So on the plane home I read The Captive Mind about mid-century Poland at @anneapplebaum.bsky.social request. So upon landing I needed to talk with @jvl.bsky.social about worst case outcomes, the end of the American age, & other dark stuff. Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... - ThreadSky

timmiller.bsky.social • 1 day ago

So on the plane home I read The Captive Mind about mid-century Poland at @anneapplebaum.bsky.social request.

So upon landing I needed to talk with @jvl.bsky.social about worst case outcomes, the end of the American age, & other dark stuff. Enjoy!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-age-of-america-is-over/id1794450472?i=1000702335478

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keysforward.bsky.social•1 day ago

Best place to boogie????

paddler50.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tim, time to stop calling what is happening to the American people as tariffs. When people hear that word they hear trump saying that other countries pay. It's what he drilled into the public's mind.

But it's really import taxes and needs to be called that. The more people hear taxes the better.

thegrinsch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes it is....when will the Dems take advantage of the times and provide us their vision, an alternative to this chaos and something for us to get behind with. This is not going back to the way it was......

rvr2mtn.bsky.social•1 day ago

You guys need to throw me a bone of hope here.

jay--z.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reading this now

jay--z.bsky.social•1 day ago

I read this too, after election! Dude there's so much we can learn from the polish experience.

A bunch of movies are great too. Dm me

hellsvel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tim, what you said about the... Lack of fully comprehending what all this global trade stuff really means. There are economic everywhere BUT the one place the administration was supposed to make it. There's no course correction for this, the *second* the word recession floated around the newsroom,

hellsvel.bsky.social•1 day ago

2/ someone should have twisted the Thugs arm into backing down. But hes surrounded by yes men and crooks. So he got to double down. And now we will rewrite *every* single econ 101 classic to highlight the sheer ineptitude and lack of character that led us here.

sethstearns.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It was a great (though depressing) podcast.

ellenzp.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a great book with such insight particularly into the mind of opportunists. Btw, the song you shared by Arcade fire, Empire is the anthem of our time . I do believe it's the end of American hegemony.

southernoregonian.bsky.social•1 day ago

I keep seeing parallels to the US and The Master and Margarita (yikes)

thespecialk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mark Carney is no fool; his CV is a veritable slate of education, leadership and economic genius. He is the real deal; no buffoonery and snake oil here.

southofamerica.bsky.social•1 day ago

YouTube version https://youtu.be/HDYh0odyQwA?si=0kaVFjCLpY4765yr

azbutch.bsky.social•1 day ago

If one has the stomach for it, a terribly relevant book for the times we live in is "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland". It highlights there were people who, given a free pass to walk away from participating in the holocaust, chose to participate anyway.

txcanishley.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Absolutely right. It’s one of the most horrifying but important books I’ve ever read.

anthony-p.bsky.social•1 day ago

😱 you still fly in the US?

bryanparaham.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great podcast. Truly captured what I believe some ppl know but don't wanna admit. Most still think this is about eggs and immigrants. They're in for a rude awakening.

rmtownsend.bsky.social•1 day ago

Excellent book.

sarahdissents.bsky.social•1 day ago

“At the death of every darkness there’s a morning.” Sometimes you gotta fight through the dark to get to the light.

mabel-max.bsky.social•1 day ago

😥😥

non-trumpie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you! I have been feeling and thinking the same thing. There are NO guardrails, just impunity & enablers in the highest offices. I’m scared it’s going to be extremely difficult to reverse this course. And the way everyone else arounds me shrugs it off or thinks this will get corrected in 2026..

non-trumpie.bsky.social•1 day ago

drives me insane!! I feel neurotic watching this shit and knowing my son and future generations will have to live with this fucking mess MY generation ushered in. I think this must be how some of the population felt in Nazi Germany as it was unfolding. I can’t believe what the fuck is happening….

non-trumpie.bsky.social•1 day ago

and what seems like a lack of urgency and an attitude that this will self correct.
I try to be hopeful.
My gut leads me to the dystopian conclusion.

desertjason.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tim, this was a pretty good discussion with Danny Moses, Porter Collins, & Vincent Daniel from the Big Short fame. I'm sorry that I forgot where it is, but Moses made a great point about "what will Trump do?" if the ratings agencies even hint at cutting the US credit rating

https://youtu.be/gU_JfsnNGFc?si=BGXrf8uvRbp6WU8j

wolfjosh.bsky.social•1 day ago

This was a great episode. So great that I can't breathe out of sheer terror. Many thanks. 😉

portalsfrom.earth•1 day ago

pseudoacacia.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Read a book called The Yellow Wind by David Grossman

lyngerry.bsky.social•1 day ago

And I'm sick of the right wing free market crap. We need a modern social democracy. GOP greed is what has destroyed this country. I'm sick of the "richest country" crap - we're the country with the most billionaires while rest of us get fucked. Go left, be happy. Denmark or bust!

lyngerry.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only way to have a future is to disunite the United States - we have two different populations with irreconcilable differences. I'm sick of their bullshit. Their greed, their narcissism, their bigotry, their "earth 2" is ruining our lives and we need to be quit of them

jackjackagate.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why all the grinning like fools? Are we happy about this?

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