This is an amazing clip from Landman. Reality hits hard...

Alberta, America loves you.

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Yes, I know the Roadster still isn't shipping. Capitalism's vaporware still beats socialism's finished product.

Its called working for a living vs 3 months off for the summer, 32 hrs per week of work, 2 yrs off for having a baby and retirement at 60

Dont fall for this. No Ukraine did not take out Russian data centers and Russians are not influencing elections. Liberals have main stream media for that.

The bond market now rates L’Oréal, LVMH and Air Liquide as safer borrowers than the French Republic. Italy and Greece borrow cheaper than France too. French 10-year yields came within a whisker of 5%, and the spread over German Bunds hit its widest since 2011. Germans are reading this as a win. It isn’t. France has run a primary deficit every year since 2002 and hasn’t balanced a budget since 1974. The interest bill grows by roughly €10 billion a year. The prime minister has no majority, Le Pen leads the polls promising fiscal discipline AND an earlier retirement age, and Mélenchon’s party wants to turn €488 billion of French bonds held by the eurosystem into debt that never gets repaid. So what happens when the next French president refuses to cut and dares Frankfurt to let French bonds collapse? The Economist’s answer: France probably wins. Greece tried that in 2015 and folded in three weeks. France won’t, because the EU doesn’t exist without France and everyone in Paris knows it. That leaves the ECB pressing a button it built in 2022 and has never used, buying the debt of a country running a 5.4% deficit that can’t pass its own budget. And the biggest shareholder in the ECB is the Bundesbank. Germany spent 25 years thinking it was the responsible adult in the eurozone. Turns out it’s the co-signer on France’s loan, and France just stopped making payments.

Revolution against what? France debt is > gdp. And interest rate payments are more that entire education budget. France is broke, there is no Revolution there is only coping with reality

There will never be enough other people's money to satisfy the people that never had to work for money. #France

There will never be enough taxpayer funds to appease the French students.

The system senses it's losing control, so it tightens the screws. Mandatory digital identity, central bank digital currency, network censorship in the name of fighting disinformation, algorithmic surveillance of every exchange. No fundamental problems get solved; we just ban talking about them. It's the path Brussels is already preparing with the DSA. An order without freedom.

Lesson in funding schools France has better outcomes with half of the funding. But with half of the funding they are protesting. What is the lesson here?

Oregon will elect the lesbian communist again. I many ways I know how non-brainwashed Canadians feel.

Here in Oregon we also have #elobowsup. These people simply cant talk about things they dont agree with.

Canada was roughly neck and neck with the US on GDP per capita in the 2000s. Today it's closer to Mississippi than Massachusetts. Canadians didn't get lazy. Ottawa just turned building anything into a 10 year permitting fight.

Europe isn't in a rough patch. It's running the Argentina playbook, one reasonable-sounding decision at a time. 🏭 Industry is leaving. German industrial output sits ~10% below 2018, and the country is shedding roughly 15,000 manufacturing jobs a month. VW closed a German plant for the first time in its 88-year history and is planning for 3 million fewer cars a year. BASF cut 2,800 jobs at Ludwigshafen, then opened an €8.7B complex in China. Thyssenkrupp is cutting 11,000. ZF up to 14,000. ⚡ The reason is cost. German industrial power runs ~18-20¢/kWh vs 8-14¢ in the US and 7-12¢ in China. Once a cracker or blast furnace goes cold, it rarely restarts. 🚗 The new car plants in Europe are Chinese. BYD in Hungary, Xpeng in Austria, Leapmotor in Spain. Chinese brands doubled their EU market share in a year. 🇫🇷 France is 117% debt-to-GDP with 0.0% growth. Interest costs went from €36B in 2020 to ~€60B+ this year. Four prime ministers in under two years. Parliament couldn't even pass a budget on time. 📉 The EU was 21% of global GDP in 2000. It's ~14% now. Since 2008, US real GDP has doubled. The EU's grew ~20%. 💸 Draghi's own report: not one EU company worth €100B+ has been built from scratch in 50 years. US VC outraised the EU roughly 5 to 1 since 2020. Everyone endorsed his fix. About 30% got implemented. 🔥 Gas storage hit record lows heading into winter. Meanwhile the EU banned Russian pipeline gas and imported record volumes of Russian LNG instead. 🏃 France lost 800 millionaires in a year, Germany 400. When the productive base shrinks, the state stops taxing what you earn and starts taxing what you own. That accelerates the exit. Argentina was richer per head than France in 1930. It had institutions, rule of law, and the assumption it would always be rich. Wealth isn't a stockpile. It's a flow. Europe stopped refilling the tank decades ago.

As an American there is nothing more insulting than hearing Canadians Elbowsup crowd thinking America would want to waste time invading Canada. There is only one hot girl worth dying for...thinking of you Alberta

Nobody thought tanks were coming. Including Carney, who called it extreme tail risk. A US commander called it "utterly preposterous." Militaries plan for the unthinkable, that's the job. Canada drew up plans to invade the US in 1921. Nobody thought Winnipeg was mobilizing either

Elbows up, factories out. 42% of Canadian manufacturers have already moved or plan to move production to the US (KPMG, July). 57% froze or cut capital spending. The find out stage doesn't send a press release. It sends a moving truck.