Debt Rattle April 11 2025
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Salvador Dali The hand 1930 • Trump Is the Bull in China’s Shop (Green) • Trump’s Reality-Driven U-Turn (Ben Shapiro) • House Passes Trump-Back
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 11 2025]Good morning :-))
Teddi Mellencamp says her father is already planning her burial amid her stage four cancer
” …received her melanoma diagnosis in 2022, which advanced to stage four in February this year and metastasized to her lungs and brain.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/teddi-mellencamp-father-cancer-burial-b2731007.html
TVASSF – tick … tock … tick … tock …
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Markup
… an amount added to the cost price to determine the selling price says Merriam Webster
Each time I hear Trump or Bessent or Steve Miller or their cheerleaders from The Conservative Tree House say something like the following:
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Donald Trump will put a 104% Tariff on China effective TONIGHT Trump cannot be beaten by China. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained to Tucker Carlson, why it is IMPOSSIBLE for China to compete with the United States
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We will have to be crafty as well. And diligent. Until China trades like a first world nation
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Mailed products from China now face a 120% tariff. Additionally, minimum tariff amounts increased from $75 to $100 effective May 1st, and from $150 to $2oo effective June 1st. [See Section #4]
Example: If you order a $20 shirt from China effective June 1st, you will pay $220. $20 for the shirt, and $200 minimum tariff.
What I hear is something akin to Government’s claim to the Exclusive Right To Violence only this Time applied by Venal as Hell Suits in the Trump Administration and Fanboys insisting on another exclusive right….
The Exclusive Right to Markup
Tell me these avaricious business suits are not making the claim The American People Hsve The Right and The Privilege To be Charged Higher Prices by Globe Straddling American BusinessMen and Spared Lower Prices from China
China unfair!In summary
An Exclusive Right To Violence and Torture in Defense of the Nation…..
…makes perfect bed buddies with….
The Exclusive Right to Markup Prices in Defense of The Business Suit’s Right to Profit..
.. and brought to us by the same crew that just said Economic Security (((theirs not yours))) IS National Security (((theirs and Israel’s not yours)))
Its going to be one of those “dogs sleeping with cats” kind of days where observations by John Day and ever-execrable citizenx resonate with my exact experience
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-self-affirming female-groupthink piracy in the western workplace….
-there were no witnesses…..
-Understanding they want control and power OVER you is key to unlocking their disgusting cult like behaviorThere’s one “profession” where this phenomenon has reached an apec of expression and Mike Reid knows it.
“They eat their young too”Btw, they always have “witnesses” even if you never met them because when they can’t fabricate the testimony they’re not averse to “Confabulation”. Human Resources is there to enforce this madness.
POT/KETTLE ALERT, POT/KETTLE ALERT!!!!!
Stephen Miller EXPOSES China—Says Their Economy is a House of Cards Built on Cheating
Banned again by ZeroHedge. Mind you, their comment section is being flooded by pro-Trump bots, it is quite amazing, I now know why he wanted the tech bros in his ((Trump admin)). You have to ask yourself, what is the probability that this many Americans are complete retards (not that likely) versus the likelyhood that billionaires like Thiel, Musk, Zuckthefuck etc are helping Trump by diverting attention from his totally retarded policy decisions and his constant, just constant, lying to his voters.
How to Make America Great Again? First, get a leader who has the respect of the country and can tell the truth, if even for 50% of the time, otherwise the world will look at the USA and think that they are insane. China is taking the piss, increasing their tariffs to 125%, the reason they are taking the piss is that they know that nobody is going to buy the other country’s stuff at this rate.
Trump’s campaign hats, signs etc were all made in China, India and Bangladesh; ooops! The USA should decline gracefully, not like a total retard.
“the hand”.
that’s the invisible hand of
a completely rigged “system” for the exclusive benefit of a microscopic ruling class that has nothing to do with “capitalism”the market (dali had x-ray vision) coming to take away all the hair-dye from the leftist who refuse to make america great again.
text “oops” to 43523 to MAKE AMERICA CONTINUE TO KILL AGAIN! and get a nice ball cap, too.
Denninger is now a ((Tump)) fanboi. Yes, even the used to be super cynical Denninger is telling us that we are morons if we think that tariffs will cause price rises. He is praising ((Trump)) from the rooftops, he cannot do any wrong.
My analysis of it all is that he likes the way that Trump is telling everybody else to fuck off, that is Denninger’s style and I think he is starting to bond with the Orange Jew. I say that here because otherwise Denninger will ban me from his site; he’s a bit fragile, a bit like a democrat, he hates people he does not agree with ….. man, the USA has a long way to go to get great again.
I saw a comment on ZH today complaining that ZH was not posting any articles about the bond disaster currently happening. Did you know it was happening? No, not in the news? Yeah, this person was claiming that ZH was so busy supporting Trump that it had forgotten its readers. I agreed with him, many of my friends and my wife being part of the bond market, so maybe that is why I got banned from ZH.
Of course, I have been banned many times, the “free speech” of ZH is bullshit, but we all know that, so time to start a new ZH id, write pro-zionist shit for a few comments, then they will stop moderating my comments. Wow, how great it is to have free speech.
rfk jr has already failed his first “test” quite miserably.
or have i missed that the “covid emergency” is no longer running until december 31st, 2029?
Trump won’t defend NATO:
I’ve fought this elsewhere. It’s not about the MONEY. Drop the money out. What is it? ON THE GROUND, all Europe has NO Army. Then when they have no army and Lithuania gets them into a nuclear war with Russia, they then call us, and WE become their entire Army, who has nothing to do with it.
So No MONEY = Europe has No ARMY, and we are their army FOR FREE.
…Since ppl are getting nitpicky, it’s not 100% free, but again, they’re saving 2-4% GDP for 20, 40 years? That’s multi TRILLIONS (inflation adjusted) over that time. Competitive advantage? AND they are tariffing our cars at 100%. AND then openly election tampering us.
“China’s economy is far weaker than it looks” –Miller
Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t. Don’t care. We have to stop the bleeding. What part of this don’t you understand? We’re printing $1 TRILLLLLLLLLLLLION every 60 days. We’re AT, maybe PAST, collapse. A U.S. collapse would be WORSE to China than any stupid trade war – much worse. But that’s only PART of it. As the US$ is the world trade medium, world trade would lock up, a billion would starve, and we’d have instant world war > nuclear exchange. Does this not sink in for you people?
So from yesterday, I don’t care if Trump is mature or immature, same as I don’t care if my waiter is. And I don’t care if to stop the bleeding we go one way, with a trade agreement, or whole-hog with complete halt of trade in both directions. A tourniquet of a belt or a bandana, don’t care if it stops the bleeding.
Alex and the Duran were insufferable yesterday, and I see this all over, Lotus Eaters was a good example. His charts man was like “Trump caved!” He caved to the bond market, he lost. Maybe. What’s wrong with him saying that?
ALL OF THAT IS YOUR DONALDTELEPATHY. You are, apparently MUST hypothesize, project Donald’s INTENT, his personal psychological state, his being. His EMOTIONS. He sucks. He’s a weakling, a loser. Wtf is it that draws out everyone to be a sissy-girl in relation to him? WTF would I know, or even CARE what his internal, emotional motivations are? I see this everywhere! So let me explain with Lotus Eaters:
His man was like: Trump did this. And when doing this, ratcheting up, endangered the Bond market, he caved and pulled back. That’s why it’s a flip flop, and a failure. Sargon was head scratching just like I am. He’s like: He started with NOTHING, and in just 10 days, with a couple tweets, got 70-100 nations to negotiate and reveal they have no spine. With nothing. No actual actions have occurred yet. That’s just talk, “Art of the Deal” How t.f. is that bad? How is that Losing? How is that at all Bad for America? He reminded them that WE have some power. That they NEED us. And then, in the negotiations, it would seem that they sign, so we BOTH AGREE, then continue trade on different terms as if this never happened.
His charts guy is presuming 1) Trump has only ONE plan 2) He never anticipated, didn’t have the slightest notion that the Bond market existed. 3) When it occurs and Bessant and traders start warning him they’re redlining, he then goes “What? Oh my God!” and stops. 4) He is then embarrassed, crushed, shattered. Inconsolable. 5) No other plans are tried, and those 100 nations invade, conquer, and rape our womenfolks I guess? WTF? All these are inherent assumptions to his statements, his argument. That’s a lot of assumptions, pal!!
How about this: They know all about it. He says like any ship captain “Get me up a head of steam”. For what, Captain? Well the captain isn’t sure, because it’s too complicated to explain to you. He HAS to act, NOW, so he finds a weak point and charges it. He takes 70 ships. Then runs into an aircraft carrier. So he changes course not to ram it, as ANY NOT- MORON WOULD. Would the Captain be smarter because he started this course SSW, to just stay on bearing SSW because to turn Left would be “Capitulating”? For the love of God my brother in Christ. HE JUST TOOK 70 SHIPS. And to you that’s a loss??? Whut? Repeat your own sentence back to me.
Taking 70 ships from a standing start is a loss, remove the Captain.
Why? Well because although he identified, tested, then cut off the Carrier from all support vessels, he didn’t sink it the first go, with the first trajectory. Yup! That’s the plan.
And he got the boiler hot, Scottie calls up from the Engine room “These bonds are gonna blow captain, I don’t know how much more she can take!” And? So he now knows what the bonds will do. Bc the market (economists) expected them to fall, not rise. WHY ASSUME TRUMP THOUGHT SO? What are you sleeping in his bed? Ew. He TESTED the bonds, and when the engine got too hot, got off the case safely, having alienated the carrier and swept 70 ships (who may or may not stay with us). Safely. NOTHING HAPPENED. All your calls for disaster were TOTALLY WRONG (so far). And therefore all Donald’s negotiating actions are TOTALLY RIGHT. (so far).
EVERY PERSON, Alexander Mercouris – the British – in particular is apoplectic over this. “It IS NOT DONE I say!!!” he thunders. Taking 70 ships is not done? “He’s annoyed the world!” Yeah, when you stop their open mercantilism, they’ve been getting rich on, it WILL annoy them. “But he FAILED, it’s an UTTER EMBARRASSMENT!” Taking 70 ships from China and leaving them isolated is failure and embarrassment? Why?
“He’s failing his own base!” How? He said he would do this and we want him to. “Prices are rising it will cause inflation, trade war that hurts the lower class!!!” No, prices are DROPPING actually, sharply. We might actually want to ADD some inflation. The trade war is RETURNING JOBS, his base says. The trade war will HELP us, that’s why we asked him to, since 1980. And as an amazing bonus the rich f-kkers on Wall Street who have all our money lost $6Trillion right in the pooper! Win, win, win, win, win, win, win. (So far) Man it was worth it all just to WATCH that!
“But all farming products are cut off, for his base, as a major trading input to China.”
I’ve covered this before: Food and Oil are “Fungible”. China buys from Argentina, Iran. Therefore the previous buyers from Argentina switch to us. Same oil produced, the same food, are all consumed by humans on planet earth, exactly the same. I went to Wendy’s not Burger King is all.
What I’m hearing is “I don’t like Trump.” That’s all. And even WINNING 70-100 trade concessions in 10 days means they like him LESS, not more. Do you all HEAR yourselves? WTF did you think was going to happen? We were going to mope around, shuffle our feet, send a strongly-worded letter and China was going to say “Okay then! Here’s $100 Billion.”? For the love of God, NO. They’re not going to believe f—k all, and shouldn’t. You have to SHOW them. You have to MAKE them. With ACTIONS. The don’t — and shouldn’t — understand anything else. You ACT. Is that because all of us live on the couch, bloviating? Get up and DO something.
…But at the end of the day, we need to have a trade deal that BOTH sign, and BOTH can live with. Or it’s a fail. They’re calling a fail before we’ve gotten anywhere near that, but that’s a certainty, or THEY wouldn’t sign it. We’re not invading f’ing Vietnam to make them sign, they’re signing it voluntarily. It’s just a deal.
I don’t mind China doing this. It’s not personal. I have no emotions about it and neither does Trump. I think they’re trying to run out the clock and foot-drag on him, which is a fine strategy, I don’t mind. They have their own interests and problems.
Their stuff is mostly junk, and the less of it that comes here, the better. We’d have to buy and make expensive, long lasting things, not one-use trendy garbage that ends up in a landfill. Who wins with that? All the global warming environmentalists are fighting tooth and nail to KEEP worldwide shipping, mega consumerism, and microplastics. Do you SEE yourself right now? Shut off world trade would solve all your CO2 problems overnight.
So anyway, STOP. When you think to yourself about this, ask “Am I projecting what Donald is THINKING and FEELING about it as one of my base assumptions?” And why would I do that? Why add that? You only can prove his ACTIONS. Stop sleeping in his bed. Show some self-respect.
“it was Japan whose sale of American bonds yesterday forced Trump’s hand to announce a 90-day suspension of tariffs”
Was it though? So you were in Donald’s MIND at the time this statement was made? From yesterday: We are now negotiating with 70 nations. That’s going to take time. Why on God’s earth would we NOT halt tariffs during negotiations? Wouldn’t you be twice as mad if he didn’t? So you’re mad if he does and if he doesn’t. If he turns left or if he turns right. Because, sounds like you just don’t like Donald Trump, has literally nothing to do with his behavior. People are either assuming – PROJECTING – he is all bad, or assuming, projecting, he is all totally good. WHY?
“They said they were a developing nation… I blame the people sitting at this desk… They allowed this to happen.”
This is how he is evil and vilifies China. By regularly saying he doesn’t blame China, they cut a good deal. It was the American side selling out that was the problem. Then everyone agrees and a second later it never happened.
Let’s put it this way: Trump is saying these nations cheated and took advantage of us for the 5 second sound bites. OBVIOUSLY that’s not true, not really. What’s going on, that we need to stop, is YES the U.S. was being cheated and liquidated. Drive to any town here and look. But the GLOBALISTS, had contracted, outsourced the work to China. THEY set U.S. Law – or rather economic rewards – to liquidate the entire U.S. And ship it to China? Only sort of. They then shipped the PROFITS to a handful of Western, European, Atlanticists, Globalists. Or put another way: Colonialists. China is the middle man here. They did the liquidation task and like any estate auctioneer, got their cut. But the MOST of the money went to the owners, the Globalists above. That’s the better way to look at it, why we’re mad and it has to stop, but why it doesn’t fit in a 30 second sound bite, only a 5 minute one.
Maybe he should do that, but we’re busy, and his base already knows this as a root assumption. The Left won’t care what you say, ever, and misreport it. So who are you talking to?
Pelosi: When you’re the GOOD people it’s okay to give yourself a little more. You work hard.
“US President Donald Trump has heaped praise on Elon Musk, the head of his government waste-cutting task force, saying he wants the billionaire and his “fantastic” Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to stay in Washington for the “long haul.”
But only yesterday Musk was crying in his office and getting kicked out. What happened, WaPo? Were you lying again and again and again and again?
““Nobody wins with a trade war. Every country loses,” Sanchez warned.”
Great! Then why do you have tariffs on us? Of 100%?
“the Chinese business model… it never stops. They just keep producing and producing and dumping and dumping.”
They produce lots of goods we want and sell them cheap? Sounds terrible. Try not to lose the plot here. We’re worried about internal hollowing out and utter collapse.
“von der Leyen said the EU “took note of the announcement by President Trump” and wants to “give negotiations a chance.”
It’s all good and okay and Nice when Europe does it. See? When they do the exact same thing, it’s not “Chaos” at all. When the “Good” people murder it becomes GoodMurder™
“If the politicians don’t do our will, we’ll go after private industry.
• EU Issues Threat To US Tech Giants (RT)This is part of the “Undefinables” in Trump’s tariff chart. How much Regulation, other f—kery are they up to protecting their markets.
“children, have lost their lives in artillery bombardments, justified by the Kiev regime as part of a “fight against separatists/invaders.” However, the evidence reveals that this has always been a deliberate terrorist campaign against the civilian population, not a legitimate military confrontation.”
Not exactly, and no one can seem to use the word “Terrorist” correctly since 2001. WORDS HAVE MEANINGS. Kiev thinks Russians aren’t humans, so they don’t care if they bomb children or not. They don’t care if the Russians are afraid (“Terror” – ism) or not. They have to have INTENT to terror, and INTENT to use that terror for gains, not just as an accidental side effect of grabbing territory or something. They are State Nazis, not Terrorists, which is generally considered non-state actors, as in this case as well.
Why do I bother? Nobody dgaf about using words or telling the truth. “We just say stuff.”
“• Adam Schiff Wants Trump Probed For Market Manipulation (RT)
I love this line. Can we pass those insider trading laws now? You know, the ones that already exist, and are already constitutional since all laws passed must apply to government as well? If it takes rumors that MTG is insider trading to pass them and grab Pelosi too, I’m all for it. DO IT!!!
““The Trump administration is cutting funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produces a National Climate Assessment..”
Well they haven’t been right in 35 years, why would we pay them?
“• Iran’s Regime Unlikely To Back Down As Trump Plays With Fire (Jay)
Again with projection: what does that MEAN? “Backing down” is a personal, emotional state and action. Emotions? WTF is that and why would it matter? Idgaf about your feelz. Nations have INTERESTS. It is in our Interest, to have a stable limited relationship with Iran and vice versa.
“But then while Trump mulls over the idea of what a massive embarrassment such a failed operation would be”
And all commenters are PROJECTING what Trump thinks. Knows or doesn’t know. I have to as well, and I THINK that he’s aware we have no military options in regards to them, and that’s fine because he doesn’t really want a (distracting) war. But I’m honest that’s my opinion, not his. What I would report on is his ACTIONS.
“It’s unlikely Trump is serious about an attack on Iran, as, according to a number of credible sources and despite appearances, he wants Netanyahu to back down from his ambitions of a war with Iran which would involve U.S. troops. In reality, what we see in front of the cameras is a theatre. In reality Trump is unhappy about Netanyahu’s plans and his bigger ruse to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran.”
Agree with everything. If he could just set Iran aside for now, he would. That’s a position everyone can live with, and in fact, Iran/Russia win. If they build the rail and/or even the canal, then it would tip “World Island” of MacKinder permanently, and IDGAF. That’s LONDON’s problem.
“• RFK Jr. Promises To Reveal Cause Of ‘Autism Epidemic’ by September (RT)
The problem isn’t KNOWING – they already know – he has to assemble the research to publish it as OFFICIAL knowing. Nearly the same as starting from scratch. This is how law, bureaucracies, science, talks to itself. Spoiler: it’s the vaccines. And maybe he’ll go soft and just say it’s the adjuvants. Don’t care, we’re getting somewhere. In 2 years we can find the simian virus.
“(AfD) has become the most popular party nationwide for the first time in its history,”
But everyone knows when you’re the top party with the most seats, you do NOT rule, right? Not in Europe you don’t! France, Germany, Holland, England… That’s Democracy! When whatever the ppl vote, we do the #Opposite which just happens to be what oligarchs want.
(England is a minority, but where winning 30% of vote means you get ONE seat instead of 30. Why added.)
““Rejecting Kings Since 1776.”
Totally agree! Glad we’re on the same page! So you can remove that Federal Judge now, correct?
But Turley is somewhat wrong here. Personally we are very close to dictatorship, they’re not wrong. Trump should NOT have this kind of power on tariffs, that is for Congress. He’s not wrong: its an urgent catastrophic emergency of national defense is happening, although it’s hard to explain to a non-economist. Congress COULD, if they want, override him. But in theory the Senate could override Caesar, but didn’t, let’s not go there. A lot of the “Dictatorship” problems are government shouldn’t be this large. And are only this large with this much taxation. Plus leaving the Constitutional gold (silver) standard and creating the Fed. If he was running the Army and the Post Office we wouldn’t have these problems, as all us Libertarians say. That is all COMPLETELY ILLEGAL under 10A. Nobody cares. So here we are.
You want to fix these very real problems, reduce government power. As we keep saying, DOGE cuts the government in half, it is LESS able to be tyrannical, and LESS able to be Hitler. Then you LESS to complain about in the President, and more of your own money to spend.
Strangely Exxon will fix this, Why they chose an arcane form. IF bureaucrats can’t “Just make up” environmental law, etc, then CONGRESS won’t do it, they don’t have time. That’s why they outsourced all their functions to Bureaucracy. …But that means to the Executive. That means MOST EXISTING ‘LAWS”, are already void, as of last year. Like they never existed. That means we ALREADY don’t have to do this, even as we ALSO fire all the bureaucracy. Federal Government is “Devolving” pushing power back to the States and People. 10A.
No one notices. There’s no fight over it. Because this is all deep arcana of the Exxon ruling. Great, love it, good play.
African cows: Now if only we could get the American people to act the same.
“Consequences are oppression. Personal responsibility is oppression.”
I hate to keep bringing up that this is a female paradigm with a female approach and methods because I don’t want it to be true, but…
Following some fights by women authors against Feminism, that’s what THEY say. “I was captured by this, it made my life hell, I was mentally ill, all released when I realized what was going on. That we can just find truth instead of bowing to consensus. That Patriarchy is mostly WOMAN pressure on other women to conform.” etc. How does this work, and at present? With this: All consequences are mean. “We” decided, using social consensus, that is so. So, for example “Physics” is now mean. “Bankruptcy” is now mean. Flipping an airplane from goofing off, is now mean. “We” decided — democracy, consensus reality — that holodomor and Lysenko don’t exist and everyone’s fine, actually. Using SOCIAL pressure. So, when there is no money, when the currency is social status alone, what happens? We can just ignore it. We print more social currency, mostly by crushing others, transferring theirs to me. Social Piracy or emotional Imperialism.
So, flip side, what happens when we have MONEY as human currency? The numbers don’t lie. What you’re doing is either working or it’s not. And it’s impersonal. You can’t be mad at the books or me for handing them to you: it’s the numbers’ fault. …And at the same time, the social world still exists, just as large and wide as before, the numbers were only ADDED to a fully-functional human experience.
That is to say, they are a Unit of Account. We MEASURE is this thing working. We can DENY it is not working, and ohhh…say…kill 150 Million people. Oops!
Let’s propose that the recent ELECTION is their “Numbers” moment, and you see exactly what’s happening: they are trying every means to deny, deflect, refuse, oppose THE NUMBERS, that is, REALITY. Using their internal social pressure. But in our system so far there still remains the reality of elections they have to face, and they can’t and haven’t yet.
Or, I suppose, they wouldn’t be Socialists.
Does fall back to the practical question of how to reach them. Whether in the usual way of outreach or some other way of jamming their ports so they fall over, quivering, need a re-boot, and can’t hurt anyone for a few minutes.
https://y.yarn.co/25df2973-e52c-4052-bf8d-c6bd72d174f8_text.gifit was a new-tyranny, but I was doing good work for cheap and was allowed to go see a therapist for the rude aggressions of a few angry females in the workplace against me… After which they promptly accused me, while I had said nothing, and there were no witnesses.”
This is actually getting common, but there wasn’t a name and banner to collect all the stories under. Example, chilling: https://substack.com/@kevinbass/note/c-107483018
Again, please PLEASE I don’t want this to be true, but this is what men said throughout history if women were allowed a majority to be in charge of things. And here we are. This goes with 100 other things, boring dead guys warned us about that were true, so as a conservative human, I’ve learned to sigh and take them more seriously. There were communists working together in Hollywood in 1955? C’mon, how serious an issue can that be? If we switch up to stop back alley abortions it will lead 25 million deaths and at-birth infanticide widely? C’mon what do you take me for? Nobody’s that insane. …And so on. Sigh. Pre-Sigh. Le sigh.
Why does it hurt so much to find to dead people are right? Is it only because then I personally am wrong? Seems like something more.Yet here we are with living emotionally and the woman thing and what’s the solution? Just let them EMOTIONALLY get a bug and EMOTIONALLY end Doctor’s careers and send them to prison for feelz? WTF, NO! That’s what’s happening already. So you tell me.
Pretty much the whole world, except Africa and parts of West Asia, don’t have the demographics of population replacement, especially notable is China.
Adding to China’s Communist Klepocractic government, past policies of ‘One Child’ made the Chinese in their infinite Asian Wisdom abort hundreds of millions of baby girls over the decades, resulting in way, way to many young men with NO partners
No baby machines
There are no sound economic theories on how to run a ‘developed’ society OR economy on a declining population.
The Chinese on top of that don’t ‘consume’ much compared to other 1st world countries.
They like profiting from consumption by other cultures but refuse to step up their own consumption.
This will eventually bring them to ruin.
Trump has demonstrated to the whole world that China doesn’t want ‘free trade’ in ANY way, shape or form.
It’s now in plain sight for all to see.
China wants to sell and get rich but not buy (or consume) much from any other country.
They just proclaimed it with their actions.
The country with a plummeting population, to many men and a rapidly aging population that can’t work as hard and needs lots of social services as they age.
Great planning, way to go…..
AI automation will take up some of that slack but the fundamental problem of running a country with less people each year has never being successfully done.
Empires are like sharks, if they don’t keep moving forward and grow they die.
What we have with almost any countries in the world with declining population is a dead shark.
Countries masquerading as Ponzis
Definition of War must includes, “Change in Complex Relationships”
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Read the references produced by RIM.
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Boots on the ground, genocide, Covid, supply chain, labor disruption, inflation, tariffs, finance, presidential authority, the budget process, the legal process, trade policies, the bond market.
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According to Fox News, it was Japan whose sale of American bonds yesterday forced Trump’s hand to announce a 90-day suspension of tariffs.
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War/Peace, Lies, Propaganda• No Solution But The Dissolution Of The Terrorist Kiev Regime (SCF)
————Their stuff is mostly junk,
•• uh, double-check that one. where is the computer you are currently using made?and the less of it that comes here, the better.
•• but that will destroy wall street.We’d have to buy and make expensive, long lasting things,
•• who is gonna do that?! who is “we”?!not one-use trendy garbage that ends up in a landfill.
•• DESIGNED IN TEXAS!!!!!!!!!! (made in china)Who wins with that?
•• obviously we all do.All the global warming environmentalists are fighting tooth and nail to KEEP worldwide shipping, mega consumerism, and microplastics.
•• the flopflip so crazy. nonetheless, mr trump eviscerates babies.Do you SEE yourself right now?
•• nope. can’t afford to turn on the lights.Shut off world trade would solve all your CO2 problems overnight.
•• shutting off the pentagon is way easier and a much better start.“In 2 years we can find the simian virus.”
after 17,353,498 more people have died.
BONDS! TARIFFS! MONEY!
humans is dumb.
“police have asked the serial killer to pragmatically and gradually lower the number of victims to a level more in line with their cost/benefit analysis.”
Did you forget something?
They hope that the economy, which has been converted to a war economy, will generate these billions?
But no company is making any effort to convert production because there are no long-term contracts.
No raw materials and skilled workers.“Only six Western nations have pledged to send troops to Ukraine after the hostilities between Kiev and Moscow ends.
No trained troops available.Red – April 7, 2025 at 7:44 pm
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DBS In business the end justifies the means.
Kinda the same in .gov just that an end isn’t required, if one happens along so be it.“DBS In business the end justifies the means.” – most succinct
modus vivendi
The Rules Based Order
temporary accomodation
temporary – 1947 – 2025Ben Shapiro is not the one i would look to for an accurate defintion of reality.
Were the American businessmen who created the current economic regimen starting in 1970 not American businessment? So we are to rescue the economy of the United States from American businessmen so the American businessmen might organize the economic regimen more in favor of United States businessmen?
68, i’ll owe you one
Defunding all those NGO’s and money laundering is going to let those guys flying the fighters be good guys, or at least less-bad guys.
America First consequently winning elections is going to let those guys be better guys by staying the fuck HOME.
If the leftists didn’t want to make an alliance with Israel NECESSARY to accomplish this, maybe you shouldn’t have, I don’t know, captured all the institutions and committed genocide? Scared everyone with whackadoodle superstitions and ideology? Alienated and scared and pissed off your domestic jewish base along with AIPAC and Mossad?
Maybe you could have HELPED instead of cloward-pivening and Criticizing™ and stuff?
But reality ought to be PERFECT where you can do things things without consequence? Oh, if your’e experts and perfection, show us how to do it, go on. So far, you’ve showed us how to make enemies.
Confessions Of Empire https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/confessions-of-empire
US ‘just lost a war with Russia’ – Tucker Carlson
Russian officials perceive the Ukraine conflict as a NATO proxy war – a notion that some Western politicians, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have openly agreed with.
In an interview with Alex Jones published on Wednesday, Carlson accused those perpetuating the hostilities of ignoring that Russia has emerged victorious.
”We just lost a war with Russia,” the former Fox News host declared. “The US was running that war – the US military, the Pentagon, State Department, CIA – running the war against Russia. It was not… was never about Ukraine.” Carlson expressed concern that “nobody will say that out loud – that we’re overstating our power.” … “That’s called hubris and that’s how empires get destroyed and populations vaporized,” Carlson warned. “Maybe we should readjust our expectations a little bit.” https://swentr.site/news/615514-carlson-us-loss-russia/ Trump wants to divide Russia, China and Iran, to pick them off separately, especially China. They are not cooperating with him, but with each other. What’s Plan-B?.
US Geopolitical Chess: Strategies Against China, Russia, And Iran https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-geopolitical-chess-strategies-against-china-russia-and-iranAnother Billion: Ukraine Continues to Replenish Its Treasury with Income from Russian Assets Frozen in the EU https://en.topcor.ru/58573-ukraina-poluchila-ocherednoj-transh-obespechennyj-dohodami-ot-zamorozhennyh-sredstv-rf.html
Kiev targeting Russian gas supplies to southern Europe – Moscow
Ukraine has continuously violated the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities, according to the Defense Ministry
The Ukrainian military has launched multiple drone attacks overnight, targeting a a Russian gas pumping station which supplies fuel to southern Europe via the TurkStream pipeline, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said. https://swentr.site/russia/615445-turkstream-compressor-station-drones/ Gilbert Doctorow with Professor Glenn Diesen: Transatlantic Ties Unraveling
The brief summary that Professor Diesen has attached to this 35-minute interview reads:
“The US seeks to readjust to a multipolar world, and Europe’s relevance and priority have declined. Beyond Europe’s efforts to sabotage Trump’s peace initiative in Ukraine and the tariff wars, there is a deeper contempt for Europe that is no longer concealed.” https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/10/professor-glenn-diesen-transatlantic-ties-unraveling/
Transcript of that interview. Russia needs “reassurances”, like the return of Russian diplomatic property in the US and also Russian financial property. Russia wonders if they will really have a “partner for detente”, which they had in Richard Nixon, until he was deposed. Color-revolution moves against Trump and the difficulties he is having with $US and trade reset are important. Will he last after his first 100 days? https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/11/transcript-of-interview-with-professor-glenn-diesen-10-april/ Trump had counted on the induction of a global-recession to cause a flight to safety in 10 year US Treasury debt, dropping the effective interest below 3%, to reduce federal interest payments, but the bond markets did the opposite a few days ago, raising the effective interest, which is over 4.5% this morning, and weakening the $US, which has now fallen below the par “100” index-rate. This changes everything, and not in Trump’s favor. Futures Flat, Gold Soars, Dollar Crashes After China Hikes US Tariffs To 125% https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-flat-gold-soars-dollar-crashes-after-china-hikes-us-tariffs-125
House Passes GOP Budget Plan After Johnson Tames GOP Revolt
Johnson appeared alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune to project unity, and reiterate a promise to reduce the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion in the overall package of Trump tax cuts, beefed up border security, energy policies and more. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/johnson-says-house-gop-have-votes-pass-budget-resolution Germany’s Grand Coalition expected to be announced the day the AfD goes top of the polls
The CDU/CSU will hold the chancellorship, interior ministry, and the foreign office, while the Social Democrats will lead the finance ministry and defense https://rmx.news/article/germanys-grand-coalition-expected-to-be-announced-the-day-the-afd-goes-top-of-the-polls/New German Government Pledges to Clamp Down on ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ (like AfD, and maybe you; certainly me)
Berlin’s black and red coalition promises “zero tolerance” to “enemies of democracy,” including “right-wing extremist thoughts.” https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/new-german-government-pledges-to-clampdown-on-right-wing-extremism/AfD Tops Polls For First Time In History As Merz’s Public Support For Chancellor Plummets https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/afd-tops-polls-first-time-history-merzs-public-support-chancellor-plummets
Not a mutual defense pact, but… Russian Duma ratifies 20-year strategic pact with Iran
The vote in Moscow came days ahead of a historic summit in Oman between top US and Iranian officials https://thecradle.co/articles/russian-duma-ratifies-20-year-strategic-pact-with-iranPepe Escobar indicates that Steve Witkoff needs to sleep on the planes when he can: Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?
Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying he would engage in indirect nuclear negotiations with Witkoff in Oman on Saturday. https://thecradle.co/articles/russia-iran-china-all-for-one-and-one-for-allTrump envoy in Russia for high-level talks – media, Steve Witkoff is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin on Friday https://swentr.site/news/615586-witkoff-putin-meeting-axios/
Saudi Aramco discovers 14 new oil, gas fields https://www.arabnews.com/node/2596443/business-economy
Six weeks since Israel imposed total Gaza blockade, last food is running out
Israel’s blockade is starving Gaza’s population, with aid cut off and hunger now used as a weapon of war. https://www.newarab.com/news/six-weeks-israel-imposed-total-gaza-blockade-last-food-running-outIsrael denies 68 per cent of UN aid access attempts into Gaza since 18 March: UN https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250409-israel-denies-68-per-cent-of-un-aid-access-attempts-into-gaza-since-18-march-un/
All the dead villagers in Vietnam became “VC”. Israel targeted my colleague in an airstrike, claiming that he was a Hamas fighter. Israel is lying.
Israel targeted my colleague, Hassan Eslayeh, claiming that he was a Hamas fighter. This isn’t the first time Israel has used this lie to justify targeting journalists, paramedics, and rescue workers. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/israel-targeted-my-colleague-in-an-airstrike-claiming-that-he-was-a-hamas-fighter-israel-is-lying/Israel says seizing ‘large areas’ of Gaza as strike kills 23 https://www.arabnews.com/node/2596398/middle-east
Israeli threatens to expel 970 pilots over Gaza war protest
Israeli Air Force commanders threatened Wednesday to expel approximately 970 personnel — including pilots, officers and soldiers — if they do not withdraw their signatures from a letter demanding an end to the war in the Gaza Strip, local media reported.
Israeli daily Haaretz reported that “about 970 aircrew members, some in active reserve service, signed the letter opposing the war but not calling for refusal to serve.”
In recent days, senior Air Force leaders made personal phone calls to reservists who endorsed the message, urging them to retract their support, the outlet said. Commanders informed the reservists they face dismissal if they refuse to comply, according to Haaretz.
Following the threat, only 25 signatories withdrew their names, while eight others requested to add their signatures.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250409-israeli-threatens-to-expel-970-pilots-over-gaza-war-protest/Most Americans Now Have Negative View Of Israel – Under-50 GOP Support Craters https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/most-americans-now-have-negative-view-israel-under-50-gop-support-craters
Houthis claim 3rd MQ-9 Reaper Drone Downing in 10 days. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-claim-3rd-mq-9-reaper-drone-downing-ten-days
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has launched literally hundreds of strikes in various places across Yemen over the last three weeks, especially the capital as well as the key port of Hodeidah. Al-Houthi on Thursday declared that the “US failed to prevent military operations and secure maritime navigation for the Israeli enemy.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/america-has-failed-secure-red-sea-navigation-houthi-leader
Trump Suggests Israel Would ‘Lead’ Possible Attack On Iran
“If it requires military, we’re going to have military,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, responding to a question on whether US would attack if a nuclear deal isn’t reached with the Iranians. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-suggests-israel-would-lead-possible-attack-iranChinese Sellers On Amazon Panic After Trump’s Tariff Bazooka
Wang Xin, head of the Shenzhen Cross-Border E-Commerce Association—which represents over 3,000 Amazon sellers—told Reuters, “This isn’t just a tax issue; the entire cost structure gets completely overwhelmed,” adding, “It’ll be very hard for anyone to survive in the U.S. market.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-sellers-amazon-panic-after-trumps-tariff-bazooka Fishing and fabricating: Biden White House secured Trump’s phone for FBI in Jan. 6 probe: new emails from Grassley, Johnson
The new whistleblower emails also show that a future member of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team and an anti-Trump FBI agent were closely involved in the origins of the FBI probe. https://justthenews.com/government/congress/biden-white-house-secured-trumps-phone-fbi-jan-6-probe-new-emails-grassleyUpcoming Book Poised to Expose FBI’s Hidden Role in OKC Bombing on 30th Anniversary, Reveal Prison Murder Cover-Up, Says Victim’s Brother https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/upcoming-book-poised-expose-fbis-hidden-role-okc/
US Spy Chief Gabbard Starts Task Force To Investigate Intelligence Community
Tulsi Gabbard said she is setting up a task force to cut costs and root out what she said is “weaponization” of the government. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-spy-chief-gabbard-starts-task-force-investigate-intelligence-communityAttorney Ty Clevenger Files to Hold FBI in Contempt of Court for Systematically Not Providing Records About Seth Rich https://joehoft.com/boom-attorney-ty-clevenger-files-to-hold-fbi-in-contempt-of-court-for-systematically-not-providing-records-about-seth-rich/
FBI and ATF directorships are both full time jobs. Kash Patel Quietly Removed as Acting ATF Director After Ghosting Gig
He has been replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll after he reportedly did not show face in an ATF facility for weeks. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-reportedly-removed-as-acting-atf-director-after-ghosting-gig/Tulsi Gabbard Drops Two Huge Bombshells
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard made a startling revelation during an open cabinet meeting Wednesday, announcing that she has evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate the results of past US elections.
“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard stated.
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time,” she continued...
..Gabbard also announced that she is about to make public a huge amount of information relating to the assassinations of RFK, and MLK Jr. https://modernity.news/2025/04/11/tulsi-gabbard-drops-two-huge-bombshells/Meryl Nass MD advocates hand-counting paper ballots: Maybe this will help get 7 Senate Dems to vote in favor of honest elections https://merylnass.substack.com/p/maybe-this-will-help-get-7-senate
Dr. Nass: SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to vote, passed House today
Polls show 84% of Americans support this bill. But will it get sufficient Senate support? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/save-act-requiring-proof-of-citizenshipThat would include vaccinations, but does not cover medical personnel: Idaho Governor Signs Bill Banning Businesses, Schools From Requiring Medical Procedures https://www.zerohedge.com/political/idaho-governor-signs-bill-banning-businesses-schools-requiring-medical-procedures
Peter McCullough MD, At Least 15 Syrian Children Died in 2014 Measles Immunization Campaign
Vaccine Catastrophe Serves as Reminder that MMR Vaccine Administration Has Rare Fatal Risks https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/at-least-15-syrian-children-died Jessica Rose Ph.D. A speculative prediction as to why Marks was afraid to let Secretary Kennedy access the VAERS data
So I predict, just for fun and entertainment of course, that when the VAERS books become transparent, and some brilliant data scientists analyze it, many more connections between [age of] injection [and racial disparity links] and adverse event onset (including autism) are going to be discovered. The thing that boils my blood on hiding data in general, and the VAERS in particular, is that this data is meant to serve as a safety signal warning system FOR THE PUBLIC. It is public data – every single VAERS entry represents a person’s documented experience with an adverse event in the context of a biological (vaccine). And contrary to Peter Marks’ concerns, there is no incentive in a boring old data analyst to make things up or to hide things. If patterns emerge, then patterns emerge. We don’t make up stories, and are not incentivized by profit. Most of us are just nerds who love truth. Emergent patterns from data are like beautiful truth. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-speculative-prediction-as-to-why BREAKING – CDC Vaccine Safety Director May Have Destroyed Records, Says Sen. Ron Johnson
Dr. Shimabukuro implicated in concealing an 82% miscarriage rate among COVID-19 vaccinated pregnant women in NEJM study — records reportedly “remain lost.” https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-cdc-vaccine-safety-director Celia Farber, RFK Jr. Says Cause Of Autism Will Be Known By September—Announces Massive Coordination Between Hundreds Of International Scientists, Says Rate Went From 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31 In His Lifetime
President Trump Backs Him, Says Cause Likely Something “Artificial,” Mentions Shots, And Vows: “There Will Be No Bigger News Conference” When Truth Is Announced https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-says-cause-of-autism-will Meryl Nass MD on the undead WHO Pandemic Treaty: Quick update on the Pandemic Treaty negotiations: far from agreement.
The International Negotiating Body meets this week for the final time to craft a document the members can live with. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/quick-update-on-the-pandemic-treaty Thanks “Germ”. Her COVID-vaccination status is not specified: ‘My long Covid turned out to be terminal cancer’
A former triathlete whose terminal cancer was initially mistaken for long Covid has been given months to live.
Olivia Knowles, from Blackpool, noticed something “wasn’t quite correct” in August 2023 while competing in the Half Ironman World Championship in Lahti, Finland. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde2ln71dwyoNOT a measles death: 8-Year-Old in West Texas Died From Hospital-acquired Pneumonia, Medical Records Show
Doctors who reviewed 8-year-old Daisy Hildebrand’s medical records disputed the Texas health authorities’ statement that she died from “measles pulmonary failure.” They said medical records show she died from acute respiratory distress “secondary to hospital-acquired pneumonia,” which she likely developed during a previous hospital stay. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/8-year-old-west-texas-death-hospital-acquired-pneumonia/Robert Malone MD points out another categorization-error: Another Texas Child Dies after Recovering from Measles https://brownstone.org/articles/another-texas-child-dies-after-recovering-from-measles/
Meryl Nass MD, European measles 2024: 127,350 cases, 38 deaths
The most cases in 27 years. The death rates are comparable to what was seen in the US 75 years ago. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/european-measles-2024-127350-casesDr. Nass: Doctors are still being paid based on how many shots they give children. Here is one current Blue Cross example https://merylnass.substack.com/p/doctors-are-still-being-paid-based
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