Dr. Keynes Was Right: The Greatest Threat - part the sixteenth [the TACO has come home to roost]

Now We Bow to President Vance, may be?

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

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887

Officials who use their public positions for private gain threaten the integrity of our most important institutions. Greed makes governments — at every level — less responsive, less efficient and less trustworthy from the perspective of the communities they serve.
-- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson/2024 [the MAGAnauts get even more aggressive when their perfidy is exposed]

Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.
-- David Pressman/2025 [former Amb. there - a cautionary tale]

There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]

[Even U.S. producers] will also increase their prices and, in a sense, free-ride this increased pricing environment. The shock for domestically produced goods is likely to be quite significant.
-- Gregory Draxo/2025 [econ pundit, just like me, told ya so]

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

The extreme letter sent to Harvard frankly demanded to take outside ideological control of all admissions, all faculty appointments, curriculum, and governance. It proposed a more sweeping system of control by outside ideological MAGA deciders than anything even Communists install these days to control universities. [Trump] is a would-be patrimonial corrupt ruler. The oldest kind in the world.
-- Theda Skocpol/2025

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

01 August 2025

The Greatest Threat - part the sixteenth [the TACO has come home to roost]

Where to begin with the shit storm Demented Dictator Don just exploded?

Firing the BLS commissioner just because you don't like the numbers is the mark of a total idiot. But it is very much in keeping with Batshit J. Moron. Remember this gem from Covid-19?

If we didn't do any testing, we would have very few cases.

Of course we wouldn't. But, just as I have been predicting: the Office of Data Integrity would, in due time, corrupt any and all government data that Batshit J. Moron gets irritated by. At least in the climate change case, he'll be long dead by the time today's kids can breathe the air or drink the water. While they broil alive.

Riddle me this, Batshit: which of your agencies actually conducts the surveys that constitute the Jobs Report? I'm waiting... Census, which does most of the survey work across the Damn Gummint. You fired the wrong bureaucrat.

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