{"id":272407,"date":"2025-03-15T00:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/the-four-golfcart-men-of-the-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:09","slug":"the-four-golfcart-men-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/the-four-golfcart-men-of-the-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Golfcart Men of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-56013\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In Biblical contexts, War, Death, Pestilence and Famine. Well, with the Trump administration, check, check, check, and check!<\/p>\n<p>War? Trump set the stage for capitulation in Afghanistan, and is ready to do his own Manchurian Candidate imitation for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56032\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025.png 960w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Russo-Ukrainian-War-March-13-2025-624x780.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/backgrounder\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-13-2025\">ISW, 13 March 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Death? See below (remembering \u201cbleach\u201d and Mr. Trump\u2019s approach to the covid pandemic).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39980\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3-624x341.png 624w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/hosp_death3.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Current hospitalizations (blue, left scale), 7 days moving average of deaths (brown). Source: Covid Tracking Project, accessed 11\/6\/2020, author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pestilence. At least measles, if not bird flu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kalshi_measles_14mar25a.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56036\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kalshi_measles_14mar25a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kalshi_measles_14mar25a.png 538w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kalshi_measles_14mar25a-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Famine? Cutting off USAID funding is definitely going to cause starvation in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/USAID_obligationsFY23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56027\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/USAID_obligationsFY23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/USAID_obligationsFY23.png 662w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/USAID_obligationsFY23-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/USAID_obligationsFY23-624x735.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everycrsreport.com\/reports\/IF10261.html\">CRS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/03\/the-four-golfcart-men-of-the-apocalypse\" title=\"4:35 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-03-14T16:35:45-07:00\">March 14, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/03\/the-four-golfcart-men-of-the-apocalypse\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In Biblical contexts, War, Death, Pestilence and Famine. 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