The only reason I see for Trump to slow down would be because I don’t want him to tire himself out too early in the game! We voted for exactly what he and his team are doing. Blow the whole motherfucker up and start over. Much smaller. Much tighter. Much more transparent. The folks screeching loudest have puckered assholes knowing their 30years of graft are gone. And with Pam Bondi as our new AG they’re scared shitless. What Elon and his crew of merry men have unearthed is just the teeniest tip of a gargantuan iceberg. It’s a beautiful thing to watch and I’m glad to be able to see it in my lifetime. Pop more popcorn…this is going to be a fun four years.
I wonder if Trump got his Gaza idea from what's happened since Jan 20th?
I mean he's basically sent in the troops to the 'tunnel' systems and is now 'deporting' a ton of people and creating a new government 'resort' that is likely to run much, much more effectively (and beneficially for the people).
"Trump will need to calm down a bit eventually and return to a more ‘consensual’ style of operation."
Why? Honestly asking, mind. The only reason I'd see to slow down or return to normal in his position, would be that the job of cleaning up was done and dusted.
And even if so, I'd fire up all the stuff that's needed doing for decades but no-one's bothered with due to all sorts of stupid non-reasons.
"Economic cognoscenti will doubtless tell me that ‘analogy’ is hopelessly naïve and misguided and that “it doesn’t work like that”'
Been a while and half since I studied national economy as we call the subject over here, but that is exactly how it works. All the state's little black holes of spending adds up to an ever-growing deficit, unless you institute a "Kartoffel-kur": the Danes did this in the 1970s, due to their economy being busted thanks to political mismanagement - Kartoffel means potatoe, so it refers to being so poor you only have potatoes to eat, while saving and investing your resources in next year's crops and harvests. Sweden did the same in the 1990s.
If you have a sit down and read through the detailed budget of your county (or whatever the term is in the UK - I mean we use "commune" for our lowest tier of admin, and that really says what the ideological attitude behind it all is, no?) you'll probably find that you could reduce spending by at least 1/3 just by way of basic rationalisations and pay-scale adjustments. Ten years ago, a Swedish commune tested a proto-AI algorithm for their welfare office. Easy, no? The algo checks if every box is crossed correctly and can check towards bank accounts et c to see if the statements given are correct, and then authorise payment, and pay it out, let's say 5 seconds per case to have good upper limit margin.
Anyway. What the test suggested was that public admin in all its forms can be reduced by more than 90% of staff and locales. Needless to say, the unions and politicians buried this deep.
Look at our Office of Unemployment. Budget in excess of 80 000 000 000:- (ca 7bn pounds). Average positions being filled, per clerk per month? 0.85. Zero-point-eight-five.
And we have in excess of 450 government agencies at the state level alone. . . We could probably save about 400 000 000 000:- by cutting out grift, chaff and waste, and the same again by closing the border and deporting illegals, fraudsters, and the like.
Moderate estimates by economists here is, ca 10% of GDP at least is pure waste.
"The only reason I'd see to slow down or return to normal in his position, would be that the job of cleaning up was done and dusted."
Yeah - agree with that. I kind of meant that, but should have said it more explicitly.
I actually do kind of worry about the consequences of cutting the waste in one respect. What are all the people who have been doing 'useless' govt jobs going to do when proper efficient systems are brought in? It's a problem we have created for ourselves by employing an insane number of people on govt dollar.
It should never have happened, but it did. And now we've got a whole bunch of basically useless and unemployable (except by govt) people who do nothing of any value, nor add anything to the economy.
None of that class ever gave a used fig for working class people when they were made surplus to requirements, from automisation to sending the jobs abroad or allowing guest labourers at 1/10th normal pay.
The usual spiel from economists, in the 1850s and 1970s and 1990s and today would be: "Oh the jobs haven't disappeared as such, and new tech and new ways of doing things frees up labour that will create new ways of making money; there will be lots new jobs in other sectors of the labour market, sure and begorra it will"
Which never ever happens, in reality. Some take early retirement to live in relative poverty in their old age - and workers die early anyway. Difference in life expectancy between a "scaffolder" - construction worker what erects and "derects" scaffolds - and someone in middle-management is more than 10 years, to the penpusher's advantage.
Some are young enough to re-train and get other jobs at least. Some, a miniscule percentage, manage to create a new career even. Most wind up inthe eternal treadmill of being on the dole, on sick pay, on welfare, being put in a get-back-to-work-project, getting temp jobs, again on the dole, and around it goes.
So Fuck those people in government and civil services, says I. They can learn to work 12 hours shifts for £9/hour, gross. They can learn to live on £14 000/year or less. They can learn to not being able to afford dentures, or private health care, or private health insurance, or dental insurance, or a good car, or. . .
What I wrote above, is essentially one of the core elements of the original Workers' Rights Movement, well before it became synonymous with Marxism or Soviet Socialism.
As the only thing the worker has that serves as leverage against the capitalist is the labour he can perform, anything which enables the capitalist to neutralise that is a threat to the worker.
Doesn't matter if new jobs appear, eventually. The bricklayer's family needs a home and food every day, not in ten years when the economy has adjusted to new technology.
But to capitalists, just as to the noble aristocrats, or the central planners of Marxism, human beings have no intrinsic value.
“Trump will need to calm down a bit eventually and return to a more ‘consensual’ style of operation”
That’s the function of the Congress. True, the nation was never designed to be run by fiat, and shouldn’t be.
But it hasn’t really worked properly in decades. Now, arguably, the system is so out of control and self-sustaining feedbacks (taxpayer money laundered by “NGOs” back to politicians who are thereby incentivized to continue the grift — see USAID) are metastasizing.
Shock therapy is what is required because the crooks have colonized the legislative process. The sudden switching on of the light has the cockroaches scuttling around in disarray. The news cycle has only so much bandwidth, and the strategy of overwhelming it is keeping the praetorian guard on the back foot. [how’s that for flooding the zone with metaphors?]
And…wait until Bobby Kennedy, Jr gets confirmed as head of HHS. It’ll be a glorious day watching heads explode when Big Pharma loses its grip on American politics and those grifters lose their big money gravy train. We wouldn’t want America healthier at the expense of our congresspeople, would we? It really is time to blow up the whole system. Figuratively that is lest someone think I’m making some sort of veiled threat.
I really like JFK Jr (at least what I can glean from listening to him talk). I really hope he will be confirmed as Head Health Honcho.
The corruptive influences of Pharma disgust me - and it's something I wasn't aware of until the whole covid farce shone a real spotlight on how they operate.
Yup. I think there does need to be some degree of caution exercised with any political figure, because none of them are going to be perfect (just like the rest of us I guess).
As far as I can tell so far Trump is doing a lot of the right things, but if he is financially beholden to some person or institute then that's a thing that needs to be watched.
Immigration is a big issue. I'm actually a fan of immigration - but there have to be *practical* limits and common sense has to be applied. No country should be taking in "all and sundry" just because it satisfies some emotionally-driven virtue-signalling need.
Net immigration in the UK has risen from something like 50,000 per year 50 years ago to something like 750,000 per year for the last couple of years. That level of immigration is unsustainable - particularly when only a fraction of that number will typically be directly contributing to the economy
The only reason I see for Trump to slow down would be because I don’t want him to tire himself out too early in the game! We voted for exactly what he and his team are doing. Blow the whole motherfucker up and start over. Much smaller. Much tighter. Much more transparent. The folks screeching loudest have puckered assholes knowing their 30years of graft are gone. And with Pam Bondi as our new AG they’re scared shitless. What Elon and his crew of merry men have unearthed is just the teeniest tip of a gargantuan iceberg. It’s a beautiful thing to watch and I’m glad to be able to see it in my lifetime. Pop more popcorn…this is going to be a fun four years.
I wonder if Trump got his Gaza idea from what's happened since Jan 20th?
I mean he's basically sent in the troops to the 'tunnel' systems and is now 'deporting' a ton of people and creating a new government 'resort' that is likely to run much, much more effectively (and beneficially for the people).
"Trump will need to calm down a bit eventually and return to a more ‘consensual’ style of operation."
Why? Honestly asking, mind. The only reason I'd see to slow down or return to normal in his position, would be that the job of cleaning up was done and dusted.
And even if so, I'd fire up all the stuff that's needed doing for decades but no-one's bothered with due to all sorts of stupid non-reasons.
"Economic cognoscenti will doubtless tell me that ‘analogy’ is hopelessly naïve and misguided and that “it doesn’t work like that”'
Been a while and half since I studied national economy as we call the subject over here, but that is exactly how it works. All the state's little black holes of spending adds up to an ever-growing deficit, unless you institute a "Kartoffel-kur": the Danes did this in the 1970s, due to their economy being busted thanks to political mismanagement - Kartoffel means potatoe, so it refers to being so poor you only have potatoes to eat, while saving and investing your resources in next year's crops and harvests. Sweden did the same in the 1990s.
If you have a sit down and read through the detailed budget of your county (or whatever the term is in the UK - I mean we use "commune" for our lowest tier of admin, and that really says what the ideological attitude behind it all is, no?) you'll probably find that you could reduce spending by at least 1/3 just by way of basic rationalisations and pay-scale adjustments. Ten years ago, a Swedish commune tested a proto-AI algorithm for their welfare office. Easy, no? The algo checks if every box is crossed correctly and can check towards bank accounts et c to see if the statements given are correct, and then authorise payment, and pay it out, let's say 5 seconds per case to have good upper limit margin.
Anyway. What the test suggested was that public admin in all its forms can be reduced by more than 90% of staff and locales. Needless to say, the unions and politicians buried this deep.
Look at our Office of Unemployment. Budget in excess of 80 000 000 000:- (ca 7bn pounds). Average positions being filled, per clerk per month? 0.85. Zero-point-eight-five.
And we have in excess of 450 government agencies at the state level alone. . . We could probably save about 400 000 000 000:- by cutting out grift, chaff and waste, and the same again by closing the border and deporting illegals, fraudsters, and the like.
Moderate estimates by economists here is, ca 10% of GDP at least is pure waste.
"The only reason I'd see to slow down or return to normal in his position, would be that the job of cleaning up was done and dusted."
Yeah - agree with that. I kind of meant that, but should have said it more explicitly.
I actually do kind of worry about the consequences of cutting the waste in one respect. What are all the people who have been doing 'useless' govt jobs going to do when proper efficient systems are brought in? It's a problem we have created for ourselves by employing an insane number of people on govt dollar.
It should never have happened, but it did. And now we've got a whole bunch of basically useless and unemployable (except by govt) people who do nothing of any value, nor add anything to the economy.
None of that class ever gave a used fig for working class people when they were made surplus to requirements, from automisation to sending the jobs abroad or allowing guest labourers at 1/10th normal pay.
The usual spiel from economists, in the 1850s and 1970s and 1990s and today would be: "Oh the jobs haven't disappeared as such, and new tech and new ways of doing things frees up labour that will create new ways of making money; there will be lots new jobs in other sectors of the labour market, sure and begorra it will"
Which never ever happens, in reality. Some take early retirement to live in relative poverty in their old age - and workers die early anyway. Difference in life expectancy between a "scaffolder" - construction worker what erects and "derects" scaffolds - and someone in middle-management is more than 10 years, to the penpusher's advantage.
Some are young enough to re-train and get other jobs at least. Some, a miniscule percentage, manage to create a new career even. Most wind up inthe eternal treadmill of being on the dole, on sick pay, on welfare, being put in a get-back-to-work-project, getting temp jobs, again on the dole, and around it goes.
So Fuck those people in government and civil services, says I. They can learn to work 12 hours shifts for £9/hour, gross. They can learn to live on £14 000/year or less. They can learn to not being able to afford dentures, or private health care, or private health insurance, or dental insurance, or a good car, or. . .
Sod the lot of them.
Although it does rail against my somewhat compassionate and socialist principles, I kind of found myself nodding along to your reply here 😂
Want to hear the funny part?
What I wrote above, is essentially one of the core elements of the original Workers' Rights Movement, well before it became synonymous with Marxism or Soviet Socialism.
As the only thing the worker has that serves as leverage against the capitalist is the labour he can perform, anything which enables the capitalist to neutralise that is a threat to the worker.
Doesn't matter if new jobs appear, eventually. The bricklayer's family needs a home and food every day, not in ten years when the economy has adjusted to new technology.
But to capitalists, just as to the noble aristocrats, or the central planners of Marxism, human beings have no intrinsic value.
“Trump will need to calm down a bit eventually and return to a more ‘consensual’ style of operation”
That’s the function of the Congress. True, the nation was never designed to be run by fiat, and shouldn’t be.
But it hasn’t really worked properly in decades. Now, arguably, the system is so out of control and self-sustaining feedbacks (taxpayer money laundered by “NGOs” back to politicians who are thereby incentivized to continue the grift — see USAID) are metastasizing.
Shock therapy is what is required because the crooks have colonized the legislative process. The sudden switching on of the light has the cockroaches scuttling around in disarray. The news cycle has only so much bandwidth, and the strategy of overwhelming it is keeping the praetorian guard on the back foot. [how’s that for flooding the zone with metaphors?]
And…wait until Bobby Kennedy, Jr gets confirmed as head of HHS. It’ll be a glorious day watching heads explode when Big Pharma loses its grip on American politics and those grifters lose their big money gravy train. We wouldn’t want America healthier at the expense of our congresspeople, would we? It really is time to blow up the whole system. Figuratively that is lest someone think I’m making some sort of veiled threat.
I really like JFK Jr (at least what I can glean from listening to him talk). I really hope he will be confirmed as Head Health Honcho.
The corruptive influences of Pharma disgust me - and it's something I wasn't aware of until the whole covid farce shone a real spotlight on how they operate.
Good read! Thanks!
Thanks Lonny - much appreciated
I saw what you did there.
😂
True or False?; 'Trump is beholden to Rothschild family for financial bailouts in previous years.' Sadly, True.
https://deanhenderson.substack.com/p/rothschilds-gaza-land-grab?publication_id=1211836&post_id=156534363&isFreemail=true&r=1qugjr&triedRedirect=true
Yup. I think there does need to be some degree of caution exercised with any political figure, because none of them are going to be perfect (just like the rest of us I guess).
As far as I can tell so far Trump is doing a lot of the right things, but if he is financially beholden to some person or institute then that's a thing that needs to be watched.
You need to get rid of the communist POS Prime Minister ASAP or you are finished as a country.
The left is going to immigrate your country right out of existence.
Immigration is a big issue. I'm actually a fan of immigration - but there have to be *practical* limits and common sense has to be applied. No country should be taking in "all and sundry" just because it satisfies some emotionally-driven virtue-signalling need.
Net immigration in the UK has risen from something like 50,000 per year 50 years ago to something like 750,000 per year for the last couple of years. That level of immigration is unsustainable - particularly when only a fraction of that number will typically be directly contributing to the economy
I’ve been saying this country needs an enema for a long time. Finally happening. When he’s done here maybe we can loan him out to the UK.
Yes please!
When Elon and his Spartans get bored and need a new challenge, can you loan them to us too?