I refuse to buy a home in 2026. This is why we built something ourselves for cheap. If you buy boomer slop for $600k that should be in the high 300s *at most* with a trash interest rate you are a dummy. Let them sit on the market. Let them keep it. Time will tell the story. We were scrounging for building supplies at the dump even with a household income over $200k yall can go to the grave with an overpriced unsold house for all I care. I’d rather live in a damn yurt than give some asshole $600,000 for a home they bought on a single working class income when they were our age and haven’t updated since 1981. Blow me. I’ll stay in a tent first.
Here's the thing about the Greenland deal that people aren't talking about enough, and it's related to the US economy.
We're in a huge amount of debt as a percentage of our GDP. Nobody likes to talk about it, but it's essentially insurmountable. We've been in bad shape for a while, but last five years have been catastrophic post-COVID. There is no way to sugarcoat that fact. We cannot outrun math.
This leaves us with really two options -- either cut back on spending dramatically and painfully across every sector from the military to social programs to basic infrastructure, or we grow our economy drastically and rapidly so the debt becomes a much smaller fraction of our GDP, allowing us to realistically pay it down without significant turmoil.
Or we can collapse entirely.
Those are our options, and Trump knows it. He's playing up the national security implications -- which are absolutely very real also -- but the Greenland deal is very much about giving our economy the growth it needs through natural resources and raw real estate to help us pay off our debt and get back onto sound economic footing again, while we still have the juice to pull something like this off.
It's extremely bold and the people who want America to fail will want this play to fail also. But if successful it will quite literally save our country in the long term. If you are really America First, you have to be hoping for this to happen.