Pokemon card trader says PSA turned a 10 million card backlog into an $800M money printer
"PSA has a debt, they are 10 million cards backlogged"
"the cheapest submission that you could submit to PSA is $32 per card. they locked that out. then it jumped up to 55 and 60 and 70, all of those are locked out"
"the cheapest tier that you can grade at right now is $80, they have 10 million cards and they charge $80 a card for the fucking grade"
"they're printing money. they're reinvesting $200 million right now in a new facility to keep up with the demand"
For nine months, my wife Brooklyn carried our baby boy knowing he was dying. Three months in, they told us he had severe hydrocephalus. Too much fluid crushing his brain. "Off the charts bad," the specialists at Cincinnati Children's said. So extreme they stopped measuring because it didn't matter anymore.
The MRIs were sickening to look at. They said over 90% chance he'd either die right after birth or survive with such severe brain damage that any quality of life was impossible. We had meetings about breathing tubes. About when to remove life support. About letting our son "pass peacefully."
Brooklyn moved to Cincinnati, lived in a hotel near the hospital in case she went into labor. I drove back and forth, working, trying to hold our family together while planning our baby's funeral. On July 8th, fifteen minutes before her C-section, we had another meeting about the breathing tube. About when we'd need to remove it and let him go to Heaven.
Then Charlie came out crying. The sweetest sound I've ever heard.
He stayed in intensive care until yesterday. Now he's home, doing everything babies do. Normal. Beautiful. The doctors have no medical explanation. His brain somehow cleared the blockage on its own, something they've never seen in a case this severe. Nurses with decades of experience kept saying "miracle" and "divine intervention."
Thousands of people were praying for us. Friends, family, strangers, people we'd never met. I'm practical, I believe in science, but I know God was involved in this. I give Him all the credit.
During those endless nights in Cincinnati, I started woodworking in the hotel parking lot just to keep my hands busy, to stop my mind from breaking. Made small toys hoping one day Charlie might hold them. Listed a few things on the Tedooo app where I'd been selling my work, and strangers started buying pieces they didn't need, sending messages saying they were praying for our son. That community held me when I couldn't stand.
Charlie's here. He's alive. Prayer is real, and miracles still happen.
By Amanda Cain
@DavidFischer Rev 9:10, 13-14
Mathew 24:3-31
2 Thess 2
All point to the coming of the Lord.
Common themes...
1. Don't be deceived
2. You will suffer many things in His name.
3. The things must happen
4. Endure to the end.
5. His angels will gather us after.
BREAKING: Patriots and Bills players stun America by coming together on the football field to pray 🙏
This is EXACTLY what America wants and needs
CHRIST IS KING
@PhilHs10@TrumpsHurricane Gal 6:1
...if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path...
Judgment belongs to the Lord
@charliebilello Don't forget that insurance & property taxes are also at all time highs. Relief for Americans can only come by reducing exorbitant expenses, and government spending our tax payer money frivolously while quantitative tightening citizen spending is hypocritical
@starsandstripes I am not sure about casing @FORSCOM_PAO, but I love the actions of a Western Hemisphere Command. The reasoning is sound and the impact is powerful.
@starsandstripes@starsandstripes, perhaps you should stop referring to the Department of War as the Defense department, or SecWar @petehegseth_DoD as SecDef. And @petehegseth_DoD perhaps you should change your X handle DoW. Just a thought regarding legitamacy.