Dr. Keynes Was Right: October 2025

No Outrage then

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

"Because when it goes bad — like Kent State — it goes bad," General Honoré said, referencing the day in 1970 when Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on anti-Vietnam War protesters at Kent State University, killing four students.
-- Chris Hippensteel/2025 [remember the recent sub-title?]

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]

Effective immediately, all laws, regulations, and obsolete norms limiting my authority over USofA employment are suspended. I am the unitary executive, and if you work in the USofA, you work for me. I demand total loyalty from my employees, especially when I'm full of shit. Ya wanna be Kimmeled? I will do it.
-- Donald J. Trump by Executive Order, this day 7 December 2025 [Paranoia is a main driver.]

Effective with the 2026 mid-term elections, military proctors will be stationed at every shithole Blue city polling place, demanding to see a current, valid United States of Alabama passport. No passport, no vote. I am the dictator.
-- Donald J. Trump by Executive Order, this day 7 December 2025 [Paranoia is a main driver.]

He was awarded a Bronze Star and a Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB), having served in civil-affairs operations and as an adviser in Afghanistan. But let's be clear: Hegseth was not a front-line leader of combat troops under sustained fire. He did not command an infantry company in protracted combat or lead exhausted soldiers through night patrols and firefights.
-- Dick Dowdell/2025 [and now, this]

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

It's astonishing how spineless the masters of the universe and big bad billionaires really are. If they're going to cravenly capitulate over the independence of the Fed, it's pretty clear they will not stand up for anything.
-- Dennis Kelleher/2025

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

02 October 2025

Thought For The Day - 2 October 2025

Game three, Red Sox Yankees is on. So many unAmerican players!!! It was bad enough when Robinson ruined baseball, now we got all these aliens? Why's America gone in the shitter?? Riddle me that, Batman. Make Baseball Great Again.

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