nudistsueaz · 61-69, F
@fanuc2013 🎯
PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP
While you were asleep In my view SCOTUS already commited a judical coup as there's no way to strike down our Campaign Finance laws without striking down the republic itself because if you make it easier for billionaires to peddle influence you're effectively enabling the rich to buy the laws they want and a republic is a nation of laws but it's absurd to believe a country where the rich can buy the laws they want is still a nation of laws and so what SCOTUS did by siding with Citizens United Against the Federal elections comission in Citizens united VS the Federal elections comission and siding with McCutcheon during McCutcheon vs Federal Election Commission, was a Judicial Coup de'tat that struck down the republic and ushered in our Current form of government which is essentially a Weird mix of Kakocracy (or more commonly, kakistocracy) refers to a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. Derived from the Greek words kakistos (worst) and kratos (rule), it describes a system of ineptitude, corruption, or moral decay, often used in political critique and Plutocracy A plutocracy is a form of government or society controlled exclusively by the wealthy, where power is held by a small, affluent elite rather than the broader population. It represents a "rule by the rich," often functioning as a type of oligarchy where financial resources dictate political outcomes and policy.
in essence they could not possibly strike down our campaign finances laws without ushering in a new form of government and so by doing so they committed High Treason against the republic in their conservative judicial activism that changed our country's form of government.And we all know the only apppropiate punishment for Traitors don't we? This was more than a bad ruling, it was Treason.
in essence they could not possibly strike down our campaign finances laws without ushering in a new form of government and so by doing so they committed High Treason against the republic in their conservative judicial activism that changed our country's form of government.And we all know the only apppropiate punishment for Traitors don't we? This was more than a bad ruling, it was Treason.
Thatsright · 61-69, M
Pretty good.
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
Broache73 · 51-55, F
The American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers are indoctrinated to think Government is benevolent and it’s "WE THE PEOPLE". They vote every 4 years and it's a choice between The Lesser of Two Evils/The Evil of two Lessers.
Why do American Voters still tolerate crushing Taxes when the Government’s only real talent is wasting Capital and punishing Productivity? The embodiment of this is Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, the Levant. The Military Industrial Complex and the Warfare State.
Taxation and Central Banking has betrayed the idea of America. Taxes are not only unnecessary for running a Civil society, but Evil (See Market for Liberty). Nobody discusses the moral dimensions of taxation. People only talk about vacuous technical details such as, Are Taxes too high or too low? Should the Rich be Taxed more? How should Taxes be spent? People accept the institution of the State, with its coercion, Taxes, and inflated Currency. What passes for a philosophical discussion is whether you should support the equally loathsome Duopoly of Democrats or Republicans.
The American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers have been thoroughly indoctrinated with Collectivist Philosophy over generations that produces failure after failure. They've come to conflate the State with Society, thinking that they're the same thing. In fact, the State is a dead hand on Society and the enemy of the Common man. Now, in the 21st century, most American Taxpayers and Consumers are directly or indirectly reliant upon the Government. If the Government collapses under its unrepayable debt, and its Currency loses all value, American Voters will not see the State as the problem, they’ll see it as the only solution. They’ll clamor for a stronger Government, more Benefits, run by a Strong Man who seems to have all the answers.
April 15th passed, you calculated what you owe the State to tighten the noose around your own neck. You as an American Voter should be both angry and ashamed. We know that protesting too loudly or not paying enough results in bankruptcy or incarceration.
Preserving your personal Wealth doesn’t solve the bigger problem— you're being hunted by a Government predator, slowly eaten by the Government parasite. That predator is hungrier and virulent.
Why do American Voters still tolerate crushing Taxes when the Government’s only real talent is wasting Capital and punishing Productivity? The embodiment of this is Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, the Levant. The Military Industrial Complex and the Warfare State.
Taxation and Central Banking has betrayed the idea of America. Taxes are not only unnecessary for running a Civil society, but Evil (See Market for Liberty). Nobody discusses the moral dimensions of taxation. People only talk about vacuous technical details such as, Are Taxes too high or too low? Should the Rich be Taxed more? How should Taxes be spent? People accept the institution of the State, with its coercion, Taxes, and inflated Currency. What passes for a philosophical discussion is whether you should support the equally loathsome Duopoly of Democrats or Republicans.
The American Public, Taxpayers, and Consumers have been thoroughly indoctrinated with Collectivist Philosophy over generations that produces failure after failure. They've come to conflate the State with Society, thinking that they're the same thing. In fact, the State is a dead hand on Society and the enemy of the Common man. Now, in the 21st century, most American Taxpayers and Consumers are directly or indirectly reliant upon the Government. If the Government collapses under its unrepayable debt, and its Currency loses all value, American Voters will not see the State as the problem, they’ll see it as the only solution. They’ll clamor for a stronger Government, more Benefits, run by a Strong Man who seems to have all the answers.
April 15th passed, you calculated what you owe the State to tighten the noose around your own neck. You as an American Voter should be both angry and ashamed. We know that protesting too loudly or not paying enough results in bankruptcy or incarceration.
Preserving your personal Wealth doesn’t solve the bigger problem— you're being hunted by a Government predator, slowly eaten by the Government parasite. That predator is hungrier and virulent.
Ohplease47 · F
Well I just signed up to be an elections poll worker here in the big vast uber-naziland, northeastern OK. Will see the real truth there on the faces and bodylanguage of voters.
The brainwashing seems pretty complete though. Alternative political media, both audio visual, and print/online...is not something people know to seek out.
Very scary, the overt fascism all around hurts us and our good souls and our little dogs too. Dorothy's witches are way more impending and threatening, than they were even in thirty nine.
I discovered Pacifica WBAI in 1968 and Freech Speech TV in 2000 and Max Blumenthal the journalist in 2025. Just a tiny sample of the many good sources still out there, humane and good hearted and mostly uncompromised people/sources....trying to hold the line of truth against the ocean waves of unnatural death and demented cultural social and political madness we suffer from now!!!
Just a tiny share..
Please connect with me in person, loneliness drives people to depend on the "whatever u seem to want" machine called Chat GPT, and then get turned into whatever Orwell's Big Brother and the MAGA masters seem to need us to be.
Maybe you know what I mean.
The brainwashing seems pretty complete though. Alternative political media, both audio visual, and print/online...is not something people know to seek out.
Very scary, the overt fascism all around hurts us and our good souls and our little dogs too. Dorothy's witches are way more impending and threatening, than they were even in thirty nine.
I discovered Pacifica WBAI in 1968 and Freech Speech TV in 2000 and Max Blumenthal the journalist in 2025. Just a tiny sample of the many good sources still out there, humane and good hearted and mostly uncompromised people/sources....trying to hold the line of truth against the ocean waves of unnatural death and demented cultural social and political madness we suffer from now!!!
Just a tiny share..
Please connect with me in person, loneliness drives people to depend on the "whatever u seem to want" machine called Chat GPT, and then get turned into whatever Orwell's Big Brother and the MAGA masters seem to need us to be.
Maybe you know what I mean.
KunsanVeteran · M
Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M
Of all Trump's follies, screwing your international 'friends' over in the hope of improving your party donors lot at home is certainly the most risky.
The whole Middle-East map will change and the lack of 'friends' anywhere in the world isolates the country; American international business and the Dollar completely.
The whole Middle-East map will change and the lack of 'friends' anywhere in the world isolates the country; American international business and the Dollar completely.
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Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M
@Strictmichael75 Then it's clearly an attempt at market manipulation.
Stock; shares; commodities; consumables.
At a time when any paper guarantee is worth little
Stock; shares; commodities; consumables.
At a time when any paper guarantee is worth little
Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
@Picklebobble2 it sad that most Americans don’t understand that if his crypto money goes under it’s the American tax payer that reimburses him
Picklebobble2 · 61-69, M
@Strictmichael75 Which of course they won't be able to. At least not within a generation probably.
Given the predictable economic status if the last 10 years is anything to go by.
So that's Gen.x screwed with regard to any pension contributions; investments and life insurance policies they have.
I still think this is all part of a plan to ensure many Gen.x'ers return to their parents homes and take care of their 'boomer parents in old age.
Reducing the pressure on companies to commit to fair hours; pay and conditions and tempering the expectations of bond investors of better returns considering how much they invested over the years.
Given the predictable economic status if the last 10 years is anything to go by.
So that's Gen.x screwed with regard to any pension contributions; investments and life insurance policies they have.
I still think this is all part of a plan to ensure many Gen.x'ers return to their parents homes and take care of their 'boomer parents in old age.
Reducing the pressure on companies to commit to fair hours; pay and conditions and tempering the expectations of bond investors of better returns considering how much they invested over the years.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, MVIP
I am not going to get involved in the morality of your case here, although I have personal opinions. But I will stand up and support the financial and economic statements regarding the state of the nation. Continually printing money for decades and burying the debt in a hole disguised as treasury bonds has delayed the evil day.. But its coming due. And those bonds have already sold the retiring generation and the stability of the banks who own them up the river, without a paddle. They are GONE. So anyone planning to use a employer pension or 401K for a nice retirement, in ten years. Think again.😷
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, MVIP
@Thinkerbell Relative currency depreciation is something that has at times been a fun game. For a short time post WW2 it was possible to Start with $US (if you knew the right people) move it through gold, then pounds sterling and a couple of other lesser players and end us with more $US than you started with. And a few people made a tidy pile before it was stopped.
This is why I dont like the idea of using ANY currency as the defining measure of value. I want to know either how many hours of labour do you have to provide to buy something.. Or, how many ounces of gold will it take to buy it. And almost no economy can stand up to those standards. Basing a currency on anything else is subject to corruption for the sake of politics..😷
This is why I dont like the idea of using ANY currency as the defining measure of value. I want to know either how many hours of labour do you have to provide to buy something.. Or, how many ounces of gold will it take to buy it. And almost no economy can stand up to those standards. Basing a currency on anything else is subject to corruption for the sake of politics..😷
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@whowasthatmaskedman
Well, that's very interesting, but I was talking about long-term cumulative currency depreciation.
If the present-day dollar is headed for a hyperinflation catastrophe, why isn't the GBP headed for one too? It seems to already have a 3x headstart on the dollar.
"For a short time post WW2 it was possible to Start with $US (if you knew the right people) move it through gold, then pounds sterling and a couple of other lesser players and end us with more $US than you started with."
Well, that's very interesting, but I was talking about long-term cumulative currency depreciation.
If the present-day dollar is headed for a hyperinflation catastrophe, why isn't the GBP headed for one too? It seems to already have a 3x headstart on the dollar.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, MVIP
@Thinkerbell I am not saying America is headed for hyperinflation. I am saying that IF America doesnt take steps to avoid some of the mines it is currently surrounded by in the econopmic minefield it has blundered into (and so far it has shown no awareness it is even in the minefield) then hyperinflation is a real possibilty. But frankly, since currency went digital, it could in fact be worse. Imagine if you will getting up tomorrow morning and finding that your ATM card balance had been reduced to zero overnight, and it was legal. Your money was just "gone ''.
On your other point, Britain is an interesting case study. Again, a lot of factors. But you cant do an apples and apples comparison with America. It is a currency based on trade and finance, rather than production..However, unlike the $US it is not a currency used as an international means of trade and so, cant be printed with impunity. Then there was the porrly timed and worse executed Brexit, which really cut the economy off at the knees, followed by Covid.. They had the worst luck, and Boris Johnson..😷
On your other point, Britain is an interesting case study. Again, a lot of factors. But you cant do an apples and apples comparison with America. It is a currency based on trade and finance, rather than production..However, unlike the $US it is not a currency used as an international means of trade and so, cant be printed with impunity. Then there was the porrly timed and worse executed Brexit, which really cut the economy off at the knees, followed by Covid.. They had the worst luck, and Boris Johnson..😷
Ohplease47 · F
@Broache73 good🥹
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, MVIP
@Broache73 There is a lot to unpack here. But first, it is worth reminding everyone this is presented by Gold/precious metal/mining interests.
But having said that, it does also present my interpretation of the interconnectedness of all things. The US economy and its Emperor who has no clothes, The political corruption , particularly in the US and Israel, The long view taken by China to displace America as a global leader and the evaporation of the $US as a global currency and possibility even a reliable means of exchange within America. Also the sudden drop in living standards within the US, when the fallacy of the Treasury bonds in Financial Institutions and Pension funds suddenly becomes apparent to anyone planning to retire within 20 years. Obviously this isnt good,, But its all going to be made so much worse but the completely counterproductive moves of the current US administration, who seem for all intents and purposes to be trying to make the looming disaster worse, while profiting from it in the short term..
Now this is dry, boring stuff, although not too technical for anyone to follow, so I commend it to everyone. Because for its flaws, it DOES contain all the facts in one place in a way I have rarely seen..😷
But having said that, it does also present my interpretation of the interconnectedness of all things. The US economy and its Emperor who has no clothes, The political corruption , particularly in the US and Israel, The long view taken by China to displace America as a global leader and the evaporation of the $US as a global currency and possibility even a reliable means of exchange within America. Also the sudden drop in living standards within the US, when the fallacy of the Treasury bonds in Financial Institutions and Pension funds suddenly becomes apparent to anyone planning to retire within 20 years. Obviously this isnt good,, But its all going to be made so much worse but the completely counterproductive moves of the current US administration, who seem for all intents and purposes to be trying to make the looming disaster worse, while profiting from it in the short term..
Now this is dry, boring stuff, although not too technical for anyone to follow, so I commend it to everyone. Because for its flaws, it DOES contain all the facts in one place in a way I have rarely seen..😷