Dear Daily Disaster Diary, May 4 2025

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

- Paul Valery 

Three pioneers who predicted climate change | BBC Ideas

💣 The Curve We Cannot Kill: What the Keeling Legacy Tells Us About Humanity’s Final Warning

“If we let the Keeling Curve go dark, we might as well shut our eyes too. Because what comes next will blindside us all.”

They want to cut the cord. De-fund the science. Shut the office. Bury the curve.

The Keeling Curve—the world's most damning piece of climate evidence—is under threat. 

It’s a graph. A simple line, crawling steadily upward since 1958. But it tells a story more terrifying than any apocalyptic film: that we are poisoning our planet in real time, and pretending we aren't.

It began with Charles David Keeling in the 1950s, who installed a CO₂ analyzer atop Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano. 

Pure air. Clean readings. What he found was chilling: even in paradise, carbon levels were creeping upward. And they’ve never stopped. Every breath we take, every barrel we burn, bends that line higher.

This curve doesn’t lie. It shows that the atmosphere is changing because of us—not volcanoes, not sunspots, not a vague “natural cycle.” No. Humans. Fossil fuels. Period.

So why does the U.S. government, under the spell of anti-science crusaders, want to silence it?

Killing the Curve = Flying Blind

Without the Keeling Curve, we are flying blind into a climate collapse. 

No long-term data means no baseline. 

No way to track trends. 

No proof when the deniers demand receipts. 

And they will demand receipts—until the seas rise past their golf courses and the forests burn down their mansions.

You can’t replace this with satellites. You can’t outsource it to Europe. You can’t ignore it without consequences. The Mauna Loa Observatory and its team—six people holding up a planet-sized truth—are the only reason we still have a record of what’s happening to Earth’s breath.

And now they’re being told they’re expendable.

Paralyzing the Present, Destroying the Future

Ralph Keeling, son of the man who started it all, says it best: “This curve is the backbone of climate science.” And yet, Trump-era policies (and the anti-science inertia they inspired) seek to cripple NOAA, the Scripps Institution, and every scientist still shouting fire in a world addicted to gasoline.

It’s not just tragic. It’s suicidal.

Imagine slashing the budget for smoke detectors… during a wildfire. That’s exactly what this is. Except the house is the planet. And we're all trapped inside.

The Real Inconvenient Truth: This Isn’t Just Science—It’s Survival

Let’s stop pretending this is about “climate models” or “academic freedom.” This is about staying alive.

The Keeling Curve tells us what the planet is inhaling and exhaling. It's the Earth’s vital sign monitor. And it’s flat-lining in the worst way possible.

Without it, we don’t just lose data. We lose direction. We lose accountability. And we lose any chance at a sane, science-based future.

So let’s be clear:

If they kill the Keeling Curve, we’re not just erasing science. We’re erasing ourselves.

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📈 Want to see the Keeling Curve for yourself?

Visit https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

📢 Support Independent Climate Science

Organizations like Scripps Institution of Oceanography and ClimateScience.org need your support now more than ever.

Sincerely,

Adaptation-Guide

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Dear Daily Disaster Diary, May 3 2025

 

The United States can ... be proud that it has institutions and a structure that permit its citizens to express honest dissent, even though those who do so may be maligned by the highest official in the land.

- New York Times

Protestors join more than a thousand rallies across the U.S. against Trump’s policies

 Chainsaw Nation Survival Guide: How to Resist, Rebuild, and Stay Ready

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If the first 100 days of Trump 2.0 proved anything, it’s this: 

nobody is coming to save us. 

The federal government is being gutted from the inside out. Science, health, justice, education—all under attack. But that doesn't mean we are helpless.

This Survival Guide for the Chainsaw Era is your blueprint to fight back, prepare smart, and build resilient networks that the administration can’t destroy.

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🧠 1. Stay Informed—Beyond the Mainstream

• Diversify your media diet. Use independent watchdogs, scientific journals, and international outlets. Suggested:

  • ProPublica, The Intercept, Nature, Al Jazeera, Euronews, Democracy Now!

• Bookmark government transparency sites like FOIA.gov and watchdog groups (e.g. Project On Government Oversight).

• Follow experts, not influencers. Seek out credible voices in epidemiology, economics, education, and law.

📌 Know what’s real before you resist what’s wrong.

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💪 2. Organize Locally: Power Starts on Your Block

• Form neighborhood response teams. Think of it as mutual aid meets resistance squad: First aid, food security, legal defense.

• Create or join local chapters of groups like:

  • Sunrise Movement (climate)

  • Indivisible (civic action)

  • Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (crisis response)

• Host teach-ins or community nights to share intel on:

  • How to contact your reps

  • How to protest safely

  • Digital security 101

🧭 Federal collapse? Then build the republic of neighbors.

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🏥 3. Build Your Own Safety Net

With Medicaid on the chopping block and public clinics closing, it’s time for proactive health defense:

• Keep updated vaccinations—ignore RFK’s cod liver oil cult.

• Stock critical medications (within legal limits). Build a mini-pharmacy:

  • First aid

  • Antibiotics (if prescribed)

  • Insulin, EpiPens, etc.

• Learn basic emergency care and mental health first aid.

💊 You don’t need to be a doctor—just know enough to survive one more day.

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🌱 4. Food and Water Resilience Is Now Political

If the government won’t prepare for natural disasters or food insecurity, you must.

• Start a community or personal food garden. Even buckets on a balcony matter.

• Learn canning, preserving, and foraging.

• Store at least 2 weeks’ water per person (1 gallon/day minimum).

• Know where local free meal programs or underground co-ops operate.

🌾 Food is no longer just survival—it’s protest.

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🧑‍🏫 5. Defend Education and Critical Thinking

They’re coming for schools, libraries, and science labs. Fight back:

• Support banned books drives. Libraries need you now.

• Donate to or volunteer with independent after-school programs or tutoring orgs.

• Teach digital literacy and fact-checking skills in your community.

• Fight school board takeovers by anti-science extremists.

📚 An informed child is a loaded weapon against authoritarianism.

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⚖️ 6. Legal Literacy = Self-Defense

• Know your rights. ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Southern Poverty Law Center all offer free materials.

• Keep a “protest legal kit”:

  • Sharpie phone numbers on your arm

  • Understand what “qualified immunity” means

  • Have a go-to legal observer org

• Protect vulnerable neighbors from raids and deportation efforts.

  • Learn about rapid response networks for ICE resistance.

🧷 The rule of law is fading—but knowing the rules keeps you safer.

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🛠️ 7. Make the Underground Visible Again

• Start digital newsletters, pirate radio, or encrypted chat groups (Signal, Matrix).

• Archive disappearing data: climate trends, federal research, court cases.

• Host underground forums for scientists, students, and thinkers under attack.

💻 When truth becomes illegal, rebellion looks like a flash drive.

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🧭 8. Vote, Strike, Boycott, Disobey

• Vote like your life depends on it—because it does.

• Support general strikes and national walkouts.

• Boycott corporations propping up the regime (track campaign donations!).

• Civil disobedience is not a crime when the law itself is broken.

✊ If the system is a chainsaw, then we must be the stone it shatters against.

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🔥 Final Words: From Survivors to Rebuilders

This is more than survival. It’s preparation for post-collapse regeneration. If we resist wisely and fiercely now, we can plant the seeds of something better.

Because this isn’t just about stopping Trump. It’s about building a decentralized, democratic, resilient future that no strongman can tear apart.

Dear Daily Disaster Diary, May 2 2025

 

Honesty pays, but it doesn`t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

- Kin Hubbard

Donald Trump 100 days speech fact-checked by BBC Verify | BBC News

 Welcome to Chainsaw Nation: Trump’s 100-Day Wrecking Ball—100 Failures and Counting

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“100 days in, 1,360 to go.” That’s how it started. But after just 100 days of Trump 2.0, America’s institutions are not just bending—they’re breaking. The promises were grand: peace in Gaza, peace in Ukraine, prosperity for the people. Instead, what we got is a high-speed demolition derby of democracy. This isn't governance—it's sabotage disguised as reform.

Let’s call this what it is: a strategic dismantling of the United States government from within, fueled by paranoia, ego, and profit. 

If you're still waiting for things to calm down, wake up—the tornado already hit, and it has a name: Trump-Musk Inc.

Here’s your 100-day disaster digest: Seven key fronts, countless lives disrupted, and 100+ failures every American needs to know.

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🌀 1. The Weather Forecast That Died in Nebraska

Imagine a killer tornado tearing through the Midwest—and nobody saw it coming. That’s no hypothetical. In Nebraska and South Dakota, the National Weather Service was forced to suspend weather balloon launches. Why? Because Elon Musk, now de facto federal HR director via the “Doge Department of Government Efficiency,” fired the staff.

⚠️ Half of all U.S. weather stations are now critically understaffed.

Weather balloons are the backbone of storm forecasting. Without them, we’re blind to nature’s fury. It’s not just dumb—it’s eco-terrorism by neglect.

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⚙️ 2. Doge: The Department of Government Evisceration

Trump never campaigned on it. But once back in office, he gave Musk the keys to a Frankenstein agency named Doge, allegedly to root out fraud and waste. In reality? 130,000 public servants lost their jobs—and the cuts are still coming.

“Doge is a battering ram sowing chaos in every federal agency,”
—Jacqueline Simon, Director of AFGE, the largest federal employees’ union.

From shuttered Social Security offices to vanishing consumer protections and a collapsing aviation safety agency, Doge’s efficiency is nothing but a smokescreen for destruction.

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🪓 3. Social Safety Net: Sliced to the Bone

Cut after cut, the Trump administration is dismantling public service programs vital to millions.

• AmeriCorps? De-funded and furloughed.

• Disaster cleanup and tutoring programs? Gone.

• Next up: Medicaid—targeted for $1.5 trillion in cuts to fund billionaire tax breaks.

72 million low-income Americans rely on Medicaid.
This would be class warfare with a calculator.

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💣 4. Pentagon Meltdown: The War Within

The Pentagon, America’s largest bureaucracy, is being run like a reality show.

• Ex-Fox News host Pete Hegseth is now Secretary of Defense.

• He’s leaking secrets, promoting cronies, and decimating leadership.

• Insiders describe the military command structure as being in “total meltdown.”

National security? Not a priority—only loyalty to Trump is.

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⚖️ 5. Rule of Law: Hanging by a Thread

Trump now owns the Republican-led Congress. But he wants the judiciary, too.

• After the Supreme Court temporarily blocked mass deportations, Trump’s DOJ went rogue.

• Federal judges are being ignored—or arrested.

• In Wisconsin, an FBI raid took down a judge accused of helping a migrant.

This is authoritarianism in real time, dressed up in red, white, and blue.

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☣️ 6. Measles for Everyone: Public Health Collapse

Texas is ground zero for a measles epidemic spreading across 19 states.

• Vaccination clinics were defunded.

• Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a known anti-vaxxer, told parents to use cod liver oil instead of vaccines.

• Two children died before he admitted he was wrong.

Children are dying because the government’s answer to science is superstition.

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📉 7. Economy: Self-Inflicted Recession Incoming

Markets hate uncertainty—and this administration is dripping in it.

• Tech stocks lost $1.4 trillion in a single day after tariff threats.

• Home buying hit a 15-year low.

• Companies are halting forecasts—the government is too erratic to plan around.

Even IBM is warning: “If the government won’t spend, we can’t sell.”

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🎓 8. Academic Takeover: Trump U Goes Ivy League

Cloaked in the “fight against antisemitism,” Trump’s White House is threatening to cut billions in funding to elite universities unless they bend the knee.

• Institutions like Harvard and Columbia face curriculum control, hiring interference, and censorship.

• Critical ALS research has been shut down under pressure from the Health Department.

“Is studying ALS now politically controversial?” asked one Harvard researcher.
In Chainsaw Nation, the answer is yes.

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📌 Final Tally: 100 Days, 100 Failures (and Counting)

From weather prediction to national security, from Medicaid to measles, from science to law—Trump’s return has not been a presidency. It’s been an execution. One axe swing at a time.

The only thing thriving in this chaos is power for the few and fear for the many.

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🗣️ What’s Next?

Unless Americans fight back—through the courts, the ballot box, and mass civil resistance—this demolition will continue.

One hundred days was all it took to show us the blueprint: not to make America great, but to burn it down.

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📚 Sincerely,

Adaptation-Guide

Dear Daily Disaster Diary, May 1 2025

 We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

- Alexander Hamilton

Spain declares state of emergency as power blackout chaos continues | BBC News

🛑 Blackout Survival: What Spain and Portugal Just Taught the Rest of Us About the Next Power Crisis

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On Monday afternoon, a massive power outage plunged nearly the entire Iberian Peninsula into darkness. It hit fast, wide, and hard. Entire regions of Spain and Portugal—plus parts of southern France—lost power as the Iberian grid automatically disconnected from the broader European electricity network at precisely 12:38 PM.

For millions, the lights simply went out. No warning, no time to prepare. The internet went down, elevators stopped mid-floors, public transportation ground to a halt, airport operations were disrupted, and traffic lights went black—triggering traffic jams stretching for miles in Spain's largest cities.

Forget the why. Forget whether it was a cyberattack, a technical failure, or an overloaded grid. The why will take weeks to determine, and even then, the average person won’t get the full truth. 

What matters right now—for you, wherever you live—is this: how do you survive and function when your world goes offline in an instant?

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⚡ “We’re Experiencing Technical Difficulties”... Now What?

Within minutes of the blackout, regional governments in Andalusia, Extremadura, and Madrid declared emergencies. Spain’s national security council was called into session. Leaders urged calm, asked citizens to limit cell phone use, and instructed people not to travel.

That’s government speak for: you're on your own for a few hours. Maybe more.

In the streets of Madrid, people huddled around old battery-powered radios to catch updates. In Málaga, Swiss tourists described long queues at supermarkets and restaurants only accepting cash. Meanwhile, hospitals were operating on backup systems. Some people were trapped in elevators. Social media lit up with reports of people crowding around stores that still had working radios. Mobile networks faltered under the stress. Some people couldn’t even use their phones.

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🛠️ The Real Blackout Survival Kit: What Actually Matters

This blackout in Spain and Portugal wasn't a sci-fi apocalypse. It was real life. And it showed us—clearly—what fails first, what matters most, and what you must have ready.

Here’s the unfiltered truth:

🔋 1. Battery-Powered Everything

• Radios. When cell networks go down, FM radio becomes your lifeline.

• Flashlights & Headlamps. Store employees in Spain used phone flashlights to help customers navigate dark aisles. Headlamps free your hands.

• Rechargeable power banks. Not luxury. Survival. Get solar ones or crank-chargers.

• Portable fans & lanterns. Especially in heat-prone regions.

💶 2. Cash Is King

• No power = no card payments.

• In Spain, tourists and locals alike were caught in long lines, unable to pay for food unless they had cash.

• Keep small bills stashed at home, in your go-bag, and even in your car.

💧 3. Water and Food Basics

• Power outages affect water pressure and refrigeration. Don’t rely on grocery stores staying open.

• Have at least 3 days’ worth of water and shelf-stable food.

📞 4. Communication Backup

• Know emergency frequencies in your country.

• Have a list of phone numbers written down.

• Teach family members where to meet and what to do if you get separated and phones fail.

🚗 5. Gas Up

• Electric pumps at gas stations don’t work during a blackout.

• Keep your tank at least half full at all times.

🧭 6. Travel Light, Stay Local

• Spanish authorities urged people not to travel unless absolutely necessary.

• Gridlock and failed traffic systems create chaos. Stay put if you can.

🧠 7. Stay Calm, Stay Informed

• Don’t panic. Stick to official updates.

• Filter out rumors—especially on social media.

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🚨 This Was Not a Warning. This Was a Dress Rehearsal.

Spain and Portugal are highly developed European nations. Their blackout lasted several hours, but it was enough to disrupt hospitals, paralyze public transport, and send cities into low-grade chaos.

Now ask yourself: 

What would happen if your city lost power for a day? 

A week? 

What if it happened at night? 

Or in winter?

You may not live on the Iberian Peninsula—but the grid you depend on is likely just as vulnerable.

Whether it's climate stress, cyber-attacks, aging infrastructure, or geopolitical sabotage... it doesn’t matter. 

What matters is whether you are prepared.

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📦 Final Checklist: Everyday Essentials You Need Before the Next Blackout

Item	Why It Matters
Flashlight + headlamp	Hands-free lighting in total darkness
Battery-powered or crank radio	Government alerts, news updates
External power bank	Keep phones going
Small cash stash (local currency)	Buy food and essentials
Bottled water (min. 3 days/person)	Tap may stop running
Non-perishable food	No fridge, no stores
First aid kit	Hospitals may be overwhelmed
Printed contact list	Phone batteries die, numbers vanish
Car with gas	Escape or charge devices
Extra batteries (AA/AAA)	For all devices

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🌍 You’re Not Paranoid. You’re Prepared.

Don't call this fear-mongering. Call it realism. Spain and Portugal didn’t think they’d wake up to a paralyzed grid. No one does—until it happens.

You don’t have to live off-grid or build a bunker. But you do have to stop assuming someone else will take care of you when everything stops working.

Survival isn’t about panic. It’s about planning.

Blackouts are no longer rare. They are recurring. And they’re global.

Your job is simple: Be ready for the moment when the power goes out and no one’s answering the phone.

Sincerely,

Adaptation-Guide

Famous Last Words, April 30 2025

 

Why Environmentalism Must Go Radical in 2025

Let’s stop pretending that polite climate advocacy is working. 

It’s not.

Not when the Amazon is nearing its tipping point.

Not when microplastics are in our bloodstreams.

Not when 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded—for the sixth year in a row.

Not when Big Oil posted record profits while entire towns burned to the ground.

If you're still lobbying gently or waving cardboard signs at once-a-year marches, you're not in the fight. 

You're a spectator. 

In 2025, environmentalism has to go radical. 

Or it dies.

The Era of Appeasement Is Over

We’ve tried incrementalism. We’ve begged politicians to “listen to the science.” We’ve settled for climate targets 30 years out while the planet suffocates in front of us.

What did it get us?
More pipelines.
More subsidies.
More corporate green-washing.
More war over oil and water.

Environmentalism has been co-opted by PR departments and politicians looking for soft votes. Climate summits have become annual rituals of collective gaslighting. 

"Net zero by 2050" is the new "thoughts and prayers."

The planet doesn’t care about pledges. It only responds to action. And action means disruption.

“Radical” Is Not a Dirty Word

The word “radical” has been weaponized to silence climate truth-tellers. But let’s be clear: radical does not mean violent. 

It means root-level. And the root of this crisis is a profit-driven, fossil-fueled economic system that treats nature as a commodity and the future as collateral damage.

So yes—radical is exactly what we need.

• Radical is demanding an end to fossil fuel subsidies tomorrow—not in 2040.

• Radical is halting oil and gas exploration immediately—not phasing it out “responsibly.”

• Radical is criminalizing ecocide the same way we criminalize genocide.

• Radical is recognizing that environmental justice is racial justice, economic justice, and intergenerational justice.

Moderation in the face of collapse is complicity.

The Science Is Screaming

In 2025, we are not "approaching" planetary boundaries. We are crossing them.

• The Arctic is melting so fast that scientists are warning of “blue-ocean events” within the next decade—meaning no summer sea ice at all.

• Methane emissions—a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than CO₂—are skyrocketing.

• Freshwater systems are collapsing, from Canada’s Six Nations reserves to sub-Saharan Africa.

This isn’t alarmism. It’s the scientific consensus.

And still, politicians are arguing over whether to tax carbon by two cents more.

If science demands transformation, activism must demand rebellion.

What Radical Environmentalism Looks Like in 2025

Forget the old playbook. Here's what radical climate action must look like today:

1. Direct Action Over Symbolism

• Block pipelines, ports, and fossil fuel infrastructure.

• Occupy banks funding climate destruction.

• Shut down business-as-usual in the name of survival.

2. Climate Reparations

• Force polluters to pay for the damage they've caused.

• Demand redistribution of wealth from extractive industries to frontline communities.

• Cancel Global South debt incurred from surviving disasters they didn’t cause.

3. System Change, Not Brand Change

• End the illusion that we can “shop our way to sustainability.”

• Ban green-washing. Punish corporate lies with teeth.

• Nationalize essential resources—energy, water, land—under democratic, ecological governance.

4. Build Parallel Structures

• Create local food networks and climate-resilient communities.

• Train youth in eco-defense, not just climate literacy.

• Form citizen assemblies that bypass corrupted political systems.

5. Embrace Civil Disobedience

• Not as a fringe tactic, but a mainstream moral obligation.

• Climate breakdown is violence. Civil disobedience is self-defense.

The Clock Has Run Out on Nice

You can’t recycle your way out of collapse.

You can’t politely negotiate with companies who see the end of the world as just another quarter to monetize.

You can’t vote your way out of this without massive, relentless, radical pressure from below.

This is not the time for consensus-building with the people lighting the planet on fire.

It’s time for the environmental movement to grow fangs.

Final Thought: When Hope Looks Like Rage

The planet is not asking for hope. It’s demanding courage.

Radical environmentalism is not about pessimism. It's about facing reality with the fierce love required to save it.

If you're not uncomfortable yet, you're not paying attention.

And if you're not ready to go radical in 2025, you’re already too late.

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Recommended Actions:

• Support Extinction Rebellion Canada and other frontline climate defenders.

• Join or donate to Indigenous Climate Action.

• Watch the documentary “The Oil Machine” to understand the corporate-political chokehold.

• Read How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm. Not for literal guidance—but as a wake-up call.

Sincerely,

Adaptation-Guide

ADAPT OR DIE!

LESS IS MORE!

WE ARE READY! ARE YOU?

Dear Daily Disaster Diary, April 29 2025

 

In everything we ought to look to the end.

- Jean De La Fontaine

"American Empire is in decline" economist Richard Wolff on Trump`s trade war & tariffs.

Divorce Is Overdue: Why Europe Must Cut Ties with a Hostile America

This month, we witnessed a rare moment of honesty from the highest levels of American power — and it was nothing short of contemptuous. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth let their true thoughts about Europe slip in a private chat about bombing the Houthi militia in Yemen to secure global shipping lanes through the Red Sea — lanes crucial not only to the U.S., but to Europe as well.

“I just don’t feel like bailing out the Europeans again,”
— J.D. Vance, in a private chat leaked by The Atlantic.

“I totally share your disgust for European freeloading. It’s pathetic.”
— Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of Defense

Let that settle in: the U.S. Vice President openly opposed a strategic move in his own country’s interest simply because Europe would benefit from it too.

This isn’t just disdain — it’s a signal of strategic abandonment, a loud declaration that the so-called “special relationship” between America and Europe is dead. And perhaps, it’s better that way.

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The Death of a Partnership — by a Thousand Cuts

This month’s bombshell is only the latest betrayal in a long line of humiliations:

• At the Munich Security Conference, instead of focusing on Ukraine’s defense, Vance attacked Europeans for “suppressing free speech” and claimed the continent was committing “civilizational suicide.”

• Elon Musk, the unelected tech oligarch, warned that Europe is on the brink of civil war due to Muslim immigration — a grotesque exaggeration that echoes white nationalist talking points.

• Trump declared the EU was created “just to screw the United States.”

• When French and British leaders considered sending troops to stabilize Ukraine, Vance mocked them as laughable relics of former powers — ignoring the fact that both countries contributed tens of thousands of soldiers to NATO missions in Afghanistan to support America's war.

• Polish President Andrzej Duda got just 10 minutes with Trump after flying across the Atlantic. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas waited for a meeting with Secretary of State Rubio that never came. Ursula von der Leyen? Not even penciled in.

And let’s not forget: Trump literally threatened to buy Greenland from Denmark, suggesting annexation if Denmark refused.

This is not a “rough patch.” This is systematic diplomatic degradation.

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Weapons of Mass Deception: America’s Loyalty to Putin

Perhaps the most damning betrayal of all is America's quiet pivot toward Russia.

• While Europe rushed military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the U.S. delayed and diluted its support, using Ukraine as a domestic political pawn.

• In 2024, Trump told NATO allies:

  “If they don’t pay, we won’t protect them. I’d encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they want.”
  — Donald Trump, February 2024

• Vance, again, publicly opposed aid to Ukraine and ridiculed Europe’s support as “woke theater.”

• Steve Witkoff, U.S. Special Envoy to Russia and the Middle East, mocked Europe’s fear of Putin, saying they acted “like it’s still World War II.”

Meanwhile, Russia continues to:

• Occupy 17% of Ukraine, including key food and energy-producing regions.

• Destroy Europe’s environment by blowing up infrastructure like the Kakhovka Dam.

• Attack civilian infrastructure in NATO border countries with cyber and drone strikes.

And the U.S. shrugs.

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By the Numbers: The Reality of Transatlantic “Solidarity”

Here’s what the numbers say about who’s really pulling their weight:

• European military spending has surged:

  • Germany: +30% increase since 2022

  • Poland: 4.2% of GDP on defense (2nd highest in NATO)

  • EU total defense spending: €270 billion in 2024, a record high.

• Europe welcomed 7 million Ukrainian refugees. The U.S.? Barely 300,000.

• Europe is footing 50% of Ukraine’s total aid bill (approx. €144 billion), even as U.S. Republicans block new packages.

• Since 2001, over 1,000 European troops died supporting America’s war in Afghanistan.

And how does Washington repay this?
By calling us “freeloaders.”
By mocking our diplomacy.
By threatening to abandon NATO.

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Time to Stop Playing the Loyal Spouse in a One-Sided Marriage

The transatlantic alliance is no longer a partnership. It’s an abusive relationship where one side holds the nuclear codes and the other gets gaslit. Repeatedly.

This isn’t about “values” anymore. The U.S. has:

• Banned books.

• Criminalized reproductive rights.

• Allowed over 600 mass shootings in 2023 alone.

• Withdrawn from climate agreements while calling Europe’s green goals “socialist propaganda.”

Meanwhile, Europe continues to lead the world in:

• Climate policy

• Social welfare

• Diplomatic mediation

• Human rights legislation

So tell us again — who’s the “decadent” one?

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Conclusion: Divorce, Not Dialogue

This isn’t a spat.
This isn’t a cold war.
This isn’t a misunderstanding.

This is a divorce.

America has chosen its path: isolationist, paranoid, and indifferent to democratic allies. The sooner Europe realizes this, the better. It’s time to cut the cord:

• Build true European defense independence.

• Create energy sovereignty.

• End strategic reliance on a country that views us as parasites.

• Form new global alliances based on cooperation, not coercion.

Europe doesn’t need America to survive.
But America may need Europe to stay relevant.

Let them spiral. Let them rant.
We’ll be over here — building a future. Without them.

Sincerely,

Adaptation-Guide

ADAPT OR DIE!

LESS IS MORE!

WE ARE READY! ARE YOU?