does yellow make me look fat 2

DOES YELLOW MAKE ME LOOK FAT? 2

Think about the idea behind wanting or wishing to emulate the Yellow Vests.  At first, it seems like a double super cool theory.  Let’s unite and hang all the bankers and their stooges.  Well, can you guess the two main problems with that?  First, while France has been suffering from some globalist trade dependencies and while they are way overexposed on relying on parasitic funds from others in the EU, they are still to some degree self sufficient.  At least where it counts such as food security.  Somewhat in energy security.

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The US is self sufficient ONLY insofar as the energy is available for very long distance infrastructure.  We took on too much land when we were forming our empire, and the Great Plains, Rockies and southern and Great Basin desert require excess energy expenditure to keep settled and productive ( without river or sea transport being primary, you cannot sustain an empire without carbon fuels-which are contracting in supply ).  That was a drain on energy, the cost of opening ports to the Pacific ( recall the infrastructure was laid prior to the Panama Canal ) and realizing our oceanic empire.

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Recall that time.  Nations were either colonial or they were economic basket cases.  It was a time of Getting Big Or Going Home.  One of the reasons the Belgians were so ruthless in the Congo ( “the horror, the horror” ) was because that was their ONLY colony.  Lose that and be swallowed by Germany.  We were already practiced in dubious politics and counter-insurgency warfare, as well as nation stealing.  We did a rather good job carving out our Caribbean/Central American and Philippine overseas empire ( the next time you whine about Puerto Ricans on welfare, consider they were colonists ).

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At the time, a few railroad lines and a few pathetic Eastern European land hungry peasants cherry picked the western US resources.  It was a colony that paid its way.  Now, however, it is a drain on imperial coffers, energy-wise.  It costs us to stuff all the golf players down in Arizona and pay the Latino drudge workers to service their unwatered lawnscapes.  You as a taxpayer get to subsidize Mexican labor for Social Security recipients and corporate wage reduction, but worse than the money is the actual energy required to homestead and resupply the empty wasteland.

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So, we have screwed ourselves with having a continental nation requiring excess carbon fuels just to remain populated.  It is like the Soviet Union hanging on to Kazakhstan for a space port and some mines.  It is a net energy drain.  The distances and terrain are not suitable settlements without excess energy.  The point here being, you cannot overthrow the central government while still holding on the half of the landmass that is subsidized.  Rebelling against the bankers in France, no big deal.  Here?  The country splinters.  It only sounds good on paper.  In reality, end empire.

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Recall what an empire is.  It is the home country extracting resources and energy, wealth and surplus from the captive areas at a net gain to itself.  Ending empire is ending the wealth pump ( kudo’s to Greer for that phrase ).  That is why we only grumble about gun control rather than rebelling.  We value extra luxury wealth too much ( of course, make the gun owner class poor and see what happens ).  The second problem with a Yellow Vest movement here, besides it eliminating the scraps of wealth still allowed us, is that it is, conversely, nation state centric.

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No one is going to voluntarily give up the cheap soccer mom SUV juice that empire provides.  No one cares that the fracking oil is subsidized, only that they get $2 a gallon gas to feed their pimping ride.  They could care less if the stock market crashes because of that.  That will last until it simply cannot anymore, and all will cheer, liberals and MAGA-men alike.  The true payback for the American highway system, total civilian compliance and support of empire.  But while we applaud empire we certainly do NOT support any kind of nationalism. 

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France is mainly homogenous.  We are anything but.  The elite brought in Catholic Irish ( in a protestant nation they themselves established, but Mammon trumps Baby Jesus ) for the first colonial war against the South, and they happily import Latino’s to replace those Irish and all like hued former immigrants to wring the last money out of the rotted corpse of failing empire.  Hey, I love the Mexicans.  Remember, I married two of them.  But they are not part of our culture, ultimately.  We cannot achieve homogeny with Latino’s and Blacks.  It isn’t racism but culture and tribe.

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Looking to soft land our empire and go back to nationalism simply isn’t going to work.  The only thing all foreigners ever had in common with the original European inhabitants was a willingness to assimilate to share in the wealth.  And even the original European inhabitants were not homogenous ( with the competing Spanish, French, Dutch and English-and different classes with the English ).  Without surplus wealth there is no glue culturally.  That is why you see so much ANTI-assimilation, for generations.  That is how long the wealth has been shrinking.  We need to realistically focus on decentralization rather than nation building.

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France is taking their country back, their homogenous tribal nation.  We need to celebrate our disintegration, so that we may return to our tribal areas.  Wanting a Yellow Vest riot is wishful thinking back to the old days long gone.  When we were a WASP country.  And yet even that ideal was never even a reality.  Not from the early immigrants used as wage slaves onward.  So really, we don’t miss a country that never existed but rather a gushing fountain of wealth that is long over.  Stop focusing on keeping a non-nation together and celebrate instead.

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We WILL break up as a country.  The imperial break up is well under way and might even be at its end game ( only seen in retrospect ).  The nation then disintegrates itself as the imported oil was needed to keep the western half of the country inhabited.  The part the disenfranchised could hide out in ( and so acted as a safety valve ).  The part that gave us Pacific Ocean control.  Because end of empire will end our need for a west coast, to what benefit is there going to be for subsidizing all that desert? 

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Why didn’t the Russians keep Mongolia?  Great for herders, but a drain of imperial coffers Russia didn’t need.  Why is there no longer a Spanish Morocco?  Spain has enough worthless land to maintain, and probably the reason France had no designs on Spain. It isn’t a paying area to occupy.  The American Desert is the same way.  It costs rather than pays to garrison.  Without a Pacific Empire, why do we even need Seattle or Oakland or Long Beach?  West past the riverine system is costly to maintain after Peak Oil, and peak oil happened fourteen years ago.

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Continued tomorrow.

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