States should be semi-autonomous, or fully autonomous with something like the constitution in place for defense and interstate commerce, period.

That's how the founders set it up.  When the politicians strayed, as it is in their nature, it was never challenged in the courts, or worse, the courts let it slide.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. -- John Adams

We’re fucking doomed.

  The US submarine fleet is second to none.   Our technology in submarines surpass the Russians.   

  We can park boomers in strategic locations, and armed with multiple warheads take out multiple targets at once, within minutes of the launch order.

 Mother Russia knows this, and they have a difficult time tracking or knowing our locations.    And furthermore, we have attack subs roaming the seas, along with our ASW forces.   The Russian technology in subs has many weak points, so finding them and tracking is not a major problem.

  This sums it up on our Boomers and Attack subs if Vlad decides to start a nuke attack

See,
We do agree on some things.  Nobody in Russia is going to attempt to launch a nuclear strike against us, and live.

Now, we are bound, by Treaty, to notify Russia whenever we fly a B-52, even if they are just flying to Oshkosh. The Cold War has caused us to be strategically defanged. We have sea based nukes, but those have their own limitations.

  The US submarine fleet is second to none.   Our technology in submarines surpass the Russians.   

  We can park boomers in strategic locations, and armed with multiple warheads take out multiple targets at once, within minutes of the launch order.

 Mother Russia knows this, and they have a difficult time tracking or knowing our locations.    And furthermore, we have attack subs roaming the seas, along with our ASW forces.   The Russian technology in subs has many weak points, so finding them and tracking is not a major problem.

  This sums it up on our Boomers and Attack subs if Vlad decides to start a nuke attack

a trap people fall into, way too many people fall into, is falling for the fallacy of the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Waaaaaay too many think the world is binary.

We all know Putin is evil. Would it comfort you Jim, if we repeated redundant information over and over? For the record I think Zelensky is just as corrupt and evil as Putin. He's just backed by the now most corrupt ex-Country on Earth. The former USA.

  Zelensky has jailed his opponents, shut down media critical of him, closed churches he disagrees with and has now cancelled elections.

  But he's fighting for "democracy".     

I can't find your post regarding the solar energy receive.

But I did fail to respond to your post about "The solution to pollution is dilution".  I only believe that to a point.  I think over the past few hundred years we have exceeded that point.  And I do believe the earth has tremendous ability to heal itself, just like the human body.  But people do still die because of mistreating their bodies.

And maybe not here, but I have run into people that deny that the climate is changing.

edit to add:  If people do believe the climate is changing, why are most people here so adamant against any attempt to mitigate it?  And why do they call anyone that does believe it is a problem an environmental wacko control freak.

I think my mention of the 430 quintillion Joules of energy hitting earth ever hour is from the same thread where I mentioned how earth has healed itself. I still stand by that, and I believe predictions of the death of the earth are designed to subjugate the people of the earth to a New World Order.

As for your last paragraph, every single attempt to “mitigate” client change results in taxation to grow FedGov, and an INTENTIONAL diminution of OUR QUALITY OF LIFE, with ZERO evidence that such diminution will yield any result regarding climate change. There is literally no evidence, yet the climate alarmists are RAKING IN money and wealth to further the lie that taxing Americans and making energy unsustainably expensive to us will help heal Mother Earth.

They can't even measure temperatures without changing them to fit their big Government solutions and taxes narrative.  They have to LIE and cheat because it is ALL A HOAX. Like Covid only worse. Way worse.

The problem is the lying and the grift.  If they’d been honest from the start they would have credibility. But just like the CDC with Covid, they destroyed any semblance of credibility and now wonder why we don’t trust their “science”. 

Covid is a real disease and there were ways to manage it properly.  Perhaps the vax is good for old people. But we now know it is unnecessary and problematic for the very young.  Maybe we learned that ventilators were counterproductive. We definitely learned that masks and lockdowns create more problems than they solve, to the point of being disastrous.  If the “experts” and politicians had been honest about all of this all along, and had some humility and admitted that they are learning as we go, instead of lying and forcing unproven mandates on us, we wouldn’t now mistrust them so much.

The climate change people did the exact same thing. Maybe climate change is something to be concerned about.  But if it is, the self-anointed activists have totally burned their bridges with public trust by lying, exaggerating, censoring debate, cherry picking models, blacklisting dissenting scientists, and abusing the issue for personal enrichment. Why the hell would I believe anything they say now?

I think what Little Joe is saying is we can separate the wheat from the chaff and address the actual real concerns, which he believes exist at least to a degree. I agree there are some environmental issues. We should preserve “jungles” for example (why the hell is that a bad word now?) but not because the whole planet will die if we don’t, but because they are the source of new medications, and are the habitat of non-human primates which we don’t want to go extinct.

We should limit air pollution just for health reasons and clean up trash for aesthetic reasons. But the fear mongering about the world is going to end in x number of years if you don’t give the government more money, they have cried wolf too many times. Now, even if it turns out to be true (and why do I think it won’t) we owe them no trust whatsoever.