QOTD: ARE WE HEADED INTO RECESSION, DEPRESSION, OR ARMAGEDDON?

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The economy is already in a recession, they just haven’t told you yet. They need to get their money out of the stock market before they tell you to panic. Will this just be a standard recession, the next great depression, or the end of our economic system as we know it?

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Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia
July 12, 2022 2:04 pm

At least a depression is headed our way. If the current cast of characters stay in charge, then Armageddon, here we come. If some level-headed people gain control of the reins, then we might get lucky and only suffer thru a depression for a few years.

A “soft-landing” from the current crisis is not in the cards.

Gary
Gary
  Trapped in Portlandia
July 12, 2022 6:57 pm

From my point of view, no level-headed individual would attempt to take control of the reins…power corrupts.

Winchester
Winchester
July 12, 2022 2:27 pm

Depression, followed shortly by Armageddon.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  Winchester
July 12, 2022 7:53 pm

Channeling my inner Joe Biden,

“Bofe, all three.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Colorado Artist
July 12, 2022 10:44 pm

Agree, let’s invite all three and make it a party.

ICE-9
ICE-9
July 12, 2022 2:30 pm

None of the above. We’re heading towards the Great Reset. And if you want an analogy for what it will be like, do some research on the Black Death.

Marky
Marky
  ICE-9
July 12, 2022 2:48 pm

All the above is the Great Reset

realestatepup
realestatepup
  ICE-9
July 12, 2022 3:16 pm

Ice-9 (by the way, one of my fav Vonnegut Books, love the reference), I have faith evil men will not win.
They have been planning their BS for a long time but so has good.
And ya know….no plan survives first contact with the enemy.
the New World Order has been rebranded as the Liberal World Order. Good ol’ Henry Kiss-my-ass-inger is the BEST when it comes to ‘benevolent despotism’.
If anyone took just 10 minutes to see the absolute clown world the so-called leaders of this absolute cluster fuck are, you seriously cannot help but laugh.
1. Klaus Schwab
The man looks like Count Dracula’s super boring uncle. He takes himself VERY seriously. If he laughed I think his lower jaw would fall off.
2. George Soros
We all know how I feel about The Emperor. Dude, you’re a bajillionaire. Get those Sealy posturepedics under your eyes taken care of.
3. Bill Gates
I cannot listen to him talk without laughing. That goofy grin, the stupid stories of his sex swim parties. His creepy friendship with Epstein. Yuck.
4. Hillary Clinton
Where to start. The fingernails-on-a-chalkboard voice or the fact that she seems to avoid professional hair dressing like the plague? I preferred the sprayed helmet Hill. Loose the Catholic Schoolgirl head bands it’s a bad look.
5. Jeff Bezos
He’s been particularly silent since the whole divorce. I am thinking there was a LOT of bad juju the ex-Mrs. Bezos had on this doofus. Again with the weird eyes.
6. Joe/Jill/Kamala
I group them all in because all together they barely have the brain power of one normal person.
Ever see The In Laws? The original one with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin? The Generalissimo is Joe Biden. No joke.
7. Anthony Fauci
This guy is wrong every time all the time. Wrong on AIDS. Wrong on Covid. Wrong on Masks. Wrong on the vaccines 😶.
This is a man, that with a straight face, told members of Congress that he believed the Chinese would never, NEVER do research the US didn’t approve of. So I guess that means the US knew and approved? Because the other statement is either a gross lie or gross incompetence.
8. Nancy Pelosi
My favorite member of congress to watch speak. She needs stronger denture cream. Old Vulcan hands. Live long and prosper Nan. Just don’t do it in a bikini in public. Thanks.
9. Governor Whitmer
Please.
10. Former Governor Cuomo and his idiot brother
A farce. So New YAWK it hurts. The gigantic Q tip gag…the gubernatorial nipple rings…Sigh. Was anyone really shocked Hizzoner was a groper?
11. Maxine Waters
Where to begin? The perpetually gaffed-fish face or the grift of paying family to print campaign ‘postcards’ for a 6 figure salary. My favorite is when she stood amongst a crowd of homeless voters in a snazzy pantsuit that probably cost $2000 and told them there were no more housing vouchers and to ‘go home’. Tell ya what Maxie, how about we trade duffs? Gimme your Donna Karan pantsuit for my Army/Navy sweats and I’ll pawn yours and have a place to live for a month. Throw in the shoes and make it 2 months.
12. AOC
This is a person who was befuddled by an Insinkerator for more than 5 minutes on a live stream. Nuff said.
13. Ilhan Omar
What’s a little brother/sister marriage among congress members? It’s not like she had sex with the guy. Just some immigration fraud. Small potatoes.
14. The entire FBI
We see you. You suck.
15. Gavin Newsom
He is the one person you could absolutely convince me was a robot.
16. Admiral Rachel Levine
First of all, what is with the Navy get ups? I never understood it before and I still don’t. Seems silly.
But anyway. This person is giving the US HEALTH ADVICE.
17. Hunter Biden
This guy is like every crack head everywhere. He just has more money to do the dumb shit crack heads do. This is the type of guy you wouldn’t leave along for 2 minutes with your car because you’d get it back with burn holes in the seats and cum stains on the rug.
18. The entire FDA
We see you. You also suck.
19. Neil Young
Stop it Neil your embarrassing yourself. No one under 40 even knows who you are but they definitely know who Joe Rogan is. Tell Joni she can cut the shit too.
And lastly number 20
SARS-COV-19
Go fuck yourself and take Monkeypox with you.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  realestatepup
July 12, 2022 3:38 pm

Well done, sir!

Too long for a t-shirt but could be boiled down to “you all can just piss off”, as the blokes might say.

realestatepup
realestatepup
  Anonymous
July 12, 2022 3:44 pm

Not a sir but thank you.

Red River D
Red River D
  realestatepup
July 12, 2022 9:15 pm

“…AOC … This is a person who was befuddled by an Insinkerator for more than 5 minutes on a live stream…”

Well, since I have no idea what an Insinkerator is, if it isn’t an in-drain garbage disposal, I suppose I shouldn’t mock her too harshly for it. But I hasten to add, when I wax frustrated by this or that mechanism or gizmo, on account of it not doing what I think it should, I generally unholster my six shooter and make it DIE!!! But I’m impatient, so it never takes five minutes of frustration. More like thirty seconds.

Point being, someone should put me on a live stream rather than AOC. I guarantee I’d be more entertaining.

realestatepup
realestatepup
  Red River D
July 13, 2022 1:37 pm

Insinkerator is simply the brand name for garbage disposal.
The woman’s brain strikes me as a burning field of tires.

Red River D
Red River D
  realestatepup
July 14, 2022 3:14 pm

Impenetrable smoke!!!

Your creative word picture has merit.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  realestatepup
July 12, 2022 4:33 pm

“Well done, sir!” in spades. with humor. Daily Double.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  realestatepup
July 12, 2022 5:16 pm

Another awesome Pup rant. You left off the real robot, Zuckerberg.

mark
mark
  TN Patriot
July 12, 2022 6:35 pm

Yep…the pup is a Big Dog ranter…never miss her biting growls!

Don’t let this face fool you…just saying…
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Red River D
Red River D
  TN Patriot
July 12, 2022 9:21 pm

Governor Hairdo reminds me more of one of those non-articulating rubber sex dolls. But when it comes to actual automaton robots, HANDS DOWN Mark Faceberg is the clear winner. There’s no way that little prick doesn’t have circuits and wires secreted up his ass. That’s why he has so much security all the time. If not, someone would chop him in half just to get a look inside at the mechanics.

Probably made in China.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Red River D
July 12, 2022 10:47 pm

The probability is high. Even the USA’s fighter jets have parts made in China.

realestatepup
realestatepup
  TN Patriot
July 13, 2022 1:35 pm

He is 100% either a robot or a lizard person. Or a robot with a lizard person driver, like the alien in Men in Black.
Science fiction? I think not. The Bizarro World people simply must be aliens.

scott henson
scott henson
  realestatepup
July 12, 2022 9:13 pm

Haha, awesome list!

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist
  realestatepup
July 12, 2022 11:56 pm

I shall simply ammo up, practice Irish Democracy, and prepare for a different
life than I thought I would have thought I would have 25 years ago.
I am quite comfortable living in the wilderness. Most wouldn’t survive a week there.

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald
July 12, 2022 2:31 pm

All of the above?

m
m
  Lee Harvey Griswald
July 12, 2022 3:38 pm

No question mark needed:
All of the above!

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 12, 2022 2:37 pm

what, is it a trick question? all three, one after the other.

CCRider
CCRider
July 12, 2022 2:40 pm

I’m betting on depression but preparing for armageddon.

Marky
Marky
July 12, 2022 2:45 pm

ARE WE HEADED INTO RECESSION, DEPRESSION, OR ARMAGEDDON?

All the above in that order. edited Seems like the popular answer too by looking at other comments.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
July 12, 2022 2:49 pm

First, stagflation. Which leads to…
Deflationary depression. Which leads to…
Scattered civil wars around the USA, Red Vs. Blue.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  lamont cranston
July 12, 2022 2:59 pm

Neighbor or versus neighbor. There will be no “front lines” when it comes.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston
  MrLiberty
July 12, 2022 4:08 pm

Agreed. Thankfully, there’s only a 2 lane bridge to the island we live on. Before then, you’d have to drive 5+ miles through another island with tons of retired USMC personnel.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 12, 2022 3:03 pm

June IRA statements are out and we are to late .
Asset value down over $60k .
So any of you retired former government employees think we out here in piss over land are going to be taxed to keep your retirement complete and untouched there will be Armageddon

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 12, 2022 3:06 pm

Some OLD joke about a traveling salesman who wanted to surprise his kids with a pet. Monkey, from some kinda road-side attraction. Don’t remember all the particulars but it involved a miniature horse or donkey?
The monkey and miniature horse/donkey were ‘ inseparable ‘ for some reason, so some kinda ‘deal’ was made for both. The latter suddenly became afflicted with diarrhea.

Solution: ‘cork’ the quadruped, put BOTH in the trunk, just in case.

Upon arrival, the trunk was brimming. Finally, after much frantic scooping, The last corner revealed the monkey. One arm wrapped around his face for protection, the other outstretched with the cork, futilely trying to replace the cork.

Going with “The END is Near” for this article…But there has to be a Rainbow, and possibly a Unicorn involved, SOMEWHERE, in ALL this shit.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 12, 2022 3:17 pm

Stagflation.

Then depression.

Eventually Armageddon.

Herc
Herc
July 12, 2022 4:02 pm

The 2000 should have been a recession but was avoided by manipulation which created the should have been 2008 depression which was avoided by manipulation which created the 2023 Armageddon ..(which i pray we can avoid through manipulation) to 2030 when asteroid shows up and blows up the planet

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 12, 2022 4:38 pm

A great neck tie party followed by a reset to the gold standard. Problem solved.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
July 12, 2022 4:44 pm

It’s kind of odd to fixate on the proper term to use. What difference does it make what you call it?

Had an interesting conversation with an electrician friend this morning regarding certain parts and he says the time frame right now have all been reset to “52 weeks”. While it doesn’t apply to everything it does to the kinds of things he installs further upcreek than the residential installations. I suspect- although I didn’t say it- that once we get there the new target will be never.

This is the end of the world as we know it- not human life of course- but the one we all were familiar with and it is never going to come back. Reset works for me because that takes you back to square one in terms of determining what is essential and what was simply a life of luxury we confused with necessities.

Food, family, friends, and fitness are the only currency that is going to matter in the future, best get to work at making sure you’re stocked up on all of them.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  hardscrabble farmer
July 12, 2022 4:49 pm

Faith?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Abigail Adams
July 12, 2022 6:24 pm

Yes Faith first and foremost. This is a Spiritual war we’re in and the worst is just around the corner.

Only the willfully blind fail to see the demonic outpouring of chaos and the Freaks who come with it. Soon the brown hordes will be given the green light and the real reset will be apparent to even the spiritual dullards who, lacking any moral compass will join in the demonic feeding frenzy when our own tailor made ISIS will show up out of nowhere just like it did in Syria.
Without faith you will succumb to the evil and be eaten by it.
Glad to cheer you guys up.

BL
BL
  Abigail Adams
July 12, 2022 7:10 pm

Is it a little bit (easy) for those who have large farms and connections to be advising those who don’t that going back to square one is OK, when we know that they will not be affected. Tell a guy with a 8 x 10 balcony in a high rise condo who can’t raise food or livestock how OK he’ll be when he goes back to that magical “square one”. It doesn’t “work” for 99% of the people who could possibly loose EVERYTHING including their life, but I’m REALLY glad it works for you special people.

Some people have worked their selves to death in their lifetime for what they have and they don’t have half the luxuries you enjoy. Glad to know it’s OK to have everything turn to shit because they need to give up (their) luxuries.

Red River D
Red River D
  BL
July 12, 2022 9:34 pm

That kind of bitterness is a cancer.

There will always be someone with more shit than you and a seemingly better life.

ATTITUDE CHECK!!!

Bitterness also makes a man weak when he most needs to be strong.

BL
BL
  Red River D
July 12, 2022 10:08 pm

Yes, you are right that attitudes need to be checked. No luxuries for you Red, you’ll have nothing and be happy. Remember what you say when that day comes for you.

Square one tolls for you too.

Red River D
Red River D
  BL
July 12, 2022 11:59 pm

I’m not the one belly-aching, BL.

I know where I stand and to WHOM I answer.

BL
BL
  Red River D
July 13, 2022 11:46 am

Red , If you read the comments prior, you would understand WTF I’m talking about. Stop blubbering that I’m bitter and belly-aching, I’m countering arrogance. Join in any time when you are on the right page.

Red River D
Red River D
  BL
July 14, 2022 3:14 pm

What is it you think I missed?

rhs jr
rhs jr
  BL
July 14, 2022 3:35 pm

Do something intelligent BL instead of complaining about the folks that have already made the tough move; it took a lot of risk and hard work on my part and probably most others. 99.9% of my buddies are still living in a shit-hole town when they could be my neighbors.

Red River D
Red River D
  rhs jr
July 14, 2022 4:21 pm

“…it took a lot of risk and hard work on my part and probably most others…”

I thought that went without saying, but apparently not so much. I guess resenting the fellas who broke their asses preparing is something certain folks find to be a viable option.

And there might still be time for preparation, which is a gift not to be sneezed at or squandered.

Guys like Hardscrabble Farmer are a model to be imitated — not a target for resentment.

BL surprised me with his words. Seems so obvious from where I stand. But nobody likes to be preached at, so…

…probably should have kept my thoughts to myself.

NAH!!!

King of the Trolls
King of the Trolls
  Red River D
July 14, 2022 4:43 pm

rhs and Red- Nice try, BL like Stucky and Flash (today) was pointing out that we don’t all marry into big $$$ and to condemn others to the curb because they don’t have the means to raise food/nor the land, is no reason to smugly say they are going back to square one and it will be good enough for them. I really don’t give a shit if you like it or not, got that? Square one means NOTHING, starting over….let that sink in.

The uber-wealthy won’t be starting over from square one, get over yourselves. Lapdog much?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  King of the Trolls
July 14, 2022 4:55 pm

Where do you come up with this stuff?

Prepare/don’t prepare, your call.

King of the Trolls
King of the Trolls
  hardscrabble farmer
July 14, 2022 5:00 pm

Says the guy with the luxury, that will not be at risk, everyone else back to square one. Some of us are prepared, that was not the point.

King of the Trolls
King of the Trolls
  rhs jr
July 14, 2022 5:33 pm

rhs- A guy walks into a huge executive office with the marble walls and the marble floors in the high rise ivory tower and sits down at the fancy desk provided by his father who owns the company. The guy rears back in his chair and declares what a huge success he has become. Is that who you refer to as a guy who made “the tough move”? Think about it.

Lots of us made the tough move, nobody ever gave me anything and I certainly don’t consider people who live average lives are looking for “luxury” to buy their measly weeks worth of food at the store and not have to farm their backyard to eat. Do you think access to food is a “luxury”. Is that intelligent enough for you?

Red River D
Red River D
  King of the Trolls
July 14, 2022 8:06 pm

Ride the bitterness, fella.

Everyone has problems. Some traffic in excuses as if they were specie or currency. The LORD provides, as He sees fit, when He sees fit.

Nobody here was making small of any man’s position or circumstances.

Men are inclined to hard work and a right attitude, or they’re inclined to resentment and making excuses.

I’ve been blessed by the LORD, no two ways about it. But it would NEVER occur to me to snipe at men in a better position than me, because they’ve supposedly had it easier than me.

I’m not judging BL. But I tabled my thoughts because sometimes a man just needs to hear the obvious spelled out for him in black-and-white. Considering what IS COMING, it will not go well for him to harbor such a mindset. Nor will it go well for any man who harbors a similar mindset.

What’s coming may get us anyway, but it will get us sure if we’ve done nothing to prepare.

These are simple, albeit sometimes very painful, lessons of life in this unforgiving world.

Red River D has said all he has to say on the subject, and he hopes his saying has in no way given offense to the KING, who Himself is the Author and Finisher of each man’s estate.

Red River D
Red River D
  hardscrabble farmer
July 12, 2022 9:36 pm

Night vision, Archie. Or thermal. Or both if you can afford it.

Get that shit. THEN close your circle!!!

Walt
Walt
July 12, 2022 4:45 pm

ARE WE HEADED INTO RECESSION, DEPRESSION, OR ARMAGEDDON?

All of the above.
Those in the know refer to it as Redeprageddon. And they would know – they caused it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 12, 2022 5:13 pm

ARE WE HEADED INTO RECESSION, DEPRESSION, OR ARMAGEDDON?

Yes.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
July 12, 2022 5:16 pm

That’s the same question we’ve been asking for the last 12 years so, I’ll say we’re headed into 12 more years of the same question.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
July 12, 2022 5:26 pm

I prefer the term dissolution, after the recession and depression. The good old U S of A is soon to be tits up with the apex predators gobbling up the best parts while the hyenas get what they can and the buzzards get what is left.

Within a year of slinking away from a 10-year Afghanistan debacle, the USSR was done as an entity. The U S of A is coming up on a year since we slinked away from that same sand box with our tails between our legs. History does not repeat, but there is a reason Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires.

Warren
Warren
July 12, 2022 8:56 pm

We
are going to see a catabolic civilian collapse.. A 1177 BC scenario.
Sadly it didn’t have to happen. But no more mean tweets. So it’s all good.

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Warren
July 14, 2022 3:38 pm

That was a Grand Solar Minimum event too.

Stucky
Stucky
July 12, 2022 10:35 pm

We are looking at the end of Western Civilization.

The truly brilliant Michael Hudson discuss just that —> “The End of Western Civilization – Why It Lacks Resilience, and What Will Take Its Place’

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https://thesaker.is/michael-hudson-the-end-of-western-civilization-why-it-lacks-resilience-and-what-will-take-its-place/

Yes, The Saker is back online.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  Stucky
July 14, 2022 5:05 pm

Thanks Stucky, good find – he knows his business. I got some odd emails today from my credit card companies (2 and I don’t believe in coincidences) cutting my purchase interest rate in half – 2 of them so far. This is very odd, never happened in my lifetime? Is something big going down I wonder? JPM’s report today was downbeat.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
July 12, 2022 10:42 pm

Deadly NATO Weaponry is Forcing Russia to Annex Ukraine

Armageddon may short circuit the first two choices. Special meeting being called to possibly declare war on Ukraine Friday and the EU has rich targets that are likely to force war on all of us.

https://henrymakow.com/

BL
BL
  Fleabaggs
July 12, 2022 10:57 pm

Putin’s lowering the boom on 07/15.

Stucky
Stucky
  Fleabaggs
July 12, 2022 11:05 pm

Here an escalation, there an escalation, everywhere an escalation, e-i-e-i-o! Then ….KABOOM, mushroom clouds.

I don’t understand how in the fuck these Western weapons are making it to the front lines. Doesn’t Russia have a Rand McNally map of Ukraine? How fucken hard would it be for Russia to bomb EVERY road, bridge, and rail leading into Ukraine from Poland?

Is Putin over reacting? My understanding is that at least two of the original 4 HIMARS have already been destroyed.

Here’s a destroyed ‘Murikan howitzer. Your tax dollars wisely spent.

https://youtu.be/1nq7GQ_ygnA

Well, a formal declaration of war will at least open up new areas for Russia to target ….. like the Parliament Building in Kiev, with the Piano Dickman inside!

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Stucky
July 12, 2022 11:13 pm

That same thing has been plaguing me too. It can’t be flown in and I thought I read early on that Russia had bombed the rail bridges coming over the rivers from Europe. Something smells in Denmark.

Red River D
Red River D
  Fleabaggs
July 13, 2022 12:02 am

The liars are feeding us more lies than we thought?

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
July 12, 2022 11:40 pm

Hoping for a comet or asteroid.

Red River D
Red River D
  MrLiberty
July 13, 2022 12:06 am

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Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
July 13, 2022 2:47 am

A Great Depression 2 is baked in – no relief now as economic growth fed by fossil fuels has ended:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-the-end?s=w

Current metrics:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/most-important-chart-macro-cyclical-components-gdp

rhs jr
rhs jr
  Austrian Peter
July 14, 2022 3:41 pm

Oils yes but we have a thousand years of coal.

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
  rhs jr
July 14, 2022 4:56 pm

True and SA makes diesel from it. Messy stuff but we will have some FF to use.

Daddy Joe
Daddy Joe
July 13, 2022 9:33 am

All Three.

card802
card802
July 13, 2022 12:57 pm

On a job site this morning, the job foreman is a christian, leads a prepper and Bible group.

He thinks within the next year the Tribulation will begin, so obviously he’s been stocking up on food, ammo, etc.

rhs jr
rhs jr
July 14, 2022 3:17 pm

It is recession, depression, chaos, tyranny, war, apocalypse, destruction of the liberals and evil, last minute rescue by Jesus of the remnant Christian Meek.