Not a new thought. Expatriating has been on my mind for many years. Now that the whole rest of my family is dead (nothing to do with the hoax virus), I have no particular familial or financial reason to stay here.
In recent years, I'd moved from a bluer area to a red state, but even here, the police are shutting down church services. And nobody opened fire. This signals to me that it's over, and there's no reason to hold out hope for improvement.
There are a lot of shitholes I could go to where I can reduce my cost of living, but that is about the only advantage they have. And it is already pretty low where I am, relatively speaking.
If Austria wasn't so cold I would think about it, but taxes suck, cost of living is high. However, the right to bear arms is alive and well. Be sure to ask your favorite leftist why Austria has almost no gun violence.
About 15 years ago I had seriously considered South Africa due to the low cost of living, great people, and great weather. But the crime is even worse there now than it was then, and it was pretty bad then. This illustrates how a place that might seem a good choice today won't still be a good choice later on.
Two weeks ago my local Wal Mart was a war zone. Today it is very well stocked, I'd say 90%+ of normal. Milk, eggs, bread, full meat dept, even paper towels and paper napkins. Still no TP though.
All while I was sitting on my ass at home shitposting.
It was just dumb luck that I bought a jumbo size package of TP about a week before this all started.
Answer: about 1 in 150, roughly
A senator can't vote because he's quarantined for the virus? That's outrageous
That's a failure of government if I ever saw one
and nobody is talking about it
I live in a small town so it wasn't a surprise that the polling place wasn't swamped, but there was a steady stream of people going in and out. About half of whom were black, a good sign for senile old Joe.
Once I had my ballot I felt a moment of affection when I saw Tulsi's name, but quickly realized that was just my red blooded American male hormones reacting to the thought of her pretty face, and then I did what I came there to do and cast a vote for Bernie.
The March 15 debate with Bernie will be canceled. Whether you heard that first here or not, you heard it here.
"Rallies" (ha ha) will be canceled
Probably no public victory speech tomorrow night
And he's going to get away with it in the near term because Bernie is going to get trounced tomorrow. Which will be another factor making the scheduled debate appear superfluous.
Going to be hard to keep a presidential candidate out of public view all the way to Novemeber. Probably impossible I think. But so far so good.
Where's Joe?
Hoover, Carter, GHWB
I'm not suggesting that we are looking at a repeat of 2008 economically. Not all recessions are that big of a deal. The 1990-91 recession wasn't that big of a deal. But it was enough to get Bush out of office. I remember very well the MSM maintaining the narrative of "Bush isn't doing anything to fix the economy." That was my first red pill.
It's not certain that we are now headed into a recession, and I don't believe (as if my opinion matters) that it will be a devastating one, but it's altogether possible that we will get a short sharp one.
Here's the key point: Recessions aren't confirmed in real time. We could already be in one and not know it. The data to confirm it wouldn't be available for another 2 or 3 months. Then, once the data does confirm it, the MSM screams to high heaven about it. They already are, for that matter. So it's possible for us to have a quick coronavirus induced recession that is over by the time the data confirms it happened. And as we are coming out of recession, without yet having the data to confirm that we are out of recession, the media is screaming nonstop about a recession. Right as we head into the election. Re: the Bush recession, we weren't in recession anymore by the time of the 1992 election. But the media narrative had been set.
I will not ridicule any conspiracy minded folks who suggest that the coronavirus was released just for this purpose. There are trillions at stake after all, regarding who controls the world's richest and most powerful nation. China certainly has the incentive to do it, among others.
"It's the economy stupid." Just as importantly, it's the perception of the economy.
Perhaps our only saving grace will be that they picked an Alzheimer's patient.
Have you met even one single person who has that kind of enthusiasm for Bloomberg?
First of all, the media is pathetic about this. As soon as the market dips, they claim to know why. Every time. Funny they never tell you ahead of time that it's about to dip.
The coronavirus is old news and the market, which is far more forward looking than the media is, had already decided it wasn't that concerned. Disruptions to supply chains aside, the mortality rate is about the same as the flu.
This dip is the market pricing in the possibility of a Sanders nomination/presidency. You'll notice it began immediately upon his decisively winning the Nevada caucus.
