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Post by tnc6362 on Jul 15, 2018 15:12:07 GMT -5
Really? I'll have whatever VC is smoking. Trump is a liar and full blown idiot. "I love golf, but if I were in the White House, I don't think I'd ever see Turnberry again. I don't ever think I'd see anything — I just wanna stay in the White House and work my ass off, make great deals, right? Who's gonna leave? Feb. 5, 2016" TRUMP GOLF COUNT: 121* Cost to Taxpayer: At least $69,171,520** *Daytime visits to golf clubs since inauguration, with evidence of playing golf on at least 59 visits. This was an easy thing to find. Let me know if youd like me to spend a few more minutes as trump being moronic is easy to find. =/ Maybe you should! The cool aid sure is not doing you any justice in your ability to see. President Trump has done more for the People than the last 6 in office in less than 2 years.Smoking a little could open your eye s to what is going on. T.
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Post by cessation on Jul 15, 2018 20:59:23 GMT -5
I'm down for that. Can you throw me some examples of what he has done? genuinely curious.
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Post by e362 on Jul 16, 2018 10:48:31 GMT -5
I'm down for that. Can you throw me some examples of what he has done? genuinely curious. Here you go, an article from the Washington Times: I’m told by one of my favorite millennials that many of her friends have not heard anything at all positive about President Trump. The left, which turned a blind eye to the flagrant immorality of Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton, is ordering evangelical Christians to abandon Mr. Trump. Before too many well-meaning people take the bait, a reminder of what Mr. Trump has accomplished might be in order. First, America ducked a very large bullet — a reboot of the Obama administration under Hillary Clinton. Although President Obama had a more “presidential style” in some respects than Mr. Trump, he was a disaster. Hillary would have been more of the same. Here are a few other things that Mr. Trump has done: • Appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and more than 75 other constitutionally sound federal judges, 30 of which are serving. • Reinstated an expanded Mexico City Policy blocking foreign aid from being used for abortions. • Cracked down on illegal immigration and “sanctuary cities.” As Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it: “The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our laws, and the catch and release policies of the past are over.” • Issued an order killing two federal regulations for every new one. In actuality, 16 were cut for every new one in his first year, saving billions. • Engineered a historic tax cut that will save money for more than 80 percent of American households. • Withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of U.S. governance by international bureaucrats. • Reversed onerous Obama environmental rules that gave the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ham-handed authority to destroy the coal industry and abrogate landowners’ rights. • Kick-started America’s energy sector by curtailing regulations, facilitating the Keystone XL Pipeline and opening up vast federal areas to oil and gas exploration. • Presided over an economic and stock market boom, lowered unemployment and brought manufacturing jobs back to America from overseas. • Rebuilt the nation’s military, destroyed ISIS and faced down North Korea’s “Rocket Man.” • Issued an order enforcing First Amendment protections for religious liberty. • Restored the freedom of military chaplains to espouse biblical morality, and essentially reversing Mr. Obama’s transgender military policy. • Revoked the Education Department’s order that public schools allow gender-confused males access to girls’ restrooms and locker rooms. • Cracked down on sex trafficking. President Trump signed a law allowing states to move against sex-ad Internet sites, and the Justice Department on April 6 seized and shut down Backpage.com, which carried ads for prostitution, including trafficked children. • Overhauled the mismanaged Veterans Administration and giving veterans more health care choices. • Replaced Obamacare incrementally, beginning with a repeal of the individual mandate. • Imposed sanctions on Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship and revising Mr. Obama’s deals with communist Cuba. • Recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and repairing damage that Mr. Obama did to the U.S.-Israel relationship. • Worked with Central American nations to crack down on MS-13 gangs. OK, let’s stop here, though it only scratches the surface. A question for Mr. Trump’s conservative critics, including some well-meaning evangelicals who rightly express concern over character: Would you really prefer to have a “more presidential” chief executive who promotes socialism, open borders, abortion, sexual anarchy and the criminalization of Christianity? Here are just a few likely outcomes had Mrs. Clinton won: • An explosion in government funding for abortion. • The LGBT political agenda on steroids, with the Justice Department attacking Christian business people who won’t bow to Baal. • Tax increases — not a tax cut — to fund a vast expansion of nanny government. • Obamacare morphing into a single-payer, socialist government monopoly. • Federal agencies like the EPA and the IRS re-weaponized against political opponents. • More radical judges like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Maybe even Chai Feldblum on the Supreme Court. • Hordes of new federal bureaucrats drawn from the ranks of MoveOn.org, NARAL, the ACLU, the Human Rights Campaign and the Women’s March. • “Pink hat day” throughout the federal government on Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s birthday. (No reported plan; it just makes sense.) • Massive illegal immigration, along with the Justice Department attacking states that have strong voter ID laws. • A shutdown of all inquiries into Clinton corruption, such as missing emails, Russian money flowing into the Clinton Foundation or the Clinton-Russian connection in the 2016 election. • A naive foreign policy that would have emboldened Russia, China, North Korea and Iran to test American resolve. Finally, think back to Election Night 2016 and what passed for reporting. Instead of the undisguised gloom over Mr. Trump’s victory, a Hillary win would have produced smug grins and giggles all around, except at Fox. Say what you will about Mr. Trump. He spared us that and much more. • Robert Knight is a Washington Times contributor and the author of “A Strong Constitution: What America Would Look Like If We Followed the Law” (djkm.org, May 2018).
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Post by cessation on Jul 16, 2018 17:53:08 GMT -5
Thanks E362. I'm all about giving credit where it's deserved but this is just about as biased as you can get.
1. Not sure Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a positive thing so we can cross that off the list. 2. Blocking aid from being used for abortions. Not for this but I can see how republicans can think this is good. 3. Sanctuary cities? I'm for not breaking the law for sure. However I do believe there should be a better way to go about this issue. 4. Perhaps this is a good thing. Depends on the federal regulations that are being dropped or added I suppose. 5. What made the tax cut for Americans historic? 6. This is a huge one... Mining and burning fossil fuels (COAL) is terrible for the environment and this is flat out awful for the earth. Irresponsible and ridiculous.
I'm not going to go over every single item here as I believe it's a waste of time. You see good and I see bad. All depends on how you see things.
I do see items like Trump spending more on military even though we already spend hundreds of billions more than all combined. Our troops should have the tools they need to get the job done. I get that. However take some money from that and give it to the struggling families of our troops. Use it to help with education.
The man as stated earlier does not help and in fact hinders. The statement stands with Trump being liar and full blown idiot. =/
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Post by vulcanized crawler on Jul 16, 2018 19:01:54 GMT -5
well if you are left of center, or far left, you do not like anything he does. if you are right of center, you do. that is the way it has been for a very long time. this time around, however, name calling and out right barbaric behavior seems the norm. i liked obama in 08, as he said he was a moderate and i really didnt like mccain. well, he turned out not to be moderate at all, so i should have done my homework. shame on me. this time around i did my homework. tax cuts are not historic, true, but, they do get mas money for people that do work, in their pockets. it also gives companies a reason to bring cash back to america and perhaps build and put people to work. this has usually been the plan and it usually works to varying degrees. getting rid of useless regs is also great for business and jobs, as government has a tendency to choke over do it. in time better energy will be available, and affordable but, not yet. i trust our technology to make things clean, just as they have before earth day came about by the hand of nixon, in 1970. in the past 50 plus years we have had three presidents that shook up the status quo. two took a bullet and one was killed. this is the third in my life time. will this one meet the same fate from the powers that be? i prefer an america of the 1950s and 1960s, when people had jobs, there was a thriving middle class and energy was plentiful. can any of that return? perhaps some. what i do not see changing that is new to me, is the hate that those who have opposing opinions put out. even during the turbulent war yrs of the 60s, it was never like it is now. of course back then, our government never lied to us.....or so we thought. then the pentagon papers came out and all bets were off. one day we shall get the truth on the kennedy assassination, the gulf of tonkin and the list continues and grows to this day. but this president nor the last one are or were idiots. i say that as one that did not get to keep my doctor nor my insurance policy, but, i dont hold that against the past presidents, nor do i the pentagon papers. one person isnt as powerful as you seem to think. we no longer build coal plants. however, china and india build a new one each week. we are all bias'd, but, again.....i have never called a president... that i disagreed... with names like what is going on now. im ashamed of the party i once belonged to . #WalkAway
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Post by e362 on Jul 16, 2018 19:04:49 GMT -5
Thanks E362. I'm all about giving credit where it's deserved but this is just about as biased as you can get. 1. Not sure Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a positive thing so we can cross that off the list. 2. Blocking aid from being used for abortions. Not for this but I can see how republicans can think this is good. 3. Sanctuary cities? I'm for not breaking the law for sure. However I do believe there should be a better way to go about this issue. 4. Perhaps this is a good thing. Depends on the federal regulations that are being dropped or added I suppose. 5. What made the tax cut for Americans historic? 6. This is a huge one... Mining and burning fossil fuels (COAL) is terrible for the environment and this is flat out awful for the earth. Irresponsible and ridiculous. I'm not going to go over every single item here as I believe it's a waste of time. You see good and I see bad. All depends on how you see things. I do see items like Trump spending more on military even though we already spend hundreds of billions more than all combined. Our troops should have the tools they need to get the job done. I get that. However take some money from that and give it to the struggling families of our troops. Use it to help with education. The man as stated earlier does not help and in fact hinders. The statement stands with Trump being liar and full blown idiot. =/ You asked for a list of examples, the list was provided from a Washington News reporter as I am sure there is more but that is his report, Trump is not a media darling so to say it was biased is typical of closed mind thinkers that cant stand the fact that he is actually keeping his campaign promises that got him elected. The list speaks for itself, they are accomplishments during his short presidency against great opposition. Take from it what you will, but try doing it with a non biased eye. Now mind you I am not a blind Trump supporter, I see his flaws, but if he has achieved this much with all the opposition of the lefties still crying that HRC lost imagine the good they could do if they actually remembered they work for us, not their special interests.
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Post by tnc6362 on Jul 16, 2018 19:57:07 GMT -5
Thanks E362. I'm all about giving credit where it's deserved but this is just about as biased as you can get. 1. Not sure Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a positive thing so we can cross that off the list. 2. Blocking aid from being used for abortions. Not for this but I can see how republicans can think this is good. 3. Sanctuary cities? I'm for not breaking the law for sure. However I do believe there should be a better way to go about this issue. 4. Perhaps this is a good thing. Depends on the federal regulations that are being dropped or added I suppose. 5. What made the tax cut for Americans historic? 6. This is a huge one... Mining and burning fossil fuels (COAL) is terrible for the environment and this is flat out awful for the earth. Irresponsible and ridiculous. I'm not going to go over every single item here as I believe it's a waste of time. You see good and I see bad. All depends on how you see things. I do see items like Trump spending more on military even though we already spend hundreds of billions more than all combined. Our troops should have the tools they need to get the job done. I get that. However take some money from that and give it to the struggling families of our troops. Use it to help with education. The man as stated earlier does not help and in fact hinders. The statement stands with Trump being liar and full blown idiot. =/ You asked for a list of examples, the list was provided from a Washington News reporter as I am sure there is more but that is his report, Trump is not a media darling so to say it was biased is typical of closed mind thinkers that cant stand the fact that he is actually keeping his campaign promises that got him elected. The list speaks for itself, they are accomplishments during his short presidency against great opposition. Take from it what you will, but try doing it with a non biased eye. Now mind you I am not a blind Trump supporter, I see his flaws, but if he has achieved this much with all the opposition of the lefties still crying that HRC lost imagine the good they could do if they actually remembered they work for us, not their special interests. Who are you? deep state or what. Here you go Trumps accomplishments www.washingtonexaminer.com/year-one-list-81-major-trump-achievements-11-obama-legacy-items-repealed/article/2644159
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Post by e362 on Jul 17, 2018 4:50:26 GMT -5
You asked for a list of examples, the list was provided from a Washington News reporter as I am sure there is more but that is his report, Trump is not a media darling so to say it was biased is typical of closed mind thinkers that cant stand the fact that he is actually keeping his campaign promises that got him elected. The list speaks for itself, they are accomplishments during his short presidency against great opposition. Take from it what you will, but try doing it with a non biased eye. Now mind you I am not a blind Trump supporter, I see his flaws, but if he has achieved this much with all the opposition of the lefties still crying that HRC lost imagine the good they could do if they actually remembered they work for us, not their special interests. Who are you? deep state or what. Here you go Trumps accomplishments www.washingtonexaminer.com/year-one-list-81-major-trump-achievements-11-obama-legacy-items-repealed/article/2644159LOL, no, but if this was a contest, you win.......
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Post by vulcanized crawler on Jul 17, 2018 6:46:08 GMT -5
RUSSIA, CHINA, MSM or DEMOCRATS? gotta go out and get them reds, the only good commie is the one that's dead, and you know the peace can only be won, when we blow them all to kingdom come.
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Post by cessation on Jul 17, 2018 9:32:46 GMT -5
This baffles me for sure. Restoring confidence in and respect for America --- REALLY?
Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders. This is for sure a good thing. Arent there still American prisoners in Russia though? Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. - Wait, why would this matter and who would care? Campaign promises are easily kept if it doesnt matter =/
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Post by imSINGLEruRICH on Jul 18, 2018 18:52:45 GMT -5
News, not Rumor :'Quadrillion' tons of diamonds discovered ChuckWheat DIAMOND JEDI WARLORD News, not Rumor :'Quadrillion' tons of diamonds discovered yesterday at 6:41pm kai likes this Post by ChuckWheat on yesterday at 6:41pmSource: www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/17/quadrillion-tons-diamonds-discovered-deep-below-earths-surface.htmlJennifer Earl July 17, 2018 A team of scientists made an enormous discovery when they recently uncovered a "quadrillion" tons of diamonds buried more than 100 miles below Earth's surface, according to a new study. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and several other universities used seismic devices to measure the speed of sound waves traveling through the Earth's crust. "Sound waves move at various speeds through the Earth, depending on the temperature, density, and composition of the rocks through which they travel," MIT explained in a news release. "Scientists have used this relationship between seismic velocity and rock composition to estimate the types of rocks that make up the Earth’s crust and parts of the upper mantle, also known as the lithosphere." The scientists noticed a sudden spike in seismic speeds toward the bottom of 200-mile cratons, or sections of rocks found "beneath the center of most continental tectonic plates." In order to find out what was causing the sound waves to speed up, the researchers conducted several tests on various rocks and minerals. "Only one type of rock produced the same velocities as what the seismologists measured: one that contains 1 to 2 percent diamond," the scientists explained in the study. Therefore, scientists believe it's safe to conclude diamonds make up the bottom of cratons. They estimate there are about a quadrillion tons wedged inside the ancient rocks. “[Cratons] are like pieces of wood, floating on water,” Ulrich Faul, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, said in an online statement. “Cratons are a tiny bit less dense than their surroundings, so they don’t get subducted back into the Earth but stay floating on the surface. The diamonds help keep the miles-long rock formations stable. Unfortunately, there's no way to access the gemstones — as drills are unable to dig 200 miles into the Earth's crust. But researchers say it proves diamonds aren't as rare as we once thought. “This shows that diamond is not perhaps this exotic mineral, but on the [geological] scale of things, it’s relatively common. We can’t get at them, but still, there is much more diamond there than we have ever thought before," said Faul, clarifying there's about 1,000 times more diamonds in the world than initially predicted.
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Post by imSINGLEruRICH on Jul 23, 2018 15:56:54 GMT -5
odyssey Senior Diamond Miner Calm Before the Storm #Q-Anon 20 hours ago Post by odyssey on 20 hours ago July 22, 2018 Ten problems with the release of the heavily redacted FISA warrants on Carter Page By Thomas Lifson It is a huge scandal that the vast, frightening surveillance powers of our intelligence agencies, normally forbidden from snooping on American citizens, were used to spy on a presidential campaign antagonistic to the sitting president. Far too slowly, the underlying documents that permitted this are coming to light. Last night, 412 pages of heavily redacted versions of the original FISA warrant and subsequent renewals used to spy on Carter Page (and others – see below) were released. Here are 10 preliminary points that need to be understood in evaluating this fragmentary peek at the guts of the scandal.
One:You can tell that the Department of Justice wants to avoid public scrutiny by the timing of its release. Nobody seeking the public’s attention releases anything on a Saturday night. Scott Johnson of Powerline pithily sums up the maneuver: We are familiar with the Friday afternoon document dump. It’s a standard tool of political scandal management. (snip) I say the Saturday night document dump resets best scandal management practices. Two:The FISA warrant relies on the discredited Steele dossier almost entirely. It is the first evidence cited and forms the bulk of the evidence. Steele is identified throughout as “Source #1” Three:It is heavily redacted. There are pages and pages that are entirely obscured. Given the history of the DOJ using redactions to cover up embarrassments, not just sources and methods or other legitimately classified material, there is plenty of reason to suspect more embarrassments have been covered up. Four:As John Hinderaker notes, the document asserts that Page was a witting agent of Russians, yet he has not been charged with anything. Moreover, via publicly available documents, Sundance of Conservative Tree House points out that Carter Page was employed as an “under cover employee” by the FBI in indicting and obtaining a guilty plea from a genuine Russian spy. Yet somehow, he is now a spy himself? Five:Surveilling Page is a classic “camel’s nose under the tent maneuver,” meaning that other people of much greater interest to people spying on a rival campaign could also be targeted. The warrants use the expression “incidentally acquire foreign intelligence information as defined by other subsections of 50 U.S.C. 1801(e)" no fewer than 8 times. Six:There are weasel-like evasions. On page 15, we read: The FBI speculates that the identified US. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #l's campaign. “Speculates”? Why else would the DNC and Hillary campaign spend millions of dollars on it? As the New York Times points out, a Yahoo News article sourced on the basis of Steele, was included in the warrant, but: The section of the application that describes the Yahoo News article is titled “Page’s Denial of Cooperation With the Russian Government to Influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.” This enabled a talking point: Republicans at the time claimed that the F.B.I. had misleadingly used the article as corroboration for Mr. Steele’s claims, while Democrats said that was false and that it was instead included to inform the court that Mr. Page had denied the allegations. Seven: As Hindraker notes that in addition to the Steele dossier, …the application relies to an astonishing degree on anti-Trump news stories published in the Democratic Party press. Does the FBI really get surveillance warrants on the basis of partisan press accounts? Eight:Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller: …the FISA application shows that the FBI and Justice Department believed Steele to be a “reliable” source. Steele has been compensated for other work by the FBI, and his intelligence has been used in other criminal proceedings, the FISA application says. Yet, the FBI reveals in a footnote in follow-up applications that FBI ties to Steele were severed after he lied about speaking to news outlets. Nine:The identity of the FISA court judge or judges who approved these warrants remains secret. He or they have a lot of explaining to do. Ten:The identity of the FBI people who assembled the warrant also remains secret. President Trump has already issued 3 tweets on the report. His last one quotes Andrew McCarthy, who appeared on Fox and Friends this morning: **Tweet** Donald J. Trump ✔ @realdonaldtrump Andrew McCarthy - “I said this could never happen. This is so bad that they should be looking at the judges who signed off on this stuff, not just the people who gave it. It is so bad it screams out at you.” On the whole FISA scam which led to the rigged Mueller Witch Hunt! 8:22 AM - Jul 22, 2018 President Trump, of course, can declassify the entire document. Sooner or later, we will learn about what has been redacted. Graphic by Jens Best via Flickr www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/ten_problems_with_the_release_of_the_heavily_redacted_fisa_warrants_on_carter_page.html ChuckWheat Diamond Finder and Miner Calm Before the Storm #Q-Anon 19 hours ago odyssey likes this Post by ChuckWheat on 19 hours agoThere's a lot of talk about the President declassifying the documents in question to expedite public transparency about what's really going on. It's an understandable request, given how long this has drug out and how it's being used to damage both the President personally, and the institution of our nation's executive branch. It's also a very dangerous thing to do. While the release could result in helping us understand the realities of what was said, who was saying it, and when tied with other known activities, why many actions have been taken (to what end)...if done without due care and caution, it could also reveal a gold mine of information to hostile nations about what our intelligence organizations can do, where our focus is (and likely, where it isn't), and put American (or foreign sources/assets) lives in real danger. I praise Mr Trump for not choosing the easy way out that those in the cheap seats are calling for him to do...and I equally hope such a review is underway to prevent any damaging disclosures would bring, while pushing forward to release non-critical information so we can get this witch hunt wrapped up for good...and shift the nation's law enforcement efforts on internal people bent on destroying our nation from within. And we all know who they are. C-Dub
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Post by 3bid on Aug 4, 2018 15:30:46 GMT -5
We asked psychologists why so many rich people think the apocalypse is coming Why so many people think a dystopia is nigh? Psychologists explain
Nicole Karlis -- July 16, 2018
Many of the world's richest seem to earnestly believe that some kind of apocalyptic "event" is coming, and have prepared accordingly. You might have read about this before — such as in the New Yorker's deep dive back in January 2017 — but billionaire doomsday preppers are back in the news again thanks to a new viral article penned by professor and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. In it, Rushkoff gives some insight on the grave manner in which some of the business elite are going about preparing for a doomsday, which he learned first-hand after receiving an invitation to speak with some one-percenters.
Rushkoff says that what was supposed to be a wholesome discussion about the “future of technology” quickly turned into a consulting session on an impending apocalypse.
As Rushkoff writes:
There is a lot of wealth in this world, and it is extremely unevenly distributed. According to a January Oxfam report, 82 percent of the wealth generated in 2017 went to one percent of the global population. While the fat-cats of Earth are still going about doing regular rich-guy things, it is also peculiar that so many of the one percent are spending so much time and money thinking about the apocalypse. Don’t they have better projects or companies to invest in? Is there something specific to rich dude psychology that is making them behave this way?
It's worth noting that the fear of doomsday is not specific to the world’s financial elite. It appears in splashy headlines. It is in the science fiction we read and watch. Apocalypse anxiety seems to be on everyone’s mind lately, and some psychologists have their own theories as to why.
Clay Routledge, a researcher who studies existential anxiety and has conducted studies specifically about drivers of apocalyptic beliefs, tells Salon these apocalyptic fears can be motivated by a number of different variables — one big one being technology.
“There are, of course, some very real threats to worry about, but our always-connected digital world can heighten anxiety because it is a constant and chaotic stream of information, and is often negative, and specifically fear-focused,” he explained.
Furthermore, his research suggests that such anxieties could be linked to existential concerns and a search for meaning.
“Though we tend to think of the apocalypse as negative, the idea may counterintuitively be attractive to some,” he said. “In a world in which life feels uncertain and often unfair, in which people struggle to find a sense of personal purpose, the idea of an apocalyptic ending, though terrifying, can also feel meaningful."
"This is obvious when we think about certain religious apocalyptic beliefs, but even among more secular types or those who do not believe in a particular religious apocalyptic narrative, apocalyptic ideas can be seductive," Routledge added, noting that such beliefs could be a result of people dreaming of a “better world."
“Some are attracted to these ideas because they would be tested and could find their true purpose, maybe even emerge as heroes or people of importance in a new world,” he said. “And some like to imagine the possibility of a simpler life, what might be almost a form of nostalgia.”
Nathalie Theodore, JD, LCSW, who is a psychotherapist in Chicago, said the rise in concerns about an apocalypse is likely a result of the anxiety felt from the country’s current political state.
“We don’t feel as settled, safe or secure in our everyday lives and, when this happens, our minds tend to wander to the worst case scenario—for example, the apocalypse,” Theodore told Salon. “Because we don’t feel entirely safe in our environment, we imagine doomsday scenarios in which we have no control over our surroundings, and the world around us is falling apart.”
Mike Salas, a life and professional counselor based in Texas, said he has seen a rise in clients who have fear and anxiety about the end times since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“Where people are just in a very vulnerable place — not apocalyptic, but [not knowing] what to expect from our current governmental state,” he explained. “There are people that are worried [the state of politics] could lead to nuclear war and also the end of our democratic state, and I have a lot of clients who are fearful of that.”
Salas added that specifically his minority clients are anxious.
“There is a lot of anxiety about loss of rights and change in social structure,” he explained.
As to why, Salas explained he believes it has to do with the lack of abundance in the world.
"The theory I have on it is kind of based in scarcity," he said. "It's as if people feel like there isn't enough of anything for all of us, and as if there isn't enough equality to go around."
Salas said he does have wealthy clients—but they appear to be anxious for other reasons.
"A lot of people I see are wealthy and conservative and many of them believe we're on the right path with this president, and that liberals aren't understanding of it,” he said. “When I hear the anxiety from these clients, it is about heading to the extreme left."
www.salon.com/2018/07/16/we-asked-psychologists-why-so-many-rich-people-think-the-apocalypse-is-coming/
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Post by 3bid on Aug 11, 2018 20:28:37 GMT -5
Growing Up In America Series – Measuring Decline By PricesPaul Craig Roberts | August 7, 2009 In 1939, the year I was born, gasoline was ten cents per gallon. A new car cost $700. A new house cost $3,850, and the average rent was $28 per month. Harvard tuition was $420 annually. A loaf of bread from the bakery was eight cents. Hamburger was 14¢ per pound, eggs were 19¢ per dozen, coffee was 40¢ per pound, and sugar was 59¢ for 10 pounds. The average annual income was $1,729. I don’t remember these prices. By the time I was six years old, World War II had ended, and the postwar U.S. inflation was about to begin. Still, I remember as a five- or six-year-old being sent to the bakery with 9, 10 or 11¢ to get a loaf of bread, and to the grocery store with 15¢ to get a quart of milk. Milk and bread were not ordinarily purchased in stores. In the Atlanta of my youth the breadman and milkman made home deliveries in horsedrawn vehicles. Mathis Dairy was so clean that the milk was not pasteurized. The cream was at the top. Movie admission was 10¢ for 12 years old and under, and 25¢ for adults. A Coca-Cola or a Pepsi (which was twice the size of the Coke), was 5¢, and so was a candy bar. A case (24) of Coke or Pepsi was one dollar. I flinch every time I see a person put a dollar into a machine for one Coke. There was deposit on the bottles. Kids could collect discarded bottles from construction sites or park garbage bins. At grocery stores, three bottles traded for a candy bar and two pieces of bubble gum. Five bottles brought ten cents, enough for the Saturday-afternoon double-feature. Our movies were not violent. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, and the Lone Ranger never killed anyone. They shot the pistol out of the hand of the bad guy, knocked him out with a right to the jaw, tied him over his horse, and delivered him to the sheriff, who never seemed to be up to catching the outlaws. I still remember how shocked we were the first time the good guy killed the bad one on screen. If memory serves, it was a Randolph Scott movie, which in the late 1940’s displaced the more gentle cowboy films. Still, it was a long way from the Clint Eastwood westerns, such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, let alone Unforgiven. We rode our bikes everywhere. No one had a lock, which would have cost five movies. We could even ride our bikes at night to Ponce de Leon ballpark to watch the Atlanta Crackers. We just dropped our bikes outside the entrance, and they were there on our return. No one bothered us. The only danger we faced was from our own recklessness on two wheels, jumping curbs and dodging obstacles. We were never inside except when rainy days confined us to reading and board games. Despite the postwar inflation, by the time I had a driver’s license and was of dating age, one dollar would buy three gallons of gasoline, enough for a Saturday-night date. Five dollars would fill the tank. Movies had gone up to 50¢. A steak sandwich at a drive-in afterward was 35¢, and a coke was a dime. A three-bedroom, one-bath home could be purchased for ten or eleven thousand dollars. Anyone with one million dollars was very rich. Even in the mid1960’s, a $10,000 annual income was enough for a one-earner family and a good credit rating. Today, my tale sounds like legends from a distant past, and the Bush/ Obama inflation is not yet under way. Today, the cost of a home in the 1960’s wouldn’t remodel a kitchen. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a still much-beloved U.S. president, might go down in history as the man who destroyed America. Roosevelt confiscated America’s money. He forced Americans to turn in their gold money and accept fiat paper in its place at 20 paper dollars to the ounce. Once he had all the gold, he raised the price to $35 per ounce. Gold can’t be printed, but paper money can. Reflecting this fact, today gold is $1,000 per ounce and could be $2,000 per ounce by year’s end or the end of next year. With Roosevelt and thereafter until President Nixon, gold was the backing for the U.S. dollar in international trade, but not for the money in domestic commerce. America retained some commodity money. Silver certificates in one-dollar and five-dollar denominations existed until the mid-to-late 60’s, when the silver was taken out of the coins. The copper penny survived until the Reagan administration. I remember the U.S. Treasury meeting in 1981 when I, as assistant secretary, tried to save the copper penny with the argument that if we could not afford an honest penny, why would anyone believe we were going to cure stagflation? How could the Treasury expect Wall Street to believe that we would subdue double-digit inflation when we were about to announce that we could not afford a copper penny? Supply-side economics saved the day. The monetary/fiscal policy mix was reversed, inflation was subdued, and employment picked up. That was then. Today, policymakers have nothing with which to save us from a twotrillion-dollar budget deficit in FY 2009 and another two-trillion-dollar budget deficit in 2010, and unknown but undoubtedly massive deficits in subsequent years. In FY 2008 the official federal budget deficit was $455 billion. In 2009 it is four times larger. In the past our budget deficits have been financed by our trading partners, who recycle their trade surpluses by purchasing U.S. debt instruments. Their trade surpluses can handle $400 billion deficits, but not deficits four or five times as large. If the U.S. stock market has another leg down to a Dow Jones average of four, five, or six thousand, fear may send investors fleeing equities into “safe” U.S. treasuries. Unless this happens, the only other way to finance a two-trillion-dollar budget deficit is to print money. When a Treasury bond auction is not successful, the Federal Reserve steps in and buys the bonds. It pays for the bonds by creating demand-deposit accounts for the Treasury. Thus, the money supply increases by the amount of the Fed’s bond purchase. Currently, the U.S. money supply is about $1.4 trillion as measured by M1 (the total amount of currency in circulation, plus checkable deposits, plus travelers’ checks) as of April 2008. If the 2009 budget deficit is monetized, the U.S. money supply will double in one year. If the 2010 deficit is monetized, the U.S. money supply will have tripled in two years. Despite double-digit unemployment and falling real-estate and equity prices, this means inflation. Our foreign creditors, on whom we are dependent, will cease to extend credit. The United States, an import-dependent economy, will not be able to pay for her imports. Shortages will appear, which will aggravate the inflation. Fuel deliveries will be disrupted, and grocery stores will at times have empty shelves. The next step could be that wholesalers would sell to people who have gold and silver, bypassing retail stores, unless the retail stores follow suit and sell to customers who have gold and silver instead of depreciating paper. Fear and unrest would grow. The U.S. military, which could not successfully occupy Baghdad, would not be able to occupy the United States. If Roosevelt had not destroyed the gold basis of the U.S. dollar, we would not be facing these horrors. Once the Romans debased their currency, they were finished. I have a “silver” denarius from the later empire period. Essentially, it is lead. But even the Roman lead is worth more than the paper that will be printed to finance the U.S. government’s annual budgets for 2009 and 2010, which are 50 percent in the red. In one lifetime the United States will have passed from superpower to Third World beggar. An amazing compression of history. The fall of Rome took centuries. www.paulcraigroberts.org/2009/08/07/growing-up-in-america-measuring-decline-by-prices/
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Post by cmkx4ever on Aug 12, 2018 22:11:51 GMT -5
Just curious were are all the pumpers at, sure has been quiet?
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