There's no convincing my cousin that your vote no longer counts unless you voted for the party they want installed. The other day she was texting me because of Trump's tariffs, she went out and stocked up and advised me to do the same before it's too late. Since it's rare for me to buy foreign food(s) imported into this country, or you could call it "selective" depending on what it is, the only other items is tangible, and I don't see those prices rising, not yet. What I do see is Walmart, for example, stocked to the hilt with large screen tv's, and depending upon the amount of room you want to eliminate from your living room, selling from $400 to $700, with the later price leaving you sitting in your dining room to watch tv, (lol). Under seven hundred for the largest quality brand television you can buy isn't too bad, and I think this is more about trying to tweak the economy into favor than anything that will be long standing substantial when it comes to tariffs. Fear mongering people into buying to boost the economy.
Amerika has 120 guns per 100 people, second place is 50 guns per 100 people in yemen, IF the shtf, it's gonna get ugly real quick.
14 days at the outside and the cities have burned.
Should be mostly settled by week 6 of the trucks not running.
So, I wouldn't expect that 'they', those currently in a position to pull the plug, want to allow things to go there, it's their stuff that is going to get burned and their hides that will hang from the lamp posts.
Maybe they can't avoid it, but I bet they can.
Few in the crowd want it, the crowd mostly just wants to be left alone to their steel belted radial tires and microwave ovens.
There aren't enough agitators to get things going without help from those in crucial power positions.
In any event, there isn't much anyone with no real power can do.
It's very real that you don't have to stock up food, if you can take it from those that do/did.
Basically she was concerned with the price war, not all hell breaking loose. Those most concerned with their steel belted radial tires and microwave ovens will find a way to seek calm among the masses if they want to keep those tires and microwaves.
I think demand destruction will offset the tariffs.
IF it is nothing more than a supply line gambit, we should only be affected by things no longer made in 'murica.
A currency collapse is more likely, imo, than a supply line failure.
When all those overseas dollars come back because nobody wants them, prices will rise then, for sure.
In that case, I recommend saving all the coins you can.
Coins are treasury money that the banks buy at face value.
When the frn goes away coins will likely assume the new value of the usd.
The banks have most of them, anyways.
So, they would be in favor of this outcome, too.
I think you will be waiting awhile for Trump to collapse the dollar. All the defense mechanism needed to be in place to face the backlash of that isn't set into motion yet. I don't even think the ink is dry yet on Blackrocks takeover of the Panama canal. Nor am I convinced that all countries in the world want to see a financial takeover by a communist country of the top money system. There's already been reports here in America of people having invested through Fintech to see their money disappear off into nowhere someplace. Plus if it's even remotely true that Russia is building up for an expansion of war into Europe going into the end of 2028, which I am just assuming will be an attempt to take down NATO, we are a ways off from that happening, and I am only assuming that rumor date is off by a few weeks and more likely after Trump exits office, and just assuming if this all happens, is why N Korean soldiers would be seen be needed in Russia and am just assuming that they are or will be just a front to hide China's participation by Chinese pilots posing as N Korean. If and when that all happens, I think there is much, or will be much more to start worrying about them collapsing the dollar and letting China proceed forward as the main currency driver through the use of digital currencies. But like I mentioned, the globalist don't even have the ink dry on taking over the canal.
The constitution is explicit as to the makeup of the usd, 371.25 grains of pure silver.
This book details how the 'murican public was defrauded by its 'leaders'.
The law was never ratified, just declared in effect.
The only choice the dumpster fire really has is to return to the constitution, at some point.
IF we go to kinetic war with others the return to sound money won't happen, they need to counterfeit the currency to pay for the war, but precluding that, we will return to sound money.
When this happens, distribution will be at issue.
Coins are already out there, mostly in banks.
Collecting them up and issuing new coins will take years, far longer than the public will take to burn down the cities from a lack of currency.
This eternal now always makes the future look just a step away, but that isn't how life in large groups works.
There will be clues to the switch, we just have to keep an eye open for them.
Here is one.
What I remember best from survivors of the Balkans wars in the 1990s was their statement that it wasn't the best armed people that best survived, nor those that had strong walls, or bunkers full of food. It was those that had the largest and most loyal communities/families. They said what mattered most was the ability to keep watch and alert everyone else busy sleeping or whatever to mount defenses. The ability to do things in strong groups, like go shopping, or working fields, was similarly critical. What mattered wasn't who was in the group, but the size of the group, and it's cohesion.
They also said the first to die were the raiders that lived by taking what others had, because they guarded what they had with lethal force, making raiding a bloody and often fatal occupation.
That was than, this is now. The larger the group of individuals, the more targets the drones can cancel out in one swoop from heat generated imaging.
Nothing never changes, but Hamas has revealed that no matter the technical capabilities of the raiders, having depth of personnel is the essential metric of survival today, as it has always been.
You responded, we must be reaching the clear to partly pouty stage. I'll man up here and apologize for being rude and I was only attributing it to that one comment on your behalf. Not that you were insulting me in your usual mannerism of something or the other, sometimes when dealing with a more formidable force, it makes the small stuff aggravating to deal with.
I highly doubt there's much left in the harden forces of Hamas in Gaza and more likely a bill of goods we are being sold to continue on with the genocide occurring over there. I am assuming there's a good chance of why we are seeing these on again, off again, hiring and firing going on, when people are focused on their own survival, it's hard for them to focus on the survival of others. It's easy to sell a bill of goods under those circumstances.
You told me to post elsewhere than your blog. It's your blog, so I respected your wishes.
You're probably right about Hamas, since they were formed and have been funded and facilitated by Israel.
I meant your egg nonsense. It was pretty conclusive. The chart sprung up the moment he left office, it takes time to do trade deals. He signed the deal the last few days of his admin. Sure inflation pays a part in the price of eggs. I had never denied that, but so does heavy demand put on them and especially in a time when egg production was declining due to their bird flu. I swear to god Ralph, if I said turn left, you'd turn right.
I wouldn't suggest raiding as a primary tactic, not when one can just wait for those types to not need what they collected for you.
And yes, I should have included, get to know your neighbors.