Skip to main content

A year in review:

2025 has been a strange one.   

Our family is stronger than ever, our four kids are doing great and everyone is healthy.   The farm is doing great, and our businesses are doing very well.   Sure we have seen declining demand for our products, but since demand far exceeded supply it really has not hit the bottom line, the only change now is that we have enough stock to meet demand.  It doesn't say anything good about the UK economy, but we are ok for now.

Politically, the UK has been an unmitigated disaster, with an incompetent government and an idiot as prime minister.   Granted Brexit is finally starting to hurt, mainly because the EU is hurting and the first to suffer are the outsiders (AKA us…).  However, the incompetence of the government is breathtaking, and the blame must be squarely set at the 10 Downing Street.

If someone had told me that America could decline as fast as it did over the past year, I would have called you a liar.   It is hard to believe how quickly that country's democratic institutions have been destroyed.  I have the sneaking suspicion that by the time the current incumbent leaves office that the whole thing will be a dictatorship.   As tourists, the place is already not very welcoming.   I too heard the "stories". The problem is that I experienced them too…

Two years ago, I thought that China was the only country falling apart, turns out I was wrong.   America too!  The proof of the decline of China is easier and easier to see every day, and the economy slowly falls apart under the mountain of debt, overinflated assets, and no way forward.  America is trying to do the same thing, with a massive increase in debt and unwillingness to pay for the services it wants.   

The latest move by the Americans to start a war with Venezuela is sad and pathetic.   Starting a war over nothing with a failed state shows the weakness of the American system.  The only thing they have achieved are war crimes after sinking motor boats loaded (maybe) with drugs on their way to Europe…not exactly a massive win.  

I cannot believe how disappointed I am in the world right now.  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The end of Tesla?

 it takes a special kind of idiot, to think that he can antagonize his entire customer base, and think that it will not impact his business. When Elon Musk went to work for Donald Trump, and created the doge department, he antagonized every liberal, and these people represent 90% of his client base.That’s not a brilliant move. Now Elon Musk is worth hundreds of billions of dollar, so he shouldn’t care a great deal, however, he needs to care because of several other issues. The cyber truck has been a disaster, most have had to be recalled because of defective glue, it’s not a truck, it’s not a car, it’s noisy, relatively uncomfortable, but great as a development platform. What Tesla has learned in making car manufacturing more seamless is truly amazing. The problem was that Elon Musk was so pissed with the Democrats, and with Joe Biden, in particular because of some slight, which were just plain stupid too. By the way, that he decided to support with hundreds of millions of dollar, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Donald Trump‘s bad bargain

 The entire of 2023 and 2024 when Donald Trump was running for the White House, his mantra was no war, that the Ukraine conflict would be resolved in a day, and that he would do everything not to involve America and war. How the world has changed! He finds himself facing three conflicts; Ukraine, still going on almost 5 months after he became president. Gaza, an unspeakable crime against humanity, is obviously going to go all the way to its bitter end. And finally, Israel’s attack against Iran. It’s important to note, that Benjamin Netanyahu first indicated at the United nation that the Iranian were 3 to 5 years away from having the nuclear bomb. He made that statement in 1995. Therefore, no one is surprised that he uses the same two lines every so often. It’s entirely possible, that 30 years after he first announced it, that Iran has finally developed the bomb. It’s also remarkable that Iran, local power has been destroyed, from Yemen, to Syria, via Lebanon and Gaza to small exten...
Post a Comment
Read more

TACO again, but worst!

 Donald Trump got the rare earth metals that he had thrown away on April 2, liberation day as he called it. What did the Chinese get in exchange? The whole deal, is on the wrap right now. But let’s be clear. It’s the Chinese that have the upper hand.Some of the materials made by the Chinese, are simply unavailable anywhere else. suspicions are that the Chinese got the high-end chips that they lost under Biden. Tariffs will probably return to the level of April 1, and in the end Donald and his friends got nothing for it. It gets worse, Chinese exports to United States are down 40%. The Chinese have found new markets, I probably never gonna buy American grain again. Once again, Donald Trump proved he’s a great negotiator. He got absolutely nothing for his Showmanship. He told the world, that everyone would come and kiss his ass, instead they’re laughing At him. There’s no joke about Donald Trump, a 25 and inherited a huge fortune and proceeded to make it a small one. Bottom line, the...
Post a Comment
Read more