Maybe there is no pick for the FBI because one of the great cost cutting measures is the elimination of the Eff-Bee-Eye and it's 40,000 brownshirts. We don't need 17 "intelligence agencies" spread across the country to harass everyone that went to a rally on J6. Shut it down and proclaim the day Ashli Babbet day.
It's an valid idea. How to you throw out the bath water but save the baby? An institution that was virtually founded on the principles of black mail by Mr "Dirty Pics" himself (J Edgar Hoover) has a many decades institutional culture that's nearly impossible to clear with anything less than a clean burn and rebuild. Is that even possible? LOTS of good and talented people in the organization and LOTS of necessary capability it would suck to discard. But how does one root out and cleans the culture of mutual blackmail?
I always think about Whitney Webb's "One Nation Under Blackmail" books. The title says it all. Everyone has dirt on everyone else and the FBI is the face of that paradigm starting with J Edgar. When a president can't fire a director without bracing for impeachment you know you have a problem
Are you viewing it in the app on your phone. I use the app on my iPhone and for the last 2-3 days, when I attempt to click on a link, it ends up collapsing the entire comment and I have also notice comments that appear to be cut off
My solution to clicking on links has been to place my finger on the link and hold it there, keep on pressing. A pop up windows will appear that gives you the option to go to the link. Try it.
I have found it good to compose in Word, then copy & paste to my comment. No typos & hard to ‘disappear’ depending on what cookiebots are active on my browser…
I have found it good to compose in Word, then copy & paste to my comment. No typos & hard to 'disappear' depending on what cookiebots are active on my.
Except for the fact that BOTH impeachments were FAKE...false pretences. The first one was for Trump getting rid of their cover-up man...the second for a FAKE FED-surrection that porklosi herself planned with several of her DEMONIC, REPTILIAN friends/SOCIOPATHS!
Lawfare in the pursuit of lawlessness pressed forward by lawless thugs funded by our extorted taxes.
Staged show trials based on specious charges with predetermined outcomes were a fav of the Bolshevik Stalinist commies. Murder and suppression by "rule of law". That gavel would swing then off to an appointment with a pistol and that's that. Or if you were "lucky" you might be sent to the Gulag with a near certainty of death but of course in the service of "the greater good" which in that case was to move Russia from the peasant agrarian era to the industrial era in an insanely short time all while thinning the herd of the bad people. Such synergy.
Here's how Mr. Trump should handle the EFF-BEE-EYE. The day after inauguration he needs to send a notice to the 40,000 brownshirts and tell them they have one year notice. He'll give them one year of severance pay. Plenty of time for these thugs to go find employment in their states and local cities. Then, shut it down. Gone. Make it like a fart in the wind. Poof. The stink vanishes.
Why? Is Federal Law Enforcement clearly mandated in the Constitution? If it is then great. If it not, or if it is authorized by some vacuous claim to the oft used "commerce clause" then law enforcement should be left to the individual states as required by the 10th Amendment.
We either abide by the law of this land or we don't. If it is not specifically in the Constitution then it belongs to the states. Pissing around with federal authority is what got us into this mess in the first place.
This is the point that should be made over and over again until it hurts. DJT needs to explain his every move by starting with a reminder that the Constitution grants the federal government limited and proscribed powers. Everything else is unconstitutional and that will justify elimination. Choosing the Education Dept. as the first target is brilliant. It's a good start. FBI would make a great second.
Not defending the f.b.i. but one of the reasons for the f.b.i. was rob a bank or some other crime in one state, flee to another and be home free. Although the Pinkerton's were kind of an f.b.I. and did well from what I have read. There's also crimes that states can't deal very well with. I don't know the answer except that the f.b.i. and the other three letter agencies have grown into untouchable unaccountable principalities all of their own and something has to be done to rein them in.
Flat bed trucks loaded with cement barriers statically located at EFF BEE EYE headquarters, use the barriers to deny access, you're all fired! You might be rehired after a through review. No subversives allowed.
What Federal Law enforcement? Other than invading homes without warrants and avoiding doing anything about sociopathic kids, what do they do? They are the basis of Lawfare and for that reason alone should be disbanded.
And declassify JFK's assassination file (if there is one).
BTW, JFK was the last US President to be independent of Israel, and skeptical of Israel, and concerned about the prospect of Israel acquiring nuclear weapons (with France's help). Perhaps that is why his term was cut short? Maybe it was not the mob, or Cuba.
JFK was an immoral pig, but, I believe he was the last President who actually tried to be President. He tried to eliminate the CIA. He tried to keep us on the gold standard for our money. He tried to keep us out of Vietnam. And yes, he wasn't controlled by the Israeli mafia. As a human being he was a pathetic wretch. As a President, at least he tried to do best by America and for that they shot him through the head.
Nixon was taken out for not playing ball and threatening to expose the dirtbags who run Washington; he "rehabilitated" himself by kissing their asses once he was out of office. They feared Reagan would do the same as Kennedy, so he was shot. Later, they reminded him of who was in charge with the Iran-Contra dog and pony show.
Canker. Trump is challenging the SAME deep state JFK did. Likely with the same results. Bullets last time, slow motion lawsuits this time. Either way a neutered Executive Branch.
If every Republican congressman has an AI-PAC buddy who tells them how to vote on Israeli questions (and where exactly does that stop?), shouldn't we get to know their names, since they are the real congressmen we need to talk to, not the wooden dummies.
Unz publishes idiotic Jew Hate crapola, and he has never published his first worthwhile article.
Much of what he posts is totally false, and it's all twisted from reity.
The most spaced out Biden voting cat lady isn't as shamefully ignorant aa a typical Jew Hater, and Fakestinian. Supporters are too gullible to be real, their mere existence defies credibility
But the lather won't end until Armegeddon, when they will burn with the rest of the trash.
Mr Unz is a true Jewish American patriot, with a spirit of liberty like unto the Fathers. A true liberal, conservative, patriot, and lover of truth. For this reason, he publishes the work of other patriots, including White Nationalists needless to say.
France built the Dimona reactor, but "Israel" got it's heavy water from Norway which was a byproduct of Norway's production of ammonia for fertilizer. The process requires copious electricity of which Norway had/has abundant supply from never-ending hydro sources.
Speaking of nukes, since President-elect Trump advised Israel to hit Iran’s nuclear sites, they have since gone to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and requested inspections of all its nuclear sites.
While the IAEA is in Iran, they should also send a team to Israel to do inspections of ALL its nuclear sites, including their 400-700 nuclear weapons. The same sites Israel refused JFK to inspect.
By now the entire world knows Israel has nukes on land and in submarines, especially Congress. They all want to giggle and wink and act like it’s a “secret”. It’s not.
Once that nuclear cat is out of the bag, Congress will be forced to debate our current law prohibiting the U.S. from selling/giving military equipment/funds etc. to any state with nuclear weapons that does not allow inspections.
Mr. Trump may have a dandy team for domestic clean-up, but his foreign policy team of Rubio, Stefanik, Huckabee, Hegseth etc. may cause him (and the rest of the planet) some major headaches and lost sleep.
What argument will Congress, Trump and Co. have to oppose inspections of Israel’s nuclear “facilities”? I hope and pray this day comes.
The more I learn the less I know. People I consider credible, whose exact names I cannot recall (I think Col. McGregor, former Marine Scott Ritter, maybe Prof. John Mearsheimer, some Greek analysts) have generally said that "much of Iran's nuclear program is buried deeply underground, and is extremely difficult to impossible to be taken out". Maybe they all "piggyback" off each other. But they make sense to me, in the same context that the book "The Long Emergency" made sense. Some one posited that Israel could use nukes and then blame the radioactivity on the "destroyed nuclear facilities". I would not be surprised.
Trump (and ALL his predecessors) and Congress are all beholden to AIPAC. That is your reason why they look the other way at Israel's nuclear program and allow Israel to flout US "non-proliferation" laws.
And Trump adeptly took out the ONE INDEPENDENT THINKING Congressman, Thomas Massie, R-KY, by proposing he be Secretary of Agriculture. The only Congressman not under AIPAC's spell (BTW, his wife died unexpectedly early this year). Since AIPAC couldn't get him voted out, they had him "promoted" out.
The thing is, if/when the US/Israel attacks Iran's nuclear program, we do not know how Russia and China may react, but I don't think they can just sit and watch and shrug their shoulders.
This is a very fraught time. Unlike WW1, when bi-planes dropped the equivalent of grenades and the Germans' Big Bertha cannon had a 50-mile range, both the destructive power and the speed of events move much faster now. And warfare itself is evolving rapidly, as AI and microprocessors are enabling inexpensive, effective drones. I just read a fascinating book about the war between Azerbaijan (winner) an Armenia (loser) in 2020. THAT war presaged techniques used by Israel (no surprise since Israel, with Turkey, armed Azerbaijan) against the Palestinians and Hezbollah, by Hezbollah and Iran against Israel, and by Russia and Ukraine against each other. Warfare has evolved--and the US may find it is not ready for the war it is going to unleash in the Middle East, using million-dollar missiles to defend against thousand-dollar drones or missiles (hitting a cheap Iranian bullet with a very expensive US/Israeli bullet). At the same time, the West in general, and the US in particular, as technologically advanced societies, have many soft points at home... electricity, plastic money, running water, potentially violent alien populations, just-in-time inventory control. I'm sure several CFNers here can add to my list of soft spots or weak points. Lots could happen....
And no matter how one packages the facts, at the end of the day, the reality is the Israelis have abused the Palestinians for decades, are trying to eliminate them now, in the process committing numerous crimes, and having failed to remove them from Gaza, are escalating in the hope of dominating the Middle East together with the US, and also to take the spotlight off of Gaza and the West Bank.
War is attrition, of weapons and more, soldiers. The side that runs out of either loses. The world changes to the mode of the winner. That is the Fourth Turning and the history of Man.
What happens when AI, drones and robots do the fighting?
Maybe perpetual war? Like Afghanistan, Middle East and Ukraine?
Story today says that Germany is talking to Russia directly, halting the impasse.
2. Can you provide a source, even an internet source, stating Rhonda Massie died of cancer? I do not recall her dying of cancer, and the two-three links that came up on Google stated that "Rep Massie did not give her cause of death".
I would add the links said that Rep Massie did not see "conspiracy" behind her "sudden death". I simply note the correlation between one of the few Congressmen not to vote in favor of Israeli aid 100% (that is not the same as 0%, mind you), and his wife's sudden passing.
1. Some times, the more I learn, the more I see there is more to the story, that I do not know.
"7 Seconds to Die" by John Antal. Good read, interesting analysis of the interesting "analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War". Some commenter on some blog (maybe here?) mentioned it, I scratched it on a post it note and read it.
Yes, the Deal seems to be clean up America domestically, but the grift goes on in terms of foreign policy. Now they're talking about annexing the entire West Bank. Will Iran have to compromise its principles and strike Israeli communities there in order to stop this?
Very well, just explaining that Israel happened to (also) get already-enriched uranium from NUMEC (see "Apollo project"), from a corrupt jewish-zionist-American.
Anyone who doubts Israel is in dire need of finding out what they are on about.
There is zero validity whatsoever to the Satanic UN Fakestinian scam and there is no excuse for being so utterly ignorant and gullible to think there might be a vestige of reality to the actual Genocidal Entity as publicly proclaimed by the 'Slimes for 76 years and more!
And that ignores the fundamental realuty that their own fake Bible tells them clearly that Israel belongs to the Jews because God gave it to them.
Kennedys stance was ignorant and foolish and could well be why God did not protect him.
Rumor mill has it that the deals made between Joe Kennedy and the mafioso in Chicago and New York to get JFK elected (Giordino and Costello, I believe) involved Allan Dulles' CIA. Not only did he promise "hands off" the Mob but the retaking of Havana Cuba for the Mob. Kennedy tried and failed on the latter promise and when 1. he did not stop Bobby from going after the Mob and 2. he wanted to withdraw troops from the Vietnam "advisory role", his goose was cooked. They got away with it. Watch out Trump, RFK,Jr., Tulsi, etc., these Deep State aholes are capable of anything.
Whose fake Bible? If you believe in the Bible the Christian church follows, then you accept the Old Testament because it's part of the book. If you're talking about the Koran, that's different, though the Koran is a mirror of the Bible told from the perspective of people who worship a different God, despite what its followers state (no doubt because it teaches that lying is perfectly fine when the audience is an infidel).
You want to keep stuff like the statistical portions and Behavioral Sciences Unit, but you can also move that to other agencies. But most of the agents and the Agency itself needs to be totally disbanded. Many of the individual agents need to be investigated for civil rights crimes. Probably many need to go to prison.
explanation I read was Wray's appoint has 2 more years to run, or until Jan 21 and PDJT can fire him and nominate a new director, edging towards Kash Patel by the looks of it
Well for a realistic idea, you could place them within Federal Marshalls. The Marshalls mostly handle prisoners now, but this was not always the case. You could place stats, labs and Behavioral Science within the Marshalls.
I agree, and have proposed for almost two years now that J6 be declared a national holiday to honor the election fraud protestors so unfairly imprisoned due to the Pelosi/FBI entrapment scheme:
They are true national heroes. The FBI must be eliminated as it is now obviously nothing but a criminal organization. Pelosi herself must serve time for arranging the entrapment operation, and all of the FBI agents planted in the crowd to smash things up must also be prosecuted.
Like any Federal agency, the FBI should be limited to interstate crime and stay the hell out of local and state law enforcement. It has always been a great forensics support for the police of the country, and that should continue. Anything else, keep its nose out of it.
Also, no secrets, no “I can’t talk about ongoing cases”, the classic excuse for hiding political aims.
No it hasn't always been a great forensic support for local and state law enforcement. The problems with the crime lab were massive and resulted in the dismissal of hundreds or thousands of local cases.
Jim, I am hopeful you are correct in what you believe will happen according to the last couple of paragraphs. I want to see these power hungry swindlers hang from light posts. That’s how pissed off I am.
Cheryl I am with you. I don't want these fuckers soaking up tax payer dollars in posh federal prisons in quiet Indiana. I want real justice to come down upon the heads of these pathetic wretches. Why? The damage they have inflicted upon Americans both emotionally and financially is without estimation and will last for generations. First, their enormous fortunes pilfered from the American taxpayer needs to be confiscated and returned. All of it. All of their foreign holdings. All of their properties. All of the investments. This must be done in front of them. They must see it happen. Then, once they are destitute and the taxpayers are restored, there needs to be a public execution where these creatures are hoisted up on tall gallows or lampposts where they swing until they are dead. Not dropped. Let em swing and suffocate a little. Then, they should be left there so the crows and the starlings can nibble at their filthy remains as a witness to what happens to people who behave in such a manner and spread so much chaos, mental stress and financial theft on the people they should have been working for.
I agree their fortunes should be taken, they are all millionaires after just a couple years of accepting their positions that annually pay around $200,000. Ask Martha Stewart the penalties for insider trading.
I am tired of them. Let them get their own stack and stfu here. They hijack this comment section constantly and Im new here but I see what they are doing. I’m not openly, on here taking a side because it isn’t the place. I wish they would understand that.
It took awhile for X (Musk) to figure out how to keep garbage off the X feed. The Leftist AI was just deleting anything sounding conservative, Musk solved that, he fired them all. JHK is running into the same problem, how to keep garbage entries off the blog. He is using direct intervention, good for him, and will, I assume, keep the repetitious unfounded junk off the blog. Talking your opinion is one thing, but over and over and over and over —————-? If you cannot keep it civil, go the hell away.
Try just stating your opinion, I too have problems I have discussed about the Jewish leadership, and then go on to important subjects.
And the public and lawful response must happen QUICKLY, Before 2028, if we are to get any good of it. This can't drag on for 60+ years, like the assassinations of the '60's.
Speaking of which, I'm hoping to get a real answer to those events now.
I suspect in keeping with the transition of uniparty to full scale globocap there will be little if any criminal cases brought forward by the new administration. The crimes of the past are rarely accounted for by national kabuki political theatre. As long as no one gets convicted and serves real time….the system rolls on where justice is realistically just-us.
Don’t forget. Trump got elected with record votes. We voted for a conservative house and senate. Make no mistake. The Republican Party has changed. Conservatives have the power and they are now in control because we put them there. One reason we put them there is that we want scorched earth. We want theses megalomaniacs who’ve gotten wealthy off of our hard work to pay and pay bigly. It remains to see if they hear us
Let’s hope they all hear us!!! I do think term limits need to be put in place. One of the reasons against TL is it takes years to know the ropes, seriously slow learners need not apply! Once in office the “public servants” end up spending time & money amassing fortunes for their pockets and election campaigns. We certainly are not getting enough bang for our bucks!
A few days ago even Haaretz got in on the action listing all the war crimes Bibi and the IDF have committed, including genocide. No reporting of this in the U.S.
Many in the IDF are wounded and committing suicide. And the desertion rate is going up. Israel’s last attack on Iran was a dud thanks to Iran’s superior defensive capabilities. Of course Western media declared it a huge success.
I see a coup coming against Bibi very soon with his trial and that of his wife on the horizon. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them escape to Miami to be with their son. Zelensky will be next to escape to sunny Florida.
Truth is the first casualty of war. Iran admitted much damage was done and began to plot a counter-strike, perhaps delayed because of our election. Similarly, Israel and the Western media its owns claimed the Iranian strike was a dud, when it fact it was a huge success.
The IDF soldiers film themselves shooting random people. Utterly shameless.
Yeah, Lugh, you and your civilized war. Now that Israel has struck, it is Iran’s turn? Then Israel’s? What would have happened in WW2 if the USA had just waited for the Japanese to retaliate after Midway, or Saipan, or Okinawa?
Israel and Russia just need to end it now! Maybe Trump will send that message.
Another one can't see reality. Israel went in with 100 aircraft shot up missile launchers and bombed weapons plants and 100 aircraft returned without a scratch. Iran had zero answer to America tech being used....Zero.
These brushfire wars are doing the same thing That the USA has done since WW2.
Going to war without a distinct objective, then dragging on the war year after year.
War is to be won. War is to be fought to the nth degree. Until one side destroys the other. How many times are the Muslims going to attack Israel before heads finally say, WTF? When will the Arab idiots that want to go to Paradise finally figure out that they are running short of virgins up there. Like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Taiwan, Afghanistan, when will the Arab world figure out how they are being held hostage by the Ayatollah and his henchmen? Just like the American people with the MIC? When will the Palestinians listen to their brothers in Israel and elevate themselves into Israeli citizenship? Like Europe with the Popes, and the USA with Freedom of Religion, when will the Arabs leave the idiocracy of the Muslim dictators behind and get real.
Another question that begs an answer here is what will happen when the Ayatollah runs out of proxies to do his dirty work? That IS the goal of Bibi, attrition to 0 effectively of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis. What suckers are the Iranian dictator going to drum up next?
Israel, for its part, needs a Freedom of Religion clause in its Constitution. It is a nation of abused Jews from four generations ago. It needs to cool it and join the rest of the world. Again, the Chosen folks led by their own holier than thou Jewish leadership, refusing to acknowledge they live in the 21st century and not the first. Today, 2000 year old religious differences have no credence. Either side.
Israel, if pushed, is going to whack all three proxies and Iran. Just as Russia is going to whack Ukraine in an all out war. War is NOT civil, it is not nice. It is blood and guts to the death of the losers.
In other words, there is no such thing as a war crime. The United States and Israel now have a lot of explaining to do as to their treatment of Germany and Germans after the outbreak of peace.
And, Mike Flynn has agreed to come in and be Tulsi's Deputy and THAT is not a rumor. He said it on the record albeit Trump has not of now announced that!
All of Trump's choices in the critical areas seem to be either Christian Zionists or warhawks. Were they "victimized" and by whom? They all love war and can see and feel Armageddon about to knock on their doors. Cheerfully they will open their doors and greet the new blobsters. How lucky we are to get into and rejoice with future wars! God bless the military-industrial complex! I knew the OrangeMan would free us of any of our past lamentations about not having enough wars to keep John Bolton happy.
We are a war mongering people. A war like country. We have been since the advent of the Federal Reserve. Our troops are placed on a pedestal and worshipped yet how many of the worshippers actually know what our troops are doing in places like South Korea, Germany, Djibuoti, and hundreds of other nations? War IS the American economy.
Can you imagine the economic shit storm that would happen if our President closed all the bases and brought ALL of the troops home? All the jobs that would be lost at places like Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed? It would result in economic depression the likes of which has never been seen. Without being in a state of constant war, the American economy collapses.
Kind of like what would happen if our vaunted research facilities actually found a cure for cancer. Can you imagine the economic shit storm that would follow if a simple cure for cancer were found? How much economy does cancer care and cancer treatment actually generate? How many jobs are based upon the manufacture of cancer treating chemicals and caring for cancer patients. How many jobs are generated by cancer research and yet even though they spend billions they never seem to find anything to treat cancer other than chemotherapy, radiation and mutilation. Because of this they will never permit a cure for cancer to come to light. Similarly, they will never end their warmongering. It is an economic engine and we must have it.
Unwarranted hysteria. The MIC is about 3 percent of the economy, and exists mostly in a walled garden that is separate from the domestic economy at lsrge. It is slow, backward, stupid, inefficient, non-competitive, and rife with corruption. Burn it down. Something better will arise from the rubble. Market economies abhor a vacuum, but the MIC is not a part of a market economy.
A legit opinion. What exactly is the economy going to do with all the folks who will be displaced by a reduction in the MIC.
Maybe an example will be set by Boeing vs. Space X in NASA.
Maybe an example is the 7.5 million young men sitting at home drawing welfare instead of working that was “discovered” this year, or the 900000 new jobs in the jobs report that were fabrications, or the paltry 12000 jobs created in October. Trump is going to have his hands full trying to create the jobs that the Dems have claimed that do not really exist.
Oh the jobs are out there, JohnAZ. Americas infrastructure is collapsing. There are a lot of bridges to be replaced. A lot of roads to be re-graded and paved. A lot of water and sewer pipes to be replaced. Bring our troops home and put them to work rebuilding America. At least we the people would get direct benefit from this whereas with them overseas farting around in other nations we get no direct benefit. And I don't buy the "preserving our freedom" bullshit. I've never met anyone from Afghanistan and I have never been threatened by anyone from Iran. The only threat I feel living here in the Rocky Mountains of Utah is the fact that I am now surrounded by people who don't speak English. That's the threat. Not North Koreans. The multi-million man army that has been permitted to cross our border is the real threat.
It is interesting Cankerpuss. Think of the difference between the world war. States sent militia to participate in WW1 creating a foreign standing army. WW2 created a Foreign only standing army which the MIC doesn’t know what to do with during periods of Pax Americana. Hence the ongoing search for somewhere to send them. We have a standing army here in the country, the National Guard, the successor to the militias, and the Reserves, called on to fill in for the foreign army. If I remember right, the off-shore forces are not allowed to operate in the US, only overseas.
We have been set up as a war machine by the MIC ever since WW2.
Of course, the strategy is to fight our wars “Over There” rather than here.
Bretton Woods still exists de jure. We still feel it is our responsibility to patrol the sea lanes. We still feel it is our responsibility to patrol Europe, AKA NATO. We thought it was our job to patrol the Far east, AKA SEATO, which led us to Vietnam. Out of the goodness of our hearts? UH huh, when pigs fly. We are 36 trillion in debt, thanks partly to the MIC and its riding the coat tails of Bretton Woods.
At least the Middle East is an effort to protect our access to oil.
" how many of the worshippers actually know what our troops are doing in places like South Korea, Germany, Djibouti, and hundreds of other nations? War IS the American economy.
CP, What are our (or any other nation's) troops doing in Djibouti? Looking for Bouti, obviously....
Much of our defense expenditures are for OFFENSE!! That's what's repulsive. Like, we are always looking for trouble so we can Boltonize our military and go-get-em, those bad guys who won't conform to our business demands.
I think we need to streamline our military to focus on what is most important to our national security. End the revolving door between top brass and defense contractors to minimize any conflicts of interest that perpetuate waste, and lead to wars that are often started to move older weapons off the shelf and create demand for new, advanced weaponry, and to rob targeted countries of their resources.
These guys definitely need to be on a tight leash. That said, I'd rather have America be the hegemonic power rather than Russia or China. We need to defend our interests. Just need to be more prudent in how we involve ourselves. It will be interesting to see which government institutions and to what degree the DOGE tenacles reach into. Trump is already building a list of warriors that he'll keep in the military. Many others will be dismissed.
We need to make peace with Eurasia and East Asia. We are Oceania. Each of the big three will have their own sphere. Israel needs to accept that it will never own and run the world.
The original promise from God to Abraham was that his seed would inhabit the whole world, not just Israel. Jesus changed that, His race, His sacrifice made the New covenant and deleted the old, allowing everyone to be included in God’s world. The zealous Jews have never been able to accept that, or they would’ve joined right in. Their arrogance, as well as the Mormons, makes them objects of scorn for the world.
Yeah, DOGE. Instead of trying to bomb the crap out of Russia, we may use our rocket technology, currently wearing the Space-X moniker, to go to Mars. Do you think we, the world, can handle that idea?
Unfortunately, Kathy, none of us know when this tribulation is set to begin. It could be tomorrow. It could be in a hundred years. "No man knoweth the hour of his coming."
But Hegseth, Huckabee and Rubio want to speed things up.
Like destroying Al Aqsa mosque and building a new Temple. They already have their red heifers from Texas.
I am a Christian but not of the Zionist variety. My faith tells me to “Love one another” and that God will decide if/when the mosque will be destroyed, not Pete “The Tatted One” Hegseth.
I must have missed the info you have ,where have those three said they are going to tear down the Al Aqua Mosque? If Israel wanted to do that, they would have long ago.
Our knowledge of stellar evolution has come to the point where we know that our Sun is in the mid point of it's 10 billion year lifetime. At the end of that it will become a red giant and engulf all the inner planets.
Yes. However we do know from Scripture the Father will revive and raise the son on the third day. That’s two days after Calvary and 6 days after Genesis. We are presently at the end of the second day about to enter the 3rd or 7th day. Seven years remain to be fulfilled from the end of the last dispensation. The Great Trib. If Christ were not God even He would not know the time. But He is and the time is soon.
I see where John Bolton is particularly upset with Tulsi becoming Director of National Intelligence. I can see truckloads of boxes of Chardonnay being backed into Hillary and Bill’s Chappaqua compound right now. Ha.
The man is just a Deep State hack. It took Trump very little time to figure that out.
This civil war going on is between people who believe that the government is supreme and those that think people are. These hacks Trump mistakingly used in adm 1 will bitch and moan about adm 2. Their opinions mean nothing as Trump is wise to them. He is even challenging the Deep State RINOs in the Senate.
That last $9 billion Biden is giving Zelensky on Jan. 19th, 2025 will go directly to The Pentagon for dispersal to Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon etc.
Odd all these idiots are claiming genocide while Israel stupidly tells the enemy where and when they are going to attack. This giving the civilian non-combatants time to leave that is if hamas and Hezbollah allow them too. So who is actually responsible for non-combatants being injured and killed? We know the rabid kill all Israeli clique here twist truth ever to support the Jordanian expats calling themselves Palestinians but come on at least be honest war is hell and telegraphing attacks is foolish and doomed to failure and worse used as propaganda pieces.
Oh, I am, John. Starting with Trump’s proposal to pardon the thousands of yahoos who broke out the windows of the US Capitol in January 2021, beat the shit out of Capitol police, and stormed the legislative chambers to try to halt the certification of the 2020 election results. Including my vote.
That REALLY pisses me off. I’m glad that my father, who fought in WWII to defend the US Constitution, isn’t around today to witness this desecration of our system. He would be appalled and furious.
James- as a fellow Nueva Yorker, I can't thank you enough for your artistry with words and paint. Your brilliant essays always give me a lot to think about as well as plenty of laughs. Your pen is mightier than many of the swords out there, that's for sure. And your paintings- the colors, scenes and landscapes you portray are pretty much what I see when I look out my windows or drive around the area.
I share your articles everywhere I can but sometimes the word "clusterfuck" is not allowed past the bots. Oh well........ It seems that the world's best thinkers and writers are now on substack- how great is that? We need you guys and gals now more than ever.
Anyway, I hope you are enjoying what's left of our beautiful NY Indian Summer.( I suppose if our own Satanic Overlords in the Hokum regime have their way it's only a matter of time before they try to ban the term). I am still raking as all the leaves won't be down till Thanksgiving.
While it's great that the Good Guys won this round, the Evil Ones are still very much in charge of Nueva York with Horse Face Hokum and her sidekick Fat Ass Tush Tisha James calling the shots. As I write this, there is a lawsuit pending in our highest courts regarding their plans for Quarantine Camps. As FJB would say "no joke." We have our own lawyers and patriots who have been fighting this pro bono and they will not give up even if they have to go to the Supreme Court.
I for one do not want to move to another state. F*** that- I am too old plus I love my house and my lake where I've lived for generations. I will continue to fight them every way that I can and hope that when you have time you can shine your light on the darkness that is NY politics.
All the best from your friend in Putnam. Keep up the great work.
Trump has now put in very important places the smart and gutsy individuals despised by the Blob..Vance, Tulsi, Musk, Vivek, and most important of all, RFK jr....Pretty incredible...and Thune has, sort of, announced he won't block Trump's appointments...This ride is going to be wild...
His transition team actually went over his head to the media, announcing that Kennedy would have no official position. Trump is finally trusting his gut. And is finally standing up the vulture, Jared Kushner.
Technocracy will be the new religion supported by global capital. I portend Vance….a Palantir Trojan horse…with an appealing hillbilly origin….along with freedom of speech savior Musk…represent the camel noses under the tent.
The pendulum has changed direction, we were at maximum absurdity. (Chaos) I believe that’s what the blue team is reacting to. To them it must feel like an earthquake feeling the shift away from the inmates running the asylum. Too much chaos begets order, too much order begets chaos. The trick will be to resist the urge to swing the pendulum too far in the order direction which will just restart the cycle of chaos. Balance is everything!!
Spot on! That's America's problem. We can't find a balance. The pendulum always swings way too far to one side. I don't think we are intelligent enough as a people to recognize this and correct it. We don't live long enough to do so and we don't have generational memory that is passed on to our children and grand children. That is the curse of humanity. To continually repeat the lessons learned by our ancestors because we refused to teach them to our posterity.
Who refused to swing the pendulum back to the right after the chaos caused by the Dems? Who was as Deep State as the Dems? Who created the thirty years of un-interrupted Leftist trends, especially pertaining to the border. Who started the Anti-Trump RINO movement? Who started unwarranted wars? Hint: a father and his son.
Yup! Government by definition is evil as it is the product of collective power mongers. There has never been a benevolent government in history, so why wouldn’t I want it to be as small as possible.
At multi-hour long seminars, people will keep the windows side open until everyone freezes, then close completely until everyone roasts. Solution? Open them all completely again!
Similarly when it comes to the economy. The answer is not Libertarianism or Communism.
Freedom is important - but so is what you do with that freedom. If all you want to do is make money, well the government is going to have to step in to curb your enthusiasm. Will Kennedy be allowed to stop the abuses in pharma and food? The Tribe is massively invested in both.
Elon's already got a "DOGE" profile set up on X and soliciting input from users about what agencies and programs to dismantle. It's pretty entertaining. Also entertaining is the amount of 'cope' coming from the Left. These people really are delusional and their programming by mainstream media is complete. I also saw a post about The Onion purchasing InfoWars ... but I've not vetted that yet. We live in strange times.
I know it's virtually impossible to ignore the US political scene right now, but Jim it's been a while since you updated us on the global energy situation. Trump is long on tariffs, surely there will be collapse in the near future for the US with unpayable debt and far less "liquid gold" underground than Trump gleefully references at every opportunity. Well, when he's not recounting tales of Elon's rocket landing against the gantry. Moonshots, Martian colonisation, self piloting EVs, Dept of Government Efficiency CBDC coin, BRICS gold backed competing currencies, there's so much more going on.
A lot can go wrong... it sure can! And that was before the Middle East, before Israel starting bombing Iranians Embassies, assassinating people in Iran, and bombing Iran.
Do Israel's actions make it less likely for things to go wrong? Or more?
Does anyone have a confirmed source for the rumour that Netanyahu contacted the Biden administration before the election to say "If I even think you've cheated to retain power, I will take out Iranian oil production and leave the US dark." It could be a reason they refrained from such outrageous cheating - at least in the Presidential race.
As is his opponents in Tehran, responsible for all of the terrorist activity for thirty years, including the Taliban, and ISIS. Iran is the entity that wants the USA to be “in the Dark”, not Israel. Iran wants control of the Middle East, not Israel. Saudi Arabia is afraid of Iran, not Israel.
Iran was our good buddy (and the UK’s) prior to 1953 when Iran decided to nationalize their oil profits and the CIA couped Mossedegh over it installing the Shah and his bloody henchmen.
Trump killing Solemani didn’t help us get along better with Iran. Trump is now hated in Iran.
How would you know that oil/gas are running out? Yet they keep finding more.
Maybe it is abiogenic. Anything found below 15000 ft depth is definitely not organic and as the technology improves we find new sources below that depth. How else to explain?
That only reason to explain that it will take a long time to replace fossil is over regulation. It's not that complicated.
The closer you get to the mantle the hotter it gets. Oil is the product of carbon-hydrogen chains that form only at certain temperatures. Too hot and it turns into natural gas as its structures breaks down into small carbon chains and vaporizes. Any closer to the mantle and the chains break down totally. If there was carbon present in the mantle and core, would we have heard of it? Right now, the only entity that assembles carbon into complex chains such as proteins and rings such as sugars if life itself.
Also, the depletion of easy to get oil makes us need to use much more expensive methods of getting it. When I was a teen, gasoline was 18 cents a gallon. It is now 3-5 dollars a gallon. I wonder why? As JHK has noted, fracking and deep sea rigs cost millions. When the first oil well, (Drake) was drilled, he stuck a pole into the ground to get it. Easy access to oil is just about over, the soda straws are drying up.
Abiotic oil would would need carbon chain assembly as it comes out of the mantle as free carbon, and its assembly would require hydrogenation also. If that was possible, why wouldn’t we just assemble chains here, now. Again, life is the only entity that assembles complex carbon structures.
It is abiotic, but the refill rate is unfortunately the sticking point. Excruciatingly slow, due to its geologic nature. We still have used up the easy-to-reach oil, and squander the fumes (natgas).
Also, much of it is not admitted to, to cause scarcity; this must be the same reason we don't build new refineries for differing grades, as refineries are a very mature technology. Once the US Geologic Service found out the desert states of the Western US are floating on a sea of oil, they shut down nearly all oil surveying. The USGS claims it's unnecessary because, why, there's nothing there to survey.
You will have to prove abiotic as no data supports it. How come the reservoirs around the world do not just fill back up, making more expansive, expensive, and dangerous oil exploration necessary?
Has anyone been confirmed yet? I don't think so. IE till RFK Jr (for one example) gets confirmed he's not in the cabinet. I think that's correct but almost hope I'm wrong. Not encouraged for example by the Senate Majority leader pick. The Republicans (unlike the Democrats) are usually equally undone by the inside as by the adversary. The Democrats on the other hand usually have iron discipline. If they have 51 Senators seems they almost always get 51 votes. Seems like the Republicans by contrast need 55 or more to have a hope of getting 51.
Observation and a tiny familiarity with history makes me paranoid. The Bolsheviks (what I like to call them) have a transgenerational rabid religious zealot character. Like black mold the the spores always remain no matter how far you think its been beaten back. IMO the best you ever get from them is a strategic retreat while they plan the next abomination. Short story. I'm not about to feel comfortable until the picks are AT LEAST confirmed and the inauguration has been completed. (hope the Bolshies don't plan to burn DC and the country down over it). So much mischief and mayhem that can be done in the next few weeks. And once things are in place eternal vigilance is the watchword because there are snakes everywhere
Yes, you make an excellent point. But you are ruining the feel-good moment....
Now that DEMOCRAT Harris has lost, and the Senate has REPUBLICAN Majority (meaning Republicans can set the agenda--and profit personally), and the Congress is Republican, I think we will find that some Republican will not go along with Trump's legislation. Quite a few Republicans are Mitch McConnell types, or Bush supporters. They just didn't want to contribute to the destruction of their party by being open traitors, like the Cheneys.
I want to see if Lindsey Graham votes for Tulsi Gabbard as DNI (Director National Intelligence).
In any case, the US is confronted by huge budget deficits, and the Middle Class is squeezed dying a death of a thousand paper cuts, including very real inflation (check your insurance --home/auto/HEALTH for next year, is it up 2-3%? Mine is double digits....) and worse service on NON-Discretionary items, like medical. Good luck President Trump.
I just read an article that state that my home state of Utah is no longer a state where insurance companies can make a profit from insuring homes.
However, I still see new housing developments popping up everywhere and new, $850,000 homes being built by young couples in their 20s. In the driveways of these new mini mansions I see $90,000 F-250s and Rams along with a $20,000 trailer and two $50,000 side by side UTVs. The yards on these homes are impeccably landscaped costing thousands. Rino-rock fencing costing $15,000 surrounds the back yards of the young peoples' homes. And, from what I can tell, Disneyland and Disneyworld are still just as busy as ever as these young people still manage to pay for all of this and have enough money to fly themselves and their children for a $10,000 week of fun with the queer loving pervert minded Mouse.
I know, they are in debt. But they still have to finance that debt. So far, from what I am seeing in my state, life is good for people.
I still believe something big is coming. Trump or no Trump. We are in a bad way. The vast majority of people in this Country are living lives full of lies. They own nothing. Buried by debt. Living paycheck to paycheck. No savings. No retirement. Unable to handle a $500.00 emergency without using the credit card. This CANNOT continue. This WILL NOT continue. A debt reckoning is coming and it will be ugly for ALL.
Many in their 20's, 30's and 40's are making $100-$200k a year, and with a couple, that's double. They can afford all of this stuff with their cash flow. No doubt they're still in debt up to their eyeballs. If one of them lose their jobs, they're toast. This group probably represents the upper 10-20% of the population, most have a college degree, and most voted against Trump.
Very few have become debt free. Often it's the guy without the fancy house or fancy car. He's the millionaire next door.
The guy you described is me. Been debt free for a long time but I am not a millionaire.
Median household income in the State of Utah right now is $72,000, I believe. maybe a little higher. Sure, many are making the sums you described above but not all of them. It will always boggle my mind how people manage these lifestyles. When God was handing out money smarts, I was off playing tiddlywinks and not paying attention because I just don't get it.
I do, but I often feel a little jealous of those with the bigger houses that have the fourth car garage, covered patio, jacuzzi, etc. Envy tends to haunt me all too often.
The drab Peahen wants a bright Peacock. But they are visible to the predators and pay for their vitality. What Peahen wants a drab Peacock who doesn't flaunt his wealth? Maybe a smart one (in human terms)? Once she finds out, she knows she can get the drab guy's wealth via the divorce industry.
Like Dmitry Orlov always used to say, when it comes to collapse, it doesn't really matter who the President of the US is. This sucker is going down. Having said that, I'm personally very relieved to see a return towards reality and honesty. That can only help people accept that their future may not include happy motoring and suburban dreams.
The word is RINO, a creation of the Bush-Cheney years. Trump’s picks show a trend, a good one. He is putting people in place who do not owe the Deep State anything, and who have been hurt by the politics of chaos. These folks are not only loyal to MAGA, but have revenge in mind. Pete Hegseth for example will put the military readiness as a priority instead of social engineering. Tulsi has criticized the intelligence agencies for a decade, thus DNI. Matt Gaetz is an avid MAGA type and has had Lawfare aimed at him, perfect for the AG spot. RFK, Jr. for HHS,brilliant. Where is Ben Carson?
I feel a pit in my stomach when I think that Matt Gaetz might not get to become AG. He's the key to unlocking the deep state shenanigans and he won't hold back on exposing all of it to the American people. Trump might have some ways around a true Senate confirmation of him, such as forcing a recess appointment or installing him as the acting attorney general. The fight continues.
We need to know the name of every Republican's "Morgan Stanley" guy! It's our right. Face it, ez: real positive change means you folks lose a lot of power.
Yeah. It is hard for me to find the delicate balance between the ability to feel joy (which helps to make life tolerable) and the reserved paranoia of being disappointed too many times.
Newsom is raising gasoline up another $2/gal in California. Imagine the impact THAT will have. They are trying everything to get us out of gas cars and into all electric vehicles.
I suspect they're Also doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to create more pain and suffering because it is their opportunity to blame it on MAGA & MAHA. Nothing is more satisfying to them than to sadistically heap pain on their peeps who were duped enough to vote for them then blame the sadism on their opposition
Kinda how they roll
In fact I would be surprised if these cynical SOBs care one whit about gasoline and climate yada yada. At least the ones at the "leadership" levels like Newsom. This may be nothing more than a golden opportunity to raise taxes and revenue to more effectively loot while blaming it on others and have little to nothing to do with clean air and climate etc.
From what I've seen there is no bottom to their cynicism and what they will do for power. The Bolshevik tradition is "by any means necessary" and if millions starve or whatever it's just the cynical price creating paradise. They have a Bolshevik mentality. Hard to not see it when they openly threaten (and often follow through) to burn it all down if you don't see it their way. Taxing gas till you get electric grid collapse (because they allege they want EV's) is a way to "burn it all down". In the end you probably have bicycles because gasoline is gone and electric is finite and expensive.
"... because it is their opportunity to blame it on MAGA & MAHA." ~ RAY FALCIOLA
I would suggest that the primary objective is implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and if they can't get the citizens of the world to voluntarily embrace it, then the trick is to get them to beg for it. Destroy the economy and make living conditions miserable, and the masses will beg for it.
Newscum is both ignorant about economic reality and a little bit insane. He is a typical Democrat who does not understand what the concept of money and capital is, and even if he did would ignore anything resembling a budget.
You are correct. The current, majority party will self-immolate during the confirmation hearings. Anyone bother to look at "The 51 seat Majority" for RINO/RICO status? As you said, the Democrat Senators will be 100% "NAY" on all nominees.
It'll be Summer before we know what the Cabinet looks like....and it won't look anything like Trumps first nominations.
I've heard that it is technically possible (IE lawful) but there's great uncertainty that it will be practically feasible. That's my somewhat sketchy understanding at this point.
Won't know unless they try but hard to assume the swamp will fall asleep and allow it to happen. Who knows, there are people more expert than I (that would be anyone because I am not a expert). Not even sure the full criteria for a "recess". On the other hand, knowing how much the swamp likes it's perks which would have too include $$$$ and recess in that order and "the greater good of the country last" they may have more incentive to recess than to block a recess. Since the swamp is coin/cult operated it is hard to guess if a technicality like "recess appointments" move could be pulled off
Only reason it comes up is because MAGA & MAHA know that there will be a death match to block effective appointments so there needs to be creative thinking if they intend to follow thru else the "victory" will be still born at the appointments level and it will be nothing but swamp traitors within just like last time
I have no idea how to do these things but wonder if our reps need to be swamped (pun intended) with calls and emails letting them know that if they vote against certain appointments like RFK Jr we have long memories
And repeal the divorce/industrial complex that savages men. Tempt not your sister for she will fall. Good men are many, good women are few. Let's try to create more of them via fear and shame, the guardians of the world as Buddha said.
I agree completely. Let's get back to the Constitution of the Founding and not the coerced bullshit that followed Lincoln's illegal invasion of the South.
I doubt the evolution from wokeness to sane will occur in a straight line, and without some major bumps. When government agencies and corporations with very deep pockets have invested so much time (decades) and energy into their version of reality intended to maximize profits, it will be awhile to reverse all that mischief - and to avoid making things worse.
We now enter the runaway stagecoach stage, where the armed bandit has hopped from his speedy mount and is wrestling for control of the reins with the driver. We may be eased to a safe stop, or plunge over a cliff into a canyon far below - or something in between. But it appears a soft landing is less likely. It will be a terrifying, exhilarating and entertaining journey....
Trump’s group (DOGE) has already stated they want to reduce the deficit by 2 trillion dollars, I would assume over ten years. That will be welfare, either in the form of bullshit federal jobs, or direct payments. Trump’s number one job will be to enlarge the economy to create new jobs to capture the increase in unemployment that has already started.
That means getting rid of the idea that the service sector is what the USA wants to be and start manufacturing everything here, not in Mexico or China. His use of tariffs is just the start, also the consumer in this country needs to start buying USA products. It is comforting that Musk is in the brain trust as he seems to be the sole person in the USA that has clobbered China in every way possible.
For national security reasons the U.S. needs to start making necessary medicines here (like Tylenol and antibiotics), and stop importing them from China.
I interpreted the DOGE announcement as a joke in reference to the doge crypto coin. If memory serves, Musk trolled on it and introduced huge price fluctuations. Like Dave Collum, I'll be "pleasantly surprised" if anything positive comes from DOGE. I hope I'm wrong, 'cause there's plenty of potential to improve efficiency.
As for the economy, I think we're well along now with JHK's view of the "Long Emergency", and we appear to be entering a perfect storm of economic chaos. Tariffs will have to negotiate through the minefield of "unintended consequences", but that's not to say they may help for a bit. With the era of cheap energy contracting in the rear view mirror, it'll take some serious excess magic on Trump's part to put the Great in MAGA. However, I'll be rooting for the next administration to perhaps install a safety rail or two to help reduce some pain along the way. With Kamala and the Dems it would be nose down at 500 knots into the mountain side....in a straight line....
Has Musk done anything that wasn’t successful thus far? I can’t imagine him wanting his name associated with something that will end up an abysmal failure. He has stated they are looking for people to work with them who are willing to work 80+ hours a week and are shining a light on all the ridiculous waste they find (like Nancy Pelosi setting up a liquor store in the Rayburn House Office Building). There has always been some of that related to reporting bizarre grants that are awarded to Universities (e.g studying shrimp on an underwater treadmill for a cool $3 million), but none with the audience that is available to Elon.
If nothing else, it will all be fun to watch and if he can’t get it done, no one can.
I dunno. I find Nancy Pelosi's liquor store less worrisome than a Tesla Roadster up in space orbiting the Sun. It seems a bit ironic for him to be tasked with saving waste. But I guess part of being a billionaire is marketing and slave labor - law and medical schools will be taking a hit from the applicants steering toward DOGE. But if Musk and Vivek can wheel and deal and trim $2T from the Federal budget, I'll be happy to apologize and admit I was wrong....
"Trump's EPA pick has no interest in the environment."
Jared,
Cut Trump some slack. His new hires will do as they are told, with probably few friends and obligations in the field chosen. That they might pull the rug out from under him is only a distant possibility. You want him to hire someone from within the system? Someone who has friends? Obligations? ...agendas? He did that last term.
My comment was specifically related to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Umm, I don’t think he’s hiring children to work at DOGE. He’s looking for, in their words, “high IQ” people to identify waste in federal government spending and I assume they will be well compensated. Speaking for myself, I worked 80+ hours a week regularly as a salaried employee over the course of 15 years. I don’t think it’s that uncommon.
Yes, that's much harder than the Black slaves ever worked. But if you enjoy it, it's not "work" per se, perhaps. Of course it's imbalanced nonetheless.....
"We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants."
Well the new boss has quite a different track record than the old boss. However the new boss is still up against the old regime until they are safely removed to their permanent retirements.
Maybe there is no pick for the FBI because one of the great cost cutting measures is the elimination of the Eff-Bee-Eye and it's 40,000 brownshirts. We don't need 17 "intelligence agencies" spread across the country to harass everyone that went to a rally on J6. Shut it down and proclaim the day Ashli Babbet day.
We can only hope at this point.
It's an valid idea. How to you throw out the bath water but save the baby? An institution that was virtually founded on the principles of black mail by Mr "Dirty Pics" himself (J Edgar Hoover) has a many decades institutional culture that's nearly impossible to clear with anything less than a clean burn and rebuild. Is that even possible? LOTS of good and talented people in the organization and LOTS of necessary capability it would suck to discard. But how does one root out and cleans the culture of mutual blackmail?
I always think about Whitney Webb's "One Nation Under Blackmail" books. The title says it all. Everyone has dirt on everyone else and the FBI is the face of that paradigm starting with J Edgar. When a president can't fire a director without bracing for impeachment you know you have a problem
Once again a comment is cut off in mid sentence.
Happening a lot lately.
Also various links to videos, etc not working.
One even disappeared after clicking on.
Are you viewing it in the app on your phone. I use the app on my iPhone and for the last 2-3 days, when I attempt to click on a link, it ends up collapsing the entire comment and I have also notice comments that appear to be cut off
My solution to clicking on links has been to place my finger on the link and hold it there, keep on pressing. A pop up windows will appear that gives you the option to go to the link. Try it.
Yes, using the Substack app on my iPhone
I have found it good to compose in Word, then copy & paste to my comment. No typos & hard to ‘disappear’ depending on what cookiebots are active on my browser…
Speaking of cut off
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I have found it good to compose in Word, then copy & paste to my comment. No typos & hard to 'disappear' depending on what cookiebots are active on my.
Glad to hear it’s not just me. Thought I was doing something wrong
Did you say doing “something wrong?”’cause that disappeared on my phone … 😬
Phone? Yep, lost your last word too.
Clean burn.
No rebuild.
Lengthy prison sentences for treason.
Except for the fact that BOTH impeachments were FAKE...false pretences. The first one was for Trump getting rid of their cover-up man...the second for a FAKE FED-surrection that porklosi herself planned with several of her DEMONIC, REPTILIAN friends/SOCIOPATHS!
Lawfare in the pursuit of lawlessness pressed forward by lawless thugs funded by our extorted taxes.
Staged show trials based on specious charges with predetermined outcomes were a fav of the Bolshevik Stalinist commies. Murder and suppression by "rule of law". That gavel would swing then off to an appointment with a pistol and that's that. Or if you were "lucky" you might be sent to the Gulag with a near certainty of death but of course in the service of "the greater good" which in that case was to move Russia from the peasant agrarian era to the industrial era in an insanely short time all while thinning the herd of the bad people. Such synergy.
Here's how Mr. Trump should handle the EFF-BEE-EYE. The day after inauguration he needs to send a notice to the 40,000 brownshirts and tell them they have one year notice. He'll give them one year of severance pay. Plenty of time for these thugs to go find employment in their states and local cities. Then, shut it down. Gone. Make it like a fart in the wind. Poof. The stink vanishes.
Ah, the dreams. If only.
Skip the severance and hope they don't infest local law enforcement.
The severance would give him the "mercy" points. That's all.
What's wrong with unemployment the rest of us have to be happy with?
"tell them they have one year notice"
One year? ONE YEAR??? That's one year too many to destroy docs and otherwise subvert any investigation into their shenanigans.
Pink-slip them on the spot, effective immediately.
Why? Is Federal Law Enforcement clearly mandated in the Constitution? If it is then great. If it not, or if it is authorized by some vacuous claim to the oft used "commerce clause" then law enforcement should be left to the individual states as required by the 10th Amendment.
We either abide by the law of this land or we don't. If it is not specifically in the Constitution then it belongs to the states. Pissing around with federal authority is what got us into this mess in the first place.
This is the point that should be made over and over again until it hurts. DJT needs to explain his every move by starting with a reminder that the Constitution grants the federal government limited and proscribed powers. Everything else is unconstitutional and that will justify elimination. Choosing the Education Dept. as the first target is brilliant. It's a good start. FBI would make a great second.
Not defending the f.b.i. but one of the reasons for the f.b.i. was rob a bank or some other crime in one state, flee to another and be home free. Although the Pinkerton's were kind of an f.b.I. and did well from what I have read. There's also crimes that states can't deal very well with. I don't know the answer except that the f.b.i. and the other three letter agencies have grown into untouchable unaccountable principalities all of their own and something has to be done to rein them in.
When presidents tremble at the prospect of firing a clearly rogue FBI director you know it is far past time for them to get re-calibrated
Flat bed trucks loaded with cement barriers statically located at EFF BEE EYE headquarters, use the barriers to deny access, you're all fired! You might be rehired after a through review. No subversives allowed.
Amen
What Federal Law enforcement? Other than invading homes without warrants and avoiding doing anything about sociopathic kids, what do they do? They are the basis of Lawfare and for that reason alone should be disbanded.
Take down the websites of prominent thinkers and writers like James Howard Kunstler. That's what they do.
They tried.
Lots of stuff _they enable sex trafficking, drug trafficking, cover for Commies, stage Insurrection, lots of stuff.
BB. Kash is too smart to take that bait.
Why?
And declassify JFK's assassination file (if there is one).
BTW, JFK was the last US President to be independent of Israel, and skeptical of Israel, and concerned about the prospect of Israel acquiring nuclear weapons (with France's help). Perhaps that is why his term was cut short? Maybe it was not the mob, or Cuba.
JFK was an immoral pig, but, I believe he was the last President who actually tried to be President. He tried to eliminate the CIA. He tried to keep us on the gold standard for our money. He tried to keep us out of Vietnam. And yes, he wasn't controlled by the Israeli mafia. As a human being he was a pathetic wretch. As a President, at least he tried to do best by America and for that they shot him through the head.
God I hope this doesn't happen to Mr. Trump.
Nixon was taken out for not playing ball and threatening to expose the dirtbags who run Washington; he "rehabilitated" himself by kissing their asses once he was out of office. They feared Reagan would do the same as Kennedy, so he was shot. Later, they reminded him of who was in charge with the Iran-Contra dog and pony show.
Canker. Trump is challenging the SAME deep state JFK did. Likely with the same results. Bullets last time, slow motion lawsuits this time. Either way a neutered Executive Branch.
If every Republican congressman has an AI-PAC buddy who tells them how to vote on Israeli questions (and where exactly does that stop?), shouldn't we get to know their names, since they are the real congressmen we need to talk to, not the wooden dummies.
The assassination attempt was a hoax, and Mr Trump has the support of the deep state to make him look like a hero. Here’s the proof:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6l20GfTCllqA
Thank you for calling attention to this website (www.unz.com). I've bookmarked it. Others should too.
Incredible website
Unz publishes idiotic Jew Hate crapola, and he has never published his first worthwhile article.
Much of what he posts is totally false, and it's all twisted from reity.
The most spaced out Biden voting cat lady isn't as shamefully ignorant aa a typical Jew Hater, and Fakestinian. Supporters are too gullible to be real, their mere existence defies credibility
But the lather won't end until Armegeddon, when they will burn with the rest of the trash.
Mr Unz is a true Jewish American patriot, with a spirit of liberty like unto the Fathers. A true liberal, conservative, patriot, and lover of truth. For this reason, he publishes the work of other patriots, including White Nationalists needless to say.
"Unz publishes idiotic Jew Hate crapola"
Ummm...Ron Unz IS jewish.
great website. let's just say my eyes have been opened the last many years and this was part of the process.
France built the Dimona reactor, but "Israel" got it's heavy water from Norway which was a byproduct of Norway's production of ammonia for fertilizer. The process requires copious electricity of which Norway had/has abundant supply from never-ending hydro sources.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Norway-produce-large-amounts-of-heavy-water-before-1939
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-us-discovery-israels-secret-nuclear-project
The waters of Dimon shall be full of blood... Isaiah 15:9
The word Dimon is from the two letter root DM which means "blood" and "silent" because when blood is shed the bleeder becomes dead, thus silent.
Speaking of nukes, since President-elect Trump advised Israel to hit Iran’s nuclear sites, they have since gone to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and requested inspections of all its nuclear sites.
While the IAEA is in Iran, they should also send a team to Israel to do inspections of ALL its nuclear sites, including their 400-700 nuclear weapons. The same sites Israel refused JFK to inspect.
By now the entire world knows Israel has nukes on land and in submarines, especially Congress. They all want to giggle and wink and act like it’s a “secret”. It’s not.
Once that nuclear cat is out of the bag, Congress will be forced to debate our current law prohibiting the U.S. from selling/giving military equipment/funds etc. to any state with nuclear weapons that does not allow inspections.
Mr. Trump may have a dandy team for domestic clean-up, but his foreign policy team of Rubio, Stefanik, Huckabee, Hegseth etc. may cause him (and the rest of the planet) some major headaches and lost sleep.
What argument will Congress, Trump and Co. have to oppose inspections of Israel’s nuclear “facilities”? I hope and pray this day comes.
The more I learn the less I know. People I consider credible, whose exact names I cannot recall (I think Col. McGregor, former Marine Scott Ritter, maybe Prof. John Mearsheimer, some Greek analysts) have generally said that "much of Iran's nuclear program is buried deeply underground, and is extremely difficult to impossible to be taken out". Maybe they all "piggyback" off each other. But they make sense to me, in the same context that the book "The Long Emergency" made sense. Some one posited that Israel could use nukes and then blame the radioactivity on the "destroyed nuclear facilities". I would not be surprised.
Trump (and ALL his predecessors) and Congress are all beholden to AIPAC. That is your reason why they look the other way at Israel's nuclear program and allow Israel to flout US "non-proliferation" laws.
And Trump adeptly took out the ONE INDEPENDENT THINKING Congressman, Thomas Massie, R-KY, by proposing he be Secretary of Agriculture. The only Congressman not under AIPAC's spell (BTW, his wife died unexpectedly early this year). Since AIPAC couldn't get him voted out, they had him "promoted" out.
The thing is, if/when the US/Israel attacks Iran's nuclear program, we do not know how Russia and China may react, but I don't think they can just sit and watch and shrug their shoulders.
This is a very fraught time. Unlike WW1, when bi-planes dropped the equivalent of grenades and the Germans' Big Bertha cannon had a 50-mile range, both the destructive power and the speed of events move much faster now. And warfare itself is evolving rapidly, as AI and microprocessors are enabling inexpensive, effective drones. I just read a fascinating book about the war between Azerbaijan (winner) an Armenia (loser) in 2020. THAT war presaged techniques used by Israel (no surprise since Israel, with Turkey, armed Azerbaijan) against the Palestinians and Hezbollah, by Hezbollah and Iran against Israel, and by Russia and Ukraine against each other. Warfare has evolved--and the US may find it is not ready for the war it is going to unleash in the Middle East, using million-dollar missiles to defend against thousand-dollar drones or missiles (hitting a cheap Iranian bullet with a very expensive US/Israeli bullet). At the same time, the West in general, and the US in particular, as technologically advanced societies, have many soft points at home... electricity, plastic money, running water, potentially violent alien populations, just-in-time inventory control. I'm sure several CFNers here can add to my list of soft spots or weak points. Lots could happen....
And no matter how one packages the facts, at the end of the day, the reality is the Israelis have abused the Palestinians for decades, are trying to eliminate them now, in the process committing numerous crimes, and having failed to remove them from Gaza, are escalating in the hope of dominating the Middle East together with the US, and also to take the spotlight off of Gaza and the West Bank.
War is attrition, of weapons and more, soldiers. The side that runs out of either loses. The world changes to the mode of the winner. That is the Fourth Turning and the history of Man.
What happens when AI, drones and robots do the fighting?
Maybe perpetual war? Like Afghanistan, Middle East and Ukraine?
Story today says that Germany is talking to Russia directly, halting the impasse.
"The less you know"?
Massie's wife died from cancer
2. Can you provide a source, even an internet source, stating Rhonda Massie died of cancer? I do not recall her dying of cancer, and the two-three links that came up on Google stated that "Rep Massie did not give her cause of death".
I would add the links said that Rep Massie did not see "conspiracy" behind her "sudden death". I simply note the correlation between one of the few Congressmen not to vote in favor of Israeli aid 100% (that is not the same as 0%, mind you), and his wife's sudden passing.
1. Some times, the more I learn, the more I see there is more to the story, that I do not know.
"7 Seconds to Die" by John Antal. Good read, interesting analysis of the interesting "analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War". Some commenter on some blog (maybe here?) mentioned it, I scratched it on a post it note and read it.
Yes, the Deal seems to be clean up America domestically, but the grift goes on in terms of foreign policy. Now they're talking about annexing the entire West Bank. Will Iran have to compromise its principles and strike Israeli communities there in order to stop this?
@Eckbach
You left out, Israel got its enriched uranium for Dimona (at least in part) from NUMEC. Right here in the good'ol USA.
Look it up.
I didn't say anything about enriched uranium. My comment was about heavy water (which is necessary to enrich uranium).
Very well, just explaining that Israel happened to (also) get already-enriched uranium from NUMEC (see "Apollo project"), from a corrupt jewish-zionist-American.
Anyone who doubts Israel is in dire need of finding out what they are on about.
There is zero validity whatsoever to the Satanic UN Fakestinian scam and there is no excuse for being so utterly ignorant and gullible to think there might be a vestige of reality to the actual Genocidal Entity as publicly proclaimed by the 'Slimes for 76 years and more!
And that ignores the fundamental realuty that their own fake Bible tells them clearly that Israel belongs to the Jews because God gave it to them.
Kennedys stance was ignorant and foolish and could well be why God did not protect him.
JFK ticked off the CIA. That was his fatal mistake.
Rumor mill has it that the deals made between Joe Kennedy and the mafioso in Chicago and New York to get JFK elected (Giordino and Costello, I believe) involved Allan Dulles' CIA. Not only did he promise "hands off" the Mob but the retaking of Havana Cuba for the Mob. Kennedy tried and failed on the latter promise and when 1. he did not stop Bobby from going after the Mob and 2. he wanted to withdraw troops from the Vietnam "advisory role", his goose was cooked. They got away with it. Watch out Trump, RFK,Jr., Tulsi, etc., these Deep State aholes are capable of anything.
Whose fake Bible? If you believe in the Bible the Christian church follows, then you accept the Old Testament because it's part of the book. If you're talking about the Koran, that's different, though the Koran is a mirror of the Bible told from the perspective of people who worship a different God, despite what its followers state (no doubt because it teaches that lying is perfectly fine when the audience is an infidel).
I read a report stating that the FBI is a target for DOGE. It will be another worthless agency to be relegated to the states, along with education.
How many shootings would have been avoided with a “real” FBI?
You want to keep stuff like the statistical portions and Behavioral Sciences Unit, but you can also move that to other agencies. But most of the agents and the Agency itself needs to be totally disbanded. Many of the individual agents need to be investigated for civil rights crimes. Probably many need to go to prison.
explanation I read was Wray's appoint has 2 more years to run, or until Jan 21 and PDJT can fire him and nominate a new director, edging towards Kash Patel by the looks of it
Wouldn’t that be amazing and wonderful
Sounds good. How might those orgs be rearranged?
Lined up in mass grave 3 layers deep…?
Thats what they would do to folks like us if they could get away with it
Ukraine & Lithuania are good at doing that….
What is 100 FBI agents on the bottom of the ocean?
You know!
Well for a realistic idea, you could place them within Federal Marshalls. The Marshalls mostly handle prisoners now, but this was not always the case. You could place stats, labs and Behavioral Science within the Marshalls.
I agree, and have proposed for almost two years now that J6 be declared a national holiday to honor the election fraud protestors so unfairly imprisoned due to the Pelosi/FBI entrapment scheme:
https://patrick.net/post/1378157/2023-01-01-january-6th-should-be-a-national
They are true national heroes. The FBI must be eliminated as it is now obviously nothing but a criminal organization. Pelosi herself must serve time for arranging the entrapment operation, and all of the FBI agents planted in the crowd to smash things up must also be prosecuted.
Like any Federal agency, the FBI should be limited to interstate crime and stay the hell out of local and state law enforcement. It has always been a great forensics support for the police of the country, and that should continue. Anything else, keep its nose out of it.
Also, no secrets, no “I can’t talk about ongoing cases”, the classic excuse for hiding political aims.
No it hasn't always been a great forensic support for local and state law enforcement. The problems with the crime lab were massive and resulted in the dismissal of hundreds or thousands of local cases.
https://whistleblowersblog.org/government-whistleblowers/intelligence-community-whistleblowers/dr-whitehurst-and-the-fbi-lab-scandal/amp/
there was the f.b.i. lab that was caught falsifying evidence to get convictions. People believed the results because they were the f.b.i.
Jim, I am hopeful you are correct in what you believe will happen according to the last couple of paragraphs. I want to see these power hungry swindlers hang from light posts. That’s how pissed off I am.
Me too Cheryl! We the citizenry have been deeply abused & traumatized by our “betters” in every damn aspect of our lives for the past 4 years
And robbed by the silent tax, inflation.
Im not traumatized, more like frackin pissed off and sharpening knives
Actually, for decades that just became more and more outrageous
Cheryl I am with you. I don't want these fuckers soaking up tax payer dollars in posh federal prisons in quiet Indiana. I want real justice to come down upon the heads of these pathetic wretches. Why? The damage they have inflicted upon Americans both emotionally and financially is without estimation and will last for generations. First, their enormous fortunes pilfered from the American taxpayer needs to be confiscated and returned. All of it. All of their foreign holdings. All of their properties. All of the investments. This must be done in front of them. They must see it happen. Then, once they are destitute and the taxpayers are restored, there needs to be a public execution where these creatures are hoisted up on tall gallows or lampposts where they swing until they are dead. Not dropped. Let em swing and suffocate a little. Then, they should be left there so the crows and the starlings can nibble at their filthy remains as a witness to what happens to people who behave in such a manner and spread so much chaos, mental stress and financial theft on the people they should have been working for.
But alas, I dream. Will never happen.
I agree their fortunes should be taken, they are all millionaires after just a couple years of accepting their positions that annually pay around $200,000. Ask Martha Stewart the penalties for insider trading.
Worse things are coming to them. Unimaginable things.
Nah, Supermax in Canon City, CO.
All of them? Or you know, just the "Christian" ones? Trump's backers aren't going to stand for any justice against their people.
Every one of them.
Just the Christian ones. The small hats get a pass.
I am paying attention to the anti-Jew slurs in these comments, and I'm gonna commence kicking people off.
Get rid of them, Jim. Please.
I am tired of them. Let them get their own stack and stfu here. They hijack this comment section constantly and Im new here but I see what they are doing. I’m not openly, on here taking a side because it isn’t the place. I wish they would understand that.
Truth is truth, Cher.
TY
Good, JHK, the bias was destroying the blog.
"Good, JHK, the bias was destroying the blog."
Now, the endless religious bickering is.
It took awhile for X (Musk) to figure out how to keep garbage off the X feed. The Leftist AI was just deleting anything sounding conservative, Musk solved that, he fired them all. JHK is running into the same problem, how to keep garbage entries off the blog. He is using direct intervention, good for him, and will, I assume, keep the repetitious unfounded junk off the blog. Talking your opinion is one thing, but over and over and over and over —————-? If you cannot keep it civil, go the hell away.
Try just stating your opinion, I too have problems I have discussed about the Jewish leadership, and then go on to important subjects.
Send Comey, Strzok & Co. to service the prisoners at federal prisons for a bit to thank them for servicing American taxpayers the way they have.
And the public and lawful response must happen QUICKLY, Before 2028, if we are to get any good of it. This can't drag on for 60+ years, like the assassinations of the '60's.
Speaking of which, I'm hoping to get a real answer to those events now.
I suspect in keeping with the transition of uniparty to full scale globocap there will be little if any criminal cases brought forward by the new administration. The crimes of the past are rarely accounted for by national kabuki political theatre. As long as no one gets convicted and serves real time….the system rolls on where justice is realistically just-us.
Don’t forget. Trump got elected with record votes. We voted for a conservative house and senate. Make no mistake. The Republican Party has changed. Conservatives have the power and they are now in control because we put them there. One reason we put them there is that we want scorched earth. We want theses megalomaniacs who’ve gotten wealthy off of our hard work to pay and pay bigly. It remains to see if they hear us
Let’s hope they all hear us!!! I do think term limits need to be put in place. One of the reasons against TL is it takes years to know the ropes, seriously slow learners need not apply! Once in office the “public servants” end up spending time & money amassing fortunes for their pockets and election campaigns. We certainly are not getting enough bang for our bucks!
Once again, James Kunstler - Our 21st century Mark Twain - nails it! Bravo to James!
exactly, Cfk and C&C are daily requirements in the 5g landscape
A few days ago even Haaretz got in on the action listing all the war crimes Bibi and the IDF have committed, including genocide. No reporting of this in the U.S.
Many in the IDF are wounded and committing suicide. And the desertion rate is going up. Israel’s last attack on Iran was a dud thanks to Iran’s superior defensive capabilities. Of course Western media declared it a huge success.
I see a coup coming against Bibi very soon with his trial and that of his wife on the horizon. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them escape to Miami to be with their son. Zelensky will be next to escape to sunny Florida.
Check out “Damo Rants” out of GB on YouTube.
Truth is the first casualty of war. Iran admitted much damage was done and began to plot a counter-strike, perhaps delayed because of our election. Similarly, Israel and the Western media its owns claimed the Iranian strike was a dud, when it fact it was a huge success.
The IDF soldiers film themselves shooting random people. Utterly shameless.
Yeah, Lugh, you and your civilized war. Now that Israel has struck, it is Iran’s turn? Then Israel’s? What would have happened in WW2 if the USA had just waited for the Japanese to retaliate after Midway, or Saipan, or Okinawa?
Israel and Russia just need to end it now! Maybe Trump will send that message.
Another one can't see reality. Israel went in with 100 aircraft shot up missile launchers and bombed weapons plants and 100 aircraft returned without a scratch. Iran had zero answer to America tech being used....Zero.
Abby wood
These brushfire wars are doing the same thing That the USA has done since WW2.
Going to war without a distinct objective, then dragging on the war year after year.
War is to be won. War is to be fought to the nth degree. Until one side destroys the other. How many times are the Muslims going to attack Israel before heads finally say, WTF? When will the Arab idiots that want to go to Paradise finally figure out that they are running short of virgins up there. Like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Taiwan, Afghanistan, when will the Arab world figure out how they are being held hostage by the Ayatollah and his henchmen? Just like the American people with the MIC? When will the Palestinians listen to their brothers in Israel and elevate themselves into Israeli citizenship? Like Europe with the Popes, and the USA with Freedom of Religion, when will the Arabs leave the idiocracy of the Muslim dictators behind and get real.
Another question that begs an answer here is what will happen when the Ayatollah runs out of proxies to do his dirty work? That IS the goal of Bibi, attrition to 0 effectively of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis. What suckers are the Iranian dictator going to drum up next?
Israel, for its part, needs a Freedom of Religion clause in its Constitution. It is a nation of abused Jews from four generations ago. It needs to cool it and join the rest of the world. Again, the Chosen folks led by their own holier than thou Jewish leadership, refusing to acknowledge they live in the 21st century and not the first. Today, 2000 year old religious differences have no credence. Either side.
Israel, if pushed, is going to whack all three proxies and Iran. Just as Russia is going to whack Ukraine in an all out war. War is NOT civil, it is not nice. It is blood and guts to the death of the losers.
And how many losers do we hear from in history.
In other words, there is no such thing as a war crime. The United States and Israel now have a lot of explaining to do as to their treatment of Germany and Germans after the outbreak of peace.
Trump is nominating people who have been victimized to be in charge of the organizations that victimized them.
Tulsi can now discover who put her on the terrorist watchlist recently.
Hmmm, HRC?
Obama: “We tortured some folks”.
Guess we do need massive “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions”.
And, Mike Flynn has agreed to come in and be Tulsi's Deputy and THAT is not a rumor. He said it on the record albeit Trump has not of now announced that!
"Tulsi can now discover who put her on the terrorist watchlist recently."
Fuck YEAH!
All of Trump's choices in the critical areas seem to be either Christian Zionists or warhawks. Were they "victimized" and by whom? They all love war and can see and feel Armageddon about to knock on their doors. Cheerfully they will open their doors and greet the new blobsters. How lucky we are to get into and rejoice with future wars! God bless the military-industrial complex! I knew the OrangeMan would free us of any of our past lamentations about not having enough wars to keep John Bolton happy.
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We are a war mongering people. A war like country. We have been since the advent of the Federal Reserve. Our troops are placed on a pedestal and worshipped yet how many of the worshippers actually know what our troops are doing in places like South Korea, Germany, Djibuoti, and hundreds of other nations? War IS the American economy.
Can you imagine the economic shit storm that would happen if our President closed all the bases and brought ALL of the troops home? All the jobs that would be lost at places like Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed? It would result in economic depression the likes of which has never been seen. Without being in a state of constant war, the American economy collapses.
Kind of like what would happen if our vaunted research facilities actually found a cure for cancer. Can you imagine the economic shit storm that would follow if a simple cure for cancer were found? How much economy does cancer care and cancer treatment actually generate? How many jobs are based upon the manufacture of cancer treating chemicals and caring for cancer patients. How many jobs are generated by cancer research and yet even though they spend billions they never seem to find anything to treat cancer other than chemotherapy, radiation and mutilation. Because of this they will never permit a cure for cancer to come to light. Similarly, they will never end their warmongering. It is an economic engine and we must have it.
Oh the awful situation we find ourselves in.
Unwarranted hysteria. The MIC is about 3 percent of the economy, and exists mostly in a walled garden that is separate from the domestic economy at lsrge. It is slow, backward, stupid, inefficient, non-competitive, and rife with corruption. Burn it down. Something better will arise from the rubble. Market economies abhor a vacuum, but the MIC is not a part of a market economy.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/why-us-defense-industrial-base-so-isolated-us-economy
Money to be made, wars to be sought. Yeah, sounds good to moi........
A legit opinion. What exactly is the economy going to do with all the folks who will be displaced by a reduction in the MIC.
Maybe an example will be set by Boeing vs. Space X in NASA.
Maybe an example is the 7.5 million young men sitting at home drawing welfare instead of working that was “discovered” this year, or the 900000 new jobs in the jobs report that were fabrications, or the paltry 12000 jobs created in October. Trump is going to have his hands full trying to create the jobs that the Dems have claimed that do not really exist.
Oh the jobs are out there, JohnAZ. Americas infrastructure is collapsing. There are a lot of bridges to be replaced. A lot of roads to be re-graded and paved. A lot of water and sewer pipes to be replaced. Bring our troops home and put them to work rebuilding America. At least we the people would get direct benefit from this whereas with them overseas farting around in other nations we get no direct benefit. And I don't buy the "preserving our freedom" bullshit. I've never met anyone from Afghanistan and I have never been threatened by anyone from Iran. The only threat I feel living here in the Rocky Mountains of Utah is the fact that I am now surrounded by people who don't speak English. That's the threat. Not North Koreans. The multi-million man army that has been permitted to cross our border is the real threat.
It is interesting Cankerpuss. Think of the difference between the world war. States sent militia to participate in WW1 creating a foreign standing army. WW2 created a Foreign only standing army which the MIC doesn’t know what to do with during periods of Pax Americana. Hence the ongoing search for somewhere to send them. We have a standing army here in the country, the National Guard, the successor to the militias, and the Reserves, called on to fill in for the foreign army. If I remember right, the off-shore forces are not allowed to operate in the US, only overseas.
We have been set up as a war machine by the MIC ever since WW2.
Of course, the strategy is to fight our wars “Over There” rather than here.
American foreign policy= Murder,Inc
Bretton Woods still exists de jure. We still feel it is our responsibility to patrol the sea lanes. We still feel it is our responsibility to patrol Europe, AKA NATO. We thought it was our job to patrol the Far east, AKA SEATO, which led us to Vietnam. Out of the goodness of our hearts? UH huh, when pigs fly. We are 36 trillion in debt, thanks partly to the MIC and its riding the coat tails of Bretton Woods.
At least the Middle East is an effort to protect our access to oil.
Eisenhower had been through the wringer and knew where the MIC was headed if not brought under control. They weren't and they're still going there.
Yeah, he sent out the message as he left because he did not do anything to stem their advance in power.
" how many of the worshippers actually know what our troops are doing in places like South Korea, Germany, Djibouti, and hundreds of other nations? War IS the American economy.
CP, What are our (or any other nation's) troops doing in Djibouti? Looking for Bouti, obviously....
Ha Ha. I'm pretty sure we have a military or air force base in Djibouti.
Something repulsive when learning about a 1+ trillion dollar "defense" budget.
Over $3 billion dollars …..EVERY 24 HOURS…..for DEFENSE. Seriously let that sink in
Michael,
No, not repulsive. Most all soldiers, of any country, throughout human history.
Much of our defense expenditures are for OFFENSE!! That's what's repulsive. Like, we are always looking for trouble so we can Boltonize our military and go-get-em, those bad guys who won't conform to our business demands.
cut, burn and poison. The therapy that makes the most money.
I think we need to streamline our military to focus on what is most important to our national security. End the revolving door between top brass and defense contractors to minimize any conflicts of interest that perpetuate waste, and lead to wars that are often started to move older weapons off the shelf and create demand for new, advanced weaponry, and to rob targeted countries of their resources.
These guys definitely need to be on a tight leash. That said, I'd rather have America be the hegemonic power rather than Russia or China. We need to defend our interests. Just need to be more prudent in how we involve ourselves. It will be interesting to see which government institutions and to what degree the DOGE tenacles reach into. Trump is already building a list of warriors that he'll keep in the military. Many others will be dismissed.
We need to make peace with Eurasia and East Asia. We are Oceania. Each of the big three will have their own sphere. Israel needs to accept that it will never own and run the world.
Jarek,
Don't be ridiculous...IT'S IN DA BOOK!
The original promise from God to Abraham was that his seed would inhabit the whole world, not just Israel. Jesus changed that, His race, His sacrifice made the New covenant and deleted the old, allowing everyone to be included in God’s world. The zealous Jews have never been able to accept that, or they would’ve joined right in. Their arrogance, as well as the Mormons, makes them objects of scorn for the world.
Yeah, DOGE. Instead of trying to bomb the crap out of Russia, we may use our rocket technology, currently wearing the Space-X moniker, to go to Mars. Do you think we, the world, can handle that idea?
Who gives a shit about Mars? Let's fix our own country first.
That's why it's all going to be destroyed, in the tribulation.
Unfortunately, Kathy, none of us know when this tribulation is set to begin. It could be tomorrow. It could be in a hundred years. "No man knoweth the hour of his coming."
But Hegseth, Huckabee and Rubio want to speed things up.
Like destroying Al Aqsa mosque and building a new Temple. They already have their red heifers from Texas.
I am a Christian but not of the Zionist variety. My faith tells me to “Love one another” and that God will decide if/when the mosque will be destroyed, not Pete “The Tatted One” Hegseth.
They only care about Christ because he was Jewish. Well He's not Jewish anymore nor will He be when He comes back.
Zio-Christianity is just the triumph of the Judaizers who want to be 2nd class Jews.
Abby wood
I must have missed the info you have ,where have those three said they are going to tear down the Al Aqua Mosque? If Israel wanted to do that, they would have long ago.
Our knowledge of stellar evolution has come to the point where we know that our Sun is in the mid point of it's 10 billion year lifetime. At the end of that it will become a red giant and engulf all the inner planets.
At least we know the ball park.
Yes. However we do know from Scripture the Father will revive and raise the son on the third day. That’s two days after Calvary and 6 days after Genesis. We are presently at the end of the second day about to enter the 3rd or 7th day. Seven years remain to be fulfilled from the end of the last dispensation. The Great Trib. If Christ were not God even He would not know the time. But He is and the time is soon.
KC. OK. But in the meantime, arm up and stay alert.
Get the shots and relax. Fauci would never hurt a fly.
Oh, hell no!
You can always volunteer and fight for Ukraine….they got some openings….
I see where John Bolton is particularly upset with Tulsi becoming Director of National Intelligence. I can see truckloads of boxes of Chardonnay being backed into Hillary and Bill’s Chappaqua compound right now. Ha.
The man is just a Deep State hack. It took Trump very little time to figure that out.
This civil war going on is between people who believe that the government is supreme and those that think people are. These hacks Trump mistakingly used in adm 1 will bitch and moan about adm 2. Their opinions mean nothing as Trump is wise to them. He is even challenging the Deep State RINOs in the Senate.
They are just trying to “help along” their interpretation of prophecy, kinda like Iscariot.
FWIW, I concur.
That last $9 billion Biden is giving Zelensky on Jan. 19th, 2025 will go directly to The Pentagon for dispersal to Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon etc.
I long to be a defense plant operative!
So maybe the weapons should be outlawed and we go back to buggy whip manufacturing? Where is the limit? Or do we just wait for it to happen.
Have you noticed JHK’s logo? Buggy whips, buggies and the horses to draw them may become a major industry again.
I think you're on to something......
BB ALL wars are for profit. Bankers fund both sides. That's historically the pattern. That should stop because ONE MAN ?
Trump laid groundwork so subsequent presidents could regale knowing that Donnie did a good job preparing for new wars.
Wanna bet the new bumper crop of warhawks won't spoil for wars?
Odd all these idiots are claiming genocide while Israel stupidly tells the enemy where and when they are going to attack. This giving the civilian non-combatants time to leave that is if hamas and Hezbollah allow them too. So who is actually responsible for non-combatants being injured and killed? We know the rabid kill all Israeli clique here twist truth ever to support the Jordanian expats calling themselves Palestinians but come on at least be honest war is hell and telegraphing attacks is foolish and doomed to failure and worse used as propaganda pieces.
Yes. Life has been so MEAN to sexual predator and nutcase Matt Gaetz. It’s just so unFAIR! Waaah.
Stay pissed off, patriots!
Oh, I am, John. Starting with Trump’s proposal to pardon the thousands of yahoos who broke out the windows of the US Capitol in January 2021, beat the shit out of Capitol police, and stormed the legislative chambers to try to halt the certification of the 2020 election results. Including my vote.
That REALLY pisses me off. I’m glad that my father, who fought in WWII to defend the US Constitution, isn’t around today to witness this desecration of our system. He would be appalled and furious.
James- as a fellow Nueva Yorker, I can't thank you enough for your artistry with words and paint. Your brilliant essays always give me a lot to think about as well as plenty of laughs. Your pen is mightier than many of the swords out there, that's for sure. And your paintings- the colors, scenes and landscapes you portray are pretty much what I see when I look out my windows or drive around the area.
I share your articles everywhere I can but sometimes the word "clusterfuck" is not allowed past the bots. Oh well........ It seems that the world's best thinkers and writers are now on substack- how great is that? We need you guys and gals now more than ever.
Anyway, I hope you are enjoying what's left of our beautiful NY Indian Summer.( I suppose if our own Satanic Overlords in the Hokum regime have their way it's only a matter of time before they try to ban the term). I am still raking as all the leaves won't be down till Thanksgiving.
While it's great that the Good Guys won this round, the Evil Ones are still very much in charge of Nueva York with Horse Face Hokum and her sidekick Fat Ass Tush Tisha James calling the shots. As I write this, there is a lawsuit pending in our highest courts regarding their plans for Quarantine Camps. As FJB would say "no joke." We have our own lawyers and patriots who have been fighting this pro bono and they will not give up even if they have to go to the Supreme Court.
I for one do not want to move to another state. F*** that- I am too old plus I love my house and my lake where I've lived for generations. I will continue to fight them every way that I can and hope that when you have time you can shine your light on the darkness that is NY politics.
All the best from your friend in Putnam. Keep up the great work.
I abbreviate to "Cfk" if that helps
Thanks, Rick!
The substack site URL does not use the naughty word:
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
However you'd think we were back in the Lenny Bruce days of shock and awe.
LOL!
NYN - stay off censored sites - no telling what you'll catch there.
I caught the cyber-clap just by LOOKING at DailyKos.
Trump has now put in very important places the smart and gutsy individuals despised by the Blob..Vance, Tulsi, Musk, Vivek, and most important of all, RFK jr....Pretty incredible...and Thune has, sort of, announced he won't block Trump's appointments...This ride is going to be wild...
It needs to be, it needs to completely trash the status quo in DC
His transition team actually went over his head to the media, announcing that Kennedy would have no official position. Trump is finally trusting his gut. And is finally standing up the vulture, Jared Kushner.
The Kushner family is a portal to Hell.
Well said!
Technocracy will be the new religion supported by global capital. I portend Vance….a Palantir Trojan horse…with an appealing hillbilly origin….along with freedom of speech savior Musk…represent the camel noses under the tent.
I’m praying for a year-long celebration in 2026 of the 250th Birthday of the Republic. Looks like we’re off to a good start.
Rumor has it the Big Party might be at the Iowa State Fair grounds.
Well, it sure as hell won't be in Filthydelphia. For obvious reasons.
Whites have been repeatedly attacked by Blacks in Iowa at county fairs.
What a time to be alive!
The pendulum has changed direction, we were at maximum absurdity. (Chaos) I believe that’s what the blue team is reacting to. To them it must feel like an earthquake feeling the shift away from the inmates running the asylum. Too much chaos begets order, too much order begets chaos. The trick will be to resist the urge to swing the pendulum too far in the order direction which will just restart the cycle of chaos. Balance is everything!!
Spot on! That's America's problem. We can't find a balance. The pendulum always swings way too far to one side. I don't think we are intelligent enough as a people to recognize this and correct it. We don't live long enough to do so and we don't have generational memory that is passed on to our children and grand children. That is the curse of humanity. To continually repeat the lessons learned by our ancestors because we refused to teach them to our posterity.
That is the truth. Who is to blame? Easy.
Who refused to swing the pendulum back to the right after the chaos caused by the Dems? Who was as Deep State as the Dems? Who created the thirty years of un-interrupted Leftist trends, especially pertaining to the border. Who started the Anti-Trump RINO movement? Who started unwarranted wars? Hint: a father and his son.
Bush and baby Bush?
Yup, and their sidekicks, Dick and Liz.
“How dare you beat Jeb Bush in the primaries”, the rallying call of the RINO crowd.
John wants as little government as possible. He's an open windows fanatic.
Swami Nirmalananda: Civilization is suppression (of our lower impulses).
Never trust anyone who just talks about freedom. It's no better than Obama talking about change. Change to what? Freedom to do what?
Yup! Government by definition is evil as it is the product of collective power mongers. There has never been a benevolent government in history, so why wouldn’t I want it to be as small as possible.
At multi-hour long seminars, people will keep the windows side open until everyone freezes, then close completely until everyone roasts. Solution? Open them all completely again!
Similarly when it comes to the economy. The answer is not Libertarianism or Communism.
Freedom is important - but so is what you do with that freedom. If all you want to do is make money, well the government is going to have to step in to curb your enthusiasm. Will Kennedy be allowed to stop the abuses in pharma and food? The Tribe is massively invested in both.
Very few people are capable to handling freedom. Most of the sheeple need to be led.
Yeah, and it is the government that has caused the lack of education and knowledge that has put us in this state.
NYT....field guide to Blob think.
And a goal of 47 and his referenced Cabinet selections.... dismantle the Blob.
Standing at the gate of resistance! The RINO ESTABLISHMENT now led by Thune.
Mitch's secret vote ballot was his final FU Donald and a sign of what is to come in the Senate.
Elon's already got a "DOGE" profile set up on X and soliciting input from users about what agencies and programs to dismantle. It's pretty entertaining. Also entertaining is the amount of 'cope' coming from the Left. These people really are delusional and their programming by mainstream media is complete. I also saw a post about The Onion purchasing InfoWars ... but I've not vetted that yet. We live in strange times.
They thought they had bought it but just found out otherwise. Details will emerge tomorrow. Infowars.com is back!
I know it's virtually impossible to ignore the US political scene right now, but Jim it's been a while since you updated us on the global energy situation. Trump is long on tariffs, surely there will be collapse in the near future for the US with unpayable debt and far less "liquid gold" underground than Trump gleefully references at every opportunity. Well, when he's not recounting tales of Elon's rocket landing against the gantry. Moonshots, Martian colonisation, self piloting EVs, Dept of Government Efficiency CBDC coin, BRICS gold backed competing currencies, there's so much more going on.
You're right -- a lot to be concerned about in the energy / finance nexus. A lot can go wrong. I'll get around to covering it.
Gail Tverberg regularly does her best also.
Blog = Our Finite World.
A lot can go wrong... it sure can! And that was before the Middle East, before Israel starting bombing Iranians Embassies, assassinating people in Iran, and bombing Iran.
Do Israel's actions make it less likely for things to go wrong? Or more?
Does anyone have a confirmed source for the rumour that Netanyahu contacted the Biden administration before the election to say "If I even think you've cheated to retain power, I will take out Iranian oil production and leave the US dark." It could be a reason they refrained from such outrageous cheating - at least in the Presidential race.
As is his opponents in Tehran, responsible for all of the terrorist activity for thirty years, including the Taliban, and ISIS. Iran is the entity that wants the USA to be “in the Dark”, not Israel. Iran wants control of the Middle East, not Israel. Saudi Arabia is afraid of Iran, not Israel.
Israel is our ally,, not Iran.
Iran was our good buddy (and the UK’s) prior to 1953 when Iran decided to nationalize their oil profits and the CIA couped Mossedegh over it installing the Shah and his bloody henchmen.
Trump killing Solemani didn’t help us get along better with Iran. Trump is now hated in Iran.
So you admit that he's a murderous lunatic? If so, good.
James, are you still insisting that we hit global “peak oil” twenty years ago? Asking for a friend.
How would you know that oil/gas are running out? Yet they keep finding more.
Maybe it is abiogenic. Anything found below 15000 ft depth is definitely not organic and as the technology improves we find new sources below that depth. How else to explain?
That only reason to explain that it will take a long time to replace fossil is over regulation. It's not that complicated.
The closer you get to the mantle the hotter it gets. Oil is the product of carbon-hydrogen chains that form only at certain temperatures. Too hot and it turns into natural gas as its structures breaks down into small carbon chains and vaporizes. Any closer to the mantle and the chains break down totally. If there was carbon present in the mantle and core, would we have heard of it? Right now, the only entity that assembles carbon into complex chains such as proteins and rings such as sugars if life itself.
Also, the depletion of easy to get oil makes us need to use much more expensive methods of getting it. When I was a teen, gasoline was 18 cents a gallon. It is now 3-5 dollars a gallon. I wonder why? As JHK has noted, fracking and deep sea rigs cost millions. When the first oil well, (Drake) was drilled, he stuck a pole into the ground to get it. Easy access to oil is just about over, the soda straws are drying up.
Abiotic oil would would need carbon chain assembly as it comes out of the mantle as free carbon, and its assembly would require hydrogenation also. If that was possible, why wouldn’t we just assemble chains here, now. Again, life is the only entity that assembles complex carbon structures.
Oil is a necessary product for modern civilization, limited resources should be used for priority purposes and bridging strategies.
This relationship is not well understood.
It is abiotic, but the refill rate is unfortunately the sticking point. Excruciatingly slow, due to its geologic nature. We still have used up the easy-to-reach oil, and squander the fumes (natgas).
Also, much of it is not admitted to, to cause scarcity; this must be the same reason we don't build new refineries for differing grades, as refineries are a very mature technology. Once the US Geologic Service found out the desert states of the Western US are floating on a sea of oil, they shut down nearly all oil surveying. The USGS claims it's unnecessary because, why, there's nothing there to survey.
You will have to prove abiotic as no data supports it. How come the reservoirs around the world do not just fill back up, making more expansive, expensive, and dangerous oil exploration necessary?
Has anyone been confirmed yet? I don't think so. IE till RFK Jr (for one example) gets confirmed he's not in the cabinet. I think that's correct but almost hope I'm wrong. Not encouraged for example by the Senate Majority leader pick. The Republicans (unlike the Democrats) are usually equally undone by the inside as by the adversary. The Democrats on the other hand usually have iron discipline. If they have 51 Senators seems they almost always get 51 votes. Seems like the Republicans by contrast need 55 or more to have a hope of getting 51.
Observation and a tiny familiarity with history makes me paranoid. The Bolsheviks (what I like to call them) have a transgenerational rabid religious zealot character. Like black mold the the spores always remain no matter how far you think its been beaten back. IMO the best you ever get from them is a strategic retreat while they plan the next abomination. Short story. I'm not about to feel comfortable until the picks are AT LEAST confirmed and the inauguration has been completed. (hope the Bolshies don't plan to burn DC and the country down over it). So much mischief and mayhem that can be done in the next few weeks. And once things are in place eternal vigilance is the watchword because there are snakes everywhere
Yes, you make an excellent point. But you are ruining the feel-good moment....
Now that DEMOCRAT Harris has lost, and the Senate has REPUBLICAN Majority (meaning Republicans can set the agenda--and profit personally), and the Congress is Republican, I think we will find that some Republican will not go along with Trump's legislation. Quite a few Republicans are Mitch McConnell types, or Bush supporters. They just didn't want to contribute to the destruction of their party by being open traitors, like the Cheneys.
I want to see if Lindsey Graham votes for Tulsi Gabbard as DNI (Director National Intelligence).
In any case, the US is confronted by huge budget deficits, and the Middle Class is squeezed dying a death of a thousand paper cuts, including very real inflation (check your insurance --home/auto/HEALTH for next year, is it up 2-3%? Mine is double digits....) and worse service on NON-Discretionary items, like medical. Good luck President Trump.
I just read an article that state that my home state of Utah is no longer a state where insurance companies can make a profit from insuring homes.
However, I still see new housing developments popping up everywhere and new, $850,000 homes being built by young couples in their 20s. In the driveways of these new mini mansions I see $90,000 F-250s and Rams along with a $20,000 trailer and two $50,000 side by side UTVs. The yards on these homes are impeccably landscaped costing thousands. Rino-rock fencing costing $15,000 surrounds the back yards of the young peoples' homes. And, from what I can tell, Disneyland and Disneyworld are still just as busy as ever as these young people still manage to pay for all of this and have enough money to fly themselves and their children for a $10,000 week of fun with the queer loving pervert minded Mouse.
I know, they are in debt. But they still have to finance that debt. So far, from what I am seeing in my state, life is good for people.
I still believe something big is coming. Trump or no Trump. We are in a bad way. The vast majority of people in this Country are living lives full of lies. They own nothing. Buried by debt. Living paycheck to paycheck. No savings. No retirement. Unable to handle a $500.00 emergency without using the credit card. This CANNOT continue. This WILL NOT continue. A debt reckoning is coming and it will be ugly for ALL.
Many in their 20's, 30's and 40's are making $100-$200k a year, and with a couple, that's double. They can afford all of this stuff with their cash flow. No doubt they're still in debt up to their eyeballs. If one of them lose their jobs, they're toast. This group probably represents the upper 10-20% of the population, most have a college degree, and most voted against Trump.
Very few have become debt free. Often it's the guy without the fancy house or fancy car. He's the millionaire next door.
The guy you described is me. Been debt free for a long time but I am not a millionaire.
Median household income in the State of Utah right now is $72,000, I believe. maybe a little higher. Sure, many are making the sums you described above but not all of them. It will always boggle my mind how people manage these lifestyles. When God was handing out money smarts, I was off playing tiddlywinks and not paying attention because I just don't get it.
CP,
Jesus saves,
Moses invests....
Not to be judgey, but you should feel good about having your house paid off. Many out there with tall hats, no cattle.
I do, but I often feel a little jealous of those with the bigger houses that have the fourth car garage, covered patio, jacuzzi, etc. Envy tends to haunt me all too often.
The drab Peahen wants a bright Peacock. But they are visible to the predators and pay for their vitality. What Peahen wants a drab Peacock who doesn't flaunt his wealth? Maybe a smart one (in human terms)? Once she finds out, she knows she can get the drab guy's wealth via the divorce industry.
Basic biology I suppose. Maybe the gals can weigh in on this as well.
I wonder how many are on welfare, or some other form of UBI?
Don't know. But would it be enough to make all the monthly payments on the debt to finance these things?
Like Dmitry Orlov always used to say, when it comes to collapse, it doesn't really matter who the President of the US is. This sucker is going down. Having said that, I'm personally very relieved to see a return towards reality and honesty. That can only help people accept that their future may not include happy motoring and suburban dreams.
The word is RINO, a creation of the Bush-Cheney years. Trump’s picks show a trend, a good one. He is putting people in place who do not owe the Deep State anything, and who have been hurt by the politics of chaos. These folks are not only loyal to MAGA, but have revenge in mind. Pete Hegseth for example will put the military readiness as a priority instead of social engineering. Tulsi has criticized the intelligence agencies for a decade, thus DNI. Matt Gaetz is an avid MAGA type and has had Lawfare aimed at him, perfect for the AG spot. RFK, Jr. for HHS,brilliant. Where is Ben Carson?
"Where is Ben Carson?"
I have been wondering this. Maybe NIH?
I feel a pit in my stomach when I think that Matt Gaetz might not get to become AG. He's the key to unlocking the deep state shenanigans and he won't hold back on exposing all of it to the American people. Trump might have some ways around a true Senate confirmation of him, such as forcing a recess appointment or installing him as the acting attorney general. The fight continues.
We need to know the name of every Republican's "Morgan Stanley" guy! It's our right. Face it, ez: real positive change means you folks lose a lot of power.
Yeah. It is hard for me to find the delicate balance between the ability to feel joy (which helps to make life tolerable) and the reserved paranoia of being disappointed too many times.
Newsom is raising gasoline up another $2/gal in California. Imagine the impact THAT will have. They are trying everything to get us out of gas cars and into all electric vehicles.
I suspect they're Also doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to create more pain and suffering because it is their opportunity to blame it on MAGA & MAHA. Nothing is more satisfying to them than to sadistically heap pain on their peeps who were duped enough to vote for them then blame the sadism on their opposition
Kinda how they roll
In fact I would be surprised if these cynical SOBs care one whit about gasoline and climate yada yada. At least the ones at the "leadership" levels like Newsom. This may be nothing more than a golden opportunity to raise taxes and revenue to more effectively loot while blaming it on others and have little to nothing to do with clean air and climate etc.
From what I've seen there is no bottom to their cynicism and what they will do for power. The Bolshevik tradition is "by any means necessary" and if millions starve or whatever it's just the cynical price creating paradise. They have a Bolshevik mentality. Hard to not see it when they openly threaten (and often follow through) to burn it all down if you don't see it their way. Taxing gas till you get electric grid collapse (because they allege they want EV's) is a way to "burn it all down". In the end you probably have bicycles because gasoline is gone and electric is finite and expensive.
"... because it is their opportunity to blame it on MAGA & MAHA." ~ RAY FALCIOLA
I would suggest that the primary objective is implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and if they can't get the citizens of the world to voluntarily embrace it, then the trick is to get them to beg for it. Destroy the economy and make living conditions miserable, and the masses will beg for it.
2 birds one stone. Pull the levers to get the peeps to beg for 2030 Agenda while blaming the misery on MAGA HAHA. Beautiful
Bottom line is they are ALWAYS plotting with diabolical intent to get more power and install their agenda
If they can't pull it off in the next year, I think the 2030 Agenda may be done, and perhaps the Democratic party as well.
Newscum is both ignorant about economic reality and a little bit insane. He is a typical Democrat who does not understand what the concept of money and capital is, and even if he did would ignore anything resembling a budget.
Thank God I live in a red state where they aren't pulling that crap. Washington is double-plus insane with the electric car thing.
I think with Trump's mandate and sudden jump in power, a LOT of those Republicans will be changing their oppositional stripes. Just a guess, though.
SD - all insurance premiums are a function of replacement "value" risk.
You are correct. The current, majority party will self-immolate during the confirmation hearings. Anyone bother to look at "The 51 seat Majority" for RINO/RICO status? As you said, the Democrat Senators will be 100% "NAY" on all nominees.
It'll be Summer before we know what the Cabinet looks like....and it won't look anything like Trumps first nominations.
Recess appointments.
Can’t Trump get Tulsi, Hegseth and Kennedy in using “recess appointments”?
I've heard that it is technically possible (IE lawful) but there's great uncertainty that it will be practically feasible. That's my somewhat sketchy understanding at this point.
Won't know unless they try but hard to assume the swamp will fall asleep and allow it to happen. Who knows, there are people more expert than I (that would be anyone because I am not a expert). Not even sure the full criteria for a "recess". On the other hand, knowing how much the swamp likes it's perks which would have too include $$$$ and recess in that order and "the greater good of the country last" they may have more incentive to recess than to block a recess. Since the swamp is coin/cult operated it is hard to guess if a technicality like "recess appointments" move could be pulled off
Only reason it comes up is because MAGA & MAHA know that there will be a death match to block effective appointments so there needs to be creative thinking if they intend to follow thru else the "victory" will be still born at the appointments level and it will be nothing but swamp traitors within just like last time
I have no idea how to do these things but wonder if our reps need to be swamped (pun intended) with calls and emails letting them know that if they vote against certain appointments like RFK Jr we have long memories
I certainly hope there will be no more DEI or women on the battlefield.
What we have to do first is repeal the 19th amendment
And repeal the divorce/industrial complex that savages men. Tempt not your sister for she will fall. Good men are many, good women are few. Let's try to create more of them via fear and shame, the guardians of the world as Buddha said.
Cry, virgin, cry.
Every amendment after the 12th is illegitimate. 13 through 27 should all be ignored.
Yeah, let’s just toss out The Constitution. That should end well.
I agree completely. Let's get back to the Constitution of the Founding and not the coerced bullshit that followed Lincoln's illegal invasion of the South.
What about Dalai Lamas?
I doubt the evolution from wokeness to sane will occur in a straight line, and without some major bumps. When government agencies and corporations with very deep pockets have invested so much time (decades) and energy into their version of reality intended to maximize profits, it will be awhile to reverse all that mischief - and to avoid making things worse.
We now enter the runaway stagecoach stage, where the armed bandit has hopped from his speedy mount and is wrestling for control of the reins with the driver. We may be eased to a safe stop, or plunge over a cliff into a canyon far below - or something in between. But it appears a soft landing is less likely. It will be a terrifying, exhilarating and entertaining journey....
Trump’s group (DOGE) has already stated they want to reduce the deficit by 2 trillion dollars, I would assume over ten years. That will be welfare, either in the form of bullshit federal jobs, or direct payments. Trump’s number one job will be to enlarge the economy to create new jobs to capture the increase in unemployment that has already started.
That means getting rid of the idea that the service sector is what the USA wants to be and start manufacturing everything here, not in Mexico or China. His use of tariffs is just the start, also the consumer in this country needs to start buying USA products. It is comforting that Musk is in the brain trust as he seems to be the sole person in the USA that has clobbered China in every way possible.
For national security reasons the U.S. needs to start making necessary medicines here (like Tylenol and antibiotics), and stop importing them from China.
^^^^ SO very this!
Are you the one who writes, How true!, in the margins of books?
Are you the one, Lugh who gets to bed thinking 'why do women hate me?'
They hate other women too. And they don't respect simps.
LOLOLOL!
No, I write, "I would do *anything* for Pat Schroeder!!!"
Who dat? Any relation to Pat Sajack?
I interpreted the DOGE announcement as a joke in reference to the doge crypto coin. If memory serves, Musk trolled on it and introduced huge price fluctuations. Like Dave Collum, I'll be "pleasantly surprised" if anything positive comes from DOGE. I hope I'm wrong, 'cause there's plenty of potential to improve efficiency.
As for the economy, I think we're well along now with JHK's view of the "Long Emergency", and we appear to be entering a perfect storm of economic chaos. Tariffs will have to negotiate through the minefield of "unintended consequences", but that's not to say they may help for a bit. With the era of cheap energy contracting in the rear view mirror, it'll take some serious excess magic on Trump's part to put the Great in MAGA. However, I'll be rooting for the next administration to perhaps install a safety rail or two to help reduce some pain along the way. With Kamala and the Dems it would be nose down at 500 knots into the mountain side....in a straight line....
It's such a shame, there are a number of energy solutions that are cheap, viable, multi-use, not complicated, and very environmentally friendly.
Has Musk done anything that wasn’t successful thus far? I can’t imagine him wanting his name associated with something that will end up an abysmal failure. He has stated they are looking for people to work with them who are willing to work 80+ hours a week and are shining a light on all the ridiculous waste they find (like Nancy Pelosi setting up a liquor store in the Rayburn House Office Building). There has always been some of that related to reporting bizarre grants that are awarded to Universities (e.g studying shrimp on an underwater treadmill for a cool $3 million), but none with the audience that is available to Elon.
If nothing else, it will all be fun to watch and if he can’t get it done, no one can.
I dunno. I find Nancy Pelosi's liquor store less worrisome than a Tesla Roadster up in space orbiting the Sun. It seems a bit ironic for him to be tasked with saving waste. But I guess part of being a billionaire is marketing and slave labor - law and medical schools will be taking a hit from the applicants steering toward DOGE. But if Musk and Vivek can wheel and deal and trim $2T from the Federal budget, I'll be happy to apologize and admit I was wrong....
Yeah, make everyone work 80 hours a week. Roll back all hard won worker benefits. Open the windows! Children have the right to work long hours too.
Trump's EPA pick has no interest in the environment. Shades of Ronald Reagan and that low life he picked for the job.
"Trump's EPA pick has no interest in the environment."
Jared,
Cut Trump some slack. His new hires will do as they are told, with probably few friends and obligations in the field chosen. That they might pull the rug out from under him is only a distant possibility. You want him to hire someone from within the system? Someone who has friends? Obligations? ...agendas? He did that last term.
My comment was specifically related to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Umm, I don’t think he’s hiring children to work at DOGE. He’s looking for, in their words, “high IQ” people to identify waste in federal government spending and I assume they will be well compensated. Speaking for myself, I worked 80+ hours a week regularly as a salaried employee over the course of 15 years. I don’t think it’s that uncommon.
I’m not sure how Black slaves became part of the discussion, but ok. Have a nice day.
Yes, that's much harder than the Black slaves ever worked. But if you enjoy it, it's not "work" per se, perhaps. Of course it's imbalanced nonetheless.....
DOGE is real and is up and running: From @DOGE
"We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants."
Next: Bring in hundreds of thousands of Indian workers to replace lazy White Ameircans. Vivek will review their resumes.....
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. It's just "private" and therefore "moral".
Did your honeymoon with Elon end? So sad, poor pookie.
Well the new boss has quite a different track record than the old boss. However the new boss is still up against the old regime until they are safely removed to their permanent retirements.
It's an equal opportunity endeavor. All are welcome. Meritocracy restored.
All are welcome where?
I maintain nothing moves in a straight line.
It sure will be interesting.