“Perhaps history is teaching us that today’s popular leaders like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are not the people’s last chance. They are the globalist’s last chance.” — Kurt Schlichter
Yeah Dubya The Dolt. Voted for him 2x. Lesser of two evils. Both he & his old man look really bad in the rear view mirror.
That said reportedly everything @ Epstein Island was videotaped; that could be the crux right there. If Roberts is on video in a compromised position it could very well compromise his position & force his resignation. He’s had a bad odor from the beginning, Dubya just seemed to pull “Chief Justice” out of the air & stick Roberts in it. Maybe we would have been better off with Harriet Myers. Roberts is Dubya’s David Souter.
Dubya was a Deep State president, like his dad. Government, central power first. His nominee has proven to be the same thing. Anything that promotes central control, good. RINO - Establishment GOP - Left of center - country club set - Dem stooge, all good words and DC is chock full of them.
The last president that fought back against the Deep State was JFK. We know what happened to him. Ronnie was okay, first term, but as Bill O’Reilly postulates in “Killing Reagan”, being shot changed the president and # 2 was not so great, with increasing taxes, Iran Gate. Ascendency of Bush1, all supporting the Feds.
BEST explanation ever read. Been asking myself questions about Admiralty Law, Law of the Seas, etc. along with reading about the USA not existing, nor do the states; right down to our local County Sheriffs Depts. being direct extensions of Crown control. Thanks A-86
I know what you mean, but…Made a phucking fortune bringing drugs for arms into American, smiling that crooked smile nicely allowing Nice Nancy to toil on ‘just say no’ for the masses. Research his offshore oil rigs floating at every key port. The Bushes are high operators.
Another? Pulling Kuwait because HWBush (a cofounder of Carlyle along with his business partner, George Soros and the Bin Laden family) owned a large chunk of shares in Q8, the Kuwaiti state oil company. Kuwait/Iraq was him protecting his assets, while Saddam freed the thousands of virtual slaves held in Kuwait. (The Kuwaitis recruited foreign labor, then took their passports away.)
It was the brilliant, ruthless Bush who gamed control of the Texas Railroad Commission, America's ad hoc agency to control the booming oil business. He and his oil patch buddy Salinas became a partnership there; Bush became the President of the US, Salinas became the President of Mexico, and they moved Ollie North's CIA/Naval military intelligence Contra cocaine trade banking from South America to Mexico's banks, forming the Sinaloa cartel (Mexico's most powerful cartel.)
To cover for his son Neal, he pulled the S&L stunt; from that stunt, he created the MBS tranches that resulted in the 2009 Mortgage Meltdown, which harvested billions in LEAPs option puts...I guess I need not mention how his son Marvin Bush was manager of Larry Silverstein's World Trade Center during 9/11.
Bush 1 was a criminal mastermind, all right, a Lex Luthor; I see him as Earth's first Planetary Governor (because of the unipolar hegemony of the US), an astonishing achievement in its own right.
Wow! I am impressed by your meticulous and detailed work. All I know is that even a cursory reading of the LA Times back in the Bush years revealed that Kuwaiti young men, presumably the most likely soldiers, were busy packing their Vuitton bags for anywhere but Kuwait. I'm no military strategist, but it seemed clear that if Kuwaitis didn't care, no reason existed for us to give a damn, much less send our young people to that benighted parking lot in the sand.
Cankerpuss, I agree with you that “Dems + RINOs” have been a part of the invasion by the WEF and its cohorts of the USA to create the NWO. If Trump fails, we are toast.
Right. The WEF are sitting there going, "Darn! We were just about to take over the entire world! And now we won't because of a free and fair election of a goy who garnered the votes of 1% of earth's population."
The generally accepted statistics for Dark Triad Personalities, which includes psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists is 1% psychopaths, 4% sociopaths, and 10% narcissists for a total of 15% dangerous people who are mostly infested in government and military for obvious reasons. Is the 'big club' the 1% psychopaths?
Those equate to .01 x 8,000,000,000 = 80,000,000 dangerous people that have infested all governments and militaries and are causing most of the problems and wars. Is this even close?
There may be that many psychopaths worldwide but the "big club" is not nearly that big. It's around 5,000 individuals that own everything and another million apparatchiks that work for them. I have no doubt that all psychos would love to be in the club, but you have to be born into it. In terms of DS membership, that number is far higher than a million of course, but these are mostly opportunistic self-serving leeches that will never be in the club.
I think you are right about that. Most of the psychos are just supporting the 5,000 or so who are running the asylum.
Those opportunistic self serving leeches will take any of the 5000 down if given the chance. I see that situation as a pack of hyenas fighting over a carcass. All psychos want to be in charge and will eliminate anyone in the way.
It should be entertaining to see them destroy each other.
So 8,000,000,000/5000=1,600,000 to 1, which looks like better numbers?
Ronnie got the message after he was shot. His mantra was "politics is the art of the possible" and he realized that going too hard against the DS would get him Kennedy'd. 2nd term was all Bush which explains the awfulness. The nation wasn't ready for the DS flush at the time - there was a tight stranglehold on the narrative. Things are different now, more people red-pilled every day, we now know who the bad guys are and what they've been up to.
Hiya, Ben. Got a solution for ya. My plug in hybrid RAV4 uses about $40 dollars in gas every two months and about $30 in electricity per month. We drive 13000 miles per year or so.
Yesterday’s gas prices are gone, and if you believe in TLE, it is going to get worse and never better.
I have tried Hybrids I don't like the way the couple I have tried drove.
I love my Toyota 4runner and take it deep into the desert to places I doubt most hybrids could make it to.
One of them was the American Girl mine last week that dirt road was nasty rutted out and pot holed I watched one hybrid get stuck several times it was just to low and heavy.
Everyone loves their car/truck/van for its fit in their lifestyle. TLE tells us that changes are coming as oil is diminishing. Your trip sounds great. I would not want to try the RAV on that road. Long ago, I owned a CJ5 and did tons of back roads with it, I loved it.
The tariffs Trump has imposed are on average half of the tariffs already imposed on the US by the nations tariffed.
Let that sink in!
The US since WW2 has had 100% open markets and few trade barriers, but the other nations of the world have not.
Instead, they have kept protectionist economic policies and played a game of mercantilism with the US.
Supported by American Corporations who earned big profits at the expense of American workers by offshoring their jobs.
One-sided "Free Trade" has been absolutely crippling for the US workers. The World needs "Fair Trade", not "Free Trade". Free Trade has never been "Free". Just a utopian dream.
America has carried globalism on its back for 80-years now at a tremendous cost to the American taxpayers. Partially responsible for the US having the biggest national debt in the history of the world.
The current debt, deindustrialization, dependence on other countries for products, and the abuse of America by other nations' protectionary trade is an existential threat to the survival of America. (In much the same way as Putin and Russia see the expansion of NATO as an existential threat to the survival of Russia.)
"The tariffs Trump has imposed are on average half of the tariffs already imposed on the US by the nations tariffed. Let that sink in!"
That's not true vis-a-vis your 158 year-old friend, neighbour and close ally, Den. Prior to Trump's unprovoked 2025 trade war on Canada, 99%+ (by dollar value) of the trade between Canada and USA was free trade (zero tariffs) as per the Trump-built, -negotiated and -signed "best trade deal ever" USMCA.
Trump has hit Canada hard and promises more and regularly told us that he was doing so to "destroy [our] economy" in order to "weaken" us so badly that he will then "annex" us. Blatant, in-yo-face existential threats. Nice guy.
When a reporter once asked Trump if he would ever [militarily] invade Canada, he dismissively replied: "No, that's an economic takeover."
The USA put itself in an awful position living like pigs with insatiable consumption and put it all on their children's backs financed by the Fed pulling fiat US$ out of its own butt.
Let that sink in!
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Yes, TPTB chose the US$ to be our world reserve currency. The US Fed that TPTB built (in part by hoodwinking all detractors on to the Titanic, literally) in 1913 could then, post-WWII, create "money" for all of earth by pulling paper (and later digits) out of their butts like the hocus-pocus they practice.
Not bombed to hell by the TPTB's USA MIC, the USA then solidified its world-leader status in research, design, production, innovation, you name it. World leader by a country mile from 1945 to 1971.
Then, in August 1971, Nixon detethered the US$ from gold.
Then, in the ensuing half a century, the USA transitioned itself from the shining beacon light on the hill to a swine/bully that is suddenly angry at McDonalds and Burger King for all the money that he spent there only to get fat.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I stopped working, watched Oprah and ate Bonbons all day and now I'm fat! It's the world's fault!"
And you financed this despicable metamorphosis on the backs of your children putting them in hawk to Rothschilds and all they had to do was have underlings pull "money" out of their butts. Americans would shake their heads in grave concern about putting all this debt (now, ostensibly, at $36T) on their own kids and grandkids, do the Dem/GOP Hokey Pokey and go bomb Cambodia or Serbia or Sudan or Yemen or what have you.
Good one.
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"America has carried globalism on its back for 80-years now at a tremendous cost to the American taxpayers. Partially responsible for the US having the biggest national debt in the history of the world."
You've been had, Dennis. You lived high on the hog consuming everything you could, like swine, for decades and put it all on your credit card and now you're the victim? Ya think?
Ironically, you are the victim - you just don't recognize who the perp is. You don't see that it was the same PTB that allowed world trade to evolve from 1971 "best in the world" to 2025 meth addicts.
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Trump 2.0 is about, in part, engineering an economic disaster that will make 1929 seem like tiddly-winks, administer the bankruptcy of the US$ and smash Greenland, Canada and USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order's Region 1 - North American Union (NAU).
This 2025 trade war was engineered since way before WWII and Trump is just playing his role. Truly.
John ---with respect to Dubya and his dad--- my thoughts exactly. Like you, I believe the alternative presented was so much worse. Can you imagine either Prez algore or Lurch? Just as bad as Xiden or maybe worse.
The lesser of two evils is still evil. I am amazed at how tolerant we as a society have become of this. "yeah, this candidate stinks but he doesn't stink as bad as the other guy." Says Joe Conservative. Problem is, the dude still stinks.
Now that you thought about it, what feeling do you have at the thought of slogging through the muck to attain political office?
I have thought about it here locally as I am sick of leftist bullshit but the amount of insanity on display and what it would take to clean up the mess would probably get me assassinated.
I have run for political office, Ben. I've run for Mayor, City Council and School Board. My political positions are not what people want and I failed to gain enough votes.
You are exactly correct, only the idiots and the corrupt run for political office because the good people won't have any part of it or they can't get elected because the people don't like their political positions.
More evidence of the corruption of the American people at large.
Yes, the beasts of the field vote for less work and more hay. Of course, what else would they vote for? The question is why are they allowed to vote at all?
The People have the right to be ruled by people better than themselves. To attain this, you can't let them vote since they will only vote for human beasts like themselves.
Remember Boxer in Animal Farm? I feel like there was a time in the US where most Polish, Hunky, Irish immigrants could be trusted to make the right decisions because they broke their fucking backs. That hasn't been true in over 40 years.
Read Down and Out in Paris and London. Orwell was advised not to go too deeply into physical labor. It's very hard to mentally recover from that kind of regimen. Beyond that, being tall and lanky, he admitted that he was at a deep disadvantage as a laborer.
Hitler's devotion to the working man was unique and glorious. But he never thought they could replace the managerial and thinking classes.
When I think of Hillary, I think of that time she burst into tears losing the election to Trump.
This, after her former technician Obama had usurped the boss who lifted him up, and had stolen her first Presidential nomination from her.
The shiite and piss she had to wade through, for all those years, and to get so, so close. All she really was, was once a girl who wanted to be the first female President...so she had written in her high school diaries.
And Obama? I think of the terrified face of that poor little six-year-old boy in Indonesia, trapped and molded as a child "asset" by his CIA parents and grandparents.
He was obviously trafficked as youngster, it's as plain as a searchlight to anyone who knows the signs. He grew up twisted with rage, vowing revenge on the world that made him what he was.
Americans [Looney Left AND "Conservatives"] refuse to vote for decent people when they run for office - The great Ron Paul never had a chance. Ditto Pat Buchanan. I pray that Ramaswamy shines in Ohio and then goes medieval on all comers in '28.
The Kennedys were ambitious, but they didn't hate heritage America, far from it. They loved America. They were hated by the haters for being Irish Catholics.
(Excepting the murdering, unscrupulous nihilist Ted, who knew he was no more than last-rate compared to his brothers. It was Ted whose North American Irish Association who shipped arms to Sinn Fein in a belated attempt to buy legitimacy, by the way, and who gave the nod to Hillary's assassination of John Jr. when she wanted the NY junior Senator seat that Junior was getting ready to run for.)
Papa Joe was a bootlegger and head of the Irish Mafia. He made a deal with the Italian Mafia to get JFK into the White House, both in New York and Chicago. The deal was that JFK and RFK would stay hands off the Italians and would get Havana back from Castro for the Mafia. The Cuba thing failed, See Bay of Pigs, and Bobby started investigating the MAfiosa. JFK was preparing to start de-militarization of all the MIC projects, number one Vietnam advisors to be withdrawn. When he pissed off enough people with his presidency, they got together and killed him.
Not Anti-USA, but, where would we be today is JFK got his wishes instead of LBJ?
Especially since yours is such a succinct and well done statement.
The short answer is: 1000%, no 10,000% better off.
Kennedy was the original Trump. He was at first used, and then turned on his masters.
(Excepting Trump has not turned on the cabal that brought him to power. They have made themselves the only viable alternative to their previous experiment.)
What you're missing is this: the origin of the origin of the Mafia.
You see, both the Irish and Italians were junior partners in what became the Syndicate.
78% of the Prohibition gangs were another group, canny and wise in the ways of revolution; that group actually created the Prohibition campaign against alcohol.
They knew from long experience that their newly invented criminal gangs would make them rich and powerful enough to complete their takeover of the WASP ruling institutions and culture in this country, that they could make America their Horse to ride. They did so, and we have had all that followed.
It was the left wing of their creation, the CIA, that pushed JFK to abandon the Bay of Pigs counterinsurgency at the last minute. Why?
The US State Department funded Castro's revolution with $200 million between 1952 - 1959. Castro was a catspaw. Why?
Why were we hands off to this noxious creature (and are still to his brother Raul.)
Because Cuba was an outpost for the coming Culture Revolution in North America, whose satraps were LBJ and Pierre Castro.
(I hesitate to add, Castro was not fully...hispanic. LBJ and Trudeau also had the same roots.)
What happened to the Italian mafia, and the Irish mafia?
They were rolled up a short time later, weren't they? That was a consolidation of the original Mafia's power. Cuba, likewise, has been largely abandoned, its use spent.
I'm saying that you are correct, but that it wasn't just the Italians or even Irish who got JFK in. They certainly played their part, for true, as footsoldiers to the real Mafia...the Mafia that shot JFK when he ceased being useful, and turned hostile to their greater gameplan.
Neither the Kennedys nor the Italians wanted to change the WASP culture of this nation nor replace its people. That was the great Project of the oldest, most dangerous mafia in the world, now culminating in the Great Replacement.
An upvote for mentioning Fred Trump, the last person to read Tesla's notes before they were sealed away.
I see Trump as the American Tokyo Rose. (There were four Roses, three were Japanese.)
The woman was actually an unacknowledged heroine.
She used her position to smuggle medicines and messages to the Allied prisoners held in Japan.
Such courage! Such bravery! In the heart of the enemy's stronghold! Had she been discovered, well, Japanese cruelty to POWs was legendary. And their hideous Unit 731 actually did perform numerous biological and surgical "experiments", in India, the Phillipines, and elsewhere.
Sad that she never got the recognition she deserved. She was scorned and hated on her return to America; this was the price she paid for standing by her boys amidst unimaginable danger.
Trump? The cabal has made itself the only viable alternative to the collapse of its previous victory; he is like a stout mayor, doing the best he can to chart a course under the Empire's rule. He can't save them all or the world we've lost, but he can try to save as much as he can and soften the landing.
Yes, I agree. He moved in the upper echelon classes in his life.
Do not forget the Bush-Clinton union during the rip off of Haiti as the Clintons enriched their Foundation.
Trump still destroyed the dynasties of the Bushes, Jeb, and the Clintons, Hillary and maybe the Kennedys as they have just about crucified Bobby Jr. Watching him telling them to go to hell was refreshing.
When Bush the Lesser gave up the bottle, he must have turned his obsessions and passions elsewhere. It's human nature. What did he do? Did he put it all into his fantastic artwork?
Yes, and ACB was nominated by Trump. Two fake conservatives who both hate Trump. When these current cases wind their way to the Supreme Court, don't be surprised if Trump keeps losing on 5-4 votes.
Said this innumerable times: GOP POTUS’s need to stop drawing from the well of the “Ivy League” “elite” schools; they’ve all been copted by the left. You think any judge is going to risk being kicked off the DC cocktail party circuit for a controversial decision? Picking judges from these places is stupidity on steroids. Go outside the norm; moreover no SC justice is required to be a lawyer. They should pick small businessmen, entrepreneurs, I.e. regular folks instead of the born-with-the- silver-spoon-already-in-the-mouth “elite” class. In the end that’s what it is - “elitism”; “we went to better, more respected institutions so we know better than you.”
Correction: they’re supposed to “understand the law” but their history proves otherwise. Businessmen/entrepreneurs- generally, no one is infallible - operate on more of a common sense platform. When you have an SC pick who openly admits she “cannot define what a woman is” then what the hell use is a piece of stamped paper from a “credentialed” institution?
"Everyone forgets they got away with murdering a Supreme court justice."
THANK YOU for remembering Scalia. It burns me up that nobody ever seems to talk about that.
As for the trans mania, I think most of it is being funded/promoted by entities whose goal is sterilizing all the young people in order to depopulate the country. But a nice bonus for the vampires behind the trans movement is the biological fact that screwing with the hormones of young humans whose bodies and minds are still developing turns them into batshit-crazy rage monsters who do things like shoot up grade schools and bomb Tesla dealerships.
". . . goal is sterilizing all the young people. . . ." And destroying the family unit. DS managed it for blacks already. "No food stamps or welfare if there's a man in the house." Because of course every black man earns enough to feed a family of 4-5 and can afford $1500/mo rent. Destroy the family unit and you can brainwash them with the most unsuccessful political matrix on earth: socialism. But the pendulum swings back. About 60% of America is awake. It's gonna be a rough year, but we gotta keep at it. It starts in the grass roots, not DC.
Exactly, Ben. Horrifying Scalia was offed, cremated with no delay, and done with. And now the definition of normal. If one is a pedo, it follows that pedo is normal.
But trans and pedos cannot be the judges of normal. Their strategy is to wear everyone down until it seems normal and it is tolerated.
The Left are the shock troops, the bashi bazouks. One victory is attained, the Right comes into consolidate the new order, cursing the Left as the Left moves onto to new conquests.
Case in point: Gay marriage. Fully accepted now. A big yawn. Tucker believes in it!
The "law" doesn't matter anymore and hasn't mattered for 75 years. It's pure and brutal power. If you're not willing to take the bull by the horns and put a bang stick to the side of its head, you're just lying to us all.
This Mike Davis (Article III Project) & Senator Chuck Grassley thing stinks. They were a big part of pushing these Trump-hating judges. They are as fake as $3 bills. Obviously Grassley is brilliant at moving things at a glacier's pace. He was feeding Patrick Byrne lines years ago. Lots of dust and then nothing but more damage.
If Providence intervened on behalf of President Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, then it is beyond cavil that it was for a very good reason. Despite the obstacles he faces (and they are considerable), it would seem that he will prevail against those who seek his political and physical demise. More to the point; that DJT shall fulfill the task(s) that Providence has sought him out for. His will be done.
Mr. Kunstler: There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty. However, one can observe and deduce. All that I know is that God made the plants for their simplicity, animals for their innocence, and man to serve him wittily in the tangle of his mind. This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fulfil his will. I don't know this for certain, but one can at least be open to the possibility. One can have faith.
Or, perhaps, the people have become so corrupted and godless in their hearts that God has given them over to reap the rewards of their actions. Seems to me that wickedness and corruption is having its way with the good and decent these days.
A truly righteous people would not tolerate a wicked government. The fact that the people have allowed their government to become such as it is today speaks volumes to the condition of the general American citizen.
We as a people have become immoral, amoral, anti-God, anti-religion, lovers of ourselves, greedy, selfish, and slaves to our debt. Hey, this sounds just like our own government doesn't it?
God's plan, if he/she has a plan, may be to let humanity stumble through and resolve the mess they themselves have created.
"A truly righteous people" voted - for liars, cheats and traitors. Without reading their minds, we can't know if a politician is worth his salt until he acts. We waited for them to prove themselves, waited for the "white hats" to effect a correction, and chose the only path that does not involve immediate civil war or lynchings: vote for different people. About 60-70% of us voted for better people. That is the contract we've all agreed to. We have something that separates us from France (Le Pen), Brazil (Bolsinaro), Romania (Georgescu), Germany (AfD): a Constitution like no other. It's what is keeping those "truly righteous people" from acting out. It may come to war, but we're yelling as loudly we can, and somebody has acquired the authority to listen and DO something about it. Laura Loomer talked with Trump about what she knew, and he fired 3 NSC people. But there is another aspect of "truly righteous people" that nobody mentions. Humanity are a spiritual beings, above ALL else, for without it, that body you inhabit is nothing but rotting meat. And there is a confluence of positive thought, prayer, intent on an unseen, unrecognized, unacknowledged level that influences everything. It's part of "being awake," and it appears to be working. Think positively. That doesn't mean begging "God" for an outcome, but thinking, encouraging, applauding the good in every way possible. It does matter, and it does make a difference. Why, we have a manifestation of it today: Klaus Schwab quit! What gets more positive than that?
I see that in Hollywood. Melissa Gilbert wrote something on X. She said that oh we were woke in the days of Little House on the Prairie on t.v. She just doesn't get it. They cannot tell a story. They start out moralizing because they are the best people in the world. I hope I don't think that about myself! Go look at the self righteous yard sign. IN this house we believe, meaning those that don't are inferior. If you go to a church, they recite a creed. The creed is for the person reciting it, the creed is not for other people. Hollywood will go bankrupt. I know the mind of Blind and they cannot see now.
They all live in a woke silo, all we can do is ignore them or pray for them. I haven't watched any of the filth that's come out of Hwood for well over 10 years. I also don't have any use for current "music" out of that industry.
Christians believe that God has planned everything, and that includes planning for some people to go to hell.
There's nothing you can do about it, since that would go against God's plan. Praying is asking him to change his plan. Telling God he has it all wrong and you have a better idea!
The fact is Christians don't think they're smart enough to live their lives without some sort of divine intervention.
Why would anyone who is intelligent and educated get duped into believing 1st Century/Bronze Age superstition?
Myths based on ignorant men "making shit up" in order to try and understand the natural world.
Without one shred of verifiable, concrete data or experiment-based evidence of a single supernatural "God" or event?
We should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.
God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are.
The Devil is real. He is the great "deceiver". People are being deceived, which explains the bad choices that are manifest at every level, from petty lies and theft to embezzlement to wars big and small.
It is good to have faith. I share your view that the bullet "missing" by an inch or two is miracle, in the positive sense. God can, and does, thwart the powers of evil. It is possible that nefarious forces or people sought Trump's removal, and God thwarted their plans. The Holy Trinity is, ultimately, "the boss."
I like to think this experience (even more than his advanced age) reminded Mr. Trump of his mortality, of the fact that we are not going to be here forever.
I can't read Trump's mind though. I can perceive his ACTIONS by what I DISCERN from what I see and read. And his actions, whether they reflect his beliefs or whether he is being manipulated, when it comes to war and peace are not encouraging. While I recognize it is impossible to satisfy everyone, all the time, President Trump could have pulled the plug on the Ukraine war. He has not done so. And his words and actions in the Middle East, at least to me, point to wider war with a lot more death and destruction coming, and very likely adversely impacting the US economically, perhaps kinetically.
Now, he may think he is really a peacemaker, and his actions are necessary to pave the way to a long-term peace. I just don't see it. Time will tell.
Zelensky, galaxies far from a great mind, is being manipulated by the EU and the UK, based on their delusional and diabolical motives, to keep throwing wrenches into the ceasefire/peace efforts, convincing him via promises to have his his back based upon pure fairy dust.
The combination of their certifiably insane TDS, and their utter hubris have brought us to the brink of WWIII, and mutually assured destruction.
Ironically, it has only been Putin’s personal resistance to pulling the nuclear trigger that has kept us from crossing that Rubicon.
Vladimir Putin is the greatest leader Russia has ever had (possible exception Catherine the Great), and one of the greatest leaders in the world today. Hungary's Orban and El Salvador's Bukele are equally brave and visionary, but their countries are not as huge and consequential as Russia. (Although they are certainly playing key roles in the current world situation right now, aren't they?!)
"God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are."
Exactly. This principle tells me two things, Socrates.
1. God cannot violate his own laws and therefore cannot get involved which means we humans are on our own to fix the mess our actions and inactions have created.
2. God is not all powerful and cannot intervene. If God intervenes God breaks his own law of human free choice and free will and if he breaks his own law he becomes a liar. If God becomes a liar he loses his authority which comes from his honor and the honor of his creations.
Either way, I don't believe God is going to save us from our wickedness. We made this mess. We need to fix it. We fix it by first fixing ourselves, inwardly. Once we as a people fix ourselves inwardly and turn ourselves back to righteous principles and righteous living, everything else will fall right in line. I truly believe this.
Oh, and Socrates, a close friend of mine is a police chief in my town and believe me when I tell you, the people themselves are corrupted and wicked. The heart breaking stories of drugs, crime, child abuse, spouse abuse, infidelity, pornography and so forth are stunning. And I live in a rural Utah community.
Drugs can turn people into MONSTERS. Like you, I am closely acquainted with this fact. I have friends who have adopted foster children.... The hell that those kids endured as victims of drug-addicted parents is unimaginable.
As for porn, I have seen marriages destroyed. And I know of at least one man who always tried to be a good and decent husband, father, church member and community leader, but was addicted to online porn. He committed suicide because of the crushing guilt he felt at leading a double life.
If anyone reading this has this problem, I beg you: Get help!!! I just did a search for "porn addiction hotline christian" and a TON of resources came up. Get help. Today.
Well said. And many women are addicted to social media, doing all kinds of crazy things for likes. Many of them are still on dating sites after being married just for the validation, or to keep their options open. About 60% of married women admit to having a "Plan B" or back up man if things get bad.
Janos - Plan B's aren't all bad. About 95% of Americans don't even have a Plan A, so they're already screwed.
About 4% have a Plan A, so they're on the right track.
It's the 1% that have a Plan B, that'll come out the other side, knowing full well, that something always goes awry with Plan A.
Those women are just covering their downside risk. Problem is that a lot of one-time losers - men or women - end up becoming two-time losers. It's a pattern.
And if wifey meets a better man online, she'll start talking with him. If it all checks out, she'll replace her husband and blame him for it. Such is the feminine nature which you adore.
God rules absolutely. We have all been subjected to vanity. That's the point of this exercise. God makes what He will of every vessel, honorable or dishonorable. He creates good and evil. You have no choice in when you were born, to whom, and all your personal characteristics. You have no choice in life but what He puts before you. After choosing wrong for so long and reaping the consequences, you will learn to choose right by His grace only. Repentance and faith are a gift.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for part of a weekend."
We are told an all-knowing God designed the incredible complexities of life, yet was so unimaginative & primitive it could only resolve issues by killing people.
"In the beginning man created God, then he created stories in which God created man."
When I was 4 years old, my grandmother was given a couple of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) by one of her students (she taught third grade). She made up a terrarium for them where they did - nothing. Not satisfied with this inactivity, I took a pencil and started prodding them to get them to move, to do - something... Well, I may have prodded too much because eventually they became VERY inactive.
I don't think that "God" is a 4-year-old with a terrarium.
Carl Gustav Jung, whose work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies, in his autobiography "Memories Dream Reflections" said "I will not discuss the transparent prophecies of the Book of Revelation because no one believes in them and the whole subject is felt to be an embarrassing one."
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
Yes, there seems to be different factions of globalists striving for dominance. Trump is part of the Neo-Con/Israeli faction - and they are terrible warmongers.
Israel is a warmonger? You can't be more upside down that that, Lugh. Look up Raymond Ibrahim and read some of his stuff or watch his videos. It's not about Israel, but it will show you who the real warmongers are.
The Greater Israel Plan means taking over whole nations such as Lebanon and large parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. It's imperialism on steroids and the burning wick of WW3
How far God will extend Israel is up to Him, but as for your accusation, it's patently ludicrous. If Israel had been planning to take over territories it would have done so after the '67 war and in the years since. Instead, it didn't take over Judea and Samaria, gave Sinai back to Egypt, and vacated the small Jewish population of Gaza.
I would say you should limit yourself to talking about things you know about, but I'm not sure any of those apply to the topics on this blog.
You're the liar. The IDF banned those patches, which were taken on by some orthodox soldiers.
That said, I fully support Israel expanding as much as God wills, which is more than what's held at present. Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, some of southern Syria and Lebanon for sure.
They always intended to expand, the two blue lines on their flag being the two rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates.* Thus they never negotiated in good faith.
*Whether this is the actual dimensions delineated in the Bible is debatable. It says the "spring of Egypt", is the Nile a spring? And by the Euphrates, did it mean the Euphrates in the north or in Iraq?
In any case, this is not the Israel of God. But it is the Israel of the Antichrist.
How do you even talk to people like this "Cohen?" Shouldn't he be engaged in a check cashing racket or scamming life insurance policies from veteran's widows? Why is he here mudding up the chat?
That bullet didn't really miss though, did it? Just barely nicked Trump's ear, not even leaving a lasting scar. A few millimeters to the right and it busts off a chunk of Trump's head. A few millimeters to the left and he doesn't even feel the breeze. Certainly a miracle - or possibly something a little more profane.
I can't read Trump's mind either - fortunately, there are many who can. Many of them can also read God's mind and know that Trump has been chosen by God to lead us out of the wilderness. "Mysterious ways" indeed. The shadow of doubt need never darken our lives again.
"Many of them can also read God's mind". Give me a fuckin break.
The same folks that are delusional.
I’m delusional and talk to an imaginary friend in the sky. You guys are too naive and don’t make enough efforts to become delusional like me. If you don't agree with my God delusion, then you're naive!
'My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na na Neener neener nee ner"
"Oh, but there's plenty of evidence for Gods existence! There are so many things!"
“There's...... uhh......eeermm ... I saw God’s face and I talk to him!”
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
EVERYTHING happens according to God's PLAN Christians will say.
But when SOMETHING tragic happens, the Christian says God gives us FREE WILL.
The age-old trick of constantly moving the goalposts.
Or the cop-out: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform
Hmmm, “The Devil is real”? Could it be he is the cumulative of Man’s evil side, that he represents the “evil” side of our nature, inside our minds and souls, as God represents the “good” side? Is the battle between good and evil within ourselves?
Let’s give Trump a break relative to his being a peacemaker. I think Putin dropped a turd on his idea of what it would take to make a deal to stop the Biden stupidity. IMHO, Putin is using the slowdown from Trump to his advantage and will continue to push his land grab in East Ukraine until stopped. Watch Odessa.
Putin will definitely finish the denazification by fall, when the now clearing Rasputitsa (literally "season of bad roads") muds return. Only then will peace be made. And who can blame the Russians for not trusting any deal to restrain those who mercilessly murderered their own Russian speaking civilians in Donbass? They haven't forgotten about Minsk! Merkel herself admitted to acting in bad faith to rearm the Ukraine.
Can you imagine what the US would do if Mexico contained a significant concentrated enclave of Americans & the Mexican gov't shelled & slaughtered them? We would not stop until every last Mexican combatant was killed to ensure an end to the threat. It's a very loose analogy since the Ukraine, a term meaning periphery (as the center of the empire had moved east to Moscow) was always an artificial construct; empires such as the Hapsburg (Austro-Hungarian) & Polish-Lithuanian pushed Ukrainization (to make them feel like a separate people from their fellow Russians, despite the Kievan Rus being the origin of Russia) even before Vladimir Lenin's wheeling & dealing fraudulently officialized it through Soviet "Republic" status. Other neighboring countries also lost some land to the north & west of the Ukraine, but Russia is likely to take back much of their own lost land, probably to include Odessa. This will leave a landlocked rump state of a demilitarized zone ripe for regional reabsorption into respective parent nations once EU & NATO military support collapses & US subsidization ends (the Ukraine has been FULLY subsidized, military & civilian operations alike- the whole enchilada- since at least 2022).
Faith is the most important. So is knowledge wisdom and understanding. All of these qualities followed by works pleases God. Trump is fulfilling this role to make America great again in a morally profound way.
He will prevail as well as those who have faith that God is really in charge but we humans still have the power of choice given to those who wisely choose life.
We're blessed with tape worms, plague, cancer, leprosy, dengue fever, malaria, and mosquitoes that spread diseases. The brain-eating amoeba is a special gift from a creator if you believe in a Creator.
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
"There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty."
That applies to absolutely everything that you, or any human, "knows" about anything. Therefore, it also applies to any claim whatsoever about God. It's all belief, and that "fact" is inescapable.
No, I don't know. Neither do you. The difference is that you believe you possess truth, while I believe everything in a human's consciousness is, and can only be, belief. Your "God informing you" is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. Highly problematic when one wants to spread "Good News" to skeptics.
More generally, my stock reply (ordinarily, just to myself) to literally anything someone tells me -- "revealed" religion or not -- is "WWIBT?" or "Why Would I Believe That?" I have learned well over many decades, especially in the [post]modern West, to have less than zero *automatic* respect for "experts", who are more often than not simply feral political animals who are primarily Aristotelian ethos-hucksters, whatever else they do in life. That goes double for godmongers of all kinds. I find it very useful in keeping my mind open to what evidence and possibilities are plausible and which are not.
If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know.
I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. Or maybe you'd admit you don't know that either.
Faith isn't airy fairy imaginations. It's the evidence of things not seen. So you're not going to know with your native senses. However there's more to life than those, much more.
The truth is, you think you know a lot because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses, so there's no point in trying to argue with someone so limited and self-contradictory, and I'm not.
I can wait for you to find out. Not a problem at all.
"If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know."
Correct. I did not deny that. But it is not relevant to my belief or not in God. Please read again, carefully: "Your 'God informing you' is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. "
"The truth is, you think you know a lot ..."
False. I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs. I believe there is much of my beliefs that you're assuming, and others you're just not getting. I'll happily confess some of that is doubtless my own lack of clarity in places.
"... because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses,"
If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver. At least for much of science, limited as it is, can widely be transferred to, and then tested by, a theory's skeptic, limited only by the receiver's ability to understand its complexity, not to "sense" it. So, as far as I can see, and in this late stage in life, either (in the words of a Steve Martin '70s skit), regarding religion, either you're "feelin' it" (to me, i.e. the apparent God hallucination), or not.
"I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. ... [etc. etc.] "
It is not important to me where I believe I came from. It is ultimately unknowable to any human being how that belief and many others work. What we perceive about the entire universe could be a massively complex illusion. We can forever hunt for evidence whether I came from a "Big Bang" or anything else, and it's entertaining and useful (within a frame of reference), but ultimately forever unsettled.
I am able to sit with the void of that lack of knowledge. Most amazing to me, however, is the tendency of most humans to be utterly incapable of accepting their not being able to know something. They especially cannot accept that some things may be unavoidably unknowable by *any* humans, smart and/or educated about whatever. That lack of comfort drives them crazy, until they latch onto some kind of belief-rock. But as I said earlier, *nothing* is knowable -- it's *all* belief. It's in the nature of all humans. I'm now convinced this emotional weakness we humans have is at the heart of humans' need to stuff a God/gods into their heads.
But it's not the only dimension of pretension. Most relevantly and importantly today, is it also behind the need to stuff their heads with certainty about which (major) political "side" is factually correct and morally "correct", when it is entirely plausible that both are. IMO, because both Right (simplistically put, for brevity: prioritizing individuality/freedom) and Left (prioritizing society/fairness) are "correct", they exist as political forces in perpetuity (although each instantiation is usually heavily distorted by the forces in each context). Once we drop that pretension and regain our humility, accepting that everyone possesses (human) truths, we may be able to get back to functioning politics again. The same thing applies to pretentions about divinity or lack thereof.
I didn't know, admitted it, asked God to show me, and He did (this was 48 years ago and has continued to this day). Admittedly, I asked by faith, which is a gift from God. He gives to whom He wills when He wills. He's in charge.
As for your condition, it's caused by what the Bible calls "sin," a word many are not familiar with its actual meaning. You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge "beliefs."
You won't see or know God till you eat from the Tree of Life.
You are also responsible for your condition, which is a good thing for you. It's how you'll come out of that darkness when your time of repentance and faith arrive. And they will. Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord - readily with great peace and joy.
Only our Creator can, has, and will accomplish this. I am a witness.
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14).
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14)."
LOL.....just a CLAIM scribbled down by unknow ignorant goat herders two centuries ago. With no evidence. Anonymous undated ancient writings. Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
The Bible only makes claims. The Bible is not evidence.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?
Why do a Christian expect a book written by unknown authors in a variety of languages, that was translated, rewritten, edited countless times ~ is evidence for anything?
It's just a book.
Every statement of "Jesus says" needs to start with "my old book says Jesus says...."
If, instead, you could believe that alien (non-infinite, non-"loving") intelligence(s) is/are behind the origins (and maybe continuance) of the Abrahamic God -- *that* is something I can find plausible.
Now you've circled back to square one. Again, you believe what, to a skeptic, is indistinguishable from a hallucination. You didn't address it the first time, so I must assume its import whooshed over your head.
"You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge 'beliefs.' "
Again, I make no such claim to being a god. Quite the opposite. As I said above: "I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs." I say only that in the obvious absence of such a creature as God, I take matters into my own hands. You're right only about the pro-active part of my beliefs -- but nothing else about my attitude.
"If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver."
I should add that this failure to receive (due to missing senses) also makes the receiver *unaccountable* to the alleged God the godmonger asserts. So much for pistol-whipping many of the thinking non-believers into compliance post-Enlightenment, the way it had been done successfully prior to that time.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son ... "
The entire premise that there is some great "loss" to the all-powerful creator of the universe, one that binds people to "owe" him or otherwise pay the price, is simply insane. Yet I understand it is the most quoted Biblical phrase. Who knew he was such a bean-counter? It conjures up those pagan gods always looking for human sacrifices to throw into the fire pit.
As Hume pointed out (thru a dialog character), "It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”
It's also preposterous that many Christians seem to be awed by mid-second-millennium English. As if it has magical powers to sound like "God's voice", rather than being completely an accident of time and place, and a translation to boot.
Re: "This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fill his will."
The infamous Egyptian Pharaoh of the book of Exodus comes to mind. Trump epitomizes the collective greed of society today and one would have to be blind to not see how he has been energized by everything that is thrown at him. The biblical God "hardens" (another good translation is "strengthens") what's already there to make sure that as H.L. Menken has said, "the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Sometimes doing nothing has a massive impact. Ignoring demons is immensely effective. Praying keeps them away. We can only take care of ourselves and our communities, to a lesser extent. That's not doing nothing.
It's amazing how many people understand this that I run into lately! So heartening. I found out a woman I play pickleball with and hike with is a conservative Christian. She didn't advertise, so I didn't know. Once we started chatting about the trans agenda, I knew! A kindred soul. Hallelujah!
Although disputed, "Providence" intervened to let Corporal Adolf Hitler live. One corporal Henry Tandey is reputed to have been in a position to shoot a wounded Hitler dead in WW1, but did not do so.
Now, I am NOT saying Trump is Hitler (like many Trump-haters and Democrats do). I supported Trump (in the past). I despised Biden and campaigned AGAINST Crooked Joe in 2024. (That's not the same as supporting Trump).
It is miraculous Trump survived Butler, PA, I agree. However, after his first 100 days, it's clear that peace is not a priority for Mr. Trump, and if alternative and mainstream news accounts are correct, he appears to be intent on precipitating a massive escalation in WW3 by attacking Iran, which likely will torpedo the entire world economy--and this will sink the US.
Some are claiming Iran already has a nuke or two. They had a lot of help from President Clinton and of course the Shiaphile Obama. One will note every action taken by Obama favored Shiites over any other sect. Curiously favorable agreements made by "towering intellects" like Lurch Kerry surely have not soothed an observer's concerns about the intentions of the Islamic Republic.
Unlike the bufoons preceding him, Trump goes for the win. If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done, but only if he believes there is going to be a nuclear attack from them. None of this boots on the ground and nation building crap. "...and there ain't gonna be no wine tasting after."
John, Setting aside the many shades of grey in the first paragraph (for the sake of brevity here), in the second paragraph you seem pretty confident that an attack on Iran will be "decisive".
There won't be any boots on the ground because America has no boots to send. The army and marine corps are rather small. Yet, history has shown that to defeat an adversary nation, it is necessary to occupy part or all of them. Look at Desert Storm (Iraq war 1). How did Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan turn out for the US? The US however did occupy Japan and Germany.
Iran has already demonstrated that it can reach out and hit Israel. That means they can hit oil wells and loading terminals. They can probably choke or close the Strait of Hormuz. Once you back the Iranian regime (or any regime) into a corner, with no way out, they will respond with everything they have. They may even be able to hit US ships. Perhaps we will find out, unfortunately.
Next, Iran is not an isolated nation. It is linked to the bigger global picture. It is not in China's, or Russia's interest to have the US/Israel dominate the Persian Gulf (maybe Trump wants to rename it "Gulf of Aramco?"). They won't sit idly by and watch.
Outside of Iran, there is a lot of pressure in the Middle East. Many fanatic Sunni Arabs, rich and poor, may hate the Shiite Persians--but several of them hate the US and Israel more; others hate the US and Israel more, and the despise their ruling governments. One cannot rule out the possibility of uncorking instability in those countries.
There are lots of things that could go wrong, some I have listed, others I can't even imagine at this point.
Also, you seem to overlook that the US, as an advanced modern society, dependent on trade as well as communications networks, has many vulnerable points. Complexity breeds fragility. We could implode in short order, without a single bomb or gunshot going off in this country. We are a soft country, with a lot of "needs", in a world where our relative strength is constantly shrinking (because much of the rest of the world is growing stronger faster than we are).
Also, Iran has not attacked any of its neighbors or bombed and killed thousands of civilians. More importantly, for America Firsters, Iran has not killed any Americans that I know of. Israel has killed several dozen--the USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, and more.
In other words, you don't care that Iran is relatively peaceful and Israel is very warlike. You like who you like and that's the end of it. There's no dealing with wild eyed fanatics like you. You're going to get us nuked sooner or later.
No, no nukes, we will just have our country destroyed. Our Masters don't want to irradiate our stuff, they just want us gone - or at least powerless - so they can take our stuff.
Are you old enough to recall the neocon scare tactics that it was only a matter of days before Iran had a nuke and would nuke NYC or unleash a dirty bomb on the US? In this day, if a nuke was launched, it would either be directly from Israel, or from the US, at the behest of of their AIPAC masters.
Iran has demonstrated they can shoot ineffective drones and a couple of rockets which did little damage thanks to the Iron dome.
Iran is toothless which is why they run mouth and do very little.
They lost most of their air defense, lost several missile factories and a few other items I can't remember, and Israeli aircraft did not so much as get a scratch.
It took months for Iranians to actually comment one way or the other which round about proves they got ass handed to them.
Iran is fucked if they don't start making nice and quit with proxy war bullshit.
China and Russia won't do anything for IRAN BUT BLUSTER.
Russia is bleeding out in Ukraine and China does not want direct military confrontation until they go after Tawain.
The Shiite Sunni schism is easily leveraged back into a hot war.
It will happen sooner or later without any prodding they literally HATE each other over grievances that are six hundred years old.
Iran is responsible for massive bloodshed - what the hell are you talking about? First, starting in their own country. They terrorize and murder many in Iran. They also arm and instigate other militants in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Judea and Samaria and to bring about death and destruction to many.
As for the USS Liberty, that was a fog of war incident. Israel never intended to and has never attacked Americans. But Iranians have killed Americans deliberately as in the Beirut bombing of the US Marine barracks, which they actively supported. They often talk about destroying the Great Satan. Read the Hamas Charter, Iran's affiliate, and see what the end game is for Islamic jihad, but you refuse to open your eyes or ears.
Rachel Corrie was a troublemaker who put herself deliberately into harm's way where she had absolutely no business and got herself killed.
Get behind me, Satan, with your lying poisonous tongue.
Israel sold state of the art drones to the Muslim Azeris enabling them to crush Armenia's tank army. Israel is not pro-Christian. Indeed a faithful Jew is required to spit when he passes a Church or sees a Christian.
"If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done..."
Ummm, yeah... Iran is just another Grenada waiting to be put in its place by God's Country (TM).
Our words and actions over the past seventy-odd years "surely have not soothed an (Iranian) observer's concerns about the intentions of the" Zionist States of America.
Iran has every reason to want a nuclear weapon - and yet, according to UN investigators, they are refraining from developing one. They might as well arm themselves, our Masters have made the decision that we will destroy Iran for them, nukes or no nukes.
"One and done". It's the world economy that will be done.
If Iran DOES have a nuke, Scott Ritter suggested Iran needs to test it in some Iranian desert now, so that the US, China, Russia, etc, KNOW Iran has one.
Then, Iran, like North Korea and Pakistan (and unlike Qaddafi/Libya and Saddam/Iraq) becomes largely "untouchable".
Or course, showing that card would show that Iran violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Iran signed. This might have some serious economic consequences if Russia and China frowned on it. (The big powers had, and have, a vested interest in monopolizing nuclear weapons).
On the other hand, Israel never signed the NPT. That alone should have made Israel ineligible for any US military aid. Think of the money and geopolitical turmoil we could have saved....
I have no idea why some people expect Trump to loudly telegraph his true intentions so enemies can form effective strategies. I recommend Badlands Media show Geopolitics with Ghost for a full analysis of what Trump, Putin, MBS, et al, are quietly up to in the Middle East. The current wars are very connected & will likely both be resolved in a single deal, possibly hosted by Qatar. It very much appears that the deals (including Putin's completion of denazification this summer) have already been made & we're just watching the pre-arranged theatre play out. Right now it seems we're waiting out Netanyahu's demise as his nation teeters on the brink of civil war. And Trump just cranked up the heat on Israel's economy by making them the only country to not receive tariff relief in return for dropping theirs. Oh, & while everyone was distracted by bombing Yemen, Trump very quietly approved Egypt's plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing the Palestinians.
But hey, gloom & doom all you want. Just don't ask me for sources as I am no one's secretary! Go ask Grok to find them for you. Also, I'm no longer in the business of pursuasion, as I can't help anyone anyway if they can't simply sense that the forces of darkness are on the ropes. I can pray for y'all, that's about it.
Not true I value life except in the case of a group of people who put terrorists into power then engage in kidnapping, rapes, murders, bombings, running people over with cars/truck/tractors, suicide bombers and all the other general mayhem Palestinkians have been involved in.
Surprised Lugh cares about nasty brown people oh wait they are killing Jews and the enemy of my enemy is my friend right peeyou Lugh?
Iran appears eager for the confrontation so who is really pushing for World War 3?
It is not normal for a world leaders to send private letters specifically asking other countries leaders to come to the peace table to hash stuff out if they are intent on another war.
Not like McCain who famously and poorly sang BOMB BOMB BOMB iRAaaaaaaaaAN after suggesting they send Iran an Airmail message it is interesting that I can no longer find the word Iran in this terrible song.
Why on earth was Israel leveling tariffs on its main benefactor, the US, in the first place? Is it to rub our noses into the muck, just to show how much they own us?
You should actually search out the answer to your question before postulating before everyone, but it appears you're actually proud of yourself for having Israel Derangement Syndrome.
Could it be that all the countries, especially our “Allies”, Israel, Europe, Britain, Canada, Mexico have been waging the KIng of the Mountain game with the USA forever. I really favorite Trump’s agenda here, to punish the countries that have taken advantage all these years. Especially our “friends”. The world is about to learn the power of the USA consumer base.
At least with Russia and China, we know who our enemies are.
How ever tariffs are used primarily to protect a countries industry from cheaper or better products by making them more expensive.
Israel has a weapons industry, chips, clothes and food.
One of the biggest mistakes in all this tariff stuff was not broadcasting loudly every country tariffs on American goods what they are and how much in dollars they are making.
Percentage points get lost in the noise.
When the details are there, the idiots can't argue how unfair it is to reciprocal tariff other countries products well some still will because they are irrational and delusional but honest people won't.
Trump did say that this was going to be initially painful.
Watching the stocks go down I have a key number of picks I want to buy when I think they hit the bottom.
I initially had both nVidia and Amd at just over three dollars and stupidly sold them when they went up to around $10.
Same with apple I bought apple when I heard Bill Gates was going to help them but chickened out and sold long before I should have.
Maybe he did, but who would know as his enemies control the media?
Why not let the State have one channel people can tune into and by which Trump or whoever can communicate directly with the people?
Or Trump could have made a major speech about the tariffs. They'd have to cover it, as much as they hated it. Seems like an error that he didn't do that.
Ben, the stock market reaction show how much the Left empire AND foreign influence affect our economy barometers. Look around and I will bet that Soros, Rothschild, Rockefeller are all trying to exacerbate the reaction.
Yep, not surprised. Money does not just disappear, it is re-invested elsewhere. Gold comes to mind, or foreign resources? Eventually, when the Chicken Littles come to their senses, they will bring all their money back plus invest in the new manufacturing base of the USA.
BTW, on Netflix, check out “Founder”. The story of Ray Kroc and McDonalds.
Yeah, I agree with you. Trump, again, has underestimated the power of the Leftists to stop his agenda, especially the judicial side. He needs SCOTUS to stop the overstepping by these Leftist stooges. If he does not get this stopped, we are going to see a re-play of #1. Populist MAGA will be overwhelmed by the Leftist power base that is still in power. Number one is the media, that is overwhelmingly Far-Left, and is the “programmer” of the mind of Joe Average. If they convince the country that Trump is BAD, and 2026 sees a Dem comeback in the House, #2 will be a race to see how fast Trump’s MAGA can be destroyed with ongoing impeachments.
As mentioned here, it probably all depends on John Roberts and his side kick, Amy Barrett.
Since ACB has become Roberts' sidekick, what are the chances that she'll stray from him and vote with the 4 conservative Justices? From the way she looked away from Trump when he greeted her after his SOTU speech, it's not hard to see where her loyalties lie. Super lawyer Robert Barnes warned Trump not to pick ACB after Justice Ginsburg died. Seems he's been proven right.
The Iranian regime, following in the footsteps of Muhammad, has been attacking the US from its beginning. Dealing with them now, belated as it is, isn't WW3 - it's putting down a lawbreaking troublemaker. Your chicken little shtick should be retired.
I am more concerned about Israel's nuclear capabilities (that it has never disclosed) as was John F. Kennedy just before he was murdered in 1963. Iran's desire to defend itself with nukes is logical given that their expansionist neighbor has them. Iranian nuclear capability would create a balance of power in the Middle East. Or the alternative - just let Israel and its co-dependent friend with big bombs and big boats wipe out every perceived threat in the region until it owns everything.
You probably already know this history, but before Ronnie died, he recorded a version of Merle Haggard's Honky Tonk Night Time Man. It appeared on Street Survivors. He also re-wrote the lyrics and recorded a version called Jacksonville Kid. It wasn't released until 2008 on a bonus disc:
Also, Ronnie had plans to collaborate with Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings after the Street Survivors tour ended. What a shame that never happened. The interesting part is that Waylon hated Merle, but somehow Ronnie was able to get them to agree to work together.
Merle would have been the natural fourth member of The Highwaymen, instead of Kris Kristofferson, who didn't have the chops to be in that group, but Waylon wouldn't allow it. Waylon thought Kristofferson was a "fucking communist," but he hated Merle more. Hahaha.
Yep, that's a favorite for sure. When I was in school in Gainesville, none of us ever had a pot to piss in, and couldn't afford to do much, so we'd go bass fishing on the weekends. Mostly to Lochloosa, Cross Creek or the Ocklawaha River, and this song always stuck in my head then.
Ronnie was a prophet, and I knew then that the beauty of those places wouldn't last, so we appreciated them even more. Even then we could see
- the concrete a' slowly creepin' - and that was right at 40 years ago.
You've heard of JJ Grey I'm sure, another Florida Boy from the outskirts of Jax. You'll like this one, if you haven't heard it. Passionate about our area.
Doesn't look good for Trump with Roberts at the helm, not to mention the failure of Amy Coney Barrett, who has largely been a disappointment to constitutionalism.
ACB disappointed yet again, siding with the 3 progressive women in a 5-4 ruling affirming Trump's using of the enemy invasion act to deport criminal illegal aliens. WTF is ACB thinking?
Roberts is never going to protect your constitutional rights folks. He proved that in the horrible ruling on Obamacare and he is the leaker of the Dobbs ruling. He is a snake in the grass unwilling to come out he has to have cover so he has to get one of the newer justices Trump appointed to go with him If the Eisen connections are correct then this further perverts him.
Look Judge Roberts and his wife back in 2000, I believe shirked Irish Law. They adopted 2 children at which time Irish Law said that no one but Irish citizens could adopt Irish children 🤔? Whose palms did they grease back then ?
This Seedy. Corruption. Must be. Erratically ELIMINATED FROM OUR COURTS , OUR CONGRESS + OUR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS ! DRASTIC MEASURES MUST BE IMPLEMENTED NOW !
Taking on the power of the Courts (lawfare) is long overdue. Trump was on the right track and had the people (at least a slim majority) behind him. But now he's stepped all over himself with these ridiculous and poorly thought-out tariffs. Now he's hemorrhaging support and will have to use up all his political capital trying to defend them. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, on Judge Nap's podcast yesterday, spelled out how misguided these tariffs are. Unless Trump starts a war with Iran, which he might do to deflect from his tariff mistake, they will soon derail the Trump Train. As Gerald Celente is fond of saying: "When all else fails they take you to war."
The tariffs are the only way to deal with our enemies, frenemies and supposed allies who have been ripping off the country for a couple of generations. Trump will restart US industry with the “I do not give a damn” corporations returning to the USA. It also gives him a tool to manipulate world affairs with. There are going to be many Leftist power wags around the world that are going to scream over this. We already see it in the Stock Market. If I have to pay 10% more, I won’t complain, to twist the Liberal economic cojones of the world, that is just fine.
Putting Tariffs on foreign countries who have been ripping off America ever since the DEMOCRATIC NAFTA DEAL is the right thing to do ! When u hire someone to do work for u do u pay them or charge them ? Foreign Countries have been charging us far too long with no respect for us Now. Trump. Has. Said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ! Jeff Sachsen is a buffoon who cries “ unfair “ anytime America ever got a deal from a foreign country , he’s all about “ give it away , America can afford it !”
Unless a Demoncrap injustice, the wheels of justice grind exceeingly slow, so do not become anxious over the lack of countervailing lawsuits against the leftist creeps. You can be sure that Elon is having skilled trial lawyers prepare suits against the Soros and Hoffman, et al, leftist or marxist creeps. The Department of Justice (now no longer Injustice), is very busy on several fronts, but you can be assured they have a handle on the internal corruption of even Supreme Court Justices if it exists. None of these pillars of destruction and acrimony are beyond the law no matter their position. Kash and Dan are a terrible twosome for the leftist loons, and they are hard on the cases.
Today’s offering is yet another example of JHK’s superb grasp of events, their potential impact on the ability of this country to function as initially intended, and his ability to succinctly lay out the possible machinations working in the background.
It blows my mind how many of our supposed “leaders”, once you turn over the rocks, are nothing but low life sleazes whom we are to honor and to whom we should defer (where has the MSM been for the last many years?). Most of them I would not let in my house, yet amazingly, we willingly give them the power of life and death over us because of their “credentials” and/or offices held. And as Kunstler astutely points out, it is not just a U S phenomenon but world wide in scope. Most telling, however, is the commonality of attitudes and actions undertaken by these self important “players” to ensure their grip on power is not compromised. It goes back to what we have been discussing ad infinitum, about the commonality of human attributes, endeavors and overall lack of character when it affects their “gravy train” financially, reputations or power. Education, codes of ethics and even possible sanctions often are not enough to corral those of questionable character regardless of field of endeavor. It seems, “What’s in it for me?”, is their “Golden Rule”and to which they will cling until their dying breaths! We are truly in for the fight of our lives if we really want to change the status quo.
Nice collective of sleuthing there, James! Bravo. I guess now that it's out in the open, and Trump has the power to do something about it, we may be in for a show starring the unctious Roberts. Loved seeing all the ties these elites have between them and, of course, I have no doubt that the Roberts on the Epstein log is the very same. I mean, it's not as if Epstein would invite just any old John Roberts, eh?
In the immortal words of Reiner Fuellmich (who is now sitting in a German prison for exposing the Covid Op crime against humanity), "Holy fucking shit!!!"
This is one of Kunstler's most important pieces (although I say that a lot).
The icing on the cake is, as always, JHK's brilliant turns of phrase. In this case:
"testosterone (the official hated hormone of the Left)."
"We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.
... when jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals." Henry Ross Perot
CJ Roberts was nominated by George Bush. Enough said.
Yeah Dubya The Dolt. Voted for him 2x. Lesser of two evils. Both he & his old man look really bad in the rear view mirror.
That said reportedly everything @ Epstein Island was videotaped; that could be the crux right there. If Roberts is on video in a compromised position it could very well compromise his position & force his resignation. He’s had a bad odor from the beginning, Dubya just seemed to pull “Chief Justice” out of the air & stick Roberts in it. Maybe we would have been better off with Harriet Myers. Roberts is Dubya’s David Souter.
Dubya was a Deep State president, like his dad. Government, central power first. His nominee has proven to be the same thing. Anything that promotes central control, good. RINO - Establishment GOP - Left of center - country club set - Dem stooge, all good words and DC is chock full of them.
The last president that fought back against the Deep State was JFK. We know what happened to him. Ronnie was okay, first term, but as Bill O’Reilly postulates in “Killing Reagan”, being shot changed the president and # 2 was not so great, with increasing taxes, Iran Gate. Ascendency of Bush1, all supporting the Feds.
Bush senior was a New World Order flunkie.
Also probably helped orchestrate the JFK hit. He was there! Evil asshole.
That’s him leaning up against the building. Looking innocuous he thought. George de Morgenschilt (sp?) was his buddy and mentored Oswald.
George de Mohrenschildt
Thank you.
And Bush Jr. was a controlled tool with very limited insight of anything justifying his rise to the presidency.
Right. Illuminati families produce puppets for their evil agenda. Dubya and Justin Trudeau are prime examples.
Here is much more interesting background on those so called 'Inns of the Crown Temple Court' in London.
https://steemit.com/all/@belisoful/the-templar-bar-crown-corporation-the-crown-temple-by-rule-of-mystery-babylon-city-of-london
BEST explanation ever read. Been asking myself questions about Admiralty Law, Law of the Seas, etc. along with reading about the USA not existing, nor do the states; right down to our local County Sheriffs Depts. being direct extensions of Crown control. Thanks A-86
I know what you mean, but…Made a phucking fortune bringing drugs for arms into American, smiling that crooked smile nicely allowing Nice Nancy to toil on ‘just say no’ for the masses. Research his offshore oil rigs floating at every key port. The Bushes are high operators.
Another? Pulling Kuwait because HWBush (a cofounder of Carlyle along with his business partner, George Soros and the Bin Laden family) owned a large chunk of shares in Q8, the Kuwaiti state oil company. Kuwait/Iraq was him protecting his assets, while Saddam freed the thousands of virtual slaves held in Kuwait. (The Kuwaitis recruited foreign labor, then took their passports away.)
It was the brilliant, ruthless Bush who gamed control of the Texas Railroad Commission, America's ad hoc agency to control the booming oil business. He and his oil patch buddy Salinas became a partnership there; Bush became the President of the US, Salinas became the President of Mexico, and they moved Ollie North's CIA/Naval military intelligence Contra cocaine trade banking from South America to Mexico's banks, forming the Sinaloa cartel (Mexico's most powerful cartel.)
To cover for his son Neal, he pulled the S&L stunt; from that stunt, he created the MBS tranches that resulted in the 2009 Mortgage Meltdown, which harvested billions in LEAPs option puts...I guess I need not mention how his son Marvin Bush was manager of Larry Silverstein's World Trade Center during 9/11.
Bush 1 was a criminal mastermind, all right, a Lex Luthor; I see him as Earth's first Planetary Governor (because of the unipolar hegemony of the US), an astonishing achievement in its own right.
Amen! I forgot Neal No-Good…
Well done! Thank you.
Wow! I am impressed by your meticulous and detailed work. All I know is that even a cursory reading of the LA Times back in the Bush years revealed that Kuwaiti young men, presumably the most likely soldiers, were busy packing their Vuitton bags for anywhere but Kuwait. I'm no military strategist, but it seemed clear that if Kuwaitis didn't care, no reason existed for us to give a damn, much less send our young people to that benighted parking lot in the sand.
Pappy also had a starring role in Cathy O'Brien's book. 🤮
Cankerpuss, I agree with you that “Dems + RINOs” have been a part of the invasion by the WEF and its cohorts of the USA to create the NWO. If Trump fails, we are toast.
Right. The WEF are sitting there going, "Darn! We were just about to take over the entire world! And now we won't because of a free and fair election of a goy who garnered the votes of 1% of earth's population."
Good thinking.
The regular peeps far outnumber those in the "big club", probably 10,000 to 1. The real challenge is not the WEF but rather the NPC.
The generally accepted statistics for Dark Triad Personalities, which includes psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists is 1% psychopaths, 4% sociopaths, and 10% narcissists for a total of 15% dangerous people who are mostly infested in government and military for obvious reasons. Is the 'big club' the 1% psychopaths?
Those equate to .01 x 8,000,000,000 = 80,000,000 dangerous people that have infested all governments and militaries and are causing most of the problems and wars. Is this even close?
There may be that many psychopaths worldwide but the "big club" is not nearly that big. It's around 5,000 individuals that own everything and another million apparatchiks that work for them. I have no doubt that all psychos would love to be in the club, but you have to be born into it. In terms of DS membership, that number is far higher than a million of course, but these are mostly opportunistic self-serving leeches that will never be in the club.
I think you are right about that. Most of the psychos are just supporting the 5,000 or so who are running the asylum.
Those opportunistic self serving leeches will take any of the 5000 down if given the chance. I see that situation as a pack of hyenas fighting over a carcass. All psychos want to be in charge and will eliminate anyone in the way.
It should be entertaining to see them destroy each other.
So 8,000,000,000/5000=1,600,000 to 1, which looks like better numbers?
The ratio might actually be more like 100,000:1 or even 1,000,000:1.
Regardless, you're right. If someone/thing ignited just 1 of every 1,000 NPCs, there'd be 330,000 rebels in the USA only.
I have that book it's on my read list.
Ronnie was amazing first term second term was a mess.
I remember gas being .75 cents a gallon at a gas station on Kanan Dume road by the freeway.
Filled my Toyota Corona up for less than $10 bucks.
I miss the 80's while being chaotic it was not like now, now insanity rules the land.
Ronnie got the message after he was shot. His mantra was "politics is the art of the possible" and he realized that going too hard against the DS would get him Kennedy'd. 2nd term was all Bush which explains the awfulness. The nation wasn't ready for the DS flush at the time - there was a tight stranglehold on the narrative. Things are different now, more people red-pilled every day, we now know who the bad guys are and what they've been up to.
Hiya, Ben. Got a solution for ya. My plug in hybrid RAV4 uses about $40 dollars in gas every two months and about $30 in electricity per month. We drive 13000 miles per year or so.
Yesterday’s gas prices are gone, and if you believe in TLE, it is going to get worse and never better.
Insanity = Gimme state.
I have tried Hybrids I don't like the way the couple I have tried drove.
I love my Toyota 4runner and take it deep into the desert to places I doubt most hybrids could make it to.
One of them was the American Girl mine last week that dirt road was nasty rutted out and pot holed I watched one hybrid get stuck several times it was just to low and heavy.
https://www.mindat.org/loc-296378.html
https://westernmininghistory.com/mine-detail/10310597/
Girl in the Flat Bed Ford…
Everyone loves their car/truck/van for its fit in their lifestyle. TLE tells us that changes are coming as oil is diminishing. Your trip sounds great. I would not want to try the RAV on that road. Long ago, I owned a CJ5 and did tons of back roads with it, I loved it.
That mine is right next to Yuma.
Hey John Socrates asked a question I don't know.
The clover on your avatar makes us a little different than the average clusterfucker.
Do you pay a little bit to Jim?
Not asking for specifics but I have wondered what it was as well.
Yes, I do. Worth every penny.
If you tap on your avatar at the top of the page, you will find the cloverleaf means subscription.
Well damn there it is.
Thanks.
You drove a Toyota during the Reagan Administration? Were you a commie pinko back then?
At 16 I didn't even know what a commie was.
What is your excuse for being one now?
I'm not a commie. As I've expressed many times, I'm the complete opposite of a commie. I'm all for free trade.
The tariffs Trump has imposed are on average half of the tariffs already imposed on the US by the nations tariffed.
Let that sink in!
The US since WW2 has had 100% open markets and few trade barriers, but the other nations of the world have not.
Instead, they have kept protectionist economic policies and played a game of mercantilism with the US.
Supported by American Corporations who earned big profits at the expense of American workers by offshoring their jobs.
One-sided "Free Trade" has been absolutely crippling for the US workers. The World needs "Fair Trade", not "Free Trade". Free Trade has never been "Free". Just a utopian dream.
America has carried globalism on its back for 80-years now at a tremendous cost to the American taxpayers. Partially responsible for the US having the biggest national debt in the history of the world.
The current debt, deindustrialization, dependence on other countries for products, and the abuse of America by other nations' protectionary trade is an existential threat to the survival of America. (In much the same way as Putin and Russia see the expansion of NATO as an existential threat to the survival of Russia.)
"The tariffs Trump has imposed are on average half of the tariffs already imposed on the US by the nations tariffed. Let that sink in!"
That's not true vis-a-vis your 158 year-old friend, neighbour and close ally, Den. Prior to Trump's unprovoked 2025 trade war on Canada, 99%+ (by dollar value) of the trade between Canada and USA was free trade (zero tariffs) as per the Trump-built, -negotiated and -signed "best trade deal ever" USMCA.
Trump has hit Canada hard and promises more and regularly told us that he was doing so to "destroy [our] economy" in order to "weaken" us so badly that he will then "annex" us. Blatant, in-yo-face existential threats. Nice guy.
When a reporter once asked Trump if he would ever [militarily] invade Canada, he dismissively replied: "No, that's an economic takeover."
The USA put itself in an awful position living like pigs with insatiable consumption and put it all on their children's backs financed by the Fed pulling fiat US$ out of its own butt.
Let that sink in!
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Yes, TPTB chose the US$ to be our world reserve currency. The US Fed that TPTB built (in part by hoodwinking all detractors on to the Titanic, literally) in 1913 could then, post-WWII, create "money" for all of earth by pulling paper (and later digits) out of their butts like the hocus-pocus they practice.
Not bombed to hell by the TPTB's USA MIC, the USA then solidified its world-leader status in research, design, production, innovation, you name it. World leader by a country mile from 1945 to 1971.
Then, in August 1971, Nixon detethered the US$ from gold.
Then, in the ensuing half a century, the USA transitioned itself from the shining beacon light on the hill to a swine/bully that is suddenly angry at McDonalds and Burger King for all the money that he spent there only to get fat.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I stopped working, watched Oprah and ate Bonbons all day and now I'm fat! It's the world's fault!"
And you financed this despicable metamorphosis on the backs of your children putting them in hawk to Rothschilds and all they had to do was have underlings pull "money" out of their butts. Americans would shake their heads in grave concern about putting all this debt (now, ostensibly, at $36T) on their own kids and grandkids, do the Dem/GOP Hokey Pokey and go bomb Cambodia or Serbia or Sudan or Yemen or what have you.
Good one.
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"America has carried globalism on its back for 80-years now at a tremendous cost to the American taxpayers. Partially responsible for the US having the biggest national debt in the history of the world."
You've been had, Dennis. You lived high on the hog consuming everything you could, like swine, for decades and put it all on your credit card and now you're the victim? Ya think?
Ironically, you are the victim - you just don't recognize who the perp is. You don't see that it was the same PTB that allowed world trade to evolve from 1971 "best in the world" to 2025 meth addicts.
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Trump 2.0 is about, in part, engineering an economic disaster that will make 1929 seem like tiddly-winks, administer the bankruptcy of the US$ and smash Greenland, Canada and USA into the Club of Rome's New World Order's Region 1 - North American Union (NAU).
This 2025 trade war was engineered since way before WWII and Trump is just playing his role. Truly.
That photo of Roberts cuddling with Ghislaine in the love seat looks very compromising to me. Guilt by association. Especially cuddling association.
That's enough evidence for me to convict him of conflicts of interest.
When does the investigation on the adoption of his 2 kids commence?
John ---with respect to Dubya and his dad--- my thoughts exactly. Like you, I believe the alternative presented was so much worse. Can you imagine either Prez algore or Lurch? Just as bad as Xiden or maybe worse.
The lesser of two evils is still evil. I am amazed at how tolerant we as a society have become of this. "yeah, this candidate stinks but he doesn't stink as bad as the other guy." Says Joe Conservative. Problem is, the dude still stinks.
Why do we Americans tolerate this?
Because only nuts seek politics and power.
Who is left?
Canker go run for office.
Now that you thought about it, what feeling do you have at the thought of slogging through the muck to attain political office?
I have thought about it here locally as I am sick of leftist bullshit but the amount of insanity on display and what it would take to clean up the mess would probably get me assassinated.
I have run for political office, Ben. I've run for Mayor, City Council and School Board. My political positions are not what people want and I failed to gain enough votes.
You are exactly correct, only the idiots and the corrupt run for political office because the good people won't have any part of it or they can't get elected because the people don't like their political positions.
More evidence of the corruption of the American people at large.
Yes, the beasts of the field vote for less work and more hay. Of course, what else would they vote for? The question is why are they allowed to vote at all?
The People have the right to be ruled by people better than themselves. To attain this, you can't let them vote since they will only vote for human beasts like themselves.
Remember Boxer in Animal Farm? I feel like there was a time in the US where most Polish, Hunky, Irish immigrants could be trusted to make the right decisions because they broke their fucking backs. That hasn't been true in over 40 years.
Read Down and Out in Paris and London. Orwell was advised not to go too deeply into physical labor. It's very hard to mentally recover from that kind of regimen. Beyond that, being tall and lanky, he admitted that he was at a deep disadvantage as a laborer.
Hitler's devotion to the working man was unique and glorious. But he never thought they could replace the managerial and thinking classes.
I'm not a fan of Orwell. He diagnosed the problem and then ascribed it to the wrong cause. He died a moronic Leftist.
He was slowly getting better. He hated his old comrades, the Russian Communists, towards the end.
When I think of Hillary, I think of that time she burst into tears losing the election to Trump.
This, after her former technician Obama had usurped the boss who lifted him up, and had stolen her first Presidential nomination from her.
The shiite and piss she had to wade through, for all those years, and to get so, so close. All she really was, was once a girl who wanted to be the first female President...so she had written in her high school diaries.
And Obama? I think of the terrified face of that poor little six-year-old boy in Indonesia, trapped and molded as a child "asset" by his CIA parents and grandparents.
He was obviously trafficked as youngster, it's as plain as a searchlight to anyone who knows the signs. He grew up twisted with rage, vowing revenge on the world that made him what he was.
My heart breaks for both of them. Not.
I like that a doer can't ask for more than that.
My respect to you.
Right. They're all nuts. Not methodically evil and corrupt, just plain Jane nuts.
Good thinking.
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You are obviously far too insignificant to bother assassinating, Chickbrain.
"It's a big club and you ain't in it." - George Carlin
My goodness I seem to have really gotten under your thin skin.
Keep showing us who you are it's not a good look for someone as smug and full of themselves as you are.
"My goodness I seem to have really gotten under your thin skin."
Can you imagine a grown man on a serious political/geopolitical form spatting like a Grade-8 girl?
Troll away, Chickbrain.
Says the troll of the lowest sort.
Americans [Looney Left AND "Conservatives"] refuse to vote for decent people when they run for office - The great Ron Paul never had a chance. Ditto Pat Buchanan. I pray that Ramaswamy shines in Ohio and then goes medieval on all comers in '28.
An Indian scammer is not going to save you or your people, white boy.
Scammer? Name calling is not an argument. And I'm colored.
Uh ... Lurch and Dubya both refused to comment on the obvious conflict of interest that they both belonged to Yale's secret society Skull & Bones.
So, you proudly discern and choose the better of Lucifer and Satan?
There is something more evil than the Bush Family?
Doubts.
The Clintons of Course! The Other White meat.
How about the Kennedys. Papa Joe makes a deal with the Mafia to get his son elected president that probably backfired and got JFK killed.
See also: Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Bobby investigated Sam Giardino, New York Mafia.
The Kennedys were ambitious, but they didn't hate heritage America, far from it. They loved America. They were hated by the haters for being Irish Catholics.
(Excepting the murdering, unscrupulous nihilist Ted, who knew he was no more than last-rate compared to his brothers. It was Ted whose North American Irish Association who shipped arms to Sinn Fein in a belated attempt to buy legitimacy, by the way, and who gave the nod to Hillary's assassination of John Jr. when she wanted the NY junior Senator seat that Junior was getting ready to run for.)
Papa Joe was a bootlegger and head of the Irish Mafia. He made a deal with the Italian Mafia to get JFK into the White House, both in New York and Chicago. The deal was that JFK and RFK would stay hands off the Italians and would get Havana back from Castro for the Mafia. The Cuba thing failed, See Bay of Pigs, and Bobby started investigating the MAfiosa. JFK was preparing to start de-militarization of all the MIC projects, number one Vietnam advisors to be withdrawn. When he pissed off enough people with his presidency, they got together and killed him.
Not Anti-USA, but, where would we be today is JFK got his wishes instead of LBJ?
Actually I do want to answer that question.
Especially since yours is such a succinct and well done statement.
The short answer is: 1000%, no 10,000% better off.
Kennedy was the original Trump. He was at first used, and then turned on his masters.
(Excepting Trump has not turned on the cabal that brought him to power. They have made themselves the only viable alternative to their previous experiment.)
What you're missing is this: the origin of the origin of the Mafia.
You see, both the Irish and Italians were junior partners in what became the Syndicate.
78% of the Prohibition gangs were another group, canny and wise in the ways of revolution; that group actually created the Prohibition campaign against alcohol.
They knew from long experience that their newly invented criminal gangs would make them rich and powerful enough to complete their takeover of the WASP ruling institutions and culture in this country, that they could make America their Horse to ride. They did so, and we have had all that followed.
It was the left wing of their creation, the CIA, that pushed JFK to abandon the Bay of Pigs counterinsurgency at the last minute. Why?
The US State Department funded Castro's revolution with $200 million between 1952 - 1959. Castro was a catspaw. Why?
Why were we hands off to this noxious creature (and are still to his brother Raul.)
Because Cuba was an outpost for the coming Culture Revolution in North America, whose satraps were LBJ and Pierre Castro.
(I hesitate to add, Castro was not fully...hispanic. LBJ and Trudeau also had the same roots.)
What happened to the Italian mafia, and the Irish mafia?
They were rolled up a short time later, weren't they? That was a consolidation of the original Mafia's power. Cuba, likewise, has been largely abandoned, its use spent.
I'm saying that you are correct, but that it wasn't just the Italians or even Irish who got JFK in. They certainly played their part, for true, as footsoldiers to the real Mafia...the Mafia that shot JFK when he ceased being useful, and turned hostile to their greater gameplan.
Neither the Kennedys nor the Italians wanted to change the WASP culture of this nation nor replace its people. That was the great Project of the oldest, most dangerous mafia in the world, now culminating in the Great Replacement.
Good point. Bush, Clinton, Kennedy are the WEF dynasties of USA.
That Trump busted up their dynasties. The Deep State will never forgive him for that.
In the Constitution, nobility is prohibited. These dynasties are pretty damn close as is the celebrity worship in our entertainment industry.
Shh you're going to make filberts head explode by saying something not only true but kind about Trump.
Hardly, JAZ. Trump was pals with the Bushes and, especially, the Clintons until he was given his new POTUS role in 2015.
When the MSM sells you a bill of goods, John, spit it out. You should know that by now. COVID, right?
Trump is Illuminati, John. His MIT uncle was given Nikola Tesla's notes for goodness sakes.
May God remove the scales from your eyes.
An upvote for mentioning Fred Trump, the last person to read Tesla's notes before they were sealed away.
I see Trump as the American Tokyo Rose. (There were four Roses, three were Japanese.)
The woman was actually an unacknowledged heroine.
She used her position to smuggle medicines and messages to the Allied prisoners held in Japan.
Such courage! Such bravery! In the heart of the enemy's stronghold! Had she been discovered, well, Japanese cruelty to POWs was legendary. And their hideous Unit 731 actually did perform numerous biological and surgical "experiments", in India, the Phillipines, and elsewhere.
Sad that she never got the recognition she deserved. She was scorned and hated on her return to America; this was the price she paid for standing by her boys amidst unimaginable danger.
Trump? The cabal has made itself the only viable alternative to the collapse of its previous victory; he is like a stout mayor, doing the best he can to chart a course under the Empire's rule. He can't save them all or the world we've lost, but he can try to save as much as he can and soften the landing.
Yes, I agree. He moved in the upper echelon classes in his life.
Do not forget the Bush-Clinton union during the rip off of Haiti as the Clintons enriched their Foundation.
Trump still destroyed the dynasties of the Bushes, Jeb, and the Clintons, Hillary and maybe the Kennedys as they have just about crucified Bobby Jr. Watching him telling them to go to hell was refreshing.
Of course. Left/Right is a pro-wrestling show for us rubes while our elite chum together no problemo.
Trump never destroyed any dynasties, John. Trump works for the Rothschilds - the same as all the others. They're all on the same team, John.
Right now, their team is transitioning us from corporatocracy to technocracy.
When Bush the Lesser gave up the bottle, he must have turned his obsessions and passions elsewhere. It's human nature. What did he do? Did he put it all into his fantastic artwork?
He's just been clearing brush at the rayinch.
Remember when it was revealed that Rick Perry, that empty, sack of shit, owned a ranch called "Niggerhead?" Wasn't that hilarious?
Well played.
LBJ was far more horrible and destructive.
Yes, and ACB was nominated by Trump. Two fake conservatives who both hate Trump. When these current cases wind their way to the Supreme Court, don't be surprised if Trump keeps losing on 5-4 votes.
Said this innumerable times: GOP POTUS’s need to stop drawing from the well of the “Ivy League” “elite” schools; they’ve all been copted by the left. You think any judge is going to risk being kicked off the DC cocktail party circuit for a controversial decision? Picking judges from these places is stupidity on steroids. Go outside the norm; moreover no SC justice is required to be a lawyer. They should pick small businessmen, entrepreneurs, I.e. regular folks instead of the born-with-the- silver-spoon-already-in-the-mouth “elite” class. In the end that’s what it is - “elitism”; “we went to better, more respected institutions so we know better than you.”
ACB is from Notre Dame.
No Professors!!! Those who can do. Those who can't teach.
ie: Hillary, Obama, ACB
What about ACB's "book deal." Sure wish I had time to look into that one but you all are way too interesting.
Very well said. If only anyone would listen to you.
Well if he can get Robert’s ass out, imagine a Matt Gaetz? Oh man! And then one of the dark females gets too loopy?
Thanks Dutch!
Note: That elitism is the exact same in America's attitude towards the rest of earth.
They pick lawyers because they understand the law or at least we hope they do.
Average layman not so much.
Correction: they’re supposed to “understand the law” but their history proves otherwise. Businessmen/entrepreneurs- generally, no one is infallible - operate on more of a common sense platform. When you have an SC pick who openly admits she “cannot define what a woman is” then what the hell use is a piece of stamped paper from a “credentialed” institution?
She knows full well what a woman is what she did not want to do was go against the Democrat party talking points.
That was simply cowardice on display.
Everyone forgets they got away with murdering a Supreme court justice.
Or that leftist's activists showed up at Supreme court justices houses and started protesting.
The left is violent, loud and arrogant.
The entire trans movement is simply being done to turn a mental health issue into normal.
Next up is pedo being normal which I believe was the goal all along.
"Everyone forgets they got away with murdering a Supreme court justice."
THANK YOU for remembering Scalia. It burns me up that nobody ever seems to talk about that.
As for the trans mania, I think most of it is being funded/promoted by entities whose goal is sterilizing all the young people in order to depopulate the country. But a nice bonus for the vampires behind the trans movement is the biological fact that screwing with the hormones of young humans whose bodies and minds are still developing turns them into batshit-crazy rage monsters who do things like shoot up grade schools and bomb Tesla dealerships.
". . . goal is sterilizing all the young people. . . ." And destroying the family unit. DS managed it for blacks already. "No food stamps or welfare if there's a man in the house." Because of course every black man earns enough to feed a family of 4-5 and can afford $1500/mo rent. Destroy the family unit and you can brainwash them with the most unsuccessful political matrix on earth: socialism. But the pendulum swings back. About 60% of America is awake. It's gonna be a rough year, but we gotta keep at it. It starts in the grass roots, not DC.
Yes, welfare moms make more without a dad in the picture, typically. Some girls plan their own pregnancies - it's career choice.
No!
Its a failure of black ghetto culture which has been popularized to White America and everyone else for that matter.
In the mid 90's I was approached in Chile by two young men who wanted me to know how gangster they were.
Nice kids but had watched way too much Hollywood glamorization of gangbanger lifestyles.
We hung out for a bit and watched Terminator 1 while sucking down a couple of local beers Cristal if memory serves me right.
I had to go look at the small beer stein in the cupboard.
They showed me around their once very nice city and I bought them lunch and beers for the tours.
Something your faux white power antics would never have taken part in.
And who owns Hollywood? The Chinese like Alex Jones says?
Last time I talked about it, one of the local worthies said that he sleeps with a pillow on his face. No big deal!
Exactly, Ben. Horrifying Scalia was offed, cremated with no delay, and done with. And now the definition of normal. If one is a pedo, it follows that pedo is normal.
But trans and pedos cannot be the judges of normal. Their strategy is to wear everyone down until it seems normal and it is tolerated.
What we allow becomes acceptable.
The Left are the shock troops, the bashi bazouks. One victory is attained, the Right comes into consolidate the new order, cursing the Left as the Left moves onto to new conquests.
Case in point: Gay marriage. Fully accepted now. A big yawn. Tucker believes in it!
Now I'm confused. Is America great or a corrupt cesspool? I mean, according to you, it is both!
The "law" doesn't matter anymore and hasn't mattered for 75 years. It's pure and brutal power. If you're not willing to take the bull by the horns and put a bang stick to the side of its head, you're just lying to us all.
They know how to manipulate the law…we don’t.
This Mike Davis (Article III Project) & Senator Chuck Grassley thing stinks. They were a big part of pushing these Trump-hating judges. They are as fake as $3 bills. Obviously Grassley is brilliant at moving things at a glacier's pace. He was feeding Patrick Byrne lines years ago. Lots of dust and then nothing but more damage.
It has to be Article 3 project judges from here on out, no more Federalist nonsense.
Yeah. Bush (R-CT)
I saw CJ Rehnquist as the same - a Darvon addicted tool of the Bushite globalists protecting the Deep State's "interests."
Oh, you mean George NWO Bush.
If Providence intervened on behalf of President Trump on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, then it is beyond cavil that it was for a very good reason. Despite the obstacles he faces (and they are considerable), it would seem that he will prevail against those who seek his political and physical demise. More to the point; that DJT shall fulfill the task(s) that Providence has sought him out for. His will be done.
It's possible that you don't know that for sure.
Mr. Kunstler: There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty. However, one can observe and deduce. All that I know is that God made the plants for their simplicity, animals for their innocence, and man to serve him wittily in the tangle of his mind. This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fulfil his will. I don't know this for certain, but one can at least be open to the possibility. One can have faith.
“One can have faith.”
Sure beats the alternative.
Faith is a tricky thing.
Indeed, it surely is. Daily one sees the detritus of misplaced faith.
Or, perhaps, the people have become so corrupted and godless in their hearts that God has given them over to reap the rewards of their actions. Seems to me that wickedness and corruption is having its way with the good and decent these days.
A truly righteous people would not tolerate a wicked government. The fact that the people have allowed their government to become such as it is today speaks volumes to the condition of the general American citizen.
We as a people have become immoral, amoral, anti-God, anti-religion, lovers of ourselves, greedy, selfish, and slaves to our debt. Hey, this sounds just like our own government doesn't it?
God's plan, if he/she has a plan, may be to let humanity stumble through and resolve the mess they themselves have created.
"A truly righteous people" voted - for liars, cheats and traitors. Without reading their minds, we can't know if a politician is worth his salt until he acts. We waited for them to prove themselves, waited for the "white hats" to effect a correction, and chose the only path that does not involve immediate civil war or lynchings: vote for different people. About 60-70% of us voted for better people. That is the contract we've all agreed to. We have something that separates us from France (Le Pen), Brazil (Bolsinaro), Romania (Georgescu), Germany (AfD): a Constitution like no other. It's what is keeping those "truly righteous people" from acting out. It may come to war, but we're yelling as loudly we can, and somebody has acquired the authority to listen and DO something about it. Laura Loomer talked with Trump about what she knew, and he fired 3 NSC people. But there is another aspect of "truly righteous people" that nobody mentions. Humanity are a spiritual beings, above ALL else, for without it, that body you inhabit is nothing but rotting meat. And there is a confluence of positive thought, prayer, intent on an unseen, unrecognized, unacknowledged level that influences everything. It's part of "being awake," and it appears to be working. Think positively. That doesn't mean begging "God" for an outcome, but thinking, encouraging, applauding the good in every way possible. It does matter, and it does make a difference. Why, we have a manifestation of it today: Klaus Schwab quit! What gets more positive than that?
I see that in Hollywood. Melissa Gilbert wrote something on X. She said that oh we were woke in the days of Little House on the Prairie on t.v. She just doesn't get it. They cannot tell a story. They start out moralizing because they are the best people in the world. I hope I don't think that about myself! Go look at the self righteous yard sign. IN this house we believe, meaning those that don't are inferior. If you go to a church, they recite a creed. The creed is for the person reciting it, the creed is not for other people. Hollywood will go bankrupt. I know the mind of Blind and they cannot see now.
They all live in a woke silo, all we can do is ignore them or pray for them. I haven't watched any of the filth that's come out of Hwood for well over 10 years. I also don't have any use for current "music" out of that industry.
Christians believe that God has planned everything, and that includes planning for some people to go to hell.
There's nothing you can do about it, since that would go against God's plan. Praying is asking him to change his plan. Telling God he has it all wrong and you have a better idea!
The fact is Christians don't think they're smart enough to live their lives without some sort of divine intervention.
Why would anyone who is intelligent and educated get duped into believing 1st Century/Bronze Age superstition?
Myths based on ignorant men "making shit up" in order to try and understand the natural world.
Without one shred of verifiable, concrete data or experiment-based evidence of a single supernatural "God" or event?
We should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings.
God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are.
The Devil is real. He is the great "deceiver". People are being deceived, which explains the bad choices that are manifest at every level, from petty lies and theft to embezzlement to wars big and small.
It is good to have faith. I share your view that the bullet "missing" by an inch or two is miracle, in the positive sense. God can, and does, thwart the powers of evil. It is possible that nefarious forces or people sought Trump's removal, and God thwarted their plans. The Holy Trinity is, ultimately, "the boss."
I like to think this experience (even more than his advanced age) reminded Mr. Trump of his mortality, of the fact that we are not going to be here forever.
I can't read Trump's mind though. I can perceive his ACTIONS by what I DISCERN from what I see and read. And his actions, whether they reflect his beliefs or whether he is being manipulated, when it comes to war and peace are not encouraging. While I recognize it is impossible to satisfy everyone, all the time, President Trump could have pulled the plug on the Ukraine war. He has not done so. And his words and actions in the Middle East, at least to me, point to wider war with a lot more death and destruction coming, and very likely adversely impacting the US economically, perhaps kinetically.
Now, he may think he is really a peacemaker, and his actions are necessary to pave the way to a long-term peace. I just don't see it. Time will tell.
Zelensky, galaxies far from a great mind, is being manipulated by the EU and the UK, based on their delusional and diabolical motives, to keep throwing wrenches into the ceasefire/peace efforts, convincing him via promises to have his his back based upon pure fairy dust.
The combination of their certifiably insane TDS, and their utter hubris have brought us to the brink of WWIII, and mutually assured destruction.
Ironically, it has only been Putin’s personal resistance to pulling the nuclear trigger that has kept us from crossing that Rubicon.
Vladimir Putin is the greatest leader Russia has ever had (possible exception Catherine the Great), and one of the greatest leaders in the world today. Hungary's Orban and El Salvador's Bukele are equally brave and visionary, but their countries are not as huge and consequential as Russia. (Although they are certainly playing key roles in the current world situation right now, aren't they?!)
What remarkable times we live in....
Putin is a great leader. He’s shown remarkable patience in the USA proxy war…he knows our deep state put Z in place.
I don’t know if I’d use the word “greatest”, as it can imply characteristics I wouldn’t necessarily apply to Putin. But I would go with smartest.
Amen. You forgot the Democrat machine backing Zelensky.
"God gave man free choice. People's individual choices, and mankind's cumulative choices are why things are the way they are."
Exactly. This principle tells me two things, Socrates.
1. God cannot violate his own laws and therefore cannot get involved which means we humans are on our own to fix the mess our actions and inactions have created.
2. God is not all powerful and cannot intervene. If God intervenes God breaks his own law of human free choice and free will and if he breaks his own law he becomes a liar. If God becomes a liar he loses his authority which comes from his honor and the honor of his creations.
Either way, I don't believe God is going to save us from our wickedness. We made this mess. We need to fix it. We fix it by first fixing ourselves, inwardly. Once we as a people fix ourselves inwardly and turn ourselves back to righteous principles and righteous living, everything else will fall right in line. I truly believe this.
Oh, and Socrates, a close friend of mine is a police chief in my town and believe me when I tell you, the people themselves are corrupted and wicked. The heart breaking stories of drugs, crime, child abuse, spouse abuse, infidelity, pornography and so forth are stunning. And I live in a rural Utah community.
Drugs can turn people into MONSTERS. Like you, I am closely acquainted with this fact. I have friends who have adopted foster children.... The hell that those kids endured as victims of drug-addicted parents is unimaginable.
As for porn, I have seen marriages destroyed. And I know of at least one man who always tried to be a good and decent husband, father, church member and community leader, but was addicted to online porn. He committed suicide because of the crushing guilt he felt at leading a double life.
If anyone reading this has this problem, I beg you: Get help!!! I just did a search for "porn addiction hotline christian" and a TON of resources came up. Get help. Today.
Well said. And many women are addicted to social media, doing all kinds of crazy things for likes. Many of them are still on dating sites after being married just for the validation, or to keep their options open. About 60% of married women admit to having a "Plan B" or back up man if things get bad.
Janos - Plan B's aren't all bad. About 95% of Americans don't even have a Plan A, so they're already screwed.
About 4% have a Plan A, so they're on the right track.
It's the 1% that have a Plan B, that'll come out the other side, knowing full well, that something always goes awry with Plan A.
Those women are just covering their downside risk. Problem is that a lot of one-time losers - men or women - end up becoming two-time losers. It's a pattern.
Plan A will definitely go awry if you have a Plan B. That’s not a marriage, it's a "situationship," as the kids say. That’s no way to live.
And if wifey meets a better man online, she'll start talking with him. If it all checks out, she'll replace her husband and blame him for it. Such is the feminine nature which you adore.
God rules absolutely. We have all been subjected to vanity. That's the point of this exercise. God makes what He will of every vessel, honorable or dishonorable. He creates good and evil. You have no choice in when you were born, to whom, and all your personal characteristics. You have no choice in life but what He puts before you. After choosing wrong for so long and reaping the consequences, you will learn to choose right by His grace only. Repentance and faith are a gift.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for part of a weekend."
We are told an all-knowing God designed the incredible complexities of life, yet was so unimaginative & primitive it could only resolve issues by killing people.
"In the beginning man created God, then he created stories in which God created man."
Repentance and faith are a gift.
Oh, no! Please! No!
Not Hell! Not the Lake of Eternal Fire!
Lord, I believe! I repent!
I'm saved now, praise Jesus!
I'm saved!
Thank you, Jesus, thank you!
The anti-Gospel according to a perverse and corrupt mind.
When I was 4 years old, my grandmother was given a couple of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) by one of her students (she taught third grade). She made up a terrarium for them where they did - nothing. Not satisfied with this inactivity, I took a pencil and started prodding them to get them to move, to do - something... Well, I may have prodded too much because eventually they became VERY inactive.
I don't think that "God" is a 4-year-old with a terrarium.
Cankerpuss
Your last paragraph is a wonderful summation of the message of Jesus. The key to salvation is within every one of us.
Oh, no! Please! No!
Not Hell! Not the Lake of Eternal Fire!
Lord, I believe! I repent!
I'm saved now, praise Jesus!
I'm Saved!
Thank you, Jesus, thank you!
Yes. "...within you but you don't realize it."
That is, make it real.
God has interviened many times in the Bible. He has a master plan, and will follow that to the ultimate end.
No argument here, but maybe included in that master plan is to let humanity fail because humanity no longer believes in or listens to God.
The message of Revelation.
If Vegas could vote on the likelihood of human self-salvation, I think the odds would be very long.
Carl Gustav Jung, whose work was influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies, in his autobiography "Memories Dream Reflections" said "I will not discuss the transparent prophecies of the Book of Revelation because no one believes in them and the whole subject is felt to be an embarrassing one."
Beware of those who claim to interpret God’s “word.”
They don’t know any more than you do.
What they want is not truth, but power.
The bolder their interpretations, the more power they want.
"(God) has a master plan, and will follow that to the ultimate end."
In which everything plays a part, with humanity a barely noticeable background blip.
If God is willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
If he is able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
If he is both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
If he is neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
Yes, there seems to be different factions of globalists striving for dominance. Trump is part of the Neo-Con/Israeli faction - and they are terrible warmongers.
Israel is a warmonger? You can't be more upside down that that, Lugh. Look up Raymond Ibrahim and read some of his stuff or watch his videos. It's not about Israel, but it will show you who the real warmongers are.
The Greater Israel Plan means taking over whole nations such as Lebanon and large parts of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. It's imperialism on steroids and the burning wick of WW3
How far God will extend Israel is up to Him, but as for your accusation, it's patently ludicrous. If Israel had been planning to take over territories it would have done so after the '67 war and in the years since. Instead, it didn't take over Judea and Samaria, gave Sinai back to Egypt, and vacated the small Jewish population of Gaza.
I would say you should limit yourself to talking about things you know about, but I'm not sure any of those apply to the topics on this blog.
The IDF wear a patch of the map of Greater Israel on their shoulder. Do you really not know this or are you lying?
You're the liar. The IDF banned those patches, which were taken on by some orthodox soldiers.
That said, I fully support Israel expanding as much as God wills, which is more than what's held at present. Judea and Samaria, Gaza, Sinai, some of southern Syria and Lebanon for sure.
They always intended to expand, the two blue lines on their flag being the two rivers, the Nile and the Euphrates.* Thus they never negotiated in good faith.
*Whether this is the actual dimensions delineated in the Bible is debatable. It says the "spring of Egypt", is the Nile a spring? And by the Euphrates, did it mean the Euphrates in the north or in Iraq?
In any case, this is not the Israel of God. But it is the Israel of the Antichrist.
God does not exist Paul.
And the one the Israelis invented conveniently played real estate agent in their favour.
"God gave us this land"....
"It's bullshit, and it's fucking stupid." Probably the best and most accurate description of religion I've ever heard.
...than that....
How do you even talk to people like this "Cohen?" Shouldn't he be engaged in a check cashing racket or scamming life insurance policies from veteran's widows? Why is he here mudding up the chat?
You can't answer me directly because you have nothing and can only resort to wild ad hominins born of your own moral depravity.
That bullet didn't really miss though, did it? Just barely nicked Trump's ear, not even leaving a lasting scar. A few millimeters to the right and it busts off a chunk of Trump's head. A few millimeters to the left and he doesn't even feel the breeze. Certainly a miracle - or possibly something a little more profane.
I can't read Trump's mind either - fortunately, there are many who can. Many of them can also read God's mind and know that Trump has been chosen by God to lead us out of the wilderness. "Mysterious ways" indeed. The shadow of doubt need never darken our lives again.
"Many of them can also read God's mind". Give me a fuckin break.
The same folks that are delusional.
I’m delusional and talk to an imaginary friend in the sky. You guys are too naive and don’t make enough efforts to become delusional like me. If you don't agree with my God delusion, then you're naive!
'My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na na Neener neener nee ner"
"Oh, but there's plenty of evidence for Gods existence! There are so many things!"
“There's...... uhh......eeermm ... I saw God’s face and I talk to him!”
Every fucking time.
I hope you feel better now.
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
EVERYTHING happens according to God's PLAN Christians will say.
But when SOMETHING tragic happens, the Christian says God gives us FREE WILL.
The age-old trick of constantly moving the goalposts.
Or the cop-out: God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform
Hmmm, “The Devil is real”? Could it be he is the cumulative of Man’s evil side, that he represents the “evil” side of our nature, inside our minds and souls, as God represents the “good” side? Is the battle between good and evil within ourselves?
Let’s give Trump a break relative to his being a peacemaker. I think Putin dropped a turd on his idea of what it would take to make a deal to stop the Biden stupidity. IMHO, Putin is using the slowdown from Trump to his advantage and will continue to push his land grab in East Ukraine until stopped. Watch Odessa.
Putin will definitely finish the denazification by fall, when the now clearing Rasputitsa (literally "season of bad roads") muds return. Only then will peace be made. And who can blame the Russians for not trusting any deal to restrain those who mercilessly murderered their own Russian speaking civilians in Donbass? They haven't forgotten about Minsk! Merkel herself admitted to acting in bad faith to rearm the Ukraine.
Can you imagine what the US would do if Mexico contained a significant concentrated enclave of Americans & the Mexican gov't shelled & slaughtered them? We would not stop until every last Mexican combatant was killed to ensure an end to the threat. It's a very loose analogy since the Ukraine, a term meaning periphery (as the center of the empire had moved east to Moscow) was always an artificial construct; empires such as the Hapsburg (Austro-Hungarian) & Polish-Lithuanian pushed Ukrainization (to make them feel like a separate people from their fellow Russians, despite the Kievan Rus being the origin of Russia) even before Vladimir Lenin's wheeling & dealing fraudulently officialized it through Soviet "Republic" status. Other neighboring countries also lost some land to the north & west of the Ukraine, but Russia is likely to take back much of their own lost land, probably to include Odessa. This will leave a landlocked rump state of a demilitarized zone ripe for regional reabsorption into respective parent nations once EU & NATO military support collapses & US subsidization ends (the Ukraine has been FULLY subsidized, military & civilian operations alike- the whole enchilada- since at least 2022).
Good summary, thanks.
Faith is the most important. So is knowledge wisdom and understanding. All of these qualities followed by works pleases God. Trump is fulfilling this role to make America great again in a morally profound way.
He will prevail as well as those who have faith that God is really in charge but we humans still have the power of choice given to those who wisely choose life.
We're blessed with tape worms, plague, cancer, leprosy, dengue fever, malaria, and mosquitoes that spread diseases. The brain-eating amoeba is a special gift from a creator if you believe in a Creator.
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thought.
"There are no certainties in this life, therefore, I cannot state that I know this to be a certainty."
That applies to absolutely everything that you, or any human, "knows" about anything. Therefore, it also applies to any claim whatsoever about God. It's all belief, and that "fact" is inescapable.
"There are no certainties in this life"
death
Arguably, death is external to "in this life" ;)
But if God informs you, take it to the bank. He is Real, you know.
"He is Real, you know."
No, I don't know. Neither do you. The difference is that you believe you possess truth, while I believe everything in a human's consciousness is, and can only be, belief. Your "God informing you" is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. Highly problematic when one wants to spread "Good News" to skeptics.
More generally, my stock reply (ordinarily, just to myself) to literally anything someone tells me -- "revealed" religion or not -- is "WWIBT?" or "Why Would I Believe That?" I have learned well over many decades, especially in the [post]modern West, to have less than zero *automatic* respect for "experts", who are more often than not simply feral political animals who are primarily Aristotelian ethos-hucksters, whatever else they do in life. That goes double for godmongers of all kinds. I find it very useful in keeping my mind open to what evidence and possibilities are plausible and which are not.
If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know.
I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. Or maybe you'd admit you don't know that either.
Faith isn't airy fairy imaginations. It's the evidence of things not seen. So you're not going to know with your native senses. However there's more to life than those, much more.
The truth is, you think you know a lot because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses, so there's no point in trying to argue with someone so limited and self-contradictory, and I'm not.
I can wait for you to find out. Not a problem at all.
I suppose you think you came out of a magic Sky Daddies finger....ABracadabra. Shazaam.
It's impossible to argue from logic when your opponent basically claims "MAGIC."
They never lose a debate in their minds.
These are the ones who say their God is unknowable and then proceed to tell us what all we need to know about their God.
Imagine what goes on in these people’s heads.
It’s amazing to me how people can believe these religious stories that play over and over in their imaginations.
It’s mental illness. How do they function in the real world?
The depth of their delusions and their grip it has on their mind is terrifying.
I just hope they have someone caring for their well-being.
"If you don't know, you also don't know whether I know."
Correct. I did not deny that. But it is not relevant to my belief or not in God. Please read again, carefully: "Your 'God informing you' is, to me, completely indistinguishable from your hallucinating, and I challenge you provide a way to demonstrate to me otherwise. "
"The truth is, you think you know a lot ..."
False. I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs. I believe there is much of my beliefs that you're assuming, and others you're just not getting. I'll happily confess some of that is doubtless my own lack of clarity in places.
"... because you're relying on your carnal, non-spiritual senses,"
If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver. At least for much of science, limited as it is, can widely be transferred to, and then tested by, a theory's skeptic, limited only by the receiver's ability to understand its complexity, not to "sense" it. So, as far as I can see, and in this late stage in life, either (in the words of a Steve Martin '70s skit), regarding religion, either you're "feelin' it" (to me, i.e. the apparent God hallucination), or not.
"I suppose you think you came from an explosion of gases. ... [etc. etc.] "
It is not important to me where I believe I came from. It is ultimately unknowable to any human being how that belief and many others work. What we perceive about the entire universe could be a massively complex illusion. We can forever hunt for evidence whether I came from a "Big Bang" or anything else, and it's entertaining and useful (within a frame of reference), but ultimately forever unsettled.
I am able to sit with the void of that lack of knowledge. Most amazing to me, however, is the tendency of most humans to be utterly incapable of accepting their not being able to know something. They especially cannot accept that some things may be unavoidably unknowable by *any* humans, smart and/or educated about whatever. That lack of comfort drives them crazy, until they latch onto some kind of belief-rock. But as I said earlier, *nothing* is knowable -- it's *all* belief. It's in the nature of all humans. I'm now convinced this emotional weakness we humans have is at the heart of humans' need to stuff a God/gods into their heads.
But it's not the only dimension of pretension. Most relevantly and importantly today, is it also behind the need to stuff their heads with certainty about which (major) political "side" is factually correct and morally "correct", when it is entirely plausible that both are. IMO, because both Right (simplistically put, for brevity: prioritizing individuality/freedom) and Left (prioritizing society/fairness) are "correct", they exist as political forces in perpetuity (although each instantiation is usually heavily distorted by the forces in each context). Once we drop that pretension and regain our humility, accepting that everyone possesses (human) truths, we may be able to get back to functioning politics again. The same thing applies to pretentions about divinity or lack thereof.
I didn't know, admitted it, asked God to show me, and He did (this was 48 years ago and has continued to this day). Admittedly, I asked by faith, which is a gift from God. He gives to whom He wills when He wills. He's in charge.
As for your condition, it's caused by what the Bible calls "sin," a word many are not familiar with its actual meaning. You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge "beliefs."
You won't see or know God till you eat from the Tree of Life.
You are also responsible for your condition, which is a good thing for you. It's how you'll come out of that darkness when your time of repentance and faith arrive. And they will. Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord - readily with great peace and joy.
Only our Creator can, has, and will accomplish this. I am a witness.
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14).
"For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea" (Hab 2:14)."
LOL.....just a CLAIM scribbled down by unknow ignorant goat herders two centuries ago. With no evidence. Anonymous undated ancient writings. Sounds like a solid foundation for basing your life on!
The Bible only makes claims. The Bible is not evidence.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that "My book is true because my book says it is true" is not a valid form of reasoning?
Why do a Christian expect a book written by unknown authors in a variety of languages, that was translated, rewritten, edited countless times ~ is evidence for anything?
It's just a book.
Every statement of "Jesus says" needs to start with "my old book says Jesus says...."
If, instead, you could believe that alien (non-infinite, non-"loving") intelligence(s) is/are behind the origins (and maybe continuance) of the Abrahamic God -- *that* is something I can find plausible.
"[I] asked God to show me, and He did"
Now you've circled back to square one. Again, you believe what, to a skeptic, is indistinguishable from a hallucination. You didn't address it the first time, so I must assume its import whooshed over your head.
"You're eating from and relying on the Tree of Knowledge, being your own god, and you call your knowledge 'beliefs.' "
Again, I make no such claim to being a god. Quite the opposite. As I said above: "I know nothing; I only believe. Here, I'm simply challenging *your* beliefs with *my* beliefs." I say only that in the obvious absence of such a creature as God, I take matters into my own hands. You're right only about the pro-active part of my beliefs -- but nothing else about my attitude.
"If the alleged reality of this cannot be systematically *transferred* from a believer to a receiving skeptic (because of missing "senses"), it's useless to the receiver."
I should add that this failure to receive (due to missing senses) also makes the receiver *unaccountable* to the alleged God the godmonger asserts. So much for pistol-whipping many of the thinking non-believers into compliance post-Enlightenment, the way it had been done successfully prior to that time.
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for part of a weekend."
“For all addicted religious person who lights a candle for me, then verily it shall be immediately bloweth out by me.
I didn't ask for your candle to be lit for me.
I don't want it.
I don't need it.
Please have your Candle back thank you very much.” – the great atheist Cristopher Hitchens
John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son ... "
The entire premise that there is some great "loss" to the all-powerful creator of the universe, one that binds people to "owe" him or otherwise pay the price, is simply insane. Yet I understand it is the most quoted Biblical phrase. Who knew he was such a bean-counter? It conjures up those pagan gods always looking for human sacrifices to throw into the fire pit.
As Hume pointed out (thru a dialog character), "It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”
Re thee, thou, [verb]-eth, verily, etc.
It's also preposterous that many Christians seem to be awed by mid-second-millennium English. As if it has magical powers to sound like "God's voice", rather than being completely an accident of time and place, and a translation to boot.
Re: "This may very well be an instance where the creator has a course of action in mind for the nation and has chosen an individual to fill his will."
The infamous Egyptian Pharaoh of the book of Exodus comes to mind. Trump epitomizes the collective greed of society today and one would have to be blind to not see how he has been energized by everything that is thrown at him. The biblical God "hardens" (another good translation is "strengthens") what's already there to make sure that as H.L. Menken has said, "the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
That attitude allows Dispensationalist Christians to do nothing.
Sometimes doing nothing has a massive impact. Ignoring demons is immensely effective. Praying keeps them away. We can only take care of ourselves and our communities, to a lesser extent. That's not doing nothing.
GOD'S will is going to be done. Like it or not. HE has already won this war. The final battles are now being fought.
It's amazing how many people understand this that I run into lately! So heartening. I found out a woman I play pickleball with and hike with is a conservative Christian. She didn't advertise, so I didn't know. Once we started chatting about the trans agenda, I knew! A kindred soul. Hallelujah!
Faith!
I don't see that his post asserts absolute surety. It only postulates a reasonable scenario described using words such as "if" and "seem."
Although disputed, "Providence" intervened to let Corporal Adolf Hitler live. One corporal Henry Tandey is reputed to have been in a position to shoot a wounded Hitler dead in WW1, but did not do so.
Now, I am NOT saying Trump is Hitler (like many Trump-haters and Democrats do). I supported Trump (in the past). I despised Biden and campaigned AGAINST Crooked Joe in 2024. (That's not the same as supporting Trump).
It is miraculous Trump survived Butler, PA, I agree. However, after his first 100 days, it's clear that peace is not a priority for Mr. Trump, and if alternative and mainstream news accounts are correct, he appears to be intent on precipitating a massive escalation in WW3 by attacking Iran, which likely will torpedo the entire world economy--and this will sink the US.
Some are claiming Iran already has a nuke or two. They had a lot of help from President Clinton and of course the Shiaphile Obama. One will note every action taken by Obama favored Shiites over any other sect. Curiously favorable agreements made by "towering intellects" like Lurch Kerry surely have not soothed an observer's concerns about the intentions of the Islamic Republic.
Unlike the bufoons preceding him, Trump goes for the win. If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done, but only if he believes there is going to be a nuclear attack from them. None of this boots on the ground and nation building crap. "...and there ain't gonna be no wine tasting after."
John, Setting aside the many shades of grey in the first paragraph (for the sake of brevity here), in the second paragraph you seem pretty confident that an attack on Iran will be "decisive".
There won't be any boots on the ground because America has no boots to send. The army and marine corps are rather small. Yet, history has shown that to defeat an adversary nation, it is necessary to occupy part or all of them. Look at Desert Storm (Iraq war 1). How did Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan turn out for the US? The US however did occupy Japan and Germany.
Iran has already demonstrated that it can reach out and hit Israel. That means they can hit oil wells and loading terminals. They can probably choke or close the Strait of Hormuz. Once you back the Iranian regime (or any regime) into a corner, with no way out, they will respond with everything they have. They may even be able to hit US ships. Perhaps we will find out, unfortunately.
Next, Iran is not an isolated nation. It is linked to the bigger global picture. It is not in China's, or Russia's interest to have the US/Israel dominate the Persian Gulf (maybe Trump wants to rename it "Gulf of Aramco?"). They won't sit idly by and watch.
Outside of Iran, there is a lot of pressure in the Middle East. Many fanatic Sunni Arabs, rich and poor, may hate the Shiite Persians--but several of them hate the US and Israel more; others hate the US and Israel more, and the despise their ruling governments. One cannot rule out the possibility of uncorking instability in those countries.
There are lots of things that could go wrong, some I have listed, others I can't even imagine at this point.
Also, you seem to overlook that the US, as an advanced modern society, dependent on trade as well as communications networks, has many vulnerable points. Complexity breeds fragility. We could implode in short order, without a single bomb or gunshot going off in this country. We are a soft country, with a lot of "needs", in a world where our relative strength is constantly shrinking (because much of the rest of the world is growing stronger faster than we are).
Also, Iran has not attacked any of its neighbors or bombed and killed thousands of civilians. More importantly, for America Firsters, Iran has not killed any Americans that I know of. Israel has killed several dozen--the USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie, and more.
Thanks, but we've heard all this from the ineffectual Iran appeasement faction too many times already.
In other words, you don't care that Iran is relatively peaceful and Israel is very warlike. You like who you like and that's the end of it. There's no dealing with wild eyed fanatics like you. You're going to get us nuked sooner or later.
" Relatively peaceful." That merits a ROTFLMFAO!
No, no nukes, we will just have our country destroyed. Our Masters don't want to irradiate our stuff, they just want us gone - or at least powerless - so they can take our stuff.
Are you old enough to recall the neocon scare tactics that it was only a matter of days before Iran had a nuke and would nuke NYC or unleash a dirty bomb on the US? In this day, if a nuke was launched, it would either be directly from Israel, or from the US, at the behest of of their AIPAC masters.
Iran has demonstrated they can shoot ineffective drones and a couple of rockets which did little damage thanks to the Iron dome.
Iran is toothless which is why they run mouth and do very little.
They lost most of their air defense, lost several missile factories and a few other items I can't remember, and Israeli aircraft did not so much as get a scratch.
It took months for Iranians to actually comment one way or the other which round about proves they got ass handed to them.
Iran is fucked if they don't start making nice and quit with proxy war bullshit.
China and Russia won't do anything for IRAN BUT BLUSTER.
Russia is bleeding out in Ukraine and China does not want direct military confrontation until they go after Tawain.
The Shiite Sunni schism is easily leveraged back into a hot war.
It will happen sooner or later without any prodding they literally HATE each other over grievances that are six hundred years old.
The Iron Dome is too slow to stop Russian hypersonic missiles.
Better known as vaporware.
I had a fevered, pleasant dream the other day that I woke up and Israel was glass.
Iran is responsible for massive bloodshed - what the hell are you talking about? First, starting in their own country. They terrorize and murder many in Iran. They also arm and instigate other militants in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Judea and Samaria and to bring about death and destruction to many.
As for the USS Liberty, that was a fog of war incident. Israel never intended to and has never attacked Americans. But Iranians have killed Americans deliberately as in the Beirut bombing of the US Marine barracks, which they actively supported. They often talk about destroying the Great Satan. Read the Hamas Charter, Iran's affiliate, and see what the end game is for Islamic jihad, but you refuse to open your eyes or ears.
Rachel Corrie was a troublemaker who put herself deliberately into harm's way where she had absolutely no business and got herself killed.
Get behind me, Satan, with your lying poisonous tongue.
Israel sold state of the art drones to the Muslim Azeris enabling them to crush Armenia's tank army. Israel is not pro-Christian. Indeed a faithful Jew is required to spit when he passes a Church or sees a Christian.
The entire 1400-year history of Islam should not reassure any "infidel".
"If he moves against Iran it will be overwhelming and decisive, one and done..."
Ummm, yeah... Iran is just another Grenada waiting to be put in its place by God's Country (TM).
Our words and actions over the past seventy-odd years "surely have not soothed an (Iranian) observer's concerns about the intentions of the" Zionist States of America.
Iran has every reason to want a nuclear weapon - and yet, according to UN investigators, they are refraining from developing one. They might as well arm themselves, our Masters have made the decision that we will destroy Iran for them, nukes or no nukes.
"One and done". It's the world economy that will be done.
If Iran DOES have a nuke, Scott Ritter suggested Iran needs to test it in some Iranian desert now, so that the US, China, Russia, etc, KNOW Iran has one.
Then, Iran, like North Korea and Pakistan (and unlike Qaddafi/Libya and Saddam/Iraq) becomes largely "untouchable".
Or course, showing that card would show that Iran violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Iran signed. This might have some serious economic consequences if Russia and China frowned on it. (The big powers had, and have, a vested interest in monopolizing nuclear weapons).
On the other hand, Israel never signed the NPT. That alone should have made Israel ineligible for any US military aid. Think of the money and geopolitical turmoil we could have saved....
I have no idea why some people expect Trump to loudly telegraph his true intentions so enemies can form effective strategies. I recommend Badlands Media show Geopolitics with Ghost for a full analysis of what Trump, Putin, MBS, et al, are quietly up to in the Middle East. The current wars are very connected & will likely both be resolved in a single deal, possibly hosted by Qatar. It very much appears that the deals (including Putin's completion of denazification this summer) have already been made & we're just watching the pre-arranged theatre play out. Right now it seems we're waiting out Netanyahu's demise as his nation teeters on the brink of civil war. And Trump just cranked up the heat on Israel's economy by making them the only country to not receive tariff relief in return for dropping theirs. Oh, & while everyone was distracted by bombing Yemen, Trump very quietly approved Egypt's plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing the Palestinians.
But hey, gloom & doom all you want. Just don't ask me for sources as I am no one's secretary! Go ask Grok to find them for you. Also, I'm no longer in the business of pursuasion, as I can't help anyone anyway if they can't simply sense that the forces of darkness are on the ropes. I can pray for y'all, that's about it.
Yes and think of all those dead Jews.
Win win in your book.
Only Jewish lives matter to Bin.
Not true I value life except in the case of a group of people who put terrorists into power then engage in kidnapping, rapes, murders, bombings, running people over with cars/truck/tractors, suicide bombers and all the other general mayhem Palestinkians have been involved in.
Surprised Lugh cares about nasty brown people oh wait they are killing Jews and the enemy of my enemy is my friend right peeyou Lugh?
Go back to listening to old screwdriver records.
So your group hasn't undermined White, Western Civilization with mass 3rd World immigration? It's obvious that they have.
Haha. Ben-Gurion, always out there shilling for the dual citizens.
What group is that?
Are you telegraphing fake news again screwwy lughie?
C’mon, Lugh, Ben is no Leftie wacko as you seem to claim.
Iran appears eager for the confrontation so who is really pushing for World War 3?
It is not normal for a world leaders to send private letters specifically asking other countries leaders to come to the peace table to hash stuff out if they are intent on another war.
Not like McCain who famously and poorly sang BOMB BOMB BOMB iRAaaaaaaaaAN after suggesting they send Iran an Airmail message it is interesting that I can no longer find the word Iran in this terrible song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris
Iran is far more comfortable being the turd in the punchbowl with proxy wars where they don't get their dainty little hands dirty.
Israel needs the wars and Trump needs money from Israel's deep pocket managers.
Israel needs wars like you need cancer. Maybe you both do in a larger sense, but you're going to have to do something about it if you can.
No not really but thanks for the opinion.
Its the middle east after all which is always at war.
All one need do is make fun of the "prophet" of Islam and walla war.
Also, for reference Trump leveled tariffs on Israel and Israel caved and very fast.
Why on earth was Israel leveling tariffs on its main benefactor, the US, in the first place? Is it to rub our noses into the muck, just to show how much they own us?
You should actually search out the answer to your question before postulating before everyone, but it appears you're actually proud of yourself for having Israel Derangement Syndrome.
Outsider
Could it be that all the countries, especially our “Allies”, Israel, Europe, Britain, Canada, Mexico have been waging the KIng of the Mountain game with the USA forever. I really favorite Trump’s agenda here, to punish the countries that have taken advantage all these years. Especially our “friends”. The world is about to learn the power of the USA consumer base.
At least with Russia and China, we know who our enemies are.
Simplest reason greed.
How ever tariffs are used primarily to protect a countries industry from cheaper or better products by making them more expensive.
Israel has a weapons industry, chips, clothes and food.
One of the biggest mistakes in all this tariff stuff was not broadcasting loudly every country tariffs on American goods what they are and how much in dollars they are making.
Percentage points get lost in the noise.
When the details are there, the idiots can't argue how unfair it is to reciprocal tariff other countries products well some still will because they are irrational and delusional but honest people won't.
Trump did say that this was going to be initially painful.
Watching the stocks go down I have a key number of picks I want to buy when I think they hit the bottom.
I initially had both nVidia and Amd at just over three dollars and stupidly sold them when they went up to around $10.
Same with apple I bought apple when I heard Bill Gates was going to help them but chickened out and sold long before I should have.
Maybe he did, but who would know as his enemies control the media?
Why not let the State have one channel people can tune into and by which Trump or whoever can communicate directly with the people?
Or Trump could have made a major speech about the tariffs. They'd have to cover it, as much as they hated it. Seems like an error that he didn't do that.
Buy call options: Cheaper and, if you stay alert, they offer a better risk/reward ratio.
Ben, the stock market reaction show how much the Left empire AND foreign influence affect our economy barometers. Look around and I will bet that Soros, Rothschild, Rockefeller are all trying to exacerbate the reaction.
I forget who I was listening to, but they said money was being pulled from the US stock market and put into the European one.
Yep, not surprised. Money does not just disappear, it is re-invested elsewhere. Gold comes to mind, or foreign resources? Eventually, when the Chicken Littles come to their senses, they will bring all their money back plus invest in the new manufacturing base of the USA.
BTW, on Netflix, check out “Founder”. The story of Ray Kroc and McDonalds.
Yeah, I agree with you. Trump, again, has underestimated the power of the Leftists to stop his agenda, especially the judicial side. He needs SCOTUS to stop the overstepping by these Leftist stooges. If he does not get this stopped, we are going to see a re-play of #1. Populist MAGA will be overwhelmed by the Leftist power base that is still in power. Number one is the media, that is overwhelmingly Far-Left, and is the “programmer” of the mind of Joe Average. If they convince the country that Trump is BAD, and 2026 sees a Dem comeback in the House, #2 will be a race to see how fast Trump’s MAGA can be destroyed with ongoing impeachments.
As mentioned here, it probably all depends on John Roberts and his side kick, Amy Barrett.
Dems + RINOS = Control?
Since ACB has become Roberts' sidekick, what are the chances that she'll stray from him and vote with the 4 conservative Justices? From the way she looked away from Trump when he greeted her after his SOTU speech, it's not hard to see where her loyalties lie. Super lawyer Robert Barnes warned Trump not to pick ACB after Justice Ginsburg died. Seems he's been proven right.
Her loyalties lie in Haiti.
The Iranian regime, following in the footsteps of Muhammad, has been attacking the US from its beginning. Dealing with them now, belated as it is, isn't WW3 - it's putting down a lawbreaking troublemaker. Your chicken little shtick should be retired.
Then— your strategy is to stand by and wait until Iran nukes Israel and us?
I am more concerned about Israel's nuclear capabilities (that it has never disclosed) as was John F. Kennedy just before he was murdered in 1963. Iran's desire to defend itself with nukes is logical given that their expansionist neighbor has them. Iranian nuclear capability would create a balance of power in the Middle East. Or the alternative - just let Israel and its co-dependent friend with big bombs and big boats wipe out every perceived threat in the region until it owns everything.
Not enough substance to base WWIII on…
Since when do megalomaniacs need "substance"?
I’m so glad you pointed this out. We need reminding sometimes that keeping the faith in times like these is incredibly difficult but oh so important.
Besides, it's Trump's DNA to fight.
Please, God.
Amen!!’
There were multiple near misses of President Lincoln, one by Booth, until one finally took him down.
Wake me up when they start hanging the judiciary traitors.
Thank you. Enough with the "humiliation ritual" congressional hearings, e.g., circus acts.
You're right, Mary. Until something of consequence happens, if ever, it's all theater. That or we really are living in a simulation.
Ron,
You probably already know this history, but before Ronnie died, he recorded a version of Merle Haggard's Honky Tonk Night Time Man. It appeared on Street Survivors. He also re-wrote the lyrics and recorded a version called Jacksonville Kid. It wasn't released until 2008 on a bonus disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0xVt9155qQ
Also, Ronnie had plans to collaborate with Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings after the Street Survivors tour ended. What a shame that never happened. The interesting part is that Waylon hated Merle, but somehow Ronnie was able to get them to agree to work together.
Merle would have been the natural fourth member of The Highwaymen, instead of Kris Kristofferson, who didn't have the chops to be in that group, but Waylon wouldn't allow it. Waylon thought Kristofferson was a "fucking communist," but he hated Merle more. Hahaha.
Ron, you probably already know this, but it might be the most beautiful thing Ronnie ever wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmWhq4cXhcc
Thanks, RD.
Yep, that's a favorite for sure. When I was in school in Gainesville, none of us ever had a pot to piss in, and couldn't afford to do much, so we'd go bass fishing on the weekends. Mostly to Lochloosa, Cross Creek or the Ocklawaha River, and this song always stuck in my head then.
Ronnie was a prophet, and I knew then that the beauty of those places wouldn't last, so we appreciated them even more. Even then we could see
- the concrete a' slowly creepin' - and that was right at 40 years ago.
You've heard of JJ Grey I'm sure, another Florida Boy from the outskirts of Jax. You'll like this one, if you haven't heard it. Passionate about our area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pUE7zJB704
Another swamp. More to the west.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6j802H8-Bc
Thanks, Ron. Great tune. I hadn't heard that in years. Thanks for bringing it back.
Doesn't look good for Trump with Roberts at the helm, not to mention the failure of Amy Coney Barrett, who has largely been a disappointment to constitutionalism.
No kidding ACB has been a huge disappointment.
ACB disappointed yet again, siding with the 3 progressive women in a 5-4 ruling affirming Trump's using of the enemy invasion act to deport criminal illegal aliens. WTF is ACB thinking?
Is she really anti-abortion or was that just a pose, like Melania's Catholicism?
Did Schumer’s and Antifa Scare Tactics have their desired effect?
Would they on you?
Me personally I would be going to jail if they showed up at my house.
Could this be the reason Robert’s helped get The unconstitutional Obama Care Act passed by, with his helpful, this is what they meant to say ruling?
Yep.
The good ole "Potomac Two Step" ! Just like John Brennan's elevation to the Director of said Agency...
https://canadafreepress.com/article/jbjohn-brennana-company-man
Roberts is never going to protect your constitutional rights folks. He proved that in the horrible ruling on Obamacare and he is the leaker of the Dobbs ruling. He is a snake in the grass unwilling to come out he has to have cover so he has to get one of the newer justices Trump appointed to go with him If the Eisen connections are correct then this further perverts him.
Why doesn't Ms. Bondi find the JE videotapes of him and give him the boot?
Because the CIA has the tapes if they haven’t already been destroyed
Someone else who has copies, hidden of course, is John Mark Dougan who is self exiled in Russia. If CIA has them can't they be subpoenaed?
Look Judge Roberts and his wife back in 2000, I believe shirked Irish Law. They adopted 2 children at which time Irish Law said that no one but Irish citizens could adopt Irish children 🤔? Whose palms did they grease back then ?
Big O, as I understand it.
In 2000? He was just a glint in the CIA's eye at that time.
The CIA was peeking into gay bath houses back in '00? Those perverts...
Their favorite pastime....
Good recruiting grounds...
Jeffrey Epstein from what I've read.
This Seedy. Corruption. Must be. Erratically ELIMINATED FROM OUR COURTS , OUR CONGRESS + OUR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS ! DRASTIC MEASURES MUST BE IMPLEMENTED NOW !
Taking on the power of the Courts (lawfare) is long overdue. Trump was on the right track and had the people (at least a slim majority) behind him. But now he's stepped all over himself with these ridiculous and poorly thought-out tariffs. Now he's hemorrhaging support and will have to use up all his political capital trying to defend them. Economist Jeffrey Sachs, on Judge Nap's podcast yesterday, spelled out how misguided these tariffs are. Unless Trump starts a war with Iran, which he might do to deflect from his tariff mistake, they will soon derail the Trump Train. As Gerald Celente is fond of saying: "When all else fails they take you to war."
The tariffs are the only way to deal with our enemies, frenemies and supposed allies who have been ripping off the country for a couple of generations. Trump will restart US industry with the “I do not give a damn” corporations returning to the USA. It also gives him a tool to manipulate world affairs with. There are going to be many Leftist power wags around the world that are going to scream over this. We already see it in the Stock Market. If I have to pay 10% more, I won’t complain, to twist the Liberal economic cojones of the world, that is just fine.
Too much too fast, perhaps. Too much chemo will kill the patient along with cancer.
Perhaps, but sometimes the shock treatment is needed just to get everyone’s attention.
Putting Tariffs on foreign countries who have been ripping off America ever since the DEMOCRATIC NAFTA DEAL is the right thing to do ! When u hire someone to do work for u do u pay them or charge them ? Foreign Countries have been charging us far too long with no respect for us Now. Trump. Has. Said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ! Jeff Sachsen is a buffoon who cries “ unfair “ anytime America ever got a deal from a foreign country , he’s all about “ give it away , America can afford it !”
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...Sir Walter Scott
Excuse me while I fly my flag upside down...
All flags should have been since 9-11.
Ditto me
Judge Alito, is that you? I thought you were impeached for that along with Justice Thomas…WAPO told me so. 😉
Unless a Demoncrap injustice, the wheels of justice grind exceeingly slow, so do not become anxious over the lack of countervailing lawsuits against the leftist creeps. You can be sure that Elon is having skilled trial lawyers prepare suits against the Soros and Hoffman, et al, leftist or marxist creeps. The Department of Justice (now no longer Injustice), is very busy on several fronts, but you can be assured they have a handle on the internal corruption of even Supreme Court Justices if it exists. None of these pillars of destruction and acrimony are beyond the law no matter their position. Kash and Dan are a terrible twosome for the leftist loons, and they are hard on the cases.
I hope so but I will believe it when they start indicting and hauling these assholes to court in chains if need be.
Yup!! 👍
Today’s offering is yet another example of JHK’s superb grasp of events, their potential impact on the ability of this country to function as initially intended, and his ability to succinctly lay out the possible machinations working in the background.
this is disappointing. Sadly, this is not surprising news. Politics is ugly and it is like a club.
After a while those chosen become more and more the same
Politics is a big club, and you & I ain't members.
True statement and worse over time they become that which they despise.
It blows my mind how many of our supposed “leaders”, once you turn over the rocks, are nothing but low life sleazes whom we are to honor and to whom we should defer (where has the MSM been for the last many years?). Most of them I would not let in my house, yet amazingly, we willingly give them the power of life and death over us because of their “credentials” and/or offices held. And as Kunstler astutely points out, it is not just a U S phenomenon but world wide in scope. Most telling, however, is the commonality of attitudes and actions undertaken by these self important “players” to ensure their grip on power is not compromised. It goes back to what we have been discussing ad infinitum, about the commonality of human attributes, endeavors and overall lack of character when it affects their “gravy train” financially, reputations or power. Education, codes of ethics and even possible sanctions often are not enough to corral those of questionable character regardless of field of endeavor. It seems, “What’s in it for me?”, is their “Golden Rule”and to which they will cling until their dying breaths! We are truly in for the fight of our lives if we really want to change the status quo.
Nice collective of sleuthing there, James! Bravo. I guess now that it's out in the open, and Trump has the power to do something about it, we may be in for a show starring the unctious Roberts. Loved seeing all the ties these elites have between them and, of course, I have no doubt that the Roberts on the Epstein log is the very same. I mean, it's not as if Epstein would invite just any old John Roberts, eh?
Patiently waiting for more shoes to drop.
In the immortal words of Reiner Fuellmich (who is now sitting in a German prison for exposing the Covid Op crime against humanity), "Holy fucking shit!!!"
This is one of Kunstler's most important pieces (although I say that a lot).
The icing on the cake is, as always, JHK's brilliant turns of phrase. In this case:
"testosterone (the official hated hormone of the Left)."
ZING!!
Hear that GIANT Sucking Sound?
"We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, ... have no health care—that's the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.
... when jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals." Henry Ross Perot
Ross Perot was 100% correct and how do you turn that around?
One way is to make those cheap labor products more expensive for people to buy so its cheaper to buy products made in your own country.
This is also good for not having to ship products across the world on giant fuel sucking ships.