When you have a population of 1 500 000 000 and a culture where the individual as westerners understand the term doesn't exist, you can solve any problem by throwing people at it.
Look up chinese tactics during the Korean War if you want to understand their mindset. It can be summed up in:
I was a child on an independent farm in the 70's. If people think it's bad now... you aint seen nothin yet. Get out of debt (it may be too late) and learn how to grow food is all I can say (and I've actually been saying that for years while practicing what I preach). Personally, as horrible as everything is looking, I think we needed a wakeup call. That shiny new pickup truck (or 40 cases of toilet paper) isn't going to feed you or your family...
Affirming Ukraine corruption seems old news. Even admitting the truth likely can't protect Hunter. Dad may skate as too big to fail. Pres Z is at least entertaining in his job. Putin's inability to deal with the Ukrainian mafia types is telling in it's own way.
I've published a number of free access articles on BillHeath.Substack.com. Several were published at the beginning of Biden's presidency, entitled A Billion Here, a Billion There, soon you're talking about Real Money. What was going to happen was crystal clear. And, the collapse of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, replaced by the Yuan, is not yet recognized by Biden and his apologists.
I recently published (March 12) The Gulf Cooperation Council and Mideast Oil Politics. You're free to RT it from my Twitter Account. Obama and Biden thought they could play footsie with Iran with no adverse consequences. They were wrong, and we are screwed.
Well, the propaganda's working. That guy blames Putin for the high gas prices as if (1) gas wasn't going up before Putin and (2) any foreign leader owes Americans anything, including low gas prices. And considering how our sanctions are affecting regular Russian people . . . at least his ApplePay account wasn't locked so he could actually buy gas.
I love your newsletter. You and El Gato Malo, Twitter's loss is Substack's gain.
I fear Mr Angry is not in a minority. I always thought a number of my fellow citizens were rather dumb and easily led up the garden path, but last two years has been a shock to realise it’s a large majority - and throughout Western Countries.
The party in power usually tries to boost the economy in the months leading up to elections. I wonder if today's dems are smart enough to do that. Party in power typically wins or loses proportional to economy.
The problem is that spending can't change the momentum of inflation. There was a chance as the recovery started in mid-2020, but we continued to throw money. Then in a pen stroke and a few announcements about energy that ended an industry that was key to recovery. So reducing production and stimulating demand is not a good idea. We see the classic spiral into stagflation that has no easy response. Not clear if the Fed had started backing off in mid-2020 if this might have been avoided, but fear controlled even them.
Inflation is entirely a monetary effect. Congress is able to spend money, and individuals to buy TVs and booze on credit, because the Fed kept rates too low, for too long. If they normalized rates, the national debt and personal debt would be unaffordable. So they keep rates low, hoping things won't crash on their watch. Severe financial turmoil in coming years is inevitable. Maybe we'll get a rational, competent congress in November. Probably not.
As one who had to get a mortgage at 12%, I really do know, but few others remember. I worry that we kicked the can too far now. No sure where it ends up. The productivity of people helps us survive, but a drop in standard of living won't be easy. What happens if Netflix goes to $30/month?
Back then we were printing money to pay for the cold war to stop communism. Now we're printing money to buy votes from slackers. Different reasons, same result.
I don't care about Netflix, but I suppose things I do care about will also go up. If we don't get a competent congress next year, those increases are certain.
I do see that but I don't think anybody is buying it. But I am biased. Have there been any polls to confirm the desired talking point? I suspect even the least informed who is usually captured by the media's taking point repetition isn't being fooled.
They might be going for a prennial favourite among socialist democrat parties in Europe, eeing as how they share position on virtually all issues:
"Vote for us, beacuse the other guys are even worse!"
With this as an unspoken runner up:
"When we rule and you hurt, it's because people aren't following the plan. When they rule and you hurt, it's because people are following the plan. So better vote for us, you hear. Wouldn't want to get hurt now would you?"
And as the Commander points out, they must be doing something right since everyone they know is getting richer. And hey, it might even trickle down on us. Dr Pangloss would be so proud of today's politicians, wouldn't he?
It comes down to how dumb the voters are. We should never underestimate voter stupidity, but I expect dems will overestimate it this year. Lots of new insights have been gained by the recent disaster. We just have to help them make the connection. Grass roots marketing.
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” H. L. Mencken.
The real question is -- could the democrats boost the economy even if they tried? I think they believe that government spending WILL boost the economy. After all, everybody they know is getting filthy rich!
It's like trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, while standing in your boots, the most likely result is that you'll land flat on your ass. The money for Government spending comes from taxpayers, either present or future.
I can’t help but wonder if it’s intentionally designed to weaken America. The only other explanation, in my opinion, is stupidity. But if that’s the case, how can Biden’s economic advisors possibly be so stupid?
The Socialist modus operandi is to destroy the existing working institutions, take over the economy to plan and control it from the centre, elevate the State above the individual and establish Utopia. The Democrats are certainly colonised by Socialist warriors and those who believe in planned society. So the intention I would say is to weaken Americans so as to introduce a Socialist One-Party State where a Politburo will rule, elections and Congress will be for cosmetic purposes.
Demographically, the USA is polarising with a lot of people migrating from Blue States to Red States. Just an opinion: possible outcome is partition of the USA with a new confederacy of Red States forming -almost by default - governed according to the ethos of the founding principles, and a United Blue States descending into a Socialist hell-hole.
Rambling diatribe alert, because this topic is very dear to me. If I get too tedious just stop reading after the Chesterton quote, as it really says it all anyway. And sorry for being all over the place, through this together standing on one leg so to speak.
Normal people, like you or me, are inherently nationalist, since the concept of nation and patriotism starts with loyalty to ones family and builds from there as the group said loyalty is applied to grows. Like calls to like, so to speak.
The very rich, as stated beautifully by Chesterton in "The Man Who Was Thursday" are not nationalist. Their loyalty is to their group of peers, their class to use marxist terminology. This only applies to the elites of the West, but those elites think the american cultural dominance over the West these past 70 years is a) a natural phenomenon and status quo and b) shared by the rest of the world.
But why not let Chesterton speak, after all, he said it better than any ideologue or economist ever would have dared:
"You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists"
The most pertinent point relating to your question:
"The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht."
Hunter Biden can move anywhere, live anywhere, in comfort an luxury and ensure the same for his spawn. You and I can only do that in a very limited way, and not without significant risk and cost.
And our elites have learned the lesson of free movement from the nineteenth century, when the congregating labourers and workers gained sufferage through strikes and struggles. By being one people, for the people.
Never again, said the banking clans after the revolutions, never again will we let people unite as people around the concept of nation and tribe and race and creed. Hence, multiculturalism, gloablism, and massmigration so that we can always pitch the one group against the other. Divide et impera should say "rule by creating divisions among your challengers".
America is the lynchpin since you lack racial/ethnic identity: all americans are americans, skin colour and such are just on the outside. Multiculturalism. By spreading the american concept of nation as a something disconnected from race and culture, those concepts become commodities. And then void.
The goal is the same as with communism: remove all loyalties, groups, identitites and everything else which does not pertain to or origin from or is under the direct diktat of the system Nothin above the state: nothing above the state. Pure corporativism in which we all are producer/consumer units on spreadsheets.
I went back and forth on it, but I eventually cut the line asking -- "If you were TRYING to destroy the economy, what would you do differently than what Biden has done?" The foxes are grabbing all the eggs from the henhouse before it completely collapses.
It's Season 2 of Jericho but with idiots running the show.
Consider something that F A Hayek the Nobel Laureate economist called ‘the fatal conceit’. Those who believe they can have enough knowledge of all the millions and millions of transactions in an economy and how the many millions of transactors will behave and respond to small changing conditions, so as to be able to decide what the best outcomes should be and plan and control everything to achieve those outcomes.
They are not ‘trying’ to destroy they are trying to micromanage the economy to mould it according to their chosen outcome - thus no fossil fuels and equality/redistribution of wealth. They believe they can do it, because they are conceited and don’t consider the unseen. They think they can make everything go the way they want it, make everyone do what they want. They are like the man only looking for his lost car keys under the street lamp because that’s where the light is, they see the evident and controllable economic factors, but don’t see all the tiny detail. And it’s the detail that matters.
Of course deliberate or not, they will fail and cause a great deal of ruination.
They have ALL (except Trump) been using the exact same terminology over climate change and build back better.
All of these things lead back to Soros, Schwab, Gates and the other bastards trying to exert their control over humanity.
The great reset "you'll own nothing and be happy"
I wouldn't bet on that statement, as if the majority of people own nothing, then these elites will be in the sights of every person with nothing left to lose.
Jimmy Hoffa President of the Teamsters Union in USA in the 1970s is attributed with saying, anything that starts out as a cause, becomes a business, then turns into a racket. And ain’t it the truth when you look at Environmentalism, Climatism, CoVidism, LGBTR2D23CPO, BLM and more… ?
Any organisation is created with a purpose. No matter if that purpose is achivied (or is achievable) or not, the organisation's purpose will be the continuance and growth of the organisation itself.
Look at the catholic church for the most triumphant example.
Perhaps Hoffa had read Simone Weil? Especially her "On the Abolition of All Political Parties".
Indeed. One need look no further than Government… just how many new ‘laws’ do we actually need? And those new ‘laws’ primarily serve to expand the scope and scale of Government.
Hopefully he's waiting for the return of Jericho! It was rumored to be going onto the CBS+ thing before corona hit. I've seen him here and there in stuff, just like Mimi and Heather :) Always good to see a Jericho face :)
You guys can have fun all you like. But i I i have seen one Hollywood actor, count it one, come out against the covidian narrative. One. That’s Caviezel. Anyone want to tell me there’s another one? I did hear a rumor that Richard Gere has been anti vaccine prior to 2020. But I do not know the history of that. Many of them have thrown their considerable wealth into supporting the narrative. None of them except Caviezel are ok. My opinion. Love to know if there are any others?
If it were up to me, I would raise Congressional salaries to $10 million/year. Make it a job that attracts top talent instead of ideologues and grifters. The system wants politicians who can be bought off, but we shouldn't encourage that.
I know people hate tall tales of when someone was young and things were different 'n all, but this is absolutely true: at the beginning of the '70s, in NY, I could make a decent dinner for 2 with $1's worth of ingredients because ground chuck was abt 65 cts/lb. Our one-bedroom apt. in Queens went for $146/month. My savings acct. at a regular savings bank earned 7% interest. And I lived almost as well as when I made ten times the salary, 35 years later.
I had no car. But I began traveling overseas and a round-trip ticket on Laker Air or Icelandic was under $600. (And once I had a deal on Laker to take the last voyage of the SS France over to Southampton and return by air to NY. I still have the menus. They featured reproductions of old French songs. Closest I ever got in my life to absolutely fabulous.)
China seems to be the rising Hegemon. This despite being fundamentally an economic basket case with a lot of problems. China benefits from the chaos. https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/why-putin-turning-russia-chinese-client-state-and-how-stop-it/
When you have a population of 1 500 000 000 and a culture where the individual as westerners understand the term doesn't exist, you can solve any problem by throwing people at it.
Look up chinese tactics during the Korean War if you want to understand their mindset. It can be summed up in:
"We have more people than you have ammo."
I was a child on an independent farm in the 70's. If people think it's bad now... you aint seen nothin yet. Get out of debt (it may be too late) and learn how to grow food is all I can say (and I've actually been saying that for years while practicing what I preach). Personally, as horrible as everything is looking, I think we needed a wakeup call. That shiny new pickup truck (or 40 cases of toilet paper) isn't going to feed you or your family...
"Next article, I’ll discuss how to protect ourselves and our assets in such a scenario."
Oh, man, you whet my appetite. But I don't think anyone is going to avoid some pain.
Sadly agreed.
Yep - have a look at this - far too long for a comment - https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/its-complicated-zelenskyy-turns-out
Affirming Ukraine corruption seems old news. Even admitting the truth likely can't protect Hunter. Dad may skate as too big to fail. Pres Z is at least entertaining in his job. Putin's inability to deal with the Ukrainian mafia types is telling in it's own way.
I've published a number of free access articles on BillHeath.Substack.com. Several were published at the beginning of Biden's presidency, entitled A Billion Here, a Billion There, soon you're talking about Real Money. What was going to happen was crystal clear. And, the collapse of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, replaced by the Yuan, is not yet recognized by Biden and his apologists.
I recently published (March 12) The Gulf Cooperation Council and Mideast Oil Politics. You're free to RT it from my Twitter Account. Obama and Biden thought they could play footsie with Iran with no adverse consequences. They were wrong, and we are screwed.
Well, the propaganda's working. That guy blames Putin for the high gas prices as if (1) gas wasn't going up before Putin and (2) any foreign leader owes Americans anything, including low gas prices. And considering how our sanctions are affecting regular Russian people . . . at least his ApplePay account wasn't locked so he could actually buy gas.
I love your newsletter. You and El Gato Malo, Twitter's loss is Substack's gain.
I fear Mr Angry is not in a minority. I always thought a number of my fellow citizens were rather dumb and easily led up the garden path, but last two years has been a shock to realise it’s a large majority - and throughout Western Countries.
Thank you very much! It's been slow going for sure, but we're building a nice little community here :)
The party in power usually tries to boost the economy in the months leading up to elections. I wonder if today's dems are smart enough to do that. Party in power typically wins or loses proportional to economy.
The problem is that spending can't change the momentum of inflation. There was a chance as the recovery started in mid-2020, but we continued to throw money. Then in a pen stroke and a few announcements about energy that ended an industry that was key to recovery. So reducing production and stimulating demand is not a good idea. We see the classic spiral into stagflation that has no easy response. Not clear if the Fed had started backing off in mid-2020 if this might have been avoided, but fear controlled even them.
Inflation is entirely a monetary effect. Congress is able to spend money, and individuals to buy TVs and booze on credit, because the Fed kept rates too low, for too long. If they normalized rates, the national debt and personal debt would be unaffordable. So they keep rates low, hoping things won't crash on their watch. Severe financial turmoil in coming years is inevitable. Maybe we'll get a rational, competent congress in November. Probably not.
As one who had to get a mortgage at 12%, I really do know, but few others remember. I worry that we kicked the can too far now. No sure where it ends up. The productivity of people helps us survive, but a drop in standard of living won't be easy. What happens if Netflix goes to $30/month?
Back then we were printing money to pay for the cold war to stop communism. Now we're printing money to buy votes from slackers. Different reasons, same result.
I don't care about Netflix, but I suppose things I do care about will also go up. If we don't get a competent congress next year, those increases are certain.
Congress can't stop this collapse. It's about 20 years too late.
Congress can, but probably won't. Their constituents don't want them to. Things will need to get much worse before the public demands action.
A giant government program to subside netflix accounts, obviously. It will only cost us $60/person! (per month)
Cheap at twice the price.
Yep. The inflation is certain but Biden is trying to blame it on Putin.
I do see that but I don't think anybody is buying it. But I am biased. Have there been any polls to confirm the desired talking point? I suspect even the least informed who is usually captured by the media's taking point repetition isn't being fooled.
They might be going for a prennial favourite among socialist democrat parties in Europe, eeing as how they share position on virtually all issues:
"Vote for us, beacuse the other guys are even worse!"
With this as an unspoken runner up:
"When we rule and you hurt, it's because people aren't following the plan. When they rule and you hurt, it's because people are following the plan. So better vote for us, you hear. Wouldn't want to get hurt now would you?"
And as the Commander points out, they must be doing something right since everyone they know is getting richer. And hey, it might even trickle down on us. Dr Pangloss would be so proud of today's politicians, wouldn't he?
It comes down to how dumb the voters are. We should never underestimate voter stupidity, but I expect dems will overestimate it this year. Lots of new insights have been gained by the recent disaster. We just have to help them make the connection. Grass roots marketing.
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” H. L. Mencken.
The real question is -- could the democrats boost the economy even if they tried? I think they believe that government spending WILL boost the economy. After all, everybody they know is getting filthy rich!
I hope they go with that. Guarantees they'll lose.
It's like trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, while standing in your boots, the most likely result is that you'll land flat on your ass. The money for Government spending comes from taxpayers, either present or future.
I can’t help but wonder if it’s intentionally designed to weaken America. The only other explanation, in my opinion, is stupidity. But if that’s the case, how can Biden’s economic advisors possibly be so stupid?
The Socialist modus operandi is to destroy the existing working institutions, take over the economy to plan and control it from the centre, elevate the State above the individual and establish Utopia. The Democrats are certainly colonised by Socialist warriors and those who believe in planned society. So the intention I would say is to weaken Americans so as to introduce a Socialist One-Party State where a Politburo will rule, elections and Congress will be for cosmetic purposes.
Demographically, the USA is polarising with a lot of people migrating from Blue States to Red States. Just an opinion: possible outcome is partition of the USA with a new confederacy of Red States forming -almost by default - governed according to the ethos of the founding principles, and a United Blue States descending into a Socialist hell-hole.
Rambling diatribe alert, because this topic is very dear to me. If I get too tedious just stop reading after the Chesterton quote, as it really says it all anyway. And sorry for being all over the place, through this together standing on one leg so to speak.
Normal people, like you or me, are inherently nationalist, since the concept of nation and patriotism starts with loyalty to ones family and builds from there as the group said loyalty is applied to grows. Like calls to like, so to speak.
The very rich, as stated beautifully by Chesterton in "The Man Who Was Thursday" are not nationalist. Their loyalty is to their group of peers, their class to use marxist terminology. This only applies to the elites of the West, but those elites think the american cultural dominance over the West these past 70 years is a) a natural phenomenon and status quo and b) shared by the rest of the world.
But why not let Chesterton speak, after all, he said it better than any ideologue or economist ever would have dared:
"You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists"
The most pertinent point relating to your question:
"The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht."
Hunter Biden can move anywhere, live anywhere, in comfort an luxury and ensure the same for his spawn. You and I can only do that in a very limited way, and not without significant risk and cost.
And our elites have learned the lesson of free movement from the nineteenth century, when the congregating labourers and workers gained sufferage through strikes and struggles. By being one people, for the people.
Never again, said the banking clans after the revolutions, never again will we let people unite as people around the concept of nation and tribe and race and creed. Hence, multiculturalism, gloablism, and massmigration so that we can always pitch the one group against the other. Divide et impera should say "rule by creating divisions among your challengers".
America is the lynchpin since you lack racial/ethnic identity: all americans are americans, skin colour and such are just on the outside. Multiculturalism. By spreading the american concept of nation as a something disconnected from race and culture, those concepts become commodities. And then void.
The goal is the same as with communism: remove all loyalties, groups, identitites and everything else which does not pertain to or origin from or is under the direct diktat of the system Nothin above the state: nothing above the state. Pure corporativism in which we all are producer/consumer units on spreadsheets.
I went back and forth on it, but I eventually cut the line asking -- "If you were TRYING to destroy the economy, what would you do differently than what Biden has done?" The foxes are grabbing all the eggs from the henhouse before it completely collapses.
It's Season 2 of Jericho but with idiots running the show.
LOL re-reading this, the line ended up in my article 10 days later.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/now-that-were-done-pretending-hunters
Consider something that F A Hayek the Nobel Laureate economist called ‘the fatal conceit’. Those who believe they can have enough knowledge of all the millions and millions of transactions in an economy and how the many millions of transactors will behave and respond to small changing conditions, so as to be able to decide what the best outcomes should be and plan and control everything to achieve those outcomes.
They are not ‘trying’ to destroy they are trying to micromanage the economy to mould it according to their chosen outcome - thus no fossil fuels and equality/redistribution of wealth. They believe they can do it, because they are conceited and don’t consider the unseen. They think they can make everything go the way they want it, make everyone do what they want. They are like the man only looking for his lost car keys under the street lamp because that’s where the light is, they see the evident and controllable economic factors, but don’t see all the tiny detail. And it’s the detail that matters.
Of course deliberate or not, they will fail and cause a great deal of ruination.
I believe it to be intentional.
They have ALL (except Trump) been using the exact same terminology over climate change and build back better.
All of these things lead back to Soros, Schwab, Gates and the other bastards trying to exert their control over humanity.
The great reset "you'll own nothing and be happy"
I wouldn't bet on that statement, as if the majority of people own nothing, then these elites will be in the sights of every person with nothing left to lose.
Yep! I wrote about this long long ago before anybody was here :)
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-failure-of-central-planning
I totally agree. It’s religion. Solzhenitsyn said that ideologues were worse than criminals because they justify everything in the name of the cause.
Jimmy Hoffa President of the Teamsters Union in USA in the 1970s is attributed with saying, anything that starts out as a cause, becomes a business, then turns into a racket. And ain’t it the truth when you look at Environmentalism, Climatism, CoVidism, LGBTR2D23CPO, BLM and more… ?
Any organisation is created with a purpose. No matter if that purpose is achivied (or is achievable) or not, the organisation's purpose will be the continuance and growth of the organisation itself.
Look at the catholic church for the most triumphant example.
Perhaps Hoffa had read Simone Weil? Especially her "On the Abolition of All Political Parties".
Indeed. One need look no further than Government… just how many new ‘laws’ do we actually need? And those new ‘laws’ primarily serve to expand the scope and scale of Government.
Whatever happened to Skeet Ulrich?
Hopefully he's waiting for the return of Jericho! It was rumored to be going onto the CBS+ thing before corona hit. I've seen him here and there in stuff, just like Mimi and Heather :) Always good to see a Jericho face :)
I know! I got excited when Hawkins showed up on The Walking Dead! :)
You guys can have fun all you like. But i I i have seen one Hollywood actor, count it one, come out against the covidian narrative. One. That’s Caviezel. Anyone want to tell me there’s another one? I did hear a rumor that Richard Gere has been anti vaccine prior to 2020. But I do not know the history of that. Many of them have thrown their considerable wealth into supporting the narrative. None of them except Caviezel are ok. My opinion. Love to know if there are any others?
Jim Caviezel is the real deal. And a solid Christian!
Yea, I've a feeling it's both, honestly!
If it were up to me, I would raise Congressional salaries to $10 million/year. Make it a job that attracts top talent instead of ideologues and grifters. The system wants politicians who can be bought off, but we shouldn't encourage that.
But they can only spend their own capital when they campaign for office.
i hear the rouble is climbing fast
I know people hate tall tales of when someone was young and things were different 'n all, but this is absolutely true: at the beginning of the '70s, in NY, I could make a decent dinner for 2 with $1's worth of ingredients because ground chuck was abt 65 cts/lb. Our one-bedroom apt. in Queens went for $146/month. My savings acct. at a regular savings bank earned 7% interest. And I lived almost as well as when I made ten times the salary, 35 years later.
Wait. I did lie. It was only 30 years later I made ten times the salary.
In that 30 years the money supply likely increased roughly 10x as well. It doubles roughly every 10 years. Let's find out!
July 1970: $599B (round to 600)
April 1977: $1,200B (Just under 7 years)
June 1985: $2,400B (Just over 8 years)
August 2000: $4,800B (Just over 15 years!!!)
For every dollar floating around in 1970, there were 8 in 2000. Not quite 10x.
They've framed it as financial malfeasance to go for an ordinary job but it's genuine financial malfeasance to mortgage your life for a degree.
Simultaneously, my memories of the 70's are gas lines and shortages. I remember my dad adding locking gas caps to all of our cars.
I had no car. But I began traveling overseas and a round-trip ticket on Laker Air or Icelandic was under $600. (And once I had a deal on Laker to take the last voyage of the SS France over to Southampton and return by air to NY. I still have the menus. They featured reproductions of old French songs. Closest I ever got in my life to absolutely fabulous.)
Now the thieves us power drills.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1503386195132305410
Creative thieving bastards
And as in all times, it's the smallest men and women who get the largest amount of shit heaped on their heads.
"10% for the big guy"