"We give thanks for simulated prosperity, and a leader who knows better than anyone else how to achieve it"
Despite RECORD stimulation, social mood is turning down a year early on Trump. According to this chart, there is negligible likelihood he gets re-elected. When the casino implodes, his approval rating will collapse like a cheap tent.
One by one Republicans are figuring out this is all a MASSIVE con job.
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracker
Trump just triggered potential meltdown by signing the Hong Kong support bill. Because what else to do when the only market closed in the world is the U.S.?
“I signed these bills out of respect for President Xi, and the people of China"
Exactly one year ago at the G20 summit, the fake trade truce triggered global meltdown into the end of the year. Which is why now, fake trade deal or no fake deal, it won't matter.
"After a year of non-stop negotiation, we've finally reached an agreement to roll back tariffs to where they were this time last year, and another truce. These Twitter escalations are exhausting"
You know you're an optimist when:
Even at this late stage, there are no shortage of apologists for the corporate status quo. People who gladly put corporate profit ahead of human life. A well-trained cabal of salesmen, and marketing spinmasters, solely preoccupied with making the quarter. The model is disintegrating in broad daylight amid unprecedented wealth inequality, environmental catastrophe, self-medicated euthanasia, and of course America's imploding corporate health care system. By far, the worst in the developed world in terms of costs, life expectancy, and numbers of uninsured. Getting worse by the day, due to the aging population and runaway cost increases. And yet no political solution is even on the horizon. The off-limit subject. After all, there are still a small majority who are on the ever-dwindling life raft of corporate-provided health insurance. When that capsizes in the coming recession, everyone will "get it" at the exact same time. $10/hour JUST to pay for employee health insurance, is in no way sustainable. It's high time for the arrogant among us to look themselves in the mirror and finally admit, "Hey guess what, we don't know what the fuck we're doing, because guess what, we never did".
In the meantime, while that's not happening, the corporate impulse to shop and spend is as strong today as ever, despite the steady erosion of the erstwhile middle class. The well-programmed Borg, addicted to instant gratification in every direction.
Those who have not heeded the 2008 warning and otherwise sought a more inner-directed life, squandered this critical decade to addiction. Stillness of the mind being the only natural way to tame dopamine addiction.
Anyone who speaks out against the de facto instant gratification model becomes the new Unabomber. A convenient way to dismiss those who question all of the underlying assumptions - the foundational layer of lies upon which modern corporate Disney World stands. We never see the losers, we only see the winners. Survivor bias on a global scale. Bill Gates now spending all of his time informing the world's poor how good they have it.
It can come as no surprise that the end of this consumption orgy has attended the largest and most buffoonish lies in U.S. history. Told by the biggest circus clowns in history. Because that's what it took to paper over the chasmic gaps in the Disney facade amid rising mass shootings.
Here we see the cost of this delusion measured in mass shootings:
Of course any apologist for greed can easily explain away these types of alarming statistics, because in today's super Idiocracy even third grade math is now a conspiracy. Opponents of gun control inform us that this surge in shootings is not due to the deluge of "black gun" assault rifles and para-military equipment that has been unleashed in past decades, it's instead due to the rampant mental health crisis.
In other words, what we have is a glut of (semi) automatic assault rifles in the hands of the least mentally stable society in U.S. history. Children going to school with bullet-proof backpacks. What I want to know is what is causing all of this anxiety?
Unlike most Unabombers today, I don't predict an armed revolution. That was so one decade ago, black president end-of-world theory. I've come to realize that the corporate lifestyle is the most efficient killing machine ever devised. There is not enough ammunition in the world to match the carbon reduction that will be caused by the addiction to the consumption status quo. The opioid crisis was NOT a coincidence. Nor was it a conspiracy. It was merely the logical corporate supply response to the chasmic "gaps" in health coverage that have been created by a model that encourages bad consumer choices while making treatment options ever-more expensive. It's a dead end way of life, literally.
Fortunately, there is an inexpensive inoculation to this alluring death trap: Read a book, eat a salad, and go for a walk. All apparently beyond the grasp of the lumbering herd. Caught in the death grip of corporate addiction.
No surprise, this entire farce can be easily ignored by today's perma-smiling corporate TV mannekins, evincing the intelligence of a dead gopher. The assumptions are ignored, because the lies ARE the assumptions. Go off script once, and never be seen again in public. One must never "trigger" the audience by telling the inconvenient truth. Might cause the herd to stampede.
All of which is why the sudden death of this gong show can only come as a massive surprise to the useful Idiocracy, the PhDs in money printing, and the used car salesmen concerned solely with making the quarter.
In other words, everyone you know.
