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Iran bans US dollar
The government of Iran imposed new restrictions on the use of the US dollar in the country. The use of the US dollar for import operations in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been banned from February 28, Forbes reports with reference to Iranian media.
Starting from February 28, any supply orders or other import declarations where US dollars are used will not be processed by the Iranian customs authorities.
According to Mehdi Kasraipur, the director of Foreign Exchange Operations and Policy Department of the Central Bank of Iran, the new rules should not affect current trading operations much, given that the use of the American currency in Iran was already limited. Iranian banks could not conduct operations in US dollars because of US sanctions.
“Given that the use of the dollar in Iran is already prohibited, traders use alternative currencies in their transactions. Therefore, there is no longer any reason to quote prices in dollars in invoices,” the official said.
It is worthy of note that the Iranian national currency, the rial, has dropped vs. the US dollar by eight percent this year. Specialists believe that most of Iran’s foreign trade transactions will be carried out in euros.
176 Comments on "Iran bans US dollar"
Boat on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:04 pm
Mm
40 million foreign born immigrants in the US. If not a wave, what is it.
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:13 pm
^mm^ please go lift weight and exercise regularly. just because you acquired a terminal tard degree and will never be a supertard doesn’t mean you grab luke 2236. believe me i was feeling the bern and i supported hillay as well. i’m a libtard so i know you and i understand you.
i only became blue republican to vote for presidne tpaul. now i’m leaning right of a libtard. but in general i view politcs as something that makes me very stressed and that’s unecessary
sahih muslim 3813
own a dog, i don’t like cats because they smell nasty like stale pot. i’d get a black dog just cuz they got the raw deal, poor doggie
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:20 pm
^mm^ don’t forget to “hydrate” yourself regualrly. trust me your trip to the bathroom would be easier that way.
i also believe in chealation. i believe plants are evolved to exploit specific nutrients from the soil especially herbs. i believe when you ingest the herbs the plant cells still think they’re alive and still absorb mineral analogs from your body.
This is good because it allows your body excete harmful metal complexes.
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:26 pm
when you are out in the cold you catch the cold. it doesn’t matter what medical establishment says. in the gobi desert there’re tons of plants that spring up, flower and die within a few days because rain is so rare and they had to complete the cycle before dry desert conditions return. i view the cold virus as similar
think of it as the body and the organism telling you you’re breathing too cold air.
but if you catch the cold, you need to quickly inhale warm steam and clean your nostril. do it in the first hour and allow your inate immunity to fight the virus. after that they multiply too quickly and overwhelm your immune system. then your adtaptive innate immunity makes matter worse after that. also it’s time u submit to the superiority of physics. we breezed through history in a day discussing schoedinger eq.
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:32 pm
no offense i love taylor swift but justine bieber blows her out of the wter
/watch?v=RBumgq5yVrA
p!nk
tons of others
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:40 pm
Boat
Those immigrants work harder than old fat ignorant whitey!
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:44 pm
^mm^ please listen to the former paultard and “cult?”…practic the NAP and don’t hate. u gotta understand supertards and whiteys are hated by nation of islam. yep…..you got it. probably the largest paramilitary army in the US is fruit of islam.
we need to break the cycle u understand
i don’t score so i break the cycle by not hating women.
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:46 pm
you too can be a cool kids but not supertards.
being cool is sufficient for most tasks.
/watch?v=SSCzDykng4g
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:53 pm
Scientific American: Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return/
Peer Reviewed Study: Society Could Collapse In A Decade, Predicts Historian (Turchin, 2010)
https://www.nature.com/articles/463608a
NASA Peer Reviewed Study: Industrial Civilization is Headed for Irreversible Collapse (Motesharrei, 2014)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914000615
The Royal Society: Peer Reviewed Study, Now for the First Time A Global Collapse Appears Likely (Ehrlich, 2013)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574335/
Peer Reviewed Study: Limits to Growth was Right. Research Shows We’re Nearing Global Collapse (Turner, 2014)
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
Peer Reviewed Study: Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion: Global Systemic Collapse (Korowicz, 2012)
http://www.feasta.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Trade-Off1.pdf
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 7:58 pm
yes i understand your point of quoting MSM. i’m a former paultard so i understand the media. p*ssy grabber is not a good president because he fought the media. the law is a scam and scam on works if the media is in with it. this is what frederic bastiat said. i believe he’s mainstream enough.
president paul won iowa and this means he tips over NH too. anyways..SENTAPBs media is dead. i don’t udnerstand anything but i do a little bit about the media
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 8:00 pm
if president paul won iowa and NH then guess what? nomination.
in retrospect he’s a gold bug and he made me poor. i’m no longer a true believer the sort the Longshoreman warned us about
eric hoffer
GregT on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:17 pm
Good find MM,
“Scientific American: Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apocalypse-soon-has-civilization-passed-the-environmental-point-of-no-return/”
“Jorgen Randers of the BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, and one of the original World3 modelers, argues that the second half of the 21st century will bring us near apocalypse in the form of severe global warming.
Randers’s ideas most closely resemble a World3 scenario in which energy efficiency and renewable energy stave off the worst effects of climate change until after 2050. For the coming few decades, Randers predicts, life on Earth will carry on more or less as before.”
Despite humanity’s efforts to ameliorate climate change, Randers predicts that its effects will become devastating sometime after mid-century, when global warming will reinforce itself by, for instance, igniting fires that turn forests into net emitters rather than absorbers of carbon. “Very likely, we will have war long before we get there,” Randers adds grimly.”
‘Graham Turner of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization fears that collapse could come even earlier, but due to peak oil rather than climate change.
In this scenario, population peaks around 2030 at between seven and eight billion and then decreases sharply, evening out at about four billion in 2100.”
“Meadows holds that collapse is now all but inevitable, but that its actual form will be too complex for any model to predict. Collapse will not be driven by a single, identifiable cause simultaneously acting in all countries,” he observes. “It will come through a self-reinforcing complex of issues”—including climate change, resource constraints and socioeconomic inequality.”
Interesting predictions, but of course none of them agree with you MM. As per usual.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:33 pm
Greg
When does the limits to growth forecast a collapse? By 2030 within a decade like I said! You neck beard troll!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:36 pm
Greg
Build your own limits to growth models!
http://bit-player.org/extras/limits/ltg.html
Now even Neck Beard preppers like you can be a scientist! (Like me)
GregT on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:42 pm
Can you not read MM? Or are you just having a slight problem with the comprehension part?
None of your linked articles come to the same conclusions as you do. None.
You are full of shit, a total liar, and you continue to misrepresent other peoples’ work.
Does this in some sick and deranged way, help you to feel better about yourself? WTF dude?
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:44 pm
^mm^ is a linker and refuses to give up. ruels are rules, once you get tard terminal you don’t get to be supertard.
he’s the oposite of eurotard.
/watch?v=awJ7S2Lu2so 50k isis jihadists killed. very nice
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:46 pm
Greg dont worry new technologies will be invented! Don’t be such a nervous Nellie!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:47 pm
Existing oil reserves are scheduled to begin a catastrophic crash within 1 to 3 years. When it hits the economic and social damage will be catastrophic. The end of Western Civilization, from China to Europe, to the US, will not occur when oil runs out. The economic and social chaos will occur when supplies are merely reduced sufficiently….
https://imgur.com/a/6dEDt
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7382/full/481433a.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421509001281
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151300342X
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236114010254
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/energy/the_challenges/peak_oil.html
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
Simple really….when the World Economy Collapses everything shuts down…the end… We’re talking about grids down all over the world and 7.5B people dropping like f*** flies in short order. The collapse will be absolutely horrible..There is no collapse or horror movie ever produced that has even come close to imagining what the collapse of BAU might look like. I’m talking about every corporation and every social program going bankrupt at once. I’m talking about people eating people. I’m talking about the Worst Catastrophe to ever happen in the history of mankind. Nothing has ever, or will ever come close….
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:53 pm
Peer Reviewed Study: Limits to Growth was Right. Research Shows We’re Nearing Global Collapse (Turner, 2014)
Page 14
The close alignment between the LTG BAU scenario and observed developments over the last four decades, as well as the correspondence in the underlying dynamics described above, portend of potential global collapse. Although the general commentary on the LTG describes collapse occurring sometime mid-century (and the LTG authors stressed not interpreting the time scale too precisely), the BAU scenario implies that a relatively rapid fall in economic conditions and the population could be imminent. Indeed, other aspects of oil supply constraints explored in the following, indicate that the ongoing economic downturn of the GFC may be representative of an imminent BAU style
collapse.
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
GregT on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 9:56 pm
“The end of Western Civilization, from China to Europe, to the US, will not occur when oil runs out. The economic and social chaos will occur when supplies are merely reduced sufficiently….”
Mankind could be so fortunate. By the time you’re my age, you’ll be wishing that was the case.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:02 pm
Greg
I am not going to ever make it to your fucking age. That fucking sucks. But there isnt shit I can do about it. Its like having cancer! All I can do is hope my final day comes later than the evidence would suggest.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:04 pm
Greg
You think global collapse happening will be a good thing for mankind? You always have to find a silver lining to everything. sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
GregT on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:10 pm
MM,
From the graph on top of page 14, both the FOCAR and BAU scenarios show human population numbers in excess of 6 Billion people in 2050.
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:15 pm
Greg
When the system collapses we are talking NTHE! Mcpherson style but it wont be because of the climate!
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:18 pm
IEA warns of oil supply crunch after 2020 -Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/e424c4b0-204a-11e8-a895-1ba1f72c2c11
GregT on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:21 pm
NTHE is not going to happen from an economic collapse scenario MM. It appears likely to occur from environmental collapse, if we don’t stop treating the Earth like a human resource base/waste dump.
GregT on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 10:24 pm
Again MM, from top of pg14:
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
The FOCAR scenario shows human population levelling out at ~2.5B people by 2100.
The BAU scenario shows ~3.5 B people by 2100.
Neither jives with your conclusions.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 11:30 pm
Greg’s quote from Jorgen Randers sounds more like it. No catastropic depletion or climate effects before 2050. The real threats are war, third world population explosion and subsequent increasing immigration pressures and hard right responses in Europe and North-America. The implosion c.q. retreat of the US empire will cause all sorts of power-vacuums others will fill. Down-under and Taiwan will increasingly move into Chinese sphere of influence, Turkey and Iran will take over the ME with Israel with the back against the wall. Europe and Russia will move closer in response to the Chinese threat.
Europe could achieve its 100% renewable energy goal much earlier than 2050, America a decade or so later, thanks to Trump.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 11:53 pm
Clogg
The collapse will happen in the next decade! As the limits to growth models foretasted! We would have to discover whole another earths worth of resources to last to 2050…
Run the program yourself
http://bit-player.org/extras/limits/ltg.html
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Mar 2018 11:54 pm
Awoke dog
https://i.redd.it/0zv2c19oysj01.gif
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:05 am
The collapse will happen in the next decade! As the limits to growth models foretasted!
The only collapse that indeed will happen is in North-America as a consequence of insane migration policies and loss of reserve currency. Americans will generally understand that the American Era is over…
https://www.amazon.com/End-American-Era-Geopolitics-Twenty-first-ebook/dp/B000XUDGTY/ref=sr_1_1
(American Jews, much smarter than whitey, see it coming already)
…and will flee to the exits in order to prevent becoming a third world country.
Expect Europeans-with-vile-Natzi grins on their faces to come to the aid of whitey… in order to take its place on world stage, together with Russia.
Perhaps your kids will be granted the European equivalent of a Fulbright scholarship and are allowed to study in Europe, they heard so much about. I mean, having to study at Harvard…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-Cqkq6zWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q90kmUbEv7c
…you don’t even wish that to your worst enemy. Heck not even to Davy.
OK, the latter was a joke.
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:10 am
“Run the program yourself”
The program shows at least 2.5 billion humans on the planet Earth by 2100. Anyway you slice it.
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:12 am
Kim talking about lowering military tensions and Korean reunification:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/nordkorea-kim-jong-un-will-annaeherung-an-suedkorea-vorantreiben-a-1196620.html
Es sei sein fester Wille, die innerkoreanischen Beziehungen “energisch voranzutreiben und eine neue Geschichte der nationalen Wiedervereinigung zu schreiben”, wurde Kim zitiert.
Kim was quoted as being “of strong will to energetically advance inner-Korean relations and write a new history of national reunification”.
That would be the best solution indeed: a non-nuclear, capitalist, democratic Korea with American forces and bases withdrawn.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:14 am
Greg
Once the economy collapses its game over! There is no BAU lite! Just like the German scientist predicted in their leaked peak oil study.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:16 am
Clogg
Linking to a fat ignorant blowhards neo cons book like Buchanan is laughable!
MASTERMIND on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:20 am
Poor poor neck beard clogg
https://imgur.com/a/wfYez
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 12:24 am
Hard-left 1968 German foreign minister Joshka Fisher and total vassal of old-school Americans predicting the “Fall of the West”:
https://www.amazon.de/Abstieg-Westens-Europa-Weltordnung-Jahrhunderts/dp/3462051652/ref=sr_1_1
Well, let’s bring it on and destroy this sarcophagus of the white race and European civilization. Can’t happen soon enough. Russia here we come.
Here we have Joshka Fisher (on the right) with somewhat reduced decorum, protesting and fighting a policeman about a new runway of Frankfurt airport in the seventies:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2pt199h.jpg
Madeline Albright loves Joshka. In her view Joshka is a good boy and reliable water carrier for the US empire:
https://www.politik-kommunikation.de/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/gala/150618a4f0325.jpg?itok=RgRHJCNs
One wonders why that is?
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/jerusalemgerman-foreign-minister-joschka-fischer-puts-on-a-kipa-the-picture-id51393946
DerHundistLos on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 2:24 am
I agree with you, Greg.
“NTHE is not going to happen from an economic collapse scenario MM. It appears likely to occur from environmental collapse, if we don’t stop treating the Earth like a human resource base/waste dump.”
Humanity is too fully vested in BAU to allow economic collapse.
Davy on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 4:51 am
Sure NTHE can happen from an economic collapse scenario. The economic collapse would be in relation and accompany the ongoing environmental collapse. The environmental collapse process is both short term and long term. The shorter term aspects are localized ecosystem failure. The longer term are planetary and climate. An economic collapse could be longer term or shorter term depending on the degree and duration of the shock that participates this event/process.
A dramatic economic collapse could easily lead to a near term extinction. We are not going to be able to manage multiple systems that protect us from critical failures of technologically dangerous human creations. This will speed the environmental collapse scenario up. None of the collapse processes should be looked at in isolation. There is rarely an either or in these cases. It is more converging and reinforcements of systematic processes in varying degree and duration that determine survival. This is true for all species as science tells us. Bifurcations are the result when thresholds are breached. This spreads contagions and so on.
It is not a given that a near term extinction is in the cards. Our human minds love to fantasize even with science. When we can’t use science to know because of the data sets or time frames are unknowable then we use our fantasy. We just don’t know but we can’t help acting like we know. One thing is certain science is telling us decline and decay is happening. Science is telling us complexity is fragile and potential source of failure. We have history to refer to for past collapse and planetary extinctions. Again we have human fantasy explaining away these occurrences.
It is extremism, which this board is full of, that is the problem. Wisdom to negotiate these predicaments with adaptation and mitigation is not easy with extremist distorting the true picture. At this point in human history human behavior is the critical element. Proper human wisdom to find the right path to survival is needed. How can we find that path when so many paths are proposed? Not only proposed by emotionally pushed with extremism. Dishonest agendas that seek personal ends supersede the public good. We have a gauntlet of problems and we create more instead of learning to adapt to the central existential problem.
Humans are the problem in numbers and behavior. The civilization that has resulted from these numbers and behaviors is now the problem and we are stuck with that. So really the effort should be with the human side of this equation. Environmental problems have already phased changed. Tipping points have created self-reinforcing processes beyond human control. The economy is beyond human control in relation to degrowth without collapse. Some changes can be made but nothing can be done about overshoot to carrying capacity in our case with sheer numbers and over complexity.
Human behavior is the key and out of reach with civilization as-is in regards to top down adaptation. The top will just be making the situation worse. Too many divergent behaviors in a crowded world. This is a predicament with localism the best strategy for finding proper human wisdom. This means yielding to greater forces in a kind of Tao of harmony with the natural order. Embrace the planet and she will fight for you so to speak. There is no other way. The human way is for fools and this is the extremist way. Humility and sobriety is not found in extremism. Small groups and communities can adapt from the bottom with a top that is beyond control. This has to be done as one lives in this world because today there is nowhere to run or hide. We do not have a new world to move to like earlier times. So embrace our dying civilization but do it by trying to leave it.
This new world must be created in place spiritually and physically through localism of effort. Collapse in place with the dignity of spiritual enlightenment. Stop fighting the greater forces except in and at the local level. Embrace planetary forces that are circular and systematic. Embrace seasonality, intermittency, and real human scale by leaving the “rat race” while you participate in the “rat race”.
Are you confused yet? Well it really is about acceptance and adaptation that is found in a hospice. It is about lifeboats of understanding that we are part of a process beyond saving but we can still live. We can do better and we can find proper wisdom at the local level to negotiate the greater forces that are out of human control including human civilization.
Davy on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 5:07 am
“That would be the best solution indeed: a non-nuclear, capitalist, democratic Korea with American forces and bases withdrawn.”
Sure, and you believe Kim when he says these things like you would believe Adolph. The US should leave this place but with conditions. You just don’t leave these situations in a vacuum as you binary extremist like to fantasize about.
Davy on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 5:32 am
No wonder Canadians think they are so special. They have barrowed themselves to greatness
“Oh Canada! The Looming Economic Meltdown”
https://tinyurl.com/ya4t3szr
“Canada may find itself in the unexpected position of a world leader – a leader in global debt. Canada’s Fourth Quarter economic growth was 1.7% following positive signs of growth earlier in the year. This growth, however modest, is attributable to easy credit and the increased consumer spending. At this time, Canadian households are facing one the largest indebtedness when compared to most other countries. For every $1.00 of income, consumers owe $1.68. This is the highest income to debt ratio in the world. For low-income Canadian households, the $1.00 disposable income to $3.33 debt ratio is even worst. Canada, along with other nations, especially emerging markets are carrying records levels of consumer debts, may be facing a serious crash as further growth becomes unsustainable. Canada combined deficit rose to $18.1 billion in 2016, from $12.9 billion in the previous year. Higher debts and increased spending are causing serious concerns that the Canadian economy is on an unsustainable economic path.”
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 9:10 am
“Are you confused yet?”
Talking to yourself again Davy?
The scientific community has been very clear that humanity must wean itself off of fossil fuels if we have any hope of staving off a catastrophic runaway greenhouse event.
It doesn’t get any more unconfusing than that.
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 9:18 am
“Humanity is too fully vested in BAU to allow economic collapse.”
Agreed Derhund, but considering that it is human economic activity that is driving environmental collapse, it doesn’t matter whether humans allow economic collapse to happen or not, it is inevitable.
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 9:24 am
“Higher debts and increased spending are causing serious concerns that the Canadian economy is on an unsustainable economic path.”
All of our economies are unsustainable, and the longer that they continue on, the worse the consequences will be for the future of humanity, and life as we know it on planet Earth.
Davy on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 9:36 am
Shut up greggie and read the comment and it’s reference to science. You are clueless about the issues and a liar. You are just stalking pricking. You would like to see the global system weened off fossil fuels so there can be a die off. Somehow you feel you are safe up there in BC so the die off will be the other guy’s problem. I don’t deny the seriousness of environmental issues but you are in denial of the reality of a die off for economic reasons or just playing fat and happy. Fat and happy because you think you are safe or safer and others especially Americans are screwed. Your agenda is all very convenient and disguised. You loadly say “leave fossil fuels” without mentioning all those who will die. That is not your concern becuase for you the end justifies the means.
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 9:44 am
There IS going to be a die off Davy. That’s the sad reality of population overshoot. The further into overshoot we go, the larger the die off will be. This time is different however, human population overshoot is now causing permanent irreversible damage to the one and only planet humans will ever have to call home. We are now driving our own extinction.
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 9:52 am
And Davy,
Are you honestly completely oblivious to how transparent your emotional and psychological issues are in most everything that you write here? Seriously?
MASTERMIND on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 10:11 am
Greg
Davy wont accept the collapse and die off. He has invested too much for a slow collapse regression.
Davy on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 10:14 am
Greggie go see your shrink. You are projecting your personal problems again. I am fine and just dealing with a disagreeable extremist like he deserves to be treated. A person like you deserves no respect. If you would open your eyes and get your head out of your ass you might become a better person. You are so far up your ass in self righteousness and bigotry I doubt that is possible.
GregT on Tue, 6th Mar 2018 10:23 am
“Greggie go see your shrink.”
Name calling and childish rhetoric.
“You are projecting your personal problems again.”
“You are so far up your ass in self righteousness and bigotry I doubt that is possible.”
Delusional accusations.
“I am fine and just dealing with a disagreeable extremist like he deserves to be treated. A person like you deserves no respect.”
If you are so fine, then what are you getting all upset about?