Some say we speak or write too much doom and gloom, and you are correct that whatever happens in the next couple of year cannot totally be stopped. We have to look for what we can do. Live as though our lives depends on it, because they do. Let's work together to build on what we have with what we can create and BY ALL MEANS DO NOT RE-ELECT THOSE THAT CAUSED PROBLEMS RATHER THAN SOLUTIONS.
I have watched Abbott and Patrick prance around in the aftermath of a disaster patting themselves and first responders on the back (not that there's anything wrong with that). They extol the virtues of self-reliance and Texas neighborliness. And they pray. They seem to think the flattery they layer on will suffice to keep the peasants from revolting.
I think that shell game is going to catch up to them this year.
Michelle, this one made me angry! I almost stopped reading it. I know it’s true but I have been voting for Democrats since 1980! So if I did the math right. Those that haven’t been voting since around 1990 (and were 18 in 1990) have kind of wrecked Texas for 36 years! I keep saying VOTE accordingly!
Reminder: the last time Gov. Abbott won; it was only 25% of the Texas electorate. That is pathetic. 🤬😩😤🤯🤦🏽♀️
Thank you, Michelle. We can't afford to give up in light of their actions & what's happening. VEDA HAS GOOD ADVICE!!! Cynthia's description of Abbott & Patrick is exactly right, lol, & I hope she's right about the shell game catching up with them this year. I'm sure Liza is right about the farmers too, sigh...
Eva has nailed our feelings of frustration about those younger not voting. Do you agree with her conclusion? AND I REALLY appreciated her reminder that Abbott won ~25% of the electorate-- omg!
The fertilizer and oil crisis was caused by Trump. The Sunni and Shia Muslims are enemies. Iran is Shia, and US allies in the Gulf are Sunni, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, and Jordan. When the US attacked Iran, the Iranians razed to the ground all the US bases in the Sunni countries, costing the US billions of dollars in losses, including dozens of very expensive aircraft, radar systems that were a critical part of the US missile defense system, and hundreds of casualties. The facts about the losses have been covered up by the regime.
The Iranians also crushed the Sunni countries' oil industry infrastructure, and bombed their urea production facilities, which is the key ingredient in fertilizer. The situation is worse than fertilizer and petroleum not transiting the Gulf of Hormuz. The production has been erased from global supply for years to come, until the infrastructure can be rebuilt. Economists are estimating that supplies of these critical materials will not be normal again until 2029. The supply of fertilizer is down by 30%, and the prices for it, and diesel, are out of the money for many farmers. Their economic decision is to not plant, in many cases.
So, we will be having a potentially deep recession, stagflation, and food supply shortages in the US, beginning in the fall, as harvests come in way below demand. I don't have numbers for that yet, because the regime is hiding the data. Low harvests will be aggravated by El Nino, as Michelle explains. It could be a perfect storm. The regime isn't warning Americans of pending food shortages because the midterms, and they don't give a shit if we starve to death. It wouldn't surprise me if famine is part of the authoritarian takeover plan, as Trump tries to follow in Stalin's footsteps. Sorry to be so scary, but it comes with the territory in economics. (TAMU, MS Econ) I hope and pray that I'm wrong.
What should households be doing to prepare? Just to give a sense, this is what I'm doing; I bought an upright freezer, and I'm in the process of filling it with frozen veggies and fruit, egg whites, and some prepared meal ingredients, like taco filling, shredded chicken, and soups and sauces frozen in mason jars. (We can run the freezer off a generator.) I have been buying 1-2 dozen of each canned veggie and bean, plus topping off dried beans, nuts, and grains, that I use in cooking. I have about 4 containers of cooking oil, and six Costco double packs of flour, 6 pounds of coffee beans, a jumbo container of yeast, and doubled up on various sweets like jam, honey, and maple syrup, molasses, and peanut butter and Nutella. Brazil has converted the largest sugar processing facility in the world to producing fertilizer, so there will be a sugar shortage. I bought 4 giant Costco bags of sugar, because I want to be able to bake muffins, cupcakes, etc.
I have whole grains high in protein like quinoa and versatile like oats and cornmeal, which are easy to cook with, and a substantial amount of pasta and rice. I would say enjoy beef this summer, if you can. Trump approved the largest beef supplier in the world, a Brazilian company called DBS, to come into the US and crush small cattle companies. I'm filling my older flip top freezer with all affordable meat, poultry, seafood I can find. Anyone who can plant veggies or keep chickens should do it, but you'll need to make your own fertilizer, so get a mulch container or start a mulch pile. We have two growing seasons in TX, spring and fall, which can keep us going as long as we have water, so good idea to think about a water collection system while the components are still available.
It is going to be awful. The farmers have been talking about this all year.
Some say we speak or write too much doom and gloom, and you are correct that whatever happens in the next couple of year cannot totally be stopped. We have to look for what we can do. Live as though our lives depends on it, because they do. Let's work together to build on what we have with what we can create and BY ALL MEANS DO NOT RE-ELECT THOSE THAT CAUSED PROBLEMS RATHER THAN SOLUTIONS.
I have watched Abbott and Patrick prance around in the aftermath of a disaster patting themselves and first responders on the back (not that there's anything wrong with that). They extol the virtues of self-reliance and Texas neighborliness. And they pray. They seem to think the flattery they layer on will suffice to keep the peasants from revolting.
I think that shell game is going to catch up to them this year.
Michelle, this one made me angry! I almost stopped reading it. I know it’s true but I have been voting for Democrats since 1980! So if I did the math right. Those that haven’t been voting since around 1990 (and were 18 in 1990) have kind of wrecked Texas for 36 years! I keep saying VOTE accordingly!
Reminder: the last time Gov. Abbott won; it was only 25% of the Texas electorate. That is pathetic. 🤬😩😤🤯🤦🏽♀️
It's so disgusting. (Just shared on bsky.)
Thank you, Michelle. We can't afford to give up in light of their actions & what's happening. VEDA HAS GOOD ADVICE!!! Cynthia's description of Abbott & Patrick is exactly right, lol, & I hope she's right about the shell game catching up with them this year. I'm sure Liza is right about the farmers too, sigh...
Eva has nailed our feelings of frustration about those younger not voting. Do you agree with her conclusion? AND I REALLY appreciated her reminder that Abbott won ~25% of the electorate-- omg!
Excellent post, thank-you!
The fertilizer and oil crisis was caused by Trump. The Sunni and Shia Muslims are enemies. Iran is Shia, and US allies in the Gulf are Sunni, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, and Jordan. When the US attacked Iran, the Iranians razed to the ground all the US bases in the Sunni countries, costing the US billions of dollars in losses, including dozens of very expensive aircraft, radar systems that were a critical part of the US missile defense system, and hundreds of casualties. The facts about the losses have been covered up by the regime.
The Iranians also crushed the Sunni countries' oil industry infrastructure, and bombed their urea production facilities, which is the key ingredient in fertilizer. The situation is worse than fertilizer and petroleum not transiting the Gulf of Hormuz. The production has been erased from global supply for years to come, until the infrastructure can be rebuilt. Economists are estimating that supplies of these critical materials will not be normal again until 2029. The supply of fertilizer is down by 30%, and the prices for it, and diesel, are out of the money for many farmers. Their economic decision is to not plant, in many cases.
So, we will be having a potentially deep recession, stagflation, and food supply shortages in the US, beginning in the fall, as harvests come in way below demand. I don't have numbers for that yet, because the regime is hiding the data. Low harvests will be aggravated by El Nino, as Michelle explains. It could be a perfect storm. The regime isn't warning Americans of pending food shortages because the midterms, and they don't give a shit if we starve to death. It wouldn't surprise me if famine is part of the authoritarian takeover plan, as Trump tries to follow in Stalin's footsteps. Sorry to be so scary, but it comes with the territory in economics. (TAMU, MS Econ) I hope and pray that I'm wrong.
What should households be doing to prepare? Just to give a sense, this is what I'm doing; I bought an upright freezer, and I'm in the process of filling it with frozen veggies and fruit, egg whites, and some prepared meal ingredients, like taco filling, shredded chicken, and soups and sauces frozen in mason jars. (We can run the freezer off a generator.) I have been buying 1-2 dozen of each canned veggie and bean, plus topping off dried beans, nuts, and grains, that I use in cooking. I have about 4 containers of cooking oil, and six Costco double packs of flour, 6 pounds of coffee beans, a jumbo container of yeast, and doubled up on various sweets like jam, honey, and maple syrup, molasses, and peanut butter and Nutella. Brazil has converted the largest sugar processing facility in the world to producing fertilizer, so there will be a sugar shortage. I bought 4 giant Costco bags of sugar, because I want to be able to bake muffins, cupcakes, etc.
I have whole grains high in protein like quinoa and versatile like oats and cornmeal, which are easy to cook with, and a substantial amount of pasta and rice. I would say enjoy beef this summer, if you can. Trump approved the largest beef supplier in the world, a Brazilian company called DBS, to come into the US and crush small cattle companies. I'm filling my older flip top freezer with all affordable meat, poultry, seafood I can find. Anyone who can plant veggies or keep chickens should do it, but you'll need to make your own fertilizer, so get a mulch container or start a mulch pile. We have two growing seasons in TX, spring and fall, which can keep us going as long as we have water, so good idea to think about a water collection system while the components are still available.
What should households be doing to prepare? I think we Americans stock up on toilet paper. I bought a LifeStraw.
LOL, me too!