Yeah. In reality, knocking down the Cascades may not work out well for us in Montana. Maybe we should replace them with some smaller 1km balls instead.

Are you serious here? Seems like exactly the same thing happening on both sides. The traitors on our side are people that haven't floated my boat for a very long time if they ever did anyway.

Man she is scary!

Me pithy??? Nahhhhhhh….. I’m not saying hyperinflation is in and of itself a good thing. It’s absolutely not. It can however be an excellent trigger for the kind of forced choice scenarios the button pushers have been faced with over the last two and a half years. The type that in the long run will lead to a more stable economic landscape. Considering the sugar high, frenzied QE efforts of the GR “recovery” and the Fed’s steady diet of gobbling up MBS, the last couple years have been a breath of fresh air. It was only going to change via forced choice. That much became very apparent even prior to the pandemic. The question now becomes how do we recalibrate next year as we edge closer and closer to what I believe will be a mild to maybe moderate recession. Do we erase the progress we’ve made in the face of untenable price hikes?

Even I do! The Trump Administration actually did many things with Operation Warp Speed the right way: fund multiple efforts to develop a vaccine (some might fail, and a vaccine is needed ASAP), then buy them all and distribute them for free based solely on need, not access to money, to facilitate uptake. And I will admit this (just did). (What Trump blew was appeasing the moobat antivax conspiracy part of his base. This killed a huge number of Americans, Americans that might have gotten vaccinated and lived if Trump himself had used his presidential bully pulpit to encourage Americans to get the vaccines his own administration was funding. Had Trump done that, he would have almost certainly won in 2020.)