My neighbor’s pool has been cleared of 95% of its basin debris. Luckily, nothing dead has surfaced. While the water is still green though, we can now start to treat it with liquid chlorine.
The shallow end of the pool
The deep end of the pool. The drainage plugs are at the bottom of this basin. To what degree you can see the two plugs will tell you the overall water condition of the pool. If you can see it clearly the pool is ready to be used. In this case, the water still has to be rid of the algea.
While I know everyone has had their fill of politics given the events of, oh I don’t know, the last 5 or 6 years, I know that there are others that have a rightful concern about the state of our country/the state of the world and want to have a meaningful discourse on it.
In that spirit, I’ll offer my own thoughts on this day. But my compromise will be that I don’t go off into a massive exposition that could be misinterpreted as didactic (we are all rightfully tired of being lectured down to like 4 year olds). This is only to put forward my own thoughts and to give you, the reader, a space to voice your own:
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The United States as we know it, the steward of the global maritime world order & construct, is about to pass away into history. After seeing how profitable it was to have a degree of economic isolation, President Biden effectively doubled down on President Trump’s first term policies and relabeled them. While the US will still be the de facto protector of the world’s maritime trade routes, geopolitical involvement on our part will be more scrutinized than ever before. And that is a wake up call for countries who rely on our military strength to get their products to the global market.
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State and local level elections (even voters world wide) have all but completely rebuked the notion of utopia-ism / identity politics. More and more municipalities have turned towards the center after coming to terms with the social miasma these extreme tolerances have fermented. This refreshing, and wise, moderation is also exercised by none other than President Trump himself. He has keenly understood that he has the unenviable job of bringing the world pendulum to the middle instead of letting its momentum swing to the right. Nowhere is this more apparent than his position in the Iran/Israel conflict and his public curbing of Elon Musk’s DOGE ambitions. President Trump understands that it can’t be all one side and that there has to be a middle to work from. The presence of his moderation and the overall global voter moderation is a positive indicator for the world – something we should be hopeful about and something we all must work to foster.
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Finally, the American and Western Europe metropolitan construct is on the verge of collapsing. The modern City’s high trust social fabric has been completely destroyed both by the general abdication of law enforcement and from identity politics. This is the truth about law enforcement in our major cities: they have lost their monopoly on violence. This has created a 2 tier system of policing – if you aren’t deemed important or influential enough to help, you have to allow the criminal to decide on the fate of your livelihood and the lives of you and your family. Years, if not, decades of federal intervention will be needed to reverse this as no amount of voting will fix the problem. The medicine is about to become worse than the disease itself.
Anyway, let’s end it on a happier note.
the official July 4th outfit 😂😂😂
early July marks the very high point of the summer. the longest days, the most beautiful sunsets, carefree living, etc. For all that’s going on around us, life is still beautiful…for now! and of course, we have the Michael Williams Party Song of Summer 2025. Have a great weekend y’all!
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