Global Black Friday

It's a green light sale and everyone is rushing the mall for deals. With Trump promising to "drill baby drill" we can expect the good times to start really rolling. Lowered taxes and de-regulation of everything means it's time to pop the corks and start the party! This was supposed to be the decade of change, the final chance to cut emissions and slow global warming. Forget that noise. It is now an all out race to the cliff with the American consumer leading the charge. You can't blame those on the global development periphery from wanting more energy/goods. They've been screwed since colonial and now neocolonial forever. But don't expect the global "middle class" to cut back in any way just to stay within some kind of "carbon budget". Ain't gonna happen. They're gonna be first in line at the "door bustin" grab fest. As for the rich, those we are now calling "elites", they will have to invent new luxuries just to be able to unload their income fast enough. Remember how "Occupy Wall Street" was a supposed wake-up call around inequality? Yet another sad joke. The combined personal wealth of Trump's cabinet picks is over 13 billion. And don't expect them to pay taxes. The Donald himself is worth 6.4 bil and then we add in his friends and advisors from Silicon Valley; Musk, Thiel, Andreeson and the rest. The new revolutionaries. Trump's voters were tired of being pushed around by "elites" and so they "voted for change". Plus, "they are eating the cats, they're eating the dogs." At the end of the day, all that is left is the Chesire cat's smile and a parched landscape. But it was sure fun while it lasted!