Gold Standard

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j$
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Gold Standard

Post by j$ »

By Johnny Cashpoint

As society comes crashing downward , we will need to find
Ourselves a new gold standard.

Stop economy from falling backwards; Lets just monetize the
Angries waving placards

They are everywhere but protests matter for precisely
Naught, they flatter to deceive; all their chatter

Is financial goldmine waiting to be cashed in on and tapped for
Everything we can gather

We’re the gnomes of Zurich, Kansas

Depending on their signage, We could get financial mileage
From the product of their gray matter

And turn them into cash cows, While we are at it, it’s bad habit- why not
Steal their banking passwords?

We are the gnomes of Zurich, Kansas
And It's just what half a man does now ...

SOLO

if this all sounds desperate, well,
It is, but Capitalists rely on Optimists to thrive

Since we are all drowning, take our chances,
It is best to just swim landward, step on heads to survive ...
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WreckdoMelle
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Re: Gold Standard

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Gold Standard
by Brown Word and the Big Whine
4/19/2025

I got a mattress fulla rings for a 401k
wearing sequins on my rump I did a pump n dump
gold knucks, lost some weight on the vitamin M
but a body can't be neither too rich or too thin

Empire
Empire
Emperor

We're temporarily embarrassed since forever
But you know we think we're millionaires?
this is the gold standard, sons and daughters
if you can't touch it, it ain't yours (put out your hand)

I can't abide nobody creeping round my turnip patch baby
It's the law of honor see you never milked a cow and it
shows suff'ring destroys and your character is WEAK
I'm drunk on power son, don't you test me in the streets
I'm a little tiny army in a little tiny war
Just looking for a reason someone pushes me too far
Cuz I'm bigger behind the trigger
I'm bigger behind the trigger
I'm bigger behind the
I'm bigger behind the
bigger behind the trigger

"When there's blood in the streets buy buy buy
Satire
Buy buy buy
Sabateur
Buy buy buy

"Greed is good" etc.

There's no moral to this story
The powerful guys are all creeps
All the good guys are in disbelief
Well I'm a woman rest assured
you can hear me roar
Four blocks away in DEI-
Fuck off misogyny (keep it classy)
Burn the billionaires and live off the light
“This is pandemonium, like a Heironymus Bosch painting set to music” - Pannacotta Army
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AJOwens
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Post by AJOwens »

Gold Standard

You know you had it, you had it made
You were the measure of everything
But then you lost it, you gave it away
Now we’ll see what tomorrow brings

You know your word was, your word was your bond
The whole world put its trust in you
But then you played it, you played it wrong
And now we’ll see what the world can do

Gold standard, it’s what they expected
Gold standard, it’s what they demand
Gold standard, and now you’ve defected
Gold standard, it’s out of your hands

You were the big shot, the big shot in town
You were the player with all the cards
But now the house rules are bringing you down
You’re gonna fall and you’re gonna fall hard

You know you bought it, your stock in trade
You thought you knew what nobody knew
You thought the world, the world could be played
And now you’ve got it coming to you

Gold standard, it’s what they expected
Gold standard, it’s what they demand
Gold standard, and now you’ve defected
Gold standard, it’s out of your hands

You were the big shot, the big shot in town
You were the player with all the cards
But now the house rules are bringing you down
You’re gonna fall and you’re gonna fall hard
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Geech
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Re: Gold Standard

Post by Geech »

Gold Standard
Berkeley Social Scene

Don’t you see what’s going on
A lot of people hurting but floating on
Don’t you feel the pain and woe
A lot people saying but they don’t know

Let me tell you what we need to do
Gotta go back to a place of truth
Let me try to make this clear
Gotta get back to a place so dear

We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
Respect and honor and virtue matter
We’re gonna go back to the gold standard

When we were young we had it good
People treated others like just like they should
Before the mess that we have now
Gotta get back to Bretton Woods

Let me tell you what we need to do
Gotta go back to a place of truth
Let me try to make this clear
Gotta get back to place so dear

We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
Respect and honor and virtue matter
We’re gonna go back to the gold standard

Seas are choppy and storms a brew
Gotta find peace in what we do
Come on in now from the cold
As you all know, fortune favors the bold

Let me tell you what we need to do
Gotta go back to a place of truth
Let me try to make this clear
Gotta get back to place so dear

We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
Respect and honor and virtue matter
We’re gonna go back to the gold standard
/// --- geech.com --- ///
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