Debt Rattle April 13 2025
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 13 2025]Reporters, America’s Best:
As expected, the Bond scare is just part of the “Black Monday” narrative. They are running a panty-raid on Trump’s tariffs. Who? Europe, of course. It’s hard to tell but the Fx markets demonstrate who’s selling what, it’s too big to hide. NOT China, who only owns $770B, whereas Europe’s whole CB system is backed with $3.5T+ in USTs now. …Oddly. It thought we were Nazis and you hated us, soooo??? So is the Bond reversal real? We proved stocks drop = bonds drop? Not entirely. Remains to be seen since it didn’t go off and was reversed. But really looks like Europe attacked Wall St, and Wall St rebuffed them…as expected.
What is the goal? Trying to sell German Bunds, which are awesome, from an awesome nation with no problems, great production, on a peaceful continent with great legal soundness. If that was the point, none of those were sold either.
I’m thinking that GPT bankruptcy talk was really helpful. Pointed out things I’m not thinking about, not emphasizing, about the PR side of the restructure, confidence, etc. That’s why have to drop spending sharply with DOGE (note Phoenix: tax raise (and prob not) but DOGE = $1T spending drop) to get CONFIDENCE in the restructure. Again, that’s why bankruptcy/restructure expert installed as we all said in 2016 but he couldn’t act without rooting out (Euro)traitors.
I’m watching the monetary, but ultimately, humans are odd and if they BELIEVE in the money/company then it works. Even when numerically it “shouldn’t”. So it’s as or more important to SELL the idea, which Trump does so well and I can’t stand. Roll my eyes, gold Hotel lobbies, etc. Ugh. But I’m a sharp minority on that.
Okay, following yesterday’s calculation from everyone, EUROPE needs this. EUROPE set up the panty-raid on Bonds. They have $3T in UST ammunition waiting to short, use their media idiots to set up the “Black Monday”, start the stock margin calls, get Fink, their Nazi Central Banker out there saying he’s “Terrified” on national TV (You’re terrified? Not shorting? You’re fired, sir. I’ll beak my arm reaching for the phone to sell a hedge fund that doesn’t know how to make money on market moves like this) That kicks in, they start with the Bonds, demonstrating WEAKNESS. Real weakness, as the world is selling, running to safety, and “No longer UST as safety”. …But it’s not, it’s Europe using their $3T in ammunition to paint this picture and clobber the U.S., starting an overall run and market panic.
Got it?
We know this bc they have no choice but to sell CURRENCIES if they sell their bonds, so we know that didn’t appear in Asia, U.S., anywhere else. It’s a (fake) RAID to ATTACK the U.S. markets.
What does Wall St do? They laugh and reverse, shrug it off. Right, we know. But HOW??
How? Easy as pie: The “Tariffs” are the totally fake cause. None of this is real. They float the rumor Trump is reversing for 90 days. This works and reverses the action. Then action reverses again as Europe starts rigging. Trump then comes out and says 90 day break in Tariffs for real, reversing the action AGAIN.
Europe then full stop. All panty-raids stopped in their tracks.
Meanwhile, morons all on the outside, the Muppets, say “Muh Trump” “Muh no what he do-ing”. He’s “Capricious” and “Moronic” reversing himself. Caved in. Capitulated. …Again with not mentioning how getting 70 nations to negotiate better deals is “Losing”?
What then? As the markets are worried about X, Y, Z, he removed X, Y, Z, real or not. iPhones, which of course have like zero actual trade volume. It’s just removing ammunition of idiot reporters from DEIvy League Schools. Keeping “The Narrative” from being able to re-form for the Minions in Europe that can’t think at all, have to go back to their Alien Supercomputer or whatever they use for a brain since they don’t have one and everything has to be planned out months in advance.
Got it?
Seeing TEN YEARS of this is why plain folks like me just wait a sec before piling on how Trump is an idiot, doesn’t know what he’s doing. Yeah, like the guy who set up the idiot tariff chart that can do no simple maths? He was from Harvard. As with Vance (Yale), Bessant (plus also Wall St), and himself (Wharton). So I’m supposed to trust “Experts” from DEIvy League schools, right? Right, Reporter with 2.5GPA degree from Columbia? YOU told me that. So I do! THIS guy from Harvard, not your guy.
And how is Trump supposed to tell the American people what he’s doing? Shut up, they’ll believe him or they won’t, so if it loses too many of them, he’ll adjust the plan. His base is not upset in the slightest, the gnashing is all on TV. Democrats who never heard of tariffs are overnight experts in it, just like with Covid and masks. The IMPORTANT people: Wall St and Main st, who have actual ammunition and troops at risk, they know what he’s doing, it’ll be obvious to him.
Apologies accepted by cash or check.
“The Orange Jew is already backtracking, talking tough, acting weak. How has this whole tariff episode benefitted the USA? You have pissed off your trading partners and gained nothing.”
70 renegotiations in our favor is nothing? IS he backtracking though? He just spot-tested the system for everyone’s position and reactions, then got Europe to dump billions losing the rig. Outed China as their major enemy.
“I suspect that his ((mates)) making a killing was just a side show, there is more going on, and none of the voters know the plan.”
We totally agree, Trump probably DID have Wall St insider trade, but only bc they already know the root conditions of game play such that it can’t be avoided, and therefore his subsequent actions are obvious. The public doesn’t know it’s Europe attacking us and wouldn’t believe it, because we’re telling them. Luongo among others are out in public weekly for years saying so, nobody stopping you from listening. Armstrong is telling you, a top trader, top blog, sells an expensive institutional newsletter – what do you want from me if you can’t listen??? Like housing in 06, EVERYONE told you. It couldn’t be clearer. I can’t help it if after all that you still “Don’t know the plan.” So to some extent at that round of Hold ‘em Poker, Europe put up a bluff and we called and stole their money. Now we’re stronger and they’re weaker again.
Let’s go another round.
DOGE is cutting off the CIA/Globalist Dollar money-machines. The trade deficit w Canada is cutting off their EuroDollar liquidity ammunition. Powell was out yesterday, saying he was warned there are “Liquidity issues” now. Yeah, we know: We caused them on purpose to kill Europe. And no banks caved, so clearly we’re on top of this and only redlined.
“the Chinese practice a more “live and let live” approach to life, they are not being encouraged to think they are powerful, they are fully aware that they are powerless so they try to live a profitable life, doing the best for their families.”
Sounds like Americans.
Cartoon: Yup, Americans are terrible. American’s suck. Americans have no power at all. Americans must remain my slave. Are we though? We REALLY have nooooooo power at all? None? Really?
You’re SURE? You’re going to bet your life that America has no power at all? Don’t let me stop you. Rest your big weary head right here on this block.
“Pepe sees the Chinese as refined and Trump as a brute. And finance is not his forté.”
China = All good, perfect and true. America = all evil, bad, wrong, and every American human must be destroyed. That’s Love! Perfect logic! Ask anyone in Comments here.
Same with interview: Nobody wants a trade war. Nobody wants tariffs. …SO WHY DO YOU HAVE THEM, China? Since they work terrible and destroy nations, I’m told, why is China so dumb to put them on, and what were they doing that seemed to overcome them and cause their success for 30 years once they did?
So odd! It’s almost like tariffs WORK, every time in history that they’re tried. Huh.
Sacks: again, this reporter, every reporter is HORRIFIED at the thought of work: any work! At all. Thus, “Socialism”? This is exactly what I hear every day from the field. “They” will do the work, while “We” the Schmartz people, the PMCs, the college people, will sit in our apartments eating jam and telling the STUPID people how to work in coal mines. Of course!
…Not realizing – the drooling mouth-breathers – that when Comrade Stalin shows up, you’ll be FIRST in the uranium mines, you moronic self-aggrandizing troublemaker.
Look at this conversation, coast to coast! WHO will make Blue jeans? We F—king made Blue Jeans here in like 2010 you dips—ts. We probably still are now in some niche. Why on God’s earth would we NOT make jeans, or toasters? Are we too GOOD for it? If we’re too good to make the toaster, maybe we’re too good to use one. The ATTITUDE of these people is like round them all up and give them a beating. No wonder Mao wanted work camps. Maybe we can cure them of this for a second. The idea they’re “Too good” for anyone, for anything, for any work, even for certain WHITE collar work, OMG, help me. Fist. Of. Death. …
Somebody needs to shut off their plumbing. “Oh you want a TOILET? Yeah, well, I heard you’re too good to mine copper, which we do here, work in a pvc plant, which we do here, make valve cocks, which we do here, dig water lines, which we do here. Since you’re clearly too good for all that, can’t be done by Americans, well! Just going to leave it for you. Here’s a bucket. Good luck with cholera.”
Can’t make things in America: O Rlly? Why is Mercedes new plant here then? They don’t employ people, it’s all AI alien factories? O rlly? Then why do they have thousands of employees then? Probably somebody still even makes toasters here and they’re a mere 20% higher.
The combination of pure ignorance, and pure, rarefied arrogance is breathtaking in combination. It’s like staring into the sun, if stupidity and pure human sewage was the sun.
“As uncertainty in the market grew, however, Trump and his supporters began to shift decidedly toward presenting the tariffs as a negotiating strategy.”
So what you’re saying is, they staged this WWE and then took the posture that was most popular. Then didn’t notice and believed every word because: Reporter. Not a single suspicous bone in their body. Just like Ambrose Bierce and H K Mencken would be proud.
Nixon said he’s not a crook, that settles it!
“The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit. It won’t work.”
Speaking of Reporters, it ALREADY worked, Pepe, but you’re too partisan to notice even with how it’s Obvious from Orbit. AND we haven’t settled the final deal with China. Maybe that’s lousy, but it’s hard if not IMPOSSIBLE to think it won’t be a step down from their total mercantilism and a step up for us. That is: it’s a win, just how MUCH of a win. Emotionally, Pepe can’t stand that. So he can’t tell the Truth. Keep your emotions at home, pal.
“It is Trump during his first term who pulled the US out of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal (in April 2018)”
This is not well understood, and I’m not sold on it myself, but JCPOA was COLLATERAL for EUROPE. They going get Euro-oil into Iran and keep their fascist system going. That’s also the CASH, as in, where did it go? Eurodollar system. They didn’t spend it in Kansas! Obviously since Obama and the NeoCons are all Globalists, Atlanticists, etc. London, Israel, Ukraine, etc. So we stopped this as we stopped Red Sea transit for why? EUROPE. Europe is the one extracting Russia, America, Africa, and everywhere else.
““Iran and the United States held their first diplomatic engagement IN YEARS on Saturday ..”
And why is that? Biden also no meetings with Russia, why is that? Europe needs WAR. Israel needs WAR. Only war can save them, and only if they drag us in.
““Steve Witkoff is busting his ass for President Trump.”
• Rubio and Musk Back Witkoff’s Peace Efforts (RT)He knows himself, but honestly this is nuts. Can’t you find another Witkoff?
“• Trump Urges Congress to Work Harder to Make Daylight Saving Permanent (ET)
As far as I know, everyone in American wants this ended, which is why for 100 years they’ve refused. That’s Democracy!
“• US Wants Control Of Key Gas Pipeline In Ukraine – Reuters (RT)
Well, duh, who wouldn’t? But look at it like “Russia gas” + “No one bombs the pipe bc it’s American.” Europe now has to pay us BOTH, billions and billions, til the sun burns out. How do you like colonialism now? Maybe should have made peace? You fools?
“• Euro-Atlantic Community Gearing For War – Lavrov (RT)
Hazy what he means, but “Atlanticists”? He does not say “America” and carefully hasn’t, for some many years now. Before this he was saying the “Anglo-Saxons”, ie Germany and England.
“Such inconvenient facts and damning disclosures were nonetheless concealed from the public for several years following the dossier’s January 2017 publication by BuzzFeed”
Yeah, amazing, EXCEPT WE ALL KNEW AT THE TIME. How did you conceal something even illiterate bridge trolls knew? They WANTED it, so they LIED. Ignored it. The PEOPLE wanted it, they denied. So maybe you should say WHO. Who exactly? The Schmarty-schmarts peoples, NYT, WaPo, all WrongWrongWrongWrongWrong. Totally fooled by nothing, it’s an embarrassment to foolery. They make morons look smart. Never discredited. Never discussed. Still telling us to trust the experts.
“• Bill Maher Says ‘Mind Blown’ After Meeting With Trump (ZH)
He’s flipping, it’s pathetic and WTF. Also he isn’t relevant enough to pull off Left/Antifa Resistance.
@Dr.D: I have my suspicions that these elites have a clearer timeline for when the bad space weather hits and they go underground, too. Perhaps they are just making fake causes with tariffs to battle it out between globalists and nationalists, but what if the shields (magnetic fields) are dropping fast now, and we’ll get a Carrington Event in 2030?
I dunno, of course, but the shields could be down for a couple-hundred years in a magnetic polar reversal and return. They think 30,000 people lived in that underground city in Turkey last time, maybe…Physicist Josh Mitteldorf: Magnetic Pole Shift is Happening (part 1) Some existential threats get more media attention than others https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/magnetic-pole-shift-is-happening-84d
Magnetic Pole Shift is Happening (part 2) Magnetic fields, cosmic rays, and climate https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/magnetic-pole-shift-is-happening
Under 4 minutes: The Sun Can Super Flare (Confirmed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRcP8JI8rq4
@JohnDay
@DBS: Aww, c’mon Man, puns aren’t bad.
Yeah, I know, but we mustn’t let on to the punsters that we know that. It would only encourage them.
The Trump Tariff thing was “Reconnaissance-in-Force”, sending in an attacking force to see how the adversary responds to an actual attack.
I’ve enjoyed watching Hickock45 for a couple of years now. If he had been my English teacher I reckon that I would rite more better than I do, and probably be a lot less likely to sass back when criticized. Can you even imagine how good of a shot he must have been back in the day when he had the steady hands and sharper eyes of a youngster? If you could even barely hear his voice, way off in the distance, yell “stop or I’ll shoot!” then taking no further steps at all would definitely be the advisable next step to take.
“how Trump is an idiot, doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
how Trump is an
idiotmurderer,doesn’t knowknows exactly what he’s doing.I cannot help but think that Putin greased the skids for Witkoff’s talk with Iran.
It would be easier for the US and Iran to already have a clear place-to-get-to while maintaining their respective official-narratives.China and Russia are Pepe’s meal-tickets.
That matters in what he must say, the light he must shine upon things.
Just keep that in mind, as with any information.
All of our “free” information is “sponsored” by somebody with interests, right?
Some of us with vows of poverty just do this out of some compulsive social setting that we may have been provided at birth or something.
We can be spotted…A mother was arrested and jailed for seven hours after she confiscated iPads from her own children because she wanted them to concentrate on their homework.
Vanessa Brown, 50, a history teacher was arrested & held for seven-and-a-half hours by
@SurreyPolice
for stealing 2 iPads. They were at her mother’s house, who was also questioned.She had taken them away from her two daughters so they could concentrate on their homework.
https://modernity.news/2025/04/12/mother-arrested-jailed-for-being-a-responsible-parent/Weird and career-suicidal: Space Force Commander Fired After Undermining JD Vance Visit To Greenland
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/space-force-commander-fired-after-undermining-jd-vance-visit-greenlandGreenland Space Force Commander is pure DEI
Good riddance
Trump needs to root out ALL commanders in the military infected with the plague of DEI
A dreamscape reality refers to a dream environment that is immersive and visually striking, often presenting a surreal or fantastical setting.
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When making his “Liberation Day” announcement,
Trump pitched the tariffs as a means of encouraging domestic production in the United States and revitalizing towns left behind by globalization.
“Now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt,” he said.
“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already.
We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.”
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Even Lutnick, one of the administration’s most vocal tariff proponents, appeared to fall in line by Wednesday, saying “President Trump is standing firm against our global trade imbalances.
We will sign the greatest deals in history.” “The Golden Age is coming.
We are committed to protecting our interests, engaging in global negotiations and exploding our economy,”
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Reality is more like the statement by the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council: “Given that U.S. exports to China already have no market acceptability under the current tariff rates, if the U.S. further imposes additional tariffs on Chinese goods, China will simply ignore them.
” Translation: keep vociferating/tariffing.
We don’t care.
And we will stop buying from you. Anything.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry: A “tariff-wielding barbarian can never expect a call from China.”
Basic numbers.
China’s GDP for 2025 is projected at 5%.
U.S. imports account for at best 4% of Chinese GDP.
China’s share of total exports to the U.S. dropped to 13.4 per cent in 2024.
———–Trump has voiced his support for more daylight at the end of the day, making daylight saving time the likely model going forward.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623/all-actions?overview=closed#tabs
S.623 – Sunshine Protection Act of 2021
117th Congress (2021-2022)
Bill Hide Overview
Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] (Introduced 03/09/2021)
Committees: Senate – Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Latest Action: House – 03/16/2022 Held at the desk. (All Actions)
Tracker: Tip This bill has the status Passed Senate
Here are the steps for Status of Legislation:
—————“… maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there’s got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute.” – Maher
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https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1910992622945992836
What caused all these things to skyrocket since 1990?
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https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1910755326653059144
NEW: Biologist Gary Brecka just shattered the cholesterol myth on Rogan’s show—and you’ll never look at heart disease the same way again.We’ve been lied to for decades—and Brecka says the cover-up is about to collapse.
“We blame cholesterol for a lot of the heart disease, atherosclerosis, arterial sclerosis, because it’s at the scene of the crime,” he said.
———@Topcat:
The Space Force Commander in Greenland may have known that her career was over and decided to end it Kamikaze style.“Ecosexual”: “Got wood?”
Killing Daylight “savings time” is a start.
I’m hoping The Donald will drown Big Pharma TV ads in the bathtub.
Tey are a national in-your-face disgrace
Outright bribery
I have a few things to say to you, but have at best medium-to-low confidence in your willingness or ability to simply understand any of them. Nevertheless, fairness demands that I at least give you the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to understand and consequently reconsider your political and theological positions recently expressed.
The Americanistic expression of “having a chip on the shoulder”, isn’t used much nowadays because it hearkens back to a much rougher and tougher day in this country when men more frequently engaged in the bare-knuckle method of settling differences of opinion. The picturesque (but unlikely) notion is that a guy would put a wood chip on his shoulder and dare the other guy to try to knock it off if he felt strongly enough about his disagreement to give that a try. I don’t happen to have a chip on my shoulder, Aspie (III), but it sounds like you do. Keep your damn chip there if you want to, I’ve already done my duty (of truthfully informing you that you’re making a serious mistake about God), so the rest of it is over to you.
Carefully note, however, that the next time you try selling your CCP Master’s ordered anti-Christian propaganda bullshit that it’s pretty likely that I’ll call you out for it again, too.
A couple of other minor items before I let ya go, is that the “bearded guy on a throne in the sky” trope is pretty worn out, especially anywhere outside the children’s sand-box, so you might want to work on stealing some new material. Try using one of those new AI ChatBots that are cropping up everywhere. I’m sure they’ve got some good stuff that will make you look like a clever adult instead of a cognitively challenged 6 year old.
Oh, and one last item. Keep the senility jokes coming. I like ’em. They contribute to my brand as the old wise man of the mountain.
@JohnDay
On serial TV shows, especially those with a fixed theme and recurrent cast of characters, it is standard practice (carved in stone, actually) to have a thick catalogue of things that must always be done in a certain way so that there is predictable continuity of those characters’ character. Ironically (and no pun intended) this stack of firm policy is called the show’s “Bible”, and to say that is followed “religiously” would be an understatement.
I’m assuming that the Aspie Show (now moving into Season 3) has just such a written-out-in-detail list of Do’s & Don’ts that he has to follow, and that it would include his back-story and many other things as well, including the continual covert (and not-so-covert) undermining attacks on all things Christian. The Blobsters take that objective very very seriously, because it is literally existentially crucial to their goal.
Tariffs
When you think about it…
Three years ago, Team Ukraine + backers put sanctions on Russian goods to hurt them financially. The plan backfired and strengthened the Russian economy.
Tariffs may serve the same purpose — a type of voluntary, unsavory medicine. Will it work?
Time will tell.Word salad from copilot
Question: autism, rainbow spectrum, Where is normal?
The idea behind the “autism rainbow spectrum” is to celebrate the diverse range of neural differences rather than pin everyone to a single “normal.”
In this metaphor, every hue represents a unique way of experiencing the world, and there isn’t a single color that stands in for “normal” because what we call normal is itself a social construct—a set of arbitrary expectations that often exclude the very variation the spectrum celebrates.To unpack this further:
Neurodiversity Over Normalization:
Traditional notions of “normal” imply a standard against which differences are measured and often found lacking.
The autism rainbow embraces the idea that there is no one-size-fits-all way of being.
Every individual on the spectrum exhibits a mix of strengths and challenges that don’t need to conform to a preconceived idea of normalcy.
This approach challenges society to replace rigid definitions with acceptance of a continuum of experiences 2.Social Constructs and Bias:
What we consider “normal” is largely shaped by cultural, social, and historical contexts.
For many, especially in the realm of neurology, “normal” is defined by the majority’s experiences—that is, by neurotypical behaviors.
Yet, by elevating neurodiversity, we question this majority rule.
The autism rainbow suggests that the differences seen in autism are simply variations in human wiring, each valid in its own right.
In this view, the very term “normal” can be limiting and even exclusionary .A Broader Perspective on Value:
Embracing the diversity inherent in the autism spectrum shifts the focus from trying to fit individuals into narrow definitions to celebrating the variety of cognitive experiences.
In this sense, the search for “normal” becomes less about a checklist of expected behaviors and more about recognizing and validating the full range of human potential.
Many advocates argue that there isn’t a place for a single “normal” on the spectrum—each color (or trait) contributes to the beauty and complexity of the overall picture .Ultimately, the question “Where is normal?” is a reminder that normalcy is not a clearly defined destination on the autism spectrum.
Instead, the spectrum is a mosaic of distinct experiences that defy simple categorization. The goal is less about establishing a baseline of normalcy and more about expanding our definition of what it means to live a full and valued life, with every shade considered essential.China and Russia are Pepe’s meal-tickets.
That matters in what he must say, the light he must shine upon things.
Just keep that in mind, as with any information.
All of our “free” information is “sponsored” by somebody with interests, right?
Some of us with vows of poverty just do this out of some compulsive social setting that we may have been provided at birth or something.
We can be spotted…That’s worth saying again, but John’s too modest so I’ll repeat it for him. Really true and really good advice, too.
“medium-to-low confidence”
why, that’s enough to launch <scary eyebrows> investigations </scary eyebrows> or, better still, <blood> drone strikes on known terrorist redoubts. <lies>
@ThoseDarnedKids
About the launch codes:
Your estimate was a case of almost but not quite. Missiles stay in their silos until I reach DefCon “Serious Reservations”.
Fleischer Productions Proudly Announces
<drumroll>
THE OLD WISE* MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, starring
D BENTON SMITH, esq. and such!**
* ironically, “old wise” is an unwise construction, the preferable being “wise old man of the mountain” as adjective order is usually Opinion → Size → Age → Shape → Color → Origin → Material → Purpose → Noun
•• what a schnoz!
haha, not for thee personally.
didn’t they lawfare mr trump because of “minimal to sketchy” confidence in steely-eyed dossiers?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-physical-medical-results-height-weight-b2732459.html
Trump deemed in ‘excellent’ health with perfect cognitive test score and 224lbs weight
Katie Hawkinson
in Washington, D.C.@ThoseDarnedKids
I toyed with the idea of “old wise guy”, and a couple other possible arrangements, but hey, eventually ya just got to choose one and go with it or else the moment is lost.
@DBS: AI Aspie might fool us both, but would probably have yet another “different feel”, which is hard to explain, but common nonetheless.
My wife and I both had an uneasy feeling about a driver in the lane to our left, going a very steady speed around a big, sweeping turn as we got back in to Austin this afternoon, and she commented on it as I accelerated a bit to get past him. As we passed I saw that he was looking at his smart phone to the left of his steering wheel. He had wandered slightly in the lane on the turn, not into our lane, but we Both had the same uneasy feeling.
As I continued driving, with both eyes on the road, I tried to figure what it could have been that we both sensed right away.
I wonder if the correction-responses and speed of an alert and responsive driver have a lot of little variations and corrections, which we see, but can’t pick out as such. I did remember noting that the driver just seemed to be going around the corner smoothly, not speed-matching or speed-diverging from other cars…@JohnDay
The skill that you and your wife demonstrated doesn’t have a specific and accepted nomenclature in the society we currently operate within, but in less distracted and brainwashed societies it’s both more common and more accepted as a simple fact of life. Lots of people have it and use it without even realizing what they’re doing. It has saved my life more times than I can easily count (dozens of times at the very least)
I think that it primarily consists of a hyper-awareness or preternatural sensitivity to the things that are simply going on all around us, but which are routinely dismissed by most people for a variety of very interesting reasons (and none of them good.)
The ability looks and feels like “Extra Sensory Perception”, but it’s really just perception, period, and its presence in an individual seems to emanate from the pores like a sort of psychic pheromone that attracts good folks and repels baddies, for good reason in both cases.
I would bet dollars to doughnuts that you have a steamer trunk full of stories in which the ability served you well. I sure do, and lately even more so because necessity, danger and hard times hone the skill to a finer edge.
Thanks John Day- an English teacher, who’d a thunk. Very cool.
His other channel is very entertaining and educational.DBS, very cool, I marvel at his marksmanship…in some of his vids, you can actually see the round arc from a distance right on target. There’s something fascinating about accuracy, precision and modern tools.
Keep up the good intentions !I fail miserably trying to deal with the modern worlds insanity, trying to embrace calm and clear- but rage monster has other rebellious things to shout at times…
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Who is the mind talking to ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5yE4EXMWdg
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Not all food for Astronauts, never know what’s lurking under the surface-
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