iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's not a failure. They were purchased by the oligarchy for this purpose. It was spelled out in advance by Lewis F. Powell. The predecessor to Project 2025.

1131

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Your point being? As someone who lived a life as a blue collar tradesman trying to have enough savings to live through retirement, almost all of my savings are shrinking out of sight in His Madnesty's stock market mayhem. You telling me it's my fault coz I'm rich? I guess I don't apologize.

280

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Baloney. It was so the federal government could repel invaders or uprisings. The Constitution spells out specifically how the militia will be trained and organized, and when it can be federalized. No, the founders did not say, "If you don't like the job we're doing you may kill us." Didn't happen.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Once in a lifetime. Ptui. Welcome to a high energy atmosphere.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Ever heard of a 401k? Of an IRA? They're all synonymous with the stock market. Mine was all in IRAs, mine and my late wife's. We didn't make much money ever, but we spent even less.

110

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We can kill people. We are the people of death. We do death better than anybody. Turns out that killing people isn't a dependable solution.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We "flattened" Iraq, but we didn't win a war there. Flattened Afghanistan? Har har. My dad was in France at our victory, but he was born in 1913 and died in 1998.

100

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Yep. I'm 77. I fought in one of our wars. We did all you say, but we haven't won a war in my lifetime. If you can find a time machine maybe you can get back there.

100

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

PS. I've already lost tens to maybe a hundred thousand bucks in the stock market slide. I'm not an executive.

130

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And the sun rises in the east. Those aren't the people who are losing their income. Doesn't matter. You might be right, I might. Personally I think the global economy is going down. I don't think it can operate without US spending.

120

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And the wars we fight. The biggest most expensive war machine in the world can't fight our way out of a wet paper bag. We can't whip a bunch of goatherds with donkey carts. Nor were we able to whip a bunch of rice peasants with water buffalo. Different underdogs, I guess.

110

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We may be a "service economy" but we demand more fossil energy per person than any other economy on Earth. I'm not sure what "service providers" are doing with all that diesel fuel and gasoline, but they're paying for it with income.

020

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

He's removed all the income from hundreds of thousands of well paid federal workers. He's removed the income from hundreds of high value research centers. He's quit buying from American farmers to provide food aid. Service economies require customers with income. He's looking for a depression. Deep.

242

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Most of everything "America" has ever said is idle boasting, braggadocio, and bullshit.

010

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Only the second amendment. And only half of that.

010

Reposted by Jeff McFadden

Jim Beasley @flinthillshuman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

If you want to inflict hurt on the rich and large corporations, STOP SPENDING SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY ON THINGS YOU DON'T NEED!!!!!

34015

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I don't think it's anything like that modest a goal.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I know you don't want to hear this, but he's the best President the climate could have asked for. #DEGROWTH!!!! Wait til people find out cars last longer, tires last longer, brakes last longer, and less gas is burned when you #SLOWDOWN! No, I don't support him, but fax is fax.

4357

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Here's a recent post of mine on that very question. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

020

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Tomorrow would not be soon enough.

050

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It's the only realistic hope, although we could have done it better if we'd wanted to.

010

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Exactly. Same thing I've been asking for since about 2018.

010

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I don't know much about finances, but I think they've got a system figured out to massively enrich themselves by crashing the global economy. But for whatever reason, they're doing it. I've got a friend with a PhD in economics who agrees with me about this. Appeal to authority. Logical fallacy.

2252

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yup. Why bother his kids? They'd steal it from him if they had the stones. He's shorting it himself, daring somebody to notice.

120

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It has been my opinion since January that His Madnesty and the Oligarch actively want to drive the economy into depression. If that is they want, they're doing all the right stuff. There is no thing which they are doing which doesn't work towards it. Global, 1930s on steroids, Greatest Depression.

5489

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Reading an article about today's stock market dive in The Guardian, and they ask "how much pain" Tmurp can stand. The answer is, he can stand infinite pain as long as it's other people who are hurting.

3377

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I doubt it. They'd have to talk to him.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

He can do it all with AI images. He's not real anyway. Hi Robin.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Depends on your objective, I guess. I believe this is exactly what His Madnesty and the Oligarchy want. I can't say I know why, but it can't be an accident.

120

Reposted by Jeff McFadden

Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin

272175383763

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I don't know anything about such a rule, and am not terribly interested, because I do know, absolutely for certain, that the applicable rule is whatever His Madnesty says on any given day. The definition of a dictatorship. Rule by dictate. Executive Order. Tweet. Xcreet. Whatever.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Yes, I understand all that. The vast majority of people who claim to be climate concerned intend to do all that with magic energy and blah blah - and this guy told the truth. What we call modern life and consider to be the minimum acceptable option is itself impossible. Which means it will end.

020

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I doubt that. The difference would be which tyrant. Personally I think Mush is even worse, but I don't have any evidence. Just a feeling. Mush wants to rule the world, and I could see it happening. Megalomaniac.

040

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Personally I suspect that Musk has more power than His Madnesty and can't be fired. I hope I'm wrong. I'll be watching.

8171

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There is no technology which can do this. Doing less, using lower levels of energy, shortening distances, reducing speeds, halting paving, halting bulldozing, reducing mining and smelting - those are what could work. And basically nobody would do any of them. So, hang on. Here comes the ride.

000

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

And they expect to make money on it.

120

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

What amazes me is that they claim to believe that business and finance as usual will just chug happily along in the world they have built. I don't think it comes out that way.

1220

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I live in Missouri and have for 77 years. Compared to the lives we led in the 1960s and 1970s both states are poverty ridden. Except for small parts - neighborhoods - in a few cities. Many of those are rich.

030

Jeff McFadden @jeffanddonkeys.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

He's absolutely correct. Global heating is a direct output of building the modern world. It's the people who tell you we can keep the modern world without heating the planet who are wrong (at best.)

1223