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RussiaGate is flaring to a toxic shock level event. Everything that spun out of Monday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing made all parties look bad. The spooks are everywhere and nowhere. The spooks are leaking to the press. The president is tweeting instead of governing. The two parties are literally at war in congress, and the news media is playing it all like a Stockhausen cantata for kazoo and trashcan lid.

One can’t help marveling at the way the “Russian interference” motif has shifted the spotlight off the substance of what Wikileaks revealed about Clinton Foundation and DNC misdeeds onto Trump campaign officials “colluding” with Russians, supposedly to support their interference in the election. It’s true that the election is way over and the public is no longer concerned with Hillary or her foundation (which is closing shop anyway). But the switcheroo is impressive, and quite confusing, considering recently retired NSA James Clapper just two weeks ago said on NBC’s Meet the Press that there was “no evidence” of collusion Between Trump and Russia. Okay… uh, say what?

On Monday, FBI Director James Comey revealed that his agency had been investigating the Trump Campaign since at least last August. Is that so…? Investigating how? Some sort of electronic surveillance? Well, what else would they do nowadays? Send a gumshoe to a hotel room where he could press his ear on a drinking glass against the wall to eavesdrop on Paul Manafort? I don’t think so. Of course they were sifting through emails, phone calls, and every other sort of electronic communication.

Trump’s big blunder was to tweet that he’d been “wiretapped.” Like the FBI patched into a bunch of cables with alligator clips in the basement of Trump Tower … or planted a “bug” in the earpiece of his bedside phone. How quaint. We also don’t have ice boxes anymore, though plenty of struggling weight-watchers across the land speak guiltily of “raiding the icebox.” But if it’s true, as Mr. Comey said, that the FBI had been investigating Trump’s campaign, the people around him, and Trump himself, since August, how could they not have captured some of Trump’s conversations?

Anyway, the action on Monday shifted to the question of how General Michael Flynn was “unmasked” after the CIA recorded a phone conversation between him and the Russian ambassador. (The CIA is expressly forbidden from spying on US citizens, and anything overheard incidentally when bugging foreigners is supposed to remain suppressed or “masked.”) Somebody at the CIA just handed the info straight to The New York Times, The WashPo, and CNN. That story broke in back in January. How come the CIA has not rooted out the culprit and handed him/her/zhe over to the Department of Justice?

For the record, apart from the General Flynn matter, I have no idea what connections Trump & Co. may have had with Russia before, during, or after the election. But nobody has yet demonstrated that the allegations about Hillary, her email, her foundation, the DNCs treatment of Senator Sanders, or the John Podesta letters were anything but truthful, either, and that was why Hillary lost the election.

It is also worth considering that candidates for high office in all advanced nations have relationships with people in other countries. It’s not against the law per se to speak to people in Portugal, Singapore, Germany, Argentina, and a hundred other places, including, yes, Russia — which, by the way, is no longer a communist imperium bent on world domination, though Senator Chuck Schumer would like you to think so.

Then, on Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes (R-Cal) told the news media that an “unnamed source” in the Intel community informed him that Trump had indeed been surveilled during the transition period following the election. Was he just blowing smoke up America’s ass? I guess we’ll have to stand by on that one.

So, the long and the short of it is that the RussiaGate story is spinning out of control, and Trump’s adversaries — who go well beyond Congress into the Deep State — might be getting enough leverage to dump Trump. Either they will maneuver him and his people into some kind of perjury rap, or they will tie up the government in such a web of investigative procedural rigmarole that all the country lawyers who ever snapped their galluses will never be able to unravel it.

While the nation remains entertained by all this, the Potemkin financial system will wobble, crash, and burn and the humiliation of Donald Trump will be complete. Abandoned by the Republican Party, isolated and crazed in the White House, tweeting out mad appeals to heaven, he’ll either voluntarily pass the baton to Mike Pence or he will be declared unfit to serve and removed under the 25th amendment.

The after-effects of that will be something to behold: a “lose-lose” for both old-line political parties. The Trumpists will never forgive the Republican Party, and the Democrats will have gained nothing. Don’t let the door bang you on the butt on your way out.


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372 Responses to “The Swamp Drains Trump”

  1. Petro March 24, 2017 at 7:51 am #

    Actually, what Trump tweeted was that his “wires” had been tapped. Which, in its clumsily funny wording, evokes even more strongly JHK’s mocking picture of 50s-era spying techniques going on at Trump Tower.

    And what isn’t mentioned in today’s essay is that the head of the House committee charged with investigating the Russia-Trump campaign connections, Devin Nunes, ran straight to Trump himself and spilled what he knew—before even telling his committee members.

    I hear people say we could be heading for a “Constitutional Crisis.” I’d say we are in it NOW.

    • onehunglo March 24, 2017 at 8:03 am #

      you very wise one indeed!

      NETWORK operated Deep State enjoy transfer of power from old republic to CHINA!!

      We have many many problem here (China), however nice transfer of wealth have created buy opportunity of lifetime of old republic asset.

      We enjoy purchase of Hollywood movie studios and making film to further spread pro-China anti-Trump message.

      Further, assets like JHK make job easy.

      NETWORK make no illusion of using strongest world asset in furtherance of power.

      and China best asset to further NETWORK agenda in further consolidation of wealth.

      -onehunglo

  2. pequiste March 24, 2017 at 8:17 am #

    In swamps,marshes, lowlands and other fetid, bug-infested, watery places; no animal is more ubiquitous than the leech.

    Doesn’t matter that other residents include gators, snapping turtles, cottonmouth snakes and other dangerous critters.

    Nope, it is the leeches that invariably latch on to a warm body and suck blood. That’s what they do. It’s their job.

    If President Trump was this moment pulled from his current up-to-his-armpits-in-the-mud position in the bog, we all would see his entire body covered with the blood suckers. It’s what “they” (the malevolent media, slimy politicians, putrid pundits, apparatchiks, corrupt career civil servants, welfare recipients etc., etc,- it’s a yuge bunch of critters) do. They are blood suckers. Parasites.

    I’m sure it provides a whole new perspective to the former reality TV program host.

  3. robert magill March 24, 2017 at 8:18 am #

    The anti-Trump frenzy kindled and kept ablaze by various interested parties seems to have unhinged our people. In some sections to be known as a supporter of the President can be a source of vitriol or worse from boisterous others. A sort of home spun Red Guard has taken to the streets, the airways and public assemblies to harass or threaten Trump loyalists. No dissent from political or social norm is tolerated by these zealots whose yearning for the old status quo is palpable. Perfectly normal citizens have been rioting, destroying property and duplicating the antics of Mao Zedong’s followers in the turbulent 60’s.
    https://robertmagill.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/if-it-bleeds/

    • Petro March 24, 2017 at 8:42 am #

      With every passing day, it is Trump himself, and the blatantly greedy & unhinged people surrounding him that pour gasoline on the fiery frenzy. Unlike Democrats, who are generally more subtle and not quite as mean-spirited, with the Trump White House, what you see is what you get—and what they sow, so shall they reap.

      • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 10:29 am #

        What we have gotten is a dimwit in the White House that does not understand high tech or politics. As far as the big time capitalist image–his IRS papers flamed that out. The only thing the GOP can do to save his Presidency is to pass the health care bill today. Without the deal maker myth in place what does President Trump have left ? War. So much for he will keep us out of war. He could be the next President Wilson.

        • zaphod42 March 24, 2017 at 10:46 am #

          Trump as Wilson? Hardly! Wilson for all the bad decisions he made, and those were legend, sort of “got it.” His two worst blunders? The Federal Reserve, and choosing England.

          And for as bright as Wilson undoubtedly was, Churchill was the winner, and certainly champion in political chicanery. Not once, but twice (the second one was actually part ii of the First Oil War, still ongoing).

          No… Trump is merely a shopworn effigy, waiting for the partisans to string him up. Enjoy the show!

          Craig

          • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 11:10 am #

            Thanks for reply. I was looking at it merely from candidate Trump running as someone that would keep us out of war. Like Wilson. It will be a great show. Hope we live passed the end of 45 rule.

          • venuspluto67 March 24, 2017 at 12:16 pm #

            And honestly, I think getting cashiered would probably be the best thing for Trump himself. I don’t think he ever really wanted to be president, he just said some things that resonated with a very angry and disaffected faction of the electorate, and his vain, shallow, narcissistic ego caused him to be swept away on the tide. If he’s forced out, of course he’ll be very butthurt about it, but I think being in the Oval Office for all four years would ultimately be much worse for him. Whether or not it would be worse for the country I can’t really say, but I sure wouldn’t be surprised if it were so.

          • shotho March 25, 2017 at 10:24 am #

            Don’t forget the IRS and League of Nations! But generally agree that Wilson was worst president ever.

          • SunnyJohn45 March 26, 2017 at 9:56 am #

            Maybe more piñata than effigy.

      • seawolf77 March 24, 2017 at 3:10 pm #

        Are we sick of winning yet?

        • thwack March 24, 2017 at 8:31 pm #

          No,

          because first we have to fail, and we have to fail a lot; because if we aren’t failing, we aren’t innovating enough.

          So brace yourselves for more failure.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 9:15 am #

      Very insightful blog post Robert! It’s all about the hysteria at this point.

  4. AKlein March 24, 2017 at 8:53 am #

    Let’s summarize. We are currently in the visible “meltdown phase” of governance. Meaning that governance has been progressively dissolving for years, but now it’s becoming obvious to even the dimmest of the dim. “Let all of the poisons that lurk in the mud, hatch out.” Well, now they are hatching out. Those that have been paying attention are not surprised.

    • Paulo March 24, 2017 at 9:56 am #

      What I thought was astounding that right after the election Sir Trump filed his ‘papers’ for 2020 and began a fund raising campaign. This ‘outsider’, openly talked about ‘8 years’.

      This was after less than a week into the job!!

      Now, his lack of ability is quite obvious, and his Presidency is most certainly NOT tremendous, wonderful, and/or outstanding, (despite how often he says it). I would hazard a guess that at least 60% of Americans are embarassed by Trump.

      The only conclusion I have made, besides watching the unwind of the Empire and a consumer society, is that I should have actually tried a bit harder to make more money along the way. After all, if an Idiot like Trump can be rich, what excuse is there for the rest of us?

      Oh yeah, we might have to play a buffon and steal from others.

      I sure would like to see those tax returns. Pride goeth before the fall, for sure.

      • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 10:35 am #

        He did it the old fashion way. Got a huge leg up with his daddies money. Bill Gates would be working at an Apple retail store if his families money and connections had not placed him at the right place and in the right social class. Hope you get rich. All it has ever taken to be rich is the lucky sperm club or becoming a total sociopath.

      • seawolf77 March 24, 2017 at 12:17 pm #

        He is a disaster.

    • shotho March 25, 2017 at 10:29 am #

      Right!. As Mr. K (better known as the Guru) says, it only waits for the financial dark hole to open up. We don’t have long to wait and then the swamp will start to drain.

  5. gasman March 24, 2017 at 9:25 am #

    Jim

    What is Marlon Perkins Wild Kingdom and How old are you anyway?

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    • DMH March 24, 2017 at 9:51 am #

      Gasman, what is Google, and how old are you anyway?

      • thwack March 24, 2017 at 10:08 am #

        what color is he?

      • gasman March 24, 2017 at 11:36 am #

        come on, he is joking about people referencing “ice box” and he uses that reference.

        • Q. Shtik March 24, 2017 at 1:27 pm #

          come on, he is joking about people referencing “ice box” – gasman

          =============

          Actually, no, he isn’t joking. My b-i-l, Peter, is 70 years old and in the 45 years I have known him he has never used the word refrigerator or fridge; it’s always “ice box.”

          • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 2:14 pm #

            Wiretapping is an old but useful term that has survived the transition into the Cyber Age as a general term indicating surveillance of individuals, organizations, or nations. The NY Times itself uses it – or at least they did until Trump was vindicated. Perhaps they’ll delete the word now.

            http://www.snopes.com/nytimes-wiretap-articles/

          • windward March 25, 2017 at 1:29 am #

            I am old enough to have known a man who went out for a spin in a new-fangled invention called the motor car. Or machine, to those in the know. It had a tiller for steering. He said he got up to 10 mph and lost control.

            I wore shirts with pearl buttons. I knew a man who said ‘yon end.’ If I had helped to build the pyramids, I would feel infinitely superior to those callow youts who built the cathedrals. I did not misspell that word.

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 10:51 am #

      Please read JHK’s bio. Perkins ran a show called Wild Kingdom on TV…… that box with the bright light that turned two or three generations of Americans into a nation that would run slimy crap like Clintons and Trump’s for high office. BTW, the Deep State ended the Republic in 1972. Everything passed that date is farce. The replacement for Wild Kingdom is run by Jack Hanna. Hope this helps. Yes, I am old as dirt. Read The Fall Of The Roman Empire or even The Foundation books by Asimov. The skeleton of the former is based on the latter. Now back to rereading The End of Normal. One of Jim’s great podcasts brought the book up and it seems like the perfect time to revisit. Good read. Been a fan of both Galbraith’s for five decades. Forgive the grammar and such…… small screen and old dim brain.

      • shotho March 25, 2017 at 10:32 am #

        Right, but I would put the date at 1963.

    • Marlon Perkins March 24, 2017 at 7:06 pm #

      Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom

  6. janet March 24, 2017 at 9:28 am #

    Maybe one reason HRC lost is because she is a woman and for years there has been a Republican war on women. That war on women continues and is in evidence in the Trumpcare bill to be voted on today.

    The Trumpcare bill gives states the ability to revoke Medicaid from new mothers if they don’t find work within 60 days of giving birth. That is two months after giving birth. Work requirements disproportionately impact women as they currently account for 62% of Medicaid enrollees who are not working.

    And by eliminating the essential health benefits, or EHB, provision, which requires plans to cover maternity and newborns, the bill makes it less likely that plans will cover maternity care at all.

    Then there is birth control. The “controversial” product that tens of millions of women, including Republicans, not only rely on, but support would become more expensive for many women who have birth control covered by Medicaid, as a result of the Medicaid cuts the GOP proposes. Paying out of pocket for birth control can cost a woman up to $600 per year, and for the 16.7 million women who benefit from Medicaid, that simply isn’t affordable.

    These policies treat women like an opportunity for cost savings, not the mothers, grandmothers, caregivers and hardworking members of society who deserve better.

    • thwack March 24, 2017 at 9:47 am #

      Maybe one reason HRC lost is because she is a woman and for years there has been a Republican war on women.

      ********************

      ^who bitch dis is?^

      White women are the luckiest people on the planet because they are no longer held accountable by anyone for anything.

      This is what happens when you make life too easy for women; they just start making up stuff to complain about.

      Every woman needs to spend 6 months knee deep in a rice paddy; that’ll cure their “war on women” nonsense.

      • elysianfield March 24, 2017 at 11:13 am #

        “Every woman needs to spend 6 months knee deep in a rice paddy”

        Thwack,
        Are you out of your goddamned mind? Years ago we tried that with cotton fields, and you are STILL bitching about it!

        • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 2:24 pm #

          Yes, Thwack is right and so are you. Blacks and Women are much the same and are allied against White Men and Western Civilization.

          When millions of young Muslim Men march into Germany, what happens from a woman’s point of view? Consumer demand increases and they become a more valuable commodity. The price of their pussy goes up as Thwack might say. Why wouldn’t they want that? White Men have failed the Feminist Shit Test and allowed Women to become unmarryable. Muslim barbarians will just take what they want and that excites Women. They want husbands and children and at some level, know what horrors they are.

          Just saw on Nightline last night: there’s a small but growing movement where women marry themselves – complete with wedding dress, ring, and ceremony. This is a most profound degeneracy that cannot continue – and thus will not.

          • thwack March 24, 2017 at 10:14 pm #

            Blacks and Women are much the same and are allied against White Men and Western Civilization.

            ********************

            nope.

            We’re allied against the racist white supremacists who mistreat and abuse people on the basis of color.

            Do you have a problem with that?

        • thwack March 24, 2017 at 3:47 pm #

          Black women are Yang on the outside and Yin on the inside. White women are Yin on the outside and Yang on the inside. The key to black women is “punching” through to that inside part; once you get there, she’ll hide a gun for you.

          No questions asked.

          • thwack March 24, 2017 at 9:26 pm #

            The point Im trying to make is that all women are some combination of these two aspect; and its your job as a man to calibrate your NRG to get the best response

            The best argument against racism is the fact women are a different race.

            Men routinely die for each other in combat?

            WTF is that about?

            (no homo)

          • elysianfield March 25, 2017 at 5:29 pm #

            Men routinely die for each other in combat?

            WTF is that about?

            Thwack,
            Allow me to translate;
            “Gotta be down with your ‘brothers from other mothers’….”

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 10:55 am #

      Single payer for all. Everyone in no one out. If it works for defense why not healthcare? The Pentagon never made me feel like a commie or radical red. Well, maybe a bit…..

      • messianicdruid March 24, 2017 at 11:06 am #

        That has been the goal all along. Got Hegel?

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 11:23 am #

      She lost because she is cut from the same fabric as Bill. In it for the money and a bit right of President Nixon. The DNC has been to the right since the 70’s. We do not have a liberal national political party in this great diverse land of FREEDOM! Just one rightwing party and one far right party. Soon to be joined by a third party even more to the right. I smell blood and burning corpses. It’s what we will demand as the price for the loss of our lifestyle President 43 warned. Our lifestyle our way of life is not on the table. We will take what we need. Wonder why the world hates and fears us?

    • hmuller March 24, 2017 at 3:48 pm #

      You just laid it out in the open, Janet. You don’t want equal rights, you want special privileges for women. And you believe it is proper and fitting that The State should assume the role of husband and father to help promote your anti-family, anti-male agenda.

      Why is it unduly burdensome for a woman to spend $600 a year of her own money on birth control? Does the Constitution promise to pay for everyone’s sexual fun? Sex is a choice, if you can’t pay, don’t play.

      I’ll bet, you think it’s OK that someone is forced by law to spend $600 a month on shitty insurance under Obamacare.

    • shotho March 25, 2017 at 10:33 am #

      Right, all hail the great feminist movement, at least for the next few minutes of its existence.

  7. Elrond Hubbard March 24, 2017 at 10:22 am #

    Detroit Real Estate Value Drops Below Tiny Ann Arbor

    http://247wallst.com/housing/2017/03/23/detroit-real-estate-value-drops-below-tiny-ann-arbor/

    “The value of all the real estate in Ann Arbor, the home of the University of Michigan, is greater than all the real estate in Detroit. The numbers are based on a study by Bridge Magazine.

    “Ann Arbor’s population is slightly less than 118,000. Detroit’s is just below 678,000. Ann Arbor occupies 28 square miles. The similar number for Detroit is 143 square miles.

    “The data show just how much the value of a vast area of Detroit’s real estate has cratered. Downtown by the Detroit River, many of the buildings have been renovated by developers. This makes the real estate there more valuable, which means the valuations in the rest of Detroit are even worse than the number mentioned in the study.

    “One of the contributors to the low Detroit figure has to be the vast portion of the city that is in ruins, with tens of thousands of unoccupied homes. Among the way the local government has dealt with this is by bulldozing these homes. However, that is a job that is far from finished.

    “According to a report on the Bridge Magazine study in Crain’s Detroit Business: ‘Last year, Ann Arbor’s total assessed property value, which is half of market value, was $6.38 billion, according to data compiled by Bridge Magazine, while Detroit’s was $5.43 billion; the year before, Ann Arbor was $5.95 billion, just ahead of Detroit’s $5.91 billion.’

    “Also: ‘The state-equalized values are typically considered half of the market value, which puts Ann Arbor at $12.76 billion and Detroit at $10.86 billion for 2016. The figures include residential, commercial, industrial and development properties.’

    “Proponents of the Detroit turnaround have been criticized for using the downtown as a measure of the rest of the city. That is not even close to accurate.”

    I post this knowing how much the CFN commentariat enjoys blaming the victims as long as they’re minorities. Here’s your red meat, now feast away.

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 10:59 am #

      In any social structure in which government pushes wealth to the top most of us are red meat. Good post. Greenspan and company have handed the world to China. What a perfect setup for war.

    • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 11:09 am #

      That stadium in Pontiac sold for how much?

      • Elrond Hubbard March 24, 2017 at 3:31 pm #

        This from a couple of years back:

        Pontiac Silverdome on sale for $30 million

        “The Silverdome property has been owned since 2009 by the Triple Investment Group, which bought it at auction from the City of Pontiac for $583,000. The group is controlled by the family of Andreas Apostolopoulos, who is also owner of downtown Detroit’s Penobscot Building.”

        I dunno if they actually sold it at $30 million, but they paid $583K for it according to the Detroit Free Press.

    • Walter B March 24, 2017 at 10:03 pm #

      I was always under the impression. whether it was true or false, that places like Detroit were driven into near bankruptcy by the thieves like Jon Corzine on Wall Street who bamboozled the managers of the funds out of all of their cash. I offer the recent and massive construction projects in NYC and places like Hoboken, NJ as evidence to where the profits were sent.

      • Elrond Hubbard March 26, 2017 at 12:53 pm #

        Something like that happened to Detroit under former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, yes. This was around the time of other shady deals in the runup to the crash of 2008, like this one Matt Taibbi wrote about:

        http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-main-street-20100331

        But the collapse of Detroit took a lot longer than that — it was a matter of disinvestment and hollowing out over the course of decades.

        • Walter B March 26, 2017 at 5:25 pm #

          Sort of a classic frog boil, eh?

  8. routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 11:04 am #

    I have my doubts President Trump will be allowed to overturn the game board. Nice post to end this sick week Mr. Kunstler. Next week will be an even bigger hoot–If you have a taste for these political turds. We had better get some hot sauce to help it stay down.

  9. malthuss March 24, 2017 at 11:06 am #

    Buck Stud March 24, 2017 –“Do you expect no reaction, no act of revenge however small, to the daily bombing of Muslim countries by Christians?”

    So is this why Theo Van Gogh was murdered by a Muslim religious fanatic? Or because Van Gogh made some not so flattering observations concerning the inherent intolerance of Islam…observations that got him killed in his native land by a Muslim interlocutor.

    This is a world at war.
    Clash of civilization w barbarians, inside the gates this time.

    There are now 1 million Muslims in the metro London area.
    Even if only 1% are violent jihadi lunatics, that’s 10,000 plotting to kill you at any given time.

    Some Americans were just killed in London.

    • Buck Stud March 24, 2017 at 1:58 pm #

      Malthus,

      You presented the above as if I wrote the following

      ““Do you expect no reaction, no act of revenge however small, to the daily bombing of Muslim countries by Christians?”

      In actuality, Janet wrote that quote in response to something I wrote very similar in sentiment to what you just wrote.

      Do yourself a favor Malthus and stay away from power tools. You obviously never took Mr.Perot’s advice to “measure twice and cut once” before buzzing away like a hack.

      • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 3:53 pm #

        You presented the above as if I wrote the following.
        Only bc thats how you posted it, nimrod.

        I dont read much of Janets screed.

  10. seawolf77 March 24, 2017 at 11:08 am #

    If the economy indeed collapses, Trump and his supporters will go down as the second biggest idiots in the history of the world, just above the people who voted for Hitler.

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  11. beantownbill. March 24, 2017 at 11:14 am #

    First off, I’m not a Trump fan. BUT, in my opinion, he’s been treated unfairly. Americans seem to always need a whipping boy for their own failings (a hallmark of a welfare society) and voila! Here comes Trump.

    The Hillary supporters have quite blatantly gone out of their way to throw spanners in the governmental works. I say give Trump a chance to hang himself with his own rope; after all, he was elected president. I can’t remember when the people last obstructed a sitting president so strongly (ok, maybe Nixon during Watergate).

    Trump’s presidential agenda is all wrong. Spending billions to construct a wall? Come on. His healthcare plan is useless, actually worse than useless, because without true reform, healthcare will bring America down financially in the next several years.

    Cutting taxes while spending a trillion on loan infrastructure? Can’t happen without financial ruin. Etc, etc. But he got elected; let him run the country.

    And as far as Trump being a poor or failed businessman and a dummy? Really? He’s lived a life of extreme luxury, has always been in the spotlight, and managed to get himself elected POTUS. Can’t be much of a dummy.

    And this bankruptcy stuff? I’ve known several very wealthy real estate developers (centi-millionaires), and at one time or another they all declared bankruptcy. What non-businessmen may not realize is that bankruptcy is nothing more than a no-big-deal financial tool to clear out an investment that turned bad, while still being able to enjoy the benefits of all the good investments. When one declares bankruptcy, it does not mean one is a bad businessman.

    Just my $.02.

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 11:26 am #

      Who said life is fair? My .02

      • beantownbill. March 24, 2017 at 11:29 am #

        Actually, should be “my $2.00”. Inflation, ya know.

        • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 11:31 am #

          Nice!

    • seawolf77 March 24, 2017 at 11:33 am #

      Your response belies the essential tenet of conservatism: OBSTRUCTIONISM. Why in the hell should any democrat or libertarian or green party citizen just get out of the way for this guy? All of you spout this crap, give the man a chance crap. We won so let us govern in the middle of undoing what the last guy did, the best thing the last guy did, and in the process leave millions of people naked when it comes to health care. Trump is for the most part a failed businessman. He inherited a fortune, not a mess. He failed so spectacularly in Atlantic City not even Las Vegas will give him a chance. Las Vegas!!!!

      • beantownbill. March 24, 2017 at 11:36 am #

        And your response proves my point.

      • beantownbill. March 24, 2017 at 11:38 am #

        Protest the policy, not the man.

      • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:17 pm #

        President Trump’s greatest failures are yet to come. The Greatest Show On Earth has been replaced. Invest in popcorn. As for getting out of the way, history moves for no one. No matter how rich they claim to be.

    • thwack March 24, 2017 at 3:50 pm #

      First off, I’m not a Trump fan. BUT, in my opinion, he’s been treated unfairly.

      ************************

      How did you expect the first black president to be treated?

      What country you from?

    • cbeard March 25, 2017 at 9:14 am #

      beantownbill, I’m not a Trump fan either, but I voted for him twice, in the primary and general election. I like the line about Democrats throwing spanners into governmental works (spokes). I am a fan of British motorcycles. The dems are doing the same thing the reps did when Obama was elected. Total obstructionism. It was and is to be expected. I believe the Trump agenda, at least concerning immigration is spot on. Some say things are already improving with a few jobs coming back or remaining. Bullshit. Until the border is controlled by a wall, army, mines, whatever, and that travel ban is put into effect, then absolutely nothing of value has been accomplished. I’m not sure about Trump’s intellect. Its hard to believe he could be as dumb as he acts. He eerily reminds me of an old acquaintance who is the ultimate narcissist. Said person has a relatively normal to high IQ but is totally lacking in all social grace. He is a rude, obnoxious, boorish, bloviating bastard. I don’t believe anyone can fix the mess the whole world is in. It will have to crash and burn before it gets better, if it ever does. Trump may be a better businessman than some think. But, big business, crony capitalism and greed helped get us in our current predicament. To hell with the trade agreements. Live local. A little nationalism may go a long way.

  12. elysianfield March 24, 2017 at 11:15 am #

    Well, ladies and Germs,

    A bit of good news! The BBC reports this Am that African scientists have discovered a potential cure for Tuberculosis by means of genome sequencing.

    • elysianfield March 24, 2017 at 11:16 am #

      Correction;

      British scientists, not African…British….

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 11:30 am #

      The swamp is going up not down. More germs for all!!

  13. K-Dog March 24, 2017 at 11:32 am #

    “The president is tweeting instead of governing.”

    One number two could not spell ‘potato’. One of the ones did not understand what ‘sovereign’ meant. This one does not see ‘governing’ in the job description.

    To Trump America is just another failed business. He has had a few. A piggy bank to shake up side down for the last coin. If he owes money to the Russian mafia so what; pay them off. Congress has been giving money to China for years. I see symmetry here.

    potatoe

  14. beantownbill. March 24, 2017 at 11:34 am #

    All this NSA, FBI stuff is just a deflection. What really ails us is total misallocation of financial resources. Oh, and the decay of morality.

  15. elysianfield March 24, 2017 at 11:44 am #

    thwack
    March 23, 2017 at 6:08 pm #

    No Im not.

    Im just turning the question around?

    You say the universe created you because there is nothing else?

    Well then who created the universe?

    Come on game boy, don’t punk out on me now?

    Thwack,
    Who created HE who created the Universe? Janos knows….

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    • thwack March 24, 2017 at 4:08 pm #

      Who created HE who created the Universe? Janos knows….

      ***********************

      Nothing created the Creator because the Creator is eternal and non material,

      kinda like,

      a word or a number…

      Janos wouldn’t know the Creator if he tripped over him.

      • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:20 pm #

        Sexism. Why are the creators not females?

        • thwack March 24, 2017 at 6:07 pm #

          Because females don’t want to win, they want a winner.

          What country you from?

      • elysianfield March 24, 2017 at 4:37 pm #

        “Nothing created the Creator because the Creator is eternal and non material,”

        Thwack,
        Nothing created the Universe, as it is eternal…sort of….

        I consider Janos our site spokesman for all things metaphysical…his logic, education, and sense of metaphor would “slap the black right off you”, were he of a mind to do so.

        Be afraid, Thwack,
        Be very afraid….

        • thwack March 24, 2017 at 6:02 pm #

          Janos is a racist; I could stop right there?

          But I won’t.

          Janos is a narcissistic nihilist; he thinks “the white man” created EVERYTHING, and now that he sees how fucked up EVERYTHING is, he wants to destroy EVERYTHING.

          If Janos can’t measure it, can’t quantify it… it doesn’t exist; therefore, his short arms are no match for my deep pockets.

          Tell him to bring his girl too.

        • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 8:15 pm #

          Thwack’s God is Black. So Black you can’t see him. Looking for Him is like looking for a Black cat in a dark room. You can’t find him but he’ll find you if he wants you – like the Black mugger in the alley. An alley cat!

          • thwack March 24, 2017 at 9:41 pm #

            Thwack’s God is Black. So Black you can’t see him.

            **************************

            you want the truth?

            You can’t handle the truth; thats why you’ll never get it.

            BTW– his mother was black too

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSc_8f8YPEM

            just sayin

          • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 10:03 pm #

            One White Woman went to a Black Church and had a vision of a Giant Ape. A Black Woman turned to her and said, You got the Spirit, sister.

            Is this what you mean? I can handle it but I won’t worship your God if that’s what He is.

          • thwack March 24, 2017 at 10:23 pm #

            Ive had white people tell me;

            “the black Madonnas color is ‘symbolic”

            Guess what?

            I didn’t respond with anything.

            Because I didn’t need to.

            *you can fool some of the people all of the time*

    • Ken Hall March 25, 2017 at 11:38 am #

      “Well then who created the universe?”

      Answer: Illogical question; not who but what is the question. Most likely answer is a random quantum fluctuation in space/time which underwent an incredible expansion rate of about 10^26 times, known in Cosmology as the Inflation, from about 10^-36 seconds until about 10^-32 seconds subsequent to the initiation of what is now known as the Big Bang.

      • thwack March 25, 2017 at 1:28 pm #

        Most likely answer is a random quantum fluctuation in space/time

        **********************

        Are you saying order comes from chaos?

        By what mechanism?

        • elysianfield March 25, 2017 at 5:41 pm #

          “Are you saying order comes from chaos?

          By what mechanism?”

          Time

          Keep throwing those soft-balls, Thwack.

          Also, Ken, I have a theory. The Universe is expanding, and apparently accelerating…theories abound regarding “dark energy”, negative energy…quantum physics in vogue, now.

          How about gravity? Is it possible that the Universe is speeding towards a…(wait for it)…black hole? This would also explain the Big Bang Theory as a recurring event.

          • thwack March 25, 2017 at 7:10 pm #

            Those aren’t softballs; they’re wasp nests.

            you cock blocking faggot.

            So

            you think time is the mechanism that produces order from chaos?

            Really?

            So if I spend enough TIME throwing a deck of cards up in the air,

            sooner or later they will land in the shape of the Eiffel Tower?

            Really?

            That sounds like a religion?

            What do you call it?

          • Ken Hall March 25, 2017 at 11:01 pm #

            I don’t see “abounding” theories with respect to the Universe expanding, accelerating, dark matter, dark energy and negative pressure driving the expansion of the universe. Hubble determined that the Universe was expanding in 1929, in 1998 two independent cosmological teams determined that the rate of expansion of the Universe is accelerating and no cyclic Big Bang recurring event is in it’s future. The Baryonic matter in the universe which makes up the matter that we can see and touch, stars, galaxies, planets, gas clouds,, living critters/plants including us consist of about 1% of the mass of the universe, dark matter, which no one has any theories as to what it is, consists of about 30% of the mass in the universe and the mass of dark energy of so called empty space produced by the quantum fluctuations which spontaneously form and annihilate mass from energy and energy from mass on an infinitesimal time scale is the backbone of quantum mechanical theory. A scientific theory is an equation or set of equations which a scientist/physicist has deduced from a rigorous investigation of some particular phenomena based upon the concepts/foundations laid out by the theoretical intellectual giants who preceded us such as Newton, Maxwell, Dirac, Feynman ….. . From these foundational figures current and future physicists take up the exotic mathematics of the universe to make sense of it. A scientific theory MUST be able to predict the outcomes of experimental physics and those that cannot are modified if possible and discarded if not.

            If you are interested in the real world/universe go to the internet and search about for names such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, David Butler, Brian Cox, …… Stairways to the real stars await you in their thrall.

          • thwack March 25, 2017 at 11:21 pm #

            The Baryonic matter in the universe which makes up the matter that we can see and touch, stars, galaxies, planets, gas clouds,, living critters/plants including us consist of about 1% of the mass of the universe, dark matter, which no one has any theories as to what it is, consists of about 30% of the mass in the universe and the mass of dark energy of so called empty space produced by the quantum fluctuations which spontaneously form and annihilate mass from energy and energy from mass on an infinitesimal time scale is the backbone of quantum mechanical theory.

            ***********************

            OK Ken,

            you win the “Longest Sentence Award”

            ^^^applause^^^

            Now,

            ken,

            What is “Dark Matter?”

            if you can’t detect it?

            Is it POSSIBLE?

            it just might be?

            Just a word?

        • Ken Hall March 25, 2017 at 8:56 pm #

          Cosmic Inflation. The universe in which we exist inflated from ~diameter of a proton (~1*10^-15 meters) to diameter of a softball/baseball (~.102 meters) in (~3*10-33 seconds). This means that at the end of the inflationary period the radius of the universe had expanded to ~.0508 meters in radius minus its’ starting radius of 5*10-14 meters which is pretty damn close to .0508 meters of radius. Therefore the radial expansion of the universe was on the order of .0508 M/3*10^-33Sec or 5.08*10^30 M/Sec which is 5.08*10^27 Kilometers/Sec. The Speed of light in so called empty space is ~3*10^5 Kilometers/Sec therefore expanded at ~5.08*10^27 KM/S divided by 3*10^5 KM/S or ~1.7*10^22 times faster than the speed of light. Therefore there was no way for information about what was going on in any given portion of the inflating universe to affect any other portion because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light within the universe so the the early universe expanded incredibly smoothly. Note that I said nothing can travel faster than the speed of light within the universe I did not say that the universe cannot expand faster than the speed of light.

          If cosmic inflation has peaked your interest look up physicist Alan Guth he came up with the idea less than 40 years ago. As one of my favorite most physicists Lawrence Krauss likes to describe inflation “in a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second the early universe expanded to the size of a baseball from the size of a proton”.

          • thwack March 25, 2017 at 9:23 pm #

            Are you saying the universe had a beginning?

            and in the beginning was the “particle?”

          • Ken Hall March 26, 2017 at 9:01 am #

            “Are you saying the universe had a beginning?

            and in the beginning was the “particle?” -thwack-

            There were no particles in the beginning; the universe we exist in likely sprang forth from “nothing” for more on subject look up Krauss “A Universe From Nothing”

          • Ken Hall March 26, 2017 at 9:15 am #

            “What is “Dark Matter?”

            if you can’t detect it?

            Is it POSSIBLE?

            it just might be?

            Just a word?” – -thwack-

            Would I could answer “What is “Dark Matter?” I would likely be in line for a trip to Stockholm, Sweden.

            Physicists have detected it’s presence in the universe via it’s effect upon the mass of of galaxies they have not been able to detect it in the same fashion with which they recently detected the Higgs Boson at the LHC and measure any of its’ particulars. For more on the subject look up Krauss “A Universe From Nothing”

            But of course it is a word as are the constituents of all invented human languages.

          • thwack March 26, 2017 at 10:10 am #

            What happens to your words after you say them?

          • elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 11:49 am #

            Ken,
            Thank you for your response…I understand this subject is of interest to you. In my ignorance, I view some aspects of
            Quantum Physics as explaining evidence of broken theories of physics compounded by strident attempts to support those theories that can, at the end of the day, prove incorrect.

            What? Energy is being destroyed through a black hole?….well, there must be “Negative Energy” then to keep the equation in balance! Maybe in another dimension….

            Reading Hawking, I understand what he is proposing, but I cannot accept what he says…his theories are too inductive. Again, I am ignorant. In Quantum Physics I see too many theories, and too few laws. Hawking might as well give credit to Jesus for what he cannot explain otherwise. Black holes, from which even light cannot escape…with auroras? Leakage…or Jesus did it.

            Allow me to apologize in advance…

          • elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 11:57 am #

            thwack
            March 26, 2017 at 10:10 am #

            What happens to your words after you say them?

            ““The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
            Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
            Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
            Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” “-Big Omar

            Keep throwing them softballs to the un-hyphenated cock blocking faggot… You really gotta start reading more….

        • elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 11:12 am #

          “So if I spend enough TIME throwing a deck of cards up in the air,

          sooner or later they will land in the shape of the Eiffel Tower?

          …yes

          • thwack March 26, 2017 at 12:03 pm #

            What mechanism will produce that result?

          • elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 5:50 pm #

            Random events over an eternity of time.

          • thwack March 26, 2017 at 10:01 pm #

            Would you trust that same mechanism to perform your open heart surgery?

            Or your dental work?

  16. volodya March 24, 2017 at 11:52 am #

    Hoo-boy, sez the talking-heads and opinion-makers to the nods of Bubble-land bullshitters, Trump’s claim that Obama had him wiretapped was totally off the wall, a new low in deplorableness from a man that is clearly unhinged and needs a mental-health time out.

    Except just a cotton-pickin’ minnit. Didn’t FBI Director Comey just confirm that Trump and his boys WERE “wiretapped”?

    BUT, say the Greatly-Wise and Highly-Credentialed, Trump said that Obama ordered it.

    So is that a false claim?

    So, may I ask, even if the claim is false, that Obama DIDN’T order no stinkin’ wiretap, what the fuck difference does it make?

    Did Obama know about the surveillance? Did he bother to ask for the basis for it? Did Obama express any concerns about propriety? Did he express concern about optics? I mean, this was a duly nominated candidate for president that a law enforcement agency was following.

    Wasn’t Obama the man in charge? Wasn’t he the chief executive? Does he have no power to ask questions? Doesn’t the buck stop with him? Does he have no discretion to suggest that maybe such an FBI investigation stinks to high heaven, that it looks like a blatant attempt to dig up dirt, that it has all the look of something that an Asiatic despot, like Putin, would do to a political opponent? Couldn’t Obama ask how is such a police investigation in any way consistent with law, order, democracy and the American Way?

    Never mind custom, which dictates that political parties can go about their activities without state harassment or surveillance, and never mind propriety, which is questionable, what about the LEGALITY of it? And did Obama demand to see factual EVIDENCE that underlay the surveillance effort? Crapper himself, on Sunday morning TV, said there was none.

    Now just imagine that it was the FBI under a Republican administration that was investigating a Democrat presidential nominee. Can you imagine the shit-storm? You’d never hear the end of it, there would accusations of inappropriate and illegal meddling by state paramilitary organizations, accusations that the Deep State tried to to tilt the election, the New Yorker would be foaming at the mouth, David Brooks would require sedation, street demonstrations by the high-minded and highly enlightened would be the order of the day.

    To my mind, whether Obama personally ordered surveillance is immaterial. It may be worse if he did order it, but not all that much worse because the fact is that it happened under his administration and right under his nose. In the immortal words of Harry Houdini the buck stops with him.

    And, on the face of it, the very fact it happened is horrifying. This is how despotism takes shape. Now, what did President Obama know and when did he know it?

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:25 pm #

      All calls overseas are recorded. Most internal calls also…… So screw President Trump’s claim. We have all been Patriot Acted by President Bush, Obama and all of Congress. Plus the gutless freaks in black robes that do that Red Mass Voodoo stuff.

    • Ken Hall March 25, 2017 at 12:03 pm #

      By your assessment an FBI investigation into a foreign power’s attempted influence upon a US Presidential election, sanctioned by a court order, which looks to uncovers potential collusion between one of the candidates and let us say the Russians is how despotism takes shape. Furthermore you point towards Obama as the despot, who quietly turned the reins of power over to tRump and walked away while Hillary likewise walked away with no reins of power to surrender. A very strange display of despotism on the part of Hillary and Obama, eh?

      Interestingly my assessment is that the Russians likely were successful with their despot insertion activities in that tRump is as, if not more, despotic than the last POTUS, in my lifetime, with such leanings, Tricky Dick Nixon.

  17. Lonely Traveler March 24, 2017 at 11:55 am #

    Please for the LuvaMike,

    There is no new republic, and there will be no new republic. There will only be the old republic still trying to flex its atrophied muscles and sliding ever-deeper into decay. Until that decay is complete, and it could take a few decades, there will be no new republic. When there is a new republic, it probably will be more like JHK’s World Made by Hand than like any sort of Ayn Rand fantasies. IMHO, she was a nutjob, and her character John Galt was a douchebag. Would it be too much to ask for you to cease and desist with the new republic thing here? Might I suggest you start your own new republic blog? You might end up with millions of followers if you did.

    • venuspluto67 March 24, 2017 at 12:06 pm #

      Well, if we can put up with a full-on goose-stepping, heal-clicking Nazi, we can probably also put up with a Randroid fantasist. 🙂

      • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 2:05 pm #

        That’s the spirit, Bluto. You want Diversity, and here it is! For the record, I don’t believe in it anymore than you do. Not at the level of paradigm. Within the paradigm or culture, yes. That’s what separates a culture from a cult. But many cultures in a single Nation? Madness.

        There can only be ONE! The Highlanders must fight until only one remains. Go to Folsom St Fair: does your culture really deserve to survive? You’ll know the Truth if you remain outwardly quiet (mind and emotions stilled) and look deep inside.

        One headline stated, Seven year old Trans-Activist fighting Trump. Does a Culture that sports such headlines or tolerates this kind of thing or Folsom St Fair really have any future? Doesn’t it deserve to be put out of its misery?

    • Lonely Traveler March 24, 2017 at 12:39 pm #

      Whatever. Sorry I brought it up. You’re eat up with this shit. I won’t bother you anymore.

    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:44 pm #

      Your too kind to Rand and her followers. Keep it up!

    • shotho March 25, 2017 at 10:20 am #

      I hope you’re happy with your new wealth in the near future of wealth destruction.

  18. onehunglo March 24, 2017 at 11:58 am #

    onehunglo former bio-chemist for Chinese red army and pharma producer and since accepting Christ as truth, way, and light, now work for repentance and spread message within target red army population.

    connection to open internet through hacked hughes net connection and implore one last communication before go underground.

    formerly develop adjuvants introduce into mandatory vaccine program, which spread from small red army test population to broader population, and now unwittlingly adopt by global pharma.

    adjuvant design act as neuro toxin in modify mesaging among neurotransmitter, with effect of rendering target popilation incapable of free association, little resistance to media deliver propaganda, and propensity to psychopath break from reality.

    once introduce to subject, neuro toxin make permanent dendrite modification and not reversable.

    onehunglo must live with knowledge and result and seek repentence every minute every day.

    beware red china is true source of planned takeover of america, and run by NETWORK reference by other.

    russia is next after planned “peaceful” conquest of america.

    may blessing of Christ be on you and beware when told vaccine mandatory.

    may God be with you all.

    -onehunglo

    • capt spaulding March 24, 2017 at 2:06 pm #

      Your pretend chinese is getting old. An hour after reading your post, I felt like reading something else.

      • Q. Shtik March 24, 2017 at 2:16 pm #

        Aha ha ha

      • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 3:00 pm #

        The names sounds a lot like sumyungho.

      • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 3:55 pm #

        Only BC it pass right thru yoo, like chop suey.

      • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:27 pm #

        That was cold Capt. I liked it.

      • onehunglo March 24, 2017 at 5:18 pm #

        Ah, perhaps you not understand ramification of information??

        that ok.

        onehunglo provide due diligence in telling truth on adjuvant and repent.

        let not you heart be troubled.

        May God be with you all.

        -onehuinglo

        • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 8:19 pm #

          Would the Galt Cult sink so low as to pretend to be a Chinese national writing broken English?

          • thwack March 26, 2017 at 10:13 am #

            He sounds a lot like Mike Lautoris.

        • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 7:09 pm #

          onehuinglo????

  19. volodya March 24, 2017 at 12:27 pm #

    Beantown, don’t you know to not use that word “morality”. It gets the eyeballs of the highly illuminated a-rollin’. Only hicks say it. And it conjures images of Harper Valley hypocrites that maybe ought to keep the blinds a bit further down at night.

    The greatly sophisticated advertise as a mark of their own virtue and learnedness an inability to discern male from female, citizen from non-citizen, friend from foe and, especially, right from wrong. In their hands straight-forward issues get tangled in irrelevancies and incomprehensible jargon. They tell us that without their great expertise no progress is possible. But, to these people, words have no meaning, actions have no consequence, common sense has no application and, as JHK sez, anything goes. Does it surprise anyone that in such a climate that drug-addled, cum-spattered, disease-riddled entertainers actually get a wide hearing?

    Anyway, for your viewing and listening enjoyment:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ivUOnnstpg

  20. Walter B March 24, 2017 at 12:39 pm #

    You have certainly painted an interesting picture of the U.S. Government Cesspool and it happenings these days. I prefer cesspool over swamp because a Swamp is actually a living, functioning ecosystem that has much value to the planet. Our government in all it’s trappings is simply a large pit of crap, rotting, decaying, and stinking to high heaven. It’s only accomplishments are to steal from those who actually work and function productively and entertain the turds with parties, orgies, and mass quantities of drugs and alcohol to ease their guilt. Yes it is a lose-lose result we shall all see when this farce plays out. We the working losers will be the first to perish, but the turds will surely die off as well once we are no long there to support them. Oh well, it happened to better empires than ours.

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    • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:28 pm #

      Agreed. Flush twice D.C. needs the water.

  21. Buck Stud March 24, 2017 at 1:24 pm #

    “Investigating how? Some sort of electronic surveillance? Well, what else would they do nowadays? Send a gumshoe to a hotel room where he could press his ear on a drinking glass against the wall to eavesdrop on Paul Manafort?” ~JHK

    ^ Induced a chuckle, LOL.

    And it reminded me of a scene from Godfather Part Two…Michael Corleone and Hyman Roth turning up the TV volume of a football game and huddling close together in order to discuss ‘some business’.

  22. Buck Stud March 24, 2017 at 1:45 pm #

    “In the New Republic, members enjoy building out properties and the local means of production.”~JG

    Reads romantic. Like a pure form of Libertarianism which is of course the problem: Achieving purity.

    But yes, in a pure form it would solve a lot of issues, such as the college debt/exorbitant medical costs.

    The problem is the same human beings from the Old Republic will still be populating the New Republic. Call me a pessimist, but history pretty much demonstrates that human beings are not “ideal” and their inherent impurity inevitably contaminates the best of intentions, ideological, political, what have you.

    For instance, do you have any doubt that sooner or later corrupt individuals will rise to the level of “Robber Baron” status and begin to monopolize the “local means of production” to the detriment of the initial founders/ ethical true believers?

    Wash, rinse, repeat–we’ve seen this act before and we’re always going to see it again: It’s hardwired into the DNA.

    From a presentation standpoint you do posses one structural and strategic semiotic advantage, however. In Derridean terms, they speak of the “unmarked” and “marked” word/concept.

    “The Old Republic” is a defined/marked term while “The New Republic” is not yet defined by its past/history. Thus, the “New Republic” concept has more mobility, agility and conceptual alacrity, enabling readers, especially those aching to believe, to complete their romantic, idealized notions via an imagination not yet immobilized by the ball and chain of actual past reality.

    Ironically, this is a very old presentation method; some might even derisively term it “propaganda”.

    Myself, I’ll go with that time tested maxim: ” Nothing new under the Sun.”

    • Q. Shtik March 24, 2017 at 2:12 pm #

      Nicely stated, Buck.

    • Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 3:04 pm #

      Yes, all systems depend on mindless idealism which allow the sharks to operate and use good people as dupes. As someone said the other day, to high level Capitalists competition is a sin. Galt And Tibbs say they are against such Capitalism but provide no way to prevent its right. It rose out of exactly of the private enterprise they love so much.

      • routersurfer March 24, 2017 at 4:35 pm #

        End capitalism. Simple–end usury in all forms. Rebuild with the same corporate laws we had in the late 1700’s. Credit kills.

      • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 8:36 pm #

        Trenton Homicide Watch. org

  23. janet March 24, 2017 at 2:17 pm #

    The Swamp Drains Trump? Not so fast. The Koch brothers were supporting the Freedom Caucus in order to block Trump on the Trumpcare bill.

    This morning Trump formally green-lighted the Keystone XL pipeline, an $8 billion project the Koch brothers wanted.

    So there’s your quid pro quo.

    If the Koch brothers now instruct the Freedom Caucus to let the Trumpcare bill pass, then Trump will have the last laugh.

    The congressional representatives appear to be puppets who have no principles. They just take orders from whomever is prepared to make the highest bid for their votes. Similar to how Putin puppets work.

    The fact that under Trumpcare seniors in the 50 to 64 year old age range will pay four to five times higher monthly premiums for health care appears to be of no real concern.

  24. capt spaulding March 24, 2017 at 2:18 pm #

    As near as I can see, Buck, the Robber Barons are already in place and raking in as much money as possible. Scum like this are always attracted to whats going on, and will continue to seek advantages regardless of what the politics are. Eternal vigilance is what is required, and we dropped the ball quite a ways back, and I don’t know whether we have we have the wherewithal to bring it back.

    • janet March 24, 2017 at 3:05 pm #

      we dropped the ball quite a ways back –capt spaulding

      Correct, quite a ways back. I would say we dropped the ball in 1787 when we decided some human beings count as only three-fifths human during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution.

      Speaking of dropping the ball, viewing some human beings primarily as property was an epic fumble.

  25. janet March 24, 2017 at 2:52 pm #

    Myself, I’ll go with that time tested maxim: ” Nothing new under the Sun.” –Buck Stud

    Derrida is new under the sun. Before Derrida there had never been a philosopher like Derrida. You could say that there is something new under the sun every instant, as every leaf of every flower blooming and buzzing with bees in a garden is new…. different and new every year, every day, every minute, in a state of constant flux.

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  26. e3pi March 24, 2017 at 3:17 pm #

    James, nice to see you know #theSCOPE’s passphrase, and Boyd will be playing Wednesday- usual hour this week.

    “..two parties are literally at war..playing it all like a #Stockhausen cantata for kazoo..” #CL49 #BoydBeaver
    http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/swamp-drains-trump/

  27. FincaInTheMountains March 24, 2017 at 3:43 pm #

    Our esteemed host, as usual, underestimates the governing abilities of Mr. Trump, and more importantly, the abilities of a powerful intellectual center, which works for him.

    The appearance of quotes around the word “wiretapping” in the Trump’s tweet shows that this tweet was not just thought through to the last detail, but also that the whole unit of that intellectual center have worked on it, the center which I hope Hillary is not capable to eavesdrop on.

    The fact of presence of such center is clear from the elaboration of this tweet, and the fact that Clintonoids can’t control it is clear from the first reaction of the flying monkeys to this tweet.

    Trump accused Obama of organizing the eavesdropping, which was ordered not by Obama, but by the Wicked Witch of the West, because only the status of the President acting as the accusation implies can really raise the status of the “wiretapping” case to the level of Watergate in which Hillary Clinton took a significant, if not the main and decisive role.

    The task of this tweet was to neutralize the attempts of the Clintonoids to create a commission of the Congress or appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the relations between Trump’s election campaign and Russian intelligence, so there is just as much basis for setting up such a commission as there are grounds for setting up a special commission to investigate the new Watergate.

    But over and above the task of this tweet was the final rout and cleansing not only of Bastinda, but of the whole organization of the flying monkeys.

    Indeed, such an investigation will undoubtedly begin with the lower-level actors who are experienced and will immediately realize that they are threatened by a “cleanup” on the part of the customer.

    Therefore, they will undoubtedly cooperate with Trump and the thread will lead to the real customer, and not to Obama.

    That will allow Trump to raise the issue of the Hillary Clinton’s coup d’état, which happened on the day of Hillary Clinton’s “endorsement” by Obama immediately after speaking at 6 am with Bernie Sanders about the total falsification of the election results in California.

    And for this it is only necessary to create an Independent Commission of the Congress to investigate the possible wiretapping of the candidate for President Trump, and then this commission will inevitably finish its business.

    • Walter B March 24, 2017 at 4:05 pm #

      Hope you are correct Fincain, it is a nice concept that we may actually have at least a little bit of hope. The rank and file of our federal government may be most decent and honest working people or they may not, but the scum at the top is all crap. No matter what direction for good of for not Donald Trump goes in, he will be running into a minefield of corruption, decay and downright evil. I which him the best of luck.

      • FincaInTheMountains March 24, 2017 at 4:12 pm #

        The Spirits of two great American Commanders – Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Richard Nixon are calling from their graves on Hillary, first – for starting her election campaign on his memorial and the second – for original Watergate.

    • Ken Hall March 25, 2017 at 12:43 pm #

      “Our esteemed host, as usual, underestimates the governing abilities of Mr. Trump, and more importantly, the abilities of a powerful intellectual center, which works for him.”

      Are you absolutely certain that you, FTM, are not far and away overestimating the intellectual abilities of tRump and his legions of mental midgets lying to the public for him and kissing his ass in private. Kellyanne Conjob was so brazen about her efforts to gain his favor as to brag in a televised interview that her performances are directed toward an audience of “one”

      As I am certain you know the “greatest deal maker” on Earth went down the shitter along with the smartest Speaker of the House, ever, yesterday and although I watch not television I have seen no Spicy or Conjob displaying their astronomical intellects, on the internet, to explain how the real culprits behind their loss in their first foray into “law making” are the Democrats as pronounced by the anointed one during his TV sitting of shame. What intellectual giant would expect the architects of the bill, tRump and Ryan were attempting to rip asunder, to assist these losers in their demolition derby, especially when the tRumpians were not even bright enough to ask the Dems for assistance?

    • aNanyMouse March 26, 2017 at 3:17 pm #

      Finca, the photos of the FIRST Tweet which I’ve seen don’t show quotes around the word “wiretap”, instead show it saying “… Obama gone to tap my phones….”
      Only in later tweets were there quotes around the key word, so I’ll guess that he didn’t consult the Intel people until after the first tweet.

  28. Elrond Hubbard March 24, 2017 at 4:02 pm #

    According to this, they’ve just pulled the AHCA bill:

    http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2017/03/24/health-care-bill-heads-for-vote-in-house-live-blog-and-video/

    So: First a Democrat pushes a Republican bill into law (the blueprint for the ACA was drawn up by the Heritage Foundation); the Republicans futilely spend years fighting tooth-and-nail against a right-wing proposal, denouncing it as socialism; and now they can’t even pass their own bill.

    What’s the word for this? Fiasco. Americans deserve better.

  29. BackRowHeckler March 24, 2017 at 4:10 pm #

    A new Dark Age is descending upon the United States, indeed, upon the entire world.

    ‘hostis humani generi’ — enemies of the human race — are rising … from their lairs in DC, NYC and LA.

    Now is the time, and they’re getting down to business.

    brh

    • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 8:15 pm #

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  30. Q. Shtik March 24, 2017 at 4:32 pm #

    A week or so ago someone asked if I could shed more light on the 2 pages of Trump’s 2005 tax return revealed with great fanfare by Rachel Maddow; I couldn’t, despite my bean counter credentials, but here is something from today’s NYT that might help:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/business/pages-from-trumps-tax-returns-raise-a-decades-worth-of-questions.html

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    • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 8:15 pm #

      Trenton Homicide Watch. org

  31. FincaInTheMountains March 24, 2017 at 4:43 pm #

    To a certain extent Trump finds himself in a position Putin was in during the summer of 2015, when intense artillery shelling of the Russian cities of Donetsk and Lugansk by Kiev Junta, instigated by the American Party of War, put Putin between a rock and a hard place – on one hand he had to invade Ukraine with regular Russian army and stop the killing of innocent civilians in Eastern Ukraine, but find himself at war with the united West and total blackout of the Russian Banking System (back then Russia was not ready for that contingency, but now is), or get impeached by angry Russians for not protecting their compatriots.

    Trump on one hand, could of course use his administrative resource – all the way to taking Brooklyn Clinton headquarters with special Marine units, but face the lack of confidence of the entire World in the currency of the country in the middle of the Hot Civil War.

    The Crown of the Emperor is heavy and not for everyone to wear.

  32. elysianfield March 24, 2017 at 4:52 pm #

    Well, I expect that Cold N Holefield has come to a bad end. His last update on his blog, as weeks ago reported by Q, was 18 Feb., and he has not been commenting on CFN since a few days after that. I expect he is in jail.

    A person with Cold’s…”personality” and combative verbiage would not fare well with law enforcement, or other agencies involved in the issue of his daughter’s accident. It would not take much for Cold to begin badgering witnesses, and making enemies of investigators, insurance agents, etc.

    I hate to see it. His uber-aggressive manor would not present issues so long as he did not associate with people, other than, of course, virtually…the accident forced him into a hostile environment that, without medication, might be difficult for him to maneuver within.

    • malthuss March 24, 2017 at 8:23 pm #

      Thx for the update.

    • elysianfield March 25, 2017 at 11:27 am #

      manor/manner….

  33. NickS March 24, 2017 at 7:00 pm #

    Best to lay off the predictions racket for a while. Your track record as a Cassandra is looking a bit thin.

  34. tucsonspur March 24, 2017 at 7:15 pm #

    The dynamic between spectator and participant has always been interesting, from sports to politics, from psychological projection to the emotional.

    It’s inherent within the spectator to analyze and criticize. Could the spectator do better, does he really want to be the participant? I’m sure that at times, and to some extent, he thinks he can and he does.

    I don’t have any real political power besides my vote. I think that Mr. Kunstler has much more than any of us here, and that he exercises it fairly well. Who here wouldn’t like to have his voice?

    But here, Our voices are also heard, and we become more the participant, less the spectator. We can learn, but we also may be able to teach a bit.

    Trump is now The Participant in Pandemonium, and we, Spectators in and of the Swamp. To many, his journey has been more emotional than intellectual. What about our comments here? Aren’t many based on bare emotion, clothed in diaphanous intellectual raiment?

    Who knows what this flawed man foreshadows. Remember, the rich became richer under Obama also. But did he promote our sense of nation and make it safe? The answer is an obvious no.

    Health care itself is both an intellectual and emotional issue. How do we, the public, fit in? We have become victims instead of participants, also spectators watching ever increasing costs far out in the bleachers. Sure, the free market and profit are the roads to better health care. For the rich, yes. The bullshit coming out of Ryan’s mouth is near intolerable.

    Is Russia just a stalking horse being used by the Dems? Who knows. But I’d rather strong ties between Trump and Putin than Putin and Xi Jinping, with us left out.

    The swamp is now above my waders, but I’ve become more than just a spectator to the rising murk, somewhat consoled by the other participants around me.

  35. Ishabaka March 24, 2017 at 8:00 pm #

    It’s like all of America is enrolled in university, where students are now taught thoughts = feelings.

    If you FEEL like you’ve been raped – you’re a rape victim.
    If you FEEL like another persons opinion assaulted you – you’re an assault victim.

    If you FEEL like President Trump is a Nazi, who’s in bed with Putin – President Trump is a Nazi, who’s in bed with Putin.

    If you FEEL like President Trump is the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan – President Trump is the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan.

    Facts, and investigations are superfluous, just as they are on American campuses today. Only feelings are real.

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  36. wm5135 March 24, 2017 at 8:11 pm #

    My hope is that Mr. Trump has the cunning, agility and luck to stay exactly a step and a half ahead of the hounds. Second wish, the hounds will have the strength to mount the chase for four years. With any luck it will be beyond debate that we don not have a government but, may I use our host’s terminology, we have a racket. I feel that we will not even begin to pickup with nation building again until voters put down the idea of term limits and replace the congress completely and often. As long as the majority believe they have something to gain by keeping a congressman we will have “status quo”. Should Mr. Trump cause the status quo to lose it’s shine he will have served well.

    • beantownbill. March 24, 2017 at 8:52 pm #

      People’s minds are so narrow they cannot consider any real change, just BAU.

    • cbeard March 25, 2017 at 9:34 am #

      Well said wm5135, maybe more agility and luck than cunning. But never underestimate the ignorance of the American voter. The he’s a crook but he’s our crook mentality may doom us to status quo.

  37. janet March 24, 2017 at 9:38 pm #

    “Obamacare is the law of the land… and we’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.” –House Speaker Paul Ryan, March 24, 2017

    ======================

    Got that right, Mr. Ryan!

    Thank you, President Obama. Now 24 million Americans who like their Obamacare can keep their Obamacare.

    To CFN: 45 does not have the knowledge needed to be president. Nor does 45 have the competence to select people to surround him who do what they are doing. Here is the score. 45 is losing badly on his major initiatives of banning Muslims and repealing Obamacare.

    14 … Courts and Congress

    0 … The short-fingered vulgarian

    What a fun first 60 days!

    • tucsonspur March 24, 2017 at 11:03 pm #

      Not a good start for Trump. But he must be praised for fighting off seemingly indomitable forces and insurmountable odds and still winning.

      “Oh, would I but have such pluck, such daring!” Who of us here could have matched his feat, initially facing almost universal scorn and rejection? His overriding emotion was to save the nation, and great knowledge would help, but isn’t absolutely necessary to do that.

      It is great fun to watch the worms on the Left writhe and squiggle under his foot. He must do better, and then plant the foot firmly.

      You are right about Trump in one way. He’s 45 caliber. Packs a hell of a wallop and has a lot of stopping power. Just ask those losing Republican candidates.

      • tucsonspur March 24, 2017 at 11:18 pm #

        And of course Hillary. Takes a lot to stop that lying, sneaky political behemoth.

      • Ken Hall March 25, 2017 at 1:04 pm #

        With a lot of help from his BFF Putin.

    • benr March 25, 2017 at 6:04 pm #

      Janet you’re a fool and it’s painfully easy to see that since Obama care I have owed far more taxes then before.
      It’s actually hurting my family!
      My over all take home pay has fallen by $800 dollars a month (how much my family plan has gone up) and my tax burden has shot up $8k more a year as a result.
      Meanwhile I make about the same amount of money as I did in 2008.
      I did not get to keep my doctor and now I actually have a hard time getting in to see my doctor.
      What right did the Democrat party have to burden me with the flotsam and jetsam of societies degenerate nonworking class!

      • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 7:12 pm #

        You must be new here, yes?

  38. Janos Skorenzy March 24, 2017 at 10:00 pm #

    http://www.dailystormer.com/the-arrest-of-the-israeli-jew-prank-caller-is-basically-the-best-thing-thats-ever-happened/

    The false flag against White Nationalists has been exposed – a Jewish kid was making bomb threats to Jewish centers. Trump quietly said as much a few weeks ago.

    • janet March 24, 2017 at 10:33 pm #

      And 45 is the leaker leaking information and he was caught. His attempt to blame Obama failed completely. Nobody believed in microwave cameras as surveillance devices.

  39. janet March 24, 2017 at 11:07 pm #

    Trump does not care about human suffering. What he cares about is being anti-Obamacare. Before even taking office, and well before the Republican bid to repeal and “replace” the Affordable Care Act, Trump started saying the best political strategy for his party would be to let the law’s health insurance exchanges “collapse” and then blame Democrats for it.

    Trump’s not the only one floating this notion. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday also supports a strategy of “collapse and replace.”

    Let’s be plain about what these politicians are threatening to do.

    The president of the United States and members of the party that controls Congress are saying that they see problems in the health care system and their plan is to stand by and do nothing while people suffer.

    This is breathtakingly cynical, and reveals the Republican Party’s priorities. Getting rid of the dreaded Obamacare at any cost is more important to Trump and his party than acting to improve the health care system for the people they represent.

    Barack Obama is no longer president, but thumbing him in the eye and destroying his biggest accomplishment still outweighs taking even the most basic steps to provide relief to the health insurance consumers whose plight Republicans have so often and so vividly bemoaned.

    • benr March 25, 2017 at 6:07 pm #

      Health insurance is failing as a result of your hero Obamas interference and everyone that said anything Government decides to meddle with gets broken and costs spiral out of control was 100% correct.
      Only a fool believes big government can fix anything.

  40. janet March 24, 2017 at 11:10 pm #

    “5. Armaments: replenishment of 30/06, 12, 20, 9mm, and 45
    gun range ammo.”

    You gonna shoot Jesus to protect your material things?

    “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me.” –Jesus Christ

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    • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 12:26 am #

      Christ told the disciples to sell their cloaks in order to buy swords.

  41. KesaAnna March 24, 2017 at 11:13 pm #

    ” Well, I expect that Cold N Holefield has come to a bad end. His last update on his blog, as weeks ago reported by Q, was 18 Feb., and he has not been commenting on CFN since a few days after that. I expect he is in jail. ”

    Specifically , campus security’s number one priority is limiting / protecting the schools liability.
    ( Notice I don’t even know what school it was, what state, etc. I don’t have to. )

    Generally , campus security , the police, and the U.S. Army, don’t work for him, or for his daughter.
    That is no minor detail.
    It’s really the only detail that matters.

    ( That is what, in effect, the lawyers told him. Were they really to be faulted for telling him this TRUTH? )

    Justice is to be had —- if you can afford a $500 – dollar -an-hour lawyer.

    ( That is what, in effect, the lawyers told him. Were they really to be faulted for telling him this TRUTH? )

    There is no such thing as a ” fair trial ” .

    ( That is what, in effect, the lawyers told him. Were they really to be faulted for telling him this TRUTH? )

    Pedestrians , crime victims, AND THE ACCUSED , don’t really have any rights.
    ( If Cold did go to jail then he is going to learn the last part the hard way , And, perhaps, how the latter is twin brother or twin sister to the first two. )

    If campus security ….FOR ITS OWN REASONS ….had seen fit to fault the driver , then everything Cold complains of would just as well have applied to the driver who struck his daughter .

    i.e. — Campus security doesn’t work for the accused. that he / she is an American and has rights means NOTHING outside of a 6th grade civics class.

    i.e. — The authorities ( in this case campus security ) word counts for EVERYTHING , ( yes, even when you can prove they lied. )
    Your word counts for NOTHING. ( Yes, even when you can prove that the truth and facts are on your side. )

    i.e . —- Witnesses ; Are like cops ; never around when you need them.

    i.e. — Forensics, evidence, and all that jazz ? Detectives and forensics labs work for the authorities , ( in this case campus security ) not for the accused, not for the victim.
    By the way, courtroom rules of evidence , the rules that determine what evidence you CAN present in court, FAVOR the authorities , beginning with that business about their word being worth more than yours under virtually all circumstances . ( Unless you can afford Johnny Cohrane, AND Robert Shapiro, AND F. Lee Bailey. 🙂 )

    —-

    My best guess is that if Cold went to jail, it probably had something to do with the fact that the authorities can threaten you, touch you, provoke you in every imaginable way, even beat you within an inch of your life, and 90% of the time that is perfectly ok.
    ( Rodney King is not the norm kiddies. )

    But Cold need only utter a single “threat ” ( I don’t even know Cold, and I know that would be shear hot air, and doubtless 300 other bystanders would know it wasn’t remotely serious ) and he has just “earned ” a felony record , and that is not perfectly ok.

    If that is what happened, I can’t say I feel sorry for him, but rather glad for him.
    One of the best character-builders I know of, one of the best ways I know of to sharpen the intellect,

    is to get curb – stomped by “the good guys ” , by the side you thought you were on, by the side that you thought cared about that.

    • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 12:23 am #

      As Hillary said, it’s women who suffer when men die in war. Likewise, garbage bags in ads are personified as men as something to be thrown away.

    • elysianfield March 25, 2017 at 11:13 am #

      Kesa,
      In Oakland, we only “curb-stomped” the bad guys,,,,

  42. Buck Stud March 25, 2017 at 12:50 am #

    “Health care itself is both an intellectual and emotional issue. How do we, the public, fit in? “–Tuscon

    It’s also an extremely frustrating bureaucratic morass. I was talking to a younger person who did not have health insurance the entire 12 months of the year and they now have to fill out a “Shared Responsibility” IRS form which is apparently Byzantine in complexity…all to determine how much of a penalty to pay for the months not insured.

    It sucks–big time. And for what? 500 hundred bucks a month for a high deductible plan…poor fucker, pay 10 or 12 thousand before any insurance starts kicking in.

    I was hoping the atrocious GOP plan passed so we would be one step closer to a national consensus on the piece of shit medical system we truly have in America.

    • tucsonspur March 25, 2017 at 2:05 am #

      It’s so bad, sometimes I find it hard to believe that we’ve allowed this to happen. A deep moral chasm across the nation, burying the innocent and helpless.

  43. trypillian March 25, 2017 at 12:55 am #

    Russia doesn’t want to rule the world; but rather wants to steal as much of it as it can. Russia’s economy is only a puny 15th in the world based on GNP [ that’s right 15th]. They barely qualify for the G20! LilliPutin and his gangsters are really racketeering goons in a criminal economy. They are killers as the interviewer interviewing Trump, the interviewee, stated recently. Trump in the greatest comeback ever said: ‘that’s ok we are killers too’. LilliPutin actually came to power because of a false flag apartment building bombing which killed 400 people. The Russians emulate the snake oil salesmen of that illustrious Yankee institution; Goldman Sachs. By the way LilliPutins personal theft so far while looting the 15th world economy and former Soviet countries is about 50 billion bucks. Thats an awful lot of rubles.

    • FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 9:02 am #

      If Putin steals so much, how does Russia hold military parity, spending 20 times less on defense than the West?

      May be he’s got more brains than you do, may be your generals steals even more.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 9:48 pm #

      Putin and his gangsters? Wow, is THAT ever the pot calling the kettle black. You’d be wise to stop thinking so small about imagined “personal thefts” by foreign leaders, especially the one’s that have the temerity to stand up to the US-based, western globalist network, and start focusing on POWER and the ability to exercise it. The western globalists measure “wealth” much less in terms of dollar denominated personal assets these days (although, to be sure, they have plenty of THAT too), and MUCH more in political influence, which at the highest levels has the power to make or break global markets, and thus bankrupt entire countries and even regions at their whim.

      If you fashion yourself as some sort of “American Patriot,” as your post suggests that you do, you should stand up and SALUTE Vladamir Putin for having the big brass balls to stand up to US/Western imposed global hegemony; for in truth, you have FAR more in common with the average Russian that HE represents than you do with ANY American who counts themselves as part of the top 1%.

  44. janet March 25, 2017 at 1:58 am #

    “Then, on Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes (R-Cal) told the news media that an “unnamed source” in the Intel community informed him that Trump had indeed been surveilled during the transition period following the election. Was he just blowing smoke up America’s ass? I guess we’ll have to stand by on that one.” –JHK

    Nunes has now changed his story completely, so we don’t have to stand by anymore… we know he was just blowing smoke up America’s ass.

    Nunes is in way over his head and is obviously incompetent. Now Nunes is canceling hearings at the request of the White House. The White House was the source of leaks to Nunes (“on his midnight run”)… and Nunes may have violated the Espionage Act (which could get him ten years in prison).

    There is now direct evidence of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia, in addition to strong circumstantial evidence. The White House initially allowed the hearing without realizing how devastating it would be to 45… which is why Nunes is now canceling hearings.

  45. janet March 25, 2017 at 2:07 am #

    “Thus delivered President Trump Pulled the US out of the TPP.” –JG

    False. Nothing changes because of Trump’s move. Congress had not yet approved the TPP — its fate was bleak on Capitol Hill no matter what the White House did — and the deal had not yet taken effect.

    So Trump’s words and action were meaningless, just as Hillary’s words against TPP were meaningless. And Bernie’s. Fluff. Weak Trump.

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  46. janet March 25, 2017 at 2:11 am #

    “Ring! Round One: “10) Signed an executive order restricting Muslim entry into the US from six countries, including Syria.”

    Muslim ban found unconstitutional by multiple courts. Restraining order issued nationwide against implementing Trump’s order. Trump says: “See you in court” and then does not appeal, knowing he will just lose again.

    ROUND 1: COURTS, UNANIMOUS DECISION.

  47. janet March 25, 2017 at 2:16 am #

    “RING!!!!!! Round 2: House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes CONFIRMS members of Donald Trump’s transition team, including Trump himself, were under surveillance following November’s presidential election. March 22, 2017”

    RING!!!! Nunes reverses himself March 24, 2017, takes off his boxing gloves, cancels hearings, leaves the ring and admits he received leaked information from Trump. Apologizes to Democrats. Loses credibility and cancels further hearings after damaging Trump. Faces prosecution for violating Espionage Act.

    ROUND 2: CONGRESS & CITIZENS, UNANIMOUS DECISION.

  48. janet March 25, 2017 at 2:17 am #

    “RING!!!! Round 3: Failure of the Republican health care bill in the House of Representatives. – March 24, 2017.”

    ROUND 3: OBAMACARE & 24 MILLION AMERICANS, UNANIMOUS DECISION.

    • janet March 25, 2017 at 2:19 am #

      ^Sent from the New Multicultural Republic^

  49. Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 4:03 am #

    After their campaign of spying against Trump and then releasing select results to the Media, they’ve abnegated their right to have secrets from the American People. And Obama changing the rules on his way out paved the way for of this bad behavior. He’s clearly in on it.

  50. Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 4:07 am #

    Your devotion to the Leader is your saving grace. You don’t understand him of course – nor what he will need to do to save America: complete assumption of power. All states centralize when they go to war. We’re at war. Failure to do so means defeat.

    When he becomes Master and Commander, will you then turn on him?

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  51. KesaAnna March 25, 2017 at 4:50 am #

    Well, if we can put up with a full-on goose-stepping, heal-clicking Nazi, we can probably also put up with a Randroid fantasist.

    The problem with a Greater German Reich stretching from the channel coast to the Urals, was that it was going to produce the same sort of Austro-Hungarian polyglot that Hitler presumably despised.

    This is not a hypothetical , this was already happening in fact when Germany was winning the War, 1940 – 1943.

    The Spanish Blue Division, the Bosnian Moslem 13th SS , ROA, the Cossack Legion, Leon Degrelle and the Belgian Rexists, and on, and on.

    80 to 90% of the personnel in the concentration camps and Action Reinhard camps were non-German.

    These were not aberrations , they were a clear trend.

    They were going to have to create so many “Honorary Aryans ” such as to render the term Aryan , or even the term German, meaningless .

    Or they were going to have to kill Germans and whites ( “whites” — think Honorary Aryan. No genuine National Socialist took white seriously ) in such staggering numbers that the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and a few leftists would have amounted to only the most insignificant and trivial of demographic blips.

    Now any who were genuine National Socialists figured all of this out a long time ago.

    This is the problem with National Socialism, and not any derogatory epithets , the fortunes of war, or any votes in any popularity contests.

    And this is why I say there are no genuine National Socialists in this blog , and for that matter you would be hard pressed to find any genuine National Socialists who aren’t either —

    — certifiably senile , into a second childhood, and under the misapprehension that the year is 1936,

    — or retired voluntarily.

    But Nazi stuff is about as explicable as USA fans trying to reconcile a large state with a republic when clearly the two don’t mix.

    • thwack March 25, 2017 at 9:52 am #

      They were going to have to create so many “Honorary Aryans ” such as to render the term Aryan , or even the term German, meaningless .

      ****************

      Thats what the “alt right” is doing right now.

      You got Greg Johnson and his band of Nazi faggots and pederast over at Counter-Currents publishing.

      You got Vox Day and his band of off white white supremacists.

      Then you got Stormfront full of white men with their Asian and Mexican wives and girlfriends…

      WTF?

      Racism is becoming so refined its confusing white people.

    • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 2:07 pm #

      Even Kesa longs for the death of the White Race. Thus she is allied with Thwack. Top down bottom up – the Vise described by Gary Allen.

      National Socialists believed and believe in Race. You can’t be German without being White. Not really. A Nation is a family. But yes, many men responded to the call of National Socialism – not just Nordic Whites. Maybe Hitler was more broad minded than you have been lead to believe. Just because people aren’t German doesn’t make them bad, Kesa.

      • thwack March 25, 2017 at 4:23 pm #

        “Even Kesa longs for the death of the White Race. Thus she is allied with Thwack”

        *********************

        Oh I get it now.

        In Janos’ universe, if you are not FOR racism, you are automatically against white people.

        Thats why he’s always accusing me of “white genocide” even though I never said anything in support of such an absurd concept.

        Once again Janos shows his narcissistic paranoia in his genocidal hallucinations…

        And you know what that leads to?

        Nihilism.

        Janos in his bunker, filled with messianic rage, freshly written manifesto in hand, going out in a hail of police bullets…

        His finest hour?

        Nope.

        Not even close; because he didn’t surpass himself.

        For Janos, his finest hour would be having a threesome with two 300 pound black women.

        Just sayin

        • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 6:10 pm #

          You have indicated you want to breed us out existence thru miscegenation – a kind cleansing or back to Negro basics since you see YOUR race as the proto or original race. The real thing. The prototype. Sorry, even if we did come from you – and that a big if since there’s no proof – we’ve left you far behind.

          Maybe you want to rethink your agenda? Where would you be without White Women to lust after and defile? Without White Men to hate, harass, and assault? Without a White Race to blame and condemn – even as you demand more cargo? Remember Thwack: when the parasite kills its host it dies too unless it can find another. And where you going to find another race as kind and gullible as modern Whites?

          • thwack March 25, 2017 at 6:55 pm #

            “You have indicated you want to breed us out existence thru miscegenation”

            ******************************

            There you go again.

            *sigh*

            What I think you are trying to do with this constant projection is one of two things; or maybe both?

            #1,

            You need justification to attack me, so you tell other white people Im trying to breed the white race out of existence.

            #2

            You want to and wish you could breed black people out of existence; so you project that desire onto me.

            Janos, why do you assume I look at every sexual act as part of some grand strategy for world domination? Once again methinks you are projecting your own alien passions and desires on to me?

            Don’t you ever just make love of the sake of making love?

            Ive noticed this phenomenon with a lot of so called white nationalists. You guys get so wound up plotting, overthinking and projecting your geo politics, ego, fears… into every potential sexual act that you become paralyzed and never get on with it?

            What woman wants to deal with all your racial baggage?

            Its not sexy or attractive and it will just make you more insecure.

            And let me leave you with a pro tip:

            ALL women desire to be lusted after, and some love to be “defiled” (whatever that is?)

            A woman’s first agency is her sexuality; don’t try to take it from her.

            You give any 17 year old girl a choice between getting a perfect score on the SAT; and the magical ability to change any combination of things about her body/appearance…?

            She will choose her appearance everytime; without hesitation.

            Thats nature.

            You do appreciate nature don’t you?

            Well then stop fighting it.

  52. andeee March 25, 2017 at 7:40 am #

    “and the news media is playing it all like a Stockhausen cantata for kazoo and trashcan lid.”
    Thanks for that James, I needed a good laugh.

  53. wm5135 March 25, 2017 at 8:06 am #

    Mr. Galt – “The strength of a nation is contingent upon the strength of the community.”

    Well, we are finally in agreement and have a shared perspective that requires no compromise. I would even suggest that building strong communities is the surest path to disarming the deep state.

    A word of caution – “community organizer” has a bad rap around here!

  54. wm5135 March 25, 2017 at 8:21 am #

    We should all be relieved that:

    The Clinton campaign had no international business players whose associates were under investigation.

    No information relating to the Clinton campaign was inadvertenly gathered.

    The investigators only monitored WiFi.

    Everyone associated with the Clinton campaign was as pure as the driven snow.

    All information gathered during the campaign season and to date relating to the Clinton campaign and it’s actors is secure and nothing will be leaked.(We know Clapper is full of it – but no information gathering?)

    The sound level related to these issues is much like an auto race after the checkers has fallen – quiet.

  55. FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 8:45 am #

    In a press conference on Wednesday, Nunes claimed an unnamed source had informed him that the intelligence community had surveilled the Trump administration’s transition team. == janet

    So, it has begun. Rats are jumping the ship.

    There’s at least one prominent Republican who shares that view. Sen. John McCain…

    Sen. John McCain is not a Republican, he is a reptilian Clintonoid.

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    • DA March 25, 2017 at 12:49 pm #

      Sen. John McCain is not a Republican, he is a reptilian Clintonoid.

      Agreed. Hardly surprising either, after what the Bush campaign did to him in the run up to 2000. But more than anything, he’s just an embarrassing, doddering old fool these days. You’d think the people of Arizona would spare him (and themselves) further indignity by simply voting him out.

  56. MrTibbs March 25, 2017 at 9:07 am #

    In this corner, standing 6’2?, 253 lbs, age 70, NATIONALIST DONALD J. TRUMP!!!….and BACKED BY THE U.S. ARMED FORCES, VETERANS, NRA, DOMESTIC PRODUCERS, AND RURAL AMERICA.

    And in this corner, 17 agencies known as the GLOBALIST OPERATED DEEP STATE MERRY PRANKSTERS, the Democratic and Republican political parties, and the Federal Judiciary, AND GLOBALIST OPERATED MAINSTREAM MEDIA, HOLLYWOOD, AND THE WORLD’S 8 WEALTHIEST, COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS THE SWAMP!!!

    ….brings perspective to the heavyweight match.

    -T

  57. FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 9:11 am #

    LilliPutin actually came to power because of a false flag apartment building bombing which killed 400 people. == trypillian

    That’s a conspiracy theory, less colorful than the theory that Hillary was hired by the owners of the Twin towers to demolish the buildings using her Islamists friends and kill 3000 Americans in the process.

    Then she hung he whole ordeal on Osama bin Laden and made a mortal enemy out of Al Qaeda and had to re-invent it in the form of ISIS.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm #

      Where did you get Hillary in the above narrative? She was still a small time bit player at the time (and in truth, still is, serving primarily as a red cape to wave in the face of the rabid feminists). 9-11 (and OKC before it) was mostly a Bush/Cheney and their extended PNAC network job, with assistance from the Zionist Izzies, the Brits, and the Saudis of course. Bin Laden was indeed a synthetic boogeyman, as were/are Al Qaeda and ISIS. Bill and Hill both have their strong points as self-serving duplicitous political operatives, but being smart or well connected enough to pull off an operation involving the scope of OKC or 9-11 is certainly not one of them.

  58. FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 9:45 am #

    What is a real value of ruble to a dollar?

    The rate of the dollar to the ruble on the exchange recently is about 1 to 60. In some areas, for example, in the service sector, maybe it is. That is, in order to receive in Moscow’s hotel services as much as in an American hotel you can get for $1, in Russia you have to spend 60 rubles.

    But in the field of defense, the ratio of currencies is quite different. To produce military equipment as much as America can produce for $1, Russia needs to spend not 60 rubles, but much less. How much?

    This can be estimated if we compare the price of American weapons on the international arms market and the cost of similar weapons systems for Russian Armed Forces. Simply put, compare: how much Americans ask for their tank or airplane when they sell it to their allies, and what does a tank or airplane of the same class produced in Russia, cost Russian Ministry of Defense.

    And then amazing things will come up. It turns out that the dollar to the ruble in the military area is not 1 to 60, but a maximum of 1 to 10! And if you think it’s fair, when you recount at purchasing power parity, Russia’s military budget will not be at all 50, but at least as much as 300 billion dollars! Here’s to you a clue how such poor Russia, keeps strategic parity with the rich West.

    Furthermore. If in general Russian real military budget is half of the American, then the specific military expenditures are even higher than in America. After all, the number of servicemen is 2.2 times less than that of the Pentagon. And this means that as a result, Russia spends even more money on equipment, training and maintenance of one soldier than the United States!

    Here is one more reason for Russia’s success. Victories in Syria, breakthrough in the rearmament of the Army and Navy, leadership in creating a new generation of weapons, a massive renewal of military infrastructure and other “unexplained” phenomena in the field of the global military-strategic balance of power over the past 10 years.

    • FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 9:56 am #

      That pretty much means that the racket in Military spending cost US approximately $5 dollars out of each $6 dollars spent from the budget.

      Approximately the same ratio is in the Medical “industry”, or may be even higher.

      And in Medical “Industry” to evaluate the racket proportion, one must probably study the prices charged by Mexican clinics for similar procedures using similar class medical equipment that charges clinics north of the border.

      US is a country of many rackets which have ran out of any reasonable boundaries.

      • DA March 25, 2017 at 12:15 pm #

        The real question is, what happens after even the rackets have run out of suckers to bleed dry? We’re rapidly approaching that point now. Even the mighty US military can’t run on fumes, and with the 1% unwilling to pay taxes and the 99% increasingly unable to, what happens then? The US is increasingly a paper tiger, totally reliant on the antiquated notion of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Those days are numbered, as are the days of the US as global hegemon. The long-awaited Global NWO is obviously the goal, although it remains to be seen how that goal will play out in the near term. A default and subsequent run on the dollar would go a long way in suppressing the gag reflex as that bitter pill went down.

        • DA March 25, 2017 at 2:55 pm #

          And needless to say, any prospective replacement currency will of course be digital only to enhance its primary use as a control mechanism.

      • thwack March 25, 2017 at 1:11 pm #

        Some aspiring auntramanure should build a hospital ship and park it off the coast and undercut the U.S medical racket.

        Just sayin

        • thwack March 25, 2017 at 1:19 pm #

          Also,

          a lot of health problems can be resolved by life style changes.

          Therefore, for $15 an hour, I could follow you around and scream on you like your dad if you start back sliding, or falling off the wagon…

          Make you wash your ass and straighten up the front room…

          Nurse Thwacket if you will?

          • DA March 25, 2017 at 2:57 pm #

            An early death cures all ills, and can be quite profitable as well.

          • elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 1:20 pm #

            “Therefore, for $15 an hour, I could follow you around ”

            Thwack,
            What if I pay you $15 per hour so you don’t?

          • thwack March 25, 2017 at 9:03 pm #

            For me?

            Why?

            We kill babies over here too.

            Matter of fact, we kill innocent babies in the U.S?

            Please try again.

          • thwack March 25, 2017 at 9:05 pm #

            I AIN’T THRU!

            Y’all kill white babies in the U.S

            Now get around that.

  59. ozone March 25, 2017 at 10:05 am #

    “…So, the long and the short of it is that the RussiaGate story is spinning out of control, and Trump’s adversaries — who go well beyond Congress into the Deep State — might be getting enough leverage to dump Trump. Either they will maneuver him and his people into some kind of perjury rap, or they will tie up the government in such a web of investigative procedural rigmarole that all the country lawyers who ever snapped their galluses will never be able to unravel it.” — JHK

    While I remain unsurprised at the shenanigans of Deep State and New World Order assholes (and their clearly addled supporters and worker bees), one thing does surprise me. This would be the ripping away of veils and verbal filters that used to *hint* at nefarious policies and newspeak half-truths. Now it’s shockingly out in the open.

    As seen in the insane mouthings of Johnny “Jingo” McCain in Brussels, they either don’t believe there will be any consequences, or it may be that they feel their backers are all-powerful and unassailable, and will find them to be indispensable megaphones. (BTW, what in the blue hell is wrong with Arizonans continually placing this deranged cheese-brain in a position of dangerous control — now head of the Armed Services Commitee — election after election? Do they really believe a world-wide war will be good for Arizona? WTF?)

    What I *like* about the current crop of shitheads openly shouting lies and distractionary crapola, is that now they have [somewhat] exposed themselves. I urge them to keep this up, and “go deep”. This suggests both hubris and desperation; the ratio is yet to be determined and redress of actual grievances (as opposed to meaningless political jousting) outlined.

    The Chinese curse is no longer a threat; it’s a description of the present. “Interesting times” indeed.

    • ozone March 25, 2017 at 10:29 am #

      Yes, watch these geopolitical flashpoints carefully… or don’t; no skin off my nose.

      http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-24/watch-these-geopolitical-flashpoints-carefully

      • beantownbill. March 25, 2017 at 11:03 am #

        O3, it’s hard for me to imagine the near future. There’re so many fuckups possible, why bother to try to figure out which ones will occur? It’s like being given a choice of which way you want to die, by hanging or by firing squad? Either way it will hurt and you will be dead.

        What I have trouble with, is why am I still feeling positive that things will work out? I can come up with an exhaustive list of reasonably probable terrible events, but almost no good ones – at least for the near and intermediate future. Could I have reached my current old age being so unrealistic? I don’t want to be negative, no matter what – it just doesn’t pay. I’m emotionally ready to accept whatever happens – I think – but I’ll be danged if I run around being depressed. As Sha Na Na said, live for today…

        • ozone March 25, 2017 at 1:22 pm #

          Beans,
          Perchance, do you assume that I’m running around being depressed? If so, disabuse yourself of that notion. I find all this legerdemain and bullshittery (tm helen highwater) to be endlessly fantastical and fascinating (in the context of being almost continually entertained by the length that the “persuaders” will go to in order to steer/misdirect public perceptions).

          As far as ruminating on being “unrealistic”, please consider a goodly amount of luck being a factor in your fortunes. You happened to be born in the USofA during a time when the US was “top of the world, Ma” and was embarking on an adventure of prosperity, luxury and a waste of resources never before imagined in the most fevered dreams of all of history’s elite and powerful.
          …There’s that. I certainly don’t blame you for feeling optimistic with that as background! 😉

  60. Being There March 25, 2017 at 10:14 am #

    The day after repeal and replace……

    Another Kabuki Theater episode for the amusement of the masses. (Healthcare after the fall)

    Every empire has it’s bread and circuses. For this dying empire there is the government and it’s crazy political kabuki theater that has emerged as our greatest “Reality TV” show ever……headed by none other than the ringmaster of reality TV
    …..our overlords have a bizarre sense of humor….if it wasn’t life and death issues I would be slapping my knee, but alas…

    So take the Healthcare bill, please…….

    The Republican Party has become the puppet of the billionaire club and the Libertarian Party, created by the John Birch Society, Koch Brothers. I repeat that even William F. Buckley the conservative intellectual referred to them as “Anarcho Totalitarian”. So there you go. The Repub party has a mission coming from the Kochs and other billionaires like Peter G. Peterson, Paul Singer vulture capitalist and Robert Mercer.
    The aim is to create a new govt. which only serves the interests of finance and military in its war against civilization. They should abandon by law the idea of serving the people, since they aren’t worth anything. Only the rich are worth something, the rest of us are expendable indeed.

    What people have to grasp is that the idea of competitive healthcare companies is short lived, because they all want to make money on Wall St. so they consolidate. This has been going on since Reagan, when they decided to ignore the Sherman Anti-trust Law in favor of globalism.

    So if you have a party that is anathema to govern, What kind of healthcare bill could they possibly cook up behind locked doors by a small group of people who are trying to turn the ACA into a giant tax break for the corporations? One can only imagine that Ryan kept other members of the Rep party out of the room because Peterson was on the conference call telling Ryan what the bill should comprise.

    They cooked up something that even a MOFO (mother) couldn’t like, Bannon referred to it as a “piece of shit”.

    They had the audacity to try and get this in the works knowing it was a total loser…….

    WHY? (the question nobody’s asking)

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    • FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 10:40 am #

      The failure of health care reform is an obvious undermining of the Speaker Ryan. And maybe Priebus and his people. They were needed during the transition period for the sake of the elementary preservation of life before the inauguration.

      • DA March 25, 2017 at 11:57 am #

        True that. It was the old guard GOP that lost the most face in this episode. Trump comes out of it looking decisive, if nothing else.

      • Being There March 26, 2017 at 8:22 am #

        Yes. It might be a war between the Billionaire Club. The Kochs and those who believe the same destructive bunch want to end the govt for the people and recreate it through a constitutional convention to undermine the people and give the corporations and bankers direct connection with the govt which can only address their needs and military of course.
        The rest of us will have no say in how they undermine the environment, put us through economic repression or anything else that would allow us a voice or service by the govt.
        Perhaps Trump and Co. are trying to stop this, but my guess is more simple.
        Trump had to take on the Republican mantra against Obama in every way to get support from the party and its adherents.
        BUT he isn’t a Neoliberal, so he allowed them to craft a super stynkker that he would pretend to back…….it was crafted behind closed doors to even fellow Republicans, so I think it really was Kabuki theater that nobody would want.
        It directly attacked Trump’s voters by saying they were in the greatest risk pool, THUS they would have to pay thousands more.
        That would destroy Trump’s base and they would go nuts…..
        So it could be a combo, but it was more like, let’s make it look like we’re doing something when we really aren’t. The reality is that the ACA (Obamacare) was in fact a Heritage Foundation model and Mitt Romney instituted it in Mass.

    • malthuss March 25, 2017 at 7:24 pm #

      David Rockefeller died this week.
      He was the father of modern Pharma.

      the John Birch Society, —that figured out the
      ‘One World Government nonsense’ and the ‘Alger Hiss, United Nations nonsense.’

      Those guys?

      • onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 7:34 am #

        ah, you very wise one indeed!!

        former john birch society leader Welch make speech in los angeles clearly identify means and methods.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

        let not you heart be troubled.

        may God be with you,

        -onehunglo

      • Being There March 26, 2017 at 8:27 am #

        He (D. Rockefeller) was Trilateral and Bilderberg, remember that Kissinger worked for the Rockefeller Foundation before going off on his own.
        Frederich Koch the father of the Bros. co-founded the John Birch Society.
        I believe they are all eugenicists as well. Making statements like “Nation States must be decoupled from their resources.” (DR) or Kissinger’s “He who controls the food controls the people, he who controls the money, controls the world.”
        These people are in a war against the earth and humanity, so happy to see them go!

  61. volodya March 25, 2017 at 10:21 am #

    Kesa Anna, no doubt, if Hitler had been successful in holding territory, as you say, from the Urals to the English Channel, he would have run into really big problems with governance. As the Austro-Hungarian situation showed, polyglots don’t work well.

    Good point about the recruitment from different nationalities to the Nazi cause. So one way to rule is to co-opt enough of the locals. Empower locals to govern locals. But then how does THAT work in the long term? In the shorter term collaboration with a conquering regime carries a lot of risks for the collaborator.

    What about in the long term? Do you try to Germanize subservient peoples? Do you do what the Romans did and give everyone citizenship? Do you have different classes of citizenship?

    If you try the Germanization route, how do you subsume so many conquered nationalities, each with its own language and long history and culture. It’s not an easy thing to get people to give up their identity even in a voluntary association like the European Union. How do you do it without diluting the German ethnicity itself to the point of meaninglessness given that the ruling Germans would have been a minority within the larger Reich?

    Running a continent-sized, multi-ethnic empire is a practical matter. What would have been the everyday consequences for ordinary Germans? Would it have worked for or against them? How would these consequences have changed how they looked at ruling an Empire? Would it impose an onerous burden of national service? Would the glory of the Reich have imposed too heavy a tax burden?

    What about internal borders within the Reich? What about freedom of movement? As the Brexit vote showed and as the rise of nationalist parties all over Europe shows, borderlessness tramples on too many ordinary people and their economic interests. And it goes against the grain as a lot of people don’t want to give up their own national identity especially when it was dearly bought ie Serbs in opposition to ruling Turks, Poles in opposition to ruling Russians etc.

    Killing people in staggering numbers was in the German game plan. They were going to clear out large areas of eastern Europe for settlement by Germans. This meant killing tens of millions. European Jews would have been lost in the shuffle.

    National Socialism was something that grew out of conditions in the 19th and 20th Centuries. But that was then. Times have changed. Whatever brown-shirted goose-steppers come out of the wood-work will have ideologies and goals that come out of modern-day conditions. Whatever movement they represent will have its own character based in contemporary realities.

  62. dolph9 March 25, 2017 at 10:23 am #

    How is that Obamacare repeal going?

    I thought Trump and his team where going to get things done, no questions, no dithering, no ifs ands or buts.

    Oh, wait. They don’t care about you after you voted for them.

    Suckers!

    • Being There March 26, 2017 at 2:17 pm #

      Anyone who votes for one of the duopoly parties are suckers…..the righties are too.

  63. stelmosfire March 25, 2017 at 10:28 am #

    Q. Shtik says:

    Actually, no, he isn’t joking. My b-i-l, Peter, is 70 years old and in the 45 years I have known him he has never used the word refrigerator or fridge; it’s always “ice box.”

    How many posters here are still wrapping their leftovers in tin foil?

    • capt spaulding March 25, 2017 at 11:12 am #

      I just learned that kids nowadays don’t know what “two bits” means. I have asked a lot of them, and none of them knew. I guess that’s how words disappear from the language. “Cool” has still got legs, though.

    • beantownbill. March 25, 2017 at 11:17 am #

      RT, would have replied earlier, but I was going to go to the local A & P but damn, the hydromatic transmission in my Chevy Bel Air wasn’t working right.

  64. nsa March 25, 2017 at 11:08 am #

    We here in Ft. Meade and Langley know everything about all of you…..yet you know nothing about any of us. Total Information Awareness is now an established fact for the first time in human history.

    • elysianfield March 25, 2017 at 11:23 am #

      “We here in Ft. Meade and Langley know everything about all of you”

      Thank God! I need to ask you … I have this rash….

  65. Elrond Hubbard March 25, 2017 at 11:34 am #

    “Pizzagate” DC shooter pleads guilty, faces years in prison

    At sentencing hearing, judge asks defendant if he was the culprit: “Yes ma’am.”

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/pizzagate-dc-shooter-pleads-guilty-to-weapons-related-charges/

    “A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday to weapons-related charges for a December episode in which he stormed a Washington, DC pizzeria and fired rounds from a Colt AR-15 assault-style rifle. The incident was a bid to ‘self-investigate’ an unfounded conspiracy theory concerning the restaurant’s basement being the secret headquarters of a nonexistent child sex-trafficking ring whose (again, nonexistent) members included Hillary Clinton and her inner circle.

    “No one was injured, but the episode sent Comet Ping Pong employees and patrons running for their lives when Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, walked in with the assault weapon and a .38-caliber Colt revolver. Later, Welch pointed the AR-15 at a restaurant worker before shooting a computer and a lock on a backroom door.

    “Welch pleaded guilty to two counts. One charge was the interstate transport of firearms. The other was a local count of assault with a dangerous weapon. Welch remains jailed, and he faces up to a seven-year prison term when sentenced later this year. He faced a substantially longer term had he been convicted at trial.

    “US District Judge Ketanji Jackson of the District of Columbia asked Welch during the sentencing hearing if he was the culprit who stormed the Comet Ping Pong on December 4.

    “‘Yes ma’am,’ Welch replied.”

    Did I mention that the allegations of a child sex-trafficking ring are utter nonsense — a conspiracy theory boiled up in a right-wing fever swamp completely divorced from reality? I wanted to make sure I mentioned that. What a dimwit.

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    • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 2:15 pm #

      Except when the Catholic Church is involved, right L Ron? Democrat/Labor are cults that create mental illness. Podesta and Co are clearly suspects.

      • malthuss March 25, 2017 at 7:18 pm #

        Caption—John Podesta is a Pedo heres some his Favorites Artist Paintings– link

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsa9sSKgaKQ

        Naked Baby PHOTOS. Clinton Occult Ties: The Podesta Art Collection,
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJmjerAaNQ&t=425s

        Etc…a mountain of evidence. Why was JP in Portugal? Why is the crime drawing of Him, also the other 2 drawings of His Bro and Weiner

        • Elrond Hubbard March 25, 2017 at 10:45 pm #

          Try exhibiting more respect for facts, malthuss. The creepy/weirdo art belonged not to John Podesta, but his brother Tony and his now ex-wife Heather. Not that you’d necessarily know, if videos by YouTube randos are what you rely on. I checked out another YouTube rando video on the same topic:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQObjFyJzM

          The YouTube rando in question spends the first couple of minutes remarking about Tony Podesta’s, and presumably his ex-wife’s, taste in art. At 2 minutes 23 seconds in, the YouTube rando asks this over a photo of John Podesta: “I wonder if John Podesta is a connoisseur of the same kind of artwork (are they eating him in the background?)”, the latter remark referring to an artwork in the background of the photo.

          At 2:55 in, she refers to “the same kind of artwork that John Podesta had in the background of that photo”, a sentence cunningly constructed by the rando to insinuate that John Podesta ‘had’ (i.e. possessed) the artwork, as opposed to being photographed in the same room with it). One could call this ‘guilt by association’, except this YouTube rando doesn’t actually establish any guilt in the first place, by Tony Podesta or anyone else — only insinuation about the weirdo art.

          Keep listening and you’ll hear the YouTube rando make similar insinuations about James Alefantis, proprietor of Comet Ping Pong and the closest thing to an identifiable victim in the whole affair given that it was his place that got shot up. Alex Jones, King of the YouTube Randos, has just issued an apology to Alefantis, stating in part:

          “To my knowledge today, neither Mr. Alefantis nor his restaurant Comet Ping Pong, were involved in any human trafficking as was part of the theories about Pizzagate.”

          Now there’s some more careful sentence construction for you — sounds like Alex Jones’ lawyers have been earning their hourly rates. For now, innocent until proven guilty is still the rule in the USA, not guilt by association.

      • Elrond Hubbard March 25, 2017 at 10:25 pm #

        Don’t put words in my mouth, Janos. If I had anything to say about the Roman Catholic church or sexual misconduct by its heirarchy, I would say so in clear and understandable English (and I would have no shortage of cut-and-dry cases to refer to).

        • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 4:22 pm #

          Now lessee: Global Elite go to art rituals where they pretend to eat dead people. Does not this strike you are as bizarre and dangerous in the extreme? This is what they do on camera. Think they do less off? If you think this is Ok, then your moral faculties are dull to the point of inertness.

          Clearly they are degenerates. And their obsession, in this case cannibalism, has a long history in human life. Are you so sure they aren’t actually doing it? Why?

    • malthuss March 25, 2017 at 7:15 pm #

      There is a mountain of evidence in Pedogate, all pointing to GUILT.
      The shooter is a trained actor [check IMDB] and HE SHOT THE COMPUTER IN CPP. Why did he shoot the evidence?

      L Ron, you are so stupid. You are at best a brainwashed goon.

      • Elrond Hubbard March 25, 2017 at 11:05 pm #

        /me searches IMDb for ‘Edgar Maddison Welch’:

        http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2625901/

        Lessee: No pictures, no actual biographical information — no date or place of birth, etc. The full bio reads: “Edgar Maddison Welch is known for his work on Mute (2011), The Mill (2008) and A Tale About Bootlegging (2005).” Doesn’t tell you much. The name is pretty specific, though, so let’s surmise that it’s the same guy.

        According to the article I initially linked, E. M. Welch, Esq., gentleman vigilante, is 28 years of age — so he was born in 1989. That would make him 16 or so when he worked as a P.A. on A Tale About Bootlegging, 18 when he was P.A. and storyboard artist on The Mill, and 20 or so when he turned in his (no doubt indelible) performance as “Raver-slash-Victim” in The Bleeding, his sole listed acting credit. Finally, he write a short film called Mute when he was around 22.

        After that he drops out of sight. Nothing further is know of him till he turns up six years later in D.C., shooting up a family restaurant with a .38 and an AR-15. If he spent those years in a secret indoctrination camp where he was trained to destroy evidence with bullets, it’s not in his IMDb profile.

        In other words: are you f’ing kidding me? This guy has the world’s shittiest movie/TV/whatever career, and that somehow proves that Pizzagate is real? Lordie. There’s far more evidence that Robert Blake (a man with a real acting career) actually murdered his wife, and Blake still got acquitted.

  66. messianicdruid March 25, 2017 at 11:45 am #

    The swamp is draining all of us.

    http://www.lesvisible.com/blogs/smoking-mirrors

  67. janet March 25, 2017 at 12:43 pm #

    “Trump comes out of it looking decisive, if nothing else.”

    Trump went to congress, made some threats, and got his ass beat. Nobody is afraid. The Resistance is winning. Trump is neutralized. Flynn is in witness protection. Trump’s staffers are purging their electronic devices. Subpoenas on the way. The end is near. It is a beautiful spring day. Obamacare is the law of the land. Trumpcare is dead.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 12:58 pm #

      No, the GOP got “its ass beat,” and exposed as hypocrites and liars (no surprise there). You have to remember, you’re listening to everything through an anti-Trump, neo-liberal MSM filter. Trump may or may not ever get anything meaningful accomplished and/or get removed, but almost everything that we hear out of DC these days by and about both sides is simply propaganda carpet bombing to keep the masses stirred up and confused while the real power struggle plays out behind the scenes.

      • janet March 25, 2017 at 1:16 pm #

        “almost everything that we hear out of DC these days by and about both sides is simply propaganda carpet bombing” –DA

        You still cling to the idea that Trump is an “outsider” neither Democrat nor Republican? Yet 100% of his policy proposals align with the Republicans. Maybe it is you looking through a filter?

        • DA March 25, 2017 at 2:50 pm #

          And yet GOP-sponsored healthcare reform went down in flames. How’s that? Trump might lean a tad bit right of center, but then again, the only substantive difference between the Dems and the Rs is the openness with which they denigrate the non-elite classes. The Dems will try to fool you with their multi-cultural, multi-sexual, razzle dazzle, while the Rs are more inclined to simply state the truth openly: we’re all fucked.

  68. volodya March 25, 2017 at 1:25 pm #

    Ken, sanctioned by court order? Are you trying to make me laugh?

    This FBI “investigation” into possible Republican-Russian “collusion” is a farce. This is a transparent attempt to unseat, by whatever means necessary, even if they have to make shit up, an elected president.

    In the months leading up to the vote this – cough – investigation was an attempt to stop Trump from taking power. For Trump was seen as an illegitimate contender and is now seen as an illegitimate occupant of the White House, someone who lost the popular vote (the electoral college be damned), someone who for reasons of character and background is considered by people – who figure they’re the ones who have final say – as nowhere near qualified. And someone who took power by dishonest means and who appealed to the worst instincts in the worst and lowest of people, ie the self-interest of workers and especially those detestable lower class whites.

    For all these reasons and more Trump cannot rule, Trump must not rule. For a hundred reasons Trump is intolerable as president. Especially to the oligarch elite. Because even if Trump didn’t mean a word of it, he spoke out against the deleterious effects of globalization on ordinary Americans. This was not music to Oligarch ears seeing how much effort and money they spent offshoring factories to China.

    No, pointing out to tens of millions of Americans how badly they’d been screwed was not cricket. The people that foisted this new system on the world will tell you that if you’re not on board, then you’re behind the times, the glorious new era of progress. See, this new world is one of no boundaries, no nationality, no citizenship, no strictures on the moving of jobs to the lowest wage despotism, no laws, no rules, no fetters. And a system that just happens to massively benefit a handful of people.

    As far as foreign meddling goes, please, I’m in stitches, this is the stratosphere of hypocrisy, meddling has been the stock in trade of American foreign policy since the US was in short pants. No matter, doesn’t mean the Russians are allowed to meddle. But then what about Israel?

    And what about the Chinese? Do you think that have no interests in the US? Do you think those self-effacing, inscrutable orientals are just quietly standing by?

    No Ken, Russian meddling is as old as Russia. But what IS new is the shock to the system of someone like Trump actually winning. And what’s happening in reaction is a multi-pronged effort to unseat Trump, with the FBI as just one piece of the campaign. By hook or by crook they’ll get him out.

    And yeah, I remember Nixon well. And no, Trump is no Hitler, he doesn’t even come knee-high to Tricky Dick.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 11:13 pm #

      Truth is, Hitler PERFECTLY represented the capitalist interests of his time, until he went completely off the tracks with his overt Jew elimination program(TM) at least. A step too far, for the times at least, especially when he was caught red-handed after the fact.

      Lesson learned. Future extermination of “targeted groups” would need to be a little more… ahem… discrete.

      And no, Trump is certainly no Hitler, never mind a Nixon. By the way, Tropes are only useful if they’re meaningful. And rest assured, NEITHER of these are in the least.

      • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 1:52 am #

        Bullshit. They wanted him gone. He eliminated the Banker middle men and abolished the gold standard. He wanted Germany as self sufficient as possible. If he needed to trade, he wanted to barter with other countries. You think they liked that!? They attacked before the new/old system spread to other countries eager for the same prosperity.

        And btw, they will always keep their foot in the door no matter who they fight for. So yes, they would do business with him after he won – because that’s the foot in the door that they can open wider.

  69. KesaAnna March 25, 2017 at 2:23 pm #

    So this guy — a spy — wears their uniform, waves their flag , sings their national anthem, claims to love them,

    But, secretly, he is actually planting the knife in their back, and, more mundanely and prosaically , arranging for a house in elite Georgetown and a new RV in the driveway.

    So, the guy is a total sleezeball ?

    No ! A HERO !

    So this is what they teach boys and girls.

    And when, grown up , these boys and girls are unable to determine whether Martian visitors , or the Girl Scouts , killed President Kennedy, not a bit of this gives pause.

    It is only prudent to get in bed with the Devil.
    It could not possibly be that getting in bed with the Devil is a bad idea.

  70. janet March 25, 2017 at 2:36 pm #

    “For all these reasons and more Trump cannot rule…” –volodya

    Correct … and Trump demonstrates this daily through his failure to govern.

    Legitimate or not, the fact is he is under FBI investigation and his agenda, his DOA budget, should be halted, as congress did handing him another failure yesterday, until we figure out what the hell kind of treason is going on… to paraphrase Trump before both his Muslim travel bans failed and he had to fire Manafort, Flynn, etc. his failures illustrate his weakness. Trump killed 100 civilians today in Iraq … inviting retaliation, making the US less safe. It’s as if he wants a Reichstag

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  71. janet March 25, 2017 at 2:41 pm #

    It is now Trump’s war in Iraq and he is fucking that up as well. Iraqi military leaders have ordered a pause in their push to recapture west Mosul from Islamic State as international outrage mounted over a series of airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in one district of the embattled city alone.

    Rescuers continued to retrieve bodies from the rubble of the Mosul Jadida neighbourhood on Saturday, more than a week after the coalition attacks, which are believed to have led to one of the highest civilian tolls in the region since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    • onehunglo March 25, 2017 at 3:15 pm #

      Confucius say, “woman who pick bottom have brown finger.”

      how many hour ignorant woman spend on meaningless blog when all life await living??

      in China, women busy leading productive life.

      why you so angry over event you can not possible influence??

      now please, go live life under sun.

      let not you heart be troubled.

      may God be with you.

      -onehunglo

      • nsa March 25, 2017 at 4:47 pm #

        Yu velly clazy plick…..need watel boald toltule to get mind light.

        • onehunglo March 25, 2017 at 8:41 pm #

          Ah, perhaps you not understand ramification of you action??

          that ok.

          since onehunglo turn to Christ, onehunglo repent daily on past work design render American harmless indenture servant.

          please heed warning of vaccine adjuvant and be highly skeptical of force inoculation.

          telltale overt sign violent psychotic break from reality, much like recent acting out in Berkley city.

          let not you heart be troubled.

          may God be with you.

          -onehunglo

  72. Buck Stud March 25, 2017 at 4:42 pm #

    “Then you got Stormfront full of white men with their Asian and Mexican wives and girlfriends…”–Thack

    I got a chuckle out of that one,lol. In a weird sort of way it reminds me of all these Russian women I see in the states with Russian first names and American last names…and now vacant wedding rings from their ring fingers.(My God, Russian women might be the most beautiful on the planet so any heartbreak in the aftermath is just the price one pays, willingly and gratefully.)

    Yes, “somebody” got taking to the cleaners–again.

    Might have to insert a / (slash) in the “American Woman” lyrics followed by every nationality on the planet!

    • malthuss March 25, 2017 at 7:25 pm #

      Natashas, getting their citizenship’s via their pussy.

      • DA March 25, 2017 at 11:32 pm #

        Prolly a good as any other reason. BETTER than most I reckon.

  73. FincaInTheMountains March 25, 2017 at 4:53 pm #

    Your Stalin and Kushchev were responsible for the Holodomor in Ukraine == Janos

    And Putin kicked the teeth out of this guy:

    https://pp.userapi.com/c637827/v637827718/39771/5F1KePV6q2A.jpg

  74. Buck Stud March 25, 2017 at 5:13 pm #

    “For all these reasons and more Trump cannot rule…” –volodya

    “Correct … and Trump demonstrates this daily through his failure to govern.”–“Janet” responding to a volodya quote deliberately stripped of its surrounding context.
    ————————————————

    Anyway, Janet is really underestimating President Trump IMO and he/she is not the only one. And why do I say that? Because after the health care debacle Trump stated that he had ‘learned a lot from the experience’.

    Look, nobody is going to become POTUS and not have a few fuck ups, especially in the beginning.

    Trump has only been at the helm for a little over two months and all this talk of his demise is prematurely ridiculous–his term is just getting started, the first few steps out of the starting blocks with a lot of track left to run. I fully expect that as Trump gains more experience, his feet will become better positioned under his body and he will start to sprint more comfortably and effectively. And I would not at all be surprised to see President Trump crossing the tape with hands held high and raised in victory at the finish line.

    Trump is New York City pugnacious through and through and only a buffoon would underestimate his tenacity and fortitude.Moreover, I think Trump is a deeply misunderstood/misrepresented person and fundamentally decent–just my intuitive impression.

    And I type this as one who is opposed to much of what the GOP is selling. But I also know too many Trump supporters who are kick- ass awesome in their daily lives and I must give them their due/respect: Great productive workers and the kind of people one can leave their doors unlocked around without fear of valuables being stolen.

    Ah, the contradictions, “Multitudes” I say.

    • Buck Stud March 25, 2017 at 5:19 pm #

      And on that note, more American culture expressed by the great Hank Williams Jr.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk

    • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 7:31 pm #

      Ah, you like to be with the winner? And you thought Hillary would be that? You backed the wrong horse! NOW you switch, en route – some pretty fancy riding. Multitudes, indeed.

      • malthuss March 25, 2017 at 7:41 pm #

        The man who would have run Hitlerys war department,
        and who had a password of the word ‘Password’—

        uh,

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPYCZFGzZQ

        • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 8:52 pm #

          Yes, it’s all there. What a majestic ape Elrond is! Too proud to look at what kind “art” his heroes like and consider what that means.

          Have you seen the two huge street murals of human slaughter in Brussels? The Satanists have indeed grown bold. Brussels is one of the capitals of the New World Order – and of human trafficking. The World these people want to build will be a nightmare.

  75. Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 7:36 pm #

    A nation that has to buy its own currency is like a man who has to pay rent to live in the house that he owns. Our Elite sold out us to the Globalist Slave Masters.

    Only the Dead have seen the end of war.

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    • pequiste March 25, 2017 at 7:44 pm #

      Buy its own currency AND pay vigorish to the Cartel.

      “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

      Henry Ford

      • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 8:38 pm #

        Yes, by definition the debt cannot be paid – there isn’t enough money in circulation to do so.

        • malthuss March 25, 2017 at 9:08 pm #

          One official suggested printing currency or coins with huge
          ‘valuation.’ Like trillion dollar bills.

          • DA March 25, 2017 at 9:27 pm #

            What difference would that make? And “printing” is a misnomer too. There’s no need to “print” or “strike” money any more. Hasn’t been for some time now.

        • DA March 25, 2017 at 10:03 pm #

          Thank you!

  76. malthuss March 25, 2017 at 8:27 pm #

    I was looking at ‘olde posts’ and got a kick from,

    BeantownBill December 26, 2011 at 5:35 pm #

    In the spirit of the season, and in trying not to steal JHK’s thunder in his next post, I now announce BTB’s 2012 predictions, in no particular order:

    1. KIm Kardashian finds love again.
    2. A new wheat bacterium wipes out 90% of the world’s supply, and 700,000,000 people starve to death. [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
    3. Dale, Jr. wins the Indy 500.
    4. A Russian oligarch buys the Roman coliseum and moves it to Moscow when the Italian government begins to sell off assets to avoid default. The owner of the London Bridge (now located in Arizona) complains that the auction for the coliseum was rigged.
    5. The biggest scandal in the Catholic Church’s history ensues when it’s discovered that Pope Benedict was born to a Jewish couple who put him up for adoption, and thus gives new meaning to the question, “Is the Pope Catholic?”
    6. As the EU tanks, European money flees to American soveriegn bonds, which hit a low of -5%.
    7. Iran displays it’s 1st atomic bomb; the price of oil hits $220/barrel and the US prepares for a “raid” into Iran to destroy the WMD’s.
    8. A gigantic methane superbubble from underneath the melting Siberian permafrost pops into the atmosphere and causes a world-wide stink.
    9. In August, Nike introduces its new Pocket Rocket line of sneakers which contain a tiny cold fusion reactor that allows the wearer to jump 25? and run the entire length of a basketball court in 1 second. In December, 250 people die at the Mall of America during a riot at the Sports Authority store.
    10. Joe Biden is replaced at the democratic convention by ex-pope Benedict, and Obama wins in a landslide over the Romney/Osteen ticket.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 9:28 pm #

      See now? Who said this couldn’t be fun?

  77. Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 8:36 pm #

    Trump supporters attacked as usual, but this time they counter-attack ferociously and stomp the Communists and Wet Backs into the ground. It is well my brothers.

    • DA March 25, 2017 at 10:01 pm #

      So much brain power wasted on such tiny labels. Why Janos? Why? You’re capable of so much more.

      • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 11:35 pm #

        Consider! Every iota of comfort you’ve ever known was because of the conquest of this Land by our forefathers. The Indians didn’t give it away. If you’ve never been in a fight or refuse ever to be in one on principle, you are divided from your people and from valuable parts of yourself. And you will never understand history, present day politics, or what is possible in the future.

        Yes, like Long John Silver I can speak like a book when so minded. But why do that when one can speak simply? And when big words would only obfuscate the simple reality? America is sword land. We are being conquered. If we fight, we may still be able to save some of it. If we don’t, we won’t. And dude, it’s a very serious thing to lose this kind of war, a war is dispossession. Ask the Indians.

  78. onehunglo March 25, 2017 at 9:05 pm #

    red China keen aware 2 month into term Reagan shot and nearly die.

    many parallel with present, only this time you pro-China Hollywood elite open call for killing.

    onehunglo not understand why citizen who call America home allow to call for killing president??

    one possible answer is adjuvant onehunglo design.

    please warn citizen of danger and telltale sign.

    let not you heart be troubled.

    may God be with you,

    -onehunglo

    • onehunglo March 25, 2017 at 9:30 pm #

      big concern red China blame for pro-China Hollywood elite calling for killing American president.

      must reject hollywood movie studio pushing anti-Trump and pro-China film and message.

      healthcare bill render inconsequential when thermonuclear war declare.

      onehunglo plead with American be aware of group think which another feature of adjuvant.

      onehunglo work diligent inside red China bring truth of Christ and truth of adjuvant to many as possible.

      let not you heart be troubled.

      may God be with you,

      -onehunglo

  79. malthuss March 25, 2017 at 9:13 pm #

    Pedo gate,

    Podesta received an email from Tam Luzzatto saying that,

    children of ages 11, 9, and 7 will be “in the pool for further entertainment” and stating that the children “will definitely be in that pool”.
    This should go without saying, but mentioning young children in a hot tub as a primary source of entertainment is not a normal conversation for adults to have.

  80. janet March 25, 2017 at 9:42 pm #

    I have suspected they are all sock puppets of Asoka.

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    • onehunglo March 25, 2017 at 9:48 pm #

      ????????

      “The stake that sticks out gets hammered down.”

      -onehunglo

  81. DA March 25, 2017 at 9:55 pm #

    Christ fuck! You’re quite the dynamo, aren’t you? Fair to say you’re a “New World Man?”

    He’s a rebel and a runner
    He’s a signal turning green
    He’s a restless young romantic
    Wants to run the big machine

    He’s got a problem with his poisons
    But you know he’ll find a cure
    He’s cleaning up the systems
    To keep his nature pure

    Learning to match the beat of the old-world man
    Learning to catch the heat of the third-world man

    He’s got to make his own mistakes
    And learn to mend the mess he makes
    He’s old enough to know what’s right
    And young enough not to choose it
    He’s noble enough to win the world
    But weak enough to lose it

    He’s a new-world man

    http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3458764513820543125/

  82. dolph9 March 25, 2017 at 10:37 pm #

    Trump said he would repeal Obamacare and he failed. He failed you, all of you suckers who voted for him.

    So, it turns out a real estate con man isn’t any better than the hated Obama!

    You guys were punked!

    (Yes, even, and especially, white people can get punked).

  83. trolleybill March 25, 2017 at 10:57 pm #

    Ice Box and Ice man was before Jim or I but we are old enough to remember the milk man and bread man. My Grandmother referred to Grandfathers automobile as his machine. I’m a year shorter in the tooth than Jim but have a childhood memory of being on a trackless trolley and that smell from a transformer like I first smelled from a electric train around the Christmas tree. The street car above wires were left up after the rails were taken up or paved over and busses were electric powered but were limited by only being able to go only as far from the wire as the trolley poles would allow or they had poles the driver had to use to put the trolley poles wheel back on the wire. By the way the wheel was called a trolley which the name was applied to the car below for some reason.

  84. Buck Stud March 25, 2017 at 11:13 pm #

    “Ah, you like to be with the winner?”–Janos

    You think I win if the Freedom Caucus wins? Do you think you win if the Freedom Caucus wins?

    Wise up–who do you think is going to put a stick in the spokes of Trump’s infrastructure plans?

    Hint, it won’t be Democrats. Yes, on some issues I hope hope Trump wins big–and you should too.

    • Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 11:45 pm #

      I’m trying to get you to admit to the diversity inside yourself. As Gurdieff said, “Life is real only then, when I am. To do this, you must admit you were part of Pants Suit nation.

      Confess! Or I will dunk you again and again. The evil is still inside of your and will return unless I burn it out. Which element do you prefer to be purified by: Water, Fire, Ice, Drops of Water, the Pit, or the Pendulum? Feel free to add suggestions as the above list is far from exhaustive. I will accommodate you within reason.

      Paul Ryan is his greatest enemy – the near enemy is oft the most dangerous.

      • janet March 26, 2017 at 12:40 am #

        As Gurdieff said, “Life is real only then, when I am.

        janos, you got the quote wrong. You left off both internal and external quote marks. You misspelled his name, too.

        You also failed to mention this is Gurdjieff’s Third Series and he did not want people reading it who had not read the First and Second Series.

        Besides all that your Third Series Gurdjieff reference is irrelevant to the “Pants Suit nation.”

        You seem to be a little out of your league when it comes to Gurdjieff.

        • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 1:45 am #

          In Beelzebub’s Tales he said America would be destroyed by bad food and bad sex. Is he so wrong?

      • Buck Stud March 26, 2017 at 1:09 am #

        You’re neither priest nor holy man: I’ll save my confessions for the worthy. (Besides I have explained over and over again my reasons for supporting the Democratic Party Platform, specifically, the health care aspect.)

        There are enough sophists on this site, why not aim a little higher as in the philosophic?

        Trump is going to need all the help he can get and your demands for pre-election purity only repulses those willing to re-examine and possibly update prior belief systems in the aftermath of the election.

        Competition–as in elections etc–induces a certain sort of ideological rigidity, a perceptual myopia. But the election is over and there is only one president. IOW, enough of the infantile end zone spiking.

        And ironically, the vacillations that befuddle the timid such as yourself, are part and parcel of Trump himself: He once championed single payer, for instance. And of course, also praised Hillary.

        Times change and so do people. Well, at least high flying air signs such as Gemini. Others, such as the dull-as-dirt-earth signs keep digging and scratching the doo-doo, castigating the foliage for it’s blooming diversity.

        Knock it off or I’ll come looking for you in a dream.

        • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 1:43 am #

          You were Coo Coo for Cocoa Puffs for Hillary. Do you even remember? If you don’t, you’re going to snap back to that one of these days.

          “Snapping” is a great book about Cult Psychology. And Pants Suit Nation is a Cult within a Cult.

          • Buck Stud March 26, 2017 at 10:29 am #

            I suppose the difference between you and I is that I cherish the contradictions in your being while you seem intent on “exorcising” the “evil” within mine.

            At times, you have championed single payer and yet you lionize Limbaugh and Jones and denounce the political party that seeks its implementation. To me, that’s a contradiction; a fundamental logical incoherence. And yet, I try to understand “where you’re coming from” because as many have noted, you write beautifully and you’re obviously a very intelligent human being.

            Perhaps I’m missing something so I bend an ear when Janos speaks. And unlike the “Neo Marxist” silencers, who might throw you in a reeducation camp for thinking the wrong thoughts, I wouldn’t change a thing about Janos; least of all his gnarly bark and twisted, convoluted boughs and branches that bark, bark, bark, with a singular obsession. Because amidst your often ugly and hateful declarations resides a cluster of oak leaves and the occasional acorn to ponder.

            But I also suppose the difference between you and I is also the difference between the guilt inducing Catholic priest waving a cruel castigating finger and the wandering, nature loving Taoist pondering the magic of one season changing into another.

            Let go, Priest: we are what we are–at any given moment.

          • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 4:16 pm #

            Beautiful Buck. But one must try and understand oneself too, not just go with the flow. Buddha described his Way as against the flow. The two views or darshans can be reconciled: it takes much work to get the canoe in the water and paddle it out from the reeds and rocks to where there is real Flow and not just “flow”.

            Likewise Zen describes reality as the Uncarved Block. Masonry describes the carved or well chiseled stone. Easily reconciled: one must sharpen one’s faculties before the ultimate vision can be attained.

            Until you know why you were a Hillary Cultist, you are not safe from reverting to that. You are still in the reeds and you may not see the rock dead ahead.

  85. Janos Skorenzy March 25, 2017 at 11:37 pm #

    And what kind of Libertarian Superman would stoop to writing in pidgin English pretending to be Chinese Coolie with a Q?

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  86. janet March 26, 2017 at 1:32 am #

    SANDERS LEADS FIGHT FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

    “We have got to have the guts to take on the insurance companies and the drug companies and move forward toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on Friday night. “And I’ll be introducing legislation shortly to do that.”

    Even before the Republicans withdrew their Obamacare repeal bill, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee and a close Sanders ally, previewed this message at a rally in defense of Obamacare on Thursday.

    “Don’t just be satisfied with defeating Trumpcare ? set your sights on creating real Medicare for all!” he told a cheering crowd of hundreds of activists.

    Representatives of several major progressive organizations ? the Working Families Party, the Progressive Campaign Change Committee, Credo, Social Security Works and the National Nurses United ? all echoed this push in conversations with The Huffington Post on Friday and Saturday.

    “The problem is the insurance companies, Big Pharma ? they’re gonna come back and use the chaos to their advantage,” predicted Social Security Works executive director Alex Lawson. “If Democrats go with a half-a-loaf policy, Republicans are going to blame them for the failures of Big Pharma. They have to immediately pivot to expanding Medicare.”

  87. onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 7:10 am #

    onehunglo speak on behalf only onehunglo.

    you fail understand how globalist use best form of power to exercise control.

    in present time, red china best use.

    read globalist huxley and use of pharmacological methods.

    read margaret sanger and her support eugenics.

    today many baby aborted and inoculation administered all support.

    chairman Mao good example of mass elimination through exercise central power.

    onehunglo recognize time limited and repent for participation on adjuvant aspect.

    let not you heart be troubled.

    may God be with you,

    -onehunglo

    • onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 7:40 am #

      and you wise one malthuss recall john birch society.

      former leader Welch accurate identify means and method of globalist.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

      let not you heart be troubled.

      may God be with you,

      -onehunglo

      “…time held me green and dying, though I sang in my chains like the sea,” -Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill, 1947

      onehunglo repent every minute every day.

    • MrTibbs March 26, 2017 at 8:30 am #

      @one:
      Based on your writings, I understand you developed “adjuvants” on behalf of the red Chinese army, and are now warning these “adjuvants” were designed to provide adverse effects??

      WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS BLOG TO COMMUNICATE??

      -T

      • onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 9:12 am #

        “when student is ready, teacher will appear.”

        JHK “Long Emergency” receive wide copy on mainland and respect for candor and mastery of language.

        JHK and follower demonstrate critical thinking skill in planning proper preparation for living life in de-centralize world.

        What missing proper expose address globalist agenda means and method.

        onehunglo play former part in advance globalist agenda, now repent and play bigger part in expose.

        let not you heart be troubled.

        may God be with you.

        -onehunglo

        • nsa March 26, 2017 at 10:37 am #

          Yu make fun Chlist….yu velly solly when flied in Hell extla clispy.

  88. FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 8:33 am #

    As I am certain you know the “greatest deal maker” on Earth went down the shitter along with the smartest Speaker of the House == Ken Hall

    Painful, but somewhat predictable defeat. I always maintained on that forum that Speaker Paul Ryan is a Clintonoid in Republican clothing.

    The alliance between Trump and Ryan was of tactical, not a strategic nature.

    The main action I expect will be the ongoing struggle for who’ll control American Federal law enforcement agencies and intelligence – around creating of an Independent Commission of the Congress to investigate the possible wiretapping of the presidential candidate.

    As soon as such Commission will be created we should see a lot of defections of lower-level Clintonoids operatives to the side of American people. There will be no lack of witnesses.

    • FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 8:39 am #

      Personally, I am looking forward to justification of my theory that Hillary Clinton seized power in the US on June 10, 2016 (the day of supposed “endorsement” of her candidacy by Barack Obama).

      I bet the thread of who had given the wiretapping order will eventually lead not to Barack Obama, but to Hillary Clinton.

    • FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 8:54 am #

      I have to be honest, and the conclusion regarding Clinton coup d’etat I came to not on a pure logical, but more on emotional basis.

      And what struck me the most were the COLORS – the new colors of Huffington Post edition and new colors of video presentations of candidate/dictator Clinton.

      Probably the life time experience of living in USSR has something to do with it.

      • aNanyMouse March 26, 2017 at 4:00 pm #

        Finca, although you first came to the conclusion regarding Clinton coup on an emotional basis, do subsequent (esp. recent) events really logically support that conclusion, or is the relevant evidence mixed?

        • FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 4:48 pm #

          What about an unprecedented several weeks joint campaign tour of Obama and Michelle – who both hate Hillary guts – in support of Hillary.

          How about unprecedented letter of State Department high-ranking bureaucrats to President Obama demanding Syria no-fly zone?

          Lots of tell-tales like that.

        • FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 4:57 pm #

          But the cherry on the cake was a setup of 35 Russian diplomats with families for arrest on January 1 for forced violation of 3-day expulsion order due to logistical hardships of evacuating 35 families on the New Year Eve.

          That would have created a perfect casus belli for a war, if not for General Flynn.

          • aNanyMouse March 26, 2017 at 8:24 pm #

            Thanks for clarification, Finca.
            Please say the most reliable place to read the story about the setup of 35 Russian diplomats, with families, for arrest on January 1.

  89. FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 9:18 am #

    For the last 4 years, Russia won the Cold War, but fell into such an intellectual squalor that is impossible to describe:

    The Soviet education system is destroyed almost entirely with the help of the Unified State Exam and the Bologna system

    High-ranking government positions requiring outstanding abilities are distributed between “their own” by the principle “the son of the general also wants to be a general”

    Academy of Sciences is destroyed

    The Church refused to be a peacemaker and participate in the reconciliation of the parties to the ongoing civil war by a method of comprehending the experience for which Church paid a terrible price in the 20th century.

    Meanwhile, in the past 10 years, amazing changes have occurred and if you go to the Russian Christian forums, you get the impression that at least half of the parishioners of the Moscow churches dream of coming to a nearby temple with AK47 and a have a go at it…

    And all because no one thinks that the new Russian military doctrine, also known as Medvedev’s Nuclear Ultimatum, the switch between Medvedev and Putin in 2012, the dispersal of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the transformation of the Olympics in Sochi into Mordor and Maidan are all a single historical process, when one event as a gear captures another, and they all crank the hour hand.

    But the million-people waiting line in Moscow to see the belt of the Holy Virgin, the annexation of the Crimea, the appearance of Strelkov’s troops in East-Ukraine’s Slavyansk and the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the United States is the breakdown of the clockwork and the manifestation of the free will of the people, as a result of which the wheel of History left the rutted track and began to lay a new one in the virgin soil.

  90. onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 10:37 am #

    you are here with me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgeMHHbFslk

    let not you heart be troubled.

    may God be with you.

    -onehunglo

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    • nsa March 26, 2017 at 10:46 am #

      Yu keep make mole fun Chlist…..yu be velly solly fly in Hell extla long time no happy ending like massage pallor….yu velly sick plick with tellible demon in tloubled healt need exolcize velly now.

      • onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 12:02 pm #

        ah, you would have make chairmen Mao proud with use of ridicule.

        that ok.

        why you think Chinese funded Hollywood make movie and tv with preoccupation with zombies??

        adjuvants, as they have targeted efficacy in 52% general population, 77% in african-american and produce such behavior as designed as high function neuro-toxin.

        why you think Chinese funded globalist media constant hammer on Russia-Trump connection??

        propaganda. Russia kick out globalist and globalist exact revenge. globalist intend to destroy Trump and any remain vestige of nationalism, country by country.

        you parody all you want, while rampant psychotic break from reality evidence spread right in front of eyes, just like last nite at cincinnati city.

        onehunglo done with response you and ridicule.

        “Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” -Matthew 15:14

        that ok.

        let not you heart be troubled.

        may God be with you.

        -onehunglo

  91. janet March 26, 2017 at 12:59 pm #

    “The LOVE that you withhold is the pain that you carry.”
    – Ralph Waldo Emerson

    “Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
    – Henry David Thoreau

    JG, quoting your favorites, Emerson and Thoreau, is a clear tip-off that you are Asoka. You are busted.

    • Q. Shtik March 26, 2017 at 3:59 pm #

      I am an American in the flesh of Charles Fuller.

      ==========

      …door to door brush salesman.

    • janet March 26, 2017 at 4:20 pm #

      “I am…” “I am…” “I am…” “I am…” “I am…”

      Yeah, we get it, Asoka. You contain multitudes. Thanks for confessing.

    • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 7:00 pm #

      First line should read,

      I AM JANET.

  92. elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 1:17 pm #

    Thwack,
    ….Motherfucker…you owe me MONEY!

    https://www.amren.com/news/2017/03/white-slaves-christian-slaves-robert-davis-anti-white-racism/

    • thwack March 26, 2017 at 2:07 pm #

      what is it this time?

    • MrTibbs March 26, 2017 at 4:53 pm #

      elysian, I will add to the knee reconstruction fund, if, like Galt has stated, you can move like this:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcDG_xLWPY

      -T

      • elysianfield March 26, 2017 at 6:07 pm #

        Mr. Tibbs, el al;

        I can move like the drummer…good enough?

        • MrTibbs March 26, 2017 at 8:55 pm #

          If that’s the prognosis, then will defer to janet, due to science.

          After all, the size of the rise is in direct proportion to the motion of the ocean.

          -T

  93. messianicdruid March 26, 2017 at 2:02 pm #

    volyada says, “No matter, doesn’t mean the Russians are allowed to meddle. But then what about Israel?”

    http://www.lesvisible.com/blogs/smoking-mirrors

    “meddle” doesn’t come close.

  94. volodya March 26, 2017 at 2:27 pm #

    DA, sure, Hitler had German Oligarch support. But perfectly? I don’t know, I’ve heard the contrary version, of Brits and Germans conspiring in neutral countries to be rid of both Hitler and Churchill because the war was so bad for business (or maybe their own particular business) that peace RFN was a paramount necessity.

    No matter, that’s a quibble. The fact is that Hitler had massive German support for his agenda not least because he embodied German values of the time, yeah, including anti-semitism. And look at his background, a decorated war veteran, an otherwise ordinary man who dared to shake the world. Whatever else you may think of him – and he was a black-guard – he did have balls like churchbells. Conservative Prussians and Hitler’s own military may have disdained the corporal, but ordinary Germans didn’t. And, I have to believe, neither did a lot of German capitalists.

    You’re right, tropes are useful only if they’re meaningful. Trump the fascist? Trump the Nazi? Bullshit. It’s like this, as soon as ordinary people wake up to their personal and collective self interest there’s accusations of fascism. Give a working stiff a living wage? Nope, no can do.

  95. volodya March 26, 2017 at 3:42 pm #

    Buck, on the campaign trail Trump was selling one thing, that he would look out for the ordinary American who’d been thoroughly taken to the cleaners this last three decades.

    But the GOP was selling something else, an austere, meager existence, one that comes as a consequence and natural outgrowth of Principled Conservatism, the idea being that there’s no higher ideal than walking the Principled Conservatism walk, especially if it’s painful.

    Now, you would say that the GOP was touting a contemptible line of shit, that it was a low-down con, that this austerity was meant solely for working-class voters if they were bone-headed enough to buy into it. Prosperity for degreed professionals and the Oligarchs and their administrative clerisy and for Washington insiders had to be built on SOMEBODY’S backs after all. A good Principled Conservative will tell you, right off the bat, that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The question is, who’s picking up the tab?

    But, as the Trump phenomenon showed, a significant portion of Republican voters weren’t drinking the Principled Conservatism Kool-Aid.

    The question is this, now that Trump raised expectations, that he would end decades of economic exploitation that’s been a calamity for so many Americans, what happens when he’s stymied? What happens if it becomes apparent from his words and deeds that he has no intention of following through, that in fact, he’s all for helping the same old Oligarch class and its Wall Street Kleptocracy?

    There’s a lot of loose talk about American fascism since Trump got the nomination. But this talk is all bunk. Trump is no fascist and there will be no fascism even after Trump. But there will certainly be SOMETHING and someone after Trump, especially as a reaction if Trump doesn’t come through.

    The ideology hasn’t yet taken shape and maybe it won’t be a coherent and internally logical set of ideas. Surely, it won’t be fascism as fascism had its day and times have changed. But, having said that, based on what we’ve seen in the last couple of centuries, better hope that Trump does come through.

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    • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 4:07 pm #

      Police cooperate with Trump Marchers to humiliate Anti-Fa scum in Philly. Trump supporters had a permit and demanded that the City enforce their right to march. Finally the Black Chief came out and order the scum moved back. Same thing at the end of march: the Police told the Trump marchers to disperse because it was over and things were getting too dangerous. But the March was full of Alt-Right Republicans, wise in the ways of the Enemy. They knew that they would be stomped by the Communists one by one if they break up. So they kept in formation. So against the cool Ace of Spades came out, this time apologizing for the vicious ignorance of his officers. The Trumpsters were given the green light and they marched proudly back by the way they came.

      Police and True Republicans working together: it’s coming Volly. In Germany, both press and radio were denied to National Socialists, so they took to the streets with their message. Over the next 13 years, 300 of their men were killed and 25,000 wounded. But they triumphed in the end.

      http://www.dailystormer.com/philly-march-ground-report-cops-and-trumpenkriegers-work-together-to-defeat-kikes-and-antifa-faggots/

    • Buck Stud March 26, 2017 at 6:02 pm #

      volyoda,

      I think Trump wants to “follow through” as you say but he has to negotiate the competing factions within his own party to do so. Ironically, the Democratic Party might save some of Trump’s very well intentioned plans such as his infrastructure agenda.

      An excellent article in the NYT that reveals Trump’s honorable intentions on may issues –( long read, but an excellent article, IMO.):

      https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/magazine/trump-vs-congress-now-what.html?_r=0

  96. Q. Shtik March 26, 2017 at 4:12 pm #

    Now,

    ken,

    What is “Dark Matter?” – Wack

    ============

    Poop is dark matter.

    • Q. Shtik March 26, 2017 at 4:18 pm #

      Some people are concerned with dark matter.

      I am concerned with living through an interminable 7 months of baseball season.

      Seriously, how do people stand it?

      • pequiste March 26, 2017 at 6:10 pm #

        You have hit two home runs with these comments Q.

        (O.K., maybe the baseball analogy was a bit gratuitous but your Dark Matter theory should be up for a Nobel Prize for (a) Physic/s.)

      • MrTibbs March 26, 2017 at 8:57 pm #

        …and some people are concerned with the truth of the matter, of which you have little to offer.

        They call me Mr. Tibbs.

        -T

  97. volodya March 26, 2017 at 4:17 pm #

    Janos, they didn’t triumph. They lost. 14 million war casualties, Germany in ruin, occupied by Soviets and Americans for decades, a polity so afraid of its own shadow that it thinks that national borders are a mark of moral deficiency. Merkel thought she was making a counter-statement to the Nazis as if three generations later the people alive now were to blame for Hitler. Nonsensical twisted para-logic that coheres only in the minds of intellectuals and leftists. National Socialism did that.

    • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 6:29 pm #

      They triumphed until the nascent New World Order crushed them. Communists and Capitalists allied against Nationalism – as they will again. Nothing has changed. The economic miracle of Nazi Germany is one of the big secrets and what they don’t want you to know. But you focus on the defeat – as if that proves they were wrong. Classic Candide like triumphalism. Everything works out for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

  98. messianicdruid March 26, 2017 at 4:24 pm #

    “And TERM LIMITS WILL BE CONSTITIONALLY IMPOSED.”

    RE-ELECT NOBODY = term limits so simple they will think you are retarded.

  99. messianicdruid March 26, 2017 at 4:55 pm #

    http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/03/24/western-values-no-longer-exist/

    …in our so – called leadership.

    • pequiste March 26, 2017 at 6:04 pm #

      Rather a scathing indictment of us all.

  100. janet March 26, 2017 at 5:41 pm #

    PIZZAGATE IS FAKE NEWS –Alex Jones

    Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has apologized for his website’s role in spreading a fake news story that inspired an armed man to storm a pizzeria in search of abused children in December.

    Malthuss on CFN has yet to apologize for polluting CFN with fake pizzagate comments.

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    • onehunglo March 26, 2017 at 5:56 pm #

      onehunglo apologize if put janet in mood for LOVE!!

      let not you heart be troubled.

      may God be with you.

      -onehunglo

      • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 6:58 pm #

        Funny, onehunglo.

        [what hangs lo, one hung?]

    • FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 6:16 pm #

      He, he … Alex may be a conspiracy theorist, but he aint no fool.

      Huge legal action threatened, most likely.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgE2rbrqQoI

      • FincaInTheMountains March 26, 2017 at 6:28 pm #

        If you are standing at a bus stop, and the bus is not arriving, light up a cigarette and the bus will arrive before you finish the cigarette to half.

      • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 6:35 pm #

        Yes, he has cucked out horribly, pretending that he the one who is after the real pedophiles and that Pizzagate is fake msm news. You’re right: they’re far too powerful for him. Alefantis is no mere Pizza man and Jones’ business model of selling supplements could easily be taken down. Beyond that, Hillary herself is in with these people and going up against her is dangerous.

        • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 6:57 pm #

          Word is that She Knew and Broke Zee Law by not informing FBI
          or child protection.
          She, the champion of children and women. [yeah, right].

          NYT,
          In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, which law enforcement officials said was an F.B.I. investigation into illicit text messages from Mr. Weiner to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, is married to Huma Abedin, the top aide.

  101. Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 6:52 pm #

    More White Europeans were enslaved and sent to North Africa than Blacks enslaved and sent to North America. Why have we never heard about this?

    From a number of sources, therefore, Prof. Davis estimates that the death rate was about 20 percent per year. Slaves had no access to women, so replacement was exclusively through capture. His conclusion: “[B]etween 1530 and 1780 there were almost certainly a million and quite possibly as many as a million and a quarter white, European Christians enslaved by the Muslims of the Barbary Coast.” This considerably exceeds the figure of 800,000 Africans generally accepted as having been transported to the North American colonies and, later, to the United States.

    The European powers were unable to stop this traffic. Prof. Davis reports that in the late 1700s, they had a better record of controlling the trade, but there was an upturn of white slavery during the chaos of the Napoleonic wars.

    American shipping was not exempt from predation either. Only in 1815, after two wars against them, were American sailors free of the Barbary pirates. These wars were significant operations for the young republic; one campaign is remembered in the words “to the shores of Tripoli” in the Marine hymn. When the French took over Algiers in 1830, there were still 120 whites slaves in the bagno.

    Why is there so little interest in Mediterranean slavery while scholarship and reflection on black slavery never ends? As Prof. Davis explains, white slaves with non-white masters simply do no fit “the master narrative of European imperialism.” The victimization schemes so dear to academics require white wickedness, not white suffering.

    Prof. Davis also points out that the widespread European experience of slavery gives the lie to another favorite leftist hobby horse: that the enslavement of blacks was a crucial step in establishing European notions of race and racial hierarchy. Not so; for centuries, Europeans lived in fear of the lash themselves, and a great many watched redemption parades of freed slaves, all of whom were white. Slavery was a fate more easily imagined for themselves than for distant Africans.

    With enough effort, it is possible to imagine Europeans as preoccupied with slavery as blacks. If Europeans nursed grievances about galley slaves the way blacks do about field hands, European politics would certainly be different. There would be no groveling apologies for the Crusades, little Muslim immigration to Europe, minarets would not be going up all over Europe, and Turkey would not be dreaming of joining the European Union. The past cannot be undone, and brooding can be taken to excess, but those who forget also pay a high price

    • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 7:02 pm #

      Beautiful Buck. But one must try and understand oneself too,–

      try TO understand, Nimrod.

      • malthuss March 26, 2017 at 7:03 pm #

        You read BRHs short post about scholarships?

        Malcolm Ex Lax essay got a scholarship.

      • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 7:11 pm #

        You are like the Old Man in a Tell Tale Heart – I have an overwhelming desire sometimes to yell, “Old man, your time has come” and throw a chair on you. A very heavy one. Perhaps Mose’s rocking chair from The Searchers.

        It’s not that I hate you – only your beating heart. I find it much like Buck’s bleating art.

    • BackRowHeckler March 26, 2017 at 7:52 pm #

      Studying up about pirates right now, and the great age of piracy (1650-1725) There is quite a lot about the African slave trade in these books.

      The biggest slavers apparently were the Portugese. who out of the European powers had the largest presence in Africa. Of about 12 million Africans brought into the Americas (1620-1830), about 355,000 came into what is now the USA, the vast majority going to the Caribbean and Brazil. The US Navy performed anti slaver patrols off the coast of Africa beginning about 1825.

      The real slavers were Muslims from the Arabian peninsula, who operated out of Zanzibar from the 14th century all the way until 1890. when the British were able to put a top to it. The number of black Africans kidnapped by Arab slavers is thought to be about 25 million.

      One question I had has been answered. Reading up about New England silversmiths and the Boston mint in the 17th century, I wondered “where did these colonist get all this silver?” The answer is governors and mayors of Boston, NY, Philly etc. would commission local Captains to go on pirate cruises in the Caribbean and especially the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Huge hauls of precious metals were captured and brought back to Atlantic coast cities, where colonial govts would get a healthy cut. they even established a pirate supply base in Madagascar, run by a guy from New Haven, where pirates from New England and NY could rest up and resupply their ships.

      brh

      • BackRowHeckler March 26, 2017 at 8:03 pm #

        Why am I reading up about pirates?

        Because outside my window I see bare trees, dirty snow, frozen mud, a leaden sky, and cold hard rain.

        that’s why.

        brh

      • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 10:22 pm #

        My article says 800,000 Blacks coming to the Americas – quite a discrepancy.

        Some say the Yankee Pirates were themselves slavers – and kept going after the Civil War. And they were funded by the Yankee Establishment – thus making it utterly hypocritical. Have you ever heard anything like that?

        • BackRowHeckler March 26, 2017 at 10:38 pm #

          Ya, there were Yankee slavers, mostly out of Newport. Sometimes Governor Cranston sponsored pirates, sometimes he hung them. African slaves were just so much cargo, like mercury being transported from Hungary to refine silver, or nails, or lumber, or salt. So if these Yankee pirates out of Boston or Newport like Ned Low or Captain Kidd captured a Portugese slave ship off the west coast of Africa, so much the better. They’d kill the Portugese crew and officers, commandeer the ship, sail it to Jamaica or Honduras or Brazil, and sell the load at a discount price. Then when they got back to Mass. or RI they’d give the Governor a cut of the swag. Everybody was happy all around!

          That’s the way it worked in the Golden Age of Pirates.

          brh

          Incidentally, I got that 355,000 number from National Geographic.

          brh

          • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 11:22 pm #

            No, Newport was Jewish slavers, though of course some Yankees might have been involved there. Still you refuse to fight your conditioning. You’d rather say the worst things about your own people rather than say the least bad thing about the Jews. Strange and Tragic.

  102. wm5135 March 26, 2017 at 7:10 pm #

    “CONSTITUTIONALLY IMPOSED TERM LIMITS”

    Meet the NEW REPUBLIC same as the old republic. Citizens to dumb to identify the incumbent.

    • Janos Skorenzy March 26, 2017 at 7:14 pm #

      Yes, that would get in the way of the Trump Dynasty. Baron will rule after 2050.

    • onehunglo March 27, 2017 at 8:04 am #

      ah, perhaps ignorant voter must pass basic knowledge test before issue a vote??

      you may be on to something very big!!

      let not you heart be troubled.

      may God be with you.

      -onehunglo

  103. BackRowHeckler March 27, 2017 at 1:20 am #

    Two items:

    In Montgomery County, Maryland, in a HS bathroom, a 14 year old , a girl, a freshman, was gang raped by two illegals from Honduras. Age 18 and 19, they were in her freshman class.

    In DC, the Palestinian woman who helped organize the celebrated Womans March on Washington is being immediately deported because she is a convicted terrorist who has spent time in prison, which she failed to disclose.

    Have you seen anything about these stories in the MSM?

    Jim, I know you have a lot on your plate, and this isn’t really one of your interests, but some time can you write up a blog on the lying, mendacious, partisan POS in the DC, LA and NY media? What drives them?

    brh

    • janet March 27, 2017 at 1:48 am #

      Most Hated Woman in America

      https://www.netflix.com/title/80082242

      On Netflix now

    • janet March 27, 2017 at 2:02 am #

      brh, there are over 1,000 rapes committed in Maryland each year by legal native-born Christian citizens… and you choose to focus on a rape by two Hondurans.

      Wake up, brh, the real threat is from documented native-born Christians.

  104. FincaInTheMountains March 27, 2017 at 3:14 am #

    SOS From Sweden: Mr.Trump, save us!

    https://youtu.be/csdJofzGyDM?t=192

    …the breakdown of the clockwork and the manifestation of the free will of the people, as a result of which the Wheel of History left the rutted track and began to lay a new one in the virgin soil

  105. FincaInTheMountains March 27, 2017 at 4:33 am #

    Please say the most reliable place to read the story about the setup of 35 Russian diplomats, with families, for arrest on January 1. == aNanyMouse

    I did my best to find an English reference to the story.

    After 30 min I gave up, here is the direct reference to the interview of Maria Zakharova on Russian TV, in her own words – but in Russian:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmChGRul1R0&t=3990

    The thing is that not-specialist do not really understand the essence of the story Maria Zakharova is referring to the expulsion of 35 diplomats on New Year’s Eve and the fact that 35 diplomats and their families – 96 people all together – would have become illegal immigrants in the US on January 1 2017

    In episode right before that, she is telling the story how Russian diplomat was detained by American special services while trying to buy a heart medication in American pharmacy using a completely legal prescription for Evgeny Primakov – a prominent Russian politician.

    Medication was confiscated, money (several thousand dollars) not returned, Primakov died. John Kerry tried to intervene, to no avail.

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    • FincaInTheMountains March 27, 2017 at 4:58 am #

      Now you tell me: is that low vindictiveness is in the character of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and who was really in charge of American government during that time.

    • FincaInTheMountains March 27, 2017 at 5:24 am #

      Now, 25 years ago it would’ve been a Pulitzer material!

      And all materials are in the public domain, just need to hire some Russian interpreters.

      How low the American Journalism has gone!!

      • aNanyMouse March 27, 2017 at 3:44 pm #

        Well, Finca, it’s not just US journalism. Why didn’t European media pick up these stories? Don’t some 30% + of Germans know Russian?
        And, while we’re passing out Pulitzers, let’s give one to Wikileaks, and whoever hacked into the DNC emails!

  106. FincaInTheMountains March 27, 2017 at 5:54 am #

    Comprehensive analytics in social networks should not be looked for.

    It is not there. To properly describe the phenomenon in all its planes, effort is required, which by definition can not be made by one person.

    Moreover, competence is required, which can not be met in one person. And the real analytical teams, firstly they work slowly, secondly they are not public, and thirdly – for money.

    If you really want to understand the issue, then the entire factology will have to be collected by yourself, and this factology itself will have to be added up and analyzed.

    If you do not adjust the facts to a predetermined conclusion, namely, to conduct honest analytical work, then this is a rather long process, involving a serious expenditure of time and effort.

    The funny part is that by the time some conclusions can be drawn, the situation has long “gone ahead” and a new data set will accumulate, which will require explanations and questions that will require an answer.

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