What’s on your mind this Monday?

Did you see that McDonalds’ is pulling out of Iceland because the country has melted down completely, financially, and it’s gotten so bad that franchises can’t function anymore?

If you think, “Oh, that’s just Iceland, what do I care about Iceland”, you need to remember a few things.  

For starters, one of us here did a study abroad in Iceland for a year in 2002-2003…right when Iceland thought it was king of the global financial world.  It was a geological field study, so he got to go to very remote parts of the country, and even in villages with 25 people in them Icelanders deluded themselves into believing they were hedge fund managers and financial gurus.  Everywhere he went, he heard Icelanders say over and over how smart they were, how they knew best, and how being Icelandic made them natural masters of the market.  

Everyone bought into this crazy myth about Icelanders being global financial geniuses who could solve all the world’s economic problems…it was never explained HOW or WHY a nation of 500,000 who’d spent millennia fishing and raising lamb and small Viking horses were all financial geniuses, but that was the image and line the media fostered…both IN Iceland and abroad. 

We’ve always followed Iceland because of that personal study abroad connection…and are seriously heartbroken to see the country falling apart at the seams now.  Iceland will surely lose its sovereignty, be forced into the Euro, and could cease to exist as anyone knows it…all because the delusional people there bought into a utopian, media-fueled myth that never existed but promised great hope and massive financial change led by false prophets. 

Does any of this sound familiar to you?

Dr. Utopia, the current president, reminds us a lot of Iceland’s hedgefund/financial markets pipedream.  The MSM created a phenomenon in Dr. Utopia, claiming he would save the world, lower the oceans, fulfill everyone’s dreams.  The MSM told everyone that they didn’t have to worry about anything anymore, because Dr. Utopia was here, and everyone should jump for joy. 

This is all as crazy as Icelanders thinking they could wake up one morning and be global financial giants. 

The sick thing is, a delusion like this gets well-received globally at first because, largely, people around the globe, particularly in Europe, are liberal idiots. 

They’ll believe anything. 

They believed Icelanders should be the new powerhouse in international banking and investment markets…until they stopped believing that and Iceland collapsed into a tragic joke.  

Do you even understand how TERRIFYING it is that McDonalds is pulling out of Iceland?  One of us here used to work private events for McDonalds corporate here in Chicago…these are people who do not cede territory or give up on ANYTHING.  There are McDonalds in Gary, Indiana, which is honestly the most terrible place on Earth.  There are McDonalds in the worst part of the Southside of Chicago, in the heart of Thunderdome in Cleveland, in DETROIT, MICHIGAN.  If McDonalds can operate successful franchises in de facto war zones, and make them profitable, there are horrors on the horizon for Iceland that McDonalds wanted to avoid by pulling out now. 

And in Gay, Cleveland, Detroit, and the Southside, McDonalds is often the last sign of civilization in what’s otherwise a wasteland of burned out buildings, abandoned cars, and chaos.  Whenever we do some crazy freelance gig in a bad neighborhood for Chicago Public Schools or some other entity that seemingly wants to have us murdered on a temp assignment, those golden arches are a welcome sign of relief on any random street corner:  because if there’s a McDonalds somewhere, no matter how bad it looks there, it can’t be THAT BAD since at least this business is open. 

In Iceland, the nation’s three McDonalds are now closed.  

McDonalds is a chain that would remain open during an alien invasion or a zombie uprising.  These people are not whimps.  They are tough as nails and determined to make a profit ANYWHERE. 

So, we don’t know how bad things are going to get in Iceland, but today we’re honestly scared for that country. 

And scared for the US, too, because the delusion that was Iceland is strikingly similar to the global delusion that is our current president, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, whom the liberals of Europe adore so much…right after they got done adoring Iceland as the great financial hope of the globe. 

Idiots. 

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