Thank you for this extraordinary piece. I’ve sent it out into FB land and am curious about the feedback I’ll get, if any. My husband and I talk often about the culling of the “lesser thans.” I appreciate your clear eyed perspectives. And, I am hopeful.
Truly, since Thanksgiving things have just gone darker. Yellow warning flags should be flying in every direction. Hate in any heart or soul actually destroys the "hater". So, let's protect ourselves from our own hate, and learn to fight the good fight with hope. Sounds contradictory? Yep. I am still working on how to do this. Thanks, Evan. You always get it right. Take care.
This is rhetorical, right? The implication is that we can stop the 'this' from happening if we *just didn't allow it*. The answer to the timeframe question is 'as long as it keeps happening'. Both portions of the question are displaying fallacies.
We're dealing with minds that don't see costs to what they're doing. That typically indicates a lack of imagination and a lack of experience. I'm not a believer in universal justice. But karma can be a harsh bitch.
Try it out; if nothing else, it will stop the flooding and resulting depression as a result.
It has taken a while, most of which was working my way through the "flooding the zone" stratagem posed by P-2025's evil-bent creators, but here is a way out:
I write separately to share knowledge from Timothy Snyder, who has written a number of tomes on this very issue. Witkoff and Kushner are babes in the wood (as was I before I read a lot of his works) so run, don't walk to your nearest bookstore (or go online, these days) and (review first) his "The Road to Unfreedom". I point out a specific thread you can pick up on that really helped me untangle the web of confusion about who did what in the old days: Ivan Ilyan, who was Putin's idol and whose philosophy lies at the root of all the right/left controversies roiling both Europe and the US.
It is an easy read for such a deep subject and I recommend it for clarity of reasoning and an answer to the Project 2025's vow to "flood the zone" with junky and confusing garbage that makes no sense - such as why Trump et al. claim that bombing small boats with military involved is OK because drug smuggling is a war-provoking action, etc.
Everyone on this conversation should have a copy of Snyder's mini-book On Tyranny. It's available in print, or on the internet as a e-book. Also an audiobook. It's a textbook on tyranny and how to resist it. The overall message is "despair is not an option."
This is the America Peter Thiel and Co. have always wanted. Why? It would certainly be efficient, with lots of room for wealthy people to have exactly what they want every minute of every day. It is a hellscape for the rest of us, and it is up to us to resist it. You have to have an incredible ego and disregard for humanity and other living things to envision this. Very sad. Very bad. I had an idea for a meme with Nancy Reagan saying, "Just say no to Nazis." Here we go again, and this time we'll have to think bigger to get out of it.
Regarding state of Hate in America., I googled veracity and origin of the aphorism stated more or less "you reap what you sow". Results were - The biblical aphorism "you reap what you sow" means your actions have consequences, famously stated in Galatians 6:7: "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap". It's a principle of cause and effect, applying to spiritual and moral life: sowing to the flesh (selfishness) brings corruption, while sowing to the Spirit (righteous living) brings eternal life, emphasizing that good deeds yield good results, and bad deeds yield negative outcomes, often with a spiritual or eternal dimension. Are hate and exclusion new Christian values that I have not heard about yet in my church? Who are these people who support violation of due process for those being arrested, American citizen or not. No pushback from Judiciary. And people just don't seem to care. So how do the eventual consequences play out? IMHO this is looking similar to the Balkan Wars of the 1990's where your neighbors of many years want to kill or disappear you. Right now it seems that Trump has all the guns on his side. When does ICE graduate from concentration camps to death camps? Coming soon to a Louisiana swamp near you by Mike Johnson and others? This is sliding from concerning to scary.
Cheeto Will Preside Over The Currency Failure Of The Dollar
Alasdair Macleod, a British banker,broker, and writer at GoldMoney, has been a proponent of the Austrian school of economics and writes on his Substack channel(https://bit.ly/4oLi5Ar) about the failure and end of fiat currency system In his interview with an Aussie counterpart (https://bit.ly/4rEI8vz) his soundly based predictions is a good listen to warn of the impending currency failure of the dollar
Current inflationary numbers reflect on the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar now given in the price of gold 6% of what it was in 1971 when a Republican took us off the gold standard Put another way, the dollar buys only 6 cents of what the dollar could buy 54y ago When the US was on a gold standard post WWII inflation held steady at 1% and economies flourished
Now central bank/Fed policy is controlled by macroeconomists/Keynesians who see a metallic standard backing a currency as no longer part of the currency system even though a metallic standard is written in the Constitution
What will it look like when there’s a currency collapse? Bond yields will start rising above 5%, banks will foreclose due to margin debt, equity markets will collapse due to margin calls(estimated to be $1T), living standards will suffer horribly…food costs spiral, home loss or mortgages become worthless
Cheeto will preside over this economic catastrophe and much like his response to the COVID crisis, he and his Nazi regime will not know what to do and will devastate not only the US but the Western global economy Cheeto’s anti science approach to dealing with the virus will prove to be as blundering and bungling when it comes to this next crisis
I think maybe they are trying to kill us. That or use the women as breeders. It’s all dark, all the time with these motherfuckers. You are right to point out examples!
Another fine and trenchant one. But still 'bows and arrows against the lightening'.
What's now under under attack by our internationally resurgent authoritarians is nothing less than The European Enlightenment; so in essence everything good, noble, honest and rational that our species has been able to achieve during the past 350 years. There were powerful drivers for the Enlightenment happening when it did, and all of them are now either spent or working against us.
There is still a clear and simple tactical change through which our present rising tide of shit could be turned; but it's one that we've all been deeply educated to be unwilling even to consider. If I've managed to sufficiently pique your curiosity for the risk of 5 minutes of your time then please go to ' thelastbesthope dot xyz ' and just start reading. If you do then I think we'll be in further discussion.
I am feeling buttressed by this entire post, as, by some miracle of grace or tide rising you and several others here are now putting the things I wrote about in my teensy amateur substack back in March and April in your posts where they need to be. Maybe I haven't lived in vain as I put thimbles full of the things I read and thought telling into the reservoir of public discussion. A million kudos. You are the Man.
Thank you Evan for the article . Loud and proud. People are upset that they voted for Trump they have had a big change of heart. They told me they would be voting differently. I don’t really know what will happen.
Europe could have its moment now. Show us that you don’t (as Trump declared) “talk but don't produce. “
It is Europe’s turn, long overdue, to save democracy.
Release the Russian funds to Ukraine! It is their only hope.
Thank you for this extraordinary piece. I’ve sent it out into FB land and am curious about the feedback I’ll get, if any. My husband and I talk often about the culling of the “lesser thans.” I appreciate your clear eyed perspectives. And, I am hopeful.
Truly, since Thanksgiving things have just gone darker. Yellow warning flags should be flying in every direction. Hate in any heart or soul actually destroys the "hater". So, let's protect ourselves from our own hate, and learn to fight the good fight with hope. Sounds contradictory? Yep. I am still working on how to do this. Thanks, Evan. You always get it right. Take care.
"How much longer do we let this go on?"
This is rhetorical, right? The implication is that we can stop the 'this' from happening if we *just didn't allow it*. The answer to the timeframe question is 'as long as it keeps happening'. Both portions of the question are displaying fallacies.
We're dealing with minds that don't see costs to what they're doing. That typically indicates a lack of imagination and a lack of experience. I'm not a believer in universal justice. But karma can be a harsh bitch.
Try it out; if nothing else, it will stop the flooding and resulting depression as a result.
It has taken a while, most of which was working my way through the "flooding the zone" stratagem posed by P-2025's evil-bent creators, but here is a way out:
I write separately to share knowledge from Timothy Snyder, who has written a number of tomes on this very issue. Witkoff and Kushner are babes in the wood (as was I before I read a lot of his works) so run, don't walk to your nearest bookstore (or go online, these days) and (review first) his "The Road to Unfreedom". I point out a specific thread you can pick up on that really helped me untangle the web of confusion about who did what in the old days: Ivan Ilyan, who was Putin's idol and whose philosophy lies at the root of all the right/left controversies roiling both Europe and the US.
It is an easy read for such a deep subject and I recommend it for clarity of reasoning and an answer to the Project 2025's vow to "flood the zone" with junky and confusing garbage that makes no sense - such as why Trump et al. claim that bombing small boats with military involved is OK because drug smuggling is a war-provoking action, etc.
Everyone on this conversation should have a copy of Snyder's mini-book On Tyranny. It's available in print, or on the internet as a e-book. Also an audiobook. It's a textbook on tyranny and how to resist it. The overall message is "despair is not an option."
Reuters says trump’s approval rate has gone up. Has is that at all possible?
This is the America Peter Thiel and Co. have always wanted. Why? It would certainly be efficient, with lots of room for wealthy people to have exactly what they want every minute of every day. It is a hellscape for the rest of us, and it is up to us to resist it. You have to have an incredible ego and disregard for humanity and other living things to envision this. Very sad. Very bad. I had an idea for a meme with Nancy Reagan saying, "Just say no to Nazis." Here we go again, and this time we'll have to think bigger to get out of it.
Regarding state of Hate in America., I googled veracity and origin of the aphorism stated more or less "you reap what you sow". Results were - The biblical aphorism "you reap what you sow" means your actions have consequences, famously stated in Galatians 6:7: "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap". It's a principle of cause and effect, applying to spiritual and moral life: sowing to the flesh (selfishness) brings corruption, while sowing to the Spirit (righteous living) brings eternal life, emphasizing that good deeds yield good results, and bad deeds yield negative outcomes, often with a spiritual or eternal dimension. Are hate and exclusion new Christian values that I have not heard about yet in my church? Who are these people who support violation of due process for those being arrested, American citizen or not. No pushback from Judiciary. And people just don't seem to care. So how do the eventual consequences play out? IMHO this is looking similar to the Balkan Wars of the 1990's where your neighbors of many years want to kill or disappear you. Right now it seems that Trump has all the guns on his side. When does ICE graduate from concentration camps to death camps? Coming soon to a Louisiana swamp near you by Mike Johnson and others? This is sliding from concerning to scary.
Cheeto Will Preside Over The Currency Failure Of The Dollar
Alasdair Macleod, a British banker,broker, and writer at GoldMoney, has been a proponent of the Austrian school of economics and writes on his Substack channel(https://bit.ly/4oLi5Ar) about the failure and end of fiat currency system In his interview with an Aussie counterpart (https://bit.ly/4rEI8vz) his soundly based predictions is a good listen to warn of the impending currency failure of the dollar
Current inflationary numbers reflect on the loss of the purchasing power of the dollar now given in the price of gold 6% of what it was in 1971 when a Republican took us off the gold standard Put another way, the dollar buys only 6 cents of what the dollar could buy 54y ago When the US was on a gold standard post WWII inflation held steady at 1% and economies flourished
Now central bank/Fed policy is controlled by macroeconomists/Keynesians who see a metallic standard backing a currency as no longer part of the currency system even though a metallic standard is written in the Constitution
What will it look like when there’s a currency collapse? Bond yields will start rising above 5%, banks will foreclose due to margin debt, equity markets will collapse due to margin calls(estimated to be $1T), living standards will suffer horribly…food costs spiral, home loss or mortgages become worthless
Cheeto will preside over this economic catastrophe and much like his response to the COVID crisis, he and his Nazi regime will not know what to do and will devastate not only the US but the Western global economy Cheeto’s anti science approach to dealing with the virus will prove to be as blundering and bungling when it comes to this next crisis
I think maybe they are trying to kill us. That or use the women as breeders. It’s all dark, all the time with these motherfuckers. You are right to point out examples!
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Hello Evan,
Another fine and trenchant one. But still 'bows and arrows against the lightening'.
What's now under under attack by our internationally resurgent authoritarians is nothing less than The European Enlightenment; so in essence everything good, noble, honest and rational that our species has been able to achieve during the past 350 years. There were powerful drivers for the Enlightenment happening when it did, and all of them are now either spent or working against us.
There is still a clear and simple tactical change through which our present rising tide of shit could be turned; but it's one that we've all been deeply educated to be unwilling even to consider. If I've managed to sufficiently pique your curiosity for the risk of 5 minutes of your time then please go to ' thelastbesthope dot xyz ' and just start reading. If you do then I think we'll be in further discussion.
I am feeling buttressed by this entire post, as, by some miracle of grace or tide rising you and several others here are now putting the things I wrote about in my teensy amateur substack back in March and April in your posts where they need to be. Maybe I haven't lived in vain as I put thimbles full of the things I read and thought telling into the reservoir of public discussion. A million kudos. You are the Man.
Thank you. Sad but true.
Thank you Evan for the article . Loud and proud. People are upset that they voted for Trump they have had a big change of heart. They told me they would be voting differently. I don’t really know what will happen.