The Machine State — Building the Control Grid While the Empire Burns

All right.

Well, I guess, uh, we should just jump right into this because, uh, this is kinda one of the important things this week here.

Um, our country is, uh, up to just about $40 trillion in debt.

40 trillion and counting.

Uh, you can find this at Reuters, in US News, and all over the place, and there's even some very cringey footage of, uh, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent telling us we're just gonna grow our way out of this.

But the national debt passed the 40 million-- trillion, trillion, trillion dollar mark last week.

While the record number is staggering on its face, equally concerning is that the debt more than doubled in just 10 years.

So, uh, as for reasons why, some of our viewers in other countries might be saying, "Why? Why is your country so in debt now?" Well, you know, apparently we like to rack it up.

Um, the reasons that they're giving in the news, the dreaded news feeds, are emergency spending during COVID.

Now, that was about $7 trillion if I recall.

At least that's what they printed for it.

Uh, I suspect it was a lot more than that.

But they also, uh, blame the 2025 tax cuts.

Ha.

That's funny to me.

That can't be, uh, very much.

Uh, the increasing age of the American population, and retired healthcare and benefits costs, and raising interest rates.

Okay.

So yeah, everything is ridiculously expensive.

We talked about that on Sunday Wire with Basil.

We were going over the cost of eggs and milk and just-- I don't know, man.

It's crazy how expensive everything has gotten.

A trip to the grocery store now is just ridiculously expensive, and you walk away with, uh, not the like two giant carts you used to walk away with for the same amount if you were spending that much money.

So, uh, I don't know.

What are they gonna do about it, Ruckus? What can be done? Are we just gonna turn into a banana republic or what, what, what-- [laughs] I think we kinda know where this is headed.