Long time no blog! That was definitely the longest I've gone without posting here since I started almost 20 years ago. I can't explain it other than to say my biorhythms were low.
IYKYK.
Anyway, I saw clips and breathless tweets about the first part of the debate and then wife kitteh wanted to watch the end of it. I wish I hadn't. It was depressing.
The moderators from ABCBSCNNNPR or whatever network of clones it was were the depressing part, specifically their questions. They ask what interests them and, by proxy, what they think interests most people. They all wanted to know how much more ice cream the government was going to give them for dessert.
There was a health care crisis, a mental health crisis, a day care crisis and a God-knows-what-else crisis. All of it required government programs, policies and money, money, money. None of it was a first-order problem. The debate didn't tell you as much about the candidates as it did about the mindset of the mainstream press. They're women.
They want safety. They want security. They want everyone to be nice. They want to help the sweet, little migrants. They want the weather controlled. They want their babies taken care of while they do as they please. It was all very feminine.
Meanwhile ...
People aren't having babies so the population is getting older fast.
Kids coming into college can't read books.
The interest on the debt now exceeds defense spending and it's only going up from here.
And, of course, the Middle East is in flames while Ukraine, which had the lowest birth rate of the region before the war, has send a good portion of its young men into a hopeless meat grinder at the behest of the women running NATO.
Meanwhile, we heard about the day care crisis. Oh, we also heard from the moderators that there are no studies that show having 15-20M extra illegals in the country is having an effect on rental costs.
That one right there was a stunner. What it told you was that the moderators, and these are hand-picked, top-of-the-line journalismists, were so gullible that they would swallow the line saying 20M in extra demand does not drive up costs while supply is held constant. I don't need to see a "peer-reviewed" study to figure that one out, it's just obvious. These people needed one, though.
What it told me was that they were separated from the primal aspects of life, separated by a gap so wide that they couldn't see across it. The debate was strictly about second-order issues, all of which were solved with more social programs.
That can't go on forever.
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| You speak for all of us, JD. |
One more thing. JD Vance is the only one of the 4 people on the two tickets that I'd be happy to see as president.
Trump. For the love of God, we nominated Trump.
Sigh.
I don't know what is causing high rental costs elsewhere, but up here in the Keweenaw our housing shortage certainly isn't caused by illegal immigration. If anything, it is caused by people buying up houses and apartments and turning them into Vrbos and AirBnBs, so they are only available to tourists and not to long-term residents.
ReplyDeleteHere in San Diego, we've got hotels that have been requisitioned by the government for illegals. They've got privacy fences around them, too, so we taxpayers aren't allowed to see what we're buying. It's probably the creepiest thing I've ever seen. Really unnerving stuff.
ReplyDeleteElsewhere, the government is renting homes, apartments, whatever to house the new Democrat voters, err, illegals, err, *migrants*. They have to because they can't put them in tents like they were Patton's troops in Europe. That's got to be driving rental costs up because the huge increase in renters happened way too fast for anything to be built.
Today, FEMA informed Congress that they don't have enough $ to bail out North Carolina after the hurricane because they spent so much of their money taking care of the imported voters. It's unreal.
Anyway, if an additional 10-20,000,000 people doesn't drive rents and costs up at a time when stock is roughly static, then it's the most unique event in economic history and ought to be studied for decades.