Think of it as “Digital Franking.”  That is franking – as widely used by members of the House and Senate – is apparently enough to send the Left crazier.  Now that Trump has launched his pseudo-clone of The Drudge Report.

Life with a “Digital Wrecking Ball”

The Internet is becoming “tri-polar.”  In other words, people on the web (like you, right now) generally have an agenda/plan/hope of some “useful deliverable” which they go clicking in search of…

• Concepters:  These people want the “story in a sentence.”  They know 99 percent of news won’t dramatically impact their lives.  Give ’em the short version, and they will be happy.
• Old-Formers:  They still read the “old-line media (newspapers)”.  Which works, but only to the extent the platform remembers the Inverted pyramid style of writing.  This begins as “story in a sentence” and then additional detail additions (in most-to-least order) are provided.
• Deepsters: They tend to be more liberal, like rambling articles that “scratch their political itch” and love opinions woven into content.

Category Leader Examples:

Obviously, American Media don’t like the additional competition that a cogent presidential website may represent.  But lost in the media mogul and libtard hand-wringing is that Most countries have “State m,edia” already – even Canada’s CBC, England’s BBC, and Russia’s TASS along with Beijing’s Xinhua.

Keep the Big Picture In Mind

As I explained in Peoplenomics Wednesday: The Big Picture is what matters now:

• Global odds of the planet surviving to 2050 are only about 15 percent.
• The world is being slowly united by the Internet.
• Political leaders globally are coming to recognize that shortwave broadcasting and FTA satellite channels won’t reach “global pop”.
• So National State Media is being rolled to the fore as buffer-zones for multiple globalpop leaders who are each trying to most effectively lead and sell their visions of the future.

UrbanSurvival, and Peoplenomics in this fray are ideological, too.  In the sense we hold Life is mostly transactional and that “Everything is a Business Model.”

And golly-gosh, how can anyone be surprised by much of anything?

We have The Gaunlet to run between now and 2050 – which we will get deeper into on the Peoplenomics side next Wednesday.  But for now, we’ll stay out of the limelight, shining the odd flashlight beam on how all the little pieces are moving toward the Big Denouement by 2050.  In other words, the Big Unwinding and Resolution of all.

Because, by 2050, the “big denouement” of Earthbloom will be result of navigating a critical gauntlet of converging crises—climate change, population growth, and resource depletion—toward a redefined coexistence with nature.  If we can rediscover the “walking lightly path” and trash excess consumption.

Rapid advancements in AI, renewable energy, and synthetic biology might enable sustainable practices like 3D-printed infrastructure and lab-grown organs, while global overpopulation stabilizes near 10 billion, with urbanized megacities driving innovation.

Thing is, the whole “megacities” thing constitutes a conceptual “single point of failure”.  Which – on failing – will exacerbate inequalities and trigger mass migrations, and driven by possession envy.  The outcome now hinges on global cooperation, empowered education, and a shift to renewable energy, potentially yielding a thriving, interconnected world—or a fragmented one if the gauntlet overwhelms collective resolve.

The coming two decades will be like walking into a jittery buffalo herd, and hoping the stampede doesn’t begin while you’re wandering around in the middle.

US?  Out here at the edge, cash flow positive, consumption down-scaling, while also watching the buffalo in case they start moving this way…

About Them Job Cuts

No smooth transition needed…this is the kind of low-level change that works on “herd mind” and can cause people to begin thinking about bail-out plans.

“U.S.-based employers announced 105,441 cuts in April, down 62% from the 275,240 job cuts in March. It is up 63% from the 64,789 cuts announced in the same month last year, according to a report released Thursday from global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

April’s total is the highest for the month since April 2020, when 671,129 cuts were announced, the highest number recorded in a month since Challenger began reporting on job cut announcements in 1989. With the exclusion of April 2020, last month’s total is the highest since 2009, when 132,590 job cut plans were announced.”

This being a good news/ bad news kind of thing, we can flip over and look at the latest federal unemployment filings just released:

Which at the state level, found these noteworthy:

The Federal jobs report will be along tomorrow.  We will be taking our usual double-dose of cynicism meds beforehand.

Markets are just crazy:  Early Dow was showing up more than 300 while McDonald’s (MCD) Q1 2025 earnings – biggest drop in same store sales since 2020…  BTC was $96,265 while MS Edge now thinks I need all my prices in Mexican pesos…are they messaging something?

Doom-Scrolling

Help a brother! I’m having a hard time tracking how Ukraine, US sign minerals deal, tying Trump to Kyiv gets us to peace in the region?

Pass the paranoia meds: India is planning military action against Pakistan in coming days, Pakistani official says. Well, yeah…um…  But here’s little Marco in his King Canute suit: Rubio urges de-escalation in India, Pakistan calls amid soaring tensions. Next, yelling at the tide will follow.

Monsoon weather in Texas overnight.  Tyler, Texas had 4-1/2 inches overnight. And we’re going to share:  Severe weather forecast brings threat of wind, hail to swath of US.  The good news, such as it is, is that we got about six inches dumped here so no burn ban and no dust while mowing.

Dumb-Scrolling

Just in from the Sour Grapes dept: ‘Code Talk To White Guys’: Tim Walz Said He Was Picked By Harris To Do One Thing. He Failed Miserably. You think?  Here, more sour grapes for you: Kamala Harris blasts Trump tariffs in 1st major speech since leaving office.

Let’s go play Spot the Insurrectionists!  All you need to search is which sites are using the phrase “ICE Barbi Kristi”  (I did that for you…here’s the results)  Yes, in the world of double-standards and “do as we say” the arrogance of the Lefties is somehow OK using a term like “Barbi” is it?  Pejorative as in pricks.

And we’re not sure how to take the headline: Here’s How Trump Crippled Radical Gender Ideology In His First 100 Days. Makes it sound almost like a bad thing Trump did and…um.. I’m not seeing….

Around the Ranch: The Tractor Butt Mystery

Woke up at 1:30 with the left side of my butt (cheek) puffed up and hard as a rock.  Hit the shower (again) and put Hibiclens on it, re-scrubbed and some triamcinolone ointment – took a Benadryl and back to bed.

Four hours later, the swelling was mostly gone.  So I don’t know if it was a reaction to sitting on the tractor seat (cats sleep on the seat when not in use) or whether it’s because I used meat tenderizer on some steak bits I cooked up last night.

But, whatever the cause, seems like I will live through it.  Key point:  Keep your emergency meds stocks up and know where they are…and don’t let the cats sleep on your tractor.

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