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Pretty sure that Mrs Dell is a Dell. Just not sure which model or CPU it's using.
Welcome!
I don’t have a strong opinion on what you ask about but wanted to say hello.
Also, it’s been ages since I made overnight oats, but they sure are filling and delicious. I used to stir up the oats with craisins, vanilla yogurt, and a drizzle of maple syrup.
Bards podcast Ep3919 went into this a bit. He had a show a week or so ago mentioning it, too. He seems to think some of this will get traction in the name of deporting illegals, etc.and then once it has that limited foothold get pushed on everyone. “Required” like the vax was - which is to say make it exceedingly difficult for many to avoid. He seems to think they will offer access to medbeds, free energy, etc if you comply. All I know is 2026 is going to be a doozy, that writing is alllll over the wall.
Found this one on GAB.
To the U.K. 🇬🇧 I have this to say….
Spot silver 58.01
We were tamped down to 57,but came back strong.
Hedges and banks are fuked.
Im retarded when it comes to banks and financial institutions. Why is it bad for banks if metal is up?
They sold the silver for way less than the current price. And they sold hundreds of million oz when the total stockpile for delivery is about 125 million.
And its not just them,many other banks are short on silver. If they try to buy to cover their short position the price moves up into the hundreds.
Maybe thousands.
Ah, so they sold at a low price, expecting to buy back a lower price, but the price soared, and now if they try to buy back, they're gunna lose big time. And silver just keeps going up so they cant buy back, and if the do, it just goes up even more.
They will be squeezing themselves when they buy back for delivery or because they are so negative on their balance sheet.
I read that bank of America is insolvent at 75 per oz.
Letssss gooooooooo
10 degrees out and there was a devastating fire in our town of 297 people. Four departments from 5 towns, and the lines kept freezing up, the firetrucks blocked the downtown as they pumped water from the river into their tankers. The whole outdoors stank of smoke in town. Thankfully, no one was hurt. A nice family, the lady a retired teacher, her daughter and son in law, and children, lost everything. The general store stayed open all night, they usually close at 8 30 in winter, they kept making food and kept the coffee on, and the food was free for the fire fighters and family. Within one hour of hearing, 50 other people were on line and organizing for clothing and shelter, money, etc. This is America as I want it. No one asked whose side was on whose side or who voted for whom. Everyone thinking about how terrible this was and was able to relate. If we can relate over tragedy, we can relate over freedom and common sense. I cherished my warm bed and house last night, and the snow falls today, to quote James Joyce, the snow falls on the graveyards and the living. In the end, we do practice loving our neighbor, and we do that without thinking too hard about it, this is what makes us civilized and favorable to our Lord Jesus Christ. They have a big family, so they will not be out in the cold, family all over the region. This response is what makes me proud as an American, the reflex that is as natural as blinking, to come together when someone else is in trouble, we do not need some false doctrine pushed on us to be compassionate, we are that by nature, by our history of joined struggle to declare a new Nation free of tyranny, to be there as soon as chaos and destruction happen. Our reflex happened because the family was what we call "good people". Now, if that drug house burned down in the village, there would be another response. No one would be mourning for too long though if anyone other than the firemen got hurt. There would be no gathering and sharing and charity, unless there were children. This does not mean that we are hypocrites, it just means that if you want a compassionate response, its best that you are a good citizen that people think fondly of. I do not wish destruction or death or tragedy on anyone, I believe that is sinful. On the other hand, you do reap what you sow. Its a sad loss, it was a pretty little log home with wonderful gardens that the couple landscaped and grew for 30 years, but they have their lives and health, and hopefully fire insurance, in the end, they will be okay.
Mat 5:45 - That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Rural America is the best. I could share several similar stories.
Found this X on what to do if you hvae the early signs of a Heart ATTACK: https://x.com/BedroomFitnes/status/1995432264898154580
Great advice there! Thanks SBL.
Love the image on search banner right now.
The first Q proof and Q plus it's beautiful
Has anyone heard about the "everything bubble"? Some are saying that the bond market, housing market, and tech market are heavily overvalued and destined to pop sometime next year. If it does, it'll be worse than the great depression and the 2008 financial crisis, because the tools used to bring us out of that are no longer available. Meaning, the fed lowered rates and printed more money to get us out of that. And they cant do that again because the rates are already so low theres no room to cut, and we already printed tons of money during covid. But quality of life got worse after 2008 and worse again after covid. Everything costs more. Even if I got a pay raise, I still end up having to use credit cards to pay for things not specifically budgeted for. Im living paycheck to paycheck, even though im technically middle class.
At the same time, guys like Dave from X22 is saying that Trump is purposely bankrupting the Fed while establishing a new economic system. In parallel.
I would like to get your thoughts on this. I would love for the Fed to be destroyed and to have a currency that is based in som kind of asset and cant depreciate or inflate. If Dave is right, and the Fed has to be bankrupted and these bubbles will have to pop, what would the recession/depression look like? How bad will it be? How long would it take for the new system to be in place and everyone is prosperous?
You are correct about these things. The legacy financial system has been under immense stress from the loans on Student Loans, Corpoate Debt, the Auto Market loans, and commercial real-estate. To say nothing about the shenanigans around US Treasuries and global debt...
But DJT (with early tariff uncertainty in the stock market) managed to engineer a situation that caused institutions to pile into US Treasuries. Then through new sources of liquidity, like the Soverign Wealth fund, trade deal negotiations, and injections of foreign capital, DJT provided the system with enough collateral to Wall Street to postpone the effects of their bad stewardship.
The financial system will inevitably get to hyperinflation, but not before we smoothly transition to a new system based on an immutable, digital ledger of precious-metal backed capital.
I've been severely resigned to this conclusion, as I expected a major economic event to bring about the Precipice :-/
Thank you, it sounds like you understand this more than I do. Can you expand a little more on this
What does it mean when institutions piled into US Treasuries? The US Treasury is basically overruled by Fed right? Or maybe i dont understand that part at all.
And what does it mean if Wall Street has enough collateral to postpone effects of bad stewardship? I thought wall street was one of the players that is part of the problem.
Certainly! The economic side of things drove my awakening. I had a mental break, when I realized just how much wealth was being stolen from us. That and how every war was a banker's war...
Answer to the first part: all dollars are created at the Federal Reserve. But dollar creation (a loan) first requires an asset, which is the land owned by the US Corporation. The US Corporation uses the US Treasury (UST) to issue a bond (an asset) comprised of physical goods like land to the Federal Reserve (FR) who then issues liquidity (debt) in the form of dollar-denominated Federal Reserve Notes. That debt must be repaid. But it mathematically can't be repaid, so it must be refinanced. Hence the $38T in US debt...
Back in 2024, as I'm sure you remember, DJT spoke very aggressively about tariffs and their implementation date. Moneyed institutions (like Blackrock, State Street, and Vangard) began to take their money out of stock-based positions (equity positions) in globalist companies that benefited from the status quo. As a consequence, the market went down. Then DJT changed his mind and delayed the implementation of tariffs. So, the reverse situation happened. Then DJT pivoted again! Etc etc etc.
To institutions, the perceived chaos was highly uncertain. If there's one thing that corporations hate, it's uncertainty. So the major institutions began to buy US Treasuries, aka, they began to trade their buying power now for an asset (US Debt) and guaranteed income (interest payments) for a duration. Because demand for US Debt increased, DJT could secure favorable rates for debt financing AND Wall Street gets collateral. Win - win!
Here's the answer to the second part: Wall Street is a den of robbers and gambling addicts. They don't treat debt like you and I do; they borrow money, buy assets, use those assets to borrow more money, then they gamble to earn money, then the cycle repeats until they "die." All that matters to the financial system is that the Wall Street players A) make their minimum debt payments and B) have collateral for new loans to pay their old debt. Nevertheless, Wall Street players remain stewards... as they have been for centuries. Their gambling costs them nothing & us everything, but DJT can't stop it without shattering the system and causing massive pain.
It's a very confusing topic. I left out many details. Feel free to ask more questions.
usdebtclock(dot)org has had good pdfs on this topic.
Everything is overvalued. That was the way the old world order worked.
Everything will pop. That is the way of the nature.
Everything will be safe.
That is the way of Trump/Q because they spent the last 8years building parallel systems, safeguards etc so that this collapse will become controlled demolition.
Will there be pain? You bet.
Will there be a great depression / chaos / mass starvation etc? No.
Have you heard about the quantum financial system (QFS)? Ive heard some people talk about that, but I've never heard Dave talk about it.
Anyone else feel like the New looks like HOT these days? 🔥 🔥 🔥
Does anyone know what's happening with the posts here on GAW?
Posts are not retaining upvotes??
It always happens every now and then when the scored servers are overloaded. Normally the votes show up after a while.
Thanks bb! We're a challenging lot! 🐸
Right-Wing Environmentalism: "Conservative Conservation"
I was wondering what you all think of environmentalism
I sometimes see an overlap between saving money and being "eco-friendly" as certain "waste" products are just unused potential raw material
It seems like the mainstream right is pretty "anti-environmentalism" which... kind of sounds weird and like some industrialized steps removed from being more of an agrarian society I guess
Things like climate change seem like a scam to distract people from more tangible environmental issues, things like:
-(actual waste like mentioned above)
-pollution, which causes diseases in people and corporations dodge paying for the clean-up. Corporations cause this actual problem of pollution and then conveniently offer political solutions of their choice to solve the problem they created (and also kind of try to lump these real problems into vague proposed problems like "climate change" which are less directly visible)
-proliferation of microplastics which harm our ecosystems and cause diseases in our bodies
-carcinogenic additives to foods, whether they are pesticides or artificial flavoring and so on (or fluoride in the water, etc.)
Do you have an interest in "environmentalism" and what do you think would get more "conservatives" interested in taking care of the environment and what do you think "right-wing environmentalism" should look like?
It was republicans who were the ones pushing on the environment in the 90s
Just like they were the ones pushing against discrimination and also the ones working on disabilities.
I have no idea how the libs convinced normies they were the ones who originally cared about any of this.
Bush created the acid rain cap-and-trade program. Republicans supported the Clean Air Act Amendments (1990) and the ozone hole / CFC ban (Montreal Protocol)
So yes conservative environmentalism can work and that's why democrats moved the goal post with climate change. We were all for actual solutions and fixing things that could be fixed so democrats got behind theory that has zero scientific evidence and started blaming it all on things not even a developing country could give up (oil and gas)
Im an avid outdoorsman and cannot stand big piles of litter in the outdoors. I see empty plastic bait and tackle containers, plastic water bottles and all kinds of trash. I used to keep trashbags in my truck just to clean up after other people's mess. Now, paper, I dont mind. That stuff breaks down and makes good compost for the worms, and worms improve the soil.
I also care about animal populations. Im a hunter and a large portion of the meat that gets put on my table comes from what I hunt. Deer, turkey, rabbit, squirrel. Im careful not to kill of my entire population and I do support conservation efforts, but ironically, I cant stand game wardens.
I also do care about pollution. I dont want chemicals and raw sewage being dumped in the rivers, lakes and streams. Again, being an avid outdoorsman, alot of the fish that gets put on my table comes from fish I catch in lakes, ponds and rivers. But at the same time, the EPA is so overbearing with their emissions standards, that they have RUINED the reliability on deisel and gas trucks. Ive also heard stories about farmers not being allowed their cattle to drink from water bodies ON THE FARMER'S LAND. What kind of nonsense is that?? I also heard stories about factories that use water to cool off industrial equipment, and instad of just running water from the "tap", theyre required to install expensive equipment to "make sure the water is clean".
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