Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[tim]

When the Soviet Union collapsed there was still civilization in other parts of the world to “keep the lights on”.

If America had a similar collapse but as the world’s reserve currency, do we take all of the civilized world down with us?

If our currency fails will all other currencies tied to us fail or will they find their own value?

[aedens]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDOy9d24auI
You future is already written they say its different this time.
I never got the on the plane but regard the effect.

[tim]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-tra ... dom-attack

Atlanta train passenger stabbed about 20 times after maniac allegedly slit her throat in random attack

In a working civilization public transportation is a great way to move people around, build up the economy through access to jobs and recreation without having to own a car.

In a declining civilization public transportation is a place where you can get your throat slit in an unprovoked attack.

[tim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/br ... oyd-moment

Police handcuffed and arrested an 18-year-old while he was bleeding out from multiple stabbings because the stabber, a Sikh, accused the victim, a white man, of racism.

The stabber showed no signs of being the victim of violence. He said the man lying in his own blood on the ground had knocked off his turban in a drunken racist attack. And for that, the police arrested and handcuffed the victim.

The victim had been stabbed once in the face, twice in the legs while trying to escape over a fence, and once in the lung. But somehow the police claim not to have been aware of his wounds.

Vickrum Digwa, the 23-year-old stabber, was carrying two blades: an 8-inch “shastar” openly, and a smaller “kirpan” around his neck and under his clothing. During the trial, the prosecutor said that Digwa had “been training with weapons since the age of 12,” slept with weapons, and used “loving terms” when speaking about the murder weapon.

Digwa’s defense barrister claimed religious allowance for openly carrying knives that are illegal for the rest of us to carry. And the judge instructed the jury to consider whether the stabber had a good reason, such as self-defense or religion, to carry his weapons. The national government says that courts should decide what is legal to carry. The police federation says there is no limit on the size of the blade that can be carried with religious allowance.

[tim]

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/05 ... argentina/

Report: Billionaire Peter Thiel Flees America, Moves Family to Argentina

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel has reportedly moved his family to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in order to get away from high taxes in the United States — and to flee what he suspects will be a nuclear war and runaway AI.

I’m not familiar with Argentina’s last fourth turning but if it was the dirty war 1976-1983 this might’ve been a smart move.

[Higgenbotham]

Americans aren’t losing their jobs. The stock market isn’t in freefall. And the official recession call is nowhere in sight. But Goldman Sachs is sounding an alarm about something quieter and more insidious: the purchasing power of the American paycheck is eroding at a pace the economy almost never sees unless it’s already in a downturn.

Neither tax refunds nor savings can last as buffers. Goldman expects real consumer cash-flow growth to slow to just 0.3% year over year by the fourth quarter as the tax refund boost fades. And with the savings rate already near the floor, there’s little room left to offset the income squeeze by drawing down further.

Six decades of data show that real income per worker contracting at this rate almost exclusively happens when the economy is already in a formal downturn. Right now, it isn’t. But Goldman’s message is clear: your paycheck doesn’t know that.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/not-r ... 00512.html