Test… Test… this thing on?
Hey there folks, Pug here. I used to have this thing called excess time that enabled me to do things like write a casual smut blog, stay in peak shape to box competitively, and sleep for 36 hours straight to recover from coke benders. But then my life changed. Twice.
Not only have I not had the time to write in the last 4 years because I suddenly have two kids (and no cocaine), I haven’t done anything interesting enough or had enough interaction with actual human beings to provide the inspiration to get on my soapbox and pontificate my world views to the masses. (I know, there’s only three of you here.) That is, until this beautiful grey eyed specimen walked through my crosshairs with the most blood boiling phrase I’ve ever heard. Meet my new friend, Kyla Scanlon, owner of the brilliant brain that coined the phrase vibecession.
When a story promoting the release of her new book, In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work, scrolled through my Bloomberg terminal, the only reason I even noticed it was the double take I had to do when I confused her now beloved meme phrase with one of my most frequent google searches.
Vibe Session
My blood started boiling as I read the rational behind the phrase, which is that all of our government provided and adjusted economic indicators are saying the economy is good, but the people living in reality struggling to stay afloat say the economy is bad. She declared that the ignorant populace are getting the wrong vibes somehow and began writing buzzwords with arrows pointing in circles on a whiteboard to project intelligence as she embarked on a retarded quest to prove them all wrong.
If you have time and a barf bag, I suggest you try to make it through this 13 minute interview on CNBC in which Kyla repeatedly answers the host’s softball questions by hammering home that the shitty economy is shitty, how obviously terrible prospects are for Gen-Z to ever achieve financial security, everything is less affordable than it was three years ago and that everyone is actually too stupid to know that all of this is good for them.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/06/17/the-woman-behind-the-vibesession.html
Here, let me provide a REAL idea of why you feel like everything sucks…. BECAUSE IT DOES! The government cannot make us take our medicine by moving to sound economic policies because every time someone tries they’re voted out of office because, NEWSFLASH, it’s hard! So their only hope is to pretend they’re not causing the inflation intentionally in order to hyperinflate their way out of debt and cancel our currency! And when that doesn’t work, they’re just going to start World War III and get rid of at least 1/3 of us (already started, but just like the recession that we’re currently in we’re not allowed to call it that yet.)
Holy shit am I fucking mad, but I need to share some words of advice. First, if you’re taking financial advice from a 26 year old former car saleswoman turned influencer, you’re beyond my help so I won’t provide you with any advice. Please escort yourself out of this safe space and stop reading. Ok, now that the mongoloids have left the room, here is an entirely anecdotally derived warning to all of you for the weeks and months ahead. Something big is lurking out there, black swans wouldn’t be black swans if we could see them ahead of time, and I feel that it’s about to get ugly. I can’t elaborate much further because my kids just smashed something in the other room and I’m sorry my whiteboard doesn’t have the good vibes Kyla’s does.
So who are you going to believe, Kyla or your lyin’ eyes?
-back from the dead Pug
P.s. Take a look at the newly shared with me chapwood index, it’ll clue you in a bit better as to why you have vibes we’re in a recession. Just don’t tell Kyla.
P.p.s (edit) one of my esteemed readers commented:
“I read a Pug blog and there were no tits…yawn” -BH the Mexican banger
Apologies, my brethren. Here I am on my high horse, yammering on and on about being a man of the people unlike my new friend Kyla and I don’t even have the decency to give the intelligent public what they want. So, since my new friend is sort of a poor woman’s version of Megan fox, here a a few for you
White Trash Day Dreams 