Come on gridlock! Daddy wants ALL Government funding halted for a year!
I wish but doubt it, if that was to happen and they couldn't agree on ANYONE to be speaker, it would devastate the entire uniparty especially the left.
No more funding for Ukraine, no more funding for the alphabet agencies, I need to see a doctor if this persists for days thinking about it!
Pretty sure the last party I was at involved reading a book in the corner and taking a couple of drunk soldiers home after. Besides that I'm the anti social type, I consider other people to be a chore. Give me my wife, my kids, my computer and my weekly DnD game and I'm happy.
Hear, hear. In college there was a mandatory dance for a group I was part of. I did the stuff I had to do and spent the rest of the party in the coat room reading a brand new Robert Jordan book. Great party!
What now? Who cares. It's not like McCarthy wasn't blatantly uniparty himself. Money is fake, democracy is an immoral sham and politics is a clown show.
Anything that accelerates secession and collapse is good, business as usual and kicking the can is bad.
Gold is a fiat currency. Gold lets people know you did some level of labor, worth some amount of food, which you can pass around like a betting chip. It has no inherent value to almost anyone, unless you're into large electronics manufacturing. Things can have inflation related to gold, or recession. A gold coin could buy a bushel of wheat back when, but now, only half a bushel, due to bad harvest, in example. The gold has no value to the farmer, it is only symbolic of works performed in the past. And the "true" value of the gold is basically determined by the nobility or governing body.
Ass, gas, and grass: Those aren't fiat currencies. Real things that people directly wish to obtain, and trade for. If people say gold has no value, then gold has no value. But if people say food has no value, they starve to death and are removed from the system.
Money needs to be stable. In order to be stable, it needs to meet these 7 characteristics.
(1) It must be durable, which is why we don’t use wheat or corn, or rice.
(2) It must be divisible, which is why we don’t use artwork.
(3) It must be convenient, which is why we don’t use lead or copper.
(4) It must be consistent, which is why we don’t use real estate.
(5) It must possess value in itself, which is why we don’t use paper.
(6) It must be limited in the quantity that is available, which is why we don’t use aluminum or iron.
(7) It should have a long history of acceptance, which is why we don’t use molybdenum or rhodium.
Only GOLD and SILVER fit all seven characteristics.
EVERYTHING else is inferior which makes them credit. They are essentially Gold substitutes.
If you had a race to see who was the fastest man in the world there can only be one winner and ONLY ONE person can hold the label of the fastest man in the world. It doesn't mean that the rest are slow it just means that they are not the fastest.
Value is ultimately determined by the person holding the money. "He who has the Gold makes the rules."
There is literally an asteroid (near enough that NASA has a trip planned) with enough gold to make everyone on earth a billionaire, so not really all that scarce. Thus not really money by your definition.
Want to buy a bridge? We are going to start construction on it any day now. I'll need actual gold though. You will have plenty when your asteroid gets here.
Wanna know a real post-collapse gold standard currency? Antibiotics.
They're currently strictly controlled so very few have any personal stockpile, difficult to make, have life-or-death value, and stored correctly have a real world self-life far longer than the already generous use by dates, making them far less perishable than food.
Even just NyQuil would have significant value, and follows all that nonsense chart the other person posted. But NyQuil falls under "grass" in the big rhyming three: Drugs. Antibiotics do too, in their own way. But there is a difference between preparing for a recession, preparing for a depression, and preparing for a collapse.
Like you, I'm not interested in the boots abiding by a speed limit. What about a slow but steady reversal? That seems to be the best option that's in the cards.
My issue with a slow reversal is the boots stay on. One slip, and the vast majority of the shadow government and tyrannical cabal are still in place and waiting to capitalize, and their retribution will be swift and petty, and delivered by rainbowsturmfaggoten.
I think the new speaker will be a Uniparty speaker with the support of the Nancy Maces of the world + all Dems. They can't risk funding for their proxy war. Unfortunately, I think McCarthy was as good as things were going to get.
Note: Liz Cheney was lobbying Dems to vote for removing McCarthy.
I think McCarthy was as good as things were going to get.
Quite possibly, and I'm no fan of the man.
This whole thing just seems like a confusing move, and possibly not well thought out.
Almost worth it just to see McCarthy whine though. He's not as RINO-y as he could be, but that's not saying much, and I hate the neoconny way he talks.
Apparently, they were mad because a Continuing Resolution was passed instead of a budget despite promises to the country. But at least it included no Ukraine money. I did get confused when Biden said that he had a deal with McCarthy about Ukraine funding.
My worry is that this will be used as a reason why "giving concessions to the right" is a bad thing.
Fuckin' props to Matt Gaetz to drag everyone forward on this while the Uniparty shits itself, tries to expel him, tries to re-invigorate the DOJ's criminal blackmail of him, and calls him a narcissist.
We'll have to work for a better speaker. It's messy, but I'll take it. There's a bunch that would do a better job, even if they ain't perfect.
Bannon's talking about nominating Trump again, which would be fucking hilarious, and would certainly scare the shit out of the Uniparty should they pull more election interference.
It's going to get worse until the Biden Regime is ousted. Having controlled opposition in charge is worse than having opposition in charge; and frankly, I think we'll still be better off.
The Republican Party is prepared to kill itself to keep populists from power, and appeasing controlled opposition is no different from appeasing the enemy.
Come on gridlock! Daddy wants ALL Government funding halted for a year!
I wish but doubt it, if that was to happen and they couldn't agree on ANYONE to be speaker, it would devastate the entire uniparty especially the left.
No more funding for Ukraine, no more funding for the alphabet agencies, I need to see a doctor if this persists for days thinking about it!
The temporary speaker is appointed when the first one is elected, they can still conduct business. Including finding the Ukro scum.
And just like that, the excitement is gone faster than seeing a nude body positivity model.
Bro, you must be a joy to be around at parties.
Sadly, you're right.
Pretty sure the last party I was at involved reading a book in the corner and taking a couple of drunk soldiers home after. Besides that I'm the anti social type, I consider other people to be a chore. Give me my wife, my kids, my computer and my weekly DnD game and I'm happy.
Hear, hear. In college there was a mandatory dance for a group I was part of. I did the stuff I had to do and spent the rest of the party in the coat room reading a brand new Robert Jordan book. Great party!
What now? Who cares. It's not like McCarthy wasn't blatantly uniparty himself. Money is fake, democracy is an immoral sham and politics is a clown show.
Anything that accelerates secession and collapse is good, business as usual and kicking the can is bad.
Wrong.
Fiat currency is fake.
Currency is only ever a claim check to money.
Gold. Silver. Intrinsic value.
"Ten dollars in gold coin, payable to the bearer on demand."
Gold is a fiat currency. Gold lets people know you did some level of labor, worth some amount of food, which you can pass around like a betting chip. It has no inherent value to almost anyone, unless you're into large electronics manufacturing. Things can have inflation related to gold, or recession. A gold coin could buy a bushel of wheat back when, but now, only half a bushel, due to bad harvest, in example. The gold has no value to the farmer, it is only symbolic of works performed in the past. And the "true" value of the gold is basically determined by the nobility or governing body.
Ass, gas, and grass: Those aren't fiat currencies. Real things that people directly wish to obtain, and trade for. If people say gold has no value, then gold has no value. But if people say food has no value, they starve to death and are removed from the system.
Money needs to be stable. In order to be stable, it needs to meet these 7 characteristics.
(1) It must be durable, which is why we don’t use wheat or corn, or rice.
(2) It must be divisible, which is why we don’t use artwork.
(3) It must be convenient, which is why we don’t use lead or copper.
(4) It must be consistent, which is why we don’t use real estate.
(5) It must possess value in itself, which is why we don’t use paper.
(6) It must be limited in the quantity that is available, which is why we don’t use aluminum or iron.
(7) It should have a long history of acceptance, which is why we don’t use molybdenum or rhodium.
Only GOLD and SILVER fit all seven characteristics.
EVERYTHING else is inferior which makes them credit. They are essentially Gold substitutes.
If you had a race to see who was the fastest man in the world there can only be one winner and ONLY ONE person can hold the label of the fastest man in the world. It doesn't mean that the rest are slow it just means that they are not the fastest.
Value is ultimately determined by the person holding the money. "He who has the Gold makes the rules."
There is literally an asteroid (near enough that NASA has a trip planned) with enough gold to make everyone on earth a billionaire, so not really all that scarce. Thus not really money by your definition.
Is it here?
No?
Then it's rare.
Cool!
Want to buy a bridge? We are going to start construction on it any day now. I'll need actual gold though. You will have plenty when your asteroid gets here.
Wanna know a real post-collapse gold standard currency? Antibiotics.
They're currently strictly controlled so very few have any personal stockpile, difficult to make, have life-or-death value, and stored correctly have a real world self-life far longer than the already generous use by dates, making them far less perishable than food.
Even just NyQuil would have significant value, and follows all that nonsense chart the other person posted. But NyQuil falls under "grass" in the big rhyming three: Drugs. Antibiotics do too, in their own way. But there is a difference between preparing for a recession, preparing for a depression, and preparing for a collapse.
Yeah, very different, I get it. The ass, gas, and grass paradigm definitely seems like a post-collapse one, hence the collapse specific suggestion.
Heh, though I didn't know grass was supposed to cover drugs, I figured it was an obscure way of making food rhyme with gas.
Re: accelerationism. This article made me worried that things can just get worse indefinitely.
You don't live here anyway, so your concern rings hollow to me.
Secondly, things will not get better in America by peaceful means. Trump's greatest achievement was proving that.
Correct, but things aren't exactly going swimmingly in the rest of the US empire either.
Europe will be in flames of their own making regardless. Brussels has ensured that.
The Russians cutting off Niger's supplies to France's nuclear plants was a stroke of genius.
Hope those "civilized" Europeans don't start another World War or anything, because we're not rescuing them a third time.
"Rescued"
In the long run we'd have been better off letting the Soviets eat them.
You're getting downvoted but history proves that acceleration leads to worse outcomes almost every time.
I'll take "almost" over "guaranteed march of the boots of tyranny on our faces, forever" unless there's a better alternative.
Slowing down isn't an option that works. Only a reversal of course is a solution.
Back, or through.
Like you, I'm not interested in the boots abiding by a speed limit. What about a slow but steady reversal? That seems to be the best option that's in the cards.
My issue with a slow reversal is the boots stay on. One slip, and the vast majority of the shadow government and tyrannical cabal are still in place and waiting to capitalize, and their retribution will be swift and petty, and delivered by rainbowsturmfaggoten.
I'm agreeing with AoV over Kaarous. Surely, nothing can get worse than that.
https://i.imgur.com/2OF46IT.jpg
Oh dear. Pelosi's RINO meat puppet has been ousted. She's probably livid. Her staff better hide the liquor and good china.
At least McCarthy was the adult in the room. That's what really matters.
Feels good man
I think the new speaker will be a Uniparty speaker with the support of the Nancy Maces of the world + all Dems. They can't risk funding for their proxy war. Unfortunately, I think McCarthy was as good as things were going to get.
Note: Liz Cheney was lobbying Dems to vote for removing McCarthy.
Quite possibly, and I'm no fan of the man.
This whole thing just seems like a confusing move, and possibly not well thought out.
Almost worth it just to see McCarthy whine though. He's not as RINO-y as he could be, but that's not saying much, and I hate the neoconny way he talks.
Apparently, they were mad because a Continuing Resolution was passed instead of a budget despite promises to the country. But at least it included no Ukraine money. I did get confused when Biden said that he had a deal with McCarthy about Ukraine funding.
My worry is that this will be used as a reason why "giving concessions to the right" is a bad thing.
McCarthy was already ding everything he could to avoid giving concessions to the right.
Fuckin' props to Matt Gaetz to drag everyone forward on this while the Uniparty shits itself, tries to expel him, tries to re-invigorate the DOJ's criminal blackmail of him, and calls him a narcissist.
We'll have to work for a better speaker. It's messy, but I'll take it. There's a bunch that would do a better job, even if they ain't perfect.
Bannon's talking about nominating Trump again, which would be fucking hilarious, and would certainly scare the shit out of the Uniparty should they pull more election interference.
It might get worse though.
It's going to get worse until the Biden Regime is ousted. Having controlled opposition in charge is worse than having opposition in charge; and frankly, I think we'll still be better off.
The Republican Party is prepared to kill itself to keep populists from power, and appeasing controlled opposition is no different from appeasing the enemy.