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Kunstler: Hope and Change Are At Hand
It seems unfair that the earnest polymath Elon Musk should go broke in the electric car business while Kylie Jenner becomes a billionaire at age 20 hawking lip gloss on Snapchat, but that’s how the American Dream rolls these late days of empire. Perhaps the lesson here, for all you MBA wannabes, is that Mr. Musk could switch his production facilities from cars to lip gloss. Of course, to successfully market his new line of cosmetics on social media, Elon might have to consider sexual “reassignment” surgery — unless he could persuade American men via Facebook and Twitter, that lip enhancement boosts male self-esteem almost as much as the purchase of a Ford F-450 pickup truck at a laughable fraction of the cost.
Which raises an interesting question: if President Donald Trump’s most winning personal feature is that magnificent golden hair-do, why doesn’t he (or his family) get out of the pain-in-the-ass hotel business, with all its construction and maintenance issues and dirty sheets, and just put out shampoo? He is obviously adept at Twitter marketing and surely scores high in global brand recognition.
Which raises any number of other major questions about the proper functioning of the US economy. For instance, millions of Americans, especially of Kylie J’s gen, are wasting their lives working dead-end minimum wage jobs manning (personing?) the nation’s fry-o-lator stations when they could start billion dollar cosmetic companies. After all, if you really want to be successful in this land of success stories, don’t you have to first look and feel successful? Perhaps that’s all you really need… forget all those pain-in-the-ass products with their vexing assembly-line, packing, and shipping problems. Just get America feeling great about itself, starting with the most important person in the room: YOU!
Only two things stand in the way: tattoos and blubber. At the rate our fellow citizens are adorning themselves with inky autobiographies, ever fewer will want to cover up their personal messaging with icky makeup. And the remorseless increase in body size implies a concomitant increase in available epidermal sites for said personal messaging — so maybe the tattoo industry ought to be the basis of the next American economy, not electric cars and journeys to Mars, or even lip gloss. Just think of all those empty brick-and-mortar retail spaces out there begging to become Ink Spots! I may be wrong about this, but I haven’t heard of any tattoo billionaires…yet. Who will dare to be first? (Yet another Kardashian?)
With oldest sibling Kim Kardashian-West considering a run for the White House in 2024 the nation can finally cast aside the bygone business model of a pain-in-the-ass manufacturing altogether and concentrate on the more important matters of personal grooming, branding, networking, and leveraging the unfulfilled wishes of the countless under-tattooed into an economy once again on-the-move! Imagine the effect that a President Kim K-W will have on the by-then ancient monster-of-the-east, Vladimir Putin, in their first summit meeting. We’ll have no more election trouble from those meddlesome Kremlin thugs. Maybe the pair will ride horses shirtless together in an amazing display of glasnost and international cooperation.
Don’t despair, readers, fellow Americans, and whoever else might be looking at this in the NSA back office. Hope and change are finally in the wind for real. Two hundred years of swinging pickaxes in the coal mines, sweating on the assembly line, and toiling on the loading dock are coming to an end. The singularity is almost at hand — and surprisingly not the one that Ray Kurzweil ordered. Who needs orgasmic polymorphic super-intelligence in all the parallel universes beyond the end of time when you can reach for brand supremacy here in this best of all possible worlds. Kylie J., you go girl!
220 Comments on "Kunstler: Hope and Change Are At Hand"
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 9:45 am
“Chinese Shadow Bank Lending Unexpectedly Plummets, Sparking China Growth Fears”
https://tinyurl.com/y95c9835
“According to most flow-tracking economists (and not their conventionally-trained peers) when one strips away the noise, there are just two things that matter for the global economy and asset prices: central bank liquidity injections, and Chinese credit creation. And since it is indeed the case that just these two variables matter, then the world is set for a very turbulent phase because while global central banks liquidity is set to reverse a decade of expansion, and enter contraction some time in Q3 as the great “liquidity supernova” begins draining liquidity for the first time since the financial crisis…… the latest Chinese credit creation data released overnight, added significantly to the risk of a “sudden global economic stop” after the PBOC reported that in May, China’s broadest monetary aggregate, Total Social Financing, barely rebounded from a 2 year low, rising to RMB1.138TN – missing expectations of a 1.4TN print, and confirming that Beijing’s shadow deleveraging campaign is accelerating and gaining even more traction, even if the threat of a global deflationary spillover is rising by the day.”
“And while all these are all possible next steps by Beijing, what Goldman forgot to note is that with the Yuan more or less pegged to the dollar, as the Fed keeps hiking rates, Beijing will find itself on the bad end of an interest-rate differential, resulting in further Yuan declines, which – as recent history is a guide – can quickly mutate into a powerful capital flight, forcing Beijing to dump reserves to stabilize the currency, or alternatively, end the shadow easing process and hike rates. But China’s economy aside, the bigger question remains how long until the market realizes that between central banks and China, there is virtually no new credit – and liquidity – creation. Judging by today’s push in the S&P500 above 2,800 it wont be today.”
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 10:00 am
Juanp
You are an economic illiterate..Tariffs are what prolonged the great depression..And according to our own commerce department they could cost around 2 million American jobs..Bush already tried this and it was a disaster and he canceled them a year later.
Tariffs Unlikely to Bring Back Many U.S. Blue-Collar Jobs, Study Finds
https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2018/04/04/tariffs-unlikely-to-bring-back-many-u-s-blue-collar-jobs-study-finds/
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 10:48 am
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-11/germans-actually-want-us-troops-out-germany-poll-finds
Germans want the US troops to withdraw.
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 10:58 am
May’s dilemma:
UK trade relations:
Country Imports. Exports
EU…………….220……..134
Germany………61……….30
US……………….35……….45
China……………36……….18
Holland………….31……….17
France…………. 24………..18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_United_Kingdom
Exports UK into EU 43%
Import UK from EU 48%
There is no way the US can replace the EU.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/whodoestheuktradewith/2017-02-21
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 11:06 am
Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-8sCLWwLk
Dredd on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 11:13 am
Send in the clowns (The Shapeshifters of Bullshitistan – 15).
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 11:14 am
Americans like me want our troops out of Europe. You Europeans need to pay to defend yourselves.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 11:15 am
Clogg
You swallow MSM propaganda like mothers milk..Nobody gives a shit about what is going on in the current events by the media..The OECD is in a depression and headed for total collapse..Which will collapse the entire global economy…Nobody is going to help you out.And no political party can change anything..
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 12:49 pm
Americans like me want our troops out of Europe.
What are you waiting for? Protect your own border for a change.
You Europeans need to pay to defend yourselves.
You realize that means the end of empire, right? OK with me. Europe already spends twice as much on defense as Russia. Russia btw would gladly be recognized as European. There is no Russian threat. And China won’t be for at least another decade.
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 12:53 pm
Neder, quit with the excuses and buck up. You lazy Eurotards need to pull your own weight around.
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 12:57 pm
With oldest sibling Kim Kardashian-West considering a run for the White House in 2024 the nation can finally cast aside the bygone business model of a pain-in-the-ass manufacturing altogether and concentrate on the more important matters of personal grooming, branding, networking, and leveraging the unfulfilled wishes of the countless under-tattooed into an economy once again on-the-move!
Tits for president!
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10297528.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/PAY-MAIN-NAP_MDG_260417KIMKARDASHIAN_1805KIMKARDASHIANJPG.jpg
Can’t wait for scenes straight from the Ovular Office where pres Kardashian will present her latest clothing line.
Idiocracy at last.
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 1:14 pm
you are a cherry picking extremist tabloid shit, neder
Jerome Purtzer on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 2:42 pm
Hey Davy, you should check out the Michael Pento interview/podcast on Chris Martenson. Great take on the next big meltdown.
efarmer on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:04 pm
JK covered most of the important stuff and his pen was as hot as a half f**ked fox in a forest fire this week. I have to admit my minor disappointment that he did not touch upon how the juice from the chicken nugget factory ended up Trojan Horsing our ass and hiding in the Honey Smacks box. If my Pop Tarts go snake, I will then know for sure the end is nigh.
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:19 pm
Bleeding heart liberal author is shocked… Shocked… SHOCKED! by the change of heart the EU is going through, under the threat of a populist takeover:
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-migration-refugees-drop-dead-angela-merkel-matteo-salvini-libya-italy-germany-refugees/
“EU to migrants: Go home and stay home
Fortress Europe hardens its heart.”
At least the author doesn’t call them “refugees”.
As always, the most revealing are the readers comments, in majority negative towards the author.
In related news, Italian minister of the interior and de facto leader of Italy Salvini has refused entry to an official EU Frontex ship that carried hundreds of invaders that were “rescued” at sea (read: offered free taxi services into the first world).
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:24 pm
MM, You are an illiterate retard that doesn’t understand that I don’t give a fuck about economic growth. Bring the collapse on now; I am ready!
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:26 pm
Delusional Davy “you are a cherry picking extremist tabloid shit”
More kindergarden’s behavior by the board’s bully!
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:27 pm
CLogg
What is Europe’s GDP?
What was their GDP during the Great depression?
Now shut the fuck up
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:28 pm
Clogg
What is Itlay’s GDP?
What is their Debt to GDP ratio?
The five star movement will be the ones sent to the gallows when the oil crisis hits and they turn into Venezuela..
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 3:59 pm
Thanks Jerome, I will check that out.
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:00 pm
What is Itlay’s GDP?
What is their Debt to GDP ratio?
Italy is the strongest, most stable financial country in the western world:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/the-real-state-of-western-finances/
There, I said it.
The dark blue bar indicates explicit state debt and that is indeed high in Italy. But there are no unfunded liabilities (gray bar), that is there are no promises that won’t be met, much unlike the US that has unfunded liabilities to the tune of 13 x GDP. In the US there are for instance still those below 50, who think they will have a pension, well they don’t.
Every sucker, and that would include you millimind (you are called millimind for a good reason) reduces the state of the Italian economy to public debt and shouts: “see? collapse!”.
First of all: most Italian state debt is Italian owned. But the most underexposed aspect of Italy is that most real estate is paid off! Most Italians have no or a small mortgage.
Median wealth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_per_adult
Italy $125k
USA $55k
See? Joe Sixpack deplorable is in Italy far better off than his counter part in good ol USofA, the latter aka oligarch country.
Italy is fine, worry about your own mess, millimind.
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:10 pm
“Italy is the strongest, most stable financial country in the western world:”
LMFAO at the neder…..what a friggin idiot. You do understand that there are multiple ways to compare countries???
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:12 pm
Do you have any numbers to show, dumbass third-worlder and DNA-level loser?
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:12 pm
Clog
Italy’s debt to GDP is around 130 percent..Its the third highest in the entire world..Greece went bankrupt at 150 percent ratio..So Italy is well on their way.. And their GDP is around 1 percent..The same as the great depression..that is why fascism is back..
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:18 pm
Clogg
Italy GDP
1961 8%
1979 5%
1988 4%
2000 3%
2017 1%
2028 0% (economic collapse)
Source: World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locati&locations=IT
Numbers don’t lie..I rest my case..
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:25 pm
Numbers don’t lie..I rest my case..
You can rest on your case until you weigh an ounce millimind, but your WB data does not mention 2928, you stinking liar. And 0% growth is NOT equal to collapse. I haven’t been growing for more than 40 years now (thank God) and still haven’t “collapsed”.lol
Numbers indeed don’t necessarily lie… unless they come from you, you fake news clown.
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:26 pm
2028
peakyeast on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:37 pm
As a european I would like the US to withdraw all their soldiers from Europe. And please take away those “anti-missile-missiles” that you placed close to Russia which you promised not to do in the first place – you warmongering buffoons.
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:40 pm
Russia hints at Porton Down as the British source of the nerve gas leaks:
https://www.rt.com/uk/433109-porton-down-leak-novichok/
Tellingly the British government refuses to cooperate with Russia, like exchanging data, which in the real world translates to that the British government is either behind the attacks themselves or at least wants to hide something.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:41 pm
Clog
Without growth they will go into a deflationary downward spiral and collapse..
https://imgur.com/a/RXGLqNr
Its not just Italy its all of the OECD will be zero by 2028..And when the oil shortage and price spike hits in a few years..It will likely collapse way before 2028..i am just trying to be positive..lol
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:51 pm
Peakyeast “As a european I would like the US to withdraw all their soldiers from Europe.”
I can relate to that! Unfortunately, I don’t expect the USA to leave Europe, or anywhere else for that matter, until they have no other choice. And, when they are forced by circumstances to retreat it won’t be pretty. They may decide to destroy what they can no longer control.
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:57 pm
‘I can relate to that! Unfortunately”
I can relate to that too boney juan, why don’t you pack your bags and go back to your homeland. Leave this country you hate. You are a disgusting person to enjoy all the perks of a playboy south American and then bad mouth the place daily. What a piece of shit.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 4:58 pm
Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there is rich no more..
The Purge is coming!
deadly on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:01 pm
Had those Krazy Krauts not been so war-like in the beginning of the 20th century, nobody would be sitting there in Germany. You idiot Germans couldn’t wait to run amok all over Europe and Russia and now it is somebody else’s fault.
Might have to have an occupying army in Germany indefinitely the way you kartalfolkopfs carry and conduct yourselves. From the Weimar to the toothbrush-mustache donned by the hyena from Austria, die deutsche have a lot of explaining to do.
Youddathunk they wouldda learned by now, but you can’t be too careful. An army needs to be there to make them behave. Might have to learn a thing or two about a thing or two all over again. Good Lord, not that hard to see.
Besides, the Russians aren’t as kindhearted as the Americans. Less documentation of the torture sessions and chemical forces.
Or is it there are too many people and everybody is fighting for space in the same place?
It is my fault too. All of my relatives were born in Prussia and Ukraine, some ended up in Wisconsin, but still thoroughbred Kraut, all speak and spoke Deutsch. Two heads are better than one, even if one is a cabbage head.
When the Bolsheviks activated pogroms, many people of German ancestry bit the dust in Ukraine.
Letters from Germans living in Ukraine stopped being mailed from there to the US in the late forties. Everybody was dead.
Bolshevism is a wonderful political movement.
None better on the face of the earth.
The Jacobins were good at it too, the Bolsheviks must have learned from them.
That is hope and change too. You hope it doesn’t happen, can’t cope with that kind of change.
US forces in Germany are more preventive than offensive in nature.
Watch out for those verrückt Krauts. We all know what can happen. lol
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:01 pm
I can’t wait to get drunk and go rioting and lynching rich people!
Once the oil starts to run out..Its game on.
Let their blood run in the streets boys! We can use their brooks brothers suites to clean it up!
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:20 pm
Delusional Davy “why don’t you pack your bags and go back to your homeland.”
Because I don’t want to. You are completely powerless to change anything other than yourself, exceptionalist, and we all know you haven’t been able to do that either. You are a mess of a person, if I ever met one! LOL!
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:22 pm
Delusional Davy “Leave this country you hate.”
I don’t hate the USA; I don’t hate you, either. I just wish you were both decent and honest.
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:23 pm
Delusional Davy “You are a disgusting person to enjoy all the perks of a playboy south American and then bad mouth the place daily. What a piece of shit.”
Coming from a lowlife like you, I take that as a compliment. Thanks, exceptionalist! LOL!
Cloggie on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:26 pm
I can’t wait to get drunk and go rioting and lynching rich people!
Once the oil starts to run out..Its game on.
Let their blood run in the streets boys! We can use their brooks brothers suites to clean it up!
Go for it millimind, that is exactly what tout Eurasia is waiting for!
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:27 pm
How many sock puppets does the delusional American exceptionalist use? Your guess is as good as mine! LOL!
peakyeast on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:27 pm
“I don’t hate the USA; I don’t hate you, either. I just wish you were both decent and honest.”
I can relate to that – unfortunately its not going to happen, but they may destroy themselves which also sorta solves the problem.
😉
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:36 pm
Clogg
Once the news breaks that US people are rising up against the elites..It will spread to Europe next..Your economy is going to collapse in the next decade..Likely just a few years.
I hope the populist are in charge..They will be the ones burned on the stake..
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 5:53 pm
MM “Once the news breaks that US people are rising up against the elites”
Well, the day Americans manage to get their obese asses off the couch and stop watching porn and playing video games will be historic. I don’t expect that to happen until there are serious problems with food and/or electrical distribution on a national scale. As long as Americans can continue to eat and entertain themselves we’ll keep on as we are. It’s going to take a lot to move those lazy butts.
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 6:00 pm
Trump to run in 2020!
https://www.rt.com/usa/433128-trump-president-2020-candidate/
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 6:15 pm
juanpp
Americans are already angry, divided, and armed to the teeth..When they find out the world is running out of oil and they have to pay 5 dollars a gallon..They are going to go fucking bonkers..They will realize they have nothing to lose..And they will want blood..
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 6:26 pm
Mm “Americans are already angry, divided, and armed to the teeth”
We agree on that, but it’s going to take a lot to move those butts! LOL!
The useful Americans will be doing useful stuff as always, so it’s up to the obese lazy butts to rebel. We are not there yet.
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 6:43 pm
Boney Juan. Your opinion is extremist and disqualified. You live in south florida speak for your own dumbass. You are a cherry picking generalizing extremist pig who doesn’t know the entire country.
MASTERMIND on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 6:44 pm
Trump is the fall guy
This is what i believe
And the election was rigged
The elites choose him for a reason
Trump walked into a trap
Trump is the elites useful idiot..
Davy on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 6:54 pm
Trump will likely win again because of extremist lefties like you, mm. Who in their right mind would be associated with a disgusting movement like you young liberal rats are staging.
JuanP on Sat, 14th Jul 2018 7:03 pm
Delusional Davy AKA “The Qualifier” “Boney Juan. Your opinion is extremist and disqualified. You live in south florida speak for your own dumbass. You are a cherry picking generalizing extremist pig who doesn’t know the entire country.”
I have been disqualified by the Exceptionalist! Oh, the HORROR! ROFLMFAO! This is my best laugh of the day! I have been living in the USA almost 30 years and I have traveled all over many times. I have also been studying the USA for about as long. I know more about the USA than most Americans. I can also communicate in English better than most Americans, yourself included, Davy. LOL!