I went down the hole into the "dark side."
We'll talk about that in a little. But first, let's talk about the latest news concerning the economy.
Home Depot is also saying people are not buying, paint, tools, lumber, etc.....During the COVID shut down they or other hardware type stores boomed. Stuck at home, bored, started projects. Paint the house, re-build the deck, etc.
This is traditionally home remodel season. People are coming over for Thanksgiving, Christmas Holidays. Need new lighting. Need to re-paint the dining room, new doorknobs, replace the guts on the front toilet.
People are skipping it. Not going to Lowe's or Home Depot, Ace Hardware to buy supplies for their home projects. Skipping to save money.
Again, people are looking at dropping the food budget for the holidays spaghetti and pork meatballs( I'm tempted to get a couple of bottles of red wine and showing up.) gumbo( Another winner, as I said early, we are right now in the process of eating a pot we made.....I channeled my Coonass ancestors, put on D L Menard and Jo-El Sonnier and made the roux...)
This is not just an American phenomenon....The British are talking about not only cutting back on gift giving, but, on food for the Christmas meal.
In recent years in England, the turkey, like in America, has become the go-to meal to cook for Christmas meals in the UK, it replaced Tiny Tim's goose from Victorian days. Turkeys are so expensive that people are looking at making things like a curry, going back to old fashion bangers and mash for some folks.......I like a good Cumberland sausage and mashed potatoes....
- Commercial properties are now delinquent at 11.8%.. This is higher than even in 2008, or during COVID..This includes places like Caesar's Casino in Las Vegas who cannot pay their rent.
- Then we have a serious car repossession crisis.
In 2024, there were 1.9 million cars repossessed in the United States.
So far, in 2025, the number is 7.5 million cars. So far.... They are predicting that by January of 2026, that number will be 10.6 million....Or more.
You have got to remember, that a repossession does not go out until someone is 90 days behind on their car payments.
- There are no longer any " First Time Home Buyers" to speak of anymore. Can't afford the down payment. Can't afford the mortgage.Interest rates too high....
- Then, I had a former student, a businessperson post their less than $3 lunch they got from Sam's. They were thrilled. Hell, I was thrilled for them. Again, economics is in play. I am shocked at what fast-food places are charging for their slop.
- Okay Kerry Don, Kerry, Govteach, Mr. Thomas, what scared you?
I went into the "dark world" late last night. They came out of their crypts, their coffins, out of the woods, the back sloughs..........
It's bad when most were quoting Rudyard Lynch. ( Being the eccentric I am, before Reid was chosen as his name, the names in the running for my son were Rudyard, Naaman( Book of Judges, look it up) and Grey. Reid needs to thank his mother I settled on Reid. The girl's name was always Margeaux Elizabeth. )
Lynch is a " historian" Geo-political writer. You Tuber.....( He has some good stuff, but he goes off on tangents too much for me, then again, so does the old Govteach.)
And the big quote they are taking away was....
"There is no historic society that looked like us that did not have a revolution."
And they were all for it.
I do not think they quite understand what a revolt, a civil war would look like. Many of these online are Gen Z and Millennials and many have just " Given up." They're ready to just " burn it all down."
Then again, what is normalcy in 2025? It certainly does not look like 1975 when I graduated high school. Nor when I graduated from undergraduate school.
These guys are talking about the USA splitting into sections.
They are all on the belief we are going to a digital currency system. Places in Europe are rapidly going there now. I know Denmark is looking already at all digital for the Krone. You are hard pressed to use actual hard-currency in that nation. ( The British are trying to go there and the population is fighting it tooth and nail. It is a government trying to collect every tax quid they can. Just like here, they use cash to avoid taxes. That said, the last time we were in the UK, I think I used cash once.( £12 for 3 pints. Everything else was on a card. BTW 2 Brain Ales and one Rev James original in Cardiff, Wales near the university. Had to have the a couple of Rev. James, founded by an Anglican minister, their slogan is " Saving souls, and slaying thirsts," )
They were all over the 1913 establishment of the Federal Reserve, and the establishment of fiat currency( Look it up in your Eco notes, I discussed it) that allowed the Fed to print money and thus, cause inflation. The Fed is printing money hand over fist today. It is why the American debt is now $38 trillion....And the US ain't never going to be able to pay it off. It's also why we have so much inflation. The book 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' if you want to go into banking conspiracies.
10% of Americans own 93% of the assets in America.
Many were talking about a French Revolution type revolt. But this one will be economic in nature.
All are thinking either this is about government control,,,,Or those with a more Biblical background thinking this will lead eventually to a " Mark of the Beast" as discussed in the Book of Revelations.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.-
Rev. 13: 16-17. KJV ( King James I we wrote on the first Stewart/Stuart- King of England yesterday, bisexual, read about his exploits with the " Duke of Buckingham." Again, God works in mysterious ways.)
And then, it got really off the tracks....
Okay, that's a teaser. I could stand it just so long.
I'll go into the really dark areas in a couple of days.....I may need to eat a gummy....Or 2 before I do so....
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