It's kinda weird that manipulating oil prices and emptying the SPR just like completely worked with no visible downside whatsoever.

Wouldn't it be convenient if the whole world had to do another pandemic shutdown the moment there was an energy crisis? Wouldn't that just be the best way to stretch existing energy resources against current consumption?

This is accurate for both experiencing it, and trying to explain it to people. You are trading your time on this earth for dollars. They are devaluing those dollars. They are stealing your very life out from under you.

My suggestion to the President is to execute the Somalian/foreign welfare fraudsters on live television, while also raffling off their possessions to GenZ kids. Argue all you want, but that is what it will take if you want to win.

It is all really just some version of this. Dollar is done for.

If Climate and Environment warriors came to the logical conclusion of targeting the largest polluters on the planet instead of whatever modern western country they were born in, I might actually support them. Imagine a Crusade to end pollution in India.

European establishment politics is in its death throes all and willing to resort to authoritarianism to hang on, all over a refusal to accede to the public on immigration. Just an insane spectacle that can’t be made sense of.

In 2025 there were around 8000 "oil tankers" on the planet. Roughly 900 VLCCs. 700 Suezmaxes. 700 Aframaxes + a few thousand product tankers (MRs, LRs, and smaller) Average age was 14 years, but many are over 20. These are not some magic infinite resource.

*18 months to escape the underclass. Lock in*

Terrible time to have an appreciation of history and pattern recognition

I do not see why modern drones can't be built out of wood. If we are just going to endlessly suicide bomb w them anyways, we might as well make their frames as cheap and supply chain independent as possible. Just get a cube of some 4x4, stuff C4 in it, and yeet it to the front

As the bond market is forced to adjust upward, we will watch as the banks that own billions of these 'safe' assets start to lose 1% on them... then 2%, 3%, etc. To the tune of complete failure just like the last time this happened. And that's JUST bonds. No 2nd order effects.

Fascinating and completely insane things are happening every day and there isn’t an author alive who could get a deal from a major publishing house, or a director whom a studio would greenlight to depict any of it honestly.

Call me chicken little, but the economic term for this is "Fubar"

Shutting off the infinite woke NGO money has had some wild ripple effects.

People have no idea how much trouble the EU is in right now. That entire system might collapse. They're too retarded and too inept to survive what's coming, and nationalism is back on the menu.

Grok crunched all of digitized human history and decided Christ is King. Who am I to argue against the super intelligence?

It is pretty wild to watch the entire world pretend this house of cards isn't collapsing in real time. Considering the massive reductions in drawdowns of the SPR, I am not convinced we will even make it to midterm elections before this all implodes.

My current tinfoil theory is that Imgur is intentionally removing any GIF that are used by people they classify as politically right-wing. For example, the classic from No Country for Old Men is no longer available. And it's not the only one that has recently gone missing:

Power selects for a specific personality type, and it is not yours. F.A. Hayek spelled this out in 1944. In a centrally planned system, the people who rise are not the most competent or the most honest. They are the most willing to exercise force against strangers, the most comfortable with contradiction, and the most skilled at coalition-building through favors rather than merit. Government filters for the bad ones from the start. The mechanism is straightforward. Political power means controlling resources you did not earn. Capturing that control requires outcompeting rivals who have no ethical constraints. A principled candidate refuses to promise contradictory things to different voter blocs. An unprincipled one does it without blinking. The unprincipled one wins. Repeat this selection pressure across hundreds of electoral cycles and you get the U.S. Congress in 2026: a body where the average member has held office for over a decade, raised millions from interested parties, and delivered almost nothing measurable to the people who voted for them. Bureaucracy compounds the problem. Once entrenched, state agencies attract people who want authority without accountability. You cannot fire most of them. The FDA, the TSA, the Federal Reserve all function this way, staffed by individuals whose career advancement depends on expanding the agency's reach, never on serving you efficiently.