05.12.11

Goldbug/fiat money kooks

Posted in Extremism, Fiat money fear and loathers at 12:17 pm by George Smith

I’m almost tempted to start a new tab to supplant “ricin kooks” and the Cult of EMP Crazy covered in “crazy weapons.”

And name it either “Goldbugs” or “Fiat Money Kooks.” They certainly share some characteristics with the Cult of EMP Crazy.

They’re all from the GOP, they’re all white and they’re fearful of imminent catastrophe always defined in subtext as the unjust end of white god-fearing American-led civilization.

So now whenever something with “fiat money” or “Weimar” ends up in the text and anchored somewhere in Google, it attracts those who’d never read this blog. Just like those who occasionally drift in to post comments in the old Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy threads.

From yesterday, worth bringing up to the top of the page for a few moments:

Guess what the US Dollar, the ZIM Dollar, and Weimar marks have in common? Everything!

Oh, wait. Unlike Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany, the USA has a balanced budget, no debt, and responsible politicians who don’t spend more for entitlement programs than we net in taxes!

Never mind, our FIAT DOLLAR is safe.

I don’t care if someone wants to open the mouth and remove all doubt as to being the fool.

However, I do have one question.

Are there any women — at all — who are goldbug/fiat money kooks?

Being the spouse of one doesn’t count.

And that’s because I’m thinking this is embedded on the genetic material for maleness but recessive, so it doesn’t show up in all us white guys.

Plus it’s linked to other strong traits — like wearing of baseball caps indoors, predilection to quotation of meaningless scripture, ownership of certain small businesses associated with ammo, petrochemicals, hardware, sales of fertilizer, pest eradication and control, and so on. I haven’t been able to nail the entire list yet.

That requires more research.

Krugman does most of it. He has empirically determined data and charts mean nothing to them.

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