Goya

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.

We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.

I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.

And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.

And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.

The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.

I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Facts.

The reality is we’ve never recovered economically since 2008. All we’ve done is paper over all of the losses by printing money.

There’s no price discovery anymore. Nothing has recovered. QE just hid the losses.

It’s all been a giant con.

[W @_common_W_]

Argentina are the only team out of all 48 participants not to have a single VAR intervention against them, despite committing the most fouls in the tournament. Do you even realize how insane that is?

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The debt has already won.

No future Congress is going to reverse the trajectory through discipline.

No electorate will vote for the scale of sacrifice required.

No administration will voluntarily trigger the recession, asset collapse, entitlement cuts, tax shock, and political revolt needed to restore a genuinely hard fiscal path.

The system will preserve continuity.

That means the currency will absorb the damage.

The national debt is a claim on future production. When claims grow faster than the productive base, the gap has to close somewhere. It closes through inflation, repression, taxation, reduced public capacity, lower real returns, slower private investment, and periodic monetary rescue.

The number itself is almost secondary now.

The real signal is that the United States has crossed from using debt as a tool into depending on debt as a condition of social order.

Government spending holds together retirement systems, healthcare, defense, state budgets, research, infrastructure, household transfers, corporate revenues, and entire regional economies. Remove the borrowing and large sections of the country discover that what looked like private prosperity was partially public leverage.

That is why the machine cannot stop.

The debt is embedded inside income.

Income is embedded inside asset prices.

Asset prices are embedded inside pensions, collateral, banks, housing, consumption, and political legitimacy.

Any serious attempt to shrink the debt burden violently would detonate the structure built around it.

So policy will choose erosion over rupture.

The state will keep paying every nominal promise.

The unit in which those promises are paid will weaken over time.

That is the real default.

No courtroom declaration.

No missed Treasury payment.

No cinematic collapse.

A long transfer from savers, wage earners, and fixed-income holders toward debtors, asset owners, and institutions closest to money creation.

The public will be told that inflation is temporary, manageable, external, or necessary.

The deeper reality is that inflation becomes part of the solvency mechanism.

The Federal Reserve will resist this until resistance threatens the system. Then the definition of responsibility will change. Stability will come to mean keeping markets functioning. Market functioning will require liquidity. Liquidity will protect Treasury financing. Treasury financing will protect the political order.

That loop is already visible.

The most important consequence is moral.

Once debt becomes structurally permanent, honest pricing disappears.

Capital no longer flows only toward the most productive use. It flows toward whatever benefits from policy support, liquidity, guarantees, regulation, and proximity to the sovereign balance sheet.

The economy becomes less capitalist in the classical sense and more managerial.

Returns become increasingly political.

Risk becomes increasingly socialized.

Losses become negotiable for institutions and terminal for individuals.

That corrodes legitimacy because people can feel the asymmetry even when they cannot name the mechanism.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

Selling off public assets cheap will do that.

The problem with Capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

[Roberto Rios @peruvian_bull]

FINANCIAL GRAVITY:

If we divide the S&P 500 by the fed’s balance sheet, the line is basically flat since 2008.

The correlation coefficient between central bank quantitative easing and the price of stock indexes is nearly 1.

The money printed by the Fed, because of the structure of the Open Market Operations, is plugged directly into the Treasury markets, and from there, flows into equities and derivatives.

This has served to primarily enrich the asset owners, financial institutions, and wealthy elites who own the majority of the stock market anyways.

The entire rally has been an illusion, financed by the Fed and maintained through QE.

[Goya @ForstZM]

@Rainmaker1973 Pointless, high end digital is better than even large format film and way cheaper and conveinent

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

some of you are testing for low T when you need to get tested for low IQ

[Louise Jensen Duffy (also Ernest Jensen) @LouiseWeebe]

You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.

[🔨Robert The Builder 🇺🇸 @NobodymrRobert]

Team one.

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold."

So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house?

I didn't sell it, didn't cash out and didn't even make a profit.

But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year.

Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

As Typhoon Bavi approaches, a factory in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, welded a giant protective frame around a large podocarpus tree overnight, giving it a "golden bell shield," a reference to a famous protective martial arts technique.

[محمد عبد الكريم @moabdelkareem_1]

مارتينيز يدفع مهاجم سويسرا

ضربة جزاء واضحة

لكن..انت تلعب ضد الارجنتين https://t.co/yACaE0oWKO

[il Mourinhø Blanco @musicoloko7]

Bien expulsado Embolo por simular una caída, aquí se ve claro como lo hace https://t.co/HuWIQApkg7

[Lucas Navarrete @LucasNavarreteM]

🤔

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Time is short and can easily Change!

[Agita Christie @pagan_hoetry]

Unfortunately Marie-Louise von Franz was very right about this

[Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh]

Role reversal: The Americans use chopsticks while the Chinese do not.

[Benny Feldman @Feldfrog]

If slavery was still legal today, finance bros would be day trading people. They would use a big computer to own a guy for a single millisecond. They’d short sell an old man. We’d enslave people simply as punishment for a crime. We’d do mass incarceration. Prisons run for profit