Wandering thinks, a bit of the darkside too.

Feels a leetle early on, but premonitions of DIRE are strong in this locall

No work today. NOT weather. Conversation was ‘I’ll call ya tonight to let you know if I need ya in tomorrow. We are ‘supposed‘ to have a delivery truck in on Friday”

And thats out biggest problem right now. Its not lack of work, its lack of material. We’ve been going out, “half-assin’ it”, putting up corner poles and such, but we haven’t the line poles or wire to hang because our Materials provider has been running shy of EVERYTHING,,,, The Bosses are doing all they can to keep the boys bizzy, but no materials really kinks up that ‘plan’.

And with world trade getting repeated kicks to the testicles due to a 25% choke hold of the lubricant to a global economy, Damaged infrastructure to same, and continual bickering and conjoling between brat children running as Heads of State (and I am not pointing at any ONE such, but ALL OF ‘EM!!!) People are holding thier cards close and being VERY cautious with the one resource that keeps things moving.

Something to watch and think about.

I’m not saying he is absolutely correct, but it links with how the world has been running since World War Eleven (>snark<) Central banking made an intangible into a Commodity. Soros got rich playing those ‘commodities’ against human nature.

And Human Nature ALWAYS wins in the long game.

That last sentence: think about it. Thats the one thing that the “leaders” the ‘Eeleet’ always fail to calculate in. Its why Glubb’s observations are so damned solid.

They say Hard men create good times, good times create soft men, soft men create bad times, bad times create hard men. Not entirely true, but close enough for government work. We have had our ‘soft times’ or as Glubb put ‘the age of decadence’, and I look around and see seriously ‘Soft’ People.

Hell, I’m soft compared to how I was while in the Marines. I know I can’t do much more than 3 pull ups these days, and running 100 yards is asking a lot. No way could I run 3 miiles these days. I’m 57, broken down physically by time and wear. Ain’t out, but this machine ain’t factory fresh either. (even the operating system is showing signs of needing a defrag session.)

Not as good as I once was, but just as good once as I ever was.

And I still shoot 500+yards, often enough to know I still can, with Irons, and still with both eyes open.

Are hard times a-coming? Me thinks yes. Me thinks its by design. I want you to read a passage from Sarah written during the Covidiocy.

Most top-down totalitarian societies are a game of musical chairs. They need the eliminated ones, the enemy. And they need the chairs to be short.

Hence the lockdowns bringing dire shortages and poverty are an intended feature, because the current regime needs to create scarcity in order to get people to act like sheep just to “get a chair.”

I linked this originally in another post. There was a time where I considered ‘Threepers’ and others as ‘watchdogs’, but then I started seeing the GOAT in things.

I’m a goat in that sense. I turn junk into stuff,, my house is 75% recycled stuff. My trucks,,, yeah,,, my trucks,,

The only thing NEW in my ‘tool box’ are some tools that were recently purchased/upgraded. But I still run with Snap-on Sockets and wrenches purchased in the Mid-90s.

I’ve said that there is a reckoning coming.

Many have said, and history shows, POVERTY is the norm, not the exception. We have been riding the wave from the industrial revolution for 200 years, and the turbulance is growing, the shore line approaching and wipe-out is inevitable. Thats the Reckoning I see coming.

And I wonder how the Modern ‘First world’ is going handle this arrangement in working conditions,,,,

(Note: the end product ‘looks good’ but observe closely the failure to proper fitment. The peices may be close to the one following it in production, but seperate them by 10 units and NOTHING will cross fit. )

Yup, I’m feeling a bit of doom-n-gloom right now. Not just the lack of hours, but the whole she-bang is IN MY FACE, Supply chain issues and the increased pricing in everything due that. People not being able to afford, or choosing to not affect repair in hopes ‘it will hold together till things get better’.

I don’t like HOPE. HOPE shuts down the mind in anticipation of a miracle. I much prefer to be proactive vs ‘hope it all comes out ok’. And yes, that sometimes puts me in a bind, like I am right now with debt up to my eyeballs in a time where I could use those reserves I blew through.

But I wonder about the future. Could the following vid become the norm?

Look a little closer at the ‘homeless problem’: Are we that far from the above now? I dunno,,, just making observations and feeling a little perturbed that things I see, feel like they are getting stronger, more persistent, and wider in scope.

Gonna be around the shop all day today. Doin’ stuff here at the house that incorporated two of the Holey Trinity aspect: Space and TIME, and keep things close so I’m not blowing the third (which is quite scarce right now.) So toss me your thoughts in comments. Get a conversation going and maybe not this echo-chamber I am inhabiting the last wee-while.

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