A lot of people don't have liquid assets. A lot of people are in debt, with very little cash, and very little assets of value to trade if ever needed. It's the downside to a capitalist society that just continuously spends money, good little sheep consumers happily staying in debt. Good credit and credit cards can be useful tools but not ideal for just buying things to buy things with.
Unfortunately it's gradually getting more difficult to use cash at the big box stores. Most registers at Walmart and Lowes seem to be self checkout card only with very few that accept cash. I don't like Walmart but I also don't like spending more money for the same items elsewhere so I tolerate Walmart I guess.
My sister does that a lot. She'll use credit cards instead of debit or cash. My bro's dad does something similar but with vehicles. His dad had traded in vehicles every few years for decades, without ever paying one off which literally is a decades long cycle of never ending debt. I use credit cards only as a means to have good credit but I never swipe one if I don't have the money to pay it off in full.
I also maintain quite a bit of savings but partly because I'd like to move from where I'm at and buy a house and that 20% down payment on a home loan certainly isn't cheap. I also maintain a savings for any potential emergencies that could occur. I hope that I'll never have to depend on a credit card for something but I suppose they can be good to have if ever needed. It really comes down to money management though.
The "precipice" seems to be likely to be related to poverty & homelessness more than anything else. Exposing criminals, pedophiles, etc might wake some people up but a lot of people won't wake up until their own individual lives are fucked up. A lot of people are selfish by nature and will require their luxuries in life to be taken. When people feel the pain financially to where everything they work for is gone then they'll wake up.
Until then, a lot of people will dismiss most things they see or hear around as it won't directly affect their own lives. It will be just like it is with big corporations that only make positive changes when the cash flow begins to dry up enough to impact profits. When people lose their new cars, have to move out of their house into a cheap apartment or trailer then struggle to afford even that and some facing risk of homelessness and real poverty then people will begin to pay attention.
As long as people are doing well financially, a lot of people will either be oblivious to what is going on or simply won't care. Seeing criminals brought to justice for crimes against humanity will not be a precipice type event. It might seem like it should be but a lot of people don't care what is going on, a lot of people won't believe what is going on, but when their way of life is destroyed then they'll begin to take notice.
I haven't had any vaccine since I was a child, decades ago but I also never get sick. I never played the mask games that many took part in which caused major inconveniences but. I went into stores during the brief period of mask stupidity but without a mask. It never was bad here in FL but the only stores that wanted me to wear a mask were in shopping malls. I never put on the mask and since that day, I never went inside of a shopping mall again which honestly was a great thing which saved me lots of money.
That same day a few years ago, a security guard in one of the malls wanted me and my ex-wife to put on a mask but instead we left. I don't know if she's been in a mall again but I certainly haven't and I'm able to personally boycott a business for life even if it causes me inconvenience. I've been awake to what's going on for decades though. Once someone sees the world for what it really is, it's impossible to ever truly go back to normal. You will notice things you never noticed before, even very subtle things in life.
Most of those lefties as people call them or ipad smashers as OP called them, are the type of people that are physically frail and weak. These people sit at computers day and night. They're on phones, tables, laptops, computers, all the time. They don't actively nor regularly exercise.
They consume lots of soy and yes that's not a joke. Read ingredients for a lot of food in your supermarkets and a lot of foods contain soy. These processed, prepackaged, and precooked foods are not a healthy option but they're not a horrible option either, just don't eat that junk daily.
It's increasingly more difficult for the average person to eat healthy everyday because that would require buying groceries from local farms, some of which have their own small market stores to shop at but obviously for a higher price due to fresh food without all of the endless preservatives.
Per the US census bureau, around 43% of adults earn 25k or less per year and 70% of adults earn below 50k per year so the majority of people cannot easily afford to eat healthy every day. Some soy in your diet can be healthy as long as it's not in everything you eat.
Our supposed enemies live off of soy, some even drink soy milk which honestly is amusing but it is what it is. These people though have taken the jobs that can destroy people like us. These people work for big tech, for government, law enforcement, courts, and more. They chose to get jobs that can give them power over the lives of others while many Americans chose jobs that produce things for society.
If there were ever a war with physicality then obviously it would not amount to anything because most of those lefties never even held a gun before. A lot of them probably never even got into a fist fight before and lack the physical strength to do any damage. They can wreck people's lives though through other means.
A lot of us don't like the political type of work because it requires a certain level of dishonesty and betrayal to gain power politically which many of us despise. Many of us despise dishonesty and betrayal but more of us would need to win local elections and retake our country from the parasites infecting it.
This can take decades though. I don't believe we'll ever need to be like those spartans and battle anyone but if we did, it wouldn't be much of a battle. The main problem though with political shit is that the left wants to control everything and be in everyone's business while the right simply wants to live life and be left alone.
For things to truly change would require more of us to step into aspects of life that we prefer to avoid, to make that change or else it will continue to get worse. There is nothing really accomplished by physical warfare in this type of war because our enemy is largely a lot of adults that are still mentally children.
Yup, it sure would be nice. I'm doing good in life but I know a lot of people are not. I also know that a minimum wage job is not supposed to be a career job that can support someone or a family but now days people stuck on minimum wage jobs barely get by in life. Some people get stuck on minimum wage jobs because maybe their career job did lots of layoffs which happens more often than people might think. There's also elderly people that retired years ago but had to go back to work in their 80s to be able to pay their bills.
A lot of people don't ever take a moment to think about the millions of people dealing with real struggle. Sure if the financial were properly fixed then I'd be living a much nicer life but I've never been a greedy person though. I have plenty of land, a home, vehicle, money saved up, etc but I've also given up things over the past several years. Fortunately I'm able to maintain a good savings without having to use it because we never know what might happen in life from day to day and although I have credit cards, I'd prefer to not depend on them for any unexpected major expenses.
I know this website GAW, has largely focused on Q related things but it has to be more than just talking about the evil snakes hiding in the shadows one day finally seeing justice served. Back when my parents were alive, a few years ago, one of their neighbors was an older woman that had worked for a company right at 20 years and was planning to retire after 20 years but the company decided to lay off everyone that was near retiring. Fortunately she was able to hire a lawyer to get her retirement but lots of people have been getting screwed heavily in recent years all over America.
Wouldn't a TV remote be wider than the mallet handle lol?
I remember when 1 acre was commonly under $1,000. The problem with buying land is what you want to use the land for. If you want to put a home there then you have to have a house built or a trailer put there, both of which are major expenses. Then the septic, water, power pole, etc has to be done and septic and water alone can cost $20,000 on top of whatever the cost is for the home.
It's difficult for a normal person to get multiple large loans to cover those different expenses which is why people typically go after a home with everything already there. If you can afford it, you can make land arable though but it would involve a lot of work and possibly more money than it's worth. You can have several feet of soil and dirt/clay removed and replaced with top soil that would be arable. The problem would be the cost because top soil takes up to 5 years to create.
I probably shouldn't have said rich but instead should have said much more financially stable. I see all the time where lots of people are struggling to survive, struggling to keep a home, and afford food, etc. If the past 50+ years of our financial system being fucked with was corrected then people would essentially have 5 to 8 times more wealth when prices went down and the value of a dollar went up.
One good example I remember from my youth was back in 1994 when I worked at Burger King for $4.25/hr while going to school. Back then a whopper was $1 so 1 hour of work could literally buy 4 whoppers but now days whoppers are over $4 and here in FL I think minimum wage is like $11/hr. I haven't had a minimum wage job in like 25 years but I think it's at 11/hr now but working 1 hour now at that wage would only afford a person 2 whoppers whereas in the early 90s 4.25/hr could buy 4 whoppers.
Gas back then was as cheap as 69 cent per gallon in some places. A large portion of inflation is caused by government wasting money and causing the value of the dollar to go down. If it were ever corrected, people wouldn't be literally rich but people would be able to afford a house, a car, food to make proper meals with, etc. People wouldn't have to struggle to survive each month.
Per the US census bureau, around 43% of adults earns 25k or less per year. If we take a person earning 25k gross income and that person wants to rent a home, typically a landlord will require the person to earn 3x the rent in monthly income which would be around $2,083 per month and that needs to be divided by 3 to get the max amount of rent they'll likely be approved for which would be around $694.
In most cities now days, a roach infested borderline condemned tiny studio apartment costs $700 and up so 43% of adults are likely having to live with family or have roommates just to be able to afford a cheap home. If the person chooses a roommate then they'd need a 2br home which will increase that price at least to $900 or higher which would allow the two people to get over that 3x threshold.
No one can force a landlord to lower their prices, as far as I know so even if the financial system were fixed there might still be lots of greedy landlords trying to milk tenants for every extra dollar possible. It is very easy to afford a mortgage for a house but banks typically require a 20% down payment which is what makes buying a home out of reach for many.
An average ole 3br house with 1/4th acre yard will easily be $200,000 and up. At the bottom end of $200,000 would be a $40,000 down payment up front. How many people earning 25k or even 50k per year can come up with a 40k down payment? There are government programs to help low income people get a mortgage with a low to no down payment but then the monthly mortgage payment would be considerably higher.
Regardless though, if the financial system were ever fixed, people would at least have a chance to have a good home instead of struggling to afford dumpy homes.
I was wondering that too. Why the hell would he try to stick a mallet handle up his ass over video game rage lol?
Just imagine how rich everyone would be if this corrupted and broken financial system were fixed or restructured. It's late here, almost 3am so I'm not going to try to remember everything off the top of my head but the value of the dollar should be many times higher than it currently is and the value of a lot of property is higher than it should be.
Maybe I'm wrong but wouldn't that essentially mean things being much cheaper again and the dollar being worth more which would significantly increase purchasing power of an individual?
It's a strategy though. They are fine with looking weak and being laughed at because that removes a lot of attention off of them in regard to the normies.
Things typically happen in cycles throughout history. I could detail all that I can think of offhand but then I'd be typing for hours and hours so I'll just name a few examples. People fought to escape crown rule when the USA began then we had a good stretch of peace but then came the civil war for more hard times through war.
Then society began to evolve and improve but then came more wars and the great depression. After that things began to boom with some wars and conflicts along the way. Then came the more recent shit of recent years which will be due to be over with largely within the next few years then it will likely be many decades for the next major bit of shit to happen.
Lots of things happen in cycles though. Even the housing market with the housing bubble that bursts in repeated cycles. Increased demand for houses cause the prices to go way up but when people are no longer able to afford those higher prices and homes start sitting empty, then the prices drop and more people are able to have houses but then the cycle begins its next repeat.
1,000 years of peace has never been possible but we could possibly hope for all that we're currently dealing with being the last cycle of shit to happen during our life times at least. The cycles always repeat and almost always are caused by the rich and powerful that wants more wealth and more power and control. Even if all of the rich magically just died, the cycle would still repeat because new rich people would emerge.
When a new batch of rich people emerged then they would build up rich families and eventually the cycle would once again repeat, as it always has throughout history. We could better prevent it with modern technology and internet but we would also need more actual patriots winning local level elections and being held accountable to prevent them from becoming corrupt like every politician does eventually.
Don't let a piece of garbage criminal earn any praise for doing something good. Those in prisons are among the worst scum society needs to be rid of, everyone in prison.
I used to want to travel more but recent years have made me happy to be in FL and not want to deal with the insanity that's been going on in recent years.
They spread popularity of a digital currency by selling people the convenience of it. It's kind of like how people can use their phone to pay for items in some stores without needing to swipe a debit/credit card or pull out cash. Eventually the people falling for it all will be those accepting implanted computer chips to make the process of checking out in a store easier. These likely would also be the people that would be ok with staying home and letting robots delivery everything they need to their home.
I use credit cards because good credit is needed so that I can have the option to buy a house since those are difficult to afford in cash. Other than that, I have no use for credit. Often times I'll spend just cash because I don't want my spending to be tracked. If you have an account with Walmart's website and have a card linked to that account, if you swipe that card at your local Walmart, your online account will show all of your purchases although you shopped in the local store.
They track everything. It's only a matter of time before places like Walmart will use facial recognition or whatever to track purchases even when paying with cash. Smaller stores are gradually being squeezed out by stores like Walmart which has been going on for decades.
Yup. In a lot of countries, we are no longer even free to walk away from society. If you try to leave then the land you end up on will be owned by government most likely if it's a forest area. Government wants everyone paying their taxes. If you own your own land you still have to pay taxes on the land you already own or government will steal it from you. If you choose to rent then the landlord is paying those taxes but you still get plenty of other taxes to pay.
Government using their thug police to go after people wishing to have fresh air and some freedom camping, are just doing that for power and control. They couldn't have people outdoors actually living life while the news media said covid was the most deadly virus known to man on repeat. Wear 20 masks inside your own home, by yourself, in a room to yourself. Wash your hands 500 times per day, it got really silly.
I am fortunate enough to live where the covid bs was largely ignored but I've seen plenty enough video on the internet to see how bizarre and crazy it got in some places. I can only imagine how rough it has been for people living in those areas. I've been able to continue living my life as if covid never existed.
I believe so too. I just said within 20 years because it could be delayed, we just can't completely predict the future. I know there are already forms of digital currencies today already. I just don't know how they'd be able to completely remove cash. I was talking to my bro a while back about this actually. I told him if the digital currency was forced on us that some people would just return to the old bartering system to trade things to bypass a digital currency tracking everything they do.
Of course we can't do this with things like cars and homes because to have a car, you have to have registered to have a tag and to own a home you have to pay property tax. There's no such thing as true freedom anymore. If any of us wanted to go 200 miles into a forest to live for free off the grid, you can actually go to prison for that here in America. I seen a story about a guy that did that for over 20 years that went to prison when government found out he had built a little cabin hundreds of miles in a forest away from people.
I'm not one to get into doom related shit but if things continue in the direction they are going, it could very much be possible that within 20 years we will see a digital currency along with everything being digital. It could even get to the point where internet, cell phones, power, and more could be turned off remotely for people that oppose government overreach.
The ability to remotely disable vehicles has existed for years since some places use it in combination with a car repo. So far those types of places has said that the vehicle would not be remotely turned off while something is driving it but would instead make the vehicle unable to crank up again. Of course it would then become a crime to bypass that on your own vehicle.
Once more and more robots replace human jobs and government kills millions more jobs around the world, it can certainly create the reality where most people no longer can afford a car of their own. This could also lead to government doing away with people paying cash for riding a bus because they could easily manipulate the smart cards people use for city buses. It could get much worse before it gets better.
I think the elites underestimate people's resolve though. Sure some people would cave and give in to everything but some of us would simply choose to walk where we needed to go, if it came down to that. The precipice is supposed to be something quite bad but perhaps it will be a culmination of things adding up to eventually wake up the sleeping sheep.
so they want to kill jobs paying 50k to 100k and leave those people to take jobs for 25k, essentially putting career employees nearly into poverty
I would like to see my governor DeSantis as president but he needs to shut up, get in line, and wait his turn because most of us want our 4 more years of Trump first.
Some people just never learn though. There are some people legitimately on disability that would prefer to be able to work but can't but then there are people abusing the system that are able to work. Then we have those that simply don't want to work and will vote for whichever politician promises them free things. There are around 70 million people I believe, that draw some form of social security so it's just unrealistic for social security to be able to determine who is abusing it and who is actually in need of it. You see all of the leftist insanity though so you know some of them aren't playing with a full deck and will blindly vote for who they are told will give them things.
They are gullible though, gullible enough to repeated fall for the lies politicians tell them. It goes back to an old saying "you can't fix stupid" so I guess it is what it is.
It amazes me how some people still believe that politicians have ever done things for the right reasons. Even the founding of the USA had its share of crooked shady shit but that would be a long conversation. When a politician does something good, there's always a motive for that good dead and it's not just to do the right thing but a lot of people believe otherwise. I mean, I could say I liked Bill Clinton because he's the last president to give us gas under $1 per gallon but I doubt he had anything to do with those gas prices before Bush came along and forever started the trend of high gas prices.
Lincoln freed slaves for political gain, you are right about that. Some people will argue about how great he was but no one knows if he was a good person or a complete piece of shit unless it's written in history. We both know a lot of history is hidden or altered. Both political parties have their agendas, it just seems that the Democrat party often is the worst of the two.