Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 13. “Walmart Recession Signal” grows louder.


October 21, 2026

According to the economist who came up with it, the “Walmart Recession Signal” indicating an oncoming recession is getting louder.

Tonight, I'm also pleased to announce that the Department of Agriculture will be launching a new harvest fuel relief program, providing our farmers with $8 billion in support to offset diesel costs during this harvest season

Donald Trump.

So the fuel relief is to relieve high fuel prices caused by the war against Iran which is illegal, and will be paid for by money we don't have.

Sure, that makes sense somehow.

Oil is coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, under US protection, at roughly the same amount it was before the war now.

In other news.

Oklahoma Tribe Buys One Of The Biggest Horse Betting Operations In Wyoming

Sublette Rejects Appeal For Girls Treatment Center, Owners May Take Fight To Court

October 22, 2026

Natrona County eyes two school closures. One is 40 miles away, the other is right around the corner

One of the schools is in Midwest.

In a real irony, former House District 58 representative Patrick Sweeney went to the Midwest town hall on the subject.  Long serving Sweeney was ousted by current representative Bill Allemand after the district was redrawn. Alleman was a complete asshole to Sweeney in a debate and ran, that time, as firebrand Freedom Caucuser.

He survived a challenge from Bar Nunn Mayor Peter Boyer whom he became crosswise with over a proposal to place the Radiant nuclear generator plant north of Bar Nunn, something Bar Nunn could not have stopped. Bar Nunn's city council meetings became the bizarre focus of the topic however with outraged populists even accusing some city council members of taking bribes, an absolute absurdity.  Radiant eventually grew tired of the matter and decamped to Tennessee.  Allemand, for his part, was arrested not all that long after for drunk driving.  He's one of the few surviving members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, barely hanging on to his seat.

Allemand is apparently backing fanciful thoughts of declaring the school to be a charter school or forming a new school district, neither of which will occur  It was really admirable of Sweeney to go out and speak to a group of people about their plight, which is concerning, which their votes for Allemand helped bring about.  It's the classic Leopard's won't eat my face situation. 

Campbell County Moves $500 Million Nuclear Fuel Facility Closer To Reality

Gillette Targeted For Massive $575 Million Uranium Processing Plant

October 24, 2026

Some headlines:

Midwest escapes. . . for now.


School funding crisis, brought to you by the Freakishly Dumb Caucus.


Kemmerer coal mine set to close in 2029, spurring Wyoming’s soda ash industry to seek new fuel source

Could Data Centers Save Wyoming Coal? Peabody Eyes 'Holy Grail' Strategy

October 26, 2026

Wyoming will receive $206,000,000 from the Federal Government for healthcare as part of a Federal rural healthcare initiative.

Now, I demand everyone in Wyoming on the far right who has decried socialized medicine to demand the state not accept the money.  To not do so would be hypocritical.

October 28, 2026

Prometheus pulls plug on Natrona County data center

A proposed project promising up to $115 million in annual property taxes is off the table, leaving questions about what comes next for Natrona …

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Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 12, the Deflect and Deny edition.

Alvin Hellerstein, Federal Judge Overseeing Maduro Case, Dies at 92

Oh geez, this is just absurd:

Alvin Hellerstein, Federal Judge Overseeing Maduro Case, Dies at 92

92 and still on the bench?  That shouldn't be allowed.

Painted Bricks: After the Dust Settles, Buffalo Wyoming.

Painted Bricks: After the Dust Settles, Buffalo Wyoming.:  

Thursday, October 28, 1926. Buffalo Bill Museum formed.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 28:  1926  The Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody formed.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

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Saturday, October 28, 1911. The Tsu-Cheng Yuan (资政院), demands democratic reforms.

The Tsu-Cheng Yuan (资政院), China's new National Assembly, demanded a cabinet of ministers without Manchu nobility, an amnesty for persons who committed political offenses, and a permanent constitution.


John Cardinal Murphy Farley (1842-1918), Archbishop of New York, and William Henry Cardinal O'Connell (1859-1944), Archbishop of Boston, were named Cardinals on this day, as was Apostolic Delegate Diomede Falconio.

Buffalo & Erie basin, October 28, 1911.


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Friday, October 27, 1911. Yuan Shikai Commander in Chief, Roosevelt angry.

Saturday, October 28, 1876. He wants a change too.

 

He wants a change too. Thomas Nast

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Monday, October 23, 1876. The disarming of Red Cloud's band.

The 2026 Election. 27th Edition. The Impending Clerico-Fascist Coup.

Flag of the Belgian clericofascist Rexist Party of the 1930s and 1940s.

October 23, 2026

I keep thinking to myself that I'll be glad when the election is over.  The 2024 election was bad, but this one seems even worse, at least locally.  Seems like not a day goes by when I don't have to read something about Alabama Becky Bextel saying something outrageous or some disgruntled Wyoming Freedom Caucusers saying that they're the only real Republicans, and for that matter, the only real Americans.

Worst of all, not a day goes by that Donald Trump doesn't act crazier than the day before.

So, in the back of my mind, I keep thinking that the election will put an end to the Republican Party's control of Congress, if not an outright end to the GOP itself, and things will start getting back to sane, if not normal.

But Trump won't let that happen.  

The General Election is on November 3. The Evangelical Far Right Mago Clerico-Fascist Coup will start on November 4.*

There's no doubt about it.

Only if the Democratic victory in November is so overwhelming that it can't be sanely denied, and Republicans in Congress need to get moderate to save their remaining seats, will this be capable of being avoided.  Trump will attempt it anyhow.

And here it starts:


And the start of the attempted 2026 Coup commences:

Trump administration sues to block Senate race certification in Alaska if Republican loses

As this is the first part of what will be a desperate effort of the Trump administration to cling to power, we'll start a new edition.

Lawsuits, voter intimidation, the whole smash.  The Trump MAGA extremist, and the National Conservatives, who is all he has left, are not going to go into the political night without attempting to seize power.  Trump is all they have to try to make their dreams of a Clerico-fascist state (and their dreams on the nature of that state do not align) become a reality.

cont:

Guest Column: Proposition 1 — An Historically Huge Mistake


Rod Miller: Why Hasn't Bryan Miller And The Wyoming GOP Endorsed Eric Barlow?

October 24, 2026

October 25, 2026

There's definitely angst in the Chuc Gray camp.  I saw one of the campaign television ads he's running that Miller had mentioned, and it was remarkable. All about inflation etc., and how he can be counted on to back Wyomingites.

Give us a break.  

Gray's entire campaign today has been based on being a complete Trump toady.   The fact that Trump's economic policies, including his tariffs and illegal war on Iran has boosted inflation can't be ignored.  

But Gray's attempting to ignore it.

That must be making inroads into his support, if he has any support.  He's deeply disliked in general and barely won the primary.  His campaign is trying to shift late in the day into an area which, frankly, he has no traction.

October 26, 2026

Mary Peltola was injured in a car accident over the weekend 

Chuck Gray made another appearance at a University of Wyoming football game this week, and promptly posted photographs of himself, which means somebody (I suspect I know who) goes to all of these game to photograph him in "candid" shots.

One thing that this is causing is for people to ask why Chuck is always alone.

Chuck is in trouble, and knows it.  He's never been popular with Wyomingites in general, and people don't regard him as somebody you'd expect to see at anything.  He revised to debate Kinney and Johnson, and now it looks as if Kinney might pull off an upset.  He's trying to appear as a real buy now, which is a bit too late.  His only really campaign points have been that he loves Trump.  Trump love is wearing off.

Trump love is wearing off in Iowa big time.  

Iowa candidate Ashley Hinson is in the same boat and was on This Week practically declaring herself to be an opponent of Trump's.

October 27, 2026

A person has to be dumb, or wilfully ignorant, to believe the US didn't go to the moon.

To vote for such a person is inexcusable.

Bryan Miller tries to thread two needles and avoid threading them at the same time.

Wyoming GOP Chair Says Party Won't Endorse Barlow Or Bextel For Governor

Miller is another of these characters that spent a life time government service sucking on the government tit only to come home, or maybe just come to Wyoming (I don't know where he's from) and hate mommy.  He is an Air Force Academy graduate that retired from the USAF as a Colonel.

Bextel took a shot, probably accidental, at Miller on the Tucker Carlson show.  First of all, why anyone is taking the gadfly journalist seriously is beyond me, and the state of his show might be demonstrated that Bextel washed up on shore there, but she claimed the Wyoming, and national, GOP has no leadership.

The fact is, it does. It's lead by Dixiecrats, here and there, and people don't like them.

Bextel, for her part, is getting a lot more attention than she merits, mostly because of the nature of the Internet.  The like minded ignorant gather to her in small numbers attracted to the stank, and the press finds her fascinating due to her ignorance.  And she's also well funded on a personal level.

Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) called for the citizenship status of every American who has been naturalized since 1990 to be reevaluated.

Melania Trump was naturalized in 1990.

Elon Musk was naturalized in 2002.

Well let's at least investigate the naturalization status of those two.

On other matters, at this point, diehard Trump fans, and hence MAGA accoylites, have to discuss and explain this:

25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 162nd Edition. "The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up"

October 28, 2026

Yup, and you heard it here first.

Economists Say State Income Tax On The Table If Proposition 1 Passes

It will happen, and what a battle it'll be.

The opinion can be found here:  AG Opinion.

It won't matter.  The local U.S. Attorney will proudly declare Meine Ehre heißt Treue and march in anyway.  Indeed, they've already declared they will, but will honor the AG's opinion by honoring the 100 yard restriction, which will allow them to better sing the Horst-Wessel-Lied anyhow.

Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor in that state.  Just earlier this week King Donald stated she was the worst Republican Senator in the Senate, which coming from the worst President in U.S. history is quite the compliment.

The MAGAs are already seeding doubt in the local election.

Fred Harrison: Wyoming Elections — When Certification Does Not Match The Record

They've just been unable to accept that the WFC is hated, and I mean hated.  The power pouting is at the absurd level.

Footnotes:

*  I started this thread a couple of days prior to the first post.  I hadn't anticipated the coup attempt starting before the ballots were counted, but it has.

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The 2026 Election, 26th Edition. The hoping to avoid sitting on blisters edition.


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Tuesday, October 27, 2026

What did Canadian Soldiers Eat In WW2?

 


25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 162nd Edition. "The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up"

I'm only going to post excerpts of this.  It'd be too long to post the entire document, and you can look it up.

The excerpts are enough.  The rest, however, does really set the tone.  Much of what it notes, we have noted here before.




Let's jump ahead here.



I'm reminded in this about stories about the Playboy Mansion and some of the people who attended parties there. Bill Cosby, Jim Brown.  This went on for a long time.  Hefner even managed to escape being exposed during his lifetime.

I'm particularly reluctant to accuse people of horrible acts simply based on reporting  But here, in order to believe there's nothing to this, we have to wilfully disregard the women involved. 

Is it possible this is all a fable? Well, such things can occur, although by this point this would be an extraordinary fable.

Be that as it may,  Trump is now 80 years old.  He's destroyed the Republican Party, which has gone from being a Conservative Party to a Fascist Party.  His dementia is crossing over from the noticeable stage to the raging stage.  So, what will occur with all of this, given the status of his mind?

He remains the purported President of the United States and in that capacity he's steadfastly refused to cooperate in the release of the Epstein files.  All the current poll data suggests that the GOP is going to lose the House and may very well lose the Senate.  If the Senate remains in GOP hands Trump is safe from impeachment.  If there's a "blue wave", as some feel there may be, he isn't.

It's not that there would be so many Democrats in office that they could impeach him on their own.  No, rather, it's to what degree the remaining Republicans in the Senate, and the House for that matter, would be willing to cling to a sinking ship, or if you prefer in Trump terms, to be on a sinking electric car in which there are sharks in the water.  After the election, the GOP is going to have to take stock on the results, and if things are really bad, and they look like they may be, the same noodle backed politicians who have gone along with Trump will be looking to save their jobs.  Some will switch over to being anti Trump in that effort, if a solid reason to do so is presented.

The story of Beatrice Keul provides ample reason to do so.  She's a named adult, and has little to profit by having revealed her story.  Indeed, she's the former Miss Switzerland.  While I'm not a fan of pageants, having a title such as that lends credibility to her accusations.  And the accusations are brutal.  She maintains that she was ushered into a private suite and that Trump grabbed her from behind and outright raped, not groped, her, leaving her bleeding as a result.  In order to discount this, you have to be willing to believe that Keul just flat out made this story up.

 The story about the 13 year old is so horrific that if it is further developed, and is true, that would certainly provide ample reason to impeach Trump, as well as an ample reason to prosecute Trump.  That story, as noted, has been out for awhile and so far has not been deemed sufficiently established, however.

When the Democrats take the House, it will undoubtedly be the case that these stories will be more fully developed.  MAGA's will howl.  It's like Rebecca Bextel believing that NASA hasn't made it to the Moon, knowledge is a dangerous thing and would hurt their world view.

If the blue wave is big enough, and it it looks like Trump will drown in it, both big ifs. that brings us back to the 25th Amendment.  It's the saving door for Republicans.  If the cabinet comes out and states, "gosh, he's nuts", there will be no impeachment.  He'll be ushered out the door, and a grateful nation will quit looking at the wreck.

But on the upcoming election, candidates strongly backing Trump, or backed by him, have to answer for this.  That's very difficult to do.  If you say you flat out don't believe it, you have to provide a reason for such certainty, which is different from having doubts.

A person can't just turn a blind eye to rape.  If there's reasons not to believe these stories, and they are now cumulative, what are they?

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