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"The Real Economy Is Somewhere Between The Toilet & A Rat Hole"
Submitted by James H Kunstler of Kunstler.com,
With lakes, swimming holes, rivers, and pools beckoning, I went to a sporting goods chain store at the mall — where else? — seeking a new bathing suit (pardon the quaint locution). The store was curiously named Dick’s. All they had were clown trunks. By this I mean a garment designed to hang somewhere around mid-calf, instantly transforming a normally-proportioned adult male into a stock slapstick character: the oafish man-child.
This being a commodious warehouse-style store, there was rack upon rack of different brands of bathing suits, all cut in the same clown style. I chanced by one of the sparsely-deployed employees and inquired if they had any swimming togs in a shorter cut.
“What you see is alls we got,” he said.
Even the Speedo brand had gone clown — except for the bikini brief, which I wore back during 30 years of lap-swimming, but which I deemed not quite okay for an elderly gentleman on the casual summer swim scene. So I left Dick’s without a new suit, but not before having a completely unsatisfying conversation with one of the managers.
“In the old days,” I explained, “bathing suits were designed to minimize the amount of cloth one dragged around in the water. These clown trunks you sell not only make a person look ridiculous, but they must be an awful drag in the water.”
“That’s what they send us,” he said. “It’s alls we got.”
The Fourth of July rolled in just in time to celebrate the disintegration of Iraq following our eight-year, three trillion dollar campaign to turn it into a suburb of Las Vegas. Me and my girl went over to the local fireworks show, held on the ballfield of a fraternal order lodge on the edge of town. The fire department had hung up a gigantic American Flag — like, fifty feet long! — off the erect ladder of their biggest truck, in case anybody forgot what country they were in. Personally, I was wondering what planet I was on. It was a big crowd, and every male in it was dressed in a clown rig.
The complete outfit, which has (oddly) not changed in quite a few years (suggesting the tragic trajectory we’re on), includes the ambiguous long-short pants, giant droopy T- shirt (four-year-olds have proportionately short legs and long torsos), “Sluggo” style stubble hair, sideways hat (or worn “cholo” style to the front ), and boat-like shoes, garments preferably all black, decorated with death-metal band logos. You can see, perhaps, how it works against everything that might suggest the phrase: “competent adult here.” Add a riot of aggressive-looking tattoos in ninja blade and screaming skull motifs and you get an additional message: “sociopathic menace, at your service.” Finally, there is the question: just how much self-medication is this individual on at the moment? I give you: America’s young manhood.
Does it seem crotchety to dwell on appearances? Sorry. The public is definitely sending itself a message disporting itself as it does in the raiment of clowning. Here in one of the “fly-over” zones of America — 200 miles north of New York City — the financial economy is mythical realm like Shangri-La and the real economy is somewhere between the toilet and a rat hole. Under the tyranny of chain stores, there really is no true local commercial economy. The few jobs here are menial and nearly superfluous to the automatic workings of the giant companies.
I don’t have the statistics but I suspect a lot of the males around here are on federal disability payments, and probably in the psychological categories including “depression,” “learning disabilities,” “ADHD, and so on.” In such a situation, wouldn’t a person benefit from presenting himself as child-like, with a dash of menace? And wouldn’t it be advantageous to look that way all of the time, in case one was unexpectedly visited by a government employee?
Down in Brooklyn, a world away, the young men go about in their hipster uniforms: Pee Wee Herman cut casuals. They’re still role-playing “the smart kid in the class” even though they’ve been out of class for a decade. Their computer dreams of IPO glory are formulated with the tunnel-vision of science fair projects. Left out are the realities of the greater unraveling.
Women are not at the center of this story. Theirs is another story. Let some woman tell it before I get to it.
Never has a society entered an epochal transition with such unpreparedness.
Never has a society appeared so childishly decadent.
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but i thought the 90s were great thanks to Clinton and his traveling band of Zio-geniuses like Greedspan, Rubin, Sperling, etc. etc. etc....?
The real economy sucked in 2005 too. The same bubble arguments made now were easily made then. I usually ask re-inflators what year we're re-inflating to? In other words, what are we priming to get back to? Name me a year.
john williams says 2005, which is even worse, and i tend to believe him. Using the proper 'GDP deflator', which merely means calculation inflation the way it was calculated in 1980, even in some cases 1990, the last year we had true, positive growth with proper inflation adjustments was almost a decade ago. And now, even with their totally bogus inflation and GDP numbers, they still couldnt manage a tiny bit of growth this past quarter. ANd plenty have the 'balls' to announce it, its just no TV network or major news publication has the balls to show their work
I am gping to go back even further, to the fourth quarter of 2006. That was the last of 21 quarters of quarterly year over year profit growth rates of 8% or higher.
Those 21 quarters were a bonanza for small and medium sized businesses.
But the Fed wanted more and kept pumping the housing markets to un manageable levels, rather than letting the US digest the growth we had experienced.
By compareison, we had 12 quarters of year over year quarterly profit growth of 8% or higher. That was fueled by easy money to all market sectors, courtesy of the Fed. No business should fail if they could help it.
"But the Fed wanted more and kept pumping the housing markets to un manageable levels, rather than letting the US digest the growth we had experienced."
Incorrect assessment. The Fed engineered the crash starting in July of 2004 via a rapid ramp up in rates. It was a classic pump and dump.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FEDFUNDS/
But the benefits were the byproduct of the housing bubble and financialization of the economy. In other words, fake. It was an unnatural state. That's the problem with the inflator / primer argument, you are inflating to a bubble. How do you expect that to end?
Double post...the first must have been routed through the NSA...
Is it me or are more and more people starting to write like Hunter S. Thompson?
"We can't stop here!!! this is Bat country!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8gAtTxWhUY
LOL! i live in Michigan and my Area has a Few Lumps Floating around in our bowl...
The $ and FED is the only thing that matters. It seems we are living the the roaring 20's before the crash. I cant believe it will end with a Obama Presidency, so we are safe until 2016. dow 35000
Nutslur is your typical ageing libtard, standing at the cross roads of "There is no God" and "God help me" but I bet the motherfucker bought a gun in the last year, good on you Jim but us cornpo hicks hope them ward of the state eat you.
anecdotal evidence is anecdotal
Bingo, and do you know why? It's because once it's announced then the blame game starts and the public would want that person or group on the altar for sacrifice.
Nobody got the memo here in Stone Harbor NJ!
....and in other news..Israel news reporting massive barrage of rockets fired from gaza.
bottle rockets with report or without?
The dreaded whistling bottle rocket.
pods
Between a toilet and a rat hole is commonly known as a Shathole.........
Taint. Taint the asshole, taint the pussy. Taint the city, taint the country. Taint.
It's probably nothing.
I'd call it corporate 'thought control'. Several years ago, I walked into a fast food joint wearing my 1980's shorts(mid-thigh, not too long or short). Two teenage boys immediately began looking and laughing. I looked straight at them and asked 'You got a problem with me dressing like a white man(they were white, too)?' Their reaction was telling. They went from eyeballing me to looking at their 'smart'-ass phones w/o a single word. There is no way the current 'prison' fashion could have lasted 20+ years w/o a monopolistic control of the media and clothing suppliers. I occasionally see a man wearing 'white man' shorts and know he probably had to shop the internet, for Euro suppliers, to find them.
Real Man Shorts.
You may have given yourself a good business idea. Fuck, I would buy a pair.
I'm gonna bring back Nutters. Magnum wore them and that guy got more ass than a toilet seat. Of course, he was named "Magnum."
pods
I think Magnum named his nuts Zeus and Apollo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GguoRr0lbOk
You remind me of this Vietnam Vet who kicked some ass. Good for you.
The decay of an empire. Nothing new here.
Whaddaya mean ???
The economy is SO great that we have to import half of Mexico and Central America just to fill the jobs that we are producing !
EBT isn't a job....
an army of leafblowers
The leaf blower yard crews seem to charge by the decibel.
Makes the old folks hiring them think work must be occurring.
If a jet airliner produced the same noise to work ratio as a leaf blower the noise of an airliner would blast down buildings like a hydrogen bomb.
That would be one hell of a jet engine though. Definitely enough thrust to reach orbit.
EBT isn't a job....
it is for the processors
Amerika used to play metal (almost as good as this but not really)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg
Amerika
We're all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We're all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
Wenn getanzt wird, will ich führen,
auch wenn ihr euch alleine dreht,
lasst euch ein wenig kontrollieren,
Ich zeige euch wie's richtig geht.
Wir bilden einen lieben Reigen,
die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen,
Musik kommt aus dem Weißen Haus,
Und vor Paris steht Mickey Maus.
We're all living in America...
Ich kenne Schritte, die sehr nützen,
und werde euch vor Fehltritt schützen,
und wer nicht tanzen will am Schluss,
weiß noch nicht, dass er tanzen muss!
Wir bilden einen lieben Reigen,
ich werde Euch die Richtung zeigen,
nach Afrika kommt Santa Claus,
und vor Paris steht Mickey Maus.
Refrain:
We're all living in America,
America is wunderbar.
We're all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
We're all living in America,
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra,
We're all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
This is not a love song,
this is not a love song.
I don't sing my mother tongue,
No, this is not a love song.
We're all living in America,
Amerika is wunderbar.
We're all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
We're all living in America,
Coca-Cola, sometimes WAR,
We're all living in America,
Amerika, Amerika.
This is Metal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznAYy5yL2A
"""""Never has a society entered an epochal transition with such unpreparedness.
Never has a society appeared so childishly decadent.""""""
Never will a society fall so hard.
Scary picture.
Get a sniper rifle and perch on your roof when it all goes down.
Ping the neighbors for fun.
You first; my neighbors ping back.
‘Viva La Raza!’
Fuck La Raza. Bunch of dipshits that don't know the difference between a race and a cultural group.
Come on Tyler, did you put up an assholes wanted post somewhere? We seem to be getting an awful lot of really strange newbs around here lately.
Leo Wanta will be around any day now to save us.
He is ready with the gold .... LOL
I find it amusing that even if the Wanta story is true, what difference could it possibly make?
Those bonds/cash (and all of the alleged actions associated with them) are still but words on paper.
Reminds me of a conversation I had over the weekend with my uncle, who thinks the world's collapse is being engineered, but by aliens (even though he has a decent understanding of the fraud of central banking).
My takeaway from the conversation was the old quote "If you can get someone to ask the wrong questions, then the answers don't matter." Instead of focusing on the most likely reasons, he had detailed explanations of how it would be possible for aliens to overcome our space/time boundaries.
Thanks, History Channel!
I had a discussion with an uncle a few weeks ago. He’s around 75.
His question, “What happens to all the money a person contributes to social security, but never collects because of an early death.”
What do you say to that other than the watermelon is tasty this year.
I had a discussion with an uncle a few weeks ago. He’s around 75.
His question, “What happens to all the money a person contributes to social security, but never collects because of an early death.”
What do you say to that other than the watermelon is tasty this year.
His eyes would instantly glaze over if you told him it wasn't money, it was debt. It was money when it went in and debt when it didn't come out. The government didn't enact the new deal out of benevolence to the elderly, it enacted SSI so the government could collect SSI taxes and grow beyond what it otherwise would have been able. When SSI was enacted government growth was somewhat limited in peacetime by having to redeem it's debts in gold if markets thought they were growing beyond their means. By the time the government had to pay out more than what it was stealing, the ties to gold were severed completely.
I tell the colored folks to look up how their favored goomint treats their race on an actuarial basis The few black folks that work in the private sector at productive jobs heavily subsidise those with higher life expectancies.
That's racis.
I have friends/family that think the same way. They know something is wrong but cannot be persuaded to see outside of a thought planted in their head by TV. Most people, even smart people, are contaminated with ideological subversion. It doesn't matter if you showed them plain, irrefutable proof, they will stick to their programmed beliefs.
The antidote is to get them to ditch the TV. Once they do that then they quickly figure it out for themselves.
Aliens do not need a collapse to engineer a takeover.
But Yellen and Goldman say that economy is recovering. How can you not trust them?
The corruption in present-day America is total. Psychologists and anthropologists serve war and torture. Economists serve globalism and US financial hegemony. Physicists and chemists serve the war industries. Physicists and computer geeks serve NSA. The media serves the government and the corporations. The political parties serve the six powerful private interest groups that rule the country.
No one serves truth and liberty.
I predict that within ten years truth and liberty will be forbidden words uttered only by “domestic extremists” who are a threat that must be exterminated without due process of law.
America has left us. We now have the tyranny of the Orwellian state that rules, not by the ballot box and Constitution, but by force and propaganda.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/07/07/virtual-economys-phantom-job-...
The corruption in present-day America is total. Psychologists and anthropologists serve war and torture. Economists serve globalism and US financial hegemony. Physicists and chemists serve the war industries. Physicists and computer geeks serve NSA. The media serves the government and the corporations. The political parties serve the six powerful private interest groups that rule the country.
Some of us do not. Some of us are right here, fighting, against the forces of Fraud and Tyranny.
Our ranks are growing in numbers and they have need to be concerned. The Brains are leaving the Government en masse as the Government is so myopic to believe that we are no longer needed, that we have served our purpose.
We did not envision that the psychopaths would take what we had to offer and corrupt it to the detriment of all.
But we see it now and we are angered. And there is nobody more dangerous to that establishment than a Mad Scientist.
Since we put it together we certainly know the weaknesses and how to disintegrate it all.
Fuck the NSA.
Clownish unprepared juvenile narcissists.
The behavior and thought processes are as bad or worse than the outfits.
What's that flushing sound?
Oh yeah, Amurika.
Apt description of the current white house resident
Do you think these people will buy stocks and bonds in the future?
More other news...6.9 Earthquake in Guatamala/Mexico has discplaced thousands more, they will need new homes, where will they go I wonder?
Krugman just jizzed his pants again.
These comments are funny, but it's pretty obvious that Krugman could not possibly get an erection.
Or give anybody one.
I need this comment explained to me.
He is not attractive to men?
He is not good at sucking dick or giving hand jobs??
Edit: I am not defending Krugman, I think the insult went past me however...
It means Krugman is not attractive to gay men.
Only a gay man would care of course, but we probably have some of those around here and can expect to hear from them once in a while concerning their tastes in men.
Thanks Kitty! Leave it to a biologist to set my head on my shoulders straight!
Why they will come to the Obamanation where they can get their Obamacare, their Obamaphone, their Obamacollegeedumacation, their ObamaSNAP, and now their Obamahomes.
You may not want Obamacare, but Obamacare wants you!
I see a lot of overweight tattooed slobs.
Are you at DisneyWorld today ?
Or anywhere else in Florida.
Or almost any Wal Mart.
Or the 5 borroughs of NYC?
We can narrow it down to America, that is all I know for sure.
This is so true. My inlaws run a private small business that tends to do well in hard economic times and to suffer when the middle class is full up with well paid jobs. In short, when people are hard up for money or can't afford new items, they frequent his online and store front operations. Business is so good that three new store fronts have opened and he is still hiring, finding it hard to get reliable people, so he has upped his pay scale to attract more reliable people. This is how free markets do and should work. Yet, America is just one giant manipulated Federal Reserve Crony Capitalist failure. Oh, and business started it's uppward swing in 2008 and has gone steady upwards since then.
No, the mainstreet economy sucks. The middle class survives only due to government jobs, which have high pay, full time work and big benefits. I see this in my small town. The public employees have new big homes in the countryside, the others have run down shacks or rent crap apartments in town. I swear the only difference is the Government employee versus the Private Sector employee.
Pawn shop? Used furniture? Check cashing? Inquiring minds want to know...
Slightly used hookers.
Is there such a thing as a new hooker?
They're only new once. Although some could be described as 'inexperienced.'
I quit hanging out with public sector people
Makes me sick I can't even hide it anymore
The new class warfare/divide
I believe you'll find what you're looking for at Hooters, only you'll be a couple of months and a bad break up early.
You know you have a noob when she agrees to let you pay her later :-)
Sections of the 'public sector' irritatye me. Forexample, the post office. They should be licking customers' asses the rates they charge. Instead, I sometimes get a letter or package returned for some trivial reason, most likely the carrier did not want to get off their duff for a signature confirmation or leave one of those pink slips. For a 'median salary' of $75,000 a year they should shine peoples' shoes as they walk in the door!
In the prviate secotr about 10% of these people would be fired on Day 2.
.Gov employees make dure the deficit spending continues. They know their lifestyle depends upon it.
Isn't the private sector also propped by the printing? Jamie's lifestyle is just as dependant as any gov employee no?
You are completely correct. Fed policy + governmental rules/regs/enforcement actions are very, very beneficial to private firms that have invested in politicians.
I also see little real difference between the public and private sectors. The difference is people with jobs and people that work. In both sectors we have (the majority of?) people shuffling numbers at a desk and expecting resources for no production.
What was the old saying... 'we are all just folding each other's laundry and pretending we are working.' Something like that. Or "we pretended to work, they pretended to pay us."
What's left of the so-called 'private sector' is getting annihilated.
We frequent the "Amvets" thrift stores in our area and can attest to your observations. They are the only stores full of people. It's like people are exercising a hard to break, vestigal, shopping habit. If you go often, you are likely to find what you need at these stores for pennies on the dollar. Problem is the quality of goods is declining as the tsunami of housing collapse goods, as families barfed up their belongings, is getting more and more downscale. It's like the stuff has been donated before by some prior Amvets shopper.
What a pain in the ass are the savvy Ebay resellers. Their picking, and way of haunting the aisles and chasing the "fresh crap cart," as stuff is put on racks, is nausiating. Some aholes even run interference and gang circle picking stuff off the cart as it rolls. There are guys who stay there all day and have worked out ways of gaining the complicity of the staff. Now days the stuff is pre-picked and the good stuff gets put on their own Amvets Auction, which is good. Goodwill Industries is doing the same thing.
Slowly, surely silver, turqoise, gold, gemstones disappear from these stores. The recyclers send the metal to China chasing the machines we sent earlier. Valuable goods vanish. Cheap chrome plated plastic crap remains.
Slowly, surely silver, turqoise, gold, gemstones disappear from these stores. The recyclers send the metal to China chasing the machines we sent earlier. Valuable goods vanish. Cheap chrome plated plastic crap remains.
I am not in China. I am in the USA...in Lakeside, CA.
I take delivery of my refined Gold and Silver.
As for the eBayers...Good for them. That is the Free Market at work.
Instead of whining why don't you compete? You want wealth handed to you on a Silver Platter and fed to you with a Gold Spoon?
Shit. Why am I even bothering?
"It...it...it is just so unfair!!!"
Save it for later.
Does it seem crotchety to dwell on appearances?
Yeah pretty much
I'm guessing your parents and mine said the same about us back in day...
bell bottoms?
No, Ying-Yang. Back in the day my parents said the same thing about the dress of teenagers that they thought were thugs, not Adults. It is much worse now. Is it just an appearance? People dress a certain way because of the impression they want to make. If they dress like clownish thugs its because they want to give the impression that they are clownish thugs.
Frightening "man on the street" interviews by the likes of Jesse Watter's or Jay Leno only solidfy the case that too many have checked out of the task of participating in their own society.
Time for Kerry's dime bags to be reduced to a nickel.
hence the surge in calf tats. Only par tof the leg visible with those weird long chorts.
Why go fat ugly women get tatoos that draw attention to tiier fat sloppy shoulder blades and sloshy boobs? Time would be better spent at the gym or just walking.
Haven't you heard? We're just suppose to "accept her the way she is."
but they make her "Fabulous"
Women who get tattoos are just clownish freaks whom are only suitable for the circus.
It is becoming a freak parade. Tattoos do not enhance any inherent beauty but exacerbate the ugliness inside as an outward manifestation.
Tattoos on a woman are not attractive in the least. They are repulsive to most men. That is the "Red Light District" garbage walking through the Wal Marts of America.
(Now some "men" will fuck whores. But those that do are actually boys, the Adult Children to whom the author of this article refers. But most men will not and stay away from those beasts.)
Who cares about the real economy, when you can get free porn on your smart phone. /sarc off
I see Kunstler's wiggers everywhere. (Yes, I said that.) I think it has become part of the Cloward-Piven plan:
1. Make everyone look unemployable.
2. Uneducate them so they really are unemployable.
3. Export all jobs or automate the ones that remain.
4. Make 'em join the FSA.
5. Affirmation of the plan on Election Day.
Wiggers?!!??
What about Wonkys?!!?
We've had just about enough of those fucking people parading around as white-uptight assholes!!
Jeez, if ever there was a group not to emulate.
The "real economy" is peeples forced to get a second job to pay for increased property taxes, food prices, insurance of all sorts [including the Unaffordable Careless Act], gas prices, etc ... as wages stagnant and competition from foreigners at the blue collar level [Hispanics] and the higher IT levels [Inn-Dee-anns] force wages even lower.
Globalization is in Full Bloom and getting Bloomier!
Just hang on until the Barbarians come and end the fraud. Then wait 10 centuries and things will be back to normal.
I like to make fun of modern "styles" of trashy people as much as anyone, but this article is 90% an old guy being bitter. He shoulda just said "kids these days" or "get off my lawn", and then moved on to an actual point.
I dunno, I find articles like this fascinating. Not as fascinating as obtuse financial articles with charts charts charts, but still. Fascinating. Is society careening off the rails or are we getting old and bitter? Society has always been melting down. Or melting up.
I appreciate the humor- need more of it. The spectacle isn't just terrifying. It's hilarious and should be sent up on every occasion.
For yourself and Ying Yang above, here are six phrases from the article that indicate that he is NOT talking about "kids" or "teenagers":
instantly transforming a normally-proportioned adult male into a stock slapstick character: the oafish man-child.
It was a big crowd, and every male in it was dressed in a clown rig.
You can see, perhaps, how it works against everything that might suggest the phrase: “competent adult here.”
I give you: America’s young manhood.
In such a situation, wouldn’t a person benefit from presenting himself as child-like,
Down in Brooklyn, a world away, the young men go about in their hipster uniforms: Pee Wee Herman cut casuals. They’re still role-playing “the smart kid in the class” even though they’ve been out of class for a decade.
And still, somehow you and YY managed to totally miss his "actual point".
I think you missed the point, he is talking about the generation previous to his. Every generation always bitches about the generation that follows them (even though said generation is a direct result of the older generation). This amounts to an old crochety man bitching about young people, hence "get off my lawn".
I dislike hipsters and people that sag their pants as much as the next guy, but I don't equate it with the downfall of society or the terrible economy.
Go ahead and equate.
That -- or be taken by surprise.
You don't get many warnings but when you do the warnings will look like something stupid just happened. If you were expecting four actual horsemen to ride out of the East on pillars of fire then I politely suggest you modify your search image a bit.
Less is more!
http://finance.yahoo.com/video/return-retail-investor-165200852.html
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Never has a society entered an epochal transition with such unpreparedness."
That is the maddest and saddest part: The American people have no idea the shit storm that is about to envelope them and are completely unprepared, financially, physically and mentally, for it—like a rowboat on the open sea.
I don't have to be faster than the Lion, just faster than you...
Thats what I think of in regards to 80 percent of the people I have met.
Saggen' and Baggin' holding their 64 oz. Slurpie, they'll be easy to catch and fed to your guillotine! I wonder if they'll use "gang sign" sign language to scream, "Please, no! Don't kill me an shit."
CHOP GOES THE WEASEL!
Now where did I put my guillotine, damn it?
Oh shit. I just have too much crap in this clutter box of a Human Storage unit.
Ahhhh...There it is. I feel much better now.
Agreed kc. Be mentally prepared if the tornadic shitstorm we see is percieved as a simple cloudy day by most everyone else because that is the unfortunate but likely outcome.
someone told me the message in the droopy pants
fashion is 'the pants come down easy', apparently a
street and prison
meme. similar to the suit and tie
meme of business and the media which states 'if you have
a decent grip you can choke me to death in a minute'.
.
fashion. don't even mention the high heel and what
that says. I have had enough of it ......
speaking of rat holes, toilets, economics and such ....
The Century of the Self
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/
200 miles north of NYC is fly-over country?
I'm no geography major.....
dear writer, you need to chill out. in the new epoch you write about they will all be drafted and likely killed in action. To wit, no worries, all good, end of story. And sadly, when there are no more americans to wear the clown shorts, they will simply be shipped to 3rd world countries in aide packages, so you will never truly escape them.
Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk
OMG...that was hilarious. This truthy spiel works in the way only something both TRUE and HORRIBLE can.
Pants these days look like somebody is expecting a flood.
This is more than a fad, it is fluoride, GMO, vaccines, teflon and aluminum cookware etc etc. destroying the human brain.
Aspartame destroys the pancreas which in turn leads to massive weight gain. How many 400 pounders have you seen walking out of grocery store with a case of aspartame coke under their arms?
I am pretty sure Jack Flash is right also about increased methane in the atmosphere and oxygen starvation helping out with zombie nation.
Dont be so negative!
30 year mortgage 84 month auto finance 24.99%
"USA is Great" t Mastercard and zee life is beautiful!
If you can afford it.
the flip side of this article is that baggy "board shorts" that have been popular by surfers has spared many people from having to look at hairy middle aged men wearing speedos and short shorts. Move to Spain it you want to walk around and show off your junk on the beach. You'll fit right in.
Mine have to have a 10 inch inseam.
I dont know if its just a generational thing..but as I look at youth today....I think they are screwed up bigtime...life on a cellphone is no life to me...
Socialist criminal invasion is a real economy with real debt, real growth and real ethnic cleansing.
I saw one of these tools walking through a Home Depot parking lot this week with his pants waistband around his knees. I laugh at the thought of these degenerate self loathing meat bags attempting to run from danger.
...I laugh at the thought of these degenerate self loathing meat bags attempting to run from danger.
or the cops. so, so, funny
Bingo.
I notice facial tats are becoming more common as well. It seems we have a growing group that don't plan to work. Ever.
Ultra good for scanners, they can catch just about any body part on a couple frames and the have a solid hit.
I have never owned a cellphone. By the time parents and kids find out just what they do to the brain and changes in DNA, it is already too late they are brain damaged. The younger they start the worse the consequences.
I have never had a call so important it couldn't wait until I got back to the house.
Did You just admit to wasting his time arguing with the manager at Dick's about the swim suit inventory instead of going to a reputable clothing merchant? WTF?
You are at a Mall -and You go shopping for clothes -clothes of any kind ...at Dick's?
WHY would You do that? That shit is designed for tail-gating and bbqs: it's meant to be destroyed by drunken louts; -grass stains, spilled beer and dribbled ketchup/bbq sause, etc...are what You don't want on your izod and dockers.
I'm not even gonna touch the hangin' out in a public park checking tattoo'd young men admission...
-You're on your own Jimbo...
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=2&tbs=itp:photo,ic:color,isz:m&t...
The fattest heffers looks like Oprah- a dumb 'murkin bitch who doesn't understand that if you want service in an upscale establishment, you should DRESS APPROPRIATELY to go shopping (and ask your MAN to escort you if you're a woman in Switzerland).
BTW - the water in Switzerland SUCKS, so one can't blame the difference on something in the water... and 20% of the population are first-generation immigrants... so the "People of Walmart" look is probably not the wetbacks' fault either.
"BTW - the water in Switzerland SUCKS, so one can't blame the difference on something in the water... and 20% of the population are first-generation immigrants... so the "People of Walmart" look is probably not the wetbacks' fault either."
1) It's not the water, it's fructose in everything.
2) People lose weight at high altitude: Colorado Walmart == Switzerland Wallmart.
1) Switzerland has too much HFCS and other artificial sweeteners, just like everywhere else. https://secure.coca-cola.ch/content/ch/corporate/de/medienmitteilungen.a...
2) Most of Switzerland is not high altitude. My house in Zurich is actually at the same elevation (+/-100m) as my house in SW Virginia, yet it is only the surrounding land in Virginia that is plagued by an infestation of land whales.
3) There are no Walmarts in Switzerland.
People lose weight at high altitude: Colorado Walmart == Switzerland Wallmart.
You are so full of shit...
Not in my experience.
Northern AZ University is at 7000 feet. Back in the late Seventies and Early Eighties those coeds looked mighty fine and trim...those snowbunnies...at the beginning of the School Year.
But by the end of their first semester they gained at least 15 Pounds underneath their clothing.
You eat to stay warm. You find out that fat is a damn good insulator.
And they used their Meal Tickets and pigged out at the Campus Cafeterias.
Most transformed into fat hefers alrighty...fuckin' fat hefers.
You are dreaming, pal. You have not EVER lived in Cold Country. Look at those Russian women.
Now at Arizona Stae University...in the Desert...where it was WARM...those coeds stayed nice and trim.
So you make up bullshit and publish it???
LMAO.
fatblackchicks.com
Apparently, "why I don't know" fatblackchicks.com isn't getting any bidders--whowouldathunkit? https://www.google.com/#q=fatblackchicks.com
And the most "funny" part is our plight as a nation is that we don't truthfully talk about how we got to this sorry state of affairs or what ideology authored this decline and abjection and degradation.
We got here by deliberate steps that enriched a number of sociopaths all of whom were wearing clean suits and sported the appearance of "Family Values".
Yep, it's gut wrenching funny!
Like that experiment with rats where the vermin were kept in dark cramped, miserable conditions and then were offered either food or morphine.
Turns out that morphine was never the choice when the rats were given clean and enjoyable living conditions.
We never hear about that part.
Dude hit a raw nerve with the ZH plumber's crack crowd.
LOL!
I really don't understand the new fad of having your pants so low the crack of your ass and the pimple rash is showing.
I always wanted to slap one of these guys with the clown pants and then dance around them and see them fall on their face trying to get to me.
I think that is why they travel in packs and are armed with guns.
Hopefully you will have your Concealed with you so that when they pull theirs then you can shoot them.
Otherwise, pal, you have a death wish.
Suicide by Gangbanger???
Not a good option. Why involve others in your self destruction?
Point the criminals in the direction of the shining beacons of Wall Street. Like the Hamptons and Manhattan. Plenty of money there.
I defense of my hipstery neighbors in Brooklyn, many are trying to reinvigorate their economic standing by embracing certain craft trades of old. welding, woodworking, brewing and textile manufacturing is helping to employ people to a degree. Sure the prices of their products mean that those in the bankster class are the ones that can really afford the goods... but its something, and in the right direction.
Elon Musk is building his Falcon 9 Rockets much cheaper than Lockheed or Boeing.
They are the state of the art. They are so damned cheap that Russia and China are envious because they cannot do it.
He is using American Labor and American Factories to do it.
If only the Bankster class can afford the products then either the materials costs are too expensive (which means that they need to shut down as the business model is flawed and unsustainable) or your friends are greedy bastards and charge too much.
Do not bullshit me about the "Labor Costs".
BTW...THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE PIECE OF SHIT TESLA. The Falcon 9 actually works.
You cannot be successful at everything.
I've read and loved ZH for years, but this article is somewhere in between the toilet and a rat hole.
The "information" in the article should be flushed down the toilet or is telling the truth like throwing information down a rat hole?
When I read the title of the article,
"The Real Economy Is Somewhere Between The Toilet & A Rat Hole"I immediately thought of money either being flushed down a toilet or being thrown down a rat hole.
We can't decide--either way, what is the difference?
Meh? I decide to sleep on the side of the bed that is on the drafty exterior wall away from both the annoying rats and smelly plumbing. I like fresh air, I can deal with being, "out in the cold".
Tyler trots out JHK every Monday just for the lulz.
To be fair, it's hard to write every week like that. You run out of ideas and sometimes you just run out of energy and time. But JHK has to come up with something every Monday, so you get whatever was easy.
Now myself of course I always rock hard. Try some of this:
http://fedtoatiger.blogspot.com/
Or if you are into the classics, something more olde skool:
http://madscienceunlimited.com/fiction/
I've nothing new lately; new job and other projects eating into my time. For new you have JHK.
For excessive violence, gratuitous nudity, and a lethal dose of insanity -- I got your back.
Kunstler is a flawed human. Whatever. He is on the money with The Long Emergency. We are in it, and it ain't to win it. Like an annoying friend who you have known for years, I don't need to agree with some of his more closed minded stuff to see that he, generally, has good observations. The energy problem is real. The clusterfuck is real. I stumbled on him by accident (End of Suburbia) and it changed everything for me. I probably would have never made it over here to bitch and moan, because I would have never known to question the economy in the ways that I do now. I did question the housing bubble, but it was this deep dark secret I was harboring, everyone was telling me it could only go up, but that did not seem logical. Meanwhile I was right, my instincts were good. I got out of the market because of folks like Kunstler. I did not take the 40% haircut everyone else did when it crashed in 2007/8. I got out in 2006. I was worried because of this guy in 2004-5. We were just early, that's all.
We are grinding right into it. There is no redemption.