Every society is three meals from chaos
-Vladimir Lenin
On May 4th I wrote that a year of hunger and famine is baked in for most of the world.
This was based on the effects of Six Week War and the continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. But, in addition, we have the strongest El Nino is a hundred and fifty years incoming:
Lurking below the surface in the equatorial Pacific is possibly the most impressive blob of above average ocean temperatures we’ve ever recorded since we’ve had the ability to measure this stuff. When that enormous concentration of bath water reaches the surface over the coming… pic.twitter.com/Olip0bQwRN
— Matthew Gross (@HurricaneAddict) May 17, 2026
I’ve personally seen my food prices, before any of this is baked in, rise about 20% this year. I just saw a 33% increase in the price of tomatoes, beef is up over 40%, and so on. Almost nothing isn’t more expensive and this is BEFORE the absolutely catastrophic harvests we will have this year.
It’s easy to say that America and the West won’t have a famine because they can outbid most of the world for food, but the prices will be extremely high and a lot of people are going to go hungry.
I’ve been wondering for a long time what it would take to get Americans to actually do anything about their elites. The recent defeat on Thomas Massie (a noted Israeli critic) in his Republican primary has made it very clear that the powers of reaction in America are extraordinarily strong still.
Thomas Neuburger has an excellent article asking if the election was stolen.
I don’t know if it was stolen, and I’m not sure that it matters much. If it wasn’t, well Jews spent 30 million and bought the election. If it was, well Jews spent 30 million and bought the election. (The most expensive House primary in American history.)
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
-John F. Kennedy
America has few problems it can’t, in theory, fix. It has no significant problems it can fix if current elites remain in charge, and its foreign policy can’t be improved as long as Israel controls Congress, and most State governments, which it does. (I don’t regard this as in question. Anyone arguing against it is arguing against massive evidence to the contrary.)
Opposing Israel is political suicide. That’s why AOC dances around pretending to be anti-genocide while actually covering for it. It’s why Mamdani has kissed the ring repeatedly.
They will come for you. If they fail, which is rare, they will try again. Eventually they will destroy you.
And that means that peaceful change is impossible.
Combined with the continued impoversishment of Americans, the building of AI centers in communities where the majority is opposed, mass lay offs due to AI, a very likely financial crisis next year, rising fuel prices, shortages of diesel, bunker and jet fuel, I’m going to be very interested to see how many riots there are and how many people decide to go after politicians and CEOs.
As for the rest of the world: oh yes. There are going to be riots, revolutions, civil wars and coups in multiple countries. The question is how badly first world countries will be effected.
I remind readers to stock up now on as much as they can and I remind rioters that your job is to riot in the neighbourhoods of rich people, or industrial or office areas, not in your own neighbourhoods. Burning down your own homes is foolish.
I will also add that any competent government that cared could easily have made sure that most of the planting happened. Prices were the primary issue, and prices can be controlled and government can decide who gets how much diesel, prioritizing, y’know, tractors and trucking related to agriculture. This is something every western government could and would have easily handled in the 1950s.
Letting people go hungry and starve is entirely a result of government action (a war that was unnecessary, fought for Israel, not America), and government inaction. If people go without food next year, the people who caused it are known: they live in Washington, Tel Aviv and in every country which failed to take effective action they are your politicians the people who bribe them to not care about ordinary people.
You know who they are. They are you enemies. Their actions will kill or impoverish you, if they haven’t already.
And you know what you should do to enemies.
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GrimJim
What’s up in Bolivia?
Is it a preview?
And Venezuela. I keep seeing here and there that they are already a proper satrapy, like Iraq after the war. What’s up there?
There seems to be a wide block on any sort of real news from anywhere these days…
StewartM
It’s theoretically possible that this is an honest result; in 2024 in the Presidential race some 279,000 voters voted for Massie in the KY 4th Congressional District:
https://ballotpedia.org/Kentucky%27s_4th_Congressional_District_election,_2024
Massie got 278,000 of that 279,000 almost unopposed.
(Note for all you guys who complain about ‘the Democrats’; where I live, like here, there’s not even *nominal* opposition to the conservative R candidate. All Trump and MAGA is doing is trying to make what’s been true in my county since as long as I can remember for the whole nation–you go to the ballot box, and there’s only one candidate to vote for—LITERALLY. Already democracy is dead across large swaths of the US.
The best way to fix it (and to end gerrymandering) is to eliminate the current congressional districts and create large districts that are ‘natural’ by geography and history–say with North Carolina, the mountain West, the Piedmont middle, and the Coastal Plain East–which would be approximately equal in population contain both urban and rural areas, and (say) the top four winners in each district get in by some sort of ranked choice/instant runoff system. Any “leftover” congressional spots would be elected in one state-wide race, again by ranked choice/instant runoff.) North Carolina has 14 house seats, so the top four would be elected by the three large districts and the ‘leftover’ top three in a statewide race.)
I have tried to search what role that the churches played. Here you pass by many a church who have “pray for Israel” signs in their front. That could have been a factor, and like Zionism the Christian right buys the virtually provably-false Biblical story of Israel’s founding as historical fact, not the myth it actually is by current archaeology. Insofar as we can tell, there was no Egyptian exile, no Exodus, no conquest of Canaan, and (as Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein has said) “there’s more evidence that King Arthur was a real person than there is that King Davis was real”. What’s happening is genocide due to fable.
StewartM
It’s theoretically possible that this is an honest result; in 2024 in the Presidential race some 279,000 voters voted for Massie in the KY 4th Congressional District:
https://ballotpedia.org/Kentucky%27s_4th_Congressional_District_election,_2024
Massie got 278,000 of that 279,000 almost unopposed.
(Note for all you guys who complain about ‘the Democrats’; where I live, like here, there’s not even *nominal* opposition to the conservative R candidate. All Trump and MAGA is doing is trying to make what’s been true in my county since as long as I can remember for the whole nation–you go to the ballot box, and there’s only one candidate to vote for—LITERALLY. Already democracy is dead across large swaths of the US.
The best way to fix it (and to end gerrymandering) is to eliminate the current congressional districts and create large districts that are ‘natural’ by geography and history–say with North Carolina, the mountain West, the Piedmont middle, and the Coastal Plain East–which would be approximately equal in population contain both urban and rural areas, and (say) the top four winners in each district get in by some sort of ranked choice/instant runoff system. Any “leftover” congressional spots would be elected in one state-wide race, again by ranked choice/instant runoff.) North Carolina has 14 house seats, so the top four would be elected by the three large districts and the ‘leftover’ top three in a statewide race.)
I have tried to search what role that the churches played. Here you pass by many a church who have “pray for Israel” signs in their front. That could have been a factor, and like Zionism the Christian right buys the virtually provably-false Biblical story of Israel’s founding as historical fact, not the myth it actually is by current archaeology. Insofar as we can tell, there was no Egyptian exile, no Exodus, no conquest of Canaan, and (as Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein has said) “there’s more evidence that King Arthur was a real person than there is that King Davis was real”. What’s happening is genocide due to fable.
(Delete this comment if it is a duplicate, it’s hard to tell by your software Ian)
mago
Yeah, well. immiseration on steroids with everybody sinking in a swamp of unbearable suffering, not to sound like a Dougie downer or anything.
I don’t know how those without culinary skills and access to food survive in the best of times nor what will be their fate in the rapidly approaching doom times.
Cull the herd? Ha. The elites who think they’re immune live in a world of illusion. Everybody’s sorry ass dies and all the money in the world won’t save you from that, nor from the sorrows of the states of loss. Twas always so and always shall be until universal transcendence into the state of enlightenment is achieved
I know that sounds like some kind of horse shit or new agey something or another, but I’m of an age and so fed up that I don’t give a good flying fuck anymore. Nobody’s obligated to read it.
Blessings to all, rich and poor alike.
spud
StewartM;
i have the exact opposite view of the house representation districts. they are way, way to big geographically, as well as population size.
if you look at many districts, they lump in rural areas with populated areas, or mountain areas with flat planes, etc.
thus diluting almost anything that can done for those districts, into fights over religion, guns, toilets, etc. plus with less representation, its much easier to buy the house off. we just saw that in action with Massie.
he increased his support, but i bet their is a area in his district full of the second coming of jeebus crowd, who should not have been in his district, but lumped into a district more representative of them.
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the house under the constitution had much smaller populations per representatives originally.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
“The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.”
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The U.S. House of Representatives is fixed at 435 voting members, which means that each representative serves an average of about 747,000 people as of recent estimates. This ratio has increased significantly since the House was last expanded in 1929.
Wikipedia American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Size and Representation in the House of Representatives
Current Size
The U.S. House of Representatives is fixed at 435 voting members. This number has remained unchanged since 1929, despite significant population growth in the country.
Population-to-Representative Ratio
As of recent estimates, each representative serves an average of about 747,000 people. This ratio has increased dramatically over the years, reflecting the growing population without a corresponding increase in the number of representatives.
In 1910, the ratio was approximately 1 representative for every 209,447 people.
By 2020, this had risen to about 1 for every 761,169 people.
This trend indicates that as the U.S. population has more than tripled since the House size was capped, the representation ratio has become the highest in U.S. history.
Implications of Fixed Size
The fixed size of the House means that individual representatives now serve a much larger constituency than in the past, which can impact their ability to connect with and represent their constituents effectively.
Wikipedia Pew Research Center
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the limiting of the amount of representatives came out of the era of woodrew wilson, the bill clinton of his day who unleashed the wealthy parasites onto us again.
the rich want over site of them, as small, manageable and ineffective as it can be. plus much fewer to be bought off, saving even more money.
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The House of Representatives imposed a cap on its size at 435 members in 1929 with the Permanent Apportionment Act. This decision was made after the 1920 Census, which highlighted the need for a more manageable number of representatives as the population grew.
Wikipedia thearp.org
History of Membership Limits in the House of Representatives
Imposition of the Cap
The House of Representatives imposed a cap on its size at 435 members in 1929. This decision was formalized through the Permanent Apportionment Act, which aimed to manage the growing population and the number of representatives effectively.
Context of the Decision
1920 Census: The need for a cap arose after the 1920 Census, which revealed significant population growth and highlighted the challenges of maintaining effective representation.
Historical Growth: Prior to this cap, the size of the House had been adjusted multiple times to reflect population changes, growing from 65 members in 1790 to 435 by 1912.
Implications of the Cap
The cap has remained in place since 1929, despite the U.S. population more than tripling since then.
Each representative now serves an average of approximately 760,000 constituents, which has raised concerns about the effectiveness of representation in the House.
This historical decision has shaped the current structure and functioning of the House of Representatives, leading to ongoing discussions about the need for potential expansion to better serve the population.
protectdemocracy.org Wikipedia
The 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act capped the size of the U.S. House of Representatives at 435 members, a number that has remained unchanged despite significant population growth since then. This law also delegated the power to reapportion representatives to the Executive Branch, affecting how congressional districts are drawn and maintained.(this is why trump can stick his fat nose into district redrawing)
Cambridge University Press pennstatelawreview.org
Since 1929, the size of the House of Representatives has been capped at 435 members, despite significant population growth, leading to a higher ratio of constituents per representative, which has increased from about 210,000 in 1910 to nearly 760,000 today. This cap has resulted in concerns about the disconnect between Congress and the American public, as representatives now serve much larger districts.
thearp.org protectdemocracy.org
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we cannot reform, let alone vote our way out of this, and this includes the entire west which includes the pacific areas, like japan, south korea, australia, and new zealand, we are cooked.
in canada, Carny is hemmed in, not only by his own idiotology, after all, he is a wef type, but by the simple fact that almost all representation, has been bought off. canada may well get disassembled.
Australia for all practical purposes, is a colony of the U.S.A.. new zealand which has not not reversed rogernomics, and roger is still free, is bleeding its population away.
socialism of the big three is so powerful now, europe as well as those pacific nations should immediately and in panic, reassert sovereignty, and throw out the W.T.O., the WEF, the E.U., the WORLD BANK, the I.M.F., purge their governments of all chicago school of economics types, and try to start up their own socialists innovation machines. so that they can remain free.
Mark Level
Well, I read or watch (podcasts) a lot of the same information that Ian is referencing. He has the platform, and some shares in his post that I covered in the past week include the impending El Ninyo, and the very obvious theft of Massie’s election for a Nonentity, with Zionist money. In the interim I saw one of the most obnoxious Zionists I have ever seen, he did a massively anti-Semitic spiel (well, if we accept the false premise that Ashkenazi Jews are Semites, which the majority of them clearly aren’t, they are Northern European Khazar/ Turkic people.) He ranted that “Jewish money” is all-powerful everywhere and “we can control not just the US but most countries in the world” (except the ones we are bombing, invading, or Color-Revolutions being stirred up by us.) Conflating all Jews with Genocidal Zionists, not even mentioning Christian Zionists. The Stormfront guys must’ve come in their pants seeing and hearing that. ZOG not just affirmed, but flaunted. (This was on both Due Dissidence and Jimmy Dore, among others.)
See GrimJim’s point about the “News” recently. Yes, Bolivia is the first domino to fall, many others coming. Not USA however. Riots in Ireland months ago due to lack of petrol, kids can’t go to school, hard for parents to pay for getting to work. Spirit Airlines first in US out of business, 20,000 flights in and out of Germany canceled, etc.
As to Venezuala, I guess only they know. The Pentagon maybe, maybe not.
Yes, US & Canadian, etc. ad infinitum problems “could be fixed.” But the Ruling Classes have absolutely Zero chance of letting even a minor reform be made. They are like the NeoCons, no reverse gear, just accelerate the rapine and looting!!
Going to put in a Duran link about the scary prospect Donny will start a major Action against Iran sometime this weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-PxBNl-7o
Headline to the effect that T. wants land invasion, major bombing in Iran, but DoD tells him “stocks depleted.” The Sunk Cost Fallacy. How many of his “businesses” (sic) crashed nose-down into mountains, his New Joisy “Trump Taj Mahal” one of the biggest Dumpster fires. Supposedly there are actual negotiations (and not just the ones in his head) now. But Trump & Bibi suggested the other team’s negotiators (or his handlers did), the hardline Ahmedinejad (US Press all foamed at the mouth about him when he was in office), someone else equally kooky. Inmates, enjoy running the asylum.
Many across Western Asia, esp. Iran, expecting a Yuuuge disaster this weekend, Zionists evacuating targeted areas, Iranians on edge, per the Duran the Financial Times claimed there was an “argument” between Bibi and Trump over the phone, Good Cop doesn’t want to go in, Bad Cop will have to go alone?
With weathervane TACO Donnie there is no way of knowing. Don Junior marrying some skank in Bermuda (I think) this weekend, Daddy can’t attend is the story, something big brewing? (I bet he’ll golf anyway.) Well, also SS may’ve told him with all the innocent people he’s murdered in the Caribbean, it’s not safe for him to be there.
Report documenting over 100 names recently, very few if any with ANY known connection to drugs. Trafficking cigarettes, etc., consumer items, certainly.
Tulsi Gabbard “quits”, her hubby has some severe cancer, usual “family” excuse. Uhhm, no, she was clearly fired, went too far off script, had some shred of integrity until she spent months staying on, but there’s an excuse. Per Daniel Davis, she and husband have “no money”, don’t even own the house they are staying in. Karma? I would say so. See MoA if you want more depth on that.
Now as to longer term Disasters Cooked In to the Establishment: People who haven’t studied or practice mysticism can scoff all they wish. Nearly all of my adult life, I have had periods of major setbacks, harassment at work for my union activism, threats made against me by a schizophrenic colleague after she bullied 2 other people in her hall, and I had to collaborate (rare for me to do this but sometimes when right v. wrong is clear) with Admin to force her out early. She wrote a long letter right before the mandated Leave of Abscence telling the entire teaching faculty how I’d gone over to the Dark Side, never named me but everyone knew who. A friend noted, “That letter was really wild, made me laugh!! It was like the Unabomber Manifesto.” Almost spot-on, Ted Kaczynski was a genius & most of what he said proved prescient.
Likewise, after the Disaster Chapters, running anyway from 1 week to 6, I get Beneficial runs, when I look at transiting planets to my major aspects (Libra Sun, 3 Planets in Scorpio, Jupiter in the 8th house in Sagittarius (very generous), oppositions to natal Saturn in Capricorn, it all becomes clear.
For many years I always buy the Llewelyn (current year) Daily Planetary Guide. About 4 years ago, they agreed with Ian’s thesis of 2+ decades past, bad stuff coming to the West. 3 Planets moved to “revolutionary” placements (like those seen during the American and French Revolutions, Medieval Levelers and later saboteurs of machinery, 1848, etc.) over last 3-4 years.
In 2026, on Jan. 26, Neptune left its natural home in fantasist, drinky, druggy Pisces and moved into Aries, the Martial War God and Puer Aeternatus (Forever Child, like the Dylan song, Forever Young) . . . Crowley’s big reveal inside a pyramid with his wife channeling a “praeternatural spirit” known as Aiwass was that the Aeon had changed about a month earlier than they hit Egypt. In very ancient times, it was the Era of Taurus, Matriarchy and Bull worship, etc. Then since the Sun processes “backward” over centuries, every Aeon runs about 2,000 years it moved back into Aries, Age of Heros and battles, Trojan Horse and Alexander. Next 2 millenia, back to spaced out Pisces, the Fish. Jesus the true Avatar, a peaceful Reformer and supposed filius Dei, sacrificed for all our “sins”!! Okay, whatever.
And the other movements thru April into the Actual Age of Aquarius now are, as stated above, on February 13 a 29.4 year Saturn cycle took it out of Pisces and into Aries as well. A thing about Neptune’s archetype, it’s often Pacific but then has “Rages”, sailors in ancient times knew this well, Hurricanes, sudden squalls, you’re most likely dead with little warning. Crowley’s big Revelation in Liber AL Vel Legis sub figura CCXX was that we’d left the Piscean age and entered the Aquarian Age. The new ruler was a Babe (2,000 year life-span means slow growth and decay), Rabbi Yeshua no longer rules, now it’s Harpocrates aka Hoor-Par-Kraat, a Babe who loves War and Blood Sacrifice, sometimes shuts his mouth, seals it with a finger, 4th Virtue of the Sphinx, Silence. He dated the new Double Millenium from March/April 2004. Now here’s one “prophecy” he nailed, in the Aeon of Horus a “God of War” would rule the globe, huge violence & World War would come about “in the 40s”, okay WWII wasn’t quite wrapped up in 1944, also “the 80s cower before me and are abased”!! Well think about the 1980s with the Janus-faced Ronald Raygun back to back with Mrs. Fatcher imposing the Iron Neoliberal Austerity regimes, TINA, “There is no Alternative,” you dirty slaves.
Quoting the Ephemeris directly, however, it says that Neptune entering Aries “are all about utopian ideals and building the ideal society,” only problem is Sea-Guy has a hard time “staying tethered to reality,” rarely goes subtle or micromanages, the flow goes whence it will . . . The further out the planet, the longer its transit of each 30 degree sign, for Neptune it’s 165 years round the Zodiac, about 12+ years in each sign, so we’re possibly seeing Utopian motives until May 21, 2038.
Lastly (& best), the planet of Dynamic, Sudden Changes and Surprise, Uranus (insert your pun here) was in Reactionary, Stubborn Taurus until recently (thus the rise of the Neocons in US, fascisti worldwide as leaders) but on April 26 moved into Gemini, the airy, mental, dualistic “Twins”. While it was in Taurus we got Covid lockdowns, spiraling housing costs (not in China tho’), supply-chain disruptions, but also Technology drove forward like a Bull Market. Uranus for whatever reason actually only spends 7 years av’g. in each sign. There will be new thinking, almost impossible to predict, other than some things they say– more work online, but as long as TPTB like Elon are still there, jobs replaced by Robots, Data Centers making some cities uninhabitable, hell more than cities, entire regions. (Coming to Utah and Wyoming first, the former more deserving imho than the latter.)
Uranus “at home in quick-witted Gemini”, think Donny with his Gemini Sun on the Apprentice, then as a successful Insult Comedian against Killary, with “Operation Warp-Speed” to pay off Big Pharma and the hospitals, not the sleepy, incoherent, shambolic one we see now, his 80th birthday soon, June 12.
For skeptics, they note: in history, WW II, US’s Civil War and US’s Revolutionary War were ALL during Uranus in Gemini.
Now to respond and quibble with Ian’s 2027 date. The Financial guys are saying even in somewhat protected USA, we will likely have a Major Crash by June, no later!! And it’ll only get worse after that. And the final Irony, 250th “Anniversary” of the US this July 4th (I think from date Colonial militia was formed) is just when the collapse will be crashing, soon after that it’ll be underground . . . Don’t participate in that 1st Refuge of a Fool Bullshit unless you are throwing tomatos and eggs or otherwise japing or heaping contempt!!
Peace!! I don’t think we will escape this year without MOST of Ian’s suppositions coming home to roost. Oh, and for those (few likely) interested in Crowley’s Agape/Thelema (really borrowed from Francois Rabelais, later practiced by Ben Franklin with The Hell Fire Club when he was the Paris ambassador for the US, entry to their Den of Sin read (not Old French, but not modern at the time either) “Fay Ce Que Voudras”, “Do What Thou Wilt.”
For those (few, likely) interested in Crowley, looking up the 40s/80s data I found this, pretty good for being as far-out as one would expect.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/ews4se/prediction_related_to_aleister_crowleys_teachings/?rdt=57075
From 6 years ago, but pretty spot-on.
Mark Level
1904!! Not 2004. Sometimes the bloody fingers do the think/typing. New Aeon of Horus (anagram for hours) in 1904, 40 yrs. in ’44 I at least got right.
spud
Mark Level:
thatcher/reagan/gorby types in most cases, never get accomplished fully what they set out to do. it takes a clinton/blair/yeltsin/scroeder type, to not only expand and complete the policies, but to super charge them, so that they cannot be reversed easily, or at all.
StewartM
Spud
thus diluting almost anything that can done for those districts, into fights over religion, guns, toilets, etc. plus with less representation, its much easier to buy the house off. we just saw that in action with Massie
Massie was in a very homogenous district, which is what you get when you keep chopping districts down to small size. Big districts by their very nature would be very heterogenous, and moreover (especially if you follow geography and history) to meaningfully gerrymander (a tweak here or there would only affect the composition by 1 % or so). Homogenous districts generally end up as one-party districts. I know because I LIVE IN ONE.
Moreover, you neglect that these would be multi-representative districts, with the top two, the top three, or top four candidates getting in afters some sort of ranked choice/instant runoff vote. The ranked-choice/instant runoff vote is necessary to prevent “ratfucking” (i.e., the opposition getting numerous candidates into the race to dilute the share each opposing candidate gets) if you (reasonably) assume that the votes going to the eliminated candidate(s) would then get go to candidates with similar views/positions.
Such a system would give people who like me actual choices, and states like North Carolina or Mississippi and other one-party states would start electing lefties too because you don’t have to be the overall winner; second or third or even fourth place might get you in. It would make the House of Representatives a hellava lot more “representative”.
Feral Finster
1. Nobody of influence and authority cares if people starve or not. Famines are nothing new.
2. Even if the Kentucky primary was stolen, so what? It worked.
Purple Library Guy
In Bolivia, the thing is that there’s a pretty solid natural majority for the left, if they don’t screw up. Last election, they screwed up–they screwed up big, they screwed up hard. So a hard right government got in, and decided to act like they had a massive permanent mandate and do their level best to reverse all the reforms Morales & co. had put in, privatize everything they could, cut everything in sight, the usual. And things went bad, and inflation hit, and everyone was like “We voted for you to teach the Bolivian left a lesson. You’re not supposed to actually DO stupid shit.”
So now there’s a general strike and all the major roads are blockaded and the government will probably fall.
Venezuela . . . I don’t know what’s up. I am growing increasingly annoyed with and suspicious of Delcy Rodriguez. It looks like I’m not the only one, there’s increasing criticism coming from the Venezuelan left. And she just sold out Saab, what the fuck?! But I don’t know how strong her hold on Venezuelan politics is.
Stormcrow
Nobody seems to be talking about the Colorado River crisis. And believe me, it’s relevant.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell are the coal mine canaries, and this year, they’ve already sung. If the Western US were not in a mega drought, last winter’s Rocky Mountain snow pack might mitigate this, but this year, there isn’t any.
The consequences for the agricultural sectors of half a dozen western states, particularly California, will be existential.
The problem behind that problem is the Colorado River Compact of 1922, which allocated water the Colorado River didn’t even contain except in an unusally good year.
Long story short, 40 million Americans are on Ground Zero, with the rest of the country close behind as every farm consuming now-vanished water from the Colorado River starts to fail.
The entirety of Maricopa County is going to catch a double whammy.
I don’t think I need to re-iterate where that is headed. Heat related deaths in Greater Phoenix have been tracked and reported upon for years. Anybody with a working brain unfortunate enough to still live in Central or Southern Arizona ought to be in the late stages of GTFO right now. Those too thick to read the handwriting on the wall … well, there are too many people living on the planet as it is.
mago
There’s actually a simultaneous take down of leftist governments and populist movements throughout Latin America by the Zionist entity and the Evil Empire with billionaire tech money and ideology leading the way. Think Peter Theil and company.
The story is out there for those who are interested. NC’s links are a good starting place. The dirty dealings, the land and resource grabs, the rank hypocrisy along with environmental degradation and human suffering is sickening. I pray for the success of the peoples movements against the crypto fascist judeo Zionist Nazi butt fucker movement, but the forecast is grim. These are the 21st century equivalents of Cortes and his merry mauraders along with the Pizzaro brothers on steroids. Modern day conquistadors in other words. Born under a bad sign indeed.
Dios válganos, although I don’t believe in a personal god. Just beseeching a universal power to put right the errant and sorry ways of humankind. Santa Maria madre de dios. Yeah, well, guess we’ll see what tomorrow brings. . . Stay tuned.
TSC
I know my Lenin well, and I pretty sure he never said “Every society is three meals from chaos”. No such quote exists in Russian. However, Denver Post article dated October 17, 1896 reads: “the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.”
Ian Welsh
Food riots topple governments.
mago
Let them eat cake and roll out the tumbrils
off with their heads and everybody have a good time let the good times roll
Feral Finster
As long as the rulers are united, they have nothing to fear from food riots.
Divide and conquer.
spud
StewartM;
but massias district proves my point, its massive, like almost all districts are. unless its in a very dense populated area. if representation had not been halted in 1920, that district would now be four districts, and the second coming of jebus lunatics, their vote would have been diluted.
with proper representation, the densely populated regions, would have far more representation than the second coming of jebus crowd.
out laying suburbs, and rural areas would have representation, just a lot less than they get now. today they are way way over represented.
StewartM
Spud
but massias district proves my point, its massive, like almost all districts are. unless its in a very dense populated area. if representation had not been halted in 1920, that district would now be four districts, and the second coming of jebus lunatics, their vote would have been diluted.
It’s “massive” on in land area, not population.
Your “solution” is a non-starter. Having 11,624 House representatives would require a new building, as one as we have “winner-take-all” election systems, the districts WILL be gerrymandered to produce the most favorable results for the local PTB.
Geographically large districts having nearly equal (as possible) population would be amost impossible to gerrymander–one, if you want to reduce the impact of the urban vote, lumping all the cities into one district would violate the requirement that the districts be nearly-equal in population, and two, if your party (like the Rs) dislike the urban voter, you’d be giving them MORE representatives, not fewer. Eliminating “winner take all” systems moreover means it’s hard to lock the other partry (parties) out, and furthermore non-R non-D candidates have a real shot. If you complain about the “dulopoly”, well, here’s your chance to do something about it.
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Thomas Massie’s district, like all districts are now, are way under represented, way to populated, and are a sprawling mass.
almost all districts are like this. so densely populated cities are lumped in with conservative/libertarian outer suburbs and rural areas, diluting representation for the densely populated cities.
cities are way under represented.
Population of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District
The population of Kentucky’s 4th congressional district is approximately 776,082. This district includes a mix of urban and rural areas, with a significant portion of its population residing in suburban regions near Cincinnati and Louisville.
split up it up into more manageable sizes, and you would dilute the votes of the second coming of jeebus crowd.
there are ways to take care of business, the new building stuff is a canard.
gerrymandering is a symptom of under representation.
real representation numbers, will give the new smaller districts the chance to elect third parties.
actually rank choice voting proves third parties will do well with the proper sized representation, and smaller size in population, as well as geographically.
StewartM
Spud
split up it up into more manageable sizes, and you would dilute the votes of the second coming of jeebus crowd.
The problem is that our districts are already way too ‘oversplit’. The more splitting, the more Jeebus crowd gets into office. That’s the historical record. You can either dilute the lefty districts or you can lump them all into one, so that they delegation will be overwhelmingly conservative.
You could split KY into just two districts, top three get in. So instead of a 5-1 right/left split in Congress, I would expect 4-2, with 4-3 possible.
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No matter what voting/districting arrangement you conceive, unless you kill the wealthy elite or otherwise miraculously neutralize them without having to kill them, they will game it to their own advantage ultimately as they always do and always have done.
First things first — the wealthy elite have to go one way or another. Then and ONLY THEN can you implement are more equitable voting process.
spud
StewartM:
if you want to look at real proper rural representation, you would need to look at north dakota, wyoming, south dakota, montana, etc..
so they would get that type of multiple district representation in every state where a population meets the turn if the century 1900’s population of about 210,000 people that was the original intent of the founders.
so massie’s district, is really at least 3-4 districts, and the rural areas are just one district, massie would get one, and at least one to two more districts would get proper representation for those people, minus a lot of second coming of jeebus crowd, who would get their own proper representation.
today, they are included heavily in just about every district, in every state. diluting and helping to railroad anything that might get done to reverse this mess we are in.
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Rural areas are represented in the U.S. House of Representatives through congressional districts, which are drawn to include both urban and rural populations. Each state is guaranteed at least one seat, and the total number of seats is apportioned based on population, ensuring that rural voters have representation.
Wikipedia fairvote.org
Congressional districts are drawn to include rural areas by ensuring that each district has roughly the same population, which often requires balancing urban and rural populations. State laws and redistricting criteria may also prioritize maintaining the integrity of rural communities and ensuring that their interests are represented.
University of California Fair Districts PA
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Gerrymandering is a political manipulation of electoral district boundaries that often leads to under representation by skewing electoral outcomes in favor of certain parties or groups. This practice can dilute the voting power of specific demographics, resulting in a lack of fair representation in legislative bodies.
fairelectionscenter.org Wikipedia
Effects of Gerrymandering
The consequences of gerrymandering include:
Skewed Electoral Outcomes: Gerrymandering can create districts that guarantee electoral victories for one party, even if that party does not have majority support among voters.
Under representation: Certain groups may find their interests inadequately represented in government. This occurs because the manipulation of district lines often prioritizes political advantage over fair representation.
Wasted Votes: Many votes may not contribute to electing a candidate, leading to a situation where the actual preferences of the electorate are not reflected in the legislative outcomes.
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the founders never said it was fair for rural folks to dominate congressional districts, what they said was they get at least one seat.
under representation opens the doors wide open to gerrymandering, that in reality, is perfectly legal. after all, by law, just about every district has to have a oversized rural input.
so in reality, the tail wags the dog.
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you are correct, but having 1,200, to 1,600 hundred reps, would make it harder for them.
spud
the population of north dakota,
Current Population of North Dakota
As of 2026, the population of North Dakota is approximately 805,329. This figure places North Dakota as the 47th most populated state in the United States.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ND#representatives
north dakota has only one member of the house of representatives. under the founders formula, they would have four seats. they are vastly unrepresented.
south dakota,
The population of South Dakota in 2026 is estimated to be 943,078. This makes it the 46th most populated state in the United States.
World Population Review Trading Economics
South Dakota currently has one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which is determined by its population. The state’s population is approximately 935,094 as of the latest estimates.
sdnewswatch.org Wikipedia
under the founders formula, south dakota would have almost five seats. they are vastly under represented.
wyoming,
Wyoming has one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, as it is the least populous state with a population of approximately 588,753. This means that Wyoming’s congressional district represents a relatively small number of constituents compared to larger states.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences thearp.org
they should have two.
montana,
Montana has two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, which it regained following the 2020 census due to population growth. The state’s population was reported as 1,085,407 in 2020.
montanafreepress.org Montana
they should have almost five.
alaska,
Alaska has one seat in the United States House of Representatives, representing its entire population of approximately 740,133 as of 2024.
Wikipedia The Green Papers
they should have three.
the founders never formulated the house to be fair and balanced, its was to be representative of the people.
instead by law, its gerrymandered with rural folk vastly over represented, with veto power over the majority of americans.
the senate was and still is based on fairness. two per state no matter what.