Capitalism has won out. Democracy has shot its wad. The rich have gotten richer and the poor we still have with us. The under-educated are fed up w having to kow-tow to the colordz and kweerz.
"We don't need no stinkin' catalytic converters, seatbelts, helmets or vaccines! Alluz we need iz guns, grabable pussy, football and cheap beer."
Waving Goodbye
It's taken 50 years to move manufacturing out of the country. You'll recall the clothing tags citing Bangladesh, and others until now, finally...China. Tariffs aren't gonna rebuild the economy. The manufacturing businesses of tomorrow will be, as they are already, run by robots. The working-man's day is over. Your guess is as good as any as to what we'll do with the milling multitudes. Let 'em eat cake; or war amongst themselves as they do in the ghettos.
The obvious solution is to invade Venezuela. With 500 BILLION barrels of oil, we wouldn't need to drill the arctic or Greenland. Besides, Chevron is already onsite and the country is used to oligarchy. And we could easily control access to and egress from The Canal! OMG!!
Do it! For the bears!
(Of course, with the greenhouse gas effect, the bears'll fade out with all the other "losers." But then, have you really missed the dodo or passenger pigeon? Google "Recent animal extinctions.")
Chinese expression: "Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos.
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DeleteThe full political continuum certainly is shifting to the right, likely not to rebound, but at the expense of those GED-at-best M.A.G.A. voters. Graduation rates have dropped significantly and the lemmings respond well to single syllable sound bites which is good because 'critical thinking' takes time away from drinking, snorting, talking about pussy, etc. The economic reality of tariffs will hit that crowd quickly but certainly it will be the fault of Biden, China, Mexico, Canada and perhaps even the Panama Canal and Greenland. Manufacturing is not coming back. The buying power of the crackers debit card will decline as quickly as their Tech-bro stored $TRUMP cryptocurrency memo coin. It's possible that $MELANIA dropped more quickly than her panties at a Justin Trudeau hookup. Democracy is not dead but Washington D.C. Congressional bodies have all sold their voices to keep their chairs. It's difficult to agree with the history-skimming right-wing intellectual-wanna-be's like Curtis Yarvin but Washington D.C. in it's current form is pretty worthless. God forbid I'm even starting to listen to Steven Bannon who may have a more pure vision of what the democracy should be. It's just not clear how we'll get along without avocados.
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Beware of Bannon. Genr'l McMaster has nothing good to say of him in his book "At War With Ourselves" (copyright 2024).
Bannon is now a bit out of the mainstream crazy right-wing movement. He's focused on breaking down America and letting it build itself anew. The dangerous group now are the techbros with unlimited money and now with unlimited power given that the right-wing Congressional members, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet heads will do whatever they want. Trump is a puppet. Musk, Peter Thiel, etc. are making the calls. McMasters should have spoken out sooner but waited to make money off his writing.
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