No one talks about the debt, really. It’s roughly 2.5% of GDP and climbing. Last I saw, it was consuming a huge chunk of tax receipts.
Fifty years ago, was a different country. There is no technological revolution in the works to inflate the economy and the Saudis are not doing any deals with the crooks who now run the American empire. That means the only way to fix the debt problem is systematic default, collapsing the currency or cutting spending. Those are all bad choices that will be made by evil simpletons. – The Zman
I have faith that TPTB will be counted on to ignore it until it blows up in everyone’s faces.
And this also touches on my third point, which is: this is an idiot plot. I mean, this is what Roger Ebert described as – you know, he said that “the idiot plot is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot.” – Vox Day
What a concept. This holds true of nearly every sitcom, and series. I’ve been watching “Your Honor” with the Girl. Every show the characters do something that if they had just done the right thing, there’d be no big deal. For instance, in the first episode, the mob guy gives his kid an ancient race bike, a tremendously stupid move. He proceeds to crash it and kill himself. The person he runs into is a Judge’s kid, who leaves the scene. It goes downhill from there, with one idiotic move after another.
I might add that the wreck happened in New Orleans 9th ward, where neither kid should have been. FWIW, the wreck happens because the judge’s kid was in there placing a memorial to his murdered mom, who should have never been there, and panics when the indigenous population starts after him. OK. Having been in the hood many an early morning as a trades-guy, that was unlikely. The indigenous population aren’t known to be early risers.
Biden’s foibles this week have been epic.
The problem here is they lie, to themselves and others, then believe their own bullshit. Other than that would be that they mean to do what they are doing. Zman had a great explanation for how this probably works:
The picture that emerges here is that the political system is three interdependent groups, the media, the political class, and the donor class, which looks to one another for clues and reacts to one another’s signals. There is no hollowed-out volcano with guys in Lycra jumpsuits making decisions. There are three schools of fish swimming around in the same pond, reacting to the movements of each other… – The Zman
Many, don’t seem to care that we have a dementia ridden leader. Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t care if we have a president that shits himself. She’s all in. After all, who hasn’t shit themselves? This is the problem. These morons will back their guy no matter what. Doesn’t matter that 1 – he’s not running anything, and 2- the rest of the world cares that a leader shits his pants. No one wants to deal with that.
Seems that this may be changing, as the donors are backing out. I think it’s all theater and they planned to move the old boy out, which is why we are seeing what we are seeing. The problem is everyone else now knows. That curtain was ripped aside and people are wondering who exactly is driving the bus.
A democrat neurologist sizes things up:
“They had four years. My own party had four years to find—you know, this was a wreck in slow motion. And they had four years to find—out of 350 million Americans—one person that could take [Biden’s] place. And here we are, the day before school, trying to do the homework and replace a guy who’s got a neurodegenerative disease.”
This image says it all:
The face of the Biden administration. This one does too:
Got a kick out of that. Been looking at AR-15s. Not real sure I want to blow that kind of money for what will really be a paper hole punch. I have more high power toys. A friend suggested I build one. That may be a thing.
KFC is serving halal chiggin in Canada, and won’t be selling pork any longer.
It’s been a minute since I’ve been to KFC. I can’t see where this is a bad thing, per se. Maybe it’ll be a better grade of chiggin that won’t roil my guts. Far as pork products go, I didn’t think they sold them. They don’t at the one near me. The other is a combo – Taco hell, Pizza slut, and KFC.
All are gross and turn my guts into water.
BCE is a good friend. If you haven’t read, he has a friend who lost his wife. So he’s helping best he can. That is the mark of a great friend. When I’ve had tragedies like being laid off or getting divorced, I can count on one hand the number of friends that cared. Hell, when the divorce went down, there were maybe five people that kept in touch, making sure I wasn’t going to eat my gun, and three of those are siblings. Many of my friends acted as if getting a divorce was contagious. That actually makes things worse.
You don’t have to do an intervention. Merely checking in helps. I had a friend that lost his wife when I was traveling. I called just to tell him how sorry I was and that I had no idea what to do, but I’m there for him. He got the message after the funeral when there were tons of people in his house, when he wanted to be alone. He told me it meant a lot to him.
Leave no friend behind when they have a tragedy. Call. Even if it’s to tell them you don’t know what to say.
Old guy stuff: I got to thinking about this when I mowed yesterday evening. It was rainy Monday last week. I got to look out at the rain falling on a mowed yard. I mowed before I left to see the girl. There’s something satisfying about having that chore done, especially when it rains. The alternative is to mow a higher lawn when the rain stops. It’s not my yard, but I still care for it. I like having the sense of satisfaction of entering a weekend with a newly mowed lawn.
Speaking of old guy stuff: Bill Engvall had a great bit where he told about having trouble with his leg, or an ankle, something like that. For the life of me, I can’t find the video, or a clip. But the doc basically said, yep – that’ll happen. It got funnier and funnier as he described asking if there were something to do about it. I have an (X)-brother in law that went through the same thing with his Achilles tendon getting sore. The doctor told him “Well, you are an older gentleman”. Nothing to do but either don’t do what you are doing, or deal with it.
I had the same thing happen this week at a swallow test. Since throat cancer, swallowing can be tough and sometimes painful. I really have to manage how I eat. So they decided to do another test (probably my third in a decade or so). Turns out, I’m better than most. And since my throat functions, there’s nothing to do. I had a laryngologist tell me that about my destroyed esophagus. It’s all scarred, like my throat. “I really don’t know what I can do for you”.
Tough shit. I am, after all, an older gentleman.
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