exactly. These people are total misguided or sick. When I hear totally normal and good people talking about the next booster and I ask them, "do you really think you need it". They sort of look confused... LIKE.... Can I have that thought?
Do you ever ask her any questions? I know it doesn't seem to work but careful sensitive questions may not look like they work now but you're planting a seed. I'm bad at being calm amd patient but thats what it takes!!
People have been so disconnected (literally - like robots), that they'll believe in a story not because it's accurate, but because it creates a new social bond.
Complete mental warfare! That's why we need to create an army on the ground to combat it! Let's goooooo! Come on peeps who wants to talk to like minded people about peacefully standing up? email me! RyanLM1973@protonmail.com
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.
If you would like to gain a key insight into the Fed just go back and see what Fed members were saying just prior to major financial collapses over the decades. What you will find is they never have a clue financial collapses are coming, even when extreme financial system distortions are obvious. In fact they very often paint a rosy picture of the financial future. Exploring why that is the case is beyond the scope of this comment but the fact alone should give everyone pause when it comes to interpreting Fed speak...particularly now.
This time they won't be able to print themselves out of it. It's all going to crash into a billion pieces. And about a billion lives will be wiped out over the long haul.
Central banks are now in an impossible situation. They can't stimulate another mania by pushing nominal short rates to new lows, because you can't push nominal rates meaningfully negative. Consequently accelerating monetary debasement will drive accelerating general price inflation, which will prove disastrous for most paper financial assets. Note, price inflation will explode when confidence in fiat collapses (demand falls as supply increases), which will stun clueless Fed members. But the alternative to inflationary secular financial collapse is global deflationary collapse, likely worse than that of the 30's. Tangible assets offer refuge during inflationary collapse, particularly liquid tangibles.
That meme just short-circuited my brain. Actually, truly, literally painful to have looked at. I'm gonna have nightmares of those eyes, ongoing. Thanks.
Beef broth with onions, carrots and white turnips sliced paper-thin, leftover boiled potatoes chopped up and stir fried on top, with fresh cut parsley sprinkled over the bowl right before serving. Tunnbröd (soft yet tough flatbread) smeared with messmör (brown cheese so soft you can spread it like butter, made from sheep and goat's milk) and a bit of horse meat sausage. And a tankard of kvass to wash it down with.
Depression cake with whipped cream and woodland strawberries an coffee for afters.
And a gin&tonic while sitting on the porch listening to 70s surf/garage rock.
It makes me warm, fat and happy enough to just not care about the world's evils for a while.
Mark for the historical record that this is the first, but we may hope is the last, time I reject, utterly and with a facial expression none of you may wish to surmise, a culinary suggestion from Rikard, the cake (without coffee) excepted.
Meanwhile, in a living room, far far away: [thought bubble]: ...claw hammer, or mallet?
On a side note, we're having old friends over since it's holiday season. Tasting the home-made wine: one kind made from fireweed flowers, another from redcurrant, and one from meadowsweet.
All of them aged for three years in our bunker-style root cellar (was built in the 1930s to serve double-duty as bomb shelter, so it keeps a steady 6-8 Celsius the year around).
The fireweed wine was tart and sharp, not unpleasant but most definitely not suited as a drink to go with food, more like a palate cleanser.
The redcurrant had a distinct berry flavour with a sour-and-sweet aftertaste. For deserts I think.
The meadowsweet one though - whiskycoloured, almost tealike flavour yet smooth and refreshing and no discenible taste of alcohol. Dangerous that. But well suited for any meat or bird main course, as it doesn't seem to clash with anything.
Oh, and claw hammer. Being wallopped on the head by a mallet just annoys me. I speak from experience, which may account for some of my idiosyncrazies.
Though I must own up to fearing crochet needles the most. Whelp, it's 2 minutes ot midnight and tomorrow we're off to a county fair so I'll let my self out and say like Puck: goodnight.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too—in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory? The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen.”
The Fed never had any credibility from its inception in 1913. All its done is ruin the currency (by endlessly inflating the money supply), enabled out of control deficit spending by idiot politicians and in the process levied a viscous somewhat concealed tax on us mundanes.
"They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
OMG! That's hilarious! Anyone who has half a brain and is older than 30 knows the last 20+ years have been a financial disaster. The current Fed has NO credibility and they know it. So corrupt.
I'm convinced they will hike only enough to bring capital here (vs Europe and Asia).
The Federal Reserve is a joke that you have to take seriously.
This country has been on a negative amortization loan for 20 years. This time around, even the government won't be able to take the inside of the house with them.
I have a feeling we're all going to pay the price this time. They know we can't compete in manufacturing. We probably don't have the gold when currency is reset. So I'm guessing they raise rates enough to crush Europe / Japan.
China ain't doing so hot either .Evergrande has defaulted but no rating agency has come out to declare this and there is violence outside their Central bank because they shut down their citizens money in April so the good people of the CCP are getting pissy about not having access to their money. (this was on a cell phone video out of China) .
I think global trading should be limited to luxury goods, but food water and energy need to be developed as close to home as possible.
The goal is to make things so bad in order to usher/force in a new system based on a CBDC UBI with a social credit score. In order to participate, you will have to be jabbed REGULARLY among other things...
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
- Ronald Reagan
I'll fight to the bloody end, just like our Founders would've. They were more or less libertarians.
and the pfizer cartel has as much credibility as the mexican cartel
they're both peddling deadly drugs
yes but only one of them tried to mandate the taking of their products
They DID mandate them. It's all DIRT
exactly. These people are total misguided or sick. When I hear totally normal and good people talking about the next booster and I ask them, "do you really think you need it". They sort of look confused... LIKE.... Can I have that thought?
I never get that reaction. A covidiot friend just last night proudly announced she’d just gotten her 4th jab earlier in the day…. I just shake my head
Do you ever ask her any questions? I know it doesn't seem to work but careful sensitive questions may not look like they work now but you're planting a seed. I'm bad at being calm amd patient but thats what it takes!!
People have been so disconnected (literally - like robots), that they'll believe in a story not because it's accurate, but because it creates a new social bond.
It's a ritual of self-flagellation
Complete mental warfare! That's why we need to create an army on the ground to combat it! Let's goooooo! Come on peeps who wants to talk to like minded people about peacefully standing up? email me! RyanLM1973@protonmail.com
very well put! It totally is like that.
crushingly sad. I agree
So it seems the Mexican cartel is more libertarian than the US drug cartel?
Galactic
They are only sorta fighting the cartel because they are cutting into business and they aren't collecting graft n taxes. IMO uh course.
damn, that was good!
Yeah, baby!
Hi Ryan!
What do the American dollar and the American dress size have in common?
Both have had to adjust for inflation.
Less. I know the Mexican cartels will kill me but only if I go into biz with them. They leave you alone otherwise.
Nah, Mexican drug cartels are way more upfront about what they're selling.
better and more honest trial data im sure
Eh. I think I'd trust a Mexican cartel more. You more or less know what the cartel is selling, and you can refuse to buy.
But...you may lose your head. Literally.
At least with Volcker, I was getting free toasters with my cd renewals.
So, Volcker is a bank?
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.
I wish. Fed chairman under the sainted Reagan. He pushed rates so high banks were paying like 16% and handing out cash bonuses, toasters and such.
Ahhhhhh. Gotcha!
If you would like to gain a key insight into the Fed just go back and see what Fed members were saying just prior to major financial collapses over the decades. What you will find is they never have a clue financial collapses are coming, even when extreme financial system distortions are obvious. In fact they very often paint a rosy picture of the financial future. Exploring why that is the case is beyond the scope of this comment but the fact alone should give everyone pause when it comes to interpreting Fed speak...particularly now.
excuse me mr jeff, but are you saying that "subprime was not contained"?
Yup, we've come a long way from NINJA loans to ninja viruses.
The criminal convictions were contained.
Well said.
This time they won't be able to print themselves out of it. It's all going to crash into a billion pieces. And about a billion lives will be wiped out over the long haul.
Central banks are now in an impossible situation. They can't stimulate another mania by pushing nominal short rates to new lows, because you can't push nominal rates meaningfully negative. Consequently accelerating monetary debasement will drive accelerating general price inflation, which will prove disastrous for most paper financial assets. Note, price inflation will explode when confidence in fiat collapses (demand falls as supply increases), which will stun clueless Fed members. But the alternative to inflationary secular financial collapse is global deflationary collapse, likely worse than that of the 30's. Tangible assets offer refuge during inflationary collapse, particularly liquid tangibles.
Agree.
I actually think this all started with the Tricky Dick Fiat Fix.
We're screwed. I've been preparing for over 10 years.
Do the opposite of what the money changers say. They're always trying to sucker in new bagholders to dump it all on their heads.
"Your ration of chocolate will be increased from 4 grams to 2 grams."
More lies from lying liars.
That meme just short-circuited my brain. Actually, truly, literally painful to have looked at. I'm gonna have nightmares of those eyes, ongoing. Thanks.
just one of the many services we provide!
I consider you my most reliable supplier.
Followed by wide awake nightmares as the economy acts like the titanic. The Fed= the on deck orchestra on the Titanic.
I'm benevolently assuming they are massively in over their heads. More than normal. Way.
I am already having nightmares of the eyes on that Berkeley professor who was questioned by Hawley this week.
The tawdriness of these people.
LOL yes, it was like she was twelve.
And the whites of her eyes
All the way around
Messed up
It looks like lead poisoning
lmao
Guffawing over memes keeps my sanity stable, otherwise I'd be hanging by a thread....
Like
I dunno, i thought the purple tint gave it a little pop
I'm just back from taking two extra-strength aspirin and a couple of Vitamin C capsules.
Beef broth with onions, carrots and white turnips sliced paper-thin, leftover boiled potatoes chopped up and stir fried on top, with fresh cut parsley sprinkled over the bowl right before serving. Tunnbröd (soft yet tough flatbread) smeared with messmör (brown cheese so soft you can spread it like butter, made from sheep and goat's milk) and a bit of horse meat sausage. And a tankard of kvass to wash it down with.
Depression cake with whipped cream and woodland strawberries an coffee for afters.
And a gin&tonic while sitting on the porch listening to 70s surf/garage rock.
It makes me warm, fat and happy enough to just not care about the world's evils for a while.
Mark for the historical record that this is the first, but we may hope is the last, time I reject, utterly and with a facial expression none of you may wish to surmise, a culinary suggestion from Rikard, the cake (without coffee) excepted.
Meanwhile, in a living room, far far away: [thought bubble]: ...claw hammer, or mallet?
Eh, I say as I always do: more for me! Yum!
On a side note, we're having old friends over since it's holiday season. Tasting the home-made wine: one kind made from fireweed flowers, another from redcurrant, and one from meadowsweet.
All of them aged for three years in our bunker-style root cellar (was built in the 1930s to serve double-duty as bomb shelter, so it keeps a steady 6-8 Celsius the year around).
The fireweed wine was tart and sharp, not unpleasant but most definitely not suited as a drink to go with food, more like a palate cleanser.
The redcurrant had a distinct berry flavour with a sour-and-sweet aftertaste. For deserts I think.
The meadowsweet one though - whiskycoloured, almost tealike flavour yet smooth and refreshing and no discenible taste of alcohol. Dangerous that. But well suited for any meat or bird main course, as it doesn't seem to clash with anything.
Oh, and claw hammer. Being wallopped on the head by a mallet just annoys me. I speak from experience, which may account for some of my idiosyncrazies.
Though I must own up to fearing crochet needles the most. Whelp, it's 2 minutes ot midnight and tomorrow we're off to a county fair so I'll let my self out and say like Puck: goodnight.
Ha!
It wasn't an acid test...it was stress test.
Doing a system check myself...vitals have stabilized. Phew, that was close...:]]
Man, you thought I was kidding. Waiting for the kettle to boil...
In Newspeak, "lot more" translates to negative:
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too—in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory? The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen.”
MAA-I love your brain!
The Fed is in CONTROL. Don't fall for "The Fed doesn't know what it's doing" narrative. ALL BY DESIGN.
All of it. Including HYPERINFLATION. There's no other way out of this for the Government/Fed.
They've been delaying foreclosure for 25 years.
Wait till Wall Street crashes.
Stagflation
BOOM
I'd take credit, but I've been listening to Peter Navarro PhD for the last couple years.
We all learn from others. I just learned from you.
No need for attribution. You did it I&K style!...;]
I cherish you here, Mr Ryan. I'm glad that you , and a triple handful of others, are regularly here.
The Fed never had any credibility from its inception in 1913. All its done is ruin the currency (by endlessly inflating the money supply), enabled out of control deficit spending by idiot politicians and in the process levied a viscous somewhat concealed tax on us mundanes.
And it’s just getting warmed up!
2.5X'ing the currency supply in 2 years is COMPLETELY NORMAL...
I'm trying to decide what's worse: that they continue to lie with impunity or that they actually believe this nonsense.
"They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Electric Kool-aid Catnip Test.
That just gave me a flashback
hahahaha
OMG! That's hilarious! Anyone who has half a brain and is older than 30 knows the last 20+ years have been a financial disaster. The current Fed has NO credibility and they know it. So corrupt.
I'm convinced they will hike only enough to bring capital here (vs Europe and Asia).
Exactly!
The Federal Reserve is a joke that you have to take seriously.
This country has been on a negative amortization loan for 20 years. This time around, even the government won't be able to take the inside of the house with them.
I have a feeling we're all going to pay the price this time. They know we can't compete in manufacturing. We probably don't have the gold when currency is reset. So I'm guessing they raise rates enough to crush Europe / Japan.
The problem is they can't crush China.
And if China refuses to sell us basic pharmaceuticals/med supplies AND rare earth materials; It's OVER.
I hope you're doing military push-ups. Cuz I don't trust these last two generations to do any fighting. I'd rather do it...and I'm 51!
China ain't doing so hot either .Evergrande has defaulted but no rating agency has come out to declare this and there is violence outside their Central bank because they shut down their citizens money in April so the good people of the CCP are getting pissy about not having access to their money. (this was on a cell phone video out of China) .
I think global trading should be limited to luxury goods, but food water and energy need to be developed as close to home as possible.
The goal is to make things so bad in order to usher/force in a new system based on a CBDC UBI with a social credit score. In order to participate, you will have to be jabbed REGULARLY among other things...
All a mirage and ponzi scheme built on debt and our sweat and tears.
The verbiage represents he knows the hell that is coming...
Top men, I tell you, these are top men. 🤮
In the government, everyone gets ahead by striving for mediocrity. Wait, I'm wrong, now it's complete and total failure. That's the ticket to the top!
"Mediocrity is the worst enemy of Prosperity"
- Henry Ford
Seriously, for this government, attaining mediocrity would be reaching for the stars. But they are prosperous as all get-out!
It's all a scam. that's why I'm a libertarian
Julia Song on Twitter had this great quote a few months ago:
“Shit is so fake that the minute an
outsider took office we got cheap
gas, cheap food, became energy
independent, no wars and
focused on our country's own
issues.
Establishment hacks get back in
and we have inflation, medical
tyranny, world war 3, need to take
a mortgage for gas. “
She's a poet. Damn that's good
How does being a Li ertarian help you? You're living thru this with the rest of us and/or going down with the rest of us.
I agree. I can do that as a libertarian.
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
- Ronald Reagan
I'll fight to the bloody end, just like our Founders would've. They were more or less libertarians.
Indeed. Reagan knew whereof he spoke.
I wanted to go to Freedom Fest in Vegas.
This is a whole new level of drinking bullshit through a fire hose.
Jenkem's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
Winner!!!
I'd buy you a drink right now if I could. Hilarious
That's a mental picture I could have done without! :-)
lol
Bullard fire hose...fixed it...:}
?
oh, i said bullshit through a fire hose.
i had a comment that that was a terrible mental picture.
So I changed it to Bullard. He's the president of the STL Fed. He was the one who made the comment about Volcker
Nobody got it.
Corporate, politics and media is a kind of human centipede, only it goes in a circle.
Ewwwww!!! 😨
ewww!!
True
but. EEEWWWW!!
sorry. so gross, but it's all i could think of. it's true! and half our countries swallowing it.
Ewwwww!!! 😳
Sorry...;[
(Giggle) no you’re not
you're right stinker