Imagine if the government gave you $200 million because of your race. Because, they tell you, of wrongdoing against your great-great-great-great grandparents (who may or may not have been actual victims of the injustice). How would you feel about getting this huge sum of money for that reason? Would you feel you deserve it, and that it’s fair? What about people of different races who don’t get the money? Their taxes go up, the price of goods goes up because of the significant inflation created by unprecedented government benefits. Your cost of living goes up too, but you can now afford it. Would you feel sorry for people of other races who don’t get the money, and who must struggle now to ensure your status as a millionaire? Will all this help or hurt your self-esteem and emotional state? What about their self-esteem and emotional state? Do you care? Do you think they will now treat and view you the same, now that you are a millionaire because of your DNA, and they are not, because of their DNA?

No dystopian novelist could ever have dreamed up this scenario. Yet this is exactly where California is headed. Other blue states will follow. The permanently blue federal government, thanks to election fraud, will attempt to force something like it down our throats, even in red or purple states. When they’re talking slave reparations, they’re talking BIG BIG BUCKS. And ensuring social strife like the world has never seen.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”

— C.S. Lewis

Biden way behind in every poll? IT DOES NOT MATTER. We still have mail-in voting. We still have DemComs in control of Philadelphia, Atlanta, greater Phoenix, Wisconsin, and Michigan. We still have all the means of ballot fraud perpetrated in 2020 that will be used again, plus new methods, no doubt.

And, most importantly: The fraudsters know they can so whatever the hell they want because nobody–absolutely nobody–in media or government has held them accountable, or will ever hold them accountable. Stop dreaming we can hope for an honest election, and start planning on how to liberate us from 21st century tyranny! [One suggestion: ConventionofStates.com]

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

It has NOTHING to do with “transgenders.” These poor lost, often suicidal souls are merely board pieces in a power game played by totalitarians.

The actual purpose of the insanity of our era? To destroy our cognition. If we become unable even to acknowledge the existence of something as self-evident as the difference between a boy and a girl — well then, they’ve got us.

But they know full well they cannot actually destroy our cognition. We can only do that to ourselves. Human cognition, over the centuries, gave us the space ship, the jet airplane, and the microchip. Human cognition also gave us the gulag, the concentration camps and the Middle Ages.

They’re appealing to the worst within us; not the best. As we saw with Galileo, the Salem witch trials and (most recently) with COVID hysteria, appealing to the worst within us often works.

The goal is not to get us to believe there’s no such thing as male or female. That’s absurd. The goal is to get us to PRETEND that we believe it. Pretending is all they want. Pretending proves we’re afraid of them. Once they see we’re afraid — well, the rest will be easy.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

I understand the sentiments of people excited about DeSantis, Trump 2.0 or even RFK, Jr., but — in all honesty — it’s too late for elections. We will need a Convention of states, or secession, or else we just continue to roll over for the Communist fascist freaks. Those are the choices. Republicans will NOT carry Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Arizona in the general election, no matter how many votes they get. This ensures a narrow and undoubtedly false Dem victory. These nasty totalitarians will absolutely not give up power, and if they think Biden’s going to lose, we will see something (in 2024) that makes 2020 look like a day at the beach. I promise.

I am not being negative. I am basing this on 100 percent experience of the last 3-4 years, and am trying to prepare you for what’s coming.

As Jim Crupi wrote in reply, on Facebook:

I agree, and the fact that the Supreme Court will not even consider looking at the fraud data being provided in many of these states, and the fact that these same states are not following their own Constitution regarding election laws/processes shows we are doomed, and after next week, the flood of non-citizens coming here to overwhelm us with chaos and destruction…we have already lost. Without a Convention of States and Term Limits, the frauds that are running both parties will continue this path simply because none of it affects them, their finances or their lifestyle.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Learn more about Convention of States HERE.

We often post articles from “fringe” economists and doomsayers because financial tidings certainly seem to have been heading in the wrong direction ever since the pandemic started, made far worse by insane policies from the Biden-Harris regime. But not everyone has embraced the notion that the American economy is tanking, and we respect the optimism.

In fact, there are actually very good reasons to believe things are not going to fall apart completely, that we can recover quickly and turn things around. If we can survive the bad policies long enough for common sense to return to DC, the American fighting spirit and a wholesale rejection of “woke” fiscal maneuvers can help us rebound nicely in the coming years.

Recently, The Liberty Daily has taken on two precious metals sponsors. We did this because it benefits us when our readers purchase from them, but we hand-selected these two specifically because they act to benefit America. It’s shocking to learn how many companies in the industry donate to Democrats, work with the Chinese Communist Party, or both. Genesis Precious Metals and Our Gold Guy are America First companies.

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It doesn’t just make sense to move wealth or retirement to precious metals if the crap is about to hit the fan. It makes sense from a long-term perspective as well. Precious metals have retained some degree of value since the dawn of humanity. If this nation and the world as a whole are going to have an economic recovery, gold and silver will play very important roles in it. That’s why central banks and entire nations are buying up as much as they can.

If things keep heading south, precious metals offer security. If things recovery, precious metals have an opportunity to appreciate considerably.

According to APMEX:

If you are concerned about the volatility of the stock market, you’re not alone. The extreme highs and lows of the stock market often lead investors towards safe-haven assets, like bullion. Historically, the Precious Metals market has an inverse relationship with the stock market, meaning that when stocks are up, bullion is down and vice versa.

This inverse correlation holds firm even when the stock market has crashed. Though Gold and Silver don’t automatically rise with every fall in the stock market, history points to bullion as a hedge during stock market declines. Bullion allows you to be prepared for such catastrophes, providing you with a hedge against economic uncertainty.

But what if there’s a massive recovery? Does that mean gold and silver will tank since APMEX claims precious metals have an inverse relationship with the stock market? Not likely. As we learned during the Trump years, a rising stock market did NOT hurt precious metals prices. Gold jumped around 30% from the day Donald Trump was elected until the pandemic hit, then rose another 30% during the pandemic.

When things were good, prices moved up. When they were bad, prices still moved up.

Nobody knows if precious metals prices will continue to rise, but you’d be hard-pressed to find an economist today who’s anticipating prices will fall dramatically in the short- or long-term. The same cannot be said about the U.S. Dollar, cryptocurrency, or the stock market. Depending on who you ask, a major drop can occur sooner, later, or anywhere in between.

Gold and silver are the hedge millions of Americans are seeking in these turbulent economic times. As for those who believe we will recover, gold and silver are still the common sense play. Reach out to Genesis Precious Metals or Our Gold Guy and learn how they can help 

J.D. Rucker

This article is excerpted from chapter 20 “Toward The Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism” from George Reisman’s Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics (1996). See the Amazon.com author’s page for additional titles by Dr. Reisman.

The establishment of gold as money is essential to the achievement of a capitalist society. (What is said concerning gold, of course, also applies to silver. Furthermore, for reasons explained in the last chapter, the gold or silver money I speak of should be understood as a 100- percent gold or silver money–i.e., a 100-percent-reserve system–in which, apart from subsidiary token coinage, all money either literally is gold or silver or is receipts for gold or silver that are fully backed by same.)

The establishment of gold as money on these terms is necessary in order to end inflation and all of its destructive consequences. It is necessary in order to take the power to inflate–that is, to create money virtually out of thin air–out of the hands both of the government and of the banking system operating with the sanction of the government. It is necessary in order thereby to subordinate the government to the financial power of the citizens and to make people aware of the cost of government spending, and to end the arbitrary redistribution of wealth and income, the undermining of capital accumulation, the possibility of utter economic devastation either through wage and price controls or the ultimate destruction of money, and deflation, depression, and mass unemployment. It is also necessary for making possible the rapid and radical dismantling of the welfare state, by removing the threat of depression as an accompaniment of that process.

Because I have thoroughly discussed the role of gold and the methods for achieving a gold standard in the last part of the previous chapter [Chapter 19 of Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics.], I will say no more about this vital subject here. However, it had to be named here at least to this extent.

Copyright 1996 George Reisman. All rights reserved. The encyclopedic Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics is a required reference for every Capitalist’s library. Reisman’s treatise is now available in two volumes: Volume I (focuses on microeconomic issues) and Volume II (focuses on macroeconomic issues).

You don’t have to be a “conspiracy theorist” to put it all together. Just look at the FACTS. And at what the leftists say they want to do. And the evidence that 100 percent of the time (especially since the huge success of COVID fascism) they follow through on exactly what they say they want to do.

They’re not making the military woke in order to destroy it. They’re making the military woke so that woke soldiers can be counted on to turn against the dissidents, when the time comes. They’re not anti-military. They’re anti-freedom. Like Hitler and Stalin, they’re just fine with the use of force — so long as it’s THEIR force. Rest assured they’re not planning on a military dominated by drag queens. They are counting on a military to enforce a rule of law where your life is run by woke monsters like AOC.

Leftists played the long game, first with universities and later with government-run primary and secondary schools. Their results have been spectacular. Two-thirds or more 20-somethings and even 30-somethings are now hard core socialists who oppose free speech, gun rights, capitalism and private property (except for their own private property, of course). Taking over schools worked. Now they’re finishing the job by taking over police forces and the military.

Increasingly, the real question in America will become: Will the military fire on their fellow citizens, if they’re not woke, green fascist, medically fascist, Communist and all the rest? It will come to that. The only way it won’t come to that, of course, is if nonleftists refuse to resist or fight back (even passively) in any way. While the economy is still pretty good, that probably won’t happen. But what happens if the economy stays pretty good, and the one party in power (already in place) decides to base your ability to get a mortgage, a loan — or even electricity — on your support of the government and wokester ideas?

Think it can’t happen here? It’s already happening here. The rest is just a matter of time; and not much more time, the way things are escalating.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Many people are under the impression that they can avoid trouble in their relationships by not arguing. They mistakenly assume that the absence of fighting – or any disagreement – is an indication that the relationship is healthy. But that assumption is wrong.

The most successful relationships consist of two people getting what they want simply because they are being who they are. In good relationships, conflicts are viewed as temporary and resolvable. Dealbreakers are not as issue, because each party sees evidence that the other is getting from of the relationship what’s satisfactory to him or her. Because of this mutual security, it’s automatically expected that conflict will be resolvable, and is the exception rather than the norm. Each partner wants to see the other as happy as possible, simply because that is the source of his or her own happiness.

Avoiding conflict on principle can lead to a non-authentic relationship where false assumptions will build up on one or both sides. When one of those mistaken assumptions is contradicted or betrayed, resentment develops. The problem could be prevented by allowing conflict into the mix earlier on, rather than being so conflict-avoidant that a larger battle is finally unavoidable.

In a personal or romantic relationship, most issues (even minor ones) boil down to hurt feelings. In many cases, hurt feelings are caused by a lack of visibility in some instance. In other words, if you feel your spouse/partner was not listening to you, or paying attention to what’s important to you, then there’s some resentment. Most of these problems can be resolved by simply expressing your hurt feelings — not in a hostile or offensive way, but simply as a matter of fact. When expressing those feelings, it’s best to do so benevolently, i.e., with an assumption on your part that you genuinely realize that no harm was intended, though hurt feelings did end up being the result. It’s less in the spirit of accusation and more in the context of, “Just letting you know how I felt about what you said [or did].”

Healthy, mature individuals love their partners and do not want to hurt them. They want their partners to feel visible, and they want them to know how important they are to them. Acknowledging hurt feelings or other misunderstandings should not be something to avoid. It should be something that’s always assumed to be resolvable and fixable, even with just a few minutes of communication.

When you’re hurt or upset about something, it’s wise to view it in a wider context. For example, ask yourself, “What am I really upset about here? Is it really this thing I’m focusing on, or is it something else? Is it just one instance of my feelings being hurt, or is it part of what I see as a wider pattern?” The clearer you are about these things before communicating your feelings to a loved one, the better you’ll be able to explain yourself when asked to do so. Should every single hurt feeling be brought up? No. It’s not necessary. But if it’s something you view as a large incident or a pattern of incidents that isn’t going away, then it’s better to bring it up than let it boil beneath the surface.

“Not fighting” is not something to strive for, if by that you mean avoiding conflict at any price. It’s better and healthier to embrace the conflict in a rational and benevolent way than to pretend it doesn’t exist and have it come back later to bite you and your partner where it can hurt the most.

Michael J. Hurd, Life’s a Beach

The powers of the general government are only of a general nature, and their object is to protect, defend, and strengthen the United States; but the internal administration of governments is left to the state legislatures, who exclusively retain such powers as will give the states the advantages of small republics, without the danger commonly attendant on the weakness of such governments.

Frances Corbin