“Presidents”

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All of a sudden (or so it seems) there are “presidents” everywhere – as if all of them were elected administrators subject to regular popular referendums – i.e., elections. Like the “president” of Ukraine, for instance. He is in fact an autocrat, a jefe – as they call them in Latin America – who has selected himself to remain “president” of a country that he rules over by decree.

Probably eternally.

We used to call such anything but “presidents” because there was a time when honest language was still valued because a sufficiency of people understood that dishonest language devalues discussion – and things more important than just that.

How can one have a discussion that isn’t mere rhetoric without both sides recognizing – and demanding – that language must be honest; that the meaning of words must not be permitted to shift while pretending the words being used still refer to the same thing?

The answer is, of course, that discussion is not possible when the meaning of words is altered by one (or both) sides so as to change the nature of the discussion without openly acknowledging it has been changed.

This is what’s happened with regard to “presidents” – though that is merely one example of too many to count.

It is a word used to confer legitimacy on that which isn’t; to imply an office as opposed to the chief figure of a regime.

The youth are not old enough to remember that, at one time, only the relatively free countries – as the United States was, once – had leaders who were afforded the honorific of president.

The Dear Leaders of the world were exactly that. Or perhaps they were Maximum Leaders. Sometimes, just Soviet Leaders – as in the case of the leaders of the old Soviet Union. Sometimes they were premiers, as in Kruschev – who was one of the leaders of the old Soviet Union, which the youth may not remember.

Rarely were any of them styled presidents – with the exception of the el presidentes of Central and South American banana republics, which were understood to be exactly that. There was honest derision in that because everyone knew these el presidentes were not like the president of, say, the United States but a parody of the latter.

Now we have become them. And it’s no longer funny.

“Presidents” abound, everywhere – including where there is as much “democracy” as there is “free speech” on Twitter (never mind the rebranding; changing the label on a can of cat food does not turn what’s inside into tuna).

As, for instance, in Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeev.

Nonetheless, we are expected to speak of these Maximum Leaders and Dear Leaders and jefes using the honorific, president – as if they were deserving of it. This includes the “presidents” of this country. They are nominally still subject to periodic public referendums, but once selected – typically, by a minority of the public by the way and so much for “democracy” – they act as autocrats and jefes, ruling by decrees they like to call “executive orders.”

As if that change of verbiage changed the meaning of rule-by-decree.

But they are no longer executives, in the constitutional sense that presidents of the United States for the most part once tried to be  or at least pretended to try to be. That sense being an administrator of the laws passed by Congress. Of course, Congress has passed along its sole legal power (under the Constitution, at any rate) to pass laws over to the permanent bureaucracy, which issues what are styled “regulations” that have the force and effect of laws but are much harder to repeal or even amend.

And the courts now write laws, too.

These are styled “rulings” and “case law” – so as to efface the fact that we are no longer talking about statutory law, which ought to be the only law that matters if the law is to be limited and subject to those approved by popular referendum, via elected representatives. As opposed to the arbitrary (if Talmudically justified) interpretation of the law by judges who are subject to nothing.

It makes one pine for the honest authoritarianism of Dear and Maximum leaders; of jefes and premiers.

It may not have been easy to live under the thumb of such but at least one wasn’t expected to pretend it wasn’t such.

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  1. America was a good run…But if you are stupid you will create this thing called “Government” to protect you from murderers and thieves without even realizing that the murderers and thieves will just take over the government and “Legalize” murder and theft for themselves. It will always happen. ALWAYS! I suspect the entire planet will become one large slave camp..errr…Feudalist society now. The political terrorists will murder billions of people in order to own us more easily.

  2. According to some conspiracy sites on the internets, Trump killed Biden in tonight’s debate. Just so everyone knows that was predicted by some astute commentators who said the Demonrats will replace Biden with another, like Jabbin’ Newscum (Gavin Newsom, gov. CA).

    Biden doing poorly is the setup to remove him before the DNC in August. The RINO convention is in just 2 weeks, 16-19 July, and I predict Trump will go to prison and Nikki “Kali Yuga” Haley will get the nomination – and she sealed the deal to be selected when over our Memorial Day weekend she was in Israel signing warheads.

    So come Nov. 5th I think there is good chance both Trump and Biden will be replaced by two younger BIGGER WHORES for Israel. Of course, I could be wrong, and with predictions I am usually wrong or far to early. Like the wicked witch says about killing Dorothy, ‘these things must be done delicately’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HouZ5GHxlpQ

    The Masters of the Universe fooled us with the Moon Landing, and who did 911, and who killed JFK, so I expect a masterful plan is underway to fool us again. I think July-August will be the summer of great discontent, as Trump is shit canned, causing quite a stir with his supporters.

    Dave Scorpio, former host on RBN, said if Trump is installed that is the worst of all scenarios, because that means the owners will use Trump and his charisma to marshal the USA into WW3. And certainly we can see the apparatus changing things, like woman in the draft, auto registration for the draft, endless war in Ukraine, etc. It looks very clear that WW3 is being ramped up. And Trump has posed as an antiwar candidate. So we will see.

    Just remember, they want you dead, and if they can’t kill you with the Covid jab, the front line is option 2. Option 3 is they nuke the northern hemisphere and start over, with billions less – and out of that chaos a technocratic police state is ushered in.

    The so called elite want the planet for themselves and they think long term, and for them, a nuclear holocaust may be worth it.

  3. Wouldn’t Gilligan make a better El Presidente than what we have now?

    IIRC, Bob Denver spent most of his waking time stoned.

  4. The only thing worthwhile about these debates is when Tom Woods and Lew Rockwell would do a podcast the next day.

  7. Essential viewer preparation for tonight’s debate:

    “I got hairy legs that turn blond in the sun. And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again. So I learned about roaches and I learned about kids jumping on my lap. And I love kids jumping on my lap.” — F Joe Biden

    https://x.com/TwinTowerCity/status/1806071253780029593

    ‘Shower time, Ashley!’

  8. It was a pretty good run, though wasn’t it?

    You could easily argue that replacing the Articles and creating a fedgov made this situation inevitable. Centralized power that no longer requires “consent” of the governed seems to be the end point of every formerly successful empire. Too bad we are leaving our kids such a mess.

    • Thanks for the link, David.

      Those two cowards and their handlers couldn’t abide an educated and astute man like Kennedy making them look more horrible than they already are…

    • Ha! I watched some of that clown show online via FOX (CNN disabled comments. I wonder why? Ha!) the comments on FOX were hilarious.

      The articles online tomorrow should be interesting.

      • Kudos to you, Helot, for being able to watch. I think anyone who could stomach any of that should get a metal-a real one!

    • This summed it up for da leader, Trump: “I Really Don’t Know What He Said At the End of That Sentence I Don’t Think He Knows Either”

      I couldn’t count the number of times I said to myself, “What the heck is Bid-in saying?”

  10. Excellent article Eric,
    Can’t find anywhere in the Constitution where it says el jefe can rule by “executive orders”. It is basically the laziness of Clowngress that got us to this point. The so-called “War Powers Act” was a total cop out of their responsibility to authorize wars, passed in the wake of the completely illegal/unconstitutional Vietnam war, not to mention Korea. What’s telling is that law gives the president 90 days to wreak havoc, but has to stop after that if Clowngress does NOTHING, which is what they excell at.

  11. El Jefe is a variety of jalapeno pepper.

    If you want to know who the boss is, one El Jefe jalapeno will let you know.

    Every Man a King, a song by Huey P. Long, you gain a perspective.

    Every neighbor a friend
    And every man a king     – Huey P. Long, Every Man A King

    Except for (((Carl Weiss))).

    Raises a red flag.

  12. Because it has been shown to matter in electoral outcomes, the economy is always cited by presidential candidates. Tonight ‘Biden’ will claim to have created millions of jobs; Trump will counter that the average American is getting slaughtered.

    Inflation is far higher than the Consumer Price Index suggests. This isn’t a claim from some fringe blogger — it’s in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, by four authors. One is from the International Monetary Fund; the other three are from Harvard, including a former US Treasury Secretary. That’s as mainstream Establishment as you can get.

    http://www.nber.org/papers/w32163

    These authors point out that the CPI does not include house prices, mortgage rates, homeowners insurance, or auto financing — precisely the costs that have exploded since 2020. When they apply pre-1983 CPI calculations, and proxy for other items, they find that inflation crested in the high teens in 2022, and remains at about 10 percent (Figure 10, page 17).

    Apply their inflation numbers to nominal GDP and nominal retail sales, and you find that the US economy already has been in recession for the past couple of years, just as depressed consumer sentiment and an inverted Treasury yield curve have been telling us. An AI bubble in stocks, which lifted the wealth of the top 0.1%, has obscured this reality. But not for much longer.

    Unfairly, Trump is going to get tagged as Hoover II for a bubble collapse that’s already baked in the cake. But he certainly can make the slide worse with quack nostrums such as sweeping tariffs, which will drastically hike prices and impoverish working Americans. Like a black widow spider awaiting its prey, Gretchen Whitmer is poised in her web to strike in 2028, as she demolishes the smoking ruins of MAGA with a toxic injection of New Deal venom.

    • Tarriffs will not be the cause of an economic collapse and will have little effect on the final outcome. What they will do is make it less desirable for companies to outsource manufacturing, although outsourcing makes no sense in an inflationary environment. When inflation is high, the labor component of the cost structure becomes less and less expensive because wages never seem to catch up. That phenomenon is why unemployment rates are reporting as low as they are.

  13. Roscoe: I’ve said this before, but I have a lot of respect for you for not letting go of this bone (I’m not kidding). You should mercilessly and publicly criticize this quack until such time as he sincerely apologizes.

  15. The idea that Ukraine is a “democracy” and the Jewish comedian Zelensky is a “president” is one of the most breathtaking, brazen lies ever told by the satanic U.S. government.

    Ukraine is easily the most corrupt country in Europe. Zelensky is basically a front man for the Jewish criminal Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a guy who is so corrupt he is actually under indictment in the U.S., which it pretty extraordinary when you consider that the Ukrainians were able to actually bribe Biden’s son and get Trump impeached. If they can’t bribe the U.S. enough to stay off their main gangster’s case you know the evidence must be overwhelming.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi

  16. Democracy for the slave owning control group on the top…
    The slaves on the bottom?…..no rights….

    Maybe one of the reasons there is no slave revolt, is the slaves have been given the idea they have rights…to pacify them….

    This video is about diving into this rights thing…..

    ….You are not a person, or part of the body corporate.

    …….The Government tells you this….. that it isn’t you….. in their own Acts and Statutes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZXE7Iz0lxY

  17. Administrative Courts are Unlawful

    Halsburys Law states administrative courts are unlawful.

    What does that mean for council tax (property tax), payments, for speeding or parking tickets, for all sorts of misdemeanors?

    The Judicial System is upheld and trained on Blacks Law Books.
    This is based on Admiralty Law, which is Law of the Sea.
    Admiralty Law protects the elite and subjugates the poor. This is where you get one law for me and one law for thee.

    yep, corporate law = maritime law = realm of the dead

    It’s all a play on words they use that give the game away. Such as; Birth Canal, (on the event of our birth into this world we are born via our mothers ‘birth canal’ which on our parents registering said ‘birth’ renders us as no more than sea vessels which are then subject to Admiralty Law and NOT common law!,

    Standing in the dock (in courts) and the fake corporate birth certificate that declares us all to be ‘lost at sea’ and therefore we are dead entities! Once the birth certificate has been produced and the ‘birth’ recorded, we are no longer regarded as living people of the land but instead we are regarded as individual corporations, that is then traded on the stock market to make lots of money for the shareholders of the said corporations.

    It is all based on deception, slight of hand, downright fraud and theft and keeping the truth from the people.

    Add to this a hefty dose (a couple of thousand pages at least) of continental law based on Corpus Iuris Civilis promulgated by Emperor Justinian of Rome, going through quite interesting development and having (partial) recent incarnation in EU law. Now directly adopting punitive measures originating from Feudalism.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEmwuxwbkU4

  18. There’s a debate tonight between Trump and Biden, though CNN will be hosting the debate. From what I’ve read, the moderators are both Anti-Trump zealots, so they’ll likely attack Donald Trump mercilessly over nonsense like “January 6th”, the corrupt New York court bending jury rules to rule Trump GUILTY of committing felonies, Russia, Trump being a “Threat to Democracy”, etc. As for Joe Biden, it’s possible CNN will throw him softball questions or they gave Biden the questions ahead of time ala giving Hillary Clinton questions ahead of time when she ran for President in 2016.

    It’s also telling that the Trump & Biden campaigns, in addition to CNN, didn’t want Independent Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr participating, as RFK Jr would likely bring up topics that the establishment, CNN, Trump, and/ or Biden don’t want brought up, such as COVID and government’s response to it, the mRNA COVID jabs, censorship, the nonsensical proxy war against Russia that could turn ugly, NATO, regulatory capture of government agencies (e.g. the medical-industrial complex and military-industrial complex), endless wars, etc.

    • RFK shot himself in the foot early on when he got rid of Dennis Kuchinich as his campaign manager. He claimed in the beginning that he was about unifying the country by not touching third rail issues such as gun control and abortion during the campaign. He would have helped had he stuck with corporate capture of regulatory agencies and softpedaling his prior stances on climate deniers.

      Instead, he called for reparations, which is a controversial issue and would split away the right wing part of his support base.

      Kennedy is a non factor in this campaign. Sadly. I liked him at first. Now, not so much

  19. Modern presidents are like the Zaphod Beeblebrox character in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That is, their purpose is to deflect attention from the real power.

    Douglas Adams did well in the character creation of a “president” –arrogant, self-absorbed, hedonistic, opportunistic dolt whose shenanigans always keep the masses at least occupied if not entertained.

    “I’m up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”

  20. “As opposed to the arbitrary (if Talmudically justified) interpretation of the law by judges who are subject to nothing.” What does this mean in the context of the U.S.?

    • Hi Huh,

      I had hoped the sentence was self-explanatory. Judges parse the law like priests do the Talmud, so as to find “law” where non exists. Or to contravene the plain meaning of the law. And most high-level judges are appointed and thus unaccountable.

      • Even if they aren’t appointed they almost always run for election unopposed. It helps that they are “required” to be bar lawyers rather than simply learned and interested citizens.

        • Yeah. No one has the time to research these turds much less understand what they have researched. I think judge terms ought to be limited, though there are likely reasons why they aren’t.

      • Not sure what you mean by “if Talmudically justified.” “adjective. of or relating to the Talmud. characterized by or making extremely fine distinctions; overly detailed or subtle; hairsplitting.”
        https://www.dictionary.com/browse/talmudic
        To read/hear press, FedSoc is controlled by Leonard Leo, an “anti-abortion” Catholic. Scalia, et al. were supposedly put on the Supreme Court to ‘overturn’ Roe v Wade–which they did, without outlawing abortion. I wondered why and discovered FedSoc is not controlled by Catholics (check it out for yourself — they favor debate and letting voters decide; I wonder if we could vote on allowing each citizen one murder how the vote would go). Leo’s primary influencer at Cornell was Jeremy Rabkin who now teaches at the Scalia/George Mason U School of Law–funded by Charles Koch.

        https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1859796/inside-the-mind-of-leonard-leo-trumps-supreme-court-right-hand-man/

        George Mason tightens donor rules after uproar over Koch
        https://apnews.com/general-news-807149f5a8044bf49e24deadffac72fd

        When I googled Rabkin this is what came up: “Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law, George Mason University. Anyone with an interest in legal reasoning should engage with the Talmud, which records some of the oldest and most subtle interpretations of fundamental law. Judaism Decoded offers a fine introduction to Talmudic methods.”
        https://www.chabadsouthafrica.org/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/2893612/jewish/Judaism-Decoded.htm
        To me, if something is justified religiously, it is justified civilly since religious truth/law governs (is higher than) civil society. My understanding is that Jesus specifically came to earth to tell the Jews that they were twisting God’s law totally out of whack w/their ‘interpretations’ like Korban and hate Samaritans and stone some women but not their male partner or other women like Herodias to death, while at the same time est. thousands of rules about tithing, fasting, washing, praying, and the sabbath which made a miserable life for a cowed people ruled by hypocritical and corrupt leaders: i.e. this talmud approach is wrong. Just curious why you would say it is justified as a religious approach but not a civil one (if that’s what you are saying). While your leaders, like Koch (his sodomite bro Dave was VP candidate for Libertarian party in 1980–this year it’s an open sodomite pres candidate), are pushing it as religious and civil approach.

  21. “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.” – Alexander Fraser Tytler (attributed)

    The variant is the “you will own nothing and be happy” variant of communist theory. There will be so much plenty, you see, if we can only get rid of the ideas and things that brought about the bounty we have now. Trash ownership, abandon fossil fuels and nuclear, let technology stagnate or push it in the wrong direction.

    Then haul out the scapegoats and guns. (televised and live streamed)

    A sacrifice must be made. And it sure as hell won’t be the government. Or at least it won’t be the branch that allows debate. That’s the first on the chopping block, usually under the guise of messy debate is inefficient. Look at how wonderful everything is in China, after all. Xi commands “DIG!” and the NPC does. Doesn’t matter if they’re digging in the wrong place (they can always just fill it back in later), just look at that wonderful hole!

    • No one wants to make the sacrifice of their housing value or retirement fund balances so the kabuki will continue until it can’t.

    • ‘democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy’ — quoted by ReadyKilowatt

      This fiscal year, during a purported economic expansion, the US fedgov is on track to run a $2 trillion deficit.

      $2 trillion will easily explode to $4 or 5 trillion in the next downturn, as ‘automatic stabilizers’ kick in. Example: the 2008 deficit of $440 billion more than tripled to $1,440 billion in 2009, as recession and bankster bailouts bit hard.

      Like the Soviet Union in 1990, the US in 2024 is a fiscal and social shambles, impersonating a nuclear superpower. Orange Man Bad, I expect, will rip the scab off and LET IT BLEED.

      • No, comrade! O’Biden’s 5 year plan will grow the economy see! The Nobel Prize™ winning Experts are in agreement. We must stick to the plan, the plan is perfect.

        “In his first four years as President, Joe Biden signed into law major investments in the U.S. economy, including in infrastructure, domestic manufacturing and climate,” the letter said. “Together, these investments are likely to increase productivity and economic growth while lowering long-term inflationary pressures and facilitating the clean energy transition.”

        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-economy-nobel-prize-winners-letter-inflation-warning/

        • Hi RK,

          Why do I get the feeling that these so-called “Nobel Prize winning economists” stand to BENEFIT in some way from Joe Biden’s economic plan? It’s almost like all these “medical experts” who claimed that MASS VACCINATION would end the COVID pandemic but benefited financially for every American they could get vaxxed.

  22. I love to irate people on both the right and left when I call a presidents term a “regime” instead of the term “administration”.

    They stopped being administrations a long time ago.. And that is both Dem and Rep.

    And most world “leaders” are dictators pure and simple. The people counting the votes are the power, not the ones casting them.

    • Almost, Rich, but even regime has become passé. Regime implies that there is a strongman in charge, a head honyak? wielding supreme power ruthlessly.

      These days, I prefer junta or cabal, as they both more accurately describe the situation of absolute rule by a shadowy collection of powerful creatures, often military, though in this case the intel agencies.

      The problem is they are f=$king insane, and they are pushing every insane idea there is, allowing millions of foreigners to stream into the country, pushing sexual debauchery that used to be and should be kept hidden and out of sight of impressionable kids, destroying all productive industries especially to include energy production, and generally laying waste to the country a sane junta would be trying to maintain and rule.

      Cui bono is the eternal question. Part of it is the recognition that the American people (mostly heritage light skinned stock, but plenty of other skin colors, are the legitimate rulers of themselves, that the American nation is the first in millennia to recognize that individuals are sovereigns and members of God’s royal family. As such, we are all the only challenge to them ruling the planet as a vast slave plantation. Though recently, our nation has become soft and feminized, due to their subtle chess moves over the last 15 decades or so. Today they have challenges from a renewed Russia, and an evolving China, and lots of independent little countries.

      The more they tighten their grip, the more who slip through their fingers. In the end, we will win, but at the moment we Americans are being squeezed brutally.

  23. ‘It makes one pine for the honest authoritarianism of Dear and Maximum leaders; of jefes and premiers.’ — eric

    Our pining is about over, promises Jefe Trump:

    ‘In March 2018, a day after announcing sweeping tariffs on imported metals, President Donald J. Trump [wrote]: “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”

    ‘Now, as he runs for president again, Mr. Trump has floated plans for a 10 percent tariff on most imports and a tariff of 60 percent or more on Chinese goods. The Peterson Institute of International Economics found that if he did impose such tariffs, it would cost a typical middle income household about $1,700 in increased expenses each year.

    ‘Another analysis, by the American Action Forum, estimated that a 10 percent tariff could impose additional annual costs of up to $2,350 per American household. Imposing a 60 percent tariff on China would add another $1,950 to U.S. household costs.’ — NYT

    https://archive.ph/ug4df#selection-987.0-987.259

    Why are Democrats deliberately throwing this election, with their unelectable Biden/Harris slate? It’s simple: the Everything Bubble, launched into hyperdrive by covid stimmies and AI Fever, is now crashing. Democrats want the coming Depression to happen on Trump’s watch. They will tag him as Hoover II. Then in 2028 they plan to swoop in with a Roosevelt II candidate — dashing young Gavin, or the snarling menopausal witch Gretchen Whitmer.

    Just as in 1929-1933, Trump’s swingeing tariffs will turn what starts as an ordinary business downturn into a white-knuckle global depression. But unlike then, when many Americans lived on farms and could subsist with little income, the Trump depression will usher in social chaos. Already, flash mobs raid stores in cities. Retailers are shutting down self-checkout because the theft rate has soared.

    Prepare for Jefe Trump’s Pyrrhic victory: even as he struts down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day next January, the US economy will be falling apart with shocking speed. Then he’s going to sodomize the little people with tariffs that will pauperize them; that will turn Walmart into Neiman Marcus for wage slaves.

    Welcome to the MAGA Workers Paradise, comrade. Can you spare ten bucks for a cup of covfefe?

    • That’s exactly right. Not only that, but the next administration’s reign will end just before the magical 2030 date, when all will end because “we” didn’t take action on climate, and also the date when Ray Kurzweil and the other trans-humanists believe AI will become sentient, or humans will be able to upload their consciousness into silicon, or both. Or medical tech will allow one to reverse their physical age and remain forever 29. Or some combination of the possibilities that becomes The Singularity.

      The 2028 election is the one to run in. The AI bot told them so.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

    • Hi Jim. I might be remembering history wrong but before they created all these wonderful ideas such as income taxes wasn’t the government funded by imposition of tariffs and the seigniorage of coins?

      No where on the planet do governments have a taxation problem; they have a spending problem. Perhaps if we had followed Washington’s advisement that we should avoid foreign entanglements we would not have bases in half the country’s of the world and fought in losing wars for over 50 years or for that matter taxed the citizenry to death to pay off foreign dictators.

      • A competent empire would have used those bases to ensure rapaciously favorable trade for themselves. And they did, though via a novel mechanism of creating their own fiat world currency and printing as much as they wanted while limiting access to it by the serfs and subjects. But that allowed them to overextend and consume the empire faster than most of the “great” empires in world history.

      • It was, and I favor that model. Tariffs and a government that does little more than build post offices and deliver the mail.

    • In fairness, Jim, can you envision any scenario where that doesn’t happen? The poor old machine has been abused, the oil never changed, cheap crappy fuels dumped in, run as fast as it can with the governor defeated and the filters simply removed as they became plugged. The whole mess is going to throw a rod, going from screaming at maximum rpm to smoking dead silence in about 3 quick knocks.

      The only thing I could see stopping it would be a combination of a debt jubilee, a reimposed gold standard, and dumping income and property taxation and replacing them with a revenue tariff. But the insane junta thinks they are ubermentsch, and that they are fit rulers of this whole spinning mud ball. So fat chance of fixing it or salvaging much before the big boom.

      • No, Ernie, I can’t envision a happy ending. $34 trillion of debt escalating by 10 percent annually — much faster than the economy is growing — makes for stagnation, or worse.

        As Dr Lacy Hunt (PhD Econ) puts it, ‘Modernized World Dollar Liquidity decelerated sharply before all the recessions since 1976. MWDL has dropped by a record 9% in the twelve months ending February 2024.’

        https://hoisington.com/pdf/HIM2024Q1NP.pdf

      • One word: Obstetrician.

        That personality type is all over Miami. Speak loudly with an exaggerated Latin accent and people will grant you a lot of authority.

        Yes, I believe the accent was exaggerated for the event coming from a man with that much education.

        • Roscoe: I’ve said this before, but I have a lot of respect for you for not letting go of this bone (I’m not kidding). You should mercilessly and publicly criticize this quack until such time as he sincerely apologizes.

    • Wow, is that happening now? Can’t imagine having to wear any kind of face diaper in the heat and humidity of Miami, especially in the summer. That mask will be soaking wet in less than an hour, good luck breathing underwater. The AGW’s do seem to enjoy busting people walking in the park, typical a-holes.

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