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Dearest @corbe
Where is the 420 option? Just kidding. what444
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It was a Stoners forgetfulness @Gefn
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It was a Stoners forgetfulness @Gefn
No worries, this is a good poll.
And I learned a new word.
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You left off one option I could have voted for....What day is it? happy77
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Seems as good a place as any to put this:
Here Are 11 Statistics That Show How U.S. Consumers Are Faring In This Rapidly Deteriorating Economy
May 25, 2022 by Michael
Prices are soaring, there are widespread shortages of certain items such as baby formula all over the nation, and at the same time U.S. economic activity appears to be really slowing down. Considering all of that, it makes perfect sense why the American people are feeling so negative about the economy right now. In fact, a whopping 85 percent of all Americans believe that there will be a recession within the next year. These days, it is virtually impossible to get Americans to overwhelmingly agree about anything, and so the fact that 85 percent of us are anticipating a recession is a really big deal. Just about everyone realizes that economic conditions are going to get worse, but for those of you that still doubt where we are headed here are 11 statistics that show how U.S. consumers are faring in this rapidly deteriorating economy…
#1 According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll that was recently conducted, 56 percent of Americans say that their financial situations are getting worse, and only 20 percent of Americans say that their financial situations are improving.
#2 Another new survey has just discovered that 66 percent of Americans “have avoided social events because they’ve felt embarrassed or uncomfortable” about their financial situations.
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/here-are-11-statistics-that-show-how-u-s-consumers-are-faring-in-this-rapidly-deteriorating-economy/ (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/here-are-11-statistics-that-show-how-u-s-consumers-are-faring-in-this-rapidly-deteriorating-economy/)
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Americans can agree if they are asked selectively worded questions about specifics.
But politicians, pollsters, and media manufacture disagreement by conducting polls using broad questions peppered with political dog whistles.
The same happened in the 1990s with the East Coast vs West Coast alleged rap feud that saw Big E Smalls and Tupac Shakur murdered. Until then, the industry's stakeholders encouraged the feud to boost interest, ratings, sales, and profits.
Much the same, the over-consolidated corporate comglomerate-owned media empires and the centralized, consolidated donor-owned political parties create and exaggerate disagreement to get viewers, votes, ratings, donations, and profits.
If Americans were in a agreement, imagine how many political science majors would be flipping burgers.
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch.
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four—
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return.
Rudyard Kipling 1919
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I'm a realist. Things are continuing to go to schit and those that think that miraculously the leftists and globalists are going to give up their chokehold on this country are dreaming.
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I've been around long enough to realize that things, in fact, do not turn out okay. If they do, you're incredibly lucky.
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It is the season for Comanche Raids, isn't it?
That is what's becoming of what little is left of my optimism.
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Stocks, Bonds, Crypto, and Real Estate: The Whole House of Cards Is Coming Down
by Mike Adams June 16, 2022 in Opinions
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The Fed raised interest rates by 0.75% today (75 basis points), fulfilling their promise to attempt to reverse the runaway inflation that they caused in the first place by printing trillions of dollars and flooding the markets with cheap or nearly-free funds (zero percent interest rates, for example).
As of right now, America’s real estate bubble is now in the process of a catastrophic collapse. The stock market is collapsing and the crypto universe is absolutely imploding. “The crypto apocalypse is here,” writes Michael Snyder from End of the American Dream:
Over the last seven months, we have witnessed a cryptocurrency collapse that is so epic that it is truly difficult to put it into words… approximately two-thirds of the value of all cryptocurrencies has already been wiped out. Some are calling this a “crash”, but the truth is that this is the sort of full-blown “collapse” that so many have been warning about for such a long time. A lot of crypto investors are now deeply in the red, and the outlook for the months ahead is very bleak.
Meanwhile, the average stock portfolio is down 31% this year alone, and the downside still remaining now looks like a deep, ominous chasm of financial devastation that’s going to suck the vast majority of American into financial destitution.
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https://noqreport.com/2022/06/16/stocks-bonds-crypto-and-real-estate-the-whole-house-of-cards-is-coming-down/ (https://noqreport.com/2022/06/16/stocks-bonds-crypto-and-real-estate-the-whole-house-of-cards-is-coming-down/)
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Normally I am, but that all changes while the democrats are in power.
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https://youtu.be/PuExXxMQCa0 (https://youtu.be/PuExXxMQCa0)