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David Berry's avatar

Anyone who claims there's no affordability crisis in America has their head up their ass...

Elusive1's avatar

Right. Like lamestream media.

Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

According to a new report from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), 25.2 percent of the U.S. workforce could now be classified as “functionally unemployed”—meaning jobless, seeking but unable to secure full-time employment or earning “poverty-level wages.”

Of course MSM won't report bad news like this, but neither will most of the "right wing press". The Buck and Travis Radio Show, (formerly Rush Limbaugh) is a glaring example. Occasional and selective "gaslighting" by these two - broadcasting over 700 radio stations nationwide - goes by unnoticed. And the American sheeple continue to remain hypnotized inside the "Overton Window" - like lemmings rushing over the cliff.

If you are a student of Orwell - and look at the forest and not the trees, it can be clearly seen that Buck and Travis are deep state sleeper cells - probably CIA operatives/assets.

Our Constitutional Republic is fallen and to believe otherwise is hopeium and vanity.

Elusive1's avatar

I agree 100%. I listen to and trust little that's put out there, not even the weather "script readers".

Some say there's too much gloom and doom, things will be okay. I sincerely doubt that.

Hypernoia's avatar

I've never seen gold and silver rocket like this... seems the fiat monopoly money's about to go full Weimar or Zimbabwe. Some metal guys are now talking... $600 silver and $15,000 gold...

Susan Chapman's avatar

Guess I’m old which I’m I would buy me a motor home to live in before paying almost $1700.00 a month for rent which is going down the drain. When my husband and I was moving to Missouri I refused to pay for a motel and told my husband u can sleep in the front seat of the rental truck and I will sleep in my pickup sitting up cause I had bucket type seats. Was I uncomfortable heck yes I was but the next day I still had my money in my pocket. Guess I’m just tight.

Alfred Kuntz's avatar

If you could vote your way out of this, they wouldnt allow it.

David Durbin Densmore's avatar

Can 'we' arrest, indict and prosecute 'our' way out of this?

Puddin Tain's avatar

Eh, that’s a fun thing to say, but if America had nominated a rational Republican candidate for 2024 we wouldn’t be in 75% of these ridiculous messes.

Elusive1's avatar

I can't agree. The uni-party just takes turns knifing us in the back. THIS is the agenda. They take turns moving it along.

Alfred Kuntz's avatar

How people cant see through this charade by now is beyond belief. I suppose the cognitive dissonance caused by shattered illusions is just too overwhelming.

Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

As you know, "cognitive dissonance from shattered illusions" is a natural psychological response to reality conflicts. Overcoming it requires self-awareness, honesty, and a commitment to truth.

Unlike cognitive dissonance, "epistemically captured individuals" are those whose ability to identify truth, differentiate between fact and fiction, and rely on trustworthy sources of knowledge is impaired, often due to deliberate manipulation or systemic influences. This condition arises not merely from exposure to lies, but from a breakdown in the cognitive mechanisms used to discern reality, which can be intentionally targeted through strategies like "firehosing" — flooding the public sphere with constant, shifting falsehoods to overwhelm accurate information. In such cases, loyalty to a group or ideology often supersedes honesty, and reality becomes a matter of opinion shaped by propaganda, outrage, and fear.

This phenomenon is particularly evident in political contexts where leaders and movements have weaponized epistemic capture to undermine trust in institutions such as journalism, science, and the judiciary. For example, the deliberate amplification of conspiracy theories and the labeling of unfavorable news as "fake" have contributed to a significant portion of the public inhabiting an alternate information universe, where established facts like climate change or election fraud are rejected. Once individuals are captured in this way, traditional democratic tools such as debate, persuasion, and evidence-based reasoning lose their effectiveness.

Elusive1's avatar

I know. It's laughable if it weren't so sad. So some of us sit here watching in the midst of it all. And yes, that's what I think too --- overwhelming.

Puddin Tain's avatar

Even you don’t believe that.

If people believed that, the Live Free or Die crowd would step off cliffs the second they realized it.

Instead, it’s just so much easier to create… then BLAME… a boogeyman 🤷‍♂️

Puddin Tain's avatar

Again, it’s fun to blame a boogeyman rather than look to a real solution. Shrugging our shoulders and resigning ourselves to “aw, golly, everything’s beyond my control, so I’ll just never bother trying” is how they always win and we always lose. They’ve TAUGHT US it’s not possible. They’ve TAUGHT US to assume the position.

Americans didn’t used to give in at the first sign of a struggle. Now apparently we do.

Elusive1's avatar

What's your solution?

Where does one start??

Puddin Tain's avatar

I’m not anyone’s Jesus, I’m not committing my life to helping or guiding huge numbers of those in need… BUT, I look to revolution.

Think of prison populations. Something like 5,000 inmates and 20 prison personnel. Yet day after day, with extremely few exceptions, the prisoners by and large obey the handful of uniforms. (If you don’t like the prison comparison, we could be the 40 kids in a school bus vs. the one bus driver. “We obey.)

What makes it so tempting to continue obeying is that every time we see someone try to buck the system, they get destroyed. THAT is because it’s always a lone wolf or small group, easy as hell to quash and make an example of. We need to stop the We Can’t Win mindset! We need to encourage and regrow the We CAN Win mindset, and once we have enough people to stop just going along with the program that we hate, we CHANGE the program.

Elusive1's avatar

We've been conditioned. Like mice/rats. And yes, there's power in numbers.

I always think of January 6. If anything put the fear of what they can do to us it was that. I think it was a message.

Kelly Sexton's avatar

Tarriffs certainly make things worse..

Hezekiah's avatar

My parents lived thru the depression and it scarred them in many ways. I look at my grandchildren and pray that they never have to go thru what my parents did.

Elusive1's avatar

I'm thinking what's coming will be way worse. Many of us have gotten soft, have few skills, and think food is grown in supermarkets.

God help all of us!!

David Durbin Densmore's avatar

The USA does not have a political, economic or cultural problem; the USA has a criminal problem, and until it's treated as such, nothing will change.

Mclare's avatar

Bezos is selling WAPO to fund his takeover of Vogue/MetGala. Not many WAPO employees have skills that would transfer.

Charles's avatar

I deal indirectly with car insurance companies. The adjusting companies I deal with are suddenly hurting for business which means they are cutting back our work. So once again we are reinventing ourselves. It has happened to me over and over again in my career as an entrepreneur. It's just part of life!

Puddin Tain's avatar

"𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦"

This is a mix of “being old” plus having grown up prior to the internet. With the internet there’s a constant barrage of info from every direction, with competing news from 999 other sites ALSO trying to grab your attention.

In reality there’s always been tons of news. We just never had access to most of it.

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Dave Brown's avatar

Another uplifting article by the Harbinger of Doom himself, Mr. Michael Snyder!

Dave Brown's avatar

I’d like to point this out. Yes, the dollar is declining, but aren’t most currencies? We are not alone!

Michael Day's avatar

Mr Snyder and my fellow Americans

THE SIGNS

READ THE BELOW SIGNS IN

FEAR GOD And take your Own part

Written in 1913

By Theodore Roosevelt !

Why

One word

CHINAFY !!!

Within the old rough rider’s

Facts

Explain a

Soul-lution !!!

Combined with

PSALM 91

THE SOLDIERS PRAYER Which is written to YOU

BY

GOD !!!

SO AS ONE PEOPLE

YOU CAN TRAMPLE THE LION AND THE DRAGON !!!

WE THE PEOPLE

HAVE WHAT IS

A UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAR PLANED OUT in a very GOOD BOOK !!!

AKA

THE FACTS OF A WAR PLAN

WHEN KNOWN

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE

TO HANG ALL RESPONSIBLE

WITH THEIR OWN WORDS AND DEEDS

WHEN WE THE PEOPLE HAVE DEFEATED

THOSE WHO

FOLLOW

THE MASTER OF THE LIE !!!

My fellow Americans

ONE Simple WORD

Democracy

Is the tell for all in with

THE MASTER OF THE LIE

SHOUT

DEMOCRACY aka mob rule !

A Republic if YOU CAN KEEP IT !!!

Ben Franklin was very

CLEAR !!!

TODAY MANY AMERICANS

WHO ONLY FEAR

GOD

CAN SEE AND HEAR BUT CANNOT UNDERSTAND ?

READ HISTORY’S WRITTEN FACTS !

SO A

VERY GOOD BOOK

MAKES COMMON SENSE

EASY TO UNDERSTAND THE FACTS WELL ARTICULATED

TODAY CHINAFY IS A FACT !!!

GOD CAST LUCIFER TO EARTH

IT FELL ONTO THE LAND OF THE DRAGON

AKA

CHINA !!!!

WHO AS A LAND CLAIM THE DRAGON !!!

HISTORY IS WELL WRITTEN

JUST APPLY

THOMAS PAINES

COMMON SENSE !

EVIL IS REAL !!!

DONKEY/RINO FOOL OF ITS POWER !!

GOD BUILT

THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES !!!!

BUILT ONE PEOPLE !

BEND THE KNEE

PRAY

PSALM 91 !!

THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE WE THE PEOPLE ARE BRAVE !!!

WE THE PEOPLE FEAR ONLY GOD !!!

EVIL WILL BEGAN TO FEEL THE HEAT IS ON

THEIR DONKEY AKA THEIR DUMB ASS’S

FOR THEY THE EVIL ONES

BOIL FOR EVER

THIS SIMPLE FACT THE EVIL ONES ARE a ENRAGED

MOB SCREAMING ABUSE

FOR THEY KNOW

HELL CALLS FOR ITS DEMONS !!!

Bowman's avatar

Maybe Steven Moore should read this . He says economy is going very well

Elusive1's avatar

Hadn't heard him lately. Imo he's a tool.

🤮

Puddin Tain's avatar

"𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 “𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦” 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭"

SICK BURN AGAINST OUR PRESIDENT!