The appeal to America’s most stupid people is heating up, and the meme here is a great example.

First, let’s realize that the percentage of Muslims in the U.S. is somewhere between 1.1% and 1.3%, compared to Christianity at 67%.

Then, try to imagine any process by which our local, state, and federal laws, conforming as they all must to the U.S. Constitution could be replaced by Sharia law, which calls for the amputation of thieves’ hands, lashing as punishment of consuming alcohol, and the stoning to death of adulteresses.

 

 

 

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At left we see an example of how the rest of the world views Trump and the United States of 2026.

A blend of pity, contempt, and ridicule.

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At the top of the news is the Trump’s administration’s day-long prayer event featuring speakers from President Trump’s cabinet and a program that drew connections between the nation’s founding and Christianity.

However, as shown below, there is in fact no such connection.

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I spend a decent amount of time on social media–enough to see the 5- to 10-fold increase in posts that are essentially long-debunked myths about solar and wind that has taken place over just the past few months.

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If you condone abusive behavior on the part of law enforcement, you’re a terrible person.

Simple.

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One of the most common arguments against taxing the rich is that they will simply leave whatever area is levying the tax.

We hear about this most often in connection with New York City, where its liberal mayor is using the taxes he’s raising to build infrastructure, feed hungry people, etc.

Here’s what’s happened in Massachusetts.

 

 

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A common tactic of Big Oil and the rest of the Trump-supporting world is to point out that some of our government’s investments in cleantech do not pan out.

Unscrupulous people, as well as tens of millions of idiots, are enraged by these failures and interpret them as evidence of incompetence and/or corruption.

On the other hand, fair-minded people understand that it’s impossible for all these investments to be winners; some are bound to fail as the advancement of technology makes unforeseeable twists and turns.

The plummeting costs of solar PV and wind over the past 10 years wiped out a great number of investors in both the private and public sectors, and solar thermal (shown here) was only one.

As an example, I used to attend the annual conferences on hydrokinetics, and I always looked forward to them.  Guess what?  They’re gone. They no longer exist, as a result of the fact that the LCOE (levelized cost of energy) of all forms of hydro can’t compete on large-scale projects, and thus have been relegated to small, niche applications.

 

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If you don’t mind crying like a little kid, I hope you’ll watch the video below featuring Iris Dement singing “Our Town”; the theme is a sad one indeed.

“Can’t you see, the sun’s sinkin’ fast, but just like they say, nothing good ever lasts” is perhaps a retelling of what our greatest minds have been telling us for ages. For example, we have “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” the work of America’s perhaps most beloved poet, Robert Frost.

The third verse:

I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall
I bring them flowers about every day
But I just gotta cry when I think what they’d say…

I buried both my parents, who were lifelong Republicans, but “I just gotta cry when I think what they’d say” not about the demise of our town, but our nation.

What’s happening to this country is horrible. Maybe it’s reversible, but maybe it’s not.

It’s up to us.

 

 

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What JD Vance says at left cuts across everything this country was founded on, and for that reason, it’s bound to fail.

Yes, our population is far more hateful, uneducated, and ignorant of the core principles that underlie the basic formation of our country than it’s ever been before.

But most of us are people of tolerance with a base-level understanding of our history, and therefore, people like Vance have gone as far forward as they possibly can.

 

 

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I can’t swear that the meme here speaks the truth, but it’s certainly possible, and more to the point, it illustrates the fact that hydrokinetics has important (although narrow) applications in the constellation of renewable energy.

There are places that a) have terrific hydro resources, and b) are incredibly difficult to power in any other way.

The islands that surround Scotland are perhaps the very best example of this on the entire planet.

 

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