Trump Causes Gasoline Prices to Go Up. Way Up. And the Diesel that Trucks use to bring Food to the Grocery Store Goes Up. And the Tractors on the Farms are more Expensive to Operate. Everything's Getting More Expensive... Because Trump is Insane!

Is this the beginning of the worst gas crisis the world has seen? The closure of the Ras Laffan energy complex — and threats to the Strait of Hormuz — could cripple economies, send prices soaring and halt oil supplies.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/oil-gas-prices-gulf-strait-hormuz-iran-war-bv0vqk9cs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LQX1eU2PSE

It's Unusual to Meet an Actual MAGA Moron in Person... They are Very Rare in the General Population. Online, Most of Them are Bots or Paid Employees in Nigeria, Russia... 

I was having a conversation with this person that lives in the same old folks home as I... and... I recognized that she was repeating Republican Talking Points that she had heard on Fox News... 

Thankfully, she never votes in any election... And so she can take her opinions and shove them where the sun don't shine... 

The specific talking point that she was repeating was that Gavin Newsom would make a Bad President because as Governor he's run up a huge deficit in State Spending... Of course, Trump has ALSO run up a huge deficit in National Spending but that's completely different... Because actions that are done by Democrats are Horrible but Everything Republicans do is Wonderful... 

Classic Brainwashing! The CIA really learned a lot from Project MK Ultra and they got those Trump Pansies obeying like robots... 

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Topics for future research: Brainwashing, MK Ultra, CIA, FBI, DOJ, DARPA, NSA, DOD, EIEIO, mind control, LSD. Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass...

Makes me Want to Sing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJB3r0HAhP0

How's it Going MAGA Moron?

Are the Trump Pansies still Whining There?

Do they still watch Fox News? And only Fox News?

And never change the channel... 

I ask every mindless vegetable... 

That I meet along the way...

How's it going MAGA Moron Today?

(slower)

How's it going MAGA Moron Today?

Amazing: Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet / Terrapin Station - 10/29/1980 - Radio City Music Hall...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTfDgvd5rhg

Enjoy Jerry's Envelope Filter effects box... It really makes the Notes Quack!

Grateful Dead - Playing In The Band (San Francisco, CA October 1974) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRmrsLSvr8&list=RDVl6oVXEe-tk&index=6 playing through the wall of sound... The night they made that movie...

Grateful Dead - Lost Sailor/Saint Of Circumstance (New York, NY 10/31/80)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D71KjnWLg&list=RDVl6oVXEe-tk&index=9

It's Really Obvious that Trump Never Took LSD. Just Look at his Values. His goals in life. They are Horrible... One Trip and All of Humanity Could Have Been Saved a Lot of Trouble...

Of course, I am not recommending that anyone take LSD... That's against the law! And the Blue Meanies will come around and lock you up! Just like the movie Yellow Submarine by the Beatles...

Trump tells POLITICO: Cuban regime is 'going to fall' because of U.S. economic, political pressure...

Why would anyone want Cuba to fall? This is just another example of Trump's sick outlook on life... 

A much better plan for Cuba is to have fun with them... Open up tourism... It could be as relaxing as visiting Jamaica is now... Beaches, scuba diving, fishing... But no... Trump wants to harm those people... Insane! 

If you've ever known any people that have had the Psychedelic Experience... You'll notice that, in general, they're  Kind... Gentle people... We have a tendency to be interested in playing the guitar, writing lyrics, writing poetry, organic gardening, growing marijuana, smoking marijuana, yoga, Eastern religion, meditation, all varieties of musical instrument, chanting, drum circles, dancing, macrame, tie dying t-shirts, painting, pottery, backpacking, mountain climbing, swimming, surfing, skiing, scuba diving, snorkeling, making your best friend Happy, making yourself Happy... And in none of those Pursuits is there any of that forcing other people to do what you want them to do...  

And a lot of people who have had the Psychedelic experience end up choosing careers like: Carpenter, plumber, electrician, engineer, designer/draftsman, waitress, bartender, cartoonist, sound man, technician, farmer, cowboy, computer programmer, repairman, automobile technician, Baker... Jobs at the end of the day you've accomplished something... Made the world a better place to live...

The famous exception to the rule is Charles Manson... Who was really trained by the American prison system... He spent more years of his life incarcerated than free... And then he realized that he could use LSD as a tool to control women... And since for the vast majority of life people had been controlling him, he wanted to flip the script and control others...

I wonder if it's possible to build your own Havana syndrome machine... It seems like if you took a standard automobile CB radio and a linear amplifier... And pointed it at the White House... When the president was there... You could broadcast chants like: " Trump is insane. Quit your job. Resign. You're a failure. Hillary got more votes... " I remember that when the trucks were driving by my apartment you could hear them talk on the CB radio on the television set... So maybe your words would come out of all electronic devices... Like Trump would be hearing voices on the telephone... I feel certain that he's hearing voices already due to these schizophrenia...

The Jet Set is Unhappy with Trump. His Defunding of ICE & DHS Has Caused the TSA Security Checkpoint to Take Hours... Commercial Airline Travel is Ruined. #DumpTrump

One thing the Republicans and Democrats can all agree upon is that ICE and DHS needed to be defunded... No more money for crazy murder guys... We just don't need that in America!

Travelers encounter long waits at some airports as DHS shutdown affects security checkpoints

Trump's raising the price of gasoline...

& jet fuel & oil & plastic... Everything's more expensive with Trump... all those trucks that bring food to the grocery store... Will be paying more for diesel... And we will be paying even more for food... Because someone has to pay for that expensive diesel fuel... And that someone is you and me!

The next time you go to a protest March at the White House... Why not bring one of these toys? Make sure Trump hears the fact that you're unhappy with his crazy crazy crazy Behavior...

An alternative to bad news. Take a moment to Celebrate the Wonderful Music of Country Joe McDonald. He died this week of Parkinson's disease... But while alive, He wrote some great songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6-bHlz-4

Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69

and I HAD to learn to play that song and record it and post it on my YouTube channel... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLpHivc8iIA

Satire! The Acid Commercial...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGfzRbTMcw

Country Joe & The Fish-Janis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaRppv4fgjo

Country Joe was a "red diaper" baby... His parents were communists and they nicknamed him Country Joe just like Country Joe Stalin... He became famous for playing at anti-war protest marches in Berkeley...

And then at the Ram Dass funeral Wavy Gravy modified The Cheer to say: "give me an F, give me a U, give me an N... What's that spell? FUN!

The origin of the "Fish" part of Country Joe and the Fish... Mao Zedong’s famous analogy, often quoted as "The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea", comes from his 1937 work On Guerrilla Warfare. It signifies that revolutionary troops depend on the support of the populace (the water) to survive, hide, and thrive.

I've had a lot of joy dating smart and powerful women... I married two of them... And we always figured out what to do with our lives by having long detailed honest conversations and then taking action.... Like the time we decided to leave Santa Clara, California and move to Columbia, Maryland so she could take a fancy pants government job.. And I went to college for a year studying computer programming... But then the money got tight so I went to work as a civilian designer/draftsman making equipment for the Air Force.... That was a decision that worked out great...

Another time we were living in Chico, California and it was just hotter than hell in the summer and we didn't have air conditioning so she said: "If you're so goddamn smart, why don't you figure out some way to get us out of here?" so another lady at the AA meeting taught me how to get a FAFSA student loan and we moved to Eureka California and I went to college at Humboldt State University for 4 years and then graduated with a BS in computer information systems. Then I got job at the county of Humboldt... Working at the DHHS interviewing people applying for food stamps, medical assistance and general relief... I Worked there for 7 years and then my dad died... My brother and I inherited a house in San Jose... Sold it for 1.6 million dollars... We split the money... And I've never worked since... Because once you get some money, you can hire a guy to invest it for you and it'll make endless profit... 

"Violet Overgrow" Test Site: I want to use this space to write chapters on my novel....; And document some ideas... Random stuff... And then later I'll copy and paste it into the actual novel.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-violet-overgrow.html a link to the novel as it is today...

And Red Tie Bigfoot said: "I sure do love Macaroni Salad... Especially when it's made with Gold Medal Flour. That's my favorite brand!"

I plan to use the Microsoft AI image generator to make images that tell the story in pictures. Especially the "Bigfoot in a Red Tie" character... Obviously, it's Donald Trump as a monkey! The first time I drew this, I thought that the hair looked really fake... And I was concerned that that would be a quality issue in the cartoon... But then I realized that in real life his hair looks really fake... So it's totally appropriate that it looks fake in the cartoon... 

I was lying here in bed and I started to have a dream where the "Red Tie Bigfoot" was in the stands of a baseball game and some lady was handing him plate of macaroni salad... And he said: "I sure do love macaroni salad... Especially when it's made with Gold Medal flour. That's my favorite brand!" because Trump loves everything that's made out of gold... And especially when you give him a gold medal... 

as you can see... That's a pretty random event for a novel... But that's what happened in my dream... And I sure as hell can't control what happens in my dreams... If I could, I'd have a lot more beautiful women naked...

A possible explanation for who Bigfoot is... Suppose that there was a very tall man that was working up in the mountains of Northern California for the CCC... The California Conservation Corps... And he came to the conclusion that his job really sucked... So he ran away into the mountains and survived eating fish from the river and roots & berries he could find... After a while, he went over to the Hoopa reservation and kidnapped a woman to be his wife... So the woman's father made up the story that Bigfoot (a giant monster) stole his daughter... A much better story than my daughter ran off with a white man... The one thing you're supposed to do as a father is protect your daughter... But no one can protect his daughter against Bigfoot!

I guess that part of this novel is what Trump does after he's been fired at being president... And after he served whatever jail terms he gets... Then he's going to do whatever he does... Maybe go to a baseball game! Or if he's living in Venezuela... Go to a soccer game! 

Trump raising gasoline prices meme

Arson is a Bad Idea. Both Sides of the Iran War are Setting The Other Side's Oil on Fire. Oil refineries, oil fields, oil depots and oil tankers. Massive air pollution. Black smoke and poison rain.

somehow... The military leaders in this conflict think that by destroying the other side's oil that will help them win the war... The only real guarantee is that burning oil will make the world a worse place to live for everyone... 

and there are a lot of Targets in the United States of America... In about a million Iranian people that live here... When will a saboteur set an American oil refinery on fire? They already declared total Jihad on America... And in a holy war, killing Trump would get you a guaranteed Ticket to Heaven!

right now the Warriors are using expensive rockets and drones and bombs... But... Saboteurs could get the job done by using Matches... Flamethrowers... Highway flares... Molotov Cocktails... It's pretty easy... And once you set a giant Oil Depot on fire... They could burn for decades... The only thing that stops the fire is when they burn up all of the oil...

Texas GOP Has Blood on Their Hands - FAILURE to Warn Children About Fatal Floods - MAD DOGE Firing of FEMA & NWS Weathermen... DEAD CAMPERS at MYSTIC SUMMER CAMP.

Democrats: 8,133,683 (46.52%)
Republicans: 6,601,189 (37.75%)

We have to vote them out of office so they don't kill again... 

Music Video: Ted Cruz Abandoned Texas (Satire) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHFnBrd2CQ

Another example of the failure of government service in the state of Texas is the
Uvalde school shooting...

A classic example of how the police were too frightened of the guy with a gun to actually stop him from murdering more children... 

In an Ideal World the police would protect children but not in Texas... Chickens! 

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I Wonder why God punished Texas governor Greg Abbott by making him a cripple... Greg was out jogging one day and a tree branch fell on his back and he never walked again... Just coincidence? Or maybe God was punishing him for a lifetime of doing evil... Could happen! This reminds me of the Old Testament story of Sodom and Gomorrah... Smite!

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Here are some of the Texas Democrats eyeing statewide runs in 2026... 

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/texas-democrats-candidates-2026-midterms-senate-governor/

Is it Possible to Collect Electricity from Lightning? Or Harvest Any Type of Power? We know that we can melt sand and make glass... As shown In the movie Sweet Home Alabama...

Conclusion: YES, but we don't know how to Make a Profit off it. So why bother?

*AI Overview*
Collecting electricity from lightning is technically possible but practically and economically unfeasible. While a single bolt contains immense, high-voltage power (~
joules), it lasts only microseconds. The unpredictability, extreme surge capacity required, and massive energy dissipation as heat/light make harvesting it for power grids inefficient compared to solar or wind.

Potential Future Methods:
Energy Harvesting Before Strikes: Rather than catching a strike, research suggests collecting atmospheric potential directly from clouds using tethered balloons or tall structures.

Advanced Storage: Some research suggests utilizing highly specialized, advanced supercapacitors to manage the rapid discharge.

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Spoiler Alert!
In the movie: they hired a professional glass blower to make props simulating the lightning created glass sculptures...  (the Simon Pearce glass company and artist Matt Janke)
Is that a surprise that Hollywood is not real???




AI Overview
In Sweet Home Alabama (2002), the character Jake creates "fossilized lightning" sculptures by using metal rods to attract lightning into the sand, which melts to form glass. While based on the real, rare phenomenon of fulgurites, the movie inaccurately portrays the ease and artistic precision of forming intricate, clear glass sculptures on a beach, which are usually brittle, dark, and underground.

The Majority of Americans Believe that the War in Iran is a BAD IDEA. Trump's Economy is a Disaster. Higher Prices. Smaller Paychecks. Massive Unemployment. Endless Business Bankruptcies...

Has Trump just started World War 3 in Iran?

We think that the war in Venezuela was a bad idea. Blowing up boats in the Caribbean = bad idea. Bombing Ecuador = bad idea. Tearing down the East Wing of the White House = bad idea. Closing the Kennedy Center = bad idea... The embargo and starvation of Cuba = bad idea... 

And ICE murdering two Americans in Minnesota. The killers have not been arrested... I think they got vacation with pay, a new identity and a new place to live but no one knows where...

Makes me Want to Sing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJB3r0HAhP0

How's it Going MAGA Moron?

Are the Trump Pansies still Whining There?

Do they still watch Fox News? And only Fox News?

And never change the channel... 

I ask every mindless vegetable... 

That I meet along the way...

How's it going MAGA Moron Today?

(slower)

How's it going MAGA Moron Today?

In Tehran it is raining oily black soot - carcinogens falling into the ground and water, interfering with migrating birds, an environmental disaster that will last for decades. FDT and Net &Yahoo.

https://youtu.be/fRvaJANXkAI 

Obama's speech at the Jesse Jackson funeral. inspirational. Uplifting.

We heard Jesse Jackson speak at the Lincoln Memorial...My brother-in-law, Ray Chapin, drove up from Missouri because he wanted to hear that anniversary of the Dr Martin Luther King I Have a Dream speech... Since my family had an open invitation to come stay rent-free at my condo and I'd drive them anywhere to go do the tourist things... I was glad to go... We were about halfway down the reflecting pool towards the Washington Monument... And they had loud speakers about every 100 yards... And that meant that the echo echo echo prevented us from understanding of single word that Jesse Jackson said... But he had that black preacher timing... And so we had fun...

What If We Set All the Middle Eastern Oil on Fire? Ecological Disaster? A Massive Drone Attack Aimed at an Oil Field was Repelled by Saudi Arabia. It's possible those things could burn for years... Maybe decades... Refineries burn too... So do tankers! And they have Oil spills...

Saudi Arabia repels drone attack on Aramco oil field.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Saudi-Arabia-repels-drone-attack-on-Aramco-oil-field/65823578

However... Israel set an Oil Depot on Fire... Burning Uncontrollably... 

Remember that there is an underground coal mine in Pennsylvania that's been burning for 50 years... In the Gulf of Mexico there was that oil well that was on fire? For weeks... All those countries over there have a lot of oil wells and refineries and tankers... all of those things are flammable... A saboteur with a match could do the trick... Or one of those Highway Emergency FLARES...

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and Now for Something Completely Different!

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Rainbow Gathering 2026 Rainbow TrashPanda 
Nepal Rainbow Gathering
March 19 - April 17, 2026
Close to Kailash Parbhat,
on the only land of the sacred tree Rai Sallo,
our home for the last Rainbow gathering,
where we lived with the tiger,
beneath his den,
a divine and fearless vision came.
A vision to gather once again under the full moon of April known as the Pink moon named after the species of early blooming wildflowers, as the wild family will come together to our mystical magical home from 19th March to 17th April, in the lands of Nepal

Political Nation
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The War is, aside from destroying the reliable international order that has successfully made it possible to exchange goods and legal commitments between nations, has hidden in there press many domestic matters that continue to fester and grow, such as the Epstein investigations, ICE concentration camps and ethnic persecutions, and the cost of megadeath in the Middle East.

The cost of stupidity in the Trump Administration will be profound as all these remain after the bombing, adding to the bankrupting of the US budget, already trillions in debt . . . a condition inviting a fair billionaires tax . . . certainly coming up for debate in the next chapter! - Steve Brodner

Will COP SHOWS on TV Go Out of Style? Since we can see actual murder videos on TV news, why watch actors pretending to be cops? We got super slow mo, Freeze Frame and arrows pointing to the murder weapon...

 I remember as a kid watching Dragnet... And I was always rooting for the criminals because cops were evil and a menace to society... Mainly because cops were arresting kids for marijuana and LSD... And as a criminal myself I didn't care for cops... 

And then there was the show 21 Jump Street... All about teenagers working as narks and turning in their friends... And that was an insult to other kids at my high school... If they were real weirdos, you'd nickname them Jump Street... 

And it got really weird... Did you know that the TV show called "Charlie's Angels" was based on Charles Manson? You got a mysterious Mastermind Man that controlled young women and they did whatever he told them to... But the executives at the TV station decided to "flip the script" and instead of Charlie being a bad guy... He'd be a good guy... And instead of plain looking women... They would have beautiful women... Classic Hollywood TV show business... Much better ratings with beautiful women... 

Free Health Advice: Disclaimer: I'm Not a Doctor so take me as seriously as you would take RFK Jr who doesn't know what he's talking about either.

When I was on the swim team, as a kid, I noticed that the chlorinated water was great for my skin and prevented acne... It also cured my poison oak rash... And I got poison oak a lot because I walked my dog up in the Santa Cruz mountains...

I liked to test myself to see how far I could swim underwater... I could easily do 150 ft... But the real trick was to hyperventilate before I started... By breathing really hard I was able to fill my body with oxygen and then gradually release the carbon dioxide as I was swimming along... 

So here I am decades later... And I find that doing deep breathing and filling my body with oxygen is a great way to clarify my thinking... I believe that a brain that's got a lot of oxygen is smarter... I have no scientific proof of that but so what??? Like I said before... I'm not a doctor... And if I give out free advice that's no damn good... well... You certainly ought to check with an actual professional before you believe any kind of crap that you see on the internet! Doctors go to college for like years and years and years and they study medicine... Go ask them! And remember to always Think for Yourself and Question Authority... 

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Maybe get a job as a part-time professor at Stanford? Like Condoleezza Rice or Michael Milken... Become a Talking Head on TV News like John Dean, Woodward and Bernstein... Or maybe retire to a compound on the Chesapeake Bay like SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld... He had a lovely home in a Gated Guarded Community... And all he did for the rest of his life was whatever he wanted to do whenever he wanted to do it! Or you could go back to the ranch like Lyndon Johnson did and drink yourself to death... That's an option... 

As of March 3, 2026, the national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States is $3.11 --- Prices recently jumped by approximately 11 cents per gallon overnight due to ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

*AI Overview*
Reports indicate that recently Donald Trump’s inner circle has been plagued by locusts, intense internal infighting, backstabbing, the Potomac River turning red with blood and questioning of loyalties, reminiscent of the book Revelation in the Bible. Fissures have deepened over national security and personnel, with far-right influencers Questioning the trustworthiness of his staff and IF He Really IS the One True God!

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I just watched this:"How Cults End" - an Insightful Video. The #1 Cause: The Leader Dies. The #2 Cause: The Inner Circle Turns on the Leader. ET TU, BRUTE?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/932983239263863

...and that made me think... I could make memes that appear to be the Inner Circle turning on the leader... Simply type false statements on the pictures... And post them on social media...

Disclaimer! This is satire, mockery, ridicule...
It's a joke! Really! Ha Ha!