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Given my near total lack of attention to any corporate media outlets I cannot be totally sure, but I strongly suspect that you didn't get a very big dose of this aspect of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's latest visit to China: One Day After Biden Bent the Knee, the Chinese Thoroughly Embarrass the Biden …
Continue reading Anti-Narrative Digest – More Humiliations on the World Stage
While watching this video, keep in mind that Anheuser-Busch is a $125B corporation with 150+ years of prestige behind the brand and this buzz-word babbling buffoon (likely heavily credentialed in the hollowest of ways) is a VICE PRESIDENT with the unchecked power to put $BILLIONS$ at risk overnight: https://twitter.com/i/status/1645089521980280832 (For the record, I did not …
Some books just write themselves. While I am sure that a whole lot of research went into writing Lords of Finance – The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009), one does wonder it there was a snarky, astute blogger back then screaming to himself about the obviously hollow credentialed buffoons that were making perfectly wrong decisions at every …
Continue reading Lords of Wokenss – The Cabinet Secretaries Who Broke The World
The following was posted directly to the legacy posting site on four days ago (Saturday, March 11). As always, it needs to be posted here for longer term documentation: On what seems to be the slowest Saturday in memory around here, you really should have taken note of one particular post. It is not hard to see …
Continue reading Bailout Nation – The Same Old Con and Dance (with Updated Commentary)
Just clearing my desk and my mind... ___ ___ ___ A brief follow-up to Sophomoric Demagoguery – So Intellectually Shallow it is Hard Not to Laugh...while I didn't bother to watch or delve into the pathetic twaddle myself, I'm glad to see someone did: “We are at a moment in time rarely seen in politics, …
Continue reading A Few Random Notes Before the Massive Distractions of Mid-Term Election Mania
Even before the latest addition, it was clear to many honest observers that proper history will record a very unimpressive picture of the Obama-Biden wing of The Court. Given the transparently shallow selection criteria that went into their nominations, that should surprise no one. If there was any doubt about Biden’s first selection fitting in, …
Continue reading The Obama-Biden Wing of The Court – Modern Anti-Intellectualism on Parade
Author Liaquat Ahamed started the last paragraph of Lords of Finance - The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009) with: More than anything else, therefore, the Great Depression was caused by a failure of intellectual will, a lack of understanding about how the economy operated. … There will be no such excuse this time around. …
Continue reading The Worst Economy in Eighty Years – Lords of Finance Vol 2?
Way back at the beginning of May, when I was still posting at the other place, I wrote of the hollow-credentialed buffoons, or the HCYSW (Heavily Credentialed Yet Still Worthless) crowd...again, with apologies for the blatant mimicking of Mr. Taleb’s Intellectual Yet Idiot construct...that now dominate the ruling American beltway (and so much more of the American …
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