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  • #193501
    Topcat
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    The Duran

    US Economy and the Future of America First w/ Robert Barnes

    Robert Barnes is great, in part because he is an educated compulsive gambler, politics and sports.
    He studies issues very thoroughly because he like to win.

    Trump is all over the place on tariffs

    Barnes says Chinese rare earth elements, processed and unprocessed, are absolutely critical for the USSA.

    China has been jacking them up in the last few months just to gauge the price point where the USSA caves.
    Pretty smart move.

    The USSA does not have a substitute for Chinese rare earth elements. China has a straggle hold on the USSA with this.

    They have escalatory dominance.

    Trump always caves.

    The Chinese are taking note.

    Trump has alienated India to a degree never seen before.

    India will never allow USSA Big Ag to crush it’s small farmer base by dropping low quality industrial produce into their market.

    India five years ago got 7% of it’s oil from Russia, now it’s 40%+ due to the USSA’s shucked up sanctions policy.

    Two snaps up homies.

    Trumptard not smart enough to figure it out. He does not read up on much of any subject.

    Must be 7-D checkers to solidify BRICS cause they are indeed getting closer together as the preeminent trading association on earth.

    The Asian Land Mass will be the biggest trading region on planet Earth.

    Resources galore plus a killer industrial base

    The USSA ’stock market’

    The only reason it’s being propped up is “The Magnificent Seven” AI tech stocks.

    Hasn’t gained a penny without them.

    AI does NOT create many jobs

    If Trumptard was smart, which he’s not, he would revoke all of India’s H1B1 visas and open those high paying jobs to Americans.

    Investment in the USSA went down the last six months because of the crappy real estate sector, commercial and private. That’s cause of interest rates, hence the Fed Problem.

    Work-from-Home is killing commercial space, empty office complexes.

    The USSA built it’s entire real estate economy on Zero Interest Rate.

    Commercial loans are short term debt, you financed at Zero and now have to re-finance at 6-7-8%, the Kiss of Death to the whole sector, with knockoff effects for the whole country and economy.

    Real estate constipation is killing the construction sector……..

    Industrial investment can’t commit to expanding with uncertainty over tariff (Trumptard’s schizophrenic behavior) and high interest rate.

    So basically weaponizing tariffs and plucking with Russian energy will be the unraveling of the Trump Agenda.

    Full stop.

    Trumptard’s ‘clever chaos’ style of sanction=tariffs will snuff his own grand scheme.

    How ironic.

    Another queer irony with India and Russian oil is that Pedo Joe Biden asked India to buy Russian oil so as not to increase the price of Middle East Oil.

    He was saying in public that he was stopping Russia from selling oil while in private Biden Admin was trying to find customers for Russian oil, like India!

    Hahahahaha, cretin-tards galore!

    The USSA is unraveling

    #193502
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193503
    Topcat
    Participant

    On an interesting closing side note, Barnes said that the Trump Family as a whole is very heavily invested in Crypto,

    Big Time

    #193504
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193505
    Topcat
    Participant

    Kind of a Venn Diagram

    #193506
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Remember: “5D Chess” is the new “Conspiracy Theory”. Say it, and everyone’s brains fall out! All thought stops! All evidence now no longer matters! No link you read exists, no official government document matters! In fact, don’t even click and check!

    Guys: this is not even ONE-D chess. It’s just Chess. Lying, Blackmailing people is just political chess.

    So stupid a caveman can do it. And they do. Every day. And you guys are out here calling it genius.

    “One million women, girls starving in Gaza: UN says.”

    What gets me is the Meta-assumption of this. One, it’s okay for all, any, and every man to die. No one cares. (this is entirely true). Second, because this article is about the “Feelz” it is targeted to and only for Women, as an audience. So the REASON it says, “All men are worthless and it’s okay and even good for them to be killed” is because largely/exclusively WOMEN believe so. Yeah, I know, but it doesn’t make me happy to be reminded that they’re psychopaths. Apparently. By their own beliefs and actions. Worse, if you ask them they’ll just deny it to your face, after JUST saying the opposite a second ago.

    If not, then ALL people matter? Yes? Maybe?

    ““Ukraine is “not a failed state..” It’s not a state at all… It’s a colony..
    • West Has ‘Unacceptable Control’ Over Ukraine – Former PM

    They say they’re going to pull Ze and replace with Zu. But I thought they were a sovereign nation! What are we doing interfering with their free and fair elections?

    “• Trump To ‘Substantially’ Raise Tariffs On India ‘Over The Next 24 Hours’ (RT)

    Again, baffled as the Trump approach means Modi can’t back down from BRIICS now even if he was so inclined. Huh. Another backflip. So weird. By golly they might boycott us and then we wouldn’t have IT and a million H1B visas hanging around, whut.

    “BP makes biggest oil discovery in 25 yrs off coast of Brazil”

    But we’re all out of oil, whut.

    “Marco Rubio says for the FIRST TIME, Russia’s peace demands are finally clear”

    What the literal, every day, every hour every day. Okay, sure. For people who know nothing and barely read headlines, here ya go!

    “What is it about the Right that attracts the best and the brightest?”

    They clearly don’t, you’d want to add all Hollywood and Universities to this list before opening your mouth, but it’s that free inquiry requires free speech and not Soviet Party Art. So there’s an additional slice that crashes into that with the other side/Party. And this is only “recent”, like 15 years, where the GOP was this dogmatic non-thinkers in 2001-2005 for instance.

    “• Trump, Putin To Meet As Soon As Next Week In Potential Breakthrough (ZH)

    Yes, the breakthrough is: Russia is now at the Dnepr River, there are no defense lines left with the fall of Chasiv Yar. That means Russia has all that they realistically want right now. They can then “Stop” because Trump swoops in and “makes” them do exactly what Putin, strategically, already wants. — My belief, not telepathy. RUSSIAN PEOPLE would want them to go to the Polish border and will be even more Pissed off by the time they get there, but that is overextending themselves in Putin’s chess.

    If Putin just TELLS Russia to knock it off, they’ll be mad at him caving in to half-measures. This way is not his fault. Ukraine is lost for Europe, that is not Trump’s fault. Who wins, who loses? Europe has half the world’s most corrupt nation chained to their necks.

    “Moscow has also said a ceasefire could be possible if Ukraine halts troop movements, suspends mobilization, stops foreign arms shipments, and holds a presidential election.”

    Yeah, that’ll take a year.

    Speaking of all this complete gibbering nonsense, what is it with useless non-tariffs on Russia in 50, 10, ?? Days? The Russian “Shadow Fleet”, which is neither a shadow, nor a fleet. It’s just world ships that have the temerity and gall not to insure in London. That’s what the word means, that’s it.

    So Trump’s pressure was apparently on this. For what? Then RUSSIA HAS TO SPEED UP THE WAR to win before the leverage kicks in. So Trump wants Russia to win FASTER, and that’s true. But perhaps Putin needs the same leverage on his side, something to point to, as if he moves faster, 20,000 Russian soldiers die in their hurry, understand? Putin can’t “Just say”. But Trump’s not wrong, he needs a handful of specific things done fast, and before the midterm or it goes sideways. It’s already trying to.

    What is the Derp State’s play, worldwide? Slow walk everything. Sell to idiot patriots that he’s a sellout not doing enough ‘cause he can’t solve 100 years problems (Israel, MIC) in 100 Days. So THEY chuck Trump in the chipper, and leave all the Brennans live on the field. Brilliant! You’re military geniuses, I say!

    “• Ex-CIA Officer: Russiagate Deep State Operatives Still Work At The Agency (MN)

    …Until the CIA is torn up and scattered to the winds as JFK said, this will be true.

    “Brennan worked at the agency for so long, he likely continues to shape the culture at the CIA and has almost certainly cultivated generations of like minded employees.”

    That’s because you didn’t pull him when he was committing perjury and treason back in 2002 and before.

    “It’s just such an extreme understatement that even using the expression is a form of gas-lighting.
    Chew on that for a sec. What it means is that you cannot wrap your brains around it.”
    DBS

    Yes, I/we cannot wrap our minds around the level and extent of the treasonous, felonious corruption, and how far it extends. It has more events than stars in the universe, and goes on nearly to infinity.
    THIS, is the task before them/us.

    They want it all solved in 100 days. If not, we hang him, then throw up our hands and surrender.

    “Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Cleared Trump’s Name In DOJ Interview”

    No duh. For the 1,000th time: If they had something we’d already know it. Ergo: they have nothing. Literally nothing. Nada, Buppkis, zero, nyet, nothing at all.

    #193507
    Topcat
    Participant

    At the Rotten Core of “Medicine” in the USSA

    “Dr. Anthony Chaffee: “Goldman Sachs had a part of their meeting leaked, and they said: Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”

    “And of course the answer was no because a patient cured is a customer lost.”

    #193508
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193509
    Topcat
    Participant

    Hey!

    Cana-da-da


    Got a love note for ya…….

    #193510
    Red
    Participant

    “BP makes biggest oil discovery in 25 yrs off coast of Brazil”

    But we’re all out of oil, whut.

    Nice announcement two days before its quarterly report.

    “Although we cannot extrapolate as it is too early, and each well and each reservoir is different, we believe the data … provides support that the potential scale for this 100% BP discovery could be a game changer.”
    The Bumerange block is “promising and strategically located” in Santos basin, wrote Jean Paul Prates, former CEO of state-run oil firm Petrobras on social media, while warning that fields with high carbon dioxide (CO2) content in its associated gas can be “uneconomic.”
    Associated gas is a byproduct of oil production, found mixed with oil in reservoirs or as a cap above the oil.
    “BP has yet to disclose the CO2 level in Bumerangue,” wrote Prates, adding this will “ultimately determine Bumerangue’s viability.”
    BP said in its Monday announcement that results from the rig-site analysis indicate elevated levels of CO2.
    It did not immediately reply to the questions about economic viability of the field raised by Prates.
    BP, which forecast its oil and gas production at 2.3 million to 2.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day by 2030, said this was its tenth discovery this year, following findings in Trinidad, Egypt, Brazil and others.
    The company produced 2.4 million barrels of oil equivalent in 2024 and expects lower production this year.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-hails-brazil-block-its-largest-global-oil-gas-find-25-years-2025-08-04/

    #193511
    Red
    Participant

    The first muslim nation to have nukes will be………………………..The UK!

    #193512
    Topcat
    Participant

    I didn’t know windmills burned oil.

    Live & Learn

    #193513
    John Day
    Participant

    Don’t forget Medvedev’s recent tease that “not just the Mossad” has the video kompromat on Trump.
    😉
    Time to close-the-deal, as you say…

    #193514
    John Day
    Participant

    @Topcat: What did Seneca mean to imply about being dead?
    Did he just assume stuff?

    #193515
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    James Clapper is not the bow that ties it all together or else Marine One Intel Chief Scott The Convict Ritter would know and the locals would tell us so, he knows. So many twisters with these mediocre manipulators, but sure poppier and dbs, sure.

    Clapper is probably only being designated the FallGuy because he’s bald. Bald will do that to ya.
    I bet Clapper didn’t influence Dr. David Kelly, but he’s dead. So no one can ask him, Saddam too.

      “He’s not wrong.”

    Yes he is and so are you, Donna.

    JD Hamel Vance Bowman BLANTON corporal working class

    About fake nurse “treating 4000 patients” shows the grift in the grift.
    Also goes to show ya the faux nurse was circumspect about her grandiose delusion, eh, miker. The poor girl should have known to aim for healthcare CEO because not one of those shits could pull off what she accomplished, treat 4000 patients.
    Come on….google Randy Morey circa December 1987…played doctor….and a circumspect Navy 0-5 CDR rank not Admiral AND I caught him without trying and the NAVY and .GOV still hasn’t prosecuted that sonofabitch.

    It spreads like a communicable disease, right here

    #193516
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    hasn’t as in haven’t

    #193517
    Topcat
    Participant

    Expanded Seneca quotez;

    “You are scared of dying, and tell me, is the kind of life you lead any different than being dead?”

    Death is what many of us tend to fear the most, but on the other hand, death is what gives life its meaning. If you were to consider it, here’s a question to think about: why should you fear something that is inevitable?

    We often exaggerate fearful situations when the actual situation isn’t as scary as we think most times.

    As Marcus Aurelius quotes, “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength” (outside meaning situations that you cannot control).

    It is important to consider valuing your time and making your life as meaningful as possible, rather than living under fear.

    You’ll be freer this way.

    #193518
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193519
    Topcat
    Participant

    #193520
    Topcat
    Participant

    Smart as a sack of hammers

    #193521
    zerosum
    Participant

    Good thing that they are not running things!
    The experts keep getting it wrong.

    ————-

    Look! The evidence is there.
    Putin prevented a genocide by Ukraine.
    Russian(-speaking) people needed protection.

    • Trump, Putin To Meet As Soon As Next Week In Potential Breakthrough (ZH)

    • Zelensky Rejects Any Limited Ceasefire With Russia (RT)

    Moscow reported that Kiev’s forces had violated the truce over 100 times.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow favors a peaceful resolution and a “long- term, lasting peace” rather than a temporary truce.
    He has stressed that any settlement must address the “realities on the ground”
    and the root causes of the conflict.
    Russia has repeatedly called on Ukraine to recognize the loss of five of its former regions that joined Russia in public referendums,
    withdraw its forces from those territories,
    commit to neutrality,
    and limit its military capabilities.
    Moscow has also said a ceasefire could be possible if Ukraine halts troop movements, suspends mobilization,
    stops foreign arms shipments,
    and holds a presidential election.
    Kiev has rejected the terms as unacceptable.

    Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has rejected any limited ceasefire with Russia, insisting that Kiev will only agree to a complete halt in hostilities.
    ————

    • Zelensky and the EU Increasingly Desperate Over The Inevitable Outcome (SCF)

    The special military operation in Ukraine did not stem from any expansionist ambition, but from the need to protect the Russian population in Donbass and to curb NATO’s encroachment on Russia’s borders.
    After years of Western provocation and the genocide of ethnic Russians in what was then eastern Ukraine, Moscow chose to act.
    The Western rhetoric of “defending Europe” is a smokescreen used to justify the militarization of the continent and the artificial prolongation of the conflict.

    In reality, Europeans are already feeling the economic and social consequences of this suicidal policy: inflation, an energy crisis, the erosion of civil liberties, and growing public dissatisfaction

    Zelensky does not speak for himself; he is merely the loudest voice of a failed project that insists on attacking Russia while Ukraine itself collapses economically, militarily, and politically.

    ————-
    The Russiagate Files contained Epstein files.

    Why any evidence in the burn bags of anything was not…well, burned, no idea.

    • FBI Burn Bags Had More Than Russiagate Files In Them (Margolis)

    a formal investigation is now underway.
    ———–

    https://x.com/ricwe123/status/1953038304422568152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1953038304422568152%7Ctwgr%5E9517b2c1b996cac27dc3eda1fe8b002fcbb4d3b4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F08%2Fdebt-rattle-august-7-2025%2F

    Piers Morgan, confidently parroting the usual narrative, gets a reality check from Jeffrey Sachs, dismantled point by point, exposed for knowing far less than he thinks.

    Painful to watch, but well-deserved….
    ————

    #193523
    zerosum
    Participant

    Anti genocide is being called Antisemitism

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

    #193524
    zerosum
    Participant

    Considering boomers were the first generation to be programmed by the TV, took us awhile to understand what happened to us.

    #193525
    zerosum
    Participant

    Warmongers in Washington, in Europe and in Ukraine will try to sabotage anything that may lead to peace.

    #193526

    In the upside-down world where the deep state’s in charge,
    And the mockingbird press tells the story,
    A leader who pushes his message writ large,
    Might find himself bloodied and gory.

    #193529
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Considering boomers were the first generation to be programmed by the TV, took us awhile to understand what happened to us.

    Who?….Us brainwashed!?!? No way!
    That “honor” was reserved for the Soviets, Cubans, Venezuelans, NK’s……Yugoslavs?

    #193530
    kultsommer
    Participant

    While and probably we disagree, guaranteed, in which direction brain washing went.

    #193531
    John Day
    Participant

    @Topcat: Thank You, I think Seneca assumed that the guy he was talking to assumed that death was a “dead end”, but that’s a lot of assuming.

    I’m trying to understand better before I die.

    My Grandmother held out until 1/1/Y2k in the morning, nearly dawn.
    I got there a couple of hours after her last breath and sat with her soul for 2 hours.
    She was much relieved, and she bade me farewell, but surprisingly returned to me with a spirit gift a week and a half later, which I recognized as her.

    That’s all I have to really report on that front.

    #193532
    WES
    Participant

    Topcat:

    You got the elephant MMT absolutely correct!

    Yes, windmills use oil!

    They need gear oil in their gearbox.
    They need grease on their 3 windmill blade pinion gears.
    They need gas for the maintenance personnel to drive to the windmills to service and repair them.
    They may need stand-by diesel generators if left idle for extended time.
    Wind turbines need oil to make more wind turbines.
    Windmills need oil and gas to be transported from factory to site.
    Oil, gas, and diesel, are required to build the wind turbine support base and access roads and hydro lines,

    I could go on, but my finger and brain are already hurting too much!

    #193533
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Pick and Choose story time again as these two “broads” ((not nurses miker)) never fail.
    Sh*t may be hard to follow for some since a few here seem to have been Rip-Van-Winklering since 2016 approx.
    ‘Splain it to ’em D so dbs, poppier and miker can rest tonight.
    Video!

    Sundance

    Marci Wheeler

    The Conservative TreeHaus vs EmptyWheel

    Outline #1 – Criminal Conduct by DOJ/FBI During Russiagate

    2fer to follow

    Tick-Tock: Redirecting Attention from Epstein Coverup Conspiracy

    How Chuck Grassley’s Politicized Redactions Gave Putin Leverage over Trump

    #193534
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @tdk

    Ya see, the Bush Administration’s illogic on Torture Writ Large is, was, and shall ever be as stupid, manipulatively equal, as AlRoberto Humberto Gorgonzola Gonzalez is short, very much so a feckless little prick.

    Ya see, ya also have to “ask yoself” what was the point or need or requirement to ensnare, seduce Military Medicine in Their (((their meaning big Bush, DoD, CIA))) plan/program/plot/scheme/fraud/intent/racket to Protect The Nation from The Miscreants and Neerdowells Hellbent on Destroying the Nation Again Because Folk had in fact Moved on From The 911 Exposę???

    The logic and indeed their intent was Full of Inverted Communication and False Premises.

    POTUS, Commander in Chief, doesn’t take no direction from no one, certainly not The SecDef and her Armed Forces. Title10, ie. The Constitution doesn’t Bend to Exigent Circumstances. The Notion neither Our Constitution Nor The Hippocratic Oath can be seen as Suicide Pacts in a “crisis” IS just so much horseshit and misdirection that no one can believe The Big They and Their Spokespeople openly and consistently advanced that deliberate misunderstanding.

    Then the obvious nonsequitur emerged and its evident in the previous paragraph.
    Can anyone spot it? Takes some thinking and reading because you’d be unpacking lies and frauds you might have been “down with” because your pants were still filled with piss and shit after 911.
    They already had Nurses and Corpsmen and Psychologists playing along willingly, proudly and criminally with The Torture Program, ref. ((The Mormon Pros From Dover/Spokane Mitchell & Jessen))

    Hint: The Constitution doesn’t reference the Hippocratic Oath at all, well, at least in 2003. What Title 10 does say, it says specifically about The Geneva Conventions for two particular officer staff Corps.
    Pick what individuals are responsible To Geneva under Title 10:
    A. Nurse Corps
    B. Hospital Corps
    C. JAG
    D. Chaplain Corps
    E. Line officers
    F. Military Psychologists for Torture
    G. Physician Surgeons

    So they knew they were weak.
    They knew logic was fallible.
    They suspected a few military physicians had the backbone, brains and balls that couldn’t be compromised opportunistically.
    They had nurses and psychologists willing to enter the breach where physicians refused to go because in a moment of unbridled cynicism Bush Admin also knew those RNs and Psychologists, psychopaths really, were “UNENCUMBERED” by The Hippocratic Oath and The Geneva Conventions.
    Here we are 22 to 24 years later.
    Do ya think those Nurses, Psychologists, Bush Admins, Obama Crew and Trumpians want to go back to that and give up what they got? This shit probably gave Alain Enthoven and The Rand Corpse group a big boner and Washington D.C. its opulence.

    #193535
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Health! Care?
    – 5G kills
    – Treating patients without a license is illegal; Killing patients with a license is profitable
    – God decides who lives and dies; Goldman Sachs is doing God’s work.

    * Politics
    – The Federal Reserve is a Central Bank; Most of our money is already a CBDC
    – The US can’t live without Chinese rare earth metals
    – Warmongers want war
    – The deep state is in charge
    – The first Muslim nation to have nukes is …….. Pakistan!
    – Trump is playing √5 D chess
    – The Trumps are bigly into crypto
    – Chinese will leave Canada when it dies because their horcrux will die too; Of course it is happening inside your head, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

    * Make your life as meaningful as possible but no meaningfuller; Netfood. PornTok. Tik. FastFlix. Repeat.

    * Word of the day: Antidisestablishmentsemitism

    * Generations:
    – Greatest: The Movie Theater Generation
    – Silent: The Radio Generation
    – Boomers: The TV Generation
    – Gen X: The PC Generation
    – Millenials: The Internet Generation
    – Gen Z: The Smartphone Generation
    – Gen Alpha: The AI Generation
    – Gen Beta: The Neuralink Generation
    – Gen Ex Machina: The Sentient Generation

    #193536
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Trump is a POS, owned lock,stock and barrel by the jews. No different than the senile kidfucker before him, or the black homo. It’s all so sad and depressing, the jew theatre, and meant to be so. These sick fucks tried to murder you….injections, chemtrails, the food, the water, the pills and medications…why would you give them any credence. Why would you pretend they decide or run anything? Whores for $ are not leaders. Traitors, the whole lot.

    #193537
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Time for a summer vacation.

    Yeeeeee!

    #193538
    kultsommer
    Participant

    In some just parallel universe they would be all arrested upon return.
    Than hanged.

    #193539
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i sure hope tomorrow ain’t as dumb as today..

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