Stocks sink by most since June 2020 as retail results disappoint across the board

It's just the beginning ..unless thing change drastically!

Americans say that you shouldn't fight tyranny because nothing matters, but what will you say when you get sent to the concentration camps?

The elites will not stop because why would they? All of the lines have been crossed and no one has said a word.

At no point will the globalists restore the Bill of Rights, end the wars, or reduce the debt.

Tyranny happens slowly and then you suddenly wake up one day to find the country locked down and the borders closed.

Americans are just animals now.

A 50 year old cop might be hesitant about torturing Americans, but a young cop would not. Churches are closed and there are no morals. Why would you stand up for freedom if you never knew what liberty means?

You might have been surprised the first time that you saw a checkpoint or a black helicopter, but now you're used to it.

The possibility of a police state has become a reality. Now the collapse of the USA has become a certainty.

The quiet warnings of tyranny have become large neon signs.

If you had eyes, you could see the police state.

If you had high-level friends in the government then you would know what is going to happen.

This is not a joke.

The ruling class wants you dead.

You don't have decades or years to prepare for the collapse.

Tomorrow will not be like today or yesterday.

Soon months will become weeks and then you will have days, and then you will only have hours and then just minutes.

History always repeats.

Soon the ATM machines and the Internet will be shut off.

Cash will be banned.

Do really think that the stock market won't collapse for 100 years?

Do honestly believe that the USA will never have starvation, show trials, summary executions, and killing fields?

How long do you think that you have before you're given a mandatory vaccination and a microchip implant?

When will the Gestapo start the door-to-door gun confiscation?

Will you be surprised when property is nationalized, the US flag and national anthem are changed, and the USA is renamed?

Wake up.

Some of the first to die in the gulags will be the most hopeful.

I had a great June. Puts are the way in a Bear market. Learn to trade both directions and profit on market movements. Be very careful with long positions as anything can happen over a weekend!

Remember we finished 2020 up 65% for a net of 45% when we were down over 20% in the first half...

Wow.

Americans say welfare doesn't increase the debt or cause inflation at all.

Damn. Did you just write all that on the fly? At 7 Am? You’re a bad ass and I want to be your friend

Freind too.

Good point.

You know that you are in hell when you live in a police state and are not allowed to say it.

What do you do when your society is collapsing in mass insanity?

Americans scream that the US would be a wonderful utopia with a clean environment if toothpicks were illegal, but do Americans think there would be no unintended consequences? Wouldn't toothpick factories close and layoff workers? Wouldn't more people be arrested? Would the tax rate rise to pay for prisons? Wouldn't more people have dirty teeth? Aren't there other ways to solve "problems" instead of decrees?

Americans insist spicy mustard should outlawed and say no one should worry because you could still buy regular mustard, but are Americans unable to understand that tyranny is a slippery slope that spreads like cancer? Do Americans realize that if you had 2 choices yesterday and 1 choice today that tomorrow you will have no choices? Didn't the USSR fail?

What's wrong with freedom?

Every new law means more people will decide to drop out and homelessness grows.

The US is so far gone now that Americans can't even agree that unconstitutional NSA wiretapping is wrong. Nazis will scream TSA groping is just fine because blacks exist.

How could anyone work today when their taxes pay for illegal immigrants, debt, war, curfews, gun bans, NSA wiretapping, checkpoints, forfeiture, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, torture, kill lists, no fly lists, searches without warrants, private prisons, mandatory minimums, 3 strikes laws, DNA databases, CISPA, SOPA, NDAA, IMBRA, FBAR, FATCA, TSA groping, secret FISA courts, and Jade Helm?

Why work hard when the elites are just going to steal your money? Your taxes will be used to pay for the bullets used to kill you.

The USA is a police state now and no longer a democracy. Everything is illegal. The government is not legitimate and the government and illegal aliens don't obey the law.

Voting won't fix US debt, wars, and tyranny because every candidate has been bought off by the elites and the electronic voting machines can be hacked. Any moral politician will be ridiculed by the media as being a racist nutjob.

Americans could dropout and go Galt so the USA collapses, but Senegal is poor and the 1% there still remain rich. Even with satellites and security cameras, Americans still might be able to disappear and go underground, however, if they lose their names, work for cash, live on a sailboat, or live in a remote foreign place like Siberia or the Amazon.

Maybe the only real option to the police state is a revolution or civil war. This might not happen unless the economy implodes and may not occur for 30 years. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Ukraine, and Iceland overthrew their governments. France and Hong Kong are protesting, but cowardly Americans do nothing.

Future generations will ask why didn't Americans resist when the US became a police state.

How could the most free country in the world spiral down to become a police state with death camps?

What kind of country do you live in when bank fraud is rewarded with billion dollar bailouts, the homeless are arrested, the rich can bribe their way into Harvard, and the stock and metals markets are rigged?

People seem able to tolerate an infinite amount of government abuse. Even North Koreans think that North Korea is a free country.

Are you just going to stay silent?

May 18, 2022

Very true but 2022s downturn is one engineered by a tyrannical liberal gooberment as a follow up to the ineffective 2020 effort to destroy the economy.

This downturn is likely to be longer and deeper because of the effort exerted by those in control.

Time will tell.......

Employment numbers are "fantastic", and there's talk of a 40% rally...Which would put us in the green around 10%...

Some are saying that ATM machines will be shut off, banks will be closed, gas stations will be shut, the Internet will go down, and the power and water will be turned off this month.

There is severe inflation and lumber, cotton, food, ammo, and chip shortages right now.

This is an old article from May 18th.

The market has already priced in another .75 rate hike, I believe we have seen the worst...We have reached the point of capitulation...

all coming down

Americans say that they will just ignore the US collapse, but what will you do when the Gestapo knock down your door to give you an anal swab virus test, mandatory vaccine, and confiscate your guns?

What will you do when inflation is 1 million percent and the US defaults on the debt, Civil War 2.0 starts, and looters stab people with butter knives over a can of corn?

What will you do when the US starts WWIII with Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia and the nuclear bombs explode around you?

This is real. Wake up.

you'll soon have an entree air fan in every corner of your home!!

Well, I know that this is a dumb question and that there is
a very simple answer, but I'm just not bright enough to figure it out,,, so, -how does the national debt and unfunded liabilities fit into this rosy picture?

The national debt, is it even a thing?

I mean maybe it's like Kennedy used to say, we can go to the moon within this decade, if we choose to do it.
The stock market can go up, if we choose to make it go up.
It's even easier than going to the moon.

All we need to do it to figure out a way to make the national debt go away, or disappear it, AND borrow more
at the same time.

Based on what data?

I actually hate fans, as it was temporary...

And this week Crypto is up 15%.

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The debt is serviced by GDP, and employment is extremely good...

To make the debt go down, I suggest we repay it...

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you love walmart you love china's trinkets you love box fan!

Actually those fans are not available in places like Walmart...They are expensive for as small as they are...

Americans are happy that there is illegal immigration, theft and drugs are legal, straws and guns are banned, churches are closed, the debt is rising to pay for welfare and wars, starting a business is illegal, the government tortures, and elections and trials are cancelled, but life doesn't really seem better.

Illegal immigration is why there is no affordable housing for the low income...

Government housing is black, low income apartments are Mexican, and then hard working Americans get the townhomes and mid-range apartments...

I read it was the worst first half for stocks in 52 years...and my portfolio sure reflects that.

I normally preach dollar cost averaging, but its hard to put new money into this market with a dementia-ridden foreign asset running things. Other than my IRA contribution and a chunk in I bonds, no new money is going in yet.

Talk/Propaganda by those who stand to profit.

Numbers can be manipulated to encourage further support of the Democrats in November.

Homelessness is at all time highs, creating a drain on state and local governments.

Millions of uneducated "new voters" with no skill, most illiterate in their own language-additional drain on the economy.

Determined gooberment to destroy the USAs energy industry-one of the most important employers in the country.

Inflation that will eventually abate but as history shows, prices take generations to rebound to pre-inflation levels if ever, Americans have to make up the difference by higher pay in order to break even.

Trillions of dollars squandered/printed on fake pandemic financing, Ukraine war and reconstruction plans, crime soring across America, shortages of all description with no improvement in sight as most are supplied by our now enemy-PRC.

All the while Gooberment is only doubling down, not making efforts to correct.

Stagflation is more likely than recovery in the near term.

Remain positive but prepare for more pain should also be apart of the plan.