Midweek Memes

So Trump posted the above image on his Truth social and quickly deleted it after people were offended by his seeming comparison to Jesus Christ. Who as all good Christians know talked about destroying civilizations, bombing places back into the stone age and being honored at killing his enemies.

There’s a lot of disturbing stuff even in the original image Trump posted. What kind of “angelic” figures are those in the sky? What of the bizarre fighter jet? What’s that building in the background on the left?

Then Trump admitted that yes he did post the image, but thought he looked like a doctor in it. Right.

The memelords had a field day with this. I mean the patient in the original picture that Trump is healing in some doctorly way even looks like Jeffrey Epstein. I find this one with him winking disturbing. It’s all a show.

Really though enough of the Jesus/Antichrist comparisons. This is my favorite updated Trump image. Accurate!

Admittedly the price of gasoline in Nevada, at least according to AAA, has dropped by a whole three cents to $4.97 since the ceasefire was announced. Diesel’s all time record high price was on April 9. But this damage has not even started to really work through yet.

There also is a price divergence as noted on the Unz Review. In short the futures prices for speculators have diverged increasingly from the actual higher price for real barrels of oil delivered to some customer. So real physical product is much more expensive than the casino bet on it.

There must be alternative energy sources that work better than the renewables space as it has been set up.

This picture was taken of a nearby service station in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, on April 13, 2026. There is no panic here: despite being the morning of Songkran, the biggest holiday of the year in Thailand, there is no line for fuel. The price in litres per baht to dollars/gallon normalizes to $5.04 for 91 octane, ethanol at $4.35 and diesel at $5.48.

At least we haven’t been nuked yet…

If it were really real, where are all the chemtrails?

Questions About the Artemis Space Pictures

1. Why is space black? No really think about it. The Earth is dark for approximately 12 hours per day and light for approximately 12 hours per day, with seasonal variations being at their greatest mismatch at the north and south poles during the summer and winter solstices and being at their most balanced (a 12 hour day all over Earth) at the spring and fall equinox. It is widely accepted that the reason for the hours of darkness at night is because the Earth is casting a shadow and blocking the sun’s rays in that area.

So what would happen if you really go beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, where the Earth is no longer making a shadow? I’d imagine it would look like the bright burst of light described in near death experiences. Now it might look like a void of darkness if a spaceship were to get very far away from the sun and went out to Pluto, say, where the sun is thought to just look like a really big star. But on a close to Earth mission just flying by the moon? Where is the sunlight?

Of course you might say but the Earth still casts a shadow in space! That’s why it’s so dark! Obviously the Earth and the sun blocked by the moon DOES still cast a shadow, at least if one is to believe how the phases of the moon and eclipses happen. So that would mean they’d be calibrating the daylight/darkness outside of Earth’s atmosphere based on the phases of the moon, with a full moon indicating daylight in space (eg no shadow) and a New moon indicating darkness in space (full shadow). Yet Artemis launched on April 1 (April Fool’s Day), one day before the full moon, and I have never seen this calculated or considered at any rate. So once again where is the daylight? I guess they do say that the sun doesn’t do anything unless it hits something. But wouldn’t that something also be the space shuttle itself?

2. Where are the stars? Now assuming we’ve come to the conclusion that space is not bright because the sun is not hitting anything that reflects its light and scatters that like our atmosphere does (I think this is some variation on the official explanation for space being dark btw). So it’s dark out. Like really really really dark. There’s not even some lights from the Luxor and Mandalay Bay and the Sphere and all of those Las Vegas Strip casinos to block out the darkness. Well without that awful light pollution shielding our view I’d have to think the stars would be incredible to see, just as they are in the middle of the Sonoran or Mojave Desert on a no moon night or on an out of the way beach in Thailand, say.

I mean stars are basically other suns that are simply burning their own energy however many billions of light years away, right? So they certainly wouldn’t lose their shine due to any sun/shadow equations mentioned before. On the contrary they’d be brightest without all that interference. If space is dark we should be getting the most awesome view of the stars and planets like ever. Instead it always seems to be blocked out by the bright burning ball of the sun or the space station. Which brings me to my next question.

3. Why is the Earth usually perpetually light everywhere in pictures? This is getting back to the question posed first regarding darkness and daylight on Earth. If you’ve ever been in an airplane, especially on a long haul flight across the world from say, Los Angeles to Hong Kong (this is a common route for me that takes 13ish hours) you might have noticed a skymap on the flight tracker. Since the distance is so great in terms of both time and actual miles travelled, I have never once seen a skytracker which shows the flight path as universally light (or universally dark, for that matter).

   This is my own picture of the flight tracker screen on an ostensible red eye from LAX to Doha (Qatar) in March of 2023, for example.

   

   By contrast this is a picture of Earth supposedly from Artemis II, which I do suppose has this creeping sun at the edges of what would have to be a perfectly shadowed Earth.

   

Now I am aware that this is a totally CGI based image. Your plane on skytracker is probably at least 1000 times larger than it is in real life for example. But importantly what that flight tracker screen shows can be readily verified outside your airplane window so if it says you are on the edges of sunrise or sunset you can readily see the change from darkness into dawn or from sunset into darkness.

Wouldn’t we see that similar sun shadow effect from space? Shouldn’t approximately half of the Earth, especially as we’re close to the Spring Equinox, be dark, perhaps even with large bright city lights visible in some of those nighttime places?

I suppose they have attempted the shadow at least in the past:

I am actually trying to wrap my head around the astronomy here. If I can’t explain it in my own words to students then I don’t understand it myself.

Despite all of the questions I posted above, I’m not a believer in Flat Earth theory. I don’t mind if you DO believe in that. I don’t care whether you think Trump is the Savior or the AntiChrist though I don’t think he is either. He’s an actor with his role in a play. I don’t even mind if you took the Covid jab 7 times already as long as you are not forcing me to do the same. These all are silly divides.

The best we can do is help and heal ourselves and each other. One by one.

Happy Songkran…

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