Nov 152024
 


Arnold Böcklin The Isle of the Dead III 1883

 

Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (PCR)
Trump’s Foreign Policy Team May ‘Double Down on Stupid’ – Larry Johnson (Sp.)
Trump Team Members Irritated By Musk – NBC (RT)
Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’? (Ray McGovern)
Has America Lost Its Mind Or Will Trump Get It Right This Time? (Ryumshin)
Make Money Free Again (Ron Paul)
Infowars Auction Thrown Into Chaos After Judge Investigates Malarkey (ZH)
What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Trump Team To Nuke EV Tax Credit As Musk’s Price-War Endgame Looms (ZH)
Tucker Carlson: Joe Rogan Has “Changed American History” (MN)
FEC Chairman: Biden DOJ Broke Federal Policies with Letter Targeting Musk (AmG)
Trump Vows To ‘Work Very Hard’ On Ukraine (RT)
Will Trump Stop Ukraine From Joining NATO? (van den Ende)
Ukrainian State-run Agency Scrubs Posts Bashing Tulsi Gabbard (RT)
Electric War Moves Beyond Putin Pause Button To Power Off Button (Helmer)
The State-Backed Settler War To Annex The West Bank (Inlakesh)
Some Elections Will Never Be ‘Democratic’ Enough For The West (Behanzin)
French Prosecutors Seek Prison Term And Election Ban For Le Pen (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“I am astonished and delighted. I hope it isn’t fake news.”

“It will be ironic if Kennedy restores our health but Trump’s foreign policy team destroys us in war.”

Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (PCR)

I am astonished and delighted. I hope it isn’t fake news. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he is “thrilled to announce” Robert F. Kennedy Jr as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a statement on social media. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote on platform X, along with his announcement. “HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country,” Trump wrote on Nov. 14.

If this is real, the media and Trump Transition Team certainly misled me about the impossibility of Bobby Kennedy in a power position that can bring down the criminal pharmaceutical industry. This is a victory even if Big Pharma, wielding its campaign contributions, forces the Senate to refuse to confirm Kennedy in office. Trump can go to the public with the names of the bought-and-paid-for corrupt Senators and ask why Americans elect people who knowingly serve corporate criminals who knowingly damage the health of the American people. The nomination of Kennedy is the most powerful of all of Trump’s appointments, with Matt Gaetz’s being second.

We will now see if the Republican Senate is with Trump or against Trump and the American people. If the Senate consents to recess appointment of Trump’s team, they are with the President. If they do not, they are against him and are part of the deadly enemy he and we must defeat. Kennedy’s nomination restores my hope that Trump might achieve something. Trump, Kennedy, Gaetz, and Gabbard are fighters, a rarity in a Republican administration. But I still have concern about what seems to be a foreign policy/military team that is too committed to Israel to achieve peace. It will be ironic if Kennedy restores our health but Trump’s foreign policy team destroys us in war.

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“They still believe, foolishly, naively, that they can easily split Russia from China..”

Trump’s Foreign Policy Team May ‘Double Down on Stupid’ – Larry Johnson (Sp.)

Days after his election victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican President-elect Donald Trump began filling Cabinet positions and other key roles inside his future administration. Donald Trump’s foreign policy appointments for his incoming administration show that “he didn’t learn a thing during his first term,” Larry Johnson, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik. “He talked one thing during the campaign about ending needless wars. And yet he is staffing himself with really a lot of young people who are locked up with old ideas,” Johnson noted. In his opinion, Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, is just an absurd joke. Florida Congressman Michael Waltz, tapped as Trump’s national security advisor, is also a disaster, Johnson argued, underscoring that he “represents everything that Donald Trump said that Donald Trump stood against.”

New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, tapped to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, “comes in with a very strident pro-Zionist point of view,” the expert remarked. With a foreign policy team like that, Johnson said, Trump is “going to double down on stupid” when it comes to most important international areas, such as Ukraine, the Middle East, and China. “He doesn’t understand that the world has changed. They still believe, foolishly, naively, that they can easily split Russia from China, that there’s no natural alliance between Russia and China so that we can we can manipulate Russia into joining with us to defeat China. They just don’t get it,” the ex-CIA analyst underscored.

“They believe that they can boss people around in the Middle East and control what they do. Not recognizing the fact that Saudi Arabia and Iran, who were at odds two years ago, have now reestablished diplomatic relationships, are exchanging defense ministers to visit each other’s capital, and are planning joint military exercises. The Organization of Islamic Countries has made it quite clear that there should be no normalizing any relations with Israel until there is a Palestinian state and the Palestinians are secure. The Trump team doesn’t get that… And they’re going to probably have to get punched in the face to wake up and grasp the new reality,” said Johnson.

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Oh yeah, they all hate him, right, NBC?!

“Trump joked that “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him.”

Trump Team Members Irritated By Musk – NBC (RT)

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is overstaying his welcome at US President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and “behaving as if he’s a co-president,” sources close to the election winner have told NBC News. Trump’s team has denied that there is any tension between the pair. Musk joined Trump at Mar-a-Lago on election night and has spent much of the last week at the Florida resort assisting the transition team. The tech tycoon has weighed in on Trump’s cabinet appointments, and was present when Trump held phone calls with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reportedly speaking directly to Zelensky at one point. Musk’s closeness to Trump has apparently irritated some of the president-elect’s transition staff, a source at Mar-a-Lago told NBC News on Wednesday.

“And he’s sure taking lots of credit for the president’s victory. Bragging about America PAC and X to anyone who will listen. He’s trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one,” the source added. A second source said that Musk has an “opinion on and about everything” and that his insistence on sharing these opinions has started to annoy Trump’s most senior aides and advisers. “He wants to be seen as having a say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” the source said, adding that Musk’s aggressive lobbying may hurt his standing with the president-elect in the long run. Over the last week, multiple sources close to Trump have fed a steady stream of transition-related gossip to the media. It is unclear how accurate this gossip is, particularly in the case of Musk, who Trump speaks glowingly about.

“Elon Musk is a great guy, loaded with personality and ‘brainpower’,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday. “He is definitely a high IQ person, which is the reason that his really strong endorsement meant so much to me, and to MAGA. He’s at a beautiful Mar-a-Lago concert right now, and the crowd absolutely loves him,” Trump continued, adding that Musk’s contribution to his win “will never be forgotten.” “Elon Musk and President Trump are great friends and brilliant leaders working together to Make America Great Again. Elon Musk is a once in a generation business leader and our federal bureaucracy will certainly benefit from his ideas and efficiency,” a spokesperson for Trump told NBC.

At a meeting with House Republicans on Wednesday morning, Trump joked that “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him.” However, Trump went on to praise Musk for dedicating so much time and money to his campaign, and Republican lawmakers told NBC that his statement on how Musk “won’t go home” was made in jest. On Tuesday, Trump nominated Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Although not an actual federal agency, DOGE will “provide advice and guidance” to the White House and Office of Management and Budget on how to eliminate regulations, slash government spending, and restructure other agencies, Trump said in a statement.

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“It would take a courageous and politically astute person and strong backing and trust from the president for any DNI to be able to fulfill the duty to “oversee and provide advice … on covert action programs.”

Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’? (Ray McGovern)

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence (DNI) will cause shockwaves in and among the 18 fiefdoms that now comprise the U.S. intelligence community. Gabbard will be fighting an uphill battle if she tries to herd those 18 cats into a cohesive whole and restore integrity to intelligence analysis. The hill’s incline will be still steeper, if she takes seriously her duty to warn the president of the frequently noxious blowback of C.I.A. covert actions. I cannot overcome the urge to quote from “The Princess Bride”: Good luck stormin’ the castle, Tulsi … It will take a miracle! In short, the odds are against her. Whether she succeeds depends, first and foremost, on how strongly the president backs her. Unlike most former DNIs, she has already demonstrated uncommon courage, as well as smarts and political skill. On the other hand, she has had virtually no experience managing a large institution, much less a “community” well versed in internecine warfare to protect individual rice bowls, and populated with careerist bureaucrats all too accustomed to telling the ultimate boss, the president, what he wants to hear.

Important Duties The DNI is in charge of preparing The President’s Daily Brief (PDB), National Intelligence Estimates and the annual Threat Assessment required by Congress. What is less well known is her role in covert action — a favorite of the C.I.A.’s clandestine service. Executive Order 12333 (July 2008) stipulates: “The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) shall oversee and provide advice to the President and the NSC with respect to all ongoing and proposed covert action programs.” Thus, what the EO says. My own experience suggests that this covert-action-related duty has been more honored in the breach than in the observance, so to speak. Director of Central Intelligence William Colby was, in my personal experience, the only director to give intelligence analysts a look at some covert action proposals and ask for comment. I served directly under Colby as an acting national intelligence officer in the mid-70s. Will DNI Tulsi Gabbard (assuming she is confirmed by the Senate) step up to this task? It would take uncommon courage. Was the current DNI, Avril Haines, informed beforehand that the C.I.A. would blow up the Nord Stream pipelines? If so, did she give it her blessing? Or was she kept in the dark?

Blowing Up Pipelines … My guess is that DNI Gabbard would have promptly recognized the folly in that C.I.A. “can-do” attitude/escapade and would have briefed the president on its longer-term implications. She is a good listener to analysts who she asks to brief her. I know that, too, from personal experience responding to her questions when she was one of Hawaii’s representatives in the House. It would take a courageous and politically astute person and strong backing and trust from the president for any DNI to be able to fulfill the duty to “oversee and provide advice … on covert action programs.”

… and Blowing Off the Analysts Sizable covert action programs require a sanity check from analysts with substantive expertise, as sad experience has shown. Recall the Bay of Bigs operation of April 1961. At President John Kennedy’s request, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. investigated the affair. His conclusion, set down in a MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT dated June 30, 1961, speaks for itself: “The trouble with the Cuban [Bay of Pigs] operation, for example, was not that the intelligence and operations were combined, but precisely that the Cuban operation evaded systematic intelligence judgment. The Intelligence Branch (DDI) of the CIA was never informed of the existence of the Cuban operation. The Office of National Estimates was never asked to comment on the assumption, for example, that discontent had reached the point in Cuba where a successful landing operation would provoke uprisings behind the lines and defections from the Militia. I gather that if its opinion had been invited, DDI would have given quite a different estimate of the state of opinion in Cuba from that on which the operation was based. … The Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State knew even less about the Cuban operation.”

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“..one of the biggest comebacks since Lazarus..”

Has America Lost Its Mind Or Will Trump Get It Right This Time? (Ryumshin)

[..] .. there are indications that Trump’s new four-year term will at least be more meaningful than the previous one. Firstly, no one will dare question the legitimacy of the elected president. In 2016, Trump’s victory seemed unnatural (Clinton won the popular vote). This led people to see his presidency as a failure of the system and to speculate about foreign interference. Now Trump has safely won both the electoral and popular votes. The Democrats are unlikely to dispute this. There could be a flare-up of political tensions if Trump starts taking revenge on all those who have wronged him (which the Democrats are very afraid of). But I think a truce is more likely. The Democratic Party is facing a massive internal showdown, with a search for those responsible for its electoral woes. The president-elect has never been particularly eager to follow through on his threats (remember: Hillary Clinton wasn’t jailed).

Second, the Trump of 2024 is not the same as the Trump of 2016. Eight years ago, a somewhat naive businessman who thought running a government was as easy as building skyscrapers in Manhattan entered the White House. Since then, however, Trump has matured politically, learned to compromise and completely taken over the Republican Party. The bitter experience of his first administration, filled with random and often disagreeable people, suggests that this time he’ll have a clear plan of action and a suitable team under him. For Russia, the positions of Secretary of State and National Security Advisor are of particular interest. These are the people who will determine the foreign policy of the second Trump administration – and whether he will keep his promise to end the conflict in Ukraine. There is the former US ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell. He hangs out in European right-wing circles, opposes Ukrainian membership in NATO and favors the creation of ‘autonomous zones’ there (i.e. recognizing Russia’s control over the south-east). Grenell is being considered for Secretary of State or National Security Adviser – if he takes either position, it would be rather good news for us. It would be doubly good if other foreign policy positions were filled by people with similar views (Marco Rubio or Bill Hagerty).

There’s also Trump’s former national security adviser, Robert O’Brien. He’s also a contender for the top job, but is seen as a ‘hawk’. O’Brien supports military aid to Ukraine, and his selection could be a sign that potential negotiations between Moscow and Washington will be difficult. Of course, whoever Trump picks, we should not expect a ‘‘ceasefire in 24 hours’ — that is, to put it mildly, an unrealistic exaggeration. But I believe that under him, serious settlement talks could actually begin in 2025. Well, at least there will be an attempt to start a peace process. The other question is what methods will the president use to achieve this? What will his proposal be and what will he ask of Russia in return for concessions? But it is probably too early to speculate about that. For now, let’s look at the new US president-elect’s first steps.

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“President Trump should work to eliminate the need for the Fed to keep interest rates low. He can do this by fighting for massive spending cuts, starting with the military-industrial complex..”

Make Money Free Again (Ron Paul)

Two days after Donald Trump became the first American since Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive presidential elections, the Federal Reserve announced a quarter percent cut in interest rates. Following this announcement, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell held a press conference where he said that he would not comply with any presidential request that he step down before his term ends in May of 2026. Powell claimed that the president lacks the legal authority to fire the Fed chairman. So, if President Trump tells Chairman Powell “you’re fired,” Powell could bring suit asking a court to review Trump’s action. President Trump and Chairman Powell are at odds over President Trump’s desire to require the Federal Reserve to consult with the president before changing interest rates or taking other significant actions. Powell is likely to do all he can to convince Congress to reject any legislation giving the president any type of official role in setting monetary policy.

After all, Chairman Powell is so protective of Fed autonomy that he opposes auditing the Fed on the grounds that it could threaten the Fed’s independence, even though there is nothing in the Audit the Fed legislation giving the president or Congress any new authority over the Fed’s conduct of monetary policy. Requiring the Fed to consult with the president regarding monetary policy would likely increase price inflation and dollar devaluation. Politicians usually like low interest rates because they associate low rates with economic growth. Politicians also want the Fed to keep rates low so the federal government can keep racking up huge amounts of debt. Without a central bank that is ready, willing, and able to monetize the federal debt, the welfare-warfare state would not exist.

Despite the claims of Chairman Powell and other central bank apologists, the Fed has never been free of political pressure. Presidents were trying to influence the Federal Reserve long before Donald Trump began posting “mean tweets” about Jerome Powell. Requiring the Fed to consult with the president would at least make the president’s efforts to influence monetary policy open and transparent. President Trump and other Fed critics such as Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren think they are more capable of determining the “correct” interest rate than the Fed. This ignores the fact that interest rates are the price of money and like all prices are shaped by a variety of constantly changing factors. When the Fed manipulates interest rates, it distorts the signals sent to investors. The result is the boom- bust business cycle.

The fiat system is also responsible for rising income inequality and the decline of the dollar’s purchasing power, which has lowered most Americans’ standard of living. President Trump should work to eliminate the need for the Fed to keep interest rates low. He can do this by fighting for massive spending cuts, starting with the military-industrial complex. He should also push Congress to pass the Audit the Fed bill. Additionally, President Trump should support legalizing all competing currencies. The forthcoming tax bill should include a provision exempting precious metals and cryptocurrencies from capital gains taxes. The key to making America great again is to make money free again.

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The trustee stiffed the Sandy Hook families to keep Jones’s frieds from buying his company.

Infowars Auction Thrown Into Chaos After Judge Investigates Malarkey (ZH)

(Update 2020ET): Just when you thought the least funny website on the planet, The Onion, had prevailed in the Infowars auction, the judge in the case put the brakes on the sale after it was revealed that the (anti-Jones) bankruptcy trustee did not accept the highest bid, and instead allowed the Sandy Hook families to ‘assist’ by pledging their massive judgement towards the auction – which Jones says is illegal. According to Jones, there should be some sort of a hearing to discuss this early next week. He believes that the judge is likely to order a new auction for sometime in January, where a Jones-allied group will have the opportunity to buy the company without the trustee picking their own winner regardless of actual bid. The saga continues…

(Update 1130ET): Hours after yesterday’s auction, Infowars.com is now down. We wish Alex Jones well on his next endeavor, which we’re guessing is going to be massive. The leftist-satirical rag The Onion announced on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars – the website founded and operated by Alex Jones since 1999. On Wednesday, Jones said that the auction’s trustee could choose any bidder it wanted – not necessarily the high bidder. Jones announced the sale on X Thursday morning. “I just got word 15 minutes ago that my lawyers and folks met with the U.S. trustee over our bankruptcy this morning and they said they are shutting us down even without a court order this morning,” he said. “The Connecticut democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us.”

The Onion told the NY Times that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, who won a $1.4 billion defamation lawsuit against Jones. The Onion did not disclose the price it paid for Infowars and its assets, including Jones’ production studio and supplement business. Ben Collins, CEO of The Onion parent company, Global Tetrahedron, says he plans to relaunch Infowars in January as a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities.”

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“Gaetz is no milk toast. He is a strong individual, the kind of person needed in such a critical office. My question is: does he have the seasoning..”

What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again? (Paul Craig Roberts)

No, MAGA Americans, I am not a party pooper. I am a realist. No, I am not trying to make Trump look bad. I was Trump’s defender against all the false accusations and indictments. I insisted that we had to stand up for Trump and elect him or never again would a presidential candidate take the side of the people against the Establishment. I warned over and over that Trump does not know Washington, and he has again proven me correct with his appointments of a war cabinet of Washington insiders, with no executive authority for Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Today (November 13) Trump’s announcements of appointees was a little better in the cases of Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz. When I say a little, I don’t imply any criticism of these two Americans. In Gabbard’s case, I don’t know what the executive power of the Director of National Intelligence is. Is Gabbard above the CIA, NSA, State Department, or is she a coordinator of information that she does not originate and control?

The Director of National Intelligence is a cabinet-level agency or department created in 2004 during the orchestrated hysteria of “Muslim terrorists.” It advises the president, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council. Apparently, it has taken over the CIA’s function of providing the president’s daily briefing. Where it gets its information from is unclear. Is the National Intelligence Agency just a mouthpiece for the CIA? Regardless, Tulsi Gabbard’s voice is important, and the position gives her a voice. The same for Matt Gaetz’s appointment as US Attorney General. Gaetz is no milk toast. He is a strong individual, the kind of person needed in such a critical office. My question is: does he have the seasoning. I certainly don’t object if he does. I would have thought that some of Trump’s attorneys, illegally prosecuted by Biden’s totally corrupt Attorney General, would have been a better choice.

I think my choice would have been the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. He has experience as an attorney general, and he has challenged the Biden regime criminals on several fronts. This doesn’t mean that Gaetz can’t be successful. Perhaps Gaetz should insist that Paxton be appointed deputy attorney general. That would be a strong team, a team that could guarantee the Trump administration’s success. If Trump is to return America to the rule of law, those who weaponized law must be punished. Also on the 13th Trump appointed the Treasury Secretary. His name is Scott Bessent. He is a hedge fund manager who created a global investment fund. He might be a good pick. I don’t know. Bessent is a Southerner and, thereby, possibly possesses integrity. But his background indicates a man out for himself at the expense of other people: Yale University, George Soros Fund Management, a successful Soros destabilizer of the British pound and Japanese yen. In other words, a person out for his own benefit.

Perhaps he has reformed. But there is no indiction that he has any grasp of economic policy. Will he see his Treasury seat as a way to build relationships and to expand his opportunities to make money? Trump’s view seems to be that making money is what makes America great again. In my day the US Treasury Department was a policy organization. Today it is a police agency at work imposing sanctions and stealing the central bank reserves of “enemies.” When I was in the US Treasury, I had to tell my executive secretary that I did not want any more appointments with lobbyists telling me how I was to formulate policy to serve them. Being of years of experience, she told me: you won’t get the directorships, you won’t get the consultant fees. I told her I was there to serve the president and that was our job.

It is going to be a challenge for the administration Trump has assembled to make America great again. Trump is there to be tough for America. War is a likely outcome. The threatened world already sees it coming. Mohammed bin Salman, the ruler of Saudi Arabia has been conducting naval exercises with Iran. The Saudi ruler recently had talks with Putin about preventing Israeli/US attacks on Iran. It seems that the US has lost the Saudis and is on the verge of losing a war, the loss of which will disappoint Trump supporters looking to be made great again. My hope is that Trump can get enough done peacefully that the American people don’t give up hope, thereby empowering the ruling elite with the gift of a demoralized population.

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“..Tesla – the largest EV automaker in the US and the only one not reliant on EV credits for survival..”

Trump Team To Nuke EV Tax Credit As Musk’s Price-War Endgame Looms (ZH)

The final chapter of the electric vehicle price war, sparked by Tesla’s Elon Musk, hinges on President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate the $7,500 consumer tax credit. Sources with direct knowledge told Reuters that the Trump team has discussed ending the EV tax credit as part of broader tax reform legislation. Sources indicated that Tesla – the largest EV automaker in the US and the only one not reliant on EV credits for survival – told the Trump transition committee that it fully supports the federal government ending the subsidy. Here’s more from Reuters: Repealing the subsidy, which has been a signature measure of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), is being discussed in meetings by an energy-policy transition team led by billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, founder of Continental Resources, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, the two sources said.

The group has had several meetings since Trump’s Nov. 5 election victory, including some at his Florida Mar-a-Lago club, where Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has also spent considerable time since the election. In mid-July, Trump stated at a campaign rally that he would “end the Electric Vehicle Mandate on Day One — thereby saving the US auto industry from complete obliteration, and saving US customers thousands of dollars per car.” On X, around that time, Musk explained to the Whole Mars Catalog why repealing the tax credit would only benefit Tesla: In October, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a trade group representing all automotive brands besides Tesla, penned a letter expressing to lawmakers in Congress how crucial the EV tax credit is in “cementing the US as a global leader in the future of automotive technology and manufacturing.”

In the markets, Rivian shares tumbled by 10% in the early afternoon, while Tesla shares fell by 3.5%. We knew the playbook in July. Here it is again: “Musk’s strategy to win the EV price war: Build the largest EV business with taxpayer dollars, popularize EVs, allow other startups and OEMs to enter the market, and then support politicians who want to end EV subsidies, crushing the competition and leaving Tesla reigning supreme.”

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“Rogan is just willing to just sit there with interesting people and talk for three hours. That was the most affirming, reassuring thing I’ve seen in 35 years of media — that that worked.”

“I’m thrilled and proud to be Rogan’s friend. I admire him more than anybody in media — by far..”

Tucker Carlson: Joe Rogan Has “Changed American History” (MN)

During a recent discussion with Joe Polish, at the Genius Network Annual Event, Tucker Carlson heaped praise on Joe Rogan, going as far to say that the podcast king has changed American history. Tucker noted that “Rogan created the genre of podcasting. I’ve been in the media my whole life. Rogan used to be a sitcom actor, a standup comedian, and an MMA fighter. So he starts this thing called a podcast where he talks for like three hours.” Carlson admitted “I’m in television at a big network and I thought it was dumb. No one is going to listen to a three-hour podcast from some MMA fighter?” “I know, right?” Carlson said as the audience began to chuckle. “And this guy’s not even in our business! What’s he doing?” Carlson related, explaining his feelings at the time. “He completely changed not only American media but also American history.

He created a whole new genre — it would be like if one guy invented the newspaper or television, that’s how big what he did was,” Carlson urged. He continued, “And I will admit I did not see it coming, I did not understand it, I did not think it would work. And the fact that it did work says something so great and important about Americans. Rogan proved that Americans really want to learn.” “They’re not learning in school, they’re not learning in the rest of the media. It’s all shallow and dumb, about race and gender, it’s all lying,” Carlson further asserted. He continued, “Rogan is just willing to just sit there with interesting people and talk for three hours. That was the most affirming, reassuring thing I’ve seen in 35 years of media — that that worked.” “I’m thrilled and proud to be Rogan’s friend. I admire him more than anybody in media — by far,” Carlson concluded.

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“..an attempt “to intimidate and chill private citizens and organizations from campaigning on behalf of President Trump.”

FEC Chairman: Biden DOJ Broke Federal Policies with Letter Targeting Musk (AmG)

On Wednesday, the chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) admitted that the outgoing Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) violated federal policies and illegally targeted “perceived political opponents” by sending a threatening letter to Elon Musk. According to the Washington Examiner, FEC Chairman Sean Cooksey sent a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, saying that the letter to Musk concerning his efforts to encourage people to support freedom of speech constituted an attempt “to intimidate and chill private citizens and organizations from campaigning on behalf of President Trump.” Cooksey also recommended that Horowitz, along with the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), open investigations into the incident and “hold accountable any individuals responsible for any violations of federal law or department policies.”

The letter in question was sent to Musk by the DOJ just weeks before the election on November 5th. In it, DOJ officials warned Musk’s America PAC that the pledge to give away $1 million every day to a randomly-selected voter who signed the PAC’s petition in support of freedom of speech was allegedly a violation of federal law. The letter also accused Musk of making “a mockery of democracy.” Musk defended his PAC’s actions, pointing out that participants at the time did “not need to register as Republicans or vote in the Nov. 5 elections.” “The underlying motivation behind this stunt is obvious,” said Cooksey in his scathing letter to the DOJ. “Employees of President Biden’s Department of Justice wanted to stop an independent political committee from campaigning for President Trump in crucial swing states just prior to election day.”

Cooksey further accused the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section of deliberately leaking the Musk letter to the New York Times, which was a violation of the department’s media policies. “Writing such a letter and then leaking it also violates the department’s long-standing policy against the identification of uncharged parties and the disclosure of prejudicial information,” Cooksey continued. Elon Musk, the founder and owner of Tesla and SpaceX, as well as the owner of the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), is the wealthiest man in the world.

He was previously a Democrat who supported politicians such as Barack Obama, but has shifted further to the right in recent years, due primarily to the Democrats’ increasingly radical stances, including support for censorship and transgenderism. Musk gave his official endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign following the assassination attempt against him on July 13th. President-elect Trump has since announced that Musk, alongside businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead an entirely new federal agency called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the purpose of significantly reducing the size of the federal government over the course of the next two years. The agency plans to complete its work by July 4th, 2026, which will be the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

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“..the goals of its military operation – including Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – must be met..”

Trump Vows To ‘Work Very Hard’ On Ukraine (RT)

US President-elect Donald Trump has promised that his team will work hard to resolve the Ukraine conflict to prevent further bloodshed. Trump made the remarks at the America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida on Thursday. “We’re going to work in the Middle East, and we’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine.” He went on to say that the conflict “has got to stop,” adding that he has seen a report claiming that “thousands of people… were killed” over the past three days. “They happen to be soldiers but whether they’re soldiers or they’re people sitting in towns, we’re going to work [on] it,” Trump said, without elaborating further. In the run-up to the presidential election, the Republican – who has been critical of unconditional US support for Kiev – promised to end the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours if elected, even before being sworn into office.

While that pledge remains far from fulfilled, media reports have claimed that Trump is already reshaping US policy on Ukraine. A Wall Street Journal report earlier this month indicated that one potential peace plan would force Ukraine to suspend its ambitions to join NATO for at least 20 years and would freeze the conflict along the current front lines in exchange for continued US military assistance to Kiev. In addition, Trump has nominated several critics of Ukraine aid for top government positions, including Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Matt Gaetz for attorney general. The nominations must be confirmed by the Senate, which the Republicans regained control over in this year’s election.

Moscow has said it is open to dialogue, but has ruled out freezing the conflict, insisting that the goals of its military operation – including Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – must be met. President Vladimir Putin has signaled that Russia is willing to immediately declare a ceasefire and start peace talks as soon as Kiev begins withdrawing troops from the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, which voted in referendums to join the country in autumn 2022. Moscow has also ruled out talks with Kiev as long as Ukrainian troops occupy part of the border region of Kursk.

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“President Biden could push the process of admitting Ukraine to NATO, and the current Congress or a future Congress could vote on it even after he is no longer in office.”

Will Trump Stop Ukraine From Joining NATO? (van den Ende)

President-elect Trump bragged during his election campaign that he could solve the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours once he is installed in the White House. Trump’s bombast is, of course, unrealistic. No war can be solved within 24 hours. There must be peace talks and, above all, a treaty to secure territory and people. And what about the thorny issue of Ukraine joining NATO? For Russia to make a durable peace, that issue must be erased. Will Trump stop Ukraine from joining NATO? For Ukraine to join NATO, the U.S. Senate must approve its membership, as must the other 31 NATO member states. Russia is adamant that Ukraine will not be permitted to join the U.S.-led military bloc. But let’s just consider how the U.S. and its NATO allies might procedurally attempt Ukraine’s membership.

Trump’s “America First” policy will have consequences for NATO. At this point, it is unclear whether a new Republican-dominated Congress will even vote on Ukraine’s admission to NATO. With the recent U.S. elections, the American people have chosen to change course, but will a change of course be allowed by the powers that be? Does it matter which party, Democrats or Republicans, are in Congress and governing America? Will the war hawks win again, perhaps? Trump is not in the White House yet. That won’t be until January 20, and there could be surprises from the outgoing Biden administration during the next two months. President Biden could push the process of admitting Ukraine to NATO, and the current Congress or a future Congress could vote on it even after he is no longer in office.

The U.S. Senate could also vote on a treaty to approve Ukraine’s membership in NATO as early as the next few weeks, although it could take years for the country to become a full member. Both Democrats and some Republicans hope that this solution would still allow Ukraine to join NATO. Many people forget in the “heat of the election show” that we’ve seen in recent weeks and the election hype around Donald Trump that both Democrats and Republicans support the proxy war against Russia and would like to see Ukraine join NATO. It was recently revealed that primarily Republicans in the House of Representatives — who chair the national security committees — have formally filed a request pressuring President Biden to lift remaining restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S.-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) long-range missiles.

Although Trump’s son, Donald Jr, recently said that there is no place for “war hawks” in the new government, there will probably be pro-Ukraine figures in cabinet positions. This includes Senator Lindsey Graham, a prominent member of the GOP and a big Trump supporter, who might be given a ministerial post. Graham candidly told CNN and CNBC that the Donbass is full of mineral resources that America wants its hands on and that access to such natural wealth was central to the conflict. The hawkish senator has also said, and make no mistake, he is a close political friend of Trump and will have a lot of influence in the next administration, that “Trump will give Ukraine a lot of leverage to end the war.” So, are Americans being fooled again? Thinking now that Trump is elected, the proxy war against Russia will be over quickly, only for the American warmongers to start another war, say, against Iran.

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“..someone who “for several years, has been working for foreign audience for the Kremlin money.”

Ukrainian State-run Agency Scrubs Posts Bashing Tulsi Gabbard (RT)

Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) has quietly removed its news bulletins accusing former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of spreading fake news on behalf of Russia. The change came after US President-elect Donald Trump nominated Gabbard, a lieutenant colonel of the US Army Reserve, to oversee the CIA and the NSA as the director of national intelligence. Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council set up the CCD in March 2021 with the stated goal of fighting disinformation in news reports and on social media. In practice, the agency focuses on flagging and “debunking” stories that are critical to Ukraine and has accused many Russian and Western officials of spreading “fake news.” According to the news website Strana.ua, the CCD took down four of its bulletins mentioning Gabbard from social media, including one from April 2022 that described her as someone who “for several years, has been working for foreign audience for the Kremlin money.”

In a bulletin from June 2024, Gabbard was accused of spreading disinformation about Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and a bulletin from February 2023 said that the politician was “espousing pro-Russian rhetoric.” The posts were removed on Thursday morning, Strana.ua said. As of the time of writing, the CCD’s 2022 post accusing Gabbard of taking “the Kremlin money” is still up on the National Security and Defense Council’s account on X. The link to the CCD bulletin is inactive, however. Kiev has repeatedly lashed out at Western public figures critical of Ukraine, including journalist Tucker Carlson and tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Gabbard, who has long opposed US military interventions in the Middle East and has accused Washington of warmongering, left the Democratic Party in 2022. Last month, she announced that she had joined the Republican Party and was backing Trump. In 2022, Gabbard argued that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if the US “had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns” regarding Kiev’s aspirations to join NATO. She has since insisted that the conflict should be resolved through negotiations and that Ukraine should become a neutral country. Gabbard slammed Zelensky last year, accusing him of seizing “absolute control of Ukrainian media, outlawing opposition political parties.”

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“The temperature is dipping below freezing at night, the daylight hours are shorter, the electrical lighting and heating loads are going up.”

Electric War Moves Beyond Putin Pause Button To Power Off Button (Helmer)

This week’s announcements of emergency electricity rationing and scheduled power supply cuts in the farwestern Ukrainian regions of Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathia indicate that pinpoint drone targeting by the Russian General Staff is a new stage in the electric war since President Vladimir Putin put on pause long-range missile attacks on western Ukrainian power generation plants since August 26. On Tuesday, the regional Ukrainian media reported “restrictions will apply to businesses in the Ivano-Frankivsk and Volyn oblasts starting on 13 November, in five phases, and will be scheduled from 07:00 to 20:00. The restrictions are being implemented due to damage to critical infrastructure by Russian forces and decreasing temperatures.” The national utility Ukrenergo announced that from November 13 “GOPs [power limit schedules] are being introduced due to a shortage in the energy system in the Carpathian region”.

The deficit in the current demand-supply balance for electricity has also been compounded by the decline reported in the Ukrainian press of imports of power from cross-border sources in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova. The reported cutback this week defies the European Union (EU) agreement at the end of October for “an increase of the export capacity limit to Ukraine and Moldova to 2,100 megawatts (MW) during this winter. It represents an increase of 400 MW from the previous value [1,700 MW]…The 2,100 MW export capacity limit will apply from 1 December 2024.” “This is a temporary situation,” Ukraine’s energy minister Herman Halushchenko announced on Wednesday. “ ‘Unfortunately, restored generation facilities can occasionally fail. This has happened, but all these issues will be resolved, and the situation will stabilize,’ he stated. The minister also pointed to a significant reduction in electricity imports to Ukraine, which are currently down to about 100 MW.”

A military source comments: “The damage from the August attacks has not been repaired – just patched up. There have been strikes on transformer stations since. They’ve been smaller in scale but indicative of the [Russian] General Staff’s knowledge of the [Ukrainian] distribution grid vulnerabilities. The General Staff’s moves have complicated Ukrainian efforts to keep the power on. The Ukrainians are hiding how bad the situation is, including in terms of getting spares. The temperature is dipping below freezing at night, the daylight hours are shorter, the electrical lighting and heating loads are going up. The jury-rigged grid is unable to handle it without curtailments.”

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“..this attack will be particularly focused on completely erasing Palestinians from what is known as Area C, which constitutes roughly 60 percent of the West Bank. That escalation has already begun.”

The State-Backed Settler War To Annex The West Bank (Inlakesh)

Despite Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and military aggression against Lebanon, Tel Aviv is preparing to unleash its fanatical Jewish settlers in a coordinated war against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, aiming to ethnically cleanse what remains of the territory and pave the way for further annexation. Adding fuel to the fire, billionaire Miriam Adelson, the wealthiest Israeli in the world, bankrolled Donald Trump’s “huge victory” in his successful presidential campaign with one clear condition: support for annexing the West Bank. Last month The Times of Israel noted that the wealthy widow “is carrying on a legacy she built with her late husband, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson,” and that “The Adelson family has long been one of the largest sources of campaign money for Republican candidates and has backed Trump during each of the last three general elections.”

Speaking to The Cradle, Ubai al-Aboudi, executive director of Palestinian rights group ‘Bisan Center,’ says that “the Israeli settlers are preparing to carry out a major attack, to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population,” adding that this attack will be particularly focused on completely erasing Palestinians from what is known as Area C, which constitutes roughly 60 percent of the West Bank. That escalation has already begun. On 4 November, armed settlers launched a brazen assault on the Palestinian city of Al-Bireh, marking a surge in the violence that has gripped the West Bank. In October alone, settlers carried out at least 1,490 attacks against Palestinians, their property, and their land – often under the supervision and protection of occupation soldiers. In the past, extremist settler attacks against Palestinians were characterized by their spontaneous nature and uncoordinated thuggery, but this has begun to change.

During a recent interview with Israel’s Channel 7 News, West Bank Settlement Council leader Israel Gantz commented on a meeting he had with the recently sacked Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant: “We asked that the West Bank be treated as Jabalia, Rafah, and the villages of southern Lebanon were treated, which means displacing the residents, killing the terrorists in these villages, cleansing the terrorist infrastructure, confiscating the weapons and then returning them to their villages.” While the statement includes the idea of returning Palestinians to their villages, if such an operation replicated Gaza and southern Lebanon, there would be no village to return to. Gantz also requested that Palestinian villages bordering illegal Jewish settlements be ‘cleansed’ due to the potential security threat posed to Israelis living there – both ideas reportedly opposed by Gallant.

On 5 November, however, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replaced Gallant and handed the defense minister position to long-time ally Israel Katz. While serving in his previous role as Israel’s foreign minister, Katz openly called for expelling Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank, unlike his predecessor.

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“It seems that this is less about fraud or malfunctions and more about disappointment over the defeat of their pro-Western Georgian political allies.”

Some Elections Will Never Be ‘Democratic’ Enough For The West (Behanzin)

We have witnessed a strong reaction from the United States and the European Union following the elections in Georgia held late last month. Their pro-Western candidate suffered a defeat, and these Western powers – particularly Washington and the European Council – have expressed doubts about the election’s legitimacy, even calling for an investigation into its conduct. It is legitimate to ask whether the right to validate the election results in this sovereign country lies in the hands of Washington or Brussels, while the Georgian people have expressed themselves democratically. This situation once again raises the crucial issue of foreign powers intervening in the internal affairs of sovereign nations. For several years, the United States, often followed by its European allies, has taken the liberty of intervening in the electoral processes of various countries under the pretext of ensuring “democracy.”

However, this posture of self-proclaimed guardians of democracy becomes inconsistent if it only applies to elections that serve their interests. In Georgia, the people voted and chose to place their trust in Georgian Dream, a local party which seeks to build pragmatic relations with Russia and managed to gather broad popular support. The Georgian Dream party secured 54% of the votes. International observers present noted that the electoral process adhered to democratic standards, despite unfounded accusations made by some external actors. So why, in this context, do Washington and Brussels suddenly feel the need to question the results? It seems that this is less about fraud or malfunctions and more about disappointment over the defeat of their pro-Western Georgian political allies.

In short, for some Western powers, when they do not win an election, they adopt a strategy aimed at delegitimizing the results through unfounded doubts and calls for investigations. This eerily recalls similar situations, such as the one experienced during the presidential election in July 2024 in Venezuela. US interference in the internal affairs of other countries is well-documented, but it is paradoxical to see Europe blindly following this path. In recent decades, Europe, once proud of its independent stance on the global stage, seems, with its puppet leaders in Brussels, to have gradually aligned itself with American policies, to the point where it is now perceived as merely a relay for Washington’s interests. This trend is visible in its foreign policy, particularly during major crises, where Brussels seems increasingly dependent on the American line.

In the Georgian case, the European reaction is particularly troubling. Why is the European Union, which claims to promote peace and international stability, suddenly seeking to question a democratic election simply because the results do not align with its political expectations? This attitude reflects a deep contradiction between the so-called “democratic values” that Europe claims to defend and the actual practices on the ground. If the Georgian situation is such a problem for Brussels, perhaps the president of the European Council should personally travel to Georgia to conduct this much-demanded investigation. More seriously, is it truly the mandate of the European Union to question the sovereignty and the will expressed by the Georgian people? What about respecting the democratic processes it claims to uphold?

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Germany, France, they do the same thing. AFTER sinking their economies.

French Prosecutors Seek Prison Term And Election Ban For Le Pen (RT)

French prosecutors have asked a judge to slap former National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen with a five-year prison term and a ban from running for public office in an embezzlement case. Le Pen and 24 other current and former members of the right-wing National Rally are accused of using €3 million ($3.3 million) in European Parliament money intended for payments to parliamentary assistants to fund work on internal party business from 2004 to 2016, in violation of EU law. All of the defendants have denied any wrongdoing. During the proceedings in Paris on Wednesday, the prosecutors argued that Le Pen should receive the harshest punishment as she was a member of the European Parliament and the leader of the National Rally when some of the alleged violations took place. She led the party, which was previously called the National Front, from 2011 to 2021 and still remains a member.

Three years of Le Pen’s sentence would be suspended, and the other two could be served with an electronic bracelet, the prosecutors said. They also asked for her to be fined €300,000 ($316,000). The prosecutors said the five-year ban on running for office should be implemented immediately, before the defense can appeal the ruling. This means that if found guilty, Le Pen would be disqualified from the presidential election in 2027. During the trial, which began in late September, she announced plans to run for president for the third time. “It is clear that the only thing the public prosecutors wanted was Marine Le Pen’s exclusion from political life,” Le Pen told reporters after the hearings.

National Rally leader Jordan Bardella, who is not a defendant in the case, took to X to accuse the prosecutors of an “assault on democracy,” saying they are “seeking to persecute and take revenge on Marine Le Pen.” The prosecutors also requested that the National Rally be fined €2 million, and that all of the others who are accused receive bans from running for public office from one to five years. The defense will now present its arguments to the judge until the trial concludes on November 27. A verdict is expected in early 2025. In the 2022 election, Le Pen lost to President Emmanuel Macron in the second round 58.55% to 41.45%.

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    Arnold Böcklin The Isle of the Dead III 1883   • Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (PCR) • Trump’s Foreign Policy Tea
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 15 2024]

    #174438
    tboc
    Participant

    Matt Gaetz, Elon Musk, Mike Huckabee, Pete Hegseth
    fundamentalist talmudic christian zionism
    romantic transhumanist obsession
    “those who bless genocide will be blessed” – Mars

    Constantine I 325 AD
    2025
    1700
    let the numerology begin

    never read any part of The Ramayana, The Tao or any Rumi and know everything about reality
    all of human history prior to the Industrial Revolution myth and fable
    “We built this city on Rock and Roll” – Starship

    nano fabric turfing – and it’s not even green

    #174439
    poppie
    Participant

    Looking for a source to doom scroll the appointments. This is sort of a start.
    https://presidentialtransition.org/transition-resources/presidential-transition-guide/presidential-appointments/
    An interesting part will be the voting rolls of the senate.

    #174441
    John Day
    Participant

    Good bunch of articles today, a good news day. Hope you are doing well, Ilargi.

    #174444
    poppie
    Participant

    While I am logged in, I forgot to tell the story that goes with the picture. When I saw the picture I just had to have it. I tracked down the artist and contacted him. He said he was getting a lot of traffic about it. The Economist owned the rights. If he got permission he would let me know. So it appears the Economist thought they were slandering Trumpy but the work was very popular. Being an autisttard I couldnt let it go. I checked many hits of many searches. days. I found the web page of the art director of the Economist where the cover art of every issue the director had approved had a source write up and a master grade digital copy in the open with no copyright. Personal pride in other peoples work. With an abundance of ethics I did not download a copy. Nor did I have posters made for my friends.
    trumpy

    #174445
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Arnold Böcklin The Isle of the Dead III 1883

    All three are amazing. But speaking of myth and archetype: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-cauldron-of-reality

    “Trump Will Be The Nail In ESG’s Coffin: Such was the topic of a new Bloomberg op-ed piece”

    He has nothing to do with it. More like a marker. However, this is Al Gore’s multi-trillion plan of wealth transfer TO friends and away from enemies. WHILE killing all humans, as we see in Germany right now. #Winning.
    We’re merely moved from mass-murdering, world-wide-genocide extreme to, let’s-not-also-PAY-for-the-privilege extreme. There’s quite a ways to go.

    “FBI Official Who Oversaw J6 Pipe Bomb Probe Lied About Receiving ‘Corrupted’ Evidence

    What a shock! You mean we always KNEW who it was talking on a cell phone, planting bombs, in one of the world’s most surveilled cities? But that would mean the government was LYING!

    “Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.” –The Atlantic

    Gee, who told you that? And what New England-based magazine said it’ll all be okay? Major multi-national corporations are experts saving you and would never misbehave? Your data is safe with the woldwide global panopticon?

    Speaking of:
    “Public debate is afflicted by short-term thinking – how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view?” –Aeon

    You. You did that. I’ve watched magazines do this less and less every hour of my life. We said, “but somebody has to tell the longer story and it’s dumbing people down.” They said, “The New York Times is now at an 8th grade level, and that’s too high because USA Today is at a 4th Grade level and are eating our lunch. More potential readers. And people don’t like to work.” I kid you not. Same as Churches did. “This morality and consequences stuff, mean, boring, and outdated, amirite? What you really need to fill the seats is to NOT have a religion in here…” Uh, no, because drinks are better at the club and bowling is more fun. Channeling Stark Industries, you’re now a Weapons Company…that doesn’t produce weapons. You’re an information company…that doesn’t provide information.

    I would just say, “Sure, but SOMEBODY has to be that smarter paper: sell those readers.” This is like the Doonesbury model: a cartoon that is in 100% of papers nationwide, but inscrutable and undecipherable. And funny? Not like Dilbert funny, but depends on your point of view. Here’s the thing: it’s popular BECAUSE it’s smart. You DO have to get up to speed with the code, the information underneath it, that is, daily trends and politics. It’s smart but not for everyone. Just like dumb is not for everyone.

    So who was right? Well dumb podcasts are probably more popular, but smart podcasts have an enormous base. Even very, very very long-seeing ones like Althist. The most popular podcast on earth is arguably in the upper 75% smart: Joe Rogan. Who SHOULD be the lower 45% dumb as a boxer.

    “…How did HISTORY abdicate?” — Abstraction. Passive tense. No one did that. History Professors are still writing history theses. YOU, the media, magazines and publishers did that. We watched you do it then complain about how dumb Americans were getting. Decade after decade. Classic. Classic Boomers. “How’d these kids get all these participation trophies, the snowflake idiots?” Um, Newsflash: Kids don’t give THEMSELVES trophies. Boomer administrators do. So as narcissists, they have to be the ONLY smart people in the room, in the family. Even if they have to DESTROY all the other members, take away their books and keep them from reading. Aeon.

    Conclusion: this is not an accident.

    “U.S. – Following the news that the CEO of Polymarket had his phone and electronics seized by government officials, FBI To Raid Homes Of All 75,000,000 People Who Conspired To Elect Trump “ –Bbee

    “Democrats Denounce Satan As ‘Too Moderate’ BBee

    C’mon, that’s too harsh!

    “Kamala Reminds Voters Killing Your Babies Is On The Ballot” –Bbee

    And the #1 Issue. Okay maybe not.

    But it’s not THAT far, right?

    “Unclear If Angry-Looking Bald Person A Neo-Nazi Or Leftist Woman” –Bbee

    Oh yeah, women are skinheads now.

    “To Protest Coronation Of Aragorn, Orcs Announce Sex Strike” –Bbee

    Okay, okay you two: get a subscription if you want to do that in public.

    Speaking of our new Non-stop Skinheads, smashing and rioting in the streets, Sargon points out shaving your head, cloistering yourself in an ever-tiny echo chamber and taking a vow of chastity is perfectly normal and has been done for 1,000 years: they’re called “Nuns.” That is, Woke is a religion, or essentially a Cult. As only yesterday, who was it, the editor of the Guardian said she was cutting off all her friends and family for the holidays, perhaps forever? They’re not Churchianity enough and only attend once a day, the bigots. Don’t they know they hold mass TWICE a day? What are you Satan’s minion? And you could be at Church club reading between masses too, you unwashed heathen scum. You deplorable pustules of unworthiness. You could be Just. Like. Me.

    https://babylonbee.com/video/satan-devastated-after-kamala-loses-election

    And Freedom Toons: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-FiPgHhdvqM

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    #174446
    Dr. D
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    Rogan-Trump.

    Yeah, because they’re all f—g cowards. So THEY want to endorse Trump, like 20%-40% of their artist FRIENDS want to endorse Trump, but no one, THEY won’t know because they’re fundamentally cowardly and dishonest. Yeah, that’s great for your art! Cue Standup comedians now. “We hate Trump, amirite? Everyone is stupid, amirite? Huh? Huh?” Yeah, that’s the LOWEST comedy, the worst, not worthy of a elementary school. You don’t have to go TO Trump, but these limitations are the opportunity to show genius, by mocking what is fundamental to all life and humanity. Like “The Great Dictator” or something. The magic allure and innate classiness of Post-Code Hollywood. Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It”, which rings to the ages. But I mean W.A.P. Totally will too, amirite?

    You know how to stop all this? A: Don’t Be a Coward. That’s it. That’s it for all men. Oh, am I going gender on this one? Okay, how do all Women stop this? A: Defend your husbands and children. That’s it. Trashing your family and disowning them for the holidays is the #Opposite of how women (classically) win here. Act like that for a moment, and everyone hates your guts forever. Same as men being roll-over cowards. Compare with a matriarch who does the Opposite, and keeps love with her whole family, despite all. Who wins?

    “Charlie Kirk says that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter saved freedom of speech, elected Donald Trump, and saved Western Civilization.”

    Jeez, overstate your case much? Oh wait: The Guardian is LEAVING Twitter, rage-quitting, because bad people exist and wrote stuff. …Not like in the paper or online versions. No. What they’re doing is they HAVE to leave. They HAVE to. Why? BECAUSE ALL TWITTER EXPOSES THEM AS FRAUDS, SHILLS, and PAID LIARS ALL DAY. They literally CAN’T stay, because 100% of their comment responses are how everything they print isn’t true. They’re exposed.

    Oh. Right.

    So you have a problem with propaganda: there has to be an Iron Curtain. A Berlin Wall. There can be NO gaps, of any kind, anywhere in it, ever. They have to win 100%, every throw. Meanwhile, all Truth has to do is leak in anywhere and they win. Hey you might be working against the Tao and the Will of Heaven here, maybe? Like maybe a strategy that requires infinite energy input, at an infinitely increasing rate collapses after a while? You Humanist Idiots? GOD, the Universe, is larger than you are? You have LESS energy, it has more?

    Yeah, that SOUNDS like hyperbole, but in a way it’s not. And so a day after Musk was backing out, Twitter Execs SUED HIM TO MAKE HIM BUY, he said “Okay then” and was on time-track for the election. But Musk never did no good stuff. Like the Turtles, it’s only Bad all the way down.

    “1840 French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville accurately predicted what kind of tyranny democratic modern nations would face”

    And he was right (as about most things). He also said if “America ceased to be good, it would no longer be Great.”

    “Under the leadership of @elonmusk & @VivekGRamaswamy, @DOGE will now put a stop to that.”

    No they won’t. WE will or no one will. That’s OUR job, not theirs.

    Yeah, cluephone: speaking of abdicating to bureaucracies to trust they are working for you so you can ignore it all again and sit at home? That problem is not fixed by swapping Comey for Musk. It doesn’t matter WHICH bureaucracy parasites you, it’s anti-Liberty.

    ““It will be ironic if Kennedy restores our health but Trump’s foreign policy team destroys us in war.”

    Yeah, well, problem: They still have a s—t ton of power. The only way to GET them to stop killing Americans by the millions is TO tell them we need healthy kids for a war. …We did exactly this after everyone was too anemic and starving for WWI. The PROBLEM is to double-cross them after and NOT have the war. Since we can get them to sign on to health in the short term, let them. Oh you want to FIGHT them, and STOP the warhawks by having a nation too unhealthy to walk a mile? Wow. #Winning. You’re a genius. No.

    “• Trump’s Foreign Policy Team May ‘Double Down on Stupid’ – Larry Johnson (Sp.)

    And then we’ll lose? And have to come home? Gee, sounds terrible. He’s so dumb.

    Elon -Doge (DogeCoin is up 100%): https://babylonbee.com/news/department-of-government-efficiency-identifies-535-government-workers-who-havent-done-any-work-for-years

    Tulsi: Are you supposed to hold your gun that far forward? Let me know, I’ve seen some weird handgun grips too.

    “one of the biggest comebacks since Lazarus..”

    Everybody’s saying this, but it’s not that unusual. We have what, two Presidents in 45? That’s 5% odds, very average, same as hair color? I think this may be because they all use Parliamentary systems where you become a pest and liability if you outstay your welcome, which isn’t at all like ours. Even so, I think this happens regularly in Italy, I wonder what they compare to. “We Make S—t Up” cuz it feels good. This average, center-left President, a rich guy from NY, boy, so weird and odd, right? Unprecedented. The only way he could be MORE average is to be from Ohio. (Eight Presidents)

    ““President Trump should work to eliminate the need for the Fed to keep interest rates low. He can do this by fighting for massive spending cuts, starting with the military-industrial complex..”

    Luongo has already said they can and plan to do this (he thinks: of course he is not on the inside). Wall Street, that is, barely our industrialists, but let’s pretend, need to bring CONGRESS and the Infinite Bureaucracy to heel. …Or they will “Go direct” and install worldwide Soviet Socialist state with a CBDC and no property rights. Duh. So the budget – now $1 Trillion every FIFTY days – plus 5x the budget INTEREST payments, well, the FED, that is: The Wall Street Banks, are in charge. They can have Powell raise to 10% overnight and then Interest payments bankrupt Congress in 10 days. You don’t USE the threat – like Brunson – it may be enough to HAVE the threat to keep them in line. Do you want to tango with Wall Street, boys? As Bane said, “Do you feel powerful now?”

    Back to Paul, IF we can get an economy, and IF we can drop $2T from the budget (should be child’s play) THEN we can not only boom, not only attract investment, but SCREW EUROPE HOLLOW with maybe a mere 5%, 7% rates — not 17% -25% rates like we deserve. What happens if all the U.S. and North America have an economy, Emerging-Market, Global South is still in a funk, and Europe is a crater? Oh yeah WE EAT THEIR LUNCH. All investment capital comes here, the US$ stays (mostly) intact. You want German Bonds, with no economy, a bankruptcy, and a continental war at 2%, or U.S. Treasuries with a raging bounceback economy at 5%? Uh, yeah: No bonds for you. Europe is all debt and deficit and collapses. …Which is okay, since that’s what they had planned for us. No Mercy until you stop being the fool and taking about us eating bugs. G. F. Y.

    “Two days after Donald Trump became the first American since Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive presidential elections,”

    Note, no comments anywhere about assassinating him anymore. Huh. Yeah, he cut a deal. The other side didn’t surrender, but they cut a deal. Rubio knows.

    “• Trump Team To Nuke EV Tax Credit As Musk’s Price-War Endgame Looms (ZH)

    But I thought you said he wouldn’t/couldn’t do this? Yeah, was the same thing WalMart did in promoting the minimum wage: they knew they could withstand it but their competitors couldn’t. That was WHILE they were helping their employees get government food stamps. So: I subsidize WalMart via the Government! In so many ways. Also my State, country, and town gave them free money they stole from Joe’s Diner. Capitalism!

    “• FEC Chairman: Biden DOJ Broke Federal Policies with Letter Targeting Musk (AmG)

    And nobody went to jail. Oh wait: no, Grandma did. She touched the velvet ropes in the rotunda, the Terrorist!

    “• Trump Vows To ‘Work Very Hard’ On Ukraine (RT)

    Why would he work hard? It’ll be all over on the first day.

    “Astounding revelations from a Ukrainian MP on the scale of Dictator Zelenskys corruption “

    Yeah, news is, UK is swapping out Zelensky. …Which demonstrates he’s not real and never has been.

    ““President Biden could push the process of admitting Ukraine to NATO, and the current Congress or a future Congress could vote on it even after he is no longer in office.”

    You mean the incoming REPUBLICAN Congress? Uh…

    “• Ukrainian State-run Agency Scrubs Posts Bashing Tulsi Gabbard (RT)

    Awk-Ward! DNI – Director of Information, is head of Disinformation. Sure, why not? They said the same thing where President Trump reads classified documents all day, but Chad at Buzzfeed says Trump is stupid and doesn’t know what’s going on. Chad would know!

    “Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for Ambassador to Israel, says the modern nation of Israel was created by the hand of Almighty God. He proclaims eternal belief in an Old Testament command: “God says those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed”

    Much as I defend Christians, I cannot abide this s—t. Yeah: God ALSO destroyed Israel several times for being a dick. GOD is the one who cursed Israel personally, there are whole BOOKS in the Bible about it, Jeremiah for example. You might have noticed? Since you keep a copy handy?

    Former perspective: this is WHY God scattered Israel after Christ and why it’s okay to dump on them and abuse them for centuries. So…no new books of the Bible were printed – what happened? Oh, like the Supreme Court, “We Make S—t Up!” We just changed our minds! One day it’s a legal law, totally logical, next day it’s completely foolish and cray-cray. Then this came to mind,
    “I keep following the Science that’s following the money.” Totally unrelated, but maybe that helps.

    “these Western powers – particularly Washington and the European Council – have expressed doubts about the election’s legitimacy, even calling for an investigation into its conduct.”

    GFY, it’s not your election. Shut your lie-hole, it’s THEIR election. Butt out. And this is AFTER running some of the worst elections in a century, all over the West.

    “• French Prosecutors Seek Prison Term And Election Ban For Le Pen (RT)

    And AfD. Free, Fair elections.

    New Zealand: Did the Haka work? A: Nope, or they’d still be doing it daily.

    Sooo…what does this Camerman think he’s going to DO with the rhino when they catch him?

    “Old salt mine in Romania

    But there ain’t no underground bases, and the military ones are really, really small. …Because an Eastern European company, using men with hand tools, can make one like this.

    Keep up with Musk, Ramaswamy, and the whole bunch. The accusations against them are (mostly) true. However, neither Asnaz nor Dr. Rich will get up and do anything, leaving us only these candidates and figures to choose from. Complaining is easy and cost free. Why isn’t Dr. Rich in the running for DoD? Why hasn’t he been tirelessly on the Fox circuit getting famous before lesser men?

    What I hear is: “They’re all bad.” Okay. “There’s no one good.” Um, less okay. Maybe fill in this part.

    JKRolling
    https://www.thefunstons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/And_then_a_miracle_happens_cartoon-400×219.jpg

    #174447
    tboc
    Participant

    scientific materialist technocratic hedonism – bless yo heart

    #174448
    John Day
    Participant

    @Poppie: Get t-shirts made. Red and black screens on a white shirt will not be too expensive in 100 lots.

    #174450
    poppie
    Participant

    DD. You said let you know. That is a nominal grip for a hand gun. It supports a couple of important functions. It preserves stability shot to shot reducing inter shot time. It enables retargeting scans concurrent with the shot which requires enough IQ to multitask.
    Poppie, 1st Lt, 28th infantry, 1974-1984.

    #174451

    So it starts like this:
    There’s a poisoned lipstick kiss,
    And alliances unholy band together.
    What gets made must get wasted!
    When the humble folks have tasted
    Any luxuries- like time for sunny weather.

    After years of gloat,
    And a vast amount of bloat-
    While the capital accrues to those most greedy,
    It becomes so unsettled
    The dissenters end up kettled
    And the boiled up bits are dished out to the needy.

    So the drums of war
    Just get beaten more and more-
    ‘Cause a war resets the books and population.
    What’s accrued is protected
    As society’s dissected:
    This is how the Hidden reboot civilization.

    #174452
    zerosum
    Participant

    Suck it up!
    Majority, 51%, – “The Country going in the right direction.”

    Selective hearing occurs when you can clearly hear information that’s you agree with but purposely ignore the parts that you find negative.
    ————
    1. • Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (PCR)

    Breaking News: Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services

    We will now see if the Republican Senate is with Trump or against Trump and the American people.
    If the Senate consents to recess appointment of Trump’s team, they are with the President.

    The nomination of Kennedy is the most powerful of all of Trump’s appointments, with Matt Gaetz’s being second.
    ————

    RAY McGOVERN: Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’?


    2. • Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’? (Ray McGovern)
    By Ray McGovern

    The next director of national intelligence needs courage, political smarts and strong presidential backing to fulfill her duty to oversee and provide advice on covert action.

    Maybe Tulsi Gabbard can take the reins and make the community work. It will take a miracle; let’s hope for one.
    ———–
    Ukrainian ‘anti-disinfo’ agency scrubs criticism of Trump’s intel chief pick
    3. Kiev’s Center for Countering Disinformation had accused Tulsi Gabbard of working “for Kremlin money”
    The posts were removed on Thursday morning, Strana.ua said.
    https://swentr.site/news/607664-ukrainian-agency-deletes-tulsi-allegations/
    ———-
    4. • What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again? (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Realistically, What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again?

    When I was in the US Treasury, I had to tell my executive secretary that I did not want any more appointments with lobbyists telling me how I was to formulate policy to serve them.

    Being of years of experience, she told me: you won’t get the directorships, you won’t get the consultant fees.
    I told her I was there to serve the president and that was our job.

    It is going to be a challenge for the administration Trump has assembled to make America great again.

    Trump is there to be tough for America.
    War is a likely outcome.
    The threatened world already sees it coming.

    ————-
    now that Trump is elected, the proxy war against Russia will be over quickly, only for the American warmongers to start another war, say, against Iran.

    5. • Trump Vows To ‘Work Very Hard’ On Ukraine (RT)

    https://swentr.site/news/607673-trump-vows-work-hard-ukraine/
    “..the goals of its military operation – including Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – must be met..”
    President Vladimir Putin has signaled that Russia is willing to immediately declare a ceasefire and start peace talks as soon as Kiev begins withdrawing troops from the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, which voted in referendums to join the country in autumn 2022.
    Moscow has also ruled out talks with Kiev as long as Ukrainian troops occupy part of the border region of Kursk.

    Trump has nominated several critics of Ukraine aid for top government positions, including Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Matt Gaetz for attorney general.
    The nominations must be confirmed by the Senate, which the Republicans regained control over in this year’s election.
    ————

    #174453
    Oroboros
    Participant

    How could someone ban the World’s Coolest Dog?

    We need more D.O.G.E.

    .

    #174454
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Most Everything in Life boils down to this…..

    The Heart of Reality

    Einstein finally realizes that Time is Money

    .

    #174455
    John Day
    Participant

    Q: What do you get when you cross a huckster with a Macabee?
    A: …

    #174456
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trump has bypassed. Doing his own selections
    https://presidentialtransition.org/
    2024 Presidential Transition Updates

    Incoming administrations have roughly 75 days between Election Day and Inauguration Day to prepare to govern. Our resources below outline what happens during this phase of a presidential transition, provide real-time updates on the current process and offer support to career federal employees who are navigating this time of change.

    Ready to Serve®: Resources for Prospective Appointees

    Serving America through a presidential appointment is a great honor and responsibility.

    Given the power, influence and vast resources of the federal government, both in the United States and abroad, trust in the integrity of presidential appointees and their commitment to public service is paramount.

    Ready to Serve is a centralized resource that guides aspiring appointees through every step of the complex political appointment process. Get an early start and prepare.

    Key Steps in the Appointments Process
    Each presidential administration may fill approximately 4,000 political appointments to help carry out the president’s agenda. People who fill these roles are held to high standards of integrity and undergo a rigorous vetting process.

    #174457
    The Black
    Participant

    At this point all I really want to see is Trump and his cabinet perform a MAGA HAKA on January 20. I think it would send a strong and unforgettable message of unity. Instant worldwide virality.

    #174458
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FRitbjFL90
    Inevitable Collapse Of Ukrainian Army Russians Launch Major Offensive In Zaporizhzhia MS 2024.11.15

    #174459
    zerosum
    Participant

    Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be an enema on the fed.

    (An enema involves inserting liquid directly into your rectum to help you poop. Most people use them to relieve constipation that hasn’t improved with other treatments and as a colon cleanse to prepare for a colonoscopy. )
    ———-
    a colonoscopy

    https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/trump-todd-blanche-deputy-attorney-general
    Trump names his defense lawyers for top DOJ and solicitor general roles

    President-elect Trump announced Thursday he will nominate attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who’ve both represented him in several criminal cases, to No. 2 and No. 3 spots in the Department of Justice.

    The latest: Dean John Sauer, another of Trump’s attorneys, was tapped for solicitor general after representing Trump in his Jan. 6 case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have immunity for “official acts.”

    The big picture: Trump has vowed to reform the DOJ and will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as attorney general to oversee this during his second term.

    Trump wants Blanche to serve as deputy attorney general and said in a statement Thursday the lead attorney in his New York hush money trial “will be a crucial leader in the Justice Department, fixing what has been a broken System of Justice for far too long.”
    Zoom in: Bove will serve as principal associate deputy attorney general and as acting deputy attorney general while Blanche is in the process of being confirmed by the Senate, Trump said.

    “Emil is a tough and strong attorney, who will be a crucial part of the Justice Department, rooting out corruption and crime,” he added.
    Trump called Sauer a “deeply accomplished, masterful appellate attorney,” and acknowledged the role he played in the Supreme Court immunity ruling.
    “Most recently, John was the lead counsel representing me in the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States, winning a Historic Victory on Presidential Immunity, which was key to defeating the unConstitutional campaign of Lawfare against me and the entire MAGA Movement,” he said in a statement.
    Go deeper: Trump nominates Jay Clayton to head powerful prosecutorial office

    ———-

    #174464
    jb-hb
    Participant

    We’re going to work hard on Ukraine now?

    I suspect it’s just a matter of: Ukraine is in Russia’s sphere of influence, not NATO’s, not the EU’s, not the US’s, not the UK’s etc.

    Like if the Japanese are continually sending planes in to “work hard on resolving the Okinawa situation”

    Okay, but we don’t call this area “The Okinawa situation” we call it 5th Fleet’s Zone of Operations. We’ve got so much AA now, our ships are almost too topheavy from the additional AA we bolted onto the decks above and beyond original design. We don’t so much hit the pilot or the engine anymore so much as erode incoming planes away to nothing with a wall of every calibre coordinated from every ship. Call flying into that “working hard” or whatever you want until you run out of planes or stop.

    #174465
    tboc
    Participant

    Dr D you do not understand guerilla warfare.
    or honor, or duty, or the cost to humanity of iniquity
    A reenacatment of the The Miller’s Tale! I shall be Absolom..

    Your arguments carry all of the weight of a Littoral Combat Ship.
    Would it be a bridge to far for you to provide a summary list of your publications and a list of your appearances on The Lame Stream Media.
    We know you are right, you tell us everyday. Show and tell, pahdnah, not tell and tell

    Name one time the US consensus was correct and China and Russia were defeated or even thwarted.
    (The seeds of our consensus concering Afghanistan were planted in 1988 and bore fruit in April 2021.)
    Start with Korea in 1950 and let Ukraine in 2025 end the challenge.
    Ah the nostalgia for that time when we would stop Sino-Soviet agression in Southeast Asia.
    and a moment of silence in memory of the graduates of The School of The Americas

    Post a number representing the cost to restore the Rust Belt to full capacity. Name the capital management firms that will make thirty year investments in infrastructure. Name one thing that has been positive in the US economy since T Boone Pickens started corporate raiding. Define the difference between venture capitalism, leeches and blood letting. Are you suggesting a Marshall Plan for the United States? Put a number on the total liability of the derivatives market. Present a method to assuage the cascading horror of margin calls in the event of a 20% market correction.
    Soap on a rope, go to usdebtclock – org

    Percentage of state revenue supplied by US federal government:
    Louisiana 52.27%
    Hawaii 27.13%
    Overall 20% of state revenue from federal sources.
    Government Employees 2023 (millions):
    Federal – 2.93
    State, Local – 19.58
    Only 15% of government employment is by the federal government.
    The Department of Labor request for Employment and Training FY2024 $11,826,658,000
    Worker Protection Agencies Budget FY2024 $2,314,412,000
    Deficit Funded?
    How will any increase in unemployment compensation and job training costs not lead to increased deficit spending?
    Please explain how removing two trillion dollars of life support from the economy will
    increase revenue
    decrease interest payments
    increase GDP
    increase total worker compensation
    Reduce the DoD budget
    increase private sector employment
    brighten The Non Farm Payroll reports

    Throw millions of US citizens, who followed their self interest, to the curb to satisfy the self interest of a bunch of teat sucking parasites who should take care of themself?
    More efficient at what? Class warfare.
    Increased efficiency in murdering widows and children?
    A moron with a PHD is, you guessed it, a moron with a PHD
    and who has been in charge of building the consensus? Kissinger’s experts and morons with PHDs
    expert – has been drip under pressure
    Does not take a rocket surgeon to know who’s lunch is going to get eaten.

    Name one productive allocation of capital provided by the asset markets, One will be enough.
    A non-productive service economy remains a non-productive service economy until ouroboros is complete.

    You say you lost your faith
    but that’s not where it’s at
    You had no faith to lose
    and you know it
    ……………………………….
    Positively 4th Street

    “you have to be asleep to believe it” – Carlin

    #174466
    zerosum
    Participant

    News from the other side
    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/15/737271/69-Mossad-affiliated-terrorists-eliminated,-captured-amid-drill-in-southeast-Iran
    Nearly 70 Mossad-affiliated terrorists killed or captured in southeast Iran
    Friday, 15 November 2024 10:30 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 15 November 2024 11:33 AM ]

    #174467
    John Day
    Participant

    Nice Rat Patrol and Rat Patrol Jr. images at that link, Zerosum:

    rat-patrol
    Durn, picture no take…

    #174468
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you want news go read …
    Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be an enema on the Pentagon

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/fourths-time-the-pentagon-is-faking-the-books-for-ukraine.html#comments
    November 15, 2024
    Pentagon Again Applies Budget Lies To Deliver More Weapons To Ukraine – Jul 26 2024, MoA

    Fourth Time The Pentagon Is Faking The Books For Ukraine
    For a fourth time the Pentagon is ‘finding money’ outside of the budget that can be spend on Ukraine.

    I had previously noticed three occasions in which the Pentagon, on order of the Biden administration, used some or ‘accounting error’ gimmicks to ‘find’ more money for Ukraine.

    Here is now another, the fourth, incident of creative budget accounting in favor of money for war in Ukraine:

    https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/11/14/guessing-the-future-for-aukus-and-ice-00189683

    MONEY TALKS: The Biden administration has more money to help Ukraine than originally thought. All reports previously indicated that there was $4.3 billion left in the Presidential Drawdown Authority account, which reimburses the U.S. armed forces for munitions and equipment sent to Ukraine.

    Turns out, the number is actually $7.1 billion, thanks to some revised accounting the Pentagon has done, DOD officials tell your anchor. That extra $2.8 billion isn’t just found money. The way things work is that the Pentagon calculates how much buying replacement goods for what it sends Ukraine will cost. The number crunchers at the Pentagon ran through the lists and discovered that replacement for some items cost less than anticipated.

    The plan is for the administration to spend down that whole $7.1 billion by Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, which is a pretty tall order given the cadence of aid packages being announced roughly every two weeks work between $200 million and $500 million. Those numbers are going to have to go way up, but even then deliveries of that equipment would continue well into the Trump administration, which could turn off the spigot at any time.
    Creative accounting like this, i.e. faking the books, is a no-no for commercial entity as it might well end with time spent in jail.

    I’ll repeat myself:

    Any commercial company doing what the Pentagon is doing here would be asking for serious trouble.
    One wonder if and when Congress will wake up to this.

    ————

    #174469
    John Day
    Participant

    Because there are no dogs in Africa? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/welsh-government-told-create-dog-free-zones-public-areas-fight-racism
    The environmental group Climate Cymru BAME has issued a report instructing the government to create “dog-free areas in local green spaces” as part of an “anti-racist” drive to make the country more “inclusive”.

    The advice was reinforced by another group, the North Wales Africa Society, which complained that “one black African female stated that she feels unsafe with the presence of dogs” during a focus group meeting.

    #174470
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1857089671391576481
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces “every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed [to Ukraine] between now and January 20th” when Trump takes office.
    7:54 AM · Nov 14, 2024
    1.9M Views

    #174471
    zerosum
    Participant

    Well, it looks like Musk will have something to investigate as soon as he gets to the office after confirmation as this supposed accounting smacks of inefficiency. I also wonder how Trump will manage to get Congress to overturn the rule about keeping so many aircraft carriers on hand, which is a massive hole into which billions are poured annually for an obsolete weapons system.

    Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 15 2024

    #174472
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/11/16/pentagon-fails-sixth-audit-with-number-of-passing-grades-stagnant/
    Pentagon fails sixth audit, with number of passing grades stagnant
    By Noah Robertson
    Nov 15, 2023

    #174473
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    ICYMI: Four out of three Trump’s cabinet nominees and/or appointees poses at least whole bunch of characteristics of a venomous snake!

    Good news! One of them could have been Mike Pompeo:

    … but I digress grossly,

    F.S.

    #174481
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Irrationality Studies [ of Western behaviour ]

    Two part vid by Professors Glenn Diesen and Pascal Lottaz

    F.S.

    #174482
    citizenx
    Participant

    Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport.

    They did enforce this…it was not just a plan. Seattle was the first city in the US to lockdown and the last to “reopen” – it was Liberal hell and insanity. What I experienced and witnessed from 2020-23 from the cult is unfathomable to most of you, count yourself fortunate. 2024 election just fueled their insanity and hatred.

    Vax cards were mandatory for both employment and entry to all public/ private spaces. Libtard Gov Inslee disarmed the public with a weapons and magazine ban. They went full authoritarian group think hive mind consensus ‘reality’. They closed hiking trails and banned being in the Mountains alone….

    I will never forgive or forget. Any and all retribution is justified. And now they cry, oh how they cry about Trump and hating America. They are disgusting hypocritical sub human filth.

    Don’t Be a Coward. That’s it for all men. Okay, how do all Women stop this? A: Defend your husbands and children.

    Behind every great man is an even better woman- Remember that one?
    Democrat Liberal women are disgusting, they hate men, torture their children, and blame men as racist and sexist for Trump winning. They are so fucking tone deaf and mentally ill…the real mind virus.

    When the vax cards became reality I knew it was an act of war and it still continues. When you are behind enemy lines= a partisan, guerilla fighter, dissident, rebel- Continuing to fight and resist with intelligence AND courage are critical- not just courage. Exposing yourself as pureblood around a million of these fuckers was self immolation- better to wait and throw the molotov ie Trumps art than to not throw at all.

    Musk and Rogan saved free speech which Liberals hate.
    Never forget, liberals want to control OR destroy YOU- or both.
    Liberals also hate truth- which is exactly why they want to control speech.

    From the sword of the crusader to the missionary spin
    From the atom of creation to the secrets deep within
    Illusions and delusions lead us where we shouldn’t go
    Time to disconnect from clutter, time to hit the road

    Ride out to a bold new horizon
    Where the sun may be shinin’
    On a place you’ve never seen

    Ride out lift your soul and your spirit
    Take a chance and get near it
    Everybody needs a dream

    Is the media for real do we fake or do we feel
    Do we base all our appeal on a model or a myth
    It’s a market correction it’s addiction resurrection
    It’s the last thing you mention before you knock it stiff

    Ride out where the hills meet the valleys
    Far from campaigns and rallies
    And the things we do for oil

    Ride out mix the real and imagined
    With the lost and abandoned
    And bring it to a boil

    It takes your breath away
    The way we pay and pay and pay and pay

    You can take it to the masses you can run it up a pole
    You can conquer all resistance and believe you’re in control
    But the world will be watchin’ there’s a crack in every lie
    When it opens like a chasm you can kiss it all goodbye

    Ride out to the high copper canyons
    Past the shacks and the mansions
    Where the rivers never end

    Ride out past the peaks and the mesas
    To the wide open spaces
    You may never see again

    Ride out to a brand new horizon
    Where the sun may be shinin’
    On a place you’ve never seen

    Ride out lift your soul lift your spirt
    Take a chance and get near it
    Everybody needs a dream

    #174483
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    <b>Operation SpaceX-400</b> [unrepentant sinners, no peace nor rest!]

    SpaceX plans to sharply increase the number of flights of its yuuge, yuuge new rocket during Trump’s second term.

    Gwynne Shotwell, president at SpaceX declared Friday: …400 launches of <i>Starship</i> – as the vehicle is called, over the next four years!

    F.S.

    #174484

    My mate says Elon could suggest that we could build fighter jets like rockets- where you can land them and us them again.

    #174485
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I suspect the concerns about what will happen if the spigot for wildly printed money is turned down or off is analogous to education.

    If we test our teachers for competency while requiring a passing grade to test, we could have x% teachers fired and how will we educate without teachers.

    …when actually, we’re discovering for the first time how many teachers we actually HAD.

    How much of the federal dollars pouring into the state fund corruption and waste? How much fraud is there in disabilities, unemployment, etc? So if the printed money slows down, we find out how much STUFF we actually had all along.

    But taking a step back further, there’s something really REALLY wrong with our money. There are clearly heaps and heaps of it, galactic sized, being used in a way that essentially creates a command economy, overrules any market action.

    Or thought of a different way, wherever the endless waterfall of money is coming from – not just government – it’s like roundup. You spray EVERYTHING including the stuff you want to live, but then you did something that makes just the things you wanted to live survive (monsanto crops)

    So you spray everything with infinite money, make sure only your chosen winners stand next to the spigot while everything else perishes despite any all of their free market actions. Everything but your GMO soybeans dies.

    So particular people being replaced or retiring from active power won’t cut it. Redistributing money won’t cut it. The money itself has to die. I don’t want to steal all those trillions out there for myself, nor set myself up as dictator re-distributing it morally, I want to put it in a big pile and burn it all.

    #174492
    poppie
    Participant

    jb-hb
    you really need to put your resume into the Trumpy transition team.
    Very respectfully
    Poppie

    #174493
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “..Tesla – the largest EV automaker in the US and the only one not reliant on EV credits for survival..”

    Yes, the EV subsidy, but what about all the other subsidies such as the battery manufacturing subsidies? Will they be going too, in which case how will Tesla survive given that it cannot make a profit without these subsidies? The tarrifs on foreign EVs have been set so high that the market price of domestic made electric vehicles in the USA have been able to rise due to the destruction of cheap competition; this allows the inefficient home industries to survive, subsidising their inefficiency through artificial rigging of prices. Tesla yet again proving that it cannot survive without the help of the government teat.

    #174494
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “Gaetz is no milk toast. He is a strong individual, the kind of person needed in such a critical office. My question is: does he have the seasoning..”

    A nice idea but how will Gaetz handle the internal politics of running a huge division of the government. Will he know how to fire the people that need to go in order to create a team loyal to his leadership? I very much doubt it. Will he do a Trump, try to convert the team owned by the previous leader, and fail. Same with Tulsi Gabbard. My guess is that these appointments will crash due to a total lack of experience in senior management. We saw the same with Trump in 2016, total lack of experience resulted in him being blindsided by everyone.

    #174495
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Alastair Crooke early with his latest weekly article, … states that Israeli media terms orange hair simian’s team of nominees and appointees as “a ‘dream team’ for Netanyahu”

    There are no “Easy Wars” left to fight, but do not mistake the longing for one

    F.S

    #174496
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Figmund Sreud said

    <b>Operation SpaceX-400</b> [unrepentant sinners, no peace nor rest!]

    SpaceX plans to sharply increase the number of flights of its yuuge, yuuge new rocket during Trump’s second term.

    Gwynne Shotwell, president at SpaceX declared Friday: …400 launches of <i>Starship</i> – as the vehicle is called, over the next four years!

    So much for budget cuts, one teat closes, another opens up. The USA just can’t tighten it’s belt, too much living in comfort, getting what you want, you will run up the credit card until one day it will all suddenly stop and reality will become real again; until then, reality is unreal, reality is whatever the oligarchs want it to be.

    #174497
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Trump revealed

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