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    Henri Matisse Woman with a hat 1905   • Trump Admin Hit by Record Number of Injunctions From Partisan Courts (McCarthy) • When Judges Violate the
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 27 2025]

    #184972
    Just Some Randomer
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    “There are hardly any American cars in Europe. But the US is full of Mercs and Beamers. The issue is quite obvious.”

    Indeed. That issue is that most American cars are completely unsuitable for European towns, roads and carparks, being too big and too thirsty, given European fuel prices.

    On the flipside, one could argue that people might still buy them anyway if it weren’t for the huge taxes and duties applied to them by the EU – which I think is the point Trump is trying to make – but in all honesty I don’t think the taxes are the main issue. it’s more of a product-market fit problem.

    #184973
    John Day
    Participant

    No charges for two men with $250K in gold bars found during traffic stop, but North Texas authorities will keep their gold
    The DA said the two men were in the country illegally from China and have been turned over to immigration authorities.
    https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/no-charges-for-two-men-with-250k-in-gold-bars-but-north-texas-authorities-will-keep-their-gold/287-88cfdb7f-1a5e-4d1c-9519-6738ef3f782f

    Pulled-over for “following too closely”

    #184974
    John Day
    Participant

    Reports Vary https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/reports-vary

    From the Kremlin about negotiations with USA in Riyadh:
    In accordance with the agreement between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, both sides have committed to ensuring the implementation of the “Black Sea Initiative,” which includes:
    Maritime security in the Black Sea, The prohibition of force, and
    The prevention of the use of commercial vessels for military purposes, with appropriate inspection measures in place to enforce compliance.
    The United States will facilitate:
    The restoration of Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports to global markets,
    The reduction of maritime shipping insurance costs, The expansion of access to ports and payment systems for such transactions.
    Implementation Conditions:
    Points 1 and 2 will take effect only after:
    Sanctions are lifted from Rosselkhozbank and other financial institutions involved in international food and fertilizer trade (including seafood), their reconnection to SWIFT, and the opening of necessary correspondent accounts;
    Restrictions on trade finance transactions are removed;
    Sanctions on Russian food and fertilizer producers and exporters (including seafood) are lifted, along with restrictions on insurance companies handling such cargoes;
    Port service restrictions and sanctions on Russian-flagged vessels engaged in food and fertilizer trade are removed;
    Restrictions on the supply of agricultural equipment and other goods essential for food and fertilizer production (including seafood) to Russia are lifted.
    Russia and the US have agreed to develop measures for implementing the presidential agreement to ban strikes on Russian and Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days starting March 18, 2025, with the possibility of extension or withdrawal if either side fails to comply. https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/161910-russia-usa-riyadh/

    White House reveals details of US-Russia talks in Riyadh
    The “bilateral technical-level talks” focused on the situation in the Black Sea, as well as the agreement to halt strikes on “energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine” proposed by US President Donald Trump, the White House said on Tuesday.
    “The United States and Russia have agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea,” the statement reads.
    The US has also pledged to “help restore Russia’s access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions,” according to the White House. Both Moscow and Washington remain committed to “working toward achieving a durable and lasting peace” to end the Ukraine conflict, it added. https://swentr.site/news/614752-white-house-russia-talks/

    Gilbert Doctorow, Further considerations on the significance of the U.S.-Russia-Ukraine agreement on a maritime cease-fire
    This brings us to a re-evaluation of the drivers of Donald Trump’s foreign policy initiatives: do they serve the U.S. military industrial complex, as many suppose or not?
    The most important prompt for reconsidering the maritime cease-fire agreement lies in the terms set by the Russians for its implementation, namely a long list of the sanctions, financial and otherwise, relating to Russian farming, fishing and fertilizers which the U.S. must lift before the cease-fire comes into effect…
    ..Thanks to work-arounds the Russian remained all this time the world’s biggest grain exporters, but the work-arounds distorted global trade flows and added to prices everywhere…
    ..Once implemented, the removal of sanctions surely will lead directly to a reentry into the Russian market of John Deere, FMC and other American manufacturers, resulting both in greater U.S. exports to Russia and greater efficiency for the Russian operators in the domain…
    ..The single biggest beneficiary of the removal of sanctions on Russian agricultural exports will be…China. After all, China alone accounts for half of all Russian export sales of grains. Supplies will henceforth be greater and prices, lower…
    ..The visuals of the talks in Riyadh suggest that U.S. negotiators were going back and forth between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in the same hotel to help them arrive at a deal. The reality, say the panelists, is that all negotiations were between the U.S. and Russian teams. They reached agreements and then the U.S. team took their decision to the Ukrainians and imposed it on them…
    ..Now let us look at one aspect of the Trump administration’s foreign policy initiatives that no one is talking about: their impact on U.S. military equipment sales abroad. The widely held assumption is that this administration like all of its predecessors is beholden to the military industrial complex for delivering votes of the Congressmen it controls on any given piece of legislation.
    Yet, the steps to end the war in Ukraine that we see the Trump Team pursuing in such haste, will turn off the spigot of weaponry to Kiev and work against the sales projections of the arms manufacturers… We see this in the ongoing discussions in Germany about breaking their contract for purchase of the F-35 multipurpose jets. While Europeans are now allocating hundreds of billions of euros for procurement of defense equipment, the emphasis is on placing orders with European defense suppliers, not Americans…
    ..While the nuclear warheads stored in European bases turn these countries into targets for Russian attack, their use against Russia depends entirely on the mood of Washington at any given moment. These facts were always present, but the possibility of U.S, reneging on its defense obligations never seriously existed before the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/26/further-considerations-on-the-significance-of-the-u-s-russia-ukraine-agreement-on-a-maritime-cease-fire/

    Might they have died in Ukraine, or in the Kursk Oblast of Russia? Four Missing US Army Troops In Lithuania Found Dead: NATO https://www.zerohedge.com/military/four-us-army-soldiers-have-gone-missing-near-border-belarus-training-exercise

    #184975
    John Day
    Participant

    You already agreed, Sir: US ‘thinking about’ easing Russia sanctions – Trump
    Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has insisted there should be no weakening of curbs against Moscow
    The White House did not provide details, but President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration is indeed considering lifting some of the sanctions against Moscow.
    “They will be looking at them, and we’re thinking about all of them right now. There are about five or six conditions. We’re looking at all of them,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.
    Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky lashed out at Washington later in the day, accusing the US of discussing the issue of sanctions with the Russian delegation without properly briefing Kiev on the matter.
    “We did not agree to this so that it would be in a joint document. We believe that this is a weakening of positions and a weakening of sanctions,” he claimed. https://swentr.site/news/614779-trump-lifting-russia-sanctions/

    US looking for ‘proper way’ to reconnect Russia to SWIFT – treasury secretary​ https://swentr.site/business/614831-russia-banking-swift-bessent/

    Russia-US Negotiations: Trump Criticism Follows the Bad Sign of the Lack of a Joint Statement After Last Round Plus the Iran Angle
    Three teams traveled to Riyadh, a very senior Ukraine group, and mid-senior level representatives for the US and Russia. Multiple reports said, consistent with the plan agreed on the Putin-Trump phone call to hold bi-lateral talks, the US spent minimal time spent with the Ukraine delegation, only 40 minutes before the Russia-US discussions and 30 minutes after. That means the communication was one way.
    By contrast, the US and Russian discussions took over 12 hours in one day. The two sides emerged, with both sides conveying the impression that they’d made progress, but it was too late in the day for them to provide a joint statement as promised. They’d do it the next day. The White House put out its statement on the US-Russia talks.
    No joint statement has been provided. (Ruh Roh… misunderstanding, or Ukraine kicking back?)…
    ..So what is the reason for the urgency about a “deal” with Russia, when Trump could put the US participation in Project Ukraine out of its misery in very short order?.. My guess is the urgency has to do with Iran. Larry Wilkerson, in a new interview with Nima of Dialogue Works, argued that (54:45) that the US is prodding Israel to keep up aggression in Syria despite already being over extended. Both Wilkerson in this clip and Chas Freeman in a new Judge Napolitano talk said that if the Israelis were to attack Iran, which would clearly have to have US backing, that Russia would support Iran. From Judge Napolitano at 20:50:
    Napolitano: Would an American military support of an Israeli attack on Tehran impair American-Russian relationships?
    Freeman: It would affect them very negatively because it would appear to demonstrate that we are prepared to bully and use force as a substitute for diplomacy, and that would discredit the diplomacy….I think this would really bring that to a point of no return.
    Recall that the US has been laboring under the delusion that Russia would help the US when it is still supporting Ukraine. Bloomberg ran a bizarre article in early March that depicted Russia as willing to “do everything in its power”…
    ..Before the US resumed its attacks on the Houthis, Marco Rubio called Lavrov and depicted Russia as having “consented”. Lavrov cleared his throat and disputed that characterization, making it clear Lavrov told Rubio the US should negotiate and not use force (I imagine Russia Foreign Ministry also had to make lots of calls to the strong Palestine supporters among its allies to reassure them that no way, no how did Russia support shelling Yemen).
    Rumor has it that Trump demanded Iran Do Something in two months. Iran is clearly not going to Do Anything. Many many geopolitical commentators believe that the US is serious about wanting to commence a war against Iran in the near future.
    But perhaps not. One way this war might not happen soon, which could mean “not at all”, is the Russia negotiations dragging out, which is certain. Russia will not be rushed and will need the US to demonstrate it can leash and collar Ukraine on key issues. It can’t do that ex a regime change, and it can’t displace the Banderites (they’d find that harder than the Russians would) even if it gets rid of Zelensky.
    So a good guess for the rush to get a resolution in Ukraine is the barmy US assumption is that if that deal is done, Russia will be so happy with its better status with the US that it won’t back Iran… But if the Trumpies believe that, it will stay their hand until a deal over Ukraine is done and dusted before they take on Iran. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/russia-us-negotiations-trump-criticism-follows-the-bad-sign-of-the-lack-of-a-joint-statement-after-last-round-and-the-iran-angle.html

    Scott Ritter is concerned for US attack on Iran:
    Seven B-2 bombers deployed to Diego Garcia.
    Numerous C-17 flights into Diego Garcia. Ten KC-135 tankers to Diego Garcia. An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine in the Indian Ocean.
    And there are those who still argue Iran shouldn’t negotiate to reduce its nuclear profile. This is literally becoming a question of Iran’s existential survival. https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1904727568722329995

    White House Demands Iran Give Up Entire Nuclear Program, Including Civilian Enrichment
    Waltz’ new demand is not that Iran goes back down to 20% or anything, it’s to stop enrichment entirely. It’s unclear in the context if Iran is even allowed to keep it’s power plant, though without the ability to enrich uranium to make their own fuel, it would be effectively useless in fairly short order.
    Beyond that, Waltz demanded Iran scrap its “weaponization” program, which will be a challenge because Iran does not have one, and US intelligence assessments have repeatedly said Iran hasn’t decided to try to make such a weapon. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-demands-iran-give-entire-nuclear-program-including-civilian-enrichment

    #184976
    John Day
    Participant

    US Intelligence Says Iran Is ‘Not Building a Nuclear Weapon’
    “The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/25/us-intelligence-says-iran-is-not-building-a-nuclear-weapon/

    Ukraine Still Hitting Russian Energy Sites, Kremlin Says, As Naval Ceasefire Not Yet Implemented https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-still-hitting-russian-energy-sites-kremlin-says-naval-ceasefire-still-not

    Russia-US ties, EU undermining Trump, Ukraine-Greenland parallels: Lavrov speaks after Riyadh talks
    The Russian foreign minister spoke to Channel 1 following 12 hours of negotiations between Moscow and Washington in Saudi Arabia https://www.rt.com/russia/614778-russia-us-lavrov-interview/

    Michael Every, Globalization As We Knew It, Is Over
    The US insists a Russia-Ukraine Black Sea ceasefire has been agreed, lifting restrictions on Russian agri and fertiliser exports in response, even as Russia says it first wants the full lifting of sanctions on its banks in SWIFT, which would require EU approval. If that’s forthcoming, where does it leave EU statecraft: buying Russian gas again? … If Europe says no, what if the US is even more incentivized to just leave and leave Europe the bill, as we saw from that Signal chat? Worse, reports also have US intel saying Russia and Ukraine may prefer a longer war to a quick settlement unsatisfying to either…
    ..One point that didn’t get enough emphasis in the “make Europe pay for the Houthis” hoo-ha was that EU strategic autonomy is about more than just guns for Ukraine: it also needs a blue-water navy equal to its global trade ambitions…
    ..The US has this military statecraft power, and there’s been a bomber build-up in Diego Garcia, a base for past strikes on the Middle East, which looks more than needed for the Houthis. That doesn’t leave much to the imagination in terms of potential targets. What does is if this is the Ukraine-for-Iran ‘Noxin’ strategy or just a deliberate US signal to Tehran…
    ..In US economic statecraft, we are waiting to see if the 25% additional tariff on those who buy oil from Venezuela is implemented next week. It’s hard to prove this is happening given such oil is blended offshore to disguise its origins, but the customers are known. Indeed, the US can still choose to add 25% on China on top of the recent 10% + 10% and the pre-existing 25% in places because it says it’s buying Venezuelan oil –and the statecraft messages will be clear: 1) “China”; 2) Monroe Doctrine; 3) “Energy dominance.”…
    ..Also note the US just added around 70 Chinese entities to its export control blacklist to prevent them helping Chinese AI and military development.
    Moreover, the White House nominated an ex-navy staunch advocate for rebuilding the US merchant marine to lead the US Maritime Administration MARAD, suggesting more impetus towards US shipbuilding despite industry complaints about the USTR’s proposed port fees on Chinese-built and operated ships, and quotas for carrying US exports on US-flagged, crewed, and built vessels…
    ..The head of the US Council for Foreign Relations argues in Foreign Affairs that ‘China Has Already Remade the international System’:
    “From 2009 to 2017, I served first as deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs and then as US trade representative. During that time, I consistently warned my Chinese counterparts that the benign international environment that had enabled China’s success would disappear unless Beijing modified its predatory economic policies. Instead, China largely maintained its course of action. If anything, it doubled down on its approach… Without any semblance of reciprocity, the relationship deteriorated… Washington may have forged the open, liberal rules-based order, but China has defined its next phase: protectionism, subsidization, restrictions on FDI, and industrial policy… China’s nationalist state capitalism now dominates the international economic order. Washington is already living in Beijing’s world… The US had to become more like China.” https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/globalization-we-knew-it-over

    China’s Purchases Stall After Trump’s Tariff Threat on Buyers of Venezuelan Oil https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Purchases-Stall-After-Trumps-Tariff-Threat-on-Buyers-of-Venezuelan-Oil.html

    #184977
    John Day
    Participant

    Five Reasons Why Euro Area Citizens Should Be Terrified By the ECB’s (Apparently) Fast Approaching Digital Euro https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/five-reasons-why-europeans-should-be-terrified-about-the-ecbs-apparently-fast-approaching-digital-euro-2.html

    Sam Husseini, Regarding New JFK Disclosures, State Department Refuses to Acknowledge Israel’s Nukes
    JFK tried to stop Israel’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. Spokesperson dismisses “conspiracy theories” in response to question about Angleton revelations and US abiding by Israeli policy on nukes. https://husseini.substack.com/p/regarding-new-jfk-disclosures-state

    Not as much substance as I know to exist, particularly involving LBJ’s roles: How Israel Killed the Kennedys, Mike Whitney’s Interview with Ron Unz https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-israel-killed-kennedys/5882647

    Moon of Alabama, Was This ‘Leak’ Accidental Or Is It Pro-War Psyops?
    Why did Michael Waltz, a former advisor to Dick Cheney, seek to add war-pimp and anti-Trumper Jeffrey Goldberg to his contact list? What did he plan to leak to him?
    Signal is an encrypted chat application which, until recently, was financed by the U.S. government. That is in itself a good reason to not trust it. There have also been reports that several foreign entities are trying to crack it. Why would high administration officials, who have access to more secure communication systems, use Signal to chat with each other?
    Why are Vance and others implying that ‘freedom of navigation’ in the Red Sea is for the good of Europe and that it should pay for it? That framing does not fit.
    The reason for the Houthi blockade of the Red Sea is the Zionist genocide in Gaza. Israel is the country most hurt by the stop of sea traffic to its harbors. The closure of the Red Sea has increased ocean transport cost for a container from $2,000 to $8,000 for everyone, including the U.S., because the transport around Africa takes longer and has led to a shortage of container ships. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/was-this-leak-accidental-or-is-it-pro-war-psyops.html#more

    Larry Johnson, It Wasn’t a Leak, It was a Devious “Charlie Foxtrot”
    Charlie Foxtrot is a polite euphemism for a crude military term — Clusterfuck. That describes the first scandal of the Trump Administration. Somehow, whether deliberate or accidentally, a Zionist journalist by the name of Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal chat by Trump’s National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, or by someone who worked for Waltz. Goldberg suddenly found himself part of a group chat of Trump’s top defense, diplomatic and intelligence officials. The group included CIA Director Ratcliffe, DNI’s Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, among other luminaries.
    If you are not familiar with Signal, you create a group chat by naming a group and then adding members from your list of contacts…
    ..This was not a leak. This was a gift to Goldberg. While the contents of the chat are not officially classified, the information being discussed was operationally sensitive. The chat exposed most of the Trump team as shallow and dismissive of the military and diplomatic implications of the decision to start bombing Yemen.
    If Waltz and company wanted to discuss the pros and cons of bombing Yemen, he should have convened a Secure Video Conference, aka SVTC (pronounced, CIVITS).
    Pete Hegseth’s remarks to the press, responding to the Goldberg article, makes a solid case that he is not qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. Instead of admitting that this was a fuckup on the part of Waltz, he decided to attack Goldberg. Moreover, he pretends that the US was hitting hardened, military targets. That is a lie… While I agree with Hegseth that Goldberg is a partisan hack, Goldberg did not insinuate himself into the chat or steal the material. Waltz, or one of his staff, did that…
    ..The portion of the chat that Goldberg published shows that JD Vance is not a Zionist crazy. He at least had reservations about the plan to bomb Yemen. The same cannot be said for the others — Pete Hegseth in particular. The following snippets from Goldberg’s article makes it clear that the decision to bomb was not based on some actual provocation or attack by Yemen. Nope, it was a malevolent symbolic gesture:
    The account labeled “JD Vance” responded at 8:16: “Team, I am out for the day doing an economic event in Michigan. But I think we are making a mistake.” (Vance was indeed in Michigan that day.) The Vance account goes on to state, “3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”
    The Vance account then goes on to make a noteworthy statement, considering that the vice president has not deviated publicly from Trump’s position on virtually any issue. “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”
    The account identified as “JD Vance” addressed a message at 8:45 to @Pete Hegseth: “if you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again.” … Hegseth’s counter to Vance’s concern that the American public won’t understand why were bombing the shit out of another faraway country is this:
    “Nobody [in America] knows who the Houthis are, so [we can just say] Biden failed and Iran funded them.”
    Well, guess what, boys and girls? Trump failed, just like Biden. The bombings over the last nine days have not deterred the Houthis from renewing their attacks on ships and Israel. And it has put US naval vessels in harm’s way without a good reason. Hegseth gives the game away… this is about blaming Iran. https://sonar21.com/it-wasnt-a-leak-it-was-a-devious-charlie-foxtrot/

    #184978
    John Day
    Participant

    Fuller Signal Chat Is Published As Dems Call For Hegseth, Waltz To Resign
    ..Waltz responded: “Typing too fast. The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”
    Vance responded a minute later: “Excellent.”…
    ..The most “DC” thing ever is to reflexively twist the Signal chat story into a scandal over “classified information” and “OPSEC,” rather than a scandal over a military operation that was launched on highly dubious pretenses by people such as Hegseth, who is clearly frothing for a war to command, and communicates his desires in the most simple-minded cliches. Nobody ever applies consistent principles to the retention or transmission of “classified information,” and pretending to care about the sacrosanct nature of such information above all else is just standard DC pablum. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fuller-transcript-signal-chat-published-dems-call-hegseth-waltz-resign

    Caitlin Johnstone, Thoughts On The Trump Team’s Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen
    “The first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building, and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz said.
    “Excellent,” Vice President JD Vance responded.
    “Great job all,” said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
    “Kudos to all — most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really Great. God bless,” said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
    “Great work and effects!” replied intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard.
    Waltz and Trump’s middle east envoy Steve Witkoff are seen posting numerous celebratory emojis.
    Imagine how fucked up you have to be inside to react this way to the bombing of an apartment building full of civilians. How far gone you have to be as a human being. These are the kinds of freaks who rule our world…
    ..The need to control the narrative is why the US empire has invested so heavily in soft power, and why it has the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever constructed. It’s why Palestinian journalists are being killed in Gaza while western journalists aren’t being allowed in. It’s why pro-Palestine activists are being silenced and deported. It’s why the internet is being censored with increasing aggression. It’s why Julian Assange spent years in prison. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thoughts-on-the-trump-teams-signal

    Tlaib: Democrats Rage Over Yemen Strike Leak, But Not at the Strike Itself
    The US’s airstrikes on Yemen have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital. https://truthout.org/articles/tlaib-democrats-rage-over-yemen-strike-leak-but-not-at-the-strike-itself/

    Houthis Say New US Airstrikes Obliterated Residential Neighborhood https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-say-new-us-airstrikes-obliterated-residential-neighborhood

    Israeli airstrikes murders 64 Palestinians in Gaza in one day
    The Israeli occupation forces’ aggression on Gaza has taken the lives of dozens of Palestinians and wounded others amid a blockade barring the entry of humanitarian aid. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-airstrikes-murders-64-palestinians-in-gaza-in-one-da

    #184979
    John Day
    Participant

    No aid reached Gaza in over three weeks: UN
    The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said most aid access requests are denied, preventing fuel deliveries and supply retrieval. https://trt.global/world/article/1c51fbaf0f79

    Israel refuses to coordinate rescue mission for trapped paramedics in Gaza’s Rafah
    Fate of 9 paramedics remains unclear after Israeli forces targeted them during rescue operation in Rafah https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-refuses-to-coordinate-rescue-mission-for-trapped-paramedics-in-gaza-s-rafah/3519391

    Israeli Troops Run Over Palestinian With a Bulldozer, Israelis Laugh About It On Social Media https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64118

    Trump launches ‘October 7 Joint Task Force’, as war on Palestine protesters widens
    The Trump administration’s new “Joint Task Force October 7” appears to be yet another weapon in the White House’s war on Palestine activism. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/trump-launches-october-7-joint-task-force-as-war-on-palestine-protesters-widens/

    ‘Beaten in custody’: Israel releases Oscar winning director
    Israeli occupation authorities released Oscar winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal after he was beaten and detained by Israeli occupation forces yesterday…
    ..”He was beaten by soldiers and settlers all over his body. The soldiers left him blindfolded and handcuffed… last night.”
    Ballal was detained from his home in the village of Susya in the occupied West Bank, after settlers attacked it yesterday. The settlers not only beat him, but they vandalised his property, shattered his car windows and slashed his tyres. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250325-beaten-in-custody-israel-releases-oscar-winning-director/

    #184980
    John Day
    Participant

    Jonathan Cook, The new fascism: Israel is the template for Trump and Europe’s war on freedom
    The wide-ranging crackdown on political speech is being framed as a ‘war on antisemitism’. But fascism was always going to return in disguise, calling its opponents, not itself, the Nazis. https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-new-fascism-israel-is-the-template

    How Western media silence enables the killing of Palestinian journalists
    Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour were the latest Palestinian journalists to be assassinated in Gaza. Responsibility for their killings rests in part on their Western colleagues who have failed to accurately cover Israel’s genocidal assault. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/how-western-media-silence-enables-the-killing-of-palestinian-journalists/

    Israeli army admits assassinating Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza: Israeli army claims that Hossam Shabat was a Hamas sniper https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israeli-army-admits-assassinating-al-jazeera-journalist-in-gaza-3700214

    Caitlin Johnstone, Censorship Violates The Rights Of The Speaker And Of The Hearer
    The Trump administration is targeting another Columbia University student for deportation due to speech crimes against the state of Israel. This time they’re going after a 21 year-old woman who was born in South Korea but has been in the US since age seven and is a legal permanent US resident.
    The New York Times reports:
    “The student, Yunseo Chung, is a legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school. The Trump administration is arguing that her presence in the United States hinders the administration’s foreign policy agenda of halting the spread of antisemitism.” https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/censorship-violates-the-rights-of

    Meryl Nass MD, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) who was one of 2 AGs who brought the Missouri v Biden censorship case, is powerfully back on this beat in the Senate, Go read his series of tweets. I have blown up some of his graphics
    “Between 2020 and 2022 alone, the National Science Foundation awarded $31.8 million in taxpayer funds across 64 grants to research “the science of stopping viral ideas.” https://merylnass.substack.com/p/senator-eric-schmitt-r-mo-who-was

    #184981
    John Day
    Participant

    Anti-Musk NGO Behind Color Revolution Against Tesla “Mass Deletes Content Off Website” After Being Exposed https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-musk-ngo-behind-color-revolution-against-tesla-mass-deletes-content-website-after

    FBI puts together Tesla task force as counter-protest violence ramps up
    The FBI has launched a task force to address the violence against Tesla properties, which President Trump as labeled as “domestic terrorism.”
    On the other side, counter-protestors against peaceful Tesla protestors protected under the US Constitution are also getting violent. https://electrek.co/2025/03/25/fbi-puts-together-tesla-task-force-as-counter-protest-violence-ramps-up/

    Homeland Security Secretary Confirms Plans To Eliminate FEMA https://www.zerohedge.com/political/homeland-security-secretary-confirms-plans-eliminate-fema

    How to delete your 23andMe data: You can permanently remove your account from the troubled company’s database. https://www.theverge.com/news/634680/23andme-genetic-data-account-deletion-how-to

    AI Addiction… Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-dependence-addiction

    #184982
    John Day
    Participant

    I remember before they allowed those horrible ads. RFK Jr. Is Pushing Big Pharma Ad Ban – And Corporate Media Is Panicking https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rfk-jr-pushing-big-pharma-ad-ban-and-corporate-media-panicking

    Pierre Kory MD, Trump And RFK Should Accelerate Inexpensive Treatments For Long Covid And Other Diseases https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/25/how-rfk-can-accelerate-inexpensive-treatments-for-long-covid/

    Cheap generic amantadine works for bird flu. Meryl Nass MD, New: in vitro testing of more drugs against the 2.3.4.4b (most common) strain of bird flu
    Just in case a deadly mutant appears, it is good to know there exist other drugs to try https://merylnass.substack.com/p/new-in-vitro-testing-of-more-drugs

    Vast and important: Sasha Latypova, The Covid Dossier, Updated: A record of military and intelligence coordination of the global Covid event.
    US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy. Thank you to the readers who provided information for many more EU countries, Turkey, Latin America and Asia. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-covid-dossier-updated-a-record

    Steve Kirsch, Pfizer likely increased your all-cause mortality by at least 14%; Moderna was even worse at 20%
    The cure was highly likely worse than the disease. Here’s how we know. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pfizer-likely-increased-your-all

    #184983
    John Day
    Participant

    Ivermectin helped my patients, and me too, overnight. BREAKING STUDY — Ivermectin-Based Treatment Protocols Linked to 100% Survival in Hypoxemic COVID-19 Patients
    Two-part peer-reviewed study finds rapid recovery and zero deaths among 119 COVID-19 patients treated with ivermectin-based multidrug regimens across the U.S., Zimbabwe, and Nigeria. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-ivermectin-based-treatment

    Trump admin related new service? Pole Shift Acceleration About To Happen: Government Is Tracking It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8904MH79z-4

    #184984
    those darned kids
    Participant

    everybody knows mr goldberg posed as a nigerian prince in order to sneak into the “chat”.

    #184985
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s a power struggle.
    Rule of law

    • When Judges Violate the Constitution (Joecks)
    blocking the Trump administration
    judicial overreach
    It’s a power struggle.
    A Signal chat (fire republicans and replace with democrats 🙂 )
    ————–
    New tariffs, (25%), are in addition to existing tariffs and are expected to result in $100 billion in revenues.
    Tariffs on parts from Canada and Mexico that comply with the trade deal also won’t take effect until the US sets up a process to collect those levies.
    ————-

    Zombie programs
    • Might of the Living Feds: 1,500+ Cash-Sucking ‘Zombies’ (RCW)
    https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/03/25/might_of_the_living_feds_1099569.html
    ———–
    annual deficits exceed $1.7 trillion
    “..without effective policy interventions, America’s debt-to-GDP ratio could rise from the current 124% to approximately 130% by 2035, with interest payments consuming about 30% of federal revenue.”

    • Moody’s Issues Warning On US Finances (RT)
    ———-
    One step at a time.

    1. Payback time of $36 Trillion by everyone to bankers/investors.

    2. Investors invest in hard assets that generate more income.

    3. ????
    ————

    #184986
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Hegseth Kicking Himself For Not Just Getting 13 Soldiers Killed And Giving $80 Billion In Weapons To Terrorists” –BBee

    Vance kicking himself for being anti-war instead of pro-war since Navy Officers will hate him anyway.

    “Federal Judge Rules God Overstepped His Authority, Adam And Eve Can Return To Garden “ Bbee (Continuing story)

    “Democrats Estimate They Are Only One More Arson Away From Being Popular Again” –Bbee

    “Investigation Reveals DOGE Had Just Laid Off The Guy Whose Job It Was To Make Sure Jeffrey Goldberg Wasn’t In The War Group Chat” –Bbee

    Finally! Answers!

    “New York Times Changes Name To ‘The Double Standard’
    BB
    https://media.babylonbee.com/articles/article-2079.jpg

    Barnburner from Krainer yesterday, and starting first 10 min (could save time)
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BWkZE8cxveA Unbelievably cynical, centuries-long pattern of causing wars, then finding a way to kill all the youth or people that would rebel against your bad leadership in them. I’d add that this is not entirely conscious, although some is. The expansion encourages bubbles, that is “Over-promising”. Then the inability to deliver leads to desperate out-of-the-box thinking, like maybe selling weapons. Everyone is cranky, so that seems logical then. Then once minds are on weapons, they exist as an option, it’s that much easier to use them. Etc. Some are unaware and do this, a higher order IS aware of this, and cynically rides it, encourages it.

    Chillingly points out that “Europe isn’t interested/doesn’t want war”? Yeah, well Ukraine voted FOR Russia in 2014, then voted FOR peace in 2020 with Ze. They weren’t interested, against war too in 2014. Now they’re committing suicide rather than surrendering ‘cause that social entrainment works great, thanks. And they’re starting now on Germans, etc, so kids of 12 will be rabid war-killers in 5 years even if you fogies aren’t. You’d think that’s nuts except it works every time. Why, I don’t know.

    https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-involution-of-the-liberal-mind
    How the mindworm knows before it knows, so it can NOT know, and then not have itself a racism. (First paragraph) I will add that you get this by torturing children at a young age, so their minds are wonderfully fractured and exploitable like this. Yay!

    MI

    Gosh, what on earth could have happened in 2011 that has so utterly destroyed every. Single. Woman. ? So weird. Oh well, I guess we’ll never figure it out.

    “President Trump just signed an executive order requiring documentary proof of citizenship on voter registration forms”

    I’ve been considering whether he has the ability to do this, since elections are state run. In one sense, no, and certainly not using sideways measures like here. …But those (arguably illegal) measures have been used for +80 years now. Also, definitely YES, as it’s obviously relevant to the Federal level to have Federal election security. He may not be able to dictate HOW though. Again, all about law and how exactly it’s written. We need to keep making this point though, or we get MORE dictatorial Presidents.

    “called for authorities to intervene after all three factories in the town halted work and stopped paying full wages. “

    Comes up bc exactly the process Trump is using, against the same people, for the same reasons. And that is exactly why they hate it so much. They didn’t like it last time, but worse this time they know it works. …What was that with a drug epidemic, plummeting life expediencies in Russia when they were looted, worst time in national history? Now overlay U.S. Opioid charts, etc.

    “..69 District Court judges presiding over cases involving the Trump administration..”

    See Barsoom, above. They have gone psychotic and delusional, also violent, as psychotics are. As they are losing, they also need to “Burn it down”, anywhere, anywhen, against anybody. That makes these judges actually MORE rational than the present norm. They are not shooting at, and firebombing OTHER Liberals, at least.

    “• President Trump Unleashes 25% Tariffs On Foreign-Made Auto Imports (ZH)

    Yikes. And car parts? Honda made cars here for this reason.

    Krainer and other pundits, on America is powerless. (Spoken like a true Socialist). His point that they think it’s the 90s is well taken. But the problem is institutional inertia. That is, MENTAL persistence-of-vision. This admin IS changing…radically. Yes. But are they changing ENOUGH? Probably not. (Look at Yemen. They will kick our -ss) Napoleon can still know he needs troops to move without moving them FAST enough to beat the Austrians arriving. You know? He’s not fully crediting this, probably because the end result is still failure.

    We want also to say that America IS still powerful. — VERY powerful. We have a LOT of everything, including manufacturing. We don’t appreciate that enough and capitalize on what power we have remaining, which is what Trump (and others of entrepreneurial mindset) do. I have lemons and garage-sale trash, how do I SELL them? Use them to leverage a fortune? So although rotten as h—l, Trump is using what power we HAVE, to accomplish what we MUST, even though it sucks hard and is a painful road. You have to start somehow.

    “• Goldberg Accidentally Proved His ‘Signalgate’ Narrative Is a Hoax (Margolis)

    Yup. Falling apart every level in every way. And they pointed out the incredible list of jaw-dropping bare-faced hoaxes from The Atlantic before. Scores, even 100 of them. I was sad the paper of Melville had come to this, but maybe not: it sure is a Whale of a Fiction! Makes Edgar Allen Poe look like junior league imagination.

    They point out that its entire boring purpose is to cause problems and hopefully divide the Administration and annoy the people. But it’s so easy to “Make s—t up!” I’m going to breathe anyway, why not ALSO lie with my lie hole? That’s timesmaxxxing.

    “The “chat” group is invite only. It should be simple to see who invited, and then added, the journalist.”

    Like with Biden and signatures, no one can ask the most basic questions? Bc if it WASN’T done in that way, but “Appeared” then I have some questions for the CIA/NSA.

    Also every possible lie is told here, as usual. Starting with that Signal is some rogue app. The STATE installed that on their stuff, when they were hired. Some of the others are less-lies, but they just grab them all, toss them in a bag, and beat you with them like a sock.

    “young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the Baby Boomers… to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years,”

    I’ve said this myself but it’s not true. Check the tide maps: “Conservative” now means pro gay marriage. Open trans. Anti-Christian. Etc. They’re as “Conservative” as Bill Clinton, which Trump is to the LEFT of. What’s happened is the Left has gone INSANE. As above, and also as nearly everybody says. They’re so far to the Left, they make Mao look like Billy Graham.

    “After JFK and MLK, people will be skeptical.”

    Possibly. I bet there’s astonishing stuff in those files, but it’s going to take 3rd level knowledge to tease it out. Those are MY records. I paid for them. So any release is good and I want them all. It sets a TREND, a tide, an expectation. This is the first step of a long march.

    “So, now interest payments are spiraling to infinity with massive amounts of debt and currency creation. Rubino says, “We have hit the death spiral point for the dollar and the other big fiat currencies,”

    Yes, and they’re certainly cutting it close. However, next problem: the system as constructed CANNOT CONTRACT. Or everybody dies. Financial system seizes, no one eats, wars start, nuclear exchange > End. So GIVE US SOME TIME, we need to install gangplanks to HARD money structures that are able to contract. Note: that is ALSO the definition of bad: you take out loans in a SOFT money system and the digit-go-up. Then suddenly you flip to having to pay back water-dollars in Gold. Yeah.

    If you have a better solution here, I’m all ears. Knock yourself out, the mike is open. What we’re going to do is have parallel currencies with a unadmitted, internal/external US$ AND a parallel currency in crypto, etc at the same time.

    ““Nearly 31% of ad minutes on major nightly news broadcasts in 2024 came from pharmaceutical brands.”

    Speaking of catastrophe. But it HAS to happen. The bad is the BEFORE part, the bubble-lying part. We constantly think it’s when suddenly, Real Market Pricing returns. No, it was the part where you had rigged and hidden market pricing that was the evil/wrong/bad part. Restoring reality and truth is the GOOD part. Sorry, I sympathize.

    Kallas: Neither Russia nor the U.S. will talk to her at all. Rubio called her across the ocean, then canceled with her in the waiting room. Ouch. Love it. Aaaaaand that makes her good for WHAT, exactly? And they are NOT helping me here, I’m getting the impression every woman is a ruthless, bloodthirsty child-killing psychopath. That is NOT the conclusion I wanted to make in life. Every one of them is like, “What if we…rather than admit we’re f-ing stupid and useless…kill every young male human on the face of the planet? Would that work? Oh only buy us another year or two? Sounds good! Let’s do that!”

    “Kiev is attempting to derail Washington’s efforts to mediate a comprehensive truce by continuing its attacks on energy infrastructure.”

    They are making the case that the U.S. should leave you idiots. So thanks, you’re playing it perfectly.

    “• Ukraine Never Had Nuclear Weapons – Grenell (RT)

    Lies and more lies. But I was breathing anyway, thought I’d throw that in.

    “Bottom 80% are lazy”

    Well, yes, but define “lazy”. Not making widgets for a corporate overlord? Screw that, you’re supposed to be fishing in a stream, building huts and goofing around a fire. That’s what human life is SUPPOSED to be and makes us happy. He can create STUFF, and then, dumbs—t, that STUFF does not make you Happy, it makes you MISERABLE. Then you’re a “Miserable Success” or as we call them, a Miserable Failure. Why?

    Granted, yes, we could do more work and create more cool things if we motivate off the couch and away from the fire. No one’s going to hear about us goofing off and marvel, repeating our name in 1,000 years like if we had built an aqueduct or statue of David.

    “Elephant herds in Africa”

    Yes, but like talking about Mastadons, the only thing that matters is their habitat. Do they have more habitat, bc they love to smash human houses and wreck all our stuff on the regular. It’s not like a core purpose, but if you come home and your house is missing a wall, how do you feel about adding them to Bristol, Paris, or New Jersey? This was the same with wolves. Although MOSTLY they don’t make trouble, you’re still going to have them eat your dog every 5-10 years, and wipe out $10k of sheep or what-not. Who pays for that? WWF? Nature Conservancy? Congress? You want YOU to have cool, safe videos, while somebody ELSE pays the costs. If you want this, introduce wolves, bears, elephants into Paris, see how you like it.

    BTW, also knock down all your apartment flats and plant some trees. The wildlife needs them.

    #184987
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Cars: True. We would sell some, then also over time probably design more smaller ones, niche for us, but adequate market reach if we add Europe.

    #184988
    zerosum
    Participant

    “The “chat” group is invite only. It should be simple to see who invited, and then added, the journalist.” Israel representative.

    Horror upon horror …
    The Israel representative leaked the discussion on THE PLANS ON HOW TO MURDER the Houtis in Yemen.
    (collateral executions)

    #184989
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    With all the strident and fatuous chatter about district-judicial injunctions (etc.) about Trump executive orders and policies, why do we see no mention of the 1866 Mississippi v. Johnson Supreme Court decision that should effectively end the whining and other noise once and for all? We had a meme appear here; elsewhere: crickets… What don’t we know?

    #184990
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Anti-Trump Judge Boasberg Assigned To Lefty Lawfare Group’s ‘SignalGate’ Suit
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-trump-judge-boasberg-assigned-lefty-lawfare-groups-signalgate-suit

    https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/GettyImages-1248590564-scaled-e1.jpg?itok=VCk43cJY

    The guy who blocked Hillary being shown to have committed 1,000’s of felonies by destroying subpoenaed evidence to “influence” the 2016 election

    Is the same guy who demanded Trump turn the plane around and bring back his precious, precious felon illegal immigrants

    Is the SAME GUY being assigned to this fake signalgate shit?

    Does that not seem too obvious …even for Democrats – sorry, Socalists?

    zero self awareness? double down no matter what? zero shame, zero ability to MODEL shame?

    Narcs/NPDs do seem to have trouble with media, particularly the internet. A standard tactic for narcs is to get their victim isolated – alone in a home, trapped on a long car ride with them… or socially – laying the groundwork for months or years of reputation-destruction so that the victim is socially isolated amongst a group of flying monkeys.

    It’s as if they cannot understand that when they sit in a room alone at a computer and type, that their behavior is public, the victim is not isolated, the absurd behavior, which is a weapon, traumatic because is absurd, backfires when viewed by spectators. You can SAY it and they will still double down in exactly they way you tell them they will, it is that incomprehensible to them.

    #184991
    jb-hb
    Participant

    sorry, I meant to say fake, gay, cringe, and retarded signalgate shit

    #184992
    zerosum
    Participant

    When wil the collection of the tariff system be activated for the auto industry?
    Who, when, where, how will the tariffs be collected and enforced.

    #184993
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: Carlin…

    Are the young’uns sharing clips of Lenny Bruce yet?

    #184994
    jb-hb
    Participant

    That Mark Bissone piece was really interesting

    The Involution of the Liberal Mind
    https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-involution-of-the-liberal-mind

    he really shouldn’t use the word “liberal” for Leftist, especially when the leftists he is talking about are 1,000,000,000% frothing-at-the-mouth enemies of anything liberal.

    But other than that, he’s very insightful – leftists are trapped in a feedback loop that has disconnected not only from reality, but attempts to legitimize lies as IF they were reality – the feedback loop has become self-referential ONLY.

    Oddly, the repeated comment of my recent corporate trainer kept coming back to me. The one with the black hair with bangs, tattoos, the glasses and lipstick color you would expect on an sjw.

    She kept saying “Learning comes from repetition and intense emotion”

    She never quite said from TRAUMA, but that seemed to be implicit.

    This is operant conditioning capable of training a dog to salivate, a worm to cringe in response to light, or giving a human PTSD.

    Her training style was very strange. Insurance is complex. There are legal and regulatory concerns. There are ethical concerns. There are the policies and processes of the company. There’s the different systems being worked in and multiple underwriters with different approaches to risk.

    You absolutely cannot train someone the way you would train a worm for this.

    How did she present the material? Imagine if you were being trained to build a car. The trainer keeps throwing parts down on the floor in front of you “This is a water pump! This is a steering wheel! This is a hubcap! This is a carbourator!” when she is done, she says “Do you have it yet? I’ll show you again!” she gathers up the parts and runs through the same routine again, even quicker.

    Western Civilization style Civility is so implicit. I compulsively assumed – without consciously being aware of it – that she understood how everything worked but was not very good at presenting it.

    But now after reading the Bissone article, thinking about the context-less mess of a training, thinking about her repeated definition of “learning” which is not learning, I don’t think so.

    I think reality, for her, really IS that jumbled mess. Moreover, I think she DOES “learn” by repetition and intense emotion. Else she’d be able to train with meaning and understanding rather than a total lack of meaning and understanding.

    At the end of training, all the women in the class (which was most of the class) for an extended time period, did the “You are the BEST! You are a ROCK STAR! You are a goddess! You go girl! You are the bestest most awesome trainer!”

    I’m thinking – this is like she was your cross country coach, you’re about to run a 3 mile race, and she just fucking kneecapped you with a crowbar in the midst of her pep talk – your response is obsequious praise? Lots of interesting things to think about, there.

    Anyway, the recursive feedback loop may be for a specific reason. Bissone starts explaining the actual physical existence of gender and he gets a 404 from HIS eyeglassed, dark-lipsticked, black-banged, tattooed sjw. In his Western Civilizational Civility, he ASSUMES there’s some sort of particular problem blocking an otherwise natural human capacity that is PRESENT.

    What if it is like a server with all ports but one blocked?

    And that open port is repetition and intense emotion.

    Imagine him responding to her leftist dogma not with calm peer-reviewed, physically observed scientific fact, but with intense repetitive shaming? Thought experiment – do you imagine her instantly walking away just like with the calm factual discussion, or does she stick around? She sticks around, doesn’t she?

    FOR HER, if you talk about facts, that is NOT learning. If you expose her to repetitious intense emotion, this IS learning. FOR HER, this is the only thing that passes for true learning.

    Sadly, until they can bring themselves to mentally engage, to discuss, he only way to communicate new information is through the brain stem. The limbic system.

    Jordan Peterson says most people think by talking with others – having a discussion. Thinking by yourself therefore amounts to having a discussion with yourself. But what if there will be no discussion?????? Then there’s just….. “intense emotion” (trauma) and repetition.

    There may be some congenital issue, something present in a % of humans – maybe it was the flouride, the vaccines. Or maybe it is some form of CPTSD – were they hit with visceral shame or pain of some kind every time the TRIED to use higher function discussion-style thought and speech such there’s a visceral aversion? Due to repetition and trauma?

    #184995
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i was looking for something else, but this is better:

    #184996
    jb-hb
    Participant

    More thoughts on NPC Downloads and learning by trauma and repetition.

    Isn’t it interesting that sjw’s CONSCIOUSLY recognize trauma-repetition as “how you learn”???

    Was 1/6 ACTUALLY traumatic to leftists?

    People have certainly tried, with implicit Western Civilizational Civility, to explain how it could have been traumatic to leftists – “Oh, they must have been shocked by a sort of, er, perception of ‘their’ Cathedral being violated…? Or something? ….I guess?”

    This is kind of like the difference between when Marketing experts discovered the “active lifestyle demographic” and therefore showed ads with people playing soccer, doing aerobics, etc and when they became lazy and just started saying the WORDS in their ads “Active lifestyle” There. We did it.

    Was 1/6 actually traumatic to Democrats, or did the Teevee and Twitter TELL them it had been traumatic?

    So instead of having to even be literally traumatized, you can now just say “this is traumatizing” a bunch of times and a leftist says “Yep. That checks out. it’s legit.”

    Like if AOC explains that she was killed 57 times at the capitol on 1/6 while actually in a different building somewhere else totally unscathed and unthreatened, but she says she was traumatized, that’ll do. Like, someone ELSE saying the words THAT they were traumatized IS truth. Because that’s how you get truth/information.

    #184997
    Dora
    Participant

    re: “this speech will change your life”…?

    I could do without the Social Darwinism subtext. 80%, (or 99%), of us are lazy and that’s why we’re not rich? Really?

    Jimmy Dore and James Corbett.

    #184998
    citizenx
    Participant

    Dora-

    re: “this speech will change your life”…?

    I could do without the Social Darwinism subtext. 80%, (or 99%), of us are lazy and that’s why we’re not rich? Really?

    No Dora.

    He never said anything about being “rich”.
    He spoke of ambition regarding personal development and personal growth.

    “just go to work and complain….” One could be incredibly wealthy in finances, but complain nevertheless. Not exactly a meaningful life or existence ?

    You exemplify the toxic mindset that is so prevalent for many around here, no discernment, no ability to listen or hear. Just complaining about everything. Break on through…

    “an unexamined life is like a locked box that never sees light”

    Your mind is your greatest treasure, guard it wisely

    Why live life with a toxic mind ?

    #184999
    Dora
    Participant

    re: The involution of the liberal mind.

    “It was remarkable. The mindworm parasitizing her consciousness had detected a threat to its structural integrity, and ordered its host to remove herself from the interaction before she consumed a malinformative infohazard. She didn’t even pretend that this wasn’t what she was doing. I’d never before seen something quite like it.”

    Ya know, there might be…could be… maybe some truth about a ‘mindworm’ that isn’t only metaphorical. From James Roguski. Skip past the grotesque, embedded, nature science, youtube videos and read the text in the last part of the post
    https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/parasitic-mind-control

    #185006
    Dora
    Participant

    re: The dog has his own motorcycle.

    Is that a Batman emblem on the dog’s cycle’s headlight? 🙂

    #185007
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

      Alcohol consumption is fair game for public discussion.

    …..with congressional inquisitors as filling the role defined by Berne as The Persecutor. Usually that role is reserved for the loving devoted wifey.

    Who could have predicted that?

    D, comment?

    Genuinely, the scrutinizers don’t really mean to hurt Pete Sexy-Beast Hegseth, national guard, with scrutiny over his alcohol consumption because on the contrary the Nondrinker, The Antithesis is always afforded the most horrific abuse in these Dramas founded on transactional theory of Berne’s Alcoholic Games.

    Of course, Berne pointed out these are Life Games and there are no alcoholics or alcoholism
    Weird huh?
    Shame works that way.
    Ya gotta count on your wingmen like Tulsi to play knowitall but suddenly dumb broad to gaslight the inquisitors through deflection.
    “I don’t recall”
    “I misremembered”
    Really, Lieutenant Colonel???

    In my case, the abruptly thought-addled Mormon CAPT suddenly misremembered he hadn’t been missing from his post “only once” but rather once a week each Thursday for years performing lucrative disability evaluations on my subordinates and superiors, Nurse Commanding Officer included.
    “She didn’t know”
    Really, the nurse didn’t know better a subordinate shouldn’t be “paid” to service her disability needs??? but knew enough to be Skipper, CO, commanding officer kinda like Sexy Beast and Meandering White Forelock Lady

    All crimes
    None of it adjudicated.
    Drinker too….Mormon drinker.

    It’s…
    So….
    Fucking…..
    Predictable

    And The Big Guy selected Sexy Beast above all others……documented alcohol abuse and alcohol incidents included in Peter’s application package

    WHERE’S DOGE when you need ’em?

    What did you do for this country??????.

    #185008
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Speaking of drinking

    WTF Headline Of The Day: Convicted Pakistani Pedo Avoids Deportation From UK Because He’s An Alcoholic
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/wtf-headline-day-convicted-pakistani-pedo-avoids-deportation-uk-because-hes-alcoholic

    A convicted pedophile has escaped deportation from the UK to his native country of Pakistan after a judge ruled that he would face “inhuman or degrading treatment” there for being an alcoholic.

    The man was released from prison after serving sentences for sex offences, but was subsequently charged again after assaulting a teenage girl.

    His legal representatives argued that without proper treatment for his addiction in Pakistan, his “uncontrollable” alcoholism could worsen and potentially lead to “further suffering.”

    The ALCOHOLISM would cause him to be persecuted, is what they said.

    Favorite zerohedge comment

    ….so you’re saying his culture is cool with the pedophilia – and we need to bring people from his culture here, why again?

    Leftists…. look, I’m sorr– okay, I’m not SORRY for picking on you, but… do you want to just take a break? Are you at all tired? You want to let someone else take the lead on Crazy for a little while? Being continually the most insufferable for over a decade is not actually pragmatic.

    ………….

    Ya know, there might be…could be… maybe some truth about a ‘mindworm’ that isn’t only metaphorical.

    remember all those videos on bitchute 2020-2022 showing alleged parasites in the notavax?

    #185009
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    There you go.
    Even the Paki alcoholic pedophile receives better treatment ultimately than The Antithesis Teetotaler.
    1. Emergency Room
    2. Trial Court
    3. Morgue

    Not for you Paki Pedo if the article and topic are authentic.

    Ah, pedophile deserves sympathy from the mean justice system just like the employee whose vision of getting along best in the workplace includes remaining silent about Their Besties, well uh, drinking at lunch and returning to work or just drinking and napping in the place of employment.

    People like Shawno not you so much.
    The liking is important.

    Projection of undeserved empathy onto undeserving target, Paki Pedophile, because projector and target of their projection share the same common trait, drinking when ya just ain’t supposed to be hittin’ da bottle.
    Alcohol is a medication, classified as sedative hypnotic

    #185010
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Accusations and counter-bullshit about the so-called “Signal-gate Security Breach” scandal are pure distraction from what the chat actually revealed. It revealed that the entire Trump administration are baby-killing liars who chose to murder Yemeni civilians (innocent women and children indiscriminately included) for purely selfish commercial reasons irrelevant to National Security or vital US interests. They did it to make money and get a political edge on their competitors.

    Lying, murderous, cold-blooded money gamers, who just proved beyond the shadow of doubt that the only regret they might feel over the slaughter of children is how it might adversely effect their “messaging” if the public ever found out about it.

    Well, they just bought themselves a one way ticket to Hell, and sweet honest Tulsi can lead the way.

    #185011
    zerosum
    Participant

    Interview
    https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370650272112
    Elon Musk: We want to reduce the spending by eliminating waste and fraud

    #185012
    aspnaz
    Participant

    #185013
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Invading and conquering another country and killing its people, for the purpose taking control over that land and population just is exactly what it is, no matter how the crime is “messaged”, excused for “reasons”, or explained to others. It’s a crime of the worst kind. Really, really bad and the people who do it belong in prison, no exceptions, ever, because that behavior causes death, and death doesn’t come with exceptions either, ever.

    #185014
    those darned kids
    Participant

    if gaza and yemen are no longer on the map, no one has to feel guilty about not knowing where they are.

    #185015
    those darned kids
    Participant

    hey, citix!

    told ya’ mr trump was a murderer.

    now he’s got a whole team of henchmen, just like a really bad episode of batman.

    #185016
    those darned kids
    Participant

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