Showing posts with label 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2025. Show all posts
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part 13. Disassociation.
December 12, 2025
From the Casper Star Tribune.
The Democratic bill to extend the credits failed.
Senate blocks Obamacare tax subsidy extension, all but ensuring spikes for Wyoming consumers: Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming called tax subsidy extension a “disaster” and lobbied for a Republican health savings account proposal that also failed.
So did a moronic Republic bill for health savings accounts. That was no sort of plan.
The evidence is too well established to ignore. A national health care system needs to be established and frankly it would not be that difficult. It'll be interesting to see if this brings it about, as the populist contingent that opposes it, including here in the state, is about to lose its insurance. This is, quite frankly, a disaster.
It's a disaster that the GOP hopes will kill off the AHCA and there really isn't any serious proposals to replace it. They want it dead, as it's "socialism", even though it isn't. The Health Savings Account concept was just pablum and everyone is well aware that it'd achieve nothing at all.
Which brings me back to this point. The difference between right wing populism and left wing populism is nearly non existent. The ox that will end up being gored here is that of the street level right wing populist, who can be, and in some instances was, left wing populist.
Speaking of average folks:
Also from the CST.
December 13, 2025
December 14, 2025
The Federal government terminated the collective bargaining status for the union that covers TSA officers, the American Federation of Government Employees, as to TAS officers.
The union, which covers the employees of other agencies as well, has over 300,000 members, probably none of whom will caste a vote for the GOP next year.
We also have Chuck Gray sounding like a broken record:
Gray's in a bit of a spot as he'd hoped to use the Secretary of State's office as a springboard to something else. It's not looking like that will pay off, as Bill Barlow is clearly in the lead for the Governor's office and Gray can't think of anything to say that doesn't sound like it's from the junior edition of the MAGA playlist, which is rapidly becoming a set of moly oldies. To make matters worse for him, he's now so acclimated to absurd name calling that he can't stop it, as in:
We should be deeply troubled by the efforts of Gov. Gordon and other insider politicians to jam through woke wind projects that violate so many of our core principles as Wyomingites.
"Woke wind projects"?
I know what he means, of course, which is that as the Federal Government backed wind under Biden, and as global warming is a fib, and as Joe Biden is responsible for all of the ills in society, it's the dreaded evil "woke". Gray has used this sort of rhetoric so often, however, that if a cafe burns his toast I'm sure that he reflexively calls the short order cook a liberal, let wing woke Marxist.
Gray's career in Wyoming politics is probably shot. Barlow will get the Governor's office, Hageman won't run for it as she knows that, so she'll keep her office, Lummis is the Wyoming sphinx, rarely saying anything, and she'll keep her office. Gray will be lucky if he doesn't draw opposition and lose his.
On wind, all the fossil fuel true believers were dead set against it but now oil is hovering around $60.00 and it appears that the Federal Government might be pushing to depress the price. A well placed GOP politician told me the other day that the administration wants it at $30.00/bbl next year, which would wipe out domestic production and throw Wyoming into an oilfield depression.
On a different note:
Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part 12. Don't look . . . everything's just fine edition.
Wars and Rumors of War, 2025. Part 9. The Neville Chamberlain Edition.
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Matthew, Chapter 24.
The settlement of the Czechoslovak problem which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is a paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you perhaps have already heard what it contains, but I would just like to read it to you. " ... We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again".[3]
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My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour.
I believe it is peace for our time...
Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Neville Chamberlain.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain showing off the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler that granted Germany territorial concessions in Czechoslovakia and which set the stage for increased German avarice and World War Two.
November 23, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War.
Regarding the articles of surrender being pushed by Donald Trump on Ukraine, a CST headline:
KYIV’S ALLIES PUSH BACK ON US PEACE PLAN
The claimant of Presidential Power, Дональд Трамп, stated that the proposal was his "final offer", as if the US is doing the offering. Secretary of State Rubio, who always looks like he's caught in a bad dream and who is probably the only significant member of the cabinet who is not a complete today, claimed that the plan is a "wish list", not a plan.
Independent Maine Sen. Angus King said earlier in the day that the plan is “one of the most serious geopolitical mistakes in my lifetime" comparing it to the 1938 Munich Pact. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in statement, “if Administration officials are more concerned with appeasing Putin than securing real peace, then the President ought to find new advisors.” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said McConnell’s criticism didn’t go far enough. “Putin is a murderer, a rapist and an assassin. . . We should not do anything that makes him feel like he has a win here.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the plan an “outrage.”
Israel v. Hamas in Gaza
Israel hit Gaza yesterday with airstrikes.
November 24, 2025
Israel v. Hezbollah
Israel launched a raid in Lebanon Saturday that killed Hezbollah's chief of staff.
November 26, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Yuri Ushakov: Yeah Steve hi, how are you?
YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend.
YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.
SW: Thank you Yuri and thanks for your support. I know your country supported it and I thank you.
YU: Yeah, because we think that you are making the real job there in the region.
YU: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you need to solve only one problem. [laughs]
SW: I know! How do we get that solved?
YU: You do. And when you think it could be possible?
SW: I think as soon as you suggest, my guy is ready to do it.
SW: Yuri, Yuri, here’s what I would do. My recommendation.
SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing.
SW: What if, what if... hear me out...
YU: I will discuss that with my boss and then I come back to you. Ok?
YU: Ok, that sounds good. Sounds good.
SW: And here’s one more thing: Zelenskiy is coming to the White House on Friday.
YU: Ok, ok. I got your advice. So I discuss that with my boss and then I come back to you, ok?
SW: Ok Yuri, I’ll speak to you soon.
From Bloomberg.
This comes at a time when the illegitimate Trump Administration, headed by a man who committed actual sedition, is threatening to prosecute members of Congress for sedition.
November 28, 2025
Russo Ukrainian War
Putin termed the Trump surrender terms a "starting point" and threatened to overrun Ukraine with Russia's larger army if Ukraine did not come to terms.
It should be plain by now that Russia's army is crap. It has been since some point before 1900. If it could overrun Ukraine, it would have by now. If all aid was cut off to it, and Russia then overran Ukraine, a guerrilla war would then ensue.
cont:
US. v. Venezuelan boats
From the Washington Post:
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
So now we kill people in the water. Something we decried in World War One and World War Two.
A U-boat commander was tried and executed for that after the Second World War.
Heinz-Wilhelm Eck. He ordered his crew to kill survivors and was convicted of a war crime and sentenced to death as a result.
United States v. Venezuela
Trump threatened to close Venezuelan air space.
cont:
The United Kingdom no longer shares intelligence with the US in the Caribbean due to the illegal actions of the United States in this region.
December 5, 2025
Congo
Rwanda and Congo signed an agreement aimed at bringing peace in the region, but analysts are skeptical of it holding.
United States v. Venezuela
U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley denied in front of Congress that there'd been a "kill them all" order given by Hegseth.
December 8, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
Members of Congress appeared on the weekend shows about the murder of two men in the fist strike who were on a remnant of the destroyed boat.
Tom Cotton showed himself the most extreme, maintaining that they were a dangers as they were attempting to upright the boat and reload the cargo, which is absurd. He pretty much took the position that killing drug runners through military force is perfectly okay.
If that's the GOP position, and it apparently is in Congress, they should just state that. The problem is, of course, that Trump just pardoned convicted drug runner, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. Cotton claimed not to know the details of that while berating the host of This Week.
Add Cotton to the list if individuals who are temperamentally unsuited to be in Congress.
Thailand v. Cambodia
The countries entered into a ceasefire agreement recently which Trump claims as one of his "eight wars". Thailand bombed Cambodian positions on their disputed border yesterday.
December 11, 2025
United States v. Venezuela
The US seized the Guyana-flagged "Very Large Crude Carrier" that was loaded covertly with 1.1 million barrels of oil in mid-November. The ship was headed for Cuba, but has been anchored offshore Venezuela since being loaded with oil. Half of the country's oil production goes to Cuba.
Why did we stop it?
This isn't clear, actually. The government claims the ship is involved in the illegal transportation of oil.
December 14, 2025
US (and Syria) v ISIL
An attack in Syria killed U.S. troops and civilians.
Israel v. Hamas
An attack by Hamas wounded Israeli soldiers and Israel retaliated by killing a top Hamas figure.
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Labels: 2020s, 2025, 2025 Occupation of Washington D.C., It was because of the War in Afghanistan, The Second Trump Administration, The War in Afghanistan, West Virginia National Guard, Yeoman's Fourth Law of History
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