archive.today • Persistent Inflation Threatens Biden's Agenda - The New York Times
Supply chain disruptions, a worker shortage and pain at the gasoline pump have made inflation an economic and political problem for the White House.
archive.today • Persistent Inflation Threatens Biden's Agenda - The New York Times
Supply chain disruptions, a worker shortage and pain at the gasoline pump have made inflation an economic and political problem for the White House.
Unironically expect us to go to war with China in the next 2-3 years in large part "to give those kids something to do".
We privatized the MIC to such a degree that it isn't even a "War with China" we're gearing up for. It's another wave of post-9/11 paranoia that can justify enriching the assholes who profiteer.
We're going to send aircraft carriers out into the South Pacific to do donuts and fire rockets into the air while CNN does another six weeks of "Shock and Awe!" coverage. If you don't cheer loud enough, you'll be booted off the airwaves and banned from social media. And then we'll cancel Social Security to pay for another salvo.
Nah, we are increasingly in a Britain pre-WW1 situation. Lots of middle-class fancylads with no skills and nothing for them to do all day, and the imperial profits aren't big enough to just pay them to push paper.