Debt Rattle May 2 2026

“COL. Douglas Macgregor : Does Trump Have Any Restraints?” –Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom•15K•Streamed 3 min ago”

Apparently yes? All of them? As he’s done literally nothing, arrested no one? “Dictator”, “Hitler” is when you do NOT arrest Judges and disband the Parliament but obey everything they say even when it annoys you, they destroys the nation, murders citizens, then let the media keep trying to get you killed. Or really your wife and children first. That’s what “Literally Hitler” means, right? It means “Always obeys the law?”

I’d say “Keep talking and showing us all how stupid you are” but the general population agrees, regardless of how transparent, obvious, or irrational it is.

So if that’s Hitler then “Non-Hitler” would disband elections, pack the Supreme court, and arrest everyone for years without charges on the thinnest pretense, right? Right. Because Carville just said they are doing a J6 on EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE. The DAY they get in. Arresting all your enemies and jailing them is “Not-Hitler”, but pure Love and Democracy. We must BE Hitler to stop Hitler.

Hillary vowed to attack the Eastern Front and start WWIII on inaguration day. “Not Hitler”.

Don’t worry, Fox News is on 24 hours a day with genius insights like this.

“Trump Issues Letter Rejecting Congressional Oversight For War, Citing Ceasefire Has ‘Terminated’ Hostilities

Ah. I see what he was up to. And he can start again any time and get ANOTHER 60 days. Will Congress do anything about it? A: Congress hasn’t done anything about anything since President Wilson. They exist to pretend things. So my bet is: peas in a pod. Both radically pro-war, whenever they like.

“As Anthropic Entertains Offers At $900 Billion Valuation, OpenAI CFO Swears There’s A ‘Vertical Wall Of Demand’

A trillion. For a computer that can’t count to 200 and erases whole corporations in 9 seconds, while advising people to eat rocks and kill themselves. What’s not to like? Why not $2 Trillion?

Rah rah, blah Blah, ‘Merica, but: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMhapq1_X4

1D Chess: Trump swaps Venezuela, keeps the government, keeps their sovereignty, opens their markets, their airlines, their oil, in anticipation of needing the oil open and refined (and sold at retail) to move on to do the same thing for (to?) Iran.

“There’s no reason!!!! He’s INSAAAANE!!!” “There’ll be a million men there and an 80 year bloodbath!!” “Arrest!” “Impeach!” War crimes!!!”

Yes, war crimes for opening Venezuela UNDER THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT, and making them rich. Jesus H. Christ on a stick. This ALREADY HAPPENED. In the PAST. Their oil is in our refineries now.

But it’s 11D chess to think since Trump has like TWO pass plays in the whoooole book, he’s going to run one or the other of them, Again! in Iran, because they work.

“Trump Lashes Out at Merz After Threatening to Pull Troops From Germany Amid Escalating Row” Time

“Trump said words”. Wow. Meantime, Merz said Trump was a dictator, a madman, a racist, literally Hitler, and a genocidal, mass-murdering criminal. That, however is NOT “Lashing out” nor “Threatening”. That is perfect goodness and light. This is how we know – and it’s perfectly logical to presume – that such rhetoric from Trump is how he just tried to assassinate himself again. If only he wouldn’t say rude things, people wouldn’t have to kill him all the time! Logic. …Everyone on the left from NPR, CNN, NBC, Kimmel, Colbert, Stewart….

However, Merz saying Americans are stupid, violent, mass-murdering -ssholes does NOT mean we should stop basing there and defending their country for free. No. That is not what insulting us daily as moronic, drooling, uncultured “Jungle People” means.

Merz is right about one thing though: with language like that, ONE of us is really, profoundly stupid.

“Meghan McCain says her ‘The View’ successor does not rep conservatives” USA TODAY

That’s okay, McCain didn’t represent conservatives at all either. No change. She’s as Conservative as Trotsky. As was her father. I mean: OBVIOUSLY. She’s a reporter and they let her inside MSNBC. Or Fox News. Either way.

Tori Amos still tearing down the Patriarchy” Rolling Stone.

In the sense of making a s—t ton of money for male oligarchs, corporations, and record execs. Just like all girl bosses. Owning a plumbing truck and sticking it to Bezos and corporations is HELPING the Patriarchy, ‘natch.

Thanks Tori, we’ll see if they can hear your resistance over the sound of $100 bills.

“Mills Drops Out In Maine Governor’s Race As Oysterman With Nazi Tattoo Becomes Democratic Frontrunner

From No Kings to Pro Kings, and from No Nazi to Pro Nazi. (As are Azov…and Canada) Not a word, everyone nods. Republicans because they’ve seen this for generations, Democrats because “My party” “not noticing”. The only crime is “Noticing”.

I’m not hepped up about some tattoo, only actions. However THEY say they are. THEY say any such “dog whistle” is a capital crime. Okay, show me now. We’ll have him and Hegseth tattoo- tour together.

“Ex-CIA Analyst Warns Hegseth’s Claim Of “Ironclad” Hormuz Blockade Deeply Misleading

The CIA disagrees with “America First”? Do everything they can to kill it include assassinate a bunch of Presidents? Who knew? A: Trust every CIA agent. If they’re on Fox News. I mean, if you can’t trust Brennan, who can you trust?

“DOJ Probes 36 Illinois School Districts Over Sexual Orientation Content In Pre-K–12 Classes

Well I’m glad they have time for this and not like, Congressional bribery and pedophiles and stuff. On day 33 where Iran can’t find, buy, or even fabricate evidence of Trump and Epstein. But they’re holding back, being nice, luring us in, like when they sank their Navy, none of our ships, and lets the U.S. fly over them unobstructed. All part of the plan.

“The Curveball That Locks In Trump’s Own Words: “There Will Never Be a Deal” With Iran

Yup. In 2139, we will still be in the exact same stalemate with Iran, except our side will all be Optimus robots and their side will all be the new Alien races which have landed. Totally plausible. The war goes on until the 3030’s at which time Iran is a lush robo-dinosaur jungle and the U.S. is one large “Logan’s Run”.

Translation: Don’t oversell it. There will be a deal “shortly”.

“CNBC just admitted President Trump’s latest job numbers are “TRULY INCREDIBLE.”

In-Credible as in “Un-Credible”? Because while it’s improving, it’s still pretty bad out there. There’s no like, real hiring rush. They might be POSTING jobs, but at $18/hr for being a 4 year Civil Engineer. (barely kidding, I saw that listing) Yeah, no, that job’s not being filled nor that work being done.

Sadly, Biden and Hunter can burn down the Rock n Roll mansion in an hour and everyone will cheer. Rebuilding it takes a long time of hard work. It’s Trump’s fault Obama burned down the nation where “Those jobs Ain’t comin’ back.”

“Trump is gaining support among black Americans.”

They just realized they’re the most racist party since Jackson, Jefferson Davis, the KKK, Governor Wallace, and oh wait, all of those WERE Democrats! Solution here is: “Never trust nor believe black or brown people in America, nor Arabs in the Middle East.” You go ahead and tell them what is best for them, as they are the Jungle people.

“[Todd Blanche] is the guy we need right now.” To do literally nothing I guess. Maybe he can run away from his job for the beach like Bongino. Like Iran, 10 years later he’s luring them in. All part of the plan.

“Obama & former CIA Dir. John Brennan would meet every Tuesday morning & discuss who they were going to assassinate that week.”

Remember Nixon’s naughty list? Yeah, that wasn’t actually a “murder now” list. And Bongino left to make sure Brennan could carry on.

“It’s all coming. Have some faith.” Uh-huh. There are only two states: something has been done / nothing has been done. TALKING is the “Nothing will ever get done” state. Act. We don’t “Signal” them into Riker’s. You ACT.

“Iran leaders do not get along with each other.” Nor do ours.
“There is a hard currency, i.e. U.S. dollar, shortage.” Here too, ask any worker.
“The entire international community has turned against you.” This one is disturbing and inexplicable unless Russia, China, etc all AGREE with us bombing.
Chart of Iranian Rial: Looks like the same chart as the US Dollar but on fast-forward, stolen 99% of your money in 100 years. We and Iran’s workers have more in common than our leaders do.

“It should also not be forgotten that ‘denuclearizing’ Iran by force has been a multi-decade priority of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the hardliners”

“Denuclearizing” Israel has been my goal since the USS Liberty, but that wasn’t going very well until just now when they got bombed flat and exposed as controlling America.

“President Trump cuts off a reporter when informed that the average price of gas is now $4.30. Trump: …The gas is gonna go down. As soon as the war’s over”

Yeah, THIS part was never the problem. The problem is they can stall – even irrationally and counterproductively – almost forever. I can’t make them stop killing their own people.

“They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no nothing. We can fly right over the middle of Tehran without being shot at because they have no anti-aircraft. They have nothing.”

So do the Houthis and it didn’t make them surrender either. This is the problem, not the “Sink the Navy” part.

“the 60 day clock pauses or stops KAINE: I do not believe the statute would support that”

Both fine arguments that will end up in the Supreme Court. But what would “Ending” mean? There are no carriers in the middle east and we disassembled our B2 bombers in Missouri? We disbanded the US Military and closed all world bases? How would you know we’re “Not at war” with Iran? In 1789, and under the Swiss model we were SUPPOSED to be under (and there is no Constitutional Amendment) the Army would only have men if State Militias were called out, etc, and were essentially completely disbanded and retired, eg after Shay’s Rebellion. Then it’s easy to know. (We did, however, have a standing Navy, and that’s already complicating Iran comparisons). Now it’s not so easy. I for one would yes, go back to a Swiss military and erase the entire Army until you make that amendment, but whatever, that’s me and nobody’s going to do that. I would also make corporations need a business license from Act of Congress like the Dutch East India company, but that’s not happening either.

“We should have 100 of these cases. So people can read every day what a piece of crap he is.
• Another DOJ Investigative Case Against James Comey Happening in Virgina (CTH)

Well he’s committed far in excess of 100 felonies, so that’s appropriate. And guys who have committed only one, for drug possession are in jail while he, fabricating, railroading, and withholding evidence, serves none.

“• James Comey Knew EXACTLY What ‘86 47’ Meant (Robert Spencer)

I have no idea what they’re up to, nor do I care. Sure, you can send this case, but I think it’s to make him scramble and waste, put him in the news. He’ll have to argue as FBI director he has no idea what common criminal slang terms we all know are. Ie, “that he’s a fecking idjit.” Make him say it loud, proud and in the most forceful terms, so Americans can demonstrate what level of liar. They are shaping what they’ll find about his ACTUAL intent to murder. But that will be different and this will be withdrawn.

“• New Footage of Trump Assassination Attempt Released (Matt Margolis)

This was nuts. Someone should add sound, although they circle when the guns are fired. Because it was hard to see he just walks up and opens fire point blank at the first guy he sees. …Who was unharmed. The level of moronicy does not reflect well on CalTech, I just should be added to the “Drooling glue-sniffers Club” with Harvard.

I am not going to let police go here, although their error was understandable: they arranged themselves, probably all afternoon and all day every day, to SHOOT INTO EACH OTHER as the backstop to bullets. You can have other problems if police are on only one side (You’d like to grab a guy physically from both sides) but you REALLY don’t want to shoot point-blank into a fellow officer as he does here. This is long-term training for a much more dangerous level, so I understand it, but it’s a miracle one officer didn’t shoot the others. Then they ALL draw weapons, BEHIND each other and not all are pointed at the ground. Again, very understandably. But this is a miracle you got lucky with, FIX this appalling, deadly behavior.

Force all guests to the left side so you have a shooting gallery. Might also want to hang kevlar on the wall for the conference room behind the drywall. Ya think? Then training for pursuit, which is almost never mass-event like this, usually you’re praying you even CAN get a second officer there, not that there’s 18 of you in 200 square feet.

Next, Everyone who comes running IS IN A SUIT. Not a uniform. How do I know who is who and not shoot each other again? I’d use this flaw as my entry point. Get a dummy to draw, then appear as if another USSS agent from a door, proceed to the President as if a hero. Bang. Fix this. Stop looking like chumps, we wildly overpay for you.

“• The Real Reason the Democrats Hate President Trump’s Ballroom (Tim O’Brien)

Remember the disco White House? My thought was they installed so many bugs there, it’s impossible to get rid of them all. (The strobe was used to identify the reflection of hidden cameras, or blind them). Then yes, they are hiding hardened-bunker stuff I’m sure. Add up all reasons together. And that’s why they hate it, more than the name. There was a LITERAL, ACTUAL purpose that the CIA could spy on and destroy the White House, daily.

I agree dwarfing the White House is dumb, I disapprove, and wouldn’t do it. However, ALL construction I basically disagree with, anywhere in the U.S. — Use what you already built, Jimmy! — and so it hardy matters.

“I tend to be dead inside and the partisan political acrimony has even been getting to me.”

Totally agree: it’s all stupid, boring, and ghey.

“House Ends 76-Day Shutdown (Sarah Anderson)

They want no government employees: sold! I totally agree. Only if you stop paying all the rest of them. They managed ONE action in 400 days. No prosecutors, no judges, no cabinet appointments, (Surgeon General) no voting rights, etc.

Coast Guard: clearly the plan is to leave the nation unprotected and undefended in every way. Half of America would bash their children with a hammer to help continue this.

“• Hakeem Jeffries Denounces the Supreme Court as “Illegitimate” (Turley)

You mean the court we had to obey every word of since Roe v Wade? Interesting.

“The first company to scale humanoid robots wins the future of labor.”

Why would they ever be humanoid? By definition, the only reason is that they replace human jobs, where they are standing. No other reason, humanoid is a fragile and pointless design otherwise. Other than if you’re inventing the T-600 murderbot. They are. That was always the plan.

“Other than if you’re inventing the T-600 murderbot. They are. That was always the plan.”

oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

i agree.

those bots ain’t for folding clothes; they’re for checkpoints and worse..

I hope commenters haven’t left because they’re crushed America hasn’t been destroyed.

This is the flip side of emotional elation that Iran would rule the world. Of believing a bunch of other Fox News/ AI stuff that’s yes, getting ever more clever. And part of it getting more clever is that were are getting ever-less hard news, actual facts, to dilute it with.

Everyone is saying, no one can even guess what’s true anymore. Since there’s a stunning hunger for it, for real facts, and billions are being spent to specifically deny and drown out any Truth, we can be certain it’s a concerted Op from the highest level. And not about Iran.

Remember “Three World Wars” where they pay to have wars pop up worldwide, to drive all mankind to “Financial, moral, mental, spiritual exhaustion”. THEY want to install a Brave New World with all their Optimus T600 murderbots. They are using the collect wealth of the planet to pile on you. But no one will WILLINGLY do so. Even the dumbest humans aren’t that stupid (only the Harvard/Caltech ones). So how do you get them to, eg, take a digital social credit CBDC?

You make the world so confusing no one can agree if that’s even happening or not. OR who is doing it, OR when, OR why, OR what we should do about it, OR who our allies or enemies are, and then there are 1,000 other attacks, on food, medicine, family, sanity, at the same time. IF YOU KNEW…anything…you would grab it and be an effective soldier against them.

“But even the elect will be (most) deceived”. ALL Truth is God. So ALL TRUTH must be destroyed, hunted down and ruined, wherever it may be. And so we just saw in Iran, using everything they learned from Covid, and piling on heaps, Ops, Thesises more, with 100 more traitors and double-agents who we were sure were trusted a minute ago. And they’re not done, it can still get worse.

So when I say “The only Enemy is Truth” this is the new, higher level we are at. Truth is going to be hunted and shot on sight ANYWHERE, worldwide, on the web, in all nations, like the European wolves were. No questions, no quarter: see Truth, kill it and any mouth that speaks it. From now “’til the duration”.

So I’m not mad people got this wrong. It was like WTF??? I’m mad I couldn’t come up with any better way that shouting and insulting to get people’s attention quickly. That’s a failure on my part, but I’m not actually sure there IS another way, or will be in the future. The faster you can snap out of AI-Guy ops, the faster we can pivot back to shooting the real enemy and grabbing the real truth.

The Enemy is Truth. Elon’s AI murderbots will be roving the world freely, shooting any dissenters from lies, wherever they are found, with near impunity.

Revelation 11 of the “Two Witnesses”, eventually killed as well, while everyone is forced to use CBDCs or die, turned in by their neighbors. Terrifying. However, remember, like Covid, this lasts only 3 1/2 years. That is endurable if you keep your head. I’m not saying EXACTLY, or that Revelations is the cracked code; I use that to put an active framework, a story in your mind of what this is like to be.

(Also Rev 11 is a JEWISH prophesy, centering on Israel. The “10 nations” are arguably EUROPE, and have no comments on the New World whatsoever, whose (Native) prophesies are elsewhere.)

Again, I apologize. Do you see why I had to shout “Iran is not landing in Virginia” so loudly?

nice to see ol’ “blow ’em up” obama get a shout out!

i wonder if actually ever did drone the jonas brothers..

does anyone else remember when the taliban visited sugarland?

[ed. no frikkin’ way.. it’s still up!]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm

Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline

The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan’s harsh terrain

A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.

A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company’s headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.

The Debt Rattles were sub-par again, but the art and Calvin and Hobbes make the daily visit worthwhile.

May 1, 2026
Trump’s Iran Ceasefire:
What is next?

Another round of votes.
(With Trump Influence, since he says that he wants peace/end war.
Who is the decider?)

The 213 – 214 vote

Trump keeps saying that he wants peace.
I’m waiting to see if Trump really, really, wants peace.
He can get the majority, if he wants it.

So, Trump built himself an off ramp!
So, all the video pundits were 100% wrong about no off ramp!

READ MORE …
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR THE OBSERVERS …
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-argues-iran-war-terminated-60-day-congressional-approval-deadline-iran-submits#google_vignette

OTHER INFLUENCERS ON DECISION MAKERS:

The officer adds that “if the uranium is removed from Iran through diplomatic means, we have done our part.” However, if that does not happen, Israel would need to launch another operation in Iran to achieve the objective, they say. Already Israel has demonstrated its immense influence over the decision to go to war in the first place.

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I hope commenters haven’t left because they’re crushed America hasn’t been destroyed.

This is the flip side of emotional elation that Iran would rule the world.

I don’t believe that you mean what you say.

I believe that you mean the opposite of what you say.

Which is another way of saying that you’re being deliberately disingenuous (nice way of saying that you’re lying on purpose, but I’m trying to be nicer than my usual self, and like I said, it’s a strain.)

C’mon Doc. Iran did not attack America. It was exactly the other way around. Iran did not pulverize America’s school girls, bridges, Capital City, oil fields and nuclear energy facilities. It was America who did that to them. In a sneak attack that included the despicably dishonorable duplicity of luring their peace negotiators into a trap baited with good will… and murdered them in cold blood.

So excuse me (not) if the “America” that YOU speak of isn’t the same America that I belong to.

I’m sick of it! I am literally outraged by it. I am also sick of the way you habitually use tricksy double-negatives and other practically indecipherable language ploys to dress up the lie that the “America” which you speak of is by some rhetorical magic somehow not the rapacious, bloody, Epsteinian monster that the rest of the world is being forced to deal with violently.

Fake Americans are as bad or worse than fake Jews.

I have no problem with your open defense of the Empire, because when stated openly those defenses are easily rebutted, but I have a real problem with your double speak. Don’t call it “America” when what you really mean is a cruel, bloody and perverted EMPIRE that makes Rome seem pacifist in comparison.

Stand up and fight like a man. If you think America should make the world grovel at its feet and sacrifice it’s children, sovereignty and lives to us because we are just naturally superior to all other forms of human life, then just say so and make your case.

If I am being too harsh and pugnacious (and perhaps I am) then I will apologize after you have proven me wrong. Meanwhile, let’s clear the air.

YES, I want America to just be a normal country again. FUCK the Empire.

“What makes them sub-par?”

“offensive piece after piece glorifying the affairs of mass-murdering psychopaths.”

Raul,

Really?

I applaud TDK’s short answer “ nope. i think they are offended by piece after piece glorifying the affairs of mass-murdering psychopaths.“, and of course DBS’s longer but bang on answer. I might also add one need look no further than including Mr. Kunstler , who outed himself as an unapologetic Zionist.

It’s sad that I mostly skip the offered articles and look to process comments by TDK, DBS and Zerosum..

Oh well, your blog, your right to chose content.

“What makes them sub-par?”

Raul, you seem to mostly be clipping articles by partisan whackadoodles lately. I used to find TAE offered alternate views to the mainstream narratives, now it seems to have picked a side.

P.S. “Don’t let’s forget they killed some 40.000 of their own people even before the US got involved.” Is a baseless anti-Iranian talking point.

P.S. Who cares what Musk says.

That all plays in to desperation to find some hope of a fair and kind world. Looking for the person that will move the ball in the right direction, flawed and murderous as they may be. That is a set up to be manipulated even more. The only workable plan I see is to divorce myself from the establishment entirely. In a way that is invisible to the establishment. Hide my work. Hide my barter. Hide. 1001 ways to deny the establishment of me.

Lets tag opposition. There is some. Spare me the “HOW DARE YOU”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/exiled-maga-dissidents-consult-ron-paul-iran-war

O beautiful for spacious skies,

We … land on top of it and we took over the ship.

For amber waves of grain,

We took over the cargo, took over the oil.

For purple mountain majesties

We’re like pirates,

Above the fruited plain!

We’re sort of like pirates.

America! America!

But we’re not playing games.

God shed His grace on thee

it’s a very profitable business

And crown thy good with brotherhood

We took over the cargo, took over the oil.

From sea to shining sea!

We’re sort of like pirates. But we’re not playing games.

Griping about someone else’s opinion;
Telling someone: “you are wrong!”
Almost seems like you would like some dominion
Over someone else’s song.

@Raul

I have appreciated TAE over the years. I have been reading since Nicole and Ash were also contributors. The focus has changed over the years from energy, to macroeconomics, to understanding the debt based monetary system, to COVID-19, to the Russia-Ukraine War, to Trump. What stayed consistent was that TAE tried to find voices giving well-thought out perspectives that were different from the MSM. It was always food for thought to stimulate discussion in the comments.

Recently the focus seems to have narrowed to Trump boosterism. I am fine with with that to the extent it is focused on exposing the rot of the Deep State and the corruption of the Democratic Party. Although I have not voted since 2008, there were many things Trump said that I agreed with. But surely you are aware that many of the Cabinet appointments have been disasters: Hegseth is a disgrace. Bondi did nothing. Lutnick is a grifter. “Lying Eyes” Kash Patel and his sidekick Dan Bongino accomplished nothing. Gabbard has been mostly invisible, but then lost credibility when she said that it is the President’s job to determine the intelligence consensus. Sure we now have the Comey indictment, and rumors of a future Obama indictment, but I am skeptical that this is all just political theater and will not go anywhere.

Further, MAGA has now ruptured into Zionist MAGA and Non-Zionist MAGA, and it seems TAE has taken sides with Zionist MAGA. I happen to agree with the many former Trump supporters in the alt-media (Carlson, Owens, Kelly, Napolitano, Sachs, Ritter, etc) who believe that the President has lost his way by initiating the Iran war on Israel’s behalf. So to the extent TAE debt rattles regurgitate the Zionist MAGA’s talking points, I am inclined to tune them out. Having said that, I have not given up on TAE. Hopefully this is just an aberrant phase. I have said many times before that I do not know how you maintain your sanity and still run this site.