1% Gained 82% of 2017 Wealth Created

[Smitty-48]

You'll see it soon, in your favorite stocks, that you love to go on about. The MIC suppliers will be just fine, in the long run. The rest will burn.

1000% run up across the board, I've already taken so much profit along the way and spent it, that not having rode the ride up, wouldn't have made any sense.

I don't fear a correction, let the blood flow in the streets I say, if it hadn't been for that, I wouldn't have made the profits I have made to date.

Can't buy anything right now, it's a sellers market, without the Bear, there can be no Bulls in the end.

[Smitty-48]

And if a bunch o' weenies want to charge into the streets upon the correction and associated fallout, to play pretend bolshevik and shake their fists and placards, let them, they'll soon find out why that doesn't do much for them, it is indeed the 21st century, and as a result, they are all the pampered bourgeoisie, they ain't got the gristle to make revolution upon their own Welfare-Warfare Nanny State, but if they'd like to try to overthrow it, that can be fun too, fun like a clown show of retarded fat kids getting whupped upside the head by the paramilitary security forces, but fun none the less.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Likely, we'll be seeing some incredible levels of unrest in the next few years, though. LA Riots writ large, across the coasts. Probably a severe property crime wave in the heartland. The MSM will ignore it, and the establishment will try to subvert it at first, like OWS. But this won't be a bunch of kids with nothing to do chanting in Central Park. This will be angry, desperate people looking for answers.

First signs will be massive protests in DC, NYC, Seattle, then a bunch of seemingly-unrelated riots over minor issues. Neighbors will post Trespassing signs around the cul-de-sacs, and grocery stores will be emptied in an awkward, competitive scrum. As the economy crumbles under the weight of its debt and stupidity, people will stop paying mortgages, stop paying for cars, and start resisting reposessions. Industry will grind to a halt, as nobody can afford to buy the things they were making.

At that point, we'll either get New Deal 2.0, or martial law and revolution. There is no other outcome, at this point.

What's the tipping point for this GCF?

I scrolled back a few pages...

The US government is insolvent. We printed up an extra few trillion dollars in '08, and it's finally coming out to play. The 10-year notes used to create it are coming due this month, and need to be re-issued, which means more inflation. The market went vertical this month, in a classic blow-off top, and will be down 50% by summer/fall. The US dollar is already down 3% this month. 3% of your money vaporized in a month. At that rate, you've lost nearly half of it by Christmas.

It's already in motion. No further triggers needed, though there will be many. Next, the US government will "strike a deal" with the Fed, to get "special lending rates" on their bonds, outside of the regular market, effectively handing ownership of the government to them (same as 2008). When you see that, start filling some water jugs.

Dinosaurs like Smitty will be frantically waving their rifles around, looking for an enemy to smite, but the enemy is the state itself. They owned, and have sold us all.

[Smitty-48]

Dinosaurs don't worry about doomsday, Dinosaurs just live in the now, when you grow up to be a Dinosaur, you know the angel of death is ever perched upon your shoulders, it's all gravy for the Dinosaurs, only little children and their adolescent power fantasies engage in the doomsday circle jerk, doomsday for the Dinosaur, could come at any moment, myocardial infarction, lung cancer, jackknifing tractor trailer across the median, whatevs, everybody gotta die sometime, red, cross that bridge when you come to it. In the meantime, take your profits and spend them, Netflix n' chill.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Dinosaurs don't worry about doomsday, Dinosaurs just live in the now, when you grow up to be a Dinosaur, you know the angel of death is ever perched upon your shoulders, it's all gravy for the Dinosaurs, only little children and their adolescent power fantasies engage in the doomsday circle jerk, doomsday for the Dinosaur, could come at any moment, myocardial infarction, lung cancer, jackknifing tractor trailer across the median, whatevs, everybody gotta die sometime, red, cross that bridge when you come to it. In the meantime, take your profits and spend them, Netflix n' chill.

You don't have children. But you have mentioned some nieces/nephews in the past. What do you envision their lives being like?

[Smitty-48]

Dinosaurs don't worry about doomsday, Dinosaurs just live in the now, when you grow up to be a Dinosaur, you know the angel of death is ever perched upon your shoulders, it's all gravy for the Dinosaurs, only little children and their adolescent power fantasies engage in the doomsday circle jerk, doomsday for the Dinosaur, could come at any moment, myocardial infarction, lung cancer, jackknifing tractor trailer across the median, whatevs, everybody gotta die sometime, red, cross that bridge when you come to it. In the meantime, take your profits and spend them, Netflix n' chill.

You don't have children. But you have mentioned some nieces/nephews in the past. What do you envision their lives being like?

Since I just live in the now, I only see them in the now, what the future holds, I cannot predict, other than everybody gotta die sometime that is, but other than that, Netflix n' chill, even if doom was upon us, nothing you could do about it, and Dinosaurs do not worry about that which is beyond their control.

Optimistic Nihilism, remember? Don't just say it, live it, all day everyday, in the now, like there is no tomorrow, because there might not be, but even if there isn't, cross that bridge tomorrow, no need to cross it in the now.

[Okeefenokee]

Did y'all know the Greeks believed that everyone was qualified to govern?

That's why they let everyone vote.

I'm so glad I got to take this mandatory class.

Seriously, this mandatory class of yours is taught by a small, drooling, half-naked man in a straitjacket who barks out loud when he isn't squatting down to eat his own poop, isn't it? Please, please, say that it is... Or at the very least, please don't tell me that the lecturer somehow achieved any degree in history. Please?

Tonight's reading was the DOI, so I can't wait to see what I learn tomorrow.

Okay, here's some arguments for why democracy wasn't real democracy.

• majority rule is tyranny, and democracy isn't tyranny
  
  representative gov't benefits groups, and that's not what democracy is about
  
  voting isn't democratic

I shit you not.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Dinosaurs don't worry about doomsday, Dinosaurs just live in the now, when you grow up to be a Dinosaur, you know the angel of death is ever perched upon your shoulders, it's all gravy for the Dinosaurs, only little children and their adolescent power fantasies engage in the doomsday circle jerk, doomsday for the Dinosaur, could come at any moment, myocardial infarction, lung cancer, jackknifing tractor trailer across the median, whatevs, everybody gotta die sometime, red, cross that bridge when you come to it. In the meantime, take your profits and spend them, Netflix n' chill.

You don't have children. But you have mentioned some nieces/nephews in the past. What do you envision their lives being like?

Since I just live in the now, I only see them in the now, what the future holds, I cannot predict, other than everybody gotta die sometime that is, but other than that, Netflix n' chill, even if doom was upon us, nothing you could do about it, and Dinosaurs do not worry about that which is beyond their control.

Optimistic Nihilism, remember? Don't just say it, live it, all day everyday, in the now, like there is no tomorrow, because there might not be, but even if there isn't, cross that bridge tomorrow, no need to cross it in the now.

I like the philosophy, but I'll keep building up my food supply and skills. I can't tell the kids that I just didn't want to try.

[Okeefenokee]

People don't vote based on cynicism, they only write about it.

True enough. Still, there is more to democracy than just voting.

#resist

I agree that not voting is a BIG part of democracy. In fact, I doubt anyone here but me votes. Who actually voted in the last election?

Putin voted.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Did y'all know the Greeks believed that everyone was qualified to govern?

That's why they let everyone vote.

I'm so glad I got to take this mandatory class.

Seriously, this mandatory class of yours is taught by a small, drooling, half-naked man in a straitjacket who barks out loud when he isn't squatting down to eat his own poop, isn't it? Please, please, say that it is... Or at the very least, please don't tell me that the lecturer somehow achieved any degree in history. Please?

Tonight's reading was the DOI, so I can't wait to see what I learn tomorrow.

Okay, here's some arguments for why democracy wasn't real democracy.

• majority rule is tyranny, and democracy isn't tyranny
  
  representative gov't benefits groups, and that's not what democracy is about
  
  voting isn't democratic

I shit you not.

Sounds like you strawmanned the shit out of whatever he was saying, same as you do here.