I am liking him EVEN MORE!

I've said it before. We need NukeX.
Funding the RAPID Small Gen IV reactor designs.
We need a special Group in the NRC to license these QUICKLY.
Change the licensing for "SMALL REACTORS that cannot melt down".
Change the environmental impact rules.

And Pay a nice prize. A BOND against future sales.

My Plan would be to disconnect the national power grid.
Require the new lines be buried as they install these, with EMP protection.
If you reduce the number of homes served per set of lines, you could offer
each home more power (net), and not need larger wires.

Where I live in Florida, the power is already buried.
And I would REQUIRE that these units be built in the USA.

In 20-30yrs, we would be off of oil/coil for electricity...
Which is good, because I don't know how much we have left as AI starts to consume more power than most countries!

Other tasks await Flynn.

FFA, as I read this, I relate. Not as bad, but neither parent had graduated from High School (eventually my father became a master electrician, to be fair, but it was a brutal struggle. He could barely read a newspaper in my opinion. But he was talented with his hands, having grown up on a farm, driving a tractor since he was 9)

I ran from my origins, about 20 miles outside of Detroit, growing up on the Free Lunch program. (I remember having to help my dad fill out the paperwork, partially because he was too proud to ask for help). I did not understand the questions, I was in like 4th grade. A Teacher noticed I didn't always have a lunch. And gave me the forms.

I have a sh!t-ton of problems (ADHD, a weird dyslexia, strabismus), but a solid memory and a decent IQ. But my real gift is my work ethic, learned from my dad.
Good things come to those who work!

So, I will trust him, because a few people I respect Trust him.
Plus, he has ALL of the right enemies.
And he started out believing the media about Trump in the beginning.
Finally, he could have supported DeSantis, but he stuck with Trump.

Those things give me hope.
But I will Trust but Verify.
FWIW: I never trusted/embraced (Judas) Pence!

Watched to movie on Netflix. Some Hollywood embellishment but a good account.

Excellent choice! He is young and after 4 years under Trump should be able to carry the torch into the future.

The Deep State is equivalent to Marxists in my mind. And Marxists never quit. Ever. Multi-generational effort.

Could the Deep State have made such long term plans?
Yes, they could, as they did in co-opting the education system into a propaganda brainwashing system.
I still think that Gen. Flynn was a better choice, but I'm no chess master.

I read recently that there is a Swiss company testing a prototype Thorium salts reactor that
they claim should produce power at a cost of 2 cents/kwh.
This is about 80% lower cost/kwh than the designs that are being tested in US.

It's been on my shelf a long time. I read the first chapter and put it down mainly because I'm a busy bastard. Early parts of the book had me laughing out loud because on my father's side is a bunch of Okies and hillbillies from Tennessee. The quotes from Mamaw rang out as though they came from my grandmother. In my case, a couple decades ago I divorced myself from that entire side of the family. Didn't want my kids to ever be as close to that element of white trash as I was as a kid. Kid's don't choose their family but their parents (in this case) can. Haha...So...I find JD's story interesting.

agreed
and things that reduce dependence upon government


FFA, if you have Netflix, watch a series called "The Days" about the earthquake and Fukashima nuke plant

very scary that the people that built the damn thing were so stupid
(low sea wall, not enough planning for disaster, ect.)

i pray we can figure out fusion sooner than later

Greatly expanded energy production could reduce the pain of the collapse for many people.
Ditto for expanded uranium, coal, gold, and silver mining in US.

better choice than some on the list

i hope the plan it Trump's VP after these 4 years to continue the job

not sure anything can prevent the economic collapse coming

the "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023" is not (a fiscal responsible act)

:-)

Per wikipedia here are some views expressed by JD Vance:

- Vance has downplayed the effects of climate change. In response to a radio host who asserted there was no climate crisis, Vance said, "No, I don't think there is, either."

- Vance opposes abortion and he has indicated that he may support a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks. He has more recently said that abortion laws should be set by the states.

- Vance has proposed a bill that would make gender-affirming care for minors a federal felony and block taxpayer funds from being used for it

- In 2023, Vance introduced a bill that would make English the official language of the United States.

- Vance has expressed concern that large tech companies have too much influence in politics and the flow of information and has called to "break up" Google, as well as implying he believes Meta should be split up.

- Vance was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.

- Vance supported Trump in 2020.[112] In July 2021, he apologized for calling Trump "reprehensible" and deleted posts from 2016 from his Twitter account that were critical of him.[113][114] Vance said that he now thought Trump was a good president and expressed regret about his criticism during the 2016 election.

- After historian Robert Kagan wrote a November 2023 Washington Post opinion piece titled "A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending", Vance wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter suggesting Kagan be prosecuted for promoting "open rebellion" by Democrat-controlled states.

- Vance has said, "As an abstract matter, yes, I support collective bargaining.

- Vance was raised in a "conservative, evangelical" branch of Protestantism, but by September 2016, he was "thinking very seriously about converting to Catholicism" but was "not an active participant" in any particular Christian denomination.[125] In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio.

No, JD Vance is the author of that memoir.
Here is a quote from the Forward of the book:
"So I didn’t write this book because I’ve accomplished something extraordinary. I wrote this book because I’ve achieved something quite ordinary, which doesn’t happen to most kids who grow up like me. You see, I grew up poor, in the Rust Belt, in an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember. I have, to put it mildly, a complex relationship with my parents, one of whom has struggled with addiction for nearly my entire life. My grandparents, neither of whom graduated from high school, raised me, and few members of even my extended family attended college. The statistics tell you that kids like me face a grim future—that if they’re lucky, they’ll manage to avoid welfare; and if they’re unlucky, they’ll die of a heroin overdose, as happened to dozens in my small hometown just last year.
I was one of those kids with a grim future. I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me. Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of genius, that only a truly extraordinary person could have made it to where I am today. With all due respect to those people, I think that theory is a load of bullshit. Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
That is the real story of my life, and that is why I wrote this book. I want people to know what it feels like to nearly give up on yourself and why you might do it. I want people to understand what happens in the lives of the poor and the psychological impact that spiritual and material poverty has on their children. I want people to understand the American Dream as my family and I encountered it. I want people to understand how upward mobility really feels. And I want people to understand something I learned only recently: that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons of the life we left behind continue to chase us."

Netfilx made a movie of the book.

Is this a joke?

Now's the time to read A Hillbilly Elegy for some insight.