Blake

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@LoganARobison Plug it yourself for $15 for a whole kit, maybe less.

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@Fromzionshill Makes me second-guess 'sea monsters' depicted on old maps

There's some crazy shit in the ocean for sure and animals wouldn't want to be around roaring engines and lights of modern ships.

Maybe old sail boats in the dark did come across some strange creatures checking them out

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@LeahRain77 If this happens, I cant wait to start discriminating against old people lol

Bob's too old, hes got to go! This is a 40 and under company Bob!

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The debt has already won.

No future Congress is going to reverse the trajectory through discipline.

No electorate will vote for the scale of sacrifice required.

No administration will voluntarily trigger the recession, asset collapse, entitlement cuts, tax shock, and political revolt needed to restore a genuinely hard fiscal path.

The system will preserve continuity.

That means the currency will absorb the damage.

The national debt is a claim on future production. When claims grow faster than the productive base, the gap has to close somewhere. It closes through inflation, repression, taxation, reduced public capacity, lower real returns, slower private investment, and periodic monetary rescue.

The number itself is almost secondary now.

The real signal is that the United States has crossed from using debt as a tool into depending on debt as a condition of social order.

Government spending holds together retirement systems, healthcare, defense, state budgets, research, infrastructure, household transfers, corporate revenues, and entire regional economies. Remove the borrowing and large sections of the country discover that what looked like private prosperity was partially public leverage.

That is why the machine cannot stop.

The debt is embedded inside income.

Income is embedded inside asset prices.

Asset prices are embedded inside pensions, collateral, banks, housing, consumption, and political legitimacy.

Any serious attempt to shrink the debt burden violently would detonate the structure built around it.

So policy will choose erosion over rupture.

The state will keep paying every nominal promise.

The unit in which those promises are paid will weaken over time.

That is the real default.

No courtroom declaration.

No missed Treasury payment.

No cinematic collapse.

A long transfer from savers, wage earners, and fixed-income holders toward debtors, asset owners, and institutions closest to money creation.

The public will be told that inflation is temporary, manageable, external, or necessary.

The deeper reality is that inflation becomes part of the solvency mechanism.

The Federal Reserve will resist this until resistance threatens the system. Then the definition of responsibility will change. Stability will come to mean keeping markets functioning. Market functioning will require liquidity. Liquidity will protect Treasury financing. Treasury financing will protect the political order.

That loop is already visible.

The most important consequence is moral.

Once debt becomes structurally permanent, honest pricing disappears.

Capital no longer flows only toward the most productive use. It flows toward whatever benefits from policy support, liquidity, guarantees, regulation, and proximity to the sovereign balance sheet.

The economy becomes less capitalist in the classical sense and more managerial.

Returns become increasingly political.

Risk becomes increasingly socialized.

Losses become negotiable for institutions and terminal for individuals.

That corrodes legitimacy because people can feel the asymmetry even when they cannot name the mechanism.

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@lyemcfly Thats how 'art' works... lol

"Why the hell would someone pay $3 million dollars for this?!"

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@RepKeithSelf Police aren't supposed to without a warrant. Guess what, they still do!

Prevent the ability from it happening by not having flock cameras. At all.

You cant have everyone's private data and information on a database. It gets leaked, hacked, and exploited

Same with Digital ID

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@Pirat_Nation Digital ID is closing in

On all fronts, with different methodology. Different spins on why it's necessary for "your safety", "protecting children", and promises of it not going beyond 'just this small requirement'

So bleak

One of these eventually weasels through, and its over

[Disney Tourist Blog @DisTouristBlog]

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” -Yosemite Park Ranger, explaining how the NPS threads the needle on bear-proof trash can design without going too far to raise accessibility concerns for humans.

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@Super70sSports Yeah 99% of 'important' positions is "just some guy"

You have freaks/anomalies that absolutely crush in their field, sure. But thats <1%.

For some reason it clicked for me with news anchors? Literally just some guy. Nothing special, at all. But its true for everything

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

This week the Senate will vote to merge our military’s most sensitive & secretive capabilities with Israel. This merger is buried within the massive NDAA and they’re hoping you won’t notice.

Merging our military with a foreign country is a treasonous betrayal of our sovereignty.

Call your senators & tell them to vote no on the NDAA until the merger w/ Israel (section 219) is taken out.

Tell them that we will never support merging our military with a foreign nation.

The senate switchboard number is: [phone].

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@GeneralMCNews What the hell is happening?

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@GhostStoriesEnd Played both, can tell you that american football is harder than soccer.

Talented American kids focus on football and basketball. If a super athletic kid is playing soccer, its likely because his mom thought football was "too dangerous" when he was young.

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

New contender for worst comeback performance

Conor McGregor vs Aaron Rodgers

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@catgirlprostate It's horseshit, the card reader is capable of it. They turn it off to try to get you to pay via their app

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@thedreydossier @SocialSecurity Digital ID

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@Polymarket Now with a completely unrelated story. Satellite images show that all the Spirit Airlines planes are missing from the bone-yard. No official answers on where they may have gone at this time

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@interesting_aIl We'll give you money for free childcare

Oh, and its handcuffed to submitting ID for internet access. But thats to protect children. We care about children.

Oh, no, were not going to go after all the trafficking/abuse in Epstein network tho

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@iAnonPatriot I thought it was, like, USA's best U-15 crew of the next generation's elite soccer players.

But it was a specific club's U-15 team?!

Oh lord, thats significantly worse than I thought lol

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

Its crazy how companies just slowly screw over existing customers.

Internet company wouldnt let me upgrade service with reasonable pricing because I wasn't 'new customer'. Changed providers and get more than double the speeds at less than half the price for 2 years.

So dumb

[Blake @RoughPotatoes]

@lhenry019 Wut