Any of y’all remember the stagflation of the 1970s and early 1980s? Whether you do or not, you’re about to get to experience it again — or for the first time, depending.
It’ll be fun for the whole family!
Day: March 5, 2025, 5:52 PM
Clop Clop
It is dumbfounding the lack of understanding. Like I said before we are having our "We don't need farmers when we have grocery stores" moment in weather right now. https://t.co/oRoMK9xqfa
— Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) March 4, 2025
The unfortunate fact is that the average person is clownishly dumb. Just has no clue how anything works, or where food, power, clothing, information comes from, how anything is made, etc. Just fucking clueless.
And the rest of us are suffering because of that right now.
1873 Redux
China is probably set to invade Taiwan sometime in 2026. That will likely be what tips us and the world over into depression. Musk and Trump’s actions alone might be enough. But the Taiwan invasion will certainly seal the deal if Musk/Trump gangsterism by itself does not.
I’d expect a 1930s-like depression, but it certainly could get as bad as the Long Depression that began in 1873.
Collette
Toni Collette’s performance in Hereditary is arguably the best film performance in the last decade.
The only reason she didn’t win all the awards is it happened to be in an (excellent) horror film.
Converse
Because someone I follow linked to it, I made the mistake of reading part of an Ian Welsh piece. I couldn’t even finish the whole thing it was so insane, but what’s so repetitive about Welsh and those types is how they believe absolutely everything bad that occurs in the world is the fault of the US. Everything.
Buddy, America just does not have that much power. Clowns like Welsh buy into American exceptionalism just as much as far-right neocons and über-patriots. For many of them it’s that they secretly wish they were Americans and it drives them mad that they are not. Or at least it did before Trump. In their view, no other country has agency or desires or goals; it’s all America puppeteering them or that every action is solely a reaction to what the US does.
Like, come on. That’s not even remotely plausible. I only wish we had that much sway in the world.
Laydown Clown
If Putin could somehow only nuke people who ride recumbent bicycles, that’d be alright. Launch the SS-27s and RS-26s! Get those big dogs in the air!
Kleptopcrats
As things stand now, recession chance is at 90%, Great Recession II chance is at 85%, depression chance is 65%.
Things are going south so fast, Putin doin’ some nukin’ would barely be a worse overall outcome.
Reading, England
I do the reading. A lot of it. And that’s why I often know more than so-called “experts” in a field. You can learn a hell of a lot if you put in some effort and have a halfway decent brain.
Woody Allen supposedly said something like, “70% of life is just showing up.” And that’s true in all areas. If you read a couple of textbooks in a field and the top dozen papers, you already know more than 99.99% of people in general and more than 50% of “experts” in that field.
Sad but true.
Trump, Chip Maker TSMC Announce $100 Billion Investment in U.S. Something positive at least.
How the British Broke Their Own Economy.
Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns. Depression even more likely.
‘Fighter Drone’ Designations Officially Assigned To Collaborative Combat Aircraft By USAF.
China Retaliates Against Trump Tariffs as Superpower Trade War Escalates.
How globalization brought us Trump.
Marine Le Pen condamne «la brutalité» de la décision des États-Unis de suspendre l’aide à l’Ukraine.