Posts by Brock Talon

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Are You Concerned About Inflation?

by Simon in

i saw a statistic the other day that something like 25% of all the debt that the us has incurred since 1776 was created in the last 12 months.

that's because they have printed so much currency and instead of letting that stop them, they are going to continue printing more to go on a spending spree on crazy green-new-deal schemes and union handouts.. does anyone think that this can be anything other than inflationary?

they are effectively stealing the wealth of everyone to then hand money out to people.

Brock Talon

Simon, I read through this thread carefully and at risk of sounding like a total suck-up, it is frightening how much I agree with you on every single point you posted. And then some.

To answer the question specifically, yes, I am very concerned about inflation But not just the normal kind, rather the runaway hyper kind that destroys the U.S. dollar and the economy of any country who relies on it, including the United States itself.

I actually think this is the plan of the Lefty cabal. It is the only thing that makes sense to me when they continually propose one hair-brained socialist wet dream plan after another, completely ignoring the very current and real-world disaster of Venezuela, suggesting what they are proposing will somehow turn out differently.

Fun fact: Currently, 1 U.S. dollar is worth 207,466,000,000 Venezuela Bolivars. 1934, the Bolivar exchange rate was fixed in terms of 1 U.S dollar for 3.914 Bolivar. This makes the Zimbabwe inflation look mild. Venezuela took their currency off the gold standard long before the U.S. did. It is a great modern example of fiscal insanity and a road map and model for every other fiat currency in play now - which is ALL of them.

The Left loves to tax, regulate, demonize and punish the "evil 1 percent-ers" as well as any company the "greedy rich" control that actually produces wealth and provides income and employment for the country. That's the grand plan and approach for the Lefty Socialists now taking hold of our country. Lone wolves like Joe Manchin are the few Democrats who put any kind of brakes on this madness. But even he has a history of caving in easily only after putting up a weak fight.

Oh, and when that still isn't enough money (because taking from the rich has its limits... after all, there is only so much you can confiscate/steal) then the Left will print 3 trillion here and 5 trillion there. Pretty soon you're talking real money. Unfortunately, that "money" won't be worth anything when they are done with it.

Riddle: What is the difference between a roll of toilet paper and the Venezuela Bolivar?

Answer: The toilet paper is preferred because you can wipe yourself with the toilet paper and it won't hurt.

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Child Smugglers Drop Children Over Border Wall

by Bangalore in

https://news.sky.com/video/smugglers-drop-children-over-14ft-us-mexico-border-wall-12262371.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/31/exclusive-leaked-video-human-smugglers-drop-small-children-from-border-wall-in-new-mexico/.

Brock Talon

Rocketman, You represent exactly what is wrong with the left minded "Orange Man Bad" thinking in all its inherent dishonesty and pure numbskullery.

The wall that Trump "built" is ineffective because:
1. The Democrats, led by Lefty extremists fought tooth and nail against building the wall for years. No real reason was given for them fighting against it because every single Democrat who railed against it has a wall around their own homes, keeping them safe from the unknowns of outside actors. Trump had to use various military funds to even get it started. Congress finally passed a small Billions bill (compared to Biden's Trillions bill for so-called infrastructure) but that started later into his presidency. The lefty media railed against it day and day out for years, some obstructed, some sued, but Trump finally began to prevail and get it built. (No thanks to people like you.) All that cost dearly in time and thus it was left unfinished after he was run out of office by persona-based / race based politics that had nothing to do with actual policy.
2. The places that the wall was actually finished all have gates, most of which are now left wide open by the Biden administration. Some of these are for flood control purposes, but you have to secure them when not flooding. The Biden administration refuses to do anything about it. Again, if you have an unfinished wall around your home, and you leave all your gates unlocked and wide open, the wall is useless.
3. Some are scaling the wall. While that sound like a bad thing for a wall, it is not if you actually have people on the ground to easily stop this. The Biden administration has stopped ICE from having any real power to do much of anything. Again, if you have a wall around your home with locked gates, someone could scale it, but that slows them down long enough for your home cameras to catch them and alert you, or the police, etc. Plus it limits the sheer numbers of people who have the moxie to scale a wall like that.
4. The wall was not intended to be used as the ONLY deterrent for illegal immigration. You need to use surveillance, on the border enforcement, as well as have GOOD SET OF POLICIES THAT ACTUALLY DISINCENTIVIZES THE ACTION TO BEGIN WITH. Again, the Biden Administration has sent an open invitation to every smuggler, coyote and bad actor, along with all kinds of other poor disenfranchised people looking for something better to absolutely FLOOD the border.

No wall can counter all that nonsense.

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Child Smugglers Drop Children Over Border Wall

by Bangalore in

https://news.sky.com/video/smugglers-drop-children-over-14ft-us-mexico-border-wall-12262371.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/31/exclusive-leaked-video-human-smugglers-drop-small-children-from-border-wall-in-new-mexico/.

Brock Talon

The report came out recently (today?) that over 18,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the U.S. border IN MARCH 2021 ALONE!

Were is Kamala Harris and her Lefty crowd screaming about kids being separated from their parents and kids in cages like she was when Trump was in office?

Oh wait, SHE is the one who was put in charge of this mess. Or... did she just go to the border, take one look at it and then quit?

This woman literally RAN on the platform of undoing the horrible injustices of the Trump administration on the border, wringing out fake tears as she decried the inhumane Donald Trump about his border policies. But now look what her own policies are doing. She and her boss Joe Biden think it is a good idea to:

1. Stop building the wall (it is nearly finished, but leaving gaping holes is as good as not having a wall in some places - no real good reason to end it other than Lefty "wall bad" mindset)

2. End the "remain in Mexico" policy that kept people there while they were seeking assylum (an agreement Trump got out of the Mexican government and there is no real good reason to end it)

3. Re-institute "catch and release" (the joke policy of asking for illegals to keep the honor system of returning to court once they are freed in the U.S. - few do.)

4. Pay for putting illegals in hotels, paying for their healthcare, etc. (how many tax paying Americans have this?)

5. Demonize ICE (just as they like to demonize the police)

Places like San Diego are even providing in-person schooling for children who have crossed over illegally (with and without parents) while only providing on-line schooling for the American citizens actually who actually pay the taxes for the schools.

This is the lunacy and hypocrisy of the Left in action.

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Looking back a year at Covid

by pistolpete in

march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).

114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.

aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.

Brock Talon

Slimboyfat, sorry my friend, I don't buy China's numbers. I can't understand why anyone would. Let's just put aside the obvious fact that the regime lies as easy as they breathe on just about everything. Let's just use logic:

Wuhan China has a population of 11.8 million. Let's suppose every single one of the reported 5,000 COVID deaths in China came only from Wuhan.

Consider: New York city has a population of 8.4 million and has reported so far 49,000 COVID deaths.

Los Angeles county has a population of just shy of 10 million and has reported so far 57,000 COVID deaths.

There are probably no states in the U.S. that locked down more so than New York and California, yet they reported death rates11 times the rate of the entire number of Wuhan?

China was THAT good at locking the city down so it wouldn't spread to the rest of the country?

Then why do MOST experts agree that the virus came from Wuhan? (China denies this, but then again, it's China.) How were they able to lock down the rest of their own country so readily but at the same time allow their Wuhan population to spread the virus to the rest of the world? Forget about that: How did the rest of the world not get infected and then at some point some of those infected from other countries not come back to other cities in China and spread it that way? I never heard in the news that they locked out other countries from coming into other parts of China, at least, not in the first few months. It was Donald Trump who first stepped up and stopped travel into the U.S. from China, and he was excoriated by it from Biden, Fauci and other Lefty-minded (wrong side of history) people who said it was "racist" for doing so. Other countries only did that afterwards, eventually having some of them ban travel from the U.S. to their countries.

Every other country suffered COVID spread by international travel from other countries. You mean China completely stopped that from everywhere else 100%, no failures, not one person who could then spread it by returning to their their own huge Chinese city, like Beijing, Shanghai, Tainjin and others? These cities are some of the largest in the world and have huge international business travel, but China was able to lock it all down perfectly?

Sorry bud. I don't buy it.

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Looking back a year at Covid

by pistolpete in

march of last year covid was declared a pandemic that would take hundreds of millions of lives world wide.. here are the facts after a year.. the world population is 7,800,000,000 (billions).

114,770,269 millions of people have caught the virus as of today.

aprox 91 million recovered from the virus,.

Brock Talon

Slimboyfat, I agree that the statement you highlighted was probably exaggerated. I don't recall anything official that declared that "hundreds of millions" of lives would be taken by COVID in early prediction models. But let's not get hasty and dismiss this out of hand before considering this:

Early models DID predict 2.2 million in the U.S. alone. They also thought Great Britain would lose half a million. Here is one example of such a report. You can easily google search to find this 2.2 million in the U.S. COVID death prediction all over the internet:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

https://www.cato.org/blog/how-one-model-simulated-22-million-us-deaths-covid-19

The thing is, some people took these figures and decided to extrapolate for a worldwide prediction: if the U.S. is 328 million and the world is 7.6 billion, then given the same ratio dying of COVID as the U.S. that would mean 50 million deaths due to COVID worldwide.

The thinking continued that this 50 million would be a MINIMUM, because most of the 7.6 billion would be in third world countries and would probably die at even higher rates than the U.S. 100 million deaths would not be out of the question.

I'm not saying I agree with any of that, it is just the thinking that people had based on actual prediction models.

Of course, we know now that third world country numbers are WAY better than first world countries. See the post I shared earlier about COVID deaths so far, by country. Why is that so? Well, see my previous rants on the completely illogical and dishonest way COVID deaths are counted in the first place. Some countries just do it way differently than others. Some can't (or don't) count accurately at all.

Consider China: an amazing COVID story of less than 6,000 COVID deaths total, with a population of 1.43 billion people or over one fifth of the entire world's population.

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Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

are you offended if you see a flag?

what about a confederate flag?.

Brock Talon

I find this offensive. Quakers do NOT look like that today. This is stereotypical hogwash and clearly anti-Quaker! I should know, some of my best friends are Quakers!

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Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

by minimus in

jw
friends

does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

are you offended if you see a flag?

what about a confederate flag?.

Brock Talon

I find this offensive. It stereotypes bald men with white eyebrows who wear earrings.

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Will Governor Cuomo be the Next President?

by RubaDub in

jw
friends

trying to put politics aside (even though that won't really work), but ny governor andrew cuomo is blowing the other politicians out out the water (orange man [trump] and the lizard [biden]).. i don't know if cuomo has a usb port in the back of his head plugged into a hard drive but the guy speaks, analyzes and talks coherently.

the orange man always passes difficult questions to someone else.

the lizard can't comprehend what the question is but tries to answer something.. cuomo comes out with facts, analysis and direction on what needs to be done.

Brock Talon

I wanted to bump this thread because the title is a bit funny. "Will governor Cuomo be the next President?"

Ha! Good one... at least now it is funny. At the time, RubaDub had a legitimate question. After all, the Lefties were literally going nuts over this guy. How many dumb celebrity women went on record as "Cuomo-sexuals?"

Now? Not so much.

The main things I noticed about Andrew Cuomo being in hot water now seems to be:

1. He is CLEARLY disliked by his Democratic colleagues and they smell blood in the water and benefit for themselves to pile on. We already knew Mayor Bill De Blasio HATES the guy, though it wasn't clear that he was hated by so many others.

2. The polls show it to be favorable for them to attack Cuomo, so they do it. Should the polls not be in favor, they would be saying nothing, just as was the case was during the Trump administration. During that time, Cuomo could do no wrong because their unified focus was on the bad Orange Man.

3. It is clear that the Left is more upset over Cuomo being "inappropriate" with women than his indirectly (or even directly) causing the death of thousands at nursing homes. Killing the elderly in droves? Meh. No biggie. But talk dirty to your co-workers and then not be in political favor? We want you out!

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Would you leave the Watchtower if you woke up at age 80 plus, or just stay in for the rest of your life.

by pistolpete in

so yesterday while i was doing some work for a customer, i noticed the wt mags on the sofa.

and i asked the elderly man if he was a jehovah witness?.

he said that he and his wife and all his children were raised in the religion, but only he and his wife attend the meetings or zoom.

Brock Talon

For me the answer is "It depends."

Scenario #1 is the one that has been told on this thread, where you have too much to lose to leave and you just grin and bear it, doing as little as possible and accepting the few friends or family relationships that you can, living with retired submission and hidden regret, but unable to do much of anything about it.

But scenario #2 is that perhaps it could be that I am still vital at age 80, my spouse has died (or divorced me) my children are not in and don't care for the religion, and I have somehow not alienated myself from them and other extended family. In that case, I would come clean to my remaining family about my finally coming to my senses, bolt from the religion like a bat out of hell, find myself a hot lady 20 years my junior to shack up with, and enjoy the few Christmases, birthdays and such as I have left with my remaining family. Heck, I might take up martial arts, buy a pistol and a shotgun and shoot 'em off every month, smoke a box of Cubans, go to Vegas and play the slots and see a fight and check out a slew of strip clubs. Then maybe I'd build a bar in my house and stock it with everything I've ever wanted to drink, wear T-Shirts with catchy phrases from Rap stars and pictures of classic rock album covers, play rap music loudly with explicit lyrics, watch any darn R or Mature Audience movie I want to, not shave for days or even weeks at a time, wear an earring when I feel like it, and buy lottery tickets for the huge mega million jackpots, start voting in local and national elections and even make friends with my city's Mayor and have him and his wife over my home for the huge parties I host with all the new friends I am now making... Wheeee!

Oh yeah, wait, I already did that.

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Harry, Meghan the Royal Apostates

by Slidin Fast in

jw
friends

i just watched the oprah interview.

i know that many view them with little interest as just entitled wastes of space and i get that.. however, the description of how they were "trapped" and silenced and forced into perpetuating the system with little or no personal freedom rang bells for me.

they are effectively shunned, estranged and disparaged by their family and cut off from support.

Brock Talon

I did not watch the interview, but my wife did. The few minutes I was in the room with her during I heard Harry say he learned about racism from watching what his wife went through. Hmmm. You mean he didn't learn about racism when he received all the grief from the free world when he walked around with a swastika on his shoulder?

https://www.aiga.org/the-prince-and-the-swastika