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Sir 1000

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If we had such a man, we could finally dispense with democracy.
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Husky_Khan

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Apparently being a "pro-Kremlin" candidate means your a "Trumpian Populist." Who knew this was the Age of Trump not just in America, but the world.
 

Cherico

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Apparently being a "pro-Kremlin" candidate means your a "Trumpian Populist." Who knew this was the Age of Trump not just in America, but the world.

There is a global populist backlash to the current bullshit. People just want to live their lives they don't want some control freak making their lives shit.
 

JagerIV

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There is a global populist backlash to the current bullshit. People just want to live their lives they don't want some control freak making their lives shit.

Yeah, unfortunately for the elite, people really do hate them, and we've seen a lot of people are willing to join with anyone who can plausibly resist them. If for example the Europeans turn Russia of all people into the only credible defender of free speech in Europe, despite all the flaws and obvious rank opportunism of the move, well, Merkel has only herself to blame for turning Putin into the pro european freedom candidate.

You'd think being less pro freedom than Putin would be hard, but god damn are the Europeans making a go of it.
 

LifeisTiresome

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Apparently being a "pro-Kremlin" candidate means your a "Trumpian Populist." Who knew this was the Age of Trump not just in America, but the world.
There is a global populist backlash to the current bullshit. People just want to live their lives they don't want some control freak making their lives shit.
What do you mean Cherico? I see leftism, liberalism and elites winning. The article link talks of populism losing.
 

Cherico

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What do you mean Cherico? I see leftism, liberalism and elites winning. The article link talks of populism losing.

Their winning now, thing is what their selling doesn't work and the elites are not nearly as smart as they think they are, and to make things worse the global money glut we have ends 2022. So they run out of other peoples money to fuck people over with. I expect them to get more and more insane as their world tumbles out of control due to their own bad ideas.

I also do not think they will learn from any of it.
 

LifeisTiresome

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Their winning now, thing is what their selling doesn't work and the elites are not nearly as smart as they think they are, and to make things worse the global money glut we have ends 2022. So they run out of other peoples money to fuck people over with. I expect them to get more and more insane as their world tumbles out of control due to their own bad ideas.

I also do not think they will learn from any of it.
We shall see then.
 

JagerIV

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What do you mean Cherico? I see leftism, liberalism and elites winning. The article link talks of populism losing.

I mean, there is a backlash. Le Pen, AFD, Salvini, Bolsinaro, Putin, Trump, and the hungarian guy do speak to a much harder push against Globalism than there has been history. For example, in the 1990s and 2000s the globalist was basically the unchallenged mainstream and it was assumed the EU and global government would just steadly grow into this clean, well functioning, unified Star Trek Federation.

End of history and all that.

Now, there is an actual opposition in existance, to a degree that didn't really exist in the 1990s and 00's. There's an increasing awareness that the Western Communist pushing for a totalitarian global order exist.

But, well, the populist backlast existing doesn't necessarily mean it will win.
 

Hlaalu Agent

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What do you mean Cherico? I see leftism, liberalism and elites winning. The article link talks of populism losing.

As Cherico says, they are winning now, but we are building momentum for an eventual counter offensive. And if Trump keeps on fighting, he'll sap more and more of their strength and undermine them all that much more. If he can keep it up, the MSM and BigTech will burn up their remaining credibility.
 

Cherico

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As Cherico says, they are winning now, but we are building momentum for an eventual counter offensive. And if Trump keeps on fighting, he'll sap more and more of their strength and undermine them all that much more. If he can keep it up, the MSM and BigTech will burn up their remaining credibility.


the era of cheap credit that we live in? It ends maybe forever in 2022.

Thats when they run out of other peoples money, thats when the boomers start retiring en mass and they take money out of the stock market to live on, when their money stops chasing any slight percentage chance of return. The power base breaks and now you have a shrinking pie and every one fighting for their slice.

Not exactly a strong foundation is it? Why do you think their freaking the fuck out now?
 

Terthna

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the era of cheap credit that we live in? It ends maybe forever in 2022.

Thats when they run out of other peoples money, thats when the boomers start retiring en mass and they take money out of the stock market to live on, when their money stops chasing any slight percentage chance of return. The power base breaks and now you have a shrinking pie and every one fighting for their slice.

Not exactly a strong foundation is it? Why do you think their freaking the fuck out now?
They won't all retire in 2022, so it might be spread out enough that they'll be able to mask the issue for a while; perhaps long enough that they can implement some solution that will cause its own problems down the road, like printing money endlessly.
 

gral

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But, well, the populist backlast existing doesn't necessarily mean it will win.
But, at the same time, it won't go away even if it loses now, and that is something many people do not understand. Even if Biden wins, even if all the backlash candidates of nowadays fail, the pushback will continue.
 

JagerIV

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They won't all retire in 2022, so it might be spread out enough that they'll be able to mask the issue for a while; perhaps long enough that they can implement some solution that will cause its own problems down the road, like printing money endlessly.

Yeah, I'm not really sure what the boomers have to do with cheap credit. The cheap credit from my understanding has to deal with printing money and, if anything, Chinese saving. I mean, were already stealing from the Boomers en mass with inflation, which is its point. Not that the boomers are saving all that much anyways. The Boomers are saving all that much anyways: the average boomer by this chart turned 18 around 1970.

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And, since the Boomers came of age where they could start saving, US saving rates have been going down immensely.

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In general, the Boomers have not been saving money.

"According to a 2018 Sightlines report, 30% of baby boomers haven’t saved anything for retirement.2 For those with something saved, the median balance for those born between 1948 and 1953 was $290,000. For those born between 1954 and 1959, they had saved around $209,000.3

Those numbers might not sound too alarming but that $290,000 in retirement savings equates to about $12,000 per year using the standard 4% withdrawal rate. Even adding in Social Security benefits of $17,532, an average Baby Boomer is only bringing in about $29,4532 per year.4 Hardly an income a person can live on comfortably."

If anything, I can see credit get even cheaper as the Boomers retire, as people who drive the demand for things people borrow for, such as Houses and Car, age out of needing to borrow.
 

Vaermina

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Yeah, I'm not really sure what the boomers have to do with cheap credit. The cheap credit from my understanding has to deal with printing money and, if anything, Chinese saving. I mean, were already stealing from the Boomers en mass with inflation, which is its point. Not that the boomers are saving all that much anyways. The Boomers are saving all that much anyways: the average boomer by this chart turned 18 around 1970.

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And, since the Boomers came of age where they could start saving, US saving rates have been going down immensely.

US-Personal-Savings-Rate-2.jpg


In general, the Boomers have not been saving money.

"According to a 2018 Sightlines report, 30% of baby boomers haven’t saved anything for retirement.2 For those with something saved, the median balance for those born between 1948 and 1953 was $290,000. For those born between 1954 and 1959, they had saved around $209,000.3

Those numbers might not sound too alarming but that $290,000 in retirement savings equates to about $12,000 per year using the standard 4% withdrawal rate. Even adding in Social Security benefits of $17,532, an average Baby Boomer is only bringing in about $29,4532 per year.4 Hardly an income a person can live on comfortably."

If anything, I can see credit get even cheaper as the Boomers retire, as people who drive the demand for things people borrow for, such as Houses and Car, age out of needing to borrow.
Actually 30,000 a year is pretty livable, assuming you paid off your house.
 

Zachowon

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Actually 30,000 a year is pretty livable, assuming you paid off your house.
I make less then that now, and I could afford a used car payment, get an apartment, and still have money for video games and food.
Of course I am not paying rent rightnow because military, but I made less then that in my life before there Army
 

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