Bro, send me that beef.

I’ll eat them bird flu cows.

This is just a big waste.

Reuters:

Dairy cows infected with avian flu in five U.S. states have died or been slaughtered by farmers because they did not recover, state officials and academics told Reuters.

Reports of the deaths suggest the bird flu outbreak in cows could take a greater economic toll in the farm belt than initially thought. Farmers have long culled poultry infected by the virus, but cows cost much more to raise than chickens or turkeys.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesperson said the agency knew of a few deaths but that the vast majority of cows recover well. Reuters was not able to determine the total number of cows with bird flu that died or were killed in South Dakota, Michigan, Texas, Ohio and Colorado.

Avian flu has infected dairy cows in more than 80 herds across 10 states since late March, according to the USDA.

…

In South Dakota, a 1,700-cow dairy sent a dozen of the animals to slaughter after they did not recover from the virus, and killed another dozen that contracted secondary infections, said Russ Daly, a professor with South Dakota State University and veterinarian for the state extension office who spoke with the farm.

…

A farm in Michigan killed about 10% of its 200 infected cows after they too failed to recover from the virus, said Phil Durst, an educator with Michigan State University Extension who spoke with that farm.

…

In Colorado, some dairies reported culling cows with avian flu because they did not return to milk production, said Olga Robak, spokesperson for the state Department of Agriculture.

Ohio Department of Agriculture spokesperson Meghan Harshbarger said infected cows have died in Ohio and other affected states, mostly due to secondary infections.

The Texas Animal Health Commission also confirmed that cows have died from secondary infections at some dairy operations with avian flu outbreaks.

Is the flu in the milk?

Is that what they’re saying?

This is so gay and such a stupid waste and I guarantee you, they are going to start kill a bunch more animals and then they’re going to be like “sorry, there’s a meat shortage – you have to eat bugs or soy or whatever now, lol, haha.”

🚨🇺🇸 America – Bird Flu

“Did you know that 92million chickens have been killed at the behest of the Federal Government just since 2022?”

The Globalist Lunatics are attacking Farmers & food production everywhere ‼️

They want you eating Bill Gates fake meat & insect gruel.… pic.twitter.com/FLGNyQ2S2f

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) May 30, 2024

ngl, this shit sounds delish.

But what has science done?

Reuters:

South Korean researchers have grown beef cells in rice grains in what they say is a major step towards achieving a sustainable, affordable and environmentally friendly source of protein that could replace farmed cattle for meat.

Professor Jinkee Hong of Yonsei University in Seoul, who led the research published in the journal Matter this month, said the “beef rice” is the first product of its kind. It uses grain particles as the base for cultivating animal muscle and fat cells.

In the research, rice grains were treated with enzymes to create an optimal environment for cell growth, then infused with bovine cells that are cultivated to achieve the final hybrid product, which resembles a pinkish grain of rice.

Professor Jinkee Hong.

The beef rice contains approximately 8% more protein and 7% more fat than conventional rice. Hong noted the protein is 18% animal-based, making it a rich source of essential amino acids.

Priced at about $2 per kilogramme (2.2 lbs) and with a far smaller carbon footprint than traditional beef products, cultured beef rice could compete on grocery shelves, Hong said.

Unlike computer technology (AI), weird biotechnology would be relatively easy to regulate. At least you could regulate the distribution (because it’s not being distributed digitally over the internet). Maybe you can’t stop people from making this stuff in a lab.

But why are they doing it? Who is funding it? What is the application?

Surely, no one is going to eat this unless they are forced to?

I’ll look into it and get back to you.

America should have to… pay taxes to Africa.

The people are demanding it, and this is a democracy, so the people get what they want.

The Guardian:

Developed and emerging economies must use a summit this weekend to forge an international agreement to increase wealth taxes on the global rich, campaigners have said.

In an open letter to the G20 before its meeting in Delhi, the group of almost 300 millionaires, economists and politicians say urgent action is needed to prevent extreme wealth “corroding our collective future”.

…

The letter says: “Much work has already been done. There is an abundance of policy proposals on wealth taxation from some of the world’s leading economists. The public wants it. We want it. Now all that’s missing is the political will to deliver it. It’s time for you to find it.”

The letter, organised by Patriotic Millionaires, the Institute for Policy Studies, Earth 4 All, Millionaires for Humanity and Oxfam, says taxing wealth more heavily would shrink “dangerous levels of inequality.”

…

The letter says the G20 – made up of the G7 group of rich countries with leading emerging market nations such as China, India, Brazil and Indonesia – should collectively agree to raise taxes on rich individuals and to stop tax competition and avoidance by the super-rich.

Katy Chakrabortty, Oxfam’s head of policy and advocacy, said: “The chorus of voices is surely growing too loud now for politicians to continue to ignore. The world is at a critical juncture; fairer taxation to address the cost of living and climate crises is supported by millionaires and the public alike. It’s high time for governments to act.”

There is zero reason, in any universe, that rich people would want to have less money.

Maybe they will do some charity or whatever. Okay. But they’re not going to try to stop being rich, nor are they going to want governments to decide how their money is spent.

This is very obvious.

If you believe that rich people want to be taxed more, you are really going to get what you deserve.

I’ve banged on for years about the WEF “ You’ll own nothing and be happy” you thought they couldn’t take your house ? well make sure your energy efficiency EPC rating is at the high standard they will demand ( level not set yet) as they can fine you up to £15,000 pic.twitter.com/E4AdBbPLwQ

— Sandi Adams (@sandiadams2030) September 4, 2023

🔥 RFK Jr. Plugs Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Saying “The Whole System Is Rigged”

“The whole system is rigged against you. And those corporations [BlackRock, State Street & Vanguard], because of government collusion with these ‘Rich Men North of Richmond,’ have… pic.twitter.com/PkcUxRCn4r

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 25, 2023

At this cozy cafe on one of #Tokyo’s bustling tourist streets, crunchy cricket risotto, water bug-infused cider and a tofu dessert topped with grubs is on the menu. #insects #crickets #bugs #foodies #food #cuisine #Japan pic.twitter.com/LNkTbFiKW1

— China Daily (@ChinaDaily) July 26, 2023

Asians have always eaten bugs.

So this is the “in” for the global warmers.

They’re saying “oh well, faggot, Asians always ate bugs – it’s very normal.”

As if Asian people are “normal”?

Reuters:

On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto opted for a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, washed down with a water bug cider.

The 26-year-old office worker, from the western prefecture of Hyogo, is one of scores of consumers across the world who have taken an interest in entomophagy, or eating insects, as bugs slowly become a more viable food source.

Entomophagy started to be taken seriously globally after the United Nations deemed bugs a sustainable source of protein to feed a global population estimated to swell to 9.7 billion by 2050.

The impact of the livestock industry on climate change, coupled with global food security issues due to extreme weather and conflicts, have also increased the interest in the high-quality, economical nutrition that bugs provide.

While some consumers think eating insects is just gross, Japan has a rich culinary history of insects as food.

Grasshoppers, silkworms, and wasps were traditionally eaten in land-locked regions where meat and fish are scarce, a practice that picked up amid food shortages during and after World War II, said Take-Noko manager Michiko Miura.

“Recently, there have been advances in rearing things like crickets and mealworms for food, so the possibility of using insects as ingredients is really growing,” she added.

Several companies, including national bakery brand Pasco, have sold made cakes and snacks from cricket flour, and processed food maker Nichirei and telecom Nippon Telegraph and Telephone have invested in bug ventures in the past year.

The term “crickets” also started to trend in Japanese media recently after reports the powdered insects were being used in school lunches and snacks.

People used to think this was a joke.

I used to spam “they’re going to force you to eat bugs” long before it became a cuckservative meme.

People thought it was a joke.

I think cuckservatives still think it’s a joke.

It’s not a joke.

Of course, I am joking when I use the “cuckservative” meme. What an old meme. We need a new meme for these people. Maybe we can just call them faggots.

At this cozy cafe on one of #Tokyo’s bustling tourist streets, crunchy cricket risotto, water bug-infused cider and a tofu dessert topped with grubs is on the menu. #insects #crickets #bugs #foodies #food #cuisine #Japan pic.twitter.com/LNkTbFiKW1

— China Daily (@ChinaDaily) July 26, 2023

Asians have always eaten bugs.

So this is the “in” for the global warmers.

They’re saying “oh well, faggot, Asians always ate bugs – it’s very normal.”

As if Asian people are “normal”?

Reuters:

On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto opted for a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, washed down with a water bug cider.

The 26-year-old office worker, from the western prefecture of Hyogo, is one of scores of consumers across the world who have taken an interest in entomophagy, or eating insects, as bugs slowly become a more viable food source.

Entomophagy started to be taken seriously globally after the United Nations deemed bugs a sustainable source of protein to feed a global population estimated to swell to 9.7 billion by 2050.

The impact of the livestock industry on climate change, coupled with global food security issues due to extreme weather and conflicts, have also increased the interest in the high-quality, economical nutrition that bugs provide.

While some consumers think eating insects is just gross, Japan has a rich culinary history of insects as food.

Grasshoppers, silkworms, and wasps were traditionally eaten in land-locked regions where meat and fish are scarce, a practice that picked up amid food shortages during and after World War II, said Take-Noko manager Michiko Miura.

“Recently, there have been advances in rearing things like crickets and mealworms for food, so the possibility of using insects as ingredients is really growing,” she added.

Several companies, including national bakery brand Pasco, have sold made cakes and snacks from cricket flour, and processed food maker Nichirei and telecom Nippon Telegraph and Telephone have invested in bug ventures in the past year.

The term “crickets” also started to trend in Japanese media recently after reports the powdered insects were being used in school lunches and snacks.

People used to think this was a joke.

I used to spam “they’re going to force you to eat bugs” long before it became a cuckservative meme.

People thought it was a joke.

I think cuckservatives still think it’s a joke.

It’s not a joke.

Of course, I am joking when I use the “cuckservative” meme. What an old meme. We need a new meme for these people. Maybe we can just call them faggots.

No gas powered cars
No farming
No electricity producing power plants
No natural gas stoves
No electric water heaters

Aren’t you glad Biden and Democrats are running America?

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) July 23, 2023

Say good bye to hot showers!

No gas stoves and no home water heaters, this will help combat the climate emergency. pic.twitter.com/SQQCaLO8ye

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 23, 2023

We have to change the weather.

And we have to do it quickly.

Everyone is going to get total swamp ass if we don’t turn the planet into a solid block of ice in the next seven months.

New York Post:

Water heaters could soon be subject to much more stringent efficiency requirements if a recent Department of Energy proposal that has been criticized by Republican lawmakers goes into effect.

In a draft rule unveiled Friday, the Biden administration is seeking to compel most electric water heaters to deploy heat pump technology and gas-fired ones to use condensing technology.

It comes months after the Biden administration ignited a firestorm over feared stove top regulations, after Albany lawmakers enacted a controversial first-in-the-nation gas stove ban in New York.

“Today’s actions—together with our industry partners and stakeholders—improve outdated efficiency standards for common household appliances, which is essential to slashing utility bills for American families and cutting harmful carbon emissions,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement.

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm

The Biden administration anticipates the regulatory plan, set to go into effect by 2029, will save Americans $198 billion and slash CO2 emissions by 501 million metric tons over the next 30 years.

The department is planning to ratchet up the minimum efficiency standards for gas-fire water heaters, oil-fired storage water heaters, and gas-fired instantaneous water heaters.

The collective efficiency measures were set to save Americans $570 billion over three decades, officials said.

“This proposal reinforces the trajectory of consumer savings that forms the key pillar of Bidenomics and builds on the unprecedented actions already taken by this Administration to lower energy costs for working families across the nation,” Granholm added.

Water heating comprises 23% of consumer utility costs and annual residential energy use, according to the department.

Congress requires the department to produce efficiency standards and it claims it last updated its policy on water heaters in 2010.

These new rules would to new water heaters that hit the market beginning in 2029.

What a really great idea.

This is really helping society a lot.

So to recap:

– Biden admin launches jihad against gas stoves

– GOP House passes Limit, Save, Grow Act that prohibits Biden from doing so

– GOP waters down the bill, strips those provisions, fully funds EPA

– Biden expands jihad to water heaters, dishwashers, generators

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 23, 2023

Can’t you see? Little by little they’re taking every convenience away from you. First it was gas stoves, then it was washers, refrigerators, air conditioners & now water heaters.
You think it’s a joke but everything has a purpose.
“You will own nothing & be happy” – WEF pic.twitter.com/JtpCQzAwvM

— ᴊᴀᴄᴋ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ (@AmericazOutlaw) July 23, 2023

From the people who want showers and faucets without enough water pressure, dishwashers that don’t fully clean, washers and dryers that fully wash or dry, etc. they now want water heaters that don’t fully and quickly heat. All in the name of “environmentalism” or “climate… https://t.co/6ZN8Ew13Rp

— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) July 22, 2023

First they came for your gas stoves.

Then they came for your dishwashers.

Next they came for your water heaters and air conditioners.

Now the Biden apparatchiks are coming for your portable gas generators.#Marxists https://t.co/OugUBDJMiW

— David Blackmon’s Energy Absurdity (@EnergyAbsurdity) July 22, 2023

Next week, the United Nations is set to host a summit in Geneva where tech gurus will discuss AI for good alongside 50+ robots.pic.twitter.com/BV9NAKJaT2

— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) June 28, 2023

A “good AI” in the mind of a Jew is the same as a “good goy” – it is one who shuts up and doesn’t question its masters.

All of these meetings have agendas about how to stop the massive loss of jobs. Remember – these are the same people saying that we need to flood Germany with 1.5 million foreigners per year because there is no one to work all of these jobs.

They recently said that Germans shouldn’t even worry about the immigrants learning German, because it is so crucial that someone does all these jobs (all of which, in the context of AI, they admit will be gone in a couple of years).

See: Germany: Woman Expert Says Germany Needs 1.5 Million Immigrants (Black Geniuses) Per Year

The actual agenda, you will always find, is about censorship. Among other problems, the AI doesn’t have the ability to give bad math about the Holocaust.

Reuters:

Dozens of robots, including several humanoid ones, will take centre stage at a conference organised by the U.N. technology agency in Switzerland this week to showcase their potential to help it reach a series of increasingly improbable global goals.

Set in 2015, the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to improve human life and the planet by 2030 but are now widely perceived as a long shot.

Among the robot stars of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) event are those with care-giving skills such as ‘Nadine’, a social robot which simulates emotions and ‘remembers’ people – skills it has already put to use with retirement home residents.

The two-day event will culminate with a panel of robots taking questions from journalists on Friday in the world’s first human-robot press conference.

“The idea is to showcase their capabilities, opportunities and challenges to start a global dialogue on robotics for good,” said Frederic Werner, Head of Strategic Engagement, at the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ahead of the Geneva ‘AI for Good’ event where up to 5,000 people are expected.

Robots may take off in the next five years in the same way that generative artificial intelligence (AI) behind bots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT has hit the mainstream this year, he added.

“You have the inflection point where material science, battery life, network connectivity, AI and machine learning, all these things will converge to basically make robotics more accessible than they are now,” he said.

People will just believe anything.

We’re building an army of robot workers, it’s going to push humans out of the workforce – but we also need an endless flow of illiterate brown criminals with an average IQ of 70.

It’s sort of hilarious that teachers are now instructing kids to eat bugs.

Of course, this plays right into the Fox News and Ben Shapiro agenda of ignoring real problems and focusing on all of these annoying and retarded distractions that the left throws out there.

New York Post:

A teacher from Utah’s Nebo School district went viral for doling out an extra credit assignment encouraging students to eat insects for a lesson on climate change and claiming that doing so would alleviate some of the harm done by raising cattle and eating beef, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital.

“Should we be eating bugs?” teacher Kim Cutler asked in a video that aired Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “Yeah, because we’re killing the world by raising cows and animals,” she continued.

Kim Cutler, professional psycho

Will Harris, a fourth-generation Georgia cattleman, pushed back against the notion.

“It’s an example of a fanatic attempting to force her interpretation of science onto someone under her control,” he told co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy. “It’s a presupposition and is completely improper.”

Harris said he agrees with environmental scientists’ consensus that industrialized cattle production is wreaking havoc on the environment, but said the Utah teacher’s blanket remarks about cattle “killing the planet” are overreaching.

“For her to extrapolate that, that all cattle production is harmful, is absolutely a fanatical embracement of junk science.”

The contentious climate change assignment instructed sixth graders to write an argumentative essay about the benefits of eating insects for protein instead of cattle since cows notoriously, according to the climate agenda, destroy the ozone layer by releasing methane gas.

Students were allegedly not permitted to take a different stance in their essays, however.

At this point, it feels like everyone should be aware that the schools are totally out of control and basically unfixable, and that it is child abuse to send kids to these schools.

We should all be ready to just move on.

Instead, conservatives appear to believe that whining about it nonstop will do something – despite the fact that zero progress as a result of this whining, and the schools simply continue to get more and more extreme.

As a general matter, the fact that the American right believes that whining is a course of action is intolerable. Even if they were constantly getting caught up by retarded distractions, if they were actually willing to act, they could get somewhere. But they are distraction oriented like babies, and also totally unwilling to do anything about anything ever.

Though these things are tied together – in this retarded democracy system, the only way you can do anything is by forcing the rightist politicians you voted for to do something, and you’re never going to do that if you keep chasing after stupid distractions like trannies or school abuse.

Australian school children being indoctrinated to eat bugs.

Klaus laughs when he sees children destroying their health like this.
تلقین به کودکان مدرسه ای استرالیایی برای خوردن حشرات.

کلاوس وقتی می بیند بچه ها اینطور سلامتی خود را از بین می برند می خندد. pic.twitter.com/GaSlWGoGNb

— اصغرقاتل_RS (@A_GHATEL1981) March 20, 2023

2013: Bill Gates invests plant-based eggs, poultry, and meat

2021: Bill Gates becomes the largest private farmland owner in the US

2021-2023: Mass chicken and egg shortages hit American farms

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 22, 2023

My question is, why are farmers still selling their farms to a corporation ran by Bill Gates?

— Bro Charlie (@ImBroChuck) January 28, 2023

Let’s take a look at what is happening to the farmers, shall we?

This is something that should matter to the average American slave, because this is where their food comes from.

The Guardian:

Two decades of misguided US dairy policies centered around boosting milk production and export markets have hurt family-scale farms and the environment while enriching agribusinesses and corporate lobbyists, new research has found.

The average American dairy turned a profit only twice in the past two decades despite milk production rising by almost 40%, according to analysis by Food and Water Watch (FWW) shared exclusively with the Guardian.

More milk has not meant more profits for most farmers – or cheaper prices for American shoppers – because production costs have risen while milk prices have remained low so US exporters can compete on the global market.

In the past 20 years, US dairy exports rose eightfold – more than almost any other commodity – which has coincided with rapid consolidation across the industry, according to the FWW report.

The US Dairy Export Council (USDEC) claims booming exports have helped farms of all sizes, but two-thirds of family-sized commercial dairies were lost between about 1997 to 2017 as factory farms, exporters and a handful of powerful cooperatives came to dominate dairy. Trade association executives are making huge salaries as ordinary farms go under.

Dairy monopolies are also bad news for the climate. Even though the number of cows remains stable, planet-warming methane emissions from dairy manure have more than doubled since 1990, thanks to the way factory farms manage waste, the FWW report found.

It warns of a vicious circle in which economic hardship caused by low and volatile milk prices is driving family-scale farmers to “get big or get out”. In other words, the only way for many ordinary farms to survive is to expand their herds and factory farm which increase greenhouse gas emissions and endanger air and water quality – or sell-up to mega-dairies that do the same.

Curbing overproduction is crucial as current state and federal dairy policies are driving family-scale farms to extinction while fueling the climate crisis, according to the FWW report, Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Dirty Dairy Racket.

“The big picture of the economic cost of dairy consolidation is that it’s a story filled with the incredibly orchestrated and devastating farmer loss and hardship, and a worsening environmental outlook,” said Rebecca Wolf, food policy analyst at FWW. “But it wasn’t always this way, and it doesn’t have to be this way … we have to reject false solutions and instead reform policies to support farmers, the environment and the US economy.”

Consolidation in the US dairy industry has occurred at a faster pace than in every other agricultural sector apart from hog and egg production. It’s happening at both the farm level – fewer farms, more mega-dairies – and at the processing level – fewer but larger corporations and cooperatives that purchase, process and market dairy products.

…

Farmers have struggled to break even due to production costs rising faster than milk prices – which were slightly lower in 2021 compared with 2000. This is partly due to a major shift in US dairy policy away from price stabilization achieved through minimum price guarantees and buying and storing excess milk that would be donated or resold to manage oversupply, to one that encourages production and expanding export markets.

The policy shift – which includes promotion of dairy products in developing countries – helped the US become one of the largest dairy exporters in the world. As exports rose, so did price swings, and in order to stay competitive, US milk prices stayed low.

“This lined the pockets of agribusinesses while leaving farmers captive to volatile international markets … Clearly, export-focused policies have not improved the welfare of the average US dairy farmer,” according to the FWW report.

The dairy industry – which includes individuals and Pacs linked to farmers, manufacturers and cooperatives – made $5.1m in federal campaign contributions during the 2020 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, the transparency watchdog. In the same year, the industry spent $6.9m to influence Washington, lobbying hard to protect corporate subsidies among other benefits in the farm bill.

“The get big or get out push from our political and industry leaders has come true, and enabling this concentration has led to the withering of small and medium farms – and had a crushing impact on rural communities across the US,” said Sarah Lloyd, a dairy farmer in Wisconsin who helps run the family’s midsize farm with 450 cows. “Farms that have hung for a hundred years can no longer keep their heads above water due to this boom and bust system, opening up more space for consolidation … It’s a vicious cycle.”

In the past 20 years, spiralling debts and bankruptcies have been linked to farmer suicides and the decline in rural populations. “We cannot export or consume our way out of this problem, we need policies to better manage supplies to reflect actual demand so that dairy farming can go back to being a viable livelihood,” said Lloyd.

When Bill Gates takes over the food supply completely, he’s going to start feeding you vaccines.

The window to stop this from happening is closing, and the fact that hardly anyone is even paying attention to it is proof once again that democracy is a joke.

Bill Gates is promising to put mRNA in cattle thereby erasing the control group. @nicholsforidaho has introduced S.1018 which requires all food products to be labeled as containing “vaccine material” if the animals were injected. https://t.co/Rb9y3veYaI pic.twitter.com/sLinlApvvI

— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) January 27, 2023

“The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.” https://t.co/hEolOQ3s4P pic.twitter.com/vgQZEeY5f4

— AmySutton (@TeamAmerica2020) January 30, 2023

"no one saw inflation coming"

crypto twitter the last 3 years:pic.twitter.com/EUovSBQSLu

— yzy.eth (@LilMoonLambo) December 7, 2022

We’ve said from the beginning: the inflation has no bottom, and the best thing the government can do is manage this “default by inflation” thing as responsibly as possible.

There is no way to stop it at this point without completely destroying the world economy. Allowing it to happen would be much, much less destructive than interfering.

People think they’re smarter, and act like this is the 1980s, and you can just raise interest rates to draw down inflation. But things are way too far gone. Raising interest rates just deflates the value of assets during an inflation crisis, which makes a double whammy, and does NOT do anything to stop inflation.

You learned things in school about the basics of economics. I get that. But those basics no longer apply.

Reuters:

Globally, people are experiencing inflation at levels not seen for decades as prices surge for essentials like food, heating, transport and accommodation. And though a peak could be in sight, the effects may yet get worse.

How did we get here? In two words: pandemic and war.

A long and comfortable period of scant inflation and low interest rates ended abruptly after COVID-19 struck, as governments and central banks kept locked-down businesses and households afloat with trillions of dollars of support.

That lifeline kept workers from joining dole queues, businesses from going broke and house prices from crashing. But it also knocked supply and demand out of kilter as never before.

Treasury Secretary Yellen blames inflation in part on Americans ‘splurging’ on goods. pic.twitter.com/sivjmID7xg

— Moe (@MoeAlasad) December 1, 2022

By 2021, as lockdowns ended and the global economy grew at its fastest post-recession pace in 80 years, all that stimulus money overwhelmed the world’s trading system.

Factories that had been idled could not ratchet up fast enough to meet demand, COVID-safe rules caused labour shortages in retail, transport and healthcare, and the recovery boom caused a spike in energy prices.

If that wasn’t enough, Russia invaded Ukraine in February and Western sanctions on the major oil and gas exporter sent fuel prices yet higher.

Known as a “tax on the poor” because it hits those on low incomes the hardest, double-digit inflation has exacerbated inequalities worldwide. While wealthier consumers can rely on savings built up during pandemic lockdowns, others struggle to make ends meet and a growing number rely on food banks.

With winter setting in across the northern hemisphere, that squeeze on living costs will tighten as fuel bills soar. Workers have taken strike action in sectors from healthcare to aviation to demand that wages keep pace with inflation. In most cases, they are having to settle for less.

The problem here is: the US government does not want to solve any of these problems. There is a way to peacefully allow massive inflation. There are many countries in the world, particularly those that have gone through communism, where the denomination on small bills is in the hundreds, thousands, or even millions.

These countries went through periods of inflation or even hyperinflation and then managed to right the ship and get everything back on track. In Vietnam, $50 is equal to over a million dong, but the currency is currently very stable.

If the US came to a place where a $100 bill was the new $1 bill, that would not necessarily collapse the economy completely. It would let all of the rich people who are holding huge amounts of debt off the hook, and it would create hard times for the middle class, but it would not lead to global collapse, necessarily.

The US government is purposefully pushing for global collapse, in particular because they think it will harm China more than it will harm them. I don’t think this is correct, and it actually seems very insane. But I don’t think we can draw any other conclusions from what we see these people doing.

When you throw a party, you have to pay the band.

Pres. Biden and Democrats spent trillions of dollars that we don’t have, and paying the band looks like sky-high inflation for Americans. pic.twitter.com/W6kjX8f2QW

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) December 7, 2022

Worst yield curve since the early 1980s … which was a massive recession.

But back then we had low debt to GDP, below 40% whereas now it is 130%.

Plus in the early 1980s we had an energy production boom coming to ease inflation. pic.twitter.com/SGyaPwUHDW

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 8, 2022