Let’s Pretend

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let’s play a game of pretend

let’s imagine, as an example, that in November the Democrats sweep the House (can you save “Blue Wave”) and win back the Senate . . . let’s then imagine every machination and gnashing of teeth (of the lowest budget Hollywood farce one could produce) by trump and all the others SURE to be held accountable for past financial “chicanery”

should this wave land onshore in Washington, DC

yeah . . . pretty easy to imagine

let’s further imagine that the economy, secretly propped up by a “Quantitative Easing” already oozing into the financial bloodstream, with numbers that don’t, exactly, all “add up”

comes to light . . . imagine, then, that the buy backs of bonds and the secret back door deals with donors

meets the cold hard stare of a team of forensic accountants, actually intent on finding answers rather than hiding them

let’s continue to imagine that billions and billions and tens of billions more money, federally guaranteed, has somehow gotten lost in the seat cushions

and, well, those quaint old standards by which economies are judged and allowed to function, rear their ugly heads and we all are forced to see theft, corruption and probably treason . . . on a level not seen (by the naked eye, at least) in many a day

let’s imagine that all this has taken place and the economy, once robust and the envy of the world, is like one of those half-built Mega Mansions we see from time to time on Netflix or Hulu

problems problems problems

the bond market -- since no one #trusts the United States . . . is “signaling” trouble and rates (what our president insists must come DOWN) continue to #rise since no one will buy US debt without getting a premium coupon (the interest money they collect until the bond fully matures)

thus meaning the United States is forced to pay an additional level of cash to work down their outstanding balance -- think: people with bad credit having to pay a higher rate to borrow a car

that’s where “we are”

gangsters doing gangster shit -- tech bros thinking their tech shit is “the shit” and a sea of racist looney birds all cosplaying as Rhett Butler and Aunt Pitty Pat

it’s going to get interesting LONG before it gets dull

the economy has been robbed, from within, and the “real economy” will soon have VERY REAL “real world” problems

and when the election results roll in, expect the madness to . . . hash tag #INCREASE