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Pay attention. Things could get ugly real fast if this one thing happens. [1]

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Date: 2025-01-25

OK, I could be getting way ahead of things here and be completely off base.

But then again, something really huge and crazy might be about to unfold over the next month or so.

What am I talking about?

I noticed a post on Threads yesterday from someone who reported that his job was operating a very large and expensive piece of heavy equipment. But on Friday, he was unable to work. Why? Because the people who do the dirty work of setting up and maintaining that piece of equipment just never showed up?

Why?

Because they were terrified of being detained by immigration cops.

Now this may just be an isolated incident.

But there was another news story just a day or two before about crops in California that are going unpicked. Soon those crops will be rotten and worthless.

Why?

Because the people who pick those crops never showed up.

Consider this post an early warning. Again, it may or may not happen. But those of us who did not vote for this, need to be prepared for the consequences of the fascist insanity that is rapidly unfolding right here and now.

This could all break down very very fast and the economy could be in free fall.

Like literally, within the next three or four weeks.

How?

Well, if 40 or 50 or 80 or 90 percent of the people who the good bishop talked about in her sermon the other day, don't show up for work, what do you think would happen?

The people who, in her words, "pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in our poultry farms and meat-packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shift in hospitals".

What if they don't show up?

Not for just one or two days, but for one week, two weeks, three weeks...

Because hers was by no means an exhaustive list of the essential work that is done by undocumented people in America today. They do all of the dirty, low-paid, crappy jobs that the rest of us higher in the food chain depend upon. To extend the food chain analogy, it is a little bit like what would happen to the entire ocean ecosystem if suddenly all the plankton disappeared. It would not be pretty, to say the least.

Now these folks are terrified, and for good reason. No city or state is safe. The raids are random, here, there, potentially anywhere. The risk is real. Not just for the undocumented, but for anyone who looks Hispanic and who works these dirty essential jobs.

America may be about to discover just how essential these workers are to the very fabric of our economy.

Imagine what happens if supply chains grind to a halt. Grocery store shelves empty out. Panic buying ensues. Panic selling tears through the stock market.

Maybe it won't happen this fast.

It is a good bet that Trump will do for the US economy what Hoover did for it in 1929. But maybe not this soon.

Like I said, I may be getting way ahead of things here. Chances may be that none of this will happen.

But honestly, right now it is seeming like a real possibility.

Keep an eye out for the warning signs, my friends.

Hedge your bets now, and protect yourself as best you can.

A merry band of idiots who are completely unhinged from reality have just seized all the levers of our government and our economy. What could go wrong?

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