Feels like a pretty significant shift in uhh.. well we aren't supposed to say "vibes" anymore, but in the last couple weeks the people ringing the alarm bells on the bubble economy have gone from the outsider freaks and heterodox economists, to like, Bloomberg and FT. People at my work now talk about an economic bubble like it's accepted common sense. Feels weird, sky is getting green, tornado weather.
No Kings is performative theater, a very small piece of the potential solutions puzzle. It’s better than sitting on the couch, but the effects will be minimal.
If you really want the bang for the buck, recruit as many No Kings participants as you can to be in DC a little over two weeks later, on Nov 5. A hundred thousand people there will begin to put fear in the pockets of the oligarchs, and the bought and paid for politicians; that’s the only way out of this mess.
Related to the FEMA piece, as FEMA's limited resources rendered it ill-equipped to handle disasters during the Biden administration and things have gotten even worse under Trump:
Wrote a whole thing about my family and I's Hurricane Helene experience and erased it by accident, but it was a nightmare situation (ran out of food, bf and I got stranded in my car, stuck in one area with no way to leave) that felt like living in a post-apocalyptic hell for 36 hours, and it was sobering to realize how ill-equipped we are as a country to handle natural disasters. Was also living in Texas during the 2021 snowstorm, which was another holy shit experience, and we're only going to have more of them due to climate change.
But yeah, sure, let's just throw up some more data centers so people can use our planet's limited resources to generate slop videos of Stephen Hawking on a half pipe.
When the bull market does end and the next recession does hit, it is not hard to predict what this administration will do. They will strongarm an end to the independence of the Federal Reserve in order to get it to lower interest rates, trying to temporarily paper over the damage, like shooting amphetamines into a dead tired man instead of letting him sleep. They will deny and be deceptive and try to hide the extent of the problem, wiping out as much financial transparency as they can, thereby causing more uncertainty and exacerbating the situation. And they will pursue their campaign of distraction with more urgency than ever, frantically demonizing immigrants and political opponents and other disfavored groups even more than they are now, with all of the attendant awful human rights abuses that will go with that.
Our technology and our numbers (of people) have created risks never before faced by humanity. Unfortunately, too many prefer to deal with those risks by ignoring or outright denying them. Listening to experts specifying how to behave and what to do interferes with people’s autonomy, their striving for control over their lives. Hence, the rejection of experts, the attraction of simple minded buffoons, and a quickening pace towards a painful encounter with calamity.
Horrible but true. The mountain of denial and stupidity is like seeing the tidal wave coming and rushing to get your surfboard. Where are the "real" leaders?
Feels like a pretty significant shift in uhh.. well we aren't supposed to say "vibes" anymore, but in the last couple weeks the people ringing the alarm bells on the bubble economy have gone from the outsider freaks and heterodox economists, to like, Bloomberg and FT. People at my work now talk about an economic bubble like it's accepted common sense. Feels weird, sky is getting green, tornado weather.
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No Kings is performative theater, a very small piece of the potential solutions puzzle. It’s better than sitting on the couch, but the effects will be minimal.
If you really want the bang for the buck, recruit as many No Kings participants as you can to be in DC a little over two weeks later, on Nov 5. A hundred thousand people there will begin to put fear in the pockets of the oligarchs, and the bought and paid for politicians; that’s the only way out of this mess.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/13/theres-a-man-with-a-gun-over-there/
Strong things bend, rather than break: hopefully the Administration breaks before the nation does.
Related to the FEMA piece, as FEMA's limited resources rendered it ill-equipped to handle disasters during the Biden administration and things have gotten even worse under Trump:
Wrote a whole thing about my family and I's Hurricane Helene experience and erased it by accident, but it was a nightmare situation (ran out of food, bf and I got stranded in my car, stuck in one area with no way to leave) that felt like living in a post-apocalyptic hell for 36 hours, and it was sobering to realize how ill-equipped we are as a country to handle natural disasters. Was also living in Texas during the 2021 snowstorm, which was another holy shit experience, and we're only going to have more of them due to climate change.
But yeah, sure, let's just throw up some more data centers so people can use our planet's limited resources to generate slop videos of Stephen Hawking on a half pipe.
To this is prescient paragraph:
When the bull market does end and the next recession does hit, it is not hard to predict what this administration will do. They will strongarm an end to the independence of the Federal Reserve in order to get it to lower interest rates, trying to temporarily paper over the damage, like shooting amphetamines into a dead tired man instead of letting him sleep. They will deny and be deceptive and try to hide the extent of the problem, wiping out as much financial transparency as they can, thereby causing more uncertainty and exacerbating the situation. And they will pursue their campaign of distraction with more urgency than ever, frantically demonizing immigrants and political opponents and other disfavored groups even more than they are now, with all of the attendant awful human rights abuses that will go with that.
I will add one item, to wit:
And they will blame us Jews.
very apt -- the Biden years felt like a band-aid on Trump I How many years will it take to recover from the disaster now unfolding?
Spot on, as usual.
Thank you.
Our technology and our numbers (of people) have created risks never before faced by humanity. Unfortunately, too many prefer to deal with those risks by ignoring or outright denying them. Listening to experts specifying how to behave and what to do interferes with people’s autonomy, their striving for control over their lives. Hence, the rejection of experts, the attraction of simple minded buffoons, and a quickening pace towards a painful encounter with calamity.
Ask AI if Bitcoin is a scam. It will say yes, just like the tulip craze.
You do have to ask the question in a specific way or it will tailor its answer to the bias of the questioner.
Of course you are right about these issues. The problem is nobody cares. Until it affects them.
Then they will want to blame everyone but themselves.
Much of it is greed. A lot is ignorance too.
We are cutting important things while still wasting money and giving the rich tax cuts.
I'm ashamed to be an American at this time. We are an entitled and spoiled bunch and had it so good. Now we are throwing it all away.
I have turned to HP Lovecraft for comfort. That’s how bad things are. If only the blame and threat were external to humanity!
Horrible but true. The mountain of denial and stupidity is like seeing the tidal wave coming and rushing to get your surfboard. Where are the "real" leaders?
There are none. It’s up to us; same as it ever was.
Roosevelt didn’t give us the New Deal; the communists, socialists, Wobblies, radicals, labor organizers, and striking workers did.