Maybe It's All True

I've read several different takes on the latest Trump indictments, the ones dealing with his efforts to overturn the results of the election. Such luminaries as Ben Shapiro and the guys over at PowerLine assert that the indictment is trash. Others give it plenty of respect. I took the time to read part of it and I don't think it's trash at all.

On the other hand, it's all trash.

Everything is true and no one and nothing can be trusted.

As I understand it, Trump's campaign team and closest advisors told him he had lost the election fair and square. There seems to be some correspondence indicating that even he believed he'd lost, at least for a time. You can't have the president howling from his bully pulpit that the election was stolen when he knows it wasn't. You really can't have him directing his minions to take actions to overturn it when he knows he lost.

On the other hand, the media and the tech bros conspired to torpedo him during the campaign with lies of their own, particularly about the Hunter Biden laptop. That conspiracy is completely out in the open now. So the election wasn't stolen, but it was rigged.

Meanwhile, the CDC lied to us about masks, Covid risks and the origin of the virus. They conspired with that same media and those same tech bros to silence dissenters, a clear and massive violation of the First Amendment.

And so on and so forth.

On a seemingly unrelated topic, NYC's Mayor Adams has discovered that talking about sanctuaries for illegals is very different from providing illegals with sanctuary. He's now begging for mercy from anyone who can help him deal with the flood of illegals pouring into his rancid burg, a flood just a fraction of the one that's swamping the border states.

We welcome migrants! No human is illegal!
Wait, they need places to live? Why didn't anyone tell us?

That's not so unrelated, is it? Talk is cheap when money can be printed and the consequences of your talk are only theoretical. Once you have to start solving difficult logistical problems like where will the illegals sleep, what will they eat, how will we maintain order when they can't speak English, the cheap talk vanishes.

Why The Cheap Talk

Having gone through the court system a few times in life, these indictments and trials aren't that exciting to me. It's all a huge, prolonged drag. I guess that's why I don't put much stock in the yelling and blaming and indictery. The people on the streets, that's a different story, whether they're illegals or drug addicts. That's real.

I keep coming back to previous posts where I claimed that life's pricing structure was broken, mostly because we can print money and spend it.

This has clearly not been completely worked out. It's part of the stumbling around we're doing as our eyes adjust to the new lights of unreason.

The general problem really hit me today when I read about Modern Monetary Theory, MMT. MMT holds that any government that can print its own money and whose debt is denominated in that same currency, need not worry about debt. Print all you want until inflation hits. Inflation, not debt, is the critical measure of whether or not you can keep printing.

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Our pricing structure is broken. We no longer connect sacrifice with possessions. This is what I meant when I blogged yesterday, "It looks to me like American society has turned out the lights of reason and turned on the black lights of subjectivism. We're all kind of stumbling around, learning as we go just what this means." 

It's reflected in our political debates which are about almost nothing. We're talking about impeaching that corrupt, midwit Biden for $10M+ in bribes when we've got half of Guatemala already past our borders and the rest of it on the way? We're in the middle of a full-scale invasion as Mayor Adams is discovering and we're worried about what the crackhead son of our senile president was doing?

Meanwhile, the tech bros crush free speech, the CDC is as trustworthy as a used car dealer, Trump has been lying to everyone about the election all while the Democrats used the legal system to hound Trump for years with claims of Russian collusion they knew were nonsense.

All of it is made possible by printed money which allows us to wave away the real costs of things while we focus on luxuries like these. No matter what damage we do to ourselves, we can always get it fixed by throwing around some coin, right?

Anyways, that's my operating theory for the day.