Inflation, Puppets, and the Great Reset…

I’m sitting here tired after a long day in the charity shop, and one thing I can’t ignore anymore is how many people are turning to second-hand. Not because it’s quirky or trendy, but because they have no choice. Families, pensioners, and students are all looking for ways to make ends meet. Why pay silly money when you can rescue treasures from a charity shop and give them a whole new story? Up-cycling all the way!

Then I head to the grocery store and nearly fall over at the butter shelf. Kerrygold pushing €6. Last month, it was close to €5.20, and it just keeps creeping up. And now the butter is locked up 😂 Milk, bread, fuel, everything is climbing, while wages stand still. They call it inflation. I call it daylight robbery.

But it’s not just the price tags that make me shake my head; it’s the sheer nonsense of what’s “allowed” and what isn’t. Take raw milk. Straight from the cow, the most natural thing in the world. Regulated in Ireland. Producers selling more than 30 liters of raw milk per week have to register with the DAFM and adhere to specific hygiene regulations and testing plans to ensure food safety. The milk must also be clearly labelled with a warning to consumers about the potential risks of consuming unpasteurized milk. Not safe for us, they say. Yet walk down another aisle and the shelves are stacked with neon blue energy drinks, full of chemicals and artificial junk. Those are fine. Drink away.

So let me get this straight.

Real food = dangerous.

Lab-made chemicals = safe.

Butter at €6 = normal.

And the puppets on stage want us to believe it’s all for our good? Please. Their strings are pulled from above, and it has nothing to do with protecting us. It’s about profit, and maybe even control.

Because history shows systems like this don’t last forever. When ordinary people can’t afford the basics, when “advisors” tell us cow’s milk is a threat but blue chemical sludge is perfectly fine, when the cracks become too obvious to ignore, something gives.

Some call it collapse. Others call it change. I call it a reset. Vent over 😂

Mae 🧡


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20 responses to “Inflation, Puppets, and the Great Reset…”

  1. I so agree, Mae. Grocery store prices are criminal, and even more so what is being labeled as safe. I see teenagers guzzling energy drinks, and worse, mothers buying them for small children. We’d better all wake up!

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    1. You’re right, Jean, people need to wake up ! 🧡

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  2. Yes M,
    It’s time for the 80% to prioritise.
    We need to put our needs before our wants, and cut back on waste.
    As for the butter… I told you…
    Get with a friend or two.
    🐄🐄= 🥛🥛🥛🥛+🧈🧈🧈🧈+🧀🧀🧀🧀
    You know it makes sense. 😉

    Love and Blessings. xx

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    1. Phil, you did tell me! 🐄 You’ve got it all figured out, real food straight from the source, no labels, no nonsense. I think you’re right, cutting waste and choosing needs over wants is where it starts. Maybe a cow-share is the future! 😉 Love back to you xx

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  3. Don’t get me started, Mae! :)

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    1. Tony, same here, it would turn into a full-blown rant! 🙈 😉🧡

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  4. Same down here with butter, and like Ireland, NZ produces a lot for export. Raw milk though isn’t necessarily safe – and just because something is natural doesn’t mean it is either good or indeed safe. But as for bright coloured energy drinks…eugh….don’t get me started!

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    1. That’s true, raw milk does come with risks, and I suppose common sense has to play a part. (I grew up on milk straight from the cow!) Still, I can’t help feeling we’ve gone too far the other way with processed everything. And yes, those lurid-colored energy drinks, I can’t even look at them without thinking ‘toxic waste.’ 🙈

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  5. Mae,

    Your observations cut straight to the heart of what troubles many honest folk today. When families must choose between butter and dignity, something has gone fundamentally awry in our social compact.

    The contradiction you’ve spotted – treating nature’s milk as dangerous whilst blessing laboratory concoctions – reveals how far we’ve drifted from common sense. Those who govern seem to have forgotten that their first duty is to the people, not to the purse strings of distant masters.

    Yet I find hope in your charity shop work. There, real value is recognised and genuine help flows between neighbours. Such grassroots kindness often proves more durable than the schemes of those who would manipulate markets for their gain.

    Keep speaking truth, Mae. 🧡

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    1. Bob, that means a lot, thank you 🧡.
      You’ve said it so well. When families are forced into such choices, it reveals just how upside-down things have become. I agree; the mixed messages about what’s ‘safe’ and what’s not only highlight how far common sense has been buried under the pursuit of profit. I do believe real value is found in small, grassroots kindness; it’s what keeps us all going. I’ll keep speaking my truth, and I honestly haven’t scratched the surface yet 😂 I am grateful for voices like yours beside me.

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    Joey Jones

    This post of yours almost slipped through the net ..anyways, I caught it read it and am absolutely speechless ( for a change) seeing the butter tagged-up. You’re right Mae, the Madness just continues, grows…. ‘ horses bolted?’ X

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    1. I miss posts all the time Joey! The butter blew my mind! I was like WT*😳

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  7. Mae, it is the same here. I don’t know how much longer it can go on like this before much needed changes are made. The ones who can fix it need to wake up and do something. I always look forward to your posts Mae. You have a way of seeing and understanding what not all can. When the good is now deemed as bad and the bad as good something is way wrong. We do need a reset badly and soon.

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    1. You’ve said it so well, Mags, when right is branded as wrong, something is truly broken. I hold onto the hope that a reset is possible, and that more voices will rise up to demand it. Thank you for always encouraging me; it helps more than you know 🧡

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      1. At this point that is about all we can do, is hope for a reset.. I love your blog and always look forward to reading your posts. You have a gift and I love your method of writing. Big hugs, Mae.

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  8. Absolutely correct 💯. Legal Robbery.

    Lawsuits won against chemical, pharmaceutical companies yet they are allowed to continue to market and sell the product…

    This is a crazy world we live in!

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    1. Right?! 💯 They get caught, pay a fine that’s pocket change to them, and carry right on poisoning the well. Legal robbery is spot on. The system’s rigged so they win either way, and we’re left shouting at the madness. This world’s upside down, and I’m not buying their snake oil. Thank you for stopping by, and I appreciate your take on it.🧡

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  9. I became addicted to Kerry Gold butter here in the states a few years ago. Back then, it was between $3.50-4.00 US for a lb. Now it’s $11.39 US. I can get it in smaller portions for less money, but still ridiculous prices for the amount. They haven’t started locking it up here–yet. I suppose that’s only a matter of time. What a world!

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    1. Ah, Kerrygold, liquid gold in butter form! I swear, they’ll be keeping it behind glass with the diamonds soon enough. The price hikes are madness, it’s butter, not Bitcoin! It’s a crazy world we live in, Sandy! but at least we know the taste of the real thing, and that’s worth a rebellion all on its own. 🧡

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