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    Salvador Dali Christ of Saint John of the Cross 1951   • Trump Assassination ‘Justified’ For Half of Left-Leaning Americans (RT) • Trump Slaps ‘P
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    #185817
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Yeah, Troubling that stat on Trump’s assassination.

    Quite a few non-Catholics, wait, that’s (((non-Catholics))) are still okay with Their Assasination of President John F. Kennedy. Thus the groundswell of demand for answers from Trump’s 25% release of the JFK Assassination Files. Or are we up to 36% released.

    At least ((2.3%)) of those ((non-Catholics)) who still support JFK’s assassination belong to Secretary O State Marco Rubio’s (((Our People))) just proportion of the population alone.

    1 to 6 percent are psychopaths.

    #185818
    Germ
    Participant

    Good morning :-))

    Cause of death revealed after World Cup star dies aged 47

    “The Colombia star, who won 36 caps for his country, collapsed and died at a family birthday party on Sunday, local media reports.

    The ex-Parma player was taken to a nearby hospital and later died of what is believed to have been a heart attack.”

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/jorge-bolano-cause-of-death-tributes-colombia-parma-world-cup/

    TVASSF

    #185819
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
      Schizoid Personality Disorder is characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships5. For individuals with this disorder, jobs that involve solitude and minimal interactio may be suitable. Some examples include freelance writing, software development, and mindless service jobs

    Imagine those personality types “controlling” a hospital thru the IT department.
    “IT knows all and works not at all”

    Then scale up to the megalomaniacs seeking to run a country or the entire world.
    Price seeking bidding wars au naturale!
    Organic springing up like crocuses in, well, The Spring.

    Notice that disdain for “mindless service jobs”.
    Christ, the inhumanity for the lower classes but Trump’s Tide is gonna raise all boats in the harbor.

    #185820
    Red
    Participant

    “Christ, the inhumanity for the lower classes but Trump’s Tide is gonna raise all boats in the harbor.”

    If the tide is coming in, it won’t be before we know which ones are holed below the waterline.

    #185821
    Red
    Participant

    “Long” haha, it won’t be long

    #185822
    tboc
    Participant

    i see no information about what percentage of developing nation’s GDP is reserved for payment to western financial systems such as The IMF. There is no talk of tariffs being used to protect western and Wall Street investment portfolios in deveoping nations. There are no statistics on which nations have the same foreign investor’s and the similarity of tariffs and trade restrictions.
    There is no list of imports and exports of each developing nation. There is no discusion of individual incomes and purching parity. The is no discussion of levels of energy and information access.
    The rapine continues apace.

    give a man working fervently, even passionately, in pursuit of proving Einsten’s perspective on mental instability accurate a wide, wide, wide berth

    culture will get you through times of no money
    better than money will get you through times of
    No Culture

    #185823
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Market bounce but I’d be shocked it if stopped here. Rates aren’t low enough for long enough yet. That’s blah, here’s what I wanted to say: now the Left is saying “How do you like your vote NOW???” Bet you’re sorry now!

    Um, no, he’s doing what he said but okay. 1) He’s been talking tariffs since 1980. 2) He’s been saying he’ll do them if elected for almost two years. 3) And NOW you claim he’s “Chaotic”, “No one was prepared”??? Jesus H Christ on a stick what does it take to get through to you people? You didn’t set up, hedge ANYTHING because Kamala seemed so strong, so Presidential, so unbeatable, Trump didn’t stand a chance? You too, Europe: Alexander points out IFAIK, EU has done NOTHING, thought nothing, prepared nothing, in the case tariffs were ever issued. STILL. As of Monday.

    So their claim is “They never saw it coming.” “Nobody coulda knewd.”

    Okay, next round: “Trump is only President to make himself money.” …they say as he loses $6B being President to 2020.

    “Trump is only President to make himself and his buddies rich.” …As Elon loses $130B. See?

    “Trump is merely a puppet of Wall Street.” …As $6 Trillion is wiped off their balance sheet.

    “Trump has only dropped markets because…”

    “Trump is attacking all the Rich, I mean poor, I mean middle class, I mean…”

    For the love of the LORD, by brother in Christ, will you shut the f—k up? Don’t you ever get tired of being wrong six times a day or don’t you have a memory? I’ll believe anything, willing to take up any argument, but as each passing day goes on, the only POSSIBLE explanation is, HE’S DOING EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD. And he’s doing that, BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IT WILL WORK. It will help the working class who are his voters, and who you claim are YOUR voters. Your interest. Your priority.

    There is no POSSIBLE explanation that he’s dropped $6Trillion of the NYSE and Wall Street is NOT mad at him, except that Wall Street – and a huge portion of Republicans – ALSO believe this will right the ship and re-captialize, re-make America. And looking at WHO is mad and who is not, it sure seems like he’s pissing off the right people, and keeping the right allies together.

    It’s sheer MADNESS with these folks. If stocks are up, it’s bad, if they’re down, it’s bad, if there are tariffs, it’s bad, if not, it’s bad, if there’s war, it’s bad, if there’s peace it’s bad. If food prices go down, it’s bad.

    These are tiresome nihilists and fault-finders the like of which Thoreau could never dream. NOT ALL THINGS CAN BE BAD! You dips—ts. In order to BE a bad, there must BE a good. So what’s the GOOD? What’s your plan to work towards and have more of? — Stupid Face–

    Now you know why we’re all getting to think you’re the minions of Satan, you fools.

    Who, on God’s earth, could POSSIBLY hypothesize such a ridiculous class of people? SOMETHING is Good.

    whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Phil 4:8

    …And btw win elections.

    Here’s the
    1

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    Panic

    Magic:
    Magic

    Rattling about the Magic Money Machines. Sooooo, Doge found these, mentioned it, and stopped. Uhhhhh, some have been around for 7 years. No one knows what, if anything, and who, if anyone, these went to. Assume infinity to everyone.

    Okay you found them. Okay you reported them. Do you keep them on, infinity-print per hour to USAID? No. Absolutely not! Those are our ARCH ENEMIES. Great! Thennnnnn….you just shut off a $1B/mo money flow to, say, BlackRock? DeutscheBank? Oh, you have no idea because they won’t tell you?

    And there are Seven of them.

    Sooooo…no one’s over in the Pentagon, haven’t heard anything from there. What? Did you forget? Got busy? On a sabbatical? No, — what you learned already has stopped everything — . It’s not solvable. At all.

    Aaaaaand the Pentagon has another of these machines? Seven? Seventy? One Thousand and Seventy? All printing day and night for Seven years? Are you SURE, absolutely, positively SURE you want to know? Not just keep everything run by a mass-murdering psychopathic Deep State? Shut the door, go back to the beach in Miami?

    Okay, well, remember TEN YEARS AGO the UN official report said the entire world banking system was running on Drug and Gang money and would collapse without it? So what do you think when the daily/monthly/quarterly “Magic money printer” flows stop? And you erase the seven gangs existent in USAID alone?

    So if you’re all “Ohhhhh, DOGE is a sellout. Ohhhhh, Trump isn’t arresting anyone. Ohhhh, why don’t they open the books,” then don’t be a child. So first week you want to arrest the head of the CIA and the charges are: he was printing a cumulative Trillion extra dollars over his tenure and handed it to…pick group…WEF, IDF, UN, WHO, Chinese CCP and Iranian Red Guard, and corporations we didn’t know existed before now, to build underground bases on objects in our solar system? And there are 27 other individuals on planet who are doing the same thing? Or some such?

    WHAT, exactly, do you think will happen if we just toddle our bums out to the podium and say that?

    Listen: this stuff is COMPLICATED. And I am not going to accept them NOT arresting anyone, a whole bunch of people in fact. But try to keep your head straight about what you can kinda-sorta guess about the shadows on the wall here.

    You want to know how houses are $500k with no incomes, no workers? Yeah, print $1T extra a year and let it trickle down through Blackwater, ADM, Morgan, Santander, CNN, and ten thousand NGOs. They’re buying stocks and real estate just to stuff it somewhere.

    And that is locking us out. That needs to stop, no joke.

    But when you STOP it, think: Like D.C. you now have assets on no bidders. The entire world US Dollar flows were cut in half.

    Like, maybe you got in there and thought it was just fraud from Congress. Maybe you got in there and thought there was ONE of these machines, in CIA Director Baker’s Personal Office. Then when you raid the place, turns out there’s essentially one in EVERY office.

    You tell me what to do. Because nobody’s been here before. Every time before someone 1,000x’d the currency there was a hyper collapse. Complete loss of currency. But the US$ is the WORLD currency. If it stops, the world stops. Overnight.

    Go to the Euro? First, no one can, but second, THEY HAVE ALL THESE MACHINES RUNNING TOO, or I’m a monkey.

    These guys are VERY. BUSY. Right now. Trust, but verify. Hold them to account. Are they doing GOOD things, in a GOOD direction? Or is this just more air?

    That is, knowing what we know.

    Bots:

    Meanwhile, from the Internets: “It’s going to be funny to see Trump fan club members go from “Tariffs are good! We have to reshore jobs!” To “LOL, it was all a joke, I can’t believe you fell for it!”
    Cope is more valuable than bitcoin in their world.”

    Aaaand 70 nations have caved and are already negotiating in some capacity. THAT they are negotiating at all it seems impossible to believe we won’t get at least a BETTER deal. Ya know? Like suppose we got a mere 10% and not even-trade. Would that not ALREADY have been worth knocking the Dow down a few percent to “Very Extremely overvalued”?

    …And that’s WITH refinancing the national debt at a $1T discount.

    Lol! Bet you’re sorry you voted for Trump now! We were gonna pay that $1T in interest, FULL PRICE! Like a man! Only suckers demand discounts! I WANTED to pay that interest to Billionaires.

    “• Trump Assassination ‘Justified’ For Half of Left-Leaning Americans (RT)

    Murder is my first, last and middle resort. …As long as somebody else does the work for me. We are very blessed with the Left we have. That they’re so lazy not one can lift any of the 400M rifles we have. Arms…tooo…weak. Soy…overload!

    “ Bessent says they’re playing poker with a pair of twos. “That is a losing hand for them.”

    I would like to disagree, but I think even if they have a Full House, we’re still one card above them. That’s just how it is. I don’t mind, they have needs, we’ll have to work it out.

    ““including Currency Manipulation and Trade barriers”.

    Yes, it’s sloppy READING on the side of Partisan actors. This wasn’t a secret. But things are happening fast and saying “Plus this undefined thing” isn’t really math is it? Still, it’s not like Trump hasn’t said this or you can’t ask. You can, they have, then no one cares bc clicks.

    “But the problem is none of these areas—right, center, and left—nobody in these disciplines is offering any alternative agenda.”

    Because they’re all captured by MONEY. USAID money, and they don’t know that like MMT was paid for to undermine the Right years ago. All these lies have gotten in and they won’t purge them. That’s WHY they can only attack Trump: In reality they are all pure Status Quo. Extraction = Empire. Since I’M extracting, I can PAY to have those arguments out there and PAY to have my enemies killed. And they do. Openly, there are dozens of proven cases in each.

    If you SHUT OFF the extraction – the USAID – suddenly they CANNOT get their arguments out there, because there is no journalism, they’re all paid hacks, it was all paid to begin with.

    “So, what we’re left with is just naysaying, nihilism, criticism.”

    Not really. We on the RIGHT, the Conservatives, have a vision of America, one that works, is proven, is positive, and coherent. It’s just shouted down as “Not real” because we don’t make ‘59 Chevys anymore. No, idiot, we still have guys in factories that use VW self-welding robots though. Same as when they told Henry Ford the same thing: “Oh we need to hand-assemble all the carriages out of a single bin with a blacksmith in the corner.” So did number of workers go down, or UP when he did that? UP, acktshully. Number of workers in America when we automated nationwide 1900-1950? UP, acktshully. Farms? 90% DOWN, acktshully. So then we got poorer, no farm jobs, all automation, right? No, RICH acktshully. So when we say we can bring factories here, we can prove it, acktshully. Tesla is here. So is Honda. Boeing was preeminent before BlackRock got in.

    So we thousand, million, millions of people are out here with NO naysaying NO nihilism, NO criticism. One in 300 of us, probably far more, one in ten. Just like “Nobody knewd” subprime was contained. Yeah, nobody except Automatic Earth, Naked Capital, Zerohedge, Jesse’s Cafe, and like 100,000 other sites. If by “Nobody” you mean, “Nearly everybody” then yes.

    This is all about POWER. They won’t be pried out of the nuclear control booth and admit the truth. You have to MAKE them.

    Von der Leyen Endorses Meloni As Main Tariff Negotiator (Sp.)

    What new buggery is this? Don’t worry, they’re trying to screw Meloni. When it fails because they’ll make sure?

    factors of production–labor and capital–should not be taxed, because the supply of both to the economy is reduced by taxation. Supply-side economics is based on this principle.”

    Arcane but true. And again, we can prove it, it isn’t a Theory – or not so much as most others are.

    They forget, in “Money”, etc, that it’s all bunk. The only thing that matters is Do you dig rocks out of the ground? And Do you turn them into cars? They complicate every level of this, but you must PRODUCE a thing before it exists to be used. So if you can help people PRODUCE things easier, Price Go Down. Europe does the Opposite, for their own reasons, and has been trying to force that on us.

    We can flip regulation, and that’s important, but WHAT you tax is important too. You want less consumption, but a better, more long-lasting grade. And this consumption made to help yourself and not other people. — How am I supposed to set policy for what is best for China? That’s being an Empire, a Central Planner. We do what is best for OUR area, and China will advocate for doing whatever is best for them: that’s their problem, their duty, and I’m busy enough. I’m sure they’ll figure it out and be fine. Our job is to help us first. I can’t be the world and everybody’s daddy, you’re going to have to do it on your own.

    “• Musk Wants Trump To Cancel Tariffs – WaPo (RT)

    WaPo. So almost certainly a lie. Wasn’t them who reported 90 day stop, which was a lie, and Elon’s Crying, which was a lie? Did I say WaPo? Therefore a lie, yet?

    “They’re the big losers.
    • Billionaires Slam Trump Tariffs (RT)

    I thought Trump only helped Billionaires and his and Elon’s fortunes. …By losing $10B, $130B and $6T respectively.

    • Officials Quietly Drafting Plan To Cushion Trump Tariff Fallout – Bloomberg (RT)

    To pull this off, they definitely need to Subsidize industry and give that $5K refund.

    The cheapest iPhone 16 model was launched in the US at $799. This could now rise by 43% to $1,142.”

    Ugh! NO! That’s the RETAIL price. Retail, retail, retail. It’s 40% of WHOLESALE.

    “• Judge Boasberg Scraps Trump Hearing On Deportations After Scotus Ruling (JTN)

    They needed him to do this, and do it in public. Go ahead and IMPORT MS13 gang members. Vote’s in November, good luck. Again if I had his blackmail, I’d make him do this too.

    AI: is that Russel Brand or Kanaeu Reeves?

    PS, there was an assassination of Trump? Wouldn’t the media be talking about it? Boy, wait til he gets elected and then we’ll get some answers!

    This is a failed article but this part is relevant:

    “In Psychological Structures of Fascism, Bataille argues:
    • Bourgeois society is based on rational order, productivity, and utility, which represses excess, passion, and violence.
    • Fascism emerges as a reaction to this repression, offering a form of sacred transgression—a return to intensity, sacrifice, and ecstasy.
    • Fascism blurs the lines between politics and religion—it becomes a ritualized, almost mystical experience.
    • Individuals submit their egos to a larger collective identity, often with erotic or ecstatic undertones.
    • This submission is not weakness—it’s a desire for ecstatic fusion with the group, often through violence or authority.
    • Bataille critiques Marxists and liberals for failing to account for the irrational, emotional, and sacred dimensions of politics.
    • Rational economic models can’t explain why people desire power, sacrifice, and domination, or why they are moved by symbols more than arguments.
    TL;DR
    Fascism’s appeal lies in its promise of emotional transcendence, symbolic unity, and a return to the sacred—things that bourgeois society suppresses. It thrives not on logic, but on passion, myth, and a longing for totality.”

    https://maybetomorroww.substack.com/p/against-the-esoteric-fascist-creep

    Aaaaaand who are the Fascists here? Today, who is this describing, and who is this working for?

    Well, he’s not wrong. The fascists who set this up and know this, are familiar with how you have to transgress, have emotional outbursts, and to do that, you needed to oppress and abuse them for the 15 years in public school beforehand. Who hates “Bourgeois society”? Who even knows the word? For whom is politics a religion? Who longs for fusion with the group and opposes the individual?

    “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the Soviet gulag.
    His crime? Criticizing Stalin in a private letter while in the military in World War II.”

    Elonnnnnnn!!!!!! It’s not ENOUGH to die for Comrade Stalin on the front lines! You held a differing OPINION!

    #185824
    EoinW
    Participant

    All the arguments believing Trump is saving the American economy ignore some obvious things:

    -he’s still giving money to Ukraine to kill Russians
    -he’s supporting the Gaza genocide
    -he’s bombing Yemen
    -he’s threatening war with Iran

    Let’s be honest, he thinks he’s a mafia Don and is bullying anyone he can bully. Making them an offer they can’t refuse.

    I don’t see how making Americans the most hated people on the planet is good for the US economy.

    #185825
    zerosum
    Participant

    • Don’t Like Trump’s Plan for the Economy? Let’s Hear Yours (Victor Davis Hanson)

    “If you don’t believe that what Donald Trump is trying to do on debt, budget, workforce, trade, then come up with a better agenda. And show why it will work and why his will fail..”
    Put your proposals in the budget negotiations.
    ———–

    Why Trump will fail.
    Lacks Financial Literacy

    Word salad.
    Opinion polls
    Irrelevant.
    Nobody can predict tomorrow from tea leaves.
    Changing Stability is -3.
    Gov. require income
    “tailored deals”
    “incited”
    tariffs at 104 percent
    escalating trade war as a form of “blackmail” and “economic bullying.”
    There is, now, outrage, hysteria.
    ————-
    • White House Lacks Financial Literacy – ‘Tariffs’ Show (MoA)
    Trump has decreed a minimum 10% tariff on imports from every country. the natural countermeasure.
    The US President promised budget revenue from tariffs of $6-$7 trillion.
    No tariffs were by the way introduced against Belarus, Russia and North Korea. This because of sanction, the U.S. has allegedly no trade relation with them.
    ———–
    • The Tariff Issue (Paul Craig Roberts)
    Trump has spoken of returning to tariffs as the source of government revenues and abandoning the income tax.
    ————–
    • USAID Operations Rebooted in Several Crisis Zones (Sp.)

    At least 6 previously terminated USAID programs are being revived for emergency food assistance funding in Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Jordan, Iraq, and Ecuador, Reuters reported.
    ———-

    #185830
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “Second part: the Dow is still 50% overvalued at 20k. Buuuuuuut…what if we remove idiotic regulation and drag so that they become twice as functional? As in, Profitable? Twice as valuable? Okay, now we’re nearing par again, and can happen in 4 years.”

    you realize you are talking about humans, right?

    •ª•ª•ª•ª•ª•

    what i meant was, “humans are corrupt, especially those who have already risen to the ‘top’. thus, any improvements in governmental or monetary policy will not be converted into more productivity or better wages, but will be turned into more buybacks and such trickery in order to fatten the fat.”

    #185831
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “For the love of the LORD, by brother in Christ, will you shut the f—k up?”

    how about,

    donald trump is shredding the internal organs of pregnant women.

    or

    donald trump is melting the flesh of the faces of toddlers.

    are those correct?

    #185832
    jb-hb
    Participant

    what i meant was, “humans are corrupt, especially those who have already risen to the ‘top’. thus, any improvements in governmental or monetary policy will not be converted into more productivity or better wages, but will be turned into more buybacks and such trickery in order to fatten the fat.”

    and that’s why the Russian weapons’ programs are just as wasteful as the USA. That’s why every country has the same level of waste and corruption both geographically and throughout history.

    This is why we have no ability to compare one government or economic system to another, they are all exactly the same with the same outcomes despite anything you do, because awww causality doesn’t work!

    #185833
    Dora
    Participant

    Now the UN wants to start taxing shipping. In the name of saving the planet. The UN is setting itself up as a global taxing organization, aka a global government.

    https://www.ft.com/content/9332ac62-c116-4a84-93f3-9a5a53466f62

    #185834
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “For the love of the LORD, by brother in Christ, will you shut the f—k up?”
    how about,
    donald trump is shredding the internal organs of pregnant women.
    or
    donald trump is melting the flesh of the faces of toddlers.
    are those correct?

    Gee, do you think blocking hundreds of billions in Leftist brainwashing funding and hundreds of billions going to the Leftist illegal immigrant > illegal voter pipeline just might help change election outcomes in the US in which US voters consistently vote for non interventionism?

    Yeah we have a consistent 31% of Leftists who say Socialsim is the best way to do things and the solution to absolutely everything from the weather to war to taxes to disease is MOAR socialism.

    The same 31% who had a co-morbidity revealed in polls of wanting to send non notavaxers to concentration camps AND escalate the Ukraine war even if it meant nuclear war. Which happens to be the same 31% of Democrats who want pure Socialism and also want to give children the same chemical castration given to rapists and then chop them up.

    The people who fall for any war propaganda with a simple NPC update download. The ones who were screaming when Trump started pulling troops out of Syria, remember that?

    Those people no longer having illegal voters and voting fraud backing them anymore… no difference! Everything same-same! No, WORSE! By being exactly the same! By having changed! sAmE!!!

    …because nothing is different from anything else and there is no causality?

    This is fake, gay, cringe, and retarded. You’re just waving your hands. I don’t care, Margaret.

    #185835
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Onoez, they didn’t factor SERVICES into tarrifs? What idiots?

    Oh yeah, the same EXACT thing we’ve been told by super big brain genius eXpErTz for 75 years?

    You’ll have real estate agent and insurance salesmen jobs, THEY’LL build cars and computers you big fat idiot. God, I swear you people are just simple stupid animals. Not eXpErT like me!

    The “Rebuttal” is simply to repeat the same brow-beating expert-idiocy that clearly fucked things up? Just keep repeating talking points, seriously? Is it even a human saying this “criticism” or a bot? Fucking hell. Don’t care Margaret.

    #185836
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the jfklepstein files must be in yemen..

    #185837
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Mad(?) Scientists Bring Dire Wolf Out Of Extinction With Gene-Editing

    After 20 edits to 14 gray wolf genes, 2 male dire wolf puppies aptly named Romulus and Remus after the patriarchs of Rome who nursed at the teat of a wolf for sustenance were successfully cloned on October 1st, 2024. On January 30th, 2025, a third, female name Khaleesi in a culturally dated reference to a Game Of Thrones character that makes the scientists sound like a bunch of millennial parents unable to come up with an original name that also makes no sense because her house is associated with dragons and not wolves was cloned as well. Despite a phenotype that bears a distinctly different appearance to the modern gray wolf, the dire wolf clones are very much genetically gray wolves more than anything else. “There’s no secret that across the genome, this is 99.9% gray wolf.

    Well, that tracks perfectly

    A team that makes a 99.9% Grey Wolf and calls it a Dire Wolf WOULD be the one that passes over the Game of Thrones family specifically associated with dire wolves. “The DIRE WOLF is THE SIGIL OF YOUR HOUSE” Those wolves even had specific names they could have used. I don’t want people this cognitively challenged to have access to CRISPR.

    #185838
    those darned kids
    Participant

    some shouldn’t have access to the internet..

    #185839
    jb-hb
    Participant

    the jfklepstein files must be in yemen..

    no no, we GET it that Leftists/Socialists are butthurt about Israel.

    Because you got so obsessed with ruthless use of tactics “by any means necessary” that you went and tried to “capture the energy” of the antiwar Gaza movement – probably because you have near-senile boomers somewhere at the top of your org structure still thinking it was 1971 and Vietnam and groovy and far out and stuff.

    So you stupidly made an enemy and lost yourselves the 2024 election.

    And now you get to watch the results of that election – elections have consequences – and having already lost it by your mistake, you figure may as well double down. (how “unusual” for socialists)

    Look, I’m not happy about Gaza either, but then I’M not the one who cynically jumped in with all the “Gaza=We Need MOOAR Socialism!!!” – the instant it became possible, which doesn’t suggest Socialists had any actual humanitarian concerns about Gaza THUS WHY I AM UNIMPRESSED WHEN SOCIALISTS CONTINUE TO HAMMER AWAY AT GAZA TODAY.

    If socialists could contrive to do anything actually common-sense useful and valuable IN AND OF ITSELF – like JUST campaign for peace in Gaza as opposed to leveraging and meatsuiting the movement, that would certainly have been something.

    In the meantime, you cry about YOUR OWN mistake of provoking Israel when a reasonable person would have had some shred of awareness of AIPAC and Mossad and the general concept of consequences or causality.

    So you threw 2 groups together in alliance against you that might otherwise have not cooperated. Sitting on the sidelines watching the consequent quid pro quo happening. Yeah, we get that you’re all butthurt about the whole thing. Because the quid in the pro is what is happening domestically.

    This is about as “brilliant” as when you ran Alinsky’s “push into the crowd, spread out, be loud, make it seem like the whole crowd is you” at the SAME TIME as Kimberly Crenshaw’s inter-sectionalist marxist tactics of welding a new proletariat out of the margin-people.

    What crowd did you push into and get really loud inside of? So for the next 70 years people will think Socialist = Degenerate?

    #185840
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “some shouldn’t have access to the internet..”

    We get it that you can’t argue OR meme so that THIS is your go-to.

    #185841
    morongobill
    Participant

    I sure hope Bobby Kennedy hears about that rectal cancer study.

    #185842
    those darned kids
    Participant

    it was a joke about playing with matches..

    #185843
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “no no, we GET it that Leftists/Socialists are butthurt about Israel.”

    humans with empathy put the death of others above considerations such as sexual preference or hair style.

    you can’t cliché away death.

    #185844
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Does anyone recall the Dakota Access Pipeline protests? Neither do I.
    Palestinians are being made to go the way of the American Indian courtesy of (((Our People))).

    From the Scheerpost, so it’s gotta be true.

      “We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not become a social activist that tears up our university campuses,” explained Rubio. “And if we’ve given you a visa and you decide to do that, we’re going to take it away. We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country. But you’re not going to do it in our country.”

    Don’t rub against the majority and the prevailing political hysteria campaign OR find yourself labeled an undesirable, persona non grata no matter your citizenship status.

    https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/09/trump-administration-widens-crackdown-revoking-hundreds-of-student-visas/

    I feel safer, more secure already.

    #185845
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Which kind of fraud does a Conservative, Free Marketeer commit?

      Unintentional

    You know prefaced by these words “I didnt intend to commit fraud.”

    Or

      intentional

    As in he should’ve known better.

    I must says those words, simple declarations matter in court. Suckers

    From TCTH , Sundance

      “If the FHMA is finding intentional fraud within the housing loan offices, those federal employees should be arrested and legally prosecuted for their conduct.  It is not enough to just fire people, there has to be legal accountability.”

    Not enough to fire….yeah every crime deserves banishment to the wilderness and a death sentence, a slow death is preferred.

    #185846
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Secretary of State.

    The estimable Marco P. Rubio.

    ” Not in ((Our Country)))”

    “Not to (((Our People)))”

    Y’all know what ((((Rubio)))) means.

    #185847
    Dora
    Participant

    John Campbell. mRNA fears.

    #185848
    those darned kids
    Participant

    hi! please give me an angry, highly-stereotypically rant agreeing with the following statement: “socialism is responsible for the united states bombing civilians in the middle east”. please write in paragraph form using occasional all caps, a little profanity, psychological mumbojumbo, and lots of clichés. good luck!

    Oh, you BET your ass socialism is to blame for the U.S. bombing civilians in the Middle East—because OF COURSE it is! It’s ALWAYS the damn LEFTISTS and their UTOPIAN FANTASIES screwing everything up! These bleeding-heart, latte-sipping, avocado-toast-loving SOCIALISTS have INFILTRATED our government with their WEAK-KNEED, AMERICA-LAST policies, and now we’re stuck in ENDLESS WARS because they’re too busy PROJECTING their GUILT and WHITE LIBERAL SAVIOR COMPLEXES onto the rest of the world!

    Think about it: socialism BREEDS weakness, and weakness INVITES chaos! Instead of letting our military DO ITS JOB and CRUSH the enemy with GOOD OLD-FASHIONED FREEDOM, these socialist SNOWFLAKES tie our hands with their RIDICULOUS “human rights” nonsense and “rules of engagement” that might as well be WRITTEN BY THE TALIBAN! And then—SURPRISE, SURPRISE—when we can’t just WIN with overwhelming force, we get stuck in these QUAGMIRES where civilians get caught in the crossfire! But do the socialists care? NO! They’d rather CRY about “collateral damage” while they FUND THEIR PET PROJECTS with YOUR TAX DOLLARS!

    It’s CLASSIC psychological PROJECTION—these socialist elites HATE themselves, HATE America, and HATE capitalism so much that they’d rather see the world BURN than admit that maybe, JUST MAYBE, the problem is THEIR OWN PATHETIC IDEOLOGY! They’ve got this MASSIVE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE where they scream about “peace” but their policies LEAD TO MORE WAR! And when it all goes to hell? They just gaslight you and say, “Oh, that wasn’t REAL socialism!” WELL NEWSFLASH, COMMIE: IT NEVER IS!

    So yeah, NEXT TIME you see some innocent people getting caught in a drone strike, THANK A SOCIALIST—because their DELUSIONAL, FEEL-GOOD BULLSHIT is the REASON we’re in this mess to begin with! FREEDOM isn’t free, but SOCIALISM sure as hell costs LIVES! WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

    #185849
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trade war news
    90 day pause to give time for negotiating
    125% tariffs for China

    #185850
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Hear! Hear!

    #185851
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
      Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.

    Impatient’s running mate is usually petulance.
    When I hear trump jerk the world around lately the only other word that springs to mind is scatological.

    From the comments:
    “Chyna is is between a rock and a very hard place.
    They can talk tough, but any physical war is out of the question. That would put end to all trade with them and accelerate their decline.”

    “The Panda dropped it’s masked and showed the entire world the Dragon. And PDJT just exposed it for all the world to see. He’s a genius.”

    Yeah….genius.

    DARVO….deny argue reverse victim offender

    #185852
    WES
    Participant

    Market Gyrations:

    So far the gyrations in the market for both the US dollar and US Treasury bond interest rates, have been both up and down.

    I am not yet convinced the markets has the long term direction of these two correct yet.

    Right now, short term events in the markets are happening, like derivatives blowing up various market gamblers, but hidden behind the curtin, out of our sight.
    Think of the famous Wilie E Coyote frames, after successfully using a sure fire US designed Acme product!
    (One has to admit Acme products work perfectly as designed, 100% of the time!)

    It is still too early to know whether Trump is correct or wrong about the impact of imposing tariffs, for lowering US gov interest rates and weakening the US dollar.
    This is a long game.

    #185853
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Locking out people who you don’t like works (more or less) fairly well until one has locked out more than half of the total number of people. From that point onward the only thing accomplished by locking people out is to make their side bigger and one’s own side smaller. Not a good long-term strategy, size-wise. Especially when they already outnumber you by roughly 5:1.

    Just sayiin’.

    #185854
    those darned kids
    Participant

    aren’t the chinese socialists!?

    i

    am

    so

    confused

    #185855
    aspnaz
    Participant

    jb-hb said

    Look, I’m not happy about Gaza either, but then I’M not the one who cynically jumped in with all the “Gaza=We Need MOOAR Socialism!!!” – the instant it became possible, which doesn’t suggest Socialists had any actual humanitarian concerns about Gaza THUS WHY I AM UNIMPRESSED WHEN SOCIALISTS CONTINUE TO HAMMER AWAY AT GAZA TODAY.

    You want them to shut up and suck it up like you do in your DEI classes at work? They have tried doing something, something based on the “free speech” that the USA boasts about all the time; their crime is naivette, not socialism. They believed that the USA actually believes its own words, that people should be free, but then learned that the USA is lying; the Empire of Lies. Some people just have to discover the world for themselves.

    #185856
    aspnaz
    Participant
    #185858
    John Day
    Participant

    The Correct Angle https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-correct-angle

    Larry Johnson, Trigonometry, Not Triggernometry, Who Fired the Head Shot that Killed Kennedy?
    Let me give you my summary up front, and then I will present my reasoning based on photographic evidence. The headshot that killed Kennedy came from the left side of Dealey Plaza, descending at an angle of roughly 20 degrees. It entered towards the top of the back of Kennedy’s head and exited from the right temple. I am not claiming to have precise measurements, but the angle of the bullet that blew open the front of President Kennedy’s head could not have been fired by Oswald, who was at an 80-degree angle behind JFK. If Oswald had fired the headshot, the bullet would have exited above Kennedy’s left eye.
    Here is a view of Dealey Plaza with the angles. The yellow dot and line in the upper left corner of the photo is the Texas School Book Depository building. The yellow dot and line on the right corner of the photo is the Texas jail. I will not take time here to explain the proven links between the Dallas police and the Mafia, but that provides one explanation of how a shooter could have had access to the jail.
    https://sonar21.com/trigonometry-not-triggernometry-who-fired-the-head-shot-that-killed-kennedy/

    Dallas Mayor During JFK Assassination Was CIA Asset
    At the time of the assassination, Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell, brother of one-time Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Charles P. Cabell, had been a CIA asset since 1956.
    It is worth noting that Kennedy dismissed CIA Director Allen Dulles in November 1961, and that Earle Cabell’s brother Charles left the CIA on January 31, 1962, after Kennedy forced him to resign. Thus, both Dulles and Charles Cabell were no longer working for the CIA on November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was killed.
    Earle Cabell, who had been elected mayor of Dallas in May 1961, oversaw arrangements for Kennedy’s trip and motorcade, which took him through Dealey Plaza, a route that violated almost all standard rules for presidential safety — and where normal safeguards, such as sealing windows and placing sharpshooters, were ignored. https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/dallas-mayor-jfk-assassination-cia-asset/

    The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of the American Secret Government
    Just one month after the Kennedy assassination — Truman published a bombshell in The Washington Post: “I have never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak-and-dagger operations… It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of Government… so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysterious foreign intrigue.” https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/devils-chessboard-allen-dulles-cia-rise-american-secret-government/

    #185859
    John Day
    Participant

    Trump Tells Bibi He Might Not Reduce Tariffs On Israel: ‘We Give You $4BN A Year’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bibi-washington-first-foreign-leader-negotiate-removal-trumps-tariffs-person

    Trump Stuns By Saying US Is In ‘Direct’ Nuclear Talks With Iran https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-stuns-saying-us-direct-talks-iran

    Russia Praises US-Iran Nuclear Talks Scheduled For Oman https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-praises-us-iran-nuclear-talks-scheduled-oman

    Netanyahu Says Iran Should Blow Up Own Nuclear Sites Under US Supervision​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-says-iran-should-blow-own-nuclear-sites-under-us-supervision

    ​ Caitlin Johnstone, Israel’s Innocent Oopsie-Poopsie Medical Massacre Mistake
    ​ The Israeli military has changed its story about why its forces killed 15 medical workers and then buried them and their vehicles to hide the evidence. After their initial claim that the medical vehicles were approaching “suspiciously” without their emergency lights on was disproven by video evidence, they are now calling the whole thing a big mistake.
    ​ Sure, who among us has not accidentally massacred 15 medical workers and buried them and their vehicles in a shallow grave from time to time? We’re only human, mistakes happen.
    ​ Asked by the press about Israel’s latest war crime scandal, White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes blamed the whole thing on Hamas, saying, “Hamas uses ambulances and more broadly human shields for terrorism. President Trump understands the impossible situation this tactic creates for Israel and holds Hamas entirely responsible.”
    ​ Netanyahu could live stream himself eating a Palestinian baby and telling the camera “I am eating this baby because I love genocide,” and the next day Trump’s podium people would be responding to questions from the press by shrieking “HAMAS!” with their fingers in their ears.​ https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-innocent-oopsie-poopsie-medical

    #185860
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, Transcript of interview with RT International
    ​ Well, let’s concentrate on China, because they are not in another war as Russia is. Russia’s attention is focused for good reason on its dealings with Ukraine, where they’re very close to victory and they’re not going to pull back, be distracted, and lose the concentration that they’ve enjoyed up till now. But China’s a different case. China has already demonstrated a week ago by its exercises off the coast of Taiwan that it is prepared to introduce a complete blockade of Taiwan. They don’t have to fire missiles. They can strangle Taiwan by imposing a no-fly zone over Taiwan and by interdiction of any naval vessels that are headed towards Taiwan.
    ​ And very quickly, that would bring Taiwan to its knees. And so, if the– this is also a threat, a deterrent, this message that was made by the Chinese a week ago in these naval exercises. But unlike Russia, I think the Chinese are ready, if not just to take measures to forestall an American attack on Iran, but to take measures after such an attack takes place. As I say, they can bring Taiwan to its knees and end the question that has, the United States has made foremost in its relations with China: what happens to Taiwan?​…
    ​..If I understand properly, about 75 percent of Iran’s oil exports are going to one country, China. As regards China, it is importing 30 percent of its oil needs from Iran. So the cooperation there in hydrocarbons is very, very tight.
    ​ If the United States were to attack, Tehran has made it clear that they will close the Straits of Hormuz, and that will cut off the supply of Arab Gulf oil to the world. There will be an enormous crisis. There will be a devastating impact on the global economy. And that is a price to pay that I think Mr. Trump cannot consider now, when he’s already in the middle of dealing with the consequences of his tsunami of tariffs.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/09/transcript-of-interview-with-rt-international-8-april/

    ​ M. K. BHADRAKUMAR​, Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations in Washington
    ​ The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the first such visit by a senior Kremlin official since 2022, appears to have been a modest achievement whose productive outcome will be crucial in the rest of US-Russia relations.
    ​ If President Vladimir Putin’s choice fell on Dmitriev for such a hugely important pathbreaking mission, that has been for sound reasons. An enduring settlement in Ukraine hinges on the stabilisation of the Russian-American ties which is deeply flawed due to the meagre content of it in substance.​ https://www.indianpunchline.com/russia-and-the-us-made-three-steps-forward-after-two-days-of-consultations-in-washington/

    ​Gilbert Doctorow, “We underestimated Trump!” Vyacheslav Nikonov on ‘The Great Game,’ 7 April​
    “We underestimated Trump! We had wanted Biden to win because it would have meant the self-destruction of the USA. But now we are watching the tsunami that Trump has created… This is a revolution…”
    ​ Indeed, Russian elites have been watching developments in the United States very closely ever since ‘Independence Day’ last week …
    ..They are concerned that the popular wave of protest that swept the United States this past weekend, with a vast outpouring of citizens bearing signs denouncing Trump in more than 1400 cities and towns across the land, egged on by the Democrats, who were revived from their stupor by the collapse of stock markets in the closing days of last week, may seriously weaken Trump and render him unable to continue his rapprochement with Russia, a policy that also does not enjoy popular support according to latest poll figures.
    ​ As for the tariffs themselves, last week’s Evening with Vladimir Solovyov talk show revealed far more acceptance of their necessity and correctness than you hear or read in American mainstream media. I heard a very cogent defense of the tariffs based not on their value in bringing industrial production back to the United States but in their stopping further rises in the federal debt which was reaching unsustainable levels. Indeed, the panelist who advanced this explanation said that Trump intentionally diverted attention to reindustrialization to avoid creating panic by divulging the dangerously weak state of American finances.
    In these past few days, analysts in the U.S. have deciphered the formula that Trump pointed to as the determinant of the de facto level of tariffs practiced by America’s trading partners. As they make clear, the percentages in his table are in effect just the ratio of trade deficit to bilateral trade. The intent of the tariffs is to cut off imports as much as possible and so to reduce the trade deficit to zero over time. Moreover, if the trade wars lead to recession that is also all to the good, since imports of all kinds will fall precipitously and domestic energy costs in the United States will fall, as they have already begun to do these past several days. These deflationary trends will offset the supposed inflationary tends coming directly from the tariffs.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/04/07/we-underestimated-trump-vyacheslav-nikonov-on-the-great-game-7-april/

    ​ “Who’s the boss?” Record-Breaking $1 Trillion Defense Budget: Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening
    ​ The Pentagon will soon have its first $1 trillion budget. President Trump said while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, “Nobody’s seen anything like it. We have to build out military, and we’re very cost-conscious, but the military is something we have to build, and we have to be strong.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/military/record-breaking-1-trillion-defense-budget-trump-hegseth-say-its-happening

    ​Thanks Eleni: How is this courageous man still alive after these detailed statements? (31 min) Oleksandr Dubinsky: Former Zelensky Ally Speaks Out From Prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7K8OSIant8

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