Dr. Keynes Was Right: I Told You So

A Psychopath Lame Duck. What Could Go Wrong?

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
-- Verbal Kint/1995

There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/ 2024 [it's gotten worser, and worser, and worser, and worser]
I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>
The United States has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu...
-- Helen Branswell/2025 [bring out your dead]

Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him: "The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This Week's thought

If what Trump idolizes is some part of the 19th century, then to "make America great again" is to make the United States a poorer, more isolated place, whose economy and government is little more than an engine of upward redistribution for a handful of the wealthiest people on the planet.
-- Jamelle Bouie/2025 [may haps the dumbest people in the USofA get a penny for every million the rich get]

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

22 January 2025

I Told You So - 22 January 2025

Well... that didn't take long. Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists didn't establish a new Office of Media Integrity (yet), but

Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has asked federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health advisories, according to sources within the agencies.

The Fascists smell blood. We can't have true facts that Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists wish to deny come floating out of agencies, now can we?

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