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This Seems To Be Going Well...
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Gallup released a new poll late last week showing how many (or few, as it were) Americans are ‘satisfied’ with the direction of the country. 23%. That’s it. 76% are NOT satisfied. Only 1% aren’t sure.
The chart below shows the astounding, long-term decline since 2000.
Note, this is a trend that has outlasted three Presidents and six Congresses. It’s not about a single politician, or even ALL the politicians. It’s about the system itself.
Bottom line, people are fed up. The system has failed. And people are starting to realize it. Where do you think this goes?
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On a long enough timeline ..........
I think it keeps going down and bobs along flatline.
Unless the dollah gets dethroned, then we might not be able to produce these meaningless polls.
People tend to get a lot smarter when they are hungry. And as of right now, they aren't really hungry yet.
pods
I wouldn't call hungry people smarter... maybe more desperate and willing to take bigger risks.
Enlightenment takes years. Death by starvation happens in a few weeks, and your brain isn't working too good for most of that time.
Train your own monkeys
Hey Simon, can all 330 million of us emigrate to some tiny island nation where things are better?
Soon the solution will come clear.
Hillary v Bush (or Perry or Paul or that far right Christian preacher-man, all tools of the NWO)
Booyah!
A guy I know (very wealthy and establishment tool) says that Romney can win. All the dems have to do is change the message. What message, I asked? He started yelling at me, ad homenim attacks, all very "unemotional and intellectual" reaction. I mean YELLING! Well, he then says, Perry speaks Spanish. I wanted to sit down and cry for my children
Y'all know, nuffin's gonna change, dontcha? Don't listen to the Street and the MSM
All propaganda
I wonder why? They are teaching 6th graders how to use strap ons, 3x4 CAN = 11 if you can explain your stupidity, and a federal judge just said he can see people being given "rape licenses" to be allowed to rape people. GEE, I WONDER WHY THEY SEE US GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION.
EVERY society that collapsed had two things that heralded the collapse.
1) The fall of the moral fiber of society
2) Debasement of the currency
Not looking good for Uncla Sam, is it? Now get back to your fisting class while the Asians are in their 6th grade pre-calculus class.
Nothing will happen.
The next clown will bring a new flavor of "hope and change" for a temporary spike but the sheep will keep taking it up the ass and the certain target of that trendline is close to zero.
23% is still a big number.
It's all part of the plan - makes it easier to elect a more detestable despot when the bar is continually lowered. The 4th Reich USSA can't be far off.
Jesus is Lord and God raised him from the dead.
Fuckin A.... :-)
Since the system cannot be "fixed" using its own corrupt infrastructure, I wonder at which low number on the graph revolution is finally sparked? I'll guess around 10%. Or maybe it'll happen when the only people left who "approve" are the vampire-squid 1%ers.
I did not realize that 76% of the country are recipients of social welfare benefits and want more...fuck me. People want change and yet vote for fucking retards or they don't show up and vote. People want change but they don't even know who the fuck our VP is or what is happening in the world - but they are totally informed about the Kardashian sisters and that loser Kanye. Let this shit blow up so hard working people who give a shit can have the shackles removed.
Will voting left, right, or another way affect the eventual decline of a society? History does not bode well for voters.
Will being giving the option for useless canidate A or useless canidate B stop the destruction of the middle class by TPTB? History does not bode well for voters.
When given two or more bags of shit, it makes no sense to take one of them. You still only get shit. History shows people will take shit, complain about the shit, and think things will be better next time when offered a pick of two bags of shit.
Lemmings. They deserve to run off the cliff.
Unfortunately, even as a Yute I see the massive problems and what's puzzling to me is the extreme out of touchness the executive and legislative branches are from the people ... esp since Congress is theoretically supposed to represent the people.
In touch, out of touch, the checks cash the same.
FORWARD SOVIET!
The alpha-male social hierarchy developed to primarily benefit alpha-males.
It still does.
Anusocracy you only have it half right. Collectivism-Statism is favored by beta males and dependent women, especially the young. It promises a safety net to calm their fears of failure, disaster and losing out to alphas. However, the clever alpha leverages these things and takes over at the moment of autocratic power. So, the flower children, hippies, losers, insecure and simpletons through the wonders of pluralistic powers set the stage by gradually ceding all power to the State. All things are done by permission and only with approved documents. Then the alpha males take over. Their names are Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and so on. The first order of business is to kill off the leading betas before the disillusionment sets in and morphs to a counter revolution.
In a tribal society, virtually everyone wanted to be an alpha: male or female. More food, more reproduction, more passing your genes on.
In modern society, almost everyone is a wannabe alpha also.
History shows again and again
How Nature points out the folly of men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65rW_SIzg0
Revolution is merely the exchange of my tyrant for yours.
Jesus is Lord and...
Nothing against Jesus, I down-voted you for interrupting the conversation.
False flag
Really?
You are just as nuts as Wahabis in your superstitions.
"The 4th Reich USSA can't be far off."
Look in the rear view mirror.
Not only that, but .. "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear"!
Objects in Mirror Appear to be Losing
Mirrors? We don't need no stinking mirrors...
I had to upvote you for that. Brutal but true.
23% of 330,000,000 is 75MM....49MM on food stamps....what is the deal with the other 30MM???? .GOV employees...there 'ya go
"GOV employees...there 'ya go"
As long as you don't call them gov workers!
I hate Government staff infections.
"I hate Government Staph infections".
FIFY
Woosh.....
22% of them are government emplyees. The final 1% are, well.....
Americans always whine about how bad things are, but they will go back to the recliner and watch football and play fantasy football on their cell phones. Then they update their fakebook page with pictures of their dogs wearing goofy clothes.
All talk and no action.
Over 90% of incumbents get re-elected, and most voters say that third parties will never win, because of their self-fulfilling prophecy.
The three major spikes:
Afghanistan war- October 2001
Iraq War- March 2003
Obama elected- November 2008
The take home lesson:
If you want the plebs to be happy, put on a war or give them a dictator.
I am not sure Americans would know what to do with themselves if the dollar had worth, we were at peace, unemployment really was at 6%. If things were even close to as good as they tell us it, Americans would be killing each other out of boredom. Not that that is a bad thing...
Yes, War and dictators. We really do love to get whipped by massah.
We'll see how appealling they find war on their own soil. This next one's coming home.
I can see Texas taking care of itself. If SHTF on American soil, I am moving to Texas with my guns.
Better get here fast before we dig the moat around the state and start charging admission...
The war is over
No shots were fired
We lost
...... they hit me with so many rights I was begging for a left ......
most voters say that third parties will never win, because of their self-fulfilling prophecy.
Ya, most of the dolts in the republican party have this utterly idiotic philosophy, something along the lines of, 'I know the Rs are as bad as the Ds but a vote for a third party is a vote for a democrat so I'll do nothing'. rolls eyes. Idiots deserve this govt.
You guys don't think that votes still matter do you , now thats fucking funny.
I think when votes do not matter then you have to have a revolution.
Most Republican talking heads say that, but most conservatives do NOT believe it. That's why Romney lost.
Romney lost because he thinks he has magic underwear and he is a cyrpto-Heb!
Another practical reason 3rd parties haven't succeeded is that the system is stacked against them. You can't even get on the ballot or make the debates unless you hit a certain percentage (like 5% I think), and forget about matching funds, and of course your 3rd party will have zero power sharing in our two party republic, not even the multi-party coalition power sharing that must go on in parliamentary countries...US (and much of the world's) politics is a dead man walking..
Anarcho-capitalism for the win!
I didn't have enough money for that .50 caliber sniper rifle I wanted. However I did settle for the Thompson with the 50 round drum mag. I keep the wife very happy apparently.
The sheeple are getting nervous. They know something is bad is coming. But they are too sedate and eeasily distracted with Kartrashians to self-educate and understand what is happening as they get closer and closer to the sheering.
You mean slaughter
The department of education is a threat to our national security. http://youtu.be/BD_Yds81n2w?list=UU4bwuk4V32BHqX4yXx2zDXQ
This eight-disc video/DVD set of presentations and written submissions, including ones by Charlotte Iserbyt, Samuel Blumenfeld, Dennis Cuddy, Edward Griffin, Rosa Koire, Anita Hoge, et al, is the result of two 2-day conferences, held in Maine and Georgia, August 2012 and August 2013. Fifteen of the nation's most respected education and political researchers, writers, and speakers, including public school teachers - some in the trenches since 1965 - were videotaped. A special roundtable discussion involving researcher/activists Karen Bracken and Kelleigh Nelson, Tennessee, and Diane Kepus, Karen Schoen, and Debbie Gunnoe, FLorida, provides up-to-date information related to Common Core, tax-funded school choice and charter schools with their unelected boards. Written submissions are included from the speakers, as well as from those who could not attend the conference. One is offered a banquet of written works, including rich history, from great patriots and recognized writers active from 1960-2000; i.e., Jacqueline and Malcolm Lawrence, Joan Masters, Elizabeth Trotto, Peggy Cuddy, and from equally talented individuals no longer with us: the late Maureen Heaton, Don Bell, Jo Hindman, Bettye Lewis, and Ruth Feld. .
This impeccable research is your tool kit: ammunition to fight and win the government/corporate/tax-exempt foundation-funded war against our children and grandchildren, and against our free constitutional republic, very aptly illustrated by Joel Pett, Pultizer Prize-winning cartoonist in his 1983 Phi Delta Kappan cartoon.
Here's another "Straight from the Teacher's Mouth" expose on what a sham "public education" is:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
He was NY state Teacher of the Year in 1991, and resigned through an Op-Ed published in the WSJ.
A bunch of youtube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+taylor+gatto
Another great voice exposing this sham is Jon Taylor Gatto. The guy is a font of knowledge on this history of the destruction of the American educational system, as well as being voted Teacher of the year in NY in 1991 (I think)... Anyway, a little boring to listen to his presentatinos on youtube, but if you can sit and listen, the truth is awful... really really awful.
Great recommendation!
Also - Charlotte Iserbyt: The Miseducation of America Part 1 is an absolute must watch. The first 20 minutes or so are slow but the real plan for taking down the US is laid out by the former number 2 in policy at the Department of Education.
*sigh* so true. Part of me is so tired and depressed with it all I hope Ebola flushes it like a biblical plague. Of course, that means the innocent will perish as well.
It's just so hopeless at this point and I am sick of feeling so impotent to change any of it or even caring to do so any more.
Miffed;-)
One of the biggest problems with figuring out what is going is just that. There is nothing you can do to change it. Nothing! And if you try we will hear about it on the 6 o'clock news.
The only hope I see is that I can do things to change my situation. Like completely leave the system all together and let them all eat each other. Have to be able to deal with long cold winters though. As well as how to store meats/vegetables long term.
sleigher so you must live in North Dakota too
With you. I just heard mr o say that we know how to deal with ebola. How to treat it and how to keep it from spreading. On "the offchance" that it would reach the US, airline staff are trained in spotting somebody ill... Yeah. And, hospital staff- Ya know, doctors and nurses are being trained in what to do... (I must have been off that day or didn't see the CBL.) Gad, I wanna crawl under a rock.
"It's just so hopeless at this point and I am sick of feeling so impotent to change any of it or even caring to do so any more."
We have to hope in the reset. But what comes out of that (collapse) is tenuous and iffy at best...agree with the comment above that we need to do the best we can to prepare ourselves, our families, friends and neighbors and ally ourselves with like minded people locally. At least you can DO something and AFFECT something positively.
It's called doom fatigue Miffed. We all know it has to stop sometime, but we don't know when. The upper limit is somewhere around 2021 or 2022, but that's one of those "under ideal conditions" kinds of things. We have anything but ideal conditions. Wealth inequality bourne out of not meriticracy, but out of corruption is at or near all time highs. Corruption is the status quo right now, in fact.
I know that if this ends in economic collapse and not something involving mushroom clouds, I will likely have to make a decision: When some psychopathic fucks try to take power in the midst of the chaos, how will I resist them?
May I suggest 7.62 x 54, seems to get the job done.
But I already have a couple 7.62x51 NATOs, a few 30-06s, several 22s, 12gas, .410s, a 20ga, a 45-70, .357 mags, 38spls, 38S&Ws, a 5.56, a 357SIG, 9mm, and there's probably something else that I'm forgetting. I'm sure one of those would do the trick.
What can I say? I like guns.
I have got to say I love you el Vaq! You always make me smile and today doomer fatigue really had me by the throat. Guys seem to have the inate ability to crawl out of this state better then women.
It's funny when Mr gets in this state he pulls out his LWRC REPR and fires a few rounds. He shows me a nice scope he wants to get ( hint hint, nice Xmas present! Ok... Where am I to get $1600?) Then I get treated to all the targets he's shot and the accuracy. After a few hours, he's happy as a clam.
Funny, last week I called saying I was coming home pissed from a shitty day. He says "Ill meet you at the range!" I say " I don't want to go to the range. I want to go home, put my fist through a wall and have a drink." "But daring, that's the best time to go!"
After going through two boxes of .40 and his .357, and the 30/40 Krag, I felt amazingly better. And to think others take pills to improve their mood. So sad.
Miffed;-)
Not all of us are doomed. Only the ones that curl up in a little ball and do nothing while sucking their thumbs waiting on 911 or a good sumaritan while being beaten to death.
Such is life or...ya know, the other thing, being a victim of someone elses life.
And so it goes ;-)
This is true and why one finds the way out through doing. Simple rumination feeds on itself to spiral into pointless depression.
I am never a victim but do suffer from being bereft of hope sometimes. Thank God for you and others here that smack some shit out of me when I need it and remind me who I am and what I need to be. I will not fail the call when it comes. Courage is what is needed and so many are hiding and won't be counted.
Miffed;-)
the world is a better place with you (and mr. miffed) in it.
I agree with Yes_Question here Miffed, keep your head up, and chest out ;-), you will be part of the solution...eventually.
Hope wanes, courage is forever!
Ccanuck
I've come to this strange acceptance that the world cannot change for the better without significant pain, and that it may not change for the better. All that I can do is to make sure that my little corner of it is better than it would have been had I not existed. Yeah, the corruption and police state bullshit pisses me off, but things that make most people livid can just roll off of me now.
I guess once one finally internalizes the millions getting raped by our government, bankers, etc... and you realize that we're nothing but whipping boys for a lot of those who are supposed to "protect and serve," it's tough to get mad about a lot of other things. (Except for traffic. I have to cuss while in traffic.)
On the brighter side, balloon fiesta starts next month. I'm in a position where I either participate, or I hate it. I have friends coming in from all over the country, a bunch of us get together and crew for our pilots, who take us up, go to the events, drink the free beer, have dinners, etc... I'm going to expose them to flavors that they've never experienced in their lives this year, and I'm going to freely give them some of the seeds necessary to reproduce those flavors if they like them. Smoked elk posole with hominy that I made along with some killer red chile, cushaw pie, If I have any, calabaza pie and some of the native melons, garden fresh spinach and lettuce, chard, etc... I even have a volunteer melon that I think is a honeydew, but I have no idea how the seed would have made it to where it is. Whatever it is, I'm not watering it much, so it should have a much fuller, sweeter flavor than store bought.
It's one way that I see of making my little corner of the world a little better. I'm going to show them what they're missing out on, and provide them with the means to experience it themselves. No crazy doomer stuff, just a pitch based on quality. I'm going to plant a seed, so to speak.
Lay in a few (or more) cases of whiskey or whatever you prefer. Great antibacterial and you can trade it for what you don't have.
(I know how to make whiskey)
Wow, I am intrigued! We are in the process getting a still. My friend the vintner wants me to make spirits from the wine he feels is not good enough to sell. Mr and I looked at each other. What the hell, we'd give it a go even though the learning curve may be steep.
El Vaq, you are truly a renaissance man.
Miffed;-)
I haven't made any spirits in a while (beyond the statute of limitations, ATF and IRS,) but keep in mind that it's illegal, and anybody who knows what they're looking for will recognize the smell when you fire the thing up.
If you grow any mint (that shit's the Attila the Hun of the plant world,) harvest a bunch. Wash the hell out of it, then steep it in near boiling water until the flavor is imparted into the water. Then, look up a straight mead recipe, add as much honey as the recipe calls for to your minted water, boil, and ferment. Distill that, and bottle it with oak chips. I did this once, but I had so much mint that I had to mow it. It smelled good, at least. After it had aged for about 6 months, one of my neighbors tried it. He's a single malt scotch connoisseur, and he said that he'd have a hard time choosing between 15yr Laphroaig and that.
You ain't kidding about the mint. I planted some in my garden once and I spread like Ebola. Only thing that can contain it is lack of water.
When I stayed on a farm in New Zealand, I commented to my host I was curious to what he did with all the fruit he was growing. With a funny smile he asked me to his house.There were 30 barrels of fruit fermenting on his porch in stainless steel! He brought me to a room with oak barrels and drew some off for me to try. I could not believe it! I tasted Scotch similar to Oban! I claimed he was messing with me. He said it was the best he had done but it was really peach. We tasted all afternoon. I was blown out of the water. I finally crawled back to our cabin pretty much slammed. Mr asked what the hell did I drink. Really, only peaches I swear ;-)
Would you ever consider visitors? Mr and I may someday drive through your area on our way to Colorado and would love to see your set up. The possibility is somewhat remote but I thought I'd ask.
Miffed;-)
I do too.... but just make certain your prep weapons are a choice few and that you stock them with plenty of ammo...the others can be fun plinkers, toys, etc. but when TSHTF, you wanna have those choice few ready to go.
The M1, the 11-87, a 357 mag, the 357 SIG and a 22 pistol as well as a 10-22. If I had to go light, the M1 and the 357 mag. Maybe my 5.56 because it's lightweight and can be thrown into a backpack.
I had high hopes for AIDS, until I found out a retro-virus had never caused any animal disease and the whole thing was a Reagan media event to avoid blaming the guilty for using poppers, drinking, taking pills, and being ridiculous in their behaviour. Meanwhile we killed a whole generation of hemo-philiacs with a DNA terminating drug that was "too toxic to use on terminal cancer patients". I don't know how you can stand it if you really are an educated microbiologist; I don't know how I can stand it. One day at a time and plenty of distraction.
You got the power Miffed. It just feels like none of us do. We know the only fix is an implosion of the system itself. We vote everyday with our dollars. The only way the system is legitimized is by giving them our money. When it's witheld, looky, looky at MCD for example. It's starting to implode. We all have the power beginning with ourselves by a total withdraw from the system.
The only solace I have is that there's the beginning of a conscious awakening of the people. After decades of an invisible visceral cog/dis, they are beginning to recognize that's piss, not rain going down their neck.
You cannot believe the ridicule I got from an engineer when I said 3 buildings, 2 planes, cuz he didn't see it on the teevee. After showing a national news cast on WTC7, think I got an apology? Nope, but I did get some satisfaction at inducing cog/dis. HA ;)
One person at a time.
That's actually the plan Miffed... Apathy. It's necessary if Agenda 21 will come to fruition. Don't let them win...
Like this ya mean? http://thecivillibertarian.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-we-abandoned-virtu...
1) The fall of the moral fiber of society
2) Debasement of the currency
The second proceeds from the first, obviously, but can't they just put that fiber back in the cereal?
Voters are tools. I visited the county office to "remove" my name from the voter registration roll. The first lady looked at me like I was crazy. I said, "we both know what the word 'remove' means, I hope." Her co-worker saw where it was headed and she immediately pulled out the correct form for me to sign.
Simon Black, Sovereign Man blog,
Dude you have the right paradigm, and right perspective, maybe it is like the Buddhist...
But damn, you charge for your info.
And you posted only a paragraph here to entice people to spend money on your website... sorry, well it looks like you are just a writer here... Okay. We all want to be writers and you do okay. Hey, how about some inside info or data in like 3 paragraphs???
Quite the spike generated in that 09/01 time frame, just when W's numbers were falling off a cliff. Now that i look at where O's numbers are, can't imagine an event might occur to rocket those numbers back up. It looks baked in the cake.
Looks like the inverse of the S&P 500. I guess the take home message is those fuckers in Washington better not screw this up. Given that, their is little doubt, to infinity and beyond.
Independance Day. Gotta zap them aliens and pass out some cigars.
RELAX!!!
EVERYBODY WILL VOTE FOR HILLARIOUS AS NEXT PRESIDENT AND ALL PROBLEMS WILL BE FIXED!!!
Promise....
And otherwise she can blame Obumel for everything that's going wrong.
It worked for Obumel blamming everything on Bush so why not?
Pillory-Hillary ... you know, something just occurred to me... something that I wonder how many people haven't thought of ...
With a woman as President ... wouldn't it be dangerous to have national crisis' or emergencies, while she was on her period? I mean, just think about that for a sec. Calm, cool, rational decision-making, right out the window! Can you imagine???
Also, as an aside, I do note that this very perplexing scenario shouldn't apply to Hillaryous Rod, since she'll be 67 years old next month (going on 87.. whew!), and that whole menopause thing's supposed to kick in 'round their late 40's/early 50's ...
But still. Something that perhaps shouldn't be forgotten about?
Hey, could be the plot of the Big Screen's next big post-apocalyptic movie...
That Bitch hasn't had a period since Chelsea was hatched. The "calm, cool, rational" men we've had have all been the bee's knees, haven't they?
We need a decent and intelligent human in office, no matter the sex.
Men-o-pause REALLY? Best you can do?
Try Men-o-Quit. She's eaten more than slick Willy.
Ask Huma.
That woman is a demon.
Just think, Hillaryious' daughter married that GS ju-fellow, too. Never know when you might need a little 'advice' on things,,,huh
Thanks so much for being as depressing as possible. Hilary is completely un-acceptable, and signals the end game; period. If I were you I'd have a nice waffle and try not to think about it too much.
Apply the rule of 3's. 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without air. And an enlightment/epiphany can happen in an instant. ;)
It dies with a whimper....not a big bang.
Oh, you're wrong there. There will be an enormous bang.
"There will be an enormous bang."
That's what she said.
Back to the classics
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Only if it clogs the toilet on the way down.
I used to love Zero hedge. But I am so weary too Miffed. I thought that the USA would in no way stand for Obamacare...... but it is right on track. I give it a 5% chance or less to die with a bang............ otherwise it is just a slow hard grind into poverty. That's all I see ahead.
The slow, hard grind started back in the '70s when women had to start working for families to keep up, and household debt had to increase for people to keep up. Sure, there were good times during that, but that was an inflection point. We've been at it for a while. There will be at least one more bang, be it literal or figurative. There are too many things waiting to meltdown for there not to be. The world is so distorted that when it starts to snap back to reality, it will do so violently - again, either literally or figuratively, or both on the violence part.
yep...we'll end like all the other great empires, slowly bit by bit. we have slowly been diluted by those we have welcomed. it was not intentional, the belief systems were just not the same. egypt is still there,likewise rome,spain the dutch and england. isil will end with a bang.we live in interesting times?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfslbOhvkrg
Goto 7:50 and watch... Pretty much sums it up...
Immigrate to Canada and save yourself; you can't save this vipers nest of Fascism.
Canada? Ok, disappear into a lakeside wilderness paradise. Bring your woolies. But developed Canada is run by the same set of clowns as we have. Its not like back in the Nam war when Canada had a sane foreign policy.
If I take out my Fibonacci ruler and my Elliot wave spectrometer I figure this bad boy is forming a bottom in the low-to-mid single digits getting ready for a false flag formation break-out to the upside. Look for a confirming BF-BS-FU pattern. Summary: BULLISH!
We aren't hungry because we are fed lies and entertained with pointless shit.
Since the days of Rome.....
Bread and Circus....
Are you not entertained?
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/16/167050b19d5679e58f05e3d35f2273ccad0e9330...
As per pods:
Pretty much in agreement. Perhaps one or two small, momentary upticks, indicating the last spin or two around the bowl, and then down and out to the septic tank, followed by the bobbing along.
Democracy: The god that Failed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy:_The_God_That_Failed
ctrl-alt-del
But you forgot that 25% of Americans are on anti-depressants at any time. That skews the polls a bit.
Yeah, it skews the polls but to the upside!
Anyone, ANYONE that thinks the USA is headed in the right direction today is too damn dumb to vote.
Huh? What election?
drooling
They may of gotten a free Cell phone and now love thier Goberment.
.
...or so stupid that they still believe that elections matter. Either way, though, you're right: very stupid.
Collapse
Past tense.
Listen. "HOPE", Change, "CANCER". For all. Amen America.
how many bullets did homeland security recently buy?
Not enough unless their marksmanship has greatly improved.
I doubt it
Why just use one round when you can fill the air with lead.......?
Most of it is 40S&W. Pistol ammo. A guy with a $200 used WWI rifle would be more than a match for a guy armed only with a 40S&W.
Here is an older requistion of 'just' 35 million rounds of .223 caliber per year. Certainly not 'pistol ammo'. With Option of 4 years,,, https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=140e263e1c...
how to turn the poll around: ask only those on wall st. problem solved.
Where do I think this goes?
Moar socialism.
Sadly, true!
Moar Kleptofasciosociocapitalcronyoligarchyism!!!
When the current bubble bursts the powers that be are going to struggle to explain whats gone wrong this time.
Expect war, war and more war.
Right, as that'll be the only way to explain it. Something external, like Russia, did this to us...CHARGE! (And charge that to our account Boeing and Northrop Grumman...)
Judging from your down votes it looks like we have a few socialists on board. Welcome aboard zh socialists. Enjoy the ride and be sure to keep your extremities within the confines of the ride at all times. Thank you.
Turn that chart upside down and then buy more stocks and stuff!!!!!!
I am reminded of a quote from Lionel PlayWorld ... "turn that frown .. upside down!"
I am of course now reminded of Jake Tucker (from Family Guy), Tom Tucker's kid ... whose entire face is upside down .....
After the November Elections,the downward trend will continue unabated that's for sure..
It doesn't matter who's elected... still the same system, debt, trends, elitist goals,... Nothing's stopping this tanker at this point until it reaches the rocks.
It doesn't matter who's elected... still the same system, debt, trends, elitist goals,... Nothing's stopping this tanker at this point until it reaches the rocks.
It doesn't matter who's SELECTED! <-- Fixed it for ya :)
Have a Nice Day!
After the November Elections,the downward trend will continue unabated that's for sure..
And a lot faster.....
Since the dot com bubble popped and 9/11...imagine that.
Those things, plus the end of Glass-Stegal Act & beginning of the whiz bang Commodities & Futures Trading Act. From 2000 forward, when the 'oil men' gave the keys to the kingdom to the MIC & the banksters, the ass rape of America shifted into overdrive.
Dup...stupid smart phone.
yours might be. it was worth repeating.
That's only the last two presidents, not three. Small correction, but still, that damn Simon is always trying to slip something past...
It starts with a full year of Slick Willie.
It started with nafta and every bullshit neoliberal policy passed since. The collapsing of the economy took several years to metastasize like all forms of cancerous economic concepts.
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." - Thomas Jefferson
NAFTA was a strong accelerant for the flames consuming America, but the groundwork was laid long before the bill was signed.
The biggest turn came under Nixon/Killinger when they doomed the gold standard, essentially letting America default, and opened the door to China.
The Ford and the Carter admins were busy dealing with the Oil Shock and turmoil in the economy, then finally the Iran hostage crises, but then we got the conservative God, Mr. Trickle Down himself, Ronald Raygun, along with his CIA sidekick Popa Bush. They promptly unleashed the Savings & Loan fiasco on the country, and then the MIC to start playing fast & loose all over the world when they put the neo-cons in charge of everything. They also brought a megaphone to the left/right division that has so weakened us politically by bringing the worst kind of charlatans into the public arena. Reagans favorite way to whip up the crowd was to talk about welfare queens, usng racial overtones whenever possible , but NEVER brought up the welfare/warfare KINGS, like his major mentor, General Electric. You know, the ones that bring good things to death.
Then, when Popa Bush got his turn at steering the ship, we had our first Iraq war.
Then came Clinton, who, as you noted, gave us NAFTA, more wars in Bosnia, etc., and as I noted earlier, signed off on the Gramm, Leech, Bliley bill that ended the firewall between plain Jane, safe banking and casino based 'investment' banking. The final nail Clinton drove in our coffin was the Commodities and Futures Trading Act. Both bills signed in the last 6 weeks he was in office.
There are numerous other things that went on during all of these adminsitrations to speed along our demise...but then...we get President Cheney and his trained monkey George. These 2 traitors started a shit-show we are still living today, and one which forever changed this country.
Then came Obummer....'nuff said.
My only point here is that it matters not which President you want to start with. There is plenty of shame to share, and the trend line has been down since JFK was murdered. Maybe the people just started waking up in 2000 as measured by these polls, but what's new. Always remember this - over 1/3 of American adults are functionally illiterate, and the VAST majority are oblivious to what is happening in the world this week. Few are able to keep up with what is really happening in .gov land and the world in general, let alone understand it and how A affects B and B affects C.
Nice rant 11b40.
I'm making a questionaire beginning with the FR for the pols that go door to door this election season. If they can't answer correctly, my standard reply will be they are not qualified to vote as I close the door in their face.
Cheapest fun I can have for an utterly hopeless situation. Who knows, someone might wake up.