First Felon President Spouts Mega Lies In Prime Time To Try To Subvert Midterms

 

                            Facial tics betray Trump's lies at a rate of 10 per minute

"Six bankruptcies, including casinos, which requires a special type of incompetence. Twenty four credible allegations of sexual assault. Thirty four felony convictions. The attempted assassination of American democracy on January 6th. Held civilly liable for rape. Amassing four billion dollars through sheer graft during term two. The destrucntion of NATO and our alliances globally and in the Gulf. Turning Iran into the hegemon of the middle east. " - WaPo comment

"When you commandeer prime time, or try to, you’d better have something prime to say. Trump didn’t. His speech on Thursday was a dud — a batty stew of whiny complaints stemming from an election that he claims was stolen that wasn’t, during a period when he was running the country. If something was wrong, dude, why didn’t you fix it? He still has no proof, and he muddied matters by releasing documents containing information already known and warning about “vulnerabilities” his administration has made worse" .- Maureen Dowd, ‘Low T, High Chair, NY Times

Whatever happens in November may not provide an adequate backlash to this criminal regime. Severe penalties, up to and including a possible life sentences in isolation (Guantanamo style) are not beyond consideration. Forfeiture of estates, blacklisting from jobs at any level of government, especially in law enforcement and education, should be the minimum. - NY Times comment

What is it with so many otherwise sober media mavens and commentators that they can't grasp Trump's clear derangement and malignant narcissism - which form the basis for his feral energy - as well as feeding his frenzy of nonstop lies? Especially concerning our election integrity - which the fungal orange cockroach attempted to savage last night.  Claiming on the basis of "previously classified documents" he could prove the 2020 election was undermined by Chinese "interference".  According to a WSJ account following the spin, errr speech:

" Trump addressed the nation Thursday from the White House, where he delivered allegations of foreign influence in U.S. elections. His administration began releasing what he described as previously classified documents to support his assertions, and he repeated some of the unsubstantiated claims he has made in the past."

Not surprisingly, his deranged new twist was to claim evidence of foreign machines altering votes but didn’t present a speck of hard evidence. Why would he when the only real thing he has to work with are his own lies. And since he knows he cannot get the votes of normal, rational voters, then as a traitor and felon he must resort to propaganda and misinformation to try t bend the minds of as many as he can.  As Lawrence O'Donnell put it in blunt terms following the pathetic performance: 

 "Donald Trump believes his voters are the stupidest in the world, not just in America. Because he believes he can spend the rest of his life lying to them about anything."

And getting them to prop him up. Don't laugh. In a NY Times piece yesterday, featuring "ten young Trump voters",

 one beheld a good chunk of the 10 interviewed still view him favorably in terms of his deportations and "business acumen".  "Affordability" was the one area they're down on him (but only 2 of 10 interviewed delivered the lowest rating of 1 out of 5. (5 others were 3 or above)  This doesn't bode well for the Dems snatching back constitutional checks and balances in the November elections if these Gen Z's fell for his lies last night.  

A particular voter vulnerability, in fact, came up for discussion yesterday morning on Stephanie Ruhle's 'Money, Power and Politics'. There at least one guest insisted Trump's incessant lies were disabling many people's ability to see the truth. I point the finger at the Gen Z's especially after reading the book Hollowed Out, where the author (Jeremy Adams)  highlighted the extraordinary political and historical ignorance of young Americans, many even unable to distinguish the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution.  The fact the Gen Z's went for a liar, insurrectionist and felon in the first place, shows me they lack the wherewithal to see through his manipulation efforts.

Meanwhile, the usual Trump lackeys, like the cheerleader Karoline Leavitt - who fancies herself a "press secretary" - continued to reel off lies ahead of Trump's primetime fiasco, insisting: "His so-called obsession is only because he cares about the sanctity of our elections."

Hey, Bimbo, if that was true he wouldn't be trying to blow up our elections with his cognitively dissonant 'Save America Act'! See e.g.

Brane Space: Needing A U.S. Passport To Vote? Why The Misnamed 'SAVE' Act Is Not "Partisan Hype" -

But my main beef has been with the so-called "legacy media" - especially the right-leaning  Wall Street Journal, as I noted a month ago (June 12 post)"

"Are the nabobs at the WSJ so devoted to his deformed agenda that they're willing to hurl this nation down the shit can to keep coddling him while castigating critics? Can't they see he's not firing on all cylinders, or even half?"

And the refusal to accept reality, i.e. that you lost a goddamned election, factors into that insanity. That plus incessant late night posting - citing former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb, attesting to Trump's brand of insanity:

Trump Lawyer Calls For 25th Amendment Over PSYCHOTIC MELTDOWN

But now, as Paul Krugman has noted, Trump's attacks on elections, combined with his shit-faced stupid attempts to control the Strait of Hormuz, are carrying us into far more dangerous territory, e.g.

The Forever War Gets Scary

This needs to be watched in entirety, as it also makes sense out of deranged Dotard's prime time lie time last night.  As Krugman notes: 

"What's really scary here is Trump looks like he's given up on trying to extract something that looks like victory."

The implication being he's willing to go to more extreme means to get it, despite the fact this comports with his madness - the  inability to grasp the reality that the Strait is not his to control. And even bombing the nuclear reactor at Isfahan (reported in the FT some time ago) will not get him that control. So the only other distraction he can use to try to manipulate public opinion is to attack our election integrity - traitor that he is.  As Krugman goes on to note:

"This is ominous because what is Trump's plan for the midterm elections? Here we have just as Trump is prepared to give u0p on trying to spin the Iran war as a positive outcome we have reports he's going to give a prime time speech Thursday about election fraud in 2020.  And he may also try to declare the two Democratic Senators from Georgia as somehow illegitimate.

That's not going to actually work and nobody's going to be convinced he actually won the 2020 election. But what is happening is that he's setting up the pretext, the groundwork, for massive interference in the voting this November. And we're basically seeing some kind of attempt to block fair elections. So it's pretty clear now that Trump and those around him have actually given up on trying to win over voters.

They've decided instead that some combination of propaganda, misinformation and disinformation and possibly massive illegality is their way forward.  And to say 'they'd never do that' has been the best way to be wrong about everything, every step of the Trump administration.

So the fact Trump is back to bombing Iran - mentioning it -  is not because I have any fear that America is going to be at risk from a foreign power. But rather it signals an enormous risk to us from our own president, our own government. And you know, be afraid, be very afraid."

Meanwhile, some nine hours before Trump's performance, Sen. John Ossof (GA) best summed up what the orange maggot would do:

 "Here's what's going to happen tonight. The world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime time address to pursue his six year old grievances on losing the 2020 election while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise for Americans across the country.

I also expect him to re-heat the debunked conspiracy theory about the repeatedly litigated, audited and confirmed  2020 presidential election result that Donald Trump LOST.  Let me make this very clear. If he declares Georgia's election illegitimate and Georgia's two Democratic Senators illegitimate then he is declaring Georgia's voters illegitimate.  Remember it was Donald Trump who committed election fraud when he phoned the Georgia Secretary of State on January 2, 2021 and said: 'I just need to find 11,780 votes, which is just one more than we have."

Which as Lawrence O'Donnell stated afterward, constituted a "crime in progress".

But what the hell do you expect of the first ever felon (and traitor) president? Last night continued that crime in progress. Including demanding licenses for ABC, NBC to be revoked for not airing his endless horse shit lies, e.g.

Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity - The Washington Post

 This is the liar, criminal and madman - in charge of a criminal regime (not a government) who should have been removed a year ago.

See Also:

Donald Trump

The Real Message of Trump’s Address to the Nation

by Robert Reich | July 17, 2026 - 5:06am | permalink

— from Robert Reich's Substack

Friends,

The real message to be drawn from Trump’s address to the nation tonight is that he will call into question the votes of every state and city that chooses a Democratic senator or representative in the 2026 midterm elections. He’ll push Republican governors and mayors not to certify the results. He’ll demand recounts and audits.

We’ve been here before, but this time he’s even less restrained than he was in 2020 and is surrounded by people who will do his bidding.

His address tonight was absurd. It was riddled with so many lies that I’m reluctant to dignify them with rebuttals, but you should have them.

» article continues...

And:

Trump doesn't realize how much he just embarrassed himself

And:

IHIP News:🚨 Trump Says CHINA STOLE Election In INSANE Speech?! FOX News FREAK'S DISGUSTING Rant!!

And:

ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE As BALLISTIC MISSILES RAIN On US Bases & Iran ENDS ALL TALKS!! | Kyle Kulinski

And:

‘Uncle Donnie's’ brain MALFUNCTIONS on world stage

And:

"The Greater COLLAPSE Has Begun..." - Douglas MacGregor

And:

Trump has declared the Strait of Hormuz open. The facts say otherwise. - The Washington Post

Excerpt:

The Strait of Hormuz is now open for “ALL Ship traffic,” except Iran’s, President Donald Trump said on social media this week. But a presidential tweet does not make it so. “The United States [is] on course for perpetual conflict” in the Middle East, even without “a real, serious escalation,” said Seth Jones, president of the defense and security department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

And:

2026 Elections | Donald Trump

Midterm Elections: The Con Always Works, Right Up Until the Moment it Doesn’t

by Thom Hartmann | July 16, 2026 - 5:03am | permalink

— from The Hartmann Report

Tonight at nine o’clock Eastern, Donald Trump will look into a television camera and tell America he’s rescuing democracy. He teased the address to reporters this week, promising “really big news” about “free and fair elections” and adding that “it doesn’t get bigger.” For once, he and I agree. It doesn’t get bigger.

An administration official told Reuters that the speech will center on newly declassified intelligence about the 2020 election and what the White House calls voting machine vulnerabilities open to foreign hackers; multiple election experts quoted in that same reporting warn he’s laying the groundwork to contest Republican losses this November.

To understand what we’ll actually be watching Thursday night, we have to go back to 1973, to a Manhattan night spot called Le Club, where a 27-year-old Donald Trump, freshly sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to Black families, met the most feared lawyer in New York. It’s a story I tell in detail in The Last American President.

» article continues...

And:

Dr. John Gartner: Donald Trump is "the most pure incarnation of evil that I have ever encountered" - YouTube

And:

Donald Trump

Trump Just Made Some Wild Claims About America’s Election Security

by Adam Lynch | July 17, 2026 - 5:14am | permalink

— from Alternet

During a Thursday speech addressing his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump presented several claims about foreign interference and federal government actions he said affected the election results. Trump cited allegations involving Chinese acquisition of voter data, Deep State actors, Venezuelan interference, and concerns about voting machine security.

Here are some of his stranger claims:

1. China 'massaged' the election with manufactured ballots.

As predicted, Trump launched into his Thursday grievance speech over his 2020 election loss, complaining that Chinese government officials manipulated the race to hide his 2020 victory —despite no accusations of that panning out in 2021, despite the volume of Trump’s complaints.

» article continues...

Solutions To D.E. Littlewood Non-Commutative Algebra Problems

 1) Consider the parallelopipped  below spanned by the vectors u, v and w in 3-space.

Find the volume of this solid given that:

u = (1, 1, 3)

v = (1, 2, -1)

w = (1, 4, 1)

Solution:

We let the volume be Vol(u, v, w) and:

Vol (u, v, w) = Det [u, v, w]

Then we need:

=

    =      [2 -(-4) - (1 - (-1)) + 3(4 - 2)] = 6 - (2) + 3(2)

Vol (u, v. w) = 12 - 2 = 10 cubic units

2)Show how the Grassman algebra formula for a single component of volume element  k e₁ e ₂  e ₃  can be used to find the volume of a tetrahedron.

Find that volume for this tetrahedron, given the concurrent vectors are:

a = (3, 0, 0)

b = (1, 4, 0)

c = (2, 1, 5)

Solution:

In Grassman algebra, the fundamental volume element V is represented by the wedge product of three basis vectors:

Then the product of the three concurrent vectors given (a,b,c) is the exterior product:

Then using the anticommutative property (identified in blog post):

The product of the linear combinations can then be evaluated:

Where det (a,b,c,) is the determinant of the vector components:

This scalar then gives the volume spanned by the vectors, much like the scalar in #1 (det) gave the volume for the parallelopiped.

Let D =   det (a,b,c), then:

Volume of tetrahedron = 

 1/6 det (a,b,c) = D/ 6  = 60/ 6 = 10 cubic units

An Artificial 'Storm Wall' Could Shield Us From A Solar Superstorm - IF We Could Afford It

 

      Solar eruption leading to solar storm that knocks out power grids

 Chris Mims, writing in a Weekend WSJ article ('A Plan To Shield Earth From Solar Storms', p. C2) begins with this future flight of fancy:

"It’s the year 2040, and the Big One—a civilization-smashing solar storm of a scale not seen since the 19th century—is on a collision course with Earth. Far out in space, where geostationary satellites orbit, a half-dozen school-bus-size satellites crack open and start dumping barium, lithium or sodium. Within minutes, sunlight transforms this material into an ionized gas shield that slows the oncoming massive blob of plasma. Down on Earth, a would -be global catastrophe potentially knocking out all electric grids-  is reduced to a nighttime display of aurora."

This provokes the question of what exactly Mims is writing about. Well, he (and others) envisage a "Storm Wall" to prevent such a mammoth CME (coronal mass ejection hurling us back into an electronic Stone Age). Translation: No working cell phones, no TV, no computers, no radios and no GPS.

The fancied project - not yet a reality- goes by the name 'StormWall'' and was "conceived by a trio of scientists: Daniel Welling, a space physics specialist at the University of Michigan, Brian Walsh, an associate professor of engineering at Boston University, and Allison Jaynes, a space physics professor at the University of Iowa.

Walsh and Welling are the co-authors and co-designers of the proposal, which - let's be clear - is still years in the future (assuming the money is available to complete it). According to Welling, quoted in the Mims' piece:

"Even in the best case scenario, just the research would require at least five more years."

Oh yeah, and "even if its costs $100 billion, that price tag is only one tenth of the amount tech companies are projected to spend on building AI infrastructure next year alone."

But as I see it, the more serious problem - which may prevent even partial funding - is that Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' passed last year - has already blown past the debt doors by $5 trillion.  So, the chance of passing a $100 b space project are more like slim and none. Which is a pity, given from what Mims spells out in his WSJ article it could work.  

To reduce it to its ultimate simplicity one can think of an "airbag for the magnetosphere."  According to co-designer Dan Welling: 

"You can think of it as an air bag. It would be deployed only when all other measures have been deemed insufficient. And like an air bag for your car, deployment is a one-time thing.  After all, if you use it in your car the entire steering column has to be replaced and the insurance company will declare your car totaled."

Of course, this 'one off' aspect is another reason I doubt there will be any budget allocations for it. I mean a one time project for $100 billion?  Certainly not with any Reepo congress in place, and I suspect a Dem congress would give pause as well, given they will likely be in 'clean up; mode after the Goopers leave so much debt in their wake.

But again, this would be a pity given "the idea of StormWall is to help boost the magnetospheric defenses when bad stuff heads toward us."

Reviewing the function and nature of the magnetosphere we can refer to the artist illustration below:

Here, a CME from the Sun is headed toward Earth, with billions of charged particles en route. But most will get deflected by the magnetosphere (greenish field lines). A portion of the incoming particles are channeled to the Earth's poles and show up as the aurora when the solar wind is especially active.

StormWall would enhance the magnetospheric field, but the major expense would be in assembling at least 830,000 pounds (415 tons) of ionizable material (lithium, barium or sodium) to be launched to an altitude of 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface. Thus one would have a geosynchronous orbit. In this case, the altitude is critical given it's at the height the injected ionized material would be able to follow the 'natural highways' in space, according to the project designers. Obviously, to get this job done would require the most powerful rockets available. 

Currently many launches would be needed to put that much material into the desired orbit. In truth, a mega-rocket like Space X's Starship would likely be needed to effect a single transfer of 415 tons into a 22,000 mile orbit. But I doubt Musk would endorse it.

Why all the expense and effort? To avoid the next massive disruptive event especially given the extent humans now depend on things like smart phones, computer and AI.  The last truly disruptive even was in March, 1989 when the Quebec power grid was knocked out for 9 hours. Large direct currents arising from a red aurora at the time, triggered by a solar storm, were believed to be the immediate cause.

Then in 2012, a solar 'superstorm' more powerful than any in the past 150 years, narrowly missed Earth. i.e.

Monster Plasma "Blob" Headed for Earth: Is This the End?

But let's be clear that predicting a space weather event - say a massive CME erupting from the solar meridian - is not the same as correctly forecasting its effects on one particular part of a hodge-podge terrestrial power grid.  In other words, you can't hold space physicists responsible for failing to forecast that field line currents generated - say like in the 1989 event- will have a similar impact now. 

In the case of CMEs, a quantitative forecast  strategy would revolve around obtaining the rate of increase of the poloidal magnetic flux   (Φp) associated with a specific flux rope (e.g. that shows kink or other instability) e.g.

dΦp(t )/dt

Then, for a predictive basis one would require the related function be adjusted for each potential CME (dependent on its current heliographic location) that best fits the total observed data. This function would normally be given in terms of the electromotive force associated with the active region so that:

E(t ) ≡ −(1/c)dΦp(t )/dt

Where the preceding would constitute a forecast from the theory for each CME trajectory.  According to Ian Cohen, head of solar and space physics at the Johns Hopkins APL, 

"The challenge is that experts can't predict space weather the way they can predict weather on Earth. We don't have as many sensors in space, and the processes that trigger solar storms and make them devastatingly potent, are more complicated."

One only hope the challenges can be met, but time is not on our side, nor is the degree of human insight, critical thinking and support for science - having taken a massive hit since last January. If Mr. Mims's' fantasy rescue from electronic doom is to be averted using StormWall, we'll need a succession of fortuitous breaks before 2040.  Most critical of all, will be the money and the will to put politics behind us and make a common goal the priority.

See Also:

http://www.spaceweather.com/

And:

Coronal Mass Ejections In The Context Of Collisionless Shocks 

And:

• A Threat To U.S. Power Grids? Solar X-Ray Flares ...

       And:

    Will Trump Allow Space Weather Prediction Initiatives To Proceed?

     And:

     The Northern Colorado Aurora - And Why Space Physicists Were Less Obsessed With Appearance Than Effects 

            And:

        

         Space Weather Forecasting Advances - Thanks To Ham Radio And Station WWV 

         And:

            Is The U.S. Power Grid Truly Unsustainable Without Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Energy?

Solution To Elementary Astrophysics Problem

 Problem: For a uniform sphere with a polytropic index n = 0 with uniform density, show that:

 V = -6/5 (GM²/R). 

Take the potential energy to be:

W=  3/ (n – 5) (GM²/ R )

Solution:

We may simplify using n = 0 to get:

W=  3/ (0 – 5) (GM²/ R ) = -3/5 (GM²/ R ),

And we have already shown that: V = 2W,  i.e. from  July 6 post,

Therefore: V = 2W  = 2 [-3/5 (GM²/ R )] = -6/5 (GM²/ R) 

Unreal - Another Pro-Natalist Buffoon Thinks We Need More Than 1 Billion Americans

 

                  Isaac Asimov warns of overpopulation in 1976 Barbados lecture

Who are these clueless, detached from reality buffoons, who ceaselessly advocate for  increasing the human population beyond the Earth's support capacity?

This latest buffoon's name is Lyman Stone:   director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies and he now joins another low IQ buffoon - Matthew Yglesias. A grade Z moron who scribbled in a New York magazine piece  ('One Billion Americans') ,  several years ago that the U.S. is "virtually empty" and could easily hold three times as many people (i.e. a billion at least)

Meanwhile, we now have Stoner Stone  the director of research for the oxymoronic consulting firm "Demographic Intelligence"- who tries to make an analogous case for a billion Americans.   According to this overeducated Bozo writing in the NY Times Saturday (The Population Bust Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone Is Prepared For)

"In 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed, a Harvard professor named Edward Wigglesworth did the math on American population growth and could barely contain his excitement. He had found that the colonists were doubling their numbers every 25 years, mostly through births, and at that pace he projected that by the close of the 20th century there would be “ONE THOUSAND TWO-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILLIONS” of us (his capitalization, not mine). A billion Americans, and then some.

Sadly, there are only about 340 million of us today. We should be asking not just why we so badly undershot Wigglesworth’s hopes, but also whether we are about to start counting down instead of up."

Sadly? What are you a certified moron? We 0ught to be thankful there are only 340 m of us today, given millions can't even get a first home, and there isn't the land or resources already to support them. (And AI data centers sucking up ever more of both.) Newsflash, in Wigglesworth's era there were more than ample resources to support that population - of 2.4 million. So this benighted Harvard prof could be somewhat forgiven for letting the paucity of populace in relation to available resources go to his head.  Naturally, the colonists would be 'doubling their numbers' because they also grasped the margin existed to double them without consequence. (Until they began invading native tribes' lands)

Having made his preposterous analogy he goes on to try to show where we - in the current overpopulated world (and nation) - fall short:

"If America’s population does decline, it will strain our entitlements system, damage the economy, reduce innovation and entrepreneurship, and cause serious labor shortages. But the majority point of view — held by major institutions like the Census Bureau, the United Nations and the Social Security trustees — is that the United States probably won’t face population decline until the 2080s, or even beyond 2100.

That forecast is far too optimistic. The more accurate projection, which I outlined in a recent report for my organization, the Institute for Family Studies, sees the American population beginning to shrink in the 2050s. It is a forecast so grim it could upend American budgeting and, thus, American politics."

Look, it doesn't matter what the UN, Census Bureau or Social Security projects or whether "over-optimistic" or not. Because there are already far too many people for the resources that can sustain them - namely water!  Here in the American West the whole Colorado River is drying up thanks to relentless heat and prolonged drought. Vegas is in dire straits literally begging for water from states that have more. Here in Colorado they are already talking about 'toilet to tap' alternatives for when the crunch comes.   Then there is San Diego County which depends on ocean desalination. Even so, it is only able to meet 10 percent of the region's demand but at great cost. Meanwhile, short sighted fools use up what precious water we have on AI data centers, bitcoin 'factories' and fracking.

Know what will "upend American politics"?  Not having enough water to drink in an increasingly hot country, or enough food to eat because the dearth of water for crops makes them impossible to grow or sustain. Upend budgeting? That has already been upended because we are consuming more than we have, what the planet has! The limits of our resources are best  illustrated  in the concept of Earth overshoot, as embodied in the graphic below which shows humans are currently consuming the equivalent resources of 1.6 EARTHS per year, e.g.

The interpretation of the graph (upward) is straightforward. By June, 2030 TWO full Earths - that is, the resources therein - will be needed to support the then population. Already we are at 1.6 Earths. Every year Global Footprint Network raises awareness about global ecological overshoot with its Earth Overshoot Day campaign. Earth Overshoot Day, calculated annually by the Global Footprint Network is the day on the calendar when humanity has used up the resources that it takes the planet the full year to regenerate.  

What is all of this telling us?  Easy!  We do not NEED (and Earth can't support) any more people on this planet! Or...in the US of A.

Our illustrious 'populace popularizer' continues with more twaddle:

"Wigglesworth saw exponential growth as the mark of a heroic country. For the first century of our country’s life together, we stayed on that trajectory. Then we spent the last 150 years proving him too optimistic. "

Correction: The last 150 years we proved him not REALISTIC enough. Not realistic enough to factor in resource availability to population growth. Wigglesworth in 1775 could afford to entertain exponential growth because for a limited time - there was enough sustainable margin for it. That no longer exists. That margin is gone as in vamanosed.

He adds, again oblivious to facts:

"The question for our country’s 250th birthday is how many more birthdays we want it to have, both for its babies and as a country."

The answer to the question inheres within the answer Isaac Asimov (see top) gave for the planet's carrying capacity.  Asimov defined carrying capacity thusly: 

(Usable land resources, water + food + fuel) / (individual food, fuel + water)

If the numerator is    11.4 x 10 ⁹  hectares of usable aggregate equivalent land-water resource base and if 4 hectares is the ideal "mean individual requirement" over a lifetime (e.g. to meet all basic needs and have a few private luxuries) that means:

CC = (11.4 x 10 ⁹   hectares) / 4 hectares/person  »  2.85  billion

That is a figure we are now on the verge of surpassing by a factor of four.   

As for the U.S. carrying capacity this can be estimated given the current global population is » 8.3 billion (for simplicity). Then:

U.S. (x)/ 340 m  =  2.85 b/ 8.3 b = 0.34

U.S. (x) =  340 m (0.34) =  115.6 m

So the U.S. given Asimov's carrying capacity computations should have no more than 115.6 million people.

A useful metaphor that Asimov used to illustrate carrying capacity has since become known as "the bathroom metaphor" and it works to get people to understand the debilitating, disastrous effects of too many people in a space with limited resources. 

As Asimov noted, if two people live in an apartment, and it comes with two bathrooms, they have a comfortable life. Either one can use the bathroom anytime he or she wants and can remain in there as long as they desire, even reading while doing business.

One can say, that for the purpose of "Bathroom freedom" - 2 is the carrying capacity for a two -person apartment. Now, let there be twenty people occupying the same apartment, and what happens? Bathroom freedom evaporates. Visits now must be regulated by the clock, and no one may stay in for too long. Indeed, a timetable likely has to be set up for each person's bathroom use. (Don't laugh too hard at the improbability of this example, since we now know of numerous cases where immigrants have been found crammed into such conditions - but usually in a house)

The point is, that the liberating (and convenient) use of a bathroom which held for two persons, no longer applies with twenty, and probably evaporated by the time there were five or six occupants of the apartment. (And we won't even go into where each - unrelated- person sleeps, if there are only two bedrooms).

Stone then cites two “ two major pieces of wishful thinking" that he thinks  would not solve the problem:

1- More immigration to compensate. Which he claims won't work. 

2- Women are merely delaying having children rather than forgoing it entirely.

No.1 fails because, according to Stone:

“birthrates are collapsing across the entire planet, not just here at home. The supply of would-be migrants will shrink as more countries run out of young people”

No. 2 fails because;

"Research shows that delays in childbearing are usually not made up, and, anyway, estimates that take deferred childbearing into account have fallen by just as much as the headline fertility rate.”

What is this Bozo’s solution?

“It will take serious money aimed at the people doing the work of raising the next generation of Americans, an end to the marriage penalties woven through our tax and welfare codes, a surge in building family-size houses on par with the one during the last baby boom, and a culture that treats children as a future worth having rather than a lifestyle expense. Those are big asks, but they are things Americans can achieve if they set their mind to it.”

Justifying the question: What planet is he living on? Not this one! Because this 'pronatalist' hasn't the foggiest notion about the planet's inherent support limits. Among the most critical is the access to fresh, potable water.  Look for example at Capetown, S. Africa, narrowly avoiding "Day Zero" in 2018 but at the cost of 40 percent of the country's water intensive crops.  Without freshwater resources, the whole 'enchilada' goes south, from crops to public health.  It's a no brainer, given we are seeing the exhaustion of stores of fresh water globally. 

One notable ‘State of the World’ report (2000, pp. 46-47), warned that the ever increasing water deficits will likely spark “water wars".  Even now, 1 billion-plus  people live in water-stressed conditions, meaning that renewable water supplies have dropped below 1,700 cubic meters per capita, a critical survival threshold. As observed (p. 47):

“When a country’s renewable water supplies drop below 1,700 cubic meters per capita (what some analysts call the water stress level) it becomes difficult for the country to mobilize enough water to satisfy all the food, household, and industrial needs of its population.”

Where is the additional water going to come from to support Stone's hyper GENEROUS population fairy tale? Desalination plants for his additional billions? Who is going to pay for them?

One NY Times commenter, as I expected, mustered a rejoinder to this bunkum that is well worth repeating:

"The carrying capacity of planet earth has been calculated at 500 million to 2 billion, total. If we conserve resources carefully, avoid contaminating and degrading our environment, and preserve, permanently, massive undisturbed natural areas of the continents and oceans.

This sustainable threshold was passed in the early 1970's. And in the meantime we have despoiled the entire planet. Which only a coordinated global effort of humanity to restrain and actively undo our abuses can undo. Or several ten's of thousands of years, or possibly hundreds of thousands of years, without the presence of humans, for Gaia to heal herself. The only sustainable solution is a steady state economy. All opinions to the contrary are theistic cornucopian fantasies. Those alive today may or may not see this eventuality. It can certainly be seen on the horizon, one only needs to look. No matter how much one believes it is not so, how much one believes that someone will come down and and save us before it's too late, we cannot change the laws of physics or bend the laws of thermodynamics. Every bit of objective science we have tells us that we are bound to and by the environment we live in. It us up to us to save ourselves. Mathematics, physics, environmental science, and human physiology, tells us that anything more or less that 2.1 children per family is unsustainable. This is an unavoidable truth. I think Malthus is more instructive."

That merits a read and re-read, not the fatuous fabulism this pronatalist moron has pumped out.

See Also:

Prof. Albert Bartlett Skewers The Trope That "The Total Global Population Is A Meaningless Number"

And:

WSJ's McGurn Bids Us Consider Another Econ 'Genius' Advocating Overpopulation. No Thanks!

And:

Delirious Economist Argues "America Would be Happier With More People" - Don't Buy It!

And:

WSJ Editors Boff It Again On Paul Ehrlich 'Losing A Bet' On Overpopulation