“The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.”
—Stephen King, Needful Things
We are passengers entombed within an unescapable generation ship. Sealed-in and hurled by an unknown hand to only-Deity-knows-where. Eight billion of us streaking through the void. Seemingly well-stocked with food, water, energy supply, and medical care. But rapidly running out of intelligence…
A good jobs report should be a good thing to those who are not insane. An unemployed working-age adult is a detriment to society, yet the stock market goes up in response to a bad jobs reports because our Wall Street overlords salivate at the thought it may force the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in order to promote “full employment.” But getting to full employment results in good jobs reports. And around and around we go…
Consider the absurdity of a group of morons desiring higher unemployment for their own benefit. This insanity make sense when you realize these motherfuckers demand artificially low interest rates and irresponsible government borrowing, printing, and spending. They long for the resultant inflation (debased currency). They thrive on forever wars, waste, fraud, and profligacy. They connive trade agreements which destroy blue collar jobs and devastate our industrial base. They benefit mightily from this madness—the Cantillon Effect writ leviathan…
A vastly disproportionate share of the fiat Monopoly money is swept up by the managerial class and the oligarchy—far more than enough to make up for its value lost to inflation. Which, of course, means that a vastly disproportionate share of inflation’s devastation is left for the proles to endure. The proles are financially crushed, but our overlords don’t care. Never did and never shall…
You absolutely must realize you’ve been abandoned by your so-called leadership and do so as if your life depends on it—because it damn well does. The only constituencies our betters care about are illegal aliens, transcultists, criminals, Wall Street, and the Military-Industrial Complex. Not you. Never you…
Any theatrics seemingly done on behalf of the proles is performative theater. The overlords have their doomsday bunkers in Patagonia. You don’t. You’ll be left alone to face the financial apocalypse. They’ll watch The Purge from the comfort of these secure castle keeps. You’ll be a real-life participant in The Purge, whatever your druthers on the matter…
“What is a good economy?” A good economy is one in which all able-bodied, working-age adults are gainfully employed, inflation is zero (or less than zero if improved productivity or better technology makes a good or service less costly), wages increase if society’s wealth increases and this new wealth is wisely shared. In a good economy workers are motivated to work harder, longer, productively, and innovatively. In a good economy housing prices and rents are stable and affordable—a purchased home is considered what it actually is: a cost center rather than an investment. In a good economy an adult gainfully employed in a full-time job can afford a decent life…
What does “wisely shared” mean? Are you a commie or something? I’ve no magic formula for a fair wage or a fair profit. I do, though, know with certitude that the current situation is not it and that our overlords work mightily toward our mutual doom…
Credit (or blame) high housing costs as a primary factor in the rise of Democratic Socialist candidates; these clowns are Woke lunatics on steroids. Homeowners don’t want their home “value” to decrease, even if the next home they purchase is correspondingly more costly. Neither do realtors, mortgage lenders, or tax assessors. Were housing prices to drop and become more affordable, our elected fools would cease yapping about their phony desire for housing affordability and instead intervene like mad to inflate back up the prices, especially if the foreclosed homes were first swept up by the oligarchy. Democratic Socialism or worse is the result of such madness…
Consider this hypothetical. In a ten-lot subdivision, nine homes are built. The cost of building each home is $500,000 and the homes are sold for $1,000,000 each. A builder with a new technique can build a comparable home on the remaining lot for $250,000. Does he sell the home for $750,000, crowing that he was able to build it cheaper and sell it for less? Oh, I think you know the answer. It’s sold for $1,000,000. Therein lies the problem: There is no incentive for lower prices in a system which is artificially distorted to the extent as is the housing market…
Do not be fooled by crocodile tears and so-called plans to help homebuyers. The System wants higher prices, houses built crappier and packed tighter together, and the profits swept up by the oligarchy. New houses are built like shit and expensive as hell. Yet more money for our betters…
Speaking of housing affordability. Among all the blather about this issue, I have yet to hear anyone in a position of authority state the obvious: The price of housing must decrease a lot and stay there. In fact, President Trump said he wants housing to be affordable and prices to continue going up. I like a lot of the things President Trump is doing, but not everything. This statement of his is asinine, and I’d love to meet with him to tell him why…
A great deal of controversy is roiling around the construction of massive data centers. These energy-guzzling structures are absolutely necessary for a modern society. C’mon, man. The photographs and videos of our cat overlords don’t store themselves…
The Democratic Party’s insane embracement of Wokeness should result in its utter destruction. The Republican Party’s incompetence and piss-poor messaging prevents this from happening…
The financial news reports offer a so-called explanation of the stock market ups and downs every day—and throughout the day. Of late, the trajectory is upward, and this is taken as proof our economy is humming along, which is like believing a blood pressure reading by itself provides all the information one can garner from a battery of other tests (e.g., MRI, CAT scan, blood test, ultrasound, biopsy). The stock market indices are irrelevant. They are largely driven by a tsunami of money with no place to go other than stocks and real estate. Printed money and money dumped into 401(k)s. The price of a stock is irrelevant if it ignores the underlying profitability of the company, both in the short- and long-term, and if money funneled anywhere is not used for productive purposes…
I run into people who tell me they believe Kamala Harris is intelligent, has wonderful policies, and would be a great leader. This belief is as retarded as if I claimed Donald Trump has great impulse control…
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (SF Bay Area) claims banning gas water heaters and furnaces will save scores of lives and save hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare costs. The California Air Resources Board claims their micromanaging what kind of car tires you can purchase will save consumers tons of money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The statistics these agencies use to justify their pipsqueak fascism are pulled from their staffs’ asses. This is an example of the management class who rule over us and how they smugly set aside good governance in order to revel in lording over us. These are not well-meaning people, and they do not care about the cost to the proles. In addition to this nonsense done on behalf of the Cult of Global Warming, I guarantee these vile fools support other Woke bullshit, such as illegal immigration and the transing of children…
When the next recession hits, there’ll be pleas for government stimulus (i.e., more printing and borrowing). The fact is we’ve been stimulating the fuck out of our economy for decades with printing and borrowing, and look what it’s gotten us: deficit, debt, waste, and fraud…and our betters a shitload richer…
Land acknowledgements are espoused with the same insincerity and malevolency as “Work shall set you free.” The fools making these statements are not well-meaning, they are not virtuous, they aren’t atoning for shit, they are not your moral superior. People making land acknowledgements and those who agree with them are your future camp guards…
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