The Ballad of Fed the Fred by Froggy Bottom

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

*Sorry. I know, I know, student loan post, but today is “not even time for post.” It’s been weird, and it’s been real, and it’s been real weird…. Anyway, I’m doing Winter Prince chapters, so this came across my feed, and I’m posting with permission. Froggy would ike us to know this was written on the fly and boy was the fly mad about it – SAH*

The Ballad of Fed the Fred by Froggy Bottom

Ear pieces, polo shirts,
Twill drive a man to drink!

Agitators, co conspirators,
Whence they came a mystery.
Oh for the love of Adams,
I wish we’d been taught some history!

Now, again, here they come
Trolling on the boards.
Isn’t it time, so they say,
They “get what’s coming for!”

Agitation, constipation,
Freddy is a’frustrate.
No matter what he says
We just don’t cooperate.

IP masking, user blasting,
But he knows no other way
To get us, street dancing,
Rioting all the way.

Poor Freddy, simple Freddy,
What a thankless task he’s given.
To manufacture, a public enemy
But we just won’t be a-driven

Too late, the Freddy finds
He is not alone.
Other names, loudest voices
Are close to him than home.

Pity Freddy, the simple Feddy,
In no group of malcontents.
Silly Freddy, all those around you
Are fellow agitants.

Wave at Freddy, confused Feddy
For we are over here.
Living lives, and getting by
While he’s consumed by fear.

112 thoughts on “The Ballad of Fed the Fred by Froggy Bottom”

    3. With a little judicious jiggering, the lyrics can be made to fit “Comin’ through the Rye” — which is kind of a bar song, since you have to grow the grain to make the drink.
      And all of Burns’ songs are probably sung by the Only True Scotsmen in pubs.
      Plus war chants.

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        1. My statement was only a warning, not a call to arms. The way to fight back is to establish islands of sanity. How you do that is simple, take care of your friends and neighbors. That is it, just take care of your friends and neighbors, and they lose. In the end they always lose.

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            1. Hopefully this will be the same as the ‘lose at least one city (to a nuke)’ has been.. so far. Hopefully.

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              1. Much as I hope and pray that doesn’t happen, I have no doubt that the memes will be GLORIOUS. And a lot of them will probably be referencing the Star Wars prequels.

                “I am the United States.”
                “Not. Yet.”

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          2. OG, it only takes one side to start a war. The other side just has to appear vulnerable. And frankly, given what they’ve done to the military, they may not have the capability for adventures abroad.

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      1. Some recent news that the named ChiCom firm is now in “grace period” prior to “Don’t call it Default!”.

        They are a big domino.

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      2. They’re broke. They stopped even reporting youth unemployment and the most data don’t even make sense. It’s like they’re not even trying anymore.

        Country Garden is much bigger than ever grande was and it had been considered healthy

        The real kicker is that all those “reserves” they have are tied up in illiquid, at best, bail out projects

        First slowly then all at once. Nothing they do is working. They can’t even defend the value of the yuan. That’s the canary. If it brakes then it’s all broken

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        1. The China channels on YouTube have basically been screaming that China’s screwed. And it’s not the usual prognosticators issuing dire predictions. I’m referring to the more “these are the current events in China” sorts of channels, like China Insights, where they talk about current stuff.

          The banks are broke. Real Estate – which was basically the domestic industry – is collapsing. Young Adult unemployment is through the roof. Foreign companies are fleeing. Shsnghai’s most important docks have days with zero ships docked. There’s a military purge in progress (apparently triggered when the son of the head of the Rocket Force – those are the guys who control China’s nukes – leaked classified info in the US).

          And the floods are really bad this year.

          There are also predictions that China’s headed for a massive food shortfall this year (aka “a famine”).

          Yeah. It’s really bad.

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          1. So, will Biden reach out in compassion to our Chinese brothers and sisters by shipping them most of our harvest, a la Cercescu?

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            1. Actually asking? Or making a statement via question? Because the answer is “Duh!”

              Instead of “eat everything on your plate because children are starving in China” it will be “we must tighten our belts to share with those starving in China”. Yes, they are that F* Stupid.

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                1. Talking about the Stupidity Of Lefties, I saw one about the Stupidity of California Lefties.

                  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/california_has_another_planetsaving_idea.html

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                  Luckily, California is known for its innovators, and they’ve come up with a creative solution to their electricity shortage. Just mandate that all the new E.V.s incorporate bidirectional charging — as Senate Bill 233 proposes. This means that when the cars aren’t being driven, their batteries can either be recharged from the grid or discharged into the grid. Therefore, the stored energy in millions of parked electric cars can be used to meet the state’s electricity shortfall during times of peak demand. When my car is plugged in at night, it can be used to charge my neighbor’s car. After his car is fully charged, it can be used to charge my car. It’s genius!

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                  IE California is trying to invent perpetual motion machines. :lol:

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                2. The business in Hawaii is gonna add to it. Rumor mill is running full blast on Twitter: people just assuming “the billionaires,” had the fires set to drive the natives away so speculators could buy the land for pennies on the dollar. The fact the media is being kept out adds to the paranoia. And, of course, the contrast between another aid package for Ukraine while Hawaiians get a one-time $700 payment is grinding some gears.

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                    2. Elite payback because most the land is still in native Hawaii ownership. At least that is the perception of those on Maui responding.

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                    1. But of course! Bureaucratic turf wars are FAR more important than some trifling natural disaster. Catastrophes come and go, but any ground lost to interdepartmental squabbles is gone forever.

                      The Iron Law is their First Commandment.

                      And the rest don’t count.
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                      No matter how much it sucks, you can’t fire the government.

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                  3. Speaking of buying real estate for pennies on the dollar. This was in the WSJ yesterday. https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-is-ready-to-scoop-up-commercial-real-estateon-the-cheap-6edac64f?st=5kwpodr37ad8qpq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

                    It will be interesting to see if cities such as San Francisco and Portland change their insane governance once their real estate is ‘rescued’. If they do, then we know the last few years of soft on crime and letting homeless run rampant were fronts for the Democrats to pay off the people that matter. If they don’t, the second crash in city real estate is going to be epic.

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                    1. The big question is that now they’ve acquired a failed mall/apartment building/office space for cheap. How are they going to make them viable? I suspect that a lot of the vacant commercial space is that way because there isn’t currently a market for it, and owning the shell for less money doesn’t mean that it’s magically going to be viable.

                      Flyover Falls had a shitload of businesses fail since the Spotted Owl Econazis managed to clobber the logging/lumber mill/wood products businesses that were the core of the area economy. The follow on effects meant that various businesses that relied on a strong economy (the furniture store that targeted newlyweds died horribly in the early Aughts, along with various other market segments.)

                      There was a lot of intermediate thrashing. Beauty parlors and tanning salons sprouted like mad, and most of them failed. When several new car dealerships closed (cough Cadillac/Pontiac/Chevrolet cough), used car dealerships also sprouted like mad, and most of them failed.

                      The local economy now seems to be striving to recalibrate. We’ve had a lot of refugees from the loonier segments of California, Washington, and even western Oregon. A nontrivial number of these are retirees, and there’s a steady market for such. The role that F-Falls has in supporting the agricultural industries (more than hay and cattle) seems to be growing, though it’s disconcerting to realize just how much is going into illegal marijuana grow operations.

                      There’s been repurposing of real estate. One closed auto dealership (IIRC, it sold GM stuff) ended up in a mix of the medical complex and county welfare/public health stuff. A K-mart went to the larger of the two local farm and ranch stores. The smaller one took over a grocery store that moved to a better location, while the failed furniture store was repurposed to a boat/outdoor toy dealership that eventually closed, and was re-repurposed to another furniture store, this time aiming at a slightly richer demographic than the original. (See retirees.) OTOH, that evolution took 15 years.

                      It’s still not a stable situation. Not sure it ever will be.

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                    2. What I found interesting accompanying the article that the article didn’t mention was the video on what it takes to turn an office building into living spaces. Which is one way to deal with the housing and homeless crunch in certain areas. Not sure the high tech working homeless want to be living off the streets with the mentally unstable and the drugged out homeless even though they have to live with them on the streets. Although at one time there was rumor about high tech firms like Google building/repurposing on Google campus facilities into apartments for their own high tech working homeless.

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                    4. Given enough incentives regulations can be changed. Look at what happened in the old garment and warehouse districts into ritzy condo lofts, even downstairs street units.

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                    5. I think the smaller cities (Flyover Falls as an example; 20K residents) are more willing to tweak city regulations when their* backs are against the wall. I’ve dealt with the building department (approvals and/or inspectors), and the experience is worlds better than my next-door neighbor reported in San Jose. When I was applying for a permit for $PROJECT, they threw up a flag and said I needed engineering buyoff. I had a canned design, but went to Ye Locale Engineering Companye, spent a couple hundred, and they vastly improved the design. Approved then, and modulo the inspector who freaked out over driving on snow-covered gravel (less than an inch), zero problems.

                      (The inspector in San Jose insisted that the 1936-vintage bonus room was an illegal addition. That took weeks and searching through lots of old permits to get the pictures. I did my remodeling without benefit of permits; I’m good as an electrician, OK as a carpenter, and horrible at plumbing. OTOH, I can get it to stop leaking, eventually. :) Up here, I paid somebody to do plumbing. Less nerve wracking.

                      (*) Both the client and TPTB. When a lot of tax base went poof, the locals got creative. Eventually.

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                3. Too many of them believe too much of their own propaganda, and have also been insulated from reality.

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                4. They still think everyone thinks like they do. To them it is not a dream, but an insanity, Since I think this is what everyone should believe, that is what everyone believes, or at least the majority. So, they are blinded by their own lies.
                  Personally, I pity them.

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                    1. Or that if they prevent us from talking, we’ll snap and start a war they’re convinced they will WIN.

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            2. I don’t think they’re ready to try something that audacious yet.

              And assuming that the Feds did seize it, then what? They have no way to harvest it. No way to safely store it. No process in place yet to inventory what’s on hand and how they’re going to get it to the ports.

              Also, even if they did somehow pull all of it off, and Beijing somehow got all of the food to the affected areas (not likely, mind you…) it would only be like stopping one of many wounds. It wouldn’t touch any of the other items that I listed.

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              1. They might. The Bidens were paid lots of money.
                BUT more importantly, as BGE once said “When the water goes out you know who’s swimming naked.”
                In this case we’re about to find out how many and where were paid by China, actively and continuously.
                I expect to see several universities implode, for one.

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                3. The NBA would be one of the biggest collapses on this side of the ocean. If you look at the viewership numbers, after Jordan retired, they are now about a half of what they were then. The meaningless football game between the Jets and whomever a week ago drew more viewers than the average NBA play off game. When real viewership numbers start hitting the street, a lot of stuff is going to blow up.

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                4. Full disclosure, I got that from Warren Buffet.

                  Things got worse overnight with a major investment firm refusing to pay out. “Short term liquidity has dried up” .

                  Things are bad, very bad. Don’t think this will be isolated to China either. It’s too big and too central to too many things for it to stumble without significant knock on effects.

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                    1. Boomers and your generation have the advantage of being exposed to Soviet/Chinese/communist propaganda when more of thr media pointed out the lies. Real and alleged pundits who accept what they’re told and simply regurgitate it are…frustrating.

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                    3. They’re usually well paid to. All the big US banks have Chinese growth at the CCP target of 5% +/- a bit. That’s the price they pay for doing business with the CCP. What they tell themselves and their private clients is likely much, much different. Remember this when the republicans come to bail out their big business buddies, who aren’t their buddies but do pay well, but that’s another story.

                      If we believe the CCP numbers GDP growth is 2.5% YTD, which means the remainder of the year will have to post 7.5% ish growth. Real estate is. 30% of the economy — officially it’s actually more like half —. All the local governments are broke, all — ALL — the banks are insolvent. The “shadow banks” are probably worse than that. Energy use is down, car sales are down, imports are way down.

                      I’ve recently become aware of the story around where the Trillions of dollars in reserves actually are. First, they have a paper loss of 25% on the US bonds and 35% on the European bonds. That hurts. Further, they’ve been using the reserves to back up local government debt and quietly recapitalizing the banks. An argument can be made that they’ll make a profit in the long run, who knows, but what it means right now is that they are illiquid, Those reserves aren’t actually available. Here’s the thing, if China is so strong with all these reserves, why, exactly, is their currency sliding so much? This sort of thing only happens in opposite land,

                      Watch what the banks do, never ever what they say. There’s very little foreign money going into China right now.

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                    4. OTOH, eventually, we’ll see all the farmland the CCP is rumored to have purchased start going on the tax auction block. No local US bank is holding the paper on it, so no bank foreclosure. But them farm taxes still have to be paid. This requirement will get lost in the CCP collapse. Note, not saying this is a bad thing. Let families, or new family farmers, get their farms back at far less than they were paid. (Also opens doors to corporation farms so not everything is rosy.)

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                5. Don’t expect this thing to end in a dramatic crash in the short term, though it could. more likely is a long, grinding mess until something breaks, There’s a lot of ruin in a nation and if you have the political will you can prolong and pretend for a long time. The crash then, when it comes, tends to be total.

                  Have a look at the HK and Shanghai markets. Shanghai has hardly budged. Mostly because the local houses are told what and how much they can buy and sell. Seriously, almost every day. Crashes tend to be about recognition with people rushing for the exits. these poor b@stards are locked in and there’s nothing they can do about it but bleed.

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          2. Hundreds of millions of lives wrecked by the mistakes and misdeeds of a handful of people in power. Tragedy in slow motion; North Korea on a far larger scale.

            Of course, nothing like that could happen here.

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        2. And yet, Edward Jones is still, chirping, ” things look better than we expected, growth is strong, we think the Fed will pause on raising rates. And just because the market is dropping is no reason to be upset. Look for the opportunities!” (They also don’t say a word about any political factors).
          I suppose, ” All hope abandon, ye who enter here,” is a kinda gloomy message.

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          1. I mean… the traditional advice to win at investing is “buy low, sell high”, so alerting people that there is likely to be a low to buy is kind of them doing their job…

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    2. The communist Chinese will simply declare it to not be in default. Like the way the Democrats are declaring inflation to be zero, or our economy to not be in a recession, or the Pretendent to have more functioning brain cells than a turnip.
      ———————————
      Does the Left drive those idiots barking mad, or were they drawn to the Left because they were already batshit crazy?

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      3. That only works with a completely sealed economy. But China’s part of the larger world. It needs the larger world to just feed it’s population. A good chunk of the debt accumulated by companies like Evergrande and Country Garden is owed to foreign investors. And the PRC needs to keep convincing those investors to invest their money in China.

        This is going to be a problem no matter how much Beijing tries to paper over it.

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    1. After the Northeast and Left Coast states were conquered during the Counter revolution and converted into protectorates like Canada and Mexico, the corresponding stars were removed from the flag.

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          1. Calling that thing Groot is an offense against sentient plants throughout the galaxy. That is a Deep One wearing a human suit copied from week-old drowned corpses by something that never saw a real live human.

            The real Groot is much better looking.

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                1. Even as an annoyingly hideous evil ghost, Michael Keaton was more appealing and Humane than whatever the hell that vile thing was.

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  11. “I read the news today o boy”
    “About a lucky man who made the grade”
    I don’t think today is what they meant way back when they wrote that song.

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      1. There’s a whole ‘Scams and Fraud’ menu on the main page, but for some reason none of the government programs are on it. Grrr.
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        VOTE FOR CTHULHU
        — We’ve already tried the lesser evils.

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  13. Now they are saying human error in early release of Trumpo’s indictment. Excuse my, but if the Grand Jury didn’t vote on those charges yet? Supposedly? How did they know which charges were valid? Total Bull feces.
    If you trust a liberal, no matter the party you are as good as dead.
    On a side note just read an article how Georgia just removed 190,000 bad voter registrations. No fraud my ass, and Kemp can join Fani asshole burning in hell in with F&ck Joe Biden.

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      1. I’m well aware of Moran spelled with two “o”s, but I also have no doubt that some nutjob is seriously saying this.

        Want to retire student debt? Sell lottery tickets for the privilege of shooting a professor.

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