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    Piet Mondriaan Trafalgar Square 1939-43   • What Is a Woman? The UK Supreme Court Knows the Answer (Margolis) • Trump Shot Down Israel’s Plan To
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    #186324
    Germ
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    Good morning :-))

    Family whacked.
    A Hat-trick!

    This Aberdeen man faced incurable cancer — then his wife and daughter got diagnosed too

    “Peter Jones was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer just days before Christmas. But for his family, there was more to come.”
    “It’s still hard to believe,” Peter says. “Three of us. Me, my wife and my daughter — all going through cancer at the same time. You couldn’t make it up.”

    This Aberdeen man faced incurable cancer — then his wife and daughter got diagnosed too

    TVASSF – Indeed, you couldn’t make it up.

    #186325
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #186326
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Left’s shallow rationalizations are wearing a bit thin.

    They extend them to all reaches of Life.

    #186327
    Topcat
    Participant

    Make America Great Again

    #186328
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Bitcoin up $10,000? That really moves around. Also stopped basically on the uptrend line.

    Again, Dow also did not break uptrend line.

    Bonds barely moved, actually might be better. Powell can also LOWER rates right now. And why? To un-invert the curve that Europe has been trying to paint to screw us.

    No biggie. Astonishing, NOTHING is happening. By the law of nothing ever happens, nothing is happening. Yet we have the largest divergence I’ve seen in my lifetime in the News and the public.

    “Real Hero of the World” Maybe he should act like it then.

    CCP Transformers: More than meets the eye.

    But muh Russia was shutting off the heat in Fargo in the winter! Right, Rachael?

    Humanitarian lawyer and former aid worker Andrew MacLeod exposes how UN security staff sex trafficked young girls, chained them up in cages and used them as sex slaves, with the full knowledge of the UN’s top brass.”

    Uhhh, I’m not surprised but this is the first I’m hearing of it? Beyond generic rumor? That means the UN has more leverage than most governments?

    “Pierre Poilievre Is a Fraud”

    Pretty clear if you didn’t know already. Ppl say why did Trump attack Canada, it galvanized Canada into Trudeau, etc like lightning. This unity is seamlessly transferred to Carney, Liberals now infinite lease on life. Why? Because Poilievre doesn’t exist. They’re all Goldberg, that’s why he can’t ally and strategize with them. Like we get Poilievre in (somehow) and turns out he’s just Obama or Romney. I mean, Duh. You have any idea how “corrupt” or rather, Non-existent Canadian politics is? There’s nobody in the whole pipeline from Halifax to Moosehead that wasn’t already a plant, a non-player. Who’s that lunatic running as a one-man show? Maybe him. You have one. But what’s he to do, form a Cabinet with the actors from Letterkenny? They’re like further Left than Freeland.

    So IF that is the case (I cannot imagine how it’s not) THEN it’s like dealing with the Soviet Union, there’s not like a single Libertarian, Capitalist, freedom candidate, so let’s move on to our strategy. I can’t explain it, but I feel like they’re going to pop Carney’s manila folder and he’ll tank on the election. How, I don’t know. Because there is only ONE candidate to begin with, and has been since Malrooney (although he was also uniparty) this will really knock Canadian experience for a loop. We elect the guy who…is a rubber mask lizard person or whatever the reveal is, Ack! Ack! Or….we have no PM at all? And just don’t have one for another year? What?

    Like that.

    Like the U.S., some are annoyed and fed up ready to drum people out in Alberta, because they’re not hard ENOUGH. …Same here of course, where are my Epstein files? On the prison accident? On the assassination? Where are my arrests? Where are my 20 Million deportations? You’re fired. Well, same thing with some in Canada. But we have Northern Pikes here, they can confirm if what I’m saying tracks.

    “• What Is a Woman? The UK Supreme Court Knows the Answer (Margolis)

    My only thought, they’ve managed to make us waste time and good will on this instead of hanging people from lightposts. …After a proper trial of course.

    Again, the point of this – well demonstrated in UK – is they DON’T CARE if you rebel now. That’s the POINT. They don’t care if you get fed up, toss off Labour and rebel LATER. They don’t care if the murderfest is with Communists – as with Russia; or with Fascists – as BOTH parties were equally presented to the German people in 1930. Pick either, IDGAF. BOTH make these social planners win. Only REASON, and LIBERTY makes them not win, and they are higher-order functions.

    This is a Pushme-Pullu Judo move. I don’t actually care WHICH way you become unbalanced, I’ll kill you all and steal your stuff either way. Just PSA for the day. If you see weird stuff out there like our Daily Starmer does, rabid and foaming to cause a revolt. He’s like literally “We refuse to give sentencing to anyone Non-English” as a matter of written policy. Next day “I am not Two-Tier Keir” there is no two-tier Justice! ….Sir, you JUST SAID. Yesterday. The news about your official pan-national policy on this hasn’t stopped being printed in the papers yet.

    Nope. No it isn’t. Why. Because he is CAUSING a revolt. He needs the Pushme-Pullyu revolt and will keep arresting every British housewife and raping every British child until he gets it.

    But there’s a bright side: TRULY Ireland should invade and occupy them to keep order. Britain has no army, so it should be cake. No, I’m not kidding, it’s obvious. But lacking that, maybe Poland? They have the only army. But I’d have Poland invade and occupy Germany, so they’d be too busy. Again, no I’m not kidding, it’s obvious. IF you want to stop a world war with Russia in which Poland is erased, THEN you need to stop Germany from causing it. By force if necessary. That’s the geopolitics, the chessboard of it.

    Back to it: in Judo, they toss you with motion, balance. If you are the centered, you can also win. However, you need to throw THEM, so they are no longer in the conflict. So at some point the people may rise up and act instantly without warning. Then everyone will Whaaaaaah all the way to the Whaaaaaamulance. Boo hoo, never dun nuffin’. Just raping 100,000 daughters and killing 100,000 Yanks a year.

    “Trump threatened to bomb Iran “if they don’t make a deal,” to which the Islamic Republic vowed not to bow to pressure. Despite the belligerent rhetoric, the US and Iran held a first round of talks in Oman on Saturday. The negotiations took place in a “productive, calm and positive atmosphere,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.”

    Huh. Sounds like there’s a lot of theater and monkeyshine here for the idiot reporters. Then when the adults have a sit down, they are both aware what’s really going on.

    “The Court actually warned that the district court could order the government to facilitate but not necessarily “to effectuate” the return.”

    There’s a lot of this, so we can have Reality a la carte, where everyone gets to uphold their opposite narratives. A camel is a horse by committee. No one has a spine, because they’ll be shot. The court ALSO said – and forgive me as all of these both make no sense AND are misreported – NOT that he was allowed in the U.S. but that the Admin had to have a PROCESS. …One they didn’t bother to define. So we MUST reimport him, have his process, then re-DEPORT him, properly.

    Of course no one will define any of this, or say, or name them. As JB says, they want YOU not to repeat them, not to obey them – no, that is not enough! You must WANT to do it, ache, LONG to do it. Make it up on your own, and in your own words. That is, it’s not enough to have compliant ACTION, I feel like I don’t fully possess your heart, your very SOUL. Only if I own and am possessing your soul is it anywhere nearly enough. …And even then I’ll be rechecking regularly.

    As I keep not wanting to say, this is the ultimate toxic Feminine: “Would you still love me if I were a slug from Mars” questions, where I want him to wash the dishes, but I’m not going to TELL him I want him to wash the dishes, because IF HE REALLY LOVED ME, he would already know, and obey me without asking. It’s really as if nothing if he does it when asked — that’s laughable, pure hate almost. It’s only when the administration is mind-merged with the Judges – and yet MORE merged again tomorrow, increasing without end – that they can FEELZ safe and validated.

    So that’s what like 5 of these recent rulings have been. Not a STOP order. Not a GO order, but an “I-made-up-a-whole-bunch-of-new-words” order, and this Judge does not FEEEEEEL “Facilitated.”

    Please. Stop. If you wondered why the Law is male, this is why. There are Rules, and sadly sometimes you can be one inch over the line and get caught and that’s not fair, but the alternative is NO lines, and EVERYONE is caught, all the time, for things they can’t imagine, forever.

    Note the UK cops now policing “Could you speak English please, I don’t speak Pakistani” as a hate crime. Whether someone was assaulted or not, we can tell, we can objectively prove, and that’s hard enough, compared to having to determine what someone was Feeeeeeeeeeeling when they say “Oi Mate! Whut?” in the wrong tone of voice.

    The Feminine approach has many places, this is not one of them.

    “Is Judge Xinis suggesting that the court can require punitive or coercive measures against a foreign country to facilitate a change in its position?”

    This would essentially be negotiating treaties and running foreign policy.

    “• Judge Boasberg Floats ‘Criminal Contempt’ Against Trump Admin (ZH)

    But muh, “Nobody elected him”. Btw, that’s PRESIDENT Boasberg to you, mister.

    “the only remedy for purging a contempt order is by complying with a TRO that is no longer in effect is lawless. It also is purposefully meant to put them in an untenable situation.”

    Yes of course. That too.

    “As the panel continued to push the narrative of unjust exile, Jennings laid out the consequences if Abrego Garcia is returned.”

    This is the hill they want to die on. Defending Mexican Cartels, Government employees, the IRS. And recent one, in Maine, the beating up and raping of schoolgirls. Yes, they are like “But Trump can’t be mean, it’s illegal.” Yeah, maybe. I have a strong push for state’s rights. But you’re going to make your flagship case one where 15 year olds get broken noses and are hospitalized? THAT’S what you want to defend? Here, let me help you.

    Speaking of, are there ANY cases the DNC are on the right – that is, “Public” – side of? And they’re fishing for a new leader, running up three names in three hours yesterday. Not a good sign! That’s why Cory Booker crossed the screen yesterday, being a dork. Again, Cory wants to filibuster? Great! Good start! For what? Oh that? Yeah, nevermind. They have nothing, not one viable talent, and their opposition will be Vance. We could have a 2nd Great Depression and Vance would look like Little Orphan Annie against these mugs.

    “Having a social media platform would reportedly allow OpenAI to collect unique real-time user data to enhance its AI models,”

    Yes, except that none of the accounts are humans. That’s already true on X, but at least you have a core legacy you can try to sift and prove.

    “• Trump Is Right to Hammer Environmental Lawfare (DS)

    Note, Carney is going to build every pipeline Canada’s ever seen. He’s going to build pipelines faster than JD Rockefeller in 1925. “Collateral.” Watch. That’s “Green”, Mr. Green CO2 carbon tax man.

    Most, if not all, of these cases are filed in blue states and launched by attorneys on behalf of city governments such as Honolulu;”

    So robbery at the small level = robbery at the top level. Yeah, when robbery is legal, this happens.

    Btw, Epstein files? Hey Tulsi! Where are my Lahina files??? You’re in charge and can tell us everything about it, set all our minds at rest for your home state there. What’s up gurl?

    Oh, what Lahina? Did something happen? Sorry, some guy put on high heels so that didn’t ever happen now.

    PCR’s gameplay would put Russia into the worst possible position, I almost can’t think of worse. Again, they are “Russia isn’t dominating, THAT is why the West keeps smelling weakness.” Are. You kidding. Me? Russia has won EVERYTHING, in EVERY place. They’ve annihilated everyone, all of NATO, all 400,000 Ukrainians, every jet, every tank. They’ve run out of men and are drafting women. We’re at a MILLION three, a MILLION five by now?

    But that’s not a “loss” that’s a show of “Weakness”? Are you f—king high right now or really stupid? No. What’s HAPPENING is the West won’t ADMIT the loss, won’t ADMIT the victory, won’t ADMIT they are weak and crushed, having no options…because they CAN’T. They would summarily collapse like the Reich, like their fathers before them. There would be a run on Euro banks as all Trillionzzzzzzz in collateral in Ukraine go up in smoke. BlackRock is halved, the Nazi central bank, and they’re deep in US real estate. There’s an ‘08 Financial crisis that takes out Rothschilds and Lloyds, Europe has no leverage, is a heap, and loses all legitimacy and bearing in the world. Maybe THAT is why they are, and can only say “Russia is weak, this is a signal of weakness”? ‘Cause it sure was never any of the military actions on the ground whut dun it. “We Make S–t Up!”

    PCR wants Russia raging on the Polish border so that Europe can mobilize and arm 500M Europeans while they still have strength to do it. I’d rather let them pass out quietly and go limp.

    “Beijing has stressed that it will continue to protect its interests in the face of US pressure.”

    In other news, “Water is wet” “Nations exist.” Thanks for that. No one ever thought you wouldn’t, sir, the only deals that can be signed are ones both agree to.

    “The diplomat reiterated that the tariff war was initiated by the US”

    Really? So the last 30 or 40 years you didn’t have any tariffs on us? Totally were paying all those patent lawsuits, n’ stuff? Huh. No 100% tariff on cars, ring a bell?

    “• Dutch MPs Call For Ban On Amplified Islamic Calls To Prayer (RMX)

    Huh. Tough call. If I were McDonalds’ I’d put up a loudspeaker to call for burgers 24/7. Apparently it’s legal, why not?

    “Just to get to 2%. Then that becomes 5%. And then Ursula wants $800 billion on top of that.
    • Belgium Eyes Welfare Cuts To Meet NATO Target (RT)

    Yes, and again, it’s to about the MONEY. The MONEY now makes no weapons. So even IF you could do that – which you can’t – almost nothing would happen.

    Hey, Britain, sounds like you need to lay down the keel of some new ships, no? Oh wait, you have no yards AND no steel mills AND no coal mines? Boy that’s inconvenient. No, but we have MONEY! Your money means nothing to me.

    “By the time this is published, everything may have changed, and that is to be expected.”

    They are now calling for end of the world, Trump-style, on the 20th. 4-20? Really you jokers? And you think Musk didn’t float that into Twitter? Nope! Sooper-serial this time! “It’s Happening!!!” with the special THREE exclamation points.

    “valuable cropland converted from food production to coffee plantations.
    These coffee plantations are typically owned by multinational corporations that repatriate profits to low-tax nations elsewhere while buying off a small local elite that streamlines the regulatory environment. Meanwhile, the nation becomes dependent on imports for everything except coffee, and even the coffee ends up priced out of reach for the average citizen.”

    While we’re picking on Capitalism: this. Yes, this is exactly what happens and why it can’t be allowed to. There are 100 reasons it’s both illegal and not Capitalism (Buying off the elite) but it’s complicated and very akin to Capitalism at most levels, as it’s an organic growth that one by one lifts drops of water over the lowest places wherever found. Tuning itself like an alien monster for 100 years.

    This is also the part where “WE” are getting rich “WE” have GDP/capita, “WE” the U.S. is doing this. NO. Vietnam is not getting rich selling coffee. Like 5 PEOPLE are. Same here. Clearly Ohio is not getting rich on globalism. Neither is Munich. They are collapsing. 500 people worldwide are, and we know all their names.

    UAP: Like New Jersey, I guess we’ll never know! Guess we should invent radar or something, maybe sputnik to take pics in space. Well, it’s all useless until we have some of that.

    For some reason: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G9HwFYWXSt4 Supporting IngSoc communists since 1986 just as they would not support me.

    #186329
    Topcat
    Participant

    Saying the Silent Part out loud:

    #186332
    Fisher
    Participant

    longtime Canadian government official Maxime Bernier?? Bahahaha.

    Do you mean the same Maxime Bernier, ex Minister in Mulroney’s cabinet, that was caught losing secret govt docs in a hotel room with hookers, whilst smoking crack. That Maxime?
    And Pierre Poilievre, he who’s never done anything but politic for prime minister. He of the witty 30 second sound bite.
    And spare me the history of Carney. He’s a piece of shite.
    Tho a brief look at our former second in command Nazi Hell Bitch Freeland is worthy.
    Yep Canada’s failing on leadership. It’s a given.
    But know what?, we are bought and paid for by the Hegemon. That same Hegemon as I watch is currently (and has been for 100 yrs) using their self stated top dog position to bully every country, bomb whoever they want, genecide whoever they want and generally fuck with the world all to maintain top dog position. All so them oligarchs get to keep amassing galactic fortunes, to preserve them in their bunkers when the house of cards comes crashing down.
    My suggestion to the arm chair Druckers General Store hangers on here, stick to trying to glean what will happen to the overly Excited States over the next few years as the world colludes to kick a whole pile of sand in its face.
    Canada’s merely a fly shit speck on the wall. With vast resources that the Hege believes they have a right to.
    So the waiting game continues as anyone with a brain watches to see if the Hege collapse before the other powers, before our whole civilization becomes dust. In 20 yrs or so.
    And the trigger is tightly clenched in the fingers of Don Trumpolini, mob boss of the oligarchs.

    #186333
    Topcat
    Participant

    Sometimes conformation bias is not a viable strategy

    #186334
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “You grow up in Holland and you’re forced to hear the call to Muslim prayer 5x a day. Get real.”

    yeah! crush the church bells, too!!!!

    #186335
    zerosum
    Participant

    Comon sense, return to sanity. autism spectrum, normal.
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    What if the painful restructuring we may be about to endure, and which may last for many years, is necessary to avoid an even worse fate?

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    • Trump Shot Down Israel’s Plan To Attack Iran – NYT (RT)

    “lawfare”, abusing the legal system

    • What Can We Expect from the Peace Negotiations? (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Consider how long peace negotiations have been going on between Israel and Palestine to no effect except the utter and total destruction of Palestine and its people.
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    the tariff war

    “If the United States really wants to solve the problem through dialogue and negotiation, it should give up the extreme pressure, stop threatening and blackmailing,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian told journalists on Wednesday.

    During negotiations with more than 70 countries, the US administration plans to secure commitments from trade partners to economically isolate China in exchange for lower tariffs imposed by the White House, The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported.
    The White House plans to convince countries to prohibit China from transporting goods through their territories, the report said on Tuesday, adding that Washington also wants to ban Chinese companies from locating in these countries in order to circumvent US tariffs, and prevent cheap Chinese industrial goods from entering their markets.-
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    Belgium is preparing to raise debt and cut welfare to meet NATO’s minimum military spending target.
    ———-

    #186336
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    “The best thing I can come up with for AI safety is to make it a maximum truth-seeking AI, maximally curious, and have its optimization function be to understand the nature of the universe.

    If that is its optimization function, I think it will actually want to preserve and extend human civilization, because we’re much more interesting than an asteroid with nothing on it. My biological neural net suggests that a maximally curious and truth-seeking AI is the safest AI.

    We have to be careful with the alignment stuff. We definitely don’t want to teach an AI to lie because that is a path to a dystopian future.” —- Elong Musk

    Along with his high IQ, Asperger’s Syndrome, unimaginable wealth and obsession with escaping planet Earth, we can add two other quirks to Elon Musk’s personality. He is apparently immune to any sense of irony whatsoever, and gobsmackingly ignorant of Biblical scholarship.

    Otherwise he would have noticed that what he had just said was ripped from the pages of Genesis [ “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them” (Genesis 1:27)] but also
    that, having been made in the image of God, that he is himself now trying to act like God by creating things that can think and yet not screw everything up too terribly. I can’t help but notice that he is running into the same problems {albeit on a much smaller scale} with his AI Systems that God is having with His humans.

    Aside from the considerable differences of “scale”, however (and quite significantly) the other difference between God’s project and Elon’s project is that God hangs around as a fail-safe to set things right again when his little bio-bot-humans-with-souls run amok, and I don’t think Elon even intends to be in the neighborhood when his AI Systems tear the joint up and turn it into a smoldering garbage dump.

    #186337
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Stock market will go down until Treasuries are re-financed.

    https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_4087.jpg?w=568&ssl=1

    More like 75 years…
    https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_4062.jpg?w=540&ssl=1

    #186338
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “You grow up in Holland and you’re forced to hear the call to Muslim prayer 5x a day. Get real.”

    yeah! crush the church bells, too!!!!

    Hail and well-met, fellow advocate of prayer in schools, Christmas displays on public property, the 10 commandments on the wall behind sitting judges, prayers before football games, crosses on municipal water towers, supercool stuff like that!

    Or do these type of arguments only coincidentally come up in particular types of situations regarding particular things?

    Certainly we have no complaint against bells though
    (Europe being sophisticated and enlightened, they could OF COURSE do the same joke about the new prayer calls.
    They are a free secular people after all)

    #186339
    Topcat
    Participant

    While the World Burns

    #186340
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The princess turns into a memelord Kekian sardonic trickster-spirit truth-bringer companion to Pepe. I’m not seeing a problem here.

    #186342
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Regarding AI, I’ll just point out, my back-of-the-napkin calculations based on progress reports back in February showed the AI progress graph going vertical this coming August.

    …which doesn’t mean it does, because it can’t – it needs physical hardware to run on.

    But it does mean we reach whatever current physical limits there are, if any, to CURRENT ai development this summer. And the code itself will presumably be optimizing all this time and continue to optimize precisely because of the physical limits.

    And the people directly involved will have drawn these graphs with far more expertise and knowledge and placed their orders for more hardware long ago.

    So things should be weird by the end of the summer. Who even knows how much or in what ways.

    I am seeing a trend in youtube of people making videos about how the internet is not useful anymore, searches are not useful anymore, the internet and technology are not FUN anymore, everything seems to exist to waste our time, not FOR us anymore.

    Tried to link all the various videos but of course only 2 at a time can be posted – the first 2 are well done, but there are infinite videos of this type – titles from videos I found in a 10 second search below…

    Technology isn’t fun anymore
    Everybody wants to waste your time

    –The Internet isn’t cool anymore
    –Why Gaming Isn’t “Fun” Anymore
    –social media is TRASH now — thanks, tech bros!! | Internet Analysis
    –Consuming content isn’t as fun as it used to be
    –Virtual Reality isn’t Fun Anymore…
    –The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?

    on and on.

    People are going back to iPods to get away from smartphones. But that isn’t good enough.

    Vinyl has been a growing thing for years. There is a growing movement for personal tape players. People are buying old refurbished walkmen for $150-250. Bands are doing new releases on tape. Manufacturers are starting to pump out more blank type 2 tape. New companies are manufacturing new walkmen.

    #186343
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Carthage must be destroyed eh? Wonder who he considers Carthage……….

    #186344
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ Fisher,

    Thanks for the feedback.
    What is the best way forward?

    #186345
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #186346
    zerosum
    Participant

    Delay in producing Missiles for Ukraine?
    Building at Northrop Grumman’s ‘Rocket Ranch’ destroyed …

    KIRO 7 News Seattle
    https://www.kiro7.com › news › trending › OTTWQW…
    24 hours ago — An explosion at Northrop Grumman’s “Rocket Ranch” in Utah destroyed a building Wednesday morning.

    #186347
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Just for fun…..or is it?

    Anywho, would love to bring AI back into the conversation about the converging polyocrices. Keeping up with all of them is like that old TV variety show schtick of a guy keeping plates spinning on top of skinny flexible sticks. The gimmick of course is two-fold. First of all you can’t help but empathically identify with the plate spinner guy and find yourself drawn in to the act when plates start to seriously wobble, and secondly y’all just know how it inevitably has to end.

    #186348
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Being genetically of Irish extraction, and psychologically a natural wise guy, I have long been a student and admirer of irony. The more ironic something is then the more entertaining it is to me. (If you’re doomed to suffer then at least you can find something entertainingly interesting in the process).

    In that vein I find the collapse of the dollar that is being publicly displayed in gigantic 100 ft tall flashing neon letters in the “rising price” of gold to be a particularly entertaining example of ironically humorous justice.

    It’s because trying to suppress the price of the precious metal which underpins the value of all money is a very very expensive endeavor. In fact, it is so expensive that the only way to do it is to further dilute the value of the currency in which the price of gold is denominated.

    It’s like having a pool full of crocodiles under the gallows, so that the only way the condemned man can save himself from the crocodiles is to pull himself higher with the rope.

    #186349
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #186350
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trump has +$9Trillion of bonds to refinance in 2025.
    Trump wants to get a deal on interest that he will need to pay.
    Powell doesn’t want to give Trump a special deal.
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    #186354
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #186355
    Fisher
    Participant

    @ Michael Reid
    Can’t speak for others, everyone’s story is different.

    For me:
    Get as far from Excited border and cities as I could.
    Look for a small community.
    Buy some land, grow my food and cut my firewood. Learn how to be more resilient.
    9 yrs later, can grow about 40% and getting better ( not up to Dr Johns prowess, but the weather’s a bit different here), somewhat included in the community and buying as little as possible.
    Practice having less.
    If nothing else it keeps me off the Internet machine pouring forth a constant stream of consciousness.
    Still not sure I shouldn’t have done a Fast Eddy.

    #186356
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Israel is a criminal state

    #186357
    Topcat
    Participant

    #186358
    Topcat
    Participant

    #186359
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-rejected-israeli-attack-iran-now-hawks-are-fuming

    So, Israel just tried to manipulate the United States into an unprovoked military attack of enormous proportions, which would have included wiping out Iran’s air defense systems, which would thereafter leave them defenseless against further attacks.

    Had this megalomaniacally insane course of action been carried out it would most certainly have provoked regional war at the very least, and quite possibly (well within the brackets of plausible possibility) would have provoked World War and even nuclear world war.

    It got stopped because a few courageous, and somewhat less insane, persons at high levels leaked the insane plans, thereby forcing the bloodthirsty Israeli’s (and Trump) to back away from the psychotically foolhardy sneak attack.

    In typical fashion the Israeli’s and their traitorous agents within the United States military industrial complex are PURGING those saner voices out of the ranks, so that the next time Netanyahu tells America to commit suicide on Israel’s behalf there will be no dissenting voices.

    It’s time to disengage ourselves from those bloodthirsty fucking Kazarians before they get us all killed, and a good place to start is with their lobbyists and co-opted dual-citizens in Congress. The charges should be treason.

    #186360
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ Fisher
    Physically, going off grid is not for retired people who’s body is too weak for the physical demands.

    #186361
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the precious metal which underpins the value of all money

    <shiny>humans dumb.</shiny>

    #186362
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “Blind ruthless uncomprehending Lust”…

    ….isn’t Alan Watts condensation of Freud’s “blind urges” perfectly encapsulated in the skin covered bag of bones called Scott Bessent?

    We’re suppose to trust or alternately marvel in awe at Scott’s viciousness founded on his Huguenot roots still oppressed I suppose by The French Catholic. Take note! Bessent will never be subjected to the RFK, Jack Murtha or Jack Kennedy treatment no matter how many wealth funds Scott “Scottie” Bessent reduces in “assets from $5.1 billion to $0.577 billion and an investor decline from 180 to 20 over the same period.”

    Bessent “managed” to keep $521 million despite those dubious successes AND now He Is The Treasurer par excellence.
    Success breeds more success.

    Jesus! Holy week!
    That’s even more impressive since Scott’s Key Group received a $2 billion anchor investment from George Soros..
    Does Soros’s donation to the Scott Personal Wealth Fund qualify as Welfare or Socialism to The Locals fighting the good fight against The Yellow Peril, China?

      “anchor investment”

    Thiel for Veep creep JD Vance Hamel Bowman.

    Soros for Bessent The Gothic Revivalist Parishioner.
    My God!!!

    Gothic Revival Church!?!?
    What.
    Thee.
    F*ck!

    Peter Manigault once The Richest and Easily Most Vicious Man in North America is “buried” at Scott’s church and I suppose given the former’s industrial-grade Inhumanity to Mankind the guy on whom Scott Bessent models his behavior or perhaps Manigault’s reincarnated embodiment.

    Didn’t Hollywood make a movie already about Scott Bessent and his Weird Charleston South Carolina weirdo shit?

    Scott and his wife have two children. Nope.
    Scott and his wife GOT two children

    Nah, even D and M.Reid might agree neither Scott nor his man-wife could ever HAVE a baby, right,

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