About the stock market this time.
Decided to really lean in to my heresy today and reveal the truth that I first recognized when arguing with my Economics teacher in high school.
The stock market is made of bullshit, lies, and gambling, and the whole world would be far better off if we kicked the speculators out of the world’s piggy banks and stopped better people’s god damned retirements on a spin of the fucking wheel.
Well, you’ve seen the video now, you know how I feel.
Lately I always end up thinking of things I wish I had said in the vid about ten minutes after I start editing the thing, and thus far I have not had the mental wherewithal and agility to stop editing to record an extra segment and slip it into the vid saying them.
I will get there, though. I fully plan to keep making vids and improving my technique and developing my “voice” and trying new things.
For instance, comedy. I haven’t tried anything funny yet. I am a hilarious dude and I can see people making full on skits all by themselves online so there is no reason I can’t do something along those lines.
But there’s no need to rush. I can continue on my iterative learning journey serene in the knowledge that things are unfolding as they should.
Well, I can try, anyhow. No promises.
Where those late ideas go now, obviously, is right here in this blog o’ mine. It’s easy to use this space to expand on whatever I blab on about in the day’s vid.
Like, for instance, the real nature of the scam of the stock market that I forgot to talk about in the vid.
Say you did give all your money to your friend so he can bet on the ponies. And when he comes back, he not only pays you your money back, he gives you an extra $500!
Wow, what a great guy! $500 is a lot of money! He must really know horse racing inside and out. You’ll definitely “invest” your money with him again.
But what your “friend” isn’t telling you is that he actually won $10,000 and so giving you $500 left $9500 for him and a ripe sucker (you) ready to be plucked again the next time he needs gambling money.
That’s how it works with these stockbrokers and investment firms. They take your money saying they can make it “grow” or even saying they will “make your money work for you” (what a load of manure) and if they happen to win at the racetrack that is te stock market, they give you a little of that money to make you think you made a smart choice and keep the rest.
Now can you see why all these sociopaths love gambling with other people’s money? They can’t lose! If the stocks go up, they keep most of the profits, and if they go down, you take all of the losses.
And because of the vast asymmetry of (apparent) knowledge, they know that if they blow all your money on a bad bet, they can just feed you some line of bullshit about market volatility or whatever and you’ll have no choice but to believe it.
The whole thing is a Ponzi scheme inside of a scam wrapped up in greed and delusion. Like I said in the vid, I would get rid of all the stock markets in the world if I could.
But I will have to settle for being one of the only people in all of existence who can see that not only does the Emperor have no clothes, but he has a tiny dick.
I’ve always felt like my destiny was to be a soothsayer of some sort.
Now if I could only find a way to make it all funny.
More after the break.
And now the news
I could do a Daily Show style satirical news roundup, I suppose.
Obviously it would be anything but an original idea, but that doesn’t worry me because I know that wouldn’t matter as long as the riffs on the news are funny.
And of course, they would be. This is me we’re talking about here. I would freaking rock a format like that.
I’d have to pick up a few skills, like how to grab the footage I’d be riffing off of from other channels’ video feeds. That shouldn’t be too hard though it could get annoying.
And to be honest, it would be pretty low effort content for me. I generate jokes while I am watching things like the news as just a natural byproduct of being alive.
I joke therefore I am.
But the idea doesn’t really inspire me, at least not yet. It could be that if I think about it for long enough I will find a way to make it into something more.
Until then, I will file it under “good idea strategically” and it will wait until I feel ready to give it a try.
Speaking of the news, I read some good news today. Apparently the tariffs are really pissing people off, including massive MAGA “thought” leader Ben Shapiro, who is now ripping into Trump big time.
And he’s got millions of followers and is, as they say, “about as right wing as it gets”, and is massively influential in right wing circles, so if he has turned against Trump, presumably most of his followers will do so as well.
And that means the palace revolt is officially underway. Trump and Musk’s rampage is going to cost them all their base, especially when the tariffs trigger a recession and the prices for everything goes up right when people are losing their jobs, and then you will see his former supporters really getting pissed off.
And then no force on Earth will save him from the wrath of his people. Congress will turn against him. The Supreme Court will turn against him.
Hell, some of the smarter (?) people in his own executive branch will turn against him. His entire edifice will crumble away beneath him.
At that point, he’d better hope that all that happens to him is that he goes to jail.
Better to go out like a criminal than to go out like Mussolini.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.