Changing The Game

“You were looking for a way to change your life.  You could not do this on your own.” – Fight Club

I hear he got a job offer at an origami factory, but before he could start, it folded.

In a past job, I had to travel, a lot.  In a typical year, there were times when I spent 180 or more days on the road.  I was young, and it was fun.  It only cost me a marriage, but that’s okay, that marriage wasn’t worth a whole lot.

One time while traveling with a co-worker, I said, “Well, I’ve been on this flight before.  I bet we reach O’Hare at 10:42AM.”

The wheels touched down at 10:44AM.

“See, I was nearly exactly right.

Sadly, the co-worker that I was travelling with knew my game.  “Oh, John Wilder, you just picked ‘wheels down’ because it made your prediction correct.  You could have also picked, ‘at the gate’ or ‘getting the rental car’.”

I laughed.  She was on to my game.  In a system where I change the rules, I always win.  Unlike our Redditor®:

Because that’s the definition of a bureaucrat, Joe.

Right now, we have some of the greatest changes in the history of our country taking place – this week.  Trump has gone into a frenzy, signing Executive Orders faster than an Only Fans™ girl collects tips.  The hilarity of this situation is that Trump distracts people with small, mostly inconsequential things (immigration reform and repatriation), while attempting to remake the very fabric of the world (changing the name to the Gulf of America).

This makes the GloboLeft® his meat puppets as he emotionally manipulates them and drives them into overload mode.  See a big backlash?  No.  They’re shellshocked and traumatized:  they have no idea what to react to, and can’t even catch their collective breath since every ten minutes there’s something new to “Reeeeeeee” about.

It’s amusing to watch him, Trump out one Truth® and cut the legs out from under the president of Columbia and remove an insignificant obstacle.  Oh, sure, you say that it’s supposed to be spelled Colombia, but let’s be sure that if we stop taking their coffee and flowers they can shove that “o” up their demand curve. . . oh, sorry.

Channeling Trump for a second.

But Columbia is not alone in wanting to build a wall so that their citizens can’t return, Mexico doesn’t seem to want Mexicans back, either.

Looks like Trump feels about FEDGOV employees the same way he feels about illegals.

Let’s take a look at several big themes we’ve seen so far.  They’re gonna leave a mark:

• Less food will be picked, so some farmers will have to pay a market wage to harvest their crops, like grapes, pumpkins, lettuce, peppers, strawberries, citrus fruits, cherries, tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots among others. The prices of these are going up.  Farmers might have to charge a dime more an orange to pay a wage to pull Americans to do the work.

Looks like Shea is sad he’s losing his below-market labor. 

• But demand will be down since there will be fewer people to feed.
• Oh, speaking of demand going down, housing demand will be down since the illegals won’t be needing them. That frees up a house or two in Modern Mayberry, but what about Los Angeles?
• But home construction costs will go up as market wages for construction workers go up in illegal-heavy areas.
• There’s a hiring freeze by the federal government and Trump wants fed.gov employees to go back to work at actual desks rather than hanging out at home. Again, good and bad things will happen:  fewer employees means fewer employees to harass you.  Yay!  But it also means fewer employees to spend time erasing stupid regulations.  Maybe we could assign the ATF to Greenland patrol.

Or, we could put the ATF to productive use picking fruit.

• Forget new windmills and solar farms, but drilling will become a new national pastime. Will oil prices go up?  Depends on whether or not the Biden Recession hits in 2025, but Trump is all-in for domestic energy production.  Sweet, sweet oil and coal and natural gas so we can release carbon dioxide back into the loving embrace of the atmosphere.
• Tariffs will increase prices of imported things, but also give incentives for companies to keep manufacturing in the United States. Longer term, jobs and technical know-how are better than cheap plastic things from China.
• There might also be deregulation impacts to make decent cars more available – when can I buy a 2025 Toyota® IMV 0 for $10,000 like everybody else in the world? We can certainly make them in the United States and avoid the tariffs if only the regulation would allow these inexpensive reliable vehicles on the road.
• The tangling array of Non-Governmental Organizations, you know, those people who think it’s charity to leach off of our taxes to send gimmies to foreign countries? Yeah, he’s cutting their funding off.  More importantly, I think he’s cutting off the funding to the groups (like Catholic Charities™, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service©, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society®, and the Red Cross®.  The United States even funds the National Immigration Law Center™ so they can fight to keep illegal aliens from being deported.    We fund people who are enemies of our laws.

Wow, the Democrats and RINOS had a great idea – use the FEDGOV to fund enemies of the average American citizen.

Yeah, it’s a mixed bag as to what the immediate impacts of this will be.  I’m more than happy to pay more for strawberries and coffee if it will lead to the United States ending this catastrophic importation of people who wave the flags of other countries, refuse to learn our language, and, well, hate us.

More importantly, if we continue with business as usual, we’re going to collapse.  More illegals won’t make us better.  More debt won’t make eggs cheaper.  Offshoring more jobs won’t increase living standards.  More regulations won’t make more wealth.  All of these things are long term trends that cannot go on forever.

They’ve got to stop.  We are at a point where we’ll have to change the rules, and it seems to me the wheels have already hit the ground.

In Columbia.