It's been a scam since its inception - just another roundabout way to tax income, they found more and more ways to create versions of it over time. The original sin came in 1913 with the passing of that amendment - along with the direct election of Senators, ALSO passed in that year - and most of the complex and devastating issues we face today are actually out growths of that mischief.
The creature from Jekyll Island must also be mentioned, since its inception also happened at that time and was yet another evil wrought on the people of our country. However I actually place the Federal Reserve in a somewhat distant #3 place by comparison, because we survived previous formations of national banks, although perhaps they weren't imbued with the scope or power of the Fed.
Its commonly understood that Social Security was created at a time when there were the total population of seniors was much lower than it is today - but if it hadn't been grossly mismanaged for decades that shouldn't have been an issue.
My fundamental problem with SS is that its a BALD FACED LIE from the beginning. In theory, you're supposed to pay money into the system, and that money is held in something like a personal account for you, until you reach the age where you can then draw on it. Legally, YOU are prevented from accessing that money before that point in time.
But the $ you are getting back for your inputs to the fund are LITERALLY not the same dollars that were diverted from you to begin with. That has been true for decades now. If it's YOUR MONEY and you can't touch it, how is not ILLEGAL for the Congress to do so?
Social Security is a massive percentage of total government outlays each year. But what are they paying you with? ITS NOT YOUR MONEY THAT WENT INTO THE SYSTEM. That shit got spent LONG LONG AGO, as the Congress has been using SS as its personal government slush fund for DECADES now.
If they were going to do that, why not 1. Be honest about what ACTUALLY happens to your money once its collected from you and 2. Turn that fund into something like an interest bearing asset, i.e. invest the MASSIVE amount of money you are taking in today and are SUPPOSED TO BE RESPONSIBLE for tomorrow!? This is a MAJOR and EXTREME violation of the Oath of Office all of them take.
They are NOT good stewards of your money as they promise to be, so help them God. THEY ARE DEGENERATES, LIKE A DRUG FIEND, CONSTANTLY ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL. The whole REASON that SS has become a burden in government spending is because they BLEW THE MONEY long ago, and like Jared Leto's character in Requiem for a Dream, they are pouring sweat trying to pawn a fuckin' washing machine to find the cash to pay people back.
Its another scam that every American is expected to participate in, lest your patriotism be questioned. You'll never get back what you paid in, for Christs sake you don't even get the right to SEE what you've put in, and THEY GET TO dole the money out to you like its your allowance!
This is yet another example of why Trump has to go BIG on these changes and FAST. We are up against the precipice right now and if these Congressional criminals and the rest of our good Government bullshitters got their say, they would just KEEP ON KEEPING ON until one day we all would wake up and hear on the news that the US was bankrupt and NO ONE would be getting paid on time, or at all! They don't care, they would just BREAK THE ENTIRE SOCIAL CONTRACT and feel ok because they got filthy rich and made it to safety.
Just my opinion though.
Fantastic job with your comment good sir.
You're completely correct on all fronts, and I would just like to supplement your thoughts with some information I've picked up in my own research. I've been thinking about creating a post that would attempt to give readers 360° coverage on this tariff issue - but its no easy task because of the sheer amount of other issues this will touch and effect. The real scope of what Trump has done with these tariffs is only now starting to come into view, I think.
The implications are massive, its easily the biggest single thing he's set his sights on, the border being the only other thing that's even comparable. This has the potential to be the final nail in globalism's coffin - and maybe even trigger a reset of the entire world order... but we'll save all that for another time.
And they are just one moving piece of the economic puzzle. Any tiny increase in consumer costs will be more than offset by the other economic measures
According to Scott Bessent in the interview with Tucker yesterday, Treasury recently received some economic research from MIT concerning Trump's tariffs from his first term, which was a 20% tariff(on China, hopefully no one needed to know that). Without getting too complicated we can just allow that the cost of a tariff is split between several parties.
According to Bessent, the research found the price increase from that tariff was around +0.7%. READ THAT AGAIN. From a 20% tariff on China, the actual price increase to the consumer was 0.7% ...
This doesn't mean the new round of tariffs will have that same ratio when it comes to price hikes, but it certainly DOES help provide clarity and calm some nerves.
What is the biggest cause of inflation? Money for nothing. DOGE is chewing that up quickly
Government spending is THE ONLY thing that can cause inflation. Those words belong to Milton Friedman, who I very much admired as an Economics student. As all the hysterics and prattling have begun and now become nearly deafening, I have continued to consider this statement. Are tariffs a form of government spending? Doesn't seem obvious to me that they are, but Jerome Powell certainly knows more than I do... (right? RIGHT!?!?)
Positing that, I will say that a scenario of stagflation is possible (having been documented before in relation to tariffs).
Demand will go down with the deportations. Energy prices that are in everything are already starting to go down. And the private sector expansion going on will more than offset the government job losses.
Of course the private sector moves WAY faster than our lugubrious government (and the snails and slugs who populate it). To that end, I do not have much belief or respect for the myriad time frames that have been carelessly thrown around by people who appear to have no expertise or credentials on this topic.
How do you know that it will take 4 years and maybe a couple more to bring back "manufacturing" writ large from offshore? What about plants that moved to Canada or Mexico, will it take them equally as long? Are we taking over an abandoned factory or building from scratch, and what industry will be coming back, and what is the capacity required?
Consider the rollout for COVID and then ask yourself if Trump would take similar measures ESPECIALLY for those designated as strategic, like pharmaceuticals, shipwrights, aluminum and steel, etc. WAYYY too many variables to have a solid opinion or answer on that question currently.
With regard to energy, commodity prices have moved lower in a big hurry, to the tune of about 10%. This is going to help with all prices generally, and lifts a significant burden on the bottom 50% of earners that experience relatively more pain at the pump for an inelastic good like gasoline.
Oh and it should be noted that the 10-year yield curve is about to touch down to 4% following this tariff rollout. Trump managed this without the Fed's help, so if Jerome will cooperate and cut rates we can push the front end lower to match the recent action on the back end.
That yield curve was recently threatening 5% ... and every 10 basis points (or .1%) is good for about 10 billion to the deficit financing repayment. We could save nearly half a trillion if we can sustain the downward pressure on the 10-year, not to mention it will make Scott's job of selling T-bills that much easier, and give us a small boost in the housing market.
Hope some of this added information proves useful and helps underline your points. We do indeed hold the power; and Trump is NOT AFRAID to wield that power to maximum effect. Exciting times ahead.
Oh, and some of that wealth should also go to my XRP bag.
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But what about the mOrAl HaZaRd it could lead to....
We can just, y'know, GIVE the American people Money For Nothing (and ya chics for free) 😉🎸
Years ago I remember some brilliant gent in Congress saying that most Americans who received social safety net payments & welfare would just spend their $money$ on whiskey and women if they were given more. Yeah, that's what the poorest of the poor do - unlike the RIGHTEOUS AND UPSTANDING members of the Congress. LOL!
But hey, why stop at the SCOUNDRELS in Congress and their well documented relations with drink, drugs and licentious sexual activities? Can't we give some money to those CEOs and big dogs in the financial sector who nearly blew up the global economy with their easy credit policies?
They were just doing their PATRIOTIC DUTY of creating more home owners in our great country! Can't we give them a pass, invent a slogan.... "no pain no gain".... damnit, no, it should be like the opposite of that...
Too Big To Fail! Eureka!
So that's why we have to give them free money liquidity and make sure we fund the CEO and executive bonus packages without any interruptions... they worked hard as hell you wouldn't understand....
What? Money for the shareholders? For the homeowners getting evicted? For the little fish on Wall St who got annihilated overnight?
Well listen, payments like that, essentially just GIVING money to all the everyday Americans, when they did nothing to earn it other than be unfortunate victims of business cycles in capitalism.... that can lead to what some call a MORAL HAZARD... 🤣🤣🤣😪
cue up (Payback! by James Brown)
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Plus I think someone else usually types out his stuff for him w/ regard to social media and he just dictates. I remember watching this 5 episode documentary with inside access to the Trump '24 campaign that Tucker Carlson put out a few months ago.
Most of it was about the Butler shooting, but in one episode they were in a hotel suite watching Kamala's speech from the DNC convention. In the room with Trump was Matt Gaetz, maybe Tulsi too, and incredibly Oliver Stone! They were responding to her speech in real time via social media posts. Trump was getting help from Gaetz and others and dictating his responses to an attractive young blonde woman who was typing it out for him on the fly as they went.
Maybe that was just because they wanted to get the responses out in real time, but when you consider those very short deltas between Q posts and Trump posts, it seems likely to me that Trump has someone typing for him most all of the time.
Paulsen-ally, I think it's talking about the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) which really was the last bear market environment that had any legs to it, and the last time we saw the indices move down this much.
I forget where it was - may have been w/ Konstantin on "Triggernometry" but I'm not sure - but on a podcast Jeffrey Sachs got into * his take on what REALLY set the global financial markets ablaze back then.*
He said it had NOTHING to do with MBS and derivatives, although those were awful bets, and the underlying health of the financial sector was certainly awful. That needed taking care of and it would've required some of the same actions taken by Treasury and the Fed, but overall it could have been a minor blip on the radar, a short term recession and not much more.
What deepened the crisis so severely and brought the world economy to the brink was Hank Paulsen's decision to allow Lehmen to fail. Apparently he had a hard on for them since his time as CEO of Goldman. In 2007 he LET THEM FAIL instead of providing liquidity, which spurred on the wave of selling and exacerbated the panic tremendously.
Hank Paulsen caused the global recession of 2008, according to Sachs. Maybe Trump is low-key confirming this here and referencing that with the "HANK TOUGH" here.
And ironically by acting 'tough' he nearly pushed the system over the ledge.
As much as that seems like a fantastic idea, I doubt any of them could even get 100% on a question like:
Name all the celebrities who could be seen in the new Bud Light commercial that first aired during the Super Bowl.
I'm going to imagine the answers of the three dudes who blurted out "East-West" on their Civil War question. I know I'm not far off from the actual way it would be, either.
Oh shit dudes I KNOW THIS ONE!! Ok, Peyton Manning...
Yeah yeah Payton,
Yea, Payton.
then there was... what is dude's name on Joe Rogan a lot?Damn, um...
Oh shit, that's you bruh..
Isn't it Shane something? Or like, Schultz
Oh, Andrew Schultz?
No bro that's Charlemagne friend
That's not our answer! OH! It's Shane Dillon, right?
Bruh ain't that Uzi in it too?
You fuckin' idiot, that's Posty. Juice Wrld ain't even white
Not my fault my older brother doesn't bump that old guy shit like yours
(All laugh as Kaitlin cringes)
Oh man, the gaffe by that woman talking to Jen 'Circleback' Psaki is just...
Whoa! My mind is totally blown right now you guys!!!
This is incredible, but QPost 3410 says ABCDE 12345 in regards to Muller's testimony.
Q post 3400 shows a "coincidence" with Flynn with -get this- RED used as the color for text, lines, boxes and all of the layout.
Ok follow me here.
Now, when you look at the ORIGINAL POST DATE of this joke rap video from 2010 that was actually exposing the [DS] influence over hip-hop and for the FIRST TIME went viral. The YouTube release date was July 7 2010.
7+7 =14 20+10 =20 = 34. There are no Q posts from July 7 but 3400 was posted July 8th 2019 and 3410 from the next day.
Why is this significant? Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock" becomes the first Rock song to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop chart, July 8 1955. July 9 1954, Elvis 1st single drops on Memphis radio and begins "ELVIS MANIA" era.
Now as some know, rapper Waka Flocka Flame (who is derided in the joke video) was criticized for his extremely simple and violent rap lyrics.
Actually, he has a genius level intelligence. While never taking an SAT on record, he got an ACT score of 34. 3/4-20-10 = 3410.
Now for the coup de grace! In the parody, Waka raps ABCDEFG an obvious swipe at his unintelligent dumbed down lyrical content!
NOW FOR THE MOAB. The parody Gucci Mane has the following lyric:
I eat the red crayon/ cuz the red one tastes the best
This is what Q was TRYING TO TELL US!
If we don't STOP following the stars and find the RED FOLDER
We are going to become a bunch of crayon eaters!
Pay attention or we'll ALL BE EATING RED CRAYONS, YOU GUYS!
All right I will be starting my Substack later today, please direct all related questions there, I fully expect to have a following AT LEAST comparable to Clandestine before the weekend is done. Thanks again Anons! Follow the pen, EAT THE RED CRAYON...
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LOL! For those saying it in comments, this IS a flaming pile of garbage article, you're right.
BUT irs the kind of garbage that the assholes you are suing forgot to put in the shredder and left at the top of the garbage can with the lid off. Its BEGGING to be studied closer.
Claims from an ex-Soviet intelligence officer alleging that Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987... the term 'activation' has sparked anxiety among some who fear there could be some truth ...
Wow, interesting that they would bring back up ahit from the Steele dossier RIGHT BEFORE the Russiagate subject gets back into the news, in the form of Trump's EO ordering the full release of all materials.
By the way, that would INCLUDE now FBI-director Ka$h Patel's Russiagate report he co-authored with Deven Nunes WITHOUT the redactions that made a lot of it fairly useless. Kash once stated that almost half of the FULL REPORT had never been seen because it was blocked and redacted by Congress. Interesting no?
Oh and who has had their anxiety 'sparked' exactly? Who doesn't know by now that the Steele dossier is COMPLETE bullshit? If any such individual exists I would imagine they have bigger concerns, like being able to walk outside their front door without becoming filled with terror.
In a situation that left him red-faced, Trump was apparently snubbed by Putin who made him wait before their scheduled phone conversation; however....
There's literally NO reporting on this. Red-faced? When? 'Apparently' he was snubbed? WTF kind of 'reporting' is this? He either WAS or he WASN'T. ESPECIALLY if it was a "scheduled" phone call, which you 'seem to be' asserting, APPARENTLY.
This person is a blithering idiot. If there WAS a scheduled call and Putin skipped it, then Trump was snubbed. But there WAS NO SCHEDULED CALL, because there HASN'T BEEN A SCHEDULED ANYTHING between Putin and Trump yet. Russian and U.S. officials have been the only ones doing ANYTHING that was pre-planned so far, and all of that has proceeded with NO INTERFERENCE or DELAY.
Apparently you were snubbed on your media access, leading to a situation where your fucktarded reporting has left you red faced. Dolt.
Among the astonished, one individual took to Twitter to express disbelief: "Did Donald Trump just see the quiet part out loud? At this press conference. He got activated last week.
"IN THE CABINET MEETING TODAY TRUMP SAID HE WAS "ACTIVATED"," another person added.
First of all why aren't you saying X by now? Why aren't you using close quotations either? And then....
Here we go with this again.... ::massive sigh::
"Anonymous sources" "people close to the situation" "certain individuals" "people with knowledge of the situation" "Sources close to Trump" "People with knowledge of Trump's plans"
Following the publication of the MSN News article about Trump saying he was "activated" one individual went on a 2 day binge of the Americans TV series on FX.
Another person cooed like a baby and fired a Glock up his own ass. "So far, there have been half a dozen mental health incidents reported since the article was published," said an individual with inside knowledge about the situation, before they offered to give me pogo stick lessons using a pitchfork.
Did you like that reporting? Its just as valuable as yours.
Last but not least, we should all acknowledge the irony of the situation. These half retarded Mockingbirds who've apparently (ugh that word!) suffered a head wound are actually PROMOTING a Manchurian candidate-type scenario! It doesn't get any more weird than that.
What was that Trump said a week or so before the meeting with Ski Powders Volodymyr in the Oval?
That there was a 4% approval rating of Zelenskyy by the Ukrainians?
Matches up pretty well, now doesn't it? Not sure when this video was taken, but still.
Hey man thanks for the reply. I did remember Joe Rogan talking about it, that he had cut back with drinking, lost significant weight and was looking much better and healthier. The only part I can't recall was the trainer, but I'm not studying this one under a microscope LOL.
Like you, I bought into what Joe said and didn't have so much as an inkling of doubt we were still seeing Alex Jones. From everything so far, I'm still very confident in my feeling...
To that end, I decided to not even mention the Rogan thing because if we start by assuming homeboy is correct and IT REALLY IS "Alex James" then WTF do we say about Joe? Is he controlled opposition TOO!?
It would HAVE TO BE the case, because Joe has repeatedly spoke on his prolific history with AJ dating back to the early 90s. There's simply NO WAY he wouldn't recognize his friend. So now (in this scenario) he has to be helping in the cover up.
But oh shit! What about all the other people we believe and trust that have been on the JRE podcast? Some of these fools are DEFINITELY [DS] CLOWNS in light of this 'revelation'.
Oh man, I don't feel well.... 🤢
Just realized that Steve fucking Bannon himself has had Alex Jones on as a guest, done long form pieces with him, helped to promote his books, and even did crossover events with InfoWars and his War Room show! How can it be?
So yeah, haha... Basically ANY CHANCE of '[Alex James' + Rogan's statements on AJ changes in appearance] equals out to a MASSIVE CAN OF WORMS I definitely DID NOT want to open up. ESPECIALLY when the supposed 'evidence' is so scant.
As I have reiterated, I DO like this StopWorldControl guy and think he is over the target on a lot of things.
This is NOT one such thing LMAO. He definitely has a serious boner for Alex Jones... I mean goddamn... and I'm not even saying he's wrong about that! But dude.
AJ has been flattened and scraped off the road like some old chewing gum. His company survived by a literal [c-word] hair - one of those blonde, translucent ones, even - 😆 LOL!
Even if all that is some kind of 'long game make believe' he definitely DOES NOT have near the influence he had only a few years ago. Even then, he didn't hold the sway from a few years before that!
Its pretty common knowledge that InfoWars and Alex Jones were at THE HEIGHT of their power right before they got MEGA ASS FUCKED AND INSTA-BANNED OFF EVERY MEDIA AND SOCIAL PLATFORM known to man, the most important of which I would argue was YouTube.
NO ONE thinks he top dog in the fight against globalist vampires anymore - no one has thought that for going on a DECADE!
Like, I know Q hit him as controlled opp, but I think JUST MAYBE it's safe now - I'd wager not even ALEX HIMSELF is anticipating a comeback so huge that he RETURNS TO THE #1 SHOW ON YOUTUBE. Ain't happening - I think we can chill and disarm the C4, my dude. 🫠🤣🤣
Seriously though, he has GOTTA move off of this Alex Jones shit. It's just about to start killing his credibility. Getting cringe in a hurry IMO 🫣😆
Thanks for giving me an opportunity to rant about this one - it's been rattling around my empty skull for a while now! 🤣
Seriously though, hope you and others enjoy the read. Godspeed 🫡👍
Tbh, one of them said the Pentagon was a square and another one was curious, she didn't know Canada HAD borders?
Flat earthers would be like Confucius to these people.
....No, even more. Lex Luther after splicing the 🧠 of Confucius, Aristotle and Plato with his own and achieving brain power levels OVER 9000.
::sigh:: It now saddens me to realize they would miss the DragonBall Z joke entirely and ask me if the Weeknd ever toured with 'that Lex Looter guy.' 🤔
I not only like the way you think,
I like the way you cook too! Hear hear!
Sorry my response took a while, I posted it before I finished it accidentally 😆
I really like how you distinguished between what they will "do" vs. what they will "accomplish"
He (PDJT I mean) has already noted and I tried to reiterate that there isn't going to be ZERO pain on our end when this all plays out.
Its just that the differences in magnitude are going to be major. Like for example, I saw eggs in the store a couple times last month. I didn't buy them, so I couldn't make my homemade quiche.
BUT! My girlfriend picked up a Whole Foods brand Bacon & Onion quiche at work for like $13 versus the $9 it would have cost to buy the dozen eggs, and I use at least half a dozen for my version...
And so all was right with the world, and now that eggs are closer to $4.99 again (I've heard) I will probably buy some good local XL brown ones for $7-8 or so, if they aren't all gone or whatever.
Now imagine that eggs are a critical product for the nation of ..err... Carneyda. Its a made up place. 😆😉
So "Carneyda" gets $700 million in sales of their eggs to the USA every year. But NOW they fight and have a reciprocal tariff slapped on their eggs that we import.
Let's say they had XL brown ones like I prefer, at a 6.50 price point. Now with the added tariffs they are $11. So what happens?
CARNEYDIAN egg sales crash by 35% in just a month, and they are looking at bringing in just $455 million in egg sales this year. A few folks love them so much they keep buying, but most Americans just switch to a lower quality, cheaper XL brown egg.
I am trying to show with this example that not even ALL eggs have seen a price hike. Even if we said that Carneyda produced ALL AVAILABLE brown eggs, we could just buy white ones, right? Even if they had the entire egg shelf the grocer might find some cheaper eggs from a producer it hadn't worked with before.
And of course you could just SKIP THE EGGS like I did. 😀
Our options are practically LIMITLESS for most normal goods. Sure, there WOULD be certain cases when a resource (like rare earth metals) has few or no substitutes - but again, how much does that hurt? Maybe you can't buy a cell phone for a while. Whoop dee.
Meanwhile their house is on fire. They are bleeding revenue and jobs like crazy. It's the difference between scraping your knee and a knee contusion LOL.
Carneyda is taking almost all of the pain whereas it's mostly an inconvenience to us.
So that's why what tariffs do in the short term will be so trivial compared to what the goal of using them will be.
Oh gosh, wow. Thank you for those kind words, fren. Very happy that you enjoyed the read!
I, of course, would so humbly decline such an award, but since it would be rude to refuse a gift....
::yelling can be heard from within a double-wide trailer::
"Hot damn, baby! Come check this out, ain't that some cool sheeit!?!"
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Thank you, again.
Wow, 7K per month? That's quite a bit... I live in a VERY blue state in New England (one of the teeny tiny ones LOL)
I have been taking care of my dad for the last few years and was able to set up a situation where the state pays me as a full-time caregiver. I understand the challenges of providing for a loved one who is no longer capable of taking care of themselves without help.
I also know a lot of people are in this situation with no option but to leave for work every day, come home and try to "catch up" with their loved one's needs OR you can use assisted living and GUARANTEE they will be neglected and get even worse care than you can give before work and when you get back in the evening (if you even get to work a normal schedule in the first place, right?)
Its nothing against those employees - a lot of them truly do care. Its like a great teacher with too many kids in their classroom or too much CRT to teach. Besides that, many (like dad) just aren't cut out for that kind of living situation for tons of different reasons.
They say moving is the most stressful event in life, and its coming when they are least able to adapt. Its a lot on both the elderly parent and the child trying to find a way to provide.
Stress and loneliness are killers and conversely, just having good company is what can help the most. Laughing and companionship can literally help you live longer, its well known. Young or old, we all need that reason to get up out of bed.
I don't think we value elder care or child care enough as a society, nor do we pay attention to family and the personal touch that makes all the difference. I made a big change in life to come here. I knew no one else was going to help - not even family near his own age who had talked about doing it. Maybe its me but everyone seems really self-interested and self-centered these days. No one wants to give up what they have going on or make any sacrifices. It could be that everyone too close to the bone themselves, I guess.
Still, I've been told I'm a rare type of person for doing this. I always felt its best to follow what feels right in your heart, otherwise what would personal success and advancement really count for?
I don't know though, i guess I'm still learning about all of it. Just felt like sharing some thoughts.
So of course, I feel very lucky for have our situation. Sadly, my state is one of a very few I know of that have this. I do think its a shame most states don't have a similar program; I could see situations where a new mother could take care of Mom or Dad along with the baby and still contribute partially to household income, for example.
Anyhow, we are nowhere close to your number! I know for a fact this program saves the state a ton of money compared with upkeep in assisted living; that's if you can even find an opening. And of course your parent must be completely destitute to qualify for any REAL assistance; they'll count a crap 5K Colonial Penn policy as "assets" LOL.
They used to just provide the money more directly to the person to spend on caretaking however they chose, but there were problems of course. So now there are a lot of check-ins etc. with both the state agency and an assigned agency which oversees the caregiver.
What you can receive is determined by an in person assessment; they assign you a care level from 1 to 4. Even at max the $ is not enough to live on. You pretty much HAVE to have another job AND be getting other state benefits to have reasonable household income. When you couple this with all the other requirements, and if you actually do things the way they say that you're SUPPOSED to, that's where it becomes tricky.
In that way, the program almost encourages people to at least cut corners, if they don't outright game the whole damn thing. Selfishly I want to say that paying caregivers that 7K amount (which is about 2X vs. here) would go a long way toward helping people who actually strive to do this the right way instead of being FORCED into less than ideal situations where you can't be there for your loved one as much as you want.
The sad thing is that they probably DO give $7K+ per month to the assisted living facilities but for an individual who doing the same job (and doing it better and with documented, provably superior outcomes) you won't even come close to that, despite helping the state save those much larger costs. It should at least be comparable.
Well anyways. This got long but I would still welcome thoughts or replies.
Wow, and here I was believing the only reason was that he didn't want to do it on April Fool's Day! (Kidding, kidding.)
We all know that nothing Trump-related is done without intention. I think its fair to say they wanted to give this tariff deadline/event some spiritual significance. There is also some definite subtext about "liberation" from our current [bullshit! Sorry, i sneezed] monetary system and the Federal Reserve bank.
I've been really keen to better understand the economic side of this whole thing lately: looking into President McKinley, the 'National Banks' created in the 1800s, how/why they ended, etc.
And wouldn't you know it, there just doesn't seem to be much on good ol' YouTube that offers a POSITIVE VIEW ON TARIFFS. I'm sure its because they never really work and just gum up a proper 'free trading' international market, eh? Just like I learned in all my Keynes-worshipping ECON classes in college.
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ANYHOW. In connection with this,
Scott Bessent's announcement on Maria's Sunday show yesterday morning was of vital importance. He once described the idea behind our tariff policy as a shrinking ice cube. I think world leaders are going to prefer getting warm and cozy with us, LOL.
Because the truth, ladies and gentlemen, is that DESPITE what the CNBC clowns and the rest of MSM want us to think....we can hit them A LOT HARDER than they hit us.
Foreign leadership will be falling over one another to see what's being offered, what they need to agree to and (of course) if they have room to negotiate. And believe you me, there WILL be much capitulating and gnashing of teeth, because reciprocal tariffs are THEIR WORST NIGHTMARE.
I like also how Bessent described it as a win-win: because either the whole international economic system is going to get much, much more fair to the American taxpayer, who have driven MUCH wealth gains abroad at their expense.
Or! The alternative, which they are too chickenshit to ACTUALLY go through with.
The Mockingbirds REALLY tried to gin up the horse patooey of "American consumers will bear the cost of tariffs" and they've succeeded in getting people nervous. Good for them, because that's the BEST they will do. Now let me explain why that is.
In reality there is elasticity of goods. To provide a quick visual, the elasticity is represented by the pitch of the line (demand) on your standard S-D graph. Some goods like gasoline are very inelastic i.e. you have to have it; there's no substitute good you can make due with. [This would look like a very vertical line or curve btw.]
But in most cases....
"Oh, Canadian steaks have tripled in price? Well then I'll just buy some cheaper Dutch hamburgers."
To add to that, the U.S. is probably the most sought after marketplace on Earth, which means we have MANY, MANY options as substitute goods in all kinds of categories. One nation's wares that sustain a dramatic price increase will NOT change life for Americans nearly as much as it will harm the economic output of the producer country and thus reduce quality of life for those folks.
I'll leave it here but I'm very hopeful for what the Trump administration has in store.
Coupled with the Lutnick Gold Card, which Trump says he thinks we can sell a million of at $5 million each (which would bring in $5 trillion) I think we have a great chance at not only blowing out the deficit interest payments out within 12 months' time, but ACTUALLY (gasp!) making payments on the U.S. debt and blasting off to a vibrant economic future that will be unbelievable.
Well, unbelievable for the Democrats anyway.
Thanks for reading along all. Godspeed 👍
edit: elasticity of demand for goods, to be clear.
"It was a CIVIL War, so it had to be fought between the civilians and whoever was in power." 😯
Welp... I was going to give points for her attempt to use context clues....
But then it dawned on me that she believed there was a distinction between "people in power" and "civilians" and so sadly, I couldn't. 😆
I think I would have been happier if she went with "a polite war" or something similar, to be honest. 🤣 Lord help us all.
It would've helped me to see this one before I started yammering about the other in the comments. D'oh! 🤣
P.S. - Still lost on the "33" 😆
No that was just me. 😆
edit: having not watched the video beforehand i was unaware of... well, many things...
EDIT: JUST WATCHED THE CLIP AND REALIZED 95% OF WHAT I THOUGHT AND POSTED HERE WAS TOTALLY WRONG LMAO. I am going to leave it up just so people can laugh at me, and I'm strongly considering downvoting myself. 😣😂😆 Hope it makes you cringe as hard I am right now!
Ok, I am following along with most of this well enough but I need a little help identifying some stuff and with connections/significance.
I think the trouble I was having was recognizing there are 3 split images here; my guess is they were pulled from the video clip, which is why things in the main image (bottom right) appear to show objects and people at different angles from the other two? I guess this would be easier if I just went and found the clip from Karoline Leavitt, right? Once I saw that I would get it I'm sure.
The gold lines and box - is this showing where the "guy behind the curtain" was (left bottom) before he disappeared? (right bottom) I can't make out what the heck either of them are pointing to otherwise - especially in the gold box, is there something in that?
The pink - I can juuust barely make out that 33 - I thought at first it was like a Punisher DJT holding a shield that read "18" LOL. Is that a chair?
The green - it took me FOREVER YET AGAIN to see the Punisher skull in this box. Finally I noticed the black rails on the railing were like the vertical 'mouth lines' of the Punisher skull! (Hope that helps someone!) I swear that I just kept looking and all I saw was a creepy looking child holding a red ball over his head.
Red - is there a connection to 9/11 and the Penn State cougar logo I'm missing here?
Light blue: So the 5151 syncs up with 5th D1 (championship?) I kind of see but I think there's more here that I am missing.
Sorry to take so long with it, I normally figure these out after looking for long enough! For whatever reason this one stumped me ... maybe my brain just isn't in gear today... if it EVER is... 🤣😪
Hrmmmm.
While I do like this dude and think he's a truthful person, I dunno if I can join him on this particular ride at the amusement park. I'm looking, closely and carefully, multiple times over, and I just don't see ENOUGH from what we are shown here.
Certainly there has been something going on with the way AJ appears and when I first saw him after the changes to his appearance it was striking - and part of that was how quickly it seemed to occur, which definitely raises suspicions to a degree.
But just from these side by side images we're asked to compare, I really don't know if I'm seeing a totally different guy, or someone who started to exercise, eat healthy and avoid alcohol.
When people decide to change their lifestyle and focus on their health their physical appearance can undergo ** DRASTIC** changes and sometimes it can occur pretty quickly. If you've done this yourself and had one of 'those' reactions when someone sees you afterward you know EXACTLY what I mean. Even if it wasn't you but instead a close friend, and you were the one doing the reacting, you can still understand my point here.
Its possible that they didn't take their time and pick good images to compare here or what. Other folks might have to tell me because I'm not an InfoWars viewer or an Alex Jones guy generally.
From the best I can tell, YES, there are some small differences - ears poking a bit, shape of the head seems a tad different, nose a little bit, discrepancies with facial hair, and the upper/lower lip probably irks me the most - but I can't get there, sorry.
Think about the different Bidens for a minute. Now THAT SHIT is something you can tell just from the visual comparison ALONE. I don't care if the fucking MICHAELANGELO of plastic surgery did the supposed "work" on Joe, some things JUST DON'T change THAT MUCH - C'mon man! 🤣🤣
The other important point is that we had numerous other ways to verify and check our work. You had audible changes in Biden's voice - times during his Presidency (i use that term loosely of course) when his vocal range got way deeper for no apparent reason. They made a lame excuse about him getting a cold from his grandson (who we know he so dearly loves and spends time with 😑) but there were other times (maybe remarks just after J6 if I remember correctly) where it seemed to just happen.
You've got the "CNBC mask" interview where people wondered about a weird line of "skin" (?) visible near the bottom of his neck. The press gaggle on the plane where Biden had a pronounced double chin no one ever noticed before. The emergency AF1 takeoff from Las Vegas when he reappeared weeks later, suddenly much taller next to Jill. His handwriting looked different. Even the way he used to word things, his speech patterns, mannerisms and style - ALL OF IT changed significantly from VP Biden.
If I were more familiar with Alex Jones, I suspect that I could listen to a new episode of InfoWars and figure it out before too long. Like Biden, AJ has a VERY long history in front of a camera. Such a huge body of documented evidence means every tiny nuance of Alex Jones has probably been captured on camera.
Most likely even the very best [DS] actor would eventually blow it - with hardcore viewers of InfoWars over so many years, they'd almost immediately smell a rat, the jig would probably be up by now, and I haven't heard an outcry of any kind. So either I'm not listening or it isn't very loud, I'm legitimately not sure which it is.
Last thing - I will reiterate that I like David Sjorensen (I think that is his name?) and generally agree with him. I mostly don't like Alex Jones and question him - just as we were told to by Q.
But if we agree with Q and consider AJ to be controlled opposition, why oh why would they have gotten rid of him? Did he switch sides or something? If we ONLY consider him to be controlled opps, why would it EVEN MATTER to us that they replace him with another [DS] psycho?
This sort of feels like the StopWorldControl guy has been getting backlash for his claims about AJ, and he's "trying" another angle to make people believe him. Either way he goes after Alex Jones A LOT. But if he was secure in his statements about him being one of the leaders of Mossad disinformation, why even come out with a video like this at all?
Be strong in your words, I say - if you know it, I mean REALLY know it than you don't need to keep trying to prove it to anyone - that goes for anything in life.
That's all I wanted to say. Godspeed all.
Here's a video {from YouTube, sorry!} of the walk-out.
Bernie admonishes the reporter for 'doing nonsense stuff' and says he told them he didn't want to talk about 'inside the beltway' topics. LOL wow 🤣
"I was engaged in a re-enactment of the George Floyd incident in which I played the titular character. It was all a part of our demonstration to fight racism, Your Honor"
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Great point. The whole program is the ultimate in socialist style policy as is the philosophy behind it. The sheeple cannot be expected to save for their own retirements, so out of "compassionate governance" we will take some off the top and save it for them.
Oh, but we can't just give it to you when you're old enough... you have to clear a bunch of complex hurdles. And we need more money now, too much to ask from just you, so we asked your employer to make matching payments.
Which was JUST FINE back when people spent their entire careers at one or two companies.... but its KINDA GETTING COMPLICATED now that people have 1100 jobs on their resume and change jobs every 3 months...
So the company needs to steal your productivity for protection and basically treat employees like hostile actors just digging into their profit margins.... so raises and maximum wages/salaries are CAPPED because you can't afford to keep working for us and we can't afford to keep you. Sorry about that American dream I guess!
Oh and about the money, we're not going to like, invest it or anything, heck, we don't even think about stuff like the rule of 72, compounding interest, or time value of money. We do adjust payments for inflation though - once you're RECEIVING THEM, I mean - do you expect to get back an inflation-adjusted sum from the time you started to pay in? We don't have fuckin' RAIN MAN working here for crying out loud! 😂🤣😪
Why not make money on that money, you ask? Especially when most people who take charge of their own 401k or opt for an IRA (or even have any savings in today's America, LOL good joke right!?) typically put that money to work in the stock market, or even just a sad little savings account in a bank? Why don't we do any of that with SS?
Well, its because
we spent that shit! Damnit, WE LIKE spending it - hahaha its our dirty little secret - in fact, we get the Fed to print money in advance, and go ahead and SPEND the FORECAST #s of what's coming in to SS for years ahead! Can't invest what ya don't have! Oooh aint we some little devils! Tee hee...ahem. Its because Republicans want to PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY and pay their BILLIONAIRE BUDDIES on Wall Street, and give it to Jordan Balfour to gamble away on roulette stocks! They are going to bankrupt American seniors if they have their way! We have to stop them.
Sorry, I just can't help myself. 🤣😆