Some Scribblings

Two years less one day after the Capitol riots (some say insurrection, and who are WE to abstain from ludicrous hyperbole? All hail president-for-life- bison man) comes the inauguration of the Arizona governor. In a ceremony to which we are told the press was not invited, the secretary of state who oversaw a contested election was sworn in as the winner of that same election. In a state on whose contested election results a presidential election turned two years hence.

And, man! How about that Andrew Tate? An event of consequence for sure!

It was easy to give up when reality started mocking itself more efficiently than any of us could. But that guy Joe Biden actually got elected president and China is eyeing the moon. My people need me.

Did you know the national deficit topped a trillion dollars last year? Or that the debt is 30 trillion? That's $30,000,000,000,0000.00 except I'm rounding down for convenience.

30 trillion is a lot of money, specifically it is 20 to 30 years of every penny of wealth we produce as an entire country. I used to marvel at the waste produced by the one thrift store I worked at in a chain of 200. 30 trillion dollars is not a whole lot more fathomable than is the distance to Alpha Centauri.

And it's one thing if you spending 20 to 30 years of all your paycheck on servicing the credit card. But that amount was tolerable with interest rates at near zero. It is a lot more money with the rates going up.

At the highest levels of America, it is axiom that America need maintain global supremacy. Only by being the global hegemon can a nation afford to be SO deeply in the red and hold any credibility with the world community. Our whole way of life will effectively cease as we know it the moment the check first bounces.

It's not necessarily the end of America altogether, although it would certainly end enough of us. France has a long history of unfathomable debt situations. But also a long history of violent social upheaval. I don't really want to think about what would happen to my own parents if Social Security does not at least outlast them.

The one thing is, and I hope I can't be the most consequential person aware of this, the check doesn't NEED to bounce for the credibility to vanish. You can tell when a coworker is on their way to bankruptcy; you see them skipping work to hit the races.

People who don't deal in American currency can still access exchange rates in an instant. America could end in any sense we know and loathe it in as quickly as China lands a man of their own on the moon..