Yossarian's Roost Resuscitated

And Sudan is under sanctions, unlike Israel that actually gets military aid.



https://globalsanctions.com/region/sudan/

Power to the People ☭🕊
ProudSocialist
·
When the top 3 choices for the 2028 Democratic primary are all corrupt corporatist politicians it is clear that liberal voters don’t actually want change because they are content with the failed status quo.
Quote
Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
·
Nov 7
🔵 New - 2028 primary poll (any name)

🔵 Newsom: 24% (+17)
🔵 Harris: 10% (-27)
🔵 Buttigieg: 9% (+5)
🔵 AOC: 3

Despite these steps, the war outpaces diplomacy: The RSF's El Fasher victory (October 2025) and SAF drone attacks on Khartoum highlight ongoing hostilities. External powers (e.g., UAE backing RSF, Egypt/Iran/Turkey aiding SAF) prolong the conflict by enabling arms flows. UN briefings emphasize that without unified pressure and enforcement, risks of further atrocities and regional spillover (e.g., to South Sudan) remain high.

Anybody see this?
Rubia Garcia II
·
IMHO.. just a feeling of where we stand at the moment.
Begin Rant:
The banks are literally running out of money; tapping the Fed Repo facility, and NO ONE is talking about it.
And it doesn't matter that the Fed just lowered interest rates bc banks literally don't have money to lend anyways; hence, tapping the Fed Repo.
See, they're tightening their books, cutting credit, and that's why you're seeing all these layoffs everywhere.
It's not just bc of AI.
It's bc companies can't get loans anymore; the banks are in a liquidity crisis at the moment.
And that's what happens right before a depression.
AT MINIMUM, and you take this for what it is...IMHO... we're heading for a recession.
IF NOT... a full-blown depression at this rate.
Mark my words.
And here's the kicker.
Banks have less cash bc people are quite honestly broke.
Job cuts surpassed 1M; and hiring has slowed to the lowest in 14 years. Deposits, in general, have been falling for years.
Families are draining their savings just to buy groceries; and they only HOPE a medical financial doesn't come their way.
Meanwhile, corporations are holding their cash out to buy back their own stock or move it into higher yield funds.
So even if interest rates drop, which yeah - they have a little, there's still literally nothing left to lend.
And honestly, if anyone’s wondering what decade we’re speed-running, just look at the vibes: the 1920s called and said, “Hey, if you’re going to copy us, at least commit.”
You’ve got the nativism — “immigrants are the problem!” — straight out of the 1920s immigration acts
Oh, and the domestic extremists?
Yep, they were around too, except now we pretend they’re just “concerned citizens.”
Then you’ve got the GOP controlling everything back then, deregulating like it’s a competitive sport; destroying the economy with tariff after tariff then entire decade.
So sure, DJT cosplaying as the 2nd Gilded Age Great Gatsby for Halloween — a guy who throws parties while everything rots underneath — absolutely tracks.
The whole country is giving ‘flapper dress, Wall Street bubble, prohibition hangover, and zero lessons learned.'
The only thing missing atp, is the Stock Market Crash of '29 it appears we are racing full-throttle towards.
DJT is making it worse.
Just like the 1920s he mimics; HE blew up inflation with tariffs.
Now, he's collapsing health care so millions are choosing between food, rent, and medicine.
And he's driven out millions of immigrants who, I mean, whether you like it or not, were customers.
They bought food, clothes, cars, vacationed, and kept money moving.
And now that velocity is just — gone.
Along with the millions of jobs lost where that money no longer flows through the banks; people begin to default, and the vicious cycle downward continues.
Meanwhile, the stock market looks great, but it's all fake. Bc how can one POSSIBLY judge the social health of the economy while ONLY considering how the FEW are making BANK, while the rest of us - THE MANY - crash out, one way or another.
Big companies have been buying back their own stock, shrinking supply so that it makes their prices higher.
AI companies are built on hype and not results, and investors are just parking money there bc there's nowhere else to go. But even that is just a handful of companies seemingly passing money amongst each other.
So, all signs point to that bubble about to burst too.
In 2008, though, we had tools and the serious people to stop this kind of crash.
We could cut rates, print money, and rebuild, but now those tools are being uses to exacerbate the crisis of the many, for the pocketbooks of the few.
Rates are already low, the debt is OUT OF CONTROL, and banks have less cash than they did before COVID.
That's stagflation, my luvs.
Prices rising, jobs vanishing, money drying up.
And when stagflation hits a broke middle class, it doesn't end in a soft landing.
It ends in a full-scale, lights-out, “how did we get here?” depression — the kind they swear “can’t happen again,” right until it does.
The kind where every warning was flashing red and every expert was too busy shrugging on cable news to notice the floor disappearing under them.
Bc this isn’t a cycle.
This isn’t “economic cooling.”
This isn’t “market correction.”
This is what it looks like when the bottom 90% gets hollowed out so thoroughly that the economy has no real engine left — just fumes, stock buybacks, and the hope that the illusion holds one more quarter.
This is what it looks like when deposits shrink, when consumers are tapped out, when companies slash jobs not just bc robots replaced workers but bc the credit lines keeping their payrolls afloat evaporated overnight.
This is what it looks like when inflation hits the poor, deflation hits the rich, and neither group is healthy enough to keep the machine running. It bursts.
This is what it looks like when policymakers prioritize asset prices over human beings — when the markets get life support and the middle class gets eviction notices.
This is what it looks like when the govt pretends the economy is “strong” bc 5 mega-companies are doing trust-fall exercises with each other’s stock, while everyone else is praying their debit card doesn’t decline.
This is what it looks like when you recreate the 1920s in HD, skip the jazz, skip the optimism, skip the industrial boom — and fast-forward straight to the part where everything collapses amidst the deregulation, corruption, and nepotism.
And they KNOW.
They know exactly what they’re doing.
They see the data.
They see the repo taps.
They see the defaults creeping up.
They see the death of small businesses and farms and ranches.
They see the credit crunch.
They see the savings rate hovering at the floor.
They see wages going backward.
They see the bubble they’ve blown too big to know it won’t pop eventually.
And instead of pulling the brakes, they’re flooring the gas — bc the crash doesn’t land on them.
It lands on us.
So no, this isn’t normal.
No, this isn’t natural.
No, this isn’t unavoidable.
This is deliberate.
Engineered.
Scripted.
And the terrifying truth?
They’ve already packed their parachutes.
They’ve already moved their money.
They’ve already hedged their bets.
They’ve already made sure that when the economy hits the ground, they’ll walk away without a bruise.
But the rest of us?
We’re in the cabin with no exits and no oxygen masks, being told to “stay calm,” “trust the system,” and “look at the stock market” while the alarms are blaring.
Well, excuse my French for refusing to be Ray Charles to the BS, bc history doesn’t repeat — it rhymes — and babe, if we’re rhyming, then we’re rhyming with the 1920s, just without the fun parts.
Bc if all else tracks, and the Dems don’t get a veto-proof majority in the midterms, the next few years will be like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to a '29.
In short, the People must grab the lifeboat for themselves — once again.
NO ONE is coming to save us.
Ty for coming to my #TedTalk
End Rant.