Sometimes life doesn’t space things out for you.
It stacks them.
A broken appliance. A medical scare. A bill you weren’t expecting. None of those things are unusual on their own – but when they arrive together, that’s when it starts to feel overwhelming.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much the economy is starting to feel the same way.
Not one big crisis.
But many smaller pressures… arriving at the same time.
While Gulf nations face Iranian drone and missile attacks and depend on U.S. military protection under their father, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have taken sizable equity stakes in a Florida drone startup selling defensive interceptors to those same countries.
The deal, announced in early March 2026, involves Powerus, a West Palm Beach-based company founded in 2025 that specializes in heavy-lift and defensive drones.
The world used to be divided between the free West and the unfree East. Later only the USA was a free country. Now half of the US hates freedom. Soon just Southern New Hampshire will be free. Later the Libertarians will need to buy a sailboat to be free or flee and scatter to the Sahara, Siberia, and the Amazon and wait to be hunted down by tyrannical Nazis and Commies.
The world used to be divided between the free West and the unfree East. Later only the USA was a free country. Now half of the US hates freedom. Soon just Southern New Hampshire will be free. Later the Libertarians will need to buy a sailboat to be free or flee and scatter to the Sahara, Siberia, and the Amazon and wait to be hunted down by tyrannical Nazis and Commies.