DISASTER Batten down the hatches-Econ disaster is coming.

Hacker

Computer Hacking Pirate
Holy Smokes! And there goes the nation. We won’t be sitting around waiting for that to get fixed under O’Biden…
man your lifeboats…. The only “fix” now is war.
War may expand the money supply, but at the total cost of a destroyed middle class (at best), if not a country that's in shambles.

Far better that we shut down the Fed and return to honest money.
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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I think you're assuming that a CBDC will work (technically, functionally, etc.) Yet where government and bureaucrats are concerned, nothing is certain.
It may take time to fully implement, but it is coming. That’s the reason for the push by Biden to build digital capacity via infrastructure.
 

LightEcho

Has No Life - Lives on TB
It may take time to fully implement, but it is coming. That’s the reason for the push by Biden to build digital capacity via infrastructure.
We call it AI. AI feeds on electricity and data. The AI is the flesh of a spiritual monster that will track everyone in everything they do. The difference between "on-line banking" and a "digital currency" is that soon under CBDC every dollar will have its own life OVER people. That dollar, every dollar, will be tracked and controlled to conform with the desires of the AI in charge. Imagine the server volume and power required to track just the buying & selling, the "social credit score" that each dollar visits, your every move tracked through public & private cameras with facial recognition & vehicle license pinging, your electronic beacon (cell phone, implants, internet activity) and soon the eye-in-the-sky with nearly complete visual /thermal/ electronic monitoring. And all this data will be preserved permanently to be used against you when any case needs an excuse for caging you. What is perfectly legal & lawful today, will be illegal tomorrow and retroactively.

BUT... there are flaws and weaknesses in the system. First, it is temporary and has an expiration date. Secondly, it is evidence that the evil ones cannot be everywhere and know everything, so they need to implement draconic (draconian-dragon) measures. There is ONE escape from these, and all best be in that escape now or you are doomed.
 

LightEcho

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Expound ?

Cuz, I definitely agree on the ONE part, and it ain’t violence nor is it a token showing regarding the spiritual…..per say .
There are many things we can do to prepare for the events ahead, but unless He builds the house, our labors are in vain. The path will be torturous and full of snares. It will take supernatural guidance for those who will hear and see.
 

Toosh

Veteran Member
I guess I'm the outlier here but I'm very positive about our future. I see the tides turning. The more desperate the deep state becomes, the more they push and the more that good people say, "No."

It's like when you're nose-blind to the stench of a wet dog in your house. We the people have been nose-blind to the corruption. We will have to rebuild many systems that we've become accustomed to. Our financial system has to be rebooted - we can't survive with the current concept of central-bank-debt. The FBI/DOJ/Justice system needs a good clean out. Government needs a top-down downsizing and streamlining. Our medical system can never go back; people have to start taking care of themselves and taking responsibility for their health. Our colleges need a slap in the face and our kids need a slap on the ass. The perverts need to be stuffed back in their ugly, dark world.

If we the people continue to do the kind of work that's been happening the past 6 months, I think we can do much to clean house in 2 to 3 weeks - and in a year we will be back to having 2 sexes, criminals in jail, and hard working people prospering.

We may already be seeing Divine Intervention in the works but I think we have to also do some work.
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
I guess I'm the outlier here but I'm very positive about our future. I see the tides turning. The more desperate the deep state becomes, the more they push and the more that good people say, "No."

It's like when you're nose-blind to the stench of a wet dog in your house. We the people have been nose-blind to the corruption. We will have to rebuild many systems that we've become accustomed to. Our financial system has to be rebooted - we can't survive with the current concept of central-bank-debt. The FBI/DOJ/Justice system needs a good clean out. Government needs a top-down downsizing and streamlining. Our medical system can never go back; people have to start taking care of themselves and taking responsibility for their health. Our colleges need a slap in the face and our kids need a slap on the ass. The perverts need to be stuffed back in their ugly, dark world.

If we the people continue to do the kind of work that's been happening the past 6 months, I think we can do much to clean house in 2 to 3 weeks - and in a year we will be back to having 2 sexes, criminals in jail, and hard working people prospering.

We may already be seeing Divine Intervention in the works but I think we have to also do some work.

At best, we will get a reprieve of 4 years while a conservative administration fights to plug the holes in this sinking ship while they are fought every inch of the way by those currently in power. We saw it before only this time it will be much worse. Very little will get done and what does get done will only be through executive orders which can be nullified on day one of a new administration, just as Biden did to over 100 of Trump's executive orders on his first day.

Never in history has a country this far gone down the pit of social decay been able to turn it's course around and it won't be happening to us.

Lesson from History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse ( 7:10 )
Author, art professor, feminist, and cultural commentator Camille Paglia speaks on the current transgender mania, the wisdom of early medical & surgical intervention (calling it "child abuse"), and how the explosion of gender identities is a recurring sign of cultural collapse throughout the history of civilization
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8BRdwgPChQ
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Bottom line.

Everyone should prepare for this as best they can.

I’m hearing a lot of rural ’letric co-ops have received grants to run fiber optics in the same right of ways they have for power lines. The co-op that provides the electricity for our BOL received one of those grants. They’ve been working on it since early 2023. I think they are projected to be complete by late 2024 to early 2025. There is three phases. We are part of the first phase in the fourth zone. The first three zones already have it available. Our zone is being “spliced” and we’ll have access to fiber optics at the rural BOL by April 2024 if not sooner. I’ll be honest, I am excited for it. Our internet access here is horrible DSL via Windstream or whatever their name is now.
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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At best, we will get a reprieve of 4 years while a conservative administration fights to plug the holes in this sinking ship while they are fought every inch of the way by those currently in power. We saw it before only this time it will be much worse. Very little will get done and what does get done will only be through executive orders which can be nullified on day one of a new administration, just as Biden did to over 100 of Trump's executive orders on his first day.

Never in history has a country this far gone down the pit of social decay been able to turn it's course around and it won't be happening to us.

Lesson from History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse ( 7:10 )
Author, art professor, feminist, and cultural commentator Camille Paglia speaks on the current transgender mania, the wisdom of early medical & surgical intervention (calling it "child abuse"), and how the explosion of gender identities is a recurring sign of cultural collapse throughout the history of civilization
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8BRdwgPChQ

A Trump presidency is going to be like Jacob’s dream that meant you need to prepare because bad times are a comin’. The fat and lean cows.

So if we do get a Trump presidency people better take all the chances they are given and prepare for what comes after Trump.
 

momma_soapmaker

Disgusted
I’m hearing a lot of rural ’letric co-ops have received grants to run fiber optics in the same right of ways they have for power lines. The co-op that provides the electricity for our BOL received one of those grants. They’ve been working on it since early 2023. I think they are projected to be complete by late 2024 to early 2025. There is three phases. We are part of the first phase in the fourth zone. The first three zones already have it available. Our zone is being “spliced” and we’ll have access to fiber optics at the rural BOL by April 2024 if not sooner. I’ll be honest, I am excited for it. Our internet access here is horrible DSL via Windstream or whatever their name is now.
We have Windstream (NoStream) here too, but had fiber optic run last year. Best thing we ever did.
 

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
How many on this very forum took the covid money just because it was free and they wanted their share without understanding they’d spend that amount and more in the resulting inflation?

I sent the Covid money back every time because it kept showing up just in time for my quarterly tax payment and was about the same amount....
 

Hfcomms

EN66iq
A Trump presidency is going to be like Jacob’s dream that meant you need to prepare because bad times are a comin’. The fat and lean cows.

So if we do get a Trump presidency people better take all the chances they are given and prepare for what comes after Trump.

To me that is what 2016 thru 2020 was. Hillary was supposed to get in and the cheat machine wasn't up to full speed yet. In 2020 they proved to have plugged that hole and (imo) did a lot of threatening to make sure that the courts didn't look into the steal. They can't get away with a 2020 type steal this time. Too many people are aware and Joe and gang is too unpopular so that means something big (really big) has to happen between now and November.

Communists and/or Globalists never voluntarily give up power. Like Hitler they will burn down the house and upset the card table if they don't get their way.
 

Sammy55

Veteran Member
To me that is what 2016 thru 2020 was. Hillary was supposed to get in and the cheat machine wasn't up to full speed yet. In 2020 they proved to have plugged that hole and (imo) did a lot of threatening to make sure that the courts didn't look into the steal. They can't get away with a 2020 type steal this time. Too many people are aware and Joe and gang is too unpopular so that means something big (really big) has to happen between now and November.

Communists and/or Globalists never voluntarily give up power. Like Hitler they will burn down the house and upset the card table if they don't get their way.
This is what I believe, too. I think our "fat years" were during President Trump's four years of presidency. I think we are sliding further and further into the "lean years" with a crash at the bottom. I also believe that TPTB are positioning themselves NOW to get themselves out before they crash our country. I don't think they will let it go to election. I look for something happening probably in mid to late October. Late enough to give them more time to put the pieces together and late enough that elections either won't be held or won't matter as everything has crashed. JMHO YMMV
 

hiwall

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Remember there is likely a very good reason so many in Congress are quitting.
I really wonder if the nation will make until the election.
 

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
This is what I believe, too. I think our "fat years" were during President Trump's four years of presidency. I think we are sliding further and further into the "lean years" with a crash at the bottom. I also believe that TPTB are positioning themselves NOW to get themselves out before they crash our country. I don't think they will let it go to election. I look for something happening probably in mid to late October. Late enough to give them more time to put the pieces together and late enough that elections either won't be held or won't matter as everything has crashed. JMHO YMMV

If that were the case it'd be almost over. You can't have four fat years and then more than four lean years.
 

SageRock

Veteran Member
I think you're assuming that a CBDC will work (technically, functionally, etc.) Yet where government and bureaucrats are concerned, nothing is certain.

The government is inept and inefficient, and the flim-flam CBDC program will be no exception. Remember how poorly the original Obamacare website "worked"? Especially with all the DEI hires and management. Not to mention all the likely cybercrime involved from the very beginning. The theft risk will be off the chart. They're nothing but lazy grifters from the Presidency all the way down.
 

Hacker

Computer Hacking Pirate
The government is inept and inefficient, and the flim-flam CBDC program will be no exception. Remember how poorly the original Obamacare website "worked"? Especially with all the DEI hires and management. Not to mention all the likely cybercrime involved from the very beginning. The theft risk will be off the chart. They're nothing but lazy grifters from the Presidency all the way down.
Well, I think the Fed along with the banks are tasked with development of CBDC systems. Nonetheless, I think the project is likely to fail, just as the vast majority of software projects fail. ;) IMHO.
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
I’m hearing a lot of rural ’letric co-ops have received grants to run fiber optics in the same right of ways they have for power lines. The co-op that provides the electricity for our BOL received one of those grants. They’ve been working on it since early 2023. I think they are projected to be complete by late 2024 to early 2025. There is three phases. We are part of the first phase in the fourth zone. The first three zones already have it available. Our zone is being “spliced” and we’ll have access to fiber optics at the rural BOL by April 2024 if not sooner. I’ll be honest, I am excited for it. Our internet access here is horrible DSL via Windstream or whatever their name is now.

Read the fine print of the contract. They hook you into a three year plan. The first year is dirt cheap but by the third year you are paying something like $150.00 per month.
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
How many on this very forum took the covid money just because it was free and they wanted their share without understanding they’d spend that amount and more in the resulting inflation?

I spent all of mine buying Ibuprofen from Doc1
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
Remember there is likely a very good reason so many in Congress are quitting.
I really wonder if the nation will make until the election.

Not to mention the rush of the billionaires to build bunkers on private islands



They Know Something’s Coming ( 11:42 )
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEk79bjYnv0



Mega Rich Are Forcing Out Millionaires on ‘Billionaires Bunker’ Island
The mega rich are forcing out millionaires as ‘billionaire bunker’ island, Indian Creek in Miami, Florida, increasingly becomes a private enclave of the uber elite.

A local historian told Bloomberg that even wealthy people can no longer afford to live on the island because they are being priced out by people like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

“Only the very wealthy, the billionaires can afford to live in Indian Creek now. Hundreds of millions aren’t gonna cut it anymore,” said Paul George.

Bezos already owns multiple properties on the island and is looking to buy three more, having bought two neighboring homes on the island for a total of nearly $150 million last year.

Inside Florida's 'billionaires bunker' where the ultra-rich like Jeff Bezos is pushing out millionaire locals – as the Amazon tycoon looks to snag three more properties

Billionaires on the island of Indian Creek in Miami, Florida, are said to be forcing out previous owners… pic.twitter.com/BTUvEyfhk7
— News News News (@NewsNew97351204) January 5, 2024

Why anyone would need five or more properties on one single small island is up for debate, is it just so Bezos can avoid people or is he trying to construct something similar to Mark Zuckerberg, who keeps expanding his secretive Koolau Ranch hideout in Hawaii?

Zuckerberg is building a 5,000-square-foot underground doomsday shelter, something that Bezos is almost certainly trying to emulate.

The privacy of Indian Creek is a big draw for the ultra high net worth, as is the private police force, which “patrols the community around-the-clock by foot, sky, and land.”

The island can only be accessed via a single, guarded bridge and its famous residents have included Ivanka Trump, Carl Icahn, Colombian banker Jaime Gilinski, Jay-Z and Beyoncé.

The waterfront properties are ironically owned by many of the same people who push the narrative that man-made climate change is going to cause apocalyptic sea level rises.

Apparently, they’re going to be just fine though.

As we document in the video above, billionaires are busy buying up private islands in places like Hawaii, Fiji and New Zealand to prepare for what they call ‘the event’.

‘The event’, whatever it ultimately ends up being, will likely be driven by mass resentment towards the very world they created.

When this earth-shattering ‘event’ happens, the billionaires will scurry away into their underground doomsday bunkers which they have been carefully preparing for years.
 

TFergeson

Non Solum Simul Stare
See? The globalist Left thinks they can set and then control the conditions.
Until the losing side decides to change the rules and start acting out with extreme (not play and pretend) violence.

Indeed. When someone has nothing left to lose, things tend to go sideways.

That, and never discount the 3 most powerful words in any language: "Daddy, I'm hungry"
 

Ractivist

Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
I agree with the centralized control part. They’ve been sending us that way for the last hundred years or so. They’ve got so many already screwed onto Uncle Sugar’s tits that he’s being drunk dry. However, the great majority of the population don’t want to see that they are dependent at least equal in being part of the problem as the politicians they’ve elected to keep their pablum coming. Dependent on the taxes other people pay, dependent on the government ponzi schemes, etc. and yada yada.

And yes, it will go downhill for all regardless of what people want to believe.

I suspect that many more people than expected will welcome the new digital currency because they are essentially already living that way. Few people get a check these days, payroll and pensions get deposited directly into bank accounts. So does all the gov money people are raking in. How many on this very forum took the covid money just because it was free and they wanted their share without understanding they’d spend that amount and more in the resulting inflation?
BUTT, if they realize, fully understand, no doubt about the fact...the .gov can stop your money stream instantly! The big brother social credit scoring makes you a slave boy, girl, it, she, he they them etc... your life just became limited. The dream is now gone, less of course the idea of being a Karen appeals to one...........who is under total control, no matter what......be a sh.. life. May take them some time to realize it. If one prospers too much, one becomes a target...that sucks too.

Lots of useful idiots to pave the way, that's understood. No one knows the paths we will take to end up wherever the heck we end up..........enjoy the ride folks, it's what we got. Ever been on a modern super roller coaster.

I think I feel sick...........
 

Ractivist

Pride comes before the fall.....Pride month ended.
And when prayer was taken out of schools and when the Bible was removed from government And when divorce was legalized And when same sex marriages were legalized And when transgender was "normalized" And...
I believe the Lord is almost out of patience with this country.
That's a mouth full.
 

Ragnarok

On and On, South of Heaven
BUTT, if they realize, fully understand, no doubt about the fact...the .gov can stop your money stream instantly! The big brother social credit scoring makes you a slave boy, girl, it, she, he they them etc... your life just became limited. The dream is now gone, less of course the idea of being a Karen appeals to one...........who is under total control, no matter what......be a sh.. life. May take them some time to realize it. If one prospers too much, one becomes a target...that sucks too.

Lots of useful idiots to pave the way, that's understood. No one knows the paths we will take to end up wherever the heck we end up..........enjoy the ride folks, it's what we got. Ever been on a modern super roller coaster.

I think I feel sick...........

The most policed people in history policed themselves.

The Geheime Staatspolizei were very few in number. They were successful due to neighbors, friends and family ratting each other out.
 
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