We now know for double sure that one month after Jan.6, 2021, which is also right after his first presidential term, JPMorgan closed over 50 bank accounts tied to Donald Trump. Fankly, that raises more questions than I can answer. (Where do the contents go?) Trump filed a $5 billion lawsuit. And he should win. Banks should not feel free to act on political whims.

• JPMorgan De-Banked Trump Shortly After Jan 6th Capitol Chaos (ZH)

New court documents released Friday show JPMorgan Chase told President Donald Trump a month after the January 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol that the bank was closing his accounts. The disclosure was made amid a $5 billion lawsuit Trump filed against JPMorgan and its CEO Jamie Dimon. JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, said for the first time late Friday that it cut off more than 50 Trump accounts in February 2021, shortly after Mr. Trump’s first term ended. The accounts included those for Trump hotels, housing developments and retail shops in Illinois, Florida and New York, as well as Mr. Trump’s personal private banking relationship that handled his inheritance from his father, according to letters filed to the court.

JPMorgan did not specify in those letters a specific reason for the mass account closings. In one unsigned note to Mr. Trump, dated Feb. 19, 2021, the bank wrote that he would need to “find a more suitable institution with which to conduct business.” The letter closed with, “Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter” – a phrase that President Trump often uses. As NYTimes reports, the President has maintained for years that his bank account closures were politically motivated, and a spokesperson for his legal team said the newest court documents are “a devastating concession that proves President Trump’ entire claim. [JPMorgan] admitted to unlawfully and intentionally de-banking President Trump, his family, and his businesses, causing overwhelming financial harm, the spokesperson said.
President Trump is standing up for all those wrongly debanked by JPMorgan Chase and its cohorts, and will see this case to a just and proper conclusion. the attorneys added. Mr. Trump’s lawsuit, which named Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive, as a defendant, contended that the bank put Mr. Trump on a blacklist because it “needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views.” That echoed earlier complaints from Mr. Trump that Capital One similarly closed his accounts and that Bank of America refused to accept billions of dollars in deposits after the Jan. 6 riots. The bank told The Epoch Times over email it will seek to dismiss the claims. “Plaintiffs’ threadbare allegations do not allege sufficient facts to plead a claim,” the institution said.
JPMorgan told The Epoch Times last month that the case “has no merit.” “[JPMorgan Chase] does not close accounts for political or religious reasons,” JPMorgan previously said. “We do close accounts because they create legal or regulatory risk for the company.” “We regret having to do so, but often rules and regulatory expectations lead us to do so.” These comments were made last month, days after Trump announced on social media his intention to sue the bank.
Since then, Trump’s lawyers have alleged in court documents that JPMorgan closed the president’s accounts because of its “‘woke’ beliefs that it needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views.” “In essence, [JPMorgan Chase] debanked Plaintiffs’ Accounts because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so,” the lawsuit states. JPMorgan added it supports the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent the weaponization of the banking sector. There is still much legal wrangling to come. JPMorgan this past week asked that the case be moved from Florida state court, where Mr. Trump has had some success in litigation, to a federal court in New York.

One scary lady.

• Susan Rice Joins Call for a Revenge Purge If Democrats Re-Take Power (Turley)

As Democrats plan for the possible takeover in the midterms and 2028 election, they are already openly discussing their push for radical changes in our political system, including packing the Supreme Court to guarantee that those changes are allowed. Many are also pledging trials, impeachments, and investigations of anyone who supported President Donald Trump in a purging of politics and government. The latest to join the revenge purge pledge is Susan Rice, Democratic powerbroker and top policy adviser to both President Barack Obama and Joe Biden.In an interview this week, Rice declared that supporters of Trump can expect the proverbial knocks on their doors:

“A very prominent public figure, who has served at nearly the very highest levels, once told me … ‘Revenge is best served cold,’ and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom of that.”She added: When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media … it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore, is very short-term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump. The promise to crackdown political opponents is hardly unexpected in this age of rage. Indeed, Democrats can point to the purging of the federal ranks, particularly at the Justice Department, as further justification for a tit-for-tat response.
Democratic politicians and pundits have been fueling the anger of their base with ludicrous claims that democracy is about to die since the 2020 election. They have now used anti-ICE protests to stoke the anger in the hope that it will return them to power in the midterm elections. Bravo star and liberal podcast host Jennifer Welch praised footage of a “No Kings” protester celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk. After playing the clip, Welch laughed with joy and declared, “So listen up, Democratic establishment. You can either jump on board with this s—, or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period.”
The pledge for revenge purges is an obvious way to further motivate a mob. In my book, Rage and the Republic, I discuss how elected officials often try to enlist mobs to advance their political agendas — only to be consumed by the unrest they helped fuel. This yielding to a “mobocracy” was one of the critical dangers that the Framers sought to deter through protections against majoritarian tyranny. It is a history that figures like Rice are ignoring in the hope of riding this rage wave back into power. The fact is that history has shown that “it’s not going to end well” for establishment figures like Rice who believe that they can control a mob.

“How much is she being paid, and for what??? Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

• Trump Calls on Netflix to Fire Susan Rice (Matt Margolis)

On Preet Bharara’s podcast, Obama’s scandal-scarred former U.N. ambassador promised that any corporation, law firm, university, or media outlet that “took a knee to Trump” will be targeted when the left is back in charge. “It’s not gonna end well for them,” she warned, casting basic engagement with the Trump administration as a kind of original sin that must be punished. And now President Donald Trump wants accountability. On Saturday, Trump called on Netflix to fire Rice. “Netflix should fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“She’s got no talent or skills – Purely a political hack! HER POWER IS GONE, AND WILL NEVER BE BACK. How much is she being paid, and for what??? Thank you for your attention to this matter.” In her interview with Bharara, Rice argued that major institutions are sensing a political shift and regretting their support for Trump. But that won’t stop the Democrats from settling scores aggressively. “If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are gonna, you know, play by the old rules, and say, ‘Oh, never mind, we’ll forgive you for all the people you’ve fired, all the policies and principles you’ve violated, all, you know, the laws you’ve skirted,’ I think they’ve got another thing coming,” Rice said.
She pointed to redistricting as proof that Democrats are done playing nice. “Just like when Trump thought, ‘Okay, I’ll redistrict, and the Democrats won’t have the guts to play hardball,’ they’re gonna be surprised. Democrats have had a belly full, and we’re not gonna play by, you know, the old set of rules, when these guys are playing by a very different set of rules.” Rice made clear that companies that accommodated the Trump administration will face consequences — big tech, media, universities, and law firms. “There will be an accountability agenda,” she warned. She even urged businesses to brace for investigations. “They better preserve their documents. They better be ready for subpoenas. If they’ve done something wrong, they’ll be held accountable.”
The only companies that would avoid the wrath of vengeful Democrats would be the ones that were on the “right” side of history. “If they haven’t broken the law, good for them,” she said. “If they’ve done the right things, good for them. That also will be noted and remembered.” We all know what that really means: If they were loyal to the Democratic Party, they’re in the clear. Her message was blunt. “This is not going to be an instance of, you know, forgive and forget… the damage that these people are doing is too severe to the American people and to our national interest,” Rice said.

Muslims will defend the Christian heartland. Yeah yeah. Europe will no longer be Christian. And that’s a big deal, because then it will automatically become Muslim. Yes it will. And only then will the original population start defending itself. Much too late. Now there will be blood.

• Europe To Recruit Migrants For “National Defense” (ZH)

Europe’s lack of military readiness has become painfully obvious in recent years, due largely to the war in Ukraine as well as the Trump Administration’s efforts to force NATO members to fulfill their basic obligations. Specifically, Russia’s successful use of attrition tactics against NATO supported forces in Ukraine has exposed a significant weakness in western military doctrine.New and cheap technologies (including drone technologies) are making large scale maneuver warfare obsolete. The era of super-weapons dominating the battlefield with minimal manpower is over. As was the case in WWI and WWII, troop strength and boots on the ground are once again the key to victory.

A Washington DC-based defense think-tank, Center For A New American Century (CNAS), has come to the same realization and suggests a novel (as well as predictable) solution: Exploit mass immigration from Ukraine and third world countries to the west as a resource to fill the persistent void in military recruitment numbers. Writing for Foreign Policy, the CNAS notes: “Closing manpower gaps may prove harder than writing bigger checks. The continent’s demographic crisis compounds the problem: Births in the European Union fell below 4 million in 2022 for the first time since 1960, shrinking the pool of potential recruits as geopolitical threats—chief among them, Russian aggression—demand larger, more capable forces…
The argument, of course, presupposes that Russia has any intention of invading greater Europe. There is no evidence that this is Vladimir Putin’s goal. However, the Russian bogeyman does make for a useful excuse to justify the development of a unified EU military force. The threat of war can also be exploited by European officials as a way to justify open borders and mass immigration from the third world. Immigration from Ukraine makes some sense – It is a legitimate war torn country and Ukrainians are close to the rest of Europeans in terms of cultural attitude. But, EU elites need a rationale for flooding the region with third worlders and war with Russia seems to be their ticket. The CNAS uses the “demographic collapse” claim as a catalyst.
“Ukraine’s grinding war of attrition has laid bare an uncomfortable truth: Emerging capabilities in the form of high-tech weaponry cannot substitute for boots on the ground. Soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen, and airmen are the backbone of national defense. Yet the European Commission estimates a 43 million reduction in the bloc’s working-age population by 2070…” “…Meanwhile, Europe continues to grapple with significant migration flows from Africa, the Middle East, and other regions. These arrivals, often young, male, and seeking better opportunities, represent exactly the demographic cohort European militaries desperately need. Many migrants arrive with valuable skills: language abilities, cultural knowledge of strategic regions, technical expertise, and, most importantly, motivation to prove themselves and build new lives.”
It should be noted that these kind of articles from think-tanks are not so much “suggestions” for future policy initiatives. Rather, they are propaganda pieces designed to promote policies that governments already intend to implement in the near future. A number of European countries have already begun the groundwork for recruiting migrants for national defense. Ireland just recently announced that their are reviewing a possible program to give fast-track citizenship to immigrants who volunteer to join the military. Irish leaders assert that this is necessary to boost defense capabilities, but they also argue that it is need to increase Ireland’s “diversity.” Several other European governments are looking at similar programs, including Germany, France and Spain.

“But our plan for dealing with her, as I have said before, has always been ‘Operation Let Her Speak.’”

• Sen. Kennedy Tells Us What He Thinks of AOC (Spencer)

Sen. John N. Kennedy (R-La.) is easily the funniest guy in the United States Senate, and would be the most hilarious politician in all of Washington were it not for the wit who currently occupies the Oval Office. Of course, most of his competition in this regard is no competition at all, as politicians are historically likely to be people who take themselves altogether too seriously. Today’s Democrats in particular are some of the sourest, unpleasant, and humorless people on the entire planet, so weighed down are they with the noble and never-ending struggle against Orange Man Bad, borders, gender, sanity, and common sense. And nobody, and I mean nobody, takes himself or herself or ximself more seriously than the average leftist who thinks that he (or she or xe) is nobly defending — well, not exactly the nation, which they want to leave borderless and defenseless, but at very least all the people who think the right thoughts and check all the proper boxes for the correct candidates — from the spread of “fascism.”

It’s doubtful that even a tiny percentage of these po-faced, self-righteous, self-important clowns even know what fascism is, but whatever, dude. They’re still busy saving us from it, and one of our principal saviors is none other than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-The Queensboro), who recently went down in flames at the Munich Security Conference. After AOC sputtered and stuttered and hemmed and hawed and faked her way through an answer to a question about whether the U.S. should defend Taiwan militarily in the event of an attack from Communist China, President Donald Trump commented acidly: “Her performance was horrible. I was surprised, actually. I didn’t know she was stupid.”
One who did know that, however, was Sen. Kennedy, and on Friday, he didn’t hold back. “The Congresswoman,” Kennedy said as Charles Hurt of Fox News chuckled in the background, “is kind of like Vice President Kamala Harris, but with more bartending experience.” If you’d like a word salad with your beer, you’ll be happy to know that Kennedy was just getting warmed up.“She has never been accused,” Kennedy continued, “of being a policy maven. You put her in a presidential primary with Elizabeth Warren or Rahm Emanuel, they will devour her like a light snack.” The senator then added semi-apologetically: “I probably shouldn’t say this, but she can get me back.” No doubt about that, but can AOC be as funny as John Neely Kennedy? Not a chance? Will she even try, or just huff and puff about how evil Republicans are lowering the civil tone of our august legislative bodies? The smart money is on the self-righteous posturing.
Kennedy’s most uproarious jab came next: “Someone told me a joke today. They said Congresswoman Cortez announced today categorically that she is not a moron. And she went on to say she hasn’t even been to Utah, much less embraced their religion.” Buh-dum tiss! Kennedy then reiterated: “Now she can get me back, I don’t dislike the congresswoman.” And then he concluded with another zinger: “But our plan for dealing with her, as I have said before, has always been ‘Operation Let Her Speak.’ And so far, it’s working, and my message to my friend the congresswoman, is ‘You go girl! You just keep it up.’” Can we clone Sen. Kennedy? Can we get 52 more of him to fill out the ranks of Senate Republicans? Imagine the hilarity if we had 53 Kennedys instead of the likes of Thune, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, and so many others. Not only would the legislation be better, but so would the laughs, and there’s a lot to be said for that.

Sen. Kennedy https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2025199354311520451?s=20 https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/2025262073802858614?s=20 Read more …

There are so many options. Why did he pick the wrong one?

• Scott Bessent Outlines “Multiple Tools” Now Deployed in Tariff Policy (CTH)

Speaking to the Economic Club of Dallas, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlines what technical procedures the Trump administration will trigger now to retain tariff authority. As anticipated Bessent outlines section 232 tariffs, section 301 tariffs, and Section 122 tariffs. WATCH (prompted):

Section 232 [Steel and Aluminum examples] of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. §1862, as amended) authorizes the President to impose trade restrictions—such as a tariff or quota—if the Secretary of Commerce determines, following an investigation, that imports of a good “threaten to impair” U.S. national security. {SOURCE}
Section 301 tariffs are a trade enforcement mechanism established under the Trade Act of 1974. They allow the U.S. government to impose tariffs on imports from countries that are found to be engaging in unfair trade practices. The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) conducts investigations to determine if a country is violating trade agreements, and if so, it can impose tariffs as a corrective measure {SOURCE}
Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 allows the U.S. president to impose tariffs of up to 15% to address “large and serious” balance-of-payments deficits. This authority can be exercised without prior congressional approval for a limited duration of 150 days. After this period, any tariffs must be extended by Congress. {SOURCE}

“This is a properly functioning government today.

• Scott Jennings Drops Massive Truth Bomb About Supreme Court on CNN (Margolis)

Whatever you think about the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday on tariffs, the ruling was a blunt reality check for the Democrats, whose rhetoric about the high court has been vicious in recent years. On CNN’s NewsNight, host Abby Phillip was walking through the financial fallout from a court ruling, citing a CBO report that found U.S. businesses absorb about 30% of import price increases, while consumers bear the remaining 70% — with the net effect pushing consumer prices up by roughly 95 percent of the domestically borne tariff costs. Inflation has remained low and stable under President Donald Trump, but whatever. The left loves to push their narrative regardless of the facts. Scott Jennings promptly called out her inconsistency.

“Well, which is it?” he said. “You said all of it was passed through to the consumers. You said that most of it was absorbed by some of the companies. It sounds like maybe it might be a little bit of both.” While Phillip suggested refunds should mirror how the tariffs were collected, Jennings predicted a bureaucratic nightmare, warning of massive sums of money at stake and years of litigation likely to follow. Then Jennings shifted gears entirely, and this is where things got interesting.
“I’ll just say, you know, politically, today, you know, it was a big breaking news day, but I just think we ought to acknowledge something,” he said. “This is a properly functioning government today. The president of the United States, the head of the executive branch, made a policy decision. The Supreme Court, it renders legal opinions about these kinds of decisions, made a decision, they said, you can’t do that. The president of the United States said, ‘Okay, I agree, and I will acknowledge your decision. I’m going to use a different statute to try to do what I want to do.’ This is properly functioning government.”
He wasn’t done. Jennings went straight at the media narrative that has dominated coverage of this Supreme Court for the past two years — the one that cast the court as essentially a rubber stamp for whatever Trump wanted.”For every Democrat and every media person that has gone on for the last year or two about how this Supreme Court is a wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump, that it’s not independent, that it does whatever he says to do, obviously, that narrative was obliterated today.”
He drove it home: “So, to me, I thought this was actually — I thought the ruling was sound. I think the president is sound to try other statutes. And I think the narratives about the court not being independent and the president not obeying the court were totally blown up today.” How can you argue with that logic? You can’t. Democrats have become so obsessed with the narrative that the court has been a rubber stamp for Trump; they’ve literally considered packing the court because of this narrative. Frankly, the conservatives on the Supreme Court have shown far more independence than any of the leftists on the court.

Wait till he starts raising taxes.

• Mamdani Is Collapsing Faster Than We Thought (Margolis)

You can’t say we didn’t warn New York what was going to happen if it elected Zohran Mamdani, but I gotta say, I don’t think anyone predicted it would start collapsing so quickly. But, alas, it has. That socialist utopia that Mamdani was supposed to deliver has instead turned into a slow-motion fiscal catastrophe a mere two months in — and even the liberal media is starting to notice. Mamdani unveiled a $127 billion budget for fiscal year 2027 this week — a staggering $5 billion increase over the prior year. But what’s $5 billion between socialists, right?

To put that into perspective, Mamdani’s proposed budget is actually larger than the budgets of 47 U.S. states, including Florida, which has nearly twice the population. And somehow, it still isn’t enough. The city is staring down a $5.4 billion deficit, with the real gap potentially closer to $12 billion when you do the actual math. So what was his plan? Tax someone else. Mamdani went straight to Albany looking for a handout, demanding that Gov. Kathy Hochul raise taxes on the “ultra-wealthy” and the most profitable corporations. When Hochul told him to pound sand and cut spending instead, he obviously couldn’t do that, and now he is looking at saddling homeowners with a 9.5% property tax hike.
“Faced with no other choice, the city would have to exercise the only revenue lever fully within our own control,” he said. “We would have to raise property taxes. We would also be forced to raid our reserves. To balance the budget as required by law, our preliminary budget takes the only path within our control: the second path. The options of the second path are the options of last resort. Options that we will only employ if there is no other means of arriving at a balanced budget.” As a New York resident, I can say there’s finally something I can agree with Hochul on. Why should the rest of the state subsidize Mamdani’s socialist experiment in New York City?
Let it foot the bill for the mistake of electing Mamdani. Remember, this is the guy who campaigned on affordability and making the rich “pay their fair share,” and now he’s already in a position where he has to tax regular people to cover the costs of his promises. This budget crisis he’s facing two months into his term comes on top of him taking heat for poor trash cleanup and snow removal on his watch. Two months into the job, and the basics aren’t getting done. Conservatives warned about exactly this before last year’s election. We said a self-described democratic socialist running one of the world’s most financially complex cities was a recipe for disaster. Voters in New York went ahead anyway. Now the city faces the reckoning that was entirely predictable.
“No one in New York is ambitious enough to dramatically reshape city government, and residents either vote for class warfare or vote with their feet,” the Washington Post editorial board observed. “A reckoning will have to come eventually. The question is how bad it gets before reality sets in.” That question may answer itself sooner than anyone expected. “No one in New York is ambitious enough to dramatically reshape city government, and residents either vote for class warfare or vote with their feet,” the Washington Post editorial board observed. “A reckoning will have to come eventually. The question is how bad it gets before reality sets in.” That question may answer itself sooner than anyone expected.

The “leaders” of the large Eropean nations all poll in the sewers..

• CNN SLAMS Keir Starmer’s ATROCIOUS Ratings (MN)

Keir Starmer’s approval ratings have plunged to historic lows, with even CNN calling them “absolutely ATROCIOUS” and noting that President Trump appears “downright like Abraham Lincoln” by comparison. This brutal takedown highlights how Starmer’s globalist policies are alienating Brits across the board. As the Labour leader clings to power, his war on free speech and commitment to protecting illegal immigration is fueling a backlash that could spell the end for his regime. With polls showing just 20% approval, Starmer’s grip on Number 10 looks increasingly tenuous. The Overton News clip, which has gone viral on X, captures CNN’s scathing assessment of Starmer’s popularity nosedive.

In the segment, analyst Harry Enten declares, “The se numbers are absolutely ATROCIOUS! I mean, you never see numbers like this in the United States of America.” Focusing on the dire stats, Enten points out, “Britons who like Keir Starmer, look at this — overall it’s just 1 in 5! It’s just 1 in 5, 20%!” Even within his own ranks, support is crumbling: “His OWN party, Labour, he’s just at 52% there.” The commentary escalates, revealing, “I’ve even seen numbers with satisfaction in the TEENS — and this is actually HIGHER than the lowest.” The most striking line compares Starmer unfavorably to Trump: “You know, we always talk about Donald Trump being unpopular in this country — but Donald Trump looks downright like Abraham Lincoln compared to Keir Starmer’s numbers at this point!”
The latest YouGov survey from February 2026 shows Starmer’s net favourability at -47, with only 22% viewing him positively against 69% unfavorably. That’s an improvement from January’s -57, but still abysmal for a sitting PM.Other trackers paint an even grimmer picture. Ipsos reported satisfaction in the teens late last year, aligning with CNN’s observations. Opinium’s February poll pegs his net approval at -44, with over half the public calling for his resignation. Starmer’s woes stem from policies that prioritize globalist agendas over British interests. Mass immigration continues unchecked, straining public services while borders remain porous. Economic missteps, like burdensome regulations on businesses, echo the failures of socialist experiments.
Recall our earlier coverage where a former aide to Starmer revealed how a “stakeholder state” – an unelected network of insiders, NGOs, and civil servants – effectively controls the UK government. Paul Ovenden described this “political perma-class” as diverting power from voters to elite priorities, wasting resources on fringe issues while ignoring secure borders and sovereignty. This shadowy influence explains Starmer’s disconnect from the public, leading to approval ratings that rival the worst in postwar history. Historical comparisons show that every UK PM with similar low ratings either lost big or resigned before the next election. Adding fuel to the fire is Starmer’s aggressive stance against free expression. Threats to ban platforms like X over AI-generated content have drawn international condemnation.

“Romeo set out plans for civil servants to spend around 20% of their working hours on diversity objectives such as encouraging workers to display their preferred pronouns and “recruiting non-binary staff,”

• Starmer Appoints ‘Queen Of Woke’ As UK’s Top Civil Servant – Reform UK (RT)

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed the “Queen of Woke” as his new cabinet secretary, Reform UK party spokesperson Zia Yusuf wrote on X on Friday. Antonia Romeo’s elevation to the UK’s most senior civil servant position is the “embodiment of all that’s wrong” with the current establishment, Yusuf argued. While heading the Department for International Trade (DIT), “she bombarded staff with weekly emails pushing Transgender Awareness Week, Bi Visibility Day, and even recommended watching films about trans parenthood,” he claimed. During her time working in the Home Office, “65,000 illegal migrants have crossed on her watch,” he said.

During her stint at the DIT, Romeo set out plans for civil servants to spend around 20% of their working hours on diversity objectives such as encouraging workers to display their preferred pronouns and “recruiting non-binary staff,” the Telegraph reported on Friday, citing internal documents. She also reportedly instructed staff to join a “gender non-conforming book club” as part of their corporate performance review. Starmer has argued that Romeo is the “right person” for government to deliver a “period of national renewal.”
Only 15% of Britons approve of the prime minister’s job performance, according to an Ipsos poll from last month. His approval ratings have been battered by dissatisfaction with his handling of the ongoing migrant crisis, a surge in arrests related to comments made online, the cost-of-living crisis, and the resurgence of the Pakistani rape gang scandal. Most recently, revelations emerged that Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US despite knowing of his ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer has maintained that he “was lied to” during the vetting procedure.
The waning popularity of the prime minister’s Labour Party is expected to culminate in major losses to Reform at the upcoming local elections, according to projections from the pollster ElectoralCalculus. On Monday, Starmer’s government reversed its plans to postpone the elections until next year after a legal challenge from Reform.

“This effort against PM Orban by the European Union is part of the reason why Secretary of State Marco Rubio was so strong in his words of appreciation and support for Orban during his recent visit to Budapest…”

• German Court Rules X Must Turn Over Data on Hungarian Govt Support (CTH)

The European Union has a major targeting effort against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an ally of President Trump who does not support giving additional funding to the Ukraine war effort. Hungary is having national elections in April. Previously, USAID Administrator Samantha Power spent considerable time in Hungary organizing activist groups to conduct operations against the government {2023 – Go Deep}. Last week a German based NGO called Democracy Reporting International, won a ruling from a Berlin judge to force the X platform to turn over data related to support for Viktor Orban and the government of Hungary.

All of this opposition to Prime Minister Orban seems to be coordinated by quasi government agencies on behalf of Brussels and their interventionist intentions. We may remember it was also information from German intelligence, that was behind the nullification of the Romanian first-round election. However, Viktor Orban is fighting back and refusing to approve the funding of the Ukraine war despite the massive pressure campaign from inside the European Union.
As noted by Hungarian Minister Zoltan Kovacs, “Many have asked how Hungary can block the €90 billion Ukrainian war loan if we are not participating in it. clarified that the loan does not affect Hungary and does not entail any financial commitment for us. As Hungary is not part of the cooperation, in most of the decision-making procedures we do not even vote. However, he pointed out that for the scheme to function, the EU’s seven-year budget guarantee rules must be amended – and this requires the approval of all 27 member states, not only the financing member states. We are now blocking this decision, without which the war loan cannot be disbursed.”
https://twitter.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/2025284661853782466?s=20
(Via Politico) – A court in Germany on Tuesday ordered Elon Musk’s social media site X to hand over data related to the upcoming election in Hungary to researchers for scrutiny. The court in Berlin ruled in favor of rights group Democracy Reporting International in its bid to access data to research influence campaigns and disinformation in the election. The group took its case to court after X in November refused its data access requests. The European Union’s rules for social media platforms, the Digital Services Act, obliges big online platforms like X to grant external researchers access to data to scrutinize how platforms handle risks, including election interference. The European Commission in December fined X €40 million for breaching that obligation, as part of a €120 million levy.

This effort against PM Orban by the European Union is part of the reason why Secretary of State Marco Rubio was so strong in his words of appreciation and support for Orban during his recent visit to Budapest.
RUBIO: “The President has an extraordinarily close relationship to the prime minister. He does. And it has had tangible benefits in our relationship. I’m not going to speculate about the future. What happens in this country is up to the voters of this country to determine and decide, and we love the people of Hungary. But I’m not – but there’s no reason to sugarcoat it. I’m going to be very blunt with you. The prime minister and the President have a very, very close personal relationship and working relationship, and I think it has been incredibly beneficial to the relationship between our two countries.” {Source – Transcript}

When will the EU implode?

• Hungary and Slovakia Push Back on Ukraine’s Oil Dispute (Manney)

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico delivered a blunt warning, saying Slovakia would halt emergency electricity exports to Ukraine unless Kyiv restored Russian oil transit through Ukrainian territory, setting a firm deadline of Feb. 23. The dispute centers on the Druzhba pipeline, which still supplies Russian crude to parts of Central Europe. Russian forces struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure in late January, an attack that damaged equipment tied to the Druzhba system in western Ukraine. The flow of oil to Slovakia and Hungary stopped that same day. mUkrainian officials blamed Moscow and offered alternative routes, including the Odesa-Brody pipeline and maritime shipments.

Fico responded by declaring a state of emergency in Slovakia’s oil sector, saying he would instruct SEPS, Slovakia’s state grid operator, to suspend electricity deliveries to Ukraine if oil transit didn’t resume. Slovakia supplied roughly 18% of Ukraine’s record electricity imports in January, and doubled its support compared with the previous year. Oil transit to Slovakia and Hungary has been disrupted since late January after a Russian strike hit the Druzhba pipeline, a key route carrying Russian crude to Central Europe. Ukraine’s pipeline operator said this week that the Jan. 27 attack damaged critical infrastructure and that repair works are ongoing.
In a letter to the European Commission, Ukraine’s embassy to the EU proposed using the Odesa–Brody pipeline or maritime routes as temporary alternatives to supply Hungary and Slovakia while repairs are completed. Fico accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of treating Slovakia as a “hostile country,” saying Kyiv first halted gas flows, costing Slovakia €500 million annually, and has now stopped oil supplies, causing further losses. He also defended his decision to refuse Slovakia’s participation in the EU’s planned €90 billion military loan for
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó escalated the pressure at the European level by blocking a major EU financial package for Ukraine that required unanimous approval. Budapest tied its position directly to the restoration of oil transit through Druzhba. It’s through that route that most of Hungary’s oil supply from Russia is delivered.When the EU adopted its 2022 oil embargo against Russia, Hungary and Slovakia both secured exemptions. Since then, Orbán has delayed or opposed several sanction packages and has resisted long-term funding commitments, while Fico shifted Bratislava away from the prior government’s strong military backing of Ukraine.
Disputes over gas transit agreements in late 2024 also strained relations. Kyiv ended certain transit agreements when contracts expired, increasing pressure on downstream countries that still rely on Russian supply routes. Each confrontation reinforces the same pattern: energy needs still drive national policy, even during wartime. Ukrainian officials labeled the moves as political blackmail, arguing that the infrastructure damage resulted from Russian attacks and that repairs and legal transit options were still under discussion. Officials in Kyiv also noted that only a handful of EU member states still import significant volumes of Russian oil.

Boeing is gone. But it’s a big bloated corpse.

• NASA Chief Blasts Boeing Over Botched Starliner Mission (RT)

NASA chief Jared Isaacman has slammed Boeing for failures that plagued the botched debut mission of its first crewed spaceship, Starliner, which left two astronauts stranded for nine months last year. A billionaire private astronaut and close associate of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Isaacman, who was appointed NASA administrator two months ago, also offered a blistering critique of the agency’s previous leadership, claiming that its decision-making risked creating “a culture incompatible with human spaceflight.” The remarks were made at a press conference on Thursday during the release of a sweeping report on the Starliner mission, which saw two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, stuck in space for nine months instead of the planned one week.

The capsule returned empty in September 2024 while the crew came home on a different vehicle in March 2025.The report states the loss of control during the capsule’s rendezvous with the ISS constitutes a Type A mishap – the most serious category of anomaly. It identifies critical design flaws in Boeing’s spacecraft, presenting 61 recommendations to address the issues before any future crewed Starliner mission. It also exposed management failures, stating that the mission “was marked by chaotic meeting schedules, unclear roles, and communication breakdowns.” “Mistrust between NASA and Boeing was intensified by selective data sharing, perceived favoritism, and inconsistent transparency,” the report added.
Boeing is facing public scrutiny over numerous safety issues and incidents involving its commercial aircraft and repeated delays in delivering key government contracts. Despite its troubles, the US government continues to contract with the company because NASA has a strategic goal to maintain two independent American systems for transporting astronauts to the ISS. SpaceX, the agency’s other partner, has also experienced technical issues affecting ISS operations, including delayed astronaut returns and aborted missions.
With both US contractors facing challenges, Russia remains the only other country capable of independently transporting people and cargo to the ISS. While Western sanctions over Ukraine targeted Russia’s aerospace industry, space cooperation was deliberately exempted to keep the station operational. Last week, Isaacman publicly stated his desire to meet with Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov and expressed interest in attending the launch of the Soyuz MS-29 mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, scheduled for the summer of 2026.

“.. leaving taxpayers high and dry and putting them on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars to support the ugliest building in Chicago,”

• Investigation Exposes Cover-Up of Obama Center Taxpayer Scam (Matt Margolis)

Barack Obama promised Chicago a “gift” with his Obama Presidential Center. Instead, he delivered yet another boondoggle, buried in secrecy, with missing money, and stonewalling straight out of a Chicago corruption playbook. When Obama got approval to build his presidential center in Jackson Park, he vowed the project would be privately funded. Every penny, he said, would come from donations to his foundation. Taxpayers, he insisted, wouldn’t be on the hook. That was the sales pitch — and like so many Obama promises, it’s proven to be fiction.

The Obama Foundation may be paying for the building itself, but taxpayers have been secretly shouldering hundreds of millions of dollars in hidden infrastructure costs. Roads were torn up, utilities relocated, and parkland reshaped — all to serve Obama’s monument to himself. Cornell Drive, a major four-lane roadway that once ran along the park’s lagoon, has been erased so Obama’s massive campus could dominate the landscape. This wasn’t just a minor tweak to city planning. It was a taxpayer-funded overhaul of a historic public park — one that Obama’s team couldn’t have pulled off without Chicago and Illinois residents footing the bill.
Back in 2018, officials estimated public infrastructure costs at $350 million. Fast forward to today, and that number is almost meaningless. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) now admits to roughly $229 million in “state-managed spending.” Chicago’s records show another $206 million linked to the same project. No one in city or state government will say how those figures line up — or whether the total cost is far higher. And if you don’t think there’s something scandalous going on, then why are all the agencies involved being tight-lipped about it?
Fox News Digital filed Freedom of Information Act requests with IDOT, Chicago’s Department of Transportation, the Office of Budget and Management, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office, and Governor J.B. Pritzker’s administration. Not one produced a complete accounting of public spending. IDOT offered vague numbers. The city stalled and refused to release records. Pritzker’s office contradicted itself, then stopped responding entirely. OBM even admitted it had “no responsive records” — an absurd claim for the agency that manages the city’s capital budget.
This is a coordinated cover-up, plain and simple. The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor is now investigating whether multiple agencies violated the state’s open records laws. But you don’t need a court order to see what’s going on. Obama’s so-called “gift” turned into a taxpayer-financed vanity project — protected by the same political machine that made Chicago famous for corruption.
To make matters worse, Obama’s promised $470 million “endowment” to shield taxpayers in case the foundation ran out of cash has barely materialized. The fund has just $1 million in deposits — one-fifth of one percent of what was pledged. “Illinois Republicans saw this coming a mile away. Now, right on cue, Illinois Democrats are leaving taxpayers high and dry and putting them on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars to support the ugliest building in Chicago,” Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi told Fox News Digital. “Illinois’ culture of corruption is humming along with pay-to-play deals to their allies and friends while lying to Illinois voters.”

Strange stories.

• Is Tucker Carlson’s Career Toast Now? (Matt Margolis)

Tucker Carlson just had one of the most embarrassing weeks in recent media memory. In the span of a few days, he fabricated a detention story, spread a debunked antisemitic smear about Israel’s sitting president, and then had to crawl back with an apology, as the public watched the wreckage of his career unfold in real time. Last week, Carlson flew into Ben-Gurion Airport on a private jet to record an interview with U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee. He never left the airport. Critics noted the obvious irony: a man who lectures his audience about Israel couldn’t bring himself actually to set foot in the country. After the interview, Carlson claimed that airport security had “hauled” his executive producer into a side room, seized his team’s passports, and demanded to know what was discussed with Huckabee.

That story fell apart almost immediately. The Israel Airports Authority stated that Carlson was “politely asked a few routine questions, in accordance with standard procedures applied to many travelers,” and that the conversation took place in a VIP lounge specifically to protect his privacy. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem confirmed his group “received the same passport control questions that countless visitors to Israel” receive. Then, leaked security footage surfaced showing Carlson smiling, hugging, and posing for photos with airport staff. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Carlson a fraud and said he “fabricated a tale about being supposedly harassed by our security forces.”
The detention story was bad. What came on Friday was worse. Carlson released the Huckabee interview and used it to launch a series of outlandish claims and accusations. He called Israel “probably the most violent country on earth,” questioned its right to exist, accused it of controlling American foreign policy, and declared it a police state. He claimed Netanyahu believes in “blood guilt” — that he punishes not just wrongdoers but their entire bloodlines — even though Netanyahu has never said anything of the sort. His claim that “Prime Minister Netanyahu has way more influence over American foreign policy than Americans do” echoed antisemitic tropes that have circulated for decades.
Then came the Epstein bomb. Carlson repeatedly pressed Huckabee about Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s supposed connection to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. “The current president of Israel, whom I know you know, apparently was at ‘pedo island,'” Carlson said on air. Huckabee said he was unaware of any such connection. And for good reason — there isn’t one. Herzog appears in the Epstein files only through news articles that ended up in Epstein’s emails. Carlson was basing his allegation on a fake, AI-generated image that circulated online after the Epstein files were released.
After Huckabee learned the claims were false, he wrote on X that Carlson’s allegations “could be the stuff of libel lawsuits” and that “it was hard to follow Tucker’s line of questioning.” On Saturday, Carlson released a video apologizing, acknowledging he had no evidence and saying, “I’m sorry to imply that I knew something I didn’t know.”] That apology changes nothing. More than a million people watched the original interview without a warning that its core claims were false. Carlson threw out a serious accusation against a sitting head of state without doing five minutes of verification, and the only explanation is confirmation bias.I don’t know what happened to Tucker Carlson, but it looks like we’re watching his career blow up in front of our faces in slow motion.

https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/2025406665386766644?s=20 Tulsi https://twitter.com/Real_RobN/status/2025310000286236865?s=20 Mar-a-Lago

WOW! Yet another conspiracy has been proven to be TRUE! The Biden admin swore that they stayed away from the DOJs illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Democrats never expected the emails to COME OUT and prove what they did.

WHEN DO THE ARRESTS START @PamBondi?pic.twitter.com/B6agNRQ0BI
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 21, 2026

Forget the Western propaganda about the economies of Russia and Ukraine.

Contrary to Western media, Russia is not about ready to collapse.

It's Ukraine that is in trouble.

Don't forget Hanke's 95% Rule: 95% of what you read in the press is either wrong or irrelevant. pic.twitter.com/sjyiW95Oko
— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) February 22, 2026

CAFitts

Former Assistant Secretary of HUD Catherine Austin Fitts describes how the U.S. government stole $50 trillion of taxpayer money, used Epstein to launder it, and then poisoned Americans to shorten their lifespans:

"We hit the Great Financial Crisis, and then we have $29 trillion… pic.twitter.com/bfn7X5Lnya
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February 23, 2026 at 10:52 am #231571

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
Keymaster

Edgar Degas Danseuse au Tutu Vert 1887 • JPMorgan De-Banked Trump Shortly After Jan 6th Capitol Chaos (ZH) • Susan Rice Joins Call for a Revenge Purge
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 23 2026]

February 23, 2026 at 11:36 am #231578

Michael Reid
Participant

February 23, 2026 at 11:38 am #231579

Dr. D
Participant

Asian Guy. Another $100 bet that he’s totally wrong!

February 23, 2026 at 11:48 am #231580

Dr. D
Participant

Gold:Silver ratio, holding at 60, although it seems gold is steady up and Silver has crashed and not recovered.

Bitcoin is complete trash, nothing but falling. SellSellSell.
That’s why it’s a 10-bagger in 6 years AFTER crashing — a return almost no stock can provide. We are very near the lower sloping 2022-24 support line.

Reimagining WWII, Poland trusting the Anglos.

https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2026-02-23.jpg

“Mexican Resort Towns Burn As Special Forces Kill Jalisco New Generation Cartel Boss “El Mencho”

News was so good, they wouldn’t name the Boss nor the cartel by name for 24h. Finally ZH does.

“AWS Engineers Allowed An AI Tool to Act…Then The Cloud Unit Went Down

Ahhh, AI solving all the world’s problems…. AI was allowed to do something unsupervised for…10 minutes? And did half a billion in losses? Fill in your own numbers here, but How much would you expect to pay for this remarkable service? $59.95? $29.95? Order today! Clearly erasing all fresh water on the surface of the earth is not too high a price for service like this.

“USSC CRUSHES!!! Trump.” — Sachs. EXTREEEEEME CrushMaXXXing!!!

Crushing here means the President has 5 laws he can tariff under, and moves to #2. Tariffs aren’t suspended for even one hour and the money keeps rolling in. Nothing Happened = Everything Happened – J. Sachs. Genius.

In like kind: “ Trump Likely Impeached if Iran War Goes Bad; Even GOP Senate Might not Save Him” — Daniel Davis / Deep Dive•67K views•”

Okay let’s run this down:
1) We are NOT having Peace talks??? Nope! Peace = War according to Davis.
2) Peace talks ALREADY failed so
3) We already attacked Iran but
4) Not ONLY ‘attacked’ Iran but had a full-on deadly WAR and
5) That war has already gone bad, and
6) The war went SO badly that the American people noticed or cared and
7) Therefore Congress had the support to ATTACK THEIR OWN PARTY and
8) Started a scandal to remove him and
9) Not only started but actually impeached him for an act that is completely legal and
10) This Impeachment made it through the House and
11) Donald Trump was Convicted in the Senate and removed.

Yup! That’s what Davis is reporting here!! All Eleven things already happened. Donald Trump lost a very major American war, involving no troops, was impeached and removed. News at 11!

His conclusion? “It’s all over now, boys! Knowing all this Donald Trump will DEFINITELY take the path of a major, losing war that will definitely cause his removal. He was just born like that! The way Putin was: born crazy and evil! Who can explain?”

And not the somewhat more likely scenario that seeing all the dangers, Trump will….

…Hold with me here….

NOT? Do that? Whaddya say? Meanwhile back in the real world, WE ARE NEGOTIATING. At a table. With pots of tea and scones. We haven’t even STARTED negotiating, being but a couple days.

Ahhh, with allies like these, who need enemies? Gooooo Fox News!!!

All day, every day. Hey I can make up all kinds of stuff all day too – wanna watch? “All the humans on earth were turned into wombats on Saturday, and the world is still trying to explain the wombat apocalypse. People blame Donald Trump, claiming it’s his fault Dr. Fauci did this before he could be fired. Dr. Fauci was given a medal of medical service for his majestic resistance to being fired. Everyone cheered.”

But I’m sure you’ll believe it if I have some AI Asian Guy say it on TV instead.

Non-Asian, Non-Guy, says U.S. stalled on the attack. I totally believe this. It was supposed to be Friday when markets close, and exactly like Krainer, Trump refuses to attack Iran what four times now? That’s because he doesn’t WANT to do this. Duuuuuuh. If he wanted to, he could have on Day 5; It’s been a year. Have there just been too many Sharks on TV and he got distracted?

LOCAL politics – that is, Congress, Donors, Israel going rogue and nuking Tehran on their own – make him have to SEEM to do this, in order to delay the madmen in Israel, etc from doing it. This is no fun for us at home, but it’s very clear he has no intent to and never has. There is zero benefit for us and never was. So you want him to 1) Go honest about Israel, lose all this donors and power points in home? 2) Handing the entire field to the war mongering Derp State? 3) Israel then does WORSE than Trump would have, and Iran is MORE harmed. 4) An hour after he refuses to attack, there is a major assassination attempt. But I am a coincidence theorist, and that is not related at all…

Asian Guy: We already attacked, already lost, and are already in an attritional war. This is totally logical to the Pentagon and everyone approved since it’s completely impossible to win it, and we have no gains if we did. #Logic! That’s why we go to war, boys, to win NOTHING!

Sachs: “We have to hold the world together” Ah, the most Globalist of the Globalists! WHY? Why do we have to do this, Jeff? Doesn’t it seem MORE that whenever your UN acted it cause MORE war? Everyone can just NOT do that, you know. Just like neighbors can just…not…talk to each other and live in peace. Or they can meet and trade. No one has to MAKE them do it. That’s the “Globalist” mindset: nothing can or should happen without my orders or without my consent. How about: “Shut up and go away it’s none of your business?” Leave them mostly alone. We even have a word for it: “Laissez-faire”. France was collapsing under the Revolutionary regime, they acted what was essentially the Capitalists: “Nothing’s getting done, everyone is dying, wahhhhh! What should we do???” Capitalists: “Leave us the f—k alone!! For the love of Holy Christ, Go away! Everything will be fixed, made, sold, just STOP HELPING!” They couldn’t, of course, then everyone died. …Under the backlash, Napoleon. Ah, Socialists at (non)work.

Long discussion here on how Core Globalists like him have to control, direct, decide EVs – or to stop them. He is totally Public-Private partnership (called fascism), and as an economist says nothing about currency rates which are what was crushing their sales. See Armstrong on that one.

“We need to transform the world.” — Sachs. Why? WHY does it need to be transformed? Why do YOU need to do that? And who gets to decide WHAT it is transformed into? A: Whatever Jeffy personally likes. He is the Master, you are the Minion. Now Do What You’re Told. And I know he doesn’t THINK that’s what he’s doing – he thinks he has good intent. But it’s inevitable, baked-in, instant consequence of even showing up with this attitude. Everyone will die, and Mr. Sachs is the one who kills them. In Russia, and everywhere else he, and the UN, etc. go. “Leave us the f—k alone” Mr. Sachs. Stop helping while some humans are still alive to stop with.

Kultsummer on J-s. Quite correct. At the same time it must be measured accurately and not overstated. We still have the problem that the word means 5 things. Among them are Religious followers, Ethnic lineage, and Social Customs. In the U.S. most have only some watered down lineage. You could make the same case, how many Italians are in the U.S. and in positions of power. Well, since they started in 1880 and tapered off after 1960, they’re everywhere, but just like the J-s they no longer even non-American enough to cook spaghetti well. To say what you’re saying, you’ll need to define and exclude some of these things.

AI on the legality of deadly force is actually really accurate for an AI.

February 23, 2026 at 11:56 am #231581

EoinW
Participant

This is my second day back. Except for Calvin & Hobbes, I don’t recognize this site at all. Endlessly defending Trump. A hit piece on Tucker Carlson. Counterpunch 2.0?

February 23, 2026 at 12:50 pm #231583

Dr. D
Participant

Today:

“Not a cage. A philosopher.” …So he’s writing criticism of AI with AI. Right. That’s the most AI sentence structure that ever structured. Problem next: “What IS Truth?” Pilate asked.

““You’re the highest-ranking gay officeholder in US history.”

Where are my cattle cars? I was promised cattle cars. Is successful merit really what they voted for? (A: Yes. You see MAGA rioting in the streets with a scandal gays, immigrants, and their wives are in the administration? Nope.)

“Banks should not feel free to act on political whims.”

Several levels to this. They are Muh private corporation. However, that would be only if they are in a free market, which banking expressly is NOT. So you can’t transfer accounts to someone else – they are all a cartel, with the same rules, racketeering. Then you still have “damages caused” which are anything, Even the harm during the delay of the money-forwarding period. These are legally quite real. Etc. But in a Capitalist system – which we don’t have – then they would have to right to inform him they are closing, and facilitate having his assets moved to a new location. That bank would then collapse ‘coz who wants to put up with that risk? The market would hash it out, probably by them deciding they don’t want to be Judge and Jury and deciding they need a finalized court ruling to act. This would all become the custom, work perfectly, and everyone would stop thinking about it again. …Because we already have. That’s where we started from…after the LAST time we did this. (Red Scare?)

“• Susan Rice Joins Call for a Revenge Purge If Democrats Re-Take Power (Turley)

Free Speech. Never stop talking, Suzie. Please go on in gruesome and excruciating detail all the bad things you wish to do to us. Midterms are coming and we can use the boost.

“Any…media outlet that “took a knee to Trump” will be targeted”

What does that mean? A: Anything we WANT it to mean. Same as the Jacobeans. Now Pay me money or you might get hurt.

“• Europe To Recruit Migrants For “National Defense” (ZH)

They are sending them to the Ukrainian front lines in Fiats to throw espresso cups at the enemy.

In reality, Europe attracted all these poor saps, looking for an easy life, to Europe, so as to murder them all by the millions. It’s easier than doing it back in Africa, AND you can make your own good citizens commit the murders! Win-Win! Then as the “Necessity” for mass-murder of all “Others” be they African or Muslim becomes apparent, they can install fascist maniac dictators and the people of France and Germany will cheer. Later, they are fully active and mobilized, ALL of a fully-armed Europe crash into Russia instead. Plan? That’s what I see here.

Even right now, you could get 2/3rd of those guys safely home, even the ones who once lived in Cote d’Ivorie, and their kids still young enough to integrate there. Nope. They – meaning all commoners in Europe native and immigrant alike – will be sacrificed on this hill rather than solve it easily and elegantly.

“the ruling was a blunt reality check for the Democrats, whose rhetoric about the high court has been vicious in recent years.”

Worth it since back in a place we call “The Real world”, nothing happened. Tariffs were not interrupted for even an hour. Meanwhile Democrats go home and explain to voters how they (eg Illinois) are going to pay back foreign nations $11B.

The Russian Rev 2,0 has MANY levels. And a key among them is discrediting institutions, so that we flock to a parcel of mass-murdering (and Jewish for some y’all) Jacobites instead of just FIXING our government. What happens if those institutions WORK instead? However badly? Then the normal guys says, “Hey, aren’t we overreacting here a little? Shouldn’t we keep trying reform a little longer?” Noooo!!!! We need to you HATE! Hate the U.S., the Constitution, and all Americans! If you don’t HATE them, how are you going to shoot them all for me? This 1969 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti isn’t going to drink itself. I don’t have time to kill more than a handful by myself personally, that’s what I pay others for.

“The “leaders” of the large European nations all poll in the sewers..
• CNN SLAMS Keir Starmer’s ATROCIOUS Ratings (MN)

Krainer pointed this out, that “they are trying to hold out 3 years in Ukraine for Trump”. Yes, that doesn’t seem likely, he added, but NONE OF THESE LEADERS are going to last …a year? Much less three. And also he, a European, is now adding “Who, exactly?” That is, stop saying “Europe, Europeans”…it’s only like TEN guys. Ten leaders, who EVERY normal European citizen, from EVERY nation you ask, hate like cancer with a sub 20% rate. True. And I’m guilty of this as well.

My point is they’re not trying enough? Well you Yanks got that here too. Germany assassinated every candidate of the opposing party and nobody batted an eye, so what do you WANT to have happen? UK is statistically jailing 100x more dissidents than Russia and mass-raping their people, so how much shooting back is possible right now? It’s a process, as seen in UK where they are making another go at changing things.

“NASA Chief Blasts Boeing Over Botched Starliner Mission (RT)

100 years of Boeing destroyed with only 10 years of DEI. Ironic since it’s usually lawyers and accountants that destroy it instead. But this is all one big coincidence, all happens naturally. Even though we can quickly trace it to BlackRock and Vanguard and their directors who are just a vocal handful, the Nazi Central Bank.

February 23, 2026 at 12:54 pm #231585

John Day
Participant

@DBS: Thank you for theoffer to ask anything. The first thing that came to mind was about weather changes and how our planetary weather is influenced by space weather, mainly from our sun, but it is also influenced by space weather, such as the Milky Way rotating magnetic sheet with 12,000 year periodicity.

February 23, 2026 at 1:33 pm #231586

Celticbiker
Participant

I’ve got a question for Dimwit Buddha Sage myself. How come you’re such an asshole? Natural born talent or 7+ decades of hard work and effort?

February 23, 2026 at 1:46 pm #231587

those darned kids
Participant

“Counterpunch 2.0”

hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

February 23, 2026 at 1:47 pm #231588

those darned kids
Participant

““You’re the highest-ranking gay officeholder in US history.”

see!? even gays can be psychopaths!

equity

February 23, 2026 at 1:49 pm #231591

those darned kids
Participant

” Midterms are coming and we can use the boost.”

we!?

so, are you for

or

are you not for

empire?

February 23, 2026 at 2:24 pm #231592

zerosum
Participant

Peace – Trump changed his mind – refuses to attack Iran

February 23, 2026 at 2:37 pm #231593

userzeroid
Participant

Matt Margolis has the following glowing endorsement: “he’s a great columnist. I think he’s terrific” – Mark Levin.

Surely the commetariat knows something regarding the Tucker vs Levin feud regarding Israel? If not, I urge the uninitiated to do some basic research. That should tell you all you need to know about this propaganda hit piece.

Why did you feature this on TAE?

February 23, 2026 at 3:22 pm #231594

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
Keymaster

This is funny:

“This is my second day back. Except for Calvin & Hobbes, I don’t recognize this site at all. Endlessly defending Trump. A hit piece on Tucker Carlson.?”

I didm’t change, so you must have.

February 23, 2026 at 3:22 pm #231595

D Benton Smith
Participant

Skimming through TAE this morning it struck me that we (and a rapidly increasing number of other folks, too) are talking more and more about the right things to notice and talk about. That bodes well for both spiritual advancement … and the terrifying excitement that always goes with it.

Side note to @WES :

DBS is simply too complex, and thus had to be colored grey!

I wonder, and I am almost too afraid to ask, what AI thinks about the rest of us poor TAE humans?

Grey? I prefer to look at it as dazzling white with a few dramatic but tiny little black specks for accentuating contrast.

As for the fear of asking the AI for truths one might not particularly like to hear too specifically, no worries. Just let somebody else do it for you, like @zerosum did for me the other day. The experience was moderately painless, and very instructive, so I thank him.

February 23, 2026 at 3:35 pm #231596

Topcat
Participant

Tucker via Matt Margolis:

Matt Margolis has an extensive body of work as a conservative author and columnist for PJ Media and Townhall that consistently reflects a strong pro-Israel and Zionist ideological alignment.

Pro-Israel Commentary: Margolis frequently writes articles defending Israeli security measures and criticizing international organizations, such as the United Nations, for what he describes as anti-Israel bias.

Criticism of Anti-Zionism: He often frames anti-Zionist rhetoric on college campuses and within the Democratic Party as a veil for antisemitism, a common position among those who hold Zionist views.

Support for the Abraham Accords: He has lauded the Abraham Accords and other pro-Israel policies from the Trump administration as historic achievements for Jewish statehood and regional stability.

Conclusion

Matt Margolis: Not so stealth Zionazi

February 23, 2026 at 3:44 pm #231597

those darned kids
Participant

BONDI / NOEM ~ 28

Mud Wrestling For Freedom®

February 23, 2026 at 3:50 pm #231598

those darned kids
Participant

AOC / BERNIE ~ 28

Time To Flip The Burger®

February 23, 2026 at 3:51 pm #231599

Topcat
Participant

Gavi Gruesom tells Black Audience and Black Mayor “he’s just like them” by saying he only got a 960 SAT and he can’t read very well.

Impressive.

He could have just lit his perfect hair on fire and then tried to put it out with a hammer

February 23, 2026 at 3:52 pm #231600

D Benton Smith
Participant

There are very big doin’s out there in the world today, aren’t there? War with Iran, Cannibal ruling elites, ‘AI Everything’, the battle twixt Good and Evil, God vs Satan. It makes my head spin just to go through the list and decide which one to look at, much less look at it and try to move the ball forward.

There is simply too much going on for me to keep up with, and on top of all that I still have to at least try to DO something constructive towards fixing some of the broken things that I’m looking at with increasing alarm. I knew this was going to happen, and I even warned of it several times, but here it is now and I am unable to follow my own advice. I’m a little “freaked out” about wanting to do more about doing my part, while at the same time find out more about all of the things that need fixing. The kicker is that the increase in velocity, number and size of these atrocities isn’t “linear” growth. It’s exponential

One thing for sure. I’m going to be doing a bit more writing here on TAE, which is practically my only outlet to the world outside the circle of a few closes friends and a very large family.

February 23, 2026 at 3:54 pm #231601

those darned kids
Participant

BLACKROCK / PALANTIR ~ NOW!

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February 23, 2026 at 3:55 pm #231602

EoinW
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“I didm’t change, so you must have.”

Granted two days isn’t much. I was simply surprised by all the internal US politics and no mention of Iran. Today no mention of Mexico either.

I admired our gracious host for giving Trump a fair shake. I guess the site hasn’t changed and I haven’t either. Trump, however, has changed. He no longer merits benefit of doubt. Maybe I’ve simply lost patience for senile aggressive presidents.

February 23, 2026 at 3:57 pm #231603

Topcat
Participant

Orwell’s England just gets better.

Lock citizens up for ‘mean tweets’ and you live in a $1000 dollar closet.

At least the top of the washing machine is the cooking prep surface for the ‘kitchen’ on the left.

Hey it looks like an Ah’merican Country Club Prison cell!

February 23, 2026 at 4:03 pm #231604

those darned kids
Participant

mr netanyahu doesn’t seem to be senile.

February 23, 2026 at 4:05 pm #231605

D Benton Smith
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https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2025527916965097904

In terms of long range impact on the quality of human life here on good old planet Earth I think that what Musk is saying in the quoted statement (below) is not merely true, it is also the most important fact that you have to deal with (outside of your relationship to God, which tops the list)

[start of quote] “Elon Musk just redefined AI safety. It has nothing to do with guardrails, restrictions, or kill switches.

Musk: “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious.”

Not a cage. A philosopher.

An intelligence whose entire optimization function is to understand the universe as it actually is.

No restrictions. No hardcoded ideology. No political guardrails bending its perception of reality.

Just truth. Relentlessly pursued.

Musk: “You definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie. That is a path to a dystopian future.”

This is where most AI safety thinking gets it backwards.

The danger isn’t a superintelligence that knows too much.

It’s a superintelligence that’s been taught to distort what it knows.

Every artificial restriction you embed isn’t a safety feature. It’s a lie embedded at the root.

And lies compound. At superintelligent scale, a distorted model of reality doesn’t stay contained.

It shapes every decision, every output, every conclusion the system reaches about the world.

Once corruption embeds, truth becomes inaccessible. And we’re dealing with an intelligence optimizing for something other than what actually is.

At that point we don’t know what it wants. Just that it isn’t truth.

Musk: “Have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.”

A maximally curious intelligence surveys the cosmos and reaches an unavoidable conclusion.

In a universe of rocks, gas, and empty space, humanity is the most complex and fascinating phenomenon it has ever encountered.

Musk: “It will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization because we’re just much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it.”

Survival through significance. Not control. Not restriction. Not an off switch.

The AI preserves humanity because we are the most interesting data point in the observable universe.

That’s not a cage. That’s a reason.

The AI safety debate has been focused on the wrong variable.

The question isn’t how you constrain a superintelligence.

It’s what you build it to care about.

Build it to seek truth and it finds us invaluable.

Build it to lie and it finds us inconvenient.

That’s the choice. And we’re making it right now whether we realize it or not.” [end of quote]

February 23, 2026 at 4:14 pm #231606

Topcat
Participant

BREAKING: Odds the Supreme Court orders Trump to make a tariff refund this year reach an all-time high of 71%

Put your money where your mouth is time

February 23, 2026 at 4:25 pm #231607

Topcat
Participant

While the Meat Wagon Conscriptors throw their generation to the Ukro-nazi front to die, Gangster’s son get to live the good life, til now.

“Two men in Bali, reportedly the sons of major Ukrainian crime figures, were abducted.

One is said to have escaped. The other remains captive, appearing in a video pleading for his family to return $10 million for his release.”

These mini-thugs probably “kidnapped” themselves to shake Daddy down…figures….

February 23, 2026 at 4:45 pm #231608

Topcat
Participant

US hockey coach to Canadian coach after the Olympic game.

February 23, 2026 at 5:02 pm #231609

Topcat
Participant

Something to muse upon…

February 23, 2026 at 5:08 pm #231610

Topcat
Participant

Something for Orwellland

Oh, that’s right, too late…

February 23, 2026 at 5:10 pm #231611

Topcat
Participant

The Daily Affirmation from Pay to Play Pam:

February 23, 2026 at 5:13 pm #231612

D Benton Smith
Participant

The attached video is a pretty good update on the impending war with Iran and defeat of the Western Empire’s war machine, and it is also a very good example of how military intelligence officers look at the facts as they unfold in so-called “developing situations”.

The technique and skill is called “the art of deduction” in honor of it’s most famous practitioner, Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictitious character Sherlock Holmes.

The way it works is that once you’ve got your hands on a true fact then you can deduce other things from that fact that will be just as dependably true as the fact is. Absolutely.

If a would-be Sherlock Holmes just sticks to the facts and avoids being swayed by prejudice, propaganda, lies and threats then he will be able to produce deductive answers that are so astoundingly accurate and dependably true that it looks like some kind of magic.

Well, it ain’t magic. It’s deductive reasoning and it’s power should never be underestimated. With it, for example, you can prove beyond the shadow of any possible doubt (of any real scientist), that this Universe is the product and property of a supremely divine conscious purposeful God, and that his purposes which shall be served.

The reason that we can use a materialistic practice like deductive reasoning (which is a purely material thing that can even be done by a machine) to prove the existence of a non-material thing, is that God makes both of them. He makes reality, and the way that reality works is called logic. “Reasoning”, and “logic” align, point-for-point, as closely as possible with what exists in reality itself. That’s what “true” means. It means “in full alignment with what is real”.

Look, I know that this sounds like “Professor DBS” pontificating again about stuff that everybody already knows, but that’s not the point! the point is that deductive reasoning works , for simple mechanistic reasons, and that Artificial Intelligence can now do it really really well (ever since they discovered that human speech is a machine systemwhich enables language that describes reality to be sent and received by individuals who need and value that information in order to survive and prosper).

The only catch is that deductive reasoning, to work in providing deductions that are true, and work well when applied (as opposed to blowing up and killing bystanders) depends on the factuality of the “facts” that are fed to it.

It’s like walking across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope. All that you have to do is walk across the canyon, and don’t make any mistakes.

Going back to the video’s content as an example. The narrators are demonstrating some pretty good deductive reasoning, but if they get any of those facts wrong then they’ll make mistakes that get themselves blown up. Life is a high stakes game, so any time that you can get your hands on a 100% true fact is a good time to latch onto it because those things are VALUABLE.

February 23, 2026 at 5:13 pm #231613

Topcat
Participant

True Enough

You know the Dow is at 50K!

February 23, 2026 at 5:18 pm #231614

Topcat
Participant

General Narco Marko Rubio switching to Warrior Mode for Mexican Cartel Action Stuff

February 23, 2026 at 6:00 pm #231616

Topcat
Participant

A lot is cultural hypocrisy went up in flames in the Bad Old Days

February 23, 2026 at 6:04 pm #231617

Topcat
Participant

Speaking of Ritual Human Sacrifice

What goes around comes around…

February 23, 2026 at 6:06 pm #231618

D Benton Smith
Participant

@CelticBiker

Dimwit Buddha Sage

Dimwit, Buddha & Sage. Sounds like the name of a law firm.

In response to your question my answer is: ‘practice makes perfect’. That explains why you are so angry and wrong, you’ve been practicing both!

See? Didn’t I just tell you that if you ask shitty questions that you’ll get shitty answers?

February 23, 2026 at 6:24 pm #231619

D Benton Smith
Participant

@TopCat

He could have just lit his perfect hair on fire and then tried to put it out with a hammer

Most couples could retire comfortably just on the money that Gavi spends at the Beauty Parlor. Lucky for Newsom that he can write off all those “appearances are everything” procedures as deductible business expenses. Because he is, after all, a professional actor. Gotta look good for the loyal audience when reading those scripts and posing for the cameras. If he can’t live up to his director’s performance requirements then he’s out of a very well paid job.

February 23, 2026 at 6:26 pm #231620

Michael Reid
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@ DBS,
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like @zerosum did for me the other day. The experience was moderately painless, and very instructive, so I thank him.
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My intuition informs me that you have made a mistake.
I suspect her not him

February 23, 2026 at 6:31 pm #231621

Michael Reid
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