Unless and until we learn to live by principles, and develop attention spans longer than a 15 second TikTok, I am not optimistic. What *feels good" moment to moment is not a long-term plan--at least, it's not a good one.
A Global Snapshot: The Stupid, the Broken & the Evil - VON GREYERZ
"Gold can solve many financial and currency disasters – that is the stupid, the broken and the insane outlined above in our foreseeably doomed credit and currency markets. But no precious metal can preserve or replace the loss of far more precious lives consumed by the evils of unnecessary wars." https://vongreyerz.gold/a-global-snapshot-stupid-broken-evil
Every time I log onto my bank or go into a branch, I'm reminded that it was the "conservative” GOP that makes me give my photo ID when I deposit money into my account, with the nag to update my account details because of "the PATRIOT Act". But somehow, photo ID to vote is too hard. Paper ballots voting is too hard.
America is seeking a new Oliver Cromwell:
20 April 1653, London, England
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
Unless and until we learn to live by principles, and develop attention spans longer than a 15 second TikTok, I am not optimistic. What *feels good" moment to moment is not a long-term plan--at least, it's not a good one.
A Global Snapshot: The Stupid, the Broken & the Evil - VON GREYERZ
"Gold can solve many financial and currency disasters – that is the stupid, the broken and the insane outlined above in our foreseeably doomed credit and currency markets. But no precious metal can preserve or replace the loss of far more precious lives consumed by the evils of unnecessary wars." https://vongreyerz.gold/a-global-snapshot-stupid-broken-evil
Every time I log onto my bank or go into a branch, I'm reminded that it was the "conservative” GOP that makes me give my photo ID when I deposit money into my account, with the nag to update my account details because of "the PATRIOT Act". But somehow, photo ID to vote is too hard. Paper ballots voting is too hard.
America is seeking a new Oliver Cromwell:
20 April 1653, London, England
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"
Another letter to the "manager" that will get burned, shredded or used in the restroom.