#15: It’s Not the End of the World… But You Can See It from Here
In Issue 15: News; FYI; H5N1 Update; Journal: State of the Union; Weekly quotes: Say What? WARNING PROFANITY!
Readers,
Hot enough for you? Four words that’ll get you lots of four-letter words in response. Go on, try it out. It’s summer, fly it around like a kite. Hot enough for you? Same to you, buddy!
Thank you, for your time! Patrick.
News:
Earth is Trapping Much More Heat Than Climate Models Forecast – and the Rate Has Doubled in 20 Years
Earth is More Sensitive to Greenhouse Gases Than We Thought
North Atlantic: Phytoplankton, Key to Ocean Life, is Falling 2% per Year
Heat Waves are Getting More Dangerous With Climate Change
China: 22 New Bat Viruses Discovered ‘Raising Urgent Concerns’
FYI:
Indicators of Global Climate Change
Bird Flu (H5N1):
Cambodia Reports 10th Case of Avian Flu This Year
How a Bird Flu Pandemic Could Take off
Journal: State of the Union:
6/29/25: Ruh-roh. Iran’s Grand Ayatollah issued a fatwa against Trump and Netanyahu. “It is necessary for all Muslims around the world to make these enemies regret their words and mistakes,” the fatwa stated. The Potemkin bombings in Iran could be more costly than Trump or Bibi expected. Trump and Netanyahu are bad juju in all kinds of weather. “Enemies of God,” is no way to start the week. Just saying.
6/28/25: Morning. Amerika. It’s a standard operating procedure for ICE agents to wear masks to conceal themselves. While that’s going down, people wearing masks trying to avoid infectious diseases are treated as outcasts and assholes. Criminals have been impersonating ICE agents for months. Something’s wrong with the previous sentence. Criminals. ICE agents. Never mind. Moving on.
6/27/25: In a 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS limits the power of federal judges in issuing nationwide injunctions. The ruling was on universal injunctions and executive orders, not the merit of Trump’s case against birthright citizenship. For now, in certain parts of the country, there will be confusion and chaos as people encounter patchwork policies on birthright citizenship. SCOTUS has left the issue in limbo as they go on a three-month vacation. The ruling is a win for the executive branch at the expense of the Constitution and the people.
Same Day: Stephen Miller has up to $250,000 of ICE contractor Palantir stock. He’s not the only one invested in Palantir and making money from mass deportations. Nothing like making profit off of man’s inhumanity to man. Trump’s people are all profiting, one way or another, from his second term. That’s the point. To profit as generational institutions and programs funded by the people for the people are gutted, looted and left for dead. That’s what they want. That’s the plan. It’s a robbery and a murder. Biggest heist ever. Killing off a free and open society is a bonus. Meet the new Nazis, same as the old Nazis.
6/26/25: There are conflicting reports on the ultimate status of Iran’s bombed nuclear facilities. There’s what Trump and his flunkies are saying… Full stop! Everything Trump says is bullshit. Everything. Proceed with this in mind. Back to the dance, all sides declared victory. Trump did. So did Israel. Not to be left out, Iran got on the bandwagon too and declared “decisive victory” over Israel. Khamenei added, Iran’s strike on Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, had delivered a “heavy slap to the U.S.'s face.” Iran suspends cooperation with IAEA and will continue enriching uranium. Meanwhile back at the ranch, masked ICE agents continue seizing people. Sending them to who knows where. Trump said he’d send 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo. There are currently approximately 500 people detained there. Florida to construct an Alligator Alcatraz. They’re just getting started. Soon, they will have camps for all of us. And that… is the state of the union. Good morning, Amerika, you miserable motherfucking bastard!
6/25/25: Early intel, Pentagon leak, indicates Iran’s enriched uranium and nuclear weapons facilities were not destroyed by U.S.-Israel bombing. Trumps says sites are “obliterated.” El presidente will limit sharing classified intel with Congress, despite the leak coming from the Pentagon. Some say Iran moved everything. Others say Iran moved nothing.
6/24/25: Morning. Potemkin bombings. Trump leans on Netanyahu. The battle of the bastards is on. Shaky ceasefire in place. Now, tell Bibi to stop the genocide in Gaza. I think Trump pushed the conflict between Israel and Iran so he could play the role of peacemaker. Donnie desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize. Obama has one. We all could use a Nobel and the million bucks that goes with it. There’s always that prick who says he’s just happy to be nominated. Fuck you! I want the money! The medal is going on eBay. I’m going to Disneyland!
Same Day: Revisiting kompromat. Let me get this frisbee off of the roof one more time. I wrote in the previous newsletter that all the dirt Russia has on Trump doesn’t matter. Because of apathy. Not enough of the American people would care. Apathy. I still stand by this argument. That people don’t care. I fucked up, nonetheless. The POV was all wrong. I was looking through the eyes of the stupid-ass populace. My bad. I should have been looking through the eyes of the stupid-ass president. A narcissist. Of course, he doesn’t want to look bad. To be compromised. Kompromat bad! Eureka! Narcissism, that’s the glue that holds it all together. Still, it’s a tightrope walk for Donnie’s ego. He doesn’t want to piss off Putin. But Trump’s ego is grinding against Putin’s, and it could make Donnie Boy go absolutely batshit crazy. For you romantics, it looks like Trump-Putin will endure another day. The best I can tell, the conflict with Iran served two purposes, 1) Trump wants a Nobel; 2) He’s in a struggle with Putin over dominance. It’s about who’s the alpha dog in the relationship. It’s been Putin all along. Will that change? So, Trump beats up on Putin’s bitch in Tehran. Just like a fucking soap opera… Tune in tomorrow to see if Vlad can get a handle on things and put the bromance back on course. As for me, I got my frisbee back. I’m outta here.
6/23/25: Trump declares ceasefire; just minutes before the future’s market opened; U.S. stock futures soared. A ceasefire. In a conflict he greenlit and then participated in. Neither side seemed to be aware of ceasefire; Iran fired missiles. Israel bombed for hours.
Same Day: Earlier. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! NOT! Ballistic missile attacks from Iran hitting U.S. targets throughout the Middle East in response to Trump bombings. This is shaking out as expected. Punch someone, they will punch back. The only question is how much punch does Iran have? Really? We shall see.
Same Day: Another day in Dumbfuckistan. Oil prices jump 4% to nearly $80 a barrel. TRUMP: “EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I'M WATCHING!” Dipshit can’t find Iran on a map. Bombed based on “vibes,” not intel.
Same Day: SCOTUS, in a 6-3 ruling, allows Trump to resume swift deportation of undocumented migrants to countries other than their homelands.
6/20/25: Four Silicon Valley executives are sworn in as U.S. Army Lt. Colonels. The appointees: Shyam Sankar, Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Meta; Kevin Weil, OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, OpenAI. The walk-ons, now commissioned officers, were handed one of the highest ranks in the Army Reserve. You can’t have a real police state, a real closed society without the marriage of tech and military. Now, we’re on our way. Good times.
Say What?
6/27/25: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent of ruling against universal injunctions.
6/26/25: “That’s the way I have ruled,” King Trump said before knighting Whiskey Pete.
6/26/25: “The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated,” Senator Chris Murphy saying what we already knew about the effectiveness of bombing Iran. Still needs to be said.
6/25/25: Reporter: “The NATO chief called you daddy. Do you regard your NATO allies as children?”
Trump: “He did it very affectionately. Daddy, you’re my daddy.” [Rutte, WTF? Context does not make this better... in fact. On another note: Anyone going to Big Daddy’s Liquor Store? Get me a bottle of Jack and a couple lottery scratchers. Thx.]
6/24/25: “Doesn't know what the fuck they are doing,” Trump said about Israel and Iran. [I’ll give him this, it takes one, to know one.]
6/24/25: Mitch McConnell: “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it.”
6/23/25: “Only 6 months in and we are back into foreign wars, regime change, and world war.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after stating Trump pulled a “bait and switch on MAGA.” [O.K., fine. There’s some MAGA antiwar, a byproduct of isolationism. The MAGA I see and know of, personally, are all for war with Iran. A place they can’t find on a map. They are all for Trump. Even if there are no more elections. Just ask them.]