Elections Have Consequences

The intelligent people of New Mexico must have collectively realized how insane it was to vote for Joe Biden:

Nearly 40% of their budget is funded by natural gas and oil production. The Canadian equivalent of this would be the hordes of government workers in Edmonton voting to shut down the oil industry. Doesn’t bother them because they’re of the belief that they’ll keep on getting paid no matter how much their fellow Albertans suffer. But such selfish, narrow minded views could only come from the the same people that believe that solar panels and wind farms will provide everyone with sufficient energy. How can one cure such abject stupidity?!

57 Replies to “Elections Have Consequences”

    1. sorry Ahmed. there will be no beer or popcorn, that is being flushed along with the rest of the country.

  1. This should get interesting.
    If a government suddenly loses 40% of its budget does it start a domino effect because it changes the lending market?
    Here’s the logic.
    Government borrowing short term is done on the basis that revenue will be coming in to cover the cost of borrowing.
    If the revenue is now gone, the government borrowing remains leading to default or more debt, or that government finds they can’t find a lender to borrow from. If the cut in revenue is deep, I expect the later scenario in which the well runs dry.
    This causes another domino to fall in that the credit market tightens up and interest rates start rising because it suddenly becomes a lenders market.
    I’d go on but I saw this show back in the 80’s when interest rates hit the high teens.
    Wasn’t pretty then either.

      1. I think extreme inflation will be the end result. At my age I have seen the dollar lose it buying power several times over already, it will get worse.

    1. Our youngest brother was a chartered accountant. He had 2 expressions “Pigs get fat, Hogs get slaughtered” (do not be greedy) and the borrowing party continues until no one wants to lend to you anymore – then the financial “fun” begins. When the bad times begin, then cash is king – best to have your mortgage paid off and to not want for too much (vacation in the back yard anyone?)

  2. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
    -H. L. Mencken

  3. Diverse Toronto TV station has a heartwarming story this morning, of Pervert Joe’s dogs at the White House. He is so cool and wonderful, just like our Justin.

  4. Oh my, this goes way over the head of your typical Biden voter. The concept of trade offs or unintended consequences eludes them. That part of their brains is dominated by magical thinking and faith based fantastical utopianism. It is to laugh that there is an uptick in Biden voter remorse at this time, down the road maybe.

    1. Many Biden voters, maybe most, convinced themselves that they were voting for moderation.
      Of course, Day One’s EOs reveal the opposite. What did you expect, the Prog/global corporatist agenda was derailed for four years. You gotta kill that American Dream and replace it with the new and improved, corporatist and Xi approved version, diminished and shriveled just in time for the new Americans being lured across the border.

  5. NM has 3 house districts, basically the north half of the state, metro Albuquerque, and the southern half of the state. District 2 (the south, where all the oil is) actually did elect a Republican. Looking at things county by county there’s lot of red there, but as usual it’s major population centers (Abq, Santa Fe, Las Cruces) that “decide” for everyone and of course they vote for free stuff.

    Between Sleepy Grandpa Gropes and dimwit Governor Grishom the state ought to be completely bankrupt soon.

    1. So those in areas outside of the cities I expect already have a good grasp on what self sufficiency is and those inside the predominantly blue districts are completely lost if the local coffee shop runs out of their favourite donut.
      The cure to this is those blue districts and by extension constituencies that vote liberal need to experience the true outcome of their decisions good and hard.
      The prospect here is that the state government is going to have to cut spending. Not consider where the cuts are going to happen, must be done. Further they have to own it or they can turn on the guy with the asterisk by his name.
      Has the midterm campaign started already?

    2. All those Dem voters are cheering. This is what they asked for and are glad that they got it. Bring on the socialism, communism, white supremacy bashing, identity politics, globalism, climate change etc. They are feeling virtuous and self righteous.

  6. It is a simple process. Get in line behind all the other Democratic states and cities that are at the taxpayer trough as Biden hands out the cash. NYC and LA have already got billions of $’s. Illinois, California and much of NY state are broke.

      1. Joseph, they ran out of money a long time ago. The country runs on a debt economy much like the rest of the world. If I ran the world I would immediately get rid of money, go 100% digital and just have digits unlimited and everyone has unlimited wealth, until………

  7. In both Canada and the US, and I assume Europe by default, the central banks are the ones buying all these bonds, so they are defacto, printing money. The cost of borrowing is therefore nil. Inflation must become the inevitable result, the interest will be paid by consumers, as nothing is ever free. Gold has been good to me since I bought at $750, anybody think $2,500 is unreasonable?

    1. Peter, I have modest silver holdings yet the reality is that any government can take that gold or silver as was done in the past in the US. I keep the silver, why?, just because. There was an old saying that kind of went like this . When there is no food, all the gold in the world will not keep you alive. Adequate guns and ammo might help you take something from someone else but it is not going to farm the land.

        1. Tooner enough hungry people can and will overwhelm anyone no matter how well armed they are.

  8. Next up on Action News At 11, unicorn ranchers are delighted with the curtailing of the New Mexico oil industry as the futures market for unicorn flatulence looks bright….

  9. Exasperated: The inflation is inevitable. Contract the real goods and services available in the economy while pumping out the cash available to purchase them and the result is inflation — too much cash chasing too few commodities. Add massive spending and redistribution by a non-productive sector of the economy i.e. the gubmint, the unpredictability which inflation and regulatory overreach produce to kill investment in new business or the expansion of existing ones and voila: massive unemployment. It’s Trudeau 2.0: 18% inflation, 12% unemployment, massive government debt and a collection of bewildered morons who can’t figure out why their $1000 notes can’t even buy the week’s groceries. And that’s why I just bought a new vehicle with 0%, 72-month financing. By year three I’ll be paying a fraction of the original price.

    1. Hah, I was wrestling with the decision to buy a car now, but is the supply contracting?

    2. DrD, the classic definition of inflation, too much money chasing too few goods. Throw in the constant printing of money to cover unpayable debt along with over 50 % of the populace producing absolutely, nothing, ya’ll got the trifecta. Except you didn’t win squat.

    3. Can you diagnose and repair all of that car’s systems, mechanical, electrical, electronic?

  10. “…….they’ll keep on getting paid no matter how much their fellow Albertans suffer.”
    So far, that holds true. On COVID, teachers get paid, Sibble Serpents are paid. Cops and Nurses and doctors are paid. The guy picking up my garbage hasn’t suffered one iota. The City meter reader is paid and those taxes never stop rising.
    Wonder how long the situation lasts, ’cause we don’t print our own money in this Province and the Clown in Ottawah wants to “go green”, again at our expense. Got oxen? Gonna be tough getting over Roger’s Pass with trainloads of Chinah junk. “Just in time” is gonna become “please wait a while”. Remember them?
    What to do. Any suggestions, ’cause I’m plumb out of ideas? Even our Polyticians are out of ideas, other than fattening their wallets and their unionized “public” employees at our expense, no matter which political direction is the flavor of the day. One comes to mind: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/a-family-tradition-alberta-minister-does-not-step-down-over-hawaii-trip-1.5250983.
    She was a business person, and while I don’t hold it against her (I was a business owner, too, heavy on the “once”, I retired) optics are everything in polyticks, especially when you go around telling folks to “do as I say, not what I do”. Especially from Hawaii, while you’re supposed to “lock down”.
    Somethings gotta give and soon. As for real estate…pffft. Just got my assessment. Like traveling in time.

    1. Property Assessment. -10%
      Yea…we just got ours too. Nenxi (Mayor), devaluing damned near every property under their umbrella. However Im pretty damned sure the mill rate will jump big time to make up for it.

      I have been seriously thinking of cancelling TIPPS and when the time comes Pay what I think is fair.

      Now if everyone did that…????

    2. The longer a forced shutdown of the economy continues the closer we get to economic Armageddon. There are very few people with adequate intellect in this country to stave off what ultimately will be the destruction of everything by idiots. It should make me cry but all it does is piss me off. All in charge in this country are idiots and to date no one has proven me wrong. Everything that is wrong has been made that way by governments. When the fuck will we wake up. Police harassing people for no masks need to be kicked in the ass. All those terrified of the flu need to die. This is a terrible circumstance for anyone who actually has a functioning brain.

  11. What a stark difference – Trump promised what he would do, giving specifics, and did many of them.
    Biden ran on a platform of……..??????
    (Did he even know? The rest of us sure didn’t!)
    And now he is doing things that were never mentioned during the campaign (guys given access to women’s sports and locker rooms, etc.)
    That is the difference between a real conservative (as opposed to the CPC variety) and a liberal; one campaigns on facts and plans, and the other campaigns on image and hatred/false fear of the opposition.
    See also Canada….

  12. But I just FEEL so much better about saving Mother Gaia now. People’s livelihoods? Screw that. That single native American mother? pffft. learn to code, b1tch.

  13. Yes, the provincial civil servants in Edmonton are clueless. I was signed up for an Alberta Fish and Game webinar on the fishing regulation changes. It was lead by what looked like Sarah (Jaba the Hut) Hoffman’s little sister. She started the session with some ode to Treaty Six BS. I immediately left the sham webinar and gave them a thumbs down
    review.
    It is the civil service that is causing the problem with government and how things are run. Politicians are just an extension of the unelected and unaccountable.

    1. It isn’t just the provincial civil servants who are clueless. One Edmonton silly councillor has proposed that a piece of the city be carved off for an urban reserve. That’ll be in keeping with giving all of our wards Indian names.

      And this is a city whose mayor demanded that the professional football team change its name from a native reference…..

  14. The alternative was a mentally ill fascist and criminal. For truly intelligent people such as myself, there was no real choice about it. This is your fault and the fact that you seem to be going through zero introspection about your choices is in keeping with those choices being consistently terrible and remaining so going forward.

    1. “mentally ill fascist and criminal” you realize I’m talking about Bribe-him. We ALL know who the REAL President is.

  15. The capitalists*, even socialist capitalists, your basic fascists, will lend to they governments until the can’t. They basically count, which thinking is right to a far point, that government will tax and tax until the loans are paid. They will loan government money to pay for the first loan.
    Eventually though things will and they will come to a crashing halt.
    There are examples a plenty.
    Remember the German inflation when you had to have a barrel of money to buy a loaf of bread in the morning and two barrels if you came in the evening?
    Remember when New Zealand run out other peoples money?
    Remember the economic miracle of Venezuela?

    Yes, it will come to an end, never fear though, the politicians have always taken care of themselves so they will be ok.

    * Bankers are capitalists, they got the capital, those that run industries are free enterprise, they borrow from capitalists, its the socialists/fascists that insist on newspeak rewrite.

    1. What makes you think there is gonna be money, as real money?
      Ain’t gonna happen. Will be credits or something in that fashion.

      The Can$, will be about 5 cents by the end of this year, or none existent.

      Bad boy? I mean you!
      No access to your credits. Gold, silver, nothing.
      Goods. everything.

  16. The wealthy leftist “artists” living in Taos and Santa Fe don’t give a shit. Their Trust Funds are mostly immune.

    1. Kenji, even a Trust Fund can be inflated out of existence. That seems to be part of the problem, people think that what they have can’t possibly be taken from them. Everything can be taken from anybody and everybody, that includes Bill gates, Beezos and all the current crop of zillionares. Biden will die and everything he has will be gone. Nobody gets to keep anything.

  17. The bought and paid for media reports that Pervert Joe will be announcing imperial edicts tomorrow, regarding his global warming scams. This includes banning fossil fuel exploration on federal lands. MAKE MIDDLE EASTERN OIL GREAT AGAIN!

  18. The oil and gas producing provinces and States should set up an organization similar to OPEC and agree to very significantly cut back (if not completely stop) production and shipment of product to the rest of the country. Do so when the weather conditions indicate that the dreaded “polar vortex” will cause the most damage. The imbeciles who have lost touch with reality and don’t seem to understand the society which they think magically functions actually requires that energy. Same with food production. They need a wake up call of biblical proportions.

    1. You mean play by the same rules the eco Marxists play by? Do it.

      As a related aside … N.CA is scheduled to receive several days of heavy rain and anywhere from 7-12 FEET! of snow in the Sierra. Last week, it was 70 deg.F and sunny. Last week it was an apocalyptic “drought” strangling N. CA according to the weather (global warmist) girls. This week … it is an “atmospheric river” of Biblical proportions (evidently, the Satanic bible). Floods! Landslides! Levees will break! “EXTREME weather” (caused by global warming, and your refusal to drive a Tesla).

      The snowflake HYSTERIA over … repeat after me … NORMAL … weather patterns suggests a shocking lack of knowledge about our planet. Or … generations of dumbed-down brainwashing of our populace by the public school system. Hint: weather records have been continually and routinely broken ever since reliable records have been kept. Breaking a record is interesting … but it is NOT the end of the world as we know it.

      And the *gag* “drought” we were having last week … will be erased in two days … and is likely to turn into a monsoon rainy season by the end of April

  19. So far I have seen zero evidence that the USA Presidential Election was Free,Fair or Secret.
    many have baselessly assured us that “No fraud Occurred” yet none ,so far have allowed independent persons to access the “proof” which they must keep for 2 years..
    So to say the majority of New Mexico voted for Joe,is not certain.

    Funny thing that the belief in the ballot box is vital to the functioning of the republic,yet that demonstration of election integrity,has so far been refused..
    Almost as if the current “Ruling Party” wants the citizens to doubt their honesty.

    Which is mighty easy.

  20. The simple answer to what is the Cure to the stupidity is …………………….

    A high speed jacketed projectile composed of several base metals to the back of the head.

  21. Biden like just about all Liberal democrats is in the Pockets of the Deep ecologists the back to nature freaks the Tree Huggers/Granola Bar Munchers the Eco-Freaks

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