A couple of lessons from Bob Ross might have improved Hunter’s “style,” if you can call it that.

NPR has always been kind of awful

Of course there are more shades of dreck to the story than just “kind of awful”, such as …kind of unbearable, kind of cringey, as they say, but now you can’t even listen to it because the people who work there are deranged. The derangement could be described as a mix of hardcore race and gender ideology blended with heavy doses of narcism. That’s how NPR rolls these days.

TJ, the problem with the dollar is real. It’s primarily a self-inflicted wound.

The U.S. and the E.U. are trying to force other countries to go off of fossil fuels. Russia and China are not going along, and other countries – India, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, etc. are following the lead of Russia and China. They see what n the U.S is doing as economic suicide. They’re throwing in with the side they believe in. And the oil sheikhs are getting on board. They see their chance to give the U.S. and the E.U. the middle finger after all these years of kowtowing to and being dependent on them.

Additionally, the profligate spending since 2020, along with years of QE, has convinced many people that the dollar is no longer a store of value. I well remember years past when in a foreign country – any foreign country – a $20 bill was like gold. It could talk louder than the local currency.

We have many problems and most of them stem from the stupid policies of the Obama/Biden years.

Photo of one of the “artworks” at the link: note the red paint dripping from the two horizontal bars in the lower half: https://nypost.com/2023/04/06/hunter-bidens-latest-art-exhibit-debuts-at-nyc-gallery-including-3-pieces-at-85k-a-pop/

As one commenter remarked, “It’s good that Hunter’s developed a skill that can be done in prison.”

For anyone sharing that love, I recommend Alan Rudolph’s under-rated “The Moderns.” Aside from knock-out performances by Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Genevieve Bujold, John Lone and Wallace Shawn, it has a wonderful satire of Hemingway trying out aloud all the permutations of “The Moveable Feast” as the “The Variable Picnic” among others.

–“The Moderns — Trailer” (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeAA89cqyHg

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/06/tucker_carlson_rapid_worldwide_de-dollarization_is_happening_no_one_in_washington_seems_aware_or_concerned.html

THIS IS COMING, and the upside of neglect will be to constrain ou5 of control Federal spending. But there’s more, MUCH MORE.

Our military will have to shrink a great deal, and people like JJ and me will have to spend a lot less — and the American Credit Card for National and global emergencies will be toast!

Good Times, everybody!

PS thanks for humor, Stan.

https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/begin-the-blockade-china-steps-up

Anne, how right you are about Patty and the women of Seattle. I expect this e-mail to her may result in another audit by the IRS. Sigh. 🙁