You can keep putting rubber bands on a watermelon for a long time before it explodes. But then it explodes, this is known. So it is with the imperial economy, now strung taut with Palestine at the center of it, about to blow.

The White Empire hasn’t learned anything from all its crashes before, hence the big one, inshallah. As John Tuld (not a real person) said, “1637, [1720], 1797, 1819, ‘37, ‘57,‘84, 1901, ‘07, 1929, ‘37, ‘73, 1987, 92, 97, 2000, and whatever we want to call this [2008]. It’s all just the same thing, over and over. We just can’t help ourselves.” Of course, they do help themselves, and the crashes fall on someone else. They’ve gotten away with it so many times before. What’s one more?

The first (not the first) rubber band they strapped on the globe was 2008, when the US economy actually crashed, but they bailed out the banks to literally paper things over. This was a band-aid on a bullet wound, but the zombie economy lumbered on, eating brains with Grey Poupon.

Then next rubber band was COVID-19, a mass-death, mass-disabling event that’s been memory-holed, but which still kills people and still exerts pressure across households. But let’s ignore that, like Pharoah ignored plagues before.

Then they strapped a band across Asia, dividing the racist concept ‘Europe’ from the continent it’s actually on. The Ukraine War literally blew up Germany’s economy and increased energy and fertilizer pressure everywhere, while making bands for the corrupt military-industrial complex. And that’s just there now, a pressure point everyone forgot about because of more piled on top.

Then we had the (accelerated) genocide of Gaza leading to the closing of the Red Sea, then the aggression against Iran leading to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. The former stopped but the latter continues, drawing a band across the Middle East that may just be the one that make the watermelon explode.

Look across the globe and it’s covered with rubber bands, each asserting a pressure that only builds up. There’s one band going through Ukraine, one through the Gulf. There’s hundreds of little bands called tariffs, criss-crossing every country on Earth. Trump even tried to go BAND4BAND with China before withdrawing into a stalemate that’s only good in that it could be worse. This is all pressure, and it all adds up.

The pressure is building and building and building and markets are not pricing this in, they’re colluding against reality to make a fast buck in the virtual world. Speaking of, the decadent West has tried to cover up the death of its real economy in 2008 with various artificial scams, first crypto, then VR, before AI finally stuck. Now their whole economy depends on a multi-level marketing scheme, NVIDIA selling chips to Microsoft which rents them to OpenAI which sells compute to Microsoft with funding from NVIDIA. Does this make sense? No. But it makes dollars, so the scam goes on. But for how long?

What’s at the bottom of this multi-level marketing scheme? Energy. All of these data centers delivering nil or negative productivity use hideous amounts of energy, and where does that come from? Oh, Hormuz, which is banned to the Empire now. It doesn’t matter if ‘America’ has its own energy supplies, its oil companies are ‘American’ in name only and will sell to the highest buyer. And when energy prices rise, inflating the energy at the bottom of the AI bubble, what happens to the artificial pyramid they built on top? What happens to all the fake-ass pharoahs, building castles in the cloud? They’ll be entombed with their billions in bunkers while everything around them turns to dust.

You can only string so many bands across world trade before world trade blows up. You can only string so many bands across global energy before the real economy seizes up. And you can only inflate an artificial bubble atop all of this before the whole thing acts like watermelon bubble gum and goes pop.