Seriously, craziness happened.  Gay marriage is now legal in Maine.  Nice, now I can marry my gay lover.  Aaaaand, smoking + selling weed for recreational use is legal in Colorado and Washington...aaaand fucking Obama is president so we get to see our economy implode as the libertarian party grows.  Nice.  Oh, and the apocalypse is coming.  Put on your fucking helmets.

... Hey, at least you have your gay lover to rock you to sleep as this all happens

A helmet is not going to save us.

Lots of ammo might help but I doubt it.

Obama hates medical marijuana, let alone recreational marijunana going by the raids he's staged in California. He gives lip service to gays about marriage but has doen really nothing other than bounce DADT.

With regards to the Apocalypse, when it comes, I offer a facefuck to anyone who wants one. Danzig, you interested?

Not interested in that, but wouldn't mind sharing a foxhole with you.
That old adage "there are no atheists in foxholes" is a fools lament designed to promote religion.
It has no validity.

Just how gaping is this hole we will be in together? Was it made by meth?

It will be a catbox, take it or leave it.

Doesn't make a bit of difference who runs the show.  US is a post-peak empire and the cracks are showing.  The only question is whether we have a slow decline or run into a brick wall.

On the plus side, Foreign Affairs and other serious news sources that cater to the elite class have been increasingly covering the topics of American decline.  That bodes well for the possibility of a slow decline. 

I'm almost happy I'm about half-done with my expected lifetime at this rate ...

The bomb Iran rhetoric gets louder by tne day, while President "there are no homosexuals in Iran" goes on at length how crippling tbe US debt is. Why does he understand it as obvious but our own President does not?

Doesn't make a bit of difference who runs the show.  US is a post-peak empire and the cracks are showing.  The only question is whether we have a slow decline or run into a brick wall.

On the plus side, Foreign Affairs and other serious news sources that cater to the elite class have been increasingly covering the topics of American decline.  That bodes well for the possibility of a slow decline.

Is that what we want, or is the brick wall really the best option.

Brick wall is better for apocalyptic fantasies.

Slow decline is better for humans generally.

Each of our individual odds to live out our lives are better in the latter case.

Dylan and some burned out speed freak holding each other as the world ends. Definitely better than the last 5 minute of Melancholia...

I'm waiting on speculators to keep buying up futures in every commodity item and holding on to them until not even the median income bracket in first-world economic countries can afford to buy a loaf of bread or a drop of gasoline. As a result of the incredibly cryptic language of the financial sector and the deregulation of post-1929 trading restrictions, I'm convinced that Wall Street will be the cheerleaders of any coming apocalypse.

The problem for them is that they only own things on paper rather than actually taking possession.  Abstractions on top of abstraction on top of abstractions.

If the abstraction system crumbles, then their ability to control commodities disappears.

an abstraction, yes. But speculators in futures trading are manipulating the prices on commodities but not the commodities themselves. So when regular lay people think that something like a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico crippled drilling and thus drove up the prices on gas, they are absolutely wrong. Production and consumption is not the sole determiner for commodity pricing these days. Speculation is.

Certainly.

But the abstractions only work while the system is stable.  If the system becomes unstable, then possession of commodities on paper are meaningless.  Anyone vested in the financial system cheering for an apocalypse is crazy - or just doesn't understand the difference between economics (bullshit) and how a system actually functions.