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Who is responsible for creating or fostering the "rot" in government? As a public service I thumbed through the first five pages of the wing-nut telegraph for this thread just to tally up who seems to be to blame. (no applause)
The results?
Surprisingly, Trump got 10 votes
Intel Agencies got 6 votes
MSM got 4 votes
"the system" got 3 votes
a tie: GOP and "they" got 2 votes
Establishment hacks, Obama, Judicial branch, globalism, "people" and wing-nuts each got 1 vote.
Fortunately, I was born with a functional brain. I also have the (apparent) innate ability to get news from multiple sources and understand the possible economic ramifications. I will provide you with a brief summary that you are free to research at your leisure.
(Please revisit my posting history if you are interested in Syria in particular.)
The impending liquidity crises looming on the horizon will be so massive due to the scale of derivatives, that it could potentially centralize all national banking functions into one global entity. Your very sovereignty is threatened. While there are time components associated with derivatives, it is highly unlikely that enough will expire in time for the global economy to survive it.
Furthermore, there is a constant threat of US labor capital being replaced. This is due to the disparity in wages between American workers and foreign workers. Additionally, technology will continue to replace jobs through automation. As machine learning processes become even more advanced, we will continue to approach technological singularity.
Global equity markets are corrupted as central banks have become directly involved in purchasing equities. For example, the Bank of Japan is the largest holder of Japanese equities. Due to this massive conflict of interest, this means that the efficient market hypothesis is no longer viable, as markets have become politicized.
The petro-dollar is the main reason why the US is able to have such tremendous debt without much risk of real inflation. The dollar is utilized for the majority of commodity purchases worldwide which is why it is high demand. This is why the broad dollar index appreciated by roughly the same amount that crude depreciated. Both Russia and China are beginning to de-dollarize and this will be a continuing theme in the future that will cause significant pain in the long term economy.
This is the main reason the US has demonized the Russians and have made attempts to overthrow the Assad regime by any means necessary, even if it includes funding fundamentalists that have been murdering innocent Syrian civilians.
Your tight oil producers are increasingly going bankrupt. The rate of defaults is continuously climbing and expected to climb higher in 2017. Unfortunately, it is not just $500 Billion in high yield debt instruments that are at risk, nor the entire $1.9 Trillion junk bond market, but the TRILLIONS of dollars of derivatives that dwarf these debt instruments. This will likely be the source of your lack of liquidity or to put it simply, there is not enough M3 in circulation to cover the losses on derivatives.
Worse, when your producers are in chapter 7 and the assets are frozen, the supply will not keep up with demand, which will likely result in an "oil shock" with the price of oil far north of $100 a barrel. The US economy is not equipped to deal with this sort of shock and will have significant ramifications that will cause severe pain and suffering, resulting in a collapse of unseen proportions, which will make 2008 look like child's play.
Social security is insolvent. A significant reduction in benefits will take a major toll on this service based economy. Imagine a stack of dominoes falling. That is your future.
Any questions?
I am glad you think so.
I understand the issue with derivatives and the potential of a house of cards effect, thats widely known. So its the fact that US dollar is a global currency since Bretton Woods summit but then you start with the petro dollars word salad. Riddle me this, did US special forces staged the Invasion of Crimea?.
EMH works on paper, there has been bubbles, crashes, manipulations always, the tools change thats all.
Assad had a awful human rights record even by arab dictator standards, you have said a lot but not tied in to syria other than the US and Russia are/were at opposite ends.
just how bad the rot is..........just how deep the tentacles of the Deep State extend. Trump is a clown, to be sure. But because of him, everyone is learning just how corrupt The System is. The elected officials and the courts have little power; we have a shadow government that never comes and goes. It should frighten and alarm everyone......now that we know just how far they will go to keep power and run the show.
Very true! I'm glad someone else is noticing this. Trump may be a clown, but he is not nearly as bad as they are making it seem. They are ruining him because he had the gall to run for president and threaten the global world order.
Very true! I'm glad someone else is noticing this. Trump may be a clown, but he is not nearly as bad as they are making it seem. They are ruining him because he had the gall to run for president and threaten the global world order.
Correction: they are TRYING to ruin him. What is funny is to watch them try and try and try..........and fail.
I hear he cleaned out some more members of the Deep State today.......interesting. They won't go down without a hellacious fight...
Correction: they are TRYING to ruin him. What is funny is to watch them try and try and try..........and fail.
I hear he cleaned out some more members of the Deep State today.......interesting. They won't go down without a hellacious fight...
Horse pucky!
No one is "trying" to ruin Trump, he's doing that all by himself. The man couldn't make himself look less relevant if he stood on a corner wearing no clothes.
Every time he opens his mouth, those with even a modicum of intelligence cringe at his mangling of cognitive reasoning skills a sixth grader would normally have mastered to pitch his case for a later curfew and higher allowance.
How this character ever managed to sell anything is beyond me other than to surmise those who purchased from him held their noses while doing so, banking heavily on the marquee cachet of the name alone.
No one is "trying" to ruin Trump, he's doing that all by himself. The man couldn't make himself look less relevant if he stood on a corner wearing no clothes.
Every time he opens his mouth, those with even a modicum of intelligence cringe at his mangling of cognitive reasoning skills a sixth grader would normally have mastered to pitch his case for a later curfew and higher allowance.
How this character ever managed to sell anything is beyond me other than to surmise those who purchased from him held their noses while doing so, banking heavily on the marquee cachet of the name alone.
We stayed at his place in Sunny Isles Beach recently. Spectacular place and experience.
He knows what he's doing. Billionaires are usually not too dumb.
"He couldn't make himself look less relevant......." lol!
You DO realize those exact same words have been said nonstop ever since he came down the escalator in the summer of 2015.....don't you?? Meanwhile (throat clearing), he is PRESIDENT OF THE FREAKIN' UNITED STATES as we speak......lol
Disconnect...........disconnect...........disconne ct............
They've been making the BR comparison because of Trump, not Obama.
Now, please explain why you describe Obama as corrupt?
Solyndra,
Loretta Lynch meeting Bill Clinton on the airplane,
IRS and other federal agencies targeting conservative groups,
The IRS 501 c (4) director pleading the 5th,
Hillary Clinton destroying 30,000 emails because they show her "pay to play scheme" between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation....
Quote:
"...Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence.
Hillary Clinton doing favors as Secretary of State for Clinton Foundation donors.
The Clintons used the foundation to subsidize their luxurious lifestyle.
Quote:
Forms of corruption vary, but include bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement..."
Yes, that fits Hillary and the rest of Obama's cronies.
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Originally Posted by Troyfan
'Flynn was a fat target for the national security state. He has cultivated a reputation as a reformer and a fierce critic of the intelligence community leaders he once served with when he was the director the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama. Flynn was working to reform the intelligence-industrial complex, something that threatened the bureaucratic prerogatives of his rivals.'"
The things these agencies are doing is a threat to American democracy and freedom.
The Democrats are now what they used to accuse the Republicans of being --- the neo-con party of the national security state subverting democracy and freedom in the name of profits for a small globalist elite that depends on cheap brown labor.
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Originally Posted by Metsfan53
never mind the things being leaked about Trump and his admin are horrifying....
Trump's private phone calls to the Mexican president, to the Austrailian prime minister, and Flynn's discussions with the Russian ambassador are "horrifying"?
How are they "horrifying"?
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Originally Posted by katygirl68
Very true! I'm glad someone else is noticing this. Trump may be a clown, but he is not nearly as bad as they are making it seem. They are ruining him because he had the gall to run for president and threaten the global world order.
Exactly.
A world order that Democrats used to complain about, but now they suddenly love it.
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Originally Posted by BruSan
Horse pucky!
No one is "trying" to ruin Trump, he's doing that all by himself. The man couldn't make himself look less relevant if he stood on a corner wearing no clothes.
Every time he opens his mouth, those with even a modicum of intelligence cringe at his mangling of cognitive reasoning skills a sixth grader would normally have mastered to pitch his case for a later curfew and higher allowance.
How this character ever managed to sell anything is beyond me other than to surmise those who purchased from him held their noses while doing so, banking heavily on the marquee cachet of the name alone.
$2.8 trillion has been added to our national wealth since Trump got elected.
What have you accomplished lately?
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Originally Posted by maineguy8888
"He couldn't make himself look less relevant......." lol!
You DO realize those exact same words have been said nonstop ever since he came down the escalator in the summer of 2015.....don't you?? Meanwhile (throat clearing), he is PRESIDENT OF THE FREAKIN' UNITED STATES as we speak......lol
Disconnect...........disconnect...........disconne ct............
Yes, the anti-Trumps have to resort to the most transparently stupid arguments, because they don't have any good ones to make.
I will bite-----it took Trumps emergence to find out that any healing, progress, or growth in social attitudes, justice, and harmony was pretty much destroyed and perhaps was an illusion.
It took Trump to show us how shockingly divided this nation really is----it took Trump to show us how to try to divide and conquer through manipulation, alternative truths, and creating dissension and animosity.
It took Trump to show us how to use the media to establish self adulation as a national pastime. It took Trump to show us how demeaning, denigrating, and bullying can become the norm rather than the exception.
Finally, it took Trump to show how really frightening all this has become and how this can possibly further deteriorate.
just how bad the rot is..........just how deep the tentacles of the Deep State extend. Trump is a clown, to be sure. But because of him, everyone is learning just how corrupt The System is. The elected officials and the courts have little power; we have a shadow government that never comes and goes. It should frighten and alarm everyone......now that we know just how far they will go to keep power and run the show.
The only "shadow government" is headed by Trump and his billionaire henchmen. Get a clue.
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