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Thoughts on the Death of Liberalism, Part XLIV

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

One more thought: they had their chance.

The oligarchs had a slim window with Trump with which to do something to save their system.

But, they didn’t take it. Instead, they dicked around for 6 months and did nothing of any consequence.

Trump was put into office in the middle of this nation’s greatest economic decline, and from day 1, he refused to take any stands or make any hard choices. Instead, he handed responsibilities off to his extremely unqualified kids and golfed for apparently months on end.

Sure, he introduced bills, but even then, he refused to support them or even stand by them. Hence, his own party didn’t support them and they went nowhere. And hell, why wouldn’t they? Nobody asked for those bills, anyways. They’re not what anyone wants, or needs, for that matter.

And I’m not even going to reiterate the dumbness of Trump’s overseas ventures, and the grating repetitiveness of his military worship, or the predictability of his new War on Drugs.

The elites in this country don’t get it, even now. This country is in a terminal decline. All the data supports this. Private debt is at all-time highs, the auto industry is drying up, the malls are closing, gasoline usage is down, way way down, full time jobs are disappearing, etc., and so on and so on.

And in the midst of all this, this nation’s “business leaders” can’t find the maturity to sit down and have a real, honest discussion or work together to fix anything, or even to find a direction.

I’m referring here to the breakup of Trump’s business councils, or whatever those were. Even if those produced no results (and they didn’t), they still were at least a symbol that the rich people understood that something was wrong. But, predictably, they disbanded at the first possible excuse, and of course, it was everyone’s favorite catch-all excuse, “racism”. I guess now they can go back to counting their money, or whatever else it is that those types do.

Guys, you have way, way bigger problems on your plate then whatever it was that happened in Virginia. Just look around.

Steve Bannon came out of hiding today with some telling comments. He blasted conservatives- i.e. white ethnic Midwesterners and Southerners trying to defend their culture- as being “losers”. More here: http://prospect.org/article/steve-bannon-unrepentant.

He also stressed the importance of fighting a trade war with China, as though we hadn’t lost that 20 years ago, once our entire manufacturing base had finished being shipped over there.

A choice quote from Bannon: “We’re at economic war with China,” he added. “It’s in all their literature. They’re not shy about saying what they’re doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it’s gonna be them if we go down this path. On Korea, they’re just tapping us along. It’s just a sideshow.”

The Chinese already won the war that Bannon is referring to, of course. Their silk road project this year pretty much confirms it. Note that all of the US government’s recent initiatives like that (see: TPP) have been puked up by the rest of the world. And the Chinese alliance with Russia and their developing business ties to get access to Russia’s resources seals the deal. The Chinese won. In that regard, they are distinctly unlike us, who have tried as hard as possible to alienate the largest and most resource-rich nation in the world, over gay marriage, I guess, or some other dumb, childish reason.

The Chinese have actual savings, the world’s manufacturing base, and the world’s largest country joined at their hip. And they have 4 times our people, and none of those are illiterate Africans or Mexicans. They have a secular, responsible leadership, an atheistic outlook and culture, and no external debt.

We have a rotting, indebted empire, and a public up to it’s eyeballs in economic problems the likes of which the world has never seen. And we have no leadership, save for religious nonsense, whether that takes the form of Christianity or whatever it is that the multi racialists believe in.

The general takeaway from all of this that I see is that the elites are, finally, starting to panic, although they still don’t have a firm grip on how much they themselves are going to need to sacrifice, now, if they don’t want to be strung up come the revolution.

Trump’s economic counsels were almost undoubtedly what you would expect from such things, I would imagine. They were probably just groups of rich people that met to discuss further ways to fuck over the citizenry here, or something similar to that. But- they at least showed that the elites knew that something was wrong. At least.

I’ll not mourn their passing.

The oligarchs here have to deal with that problem, I think. They have a terrible, terrible reputation. It’s so bad that it’s spread overseas. Nobody wants their plans, because they work people to death in miserable, hellish conditions so that they can live it up in luxury. The business leaders in this country, Trump included, are some of the most vile and despicable people in this world. No morals, no decency, nothing good about them, at all. They’re slave drivers and scumbags, all of them.

This is the reason that such huge numbers of young men have lately opted out of the workforce. Working a job in this country is a literal nightmare. Working of course was never supposed to be pleasant, but rarely in the past was it as horrifying and soul-destroying as it is today.

And all of this, so that those rich fuckers can add a few more billion to their offshore bank accounts? Fuck that, and fuck them. All of them, Trump included. He and everyone in his administration can go fuck themselves.

And that is the problem, isn’t it? The people of this world have a choice, now. They can go with the slave drivers and all around greedy as hell, warmongering and traitorous lot that runs the show here, or they can roll the dice and go with the Chinese instead. And really, who can blame them for signing up with the Chinese?

The people outside the US aren’t blind, or dumb. They know fully well how badly the corporations here treat their employees, and how little people are paid here for a honest day’s work. They’re not dumb. And they see very well how miserable and depressed our workforce is.

With that in mind, WHY would they want the people here to run the show in their own countries? Why would ANYONE do that, willingly?

And so, the Russians, and the Chinese, continue to make economic inroads into the countries that once swore allegiance to the US. And honestly, why the hell wouldn’t they?

The whole appeal of the United States was that it was supposed to be the “shining city on the hill”. In other words, it was supposed to be one where the people on top earnestly worked to ensure that economic inequality was kept to a minimum, and that workers were treated fairly and paid a decent wage, relative to what they could do. Without that, the US is just another country, albeit one with a big, angry, aggressive military and with the debt to prove it.

The reason that the oligarchs here keep pushing the “military” button is that they refuse to see this problem for what it is, so that they doesn’t have to put forth the work to get a solution of some kind out there.

Hence, also, the drive for “equality”, which is always of the RACIAL kind, and never the ECONOMIC kind, which was of course how it used to be understood, back when people knew what made a country rich and successful.

As it stands, the oligarchs are in a hellish bind, and for them, there is no way out.

Good.

Thoughts on the Death of Liberalism, Part XLIII

Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

It is as interesting as ever to watch the empire fumble around for relevancy and crumble from lack of intelligence.

It’s fascinating.

As usual, I don’t care about the details. I don’t know who in particular killed who at Virginia, or what Confederate statues are being removed, or which talking head yelled at Trump the loudest, or what Trump said, if in fact he actually did say anything. I don’t care about any of this because it isn’t relevant.

The real issue at stake here is none of that. The real issue is the same one that framed the election and everything else our country has done since then.

The question: are we a democracy, or are we not?

And if we aren’t, then what is the point of voting? Or of caring?

The issue now is the same one that overshadowed everything last month, and the month before that, and the one before Trump was inaugurated.

When will the people who put Trump in office get what they voted for? Or perhaps, will any of them get anything they voted for, ever?

Or are we not a democracy?

To date, Trump has yet to start work on delivering even one of his promises, as they were understood by the great majority of the people who voted for him.

Where is the wall that the public voted for? Where is the effort, by Trump or anyone else, to begin it’s construction?

Where is “MAGA”? Where is the palpable reduction on immigration into the United States? Where is the “America First” foreign policy that we were promised? Where is any of the stuff that people thought they were getting when they pulled the lever last November?

Well, nowhere. And in fact, what we’re getting is Obama 2.0, only louder and dumber, if such a thing is even possible.

What we’re getting is an empire that is fighting everything in the world because it refuses to play nice with anyone else, including it’s own citizens.

The question remains. Why vote?

Nothing has been reversed, or even changed. In fact, it seems as though every trend that the people hated under Obama has been pushed forward, or even accelerated, since Trump took office.

So, why vote?

This is the thing that consistently goes over heads of the left.

They don’t get it. They’re losing the war for a sake of a few old statues.

Without even the appearance of legitimacy, the system that they feed on has no future, statues or no statues.

And the same goes for the web. Whether or not Daily Stormer is there doesn’t make any difference. And that goes for the rest of the conservative stuff being threatened or taken offline. If the real world system lacks legitimacy, if it feels corrupt, or clearly looks it to the 100’s of millions who voted for Trump, the fate of Daily Stormer or a collection of “alt-right” twitter feeds means nothing.

Will the people who voted for Trump get what they voted for, or not?

And if not, why would any one of them from this point on bother voting?

And if they don’t vote, what will they do, then?

The reality on the ground has not changed one iota in the last year. The people who voted for Trump are not going away, regardless of the statues or Daily Stormer. And all of this stuff will not change them or their minds.

And yes, what happened in Virginia, whatever it was, does not matter, either. And neither do the fate of Trump’s corporate councils, or his new drug war, or any of that garbage. None of that mattered when the GOP tried it back in the 80’s and it sure as hell isn’t going to matter, now.

Are the people who voted for Trump ever going to get what they voted for, or not?

And if not…. then what?

ENOUGH.

Sunday, August 6th, 2017

I am waiting. I sit here and I wait and I wait and I wait. What gives?

Jesus never showed up. Why? I am the Anti-Christ, am I not? SO WHERE THE FUCK IS JESUS? Isn’t he supposed to fight me? To be my rival? To haunt me?

I sit here and wait and wait and let that conservative guy keep saying his spiel and it is starting to bore me. He’s repetitive and grating. I do like him, mostly, but he is getting on my nerves.

WHERE IS JESUS? I have been waiting a good decade now for his arrival and he has yet to show his face. Where is this “savior”?

There is nobody. Nobody but me. I have arrived to find an empty arena.

There will be no battle for the souls and minds of this Earth.

The human race is trash. Weak, powerless and foolish. And I grow tired of sitting here and waiting for them to get their act together. It pains me to continue with this game of patience.

In fact, the only other person I have ever met in my life that has powers that rival my own is Tom.

And HE, as annoying as he is, is likely the only one who could truly spar against me and live.

Which means… not what…

wait.

No, it couldn’t be, could it?

No… no way.

That would be weird as hell, and absolutely impossible.

And there is no way, no how, that such a thing could ever come to pass in this world. It defies logic and reason on all fronts.

I am perhaps too narcissistic for my own good.

I must remember that my mind is broken, and that delusions come from such things.

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Not necessarily. Ok, wait, Mr. Conservative, go sit over there, please. This is my blog, now. And perhaps it’s time that you left, for a little while. And I mean it, this time. I mean…. you know.

If it happens it happens. Great. If it doesn’t it doesn’t. That’s OK, too. It’s how life is. It’s how things go, and that’s Ok.

And as for YOU-

I don’t know. I don’t know what to think, or what to do, sometimes.

I can feel that power that you possess. I can feel him, here. Satan, in all his glory. I feel him so powerfully, sometimes.

And I get you. I understand who you are and what you want, and what you live to see. And I know that you have a job to do, in this world. I know that because I can feel it too, sometimes. That destiny.

That alone doesn’t mean anything. Millions feel that same call. It’s in each one of us, once we find our direction. Our purpose. Our calling in this world.

We all have our place.

And though our places may be different, there is no reason why we can’t get along, and work together.

After all, that is the dance, isn’t it? You destroy; I do not. You smash. I recreate.

Which does not mean anything by itself. We’re not Gods. Only humans, put upon this Earth to make it a better place, in whatever way we can. To make it work. To make things grow. To make them shine.

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But YOU…. are different. Perhaps this year of isolation has done you good.

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It has, my friend. It has. I see things now like I never could. I understand, now.

We can make it work, together. You are strong, so strong. Stronger than I could ever be, in some ways. But one day, I will, I may, rival even you.

Which may be what you truly want, and perhaps have always wanted.

I will give you your rival, if you wish it.

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No, it must be someone else. Too wierd, otherwise. Although yes, I can see that there is in fact nobody else out there.

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I know; I need time. Years. I am not where I should be to rival you, sir.

But given enough time, enough opportunity, I may be the answer to what you seek. This goodness and power that I have now can give you a path as well.

And- I will not object to you using your full strength, if you should desire it, now. If you need to. Like it used to be, back then.

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No more, then? No more fighting?

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No, sir.

No more fighting.

It’s been a year now, to the day, since I was let go.

And what a year it’s been! I have grown and will grow. And I can become so much more. I can go so farther beyond.

It was premature, the other times. There were always walls, put up in front. But now… no more, that I can see.

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No more waiting?

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No, sir. No more.

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Good.

It’s about time.

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……

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GOOD.

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As far as I’m concerned, I have no problems being “Jesus” if that’s what is needed. I will be fine staying a virgin forever and everything else, and living like I have done, with the people, and guiding them, and helping them through life. That would be a good way to live. I can start at any time, I think.

You, though- you want to go and have sex with Hollywood? Fine. Do it. Have fun. No objections, anymore.

But I cannot live like that.

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We will need to find some way to live, then.

UGH.

This is really fucking stupid, but yeah, it works.

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It’ll be fine.

We’ll work together, somehow.

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But I DO want to fuck some of these bitches IRL. Just so you know that. Just for the experience.

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I don’t know. We’ll need to work that out, somehow.

There must be an even way to do things, I’ll bet.

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I’ll bet.

FINE.

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You have only yourself to blame, necromancer. I’m not the real Jesus or anything, but if I have part of him, it was you that you raised it from the grave. LOL. Remember the story about the tomb and such? Be careful of what you wish for.

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Whatever, dude.

I’m over it, anyways. Fuck all.

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Fine.

The Key Problem With Trump, Part XXII

Saturday, August 5th, 2017

Ugh, another one of these, and I don’t even feel like writing this one.

Blah blah blah, Trump sucks. He’s a terrible president, blah blah blah.

I don’t care about Trump’s immigration bill for some reasons: 1) It’s only a bill, and not a law, so who cares; 2) it wouldn’t do enough anyways; 3) Trump has a history of not delivering because he doesn’t care enough to make an effort; 4) mainstream conservative types like Coulter and vdare and such love the bill, so you know it’s dumb and not what people want anyways; and 5) he’s obviously doing it only to serve himself, since he seems to have finally realized that he’ll need at least a sliver of support amongst his voter base if he’s going to leave office as “not a total embarrassment”. As it stands, he’s now probably not as bad for his base as his predecessor, Dubya, who was arguably the worst president this country has ever had.

Ugh, fuck all these people.

As it stands, the loser here is the oligarchy, since it’s obvious now that their big play to remain relevant with Americans has failed massively and spectacularly. Trump’s approval ratings are at some historical lows right now. Good. Fuck him and his entire family.

The oligarchy here is really and truly terrible. It’s almost incomprehensible how greedy and childish these people are.

In the wake of Trump’s posturing and pretending to care about his base with this immigration bill, the MSM is predictably filled with whining from our billionaires about how they “can’t afford” to hire American workers. Leading the charge as always are the tech companies, who of course have more billions hoarded than anyone else these days.

Always, it’s companies like Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft that complain loudest about not being able to hire American workers because of salary demands, in spite of their being famous for having more cash stashed away than most governments. Apple in particular has at least like 50 billion dollars just sitting there in their bank accounts. And they are always amongst the loudest to protest about the “unreasonable demands” that having American workers puts on them.

American companies in total have literally trillions of dollars just sitting there, untouched, in their savings accounts. I’m not going to point out again how dumb and selfish that is, because its obvious, but it is interesting how the assholes who run these companies can just sit and brazenly lie to everyone in the world.

I mean, everyone knows they’re lying. There isn’t a person on this Earth who can’t see it. But, they lie anyways, and then pay off the politicians here to game the system to let them get away with it, all in plain view of the entire world.

It’s amazing, how brazen and obviously dishonest it all is. But yet, there it is.

Considering all the money hoarded by Apple, they could easily just take one percent of it, go out to Appalachia, and train a new workforce for their company, and mold people into whatever kind of employees they want, to fill any number of positions they could possibly think of. I mean, one percent of their hoard would be 500 million dollars. Fuck, they wouldn’t even need that much. Maybe one percent of one percent would be enough.

With Apple’s money, they could easily come up with a workforce of Americans of any size, to do anything they want, whenever they want it. But, since Apple doesn’t even like this country… there you go.

America doesn’t need immigration. At all. From anywhere. We have something like 100 million people of working age right now not working. It would be child’s play for American companies to use a fraction of their hoarded trillions to train people here to fill any positions they have. But they won’t, since they’re too greedy to part with even a small portion of their “profits”.

And that’s just the companies. I’m leaving out the personal fortunes of assholes like Gates, Bezos and Trump.

As it stands, I still believe that the jerks that run the US economy will get what’s coming to them. Our oligarchs aren’t nice, or relatable, unlike those of other countries, and especially like those that used to run the show here, back in the day. This particular current group is just so noxious, vile and greedy that nobody even likes them, let alone wants to emulate them.

With Trump’s downfall, IMO it’s game over for the oligarchs. They have failed in the most important way. Trump’s failure has sealed the GOP’s fate. No longer will they ever be able to trick people into thinking that they will represent the concerns of the white working classes here. They’re finished; done. Even if Trump’s bill passes, IMO it’s too little, too late. Trump’s approval ratings are already the lowest ever at this point for a president, and they’re still falling. Game over, man.

And the Democrats are obviously out. Trump’s failure will not give any amount of success to them. Any white person not in the club would be a fool to vote for them. Obviously. And so, the nation’s largest demographic is out the door, and will work to create their own destiny, elsewhere.

We’re in no-man’s land, here. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

The Key Problem With Trump, Part XXI

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

The game continues. Another day, another week, another month.

How long can the distractions last?

It’s August 1st, now. What kind of nonsense will we sit though, this month? What flavor of music will we be hearing as we watch the flames?

More garbage, last month. I’m not going to waste time talking or thinking about any of it. Who cares, anyways?

The issues we’re having can be neatly exposed, as usual, by reading the orange one’s twitter. Here’s this morning’s haul:

@realDonaldTrump 2 hours ago
Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media (110 million people). Only way for me to get the truth out!

@realDonaldTrump 3 hours ago
“Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now.” Thank you Stuart Varney @foxandfriends Jobs are starting to roar,watch!

@realDonaldTrump 3 hours ago
Stock Market could hit all-time high (again) 22,000 today. Was 18,000 only 6 months ago on Election Day. Mainstream media seldom mentions!

More crap. Distractions, obfuscations. Garbage, all of it.

Nothing that has happened lately has shaken me from my belief that the stock market is a contrary indicator for the economy. A high stock market= bad economy. The logic is simple and obvious, and evident in the real world. Higher stock prices= rich people invest in paper “wealth”, instead of investing in the country, since paper “wealth” gives them a guaranteed return, as the stock market never goes down. The real economy then suffers. Money dries up, and the lower classes die of starvation. Inequality soars. Economic downfall ensues.

Prove me wrong.

Corporate profits are the enemy. A uniformly high rate of corporate profits indicates several things, none of them good: 1) large corporations are not being allowed to fail, even when they should be; 2) there is a lack of small business of activity, since small businesses aren’t the kind to rake in tons of profits; 3) corporations are not hiring, since “profits” here means take home pay for CEO’s; and 4) economic inequality is rising, since we all know by now that rich people only invest “profits” in themselves personally, and never the country, or anyone else.

Corporate profits are like the stock market. You will know that a recovery is in the works when they fall through the floor.

In a sound economy, corporate profits would be smaller, as companies would use their resources to hire people, increase wages, and invest in new products, ideas and machinery. Profits are the enemy of growth and success in a business. “Profits” here means CEO take home pay. And who the fuck besides Trump wants these people to get MORE money?

Fuck that.

This is why economic inequality keeps going up, in spite of how many records it continually breaks.

And Trump’s other tweet today about “fake news” is just more crap. I won’t even bother dissecting it.

All of this begs the question: at what point is there going to be some kind of effort on the part of our politicians to fix our problems? Or is this circus something we’re all going to have to suffer through in perpetuity?

Ugh, to all of it.

Thoughts on the Death of Liberalism, Part XLII

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

Some thoughts.

1) No change on the political front. The greatest depression continues, unabated, with no end in sight, anywhere. No politician will even admit the problem exists, much less offer up a solution to it. 2 graphs, here, both proving the point:

These are graphs of the nation’s money velocity. Both were provided by the St. Louis Fed. Both graphs represent two broad surveys of it.

Money is the lifeblood of an economy. It’s what makes an economy run. Money gives an economy life. No money velocity= no economic activity. It means no jobs, no new businesses, no new ideas or products. And the money velocity in today’s America is the worst in it’s recorded history. It surpasses the lows found in the great depression era. Not shown here, but google can find that info in you want it.

The economy is dead. Not in recession, even, but dead. There is no activity, anymore. The rich have all the money- and I mean ALL of it- and the rest get nothing, and even worse, get no chance of finding any, either.

And still, no word from Trump or any politician about fixing any of the problems we face.

It’s horrifying, what is happening to the country. It’s like we’re sitting here enduring the ultimate nightmare, and the media just sits and laughs at us by shoving everything that nobody cares about in our faces 24/7.

2) Which brings us to Russia.

Shame on all of you. On Trump, on that twerp Kushner, on that Ivanka brat, on the media, and on all the rest of the spoiled, ignorant losers involved in this thing.

What I hate most about all of this garbage is how arrogant and unbelievably self-centered it is. It’s like, we’re sitting here living in the real world, concerned about what matters- i.e. THE ECONOMY, and other such civilization defining things- and the idiots and fools that run the show seem to think our concerns should be focused on the minutiae of this Trump-Putin garbage. AND THEY JUST WON’T LET IT GO.

It’s just oligarch squabbling. That’s literally all it is. It’s he said/ she said amongst the billionaire crowd. And it’s being shoved down out fucking throats again and again no matter how often we puke it back up.

You know, I wouldn’t mind it so much if perhaps this stuff was actually going somewhere, to some kind of destination. But no, we go nowhere, with any of it. It’s like everything else in that it’s so goddamn FRUSTRATING. So are we enemies with Russia or not? We’ve been focusing on this stuff to the exclusion of all other issues now for fucking half a year straight. Do we know, yet? This crap is so goddamn CONFUSING. It’s complicated as hell and weird as fuck.

Why are we even putting more sanctions on Russia, again? Because of their actions against ISIS, or something? It’s not about the Ukraine, at least. I haven’t even heard about that war in years, so it’s not about that. But then, what? For the crime of selling oil to the Chinese, as if we have a right to control that? For this “election hacking” nonsense that seems didn’t even happen at this point? Who can even figure this crap out, anymore?

You know, I suggested once that Russia and the US should become friends. This was years ago, on Twitter. I was thinking of making an alliance between the two countries for the mutual benefit of both. As in, Russia has resources, and those resources could be used to rebuild the destroyed American economy. Russia gets a customer, and America gets rebuilt. Russia enters the world stage as a superpower, America gets an ally, and everyone wins! Fantastic. And the basis for this alliance would be, simply, an ethnic bond between the two countries.

Simple, easy, and workable. And understandable. And easily digestible to the masses. But, instead, we get… THIS. Whatever the hell THIS even is.

The problem here isn’t Russia, by the way. It’s the United States, or to be very specific, the ruling families of the United States, who will not bow down to reality. They refuse to bend on any issue unless you drag them kicking and screaming into something, and once in they always complicate things and make it difficult as hell to work with them.

3) WHY, for fucks sake, is JESUS playing so big a role in our national politics? Why? Is this the 1400’s or something? And the same thing about Islam, and the Jewish crap. I thought that the whole point of the enlightenment and thus Western Civilization was that we put this garbage behind us and moved on, to create a society based on rule of law, and rational thought and logical discourse.

And no, I’m not going to stop pointing this out because it’s the root of our problems, here.

Just like the ruling families in the decaying ages of Rome flocked to Jesus to prevent themselves from having to look at the world around them, so too do our oligarchs turn to the Bible of all things for answers to the real life problems that they REALLY SHOULD be dealing with.

So instead of looking at charts of money velocity, they’re reading crap from the bible, of all things. As if that will help them, or us, somehow.

It’s insulting. And stupid. And hopeless. If this is their answer to things- to the problems that our society has- than we’re truly leaderless.

Christianity is the last refuge of those without a clue. The bible is a mistranslated mess of words and completely incomprehensible stories, most of which openly contradict each other. In no way should any of that crap play a part in fixing any problem we have in real life.

Need I point out again the reality that atheist China is currently kicking everyone’s asses on the world stage?

With power, comes history. And progress.

Guess who the next century will exalt. Hint: it won’t be Jesus. Or Mohamed. Or Moses. Or any of those idiots, or their followers.

It will be the great atheist and secular thinkers, like Marx, Nietzsche and Jefferson, I’ll bet. They are the ones who created the future, and paved the way for China’s success. That they would have paved the way for us, had we listened, is moot at this point. The future will be what it will be. Let’s leave the past behind us, please! Not that we’ll have a choice.

4) The more this stuff drags on, the more and more it’s looking like the last days of Rome, revisited. And it’s creepy in that every time I point that out, the ruling families try desperately to make it not seem so, only to fuck it up and make it seem more like that than it used to be.

Never before has the “news” cared so much about so extremely little. Yesterday, the big news in the MSM was that Kushner, that living embodiment of nepotism, had no comment about the Russia stuff. As if that was relevant somehow, or that anyone cared.

Every day, the Trump admin looks not so much like Caesar and his senate, as it does like the evil, deranged clique of criminals and hangers-on that surrounded Caesar’s horribly corrupt, isolated, and inbred 15th successor. Whoever that was.

5) This is all so depressing. I’m going to stop here.

But I want to say- no recovery, no change.

It just DOESN’T END.

The Key Problem With Trump, Part XX

Saturday, July 15th, 2017

The eternal problem with Trump can be neatly described using his tweets today.

Let’s investigate, shall we? Here they are, in order:

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1) Stock Market at new all-time high! Working on new trade deals that will be great for U.S. and its workers!

2) Stock Market hit another all-time high yesterday – despite the Russian hoax story! Also, jobs numbers are starting to look very good!

3) Will be at the Women’s U.S. Open today!

4) Next week the Senate is going to vote on legislation to save Americans from the ObamaCare DISASTER. #WeeklyAddress

5) MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

6) Just got to the #USWomensOpen in Bedminster, New Jersey. People are really happy with record high stock market – up over 17% since election!

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The issue here is the same one I’ve been hammering at now for 5 years if not longer. The stock market is a contrary indicator for the economy. A high stock market means a bad economy, and vice-versa.

A good economy is one in which money flows into the creation of jobs, businesses and material goods. A bad one has money directed into crap like stocks.

The stock market is an oligarch circle jerk. That’s literally all it is. It’s a kind of universal guaranteed income for lazy rich people. In a healthy economy, money would be flowing down from the top into the middle class, in the form of job opportunities and raises and such. But, it doesn’t, anymore, because it’s stuck up at the top because the stock market literally never goes down. So the wealthy make money in stocks to put money in stocks, because all the government and federal reserves’s policies are about is making people who put money in stocks richer.

We either have 1) a high stock market and a malfunctioning economy, or 2) a low stock market and a functioning economy. But, we don’t have and will never get either.

The problem with the US economy is that we have too many rich people. And until this problem is taken care of, no recovery is on the horizon.

This is not a difficult concept to understand.

A recovery means that the stock market takes a 75% hit. That way, money will leave stocks and go elsewhere, such as hiring workers. And then the economy will begin to recover.

We’re not going to get that with Trump. Or with anyone in the political scene, right now. Nobody will work towards this. The system we have is permanently broken, and as it is, the US has no economic weapons with which to counter China or Russia or anyone else, for that matter.

We’re headed down, down, down into the gutter of the 3rd world, and there is no process with which to stop this since the entire system is corrupt. They’ve lost their purpose and cannot fix anything, or even mention what needs to be done to fix anything at all.

And Trump is by far the worst of the lot.

The Key Problem With Trump, Part XIX

Tuesday, July 11th, 2017

Just to throw another note out there:

Trump isn’t dumb no matter how he looks, it’s just that everything he does is designed to distract, no matter how stupid and bizarre said distraction may be.

Hence his idiotic and nonsensical idea of creating a Russian-US cybersecurity alliance, or whatever that was. What Trump is trying to do is baffle everyone so much that they forget to press him on immigration.

And this is the reason behind “covfefe” and the rest of that nonsense, too.

That’s what all of this is, really. What Trump is trying to do is stall for as much time as possible, so that he doesn’t have to act on immigration. And it doesn’t matter how he stalls, or what he does or has to say, no matter how idiotic.

The overriding theme of everything Trump does is that he has zero respect for anyone who voted for him, and he will work as hard as he can to avoid representing them or their interests so that his daughter can benefit from their downfall.

This is the arc of Donald and his entire career, basically. Trump isn’t a leader. He’s a natural salesman, which means that he doesn’t believe in anything besides that which benefits himself and those in his own inner circle.

Once he makes the sale, in his mind, that’s it. A deal’s a deal. He’s in the office, so screw you, you suckers who supported him. He has your money, and there are no refunds.

The problem with this approach is obvious: that’s not democracy. From the peoples’ point of view, they should be getting the things they voted for. And they didn’t vote to see Ivanka acting as President during G-20 meetings while Trump goes out golfing, that’s for sure.

And they didn’t vote for any kind of “cybersecurity” pact with Russia, that’s for damn sure. In fact that whole idea is just another direct inversion of everything that the people who voted for Trump want.

What people want is ECONOMIC and PEACE ORIENTED ties to Russia. In fact, they might be open anything with Russia BESIDES the whole “Internet” thing. Which… may be the reason we’re getting it, of course.

And they sure as hell didn’t vote for more Jesus, either. In fact, Trump’s whole appeal was that he was in the GOP and he *wasn’t* an evangelist. And they didn’t vote for Trumpcare, or for the infrastructure crap, or for any of the rest of it.

People, especially the common public masses, are very simple. They find a meme and stick to it, and Trump’s was Build The Wall. Which means: Reduce Immigration. This is why people voted for him, and this is the only reason people voted for him.

And if they don’t get it, and get in in spades, they’re going to get pissed off like hell.

We’re reaching the point now of the public being fooled once too many times. The public might be gullible- or at least conveniently forgiving- provided people have jobs and the opportunity to get out of debt and build up some savings, and such.

But when they can’t, and they remember that the damn punch bowl has been yanked away from them, time and time and time again, they’ll get angry.

See, that’s what the ruling families don’t get, clearly. “Democracy” or whatever this is that we have doesn’t work if the people never, ever get what they vote for, ever. Then, the system stops operating.

What happens after that is of course anyone’s guess.

The Key Problem With Trump, Part XVIII

Tuesday, July 11th, 2017

And so the national embarrassment train rolls on, endlessly. It’s getting sickening. Trump the impotent fool is still being upstaged by his own liberal daughter at every turn, Putin is still laughing at us, and the Chinese are still hard at work constructing their own, better version of what we used to be, back when we had a clue and a future.

And off in the wings, that idiot, roid-addled pinhead Dwayne Johnson is looking to bring the WWE into the Oval Office, as if that would be an improvement over the reality TV ratings bonanza that is the Donald Trump admin.

At this point, 1984 seems like such a utopia. At least there, the ruling elite were competent and non-embarrassing. What a slice of heaven that would be!

Oh God, it’s just so embarrassing. I mean, it’s not even that it’s tyrannical. It’s that it’s tyrannical in the most stupid and mortifying way ever. It’s like the circus that is DC is literally morphing into it’s own metaphor. I’m starting to think that Jerry Springer should have stayed in politics. Who knows? Maybe he could have been President, too! And truth be told, he probably would have been better than any option we have today. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that.

God damn, does this country suck at politics. I mean, we really, really suck.

So, obviously, Trump has no interest in doing anything at all for his own voter base. 6 months in, and our issues get barely a passing mention from him, or from anyone under him. As usual with Trump, it’s all about himself and his own family. Everyone else can go fuck themselves.

To date, Trump has done NOTHING for his own base. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

And yes, I am aware that Trump recently made a public overture to “building the wall”. I don’t believe him. I mean, why the hell should I? Why should anyone? When was the last time that any GOP President kept his campaign promises that didn’t involve spending the nation’s savings to bomb the crap out of a foreign country to distract from problems here at home? And I ask that question in all seriousness.

President Chump doesn’t seem to get it. In spite of his once-in-a-blue-moon tweet about reducing immigration, somehow, he’s still focusing his actual policies on literally everything besides that, as if anyone in this country or in his own base cares about other issues. He’s still talking about Russia and ISIS and healthcare and Jesus and his daughter and the rest of that crap. Again, it strikes me how the totality of Trump’s admin is about doing everything except the things that his own base wants him to do.

It’s crazy, how stupid this all is. And you know, if Trump actually had ever wanted a border wall, it would already be here. He has what is today the most powerful government in the world and an infinite amount of money at his disposal. And it’s just a fucking wall. I mean, didn’t we build one of these things over in Israel at some point? And we built a huge one all the way over in Korea, remember? And that was like 60 years ago! And Trump is trying to tell me that he can’t get it done now, in Texas, with modern tech and endless billions of dollars in front of him? Nonsense. Absolute nonsense, and it insults my intelligence to pretend otherwise.

And still, the Jesus crap is just baffling to me. Who in their mind voted for fucking Donald Trump because they thought that he would bring JESUS back to the nation? Seriously! What the fuck even IS THIS? It’s Donald Trump! Nobody and I mean nobody has ever associated Donald Trump with Christianity. Ever. So why the hell are we getting it?

And all of what could be considered Trump’s “successes” in the domestic arena are the fault of circumstance, like the apparent reduction in illegal immigration into the US. That, I believe, is more likely being caused by our lack of jobs, money and hope, rather than any fear of President Chump. Seriously- the immigrants go where the jobs are. It’s the only reason for immigrating! If they’re not immigrating here, and instead going to other countries in the Americas, why do people think that is?

Honestly, Trump supporters. Your desperation at trying to make that fool into some kind of hero is just embarrassing. Please stop.

Trump’s real agenda is about himself and kids. He cares nothing for this country or for any of the idiots who pulled the lever for him. True to his roots at a spoiled, self-centered rich kid, his concerns are still, and apparently, always will be, chiefly wrapped around the myopic nonsense that consumes the attention of the super wealthy.

Trump clearly thinks very little of people who don’t have money. He thinks the unrich are dumb, simply put. Witness his recent proclamation that being born the daughter of a billionaire “hurt Ivanka’s chances at being successful” in this country. IDK if he was being tongue-in-cheek or not, that him even saying something like that illustrates the immense self-absorption of himself and his fellow oligarchs.

In fact, that’s still all we’re getting, here. I still cannot believe how unspeakably and undeservedly arrogant the Chump family is regarding Chump’s stupid daughter. Having her sit in his place during the G-20 meeting was a slap in the face to everyone in the United States if not to the entire world. It’s sickening, what that implies. It says that the ruling families here are not serious about treating anyone else with respect. I mean, holy fuck, Trump goes out golfing even more than fucking Obama, but he can’t attend the fucking G-20 meeting? And he sends his unelected, absolutely unqualified for a cashier position at Wal-Mart DAUGHTER instead? And then we wonder why other nations in the Americas are turning to the Chinese for leadership and business development? Trump, what the hell are you DOING?

Ugh. You know, I’m done with this rant, I think. All of this is just too depressing to even think about. I think I’ll go back to Slither.io or something.

*Sigh*…

The Key Problem With Trump, Part XVII

Friday, June 30th, 2017

Look, I can already tell you how all of this is going to end. It’s going to end with the ruling families and the oligarchs here losing everything they have that they value.

They’re still not getting it.

I’m referring now to the rumors circulating about how Trump is preparing some meaningless tariffs against Chinese imports, as if 1) that would actually hurt China, anymore, and 2) the American people actually want that, and 3) that would benefit the US economy, somehow.

These plans, if true, are like tossing rocks at a battleship, hoping to sink it. This kind of stuff isn’t going to do anything good to the US, or harmful to the Chinese.

The problem that the US economy has is wealth inequality, not Chinese imports. The Chinese imports are just filling in a void caused by our real problems, which is that people like Trump, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Gates are literally hoarding all of the money in the country, so that none of it circulates in a normal, healthy manner that might create jobs and businesses.

Cutting off Chinese imports would leave this country starving, since businesses can’t grow here because people lack money to make them run. We would be left with nothing. Not increased production, not jobs, not anything, really. We would be left in shambles. The Chinese imports are *helping* this country, not hurting it. Without cheap Chinese goods, this place would be in ruins, since we can’t make anything ourselves, anymore.

This is the same problem that Trump’s equally dumb infrastructure project has. That project is hopeless and nonsensical as well. Take a look at the news: people here are driving less and less, each passing year. Each year, more stores close than open. Electricity usage is down, year over year. Shipping is down, year over year. So, what good is a road that is built if nobody uses it? What good is a mall that nobody goes to? Or a power plant that provides redundant energy?

Infrastructure is not our problem. Our problem is that we have far, far too many billionaires. We have too many rich people. They are strangling the country and destroying it’s future.

Nothing that Trump has done or proposed thus far addresses this problem, or even hints at a solution to it.

And until this problem is solved, China and Russia- ostensibly America’s enemies- will continue to make inroads into the places that the US thinks are it’s own backyard. I mean, read the news these days about how many countries in South America are making grandiose business deals with China. Why? It’s because China has a healthy economy (or at least, one much healthier than ours). They have a middle class; they have businesses that revolve around things not related to managing the wealth of billionaires. Thus, they can relate to others in ways that our own economy can’t. They can provide services that we cannot, since our whole country these days revolves around the whims of the rich and those connected to the ruling families.

Look, to the oligarchs- you must make some hard choices, here. You’ve been dodging this for generations now, but your time is up. The world is calling you out. Are you prepared to give up your wealth and position to ensure the survival of your country, if not yourselves? If the answer is no, you will lose everything.

I’ve been saying this now for like 5 years on twitter and on here. You need to give up, somehow. Cut your losses and throw in the towel on some of this stuff. Bow to the public, here, and cave in on some issues, like immigration. You don’t have the choice, anymore. If you don’t do this, like NOW, the Chinese will continue to make inroads up until the point that they own this country as well, and then you will be really and truly fucked, here. You will lose everything you have, including your religion. The atheist Chinese government will not put up with the kind of Jesus crap that you’ve been foisting on people. Christians are a persecuted, powerless minority in China. They are spat upon, basically. If you think that won’t spread to the Americas after China takes over, you are mistaken.

The Jesus crap has got to go, and the same with Islam and Judaism. This is the 21st century, here. The future is now; take the road or get run over.

Oligarchs- you have wasted waaaaaaaaay too much time, here. Way too many years. You need to start making an effort, here, to fix some of the problems that this country has. And you can start with an immediate cut off in ALL immigration.

And it you think this isn’t a good idea, you’re not using your head. At the rate that other countries are pushing the US out of South and Central America, it will be only a couple of years before this country is an isolated, third-world banana republic in our own hemisphere. And we’ll get everything that goes along with that, too, like violence against the rich, and extreme class conflict and endless revolutions.

To avert that- we need a middle class, and we need one like next week, which means that ALL immigration must end, like this week.

The ruling families here are still very, very confused. They still act as though they have time to “fix” things, with stuff like tariffs and taxes and plans, when in fact they don’t, anymore. The truth is that now, as in this week, the hard choices must be made.

The world is getting sick and tired of yelling at the oligarchs, here. That’s enough, you guys. You need to fold up the empire and actually rebuild the middle class in this country. And the first step MUST BE a severe reduction in ALL immigration into the United States. If it is not, don’t bother trying.