Hey, they're "giving" you $1400. You should be happy. (/sarcasm)
(Note: I would recommend everyone offered take the fucking money because it's all any of us not in the "secret cabal" are going to get :(. Save it wisely.)
Yes, $1400, and amount that will be worth $700, $140, $14 in the coming years as the Government continues to throw money around like it's going out of style and drive inflation all the way to Alpha Centauri.
I couldn’t find ammo, sad face. I do have a fee hundred rounds of each round I use but no more plinking or range days till maybe some day ammo is available again. Odd apocalypse since I can’t buy a GPU or ammo.
I made a really stupid comment on Reddit several years ago when Bitcoin was brand new. Someone gave me 0.1 BTC for the comment. Never claimed it. Could have had a $6,300 comment...
Fuck... but who would gamble that? I mean, some people don't need the money and would happily gamble it away just for the thrill. I have stock in MVIS and even when it was 18 cents a share, I wouldn't have gambled 1800 on it, not knowing it would shoot up to 20+ dollars.
Bitcoin is sketchy in its own way. Sure, you could have got rich quick if you could tell the future on an arbitrary system of ones and zeros that some anonymous entity created on a computer so criminals could buy illegal substances. You could have also gotten rich by telling the future and investing in countless other options.
The issue is there is no backing to the currency. There are many who forgot the passwords to their wallets and have no way to gain access to lost fortune. China owns the majority of it so if the world accepts it, they have the majority of buying power. We don't know enough about the creator or what may happen with the currency in the future.
Finally, U.S. currency is basically the same thing, a virtual ledger. The only difference is that it has backing and can be forcibly manipulated. When the government gets desperate enough, they'll ban companies from accepting bitcoin transactions based on issues with taxing, tracking, etc. At that point Bitcoin only has it's initial value from 10 years ago, which is illegal transactions on the dark web. Basically worthless if you're not a criminal or interested in buying things on the black market through strangers on sketchy websites.
This is completely wrong. The backing for the currency is mathematics. It's no different than the encryption we use for e-commerce. If you do any online banking or buying and selling over the internet, then you trust that math enough to risk sending your wealth digitally.
There are many who forgot the passwords to their wallets and have no way to gain access to lost fortune.
You act like that's a bad thing. What this indicates is that only the person with the key can access the crypto. So unlike a bank, which you surely use, you actually possess the wealth yourself and no one but you can spend it (or lose it). If you bought gold and had someone secure it for you, then you are worse off than with this crypto that you could store securely on your own computer.
Finally, U.S. currency is basically the same thing, a virtual ledger. The only difference is that it has backing and can be forcibly manipulated.
The difference is that the US currency is actually backed by nothing but the word of the US government. That's why they can manipulate it and change the amount in circulation at will.
When the government gets desperate enough, they'll ban companies from accepting bitcoin transactions based on issues with taxing, tracking, etc. At that point Bitcoin only has it's initial value from 10 years ago, which is illegal transactions on the dark web. Basically worthless if you're not a criminal or interested in buying things on the black market through strangers on sketchy websites.
Except in reality, when they ban something, the value increases. Sure you won't be able to buy a Tesla with it anymore, but it won't stop people from holding it to protect themselves against inflation.
Yup. DO NOT keep money in the bank! Not savings at least.
With the way democrats want to artificially raise wages and cost of living, your savings will depreciate greatly in value.
I feel bad for those who saved $ their whole lives, just to see the possibility of their savings dip 50% in value over a single idea from Democrays.
As you said, invest in things that gain value along side inflation.
Gold and silver are good in my book. I think real estate is better, because let's say shit hits the fan.
Well, gold isn't too useful if the world fucks itself, is war torn, and all people want is a sack of rice, water, and ammunition.
That's where real estate is good, because EVERYONE needs a place to live!
Ammunition will be better than gold if shit happens.
Hell, those who invested in ammunition the past decade could sell for 5x+ what they paid a few years back!
I'm still buying at these insane prices, as I was not a customer before all this. The riots and mass violence scared me, as it was local to me in NY.
I drove down the street during some of our riots and looting, and saw mass looting first hand about 2 miles from my house.
My town borders a shit hole city. The town police kept out town completely safe and held it down! The city? Nope.
Although, even though we have a shit mayor, she accepted mass help from state police for the next night, and I drove through the city...
It was crazy! The quietest I've ever seen it in summer, quieter than when we have a true snow storm blizzard that's too dangerous to drive in!
Cops everywhere hiding, stationed every half mile with sirens flashing.
Hundreds of businesses blocked with vehicles, big rigs, ect. It was wild to see!
But all of that really showed me how quickly your life can be put in danger by randoms.
I had big Trump flags in front of my house on a busy main road in liberal NY.
Got tonssss of harassment. I took them down for the week during riots, as I didn't want to be an obvious target.
I put em back up afterword.
I even had a BLM cunt come to my house, and march in front back and fourth. Went out to yell at her, call the cops, ect.
She didn't break the law, but fuck that, she's coming to push my buttons.
If civil war happened, that shit would not be tolerated. They do things like this because they aren't afraid of us, and know we are peace loving people, who are not crazy, and will not hurt them for pushing our buttons.
That's what sling shots are for...someone is fucking around in front of your house? Go down the block...pop them with a few stingers...preferrably smooth pebbles as they won't penetrate...then dissapear around the back of the block into your back door.
That's a fact. If it ever becomes every man for himself, it's all about personal strengths. I'm glad we are Conservatives lol, make us much more prepared for a possible future of war torn America.
If you think that the 100000s of other people who are starving won't go out and hunt the same deer you play on hunting won't decimate the deer Population overnight you're crazy.
This is pretty naive honestly. Gold only holds value if people agree that it does, just like money. If there is a totally de valued dollar your crypto will be worth jack too.
Especially in case of an EMP attack or infrastructure breakdown that holds the proof of even holding crypto.
Food will ALWAYS be valuable, because people have to eat.
That said, I'm glad you covered all the other bases before mentioning it.
Gold does have worth as a metal with tons of uses. That definitely gives it some value, plus the supply cannot be increased on the whim of a government so it is harder to devalue.
I wish I could dump it in GME. I just don't trust the market. I'm down 200 bucks on MVIS because the entire market is tanking. Nibkdy has faith in Joe. Meanwhile, China's market is booming.
If the government is willing to give you your own money back then take it. Can't believe people were saying not to take the first round of Covid relief
Agreed! As long as the government can afford to give billions to other countries, I will not complain about them giving us back some of our own money. As soon as they stop squandering our tax dollars, then I’ll start being concerned about our debt.
People were taking the money, but mad (seriously) that Trump was cutting payroll taxes last year to try and help with covid relief since congress wasn't moving on the 2k Trump wanted to send out.
Once you cash that check, your household becomes federally funded. And the government now owns your ass. Too bad I cashed the first one without thinking about it that way.
3D printer. Free Men Don't Ask glock frames. Need a dremmel, file, glock internal parts kit (buy rails separately) and slide. Regular PLA lasts about 1000 rounds. Can print in polycarbonate for a lasting frame. Do not sell or give these away.
Think about it this way. If the government makes laws that are enforced on federally funded property or institutions such as mask mandates or no guns or any other bullshit they make up, well now your household is now federally funded if you accept the stimulus checks. And i know its outside the realm of normal rational thinking, but these are democrats and this is clown world. We have no rights if big brother says so.
We can say that over and over again but the military will keep us in check. And yeah we can pretend the military is on our side but if dc has showed anybody anything. The government controls them not us. We need to stop pretending that they are just 500 defenseless people who are completely at our mercy. They are not. We are at their mercy. 7 trillion dollars of our money in a year just on stimulus bills. They are robbing us our children and grandchildren and we just bitch on the internet. I want a solution but don't know the solution. And war will only weaken us and leave a lot of us dead. Decentralization is our best bet but like i said the US government will not allow it to happen peacefully.
In the case of taxation, a man’s surrender to the threat of coercion demonstrates no voluntary preference whatsoever for any alleged benefits he receives.
― Murray N. Rothbard
If you pay taxes, taking this money is just taking a very small portion of the amount extorted from you back.
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
If it's like the last "stimulus", you don't even get the $1500 if you've been working hard enough to earn more than the income cut off. But a homeless drug addict gets the full $1500.
They are competent enough to "target" the income brackets they want to give money to. But Joe says he doesn't want high earners to get student loan relief so he won't do anything in that regard. Joe, are you too fucking stupid to target student loan relief like the stimmy? He can't even do what his fucking party wants. What a loser.
You are right. To a liberal it's just vague numbers. What's the difference between 1. 9 trillion and 10 trillion to a liberal? I guarantee you that 99% of liberals would have a hard time explaining.
They're not taking money from anyone. They can print it out of thin air.
What they're doing is devaluing the dollar, increasing inflation, and mortgaging the future because why the fuck not, we (the Democrats) can do whatever the fuck we want.
Here's a loan we're going to force you to take. What's that you say? You aren't taking the stimulus? Well you still get to pay for it anyway, and your kids, and their kids, and their kids too. You ALL get to pay for this.
Yup, considering the labor force size and only half really pay taxes, the first round of stimulus cost us $24k, the next one will be about the same.
I’m almost convinced they (both parties) are trying to dig a deep enough debt hole so they can justify federal value added tax. Not only would this punish the poor the most, it takes away from everyones buying power and gives the swamp another trillion or 2 to buy favors from foreign countries and line their own pockets
Bailouts are a big reason why dems were desperate enough to cheat so blatantly. They couldn't let trump win and have blue states go bankrupt. California never even tried to get their finances in order. They knew the fix was in from the beginning and officially set their budget assuming a bailout after the election. The only way for red states to stop paying for blue state failures is secession. Otherwise it's going to be constant bailouts forever.
I used to be VERY against living off of the system if it isn't absolute need.
Like, if you can work 60+ hours at McDonald's, I'd do that before going on the system.
Well, being in NYS, I had a change of heart. I hate where I live. I have no moral issue in n my head anymore to use the system lawfully to help myself out in life.
I don't lie to them at all. Work was very slow for me during corona stuff. But years ago, I would've found a way to do it alone, as that's what a MAN does!
I lost all respect for my state, and figure if they are gonna hand shit out, I might as well take it.
The problem is that your blue state doesn't have the money to pay you, despite offering it. They give you money and then cry to the federal government that they are bankrupt and red states end up subsidizing you through bailouts.
Yup. It's all a load of BS. As Ron Desantis said, bail outs should be fair, and based solely on population in this case.
Blue states did stupid shit, red states not so much, and because the blue states allowed billions in damage and economic failure, they get the most help? Bullshit!
Nothing wrong with using the system appropriately. My father works seasonally and is on unemployment in the off-season. I used it once I got out of the military while I went to school. While I don't agree with the way we do societal safety net, if it's there and you really need the help it doesn't make you bad.
Welp, we just gave the world $1.7 trillion, including China, which gave us the virus to begin with. Great going, Democrats. Is there anything else we can provide you with today?
I remember reading about some process they used, I forget the name but I believe normally you need 60 votes but they did something to make it only a simple majority.
I THINK the catch of this process is that the Senators are allowed to vote on any amendments they want, where normally they just are voting on the entire bill.
It’s reconciliation. And the catch is that they can only vote on aspects concerning taxing and spending policy for the government. That is why they couldn’t add the $15 minimum wage. But, any bill can have whatever amendments voted on
How about we no longer pass massive omnibus bills. One bill with one law. Minimum wage? Get your own bill. Keystone? Get your own bill. Giving people back their own money (aka tax refund)? Get your own bill.
Treat it like a resume. Keep it to one to two pages.
I like the idea, but the problem is that the government has to pass a lot of "janitorial" legislation. These spending bills often include hundreds of items for different government agencies that are more or less guaranteed passes, splitting them up into their own bills would take massive amounts of time even just to do the roll call and vote on them one by one, they'd never get anything else done. Personally I would love the government to never get anything done but seems I'm a minority on that.
This is my feeling. If you can’t defend it on its own, it shouldn’t get bundled and blanket passed. The janitorial votes I think keep once necessary expenses carried over each year without justification. Just like your family’s budget, it has to be justified each month.
One page maximum. If you can't explain why it's needed in that amount of space, it's not. Bills should also be published online immediately after they're drafted and put online for all Citizens to be able to look through and read, with the phone number for your senators and reps at the bottom of the page. Leave it online for a week then it can be voted on in the House or Senate.
Those are the people who had no skin in the game in the first place. The reason sad liberal losers are celebrating this bill is that it drags everyone else down closer to their level. Socialism is trickle up poverty.
In the case of when amazon and other big box stores offered $15/hr, they slashed any benefits they offered. In the terms of real wealth, the workers to a paycut for the company, and are paying more in taxable income. They're the net losers in most of the $15/hr deals.
Again, this is why we lost Georgia. Literally the week of the election the establishment Republicans were like "We'll pass 2 trillion stimulus, but we're not going to even give you $1400 more, no more stimulus at all, what a waste!"
McConnel and the losers like him are completely out of touch.
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
Oil is basically already doubling because of Biden, meat's skyrocketing, so are medications and taxes are soon to follow. Biden voters still think it's better than under Trump despite everything being worse.
How can you hedge your bets regarding a recession, is there something I can do with my limited amount of money or something I can do to prepare for a recession?
You can say that, but ultimately the reason the dollar goes up in value and has held its value is because the rest of the options suck.
People said this about Europe, and then they realized after the Greece mess that the Euro is propped up by tons and tons of countries that have their own insane amount of debt, worse % than the US in many cases, and they don't really have a true way to deal with the situation without relying on Germany, unlike the US who has the Federal Reserve. So, when the dollar was supposed to sink and the Euro was coming up, Greece happened and then trillions of dollar investments from other nations kept pouring in propping the dollar up.
To this day there isn't really a great solution otherwise. Ya, there might be problems and flaws with the dollar, but I still don't see it crashing in value anytime soon on the world market until a true competitor appears.
If there are any necessary things you need to buy do it now. Eg. car or home repairs, stock up on non-perishables (even if the world doesn't end, it'll be nice to have lots of food on hand when it costs twice as much ins 6 months or a year).
Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.
― Murray N. Rothbard
Inflation is taxation without legislation. — Milton Friedman
Without the demand that taxes be payed in dollars, I'd never touch their worthless paper again if I could avoid it.
The fact that taxes are required to be payed in dollars is one of the main reasons they retain any value at all.
Eliminating traditional taxation would turn any alternative currency (crypto, gold, silver etc...) into a way to legally avoid funding the State. I'd be all for this, but I don't think the government would allow it.
I really wish this was an option. To crash crypto all they have to do is pass a law making it illegal. They could easily make a stupid case that it's used to fund terrorism or *clutch your pearls" white nationalism activities.
Drugs specifically? No, that did not work out well for the U.S.. But this is an apples to oranges comparison.
Crypto is uniquely dependent on power, Internet, and a secure and available blockchain. Anyone of those things the government can shut off in a heart beat. Hell, bitcoin mining (creating new bitcoins and participating in the exchange of bitcoin) takes an enormous amount of energy. Anyone mining it could be easily identified an shut down based on Internet activity and/or power consumption patterns.
The US armed forces are backed by the dollar, not the other way around. Remove compensation and you'd end up with nothing but a bunch of pissed off patriots.
$459,480,000,000 is all thats needed to give everyone $1400. They want 4 times that. 75% of this bill is pork
And the kicker is that not everyone will probably get $1400
I’m so fucking sick of hearing people say “I’ll take the stimulus because it’s my money anyway” — no you fucks it was OUR money and you’re taking it without ME getting a penny of it.
Socialism sneaks in because everyone is suddenly a socialist when it looks like they are getting freebies.
You win the thread! I'll double down and say I hope it's a several times planetary mass black hole that cruises in slowly so the combined velocity and mass will perturb the former Earth's orbit in a highly eccentric way to start a Grand Tour that swallows the other planets too and finally skims into Sol and BETELGEUSEs it to go BOOM.
Massively underrated comment. It's all about what you can *actually do" under these circumstances to improve your position.
Props go out to the Patriots who stormed the Capitol again on March 4th so successfully they had to suppress the news of it and pretend it was a 'mirage'. Living rent free in their heads does count.
If we do get this check, we are planning on putting it towards debt. it will put us a month an a half early for paying off all non-mortgage debt. that being said, i would be happier not having it pass at all...
The age old question. I would feel better knowing they're corrupt and know it's bad for the country. I'd feel worse if they're all true believers and too stupid to know it's hurting, because that's harder to fix.
Saw Gingrich on TV last week saying that he thinks the Democrats are doing such crazy shit now is because they know they are going to lose the House in 2022 and very likely the presidency in '24. He said the sort of shit they are trying to pass now would never get them reelected as it's too far to the left.
These amendments were passed by roll call. It is not a complete list because several were passed by 'voice vote', including at least one where a loud chorus of NAYS was heard and (lo and behold) it was announced as 'THE AYES HAVE IT'. Voice votes are despicable.
In particular Schumer dropped an unannounced amendment bomb at the very end just to prove to the world that he can drop in shit everybody will pass without demanding a full reading, and not be held in the contempt he deserves.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1391: Warner Amdt. No. 1391; To extend the authority for Federal contractors to reimburse employees unable to perform work due to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 31, 2021, to September 30, 2021.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1344: Hassan Amdt. No. 1344; To provide for a safe return to in-person instruction.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1378: Wyden Amdt. No. 1378; To improve the bill.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1092: Portman Amdt. No. 1092; To reduce unemployment compensation provisions.
All these fucking Californian morons buying homes in Austin for $900,000, that were built and originally sold for $400,000... Enjoy being underwater by this time next year!! 🖕🏻🖕🏻
Ilhan Omar and AOC(no link, she is mainly retweeting other people) are furious as well. You need like 6 votes to tank it. Squad + Bonnie and then you need one more communist. Perhaps nothing happens but with Jamaal Bowman retweeting Bonnie and Cori Bush also attacking the senate, I could very well see them tanking it. We have to remind ourselves that these people are batshit crazy
“Democrat house kills bill which is basically what they passed before” lmao yeah right. Say bye bye to freedom. We should’ve been at the polling places with guns the minute they were kicking people out. We fucked ourselves
Why do we always get raped when Dems are in power but when Republicans are in we can't even repeal ludicrous Obamacare? So fucking fed up with this shit. Good for all republicans voting against this shit but still, fuck them for not doing more when we have the fucking power. Grow a damn spine and stomp on theirs!
My leftist peers are so fucking sense that they actually believe that it’s free money that our benevolent government is bestowing on us.
This is why communism has taken root. People are so ignorant that they believe the government has the ability to make free lunches for everyone. As if things don’t have a cost basis to them and someone somewhere has to pay for it
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Well, you might want to be really, really, really pissed that they're voting for 2 trillion dollars of our money, to be spent on things we don't want, and most of it will be spent on not us. Oh, but you might get a check for $1400, which will be worth way less when the inflation kicks in.
This is one of the biggest money grabs I've ever seen. The shamelessness is flabbergasting.
Pushed back? Do you not understand how legislation is drafted? This was approved by the Senate. Now it goes back to Congress, like all bills do, for a final round of negotiations and amendments. This is how it works. This is not pushed back on, it's on a fast track to being signed by Biden into law.
I'm cool with the payment. Dead inside and don't care about national shit anymore, we're a mere vassal state of China.
And to those spamming "buy firearms and ammunition" in like every thread: get real. Not only is your hoarding going to continue to increase already inflated prices...you're never going to use them in any truly meaningful way. Look at the state of affairs now. Everyone is a clown in this clown world.
I gladly accept them returning some of MY MONEY that they siphoned off over the last 25 years of my uninterrupted slave labor. Everyone who says iM nOt TaKiNg ThE bRIBe, are fucking stupid!! IT’S YOUR MONEY!!!!!
Except you won't be getting it because this time they said fewer Americans are getting it and you can bet illegals will be and all the liberal cities and companies needing bailouts for their idiocy. So enjoy the crumbs.
Again, I’ll take back anything that’s mine. Even the crumbs....while working towards not having to give them jack shit of mine. Also, we agree, fuck the government!
Republican Senator Dan Sullivan (AK) abandoned his post today - he went home and turned the vote over to the democrats. Had he stayed just 12 hours it would have forced Kamala to come out of hiding and cast the tie breaking vote, placing full responsibility over this $1.9 trillion dollar theft of our future right at her feet and those of the marxist authoritarian demorat party.
I hate them for doing this. The best thing that could have happened on Jan 6 was if the doors were chained shut, and the building set on fire. Vampires who are now feeding on our great grandchildren.
462 Billion would give every legal citizen a $1,400 check when calculated as 330 million people for 1400 each. That is the max presuming every person could get it. Kids cannot for example. So, to answer your question, considerable less than 25%.
At least spit on it and give me a cigarette before you take another 2 trillion from us.
Hey, they're "giving" you $1400. You should be happy. (/sarcasm)
(Note: I would recommend everyone offered take the fucking money because it's all any of us not in the "secret cabal" are going to get :(. Save it wisely.)
Yes, $1400, and amount that will be worth $700, $140, $14 in the coming years as the Government continues to throw money around like it's going out of style and drive inflation all the way to Alpha Centauri.
Won't even have the commie dollars to burn, it's all just '0's on a computer.
Name checks out.
Yeah right.
But we can burn all the rope we're NOT using to hang them with.
We’re fucking getting there. First order of business is deal with the scumfucks in territory we control. Not even those faggots will be safe.
What if we bundle them all together, like a big bundle of narrow twigs..... What is the name of that again?
https://youtu.be/5AWI_ECKrBc
Bundles of sticks
European cigarettes.
Commie hard drives to magnet.
You forgot the 1's
But we will have a one world currency with digital certificates. Crypto is their end game.
They already track you. Don't tell me you're new to this.
If you had put your $1800 stimulus in Bitcoin it would currently be worth $10,253
https://twitter.com/bitcoinstimulus
And if you bet it all on 0 on the roulette table it would be $63,000.
Very easy to make good investments in hindsight.
I bought guns & ammo. Win win
Guns never lose value unless you let em rust.
I bought Dr. Seuss books.
I couldn’t find ammo, sad face. I do have a fee hundred rounds of each round I use but no more plinking or range days till maybe some day ammo is available again. Odd apocalypse since I can’t buy a GPU or ammo.
Smart invester right here.
I made a really stupid comment on Reddit several years ago when Bitcoin was brand new. Someone gave me 0.1 BTC for the comment. Never claimed it. Could have had a $6,300 comment...
BTC hasn't reached $63k
Well we know ETH will guaranteed go to 10k.
XMR baby
ADA
Fuck... but who would gamble that? I mean, some people don't need the money and would happily gamble it away just for the thrill. I have stock in MVIS and even when it was 18 cents a share, I wouldn't have gambled 1800 on it, not knowing it would shoot up to 20+ dollars.
If you keep your wealth in dollars you know for a fact the value will go down.
If you put your money in crypto or stocks you at least have a chance of keeping what you own.
And having something of value to exchange for goods and services after you finish burning your dollars for warmth.
Looking to get into crypto now, and I think I might go for some Litecoin.
And when they market crashes and they create their new digit currency called "rainbow currency" then what?
This is the story of my trading career. lol
Bitcoin is sketchy in its own way. Sure, you could have got rich quick if you could tell the future on an arbitrary system of ones and zeros that some anonymous entity created on a computer so criminals could buy illegal substances. You could have also gotten rich by telling the future and investing in countless other options.
The issue is there is no backing to the currency. There are many who forgot the passwords to their wallets and have no way to gain access to lost fortune. China owns the majority of it so if the world accepts it, they have the majority of buying power. We don't know enough about the creator or what may happen with the currency in the future.
Finally, U.S. currency is basically the same thing, a virtual ledger. The only difference is that it has backing and can be forcibly manipulated. When the government gets desperate enough, they'll ban companies from accepting bitcoin transactions based on issues with taxing, tracking, etc. At that point Bitcoin only has it's initial value from 10 years ago, which is illegal transactions on the dark web. Basically worthless if you're not a criminal or interested in buying things on the black market through strangers on sketchy websites.
This is completely wrong. The backing for the currency is mathematics. It's no different than the encryption we use for e-commerce. If you do any online banking or buying and selling over the internet, then you trust that math enough to risk sending your wealth digitally.
You act like that's a bad thing. What this indicates is that only the person with the key can access the crypto. So unlike a bank, which you surely use, you actually possess the wealth yourself and no one but you can spend it (or lose it). If you bought gold and had someone secure it for you, then you are worse off than with this crypto that you could store securely on your own computer.
The difference is that the US currency is actually backed by nothing but the word of the US government. That's why they can manipulate it and change the amount in circulation at will.
Except in reality, when they ban something, the value increases. Sure you won't be able to buy a Tesla with it anymore, but it won't stop people from holding it to protect themselves against inflation.
Backing refers to the idea that a currency is redeemable for some good at a fixed rate as used to be the case for US silver certificates.
In this sense, it's true that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have no backing.
Bitcoin is preferable to government fiat because it cannot be diluted by centralized mandates and does not rely on any given authority to operate.
Yup. DO NOT keep money in the bank! Not savings at least.
With the way democrats want to artificially raise wages and cost of living, your savings will depreciate greatly in value.
I feel bad for those who saved $ their whole lives, just to see the possibility of their savings dip 50% in value over a single idea from Democrays.
As you said, invest in things that gain value along side inflation.
Gold and silver are good in my book. I think real estate is better, because let's say shit hits the fan.
Well, gold isn't too useful if the world fucks itself, is war torn, and all people want is a sack of rice, water, and ammunition.
That's where real estate is good, because EVERYONE needs a place to live!
Ammunition will be better than gold if shit happens.
Hell, those who invested in ammunition the past decade could sell for 5x+ what they paid a few years back!
I'm still buying at these insane prices, as I was not a customer before all this. The riots and mass violence scared me, as it was local to me in NY.
I drove down the street during some of our riots and looting, and saw mass looting first hand about 2 miles from my house.
My town borders a shit hole city. The town police kept out town completely safe and held it down! The city? Nope.
Although, even though we have a shit mayor, she accepted mass help from state police for the next night, and I drove through the city...
It was crazy! The quietest I've ever seen it in summer, quieter than when we have a true snow storm blizzard that's too dangerous to drive in!
Cops everywhere hiding, stationed every half mile with sirens flashing.
Hundreds of businesses blocked with vehicles, big rigs, ect. It was wild to see!
But all of that really showed me how quickly your life can be put in danger by randoms.
I had big Trump flags in front of my house on a busy main road in liberal NY.
Got tonssss of harassment. I took them down for the week during riots, as I didn't want to be an obvious target.
I put em back up afterword.
I even had a BLM cunt come to my house, and march in front back and fourth. Went out to yell at her, call the cops, ect.
She didn't break the law, but fuck that, she's coming to push my buttons.
If civil war happened, that shit would not be tolerated. They do things like this because they aren't afraid of us, and know we are peace loving people, who are not crazy, and will not hurt them for pushing our buttons.
Biden straight up said they were looking to “borrow” money from your savings.
I don’t trust any banks with him in charge.
The banks are the ones in charge. He's just the front man.
That's what sling shots are for...someone is fucking around in front of your house? Go down the block...pop them with a few stingers...preferrably smooth pebbles as they won't penetrate...then dissapear around the back of the block into your back door.
Real estate only has value if the government enforces your claim. If all goes to hell, them your claim is only as strong as your weaponry
That's a fact. If it ever becomes every man for himself, it's all about personal strengths. I'm glad we are Conservatives lol, make us much more prepared for a possible future of war torn America.
Not sure you have priorities in ordee
Haha, just saying, basic needs have value in times of need, currency doesn't so much.
can't eat gold. keep that in mind.
If you think that the 100000s of other people who are starving won't go out and hunt the same deer you play on hunting won't decimate the deer Population overnight you're crazy.
95% of people would have no idea how to kill a deer, not as easy as most think.
I know its fiction but The Walking Dead taught us that every one will what you got no matter what
eat the people.
This is pretty naive honestly. Gold only holds value if people agree that it does, just like money. If there is a totally de valued dollar your crypto will be worth jack too. Especially in case of an EMP attack or infrastructure breakdown that holds the proof of even holding crypto.
Food will ALWAYS be valuable, because people have to eat.
That said, I'm glad you covered all the other bases before mentioning it.
Gold does have worth as a metal with tons of uses. That definitely gives it some value, plus the supply cannot be increased on the whim of a government so it is harder to devalue.
Ammo is a much better store of value imo.
The ammo shortage isn't getting better. Biden has promised to end online gun and ammo sales.
You can actually use ammo, unlike gold or bitcoin.
Buy golden ammo!
FGJ baby
Best I can do is silver:
https://minutemanammo.com/products/werewolf-defense-line
I agree 100%
Or rice and beans. That shit will be just as expensive as gold when everyone is starving to death.
Dump it in GME! I put the last $600 check into AMC and made over 6k on it.
Nice!
I wish I could dump it in GME. I just don't trust the market. I'm down 200 bucks on MVIS because the entire market is tanking. Nibkdy has faith in Joe. Meanwhile, China's market is booming.
Buy Puts, take advantage of the market tanking.
I need to learn more. I don't want to do anything that would end up with me owing more that gains tax.
If you're buying puts now, your already late to the party. Selling overpriced puts while the market is tanking. 1000 iq
I have a feeling march is going to be another December. Just hold and don't check the app for a month.
Check out OCGN as well. Take advantage of the Left’s illogical fear of the virus and $20 billion in vaccine funding.
I bought in on OCGN early on and made a nice chunk of change.
In ten years we wont own anything, and we will like it! So sayeth the Overlords.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/conspiracy/klaus-schwab-says-you-will-own-nothing-in-10-years/#:~:text=Klaus%20Schwab%20is%20the%20new,will%20also%20have%20no%20rights.
Weird that liberal states and or governors are opening right before this bill passes and people get money all at the same time.
Scalpers are going nuts.
We're going to start feeling the shutdown effects as a lot of cash starts chasing fewer goods...
We'll see if it its a quick or slow inflation...
Just drop it all on GME and multiply it
If the government is willing to give you your own money back then take it. Can't believe people were saying not to take the first round of Covid relief
The people who hate Trump, i encouraged them to send the checks back. Fuck 'em. The man tried to help and they kept shitting on him.
Exactly! If they hated Trump, then they should stop enjoying his tax cuts. They’re free to continuing paying the difference to the IS Treasury.
Agreed! As long as the government can afford to give billions to other countries, I will not complain about them giving us back some of our own money. As soon as they stop squandering our tax dollars, then I’ll start being concerned about our debt.
They’re not giving you back the money they stole from you. They’re printing new notes because they already spent everything else.
People were taking the money, but mad (seriously) that Trump was cutting payroll taxes last year to try and help with covid relief since congress wasn't moving on the 2k Trump wanted to send out.
Once you cash that check, your household becomes federally funded. And the government now owns your ass. Too bad I cashed the first one without thinking about it that way.
And if you don’t cash it they still own you.
Use it to buy an AR.
3D printer. Free Men Don't Ask glock frames. Need a dremmel, file, glock internal parts kit (buy rails separately) and slide. Regular PLA lasts about 1000 rounds. Can print in polycarbonate for a lasting frame. Do not sell or give these away.
Note that you need a glock locking block as well (the internal parts kits I got and rails didn't have this and it delayed my build)
How does cashing it mean the gov owns my ass? They take my money away. I'll take it back before they send it overseas or spend it on Dem cities.
The fed takes my money. Does that mean I own their ass?
I'm not following your logic.
It 100% SHOULD mean you own their asses. Unfortunately the rot has spread quite far
Think about it this way. If the government makes laws that are enforced on federally funded property or institutions such as mask mandates or no guns or any other bullshit they make up, well now your household is now federally funded if you accept the stimulus checks. And i know its outside the realm of normal rational thinking, but these are democrats and this is clown world. We have no rights if big brother says so.
We can say that over and over again but the military will keep us in check. And yeah we can pretend the military is on our side but if dc has showed anybody anything. The government controls them not us. We need to stop pretending that they are just 500 defenseless people who are completely at our mercy. They are not. We are at their mercy. 7 trillion dollars of our money in a year just on stimulus bills. They are robbing us our children and grandchildren and we just bitch on the internet. I want a solution but don't know the solution. And war will only weaken us and leave a lot of us dead. Decentralization is our best bet but like i said the US government will not allow it to happen peacefully.
We have consented, or it wouldn’t be this way.
Of course consent is given. The constitution and the laws give clear path how to oppose the government . If you don't oppose it YOU CONSENT.
It's all hypothetical though, and if the gov wants to own you it won't matter whether you took the money or not. They'll find a way to do it.
What law or precept officially makes one government funded for receiving money from the feds? Don't we all do this with our tax rebates?
If you pay taxes, taking this money is just taking a very small portion of the amount extorted from you back.
You shouldn't feel bad about it.
If it's like the last "stimulus", you don't even get the $1500 if you've been working hard enough to earn more than the income cut off. But a homeless drug addict gets the full $1500.
They have lowered the income cutoff this round as well.
They are competent enough to "target" the income brackets they want to give money to. But Joe says he doesn't want high earners to get student loan relief so he won't do anything in that regard. Joe, are you too fucking stupid to target student loan relief like the stimmy? He can't even do what his fucking party wants. What a loser.
I'm just going to buy another gun with it.
Don't forget your body armor. I picked up a plate carrier and level III plates this round.
Any recommendations for a first time buyer of armor?
I'm probably not the right person to ask as it's new to me as well. I used crowder's discount code at spartan armor and picked up the omega set:
https://www.spartanarmorsystems.com/crowder/
Reasonably happy with it so far in terms of fit and finish.
You are a special KIND of retard .
Sure you are ... THEY ARE TAKING MONEY ... They are taking it from everyone. THROUGH INFLATION.
You are right. To a liberal it's just vague numbers. What's the difference between 1. 9 trillion and 10 trillion to a liberal? I guarantee you that 99% of liberals would have a hard time explaining.
Funny it looks just as before .
Here's a loan we're going to force you to take. What's that you say? You aren't taking the stimulus? Well you still get to pay for it anyway, and your kids, and their kids, and their kids too. You ALL get to pay for this.
Yup, considering the labor force size and only half really pay taxes, the first round of stimulus cost us $24k, the next one will be about the same.
I’m almost convinced they (both parties) are trying to dig a deep enough debt hole so they can justify federal value added tax. Not only would this punish the poor the most, it takes away from everyones buying power and gives the swamp another trillion or 2 to buy favors from foreign countries and line their own pockets
Literally a waste of money to bail out failing states. Lets reward the states who have the highest crimes and highest unemployment.
But r politics told me blue states subsidize red states!
You could fit all of what those people don't know into the pacific ocean and it would finally sink Manhattan.
Nobody tell him.
God willing, I sure hope so. Ever seen that movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? I love this quote from it:
"I swear to God, it's like somebody took America by the East Coast, and shook it, and all the normal girls managed to hang on."
He's talking about women while at a party in Hollywood, but it fits for everyone else too.
They base that on the federal highway budget
The highways that get red state produce to blue state mouths
It also doesn't factor in welfare payouts, federal education funding, mass transit funding, government agency real estate, science funding, etc.
Cities receive way more money from the feds than rural states.
Very good to know, I wasn't sure what they based their argument on but I figured it was something they'd twist like that. Ty!
Yes
Bailouts are a big reason why dems were desperate enough to cheat so blatantly. They couldn't let trump win and have blue states go bankrupt. California never even tried to get their finances in order. They knew the fix was in from the beginning and officially set their budget assuming a bailout after the election. The only way for red states to stop paying for blue state failures is secession. Otherwise it's going to be constant bailouts forever.
I used to be VERY against living off of the system if it isn't absolute need.
Like, if you can work 60+ hours at McDonald's, I'd do that before going on the system.
Well, being in NYS, I had a change of heart. I hate where I live. I have no moral issue in n my head anymore to use the system lawfully to help myself out in life.
I don't lie to them at all. Work was very slow for me during corona stuff. But years ago, I would've found a way to do it alone, as that's what a MAN does!
I lost all respect for my state, and figure if they are gonna hand shit out, I might as well take it.
The problem is that your blue state doesn't have the money to pay you, despite offering it. They give you money and then cry to the federal government that they are bankrupt and red states end up subsidizing you through bailouts.
Yup. It's all a load of BS. As Ron Desantis said, bail outs should be fair, and based solely on population in this case.
Blue states did stupid shit, red states not so much, and because the blue states allowed billions in damage and economic failure, they get the most help? Bullshit!
Nothing wrong with using the system appropriately. My father works seasonally and is on unemployment in the off-season. I used it once I got out of the military while I went to school. While I don't agree with the way we do societal safety net, if it's there and you really need the help it doesn't make you bad.
You cannot make a successful life for yourself living on government wages.
We need to all sign up and collapse the beast.
The machine was out of money. If only we had a fair election in ga
These wouldn't be the states that let the election fraud occur?
Welp, we just gave the world $1.7 trillion, including China, which gave us the virus to begin with. Great going, Democrats. Is there anything else we can provide you with today?
Hey, just remember, this passed because of republicans too! They could've stopped it, and it shows everything that's wrong with our party .
What republicans voted for this shit?
Edit: republicans didn't vote for it, all voted against it. Simple majority of 50 democrat senators passed it. Thanks Governor Kemp!
No Republicans voted for it, and they couldn't have stopped it. They all voted Nay. The vote was 50-49.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-ap-top-news-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-joe-manchin-298ad8c447e9a121ece9529221e83136?
Damn, so how's that work? Is it the whole "going nuclear" thing? Why is simple majority okay here, but not elsewhere?
I remember reading about some process they used, I forget the name but I believe normally you need 60 votes but they did something to make it only a simple majority.
I THINK the catch of this process is that the Senators are allowed to vote on any amendments they want, where normally they just are voting on the entire bill.
I could be wrong about that 2nd part.
It’s reconciliation. And the catch is that they can only vote on aspects concerning taxing and spending policy for the government. That is why they couldn’t add the $15 minimum wage. But, any bill can have whatever amendments voted on
They are using a reconciliation trick to get past filibuster.
Nuclear option. We have Harry Reid to thank for that.
Dan Sullivan of Arkansas abstained. That would’ve made it a split 50-50 vote. Kamala would’ve cast the deciding vote.
Maybe those cowards should have done more to challenge the elections?
No. This passes because we continue to allow this shit to pass.
Why are we blaming despotic hacks for being despotic hacks? We might as well blame snakes for being snakes.
We, on the other hand, have a choice. Are we going to continue to be whiney little faggots taking it up the ass from these pricks
or
are we gonna suck it up and put a stop to it?
This is how feds shut us down, stop.
Including China, who we borrow money from to pay for it.
And Republicans as well.
How about we no longer pass massive omnibus bills. One bill with one law. Minimum wage? Get your own bill. Keystone? Get your own bill. Giving people back their own money (aka tax refund)? Get your own bill.
Treat it like a resume. Keep it to one to two pages.
Amen WaxPepe.
I like the idea, but the problem is that the government has to pass a lot of "janitorial" legislation. These spending bills often include hundreds of items for different government agencies that are more or less guaranteed passes, splitting them up into their own bills would take massive amounts of time even just to do the roll call and vote on them one by one, they'd never get anything else done. Personally I would love the government to never get anything done but seems I'm a minority on that.
Perhaps we could have a process by which that can happen, but any law with too much unrelated shit in it could be struck down by the courts.
Of course that presumes a functioning court, which we don't have.
Gov already does nothing, it would be beneficial cause it would slow down all the garbage they pass
Then we need to take a look at those programs to see if they're really worth funding. I bet we can cut 90% at least.
This is my feeling. If you can’t defend it on its own, it shouldn’t get bundled and blanket passed. The janitorial votes I think keep once necessary expenses carried over each year without justification. Just like your family’s budget, it has to be justified each month.
One page maximum. If you can't explain why it's needed in that amount of space, it's not. Bills should also be published online immediately after they're drafted and put online for all Citizens to be able to look through and read, with the phone number for your senators and reps at the bottom of the page. Leave it online for a week then it can be voted on in the House or Senate.
An actual useful function of social media would be for politicians to post a copy of the legislation they vote for each time they vote. Transparency.
This makes too much sense.
But that would mean politicians would actually have to be at work for more than an hour a week!
The fleecing continues.
I hope there's a Republican lawyer ready to file an emergency injunction to a
HawaiiTexas judge, to block the State & Local bailout money.Blue States need to take their bankruptcy medicine.
A republican lawyer with balls?
Next you'll be sighting unicorns.
Sadly I know people who are gushing because “omg we are getting $1400!!!! Thank you grandpa Biden! Best bill ever!” They are truly stupid people.
Those are the people who had no skin in the game in the first place. The reason sad liberal losers are celebrating this bill is that it drags everyone else down closer to their level. Socialism is trickle up poverty.
Seems more like a tsunami at this point.
In the case of when amazon and other big box stores offered $15/hr, they slashed any benefits they offered. In the terms of real wealth, the workers to a paycut for the company, and are paying more in taxable income. They're the net losers in most of the $15/hr deals.
h0nk h0nk
Just remind them that Trump asked for $2,000 back in October.
They know and they don't care because they're stealing it for themselves and their friends and families.
Again, this is why we lost Georgia. Literally the week of the election the establishment Republicans were like "We'll pass 2 trillion stimulus, but we're not going to even give you $1400 more, no more stimulus at all, what a waste!"
McConnel and the losers like him are completely out of touch.
No.
Can't wait for even more inflation
Buckle up, xirs.
MONEY LAUNDERING
I AM SELLING MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS
I'm selling downloadable RAM.
Hunter's not really a crackhead, he just pretends to be one to sell more magazines.
Nah, he's really a crackhead, my bad.
Oil is basically already doubling because of Biden, meat's skyrocketing, so are medications and taxes are soon to follow. Biden voters still think it's better than under Trump despite everything being worse.
You don't think stopping Trump's mean tweets is better? /s
Biden's voters are morons who have literally no idea what's going on in the world or truly pay attention to politics.
They only know "orange man bad" because the comedians and popstars they listen to say so. They know literally nothing about Biden.
They'll blame everything that goes wrong on Trump and blue team voters will buy 100% of it.
My prediction is we are headed to another recession. The dollar will fall in value. Most of this is pork garbage right?
How can you hedge your bets regarding a recession, is there something I can do with my limited amount of money or something I can do to prepare for a recession?
Probably buy gold. Silver doesn't really move with gold or with the economy/market. It just had a random ass drop too.
People are saying crypto, but crypto fell the last bear market. I don't know where to hedge against inflation except metals and a tad of crypto
How to hedge? Prepper style... keep a food journal of what you eat for few weeks and stock up on those items best you can.
Food inflation will hit first. Then obviously some good pair of boots or other things that are necessary.
At least when shit hits the fan you'll hopefully have a few months of buffer from it via this way.
I might be wrong but we all have our ways of thinking.
Buy crypto once the recession hits and the value drops through the floor. A year ago you could buy Bitcoin for 1/10th the price it is now.
Gold
Gamestop stock appears to be about it.
You can say that, but ultimately the reason the dollar goes up in value and has held its value is because the rest of the options suck.
People said this about Europe, and then they realized after the Greece mess that the Euro is propped up by tons and tons of countries that have their own insane amount of debt, worse % than the US in many cases, and they don't really have a true way to deal with the situation without relying on Germany, unlike the US who has the Federal Reserve. So, when the dollar was supposed to sink and the Euro was coming up, Greece happened and then trillions of dollar investments from other nations kept pouring in propping the dollar up.
To this day there isn't really a great solution otherwise. Ya, there might be problems and flaws with the dollar, but I still don't see it crashing in value anytime soon on the world market until a true competitor appears.
Good to know
Bitcoin is that competitor, and the major financial institutions themselves are beginning to say so.
If there are any necessary things you need to buy do it now. Eg. car or home repairs, stock up on non-perishables (even if the world doesn't end, it'll be nice to have lots of food on hand when it costs twice as much ins 6 months or a year).
Depression imo
Controlled and honestly reported inflation could actually be one of the most efficient and fairest forms of taxation of all
Without the demand that taxes be payed in dollars, I'd never touch their worthless paper again if I could avoid it.
The fact that taxes are required to be payed in dollars is one of the main reasons they retain any value at all.
Eliminating traditional taxation would turn any alternative currency (crypto, gold, silver etc...) into a way to legally avoid funding the State. I'd be all for this, but I don't think the government would allow it.
Take the money and buy crypto. It's time to crash the dollar, folks.
And hard assets with intrinsic value like property and precious metals.
They'll just raise property taxes. They don't want you to prosper.
There's a reason why broken down Detroit houses are only worth $1 until you find out the taxes.
*Firearms and ammunition
Did you forget thats going to be taxed too?
I really wish this was an option. To crash crypto all they have to do is pass a law making it illegal. They could easily make a stupid case that it's used to fund terrorism or *clutch your pearls" white nationalism activities.
Yeah that did so well with drugs right?
Drugs specifically? No, that did not work out well for the U.S.. But this is an apples to oranges comparison.
Crypto is uniquely dependent on power, Internet, and a secure and available blockchain. Anyone of those things the government can shut off in a heart beat. Hell, bitcoin mining (creating new bitcoins and participating in the exchange of bitcoin) takes an enormous amount of energy. Anyone mining it could be easily identified an shut down based on Internet activity and/or power consumption patterns.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumption/
If it's made illegal, I can promise you it will absolutely tank in value.
Tank is fine. Still works.
yeah thats what I will be doing with mine
Want a real fix, war.
But fuck it, let's just bend over for Communism and destroy our own economy faster, because that's just exactly what they're not doing.
Done with this cucked ass place.
Great idea buying a fake currency thats not backed by something physically tangible
I've got bad news for you regarding the US dollar ever since we left the Gold standard.
The US dollar is backed by the US armed forces.
The US armed forces are backed by the dollar, not the other way around. Remove compensation and you'd end up with nothing but a bunch of pissed off patriots.
So the dollar?
It was still backed by gold last i checked
$459,480,000,000 is all thats needed to give everyone $1400. They want 4 times that. 75% of this bill is pork And the kicker is that not everyone will probably get $1400
Single income up to $75K; nothing at $80K. Families up to $160K.
I don’t get $1400 then
I didn't get shit in any of these stimulus checks and I'll also not use literally anything my taxes pay for with the exception of driving on roads
I’m so fucking sick of hearing people say “I’ll take the stimulus because it’s my money anyway” — no you fucks it was OUR money and you’re taking it without ME getting a penny of it.
Socialism sneaks in because everyone is suddenly a socialist when it looks like they are getting freebies.
Remember, Bi Deng promised them $2000! The $1400 was just a way to squeeze in more bribes.
In a real life military tribunal. I don't play Minecraft.
I just add that so I don’t have to gun down some feds at 3 am on my doorstep, in Minecraft.
Let the blocks hit the floor.
Of all the posters here, you're the one I've most thought is a fed for a long time.
How come?
You never once thought I was a fed? How DARE you!
Fren, we are all feds here.
Wait a minute, there are non feds here ? Lol why
you're the type of guy who says "just kidding" after every joke you tell because you're scared of offending anyone.
What? That’s not even true, and even if it was, how does that make some a fed?
I’ll answer for you, it doesn’t, retarded faggot.
All it would take for America to form the world largest standing army in a week is for a man like Trump to say "do it! Meet here, now!".
That'd be it. There would be no turning back at that point.
Or, instead of waiting for word, we could just - and bear with me here pedes - just, kinda, i dunno....
DO IT!
You win the thread! I'll double down and say I hope it's a several times planetary mass black hole that cruises in slowly so the combined velocity and mass will perturb the former Earth's orbit in a highly eccentric way to start a Grand Tour that swallows the other planets too and finally skims into Sol and BETELGEUSEs it to go BOOM.
Civil War, when are you all ready, or should we keep being butt fucked?1
Never going to happen. We are a party of good and principled people remember! We disavow violence. We listen to the other side.
Yay, we're cucked faggots, what a time to be alive!
Speaking of time, it's time for your COVID anal swab!
Woo, favorite past time!
Who do we shoot first? Nobody ever explains this
You don't shoot first, you gather with your guns, protest that you're not happy and if they come for you, then we open fire.
This isn't a game anymore.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1367580293511667712
That money is already spent. It's just a formality at this point. And most of it will leave the country.
I hope you like inflation, because we're getting a metric fuck ton of it.
Votes split 49/50. No roll yet, will check later.
Cruz's block to "immigrants" getting relief checks failed, as did the one that would deny them to prisoners.
But hey, what's 2 trillion dollars? Pocket change, to the dems.
Can you link to proof it's going out of the country? I need to shut some libs up.
Start with Title X, where 9 billion is set aside for "Global Assistance".
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text#toc-HEDDA5BE40862488187E72BF50851E94F
Massively underrated comment. It's all about what you can *actually do" under these circumstances to improve your position.
Props go out to the Patriots who stormed the Capitol again on March 4th so successfully they had to suppress the news of it and pretend it was a 'mirage'. Living rent free in their heads does count.
If we do get this check, we are planning on putting it towards debt. it will put us a month an a half early for paying off all non-mortgage debt. that being said, i would be happier not having it pass at all...
Why pay off debt?
How many senator's think they're helping America and how many know they're destroying America?
95% know they’re hurting the country, they don’t give a single fuck.
The age old question. I would feel better knowing they're corrupt and know it's bad for the country. I'd feel worse if they're all true believers and too stupid to know it's hurting, because that's harder to fix.
Saw Gingrich on TV last week saying that he thinks the Democrats are doing such crazy shit now is because they know they are going to lose the House in 2022 and very likely the presidency in '24. He said the sort of shit they are trying to pass now would never get them reelected as it's too far to the left.
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Idiocy or maliciousness? As far as I'm concerned, there's no difference if the results are the same.
Are there any changes that will make the House delay it? Anything major the House wanted?
These amendments were passed by roll call. It is not a complete list because several were passed by 'voice vote', including at least one where a loud chorus of NAYS was heard and (lo and behold) it was announced as 'THE AYES HAVE IT'. Voice votes are despicable.
In particular Schumer dropped an unannounced amendment bomb at the very end just to prove to the world that he can drop in shit everybody will pass without demanding a full reading, and not be held in the contempt he deserves.
Any other earmarks and secret policy changes that I should be aware of?
I'm only guessing it will most likely be the $400 unemployment (instead of the Senate $300 version)
All these fucking Californian morons buying homes in Austin for $900,000, that were built and originally sold for $400,000... Enjoy being underwater by this time next year!! 🖕🏻🖕🏻
typically theyre selling their CA home at an inflated rate too because chinese are buying those
House will not kill it. The dems are getting everything they want.
House communists arefurious lol
One is pissy. Not enough to matter.
Ilhan Omar and AOC(no link, she is mainly retweeting other people) are furious as well. You need like 6 votes to tank it. Squad + Bonnie and then you need one more communist. Perhaps nothing happens but with Jamaal Bowman retweeting Bonnie and Cori Bush also attacking the senate, I could very well see them tanking it. We have to remind ourselves that these people are batshit crazy
They have no spine lmao, they talk a bunch of shit but when it comes down to it, they always party line vote with Pelosi.
That’s why she doesn’t take them seriously.
Yeah, your scenario is most likely going to play out
So what you are saying is encourage the crazy by pretending to be Pelosi? That sounds messed up even to me, and I am just trying to make a joke.
“Democrat house kills bill which is basically what they passed before” lmao yeah right. Say bye bye to freedom. We should’ve been at the polling places with guns the minute they were kicking people out. We fucked ourselves
Why were there only 49 nay votes? aren't there 50 republicans
I'm waiting for the roll call to be posted to see who voted for it in the Pub ranks.
One was at a funeral
Kamala would have cast the tie breaking vote anyway
Sullivan had “family matters” in Alaska
Dan Sullivan of Alaksa was absent because he was in Alaska for a family funeral.
Over 90% has nothing to do with COVID. Our taxes are going to skyrocket.
Why do we always get raped when Dems are in power but when Republicans are in we can't even repeal ludicrous Obamacare? So fucking fed up with this shit. Good for all republicans voting against this shit but still, fuck them for not doing more when we have the fucking power. Grow a damn spine and stomp on theirs!
I'm only gonna say it one more time, UNIPARTY.
MAGA republicans ONLY!!
GOP republicans can get fucked.
Republicans are opposition....that is what they want to do.
They are basically lobbied NOT to oppose. Not to win or pass anything
Because there are no D's or R's, it's all a show.
Paul Ryan would like you to know that he likes it up the ass as he loves watching men give it to small kids it in the ass
Thank you, Brian Kemp, for enabling this pork-bloated monstrosity to get through. It's RINOs like you who fucked this whole country.
People bitching about a taking 1400 or not some of us made to much money for our own selves so we dobt even get that shit
I haven't received a knickel throughout the scamdemic and have worked the whole time. I feel your pain, man.
They’re trying to tank the dollar to pay the debt. They will succeed.
The “Era of Gibs” will be the final nail in the coffin of America.
My leftist peers are so fucking sense that they actually believe that it’s free money that our benevolent government is bestowing on us.
This is why communism has taken root. People are so ignorant that they believe the government has the ability to make free lunches for everyone. As if things don’t have a cost basis to them and someone somewhere has to pay for it
Well, you might want to be really, really, really pissed that they're voting for 2 trillion dollars of our money, to be spent on things we don't want, and most of it will be spent on not us. Oh, but you might get a check for $1400, which will be worth way less when the inflation kicks in.
This is one of the biggest money grabs I've ever seen. The shamelessness is flabbergasting.
What's shameful is that people sit around and complain but do fuckall to stop it.
Pushed back? Do you not understand how legislation is drafted? This was approved by the Senate. Now it goes back to Congress, like all bills do, for a final round of negotiations and amendments. This is how it works. This is not pushed back on, it's on a fast track to being signed by Biden into law.
Not dooming, check my post history.
This will pass. I know who the pubs are in the House, and who will benefit from it.
This will pass. The money is already spent.
By the way, they don't need 60 votes.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/02/05/what-is-reconciliation-in-congress/
They need 60 with a filibuster. Learn how Congress works before 'correcting" people.
They might not use it, though, in order to save it for a different bill.
They're already using it.
Link? Shit hits the fan if true.
I'm cool with the payment. Dead inside and don't care about national shit anymore, we're a mere vassal state of China.
And to those spamming "buy firearms and ammunition" in like every thread: get real. Not only is your hoarding going to continue to increase already inflated prices...you're never going to use them in any truly meaningful way. Look at the state of affairs now. Everyone is a clown in this clown world.
Lol not just nobody wins but everyone loses.
Everyonne except for the assholes passing it and lining their pockets
It's a money laundering bill to pay the countries who helped rig the election.
And I still won't see a dime of it and get fucked hard in taxes this year...
I gladly accept them returning some of MY MONEY that they siphoned off over the last 25 years of my uninterrupted slave labor. Everyone who says iM nOt TaKiNg ThE bRIBe, are fucking stupid!! IT’S YOUR MONEY!!!!!
Except you won't be getting it because this time they said fewer Americans are getting it and you can bet illegals will be and all the liberal cities and companies needing bailouts for their idiocy. So enjoy the crumbs.
Again, I’ll take back anything that’s mine. Even the crumbs....while working towards not having to give them jack shit of mine. Also, we agree, fuck the government!
I know. Just saying.
they basically bailed out government contractors and states like CA/NY.
Remember - that’s OUR money they’re fucking with.
Republican Senator Dan Sullivan (AK) abandoned his post today - he went home and turned the vote over to the democrats. Had he stayed just 12 hours it would have forced Kamala to come out of hiding and cast the tie breaking vote, placing full responsibility over this $1.9 trillion dollar theft of our future right at her feet and those of the marxist authoritarian demorat party.
Buy precious metals, stock up on goods and prepare. The big hyper inflation economic tanking is just around the bend
GOP failed us again. It's almost as if failure is intentional.
Could it be??
Of course it is.
Roll call is up. No pubs voted for it. Straight party line, we lost a vote because one Pub wasn't present.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00110#position
Who and why were they not there?
Sullivan, and he was attending a funeral.
Couldn't he have had someone vote for him?
Proxy votes are only allowed in committee for the Senate iirc.
Oh ok. I wasn't sure either. You'd think for an important vote like this that they'd make sure everyone who has to vote could be there.
better be lying in a fucking ditch some where.
Nice. If I get any money then I’ll use it to pay a fraction of the increased cost of my gas, groceries, and all other consumer goods.
What a heist
Sullivan (R-AK), Not Voting.
Fuck you, Sullivan.
If you didn't stick the knife, some other GOPer would have.
Notice how the GOP always fails by just 1 or 2 votes? It's all that's needed.
If they voted honestly, probably 2/3 of the GOP would vote in lockstep with the Dems.
I hate them for doing this. The best thing that could have happened on Jan 6 was if the doors were chained shut, and the building set on fire. Vampires who are now feeding on our great grandchildren.
They are gonna destroy the economy for their pet projects. Dumbass politicians.
They're doing it because they don't like progressive policy either and they want someone to blame for distroying the economy.
so how much of the 1.9 trillion actually goes to the people?
462 Billion would give every legal citizen a $1,400 check when calculated as 330 million people for 1400 each. That is the max presuming every person could get it. Kids cannot for example. So, to answer your question, considerable less than 25%.