I hope your 2022 was successful, but Republicans really took a severe blow, thanks to ex-president Donald Trump. There are a lot of Republicans, who still believe that Trump had the election ‘stolen’ from him, even though he still says that he ‘won it by a landslide,’ which we all wish were true. Biden and Trump, both got millions of votes more than were expected, but this, unfortunately, didn’t change the result. Biden, so far, with his Democrat Senate, has installed 90 lifetime federal judges, which American will have to live with for close to two years. Hey, you Trump loyalists! We all love what he did while in office, but when he lost, he seems to have lost his mind. He has always been interested in himself mainly, and that worked out OK while he was President, but not now. I’ll take DeSantis in 2024. I doubt that Trump could even win a primary today.
Just about every candidate for both House and Senate, which Trump endorsed, lost. We barely got the House, and in a typical mid-year election, Republicans should have won both the Senate and House by a substantial margin, and especially since the presidency is held by a mere puppet, whose handlers are the far left, and who is virtually unable to construct, or even read a sentence. It is a general opinion that Putin would have never invaded Ukraine if Trump were President. What we hoped would be a clear highway to re-building America, turned out to be a semi-defeat, saved barely by a few votes in the House. Every time I see that fool pillow man on the screen, I instantly change channels, and I am sick of seeing Huckabee’s face blessing patent medicines and childish booklets on Trump, etc.
2022 ended with the stock market having lost 20% for the year, and of course Bit-coin in the cellar, going from the heavens, down over 70%. I wrote a couple of columns three years ago on Bit-coin, the last one was in March of 2021. I wrote that Bit-coin was a total fraud, was backed by nothing, and investors in it were doomed to lose their investments. All too true of course, and I have not changed my mind about the eventual collapse of China either, if you’re looking through old columns of mine. I really believe that ‘climate change’ fraud, will go the way of the ozone cloud, which cost the world trillions of needless dollars, in a silly effort to get rid of that cloud, which has been there for a million years, and will still be there a million years from now. So called ‘climate change,’ is merely the Earth undergoing temporary minor if any, climate change, as it has been doing since creation. Can you remember back in the 1970’s, when ‘scientists’ were predicting that Earth was going into a new ‘ice age?’ I well remember it. The very idea than man’s puny efforts could change anything on mighty Earth, is absurd, and is being pushed by ignorant politicians and windmill and solar industries.
Coal, has always been the cheapest most reliable source of electrical generation. 50 years ago, an efficient coal plant, was turning out electricity at two cents a KW. The ash and inefficiencies were long ago conquered, and smoke stacks of coal plants, are crystal clear, and have been for a couple of generations. A hundred years ago, there were upwards of 100,000 coal burning steam locomotives pulling America’s freight and passenger trains, and outside of hydro, all electricity was provided by coal. Millions of America’s homes were heated by coal. Millions of commercial buildings, apartments, factories and schools were heated and powered by coal, and coal fired steam. In the Washington D.C high school I went to for a year, (Central), electricity was generated by two massive, piston reciprocating high pressure steam engines, turning large generators, the steam provided by 1400 horsepower coal fired boilers. (If you would like to see steam locomotives pulling 175 loaded coal cars, let me know, and I’ll forward one to you). I loved to visit that engine room, and watch them! No one was screaming and predicting immediate gloom, if we didn’t cut the carbon dioxide. CO2 is wonderful! It makes things grow. This ‘climate change’ fakery, eventually will be realized as just what it is, and that is total fraud. Do you know how many million birds are killed each year by those windmills?
In 2022, The Federal Reserve (not federal and has no reserve), has killed several industries by its fraudulently raising interest rates. Real estate sales during 2022, went from boom to bust, thanks to mortgage rates going from 3% to 6.5%. Car sales went the same way, as did construction and remodeling outfits. Did you ever wonder how the fed did this, other than by releasing a news item that ‘it’ had raised rates? Interest rates to who? Did this happen, because of a news item, and everything fell into line automatically? If you know, please tell me.
While Tesla had gone from $480 down to $112, gold and silver, during 2022, had gone up and down, but at years’ end, gold was just about the same as a year ago, and silver was a dollar per ounce higher. Tangible, physical wealth, which can be held, stored, redeemed, passed on, and loved, throughout history, will always be a sound investment.
Don Stott – don@coloradogold.com, or 970-249-4646