I took a break from writing for this blog on and around July 4, if only to wonder in amazement at how many people have been spending copious amounts of money on fireworks they’ve been setting off at their homes and how these seem to be the very people least able to afford such indulgences.
We set off some fireworks for the grandkids in recent days, but much less than others around us did. And, as a teaching moment, we stressed to two of our granddaughters how such money that is literally burned up in seconds, could be better spent elsewhere, such as on the toys they love, or on more productive uses.
On a day before the holiday when both gold and silver were running upward as I’ve been telling people I have expected they would, I noted to the girls how their custodial brokerage accounts I had set up for them (invested toward gold and silver) were rising in value before their eyes.
They immediately seized on the downside – to them – that being the accounts only are open to them to spend the money once they hit 18 years of age. Currently sitting at 6 and 5, respectively, that seems like an eternity in the future.
Gold and silver are running again today, with the usual suppression expected to keep the prices from being too strong heading into a weekend. But one expert I follow, who uses his proprietary formula of momentum structure to predict movements, went on the record last week that should gold and silver hit price levels this week well below what they trade at as I write this (current prices being gold $2,383.90 an ounce and $31.07 an ounce for silver) they will have broken out by his metrics.
I hope he’s right, because some positive results would be welcome against a sad backdrop for this nation.
Tonight is the night that the Clueless Joe Biden image rehabilitation tour goes nationwide with a scheduled 8 p.m. interview with a sympathetic media type.
In the wake of the Clueless One’s pathetic debate performance, excuses have filled the air.
Joe is a victim of sundowning, a state of confusion in late afternoons and evenings that afflicts some dementia patients.
Joe had a cold.
Joe was jet-lagged (from commuting back and forth from Camp David where he spent a week prepping for the debate?).
On the other end of the spectrum, many media shills and prominent Democrats now promote the Joe Must Go alternative. Give us someone, anyone, else to run vs. the hated Trump this fall.
These pathetic humans fail to address how just a week earlier they’d been denouncing those who viewed Biden as short in mental faculties as hateful rumor mongers.
They want us to believe they hadn’t noticed any of this, until the debate.
Must have been crowded for them living under that rock.
But the confused, garbled Biden was on full display again on July 4 as he made public appearances in which he strangely claimed to be the first Black woman to serve with a Black president, talked of being the first Catholic elected president of Delaware as a kid, and seemed to hint that he has been in battle as a member of the military, which he has not.
Biden, also during the debate, falsely had claimed no military members had died on front-line duty during his presidency, neatly forgetting the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle his regime oversaw.
As written here previously, I don’t think all of this rules out Biden being certified yet again as an electoral winner, more due to those counting the votes than to those casting them.
And that speaks to the sad, declining state of this once-great nation.
Forget the fireworks. Got gold and silver?
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