To paraphrase George Orwell, the democratic issue is; " All voters are equal, but the donor class voters are more equal than the rest of us." It is time for the "To Big To Fail" class to get the benefits of capitalism!
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With new clarity on Trump, we should speak frankly about his decision March 13-16, 2020, to approve and then champion the most despotic and previously unthinkable policies in US history, including forced universal human separation (6 feet no less), wreckage of small business, school closures, court closures, several trillion in spending and printing, murderous hospital protocols, and signing off on legislation that enabled massive voter fraud, among other outrages.
This was his decision as president. He approved everything Fauci wanted. Yes, he changed his mind several months later but it was too late. Then there's the great inoculation. Trump actually believed the hokum that the lab-created virus could be un-created with an injection – the most preposterous idea that anyone with a first-year medical text could have debunked in one conversation. Did he make that call? No, he trusted industrial ghouls and their agency assets.
Please don't tell me this was only the governors. We have every receipt not to mention hours of press conferences. I wrote an entire book about this that came out in October 2020.
Why in the world was he reelected in 2024? Because the decrepit hologram who succeeded him after he lost in 2020 was even worse, because he forced the injection on the population even while inviting in millions of migrants without a care about disease at all, while censoring all critics on social media.
So Trump was already the worst president ever until his successor was even worse, leaving voters with no choice but to tag the previous guy to fix what he started. He did not. He didn't want to hear about it. He never admitted a single error. Then came Covid 2.0 which was the Iran War: similar model (stamp out the bad thing) and same calamitous results.
The poor suffering American people. It's humiliating. Regardless of the midterm outcomes, nearly everyone agrees that this entire class of rulers and their sponsors has to go. To be sure, Trump 2.0 did some good early on, some wonderful things but the program derailed and then reversed, just like the first term.
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Not electing Buchanan as president is America’s biggest electoral failure in the last 4 decades.
Happy 88th Birthday, Pat.
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If he was actually worried about the health and safety of his daughter, he woudl be voting to end all immmigration and repeal the Civil Rights Act
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It is noteworthy that Dimon found it necessary to even publicly make this point.
In 1995, when I started in finance...or 2000...or 2005... or 2010...or even 2015, Dimon would have never had to say this because it would've been as redundant as saying "the sun rises in the east."
Jamie Dimon to a country that pulled its gold out of New York: you have three armies within 400 miles, while gold in America is protected by two oceans and the US military
“If we have the strongest military in the world and the strongest economy in the world, we will be the preeminent reserve currency. It is those two things.”
“I was in a country somewhere in the Middle East, and also in Europe, and the people said, we took our gold out of the vaults in New York City and moved it to our country. You know what I said to him? I said, you have three armies within 400 miles who can come take your gold.”
“That’s the real world. You’re not thinking clearly about safety. That gold is protected by the Atlantic, the Pacific, the United States military, the rule of law.”
“But if we are not the preeminent military and economy, you will see our reserve status come down.”
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Let's say you are a builder of houses with a great idea. You can do a poor job – a pipe that leaks, a circuit that shorts out, a roof that has to be replaced in a year – and then get contracted to fix things, providing a permanent income stream.
Great racket huh?
You say it would not work, because the owners would litigate against such a scam company and drive it to bankruptcy. That's true. It would not work.
Now compare to pharmaceutical companies and the medical system generally. The business model above works for them because of liability shields, 3rd-party payments, forced subscription services, tax subsidies, and business cartels, among other scams.
This is why the medical system is so screwed up. They are the housing developers who build things to break so that they can profit from pretending to fix the things they made to break. They get away with it.
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"China's stock market has gone nowhere since 2007" -US consensus
"Chinese buy lots of gold b/c their stock market has gone nowhere since 2007 & their property bubble burst." -US consensus
"The gold Chinese have bought has outperformed SPX Total Return since 1998" 👇 -Few🤯
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RE: "If we're mining asteroids for titanium, and dropping 10ton pallets of gold as a byproduct into the ocean for "funsies,""
Why don't we start with rebuilding the Francis Scott Key bridge in < a decade? :)
Preach it Brother! Preach it!
I am facing issues that are really weighing on me heavily. I used to think the world was entertaining. It now just seems like a total shit show.
They are still vaccinating kids with lethal shit. Pharma still tries to find good drugs but will market bad ones. Those marketing SNRIs and SSRIs should be tried for mass murder. Addictions to these drugs are worse than heroin addictions. While on this topic, Fauci should be taken to the Hague.
Boys are still beating up girls in girls sports. What kind of psychopath supports this crap? Where were the women during this story? Why didn't you shut this shit down? You think you are feminists. Where are you when it counts?
I thought the kids on campus were looking healthy. But then I realized that it is the influence of social media. One girl told me that friends are taking Ozempic. What looked like good health may be poor mental health. It is Generation Anorexia (Gen A).
People complain about taxes while being too stupid to recognize it is the spending not the taxing. We spent all our money killing millions of innocents in the Middle East for no apparent reason. The most grounded leader in the world right now is Vlad Putin. Bring on your criticisms you fuckwads, but I am right, and it is appalling.
I got attacked last year for quoting George Patton. You know who you are. You can eat shit. We can't oppose the war in Iran without being called antisemites. Militant Zionists are the cause of rising antisemitism.
Even if AI doesn't destroy civilization and even if it does a lot of good, it is still gonna suck. Articles about this shit show are put out by lazy people using AI, making them soul-free crap. I cannot stand reading AI written articles. If you are writing articles using AI you are irrelevant. Your graphics are total shit, because you used a machine that has no idea what is needed to capture and retain my attention.
I used to enjoy writing about the world, and now I have no interest in competing against the tsunami of retarded shit writing about topics that are retarded shits. I think this is why I like podcasts: they are people at least...unless they are AI generated.
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Walmart is selling real diamond earrings for $12.
Not a typo. Half-carat lab-grown diamonds, same carbon, graded by the same labs that grade the stone in your engagement ring. A jeweler can't tell them apart without a machine.
And that $12 price tag is why the company that invented the engagement ring is about to get sold for scrap.
De Beers ran the diamond trade for over a century. At its peak it controlled up to 90% of the world's rough supply, and when demand dipped it just locked diamonds in London vaults until prices came back. The slogan "A Diamond Is Forever" came from their ad agency in 1947. So did the rule that a ring should cost two months of your salary. Before that campaign, most American brides never got a diamond at all.
The whole thing held for 80 years because there were only so many mines. Then China started growing diamonds in reactors, and there's no vault on earth big enough to hide a factory's output.
Lab-grown wholesale prices have crashed roughly 96% from their peak, down to around $100 a carat. The Knot says 61% of engagement rings sold in 2025 had lab-grown center stones, up 239% since 2020. Even De Beers' own average selling price fell 32% in a year, to $105 a carat.
So Anglo American, which owns De Beers, has written it down by $6.8 billion in two years and is now in talks to sell the whole thing for about $1 billion. This is a company that was valued over $18 billion in 2001 and $13 billion as recently as 2011.
The stones coming out of the ground are the same as ever. The only scarce thing De Beers ever owned was the marketing, and marketing doesn't survive a $12 price tag at Walmart.
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Translation:
The policymakers and analysts that told investors that "demand for long-dated USTs is fine" either had not done the correct math or they were intentionally lying.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is likely to reduce the auction sizes for long-dated government bonds — and could even cancel sales of 20-year debt altogether, according to Citigroup bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I think Boomers may be the most despised audience segment on X ( which is understandable in many cases).
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Awkward.
That supposedly “fruitless,” demonic Church produced the ONE person in the jury room willing to say three murdered children actually mattered AND that an adult woman remains a moral agent responsible for her actions. Seethe.
The “Romanist” had to remind everyone what modern female dignity and accountability was supposed to look like.
Our bad.
Incoming anti-Catholics about to suddenly defend child murder just to avoid admitting a Catholic stood on business.
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Why launch drones to overtly attack when you can just stand aside as US depletes its own reserves in UKR and Iran and then restrict resupplies of critical bottlenecked goods to the US enough to achieve the same thing without firing a shot?
cc: @DonShift3
