Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

[Arch Dornan]

Isn't the globalized economy wonderful?
Sanctioning any major country hurts everyone else too. Who'd have thought?

The new continental system isn't well thought out.

 

[Sobek]

It's actually worse than the original. Amazing achievement to be honest.

 

[Arch Dornan]

It's actually worse than the original. Amazing achievement to be honest.

The more globalised the worse it gets when it gets disrupted.

 

[sillygoose]

The new continental system isn't well thought out.

Our elite got so far up their own asses about the virtual realm and robbing society blind to finance their obscene lifestyles that they have set up their system to fail.

 

[DarthOne]

Our elite got so far up their own asses about the virtual realm and robbing society blind to finance their obscene lifestyles that they have set up their system to fail.

It'll make getting rid of them all the easier when the day comes.

 

[sillygoose]

It'll make getting rid of them all the easier when the day comes.

We'll see, they broke occupy wall street pretty easily. They might suck at many things, but going after their own people is their specialty.

 

[Cherico]

We'll see, they broke occupy wall street pretty easily. They might suck at many things, but going after their own people is their specialty.

Which is why I think they will retain power for decades, but at the end of the day their incredibly arrogant assholes and they will fall just like the elites who put stupid cult like activiities over doing their duty before them.

 

[LordsFire]

We'll see, they broke occupy wall street pretty easily. They might suck at many things, but going after their own people is their specialty.

Occupy Wall Street was overwhelmingly privileged college students larping as revolutionaries. It less 'was broken' and more 'collapsed under the weight of its own incompetence.'

An actual uprising against the corrupt elite, driven by threat of starvation or sexual exploitation of their children, rather than boredom and living off of daddy's money or scholarship funds, would look very, very different.

 

[sillygoose]

Occupy Wall Street was overwhelmingly privileged college students larping as revolutionaries. It less 'was broken' and more 'collapsed under the weight of its own incompetence.'

An actual uprising against the corrupt elite, driven by threat of starvation or sexual exploitation of their children, rather than boredom and living off of daddy's money or scholarship funds, would look very, very different.

In NYC partially yes, throughout the country mostly no. The people that shut down the LA port were not the privileged professional revolutionaries. The fact that you think that was the case directly shows how media manipulation framed the movement.

Which is why I think they will retain power for decades, but at the end of the day their incredibly arrogant assholes and they will fall just like the elites who put stupid cult like activiities over doing their duty before them.

I hope you're right.

 

[Terthna]

Which is why I think they will retain power for decades, but at the end of the day their incredibly arrogant assholes and they will fall just like the elites who put stupid cult like activiities over doing their duty before them.

Well not them specifically; decades later, most of the people actually responsible will be long dead. It'll be their heirs (perhaps even the heirs of their heirs) who will suffer the inevitable consequences of hubris spanning generations.

 

[Zyobot]

Well not them specifically; decades later, most of the people actually responsible will be long dead. It'll be their heirs (perhaps even the heirs of their heirs) who will suffer the inevitable consequences of hubris spanning generations.

Sure, though I wouldn't be surprised if Bush and Clinton's graves are defaced, while their presidential libraries are burned down by the murderous mobs @Cherico was alluding to. Future elites actually alive to witness it won't get off any more lightly than predecessors subject to a posthumous damnatio memoriae, I imagine, similar to what you said.

 

[Arch Dornan]

Occupy Wall Street was overwhelmingly privileged college students larping as revolutionaries. It less 'was broken' and more 'collapsed under the weight of its own incompetence.'

An actual uprising against the corrupt elite, driven by threat of starvation or sexual exploitation of their children, rather than boredom and living off of daddy's money or scholarship funds, would look very, very different.

Sri Lankans are in the process of doing that what with burning a politician houses and killing an MP.

 

[Cherico]

Sure, though I wouldn't be surprised if Bush and Clinton's graves are defaced, while their presidential libraries are burned down by the murderous mobs @Cherico was alluding to. Future elites actually alive to witness it won't get off any more lightly than predecessors subject to a posthumous damnatio memoriae, I imagine, similar to what you said.

safe bet but I think bushes grave will be defaced before clintons.

 

[Bacle]

safe bet but I think bushes grave will be defaced before clintons.

Yep; too many still view Hillary as the 'rightful' winner of 2016 and 'rightful' 1st female POTUS, while most people on both sides take the piss out Bush Jr.

 

[Cherico]

Yep; too many still view Hillary as the 'rightful' winner of 2016 and 'rightful' 1st female POTUS, while most people on both sides take the piss out Bush Jr.

rightfully so Dubya had no business being president and we are still suffering from his incompetent fuckups.

 

[Scottty]

rightfully so Dubya had no business being president and we are still suffering from his incompetent fuckups.

What exactly did he do that was so bad, other than the whole Iraq thing?

 

[Abhorsen]

What exactly did he do that was so bad, other than the whole Iraq thing?

Other than one of the biggest unforced blunders in American history, costing us trillions, and distracting us from hunting Osama?

He expanded the government a ton, not just with the homeland security but also with the concept of 'compassionate conservatism' which meant he'd expand Medicare, and call it conservatism. Basically, he was behind one of the larger government expansions in recent history, where a few years before we were running a surplus and working down the debt.

 

[Zyobot]

Other than one of the biggest unforced blunders in American history, costing us trillions, and distracting us from hunting Osama?

He expanded the government a ton, not just with the homeland security but also with the concept of 'compassionate conservatism' which meant he'd expand Medicare, and call it conservatism. Basically, he was behind one of the larger government expansions in recent history, where a few years before we were running a surplus and working down the debt.

To be honest, there was a time when I scratched my head at people who called Dubya a RINO. Reading about things like this—especially since he also expanded federal regulations hugely—tells me what they meant by that.

 

[Agent23]

Other than one of the biggest unforced blunders in American history, costing us trillions, and distracting us from hunting Osama?

He expanded the government a ton, not just with the homeland security but also with the concept of 'compassionate conservatism' which meant he'd expand Medicare, and call it conservatism. Basically, he was behind one of the larger government expansions in recent history, where a few years before we were running a surplus and working down the debt.

What was the final tally of the Dubya-Obama wars, 6 trillion, 10?
You are forgetting the Greenspan Put, I know that was a decision of that Judas, but Dubyah could have yeeted the damned twofaced fucker.Maybe his incompetent handling of the economy was also somehow related to the Enron meltdown, too, which just produced a ton of ineffective bullshit regulation written to order for fatcat auditing firms that does not work.
That shit was one of the primary contributors Subprime Mortgage crisis, IMHO.

 

[Zyobot]

safe bet but I think bushes grave will be defaced before clintons.

Yep; too many still view Hillary as the 'rightful' winner of 2016 and 'rightful' 1st female POTUS, while most people on both sides take the piss out Bush Jr.

I dunno, another forty or fifty years is a long time for people to turn on the Clintons, too...

(Though, then again, most of the mob's minds may be on whatever "current" elites are in power, with their long-dead predecessors "mere" afterthoughts as their graves are defaced and presidential libraries burned down.)