Great model-narrative of how the USA has switched from being the low-cost systemic-insurance provider for the international capitalist order (where the global benefits exceed the sheerly local benefits for the USA), to being a Sopranoid protection racket extracting rents in
For the past month, I’ve been working on a project to map out and document the work of one of the most prolific storefront sign painters in the US - this is Detroit’s Ron Signs
tariffs will be like the Iraq War. they will spawn a decade of theories for what was the REAL reason we engaged in senseless, emotional, and self destructive bullshit
if you don’t import chinese kids, your kids won’t go to shitty schools, and the shitty schools will go out of business. this is good for business. very practical. classic trumpian pragmatism
on the one hand you have imperator zimbabwebucks. on the other hand, DEI hires in charge of crucial institutions who are stupid and short sighted enough to commit mortgage fraud.