“The current conflict between Europe and America is not reducible towards contrasting approaches towards Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” —Frank Furedi on Substack
Excellent analysis and, it must be said that the following is worthy of the best satirical statement of the year award. "Their war-drums are teaspoons beating on so many quiches."
Yes, good analysis but missing a huge chunk of European analysis - Canada.
Canada is having a big identity crisis, and Greenland the same as both think that Old World politics will take care of them and protect them from the invading tendrils of Russo-
Chinese influence. Hint - hint, as JHK has stated here, Europe cannot take care of itself, let alone the New World. I, for one, would like to see a JHK analysis of the Canada-Greenland - Mexico - USA situation with NAU.
I have had a wonderful debate with Phil on the comments section and he has made me aware of how deep the national fervor is in Canada right now against the USA “taking over”. I see the geo-political need for union in North America against the ever accelerating attempts by BRICS+ and a new group CRINK (Russia, China, India, North Korea) to divide North America and start their take over. IMHO, Phil is not realizing, in his fervor, how close the takeover is. Just look to the West Coast, USA and Canada.
I believe Trump is reacting to this right now, in his normal bombastic way. I believe he is being frustrated by the oblivious reaction of both countries which to him is right now extremely dangerous. However, he does not have the real measure of whether both areas do not care whether the fly a USA flag or a BRICS+ flag. Just do not take their socialized medicine away from them.
April will be a month of reaction from all groups in North America. Will Canada and Greenland opt for USA control of their defense or move towards consolidation with Russia and China. To me, the potential contest here is bigger than Ukraine as the global battle settles into our locale, something that has not happened since 1865.
Have you read Absurdistan's piece on the fall of Canada? Yes, it is so bad. I really feel for its citizens. Trudeau was of course a WEF puppet sent in for the Woke Jacobin destruction. What's crazy is that they didn't disarm Canadians! I guess they don't have to? Canadians are too nice? What has been done to their collective psyche?
Justin Trudeau was a WEF puppet. Mark Carney is a serious WEF player. From the frying pan into the fire.
Canadians are not armed like Americans. Not even close. We are sitting ducks as Trump and Carney smash Greenland, Canada and USA into NWO's Region 1 - NAU. Sad but true.
One more, on You Tube, separatist, not USA joiners, channels are springing up all over from Alberta and Saskatchewan about what is going to happen if Carney gets elected and the Liberals continue in Ottawa. Canada has a Red-Blue problem like the USA.
They have a finance issue. Those Western Provinces are paying the bills for the rest of the country.
I also see a port access issue. There was talk of an East-West rail link to the coasts dedicated to movement of natural resources. So far it remains a concept.
Bringing resources down through the US, where there is existing infrastructure and more on the way, seems a viable choice.
It is another ingredient into the pot, raising further issues about long term viability of the provinces as a single country.
On account of NAFTA (1994) then the renegotiated USMCA (2020), Canada built its economy and infrastructure to these prosperous trade deals. For the past 30+ years we've busted our humps harvesting our natural resources and delivering them to you in efforts to appease your insatiable consumption of them. We did all this in exchange for US Fed computer digits that the Rothschilds' underlings are instructed to pull out of their butts.
Then Trump declared his unprovoked trade war (against his own trade agreement) telling us that he plans to destroy our economy to weaken us so much that our nation can and will be annexed by him. Nice guy.
Phil, Trump made it very clear the initial tariffs could be mitigated if Canada did more to stop the illegal immigrants and drugs coming across the northern border what did your government do?
As I recall the original treaty was to specifically give our 'partners' a leg up. They (you) could inflict 3 figure tariffs on our products coming into your country to 'protect' your industries and give you time to build up those industries.
What did you do? You became a mule for China and other countries that were not a part of the treaty. In fact they are countries we were trying to protect you from. You let them ship through your country, slapping a made in Canada label on it and took your cut.
So, now, after the hollowing out of American towns I'm sorry, I have no sympathy for you. You took the path Benjamin Franklin warned against. Those who would chose safety over liberty will soon have neither.
Well, we couldn't do too much because, here in reality, we don't really have illegal immigrants and, according to your own gov't statistics, only 0.2% of your imported fentanyl comes across your northern border. In fact, illegal drugs entering Canada from the USA dwarfs vice versa, hypocrite.
That said, Canada has indeed ramped up billions more of increased border security as per Trump's undiplomatic, trade-war demands. [Ain't it strange how Canada is suddenly supposed to guard YOUR border? I mean, historically countries have always guarded their own borders, eh?]
You were not "giving" us anything with our hard-fought trade agreements. Nice try.
NAFTA (1994) and (Trump-signed) USMCA (2020) were mutually beneficial - as all free trade is. Over 99% (in dollar value) of our trade is free trade (tariff-free) and there very specific trade-dispute resolution protocols and procedures that, obviously, do not include reneging, unprovoked trade wars.
We are not a mule. That's merely a bull shit talking point. 0.2%!
We don't want you to protect us from other nations. Buzz off.
In fact, it is YOUR nation threatening to destroy us to then annex us. We need protection from you - not by you.
What are you talking about? We sell you our oil, gas, electricity, potash, lumber, etc. We harvest and deliver our natural resources for your insatiable consumption in exchange for US Fed bank digits pulled out of your butts. What products are labelled "Made in Canada" but are really not? Dollars to donuts there is some real example of this being true for this new BS talking point but it amounts to ~0.0001% of our cross-border trade and needs to be dealt with law enforcement as opposed to annexation.
Parrot. You are a parrot, you good little sheeple.
WTF? Your capitalists hollowed out your industrial towns so now Canada deserves to be annexed? You have the brain of a 9 year-old boy. Enjoy burning in Hell, bud.
Right, we must exercise OUR sovereignty by living YOUR Founding Fathers' words lest we deserve to be annexed. Good thinking ... and fuck you.
Oh my. I never intended to imply I would welcome annexing Canada.
Steel coming through Canada from China to avoid tariffs on Chinese steel ring a bell?
Yes, you sell us your lumber, oil, dairy. Thank you very much. What price do you pay for having a market to sell to? We charge you how much on lumber, oil and dairy coming in to US? 2%? 3%?
How much do you charge US lumber, and dairy? 300%?
Please take good care of your self.
Stop taking up space in our medical facilities and good luck with shutting down churches and believing the establishment on covid and it's effects.
No. Prior to Trump's unprovoked trade war, it was 0% on lumber, oil, etc. Prior to Trump's unprovoked trade war, I re-iterate, over 99% of the trade between our two nations was free-trade (no tariffs. 0%).
I'm unfamiliar with US complaints of trying to sell lumber to lumberjacks. That's a new one for me. I'll keep my eyes peeled on that bull shit talking point.
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"Ah yes, the “big scary dairy tariffs” that people love to scream about.
Yes, Canada has dairy tariffs. But here’s what they never tell you:
-The U.S. was given a quota under USMCA. American dairy producers already have a guaranteed amount they can sell to Canada without tariffs.
-The U.S. never maxes out its quota. The tariffs have never even been applied because American producers don’t fill the agreed-upon volume.
-Canadians don’t want American dairy. It’s pumped full of growth hormones, and heavily subsidized, so the supply is artificially inflated.
So no, this isn’t some great injustice. The U.S. has access to the Canadian dairy market, it just doesn’t use it."
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"300%" is actually 240% but, even more importantly, has never, ever actually been charged!
You are taught "240%" and your brain-washed American brain turns that into "300%" and are horribly misinformed about it all.
Baaaaa ... baaaaaaa
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Your Wall Street-ran medical facilities are available to anyone with money. You'd think that you'd be happy with the economic activity (flights, taxis, hotel, restaurants, doctor bills, hospital bills) but you've been brain-washed "Canada bad" and anything to do with us is another "reason" to hate us and have no pity when you annex us.
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Yeah, thanks a lot for the lying Covid establishment, youse pricks.
Canada has always had an identity crisis. First the Anglo-French divide ("two solitudes"), with its only real principle being Canada as the not-United States. I think that unsatisfactory negative tone grated on most Canadians, although they weren't the sort to make a big public fuss about it.
And then, the diversity germ struck. Soon it was a case of, "Out of many, none." Dozens of solitudes based on ethnicity. Colonies galore. And -- no surprise -- like the UK, Canada found itself trying to keep the lid on tribal conflicts by the heavy hand of the law along with enforcement of social pressures against dissent.
Why anybody in the US wants to annex Canada is beyond my comprehension. We have enough problems holding our own country together. Why siphon more conflicts and ethnic tensions from north of the border?
Canada has endless amounts of fresh water. Could really benefit the southwest USA.
I think BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan should be annexed into USA. They are already very similar to western states anyway. Eastern Canada is a lost cause.
Ha! Great minds, etc. Look how well the US treats American Samoa & its citizens, and Puerto Rico. It had to give the Philippines back. No doubt Trump will set his sights there next...it was terrible how the US was ripped off when the Philippines went all 'woke'.
Ha! As a young Lou Reed said/sang, "Those were different times."
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We are taught that the British won the War of 1812 (they (not we - it wasn't Canada until 1867) even burnt down your OG White House) ... but I no longer believe any HIS STORY that I was taught. Not any more. [I've no doubt that some percentage is truer than most of it but why sift through shit looking for rubies? Better to look elsewhere, I say.]
To my way of thinking, I find the conspiracy theory where King George III conspired with Freemason George Washington (et al) and arranged for a free republic to thrive under the careful, watchful eye of the City of London the most likely truth of the matter.
And thrive, it did! From 1776 until 1913. The most brilliant republic in the (taught) history of mankind.
TPTB were still stuck at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. TPTB needed the innovation. TPTB needed the technology. TPTB couldn't run their technocracy without serious kick-ass technology.
They took over USA "money" in 1913 - right before The War To End All Wars - with nary a peep (once the honourable detractors were hoodwinked into their icy demise on the Titanic the year before).
TPTB did it all to bring us to this very point in time. Lucifer vs. God.
More than that Vegan. The USA wants control of the Arctic future sea lanes, the Northwest passage. Russia is already building ice breakers and military post on the north side of Siberia to open its seaway. Canada does not have enough hutspah to build out the Passage on this side. The NYC or Europe route to China and Asia is cut down by 5000 miles with the NWP over the Panama Canal. It will be worth the investment. Look at a globe, the NAU needs Greenland and Alaska to protect the gateways.
That does not even include the resources that might be found there.
A race is on between ten countries to develop the Arctic, according to a report on You Tube. The future is there and Trump wants his piece of the pie.
More and more information coming out about some very unhappy folks in western Canada, and that does not include the Chinese influence in BC.
Ha, Eastern Canada cannot decide whether it is French or English.
You're so full of shit. You act like 15% of Alberta or <10% of Saskatchewan being "Separatists" is something new (when I've already told you otherwise). Here, in reality, those puny, fringe numbers have been the same for half of a century.
Eastern Canada speaks what it wants, John. Quebec has unique language laws that work for Quebec. Ontario and the Maritime provinces are vast majority English with tiny French pockets.
It's nothing like the weird Spanish thing you've got all over your country, Mr Lacking Self-aware.
Okay, but Canada has no way to protect itself if the USA tells you to Eff off. I guess that will just be fine with you. Is England going to save your ass? Has it ever? Who has protected you since WW2? Are you going to fend off those Russian subs with your 4 diesel boats, or your impoverished army and defense groups at 1.3% of your GDP? Your defense situation is a joke, you do not deserve your sovereignty.
We do not deserve our sovereignty because we're not a bunch of mindless war-mongers making enemies everywhere so to then need to mortgage your grandchildren's future with their lifetime, birthright debt going to MIC today?
Fuck you! It's not up to you to approve or deny our sovereignty. You know what sovereignty means, right? Un fucking real!
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See, we don't make enemies like you keep doing. Our diplomatic way of handling things suits us just fine but you can't wrap your little warhawk brain on not creating enemies all over God's Green Earth decade in and decade out.
Thanks for your unwelcome concern about our future but it is actually your orange turd that is waging war on us. So buzz off!
What a fucking extortion racket! We aren't worried about Russia or China. It is Trump that is promising to destroy us to then annex us! Not Putin. Not Xi. Trump.
You're so brain-washed that you're the Good Guys that you cannot even see what an imperialistic asshole you really are. Sad but true.
Well Phil remember it's been the CIA moving the MIC all these decades to those endless BS wars.I think the Trump administration is looking as we type to clean the CIA.The world did not get here to this point yesterday and you know that but you have a WEF puppet(s) running your country does that bother you?The NWO how grand.....not.
Justin Trudeau was a WEF puppet. Mark Carney, on the other hand, is a WEF player. [Think Dubya and Kissinger.]
Yes, it is very bothersome that Canadian power is held by WEF scum. Perhaps even more bothersome, however, is the very large consensus that Trump opposes the WEF when, in fact, he furthers its agenda.
The Club of Rome published its NWO Ten Kingdoms (as per the Bible) in Philadelphia in 1942 - before DJT was even born. After no mention of it during his campaign ["Vote for me this one last time. After this, you'll never need to vote again."], Trump made smashing Greenland, Canada and USA into NWO's Region 1 - NAU a top priority.
Do you not find that bothersome?
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People seriously believe that the Club of Rome, WEF et al would take over the world ... if only they could win enough free-and-fair elections!
Here in the real world, the WEF, as one would suspect, has all of their bases covered. Trump is controlled opposition. Trump is Illuminati. Nikola Tesla's notes were given to Trump's MIT uncle for goodness sakes.
The US already has a military base on the north coast of Greenland which is surely all the 'foothold' it needs to achieve its ambitions. Why INSIST on absorbing Canada & Greenland into the corrupt US Body Politic?
John speaks of the "NAU", quite comfortable with Globalism it would seem. So much for his American patriotism. It was always just ideological fanaticism with little heart in it.
The NAU is self defense against China and Russia moving in on the Arctic in Greenland and yes, Canada. I guess you think the USA can just get by on its own and does not need anyone else. You are wrong. Your statement is ridiculous.
Your abhorrent hero, Trump, CLEARLY doesn't believe the USA needs any friends at all., yet he's SO AFRAID of Russia & China, that he's kissing Putin & Xi's shiny asses. You really are clueless, JohnAZ, as is evident in all your contradictory pronouncements.
No, they're other pieces on the Globalist chess board. But your psychology of demented warhawk nationalism shows how the Ten Kingdoms will be used to usher in the ONE.
Okay, Lugh, name another country now that would be a better “policeman” than the USA. How many penny ante countries would you like to mess with us before we react. Warhawk nationalism, nope, policing idiot nations, yes.
NAU? Think EU without the hundred different languages. One of the polls of young people in the more conservative zones in Canada said that making the Canadian dollar equal to the US dollar would be a condition for their support. There is no way that the uSA will “invade” Canada or Greenland, we will be invited to join a coilition.
Lugh, i am noticing that you really do not give a shit what happens to the USA, Canada, or much of anything else. You talk about Warhawk nationalism and then turn around and praise Hitler. As in Bastogne, NUTS to you.
We may need to buy it from you. The south west continues to grow as does the water demand but the rain and snow fall stays the same every year. Phoenix and Las Vegas are huge cities where huge cities should not be located.
You're a typical American. You have no clue what you're talking about but that hardly stops you from talking.
Canada has an identity. Just because it was never on Dan Rather hardly means that it does not exist.
Paul Henderson. The Hip. The Beachcombers. Corner Gas. Trailer Park Boys.
We've made plenty of big public fusses - they were simply ignored by your 6 Media Giants (all owned by Blackrock, State Street et al) that spoon-feed America its news.
The diversity germ! Oh God, no! You mean the one that, in part, came from the USA? Hypocrite much?
We're actually proud of being a "mosaic" as opposed to a "melting pot" - assuming that you care what we think about us while you assess us.
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You seem to have no understanding that Trump/Musk are transitioning us from corporatocracy to technocracy. In the former, your vote kind of mattered a little bit (if only ceremonially in your uniparty DC). In the latter, our near future, what we want will be completely irrelevant. We will own nothing and eat zee bugs in our 20-minute cities.
Trump and Carney are smashing Greenland, Canada and USA into the Club of Rome's long-planned NWO Region 1 - NAU and they're not doing it for us.
@Vegan Shark, Canadians own a lot of high latitude land. On an ever-warming planet high latitude land is where survival will remain possible when agriculture is no longer possible nearer the equator as Peak temperature days above 40C, 104 F destroy enzymes necessary for photosynthesis. Google theses, or better yet read The Limits to Grow And/Or Overshoot by William R. Catton Jr., both available for the price of a cheap meal out.
I've long believed that if the earth does warm up, Russia will become the world's super power. But we who are alive today will be long dead before the mercury rises to destroy agriculture where it currently thrives.
Not so sure Scott, Arizona is already losing arable land to the desert due to drought. When the Great Plains loses the Ogolallah aquifer, it will be the "Great American Desert" it was in the 1800s. That may be in the near future.
Remember the 2015 (enacted 2016) Paris agreement to try to limit global temperature rise from preindustrial levels to 1.5 degrees C by 2050? Well, it was 1.5 C in 2024. The temperature rise and emissions are accelerating: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Actually, those kind of temps aren't found so much at the equator, where they tend to hover in the 30-35C range with high humidity. Rather, extreme heat is at higher tropical or subtropical latitudes. Think the Indian subcontinental plains before the monsoon hits, or the US/Mex southwestern deserts, or the Sahara. And even the warmists say that the effects are more prominent at or near the poles. Hence the allegedly melting ice caps.
You are so wrong and probably purposely so. The solar energy imbalance is the excess solar energy that is trapped primarily in the low latitude tropics and can't escape as infrared radiation due to the continuing and accelerating levels of greenhouse gases. This tropical heat is what is driving the increase in extremely weather like hurricanes and cyclones as the Earth tries to equilibrate. That is why the poor in the tropics, the people that had the least to do with rising emissions are suffering most. It seems that we are paying Mexico to hold the Hispanic climate and economic migrants south of the border and those funds will come from new tariff taxes we are imposing. You are welcome.
Peace2051 is a ai bot or an agent trying to justify the fraud of "climate refugees", that is, more invasion and more money to the NGO human traffickers.
It's not really talking about the climate at all; the issue is never the issue with these demons. Plus, its "science" is fake and gay.
Peace, just a comment. Warming is coming from the tropics yes. It is also coming from the rapidly growing heat islands in the northern hemisphere, cities. Look at a nightime shot of the hemispher and the congestion is impressive. Any way, also remember that the movement north of heat from the equator and the heat islands, is being focused at the north pole. What I mean is that the circumference of the earth at the equator shrinks to nothing at the pole and all that heat becomes concentrated as a consequence. Now look at the southern hemisphere, no land masses of any consequence to generate heat. Also, the South Pole and Antarctica have ocean and atmospheric water and air currents around them to protect them from heat from the north. I saw a you tube projection that said that temperature will go up at the equator 1 degree centigrade at the same time as the Arctic will go up 4 degrees Centigrade. Trump and many other PTB are starting to plan for a warm, iceless Arctic, and IMHO they are right.
Well said JohnAZ. It feels like a civil war forming in the U.S. due to the mass formation psychosis of the trans-gender loony left. (Plus the anti-DOGE, Anti-Tesla car burning).
But now that you mention Canada, Greenland, BRICS and CRINK, I see the problem is much bigger. April 1st is April Fool's Day, but I don't see much fun and frivolity ahead in April.
How about you review some of Mr Kunstler's articles (based on personal experience), about the joys of Capitalist medicine? How can you weigh your options if they refuse to even tell you how much something is going to cost?
Lugh, the enormous hospital costs offset an ugly truth in the USA. The care of indigent folks, folks without insurance or moneu to pay, is guaranteed by EMTALA, a federal Law making ER admission mandatory and care guaranteed until stable. In this case, everyone shares in the costs by paying high costs, or at least the insurance companies do. Medicaid takes care of the everyday medical care. Both are welfare programs, the social safety net, that approximates the social healthcare systems of Europe. They pay taxes to support their Healthcare, the US pays taxes for routine care of the indigent and pay exorbident prices for tertiary care to offset the indigent costs.
One thing is becoming obvious today. The long wait times of social healthcare are coming to the USA due to our healthcare becoming more socialized with Obamacare. More patients, less MDS.
Wrong. Health care is exactly the business that government should be in to ensure that ALL of its citizens get the health care that they need and at no life-destroying costs.
Everyone (ok, 85%) in the Western world prefers their health care to your Wall Street, COVID-jabbing disaster.
I mean: your Wall Street-ran health care gave mRNA death-shot toxic poison to 5-6B people worldwide ... so you've got zero legs to stand on in this comparison.
Hmmm ... poison 3/4 of earth ... long wait times for testing ... which is worse, Ronnie Raygun?
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That reminds me: which, in your opinion, is closer to fascism: temporarily freezing the bank accounts of protesters or shooting them dead?
Who has been shot dead, lately? The scary part about the other statement is that Trudeau was able to do it. Your answer is both, controlling the wealth of people is most definitely fascism.
Leftist aholes all over the world loved the vaxx, man what a wonderful degree of control of the people. The Leftists made the Vaxx mandatory for everywhere under the tutelage of the globalist WHO. It was really helped by the NHSes everywhere.
As I have said, this is the one item I really blame Trump for. He got sucked into the Pence, Fauci and Birx Mob at a weak (campaign and impeachment) time and not knowing any better, blessed the Vaxx effort. The real criminals here were him, Pence etc. plus the “scientists” of the healthcare industrys everywhere not just here in the uSA. They used millions of folks as guinea pigs with a technology that up to then had never worked right.
Who was to blame? Everybody!
Do not bother with Ronnie Raygun, it is not an insult, it is a compliment.
Like always, you can never simply answer my simple question because doing so would expose how outlandish your spewing has been.
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You and your Left/Right paradigm, John. It so traps you into complete incomprehension as to what is really going on.
Trump's WARp SpEED mRNA bioweapon was developed by TPTB and TPTB run both the Left and the Right.
Trump didn't get "sucked into" it, John. What are you talking about? He's regularly bragged about being that evil goop's "father" for goodness sakes!
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Yes, it was indeed a global op and there are indeed guilty people everywhere ... but, make no mistake, this was, primarily, a US op. And, specifically, a Trump op. That evil goop in 5-6B souls worldwide had only one self-proclaimed "father."
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Ronnie Raygun was indeed an apt nickname for your Snoozer-in-Chief.
Get 'er done, all at once, using authorized force- the police, and the military to back them up. If they'll arrest a parent, or a prayer, or a perp, they'll arrest a politico.
Politicals don't have political immunity for actual crimes.
Pedophilia is the backbone of the Beast system; murder, corruption, war crimes, electoral rigging are all are also crimes. Arrest the pedos and traffickers, the lawmakers, agency heads, the judges and the bosses; they are the ringmasters.
The "vote" simps are trying to fight a machine that already controls the rules, so go outside those rules to a competing authority. That's how you conduct a peaceful civil war; all we want are the bad guys gone, not our civilization destroyed.
JohnAZ - CRINK? "Will Canada & Greenland opt for USA control of their defense or move to consolidation with Russia & China"??? What twaddle. Your Trump Devotion Syndrome has turned the remains of your brain to mush.
You state what you think that other people think but state it as fact. And then base your whole spiel on your delusions of others' thoughts! It's a ridiculous way to discuss things.
Given how you are constantly wrong when you announce what I think (as facts), your credibility is shot speculating on others' thoughts. It's time to dump that awful m.o. Seriously.
If I compare my style with your egocentric bullshit, I come out in good shape. You just cannot handle anyone disagreeing with you, can you. Do not bring up all your superior intelligence either, it is all BS. I have many many Likes on my inputs, so I guess I will just keep ambling along. I certainly will not hold up your style as anything to emulate.
There you go again. And you're, of course, wrong yet again. I actually enjoy people disagreeing with me. Consensus is boring while argument is enlightening and, therefore, results in growth.
It might seem like BS to you ... but you don't have to live it, John. Trust me: it's very different when you live it.
Yes, of course, other Americans will Like your "Let's pretend we're noble when, really, we are imperialistic greedy scumbags" comments. They do play to the masses.
Note: Me and my style has NOTHING to do with you constantly wrongly stating what other people think as if fact. Do try to keep up.
Okay, try this, Shut the Eff up with your egocentric nonsense. Is that succinct enough? This is a forum to discuss opinions and ideas. Believe it or not, your BS is just that, your opinion. When Canada comes crying for help. I will remember your words.
Hahaha. When Canada comes crying to Trump for help, please do remember my words. Don't hold your breath.
See, Trump has DECLARED WAR on us while he also regularly issues existential threats against our nation. Trump is not Canada's saviour nor even its benefactor. Trump, with his unprovoked war on us, is our ENEMY. D'uh!
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Also, when Trump/Musk lock you down in your 20-minute city, please do remember my words.
I think you are making it too complicated John. The primary war is between the globalists and the NWO, and once the NWO has gained power, the focus will be on efficiency, production, and trade. That will be the justification for Trump's interest in the likes of Canada, Greenland, Gaza, and the Panama Canal.
Putin says it’s ‘a profound mistake’ to treat Trump’s push for Greenland and its vast deposits of rare minerals as ‘some preposterous talk’
Trump's interest is on what is to become primary interest, protection of the trade seaways. Add to your list, Yemen's Houthis and Iran to protect the Suez canal and the Persian Gulf.
I believe that Trump foresees the dire financial situation that the world and the US are facing, and he is setting America up to deal with it. Trump is being criticized for his management of tariffs, yet a spokesperson explains that the goal is to bring production back to America. So, this creates domestic jobs, and shifts the unemployment problem to other countries. Judge Nap's guests discuss Europe switching from production of domestic products, to products for war, where the utilization will entail war!
It wouldn't surprise me that Trump forms an alliance with Putin to deal with the globalists.
It's a battle for power. Does Trump view China as a "Globalist", or does Trump view anyone that opposes him and his agenda as a Globalist? Is China in bed with the G7 - 1, or is China playing everyone?
I was thinking that a "Globalist" could be defined as a member of the WEF who has subscribed to the 2030 Agenda. But how would BlackRock be a fit?
Somehow it also entails those that obstruct Trump's agenda.
I am also thinking that this battle for power (assuming that the US under Trump is a member of the NWO) can extend all the way to the top of Lugh's pyramid (Jared Kushner connection).
Does Trump consider Bibi a globalist? Where does Miriam Adelson fit in?
A short definition, IMHO, is someone that thinks that any problem can be solved by a world wide committee. The EU is failing right now as their bureaucracy is too slow and too confused by local situations. Countries grew up because of local customs and affiliations. The idea of globalism is insane, thinking that hugely diverse peoples could ever see eye to eye. Globalism started after WW1 with Wilson’s League of Nations which never made it through the Senate. WW2 brought us the UN, which has been fairly useless resolving problems. Local governments need to take care of their own first, Europe is learning that now.
China wants the USA’s position on top of the mountain. Why? Power yes, but they probably feel they can do a better job of running the world. After four years of Biden Mob, they may be right in their eyes.
Bibi a globalist? Nah, total nationalist, Israel first.
And, the there is no longer a big group known as White Nationalists, it is now American nationalists as the minority racists are being revealed for what they are.
"The EU is heading toward failure because it was never designed as a true economic union but rather as a political project driven by bureaucratic elites who have little understanding of free markets or economic cycles. From its inception, the EU has been obsessed with centralizing power in Brussels, stripping individual member states of their sovereignty while imposing unrealistic economic policies that are now leading to its unraveling."
"Europe refused to consolidate its debts, and all it did was move the volatility from the currency markets to the bond markets. They have the worst economic growth thanks to these policies blended with Marxism, making them the most oppressed economy period.
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They start new governments and they never honor the debts of the previous ..."
"By Globalist, let’s just say the broad alliance of the EU, the European Central Bank & friends, the WEF-and-cronies in the global corporatocracy, the US Democratic Party, billionaires such as George Soros and Reid Hoffman, and sundry residual mass-formation world-savors of the crypto-communist-green-bullshit persuasion." ~ JHK
Depends on where you live. There is a definite difference in America. Right now the left wants to chop boys dicks off. No one on the right is pushing that insanity.
Yes, God bless the Russian military. The only thing between the world and the reign of Satan. They are going to have to take Kiev. Hopefully commandos can capture Zelensky before he escapes to Israel.
Zelensky cannot escape to Israel. He converted to Christianity and baptised his children long time ago. People with the history of conversion to the religions other than Judaism are denied Israeli citizenship, even if 100% genetically Jewish (which Zelensky is not).
' Hopefully commandos can capture Zelensky before he escapes to Israel.' or wherever. I don't think they want to destroy Kiev. Capturing the unelected 'leader' with minimal destruction is the best approach.
Both, (looking at ? war crimes and treason); any cash and/or other negotiable assets (bearer instruments) found go back to US taxpayers via US Treasury.
Real property assets might take a bit longer to trace, could involve litigation.
Or, maybe confiscate as reparations. Seems there's a lot of this 'reparation' stuff going around.
The Russians will likely want a piece of the comedian-turned-dictator.
They'll understand the Biden mob is a US issue. They can have the surviving Banderistas.
You Americans are something else! It was you that caused this war. Then it was you that fucked up ending it in the very first months. Then it was you that funded it for over three years. You never once called it a "loan" while you doled it out. And now you demand your money back?!
Biden regime and Obama regime Americans yes but not supported by at least 50% of the country. Feel free to come get Biden and Hillary for a trial take the rest of the Democrats that flew a Ukrainian flag as well.
The most recent phase of the US war against Germany began with Obama's "cash for clunkers" and the bullshit attack on German turbo diesels. With turbo diesels getting 50+ miles per gallon, there was no reason to ever make an electric car. So, Obama's cronies took most used cars off the market and ginned up some bullshit lawsuit about turbo diesel emissions thereby shutting the whole turbo diesel project down. This created a fake market for electric cars that nobody really wanted anyway.
I didn't know that rd3, but it makes sense. I remember the VW boss explaining to Congress that "according to your own government studies", greenhouse gases come from U.S. industrial sources far more than from cars and when you look at the small amount of diesel vehicles on the road and the much smaller amount that are Volkswagons, the actual environmental damage is basically non-existent....that guy was threatened with prison after he said that.
The brown cloud is particulate from diesels. Particulate is dangerous to us in different ways than CO2. Work has been done to try to limit particulate production from diesels but the brown clouds around the country still form. In Phoenix, I can see the smog forming along the highways exclusively, mostly from semis. Particulate is ash from incomplete combustion of diesel fuel. It is actually less dangerous because it eventually falls to earth. The result of complete combustion is CO2 plus H2O. So all the effort to control pollution over the decades pushed us towards complete combustion, to eliminate the visible particulate. Then someone came up with climate change and CO2.
Hmmm, damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
BTW, not only does the particulate from cars invade our systems through our alveoli, but now we have micro-plastic residue joining in.
Your comment is borderline obscene. My alveoli is washed, clean, and of prodigious proportion. I am known far and wide for the size of my alveoli...and I have pics to prove it! People, perhaps such as yourself, with small alveoli, discount the admiration of others for size, and that is a mistake. Pics on request....gaze upon my alveoli and despair!
VW actually undersold the mileage. I think the sticker said 44mpg highway and when I drove like a normal person, I got 52 or 53 mpg. When I drove like a red-blooded American, I still got 47 mpg. They were capable of much more.
Something to consider with diesel, the oil produced by fracking in the USA, Drill-Baby-Drill, is so light that diesel cannot be produced by it. Most sources of heavier grade oil for diesel refinement come from overseas, most notably Venezuela. A definite issue with today’s geo-politics.
Cargo carrier ships use "bunker diesel", that is, used motor oil.
15 supercargo carriers using bunker oil put out more smog than do all automobiles on earth combined.
There are 55 THOUSAND cargo carriers in operation.
Yet the "economics" say it is "cheaper" to ship food grown in America to processors overseas, then ship it back (often adulterated), or to ship overseas products rather than making/growing them locally due to regulation.
Or, to depend on interstate trucking rather than railroad hub systems between towns, as Kunstler and commenter Famine Hedge have advocated.
Or yet again, to invest not only in pipelines for liquids, but pipeline and compression storage for natgas, an immediate 40% reduction in pollution (and easily used for converting coal plants, as noticed here); again, the "economics" say valuable natgas is better burnt off at the stack rather than piped. Investing in simple pipe, for eff's sake, instead of these hypertoxic, overcomplicated Green schemes!
Hmmm maybe it’s just that stopping diesel and fuel cells was part of the green watermelon revolution. Given my experience back into the mid nineties with off grid solar electric, thermal and windmill power systems for off grid and the last five years of my unpacking the features of the global CommuFascist assault It was shocking to me how long it took for me to realize that renewable sourced electricity powering the grid wasn’t just a grift but actually meant to fail. It’s part of the degrowth capitalism plan for collapsing, civilization, creating chaos, reducing population, and securing that ultimate source of wealth: taxation
rd3, and they could make cars without planned obsolescence built in. I still remember talking with a man in the auto industry in 1973. He said that they are perfectly capable of building cars that last for 20 years, but they never will because then they'd saturate the market. Now my last car, a Honda Civic with manual transmission, made it to 20 years--just barely. But it was a great car and gave me almost no grief until quite late in its life. I suppose I should have moved on after about 16 years, what with repairs and such, but that extra four years still gave me time to save a nice down payment for my current car, even with expenses for the old one. Well, it worked for me. How about cars that last ten years in good condition if you bother with upkeep? How much could people save if they had reliable transportation they didn't have to swap out for new every three to five years? The increase in car insurance alone gave me sticker shock!
Toyotas will give you 20 years. Easily. I had a 1993 Toyota Pick up. Drove that thing until 2019 until it threw a rod and cancer was eating away the rear fenders. It wasn't worth repairing so I sadly sold it to an old guy who needed a run around. He fixed it and I still see it out on road in my town. Still running.
I also drove a 2000 Toyota Sienna mini van and sold it last year, 2024, to a young family who needed a family vehicle. Still ran fantastically when I sold it.
My daughter is driving a 2005 Toyota Corolla that I bought in 2008 and it runs like a charm.
I drive a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. Fantastic truck.
I do all the vehicle maintenance on my own. Keep the oil changed and don't drive like a lead footed maniac and a Toyota will easily give you 20 years.
I also have a 1968 Camaro but that one requires a little more TLC to keep running ;)
Great stories, Cankerpuss! Yes, Toyotas are long-lived, too, if you take care of them. I had a Toyota but it was totaled in an accident, alas. My sister drives trucks and loves them. She had a Chevy Stepside from 1992 to 2012, sold it to someone who continued to drive it. She now has a Silverado since 2012 and it's running like a champ.
When I bought my Camaro, after years of saving, the dealership had a 69 Charger on the lot. My Camaro was about $42,000.00. That Charger was listed at $110,000.00. Well out of my price range :)
I always thought the Pontiac's had subtle touches that made them look a little cooler. The front end looked better. The rear quarter panel swept in and narrowed a little more. That being said, I had a Camaro from that era. My father had a Chevelle Super Sport that my mother wrecked when I was a kid.
I grew up driving a 1970 Pontiac Tempest that I sold because I didn't have the money or the space to restore and store it. Kick myself to this day.
Still, that first gen Camaro and the coke bottle design always makes me swoon. The subtle curves, the big grill, the stance. Gorgeous car. Cars today? They all look the same to me. Cars from the 70s, 60s, 50s and before were pieces of art.
@rd3 opened up a can of worms--mostly good, with his comment.
Regarding cars, in terms of durability, the line between durable and junk was broad and blurry until the 1990s. That is because the major automakers had not acquired the requisite experience and skill to design and manufacture components and subsystems that were "just good enough" to last 120k to 160k miles (200k to 250k km). Therefore, believe it or not, they were generally "over-engineered" for their era, in the sense that, with regular maintenance, they could last indefinitely (provided they did not rust out).
Starting in the 1960s/70s, as cars improved, automakers dialed back the routine service and maintenance requirements.
The "peak auto" era was, loosely speaking, mid 1980s to mid 2010s. Cars did become more complex, and harder to service (though they needed less service, when they needed a repair, it was more expensive).
Starting in the 1990s and 2000s, the automakers started selling cars that were meant to last 120k to 200k miles (the actual targets are closely guarded secrets) with minimal service. When a system fails at that point, the economics of keeping the car on the road are not attractive, and often the car is sent to a salvage yard, to provide parts.
Improved technology and manufacturing have led to widespread adoption of features that are inherently inferior, but can now be manufactured to be "good enough". (There are reasons why the straight six was so popular until the 1960s, why V6s use did not become widespread till the 80s, and why there were NO 3-cylinder US cars until the 2020s. Your first guess is your best guess...). The CVT automatic (Continuously Variable Transmission) comes to mind. Or technologies that are more expensive and have drawbacks, but can give better mpg, and can be "short-cutted" to some extent to meet cost targets: turbochargers, 8,9,10 speed automatics, direct fuel injection.
The takeaway is this: the typical 1990-2010 Toyota will go farther with fewer problems than the typical 2025 Toyota. And that applies to pretty much all cars (I pick Toyota because they were, and are, generally considered to be the best-built vehicles).
But it's not as simple as running out and finding a used Toyota, because they are used and OLD.
We are beset by many problems. However, if I was dictator, one easy call would be to roll back US auto regulations to 2000 levels, eliminate CAFE, and raise motor fuel taxes $0.25 a quarter for the next two years, in the hope that this would make building cars like 1990-2010 4-cylinder Camrys, Civics, and Cruzes economically attractive to automakers. Less content, lower operating costs, longer life, less fuel consumption, fewer exhaust emissions, in a society where car is absolutely essential for 95% of the adult public.
I think when only some of the dust settles from the Reckoning we are fast approaching, we'll be looking forward to an actual "Golden Age". Pun intended, as gold and other actual physical assets I think, will be paramount in the aftermath of the fiat currency failure.
Sorry, but no. If you want streets that are nothing but rivers of horse poop and urine, OK. Otherwise give me a good old internal combustion vehicle, although I am fascinated by fuel cells.
I am enthusiastic about "drill baby drill." It's hard to imagine fuel cells becoming the thing any time soon. I recall Toyota saying in the mid 90's there would be a fuel cell RAV 4 in 2000. 25 years on they have a car finally but hydrogen is harder to find than a working Tesla charger in a Blue shithole. Also Trump's admonition that they're great but might explode. LOL!
John, I am a Toyota fan and I talked to my salesman about progress on the hydrogen car. Not much, and aside from a few zealots, not much interest. IMHO, plug in hybrids is where things are going to go. Biased, because I own a RAV4 Prime and spend an average of $20 per month on gas and about $30 on electricity to run it. The biggest problem is in availability.
Yes, why not have a nuclear engine in every car? With a special code to turn it into a bomb. The code is only given to consumers of high moral quality.
I am a Toyota fan as well. There is a fuel cell/hybrid now that looks a lot like an Avalon/Lexus 350. 30 years ago the fuel cells were going to use a thing called a reformer IIRC to allow gasoline, ethanol, etc. to be the fuel which would go through this reformer membrane and separate the electrons etc. The failure to go ahead was because this membrane could not be made reliable enough for long enough to be practical. The on vehicle storage issue with hydrogen was solved a while back but the other issues like generation, distribution and safety remain as hydrogen seems to be the only workable fuel. If those membranes worked and current fuels could be used instead of hydrogen I am pretty sure the fuel cell vehicles would be a big thing today.
Kinder Morgan sets up landfills to capture the methane and bottle it on site. I've seen landfills where they flare off the gas like in the Permian. There is so much natgas in the Permian they do not have enough pipeline capacity to send it all, hence it is flared. Diamondback is partnering with Verde Gas to make high grade gasoline from this excess natgas. Some are using it to generate electricity and converting from diesel engine powered sites to electric motor power. Still others are attempting to attract these electricity hog AI and data centers to site near the fields for the cheap electricity they can generate with the gas they had been flaring
Why, thanks again, John S., my local landfill/recycling center saves $10,000 per month on its power bill that way; they stuck a pipe in the bottom of the old landfill and run it to a generator shack. The owner, 4th generation, showed me when he was walking the yard.
I was on a back road in Midlands, TX; from where I was sitting, I counted 31 flareoff stacks. Each one was millions of pilot lights' worth of gas, all of it just going to waste. We really could be doing all of this so differently.
Diesel electric, todays standard for railroad, proves it.
My dad was a coal tender on the old trains, and yet there is still a place for them too, such as in Nepal and the Himalayas. The one-size-fits-all model of the Greens and the corporates is a bloody crime against nature.
Funny how almost no one is aware trains are electric and the huge diesel engines are the generators.
If anyone is interested in seeing the most amazing recycling/power generating operation I have seen, it is the Olmstead County operation in Rochester, Minnesota. They burn garbage at over 2,000 degrees and generate electricity and provide steam heat to a lot of government buildings. They extended the life of their landfill by 125 years which is significant in that area because it is mostly solid rock a short distance down which is unsuitable for a landfill. Unlike most places they can't just put them anywhere. If anyone is going to the Mayo Clinic and looking for something interesting to do while there, this is worth seeing.
Up and back to Vegas for $50, the first 50 miles is electric. It is wonderful not to have to charge up on trips.
I drive on the electric plug-in for about two months on about a quarter tank of gas, then run the gas out to freshen the tank. That fill-up is usually 30-40 dollars.
Oh yeah, A/C is expensive, we pay on a budget leveling plan at $246 per month. It would be about $400/month in summer without the balancing.
A natural autoclave, ha, that is about right. Summers, you get things done in early morning or at night. Playing golf in January makes up for it tho’.
The electric vehicle industry shut down fuel cell research. I saw many operative fuel cells at a conference I attended in 2001. Then, they all disappeared.
As JHK said long ago, trying to control hydrogen in a relatively dumb car public is a big problem. Boy, you think Pintos blew up when hit from behind? Imagine the Hindenburg every time an accident happens, or the reaction around a leaky “pump” when the local idiot lights up a cigar.
Schrauth is so right on about fuel cells, and they aren't limited to hydrogen. I just wanted to thank him for banging on about them as a wonderful alternative.
Remember that when we can't afford food anymore. Mass famine will stalk the land eventually and sooner than most think possible. At 40 C or 104 F enzymes necessary for photosynthesis start to break down. You do realize we live on an ever-warming planet, don't you? https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
We are now deep into The Long Emergency (Kunstler, 2005). Mr. Trump is the current driver of the fire truck racing through Clusterf*ck Nation with sirens blaring. Sorry, global warming is on the back burner (no pun intended) for the next 4 years. And is NOAA still around?
"At 40 C or 104 F enzymes necessary for photosynthesis start to break down."
I've lived amongst farmers in the boiling hot Southwest all my life. I've been an irrigator, and live next to an irrigation ditch, which I swim in on those boiling hot days amongst our thriving fields. And you're saying the lush, overgrown, verdant jungles of the steaming tropics are "photosynthesis breaking down?"
Shit is very important. The fields must be manured by the beasts of the field. Properly managed, they can stay fruitful for thousands of years as some Hindus and Chinese have done. Those that opted for huge yields via petrochemicals ruined their fields in short order.
First you need to change American attitudes about cars and independence. HOV lanes have become a gigantic failure as government thought they could change the minds of Americans and did not. I would like to see America use a few billion dollars and build MAGLEV trains right down the middle of the Interstate highways. AMTRAK disappears overnight. The biggest problem? Government cannot figure its way out of a wet paper bag. Light rail in bigger cities have pretty much failed as income producers and have become debt producers.
John, Light Rail is a gigantic income producer almost wherever it has been mandated. Please do a deep dive into the management class net worth before and after Light Rail was introduced and I think you will find their net worth increased significantly as did the net worth of all their crony friends who managed to get their fingers in the pie. Many Americans like to look down their nose at the govt officials in Mexico and Africa but if the truth were known the Mexicans are pikers when compared the the sheer number and amount of graft/corruption that goes on in America. Due to Doge spending just a few hours looking at USAID files we learned that American taxpayers were paying for most of the illegals to come to the US as well as the many rent-a-mobs that the Marxists used to show their friends in the media that conservative policies and people are horrible and have to be attacked daily in order to convince Joe lunchpail that the Marxists will keep the evil Rs from pushing grandma off the cliff and will keep the evil Rs from causing irrepeparable harm to our children (at least the ones that they cannot murder via PP).
Ron Neff, here's a light rail investment joke, since I can see California's Highway To Nowhere from near my house (and a best friend used to work on it):
The African and the Asian go to the UN/World Bank class on international development.
A few years later, the Asian calls his friend the African and invites him to visit. The Asian shows off his big, fine house and his brand new luxury cars.
"How did you do this?" the African asks.
Grinning, the Asian says, "see that multilane superhighway over there? 5%, right off the top!"
A few years after that, the African calls and invites the Asian to his house.
The Asian, gaping, can't believe the African's broad mansion and his fleet of limosines.
"How in the hundred hells did you do this?" the Asian demands.
"Look out de window...do you see that highway over there?" chortles the African.
"What highway?" says the mystified Asian.
"That's right!" laughs the African. "100%, right off the top!!"
I'd kinda hate to see it. I've got some 4 million miles on those interstates, and I want to see more. I keep having daily flashbacks; for a few seconds, I'll be somewhere I was once, out of thousands of places. 30 years of coast-to-coast, border-to-border.
Just climb in that big puppy and ride...ride with the wind.
Excellent point about diesel powered transportation. Diesels are far more fuel efficient while producing less co2. Current much-improved diesel technology isn’t widely implemented yet, but would have been if we hadn’t gotten sidetracked by the insane obsession with EVs, which will never become a reality. The solution in some people’s minds is to shoehorn the world’s population into so-called 15-minute cities.
I wish more folks understood this. Modern diesel engines are cleaner than gasoline engines. I live in California. I actually have to have a smog inspection on my 2006 ford 6.0 diesel engine with 20093 k on it. Uses zero oil. No Leaks. I cruise and 85 on the I-5. I can pull most any grade 65 MPH pulling my 32 foot 5th wheel and a flat trailer the 4 tons of hay. I just wish I got 50 mpg.
It's my understanding that diesel engines create a larger, heavier particulate that, rather than stay in the air, eventually settles to the ground. So, even though those big ugly Ram trucks belch out a lot of black soot, most of it doesn't stay in the air. I may be wrong.....
Bullshit. They played by the same rules as every other manufacturer. The puppet masters pulling Obama's strings decided that the US was going electric, so they had to destroy turbo diesels. Who the fuck would buy an electric car when you could buy a turbo diesel with a range of 800 miles and get 50+ mpg.
I owned one. My brother owned one. We both got over 50 mpg.
You're deep-throating Obama-era propaganda. We have to hate Germany and Russia. We have to commit war crimes against Germany and Russia. I wonder why it's Germany and Russia? Do you have any ideas?
Yes. That's what I said. They played by the same rules as everyone else. Most cars go into an emissions mode for emissions testing. Everyone else did it, but Obama's cronies sued VW, because they had to create an artificial market for electric cars that nobody wanted.
"Diesels are dirty as fuck even well-tuned ones."
No, they are not. This isn't grandpappy's Detroit Diesel. Turbo diesels with DEF are cleaner than a gas motor.
I'm talking about German turbo diesel technology with DEF. Not semi trucks or huge pickups with metal nuts swinging off the trailer hitch and an itty bitty guy driving who is the assistant to the assistant deputy fire captain on the local volunteer fire department, blasting tractor rap.
Musk shows WI how the DNC uses Social Security numbers to rig elections--yet we're having a crucial election this Tuesday for a Supreme Court justice who will legislate from the bench. Insanity. It's time to shut this corrupt government down.
Imagine being a young white man in one of these European countries that just wants to be productive and raise a family...
Being bashed for your ancestor's perceived sins (while of course letting anyone brown off the hook for sexually assaulting your sister or girlfriend), being demographically replaced, censored, and experimented on... Then imagine hearing, essentially, "you need to fight for the glory of your country against Russia".
I'm not sure if the women and emasculated men running the West realize how soon it's likely to be before they are chained to the back of a Fiat and dragged down a cobblestone street.
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.
The white race is the true "House of Israel." Hence Satan's aggressive war against that race. Hence the "Great Replacement." If only Christians truly understood this.
Apologies to Cankerpuss, I could've said this much more easily:
The Tribes were majority Aryan, or of Aryan descent, converts who accepted Judean supremacy (just as Scofield America accepts Israeli supremacy.)
Histories written by a Judean government (the south) will have a Judean slant.
The Ten Tribes betrayed by the tribes of Judah and Levi (so they could seize power, and later, be given their own quarter in the capitol) and sold off to Assyria were not Hebrews gone into Europe, no; rather, they were Aryans *returning* to Europe.
What confuses us is the stolen identity element combined with perpetual victimhood; by the storytellers' lights, we stole from them what should be theirs, the favor of the gods and mastery of the world.
And yes, oh yes, Cankerpuss, Whites are the penicillin to the force your people call Satan. That's why the god representing our people is the Greatest Healer, the Lord of Mercy, Jesus, rather than the vengeful storm lord Yahweh.
Even the lineage can be said to be correct; before the Upgrade, Jesus, was the violent boil of the bestial world, Yahweh; and before the god Yahweh, was the power above God, that made this earth and all the gods within it: the forces of Creation.
Admittedly, Alzaebo, I don't understand a lot of what you are saying. However, I do agree that Jesus was white. I also believe that Jews as we call the people in Israel today, are not direct descendants of the House of Judah. Ancient Israel was a white race.
Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you for putting it in a nutshell.
If only the Christians understood what they were reading!
From beginning to end, it is propaganda from a race war chronicled in a different writing style and storytelling style.
The difficulty is one of stolen identity; today we have Aryans imagining themselves to be conquest Habiru, from a book written by Habiru who imagined themselves to be conquest Aryans.
They took our women that their creme-colored children might rise from their slums in our mighty cities; growing ever lighter each generation, they imagined they might not only become us, but come to BE us. This, they cannot do, so they seek to replace us with themselves as masters of the world: the Tikkun Olam, the Perfected World Reborn.
The genetic strategy of the Habiru is different from the Aryan; they keep a stable breeding core while boiling off the outliers; this strategy preserves the traits that makes them noticably apart from other gene pools. By that, I mean the MA0A genetics of aggressive paranoia, of their substantial ruthless fraction being a permanent minority at covert war with everyone, even their own.
It should be obvious I speak of the Morganthaus, Soros's, and Netanyahoos here, not the Kunstlers, just as Whites have their Stalins, Dulles, and Merkels.
And, if only the Christians understood the historical Jesus was White, not Semitic; his Mother Mariamne Herodius was only part-Semitic, but had thick honey hair and green eyes. Jesus himself, a Nazarene descended from Benjamite Aryans (converts who moved south to Judea), had a fully Roman father (Emperor Tiberius) and a partly Semitic mother, a minor princess in Israel.
Pilate and his wife's letters, the Pilates Acta, testify to His golden blonde hair, His white countenance, and His grey-blue eyes. They loved Him, as well. (When Pilate returned to Rome, he was told to kill himself the day he arrived; he had allowed the Emperor's only living heir to be murdered by a baying mob and the corrupt Sanhedrin mobsters.)
It is deeply fine for Whites to follow their god, because Jesus was White.
There is one thing we better understand: these american counties are the “land of unwalled villages”. It is certain that it ain’t Palestine. Daniel’s prophecy nears completion, while the futurists look at imposters.
Daniel 5 is the prophet’s account of the night that Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians. These events also set the pattern for a future event, the fall of Mystery Babylon, as described in Revelation 17 and 18. Since we are now living in the time of this latter-day event, it will be of great help to us if we understand the original pattern that was set in the days of the prophet Daniel.
I am beginning to wonder what kind of miracle, or disaster, or both, has to happen before
(1) people stop wearing those stupid, useless masks (2) vaccinations are severely restricted, if not outlawed entirely (3) Rachel Maddow and her colleagues retire to some distant land without extradition, (4) the Biden family and/or the DNC is exiled or jailed, or (4) the Woke cease to exist.
I'd be satisfied if February would come to an end, even.
Stupidity and ignorance are endemic to humanity. There will always be some who believe the lies and participate in the games. The best you can do is not be one of them.
I wish I could witness a miracle when people stop engaging in self-destructive behavior like using drugs, alcohol and pornography. If everyone stopped using drugs cartels would vanish. Yeah, not going to see that any time soon.
As predicted, the useless masks have attracted a cult following. Reminds me of the "Ellen Jamesians" in "The World According to Garp," who cut out their tongues in sympathy with their adopted cult leader, Ellen James.
So much corruption to clean up and still so much resilience from our leftist media and politicians. The swamp is so deep and murky, with many thousands of creatures crawling out daily. Definitely going to be an interesting month and fight for America coming up 🤔
Trump has done a great job rebranding the legacy media as "Fake News" but more needs to be done to break the trance. He has to engage the FCC and start shutting them down, otherwise the npc's have no chance against the propaganda.
No surprise that 'they' tried to cap Trump a couple times (that we know about, man, he must have a true-blue food taster) already, the man seems hellbent on avoiding the dread WW3. 'Peace Through Strength' gets bandied about but it looks like there ain't no alternative (in the South we celebrate our double-negatives, btw). I like your style of double-ought, double-barrel prose, Kunstler, a real blast of fresh air. Usually terrifying, but bracing.
Love anybody who can and does state the absolute truth with dressing it up. And he has such a way with a turn of phrase! It's what we're all thinking! Popcorn popped and feet up. Let the movie roll!
I don't know. With great respect for Mr. Kuntsler, he has been predicting the collapse of Western Europe for years. It is, of course, collapsing, but in a very slow and undramatic way, as it shifts to becoming dominated, populated, and ruled by Muslims. At the risk of repeating myself, when it come to talk of Germany/France/England staging a military intervention in Ukraine, they are saber-rattling without a saber. As the author of this post pointed out, those countries don't actually have functioning militaries capable of taking on Russia. . .I expect a lot more of the same, big talk as Russia finishes and wins its war in Ukraine.
I guess it all comes down to your definitions of slow and undramatic, but as an American resident of a European capital city, I'd call the change I've seen in the last 10 years pretty darned dramatic. I'll skip the litany of all that's gone to shit here and just say it has somehow managed to become a worst of all possible worlds: authoritarianism for wrongthink with a simultaneous descent into a squalid free-for-all of drugs, homelessness, property crime, violent crime, and on and on.
Do you think the problem might be that the people, around the world, really do not care who runs the show? Seventy years of globalist thinking and the reversal of population opinions about socialism have made BRICS+ and CRINK palatable to the people of Europe. The WW2 and Iron Curtain generations are dying.
Welp invite muzzie pigs to come live in your home, and then carp about the shits all over your floor, but you can’t figure out where it could coming from. They brought it on themselves, letting children, gay children,run their countries. Or ruin.
At the very least NATO needs a reshaping. It is not current and is like an prize fighter overweight and out of shape and broke. Think Jack London’s “A piece of steak”. Russian Federation forces lean and hungry our fighter? Sopping up the gravey with white pieces of wonder bread. The US would do well to pull out of NATO and plum up the draw bridges on the Atlantic and Pacific moats…stick a fork I. Western Europe it is done…
Ukraine was always the Chernobyl of European Nuclear reactor nations. Europe was lost the minute they forgot about history and the Battle of Vienna 1683. The Muslim hoards are the Trojan horses of their defeat. The secrets of the Epstein affairs will probably strain US Israeli relations. Finally I don’t suspect the Supremes will overturn their own apple cart. Yet they have no enforcement power to their laws so I believe their rulings will be ignored.
Hopefully, the Haitian Foster Mom and the Cuck are on a short leash and being unduly threatened about staying in line. Can't Trump just remove Roberts as chief justice and put Alito in there?
The Jews were the tax collectors and bully boys for the Polish Lords and often used physical force against Ukrainian peasants. The Ukies couldn't get at the Polish Lords, but they could and did get at the Joo fools who put themselves in the middle of an ugly conflict between two civilizations. Unfortunately for the Poles and the Jews, the downtrodden peasants won some very powerful friends, the Cossacks, freedom loving men.
Ukies did get at the Polish Lords. Cossaks, who were also Ukies, were as terrible to Poles as they were to Jews. Poles and Jews united to protect themselves.
In the WWII Ukrainians murdered over 100,000 of peaceful Poles, including children and babies, in the Western Ukraine. Murdered them with hammers, spades and such to save on bullets.
Poland is still demanding an apology from Ukraine for these ruthless murders.
I grew up in Ukraine, and Poles were still hated as much as the Jews.
As Professor Huntington opined decades ago, it simply isn't a viable nation as currently constructed. The Western part looks to the West and the Eastern part to Russian and the East. If Putin splits it up, he is simply and at long last doing what needs to be done.
But shed no tears for the Polish imperialists and their Jewish henchmen. They sewed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. Orthodoxy will defend itself, let the West remember this.
Alzaebo: If you are being sarcastic about "autonomous territory", disregard this answer.
Pale was not a territory marked for the Jews. It was a specific territory of small towns and villages where Jews were allowed to live among the local population.
I saw a video of a European listing country by country the make up of natives vs migrants. It was 50-60 percent migrants across the board. I don’t want to be in a military alliance (NATO) with countries filled with people who don’t want to assimilate to Western ideals, people who are from counties we would never consider allies and people who hate America and Americans. Europe has fallen.
It’s funny that the British royal family (and all European royal families) keep churning out social media content of their great works and tiara affairs, when they could easily go the way of the Romanovs. Of course all their content includes smiling photos with Muslims. British royalty once was synonymous with The Church of England. Now the Church of England is mostly dead and seems to support Islam. The British people are godless zombies wondering what happened to their country, bracing to get raped by a Muslim.
Sounds eerily similar to the condition of the Roman armies before the fall of Rome. They could no longer afford to pay legionaires so they had to hire barbarian mercenaries. These barbarian mercenaries had no allegiance to Roman leadership and were more prone to turning on them.
The once great British empire is no more and few Brits there be that give a shit.
A nation is a "body", and like physical bodies, dependent on many factors to stay healthy. Vigilance is the price of health. We sicken and die because we consume the poison that the alien media lords dish us for us. Even one serious error in discrimination and practice can lead to death - and we have made many.
Unfortunately, the Democrats lit an economic hand grenade and threw it into America once it was apparent that they were likely going to lose Congress majorities and the Presidency in 2024. The grenade was an orgy of wasteful government spending and bureaucratic regulatory sabotage of the productive private economy. All of the lawfare against DOGE and sabotaging of repeal of strangulating government regulation that has continued into 2025 is part of the same treasonous Democrat effort to precipitate a hyperinflationary economic depression that will collapse the entire economy and, along with it, the government. Then the Democrat swine and its MSM will blame Trump and the Republicans for it. Then the Democrats will become the Hitler-esque figures who will promise to relieve the suffering if they are just given dictatorial power.
Against this horrific backdrop, the Trump Administration can either do nothing, or it can essentially choose to pursue the very unpleasant, but not socio-economically fatal option of allowing a significant deflationary recession to eliminate the inflationary monster that has been created. The current turmoil and the downward trend in the equity markets is being caused by both uncertainty as to whether or not an economic downturn will be inflationary or deflationary, and by general uncertainty as to the long-term socio-political survival of the U.S. as a functioning free-market Republic. An old economic axiom is that equity markets hate instability and gold loves it. If the SCOTUS would step in and bitch-slap the leftist lawfare judges to the ground, the equity markets would stabilize and likely even increase, and gold markets would likely stabilize or even decline some. But, of course, such an action would finally consign what is left of the "Democrat" Party into the political wilderness and end their treasonous wannabe revolution. The sad fact is that it is the Democrat Party, its leftist judges (including leftist SCOTUS "Justices"), Democrat politicians, and the leftist rabble supporting them WANT a Civil War--it now is their only certain path to regaining power. Weird, how there are nary any conservatives advocating violence beyond defending their own lives and property, but the Democrat Party is full of swine advocating, funding, encouraging, inciting, and participating in violence all across the U.S.
It would take some highly placed people in the Administration who are Austrian economists. Very few of them. But that's what you gotta do. Let the system correct itself.
You have very well described the problem that will destroy the USA. Almost half of the country have no future without the government taking care of them.
Useless eaters.........this is an old term made modern by such ghouls as Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab's techno side kick at WEF. The government worker is the prime example of unproductive useless eaters. .
Do you think it could have something to do with a steadily increasing share of our national wealth concentrated in the hands of the wealthiest 10%, while the combination of costs for housing, insurance, medical care, food, and child day care make it increasingly difficult for the poorest 25% to make ends meet?
The top 10% hold 67% of all household wealth in this country today. That compares to 56% in 1989.
That is the way of the world, unfortunately. If the wealthiest 10% did not do what they do, there would be little for those bottom folks to do. That is a basic lesson of the Rust Belt.
There is a phenomenon at play here that I hate. I saw it first in Newport RI, and have noticed it at ski areas, and tourist areas everywhere. Carmel-by-the Sea is the worst I have seen
Tourist areas are damned expensive for the people that live there as the 10% come in and escalate all the prices for everything, because they can. Resort fever makes things difficult for the rest of us. Californication has driven prices here, in Colorado, Oregon and Washington through the roof.
The top 10% pay most of the taxes, the bottom 50% pay none.
10% of your income right off the top to the Church, Mosque, or Synagogue of your choice. If you refuse to pick one, one will be picked for you by Gort and other such galactic robot policemen.
Anyone who thinks the war in Ukraine will be contained in that country is delusional. It is already clear that Putin cannot achieve his objectives via a limited military operation in the Donbas. He will eventually have to take Kiev and remove the present Ukrainian government, which he is loath to do and which would transform that war into something completely different.
In the meantime, NATO is determined to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. It is likely that Viktor Orban will be assassinated to grease the skids for Ukraine's admission to NATO. At that point, we are looking directly down the muzzle of WWIII. Russia will lose that war, but it will take the entire rest of the western world down with it.
My recommendation? Find a nice, out-of-the-way place to live, preferably in South America. This situation is out of your hands, but your response to it is not.
I don't believe Russia or Putin is evil. I believe they have their own best interests at heart. Russia has not been an aggressor, but has been protecting itself very well (and smartly) from the west. If the west goes down, it is its own fault.
I don't disagree at all. I think the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches are the only real authentic Christians, anymore. That is why they are under attack.
I have been a lover of Russian literature my entire life, thanks to my late dad (who was of Polish descent). And right now I'm reading "Brothers Karamazov" and Dostoyevsky's complex wrangling with all aspects of Christianity is fascinating.
C.S. Lewis gets it right, as a "westerner," but he also was trusting of western Christianity whereas I am not.
So you assume that Putin wants Ukraine as his very own? If that were the case, would he have stood by and watched the us build chemical weapons factories on his border? Would he have watch us do to Ukraine what we did? I’m pretty sure Putin just wants to be left alone, like any good conservative. Think about the patience of that man.
Not what I said at all. In fact, just the opposite. Russia would be happy to annex the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbas republics and secure Crimea and be done with it.
But with continued flow of armaments from Europe and the US into the Ukraine, the west will not allow Russia to succeed in its stated objectives. So Russia has a choice -- abandon the Donbas Republics and Crimea, which would almost certainly result in a genocide of the Russian-speaking population there; or do what it takes to bring the war to a conclusion, which means bringing Ukraine to its knees. That would likely require either reducing Kiev to rubble or engaging in some extremely bloody street fighting. I'm pretty sure NATO will not allow that to happen. Nor will it stop supplying Ukraine with weapons.
So the die is cast now. This conflict is going to end in the deaths of millions if not billions of people. You might want to think about whether you want to be among them.
Russia!Russia!Russia! Seriously, Russia has plenty to deal with on it's own. Maybe it's time to leave 1950's diplomatic talking points where they belong. Russia is not the instigator, Putin finally REACTED.
One, could Russia build a defensive line on the East bank of the Dneiper River and be satisfied with that?
Two, do you honestly believe that Europe (NATO) could ever defeat Russia with boots on the ground, without the USA involvement?
A Russia looks south from Moscow today and sees Ukraine a few hundred miles to the south. If the river is the new boundary, as eastern Ukraine today is chock full of Russians, that person would see Russia to the south.
To the end of his days, Andrew Jackson was infuriated by people who talked derisively about the Battle of New Orleans, fought after the treaty had been signed. He said, Britain did not rise to world dominance by obeying treaties not in its favor. If they weren't defeated, they could have retained control of the Mississippi, quickly building a series of forts on the western side. They that would have been the border of the United States.
The war was an impasse to that point. Washington had been burned. but Baltimore saved itself at Fort McHenry, much to Francis Scott Key's delight. Most of the British sympathisizers had gone north to Canada. Canada had defended itself from zealous Americans. New orleans was necessary to show the British that their war making was obsolete and the US could kick the shit out of them. After NOLA, there were no more attempts to re-take America militarily.
For all I know, Russia would more than satisfied with that. Whether they can actually pull that off is another matter. I'm of the opinion that wherever the boundary is, it will be the position from which constant artillery barrages and drone swarms will be launched from the Ukrainian side.
“They (The New York Times) put it out just now because the jig is up and the paper desperately needs to pretend that they it’s ahead of events to preserve the last shreds of its credibility.”
How can credibility be restored where it never existed? The NYT has been on the wrong side of nearly every major story that occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries.
No matter how much I root for Trump to steamroll all things woke and deep-state-ish, his interventions in the international are all unmitigated disasters.
From the outlandish threats to annex Canada; the erratic threats of sizeable tariffs on Canada and Mexico and pretty much every important trading partner, that risks throwing the US and much of the world into a recession; the gratuitous, idiotic insults to European allies; the insane menace to seize Greenland and the outlandish reasons the sycophants in Trump's inner circle come up with to justify the latest presidential whim; Syria overtaken by Daesh (and Israel and Turkey); the America First peace president bombing Houthis, sending another carrier strike group to the Middle-East, making ominous explicit threats to bomb Iran and basically behaving like Netanyahu's poodle putting America's Army at the disposal of Israel, not to mention the Signal chat fiasco.
I was rooting for him, but now two months into his presidency the wheels are alreay falling off
The ides of March followed by a very unsettling April, JHK. Illuminating narrative. Thank you . The bluster between Trump and Putin is optics. All the world a stage.Putin is correct. He and The Donald have it figured out. The comedian Zelensky must go. He has been illegitimate since the US government put him in place. I hope none of your readers are surprised with the assessment offered by the NYT. UKRAINE is a USA CLUSTERFUCK. Not unlike Vietnam. I was there as a young USMC volunteer.
Excellent analysis and, it must be said that the following is worthy of the best satirical statement of the year award. "Their war-drums are teaspoons beating on so many quiches."
Yes, good analysis but missing a huge chunk of European analysis - Canada.
Canada is having a big identity crisis, and Greenland the same as both think that Old World politics will take care of them and protect them from the invading tendrils of Russo-
Chinese influence. Hint - hint, as JHK has stated here, Europe cannot take care of itself, let alone the New World. I, for one, would like to see a JHK analysis of the Canada-Greenland - Mexico - USA situation with NAU.
I have had a wonderful debate with Phil on the comments section and he has made me aware of how deep the national fervor is in Canada right now against the USA “taking over”. I see the geo-political need for union in North America against the ever accelerating attempts by BRICS+ and a new group CRINK (Russia, China, India, North Korea) to divide North America and start their take over. IMHO, Phil is not realizing, in his fervor, how close the takeover is. Just look to the West Coast, USA and Canada.
I believe Trump is reacting to this right now, in his normal bombastic way. I believe he is being frustrated by the oblivious reaction of both countries which to him is right now extremely dangerous. However, he does not have the real measure of whether both areas do not care whether the fly a USA flag or a BRICS+ flag. Just do not take their socialized medicine away from them.
April will be a month of reaction from all groups in North America. Will Canada and Greenland opt for USA control of their defense or move towards consolidation with Russia and China. To me, the potential contest here is bigger than Ukraine as the global battle settles into our locale, something that has not happened since 1865.
Have you read Absurdistan's piece on the fall of Canada? Yes, it is so bad. I really feel for its citizens. Trudeau was of course a WEF puppet sent in for the Woke Jacobin destruction. What's crazy is that they didn't disarm Canadians! I guess they don't have to? Canadians are too nice? What has been done to their collective psyche?
Justin Trudeau was a WEF puppet. Mark Carney is a serious WEF player. From the frying pan into the fire.
Canadians are not armed like Americans. Not even close. We are sitting ducks as Trump and Carney smash Greenland, Canada and USA into NWO's Region 1 - NAU. Sad but true.
Horrible.
One more, on You Tube, separatist, not USA joiners, channels are springing up all over from Alberta and Saskatchewan about what is going to happen if Carney gets elected and the Liberals continue in Ottawa. Canada has a Red-Blue problem like the USA.
They have a finance issue. Those Western Provinces are paying the bills for the rest of the country.
I also see a port access issue. There was talk of an East-West rail link to the coasts dedicated to movement of natural resources. So far it remains a concept.
Bringing resources down through the US, where there is existing infrastructure and more on the way, seems a viable choice.
It is another ingredient into the pot, raising further issues about long term viability of the provinces as a single country.
On account of NAFTA (1994) then the renegotiated USMCA (2020), Canada built its economy and infrastructure to these prosperous trade deals. For the past 30+ years we've busted our humps harvesting our natural resources and delivering them to you in efforts to appease your insatiable consumption of them. We did all this in exchange for US Fed computer digits that the Rothschilds' underlings are instructed to pull out of their butts.
Then Trump declared his unprovoked trade war (against his own trade agreement) telling us that he plans to destroy our economy to weaken us so much that our nation can and will be annexed by him. Nice guy.
Typical Canadian: Sorry.
Phil, Trump made it very clear the initial tariffs could be mitigated if Canada did more to stop the illegal immigrants and drugs coming across the northern border what did your government do?
As I recall the original treaty was to specifically give our 'partners' a leg up. They (you) could inflict 3 figure tariffs on our products coming into your country to 'protect' your industries and give you time to build up those industries.
What did you do? You became a mule for China and other countries that were not a part of the treaty. In fact they are countries we were trying to protect you from. You let them ship through your country, slapping a made in Canada label on it and took your cut.
So, now, after the hollowing out of American towns I'm sorry, I have no sympathy for you. You took the path Benjamin Franklin warned against. Those who would chose safety over liberty will soon have neither.
Well, we couldn't do too much because, here in reality, we don't really have illegal immigrants and, according to your own gov't statistics, only 0.2% of your imported fentanyl comes across your northern border. In fact, illegal drugs entering Canada from the USA dwarfs vice versa, hypocrite.
That said, Canada has indeed ramped up billions more of increased border security as per Trump's undiplomatic, trade-war demands. [Ain't it strange how Canada is suddenly supposed to guard YOUR border? I mean, historically countries have always guarded their own borders, eh?]
You were not "giving" us anything with our hard-fought trade agreements. Nice try.
NAFTA (1994) and (Trump-signed) USMCA (2020) were mutually beneficial - as all free trade is. Over 99% (in dollar value) of our trade is free trade (tariff-free) and there very specific trade-dispute resolution protocols and procedures that, obviously, do not include reneging, unprovoked trade wars.
We are not a mule. That's merely a bull shit talking point. 0.2%!
We don't want you to protect us from other nations. Buzz off.
In fact, it is YOUR nation threatening to destroy us to then annex us. We need protection from you - not by you.
What are you talking about? We sell you our oil, gas, electricity, potash, lumber, etc. We harvest and deliver our natural resources for your insatiable consumption in exchange for US Fed bank digits pulled out of your butts. What products are labelled "Made in Canada" but are really not? Dollars to donuts there is some real example of this being true for this new BS talking point but it amounts to ~0.0001% of our cross-border trade and needs to be dealt with law enforcement as opposed to annexation.
Parrot. You are a parrot, you good little sheeple.
WTF? Your capitalists hollowed out your industrial towns so now Canada deserves to be annexed? You have the brain of a 9 year-old boy. Enjoy burning in Hell, bud.
Right, we must exercise OUR sovereignty by living YOUR Founding Fathers' words lest we deserve to be annexed. Good thinking ... and fuck you.
Oh my. I never intended to imply I would welcome annexing Canada.
Steel coming through Canada from China to avoid tariffs on Chinese steel ring a bell?
Yes, you sell us your lumber, oil, dairy. Thank you very much. What price do you pay for having a market to sell to? We charge you how much on lumber, oil and dairy coming in to US? 2%? 3%?
How much do you charge US lumber, and dairy? 300%?
Please take good care of your self.
Stop taking up space in our medical facilities and good luck with shutting down churches and believing the establishment on covid and it's effects.
I'm sure it will all be fine.
No. Prior to Trump's unprovoked trade war, it was 0% on lumber, oil, etc. Prior to Trump's unprovoked trade war, I re-iterate, over 99% of the trade between our two nations was free-trade (no tariffs. 0%).
I'm unfamiliar with US complaints of trying to sell lumber to lumberjacks. That's a new one for me. I'll keep my eyes peeled on that bull shit talking point.
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"Ah yes, the “big scary dairy tariffs” that people love to scream about.
Yes, Canada has dairy tariffs. But here’s what they never tell you:
-The U.S. was given a quota under USMCA. American dairy producers already have a guaranteed amount they can sell to Canada without tariffs.
-The U.S. never maxes out its quota. The tariffs have never even been applied because American producers don’t fill the agreed-upon volume.
-Canadians don’t want American dairy. It’s pumped full of growth hormones, and heavily subsidized, so the supply is artificially inflated.
So no, this isn’t some great injustice. The U.S. has access to the Canadian dairy market, it just doesn’t use it."
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"300%" is actually 240% but, even more importantly, has never, ever actually been charged!
You are taught "240%" and your brain-washed American brain turns that into "300%" and are horribly misinformed about it all.
Baaaaa ... baaaaaaa
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Your Wall Street-ran medical facilities are available to anyone with money. You'd think that you'd be happy with the economic activity (flights, taxis, hotel, restaurants, doctor bills, hospital bills) but you've been brain-washed "Canada bad" and anything to do with us is another "reason" to hate us and have no pity when you annex us.
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Yeah, thanks a lot for the lying Covid establishment, youse pricks.
Nicely put, Phil. Living above a continent-sized Meth Lab, run by Trump and his band of insane oligarchs is a dangerous situation, huh...
"Canada is having a big identity crisis ... "
Canada has always had an identity crisis. First the Anglo-French divide ("two solitudes"), with its only real principle being Canada as the not-United States. I think that unsatisfactory negative tone grated on most Canadians, although they weren't the sort to make a big public fuss about it.
And then, the diversity germ struck. Soon it was a case of, "Out of many, none." Dozens of solitudes based on ethnicity. Colonies galore. And -- no surprise -- like the UK, Canada found itself trying to keep the lid on tribal conflicts by the heavy hand of the law along with enforcement of social pressures against dissent.
Why anybody in the US wants to annex Canada is beyond my comprehension. We have enough problems holding our own country together. Why siphon more conflicts and ethnic tensions from north of the border?
Canada has endless amounts of fresh water. Could really benefit the southwest USA.
I think BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan should be annexed into USA. They are already very similar to western states anyway. Eastern Canada is a lost cause.
Just saying...
Does it matter that 85% of Alberta does not want to be annexed by you or that 90%+ of Saskatchewan feels the same?
Well sure it matters.
Nope, see above.
Imperialist!
You are going to conquer your old friend? Enjoy burning in Hell, you imperialistic scumbag.
Now that got a laugh!
Ha! Great minds, etc. Look how well the US treats American Samoa & its citizens, and Puerto Rico. It had to give the Philippines back. No doubt Trump will set his sights there next...it was terrible how the US was ripped off when the Philippines went all 'woke'.
We tried to conquer you before and got stomped. How can you live with yourselves?
Ha! As a young Lou Reed said/sang, "Those were different times."
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We are taught that the British won the War of 1812 (they (not we - it wasn't Canada until 1867) even burnt down your OG White House) ... but I no longer believe any HIS STORY that I was taught. Not any more. [I've no doubt that some percentage is truer than most of it but why sift through shit looking for rubies? Better to look elsewhere, I say.]
To my way of thinking, I find the conspiracy theory where King George III conspired with Freemason George Washington (et al) and arranged for a free republic to thrive under the careful, watchful eye of the City of London the most likely truth of the matter.
And thrive, it did! From 1776 until 1913. The most brilliant republic in the (taught) history of mankind.
TPTB were still stuck at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. TPTB needed the innovation. TPTB needed the technology. TPTB couldn't run their technocracy without serious kick-ass technology.
They took over USA "money" in 1913 - right before The War To End All Wars - with nary a peep (once the honourable detractors were hoodwinked into their icy demise on the Titanic the year before).
TPTB did it all to bring us to this very point in time. Lucifer vs. God.
Shit is getting real!
Thanks. That makes sense.
More than that Vegan. The USA wants control of the Arctic future sea lanes, the Northwest passage. Russia is already building ice breakers and military post on the north side of Siberia to open its seaway. Canada does not have enough hutspah to build out the Passage on this side. The NYC or Europe route to China and Asia is cut down by 5000 miles with the NWP over the Panama Canal. It will be worth the investment. Look at a globe, the NAU needs Greenland and Alaska to protect the gateways.
That does not even include the resources that might be found there.
A race is on between ten countries to develop the Arctic, according to a report on You Tube. The future is there and Trump wants his piece of the pie.
More and more information coming out about some very unhappy folks in western Canada, and that does not include the Chinese influence in BC.
Ha, Eastern Canada cannot decide whether it is French or English.
You're so full of shit. You act like 15% of Alberta or <10% of Saskatchewan being "Separatists" is something new (when I've already told you otherwise). Here, in reality, those puny, fringe numbers have been the same for half of a century.
Eastern Canada speaks what it wants, John. Quebec has unique language laws that work for Quebec. Ontario and the Maritime provinces are vast majority English with tiny French pockets.
It's nothing like the weird Spanish thing you've got all over your country, Mr Lacking Self-aware.
Okay, but Canada has no way to protect itself if the USA tells you to Eff off. I guess that will just be fine with you. Is England going to save your ass? Has it ever? Who has protected you since WW2? Are you going to fend off those Russian subs with your 4 diesel boats, or your impoverished army and defense groups at 1.3% of your GDP? Your defense situation is a joke, you do not deserve your sovereignty.
We do not deserve our sovereignty because we're not a bunch of mindless war-mongers making enemies everywhere so to then need to mortgage your grandchildren's future with their lifetime, birthright debt going to MIC today?
Fuck you! It's not up to you to approve or deny our sovereignty. You know what sovereignty means, right? Un fucking real!
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See, we don't make enemies like you keep doing. Our diplomatic way of handling things suits us just fine but you can't wrap your little warhawk brain on not creating enemies all over God's Green Earth decade in and decade out.
Thanks for your unwelcome concern about our future but it is actually your orange turd that is waging war on us. So buzz off!
What a fucking extortion racket! We aren't worried about Russia or China. It is Trump that is promising to destroy us to then annex us! Not Putin. Not Xi. Trump.
You're so brain-washed that you're the Good Guys that you cannot even see what an imperialistic asshole you really are. Sad but true.
Astute character analysis there.
Well Phil remember it's been the CIA moving the MIC all these decades to those endless BS wars.I think the Trump administration is looking as we type to clean the CIA.The world did not get here to this point yesterday and you know that but you have a WEF puppet(s) running your country does that bother you?The NWO how grand.....not.
Justin Trudeau was a WEF puppet. Mark Carney, on the other hand, is a WEF player. [Think Dubya and Kissinger.]
Yes, it is very bothersome that Canadian power is held by WEF scum. Perhaps even more bothersome, however, is the very large consensus that Trump opposes the WEF when, in fact, he furthers its agenda.
The Club of Rome published its NWO Ten Kingdoms (as per the Bible) in Philadelphia in 1942 - before DJT was even born. After no mention of it during his campaign ["Vote for me this one last time. After this, you'll never need to vote again."], Trump made smashing Greenland, Canada and USA into NWO's Region 1 - NAU a top priority.
Do you not find that bothersome?
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People seriously believe that the Club of Rome, WEF et al would take over the world ... if only they could win enough free-and-fair elections!
Here in the real world, the WEF, as one would suspect, has all of their bases covered. Trump is controlled opposition. Trump is Illuminati. Nikola Tesla's notes were given to Trump's MIT uncle for goodness sakes.
Trump 2.0 is mandated to:
- Bankrupt the US$ ("Liberation Day")
- Create NAU
- Transition from corporatocracy to technocracy
Sad but true.
The US already has a military base on the north coast of Greenland which is surely all the 'foothold' it needs to achieve its ambitions. Why INSIST on absorbing Canada & Greenland into the corrupt US Body Politic?
John speaks of the "NAU", quite comfortable with Globalism it would seem. So much for his American patriotism. It was always just ideological fanaticism with little heart in it.
The NAU is self defense against China and Russia moving in on the Arctic in Greenland and yes, Canada. I guess you think the USA can just get by on its own and does not need anyone else. You are wrong. Your statement is ridiculous.
Your abhorrent hero, Trump, CLEARLY doesn't believe the USA needs any friends at all., yet he's SO AFRAID of Russia & China, that he's kissing Putin & Xi's shiny asses. You really are clueless, JohnAZ, as is evident in all your contradictory pronouncements.
No, they're other pieces on the Globalist chess board. But your psychology of demented warhawk nationalism shows how the Ten Kingdoms will be used to usher in the ONE.
Okay, Lugh, name another country now that would be a better “policeman” than the USA. How many penny ante countries would you like to mess with us before we react. Warhawk nationalism, nope, policing idiot nations, yes.
NAU? Think EU without the hundred different languages. One of the polls of young people in the more conservative zones in Canada said that making the Canadian dollar equal to the US dollar would be a condition for their support. There is no way that the uSA will “invade” Canada or Greenland, we will be invited to join a coilition.
Lugh, i am noticing that you really do not give a shit what happens to the USA, Canada, or much of anything else. You talk about Warhawk nationalism and then turn around and praise Hitler. As in Bastogne, NUTS to you.
That's our fresh water. Ours. Not yours.
We'll sell it to you, if you like.
We may need to buy it from you. The south west continues to grow as does the water demand but the rain and snow fall stays the same every year. Phoenix and Las Vegas are huge cities where huge cities should not be located.
You're a typical American. You have no clue what you're talking about but that hardly stops you from talking.
Canada has an identity. Just because it was never on Dan Rather hardly means that it does not exist.
Paul Henderson. The Hip. The Beachcombers. Corner Gas. Trailer Park Boys.
We've made plenty of big public fusses - they were simply ignored by your 6 Media Giants (all owned by Blackrock, State Street et al) that spoon-feed America its news.
The diversity germ! Oh God, no! You mean the one that, in part, came from the USA? Hypocrite much?
We're actually proud of being a "mosaic" as opposed to a "melting pot" - assuming that you care what we think about us while you assess us.
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You seem to have no understanding that Trump/Musk are transitioning us from corporatocracy to technocracy. In the former, your vote kind of mattered a little bit (if only ceremonially in your uniparty DC). In the latter, our near future, what we want will be completely irrelevant. We will own nothing and eat zee bugs in our 20-minute cities.
Trump and Carney are smashing Greenland, Canada and USA into the Club of Rome's long-planned NWO Region 1 - NAU and they're not doing it for us.
@Vegan Shark, Canadians own a lot of high latitude land. On an ever-warming planet high latitude land is where survival will remain possible when agriculture is no longer possible nearer the equator as Peak temperature days above 40C, 104 F destroy enzymes necessary for photosynthesis. Google theses, or better yet read The Limits to Grow And/Or Overshoot by William R. Catton Jr., both available for the price of a cheap meal out.
I've long believed that if the earth does warm up, Russia will become the world's super power. But we who are alive today will be long dead before the mercury rises to destroy agriculture where it currently thrives.
Not so sure Scott, Arizona is already losing arable land to the desert due to drought. When the Great Plains loses the Ogolallah aquifer, it will be the "Great American Desert" it was in the 1800s. That may be in the near future.
Remember the 2015 (enacted 2016) Paris agreement to try to limit global temperature rise from preindustrial levels to 1.5 degrees C by 2050? Well, it was 1.5 C in 2024. The temperature rise and emissions are accelerating: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
Chemtrails.
Actually, those kind of temps aren't found so much at the equator, where they tend to hover in the 30-35C range with high humidity. Rather, extreme heat is at higher tropical or subtropical latitudes. Think the Indian subcontinental plains before the monsoon hits, or the US/Mex southwestern deserts, or the Sahara. And even the warmists say that the effects are more prominent at or near the poles. Hence the allegedly melting ice caps.
You are so wrong and probably purposely so. The solar energy imbalance is the excess solar energy that is trapped primarily in the low latitude tropics and can't escape as infrared radiation due to the continuing and accelerating levels of greenhouse gases. This tropical heat is what is driving the increase in extremely weather like hurricanes and cyclones as the Earth tries to equilibrate. That is why the poor in the tropics, the people that had the least to do with rising emissions are suffering most. It seems that we are paying Mexico to hold the Hispanic climate and economic migrants south of the border and those funds will come from new tariff taxes we are imposing. You are welcome.
Peace2051 is a ai bot or an agent trying to justify the fraud of "climate refugees", that is, more invasion and more money to the NGO human traffickers.
It's not really talking about the climate at all; the issue is never the issue with these demons. Plus, its "science" is fake and gay.
Well I don't buy the whole Gorebull Warning scare anyway, so we'll just have to agree to disagree,
Peace, just a comment. Warming is coming from the tropics yes. It is also coming from the rapidly growing heat islands in the northern hemisphere, cities. Look at a nightime shot of the hemispher and the congestion is impressive. Any way, also remember that the movement north of heat from the equator and the heat islands, is being focused at the north pole. What I mean is that the circumference of the earth at the equator shrinks to nothing at the pole and all that heat becomes concentrated as a consequence. Now look at the southern hemisphere, no land masses of any consequence to generate heat. Also, the South Pole and Antarctica have ocean and atmospheric water and air currents around them to protect them from heat from the north. I saw a you tube projection that said that temperature will go up at the equator 1 degree centigrade at the same time as the Arctic will go up 4 degrees Centigrade. Trump and many other PTB are starting to plan for a warm, iceless Arctic, and IMHO they are right.
"Trump (...) are starting to plan for a warm, iceless Arctic, and IMHO they are right."
That'd be a first - Trump PLANNING something with a longer range view than where his next cheeseburger is being delivered.
But Canada is not Trump's, John.
Yet!
Burn in Hell, conqueror. May guerrilla warfare be the bane of your existence.
Well said JohnAZ. It feels like a civil war forming in the U.S. due to the mass formation psychosis of the trans-gender loony left. (Plus the anti-DOGE, Anti-Tesla car burning).
But now that you mention Canada, Greenland, BRICS and CRINK, I see the problem is much bigger. April 1st is April Fool's Day, but I don't see much fun and frivolity ahead in April.
It is a similar set of issues with slightly different aspects depending on location on the planet. Certainly these are interesting times.
How about you review some of Mr Kunstler's articles (based on personal experience), about the joys of Capitalist medicine? How can you weigh your options if they refuse to even tell you how much something is going to cost?
Lugh, the enormous hospital costs offset an ugly truth in the USA. The care of indigent folks, folks without insurance or moneu to pay, is guaranteed by EMTALA, a federal Law making ER admission mandatory and care guaranteed until stable. In this case, everyone shares in the costs by paying high costs, or at least the insurance companies do. Medicaid takes care of the everyday medical care. Both are welfare programs, the social safety net, that approximates the social healthcare systems of Europe. They pay taxes to support their Healthcare, the US pays taxes for routine care of the indigent and pay exorbident prices for tertiary care to offset the indigent costs.
One thing is becoming obvious today. The long wait times of social healthcare are coming to the USA due to our healthcare becoming more socialized with Obamacare. More patients, less MDS.
And a glut of Baby Boomers who've gone from flower children to demented. A health care demographic nightmare.
You are right, in Canada instead of increasing insurance rates, you get tax increases. We all get it in the end, so to speak.
Right. You prefer Wall Street running your health care for profit while we prefer government to run our health care.
Ain't sovereignty wonderful?
Problem is, government cannot even run itself, let alone health-care.
Reagan:
The most dangerous words in the English language:
“ We are from the government and are here to help you.”
Wrong. Health care is exactly the business that government should be in to ensure that ALL of its citizens get the health care that they need and at no life-destroying costs.
Everyone (ok, 85%) in the Western world prefers their health care to your Wall Street, COVID-jabbing disaster.
I mean: your Wall Street-ran health care gave mRNA death-shot toxic poison to 5-6B people worldwide ... so you've got zero legs to stand on in this comparison.
Hmmm ... poison 3/4 of earth ... long wait times for testing ... which is worse, Ronnie Raygun?
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That reminds me: which, in your opinion, is closer to fascism: temporarily freezing the bank accounts of protesters or shooting them dead?
Who has been shot dead, lately? The scary part about the other statement is that Trudeau was able to do it. Your answer is both, controlling the wealth of people is most definitely fascism.
Leftist aholes all over the world loved the vaxx, man what a wonderful degree of control of the people. The Leftists made the Vaxx mandatory for everywhere under the tutelage of the globalist WHO. It was really helped by the NHSes everywhere.
As I have said, this is the one item I really blame Trump for. He got sucked into the Pence, Fauci and Birx Mob at a weak (campaign and impeachment) time and not knowing any better, blessed the Vaxx effort. The real criminals here were him, Pence etc. plus the “scientists” of the healthcare industrys everywhere not just here in the uSA. They used millions of folks as guinea pigs with a technology that up to then had never worked right.
Who was to blame? Everybody!
Do not bother with Ronnie Raygun, it is not an insult, it is a compliment.
Like always, you can never simply answer my simple question because doing so would expose how outlandish your spewing has been.
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You and your Left/Right paradigm, John. It so traps you into complete incomprehension as to what is really going on.
Trump's WARp SpEED mRNA bioweapon was developed by TPTB and TPTB run both the Left and the Right.
Trump didn't get "sucked into" it, John. What are you talking about? He's regularly bragged about being that evil goop's "father" for goodness sakes!
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Yes, it was indeed a global op and there are indeed guilty people everywhere ... but, make no mistake, this was, primarily, a US op. And, specifically, a Trump op. That evil goop in 5-6B souls worldwide had only one self-proclaimed "father."
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Ronnie Raygun was indeed an apt nickname for your Snoozer-in-Chief.
Great thoughts, John.
You were right last week, Anselmo.
Arrest them out, instead of "voting" them out.
Get 'er done, all at once, using authorized force- the police, and the military to back them up. If they'll arrest a parent, or a prayer, or a perp, they'll arrest a politico.
Politicals don't have political immunity for actual crimes.
Pedophilia is the backbone of the Beast system; murder, corruption, war crimes, electoral rigging are all are also crimes. Arrest the pedos and traffickers, the lawmakers, agency heads, the judges and the bosses; they are the ringmasters.
The "vote" simps are trying to fight a machine that already controls the rules, so go outside those rules to a competing authority. That's how you conduct a peaceful civil war; all we want are the bad guys gone, not our civilization destroyed.
Thanks, Alzaebo. One convert at a time, that's all I can do. Well, that's not exactly so.
With my two sons, 21 and 20, sometimes I knock their heads together, so in that case, It's two at a time.
JohnAZ - CRINK? "Will Canada & Greenland opt for USA control of their defense or move to consolidation with Russia & China"??? What twaddle. Your Trump Devotion Syndrome has turned the remains of your brain to mush.
John likes to announce what and how other people think.
John likes to announce what he thinks others think. Also, recognizing people who obviously do not think, but think they do.
You state what you think that other people think but state it as fact. And then base your whole spiel on your delusions of others' thoughts! It's a ridiculous way to discuss things.
Given how you are constantly wrong when you announce what I think (as facts), your credibility is shot speculating on others' thoughts. It's time to dump that awful m.o. Seriously.
If I compare my style with your egocentric bullshit, I come out in good shape. You just cannot handle anyone disagreeing with you, can you. Do not bring up all your superior intelligence either, it is all BS. I have many many Likes on my inputs, so I guess I will just keep ambling along. I certainly will not hold up your style as anything to emulate.
There you go again. And you're, of course, wrong yet again. I actually enjoy people disagreeing with me. Consensus is boring while argument is enlightening and, therefore, results in growth.
It might seem like BS to you ... but you don't have to live it, John. Trust me: it's very different when you live it.
Yes, of course, other Americans will Like your "Let's pretend we're noble when, really, we are imperialistic greedy scumbags" comments. They do play to the masses.
Note: Me and my style has NOTHING to do with you constantly wrongly stating what other people think as if fact. Do try to keep up.
Okay, try this, Shut the Eff up with your egocentric nonsense. Is that succinct enough? This is a forum to discuss opinions and ideas. Believe it or not, your BS is just that, your opinion. When Canada comes crying for help. I will remember your words.
Hahaha. When Canada comes crying to Trump for help, please do remember my words. Don't hold your breath.
See, Trump has DECLARED WAR on us while he also regularly issues existential threats against our nation. Trump is not Canada's saviour nor even its benefactor. Trump, with his unprovoked war on us, is our ENEMY. D'uh!
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Also, when Trump/Musk lock you down in your 20-minute city, please do remember my words.
I think you are making it too complicated John. The primary war is between the globalists and the NWO, and once the NWO has gained power, the focus will be on efficiency, production, and trade. That will be the justification for Trump's interest in the likes of Canada, Greenland, Gaza, and the Panama Canal.
Putin says it’s ‘a profound mistake’ to treat Trump’s push for Greenland and its vast deposits of rare minerals as ‘some preposterous talk’
BYPaolo Confino March 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM PDT
https://fortune.com/2025/03/28/putin-trump-russia-greenland-arctic-trade/
Trump's interest is on what is to become primary interest, protection of the trade seaways. Add to your list, Yemen's Houthis and Iran to protect the Suez canal and the Persian Gulf.
Trump's primary interest is MAGA.
I believe that Trump foresees the dire financial situation that the world and the US are facing, and he is setting America up to deal with it. Trump is being criticized for his management of tariffs, yet a spokesperson explains that the goal is to bring production back to America. So, this creates domestic jobs, and shifts the unemployment problem to other countries. Judge Nap's guests discuss Europe switching from production of domestic products, to products for war, where the utilization will entail war!
It wouldn't surprise me that Trump forms an alliance with Putin to deal with the globalists.
MAGA is actually MIGA or Make Israel Great Again.
The first 15 minutes is quite damning about Trump!
[ MUST WATCH ] 🔥🔥🔥 Prof. JOHN MEARSHEIMER : 'Ukraine Cannot Survive.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj2zbuIBHQg
Modi already claimed it.
Why is China angry about a plan to sell two ports on the Panama Canal?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/why-is-china-angry-about-a-plan-to-sell-two-ports-on-the-panama-canal
It's a battle for power. Does Trump view China as a "Globalist", or does Trump view anyone that opposes him and his agenda as a Globalist? Is China in bed with the G7 - 1, or is China playing everyone?
I was thinking that a "Globalist" could be defined as a member of the WEF who has subscribed to the 2030 Agenda. But how would BlackRock be a fit?
Somehow it also entails those that obstruct Trump's agenda.
I am also thinking that this battle for power (assuming that the US under Trump is a member of the NWO) can extend all the way to the top of Lugh's pyramid (Jared Kushner connection).
Does Trump consider Bibi a globalist? Where does Miriam Adelson fit in?
A short definition, IMHO, is someone that thinks that any problem can be solved by a world wide committee. The EU is failing right now as their bureaucracy is too slow and too confused by local situations. Countries grew up because of local customs and affiliations. The idea of globalism is insane, thinking that hugely diverse peoples could ever see eye to eye. Globalism started after WW1 with Wilson’s League of Nations which never made it through the Senate. WW2 brought us the UN, which has been fairly useless resolving problems. Local governments need to take care of their own first, Europe is learning that now.
China wants the USA’s position on top of the mountain. Why? Power yes, but they probably feel they can do a better job of running the world. After four years of Biden Mob, they may be right in their eyes.
Bibi a globalist? Nah, total nationalist, Israel first.
And, the there is no longer a big group known as White Nationalists, it is now American nationalists as the minority racists are being revealed for what they are.
Re: "The EU is failing right now as their bureaucracy is too slow and too confused by local situations."
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Hungary Overpowered – EU to Send $22B to Ukraine
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/hungary-overpowered-eu-to-send-22b-to-ukraine/
"The EU is heading toward failure because it was never designed as a true economic union but rather as a political project driven by bureaucratic elites who have little understanding of free markets or economic cycles. From its inception, the EU has been obsessed with centralizing power in Brussels, stripping individual member states of their sovereignty while imposing unrealistic economic policies that are now leading to its unraveling."
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Why Europe Wants War
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/why-europe-wants-war/
"Europe refused to consolidate its debts, and all it did was move the volatility from the currency markets to the bond markets. They have the worst economic growth thanks to these policies blended with Marxism, making them the most oppressed economy period.
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They start new governments and they never honor the debts of the previous ..."
Schwab Steps Down
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/schwab-steps-down/
Basically, Armstrong's definition of who the Globalists are.
"By Globalist, let’s just say the broad alliance of the EU, the European Central Bank & friends, the WEF-and-cronies in the global corporatocracy, the US Democratic Party, billionaires such as George Soros and Reid Hoffman, and sundry residual mass-formation world-savors of the crypto-communist-green-bullshit persuasion." ~ JHK
IS NWO LEFT OR RIGHT OR?
In this instance, it is sense vs nonsense, or sane vs insane.
Depends on who wins
Makes no difference. The whole left-right thing is a con.
Depends on where you live. There is a definite difference in America. Right now the left wants to chop boys dicks off. No one on the right is pushing that insanity.
You beat me to it. Great minds...and similar senses of humor...
Yeah, I liked that one. Along with "US-Russia peace talks were largely diplomatic showbiz" which we expected.
Yes, God bless the Russian military. The only thing between the world and the reign of Satan. They are going to have to take Kiev. Hopefully commandos can capture Zelensky before he escapes to Israel.
Zelensky cannot escape to Israel. He converted to Christianity and baptised his children long time ago. People with the history of conversion to the religions other than Judaism are denied Israeli citizenship, even if 100% genetically Jewish (which Zelensky is not).
George Washington was an American who said not to get involved in intrigues beyond our shores. These war-mongers are not Americans.
' Hopefully commandos can capture Zelensky before he escapes to Israel.' or wherever. I don't think they want to destroy Kiev. Capturing the unelected 'leader' with minimal destruction is the best approach.
Maybe, should Zelensky pay, or his master. Biden's Mob.
Both, (looking at ? war crimes and treason); any cash and/or other negotiable assets (bearer instruments) found go back to US taxpayers via US Treasury.
Real property assets might take a bit longer to trace, could involve litigation.
Or, maybe confiscate as reparations. Seems there's a lot of this 'reparation' stuff going around.
The Russians will likely want a piece of the comedian-turned-dictator.
They'll understand the Biden mob is a US issue. They can have the surviving Banderistas.
You Americans are something else! It was you that caused this war. Then it was you that fucked up ending it in the very first months. Then it was you that funded it for over three years. You never once called it a "loan" while you doled it out. And now you demand your money back?!
Have you no shame?
Biden regime and Obama regime Americans yes but not supported by at least 50% of the country. Feel free to come get Biden and Hillary for a trial take the rest of the Democrats that flew a Ukrainian flag as well.
Exactly! That's why the world is fucked. The USA is fucked. Our world leader flips between Jekyll & Hyde every 4 or 8 years.
No argument other than there is that nasty disposition being exposed.
We grow beards to hide our blushing, while shaving our heads. Go figger…
😂
Yeah that was a real zinger.
Yes indeed! 🤣🤣🤣
The most recent phase of the US war against Germany began with Obama's "cash for clunkers" and the bullshit attack on German turbo diesels. With turbo diesels getting 50+ miles per gallon, there was no reason to ever make an electric car. So, Obama's cronies took most used cars off the market and ginned up some bullshit lawsuit about turbo diesel emissions thereby shutting the whole turbo diesel project down. This created a fake market for electric cars that nobody really wanted anyway.
I didn't know that rd3, but it makes sense. I remember the VW boss explaining to Congress that "according to your own government studies", greenhouse gases come from U.S. industrial sources far more than from cars and when you look at the small amount of diesel vehicles on the road and the much smaller amount that are Volkswagons, the actual environmental damage is basically non-existent....that guy was threatened with prison after he said that.
The turbo diesels took DEF and were cleaner than a gas motor. I drove 100 mph on the highway and still got 47 mpg.
The brown cloud is particulate from diesels. Particulate is dangerous to us in different ways than CO2. Work has been done to try to limit particulate production from diesels but the brown clouds around the country still form. In Phoenix, I can see the smog forming along the highways exclusively, mostly from semis. Particulate is ash from incomplete combustion of diesel fuel. It is actually less dangerous because it eventually falls to earth. The result of complete combustion is CO2 plus H2O. So all the effort to control pollution over the decades pushed us towards complete combustion, to eliminate the visible particulate. Then someone came up with climate change and CO2.
Hmmm, damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
BTW, not only does the particulate from cars invade our systems through our alveoli, but now we have micro-plastic residue joining in.
Semi trucks. Not turbo diesels with DEF.
"through our alveoli"
John,
Your comment is borderline obscene. My alveoli is washed, clean, and of prodigious proportion. I am known far and wide for the size of my alveoli...and I have pics to prove it! People, perhaps such as yourself, with small alveoli, discount the admiration of others for size, and that is a mistake. Pics on request....gaze upon my alveoli and despair!
Well, just remember to keep your alveoli in a safe place.
HA!
Wow! Our school bus driver showed us his little notebook where he recorded mileage/fill-ups/MPGs .... 50 mpg on a VW diesel rabbit in 1979.
VW actually undersold the mileage. I think the sticker said 44mpg highway and when I drove like a normal person, I got 52 or 53 mpg. When I drove like a red-blooded American, I still got 47 mpg. They were capable of much more.
Something to consider with diesel, the oil produced by fracking in the USA, Drill-Baby-Drill, is so light that diesel cannot be produced by it. Most sources of heavier grade oil for diesel refinement come from overseas, most notably Venezuela. A definite issue with today’s geo-politics.
Cargo carrier ships use "bunker diesel", that is, used motor oil.
15 supercargo carriers using bunker oil put out more smog than do all automobiles on earth combined.
There are 55 THOUSAND cargo carriers in operation.
Yet the "economics" say it is "cheaper" to ship food grown in America to processors overseas, then ship it back (often adulterated), or to ship overseas products rather than making/growing them locally due to regulation.
Or, to depend on interstate trucking rather than railroad hub systems between towns, as Kunstler and commenter Famine Hedge have advocated.
Or yet again, to invest not only in pipelines for liquids, but pipeline and compression storage for natgas, an immediate 40% reduction in pollution (and easily used for converting coal plants, as noticed here); again, the "economics" say valuable natgas is better burnt off at the stack rather than piped. Investing in simple pipe, for eff's sake, instead of these hypertoxic, overcomplicated Green schemes!
Good post. I think that the AGW folks get involved in all of this.
Hmmm maybe it’s just that stopping diesel and fuel cells was part of the green watermelon revolution. Given my experience back into the mid nineties with off grid solar electric, thermal and windmill power systems for off grid and the last five years of my unpacking the features of the global CommuFascist assault It was shocking to me how long it took for me to realize that renewable sourced electricity powering the grid wasn’t just a grift but actually meant to fail. It’s part of the degrowth capitalism plan for collapsing, civilization, creating chaos, reducing population, and securing that ultimate source of wealth: taxation
rd3, and they could make cars without planned obsolescence built in. I still remember talking with a man in the auto industry in 1973. He said that they are perfectly capable of building cars that last for 20 years, but they never will because then they'd saturate the market. Now my last car, a Honda Civic with manual transmission, made it to 20 years--just barely. But it was a great car and gave me almost no grief until quite late in its life. I suppose I should have moved on after about 16 years, what with repairs and such, but that extra four years still gave me time to save a nice down payment for my current car, even with expenses for the old one. Well, it worked for me. How about cars that last ten years in good condition if you bother with upkeep? How much could people save if they had reliable transportation they didn't have to swap out for new every three to five years? The increase in car insurance alone gave me sticker shock!
Toyotas will give you 20 years. Easily. I had a 1993 Toyota Pick up. Drove that thing until 2019 until it threw a rod and cancer was eating away the rear fenders. It wasn't worth repairing so I sadly sold it to an old guy who needed a run around. He fixed it and I still see it out on road in my town. Still running.
I also drove a 2000 Toyota Sienna mini van and sold it last year, 2024, to a young family who needed a family vehicle. Still ran fantastically when I sold it.
My daughter is driving a 2005 Toyota Corolla that I bought in 2008 and it runs like a charm.
I drive a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. Fantastic truck.
I do all the vehicle maintenance on my own. Keep the oil changed and don't drive like a lead footed maniac and a Toyota will easily give you 20 years.
I also have a 1968 Camaro but that one requires a little more TLC to keep running ;)
Great stories, Cankerpuss! Yes, Toyotas are long-lived, too, if you take care of them. I had a Toyota but it was totaled in an accident, alas. My sister drives trucks and loves them. She had a Chevy Stepside from 1992 to 2012, sold it to someone who continued to drive it. She now has a Silverado since 2012 and it's running like a champ.
Chevy makes a good truck to be sure. They also made the sexiest muscle car that ever existed. The Camaro!!!!
I'll see your Camero, and raise you a Mach 1 Cobra Mustang : )
Very nice!!!
The MOPAR cars had the best look, but the engines didn't run right unless you lived in a really dry place.
Nothing wrong with a classic Charger, Cuda or Challenger! They always grab my attention when I see one.
My buddy's dad used to own this car:
https://www.admcars.com/galleria_images/342/342_main_l.jpg
I bet that car is worth $150,000.00 today. Very nice!
We weren't allowed anywhere near it. Haha.
No doubt!
When I bought my Camaro, after years of saving, the dealership had a 69 Charger on the lot. My Camaro was about $42,000.00. That Charger was listed at $110,000.00. Well out of my price range :)
I was always partial to the first generation Firebirds.
Almost identical to a first gen Camaro. Different grill, different tail lights, and some vents over the rear fender but a bad ass car none the less!
I always thought the Pontiac's had subtle touches that made them look a little cooler. The front end looked better. The rear quarter panel swept in and narrowed a little more. That being said, I had a Camaro from that era. My father had a Chevelle Super Sport that my mother wrecked when I was a kid.
I grew up driving a 1970 Pontiac Tempest that I sold because I didn't have the money or the space to restore and store it. Kick myself to this day.
Still, that first gen Camaro and the coke bottle design always makes me swoon. The subtle curves, the big grill, the stance. Gorgeous car. Cars today? They all look the same to me. Cars from the 70s, 60s, 50s and before were pieces of art.
Yeah man, the racks on those babes. Who needed girls with grills like that?
Especially now that Pontiac has gone the way of the Dodo bird!
I believe 67 to 69 Firebirds are more rare than a Camaro and thus harder to find and more valuable. So when I see one, I take notice.
The orange and black color scheme just looked mean.
@rd3 opened up a can of worms--mostly good, with his comment.
Regarding cars, in terms of durability, the line between durable and junk was broad and blurry until the 1990s. That is because the major automakers had not acquired the requisite experience and skill to design and manufacture components and subsystems that were "just good enough" to last 120k to 160k miles (200k to 250k km). Therefore, believe it or not, they were generally "over-engineered" for their era, in the sense that, with regular maintenance, they could last indefinitely (provided they did not rust out).
Starting in the 1960s/70s, as cars improved, automakers dialed back the routine service and maintenance requirements.
The "peak auto" era was, loosely speaking, mid 1980s to mid 2010s. Cars did become more complex, and harder to service (though they needed less service, when they needed a repair, it was more expensive).
Starting in the 1990s and 2000s, the automakers started selling cars that were meant to last 120k to 200k miles (the actual targets are closely guarded secrets) with minimal service. When a system fails at that point, the economics of keeping the car on the road are not attractive, and often the car is sent to a salvage yard, to provide parts.
Improved technology and manufacturing have led to widespread adoption of features that are inherently inferior, but can now be manufactured to be "good enough". (There are reasons why the straight six was so popular until the 1960s, why V6s use did not become widespread till the 80s, and why there were NO 3-cylinder US cars until the 2020s. Your first guess is your best guess...). The CVT automatic (Continuously Variable Transmission) comes to mind. Or technologies that are more expensive and have drawbacks, but can give better mpg, and can be "short-cutted" to some extent to meet cost targets: turbochargers, 8,9,10 speed automatics, direct fuel injection.
The takeaway is this: the typical 1990-2010 Toyota will go farther with fewer problems than the typical 2025 Toyota. And that applies to pretty much all cars (I pick Toyota because they were, and are, generally considered to be the best-built vehicles).
But it's not as simple as running out and finding a used Toyota, because they are used and OLD.
We are beset by many problems. However, if I was dictator, one easy call would be to roll back US auto regulations to 2000 levels, eliminate CAFE, and raise motor fuel taxes $0.25 a quarter for the next two years, in the hope that this would make building cars like 1990-2010 4-cylinder Camrys, Civics, and Cruzes economically attractive to automakers. Less content, lower operating costs, longer life, less fuel consumption, fewer exhaust emissions, in a society where car is absolutely essential for 95% of the adult public.
Wish a Ford and a Chevy would still last ten years like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now? Are the good times really over for good?
No. They aren't.
That was Merle's conclusion, too.
I think when only some of the dust settles from the Reckoning we are fast approaching, we'll be looking forward to an actual "Golden Age". Pun intended, as gold and other actual physical assets I think, will be paramount in the aftermath of the fiat currency failure.
rd3, better days are yet to come. We just have to work through the problems we are facing.
We just have to make it through December…. RIP Merle
Almost time to resurrect the horse and buggy. EROEI will rule in the end.
Sorry, but no. If you want streets that are nothing but rivers of horse poop and urine, OK. Otherwise give me a good old internal combustion vehicle, although I am fascinated by fuel cells.
Democrats could be the street cleaners.
Yes, Kathy! Excellent idea, they can start in San Francisco. Pelosi and Newsom can start a trade school there.
Or, they could quite literally "be" the street. Cinders and such.
They don't seem to mind gluing themselves to pavement, so...
I dunno if fuel cells will save humankind, John. In the meantime, drill baby, drill!
I am enthusiastic about "drill baby drill." It's hard to imagine fuel cells becoming the thing any time soon. I recall Toyota saying in the mid 90's there would be a fuel cell RAV 4 in 2000. 25 years on they have a car finally but hydrogen is harder to find than a working Tesla charger in a Blue shithole. Also Trump's admonition that they're great but might explode. LOL!
John, I am a Toyota fan and I talked to my salesman about progress on the hydrogen car. Not much, and aside from a few zealots, not much interest. IMHO, plug in hybrids is where things are going to go. Biased, because I own a RAV4 Prime and spend an average of $20 per month on gas and about $30 on electricity to run it. The biggest problem is in availability.
Actually we will be fueling our cars with water one day. Hydrogen derived from water. No reason it won’t be accomplished.
100% recycling cycle with hydrogen.
Heavy water!
Yes, why not have a nuclear engine in every car? With a special code to turn it into a bomb. The code is only given to consumers of high moral quality.
I am a Toyota fan as well. There is a fuel cell/hybrid now that looks a lot like an Avalon/Lexus 350. 30 years ago the fuel cells were going to use a thing called a reformer IIRC to allow gasoline, ethanol, etc. to be the fuel which would go through this reformer membrane and separate the electrons etc. The failure to go ahead was because this membrane could not be made reliable enough for long enough to be practical. The on vehicle storage issue with hydrogen was solved a while back but the other issues like generation, distribution and safety remain as hydrogen seems to be the only workable fuel. If those membranes worked and current fuels could be used instead of hydrogen I am pretty sure the fuel cell vehicles would be a big thing today.
What about methane? It's used in fuel cells too, isn't it?
Then we could blow up the undersea clathrates and the tundra, lol
or invest in garbage dumps and manure piles /s
Kinder Morgan sets up landfills to capture the methane and bottle it on site. I've seen landfills where they flare off the gas like in the Permian. There is so much natgas in the Permian they do not have enough pipeline capacity to send it all, hence it is flared. Diamondback is partnering with Verde Gas to make high grade gasoline from this excess natgas. Some are using it to generate electricity and converting from diesel engine powered sites to electric motor power. Still others are attempting to attract these electricity hog AI and data centers to site near the fields for the cheap electricity they can generate with the gas they had been flaring
Why, thanks again, John S., my local landfill/recycling center saves $10,000 per month on its power bill that way; they stuck a pipe in the bottom of the old landfill and run it to a generator shack. The owner, 4th generation, showed me when he was walking the yard.
I was on a back road in Midlands, TX; from where I was sitting, I counted 31 flareoff stacks. Each one was millions of pilot lights' worth of gas, all of it just going to waste. We really could be doing all of this so differently.
Diesel electric, todays standard for railroad, proves it.
My dad was a coal tender on the old trains, and yet there is still a place for them too, such as in Nepal and the Himalayas. The one-size-fits-all model of the Greens and the corporates is a bloody crime against nature.
Funny how almost no one is aware trains are electric and the huge diesel engines are the generators.
If anyone is interested in seeing the most amazing recycling/power generating operation I have seen, it is the Olmstead County operation in Rochester, Minnesota. They burn garbage at over 2,000 degrees and generate electricity and provide steam heat to a lot of government buildings. They extended the life of their landfill by 125 years which is significant in that area because it is mostly solid rock a short distance down which is unsuitable for a landfill. Unlike most places they can't just put them anywhere. If anyone is going to the Mayo Clinic and looking for something interesting to do while there, this is worth seeing.
I drive about 13000 miles a year.
Why?
Errands in wide open Phoenix and an occasional trip to Cali or Las Vegas.
for $20/30?!!
Phoenix traffic is bad enough, but there's the proof in the pudding right there.
Uhh...what about A/C? You live in a natural autoclave.
Up and back to Vegas for $50, the first 50 miles is electric. It is wonderful not to have to charge up on trips.
I drive on the electric plug-in for about two months on about a quarter tank of gas, then run the gas out to freshen the tank. That fill-up is usually 30-40 dollars.
Oh yeah, A/C is expensive, we pay on a budget leveling plan at $246 per month. It would be about $400/month in summer without the balancing.
A natural autoclave, ha, that is about right. Summers, you get things done in early morning or at night. Playing golf in January makes up for it tho’.
The electric vehicle industry shut down fuel cell research. I saw many operative fuel cells at a conference I attended in 2001. Then, they all disappeared.
As JHK said long ago, trying to control hydrogen in a relatively dumb car public is a big problem. Boy, you think Pintos blew up when hit from behind? Imagine the Hindenburg every time an accident happens, or the reaction around a leaky “pump” when the local idiot lights up a cigar.
Gas isn't flammable, right?
Sure it is, but not near as volatile as hydrogen, plus the small size of the hydrogen molecule makes leaks more of a problem.
Fumes
There are multiple ways to store it safely.
Yeah, until the first one blows sky high.
Schrauth is so right on about fuel cells, and they aren't limited to hydrogen. I just wanted to thank him for banging on about them as a wonderful alternative.
Remember that when we can't afford food anymore. Mass famine will stalk the land eventually and sooner than most think possible. At 40 C or 104 F enzymes necessary for photosynthesis start to break down. You do realize we live on an ever-warming planet, don't you? https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
We are now deep into The Long Emergency (Kunstler, 2005). Mr. Trump is the current driver of the fire truck racing through Clusterf*ck Nation with sirens blaring. Sorry, global warming is on the back burner (no pun intended) for the next 4 years. And is NOAA still around?
"At 40 C or 104 F enzymes necessary for photosynthesis start to break down."
I've lived amongst farmers in the boiling hot Southwest all my life. I've been an irrigator, and live next to an irrigation ditch, which I swim in on those boiling hot days amongst our thriving fields. And you're saying the lush, overgrown, verdant jungles of the steaming tropics are "photosynthesis breaking down?"
Shit is very important. The fields must be manured by the beasts of the field. Properly managed, they can stay fruitful for thousands of years as some Hindus and Chinese have done. Those that opted for huge yields via petrochemicals ruined their fields in short order.
How many bushels are you currently getting per city block? I've also heard cement is very hard on plows.
The Earth abides, friend. Every "weed" pushing through cracked cement is a testimony to the goodness of God.
The soil needs that manure to keep the microbiome healthy!
They already are. Sorry dog owners but I don’t stand anywhere near a trash can during the summer.
Horses fart to much methane don't cha know!
Often have wondered if the Amish got it right by stopping at the car
I saw "horsebuggy whips" at a carriage maker's in Conneticut servicing the Amish community, so they didn't get 'em all!
It's way past time to embark on my interstate highway removal project.
First you need to change American attitudes about cars and independence. HOV lanes have become a gigantic failure as government thought they could change the minds of Americans and did not. I would like to see America use a few billion dollars and build MAGLEV trains right down the middle of the Interstate highways. AMTRAK disappears overnight. The biggest problem? Government cannot figure its way out of a wet paper bag. Light rail in bigger cities have pretty much failed as income producers and have become debt producers.
John, Light Rail is a gigantic income producer almost wherever it has been mandated. Please do a deep dive into the management class net worth before and after Light Rail was introduced and I think you will find their net worth increased significantly as did the net worth of all their crony friends who managed to get their fingers in the pie. Many Americans like to look down their nose at the govt officials in Mexico and Africa but if the truth were known the Mexicans are pikers when compared the the sheer number and amount of graft/corruption that goes on in America. Due to Doge spending just a few hours looking at USAID files we learned that American taxpayers were paying for most of the illegals to come to the US as well as the many rent-a-mobs that the Marxists used to show their friends in the media that conservative policies and people are horrible and have to be attacked daily in order to convince Joe lunchpail that the Marxists will keep the evil Rs from pushing grandma off the cliff and will keep the evil Rs from causing irrepeparable harm to our children (at least the ones that they cannot murder via PP).
Ron Neff, here's a light rail investment joke, since I can see California's Highway To Nowhere from near my house (and a best friend used to work on it):
The African and the Asian go to the UN/World Bank class on international development.
A few years later, the Asian calls his friend the African and invites him to visit. The Asian shows off his big, fine house and his brand new luxury cars.
"How did you do this?" the African asks.
Grinning, the Asian says, "see that multilane superhighway over there? 5%, right off the top!"
A few years after that, the African calls and invites the Asian to his house.
The Asian, gaping, can't believe the African's broad mansion and his fleet of limosines.
"How in the hundred hells did you do this?" the Asian demands.
"Look out de window...do you see that highway over there?" chortles the African.
"What highway?" says the mystified Asian.
"That's right!" laughs the African. "100%, right off the top!!"
I'd kinda hate to see it. I've got some 4 million miles on those interstates, and I want to see more. I keep having daily flashbacks; for a few seconds, I'll be somewhere I was once, out of thousands of places. 30 years of coast-to-coast, border-to-border.
Just climb in that big puppy and ride...ride with the wind.
We need to move up;
https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/opener-blackfly-electric-aircraft-1234628552/
I’m waiting on one with twelve rotors.
Excellent point about diesel powered transportation. Diesels are far more fuel efficient while producing less co2. Current much-improved diesel technology isn’t widely implemented yet, but would have been if we hadn’t gotten sidetracked by the insane obsession with EVs, which will never become a reality. The solution in some people’s minds is to shoehorn the world’s population into so-called 15-minute cities.
I wish more folks understood this. Modern diesel engines are cleaner than gasoline engines. I live in California. I actually have to have a smog inspection on my 2006 ford 6.0 diesel engine with 20093 k on it. Uses zero oil. No Leaks. I cruise and 85 on the I-5. I can pull most any grade 65 MPH pulling my 32 foot 5th wheel and a flat trailer the 4 tons of hay. I just wish I got 50 mpg.
Yes. The maroons arguing about it are just plain wrong.
It's my understanding that diesel engines create a larger, heavier particulate that, rather than stay in the air, eventually settles to the ground. So, even though those big ugly Ram trucks belch out a lot of black soot, most of it doesn't stay in the air. I may be wrong.....
@rds3
Volkswagen lied about actual mileage.
With respect all car manufactures do to some degree but VW really lied no where near 50 mpg.
Had surfing buddy who was paid all his money back by VW over this but the catch he had to turn in the five year old car.
He liked the car but took the money back.
This guy has all the luck it has happened to him twice now.
Bullshit. They played by the same rules as every other manufacturer. The puppet masters pulling Obama's strings decided that the US was going electric, so they had to destroy turbo diesels. Who the fuck would buy an electric car when you could buy a turbo diesel with a range of 800 miles and get 50+ mpg.
I owned one. My brother owned one. We both got over 50 mpg.
And in order to achieve that they broke emissions standards by huge margins.
When they tuned them down to make the required emissions standards mileage went WAY down.
I forgot the part about emissions standards.
I still believe Diesel hybrids are the way to go by the way.
You're deep-throating Obama-era propaganda. We have to hate Germany and Russia. We have to commit war crimes against Germany and Russia. I wonder why it's Germany and Russia? Do you have any ideas?
Prove me wrong and deep throating hahaha.
It wasn't just VW by the way.
Diesels are dirty as fuck even well-tuned ones.
With all that said I would love to have one, but they are simply too expensive at this point.
One of them diesel brothers souped up 4x4!
https://sparksmotorsofficial.com/pages/goliathbuildsheet
"It wasn't just VW by the way."
Yes. That's what I said. They played by the same rules as everyone else. Most cars go into an emissions mode for emissions testing. Everyone else did it, but Obama's cronies sued VW, because they had to create an artificial market for electric cars that nobody wanted.
"Diesels are dirty as fuck even well-tuned ones."
No, they are not. This isn't grandpappy's Detroit Diesel. Turbo diesels with DEF are cleaner than a gas motor.
Yeah, I was born but not yesterday.
As if a shot of blue pig piss is going to clean up all that particulate.
You're just wrong. Look into it.
I have I was actively looking at buying a diesel truck for several years.
I'm not wrong they are still dirty even with DEF.
All you need to do is go put your face in front of an exhaust pipe from each or be behind any diesel vehicle and the difference is huge.
Senses don't lie.
I'm talking about German turbo diesel technology with DEF. Not semi trucks or huge pickups with metal nuts swinging off the trailer hitch and an itty bitty guy driving who is the assistant to the assistant deputy fire captain on the local volunteer fire department, blasting tractor rap.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Musk shows WI how the DNC uses Social Security numbers to rig elections--yet we're having a crucial election this Tuesday for a Supreme Court justice who will legislate from the bench. Insanity. It's time to shut this corrupt government down.
Make your R neighbors show up to vote. But "modest virtue" in judges is specifically mentioned in https://constitution.org/2-Authors/jroland/col/one_room_schoolhouse.htm
Download it, print it out, study it, and get it applied somewhere.
Imagine being a young white man in one of these European countries that just wants to be productive and raise a family...
Being bashed for your ancestor's perceived sins (while of course letting anyone brown off the hook for sexually assaulting your sister or girlfriend), being demographically replaced, censored, and experimented on... Then imagine hearing, essentially, "you need to fight for the glory of your country against Russia".
I'm not sure if the women and emasculated men running the West realize how soon it's likely to be before they are chained to the back of a Fiat and dragged down a cobblestone street.
For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.
George Patton
The white race is the true "House of Israel." Hence Satan's aggressive war against that race. Hence the "Great Replacement." If only Christians truly understood this.
Apologies to Cankerpuss, I could've said this much more easily:
The Tribes were majority Aryan, or of Aryan descent, converts who accepted Judean supremacy (just as Scofield America accepts Israeli supremacy.)
Histories written by a Judean government (the south) will have a Judean slant.
The Ten Tribes betrayed by the tribes of Judah and Levi (so they could seize power, and later, be given their own quarter in the capitol) and sold off to Assyria were not Hebrews gone into Europe, no; rather, they were Aryans *returning* to Europe.
What confuses us is the stolen identity element combined with perpetual victimhood; by the storytellers' lights, we stole from them what should be theirs, the favor of the gods and mastery of the world.
And yes, oh yes, Cankerpuss, Whites are the penicillin to the force your people call Satan. That's why the god representing our people is the Greatest Healer, the Lord of Mercy, Jesus, rather than the vengeful storm lord Yahweh.
Even the lineage can be said to be correct; before the Upgrade, Jesus, was the violent boil of the bestial world, Yahweh; and before the god Yahweh, was the power above God, that made this earth and all the gods within it: the forces of Creation.
Admittedly, Alzaebo, I don't understand a lot of what you are saying. However, I do agree that Jesus was white. I also believe that Jews as we call the people in Israel today, are not direct descendants of the House of Judah. Ancient Israel was a white race.
Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you for putting it in a nutshell.
If only the Christians understood what they were reading!
From beginning to end, it is propaganda from a race war chronicled in a different writing style and storytelling style.
The difficulty is one of stolen identity; today we have Aryans imagining themselves to be conquest Habiru, from a book written by Habiru who imagined themselves to be conquest Aryans.
They took our women that their creme-colored children might rise from their slums in our mighty cities; growing ever lighter each generation, they imagined they might not only become us, but come to BE us. This, they cannot do, so they seek to replace us with themselves as masters of the world: the Tikkun Olam, the Perfected World Reborn.
The genetic strategy of the Habiru is different from the Aryan; they keep a stable breeding core while boiling off the outliers; this strategy preserves the traits that makes them noticably apart from other gene pools. By that, I mean the MA0A genetics of aggressive paranoia, of their substantial ruthless fraction being a permanent minority at covert war with everyone, even their own.
It should be obvious I speak of the Morganthaus, Soros's, and Netanyahoos here, not the Kunstlers, just as Whites have their Stalins, Dulles, and Merkels.
And, if only the Christians understood the historical Jesus was White, not Semitic; his Mother Mariamne Herodius was only part-Semitic, but had thick honey hair and green eyes. Jesus himself, a Nazarene descended from Benjamite Aryans (converts who moved south to Judea), had a fully Roman father (Emperor Tiberius) and a partly Semitic mother, a minor princess in Israel.
Pilate and his wife's letters, the Pilates Acta, testify to His golden blonde hair, His white countenance, and His grey-blue eyes. They loved Him, as well. (When Pilate returned to Rome, he was told to kill himself the day he arrived; he had allowed the Emperor's only living heir to be murdered by a baying mob and the corrupt Sanhedrin mobsters.)
It is deeply fine for Whites to follow their god, because Jesus was White.
Whadda crock.
There is one thing we better understand: these american counties are the “land of unwalled villages”. It is certain that it ain’t Palestine. Daniel’s prophecy nears completion, while the futurists look at imposters.
Daniel 5 is the prophet’s account of the night that Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians. These events also set the pattern for a future event, the fall of Mystery Babylon, as described in Revelation 17 and 18. Since we are now living in the time of this latter-day event, it will be of great help to us if we understand the original pattern that was set in the days of the prophet Daniel.
https://godskingdom.org/studies/ffi-newsletter/2014/the-cyrus-prophecy/
I am beginning to wonder what kind of miracle, or disaster, or both, has to happen before
(1) people stop wearing those stupid, useless masks (2) vaccinations are severely restricted, if not outlawed entirely (3) Rachel Maddow and her colleagues retire to some distant land without extradition, (4) the Biden family and/or the DNC is exiled or jailed, or (4) the Woke cease to exist.
I'd be satisfied if February would come to an end, even.
Stupidity and ignorance are endemic to humanity. There will always be some who believe the lies and participate in the games. The best you can do is not be one of them.
I wish I could witness a miracle when people stop engaging in self-destructive behavior like using drugs, alcohol and pornography. If everyone stopped using drugs cartels would vanish. Yeah, not going to see that any time soon.
As predicted, the useless masks have attracted a cult following. Reminds me of the "Ellen Jamesians" in "The World According to Garp," who cut out their tongues in sympathy with their adopted cult leader, Ellen James.
So much corruption to clean up and still so much resilience from our leftist media and politicians. The swamp is so deep and murky, with many thousands of creatures crawling out daily. Definitely going to be an interesting month and fight for America coming up 🤔
Trump has done a great job rebranding the legacy media as "Fake News" but more needs to be done to break the trance. He has to engage the FCC and start shutting them down, otherwise the npc's have no chance against the propaganda.
No surprise that 'they' tried to cap Trump a couple times (that we know about, man, he must have a true-blue food taster) already, the man seems hellbent on avoiding the dread WW3. 'Peace Through Strength' gets bandied about but it looks like there ain't no alternative (in the South we celebrate our double-negatives, btw). I like your style of double-ought, double-barrel prose, Kunstler, a real blast of fresh air. Usually terrifying, but bracing.
Love anybody who can and does state the absolute truth with dressing it up. And he has such a way with a turn of phrase! It's what we're all thinking! Popcorn popped and feet up. Let the movie roll!
Dear JHK: Now do IS RA EL...
I don't know. With great respect for Mr. Kuntsler, he has been predicting the collapse of Western Europe for years. It is, of course, collapsing, but in a very slow and undramatic way, as it shifts to becoming dominated, populated, and ruled by Muslims. At the risk of repeating myself, when it come to talk of Germany/France/England staging a military intervention in Ukraine, they are saber-rattling without a saber. As the author of this post pointed out, those countries don't actually have functioning militaries capable of taking on Russia. . .I expect a lot more of the same, big talk as Russia finishes and wins its war in Ukraine.
I guess it all comes down to your definitions of slow and undramatic, but as an American resident of a European capital city, I'd call the change I've seen in the last 10 years pretty darned dramatic. I'll skip the litany of all that's gone to shit here and just say it has somehow managed to become a worst of all possible worlds: authoritarianism for wrongthink with a simultaneous descent into a squalid free-for-all of drugs, homelessness, property crime, violent crime, and on and on.
Do you think the problem might be that the people, around the world, really do not care who runs the show? Seventy years of globalist thinking and the reversal of population opinions about socialism have made BRICS+ and CRINK palatable to the people of Europe. The WW2 and Iron Curtain generations are dying.
You're on the right track here, Jazzer.
Welp invite muzzie pigs to come live in your home, and then carp about the shits all over your floor, but you can’t figure out where it could coming from. They brought it on themselves, letting children, gay children,run their countries. Or ruin.
There’s a float of US dropping out of NATO. We may see European emperors without clothes - not a good sight.
At the very least NATO needs a reshaping. It is not current and is like an prize fighter overweight and out of shape and broke. Think Jack London’s “A piece of steak”. Russian Federation forces lean and hungry our fighter? Sopping up the gravey with white pieces of wonder bread. The US would do well to pull out of NATO and plum up the draw bridges on the Atlantic and Pacific moats…stick a fork I. Western Europe it is done…
Tiger Tom Dixon?
Trump won't pull the US out of NATO, but he may well reduce our support and involvement in it.
Maybe that chick from Croatia.
https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/457678380868650227/
That Valkyrie is going to pick me up and sling me over HER shoulder
Yes, never forget the beaming, demented Starmer hugging the dour Zelesnky and walking arm in arm with his co-ethnic.
Been hearing about and waiting for the end of the war in Ukraine for a few years now. Hoping something will finally happen to end that nightmare.
Sorta looks like he's correct then, in that it is happening.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-case-for-arming-europe/
Ukraine was always the Chernobyl of European Nuclear reactor nations. Europe was lost the minute they forgot about history and the Battle of Vienna 1683. The Muslim hoards are the Trojan horses of their defeat. The secrets of the Epstein affairs will probably strain US Israeli relations. Finally I don’t suspect the Supremes will overturn their own apple cart. Yet they have no enforcement power to their laws so I believe their rulings will be ignored.
Hopefully, the Haitian Foster Mom and the Cuck are on a short leash and being unduly threatened about staying in line. Can't Trump just remove Roberts as chief justice and put Alito in there?
rd3, to be sure the Haitian Foster Mom and the Cuck = Barret and Roberts?
Uranium One has a reeeealy long shelf life, I've heard.
Ukraine has the lowest IQ in Europe. As a result the Ukrainians are historically extremely antisemitic.
What Hamas did on Oct. 7 Ukrainians did the same and worse for about 200 years.
The Jews were the tax collectors and bully boys for the Polish Lords and often used physical force against Ukrainian peasants. The Ukies couldn't get at the Polish Lords, but they could and did get at the Joo fools who put themselves in the middle of an ugly conflict between two civilizations. Unfortunately for the Poles and the Jews, the downtrodden peasants won some very powerful friends, the Cossacks, freedom loving men.
Ukies did get at the Polish Lords. Cossaks, who were also Ukies, were as terrible to Poles as they were to Jews. Poles and Jews united to protect themselves.
In the WWII Ukrainians murdered over 100,000 of peaceful Poles, including children and babies, in the Western Ukraine. Murdered them with hammers, spades and such to save on bullets.
Poland is still demanding an apology from Ukraine for these ruthless murders.
I grew up in Ukraine, and Poles were still hated as much as the Jews.
As Professor Huntington opined decades ago, it simply isn't a viable nation as currently constructed. The Western part looks to the West and the Eastern part to Russian and the East. If Putin splits it up, he is simply and at long last doing what needs to be done.
But shed no tears for the Polish imperialists and their Jewish henchmen. They sewed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. Orthodoxy will defend itself, let the West remember this.
Worse? You call giving you your own autonomous territory, the Pale, "worse"?
Alzaebo: If you are being sarcastic about "autonomous territory", disregard this answer.
Pale was not a territory marked for the Jews. It was a specific territory of small towns and villages where Jews were allowed to live among the local population.
I saw a video of a European listing country by country the make up of natives vs migrants. It was 50-60 percent migrants across the board. I don’t want to be in a military alliance (NATO) with countries filled with people who don’t want to assimilate to Western ideals, people who are from counties we would never consider allies and people who hate America and Americans. Europe has fallen.
It’s funny that the British royal family (and all European royal families) keep churning out social media content of their great works and tiara affairs, when they could easily go the way of the Romanovs. Of course all their content includes smiling photos with Muslims. British royalty once was synonymous with The Church of England. Now the Church of England is mostly dead and seems to support Islam. The British people are godless zombies wondering what happened to their country, bracing to get raped by a Muslim.
Sounds eerily similar to the condition of the Roman armies before the fall of Rome. They could no longer afford to pay legionaires so they had to hire barbarian mercenaries. These barbarian mercenaries had no allegiance to Roman leadership and were more prone to turning on them.
The once great British empire is no more and few Brits there be that give a shit.
A nation is a "body", and like physical bodies, dependent on many factors to stay healthy. Vigilance is the price of health. We sicken and die because we consume the poison that the alien media lords dish us for us. Even one serious error in discrimination and practice can lead to death - and we have made many.
You're waxing pretty philosophical in your old age, Janos.
Janos will live forever [ olam ] .
Unfortunately, the Democrats lit an economic hand grenade and threw it into America once it was apparent that they were likely going to lose Congress majorities and the Presidency in 2024. The grenade was an orgy of wasteful government spending and bureaucratic regulatory sabotage of the productive private economy. All of the lawfare against DOGE and sabotaging of repeal of strangulating government regulation that has continued into 2025 is part of the same treasonous Democrat effort to precipitate a hyperinflationary economic depression that will collapse the entire economy and, along with it, the government. Then the Democrat swine and its MSM will blame Trump and the Republicans for it. Then the Democrats will become the Hitler-esque figures who will promise to relieve the suffering if they are just given dictatorial power.
Against this horrific backdrop, the Trump Administration can either do nothing, or it can essentially choose to pursue the very unpleasant, but not socio-economically fatal option of allowing a significant deflationary recession to eliminate the inflationary monster that has been created. The current turmoil and the downward trend in the equity markets is being caused by both uncertainty as to whether or not an economic downturn will be inflationary or deflationary, and by general uncertainty as to the long-term socio-political survival of the U.S. as a functioning free-market Republic. An old economic axiom is that equity markets hate instability and gold loves it. If the SCOTUS would step in and bitch-slap the leftist lawfare judges to the ground, the equity markets would stabilize and likely even increase, and gold markets would likely stabilize or even decline some. But, of course, such an action would finally consign what is left of the "Democrat" Party into the political wilderness and end their treasonous wannabe revolution. The sad fact is that it is the Democrat Party, its leftist judges (including leftist SCOTUS "Justices"), Democrat politicians, and the leftist rabble supporting them WANT a Civil War--it now is their only certain path to regaining power. Weird, how there are nary any conservatives advocating violence beyond defending their own lives and property, but the Democrat Party is full of swine advocating, funding, encouraging, inciting, and participating in violence all across the U.S.
It would take some highly placed people in the Administration who are Austrian economists. Very few of them. But that's what you gotta do. Let the system correct itself.
You have very well described the problem that will destroy the USA. Almost half of the country have no future without the government taking care of them.
What to do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex3_brOUdpA
Useless eaters.........this is an old term made modern by such ghouls as Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab's techno side kick at WEF. The government worker is the prime example of unproductive useless eaters. .
"We don't need you but we're nice and will take care of you." Just keep up with your vaccines, useless eater.
Do you think it could have something to do with a steadily increasing share of our national wealth concentrated in the hands of the wealthiest 10%, while the combination of costs for housing, insurance, medical care, food, and child day care make it increasingly difficult for the poorest 25% to make ends meet?
The top 10% hold 67% of all household wealth in this country today. That compares to 56% in 1989.
That is the way of the world, unfortunately. If the wealthiest 10% did not do what they do, there would be little for those bottom folks to do. That is a basic lesson of the Rust Belt.
There is a phenomenon at play here that I hate. I saw it first in Newport RI, and have noticed it at ski areas, and tourist areas everywhere. Carmel-by-the Sea is the worst I have seen
Tourist areas are damned expensive for the people that live there as the 10% come in and escalate all the prices for everything, because they can. Resort fever makes things difficult for the rest of us. Californication has driven prices here, in Colorado, Oregon and Washington through the roof.
The top 10% pay most of the taxes, the bottom 50% pay none.
Wow, what a heroic view of life. Just let things happen. Whatever!
10% of your income right off the top to the Church, Mosque, or Synagogue of your choice. If you refuse to pick one, one will be picked for you by Gort and other such galactic robot policemen.
They're Marxists, and that's what Marxists do.
Anyone who thinks the war in Ukraine will be contained in that country is delusional. It is already clear that Putin cannot achieve his objectives via a limited military operation in the Donbas. He will eventually have to take Kiev and remove the present Ukrainian government, which he is loath to do and which would transform that war into something completely different.
In the meantime, NATO is determined to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. It is likely that Viktor Orban will be assassinated to grease the skids for Ukraine's admission to NATO. At that point, we are looking directly down the muzzle of WWIII. Russia will lose that war, but it will take the entire rest of the western world down with it.
My recommendation? Find a nice, out-of-the-way place to live, preferably in South America. This situation is out of your hands, but your response to it is not.
I don't believe Russia or Putin is evil. I believe they have their own best interests at heart. Russia has not been an aggressor, but has been protecting itself very well (and smartly) from the west. If the west goes down, it is its own fault.
Russia is the last bastion of Christianity.
I don't disagree at all. I think the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches are the only real authentic Christians, anymore. That is why they are under attack.
I have been a lover of Russian literature my entire life, thanks to my late dad (who was of Polish descent). And right now I'm reading "Brothers Karamazov" and Dostoyevsky's complex wrangling with all aspects of Christianity is fascinating.
C.S. Lewis gets it right, as a "westerner," but he also was trusting of western Christianity whereas I am not.
So you assume that Putin wants Ukraine as his very own? If that were the case, would he have stood by and watched the us build chemical weapons factories on his border? Would he have watch us do to Ukraine what we did? I’m pretty sure Putin just wants to be left alone, like any good conservative. Think about the patience of that man.
Putin doesn't want Ukraine. He was satisfied with Crimea, until the West forced him to invade the Donbass.
I agree, how many times can we poke the bear?
Not what I said at all. In fact, just the opposite. Russia would be happy to annex the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbas republics and secure Crimea and be done with it.
But with continued flow of armaments from Europe and the US into the Ukraine, the west will not allow Russia to succeed in its stated objectives. So Russia has a choice -- abandon the Donbas Republics and Crimea, which would almost certainly result in a genocide of the Russian-speaking population there; or do what it takes to bring the war to a conclusion, which means bringing Ukraine to its knees. That would likely require either reducing Kiev to rubble or engaging in some extremely bloody street fighting. I'm pretty sure NATO will not allow that to happen. Nor will it stop supplying Ukraine with weapons.
So the die is cast now. This conflict is going to end in the deaths of millions if not billions of people. You might want to think about whether you want to be among them.
"...continued flow of armaments from Europe and the US into the Ukraine,..."
We're dropping in loads of land mines that look like softballs, that we had in Iraq.
Now, landmines that look like toys, or like patches of grass.
I think the NYT is doing its expose to instigate direct war between NATO/US-EU and Russia, not to mitigate it.
Extremely alarmist. Not gonna happen.
And so how do you see this playing out?
Advice sort of depends...like on one's age. I'm with Roseanna Barr, who succinctly said, "I play to die my way of this thing".
Russia!Russia!Russia! Seriously, Russia has plenty to deal with on it's own. Maybe it's time to leave 1950's diplomatic talking points where they belong. Russia is not the instigator, Putin finally REACTED.
Couple questions.
One, could Russia build a defensive line on the East bank of the Dneiper River and be satisfied with that?
Two, do you honestly believe that Europe (NATO) could ever defeat Russia with boots on the ground, without the USA involvement?
A Russia looks south from Moscow today and sees Ukraine a few hundred miles to the south. If the river is the new boundary, as eastern Ukraine today is chock full of Russians, that person would see Russia to the south.
To the end of his days, Andrew Jackson was infuriated by people who talked derisively about the Battle of New Orleans, fought after the treaty had been signed. He said, Britain did not rise to world dominance by obeying treaties not in its favor. If they weren't defeated, they could have retained control of the Mississippi, quickly building a series of forts on the western side. They that would have been the border of the United States.
The war was an impasse to that point. Washington had been burned. but Baltimore saved itself at Fort McHenry, much to Francis Scott Key's delight. Most of the British sympathisizers had gone north to Canada. Canada had defended itself from zealous Americans. New orleans was necessary to show the British that their war making was obsolete and the US could kick the shit out of them. After NOLA, there were no more attempts to re-take America militarily.
For all I know, Russia would more than satisfied with that. Whether they can actually pull that off is another matter. I'm of the opinion that wherever the boundary is, it will be the position from which constant artillery barrages and drone swarms will be launched from the Ukrainian side.
You are right, Ukraine has been bombarding the Russian separatists in the Donbas since 2014.
It'd make a very fine buffer zone.
“They (The New York Times) put it out just now because the jig is up and the paper desperately needs to pretend that they it’s ahead of events to preserve the last shreds of its credibility.”
How can credibility be restored where it never existed? The NYT has been on the wrong side of nearly every major story that occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Walter Duranty lied to the entire country about Soviet communism in 1922. The New York Times hasn't told the truth since.
Yes, he did. A lot of Americans went to Russia based on his reports. I think only one came back.
Kathy, there are folks who are dependent on the government for sustenance. They will go where the government tit leads.
Add on, the Democrats Party of the USA has lived on this fact for 70 years.
John, unfortunately true. This is right out of the Marxist-Alinsky playbook.
Uncontrolled spending making the populace dependent of the gov't teat.
rd3, so true!! How they get recognized as the “Newspaper of Record” in the publishing world is beyond me unless that term is used with sarcasm.
May you live in interesting times……
No matter how much I root for Trump to steamroll all things woke and deep-state-ish, his interventions in the international are all unmitigated disasters.
From the outlandish threats to annex Canada; the erratic threats of sizeable tariffs on Canada and Mexico and pretty much every important trading partner, that risks throwing the US and much of the world into a recession; the gratuitous, idiotic insults to European allies; the insane menace to seize Greenland and the outlandish reasons the sycophants in Trump's inner circle come up with to justify the latest presidential whim; Syria overtaken by Daesh (and Israel and Turkey); the America First peace president bombing Houthis, sending another carrier strike group to the Middle-East, making ominous explicit threats to bomb Iran and basically behaving like Netanyahu's poodle putting America's Army at the disposal of Israel, not to mention the Signal chat fiasco.
I was rooting for him, but now two months into his presidency the wheels are alreay falling off
Trump is the Lead Clown driving the clown car. This will not end well.
Yep. How many Americans have Houthis killed? Can some one here tell me please? Number and source. Thank you.
The ides of March followed by a very unsettling April, JHK. Illuminating narrative. Thank you . The bluster between Trump and Putin is optics. All the world a stage.Putin is correct. He and The Donald have it figured out. The comedian Zelensky must go. He has been illegitimate since the US government put him in place. I hope none of your readers are surprised with the assessment offered by the NYT. UKRAINE is a USA CLUSTERFUCK. Not unlike Vietnam. I was there as a young USMC volunteer.
A Marines volunteer? Wow! that's the creme de la creme!
Thank you, Breck. I had a job two weeks subsequent to college graduation. USMC Second Lieutenant. Organized and motivated.
I love the Vietnam-era Marines. My guy was also a USMC volunteer in 1968. Glad you made it out of that hellhole, Beach. Semper Fi.