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Debt Rattle September 1 2026

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 September 1, 2026  Posted by at 10:29 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , ,  Add comments


Henri Matisse Le Bonheur de Vivre 1906


• Trump Says Iran’s Regime Killed 100,000 Freedom Protesters (Salgado)
• The Left Would Hate for You to Know These Things About Trump (Margolis)
• Penn Professor Demands Politicians Commit to Packing the Supreme Court (Turley)
• Oh, Canada (James Howard Kunstler)
• Is the Muslim World Rising (Paul Craig Roberts)
• The True Story of World War II (Paul Craig Roberts)
• The Long Shadow of Judge Indira Talwani (Turley)
• Clyburn Calls for Packing the Court with “Baker’s Dozen” to Flip Cases (Turley)

 


 

 


 


Broken up work day today. Had to go to hospital for tests. The Matisse must make up for all that’s off.

• Trump Says Iran’s Regime Killed 100,000 Freedom Protesters (Salgado)

The Iranian regime’s massacre of its own people who want a freer and more democratic country has now climbed to 100,000, according to President Donald Trump. If the genocidal Iranian regime falls, which we all pray will happen in the near future, Trump seems to be contemplating Nuremberg-style trials, which is something we haven’t done for mass murderers in far too long. The president posted on TruthSocial on August 31 about the runaway inflation in Iran and how many freedom protesters have died in government crackdowns since the initial January slaughter that left 50,000 dead.


“Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD!” Trump began in his usual exaggerative style. “They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country. The only thing they have is FAKE NEWS from the USA, a willingness to kill their protesters (now over 100,000 people dead. They must be tried for war crimes against humanity!), and a good line of ‘BULLS**T.’ Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Over the weekend, the Trump administration ordered strikes on Larak Island, where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had missile launchers. Unfortunately, the IRGC still seems to have enough missiles left to continue firing at American troops.

The people of Iran have shown their courage in the face of death all throughout this year in a way that history should immortalize. But tragically, until and unless the United States and Israel eliminate the rest of the top ayatollahs who indiscriminately kill Israelis, Americans, Persians, and Arabs alike, the slaughter will never end, and regime change will never happen. It is unfortunate that none of the weaponry the Biden administration abandoned to the Taliban in Afghanistan will be available for the Persians to take on their own terrorist government. I would much, much rather that the Persians who are pro-American have it and overthrow a regime that never stops screaming “death to America” than that Afghani terrorists who hate us should have and use it.

Unfortunately, for some reason, American weapons never do seem to end up in the hands of people who are willing to further our interests. Then again, perhaps there is an alternative to Americans and Israelis taking out the murderous mullahs directly.

Perhaps the U.S. government could stop sending so many weapons to Ukraine, where so many men have died in a stalemate war, and smuggle them to the Kurds or the Persians. Four more Americans died recently in Iranian strikes. It’s time to stop that Iranian terrorism once and for all. And there is a whole army of Persians and Kurds just waiting for the weapons and the opportunity to do the job for us.

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Not the Left, it’s the MSM that has made Trump a caricature.

• The Left Would Hate for You to Know These Things About Trump (Margolis)

The mainstream media have spent pretty much every moment since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States portraying him as an evil, cruel, empathy-free tyrant who couldn’t manage a kind word for anyone outside his own family. Joe Biden practically built his entire 2020 campaign on that same premise, insisting that the election came down to character, and that Trump simply didn’t have it.


This is the same Joe Biden who spent years refusing to acknowledge his own granddaughter, Navy Roberts, the daughter Hunter Biden had with a former stripper. It’s the same Joe Biden who checked his watch through the dignified transfer ceremony for the 13 American troops killed in the terrorist bombing outside Kabul’s airport. And it’s the same Joe Biden who let the country believe he was sharp as ever while his own team quietly managed a cognitive decline he denied for years. But I digress.

Character, as it turns out, was never really the point. But two stories from a Newsmax podcast are the kind Democrats would rather nobody hear because they don’t fit the narrative they’ve been trying to sell to the public. The first comes from Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who sat down with Greta Van Susteren and described what happened after Trump invited him to Mar-a-Lago back in January 2025. “He invited me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago back in January of 25, and I took a lot of s**t for that,” Fetterman said. “Why? I don’t understand.” But the big reveal came next.

“He also even checked in on my dad. My dad’s having a real difficult situation, health, about his heart, and he absolutely checked in on that,” Fetterman said. He added that he disagrees with the president plenty on policy, but on a personal level, “it’s been more than happy. “The private and the personal, at least in my experience, is very different,” Fetterman said. Van Susteren backed Fetterman up with a story of her own, one that goes back years before Trump ever ran for office. She recalled reporting on a struggling veteran and getting an unexpected phone call.

“Years ago, before he even ran for president, I was covering the story of this down-and-out soldier who had PTSD,” Van Susteren said. “I got a call from Trump asking me what his address was. I said, ‘I don’t know his address. Why?’ He said, ‘Because I want to help the guy.'” “I said, ‘Well, I don’t know.’ He said, ‘Tell you what, I’ll send you a check and you find him,’ so he hangs up the phone,” Van Susteren continued. “The next day I get a FedEx from Donald Trump with a personal check to the guy for $25,000.”

There’s a reason why Van Susteren considered it a big deal. “It’s not something Trump could write off on his taxes. It’s not something that was reported,” Van Susteren said. “He’s pretty gruff, often he says some pretty rough things and tweets some pretty rough things, but he’s got that side of him.” None of this fits the character that Democrats have long insisted was true.

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“Carney increasingly reminds me of Fauci. He has that exact same air of technocratic infallibility. . . .” — Hans Mahncke on X

“Mark Carney has made himself a pain-in-the-ass for President Donald Trump.”

No, Trump got rid of one Trudy. He can take out any number of them.

• Oh, Canada (James Howard Kunstler)

You go for decades without even thinking of the place. The Great White North. Very polite people, somewhat Scottish, seems like. There’s poutine! Une invention Québécoise — an indigestible mélange of French fries, gravy, and cheese curds, like something you’d cook up at 4am after a toga party in a frat house. Ice hockey (of course, but was it necessary?) Polar bears. Puffins on the Labrador cliffs. Tar Sands. Plaid upholstery . . . .


Years ago, we used to go up there from college in the farthest reaches of upstate western New York just to get a half-fake buzz of being in “a foreign country.” Niagara Falls was like Times Square without the charm. Bunch of squalid wax museums and ashtray shoppes. Toronto was Rochester on steroids, beyond forgettable.

I once took a choo-choo train from Seattle to Vancouver just to take in the scenery along the Pacific Coast. Bald eagles galore all the way up feeding on stuff out in the Pacific tidal mud-flats. Got to Vancouver. They yanked me out of the customs line and stuffed me in a back office. A female immigration officer swaggered in, said they found a nine-year-old DUI conviction for me on some computer (well. . .. okay. . . a night of fishing with rum). Said she could keep me out of the country if she was in a bad mood. I couldn’t help wising off: “Nice to know Canadian immigration policy depends on your mood.” Whoops. They detained me for an extra two hours just to make me feel the pain. But I was eventually released into that boring city. Thank God for the Chinese restaurants.

And now. . . Mark Carney! He’s a beauty. A refined ectoplasmic manifestation of all the Globalist huggermugger working tirelessly to upend Western Civ. He has a weird glow of semi-transparency — not in the sense of revealing any truths, but more like you can partly see through him . . . he’s only half there . . . a ghost in the geopolitical machine.

More to the point, Mark Carney has made himself a pain-in-the-ass for President Donald Trump. On the surface, this US / Canada rift appears to be all about trade relations. Naw. It’s about Mark Carney being a tool for merry old England attempting to capture the resource base of northern North America to collateralize what little remains of the UK’s once-sprawling, now sinking, empire. England is not so merry these days. It has somehow managed to issue a fatwa on itself and entered a gruesome process of assisted economic and cultural suicide. You can’t even raise a British flag there anymore without risking weeks in the slammer. The home folks get stabbed and beheaded. It’s all blight, rape, kebabs, and hijabs over there. Not a good look if you still want to be that country you dimly remember.

Plus, they want to kick off a big war with Russia. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Really? Lacking much of a military, Ukraine was Britain’s tool for that. Trouble was the huge expense of that project. Thought they could work-around it by turning Ukraine into a money-laundry, washing, rinsing, and disbursing US-sourced funds to Mr. Zelenskyy, with giant kickbacks to the Democratic Party’s money apparatus. Worked nicely when the phantom “Joe Biden” haunted the White House. He and his sicko son, Hunter, were already in so deep in Ukraine since JB’s felonious veepdom that Mark Carney — then chief of the Bank of England — could hang the Bidens out to dry anytime, if required.

Lo, these many years, then, Britain and NATO have sponsored all that drone-making and missile-launching action from Ukraine deep into Russia — in case you wonder how Zelenskyy carries on this stupid war, considering there are no young men left in Ukraine eligible to reinforce the battle lines in Donbas. Britain and NATO probably also furnish the satellite targeting of Russian assets. You must doubt that the USA is involved in that anymore. Luckily, Mr. Putin has the Christian patience of a true saint.

Our president is sick of Ukraine and the festering geopolitical disease it has been infected with by our increasingly-former allies in Europe. NATO’s aim with Russia is exactly the same as Britain’s push in Canada — a resource grab for the failing nations of Europe, who are getting choked to death by Ursula von der Leyen and her EU flying monkeys. Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain. . . all whirling around the drain. Our president sees all that. (You don’t need magic glasses.)

Maybe it’s time to just send the 82nd Airborne into Ottawa. Flight time: under two hours from Fort Bragg, NC. Drop them on Parliament Hill. Let them hang around a few hours. Then, declare the whole thing a gag and fly them home. It’d be worth it. Or maybe go in and snatch Mark Carney like we did Maduro. Stuff Carney in an adjoining cell at the MDC in Brooklyn. I’m sure the two could amuse each other, swap satisfying gripes and sob stories.

Really, why stop at just re-naming Lake Ontario. Take the whole darn thing like a pie that has been left on the windowsill too long. The Canadian people would get over it five minutes. Everything is easier in the USA. Running a company, especially. They could keep their poutine and their hockey, learn to have a little fun once in a while. Quebec could become a theme park (what else have they got going there?). No more tariffs to get hung about. Honk if you like the idea.

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“Such an opportunity for Muslims has not existed for centuries ..”

• Is the Muslim World Rising (Paul Craig Roberts)

Recently there have been striking new developments that imply major changes in the correlation of forces. These developments have largely gone unacknowledged and their implications unexamined. I made the effort in online interviews on Dialogue Works and On Target. I will now attempt to do so in writing.


One of the developments is Iran’s defeat of US President Trump’s attack on Iran. Trump has been desperate to find a way out of the conflict without admitting defeat. His exit strategy is to redefine the conflict from a military one to an economic one and impose new economic sanctions on Iran and those who trade with Iran, while claiming that the Strait of Hormuz is an American territory through which is moving massive amounts of oil shipments. The combination of a redefined conflict with propaganda comprises Trump’s exit strategy.

Another development is the announcement of a mutual security agreement between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. This development combines conventional military force with oil reserves and nuclear weapons and unifies three separate Muslim ethnicities in a strategic location with a population of 355,390,000 people. These are largely Sunni Muslims.

Another development is the announcement on Iranian news media that Iran, predominantly Shia, has been invited to join the alliance. It true, this would indicate that the schism between Sunni and Shia is breaking down. It would also mean a pact of four countries with 448,700,000 people, larger than the United States, with conventional and nuclear power, a large chunk of the world’s oil reserves, and control over the strategic oil waterways. It would be a bloc of strategic importance to Russia and China as the Muslim four country pact is located such that it protects Russian and Chinese interests. Such a pact could become a de facto alliance of 6 countries.

These developments, if real and not just words, signal the end of any pretense of American hegemony and Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel. Israel’s population of 10 million of which only 7.8 million are Jews is dwarfed by 448,700,000 Muslims. Moreover, the protection offered by the alliance would likely result in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen joining and the end of warfare stirred up by Washington among Muslims. Syria itself could be reconstituted, and Israel could be forced to give back enough of Palestine for a two-state solution to be possible.

Such an opportunity for Muslims has not existed for centuries and the possibility is so extraordinary that it seems likely to pass by due to stupidity, incompetence, and petty bickering. But if the opportunity is seized, the world has changed.

The only news I have of the Iranian response to the invitation is that Iran asked to see the details of the security agreement. Certainly Iran would want to know if the pact had any teeth or was just words, a bluff or an attempt to get attention. I know little of the content of the agreement, and I wonder at the absence of an explanation of its consequences. As it is announced, it is not secret, and you would think it would be of great interests to the world’s foreign policy analysts.

The report that Iran was invited to join came from Mehdi Rahimi, who heads Iran’s parliamentary news agency. However, I have not seen confirmations from the members of the pact or the Iranian executive branch that such an invitation has been issued. If no invitation has been issued, it raises the question whether the pact is an Israeli-American operation directed at Iran. If so, it seems that Trump would be more comfortable with the Iranian situation than he shows himself to be.

We have seen centuries of Muslim impotence due to their inability to unite. In the 21st century we have witnessed Washington destroy three Muslim countries for Israel–Iraq, Libya, and Syria–and attempt to destroy Iran, while Israel has completed its absorption of Palestine into Israel. Just the other day Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich announced that with the “Judaizing” of the remnants of the West Bank, there would now be new Jewish settlements in the Negev and in Galilee.

Possibly the Netanyahu coalition will be turned out in the upcoming election. Such a possibility could be heightened considerably should Iran receive and accept an invitation to join the Mecca pact, as it would show Israelis that the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel had no further prospect and that an accommodation must be arranged with the Muslim Middle East. If peace were to arrive in the Middle East, it could possibly arrive elsewhere.

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“..it doesn’t seem to be correct that there was an over-arching official policy from Hitler to exterminate the Jews.”

• The True Story of World War II (Paul Craig Roberts)

[..] The Nuremberg Trials were a travesty of justice. The “trials” served to put all war crimes, including the Soviet ones, on the Germans. I exposed the criminality of the Nuremberg Trials in a previous article on this website. Kristallnacht was a Brownshirts operation. David Irving reports that when Hitler heard of it he was furious. Irving provides the actual documentation. But when I ask AI, the false answer I get is that “it was explicitly orchestrated by top Nazi leadership and approved by Hitler.” I trust David Irving, not a polluted AI data base containing a vast number of lies written by court historians.


Hitler disapproved of the SA (Brownhirts) and destroyed them. As for the Holocaust, Europe has laws prohibiting any examination of the alleged Holocaust. The Zionist allegations must be accepted irrespective of any evidence. This is very curious, because if the narrative is true scholarly investigation would support the narrative. Generally speaking, matters that cannot be investigated are matters that truth does not support.

David Irving reported that after a half century of research, he had not found one word of a Holocaust in any official documents in German, Israeli, Soviet, British, American official archives or in any memoirs, diaries, letters. He even offered a monetary prize to anyone who can offer him some evidence. If memory serves, neither Churchill’s nor Eisenhower’s memoirs mention a Holocaust.

Think about this for a minute. An operation as large as the alleged Holocaust would have required an organization with its own administration, with its own stationary, headquarters, insignia and uniform, but no signs of such an organization exists. It would have required enormous budget expenditures, but no signs of such a budget entry exist. In the last days of the war it would have required special fuel permission overriding the needs of the German Army, but no such orders exist.

Evidence is conclusive that the so-called “death camps” were in fact work camps where synthetic fuel and rubber were made for the German Army. In Germany all labor was valuable, including Jews, as the German work force had been severely reduced to provide the Eastern Front with troops attempting to stop the Soviet advance on Germany. The notion that six million highly valuable workers would be deprived the hard pressed German labor force is difficult to accept.

There is no doubt that Jews in National Socialist Germany suffered discrimination and harsh treatment, both official and ad hoc. Rightly or wrongly, Jews were associated with the internal revolution and Germany’s WW I defeat. Many members of the National Socialist Party advocated and acted against them. But it doesn’t seem to be correct that there was an over-arching official policy from Hitler to exterminate the Jews. David Irving documents occasions when Hitler orders that Jews are not to be harmed, and states that “the Jewish question” will be settled after the war. Hitler’s original plan was to deport them to Madagascar.

With the initial success of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler decided that he would send the Jews to the rump of Russia behind the Urals that he would leave for Stalin. This announcement resulted in Nazi organizations sending Jews into the occupied Russian territories in advance of the expected victory, for which the administrators of the territories had no provision. David Irving says he can document 200,000-300,000 Jews being executed despite Hitler’s orders to the contrary by administrators who had no place to put them. Irving condemns these executions.

The Waffen SS was a large military force of tank and infantry divisions fighting in German front lines. They were often used to open or close breaches in the lines of combat. They were not an organization for the extermination of Jews. As David Irving and others have reported, some 150,000 Germans of Jewish descent, some being full-blooded Jews, served in the Wehrmacht, many as officers including officers in the SS. The last commander of the Luftwaffe was Helmuth Wilberg, a German officer of Jewish descent.

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“Talwani is viewed by many as a one-stop-shop judge for forum-shopping.”

• The Long Shadow of Judge Indira Talwani (Turley)

This week, the Trump administration found itself in a familiar position: facing an injunction from Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Indeed, it had just secured an order from the Supreme Court on its emergency docket lifting her earlier injunction on the U.S. Postal Service requiring voting lists to confirm U.S. citizenship.


The case against the executive order on mail-in ballots has reasonable arguments on both sides, although (as I have said previously) the challengers are likely to prevail in defeating the rule or at least delaying the policy until after the midterm elections. The Constitution gives states the primary responsibility over “the times, places, and manner of holding elections.”

However, the U.S. Postal Service is a federal agency, and the federal government does have a role in the funding and regulation of federal elections. More importantly, the Trump administration is arguing that it is not barring mail-in voting but merely imposing “modest informational requirements.” Non-citizens cannot vote in federal elections, and the new rule “does not displace a single state election law. And it need not and should not prevent a single voter from voting by mail.”

The controversy over Talwani is not necessarily the merits of her decision that the rule convenes the constitutional framework. Indeed, the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits and could well rule in favor of her interpretation. The controversy is the pattern of sweeping injunctions by Talwani and a few other judges.

Litigants have been accused of forum-shopping by going to liberal, Democratically appointed judges to prevent Trump policies from being implemented in a wide array of areas, including immigration, elections, reduction in government bureaucracies, and foreign aid.

Like her colleague in Boston, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, Talwani is viewed by many as a one-stop-shop judge for forum-shopping. Both have issued hair-trigger injunctions, and both have been repeatedly reversed.

Talwani was reversed on Aug. 24 for imposing an injunction against the mail-in balloting policy. Her injunction was taken to be premature and without a legal injury, since the administration had not issued a formal rule. The truth is, the challengers had her at hello. She did not wait for a showing of a cognizable injury before issuing another injunction, because the decision appeared made before the case hit her own docket.

Previously, Talwani showed the same inclination in other cases. For example, she issued an injunction against revoking the humanitarian parole program for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Her order was lifted on appeal. She also issued an injunction to stop the Trump Administration from defunding Planned Parenthood. That order was also set aside on appeal.

Regardless of the outcome of this latest injunction, Talwani has offered the strongest case in favor of the expanded use of the emergency docket, also known as the “shadow docket.” Liberal law professors and litigants have bewailed the expanded use of this docket at the Supreme Court to resolve cases without the need for a long briefing and oral argument. However, judges like Talwani have created legitimate concerns over the use of the appellate system to slow or freeze new policies. This is why the “shadow docket” has become more prominent.

This year, confidential memoranda were leaked from the court on the use of the emergency docket and published by the New York Times. It was only the latest such strategic leak from a court that was once the paragon of confidentiality and civility.

The internal exchanges of the justices were illuminating as to the majority’s underlying reason for allowing this fast-track review. The immediate issue was a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to impose unlawful regulatory burdens on electric utilities despite a countervailing earlier ruling in Michigan v. EPA. Chief Justice Roberts believed (as did many) that the EPA was using the ongoing litigation to force utilities to spend billions of dollars to comply with new regulations that the Supreme Court had already rejected.

“In other words,” Roberts wrote, “the absence of stay allowed the agency to effectively implement an important program we held to be contrary to law.”

As with the national injunctions that plagued the Trump administration in its first year, this tactic was all too familiar. Litigants would go to liberal judges in Washington, Boston, and other blue cities to secure injunctions that would take years to fully litigate. That approach effectively allowed individual judges to pursue their own preferred policies or to prevent a president from carrying out promises made during an election. At most, the president might have a year left after these cases slogged through the conventional appellate process. It is an administrative version of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.”

What concerned the justices was that many of these injunctions directly contravened earlier precedent, exposing the cynical purpose of these orders. For a president to be able to carry out major changes, he had to run a gauntlet of hundreds of judges, any one of whom could effectively negate reforms. In response, the Supreme Court ramped up the use of the emergency docket and cracked down on national injunctions, quickly reversing the rapidly increasing number of injunctions against the Trump administration.

With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, the odds favor challengers in either running out the clock or prevailing on the merits on the mail-in ballots. But Talwani and some other judges have reinforced suspicions of the Roberts court that some courts are willing allies of partisan groups in seeking to gum up the system.

Ironically, Roberts is one of the most likely conservative justices to be concerned with the Trump administration’s effort to force election integrity reforms on the states. Either way, it is the shadow of these judges, not the docket, that is casting the most ominous concern for many of the Supreme Court justices.

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The only way they can win. Change the playing field.

• Penn Professor Demands Politicians Commit to Packing the Supreme Court (Turley)

University of Pennsylvania Professor Michael Mann is the Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action and has pushed candidates to commit to major environmental reforms. Notably, he seemed to pivot in an interview with Peter Dominick on a podcast last week, calling for all Democratic candidates to face a litmus test on committing to pack the Supreme Court: promise to pack or get the sack. It is only the latest example of how the hostile takeover of the Court is now the priority for many Democrats in removing a barrier to a radical agenda.


Mann declared: “When it comes to Senate races, there should be a litmus test,” Mann said. “It isn’t just good enough to be a Democrat. You’ve got to be a Democrat who would be willing to expand the Supreme Court…There’s no way not to be partisan. There’s no way not to be political here. If you care about the environment, you’ve got to vote for the Democrats now.” Establishment candidates are offering the mob the Supreme Court to show their bona fides as the far left turns on “institutionists” who support our constitutional system. As I previously wrote, even law professors and deans joined this movement in calling for the rejection of our Constitution on the 250th anniversary of our Revolution.

Once packed, the Court could greenlight a variety of unconstitutional measures. Years ago, Harvard professor Michael Klarman laid out a radical agenda to change the system to guarantee Republicans “will never win another election.” However, he warned that “the Supreme Court could strike down everything I just described.” Therefore, the court must be packed in advance to make these changes possible. That includes an agenda for extreme measures ranging from wealth taxes to reparations to climate control regulations.

Mann raised the need to reverse doctrines limiting agency authority—a barrier to some climate control measures. In so doing, he got the underlying law fundamentally wrong: “It was in a conservative Supreme Court decision within the last few years that introduced the so-called Chevron standard. Basically, what they said was that the EPA no longer had the authority to make rules based on the science and its own determination.”

In 2024, the Supreme Court actually overturned the Chevron Doctrine in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. It also did not rule that “the EPA no longer had the authority to make rules based on the science and its own determination.” Rather, it said that courts would review such decisions without the prior presumptions in favor of agency decision-making. The restored, traditional judicial review is precisely to determine whether agency decisions are based on credible interpretations of the law and science.

Mann has had his own conflicts with the courts. He was sanctioned last year after winning a defamation case against bloggers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn for attacking his climate control research.

At the time, some of us questioned the award, which awarded just $1 in actual damages but $1 million in punitive damages. In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case, BMW of North America v. Gore, striking down a punitive damages award. The case involved the company’s practice of repairing and repainting cars damaged in transit without telling the customers. The jury in the original trial awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages for the car’s lost value due to the lack of a factory paint job and other damage; it then imposed $4 million in punitive damages for the company’s dishonesty.

D.C. Superior Court Judge Alfred S. Irving Jr. reduced the award against Steyn to just $5000 after finding the original award to be “grossly excessive.” The court later learned that Mann’s defense team had allegedly presented false accounts of his losses after the criticism. Mann’s legal team was accused of presenting a chart that listed a grant that Mann allegedly lost due to the defamatory remarks as $9.7 million when it was later found to be worth $112,000. Irving also found a disparity in the grant income figures given to the jury.

The court found the alleged misrepresentations to be “an affront to the Court’s authority” and sanctioned Mann and his legal team “for bad-faith trial misconduct.” After reversing the jury verdict, the court ordered Mann to pay $1.1 million of his critics’ legal expenses.Now, Mann is calling for all Democratic candidates to pledge to pack the Supreme Court as a condition for running. So any Democrat who believes in our institutions and resists this mob will be a persona non grata in the party as an “institutionalist” captured by “nostalgia.”

Mann joins a growing list of figures demanding the hostile takeover of the Court from Kamala Harris to Pete Buttigieg. The priority is telling. Much of what is planned by the far-left will be difficult to accomplish due to constitutional limits. You can remove those limits by eliminating an independent Supreme Court and turning this essential institution into a federal version of state courts packed with partisan jurists.

At its base is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Court’s role. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) not only renewed her previous call to pack the court but said the court was illegitimate for rendering decisions against “widely held public opinion.” However, the court was meant to be counter-majoritarian to protect minority groups and viewpoints from the majority will.

Mann’s advice is different from that of James Carville, who wants Democrats to hide this intended move from the public (which continues to oppose court packing). Carville told Democratic candidates: “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—k it. Eat our dust. Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”

Mann and others (including former Attorney General Eric Holder) are done with any pretense: “There’s no way not to be partisan. There’s no way not to be political here.” In other words, it is time to make the Supreme Court itself partisan and political. It will then be reduced to just another partisan institution in an age of rage.

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It’s their only way to power.

• Clyburn Calls for Packing the Court with “Baker’s Dozen” to Flip Cases (Turley)

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) added his voice to expand the Supreme Court to a “baker’s dozen,” or thirteen members to allow Democrats to add justices who agree with him and Democratic members on how the law must be interpreted. In the meantime, as discussed earlier, court pack ing is being pushed as the new litmus test for any Democratic candidates. Clyburn’s “baker’s dozen” is a telling description of an effort to bake in partisan views on a Court expanded to create an instant liberal majority. In defending this hostile takeover of the Court, Clyburn bizarrely insisted that the failure to do so might lead to a return to antebellum conditions when blacks were being given fewer rights than whites.


When asked by host Kristen Welker whether he supports the call of former Vice President Kamala Harris to pack the Court, Clyburn responded: “Yes, I do. I think that we are in a position now that calls for some significant actions taken by the Congress and we ought to expand. Thirteen is a pretty good number. A baker’s dozen would be a good number to have on the court. And I would hope we would get people on the Court who will follow the constitutional underpinnings of this great nation of ours.”

Clyburn then made the sensational claim that, without taking over the Court, blacks could be returned to virtual slave conditions. He added: “The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments have been interpreted different ways over the years. And we had in the Warren Court an interpretation of those amendments that I thought would be set for the future of the country. We have now a Supreme Court that has decided to reverse course and take this country back, I say, to those rulings of Justice Taney that said that no black man has any rights that a white man must respect.”

So, while recognizing that interpretations have evolved, Clyburn now demands a takeover of the Court because he disagrees with the current interpretations. It was fine when interpretations aligned with his views, but opposing viewpoints are intolerable and warrant packing the Court with reliable liberal votes. Other Democrats have demanded packing the Court to reverse immigration rulings.

The unhinged rhetoric reflects the importance of taking over the Court by Democrats who view the institution as a barrier to carrying out a radical agenda, including proposals that are considered unconstitutional. Liberal professors and pundits have identified a court takeover as essential to, as one law professor put it, guaranteeing that the Democrats never lose another national election. As former Eric Holder and James Carville have made clear, it is about power and guaranteeing its retention.

Of course, these figures know that it will take a great deal to get Americans to trash core institutions and values. Polls have long shown that a majority of citizens oppose efforts to pack the Court. FDR’s infamous court-packing plan in the 1930s has been widely panned in history, but is now being used as a model by many Democrats to achieve short-term political goals.

In order to overcome this fealty to our constitutional system, citizens must be very angry or very afraid. That is why the rage rhetoric is increasing as we approach the midterm elections. In the last election, the prediction was the imminent end of democracy. Now it is the return to slavery conditions in the United States.

One can disagree with the Court without suggesting that these justices are effective racists or want to return the nation to pre-Civil War slavery conditions. The suggestion that the Court would return this country to the Dred Scott period from before the Civil War is deeply offensive to the conservative justices, including Justice Clarence Thomas, who is African American. It is an absurd suggestion and shows contempt not just for the Court but for Black voters.

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  8 Responses to “Debt Rattle September 1 2026”

  1. Dr. D says:
    September 1, 2026 at 11:28 am

    Oil at $90 right on schedule. They need to set the monthly close price for the insider trading. ‘Coz this is all organic and a real war.

    “24 States To Sue US Postal Service Over Mail-In Ballot Restrictions,
    These are the 24 states you can vote in as a foreigner. Vote as often as you like. Or they will just vote on your behalf instead.

    Terrorism: “the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion” – Merriam Webster

    “the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal” – Extra-extra simple definition, Merriam Webster

    “ the use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, to achieve political aims.” 2006, as we all just change the definition of things hourly now.

    By definition, almost NO military actions are terror. This is defining intent, but the key of TERROR is, eg, the IRA blowing up a Pub full of Soldiers because they’re too weak to hit a military base. This also goes that almost no ARMIES are terrorists: any army is the official state actor of the State will and policy, and any action on their part is a WAR, for like 5,000 years. Useless cranks, malcontents, resentfuls and maniacs are terrorists, men who want to get something done are soldiers, warriors.

    Why? Because only sissies are “Terrorized”. Normal people get angry, shoot back, and tell “Terrorists” to go f—k themselves before we level them, their host nation, and anyone who ever met them past and future out of pure scorched-earth peevishness of “Making an example of you.”

    That’s not “Terror” because we dgaf if they’re sad, mad, angry, skeered, whatever – only that they are dead, dead, dead.

    Unlike, say, Gaza, which is mostly a civilian action, hitting a military base in Iran – a battery of missiles in this case – is by every POSSIBLE definition an act of war. Which a STATE actor openly says is the case, and followed all that STATE’s procedures in so acting, and is subject to the review of that STATE’s political process. Not every bad action or violence is terror. And you can’t terrorize people without their participation, which is often discussed makes the MEDIA the deciding player. Without Media there is no terrorism.

    So there’s no case whatsoever here. Nor does the U.S. care if Iran is happy, sad, angry, joyful, content, or fearful. Because bullets don’t choose people’s internal emotions for them. Only that a specific missile battery is no longer targeting neutral 3rd party ships. That is a legal and legitimate target under UN rules of war.

    Oh wait: That makes IRAN the terrorists, as WE hit a military force, and they are killing 3rd party neutral civilian midshipmen. Right. In order to “Make people afraid”, right, “In order to achieve a POLITICAL end.” Right. Yeah, no, I would call this a “war zone” and not clutch my pearls, but the overwhelming evidence is if there is a terrorist, it has to be the one terrorizing 3rd party civilians for profit, ie Iran.

    Also: do they own the straits? A: No. They are shooting OMANI ships and guests. Therefore, you have no problem if I sink 3rd Party ships from China sailing in and out of Quebec and Vancouver, right? That’s perfectly fair to shoot up guests of other nations while they are inside that nation’s sovereign territory. That’s not terrorism at all. Why shouldn’t Iran shoot up the Bosporus, Sicily, and Gibraltar too? They own those just as much.

    Don’t let the thing with Iran tangle up your brain. It’s really simple. If you want to go back to us failing an honest declaration of war, I’m available, but would it be terrorism to get a nuclear bomb and extort or…terrorize…every other nation within shooting distance, eg Denmark? Because that particular bomb — unlike ours yesterday which was tiny and accurate – is by nature indiscriminate, which was always a major problem. That it was, by definition, used and owned exclusively to make the people of the U.S. and Soviet Union, afraid.

    So Should we allow terrorism to proceed or prevent it?

    Stop it, almost all humans on earth would say.
    What if someone might get hurt? Do we allow, through our inaction, the whole world to come to harm?
    What if the person is Nelson Mandela? Do will kill him to save everyone?
    What if the person is Donald Trump? Do we kill him to save everyone?
    What if saving him will save people: do we NOT kill Donald Trump if it saves people?
    What if the person has nothing to do with it? A child in Malaysia or Gaza, which by their death ends the war for millions? Worth it?
    I only wish these were hypothetical questions. It may seem impossible, but each of these questions is all too real, and can only be lived out in practice, whether by our action, or by our inaction.

    Okay, the U.S. are terrorists in Iran. Then Show me. That’s it. 180 days, no photos, no splashing legless children across the front pages with a hilariously pro-Iranian news media worldwide. Show me the cabbies, the grocers. Where? Iran is on our side? The side of the U.S., by promoting every propaganda line except for the only one that matters? That in war people and civilians die? Where is it?

    At the same time, the stated line is that Iran is now up to 100,000 dead internally, from killing their own people, so 10 TIMES the number the U.S. has killed?

    Hey – I don’t love the war, despite appearances to the contrary. My only argument is to say THEIR arguments are illogical to the point of madness, and this is yet another one of them. Another and another and another. My only offer is, SINCE this is happening, what if the world is logical and people act according to incentives – the easiest argument in world history – THEN what happens, what could be happening that makes this all make easy, perfect sense? Done in 1, 2, 3. It’s perfectly logical, you have to abandon erroneous assumptions, proven wrong for months or years now.

    Can I know that is true? No, and neither can you. But their arguments are both stunningly illogical, and also completely randomized, a world of madness when a viable, working theory is right in front of you, and full of evidence from the Federal Register, official legal documents and policies, as well as press releases. To do the opposite, you have to instead discard the entire legal body of Federal documents as well as everything else.

    But this is all boring, I’m saying the same thing every day, day after day, and I’m not learning anything. You’re not hearing anything new. I can better focus elsewhere.

    Merz Warns Right-Wing Victory Will Hurt Germany, But Nomura Says Investors Aren’t Buying It

    Yeah, the Right is well-known to be completely anti-business. “Fascists” double so, right? Again, every word is illogical on it’s face. Because “They just say things” Make them up. Whatever they have to say, could care less. If they said “nowieuhrslkjsis.” and it worked as spell to make you do things, they would say it. If they said “Your mother is a toaster” gave them power, they would say it. Merz is saying the Right is anti-business, and he’s proven he is Pro-business. Yeah, that’s mind-bendingly gibbering madness. …He says it anyway. …Everyone nods their heads as if it’s in the universe of the real. Respect yourself: that is clearly insane. No one hates Germany more, or loves Blackrock more, than Merz.

    “bombshell weekend WaPo report: Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations.”

    Oh my God, not WaPo again. Weren’t they discredited as the CIA 5 years ago — Taking billions in cash for reporting — and wrong every day since 2010? So their report – stated completely honestly, as if this makes any sense – is “Generals don’t like to bomb things.” They are peaceniks, think war doesn’t work, and hate medals and promotions. First time ever, ackshully! First time in military general history generals hate bombs! Yeah no.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-JeQduJ0f8

    Meanwhile, back in the real world, “Generals and majors always seem so unhappy ‘less they got a war.”

    Dogs still bark and cats meow. Winter is cold, summer is hot. Sun rises in the east and water is wet, people.

    “Chinese Scientists Flagged Glacial Flood Danger One Year Before Nepal Catastrophe

    Yeah, they said “Maybe something will happen in every valley, so demolish and move every building in every town from here to the river valley.” Chinese officials said, “Great! How? To where?” Geologists: “Not my f—king problem dude! I don’t know!” News Media: “Why didn’t you move every road, path, apartment, border crossing, and person within 50 miles of here? On a vague warning with no time scale?” Um…because it’s expensive and nobody had a solution to a single one of the problems?

    This is the poster child of “So long as I don’t have to WORK, or do anything practical, I can finger-wag from my couch all day.” As soon as you have to WORK and solve problems, suddenly it’s very different. Almost every city on earth is in a floodplain, a river valley, or on the coast, the least-safe places you can be.

    “Feminist New York Governor Sports Hijab While Pandering To Muslim Voters

    Nothing more feminist than wearing a hajib. Absolutely. Nothing says “Authenticity” like pandering. So she’s pro-Islam while being more NY-gay than anyone in the last 10,000 years. That’s logical. I’m sure that won’t bite her or nothin’. Nothing true faithful Muslims like better than NY being top 10 gayest places on earth so you got my vote! Oh wait: their women can’t vote.

    Alright, since they love Islam and Mamadani as well so much, I agree! They should be Muslim, and all women lose the vote. Republicans will win for the next 50 years. Not only that, women will have to put some clothes on and act respectable again. I was down with freedom, but they’re not, so who am I to stop them?

    This was fascinating:
    https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/28/vips-memo-dangerous-talk-of-putins-loss-in-ukraine

    So they vow every Intel agent and report are horrific bare-faced liars and have been for years if not decades? I’m on board! Who would say such a thing???

    “Larry C. Johnson, former C.I.A. and State Department Counter Terrorism officer
    John Kiriakou, former C.I.A. Counterterrorism Officer and senior investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
    Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003
    Douglas MacGregor, Colonel, USA (ret.) (associate VIPS)
    Ray McGovern, former U.S. Army infantry/intelligence officer & C.I.A. analyst; C.I.A. Presidential briefer (ret.)
    Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer/NE, National Intelligence Council & C.I.A.
    Scott Ritter, former MAJ, USMC; former U.N. Weapons Inspector, Iraq

    What??? The very same Intel agents who created the lies in the first place! Why that’s amazing!

    So what should I do sir? “Everything I say is a lie. I am lying.” The old Greek riddle. These are the same people horrified when Trump does NOT listen to the Intel reports…which they swear here are all lies. Discuss? They also claim Trump believes everything he’s told, which is why…apparently…he does NOT believe these lies and also not acted, which infuriates them. They say the NY Times lies about everything, then believe every leak in WaPo.

    Man, self-awareness is in unusually short supply.

  2. Michael Reid says:
    September 1, 2026 at 11:51 am

    Human rights in the UK are at an absolute nadir, says former UK ambassador Craig Murray, before he sets out to Russia to talk about them. ‘I fully expect to be arrested, on the way out or the way back’

    INTERVIEW: I could face 12 years in jail if I publish anything the Russian government tells me

    https://youtu.be/Q1pz1IP2K1s

  3. Michael Reid says:
    September 1, 2026 at 11:54 am

    The top-secret British unit unleashing terror on Russia. Prof David Miller reveals the existence of a supposed intelligence operation, involving eight UK spy outfits, which orchestrates covert military attacks, like the blowing up of the Kursk bridge

    INTERVIEW: Burnham’s Russia conscription plan

    https://youtu.be/X9ibtbHQdkk

  4. Michael Reid says:
    September 1, 2026 at 11:57 am

    Trump SEES THE DAMAGE and PANICS as Iran Hits Back Hard (Satirical News Breakdown)

    Iran just responded to U.S. strikes on Larak Island — and the fallout is already dividing what’s confirmed from what’s just noise. In this episode, we break down the real reporting (the strike, Iran’s retaliation, the Axios “Hormuz plan” story) versus the unverified claims flying around (drone shootdowns, “leaked” satellite damage, cover-up theories) — all wrapped in a satirical LEGO-news format because somebody has to make sense of this news cycle without losing their mind.

    What we cover:
    – The U.S. strike on Larak Island and Iran’s response
    – The IRGC’s unconfirmed MQ-9 Reaper drone claim
    – What the satellite images actually show (and don’t)
    – Trump’s Oval Office reaction and the “extremely good shape” soundbite
    – Axios’ reporting on a possible follow-up Hormuz strike plan
    – Separating real reporting from the “cover-up” narrative

    This is commentary and satire built on public reporting — we flag what’s confirmed vs. still developing throughout, because that distinction matters more than the chyron wants it to.

    ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
    00:00 – Cold Open
    00:45 – The Strike on Larak Island
    02:10 – The Drone Claim Nobody’s Confirmed
    03:40 – The Satellite Photo Problem
    05:15 – Trump’s Oval Office Reaction
    06:50 – The Axios “Mow the Lawn” Plan
    08:20 – The Cover-Up Narrative, Fact-Checked
    09:40 – Final Breakdown

    https://youtu.be/uGpHXqDnIGc

  5. Michael Reid says:
    September 1, 2026 at 12:01 pm

    Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI. Tangen discusses the current SCO Summit in Kyrgyzstan where Putin, Xi, Modi, Pezeshkian, and other world leaders are meeting to reduce reliance on the US.

    Einar Tangen: Russia, China, Iran & India Build a New World Order at the SCO Summit

    https://youtu.be/96MJ0ejUG8c

  6. Michael Reid says:
    September 1, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Ukraine was fattened and pushed into war and now it’s a skeleton. Reliant on mercenaries. The cold bath of capitalism. Burnham’s conscription wheeze. CIA director summoned to Moscow

    MONOLOGUE: Hell on earth

    https://youtu.be/7P6YSuyGXvU

  7. Dr. D says:
    September 1, 2026 at 12:15 pm

    Matisse: maximum naked lady ratio. I approve but he might be more photorealistic.

    “Stolen businesses are coming back to America, …like the rest of the world” – DJT

    And Carney is at the head of the line of being Pro-America, pro-U.S. business investment. There is nothing he’s not doing to help us out. Thanks Buddy!

    “The only thing [Iran] have is FAKE NEWS from the USA,”

    And all the CIA agents from above. But if you’re CIA, I trust you!

    “Four more Americans died recently in Iranian strikes. It’s time to stop that Iranian terrorism once and for all.”

    Being consistent, this is literally a war in a war zone. Things happen. Iran literally hit a U.S. military base. Not a Jordanian one, not a Kuwaiti public airport which is getting off the mark, not a shopping mall which is definitely out: a military base. That’s in no way terrorism, esp not on the guy who started the war.

    I know, but since saying this makes people look at me like I have two heads, I stopped re-making this point every day in like 2005.

    Kunstler, making fun of Toronto. Again, as the CAD is .72, T’ronto is a World City and almost no cities in the U.S. still are. Like 5. So the U.S. crushed 110 cities into the condition of Detroit while Canada built one. Of course, Canada did destroy 4 or more provinces at the same time… (N.S., N.B., PEI, and N.F, and left Sask and Manitoba for dead, but that’s only 6. We crushed 45 states.)

    ““..it doesn’t seem to be correct that there was an over-arching official policy from Hitler to exterminate the Jews.”

    This is quite true but also false. He did bad things but we should report them accurately. For example, why kill humans who can work? They were work camps. I know people who were there – and they were Greek and Polish. But they killed people!!!. Yeah! That happens when you try to escape n’ stuff. It’s a war. “But they were starved to death!!” Yeah, and German farmers were eating boot leather and you think we have food for Jewish prisoners? No. They have last-call on food — farmers are at LEAST one slice above them. If they were trying to kill them, they would have just done it. Duh. They were not shy in killing 100k at a pop. Why haul them all over the countryside, feed them for years? Use your head.

    Now DID they kill Jews far, far easier, and actually dump 100k’s in ditches without a tear? Also yes. And they did that to Poles and would be happy to do that to the French and English too. But this is about what they actually did and not what we later made up that they did. Like all history it’s complicated, but using two seconds of rational thought, it has to have a different character than later reported.

    Right now, “Lo! One day a miracle!” we are able to say Hitler is a Hero! As I post the far, far, far-left cartoonist Sinfest regularly, who also “Lo! A Miracle” got “The Memo” and is now to the Right of Nick Fuentes on the Jooos. Wtf. A minute ago he re-wrote every character to be ultra-Woke, nuking his comic from orbit. But I guess killing Jews and genocide is a Woke value now. That’s why I follow him and forward it, as a weathervane.

    So lo, one day in May, Hitler is a hero to Tucker and Roberts now. Okay man. Free Speech. But the mythologizing of him into something he wasn’t – and also that the war wasn’t – was also used only to steer the mob around to political ends. And so again today. They WANT us to be Hitler now. Hitler’s cool, edgy. By AGAIN misrepresenting what he was, but on the other side. Will my life never be released of this? That someone might read documents and not lie for a second?

    This is while Canada and other places are APPLAUDING SS HITLER, in Parliament, proud on TV, WHILE starting a war with Trump because Trump is Hitler. My brain, my brain…. Stop!

    “• The Long Shadow of Judge Indira Talwani (Turley)

    Congress can remove her in six hours. REPUBLICAN Congress. They want and love her. The USSC said “You are not allowed to do that” she does it anyway, and Roberts shrugs. If only he were like Chief Justice or something and had power over the Judiciary! But alas!

    She’s not the only one. We have a half-dozen who declare outrageous things, are slapped down, do it again, and every case on the ground is magically routed only to them. Boasberg. We have no problems. This is all made up, a scam, kayfabe. If they wanted it solved, it would be done in seconds. We can just do things.

    “• Penn Professor Demands Politicians Commit to Packing the Supreme Court (Turley)

    This is how you have a Democracy, defend Democracy. From the people. The People vote, you overturn it. They demand, you ignore it. You lose to the People, you change the rules and override them. Because you’re Schmartz and know bestest! When have Harvard Professors ever been wrong except about eugenics and Hitler and Stalin and economics and covid stretching back 100 embarrassing years.

    “The Trump admin is FORCING the shutdown of 270 FRAUDULENT truck driving schools”

    Same here. Very, very certain immigrants have no driving test at all. They just say “You’re from anywhere on earth? Must be a crack driver then, here you go!” and hand them a license. Meanwhile if you’re 15 and a citizen you’d be lucky to pass 1st time with a $2,000 driving school. Heck, I bet half drive with no license or insurance at all, get stopped, police say “Looks good to me!!!” and let them go. Man, that would save so much time and money, ask Geico how much I could save by never having insurance again. You’ll sue? Hahahaha! First, they don’t own anything; second, sue in Civil Court in Mexico City. It’s magic! The law only applies to people who care! Ask any meth head the same.

    Meanwhile, anyone who has the slightest legitimacy or concern for the law is left in the dust, sprawling on the floor. This is the morality of Doing…but also Not-Doing things. They are the intense immorality of Not-doing, Not-Protecting, Not-Punishing, of being “Tolerant”. Tolerant only of the Guilty but never the innocent. Loving of the foreigner but never one’s own. No. That is the apex of Hate and Intolerance, the sin of avarice, vice and sloth. Throwing your kids in the woodchipper of Baal. The least moral people in the last 1,000 years. The Deadly vice of PRIDE, proud of their “Signaling”, crowing daily about how wonderful it is, white alabaster without, deadly rot within.

  8. tboc says:
    September 1, 2026 at 12:39 pm

    “Anglo-Saxon world was given a chance in WW II to survive and correct itself. It learned absolutely nothing. Not surprising” – Andrei Martyanov 8/31/2026

    “There are efforts underway to shoot down this incoming fire,” Yingst reports, as U.S. forces work to intercept the missiles…..
    at the present moment efforts are being made to get laid – the prospects for success are about the same

    we are sailing on HMS Pinafore

    never ever forget tilt head is a condominium salesman
    on the oil executives:
    to a group of used car salesmen – “We stole these cars and want you to sell them at a market discount.”

    PCR is just now discovering what the US population has been told about the Western Alliance and the Allied Powers is fiction and not history? The man was born in 1939 and never had a clue? Mr. Supply Side Economics,a Reagan Revolution warrior, having a moment of clarity?
    Not A Chance!

    have never really understood Matisse, would choose a Hopper exhibition over a Matisse exhibition every time