Sighinide

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 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.

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.

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*…