Posted on 06/05/2022 1:53:53 PM PDT by billorites
Is Dementia Joe Biden trying to ID every single voter in America and then personally p.o. each and every one of them?
It sometimes seems that way, doesn’t it?
In Brandon’s America, odds are that at least a few products or services you like, or need, are now either sold out, unavailable or soon will be. Or whatever you need has gotten way too expensive for you to even think about buying anymore.
Do you have an infant who needs baby formula?
Biden is working on it — maybe July. In the meantime, give the kid a pacifier. Above all, don’t panic — Brandon has announced that “the United Airlines” are flying in “3.7 bottles” from Australia.
Considering retirement?
There’s a new poll out saying that one-quarter of Americans are postponing their retirements, given how Brandon’s leftist policies have predictably devastated their pension plans.
Do you like eggs?
The USDA announced this week that the price may soon reach a dollar an egg — 12 bucks for a dozen, in other words.
Are you one of that dwindling number of people who like to see movies at the multiplex?
Guess what — there’s a looming shortage of popcorn.
Did you get in a fender bender and want to get that dent knocked out of your car?
Chances are, the body shop told you the part you need is out of stock, and will be, until October, maybe, at the earliest.
Did you get laid off because you wouldn’t get a jab that doesn’t seem to work?
Did you scrimp and save to pay for your own college tuition, or your kids’, or you went into the military to get the GI Bill because you couldn’t afford the price of higher education?
But now the non-working classes with nose rings who majored in gender studies are demanding that you pick up their student-loan debts, so they’ll have more discretionary income for tattoos, designer weed and gender-fluid wardrobes?
The news is so unrelentingly bleak that even Democrat tracts like The Washington Post are grudgingly acknowledging Brandon’s cascading cornucopia of catastrophe.
On Friday, the paper whose laughable motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” reported that summer brownouts and blackouts are looming across the nation — just like in Venezuela, the Democrats’ beloved vision of a future workers’ utopia in the U.S.
If the Post for once isn’t printing fake news, then democracy may literally soon be dying in darkness, and cold, once the winter returns.
Ever pick up something at the supermarket that you’ve been buying for years, and when you get home and open the package, you’re down… one biscuit, or four ounces of whatever, or the bag of chips seems to have turned into a bag of… air?
Under Jimmy Carter, we had stagflation. Under Biden, we have both stagflation and shrinkflation.
I have a new opening to my radio show every afternoon. I ominously announce we have reached a new “grim milestone,” you know, just like state-run media used to report the COVID death toll, but only until Jan. 20, 2021, when Brandon was installed as president after his landslide selection, er, election, as president.
“Good afternoon,” I state, in somber tones, “today, a grim milestone to report as the United States records its highest-ever average gasoline price….”
On Thursday, the record was $4.71.
On Friday, it was $4.76.
Yesterday, when I was off, it went up another nickel, to $4.81.
When I go back on the air Monday, I will have another new grim milestone to report. Count on it. Not to mention a different grim milestone to throw into the mix.
“Good afternoon,” I will say. “Today, the nation observes a grim milestone. On the day Brandon became president, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States was $2.39. Today, less than 17 months later, the price has more than doubled to (fill in the blank).”
As the formerly robust US economy careens off a Democrat cliff, some chores in my own life have become simpler.
For instance, I write copy for my advertisers. One of them sells kits of antibiotics that you put aside for use in case of emergency.
I knocked out some new copy for my client this week:
“Have you noticed there’s no baby formula anywhere? And baby formula is something that’s produced right here in the USA! Most of our antibiotics come from overseas, especially China and India. If the government can ruin production and delivery of a domestic product like baby formula, how bad do think they could screw up a trans-Pacific supply chain? You need to be prepared for the next disaster….”
In case you were wondering, sales are robust. Ditto, the “survival kits” that include emergency supplies not only of food and water, but also playing cards, because… Brandon’s blackouts.
Younger listeners sometimes call in and ask me, Is it as bad as the Seventies yet?
I tell them, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait ‘til you’re sitting in a gas line. Don’t forget that much of the population is not as, shall we say, stoic, as earlier generations.
Get ready for “mostly peaceful” protests at your local service station.
Another change from Jimmy Carter days: bar codes at the supermarkets. In the 1970’s, with any luck, and long enough fingernails, you could at least peel the latest, highest-priced stickers off the cans or packages.
Elon Musk said this week he has a “super bad feeling” about the economy. The president responded by attacking “Eon Musk” while still wishing him well on his next trip “to the moon.” That’s our Brandon!
Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is likewise predicting a “hurricane” of horrors. I’ve got news for Jamie — it’s here. The winds are already blowing so hard that the weathervane of top of the garage is spinning out of control.
It’s a grim milestone.
One DOLLAR an egg????
<>Brandon’s cascading cornucopia of catastrophe.<>
Howie is still the best in what is left of the newspaper business.
“Ages of Discord” book by Peter Turchin
We are on the wrong track! Peter tells us that an excess of Elites have caused most of the serious problems in the history of our world.
The excess of Elites, still are causing problems behind their brick and electronic walled mansions.
Then, Peter shows/tells us how that has often happened in America, and is apparently happening again and could be a root cause of violence in America, in the past, now and in the near future.
Are there too many meddling/interfering billionaire elites in America?
As a result, Is our country going to hell due to their meddling? Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think that we are going to hell. They don’t know whom to blame!
The inflation-adjusted wage of a US worker today is less than 40 years ago—but there are four times as many multimillionaires.
As inequality grows, the infrastructure frays and the politics become more poisonous. Every year, more and more Americans go on shooting sprees, killing strangers and passers-by—and, increasingly, the representatives of the state. This is not new!
Troubling trends of this kind are endlessly discussed by politicians, public intellectuals, and social scientists. But mostly, they talk about only a small slice of the overall problem. After all, how on earth can yet another murderous rampage have anything to do with polarization in Congress? Is there really a connection between too many multimillionaires elite and government gridlock?
Historical analysis shows that long spells of equitable prosperity and internal peace are often succeeded by protracted periods of inequity, increasing misery, and political instability. These crisis periods—“Ages of Discord”—tend to share characteristic features, identifiable in many societies throughout history.
Modern Americans, for example, mayle be disconcerted to learn that the US right now has much in common with the Antebellum 1850s and, even more surprisingly, with ancien régime France on the eve of the French Revolution.
Can it really be true that our troubled age is nothing new, and that it arises periodically for similar underlying reasons?
It can. Ages of Discord marshals a cohesive theory and detailed historical data to show that this is, indeed, the case. The book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through American history, from the Era of Good Feelings of the 1820s to our first Age of Discord, which culminated in the American Civil War, to post-WW2 prosperity and, finally, to our present, second Age of Discord.
Peter shows how these elite billionaires control, who is elected to Congress and to high $ state and local official positions. If you like charts, Peter has them. I prefer his written verbiage re the histories of our elites and other haters of America.
Don’t worry fake news has a case of lipstick for their pig 🐷🤪
Who is his antibiotics sponsor?
“ Are there too many meddling/interfering billionaire elites in America?”
One certainly affected the 2020 election with a donation of hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for drop boxes in mostly Dem areas in key cities in swing states , among other outrages. Of course the money was laundered through a “non-profit”.
Very interesting post, sir.
It is a fascinating book.
Many of us on FR have been blaming the elites for causing many of the problems our country and people are having.
This book shows that has probably been happening for decades if not centuries in America and around the world.
His writing about about our country before the revolutions with the UK and after to our Civil War and then into our world from 1900 to today, makes one go hummm!
His charts often vividly show us the trends he discusses.
I hated statistics in my BS and MBA, he uses that stuff to explain and set up some excellent real math realities.
Ping
A good article. I have been the grocery story shopper since the Covid1984 hit us. My wife needed a new hip and covid was a stumbling block for her re getting her surgery scheduled. She finally got the replacement this past 1 March.
There were more empty shelves at the two stores, where I shop at, the beginning of the lockdowns.
The price increases and smaller sizes are SOP on the items we buy at our local store or on line from Costco.
Just paid $70 to fill my 15 gallon tank.
$70.
It’s a grim millstone.
This also works...
Libberish... the cognitive dissonance assertions that leftists spout with utter conviction.
I’ve had this bad feeling all weekend that the powder keg is going to blow very soon.
I guess my husband will agree to backyard chickens, after all.
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