Thomas Malthaus

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 31, 2025 1:30
The Most Prominent Buzzwords For The US Economy In 2025 Were “Affordability” And “Layoffs”

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This is civilizational exhaustion showing through the cracks. The structure no longer makes sense to the people holding it up. They work sixty to eighty hours. They endure hollow jobs, fake rituals, collapsing cities, soulless bureaucracy, and degraded institutions. They’re told this is freedom. They’re told this is the deal. But their labor gets taxed, skimmed, siphoned, and redirected into systems that reward their dispossession.

Their time disappears into a machine that offers no future and no loyalty. Their earnings are liquefied to sustain imported dysfunction, elite protection, and bureaucratic expansion. And when they notice, they’re told they’re the problem. They’re told their resentment is dangerous. They’re told their instincts are bigotry.

The deeper truth is this: We are living in a captured wealth loop. The core productivity of the middle class is no longer converted into shared stability. It’s converted into narrative control, state expansion, and population management. This is what late-stage managerialism does when it runs out of real growth. It replaces material advancement with moral leverage. It replaces national cohesion with client-voter incentives. It replaces the American idea with a control schema that treats the productive as liabilities to be silenced or drained.

The sense of betrayal is primal. Because at the core, people feel they are paying into a system that has broken the deal. They are upholding a structure that no longer protects them, represents them, or even acknowledges them. And in that gap, something ancient reawakens. The sense that the center is no longer legitimate.

The contract has been voided. That loyalty is now unilateral. This is thermodynamic. You cannot build indefinitely on extraction without collapse. You cannot demoralize the stable layer and expect stability. You cannot crush the competent and import dependence and pretend it’s equilibrium. What we are seeing is the beginning of a consciousness shift. Where people stop defending the system and start defending themselves.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 30, 2025 9:50
Citizen Journalist Descends On Ohio, Immediately Finds “First Signs Of Massive Potential Somali Fraud”

Is the US government funding mosque construction across America?

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 30, 2025 4:18
European Defense Stocks Slide As Trump-Zelensky Peace Talks Show Progress

If only you knew.  

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 30, 2025 2:43
“Stark Reversal” From Pandemic: US Home Price Growth Slowest Since Q2 2023

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The housing market is dead because the social contract behind it broke, and everyone involved knows it even if they refuse to say it.

Homeownership used to be a ladder. Now it is a gate. Prices are not supported by utility, shelter need, or family formation anymore. They are supported by path dependence. People who already own cannot move without downgrading their future. People who do not own cannot enter without sacrificing their present. That traps both sides. Buyers are not waiting.

They are giving up. Sellers are not holding firm. They are frozen by fear. The market is no longer a place where rational agents meet. It is a standoff between generations with incompatible balance sheets.

Under the surface, three things are true at the same time: 1. Prices are too high relative to incomes in a way that cannot be fixed by optimism. 2. Rates cannot fall enough without breaking something else in the system. 3. Wage growth cannot close the gap without inflation re-accelerating. So the system stalls. The reason this feels uncanny is that housing stopped being a market and became a memory. Sellers are pricing yesterday. Buyers are living tomorrow. There is no present where trades make sense.

Nothing resolves until ownership changes hands under pressure, not preference. That pressure comes from job loss, divorce, death, taxes, insurance costs, or policy shifts. Time does more damage here than headlines. This is really about credibility.

People no longer believe that buying a house improves their life trajectory. Once that belief breaks, volume collapses first, then narratives, then prices. What you are looking at is a legitimacy crisis in the largest asset class in the country. And it stays frozen until reality forces a reset.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 29, 2025 10:58
Network Mapping Nick Shirley’s Bombshell Report Of ‘Empty’ Minnesota Daycares

I know.  What rule?  What law?

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 29, 2025 10:45
Network Mapping Nick Shirley’s Bombshell Report Of ‘Empty’ Minnesota Daycares

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/former-fox-news-contributor-dennis-michael-lynch-goes/

Former Fox News Contributor Dennis Michael Lynch GOES NUCLEAR: Says If Somali Deportations and Indictments on Tim Walz Don’t Happen, ‘MAGA and the Rule of Law Are Total BS’

I believe Israel and its Palestinian genocidal rampage, with US support, will erode MAGA as a Republican voting bloc.  The economy will play a role.  MAGA will effectively dissolve by the 2028 election cycle.  Few will be impressed by JD Vance or any other Israeli shill.

The deportations aren't happening quickly enough, and in larger numbers.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 29, 2025 9:04
Russia ‘Confidently Advancing’ In Ukraine, Over 30 Settlements Captured In December: Putin

Who and what does BlackRock own in Kyiv, Brussels, and Washington?  A rhetorical question.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 29, 2025 8:25
Network Mapping Nick Shirley’s Bombshell Report Of ‘Empty’ Minnesota Daycares

I thought eating cats and dogs was racist?

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 29, 2025 4:36
European Defense Stocks Slide As Trump-Zelensky Peace Talks Show Progress

These events seem to occur after a Trump-Zelensky meeting or just days after a domestic terror operation on Zelensky's life.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 28, 2025 10:48
Education Department Has Rejected Over 300,000 Requests For Lower Student Loan Repayments

I'm expecting massive job losses in technology.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 28, 2025 9:36
Education Department Has Rejected Over 300,000 Requests For Lower Student Loan Repayments

"The Dec. 15 status report in the American Federation of Teachers’ ongoing lawsuit against the federal government, filed in the District of Columbia earlier this year, said President Donald Trump’s administration rejected 327,955 applications from borrowers who sought “the lowest monthly payment possible.”

Could we anticipate nearly 330,00 home forclosures and at least that many car repossessions within the next six months?

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 28, 2025 5:53
Zelensky Meets With Trump At Mar-a-Lago As Ukrainian Capital Pounded By Russia

Donald J. Trump 1 hr.

@realDonaldTrump

I just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to my meeting, at 1:00 P.M. today, with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. The meeting will take place in the main dining room of Mar-a-Lago. Press is invited. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 28, 2025 7:36
Mortgage Rates Dip To 3-Year-Lows As Home-Sellers Outnumber Buyers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL-DfFdYSU

 

Florida's about to implode. (PHASE 2 CRASH BEGINS)

Florida's housing crash just entered its second phase--foreclosures and forced selling. As we turn the calendar to 2026, more and more homes in Florida's housing market are being foreclosed on, and the results are huge declines in prices. Access Reventure's price forecast and overvaluation % for your market at https://www.reventure.app 39% in Ocala. 27% in St. Petersburg. And houses across markets like Naples, Miami, and Orlando that are now selling for less than what the previous owners bought it for. This negative equity is running rampant across Florida entering 2026, as data from Zillow shows that home values are down -5.3% over the last 12 months, and in some markets they're down over 13%. Could these declines continue into 2026? Well, Florida now has the most foreclosures of any state in the U.S., a trend that will likely continue next year due to the declining values. Reventure App's forecast suggests prices in Florida's real estate market will continue to drop next year, especially as investors leave the market. According to data from Redfin, the biggest investor exodus in Florida is occurring in Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami.  In these markets, investor purchases are down 50-70% from peak. One big reason is property taxes and insurance. The cost of owning real estate in Florida just climbed too high during the pandemic, and now investors and regular owners alike are pulling back from buying and selling. Governor Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate property taxes in Florida in 2026 and aims to have it on the ballot for residents to vote on in November 2026. Will it happen? We will have to see.

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Thomas Malthaus
Dec 28, 2025 1:58
Wealthy Chinese Elites Use US Surrogacy System To Have Dozens Of Children

Anchor baby citizenship.