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Welcome to the American hall of mirrors\u2026 and mind the broken glass all over the floor. That\u2019s Nature\u2019s way of saying the country has run out room to punk itself. 2018 was the consolidation of bad faith in everything we do: politics, the news media, economics & finance, show biz, regular biz, jurisprudence, medicine, education, and relations between men and women \u2014 the year of peak dishonesty and self-deception. Of course, the trouble with dishonesty is that it doesn\u2019t comport with Reality, and Reality being Mother Nature\u2019s husband, bats in the cleanup position. Entering 2019, the bases are loaded with delusions, misdirections, and turpitudes. I shall get right to it without further throat-clearing.<\/p>\n

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The nation\u2019s focus remains clamped to the mercurial character in the White House. If you subscribe to Strauss and Howe\u2019s theories about The Fourth Turning<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, then you might see president Donald J. Trump playing the archetypal role they call \u201cThe Gray Champion,\u201d an elder figure of the \u201ctranscendental\u201d Boomer generation sent by fate to rescue a floundering society at a grave moment in the seasons of history. Yes, I know: we might have been better off calling Ghostbusters. A cardinal precept at this blog is that fate is a trickster. You order a Gray Champion and room service sends up a Golden Golem of Greatness.<\/p>\n

To put it mildly, Mr. Trump has failed to charm at least half the country. They are embarrassed at his physical presence: his lumbering gait, like unto a behemoth land mammal of the Oligocene; that swaying bay window stomach half-concealed by the flaps of his suit-jacket and bisected by the oddly elongated necktie; the pained smile he puts on for the photo-ops; his man-spreading<\/em> when seated with the world\u2019s poohbahs, and that strange confection of sculpted hair, like the spun sugar on a Croquembouche, or the pouf on some horrifying plastic dashboard figurine.<\/p>\n

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Forecast 2019: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA Welcome to the American hall of mirrors\u2026 and mind the broken glass all over the floor. That\u2019s Nature\u2019s way of saying the country has run out room to punk itself. 2018 was the consolidation of bad faith in everything we do: politics, the news media, economics & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7],"tags":[14994,21635,14964,7844,23682,341,449,4026,10693,827],"class_list":["post-42176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-14994","tag-21635","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-donald-trump","tag-forecast","tag-future","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-margin-call","tag-prediction","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42176\/revisions\/42177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}