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re: A way to reduce the deficit nobody will talk about
Posted by roothog1 on 6/26/25 at 5:33 pm to OysterPoBoy
We could do this with gold, if you read the US Code it gives the Treasury Secretary wide latitude to bid up the gold market if he wishes.
Then all that needs to be done is to mark gold to market on the Treasury balance sheet, and the Assets will exceed Liabilities.
Then all that needs to be done is to mark gold to market on the Treasury balance sheet, and the Assets will exceed Liabilities.
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re: Study of 1.3 million women found jabbed women had 33% fewer successful conceptions
Posted by roothog1 on 6/26/25 at 2:03 pm to Night Vision
Anecdotally, as an unjabbed man, I did knock up a jabbed woman a year ago.
I tend to believe the jabs hurt the men more than the women. I know everyone jumps to the depopulation conclusions as it fits the narrative and has a boogie man involved too, however, I also think there were competing priorities to the mass jab program. For one thing, the jabs might have created a great financial boost to the IVF industry, which is population control by other means. Especially if it only further neutered the men rather than the women.
It just seems illogical to target sterilization of the women, especially because you might need them (e.g. these tech CEOs who are impregnating tons and tons of women).
I tend to believe the jabs hurt the men more than the women. I know everyone jumps to the depopulation conclusions as it fits the narrative and has a boogie man involved too, however, I also think there were competing priorities to the mass jab program. For one thing, the jabs might have created a great financial boost to the IVF industry, which is population control by other means. Especially if it only further neutered the men rather than the women.
It just seems illogical to target sterilization of the women, especially because you might need them (e.g. these tech CEOs who are impregnating tons and tons of women).
re: Thoughts on “startup nations”, deregulated cities?
Posted by roothog1 on 3/7/25 at 3:47 pm to RelicBatches86
Terrible idea
Also, I suspected Russia might have been the ones who caused the helicopter crash that killed the Iranian President a few years ago, as he was a likely successor. The fact that the Russians been negotiating the Ukraine War end with Trump's people in Saudi Arabia might also suggest this would be Russia's preferred outcome as well. I don't think the Russians want the IRGC to fill the power vacuum anymore than America does.
re: Trump: "interesting days ahead with Iran" ... is the Ayatollah dead?
Posted by roothog1 on 3/7/25 at 3:11 pm to David Fellows
Well if the Ayatollah is dead, this is going to spark off not a revolution but rather a power vacuum that has to then be filled.
If you look up the Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, on Youtube, he's done too many media / conference appearances in the last few years to think this isn't purposeful as a way for him to raise his profile to fill that gap when it emerges.
If you look up the Shah's son, Reza Pahlavi, on Youtube, he's done too many media / conference appearances in the last few years to think this isn't purposeful as a way for him to raise his profile to fill that gap when it emerges.
Trump: "interesting days ahead with Iran" ... is the Ayatollah dead?
Posted by roothog1 on 3/7/25 at 3:03 pm
America is now definitely an enemy of Europe in the sense that America has no interest in being ruled as a social democracy while a veil of oligarchy hides behind it all. That's what Americans loath now more than ever.
We are in fact two different civilizations now, with only a lineage of Europe, but our heritage as Americans is the enemy of Old Europe, and honestly always has.
Americans have changed far too fast and we've forgotten who we are. We can still make it but we must stop the immigration and stop promoting America as an economic zone. We are a people, an American ethnos, we are not the propositional nation. We must teach the youngest generation what being an American means, otherwise I fear this spirit our ancestors had which caused them to come here (for whatever reason, against enormous odds) will disappear very soon. There's just so much fragmentation now, we have to do drastic changes and soon.
We are in fact two different civilizations now, with only a lineage of Europe, but our heritage as Americans is the enemy of Old Europe, and honestly always has.
Americans have changed far too fast and we've forgotten who we are. We can still make it but we must stop the immigration and stop promoting America as an economic zone. We are a people, an American ethnos, we are not the propositional nation. We must teach the youngest generation what being an American means, otherwise I fear this spirit our ancestors had which caused them to come here (for whatever reason, against enormous odds) will disappear very soon. There's just so much fragmentation now, we have to do drastic changes and soon.
re: Trump Gaza looks amazing
Posted by roothog1 on 2/26/25 at 2:56 am to baybeefeetz
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World leaders didn’t used to be publicly into silly shite. If they do from now on, Trump started it. That just is what it is.
World leaders used to privately be into diddling kids and worshipping an owl at Bohemian Grove while publicly pretending to be serious people. Look where that got us.
Trump will win PA because Josh Shapiro will rig the state for him.
Going to be incredibly awkward when PA and MI have wildly divergent results, which btw has only happened once in post-WW2 presidential elections.
Going to be incredibly awkward when PA and MI have wildly divergent results, which btw has only happened once in post-WW2 presidential elections.
Just from a raw business perspective, it doesn't benefit the WNBA to openly admit to there being trannies in the league, however it would benefit them to secretly have them to produce a better on-court product.
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Not to smart, but isn't already broke? Democrats are worried what Trump will do as President I am worried about the corruptin inside our government combined with the snowbowl impact of national debt... it's just a matter of "when things collaspe"
It's collapsing in motion, its death by 1000 cuts.
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Let’s be honest. There is no way it’s 3.4 million now. It’s probably double that and totally on purpose.
I recently learned that 1/3 of Venezuela's population has left since 2015. That's over 9 million people. Not all have gone to the US (in fact, its become kind of a growing issue in the places they've fled like Peru, Ecuador & Colombia).
Part of me thinks that this many people leaving a single country in such a short amount of time could only happen under a state-sponsored human trafficking operation.
What was more effective under Trump was the rhetoric. It dissuaded people from even making the attempt to begin with and once Biden got in, the messaging across the world to come to America changed, so people actually tried. It's as simple as that.
If people think they cant get in with someone tough on border security, they wont even make the attempt to begin with. The wall is more of a physical representation of that rhetoric.
If people think they cant get in with someone tough on border security, they wont even make the attempt to begin with. The wall is more of a physical representation of that rhetoric.
The enemy has always been establishment Republicans. Democrats are going to be democrats, they will steal elections because that's what they do, but its up to the GOP to stop them. That's firmly what I believe what happened in 2020, the GOP just basically helped the Democrats steal so that McConnell could try and regain the upper hand of the party (or his corporate backers could).
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That these cities became wastelands isn't really on the citizenry IMO. This was planned across the board for all major US cities.
SHORPY -- an 'Old Photos / Vintage Photos' website. (punch in "Old" ___)
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Search any of the above "high crime rate" cities before WW2 and you'll be both shocked and saddened by the BEFORE / AFTER post WW2 cities became within 15-20 years. Operation: City Negligence aka, "Urban Renewal" plans were really about.
ALL these cities pre-WW2 were beautiful. Maybe not have been totally safe, but that always been "life in the city". And certainly not (purposely, by design) made a mess, neglected, and its classic olde world architecture knocked down, razed &demolished for no good reason.
Olde Nawlins, Little Rock, many southern towns/cities that were gorgeous in the 1800s -- up to pre-WW2.
This is a result of federal policies, mainly the interstate system, but obviously also the hollowing out of the industrial base which came later. Not to say that was entirely bad, there were a lot of positives for the Western half of the country, but basically that disrupted the natural route of how goods transported throughout the country (which was via the rivers). It also increased the importance of other cities at the expense of previously wealthy ones.
So for example, Buffalo, NY once was the wealthiest city in America at the turn of the century. Not only is it still the best planned American city, it also has fantastic architecture. It's the only city in the country to have had one of America's 4 most prominent architects (Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham and Frederick Olmstead) design either a park or building. Yet Buffalo got completely disrupted by the highway system because of its geographic prominence connecting NYC (via the Erie Canal) to Detroit & Chicago. Not to mention how the highways cut through this idealistically planned American city. St. Louis is another example of this.
Effectively, there was a massive wealth transfer to places like Phoenix, Vegas, Bay Area, LA, etc. all of which benefitted because of the interstate system, plus air conditioning for the Sunbelt areas. If you look at average home value data by city in the 1920s, the wealthiest cities which have since lost the most prominence in relative values ever since, the ones which standout are Buffalo, New Orleans, St. Louis, Detroit, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven, Newark, Richmond, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Youngstown. Not to mention, there were other cities like Baltimore, Cincinnati, Louisville, etc. who were on their way to being a lot wealthier too and had experienced a ton of growth up until the war / interstate system.
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Maybe his is correct this time, but look up other Dimon predictions. He is almost always negative. That guy convinced me several years ago the market was going to crash. Went to cash in my 401k and missed out on a great market run.
You are a pleb, you aren't meant to follow Dimon's advice. He makes these statements for money managers & liberal elites who do listen to him and react accordingly.
re: I finally watched the ENRON Documentary
Posted by roothog1 on 11/1/22 at 11:37 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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What about the government and the Fed? They are worse than Enron and get away with it everyday.
Yep, 100%. The only really well done documentaries I've found that at least try to dig at the system as it is are Adam Curtis, even if he is kind of a leftist, I think he's actually far closer to a conservative than he would admit.
At least with Curtis, you begin to see that for the Federal Reserve to have maintained the dollar system this long, its required the CIA to operate the world's largest drug cartel, or that they're engaged in creating the very terrorism which we then have to go fight abroad. Or that they are involved in massive human trafficking, or that they've been deliberately supporting regimes abroad deploying death squads to kill innocent people, all to secure natural resources our system relies on. Or that our govt has they've been robbing average hard working Americans through complete BS propaganda for over a century & we all just accept it because we have no ability to imagine an alternative version of events.
Documentaries like Smartest Guys in the Room are perfect for low IQ libs who are unable of seeing the forest for the trees when it comes to our economic reality because its taking a tiny sliver of the world & pretending its this horrific thing (because its conveniently framed under this "look at those Republicans over there at Enron, they're the real problem" bs), when literally the bigger picture problem is 1000x worse, to the point where a lot of people would probably have to be admitted to an insane asylum if they knew the truth of what was going on underneath the surface to prop up this horror show.
There is a strange psychological phenomenon with people where they seem to be easily able to emotionally connect on a single issue like Enron or whatever, but somehow there becomes a disconnect at trying to understand the bigger picture, that gets written off as "conspiracy theory". If Enron does anything, it actually proves conspiracy is the way the world they live in works. How foolish do people have to be where powerful people don't conspire daily to grow or at least maintain their existing power.
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Not really, it’s played out during human history.
Just happened with covid.
Trying to do the same thing with biology and men and women.
People with all the markers of being intelligent thinking it’s healthy for kids to believe in Santa and want to take hormone blockers.
Seriously, Enron is childs play compared to this pharma scam that went down the last 3 years.
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the journalist that questioned enron's price, Bethany McLean...man have u guys seen her recently?
talk about aging like fine wine.
She's actually brilliant too, I've been following her work for a while. Very sharp woman to go with the looks.
Its really hard to beat everything on Dark Fantasy for me, that was one of the few albums of the decade worthy of being listened to in full.
But if we're just talking single songs, easily Kanye's most underrated & one of his best is Hold My Liquor, the production is truly unbelievable, that guitar riff is unlike anything I've ever heard in any other song.
But if we're just talking single songs, easily Kanye's most underrated & one of his best is Hold My Liquor, the production is truly unbelievable, that guitar riff is unlike anything I've ever heard in any other song.
re: BREAKING: Chengdu, China a city of 16+ million people are being locked down
Posted by roothog1 on 9/2/22 at 1:12 pm to Jack Carter
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Why is XI really doing this?
Chinese are threading a very thin line to prevent outside intervention at a precarious moment in time.
Next month is the 20th Party Congress. At a time when the global financial system is collapsing, the Chinese are hyper paranoid to avoid another Century of Humiliation, thus are going extreme to make sure bioweapons or any other mechanism of destabilization can be prevented.
re: Since those of us on the right are now labeled as domestic terrorists what do y’all think
Posted by roothog1 on 9/2/22 at 12:52 pm to Crimson1st
They keep crossing the rubicon more & more. It basically just legitimizes anything coming their way should Trump get back power.
re: Do the non MAGA Republicans find what Joe said comforting?
Posted by roothog1 on 9/2/22 at 12:42 pm to RBWilliams8
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Their goalposts always move so if you’re comfortable with this because “he was meaning the OTHER republicans, not me!” Then rest assured that once that problem is addressed, you’re the next problem. Republicans and democrats alike have both moved more and more left. Republican values haven’t really changed, just became more tolerant of the left’s bull shite. The left, however, are constantly changing their “values”.
Its not that the GOP has moved left, its that the Neocons took over the party in the Late-Reagan/Bush I years and its taken forever to purge them. The GOP as a whole has absolutely become more populist, more in line with the voters, its not even a question, but the established old guard had so many barriers (plus so many legacy neo-cons) they've had to overcome. We're inching closer to being a lot more populist though, when you have 100 MTGs in the House and 10 in the Senate, it just becomes impossible for the GOP establishment to not align with the populist factions.
re: Do the non MAGA Republicans find what Joe said comforting?
Posted by roothog1 on 9/2/22 at 12:16 pm to memphisplaya
If you use Ben Shapiro as the bellweather for neutral to non-Trump Republican, he thought this was horrific optics for the Democrats.
re: Good job Biden. Your BBB Plan is making Putin rich AF. From the WSJ:
Posted by roothog1 on 8/29/22 at 6:10 pm to CuyahogaTigerJr
Former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has issued an updated forecast for gas prices in the European Union, saying that they will skyrocket to €5,000 by the end of the current year.
“Given the increase in gas prices to €3,500 per thousand cubic meters, I am bound to raise the projected price to €5,000 by the end of 2022,” Medvedev posted on his Telegram channel, addressing heads of state and governments of the EU.
“With warm regards,” Medvedev, who is currently deputy chair of the Russian National Security Council, wrote at the end of the message.
Along with the gloomy projection, Medvedev shared a painting “Farther Gas,” by Russia’s modern primitivist artist Vasya Lozhkin.
re: Fox News Sunday Talked About Republicans Pulling $ From Blake Masters & AZ Senate Race
Posted by roothog1 on 8/29/22 at 5:16 pm to cajuntiger1010
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Masters is down by 3 in the Trafalgar poll released today. McConnel is such a cuck
Here's the thing, AZ already has more registered Republicans. What the hell do they need Mitch's money for anyway? They need to work their asses off & make up the difference with on the ground energy. I think they'll be alright, both of them have unique skill sets, they're just political newbies & who knows if the GOP starts laying land mines for them in order to let the media go bananas to drive out the Dems.
re: There is a massive psyop regarding the upcoming election
Posted by roothog1 on 8/29/22 at 5:01 pm to cajunangelle
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So glad to see somebody else sees it!
Look at VA for the perfect example of evidence.
Remember the bird-dogging that Terry McAuliffe & the democrats got caught at? The fake militia khaki wearers that were exposed that tried to make Youngkin look racist and MAGA?
Suddenly at the last minute Youngkin was told by Turtle to denounce Trump. The fake campaign trick of the dems was so badly exposed they had to fess up that they were sorry and didn't have anything to do with it.
Then the dems tried their fake democracy racism rules, by saying count ALL THE VOTES for 3 days after the election. That the mail in ballots were people of color losing their french fries...
The VA GOP said hell to the no and won. (THEY DIDN'T DO THIS WITH TRUMP nationwide) Then they said look Youngkin (at the very last minute mind you-denounced Trump) So it meant that Pence should be the nominee with VA as a stepping stone.
It failed though. Screw Pence or whoever they want.
Oh you are so right about that, I knew as soon as the Dems were starting their nonsense in Fairfax County & it got iced in like half a minute that 2020 was on the GOP establishment, I know everyone loves to say now that the GOP are the controlled opposition, but that is not exactly true, they have willingly given themselves the role of controlled opposition because they refused to swing the sword of power to benefit their damn voters! They'd rather have us get swallowed by a horde of blue haired lunatics & turn the country into a joke than put a stop to things, because they must not displease their corporate overlords. How dare they ever make them upset!
Oh and they must continue to shell out hundreds of billions of our tax dollars so that Hunter Biden & all the other children of the political class can maintain their right to do lines of blow off the tits of Ukrainian hookers, even if it comes at the expense of bankrupting their own voters. No this is their right, that we must all sacrifice for.
re: There is a massive psyop regarding the upcoming election
Posted by roothog1 on 8/29/22 at 4:43 pm to LSUTIGER in TEXAS
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Totally agree. Except for turtle thinking he can win. He’s ok with not winning as long as he keeps power and his gets his payoff
He is, except that this election is for all the marbles. You let the Dems win the Senate & the House, he's literally handing the keys to Elizabeth Warren. Next comes ending the filibuster, stuffing the Supreme Court with 15 more judges, and that's the end of the United States.
So McConnell will get to be remembered as both the Brutus of our Republic AND the Pompey when Warren leads her Millennial commie army to storm into Rome, destroy everything he thought he was protecting, then lines him against the wall & shoots him. Or he could just put his arrogance & ego aside for a change. His choice.
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We trust the polls when they say what we want!
I dont trust the polls in any situation, but I'm sensing people freaking out on the right over these mind games.
I think the polls shifted because the uniparty realized too many MAGA candidates were winning their primaries. They had to juice the numbers in order to try & stall the establishment candidates losing any more primaries, although I think the die is pretty much cast, most of them are done.
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You need to post more.
I will start to, I need places to vent my observations because lately I've been finally figuring out whats really going on after being baffled for a while.
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