In the last two days, I’ve met two people from Portland, Oregon, both of whom I told the same story about my reaction to the Trump administration’s claim that they brought in federal troops into the city to stop the “rioting” and “domestic terrorism” of the “No Kings” protestors.
As I put it:
Bullshit. If I had to name the most peace-loving city in the United States, it would be Portland.
Not one but both of them squealed with delight. They both pointed out that many of the protestors were dressed as frogs, in the way of pure whimsy that dominates the state’s largest and most highly educated city.
In the case of the fellow at left, yes it’s true that, sadly, there are tens of millions of Americans who don’t have the intelligence to know that a) Iran’s nuclear program had been shut down in the Obama administration, with every major nation of Earth and its nuclear physicists signing off on the landmark agreement, and b) that (even if that weren’t the case) it had been “obliterated” by Trump far more recently.
This guy’s career is built around lying to idiots. I don’t envy him.
If you condone abusive behavior on the part of law enforcement, you’re a terrible person.
Simple.
One of the most common arguments against taxing the rich is that they will simply leave whatever area is levying the tax.
We hear about this most often in connection with New York City, where its liberal mayor using the taxes he’s raising the build infrastructure, feed hungry people, etc.
Here’s what’s happened in Massachusetts.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/05/18/will-the-billionaire-taxes-cause-the-rich-to-go-elsewhere/
A common tactic of Big Oil and the rest of the Trump-supporting world is to point out that some of our government’s investments in cleantech do not pan out.
Unscrupulous people, as well as tens of millions of idiots, are enraged by these failures and interpret them as evidence of incompetence and/or corruption.
On the other hand, fair-minded people understand that it’s impossible for all these investments to be winners; some are bound to fail as the advancement of technology makes unforeseeable twists are turns.
The plummeting costs of solar PV and wind over the past 10 years wiped out a great number of investors in both the private and public sectors, and solar thermal (shown here) was only one.
As an example, I used to attend the annual conferences on hydrokinetics, and I always looked forward to them. Guess what? They’re gone. They no longer exist, as a result of the fact that the LCOE (levelized cost of energy) of all forms of hydro can’t compete on large-scale projects, and thus have been relegated to small, niche applications.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/05/18/tactic-of-big-oil/
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