"They never prepared for algorithms that could map everything. For personnel pre-positioned everywhere. For a president who counts every week like it's his last." — VP JD Vance
Every day is like Christmas with Trump in office. The minute I wake up I have to go online to see who he's pissed off now. I love it! Maybe now this country will finally turn around. I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes, but it will sure be nice to maybe someday see a little more in my paycheck.
Might want to read "Art of the Deal." Trump has always made proposals that sound preposterous only to get others to get off their backsides and do what's best for all parties involved. And always at a discounted price.
Exactly. The Gaza takeover seems to be an attempt to get the neighbors involved in community cleanup. The Palestinians managed to turn some of the most attractive Mediterranean real estate into an oozing overpopulated eyesore. No one wants to take them in, probably for very good reasons.
I am going to say something that may be deemed unpopular but I am opposed to Trump doing this in Gaza. I am so tired of the US spending money WE DO NOT HAVE (more debt) in nations across the pond. This has no benefit whatsoever to Americans here! Our Country is collapsing, our infrastructure is crumbling and Trump is talking about rebuilding Gaza? Hey, I respect Mr. Trump. He is a man towering over most men. But I am at whits end when a nation that is $36 trillion in debt is still tinkering with rebuilding some shithole in a foreign nation. How does rebuilding Gaza help me living in the Rocky Mountains of Utah? If he's talking private investment in the rebuilding then kudos to them. But the USA is busted. We have to stop spending so much money.
You're right. WE can not afford it. But a consortium of venture capitalist can. The U.S. will simply be the project manager putting it all together. And taking our little mordida along the way.
Capitalism will destroy everything it touches. Cuba is a communist shit hole, but at least its beaches are still beautiful and aren't ringed with 40 story condo buildings from Florida to Virginia. When I was a kid, my buddy's parents had a house on the beach in Apalachicola. From the deck, you couldn't see another house. I was taking a piss at a truck stop a couple years ago. The trucker at the urinal next to me remarked: "Pretty soon this whole fucking country is going to be nothing but Walmarts and gas stations." More wisdom than you could find in the Ivy League.
Yes, we are spending more than we have. $36trillion in debt. We know and everyone else knows that amount of debt cannot possibly be repaid. Cannot happen. Ever.
Accepting the fact that maybe foreign policy should focus on getting the responsible parties to own up and pay their dues? Can you say NATO? The Mideast?
Mebbe that stance will actually strengthen the belief in US integrity. That will take a lot.
Well Cankerpuss, maybe in his thinking, if we get rid of Hamas by interceding, we will not have to send as much military aid to Israel and may actually save money? To Trump, and any other real estate type, growth is the answer to most problems. Gaza is growth. So is SoCal.
Trump likes to "fire for effect". In other words he's putting out what seems to be an outrageous idea only to gauge the reaction and get people to talk about it. Pros and cons get discussed and what seemed foolish at first becomes possible then likely.
The US won't spend a dime on Gaza but the Gulf State trillionaires certainly will.
I would have less of an objection (but not zero or approval) for the Gaza thing if Israel payed for 100% of it and we stopped gifting all that money and unanimous new-law votes in their behalf. I don't think it's "nationalism plus Israelism" - we need to restore our house before we save anyone else any more.
Likely unpopular... and I'm not that versed in exactly WHY the U.S. is so all-in to support Israel. So, as the meme says, change my mind. I'm genuinely curious and perplexed b/c I see no reason for it at this time.
Israel is being used as a proxy force against Iran.
You know the country that has called Israel Little Satan and called the US big Satan.
Iran decided to support one of its enemies in a proxy war against Israel and the US namely Hamas and it has only gotten worse.
Even more to the point when Obama and Biden handed over hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran, they used the money to fund battles in and around Israel.
Now Iran desperately wants nukes, and the cult Ahmadinejad and the ruling clerics belong to will use them first chance they get.
They don't care about Palestinians anymore then Hamas does it's about destroying Israel and then the US as well as the west.
There is nothing new here this has been going on for a thousand years just an ebb and flow in the clash of civilizations.
And they actually believe they are morally superior to us with their Bronze Age morality. Why do you put Jews in quotes btw? It is true that many are against what is being done, but most are for it.
I put “Jews” in quotes, because they are not real Jews from that area of the world (bloodline). They are not from the Middle East, but they are from Europe.
One of the Arab countries should take in the group of people no one in the world wants anything to do with.
That might have something to do with seventy years of hate for everyone and everything instilled from birth on the rabid Palestinians that bite every hand that tries to help them.
Why not relocate all the Israelis to Silesia? The Israeli ruling class is descended from Eastern Europeans. Silesia was a historically German area ripped taken from Germany after WW2 and given to Poland (and the German-speaking people who lived there for generations there were forced to leave by Soviet troops).
These Germans (along with those in the Sudetenland) were ethnically cleansed, were they not? The largest refugee migration in post-WW2 Europe. These German refugees played key part in the West German economic miracle, as they started over.
So, why not relocate the Zionists to Silesia and rename it New Israel?
The Gulf states have a Plan to rebuild Gaza. Just get the pesky Israelis out of the way. Bring in American and UN Troops to keep Israel in check. Do the same on the West Bank.
Exactly. Like sending Israel $4,000,000,000/year of US taxpayer debt to finance apartheid concentration camps. It has gone from unthinkable to standard operating procedure.
I appreciate that you mentioned the money spent is "taxpayer debt." It isn't money. We have no money. Technically, we are the poorest nation on the planet. $36 trillion poor.
We're in the middle of the death of the dollar. We've been warned about it for years, and now it's happening. I think that everything Trump is doing is to stave off collapse.
The US doesn't send more money to Isreal than any other nation in the world, nor did the US and Allies create Isreal, to protect Jews, protect the Christian Holy Lands, make amends for the holocaust, or anything else. The US sends money to Isreal to maintain a heavily nuclear armed outpost for the US within striking distance of the entire Middle East.
It's same reason we are sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine and the reason we screwed up the Balkans and left them with a Gaza-type situation to clean up in our wake in the 1990s. It has nothing to do with religion (by the way, there are more Neo-Nazis than Jews in both those places). Muslims wanted an outpost in the West from which their weapons could strike Western Europe and Serbia was ready to provide it. Europe has no defense other than NATO, and therefore we were the last line of defense to stop Muslims from creating their own "Isreal" in Europe.
If those who look at everything through a "Stop the Zionists" lense could take a peek around their lense, they might think critically about all the ways the US having it's very own outpost right next door to Isreal would change many dynamics of the complicated relationship between the US and our "closest ally" Isreal. For starters, we wouldn't need to send them $4 trillion and most of our tech every year.
There is confluence of interest between Zionism and Imperialism for sure.
That said, please tell us, which nation (other than "aid" to "Ukraine", most of which is used to fund US entities, and some of that buys arms that go to Ukraine for a US-sponsored proxy war) gets more aid than Israel?
That's exactly what the Panama Canal and Greenland ideas did. And the tariffs. And the NATO spending. He's using seemingly outrageous ideas to bring people to the table, if only out of fear.
My read on this “idea” was that Trump was loudly proclaiming two things: we cannot continue doing the same things and expect different results; the “two state solution” is dead. RIP
Never did anything to us? Didn't they hold an entire embassy hostage during the Carter Administration? Held them for months while the ineffectual Carter tried to get them released. Regan got them released on his inauguration day, They've been our avowed enemies since the day they deposed the shah.
The CIA engineered the overthrow of Iran's elected leader, Mossadegh, in 1953, and put the (then young) Shah of Iran in charge, because the British wanted to control Iran's oil.
The Shah and his secret police executed hundreds or thousands of people and tortured many more.
That's blood on America's hands.
History did not start in 1979.
What is "terrorism"? What was the US firebombing of German and Japanese cities, culminating in the nuclear destruction of two of them?
I agree with you on this. I love what Trump is doing so far, but his idea about Gaza is so bad that I can only hope that it's only some type of negotiating tool. Another bad idea I keep hearing from Trump is about establishing a federal bitcoin reserve. I hope he comes to his senses on these two things.
You are right. In Adm. #1, he tried to assist them in “getting their shit together” with the Abraham accords. It almost worked, even with Biden. The accords were going to be signed and Oct. 7 happened, the response by Iran to stop the process of pacification of the ME. Iran stands for one thing, the Mullahs anyway, and that is violence and war. Bibi , IMO, gave up too soon, again caving to world opinion and the USA to NOT wipe out Hamas. Ceasefires have been a joke for 70 years, just another pause to allow Iran to re-arm Hamas and Hezbollah. I hope that Israel closed down those southern tunnels to prevent the transportation of weaponry into Gaza.
In the meantime, here are all the Dems pushing to just let things go as they have. It fits the mold, expecting different results over and over. Insanity!
It's basically the same as the CCP song, How I love to haul manure up the mountain to fulfill Mao's Dream. We need those hotels, Tony. More rich people have to get more rich at the expense of everyone.
He wants the USA to be the leader of a coalition of ME countries to stop fighting and start building up their area. Sorta like Dubai. The UAE has turned the desert into an international focus. To be able to stop the negative Hamas in Gaza and allow free access for development, Iran must be neutralized.
I do have a question for Trump, if he deports all the Palestinians to Arab lands, who is going to build the Gaza dream? Could he mean deport all the Hamas criminals, sorta like here.
Since the U.N. and a vast majority of countries in the General Assembly recognize Palestine along pre-1967 borders (U.N.Resolution 242), the Palestinian people own Gaza and the West Bank plus East Jerusalem. It is their property and for them to decide who re-builds it.
It is their legal trillions in LNG off the Gaza coast.
The Palestinians need new elections and perhaps all the Palestinians exiled to Lebanon would choose to return? Hamas would win an election in a landslide.
I would like to see China/Russia come in to Gaza to rebuild how ever the Palestinian people choose. Russia could handle the LNG deposits and the proceeds would make Palestine a very rich state.
New hospitals, schools, universities, homes, shops. This is what they deserve for enduring 70 years of living in the largest open-air concentration camp on Earth.
Trump needs a weekend at Camp David with Professor Jeffery Sachs, Col. MacGregor, Larry Johnson etc. to receive an honest tutorial on the history of the region. Throw in an hour on the 1953 CIA coup of the democratically elected leader of Iran to ‘splain to Mr. Trump why Iran has hated the U.S. over decades.
Then pray he goes back to The White House with his head on straight and starts whistling a different tune.
The people of Iran DO NOT hate the USA, the Islamic government does. The Mullahs are just barely holding on to power from election to election. There is a large secular movement there that is being clobbered by the Islamic government, but not for long.
"It is their property and for them to decide who re-builds it"? Or who blows it up? Russia could handle the LNG deposits? So why haven't they? Or China? How come Trump has been the only world leader to express a desire to help the Gaza people, instead of re-arming them? It would be nice if new hospitals and schools would be built as something other than a cover for rockets, missiles and weaponry so the Iran proxies can raise hell.
"Israel" now demands that Ireland and Spain take them for daring to call what they're doing genocide. All good men are against "Israel"! Even many Jews.
Greater Israel's not going to survive without bringing in millions of Black Africans. Considering their long involvement in the slave trade, this is simply the right thing to do and the world must demand it.
I was just about to reply the same thing, Irish!! Nearly everyday is at least one mind blowing event!! The world has changed so much in two weeks!! A great time to be alive!!
I agree Tomaso. So much has been exposed and they're only just getting started! You know they must be doing something right when you see how upset the Democrats are. Now that Trump and JD and Elon are exposing all of this corruption and grift, there's going to be no way that the Dems can put that genie back in the bottle. Now the whole world will know what treasonous acts they've committed in order to enrich themselves.
I bet, RFK junior, Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard will get confirmed. I remember seeing the propaganda start in the 1970's in All in the family. Archie was the stupid one. I stopped watching t.v. years ago. The sitcoms just normalize bad behavior. I remember seeing a gay character in All in the family. I would just roll my eyes and I was 12. I remember all those shows like Carter Country where the media did it's best to keep Jimmy Carter in place. I don't think he was corrupt, but they didn't want someone smarter in there. I remember that show Alice and one day at a time, it was all about divorce, and how great it was to be liberated. Mary Tyler Moore was the original cat lady without the cats. She was having a great time with her single friends. I like to use the language program duo lingo. Almost all the characters in Duolingo are Asian, and black. There are no native Americans and a token white person is in it. There is no nuclear family in that program at all. Everything in the program is gay and trans. That just doesn't square with real life. They would slip in comments about how great Beyounce is and how building a wall is immoral. They taught me to say: build bridges not walls, like 1000 times. The program also taught me to say, the definition of family has changed a thousand times. The single father in the program is always discussing his love life with his 8-year-old son. I bet they were getting USAID money. I like the program, but the content is ridiculous.
TV has normalized so, so many bad things. On some level, I blame the Mary Tyler Moore show for convincing me that a career is better than having a family. How many other young women were influenced in the same way?
And don't get me started on "Maude" or even the seemingly innocuous "The Love Boat."
And Television today is far worse today. Watched a show the other day called "House" that openly promotes full one adultery. Not watching that one again.
Living in a society such as this one should expect to pay their fair share. I don't mind paying state taxes. I get direct benefit from those taxes. I have nice roads to drive my cars on. My children had decent educations in a once decent public education system. Federal taxes? What direct benefit do I get from the taxes I pay? Nothing. And don't tell me my taxes keep me safe from thugs in dirty nightshirts in shithole countries on the other side of the world. I don't give a damn about Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Ukraine, and all of the other places and I certainly have never met anyone from these countries bent on killing me. Never.
Trump’s plan is to reduce federal taxes by cutting wasteful spending and transferring programs that can be handled by the states, to the states. The Department of Education and many federal healthcare programs come to mind.
Doing this will force states to similarly cut their expenses and become more efficient. Large state tax increases won’t be tolerated. It’s a lot easier to throw the local bums out in the statehouse if they misuse our money.
Why send our tax dollars to Washington, only to have it pass through the bureaucracy before it comes back to us, being reduced to pennies on the dollar?
I am very happy that I lived long enough to see this day. My only complaint is that Trump keeps pushing the mRNA death jabs. Aside from that, he'd be a perfect candidate for Mt Rushmore.
She will, and one of the things I love about her is her always genuine and gracious appreciation. She's the kind of girl that just makes you want to do nice things for her.
So, December's a ways off, but I can imagine the cafe open by then, and listening to Bing, in front of a crackling fire, with hot chocolate, close friends and warm intimate conversation.
Dreamy's fine, Ron, but I have tangoed with her before and in any case would be cautious about putting anyone on some kind of pedestal. I would even argue that some expectations may inadvertently risk placing too high a standard and therefore pressure on someone.
It is important to keep in mind, too, that one's perception and experience of reality is of course going to, by necessity, differ from others'.
Personally, I prefer that whoever feels free to fail sometimes and have bad days and so forth and yet still feels accepted and acceptable.
Zazzy, the pedestal days are behind us - it is, or is becoming, a meritocracy again. My personal perception is she's earned my respect and affections. But as you say - in your abundance of wisdom - "perceptions may vary".
It has been an impressive 2 weeks on the home front indeed. But, on the international front, Trump has laid down his hand for all to see.
The first step to fix any issue entails an honest objective assessment. The world has been watching and listening for the assessment, but instead, they find that Trump's plan is to dazzle them with showmanship and BS.
A good deal is when both sides are willing to accept either position, and in regard to Trump's proposal for Gaza and the Palestinians, I would venture a guess that the Palestinians would unanimously accept trading positions with Trump, and Trump and his cohorts would unanimously decline to trade positions with the Palestinians.
That which is being lost in the noise, is that the game is played-out, where the end game is marked by disparity, and the solution is a game reset. But instead of an honest objective assessment and a viable solution, Trump and Bibi run a shell game on the citizens of the world.
"Joe Biden" has opened the door wide, and handed Trump a blank check to deal with the issues and shape a new format for life. Trump has an opportunity to become one of the greatest leaders in all of history, to usher in his vision of A Golden Age with peace throughout the world, but in 2 weeks time, it becomes obvious that he is nothing but a showman.
The situation in the ME appears to be one where both sides have been abusing each other for decades, and it has evolved to where both sides are at war with each other. Where is the honest objective assessment? It's not coming from Trump or Bibi. Putin might be willing to weigh -in with an assessment, but it doesn't appear that the West has any interest in hearing that which he has to say.
The following is some food for thought in regard to how Trump negotiates.
"The investigation also reveals how Israel has known for years that the use of bunker-buster bombs releases the lethal gas carbon monoxide as a byproduct, which can kill people inside a tunnel through asphyxiation even at a distance of hundreds of meters from the strike location."
Without an objective assessment, an interview amounts to PR and/or propaganda.
15 to 20 years ago I used to watch PBS NewsHour, as it seemed to be the only MSM that would entertain a variety of perspectives. The news evolved to where it appeared to be in conflict with other sources of information. Then one evening I happened to see Judy and Hillary embrace in what appeared to be a lip-lock. That was the kiss of death.
If there is no time for an honest objective assessment, it isn't worth wasting one's time. Most of MSM has received the kiss of death, and Fox news is at the threshold.
My take from today's news is that Fox News is PR and/or propaganda that is essentially paid for by Trump and/or his administration.
Trump has presented his solution for the Palestinians, which is "you will own nothing, and be happy", which looks to just be a different flavor of the 2030 Agenda.
Discussion is that the Slick Newsom Palisades Smart City will amount to high density housing. Does this address the issue of disparity? What are the odds that this city will look like Gaza at some point within the next 100 years?
I'm here to gather information and get informed, Don, not to join a cult. In fact, i don't know anything about a cult worshipping Kunstler as you suggest. The reason I am encouraged reading this essay is that the Biden Administration and the Obama Administration before it went out of their way to promote an unbalanced view of American life. Celebrating transgenderism, mandating experimental injections, vilifying those who refused the shotds, ignoring the debacle at the southern border, and soaring inflation drove me away from the left and toward the right. To read and become informed here is an independent decision made by this former and lifelong Democrat who was appalled by the choices and priorities of the Biden Administration. I might add I was also repelled by Nancy Pelosi's plan to invade private homes, remove persons testing positive for covid, and inter them in quarantine camps. All of this drove me straight to the Republican side of the discussion. I arrived here not in cultlike obedience but out of my own free will. I want to see the other side of what I'd been hearing for decades.
As an anarchist, though, I could suggest that the nation-state is a cult, Don, and way worse than cults in general. I've also come across some folks online who think, and have argued, that the nation-state is even a religion.
If we would abide the Constitution as it was originally intended, get the Senate back to what it was designed to do (represent the states, not the people) and stop using the "commerce clause" or "health and welfare clause" to do any fucking thing the Federal want, and then get a SCOTUS that actually does its job and relegate them back to the basement of the Capitol. We'd never be in this mess. George Washington basically told us to have open trade with foreign nations but to avoid all foreign entanglements. Boy did our forefathers screw that one up.
So a question: do you feel that fairly extensive abuses of power are being exposed? Is USAID what we all hoped it was all these years?
For that particular my wildass guess is maybe half of those monies went to genuinely useful things. Is it half went to just hideous graft and corruption? What a mess.
Would you prefer we just close our eyes and go back to the good old days? What would YOU do?
EDIT BTW I and many here reject entirely the libs vs conservatives binomial. Its a tool to keep us from talking and understanding what is going on.
OK those are valid suppositions. Trump is acting outside of the law? Is that your view of it?
I agree the Maga folk need to operate within the law. I ALSO have a long standing beef with (in my case) the Canadian judiciary ruling in congruence with an interpretation of the law and clearly in opposition to that nebulous but real construct of 'justice'. My cousin the judge says you have to make rulings in accordance with precedent and the specific wording of XYZ law, justice ain't part of that. And here we are.
Trump is working hard to de-fund the Democratic Party, while simultaneously deporting much of its voting base. His long-term goal appears to be to end the Democrats as a major political force in the US, and instead turn into a small, extremist party of the coasts and of some wealthy elites. It's a brilliant strategy that, if successful, will have ramifications long after Trump leaves office.
I suspect your analysis of the end game is on the money, Thomas - eliminate the broader base of the Dems. What’s interesting to me is it appears that less effort will be required than I’d assumed. Some very simple things have happened or are happening. First, the common sense declarations such as there are two genders, boys can’t play girls’ sports (or share locker rooms), DEI is toxic, gender surgery on minors is prohibited, etc. These are a cold slap in the face for the leftists, as no one with a lick of common sense would oppose those declarations. Secondly, it appears that mere exposure of the political grift will shock the senses of normal Americans, as there are few people who have ever predicted the magnitude of the grift. Normal Americans find the policies and actions of the Democratic Party to be repulsive and those normals will continue to leave the party.
I fervently pray that the Democrat party is totally eliminated to nothing more than a fragment of itself and that it has no material influence on any aspect of American life.
I dunno. To me the problem is that too many Republicans, Liz Cheney types, were also involved in the deep state funding. Will the Democratic party shrink as it loses money and power? Yes, of course, that is already happening. Will it make some sort of comeback at some point in the next few years? Judging by history, again, yes it will.
Right, and it will come out that lots of them had their hand in the cookie jar as well. Too many were in favor of funding Ukraine, and now President Zelensky has said that most of the funds that were supposedly sent to Ukraine did not, in fact, arrive there. People were, in fact, using Ukraine to launder US taxpayer dollars for their own personal gain, and folks need to be forced to resign from office and be criminally prosecuted for that, people in both political parties.
Yes, as said many times, the Deep State needs to go and no one is more dedicated to doing just that than Trump and his crew. I will not use the word Mob with Trump as they lost their control of the government in January. They are still lurking out there trying to figure out how to torpedo Trump and “win” the next election.
Hey, look around, we have a few of them commenting copious amounts of BS on this blog.
If you want go to the East, you can east or west. Reality is round. If America conquers the world, voila, Globalism has conquered. I've lost you, right?
Let's hope it does come out, about ALL who were in these play for pay schemes and what they did. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians...all of them. That would be transparency.
I fervently pray that ALL political parties are eliminated and America always comes first for everyone. Political parties have done nothing but spend us into a $36 trillion dollar abyss, wage illegal wars, spend our strength and means, kill our young men and women in wars, ignore the border, supplant the white race with unidentified mutts from the south, grow the government, grow the grift, grow the corruption.
We as a Americans should eschew political parties at all cost. It is a failed system and has done nothing but take from us freedom and wealth, create problems and then refuse to solve the problems.
All of America's problems today come down to 535 individuals in an organization called Congress. Congress is evenly divided between two political parties. Nothing gets done. Nothing done benefits Americans. These 535 fuckers are to blame for it all.
Political parties belong in the ash bin of history.
The founders, especially Washington, were very skeptical of “parties”. We should ALL be Americans putting America first. Our disagreements should be on the best, most efficacious way to support our country and limit our Government
Do mine eyes deceive me but am I reading a comment from someone who read gorgeous Georg's farewell address? Partisan politics, he said, and I paraphrase, will destroy the country as people focus first on the needs of the political party while the country rots.
Way to go Madjack! His farewell address is hard reading as George uses words and grammar most numbskull Americans can't comprehend but it should be required reading for every high school Freshman. IMO.
Is he simply de-funding the Democrats or trying to save the US from economic collapse? I'd bet on the latter; it just so happens that many of these high-priced programs also benefitted the Democrat party and individual Democrats.
I think that's a primary goal, but not the end game. He has to destroy the corruption support structure to eliminate all the corrupt politicians and judges. If you turn off the grift, the old timers in Congress will retire if they're no longer getting rich. That will make way for citizen rep's that want to serve their country for some years and then return to home and work.
Republicans/conservatives go along with things like the Ukraine aid b/c they're getting wealthy off it. End that or someone/something else will fill the void left by the defunct Democratic party.
I hope and pray that is NOT what is going on. The binomial libs vs conservatives narrative is IMO just a tool to divide and conquer.
Sure the dems were all in on the nonsense. But your neighbor who voted for Kamala is your ally, should you find a way. Dont let divide and conquer just end up with new 'winners'.
Yes. No more frittering away money by corrupt Democrats. If we are weak and divided, how can we serve Zion? We're gong to be ruled directly from Tel Aviv now via Trump.
Good stuff thank you. And About going after the medical fraud complex, good news everyone: it’s already under way.
Kansas - in conjunction of 5 other states - is suing Pfizer for Veterinarian CEO Bourla’s boldface lying about the COVID-19 injection’s safety & effectiveness with regard to mass miscarriages, myocarditis & pericarditis, death, along with beefy claims that it would stop transmission when they never even tested for it.
Almost no one outside of our circles knows about this lawsuit. How did they keep this quiet? Pfizer buys news advertising, not to sell their poison (their bought and paid for doctors do that), but to prevent these organizations from reporting on their crimes. These fourth estate fifth column whores will not report anything negative on those paying their bills. Whoever has the gold, afterall, makes the wretched rules. Watch (video at bottom): https://substack.com/@tritorch/note/c-90337943
I would like to see all advertising for drug companies stopped. If you can't advertise cigarettes on TV, why should we be subjected to constant, non-stop advertising of drugs whose names we can't pronounce to treat diseases that we've never heard of before? Why can't we go back to a time when we trusted our doctors to tell us what our afflictions are and prescribe what they know is best for us?
Those ads are simply to curry favor from the various networks, insuring favorable coverage should any difficult circumstances arise. The more arcane the disease, the more unpronounceable the medication being advertised, the better. Media outlets charge top dollar for those Ads, and the pharmaceutical companies consider it money well spent ... an insurance policy so to speak.
Big Pharma will argue that they have 1st Amendment rights to advertise their poison. Waiting for Team Trump to make their case that these ads should be prohibited.
…And remember once a network accepts $ from these pharmaceutical companies it pretty much silences that network from criticizing them. I believe that’s largely their intent.
Ultra-conservative Kansas of all places! Great news! My Primary care guy just quit, and although he wouldn't admit this to me directly, I think a large part of it was being forced to swallow the CV-19 bullshit. He was an early skeptic, but of course turned on a dime as it went on, no doubt due to AMA, HMO, and big pharma pressures.
Most doctors are drooling morons. To get through medical school, they have to be less than human. That becomes a habit. To keep their jobs they have to be less than human. That means being stupid too, despite their above average IQ's.
Folk of all backgrounds were captured, subject, to 'Mass formation. The better educated were MORE susceptible.
Problem with your viewpoint is it implies irredeemable evil, folk beyond redemption.
How are we going to fix things if we got 'our guys' just totally unwilling to allow for 'late bloomers', newly awakened?
Not everything in modern medicine is bad. And the expertise of docs is key to a healthy future.
Somebody wakes up I WILL NOT put them in the 'shoulda known better you are scum' category. That is the path to a bleak future, fully broken between 'me and thou' separation
Was his practice forced by Obamacare to close, with him becoming a 'hospital employee' ?
A very large issue, since this accounts for somewhere near 80% of practices, is the hospital administrators, ever mindful of the bottom line and their bonus, hold the economic anvil over the heads of the physicians. They can drop it at any time.
The result is they practice medicine without a license by directing the physicians regarding how they 'provide' ...
I've concluded that the Primary care docs are nothing more than gate keepers. Anything weird, you get referred to a specialist (for extra $$, of course), and for everything else you get a prescription drug, a lab test of some sort, or a generic instruction (don't eat so much fat, stop drinking so much, stay off it for a few days, etc). Pretty much plug and play, you might as well be interacting with an online algorithm, which not surprisingly, is getting more and more popular now as well. Very little medicine or alleged "health care" going on in my experience.
There is a major change in primary care that has been going on for a while. First, the Hospitalist, hospital employees that take over as the attending when you are in the hospital. A good indication of the grift here is that in your D/C orders, you are to visit your Primary care guy within two weeks of discharge. Double dose of corruption as the primary care guys do not do squat except book keep.
Second - is the incorporation of Primary care guys into large groups. Here in Arizona, we have corporations buying up all the Primary practices and acting as the “staff” for all of them. For a while, hospitals were doing the same, but I believe the corporations have the lead. Let me tell you from experience, the corporate takeover is hideous. When we went to our latest Primary Care guys, my first question was “Are you ever going to sell out?”
As a doctor, you can't go against the advice of your Medical Group. Also, because of the cost of malpractice insurance, you can't afford to be independent.
So it sounds like the root problem for doctors is......LOYAS! Attorneys. The most useless profession invented by man. At least prostitutes give something in return for money. Attorneys. Nothing. They just take, take, take. They suck society dry and don't produce a damned thing. And our nation is full of them.
BOTH of my MD's -- who swallowed the CV19 BS, and would only see patients virtually, for the duration of the madness -- have moved to lucrative (for them) CONCIERGE medicine.
First, you have to pay to be a patient at baseline.
Then you have to PAY MORE (thousands a year) just to have them as Physicians.
While I understand we still live in America and a private practice can respond to market forces as they see fit - no one seems to care what the downstream effects of Obamacare are. What would be harder to untangle is what the Insurance companies and regulations force down their throats. The hospital system under which they practice could care less.
I've tried to raise the issue. NO ONE CARES.
Additionally, our local hospital is sliding rapidly downhill. Run by CEO's and not MD's. Staffing issues are the least of it. It used to be a gem. It is so sad.
My former PCP went to concierge medicine many years ago. He was fed up with being a data entry coder tied to a laptop. Flat out told me it wasn't why he became a physician.
Our local hospital is mostly run by doctors but that doesn't make it better. They get tax money and they have a publicly elected hospital district board but they also have a private hospital board. Story goes that they keep the nefarious topics on the agenda of the private board. 🧐
Very interesting. Long before covid the New England town I was in had hospitals buying out all local private practices when my Dr. went concierge also. I just recently noticed where he has come back into the 'fold' so to speak and is accepting new patients and insurance. His ratings have also plummeted so it seems. It's all too crazy.
Speaking as a retired RN, when the bean counters got into hospital management, they immediately put the blame on the nursing staffs for the patient discontent being reported. It had nothing to do with the understaffing and computerization of the hospital room. Obamacare was the start, I was there, I saw it, I retired because of it.
The enemy is the mRNA technology messing with stuff it should not be touching. To stop them? Everyone stop the Vaxx, the latest number I have heard is only 20% are getting the boosters. So people are learning. The good news is that more and more folks are doing due diligence regarding their health care and the medical community is no longer trusted.
I think the smaller population states sometimes can lead the way because the big corporations aren't focusing on them. Notice how pharma got the religious vaccine exemptions taken in California and New York, the two most populous democratic states.
I live in Kansas, and our AG, Kris Kobach, has kept an more of an eye on the national scene, less on state matters. My husband is an attorney, and even though he's Republican, he dislikes Kobach for that. Working in an office full of Democrats may have something to do with it too.
IMHO, Kansas WAS considered to be the center of conservative politics in my youth, Wha’ happened, it reminds me of Colorado and now Arizona. Is it being Californicated? The situation in the country now reminds me of Satchmo’s saying, “Look back, they are gaining on you.”
The power of the Leftist drive over the past 40 years , especially in the judiciary is becoming evident right now. The dems were beaten down by the people in election 2024 but here they are again, just like 2016, using the extremely biased federal judges in the Deep State to block everything the people elected Trump to do.
Is it too late to save America from the socialist whores?
The state as a whole is still pretty republican. I live in Lawrence, which is the home of the University of Kansas and so is legitimately a liberal hellhole. We pay a LOT to make homeless people comfortable, and so attract them from several counties around.
Johnson County, which is suburban Kansas City and the most populous county in Kansas, has pretty rigged voting. There are still 4 registered republicans for every 3 registered democrats, but every race from the national races down to state representatives give a 10% point advantage to the democratic candidate beyond what you would expect based on the registered voters. I know - I've paid $50 for the voter rolls there - twice.
All this goes a long way toward explaining the “am I crazy?” problem. Going back years now, even pre-COVID, it’s been a common experience to read the news, see what passes for “public opinion,” wonder if everybody else actually thinks this, and then wonder, “am I crazy?”
As it happens, the answer to “am I crazy?” is “no.” The whole thing was one giant ball of manufactured consent, and, what’s worse, we paid for it. Still, as shocking as that is, there’s one upside: now, we get to see what happens when the money dries up.
We are not crazy, our culture and society IS. I tuned out years ago to "normal" society. I watch from the fringes, while also being in the middle of it (corporate job, etc.). It is very difficult being surrounded by delusional Woke Jacobin Marxists who love their jab and as a result are sick every 2 months. I quit that job though and am free. The future is wide open. No more of that b.s. for me.
I have certainly been thinking this way, and I’ve seen this at work, too. But now I am wondering just how much of the problem actually IS with our culture and society. There are lots of people who buy all this nonsense on their own, of course, but much of what we thought was “culture” appears to have been Paid Promotional Material. So maybe it’s a lot more normal out there than we were led to believe. Could it be so?
JHK has been talking about the lack of a common culture for years. I do not comprehend the USA ever “healing” without a common culture. All we will generate are haters, like so many on this blog.
Yes! The real situation with the anarchists and their mentor, Soros. is they are just waiting for any excuse. They are progressive Leftists. And they are violent and amorale, a bad combination.
Without Mockingbird Money, legacy media will need to stand on revenue from subscribers (who won’t pay) and advertisers (who won’t pay for nothing). Many propagandists will fold up their tents and howl into the Bluesky echo canyon, for all the good it will do them. Good riddance.
To live in this country, citizens develop an extraordinary tolerance for crazy. Starting with Obama, Globalists cranked the knob to eleven funneled a vast, unthinkable fortune into a full-spectrum madness campaign. Being a lunatic hustler for hire became a viable business model for sixteen years.
America’s tolerance for crazy was pushed to the limit, so we did something even crazier. We elected and stood by Donald Trump. As his triumphant second term begins and the Reign of Error draws to a close, the rat bastards cannot hide from the stark fist of removal.
Someone should rebuild Gaza. There are plans for fabulous beachfront properties where Palestinians can work at. Money to be made by the developers and Palestinians.
Doesn’t have to be the US, but likely we’ll be involved together with Israel, and a few other middle eastern countries (Saudi Arabia, Jordan?).
Are you sure about that? Would the USA be better off if the ME was settled and at peace with itself? How much has the War on Terrorism cost the USA? And not just money.
Hope Bondi is up to this task...But no, Trump can't switch horses if RFK, Tulsi or Kash aren't approved by our criminal Senate...That would be a defeat....They must be recess appointed...That's what going to war is all about....Revenge....
Comparing the .gov's shenanigans with the Okefenokee is an insult to the Okefenokee. That is a beautiful and magical place.
That said, here are some things I'd like to see happen:
- Once Tulsi is confirmed (she will be) as DNI director, I want her to tear apart the TSA for putting her on their "watch list."
- I want Bondi to release Epstein and Maxwell's black book files.
- I want to see ALL of Biden's "preemptive pardons" not only revoked, but investigated further, as they obviously point to signs of guilt.
- I want to see the "Federal Reserve" ended. (It's neither "Federal" nor is it a "Reserve")
- I want to see the IRS ripped apart.
- Finally, I'd like to see Hillary go to jail, but that may be asking too much at this point.
I think all of these things are doable with the team that Trump is forming. Especially, DOGE.
If, say, Trump is the Michael Jordan of presidents, then Elon Musk is his Dennis Rodman. Genius. Eccentric. Does the dirty work to get shit done. Gets inside peoples' heads. And has a ball (no pun intended) doing it.
Very good. My adds? The preemptive pardons were done to protect the soldiers of the Mob, the Deep State. Until these folks are throttled, they are a boil on America’s butt. They are the leaders.
Remember Trump’s post card 1040? It was a great idea in 2016 and still is. Disband the IRS, or 90% of it. Run the cards through a reader and allow AI, maybe a good usage, scan out the Tax scofflaws.
Today, Hillary and Sean Duffy are exchanging blows. She is an asshole, period. She has allegedly authorized many assassinations of Dem. Opponents. Jail is preferable but it makes her a martyr. The worst thing you can do is ignore these power people, and I wish Fox would learn that, especially Laura Igraham, who I think puts more Dems on air than Trump folks.
Now that Trump is in power, I'm gonna have to re-think the Pakis nuking DC. It would have to go off with the advance notice of Trump and his team, so they could get to the bunker, along with a few select Congresscritters like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul. I don't see that happening without somebody leaking something, but who knows. Maybe after a year or two of dealing with the deep state bullshit again, Trump will finally say, what the hell, if we can't drain the Swamp, we'll just have the Pakis boil it away. LOL.
Oh, I'm more interested in the effects - literally and figuratively - of the fallout. Let me see if I can recall your prior comment(s) verbatim. Oh yes, you might die...
It was mandated decades ago that the United State was to have a population of 400 million by 2050. Trump will bring in as many or more than he deports. White Americans have to be replaced at all levels.
Did you ever get to see those? I did. Surreal. And the whole story behind them, the mysterious "funder" named "RC Christian", it's all so creepy.
Also creepy is how after that "attack" and explosion, they had that shit totally cleaned up and eliminated in the first 24 hrs after. That couldn't have been easy. Clearly, they wanted to minimize the attention drawn to them. Wonder where they took the remains and what they did with them?
I was not fortunate enough to see them, Tee. There's something to them though, that's for sure. You're lucky to have seen them - the memory itself, is residual energy.
Yeah, right? Flesh is grass, here today and gone tomorrow.
Blow up the balloon until it pops. Population problem solved. Cloward-Piven in action. Deer population explodes and then poof, all gone.
Satanic ethics mandate that you have to give a clue or two about your intentions, to warn the Intelligent. It was up for years so that was enough in their book. No need to give the show away once it was game on.
Elon Musk is dangerous. He's a frightening individual. I do not trust him. Don't ask me why. It just seems like something is off about him. A wolf in sheep's clothing. I have heard he is a Satanist though I have no evidence of such. Dude gives me the willies.
I think Musk is in it for Musk. Right now, he's doing something I like. Has he done other things I don't like? Of course.
I *suspect* he likes the idea that he's this high-profile person and gets off on it. Which means that he needs to stay on the leash that Trump has put on him. I'm fine with that. As long as he stays on the leash, and does what he is supposed to d.
Musk is Asperger’s. He is not a politician, not even a people person, He is totally results oriented. He will tear down the BS government without concern for the impact on people. Exactly what Trump wanted.
All you people who complain about the government being oversized for years, shut up and let the man do his job.
I hear ya, Cank. For one thing, he's South African. I can't tell you the number of bad experiences I've had with those jerks ever since growing up as a child with some as my neighbors. They've all got chips on their shoulders the size of Teslas.
Speaking of Tesla, it's beyond cheeky of him to use the great and honorable genius Nikola Tesla's name for his car company. I'll never forgive him for that.
But he's serving a purpose for now, and I'm OK with him going scorched-earth on all the .gov assholes. Which is worse, when it gets down to it?
My 'visceral' response to Musk is quite different. I thought, I FELT, I detected a live human being, free on the earth, who has taken a stand and decided to go 'all in' on the side of Good, and who recently, last few years, realized Evil is a thing, and Evil things are underway......
Like I admitted, I am not a Musk expert. Don't know the guy. Never met the guy. Will never meet the guy. Don't really care to meet the guy. For all I know he could be a loving Dad and his intentions are entirely sincere.
Something just feels off about him. I can't identify it or put a label on it. It's just a gut feeling I get when I hear him or when I see him in action.
Again, he is not a politician! Unbound, he would lay off 90% of the federal government and streamline the rest to operate better than before. That is why the Dems hate him, he really wants to streamline government, not give lip service to it like every GOP wannabe has been for 70 years.
Without Musk, Twitter would have been censored all the way to the election. There would have been no twitter files. And Musk's infusion of money wouldn't have happened.
There is a VERY strong chance Trump wouldn't have been elected. And even if Trump had won, we would very likely not be having the success that DOGE is cranking out right now.
Providence has reasserted its blessings upon our country. No one has reason to fear retribution as only justice will be meted out on a scale never seen before.
'The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.'
Yes, time to go out and kill again. Invade Greenland and then Iran. Make Anti-Semitism a crime punishable by death as in the old Soviet Union. Put the Palis in other Arab countries and then bomb them there.
I want to see the international network of algorithmic proof of exactly how the 2020 election was stolen and who was involved. Because it most definitely was. Then nail them.
Trump is my hero. This is the first time I've been ecstatic in years and have hope for our country. But...we need to watch out for the snakes, rats and other vermin coming up from the swamp and they never stop. MAGA and safe and sane and financially safe, etc., etc. and all good things for America again.
Is Musk really that intelligent? He never invented anything, he’s more of a businessman who buys things brilliant people create. His enthusiasm about Mars seems kind of foolish to me, quite frankly
Never invented anything? Boy, what a bunch of crap this blog knows about Musk. He is the technical leader and financier of everything he has done. he knows more about the programs than anyone who works for him. He is a slave driver, alienating many former employees. He has invested every dime he has made into new enterprises, each one paying off in the billions. He is responsible for X.Com, Pay Pal, which profits he invested into Tesla, whose profits he invested into Space-X, whose profits he invested into Twitter.
Read his Bio before writing any more bullshit about the man. Until then, you are speaking out of ignorance. And by the way, Musk’s goal is the electrification of the USA and the phasing out of fossil fuels. Tesla would be proud of his name on this company as that is exactly what he wanted a hundred years ago.
"Musk’s goal is the electrification of the USA and the phasing out of fossil fuels." ~ JohnAZ
John, electricity as we use it, is not an energy source, it's a means of transmission. Fossil fuels are energy sources - fuel oil and coal - used to generate electricity.
"Tesla would be proud of his name on this company as that is exactly what he wanted a hundred years ago." ~ JohnAZ
Probably not. What Tesla wanted - electrical energy is free - pulled right from the atmosphere - it just needs to be harnessed. Nikola Tesla knew how and would have provided (harnessed) electricity for free.
Remember paying ridiculous amounts of money for long distance phone calls from here to Topeka, because wires? What about now? Dial 'em up on your cell phone. How, with no wires?
His contemporary - Thomas Edison - concurrently pioneered DC electricity, which required a wire to every structure for distribution, which required the end user to write a check every month, in perpetuity, to the provider.
Ok, which inventor do you think the Rockefeller's financed? And which one do you think, they "disappeared" all his work and records.
The Gov still has all Nikola Tesla's work product. Do you think Zuck and his ilk - the billionaire class - are worried about powering up their remote hidey-holes? Probably not.
Whether batteries, MGs, solar or wind, the source is part of the electric system. Electrification in Musk's eyes, Tesla, involves generation and usage of electricity. BTW, George Westinghouse and JP Morgan were involved in the decision making on electrification. BTW, did you know that Musk is getting ready to release a cell phone?
I suspect he's trying to give people a dream, like Kennedy gave people a dream with the moon goal.
I think he knows making it to mars would be ridiculously hard, and that we haven't even made it to the moon yet. He's probably going to get the contract to supply the 20 "tanker rockets" that will be needed for a manned moon mission.
By the way, if you have access to X's grok, ask it what technical challenges remain to go to the moon.
"Is Musk really that intelligent?" I don't think so.
I saw Musk on the famous doobie-smokin' Joe Rogan episode. Musk was talking about something "techie" - I don't remember exactly what - and his explanation was at a high school dropout level of expertise, as if he had no understanding of the technical underpinnings of the subject.
Now of course a lot of people will say, "He was totally high dude, cut him some slack." Even if Musk was so high that he was on the edge of some kind of spiritual epiphany, he would still remember the mechanics of any technological advances he may have been involved with. Contrary to popular belief, cannabis does not erase your mind and turn you into a slobbering vegetable - but it does make doing math in your head an ordeal. Musk's whole stoned act was nothing but a cheap ploy to draw in more disciples (from that awesomely apathetic demographic) - and it worked. A big chunk of the stoner population is now convinced that "the richest man in the world" is going to save us from "the richest men in the world" - and build us a totally cool party pad on Mars, and feed us Brain Chips until we are as smart as he is!
Musk is a psy-op - just like Trump, Biden, Obama, Jobs, Gates, etc. A made (as in manufactured) man. His job is to grab us by the emotions and drag us into the appropriate corral.
In Musk I detect, I FEEL, I intuit, that he is yes a deeply flawed human being, but also one of great talent, and influence.
My hope, and yes prediction, is that he is what he says he is, trying to right the course of the Titanic before it hits that berg. My guess is that he NOW understands evil forces are attempting the takedown of 'western' civilization and he is adamantly opposed. He may be pondering whether good and evil are actually involved in a struggle? Trump has said God chose him, these people, the MAGA team, feel they are engaged in a struggle which goes beyond the secular world of power and money and nucs. Perhaps they are.
They will make plenty mistakes. But I would be cautious assuming same old.
The Workshop in Antarctica needs more men like you. Don't worry there is a heated pool in this lost city. Just ignore the sign that says, This is not a pool.
Musk is controlled by our rays. It's something like Elmer Fudd on a windy day getting different hats.
Talk about a learning curve: Trump I was a babe in the woods, but Trump II is the Alpha Grizzly Bear. While the glass of milk is still far from full - I hate most of his foreign policy, and his energy policy is a fantasy - I am thrilled at the comprehensive ferocity of his attack on The Blob.
Team Trump has to have anticipated from the start that colossal forces would be arrayed to impede him at every step, and their strategy is exactly what is required: Shock and Awe. Knock them off their feet so hard that they can’t figure out what hit them. And who even dared hope that Bobby and Tulsi may actually be confirmed.
The great mistake would have been a Truth and Reconciliation approach, ending in a big group hug, as if these bastards actually had good intentions that went astray. What we need is Truth and Retribution: you purposely tried to destroy this nation, we do not forgive, and we damned sure won’t forget.
For far too long the Donkeys and the Elephants have been symbiotes, sharing the same agenda when it comes to the big issues, and when it comes to the biggest ones – serving corporate interests and perpetuating endless wars - it appears that they will continue to be on the same team.
But their bifurcation on divisive social issues finally led to the nation’s Mass Formation Psychosis, and half of our fellow citizens are now convulsing from the shock therapy being administered. We should all re-watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as inspiration for the task that lies before us.
Howard, I am calling you out on your first comment. You hate his foreign and energy policies. Other than Israel, what would you suggest to trump if you had his ear?
I am reluctant to condemn Israel geocide against the Palestinians on this forum. Taken on its face, I also disregard any proposed settlement in Ukraine that tries to pretend that Russia has not won the war. That said, I recognize the fact that Mr. Trump is a master of misdirection, and that his current position on Ukraine may be tactical, to avert neocon criticism, while actually working something out with Mr. Putin. As for energy, pretending that we are Saudi America and can achieve long-term energy independence is ludicrous. Trump's position nine years ago was to end NATO and normalize relations with Russia, in which case we could benefit from Russia's gas via a rebuilt Nordstream pipeline. If that is still the president's hidden agenda, then I totally approve.
Let me add that it's stupid for Trump to hope to destroy BRICS. BRICS is the future, whether we like it or not. He may as well declare that gravity is outlawed.
Imagine the Founding Fathers saying, I'm reluctant to speak against Britain on cobblestones laid by Tories. Or if paper makers weren't for the Revolution, then the Declaration of Independence couldn't have been written.
But yes, these Trump Cultists are nuts. Ordinary people lose the plot very easily. It's like taking candy from a baby.
This time, I used (among the usual other ingredients) four eggs and two 500 ml (four cups) containers of cottage cheese-- no sour cream, yogurt or lemon. It's not bad, but a touch too eggy. So what I'm going to do next time is use the 2 containers of cottage cheese, but use only 3 eggs. In retrospect, it's what I should have done in the first place, since the recipe normally calls for 4 eggs with that amount of cheese (if not cottage) plus a cup (250 ml) of sour cream (I used yogurt).
So, in sum, cut out the yogurt entirely and only use 3 eggs.
What are you trying to make? My recipe: Just pour in a cup of sugar, 2 "containers" of "cottage" cheese, four eggs, half a bag of flour, mix, and bake for 45 minutes at 451.
Oh ya, that's right; cheesecake. They normally call for a tablespoon of flour, but I generally omit that and it turns out a touch creamier/smoother. You're right about the cup of sugar, but if I only use 3 eggs next time, I suppose I should reduce the sugar a little bit. So thanks to you, I'll do that!
Nuclear power. I know you never asked me. Still. Peak oil is real, and Trumps energy super power chit chat is nonsense examined carefully.
The yanks need to carefully engage Canada and particularly Alberta and ensure the tarsands oil flows south in a reliable way. To tide you yanks over until you get enough nucs operating.
I hate nucs, one slip and thats it for God knows what radius... but the alternative is fairy tales of oil forever, which is NOT going to happen.
Peak production of oil and related is thereabouts now. We can frack some more here and there and stretch a couple more decades of a bumpy plateau of production, after that its nucs and electricity. Facts count.
Peak Oil is always just around the corner. Surely we’ve emptied every oil reservoir 3 times over, yes? Oil is not a fossil fuel, it’s produced by the Magma and continuously replenishes.
“Deep‐seated abiogenic origin of petroleum: From geological assessment to physical theory”
In the real world of petroleum engineering we find oil by looking in sedimentary formations, and this entire field of human endeavour, with endless and decades long impetus and effort, would be interested yet bored by the abiotic oil theory, where the earth has a creamy nuogat centre of oil, just bubbling up...... hahahaha.
I think one example of oil adjacent to basal rock has been found, in all of oil exploration ever. My brother is a petroleum geologist, we have had many and many a discussion. If reservoirs refill, and why that might be (it is debatable) it is certainly far too slow a process to help with our dilemma.
And I should say, whereas my brother sneers at the idea of abiotic oil I am not so sure. I note Titan is awash in methane and ethane, I note blobs of what appear to be 'hydrocarbons' have been spotted in interstellar space, light years across.
But in the real world of accessing the stuff, whatever its origin, we got the cleverest folk on the planet trying to figure XYZ to get more of it. And we are reaching limits on that extraction rate. Nucs or go back to horse and buggy, that is the short term (50 year) horizon.
If you aren’t even trying to understand the mechanism, and instead throw out crazed analogies (“creamy nougat of oil”) then perhaps you aren’t the expert truth-seeker and are just another tool.
Nukes are our long term solution, but we don’t need to worry about Peak Oil. If oil somehow becomes scarce, the price climbs, and those thousands of marginal producing fields become economical. There, I solved Peak Oil for you.
It is a start, the USAAID money-laundering operation.
What else remains to be uncovered?
There are other thoughts out there, running a bit cautionary. Naomii Wolf has opined some of the opening of books at Treasury, supposedly read-only, offer quite a bit of information about cobtracts and competition potentially useful to those do ing the uncovering.
Remember what Musk did to the ideologues of Twitter? You are witnessing Musk’s attack mode, and I hope it continues into other governmental agencies. Military, SSA, welfare and especially immigration. Get involved and study, remove the surplus hangers-on, up to 90% of them, streamline the operation and collect revenue. That is Musk.
One cautionary note though. Can the USA keep its population employed? The Depression was caused by doing people out of work, sharecroppers for example, without a back up plan to re-employ them. They all went to the cities, and stood in breadlines. It took WW2 ten years later to finally get the 25% surplus back to work. With “Muskian” treatment will the laid off folks have an economic home to retreat to, other that flipping burgers. Protection of the workplace is important here, we do not need to Hoover ourself into another catastrophe.
"3. Lots of people have health issues now. We have a lot of excess deaths we did not have before, and those are people of working age." ~ shibumi
Yes, excess deaths remain well above the statistical long term yearly average. In addition, according to Ed Dowd, in Cause Unknown, vaccine disabled - no longer able to work - number about 3.5 million. Out of a labor force of 168 million, that's right at 2%.
Next time you're at an event with 100 people, look around, and see if you can spot the two people who can no longer work or provide for their families, because their lives have been ruined by the "vaccine".
If AI can do a job, fire the person. Great way to cut costs. Let the people die under bridges. Prosperity! You will own nothing and you will be happy. Capitalism can get us there just as Communism can. Go west to get to the East. Still with me? No, right?
I want treason trials open to the public and tribunals to unearth the many crimes against humanity.
I want zero confidentiality and absolute public disclosure in minute detail.
I want mandatory death sentences with no possibility of extenuating circumstances. I want public executions on K Street NW a la the Abraham Lincoln case.
I want school textbooks rewritten to reflect all of it. I want entire families and multiple generations of elite criminals ruined forever.
They love their golem, Trump! They are not liberal or conservative, nor Capitalist or Communist, even. They are for themselves. All of these are just vehicles for them, to be abandoned in a New York second if a better one comes along. The absolute Clarity of Vision! If only we could be for ourselves like they are. That's what National Socialism was all about. Obviously they had to crush it - and the economic miracle it was creating - before it spread to other nations.
Every day is like Christmas with Trump in office. The minute I wake up I have to go online to see who he's pissed off now. I love it! Maybe now this country will finally turn around. I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes, but it will sure be nice to maybe someday see a little more in my paycheck.
Only he had better watch his insane ideas about Gaza. They could be his undoing.
America First means less and less foreign entanglement not making Gaza the 51st state.
Might want to read "Art of the Deal." Trump has always made proposals that sound preposterous only to get others to get off their backsides and do what's best for all parties involved. And always at a discounted price.
Exactly. The Gaza takeover seems to be an attempt to get the neighbors involved in community cleanup. The Palestinians managed to turn some of the most attractive Mediterranean real estate into an oozing overpopulated eyesore. No one wants to take them in, probably for very good reasons.
I am going to say something that may be deemed unpopular but I am opposed to Trump doing this in Gaza. I am so tired of the US spending money WE DO NOT HAVE (more debt) in nations across the pond. This has no benefit whatsoever to Americans here! Our Country is collapsing, our infrastructure is crumbling and Trump is talking about rebuilding Gaza? Hey, I respect Mr. Trump. He is a man towering over most men. But I am at whits end when a nation that is $36 trillion in debt is still tinkering with rebuilding some shithole in a foreign nation. How does rebuilding Gaza help me living in the Rocky Mountains of Utah? If he's talking private investment in the rebuilding then kudos to them. But the USA is busted. We have to stop spending so much money.
You're right. WE can not afford it. But a consortium of venture capitalist can. The U.S. will simply be the project manager putting it all together. And taking our little mordida along the way.
Of course.
Capitalism will destroy everything it touches. Cuba is a communist shit hole, but at least its beaches are still beautiful and aren't ringed with 40 story condo buildings from Florida to Virginia. When I was a kid, my buddy's parents had a house on the beach in Apalachicola. From the deck, you couldn't see another house. I was taking a piss at a truck stop a couple years ago. The trucker at the urinal next to me remarked: "Pretty soon this whole fucking country is going to be nothing but Walmarts and gas stations." More wisdom than you could find in the Ivy League.
Yes, we are spending more than we have. $36trillion in debt. We know and everyone else knows that amount of debt cannot possibly be repaid. Cannot happen. Ever.
Accepting the fact that maybe foreign policy should focus on getting the responsible parties to own up and pay their dues? Can you say NATO? The Mideast?
Mebbe that stance will actually strengthen the belief in US integrity. That will take a lot.
And don't forget, the US has Nukes.
Well Cankerpuss, maybe in his thinking, if we get rid of Hamas by interceding, we will not have to send as much military aid to Israel and may actually save money? To Trump, and any other real estate type, growth is the answer to most problems. Gaza is growth. So is SoCal.
John's Christianity is long on belief and short on morality. He believes in Israel far more than he believes in Christ.
“Gaza is growth”???? Are you insane?
Are your children and family being murdered daily? Is your family being forced to move out of your homeland?
I suggest you do your research outside of msm. It would behoove you.
Trump likes to "fire for effect". In other words he's putting out what seems to be an outrageous idea only to gauge the reaction and get people to talk about it. Pros and cons get discussed and what seemed foolish at first becomes possible then likely.
The US won't spend a dime on Gaza but the Gulf State trillionaires certainly will.
I would have less of an objection (but not zero or approval) for the Gaza thing if Israel payed for 100% of it and we stopped gifting all that money and unanimous new-law votes in their behalf. I don't think it's "nationalism plus Israelism" - we need to restore our house before we save anyone else any more.
Likely unpopular... and I'm not that versed in exactly WHY the U.S. is so all-in to support Israel. So, as the meme says, change my mind. I'm genuinely curious and perplexed b/c I see no reason for it at this time.
Easy. The Jews control our financial system and thus our nation. Being a nation without borders whose locus is Israel, Israel is their first concern.
Why would America care if we ruled ourselves? Washington said in his Farewell Address: Stay out of foreign wars.
That is easy.
Israel is being used as a proxy force against Iran.
You know the country that has called Israel Little Satan and called the US big Satan.
Iran decided to support one of its enemies in a proxy war against Israel and the US namely Hamas and it has only gotten worse.
Even more to the point when Obama and Biden handed over hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran, they used the money to fund battles in and around Israel.
Now Iran desperately wants nukes, and the cult Ahmadinejad and the ruling clerics belong to will use them first chance they get.
They don't care about Palestinians anymore then Hamas does it's about destroying Israel and then the US as well as the west.
There is nothing new here this has been going on for a thousand years just an ebb and flow in the clash of civilizations.
So now the “Jews” are doing exactly what they’ve been harping about since WWII…genocide.
Gaza is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Amazing…
And they actually believe they are morally superior to us with their Bronze Age morality. Why do you put Jews in quotes btw? It is true that many are against what is being done, but most are for it.
I put “Jews” in quotes, because they are not real Jews from that area of the world (bloodline). They are not from the Middle East, but they are from Europe.
It is ethnic cleansing genocide not so much.
One of the Arab countries should take in the group of people no one in the world wants anything to do with.
That might have something to do with seventy years of hate for everyone and everything instilled from birth on the rabid Palestinians that bite every hand that tries to help them.
Why not relocate all the Israelis to Silesia? The Israeli ruling class is descended from Eastern Europeans. Silesia was a historically German area ripped taken from Germany after WW2 and given to Poland (and the German-speaking people who lived there for generations there were forced to leave by Soviet troops).
These Germans (along with those in the Sudetenland) were ethnically cleansed, were they not? The largest refugee migration in post-WW2 Europe. These German refugees played key part in the West German economic miracle, as they started over.
So, why not relocate the Zionists to Silesia and rename it New Israel?
My…you are brainwashed.
Harping? Seriously? You need to go back to your “refuge” and beg forgiveness. You’re antisemitic and a pretender. Shame on you.
Found the jew
Right. Like when a psycho beats a dog into being more and more violent. Then nobody wants that dog. "Very good reasons" indeed!
Ask Christy Noem about how to treat dogs, especially when they're "hard to handle".
Have you seen her new cos-play military uniform? And those lips!
God…wake up.
Amen, Renee!
👋 Take care of you! 💜
Love you Bandit! Peace sister in Christ!🕊️💜
The Gulf states have a Plan to rebuild Gaza. Just get the pesky Israelis out of the way. Bring in American and UN Troops to keep Israel in check. Do the same on the West Bank.
Think outside the Zio Box.
No to all the above.
Arabs and Whites will work together to turn Gaza in the Riviera and Las Vegas. Jews will work for us while we sit like Effendi watching them.
Effendi is a Turkish word. It also Arabic? If so, who took it from whom?
That appears to have worked internationally.
And things that sound gasp-worthy and pearl-clutchingly audacious at first end up being normalized later... for better or worse.
Exactly. Like sending Israel $4,000,000,000/year of US taxpayer debt to finance apartheid concentration camps. It has gone from unthinkable to standard operating procedure.
I appreciate that you mentioned the money spent is "taxpayer debt." It isn't money. We have no money. Technically, we are the poorest nation on the planet. $36 trillion poor.
BRICS will pull the pin on the fiat US$ one day.
We're in the middle of the death of the dollar. We've been warned about it for years, and now it's happening. I think that everything Trump is doing is to stave off collapse.
The US doesn't send more money to Isreal than any other nation in the world, nor did the US and Allies create Isreal, to protect Jews, protect the Christian Holy Lands, make amends for the holocaust, or anything else. The US sends money to Isreal to maintain a heavily nuclear armed outpost for the US within striking distance of the entire Middle East.
It's same reason we are sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine and the reason we screwed up the Balkans and left them with a Gaza-type situation to clean up in our wake in the 1990s. It has nothing to do with religion (by the way, there are more Neo-Nazis than Jews in both those places). Muslims wanted an outpost in the West from which their weapons could strike Western Europe and Serbia was ready to provide it. Europe has no defense other than NATO, and therefore we were the last line of defense to stop Muslims from creating their own "Isreal" in Europe.
If those who look at everything through a "Stop the Zionists" lense could take a peek around their lense, they might think critically about all the ways the US having it's very own outpost right next door to Isreal would change many dynamics of the complicated relationship between the US and our "closest ally" Isreal. For starters, we wouldn't need to send them $4 trillion and most of our tech every year.
There is confluence of interest between Zionism and Imperialism for sure.
That said, please tell us, which nation (other than "aid" to "Ukraine", most of which is used to fund US entities, and some of that buys arms that go to Ukraine for a US-sponsored proxy war) gets more aid than Israel?
You are confused as to which is the dog and which is the tail.
I hope this is negotiation bluster.
Bingo.
That's exactly what the Panama Canal and Greenland ideas did. And the tariffs. And the NATO spending. He's using seemingly outrageous ideas to bring people to the table, if only out of fear.
My read on this “idea” was that Trump was loudly proclaiming two things: we cannot continue doing the same things and expect different results; the “two state solution” is dead. RIP
Exactly, and that means shutting down the exploits of Iran.
Right. Nuke a nation that has never done anything to us because Israel and the golden pager.
Never did anything to us? Didn't they hold an entire embassy hostage during the Carter Administration? Held them for months while the ineffectual Carter tried to get them released. Regan got them released on his inauguration day, They've been our avowed enemies since the day they deposed the shah.
You probably think that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict started on October 7, 2023. Am I right?
Can't you see that the USA has been the Iranian people's avowed enemy since its 1953 coup in THEIR country?
The USA goes stomping all over earth and then is indignant when the people of earth don't like their stomping!
Iran is responsible for the deaths of thousands of American servicemen through terrorism they’ve sponsored
The US deep state and Mossad blew up 3000 of your own people in one go. I'd clean up at home first.
Hmmm ... maybe if you ceased running earth for your corporate profits there'd be no reason for terrorists. Have you ever thought of that?
The CIA engineered the overthrow of Iran's elected leader, Mossadegh, in 1953, and put the (then young) Shah of Iran in charge, because the British wanted to control Iran's oil.
The Shah and his secret police executed hundreds or thousands of people and tortured many more.
That's blood on America's hands.
History did not start in 1979.
What is "terrorism"? What was the US firebombing of German and Japanese cities, culminating in the nuclear destruction of two of them?
Good thinking.
Hope you’re right.
USAID is nothing compared to AIPAC that has Trump’s balls in a basket in Israel.
Pick on the big boys in the MIC if you want to address the real Deep State.
Watch Hegseth, he is the key.
Right. Hegseth will pluck the low-hanging fruit (LGBTQ+) but will quietly bite a pillow while AIPAC rams him from behind.
Phil out of the 20 top lobbies in DC AIPAC is 19th on the list.
Why do you ignore the 19 that precede ot in size?
Because AIPAC lobbies for a foreign government while refusing to register as a foreign government lobby.
Because every member of Congress has an AIPAC "handler." No other lobby has such sway.
Because I don't believe that there are truly 18 lobbies that "top" AIPAC.
Because Trump took $100M from Mariam Adelson that was AIPAC money without counting in your list.
That's just quickly off the top of my head.
Israel runs DC. Sad but true.
Because he is a Jew hating marxist.
Boom!👍💥
Palis out! The Temple is rebuilt. The Antichrist manifests. John worships him.
Who is your Anti-Christ this year?
Trump? He's the one you're worshiping anyway.
USAID, AIPAC, MIC…take your pick. They ALL don’t hold America First.
👍https://www.trackaipac.com/
That would be 52nd, after Canada.
The Empire Expands The Inexhaustible Hegemony.
I agree with you on this. I love what Trump is doing so far, but his idea about Gaza is so bad that I can only hope that it's only some type of negotiating tool. Another bad idea I keep hearing from Trump is about establishing a federal bitcoin reserve. I hope he comes to his senses on these two things.
"I can only hope that it's only some type of negotiating tool"
It is.
Said it before, I'll say it again: he's basically telling the jews and Arabs "get your shit together, or Big Bad Uncle Sam is going to barge in."
Trump is all about asking for way more than he expects to get, in order to achieve desired outcomes. Brilliant.
The Golden Pager. Bibi can call him anytime he starts to get out of line.
How many Americans will die trying to remove the ferocious Palis from Gaza?
Now it's being said that the golden pager contains a listening device. Trump was also gifted a regular pager, btw.
I can tell you they run bug trackers through all the spaces in the whitehouse.
All of them.
Interesting take, Astera. I think there is some logic in what you are saying.
You are right. In Adm. #1, he tried to assist them in “getting their shit together” with the Abraham accords. It almost worked, even with Biden. The accords were going to be signed and Oct. 7 happened, the response by Iran to stop the process of pacification of the ME. Iran stands for one thing, the Mullahs anyway, and that is violence and war. Bibi , IMO, gave up too soon, again caving to world opinion and the USA to NOT wipe out Hamas. Ceasefires have been a joke for 70 years, just another pause to allow Iran to re-arm Hamas and Hezbollah. I hope that Israel closed down those southern tunnels to prevent the transportation of weaponry into Gaza.
In the meantime, here are all the Dems pushing to just let things go as they have. It fits the mold, expecting different results over and over. Insanity!
Just like socialism, the perennial failure.
SSL, is this you? If yes, a hearty "hello my dear" from the Heckler.
Marlin, Nova, I believe.
Oops! Thanks JAZ. My apologies to Astera.
I'm with you James. We can no longer afford to spend money we don't have (debt) rebuilding war torn nations. This is a bad idea.
WE have the same two concerns.
It's basically the same as the CCP song, How I love to haul manure up the mountain to fulfill Mao's Dream. We need those hotels, Tony. More rich people have to get more rich at the expense of everyone.
He wants the USA to be the leader of a coalition of ME countries to stop fighting and start building up their area. Sorta like Dubai. The UAE has turned the desert into an international focus. To be able to stop the negative Hamas in Gaza and allow free access for development, Iran must be neutralized.
I do have a question for Trump, if he deports all the Palestinians to Arab lands, who is going to build the Gaza dream? Could he mean deport all the Hamas criminals, sorta like here.
Since the U.N. and a vast majority of countries in the General Assembly recognize Palestine along pre-1967 borders (U.N.Resolution 242), the Palestinian people own Gaza and the West Bank plus East Jerusalem. It is their property and for them to decide who re-builds it.
It is their legal trillions in LNG off the Gaza coast.
The Palestinians need new elections and perhaps all the Palestinians exiled to Lebanon would choose to return? Hamas would win an election in a landslide.
I would like to see China/Russia come in to Gaza to rebuild how ever the Palestinian people choose. Russia could handle the LNG deposits and the proceeds would make Palestine a very rich state.
New hospitals, schools, universities, homes, shops. This is what they deserve for enduring 70 years of living in the largest open-air concentration camp on Earth.
Trump needs a weekend at Camp David with Professor Jeffery Sachs, Col. MacGregor, Larry Johnson etc. to receive an honest tutorial on the history of the region. Throw in an hour on the 1953 CIA coup of the democratically elected leader of Iran to ‘splain to Mr. Trump why Iran has hated the U.S. over decades.
Then pray he goes back to The White House with his head on straight and starts whistling a different tune.
The people of Iran DO NOT hate the USA, the Islamic government does. The Mullahs are just barely holding on to power from election to election. There is a large secular movement there that is being clobbered by the Islamic government, but not for long.
"It is their property and for them to decide who re-builds it"? Or who blows it up? Russia could handle the LNG deposits? So why haven't they? Or China? How come Trump has been the only world leader to express a desire to help the Gaza people, instead of re-arming them? It would be nice if new hospitals and schools would be built as something other than a cover for rockets, missiles and weaponry so the Iran proxies can raise hell.
"the Palestinian people own Gaza and the West Bank plus East Jerusalem"
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Iron rule # 1 in geopolitics:
"The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must"
~Thucydides, Athenian general circa 400 bc.
Nope. He specified "all" and defined that to be 1.7M or 1.8M devastated souls.
Forced relocations of people never go well. Just ask the Cherokee.
"Israel" now demands that Ireland and Spain take them for daring to call what they're doing genocide. All good men are against "Israel"! Even many Jews.
So? Are you a good man? Or just another overblown ego?
Greater Israel's not going to survive without bringing in millions of Black Africans. Considering their long involvement in the slave trade, this is simply the right thing to do and the world must demand it.
I was just about to reply the same thing, Irish!! Nearly everyday is at least one mind blowing event!! The world has changed so much in two weeks!! A great time to be alive!!
I agree Tomaso. So much has been exposed and they're only just getting started! You know they must be doing something right when you see how upset the Democrats are. Now that Trump and JD and Elon are exposing all of this corruption and grift, there's going to be no way that the Dems can put that genie back in the bottle. Now the whole world will know what treasonous acts they've committed in order to enrich themselves.
JHK is going to have to start publishing CFN on a daily basis just to keep up. This article is already outdated.
Restack and add on…
I'm game for that!
Coffee and Covid blog is running daily updates about Trump's exploits.
I bet, RFK junior, Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard will get confirmed. I remember seeing the propaganda start in the 1970's in All in the family. Archie was the stupid one. I stopped watching t.v. years ago. The sitcoms just normalize bad behavior. I remember seeing a gay character in All in the family. I would just roll my eyes and I was 12. I remember all those shows like Carter Country where the media did it's best to keep Jimmy Carter in place. I don't think he was corrupt, but they didn't want someone smarter in there. I remember that show Alice and one day at a time, it was all about divorce, and how great it was to be liberated. Mary Tyler Moore was the original cat lady without the cats. She was having a great time with her single friends. I like to use the language program duo lingo. Almost all the characters in Duolingo are Asian, and black. There are no native Americans and a token white person is in it. There is no nuclear family in that program at all. Everything in the program is gay and trans. That just doesn't square with real life. They would slip in comments about how great Beyounce is and how building a wall is immoral. They taught me to say: build bridges not walls, like 1000 times. The program also taught me to say, the definition of family has changed a thousand times. The single father in the program is always discussing his love life with his 8-year-old son. I bet they were getting USAID money. I like the program, but the content is ridiculous.
TV has normalized so, so many bad things. On some level, I blame the Mary Tyler Moore show for convincing me that a career is better than having a family. How many other young women were influenced in the same way?
And don't get me started on "Maude" or even the seemingly innocuous "The Love Boat."
And Television today is far worse today. Watched a show the other day called "House" that openly promotes full one adultery. Not watching that one again.
The tel-lie-vision is all about “programming” the sheeple ;)
Love American Style : I remember the episode of Frances and Francis!
Oh the Love Boat was filthy. I watched a couple episodes of that and good Lord. Nasty stuff.
The movies from that era are sickening too. Blazing Saddles is a transgressive, anti-white, anti-Christian pile of shit that should be banned.
I also believe even the bad Republicans will capitulate to the pressure coming from the MAGA wing of the party.
Yes Anna Yes.
Living in a society such as this one should expect to pay their fair share. I don't mind paying state taxes. I get direct benefit from those taxes. I have nice roads to drive my cars on. My children had decent educations in a once decent public education system. Federal taxes? What direct benefit do I get from the taxes I pay? Nothing. And don't tell me my taxes keep me safe from thugs in dirty nightshirts in shithole countries on the other side of the world. I don't give a damn about Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Ukraine, and all of the other places and I certainly have never met anyone from these countries bent on killing me. Never.
Trump’s plan is to reduce federal taxes by cutting wasteful spending and transferring programs that can be handled by the states, to the states. The Department of Education and many federal healthcare programs come to mind.
Doing this will force states to similarly cut their expenses and become more efficient. Large state tax increases won’t be tolerated. It’s a lot easier to throw the local bums out in the statehouse if they misuse our money.
Why send our tax dollars to Washington, only to have it pass through the bureaucracy before it comes back to us, being reduced to pennies on the dollar?
I am very happy that I lived long enough to see this day. My only complaint is that Trump keeps pushing the mRNA death jabs. Aside from that, he'd be a perfect candidate for Mt Rushmore.
Trump FUNDED the Operation Warp Speed…it should bother you.
Trump's continued lie that OWS was helpful does bother me a lot.
"Every day is like Christmas..." ~ Irish
youtu.be/bBFHUyVAch4?si=4ZqIoRtKaxnHjtdJ
Merry Christmas, Irish.
Thanks for the link, Zazzy.
Dreamy should like those rotating snowflakes.
She will, and one of the things I love about her is her always genuine and gracious appreciation. She's the kind of girl that just makes you want to do nice things for her.
So, December's a ways off, but I can imagine the cafe open by then, and listening to Bing, in front of a crackling fire, with hot chocolate, close friends and warm intimate conversation.
Dreamy's fine, Ron, but I have tangoed with her before and in any case would be cautious about putting anyone on some kind of pedestal. I would even argue that some expectations may inadvertently risk placing too high a standard and therefore pressure on someone.
It is important to keep in mind, too, that one's perception and experience of reality is of course going to, by necessity, differ from others'.
Personally, I prefer that whoever feels free to fail sometimes and have bad days and so forth and yet still feels accepted and acceptable.
Zazzy, the pedestal days are behind us - it is, or is becoming, a meritocracy again. My personal perception is she's earned my respect and affections. But as you say - in your abundance of wisdom - "perceptions may vary".
Both points well-taken.
It has been an impressive 2 weeks on the home front indeed. But, on the international front, Trump has laid down his hand for all to see.
The first step to fix any issue entails an honest objective assessment. The world has been watching and listening for the assessment, but instead, they find that Trump's plan is to dazzle them with showmanship and BS.
A good deal is when both sides are willing to accept either position, and in regard to Trump's proposal for Gaza and the Palestinians, I would venture a guess that the Palestinians would unanimously accept trading positions with Trump, and Trump and his cohorts would unanimously decline to trade positions with the Palestinians.
That which is being lost in the noise, is that the game is played-out, where the end game is marked by disparity, and the solution is a game reset. But instead of an honest objective assessment and a viable solution, Trump and Bibi run a shell game on the citizens of the world.
"Joe Biden" has opened the door wide, and handed Trump a blank check to deal with the issues and shape a new format for life. Trump has an opportunity to become one of the greatest leaders in all of history, to usher in his vision of A Golden Age with peace throughout the world, but in 2 weeks time, it becomes obvious that he is nothing but a showman.
The situation in the ME appears to be one where both sides have been abusing each other for decades, and it has evolved to where both sides are at war with each other. Where is the honest objective assessment? It's not coming from Trump or Bibi. Putin might be willing to weigh -in with an assessment, but it doesn't appear that the West has any interest in hearing that which he has to say.
The following is some food for thought in regard to how Trump negotiates.
Distributive Bargaining
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/distributive-bargaining/
... and this highlights the dire need for moral leadership who will treat the citizens of the world with dignity and respect.
Attack Rapidly, Ruthlessly, Viciously, without Rest
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/attack-rapidly-ruthlessly-viciously-without-rest/
Do the likes of Trump and Bibi really want to treat us to a shell game? Does the world have the luxury of time for showmanship?
My 2 cents is that a major objective of the meeting was to clear the ICC charges against Bibi.
And his wife😉!
They needed to set things up so that Bibi can finish the job.
Ray McGovern : What Mossad Tells Netanyahu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apeTSmKG8Ew
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Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground
https://www.972mag.com/tunnels-hamas-lethal-gas-bombs-gaza/
"The investigation also reveals how Israel has known for years that the use of bunker-buster bombs releases the lethal gas carbon monoxide as a byproduct, which can kill people inside a tunnel through asphyxiation even at a distance of hundreds of meters from the strike location."
Life, Liberty & Levin 2/8/25 FULL END SHOW | BREAKING FOX NEWS February 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJbRTf8GHM
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Without an objective assessment, an interview amounts to PR and/or propaganda.
15 to 20 years ago I used to watch PBS NewsHour, as it seemed to be the only MSM that would entertain a variety of perspectives. The news evolved to where it appeared to be in conflict with other sources of information. Then one evening I happened to see Judy and Hillary embrace in what appeared to be a lip-lock. That was the kiss of death.
If there is no time for an honest objective assessment, it isn't worth wasting one's time. Most of MSM has received the kiss of death, and Fox news is at the threshold.
My take from today's news is that Fox News is PR and/or propaganda that is essentially paid for by Trump and/or his administration.
Trump has presented his solution for the Palestinians, which is "you will own nothing, and be happy", which looks to just be a different flavor of the 2030 Agenda.
Discussion is that the Slick Newsom Palisades Smart City will amount to high density housing. Does this address the issue of disparity? What are the odds that this city will look like Gaza at some point within the next 100 years?
Wake up…
It's too bad the exact 100+ year (or maybe since Cain - Matthew 23:35)
history of "Israel"/Gaza can't be suddenly implanted into his brain
I'm here to gather information and get informed, Don, not to join a cult. In fact, i don't know anything about a cult worshipping Kunstler as you suggest. The reason I am encouraged reading this essay is that the Biden Administration and the Obama Administration before it went out of their way to promote an unbalanced view of American life. Celebrating transgenderism, mandating experimental injections, vilifying those who refused the shotds, ignoring the debacle at the southern border, and soaring inflation drove me away from the left and toward the right. To read and become informed here is an independent decision made by this former and lifelong Democrat who was appalled by the choices and priorities of the Biden Administration. I might add I was also repelled by Nancy Pelosi's plan to invade private homes, remove persons testing positive for covid, and inter them in quarantine camps. All of this drove me straight to the Republican side of the discussion. I arrived here not in cultlike obedience but out of my own free will. I want to see the other side of what I'd been hearing for decades.
Well said Maureen! Excellent! Bravo!
Bravo! Well said!
I thought an overthrow of a government took weapons. Hmmm
Wow 😮
As an anarchist, though, I could suggest that the nation-state is a cult, Don, and way worse than cults in general. I've also come across some folks online who think, and have argued, that the nation-state is even a religion.
"We tortured some folks." ~ President Obama
youtu.be/5YBinnWqABQ?si=WoIZO4GwZNtp_26T
If we would abide the Constitution as it was originally intended, get the Senate back to what it was designed to do (represent the states, not the people) and stop using the "commerce clause" or "health and welfare clause" to do any fucking thing the Federal want, and then get a SCOTUS that actually does its job and relegate them back to the basement of the Capitol. We'd never be in this mess. George Washington basically told us to have open trade with foreign nations but to avoid all foreign entanglements. Boy did our forefathers screw that one up.
For the record, China already HAS access to the US Treasury database:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-us-department-of-treasury/
Do they have classified info? Would they admit that China has classified info? Is our personal info considered classified?
So a question: do you feel that fairly extensive abuses of power are being exposed? Is USAID what we all hoped it was all these years?
For that particular my wildass guess is maybe half of those monies went to genuinely useful things. Is it half went to just hideous graft and corruption? What a mess.
Would you prefer we just close our eyes and go back to the good old days? What would YOU do?
EDIT BTW I and many here reject entirely the libs vs conservatives binomial. Its a tool to keep us from talking and understanding what is going on.
OK those are valid suppositions. Trump is acting outside of the law? Is that your view of it?
I agree the Maga folk need to operate within the law. I ALSO have a long standing beef with (in my case) the Canadian judiciary ruling in congruence with an interpretation of the law and clearly in opposition to that nebulous but real construct of 'justice'. My cousin the judge says you have to make rulings in accordance with precedent and the specific wording of XYZ law, justice ain't part of that. And here we are.
Wow 😮
Trump is working hard to de-fund the Democratic Party, while simultaneously deporting much of its voting base. His long-term goal appears to be to end the Democrats as a major political force in the US, and instead turn into a small, extremist party of the coasts and of some wealthy elites. It's a brilliant strategy that, if successful, will have ramifications long after Trump leaves office.
I suspect your analysis of the end game is on the money, Thomas - eliminate the broader base of the Dems. What’s interesting to me is it appears that less effort will be required than I’d assumed. Some very simple things have happened or are happening. First, the common sense declarations such as there are two genders, boys can’t play girls’ sports (or share locker rooms), DEI is toxic, gender surgery on minors is prohibited, etc. These are a cold slap in the face for the leftists, as no one with a lick of common sense would oppose those declarations. Secondly, it appears that mere exposure of the political grift will shock the senses of normal Americans, as there are few people who have ever predicted the magnitude of the grift. Normal Americans find the policies and actions of the Democratic Party to be repulsive and those normals will continue to leave the party.
I hope you are correct with "those normals".
My in-laws haven't got it yet and they are good hearted people.
Same with several in my family. I'm not so sure they're good hearted any more.
Ditto
They will soon!
I fervently pray that the Democrat party is totally eliminated to nothing more than a fragment of itself and that it has no material influence on any aspect of American life.
I dunno. To me the problem is that too many Republicans, Liz Cheney types, were also involved in the deep state funding. Will the Democratic party shrink as it loses money and power? Yes, of course, that is already happening. Will it make some sort of comeback at some point in the next few years? Judging by history, again, yes it will.
I agree. Far too many useless Republicans who need to go, as well.
I've long said, "The less you expect from elected Republicans, the less you'll be disappointed."
Right, and it will come out that lots of them had their hand in the cookie jar as well. Too many were in favor of funding Ukraine, and now President Zelensky has said that most of the funds that were supposedly sent to Ukraine did not, in fact, arrive there. People were, in fact, using Ukraine to launder US taxpayer dollars for their own personal gain, and folks need to be forced to resign from office and be criminally prosecuted for that, people in both political parties.
And every last red cent of property confiscated from these bastards and returned to the US taxpayers.
Yes, as said many times, the Deep State needs to go and no one is more dedicated to doing just that than Trump and his crew. I will not use the word Mob with Trump as they lost their control of the government in January. They are still lurking out there trying to figure out how to torpedo Trump and “win” the next election.
Hey, look around, we have a few of them commenting copious amounts of BS on this blog.
Yep
If you want go to the East, you can east or west. Reality is round. If America conquers the world, voila, Globalism has conquered. I've lost you, right?
Let's hope it does come out, about ALL who were in these play for pay schemes and what they did. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians...all of them. That would be transparency.
Zelensky is a great guy. No more of that Day One shit. Give Trump rare earths and he'll get American boots on the ground.
Some of the money goes to keeping Z's wife happy. Million dollar shopping sprees in Paris, cars, etc. So that much arrived anyway.
Here is my surprised face.
It’s called the uniparty. I found out today that Liz Cheney worked for USAID from 1989-1992. She acknowledged it in an X exchange with Elon.
Well, as the Democrat party shrinks, there are always room for RINOs to cross the aisle.
Conversely, as the grift becomes obvious, there might also be room for ethical Democrats to become Republicans.
Exactly what I expect, the formation of two new parties. GOP and Dems are toast.
I fervently pray that ALL political parties are eliminated and America always comes first for everyone. Political parties have done nothing but spend us into a $36 trillion dollar abyss, wage illegal wars, spend our strength and means, kill our young men and women in wars, ignore the border, supplant the white race with unidentified mutts from the south, grow the government, grow the grift, grow the corruption.
We as a Americans should eschew political parties at all cost. It is a failed system and has done nothing but take from us freedom and wealth, create problems and then refuse to solve the problems.
All of America's problems today come down to 535 individuals in an organization called Congress. Congress is evenly divided between two political parties. Nothing gets done. Nothing done benefits Americans. These 535 fuckers are to blame for it all.
Political parties belong in the ash bin of history.
The founders, especially Washington, were very skeptical of “parties”. We should ALL be Americans putting America first. Our disagreements should be on the best, most efficacious way to support our country and limit our Government
Do mine eyes deceive me but am I reading a comment from someone who read gorgeous Georg's farewell address? Partisan politics, he said, and I paraphrase, will destroy the country as people focus first on the needs of the political party while the country rots.
Way to go Madjack! His farewell address is hard reading as George uses words and grammar most numbskull Americans can't comprehend but it should be required reading for every high school Freshman. IMO.
I believe both parties did try to better America using different formats. Until Obama!
Sorry, John AZ, political parties were bickering and destroying America long before Obama.
Please, America, country over party. Despite Musk, there is no "Planet B".
And Planet “A” is getting more effed up as time passes. Country over party, Yessir!
Trump won't kill off the Democrat Party. Deception and lies will be their kiss of death.
Is he simply de-funding the Democrats or trying to save the US from economic collapse? I'd bet on the latter; it just so happens that many of these high-priced programs also benefitted the Democrat party and individual Democrats.
I think that's a primary goal, but not the end game. He has to destroy the corruption support structure to eliminate all the corrupt politicians and judges. If you turn off the grift, the old timers in Congress will retire if they're no longer getting rich. That will make way for citizen rep's that want to serve their country for some years and then return to home and work.
Republicans/conservatives go along with things like the Ukraine aid b/c they're getting wealthy off it. End that or someone/something else will fill the void left by the defunct Democratic party.
I hope and pray that is NOT what is going on. The binomial libs vs conservatives narrative is IMO just a tool to divide and conquer.
Sure the dems were all in on the nonsense. But your neighbor who voted for Kamala is your ally, should you find a way. Dont let divide and conquer just end up with new 'winners'.
Your last sentence is important for folks of all political stripes to heed. Thank you.
Yes. No more frittering away money by corrupt Democrats. If we are weak and divided, how can we serve Zion? We're gong to be ruled directly from Tel Aviv now via Trump.
Trump.2...remember Trump.1 got the capital moved to Jerusalem...
Jerusalem has always been the capital of Israel, Trump recognized that obvious fact and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
It's not easy to be golem, but it's easier for some than being human.
Wow 😮
Good stuff thank you. And About going after the medical fraud complex, good news everyone: it’s already under way.
Kansas - in conjunction of 5 other states - is suing Pfizer for Veterinarian CEO Bourla’s boldface lying about the COVID-19 injection’s safety & effectiveness with regard to mass miscarriages, myocarditis & pericarditis, death, along with beefy claims that it would stop transmission when they never even tested for it.
Almost no one outside of our circles knows about this lawsuit. How did they keep this quiet? Pfizer buys news advertising, not to sell their poison (their bought and paid for doctors do that), but to prevent these organizations from reporting on their crimes. These fourth estate fifth column whores will not report anything negative on those paying their bills. Whoever has the gold, afterall, makes the wretched rules. Watch (video at bottom): https://substack.com/@tritorch/note/c-90337943
I would like to see all advertising for drug companies stopped. If you can't advertise cigarettes on TV, why should we be subjected to constant, non-stop advertising of drugs whose names we can't pronounce to treat diseases that we've never heard of before? Why can't we go back to a time when we trusted our doctors to tell us what our afflictions are and prescribe what they know is best for us?
Those ads are simply to curry favor from the various networks, insuring favorable coverage should any difficult circumstances arise. The more arcane the disease, the more unpronounceable the medication being advertised, the better. Media outlets charge top dollar for those Ads, and the pharmaceutical companies consider it money well spent ... an insurance policy so to speak.
Big Pharma will argue that they have 1st Amendment rights to advertise their poison. Waiting for Team Trump to make their case that these ads should be prohibited.
Yes!
That genie is long out of the bottle. At this point the entire 'Allopathic' school/protocol needs revamping.
…And remember once a network accepts $ from these pharmaceutical companies it pretty much silences that network from criticizing them. I believe that’s largely their intent.
Ultra-conservative Kansas of all places! Great news! My Primary care guy just quit, and although he wouldn't admit this to me directly, I think a large part of it was being forced to swallow the CV-19 bullshit. He was an early skeptic, but of course turned on a dime as it went on, no doubt due to AMA, HMO, and big pharma pressures.
My doc is the only guy in town who isn't bought out by corporate hellthcare. And he HATES the AMA.
Thank God he said he's gonna work until he dies. But he's getting up there in age. I don't know what I'll do when he's gone.
They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Most doctors are drooling morons. To get through medical school, they have to be less than human. That becomes a habit. To keep their jobs they have to be less than human. That means being stupid too, despite their above average IQ's.
I disagree. With the 'theme' you present.
Folk of all backgrounds were captured, subject, to 'Mass formation. The better educated were MORE susceptible.
Problem with your viewpoint is it implies irredeemable evil, folk beyond redemption.
How are we going to fix things if we got 'our guys' just totally unwilling to allow for 'late bloomers', newly awakened?
Not everything in modern medicine is bad. And the expertise of docs is key to a healthy future.
Somebody wakes up I WILL NOT put them in the 'shoulda known better you are scum' category. That is the path to a bleak future, fully broken between 'me and thou' separation
Only a minority of practicing doctors are members of the AMA.
Was his practice forced by Obamacare to close, with him becoming a 'hospital employee' ?
A very large issue, since this accounts for somewhere near 80% of practices, is the hospital administrators, ever mindful of the bottom line and their bonus, hold the economic anvil over the heads of the physicians. They can drop it at any time.
The result is they practice medicine without a license by directing the physicians regarding how they 'provide' ...
I've concluded that the Primary care docs are nothing more than gate keepers. Anything weird, you get referred to a specialist (for extra $$, of course), and for everything else you get a prescription drug, a lab test of some sort, or a generic instruction (don't eat so much fat, stop drinking so much, stay off it for a few days, etc). Pretty much plug and play, you might as well be interacting with an online algorithm, which not surprisingly, is getting more and more popular now as well. Very little medicine or alleged "health care" going on in my experience.
There is a major change in primary care that has been going on for a while. First, the Hospitalist, hospital employees that take over as the attending when you are in the hospital. A good indication of the grift here is that in your D/C orders, you are to visit your Primary care guy within two weeks of discharge. Double dose of corruption as the primary care guys do not do squat except book keep.
Second - is the incorporation of Primary care guys into large groups. Here in Arizona, we have corporations buying up all the Primary practices and acting as the “staff” for all of them. For a while, hospitals were doing the same, but I believe the corporations have the lead. Let me tell you from experience, the corporate takeover is hideous. When we went to our latest Primary Care guys, my first question was “Are you ever going to sell out?”
As a doctor, you can't go against the advice of your Medical Group. Also, because of the cost of malpractice insurance, you can't afford to be independent.
Therein lies a big problem.
So it sounds like the root problem for doctors is......LOYAS! Attorneys. The most useless profession invented by man. At least prostitutes give something in return for money. Attorneys. Nothing. They just take, take, take. They suck society dry and don't produce a damned thing. And our nation is full of them.
The corporations are now even taking over veterinarian practices. They're the lowest of the low.
Yup!
Looks exactly the same to me.
BOTH of my MD's -- who swallowed the CV19 BS, and would only see patients virtually, for the duration of the madness -- have moved to lucrative (for them) CONCIERGE medicine.
First, you have to pay to be a patient at baseline.
Then you have to PAY MORE (thousands a year) just to have them as Physicians.
While I understand we still live in America and a private practice can respond to market forces as they see fit - no one seems to care what the downstream effects of Obamacare are. What would be harder to untangle is what the Insurance companies and regulations force down their throats. The hospital system under which they practice could care less.
I've tried to raise the issue. NO ONE CARES.
Additionally, our local hospital is sliding rapidly downhill. Run by CEO's and not MD's. Staffing issues are the least of it. It used to be a gem. It is so sad.
My former PCP went to concierge medicine many years ago. He was fed up with being a data entry coder tied to a laptop. Flat out told me it wasn't why he became a physician.
My guy said that as well.
Our local hospital is mostly run by doctors but that doesn't make it better. They get tax money and they have a publicly elected hospital district board but they also have a private hospital board. Story goes that they keep the nefarious topics on the agenda of the private board. 🧐
Very interesting. Long before covid the New England town I was in had hospitals buying out all local private practices when my Dr. went concierge also. I just recently noticed where he has come back into the 'fold' so to speak and is accepting new patients and insurance. His ratings have also plummeted so it seems. It's all too crazy.
Speaking as a retired RN, when the bean counters got into hospital management, they immediately put the blame on the nursing staffs for the patient discontent being reported. It had nothing to do with the understaffing and computerization of the hospital room. Obamacare was the start, I was there, I saw it, I retired because of it.
Just like everywhere the government gets involved, it turns to shit.
The enemy is the mRNA technology messing with stuff it should not be touching. To stop them? Everyone stop the Vaxx, the latest number I have heard is only 20% are getting the boosters. So people are learning. The good news is that more and more folks are doing due diligence regarding their health care and the medical community is no longer trusted.
The fact that 20% of the people are still getting the boosters for a vaccine that doesn't prevent the disease is extremely disheartening to me. Wow.
I am pretty sure it well below 20%? I thought I read single digits across the west.
But yah it is disappointing. Captured ain't in it for those folk.
But consider how less severe their next cold will be.
I think the smaller population states sometimes can lead the way because the big corporations aren't focusing on them. Notice how pharma got the religious vaccine exemptions taken in California and New York, the two most populous democratic states.
I live in Kansas, and our AG, Kris Kobach, has kept an more of an eye on the national scene, less on state matters. My husband is an attorney, and even though he's Republican, he dislikes Kobach for that. Working in an office full of Democrats may have something to do with it too.
IMHO, Kansas WAS considered to be the center of conservative politics in my youth, Wha’ happened, it reminds me of Colorado and now Arizona. Is it being Californicated? The situation in the country now reminds me of Satchmo’s saying, “Look back, they are gaining on you.”
The power of the Leftist drive over the past 40 years , especially in the judiciary is becoming evident right now. The dems were beaten down by the people in election 2024 but here they are again, just like 2016, using the extremely biased federal judges in the Deep State to block everything the people elected Trump to do.
Is it too late to save America from the socialist whores?
The state as a whole is still pretty republican. I live in Lawrence, which is the home of the University of Kansas and so is legitimately a liberal hellhole. We pay a LOT to make homeless people comfortable, and so attract them from several counties around.
Johnson County, which is suburban Kansas City and the most populous county in Kansas, has pretty rigged voting. There are still 4 registered republicans for every 3 registered democrats, but every race from the national races down to state representatives give a 10% point advantage to the democratic candidate beyond what you would expect based on the registered voters. I know - I've paid $50 for the voter rolls there - twice.
All this goes a long way toward explaining the “am I crazy?” problem. Going back years now, even pre-COVID, it’s been a common experience to read the news, see what passes for “public opinion,” wonder if everybody else actually thinks this, and then wonder, “am I crazy?”
As it happens, the answer to “am I crazy?” is “no.” The whole thing was one giant ball of manufactured consent, and, what’s worse, we paid for it. Still, as shocking as that is, there’s one upside: now, we get to see what happens when the money dries up.
We are not crazy, our culture and society IS. I tuned out years ago to "normal" society. I watch from the fringes, while also being in the middle of it (corporate job, etc.). It is very difficult being surrounded by delusional Woke Jacobin Marxists who love their jab and as a result are sick every 2 months. I quit that job though and am free. The future is wide open. No more of that b.s. for me.
I have certainly been thinking this way, and I’ve seen this at work, too. But now I am wondering just how much of the problem actually IS with our culture and society. There are lots of people who buy all this nonsense on their own, of course, but much of what we thought was “culture” appears to have been Paid Promotional Material. So maybe it’s a lot more normal out there than we were led to believe. Could it be so?
I'm sure it's a bit of everything, yes. Our culture has tanked.
JHK has been talking about the lack of a common culture for years. I do not comprehend the USA ever “healing” without a common culture. All we will generate are haters, like so many on this blog.
Ditto
I don’t think my city (MPLS) would have burned for three days if USAID wasn’t involved.
I saw the same in PDX. It was clear that there was money and organization behind those riots. Still kind of hard to believe all that really happened.
Yes! The real situation with the anarchists and their mentor, Soros. is they are just waiting for any excuse. They are progressive Leftists. And they are violent and amorale, a bad combination.
Without Mockingbird Money, legacy media will need to stand on revenue from subscribers (who won’t pay) and advertisers (who won’t pay for nothing). Many propagandists will fold up their tents and howl into the Bluesky echo canyon, for all the good it will do them. Good riddance.
To live in this country, citizens develop an extraordinary tolerance for crazy. Starting with Obama, Globalists cranked the knob to eleven funneled a vast, unthinkable fortune into a full-spectrum madness campaign. Being a lunatic hustler for hire became a viable business model for sixteen years.
America’s tolerance for crazy was pushed to the limit, so we did something even crazier. We elected and stood by Donald Trump. As his triumphant second term begins and the Reign of Error draws to a close, the rat bastards cannot hide from the stark fist of removal.
"...the rat bastards cannot hide from the stark fist of removal." ~ Bob Fitz
Oh, they're going to get fisted alright, Bob. You can make bank on that.
He sounds like a SubGenius.
Glad I'm not the only one wondering if Fitz is Dobbs incognito.
Nah, just a member of the Brother Of Bob (BOB).
I’m getting tired of winning.
You mean BlueCry echo chamber. FIFY.
He has to back away from all that Gaza craziness though. That's not America First.
Someone should rebuild Gaza. There are plans for fabulous beachfront properties where Palestinians can work at. Money to be made by the developers and Palestinians.
Doesn’t have to be the US, but likely we’ll be involved together with Israel, and a few other middle eastern countries (Saudi Arabia, Jordan?).
What makes you think their ambition is to work in the hospitality business?
Catering to elitist SOBs of any nationality?
It’s either that or live in squalor. Their choice, of course.
Are you sure about that? Would the USA be better off if the ME was settled and at peace with itself? How much has the War on Terrorism cost the USA? And not just money.
Definitely America First.
John, why is it our responsibility…ONCE AGAIN!?
Are we not sick of spilling blood and wasting our treasure overseas?
“Beware of foreign entanglements.”
“fold up their tents and howl into the Bluesky echo canyon”I’m a sucker for a good trope. :)
Hope Bondi is up to this task...But no, Trump can't switch horses if RFK, Tulsi or Kash aren't approved by our criminal Senate...That would be a defeat....They must be recess appointed...That's what going to war is all about....Revenge....
Comparing the .gov's shenanigans with the Okefenokee is an insult to the Okefenokee. That is a beautiful and magical place.
That said, here are some things I'd like to see happen:
- Once Tulsi is confirmed (she will be) as DNI director, I want her to tear apart the TSA for putting her on their "watch list."
- I want Bondi to release Epstein and Maxwell's black book files.
- I want to see ALL of Biden's "preemptive pardons" not only revoked, but investigated further, as they obviously point to signs of guilt.
- I want to see the "Federal Reserve" ended. (It's neither "Federal" nor is it a "Reserve")
- I want to see the IRS ripped apart.
- Finally, I'd like to see Hillary go to jail, but that may be asking too much at this point.
I think all of these things are doable with the team that Trump is forming. Especially, DOGE.
If, say, Trump is the Michael Jordan of presidents, then Elon Musk is his Dennis Rodman. Genius. Eccentric. Does the dirty work to get shit done. Gets inside peoples' heads. And has a ball (no pun intended) doing it.
Love your post & common sense
No doubt, her post and common sense love you, Annette. <3
Very good. My adds? The preemptive pardons were done to protect the soldiers of the Mob, the Deep State. Until these folks are throttled, they are a boil on America’s butt. They are the leaders.
Remember Trump’s post card 1040? It was a great idea in 2016 and still is. Disband the IRS, or 90% of it. Run the cards through a reader and allow AI, maybe a good usage, scan out the Tax scofflaws.
Today, Hillary and Sean Duffy are exchanging blows. She is an asshole, period. She has allegedly authorized many assassinations of Dem. Opponents. Jail is preferable but it makes her a martyr. The worst thing you can do is ignore these power people, and I wish Fox would learn that, especially Laura Igraham, who I think puts more Dems on air than Trump folks.
"She has allegedly authorized many assassinations of Dem. Opponents."
Not just Dem opponents.
The Clinton Body Count:
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/arkancide-list-of-clinton-associates-who-died-mysteriously-or-committed-suicide/
+ 330 million. With the exception of the Pakistani's nuking DC, may be your best ever. <3
Tanks, RA.
Now that Trump is in power, I'm gonna have to re-think the Pakis nuking DC. It would have to go off with the advance notice of Trump and his team, so they could get to the bunker, along with a few select Congresscritters like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul. I don't see that happening without somebody leaking something, but who knows. Maybe after a year or two of dealing with the deep state bullshit again, Trump will finally say, what the hell, if we can't drain the Swamp, we'll just have the Pakis boil it away. LOL.
Oh, I'm more interested in the effects - literally and figuratively - of the fallout. Let me see if I can recall your prior comment(s) verbatim. Oh yes, you might die...
It was mandated decades ago that the United State was to have a population of 400 million by 2050. Trump will bring in as many or more than he deports. White Americans have to be replaced at all levels.
What of the Georgia Guidestones? 500 million globally? More likely by 2050, no?
Did you ever get to see those? I did. Surreal. And the whole story behind them, the mysterious "funder" named "RC Christian", it's all so creepy.
Also creepy is how after that "attack" and explosion, they had that shit totally cleaned up and eliminated in the first 24 hrs after. That couldn't have been easy. Clearly, they wanted to minimize the attention drawn to them. Wonder where they took the remains and what they did with them?
I was not fortunate enough to see them, Tee. There's something to them though, that's for sure. You're lucky to have seen them - the memory itself, is residual energy.
Yeah, right? Flesh is grass, here today and gone tomorrow.
Blow up the balloon until it pops. Population problem solved. Cloward-Piven in action. Deer population explodes and then poof, all gone.
Satanic ethics mandate that you have to give a clue or two about your intentions, to warn the Intelligent. It was up for years so that was enough in their book. No need to give the show away once it was game on.
IMO HRC is long gone. Look closer they're all doubles.
Elon Musk is dangerous. He's a frightening individual. I do not trust him. Don't ask me why. It just seems like something is off about him. A wolf in sheep's clothing. I have heard he is a Satanist though I have no evidence of such. Dude gives me the willies.
I think Musk is in it for Musk. Right now, he's doing something I like. Has he done other things I don't like? Of course.
I *suspect* he likes the idea that he's this high-profile person and gets off on it. Which means that he needs to stay on the leash that Trump has put on him. I'm fine with that. As long as he stays on the leash, and does what he is supposed to d.
It's working for me. For now.
Agree.
Musk is Asperger’s. He is not a politician, not even a people person, He is totally results oriented. He will tear down the BS government without concern for the impact on people. Exactly what Trump wanted.
All you people who complain about the government being oversized for years, shut up and let the man do his job.
He is our Himmler.
He is our Ben Franklin.
Anyone who can get things done will have an air of danger about them. Just the price of poker, and right now the game is going very well.
Ha, I like it. Enjoy it while I can? Okay
I hear ya, Cank. For one thing, he's South African. I can't tell you the number of bad experiences I've had with those jerks ever since growing up as a child with some as my neighbors. They've all got chips on their shoulders the size of Teslas.
Speaking of Tesla, it's beyond cheeky of him to use the great and honorable genius Nikola Tesla's name for his car company. I'll never forgive him for that.
But he's serving a purpose for now, and I'm OK with him going scorched-earth on all the .gov assholes. Which is worse, when it gets down to it?
That is interesting. Honestly, I'm not trolling.
My 'visceral' response to Musk is quite different. I thought, I FELT, I detected a live human being, free on the earth, who has taken a stand and decided to go 'all in' on the side of Good, and who recently, last few years, realized Evil is a thing, and Evil things are underway......
Time will tell, I believe.
No trolling taken. I appreciate a good rebuttal.
Like I admitted, I am not a Musk expert. Don't know the guy. Never met the guy. Will never meet the guy. Don't really care to meet the guy. For all I know he could be a loving Dad and his intentions are entirely sincere.
Something just feels off about him. I can't identify it or put a label on it. It's just a gut feeling I get when I hear him or when I see him in action.
Again, he is not a politician! Unbound, he would lay off 90% of the federal government and streamline the rest to operate better than before. That is why the Dems hate him, he really wants to streamline government, not give lip service to it like every GOP wannabe has been for 70 years.
He almost died from the covid vaxx.
Without Musk, Twitter would have been censored all the way to the election. There would have been no twitter files. And Musk's infusion of money wouldn't have happened.
There is a VERY strong chance Trump wouldn't have been elected. And even if Trump had won, we would very likely not be having the success that DOGE is cranking out right now.
That's not going to happen. Those are Tribal interests. Bad food and bad pharma too. Big money is not going to be touched. Remember, Private good!
Providence has reasserted its blessings upon our country. No one has reason to fear retribution as only justice will be meted out on a scale never seen before.
'The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.'
Yes, time to go out and kill again. Invade Greenland and then Iran. Make Anti-Semitism a crime punishable by death as in the old Soviet Union. Put the Palis in other Arab countries and then bomb them there.
No shite, lol
I want to see the international network of algorithmic proof of exactly how the 2020 election was stolen and who was involved. Because it most definitely was. Then nail them.
Yes, unimpeded by our biased judiciary.
CT-
Me too.
Trump is my hero. This is the first time I've been ecstatic in years and have hope for our country. But...we need to watch out for the snakes, rats and other vermin coming up from the swamp and they never stop. MAGA and safe and sane and financially safe, etc., etc. and all good things for America again.
Even if everything he is doing is a big ruse, one cannot discount the amazing entertainment value.
I suppose we're in the middle of his newest reality series. LOL.
The irony of AOC calling Musk "unintelligent." These people have zero self-awareness.
Is Musk really that intelligent? He never invented anything, he’s more of a businessman who buys things brilliant people create. His enthusiasm about Mars seems kind of foolish to me, quite frankly
Never invented anything? Boy, what a bunch of crap this blog knows about Musk. He is the technical leader and financier of everything he has done. he knows more about the programs than anyone who works for him. He is a slave driver, alienating many former employees. He has invested every dime he has made into new enterprises, each one paying off in the billions. He is responsible for X.Com, Pay Pal, which profits he invested into Tesla, whose profits he invested into Space-X, whose profits he invested into Twitter.
Read his Bio before writing any more bullshit about the man. Until then, you are speaking out of ignorance. And by the way, Musk’s goal is the electrification of the USA and the phasing out of fossil fuels. Tesla would be proud of his name on this company as that is exactly what he wanted a hundred years ago.
"Musk’s goal is the electrification of the USA and the phasing out of fossil fuels." ~ JohnAZ
John, electricity as we use it, is not an energy source, it's a means of transmission. Fossil fuels are energy sources - fuel oil and coal - used to generate electricity.
"Tesla would be proud of his name on this company as that is exactly what he wanted a hundred years ago." ~ JohnAZ
Probably not. What Tesla wanted - electrical energy is free - pulled right from the atmosphere - it just needs to be harnessed. Nikola Tesla knew how and would have provided (harnessed) electricity for free.
Remember paying ridiculous amounts of money for long distance phone calls from here to Topeka, because wires? What about now? Dial 'em up on your cell phone. How, with no wires?
His contemporary - Thomas Edison - concurrently pioneered DC electricity, which required a wire to every structure for distribution, which required the end user to write a check every month, in perpetuity, to the provider.
Ok, which inventor do you think the Rockefeller's financed? And which one do you think, they "disappeared" all his work and records.
The Gov still has all Nikola Tesla's work product. Do you think Zuck and his ilk - the billionaire class - are worried about powering up their remote hidey-holes? Probably not.
Whether batteries, MGs, solar or wind, the source is part of the electric system. Electrification in Musk's eyes, Tesla, involves generation and usage of electricity. BTW, George Westinghouse and JP Morgan were involved in the decision making on electrification. BTW, did you know that Musk is getting ready to release a cell phone?
I suspect he's trying to give people a dream, like Kennedy gave people a dream with the moon goal.
I think he knows making it to mars would be ridiculously hard, and that we haven't even made it to the moon yet. He's probably going to get the contract to supply the 20 "tanker rockets" that will be needed for a manned moon mission.
By the way, if you have access to X's grok, ask it what technical challenges remain to go to the moon.
"we haven't even made it to the moon yet"
THANK YOU!!!!
"Is Musk really that intelligent?" I don't think so.
I saw Musk on the famous doobie-smokin' Joe Rogan episode. Musk was talking about something "techie" - I don't remember exactly what - and his explanation was at a high school dropout level of expertise, as if he had no understanding of the technical underpinnings of the subject.
Now of course a lot of people will say, "He was totally high dude, cut him some slack." Even if Musk was so high that he was on the edge of some kind of spiritual epiphany, he would still remember the mechanics of any technological advances he may have been involved with. Contrary to popular belief, cannabis does not erase your mind and turn you into a slobbering vegetable - but it does make doing math in your head an ordeal. Musk's whole stoned act was nothing but a cheap ploy to draw in more disciples (from that awesomely apathetic demographic) - and it worked. A big chunk of the stoner population is now convinced that "the richest man in the world" is going to save us from "the richest men in the world" - and build us a totally cool party pad on Mars, and feed us Brain Chips until we are as smart as he is!
Musk is a psy-op - just like Trump, Biden, Obama, Jobs, Gates, etc. A made (as in manufactured) man. His job is to grab us by the emotions and drag us into the appropriate corral.
My son agrees with you. I am not so sure.
In Musk I detect, I FEEL, I intuit, that he is yes a deeply flawed human being, but also one of great talent, and influence.
My hope, and yes prediction, is that he is what he says he is, trying to right the course of the Titanic before it hits that berg. My guess is that he NOW understands evil forces are attempting the takedown of 'western' civilization and he is adamantly opposed. He may be pondering whether good and evil are actually involved in a struggle? Trump has said God chose him, these people, the MAGA team, feel they are engaged in a struggle which goes beyond the secular world of power and money and nucs. Perhaps they are.
They will make plenty mistakes. But I would be cautious assuming same old.
I think you’re smoking the Drapes. Musk isn’t that bright sounds like you have both feet planted firmly in the air.
Come on seriously?
"Contrary to popular belief, cannabis does not erase your mind and turn you into a slobbering vegetable..." ~ Blackbird
LOL
The Workshop in Antarctica needs more men like you. Don't worry there is a heated pool in this lost city. Just ignore the sign that says, This is not a pool.
Musk is controlled by our rays. It's something like Elmer Fudd on a windy day getting different hats.
Another blog, another chance for Lugh to show his ignorance.
Talk about a learning curve: Trump I was a babe in the woods, but Trump II is the Alpha Grizzly Bear. While the glass of milk is still far from full - I hate most of his foreign policy, and his energy policy is a fantasy - I am thrilled at the comprehensive ferocity of his attack on The Blob.
Team Trump has to have anticipated from the start that colossal forces would be arrayed to impede him at every step, and their strategy is exactly what is required: Shock and Awe. Knock them off their feet so hard that they can’t figure out what hit them. And who even dared hope that Bobby and Tulsi may actually be confirmed.
The great mistake would have been a Truth and Reconciliation approach, ending in a big group hug, as if these bastards actually had good intentions that went astray. What we need is Truth and Retribution: you purposely tried to destroy this nation, we do not forgive, and we damned sure won’t forget.
For far too long the Donkeys and the Elephants have been symbiotes, sharing the same agenda when it comes to the big issues, and when it comes to the biggest ones – serving corporate interests and perpetuating endless wars - it appears that they will continue to be on the same team.
But their bifurcation on divisive social issues finally led to the nation’s Mass Formation Psychosis, and half of our fellow citizens are now convulsing from the shock therapy being administered. We should all re-watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as inspiration for the task that lies before us.
"Shock and Awe", yes, exactly.
Howard, I am calling you out on your first comment. You hate his foreign and energy policies. Other than Israel, what would you suggest to trump if you had his ear?
I am reluctant to condemn Israel geocide against the Palestinians on this forum. Taken on its face, I also disregard any proposed settlement in Ukraine that tries to pretend that Russia has not won the war. That said, I recognize the fact that Mr. Trump is a master of misdirection, and that his current position on Ukraine may be tactical, to avert neocon criticism, while actually working something out with Mr. Putin. As for energy, pretending that we are Saudi America and can achieve long-term energy independence is ludicrous. Trump's position nine years ago was to end NATO and normalize relations with Russia, in which case we could benefit from Russia's gas via a rebuilt Nordstream pipeline. If that is still the president's hidden agenda, then I totally approve.
Let me add that it's stupid for Trump to hope to destroy BRICS. BRICS is the future, whether we like it or not. He may as well declare that gravity is outlawed.
Imagine the Founding Fathers saying, I'm reluctant to speak against Britain on cobblestones laid by Tories. Or if paper makers weren't for the Revolution, then the Declaration of Independence couldn't have been written.
But yes, these Trump Cultists are nuts. Ordinary people lose the plot very easily. It's like taking candy from a baby.
This time, I used (among the usual other ingredients) four eggs and two 500 ml (four cups) containers of cottage cheese-- no sour cream, yogurt or lemon. It's not bad, but a touch too eggy. So what I'm going to do next time is use the 2 containers of cottage cheese, but use only 3 eggs. In retrospect, it's what I should have done in the first place, since the recipe normally calls for 4 eggs with that amount of cheese (if not cottage) plus a cup (250 ml) of sour cream (I used yogurt).
So, in sum, cut out the yogurt entirely and only use 3 eggs.
What are you trying to make? My recipe: Just pour in a cup of sugar, 2 "containers" of "cottage" cheese, four eggs, half a bag of flour, mix, and bake for 45 minutes at 451.
Half a bag of flour? "Cottage" cheese? What are YOU trying to make?
Do you cook at Harry and the Natives in Hobe Sound? Their much-acclaimed key lime pie tastes like it is made of drywall.
Oh ya, that's right; cheesecake. They normally call for a tablespoon of flour, but I generally omit that and it turns out a touch creamier/smoother. You're right about the cup of sugar, but if I only use 3 eggs next time, I suppose I should reduce the sugar a little bit. So thanks to you, I'll do that!
No way. You need to use five eggs and a cup and a half of cottage cheese.
All too often, when I listen to others and do things based on their recommendations, things go awry.
Nuclear power. I know you never asked me. Still. Peak oil is real, and Trumps energy super power chit chat is nonsense examined carefully.
The yanks need to carefully engage Canada and particularly Alberta and ensure the tarsands oil flows south in a reliable way. To tide you yanks over until you get enough nucs operating.
I hate nucs, one slip and thats it for God knows what radius... but the alternative is fairy tales of oil forever, which is NOT going to happen.
Peak production of oil and related is thereabouts now. We can frack some more here and there and stretch a couple more decades of a bumpy plateau of production, after that its nucs and electricity. Facts count.
Peak Oil is always just around the corner. Surely we’ve emptied every oil reservoir 3 times over, yes? Oil is not a fossil fuel, it’s produced by the Magma and continuously replenishes.
“Deep‐seated abiogenic origin of petroleum: From geological assessment to physical theory”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2008RG000270
In the real world of petroleum engineering we find oil by looking in sedimentary formations, and this entire field of human endeavour, with endless and decades long impetus and effort, would be interested yet bored by the abiotic oil theory, where the earth has a creamy nuogat centre of oil, just bubbling up...... hahahaha.
I think one example of oil adjacent to basal rock has been found, in all of oil exploration ever. My brother is a petroleum geologist, we have had many and many a discussion. If reservoirs refill, and why that might be (it is debatable) it is certainly far too slow a process to help with our dilemma.
And I should say, whereas my brother sneers at the idea of abiotic oil I am not so sure. I note Titan is awash in methane and ethane, I note blobs of what appear to be 'hydrocarbons' have been spotted in interstellar space, light years across.
But in the real world of accessing the stuff, whatever its origin, we got the cleverest folk on the planet trying to figure XYZ to get more of it. And we are reaching limits on that extraction rate. Nucs or go back to horse and buggy, that is the short term (50 year) horizon.
If you aren’t even trying to understand the mechanism, and instead throw out crazed analogies (“creamy nougat of oil”) then perhaps you aren’t the expert truth-seeker and are just another tool.
Nukes are our long term solution, but we don’t need to worry about Peak Oil. If oil somehow becomes scarce, the price climbs, and those thousands of marginal producing fields become economical. There, I solved Peak Oil for you.
More oil is constantly produced by credulous nitwits, who post stuff like this online.
"They looked like roaches after the exterminator’s visit." That is as CLASSIC as it gets J.H.K.
Masterful strategy. Excellent analysis.
It is a start, the USAAID money-laundering operation.
What else remains to be uncovered?
There are other thoughts out there, running a bit cautionary. Naomii Wolf has opined some of the opening of books at Treasury, supposedly read-only, offer quite a bit of information about cobtracts and competition potentially useful to those do ing the uncovering.
( https://rumble.com/v6hs2oy-did-elon-musk-execute-a-digital-coup.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp )
Still, cutting off the funds in a massive way is a good start. Letting daylight shine on it is cleansing.
Remember what Musk did to the ideologues of Twitter? You are witnessing Musk’s attack mode, and I hope it continues into other governmental agencies. Military, SSA, welfare and especially immigration. Get involved and study, remove the surplus hangers-on, up to 90% of them, streamline the operation and collect revenue. That is Musk.
One cautionary note though. Can the USA keep its population employed? The Depression was caused by doing people out of work, sharecroppers for example, without a back up plan to re-employ them. They all went to the cities, and stood in breadlines. It took WW2 ten years later to finally get the 25% surplus back to work. With “Muskian” treatment will the laid off folks have an economic home to retreat to, other that flipping burgers. Protection of the workplace is important here, we do not need to Hoover ourself into another catastrophe.
I think of the oil and pipeline workers in the Dakotas that were promised new and exciting jobs in the renewable energy sector, that never happened.
Yeah, 11 million of them, as I recall.
The snow Mexicans (Indians) didn't like it.
I thought Canadians were snow Mexicans.
1. Rumor has it that many government workers have a second job.
2. Can we keep people employed? At this point no. We have to figure that out. Maybe "bringing back manufacturing" is an answer. IDK.
3. Lots of people have health issues now. We have a lot of excess deaths we did not have before, and those are people of working age.
"3. Lots of people have health issues now. We have a lot of excess deaths we did not have before, and those are people of working age." ~ shibumi
Yes, excess deaths remain well above the statistical long term yearly average. In addition, according to Ed Dowd, in Cause Unknown, vaccine disabled - no longer able to work - number about 3.5 million. Out of a labor force of 168 million, that's right at 2%.
Next time you're at an event with 100 people, look around, and see if you can spot the two people who can no longer work or provide for their families, because their lives have been ruined by the "vaccine".
Trump will employ Americans, even those who’ve been sitting on the sidelines while collecting a government check.
He’ll do this by threatening tariffs, then settle for foreign corporations setting up manufacturing plants in the US and hiring American workers.
If AI can do a job, fire the person. Great way to cut costs. Let the people die under bridges. Prosperity! You will own nothing and you will be happy. Capitalism can get us there just as Communism can. Go west to get to the East. Still with me? No, right?
I want treason trials open to the public and tribunals to unearth the many crimes against humanity.
I want zero confidentiality and absolute public disclosure in minute detail.
I want mandatory death sentences with no possibility of extenuating circumstances. I want public executions on K Street NW a la the Abraham Lincoln case.
I want school textbooks rewritten to reflect all of it. I want entire families and multiple generations of elite criminals ruined forever.
Then we’ll see about reconciliation.
Military tribunals offer a lesser burden to prove guilt of the accused. In this way the obviously corrupt actors will be swiftly tried and convicted.
Lincoln should have been the one who was hanged.
Presumably after a trial. Not in the back. I know it’s all very complicated.
Yes, the Germans were the nationalists, the good guys. America fought for the Global Slave Masters, the International Bankers. Still love the Truth?
If that’s the real truth then, in this season, it will come out. But the evidence has to be conclusive and presented convincingly. Time will tell.
It has been. But it has not been promulgated since the you know whos control media and academia.
Not anymore.
They love their golem, Trump! They are not liberal or conservative, nor Capitalist or Communist, even. They are for themselves. All of these are just vehicles for them, to be abandoned in a New York second if a better one comes along. The absolute Clarity of Vision! If only we could be for ourselves like they are. That's what National Socialism was all about. Obviously they had to crush it - and the economic miracle it was creating - before it spread to other nations.