The propaganda effort by western media, specifically but not exclusively U.S. media, to shift blame for massive economic damage from Joe Biden to Russia is reaching a stunning level of coordinated intent.
The cognitive dissonance (fancy words for telling lies under the cloud of economic analysis) is not only happening in the U.S; a similar level of blame-shifting is happening in Europe, Australia, Canada and most western media outlets.
The global economic contraction, which was specifically and intentionally created by the collective ‘Build Back Better‘ promoters, is now being blamed on Russia; and, quite frankly, the motive behind the corporate media shifting the blame is because the underlying ideology (western policy) was/is supported by the leftist media tribe.
Throughout 2021, it is well documented how government COVID policies of lockdowns, economic consequences and insane spending, created the baseline problem behind inflation. Simultaneously, the western approach toward energy development and the “opportunity” the EU and U.S. sought to exploit within the BBB agenda to radically transform energy use, was simply pouring super-volatile fuel on an already burning fire.
In 2021, gasoline prices increased 60 to 80 percent. Food prices jumped 15 to 40 percent, with some sectors even higher. By the time the EU central bankers and U.S. Federal reserve finally admitted inflation was no longer “transitory,” we were facing next harvest fertilizer prices that tripled in price from 2020, and oil prices that had doubled in the span of 12 months.
None of this had anything whatsoever to do with Russia’s plans for Ukraine. Every part of the economic problem was created by government policy.
The western working class are in an abusive relationship with western government.
Reckless spending during an intentionally blocked economy, combined with radically changed energy and monetary policy, created this storm of economic consequence. At no point in this scenario was the outcome not in the control of government.
These consequences were specifically caused by ideological decisions made by people who are never affected by them. However, in a sick, twisted and Machiavellian effort to avoid the pitchforks now heading in their direction, these government leaders and their media stenographers are trying desperately to pin the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This example from Axios today is a case study in blame shifting:
Economic forecasters are starting to plug the effects of the Ukraine war into their models. It doesn’t look good, especially for Europe.
Why it matters: Much of the world is set to experience weaker growth and higher inflation than seemed likely mere weeks ago. And that’s assuming some of the more dire possibilities that further escalation of the conflict could bring don’t materialize.
The big picture: Soaring energy prices are the most direct channel through which the world economy stands to be battered by the conflict. But rising prices for other commodities will also fuel inflation and could disrupt supply lines.
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- These forecasts were made last week before a new surge in oil futures overnight Sunday into Monday that will only intensify these pressures.
- Moreover, geopolitical risk has tightened financial conditions, which could constrain investment — though that effect is modest so far.
By the numbers: Economists at JPMorgan said Friday they expect the world economy to grow 0.8 percentage points slower in 2022 than they did on Feb. 18. (read more)
Everything is obtuse crap.
However, in our discussions we do not need to pretend. Preparations require a brutal acceptance of the landscape that is in front of us, not some clouded avoidance that will only make us victims to our lack of acceptance.
In May and June of 2021, the entire economic machine shifted. That was when the final cash dump into the economy became visible. Everything since then is a direct outcome of that inflection point. It has been eight months of economic smoke and mirrors.
Inflation in the last half of 2021 was driven by spending decisions in the first half of 2021. That oil in the machinery has dried up. As we watched the reserve tanks emptying, CTH was warning -repeatedly- to prepare. Now, things are about to seize. We will see even more inflation as massive increases in fuel will drive up the costs of everything again.
It’s not an issue of whether a recession is possible, likely or probable. As we noted last year, the recession would have naturally taken place in the third and fourth quarter. It was clear that overall consumer demand was artificially propped up by govt subsidy. Government intervention stopped the natural demand contraction from surfacing.
Now, with even higher oil prices leading to $7/gal gasoline, there will be no way to avoid seeing the pain of an economic recession under much steeper terms than before. None of this is accidental. All of this is by design.
Massive increases in energy and gasoline costs are a feature of their plan, not a flaw.
Joe Biden always was the disposable political tool within this insidious scheme.
Thank you, Sundance!
You got to be a special kind of stupid to believe the narrative that “Russia” is responsible for all the ills that have befallen us.
The tried and true Demotards will parrot this, but that accounts for no more than ~18% of the public.
If they continue this with just that support… AND steal the next election, then the Tree of Liberty is very likely going to be fed.
The Uniparty will all repeat this.
Guaranteed!
You betcha.
And unfortunately most people that are unaware, forgetful or can’t connect the dots will believe it.
Most people are certainly oblivious and connecting the dots is hard work to be avoided.
There are many educated idiots running around.
Multiple degreed, suburban females resent that comment.
they are lining up the yellow buses as we speak…
Yes, the faithful indoctrinated followers are certainly a special kind of stupid.
At least two generations now of carefully crafted stupidity.
They ARE daring us to feed the Tree of Liberty, confident that not enough in numbers are willing to act.
Or the Tree of Liberty is dead, fallen, and rotting from the inside out.
At the moment I hope its only dormant.
The democrat voter will believe anything that is filtered through their “trusted” media.
We do have about 33% who would be that special kind
But FJB popularity is soaring according to these subversive Communist propagandists.
They have their tracking charts upside down.
There’s a thing called bias. It guides a lot of people (pretty much all people to varying degrees unless you have trained yourself against it) in how they accept information. If it makes them “feel better” they will discard EVERYTHING they ever knew in order to accept the new thing.
I have a LOT of trouble with that personally. When COVID19 came to be, the redefinition of “vaccine” gave me a LOT of trouble… still does. It gave me a lot of trouble when I saw the actual survival rates. It gave me a lot of trouble when they flipped the issue of “responsibility.” (the standard has always been you protect yourself in whatever way is needed)
For some people, it was somehow desirable to accept a “new normal.” For me, it was impossible to accept.
But it was also something that CHANGED a lot when the president changed. Recall the Democrats who vowed never to take a “Trump vaccine” but the moment it was Biden, they cursed anyone who wouldn’t comply.
It’s not as simple as “stupid.” It’s their identity.
They are already stealing the primaries, at least in Texas without any doubt.
And when they finally have to confront the massive numbers of heavy good vehicles on their doorstep disrupting their elite lives they’ll accuse Putin of driving the main truck.
It won’t be long before the crap hits the fan.
If we aren’t gonna subsidize energy costs, food costs, and housing costs nationally
Then those costs will quickly outstrip wages, costs to operate.
We will be in a severe depression soon at this rate.
Being far from work is going to become very costly if one has to drive to work.
Especially in California where people have to live 2 hours away from any major city due to housing costs and the highest gasoline price in the country due to having to have a special blend just for CA and very high gasoline taxes.
get a Yugo.
I have a couple friends in CA who live in Tracy, which is about 40 miles outside
the Bay Area, where they work. The Bay Area is big, and traffic is bad.
They are spending ~$200/week on gas to commute.
This, along with the ridiculous 2-3 hours + a day in commute time.
unsustainable
Not just the gasoline, but wear and tear on one’s vehicle and then perhaps necessary replacement parts are unavailable. Then toss in the price of parking.
One could arguably use public transit, unless of course you work in Seattle. Yesterday I saw a shooting had occurred in downtown Seattle, and the building where I used to work was prominently displayed in the news photo.
Downtown Seattle is not safe for those who take public transit. Rock and a hard place scenario.
They want us to move into the cities. That’s why this dreadful bullet train plan in CA has never totally been derailed. Just delayed
I believe the target is at least a severe depression and worse.
How else else does one expect them to Build Back Better?
Things have to be demolished for that to occur.
Yes that includes crushing our spirits
So do you have enough money set aside for at least six months?
Better have enough food and other essential commodities as well.
…..and be prepared to kill to keep them.
Anyone who does have enough money set aside for at least six months will then face month seven. Eventually eventually everyone is on the same level.
Will it matter if cash is cancelled? No snark intended.
Target practice is the only thing that helps.
Tell me about it, my company had the best four years since we started 10 years ago, hopefully we don’t go out of business.
Your company builds ammunition?
Please take care of yourself, be strong and pray!
Everyone (or most everyone) shares your concerns and emotions but our job is to survive what they throw at us. We are watching intentional destruction. Lean on your faith. You’ll find your spirit is far stronger, far more resilient than you can even imagine. God bless.
I’m not depressed. I’m angry.
“People are going to have to start making the decision whether to put food on the table or to start filling up their tanks.” That’s here in the USA not in Ukraine.
Those decisions are already being made here.
That TV chick is stupid, you can’t put food on the table if you can’t get to work. Hell, you can’t get your groceries home without fuel in the tank, this just shows what idiots these people really are.
Bingo!
It’s from the RNC. They are too stupid to know what a real job does for someone since they have never held one.
Gee, if only the RNC took all that money they stole from #StopTheSteal donors to actually Stop The Steal. They are dead to me and just as complicit as the media.
Me too TwoLaine. I got fed up with telling the RNC to take me off of their mailing list wanting money. I had to fill in the appropriate fields on the cancellation form, i.e., email address, etc. in order to be “unsubscribed”.
Signed my name as Ugetnot1moredimefromme Backstabbingpos. Now i get new emails addressed to Ugetnot1moredimefromme Backstabbingpos, or just simply Dear Mr. Backstabbingpos,
Cloward-Piven coming to your neighborhood soon.
Etch-a-sketch. Shake it and draw a new narrative. Sad to say a large number or too many people’s concern is over the WNBA LGBTQ basketball player. That’s a small example. It is extremely difficult to remain optimistic.
Since it is part of a red state, the Ohio Art Company will definitely be blamed for all of this.
But you don’t understand: We had to smash that rake into our face because Putin made us do it!
This is exactly what we get from the Build Back Better crowd, when that crowd is made up entirely of those who have never built a freaking thing in their lives. Toddlers all, intent on destroying everything with nothing to put in place except pipe dreams and fantasies.
I call it “Broke Back Mtn Better”. And I agree with you 100+% Ma’am. Have a good day.
I’m watching the maniacal push to ban Russian oil (leaving us and our national security interests as roadkill), and I’m wondering if those doing so are just thoroughly without cognitive skills, or whether this is just another step in their Green agenda to get cars off the road, no matter who gets hurt.
What I believe these moronic ideologues haven’t even thought of is the devastation which would cover this whole country in a matter of days or weeks on all fronts if they succeed, given producing our own oil is now verbotten and given that oil underpins a lot more than our automobiles.
Biden is “considering” physically going cap in hand to the Saudis. Can you imagine the reception, if one there would be, from MBS? I’m wincing as I type that.
We are now, I believe, at our weakest and most vulnerable. And the Enemies sit in the WH and Congress. No one can argue that this is not so.
Ha, a fool’s errand: Crown Prince of SA says just four words to Brandon that ends the meeting and FJB leaves with that same krap in his hand:
“Remember Khashoggi? No Deal!”
I thought the same. But MBS in an interview said he doesn’t care what Biden thinks. Further he said he doesn’t expect any country to stick its nose into his. He knows, I think, Biden is an illegitimate President. And as he got on exceedingly well with Mr Trump as both had a mutual respect for each other, I suspect a face to face wouldn’t happen…or if it did, not go well.
WLS Chicago morning talk show hosts (rino style) was talking about 7.00+ per gallon of gasoline…trying to break it to us gently, I believe…
Preparatory notice to ‘ease the pain’?
Trump warned us too. $10 a gallon gas, China invades Taiwan, Afghanistan refugees and other illegals “you’ll see them again and it will be a very sad day for New York”. We have so much more on this roller coaster
“The Spice must flow”
April, 2021 -Trilateral Commission worldwide membership roster
https://freddonaldson.com/2021/03/02/trilateral-commission-current-membership-with-2021-individual-affiliations-and-photos/
Whats behind “Build Back Better”.
Depopulation
Precisely!
Glad I just bought into two oil wells in the Bakken. Will pay for my investment in under 60 days at current prices. Then it is all profit.
We need poll numbers to see how many people are believing the BS. Pretty much no one I know, not even on the left, are believing their line here.
I mentioned before where I work, the boss who I think is “trying” to be neutral has outed himself as a conservative by sending a letter to the company that goes something like this:
“The events in Ukraine…. blah blah…. horrible. As a country we went from being energy independent to dependent on foreign countries like Russia for our energy needs…
… to help through these difficult times, effective immediately, we are adding $50 to everyone’s pay each period.”
The approach is brilliant. He speaks of the political landscape (implying blame but not assigning it directly) and then says “we’re giving you more money to ensure you can keep showing up to work!”
That is very kind.
Local hardware store has employees changing price stickers daily to keep up with delivery costs.
No point in the stickers as prices are expected to soon climb by the hour.
Paper will be too expensive for worthless cash.
Worthless digitial currency is the answer!
Well reported, Sundance.
Russia has proposed an end to the war if Ukraine promises not to join NATO, and recognize actual Line of Control (LOC) in eastern Ukraine and recognize Crimea as part of Russia. Those territories will belong to Russia whether Ukraine acknowledges them or not. So the only issue is for Ukraine to promise to be neutral.
Now why wouldn’t the Biden administration (and other NATO countries) pressure Ukraine to accept the fait accompli?
You provided the answer – it gives them cover for their absymal domestic performance.
I would add this surmise; there are at least several of our U.S. Senators who have shared with Biden the corrupt potential of the Ukraine regime. Biden would approve billions in “aid” to Ukraine, which would quickly be hoovered up by cooperating oligarchs, and the corrupt Senator’s “cut” would be skimmed off this taxpayer gift and bounced back to D.C. receivers. Since 2001 the amount of “aid” paid to Ukraine is reported as: $679,710,971.00. It increased dramatically since 2015, but always waaay too much for this location that is of no strategic interest, at least regionally, to the U.S. (https://foreignassistance.gov/cd/ukraine/)
Over $300 billion dollars sluiced into Ukraine since 2009 (guess who?) so how much do you suppose went back into corrupt U.S. pockets? We know millions were paid to Biden via the Hunter bribery conduit. Look into those most passionate about Ukraine; Biden, McCain, Lindsey Graham, Amy Klobuchar, and naturally, the doltish and emotionally labile Adam Kinzinger.
Maybe this explains why tinhorn despot Zelensky does not beg for help, but arrogantly demands it from our Washington kleptocrats. The implied “or else” I read into his demands causes palpitations among our disloyal scumbags. I pray to God that before this is over Zelensky and/or Putin expose these vermin.
No small wonder that the DS is trying to assassinate Zelenskyy. He knows too much and will always be a loose end
Because they aren’t quite prepared for the next battle in the war on free peoples of the world. They need another month at least.
Ze is out Putin has made it known there will be a change of government in Ukraine before he backs off.
So, is this also something they have been openly discussing at WEF?
I mean, to have everybody who is implementing other WEF plans come out in such a coordinated fashion, the same way they marched in lockstep over Covid, makes one wonder if creating a war in Ukraine wasn’t also talked about in achieving the WEF agenda.
It is funny, but it wasn’t that long ago that Europeans were protesting such cowboy diplomacy.
Hey Sundance, should this debacle play out with the world dropping the dollar as the reserve currency,
what exactly does that mean? Practically speaking, that is.
It means hyperinflation and third world status.
Third World status for us is what our Leftists have been working toward.
I would start figuring the collapse of the dollar means our govt takes everything in every account; savings, checking, IRA’s 501’s, pensions and on and on. Then when you cannot pay for your property tax, they take your property. And your life to cover for their theft. As in, if you are not alive who is to say you ever were.
Sounds grim. Might want to prepare for just some part of that outcome now.
Apparently (considering the freakout when covid arrived in the winter of 2020) most had never conidered the reality that they themselves, poor dears, were actually going to die some day. Covid panic made them a little bit aware of that and it became an easy thing to tell them what to do and have them do it. (Right now).
Those who still think they can cheat death will be hardest hit by what’s coming.
A fearful population makes it easy for the power-hungry to make things happen the way they want them to happen.
I already know I won’t succeed in avoiding death but I will, by the grace of God, not live in fear. If I starve to death, at least I will able to wear my skinny jeans again along the way.
Fear and anger are somewhat connected in a variety of ways. These days, I’m tending more to anger than I am to fear, and whoever knocks on my door is going to have to deal with it. I don’t assume I will “win the day” over whoever knocks on my door, but the statement still stands.
Sometimes I’m too blunt, and this may be one of those times, Risa. But I KNEW that my government was capable of wanting me dead after 1973 when they decided that killing babies was ok and should be made legal. The devastation of knowing my government wanted me dead played out a long time ago in my thoughts.
Once they knew they had killing babies enshrined in law, I never doubted that they would also enshrine killing old people, and whoever else got in their way. Playing out the continuum of what they had already done made it easy to see what they were capable of.
So true . Death comes for us all. Johnny Cash sang best in his song “God gonna cut you down”
And your life to cover for their theft. As in, if you are not alive who is to say you ever were.
Phflipper, what do you think the clot-shot was all about?
what do you think the clot-shot was all about?
Exactly what we know it was for – not at all for saving life.
I’ve been on a similar thought track to yours. Suggested similar here in the past couple of days. They will make the situation for us so dire, so grim, that the people will beg them to fix things. That’s how I see it. And along will come this “new deal” that will fix everything as they want it, not us.
Suffice it to say, once they released the virus and stole the election they declared “there will never be a return to normal or the world as we’ve known it”
There will be no turning back.
Practically speaking, if the world dropped the dollar as the reserve currency, a loaf of bread would cost you $50 minimum.
Yup.
“Toward the end of 1923 a life insurance policy of Karl Bonhoeffer’s (Dietrich’s father) matured, paying him 100,000 marks. He had made the payments for decades, and now, because of inflation, the reward was only enough to purchase a bottle of wine and some strawberries. When the money arrived, it was worth even less and covered only the berries…
“….by the end of 1923 things had become impossible. In October Dietrich (now away at school) wrote that every meal cost one billion marks He wanted to pay for two or three weeks of meals in advance, but needed the family to send him funds. ‘I don’t have that much money on hand,’ he explained. ‘I had to spend 6 billion for bread.’ ”
From Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, p. 44
Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas
I just started reading my copy, fantastic thus far as Bonhoeffer’s life stands out to me then as I look for that one individual today in similitude. Perhaps that individual is not or maybe our nation has not suffered enough to push that individual to answer the call.
There is probably only one Dietrich Bonhoeffer, just as there is only one Andrew Breitbart.
There is no reasonable way that any individual would be just like them; but to the extent that we can internalize some of what drove them, we may be one of the skipping stones across the pond that reflects some of what they poured out while they lived.
I agree there was only one Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It will take the fearless to be those skipping stones to allow others to cross, one of my favorite Scriptures is Proverbs 29:25
“The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.”
Provoded one could find a loaf of bread to purchase.
Scarcity will come with the vastly higher prices.
Plaque
Wars
Famine
Thank you Sundance. I know that China and OPEC+, which includes Russia, would love to make a move away from the US $ being the reserve currency, however, the only barrier is that Euro, RMB and Ruble (as well as Riyal) are far less reliable/stable than the US $s. It can happen, but, perhaps not very soon. The BRICS getting a trading alliance and creating a MFN status amongst themselves (they have a majority of essential minerals being mined and manufacturing of products in the current supply chain) and ‘sanctioning’ the US and EU will be far more immediate and devastating as it will create shortage of goods, making the toilet paper run from 2 years ago, a piker by comparison.
With so much of nitrates and potash for fertilizers being from BRICS, and, the price increase here leading to world food ‘wars’ that you had posted an excellent article earlier, I see the BRICS ‘colluding’ and ‘sanctioning’ the West far more immediate and likely. 2020 steal has far more negative ramifications for us than what so many thought even a year ago. Thank you.
Only if we didn’t open up our energy sector immediately. Then I’d agree with you.
It seems to me that it would include an immediate call for our debt to be repaid at a higher interest rate, say 6% rather than zero. This makes a difference when your national debt is over $30 trillion dollars and counting, and that is of course just the part showing.
I think that is $1.8 trillion per annum. U.S. federal tax receipts are about $3.8 trillion. Doesn’t leave a lot for such things as infrastructure or even SS.
If the OBiden crowd was in office, you can guarantee that they’d hyperinflate right out of that debt
It means no more trade deficits with China or any other nation. It means we’d have to bring manufacturing back to the US because we can’t afford the imports. It means we would need to use our own energy instead of importing so much. The $ would be just like the double or the RMB or the euro, it would float based on our creditworthiness. With a $30T deficit, that’s not good. It means CONgresscritters would have to stop deficit spending and the Fed would have to stop printing so we didn’t hyperinflate. Markets would crash and banks would close due to their derivatives loads. It would mean the end of the American Empire and wars across the globe, the end of the MIC running a dozen little wars in out of the way places over human trafficking or drugs or other illicit activities.
Frankly, it would be a very painful time to live thru financially but we would have a chance to have our country back at the end of the process, if we made good choices.
IMO
My mind is not the barn door. FK them all!
Buttigieg just told people complaining about gas prices to drop a cool 55k on an EV. Problem solved.
How does the E for the V,
get to the V?
Thru a wire?
( from where?
and how is that E made?
hmmm…)
And how long (hours) does it take to get the E, in the V, each time?
Has someone ever charged up a tiny, light weight phone? How long?
What about re-charging a heavy vehicle, for a trip beyond the range of the vehicle? How long?
( hint, more time than it takes to fill up at the gas station. A lot more time…. )
…hmmm…
Problem solved?
Uhhh, whom supplies material$ ( toxic, not green ) for batterie$ ?
The E is generated where the P people live. E is not generated in Palo Alto or Atherton. It’s generated where dirty streets and dirty children live. That’s the way all the Asian moms in Silicon Valley like it. Make the P people PAY for the elitists clean streets and clean air.
oh and all that transmission loss? Meh. Just the price to pay for woke greenery
Pete Buttigedge DID kill himself? Or will he just drown his daughters in the bathtub?
Let’s plug in a few 100 million of those at the end of the day all about same time for recharge how will our ailing electric infrastructure respond.
Pay Butt Edge Edge no mind. He’s still suffering post partum depression.
LOL
How long would you suppose it will be before those EV owners are paying multiple dollars per kWh for their EV?
$55k … wha wha whaaaaa? Didn’t Elon Musk PROMISE a $30k Tesla Model 3 with a range of 500 miles!? Affordable as a Volkswagen Bug in 1966?
Buttigieg another one of Klaus’s WEF Young Global Leaders.
Heh, Young Global Puppets.
Inflation was already skyrocketing before Ukraine. Ports were already jammed and dysfunctional before Ukraine. Shelves were already bare before Ukraine. But all of a sudden Ukraine.
The media will employ the same COVID/Ukraine full court narrative to make sure the low info demographic accept it. And nobody can say they won’t actually succeed. Because who is going to say otherwise in any volume that can match them. That is why letting the left have absolute control over mass media is something no real opposition party would ever permit.
They are NOT low-info. Their heads are brimming over high as the sky with false info.
All I see is dark clouds with no silver linings. Our republic by design is declining rapidly and it’s quite apparent our politicians are all in on the globalist agenda.
Either they are all in or have been threatened to the point of silence. Save for a precious few.
How many months are left for Republicans to secure our voting system from the initial ballot to the accurate count? If this is not done then all the bickering will come to naught, it is that simple. The democrats are at war with those who don’t follow i lock step. The democrats are the Russians invading Ukraine in the abstract. Who is kidding who?
Nancy tore up that State of the Union speech Trump gave. Putin tears up boundaries. Biden chokes off American oil production, Putin encircles cities choking them off. Sadists love to say “you always hurt those you love!”
When is the “reckoning” going to arrive? The truck convoy is now low profile, Covid is non existant, all eyes are being demanded to focus on Ukraine while passing over Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Common sense is denied by Psaki every day. Biden has trouble placing one foot in front of the other as he spends almost every weekend locked up in his Delaware mansion…and no one in the media cries out. Obama frets over his new mansion while Bill and Hillary get ready for more pay and play games.
When is the reckoning!
It is just my opinion, if there be an election the outcome is already determined, not in our favor.
If “you always hurt those you love!” What to you think they do to the ones they really hate?
And I would love to know.JUST WHY ARE THE CONVOYS LOW PROFILE?????
We are not even getting reports from that guy who was traveling with the American truckers. Why are we letting them and their progress be silenced? Why aren’t you saying anything Sundance??????
How we got here. Every day the battle continues…
How GA 2020 election results were electronically manipulated:
Colorado Hero Tina Peters Releases Report – Claims Dominion Voting Machines Used in 2020 Election Were Illegally Certified and Illegally Configured:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/colorado-hero-tina-peters-releases-report-claiming-dominion-voting-machines-used-2020-election-illegally-certified-illegally-configured/
And the GOPe governor and AG are just peachy with the illegality.
I’ve been watching. The legal process is going to show some serious problems for these cheaters and has the Secretary of State in GA, AZ, WI, etc trembling and probably soon resigning.
I remember driving to pick up my daughter from preschool in 2017,
listening to the radio and hearing about the awesome economic numbers,
gas prices, job numbers, etc.
I remember thinking how great a space we were in as a nation.
About a week later, the first impeachment proceedings were announced.
And then I remember January 2020 … with the economy and stock market booming … after PDJT had put ALL the illegal attacks against him in the rear view mirror … when the details of the Muh-Russia inquiry were being exposed as utter garbage …
then …
COVID
… and all our constitutional rights were “legally” suspended, including the rights to a fair, legal, and verifiable VOTE. Just a coincidence … right?
As soon as the commies were defeated, they came up with something else. Sundance is right. They don’t quit. They are as relentless as an ocean tide.
It is why they have to be utterly crushed. If at all possible
And then Biden’s corrupt Ukraine came to save his day. Not allowed to talk of anything else, 24/7.
Back in the day, aye!
I keep looking for a wrench, someone who can muck up the works brings the world a little truth, just keep thinking everyone can’t be in agreement or could they The Greatest Show on Earth battle of good and evil what happens when finding out you’re on the evil team and have been lied too?
Too little too late?
Do NOT come here to grab ahold of a MAGA politician and ride them to a new horizon. The R party is a lost cause. There is no human answer available because the entire construct is greed based.
Get your spiritual affairs in order. The tree has fallen and is smashing into the ground of judgment. Pray for deliverance and mercy, this is the door to the last day.
Whenever I put on those sunglasses just like those from John Carpenter’s movie ‘They Live’ and look at the ‘Eat the Rich’ graffiti, it becomes either ‘Eat the Poor’ or ‘Eat the Middle Class’ depending on the angle of looking at it. You got to shift your head one way or another. Funny that.
It’s going to be a hot summer.
“Eat the rich” and by rich they mean anyone who has the ability to make even minimal rudimentary personal economic choices.
Great article from American Thinker that adds to Sundance’s thesis and explains a lot of what’s going on.
Very interesting to see our old friend Oleg Deripaska mentioned as part of Putin’s problems.
Worse still, the oligarchs who are the most important people in Putin’s inner circle are starting to turn on him.
Oligarchs are being targeted with sanctions across the board from Europe and the U.S., and now some have begun speaking out against the war.
Here is one list of them:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/is_vladimir_putin_now_caught_in_a_chinese_finger_trap.html
The Stock Market can be a reflection of the Economy. The longer-term Stock Market bull-trend since 2016 gave a trend change signal January 3rd 2022 long before anything Russia.
There is no way the present Communist/Fascist/Totalitarian Biden administration can be good for the US economy and Stock Market. Everyone only needs look at their local gas pump prices to see where this is going.
I know its silly ’cause I don’t know what I am looking at – but
the 2nd number was 5 not long ago (35, 15,4,5). Then it was 4. Then it was 3
So today the 2nd number is 2 (32, 12, 4,2)
and the emotion driving the market is ‘extreme fear’
wasn’t it you, Fangdog, who said that if only 20% of the people took their $$ out of banks the banks would crash. Dekester from Canada had a conversation going this morning indicating that is happening. What will it look like if people start taking their $$ out of the market (as you have long recommended?) Could it be that is what we are seeing?
My interest goes back to summer 2021 alerting Treepers to get their financial house in order. This goes for primary retirement programs. Once the stock market got above 35,000 it became very vulnerable, however plenty of time to make adjustments.
My actual long-term sell signal indicator appeared January 3rd, 2022 and the stock market price has not exceeded since.
People have had way more than enough time to assess their financial position in terms of the stock market. What is it you suppose you pay a Financial Planner?
I started to raise cash in Nov, and moved to 20% early Jan, with max exposure to energy.
I think energy is topping now – wrote options against my positions.
Are you predicting a long bear market? I’m thinking about 3-6 months till the market smells a convincing R victory in Nov.
At one time I thought I could predict, but it was like betting on a horse at a horse race. Now I just go strictly go on display indicators. I never know “when”. I always know “where”.
I don’t use particular stocks but only index average. Trying to pick an individual stock causes too much brain damage for me.
I do know we are presently in a Bear Market cycle which gets punctuated with Bear market rallies of approximately 50% retracement of a previous high. We have had two Bear Market rallies since January 3rd. These are followed by new Stock Market lows.
I do see major support at 28,500. Whether it holds 28,500 support or not remains to be seen. IMO, only a return of Trump in the Oval Office will be a positive for the Stock Market. Otherwise, I see a disaster which could rival 1929 stock market crash in terms of severity.
All planned, as COVID was planned
Not quite. They planned on this going on for as long as possible. They didn’t plan on people doing research and getting published. They fought it and lost. They don’t plan on losing. This is the left we are talking about. When they lose, they generally believe it’s because they weren’t pushing their agenda hard enough.
6 days ago they release 30 million barrels from strategic reserves to “combat rising prices at the pump”.
Now: “The White House on Sunday rejected the argument that increasing domestic oil production would help lower gas prices, as the cost of oil moves toward record highs.”
Guess I’m just a goofy rube who jus’ don’t unnerstan that there supply and demand mumbo jumbo.
Glad they edjumacated me right there.
bravo
SD, Admin, a typo
“Wreckless spending during an intentionally blocked economy,” s/b reckless. And there surely will be wrecks
It’s much easier to edit than create lol. Love all that you do
Perfect timing for this conflict. Almost makes you think this was intended to save them in the mid-terms from the consequences of their own actions. Considering how many people were stupid enough to vote for them in 2016, they may buy into this. Won’t that be great…
Their lying will be our ruination.
As expcted and planned.
There is a zero percent chance Iran and Venezuela are going to sell the USA oil and natural gas. There is a zero percent chance Saudi Arabia is going to increase production. They are already at max production. This is all nonsense!
How long would it take ramp up domestic production and get the oil and gas into the market? Maybe 1 year minimum??? I would love for someone on this board with expertise to provide information regarding this issue.
Sundance is right, we are heading for $200+ oil and $10 per gallon gas!
FJB’s would probably offer them some nuclear weapons for some oil, and then tell them they really don’t have to deliver the oil. /s
According to Elon Musk, they can spin up mothballed nuke reactors in Europe within 2 days. Let’s say it’s a month. That would provide enough power to cut Europe’s oil consumption by quite a bit.
My Dem brother keeps telling me we’ll build nuke reactors again in this country. I tell him I’ll believe him when the first woman Dem calls for them.
I think that at these prices, Russian and other oil will find its way into the market. Money always moves mountains.
The blame falls on the central bank mafia and its legions of bureaucrats and thugs. They have declared war on all the people’s of the world and it is time to awaken your neighbors to join our ranks in ending their crimes against humanity!
The RICH are the Ukrainians. Have you noticed the extremely well-appointed homes and the extremely well-dressed refugees? Americans are sleeping in the streets and cannot afford to dress even as well as the illegal immigrants from Mexico. My sympathy stops at the wealthy fraudsters in their pink-puff coats when I wear clothes and get furniture from Value Village.
I was on a call with a colleague from Germany and though it’s only anecdotal he understood the snow job that that the MSM in Germany was pushing about Putin is crap.
The world is hip to the con and at this point the MSM is talking to themselves.
Bummer to read it is going to worse than the worse I had thought. Did do some more stocking up today, prices are up about 10 to 20 cents per can across all categories. Had a 1/4 tank filled the car for $4 a gallon, $53 bucks to top the tank…Ouch! Found 2 -32 can boxes of meat cat food up $3 a box but it has not been available for months on and off. Milk now over $4 a gallon.
Costco has greatly raised prices. Unthinkable prices. I’m making all kinds of adjustments. Have you seen the price of aluminum foil? Time to reuse or stop using.
Look, it was really bad in the early 80’s due again to government etc mismanagement.
But all we had was democrat leftist newspapers, magazines and TV. But now we have sites like this, so the information strangulation is not as severe. And things got better, although in hindsight Reagan did not push the ratchet back, or at all, on so many things like he should have.
Don’t lose hope! The normie npc’s will not put up with $10 gallon gas, they will throw the bums out in a crisis that our side cannot let go to waste.
Just like covid was a little too convenient, so too is war in Ukraine. Both covid and Ukraine have US operatives behind the scenes.
Unimaginable evil. War to coverup the Cabal’s corruption and usher us into totalitarian slavery.
When the well runs dry, “feelings” don’t matter.
Think about what the limit is for energy costs before the US has regional brownouts,
not because of “scarcity”, but because of unrelenting cost imposed by
Green theory and bought authorities.
The dynamics going on now throw our economic theories into the bin.
This is an artificial, fake scarcity of energy.
It is creating a global depression.
This will only cause the right wing to rise.
You can’t cry for others freedom when the lights won’t come on.
Freedom is already dead at that point.
The whole idea of developing global liberal democracy will die
when there is no economy to support it.
There is a sea change occurring, and the only thing that makes sense to me
is that the plan is to depopulate the planet.
The blame-shifting is not a “feature”.
It’s the “motive” for PERPETUATING and ESCALATING WARFARE.
• Information
• Covid
• Racial
• Ethnic
• Financial
• Economic
• Starvation
• Military
Then there’s those pesky USA-Sponsored Bioweapons Labs.
Our narrative should be strong that this Russia attack was due to Biden signalling weakness and inviting the kind of war that Trump forestalled. That way the MSM can try this tactic until they’re blue in the face but it will only dig their hole deeper.
Right on time too… considering gasbuddy.com has been having trouble all morning. The sheeple are waking up, so they need to coordinate on the diffusion and direction of the anger of their NPCs.
https://downdetector.com/status/gasbuddy/
In my opinion the months and months of continuous inflation in America and “The Occupant’s” approval rating was exactly what Vlad needed in order to order this “Military Operation”. If inflation is under control and if FJB had a 50% or higher approval rating in USA Vlad wouldn’t be crossing that border.
And if Biden hadn’t embarrassed the entire nation with lame weak knee withdrawal of Afghanistan showing weak administration to both China and Russia.
Truly, only absolute morons believe what comes out of DC and mass media.
With out a doubt, I believe those that believe or make themselves believe these lies work for government, all 25 plus million of them, then there is the 50 plus million on some form of welfare. Just about the number that voted Biden. We all know they vote for more moocher policies
Tocqueville > The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with public’s money. Our Republic has been gone along time.
Watching Cavuto, Baer and Jennifer Griffin on Fox is laughable. They are so patently obvious in their attempts to shift blame away from Biden/Obama to Russia that they look like fools. They actually had Jeb Bush on giving his two cents. They are exclusively using Neocons or Democrats to push this narrative. And if the topic goes towards things being better when Trump was in, they immediately change the subject… It’s clear the Paul Ryan crowd at FOX is doing their share to save the Biden crap show…
It is beyond disgusting. FOX is where most R’s get their news. Maybe not most here at the CTH, but just ask your R friends and family…..That is why RINO’s/Establishment continue to win.
Another definition for politics is poly meaning many, tics are blood suckers.
We are suffering because of a manmade disaster created by Old Joe and his nefarious gang of misfits.
The only climate change we have worry about is Nuclear Winter caused by these idiots.
Starving, freezing, oppressing, destroying the vast masses, to benefit a barricaded few.
I smell Revolution off in the distance.
Getting closer now.
If most don’t starve first.
Looking at Rasmussen, the regime is up to 44% approval. Was 38% 2 or 3 weeks ago. Bounce from the lying fest the other night?
More like people are distracted by the Ukraine “war”… Once that is done My guess is it will go back down though one should never underestimate the stupidity of some “Americans.”
People feel better when “the problem” is somewhere else.