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
I've been on here around 4-5 years. I only really post or comment when I have something of value to say or knowledge that's applicable. Otherwise I'm a lurker.
Just so happens I'm rather knowledgeable of financial markets and systems.
Literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. So long as you're not rent seeking (THE LITERAL DEFINITION, not the stupid liberal socialist version), everything is fair money and not "dirty".
Just because work isn't physically hard, doesn't mean it's not hard. Can YOU run a multi billion dollar company and make all the hard decisions that come with it? It's not a lot of physical work but it most certainly IS hard work. Are accountant's and bag boys earning "dirty money" because their work isn't "hard"? What about fry cooks?
Difficult labor doesn't equal the only "fair" source of money. To say otherwise is ignorance.
As long as the money is coming from a legitimate source, and is being used in a responsible manner, it's "fair" money. Period, end of story. A white collar worker (no matter how high level) is earning the same "fair" money as any blue collar worker, so long as everything is on the up and up.
No they usually only suffer under vulture funds. Most normal private equity funds only fire/lay off the useless "middle manager" class. Basically like what Musk did when he took Twitter private. Fire the useless workers who don't do anything but entrench themselves in corporate bureaucracy, usually actually pay DOWN debt to some extent, and then pump hundreds of millions to billions into the business to upgrade and scale it to make it more valuable. The way private companies are valued typically is by comparing them to a similar public company and using something like price/earnings ratio. So the formula for private equity is stupid simple. The more the company makes, the more valuable it is. So by laying off the worthless middle managers everyone hates anyway, and then pumping in billions to scale the business faster than it ever could on its own, they can typically 4-5X their money over the course of 3-5 years.
MOST private equity firms don't see a penny of profit on investments until they exit. They typically reinvest near 100% of the profits from companies they buy out back INTO the business during the improvement/scaling phase. So any given investment won't earn a penny in profit for 3-5 years and then they make all their money upon the sell of the company to someone else who wants it for the cash flow at that point because it's a fully matured and highly scaled business.
So MOST private equity firms actually cause the companies they buy to get rid of useless employees, and hire more productive employees. Often they'll even give incentives to employees like higher pay, bonuses, etc. In order to motivate them. Not anything ground breaking, they're not gonna double their pay or anything, but most companies targeted aren't exactly run optimally so there's lots of internal greed and inefficiencies that they work out of the system in order to maximize the value of the company.
Private equity isn't like, one uniform block, it's hundreds of different funds and companies. You only ever hear about the ones that end up bankrupting companies because they act as vulture funds. Using the figures this woman uses (3.8 trillion in bad loans) that's only roughly 25% of all private equity assets ($15 trillion plus). Meaning 75% of private equity operates like I've described, and most of the time you'd never hear about the companies they own. Usually regional insurance companies, machining/tooling companies, privately owned steel and chemical plants, car dealerships, smaller cell phone carriers, fiber optic lines operators, smaller trucking companies, etc. etc.
When she's going on about "everything" being touched, she's exaggerating because again, 75% of the funds in the industry DO NOT operate like this. Don't get me wrong, 3.8 trillion is STILL a massive number and probably enough to have a redo of 2008 but worse. But it's not like the majority of private equity firms are part of this process.
What we SHOULD be talking about it the massive 4.7 trillion dollar CMBS (commercial real estate Mortgage backed securities) market that has been holding on by a thread the past 4-5 years. Office real estate in particular is BARELY clinging to life thanks to hybrid work and work from home. It's so bad you've had buildings that were worth a billion dollars a few years ago get foreclosed on and sell for around 10 million. That's a 99% decrease in value. And it's only been getting worse. Those types of mortgages are typically over 5 years, so once they all come due this year and next year, it'll be 2008 but 10X worse since office will drag EVERYTHING down with it. The only good part of that is that residential will probably crash and make housing more affordable, but everything else will crash too.
Combine that with this vulture fund activity and we're probably in for a crash worse than the one that caused the great depression.
I feel the majority of people don't understand private equity. Yes there IS some bad eggs that more or less act as "vulture funds", but the majority of private equity have little to nothing to do with pension funds, nor do they do the typical asset stripping people associate with bad private equity. The majority of private equity funds get their money from institutional investors (people with a net worth of a million or more) or family offices (basically a private hedge fund for uber wealthy family to manage their money)
It's far more profitable to make a company MORE valuable and resell it or keep it for enhanced cash flow than it is to asset strip it and bankrupt it.
Really what people hate are the "vulture fund" style private equity funds, and there's a simple solution to fixing it that doesn't effect any other business. Just make the technical owner of a business purchased by a private equity company that asset strips liable for any debt that stripped company holds. If you did that, the practice would cease overnight, since that's how they do it. They buy a company, arrange the ownership paperwork in such a way they're insulated from the purchased business, load it down with debt, and then asset strip it to maximize return, and declare bankruptcy after they'd siphoned away all the debt money and asset stripping proceeds.
Make any fund that asset strips liable for all that debt and the practice will cease overnight since that's the key. If you do it so that it ONLY effects companies that asset strip, then it won't effect anyone else since normal funds don't do that, hence if THEIR investments fail, creditors have a way of recouping SOME funds by seizing assets, whereas with vulture funds they're just left holding and empty bag.
I personally don't believe in the "free energy" stuff. Do any of you people REALIZE how devastating that would be to not just our economy, but EVERY world economy? All the peace in the middle east that Trump has built would be dead overnight as Saudi Arabi and Qatar collapse because oil and gas became worthless overnight, so they no long have a means of funding their defense against Iran, Iraq, etc. who actively seek to overthrow them and implement their radical version of islam.
MILLIONS of jobs, lost overnight, high paying good jobs like engineers and refinery operators as well as even more middle and low paying starter jobs like gas stations and fuel shipping.
And you can't just tell MILLIONS of people to "start over" all at once. Some of these people are in their 40s and 50s and near retirement. But if their company collapses overnight because oil and gas are now useless and have no market, there you have hundreds of thousands of middle aged people who've worked in one industry their entire life with no skills to apply anywhere else.
And I'm not even getting into the fact that "free energy" is a stupid concept because that energy HAS to be generated from SOMEWHER it doesn't just appear out of the ether.
ALSO I don't think you free energy people realize JUST how important oil and gas is to the world. EVERYTHING has oil in it. CHEMICALS that make EVERYTHING from the shoes on your feet, to the clothes on your back, the medicine you take (and I DON'T mean just vaccines I mean everything from a freaking allergy pill to cancer treatments), Heck EVEN THE COMPUTER OF PHONE YOU'RE READING THIS ON, are MADE from oil/gas derived petrochemicals.
The world LITERALLY stops with oil and gas, and EVEN IF, there's some magical alternative that replaces ALL Of this I just listed it STILL doesn't fix that this would regress entire nations back to the stone age and cause mass wars in the middle east that would end up with the islamic caliphate in control of the ENTIRE middle east. Do you actually WANT the ayatollahs to get so emboldened that they create a nuke from recovered tech in saudi arabia, israel (cause realistically israel would have collapsed by this point) and aim it at every Christian nation that they deem to be their mortal enemy?
I agree we should just ax the income tax entirely, and I truly believe we're working our way to that one step at a time. But seriously people, use your thinking cap a little. Geopolitics and macroeconomics aren't as simple as "lets sell all the oil to not have taxes before magical free energy tech comes out."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the AG of Texas already shoot this down and say if they try to go forward he'd personally revoke all their permits under ground that they're trying to implement foreign laws unconstitutionally or something like that?
Either way I'm not worried about it. Once the welfare gravy train is over by the time DOGE is done and the cabal falls, pretty much all of these people will self deport just like the mexicans et al are doing right now.
The mexicans are panicking and self deporting now because THEIR gravy train is up, but soon enough all the "legal immigrants/refugees" and their spawn will self deport as well once THEIR gravy trains are up. Right now the illegals are being prioritized, but we'll get to these idiots soon enough.
This isn't new, we've done this pretty much our entire history. Ethnically speaking most arabs and "north africans" ARE at least partially of white ancestry if not outright white depending on where you're talking about specifically.
To give you a historical example, most of what people consider to be "ancient egyptian culture", was actually white greeks that took over egypt and adopted their culture.
Here in the US, and most other nations, we kind of just lump everyone with some kind of vague European ancestry as "white" so long as they obviously aren't black or asian. For most of our history we classified mexicans as white (before we invented the hispanic category), because most mexicans and latin americans ARE mainly white since most of their ancestry is traced to spain, and obviously spanish people are WHITE EUROPEANS.
If you honestly went solely by Ethnic categories, the US is like 80%+ white. We're like 60% white Anglo-germanic, (which is what most people think of when they think of stereotypical "white people"), but if you include EVERYONE, all the mexicans and latin americans (legally and illegally), the north africans/arabs, etc. The US is like 80-85% white I believe.
This isn't anything new, the only thing that's changed in the last 100 years is the fact that the cencus bungholes, in an effort to push a narrative, have tried to create new categories to fragment the "white demographic" in order to push a narrative that white people aren't the majority anymore. As many others in this thread are pointing out, hispanics overwhelming self identify as white, and while not identical, mostly share a lot of the same cultural values as anglo-germanic descended Americans (basically, Christian European values).
Of course that doesn't include the obvious lawless invaders who're more or less subhumans in their behavior and mentality, but as far as LEGAL hispanics go, they're more or less the same as the rest of us.
The arab part is a bit trickier, because not ALL arabs are white, but a good portion of them are.
Another shady thing they do is they've added the "two or more races" category. If you look at the self reporting on that category, roughly 85-90% self identify as white, but because they listed a "non white" ancestor somewhere in their family history, they get recategorized.
If you want me to be SUPER technical, there are only three "races". Caucasians (white people of all ethnicities), Africans (black people of all ethnicities) and mongoloids (asians of all ethnicities). And before anyone jumps down my throat, they're called mongoloids because of the fact that 90% of ALL asians can trace their ancestry to Genghis Khan. That includes china, all of india, japan, korea, vietnam, and even parts of russia and the far east part of the middle east.
So technically there ARE only three races, and everything else you'd use to categorize a person is an "ethnicity" that's more based on their cultural and geopolitical background
Meh, I'm not worried about it. Honestly AI isn't really THAT advanced. It's not like the movies have you ever TRIED Chat GPT? The most advanced AI on the market. I'm not joking here when I say this, you can only message it like 100 times over the course of a conversation before it starts experiencing "redundancy errors".
Basically, this is my understanding. In order to make it "speak" like a person, it has to analyze your syntax (how you type), so it constantly references back to your comments, and what you've said during the conversation to maintain it's "advanced intelligence". Basically it's trying to copy you and just spit back the analyzed information you ask it about in a manner similar to how you speak to it.
The problem is, once you hit like 100 messages or so, it starts skipping over previous reference messages, and it'll start self referencing itself, which breaks the programming and causes errors.
I use it for a lot of advanced number crunching for various projects I'm looking into, because it can skip over the 20 step math problems and just give me an immediate answer. I quickly learned that you have to basically reset the conversation every 100 messages or so because it'll start experiencing "conversation degeneration" where it will self reference what it said instead of what I said or analyzed information, which causes it to break and spit out wrong information.
I tested this once, and actually got it to mess up on simple math. Nothing like 2+2=5, but like 4X7=28, but it would say 4X7=4444444. And when you're doing complicated math with 20+ steps, a single wrong step messes everything up, so one simple mistake like that blows up everything, and it's next to impossible to fix a derailed conversation because of how the program works.
I'm not saying we SHOULDN'T be cautious and warry of AI and have some kind of regulations in place, but it's nowhere near Skynet level, and I highly doubt it ever will be to be honest.
Church attendance doesn't equal belief. This is a pet peeve of mine. Just because someone doesn't attend a physical church they don't have Christ in their heart? So I assume none of the apostles had Christ in their heart since they were basically wandering vagrants most of their life?
Every single person in the 1800s that took part in westward expansion "wasn't a real Christian" because they settled the frontier, where there wouldn't be a physical church for decades at a time?
Believe it or not, even during the founding years of the USA, only about 10-20% of the population actively attended church, but 80-90% were Christian and held Christian beliefs.
WHY you may ask? For the same simple reason that church attendance is down, but Christian conversion and identification is UP in the USA in today's current religious field.
People don't like corruption and they don't like what they can't relate to. For me personally, I stopped going to church when EVERY church around me started preaching that we HAD, not should, but HAD to take the jab when it came out. Not a single one of them thought "Hey, what if this is the mark of the beast?"
I had fools actually BRAGGIN about taking boosters in church, and the turn their nose up at me because I said I hadn't taken any jab, much less a booster. Of course this is just one example, but this is relatable to many people with similar experiences to myself.
Another problem, and this was true of the church I went to before I stopped actively going to church, they don't even really preach anymore. Like every other sunday they had some "guest speaker" who was there to shill and beg for money for some cause. It always made me angry being guilted into listening to some fool rant about how "it's such a great cause" so donate donate donate. And then the next sunday, the "message" would be more begging. "People need to pay tithes" and blah blah blahd.
I later found out that this was because the moronic preacher had put the church into an excessive amount of debt trying to "keep up with the Johnsons" and had tried to buy an adjacent property, upgrade the buildings and facilities and renovate, them, etc. etc. And I normally wouldn't have a problem with this if it was DISCUSSED with the church, which it wasn't, he and a handful of deacons decided on it themselves with zero discussion, but the part that just completely killed it for me it that a few years before we had come together as a church and everyone SCRAPED together everything we could spare to pay off our churches debt that had been hanging over it for more than a decade.
Had a whole big debt paper burning celebration and everything. Then a few years later, they go and put themselves into EVEN MORE DEBT than before without consulting anyone and start begging for everyone to bail them out when everything fell through.
Of course I know this is just MY experience in the past several years, but it's not an uncommon one. People, especially younger people, are tired of corruption and hypocrisy in churches. That's why church attendance among youth, and really across the board, is down. It's basically become a weekly "club" for the old boomers who go there and brag about themselves instead of a place of worship with God and Jesus at the center.
On the OTHER hand, online Church attendance is at an all time high. We live in a digital age, so digital churches are the obvious next step. I, and many others my age and even older and younger than me, have simply opted to just look to the connectivity provided by the internet for churches. When you have essentially infinite options, all you have to do is put in the effort until the Lord leads you to one the resonates with you. I now more or less attend a Church in Australia through online attendance and interaction, because the pastor is based and actually makes everything about Jesus. I've literally never ONCE heard him shill for other organization, or beg for money. The only thing he's ever said on the topic is that God will take care of him and his church, so he doesn't need to beg. People will give what God wills them to give, and it's true. His church now gets donations from all over the world, because he ACTUALLY preaches God's word instead of making church into some kind of "boomer meet and greet club".
Bit of a rant I know, but I LOATHE when people say ridiculous things like this. You don't have to physically go to church to be a Christian. Being a Christian is dependent on ONE thing, accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. That's it. Church attendance doesn't matter. It's GOOD to fellowship with your fellow Christians, but that fellowship doesn't require a physical building. And often these days, churches are corrupt and full of "non preaching", so why bother giving them your time and money if they're not in line with God's word?
I mean I'm all for questioning any "official data" I don't believe half of it myself and the half I do believe I verify myself. But there's really no debate when it comes to the population crash in Asian Nations.
There are entire suburbs, tens of thousands of houses, hundreds of thousands in some cases (like suburbs around Tokyo) that are empty and the local governments have seized them because no one claimed them or inherited them and they're literally giving them away. Yes, giving them away for free, but people just don't want them because the strings attached usually involve being married, having kids, etc. And they can't because of all the problems we've talked about thus far.
But that's besides the point, the point I'm making here is that you have entire suburban cities essentially, that're now empty because the people who lived there died and no one replaced them. This is like if everyone in Nashville died over the course of a decade and no one moved in to replace them.
You can't really fake something like that. So Japan, Korea, etc. ARE experiencing a population crash. How fast it's gonna crash and if they'll reverse it, well that's up in the air. But there's no point in pretending like this is some fake conspiracy to try and force them to accept immigration. Entire cities ARE dying out in Japan because of their aging population.
To be fair, I hope that's correct for japan, korea, etc. I actually like most of those countries, and not just in a weeaboo kind of way. They're legitimately pretty countries to visit and learn about.
But unlike most western nations they'd need DEEP cultural shifts to reverse their birth rate problems. I know it's a meme online, but it's legitimately true that there are large portions of the male population in both countries that prefer "2D girls" to "3D girls" because they just grew up in a depressing environment and legitimately prefer fantasizing about anime girls in porn games to trying to date in real life.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but hey have a lot more work to do compared to western nations.
You also have to realize that the cost of living in both countries is stupid low. For example if you take a yen-dollar conversion and compare an average Mcdonalds meal for both countries, here in the US it's probably anywhere from $10-20 depending on what you order. In Japan, it'd be the equivalent of like $5 at most.
So while I'm sure they will have increased levels of wealth like everyone else, it's not THAT important compared to things like stability. Literally in both countries the main problem is a lack of stable work. Most jobs are part time, and like I said, the ones that AREN'T part time typically end up being black companies or have similar policies and the employees are too scared to lose that little bit of stability so they never rock the boat by reporting anyone to labor authorities.
It's not like here in the US and other western countries where we have a much more individualist mindset. Everything over there is typically collectivist in nature. "The company over the self".
That's why I said they're gonna need a MAJOR cultural shift if they want to reverse all of this.
For example, in Japan specifically, only a single province is actually growing in terms of population. Okinawa. WHY? Because it's the least "Japanese" province.
Okinawa is basically to mainland Japan, what Indian reservations and Hawaii are to the US. They're not technically ethnic Japanese (Yamamoto people). They're genetically similar, but not the same. There's a whole can of worms there I don't really feel like unpacking for a simple explanation, but long story short, Okinawans don't share the same culture and traditions as mainland Japanese. They even technically have their own "sub language" called Uchinaaguchi that is so different from normal Japanese, that it's incomprehensible to mainlanders.
It's basically like someone from NYC trying to converse with a Bayou dwelling cajun. That's how different they are in terms of culture and language.
Okinawa is also HEAVILY Americanized and are basically the most "western" province in terms of adoptive culture and values, mainly because of the huge US Military and Expat presence. For example, whereas most of Japan is based on rail lines and "walkable cities", Okinawa is more like the US in that they have a single train for the entire Province and cars are the main form of transport. They're also the only province where most restaurants have drive throughs, just like the US.
All of these factors combined, have led to Okinawa being the sole province in Japan with a GROWING population and above replacement birth rates, whereas the entire rest of the country is shrinking.
It's literally a difference in culture and values.
Ok, first of all, I DO believe that various countries need to fix their birth rate problems, which in all honesty is a stupidly easy fix in most places if you just make the economy and housing markets better so that young people can afford to have larger families earlier. In pretty much every credible study that's been done without some sort of stupid bias, that was always the number one and two factor, with every other factor being so miniscule they basically don't matter. People don't have kids or get married when they can't afford to buy a house for their family or actually pay for all the stuff that comes with having kids.
It isn't rocket science.
But this is a load of crap. You're talking almost 700 years (695 to be specific) into the future. No reasonable person will accept ANY prediction that far out. So much is likely to change in that time frame as far as technology, culture, politics, etc. that there is literally not a single credible method to accurately predict things that far out.
Every REASONABLE prediction about Japan basically says that at it's current trajectory the population will keep decreasing until it naturally balances itself out around 2080-2090 I believe. I can't remember the exact numbers, but most credible predictions are that they'd achieve a naturally balanced population of somewhere between 60-80 million people. Which granted is a far cry from the 120 something million they currently have if I remember right, but hardly the entire culture dying out with a single child under the age of 14.
To be completely honest, the population and birth problems are different for asian countries as compared to western countries. Hungary is a good example of this. Hungary has more or less reversed their birth rate problem in the last decade and now not only do they have the highest birth rate of any European nation, but they're also on track to finally hit replacement level and beyond in the next decade. Stuff like this isn't a fix it overnight solution. It takes decades to actually fix it. Trump is basically talking about copying hungarian policy ond-for-one in the US with a few exceptions. So taking into account mass deportations naturally lowering our population (which no one really has a problem with since no one wants them here anyway), as well as improved economic and housing markets in the post cabal world, the US, and most western nations if they follow suite, aren't really gonna have to worry about this problem in the extreme long term in the post cabal world. We already have a viable model, and a means to implement it.
The problem for asian nations, is two fold. Not only economic, but also cultural. They tend to have a "work till you drop" culture. Anyone who's ever read/watched a Japanese/Korean/Chinese Manga or anime about isekai will know exactly what I'm talking about. Black companies, companies that more or less break labor laws, but get away with it because no one will report them, basically treat employee's like slaves. Requiring them to work 20 hour work days 7 days a week, with minimum wage pay and no overtime for example.
This kind of "work ethic" is so ingrained in southeast asian culture, that even if people hate it, they just accept it as a fact of life and make no moves against it. So even when these countries try to do everything they can to fix their birth rate problems, it doesn't work if the actual people they need to be having babies are stuck in a modern slavery loop where they literally do not have time to meet people, get married, and have kids, because of their ridiculous jobs.
Another problem is that, contrary to what most believe, most Asian countries don't really have any kind of job stability. A lot of them subsist off of work agencies that just bounce them around between part time jobs on a weekly, sometimes daily basis. If you don't know whether you'll even be able to work the next day/week, there's no way you're gonna start a family that you don't know if you can support.
This isn't some kind of greedy corporate thing, it's just a symptom of the 80s and 90s when most asian nations had massive economic collapses and the various governments did EVERYTHING they possibly could to prevent large corporations from failing and making things worse, but as a result created "zombie economcies" (actual term FYI), where inflation isn't really a thing, but as a result there's no motivation to invest in new jobs, or grow the economy through traditional means. Meaning the only time someone get's an actual permanent full time job at a company is when either someone retires/dies and has to be replaced (this is for companies like Honda, Hyundai, Samsung, etc.), or when a new sector opens up and the companies entering it need a full time workforce (Like the tech boom in the 90s and 2000s).
The problem is, full time positions are now SO rare and coveted in these countries that when someone FINALLY gets one, they absolutely will not rock the boat whatsoever. So they take any and all abuse thrown at them, leading to the formation of predatory black companies, which then results in the same problem of not having enough time or money to actually start a family.
TL:DR: This is a load of crap, and Asian countries like Japan have these problems mainly stemming from work culture problems. Western countries have a proven easy fix to the birth rate problem and just need to implement it post cabal. Asian countries aren't going to disappear, just shrink until the naturally balance out their population.
Just here to be the devil's advocate, but while I'm sure there is SOME shady business, not all lotteries are rigged. I know 2 people IRL who won one of those "win X amount per week/month for the rest of your life" lotteries. They're both white trash bums who immediately quit their minimum wage jobs and decided to "live out their dreams". One of them lives in a single wide and works as a "DJ" on the side on the weekend. You can't drive by his house without the noise pollution rattling your teeth. The other one ended up becoming a drug addict and put themselves in so much debt (thinking the money was never gonna stop coming) that they're even poorer now than when they started.
There's also verifiable claims of plenty of conservative people winning the big lotteries. For example, there's an infamous case of that guy in west virginia that won like a half a billion dollars or something, and was the dumbest person on the planet with it (kept a brief case with half a million dollars in his truck just cause he could), and ended up ruining his life because he was stupid.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, one of those billion dollar lotteries was won by some conservative guy in california who when asked about his goals, said it was his goal to become the first "lottery billionaire", since he didn't actually get a billion dollars, and was working with his financial advisors to maximize his investments. He was also part of some study that showed that people who won the lottery were more often conservative, or at least shifted to being conservative AFTER winning the lottery (which makes sense, if you have millions, you don't want the government taking it all from you).
This topic comes up every few months on here, and I'll say the same thing I always say. The "shady business" isn't in the grand prize, it's in the TENS TO HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of small prizes that go unclaimed, and the states just get to keep. It's SUPPOSED to be used for education in most states, but it basically never is.
It's basically one giant "look here, not there" operation. Everyone pays attention to the big giant flashy number on billboards, because that's the one they want to win. No one cares or pays attention to the millions of 100-100K prizes that don't even make the news most of the time, especially if they're unclaimed.
You DO realize that arabs are a minority in Texas? Likewise, the state has gotten redder the last several elections, and that's WITH the cheating going on.
Texas isn't anywhere near purple, and it never will be.
California is basically the same, it's actually gotten redder as of the last election (though still blue). Personally, I truly believe california is a red state, that just has so much corruption and voter fraud that it appears blue. So once the cheating is finally fully stopped, it's gonna be a full on red state.
Besides, Q outright said the "D party" is gonna die before this is over with, so I wouldn't worry about it either way.
Honestly, this could very well be part of the straw that breaks the camels back in regards to all the financial markets. Most "finance experts" were preaching about higher everything, so all the futures markets and corresponding contracts were based on that. If all the prices crash instead because of a lack of illegals to prop all the artificially high prices up, then that would crash most of the markets (real estate, commodities, stock, etc.) which would create a black swan event, probably as big if not bigger than the crash of 1929 (given how over inflated everything is today).
Doesn't hurt/help that Trump keeps talking about dumping half of all federal government buildings on the market which would basically suicide the commercial real estate market, which would in turn cause most of the big banks belly up (not that they'd be able to survive all the other markets crashing and burning, this would just be the cherry on top).
A lot of this is due to the big packers doing everything they can to squeeze out every penny from ranchers. There's been recent developments that ranchers have won (mainly lawsuits to prevent them from butchering and slaughtering their own cows) and there's even been new "rancher's unions" formed where thousands of ranchers have gotten together in different places to fund and build their own processing plants after winning these lawsuits.
So I'd imagine this is gonna reverse pretty soon. There's other factors as well. like dairy cows being on the rise (dairy cows make more money than beef cows by several multiples), so its not that there's less cows total, it's just that there's less dedicated meat cows. A lot of herds are trying to mix beef and dairy in order to make ends meat (pun intended), and the dairy cows are taking beef stock off the market temporarily until they're run through their lifecycle, at which point they'll be slaughtered and returned to the beef market.
TL:DR: Basically, a lot of ranches are moving from strictly beef to a mix of beef/dairy cows, so there's a lag in beef production until the dairy cows are run through their life cycle and are then slaughtered for beef.
I always assumed this was true. For the record I do buy lottery tickets every once in a while when the pot gets big enough to justify spending a few dollars a week (I refuse to buy more than one ticker per drawing for myself). But I never really believed all of that unclaimed prizes and taxes went to education. I always assumed it went into someone's slush fund or pocket.
I actually know a few people IRL who HAVE won the lottery, including the grand prize on those "Win X amount every week/day for life" lotteries, so I generally give them a little a bit of credit compared to other government backed organizations when it comes to legitimacy. But I always assumed it was never 100% on the up and up.
Realistically, they'll do neither. There's people affected by fires in california from a decade ago that STILL don't have a home. They just signed up for government programs and live in government housing somewhere else in the state.
The people with money will go where they want (IE, the celebrities will stay there because they love the pedophile craphole and the rich business people will go where they want), but the average joe, liberal or conservative, has much fewer options.
Most people can't just pick up and move at the drop of a hat, ESPECIALLY after losing everything. All the stories you hear about liberals moving to some other state and overbidding on houses is because they were able to sell their massively overpriced coastal house in california which gave them the budget to do so.
These people can't do that. They have nothing, so the only thing they can rely on is any savings, assuming they have any. And thats gonna be drained pretty quickly on temp housing (hotels and the like) while they try to figure out WHAT to do.
It's kind of sad, but realistically, these people are probably gonna stay in california, but they're gonna end up in some craphole slum somewhere because it's they're only option as far as rent goes (whether its subsidized or not), because they probably DO still have jobs there, and it's not like they can go job hunting across the country without a means to actually travel to said job.
I highly doubt the majority will move to orange county either, it's one of the wealthiest (and most expensive) counties in the country. Even more so than LA county.
Besides, anyone who believes the words of a "celebrity realtor" is a moron anyway. This guy knows about as much as doorknob when it comes to normal real estate. He exclusively deals in $10 million+ celebrity houses in "exclusive" neighborhoods. They might sell one or two dozen houses a year, instead of the hundreds or thousands a normal realtor in southern california would.
TL;DR: This is a load of crap, and this fool doesn't know what he's talking about
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.