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Before Trump.
During Trump.
After Trump.
Culture decline.
Family Structures butchered.
Digital Culture run amok.
Europe cutting education, research, pensions.
Europe (Germany too :) increasing defense spending under the Reagan Regime.
In America? Shootings.
Political violence---becoming normal.
Trust in institutions of democracy? Dwindling.
Common Culture? Nope (enabling much of the above)
Common civics responsibility and knowledge? (nope, enabling much of the above)
Debt....
Currency......
Norms............
Permanent and growing underclass....and AI decimation has barely even started -- that will be bonus.
Climate..........
Record Fossil Fuels..............
Punishment has officially been put into cruise control and now, will "compound" as you 401K types like to say.
BOOM. I'm winning. "Happy" 4th HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH look beyond your 401K bubble....the other 70%? You'll meet them....in due time.....or rather, they --- will meet you people.
"I paid my bills this month, I didn't get shot at, and my daughter and her boyfriend and their son are ok"---that is the new American Dream. Not in 401K Ville but eventually....you people, will meet your captives.
News---is so much fun lately :)
Thanks. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Europe cutting education, research, pensions.
And, hollowing out their industrial base, because people in other countries work cheaper. All, just like Shinyland.
I am looking forward, with great interest, to July 9th. Big dogs at VAG meet to decide what do to. Widest reported: close 4 or 7 assembly plants in Germany, and expand the RIF to 100,000, because Poles, Czechs, and Mexicans, work cheaper. More chatter: build their Chinese designed models in the EU, because Chinese engineers are cheaper than Germans. Or, throw away 80 years of brand equity that borders on a cult, and spin off the VW brand, because German built VWs have a lower GP than Czech built Skodas. What I don't see any talk about: building cars people want, because McKinsey always targets "production headcount reduction" to "solve" a company's problems, not introspection by management.
Steve
