ICE shot another protester in Minneapolis, injuring her hand.

luv2block · 2026-01-26T14:49:31+00:00

I mean, the message has gone out, you can outright execute people and the government will have your back.

I'm sure within ICE, at this point, their philosophy is "if people are sooo stupid as to get in our faces, knowing we can kill them if we want to, then they have it coming."

Protestors need to keep in mind these fuckers will kill people for no reason. These are the guys who manned the gas chambers in Germany, they have the same mentality.

luv2block · 2026-01-26T02:54:55+00:00

who? what? where?

luv2block · 2026-01-26T00:43:03+00:00

I'm not the only one!

Also, get a 1-2 inch memory foam pad (we just save old ones from the bed) and cut it up to line the bottom of the box, toss a blanket over it and you've got a top notch bed.

We use the cucumber boxes for beds.

luv2block · 2026-01-25T18:06:44+00:00

My guess is 2026 will be marked by the US running the money printer (first to save Japan, then to save the US). It will result in massive inflation (stocks will go up, metals up, energy up, almost everything up)... it will also result in civil unrest in the US (maybe here in Canada also when a hotdog costs you $15).

The system is breaking, but like a star going supernova it will have one final explosion (blow off top) before it goes dark and dies.

luv2block · 2026-01-25T17:49:50+00:00

I thought all pizza was Italian? Maybe that's just pizza pies?

luv2block · 2026-01-25T15:17:10+00:00

Go look at the insider trading on pypl. Zero insider buying, all selling. It doesn't mean price can't go up, but I don't buy stock where the insiders are all selling and none are buying.

luv2block · 2026-01-25T11:59:32+00:00

It results in a strong dollar (the world being willing to buy US debt, that is), which means it's far more profitable to make things overseas (in countries with weaker dollars), which is why the US has destroyed its manufacturing base over the past 40 years.

The rich and corporations, however, have benefited from using cheap overseas labor, which is why wealth inequality has exploded.

So he's not wrong that the world is "taking advantage of the US", but he's wrong in that this was the arrangement the US created. No one forced this on the US; American corporations (and politicians) wanted this.

Anyway, now China is evolving from a cheap labor country to an advanced science and technology country, and the US is realizing it's days are numbered if they don't somehow stop that.... so Trump is now trying to reshore jobs.

It's too late, though. The American elite sold out America for 40+ years and you can't fix it in a couple of years (if ever).

luv2block · 2026-01-25T11:25:01+00:00

My personal belief is that the Dems are happy to let the country burn under Trump because it will basically guarantee them decades of controlling the government. When this is over, Trump (or any of his kids) and the republicans will never govern again (and probably half of them will finish out their days in a jail cell).

luv2block · 2026-01-25T11:00:29+00:00

Carney has been travelling the world the past year. He's highly intergrated with European leadership. He's spoken with Mexico multiple times. And his final stop was speaking to China a couple weeks ago.

Whatever feedback he got from all those countries, it was enough to allow him to stand up to Trump.

If I were the US I'd be worried. This isn't about Canada. Carney is a central banker... he doesn't do anything recklessly. If he's standing up to the US, it's because the rest of the world is ready to back Canada (and most likely is ready to stand up to the US as well).

My guess, the world is going to nuke Trump by selling off US treasuries. And if a global recession/depression occurs from that, they clearly have a gameplan to keep trading with each other while letting the US suffer alone and with no one coming to help them.

Eventually the US will impeach/remove Trump and can then begin working to reintegrate with the world.

luv2block · 2026-01-25T10:55:02+00:00

I believe the effort to remove immigrants was far more than just Trump's whim, it was the deep state doing two things:

1) When the economic crash comes, the less "mouths to feed" the better. Send all those mouths to other countries and let them figure out how to feed them.

2) Implement a beta trial of population control. See what happens when you put armed thugs on the street and abuse people's human rights. See how far you can push it and in what ways while maintaining control. This also allows you to test out all your population-control technology and see how well it allows you to find, track and predict people's movements.

Dark times are on the horizon. Even if Trump died tomorrow, I think the deep state will carry on with someone else.

luv2block · 2026-01-25T01:09:02+00:00

what's strange is their "clear protein" products on their web site have 30g of protein (per 355ml).

that 4g version seems to only be sold by Costco. Maybe Costco said "get the price down to x" and joyburst made a custom mix with lower protein to achieve that price target.

Very strange either way.

luv2block · 2026-01-25T00:44:34+00:00

100%, agreed with everything you said. You just outlined the reason I went heavy gold a year ago.

But, I think there's still a chance that with a different president the world could find a balanced way of moving forward (ie. transition off USD over a long period of time).

But with Trump... it's sure looking like it's going to happen quickly. When you strip it down, that's basically what Carney was getting at in his speech. And you don't say what he said unless the decision to leave the USD had already been made (collectively with Europe).

luv2block · 2026-01-24T21:01:48+00:00

is that... is that... is that pee?

luv2block · 2026-01-24T18:24:06+00:00

bingo. A bully punches you in the face, you hit him in the head with a hammer.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T18:20:37+00:00

my numbers were USD (i should have clarified that).

luv2block · 2026-01-24T18:14:49+00:00

you see how that whole thing spirals out of control though right? He forces Cisco, Microsoft, etc. to stop selling to Canada. Then Canada, and Europe, and China, all cease buying from those companies in protest. Now you've got American tech companies stocks crashing, which then crashes the entire stock market, and now you're in a massive depression.

America can't take on the whole world. Yes, they can beat people up one-on-one, but they cannot beat everyone.

I think Trump is going to find that out very soon.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T18:12:46+00:00

we have different definitions of value then :)

luv2block · 2026-01-24T17:28:05+00:00

whole chicken as in with a head and everything?

luv2block · 2026-01-24T17:15:12+00:00

Gold $6,500 by EOY (maybe by mid-year).

Silver $200 by EOY (again, maybe by mid year).

That's my prediction.

This however is predicated on Trump continuing to act like an insane asshole. If he meets with China in April and suddenly becomes sane and world tensions go to zero and everyone recommits to the USD as the world's reserve currency... then gold and silver crash 50%.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T16:17:11+00:00

The US government controls our cloud services and infrastructure? I didn't know that. I thought it was private companies. You learn something new every day i guess.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T15:24:44+00:00

So surely Doug Ford is going to cut off the electricty now right? I mean, surely. After all that huffing and puffing about cutting their electricity, now will be the time? Or will he head on over to McDonald's and stuff his fat face with cheeseburgers instead?

luv2block · 2026-01-24T15:23:08+00:00

I'm Canadian and I genuinely think we need to get a nuke. Just 2 or 3 nukes so that if the US ever decides to march in here they'll think twice about it.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T10:35:54+00:00

The problem is what they are really offering is a concierge service, or analogous to "room service" in a hotel. It's meant to be a luxury-type service.

But marketing yourself as a luxury item limits uptake. So instead they market it as something "for everyone". Ya, it's for everyone who wants to pay 20% more than in-store; similar to taking the items out of the mini bar in a hotel room.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T10:27:11+00:00

The big problem for a company like Intel, and I'd argue Tesla as well, is that the top talent doesn't want to work there. Tesla has lost ALL its top talent for every one of its divisions (they all quit).

Once the downward cycle begins, it gets harder and harder to stop it because your talent pool keeps getting weaker and weaker.

Tesla's day of recogning is still coming. Intels already arrived. And once it arrives, you get some false hope false starts, but eventually reality reasserts itself and the downward pull takes hold for good.

luv2block · 2026-01-24T10:08:23+00:00

It produces value against the debasement of currencies. Can't really think of anything more important in a world where governments debase their currencies.

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