…..Quit Pretending
Joe Biden is not running this economy. Joe Biden’s economic advisors are not running this economy. Joe Biden’s cabinet members are not running the economy. The people running this economy are the climate change activists behind the scenes who have been elevated into positions in all economic cabinet offices throughout the administration. This was the deal in 2020 that led to Biden’s installation.
Professional political activists, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders types, within the Interior Dept., Energy Dept., EPA and other regulatory agencies related to the energy economy are in control. Not a single operator within the system looks to the White House or executive office for guidance. They knew they had a short window to carry out the unilateral agenda regardless of damage it does.
This is a full-throated assault on the energy industry under the auspices of the climate change agenda. And that is what is collapsing Main Street and pushing massive costs onto consumers via inflation. That’s it. That’s the background. No one in/around the White House has any control over the consequences. That was the 2020 deal made, and the reason why Biden was selected as the nameplate.
Oil prices have shot up to $120/barrel. Russia and Ukraine are being used as a smokescreen for the ‘Build Back Better’, or domestically, the “Green New Deal’, agenda. The same climate agenda supported by the entire Western government alliance who bow to the altar of the World Economic Forum.
Damn the consequences, full speed ahead. Main Street citizens are collateral damage. They don’t care. In the view of the operators, their urgent goals are bigger than our needs; and their high-minded, filled with superiority justification is, they are trying to save us from ourselves.
US NEWS – The jump of more than 50% for oil prices so far this year has been a big contributor to the very high inflation sweeping the world. Earlier Tuesday, a report showed inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro currency hit 8.1% in May, the highest level since records began in 1997. (more)
Of course, every American can feel the impact, even if they cannot identify the reasons outlined above.
WASHINGTON – Americans’ confidence in the economy has plummeted to a new low, hitting likely the lowest confidence since the end of the Great Recession in early 2009, according to a new Gallup poll released on Tuesday.
Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index (ECI) measured -45 in May, which is down from -39 in each of the past two months. (more)
The only thing we know with absolute certainty, is that things are going to get worse. They know how bad it is going to be, that’s why they are working to mitigate any risks to the centralized power. That risk mitigation includes the need to consider armed citizens as a threat to the process.
There will be electricity shortages. There will be even more “necessarily skyrocketing” increases in energy costs, both cooling and heating. There are going to be more, even larger, food price increases and potentially some shortages.
As each unavoidable item like housing, energy, gas and food costs more, there are less dollars available for non-essentials. Inventories on durable goods will climb as consumers hunker down with priority spending on the most essential items. If the demand is gone, employment layoffs in the goods sector will take place.
This process, a very predictable yet unnatural outcome from the consequence of completely restructuring the energy sector which underpins the economy, is not going to get better. There is far more downside yet to travel.
We are entering the ‘you will have nothing, and you will be happy phase.’
The sanctimonious and pontificating elite class are justifying all of this pain by saying they are trying to save the planet.
I will not eat the bugs.
NOBODY should be “running the American Economy,” and when somebody – or some bodies – attempt(s) to do so, THEN you will have problems!
A market economy does not need somebody frantically throwing switches and hitting buttons or spinning dials like the oppressed workers in the dystopic movie Metropolis.
No government should be “in charge of” an economy!
Governments are supposed to create the best conditions with peace, communications, transportation, etc. so that businesses and their customers can create products, buy and sell those products, and improve their lives.
Governments are NOT supposed to strangle economies with massive regulations of several million words, massive taxation of all kinds (fees, licenses, city-county-state-federal taxes, etc.), political interference (i.e. bribes known as “campaign donations”) in favoring one company over another for government contracts, AND governments are NOT supposed to FAIL in carrying out the few duties outlined above!
Ausonius: No government can run an economy but any government can hobble an economy.
But government(s) can RUIN an economy as we are seeing up close and personal! And just think it took less than 2 years to do it and by the end of this year, 2022, no one will be able to put humpty-dumpty back together again, FUBAR!
Here’s a thought from so far out in left field it could be plausible! November elections the Demorats get trounced and the Republicons take over, new faces same Uniparty game plan.
January 1, the Demorats admit the 2020 election was rigged/stolen from President Trump, they force Obiden out and want President Trump reinstated. He is President once again but mind you nothing in the swamp has changed. Now if he goes back in for 2 years, will that make him ineligible to run in 2024? And by January, 2023, our once great country as we knew it will be no more, FUBAR!
yup.
drives me batty when we keep asking why government has not fixed the baby formula crisis…. what were they doing there in the first place?
Because they created it!
Shutting down production to protect public health. A series of tweets put out by the company explained it all. The problem was not in the production plant as it turns out. This was easily scientifically determined quite some time ago but, the problem is getting someone in government to flip the switch back on. I heard they are entering phase two of the decision making process so perhaps when phase three ends they will have gotten the necessary approvals from all the bureaucratic players involved to allow production to resume. We cannot be too safe you know.
It will be their excuse for continuing Roe, we can’t feed the babies.
If you won’t let us kill them in the womb then we will starve them to death………..sounds like this when you put it that way.
Artificial scarcity.
While I wish so much I could subscribe to the “Land of the free”, I can not. Those who fought and died for our freedom have been utterly betrayed. We are not a free nation. And it grieves me more than I can say to write that truth.
I wonder if Russia and China have pervert shows for kids on their military bases.
I’m thinking they don’t.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-military-base-cancels-drag-queen-story-hour-for-kids-after-pressure-from-senator_4503008.html
I’ve said this before but will again, Mo…how Great God has refrained from Sodom and Gomorrahing us is beyond my capacity to understand.
But it needs to be said, Betsy, and thank you for taking the lead on that. After reading it in black and white, I believe it’s my duty as a patriot to repeat this fact often. We are no longer a free country.
Yesterday on the lovely Memorial Day thread someone said in effect that it was horrible that so many died (yes it is) and then “but at least we’re free.
You have no idea how much I wanted to say it then. But the sacredness of the day and prevented me.
Which is why I only put up protest flags at home. I love and respect our flag. But at my house until the republic is restored, only protest flags fly here
Stamps upside down on the mail I send are my tiny and probably futile offering. I sincerely doubt no one who receives the things I send notice. Good for you.
Excellent idea.
who was trying to run the economy back in 2009…..yep the same one doing it now…..
All I can say is, “keep knocking back the heaters, Barry, and, c’mon, lung cancer!”
Note the daughter as well.
Also note Barry’s father loved himself the sauce and I’m not talking about horseradish sauce but the alcoholic kind.
So let’s cheer for the booze, too, with Barry’s beta male body.
Y’all keep misspelling ‘ruin’
I witnessed something I’d never seen in my decades in business, businesses actually firing perfectly good vendors, employees and customers, all over the Covid op. Bizarre. I said enough, not playing their game any more and closed my shop of over three decades. Done. Alternative economy from now on. Corporate America and the humans who inhabit it can gargle Dementia Joe’s balls.
Wait til businesses start firing vendors for having too large a carbon footprint.
Stakeholder capitalism my ass.
I was just with my 7th Graders on a field rip to The Air Force Museum in Dayton at Wright-Patterson AFB, where the students were shown a short documentary on D-Day.
Naturally one heard how those soldiers, sailors, and airmen put their lives at risk for our Freedoms and Liberty and way of life.
I could only think of a stolen election with a Chinese puppet in the White House, of legislators standing and applauding the legal slaughter of babies both born and unborn, of politicians saying we must place limits on Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, the Right to Bear Arms, and on others for our “security,” of the freak show which is now American Society, where idiotic freaks – or even mentally ill ones – are lionized and even imitated, where drug-addled wastrels collect government hand-outs, and many other similar things occurred to me…
…and the sad conclusion was that no one who died on D-Day would have wanted to defend any of that!
Ausonius: Back in the summer of 1970, at the ripe old age of 9, while on vacation with my parents in France (my father was a Korean War vet) I stood in the opening of one of the heavily shelled German gun emplacements on the cliffs above the Normandy beaches, looking out across the English Channel, imagining what D-Day must have been like. For a 6th grade history class, I built a diorama of the that beach and cliff, complete with landing craft and tanks made of clay. I fashioned the cliff with chicken wire and paper maché. My my mother carted the display to my school in the way-back of our Oldmobile Vista Cruiser Station Wagon.
There’s someone else in the world who refers to that back of the station wagon as the “way-back”? 😉
Well yeah! But who today even knows what a “Station Wagon” (?) even is? Does any auto manufacturer even make one any more?
I think BMW does still. They’re the only semi-modern ones I’ve seen since those last-of-their-era boxey Volvo ones when I was about 10 in 91/92.
Parents had a 1972 olds vista cruiser we also called it the way back my favorite spot.brings back lots of memories be well and stay strong treepers
Yes! We had a VW square back back in the day circa 1972 and it had a “way back” lol
Aaah.. the old Vista Cruiser… big 455…. awesome on how it would merge on the 5 in San Diego.
Ours caught on fire in Rosarito Beach… thankfully it was only an oil leak.
But then it got towed back to San Diego. I got to ride in the tow truck cab with the hombres (*) while the rest of the family rode in the wagon, happily eating their lunch.
(*) My instructions were simple… make sure they go North!
My father was there. And he would be so angry if he were alive
McConnell seems to think he is in charge
Sen Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: It may take a recession to crush inflation
https://www.forexlive.com/news/sen-minority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-it-may-take-a-recession-to-crush-inflation-20220531/
He is of course completely corrupt, a thin outer shell of a human being whose substance has been devoured by the termites of greed.
Historically, inflation can only be caused when the money supply has been tinkered with by an incompetent government.
If you inflate the prices for your goods, and then people decide that your products are not worth the price, your sales will fall, and you will lower your prices….unless you are irrational.
If you form a cartel to inflate your prices artificially (OPEC e.g.) then you might cause some trouble temporarily, but the market will soon teach a lesson that such a monopoly will not pay, as smaller companies will soon undercut you.
When such fixing starts to damage an otherwise fair economy, then government has the right to step in and break up your monopoly.
However, when a government – which produces precisely nothing – starts to say that it has money which does not exist and starts to throw it around, watch out!
The government-caused inflation can result in government-caused recessions/depressions.
“devoured by the termites of greed.”
I find that phrase pretty damn good…I like it!
Many thanks!
I have received the gift of a certain felicitous facility with language! 🙂 😉
McConnell IS in charge.
Of all those in Political leadership positions, Brandon, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, McCarthy or McConnell, which one stands out as NOT being dumber than a bag of rocks?
McConnell.
Yes. He knows exactly what he is doing, who he’s ignoring, who he is harming, and who he is helping.
We’re in the first and second groups.
Exactly.
What’s going to happen when the damage to individual families is unacceptable; creates desperation?
Death.
According to data from Redfin, 19.1% of home sellers dropped their price in the past four weeks.
This marks the highest percentage of home sellers lowering their price since October 2019.
Now throw in 6+ more interest rate hikes, a recession, and record low consumer confidence.
Just wait until people cannot afford their mortage payments. We haven’t seen anything yet.
They’ve got plenty of illegals to take those homes.
At a bargain too.
Our parents and grandparents saw it in the 1930s.
This is why investment groups are buying up as many homes as they can to make us a Nation of renters. CTH predicted it a while back.
It’s coming. And there’s no refinancing into higher interest rates as a fallback. People maxed out on mortgages and living in far suburbs are so totally screwed.
I sold my house in 2019 for a very good price. It used to cost me about $1800 a year to heat it for the winter, and that was with a wood fireplace insert that heated the entire first floor. I understand the new owners pulled it out. I’m going to bet they’re looking at around $1200/month to heat that house to any degree of comfort. Additionally the school district contracted to build 3 new schools and taxes have gone up 24%. That means the annual school taxes on that place are now at least $29,000 per year, then add the county and township taxes onto that.
Damn I’m glad I’m out of there!!
Yet as always, our home values will remain elevated & unchanged in regards to their taxable value when our always high Texas property taxes are due in January. Govt always gets their money.
thats why they put that fence up around capital hill and increased the fence around the obungle White House.
Half measures at best. Need a fence, complete with gun towers every 100 yards, barbed wire, etc. and completely surrounding not only D.C., but the 5 wealthiest counties surrounding D.C.
We TELL them its “for their protection” of coarse, so they applaud it being built.
Only after its complete, do we lock the gates, throw away the keys, and turn the guns inward.
Maybe throw some food in every so often, or maybe just let them do what comes naturally; FEED off of each other.
I vote for the last option!
Its the way they wish it to be. That way they have fewer to kill. They only care about their wallet and how much green energy they can milk for the last dime.
As things tighten up remember your rights and use them when necessary!
She ought to be awarded at least 10% of the massive cost savings the city realized because of not having to incarcerate, legally process, try, imprison, execute, nor compensate any family of the homicidal perp. has to be savings in the hundreds of thousands if not millions. Not to mention the priceless lives she saved at the scene of the incident.
Welcome to the “New and Improved” World War. Brought to US by traitors in our midst in league with our mortal enemies around the globe. The irony is that these ratbastards only number in the hundreds of thousands, in a country of over 350 million. I’m counting the illegals, too, because a bunch of them recognize the evil that is being perpetrated on US, too. 350 million people to 200,000 traitors. Break it down a little bit, 3,500 to 2, or 1,750 people to every traitor. Should be good odds?
“the need to consider armed citizens as a threat to the process.”
armed citizens SHOULD BE a threat to the process.
They don’t believe we are disposable; they believe we must be disposed of. It has come that far, the next steps in this endeavor will not be pleasant. Just haven’t figured out exactly how they will do it.
I’ll venture a guess: poison death shots. Starve and freeze the survivors to death. Create a few human robots for their amusement.
Then.. things will get even more interesting when God steps in.
He’s incompetent, yes.
But, this could only be by purposeful design.
Open borders, attack on patriotic Americans (aka domestic terrorists), shutting down energy independence, foreign entanglements, runaway spending, government handouts, etc.
He’s a treasonous ahole. That the best I can say but yes, he’s merely taking his orders from the globalist tyrants who wish to own you.
Buraq’s third illegitimate term. All of his policies on steroids because of his Biden puppet.
Perfectly said…
They continue to back us into a corner and don’t care that we see it. I’m beyond livid and have entered a cold rage with the lot of them. They repeatedly hamstring us and I don’t know how to turn it around.
I completely agree with you. I believe only a reckoning will turn this around. Unfortunately when The People reach the point to do what MUST be done it will be too late..
I hope I’m wrong
I continue to pray for a miracle and I know in my heart and I think you and most others do too that WE are the ones we’ve been waiting for. So I pray it’s in my lifetime while I can fight to the death for my children
Exactly
Iys NEVER “too late” to, IN UNITY revoke the consent of the governed.
NEVER,…TOO,…LATE.
So, please get that notion out of your head, as it leads to despondency or panic, neither of which are productive.
You misunderstood my comment of “too late”.
I was referring to the destruction of our country and economy. I do not nor will I ever be without hope or belief in the ability and heart of my people (which are ALL Americans). My comment was not intended to cause panic or despondency and I’ve found that people who look for the negative in every single word uttered easily find it. Your insults are not productive and are the reason many do not comment online. Instead of attacking others maybe your time would be better spent encouraging Unity…
Didn’t sound like an insult to me. Dutchman just doesn’t want us to give up.
Which i agree with that
I took it as an insult that my comment would cause “despondency or panic”
I would never intentionally try to discourage anyone.
I thought my comment was ok and based on how I feel about the situation
This is why I rarely comment.
Again I was not trying to say anything negative or to encourage others to “give up”
I believe I said that in my comment to Dutchman
Your comment was awesome. Please continue to post, you are appreciated.
Dutchman sounded encouraging to me… emphasizing it’s never too late.
God bless us everyone.
I must go with you. My grand kids . . .
They had planned on 2030 for all this, but things didn’t go as they thought, so now the goal for completion of the reset is 2023. Things will start moving faster and faster hang on and be ready.
My suggestion: read this book. Everyone should. Free for the download.
https://billstclair.com/Unintended-Consequences.pdf
I bought that book after reading about it on this site and haven’t started it yet. It’s huge.
Yep, that topless lady had something up her sleeve…..
Besides our traditional Main Street and that ripple effect anyone in the recreational vehicle and boating industry going to take a big hit and travel and tourism. The agenda is more important than your citizenry is without doubt.
Jrod, the things you listed are things that give joy to people.
Take away folks’ means of fun, refreshment, happiness…on top of impoverishing them, and I don’t want to think about what will be.
I am praying, for we need God. A miracle from God.
Come Lord Jesus!
It’s OK. It’s all transitory.
Zelenskyy has been instructed to not negotiate with Russia and drag this war out as long as possible to create an artificial shortage of oil at higher prices for as long as possible to prolong the energy shortage on those countries who voluntarily embargo Russian oil and gas for as long as the war lasts. If they can extend this war through the winter and deprive us of home heating, all the better.
As was stated at the WEF last week, “it will be painful, but worth it”.
For whom?
I am surprised Zelensky has not been executed yet.
Russia cut off Finland’s natural gas. Looks like he’s targeting NATO countries. I don’t blame him. This graph from 2021 is pretty telling.
EU can’t figure out if they really want the oil or not. They all say they’ll find it somewhere else.
This isn’t in the BIDEN plan JUST yet… He’s BIDENS PUPPET.. BIDEN HAS TO GIVE THE ORDER !!!.LOL ALL THIS MONEY GOING OVER THERE IS A JOKE N YOU AMERICANS R THE JOKE R JUST PLAIN STUPID…PELOSI WENT THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY IS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO ALL HERS N BIDENS THUGS …
ITS CALLED MONEY LAUNDERING 💰.. SECRET BANK ACCOUNTS..REALLY AMERICANS WAKE UP
An assault on the energy industry would be OK with me if it weren’t for the fact that our lives depend on it. We have, long ago (well before we were born, gone beyond the tipping point of independence to complete technological dependence. Now, without power and of course without food, we are being set up for a MASS EXTINCTION EVENT.
The people running this (“climate activists”?) do not plan to go without energy or transportation. In fact, they plan to be the only ones with such things.
The question in my mind as this horror show develops is whether or not the hired elite defenders of “the big club” will accept that the starving masses are “their enemies.”
I also wonder if there are enough of those defenders.
The climate activists have long believed that the world is overpopulated. Mass extinction is the plan, not a by product.
The globalists don’t understand good vs evil because they are godless.
They aren’t in control of this train wreck, even if they think they are.
Joe Biden was chosen because he’s easily manipulated and very compromised.
So, not only do we have some nut jobs running the White House, China has declared war on us.
That’s the primary reason you don’t outsource everything, because then you are weak and vulnerable.
I pray for intervention.
WE are the ones who can intervene.
The globalists are evil. They also understand good as an existential threat.
They hate any society they cannot control. That’s why they love death and killing off those who will not succumb.
Look at Venezuela. Commies brought that beautiful country to its knees. My best friend in college was from Venezuela. The photos and stories she told amd showed me were so enticing. Of course this was 40 years ago.
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Related: Ukraine is full of shale gas, and note its locations:
http://shalegas.in.ua/en/shale-gas-resources-in-ukraine/
We have abundant resources and production capacity. Globalist tool in this instance is to use their NGO’s and bought judges to litigate the pipelines until it’s not economically feasible. If you can’t get it to where it’s needed then it’s basically useless
And the freaking RINOs are obliging with the climate change silliness including the likes of Matt Gaetz and his climate change BS.
I’m with MTG all the way she doesn’t believe in that crap.
Our Republic is being run and run into the groud by Lawyers…..It’s as simple as that…..Almost half of Congress are Lawyers…Lawyers are 1-1.5% of the our Population yet are almost 50% of Congress……Look at Biden and his Cabinet…Almost all Lawyers….Lawyers have no business holding Public Office…It’s the one profession that can be overwhelmingly linked to the downfall of our Republic…..Yet, few people acknowledge this fact……
Only 50%? I would have thought 75% . People were excoriating doctors because of Covid( rightly so) but lawyers always seem to fly under radar.
Arctic ice levels have reached a 30 year high.
Global warming or climate change? I’m so confused, I thought the melting ice caps were going to down us all.
The name was changed from global warming to climate change in order to cover both hot weather and cold weather!! CO2 is so disruptive that the weather changes are becoming extreme so no matter what the weather is it’s due to climate change! Ice caps/glaciers melting, ice caps/glaciers growing – climate change! Lots of hurricanes and tornados due to climate change! Lack of hurricanes and tornados due to climate change! Droughts due to lack of precipitation due to climate change! Floods due to excessive precipitation due to climate change! So no matter what the weather is any deviation is due to CO2 induced climate change! Heads then win tails we lose!!! It’s all a hoax! The weather is unpredictable and CO2 has no provable effect on it!!!
FJB
Can you bring some alternate view instead of criticizing and walking away?
What do you disagree with?
Some people are on overload and can only handle a certain amount of bad news.
Yes.
I just want to encourage them to decide what they find disagreeable and say it. I am interested.
Ive never cared for accusations with no explanation. It’s just name calling at that point.
Well then, there’s always Fakebook.
Yep, I have to go away for a day or two, work in the yard etc. Yesterday a BBQ with fellow freedom lovers. Helps.
Mismanaged Decline… the worst of both worlds…
Mismanaged deliberately inflicted on our own country decline.
Trump PROVED it didn’t have to be that way, by the Grace of GOD, and they HATE him for it.
Crazy but it seems several media sources have a similar article.
Apocalyptic Warning: World Has Just 10 Weeks of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage https://ussanews.com/2022/05/26/apocalyptic-warning-world-has-just-10-weeks-of-wheat-supplies-left-in-storage/
Of course it does. How many “useless mouths” (or whatever they call them) are going to have to die on the path to Klaus’ Nirvana? We’re about to find out…
The other “gas”…. natural gas, not gasoline which we all are aware is a bit pricey…watch natural gas prices…Nat gas is ” cracked” to produce hydrogen for fertilizer for crops and for use in hydro cracker units in oil refineries amongst hundreds of other processes…has skyrocketed in price also just this year alone…$3.75 to $8.20…it’s even worse in Europe…just a small detail in the bigger picture of what the joebama admin hath wrought…
Don’t worry you’ll notice it when your electric bill is $25 more each month
JP/JY had a WH visit today – internets (Hussein’s word for Gore’s creation) saying Bidan (Team Potato) is pushing to defer rate raising action to post Mid Term period. This will exacerbate the current issues.
Sundance nails it yet again!!!!
Perfectly put.
Wish I could put this way.
Only in one sentence-Marxism by design.
The same attack on the citizenry is happening in Europe. The EU is following the same agenda of withdrawal of fossil fuels, price hikes, and food shortages as the USA.
All in the name of the kleptocrats’ religion: the Green Reset.
I listened to an outstanding video this morning on this very subject. I listen to this gentleman’s reports on world affairs every day. I learn news the Western media won’t tell me, and I hear insightful commentary. It is so very much like what Sundance presents, but via 30-minute videos.
Give him a try~you will see what I mean:
https://theduran.com/eu-virtue-signals-russia-oil-ban-sanction-patriarch-kirill-putins-shock-triumph-update-1/
Just wait for it.. Plausible deniability…
correct. Biden is gone at 2 years +1 day, and along with him all the blame and accountability for the last two years.
whoever is veep at that time rules for the next 10 years.
If it comes down to driving my truck to the store or keeping my weapons…..weapons win
See ya at the gas pump! 🤣🤷🏼♂️
Can’t wait to see our military in electric fighter planes and vehicles.
The bastards are killing us. I truly hope that when the GOP is in the majority that they fix this garbage. I do believe that they are all poking the bear way too much. We will stand for some things but at some point there will be consequences and I’ll be at the front of the pack.
GOPricks are in on it. They talk, but won’t do anything. You can be assured that if they were planning to do something, they would not have a chance of taking Congress.
And it goes without saying that the very same regulators, bureaucrats and politicians that undermined, usurped and impeded Trump for his entire term are still running things.
Our economy is based on quantitative laundering………. and we are not the ones cleaning up
Gas prices just went up another 14 cents in the past hour. Oil over $120/barrel with no end in sight.
Went up 30 cents by the time I got home from work today.
Failure is the goal of democrats and RINOs. IMO There are no republicans in higher office.
Maybe 4 or 5 in the house and zero in the senate. That’s not a party.
If PDJT were to get elected every senator would probably vote to not let him make recess appointments.
Just like last time. A lot of talk though, and that tells you what they really think of we the people.
After Bungles Biden and his gang destroyed a booming economy, they are implementing their BBB plan “Build Back Broke”.
They’re there in spirit. You really have to zoom in.
Must be part of their pay
8 in 10 delivery workers admit to eating a customer’s food
https://www.studyfinds.org/delivery-workers-eating-food/
Rising gass and grocery prices are not the only things making people lose confidence in economy. Today’s jury verdict plays just as big a part to the psyche of confidence.
I have a question. I thought that in the beginning of March Biden banned the importation of Russian oil. Just now, I see we increased the importation of Russian oil in March to 4.218 million barrels, making Russia the 6th most important source of crude oil and most important source of “unfinished oils” to the US.
So, are we still importing Russian oil and nobody is talking about it? Or will the report from April show that we didn’t import any Russian oil?
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/pdf/table39.pdf
Let’s see what the data says for April
I believe that existing contracts for Russian oil before the embargo are allowed to be honored!
Retired Magistrate here: Sundance has been warning us about this for quite some time so that we can be prepared for what is coming.
We heat with fuel oil so we just got filled up at $4.62 per gallon; a lot of money for a 550 gallon tank, but at least we can get it right now and the price will be higher in the Fall. We are getting a new damper for a wood burning fireplace we have so we can use it more. It may take us all Summer but my husband is chopping wood for the fireplace and wood burning stove to supplement the heat if we have rolling blackouts. I just purchased heavy insulated drapes for our 30 x 40 great room, got a deal, $126 for the whole room. Should keep the heat out in the Summer and cold out in the Winter.
Got a frozen turkey on sale along with all the fixings for Thanksgiving dinner and put it in the pantry. Yes, I know Thanksgiving is 6 months away, but everything is available now. The pantry is stocked and we are as prepared as we can be. We are both in our 70’s and have lived through a lot of difficult times; however, not nearly as rough as my parents had it who lived through the Great Depression and World War II.
Don’t be depressed; get prepared and enjoy the day that GOD has given you.
Yes. Getting depressed is a form of surrender.
“I know but one freedom, that is freedom of the mind.” de Saint-Exupery
My fear about stuffing the freezers is if they cut off the electricity—
Dig a hole in the yard. The earth is a natural cooler.
I’m in FL so my winter is fairly short. My home is very well insulated with double pane windows. I have a gas stove and generator and a hundred gallon propane tank that is currently at 90%.
My pantry is full, as are my freezers, I have plenty of tp and other paper goods, and I have a garden and indoor hydroponics for salad greens. I grow microgreens and make my own kombucha. I have citrus and avocado trees. I am set for food for nearly a year. After that, well I’ll keep gardening. I have lots of seeds. I’m surrounded by cattle ranches so beef should be available. I’m stocked up on vitamins. I’m helping my kids as I can to do the same thing.
I have arms, ammo, and good neighbors.
After that…well we’re either all going to lie down and meekly die or there’s gonna be a big pushback by the deplorables. I don’t see any other way out of this stupidity.
God Bless you Marcia your spot on!
Get 4×8′ 1/2-3/4″ insulation sheets, cut them and fit in your windows, then put the heavy drapes up. LED bulbs throughout the house. I have saved $10o’s on electric bill since we did it last summer. Not pretty, but neither is hunger.
“WHO” Forced To Back Down In Anti-Global World Statement!
By Dianne Marshall
May 31, 2022
https://diannemarshallreport.com/who-forced-to-back-down-in-anti-global-world-statement/
Like you said just wait until it gets worse. They are rapidly pushing us to a point of no return with our power generation. They are rapidly closing the coal plants and have their sights on natural gas. Regulate, litigate whatever it takes to push the cost of fossil fuels up and then that’s the justification for green energy coming to the day to save us. Already calling for possible blackouts across the Midwest this summer..
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/capacity-prices-auction-miso-midcontinent/622186/
I’ll agree with you before I even read that link.
A buddy I go to church with is an energy buyer for an electric company here in Kentucky.
Sunday, I asked if the stories I’d read online about rolling blackouts and really high prices in other parts of the country were accurate.
He said not only in other parts of the country, but Kentucky will have it happen too.
He told me there is an actual coal shortage. Here. In KENTUCKY.
Lots of coal being shipped overseas, and apparently, unless I misunderstood him, there is a mine on fire, and of course the solar and wind will not cut it.
He told me several years ago that a solar farm by an interstate added essentially nothing to the grid and was nearly a PR move by the company.
He told me energy rates will triple in about two months…..
He said he’s actually scared about it, but there is little he can do.
He also said as bad as he hates to see what’s coming, a LOT of people are gonna be getting “I TOLD YOU SO’s”.
I am convinced people will look back on the Carter years longingly before this is over….
Yesterday regular gas (North central California) was $5.79/gal..
This morning: $6.09/gal.
It had been rising $.10 every 2-4 weeks.
“Top-Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To $510,283 In 2021”
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/top-paid-la-lifeguards-earned-up?s=r
They earn more than Fauci, hopefully they aren’t killing people. But this gives you an idea of the people who will be the goose-steppers, they aren’t going to let anyone break their gig up.
Six figure retirements
Gregg Phillips said that we have 43 million illegals in the U.S. and going up. The design is clear, to destroy the U.S. economy. “They knew they had a short window to carry out the unilateral agenda, regardless of the damage it does”.
What I see: the southern part of the U.S. is becoming more and more heavily armed by the day in preparation for the eventual conflict. So when do I expect this to start. When fathers can no longer, feed their families. When the seizure of homes starts.
So, what are we going to do about it?
We know all the problems and who are causing them, but we apparently have no plan to solve the problems.
Unfortunately, too few people know the problems.
That’s part of the problem.
Don’t be fooled by Sundance’s simple words here. He’s 1,000% correct and 1,000% understated the problem, for simplicity sake, I suppose. EITHER WAY, most Americans have their heads so far up their rectums they couldn’t pull them out with a Humvee.
Or they refuse to believe the problems or what we are trying to share with them!
I have friends who say they are trying to be detached and meditate a lot…talk about head in the sand. I think I have lost two long time friends just in the last couple of days…or should I say they lost me. I can’t be around people like that.
Many are too occupied with their bread and circuses.
The truth can be depressing.
Especially when it’s obvious that we’re living the “fundamental transformation”.
Try The Bulwark. Bill Kristol and Bush Republicans await your clicks and tweets.