👍👍 JK! This is a very good start in unraveling and exposing the various crimes committed by these miscreants. The key will be the threat of financial impoverishment and long term incarceration motivating one or more of these traitors to flip and reveal the underpinnings of this de facto insurrection. Once the thread is pulled, the activities exposed will be horrific, but punishing the guilty will be cathartic! Kaboom 💥
A few will need to hang. It will need to happen publicly and their twitching bodies left up long enough for American families to load up the minivan with their kids and
teach them what happens when you commit crimes against your fellow countrymen. Can you think of a more patriotic way to spend summer vacation on Americas 250th anniversary?
A buddy of mine grew up in a small town in rural Louisiana. Back in the 80's some black thugs were committing strong-arm robberies of homes and businesses. A couple actual citizens of the town caught a huge alligator gar and hung it from a tree in the middle of town with a sign that said: "You'll be next." Luckily, the thugs finally broke into the wrong house and were gunned down by the homeowner. Sweet justice.
Fortunately, they didn't live long enough to be lynched, though they should have been. They were in the act of committing yet another felony and the homeowner blasted them. What is wrong with that?
It is NOT vigilante justice if someone breaks into your home and you believe they might well kill you. It's called self-protection, Stand Your Ground LAWS.
Vigilante justice is the men of the town protecting the town, and its women and children. Such is our most ancient role, right, and duty.
Who started it? This is the question you refuse to ask. Those criminals were not accosted at random. One must speak to such as they in the only language they understand, they will not listen to another.
In my mother's day, the city dads in every small town across America were expected to protect the town. This is ultimately is what men are for. They were free men; vigilantism kept many a town free of such pestilence.
Cease your womanly wailing; your morality is contrived by propagandists hostile to our very existence.
Never was an innocent man lynched, only one who had escaped his due, thanks to bleating sheep like yourself. Sometimes violence IS the answer.
Why, thank you, miss; the women in my family were strong, independent, and braved formidable circumstances, I am most sure you and they would have certainly got along as fast friends.
They were strong as women are strong, able to endure; but men must be dealt with as men must do, this is our most sacred duty.
A women wrestles with Death himself to bring new life into the world; a man's highest honor is to defend with ferocity our women and the little ones under her wings.
A HUGE "thank you" sir! Yes, I fit that description, too, always have been very independent, strong and have braved many formidable circumstances, I think I'd like the women in your family, too. Thank you for making my day with your wonderful comment!
Being racist is a good thing. It means you're awake and notice patterns of behavior that will kill you if you don't notice. In other words, black behavior! Wake up to reality. What's ignorant is believing the propaganda you've allowed to brainwash you.
Really Susan? I would rather be mugged by a young black thug than have my inheritance and life savings, my job stolen by a Madoff or a SBF or any of the thieves on Wall Street. We have paid a much bigger price moiling around with the likes of BB and Bush than with Tyrone and never mind the satanic overlords in big pharma or the ones trying to tranny your grandchildren in the schools.
I can’t believe people like you still exist. You are not welcomed in the MAGA movement with your retarded ideas. Go be with your fellow democrat racists.
You inspired the old saying, “Progress happens one funeral at a time.” Good riddance.
Due process seems to be the selective argument by most progressives these days. Why was it denied to all those who rotted in DC jails? Committing crime, especially violent crimes is often met with street justice and these bad boys found that out.
Gunned down in the prime of life like Saint Ahmaud Arbery. Who can blame him for taking the bus 30 miles so he can run on the fine streets built by noble slaves for the enjoyment of ignernt rayciss white people? I bet he was even wearing the tuxedo that all the photos show him in.
Of course not. What political leverage would it give him? White people are not enraged about the railroading of other white people. It could be used by the usual race-hustlers rile up the "black community", but racial conflict does not appear to be on the agenda for Trump 2.0 as it was the first time around.
I was responding to your comment to rd3. rd3 discussed one specific case of serial offenders finally being caught breaking into someone's house and being shot by the homeowner. rd3 called defending one's home - in the context of this one specific incident - "sweet justice". You called it vigilantism. I disagreed with you, and imagined how a better person - someone with an unimpeachable sense of justice - might deal with the same situation.
The original post was not about homeowners defending their property. Like I said even a jalapeño knows it can defend itself. The original comment was about vigilantism.
What we've had is law disordered against Constitutional process which is grievous crime against our nation's founding and its citizenry. TREASON, that is, for which death penalty is appropriate.
It's well understood by real Americans of European descent, that when the government fails in its obligations, then the law must be taken up by less centralized groups and individuals.
During Katrina, when the police were unable to keep order and many of them had fled, the remaining police took time to go door to door to confiscate firearms from citizens. This makes perfect sense to such as you, right?
Tribe up or die. Our greatest problem is the sellouts on our side, who hold other peoples above their own. Millions of injustices against our kind, yet no white riots demanding redress.
That’s what a goat fucker from the Hindu Kush would say. If you don’t understand how vigilante justice undermines rule of law, you are part of the overall lawlessness ruining the country.
Great offenses that terrorize the community need to be met with swift justice meted out by the leaders of the community. It's not vigilantism, it represents the best interests and will of the entire community. It's a great legacy of the Scots Irish tradition. You can fuck all the goats you want and then you can go fuck yourself.
I was lost in a snowstorm heading to an assignment on the NW border of my state. Had to mail an app to a university that had to be time stamped. Slid into a tiny post office in a rural town and the sign said, “Skidmore.” So I happily said to the postman helping me, ‘Oh wow, this is really Skidmore the movie was about?’ Young and stupid. He froze. Everyone else froze. Look up justice in Skidmore, Missouri. It damn well works when corrupt attorneys and judges are busy with goats.
Neither is defending one's neighbors, I hope they'll return the favor. I know mine will, and I'm "el viejo", the last old white guy on the block.
They know I'm "racist" as muck, too, and respect it. I'll defend mine as I expect them to defend theirs. They know I'll respect their ancestors as well.
"Racist" doesn't mean malevolent. It means you honor your ancestors, and you expect others to honor theirs. You recognize others for who they are. Now you're both on the same page.
If one of your own brings shame to your skin, you stomp him; he will understand why, too. I simply demand of others that they don't let one of theirs bring shame to their skin, and they "get it" right away.
W r o n g! once you enter someone's house to do harm, and they have weapons to defend their home, then their home becomes the hill they die on or the criminals who invade their home die. Police never arrive in time.
If someone breaks into your home you have NO idea if they want to kill you or not. You have the right to protect your own life but also if you have children, you'd want to protect them as well. This is why there are Stand Your Ground laws in many states. Those states recognize you have the right to protect yourself & your family from anyone who comes into your home. Yes this IS legal!
Vililanteism is a good thing when the law isn't doing its job and eliminating criminals. The KKK was a vigilante group that was much needed and served a valuable purpose...protecting whites from the black menace.
In a South Jersey town, very near me, the KKK went after the Italians. Until the time things went awry and there were a lot of prominent business people sporting black eyes on Monday morning. Things aren't as simple as they seem.
Should you, in future, be personally violated, I have no doubt that you, being an obviously morally superior--even enlightened--Being, will remember your words.
Agreed. Public hangings used to be a spectacle. Women would wear their finest attire and lay out a picnic on the grass. Extra-judicial lynchings were absolutely necessary for the health and safety of the community.
Toe-tappin' greatness. My gods, cruising Virginia Street in the 70s, then heading for a kegger at the flumes...the young ones will never know what was taken from them. Thank heavens I got to see it.
(And once, a stop at the newly rebuilt Mustang Ranch. High steel gates, buzzed in, enter a hallway with plush carpet and large old saloon-style paintings of call girls on the walls...enter the atrium, a high dome with skylights...and there, glory of glories, are lined up 30 pretty girls in skimpy lingerie, the old black madam with a pointer walking along and naming each one. I was all of 17.)
You're speaking to my soul. I told my boys that they'll never know what it was like to tear up some dirt roads, blasting Merle at high volume, slamming light beers, and bouncing our truck off of every obstacle in our way.
I love this video. Leroy, singing to an A-list celebrity, with John Anderson's approval. She's mortified and wet at the same time. Big balls.
4 wheel drives doing blind 180s in 1 inch of water on the saltpan...old mines, with bats and dynamite...boys and girls heading out in convoys to watch the bombing practice at the restricted zone by jets from Henderson AFB...and Nazareth or Kiss at full volume on the 8-track. Dammit boy!
Update: watchin' it. Goshdammit yes I'm crying. Goshdam.
Americans are so disconnected from real life, it would do them well to see something like that, just as it would do them well to experience the life, death birth, etc. that goes on at the farm. Some shockingly high percentage of Americans don't know that chickens have bones.
Or they believe water comes from the tap not knowing the intricate network of pipe lines, treatment facilities, water towers, wells, spring and so forth that the water must pass through to get to their tap. Or they think beef comes from the store, not knowing the amount of work and labor and effort it takes to get a calf to a cow to a slaughterhouse, to a butcher and to the grocery store shelves.
If we could kill agribusiness and return the land to the people, it would be a great benefit to the health of the nation. My wife has mused about buying a farm. It would be better for our children to grow up that way, but I'm two generations removed.
She can! You two would love it. And with RFK and Trump going after everything killing us, the AG is already changing. I’m very rural, all AG counties surrounding and it is changing as fast as DC is falling.
Right on NothingButNet! I believe that Bondi and Patel have teams of people that probably have dozens of whistleblowers already, but are keeping their powder dry until they roll up the lower ones and develop rock solid cases against the bigger fish. As they say... patience is a virtue.
I'm in England and even I'm aware that many US politicians earning relatively modest salaries, have become multi-millionaires since attaining office. Surely those people can be prosecuted at least if their bank accounts are audited and misappropriation or malfeasance proved?
Bettina, I totally agree with you, as do probably 95% of the commenters. Unfortunately, it's not what is right, it is what is allowed under the law. Many, or most politicians that enrich themselves don't break the letter of the law in a fashion that can be proved in , court. Both parties.
If the letter of the law of the land was/is the U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence were agreed upon and enforced, there are many bureaucrats and activist judges that have/are committing treason. No amount of mediation can change the fact that these people willfully violated societal standards by their own ambition and avarice.
He gives the term “Empty Suit” a bad name. Thanks to our thoroughly corrupt media, only in America could someone as unaccomplished and undeserving as Obama be installed in the most crucial position of authority on the planet.
Biden - BC of his hot temper @ lower-primate IQ - is probably more dangerous.
Oh yes. Labour are proposing to ban the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, so that they are all appointed (not elected). Cronyism at its worst. MPs are frequently caught fiddling their expenses. They are a mafia. They can be filmed beating someone up and escape punishment but an ordinary young mother of good character grieving her dead child gets sent to prison for 2 and a half years for an intemperate tweet following the Southport murder of 3 little girls by a Somalian teen. They also get rich in 'public service'. We are a poor country so it's all on a smaller scale here, but just as outrageous.
You’re not a poor country, you’re a rich country whose ruling elites have stolen so much that the feudal system of Lords and Serfs has all but returned.
A professor of war studies here has said we are likely to have civil war within 5 years: we are polarising into immigrant/marxist city v. British conservative countryside. Only one in five people here voted for Starmer (the gimmegrants and everyone else living on benefits), so please dear American cousins, do not believe any anti-US rhetoric coming from his government or the msm. The silent nobodies here voted for Brexit - against globalism. Let's face it, unless you had come to the rescue in 1942, we would have starved (warning there about self-sufficiency) and been beaten by the Nazis. We might need you to rescue us again. I am applauding the Trump administration and he is very kind hearted to impose lower tariffs on us (his late Scottish mother has given him a soft spot I think) but like the Chinese people, we could do with our government getting a hard dose of reality. Globalism needs to die. Long live the nation state and God Bless America.
Standing with you!! I fear the outbreak of civil war there as well, but I think that unless it happens, England will disappear forever under a hijab and sharia law. Will the globalist fools really wait until Westminster Abbey is a mosque to wake up??
OMG Jane, I don't know what it will take for people to wake up. Unfortunately, our main hope was the Reform party - and they are leading in the polls. However, Nigel Farage has been rowing back on his deportation of illegals policy line and the party chairman is a muslim! They seem to be controlled opposition, but they have a lot of support because most voters don't yet realise this. Elon Musk was right about Farage. Farage had a lot of credibility because he got us out of the EU but now, I don't know - wondering if he's been nobbled!
Obama had only flunky jobs ‘til his brief Senate stint. Even with a POTUS ENTHRONMENT we can’t explain his sudden ability to own four very expensive residences - including 8 figure estates.
I went to school with Barry for years. Was an unquestioning multi-generational knee-jerk libtard until the moment my mother said, "Barry's running for president.". Literally, that *instant*, I panicked and thought, "WE ARE ***SO*** FUCKED." (recall the "Oh shit!" dude from the lower-right of Michelangelo's _Last Judgment_). Voted republican ever since.
Wernher von Braun worked with Walt Disney on several space-related projects, including television programs and the design of elements for Tomorrowland at Disneyland. He served as a technical consultant and advisor on three Disney television shows: "Man in Space," "Man and the Moon," and "Mars and Beyond".
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany... WIKI
No, they're just _amazingly_ good at picking stocks. They seem to have a natural instinct for when to buy, when to sell, and when to short. Like they know something we don't!
Nancy Pelosi should have her own show about finance.
Well said Burnt. I remember back in 1992 I was working in a machine shop when Clinton passed NAFTA. They fired everyone, came in, un-bolted the machines from the floor and shipped them to China. So now China raises tariffs to 125%? (mehhh) The news media forgets that the "China Problem" has been around a long time.
True that Ben. I don't think it's Kabuki, China is very evil and is not our friend.
Just today I was thinking back about the Hainan Island incident in 2001, when China forced down the U.S. AWACS plane. They did return the plane, but it was as a box of parts.
In 2014 China began huge cement construction projects on the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, on which they mounted anti-aircraft guns. Yikes.
China hacked the plans for the F-35 fighter. In reality, China has been attacking the United States for a long time.
This is one of the bigest "No Shit" stories of the century.
Of course China wants to knock us down, of course they want to dominate the world. It is their charter, to destroy pure independent capitalism in favor of socialism. They are human, they want to knock the USA off the mountain.
They are also much smarter than the recent years in the Deep State. The Bomb eliminates the possibility of all out war to challenge the US. So what to do?
Use the USA's own beliefs against it. America's (and Canada's) own open societies are simply being bought out and infiltrated by Chinese invaders. We believe in democracy, the vote. So all the Chinese, or Indians need to do is just load up the political arena with the invasion and voila, it becomes China. Hawaii is already there, California and the West Coast is rapidly moving there.
The main objective of China right now, while its world occupation program is running, is Taiwan. The ONLY stake in the ground the USA has put up against them. That is being accomplished easily by surrounding Taiwan with army and navy units and just waiting. In the meantime, last week, the Chinese, Japanese and SOKO signed a mutaul economic support agreement. They again are playing the long game, knowing from Vietnam and Afghanistan that eventually the USA will give way and ALL their aims will be achieved. Who know, by then, they may own the world and the USA with it.
Sidebar - Look no futher than Michigan and Minnesota to see the Muslims doing the same thing. or the Southwest and Texas to see Mexico doing the same thing. I am not there yet, but could a conspiracy theorist come up with a world wide co-operation happening to tear down the current King of the Mountain?
"last week, the Chinese, Japanese and SOKO signed a mutaul economic support agreement. They again are playing the long game, knowing from Vietnam and Afghanistan that eventually the USA will give way and ALL their aims will be achieved. Who know, by then, they may own the world and the USA with it." ~ JohnAZ
Will Trump succeed in busting up China's grab for world domination?
Trump's sweeping tariffs take effect, Japan among 1st to negotiate
I honestly do not know. China, for the past couple of decades has out-foxed the American Deep State over and over again. BRICS+, East Africa, Panama, Canada, Europe, The Silk Road, Now SOKO and Japan? I wonder just how much China shenanigans the Left was going to let happen if Trump had been defeated? Would Biden’s Mob have given us away?
Think about Toyota and all the other corporations in Japan. Losing the uSA would be a catastrophe for them. Of course they will negotiate quickly. Besides, they know the Chinese have long memories.
Do you not see that the 2030 Agenda entailed China, the US, and India, the “Group of Three”, to rule the world? If you agree, do you think that China would accept the power sharing arrangement, or do you think that China's plan was to sucker punch the US and India?
Never in the history of Mankind has power been shared for any period of time. No, I do not believe that China or India or the USA will share global power, there is only one king of the mountain. The candy ass Deep State of the USA has allowed China to come close to the US in global power, if not surpass them.
My guesses go further. I have posted I believe in a tri-partite world and amended that to quatra-partite. I believe that Europe has much more in common with Russia than the US and will join in with them. The USA is going to push hard to unify the Americas, starting with Canada and Mexico. Then China will unify East Asia. The fourth is India, and I do not have a clue who they will ally with.
Couple of corollaries, in the world of competition, Canada has to choose who to go with, same with Greenland. The USA has protected both since WW2, so it is not a simple answer. MY guess is that the USA may just take both of them along with Mexico in an alliance similar to the EU. IMHO, without the USA support, all three better start learning Mandarin. China, Japan and SOKO are already moving together, how soon will pressure mount on the USA to just give Taiwan to China? Taiwan is necessary today for chips, however start-ups are happening in the US right now, two in Phoenix.
See, that's the thing. China doesn't buy much product from the US or EU, but they sell us a ton of theirs. That has ramifications I haven't figured out.
Leadership throughout the world is either part of the solution, or part of the problem. I suspect that Trump's agenda regarding tariffs entails identification of the enemy.
Oho, you are onto something. Is there a world wide effeort to tear down the King of the Mountain? Does Trump see it and is putting out the word to the world that they are messing with the bull and might just get the horn?
In Trump terms, Knock off the bullshitting around, world, and learn to live with each other.
Your first question? Nope, because for every Trump there is a Bernie Sanders promoting AOC. Oh my, what a combination. But 20-25% of the American people think they are just wonderful. America was founded on the principle that diverse opinions can be heard and solutions worked out. Today, that basic tenet of the FF is under intense scrutiny. Same around the rest of the world.
Are the leaders the problem, yes and no. Autocratic leaders fear changes to their rule, they deny that opposition forces exist and when faced with them, try to destroy them. BUT, the people are always the last word heard, ask Louis the 16th, or the leaders of the USSR, or Rome’s emperors, or Athens, or the last Pharoahs. Leaders can be big problems as well as economic blocs, but eventually the people rule, one way or the other. IMHO, the FF wanted to avoid another revolution by making the USA a national of the vote, of control by the people. THAT is what is under assault today by the Left, no the Deep State. Vote against the Deep State, in all forms. Vote against the Ult-Left. Vote against RINOs. Vote against people who tell you that the government will take care of you if you vote for me. Vote against uncontrolled diversity, vote for the common culture. Vote for workfare. Vote for controlled decrease in federal spending. Vote for constant interest rates and taxation. Vote for a controlled border.
I would like an unbiased view of just how powerful AIPAC is in the USA? JHK, can you do that in one of your posts? I, for one, do not believe it is as powerful as some say.
"China is being obstinate, and it does not make any sense unless it is just kabuki theater of the absurd." ~ Ben
"Brende is a Norwegian politician, former trade minister, and former minister of foreign affairs. He formerly advocated for China, the US, and India, the “Group of Three” as he has deemed them, to step up and take on WEF initiatives in hopes that the rest of the world would follow. "
How about Xi and China's vision of ruling the world? Just because US citizens have rejected "Joe Biden's" vision of implementing the 2030 Agenda, doesn't mean that his cohorts have conceded their power grab.
The citizens of the world are the victims of leadership who are vying for the ultimate power grab: Rulers of the world.
So, the question is: Which leader are you willing to support? And, what vision has your chosen leader "painted" that prompts you to support him/her?
ME? I want no part of any oligarchical socialistic system anywhere. I do not care who carries the banner. Trump, and MAGA, carry the torch right now, the only American group to do so, so I am behind Trump exclusively.
When does support for an avowed enemy become treason?
AND the idea of globalism sucks, the idea that the hundreds of differing cultures could ever see eye to eye on anything. The EU is doing a terrific job of showing how useless globalism is. Next will be when China asks Putin to take a back seat to Chinese projects, like the development of Europe and Siberia. Xi has a major problem, what the heck to do with his overpopulation.
Can you imagine every village micromanaging the outcome of the war in the ME?
Seems that global management will be a requirement for success, and success of global management will require that citizens get to pull the plug on management, and that will require that MSM be subject to prosecution for treason.
"When does support for an avowed enemy become treason?" ~ JohnAZ
What is the solution? Inform the population. How can one inform the population, when the problem can not even be identified?
The first step is to identify the problems. Can the majority come to a consensus on this? JHK is doing his part. I hear Trump, but it seems that a significant percent of the population have TDS, and do not. Is MSM committing treason? JHK's post/s details what Trump is doing about it.
It is impossible to look at the stunningly comprehensive and pervasive infestation of corruption, abuse, theft, treason and unconscionable abject evil imposed on the American people and beyond without a deep sigh of relief and gratitude for the disaster we avoided in the last election . Every single day an unfathomable expanse of malfeasance is exposed. The depth and breadth of it is utterly and staggeringly unimaginable. The list is too long to transcribe. Had the election turned out differently, any sane and moral person would have no choice but to curl up in a quivering heap of jello. None of this would have come to light, and indeed it would have become markedly worse, if that is even possible. Say what you will about Trump - his failures and successes, his weaknesses and strengths, his ego, his compassion; but the alternative would have been the final nail in the coffin. Elon was right. That election was the most important and consequential in the history of our Country. Thank God for Elon and Trump and all the rest of the smart, courageous and dedicated people sacrificing to save the Country. The devastation inflicted on us is so incredibly deep that it far from clear that the patient can be saved, but at least we have identified and engaged the enemy; we are in the battle. I hope we can succeed. The forces of evil aligned against us are powerful and determined.
Thanks, Mellis. A thoughtful counterpoint to all the "a plague on both your houses" comments here and elsewhere. I have plenty of worries about Trump's reboot (almost all concerning his foreign policy moves), but you're right. We dodged a bullet ... but only by the margin that the president did on that grim day last July in Butler, PA.
However, to adapt what an IRA member said to Margaret Thatcher after a failed attempt to kill her: "You were lucky. But you have to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once."
“We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”
I suspect the same cabal that engineered the resistance and the subsequent stolen election were behind the deeply corrupt puppet administration. Most likely the Obama crowd, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, et. al., with a heaping helping of CIA color revolution deep-staters from both "parties".
Lindy Li is making the podcast rounds. I have no idea how credible she is, but her position in the Democratic party leads me to believe her. She claims the country was being run by Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, and Steve Ricchetti. Given their respective roles, it seems plausible.
Government by committee. That's my guess. There was this round table of special interests: black, gay, transgender, Marxist, female, that came up with "policy" and simply put it in front of him to sign.
Close, but not quite. Those groups are merely the tools used to push society's buttons and advance various agendas. The cabal creates and then exploits the "cohorts of the aggrieved" to move public opinion and assure absolute polarization of every issue. It's all part of the Hegelian dialectic
Exactly. The angry, violent, and, if possible, mentally ill, are used to usher in totalitarianism. Suicidal loose cannons are easy to manipulate and easy to drive to self-destruction once they've served their purpose.
Children's Health Defense featured the June 18, 2021, article (link provided below) by Dr. Joseph Mercola, containing a video which, "... identifies the Italian Orsini family, the American Bush family, the British Royal family, the du Pont family, the Morgans, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, as Vanguard owners.".
Disagree. 78% of the Prohibition gangs were one ethnic group, an ancient gangster culture. (They created the Prohibition campaign, as well; propaganda and radicalization are their signature strengths. Prohibition, for instance, boosted the profits of a common product by 10,000%. Manufacturing leverage to exploit is another signature strength.)
Those Prohibition profits then bought up the near-bankrupt US weapons companies after the War, WWII, at steep discount (another signature tactic), and they were turned into a global industry with manufactured, low-conflict forever wars.
Laddering their profits in war, crime, and revolution are that culture's primary industries, they are the masters at it with millenia of experience.
“Everything you see, everything that happens is due to central banks and politicians.
This is the fault of them and them alone -- not anything else -- not climate change, not Covid, not the Ukraine war, not the <insert name here> war that’s coming.
. . . Enjoy life. We only have one life. Don’t live in fear, and Be of Service. That’s the message.”
I sincerely hope & pray the “infamous” of your list will finally pay a terrible price & comeuppance, & not just the nobodies that no one has ever heard of.
This ain’t no disco. Five minutes patience isn’t going to do it. We should all brace for impact. One thing is for sure: the old system wasn’t working. Trump ran on fixing/changing it. At least he is doing what he said he would.
Let's see. who has protection from insider trading prosecution? Do I hear Congress? Pelosi? Schiff better think twice before trying to push that in the administration.
So, is Trump crazy like a fox? Or is he an arrogant, stubborn, immature old man?
Is he really clamping down on the excess of DEI by sanctioning law firms, or just going after people he sees as a threat to him?
America’s economic structural problems started in the 1960s (Vietnam, Great Society), deteriorated in the 1970s (energy crisis, end of cheap oil), deepened in the 1980s (the beginning of the hollowing out of American manufacturing under “free enterprise”, free-trader Reagan Republicans), and finally metastasized under Clinton (NAFTA, terminate Glass-Steagall). This toxic situation then continued to spread rampantly under Bush (war in Iraq, reduction of civil liberties). So the hoUSe of cArds was very fragile by the time Obama arrived, let alone Trump-45, both of whom continued the failed policies of Clinton/Bush.
As many have said, “this can’t continue.” No, it can’t.
So, Trump thinks because he is not only “the Donald”, but also “The Prez”, he can use a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. I think he may have knocked the hoUSe of cArds down for good this month with his tariff stunt.
Trump is unwilling to end the war in Ukraine. I want to know, is he fomenting this market chaos to do Netanyahu’s bidding, or to avoid doing so?
To expand, regarding Iran, since Mr. Trump is not a serious man, I don’t take him seriously. Is he causing all this chaos on the financial markets so he can tell AIPAC and the Israeli Lobby that, "you know I love Israel, but I just cannot attack Iran right now", in a fit of belated reason?
Or, is he causing this chaos in the financial markets to distract people, so he CAN attack Iran like Miriam Adelson and the Israeli Lobby and Netanyahu want to, in an act of obfuscation?
If/when Trump is dumb enough to attack Iran in order to satisfy the NeoCONs and the Greater Israel crowd (the Israelis, AIPAC and Miriam Adelson, Bill Ackman, and the Israeli Lobby), the effects will dwarf the market disruptions and drops of early April. I hope The Donald knows that.
Nice summary. To these add the self-imposed full blown trade war with China, which threatens to go kinetic now as well. I wanted badly to believe in him after the utter disaster of Ol' SloJo and what's her face, but it's looking more and more like he was anointed to swing the political pendulum the other way as a distraction, while amping up the globalist agenda on steroids. If nothing else, it appears that we'll know the answers to all these questions fairly soon, as Trump has totally eschewed subtlety and deception in favor of his trademark elephant in a China shop mentality.
It’s a story I started way back in December 2010 and finished last year—obviously an on-again off-again project. It helped to fill the early morning hours before work mostly.
At first it was a story about a man trying to find his way back to his teenage daughter and trying to fit into his community. Over time a bit of romance (NOT MUCH) slipped in, as well as a handful of Bible verses. It wasn’t until October of 2023 that I realized maybe the best way to sum it up would be to say it’s about faith, hope, and love.
With all that said, I think a quick read of the Amazon reviews “sells it” better than I ever could. And FYI, the Kindle version will be free on Amazon from April 17th to April 21st.
Thanks for asking, and sorry if this was more than you wanted!
No, he doesn't. However, YOU are one of the few who does.
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What I *really* don't understand about President Trump is why he would sacrifice his billionaire lifestyle to take shit from fugly negresses (and others) to save a country populated by so many fat, impatient, did I say IMPATIENT? ingrates.
Edit: ingrates who ALL know so much better than he does.
He has probably been told that. I think part of Trump's job is to crash the economy - not for his class of course, they will rake in their winnings as they always do. A war with Iran will crash the economy, but might as well undermine it before bringing in the wrecking ball.
We are planning to nuke Iran, hoping to achieve the same gains we got from nuking Japan. That is, making Russia and China back off, control of the the sea lanes and dominance of a region (in Japan's case, that region was the Pacific.)
Why nuke Iran? To decapitate the government that has placed hundreds of mobile shore batteries (small missiles, rockets) on the Strait of Hormuz. No government, no shore batteries. Likewise, no Houthis blockading the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait of the Red Sea.
Iran defends Russia's soft underbelly; is a major supplier of hungry China's energy, and is the general running the proxy armies of the Shia Crescent, such as the Houthis, Hamas, and Hiz'b'allah (Hezbollah).
Taiwan is impossible, a feint; Ukraine is secondary, a drain; NATO Turkey and HST are aligned with Israel and have cleared Syria as the path for Israeli jets.
We've tied up Russia, are tying up China, are bombing the Houthi, and are lining up the majority of world nations to keep quiet; we are clearly signaling our sympathies. The gameboard is being set.
The EU will be further swamped with war "refugees", so the cabal backing Trump will be able to demonstrate uncontested dominance, even over its subject white nations. Neocons and spies are out, the technocabal is in, and it is cleaning house.
So now the Anti-Israel, TDS group has done their bit-weekly rant.
You want Trump to be more subtle? China shop? You complain about the wa things have been since mid-century, then turn right around and complain because Trump is blatantly trying to do something about it. Do you even understand WHAT you want?
They might just be trolls, Langley-bots, Sino-bots, et cetera. When he shut off all of Merle Haggard's "free Bubble Up" for the special people there was bound to be a typically sinister and disingenuous propaganda campaign.
What red blooded, Boobus Americaus could be against Israel? As Bibi said, Once we've gotten what we want from the United States, it can dry up and blow away.
I suspect a few of them are actually foreign nationals pretending to be Americans or Canadians and the tell is they get very defensive of countries like Iran and China.
The DOGE team has discovered at least 14 black money machines or computers being used at will to cut million dollar treasury checks to anyone in DC. This means there are potentially 1,000x more FRN's (federal reserve notes) in circulation as digits. If this was released as news to the media, the USD would likely no longer be a going concern within 24 hours and hyperinflation would vaporize the country.
You are scaring the bejesus out of me. A hyperinflationary dollar collapse could literally end civilization in the US. I read a very prophetic book about this, fiction for now, that laid out just how fast and how bad things would get. In this book debit/credit card stop working around 7 a.m. on a busy weekday morning. By noon grocery stores are looted, burning husks with bodies on the floor. Gas stations, banks, and gun stores are also quickly looted and destroyed, followed by Target stores, Wal Marts, and by about 2 pretty much everything in major cities is trashed and gone. Cops walk off the job, and civilization is over long before sundown. The book goes on to lay out how the US would literally revert to the stone age with no functioning government, no law enforcement, no electricity, no running water, no gasoline. . .you get the picture.
You see, when much smaller, land locked nations liker Weimar Germany or modern Venezuela suffer a currency collapse, people just walk across their border into more stable nations. Yes, this creates a refugee crisis, but that can be managed. Also, when small land-locked nations collapse, neighboring countries send in their military, and the Red Cross etc. and try to restore them. The Khmer Rouge destroyed Cambodia, and Vietnam invaded it in 1979, and occupied it for a few years and worked, with other nations and the UN, to restore stability. Now, the US is a gargantuan nation bounded by two oceans. Most US citizens would die of starvation/exposure long before they got within 100 miles of our southern or northern border, if they tried. And, to those who made it to the border, what would that accomplish? If the US collapses, one of the first things that will happen is that Canada will seal its border, refuse to accept refugees from the US, and seek to protect itself. Fleeing into Mexico will just be going from the frying pan into the fire. Seriously, I honestly believe that a Dollar Collapse would be much worse for the US than suffering a limited nuclear exchange. If the dollar collapses, civilization in this region of the world will go down with it, this portion of the continent of North America would swiftly revert to The Stone Age.
If the scenarios that you present are anywhere close to reality, then shouldn't the citizens unite and support Trump, no matter what path he chooses to take us down?
Perhaps. If there was a Dollar collapse in the middle of a cold winter here in the US, by the end of one week most of the population would be starving, suffering from dehydration, and suffering from hypothermia. Not everyone would be troubled by these problems, though, as many would not survive one full week after the country descended into total and complete anarchy, with no currency of value, no means of exchange, no power/running water/gas heat/internet/cell phone service etc. Most people would be far safer if the US was hit by a dozen nukes than if there was a currency collapse. It would make living through the Plague/Black Death, or the Spanish Flu, or the Great Depression, all look like great times, by comparison. The book I read laid out, with great precision, how hour by our stores would have their shelves stripped bare and be burned, how anyone who had anything of value would be at grave risk of being robbed at gunpoint or murdered for their possessions, by desperate starving people in the days following the collapse, and worse. I have always feared a Dollar Collapse, more than any other disaster that could hit the USA. To me, the really scary thing is that it could happen, in a blind panic, at any moment, and if the US keeps steadily going bankrupt, it probably will happen someday.
Be the gray man, stay away from crowds,and keep yer yap shut about what you have stashed. Easier said then done.Thing is most tough guys don't want to be the first one in their crew to die.
" To me, the really scary thing is that it could happen, in a blind panic, at any moment, and if the US keeps steadily going bankrupt, it probably will happen someday. " ~ Thomas Madden
"China and now even Canada, are issuing debt denominated in US dollars. The older issues have also lost on the foreign exchange. Carney in Canada has just demonstrated his true lack of understanding of financial markets. He dumped US Treasuries but then issued Canadian debt denominated in dollars. As the C$ declines, he will lose on the return of the foreign exchange as well. Even the OECD report found that the costs of borrowing through dollar-denominated bonds had risen from around 4% in 2020 to more than 6% in 2024, rising to more than 8% for riskier, junk-rated economies nations."
Soylent Green. A classic dystopian film starring Charlton Heston.
Soylent Green should be viewed as an allegory about how we're supposed to be more aware of the injustices the ultra-wealthy have inflicted on everyone else. The film's ending could almost be viewed as saying, "Hey, bad things are out there, and you need to search for the truth."
What happens after that? It probably won't be as pretty as a bunch of flowers in a field, we'll say that much.
No. Trump was useful in ending Biden/Harris regime. It is time to assess, and if Trump, in practice, is no better, or even worse, then it will be useful to end the Trump regime in 2026 or 2028.
Unfortunately, the trajectory is one of decline. I had presumed that with Trump this rate of decline would slow considerably, and he might, maybe, sow the seeds of a reversal. While "outing" USAID and other excesses are good points of light, they don't count for much if Trump bungles the "reindustrialization" with his mass-attack-on-ALL-fronts tariffs against everyone, or if "peace" President Trump wastes even more money on the military-industrial complex or fans the existing flames of hot wars into WW3 faster than Harris would have.
"He's not Biden or Harris or Hillary" is not good enough for me, if his results are just as bad.
I agree with you here. Trump, like adm. 1 is hamstrung by the enormous power of the Deep State, they control just about everything in the federal government. If Trump believes in the Constitution, the actual power lies outside the executive branch. The national trajectory has been negative, under the control of the Deep State, for 70 years. I am very pro-Trump, as you know, as a counterforce to this trajectory, but I am afraid he may not be enough to reverse the wheels of government.
One thing is for sure, until the judiciary is put into its proper place re: the Constitution, Trump is pretty much locked up.
Three major issues that America is confronted with are (i) $36 trillion unsustainable national debt, (ii) the war in Ukraine, and (iii) the ME conflict.
Unless dealt with, it is my impression that the national debt issue by itself will lead US (and much of the world) to the point that Thomas Madden describes.
Armstrong contends that the business cycle is inevitable, and civilization needs to learn to live with it.
So, you want to switch horses at this point in time (basically, not support Trump, and start promoting another solution for 2026 or 2028).
I would suggest that the world does not have the luxury of that much time, and I would encourage you (and others) to consider solutions that might mitigate the Sovereign Debt Crisis, and then consider how Trump's actions might be addressing the problems, realizing that solutions, because of factors beyond his control, just amount to a grand experiment.
First, consider that he is trying to reduce the number of factors that are beyond his control. A big one would be if he had a united world population to support his grand experiment. In this regard, like JHK, he is trying to inform the population about the immoral activity of the obstructionists, and gaining the support of the moral segment of the population to back his endeavor to deal with the various entities/factions (both nationally, and internationally).
Viewing a variety of perspectives, my assessment is that it is the Globalists who will be responsible for WWIII should it come to that, and I view a variety of paths whereby Trump can be a key player in achieving world peace.
And, as far as Trump bungling the "reindustrialization" with his mass-attack-on-ALL-fronts tariffs against everyone, what happens if he ends up uniting a majority of the countries of the world, and with this group, counters the obstructionists? Many leaders throughout the world are still married to the 2030 Agenda, and we see with individuals like Larry Fink, they are not all complete idiots. Once they come to the realization that the 2030 Agenda has failed, then perhaps they will be open to entertaining other solutions (success for one will entail success for all).
Then, when unity is achieved, the needs of the general population will need to be attended to, and assuming that there will be die-hard globalists who intend to obstruct Trumps agenda in this regard, this is where I see a need for people like Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and other big money people to create business activity to mitigate the devaluation and avoid the nightmare scenario that default would bring. I also foresee a need for mega projects, as well as the need for a new format for life.
As far as the wars, do you not see "good points of light" in that trouble makers are being targeted? Is the individual that prompted the protest against Hamas a plant? Doesn't the support that he has generated imply that Hamas is not the only solution? Are the Nazis in Ukraine the good guys, or the troublemakers?
I view a perspective whereby Trump is addressing the issues in a logical manner, and am encouraged by his achievements to this point, realizing that only time will tell if his grand experiment will be a success. But, at this point in time, I also see no other good option.
Disagree. The major issue of the USA is how its people view themselves. They have been told by their government for 70 yeras that you are too stupid to run yourselves, just let us take care of you. The reaction has been very human. 50% of this country sign up to letting the government run their lives.
That is very expensive, $36 trillion to be exact. Another one to drop in is the $50 or so trillion individual debt that Joe Average faces today. The country has to face the idea that none of it is going to be re-paid and what does that mean?
In the meantime, how the heck do we get 50% of the country to take on the responsibility for their own lives? Until that happens, everything else is minor. Remember that that debt is largely there because of that 50%' s irresponsibility.
Read them again. Disagree may have been too strong a word.
My point is that the formation of national or global debt is still the desire of governments to “take care of the people”. Why? To gain political advantage.
Think about what causes the debt. Why are the government nebbishes always trying to tax and spend? To get our vote, to get the majority of the votes to maintain their power. Put those interest rates down, cut those taxes, encourage unwarranted spending and investment, for what? To create more money, more spending, etc.etc. What causes downturns? When the credit suppliers run out of real money and start to create new money with no backing. Add on that the government has probably added on higher interest rates and you get the public saying “No Mas”, I cannot afford this any more. The slide begins!
Keynes, at this point says, okay government, spend more, keep those people working, flood the money market, MAKE THINGS WORSE. It just extends the up curve even longer and makes the resultant collapse larger and longer. The Great Depression had the government increase spending per Keynes, and the really main lesson was lost as the spending made things worse, the height of unemployment was 1936. The end of the Depression happened because of two factors, we made “bullets”, disposables, war material, and second, we killed off a portion of the unemployed. Returning veterans had no fear, and consumer spent like crazy, keeping demand for investment high. I was a kid then and remember interest rates in low single digits. Cars were built to last about 50000 miles, and trading in after 2 years was common. New products as the result of investments came fast and furious. The Fifties, good times.
Anyhow, back to the subject at hand. The business cycle is a product of the reaction of people to spending and interest rates, period. If people see a market or even a potential market they invest and spend, That is Supply Side economics. If the markets succeed they keep spending and investing, to the point of speculation. There is the rub, speculation, spending at high risk. Then the Fed raises interest rates, budgets collapse and the spending slows rapidly. Then the long term debts start coming due and the collapse start. The CDOs that banks invented to increase speculation in 2008, collapsed the banks as the people had no way to pay the increased ARM mortgages that comprised the CDOs. Michael Burrey predicted this collapse (see The Big Short), and even predicted the day it would happen. I was on vacation as I watched the Market collapse. Get it? Predictable by someone who used common sense.
Well, as I said, what is the common denominator? People, all the people. The articles say that the business cycle is behind all the shenanigans and it is not understood very well. Well , no kidding. Human behavior is just plain crazy. A joke I heard long ago, “Line up a hundred economists on a straight line. They will all be pointing in a different direction.” For every human with an opinion, there will be another with the opposite opinion. Humans are fickle, period. No amplify that trait by creating governments, power centers that are fickle times a 1000%. Now try to use “common sense” to run he people’s economy. Uh huh? Now try to get that government to be inspired by one of those divergent economists and what do you have, chaos, conflicting ideas, constantly changing conditions and interest rates, IOW, the business cycle.
So what to do? Lock in interest rates at a reasonable level and stop changing them. Low enough to inspire controlled investment but high enough to stop to stop speculation. Do not allow the government to spend for the sake of spending, especially to get the vote. John McCain was right when he tried to stop the escalating spending for elections. Vote for controlled spending, vote for controlled immigration, vote against welfare. Stop Keynesian spending, it just makes things worse. The people need to spend, invest, save not the damned government. Kill the Deep State, quit voting in people that promise you “A chicken in every pot” or today, “A flat screen in every house”. Use the vote to destroy Wokeism, the doctrine that says you deserve all the goodies, regardless of your willingness to earn them. In succinct terms, quit supporting the “gimme”, I am owed attitude that has allowed the Leftist 50% of this country to get away with economic murder.
There it is again, 50%. The people, the people run a civilization. Governments come and go, the people are responsible. This country has to stop the “Easy Street” mentality and get back to work. Or it will join the heritage of so many “empires” before it.
We are at odds in that Capitalism is a game where the goal is, essentially, disparity.
I would suggest that when migration is taken into account, that disparity is at an extreme. The product is a "dog eat dog" world, where a huge segment of the population is either not "wired", or not fortunate (lucky) enough to compete.
Will the private sector solve this problem? Can the government solve this problem? Do you see the steps that Trump is taking to address this problem?
Yes, capitalism is disparity, the human condition on earth is the same as any other species, based on competition for food and resources. The world is Dog-eat-dog and for humans that means the strongest, smartest, most gifted individuals have the advantage and will survive. Look to the world before the liberal response to the Great Depression. Poor people in the USA and around the world starved if they could not compete.
Private Sector - Let em starve. Wee will give charity for some.
Government - ha, the greatest con job in history. We will feed you as long as you side with us. humans just suck up to that. Until the people are ambitious enough, ‘the poor will always be with us”.
Trump - also easy, he says it straight out. We will take care of the people of America first. Period. The rest of the world is going to hate us for a while because we have so screwed ourselves up, We do not have much left over for them.
If the dollar collapses, civilization in this region of the world will go down with it, this portion of the continent of North America would swiftly revert to The Stone Age. Yes.
As a general concept, I agree with Trump's GENERAL vision of bringing manufacturing back to America. That is the desired goal. How does one get there? I don't think "tariffing" anything and everything that moves is the way to get there. Declaring "economic war" on everyone else is probably a good way to get everyone else to overlook what they don't like about each other, and focus on the USA.
I can't get inside Trump, or his Administration's head, but it seems to me they want it BOTH ways:
They want the dollar to continue to be the 'world currency', which retains the dollar privilege, and allows the US to create money in a manner no one else can, AND
They want to devalue the dollar (that would help US manufacturing, making items imported into the US cost more, and items exported from the US cost less).
Which takes me to your superb final sentence in your thoughtful comment. How would nation X feel about being forced to use dollars that are worth less? Is that the art of the deal? Or coercion.
Remember, US policy, whether with Trump, or his deep-state predecessors is the three "B"s: bribe, bully, and bomb. Especially since the USSR imploded. Unfortunately, that party trick is not going to work as well going forward.
While America can bomb weaker countries, when America's only ace is mutually assured destruction, something most of the elite (not to mention 99% of the public) does not want, and the other cards are weaker by the day, it's not very encouraging.
If the dollar collapses, civilization in this region of the world will go down with it, this portion of the continent of North America would swiftly revert to The Stone Age. Yes. You (and Dmitry Orlov among others) see the possible future--even if the current big wars of interest to the US (as it is funding and enabling BOTH) don't metastasize into something much worse, which remains a real possibilty.
I think you are close here to what may happen. I believe Trump is looking 20 years out. He sees the forthcoming economic disasters as the world tries to destroy the USA. IMHO, that is why he is trying to set up a unified North American Union to counter the global efforts. Could it be he sees the NAU becoming an economically independent entity that will tell the rest of the world to fuck off? Does he see this as a defense against the BRICS+ crowd?
Uh-oh, first he has to figure out what Canada and Mexico want to do with BRICS+. Europe too.
Old news. “While the global financial crisis permanently reduced the speed of globalization, the world economy went into the COVID-19 crisis already with largely stagnant global trade volumes. The pattern of regionalization which now appears in the latest trade statistics enriches the debate and offers researchers new metrics to quantify the scope of regionalization.”
Economic disparity is an issue that needs to be addressed, and regionalization can amount to efficiency, with the potential to be beneficial in this regard.
Would you agree that the existing format for life is no longer efficient, and that technology should be utilized to husband the world's resources?
My read is that Trump is focused on dealing with the major issues, with the ultimate goal of peace and prosperity for all.
So, what is the problem? Is my read incorrect, or is the problem as Ray Dalio described, that various factions are vying for power with the goal of getting to impose their version of a new format for life on the citizens of the world?
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To some extent, "stagnant global trade volumes" merely reflected market saturation.
Regionalization and efficiency are a fit with "You will own nothing and be happy", are they not?
I can own my region [ measured in square feet ] and practice efficiency [ in providing for my own needs ] without false authorities trying to “hep me”.
"I can't get inside Trump, or his Administration's head ..." ~ SocratesDetroit
To do this, you need to view a variety of perspectives with an open mind.
The following is another perspective that goes against the grain of the majority of Judge Nap's guests, and it paints a picture of complexities. So, doesn't this allow Trump some free rein?
Steve Witkoff’s visit to Petersburg today: what do we know?
"As a general concept, I agree with Trump's GENERAL vision of bringing manufacturing back to America. That is the desired goal. How does one get there? I don't think "tariffing" anything and everything that moves is the way to get there. Declaring "economic war" on everyone else is probably a good way to get everyone else to overlook what they don't like about each other, and focus on the USA." ~ SocratesDetroit
Who do you view as the "Globalists" that Trump often referrers to?
If you view the G7 - 1 as being counted among the Globalists that are obstructing Trump's agenda, then do you recognize that Trump's tariffs are in the process of busting them up?
Rothchilds, and their soldiers, Soros as one. British monarchy, the EU, BRICS+, Davos (WEF), The "British" conglomerate, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Rockefeller and Clinton Foundations. The global criminal Mob.
Compared to the wealth controlled by the Globalists, the tariffs are a BB in a boxcar. But something needs to be done, right?
This is the reason there have been zero arrests for all the stuff the DOGE team has found. If there were arrests, it would only serve to further shatter the shaky confidence in the USD system/economy. The people running the treasury and social security all should have been subjected to criminal prosecution for their misdeeds. Everyone running USAID, same thing, criminals and leftist activists stuffed into cushy gov jobs by the Obama people running "Biden".
It is widely assumed, in the government / corporate colossus, that the US economy is too big to fail. In this view some Bigfoot will always step in to rescue it just short of its hitting the wall. So far this seems to have been true. So far. But ultimately the artificial respiration runs on trust in the "full faith and credit" of financial institutions. If that goes, the consequences don't bear thinking on.
China and Japan and maybe more countries dumping US Treasury bond holdings to the max is part of the answer to your question, but we live in the time of revelation and all the dirt will come out. Enough to put Biden and Obama in prison for all the theft they grafted.
No and I do not believe Obama or Biden will ever see the justice they deserve for all the wrongs they committed against Americans. Barry had his chef murdered on the Vineyard because the chef was writing a tell-all book about them. The MA state police aided in the cover-up of same.
People who have the chef killed, they have zero concern of prison time.
The MA state police aided in the cover-up of same? C'mon man now yer talkin' crazy. MA State Police are as honest as they come. Just look at the Karen Read case.
LOL yup, totally! And then there are all those truck driver licenses they sold instead of actually verifying the people getting those licenses were even legal to be in the country. Shining examples of justice, that bunch is!
“Perhaps a comprehensive omnibus RICO case can incorporate all of these in what appears to amount to a single, complex orchestrated, long-running attempted coup. Don’t bet that this isn’t coming. “
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RICO will put this Mafia away. It was all about $ and not paying taxes.
When the actual indictments begin, and convictions start to roll in one after the other, and multi-year sentences accumulate (among people of note, not low-lever patsies), then I will take notice and allow the bud of faith and trust to flourish within this dead heart of mine. I hear much talk, much ado, but nothing of concrete action in terms of blow back. Besides, the gallimaufry of activist, rogue federal judges will simply continue in their Alinsky-inspired efforts to "overwhelm the system" by way of blocking each and every effort on the part of the administration to get anything done. This is an existential war (not a difference of opinion, not robust debate, but actual conflict) that must be won, and rather quickly. He who hesitates, he who fails to dare, will lose. We've seen that the demonic left will do anything and everything to pursue their goals. For once, perhaps we must wade into the moral morass of 'the end justifies the means' (this one single time) to correct things. The alternative to this is too terrible to even contemplate.
You want action? Good! You just read posts by folks who want leaders to be subtle, to be nice. Action is mandatory, overt, blatant, obvious bull in the China shop action. Organized violence begets immediate response, period, whether in Israel or the USA.
It is hard for these people to realize that Iran’s aim in the Middle East and the progressive movement in the USA have the same goals, the destruction of their native lands. So claiming to be pro-America and anti-Israel seems tomfoolery. Pro- what America. Or Amerika.
Baloney! Russia considers Iran as a frenemy, as their enemy is Iran’s enemy. You conveniently forget that all Islamic terrorism is Iran backed, including Chechnya. Iran is a friend of convenience for Russia to swing weight in the Persian Gulf.
Israel is after empire as per the Greater Israel project. If God is with them, they can do it all by themselves, but of course they can't and He isn't.
In Israel, approximately 21.1% of the population is not Jewish. This translates to roughly 2,080,000 people who are classified as Arab citizens, including various religious groups like Muslims, Christians, and Druze. Additionally, around 5% of the population is neither Jewish nor Arab, including foreign workers. -aibot
Dominion voting machines have been used to change votes all over the world. When Hillary Clinton was complaining about election fraud after she lost in 2016, CNN aired a segment in 2017 where they obtained electronic voting machines. They also hired 10 technical experts to try hacking into the machines and change votes. All ten achieved that in less than an hour. Funny how that episode has disappeared somewhere.
The CIA cannot allow nonuse of electronic machines because they use them to mess with elections all over the world.
I'm pretty sure I saw Dominion vote-changing on election night 2016. At 1 a.m., Trump was ahead in PA, MI, and WI by about 7 points with about 80% of the vote counted in each state. The districts that had not been called yet were almost all rural - low population, right-wing.
When I tuned back in at 3 a.m., the Hildebeast had closed the gap to about 2% in all three states. For that to happen, all of those rural districts would have had to vote almost exclusively for Clinton. How likely is that?
I went to sleep assuming - as I had for months - that the evil hag would be proclaimed the winner. Obviously our masters had a different idea.
I remember after the 2020 election when Sydney Powell said that there were so many votes for Trump that it broke the algorithm designed to steal the election for Joe Biden, requiring the five swing states to shut down until they could pump out more fake ballots.
She was eventually charged with some sort of election denial bs and was forced to “admit” she lied, saving her from a lengthy prison sentence.
Too late for that, Grape. If we're going to worry about every Salvadoran, we might as well not bother. The Republic is over, the Empire must rise, else all is lost. Don't worry about our enemies. God will know his own.
For me Vindman is a top candidate for an actual treason charge. A foreign national and US military officer acting in the interests of the corrupt government of Ukraine to deflect from Trump investigating the corrupt ties between Biden and the Ukraine regime.
👍👍 JK! This is a very good start in unraveling and exposing the various crimes committed by these miscreants. The key will be the threat of financial impoverishment and long term incarceration motivating one or more of these traitors to flip and reveal the underpinnings of this de facto insurrection. Once the thread is pulled, the activities exposed will be horrific, but punishing the guilty will be cathartic! Kaboom 💥
A few will need to hang. It will need to happen publicly and their twitching bodies left up long enough for American families to load up the minivan with their kids and
teach them what happens when you commit crimes against your fellow countrymen. Can you think of a more patriotic way to spend summer vacation on Americas 250th anniversary?
A buddy of mine grew up in a small town in rural Louisiana. Back in the 80's some black thugs were committing strong-arm robberies of homes and businesses. A couple actual citizens of the town caught a huge alligator gar and hung it from a tree in the middle of town with a sign that said: "You'll be next." Luckily, the thugs finally broke into the wrong house and were gunned down by the homeowner. Sweet justice.
Love to know what town.
I couldn't get a hold of him today, but I know it was a small town outside of Ruston. Can't remember the name.
I can't recall. I'll ask him.
That’s not sweet justice. That’s vigilanteism. Those black men had the right to due process. THAT IS NOT JUSTICE.
Fortunately, they didn't live long enough to be lynched, though they should have been. They were in the act of committing yet another felony and the homeowner blasted them. What is wrong with that?
Self defense is different than vigilante justice.
Even a jalapeño knows it has the right to protect itself.
It is NOT vigilante justice if someone breaks into your home and you believe they might well kill you. It's called self-protection, Stand Your Ground LAWS.
Vigilante justice is the men of the town protecting the town, and its women and children. Such is our most ancient role, right, and duty.
Who started it? This is the question you refuse to ask. Those criminals were not accosted at random. One must speak to such as they in the only language they understand, they will not listen to another.
In my mother's day, the city dads in every small town across America were expected to protect the town. This is ultimately is what men are for. They were free men; vigilantism kept many a town free of such pestilence.
Cease your womanly wailing; your morality is contrived by propagandists hostile to our very existence.
Never was an innocent man lynched, only one who had escaped his due, thanks to bleating sheep like yourself. Sometimes violence IS the answer.
EXACTLY! Men are the protecters, always have been - as a woman I will always be eternally grateful for their role.
Why, thank you, miss; the women in my family were strong, independent, and braved formidable circumstances, I am most sure you and they would have certainly got along as fast friends.
They were strong as women are strong, able to endure; but men must be dealt with as men must do, this is our most sacred duty.
A women wrestles with Death himself to bring new life into the world; a man's highest honor is to defend with ferocity our women and the little ones under her wings.
A HUGE "thank you" sir! Yes, I fit that description, too, always have been very independent, strong and have braved many formidable circumstances, I think I'd like the women in your family, too. Thank you for making my day with your wonderful comment!
And thank you for making mine! So fine to meet someone with common sense. My pleasure, ma'am!
All Blacks are innocent of everything, a priori, cuz slavery and shit.
No one said that. You’re a backward racist. Read your constitution you idiot. We are losing our rights because of ignorant assholes like yourself.
The Blacks say it all the time. Are they nobody, bigot? Why are you trying to silence their voices!
We are losing our rights because of ignorant assholes like you who don't even know the HUGE difference between a vigilante and lawful self defense.
Read the actual laws some more you idiot!
Where have those "laws" gotten us?
Being racist is a good thing. It means you're awake and notice patterns of behavior that will kill you if you don't notice. In other words, black behavior! Wake up to reality. What's ignorant is believing the propaganda you've allowed to brainwash you.
Really Susan? I would rather be mugged by a young black thug than have my inheritance and life savings, my job stolen by a Madoff or a SBF or any of the thieves on Wall Street. We have paid a much bigger price moiling around with the likes of BB and Bush than with Tyrone and never mind the satanic overlords in big pharma or the ones trying to tranny your grandchildren in the schools.
I can’t believe people like you still exist. You are not welcomed in the MAGA movement with your retarded ideas. Go be with your fellow democrat racists.
You inspired the old saying, “Progress happens one funeral at a time.” Good riddance.
Have you no idea what sarcasm is? You seem to disagree with everyone who is commenting here - so why are you still here??
Life of the party.
"I volunteer to be the punching bag!"
It worked! You gave us a chance to demonstrate our bona fides, and to find one another.
Much more fun
LOL.... N O !
Due process seems to be the selective argument by most progressives these days. Why was it denied to all those who rotted in DC jails? Committing crime, especially violent crimes is often met with street justice and these bad boys found that out.
Defending one's house is not justice?
"Please vibrant Black scholars, take our Lexus - but leave granny's picture alone!" Ahhh, sweet justice - reasoning with thugs.
"Well, we're dead now, but fortunately those Black gentlemen will have their due process. If they ever get apprehended..."
They're always one felony away from "turning their life around."
Gunned down in the prime of life like Saint Ahmaud Arbery. Who can blame him for taking the bus 30 miles so he can run on the fine streets built by noble slaves for the enjoyment of ignernt rayciss white people? I bet he was even wearing the tuxedo that all the photos show him in.
Is Trump going to pardon those guys and Chauvin?
Of course not. What political leverage would it give him? White people are not enraged about the railroading of other white people. It could be used by the usual race-hustlers rile up the "black community", but racial conflict does not appear to be on the agenda for Trump 2.0 as it was the first time around.
I'm enraged by it.
HE WAS GOING TO CURE CANCER
His term isn’t over yet…
"They're always one felony away from 'turning their life around.'"
We need this carved in a marble pediment in D.C. Brilliant!
Who said that? Read the whole thread.
I was responding to your comment to rd3. rd3 discussed one specific case of serial offenders finally being caught breaking into someone's house and being shot by the homeowner. rd3 called defending one's home - in the context of this one specific incident - "sweet justice". You called it vigilantism. I disagreed with you, and imagined how a better person - someone with an unimpeachable sense of justice - might deal with the same situation.
The original post was not about homeowners defending their property. Like I said even a jalapeño knows it can defend itself. The original comment was about vigilantism.
"...even a jalapeño knows..."
that, even when confronted with facts and logic, a narcissist is NEVER wrong
that's grassroots justice...exactly what's needed now
What we need is law and order.
Stand Your Ground laws ARE law and order.
Yes.
Law and order cannot be a one-way street that only the decent follow.
What we've had is law disordered against Constitutional process which is grievous crime against our nation's founding and its citizenry. TREASON, that is, for which death penalty is appropriate.
"...for which death penalty is appropriate"
and Pay-Per-View video thereof a fast-track solution to zeroing-out America's national debt.
"Civil Rights" law usurped Constitutional law;
under one system, every man and woman was equal under the law, our answer to aristocratic class privilege;
under the new system, favoritism, that is, the inequality of class privilege, was a given, and the new aristocracy is based on it.
It's well understood by real Americans of European descent, that when the government fails in its obligations, then the law must be taken up by less centralized groups and individuals.
During Katrina, when the police were unable to keep order and many of them had fled, the remaining police took time to go door to door to confiscate firearms from citizens. This makes perfect sense to such as you, right?
"real Americans of European descent"
Are there any other kind of real Americans?
As John Galt said, a is a.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2riVDq2NdJsp
No honor among thieves Sir!!
There are times when there is no law that people have to take care of themselves. That’s not the case in this discussion.
You missed the point again, Vicious.
Tribe up or die. Our greatest problem is the sellouts on our side, who hold other peoples above their own. Millions of injustices against our kind, yet no white riots demanding redress.
So is your problem others rioting or your apathy?
It does providing the house was empty and the seizure was well documented with receipts left and a simple form to get guns back.
What we need is the KKK.
Again, where has that "law and order" gotten you?
"Law and order" began, remember, with white kids being marched at bayonet point in their own home towns.
Go outside and get some fresh air.
As long as "you got yours," yeah?
Sweet, sweet justice.
That’s what a goat fucker from the Hindu Kush would say. If you don’t understand how vigilante justice undermines rule of law, you are part of the overall lawlessness ruining the country.
Return to God.
Great offenses that terrorize the community need to be met with swift justice meted out by the leaders of the community. It's not vigilantism, it represents the best interests and will of the entire community. It's a great legacy of the Scots Irish tradition. You can fuck all the goats you want and then you can go fuck yourself.
I was lost in a snowstorm heading to an assignment on the NW border of my state. Had to mail an app to a university that had to be time stamped. Slid into a tiny post office in a rural town and the sign said, “Skidmore.” So I happily said to the postman helping me, ‘Oh wow, this is really Skidmore the movie was about?’ Young and stupid. He froze. Everyone else froze. Look up justice in Skidmore, Missouri. It damn well works when corrupt attorneys and judges are busy with goats.
You're a smart lady.
No. Just learning finally…
Gotta love those town names in Missoura.
Skidmore. Nowhere. Dead Broke. Broken Cartwheel. Peculiar. Braggadocio. The name tells the story.
Then arrest then, give them legal representation, a trial by jury, and appropriate punishment.
You’re not better than our founders. You do t have a better idea.
You mean a jury of their Black peers who will let them walk free, especially with a Soros judge presiding?
Just a jury of their peers, skin color shouldn't matter but we all know it helps...
It doesn't just "help," it's all that matters.
Oh so that’s all it takes. Some dirtbag Nazi just took your constitution away from you. You’re a disgrace.
Oh, here we go with the Nazi stuff. Do you do yoga?
There is an inconsistency in a goat fucker from Hindu Kush, a jalapeno and Return to God. Defending one's home is not vigilantism or lawlessness.
Nice.
Few things make me salivate more profusely than a preachy narcissist experiencing cognitive dissonance.
Neither is defending one's neighbors, I hope they'll return the favor. I know mine will, and I'm "el viejo", the last old white guy on the block.
They know I'm "racist" as muck, too, and respect it. I'll defend mine as I expect them to defend theirs. They know I'll respect their ancestors as well.
"Racist" doesn't mean malevolent. It means you honor your ancestors, and you expect others to honor theirs. You recognize others for who they are. Now you're both on the same page.
If one of your own brings shame to your skin, you stomp him; he will understand why, too. I simply demand of others that they don't let one of theirs bring shame to their skin, and they "get it" right away.
Tell that to Austin Metcalf.
Would you rather he be murdered by a white person?
But, "that’s not the case in this discussion," now is it?
No. Still not
"...a goat fucker from the Hindu Kush..."
"You’re a backward racist."
~Viccus, on Viccus
Afghanistan is called the "graveyard of empires" for good reason.
What’s your point?
I don't see you robbing goat fucker's homes in the Hindu Kush, now do I. Even though I hear it's great jogging territory.
If they were caught in the act of committing the crime, they received due process immediately. Case closed.
Nuthin' wrong with a little frontier justice. Kill or be killed, the choice is ours.
W r o n g! once you enter someone's house to do harm, and they have weapons to defend their home, then their home becomes the hill they die on or the criminals who invade their home die. Police never arrive in time.
If you’re caught in the act on someone’s property. But if you’ve left, best leave it to police instead of hunting people down.
Anything, anything, but unite as neighbors who can depend on each other. Gotcha.
If someone breaks into your home you have NO idea if they want to kill you or not. You have the right to protect your own life but also if you have children, you'd want to protect them as well. This is why there are Stand Your Ground laws in many states. Those states recognize you have the right to protect yourself & your family from anyone who comes into your home. Yes this IS legal!
Vililanteism is a good thing when the law isn't doing its job and eliminating criminals. The KKK was a vigilante group that was much needed and served a valuable purpose...protecting whites from the black menace.
In a South Jersey town, very near me, the KKK went after the Italians. Until the time things went awry and there were a lot of prominent business people sporting black eyes on Monday morning. Things aren't as simple as they seem.
@ viccus. Meh. Not so much.
Get a life. You break into my home, you don't come out alive.
And you are wrong, Viccus. The perp minority does not have the right to run havoc amongst the majority. Their privileges are not superiour to ours.
They lost their right to due process with their behavior.
@Viccus,
Should you, in future, be personally violated, I have no doubt that you, being an obviously morally superior--even enlightened--Being, will remember your words.
I, myself, will walk on by. "Nah. It's just Viccus. Have at it, lads!"
Your idiocy is morally violating to your countrymen.
Justice
Agreed. Public hangings used to be a spectacle. Women would wear their finest attire and lay out a picnic on the grass. Extra-judicial lynchings were absolutely necessary for the health and safety of the community.
130 year-old sign seen in Reno: "Hangings on Fridays. Parade at noon!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qPpIVzPN9w
Toe-tappin' greatness. My gods, cruising Virginia Street in the 70s, then heading for a kegger at the flumes...the young ones will never know what was taken from them. Thank heavens I got to see it.
(And once, a stop at the newly rebuilt Mustang Ranch. High steel gates, buzzed in, enter a hallway with plush carpet and large old saloon-style paintings of call girls on the walls...enter the atrium, a high dome with skylights...and there, glory of glories, are lined up 30 pretty girls in skimpy lingerie, the old black madam with a pointer walking along and naming each one. I was all of 17.)
You're speaking to my soul. I told my boys that they'll never know what it was like to tear up some dirt roads, blasting Merle at high volume, slamming light beers, and bouncing our truck off of every obstacle in our way.
I love this video. Leroy, singing to an A-list celebrity, with John Anderson's approval. She's mortified and wet at the same time. Big balls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGMGUUKsoUc
4 wheel drives doing blind 180s in 1 inch of water on the saltpan...old mines, with bats and dynamite...boys and girls heading out in convoys to watch the bombing practice at the restricted zone by jets from Henderson AFB...and Nazareth or Kiss at full volume on the 8-track. Dammit boy!
Update: watchin' it. Goshdammit yes I'm crying. Goshdam.
I didn't notice it the first time through, but that's John Carter Cash and Shooter Jennings sitting there, too. Haha.
Fuck yeah. I'm in.
Omg, laughing at the suburbanites rolling up in mama vans to watch …
Americans are so disconnected from real life, it would do them well to see something like that, just as it would do them well to experience the life, death birth, etc. that goes on at the farm. Some shockingly high percentage of Americans don't know that chickens have bones.
Or they believe water comes from the tap not knowing the intricate network of pipe lines, treatment facilities, water towers, wells, spring and so forth that the water must pass through to get to their tap. Or they think beef comes from the store, not knowing the amount of work and labor and effort it takes to get a calf to a cow to a slaughterhouse, to a butcher and to the grocery store shelves.
Even worse......they don't care.
Yes! I think we are returning. So many I know are returning to actual working farms.
If we could kill agribusiness and return the land to the people, it would be a great benefit to the health of the nation. My wife has mused about buying a farm. It would be better for our children to grow up that way, but I'm two generations removed.
She can! You two would love it. And with RFK and Trump going after everything killing us, the AG is already changing. I’m very rural, all AG counties surrounding and it is changing as fast as DC is falling.
Except the Vax and Zionism. Tis but scratches, but they will suffice. Tomorrow we shall be a grave man.
Needs to happen. About every 80 years the country goes through a turning. We are in the fourth turning.
!!!
Firing squad on the White House lawn? And let’s hope for some women’s rights at both ends of the rifles
Time is running out for cooperation for lesser sentencing.
The time to cooperate ended when the polls closed on November 5th! Anything after that is simply begging for mercy!
Right on NothingButNet! I believe that Bondi and Patel have teams of people that probably have dozens of whistleblowers already, but are keeping their powder dry until they roll up the lower ones and develop rock solid cases against the bigger fish. As they say... patience is a virtue.
You’re the menace.
I'm in England and even I'm aware that many US politicians earning relatively modest salaries, have become multi-millionaires since attaining office. Surely those people can be prosecuted at least if their bank accounts are audited and misappropriation or malfeasance proved?
And their ill gotten gains clawed back to the taxpayers.
Not just their ill gotten gains. Take it all. Everything they own as punishment for their filth and corruption. Then give it back to the taxpayers.
Bettina, I totally agree with you, as do probably 95% of the commenters. Unfortunately, it's not what is right, it is what is allowed under the law. Many, or most politicians that enrich themselves don't break the letter of the law in a fashion that can be proved in , court. Both parties.
If the letter of the law of the land was/is the U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence were agreed upon and enforced, there are many bureaucrats and activist judges that have/are committing treason. No amount of mediation can change the fact that these people willfully violated societal standards by their own ambition and avarice.
It's been documented that NGOs are used systematically in the money-laundering process because they are not subject to federal law:
https://datarepublican.com/
https://x.com/DataRepublican
He gives the term “Empty Suit” a bad name. Thanks to our thoroughly corrupt media, only in America could someone as unaccomplished and undeserving as Obama be installed in the most crucial position of authority on the planet.
Biden - BC of his hot temper @ lower-primate IQ - is probably more dangerous.
Even the social security cheques cashed for dead grandmas?
Congress is a protection racket for political criminality. I am sure your House of Lords and Parliament have similar self protection among their kind.
Oh yes. Labour are proposing to ban the remaining hereditary peers from the House of Lords, so that they are all appointed (not elected). Cronyism at its worst. MPs are frequently caught fiddling their expenses. They are a mafia. They can be filmed beating someone up and escape punishment but an ordinary young mother of good character grieving her dead child gets sent to prison for 2 and a half years for an intemperate tweet following the Southport murder of 3 little girls by a Somalian teen. They also get rich in 'public service'. We are a poor country so it's all on a smaller scale here, but just as outrageous.
You’re not a poor country, you’re a rich country whose ruling elites have stolen so much that the feudal system of Lords and Serfs has all but returned.
I can't tell you how outraged we across the pond are watching the murder of our mother country, of all the the Commonwealth countries.
You are our brothers and sisters...when you get to it, we will be right behind you, all the way.
A professor of war studies here has said we are likely to have civil war within 5 years: we are polarising into immigrant/marxist city v. British conservative countryside. Only one in five people here voted for Starmer (the gimmegrants and everyone else living on benefits), so please dear American cousins, do not believe any anti-US rhetoric coming from his government or the msm. The silent nobodies here voted for Brexit - against globalism. Let's face it, unless you had come to the rescue in 1942, we would have starved (warning there about self-sufficiency) and been beaten by the Nazis. We might need you to rescue us again. I am applauding the Trump administration and he is very kind hearted to impose lower tariffs on us (his late Scottish mother has given him a soft spot I think) but like the Chinese people, we could do with our government getting a hard dose of reality. Globalism needs to die. Long live the nation state and God Bless America.
Standing with you!! I fear the outbreak of civil war there as well, but I think that unless it happens, England will disappear forever under a hijab and sharia law. Will the globalist fools really wait until Westminster Abbey is a mosque to wake up??
OMG Jane, I don't know what it will take for people to wake up. Unfortunately, our main hope was the Reform party - and they are leading in the polls. However, Nigel Farage has been rowing back on his deportation of illegals policy line and the party chairman is a muslim! They seem to be controlled opposition, but they have a lot of support because most voters don't yet realise this. Elon Musk was right about Farage. Farage had a lot of credibility because he got us out of the EU but now, I don't know - wondering if he's been nobbled!
Obama had only flunky jobs ‘til his brief Senate stint. Even with a POTUS ENTHRONMENT we can’t explain his sudden ability to own four very expensive residences - including 8 figure estates.
I went to school with Barry for years. Was an unquestioning multi-generational knee-jerk libtard until the moment my mother said, "Barry's running for president.". Literally, that *instant*, I panicked and thought, "WE ARE ***SO*** FUCKED." (recall the "Oh shit!" dude from the lower-right of Michelangelo's _Last Judgment_). Voted republican ever since.
He is "In The Club".
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barack-obama-and-grandfather_n_2808285
That is not his Grandfather but what should have been the first man on the MOON. Grissom, Grissom, Grissom!
Wernher von Braun worked with Walt Disney on several space-related projects, including television programs and the design of elements for Tomorrowland at Disneyland. He served as a technical consultant and advisor on three Disney television shows: "Man in Space," "Man and the Moon," and "Mars and Beyond".
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS, the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany... WIKI
Walt warned us about the takeover of Hollywood by the Jews, but we didn't listen.
Unless they pull a Biden and have shell companies in the hundreds and accounts in their distant relatives' names.
No, they're just _amazingly_ good at picking stocks. They seem to have a natural instinct for when to buy, when to sell, and when to short. Like they know something we don't!
Nancy Pelosi should have her own show about finance.
They usually say they "got lucky in the stock market." 😹😹😹 They're going to have a tough time pulling that one off now.
Thank you Howard! Clusterfuck Nation and Welcome To Absurdistan are my go to places to read.
You may also enjoy Jeff Childers Coffee & COVID Substack. It is usually a treasure trove of solid info.
That’s 3 of the best try the “Blitzkreig through the Institutions” @ (link to more recent post by John Carter)
https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/the-involution-of-the-liberal-mind?r=18ougb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Glad you enjoyed it. Keep up the good fight.
Wow, great article! Thank you.
Here’s the link: https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/the-blitzkrieg-through-the-institutions?r=4m0y9a&utm_medium=ios
Is that Postcards from Barsoom? I'm in!!
Go all the way back to the murderous Clinton’s and work your way into the Obamas and Biden’s. Indict them all in a rico treason and sedition case.
Well said Burnt. I remember back in 1992 I was working in a machine shop when Clinton passed NAFTA. They fired everyone, came in, un-bolted the machines from the floor and shipped them to China. So now China raises tariffs to 125%? (mehhh) The news media forgets that the "China Problem" has been around a long time.
What does China actually buy from the US?
China is being obstinate, and it does not make any sense unless it is just kabuki theater of the absurd.
True that Ben. I don't think it's Kabuki, China is very evil and is not our friend.
Just today I was thinking back about the Hainan Island incident in 2001, when China forced down the U.S. AWACS plane. They did return the plane, but it was as a box of parts.
In 2014 China began huge cement construction projects on the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, on which they mounted anti-aircraft guns. Yikes.
China hacked the plans for the F-35 fighter. In reality, China has been attacking the United States for a long time.
In many ways. I think they use invasive plants and insects to harm us too
I know they sabotage us by selling us grossly inferior products of a plethora of types.
"I know they sabotage us by selling us grossly inferior products of a plethora of types." ~ Colleen Sirna
Perhaps in some instances.
They wouldn't be selling them to us if we didn't buy them.
There are a variety of reasons this has been happening. What actions do you see that Trump is taking to address these issues?
"In reality, China has been attacking the United States for a long time."
Thank you for saying this. Kissinger promoted the PRC since the Nixon era.
This is one of the bigest "No Shit" stories of the century.
Of course China wants to knock us down, of course they want to dominate the world. It is their charter, to destroy pure independent capitalism in favor of socialism. They are human, they want to knock the USA off the mountain.
They are also much smarter than the recent years in the Deep State. The Bomb eliminates the possibility of all out war to challenge the US. So what to do?
Use the USA's own beliefs against it. America's (and Canada's) own open societies are simply being bought out and infiltrated by Chinese invaders. We believe in democracy, the vote. So all the Chinese, or Indians need to do is just load up the political arena with the invasion and voila, it becomes China. Hawaii is already there, California and the West Coast is rapidly moving there.
The main objective of China right now, while its world occupation program is running, is Taiwan. The ONLY stake in the ground the USA has put up against them. That is being accomplished easily by surrounding Taiwan with army and navy units and just waiting. In the meantime, last week, the Chinese, Japanese and SOKO signed a mutaul economic support agreement. They again are playing the long game, knowing from Vietnam and Afghanistan that eventually the USA will give way and ALL their aims will be achieved. Who know, by then, they may own the world and the USA with it.
Sidebar - Look no futher than Michigan and Minnesota to see the Muslims doing the same thing. or the Southwest and Texas to see Mexico doing the same thing. I am not there yet, but could a conspiracy theorist come up with a world wide co-operation happening to tear down the current King of the Mountain?
"last week, the Chinese, Japanese and SOKO signed a mutaul economic support agreement. They again are playing the long game, knowing from Vietnam and Afghanistan that eventually the USA will give way and ALL their aims will be achieved. Who know, by then, they may own the world and the USA with it." ~ JohnAZ
Will Trump succeed in busting up China's grab for world domination?
Trump's sweeping tariffs take effect, Japan among 1st to negotiate
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/fc1369e8f05b-trumps-sweeping-tariffs-to-take-effect-japan-among-1st-to-negotiate.html
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I honestly do not know. China, for the past couple of decades has out-foxed the American Deep State over and over again. BRICS+, East Africa, Panama, Canada, Europe, The Silk Road, Now SOKO and Japan? I wonder just how much China shenanigans the Left was going to let happen if Trump had been defeated? Would Biden’s Mob have given us away?
Think about Toyota and all the other corporations in Japan. Losing the uSA would be a catastrophe for them. Of course they will negotiate quickly. Besides, they know the Chinese have long memories.
Do you not see that the 2030 Agenda entailed China, the US, and India, the “Group of Three”, to rule the world? If you agree, do you think that China would accept the power sharing arrangement, or do you think that China's plan was to sucker punch the US and India?
https://www.kunstler.com/p/convergence-calling/comment/106934501
Never in the history of Mankind has power been shared for any period of time. No, I do not believe that China or India or the USA will share global power, there is only one king of the mountain. The candy ass Deep State of the USA has allowed China to come close to the US in global power, if not surpass them.
My guesses go further. I have posted I believe in a tri-partite world and amended that to quatra-partite. I believe that Europe has much more in common with Russia than the US and will join in with them. The USA is going to push hard to unify the Americas, starting with Canada and Mexico. Then China will unify East Asia. The fourth is India, and I do not have a clue who they will ally with.
Couple of corollaries, in the world of competition, Canada has to choose who to go with, same with Greenland. The USA has protected both since WW2, so it is not a simple answer. MY guess is that the USA may just take both of them along with Mexico in an alliance similar to the EU. IMHO, without the USA support, all three better start learning Mandarin. China, Japan and SOKO are already moving together, how soon will pressure mount on the USA to just give Taiwan to China? Taiwan is necessary today for chips, however start-ups are happening in the US right now, two in Phoenix.
See, that's the thing. China doesn't buy much product from the US or EU, but they sell us a ton of theirs. That has ramifications I haven't figured out.
In a really stupid decision US Chicken manufacturing decided to send poultry products to China to be butchered.
Seems like most of the food coming from China is flawed and or contaminated.
Most of the products are poorly made and break.
I have had a suspicion for years they use a lot of recycled electronic parts in new products.
I'm good with doing without much of what China makes as long as the Americas tool up and begin to make everything.
Probably because they know the Joe Average in the USA does not know.. Not until America builds things for Americans will quality truly count.
AND food decays as soon as picked, so why are we buying any foodstuffs from outside the USA unless absolutely necessary, like bananas or coffee.
Yeah, they are interested in being ruled by the Rothschilds. They MUST be evil. Good thinking, Bin.
Shots fired shots fired Lugh again shows reading comprehension deficiency. Peeeyew Lugh stinks it up again.
Leadership throughout the world is either part of the solution, or part of the problem. I suspect that Trump's agenda regarding tariffs entails identification of the enemy.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGyKPSUv0J1/
Oho, you are onto something. Is there a world wide effeort to tear down the King of the Mountain? Does Trump see it and is putting out the word to the world that they are messing with the bull and might just get the horn?
If a vote by the citizens of the world determined the outcome, would there be peace throughout the world?
Are the leaders, and a handful of power hungry citizens the problem?
My read is that Trump wants peace throughout the world, and he wants the countries of the world to get down to the business of doing business.
In Trump terms, Knock off the bullshitting around, world, and learn to live with each other.
Your first question? Nope, because for every Trump there is a Bernie Sanders promoting AOC. Oh my, what a combination. But 20-25% of the American people think they are just wonderful. America was founded on the principle that diverse opinions can be heard and solutions worked out. Today, that basic tenet of the FF is under intense scrutiny. Same around the rest of the world.
Are the leaders the problem, yes and no. Autocratic leaders fear changes to their rule, they deny that opposition forces exist and when faced with them, try to destroy them. BUT, the people are always the last word heard, ask Louis the 16th, or the leaders of the USSR, or Rome’s emperors, or Athens, or the last Pharoahs. Leaders can be big problems as well as economic blocs, but eventually the people rule, one way or the other. IMHO, the FF wanted to avoid another revolution by making the USA a national of the vote, of control by the people. THAT is what is under assault today by the Left, no the Deep State. Vote against the Deep State, in all forms. Vote against the Ult-Left. Vote against RINOs. Vote against people who tell you that the government will take care of you if you vote for me. Vote against uncontrolled diversity, vote for the common culture. Vote for workfare. Vote for controlled decrease in federal spending. Vote for constant interest rates and taxation. Vote for a controlled border.
IOW, vote for America First.
AIPAC stole my vote, and they won't represent me.
I would like an unbiased view of just how powerful AIPAC is in the USA? JHK, can you do that in one of your posts? I, for one, do not believe it is as powerful as some say.
https://www.kunstler.com/p/farewell-fugazy/comment/107508938
"China is being obstinate, and it does not make any sense unless it is just kabuki theater of the absurd." ~ Ben
"Brende is a Norwegian politician, former trade minister, and former minister of foreign affairs. He formerly advocated for China, the US, and India, the “Group of Three” as he has deemed them, to step up and take on WEF initiatives in hopes that the rest of the world would follow. "
https://www.kunstler.com/p/convergence-calling/comment/106934501
How about Xi and China's vision of ruling the world? Just because US citizens have rejected "Joe Biden's" vision of implementing the 2030 Agenda, doesn't mean that his cohorts have conceded their power grab.
The citizens of the world are the victims of leadership who are vying for the ultimate power grab: Rulers of the world.
So, the question is: Which leader are you willing to support? And, what vision has your chosen leader "painted" that prompts you to support him/her?
ME? I want no part of any oligarchical socialistic system anywhere. I do not care who carries the banner. Trump, and MAGA, carry the torch right now, the only American group to do so, so I am behind Trump exclusively.
When does support for an avowed enemy become treason?
AND the idea of globalism sucks, the idea that the hundreds of differing cultures could ever see eye to eye on anything. The EU is doing a terrific job of showing how useless globalism is. Next will be when China asks Putin to take a back seat to Chinese projects, like the development of Europe and Siberia. Xi has a major problem, what the heck to do with his overpopulation.
Can you imagine every village micromanaging the outcome of the war in the ME?
Seems that global management will be a requirement for success, and success of global management will require that citizens get to pull the plug on management, and that will require that MSM be subject to prosecution for treason.
"When does support for an avowed enemy become treason?" ~ JohnAZ
What is the solution? Inform the population. How can one inform the population, when the problem can not even be identified?
The first step is to identify the problems. Can the majority come to a consensus on this? JHK is doing his part. I hear Trump, but it seems that a significant percent of the population have TDS, and do not. Is MSM committing treason? JHK's post/s details what Trump is doing about it.
“Can the majority” - Can the minority keep its big mouth shut? “Inform the population? Who? The MSM? Yeah, nuts to that.
The big difference today is that the Left 50% want the uSA torn down and the Constitution torn up.
Our local Port of Oswego (Upstate NY), was, I'm told, the departure point for lots of heavy stuff from the NE.
Don’t leave out those shrubbery known as Bushes…
Make AIPAC register as a foreign lobby. Prosecute any and all representatives who are under their sway.
That would work to clean out Congress.
That’s ONE reason JFK was assassinated.
It is impossible to look at the stunningly comprehensive and pervasive infestation of corruption, abuse, theft, treason and unconscionable abject evil imposed on the American people and beyond without a deep sigh of relief and gratitude for the disaster we avoided in the last election . Every single day an unfathomable expanse of malfeasance is exposed. The depth and breadth of it is utterly and staggeringly unimaginable. The list is too long to transcribe. Had the election turned out differently, any sane and moral person would have no choice but to curl up in a quivering heap of jello. None of this would have come to light, and indeed it would have become markedly worse, if that is even possible. Say what you will about Trump - his failures and successes, his weaknesses and strengths, his ego, his compassion; but the alternative would have been the final nail in the coffin. Elon was right. That election was the most important and consequential in the history of our Country. Thank God for Elon and Trump and all the rest of the smart, courageous and dedicated people sacrificing to save the Country. The devastation inflicted on us is so incredibly deep that it far from clear that the patient can be saved, but at least we have identified and engaged the enemy; we are in the battle. I hope we can succeed. The forces of evil aligned against us are powerful and determined.
Thanks, Mellis. A thoughtful counterpoint to all the "a plague on both your houses" comments here and elsewhere. I have plenty of worries about Trump's reboot (almost all concerning his foreign policy moves), but you're right. We dodged a bullet ... but only by the margin that the president did on that grim day last July in Butler, PA.
However, to adapt what an IRA member said to Margaret Thatcher after a failed attempt to kill her: "You were lucky. But you have to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once."
Evil never rests.
“We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.”
- President Ronald Reagan
"You were lucky. But you have to be lucky every time. We only have to be lucky once."
That's true in the short term, but not in the long term. In the long term, we have full control. Remembering that is the life problem.
All we have to do is stand up, and none could or can oppose us.
We are the people who casually conquered the world, without even noticing we did it.
Well stated. Keep an eye out for extinction bursts and do not under any circumstances think this momentary respite will continue without effort.
A welcomed narrative, Mellis. Thank you.
You missed a crime, and it might be the biggest of them all. Who ran the country for the last four years? It wasn't Brandon.
I suspect the same cabal that engineered the resistance and the subsequent stolen election were behind the deeply corrupt puppet administration. Most likely the Obama crowd, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, et. al., with a heaping helping of CIA color revolution deep-staters from both "parties".
Lindy Li is making the podcast rounds. I have no idea how credible she is, but her position in the Democratic party leads me to believe her. She claims the country was being run by Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, and Steve Ricchetti. Given their respective roles, it seems plausible.
Government by committee. That's my guess. There was this round table of special interests: black, gay, transgender, Marxist, female, that came up with "policy" and simply put it in front of him to sign.
Close, but not quite. Those groups are merely the tools used to push society's buttons and advance various agendas. The cabal creates and then exploits the "cohorts of the aggrieved" to move public opinion and assure absolute polarization of every issue. It's all part of the Hegelian dialectic
Exactly. The angry, violent, and, if possible, mentally ill, are used to usher in totalitarianism. Suicidal loose cannons are easy to manipulate and easy to drive to self-destruction once they've served their purpose.
The difficulty is the left is such an alien mindset, it's an entirely different way of thinking and organizing.
Set the goal, then follow the path of any means necessary to get there. There are no rules.
The military industrial complex runs the country. Question is, who is controlling them?
Children's Health Defense featured the June 18, 2021, article (link provided below) by Dr. Joseph Mercola, containing a video which, "... identifies the Italian Orsini family, the American Bush family, the British Royal family, the du Pont family, the Morgans, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers, as Vanguard owners.".
Vanguard owns the most shares of BlackRock....
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/blackrock-vanguard-own-big-pharma-media/
Disagree. 78% of the Prohibition gangs were one ethnic group, an ancient gangster culture. (They created the Prohibition campaign, as well; propaganda and radicalization are their signature strengths. Prohibition, for instance, boosted the profits of a common product by 10,000%. Manufacturing leverage to exploit is another signature strength.)
Those Prohibition profits then bought up the near-bankrupt US weapons companies after the War, WWII, at steep discount (another signature tactic), and they were turned into a global industry with manufactured, low-conflict forever wars.
Laddering their profits in war, crime, and revolution are that culture's primary industries, they are the masters at it with millenia of experience.
"Exposing the Role of Central Banks and Governments to Use Pandemics, Climate Change and War to Control and Cover Up (Economic) Collapse":
https://rumble.com/v1mny36-ed-dowd-covid-and-the-global-financial-collapse-a-tale-of-catastrophes-and-.html
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“Everything you see, everything that happens is due to central banks and politicians.
This is the fault of them and them alone -- not anything else -- not climate change, not Covid, not the Ukraine war, not the <insert name here> war that’s coming.
. . . Enjoy life. We only have one life. Don’t live in fear, and Be of Service. That’s the message.”
~ Edward Dowd, @edwarddowd on GETTR
American Freedom Alliance, October, 2022
I sincerely hope & pray the “infamous” of your list will finally pay a terrible price & comeuppance, & not just the nobodies that no one has ever heard of.
IMHO, it'll just remain the nobodies.
That’s why I said “hope & pray”. I have no assurance for it 😔
This ain’t no disco. Five minutes patience isn’t going to do it. We should all brace for impact. One thing is for sure: the old system wasn’t working. Trump ran on fixing/changing it. At least he is doing what he said he would.
Yeah, Trump blinked on the tariffs. Plus the insider trading must have been off the charts. We can't tighten our belts, our stomachs are too big.
Let's see. who has protection from insider trading prosecution? Do I hear Congress? Pelosi? Schiff better think twice before trying to push that in the administration.
This ain’t no fooling around…
So, is Trump crazy like a fox? Or is he an arrogant, stubborn, immature old man?
Is he really clamping down on the excess of DEI by sanctioning law firms, or just going after people he sees as a threat to him?
America’s economic structural problems started in the 1960s (Vietnam, Great Society), deteriorated in the 1970s (energy crisis, end of cheap oil), deepened in the 1980s (the beginning of the hollowing out of American manufacturing under “free enterprise”, free-trader Reagan Republicans), and finally metastasized under Clinton (NAFTA, terminate Glass-Steagall). This toxic situation then continued to spread rampantly under Bush (war in Iraq, reduction of civil liberties). So the hoUSe of cArds was very fragile by the time Obama arrived, let alone Trump-45, both of whom continued the failed policies of Clinton/Bush.
As many have said, “this can’t continue.” No, it can’t.
So, Trump thinks because he is not only “the Donald”, but also “The Prez”, he can use a chainsaw instead of a scalpel. I think he may have knocked the hoUSe of cArds down for good this month with his tariff stunt.
Trump is unwilling to end the war in Ukraine. I want to know, is he fomenting this market chaos to do Netanyahu’s bidding, or to avoid doing so?
To expand, regarding Iran, since Mr. Trump is not a serious man, I don’t take him seriously. Is he causing all this chaos on the financial markets so he can tell AIPAC and the Israeli Lobby that, "you know I love Israel, but I just cannot attack Iran right now", in a fit of belated reason?
Or, is he causing this chaos in the financial markets to distract people, so he CAN attack Iran like Miriam Adelson and the Israeli Lobby and Netanyahu want to, in an act of obfuscation?
If/when Trump is dumb enough to attack Iran in order to satisfy the NeoCONs and the Greater Israel crowd (the Israelis, AIPAC and Miriam Adelson, Bill Ackman, and the Israeli Lobby), the effects will dwarf the market disruptions and drops of early April. I hope The Donald knows that.
One can hope, but I wouldn't count on it, Socrates. Israel is likely to be Trump's downfall.
Nice summary. To these add the self-imposed full blown trade war with China, which threatens to go kinetic now as well. I wanted badly to believe in him after the utter disaster of Ol' SloJo and what's her face, but it's looking more and more like he was anointed to swing the political pendulum the other way as a distraction, while amping up the globalist agenda on steroids. If nothing else, it appears that we'll know the answers to all these questions fairly soon, as Trump has totally eschewed subtlety and deception in favor of his trademark elephant in a China shop mentality.
Love how you worked in "China shop!"
No pun intended, but that did work out nice.
So tell me more about "The Trumansburg Project."
It’s a story I started way back in December 2010 and finished last year—obviously an on-again off-again project. It helped to fill the early morning hours before work mostly.
At first it was a story about a man trying to find his way back to his teenage daughter and trying to fit into his community. Over time a bit of romance (NOT MUCH) slipped in, as well as a handful of Bible verses. It wasn’t until October of 2023 that I realized maybe the best way to sum it up would be to say it’s about faith, hope, and love.
With all that said, I think a quick read of the Amazon reviews “sells it” better than I ever could. And FYI, the Kindle version will be free on Amazon from April 17th to April 21st.
Thanks for asking, and sorry if this was more than you wanted!
No, that was great. Thanks!
War is good for the economy, but only if you win. We will not defeat China or Russia, or even Iran if Russia supports them with hypersonic missiles.
"I hope The Donald knows that."
No, he doesn't. However, YOU are one of the few who does.
</sarcasm>
What I *really* don't understand about President Trump is why he would sacrifice his billionaire lifestyle to take shit from fugly negresses (and others) to save a country populated by so many fat, impatient, did I say IMPATIENT? ingrates.
Edit: ingrates who ALL know so much better than he does.
"I hope The Donald knows that."
He has probably been told that. I think part of Trump's job is to crash the economy - not for his class of course, they will rake in their winnings as they always do. A war with Iran will crash the economy, but might as well undermine it before bringing in the wrecking ball.
We are planning to nuke Iran, hoping to achieve the same gains we got from nuking Japan. That is, making Russia and China back off, control of the the sea lanes and dominance of a region (in Japan's case, that region was the Pacific.)
Why nuke Iran? To decapitate the government that has placed hundreds of mobile shore batteries (small missiles, rockets) on the Strait of Hormuz. No government, no shore batteries. Likewise, no Houthis blockading the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait of the Red Sea.
Iran defends Russia's soft underbelly; is a major supplier of hungry China's energy, and is the general running the proxy armies of the Shia Crescent, such as the Houthis, Hamas, and Hiz'b'allah (Hezbollah).
Taiwan is impossible, a feint; Ukraine is secondary, a drain; NATO Turkey and HST are aligned with Israel and have cleared Syria as the path for Israeli jets.
We've tied up Russia, are tying up China, are bombing the Houthi, and are lining up the majority of world nations to keep quiet; we are clearly signaling our sympathies. The gameboard is being set.
The EU will be further swamped with war "refugees", so the cabal backing Trump will be able to demonstrate uncontested dominance, even over its subject white nations. Neocons and spies are out, the technocabal is in, and it is cleaning house.
How about instead of psychoanalysis you look dispassionately at what happens? Perhaps not as fun but usually more accurate.
So now the Anti-Israel, TDS group has done their bit-weekly rant.
You want Trump to be more subtle? China shop? You complain about the wa things have been since mid-century, then turn right around and complain because Trump is blatantly trying to do something about it. Do you even understand WHAT you want?
They might just be trolls, Langley-bots, Sino-bots, et cetera. When he shut off all of Merle Haggard's "free Bubble Up" for the special people there was bound to be a typically sinister and disingenuous propaganda campaign.
What red blooded, Boobus Americaus could be against Israel? As Bibi said, Once we've gotten what we want from the United States, it can dry up and blow away.
Trolls yes bots doubtful.
I suspect a few of them are actually foreign nationals pretending to be Americans or Canadians and the tell is they get very defensive of countries like Iran and China.
I'm still waiting for my bowl of rainbow stew.
"Do you even understand WHAT you want?"
Exactly.
Kinda like Occupy Wall Street's pathetic, "What is our one demand?". Adults still screaming for a diaper change.
The DOGE team has discovered at least 14 black money machines or computers being used at will to cut million dollar treasury checks to anyone in DC. This means there are potentially 1,000x more FRN's (federal reserve notes) in circulation as digits. If this was released as news to the media, the USD would likely no longer be a going concern within 24 hours and hyperinflation would vaporize the country.
You are scaring the bejesus out of me. A hyperinflationary dollar collapse could literally end civilization in the US. I read a very prophetic book about this, fiction for now, that laid out just how fast and how bad things would get. In this book debit/credit card stop working around 7 a.m. on a busy weekday morning. By noon grocery stores are looted, burning husks with bodies on the floor. Gas stations, banks, and gun stores are also quickly looted and destroyed, followed by Target stores, Wal Marts, and by about 2 pretty much everything in major cities is trashed and gone. Cops walk off the job, and civilization is over long before sundown. The book goes on to lay out how the US would literally revert to the stone age with no functioning government, no law enforcement, no electricity, no running water, no gasoline. . .you get the picture.
You see, when much smaller, land locked nations liker Weimar Germany or modern Venezuela suffer a currency collapse, people just walk across their border into more stable nations. Yes, this creates a refugee crisis, but that can be managed. Also, when small land-locked nations collapse, neighboring countries send in their military, and the Red Cross etc. and try to restore them. The Khmer Rouge destroyed Cambodia, and Vietnam invaded it in 1979, and occupied it for a few years and worked, with other nations and the UN, to restore stability. Now, the US is a gargantuan nation bounded by two oceans. Most US citizens would die of starvation/exposure long before they got within 100 miles of our southern or northern border, if they tried. And, to those who made it to the border, what would that accomplish? If the US collapses, one of the first things that will happen is that Canada will seal its border, refuse to accept refugees from the US, and seek to protect itself. Fleeing into Mexico will just be going from the frying pan into the fire. Seriously, I honestly believe that a Dollar Collapse would be much worse for the US than suffering a limited nuclear exchange. If the dollar collapses, civilization in this region of the world will go down with it, this portion of the continent of North America would swiftly revert to The Stone Age.
If the scenarios that you present are anywhere close to reality, then shouldn't the citizens unite and support Trump, no matter what path he chooses to take us down?
Perhaps. If there was a Dollar collapse in the middle of a cold winter here in the US, by the end of one week most of the population would be starving, suffering from dehydration, and suffering from hypothermia. Not everyone would be troubled by these problems, though, as many would not survive one full week after the country descended into total and complete anarchy, with no currency of value, no means of exchange, no power/running water/gas heat/internet/cell phone service etc. Most people would be far safer if the US was hit by a dozen nukes than if there was a currency collapse. It would make living through the Plague/Black Death, or the Spanish Flu, or the Great Depression, all look like great times, by comparison. The book I read laid out, with great precision, how hour by our stores would have their shelves stripped bare and be burned, how anyone who had anything of value would be at grave risk of being robbed at gunpoint or murdered for their possessions, by desperate starving people in the days following the collapse, and worse. I have always feared a Dollar Collapse, more than any other disaster that could hit the USA. To me, the really scary thing is that it could happen, in a blind panic, at any moment, and if the US keeps steadily going bankrupt, it probably will happen someday.
Be the gray man, stay away from crowds,and keep yer yap shut about what you have stashed. Easier said then done.Thing is most tough guys don't want to be the first one in their crew to die.
" To me, the really scary thing is that it could happen, in a blind panic, at any moment, and if the US keeps steadily going bankrupt, it probably will happen someday. " ~ Thomas Madden
"China and now even Canada, are issuing debt denominated in US dollars. The older issues have also lost on the foreign exchange. Carney in Canada has just demonstrated his true lack of understanding of financial markets. He dumped US Treasuries but then issued Canadian debt denominated in dollars. As the C$ declines, he will lose on the return of the foreign exchange as well. Even the OECD report found that the costs of borrowing through dollar-denominated bonds had risen from around 4% in 2020 to more than 6% in 2024, rising to more than 8% for riskier, junk-rated economies nations."
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/sovereign-debt-crisis-unfolding/
Which country do you think will fold first, Canada, or the US?
Is a bank run the cause of a currency collapse? If so, can some form of a CBDC be a solution? If so, would you be in favor of it?
Soylent Green. A classic dystopian film starring Charlton Heston.
Soylent Green should be viewed as an allegory about how we're supposed to be more aware of the injustices the ultra-wealthy have inflicted on everyone else. The film's ending could almost be viewed as saying, "Hey, bad things are out there, and you need to search for the truth."
What happens after that? It probably won't be as pretty as a bunch of flowers in a field, we'll say that much.
Read More: https://www.looper.com/383129/the-ending-of-soylent-green-explained/
No. Trump was useful in ending Biden/Harris regime. It is time to assess, and if Trump, in practice, is no better, or even worse, then it will be useful to end the Trump regime in 2026 or 2028.
Unfortunately, the trajectory is one of decline. I had presumed that with Trump this rate of decline would slow considerably, and he might, maybe, sow the seeds of a reversal. While "outing" USAID and other excesses are good points of light, they don't count for much if Trump bungles the "reindustrialization" with his mass-attack-on-ALL-fronts tariffs against everyone, or if "peace" President Trump wastes even more money on the military-industrial complex or fans the existing flames of hot wars into WW3 faster than Harris would have.
"He's not Biden or Harris or Hillary" is not good enough for me, if his results are just as bad.
SD
I agree with you here. Trump, like adm. 1 is hamstrung by the enormous power of the Deep State, they control just about everything in the federal government. If Trump believes in the Constitution, the actual power lies outside the executive branch. The national trajectory has been negative, under the control of the Deep State, for 70 years. I am very pro-Trump, as you know, as a counterforce to this trajectory, but I am afraid he may not be enough to reverse the wheels of government.
One thing is for sure, until the judiciary is put into its proper place re: the Constitution, Trump is pretty much locked up.
Three major issues that America is confronted with are (i) $36 trillion unsustainable national debt, (ii) the war in Ukraine, and (iii) the ME conflict.
Scared of the National Debt? You Should Be.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/scared-of-the-national-debt-you-should-be/
The Business Cycle & National Debt
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/the-business-cycle-national-debt/
Sovereign Debt Crisis Unfolding
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/sovereign-debt-crisis-unfolding/
Unless dealt with, it is my impression that the national debt issue by itself will lead US (and much of the world) to the point that Thomas Madden describes.
Armstrong contends that the business cycle is inevitable, and civilization needs to learn to live with it.
So, you want to switch horses at this point in time (basically, not support Trump, and start promoting another solution for 2026 or 2028).
I would suggest that the world does not have the luxury of that much time, and I would encourage you (and others) to consider solutions that might mitigate the Sovereign Debt Crisis, and then consider how Trump's actions might be addressing the problems, realizing that solutions, because of factors beyond his control, just amount to a grand experiment.
First, consider that he is trying to reduce the number of factors that are beyond his control. A big one would be if he had a united world population to support his grand experiment. In this regard, like JHK, he is trying to inform the population about the immoral activity of the obstructionists, and gaining the support of the moral segment of the population to back his endeavor to deal with the various entities/factions (both nationally, and internationally).
Viewing a variety of perspectives, my assessment is that it is the Globalists who will be responsible for WWIII should it come to that, and I view a variety of paths whereby Trump can be a key player in achieving world peace.
And, as far as Trump bungling the "reindustrialization" with his mass-attack-on-ALL-fronts tariffs against everyone, what happens if he ends up uniting a majority of the countries of the world, and with this group, counters the obstructionists? Many leaders throughout the world are still married to the 2030 Agenda, and we see with individuals like Larry Fink, they are not all complete idiots. Once they come to the realization that the 2030 Agenda has failed, then perhaps they will be open to entertaining other solutions (success for one will entail success for all).
Then, when unity is achieved, the needs of the general population will need to be attended to, and assuming that there will be die-hard globalists who intend to obstruct Trumps agenda in this regard, this is where I see a need for people like Miriam Adelson, Elon Musk, and other big money people to create business activity to mitigate the devaluation and avoid the nightmare scenario that default would bring. I also foresee a need for mega projects, as well as the need for a new format for life.
As far as the wars, do you not see "good points of light" in that trouble makers are being targeted? Is the individual that prompted the protest against Hamas a plant? Doesn't the support that he has generated imply that Hamas is not the only solution? Are the Nazis in Ukraine the good guys, or the troublemakers?
I view a perspective whereby Trump is addressing the issues in a logical manner, and am encouraged by his achievements to this point, realizing that only time will tell if his grand experiment will be a success. But, at this point in time, I also see no other good option.
IAN
Disagree. The major issue of the USA is how its people view themselves. They have been told by their government for 70 yeras that you are too stupid to run yourselves, just let us take care of you. The reaction has been very human. 50% of this country sign up to letting the government run their lives.
That is very expensive, $36 trillion to be exact. Another one to drop in is the $50 or so trillion individual debt that Joe Average faces today. The country has to face the idea that none of it is going to be re-paid and what does that mean?
In the meantime, how the heck do we get 50% of the country to take on the responsibility for their own lives? Until that happens, everything else is minor. Remember that that debt is largely there because of that 50%' s irresponsibility.
John, it is quite obvious that you didn't read any of the reference material.
Read them again. Disagree may have been too strong a word.
My point is that the formation of national or global debt is still the desire of governments to “take care of the people”. Why? To gain political advantage.
Think about what causes the debt. Why are the government nebbishes always trying to tax and spend? To get our vote, to get the majority of the votes to maintain their power. Put those interest rates down, cut those taxes, encourage unwarranted spending and investment, for what? To create more money, more spending, etc.etc. What causes downturns? When the credit suppliers run out of real money and start to create new money with no backing. Add on that the government has probably added on higher interest rates and you get the public saying “No Mas”, I cannot afford this any more. The slide begins!
Keynes, at this point says, okay government, spend more, keep those people working, flood the money market, MAKE THINGS WORSE. It just extends the up curve even longer and makes the resultant collapse larger and longer. The Great Depression had the government increase spending per Keynes, and the really main lesson was lost as the spending made things worse, the height of unemployment was 1936. The end of the Depression happened because of two factors, we made “bullets”, disposables, war material, and second, we killed off a portion of the unemployed. Returning veterans had no fear, and consumer spent like crazy, keeping demand for investment high. I was a kid then and remember interest rates in low single digits. Cars were built to last about 50000 miles, and trading in after 2 years was common. New products as the result of investments came fast and furious. The Fifties, good times.
Anyhow, back to the subject at hand. The business cycle is a product of the reaction of people to spending and interest rates, period. If people see a market or even a potential market they invest and spend, That is Supply Side economics. If the markets succeed they keep spending and investing, to the point of speculation. There is the rub, speculation, spending at high risk. Then the Fed raises interest rates, budgets collapse and the spending slows rapidly. Then the long term debts start coming due and the collapse start. The CDOs that banks invented to increase speculation in 2008, collapsed the banks as the people had no way to pay the increased ARM mortgages that comprised the CDOs. Michael Burrey predicted this collapse (see The Big Short), and even predicted the day it would happen. I was on vacation as I watched the Market collapse. Get it? Predictable by someone who used common sense.
Well, as I said, what is the common denominator? People, all the people. The articles say that the business cycle is behind all the shenanigans and it is not understood very well. Well , no kidding. Human behavior is just plain crazy. A joke I heard long ago, “Line up a hundred economists on a straight line. They will all be pointing in a different direction.” For every human with an opinion, there will be another with the opposite opinion. Humans are fickle, period. No amplify that trait by creating governments, power centers that are fickle times a 1000%. Now try to use “common sense” to run he people’s economy. Uh huh? Now try to get that government to be inspired by one of those divergent economists and what do you have, chaos, conflicting ideas, constantly changing conditions and interest rates, IOW, the business cycle.
So what to do? Lock in interest rates at a reasonable level and stop changing them. Low enough to inspire controlled investment but high enough to stop to stop speculation. Do not allow the government to spend for the sake of spending, especially to get the vote. John McCain was right when he tried to stop the escalating spending for elections. Vote for controlled spending, vote for controlled immigration, vote against welfare. Stop Keynesian spending, it just makes things worse. The people need to spend, invest, save not the damned government. Kill the Deep State, quit voting in people that promise you “A chicken in every pot” or today, “A flat screen in every house”. Use the vote to destroy Wokeism, the doctrine that says you deserve all the goodies, regardless of your willingness to earn them. In succinct terms, quit supporting the “gimme”, I am owed attitude that has allowed the Leftist 50% of this country to get away with economic murder.
There it is again, 50%. The people, the people run a civilization. Governments come and go, the people are responsible. This country has to stop the “Easy Street” mentality and get back to work. Or it will join the heritage of so many “empires” before it.
We are at odds in that Capitalism is a game where the goal is, essentially, disparity.
I would suggest that when migration is taken into account, that disparity is at an extreme. The product is a "dog eat dog" world, where a huge segment of the population is either not "wired", or not fortunate (lucky) enough to compete.
Will the private sector solve this problem? Can the government solve this problem? Do you see the steps that Trump is taking to address this problem?
Oho. Easy answers.
Yes, capitalism is disparity, the human condition on earth is the same as any other species, based on competition for food and resources. The world is Dog-eat-dog and for humans that means the strongest, smartest, most gifted individuals have the advantage and will survive. Look to the world before the liberal response to the Great Depression. Poor people in the USA and around the world starved if they could not compete.
Private Sector - Let em starve. Wee will give charity for some.
Government - ha, the greatest con job in history. We will feed you as long as you side with us. humans just suck up to that. Until the people are ambitious enough, ‘the poor will always be with us”.
Trump - also easy, he says it straight out. We will take care of the people of America first. Period. The rest of the world is going to hate us for a while because we have so screwed ourselves up, We do not have much left over for them.
Sorry about the tome. Your challenge inspired me.
Gilbert Doctorow's perspectives on all the major issues:
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Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 3 April
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Transcript of ‘Judging Freedom,’ 9 April edition
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Trump and tariffs
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Curious reasoning.
If the dollar collapses, civilization in this region of the world will go down with it, this portion of the continent of North America would swiftly revert to The Stone Age. Yes.
As a general concept, I agree with Trump's GENERAL vision of bringing manufacturing back to America. That is the desired goal. How does one get there? I don't think "tariffing" anything and everything that moves is the way to get there. Declaring "economic war" on everyone else is probably a good way to get everyone else to overlook what they don't like about each other, and focus on the USA.
I can't get inside Trump, or his Administration's head, but it seems to me they want it BOTH ways:
They want the dollar to continue to be the 'world currency', which retains the dollar privilege, and allows the US to create money in a manner no one else can, AND
They want to devalue the dollar (that would help US manufacturing, making items imported into the US cost more, and items exported from the US cost less).
Which takes me to your superb final sentence in your thoughtful comment. How would nation X feel about being forced to use dollars that are worth less? Is that the art of the deal? Or coercion.
Remember, US policy, whether with Trump, or his deep-state predecessors is the three "B"s: bribe, bully, and bomb. Especially since the USSR imploded. Unfortunately, that party trick is not going to work as well going forward.
While America can bomb weaker countries, when America's only ace is mutually assured destruction, something most of the elite (not to mention 99% of the public) does not want, and the other cards are weaker by the day, it's not very encouraging.
If the dollar collapses, civilization in this region of the world will go down with it, this portion of the continent of North America would swiftly revert to The Stone Age. Yes. You (and Dmitry Orlov among others) see the possible future--even if the current big wars of interest to the US (as it is funding and enabling BOTH) don't metastasize into something much worse, which remains a real possibilty.
Just a comment. SD.
I think you are close here to what may happen. I believe Trump is looking 20 years out. He sees the forthcoming economic disasters as the world tries to destroy the USA. IMHO, that is why he is trying to set up a unified North American Union to counter the global efforts. Could it be he sees the NAU becoming an economically independent entity that will tell the rest of the world to fuck off? Does he see this as a defense against the BRICS+ crowd?
Uh-oh, first he has to figure out what Canada and Mexico want to do with BRICS+. Europe too.
We are being moved from globalism to regionalism, now that the tech is spread around.
Lugh or Phil, I do not remember which, talks about the Ten Kingdoms of the world developing. I think that is what is happening.
Old news. “While the global financial crisis permanently reduced the speed of globalization, the world economy went into the COVID-19 crisis already with largely stagnant global trade volumes. The pattern of regionalization which now appears in the latest trade statistics enriches the debate and offers researchers new metrics to quantify the scope of regionalization.”
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/regionalization-globalization-future-direction-trade/
Economic disparity is an issue that needs to be addressed, and regionalization can amount to efficiency, with the potential to be beneficial in this regard.
Would you agree that the existing format for life is no longer efficient, and that technology should be utilized to husband the world's resources?
My read is that Trump is focused on dealing with the major issues, with the ultimate goal of peace and prosperity for all.
So, what is the problem? Is my read incorrect, or is the problem as Ray Dalio described, that various factions are vying for power with the goal of getting to impose their version of a new format for life on the citizens of the world?
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To some extent, "stagnant global trade volumes" merely reflected market saturation.
Regionalization and efficiency are a fit with "You will own nothing and be happy", are they not?
I can own my region [ measured in square feet ] and practice efficiency [ in providing for my own needs ] without false authorities trying to “hep me”.
"I can't get inside Trump, or his Administration's head ..." ~ SocratesDetroit
To do this, you need to view a variety of perspectives with an open mind.
The following is another perspective that goes against the grain of the majority of Judge Nap's guests, and it paints a picture of complexities. So, doesn't this allow Trump some free rein?
Steve Witkoff’s visit to Petersburg today: what do we know?
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/11/steve-witkoffs-visit-to-petersburg-today-what-do-we-know/
... also: Transcript of interview with Professor Glenn Diesen, 10 April
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The take-away is that all of the different perspectives can't be correct.
"As a general concept, I agree with Trump's GENERAL vision of bringing manufacturing back to America. That is the desired goal. How does one get there? I don't think "tariffing" anything and everything that moves is the way to get there. Declaring "economic war" on everyone else is probably a good way to get everyone else to overlook what they don't like about each other, and focus on the USA." ~ SocratesDetroit
Who do you view as the "Globalists" that Trump often referrers to?
A variety of opinions are posted here:
https://www.kunstler.com/p/convergence-calling/comment/104919687
If you view the G7 - 1 as being counted among the Globalists that are obstructing Trump's agenda, then do you recognize that Trump's tariffs are in the process of busting them up?
Globalists?
Rothchilds, and their soldiers, Soros as one. British monarchy, the EU, BRICS+, Davos (WEF), The "British" conglomerate, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Rockefeller and Clinton Foundations. The global criminal Mob.
Compared to the wealth controlled by the Globalists, the tariffs are a BB in a boxcar. But something needs to be done, right?
Oops. forgot the Deep State of the USA, represented by the Biden Mob over the last few years.
This is the reason there have been zero arrests for all the stuff the DOGE team has found. If there were arrests, it would only serve to further shatter the shaky confidence in the USD system/economy. The people running the treasury and social security all should have been subjected to criminal prosecution for their misdeeds. Everyone running USAID, same thing, criminals and leftist activists stuffed into cushy gov jobs by the Obama people running "Biden".
It is widely assumed, in the government / corporate colossus, that the US economy is too big to fail. In this view some Bigfoot will always step in to rescue it just short of its hitting the wall. So far this seems to have been true. So far. But ultimately the artificial respiration runs on trust in the "full faith and credit" of financial institutions. If that goes, the consequences don't bear thinking on.
Government is there to support the dollar system, not the other way around. This is how your slavery is accomplished.
@thomas. Book title?
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Yeah. look around, it is happening now. The last administration allowed all the bangers out of jail to set it all up.
Have you read World Made by Hand?
The latest DOGE is the discovery of many kids aged single digits on unemployment. Time for the states to start looking at Workman’s comp rolls.
Remember we are likely still paying Ukraine salaries and unemployment.
One more to the list.
The Dems are screaming as their sugar daddy days are sliding away, along with their 48% of the public. The corruption is unbelievable.
Interesting side bar, what does the world think about the USA exposing its dirt for all to see?
China and Japan and maybe more countries dumping US Treasury bond holdings to the max is part of the answer to your question, but we live in the time of revelation and all the dirt will come out. Enough to put Biden and Obama in prison for all the theft they grafted.
Do you think Biden and Obama read this blog?
No and I do not believe Obama or Biden will ever see the justice they deserve for all the wrongs they committed against Americans. Barry had his chef murdered on the Vineyard because the chef was writing a tell-all book about them. The MA state police aided in the cover-up of same.
People who have the chef killed, they have zero concern of prison time.
The MA state police aided in the cover-up of same? C'mon man now yer talkin' crazy. MA State Police are as honest as they come. Just look at the Karen Read case.
LOL yup, totally! And then there are all those truck driver licenses they sold instead of actually verifying the people getting those licenses were even legal to be in the country. Shining examples of justice, that bunch is!
Does Obama read anything besides a teleprompter?
And social security "disability"
Yup!
“Perhaps a comprehensive omnibus RICO case can incorporate all of these in what appears to amount to a single, complex orchestrated, long-running attempted coup. Don’t bet that this isn’t coming. “
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RICO will put this Mafia away. It was all about $ and not paying taxes.
" It was all about $ and not paying taxes."
I would add 'power' to the greed-binging trough from whence they feed.
Yes, must have power to execute the theft.
When the actual indictments begin, and convictions start to roll in one after the other, and multi-year sentences accumulate (among people of note, not low-lever patsies), then I will take notice and allow the bud of faith and trust to flourish within this dead heart of mine. I hear much talk, much ado, but nothing of concrete action in terms of blow back. Besides, the gallimaufry of activist, rogue federal judges will simply continue in their Alinsky-inspired efforts to "overwhelm the system" by way of blocking each and every effort on the part of the administration to get anything done. This is an existential war (not a difference of opinion, not robust debate, but actual conflict) that must be won, and rather quickly. He who hesitates, he who fails to dare, will lose. We've seen that the demonic left will do anything and everything to pursue their goals. For once, perhaps we must wade into the moral morass of 'the end justifies the means' (this one single time) to correct things. The alternative to this is too terrible to even contemplate.
You want action? Good! You just read posts by folks who want leaders to be subtle, to be nice. Action is mandatory, overt, blatant, obvious bull in the China shop action. Organized violence begets immediate response, period, whether in Israel or the USA.
It is hard for these people to realize that Iran’s aim in the Middle East and the progressive movement in the USA have the same goals, the destruction of their native lands. So claiming to be pro-America and anti-Israel seems tomfoolery. Pro- what America. Or Amerika.
Russia views Iran as a borderland like Ukraine.
You must love those flags where the American and Israeli flags are smooshed together. Utterly loathsome to any real American of course.
Baloney! Russia considers Iran as a frenemy, as their enemy is Iran’s enemy. You conveniently forget that all Islamic terrorism is Iran backed, including Chechnya. Iran is a friend of convenience for Russia to swing weight in the Persian Gulf.
Here here someone gets it.
Israel is the canary in the coal mine and Iran is after Empire.
Israel is after empire as per the Greater Israel project. If God is with them, they can do it all by themselves, but of course they can't and He isn't.
Not going to happen to many angry Muslims in the way who hate Israel and believe Jews are cursed by God to never have a country of their own.
Jews are the only ones allowed to have a country of their own. The rest of the world is required to import hundreds of millions of foreign aliens.
Oh boy you thus prove zero clue anent Israel.
In Israel, approximately 21.1% of the population is not Jewish. This translates to roughly 2,080,000 people who are classified as Arab citizens, including various religious groups like Muslims, Christians, and Druze. Additionally, around 5% of the population is neither Jewish nor Arab, including foreign workers. -aibot
As far as their version of Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knesset
There are Arabs in it that are not Jews that have a voice in that government the only one I know of in the region
As far as why well when you have people trying to kidnap, rape and murder your citizens you lock down the borders.
Locked down borders makes it harder to sneak in.
Anent. I'm winning. Endless repetition is the key to winning over the ordinary man.
Ok Goebbels it definitely fits your narrative.
Dominion voting machines have been used to change votes all over the world. When Hillary Clinton was complaining about election fraud after she lost in 2016, CNN aired a segment in 2017 where they obtained electronic voting machines. They also hired 10 technical experts to try hacking into the machines and change votes. All ten achieved that in less than an hour. Funny how that episode has disappeared somewhere.
The CIA cannot allow nonuse of electronic machines because they use them to mess with elections all over the world.
I'm pretty sure I saw Dominion vote-changing on election night 2016. At 1 a.m., Trump was ahead in PA, MI, and WI by about 7 points with about 80% of the vote counted in each state. The districts that had not been called yet were almost all rural - low population, right-wing.
When I tuned back in at 3 a.m., the Hildebeast had closed the gap to about 2% in all three states. For that to happen, all of those rural districts would have had to vote almost exclusively for Clinton. How likely is that?
I went to sleep assuming - as I had for months - that the evil hag would be proclaimed the winner. Obviously our masters had a different idea.
I saw the same thing in 2016 and 2020. It was preposterous.
Yep.
I remember after the 2020 election when Sydney Powell said that there were so many votes for Trump that it broke the algorithm designed to steal the election for Joe Biden, requiring the five swing states to shut down until they could pump out more fake ballots.
She was eventually charged with some sort of election denial bs and was forced to “admit” she lied, saving her from a lengthy prison sentence.
Round ‘em up, lock ‘em up.
Adjudication matters. That is, if you want a functioning republic going forward.
Do you mean trying to go through corrupt judges to get actual justice? Good luck with that.
Too late for that, Grape. If we're going to worry about every Salvadoran, we might as well not bother. The Republic is over, the Empire must rise, else all is lost. Don't worry about our enemies. God will know his own.
Another great essay!! Love to start my Fridays with these.
For me Vindman is a top candidate for an actual treason charge. A foreign national and US military officer acting in the interests of the corrupt government of Ukraine to deflect from Trump investigating the corrupt ties between Biden and the Ukraine regime.