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@aeberman12 ...probably the only way to Net Zero.

Jeff currie says we're going to get the energy transition forced on us painfully This isn’t a shift to renewables. It's a shift to a painful economic contraction Less energy High prices Shortages No growth Economic collapse is one way to get to net zero bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…

1/ Is the Iran War Donald Trump's Kobayashi Maru? Here's why the classic Star Trek no-win scenario holds lessons for what happens next in the Persian Gulf. ⬇️

@TheProjectUnity Nope. No solution to a trillion tons of CO2 in the atmosphere, and that is just on of a number of potential terminating problems.

Think humanity will be alright in the long run?

@pjfny @ProfSteveKeen Trump's psychology makes him extraordinarily manipulable. He has almost no beliefs of his own, just an insatiable need for narcissistic supply much of which comes from those who seek to manipulate him.

@ProfSteveKeen Curious framing....Epstein (jewish), Netanyahu JewishJewish influence conspiracy....why?? If you think anybody can unduly influence Trump, you're an imbecile...

@PrezLives2022 Gonna need a non-compromised voting system first. I can't see the Paypal mafia giving that up.

Should we win in 2028 there will not be a return to normalcy for perhaps decades. Dems will not be able to undo the damage Trump has caused throughout the world. Our allies hate us, there is no trust, and the sheer amount of debt he will leave us will take decades to recover from. We will be all alone for a long time and that’s enough time to rebuild America with a new image.

@Dr_Keefer Ultimately it is growth that drives resource use and emissions. Renewables and fossil energy have more constructive feedbacks than destructive so, over the long term, rise and fall together. Moot point in the end because the emissions horse bolted decades ago.

The level of delusional thinking in this post is remarkable. Look at what the Iran war is actually doing to the global energy system and emissions in real time. LNG disruption is forcing a coal detransition across Asia as utilities scramble for cargoes, restart coal plants, extend the life of old units, and burn lower quality fuel simply to keep grids online. At the same time, methane emissions are rising in ways that will barely be measured. Damaged pipelines and processing facilities do not shut down cleanly. They vent and flare, releasing large volumes of methane into the atmosphere under chaotic conditions. Oil infrastructure is burning. Depots, refineries, and storage tanks on fire are not marginal events. They are concentrated releases of CO2, black carbon, and toxic pollutants on a scale comparable to historic wartime oil fires. Further down the income ladder, the effects are even more direct. As fuel imports become unaffordable or unavailable, households fall back to biomass. Forests are felled for fuel and combustion becomes far dirtier and less efficient. Gas disruption is now working its way into the industrial system. Ammonia and petrochemical production tighten, feeding directly into agriculture. Lower yields increase pressure to clear additional land, pushing deforestation higher. Policy responds instantly to these conditions. Governments do not debate emissions targets when grids are at risk. Climate policy reveals itself as a luxury belief system that only holds under conditions of energy abundance and stability. And all of this is before reconstruction even begins. Post war rebuilding consistently locks in whatever can be deployed fastest and cheapest, which in practice means more fossil infrastructure with long lifetimes. These dynamics operate at system scale and on immediate timelines. They will not be offset by incremental additions of Chinese solar panels and batteries.

@ExistentialEnso The world just needed someone to do that 50 years ago before humanity had released a trillion tons of CO2. Too late to solve climate change now.

At this rate, Donald Trump is going to wind up accidentally solving climate change by forcing the world to scramble to roll out renewables in order to deal with the fact it will take years to get back to previous oil production levels

@MarkCranfield_ I have been thinking about this a lot as the structures that gatekeep knowledge collapse.

The truth about the universe is so disturbing and unsettling that it isn't suitable for public consumption.

DOGE didn't fail. It was never meant to reduce debt. It was meant to syphon your personal data to Elon Musk and his friends private businesses and gut agencies they don't like or that try to hold them accountable. It was a stunning success actually.

@AidanSimardone It was YMCA.

During the collapse of the Soviet Union, TVs would play Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake What will play during America’s collapse?

@ProgressNow00 @DrakeGatsby @AmyAnnissa A compromised president is elected for you. It doesn’t matter how you vote.

@DrakeGatsby @AmyAnnissa When you view Trump's actions through the eyes of his Russian and Israeli handlers, everything makes complete sense. His actions always benefit Russia and Israel first. America is not even a consideration. That's why you don't elect a compromised president.

You have to stop assuming he’s trying to do a good job. The current administration is not interested in governing. They are only worried about extracting as much wealth as possible and insulating themselves from the consequences

@Damaan4u33 It’s much easier to manipulate an election result than stage a fake assassination. If you believe in the latter you should also question the vote.

It's been 20 months since this facade was perpetrated upon the most gullible people in America, convincing them to vote for Trump. People died for this stunt, and yet Trump doesn't talk about it, which is out of character for him. Do you believe that this was staged? Yes or No?

@RadioFreeTom Isn't it obvious by now that the electorate didn't elect him for a second time? The anomalies in the voting data don't lie. Trump and Musk have tacitly admitted that they had the election sewn up. Why don't people believe them?

We could argue that Trump 1 was a one-off, a freak occurrence. But electing him *twice*? Raises reasonable questions about what kind of electorate would do that.

@nxt888 The pretence was worth more than you think.

There is something almost beautiful about how naked the corruption is now. No more speeches about sacrifice. No more solemn lies about democracy. No more fake tears about freedom. Just war for Israel, higher oil, and the president of the United States openly celebrating the profits. That is America in its purest form. A country where the poor are asked to endure inflation like patriots while the ruling class insider-trades its way through blood.

@Billbrowder Behind the scenes, there has been a balance of power shift between Putin and Musk. What could that be?

First banning the Russian military from Starlink. And now kicking 800 million Russian bots off of X. I’m starting to see a trend and I like it.

@sunrise9720 @allenanalysis Trump couldn't orchestrate a kid's birthday party, but the billionaire mafia that he fronts for certainly could... and the evidence that votes were manipulated is in the forensic data - youtube.com/shorts/DUfzoTW…

Rigged elections, huh? When President Biden won, President Trump questioned whether the election had been fraudulent. So now the claim is that Republicans are the ones who would commit election fraud? I’m not necessarily defending President Trump, but I don’t see him as someone who would orchestrate a rigged election.

Gavin Newsom: “Wake up, America. If he rigs this election, you won’t have a country. You’ll have a president running for a third term.” Connect the dots: The domestic response force deploys in April. The Epstein files are being resealed behind new investigations. The White House blocked terror warnings to law enforcement. 357 members of Congress voted to hide their own sexual misconduct records. The draft is on the table. The Speaker does whatever Trump tells him to do — Massie said it on camera. A war started the week the files dropped. Newsom isn’t being dramatic. He’s describing a playbook that’s already in motion. November 2026 may be the last election that actually matters. Pay attention.

@joni_askola Trump would cheat if he could, obviously. The question is… is Trump still useful to the people who enable his cheating? Would a Trump cheat be so obvious in the face of glaring unpopularity that it exposes the wider system of cheating.

Despite everything Trump is doing to benefit Russia and hurt Ukraine, there is a silver lining. He is destroying his own chances in the 2026 midterms. He will lose unless he cheats, and he will absolutely try. If he loses, Ukraine benefits heavily

BREAKING: Israel just struck the Assembly of Experts building in Qom. This is not a military target. This is the 88-member clerical body constitutionally responsible for selecting Iran’s next Supreme Leader. Reports indicate the building was hit while members were casting ballots to choose Khamenei’s successor. Read that again. They bombed the election. Not the military. Not the nuclear programme. Not the IRGC command structure. The constitutional process for selecting the one person who could theoretically unify the regime, negotiate on its behalf, and sign a ceasefire. Three days ago I wrote that the market’s four-week timeline depends on a negotiated ending. A negotiated ending requires a counterparty. A counterparty requires a legitimate leader. A legitimate leader requires a selection process. That selection process was happening inside the building that just got hit with heavy-tonnage bombs. Follow the chain. The Supreme Leader is dead. His replacement Defense Minister is dead. The acting replacement is reportedly dead. The only mediator in the region, Oman, is being bombed by the regime it was trying to help. The IRGC has fragmented into indiscriminate retaliation. And now the 88 clerics tasked with reconstituting legitimate authority have had their building destroyed mid-vote. Every link in the chain that leads from “war” to “ceasefire” to “de-escalation” to “insurance reinstatement” has been severed. Not by accident. By design. The US-Israeli targeting doctrine is not just degrading Iran’s military capability. It is systematically destroying the institutional architecture required for the war to end through negotiation. Reinsurers do not reinstate coverage into a regime that cannot reconstitute its own leadership. The actuarial blockade timeline just extended again. There is no one to negotiate with. And now there is no process to produce one. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…