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Michael Zeitgeist
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Economic & Political analysis for those who aren't independently wealthy. Always evidence based and sourced, and definitely with some sarcasm.

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Latest Issues

A (Hypothetical) Constitutional Nightmare: Trump Could Be President Again After January, 2029

At the GOP midterm convention, colloquially referred to “Trumpapalooza”, Trump, in the most blatant of all ways, promised voters $5000/each, if they voted for Republicans, so to secure the midterms. Besides the fact that “buying votes” is i...

8 days ago
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USA 2027: The Hunt for the Elderly

While roughly 750,000 Americans are homeless, the “administration” provides the cheapest kind of headline fodder the American media machine knows how to popularize, and distraction-for-profit Substackers love nothing more than to monetize....

11 days ago
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Industrialized Plagiarism, Enshittification & SEP

We’re dying in a rapid onset of industrialized plagiarism, sent you at dizzying speed.

You’ll get highly polished content, written or filmed to captivate your attention. Information accepted at face value because we’re all too damn busy to...

18 days ago
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Pay Up, Suckers! $40 Trillion in Debt and “We’ll have to dig ourselves out of it”

August, 2026. The United States crossed the $40 trillion national debt threshold.

The raging unaccountability of the Federal Government and its various offices, which DOGE was supposed to get under control (yes, 100% sarcasm), has hurled u...

a month ago
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The Bipartisan Trap: How the SAVE Act Could Kill Your Vote by Becoming Moderate

TL;DR: The most dangerous version of the SAVE Act isn’t the one Republicans wrote, but the one Democrats might help them pass.

I dislike rolling the magic 8-ball and forecasting the future. However, I’ve had this piece in draft for a good...

a month ago
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