https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVx8L7a3MuE

Democrats true to themselves and to socialism.

“Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.”

http://www.prairiemoon.com/triodanis-perfoliata-venus-looking-glass-prairie-moon-nursery.html

There are several folk entomologies if the name of that flower. One posits a similarity to a European flower that had larger “shiny” seeds. Another may be due to the visual impression of the lush growth and dense blooms in the Mid-West Prairies wet spots that reflected the sky color in the blue/purple blooms and indicated tough going for wagons.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6497654

Thus “Looking Glass” might evoke the aberrant environment of ” Alice in Wonderland”, lurking retribution, or a warning from the gods of hard going ahead. Take your pick. They all are sort of applicable.

I just recently came across this chart suggesting the magnitude of the $ as the reserve currency is just overwhelming, at least for the short term. https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/will-us-dollar-lose-its-reserve-status although admittedly this is from Dec. 2020, and there is a decline from 70% in Dec 1999 to 65% in Dec 2020. So a longer term change may eventually eventuate.

But also surprising to me was this analysis from George Friedman at Geopolitical Futures discussing just how powerful our $ based global economy seems to be: https://geopoliticalfutures.com/learning-lessons-from-the-war-in-ukraine/?tpa=MDM4NzM4YTE4MTViYzk3ZjIyMjNmZTE2NDgxMzYwOTY4MGYzYjQ&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https://geopoliticalfutures.com/learning-lessons-from-the-war-in-ukraine/?tpa=MDM4NzM4YTE4MTViYzk3ZjIyMjNmZTE2NDgxMzYwOTY4MGYzYjQ&utm_content&utm_campaign=PAID%20-%20Everything%20as%20it%27s%20published
“The United States has demonstrated that perhaps the most powerful weapon in the world is the weaponized dollar. World trade requires U.S. dollars, either in hand or as the benchmark against which trading takes place. The euro is a distant second, and no one would sign onto a five-year construction project denominated in yuan.” I suppose MBS could alter that calculation, but not without some penalties elsewhere.

Of course with this administration, things might get upended more quickly than most of us expect, but I presume we also hope that “checks and balances” give us some protection from mad hatter evil or stupidity.

I suppose we haven’t been bombed..yet.

The other thing is the Obama wasn’t just the most powerful man in the world, but he and his coterie was also the coolest man and team in the world. Why wouldn’t an intellectual clown like Joe Biden want to jump on board with that? Maybe Joe and Hunter were on the tarmac so that Hunter could remove a few stacks from the bales of money that were flown to Iran. The previous sentence sounds like a cheap shot, but that is the caliber of people we are talking about.

On the left, there are two primary responses to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capability. The majority see Iran as a useful bludgeon;

“The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.” — George Soros

A minority seek to appease;

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.” Sir Winston Churchill

Appeasement always springs from moral cowardice.