T.A.W.D.R.Y.
T.A.W.D.R.Y.
But Trump does not 'start' wars...
The myth of the transformative national leader. It is easy to comprehend why the 'saviour politician' motif is resilient. Even, given the disaster Trump carries along, that credibility persists aside from presentational reality. But history shows variable 'cracking points' for the facade. Milei's?
There is the con. It is impossible to create 'cash equivalent value' out of thin air. What assures the value? US$, Treasury bonds, property assets? If this is not the hoot of the owl of economic implosion then what is?
Why bother? It is the next moment. Now. Why bother? Meaningfulness is unnecessary: 'God IS dead'. "If there is a Hell, I'll see you there". [Nine Inch Nails] N.e.x.t. m.o.m.e.n.t.
Ott seems to despair of meaningfulness in a nightmare of contingency constructs. Decocting perception is contingent. Elder Sumer had a bevy of 'dead gods'. Be it that the versions Sumer set on thrones replicated the prior, they were not them. Contingency be damned when the struggle is politick.
Knock, knock... ... whose there... ...
One heck of a leaders' stage there. Napoleon: 'Invade Russia, what could go wrong'? Hitler: 'Invade Russia, what could go wrong'? Putin: 'Invade Ukraine, what could go wrong'? Netanyahu: 'Invade Gaza, what could go wrong'? Trump: 'Invade global trade, what could go wrong'? - Chairman Xi?
I never could quite stomach the Superman Bizzaro world. This is trash talk about the economy from Trump. He describes an impossible version of reality. Who. actually. believes. any. of. Trump's. tripe? Bizzaro does, durrh...
Hmmm. I see three things. The fascist takeover of the Fed foments: 1. corrupt crypto replacing US$ as monetisation of US GDP 2. accelerated printing of US$ to bathe domestic markets 3. hypertrophied bond/crypto pools. Thence, US production declines, trade stalls, hyperinflation arrives, feudalism.
I think I am old. I am not, but I am not young. I enjoyed Philip K Dick when he was cultish, before cinematic translation. He wrote before the human genome & personal computing & the internet. A feeling of impending doom mirrors his 'the empire never ended' coupled with knowing that Musk owns VALIS.
Only 300 characters to explore the 'big question'. You have a set of propositions which assumes definition for complex constructs such as 'culture'. If the definition is challenged much shifts in the propositions. Not being obtuse, 'culture' is a shape-shifting creature. It evolves with technology.
Haha! Fair call. Career politics is the enemy. No system of government other than those frankly 'constitutionally' autocratic, which does not include China, assumes party politics & life-long representatives. How to fix this problem? Ask Elon Musk...
Trump's White House is 'swamped' by cartel capitalists. The Republican Party is the 'deep state' masquerading as defenders of conservative 'values' & economic principles, yet they employ deficit/debt to conceal 'robber baron' behaviour. Crypto is 'deep state' scam to finalise cabal monetary control.
And you prove the point... 'change the culture'... ... gerrymandering... ... Electoral College... ... DEI... ... the enemy is cultural supremacism, not political process.
Politics comes after culture. Biological imperatives come before culture. And no, God does not precede any of it.
Con-job gambling. Fine when you have the cash...
The problem is the repayment plan yet to be necessitated. The layers of compensation including a flood of civil cases against the Federal government will ensue as Congress ties itself in knots trying to find the majorities necessary to reimpose the tariff regime. Cynical Republicans will revolt.
Trump's fuckwitism is invisible to fuckwits.
False question. Cultural factors outweigh superimposed 'economic politics'. To be blunt, the Russian revolution failed because Russia is culturally peasant. The Chinese Communist Party succeeds because Chinese east Asia is Confucian. The EU succeeds because the NAZIs proved a point: 'don't do this'.
Ask Trump: 'Does this bode well for America's manufacturing sector'? Teehee, teehee...
America is enduring its fascist period. The recovery will be more painful than might be imagined. But certainly, the migration of white supremacists away to nations that offer them succour will be welcomed... ... oh, there is nowhere that is so other than Russia... ... fuddle... ... 'useful idiots'.
As this mess unravels MAGA acolytes will need to shelter from the storm... 'We voted for...'... ... higher food prices... ... fewer jobs... ... stuck wage rises... ... corrupt political games to protect Congressional majority... ... no 'repeal' of climate change disasters... ... no end to wars.
Marvellous. Then - I consider my 30 years treating chronic pain & addictions; I recall psychiatric resistance in the 90s about traumatic stress as common pathway to a spectrum of mental health problems; I recall failing cognisance of the microbiome as seat for chronic inflammation... 'orthodoxy'.
/2 In the immediate follow-on Trump will assert continuation of the tariffs, principally because the undoing of over $100bn in revenue raised will look like failure, waddle like failure, & stink of quackery. The mess that reversal of the tariff regime will hasten may be worse than keeping them. War!
/1 Sooner than expected. Trump's written assumption that the Supreme Court will 'help' to overturn the Appeals Court rejection of tariff impositions signals a profound point for his fascist command structure. Despite the partisan Supreme Court bench, reversing the Appeals Court decision is unlikely.
Interesting observation. German manufacturing revival... leading the Eu forward... whilst Tesla slumps, bumps, grinds to defeat in a crushed US vehicle production dead-end?
Umm... ... 'we never negotiate with terrorists'.
Easy for a fiscal conservative approach to resolve. Cut property taxes and cease provision of services to those properties including road maintenance. If the property owners want services then they pay price premium, above the tax they would have paid. A common cash pool for utilities is cheapest.
Muse. How to direct a whole continent toward the embrace of your identified & loathsome 'enemy'. Fuck 'em up economically and call it 'genius'. Send in the deportees for good measure...
Aside from the trans sexuality argument... ... hmmm... ... there is the argument... ... diverse self-representation & body morphing... ... magical... ... to believe... ... that everyone has the right... ... to SELF-determine... ... fantasy is either good or bad... ... JK?
F.U.C.K. Gun control... simple. Reduce poverty... simple. End bigotry... simple. Trump... simple.
Guns. Prosperity evangelism. MAGA. Evil. And then there is the insanity of libertarianism USA style... shoot first, ask questions... never...
Nationalist evangelism finds its warrior hero. The enemy is Catholicism & Hinduism. Any -ism, except of course the true background gun owning craziness of the USA known globally as 'f.u.c.k.w.i.t.i.s.m'.
Serving the needs of the ordinary citizen by not providing relevant & up-to-date information. The exceptionalism & supremacism seems to evade the attention of the electorate whose eyes are stunned by the lights of the Land Rovers passing them by.
Himmler: 'Oh, sorry, Jesuits... journalists... junkies... oops, not Jews... my bad! What a silly 2 millionth iteration mishap that was then'. Fascism is not ethnic, religious nor cultural. But it is evil.
Free speech... ... except what you say...
Trump has absolutely no practical influence over the two big wars that count - Ukraine & Palestine - but at least he is winning against civilian weaponised takeaway in Washington DC. Ah, gosh, even the latter one failed the courtroom sensibility test!
This is how it begins... devolution into Planet of the Apes. Hand the labs over to Trump, err... chumps, err... chimps... ... not many letters stand between qualification and pretence.
A mustard splash could have caused the officer to cry-baby! Geez, how obvious that the death penalty should apply! Trump better damn well Executive Order recidivist indictments for 'assault by deadly condiment'.
/3 'End game'... Governments survive by 'protecting' citizens including deference to objective functions of the state such as central banks. The Fed remains in place to 'protect' the US$, generate cash, coordinate crypto, but be a mere government tool. Interest rates waiver to favour the cartels.
/2 'Money' must be de-coupled from central/communal regulation so that those-who-own-money can gain percentage points on debt it 'inspires' for the 'aspirational' ['suckers']. Enter the crypto game. The 'alternative' is normalised. Progress the game. Subverted governments must end central banks.
/1 The 'plot'... Global conglomerates - cartel capitalists - saw the economic hiatus [actually cyclical] resulting from regulated 'regression to mean' monetary values & 'static' profit margins intrinsic to cartelism. Cartel production curves plateau. Value adding evaporates. Hence, 'money' must pay.
"Mobster state capitalism"... ... just use the word that already stands in political lexicons: fascism.
I am a sceptic but must surrender to the success. Lucky the US taxpayer provides socialist funding for the project or it would never have made it thus far. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge...
Can't beat cartel capitalism for chutzpah.
Silly question, huh? Typical means that fascist regimes employ to target enemies [& friends alike in the end] is financial 'crime'. Putin & Erdogan are contemporary examples. Quite convenient because the end justifying the means is impounding assets. This behaviour is psychological projection.
Ibrahim AlHusseini's comment at end of the article demonstrates the problem at hand. 'Drift into recession' is direct effect of Trump policies. 'Default on its debt' is direct effect of Congress's 'big act' under Trump's push. Rude consequences of errant political actions must be owned by Trump.
I loved the Dick Van Dyke Show. The fictional comedy writing team was hilarious. I wonder how Lutnick comes up with his invariably wrong take on numbers & market directionality. He must have such a group, three probably, who spend all day twisting every turn to isolate an 'exact' misrepresentation.
BANG... ... another nail driven into the coffin holding the United States of America. This is exactly how history plays out when the fascists are left unchallenged by supporters whose usual rules of reasoned thinking have been dumped. 'She deserved it' but the convicted fraudster did not?
Witch hunt was this? Who needs evidence & due process & courts & judges... We ought to ask Ghislane Maxwell. I am certain she never saw Lisa Cook do anything untoward.
Neat summary. Seems 'on the money'. The Fed can afford to rationalise its rates for two major reasons. First is as this post indicates. Little effect on real world markets with the long bonds staying aggressive, hence commercial interest remains higher. Second, what is the economy doing? Watch...
On this data, late 2022 till now is a poor showing. However, the consistency into 2025 should concern MAGA & Republicans because the lack of indication that the economy has entered a 'turnaround' is troubling... to say the least.
This fascist storyboard is all the more remarkable when considering the White House propaganda attaching to Reagan, arch-hypocrite for the 'small government, low spending' Republican beliefs. Trump does take from Reagan the misuse of government deficits & debt to fund his fascist command & control.
Layers to the onion. Nominally, government investment in any market sector is nothing but another investor pool. Socialism & 'state capitalism' arguments are emotive not economics. The prime issue is Republican politics. Fudge the farm subsidy commune reality, but socialised industry is 'fine' now!
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! [puff puff] Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! [gasp gasp] Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! 'Make America Great Again'... hahahahahahahaha!
Hurt the US economy on a whim of ill-informed bigots.
I guess Putin had his chance in Alaska. Dirtbag takes on a whole new level of meaning when recognising his paranoia in having a special attendant to carry the 'poo'-case. Ukraine is striking a dirge for Putin as it hammers the fingernail grip on Russian economic profit. Oligarchs: 'Move on, Vlad'.
It is sheer stupidity to shut down viable commercial projects when claiming to be promoting a renaissance in manufacturing. Anti-DEI is one thing - quite an emotional outburst by right-wing sentimentalism - but extreme bias against solid numbers in energy production is economic self-punishment.
'The End is Nigh'. Are we seeing herds of humans grow restless as the dawning realisation that climate change & feckless rich elites have drawn modernity to its knees? Historically when a civilisation is under pressure, authoritarianism thrives, children are sacrificed, & hatred enters the light.
Instead of gun control laws, militarise the streets: dumb inverted logic. Militarise the streets to promote the freedom to own & carry weapons to terrorise & murder. The correct military objective for this deployment ought to be confiscation of all private weapons. Then watch crime rates fall.
As noted in other comments. This is fascism plain & simple. But come on, 'farm subsidies'... agricultural states are large communes. Republicans might prefer names like 'combines', 'coops' or 'corporate', but reality is that uneconomic enterprise is funded by taxpayer dollars, centrally controlled.
This is why Trump & Hegseth replaced senior officers. They installed 'patriots', meaning loyalty to Trump rather than the Constitution. 'Fascism 101' move early on in this administration. Same with security & justice agencies. Install sycophants knowing that people with integrity would 'rebel'.
Can't happen. Not enough currency on issue, naturally emphasising how imaginary 'cash' wealth of those-who-own-money is. The international debt burden is merely the false fiat currency position enabled by conservative economic collusion. Pressure on off-shore banking led to crypto: escape hatch.
An army following blindly, even if 80% of an economy falls, will place food on the table for the elite cabal. Attempts to speak to the insanity of implemented authoritarianism is historically proven ineffectual. Militant revolution is inevitable when 'we voted for this' reigns. After, no one did...
Fascism: centralised state control. Free buses refute control. Not an objective. As the plot thickens and Trump continues to practice 'emergency powers' scenarios, the idiotic MAGA fringe that has covertly stolen US democracy cannot see the fascist plot. Libertarian Americans must revolt, now.
The long game by those-who-own-money. Bankrupt nations. Convert central banking to crypto owned by privateers. Silo corporations establish mini-multinational empires operating cartels. End 'democracy'. Trump's administration is the vanguard. Do US citizens expect future elections? Dumbasses...
Crypto... the long game being played is deeply buried from public discussion because that is how those-who-own-money want it. The ownership of media was part of the plot to divest the masses of actual asset wealth over a 'trickle suction' few decades. Convert fiat currency to private crypto: coup.
Hahahaha! Low unemployment BECAUSE the jobs market is shrinking. The question to be asked of the statistics is how many people are vacating the seeking-employment space? De facto measure is the application for unemployment benefits. Oh... no... stretching the limits upwards... & by the way, farmers?
The fascist control over private enterprise is going to haunt the Republicans for the next decade. First, why? Completely anti-capitalist ideology. Second, when the tech crash devalues the state capital investment, whom takes blame? Third, yikes... farm combine ownership by President next?
I so love the idea of 'End Times'. A Vietnam War child who by a whisker missed call-up, we knew the inevitable war was around the corner...
Fascist takeover of private & public industry.
Funnily enough, I do not dispute an interest rate cut would be appropriate. But to follow, likewise it will 'unexpectedly' usher in an October market correction as Wall Street takes 'stock' of actual US productivity under falling rates. The signal of falling rates is: 'economic contraction'. Oops!
The October correction ought not surprise anyone on Wall Street.
Defenders of fearless truth? Bunch of wankers.
No elected official ought to trade on commercial ventures over which they have legislative authority. Impeachable? Treason per se by breach of Oath to the Constitution.
In Aussie vernacular: dickhead.
Zionist Israel replicates the Warsaw ghetto and confirms the paradox of Jewish NAZISM.
Hegseth is a snowflake.
Fascism writ in state ownership of productive industry.
Zionist fascism has found its day: replicate the Warsaw ghetto and damn the consequences...
Understand, this is not socialism or state capitalism, as right-wing acolytes claim. This is fascism. Command & control over private & public sectors under a single unchallengeable supreme leader. This is 'Fascist Game Play 101'. Republicans need to heed the political impact of their indulgence.
Direct historical analogy: Warsaw ghetto. Netanyahu is a NAZI. Figure that one out.
Littleproud just gets more, and more, and more stupid.
Has Netanyahu under-written the end of the modern State of Israel? The only means to a two-state solution involves re-formulation of 'Israel'. A new Constitution excluding by force of proportional representation any potential for Zionist fanaticism to distort a secular democratic agenda.
'Do not quote me'. Two steps away from turnaround. A chaste Trump orders US air control over east Ukraine. Trump loads up Ukraine with long-range munitions. Bang. Boom. Bust.
It would be wicked if you caused those changes on purpose. [Straight face...]
MAGA traditionalists lick their lips with glee knowing that in a decade most homes in the USA will return to wood fireplaces for central heating & cooking. "We made America great again, 200 years behind the world in energy production & pollution. Yeehaa, thanks to our glorious forever #47".
Trump's friendly 'handshake'. Applaud this MAGA.
St Peter: 'Hello James...' James... 'Well this is quite a shock. You mean I really am accountable?' St Peter: 'That is why I have this lever for the trapdoor to Hell you stand upon'. Or a Weighing of the Heart Ceremony: 'Your heart ain't no feather, James'.
Restriction on citizen freedom of movement for the purpose of thence random identification of non-citizens is certainly un-Constitutional. The legal path to objection seems absent. This marks the brittle nature of 'free society' in the USA. Questions remain: cost? proof of crime reduction long-term?
Full tilt Pharisee...
Before the red pill... follow the path into Wonderland, crazier & crazier it mimics Alice's adventure. Mad Hatter Tea Party sprouting imaginary coins, 'off with their heads' shouts a regent degrading rose gardens with maximal tackiness, peace pipes, smirking catty-people, flat-stags. End crime, bah!
Add Reagan's commencement of Commune Republicanism. Cut government spending on programs to help ordinary citizens and put huge sums of debt in play for the military & farm subsidies. 'Buy' agricultural states' voters with commune strategies & plead fiscal conservatism as national debt explodes.
So where do they go? - 'east' Virginia?
Reminds me of those backwoods, low tech planets in the outer rim. The Empire never quite got around to subduing them all, especially those with large debris fields from previous high civilisations that failed. Really, Planet of the Apes was not a spoof. Allegorical framing of MAGA acolytes works.
This 'mass hysteria' of the MAGA movement is fantastic... as in... phantasmagorical. Track down to 2050: 'Grandfather, were you a MAD MAGA?' The stunned silent response will be telling.
I do not believe that the IDF is encountering any armed resistance. It must be completely impossible for the IDF to obtain intelligence pointing at locations of any HAMAS resources. The mess in Gaza is just too immense. No satellite or wandering drones can get real data. The IDF mission: destroy.
This fellow is a fruit-loop.
Look at the self-satisfied smile... 'Who needs intelligence anyway?'