You sound like me every morning. I don’t get it either.

“So I was talking to people, very smart people, the best people, about the bond market, which is, you know, it’s a market, it’s right there, it’s a beautiful market, some people don’t know this, but it’s real, there’s a floor, there’s traders, there’s guys yelling — I’ve seen it, I’ve been there, tremendous energy, tremendous — and I said, we gotta go in. We gotta send in the — I’m thinking Marines, maybe the Guard, somebody strong — and just, you know, straighten it out. Because right now the yields are doing something, nobody can explain it, they use words like ‘basis points,’ sounds made up, sounds like a Scrabble word, and I said, if it’s a market, and it’s un-American what’s happening in there, we go in, we clean it up, like a — like a raid, a beautiful raid. And this actually — this reminds me, because there’s a very famous story, everyone knows it, tremendous story, where Jesus — good guy, great guy, maybe the greatest — he goes into the temple, and there’s a market in there, and he doesn’t like the prices, the vig, whatever they were charging, and he goes in, flips everything, tables everywhere, coins flying, unbelievable scene, and the lesson — and this is the lesson, folks, this is Biblical, you can look it up, I’m not sure you can, but you should — the lesson is: when the market’s ripping you off, you send in strength. That’s it. That’s the whole Bible right there in one story. He didn’t file a complaint. He didn’t write a letter to the — to the temple commissioner, there was no commissioner, there was just him, and a table, and boom. So that’s what we’re gonna do to the bond market. We’re gonna flip some tables. Metaphorically — or not metaphorically, we’ll see, I’ve got people looking into whether there’s an actual floor we can send people onto, physically, and if there is, boy, are those yield curve people in for a surprise.”

Trump, probably…

He’s going to arrest people and lock them up in the federal reserve.

That is your opinion of what he might have meant if his brain were working. In reality, we have no idea what he means, and neither does he.

I mean… Good luck, USA? Doesn’t seem like a really viable strategy.

This is dementia.

What happens is that pathways in your brain start to break down, so when you’re trying to form a connection, the connection just isn’t there. But what your brain does is it tries to be “helpful” by routing around the damaged pathway without even telling you that it’s doing this.

So part way through trying to talk about bond markets, something he doesn’t really have a deep pool of knowledge on to begin with, Trump’s brain ran into a block. To fix the issue, it took the last word - intervention - and formed a pathway from there. This lead to “military”, kind of like an LLM losing context but continuing its next word guessing.

He probably finished out the sentence without even realizing that it has zero connection to the original question he was supposed to be answering.

I don’t think there is a country that wants to invade the US, not even out of spite. Maybe Canada will take a bit of the top, and Mexico will snoop a bit of the south, but I don’t think you should expect much more.

I call dibs on my city being invaded by Hungary. I’ve visited there several times and it was great. Tell the invading troops to bring pálinka.

We are only ever a week or so away from running out of oil. That’s what this is all about. America is too big, and consumes too much to maintain itself. As theres less to take and as America doubles down on the past, the country will degrade until it breaks.

UK 🤝 USA

Getting fucked up the arse by FPTP electoral systems.