"..and you didn't listen!!"
That's the crap I've been hearing from all of the Ron Paul fans and every jackass Randroid on the internet. In
this article some knob-slobber wrote that him and his chappies "predicted the recession with astonishing precision", and uses some speech that Ron Paul wrote in 2002 as evidence.
Wow, that was so totally DEAD ON. Everyone would have been SO MUCH better off putting all their money in a mattress back in 2002 in anticipation of a recession that struck in 2008. Brilliant!
Honestly, they've been cranking this crap out for years. I remember reading
editorials on gold-eagle.com back in the '90s predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar and telling me to spend all my useless "fiat currency" on
survival seeds and gold mining company stocks. Even a broken watch is right twice a day, and I'm supposed to be impressed when these guys were running around crying about certain future doom? Please.
Since predicting that something bad will happen, at some unspecified point in the future, makes you a guru and qualifies you for the presidency, allow me to make the following dire predictions (praise me and nominate me once they come to pass):
** If America doesn't wave their magic nuke wand and make all the nukes go away, someone is gonna nuke something. WHY WON'T YOU LISTEN!? MAKE THEM GO AWAY OR IT'LL BE BIG TROUBLE!!!"
** If we don't stop making CO2 and somehow convince the Chinese to call off their industrial revolution, it might get hotter GODDAMMIT DO SOMETHING YOU FOOLS DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU!@!!
Yep,
making specific and bold predictions and then being totally 100% right about everything is SO overrated! That's why I'm now a proud member of the Nostradamus school of punditry and I'm loving it! If you read this far, you're probably going to die someday.
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