Economics by Wes.....
Imagine you wanted to buy things online and websites only accepted paypal. You didn't mind at first but then paypal started taking 2% more of your money each year. If they found out you did something they didn't like, they would suspend your ability to conduct any transactions. But you have to use them because all the websites you order things from only take paypal. Paypal knows this too and locked in the merchants with a 50 year agreement. Then they start taking 20% of your transactions as fees every year instead of the old 2%.
This really sucks but they are the only game in town..... Imagine what would happen if all the merchants started accepting Visa and Mastercard. All the people who hated paypal's fees and arbitrary lockout rules would cash out their paypal balance and GTFO and run to MasterCard.
Friends this is what just happened in the world last night. In 1974 the US entered into an agreement with Saudi to sell oil only in dollars for 50 years. Along the way, the US has continued to print money and devalue the dollars held in other nation's vaults for international trade. The US has imposed sanctions on countries we didn't like by locking them out of the SWIFT payment system. The EU did the same to Russia two junes ago. Russia needed to make a payment of $40M to the EU but the EU had frozen their bank account.... the money was there, the bank would not process the transaction. These sorts of stunts have made other countries hate having to deal in US dollars (ie paypal). The first alternative that comes along will have everyone jumping to it.
Presently there are about 40 nations involved in BRICS. Their combined GDP is greater than the G7 nations. Those nations no longer have to use USD and you can bet they will be cashing out of dollars.
I'm telling you this because you need to buy the things you think you will need in the furture TODAY. You will look back on this month in the next year and see an inflexion point in the chart of inflation.
How many of you hesitated to buy 9mm when it was 18c a round? Boy you'd love 18c 9mm right now wouldn't you? Boy you'd love 25c 5.56 right now wouldn't you? Don't get a year down the road and wish you'd bought a tiller or solar, or a generator.... or a spare water pump. Trust me you will look back on today and wish you had bought something.
HOLY CRAP! NAACP lawyer came before the Supreme Court and said the quiet part out loud
Janai Nelson said we need race-based districts because: "white Democrats were not voting for black candidates whether they were Democrats or not!"
This is INSANE.
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BREAKING: In an insane move, Justice Ketanji Jackson declares we need to draw Congressional districts based on race because black people are like disabled people
"They don't have equal access to the voting system. They're DISABLED!"
This is utter madness. How did she get on the Supreme Court?!
"My, kind of, paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA. Congress passed the ADA against the backdrop of a world generally not accessible to people with disabilities...why is that not what's happening here?!"
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says this is only the beginning as the tokenization of everything is underway.
Money, property, and even personal identity will soon exist in digital form.
He calls it a major opportunity for BlackRock, saying the plan is to move beyond traditional financial assets by digitally re-potting them into a new system.
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🤖📱 Between empty promises of a billionaire and a social credit system. The “secret” way your behaviour is ranked on X
What is Tweepcred? It’s a reputation system inherited from the days of Twitter, a social credit mechanism built into X, where every like, comment, retweet, or interaction feeds a hidden score. Post the wrong thing, and your reach is throttled, invisible to followers, blocked from the For You Page, and your voice is confined to a digital coffin. The worst part? X won’t even tell us what we’re doing wrong.
Tweepcred was open-sourced two years ago as part of Elon’s big push for “transparency.” The release confirmed what many suspected for over a decade: the system wasn’t neutral. It could be gamified, and it rewarded those who knew how to play it. Industry insiders and large organizations held a massive advantage over individuals, defeating the very purpose of the internet and the cultural revolution that once challenged mass media.
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🇺🇸👨🌾 Meriwether Farms on X:
Dear Trump,
We love you and support you— but your suggestion to buy beef from Argentina to stabilize beef prices would be an absolute betrayal to the American cattle rancher.
We understand there are larger economic and geopolitical dynamics at play, including countering CCP influence in countries in our hemisphere. But the practice of solving problems “over there” before solving problems here on our soil is what contributed to the downfall of our country: Americans always come last.
We understand beef prices are high, and we admire your concern for all Americans, but this is not the fault of the American producer. This is the fault of politicians who have allowed BRICS-aligned entities to dominate the meat industry, that participate in price fixing and who also continually lie to their consumers.
Washington for decades has facilitated the squeezing of our own ranchers while allowing these entities to flood the market with cheaper, ...