The problem with "One TRMP thread at a time" is that TRMP has made hisself a nexus of multiple topical events. I guess this can work if we don't go too far afield separating energy from European wars from Middle Eastern wars from religion from social warfare by which I mean the 'culture wars.'.

On the other hand, TRMP has become a marvelous focus for all of the above.

In Alaska, we have several current 'fallouts'. One is that our current senior Senator is a Republican, but has enough guts to represent not a genuine liberal POV, but a counter-TRMP opinion base, and so will for the foreseaable future, be getting votes of both major political parties. Her election also depends on Alaska still using the 'ranked choice voting system'. Ever since we voted it in, the ultra conservatives have been trying to get it eliminated. Not that I think TRMP is an idiot, I suspect that he doesn't understand how it works to personally bring it up, but he has minions to do that for him, and not the cute yellow ones.

The last fallout on my mind is that with the fighting overseas, we're getting a bump in the price of oil, which will help us a bit, because I fear our tourist economy has not recovered as much as we hoped. We spend a lot of money even when we do it for actual valid maintenance products and schools.

Just because we produce a lot of oil is no reason for us to root for conflict in the world. It is a part of our background environment we are usually aware of. We live in a strategically signiicant part of the world and have a big military presence, and a somewhat big military involvement, although right now I understand it involves the Marines which are not a big Alaska component. Still, we have a lot of aviation and are undoubtedly on some select target lists.