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.