I believe someone posted something similar, if not the exact twitter video a while back. To ME personally, this sound more like vulture funds than general private equity. Every PE guy I've ever met had the same general strategy, leverage to the tits, invest EVERYTHING back into the company for 3-5 years, improve it as much as possible, and then exit at 3-5X their investment after paying off debt, rinse and repeat.
This specific strategy sounds more like the vulture fund where they try to extract as much as they can with as little effort, and structure the debt in such a way they can just dump it all on the bought company so they can leave it on it's desiccated carcass when they move on to the next company to scavenge.
And as I pointed out back then, vulture funds are a minority of funds in the PE world.
Literally half your response is about jew hatred, conspiracies, flat earth, Q hatred, Trump Hatred, etc.
Jew hatred, Trump hatred, Q hatred, denying there is a plan, conspiracy theories, liberal talking points, etc. etc. are all off-topic for GAW.
True free speech would have every other thread be about Hitler did nothing wrong, and every other comment would be on the merits of flat earth. It'd be a DARPA AI bot forum sliding hellscape that no one would read.
I can only imagine what you're having deleted, but if it's about flat earth, find where the flat earthers post. If it's Jew hatred, go visit stormfront.org. If it's random conspiracies, go to conspiracies.win or post to X. Why stay here?
None of which I post about. You know what they say about assuming, it makes an ass of you and me.
And apparently YOU have no reading comprehension, since if you DID you would obviously have read I wasn't talking about furries in general, I was talking about if there were actual litter boxes in schools, sanctioned and encouraged by teachers to promote degeneracy in public schools. I couldn't care less about furries in general dumbass. Stop trying to "Um akTuAlLy" me. It's embarrassing. Besides, what would going to a furry forum to ask things like that do besides get me banned from a forum I neither care about nor want to go to? It's a known fact that furries are some of the most vindictive and defensive people on the internet. Do ANYTHING perceived as hostile and they immediately jump into action to silence you.
YOU made a bunch of false assumptions, all of which were wrong, and got on your soap box. Congrats, no one cares. I don't even care enough to continue this conversation, since I don't have the energy this early in the morning to deal with some illiterate moron who can't be bothered to use the bare minimum logical reasoning and immediately thinks "this person disagrees with the mods, THEY MUST BE A NEO NAZI!"
Oh Lord, I remember when he was on here. I came along WAY after VOAT was a thing, but I remember Espra when he was still a mod on here. Ugh, every other post I'd make would get shut down for the most retarded reason. Usually something stupid like "You're making us look bad to the MSM" and I'd argue about why we should care about them since they're a bunch of pedophiles. Usually to no avail.
But yeah, you're spot on. Couldn't agree more. Kind of my experience too, though I wouldn't describe it as getting "face shy" and more I just can't be bothered to put in the effort anymore because why spend HOURS over the course of a week or two making some super high effort post, just to have it taken down within 30 minutes of posting because some mod decided it wasn't "right think"?
I love how you immediately assume it's all a bunch of "jew hatred" crap. It wasn't and it's not dumbass. If you want a legitimate example, I once got 4 or 5 posts deleted and a temp ban for trying to start a conversation on the legitimacy of the rumors about furry degeneracy in schools. To see if it was just a lying news headline, or if kids actually were crapping in litter boxes in some schools and being encouraged by teachers. Pretty topical since we're always talking about corruption and grooming given Q revolves around the world being run by corrupt pedophiles. Every single time I'd try to bring it up, I'd get my post shutdown immediately for being "off topic" and eventually got a temp ban for a week for "spamming".
Things like THAT are why people stopped posting so much. You're doing a whole lot of assuming, most of which is wrong, Logic dictates nothing of the sort, because I, and most others, have a life off this site, and can't spend every hour of the day trying to find a viable alternative with a sizable enough population to actually matter. I can't speak for others, but I only found this site by complete accident. I don't typically dredge the internet for forums of any kind.
Maybe stop assuming you know what anyone is thinks or what they're saying? The mods on here are crap, and have been for a few years, but there's no real viable alternative, hence why this place has turned into a fancy new aggregator for most.
I rarely post anymore since most of my posts get taken down by mods for retarded reasons. Usually just because they disagree with what I'm saying and then simply stop responding to my messages when I argue with them after a while. I'll occasionally post something that doesn't get taken down, but I've lost most of the desire to post anything other than comments in general because it's annoying to have everything taken down for some ass backwards arbitrary reason. Last one that got taken down was because "This post divides us" when it was a simple discussion post about the current state of things and how the pendulum is swinging back towards the right, but how it might possibly swing TOO much to the right.
You tend to stop caring about posting when you realize you're only allowed to pots "approved discussions" and mods can just shut it down the moment they disagree with your opinion or stance or just simply don't like what you're saying.
To me this site is basically a news aggregator at this point where I occasionally comment or respond to a comment where I have some sort of applicable knowledge and even more rarely, will actually post something I find interesting or applicable, for the reasons above.
If anyone cares to notice, in the last few years, it appears most users have more or less taken a similar stance to me. Back in 2020 and 2021, this place was STUPID active. You'd regularly get posts with HUNDREDS of net upvotes and sometimes a thousand+ comments. But as years have gone by and the mods have gotten more ridiculous, the majority of users stopped bothering to put in more than the bare minimum effort because who wants to fight tooth and nail in a "free speech platform" to do something as simple as make a post.
A lot of people don't seem to remember, but we've had like 3 or 4 schisms because of the mods where a mod went rogue or another got pissy and butthurt over something. A few years ago we got into a REALLY big site wide argument about gays and homosexuals because a few people were insisting we had accept faggotry moving forward and ignore the inherent degeneracy of homosexuality and its effects on society as a whole, and got shit on massively. The mods tried to shut down the argument, but everyone got so pissed about it and kept spamming posts over it they ended up having a public forum sticky over it and pretty much EVERYONE except for like 5 users shat on the fag lovers and the mods for trying to force us to accept faggotry and silence our voices on the topic. It was so lopsided that it wasn't even a question how most people felt about it. And that's the ONLY reason they stopped trying to delete any anti gay posts.
I know I ranted a bit here, but my point is this. People date fag and stuff like that, because most on here don't care anymore. That's why, despite site traffic having actually grown over the years, no one makes that many high effort posts anymore. The incentive is gone for a lot of people, so when you eliminate the incentive and kill the desire for high effort posts, you end up with a few hold outs making high and medium effort posts and a lot of low effort slop to get engagement farming.
It's been YEARS since I've seen any REAL high effort posts. Hell, I personally used to make one or two posts a week on topics that were relevant, complete with SPREADSHEETS you could download to show others and help explain your viewpoint IRL. And lots of others did similar things as well. Literal Google spreadsheets you could download, print and share. But neither I, nor anyone else, has done anything like that in years, because everyone got tired of having every other post deleted or shutdown because some mod just didn't like it.
I'm not excusing the low effort slop, but there's a reason you see mostly that now, whereas the site USED to be a lot different.
I've noticed I get all kinds of off the wall recommendations from youtube as of late. I usually just watch videos on cars, games, guns, supernatural/paranormal stuff, occasionally some kind of documentary about something I find interesting. But then just out of nowhere I get recommended a bunch of videos about pedophile cabals in Europe or how about things I didn't even know you could POST about on Youtube, like the finder's cult. And there's also now a bunch of anti gay and anti trans videos getting put in my recommended out of nowhere. Mostly that typical "Own the libs" type of crap where it's some moron making a dumb face and nodding his head for thirty minutes over a video of some leftie foaming at the mouth at some random "conservative influencer", but it's still odd for youtube to be pushing that stuff in the first place.
I HAVE also been getting a lot of missing 411 videos, which isn't abnormal for me since I like paranormal/supernatural mysteries and encounters, but I haven't watched a video on the missing 411 specifically in like a year, so to be flooded with them all of a sudden just seemed odd to me
I read them and know them, but that doesn't change reality about human nature, and what everyone can currently see is happening. Q isn't God, they can't control how EVERYONE will react to EVERYTHING. Hence, the discussion, of opinions on what MIGHT happen, since it's not like any of us can see the future either. But it's been shut down like I had a hunch it would be.
Like I said, I get the memo. Only "approved discussions" from now on.
I see how it is, we're not allowed to discuss reality here now. No one here is dividing anyone or anything, we're discussing what MIGHT happen in the future based on current reality.
I knew someone would get pissy and delete this, but I felt it needed to be discussed anyway. But fine, lets stick our heads in the sand and pretend like things aren't currently happening that are.
I get the memo. We're only allowed to have "approved discussions" on the future.
Meh, I'm not worried. I can't be bothered to pull up the entire set of statistics for every country, but in the US specifically it's something like 22-41% (depending on how you define it) of muslims are "cultural muslims". IE, they identify as muslims, but have none of the beliefs of muslims. I believe 21% of muslims don't even believe in God and are "non spiritual" or agnostic. Using the 3.5 million muslims in the US as of 2024 number and the roughly 340 million people in the US number, that's between 0.59-0.78% of the country that are ACTUALLY practicing muslims.
Here's the thing a lot of people don't consider about muslims. They don't last in western countries. After a few generations, they generally become "weseternized" by liberal higher education and end up being the typical lefty athiest who only identify as muslim because it gives them a victim card. Just like how jews only identify as "white" when it's convenient for them as well.
Here's something else you won't hear often 20K-100K muslims convert to Christianity every year in the US. Combine that with their gradual "westernization" and despite higher birth rates (which have been slowing for decades at rates faster than average Amercian mind you and only barely remain above replacement rate at this point), muslims are actually LOSING ground in terms of culture spreading to Amish, Mormons, and White-hispanic Christians. Basically the only places you can actually see them "making headway" is in majority muslim areas like dearborn michigan, where even then, it's often first generation immigrants, or older muslims that do all the typical protesting and muslim behavior we see and admonish. The younger ones are basically liberal hipsters with a victim card.
And this isn't even GETTING INTO the fact that a lot of these people are either already self deporting or will be once the welfare gravy trains end. It depends on the specific area, but in most western nations with a muslim population they typically have a welfare and government subsidy rate of anywhere from 50-80%. Take away the subsidies and incentives and they leave back to their own country and take their children and grandchildren with them since they don't know any other way of life despite technically being legal citizens.
TL;DR: It's not the end of the world yet for most western nations and CAN still be reversed. It just takes some balls to actually pull the trigger to get rid of the incentives that keep people like this here. The ones who stay will overwhelmingly be "cultural muslims" who are just an atheist liberals with a victim card.
Heh, not financial advice but we cover this every few months when someone asks. You can search for previous posts on the topic, but the general consensus is anywhere from 500-2K on the lower end, and 50K Plus on the higher end for silver, with 5-15K being a happy "consensus".
Gold is more like 20K minimum with the higher end being well over 100K (Some people far more autistic than me came up with figures in the 500K plus territory for a short period of time: Like a week or so, before crashing back down to "just" 100K), with the happy medium being around 50-80K.
Again, not financial advice, but like I said, this topic comes up every few months when someone new to the game asks, and this is the general consensus we've come to in my four, going on five years, on this site.
EDIT: I feel I should also point out, these numbers are generally speaking not sustainable long term, this is more like a once in a lifetime type of event (think like great depression on steroids) resulting from a once in a civilization level global economic crash as every fiat currency system on the planet crashes all at once. So it's not like it'll stay there FOREVER, but more like it'll peak for a few months, and then come back down to much higher, but more "reasonable" levels over time as the new financial system is established.
That's kind of the point. Most people on here have speculated that when they're unsealed and the mass arrests happen, it'll cause a constitutional crisis that will cause the military to finally step in as a temporary government with Trump as the head (as commander in chief), and will also be the trigger for the massive global financial collapse that will tank housing, commercial real estate, most stock markets, commodity markets, etc. and cause gold, silver, etc. to sky rocket to absurd levels/prices.
Sounds like a you a problem, maybe its just where you live? Everyone I know my age (older Gen Z, early to mid 20s) is like, Ifunny brand edgy "racist" dark humor types. I can count on one hand the number of people I know who're "politically correct". And of them one's a literal faggot, another one recently died (he was over 500 pounds and has been since high school), and the other is basically a whipped cuck who got his first taste of being with a woman from some moronic california girl he met in his first year of college before dropping out to "work" for his doctor mother as medical administration. The last one is particularly moronic, as he used to be part of my inner friends circle, but now won't speak to any of us if he sees us in public out of fear that his "wife" would divorce him if she found out about his edgy past, so now he just makes rage posts about how horrible Trump is on facebook while bragging about how much he makes as a college drop out.
Suffice to say, most people in my age group, with the notable exception of the weak willed, feeble minded, faggoty, and sexually crippled, are NOT like what you describe.
So this question if fundamentally flawed. The US has one of the largest manufacturing bases in the world. We make PLENTY of stuff, it's just that we COULD make infinitely more and take over from china and other foreign countries. The US based Automotive manufacturing market alone is worth anywhere from 250 billion up to 700 billion a year depending on if you only count OEM parts or if you count aftermarket parts as well.
And that's not getting into Aerospace (which legally HAS to be made by native manufacturers thanks to national security regulations), medical supplies, industrial products, etc. And I'm just talking metal parts so far. We haven't touched wood (paper products), pharmaceuticals (We make A LOT of pharmaceuticals, the problem is the API, applied pharmaceutical ingredients, used to make drugs are almost entirely made in china and india so we have to import them to make said drugs), oil and petrochemicals (we have THE LARGEST petrochemical market in the world bar none. China and others lump in their gasoline production with their petrochemical markets to fluff numbers. The US is the largest actual manufacturer of all the industrial chemicals that make the world run), food and food product production, etc. etc.
We make a crap load of stuff here. The problem is, and this is what Trump is getting at, we could be making MUCH MORE still. Instead of just making certain parts, we could have the entire supply chain be domestic. We could have semiconductor foundries and undercut Taiwan (who makes 90% of all semiconductors on the planet). We could make iphones and computers here instead of in china and india. We could make clothes and tools here in factories instead of outsourcing them.
The US has the means and ability to make EVERYTHING that we typically import. The sole reason we don't is that it's cheaper to import it than to make it domestically. If we eliminate that sole incentive to outsource, then onshoring production is the next natural step for all these companies. And once they invest billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions, even trillions, in domestic production in the US, they're not gonna just shut it down even if tariffs are off the table. Because now they have all these domestic factories that, while more expensive to run, also eliminate 90% of logistical costs and often will allow for cheaper materials since they can source them domestically in the US instead of having to ship them in from all over the world to some third world factory.
This shifts the power from China and India to the US in terms of being the worlds manufacturing base. It's easier to ship from the US than anywhere else on the planet since we have easy access to both major shipping routes (atlantic and pacific) on either coast, AND if you're dealing with US made goods, you have the safety and backup of the strongest navy on the planet making sure your routes are safe and secure. It ALSO protects you from tariffs and customs. If you're shipping directly from the US, then you deal with tariffs based on the US, instead of china. Meaning when the US drops all tariffs after the deals are made, it's basically free trade between allied countries (which is most of the planet).
Finally, and this is the big one. Most manufacturing companies have WANTED to do this for decades now. China and India are cheap yeah, but that's literally all they have going for them. Both are politically unstable countries, one of which is literally communist (meaning they can just nationalize all of your assets and declare you no longer own them whenever they want, which they've done before), and both are known to have rampant corruption at every level and have a problem with things like IP theft. If you put your factory in either country, you're running the risk of someone stealing your IP and selling it to a competitor. You don't really have any of those problems in the US, in fact you have active protection AGAINST most of them. And yes I know we have corruption, but nothing like China and India.
The sole reason they haven't done so up until now, is that shareholders don't like when companies take on large scale products unnecessarily. Odd I know, but its true. Unless it's deemed an absolute requirement, typically shareholders punish the stock of public companies if they start taking on large scale multibillion dollar, multi year projects. So it wasn't feasible for anyone to reshore production in the US until Trump more or less gave them the excuse to do so. The US is typically seen as THE SINGLE MOST stable market in the world. Not only are we the largest economy on the planet, AND the largest consumer, but we're also one of the most stable because we're a democratic republic AND have the most powerful military to ever exist, AND the most heavily armed civilian populace on the planet. We also have basically zero chance of ever nationalizing their assets (even in wartime we typically don't do that, so long as they fall in line with national interests).
TL;DR: We make a lot of stuff in the US. Trump just wants us to make EVERYTHING in the US and dethrone china/india as the world's main manufacturing hub.
Several things, the majority of our lumber doesn't come from Canada. It's like 60-40 split in favor of native forests. While obviously not as much as Canada, the US has 10s of millions of acres of timberland across the west, south, and north east. So we're not dependent on canada for timber at all.
Second of all, it's more of a cultural thing. Same reason why our roads are bigger than European roads. A lot of European houses have existed for hundreds of years and the areas have sort of local laws that require new builds to "match" the older buildings to as to not take away from the local aesthetic. That kind of rule doesn't really exist here in the US, so when housing got more expensive, we turned to more affordable methods of building houses. I agree, that the cheap modern housing we mostly produce kind of sucks in comparison, but it's not like you CAN'T get a nice stick built house with superior materials. It's more than possible and happens quite often in nicer neighborhoods. Unless you're buying into some crappy subdevelopment full of cookie cutter McMansions, pretty much every "nice" neighborhood, will have mostly custom built houses with the owners choice of material. Brick and mortar is quite a popular choice in those areas, as is is reclaimed timber and log homes, as well as those fancy fireproof cement logs and "water stone" homes.
Most of those ugly (in my opinion) "modern" homes you see in california, Florida, Texas, etc. are also solid concrete pours and not plaster as well.
It's all about where you live and how much money you have. This isn't a US specific thing either, Europe is kind of Unique in how anal they are about housing materials. Japan for example, literally designed their housing industry to BE replaceable. When you buy a house in japan, you basically buy the land and demolish any existing structure because you're not legally allowed to live in it if it's over X amount of years old and you're not the original builder or inherited it. Their housing market is designed with replacement in mind, so their houses ARE EVEN CHEAPER and EVEN MORE INFERIOR in terms of materials to US homes.
But if prices come down, I have little doubt more people would obviously select the superior materials when possible.
Like a third to half of the price of gas is actually just federal and state (sometimes local) taxes. At $3.5 a gallon (the national average) a dollar of that is the refinery and their markup, a dollar is the wholesaler and their markup, and a dollar is taxes. Fifty cents is the actual profit for the gas station per gallon. In places like California, the tax part eats up a larger portion of the price and drives up cost per gallon.
Honestly I don't really get this mentality. Your average Joe doesn't have any real stake in the stock market anymore. They MAY have a 401K or something, but most of the time they neither care nor actively look at it and keep track of it. They're more concerned about the day to day stuff. The overwhelming majority of people don't care about the stock market. They care more about prices at the grocery store, their paycheck, etc. etc. So the idea of trillions of new investments, brining in hundreds of thousands to millions of new HIGH PAYING jobs, is infinitely more appealing to the average joe than a higher value stock market.
I'm just gonna say, this isn't as big a deal as people are making it out to be. Now I'm not saying people shouldn't be concerned. THEY SHOULD, but this isn't some end of everything as we know it scenario like many people keep insisting it is. Muslims are not the populus in the US. Even after more than a century, they've yet to break the 2% of the population margin. Yes you read that right, more than a century. Believe it or not, the overwhelming majority of muslims in the US came here originally in the 1910s and 1920s as immigrants to avoid the various tribal wars going on the middle east that would consolidate the thousands of tribal lands into the handful of modern day middle eastern countries we know.
Most of them ended up in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, etc. because they almost entirely ended up working in the Auto industry. And their descendants are the ones who've created enclaves like Dearborn. Truth be told, a lot of them aren't even REAL muslims. They're Americanized muslims that grand stand over not eating pork and crap like that, but then turn around and get shitfaced drunk on the weekend. What a century of living in a non muslim nation with strong morals and principles does to a culture.
Anyway, back to Texas specifically. Muslims make up less than 2% of Texas population, and they're by no means the fastest growing demographic. That'd be the white hispanic demographic, which're overwhelmingly catholic (actual catholic, not the support abortion and fags type of catholic). So Texas is getting MORE Christian than ever. That's one of the many reasons Texas is becoming redder and redder every election. Not "turning blue" like some ridiculous alarmists keep insisting it is.
The muslim city has already been stopped, and won't be built. As for this stupid house thing, well to be honest anyone who trusts ANY politician to do the will of the people is a moron. That's literally the reason we elected Trump. He's NOT a politician. What was it Julian Assange said? Like 90% of our elected government would be dead or in prison by the end of things because they're ALL corrupt regardless of political affiliation?
Just because someone is "republican" and more often than not does things you like, doesn't mean they're not corrupt and most certainly does NOT mean they're on your side. They're just trying to keep their job and occasionally sneak in something for their paymasters.
As for the actual muslims in Texas, well to be honest it's a combination of things. You have the typical "refugees" who are almost entirely welfare queens/kings and will no doubt self deport once the gravy train ends, as is already happening in other states. But on the flip side you DO also have a quite a few (though nowhere near as many) legitimate green card holders and immigrants who're basically here from Gulf Coast countries to take part in multinational oil and chemical businesses they have a stake in here in the US. A Lot of newer oil refineries and chemical plants are joint ventures between an American country, like Exxon, and a gulf coast country company, like Aramco. So obviously, the gulf coast share holders are gonna send at least a few gulf coast natives to oversee their investments. These muslims you generally don't have to worry about though since they don't really believe in sharia law anyway due to being "Americanized" to an extent over a century of American influence. Think like Dubai, Saudi Arabia, etc. Not exactly full on "westernized" but far more flexible and tolerant than Iraq, Iran, etc. And on top of everything, they're more often than not, NOT here permanently. They're here for X amount of years and then get swapped out with some other executive as they go back home. They actively don't WANT to be here since everything is INFINITELY cheaper back in their home country due to the government subsidizing EVERYTHING in existence. Seriously, just look up and watch any video about Saudi Arabia's economy. They're the largest welfare state on earth to the point that a large portion of the native population (I think 40% by some estimates) actively DOES NOT WORK, because they make enough from government subsidies and welfare payments to live like a millionaire in most other countries WHILE BEING UNEMPLOYED. Why would they WANT to be in the US when they can live like that back home? They wouldn't.
TL:DR: Muslim's haven't taken over in more then a century and they won't any time soon. Likewise, the majority will self deport once subsidies end and the ones who stay are just gulf coast executives who aren't here permanently and get cycled in and out every so many years.
People have to realize that the biggest factor is going to be self deportation Cut off the gravy train, and they ALL leave. Not just illegals, but "refugees" and "legal citizen" descendants. For example, all the muslims around detroit, Minneapolis, etc. Will almost certainly leave as well once the welfare and subsidized housing train stops. I think it's something like 90% of muslim women are on foodstamps, subsidized housing, welfare, etc. and another 70-80% of men are on the same benefits.
Same thing for Somalis, afghanis, etc. etc.
Basically all of the "undesirables" are having their existence subsidized by the government. Cut that off, and they leave since they have no means of sustaining themselves. It's already a well established phenomenon. Parts of Germany and Sweden, and oddly enough even parts of the UK (hard to believe I know) have started doing this, and low and behold, they just freaking leave and go back to their home country. Even the one's that're legal citizens due to being born in the western countries leave for their "home country" because what're they gonna do? These people live in little closed off enclaves where they don't interact with the rest of the population. If everyone else leaves, even the ones with legal citizenship have no choice but to leave with them since they're socially stunted and incapable of integrating into normal society outside of those enclaves.
Heck, even the Indians will probably start self deporting. Part of the H1B visa problem is that they're basically slaves and get below minimum wage with little to no overtime, so usually (despite being non citizens) they'll qualify for some form of subsidized housing, welfare, food assistance, etc.
This is the main reason why DOGE is so important. If we can backtrack the corruption and cut off the gravy train, all of these worthless drains on society will self deport because now they have no incentive to stay and are surrounded by a country that actively hates the ground they walk on, thus preventing them from integrating or getting an actual job (even if they wanted one, which most don't).
Heck, if you pay attention to the news, apparently Coyotes are now being paid to smuggle people OUT of the US instead of into it, because they're all so desperate to leave due to the deportation efforts as well as the fact that lots of places are already cutting off their gravy train.
Nice ad hominem argument. Notice how you didn’t refute a single point I made. Especially how a simple google search proves I’m correct. Devolving into name calling immediately after being told something that counteracts your point of view doesn’t help your case much.
Besides not once did I claim to be an “all knowing bee seer”. I, like everyone else on planet earth, just spent 10 minutes researching it on google to come to my conclusion.
If anything, you’re the one trying to pretend to be all knowing. Basing an entire continent spanning industry, with the single most varied set of geography and climates on planet earth, on your single localized experience.
I suppose the orange industry is also dying off because Florida is growing slightly fewer oranges while California is growing more than ever as well? Just because something is one way in one area, doesn’t mean it’s that way EVERYWHERE in the country. It may very well be as you say where you live, I don’t doubt your word of where you live. But to claim it’s a nation wide phenomenon when all the evidence and fats is contrary to the fact is simply wrong
So, like always. This headline and story are absurdly misleading. The UK steel industry isn't dead. They're just killing off the blast furnace part of the steel industry, which pretty much every developed country is doing because its so inefficient.
Pretty much every steel company is transitioning to using Electric Arc Furnaces, instead of blast furnaces. Which are infinitely more efficient and can make better use of scrap metal as a feedstock instead of relying solely on a steady supply of raw iron ore.
Don't get me wrong, china shouldn't own ANYTHING in the west, but this headline is just completely wrong about it's core argument that steel production in the UK is dead.
Your personal experience does not speak for the experience of every bee keeper in North America. Ever consider it's your technique or area? A simple google search will tell you that honey production is increasing. Your logic is like someone saying the trucking industry is dying because their specific trucking company has had 9 out 10 of their trucks crash every year because of incompetent drivers.
And yes, supermarket honey more often than not IS honey. It's just processed honey. Which admittedly is much worse than non processed honey. But nearly every supermarket on planet earth will sell both processed and unprocessed honey in the exact same aisle so you just have read.
As for dead bees, the fact you're trying to use that as evidence tells me you don't know what you're doing as a bee keeper. That is COMMON. Drone bees only have a life span of about 20-30 days AT MAXIMUM and they reproduce like few other creatures on planet earth. So having thousands of dead bees inside the hive is EXTREMELY common. Especially if you don't clean them frequently and only do it once every so often
I personally don't believe it. Just like global warming they've been saying this crap for decades now, and yet SOMEHOW honey production INCREASES every year in the US. Bees are kind of odd. Even if you "own" a hive or multiple hives you can't really control where they go or what they go after in terms of pollen. And often they'll have a radius of 5-10 miles (sometimes more, up to 50 miles in some cases) of where they'll go looking for plants. So more often than not "wild" honey bees have to compete with "domesticated" honey bees for the same plants. So while "wild" populations may be down, "domesticated" populations are perpetually increasing. To be honest, even that may or may not be true, because as I said, bees wander for MILES around their hive to look for plants, so it's impossible to distinguish between "wild" bees and "domesticated" bees. But overall, honey bee populations are actually UP compared to most other bee populations.
But beyond that like u/UnderCoverTrumper pointed out, honey bees aren't even really native to the US and we have dozens of other pollinators that're native to North America. Likewise, even the "wild bees" aren't all dying out. It's mainly just specific subspecies of bumble bees, but there's over 250 types of bumble bees and only like 5-10 are having problems.
The whole argument is thrown out of whack by alarmism.
Meh, personally I don't think so. There's too many things that either haven't happened yet or CAN'T happen yet. The big one EVERY single one of these people ALWAYS conveniently forget about is wormwood.
You know, the giant meteor that hits the earth and dries up a third of all water on the planet?
There's also the fact that, for the temple to be rebuilt, you'd need to destroy that muslim holy site, which would cause a nuclear war in the middle east and make the entire area uninhabitable for who knows how many years, thus preventing any kind of temple building or red heifer sacrifice.
So convenient that the two most physically observable signs are either left out or are basically impossible to do right now.
I'm not saying you shouldn't get right with God. You ABSOLUTELY SHOULD. But no one knows the time and the hour but God himself. Even Jesus Christ himself isn't allowed this knowledge, so why would some random nobody know the real time? People have been "predicting" the ends times since Jesus died on the cross. And 2000 years later, they're all still wrong.
So I wouldn't worry about it. It'll happen when the Lord wants it to happen, and that's all there is to it. I personally don't think it'll be within my lifetime, but who knows I could be wrong. No sense in worrying over it either way.
May I just ask why ANYONE believes this is legit? Just cause we won the "bit election" doesn't mean they're gonna magically stop cheating. They're gonna keep fighting tooth and nail to hold on to whatever sliver of power they can until the whole system comes crashing down around them. Remember Q said we're witnessing the "death of the D party". So stands to reason they'd have some death fits before they finally collapse and die.
I'm not really that worried about this, we've been winning too much lately for one small "loss" to really detract from it, especially when we keep inching closer and closer to the mass declass that will bury ALL the corrupt politicians and collapse the whole political and financial system around us, priming us for a "patriot reset" like we've all been talking about for years now. I'm not saying to not be upset, but the doomers who act like its the end of the world over every little thing need to grow up and get over themselves. We're winning FAR more than losing these days, and its only gonna get better from here.
Besides, if things really WERE under control of the cabal, does anyone REALLY think Trump would have won PA in the last Election? No. They stole it in 2020, and if they could have they would have stolen it in 2024. So that tells me that incidents like this are part of the death throws of the cabal. Getting more desperate and clinging to what little power they can to try and stall or prevent their downfall
You people worry way too much. I mean, I'm not saying we SHOULD IGNORE islam, we shouldn't. I'm all for deporting them all since they're fundamentally incompatible with American values, but you're making mountains out of ant hills.
A quick google search will tell you that in the entire Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex there's only 67 mosques. And a LOT of those are catering to non citizen/permanent resident gulf coast arabs who're here temporarily for oil/gas/chemical joint investments in Texas.
For comparison, in dallas county alone (not counting fort worth, or ANY of the surrounding counties in the metroplex), there are 1500, yes, FIFTEEN HUNDRED, churches. I DID find a statistic saying there's 9894 places of worship in DFW, but that includes everything, such as jewish temples, and very small religious minorities you'd typically find in large cities like hindu temples, sikh temples, buddhist temples, etc. So I won't quote some specific percentage since it wouldn't be accurate, but needless to say, Churches are the overwhelming majority in DFW. 67 mosques aren't the end of the world, especially when you consider most of them are catering to temporary gulf coast arabs.