Single Life and Its Implications

This is one of the most remarkable factoids that I have come across this year.

There are now twice as many men in the United States between the ages of 20-39 who are single compared to those who are married.

Source: https://ifstudies.org/insights/?id=4483

Since 2000 among men aged 20-39.

Unmarried up 47% : 20.7M (2000) → 30.4M (2025)

Married down 15%: 18.1M (2000) → 15.4M (2025)

Looked at the issue of the unmarried more broadly, 40% (120+ million)  of the adult population is single.

Source: https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/2090811808248422527

We are in uncharted territory.

How have we gotten here and what are the implications?

A big reason is that women have gotten more freedom and independence to choose their ideal mate.

Contraceptives, higher education and incomes, combined with less social stigma about being single, have allowed young women to be more selective in selecting a spouse.

150 years ago a girl living on a farm knew that her prospects might be limited to 3 or 4 farm boys who lived within 5 miles of her.

Even 30 years ago the potential supply of mates for a man or woman would be limited to their immediate vicinity and social circle.

The rise of the internet and dating sites has given everybody what seems like an unlimited potential supply of mates.

One result is that young women have gotten a lot more selective about their life choices.

Those men who have below average looks, education, incomes or height have increasingly been sorted out of the dating and marriage market.

If you doubt that, consider the results of studies of a few social media sites.

Men are open to a much larger percentage of available women than is the case of the opposite sex based on looks alone.

96% of men never get beyond the profile page with women.

On the other hand, 60% of women pass this first test with men.

The height test is also a difficult one for many men to pass.

Credit: https://x.com/JedediahBila/status/1912616134895190442

The problem is that about 40% of the male population in the United States is 5'8' or shorter.

Only 14% of adult male are 6 feet or taller.

This then gets us to the even more difficult questions of education and income.

I have a lot of friends with daughters in their 30's who are not yet married. These are for the most part attractive, college-educated women. They have good jobs and are interested in finding the right guy. The common complaint is there are not enough quality young men.

My wife and I had an older friend a number of years back who had a single daughter in her early 30's who was a successful attorney.

Whenever she talked about her she said, "I don't know what she is looking for?

"She could go out with Jesus Christ himself and he would not meet her standards."

The microscope men are under from women today is true even putting looks and height aside. 

It is not an imaginary concern.

Consider this take from a female dating coach in the NY area if you think I am just looking at this from a male perspective.

Source: https://x.com/livtalley_coach/status/2103639245344657562

I have written before about the worrying imbalance between men and women who are college-educated.

Why is that a problem?

Women have historically tended to date and marry men of with at least equal educational attainment. However, that is becoming an increasingly difficult goal today. Almost 60% of college graduates are now women. Only 40% are men. 

This is true for almost all college degree programs. Doctorate degrees are a little more balanced but women still earn more than half of those degrees.

This translates into the fact that many women below the age of 40 are earning more than their male counterparts because of the educational imbalance. 

You would think that it shouldn't matter but it seems that it is pretty important. 

The problem is that even though the world has changed our basic biology and the way the male and female brains are wired has not changed with it. There are primal emotions deep within us that dictate a lot about what we are looking for in a mate.

Many marriage experts will tell you that the most important factor that a woman is looking for in a husband is security. Women want to feel secure that they will be protected and cared for. Men, on the other hand, are looking most for respect. They want to have the respect of their wife.

Do you see a potential problem when the wife is out-earning the husband in the house considering these underlying factors in marriage involving men and women? How does the wife feel secure? How does the husband feel respected?

The other huge primal factor in women is the need to nurture and care.

This is naturally filled by her children.

However, what if she does not have children?

That primal need does not go away. It  might very well be filled by something else.

We can see a lot of this playing out in politics today.

This is probably the most important chart in order to understand politics today.

This is from a large poll during the 2024 election.

Our political landscape would look totally different if unmarried women were not voting.

Married men----------59%/39% Republican

Single men----------- 52%/45% Republican

Married women------56%-42% Republican

Single women--------68%/31% Democrat

How do I explain it?

Single women have a primal need for security. If they cannot satisfy that need with a husband they look to government to fill the hole.

Unmarried women with no children to nurture also need something else to direct their nurturing and caring spirit to.  They turn to causes---climate change, the homeless, Black Lives Matter. etc.

That becomes the case even when it defies common sense.

For example, how did it make any sense at all for young, single, white women living in big cities to protest and march for BLM and demand defunding the police as they did a few years back?

If anyone needs security and the protection of police in a big city it is a young woman.

I posted these pictures during the BLM and defund the police protests in 2020.

You might see one black person in this picture of a BLM protest if you are lucky

.Almost all are young white women that are probably single.

A young woman "confronting" the police in Portland.

We can try to deny biology and the way our bodies and minds are wired but it does not go away.

The implications for our society are most troubling.

We see it affecting our politics.

We also see it in the behaviors of young men.

Without marriage and a woman in their life they turn to video games, pornography and gambling.

There is nothing about any of this (for men or women)  that is positive for our society.

Several months ago I wrote a blog post on "The Collapse of Connection".

It began with these two slides that showed the extent to which human connections are being lost today.

The number of singles (especially young men) is a function of all of this.

This is the path we are on if trends do not change.

1. Collapse of Connection

                  

2. Collapse of Coupling

3. Collapse of Children

4. Collapse of Civilization

This and That---September 25, 2026

A few random observations, charts and factoids to provide some context on what is going on in the world.

This Is Today's Democrat Party?

The Center for Strategic Politics recently asked Democrat party voters their feelings on various ways that President Trump might be removed from office.

89% would have positive feelings if Trump was impeached and convicted by both Houses of Congress.

84% would feel good about Trump being removed for being unfit for office under the 25th Amendment.

59% would positively react to a military coup removing Trump from office.

55% would be happy if Trump died in his sleep.

32% would be positive about Trump being assassinated at a rally.

Are these the people we want voting for and deciding the future of the United States of America?

Hurricanes

We have been told for years that human-induced climate change was going to create more hurricanes and other catastrophic weather events

We were told that if Donald Trump was elected President to expect the worst for out climate.

We have just reached the latest date in any year since 1914 that not one hurricane has formed in the Atlantic.

Credit: https://x.com/MatthewWielicki/status/2102179720007909588

No, the lack of hurricanes is not proof that climate change is not real.

The climate is ever changing. It has been that way for thousands of years.

There has been an Ice Age. A Medieval Warm Period and everything in between.

However,  how is it that every time we hear about a hurricane, tornado or flood today it is blamed on human-induced climate change?

Humans caused it?  We are at the point that anything that happens with the weather is blamed on climate change.

Another surprising factoid I saw recently is that only a single major hurricane (Cat 3-5) has hit the East Coast of the United States in the last 30 years.

Compare that to other 30 year periods dating back to 1907.

The 1937-1966 period was particularly brutal.

Were there more or less humans and carbon emissions in that era compared to today?

Credit: https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/2101047724539806147/photo/1

You possibly could argue that climate change may actually be benefiting the large population centers in East Coast of the United States based on this data.

Data Center Data

No other country is close to the United States in data center development.

Credit: https://x.com/ernietedeschi/status/2100932919162482871/photo/1

What is interesting is that none of these data centers got any attention until  the last several months.

For example, the Chicago area has had 125 data centers operating for some time without any complaints about noise, water usage, power problems and the like.

Source: https://dcmap.us/markets/chicago/

As has been pointed out, many are like large warehouses without the constant flow of trucks in and out and much less disruptive to surrounding neighbors.

Those data centers have been around for a good number of years already or you would not have been able to use your apps on your phone, shop on Amazon, watch YouTube videos or get your groceries delivered by InstaCart.

Why is it only now that they have become a hot political topic?

Undoubtedly, some of this is due to AI and the large scale of some of the rural data centers.

However, if we are to advance economically, and be in a position to meet our social welfare, military and interest obligations on $40+ trillion of federal debt, we need the economic growth that comes with those data centers.

This is the inconvenient truth that very few are willing to admit.

What Is The Chart Really Showing?

This is a chart I saw recently recently that was clearly attempting to make a point in comparing the deaths from the 9/11 attacks and deaths from Covid in April, 2020.

However, were those really deaths from Covid?

If they were, you would expect that deaths would have stayed at an elevated level for succeeding months as the virus infected more and more people.

However, deaths immediately came down and settled at just slightly elevated levels compared to recent history.

As I analyze it, what does the chart really show? 

It shows deaths in 2020 as a result of failed policies and practices.

Human errors.

Many people died in New York and New Jersey, not directly from the Covid virus, but by being put on a ventilator in those early days of the pandemic.

You may recall the mad rush in late March and early April, 2020 to manufacture more ventilators.

It was then recognized that immediate intubation of Covid patients was causing more harm than good in most cases. Less invasive respiratory support protocols were utilized.

In the end, 200,000 ventilators were delivered to hospitals. Only 15,000 were ever deployed.

Second, many became infected and died due to decisions by public officials in those states to put Covid patients in nursing homes.

Fortunately, the errors in judgment were recognized and corrected.

They stopped putting every hospitalized patient on ventilators.

They stopped putting Covid patients in nursing homes.

However, few have been willing to come forward and admit the enormous number of deaths that were caused by human errors rather than by the virus. 

To err is human, especially when dealing with a novel virus.

However, the total refusal to admit mistakes and culpability in so many of the human errors that were made involving Covid policies and practices continues to be maddening to me.

The Economy Is Horrible?

I have written several times recently about the disconnect between Consumer Sentiment (never been worse) and the actual facts regarding the economy.

You can read my previous observations here (9/21) and here (5/25).

I don't think there has ever been a bigger disconnect between perceptions, emotions and reality.

Further evidence of the disconnect was shown on the report on jobless claims released yesterday.

Initial jobless claims are the lowest they have been since 1968!

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/09/17/jobless-claims-sept-12/

For context, the average weekly jobless claim number since 1968 is 359,120.

The current number is approaching half of that average.

What should be done about this?

I guess the prevailing answer is to punish Trump and give Democrats majority control of Congress.

Yeah, that will make things a lot better.

Invasion of the Tiger Moms

The Mason, Ohio school district near me recently announced its list of National Merit Semifinalists.

20 students were recognized with that high academic honor.

Do you notice anything?

It appears that all 20 students are of Asian heritage.

The names suggest that most are children of recent immigrants.

Whites comprise 50% of the student population in Mason. Asians are 32%.

William Mason High School
Mason, Oho
Student Population
Source: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/william-mason-high-school-profile

How is it that 100% of the National Merit Semifinalists in the school are Asian?

Is there a story behind the numbers?

First, consider the sheer number of Asian students in that suburban Cincinnati school district.

Mason High School has 3,435 students in grade 9-12 but 32% are Asian--that is almost 1,100 students.

10 years ago Mason was 77% White and only 16% Asian.

The Asian student population has doubled in ten years.

20 years ago Mason was 88% White and only 9% Asian.

30 years ago Mason was 96% White and only 4% were Black, Hispanic and Asian COMBINED.

The share of Black and Hispanic students has remained relatively stable at 6% each over the last 20 years.

You can see the same general trend in suburban Dallas-Ft.Worth.

Consider the changes in the student population in Frisco, Texas that is even more profound.

The large influx of Asian students in Texas suburban school districts, in addition to the large existing Hispanic population in the state, means that White students now make up only 24% of public school enrollment in the state.

Enrollment at the University of Texas-Austin is now only 30% White. It was 43% as recently as 2017.

Asians now make up 23% of the undergraduate enrollment at UT. Hispanics are 26%.

This was highlighted in this photo that went viral on social media of UT students cheering at the recent Texas-Ohio State football game.

Source: https://x.com/bofrench/status/2099118916282810552/photo/1

The percentage of the student body that are White Males at Texas---13%.

Communities like Mason and Frisco used to be described as White suburban enclaves.

That is no longer true in any respect.

The demographic makeup of many of these suburban areas and the school population has been transformed.

Part of the story of why every National Merit student is Asian at Mason are the pure numbers of Asians in the school today compared to 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

However, that is only part of the story.

Asians make up only 32% of the student body in Mason but make up 100% of the top students.

Why is that?

This data on the amount of homework Asian students do compared to other students explains a lot.

Asian American teens spend over 2x as much time on homework as White or Hispanic teens and almost 4x as much as Black students.

Why are Asian American teens willing to put that much effort in outside of the classroom?

The answer is that they likely have a Tiger Mom at home.

I first saw the term "Tiger Mom" when I came across Amy Chua's book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" 15 years ago.

I wrote about Chua and her parenting philosophy in one of the very first blog posts of BeeLine in January, 2011.

Chua had written an essay in The Wall Street Journal that was done to promote the upcoming release of her book.

This is an excerpt from that essay.

A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I've done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:

• attend a sleepover

• have a playdate

• be in a school play

• complain about not being in a school play

• watch TV or play computer games

• choose their own extracurricular activities

• get any grade less than an A

• not be the No. 1 student in every subject except gym and drama

• play any instrument other than the piano or violin

Chua is of Chinese heritage but I believer her parental attitude is generally shared by most Asians.

She cites three major differences between Asian and Western parenting styles.

• Western parents are too concerned about their children's self esteem. Chinese are not. Asians assume strength in their children, not fragility. Therefore, they push hard on them and hold them accountable for results.
• Chinese parents believe their children owe them something. Many Americans seem to believe that since they were responsible for bringing the child into the world that they owe the child in some way.
• Asians believe they know what is best for their children and override their children's own preferences and desires. Chinese parents understand that nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work, which is why it is crucial to override their preferences.

What lessons can be learned from all of this?

Parents of Asian ancestry are not as concerned about the self-esteem of their children as Western parents are. They push their children to work hard and hold them accountable for results.

In order to excel at anything you need to work at it. Few children will naturally want to work or practice the necessary time to excel. Asian parents push their children to work hard and are not as concerned about overriding what the child wants to do as Western parents are.

Asian parents actually create a "low-esteem" environment for their children. They do not praise their children for their talent. They praise their children for their work ethic and effort. Their success is a function of the expectations of the family and just plain old hard work, practice and study.

Malcolm Gladwell in his book, "Outliers" , attributes it to a "rice paddy" attitude. Simply stated, tending to a rice paddy is a 360 day, 3,000 hour per year activity. It is exacting, hard work where effort and dedication make a huge difference in results. 

The peasants that tended these rice paddies may be long gone but the culture carries on in their progeny. Gladwell makes the point that there is nothing that indicates that Asians are naturally any better at math, science or music but each requires hard work, persistence and doggedness. It is more attitude than aptitude.

I think it also stems from another factor. The sheer number of people on the Asian continent that anyone has to compete with in that part of the world. It is simply harder to feel that you are unique or special when you are competing against BILLIONS of other people.

Consider this graphic of world population by longitude.

Source: https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/

The attitudes from that part of the world carries over to those from Asia who immigrate to the United States.

In addition to that "race paddy" attitude, these people are grateful to be in the United States and appreciate the opportunity it provides to them and their family. They are doubly motivated that the opportunities provided by the United States are not wasted by their children.

It was once said that the suburbs were ruled by Soccer Moms.

That is no longer true.

The suburbs are increasingly ruled by those Tiger Moms.

You can see it in Mason and Frisco.

Stop Him and Implement Socialism

Democrats seem to be offering only two reasons for why people should vote for them this year.

Elect us so that we...

1. Can Stop Donald Trump.

2. Implement a Socialist agenda.

Try as you might, you cannot find any other positive policy reasons or a realistic platform of ideas from Democrats to improve the lives of Americans and make the United States better.

Yes, I don't consider the Democratic Socialist agenda either positive or realistic.

Many Democrat candidates for the House state that their number one priority is to impeach Donald Trump.

When asked what are the high crimes and misdemeanors that would be the reason for an impeachment, they cannot provide an answer beyond "he is guilty of so much."

What would an impeachment due to the nation's business?

You can be assured that if Democrats take control of Congress there will be next to nothing of importance that will come out of Congress over the next two years.

There will be a lot of investigations and noise.

Little of substance will be accomplished.

If Democrats are able to pass some type of legislation they favor, it most certainly will be vetoed by the President.

That will be the reality if Democrats control Congress.

A vote for Democrats this year undoubtedly means that voters will be even more upset with what Congress is doing (or not doing) than they are today.

As it is, voters are already very dissatisfied with the way Congress is handling the nation's business.

In a recent Quinnipiac poll, only 21% of voters approved of the way Democrats in Congress were doing their job.  A massive 70% disapproved for a -49% net approval rating.

Source: https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3965

Republicans in Congress did not fare much better.

26% approved of the job Republicans were doing compared to 62% who disapprove for a -35% net approval rating.

Source: https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3965

Trump's net approval rating in the same poll looks relatively good at -26% compared to those bleak numbers.

What is interesting in looking at polling numbers right now on Trump's approval, and how it relates to the upcoming midterm Congressional elections, is comparing the approval numbers to actual results delivered over the last two years.

It is clear that Trump is taking a big hit for the Iran conflict and its related effect on gasoline prices.

This is most particularly hurting Trump with Independent voters who are also most susceptible to mainstream media headlines as they are typically the voters paying the least amount of attention to underlying facts and issues.

The Iran conflict caught them blindsided. Trump campaigned against "forever wars". 

He campaigned on a platform of freeing up domestic energy and lowering gas prices.

I can see where they are coming from. This is not what they voted for.

On the other hand,  I previously wrote that I could see the midterm fortunes of Trump and the Republicans improving if the Iran problem was solved between now and election day.

Take those issues away and Trump's record looks pretty good from most objective standards.

What should those who voted for Trump two years ago but are not happy be doing now?

My suggestion is to take a step back and don't let their vote be ruled by short term emotions.

Look at the facts and reality.

Getting control of immigration was Trump's signature issue.

The Biden administration told us that nothing could be done about it without new legislation.

Trump stopped the flow of illegals crossing the southern border almost immediately.

 

Source: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

The steady flow of illegals at the southern border has slowed to a trickle.

The Trump administration has also been prioritizing the removal of illegal aliens with criminal records, those who have overstayed temporary visas and tightening the rules regarding H1B visas.

All of this has resulted in the number of foreign born persons in the United States falling by an unprecedented 2.9 million people in the last two years.

It is the first time we have seen net negative migration to the United States since the 1930's.

There is nothing Trump has done on immigration that he did not say he was going to do.

Deporting criminal illegals may also be having some effects on crime rates.

The first six months of 2026 compared to the year earlier has shown major reductions in violent crimes in the United States.

We have also just seen the Census Bureau report the highest real (adjusted for inflation) annual household income in the nation's history---$87,460.

This broke the previous high that was reached in 2019.

 

Higher incomes and lower inflation with Trump in office compared to Biden has made a difference in real household incomes.

The percentage of people in poverty also reached a historic low in 2025.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-poverty-rate-102-2025-census-bureau-says-2026-09-15/

The record low poverty rates also extend to children, African Americans and Hispanics.

They have never been at lower levels in the nation's history.

Those high gas prices do hit you in the face at every street corner.

However, when adjusted for inflation and higher incomes today, it has been worse in the past.

I also remember when Biden was President the narrative was that he could do nothing about the high prices at the pump.

It did not matter that the spike was related to the Ukraine War which Biden's fingerprints were all over.

We have also seen prescription drugs prices decline for the first time in American history under Trump.

Source: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2101038712356282759

Stocks have recently been at all-time highs.

The S&P 500 is up 26% since Trump began his second term.

The NASDAQ is up 34%.

The current unemployment rate of 4.1% is also very close to the level that economists would consider to be full employment.

Yes, gasoline prices have increased significantly this year but retail sales (excluding gasoline) are showing signs of strength. 

People are somehow finding the money to spend even after spending more at the pump.

Retail sales (excluding gas station sales) in August, 2026 were 4.9% higher than a year before.

Source: https://wolfstreet.com/2026/09/16/despite-all-moaning-groaning-americans-not-in-the-mood-to-slow-down-retail-sales-surge-even-without-gasoline/

On top of all of this, the Atlanta Federal Reserve just revised its third quarter estimate of GDP growth to 5.1%. The retail sales figures for August undoubtedly had something to do with the upward revision.

If that number is realized it will be the highest quarterly GDP growth rate since 2021 when we were coming out of the Covid lockdowns.

Despite all of this, why do many Americans seem to believe that things are so bad?

A big reason is that the mainstream media tells them that. Every day and in every way.

I have written before about the University of Michigan Survey of Consumer Sentiment that has recently been at the lowest levels seen in the last 60 years.

Source: https://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/charts.html

Think about that consumer sentiment index we are seeing right now.

That is lower than during any recession the last 60 years.

Lower than the 1979-1981 period when we had double digit inflation for three consecutive years.

Lower than the early 1980's when mortgage rates hit 18%.

Lower than the period between late 1982 and early 1983 when the employment rate was more than 10%.

Lower than when the entire economy was shut down with Covid.

Lower than in 2022 when inflation was running at over 8% per year.

How can sentiment be so far removed from reality?

All of this proves once again why it is so dangerous to allow the narrative and the emotions of the day to get in the way of making sound long term decisions.

Stop Trump?

You may be stopping a lot more than Trump.

You make not like his bombast and bravado. 

Forget the form. Don't ignore the substance and the facts.

Implement Socialism?

Take a look at the data above once again and tell me socialism is going to improve life for the majority of Americans.

Yes, things can always be improved. However, do the Democrats seriously believe that taking a hard left turn is the way to do that?

It pays to consider a little history at times like these.

Many people around the world through the years were told they needed to stop someone.

They succeeded but what they got was far worse.

The Russians got Stalin. The Germans got Hitler. The Iranians got the Ayatollah.

In North Korea and Venezuela the Socialist/Communists told everyone that they needed to embrace collectivism to improve their lives.

It didn't exactly work out very well for them.

Before North and South Korea went their separate political and economic paths, the people in the North had GDP per capita that was 30%-50% higher than the South.

Those paths have diverged a great deal over the years.

Venezuela went from being the richest country in South America to the poorest in the span of a single generation once the "Democrat Socialists" gained control.

 

 

Most people would be better served by putting short term emotions aside and vote with their long term interests and future in mind.

This quote by Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, summarizes it well.

If you are not familiar with Ayn Rand and her book Atlas Shrugged, that was published in 1957, you might want to read the blog post I wrote in 2011 after I finally sat myself down and read the nearly 1,200 page book.

It is a good reminder that voters should not just shrug and vote mindlessly this year.

Indeed, there are consequences in avoiding reality.

Climate, AI and Our Future

You may remember this headline or statements like it in the past.

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/406670-trump-making-hurricanes-worse-by-not-addressing-climate-change-says/

Trump was going to cause more hurricanes and they were going to get worse by not addressing climate change

We heard it when he ran for President in 2016.

We heard it when was President as the headline above from 2018 shows.

We heard it in 2024 when he was running again.

It was all because Trump would not agree with the "humans are causing climate change" narrative.

In fact, the supposed "science guy", Bill Nye was on MSNBC  in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in October during the Presidential campaign and said the best way to stop future hurricanes like we saw in 2024 was to vote for Kamala Harris and Democrats.

Source: https://www.outkick.com/culture/voting-kamala-harris-vote-stop-hurricanes-bill-nye-says

"If you have young voters out there, encourage them to vote. People say ‘What can I do about climate change?’ If we were talking about it and associating it with big storms like this, that would be really good, but the main thing is vote," Nye, who now calls himself Climate Guy, told MSNBC.  

As Bill Nye spoke about this in 2024, he seems to have forgotten that in the previous 12 of 16 years Democrats had been in The White House and in many of those years also had majorities in Congress.

Despite that, they were not able to stop big storms from occurring despite spending billions and billions of dollars on "Green New Deal" projects.

We have seen the same climate change narrative repeated continually in the mainstream media over the years.

For example, consider these headlines from 2022, 2023 and 2024 from NPR.

All of this takes on a more interesting angle when we see reports from 2026 that there has not been a single hurricane in the Atlantic this year.

This has not occurred since the satellite era of weather forecasting began in 1966.

Source: New York Post

If we can make it to September 22 without a hurricane forming that record will stretch back 85 years.

There have only been two years in recorded history that there have been no Atlantic hurricanes.

If we can get beyond November 30--the official end of hurricane season---2026 will join 1907 and 1914 as the only years with no hurricanes.

It should be noted as well that in 2025  no hurricanes touched the U.S. mainland.

Since so many want to blame Trump for any bad things that happen with the weather, is it fair to give him credit for the decrease in hurricanes since he took office?

Perhaps it is due to renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America?

Of course, crediting Trump is just as ridiculous as blaming him.

The forces of nature overwhelm anything and everything that man might do to affect the climate.

No amount of carbon taxes, cap and trade, net zero or Green New Deal initiatives is going to change that. 

Let's not forget what AOC was telling everyone almost eight years ago when she was promoting spending trillions of dollars on that Green New Deal.

2030 was the end date. It is only four years away.

It now seems that climate change may be the least of our worries.

The news this week is that AI could kill us all by that time anyway.

Source: https://www.wthitv.com/2026/09/09/former-ai-employee-says-insiders-believe-technology-could-kill-us-all-by-decades-end/

Let's consider which of these two concerns (climate of AI) that we have a better chance of controlling.

Climate and weather was here before any of us set foot on earth.

Artificial Intelligence is completely and totally the product of mankind in the last few years.

Any questions?

Of course, the solutions to these threats to humanity are always supposed to be solved by more government control.

If there are no big problems for government to solve how big does government have to be?

Is that a reason there are so many threats that have to be controlled?