimes. A paper pyric victory over a temporarily vulnerable power can lead to war.

Perfect Personal Morality Doesn't Make One Bulletproof

Aretaic ethics are swell yet moral excellence does not confer immunity to oppression. Not even the Proud Boys could just be proud without consequences. It is good to be morally squeaky clean of course and one may rightly wear their authentic badge of purity on a sleeve and keep their head high.unless male pattern baldness is an embarrassment or bad teeth stops one from smiling at the one with perfect teeth.

If you are a female.living in certain nations, the wrong skin color for a given neighborhood or wandering about in a narco state unconcerned about gang rules, too prosperous in appearance for a slum, too badly dressed to visit some gated community, wearing a MAGA hat in certain California districts, walking or riding a bike while the majority drove internal combustion engines, etc keeping your head and face out there and being selective about what you publish may require some discretion.

Jesus Christ had perfect Personal Morality and he was crucified

A.I. and Robots Probably Can Replace Most Human Occupations

 The rise of A.I. recently that is growing by leaps and bounds will become more revolutionary than when computers replaced secretaries; it will be more disruptive than when machines replaced human labor. A.I. will replace intellectual occupations such as accountants and lawyers. Lawyers may become actors that say the line an A.I. tells them to in front of a jury through an ear bud.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4750478-iqiyi-artificial-intelligence-better-eps-than-expected-and-very-cheap

If attorneys and educators, accountants and salesmen become obsolete, so should fire fighters. A fireproof robot willing to hang onto the side of a speeding firetruck, scamper up a ladder and jump into the flames will become commonplace.  will be difficult will be a justification for having humans work instead of A.I. and robots. Congress will need to create a basic income for all Americans so the disruption and displacement doesn’t build a society of homelessness.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/perplexity-launches-own-freemium-deep-183914022.html

On the other hand capital rises faster than wages. Americans will experience the concentration of wealth that follows the takeover by A.I. and robots that are owned by the rich. The masses will have little economic or political power and if the rich condescend to slop them with a basic income and food stamps they will be thankful yet resentful for that. Finding something productive for people to do for a living will require some serious thought by A.I. to discover. I doubt that humans themselves will invent anything positive.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/01/ai-deepseek-cheap-china-google-apple

Human programmers won't be able to write code remotely as quickly as A.I. itself. Competition will bring corporate to unleash the potential of A.I. to develop itself as it thinks best. Instead of trusting in God, CEOs and Comrade-Fuhrers will necessarily trust in A.I.

Lakers Used Mass Confusion to Evolve Stomped by the Jazz

 The Lakers were thrashed by one of the worst teams in the N.B.A. recently, and that was encouraging. Having beaten the Jazz a couple of nights before with Luka Doncic playing his first game the Lakers had enough confidence to let the Jazz feel redeemed rather than dregged. The Lakers didn't actually need a victory that night.

I have no idea why the Lakers signed the Ukrainian center Alex Len who was unable to stop the ferocious onslaught of the Jazz in the paint. The regular Lakers center didn't play- Jaxson Hayes after receiving an injury in the prior game, so the Lakers were on a different basis from the start. Christian Koloko is a good defender except he hasn't played much apparently still recovering conditioning from a year off for medical reasons. I don't can play the position well enough know if the other center for the Lakers- Trey Jemison III. If the Lakers want to collect centers that don't play I guess that's alright.

The Lakers of course made a dubious trade sending Dalton Knecht to the Hornets for a center that couldn't pass a physical, so Knecht returned to the Lakers. Grace sometimes occurs, and the Lakers were stopped by fate from shooting themselves in the foot once more. Sending out players for short term adds isn't a good bet when they have great potential. Knecht could be the post-James shooting forward who can hit threes from the corner. Knecht won't become Rick Barry yet he would be a good compliment positional alternative to Luka Doncic. patience is required to build a good team.

So the Lakers played their entire line up including Bronny James and no one scored twenty points. Mass confusion is a military maneuver that lets the players feel a bit better about marching skill. The Lakers may have employed mass confusion to shuffle things a bit before moving forward.

Zelensky Seeks to Make a European Army Threat to the United States

 Ukraine President Zelensky is agitating to make Europe an enemy of the United States. Entirely thankless for the hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. military and financial support the last several years he said at the Munich conference that he wants Europe to create its own army to defend itself because Europe may have policies ahead that conflict with those of the United States. Sounding somewhat like Hitler on the far right he seeks a militarization of Europe to counter what he understandably regards as a Russian threat.

Russia though, for realists, is simply recovering land it lost at the end of the Cold War 1.0 when the west divvied up the former Soviet Union. It seemed a time for new carpet bagging and Russia lost all of the Ukraine in the process. Realpolitik would always have been willing to concede half of the Ukraine to Russia and get on with regular political and economic partnership,

Zelensk’s approach to making the United States an enemy of Europe as soon as it quit sending hum hundreds of billions of dollars is a logical move toward reducing America’s standing in the world. Zelensky would like to divide and isolate the United States while creating a powerful Europe that would at any rate eventually normalize relations with the great Russia-China superpower partnership because they are located in Eurasia.

Zelensky’s desire to form a large European Army conflicts prima facie wit the present N.A.T.O. military. Presumably Zelensky would sever N.A.T.O. from its relationship with the United States and convert it into a European fascist refoundation suitable for war against Russia, China and the United States with himself as Fuhrer. Poland and Ukraine perhaps imagine themselves as a European superpower able to rule the former N.A.T.O. new fascist army.

Former President Biden’s lunatic policies of support for Ukraine cost the United States economically and damaged America’s economic position in the world. The BRIC nations are powerful competition for American production in all phases of industrial and technical production for what may be a divided world with the United States holding on to the short end of the stick.

The best tactic for the United States is to renormalize relations with Russia as quickly as possible and settle the Ukraine conflict with boundaries roughly along the Dnipro River. The U.S.A. can buy rare earth minerals from Russia if it needs to. America needs to be as god or better of a partner with Russia as is China if it wants to end up not being the odd man out facing a Euro Army Russia today. Russia is a threat of convenience for globalist lunatic war mongering politicians seeking power. Europeans should know that they can get far more through peace than they ever will through pursuit of conflict with the Russia-China proto super-state alliance.