I have been thinking a lot over the past week about our current state of affairs, and every time I feel like I’m going to have an anxiety attack, I remember that staying calm, and thinking through my options is the more wise thing to do, then I put on my headphones and listen to some good jazz (or old school punk rock – they both have the same calming effect).
I have had many friends message me, call me and text me about the political ramifications of what is going on. Sorry. I don’t have the answers. I guess I could say what a lot of people are thinking, a divided country will have a hard time bringing this together, but it is the new reality.
So I will give you some advice, some you have probably heard already;
• Take your investments out of trading and transfer to money markets. I learned my f’ing lesson in 2008 and pulled mine out last week. Yes you will lose gains when the market turns around, but you will still have money to get in late. I’m not an economist, but I am also not stupid.
• Make sure any savings you have is secure, and contribute as much as you can.
• Don’t buy stupid crap.
• Talk to your employer about PTO and how they will participate in the forthcoming legislation to be signed by the president this week.
• Listen to the experts in the Federal Government, NOT the president. The only good coming out of his mouth will ensure our crops will be properly fertilized this Spring.
• Call your parents, your friends and other loved ones as much as possible, give them hope, love and comfort (this is the most important thing).
• Stock up on Beer, Cigarettes and Weed (just kidding . . . kind of).
Lastly remember we are all in this together, so help and think about others, don’t expose yourself if you don’t have to. I will be honest with you, I have no doubt in my mind, like the recession of 2008, the working man will be f’ckd over while big banks, Wall Street and industry will be bailed out. This time around I hope the American public stands up and says we have had enough. I will commend the handful of congress people who said this was most important in last week’s legislation, but there is more work to be done. If the airline industry fails, if the cruise industry fails, oh well, maybe as free market industries they should have had safeguards in place, why should I have to bail them out for not having a safety net when mine was taken from me decades ago. Besides, who goes on a Cruise anyway?
Stay safe. Pray, and remember, there is only one real cure for a pandemic, stop voting for Republicans!
BIDEN WILL LIKELY BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
As I suspected, Bernie was Howard Dean’d, knee capped like a scene out of the Soprano. I saw it coming months ago. My choice was actually a Warren, but when I saw how the media was giving her the Hillary Clinton treatment, I knew where it was going. I think Biden will pick Amy Klobasomething as his running mate to secure the midwest vote.
STATEWIDE CITY ELECTIONS
I think the SOS and Governor Noem are seriously exploring postponing city elections across the state on April 14. Sioux Falls city councilor Theresa Stehly reached out to the governor’s office today asking them to look at options. While I understand this may be a touchy issue legally, as I told a government official last night (not Stehly) ‘Who works the polls? Senior citizens. They are not going to risk their health working an election.’ If you don’t have the poll workers, you can’t hold an election. I think we will be hearing from Noem soon on a postponement of the city elections across the state.
Stay safe, and if you need a laugh give me a call, I’m full of them.
No big rallies. It can’t be Tweeted away. MAGA hats are more vulnerable than hipster Chucks. Put it all in a novel and no one would believe it or read it… #DivineProvidence?
Thanks for your perspective. I often give advice but I’m really looking for someone to disagree. If I’m wrong, I want to amend my perspective. What’s true now is community. I was impressed to hear food is being delivered to homes with children whose primary meal was school lunch. I’m nearly 70 and have heart disease plus other issues. It’s handled but I must quarantine myself. I feel guilty not being able to help volunteers. They are true heroes.
I’m not opposed to delayed elections. Leaders we have are valuable experience. There’s been self promotion and some greed but this is a time they’ll set that aside. I’m reminded of Ray Nagle (then New Orleans mayor) who led the city after Hurricane Katrina. He later did time for fed funds fraud but nonetheless he was a leader at an important time.
We elected a black man, then a racist. Some nominated a black man, then a woman, and now it’s between two old white guys. We once had Reconstruction, then Jim Crow. The latter all seems to be back again, but for how long?
Klobuchar for VP? It makes sense. Minnesota is known for VPs and Post-it Notes. One is an attachment, while the other an addendum. But both are necessary to cover your ass.
We once laughed when a wine cave became a Wind Cave. But we should have known, however, when Wind Cave later meant a reception at a million dollar house, which way the wind was truly blowing. And now it’s that same wind, that causes us to run to our houses like piglets horrified by a viral wolf.
Life has become one big blue law state. No public schools. Bars are closing. It’s like life on the distant prairie without Laura and Almanzo.
Hy-Vee and Lewis reducing their hours was an omen not taken. What should be taken now? Well, what about elections that are “postponed”?
The Chinese have all of the masks. They have our money, too, and now all of our Walmarts are closing as well. It was all a part of the plan.
The DOW is collapsing. Ones money is becoming the new toilet paper. What’s a guy or gal to do, but wait for a check from the government. I guess Yang was right.
So, I miss the good old days, when three tornadoes in one night were the ultimate challenge, and we dreamed of if and when Chic-Fil-A would land upon our twister blighted, and once traveled, but now lonely 41st.
“Say, isn’t it rather ironic, that ‘flatten the curve’ could prevent flatlining?”
It demonstrates a de-centralism like Florida 2000. Cuomo has become the new reassuring Mayor Giuliani. It has the responsiveness less nature of a Katrina. The markets are falling like it’s the Great Recession. And it’s if Hollywood has combined it all into one, but when is the true leader, asteroid or not, who looks like Morgan Freeman, finally going to show up?
We have to realize the International Bankers, Foreign Investors, and Lawyers control the Global Economy today. When you realize this, you will understand whom are really running this Country. Some of you blame Donald Trump for this mess, when in reality, TRUMP has done things to take a lot of the power away from this ‘group of people’ that is really upsetting them. Notice he constantly fights with the International Bankers, predominantly the “FED”.
The “Foreign Investors” are basically today your Multi-National Corporations whom conduct commercial activity thru out the globe. They are highly “invested” in Land, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Oil, Commodities, Real Property, Tangible Property, People. All those “assets” are condensed, or pooled together in the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (World Bank), which today owns 90% of all properties. The FEDERAL RESERVE BANK is America’s privately own bank, while the BANK OF ENGLAND is the private bank in England. These are Private Banks.
This means the FOREIGN INVESTORS (Multi-National Persons) are highly invested in these Central Banks around the world, they then go out and LEND the Governments all this capital in order for those governments to manage their countries. This does come at a steep place, for it places these Countries beholden to the “BANK”.
Notice – these Central “Planners” have lawyers on their payrolls, the lawyers then go out and lobby, petition, draft, write, and get legislation passed in their favor in order to protect their interest. Here in the United States – most every Federal Statute passed between 1871-2010 have been “Banker Acts” and you can research them and learn what their main intent is and does.
1871 – An Act to Create a Government for D.C
1913 – Federal Reserve Act
1933 – Federal Emergency Act (Bankruptcy Act)
1933 – Gold Reduction Act (stole our gold)
1935 – Social Security (tax) Act
1938 – Federal Minimum Wage Act (minimum tax)
1939 – Public Salary Tax Act
1954 – Internal Revenue Tax Act (amended ’39 law)
1964 – Civil Rights Act (turn rights into privileges)
1967 – Medicare and Medicaid Tax Acts
1993 – North American Fair Trade Act (stole our jobs)
1993 – Family Medical Paid Leave Act
2001 – Patriot Act
2010 – Affordable Care Act
Research all those “acts” and learn what they actually do. Then research the true intent of Amendments 13,14,16, 17 and learn how those amendments stole our individual and state sovereignty.
Notice – thru out the 1930’s the FEDERAL RESERVE here in America was lobbying and petitioning the United States to pass laws to contract the 50 States to the Federal Reserve Note, Contract them thru the Uniform Commercial Code, and to Steal “your” sovereign property rights to land, real property, person. As part of the 1933 Emergency Act – they, Congress wrote a resolution (a promise) to codify in to federal and state statutes that if you call yourself a U.S CITIZEN under the 14th Amendment you NO longer own any “equitable ownership rights” to land, real property, person.
After 1929 – when the FED RESERVE ‘deflated’ the currency, restricting that currency by 80%. People could no longer get their hands on that currency. They removed 80% of the currency from the people. Remember that in 1913,we were still using U.S Certificates backed by gold and silver, Lincoln’s Green Backs (govt backed currency). The goal was to remove all this old currency, replacing it with Federal Reserve Notes (Bank Notes – I.O.U’s). They – the FED simply removed all currency from the market, businesses could not get their hands on money, this led to massive lay offs, the people no longer could pay their bills, which led to the people taking out huge loans using their Land, their Real Property as collateral damage. This then ‘transferred’ all Equitable Ownership Rights to the States and ushered in your Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Land Deeds, Property Certificates, Death Certificates, Driver Licenses, Social Security #’s, etc-etc. All those items are “Financial Instruments” used by the State to collateralize the “Property”. The STATE became the “Equitable Property Owner” of all Land, Real Property, and Persons. You were left with “USER RIGHTS” to all that property, which binds you to the Penal Code of Fines, Penalties, Sanctions, and Imprisonment if you disobey. In the end – the “FED” placed LIENS on all FEDERAL PROPERTIES which includes yes – YOU the U.S CITIZEN. You are worth $2,000,000,000,000 Billion dollars to the GOVT.
Since 1933 – the 1871 U.S CORPORATION has been insolvent to the Bank. I do not know about you, but that is a fancy word for “Bankruptcy” and you can learn of this in the 1933 Federal Emergency Act. The PRESIDENT now acts as the PRESIDENT/CEO governing over all this property, while CONGRESS acts as the Trustees thus managing that public trust. They both take their orders from their Masters …
– International Bankers
– Foreign Investors
– Lawyers
The NATIONAL MEDIA misleads the public by promoting the agenda, policies, and legislation proposed by this Aristocracy of the Bankers, Investors, Lawyers. Notice – since 1920 – led by John D. Rockefeller, J.P Morgan Chase, Andrew Carnegie –> they formed the Council of Foreign Relations (C.F.R) in order to control Foreign Commerce which today allows the Multi-National Corporations (Foreign Investors) to set and guide foreign policies, which yes includes Domestic Policies between the 50 States. Their goal was to go out and purchase the rights to the Top 100 News Print Media in order to control what the PEOPLE see, read, and learn. Thus, they control what your minds> This has led to purchasing the rights to Major Cable News Networds such as CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX NEWS, MSNBC, and yes even HOLLYWOOD, and they continue to everyday purchase local newspapers. This my friend is today what we call the NATIONAL MEDIA.
Yeah – you have heard people speak of FAKE NEWS – but this is a real term used by some to describe the Lies, the Untruths, the Fabrications, the Misrepresentation of Facts led and controlled by the C.F.R. See – they use the NATIONAL MEDIA to misguide and mislead people. Yes – its true. The “Great Dumbing Down of the American People” has occurred since the 1920’s.
Donald Trump is NOT part of this Elite Aristocracy. How can he be? Every Executive Order, every recommend De-Regulation of former regulations, his policies, and his constant lobbying to push thru legislation to restore the “REPUBLIC” (peoples law) has disrupted this stronghold the Aristocracy has held over the People.
How does this GOVT keep you quiet and silent? Well – by bribes. Yes – all those Tax Subsidies, Credits, and Benefits so eloquantly handed out by Government today, are used to to keep you complacent and silent. Be good little boys and girls, pay your federal income tax, pay off that debt owed to the BANK, allow the Multi-National Investors to control legislation, and thus – you have a silent community of “CITIZENS” Unwilling to Stand Up for their Sovereign Rights.
YOU, that Government, are all beholden to the BANKERS. DO not believe me? DO YOUR own research, read all those laws I listed above, you will see the truth. you will also learn of the real reason for the Civil War between 1861-1865.
It is NOT a conspiracy, the only conspiracy is what did the government know, and when, and how and why did they allow these International Bankers, Foreign Investors to gain so much power over us.
Why do you think the Federal Govt constantly bails out the BANKS, lends trillions of money to the Multi-National Investors, thus writes legislation to protect their interests. Why do you suppose is the real reason we send/commit U.S Troops over seas? Not to protect you, but to protect the GLOBAL INTERESTS of the ….
UNITED STATES CORPORATION of 1871 whom today is insolvent to the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of 1913, which is controlled by the International Bankers.
Connect the Dots…Learn the Truth…insider information? Hell … who is giving Congress all that info today? The very Bankers and Investors whom created the “Council of Foreign Relations” and whom convince Congressman, Former Presidents, Governors, etc to become members of the C.F.R. They are in direct violation of the U.S Constitution of 1789 <– They are NOT to be beholden or controlled by such an Aristocracy of the Elite.
Do Your Own Research…You will be amazed on what you find in doing so.
What scares me, is what will come from this supposed National Emergency of this so called false flag event today. The goal has always been to crash the market, and only one person stands in their way – Donald J. Trump.
– Mike Zitterich
I think Tom Hanks should run for President. It’s time for another movie star. With no sporting events and no elections, put boxing gloves on politicians and televise 10 rounds instead of debates.
We need St. Patrick to chase Corona out.
You need to take you money out of sticks when they are on the way UP, not on the way down. NOW, or even any time in the last month has been and IS too late. Best option now is to ride it out. OR, if you are lucky enough to have your nest egg somewhere other to in stocks – wait about a month, then get in.
Mike you need to cancel your subscription to the epoch times
Anyone who believes a single word coming out of the Trump White House is delusional. Trump is certifiably unwell but remember christians believed Barack Obama would bring the Second Coming and Herr Trump will deliver them from it. The rise of companies like Amazon suggests many people are simply too afraid to go into town to shop. I’m hardly the first person to say this but with the right messaging we could call all this social distancing and these quarantines a general strike in protest of Trump’s authoritarianism. It would not only destroy the entire Republican Party it would bring American capitalism to its knees.
Trump states and red counties are doing far worse than the rest of America.
Good grief that’s a lot of crazy.
If you didn’t move your money before last week, it’s best now to leave it alone. We’re closer to the bottom of the stock market than the top. Watch the 10 year bond to hold above 1% for more than ten days to know If markets are stabilizing.
People are worried about the markets. I see a pattern. The last pandemic was in 1918-19. This one is starting in 2020. I just bought pandemic futures with a call for 2122.
And what does West Virginia know that no one else knows? Maybe it’s “Clean Coal,” or the lack of an adequate infrastructure makes it just go away. Else, take opioids and maybe the virus vanishes. French scientists say stay away from Ibuprofen during this viral crisis, because it increases the individual risk. Perhaps, West Virginians have the true pain killing answer.
Like I said above. DO NOT take my advice in what I said above, take what I did say, research it, source it, and understand what all those ‘laws’ did. You can call Donald Trump all the names you want, you can call me all the names you want, but name calling gets you no where. I am NOT hiding from any of you, I have always used my proper NAME and I have in the past sourced my phone # and the district I live in.
I am NOT the one running to government to provide me an income, I am not the one sitting down waiting for a government subsidy, I am not the one willing to step aside and wait for that government to protect me. I am busy attempting to buy and sell used cars, work side jobs to earn a dime, all to pay my bills.
Everything I said above was a matter of research over the past 10-15 years of my life. It is the history that they do NOT teach in school today, they do not even teach Civics today, let alone report the truth about the Civil War.
If you were heavily invested in STOCKS that would be the fault of the person whom placed your money in stocks. Some of us know that INVESTING in IRA’s, 401-K’s or some other financial instrument to invest in STOCKS, BONDS, MONEY MARKET ACCTS is something you do NOT commit more than 10-15% of your GROSS INCOME to, you want to invest the greater share of your GROSS INCOME back in your LABOR (Person), Real Property (land, buildings, equipment, inventory), which generates today 90% of all your Gross Income. Yes, that means Privatizing All Your “INCOME” keeping it invested in YOU and YOUR ASSETS, your TRUSTS as long as possible.
Some of us choose to volunteer 15.3% of our NET INCOME (withdrawn from labor) for Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds. Some of us choose to AVOID those public trusts, cause we do NOT trust what government does with the money. You have every right to avoid depositing your income in those trusts, if you simply set up your OWN TRUSTS inside the borders of your State, which then protects YOU from the Federal Govt.
You think the WEALTHY do NOT know this? They are the ones whom wrote the legislatin, the laws, the tax code. Some of them became so wealthy, they became part of the MULTI-NATIONAL CLASS, whom now lend that money to Governments today, whom how get bailed out in order to get their money back.
We are talkin about the top 1% of GLOBAL Bankers, Investors, and the lawyers whom protect them.
Yes – Everything I said above was honest, truthful, and you can learn the very thign I have just via researching what I say.
Mike Zitterich
“….let alone report the truth about the Civil War.”
Are you saying that Granny was right?
“Some of us choose to AVOID those public trusts, cause we do NOT trust what government does with the money. You have every right to avoid depositing your income in those trusts, if you simply set up your OWN TRUSTS inside the borders of your State, which then protects YOU from the Federal Govt.”
But you are talking about income that is not wages. A person making $500,000 a year in income still pays FICA taxes. Although, It’s capped at $137,700.
Scott – Its bad advice to move your money now as your in it for the long haul and you would you lose your shorts if you move it. The only way to move at the right time is if you know the future ha! I recommend you talk to a SOUND independent Financial Advisor. I have a GREAT one and he advised me to buy here shortly after I get my dividends from my Mutual Funds.
I completely disagree with stopping a Pandemic by not electing republicans, dumbest shit you have ever said. Viruses are not partisan and no one flipped out about Obama’s response to H1N1 in 2009. The fact you are making this partisan is dumb but, I digress. I hope you are joking but, ya never know.
Mike – I truly appreciate your thoughts and research but, DUDE, your FB posts and post here are entirely too long ALL THE TIME. I see you have a passion for this stuff and I like your thought provoking topics but, just too long buddy.
DailySpin,
Good luck ever getting Hanks in for the office. I think he will be incarcerated and unable to fulfill your dreams.
Kurtz,
Sure, destory local businesses to spite President Trump.
That will REALLY get him. *rolleyes*
Keep spending your dollars with Amazon and other online retail shops rather than supporting your local businesses because to hell with your fellow neighbors and helping keep them employed, amirite?
Mike – the real culprits were those dastardly dudes that invented MONEY!! Money is where the concept of DEBT was changed from a personal moral sense of obligation or gratitude to an object one could touch and hold and trade around. If the grand conspiracy you illustrate is real, you should be able to trace the “holdings” of these bankers all the way back to Mesopotamia. Keep us informed on how that research is going.
First and Foremost the thoughts I am going to put down here are in no way shape or form things I WANT to happen. I am praying our country recovers and gets back to normal.
If the Shit hits the fan and society starts to break down some folks are going to regret their outlook on life. Folks who think gun ownership is bad or think we need to let govt control everything are going to be in for a rude awakening. Its happening now to the Liberals in California who are “shocked” they can’t just get online and buy a gun without adhering to all the crazy laws in their state that restrict them along with the Federal Laws put in place. I am sad for them but, this is the kind of stuff they vote for.
In Philadelphia the cops are NOT going arrest anyone unless it’s a violent crime. Drug dealing, Theft, Car theft, financial crimes, etc will be given a ticket and they will investigate later(good luck with that). Now if you are one of the poor souls who lives in this Majestic Liberal Haven with no gun, you are F@cked when it comes to protecting yourself if the cops are going to let all this shit pass. This is an invitation to commit crime and if you don’t believe that you are a fool. The law of the jungle, regardless of what you think or believe, will not leave you immune from its affects. I truly pray these things do not occur but, if you look at how quickly society can crumble you will want a way to defend and protect yourself and your family. We have had glimpses of what our world would look like in recent years, examples are:
-Katrina, Looting, murder, rapes, etc
-Black Friday, see how quickly people go mad when they can’t get the set of hand towels and are brawling for them
WHen its all said and done the Cops can’t protect you and the government won’t be able to save you and folks that think that way are soon finding out in some areas of how flawed this logic is.
Stay safe people, pray, pray for your family and fellow Americans, be smart, help where you can and for Gods sake please get a gun and some ammo!!!
“‘….and for Gods sake please get a gun and some ammo!!!’?”…. “OMG, things are getting crazy around here”…. “But what I don’t understand is if Trump is to blame for this, or what caused his election is the same force that caused this virus?”…. #GetADog!