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    Johannes Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window 1657-59 • A Feral and Savage Party (James Howard Kunstler) • No Conspiracy Required (Stephen
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 28 2026]

    #239475
    those darned kids
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    The Automatic Zionist

    #239504
    Just Some Randomer
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    “NO nukes and NO control of the Strait.”

    And a pink pony too? Why not?

    #239505
    Dr. D
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    Probably true. No warranties. The entire West believes this, this is the natural and inevitable end state. There is nothing here yet alarming them and activating anyone’s sense of moral Right and Wrong.

    No markets anywhere yet. Dow is high AF, has been for decades, what can you say? US$, no change. Gold and silver building long term patterns. Oil blah, nothing. Probably because none of the markets are real and are disconnected from delivery price.

    So if anything exists out there, markets don’t show it yet.

    What we KNOW is happening is, the longer Iran is closed, the more money flows are habituated to flow through Texas and NY, (Actually Miami) and stop flowing to London and Zurich long-term. And UAE. These are like…tidal flows, I guess, and can’t be minimized bc that’s all that makes the US$ function either: Habit. So now we are in the HABIT of ignoring Iran long-term.

    Rumor has it, they ALREADY cut a deal, in FEBRUARY, just like Maduro did. Okay, we know these things DO happen, but you got a lot of war to explain in that case. So WHO cut the deal? Cuz it looks like whoever would have ordered the U.S. to bomb the s—t out of the IRGC alone (we did) with a quid pro quo they would bomb the S—t out of Israel for us (they did). And that we would leave our bases in the M.E. (looks like) and kill the “radar” that may have been the HAARP stations that have been causing Iranian drought(remains to be seen, if it starts raining, would be a big coincidence).

    I got nothin’ on this. No idea, only that it’s certainly possible because the OFFICIAL story that Iran is making us rich out of clever strategy after we leveled them makes NO sense at all. Here’s one though: why NOT, as a condition of peace, allow Iran to charge an official toll as other nations do (Panama)? Idgaf. Who cares? if it’s reasonable. No one. Then Iran gets money directly and Lloyd’s has nothing to insure there. Win-win. This would be a great “Win” for Iran to triumph!!!!!! over Capt Cheeto, when really it means literally nothing. Iran IS a country. They DO need to have revenue. They WILL sell oil, so what’s the dif if they also secure the strait so long as they are trustworthy and don’t use it to attack all their neighbors like they have all this month.

    So they’re attacking Turkey and that’s okay? Like we’re attacking Iran, but slipped and dropped a few bombs in Montreal by accident? What would you say to that? A: When Iran does it, it’s fine. When Iran bombs children, they are not real children, because: Internet points.

    “Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddon UNZ

    As a reporter, markets indicate the very exact #Opposite. Being aware of that and not being #DeadWrong is something reporters and experts used to do. In fact, some American stocks are going straight up.

    “we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat.”
    these words were reposted by Bill Kristol, the founder of the Weekly Standard and the current editor-in-chief of The Bulwark. Kristol was a leading conservative figure in the Republican Party. Kristol left the Republican Party and is now a vehemently anti-Trump writer.”

    Kristol is the poster child for NeoCons. He’s the arch enemy of Trump. This of course, means that Trump is a NeoCOn, and his enthusiastic endorsement for the assassination is because NeoCons and Globalists all go around shooting…themselves. That’s #Winning, you know, when they’re the same team. Kristol is also radically Pro-Israel, iirc, so clearly whatever Trump is doing appears to be the Opposite of that to him. Nutsy used to hang out in Jersey with the Kristols, iirc, plotting exactly what many here say: to have the U.S. be their slave and minion and checkbook.
    And they hate Trump with the heat of 1,000 suns.

    Any gears turning here? And sparks going off?

    Trump is their “Club” he’s their waterboy, doing only what they want daily…which is why they try to kill him daily.

    …Why do I bother? I’ve now said this every day for 10 years that a thing and it’s Opposite are not the same, and every day, Day 32, makes no difference, has no effect. Reason, Facts, logic, have no hold at all.

    Article continues: “James Carville declared, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust. Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

    They have ALREADY done this, in 20 ways before now. VA just ignored their whole Constitution, in main, and all bylaws, to pack their already astonishingly gerrymandered state (look at any map) to be 10:1 against when it’s 50-50 on the ground. Election law being one, immigration being another. But this is only Democrats, Republicans act the same, right? Well, Thune is getting out of bed to come put the Senate in session for two minutes at 2am in order to keep Trump from having recess appointments, and refusing to seat the 90 prosecutors all American Republicans want there to prosecute crime, Epstein, etc, and upholding election fraud, stopping even mild, normal bills that say “It’s Okay to have an ID”. This goes back to Gingrich. So no, Republicans are NOT running the same tricks. We just call them the SLOW Democrats, the SLOW Communists. Democrats like AOC and Omar go as fast as they can to Stalinism. Republicans exist as the “Fabian Socialists” insuring the pace remains slow enough it doesn’t alarm anyone and American keep ingesting the poison daily and willingly. It has been working wonderfully for 60+ years.

    “AI Needs Silver… Silver Isn’t Moving (Yet)

    Demand dos not mean price rises. In fact, there can be dead shortages in critical materials and prices never rise. This happens regularly in silver.

    “Germany’s Merz Says US ‘Humiliated’ By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan

    I don’t understand. Did something happen? We are flying over every inch of their country from coast to coast with impunity and have shut off their ports and revenue without landing a soldier. The shooting war has been over for 20 days, Iran is not hitting anything in eg Israel. They’re out. Strange humiliation to beat a nation of 90M in 20 days, have them by the neck and shake them, and it’s called “Losing”. How?

    A: My Feelz Wants It. “We Make S–t Up.”

    Israel Bombs Deep Into Lebanon For First Time Of 3-Week Ceasefire

    What “ceasefire” means to Israel. And what American threats mean to Israel as well. As expected. We should annoy Tehran again on the quid pro quo they hit N. Israel.

    “They hate President Trump because he will not comply with their ‘Rules-based Order’.”

    Notice who is NOT getting assassination attempts: Everyone. Thune, McConnell, Jordan, Roberts, etc.

    Bret Baier: “You have been called a Nazi, a white supremacist, a fascist. Just to name a few.”

    Quite a thing to say to an Immigrant and America’s most prominent African-American! Why do they hate Africans and Immigrants so much? The only people they hate more are Hindus, Samoans, Women, and men with immigrant wives.

    But: HATE, so the side of the angels, you know.

    “Don’t you love the way the news media pretends it can’t figure out the motive of Cole Tomas Allen,”

    Hate again. And LOVE of violence. Yes, I was going to remark on that, “Suspected” Assassin, “Unknown motives”, “unknown plan.” No, that’s not the usual language for this, not historically, and certainly not since 2016 when Trump or a Republican eating carrots means he hates carrots and wants them all to die. Anyone within 100 miles of DC on J6 is summarily jailed. (Tarrio was nearly this far away, an FBI informant) They seem to know the motive and plan with no trial at all.

    But: Adult Americans spoke; Therefore they were lying. Open mouth: Lie fell out. But when Fox News speaks, CNN, it’s totally different. Despite having lied mostly for 25 years since 2002 – all provable – nothing happened at all, nothing changed, no one apologized, but like the CIA because nothing happened and no one was held accountable, they all tell the truth now starting this Monday, just now.

    It’s not THAT they lie that gets me. It’s that after 25 years without a single breath devoid of lying PEOPLE STILL CAN’T CATCH ON. Everybody proven wrong for a lifetime are still experts and quoted with breathless, starry-eyed puppy love. Aw Backstreet Bois, you’re the best! Justin Timberlake 4 Evah! Except for Fox News. Ew.

    ““I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done,”

    He had the feelz. This went as well as it usually does, and Rage is definitely the side of the angels, as is mass murder. When you have the Feelz, there’s no choice! It’s okay to kill people then!

    Speaking of, at the bottom of this article (on the site) is the legacy of Democrats: a doctor was giving out Covid force-vaccination, “I was an untested medical experiment today”, and although avoiding jail, she owes a $10,000 fine. This is the Freedom and goal they have for all of you. This is the “Democracy” they are protecting and believe in. Every word of Covid (essentially) was a lie, all done by the same people, who we all credit now as being earnest good-faith actors.

    “assassin Cole Allen’s manifesto and social media posts is that they’re “generally indistinguishable from most liberal social medial accounts belonging to Democrat voters in America.” Dems, you have a problem.”

    That’s not a problem, that’s a plan. The plan is to destroy the United States and everything it stands for, from the face of the earth, forever. (And install techno neofeudalism) They are happy and excited they are finally here, at the “shooting and killing everyone” part. Especially shooting and killing the dirty Proletariat workers widely the scum. Plus the poors. Yuck. 100M dead in the 20th century remember, so they are way behind!

    “@RepJeffries called for “Maximum Warfare Everywhere All The Time,”

    This is not just talk. This is their dream well-proven by 80 years of non-stop actions. This is the “Eternal Revolution” where new people must be killed daily in the outbreak of brotherly love…against the poors.

    “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

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    What happens to real journalists, from:

    That is, Leftists kill them. The only enemy is Truth.

    Donald Trump came out of this weekend a lot bigger than he went in. A lot.

    Doesn’t look like any change at all to me. If anything Democrats are excited and motivated by the potential for murder. I’d say not a good look, but they turn to the Democrat next to them, who agrees.

    “• Again, Fetterman Breaks Ranks After the Third Attempt on Trump’s Life (Manney)

    Imagine: An elected government official who doesn’t think we should just let the public shoot all elected officials! What will Democrats discover next? I don’t mean to pick on only Democrats, obviously, but: LOOK! They are in favor of killing…themselves? WTF.

    Yes, because all violence is good violence. …When that is the true goal and religion of your god.

    Jimmy Kimmel was also despicable about the Charlie Kirk assassination.”

    Shirley is also regularly threatened to be “Kirked”. Which shows two parts: one the death threat, yes. Second, the people sending it are proud and elated at murder. Of basically anyone. With no process. They are happy, when they speak of it, they have joy and emotional excitement at the mere thought of murder, death, brains blown against the wall, on Kirk’s wife, blood spattering all over her children, delightful! Happy claps! My god rejoices!

    “• Charlottesville: The Deceit Underlying the Hoax (Steve Cortes)
    “Now, nearly a decade later, the truth is revealed about the deception that lay beneath that grand lie”

    Nope. No one will believe it or care. I deal with liberals all the time. They will just tune it out as the words are being spoken, and it will never register. I’m sure no one thought back in 2017 it would take this level, this saga, to clear something so obvious a single click could fix, yet here we are. …And still no one will click, “Fine People Hoax”, even as it’s in the ultra far-left, “Snopes” as an actual, total hoax. The level to which reality doesn’t matter, sadly only the evil people really understood. Set a calendar appointment, ask someone about this in a week: it will have never happened.

    “The Greek government announced a major crackdown to close down approximately 60 unlicensed or illegal mosques”

    Speaking of fascism: so religious people are not allowed to meet anywhere without the government’s express permission? What is the basis of this law? So if me and a friend are in Tim Horton’s and a Bible passage comes up, we’ll be arrested?

    Planting: demonstrates if you have infinity money and add infinity time and care, you can grow a potato that costs 5c. All these methods add plastic, get soil from WalMart trucks, and require daily hand-watering from a hose. Also as AI, the real ones would be far less pretty. It will work however, and we may be driven to it if Europe and the solar people have their way.

    #239506
    those darned kids
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    The Automatic Gibberist

    #239507
    tboc
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    don’t kill the messenger

    My Back Pages


    Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
    Too noble to neglect
    Deceived me into thinking
    I had something to protect
    Good and bad, I define these terms
    Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
    Ah, but I was so much older then
    I’m younger than that now

    #239508
    tboc
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    congratulations to all of the Boomers who went along to get along

    every letter of every word that defines moral failure belongs to us

    Every person who buys into the rhetoric expressed in today’s TAE post is making another recurring payment to their plausible deniability fund.

    I’m Sure, They Did It !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    #239509
    Michael Reid
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    The mechanistic fallacy — Why the West so often fails at geo-politics
    Washington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics.

    Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su

    Some fifteen years ago I wrote that western reliance on its lens of secular rationality was no longer adequate as a means to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was becoming obvious — even then — that the future of the region would be one of wars increasingly defined by religious symbols: i.e. Al-Aqsa versus the Third Temple.

    Since then, things have moved on: In Israel, national elections in November 2022 brought a new leadership committed to founding Israel on the ‘Land of (Greater) Israel’; displacing the non-Jewish population and implementing Halachic law.

    The new government’s platform was an expression of an eschatological and messianic purpose with a teleology of pursuing a path toward messianic Redemption. It was not secular, nor couched in Enlightenment tones.

    My point then — and still is — that Western secular mechanistic ways of thinking will misunderstand these fundamental shifts. The West insists to apply its westernised conceptual precepts to something — Messianism and the pursuit of Redemption — that lies outside the frame of today’s post-modern western consciousness. We understand well enough power politics, but eschatology largely is a closed-book to most western seculars.

    The bottom line is that no purpose is served in trying to convince those absorbed by a messianic vision that their solution consists of a two-state political structure in historic Palestine. The former actually welcome Armageddon and the defeat it would portend for non-Jews.

    Nor can this be viewed as a passing phase, or a whim. Messianism has been a prominent, yet fluctuating, impulse in Judaism since Sabbatai Zevi (1660s) and Jacob Franks (18th century). (Some of its thinking filtered into European notions too, during the later Enlightenment period).

    Jewish historian and scholar, Gershom Scholem, correctly predicted that religious Zionism — which in recent decades has aligned with Likud and the settler movement — operates as a “militant,” “apocalyptic,” and “radical” messianic movement that tries to “force the end” by demanding that the state engage in, for example, massive territorial control — i.e. they demand territorial conquest for end-of-times reasons.

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, western mechanistic rationality however, has proved to be as much at a loss in its grasp of what motivates Iran as it is in understanding today’s Israel. The literal approach simply amputates any awareness of Iran’s deeper resistance and revolutionary anima.

    Rather, we choose to project onto Iran our image of the 19th century nation-state – – the concept of a state ruled by top-down, centralised government as the dominant, sometimes autocratic, vehicle of rule over which wider polities once were governed through other principles of legitimacy.

    In an interview in 1979 with Richard Falk, Ayatollah Khomeinei said plainly that the Revolution was a civilizational rather than a national triumph. He stressed that he felt that the basic community for all people in the Islamic world was civilizational and religious – – and not national and territorial. Khomeini explained that territorial sovereign states built around national identity did not form a natural community in the Middle East in the way they did in Europe.

    His insistent theme was to express the view that a government consistent with Islamic values could not be reliably established on democratic principles without it being subject to unelected religious guidance from top Islamic clerical scholars as the source of highest political authority.

    The repression of Islam (forced secularisation) and the destruction of the Caliphate pursued by Mustafa Kamal in the early 1900s had led Seyyed Qutub to preach revolutionary vanguardism until his execution in 1966. Qutb’s writings, but more particularly his Social Justice in Islam — coinciding with mass protests throughout the Muslim world at the partition of Palestine in 1947 — laid the principal groundwork for the revolutionary thinking that would emerge in Iran.

    For Iranians, this was a call to a return to an earlier way-of-being, with a storied lineage, reaching far back — one that reflects a more spiritual and inward transformation of the human: A world of hierarchical modes of consciousness and a disposition to fight against oppression, and to care for the dispossessed.

    Thus, to view Iran through the nation-state lens is to misread Iran. The limits of mechanistic thinking make it impossible for outsiders to grasp or predict the way ahead for Iran. Today, young Iranians are returning enthusiastically to the ethos encompassed in the 1979 Revolution. There is a new energy apparent in Iran — and it is radical. And its reverberations are spreading well beyond the borders of Iran.

    If we in the West want to hear and understand, then it would be wise to first hold up a mirror to ourselves. Are we truly so secular and rationally strategic as we believe?

    U.S. military historian Michael Vlahos, in a long essay — America is a Religion — points out that the U.S. itself is far from unaffected by the currents of messianic idealism, millenarianism and Manichaeism – – “This is an enduring theme whose deep current flows into Christianity”:

    “Since its founding, the United States has pursued, with burning religious fervour, a higher calling to redeem humanity, punish the wicked, and christen a golden millennium on earth. America has steadfastly hewed to its unique vision of divine mission as “God’s New Israel”.

    Of course, American ‘Civil Religion’ is inextricably linked with the Reformation, Calvinist Christianity, and Protestantism. “Although its scriptural reading became secular in the Progressive era, the American religion still remained tethered to its formative roots”, Vlahos argues.

    “Hence, America is not only “messianic” in character — as in, “possessed by passion and zeal” — but manifests an implicitly biblical vision proclaiming its faith in the predestined nature of its passage. A “chosen nation” divinely elected to act in the name of Providence as the world’s Redeemer”.

    However, as Vlahos tells it — like with the Zionists in Israel, in the last election — the U.S. had its moment of metamorphosis: It was triggered by 60 years (1963-2023) of repeated and unrequited battlefield débâcles:

    “Each episode [that was] waged to fulfil the prophecy of a global democratic millennium—and with each time, that dream slipped away”.

    Consequently, writes Vlahos, American messianism slid into “a Manichaean caricature of itself – in which American “good news” has been replaced by the ever-present spectre of Evil and the threat of force. The holy words, Freedom and Democracy, whilst still chanted, have become a hollow mantra”.

    “The American “gospel” no longer preaches about bringing redemption and expiation: it is now concerned with enforcement and punishment.

    “The volte-face came in an instant, on 9/11 — and with Guantanamo.

    “Almost overnight, America ditched “international rules” and “civilized norms”—and instead built out an archipelago of torture and arbitrary incarceration, without oversight or appeal”.

    Today, the U.S. is experiencing deep polarisation at home, whilst still pursuing conflicts overseas whose aims U.S. leaders try to connect to the redemptive narratives coined for service in the domestic struggle (i.e. validating the ‘Peace through Strength‘ meme) via the war on Iran. The U.S. establishment thus links ‘victory’ in a foreign war as the means to restore its political standing domestically and internationally. Michael Vlahos calls this duality “a mutually destructive dynamic”.

    It virtually assures that Washington will not be able to think straight about Iran, and will opt for the wrong tactics.

    #239510
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” —Ian Fleming

    And, after about the millionth time I think you have to call it culture.

    #239511
    John Day
    Participant

    ‘She is in a state of total shock’ – 12-year-old French girl collapses after judge releases 2 men arrested for gang raping her in an Airbnb
    “They can, if they wish, contact and visit the young girl whenever they want,” the girls lawyer warned. “Therefore, there is total incomprehension, not to mention anger, on the part of the family.” https://rmx.news/article/she-is-in-a-state-of-total-shock-12-year-old-french-girl-collapses-after-judge-releases-2-men-arrested-for-gang-raping-her-in-an-airbnb/

    #239512
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Iran should open a “Futures Market” in which they sell guarantees for delivery of bulk oil at whatever the prevailing price of oil is at time of delivery, BUT to be delivered ONLY AFTER all of Iran’s Security Demands are met.

    In other words, they tell the world that it can have all the oil it needs and wants, at fair value, just as soon as the United States and Israel remove their armed bandits out of Iran’s front yard.

    #239514
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I think that the cognitive and emotional problem that ordinary Americans have the most difficulty wrapping their hearts and minds around (and which makes them look so stupid to the rest of the world) is the fact that the governments (at all levels, really, but mostly Federal) which they think they have elected to represent their interests see them as nothing but tokens or chips in a giant casino game where governments, corporations and other giant institutions gamble to see which player can acquire the most chips, and the perks that go with being big winners.

    To a fundamentally decent person, such deeply profound betrayal is simply not possible, and so they do not include it in their thinking.

    Recovery from such a state of oblivious ignorance is a long, slow and painful process… but it can be done.

    We’re in the process of doing that now…. and it hurts like Hell.

    #239515
    zerosum
    Participant

    “I understand life.” – Trump

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    I don’t see many people standing up generally in any Western country, and if you understand history they rarely do to affect change until they are hungry and impoverished.
    Posted by: GeorgeWendell

    (Does ” standing up ” mean/include – Hate, revenge, anger, killing, rage, chaos, survival, stealing, secrets, conspiracy, power, control, army, assassinations, )

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    History keeps repeating itself…
    The pattern is undeniable.
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    “Reject the idea that violence has any place in OUR democracy” – Obama

    (Who is included and excluded in “OUR”)
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    Jimmy Kimmel delivered a fake White House Correspondents Dinner speech, saying “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”
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    Allen’s manifesto made it clear he has fallen for the lies of the Democrats, radicalized by their rhetoric — including Barack Obama’s.

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/27/i-cant-believe-obama-said-this-about-the-latest-trump-assassination-attempt-n4952235
    by Matt Margolis

    There’s just one huge problem with Obama’s statement. We already knew the shooter’s motive at this point. Obama posted his statement at 5:15 p.m. EDT on Sunday, and the shooter’s manifesto and its contents were first published late Sunday morning.

    So by the time Obama decided to weigh in, the manifesto had been in the public domain for several hours, and his anti-Trump motives were already widely reported.

    Here’s what Cole Allen’s manifesto said:
    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/26/the-whca-dinner-shooter-had-an-anti-trump-manifesto-heres-what-it-says-n4952217
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    Where is the money coming from ?
    Lower the selling price. Increase the investments.
    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trumps-pharma-policies-are-making-small-town-pharmacies-great-again
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