How Americans like to view this country in the world...
"But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us."
- Secretary of State Madeline Albright, 2/19/98
"America is not exceptional because it has long attempted to be a force for good in the world, it tries to be a force for good because it is exceptional."
- Peggy Noonan
How most of the rest of the world views America, for good reasons...
Dated, but oh so true...
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today - and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us - they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. F*ck them.”
“And when they found our shadows (grouped ‘round the TV sets), they ran down every lead; they repeated every test; they checked out all the data in their lists. And then the alien anthropologists admitted they were still perplexed, but on eliminating every other reason for our sad demise they logged the only explanation left: This species has amused itself to death.” - Roger Waters
“Apathy and indifference are nurtured in the modern age as most peoples’ free time is frittered away with worthless trivia like ball games, computer games, movies and soaps, and fiddling with their mobile phones. These distractions might be fun, but after most of them you’ve learnt nothing of any value, and remain ignorant, malleable and suggestible, which is just how the elites want you.” – Clive Maund
“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed… When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James
“A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill
"30 years ago (1985) Neil Postman (a professor of communications arts and sciences at New York University – until his death in 2003) wrote the best-selling book “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”. (Free download below.) The book exposed, among other things, the subtle but profound dangers to the developing mind from the mesmerizing (and addictive) commercial television industry.
The lessons from that book have essentially been ignored by the amoral and corrupted sociopathic capitalist system that says “damn the torpedoes/full steam ahead” and blindly and greedily promotes unlimited growth no matter what the costs and who or what gets hurt long–term in the resource-extractive, exploitive and permanently polluting processes.
But Postman’s thesis applies even more strongly today to the current internet/computer/ age-inappropriate, pornographic sex and pornographic violence-saturated televangelist/political-contaminated media reality with which the prophetic Postman was properly alarmed.
SOMA, the Drug That Predicted Prozac by 50 Years: In the classic “Brave New World” (1932) Aldous Huxley wrote about the new form of totalitarianism that has now come to pass in the developed world, thanks to the privatized profit-driven, drug, medical and psychiatric corporations whose practitioners were once (naively or altruistically?) mainly concerned with relieving human suffering and trying to holistically and permanently cure their distressed patients’ ailments (rather than lucratively “managing” said “clients” as permanently paying consumers of unaffordable prescription drugs). Nearly 30 years after he wrote the book, Huxley said,
“And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.” Neil Postman’s very last sentence of his book concerned the prescription drug-infested victims of the new form of totalitarianism that Huxley had described in “Brave New World”.
Of course, Huxley’s book was all about his imaginary psychotropic drug SOMA that Prozac’s makers and promoters in the late 1980s to falsely claim to make its swallowers “feel better than well”. One of the characters in Brave New World said: “And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always Soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always Soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears; that’s what Soma is.”
Postman ended his book by writing: “What afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” A couple of years after the publication of Postman’s book, Roger Waters (of “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” fame) released a “concept” album that was inspired by the book. He titled the album “Amused to Death”. The lyrics of the title track are as follows:
Pascal was a mathematician, a physicist, and invented the laptop computer, which was initially a plank of wood. In reality, he did some of the foundational work that showed that atmospheric pressure varied with altitude, even has a unit named after him. Pascal was also a philosopher, and thought a whole bunch about Christianity. This was back before the “let’s get a cappuccino and listen to Pastor Dave talk about why God wants lesbian ministers” type of church, and instead when there were debates on how salvation occurred and if free will was a thing.
Pascal wrote: “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet, it is, itself, the greatest of our miseries.” And, although he’s dead, Pascal was entirely correct. We see it all around us right now.
Distraction is seductive. I remember we were on a family vacation and stopped at a Denny’s® to get breakfast. There was a line, and about 30 people (mainly families) were waiting. As I looked, every eye was focused on a phone – 30 people sitting next to each other, yet distracted by whatever it was that they were looking at. They had escaped reality, and also escaped talking to each other, almost as if they were addicted to the distractions coming to them over their iPhones®.
They did have bills. Their jobs sucked. Their immortal soul was in peril. But that’s difficult to think about, so it’s much easier to look at pretty colors and cat videos for ten seconds before flipping to the next infotainment bite. The distraction was total.
Is it any wonder that coping skills have been drastically impacted in the generation raised on the distraction of phones? Kids can’t cope because they’re never forced to confront themselves until the stakes are high. This creates a group of victims. I hate victims. A lot. They’re whiney and they suck every bit of energy out of the room, like psychic vampires. Oh, wait, I just described "The View." Huh.
Absolutely, there are people who are in situations that are far beyond their control. And, absolutely there are people who don’t deserve what fate has given them. However, when I look at people who have self-control, who have looked fate in the eye and said, “Yeah, so what? I’m still standing here, chump,” I feel admiration.
Neil Postman was a professor and writer, but then he died. Perhaps his best-known work is "Amusing Ourselves to Death," written in 1985. The Mrs. introduced me to it not long after we met, and I knew she was a keeper. In it, Postman talks about the impact of amusement. Amusement is close enough to distraction for our purposes and both Postman and Pascal are dead, so they can’t put up too much of a fight.
Again, Postman wrote about this in 1985, well before the every distraction, every place, all at once monster of the smartphone appeared. In it, Postman identified television as a drug. If so, it’s a gateway drug like aspirin, and the Internet is heroin.
It’s a world where, “Excuse me, I’m talking” becomes a replacement for actual thought and people thinking deeply about issues like old Pascal becomes rarer and rarer. A side effect is that the information we get becomes information we can’t take action on. Want to complain to your congressman? How would you even contact them? How would you get their attention? Hell, getting the attention of an HOA is nearly impossible in some subdivisions. Instead, you’ll complain to your neighbor.
Worse, though, is the impact that’s happening to our youth. The lesson that bad crap is going to happen to them so they need to learn deal with it simply isn’t taught because they just distract themselves away from the Truth they don’t want to consider. It’s not their fault – their brain is optimized to live in villages, and we distract them with the hardest hitting drug in history: the smartphone.
Failure is an option. And failure is a teacher, but when the teacher is fired and replaced with social media? The lesson is muted or ignored. How did Pascal manage to deal with being a religious philosopher, a mathematician, and a physicist? I guess Pascal was good at avoiding distraction and dealing with pressure."
Why Trump-O-Nomics Is Riding a Time Bomb" by David Stockman
Excerpt: "It should be damn obvious that the current blistering AI bubble is setting up Wall Street, the US economy and Trump-O-Nomics for a thundering bust. The AI frenzy has now gotten so out of kilter that fully $140 billion or 76% of the $184 billion gain in real GDP during the first half of 2025 was accounted for by feverishly surging investments in AI-oriented GPUs, network gear, server farms and data centers.
Moreover, this AI investment surge, which is expected to annualize to more than $425 billion in 2025, has been on a literally explosive growth trajectory. According to Grok 3, the comparable annual AI investment spending levels for 2022, 2023 and 2024 in the US were $104 billion, $179 billion and $250 billion, respectively. That is, the projected 2025 annual rate of AI spending will be up by 4.1X from just three year ago.
Of course, when you back out this AI investment explosion from the overall US investment spending numbers, what’s left is pretty punk. To wit, non-AI investment in US equipment and intellectual property in the fourth quarter of 2024 totaled $2.586 trillion, which figure rose by only $31.9 billion as of Q2 2025. So the annualized rate of gain was just 2.4% during the 2025 first half—a level far below the 12.2% annual gain in the AI-swollen BEA figure for total US equipment and intellectual property (first line) investment.
In short, what is propping up the entire main street economy is an immense speculative surge in AI investment spending that isn’t remotely sustainable because it’s based on a fevered stock market bubble, fueled by the Fed’s printing presses. And for want of doubt, let us remind what the real GDP and its major components looked like during the first half of 2025, excluding the AI investment eruption."
"Yesterday, we raised a provocative issue. If a foreign power - or space aliens - wanted to wreck our economy, why waste time and money on firepower? All they would have to do is cut off our access to funny-money credit. Auto sales would stop. House building sites would go quiet. Restaurants and hotels would be safe spaces for mice and cockroaches. Millions of people would be out of work. Millions of houses would be foreclosed. There would be long lines at the food banks.
It’s credit that makes the world go ‘round today. ABC news: "Americans’ household debt levels – including mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans – are now at a new record high, according to data released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Total household debt reached $18.59 trillion from July through September of this year, up by $197 billion from the previous quarter. Overall debt levels are up by $4.4 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession."
When one of our forebears arrived in the New World, early in the 18th century, he came subject to an indenture. He was a Scot and had been captured by the English in one of their battles. They then sent him to Kent Island, Maryland, where he was purchased by a local planter. He was lodged and fed with the African slaves. Unlike the Africans, he was released after seven years, when his indenture was up. But during those seven years, his time was not his own. He was obliged to work for his master.
A 30-year mortgage is a kind of indenture, an obligation to work for someone else’s benefit. A 50-year mortgage extends the indenture...requiring a half century of servitude. So, the shift from owning one’s own house, car, tools, etc...to just making monthly payments on them...was an important difference. The master became the slave. The economy changed from accumulating wealth to accumulating debt. And the political system no longer encouraged wealth building; instead, the voters were urged to go deeper into debt in order to stimulate the economy!
One of the most remarkably blockheaded programs in US government history was the 2009 CARS act. It paid people to trade in their old autos and buy new ones. Then, it required that the old cars be murdered, by lethal injection. The engine oil was replaced with sodium silicate, which caused moving parts to seize up permanently.
What possible utility was served by getting rid of cars before they arrived at the end of their useful lives? A later study by the Quarterly Journal of Economics found the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program to be completely useless. Researchers found “no evidence of an effect on employment, house prices, or household default rates.” The only substantial effect was to get people out of the cars they owned...and into cars they didn’t own, requiring monthly payments! People who had had no auto debt now saw themselves indentured for four years.
Looking at the economy at large, the shift from real money to credit money changed the economic system, the political system, and the social structure. Households used to have to work and save. That is, they had to produce wealth before they could enjoy it. Wealth earned...and wealth enjoyed...were equal. Both rose in tandem.
But today, you can get the cart and the horse at the same time - without having to fully pay for either. The average person uses the credit system to enjoy houses, cars, vacations, meals, and big screen TVs. They are all readily at hand...but only by accepting a lifetime indenture...in which he pays monthly, and cannot tolerate unemployment or higher interest rates.
As we saw, the price of the average house is now $420,000. With interest over 30 years of mortgage, it comes to more than $800,000. Pay interest on a 50-year mortgage, however, and you will pay $1.2 million. The man with capital...with savings...with real money, meanwhile, will pay only $420,000. He will enjoy the same house for the same 50 years as the man with the half-century mortgage. But he will pay only a third as much. What’s more, he will enjoy the independence and the confidence of actually owning his own home. Bad times...good times...low rates...high rates - he will still have a roof over his head.
Today, no act of Congress is necessary to bring US households to their knees. No attack by a foreign power...or extraterrestrials. Not even an Executive Order. The Fed simply has to increase the interest rate. Credit would dry up, overnight. In 1980, Paul Volcker was able to push the Fed’s key rate to 20%. He did it to squeeze inflation out of the system. Today, with US households much deeper in debt...and much more dependent on credit… even 10% would be…the day the earth stood still."
“Literally everything the left did, every line they crossed
and rule they broke, all came back to slap them in the face.”
- Insurrection Barbie on “X”
"Indeed, you have a lot to be thankful for this week of humble national gratitude - for instance, the explosive new revelations as to just exactly how US elections have been rigged, and how, it now appears, Mr. Trump and his people, are prepared to go mad-dog on the sinister forces behind it.
This supposedly was behind last week’s “Seditionist Six” prank, the slickly produced video arranged by Senator (former CIA official) Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and sidekick Sen. Mark (“the Astronaut”) Kelly (D-AZ) advising US military personnel about the option to disobey “illegal orders” from the command structure (that is, from President Trump on down). What illegal orders? They did not specify.... suggesting, perhaps, orders that had not yet been issued, for an emergency as yet also unspecified.
Accept, for now, the uncomfortable fact that our country has entered a miasma of uncertainty. That is, you don’t know what’s going on... but something surely is going on, and it seems sort of, I dunno, momentous... something with the odor and flavor of a... “color revolution.”
By the way, everybody’s attention got focused instantly the night before Thanksgiving when one Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan brought to to the US with the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation under Operation Allies Welcome, ambushed two National Guard troops a few blocks from the White House. Specialist Sarah M. Beckstrom, age 24, died from a head wound and Staff Sgt. Andrew J. Wolfe, age 31, remains hospitalized. There was nothing else on the TV news that night except the shooting.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, turns out, had worked for nine years as a GPS tracker specialist in Unit 03 of the Kandahar Strike Force (aka “Scorpion Forces”), initially under CIA oversight via its Special Activities Division, with some JSOC training, before transitioning to Afghan intelligence. In other words, he was not just some mook with a donkey. He had lately been taken in by a sympathetic American family in Bellingham, WA - a roughly three-thousand-mile journey to Washington DC - where he did his deed. If he flew on an airplane to get there, just how did he manage to smuggle a handgun through airport security? Or did someone, maybe, give him one on arrival in DC? Was he still, one way or another, in the employ of the CIA? I guess we’ll find out.
Now, with the nation’s attention split this week between the DC ambush story and the culinary difficulties of Thanksgiving, the election fraud story unspooled in alt media. Surprise, surprise! Turns out to be our auld acquaintance, the Kraken? Remember that monster? Eminent DC attorney Sidney Powell, had conniptions over the Kraken in the months after the 2020 election that ushered senile (let’s just say it) “Joe Biden” into the Oval Office for four disastrous years. (After which, Sidney Powell was methodically defamed and prosecuted by mysterious forces.)
Ms. Powell threatened to “release the Kraken,” meaning: a malign combine out of Venezuela had managed to foist Dominion vote tabulation machines all over the USA, but especially in swing vote states, along with Smartmatic software. And all this janky machinery was connected by the Internet through Serbia to the CCP, or something like that. And that this machinery, plus massive voter fraud operations run by Lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and Mary McCord, with help from Mark Zuckerberg’s $400-million Center for Tech and Civic Life org, prestidigitated millions of extra votes needed to push “Joe Biden” into the winner’s circle.
Those of you who stayed up late the November night in 2020 also probably witnessed some impressive magic tricks in the election returns - for instance, the mom-and-daughter team of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss pulling a switcheroo in the Fulton County (Atlanta) election HQ, captured on closed-circuit TV, while vote-counting was shut down for several hours due to a “broken toilet”... and the wondrous vote flipperooski in Michigan... and the panel trucks delivering bales of extra ballots in the wee hours of morning to the main Philadelphia election HQ... and presto-change-o, you got a senile president.
Michigan Vote Flipperooski, Election Night, 2020
This voter fraud business is evidently a global operation, involving elections in many other countries over several election cycles, carried out by a broad network of NGOs and government agencies, such as the now dismantled USAID, which acted as a money-laundering service for all these ops. A good place to start your own research is independent reporter Emerald Robinson’s “X” account.
Mr. Trump, for one, has always been adamant that the 2020 election was a fraud, but it has taken all year, apparently, to convince White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles that this is so, and now, we’re told, Mr. Trump is about to go after the perps. The hard evidence is there, rumor has it, the receipts, and that is why the Democratic Party is freaking out... including that “Seditionist Six” message about refusing orders from the Commander-in-Chief.
The kernel of all this (maybe paranoid, maybe not) is that the DC blob is cornered and that its only hope to escape prosecution, punishment, loss of power and perqs, and possible extinction, is to pull off a coup to bum-rush Mr. Trump out of office by main force. Meaning, our country might be at war with itself right now. Are perp walks in the offing?"
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“Namibia has some of the darkest nights visible from any continent. It is therefore home to some of the more spectacular skyscapes, a few of which have been captured in the below time-lapse video. We recommend watching this video at FULL SCREEN (1080p), with audio on. The night sky of Namibia is one of the best in the world, about the same quality of the deserts of Chile and Australia.
Full screen recommended.
Visible at the movie start are unusual quiver trees perched before a deep starfield highlighted by the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This bright band of stars and gas appears to pivot around the celestial south pole as our Earth rotates. The remains of camel thorn trees are then seen against a sky that includes a fuzzy patch on the far right that is the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. A bright sunlight-reflecting satellite passes quickly overhead. Quiver trees appear again, now showing their unusual trunks, while the Small Magellanic Cloud becomes clearly visible in the background. Artificial lights illuminate a mist that surround camel thorn trees in Deadvlei. In the final sequence, natural Namibian stone arches are captured against the advancing shadows of the setting moon. This video incorporates over 16,000 images shot over two years, and won top honors among the 2012 Travel Photographer of the Year awards.”
"People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer."
- Eve Ensler
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“You go up to a man, and you say, “How are things going, Joe?” and he says, “Oh fine, fine... couldn’t be better.” And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”
"Americans are waking up to a harsh truth in 2025 - the cost of simply existing is rising faster than paychecks, savings, or stability can keep up. What used to be manageable monthly bills have turned into financial pressure points, and millions are now asking the same question: “How much longer can we afford this life?” As this year unfolds, that pressure is reshaping every corner of the U.S. economy. Behind the headlines and political noise, a deeper shift is happening - one that explains why groceries feel pricier, why utilities keep climbing, why rent never seems to fall, and why so many people feel like they’re working harder just to stand still.
In this in-depth breakdown, we examine what the real cost of living in America looks like in 2025 - using verified public data, real stories from American workers, and clear analysis of the structural forces pushing families to the financial edge. This isn’t about fear-mongering. It’s about exposing what millions are feeling but few are talking about openly.A new chapter is unfolding - one where the American household budget is stretched more tightly than ever before. These pressures aren’t isolated. Together, they form a system that makes survival feel harder each year - especially for young adults, working families, and anyone relying on a single paycheck. This isn’t a temporary squeeze. It’s part of a long-term economic reset - one that’s changing where Americans live, how they work, and what financial security looks like in the future."
"Fast food was supposed to be the cheap, quick option. Now people are spending $30, $40 at the drive-thru and leaving disappointed. In this video, we're looking at what's really happening to fast food and restaurants across America, skyrocketing prices, shrinking portions, and food quality that's gotten noticeably worse. We'll go through TikTok clips and comments from people sharing their real experiences: $40 McDonald's orders, $70 pizza deliveries, $24 salads, and soups that taste like chemicals. Meanwhile, chains like Wendy's are closing hundreds of locations, Chipotle is reporting double-digit sales drops, and consumer confidence is at its lowest since 2022. The companies got greedy, pushed prices as high as they could, and now people are staying home. Is this the beginning of a bigger collapse? Let's talk about it. If you've stopped eating out because the prices aren't worth it anymore, you're not alone. Let me know in the comments what you've been noticing at restaurants in your area."
"Oh help. I am told that some still believe that diversity is our strength. These people are powerful believers and probably could believe a hole into a bank vault or believe an anvil into flying. The fact is that diversity has been the cause of unending hostility, bloodshed, misery and social malfunction since Nordic white men imported black Africans and began killing off the Indians. Without race we wouldn’t have had slavery, arguably the Civil War, Jim Crow, burning cities, affirmative action, the Floyd riots, or cities you can’t walk in without wearing an armored bathysphere. If that is strength, I would like to see what weakness looks like.
More recently the presence of Latinos has lots of people gnashing their hair and pulling their teeth and hollering for ethnic cleansing. They say things like America is a White European Country with a shared culture and genetic unity and other things it ain’t. When the country is nineteen percent Latino and thirteen percent lack and six per cent Asian, then as sure as nuttiness in a Democrat administration it ain’t a White European Nation. And, obviously isn’t going to be.
What now? Saying over and over that unrestricted immigration was a bad idea, as indeed it was, accomplishes exactly, precisely nothing, as does ranting about how Chinese, Latinos, and Iranians are terrible folk, which they are not. The problem is that different kinds of people don’t like each other. So, just for a moment, let’s break with all tradition and think in terms of raw practicality. I claim we need to deal with the world we live in, not the one we wantto live in and that things will go wrong if, as we usually do, we try to live in a desired world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy is a great place to live, but doesn’t hold up too good if it rains.
Consider Latinos. There are about sixty-five million of them in the US, along with fourteen million illegal aliens. Now, can we throw them all out, as many would like? I’m not asking whether it is a good idea, or patriotic, or moral, or whether Latinos are warm and fuzzy or rapists and narcos. I am asking whether it is possible. Thinking practically is a desperate measure, but strange times call for strange remedies.
Deporting sixty-five million in a century would mean over six hundred thousand a year, assuming they didn’t have children, which is a pretty robust assumption. In a decade, six million a year. This ignores impediments such as that most are citizens and can vote. No one who isn’t smoking Drano can believe this is going to happen. But if it is what the deportation lobby have in mind, they should say so. The public deserves to know what is being cooked up for it.
it might be worth looking at how Latinos got to America. In 1965 the United States–not Mexico–opened the border to encourage immigration. At least, that must have been the intention since it was obviously going to be the result. In essence, America was saying, “Now, Pedro, don’t you cross that river. If you do, we’ll give you a job, school for your children, medical care, and drivers licenses, and I don’t know what all, and your kids will be citizens. But don’t you cross the river, you hear?”” And who would have thought it….Pedro crossed the river. As a parent, offered such a deal, he would have been irresponsible not to.
America kept the border open for over sixty years when it could have closed it in six weeks, as Trump has just done. Liberals said, “All these poor people want is a better life.” Republican businessmen didn’t say, not out loud anyway, “All we want is cheap labor.” It is what they meant. Left and Right working together in bipartisan idiocy. It’s heartwarming.
Anyway, deporting a million would amount to less than two percent of the Latino population, which in practical terms means that they mostly aren’t going anywhere. A law of physics says that if something doesn’t go away, it stays where it is. (I didn’t go to school just tocarry my lunchbox.) So America is going to be pretty seriously multiracial whether we like it or not. Some will, some won’t. it don’t matter. We can like sunrise or gravitation or corruption in Washington. They’re going to happen anyway.
Now, some white folk just don’t much like people who are any shade of brown, and would probably dip then in Clorox is they could. These are usually called White Nationalists or WhyNats. They tend to be very English and Protestant and kind of solemn and remind me of American Gothic with better clothes. But while they can deport hundreds of thousands or maybe a million illegals, the difference wouldn’t be noticeable. So hear we come to the great big, thumping, motingator question for WhyNats:
What do they propose to do about the fifty million or so Latino citizens who can’t be deported? I mean what practically? Fizzing and fuming and talking about Andrew Jackson and George Washington are not practical measures. When you get through, everything is just like it was when you started. How does that help things?
One answer is to keep the border closed, do nothing, worry about something else, and wait for assimilation. Which is going to happen anyway. Another is to encourage racial hostility so as to keep the country divided and angry, and wait for assimilation to happen. Which it is going to anyway.
Other suggestions that I have heard from individual WhyNats, though not espoused formally as policy, are: break America into three racially pure countries, as is sometimes suggested? If this is the plan, say so. should we make intermarriage illegal? If so, say so. Revoke citizenship? Make employment of (increasingly Americanized) Latinos illegal? Reimpose racial segregation? If so, say so. Something else? What? Tell us.
All of the foregoing ideas would likely face “no” votes from fifty million Latinos, from all Democrats, constitutionally-minded Republicans, politicians eyeing the Latino vote, and dairy farmers who want their cows milked. Complicating things is that lots of Latinos have gone and married white Americans. How do you deport half of a child? I would rather that ICE not think about this. Add that Latino girls can be horribly pretty–the condition is endemic–and, when speaking unaccented American English and pecking at cell phones like everybody else, are not going to repel Willy Bill Jenkins who is all blue-eyed and Nordic. That’s just a practical fact. If you know anything about teenagers, you understand this.
Which brings us to birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court gets to tell us whether it is constitutional. If it ain’t constitutional now, then it never was. The Court doesn’t change the Constitution but just tells us what it means, this week anyway. So if Pedro and Maria came over illegally in 1900, their children were illegal because mom and dad were, so their children were illegal, and so on, and so most everybody Latino in the whole country is illegal.
Now, the country has been through all of this before. In the KKK Revival of the Twenties, the same people were all agitated over Italians, Catholics, the Irish, and other horrors. They mostly got over it, though I think they are still a little suspicious of Italians. The same thing is going to happen with Latinos who as a practical matter–that wretched word again–are mostly not going to go away.
So will Latinos destroy the US? Probably. Now they milk cows, which is what God wants them to do, but next thing you know they’ll all stop and go to college to be lawyers, which is enough to destroy any country, and we’ll have to drink sugary soft drinks and die of diabetes because we don’t have any milk. Of course another approach might be to go to Guadalajara and see what kind of folk Mexicans are but the ensuing shock would likely cause cardiac arrest. We’re doomed either way. There’s no hope."
Baltimore, Maryland - "It’s Thanksgiving Day. And oh...are we grateful, or what? We have a roof over our heads...food, fire, family...we’re still able to drive a nail and a car (not at the same time!). We’re free to go where we want...do what we want...think what we want...But, today, we look beyond our own comfortable world!
By our reckoning, about $38 trillion of spending has happened since 1971 — with no offsetting output. No extra goods. No extra services. It was as if the money came from outer space. Like aliens pretending to be human...it walked like real money. It talked like real money. But there was that funny green tail...
A house today serves the same function today as it did when we were children. It is dry and warm...a place to sleep, to work, to entertain ourselves and others. The average house cost $28,000 in 1971. Today, it costs $420,000. The house may be bigger. It may have granite countertops and air-conditioning. But is it really worth 15 times as much? And who pays cash? With the proposed 50-year mortgage, it will cost $1.2 million, including interest payments.
These numbers tell us how much the alien money has taken control of our financial world. Many people still live happily in the houses they lived in 50 years ago. But nobody spends this new money the way he spent real money in 1971. Back then, if you wanted a car or a house, you had to earn money and save it. Yes, you could get a mortgage, but you were expected to pay it off. People bought the important components of their lives back then; they didn’t just depend on credit from extraterrestrials.
Our point is not just that prices have gone up...but that our material lives have been taken over...clandestinely subjugated to strange and unnatural money. And now, we all depend on it. Money Magazine: "Late Car Payments Are Piling Up at Record Levels as More Drivers Face Delinquency." Time was...people owned their cars. Interest rates could go up. Unemployment could go up. They still had wheels.
Even through the Great Depression...people generally held on to their cars...and their houses. Because they owned them. But now they belong to someone else. In the 2008 mortgage finance crisis, for example, some four million families had to give their houses back to the mortgage companies and move on.
And now...house prices are falling again. Newsweek: "More than half of U.S. homes are declining in value, according to a recent report from Zillow, the largest share since 2012. A study by the online real estate marketplace, released on Monday, found that 53 percent of all U.S. homes have seen their valuations drop compared to last year, with a nationwide average decline of 9.7 percent compared to their peak price."
The alien money is fed into the economy as credit. It may come ‘out of nowhere.’ It may have no value. And yet, Americans must pay for the privilege of using it. If they want a car or a house, they typically borrow this ersatz money, thank the lender and pay interest on it. But where did the lender get the money? It was never earned. Never saved. And it has no real value. And yet, the finance industry nevertheless lends it out at a profit.
Pity the poor borrowers. Fed and housed, they are kept like turkeys. They live in houses they will never fully pay for. They drive cars that don’t belong to them. They pay for food, streaming services, gas and entertainment with credit cards, not with cash. The result is: they don’t own anything. And come a crisis, their cars and houses go back whence they came.
The consumers’ challenge is to keep their incomes in line with their monthly expenses. The challenge for the financial authorities, meanwhile, is to get them to take more of this fake money...putting them deeper into debt and more under the thumbs of the Wall Street/Washington/alien money cabal.
"There's a pattern in economic history that repeats with mechanical precision. Not randomly. When specific conditions align: Extreme asset valuations. Record debt levels. Excessive leverage. Widespread belief "this time is different." Then a trigger event forces liquidation. These conditions existed in 1929. They existed in 2008. Right now in 2025, every single condition exists again. Not similar. IDENTICAL. The stage is set. If history is any guide, the crash comes late 2026 or early 2027. This isn't prophecy. This is pattern recognition. A documentary analysis of a crash that hasn't happened yet but follows a pattern that happened twice before with devastating accuracy.
Where We Are Now - The Setup: Stock market: S&P 6,000. Buffett Indicator (market cap to GDP) at 185%. Buffett said anything over 120% is dangerous. We're 54% above danger threshold. 2000 tech bubble peak: 145%. 2007 financial crisis: 135%. We're higher than both. Most overvalued stock market in American history.
• Real estate: Median home $420K. Median income $75K. Ratio 5.6:1. Historical sustainable: 3:1.
• Total US debt: Over $90T (320% of GDP). Every sector leveraged beyond historical norms simultaneously. This is the everything bubble.
The FED'S Trap: 15 years since 2009, Fed guaranteed markets. Every dip = Fed cuts rates or prints money (QE1, QE2, QE3, COVID stimulus). Fed printed $8T (2008-2022). Investors learned: Buy the dip. Fed will save you. But Fed used its ammunition. Rates were 0% for decade (can't go lower). Balance sheet $800B (2008) to $9T (2022). Limited room for expansion without inflation (which happened 2021-2022).
Fed fought inflation by raising rates 0% to 5.5% in 18 months (fastest in 40 years). Higher rates make debt expensive. Corporate debt at 3% must refinance at 7%. Fed trapped: Rates too low = inflation returns. Rates too high = debt unpayable. No good option.
Historical Comparison:
• 1929: Stock market up 400% (1924-1929). Margin debt 10% of GDP. Everyone leveraged. "Permanently high plateau" = crashes impossible. October came. Market fell 89% over 3 years.
• 2008: Housing doubled (2000-2006). Mortgage debt 100% of GDP. Everyone leveraged with subprime. "Housing never falls nationally." Subprime defaulted. S&P fell 57%.
• 2026: Same setup. Bubble. Leverage. Belief Fed makes crashes impossible. Just need trigger."
"Discover why economists are warning that 2026 could bring an unprecedented economic storm unlike anything we've seen in nearly a century. This deep dive reveals how the toxic combination of rising inflation, stagnant growth, and mounting unemployment mirrors two of America's darkest financial chapters happening at once. See how the same warning signs that preceded the 1929 crash and the 1970s stagflation crisis are quietly emerging today. You'll understand what happens when a depression-style market collapse meets decade-high inflation and why traditional financial advice may not protect your money this time. Learn the historical patterns that preceded both crises and what everyday people did to survive when the economy worked against them from every direction."
