Like I've been saying all along, it is completely absurd and foolish to be invested in the extremely overvalued stock or bonds markets while having zero preparations ->
And you absolutely NEED to be able to defend yourself, your family, and your home. This is common sense. Humans have known this for tens of thousands of years, but we've gone soft and forgotten this necessity in the past generation or so.
As a libertarian, I agree with this. I am completely unimpressed by Trump or Biden. It’s time to think outside of the tired, outdated two-party box. #LetHerSpeak
For the past four years, I’ve been very frustrated with President Trump. I don’t see any real accomplishments. He’s mostly a showman. This presidency was primarily about boosting his ego. He’s another Silvio Berlusconi.
In addition to my extreme frustration with the media world, which is overwhelmingly dominated by propaganda and disinformation, I became sick with coronavirus, which left me exhausted for several months. It's a very neurological disease, as I found out.
I've dramatically increased the scale of my prepping during my media break of the past few months.
We are not in normal times, nothing is "fixed" by any means, the government is not in control and they have zero clue what they're doing, and we're on the verge of a civil war.
I actually contracted coronavirus back in June, which was an interesting experience.
The acute phase of the illness (fever, weakness, chills) only lasted for a few days and I never had respiratory issues or needed to go to the hospital, thankfully.
I completely lost my sense of smell and taste for nearly two months.
I ate spicy Indian chicken tikka masala, but I could only feel the texture in my mouth.
I tried to smell an open bottle of isopropyl rubbing alcohol, but I couldn't smell it whatsoever.
I was very concerned that I had permanently lost my sense of smell and taste, which would have been devastating for a foodie and overall aesthete like myself.
Thankfully, those senses came back slowly but surely, and have completely recovered at this point. I am so grateful.
I needed to step away and gather my thoughts after an extreme buildup of frustration with the futility of trying to cut through the incredible amounts of propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation in today's media.
As an independent, young voice in the world of media & economics, I have found it virtually impossible to counter the astounding amounts of propaganda disseminated by governments, central banks, major political parties, news media organizations, and, now, social media companies.
I've become incredibly frustrated with the all-out assault on our freedom of speech, incl. the rise of “cancel culture,” social media censorship, and Orwellian-style language policing. I am afraid that we are following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, East Germany, or China.