Candy From Babies

There have forever been the "financially sophisticated" elites.  Emerging from heritage or inspiration, today some relatively small number of "us" will open their screens and work at "investing".  They, to varying degrees, and to varying success, know the abstract world of margin, calls , puts, crypto, contracts, meme coins, and on and on. Most of "us" passing our lives out here in "common man mode" know very little of this intellectual/cultural space. But, regrettably, "social media" is rapidly expanding the number of "players" in these intangible markets, touting unending stories of "get rich quick" strategies.  Indeed, no doubt some have. But many more, I suspect may have concluded that they have been induced to add "naive capital" for "trading exploitation" by the "financially sophisticated elites".  Most in my little town have never heard of a "Trump Meme Coin" and certainly do not understand the dynamics of how it is worth either 0, or $.18, or $40.00, or $15.00. Nor do they realize how much wealth is being transfered from the naive to the sophisticated in this ascent and decline in what they know only to be changing numbers on their phones.  Who know! If the "baby-boomers" get any more terrified about the demise of Social Security, they may all take out "Reverse Mortgages" and destroy their lives by bad plays on soybean contracts or crypto shorts or currency swaps... or whatever other entrapment options are  being floated on X.  IT'S ROBINHOOD IN REVERSE 

How's It Going?

IT’S NOW 25 AND CHANGE IS MANIFOLD

 IN WITH THE NEW AND OUT WITH THE OLD

SOUNDS GOOD IF YOU SAY IT REAL FAST

SEIZE TOMORROW AND FIRE THE PAST

COULD BE WAY COOL,  IF MAGA PROVES WISE

BUT IF NOT, WELL…WELL EVERYONE DIES

IT’S NOW 25 AND CHANGE IS MANIFOLD IN WITH THE NEW AND OUT WITH THE OLDSOUNDS GOOD IF YOU SAY IT REAL FASTSEIZE TOMORROW AND FIRE THE PASTCOULD BE WAY COOL,  IF MAGA PROVES WISEBUT IF NOT, WELL…WELL EVERYONE DIES

MSNBC......for God's Sake, Stop It!

 Many of us who have closely followed MSNBC through the years were unsettled as to how Rachel and crew would pivot when the “Trump 2” thing happened. Reactive mocking of the bad choices of those “people of a lesser god” was, of course, always most likely.  Less  likely, MSNBC might have offer up unending doses of Adam, Chris and Ro, leading us to the back of the bus, while chanting “can’t we all just get along”. Neither strategy was likely to hold rating or help a nation in peril.  The entire MSM universe has literally exhausted the appeal of “structured polarization”, I.e. “mud-slinging”,  and not even “Nice Guy Lawrence” would agree to a back of the bus self-effacement. 

      An option would have been for MSNBC to do “deep dive exposes” into the domestic and foreign issues behind the days politics.  They could have done podcast like, story form, investigations  from unbiased first principle perspectives.  Yes, such a format might have driven away some of the extreme progressives used to living on “red meat reporting”, but the traditional MSNBC base has always just accommodated, with embarrassment, this faction, anyway.  It’s hard to accept that the MSM universe can’t support at least one news outlet that offers pure journalism.  If MSNBC were to try, at least the few of us, the remaining loyal, might expand our truths……rather than just feign approval for Trump insults.  Furthermore, many of us would, no doubt, send $100 a month so that our “screen friends” would  not have to continue  XXXXXXX ing themselves! 

Reflections...one week

Several months ago, in the heat of the Presidential Campaign, a conversation at a family dinner boiled over.  After a rather embarassing few minutes in an upscale restaurant, we all hastily parted company.  I,  the following day sent the following DM.

First, apologies for my contribution to the possibly confusing or ending to a nice dinner.  We are all wired differently and I had no idea that your emotions would rise to dominate a dinner conversation.  I , obviously in error,  assumed that you, like myself, did not have a personal identity involvement with the election story.        Perhaps my age explains that, to me, it’s more like sports fan ship, nothing that personal. So be it. However,  hoping for a mending of our relationship,  I will try again ,this time in dispassionate narrative,  to explain that the polarized camps are really very similar in their motives.  So therefore:

1. There is wide consensus, and I think you and I agree that significant change in the national culture is needed and necessary. 
2. Regardless of the administration in power, over much of your adult life, society has moved to embrace ever more liberal policies and societal norms. 
3. Starting with Obama and continuing through Biden, this liberal trend has accelerated in pace such that the foundation has weakened and normal civilization is at peril. 
4. Our common wisdom normally aligns with “forward” not “backward”, but, when the road ahead seems ominous, a rational creature, turns around. 
5. Accordingly, I think we agree, that an overwhelming percentage of people are in a “turn around” state of mind and under normal conditions would overwhelmingly support a conservative/retro agenda. 
6. However, for reasons that are very unclear, the imminent leadership decision is anything but “normal”. 
7. You said it yourself, we have only a choice between two very flawed prospective leaders
8. One with an autocratic/oppressive instincts and one with a child like infatuation with seeing reality in pure fantasy mode. 
9. Isn’t it obvious that everyone is supporting the “least horrible” prospective leader.
10. Put in NFL simile, do we renew the contract with aging vanilla QB that led us to a 3-13 season, or do we trade for a felon prone hotdog that might get us to the Superbowl 
11. My sense is that, put that way, it’s close call….if you’re gutsy go with Trump and stand up and take your chance…..and if your cautious vote for Harris and keep you head down until a new cycle offers a better leader
12. It’s easy for me to say, being male and old; what the hell, let’s go for it, but
13. The future belongs to the following generations and perhaps we should just tread water and let them choose from a better crop
14. Anyway, as fate crystallizes the terrible options, you and I Will hopefully make the best of it and keep our focus on the wellbeing of those loved ones yet to blossom. 

Yes, thinks calmed by morning, family civility returned, and by Nov the then confirmed "my president", actually improved family cohesion.  (The left is skilled at accommodating).  Now, five days into "term 2", the MAGA forecasting is history and we are seeing the first "truth".  Here's hoping we all don't choke on this new "strong man" regime. 

Pepe set the world on fire!

  A year ago last April, I had $100 in my wallet.  If that $100 had been in my digital wallet and I would have pushed a button on my Iphone and converted my $100 to Ethereum Tokens and then traded them for $100 worth of digital pictures of Pepe the Frog......well today I would have a net worth of $2,000,000,000 (Two Billion) and could buy virtually anything on earth. Sounds delusional, yes, but sadly it's true. Factually, many human did so invest; some more most less.  A penny would have returned $19,000,000, wtf

     Just yesterday our "dear and glorious leader" first offered a new memecard picturing a bloody candidate rising from near death with the words, fight, fight, fight blazed across his image. Now, 24 hours later,  somebody now owns those $TRUMP meme cards, and today they are aggrately worth $8 billion.  Yes it is stupid, but it's fucking true.

     Starting six or seven years ago, the dudes used some chump change to buy Bitcoin, made a paper profit, tradeded some of the profit for Ethereum, traded it for some Doge coins, traded that for some Frogs, and traded them for some $TRUMPS.  Now less than 1,000,000 earthbound sentient being own a massive percentage of the world's wealth  Simply stated, a few elitist assholes are using the gullibility/greed of the wannabe assholes to steal what the masses produce.  (Theft at scale = Hyper inflation)  

     Of course at 3.5 trillion aggregate market cap, it nominal in relation to the 21 quatrillion USD money supply,but the assholes are really just getting started. A meme card a day keeps DEI away...literally.