We are so fucked!

Wait, I saw a Michael’s sign that said, We have balloons.

Putting all kidding aside, whatever it takes to stop this clown show, I’m all in.

and the world - appears critical thinking and forethought are nowhere to be found in the leadership of Trumplandia.

So Jeeboss will come back from the deads in the sky and open the perly gates for THEM...

While they all never follow his teachings, if it was true, they could all end up down in HELL... (they never think of that possibility).

... "You will know not the day nor the hour." In other words, MAGA, you don't get to tell Jesus what to do. Your Armageddon fantasies are not welcome here.

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but once again I have underestimated his capacity for destruction, intentional and unintentional.

He's like a brontosaurus in a china shop, and shame on the Republican party for continuing to enable and support him.

The billionaire overlords had everything planned for whenever the useful idiot got back into the White House. Once he was reinstated the destruction was already in progress. "Project 2025" was the part they actually published, but a lot more plans were never revealed.

It can't JUST be to keep their job??? I watched "The Darkest Hour" last night and felt the rage that the people of England felt. Lord Halifax desperately wanted a "Peace Deal with Herr Hitler." He was convinced that was the answer. Thank goodness, his party chose Churchill....."fight them on the beaches, etc."..... that's how I feel riight now. How I wish a few Republicans felt this way!

Can't it? Congress gets a huge salary for very little work, a pension if they stay there long enough, and gold-plated healthcare. They are willing to follow #PEDOnald to hell, apparently.

Helium has been in short supply for a few years now. Nothing new - just worse!

I for one would like to see those balloons go the way of the dodo.

Thanks!

Everything is (and SHOULD BE!) about intelligent disposal. With a little thought and awareness of what impact it has on the land, waterways, and creatures thereon and therein. We ALL should ALWAYS be conscious of the impact we collectively AND individually have on our Earth.

It’s the ONLY home we have.

People used to consider a release of thousands of helium balloons to be a less dangerous, less polluting alternative to fireworks, and they made a visual spectacle in daytime, unlike fireworks. But too many rubber balloons made it into the guts of sea turtles and there were movements to ban the practice. Unfortunately, sea turtles are still ingesting way too many plastic bags, and the ultrathin bags used nowadays are even more readily blown out to sea.

And tRump is perfectly fine with that because:
a) the tRump-Epstein Files are out of the news and
b) he continues getting richer and richer by the day

We had a massive helium reserve in Texas following World War 1.

It continued in existence until republicans announced that the U.S. Government making and storing helium was against conservative principles of free market capitalism. And ended the Helium storage reserves. See the Republican “Helium Privatization Act” of 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_Privatization_Act_of_1996


We can’t have nice things because the GOZp destroys them all.

... influence reared its ugly head once again.

Seems some folks in black robes ruled that unconstitutional in 1996. The same year all this was going on.

Careful. Third way is bullshit, granted, but let's not get too carried away. Nuance.

... I asked a MAGA-path to name ONE constructive thing the current crop of Republicans have done – without LYING! Couldn't do it.

... than to pay real wages to Americans for manufacturing the same product. We need to realize that is the main reason everything has been outsourced ... the cost of American labor. Billionaire overlords don't like paying Americans.

here is one article
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-just-sold-helium-stockpile-s-medical-world-worried-rcna134785

I looked into this further to see how much support it had at the time.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/527/all-actions?overview=closed&q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D

Maybe shutting down one of the most important regions for that trade isn't a good idea? Even if one is trying to get one's pedo proclivities off front page, above the fold.

Many of us thought the stupidity exhibited by this regime would bite us all eventually. Just a matter of when and how. Well, we're there. Less than 2 years in.

There is an AI Richard Feynman lecture on it…

Just add it to the list of destroyed by trump

need it when the growing season starts. No fertilizer = poor crops.

Diesel isn't coming down before spring planting.

Since golden brains declared no global warming we don't have to worry about extreme drought or floods

The US has 10% more helium reserves than the next 2 largest countries combined.
And, that doesn't count the yet to be quantified find in Minnesota.

Having reserves and having the product are not the same thing are they?

Goes back nearly 100 years.
The Hindenberg used hydrogen because the US restricted exports of their vast helicopter resources. They would gave used helium if the US would have sold it to them.
The reserves in the middle east were undiscovered at that point, so the US had a near monopoly.
But, those production conduits have been in place since the 1920s.
And, since helium reacts with nothing under terrestrial conditions, the infrastructure lasts a very, very long time.
I think it far more likely that the article is clickbait, than any other real concern about supply.

Trumps doing it for them.

Looks like someone had plans to tap the reserves of whatever-it-is is in those Liferaft Lips!

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Jk

But for those who may want reasons this doesn't really work, we could use hydrogen for buoyancy applications like balloons, but what makes helium necessary for MRI scanners is that helium has an extremely low boiling point, and superconducting magnets need to be kept at a similarly low temperature. Liquid hydrogen boils at around 20 Kelvin but current magnets need temperatures below 10 K; helium boils around 4 Kelvin.

I assume that it still does.

They simply don't care about anything except kissing trmp's ass over and over and over....

so krasnov destroying the world is a GOOD thing.

Why do so many idiots let religious loons run the country?

They have always had the power to stop his nonsense. I get pissed everytime some says these are all Dump's policies causing this grief when the F'ing GOP in Congress bears as much responsibility as he does. Anyone that votes for a Repuglican in the next election is beyond stupid and self-destructive, unless you're one of the few billionaires.

or all the other headlines talking about his demise. Has there been any sign of this in reality? As long as the morons are in charge of all branches of government, it seems he's not cooked so to speak. I hope someday I am proven wrong.

Worry less about the disaster that Trump is visiting on the world, and focus more on how you will cope with the upcoming effect on your life personally.

Practical stuff, preparing for when food supplies and fresh water run low, fuel and a generator or two, safe storage for all that.

And the favorite of post nuclear war/Zombie Apocalypse preppers - lots of guns and ammo.

and getting a laugh by talking funny, they could give a shit what else it's used for or how critical it is.

no "chef" is doing a fucking thing to stop him.
No One!