Republicans are really gonna impale themselves on this petard? Exactly what the Democrats did last term? Insisting that everything is better because the bean-counters say things look good on their side of the spreadsheet?

On a broader level I kinda wonder if, by circumstance or decision or whatever, we’re not gonna have capital-r Recessions as historical moments anymore. Like, conditions will continue to deteriorate - we’ll still have periods where unemployment increases, where people are laid off, prices increase, and the circle of those living in comfortable stability contracts further - but nobody in the news rooms will actually say the “R” word.

I don’t know. Maybe all the bubbles that have been accumulating, the Bitcoin and the AI and the Tesla and the computer chips, maybe they all pop in the next little while. Maybe I’ve just spent too long being tense and waiting for the pin to drop that I’ve become too numb.

the economy is just a newfangled volcano god where we throw people into it every so often in the hopes that it will grant us a mild winter and bountiful harvest