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She referenced "13 Going on 30," "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," "Atonement" and "Ever After" all in the span of one month.

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The Pathocracy Of Women In The Democratic Party

Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation,

"The female mind - especially in matters of political significance - struggles with understanding authority and rule enforcement."

- JD Haltigan on X

You know the midterm election is a struggle session testing whether our country wants to be sane or insane. Of course, this raises the question: what's so great about being insane? If nothing else, it implies a lot of bad decision-making, leading to all manner of sorrow and woe in life.

So, why would so many opt to be crazy?

The Ordeal of Father Isaac Jogue among the Iroquois

The answer is probably that they were snookered into it, fooled, tricked, rooked, spoofed, flimflammed, bamboozled, enticed into a range of thought and emotion counter to their self-interest and well-being. Isn't this exactly what you see in the social phenomenon of "transing" pubescent children? To induce them to go along with a malevolent program for turning them into something they are not.

A whole apparatus was constructed to carry out "gender-affirming care." Notice how positive the language is. It's "care," administered by adults, not a few of them physicians and clinical psychologists, who affect to care. And it "affirms," that is, it validates, it turns supposition into fact (that is not so). The adults happen to be in authority over children. They are presumed to be trustworthy.

But they are not trustworthy. They persuade children confused by puberty to be mutilated with surgery and hormones in order to put on a performance for the adults. The performance is called "No Boundaries." It does not really affirm a child's gender by pretending to change it. It affirms the mental illness of the untrustworthy adults. They have developed a defect of cognition that disrupts their perception of reality. They don't know where things begin and end.

Where did this come from? You won't like this.

It came from women taking over the leadership of our institutions, especially education. In the two centuries that public education has existed, there were always a lot of women teachers. But they were superintended by men with a sense of boundaries, who enforced the distinction between thought and feeling, between sense and nonsense. Now you see what has happened with men removed from that picture. Thought and sense have been deleted.

Women are primarily driven by the wish for communion and for care (of children and households). If they don't find mates, don't form households, and don't have children, their drives can be hijacked. Likewise, if their households are broken by divorce and their children are damaged by it. It's been increasingly difficult for men and women to form households and successfully raise children, or to keep a household from breaking under the social and economic pressures of our time.

Politics is another set of institutions increasingly dominated by women in leadership roles. They convert all the social discontents of childlessness and broken households into laws, rules, and policies which, not surprisingly, demonstrate a failed sense of boundaries and a contorted drive for communion and care. That's how the Democratic Party - increasingly run by-and-for women - was bamboozled into throwing the border wide open under "Joe Biden," and why they have become hysterical over the nurturing of those millions of illegal migrants now here. The drive to care has transformed into a mad, grandiose wish to save the world.

The nation's borders are strict boundaries. The Democratic Party programmatically denounces the existence of national boundaries - viz. The "Squad" in Congress, et al. "No one is illegal." That open border was profoundly destructive and costly for the nation. Donald Trump declared that national boundaries matter and closed the border effectively. This not only made him an arch-villain to many of the women in America with boundary problems, but it also gave them a big opportunity to exercise their drive for communion by ginning up public get-togethers such as the anti-ICE riots of last winter and the "No Kings" marches of the spring.

Mr. Trump, with his repertoire of distinctive male mannerisms, setting of boundaries, and bent for decisive action, propels these world-saving, deeply-caring, communion-seeking political women into raptures of rage and animosity. It might be instructive to remind you that, back in the history of this land, among the native-American Iroquois (a most civilized people), it was the women who were assigned the primary task of torturing their enemies to death. (Read about the ordeals of Father Isaac Jogues in Francis Parkman's The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century.) More recently, one Lindsay Clancy of Duxbury, Mass., demonstrated how savagely awry female boundary failure can go.

This pathocracy of women in the Democratic Party accounts for the seemingly insane turn to communism. But, it's communion-and-care all of a piece - the most extreme form of crazy ideological solidarity, plus the promise of free stuff for everybody (care!) with no boundaries. Meanwhile, over in Mr. Trump's camp, you have an emphatically male-dominated hierarchy with the MAGA women's drives for communion-and-care directed, as much as possible these days, back into the household and the nursery.

Throw in FAFO as the baseline attitude and there's authority you can trust.

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2026 - 16:20

This is one trend worth stepping into.

This is one trend worth stepping into.

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Midwest Braces For Diesel Crisis After Exxon's Joliet Refinery Suffers Disruption

A major refinery in the US Midwest went offline this week after a power outage, adding to global refining disruptions as US diesel prices reach record highs.

One of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest is offline pic.twitter.com/JSwuHrNfBw

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 18, 2026

Exxon Mobil shut its 275,000-barrel-a-day Joliet refinery in Illinois on Sunday after a power failure triggered the facility's safety flare, Reuters reported. A Thursday filing also disclosed that floodwater had overwhelmed a pump at the plant.

Exxon traced the power outage to ComEd's primary and secondary lines supplying the refinery and said it had fully restored electricity by Thursday. Power restoration, however, does not mean fuel production has resumed.

Located about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, Joliet can produce about 11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel daily, primarily for Midwest consumers. Its processing capacity represents roughly 6% of Midwest refining capacity and 1.5% nationally. 

UPDATE: $XOM Joliet reported to have suffered a "total power outage". this refinery capacity is 275kbpd, a large facility and it looks bad. https://t.co/IdAgfWhhUz pic.twitter.com/Sb52uXIviK

— Patrick De Haan (@GasBuddyGuy) September 14, 2026

A prolonged shutdown would tighten regional fuel availability and risk further price increases across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan. 

"There's an additional likelihood of further price increases in the Great Lakes. Gas: OH is at *high* risk of largest jump, WI, IN are at *med* risk of moderate jump, MI, IL at low/med risk but could go past $5/gal. diesel: will likely jump in most these areas mod/large jump," Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, wrote on X. 

⚠️there's additional likelihood of further price increases in the Great Lakes. Gas: OH is at *high* risk of largest jump, WI, IN are at *med* risk of moderate jump, MI, IL at low/med risk but could go past $5/gal. diesel: will likely jump in most these areas mod/large jump

— Patrick De Haan (@GasBuddyGuy) September 17, 2026

He noted, "spot diesel prices in the Great Lakes are now the highest in the country... $240/bbl."

Nationwide, the latest AAA data show diesel fuel prices at the pump have jumped to a record $6.45 a gallon.

Goldman Sachs commodity experts Yulia Zhestkova Grigsby and Daan Struyven warned earlier this week that the global diesel crisis could tighten gasoline supplies as refiners prioritize higher-margin diesel production.

Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone warned on Monday that "$6 diesel echoes 2008 gasoline shock."

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Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2026 - 15:55

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US Drops Venezuela From List Of Countries Failing To Combat Drug-Trafficking

Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times,

The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries that it says have failed to demonstrably combat drug trafficking, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday.

In a statement, Trump said he may also consider removing Colombia - with whom Venezuela shares a long, open border - as well as Bolivia, if these countries can demonstrate progress following recent changes of government.

Following the U.S. capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism in January, cooperation with the country's interim government is paying dividends, Trump said in the presidential determination published by the State Department.

Cooperation on Tren de Aragua

The U.S. president pointed to the killing of the infamous Tren de Aragua cartel leader known as "Niño Guerrero" as an example of how his government is working well with the new Caracas administration, led by Maduro's former deputy Delcy Rodriguez.

Venezuela has been on the failed list since 2005, when then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez kicked U.S. drug enforcement agents out of the country, accusing them of spying on his "Bolivarian Revolution."

"I have determined Venezuela should no longer be designated as having failed demonstrably to fulfill its drug control commitments," Trump said, adding that he expected to see "continued, measurable progress" from the interim government in "dismantling narcoterrorist groups and stopping drug trafficking."

Trump said Colombia was "poised to resume its place as our foremost security partner" in the Western Hemisphere following the election of President Abelardo de la Espriella, with whom he is closely allied, in June.

The U.S. president praised the people of Colombia for making the "courageous choice" of De la Espriella, a former high-profile criminal lawyer whose firm represented figures linked to Colombia's paramilitary and narcotics underworld.

'Colombia First' President

De la Espriella took office in August, pledging a crackdown on illegal immigration and crime, stressing a "Colombia first" approach, as the country joined the growing political rightward shift in Latin America.

Trump said that if, as expected, "Colombia makes progress on aggressive coca eradication and dismantling its narcoterrorist networks over the coming year," he would consider lifting the country's "failed demonstrably" status.

Trump put Colombia on the list last year for failing to combat cocaine production, amid a series of verbal exchanges between him and former leftist President Gustavo Petro.

Before then, Colombia had not been on the list since 1997, four years after the death of the infamous leader of the Medellín drug cartel, Pablo Escobar.

Trump said that cooperation between Bolivia and the United States has "significantly expanded" over the past year, since the 2025 election of President Rodrigo Paz, a conservative.

He praised Bolivia's extradition of alleged drug lord Sebastián Marset, described as one of the most wanted men in South America, to the United States in March 2026.

But he said the new government had not yet had sufficient time to reduce the cultivation of the coca plant for drugs, while corruption in Bolivia continued to facilitate trafficking and impede investigations.

If progress can be made, Trump said he would consider revisiting the country's status.

Four countries - Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, and Colombia - are named as having "failed demonstrably" during the past year to make "substantial efforts" to adhere to their obligations under international counternarcotics agreements.

A total of 23 countries, including the four on the "failed" list, are named by the State Department as major transit hubs or producers of narcotics that end up in the United States.

The other Latin American countries on the list are Belize, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru.

Asian countries named are Afghanistan, Burma, India, Laos, Pakistan, and China.

Caribbean nations listed are the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, and Jamaica.

The State Department said that a country's presence on the list is "not necessarily a reflection of its government's current counterdrug efforts, or coordination with the United States."

'Billions Seized' From Cartels

In his determination, Trump referred to his war on drugs, much of which has centered on stemming the flow from the southern border and on bombing smugglers' boats.

He said that narcoterrorists responsible for the drugs "invasion" are either "dead, in jail, or living in fear knowing they will be next to face American justice," adding that he had "unleashed the strongest military in the history of the world to strike narcoterrorists wherever they threaten our country."

The Americas Counter Cartel Coalition, an alliance with more than a dozen countries in the Western Hemisphere, has produced "historic results," Trump said, by drastically reducing drug flows and "seizing billions of dollars of illicit cartel finances."

Although progress had been made, Trump said that both Mexico and Canada - which are not on the list - need to "do far more" to prevent trafficking to the United States.

"Canada needs to take meaningful action to dismantle drug labs, strengthen supply chain security, and degrade criminal networks and Chinese gangs operating along our northern border," Trump said, referring specifically to the fentanyl trade.

Turning to China, Trump said the country "continues to be the world's largest producer of many of the precursor chemicals used to illicitly produce fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other deadly synthetic drugs."

He added that he had raised this with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, adding that despite some progress on export licences, China "needs to take more aggressive action" to reduce the flow.

Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2026 - 15:40

Mugrabi admitted she didn't pay a cent toward the loan on her Bridgehampton mansion, which a hopeful Queens politician Henry Ikezi won last month.