Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

In relation to the shocking meltdown related to COVID-19, the governors of 45 states have issued various stay-at-home orders, and the financial markets have been in turmoil not seen since the Great Depression. With events moving so quickly, I think the most important thing we need to focus on is how massively the basic views of reality have changed in recent weeks. One of the shortcomings of the human mind is that we quickly become desensitized to changes in society. We don’t know where we are going because we quickly lose track of where we previously stood.

The liberal media have reached the point and have proven time and again that it predetermines what is going to be news on any given day. Case in point…Joe Biden is doing well in the primaries. The mainstream media is all over that. But just as big of a story is what is happening in the Republican primaries in 2020. Unbelievable numbers of voters are turning out for President Trump. Skeptics will note that Mr. Trump has token opposition in the Republican primary contests. That is exactly my point. There is no real reason to come out in mass as the president does not face a credible opponent. Yet Republican voters are turning out in large numbers and the media doesn’t report it.

There is a growing mindset that censorship is a good thing. Neoconservative publication, The Atlantic, has published an article authored by two university professors titled “Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal,” subtitled “In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.”

The article is a must-read for anyone who values civil liberties that are unregulated by oligarchs and government agencies. It is shocking to have people putting a positive spin on the details of how Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating with western governments to censor speech. These professors might as well be saying how efficient it would be to have a dictator running the nation.

Joe Biden is clearly unfit to be the Democratic presidential nominee. His mental state has degraded to the point where it’s unlikely for him to speak for a few minutes without making a major gaffe. There is no way he could negotiate with world leaders or give hour-long speeches to crowds. And the press is completely turning a blind eye to Biden’s lack of capacity to stand on the stage with Trump, much less be the Commander-in-Chief. Our collective news media has most people thinking that Biden is up to the task, with a few conservative sites saying that old Joe is losing his marbles and is no match for Trump despite the chorus of networks that claim Biden is better qualified than Trump to be President. And the lack of coverage given to a sexual assault allegation by Tara Reade is further evidence that the liberal media have become dangerously corrupt.

Right now, I think America’s greatest threat is on the economic front. The lockdown has resulted in staggering financial losses that can only lead to a dark future. It is only May and the national deficit is $3.7 trillion, millions of businesses are headed for bankruptcy, and nearly every major financial indicator has shown record declines.

The one thing that might be amazing though is that despite all these seemingly fatal blows, the economy remains oddly stable. The dollar has not crashed, precious metals haven’t soared, and food remains plentiful at the stores. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has made an amazing recovery. It dropped from 29,000 to 18,000 and has since recovered to nearly 25,000.

But we may be seeing a sucker’s rally right before the next big downturn. And this, in my opinion, is what Trump's enemies want vis-à-vis all the extensions of the nationwide stay-at-home orders to keep the economy closed instead of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic to open the economy as Trump suggested on state-by-state basis at the county level.

But this World has gotten so dark and strange, I’m increasingly at a loss to make sense of it. When oil futures traded at a negative price last week, something that has never happened, I said to myself this has to be one more sign of the end. So in the mean time, because Jesus said I come at a time “you think not,” I wisely attend to my family’s spiritual and financial needs until that time comes.

minoter

If those who constantly watch and more importantly believe what they are watching and listening to on the radical far left "news media" we indeed are going to witness the demise of what was once the greatest country on earth. If you know how to pray now is the time to get with it. HE is our only hope

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Who cares what the financial markets are doing? You're talking an artificial construct that provides nothing of any real value. Basically, it's a method of siphoning money OUT of the markets..................trading on someone ELSE'S blood, sweat and tears.

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