War matters, so promoting this conversation to a post. Mister Grumpus asks: > The narrative is shifting to the Russians managing to muddle through anyway, and the blue-and-yellow Ukraine flags have all but vanished from Twitter. Ukraine has been attempting World War I tactics, which worked great for a little while, but they are starting to run out of troops willing to fight. Currently it is World War I, which …
Stagflation is here
Walmart reports it is selling less stuff, and is going to have to raise prices further. If it is selling less stuff, everyone is buying less stuff. Meaning everyone is poorer, living standards are falling If everyone is buying less stuff, and yet stuff is still in short supply, then production of value is falling. As has been obvious from holding a finger to the wind for some time, but …
Russians stupidly and stubbornly persisting with World War II Blitzkreig in the Ukraine
They attempted a blitzkrieg to surround and cut off the “city” of Severodonetsk A tiny insignificant city about twenty five blocks by fifteen blocks. The city center consists of a supermarket, a couple of gas stations, a couple of auto repair shops, a car accessory store, a food takeaway shop, a bank, a nail salon, a hotel cafe, a pub, and a remarkably large number of government offices. The town …
2000 mules
“2000 mules” is an investigation of the everyday routine ordinary fraud that preceded the 2020 election. It does not look at the extraordinary and hastily executed fraud that was performed in the early hours of the morning, when they hastily shut down the counting places, then reopened them at three AM with truckloads of freshly printed Biden Ballots, that, being centrally printed, failed to fill out the down ballot candidates. …
The party of God and Christ
The Republican party is walking dead, in the same way the lamestream media are walking dead. If you look at measures of engagement, the lamestream media have absolutely insignificant engagement compared to the major media figures of the alt right, and major alt media figures who frequently interview major media figures of the alt right. And now the lamestream Republican party is showing similar symptoms. Of course, reactionaries and the …
Preen
Musk tweeted: “The far left hates everyone, themselves included!” Now where did you first hear the meme “The left hates everyone, themselves included”? And now everyone is saying it. And people who are repeating Musk are also talking about a far left minority moving into everything and taking over, exercising terrifying power wildly disproportionate to their actual support. They are saying “paper tiger”. What happened to the Canadian trucker protesters …
Money has functions four
A medium, a measure, a standard, a store. 1. Medium of exchange The US centered financial system has become less and less functional for exchange, with international bank transfers becoming ever more dangerous and difficult. Cutting Russia out of SWIFT was a huge additional blow to this functionality. Countries now need to keep some foreign reserves in the Yuan or the Ruble, in order to enable transactions, and are starting …
Hodling time
As investment advice, this post represents rumor, speculation, and incomplete information. Keep an eye on the bad weather I speak of, and make your own judgment about the storm. I have lost a great deal of money, and made a great deal of money. Future performance may not reflect past performance. I am long on land, stocks, and crypto currency. Will soon no longer be long on stocks. We are …
The trans cult
First they overlook evil, then they permit evil, then they legalize evil, then they promote evil, then they celebrate evil, then they persecute anyone who still calls it evil. You pretended they were your equal, only to be promptly informed that they were your superior, which superiority is backed by the fist of the state and the officially unofficial state religion shouted at you from every rooftop. We feel helpless, …
Sanctions and crypto currency
For a long time it has been becoming more and more difficult and dangerous to perform international transactions in fiat money. It has suddenly become a lot more difficult and dangerous. Crypto currency is replacing fiat currency. The breakdown of trust and trustworthiness means that there is no alternative. That is why crypto currency scaling problems are now biting hard, and will soon be biting a great deal harder. Bankers …