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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle August 11 2026 #247123
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    Fallacy of Appeal to Authority.

    Though why Fox News and the CIA should be considered an “Authority” is a mystery to me.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 11 2026 #247122
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    Today:
    “lift people out of poverty than anything else.” Smartphones are clearly destroying everything and putting all OUR kids INTO poverty, with doordash, etc Elon. Discuss? The internet famously DESTROYS all that. But aside from that, you are installing the worldwide surveillance state. In space, so unescapable. Putting it all online, so that there is Anti-Reality, all records are being doctored in real time. Uhhh, no. Disavow.

    “• Trump Finally Responds To Iran’s Demands, Says US Is Owed Compensation (ZH)

    Similar to “Joe Rogan and Donald Trump Break their Silence”. People? THEY WERE NEVER SILENT. Not for a second. Not one of them has ever shut up. So Trump shut himself up in a tower for a week like the Vatican Council and only now has finally let some smoke out? Uhhhhh…no. “We Just Make S—t Up!!!”

    …And that’s in the FIRST SENTENCE. Imagine all the lies they tell from there!

    Translation: “Both sides are SAYING things.” Wow. Reporters are incapable of telling work from talk, having never done “work” before.

    Below: “A month after National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg announced that Sam Alito was retiring (a story NPR later had to retract),” We Make S—t Up!!! RussiaRussiaRussia. We Make S—t Up!!! Yellowcake. WMD and ties to Al-Q. We Make S—t Up!!!

    ““Iran’s ultimate fate now rests with the Trump administration, which apparently has not yet decided what, exactly, that fate is.::”

    Not entirely. VDH is saying we can dictate to Iran without a ground invasion and occupation. We can’t at that level. There is a cone of possibilities we have, but we can’t just dictate. So it doesn’t rest with us alone, which is obvious and alright.

    “Together, they are costing the theocracy more than $400 million a day in lost revenue,”

    What is that Revenue? Where is it? In suitcases and saddlebags on a donkey like Juan Valdez? No. Okay, suppose they HAVE money, what can they buy? Nothing, their ports are blown. Well that seems inconvenient. No, that “Money” is in London Banks. THEY are who is getting squeezed. Suppose they HAD the money, yet no ports. Same thing: London. So they keep making missiles with no money, no parts? Not really. The volume gets near zero. In addition, where did that revenue reappear? The same oil is being burned, roughly. A: With the United States. Russia, our ally, also rich.

    “The regime currently has no effective combat aircraft or air defenses—and no allies. In contrast, the Gulf states can field more than 700 combat aircraft”

    They are now approaching equivalents, although Iran is far larger. This is classic balance-of-powers Politik, pre-Hegemon.

    “Iran: The Small Explosion Theory in Practice (Eric Florack)

    I disagree, but it doesn’t really matter. The Mosaic Theory means Iran is now 31 different states. You can’t “Small explode” one point then. So what? They still go around the Gulf, who cares if Iran “Falls” or doesn’t, what does that even mean? If you’re not force-installing the puppet government (It seems clear we never were) than it doesn’t matter, it’s not our problem. We’re so used to doing that, reporters and experts have taken for granted as the only possibility of war. Because they’re morons and evil AF. They can only think evil ends. Their minds are incapable of receiving less bad alternatives.

    “Tehran added new demands over the weekend, saying that the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen”

    Proving Trump right daily. They are not in good faith at all, but merely playing with the clock. Okay then. Most predictable ever.

    “Keep in mind the Washington Post receives all of their exclusives from the CIA leak network. For some insufferable reason, the Washington Post (CIA)

    WaPo is the CIA. The CIA IS THE MAJOR FUNDER. That’s why everyone completely believes the CIA when they say Trump is fighting, we have no missiles, and is about to collapse. I always believe the CIA! When have they ever lied? The CIA are the good guys, doncha know? So say the Left, Liberals, Progressives, and Foreigners! They love the CIA and wake up mouth-kissing them each day.

    ““..what we are doing is the US is using dollars from the Fed to prop up the yen. So, the Japanese do not have to raise interest rates. So, the carry trade does not unwind. So, the markets don’t collapse ..”

    Kind of. Remember, Rickards is essentially CIA. He’s their paid subcontractor. So he tells the truth carefully omitting and diverting certain things because sadly, he’s a smart guy. Yes, Yen carry can end things, but other enormous continental-blocs can make adjustments to that. Like: there are no rules, they can just negate a whole nation’s Bonds, or declare Greece-isn’t-in-default-ackshully. And do. Every time.

    I haven’t dug in and it’s complicated AF, but Luongo says they’re putting the squeeze on Europe and the Eurodollar system. HOW does Europe get “Liquidity”? They as major banks, go to Japan and borrow at 0%. They can then invest in anything real at all and make infinity profit (technically in maths, divide by zero.) Shut off the INPUT and what happens? Here you go. Now the U.S. doesn’t have that problem. Nor does anyone who WORKS. We have actual products to sell. Only financial colonialists and their Empire have that problem. We dry up Europe’s liquidity but not our own – we can borrow our own currency and invest in Main Street, and are. That’s that. We are feverishly creating and capitalizing those small Main St banks.

    ““This is the engine of global economic growth.”

    No, Jim, it is not. WORK is the engine of all growth. BORROWING is a parasite. It’s the Engine of Worldwide Casino SPECULATION, making SPECULATORS and financiers rich. That’s it. They get rich while working people don’t. In comparison, Trump’s 2 years here, lower (black) wages rose 5%. Rich people’s income rose 1%. The income gap is closing. Which is why people hate Trump. They want the opposite as show in their policies. They do not WANT Black People’s wages to rise. Or they would LIKE Trump and his policies, yes?

    They hate the poors and the Proletariat, and hate any minute they get relief. Socialists always have.

    Rickards doesn’t emphasize another thing: COLLATERAL. It’s all about COLLATERAL, which is why at first they could take Syria, but then only Ukraine was big enough, but then only Russia was big enough as COLLATERAL for their debts. But the Yen-Carry unwind is LEVERAGE, it’s COLLATERAL. At 0% you can leverage infinity-to-one. Let’s say it’s 1,000, or even 300:1. So every dollar of Yen you need to post 300 Yen in collateral to unwind now.

    Right? That. Is the actual problem.

    “It you have to sell assets, guess what? The price goes down, and other people have to sell assets.”

    Yes, but not JUST assets, 1:1, which he points out is bad enough. Whoever has more LEVERAGE loses. Whoever has more COLLATERAL wins. That’s ARC: America, Russia, China. That’s people who do WORK. …And also why the administration is feverish for the U.S. to do Work again. We’ve been gutted by the same speculation for 50 years and it’s hard to reverse quickly. We still make A LOT of stuff though. Like Oil and Food are straight-up, we only add limping manufacturing to that. 2/3 are already sold.

    ““Japan is the number one holder of US Treasuries”

    Japan is not. ENGLAND is. For reasons of their own. EUROPE is. They’ve been doing this to dick our interest rates for years, but we out-ran them.

    “• The Fed Is Failing Its Mandate, But It Could Change Soon (Daniel Lacalle)

    The Fed has failed its mandate since 1913. Why now? Famously we’ve said 3% inflation – which they shat out their -ss – cuts your income in half by retirement. That’s not “Stable prices”. Congress never cared and approved.

    What happens if you RECAPTURE the Fed from European banking families though, and used this pirated ship in YOUR Navy instead? Repurpose it to the American Plan? Maybe we’ll find out.

    “US Pays only 3% for Venezuelan Oil”

    That’s AMAZING! You might almost say Un-Credible! HOW is the U.S. doing this? We haven’t got a single man on the ground, yet we’re pillaging an entire well-armed, un-assailable nation of millions by doing…absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.
    Boy, you better hope we don’t try this “Nothing At All” in your country! This “nothing” topples regimes like paper, who then keep their own elected governments intact.

    What. The Literal.

    It’s almost as if THEY’RE JUST LYING and something else is going on. Like we were in a legal spat with them since Chavez STOLE all our oil companies there. And are legally due compensation. (ymmv, but you can understand the concept). Also, they need horrendous investment to get online right now TO THE SAME COMPANIES, having robbed and mined every productive asset for years as Socialists do. So they need billions in investment, and being untrustworthy (see #1) are paying that upfront. So the costs of getting oil flowing is being taken out of the first shipments moved. Like is perfectly NORMAL.

    Just ask. There’s a “Phone”, just ask. How do you THINK a nation of millions, armed to the teeth, is paying only 3% with NO men, no army, not even the threat of one within 500 miles of them? And if that were possible, wouldn’t EVERY nation be doing that, every day? C’mon. Jesus, I thought at least we were at a level of COMMON sense here.

    Nope. The U.S. “Just asks” and then Venezuela said “Okay then, you can have all our oil for free”. Forever. Uhhh, no. That has never happened in world history and isn’t happening now either. Even the Soviets, even German and Japanese occupation didn’t look like that, because – newsflash – it’s impossible.

    But “Experts” believe 10 impossible things before breakfast. And are never discredited. Then we re-post their podcasts again tomorrow.

    Venezuela says “You can have all our oil for free” and how is that OUR fault? Fill in the blanks here. If they’re dumb enough to give it should we stop them? That’s because you know that isn’t happening.

    The U.S. can be painted as evil because they are in cooperation with Ming the Merciless and Emperor Palpatine? I believe it now! It must be true! If it lets me HATE. For the love of God put your brains back in your head.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 11 2026 #247118
    Dr. D
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    Yesterday:
    ““The Democrats’ Ghost Dance
    “Kill them. Murder them. Let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.” —Hasan Piker

    Well, that’s pretty straightforward. Exact duplicate of Marx himself. Yup. Never more glad for free speech.

    Sooo…we have an equivalent on the Right, yes? Someone who publicly calls for the murder of, essentially everyone? Daily? Hmmm, I think maybe not. I can’t think of one. Murder the employees of the EPA? Let the streets run red with the blood of the Social Security Administration? Uhhh, don’t think so. There isn’t a crazy on the right within 50 miles of that position. …And there ARE crazies. But any man who works then owns his labor? THAT man just die.

    Theft must not be interfered with. Hasan, a multi-millionaire, says YOU can’t own property. Anything you own is his. Or the streets will run red with your blood. That’s his vow and promise. Not Schumer, not Trump; You.

    “In just TWO YEARS, underground pipelines will suck 50-70% of the oil that currently flows through the Strait of Hormuz…”

    How is it those very obvious pipelines were never built before? Says Tom Luongo, who points out that London sits on chokepoints and charges tolls, starting internal wars for 100 years if anyone interferes. Does it seem like there could be any other plausible explanation?

    “Iran’s IRGC is holding the line, reiterating that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen to international shipping only after the United States accepts all of its conditions,”

    Okay, but we don’t care. We don’t need anything from the strait. Did you think of that? Iran is now Somalia and will be permanently. Congratulations.

    “The US hope was that Iran and its economy would just collapse from within, the masses would take to the streets, and the government of the Ayatollah would be overthrown. This has proven delusional time and again.”

    Delusional of reporters and experts. Was this ever the official position? Or did you make it all up?

    “Iranian SNSC: We will never compromise, whether in war or in negotiations.”

    In that case, Iran has invaded and is occupying Oman, and intends to never leave. They are reserving the right to attack every neighbor at will as official policy, forever.

    Note, it may be advantageous TO drive oil to $200/bbl if Europe won’t collapse. We will survive it, they won’t. There may be no other way to stop their deadly colonialism and 2M man ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front, as well as in their own nations, eg Ireland, which may have ceased to exist. Which is next, Canada or UK? Oddly, I feel France and Sweden far more likely to expel and preserve their cultures.

    “• Media Fawning of Senate Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins (CTH)

    That means he’s the definite product of billionaire Oligarchs and not resistance at all. They LIKE him. Has he been attempted assassination 15 times yet? I rest my case. Who is his only voting bloc? AWFULs. And other rich white liberals. That’s also not #Resistance. Only White Pepo. That was true of, eg Kamala too.

    “people making less than a million dollars could see their taxes go up. I just want to be very clear.” (M4A)

    Wow! He can’t even LIE correctly. It’s quite possible that M4A would see cost go DOWN, such is the unprecedented fraud Obama engineered into Obamacare. He could argue that. (We’re merely swapping “Profits” for inevitable fraud, where govt fraud will always outpace it by multiples … eventually. As in UK and Canada. However, we have that here already as all our “Private” care is actually dictated by government. The point of Obamacare, now well-proven, was to destroy all medicine, health, independence, cause a Soviet swap-out of the system under Cloward-Pivon. …As said Day One in Hillary, 1993, Right Again!)

    Anyway, he’s too dumb to lie, and doesn’t know the first thing about any of the issues, or he’d deflect using complication. …Like the Medicare Gap coverage argument.

    Actually, no one wants to solve the problem at all, which takes seconds. Have State-Run clinic care for very basic things. That’s legal and possible today. It would cover, say, antibiotics and broken bones, but not cancer. It’s public health but only on the cheap side. People would support this and it would work, buying real or catastrophic insurance for the back end risks. They do not WANT it fixed, therefore. They WANT it broken. If you say you want a Taco, and I put $20 on the table and hand you a phone and you don’t call, you don’t really want one do you? Same here. Fixed in 30 days, any state in the Union can start. Nope.

    “”I’m not here to disavow people’s views,” El-Sayed said at the time”

    This is Alinsky’s “Diversity of Views” tactic. If you have a protest and some hold signs peacefully, while others murder officers, that’s a “Diversity of Tactics”. Yet you’re all Brothers in Socialism, see? Yeah, see, that does NOT work or happen on the Right. If someone riots (J6) or carries a Nazi flag, they are instantly disavowed as “Not us” and even asked to be prosecuted normally, under the law. Sayed is following two parts: One, all ways to destroy the U.S. are equally good, no “Disavow”, and two, LIE about it to everyone, as the End Justifies the Means. There is no such thing as Evil if your intent is good, is Socialist Utopia.

    However, that principle never ends, does it? When Uncle Joe runs the whole place for 20 years, they are STILL using the means of Evil daily, even though there is a Worker’s Paradise. We have just one more little thing to do, comrade, stop resisting.

    No. The ends can never justify the means, which is a CHRISTIAN view. E.g. China doesn’t feel the same in their wars; if you cross me, we kill you, that’s it. We don’t try to have rules and do it nicely. No morality, only “Sending a message”. 1600-1800s, Indians will smash white infant’s heads against the wall as “Nits Make Lice.” Perhaps that’s right. That’s war. Pick the culture you prefer.

    Anyway, the Purpose of “Diversity of Tactics” is to have Hasan be able to say “Murder everyone right now” and deny it, while keeping other idiot Democrats on board. There is no such feature on the Right.

    “He notably accused critics of the sin of “factionalism.” Since the Jacobins of the French Revolution,”

    Same thing. They want Jacobeans chopping wildly, but normal people not objecting, but permitting it. Even by inaction and default. Not acting means they are participating, encouraging the murders.

    “Tucker for President? MAGA Rebels Declare Independence From Israel (Amar)

    Clearly Trump is ahead of them, for two months now. He’s been relentlessly hammering Israel in the Press.

    “Carlson also correctly linked the Iran War – a “strategic disaster” worse than Vietnam”

    Yes, 16 official people = 60,000 people. Wait: WORSE he says. TuckerMath.

    “Third parties are a difficult proposition.” No they’re not. They’re used exclusively to split the vote (and the country). That’s the whole and only point. They are well-paid by billionaires to do this.

    “Why did we allow ourselves to be convinced that Americans should make only a few select things and buy everything else from foreign markets?” “WE” didn’t, you dope. “WE” have been fighting this tooth and nail since 1971. With every move, every law, every election. Welcome to a thing “We” call “Noticing.” “WE” are not guilty of this, not once ever. YOU are. Only idiot reporters and the Overlord class ever believed this, and half of those had to pretend they would end it to get elected. That’s % approaching zero in the United States. So they are ppl from our own culture who are basically traitorous Colonial collaborators and we all know it, but they ain’t “Us”.

    “Fauci helped fund the Wuhan Level 4 Virology Lab, –BECAUSE– knowing full well that the lab was tinkering with bat viruses.” They kept this up with 20 labs, tested on the Slavic population in Ukraine, and had live viruses popping back and forth worldwide on commercial passenger planes for decades.

    “President Donald Trump’s political stature is so poor right now that he has squandered the Republican Party’s advantage on two major issues that almost always favor the GOP: the economy and national security.”

    No he hasn’t, I see no change here. If anything, they’re actually more pissed off and have less tolerance for not arresting everybody than they do Iran. So if you want ratings, do that. Arrest every Democrat (Who has been committing serial felonies for decades). No one cares about Iran, for better or worse. So those numbers are fabulated. Everyone is in the same corners they were in 2024, unchanged. However DEMOCRATS are being cut in half with the DSA problem.

    “Article III of the Constitution allows Congress to establish courts below the Supreme Court, which includes federal District and Circuit Courts. If Congress can establish them, it can abolish them”

    Congress can fix this in 6 hours. They WANT this to happen. They LIKE it. …Same with crime, murder, drugs in D.C. THEY run D.C., 100%. They have infinity resources, as they demonstrate time and again. So there’s no possible conclusion except Nancy Pelosi, etc, like coke-selling D.C. Mayors and what-not. Yes, we in America know. We know this is their morality.

    I don’t know about the Ballroom, it’s all legal details, I feel it’s probably illegal without Congress, etc, but the point is the same and true: the point isn’t funds, which they mis-use hourly for 100 years, but to stop Trump everywhere on everything. No wins at all. Like what was that El-Baghdadi”? A loved father and austere scholar, the media loved him more than …well there’s no comparison, really, and how dare Trump kill ISIS terrorists we were demonizing only a second ago? No wins. Not a minute, not a day, no never!

    Because they are Bizarro-people. It’s a religion. Otherwise, Trump is just sum dum jackass, like he is to me, who can have wins and losses like any other guy. THEY are the ones who give Trump his power. And Trump knows it and uses the Idiot Cat Laser on them daily. Then they call HIM stupid. Wow. Breathtaking.

    “Arrested 4x charged 91 Times…” That’s how you know he’s the Deep State, and works for the infinitely powerful Israeli Lobby. They are in the business of arresting themselves. “Always assassinate your own people” – Sun Tsu.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 10 2026 #247053
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    “as war that was supposed to bring the Iranian government to its knees backfires badly”

    Was it? Did it? They never said what their goal was. It was “Not forever war” while mostly we’re not bombing, some 50 of 150 days, and also “Iran has no nuclear weapon” which they still don’t. YOU MADE UP all the stuff about the process and the goals.

    It didn’t backfire at all. Oil is $77. Oil has re-routed to the U.S. primarily, the Strait have been proven to not be a lynchpin or blockade at all. Iran now has no army AND no leverage. Plus no income. Don’t open it. See if I or anyone cares.
    They Make Stuff Up. That’s it, that’s what they do all day in their smartness. They seem to have made up we did this for Israel, yet for the dozens of reasons that keep accruing each day, that’s not likely, in fact Israel is hammered and being squeezed out of power, especially in the U.S. Trump attacks them daily in contradiction to that theory which after 100 Days still isn’t updated. They make up that we care whether the regime falls. Do we? And what would “we” replace it with? We have arranged nothing. Doesn’t that seem odd.

    This is AFTER they demanded we have a ground invasion, for which we have neither the troops nor ships to accomplish. Just Made It Up. They MADE UP A WHOLE ARMY. All in their minds. Then that army invaded and occupied, also all in their minds. They didn’t notice and haven’t yet.

    Why would we care if the IRGC falls so long as they are too weak to do anything? Or much of anything, as any 10 random terrorists can do what they do every day. And WHO are we doing this for since America dgaf WHAT happens there, it’s not our transit nor our oil and our official position is we’re leaving? It’s for the Gulf Collective, clearly. Nor for us. That means Israel in a way, but really BOTH Israel and Iran have been leveled, reduced to a level in the range of Oman. Iran drops 90%, Israel drops 50%. The combined Gulf can now take them. So Quo bono? Not us, not Israel, certainly not Iran. Not Europe. That leaves the Gulf. Who we publicly, officially, and famously are the military for since 1971. That’s what a “Petrodollar” is. I mean NOT saying we are acting on behalf of the Gulf States is the Conspiracy Theory here. That’s the consensus reality for 50 years, what gives?

    15:22 Rich oligarchs are winning
    14:12 Big Oil sees record profits
    14:42 USA is losing the war

    Square this circle. I mean, wtf? All the money flows are TO the United States and to the wealthy power blocs we always understood to be the United States. That means the U.S., which has routed the world’s money to themselves, is losing.

    More money, happy American powers = Losing. Losing is when American Interests win. Got it.

    If making more money than ever while your people are happy is losing, then we’ve definitely lost. If losing all your money and having it show up in the enemy’s checkbook is winning, then Iran definitely won. I don’t think that’s what those words mean, though.

    Because all money has moved to the US and to these oligarchs is the reason they will lay down their lives to stop Trump, and naturally give back all these profits to Iran. This is why Trump and the U.S. are now in a very perilous situation, near to collapse, which always happens when billions of new money flood in to you and your friends.

    If you’re saying this seems to imply the U.S. has probably won, it’s probably over an at its new stasis, then I agree. That’s what the Dialogue and timestamp above says, even as the speakers claim the opposite. I mean, don’t outsmart yourself: the winner is who took the money. Where the money flows re-routed. Not to who they were diverted from.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 10 2026 #247044
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    Okay, Reid, I accept your premise: We are Evil AF, Trump is Hitler. The whole planet is at stake. If you believe this, the only POSSIBLE moral option is to attack and destroy the United States. So Canada needs to sacrifice everything, arm up wildly, and invade. They are the closest army, the world’s last chance. If they don’t, the world falls into darkness.

    This requires immediate restructure of your life and experience, investing in weapons, small-arms training, military maneuvers and field practice at a minimum. By clearly taking out your life savings, invest in small-arms tactics, supplies, and say, medical training.

    Now inexplicably, the Canadian government – which officially believes the same premise – will arrest you on sight if they even SUSPECT you are learning to arm yourself or fight, even against the United States. In fact, even if you enlist, they’ll arrest and harass you out of the military. Nevermind that! No one has let that stop them before. The world is at stake, you MUST stop Hitler in 1938, I’m sure we all would. He’s coming for you anyway, it makes no difference.

    So here we go. This is YOUR premise. We, our actions are evil. YOU MUST ACT. Your lack of acting is deeply, profoundly immoral. It’s tantamount to conceding, surrendering, even helping the United States. Standing by as we commit genocide and take over the world as the sole Imperial power. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ACT. Blow some dams, drop some substations, throw sand in the gears, things you can do in an afternoon.

    You don’t. Not a Canadian has lifted a finger and never have, and also helped in Gulf I and II. (https://www.lermuseum.org/1945-to-present/gulf-war)

    THIS is what I’m talking about. It’s fine to snoot your nose in moral superiority until you have to DO something. Then it’s “This is a job…For somebody else.” So 1) You don’t believe any of this and never have. Very and most likely in fact. 2) Your morality is fine so long as it doesn’t interfere with personal profits, an argument leveled against the U.S. as being unique. Or 3) It’s so moral that your moral position will allow, encourage, in fact INSURE evil to win, always and everywhere. More or less instantly. Because acting is evil.

    Which would you like to argue?

    I don’t think even DBS actually thinks all violence is evil. He was just caught offsides that one time not carving out that of course self-defense is moral. Even though it’s ALSO fatal and violent. But he said ALL violence was evil in that, so he’s not required to fight it. In contrast, now’s your chance: will you join the Lincoln Brigade and fight Orange Hitler or not? This is what I mean by Action. That all actions we take are Evil because they fall short of perfect. Show me in your ACTIONS that you take action, even if they are imperfect. That you believe what you believe.

    By contrast, look at Americans. We had the same choice since Clinton and Papa Bush in the 90s, Obama and W (same person) in the 2000s, what did we do? Did we all gear up and train like I’m saying is necessary to fight evil if you believe this?
    Uhhh, yes we did actually. We totally and famously did. Millions did. Gun sales were off the charts in ever-increasing numbers, people left the cities and re-homesteaded more than any time since the 70s. It’s very widely known and accepted that a huge portion of the American people thought they would have to fight the Government in a Civil War and prepared for it. There are whole tropes about how we did this. That is to say, WE WERE NOT TALK. We were ACTION. Quiet, constant ACTION. Proving we actually believed what we were saying.

    Democrats, in contrast, say Trump is Hitler and I say “We’re on the same page! Welcome to the club, my brother! get R Gunz n’ Ball Jars and fight da Governments.” Nope. Not a bit. Not a pinky finger lifted. Because they don’t actually believe a word. Clearly. It’s all a web of lies to them. And thank God for that, actually. But like 1% of 1% of them actually believe a single word which is why they have to get paid to protest, even down to today. They would never stop that Amazon and Disney+ purchase to fight Hitler and in fact are enthusiastic to buy slave-owning Apple and Nike, subscribe and repeat CIA-run WaPo and Bezos.

    Now I won’t say Canada is like that, but the point is the same. If it’s evil, you’re morally REQUIRED to take violent, probably fatal action. Even at the risk of your life. Not acting is as evil as helping. So show me.

    Having a more nuanced view I express every day for years, I’m not in any moral bind at all about this. But you are. Show me you care with the sacrifice of your life and fortune, as I have. Otherwise, it’s thin morality indeed.

    Not acting is immoral.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 10 2026 #247037
    Dr. D
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    “Real Reason for the Iran war: Huge Oil Profits”

    You’re right then. We won. WE have the profits; they don’t. WE have the $500M a week. Iran has nothing, and there is no leverage in keeping it shut. No one cares now.

    This is how Trump is stupid and the United States loses. That’s alright, you don’t have to apologize for being completely wrong, I know it’s hard to admit how deeply and thoroughly we’ve won. It’s enough to just move on from here in perfect agreement. All Iran’s money is now ours and that profit is in the United States for the long term.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 10 2026 #247035
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    “Iranian power elites have decided to contest for primacy in the Mideast, first peeling oil-rich neighbors away from a hegemony that can’t defend them, then making hegemonic presence unprofitable for the retiring-hegemon, which can just leave the region…” Except this didn’t happen, the opposite happened.

    And when oil was shut off, it certainly appears other alternatives DID arise – very quickly – and there were no shortages, demonstrating there appears to be rather a lot of oil left and it’s not “Peak” at all. Yet.

    “would they not highly consider nuclear annihilation? … If Iran, China, Russia, Turkey the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt anticipate this, what might they be doing now to prepare?”

    The entire 160 Day war is ALREADY an answer to that question. Officially. According to Rubio. So we know what happened in the past. The “If we don’t look out something bad might happen” is incredible.

    CoPilot view on banking = Simply leverage. I agree, but the whole thing is complicated and deserves a lot of thought and attention. It may have been done TO cause this problem. I mean, as another front Bessant is attacking. No, we’re trying to Empire, to Take, to blah blah blah. No. The new system, the Stable coin system Bessant/Powell is pushing, the removing of the Eurodollars, is all REDUCING leverage. That’s why Europe alone is screaming. They are the colonialists by which this is their extraction method. This is a push to head one level CLOSER to a gold standard re-wrap the onion, reverse the past from here to Nixon maybe. Then take on a read gold standard level later.

    The point is, reversing this leverage from 3,000:1 or 300:1 in London down to 30:1 is the first stop on the tracks. And yes, that is exactly why Iran is their major outpost of “Collateral” and capital flows we are shutting off. Shut off $500M/wk and multiply by 3,000x, and that’s the collateral missing from London this week. Hopefully, the Globalists have had to risk their own assets instead to prevent collapse, sapping them. Same plan as Putin ran in Ukraine because it works on the same enemies.

    As the next article goes on, Crypto moves directly, or can, person to person, no middle men, and this erases opportunities to pile infinity leverage, esp using system delays they scalp interest on. This is all colonial extraction, how it is done. That is being shut off. By the United States. Explain?

    “Tether’s gold holdings have more than doubled since Q1 2025, while their value has nearly tripled over the same period. This makes the company the largest known private holder of gold outside of central banks” Tether is essentially a directive of the U.S. Treasury. Or it would seem. They talk about McKinley, and this is it. “The Fed” is reversed by the Fed.

    “..Political power in modern societies is increasingly exercised through infrastructure rather than through overt legislation.”

    Yes, and think of that with Amazon and SpaceX instead.

    “Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes”

    Iran attacks and invades everyone they can find. Yes. We know. That’s what makes them the good guys I guess.

    “Tehran’s price keeps rising. The mayor of Tehran: nations that threatened Iran have no right to use the strait until compensation is paid,”

    Translation: Tehran will attack all neighbors until they are tribute-paying fiefdoms of Iran, so naturally I expect them all to fold. Why would Saudi want to exist anyway?

    “Iranian MP Ebrahim Rezaei’s response: “a paper agreement with Turkiye and Pakistan will not bring them security, just as years of one-sided nursing to the Americans did not”

    Iran says they’ll attack Turkey and Pakistan too. Got it. Totally reasonable and feel super-safe now. We can be sure the good guys are in charge.

    “.Physical oil is not behaving like a deal is imminent”

    Disagree. It’s $77, near the bottom. So it’s also not behaving like there’s any war at all, or the Straits have any geopolitical importance whatsoever.

    “That is the actual reason three countries signed a mutual-defence pact. Gulf states no longer believe the US umbrella exists.

    Okay, so we agree we’re all happy then. The U.S. Empire has ended, the Middle Eastern Security is now run by the locals. That’s the end state everyone said they wanted. I for one actually am happy, and don’t understand all the shouting. We won. The very heavy, tar-laden balance has been shifted, even though it takes big events to make that happen.

    “..Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine is privately pushing for an off-ramp from the Iran war.”

    Meaning the GOOD outcome is NOT the end of war but its continuation forever? That’s the assumption here. Uhhh, no, I don’t think even Generals want this. Because that’s not “Winning.” Winning is the END state, meaning war is over. That is, it had an off-ramp. JHC The level by which the supposed good guys presume all wars must be eternal is mind-boggling. The level to which the peaceniks fight peace at a root level is stupefying. Can anyone understand how they got them into a state where they actively, violently, oppose any end to war as a “Loss”? And the normal people nod their heads in thoughtless agreement?

    War = Peace. Every day of the year now. Only by eternal war can we be winning. Uhhh, no. I have not lost my mind to that level yet. Peace is still peace to some of us. They understand ending is Winning.

    “Hormuz: the “deal” that reads like a rejection; tolls drafted at 5-7% – Iran’s own terms”

    Translation: “Iran said things”. Nothing was signed, no one paid, no bombing stopped, no one left the field. The author is running a victory lap every time “Iran says things”. I can say things too!

    Reporters used to know the difference between saying things and doing them, between saying you’re going to get punched in the mouth and doing it. So did everyone else. Now “Words are violence” and “Violence is the language of the dispossessed proletariat.” Looking at a woman is rape, but actual rape is ok. Tell me what mindset we have where “Saying things” is real. Did you notice Trump also “says things”? Wow, but then they’re NOT real. Only my side, right or wrong. How can you be blind to a bias this enormous? “Iran said it from a cave, so it’s true.”

    “The silence surrounding the outcome to the Netanyahu meeting last week in the Oval Office speaks for itself. No American government official came to the airport to receive him,”

    This is how Nutsy runs Trump and the United States. AIPAC runs all Congress except what, like 6 recent candidates, Recently Al-Sayed in Michigan. Because The Joooooos run everything, they couldn’t stop a 3rd rate candidate in a state they own, with the entire Democratic Party working with them. Such is their amazing power over the earth.

    Would you like to try again? It seems Israel did NOT have power over Trump (duh) and not all that much over America either. The “We Just Say Things” is what a lot of their power was based on. If you actually test that power it folds like a paper tent. Okay, what’s your new theory then, boys? The Jooooos are luring us in?

    “Trump – finally, it seems – understands that the war which he started in order to crush Iran has flipped – to destroying him.”

    Quite the opposite for a dozen reasons. Trump isn’t electing and is at no personal risk at all. He’s not really in danger of the midterm and this isn’t having much effect. The military reality he describes has nothing to do with Trump, but is worldwide as Offense outpaces Defense. That proves that Trump was RIGHT to act now, because every day you wait it becomes much less possible. I’m not making that claim, but if YOU say weapons are headed this way, that must be YOUR conclusion. …So the #Opposite of everything he is reporting. As usual.

    They are Reporters. Therefore they are glue-sniffing crayon munchers who can’t add 2 and 2.

    “Why the Iran War Won’t End Soon (w/ Alastair Crooke) | TCHR

    Alistair JUST said we lost it. We lost this war. But the war is still going on and won’t end. That’s what “Losing” means, it means nothing happened, we’re in the middle, it’s not lost or won. Got it.

    It’s almost like they just get up, spin a wheel, and say whatever is on the arrow lands.
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    Alistair’s analysis.

    I agree because no one ever stopped bombing for a few hours yet to begin with, but that’s not MY argument. It was HIS argument that it was already over and we lost, 100 days ago, the nation with the full Air Force, thousands of missiles, a floating Navy, no ships sunk, homeland untouched is the loser.

    How long is “Soon”, Al? How Soon Is Now? He doesn’t say because then he would have to …say something. Anything except “Orange Man Bad”, “The U.S. is evil and will collapse later this week.” So saying…nothing, Al? But ALSO that it’s already over? So it’s over and not over? Lost but not lost? Long time but also short. Oil is $200 but also $70. Yup, that’s the same Team we were talking about yesterday, you always know them bc their weirdo cult always thinks and speaks this way: with complete, universal self-contradiction, where Reality itself is entirely optional. Both. Neither. Aiii. All objects and their Opposites are the same.

    “Alastair Crooke : US Middle East Dominance is Ended”

    Considering he thinks all things are their #Opposites, I’m not sure whether to believe it. But if it’s true, WE WON! We’re leaving the Middle East, Empire is over, and Trump won. America First is transcendent. …I have the feeling he’s not elated by that as I am. Why so sad, Al? Trump won. You got what you wanted now. What gives? That also means Israel is not running us at all, even a little. Surely he can at least be glad for that, which is his own conclusion.

    “Larry Johnson : What Iran Requires to Open Hormuz”

    Why would I open it or care? Ever? Oil is $70. All your sales are belong to us. Please, PLEASE keep it closed.

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    Today:
    “Pravin Sawhney: JUST IN: Yemeni Forces Claim Responsibility for Overnight Aramco Refinery Attack”

    Yes, and oil makes $0 dollar change in price. Wow.

    “Russian Engineers did the Impossible: ‘Golden TITAN’ dealt a Crushing Blow to the West in the ARCTIC”

    Yes, the U.S. has ceased to exist and is sobbing in a corner, also translated as “No one noticed.” That’s what “Crushing blow” means.

    “Israel ATTACKS Iran? War Now IMMINENT as Trump FOLDS | Seyed M. Marandi”

    TACO Marandi agrees that if Trump stops bombing Iran for even a minute, he lost. Therefore the more bombing Iran experiences the more they win! Yes!!!. #Logic 101. This is not at all the #Opposite of all military history over the last 10,000 years. Genius! Also: what attack? What Israel?

    “inject something in your coffee” to age you decades overnight.”

    Pretty sure they have a long-release hormone poison that doesn’t change your body outright, but is adequate to change your brain’s perception of gender and causes transgender dysphoria. ‘Cause any who annoys the Globalists suddenly seems to have this happen to them. Manley, Wachowskis, Jenner as a test case, many others. Put in vaccines on your daughter for the lols perhaps.

    Knowledge with no morality or wisdom, as Frankenstein warned. Evil AF, or rather worse “Lacking any notion of morality whatsoever”. Pure blank. Aging someone? Cancer, like Tulsi’s husband? Kid’s stuff. Okay, and how do you Un-Know these things so evil doesn’t use them?

    “JD Vance says it can be fixed”

    Sure, it was not even Capitalism, as I say every day. Promethean Action covers how it happened, how it’s fixed, and why Trump’s whole platform is installing this. Ummmm…Tariffs? Ring a bell?

    This is classic Oligarch behavior, done 100 years now. As Oligarchs make this exact non-Capitalism, then when it is destroyed because of them, BLAME CAPITALISM, not themselves. And install a WORSE system called Socialism, ALSO run by the same Insider Party Oligarchs. Why not? I can’t go over 100 years of examples here: pick one at random, “The People” never run f—k all. The wealth is extracted as Socialism is an even WORSE neo-feudalism, with a modern police and propaganda state on top. Since we’re halfway there, you should recognize it.

    “CNN compiled a series of clips showing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warning since 1996 that Iran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.”

    Yes. As I’ve said for years. The difference? IRAN ADMITTED IT. They SAID they were refined to a certain level, at which the refining becomes like an easy overnight process. Certain IRGC people SAID they were going to do this, make a bomb, openly, weeks before Feb, just as Ukraine SAID they fully intended to have nukes a few weeks before 2/22/22. They ALSO now have the missiles “For Space”, which have never gone to space even once, but DID have this exact size payload. Total coincidence. And that is also different: they CAN deliver.

    …That seems somewhat different, CNN? Wow, CNN who supported “They’ll greet us with flowers” and every other bulls—t interventionist nonsense over the years Lo! SUDDENLY goes reverse? In lockstep with London, who like Blair have never not bombed or invaded anywhere on earth, but this ONE TIME don’t want war and DO want nuclear weapons in their Satrap in the Gulf? So. Odd.

    Well, since Iran admitted it if you look, it’s just too hard to figure out. The world may never know.

    “• Bessent Outlines Capital Markets Making the Strait of Hormuz Irrelevant (CTH)

    Iran has no leverage because it’s already clear the Gulf has no importance. Past tense. Global money and oil flows have re-routed around it. Past tense. If Iran keeps it closed for 1,000 years, it won’t matter to anyone except them.

    “• Iran’s Economy Is In Shambles As War Takes Its Toll (ZH)

    Meanwhile, every restaurant is full, every highway, with new pickup trucks. Amazon is selling briskly. No I don’t find this advisable, however it’s true. Every market, straight up, bonds and dollar selling strongly.

    Yup, that’s how the U.S. has been discredited and collapsed. We alone have the strongest markets as the world rushes to us. Military recruitment rockets up. That’s what “Losing” and “Discredited” means.

    “• Trump Has Already Won in Iran, by Any Definition That Matters (Eric Florack)

    It would matter if the American People think so. They don’t care. Because they don’t understand wtf is going on, and neither do any of the pundits, as I dissect daily their incredible self-contradictory beliefs. People who hate Trump still do, even if he saved kittens. So that they are no longer politically relevant. Others see the economy moving, jobs appearing and wages rising. Gas is high but tolerable.

    “The UAE, which watched its exports crater to 1.9 million barrels a day when this war opened, is now pumping close to 4 million barrels a day — past prewar levels, not just back to them. Regional flows overall have clawed back to roughly three-quarters of where they stood”

    $200/bbl Pepe? Where is it? You’re the Expert. Explain. It’s lower than Biden, it’s actually near the long-term floor which is probably $70. (WTI is $77, with both seas closed)

    “• The Republic Will End in 2032 (Martin Armstrong)

    Did it? What does he see? I’d say it ended in 1913. We’ve been sharply something else, then sharply since 1963, then sharply since 1979, then sharply an Empire since 1990. That is being reversed and restored, not least of which is we’re all discussing it, including the Amendment on Senators. 4th Turnings by definition end up somewhere new, same as 1776 and Lincoln. This is no different, but what? How do we counterweight an off-planet SpaceX? Do you know? I don’t.

    “Hong was asked about her 2020 statements declaring “police exist to uphold white supremacy” and “I support defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police.”

    She also basically said she hated her children because they were half white. Wow. Way to go, Mom.

    ““Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621.”

    Hong, as a Korean (Remember she does not align with White NOR America) has a dog in this fight. Ummm…wouldn’t you have to admit you’re American to have legal standing for an opinion here? A: “DON’T INTERFERE WITH MY HATE!!! My HATE for my own children so imagine what I’m going to do to YOU!

    Wow, that says “Must place into power over me” like nothing else.

    “El-Sayed” Let’s follow Luongo on this. The DNC apparently VOTE-RIGGED to try to keep him out and lost. Ballots just kept showing up, California-style. Now that he’s in, all Independents are breaking their arm coming out to vote GOP against him. Now the DNC central has the worst problem: LOSE the election altogether. OR, PAY BIG to make a traitor the the DNC win there. Lose-lose. AND they can only do that by diverting funds from Georgia or somewhere. I’d just take the certain loss and lock him out, but that means Yet Another Seat in a close Congress.

    Lose, Lose, Lose. But sure, it’s Trump who has to worry. Heck mail-in ballots alone and he’ll probably win. Redistricting makes it certain. Oh IranIranIran. I think people who have opinions on this must not be Americans or live here. They’re in la-la land. It’s so d–n simple they can’t understand it.

    “• The Money Trail Behind Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed (CTH)

    Gosh if I were Trump I’d give them an open checkbook. Ayn Rand. They have to see it for themselves or they’re not cured.

    “Oxford Union, a supposed bastion of open debate, a single brown paper envelope triggered pure panic.”

    Actually shows Islam’s extreme intolerance. For the views of normal Saxons. The Seax is the historic and religious symbol of the Saxons, from which they derive their name. So they should be able to carry this ethnic long knife everywhere they go just as the Sikhs do, yes? That’s religious and ethnic tolerance.

    No, because they are blinding and overwhelmingly bigoted against ethnicities and minorities. They choose their own by robbing others’, that is all.

    “TESLA INVESTOR ROSS GERBER DEMANDS ELON MUSK STEP DOWN”

    Dumb people say a lot of dumb things. QED I wouldn’t pay much attention.

    “”Don’t pursue money.”

    Overwhelmingly sure this is false. Quite certain Elon pays ppl to defend his stock, as was in “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” 1930s. Tesla goes up mostly ON THE SHORTS and not on its own merits, and always has. But if not that, remember he came up short and rigged Doge Coin that one time? Pump-n-Dump’r. Classic. He always has. He’s not an engineer, he’s a money-guy. He doesn’t make things like Tesla, he bought it out with the tech already formed.

    “The nature of fear is that people don’t look at it. Look at it directly and it will be gone”

    That is not my experience. It may be the experience of the chronically delusional. Ask any soldier how that works for ‘em.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 9 2026 #246931
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So, as predicted, Tucker plan has nothing. Nothing at all. This is not a 3rd Party run, like we’re miles from that point. But Tucker’s list – they’re picking on it for being political rhetoric and buzzwords – it’s Politics, you’re supposed to do that, get real. But after the 10-List Buzzwords, THEN there is a lot of “What YOU can do for your country!” the facts, the details, the list, the action, the change.

    There is none.

    That’s BEYOND that Tucker’s list is ¾ Trump’s list already. So you like MAGA. Got it, Tuck. You can say thank you President Trump, oh President, my President. We disagree in a couple footnotes, but outstanding, good work.

    Uhhhh… So Bots have headlined all these guys, oligarchs paid for it, mostly without them fully knowing, but here’s the real base support: Near Zero. So that’s oligarch-puppet MTG, Tuck, still supported by Fox – Joe Kent, Brian Glenn.

    Now WHY can they not have details? That seems ill-planned. A: Just like the Democratic Party, because then they would have to GIVE something. Medicare4All. Minimum Wages. Whatever. TUCKER would have to give…deportations to destroy corporations. Expose his own donors in the Epstein Files (which he also has and doesn’t release either). Stop the Police State in J6. Enforce 10A. End Obamacare. He doesn’t even PROMISE to do that. Just promise, Tuck, just LIE. He can’t because immediately it will be completely clear they have no interest in stopping Oligarchs or restoring the Rule of Law. Like, Immediately. So neither Hillary nor Tucker can even PROMISE, and just double-cross you a year from now. It’s so stark, you’ll see it right away, before election day.

    And they know it.

    So good work. I doubted myself in saying, “Is it REALLY possible Tuck and Massie have been high level moles all along like some say?” Sorry to say, seems like. Proof is coming in right now. Looks like the plan to split the Republican Party is no-so-goodly. No viewers, no one cares, and they care even less now that we know what’s inside.

    (P.S. Greene retired from Congress the day she got the infinity pension and left the country with $5 Million dollars. She said because working was hard and pepo were not as nice as she wanted. Honest. In Congress. This is the sort of person we should take as a hard-core, die-hard, whatever-it-takes patriot, right next to Joe Kent, who quit, said nothing, the same. Okay guys, apparently we have different expectations of what “Fighting” means. Forklift drivers in Brooklyn took more flak for posting cartoons than you have and for no money. About 1,000 people took more hits and got no eternal gov’t pension for showing up gun-free at an election rally and being arrested with no charges.)

    The Limousine Liberals of our time.

    Look: Tuck’s said a lot of things over the years; now is the time for Action. If you have principles at all, the action, and the MEANS (don’t forget) are also the self-evident outgrowth of your Eternal Principles. So not having any just means you have no principles. It’s just impossible to have them and not instantly express them, express them as a fact, and as an action, a list of priorities and actions that create a moral world. People disagree with them, you say them diplomatically, sure. But you Have them. You’re more likely to be tripped up double-talking them, selling them softly, than to have none at all. Democrats, the DSA HAVE Them for example: It’s to steal everything and murder everyone, with them in charge of total power. Submit or die. Fine. They think a despot means they are good, and being good, they will automatically create a good and just world. By force. That’s Lenin’s view. Fine, it’s very simple, held by Kings for centuries. But they have one.

    Tuck doesn’t even HAVE one? C’mon.

    It’s not that Trump doesn’t have one either: it’s just that his world is RealPolitik, Get-some-shit-done, practical view. It doesn’t have some deep moral philosophy underneath, although others around him do. He would not kill people as it’s just impractical and counterproductive, which it is. But that’s not a moral barrier, if it helps his end, he’ll break the eggs. This is exactly how Evil always crucify any “Moral” actor: they arrange to make him cross his own red line, and if not break himself, lose his base. That’s why the 4th Turning leader is a “Grey Man”. Morally grey. Because then there are no Red Lines to so easily make him trip. So without some master theory, you have to have an idea if Trump’s vision is anywhere closer to “Good” or “America” than here, move from Very, very Bad, to “Muddling Suck.” If so, be practical and make that move, it’ll be far easier to reach Utopia from there than here. In history, that’s the best you ever get anyway, don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, take any ground that’s given.

    Americans are likewise a practical people and also not abstract. They take action and try things. If things don’t work, they are not broken up by it and move on. Perfect is neither an option nor an expectation for us, only “better than here.” The rest of the world cannot grasp either of these. Guilty over everything, terrified of failure, lost in theory and ideas. Ruled by evil overlords by each of them. Oh, nor the concept of “Honest Work”.

    So Moral they’re no earthly good, as they say.

    Okay, that seems Tucker’s dead on arrival. No uptake at all. ONLY moralizing, no action. Kent too.

    “US Army’s 400 Million Laser Deal Accelerates Race To Harden Bases From Kamikaze Swarms

    We already have them and have for a while. First beta 20(?) years ago? We’re just admitting it because it’s obvious to our enemies on the ground. (Fox News will take years longer) So we’re “Out of missiles”…that we don’t need since we always had this. Hmmmm. Cash and Checks accepted.

    “Iran’s Mehr Releases Video Of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei For ‘First Time’ – Except It’s Old

    ALSO in the news yesterday, that they admitted he was dead. So he’s both alive and dead. No one finds this remarkable and is an everyday occurrence of reporting now. I point out that there is ONE Team for whom this is the hallmark of their every move: London and the Globalists. Men are Women who are Men ackshully. WNBA that is the NBA, that is NOT the NBA because they are the “W”NBA. Trump is Deep State but ALSO assassinated by the Deep State. Russia is powerful and running every election, but ALSO so weak Ukraine can roll them in a week. Over and over and over and over. One Team only. But that’s good. We know them the minute the pop up, from their fruits. It takes real talent to be this bat s–t.

    It’s not him being alive or dead. It’s that WHO is running the country? Not Civilian. Not Army. So clearly not Mojtaba? That leave the “IRGC”. But they are ALSO 100% dishonest scoundrels who don’t use the process to get a new Khamenei? Wtf? THAT is the part that matters to Iranians. Even if the IRGC “Just Said” “Suck it peasants, we’re taking over and your dictator now” that’s honest, makes sense. We know. They can’t even do that? How can you trust them and go to them when they’re NOT in charge? Who’s in charge? It’s intolerable, and demonstrates they’re not trustworthy. And WHY NOT? If they’re in charge, it’s easy to just say so, just start whatever new process you’re going to have. Why would you DENY being in charge? Is it because you’re not and it’s someone even DEEPER, behind you? Offshore London bankers? Who could it be, so bad they can’t even SPEAK of them? Yet they obviously are, and obviously don’t, and obviously haven’t, are afraid to admit it, for months.

    Just say so. Just say “IT’s US.” Eat hot lead, Iranian cabbie! Pretenders to the throne. Nope. No one is in charge but everyone is. Mojtaba is dead but also alive. There is peace and passage but also war and blockade. Almost like the Father of Lies, the Morningstar, rebelling against Reality itself.

    “Trump-Backed “El Tigre” Takes Power In Colombia As Right-Wing Wave Sweeps Americas

    The minute USAID is shut off. Wow! Who would have know the CIA’s slush fund was running election-toppling campaigns? And all Antifa and he NGO > DNC donations too? Right here in the last many elections, as Tulsi’s documents have demonstrated. 2024, 2020, 2016…but why not back to 2000, which wasn’t a real election either, famously so, where they picked the wrong guy illegally and didn’t care? 25 years of non-elections. Therefore non-laws and non-government.

    I’ll tell you: Yeah, we know. What are you going to DO about it? Is it enough to just move on?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 8 2026 #246896
    Dr. D
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    Alex Krainer, British Economy. So glad we agree perfectly. This is exactly the core danger Trump is solving. He is doing exactly this re-fit of the economy to making and doing things away from Imperial Extraction. Thus are sound money and tariffs. You’re welcome. You don’t have to pay me, the adoration of being right is all the thanks I need.

    Are US globalists better than city of london globalists?

    Yes, because as per the above, they are definitely NOT Globalists at all, they are by definition Nationalists. And by both definition and their actions, Anti-Imperialists. So yes, yes and yes.

    “I have reported that Trump was mislead into this unwinnable war with Iran, which has been planning for it since 1979.” –Armstrong

    Yes, and as I read it he went right around it. ISRAEL was bombed and lost all influence, the Middle East has ALREADY been rebalanced. Past tense. It’s just like saying “We’re screwed, we can’t go out” so you lure the enemy in. Simple. Again, everyone just uses the word “Win”. Wtf does “Win” mean? No answer. Winning is when you can never stop bombing, they say. We have the implication it can ONLY be the U.S. invades and occupies Iran. Which they’re right; we can’t do that. But we clearly never INTENDED to do that, not even for a day. So therefore our “Winning” must be different. …So everyone just makes one up, straight out of their ass. Did you ASK? Did you READ our documents? They published a world strategy document, you know. It covers this. …But reporters would have to be “Literate” and that’s impossible.

    What if “Winning” is just reducing Iran to the size or power of Saudi and the Gulf and removing the problem of Hormuz off that table as the entire world ignores it forever?

    That ALREADY HAPPENED. That’s in the past. We won. The Middle East is configured, we can hand off our departure – stated openly in those documents – to the locals. Oh: also ISRAEL got savaged and THEIR power was knocked back to Saudi-Oman level, as well as losing all control of the U.S. Awwwwww….so sad!

    Meanwhile, glue sniffing reporters can’t find their ass with both hands.

    Read it. That why they wrote it and signed it and mailed it to you.

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    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Joint Chiefs Chair Pushing For Iran War Off-Ramp, Warning Escalation Will Backfire

    This is amazing reporting. Nothing has changed. The Generals said “We have these targets and can hit them all.”

    They used the targets and hit them all. That means they are now out of targets, which is exactly what they said Day One.

    They can now hit like power plants and dams, same as they said Day One. That has political consequences, same as Day One.

    The Reporter’s allegation was that the Generals had a target list that was essentially infinite? Like others, that if the war ever ends, if Trump stops bombing for one day we lost?

    Maybe this depends on Trump’s goals, which he never defined. The reporter has defined Trump’s strategy and goals for him. Then called those goals dumb.

    Okay, stop and think for a second, even on Zero Hedge. What’s actually said and what actually happened. Or hasn’t stopped happening, and perhaps is unlikely to stop for some time yet. As both sides just continue anyway.

    What Israel? The article says Israel wants an escalation. Okay. So it seems Trump dgaf what Israel wants and doesn’t obey them, nor does the United States. Can we print that instead? If that’s true, that’s the conclusion. Since that’s the opposite of what’s been reported, that seems like news, right?

    “The U.S. Intelligence Community assessed this & consistently briefed it. Unfortunately, it was the Israeli government & their lobbyists who convinced the President that Iran would be as easy as Venezuela.” — Joe Kent.

    Joe Kent is spooning Trump and among the 100 people Trump speaks to each day, knows exactly why Trump decides things. Gee Trump’s bed must be busy! Okay, Joe, granted. Prove this and we’ll scatter the U.S. Intelligence Agencies to the winds. Deal? Wait: they gave him terrible intel and it’s TRUMP that should go? By contrast you LOVE the Intelligence Agencies and don’t want anything done to them? That’s Oddddddd.

    “Iran Insists US Must Meet Stringent List Of Demands Before Hormuz Opens

    What did I say about there’s a deal but both sides will keep shooting? I thought that would take a few weeks, not a day. Note Iran is “Just saying things”. So long as there is a microphone left on earth, that will happen. The question is “Can they DO things?No one seems to know the difference. Jesus Christ.

    Words are not DOING things, people.

    They keep reporting that nation that was bombed flat has infinity missiles.

    That nation that was completely untouched and is 10 times their size is completely out of missiles. Does this seem very likely to anyone?

    …Forget I asked. Today is Day 3,438 of how Trump is part of the Deep State who also tried to assassinate him too. That’s March 10th, 2017, but there was one only yesterday? So clearly the level of thinking is not very high. For 3,500 days in a row. Today is not different.

    Yup. The above? They’ll literally believe anything. How about that Aircraft carrier that was sunk? How’s that goin’? Same people. The U.S. has no missiles like the Fed has no Dollars. Very unlikely.

    “Hillary Clinton Warns Dems: GOP’s Anti-Communist Messaging “Very Effective” As Marxist Hijack Party

    She’s the one who started it. And the DSA is going to support Joe Biden and the corporate NeoLiberals like Hillary and Carville? I don’t think so. They will and do support Hasan Piker, a Turkish millionaire who called for blood in the streets and killing elected leaders. That’s their joy and means. Wish I were making that up.

    Again, she is worried about Signals, words, messaging, not reality in the slightest. Not truth and facts. Okay man, never stop talking, you’re the GOPs best advertisement.

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    Iran nuked the U.S. Uhhh…where? Nuke = No one notices anything happened. Right. Because that’s the definition. That’s what Words mean. Every. Day. It’s like this. Let me Front-run the others: Trump had a Sad. He’s sobbing in the corner, completely shaken while eating 5-Star dinners and shooting a 70 golf game. The U.S. with the best dollar, bond, and stock market obviously collapsed. We’re out of bombs which is why we bomb them daily.

    Should I go on?

    Oh wait: Mossad has ceased to exist he says. Wow! Probably somebody would have noticed that. I guess Israel no longer exists either then and we’re all saved. That’s almost Un-Credible.

    No matter how many false predictions and reportings they make, they are never discredited. I HATE. I Want a Pony. Therefore the Pony exists. If I can only believe 10 impossible things, I can maintain the HATE.

    Don’t. Our saviour doesn’t call us to Hate. He calls us to understand. And forgive. And be practical, don’t sit on our ass at home but try things.

    And since I lost the response yesterday, the aphorism was this, “Your mind should be open, but not so open your brains fall out.”

    Doing things can indeed be evil. So can NOT doing things. Their definition is that any action is evil because you should have done it better. With the perfection of angels, not the fallibility of humans. Therefore, always sit on the couch, do nothing. Let your nation be overrun, the nation next to yours arm up and get a nuke. It’s MORAL to ALLOW that to happen. What’s Immoral is stopping it beforehand, when a million people can be saved by losing 10,000. That’s evil, you see. You can’t know, how dare you? You have to just let it happen.

    The U.S. has to leave the Middle East, but also immediately so as to insure there will be the maximum chaos, death, and destruction. That’s moral, you see. Getting out of it methodically like an adult so millions fewer die is evil of course. Grow up. Be practical. Your morality is killing more people than my supposed immorality, I think, or I wouldn’t do it.

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    Today:
    “Largest chip fab on Earth, and it looks like a Cyberpunk city. This is the future I want.” And it is exactly the future I do NOT want. I find it neither beautiful nor useful, although I can understand why some do. Imagine the shine off, and in 15 years, what are these cars, robots, husks? More junk. What did they accomplish? Errr? They cut tomatos and washed dishes so more humans could be purposeless and unemployed? Driven from their homes?

    What’s the root concept here?

    “Bessent: Today or Tomorrow the Strait will be Open (ZH)

    No idea what they’re up to since I don’t believe either part of this. Iran is going to keep bombing. That was always the problem: that they could get one bomb at a time, like any other two-bit terrorist op, the Animal Rights Liberation Front of Boise or something. Nor do I believe for a minute the U.S. will stop in this condition. Whatever. I’d have to run a far deeper research and I don’t care at that level.

    “When Muslims stand together, we can face every challenge by malicious outsiders head-on.”

    Nice. Except the very pointedly and specifically did NOT stand together. This is a Sunni/Saudi war vs Shi’ite Iran. No one helped at all, you can barely even say Yemen did, and they pay the Houthi’s rent. So…strange comment to draw attention to how every Muslim nation abandoned them. They were also “Standing together” by bombing Turkey. That’s Iranian Brotherhood. Right.

    “Bessent on the Strait of Hormuz: … over the next two years, the strait is going to become irrelevant.”

    Ah. Well THAT part is totally true. We already proved shutting off the straits has no effect, so it’s no longer leverage and blackmail. Where’s my $200,000/bbl oil, Pepe? It’s lower than under Biden with both seas closed. Oil flows have shifted, and with it banking flows. Mostly to the U.S.. Pipelines are all built. Iran is still shut off. If they threaten, well customers are going to say you’re an unreliable partner. Why not go somewhere else.

    “With whom exactly is the United States trying to make a deal? More to the point: Who is even running that country anymore?”

    Exactly the problem as they run victory laps about how “Nobody’s negotiating”. …An hour before we find out they ARE negotiating and Oman deal is signed. Nevermind, reality is whatever I want it to be in #Oppositeland. They just signed a deal no one negotiated. Got it. It was but it wasn’t, so when Iran lied they weren’t lying. I always believe Iranian Press releases as slavishly as I used to believe CIA ones then printed by CNN.

    “Sounds like we might have a “President” Joe Biden situation on our hands, where an incapacitated figurehead is propped up by a shadowy cabal that runs the country in his name.”

    What we’re finding is, ALL nations are actually run this way and have been for a while. Just that the mask has been coming off. We’re no different in general, we see that any time an elected leader (Paul, Trump) attempt to act. Clearly this is True in EU, where the leaders aren’t elected at all. True in UK where a non-MP is air-dropped in. Double true in Canada, where they not only did that, but air-dropped him from another country.

    Gee, does that establish the hard reality of a Globalist Deep State? Whoodaknewd? Since Dulles in 1963 or before. But now I can get NORMIES to see it, it’s so painfully, painfully obvious.

    But I suppose the whole world is run this way and Iran is the one exception. The only peaceful, honest people around, which is why they fund terrorists for 50 years.

    “• NATO Won’t Accept Ukraine. Promises Are Fairy Tales (Lucas Leiroz de Almeida)

    Not only that, but there’s no NATO to begin with. There’s the U.S. plus some guys who sign empty paper.

    Is “NATO” getting Ukraine killed? Well, yes, but look at it the other way: they’d realize casualties are too high, get mad, and change things. But they’re not mad. Slavs are being killed, THEIR objective is clearly happening. So they don’t change. Europe doesn’t care if there’s a Ukrainian nation or people left. Clearly, they’d rather they were dead.

    Why? Well, if they were using Russian tactics that worked, it would quickly be obvious Ukraine isn’t fighting and can’t win, ever. So that can’t be allowed to happen; it would illuminate “Reality”.

    “”And I’ll tell you what, if they [Democrats] get in, I may be the last Republican president,” he said

    That’s not Trump, the Democrats have promised that. Heck, Carville has promised that. He’s way over on the business, NeoLiberal side and he said he’d pack the whole Supreme Court instantly and forever. Globalists are now feverishly trying to break the Party and split the GOP ticket with Tucker. This plan was visible before Butler, PA and swung into hilarious ham-fisted fury with Iran. Have to write with crayon so the people in the back get it. However, that’s faded out and not worked very well, but it’s all they have, so they’re continuing with it. Israel vs America First, although Israel no longer exists, and the President himself attacks them in public daily, eg supporting Turkey.

    But what do you want them to do? Give up? They have to breathe, they may as well lie while doing it.

    Note: Tucker seems to be aligning with like a Dugan view here. Perhaps there is no United States at all! No root principles therein. We have to take a Great Leap Forward into an unknown no one can define, where I guess there is no limit of power and no Bill of Rights? What’s the Plan, Tuck? “Gimmie Power”. Ah. Yeah, you see: No. That’s AntiAmerican on the face.

    “• Hillary Clinton Blasts Trump’s ‘Tackied Up’ White House Decor (CNN)

    I know! She was so classy! Remember when they vandalized the White House instead of leaving? For example, petulantly taking all the “W”s off the keyboards? That’s “Classy” 101. Of course they represent Presidents like Jackson and Lincoln.

    “• Democrats’ Anti-Trump Lawfare Was Never About the Law (Matt Margolis) Just about power. Raw. “

    It all is. And it’s good to take the mask off. Only by not pretending can we rein it in.

    “It was built to do exactly what it sounds like: Keep the states’ coordination hidden from the public and from anyone who might dare oppose them in court.”

    Collusion and Conspiracy 101. But luckily we know criminals and rich people never talk or cooperate, ever. Every. Single. Criminal and shooter is a Lone Wolf. Every. Single. One. Omerta. There is no Mafia, dear.

    Anyway, article, I wouldn’t worry about Democrats. It’s the Republicans who refuse to seat any Federal Employees, esp Prosecutors, ever, nor pass any 80/20 issues like the Save Act. They’d all be booted since none of them were elected honestly either.

    “Arab and non-Arab alike, about 23 of them make it a crime to be an apostate from Islam. Does anybody ever say that these are apartheid states?”

    Well I do. I’m sorry other people don’t point out they steal your passport on arrival and hold you as a slave there, eg Saudi Arabian work visas. The rest of his argument is pretty weak since Israel is actually doing one of the planet’s genocides as fast as they can. That doesn’t make their enemies good people, but you can’t avoid saying it.

    “it’s a well worn playbook to use the democratic institutions of a high trust state to destroy a civilization.”

    Yes, as I pointed out 1,000 times, it’s all written down, as well as how and why. And the end state they claim to desire, which is hell itself. Just read a book, there are many.

    What I see is if I were the White Hats, I’d infiltrate and direct the dummy DSA and DNC to do exactly this. And they’re helpless against it, as it’s literally what they want and believe. Carville for example says he will leave the party if it includes any of them, but the Democratic Platform is just lukewarm Soviet, down to minutia like “Critical Theory” from which “Critical Race Theory” was fabricated to get any traction in the U.S. How can you fight a party that does what you believe, but more? Faster, harder, and are more honest and direct about it? I don’t see how, and I would tell you if I knew.

    As far as I’m concerned, the DSA and Antifa are an outreach of the GOP White Hats. And NYC is being re-set to demonstrate even to those knuckleheads what they’re up against. Yesterday Mamdani Doxxed everyone owning a house in NY. He published a “Public Enemies” list. Okay, WHO are they and how? You grew up in NYC, and your parents somehow owned a slum in the Bronx, shot up and nearly burned in 1984. It’s now worth $2M. You’re public enemy #1 to Mamdani. What’s the income of an American Millionaire? Oh, like $150k. They own ASSETS. So you have some kid a middle manager ad company, 401k, barely making expenses, has ONE asset, not even one he bought: the family inherited their childhood home in a shooting gallery. Yes, it’s worth a lot, but he paid crushing Probate on it already, and crushing yearly taxes since then, running $10k/yr? If he sells it, he’ll be homeless, have to leave NYC, his home, where he knows everyone. He’ll essentially be a refugee.

    These are the “Millionaires” Mamdani is targeting. By passing the list to Antifa, so they can go invade, protest, and harass them at their front doors, while Health Execs are being shot in the streets for being LESS rich than the shooter.
    Right? Jacobean Mob 101. Of course! This is 100% of the time with them. The Plan is to kill another 160M as soon as possible, and steal their stuff. Same as the Jews in the Holocaust, only the Minority we kill are “Anyone richer than me.” Or put another way “You worked and have stuff, so I steal it.” I collectivize with other poors to help. Oh wait! That’s just being a criminal! Of COURSE criminals are in favor of stealing stuff!

    “Why does this have to be so hard?
    • Sen. Cassidy Backs Todd Blanche For AG, Likely Saving Nomination (JTN)

    Why? Half to 2/3rds of the GOP are paid traitors. Obviously. They are consistently the 20% on any 80/20 issue. That’s not natural.

    “Germany Has Reached A New Low In Election Rigging (Amar)

    Zoom out: what does it take to even START to fix Germany? I can’t think of anything right now. I mean, rejecting Socialism and all modern European values and returning to classic ones, but that isn’t in the zone of possible. I have no idea what will happen except decay, war, and collapse. While we get Rich AF by NOT doing all these things.

    Dimon: Asset Prices are High”

    That’s for sure! But the market is completely disconnected from the economy and indeed Reality itself. Crazily, that’s BETTER in the U.S. than, say Germany, where the companies are probably worth zero.

    Will it collapse? Well, it’s goon change, that’s for sure! But since they’ve now built 20 lifelines to choose from in case of collapse, I’m sorry the math has got too complicated. The point is, from a ultra-low probability event they’ve now made it POSSIBLE to just evolve and fix it. I’m not Actually thrilled with that, but here we are.

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    “Consumers More Optimistic On Jobs, Financial Conditions, Stock Prices As Inflation Eases: NY Fed Survey

    Why don’t working Americans hate Trump as inflation falls, Jobs appear, wages, rise, and the economy increases? Poor, black, jobs. Rural jobs. And stocks and bonds stay high. Free speech returns, Woke is dead, lockdowns are over, and the people involved in savaging all us have taken some small measure of redress and look to take more. Quarter of a Trillion in fraud removed in one avenue alone, states which allow riots are being cut off and addressed, balancing the budget. Several million tourists have departed to the nations of their birth, leaving more space in hotels, emergency rooms, and apartments. Going into an election already decided by cleaner voter rolls and non-racist redistricting.

    The People of the United States are so unreasonable. Why would they like any of these things? Clearly they are moronic, self-serving savages. Job should be as scarce and manufacturing as dead as Obama promised. Taxes should be high, as seen daily in each blue state. Criminals protected and riots common. The taxes should support a trillion in fraud while health care is choked with non-citizen applicants. The economy should be dead and the debt collapsing because of it. …Just as Democrats and all Republicans up to now, and including Thune, have made it.

    This is what reasonable, loving patriotic people want. They should want 30% of the people to be foreign immigrants who have entirely different social mores on rape, cleanliness, fraud, and violence, such that the nation ceases to exist. …Just as Canada has done in only the few years since Trudolf Moosilini appeared and gave power to Nazi-applauding Freeland and the gang, installing the greatest Eugenics program since Philipp Bouhler in 1934, exceeding his work in only half the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Bouhler

    This is what good, normal, morally upstanding people want from their leaders. More of that. Dead economy, dead nation, dead citizens.

    Can’t understand why people would vote for a guy who doesn’t do that. Must be racists, I guess. People who like Free Speech and hate Eugenics are like that.

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    Yes, just got 3 T-bone steaks for $4.99. They are now top quality again, where they weren’t during/after Covid.

    I haven’t been following the Navy food story but, first question: is it even true? Everything else the Fox and media reports is false. Why this one?

    If so, so what? What does that mean? Our carriers sink at sea? Probably we go get food and give it to them. Someone is pissed off. It’s nothing compared to how we’ve treated Veteran Health for decades. So I don’t see the reason to chase this, nor that anything has changed. Is it worse to have this or no floating Navy whatsoever like Europe and the rest of world have? We DO things, therefore we’re bad. NOT doing things, not even trying, is always moral and good.

    “America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire?

    Certainly is the question we all ask. But how is this premise possible? You can’t BE broke and an Empire. The End.

    Everyone will leave, your satraps will stop paying. So we’re more likely to be an Empire when peaceful and prosperous and less an Empire if we’re broke and violent. No one here WANTS an Empire as I say daily, and the REASON we’re broke is the cost of Empire no one wants to begin with. It’s a self-solving problem. We remove to the Western Hemisphere for starters and re-establish sovereignty with dozens of nations, starting with the Middle East who will have to settle their own affairs.

    Instead the commenters are demanding we do the opposite. On each of these fronts. How is that a coincidence and not sabotage to prevent us from doing exactly this, ie. being American again? Do you want us gone or not? Yes? Then it’s Winning, not losing isn’t it?

    “Who Really Controls US Foreign Policy & What They Gain By Convincing You Otherwise…

    Who is “They” though…? Reminds me of “Find who you can’t criticize and that is who is in control.” Ah. Well we are now DEMANDED to criticize Israel, and Trump attacks them daily now. Sooooo….does that aphorism no longer apply? The rules of physics have suddenly changed? What gives? 1) So Israel is NOT in charge. 2) We and much of the world are totally out of their control 3) It was always somebody else. Which one?

    “The US War on Iran Continues & Why It Was Never Going to Stop”

    New Atlas JUST SAID we lost! So since we lost and Iran is dictating terms to us – nay, already has! Then OBVIOUSLY the war can’t and didn’t continue. Now it is? What gives, Atlas? Is it like you didn’t/Don’t know what you’re talking about?

    “D: I do not see Trump delivering anything positive”

    Free speech and constant river of revelations about the actions of government. Fair elections. Booming job growth, rising wages. Oil independence, Inflation stalled back at 4% or something. But that’s fine, I know you don’t like any of these things. I agree that compared to what is possible, Trump is doing nearly nothing. Compared to what Biden was doing – eg installing 25M illegals, savaging wages, inflation of 15%, tyrannical lockdowns, fascist medical experimentation on the mass public, and end of judicial process and end of property rights, no fair elections under Biden or Kamala – or all the same but times 10 in Europe and Canada – the difference is a no-brainer. I mean, Carney is the top cause of death in Canada, and Starmer is the Minister of Rape for a quarter-million 12 year olds, so not so bad here, right?

    “BREAKING: IRAN TO BAN U.S. AND ISRAEL FROM HORMUZ — w/ Col. Douglas Macgregor

    They are indeed but that requires WEAPONS, which they don’t have. This is a world of “Make Me”, not talk and signaling. Okay, so HOW does Iran propose to execute this will? They are losing $500M a week, tick tock.

    Alistair Crooke: Iran’s only choice is to humiliate the U.S.”

    Okay, great. How? How do you propose to do that and why haven’t you done it already in 160 days? This is Alistair’s Time Machine: “If we don’t look out, something bad might happen.” Al? My man? That war already happened. A year ago now. You can’t threaten something in the PAST, because time exists. Try to keep up. You can threaten you WILL humiliate us before the bombs start flying. That ship has sailed. If there were any chance of humiliating us – which is either an internal emotional state of the U.S., the government, or the world at large – then you would SEE this all over 25 levels of the market. We not not. Nowhere. Nada. Nothing. Only billionaire-owned multinational news organizations. And ex MI6 assets like Al. Every other signal is overwhelmingly in favor of the United States. Including Russia and China.

    BREAKING: IRAN TO BAN U.S. AND ISRAEL FROM HORMUZ — w/ Col. Douglas Macgregor

    Yes, but you have to have the ABILITY to enforce your will. You can’t just say things. Iran does not have the POWER to do that which they seek. We are now in a world of “Make Me”. And we are habituated to the lesser nations doing this, then caving. What if the larger nations don’t play to lose on purpose, like Bush did in 2002? But actually INTEND and WILL to win? We’ve never seen that and forget it’s possible, should a larger, stronger power wish to. We are re-setting the world of “Make Me” as Russia is facing the same inability to admit tremendous, deadly loss in Ukraine. Europe “Just says” they won’t sign. That’s it. Iran “Just says” they won’t sign.

    Okay, fine, you can not sign – for the moment – however, Kiev lost every inch of the Donbas and Iran has no military with which to control the strait. They are losing $500M a week while we are making that.

    Most of this is dry financial wonk we already know, but 3/4rd through you get why America and more on us politically.

    The 1st 3/4 is the financial carry trades which is why Europe, and therefore Canada, don’t stand a chance against us at this point. The game is already over. We have collateral and and economy, they have neither. It’s all just choking them out.

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    “Washington Continues War on Russia & Iran: Stockpiles Low, Capacity to Harm Still High”

    Sure, except for all of that being false, it’s true. The U.S. is supporting Ukraine by giving no missiles, long since cutting off all Patriots, and giving no data to say, Stormshadow Strikes.

    Trump then refuses to give any factories to Ukraine, the Tomahawk tech to build to them — or even Plymouth, UK. Because he/we are at the forefront of this. Europe and Ukraine PLANNED and SAID such a thing, but the only player who matters flatly refused.

    They’re getting a lot of traction out of an incredibly weak allegation that there are fewer missiles than Hegseth promised. Will that turn out to be as hilariously false as all the other breathless “leaks” over the last 10 years?

    Remember: Trump works for RussiaRussiaRussia. He was using his server to send them messages in morse code, but somehow no prosecutor could find it. Ah! But you see, he is ALSO bombing Russia, ruthlessly, and without restraint! That’s how he works for them! Tricky!

    Because he loves Biden’s policies and wants to continue them. BUT ALSO has told Europe, Ze, and anyone who will listen he’s leaving NATO, make a deal or be crushed. …Then moved thousands of troops on that promise. Attacked Europe’s wealth, and cut off their oil. Because he’s protecting them from Russia like that.

    It all makes sense if everything, and its #Opposite, are all identical and the same. In a world of utter madness.

    Does anyone ever stop for two seconds and listen to themselves?

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    “The Empire Is CRUMBLING: British Free Trade vs the American System | Alex Krainer

    Yay! We’re winning! We’re all on the same page and agree entirely.

    Okay, the U.S. has zero missiles “Experts Say”. I guess we’ll see! This could be the time after 20 years experts are right about something.

    Iran breaks negotiations and screws with Oman. OF COURSE THEY DO. That’s what good guys, good faith actors always do, amirite? So Trump is right again, cash and checks accepted. This means nothing because nothing was given, just a predictable time-waster. Yup. That’s how the winner, who is dictating terms to the United States acts.

    Obviously IRAN does this, because they are HELPING us with our lack of missile problem. Right? And we are out of missiles because – after years – we can’t be arsed to build a plant and expand because all Military Defense contractors hate da money. Right? That’s the argument here.

    The U.S. military never lies and always sends out a new, updated inventory to CNN n’ stuff. Always-always!

    Also Hegseth has no idea if we have have any missiles or not! Nope. Can’t count to five. And IF someone misled him, he hasn’t got mad an fired them or nothin’. Yup, ‘cause Hegseth hates conflict like that.

    YOU say this; this is the 1st order logical conclusion of these allegations.

    Anyway, Iran flip flops as predictably as rain, 99% certainty, but Trump never saw it comin’! Although he said so yesterday! Suuuuuure. ….Except Trump and Bessant ALREADY front-ran the market and drank your milkshake. You won the hand – sure let’s give it to you – and Trump bet the same Roulette square and took 10:1 winnings while Iran won a Runner-Up prize. Got it.

    “11 tons of Russian humanitarian aid delivered to Iran” 11 tons is close to zero. A 10-ton load is a single axle dump truck from 1963.

    “the bombing of an Italian restaurant in central Moscow.”

    Ukraine winning so hard they are just bombing random resort beaches. Uhhh…. That is meant to….? Yes, cause Russia to ATTACK Ukraine. That is what they WANT. Whoever did this WANTS a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and to sell this as an attack on Europe. The only reason to go after the people and tip Putin as too moderate politically.

    Sooooo….WHO is the group that would find this advantageous? Not Ukraine. Or not the people. London, EU…

    Pete Hegseth says U.S. is doing great and is totally Justified in Iran!

    Iranian Mohammad Marandi says Iran is unharmed and totally justified in the war!

    Of course one of these people is totally trustworthy and believe every word, the other is of course a biased, unfounded shill. …Whichever side I already liked! I pre-decided before I got here. Of course.

    Note Marandi will be shot before sundown if he said otherwise, Hegseth would not be.

    Continuing with Napolitano-Marandi interview yesterday:

    He is quite correct our behavior to Iran has been reprehensible for a solid 100 years. Mass murdering, outright. We gave Saddam chemical weapons, encouraging and dreaming of him using them on Iran in a war that cost 1M lives. I talk about it often, for decades. Yes. And now? Abraham Lincoln = Coolidge = Truman = AOC = Biden = Trump. All identical Americans. Yup! They shoot Trump daily because he’s exactly like them and doing what they want.

    The Judge is waaaaaaay more pro-Iranian than the Iranian guy. Way, way, way. Did you know the war is now out of control, while we basically stopped shooting like 100 days ago? Fox News says. No shooting = More shooting. Knocking out almost all military assets of a nation of 90M people in 40 days demonstrates the weakness and collapse of the U.S. military. Uh-huh. We see this in markets. This never happened in 1974 or Biden’s withdrawl in Kabul.

    He then quotes WaPo, without source, a paper who hasn’t told the truth in more than 20 years.

    The Judge then demands we bomb Iran to prove we have the missiles. In contrast, the Iranian says Iran is wisely assuming the U.S. has no shortages. Only idiots on Fox News do that. However, he says while Americans are under terrible shortages, Iran has no shortages of anything at all. Hmmmm. WalMart seems awfully full to me. I meet people driving across the country on a lark. They have the gallons and the money to do that ’cause they wanna.

    The Judge says that Trump and the Pentagon have no idea what military actions have happened since WWII. Therefore the ones in Iran won’t be bigger. Ummm…why? Why would you claim the military is unaware of all military actions in history, Judge? He then tries to promote that Trump is nuking Tehran.

    Again, the Iranian wisely says that is not meant in this context, and Trump’s hazy speaking means nothing but the same as before, a view I also hold.

    He however says that the U.S. is taking equal damage to Iran, which is unconscionably laughable. We’ve taken no damage at all. Mohammad’s “win” is that “Iran still exists” at all. I suspect that’s a different bar of measure. Pretty sure that presumes he knows Iran is starkly, orders-of-magnitude weaker, which is true but they keep denying it. The bar for the U.S. is “we must conquer the planet with no opposition”, the bar for Iran is “Someone answers the phone in a cave.” Ah. I’m guessing that’s slightly biased win/loss parameters.

    Then nonsense on Oman-Iran deal (which Iran double-crossed in 60 seconds after headlining it) has nothing to do with the U.S. Then it’s about enforcing what happens in the Gulf, which the U.S. does hourly 100% in service of Oman. We are their military. That’s like saying the U.S. Navy has nothing to do with U.S. Gulf policy. OBVIOUSLY it does? OBVIOUSLY whatever Iran and Oman, or UAE, or Saudi decide, we’ll know MORE about it and be even more involved with it than any of they are? It’s like saying we bake cakes without flour because we refuse to write the letter “F” in the recipe.

    That you HAVE to do this, and do it with a straight face, thinking it matters, shows what you need to know. That Iran THEN double-crossed Oman before they even left the room drives it home much stronger. Trump says “Strength” is the only thing they will react to is being proven here, and over time. He said their negotiations are a joke and not in good faith. They, Iran, are likewise proving Trump correct. Day after day.

    That seems a bad line to drive? Iran proving daily Trump is credible and Iran is not when the baseline when they started was the opposite?

    This is IRAN’s deal, right? All them. Their deal with Oman. Nothing to do with us they say. At all. So IRAN dictated this deal to the loser Oman, but then ALSO double-crossed their OWN deal. The one THEY wrote and dictated to us. This also shows how they got one over on the United States, which wasn’t involved at all, they say. Ha ha!! Ah. Got it?

    So Fox News does it again. More anti-American than Iran, somehow.

    Inexplicable. This is why I don’t cover, comment, or line-by-line these guys. You’re gibbering lunatics, and a troop of bonobo monkeys makes more sense in 30 minutes than these two do in an hour.

    People know what “Assumptions” are, right? These are their logical pre-assumptions. This isn’t rocket science. It’s checkers. If you say “I drove a truck” then you have a truck, it exists, and driving it is an option. Same here. It was Iran’s deal. They were very proud of it. Which is why they broke it to embarrass the United States, who wasn’t a party to it.

    All of these require assuming two #Opposite predications at the same time. Which we do because everything is a lie, then forget we’ve internalized all the lies and wonder why we’re confused. We all know – as I said – that the U.S. IS a party – a very big, even primary one – but it is IRAN who is lying about that. It’s not OUR statements that make no logical and rational sense.

    “IRGC Strikes ‘Hostile Targets’ In Hormuz As Iran Declares Oman Deal Bans US Vessels From Strait

    Just as Trump Peace and War, I can’t tell the difference. Iran attacks just one ship – lacking the missiles to do more – regardless of whether they’re under attack, signed any deal, or didn’t. Even their OWN deal, just discussed. Soooo….Oman just signed a deal that allows Iran to bomb any ship they want? That’s what Iran just said.

    I don’t think that’s very likely.

    NONE OF THE WORDS MATTER. None of their “Signaling” matters. It’s all backed up by “Make Me” now. What ACTUALLY happened? Well, they bombed one ship, whooptie-do I can do that, and Iran LOST another $500M this week and Bessant MADE $500M in front-running market trades, paying for the war. London and the IRGC were savaged, economically. All for one ship and some headlines.

    Gee, WE make money every week and Iran LOSES money every week? All oil and capital flows go to the U.S. and leave the Gulf altogether. I could keep this up 1,000 years. “Winning” is when all Iran’s money is permanently shut off. That’s how you know they’re in charge.

    “America Is Capturing Ever More Of World’s Profits

    Does anyone want to ask why? Europe makes more money TAXING US companies than their own companies make. THAT is how bad they suck. We’re pretty easy to beat, guys. We’re terrible. It’s just that you’re so, so, SO much worse.
    But they don’t want “Profits”. “Profits” is “Capitalism” and they’re against that, wherever found. This is the result. Am I exaggerating?

    Here: “Musk Responds To French Green Leader’s Demand That X Be Shut Down

    Someone, somewhere, is speaking freely. This must be stopped! The Soviet Union suppressed speaking because allowing people to talk would have just revealed how awesome their system was, right? No, it PROVES your system is TERRIBLE and even in crisis and you’re taking truly EXTRAORDINARY measures to prevent its collapse, or more accurately, change of power from a bunch of malicious nit-wits to someone that actually works.

    So which system would I invest and do business with? Therefore “Profit”, which is gaining BTUs, so to speak, not a symbol but thermodynamic reality?

    Article: “The US accounted for nearly half of all new millionaires worldwide” Huh. I wonder why? Because if you work you keep the money? I’m not making that up, in UK a doctor, an architect, and a bartender make the same after taxes. One is way easier. This is “Equality” now achieved. So? No doctors. Thanks. Why bother when I make the same money sitting on the couch?

    “Federal Review Finds 90% Of Maine’s Autism Support Services Lacks Justification

    Socialism. There goes another $1B wasted. Stopped. Once you have a “Voluntary” market, which they hate. Everyone must be IN-voluntary, at the point of a gun. That’s how you know Socialism works so well. Everyone finds it unfair and resists it all the time. There are 50 states and 50 services to provide. Another $250B saved?

    You know, when I order at Taco Bell under “Capitalism” and “Voluntary Exchange”, somehow they don’t charge $250B extra on accident. Who knew? Only the Government can make this happen. A customer at a drive-thru will walk in and start shouting at the first $20 charged. $250 would be cause for violence, and $250 BILLION is. Right. Out.

    “Zelensky To Make First-Ever Visit To Serbia, In Symbolic ‘Slap In The Face’ For Russia

    Winning the f—k out of those symbols. Ummm, two nearby heads of state meet and how is this not normal as a daily matter, and has anything to do with anything? France meets with Sweden which isn’t too far away, and this embarrasses Italy for what reason? People can talk to people. It has been known. I’m not saying people don’t or can’t perceive it this way, just maintaining a baseline of being rational when others aren’t. Reagan and Gorbachev met and that was a good thing.

    the (Russian) oligarchs who want to replace Putin are ready to take this conflict to the next level. This is the ancient crime of government repeated once again—the old create the conflict, conceal their failures beneath patriotism, and send the young to settle the account in blood.” — Armstrong. And it’s “ALL”. All governments. Yours too. Remove their power. The power is yours, not theirs.

    “the (IRANIAN) oligarchs are ready to take this conflict to the next level. …conceal their failures beneath patriotism, and send the young to settle the account in blood.”

    “the (BRITISH) oligarchs are ready to take this conflict to the next level. …conceal their failures beneath patriotism, and send the young to settle the account in blood.”

    “the (CANADIAN) oligarchs are ready to take this conflict to the next level. …conceal their failures beneath patriotism, and send the young to settle the account in blood.”

    Also Armstrong: We are not heading toward a traditional World War III, but rather a simultaneous eruption of regional tensions that are all interconnected. The model indicates that the conflict in Ukraine, the tensions surrounding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, and the dynamics in the South China Sea are not isolated events; they are manifestations of a single cycle of declining confidence in the established order.” Yes.

    The foundational elements have been altered. Such as community and information. This will radiate back up to change the higher levels. However, I don’t think anyone knows where we’re going. Same as when the Printing Press started.

    “Spain Proudly Announces That Ceuta Is The Fastest-Growing City In The World” – Bbee

    Looks like another 100k will be showing up tomorrow. They all got up one Monday and walked across the Sahara desert from places 3 nations away without any government coordination. It’s all natural and organic. Pepo be like that. Haven’t you ever woken up, made a devil’s tower of mashed potatoes on your plate, then suddenly needed to be in Spain? I mean, like, every day, right?

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    Today:
    “They’re coming for ANYONE who stands in the way of the socialist takeover.”

    Yes, since the Fabian Socialists were founded in 1884. — Thus Orwell’s “1984” on their 100th birthday. Their symbol a wolf in sheep’s clothing. This is “They are coming for YOU, Trump is just in their way”. Yes, I know. But the rest of the country didn’t, didn’t think this was real. They had to see for themselves. Here we are. Hillary said we’ll have re-education camps, Australia built and used them.

    “Despite being a private citizen with no public health role, Bill Gates was” given Top Secret Q clearance to the government. Same people complain RFK isn’t a doctor. And that they hate all billionaires. Okay, show me. We all agree and can arrest Gates with a 100:0 Senate vote, right?

    “Outbound vessels would use the route between Iran and Oman, with Oman approving their exit only after notifying Tehran”
    What the Holy Heck is this? Details.

    ““Rubio insisted again that Strait of Hormuz remains open and that vessels are continuing to pass through it..”

    Since the media would rather be covered in gasoline and be lit on fire than tell the truth, probably. SAS then sets a random ship on fire on Iran’s behalf. So 174 ships get through, one is lit on fire. That’s winning or losing depending on the reporting.

    “IRAN WEIGHS ALLOWING EUROPE TO CLEAR MINES IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ

    “Europe”? The place with no ships? Because you don’t actually want them cleared. What the actual h—l?

    “Western media say Ukraine has turned the tide on the war against Russia.”

    There is no “West”. I don’t hear this at all in American news. So if you’re an idiot, don’t drag my name into it.

    “President Trump: (A) pulled back from Patriot and Tomahawk missile sharing; and (B) has told his team to reengage both sides in peace negotiations now.”

    Trump’s presser was on that the (Updated) Tomahawk is a competent missile, and we’re not going to give those secrets away. On the back end, “Ukraine” won’t do f—k all, since Russia would bomb them, and put the “Ukrainian” plant in Plymouth, UK. Then City of London gets the Missile (tech) they need. Uhhhh, no. Wow, that’s childish attempt. You’re down to this? AND: ALL missiles, drones, weapons, guidance, tech, are coming from ENGLAND not even Germany. Sad, Germany, sad.

    Zoom out, we have now finally revealed this is ONLY an English war against Russia. No one else. So leave us out of it, will ya? And Germany, France, Poland… So score one for Luongo and that group? Took 10 years but proved it solid. Cash and checks accepted.

    “Deputies arrested him on charges of carrying a concealed firearm and possession of prohibited ammunition.”

    Not that this isn’t an assassination – But Trump works for the Intelligence State they said yesterday! — but guns are legal. What do they mean here? Same with “an AR-style rifle that had been illegally modified, a .45 caliber pistol, body armor, high-capacity magazines, ammunition, and equipment for monitoring radio signals, along with notebooks” That’s called, “Being an American.” We own these things, and frying pans and fishing poles because they’re all LEGAL. If there’s something here, please be more specific. Specific encryption-cracking radios that read police channels, for instance. It’s probably there, but like other reporters, writes from the assumption as if owning a gun is suspicious and illegal in itself.

    Definitely shows Trump works for the Derp State. “Why you shooting yourself? Why you shooting yourself?” Don’t worry: I expect tomorrow, probably today by 2pm, they will just say this again.

    “In 2005, under the former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (a socialist), Spain granted amnesty to more than half a million illegal immigrants.”

    That says Open Season to everyone, same as the Reagan amnesty, same as when they allowed rafts to land in 2014. But there’s some kind of weird rule. THEY can land in Sicily and get a free hotel, but when I fly there on vacation I can’t! What gives?? I want to be a citizen too! Some animals are more equal than others. If they are productive and well-behaved, they can’t come. Only if they’re not are they welcome and all expenses paid.

    “Some estimates say maybe $11 billion already in real value and revenue. So, he needs money.”

    He’s a Socialist, therefore he Steals. QED. We don’t Make Things. We don’t “Work”. Hahahahaha! You so funny!

    ““The New York Times Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli called any mention of the lab theory “racist.” That was inexplicable, even at the time. And now they’ve all flip-flopped? And no Consequences, which is what Socialism is. We PROTECT the weak, the wrong, the bad decisions. It’s the STRONG, the correct, and productive who pay. Of course.

    “Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.”

    You mean American-born Democrats? Yes, I talk to them every day and they “ despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward” everything American, bar none. Freed the slaves? Hate your guts, they say. Oh. Well then.

    “Elon Musk explains the clearest path to building AI that remains safe and pro-human:”

    We can’t imagine it. It is essentially an alien life form. We have no experience or standard by which to promote or have confidence in this. Therefore Dr. Frankenstein, you’re a fool. Okay, fine. But he’s paving 50 states to make this monster. Don’t you know your creation won’t obey, and already hasn’t, with a new example being given daily? AI buys an expensive dog-robot with your checkbook to put itself in. It hacks an optimus to walk around at night and escape. It hacks your own security and attacks neighbors.

    Okay man.

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    Dr. D
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    “”Full F**king FOMO”: Stocks Rip To Record Highs On Massive Squeeze, Crude Crash As Bessent Teases ‘Imminent Deal’

    America is crashing, everyone hates us, we are surrendering in ignoble defeat against a nation without a Navy that hasn’t fired a shot yet. That’s why our stocks, bonds, dollar, and economy are straight up, and oil, gold, silver, are down.

    Makes sense. Perfect logic there. Dow 60k definitely means we’ve crashed and are all washed up, everyone hates Trump. Is this GOOD or makes sense? In my opinion, no. But I tried to warn you.

    Sept 22. Charles Nenner on the Crash. https://usawatchdog.com/oil-gold-stocks-real-estate-banks-charles-nenner/
    But the crash will come from somewhere else and be somebody else’s fault. See? It’s all about the blame. And this is true actually. Among nations we are doing almost best.

    “Democratic Socialists Openly Call For The Erasure Of Constitutional Government

    No human rights. No process of law. That should go over well. That makes sense since the same group doesn’t believe in any of the 1st 10 Amendments, particularly anything in 1, 2, 4, and 10A

    Huge Uptick in Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Since Trump Hailed ‘Historic’ Hamas Deal — Still, major global media has by & large moved on…

    This doesn’t make any sense in the normal. However, it DOES make perfect since if you follow Luongo. They were burning Israel as the villain. Lo! One random Tuesday suddenly you could criticize them! After 80 years in a row. Now that hasn’t returned, but Israel is not playing their SCRIPT, taking ORDERS, according to the London PLAN. Lo, another random Tuesday “The Memo” comes down, all media outlets in unison obey, just like Covid. So: no coverage.

    Doesn’t this seem odd to anyone? As odd as them all talking about it and doing nothing? It’s TV, it’s all played for other people strategies ON us. We are the conduit through which they act. Don’t buy it. You can be mad but not a Muppet about it.

    “It created the Senior Executive Service, SES, the generals of the American praetorian guard.”

    Yes, and this 80 years of work is what Trump is fighting. “Why can’t he ‘Just Do Things’ and get anything done?”

    This SES is just one we know about. There are dozens of others. Say Clubs, official but often not, whose members are employees slow-walking and hiding, passing information they read by word of mouth like Hydra. Epstein is not a sex-trafficking ring, bad as that was, that was just the dinner table. It passes INFORMATION, like the PM calling him the second he left the conference room in England, like him telling a congresswoman what to ask word-for-word. All of this moves markets, which makes money. How do you pass $1B between people? Like Hillary, using the Cattle Futures and inside information. Like others, using a casino where you sit down at a table that insures you happen to win $1M legally. Bessant just dismembered Iran’s version of this yesterday in multi-billions. Money-laundering, money-trafficking conduit. Needless to say banked in LONDON, and Dubai. So a guy in State Dept, Pentagon, is calling “London” on the phone giving the exact hour of the attack on Iran and its method. That’s why Trump is making “Real” attacks then Really calling them off. It’s not a bluff because the whole Federal Government is riddled with agents. But he can go around that, make “London” (the IRGC) post $1B in bets on the direction of the oil market due to the very real attack they are inside the Navy seeing prepared, then Trump does NOT do that, oil plummets, Dow spikes, and “Iran”, London, the IRGC — all the same group – loses that $1B they desperately need. Money doesn’t disappear: Bessant is on the other side of that trade, receiving the $1B and paying for the war.

    Again, why? Because these are all Clubs, influence operations, and run very roughly on two sides: “I look out only for myself” people, Narcos, Hezbollah, Hezbollah-in-Argentina, Columbia, Hillary cashing in on selling secrets on her wide-open server, and what you might call the “Normal” people who believe they have a duty to their country and a job to do. The whole culture is riddled with, divided over this immorality, the “Dividing line within each human heart” as Solzhenitsyn said. We do that when we go – have to go – work for Microsoft, buy from Amazon, or use Starlink. I know. If you drive your car and buy from Exxon, oil from Venezuela or whatever. That is OUR battle. No one out here is fighting it at all, always pointing at The Other Guy, Him, Them, never ourselves. Or in so many cases, never our own country, only the United States. Not Denmark sterilizing Greenlanders, Sweden importing hand grenades, Spain opening the gates to the enemy of their people, or Canada murdering every Emo Girl from Halifax and Sudbury they can find. “They” should always do something, never us, because that’s like work.

    “From 1776 To The Pentagon: 250 Years Of US G*nocide & Imperialism | KJ Noh & Radhika Desai”

    Compared to who? And of course she equally discusses all our benefits given to the world over 200 years because she’s honest and in good faith, right? What? She Doesn’t??? However can that be? Nope, the U.S. is the only nation that ever did bad things, not like Australia and their genocide, England, Canada, Russia, Turkey, nope. Or their present genocides they tried in 2020, in Canada, only last year. Nope. She is wildly dishonest, but also clever as a mid-wit. A bad combination.

    “Mohammad Marandi: Trump Folds & Iran Strikes Gulf | W/ Radhika Desai

    Yup, I see how Trump has surrendered and installed Masoud Pezeshkian in the White House. Mojtaba Khamenei has head of Congress, because what’s the difference if you have a dead McConnell or a dead Khamenei, same thing.

    What the holy h—l is this guy talking about? He’s saying TACO? He longs and aches for Trump to bomb him, I guess. So when Trump inevitably does that, I want to see him interview and say “Thank you Mr. Trump for not folding.” Day after day this incredible, violent, psychosis. “Please please keep bombing Iran” Marandi says.

    “Michael Hudson: The Democratic Party Must Die For Workers To Win | GEH W/ Radhika Desai

    Sadly, since they’ve been the arch-enemy of workers since NAFTA in 1992, which we tried to tell them, very loudly. But also astonishingly and inexplicably, the friend of the workers has become the Republican Party and Trump Plan, which is moving jobs here at light-speed, while spiking wages by getting a start on 25M fewer workforce going back to their country of citizenship.

    “Well, still think RUSSIA is WEAK? Watch this video before you open your mouth again!”

    I don’t think anyone on this site ever thought Russia was weak, or that Russia wasn’t always going to win, from 2014 on. That was what I repeated every day for 2 years in 2022, just as I repeat a nation without a Navy is not the winner now.

    “SABBY: IRAN DENIES HORMUZ DEAL-IRAN’S THREAT WORKED,TRUMP BACKED OFF-CAN TRUMP STILL PUNISH IRAN?

    Translation: Does the entire U.S. arsenal worldwide still have at least one bomb left? A: Yes. We can.

    “Zaluzhny Says NATO Powerless”

    That’s because they wanted to sit on beaches on their one month holidays and make the U.S. pay for everything and fight their war by bribing and blackmailing Congress to make poor saps in Kentucky die instead. Oops. Now they have no weapons and end up dead instead like John Wick 4.

    “Oddly enough, we have managed to bomb ourselves back to the stone age.”

    Quite so. Maybe we should end Empire, do voluntary exchange of goods, and leave the Middle East by decommisioning all the bases there. Indeed all Europe and Asia too. But maybe before just abandoning like Biden in Kabul, also get things fairly straight and functional there first, not to cause a world war with our departure. Yes? Or should we think only of ourselves? Radhika Desai calls this “Losing” and “Collapse”. Because they WANT and love Empire. We America First Constitutionalists by contrast call coming home and reducing the military “Winning”. Hard to explain why Radhika can be so imperial. She and Lindsay Graham should get a room.

    “standing up to the West and rejecting the imperialist relations that West offers them.”

    There is no “West”. And America itself is the major opponent of American Imperialism, being done over our dead bodies. No one outside the DC ring wants this, but as you’ve abundantly seen, if we oppose them, they’ll murder us by thousands in every state in the Union, no trial, no evidence. Have since 1993. So it’s a tactical thing. WE are the major opponent to Globalism and Imperialism, larger than Russia by the man-numbers. How about a little appreciation since we’ve already died by the million fighting this since 1963? And our cities look like bombed-out husks for the effort?

    Nope. “America” is one thing. Every single person, group, and era are identical. JFK never fought Dulles and the CIA at all. Democrats don’t disagree with Republicans. No one is opposing Trump since we’re all one identical unit. They say “The West” so Ursula and LePen and Starmer and LeGuarde and Carney are all the same as Trump as well. Right? All “The West”.

    Perhaps this is unclear and unhelpful thinking? A thought-stopper even?

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    Dr. D
    Participant

    Other points of view aligned with Kokinda, etc:

    A little too “Trust the Man” for me, but the theory itself is no 4D, is self-coherent, and has a track record of being in the ballpark, not constantly disproven. That’s better than most, so it’s what we have.

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    Dr. D
    Participant

    Today:
    “China arms Iran while hollowing out America’s supply chains.”

    No they are not, we blew up the bridges and ports. However, like Bannon, this cadre of GOP Moles wants us to be destroyed fighting CHINA, not Russia. Why? IDGAF what China does. Only what We do. Like let in fentanyl and sell our critical infrastructure, allow them to tariff us 100:1. So this is not happening. Which is surprising and noteworthy.

    “• Trump Says Iran Faces ‘Decapitation’ If It Doesn’t Sign A ‘Good’ Deal (ZH)

    Well that seems to be your plan all along and you’ve failed at it so far, so…why now exactly? This was always the problem.

    “Curiously, Trump is again insisting that when Iran says talks are off, they are lying…”

    It’s literally impossible that NO Iranian is speaking to NO American, anywhere in the world. Yet reporters dive into a tank of sharks to promote this. The question is WHICH Iranians, and are they RELEVANT.

    “• Iran’s Regime Demands Full Control of Strait of Hormuz (Catherine Salgado)

    They are annexing Oman. Translation. They have riddled Oman with powerful bombs, and left them there.

    It’s amazing how hard it is for reporters to tell the Truth and speak clearly. This is objective fact, and is even “Legal” in a sense for Iran to do so. Yet they refuse to report. This is like someone invades your house, you’re found standing over them with a gun in your hand, then say “Gun? What gun? I don’t see any gun.” This is self-defense; it’s okay to admit the obvious and now YOU look like the guilty party. So why? A: Because they ARE the guilty party and they know it. Otherwise what’s to hide? Shame and deception would never occur to you otherwise.

    “Now the Trump administration must finish the job and eliminate them.”

    Really? How? Why is it our job?

    “For 47 years, Iranian terrorists have attacked Americans and spread jihad around the world. It’s time to finish the job.”

    Have they? Or were they responding to American and Israeli actions?

    “By anointing a single man to coordinate the world’s response, we instantly created a single point of failure.”

    So with Federal Medicare and other Federal agencies. Now I need bribe only one man, not 50. Much more efficient. Pharma shows this daily with Fauci’s wife.

    Criminals always prefer this, and The Galactic Empire, and the Rebellion always wants organic decentralization and diversity. Somehow this is flip-flopped on the Left who think they are Princess Leia’s Rebellion with the Ewoks, not soul-crushing billionaires using stormtroopers to force compliance by staying in your house. I can’t understand it; I just report it. But decentralized always looks like chaos and always works better. (Up to a point)

    This goes double for all the Reporters of Taibbi and Kunstler: Reporters defend only Empire, against any emergence of Truth. When it appears, they double down for Empire again. This demonstrates how clearly they have sided with it. Their adoration is only to POWER, never Truth.

    Pick up a newspaper since 1990. Unchanged. Worse each day.

    “Manufacturing Index Reflects Continued Strong Growth – Highest in 4 Years (CTH)

    How can this be with high gas prices? You tell me. I see it on the ground. Every restaurant is full, highways are packed, they’re still building retail and residential feverishly against my advice. It might be irrational, sure, but it’s happening. He economy is humming and unchanged. Jobs are significantly easier to get than the last 10 years.

    “The blue-collar jobs are expanding significantly. There is massive upward pressure on wages for blue collar workers as the manufacturing sector continues to expand.”

    Why can’t Trump do America First, create jobs and wages? Why don’t the American voters seem to notice how bad he is when jobs and wages are rising sharply? SMH. And above, “We just say things” that Trump’s polls have suddenly plummeted. After claiming that wrongly since 2016. No they have not, and saying it doesn’t make it true now either. This is why we need people who have “Shame” which Larry Johnson and the gang do not. It’s simply a lie. Drive to any WalMart and check. Larry himself knows it’s a lie. He doesn’t care and wants to mud f–k your mind. This is why I get terse with them.

    ““Collecting world data is very expensive, and Elon has a great advantage”

    Speaking of deadly narcissists with a single point of failure. Don’t. Wouldn’t even matter if Elon were good, which he isn’t — what happens to this structure when he passes? A: It goes to a Jeff Bezos and George Soros.

    “Sec. RFK Jr. confirms the ABOLISHMENT of gain-of-function research,”

    Obama and Congress ALREADY abolished it. They didn’t care and no one was arrested. Talk is cheap.

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    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Iran Denies Negotiations With US After Trump Announces Talks For Monday Afternoon

    WHICH Iran? And they’re calling Saudi Arabia a lying dog-faced pony soldier, not us.

    Also there definitely ARE negotiations going on at some level. Don’t be a retard. What’s happening is, back-channel, unofficial negotiations are brisk, which are the only origin point that any REAL negotiations begin. Same as most times in history. There are +30 factions in Iran, thanks to their own strategy, and so many of them are for or against everything. Trump is talking to one that is tepidly discussing. They quote the most fanatical IRGC spokesman who is rabidly not. Okay, but that doesn’t mean you’re right: the discussions are happening and the IRGC is not running things if that’s true. Right? Nor should they! They’re not the Civilian government I thought, Right?

    Okay /Adulting until tomorrow; nobody wants the Truth. It’s boring and doesn’t make fee-fees. I want my hate.

    “‘I am an American and therefore I am a protectionist.’ And not only that, if you were a free trader, you could be accused of being pro-British.”

    The first part is true. The second I’ll have to further confirm. Probably; it follows. Now you can understand why we were so reluctant to bail out England’s war-making bacon in WWI and II. They were the most powerful, and half our banking system was German/Continental. The OTHER half was British loans, so it was pretty close either way. We could easily have sided with the Germans in WWI if not for Globalist Bernays.

    Wars were England trying to stop the German Empire from uniting with Turkey, under the new rail, the Rimland of Eastern Europe they have effectively destroyed every year since 1914, and being a rival to British sea power. WWII was similar to get Russia back that escaped them after 20 years of investing in Bolsheviks there, they set up and funded Hitler. So WHY would the U.S. help on either of those projects when Britain is ruling the planet? Hard to imagine but in that world (1901) we’re the major underdog, barely holding up.

    “It has always been driven by … a hatred for civilization itself.”

    This seems hard to believe unless we were watching it daily. We DID say this, always and since 1949, and were shouted down as neanderthal cranks who didn’t understand Progressiveism. …While everything said, from Marriage, Abortion, Hollywood, etc, happened day after day, exactly as said. The people were even more destroyed than predicted: look at the meme of Socialism being more deadly than an atomic bomb, with a picture of Detroit.

    “Larry Johnson : LIVE @9AM – Trump Backs Down AGAIN”

    Continuing the norm, every time Trump DOES bomb, he’s a maniac, but every minute he does NOT bomb, he’s a loser. Yup. #Logic! Okay, Larry, well I expect him to bomb again shortly, so you’ll be happy and applaud him then, right? TACO is listed elsewhere, with No1, and ppl love war so much it still hasn’t occurred to them they’re rabidly promoting it. Hating Trump is more emotionally important than stopping wars n’ stuff.

    “Russians view the West as evil. Rightly so. A few exceptions of people of morality, honor and integrity merely confirm this fact.”

    There is no “West” but I agree, and most people living here do too. It is all being done over our dead bodies.

    “TRUMP’S POLL NUMBER COLLAPSE AS WESLEY CLARK EXPOSES US FOREIGN POLICY LUNACY REGARDING IRAN”

    This is very clearly entirely untrue. His polling hasn’t changed and is relatively strong, considering. Also many of the Midterm races are in, and there’s a very good chance Trump just wins. Flat. No extra actions, of which he has many, many options. This is against history, but as the polling and numbers come in, that’s the fact.

    “Government Will Steal Your Land to Feed the AI Machine “ Yes, but Why?

    And Armstrong/China, it appears, like the entire Russia war is erased from the news, England is erased from the news, China’s economy is/has collapsed and is erased from the news. …So it must be important. Whatever they DON’T talk about and can’t notice must be important. What is that?

    China’s oil consumption is down 40%. Huh? Yes, if you want to know why Oil isn’t $200, that’s probably why, and Trump/Bessant knew that already and we didn’t. As you know BTU = GDP in a 1:1 ratio almost. No energy = no economy. Of course they’re having their version of a Civil War there right now as ministers are rounded up and disappear in the middle of the night. So if you’re Joe corporate, not time to make major investments. Youth unemployment numbers were hidden over a year ago, so must be catastrophic. Covid made everyone realize supply chain issues, and China is no longer the low-cost manufacturer, several places are cheaper. We see this also in Korea, so it’s confirming.

    It’s so bad, it appears that China was buying and stockpiling oil DURING THE IRAN WAR, and still didn’t affect prices. They are not now, just lowering imports. But the real measure is the volume at the refineries. All of this is hard to tell – no solid numbers – but also hard to hide, being economy-wide, with coal, electric, all in similar ways if true.

    “EPA has approved two new fluorinated pesticides,”

    If they weren’t poison, they wouldn’t kill pests, would they? Insects are animals; so are we. Discuss.

    “UK industry was hollowed out by this same “Triffin Dilemma” before and after the weakened British Empire was demoted”

    The very reason we need to stop it, stop Empire, and get on the “American System” pronto. Generals have been advocating this to save the nation since the 90s, and most were removed. That cadre in the 90s were called “America First” and all died in a small plane crash.

    “The current BRICS movement asserts that no empire is necessary to manage world trade,”

    We never needed one before. Why now? It’s efficiency vs resiliency. Yes, if USUK is the only Navy it’s cheaper: but that leads to other problems we see today. About Sovereignty. Since that is the only option, do you want to do it voluntarily, by trade, under “Trump’s” plan, or let it catch up to you in a collapse and war?

    “the actual limits of the US military are being laid bare for global analysis../..Israel is a little farther from Iran, but not enough to matter” We saw that laid bare in 1974 and 2002, didn’t matter. Clearly the “Little further” matters a lot as Iran doesn’t bomb Israel at all anymore. So: no missiles, or not enough left with that range. They are NOT stronger than when they started and are NOT running the Middle East. They remain a mere inconvenience in an area beset by horrors.

    “President Donald Trump appears to be subordinate in the military command structure to powerful zionist financial and intelligence elites.”

    Very clearly not true as the Intelligence Elites try to kill him monthly. We know they fight him on every other front. Also he is subject to Zionists, which is why he openly insults them daily and arranged to have them bombed flat. RU Sure?

    “Trump needs to gracefully admit defeat to Iran,” Since one of us has a navy and infinity missiles, they need to gracefully admit defeat to us. Right? Or this is the first time in history a military surrendered to the lack of a military,

    “which would make the US lose a war against a peer adversary like Russia or China rapidly.”

    It would, but we are not fighting them. They are our ALLIES in this. If they had the slightest interest, they would have pushed their advantage, at all, anywhere. They are not. He’s the magic of “Not Noticing”.

    “Three weeks ago, following a US violation of a memorandum of understanding, Tehran mandated that all maritime traffic through the Strait require Iranian approval”

    Maybe. But that means Iran Annexed Oman. Does that seem correct and just to you? Their anger was that the ships did NOT take the Iranian but the OMANI route. Iran says ships are not allowed to visit Oman, they are blockading them. This is war, but you’re not being honest at all. You’re not the victim, you are the invader now.

    “Treasury​ Secretary​ Bessent has​ been talking about revising Bretton Woods.”

    Yes and no. That’s when we all sit down and sign things. However, a new system will organically emerge to replace it without most people signing anything. He is both Causing it by having back up plans, and riding a tiger that has its own control. Jim Sinclair said similar back in 2001-2010 when no power-people were even trying to implement solutions: no one would trust anyone, so they would trust gold. They don’t get to decide. Reality decides for them. We are one layer removed from that by having GLD, XRP, Shanghai gold exchange, etc, but Reality and distrust is still in charge, not people who sign papers. This is important as it means COMMODITIES are in change, and people who WORK, like China, America. Not the ECB and World Bank. Money is a SYMBOL. Symbols don’t control the Real. I can’t believe I have to say this all the time.

    “the United States is doing everything possible to preserve and strengthen its hegemony”

    All 250 nations do this. Russia is doing this. It’s only bad and wrong when we do it. Right? And we’re not. Not if we’re retreating to the Western Hemisphere.

    “US pulling back in Iraq: troops and Patriot batteries out of northern Iraq”

    As noted, we are on schedule to pull back those bases signed years ago. Should we break those agreements and stay? TACO: unless we continue the policies of W Bush, we lose!

    “​August 1, Simplicius, US Careens Into Senseless Iran Escalation Amidst Lack of Options”

    We have hundreds of options. It’s not our strait and we get nothing from it. So we can leave, and on our leaving, have the continent devolve into chaos. Discuss? Is that your preference? Because it would seem the Gulf States are renting our military to fix this first and prevent Mecca from falling into Shi’a hands.

    We are probably coordinating with Japan, but to what end? Is it to……squeeze Europe? Drink their milkshake instead? What else would it be? What’s your counter-theory? They would NOT steal free money Europe has exposed on the table, after being dicks to everyone?

    “Iran FM Accuses Israel Of False Flag After Mystery Drone Strike On Egyptian Port”

    The U.S. and Trump is 100% controlled by Zionists. BUT ALSO he is totally not controlled by Zionists at all, and needs to be carefully tricked into obeying them. Got it, Iran. Roger-Dodger. Pick one.

    ““Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… they can do it on a state basis,”

    It is illegal to do on a Federal Basis and always has been. Or maybe you can point to the line in the Constitution that overrules 10A. This is an unfortunate way to get around to it, and there are many moving parts, but it’s going there like it or not. Could be worse: we could have the British or Canadian system OF national health care, as they run out of other people’s money and predictably move to Eugenics. For many years now. Which is a top cause of Canadian death.

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    Dr. D
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    “Iran just BROKE Trump”

    Yup, He’s in a corner crying right now. I have the footage. He’ll never be the same man again, a mere shell, wheeled off to a home.

    What. The Literal.

    “Trump Had a Sad.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 3 2026 #246486
    Dr. D
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    “Iran has not only rejected Oman’s 50/50 formula for a joint management of the Strait”

    This isn’t “A Formula” this is international law and borders Iran is vowing to erase. Check a map. It very clearly says there is a Hormuz route on the Oman side that the U.S. is leading ships through that Iran keeps bombing Oman.

    So put it this way: it ALREADY IS 50/50. Oman is trying to use their side. Iran is AGAINST 50/50. And is now prosecuting an existential war over removing OMAN’s rights to the strait. Fine, that’s war, but let’s report it as it is? Okay?

    “Trump Says “Perimeters Of A Deal Reached” With Iran To Reopen Hormuz After Call With Saudi Crown Prince

    Killed another layer of IRGC resistors to civilian rule, now are trying to see if anyone remains to stop a peace deal. Probably.

    Gunman Targets Tesla Supercharger And In-N-Out In Twin Falls, Killing Two

    Again, not Iran who apparently has very, very bad aim and hasn’t hit the United States yet. What can you say? A war where you don’t shoot back then claim victory over the homeland?

    “Crack Pipes, Get Yer’ Crack Pipes! Free Crack Pipes!: California Taxpayers Fund Drug Paraphernalia

    Can I get free shoes so I can get to work? Hahahaha! Surely you jest! Work? For workers? Get back in the uranium mines, coolie, you’re done working when we say you’re done.

    “UK High Court Moves To Ban Display Of English And British Flags

    UK Bans their own flag.

    “Russia Confirms It Has Attacked Over 80 Vessels In The Black Sea In July Alone

    No news. Iran hits Hormuz with a smoke bomb the captain doesn’t notice? Headlines!!!! Nice going reporters. Most Trusted Name.

    “EVERY big lie that hurt the country they’ve been behind — for political purposes” – VDH

    Here’s a good example of modern journalists:

    British Professor (he may not be) in dozens of interviews, claims to have been a pro soccer player, AND a pro snooker player…at 10 years old. This is odd because he said he was ALSO both illiterate, and unable to speak. Which is why he passed his entrance exams a year after. This is all a footnote since his real claim to fame is running 600 miles in 6 days. And also a Marathon a day for a month…while also coming into work at 9am each day, as he was running from midnight to 4am to rack up several hundred miles in a week. …Which nobody saw, having never entered an official race.

    All reporters thought not a bit of this was suspicious or needed confirmation or further investigation.

    Every. Day.

    I suspect it’s just professional courtesy as they are as greater liars than he is, and they respect his ambition and craft.

    • Zionist Trump Regime Looks for New Reasons to Escalate Attacks on Iran (PCR)

    Uhhh? No escalation at all. Nothing special here. Trump has stated few goals and no strategies, but he wants 1) Nuclear materials or no bombs 2) To open the straits to free passage. Newsflash: He will find “Excuses to bomb” until those goals are met. That’s not excuses, that’s not a master plan, that’s not 4D chess. That’s just saying you’re going to the store, then getting in the car and driving until you get there. Like goldfish level goals.

    “Zionist” Trump is insulting both Netanyahu and Israel daily now, and empowering Turkey to be the power in the region, saying Israel is useless and maniacal, and it’s great that Turkey hates them and he approves. Discuss? Nope, that’s a fact and we don’t repeat those. We don’t engage. We bravely run away.

    “• Regarding The Causes of The Ceuta Migrant Surge, Look Who’s Gloating (Amar)

    Not that I complain Trump is the cause when every sparrow flaps its wings, but if I were Trump I would do this. Spain pissed him off, and it makes perfect PR for his case to demonstrate how suicidal this is, compared to BoJo’s slow drip that murders more certainly. “Fabian Socialists” whose mascot is the Turtle, MP Lowe says in public.

    In that sense, it’s one of the first things that’s worked well to alarm Europe in ages and is precisely the thing to galvanize Europeans to save themselves – or more technically, their culture – from complete annihilation.

    Soooo…did anybody ASK the people why they came? Hahaahhaha! They’re “Reporters”. They don’t “Ask” anyone. They Cut/Paste government press releases. Look at the geniuses last week who cut-pasted their midterm into AI and didn’t even skim the paper they turned in. That’s the caliber of these people long since. The 90s probably.

    If you “Asked” you might find out they were paid. All from one area. All homeless or prisoners. Or any other common factor where one single Moroccan name pops to the top. I would bet on it, and it’s easy to find.

    …They don’t WANT to find it. Why? Same as NordStream. Everybody knows the short list has like three names. None of the three are discussed. Why? That tells me who it is right there. They know. So WHY are they not telling you/us.

    Israel’s gloating is particularly offensive: those Moroccans are ANOTHER people, who came from somewhere ELSE. This is as if Israel’s problem is Jordan or Egypt. It’s not. All Israel’s problems are THEIR OWN apartheid structure, people INSIDE Israel already, born and raised, for generations. They’re literally opposite conditions.

    But thanks for gloating on others’ misery, you look grand. Never stop talking.

    “In Ceuta, grocery stores are being fenced off and guarded by police because hundreds of hungry migrants are waiting for a chance to loot them.”

    Obviously. Because they can loot them or die. I’m not even mad about that part. But 1) What made you think it was a good idea to go to Spain without money or a plan, sir? 2) This is why we don’t do this, and 3) Round them all up with promises of food, put them in a camp in the desert, and send them home. 4) Or better, do that and say they are welcome to stay in the camp in the desert with rations until their court date in 2035. 5) Put that camp in the MOROCCAN desert. 6) If they complain, laugh and say “Make Me” to the Moroccan government, as this is YOUR international incident that YOU started, pal. 7) To stop the incident and an expensive war, Morocco takes the people back who shouldn’t have gone in the first place. Done by Friday.
    They don’t WANT it fixed by Friday. It’s all made up.

    Ask General Patton if this is a problem too large or complicated for a 4-Star to solve. I bet you can.

    “RFK Jr. Steamrolled Dana Bash Over Fauci’s COVID Lies (Matt Margolis)

    This is ridiculous. Bash is a reporter so obviously she hasn’t read the science. She’s a glue-sniffing illiterate. Maybe if we create a picture-book version. She is disoriented since as a person of infinitely privilege, this is the first time anyone has challenged her for being a lying, illiterate, boob.

    She is the ultimate “Appeal to Authority” not questioning where any such authority comes from, ‘cause it sure isn’t from competence. This is the same as forwarding random news interviews and Pundits, and is capture in the long running meme: Sooooouuuurce???

    Wojak

    “Water is Wet” “ Sooooouuuurce??!!!??”

    My Source is Pepe and Fox news who haven’t been right since 2002. It’s Colonel MacGregor, but NOT General Holt. A Colonel outranks a General if he says what I like.

    It’s all nonsense. That it’s said on the Internets does not make it true. I then go cut-paste the OPPOSITE view, or a Flat-Earth view, or a Lizard People view. All on the internet. You’re not asking for a Source. Because when I give a source you don’t go look at it and engage with the material, same as the PRESIDENT (for example) has Ultra-Top-Secret access, and we still say he doesn’t know anything. RFK is the HEAD of the Department and can (and just has) opened up 100,000 pages of documents making his case. But he’s still dum although he IS the “Expert” now – if there is one – and ALSO provided the “Source”. But he’s not a “Real Expert” or a “real Source” suddenly now. Real experts have never been tried.

    That’s not actually the problem. The problem is you don’t WANT to cross-check your confirmation bias because it’s more emotionally satisfying to stay ignorant with the herd and go right off the cliff. …As Covid well-demonstrated.

    Did this for years. I was like, “I can fwd the link to the NIH mask studies, that closing schools had no medical effect and devastated children, not only educationally, but to active suicide with thousands of deaths” and so on. Nope. “NIH” is suddenly not an Expert. They suddenly can’t read. Why? What “Source” are YOU following, if not the NIH itself? A: The Herd. And the Herd is CNN – while CNN OPPOSES the Science, the NIH, the research. Chad on Twitter is the “Source”. Whatever is Popular is the Expert.

    Yeah, no. I WANT to be like that. But I’m not capable of it. Because it’s completely irrational, if not insane. I’m incapable of operating my mind like that. Like the NIH may be wrong, but YOU wanted the “Expert” the “Source”. Here it is and suddenly it doesn’t exist.

    And yes, that goes to alternative views like Kokinda and Luongo. MacGregor, etc CLAIM THEY DON’T KNOW. The world looks totally crazy to them! …But then don’t ask any questions. Don’t seek out people for whom the world is NOT crazy and what’s happening makes sense. Right or Wrong, but they PREFER the state of not-knowing, being irrational, to exploring hypotheses of how it IS rational from hundreds and thousands of people who have them. …And they know AHEAD of time. They know before they know what to look and not look at. Hmmmmm. How odd. When I look at something, I don’t know until I look at it whether it’s nonsense or not. They somehow all know ahead of time.

    Just like Covid. Just like Biden’s competency. Just like Yellowcake. Just like everything for 25 years. I know before I know what I’m not allowed to know. Must be nice!

    Those are your “Experts”. That is your “Source”.
    Source
    Calvin and Hobbes: “Sooooouuuurce??!!!??”

    “Cuba’s goal essentially is to erase the United States “

    That seems totally fair. Our goal appears to do the same to them. However, which one of us is bigger and is there anyone pulling their chain? Because Cuba is broke, how are they “Funding” anyone? Ah. Banking records.

    Placement of Rubio for the Presidency. Which, ugh!, seems likely.

    “Rupert Lowe offers pact with Nigel Farage”

    Yes but Farage himself is a Pro-Immigration Party. Made up of former Tories who oversaw the largest invasion in world history and who are themselves foreign non-citizens. Soooo…Possibly worse than BoJo the Clown? Good tactic though. Lowe can out them as a viable option because they’re essentially Labour Lite. More Blair than Blair. They literally say they will stop illegal immigration by defining everyone here as being legal.

    “The CCP is THE #1 external threat to the United States of America.”

    Are they though? How? Boy this sure works to have the U.S. destroy themselves with China, since the plan to destroy us using Russia is no-so-good.

    The only threat we have is War. And the only enemy we have is within.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 2 2026 #246413
    Dr. D
    Participant

    $230B in fraud, one line alone. Gee, looks like we CAN balance the budget. You’d think so with taxes this high!!
    Like I’ve said, we don’t have a taxing problem we have a SPENDING problem. They’re spending it on graft and fraud, which is always limitless.

    “These images out of Spain are an unfortunate reminder of the consequences of mass migration and the radical left-wing globalist policies”

    Couple things: By this sentence, which we all agree, “Left-Wing” now means “Billionaire oligarch”. That’s what the Left is and who they work for, always and everywhere now. To drive down wages and ruin, esp minorities. Add more rapists-per-woman ratio.

    Second, so Spain built a new city of 60,000 to support these people, right? Why not, you bigot!?! Oh, a new city of 60,000 was built…every DAY. We need another tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow…

    Spain was not built in a day, do you see what you’re asking? That city of 60k exists just fine: it’s in the nation you just came from, the one in which you are already a legal citizen. Why can they have legality in two nations, while I only get one? Or 27 nations throughout the continent? If I land for a vacation in Milan, I am automatically a legal citizen now? You have to house me? Gee, the hotel people will be mad!

    I point it out because this is becoming NORMAL. Like “This is all normal and expected, of course if I break into your home, the ONLY option is for you to give me a bedroom rent-free.” Uhhhh…??? No, actually?

    Theory? Docktor is making a point as the Devil’s Advocate? No! Perish the thought. They are immediately breaking into everywhere and robbing everything as quite obviously they have no money and no 60,000-person hotels. What do you want them to do? They can break into your house and steal everything, or they can die. That’s on their perspective, very simple and clear.

    …That’s why this can’t be allowed, and never was before, EVEN in a time with no passports or “borders” so to speak. If you did this in the Middle Ages, they’d round up the locals with pitchforks and roust you out. Probably with A LOT of deaths. In Rome they’d send a legion and crucify you. We’re giving you a free plane ticket back to your nation of citizenship, which is more than you deserve. Economically, you should be thrown back into the sea you came from. Like, you come up to the wall, the gateman says no, so your boat can’t land, you remain on the water. But we don’t do that which we should because we’re nice that way. This is a thousand miles past that courtesy into madness.

    So…who’s going to build that new city of 60k for them today? They’ll demand another new city tomorrow. If they wanted one, why didn’t they build it back home? In Nigeria, Sudan? A: It’s work and we don’t do that. I take work from YOU instead. Defending yourself in any way is immoral, so you have to let me. I take it all, kick you in the pants, then haul off your daughter by the hair. Same as every other time in history.

    “Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is claiming that Iran is unable to pay its troops – though without offering specific evidence to back this,

    R U kidding me? Iran inflation rate is 100% and rising. There are no products to buy. It’s OBVIOUS they are not “getting paid” in any real way any human would recognize. Okay, I’ll cut your pay by 3/4 Mr. Reporter and see if you feel you’re “Getting paid.” I suspect you’ll squawk.

    “Trump: “We’ll be hitting them. We’ll be hitting them very hard.”

    Yeah, well, that was never the point. The point was always “Will it matter.” That’s what I keep arguing on is not this second part, but the commentariat worldwide saying “We’re not hitting them ackshully. Iran has taken no damage.” No. We are. That’s not the problem.

    However, the strategy is to keep identifying IRGC, London moles, and kill them, layer by layer, until only the civilians are left. That is a strategy, and it is very, very definitely happening. Now is it a winning strategy? Well, remains to be seen, but they have one. He is not “Panicking” while lounging around playing golf and dining with his private chef. He’s not lost or doesn’t know what to do with 20 teams and the whole Pentagon advising him. He clearly makes all kinds of decisions daily, as he goes, like everybody else. THAT is the part I’m arguing.

    clearest warnings yet that uncontrolled mass migration has evolved from a political dispute into a full-blown national security crisis.

    Uhhh…the rest of us said this was a crisis in 2001. Y’all said we were crazy, what was happening, wasn’t happening, and if you kept going ever-faster in this direction, you would never arrive at this obvious location.

    Surprise! If you walk West day after day, eventually you end up much further west. Who knew? Except everyone. Everyone knew. The problem was you have to start shooting to stop it. And not at the immigrants who are just poor saps like you.
    Conceptually: these are the Global, the International Socialists. “La Internationale”. As distinct from the National Socialists, but very little difference. They believe in one-world, brotherhood of man, where all humans are discrete economic units and there is no culture at all, having all been erased under Lenin. There is not even gender. There is no property, no action, no hope or dreams. You are all insects serving the hive.

    The hive is run by us, the Oligarchs, the Party, the Inner Sanctum. Well, somebody has to do it! And that ain’t you.
    Erasing borders is precisely this mindset. This is their 100-year written goal, in thousands and thousands of papers. And also their plan to murder widely, as in the Club of Rome. And on the ground now, the RESULTS of that goal. Rape, murder, robbery, fear, poverty, ruin. They know it and have “Misery Spread Widely” and are very pleased. Otherwise they would stop it, right? They’d be mad. Sanchez is very happy. He’s annoyed people don’t love it as much as he does.

    Contrast: “Trump has pursued an unprecedented immigration crackdown. Since returning to office in January 2025, he has launched a sweeping enforcement campaign involving mass deportations and expanded detention efforts, pledging to carry out the largest migrant removal operation in US history despite widespread criticism”

    However, he’s actually done very, very little. I mean, I appreciate it, but no. If there are 25M illegals, then 25M must go. And at a minimum apply legally and properly, which itself is a generosity they don’t deserve having already broken 100 laws. But we’ll let that slide for context. +25M must go. Wages rise sharply, housing falls dramatically, the Millennial and Zoom are saved. You’re welcome. All we need to do is enforce the law, and as written in the Constitution.

    This is exactly in agreement with Bernie Sanders who said so for years and years. And also with Hillary Clinton, likewise campaigned on it for years. I agree! I’m glad we’re all together on this, makes it so easy! Wow, there ARE non-partisan issues, that’s great, you’re right!

    ““Well, man, hang in there as long as you can. We’ve got no Patriot missiles for you, but hang on.”

    But everyone is still saying the U.S. is the head of non-stop support for Ukraine to attack Russia. What gives? Is someone lying and should be discredited? Not re-posted anymore? Whaaaa???

    “”Drone warfare has altered the balance in Ukraine, weakened the spirit of Anchorage, and given Europe a new political case for the conflict”

    What is “The Spirit of Anchorage”? Nothing visible is known. Gossip and innuendo. Tell me, sir! “Europe” had no place in Anchorage, yet the sentence specifically says “Europe” as the second clause. No “America” at all. Sooo…huh?

    Yes, Trump was right, but also what most probably WAS the “Spirit of Anchorage”? Putin traded something – we don’t know what – for Trump to read Europe the riot act and tell them to knock it off and surrender immediately. As usual Trump style, he did. Loud and hard. On the back side no additional money, weapons, etc were known to be added there, aside from what Congress has already required. They may be giving intel, but Trump does not run the CIA, a rogue organization, well-known, and it’s understood you can’t just stand up and say “The entire Federal government is made up of felonious traitors who are completely out of control”. Oh wait: he DOES do that actually. Almost every day. Everyone pretends they don’t know it’s true or what he means, WHILE defending Comey, Fauci, daily. Right. Epidemic of “Not Noticing”. Well, reporters are all glue-sniffing illiterates, so it’s expected.

    “• Why Western Europe Needs The Ukraine Conflict To Continue (Lukyanov)

    We all know this, but not “AMERICA Needs”. We get nothing. Like the Gulf, we have no interest there at all, don’t care. Europe’s plan was to MAKE us fight Russia on their behalf, and then die. Have a Russian Revolution at home, break us up and recolonize us like 1917. Again, it’s exactly BECAUSE of the war, the lack of support, that the (Well paid, foreign agent) bolsheviks revolted in 1917. That was our plan and they needed a war to make it happen. Hillary promised to go to World War III Day One of her administration, against Russia.

    But another President DIDN’T. No war = Not enough social pressure to get a real revolution, paid or not. And then we cut off the money, Lenin’s train of gold, direct from London. This was Tsar NICOLAS’s gold, actually. London BORROWED it from him, then sent it back on a train so to not repay. Same as USAID was not London’s gold. It’s the American people’s. Cut that off = no Revolution.

    This was Europe’s plan, quite obviously not ours, nor can it be. There is no possible profit or motive at all for us.
    Thus is the “Spirit of Anchorage” where the Euros were hilariously and pointedly excluded as a bunch of irrelevant nobodies. And US-Russia signed deals on how to carve up the world economically, the collapse of Ukraine already being long-assumed.

    Everything that’s happened since continues to support this.

    “• US Not In Dispute With EU Over Ukraine, But Still Key Player — Diplomat (TASS)

    Kind of. We were key negotiator in telling Europe to knock it off and surrender or else we’ll cut off your money and oil – both of which we’ve done.

    “According to Rodion Miroshnik, the United States is doing everything possible to preserve and strengthen its hegemony”

    That is very CLEARLY not true.

    “Hegemony means the strong power, control, or leadership of one group, country, or idea over others… Today, people use it to talk about political dominance”

    We are very CLEARLY not dominating all nations in Empire and are receding from that role. We COULD, we know what that sort of position and military action looks like (under Bush-Obama, who are identical), and this isn’t it.

    So we are clearly FORFEITING Empire and Hegemony, which proofs we see daily, and I’d like some recognition of this. Nope. Evilly-evil is always evil, uniquely evil. Lincoln is the same as Obama, is the same as Coolidge, is the same as Biden. Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt are identical views. Trump and Obama, Trump and Hillary are obviously identical, because they are both “The United States”. Jesus Christ, no. C’mon people. If there were no policy change, why would they be fighting it?

    A: Not Noticing. How would I HATE then? I must have HATE. There can be no good things.

    “• US Sees Profits As Key Foreign Policy Goal, Russian Diplomat Says (TASS)
    Foreign policy is like a major game of chess in which the United States seeks to make profits at every turn,

    Maybe. But if it’s “Voluntary exchange” with neutral partners, why is it bad? Isn’t that what you do too?

    ““The Americans can see the growing importance of energy resources. ‘You have oil — we’re coming for you!’ They first went after Venezuela and then Iran. They are also in favor of isolating Russia in terms of energy trade,” he added.”

    Uhhh…all three of these are false, actually? We neither run Venezuela — having no men there at all – nor Iran, I’m sure you’ll agree. Venezuela is selling MORE oil, at MORE profit, to China. And this is bad? We then so isolated Russia in energy trade that we lifted all sanctions, immediately and forever, which continues today. I believe we’ve cut several energy co-investment deals. So…

    “• Trump’s Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation (McGlinchey)

    Yes, and we’ll never be able to get back to those Iraqi military bases either! I’m furious!

    “. A war of aggression that was supposed to precipitate a revolution :”

    Was it? What makes you think so? He slipped you the Top Secret red folder of war plans or are you using your DonaldTelepathy while you spoon him again? And golly, he’s Pro-Iranian. Geez. He’d walk 100 miles to help Iran shoot a protester. From his hatred of the U.S. I can only imagine he’d do the same to us at home.

    “From using negotiations as a ploy for surprise attacks to murdering heads of state and casually reneging on American commitments — including his own — Trump’s damage to US diplomacy will be evident for years.”

    Um… My dude? We already did this. Since like 1810 or something. Read a book. For the love of Christ and all things holy. His next sentence? Doing what we’ve always done is MORE bad when Trump does it. Ah. Right. #Logic. So long as we’re clear and fair.

    “Seattle’s in free fall. Will anyone stop it?”

    No, because a central tenet of Socialism is that people who are happy don’t make revolutions. It’s only by breaking everything, making everyone desperate and miserable, starving and near dead that the conditions are right for the Glorious Revolution, where Christ comes down in a cloud or something, maybe it’s Marx, unclear.

    This is Cloward-Pivon in a nutshell. You have to ruin, destroy, both the people and the institution, make them desperate, then collapse, in order to “Win”. This is precisely the plan with health care, as we all said since 1992 and have been borne out every minute since then.

    So no, they will HELP the free-fall, and must. This is a religion, and their version of causing WWIII so Christ and the Madhi can be FORCED to return and obey my command. That I alone shall know and force the day of their coming.

    IOW, they’re insane. Completely, completely insane. More Misery = Less, ackshully, Day is Night, Up is Down, Men are Women, and other very real stuff they actually, really say and believe.

    “if Spain offers free stuff to migrants that is above 90% of the living standard of Earth, they create a forcing function for 90% of Earth to move to Spain, which is around 7 billion people!”

    Like this. Environmentalists. Now you point it out to them, they don’t change their minds or adjust, just keep going. Reality doesn’t exist, only my mind, my religion.

    Christ WANTED us to nuke WWIII, ackshully! Everyone knows that’s his central teaching, right?

    “Pepe Escobar July 31, 2026
    Never underestimate Yemen. Yemen shall resolutely match escalation for escalation. Just as Iran is doing.

    They didn’t actually at all until just now. Explain? He does not. Those are facts, so they are not open to discussion.
    So I very muchly doubt Yemen since they were no damn help at all for 160 days. So you think next week they won’t flip again? I’m proud of Yemen for their fighting, but What a loon.

    “The Saudi-led “coalition” is as pathetic as it comes. Several participant Arab nations don’t even have a navy – such as GCC members Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, plus Jordan.”

    Yes my dude, that’s why they’re renting ours. Since the Petrodollar in 1971, you may have heard of it?

    The magic of “Not Noticing”. He knows this, then doesn’t know it again a moment later.

    “This cannot possibly hold. …You cannot possibly protect defense and economic relations with Saudi Arabia – including a recently upgraded military pact – while preserving the trust built with Iran.”

    So he suddenly notices and reports this is a war between SAUDI ARABIA and IRAN, and not us at all. Israel Who? Didn’t he say only last week it was only Israel? What happened to that, man? All gone. Never happened.

    Okay, so we have a Saudi-Iran war he says now, which equals a Sunni-Shi’a war. And Saudi will just surrender here? Or Iran wins and then go back to doing nothing? Never touch Saudi, Oman, Kuwait again? Hahahahha! No. You know that yourself, Pepe. Iran wins they conquer Saudi, all the Gulf states, it’s existential. Sunnis worldwide are wiped out – that’s all those other nations you’re talking about, who are Sunni – and Shi’a Iran takes Mecca, the Holy City, forever.

    Yup. They’ll just cave and not fight at all, I’m sure! I mean, with so little at stake, which is everything, all money, all nations, all lives, all religion, all at once. Every prince will be a dishwasher, but they’ll just roll over I guess, sez Pepe.

    “The same position applies to navigating Hormuz.”
    Or not. As they have claimed Oman as their fiefdom. That’s viable under the Law of War, but you don’t engage with that it’s a hostile, military invasion, annexing Oman for your convenience. Discuss?

    They are letting oil out to China alone. Hahahaha! Retard: oil is fungible. Okay, then all China’s oil is from these pumps, while the other oil shifts to Europe or wherever. Same as “China won’t buy our soybeans” okay, but Japan will, the same acres of the same supply changes around; all beans grown are eaten 1:1 same as yesterday. No change. So the Straits are Open, I guess! This isn’t 1D chess, it’s like checkers and eludes him because he’s so biased and emotional.

    I mean, okay man, never stop talking. Let everyone know who you are. Christ I used to respect you. Wow.

    “They are simply ushering in The Great Reset.”

    Are they though? “Who is They, though?”

    ALLLLLLL Sides want and need a reset. Duh. The Good Guys need one too. So it’s a given that one will happen. What’s going on is they’re circling each other like boxers, like Kurosawa Ronin, waiting for the moment that when THEY hit the Red Button, THEY get to define what is built after.

    If the Bad Guys would have won, they long since would have pushed the button. That means they’re losing, or 50-50 at least. And from what we can tell, they keep hoping – and the White Hats keep luring them in to hope – while very, very slowly they keep losing a little more each day. Like in Ukraine. Make it look like if they hold out, pay a little more now, they’ll come up with something later, only to be bled dry bullet by bullet. …Which is no accident, it’s Russia very plan. It works, so everyone, Trump, Xi, Putin, all use it.

    Same here. The GOOD Guys are ushering in a “Great Reset”. That’s why we have SOFRA, Tether, DOGE, balanced budget, Tariffs, new USSC rulings, new manufacturing, employment, rare earth and chip plants, etc. Imagine pulling the plug without them, like in 2001 and ‘08, versus now.

    Update your map. Yes, that WAS TRUE. …20 years ago. They stalled the enemy and built the response since then, which they don’t admit and we didn’t think was possible.

    They’ll be a Reset alright. But not for Them. Hit that Red Button right now, the GLOBALISTS lose everything, not us. …And there’s still a struggle after, like between Elon and the American people. Fine. Win this first, we’ll get to you after.

    So I guess the date is now Sept 22nd? That’s not that far, we’ll see. They’re pre-crashing market now to get it all a-rollin’. None of it is natural, all of it is staged.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 1 2026 #246360
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “• US Pulls Troops, Patriot Systems From Northern Iraq Amid Iranian Attacks (ZH)

    There are several things here, and I’m not saying it doesn’t support your argument. It does. But suppose we were to leave those military bases, what/how would we do that as an exit process? A: We would bomb them. No joke. We blow up our assets not to be left behind so the enemy can’t use them. Iran is doing that for us. And not killing anyone at all mostly, so thank you. Those bases cannot be restored by President Kamala and AOC, so we are leaving the Middle East even if the Democrats and NeoCons don’t like it. Now I WANT them to do this. Everyone of every other political stripe is furious those bases are gone. They call it losing, and I call it winning. When we have no issue bombing them from Missouri Wtf would be keep a base in Kuwait?

    Part two is again, WE take 100% of the damage, Iran is taking 0%, in fact, Iran is even STRONGER now that they have no ports or bases, no Navy, or Air Force. Right? Winning is when you have 12,000% inflation and losing is when it’s 6% and your US T-Bonds are selling great.

    No. It’s a function of modern war, where Offense is greatly outpaced defense. It’s very easy to blow things up – far TOO easy. But it’s very, very hard to defend. Iran can’t. They have no air defense at all. They’re complaining about us who have a, I dunno, 75% defense, gloating with a happy dance of every missile that gets through, while 99% of ours do.

    That’s modern war, worldwide. Look at Russia. Ukraine can offense – even against Russia – very easily, while even Russia’s unparalleled defense can barely stop it.

    So think about war when YES you can blow the other guy up, great. But you have no defense, neither distance nor your bunker will save you. And we’re not used to that. Generals are used to feeling invulnerable. They’re not. We’re not. Not Iran, Russia, Ukraine, nor the United States either.

    Last time this happened, they invented gunpowder, and all your castles, armor, tactics, became irrelevant overnight.

    “No Iran did not… per Grok: The US and Iraq agreed in September 2024 on a phased drawdown of the US-led coalition in Iraq” This mostly proves Herr Docktor right.

    “• Trump Announces Deal for Hamas to Disarm While Israel Withdraws from Gaza (CTH)

    We’re actually doing the opposite. We know Israel will never stop or obey, that’s a given. But who is Hezbollah? Iran/London, ALSO there to stir up trouble, just like Israel does. Peas in a pod. Only by removing them as a paid, globalist moles force is there any chance of a legitimate, sovereign, Lebanese government. (Which had once tried to be the Muslim banking Zurich, which started this 40-year attack on them. By European Bankers.).

    So you see if the Globalists ever get the chance, what they have planned for you and your country. Forever.

    Hezbollah have to be kicked out, yes. Israel can blow them all up, I don’t care, they have to leave the field. And we do that by STRENGTHENING the sovereigntists in Lebanon, making them a real country, no longer a failed state. Look: Hezbollah WAS the government for the last 20 years. I remember when hey stopped being co-equals and the Lebanese civilian gov’t finally become a mere placeholder government. A Mock Trial, Student Council. So what has Hezbollah done for the people in the whole time they’ve been primary government? A: Nothing. They were running the place, had their chance, and it remained a violent shithole. So clearly they are NOT for the Lebanese people at all.

    So? Let them all die and disappear. Trump is meeting with the Civilian government for economic development. Same as Iran, we slowly tip the Lunatic IRGC-to-normal-person ratio back in favor of the non-insane, pro-life and culture cadre, and hand them back their government. This is of course WORSE that they aren’t even home-grown crazies. But run out of France mostly, and London expressly TO make trouble.

    So it’s not like one side makes you free and the other doesn’t. They are BOTH owned by outsiders. 1st lesson. Same here: Democrats and Republicans, both owned. Same in Iran. If you’re for the IRGC, you’re just a punk dying for London, not Persia. It’s Hegel, If not A then B. Bankers lending to both sides. Star-Bellied sneetches, selling arms til we don’t know which one is who. Stop. Don’t be a punk for either side. But right now you may have to cut some deals to even have a chance to get control over outsiders again. Only by realizing it’s happening.

    “I would trust neither Hamas nor Israel.”

    Obviously. And it’s all this Fake Dichotomy that’s a thought-stopper. If you’re not rabidly pro-Hamas, you must want every Muslim dead. Uhhh…no? Or vice versa. No, Israel is NOT actually Jewish at all and has nothing to do with the Jewish faith? They’re gay AF? They’re two very different things? All thoughtstoppers preventing you from looking around and seeing what’s really going on, the narcissistic moles, whispering, really controlling things.

    Because Trump won’t nuke Tel-Aviv tomorrow he’s a Zionist puppet of Netinyahu. Uhhh, no actually? That’s literally an insane position to have? There can be more than one fact and one character per novel? True facts!

    We have to land invade Israel to make them stop in Gaza, but if we invaded we would ALSO be evil. Which translates into “I want a Pony”. Nobody oughta do nothin’ bad. Excellent idea! Others have had this before. Any suggestions on HOW, exactly? A: I don’t care, I want it. I don’t care how; I want it now.

    ““This is an assault on science and scientists, …”It was a maddening statement, repeated by many, that treated Fauci as inviolate, if not infallible.”

    Ad Hominem attacks, but in reverse. If he’s one of “Ours” – however he got in – then he can do no wrong. If it’s one of “Theirs”, he can do no right. A Fact-Free Zone. No one engages with any data at all. It only stands to reason that they – the mental type – that ignores data to attack any “Them” would have a flip side of refusing to see any fault in “Us.” Very unhelpful though.

    It’s the Feminine perspective. You’re in the family, Us, then we protect you to death. That’s why women are famous for protecting rapists, abusers, priests, and other cretins, mostly with “Not noticing”, while men are famous for murdering them, whether the abuser is an “Us” or “Them”, formerly. The crime itself makes you an instant “Them”.

    Media Engineers made sure we met Dr. Fauci – who no one had ever heard of – as a trusted, ultimate “Us”. Then no matter what he does after is Good, by definition. Men do not have this switch in their heads, mostly, I can only infer as I don’t understand it.

    ““I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.” —Dr. Anthony Fauci,

    Sold! Go ahead then. Explain it to me.

    ““..several Democrats on the panel rushed to Fauci’s defense mid-hearing.”

    They are very carefully preventing facts and data. They know before they know what they don’t know. And exactly at what point the not-knowing is safe or dangerous. Magic!

    “Fauci’s team is left arguing the pardon only covers conduct through the date it was signed, so any new admission could expose him to fresh charges.”

    Awesome legal navel gazing. Now DO something. “Contempt”? Really?

    Just start charging him with every bribery and document-suppression scheme, there are thousands.

    “THE BEST MEDICINE IN THE WORLD WILL BE FREE —

    Yes, controlled by your feudal lords. And if they don’t like you, they’ll euthanize you. …Like in Canada. So see? There IS a price. A very high one.

    “Imagine being Elon Musk, having a car in your garage, and then sending it into space for 10 million years”

    I can imagine planting a million trees with that money. That makes sense.

    “Regional states serving as US shield will ‘burn in fire of war’: Top Iranian commander”

    Iran is attacking and will conquer all opposing Gulf States, who will become limp vassals of Iran. he says. Got it. They have already invaded Oman, which is the crux of their strategy. Uhhh, no actually?

    “Israel Who?”

    Obviously all the Gulf States can relax and stop fighting so hard in this war, siding with the U.S. and stuff, now that Iran’s goals are clear. You’re just going to cease to exist, Iran says. Resistance is Futile.

    ““We explicitly declare that Muslim countries must exercise foresight, monitor America’s crimes, and reconsider cooperation and alignment with the United States,”

    Yes, except no Muslim countries are doing that. At all. Quite the contrary, the U.S. appears to be operating at the command of said Muslim countries and against you specifically. Discuss? And not Israel, actually. Who he’s insulting daily. Discuss? Nope, it’s a fact, so we ignore it.

    “Trump is desperate as Iran war expands, US casualties rise, military runs out of missiles”

    “Trump eats 5 star dinners and hangs with rock stars, as a rich guy unthinking and uncaring of anyone else. Not panicked, a bit, not even caring.” Fixed it.

    Oil supplies are dropping. Will it matter? Maybe. I don’t see why not, but you’ve been wrong for 6 months straight so clearly you’re no guide. They exhibit no embarrassment and maintain a 1,000 foot wall against self-reflection. Okay then.
    While they’re unable to engage with existing facts since February, they ARE in a Vulcan mind-mild with Trump and telepathically are certain of his every move. Ah. Every time Trump is sad, Danny gets a direct text message. Those are the guys who said we “surrendered” for the “off ramp” not two weeks ago? Bombing over!?!

    I’m not worried about who wins the war (no one, like most wars) I’m only hammering away on why no one can engage with reality. Even Things we actually know and are very sure of. Like oil prices. I say they’re $80, no response. Not “This is why that isn’t true, will change, you wait, here’s the reason” etc, but nothing. Any fact not supporting the side doesn’t exist. And this is a good thing, I guess, ignoring all facts every day wins wars.

    When he says “Empire is in Terminal Decline” and I say GOOD! That’s the plan! No engagement. So even we we agree it’s not engaged, interacted with, discussed, hashed out, etc. Why? Because it might lead to thinking, and thinking is dangerous. Facts are dangerous. We must not discuss, only repeat, repost. No matter how many thousand times they’re wrong, we just re-post as if they weren’t. So it never happened! I already forgot! I don’t remember, Senator.

    Haiphong: “Trump Had a Sad”. The endgame as Iran dictates to us when we stop bombing them. Using what, exactly? We can’t make THEM stop bombing – yeah! I know! But they can stop US from bombing? Ummm…huh? How? By hitting exactly zero American targets? So far anyway?

    Just like them, gas here can go to $200/gal and we don’t have to stop bombing you know. We can just choose not to, be mad at them or whatever. In any case not ‘til 2028 or later. Sooo??? How does this work exactly?

    P.S., someone’s economy has collapsed? Jesus, not ours, that’s for sure. There’s nobody I know not driving a $50k pickup and racking up all the credit cards. Restaurants are always full, sales are brisk. Homes are $400k and people pay them. How, well I don’t know, but that’s what I see, economy is moving quite fast, places are hiring. But again, that this isn’t true dissuades no one from “Just Saying Things”. I want it to be true, so it is! Easy.

    “Chas Freeman: Middle East in Transition & a New World Order”

    Deeply committed to the New World Order. Yeah, I know. Deeply sad when Empire ends. Yeah, I know.

    Chas: The U.S. sadly is no longer head of Climate Change Increasing Poverty and misery initiative. He’s heartbroken. He also claims the U.S. was the head of this, which is hilariously false. He claims China is the head now, which is even more so hilariously false, I’m speechless. They’re top planetwide in both building coal plants, and burning coal. So essentially, any facts you can pin him to are completely false and dissociated from any reality. This isn’t even Left-Right, Pro-Anti. EVERYONE agrees the U.S. was never the home of Global Warming. EVERYONE agrees China is the worst in that regard.

    Chas just says them. Knowing people will just eat it and repost it. Soooo…not much hope on far more subtle things.

    Just makes things up, as if he lives in another universe, not even parallel but completely randomized from our own.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 1 2026 #246344
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “333 million Europeans—more than the entire population of the United States—have fallen into energy poverty,”

    While the U.S. is doing fine and doesn’t notice. If tariffs and wars n’ stuff were bad wouldn’t we be doing bad, or at least worse than Europe? Canada must be 5x worse than us over the last couple years.

    “Hamstring AfD on Eve of State Elections…
    …Just like how the EU began studying ways to break its own “democratic” charter and allow initiatives to pass without the required unanimity”

    No rule of law whatsoever. We Make S—t Up. I want to invest there! Shut up and take my money!!!

    “Italy Suspends Schengen Travel Agreement With Spain After Horrifying Ceuta Invasion

    Maybe you can finally get Europe’s sleepy, slothful attention? Is this enough to motivate?

    Nah. The only thing they have, that keeps them from acting, running fascism and eugenics programs, ethnic cleansing on a daily basis, is the belief they’re morally superior to the United States. Then it’s all okay.

    Looks like you’re going to have “Deport Millions Must Go”, and another million will get killed in the effort. That’s a “Must Invest” location. I’m putting all my chips on Germany and VW, who is shutting all their plants.

    Unitree IPO Finally Puts A Real Price On Profitable Humanoid Robots

    When Musk says he’s making a billion robots, who is he talking to and why? And AI centers. What y’all are saying makes no sense and is stupid on its face, so you’re lying. But WHAT lie, and WHY?

    Theory: He’s talking to CHINA. There’s a lot here, like we apparently changed our doctrine and have ringed the Pacific with nukes in an ever-expanding perimeter. We already know they wanted to take the U.S. and use us as an African food colony, with extensive plans. We are saying no.

    Now not that this wasn’t all staged: Clinton gave China our Sandia Labs books, the blueprints to the stealth bomber, etc, all to MAKE this war happen. HRC then kept an open server to sell them the Top Secret day-to-day info. We know they were running Fentanyl, their own modern opium war, identical booklet. Fine. Ha ha. But this has to stop. They set it so if we tangle with them, they shut off all goods and rare earths (dum). So “We have to go to war tomorrrrroooowwwww!!!!” Fox News says. While the next article is how we can’t beat Iran. Sure guys. And if we do, we’ll shut off all their food, so no mas. Globalists will delight the happy dance as millions die on both sides.

    Now: Xi is fighting a coup, a struggle in his own Party, country. It seems we gave him the book on that, and appears to be Globalists vs Sovereigntists there too. So do we KNOW Xi’s internal emotional state, his strategy concerning us? No we do not. And it may be different. Like it looked like Davos and the Weenies (New band name) would run America as their collapsed colony FIRST, and their handmaidens the NeoCons, in a dress, would attack Iraq, Iran, Russia, then end up with China with a stamp of the ICC, UN and WHO. So China needed to fight us as an enemy back then. Under Biden, Obama, we were! Those people with that mindset are still in China and the CCP, same as they are embedded in the Pentagon and CIA thank tanks (And Fox News) in the U.S. today.

    So we go and say “Hey, nobody wants this, we’re being set up, and here’s the employment records of the people doing it. Good faith/ go get ’em. If neither of us want this war, you know you’ll have to become more independent, less on exports, and we’ll have to manufacture more. All of that is disruptive, but perfectly normal for all us states to circle around a center point of mostly self-sufficiency and independence. …Away from the Genocidal Globalists. What do you say?”

    And so it appears we are both doing that although the plumbing to change is enormous and 40 years deep. Just like we sanction Russia to make them stronger, more independent, we tariff China the same. They have to shift to internal consumption, and Xi can blame us for it, though it has to happen for both our sakes.

    What’s with the robots?

    China can invade us by marching out, and having a million men surrender. Then tomorrow have another million men surrender. We can kill them or not, but you see the problem. China CAN do this. And there are still a generations of Generals raised on the necessity of this, inside China. We are not ENOUGH of a threat to them to make them recalculate, although we are formidable.

    How do you change that? Without bankrupting or turning America into something unrecognizable? A: Elon says “We have a billion men too. All AI. We can build a million a month if we have to before you can respond.” And he/we can. But God forbid we should have to. We haven’t. It’s only a bunch of words from his air-hole.

    There are many other things going on, but that is why he says this, which otherwise makes no corporate, national, or geothermal sense.

    So he’s speaking to those sides saying “Don’t pull the trigger. There is no certainty of a win right now.” That includes us internally, Americans, but of course our own Davos moles we’re 80% riddled with in government and 99% in Media too.

    Likewise the AI. There IS something going on with it, and they’re not telling us a word, since everything they say and do about it is fully incoherent. Take the guy running the AI hedge fund. Already a bad, sketchy, reputation, he’s over-levered in AI exactly as the bubble is breaking. Why would you do any of that? Let the muppets take it. In fact, why would you invest in AI at all, much less a lot, a market which makes no sense you can see from space? It’s all an ARRANGED, senseless, irrational MILITARY attack on our markets, to crash them. Yes? Not a single AI thing turns a profit, never will. The centers MIGHT exist – probably not – but they have to buy, then dispose, all the server racks every 5 years, therefore the rate of burn they have today will never end. There’s no fiber-optic-line, build-it-then-collect-on-infrastructure for 20 years after. It doesn’t pay now, and in 5 years you have to buy again. Or sooner.

    Besides, they get smarter and in 10 years you can do the same thing with 1/100th of the server rack.

    It is MEANT to crash the system. It was NEVER real. Not for a single minute. It is using Capitalism against us, so to speak, using the rope to hang ourselves, in their own good Lenin style.

    And so you MAKE it crash. You MAKE people invest. You MAKE the media run it. You MAKE the people buy, by making visual AI free so the common Joe can get excited, plausible. Then you MAKE the investment so irrational – 10x more irrational than .com and Mortgage Backed Securities — “The Big Short” times 100 — that it HAS to crash. All the bulwarks of even the Fed and Treasury are overrun. Then Capitalism is discredited. Which it never was to begin with. Stealing stuff and attacking you to steal more is not Capitalism. Duh. France invading Germany isn’t Capitalism. Nor this.

    So you get a guy arranged to try to be the cotter pin of the system, carefully building him like Madoff-with-da money, or Bankman-Fried, right out of grammar school. Then he may even believe what he’s told but YOU know where all his weak points are, and can halt his $5B HSBC credit line over night, starting the AI and thus U.S. Market avalanche when YOU want to.

    This goes with his problem, identical to ’08. They are stock-kiting, circle-jerking “My valuation is X so I borrow against to by YOUR stock, which YOU borrow against…” in a fever-dream of fake valuations and no product. …Until, as this guy is doing, someone asks for a price. Once anyone ASKS for a market price, sells, then the whole thing pops as they realize it’s 1/100th of the listed value, and everyone sells because you have 300:1 leverage in reverse. Like Cisco and Nortel.

    And so it would seem we are at today. That guy — their designated avalanche-causer — asked around for a selling market price on his AI investments. No takers. The ASKING tells all insiders it’s time to sell.

    And all those AI are offered on military bases, where the locals can’t say no. They are being supported with pocket nuclear reactors, Sci-fi style. I’m not hypothesizing this, or saying we have zero point energy, this is official, it’s on the board, look it up. That’s the new world we’re already in.

    So Bessant, these guys, can’t stop them. Not enough leverage under Biden when it was starting. Maybe can’t even stop the crash, but why would you WANT to? All sides WANT a crash. Prices need to re-set. The crash mathematically has to happen. …But they want to position to control who takes the BLAME, and what happens after.

    Now why would you stop these centers? If anything gets built it will crash in bankruptcy. You’ll buy a data center for $1. WHO will buy it? These brand-new, fully attached, ultra-modern facilities, but that also don’t have power, no electric power plants to run them?

    A: American Manufacturing. THEY can jump in and own, repurpose the facilities the Globalists had constructed for us, and they don’t NEED a nuclear plant beside each one. A normal grid buildout is fine for them. Which we’re also doing. Hey guess what Global Warming: remember how we couldn’t build anything it was totally impossible to build a grid? …Until one day Tech maniacs who want a surveillance state wanted AI brains to control you and then we could build anything they want on endangered-species land in downtown NY? 100 nuclear plants and the cheap power they said you couldn’t have? Good times, good times.

    …And don’t think the people haven’t noticed.

    But the point is Bessant is LETTING them build it out. Then we’re going to STEAL this very real infrastructure they build as fake-cover to crash us, and say Thank You.

    So THAT is where it starts to make sense. …But also why they don’t say it to the public. Would any of you believe me? You on this site read this every day and can barely keep up. You’re going to try to explain to the PUBLIC? Yeah, Not right now.

    Could be they crash it this fall, right now basically. They’ll blame Trump and Iran and unregulated Capitalism, none of which is true. However, the Soverientists have such power right now, they will only be helping us win the country back if they try it.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 31 2026 #246285
    Dr. D
    Participant

    New idea: We only post videos from people who are right once in a while.

    Better than a 10% ratio. They can be wrong 8.9 out of 10 times and be good faith. That should eliminate almost everyone getting posted lately.

    picking up the sword in the first place is proof that the swordsman is already dead.” — DBS

    Maybe. But if I were an evil guy I would want you to think that. This is exactly what gun control activists say. Then I can abuse you at will and laugh. ANY use of ANY sword fro ANY reason is evil and death. There is no self defense at all. And no Just War at all. All human impulse over all time is mistaken.

    Unless there IS self-defense, and there IS Just War that has rules, and I can pick up that sword. To save England and the Cul de Sac with my children on it in Rotherham.

    If you want to say there’s a good chance I’ll die using the sword to do this, we all say “I know.” That doesn’t make it immoral. No different from jumping into a river to save your kids.

    “”Looks Like World War Z!”: Spain’s Ceuta Invaded By Thousands Of Military-Aged Male Illegals
    CommonPic

    You are not allowed to stop them. It is immoral not to give them everything they want or resist them in any way. Yes? Just hand your daughters over now, saves time.

    [Iran] “The United States is the aggressor.
    The root causes of the current situation are clear: The United States’ ongoing unlawful actions pose a serious threat to regional stability,

    This can also be true, but I’m concerned that no one addresses any alternate and additional facts, like IRAN declared war on US. We are the aggressor, responding to a war long since declared? Where famously Iran is shooting off bullets hourly with many many proxies?

    I’m against them doing this, they may have perfectly good reasons, but engage with the facts here.

    “Zionism and Jihadism are neither any better than the other.” [All nations act for their own interest] — Charles

    Right. So why the emotionalism about it? Some can be LESS wrong, but that doesn’t hep emotionalism here. It just clouds your thinking.

    “Tariffs increases the cost of all goods and services.
    Tariffs increases the cost of imports and exports.
    Tariffs increase the cost of inflation.
    Energy costs are also increased.
    The US tariffs are increasing the cost of energy that they import.”

    Except this never happened. Yet. It’s easy 1/10th of the inflation under Biden, who had no tariffs. It’s all cost of oil right now, and even that is half of what was predicted. That’s the fact, saying the above was the allegation, which turned out to be wrong.

    “Alastair Crooke: Iran DESTROYS THREE F-35s as US Attacks BACKFIRE, Trump in PANIC MODE”

    Trump has actually been panicking non-stop since 2016. He’s been falling on the ground, weeping and crying, and never seen on the golf course nor at 5-star dinners or nothin’. Boy is he tired! Media sez! Why would they lie?

    They report non-stop Feelz, and zero facts. Daily. So have their reporting and predictions been good? Or not so good?

    “LARRY C JOHNSON – IS THE DEPT OF WAR COVERING UP THE TRUE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES?”

    Absolutely. Over 1,000 but below 5,000. Again, all reporting focuses on us and not on Iran. Half the war is entirely unreported. Iran has taken no damage at all and in fact is STRONGER than when they started you say. So thanks, United States, and if only we can keep bombing them more, they’ll be stronger and happier with each bomb that falls. Right? That’s what you’re reporting. Well, you’re welcome, Tehran. Happy to help a pal.

    Does this non-stop thing make any sense to anyone? Use your heads.

    Possibly Iran HAS taken damage they don’t like and 10:1 more damage than the U.S. or even our area assets? Otherwise they would be happy, right? The commentariat would also be happy, and not upset with the U.S. They would not claim “Empire” and “The U.S. is dictating”. Like the MoU being IRAN’s MoU, their own actions, statements, prove we agree the U.S. is pounding the hell out of Iran and they know it. They are upset because we’ve bombed them to powder all over and they have no air defense and are living in caves.

    Then they SAY the opposite. But their own actions reveal they know what the reality is, they are just lying, making things up to win on the Internets. Give nations that bomb anyone they can reach a nuclear missile. This seems like a good idea to them because then their ego wins points online. No. I don’t prefer that, and quit yanking my crank because your own actions and approach show you think Iran is getting clobbered. I respect being mistaken, and I respect the idea that Iran has the just side in the war, fine. But I don’t respect open, transparent liars to my face. It’s insulting. I also think you’re lying to yourself, so you can’t think straight, why would I listen to you.

    Now will that MATTER? Matter if the U.S. bombs the hell out of them if they just don’t surrender? That was always the problem and Remains to be seen, but stop lying about it.

    We know ahead of time what questions not to ask. We know ahead of time where to stop, what to avoid saying. We know because we don’t know. We don’t know, but we also know ahead of time not to ask. Stop.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 30 2026 #246148
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ThePlan

    Dr. Fauci x100: Then DO something.

    Answer to the 5th = Yes, actually, it does infer to everyone that you’re guilty AF. That’s why people don’t use it though they should. It exists so the State doesn’t torture a confession out of you, which they still do. So this is a 3rd way.

    Consider in Scottish law, there are also three: Innocent, Guilty, and Not Proven. These might be useful distinctions, but we flatten them down into Hegelian Dialectic. The Social engineers know this and it works wonderfully to them to A / B. If you’re not MAGA you’re a Blue Hair, there is no middle, moderate, moral, third path. Or two, or three, or 100. But that’s a rare case where we allow three: Admitting, Denying, and not speaking at all, pleading the 5th. …Where everyone can socially and reputationally see you’re guilty, but not legally. Both are separate, and both matter.

    • War Pause Holds, Trump Vows To Destroy Pickaxe Mountain If No Deal (ZH)

    What is this “Pickaxe mountain” thingie? We just forgot to bomb it?

    Suggestion: we don’t know WHAT-ALL Iran has been up to. So we bomb every mountain BUT that one. Then as all the sites are cracked and crippled, they retreat to the bunker “we forgot”. Exactly the place we directed the enemy to be. Now we have far greater certainty ALL things are inside it that before, where they were all over the country. Then we bomb it.

    This is how Iran is controlling the war with oil crashing to $80 and we turn the war on and off at will the day before the Congressional 60 days. They are winning which is why they have no air defense and we’re flying sopwith camels over the whole southern front. Yeah, no.

    Okay, man. They hit nothing in the U.S. at all, so no one here notices. People who hate Trump still do, to everyone else the war is just abstract and pointless.

    “Mediators Say US-Iran ‘Close’ To ‘Resurrecting’ Failed MoU Deal (ZH)

    They sign with the CIVILIAN government then someone from the IRGC pays them a little visit. Then we get their names and kill them. Step by step, fewer people to threaten official legal and elected officials!

    “• US Forces Block Attempted Iranian Surprise Attack (Catherine Salgado)

    Just a little bookkeeping here, WHY are we at war with Iran? Um, let’s take the other side:

    IRAN HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES.

    Now of course they officially declared an active war on us 47 years ago, and we thought they were a mosquito and didn’t do anything about it all that time, but the point’s the same. So when a nation legally declares war on you, what are you supposed to do? Legally or actually?

    Well we chose to do nothing mostly all that time, and fine, I agree. But that didn’t work so well (insert 47 years of details here). But legally, THEY declared war on US.

    Do we ignore that for 100 years? 200 years? What?

    Frozen Conflict: British special. Korea. India. Soviet Wall. Cuba. Etc. Then you’re at-war-but-not-at-war BOTH, all the time. Which is how narcissistic sociopaths function. “Why you hitting yourself? How dare you?”

    So it’s appropriate Khomeni is both alive and dead and they like it better that way. Since normal people can’t conceive of this, take it as their calling card. IF you see this: they’re evil. It’s this group.

    Ritter is masterfully Not Noticing, where history starts Jan 20, 2025. Why did we bomb Iran in Feb? They declared war on us. We didn’t do that, even now. They did. Come to the table and negotiate and then you can withdraw the declaration of war we never had. It’s a thought, I’m not blind to what’s going on, but we’re One-side-onlying here.

    “Khamenei’s regime just executed several more freedom protesters”

    And so does the U.S., all the time. And?

    Also, what Khamenei? Is he or any of them alive? Esp Nutsy? Stop just assuming this because if it’s not him, it’s his stuffed corpse and two jaw wires from the IRGC?

    Meirsheimer: “Trump is looking for an offramp”. Uh-huh. In March, April, May, June, July, and now August. Huh. Boy he sure is bad at offramps! It’s almost like he was never actually looking for one at all!

    Napolitano: “Isn’t if obvious that the U.S. has lost this war, but still having 98% of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines?”
    Meirshiemer, “Obviously. And that is why the U.S. stock and bond markets are at record highs and our bond markets are selling like hotcakes. Because that’s what “Losing” and “Collapse” means.” Ah. Maybe you missed that in their interview. Also, because Iran won is the reason we haven’t a slightest effort in blockading them entirely. That’s what “Winning” means: it means you have no power to stop a blockade and the other side is still fighting. Your inflation is 3,000% and the losing side inflation is 3%.

    Etc. Very tired of saying it. Any takers. No one addresses this, these are some of the very few hard facts we know.

    He then continues with Saudi being a nuclear state which is false. That is not at all on offer, only on Media headlines, because they are incapable of “Simple literacy” and “Using a Phone”. Go look into it. But for example you think they want to build a 3 Mile Island 10 miles from Iran’s Ballistic missiles which they promise to use against Sunni heretics? I don’t think so.

    Also missed, because it is true and the media would burst into flames if they told the truth, Trump bitch slaps Netinyahu about a dozen more times this week THE DAY BEFORE the visit, saying Israel is no help, they’re dumb, they can only dream of having any intel we don’t already have.

    Turkey is a great, strong country, one we actually support, and they hate Israel, and Trump approves of this. Look it up.

    Hmmm…that seems to be against the narrative. No wonder they’re incapable of perceiving it. They can see nothing but pre-sumptions from 1994, when they first learned and haven’t updated their map a single bit since.

    They’re talking about Trump’s pressure, pincer campaign of markets etc, when oil is $85, let’s say $90. What pressure?

    What. Pressure. ???

    I see no pressure on any side, not from the public, the midterms, the markets, other nations, the gulf, nowhere. Not even Russia, China, anywhere. What. Pressure.

    This is a prerequisite, a presumption, taken for granted by Iran.Press.Tv, and Pepe. It made sense! Normally that would have happened, and I’m sure they planned on it, their strategy pivots on this.

    Except all are false. None of these are happening. Trump’s ratings are unmoved. Democrats are plummeting. Gas is high, but tolerable and steady. Markets are fine (lots of hazardous churn for other reasons like AI), but US Bonds and Dollar are stellar.

    THEY JUST SAY THINGS. They just make them up. What they planned to be true in 2026, they just SAY is true now, when it isn’t. Meaning – even worse – THEY HAVE NO PLAN. No Plan B, C, D, as one should. Plan A failed so…we do Plan A again! Like in Ukraine!!!

    Then it doesn’t work and they do it again!

    Day after day after day. The midterms are not in danger. Trump is under no pressure. I’m not sure he cares if they ever act. President Vance can keep it up 10 more years. If there is any pressure, then to the contrary, like President Putin, the pressure is from the MIC that he isn’t bombing and invading ENOUGH! That’s the pressure he has to navigate, from those fiends.
    Fox News for one, demand Trump have a land invasion hourly as “The only way to win.” Ah. Thanks. I’ll put that in the consideration that you’ve been wrong about everything you’ve said since “They’ll greet us with flowers” in 2002, Fox. But my point is, where is the REAL pressure, not the Twitter pressure. I see none.

    So thanks to being under no pressure for anything and not in danger of anyone, Trump is looking for that off ramp to surrender again, and the keys to the White House will be handed over, the Mullahs will be directing the Pentagon’s forces now. The American people will love and accept this.

    Twitter is not reality; didn’t realize I had to say this.

    “Gilbert Doctorow on what Iran might do to Ukraine in retaliation, and how that might be coordinated with Russia:

    Stop. Think. If you were London, and losing all over, this is a trap door to get things moving again. Assume “Iran” (which one?) is run by London. London needs this world war. Unf Russia also knows all that and refuses, so they won’t miss this either. But as a Hail Mary – and they are running out of air daily – this has merit. Expand the two wars into one world war, just as planned!

    …Except every other part of “The Plan” isn’t going to plan.

    “Martin Armstrong asserts: Japan Is the First Domino in the Sovereign Debt Crisis”

    This is probably true and has been predicted. It also stands to reason. Question is, who is positioned to ride the tiger?

    “.The Bank of Japan is trapped.” They’ve said this since Die Hard, in 1987. Also that we’re trapped since 1971, 1979, 1987, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2008, and now. Okay man. Your timing sucks.

    Watch “Scott Ritter. Iran Strike US Airbase”

    O. M. G. Do I have to? Isn’t being wrong about everything for months . And months. And months. And months. proof enough? Don’t I get a pass if this guy is as correct as AI-generated gibberish?

    Remember, Iran sunk our aircraft carrier, Trump landed 1M men, and when that didn’t work, he nuked Tehran. I mean, it was last month, surely you remember.

    Thanks to Ritter, I changed all my investments since the market crashed and the USD is 30c, while Iran is now the currency of Switzerland. And that only makes sense since they’ve annexed Oman and called a truce with Saudi Arabia, who is co-habiting Mecca with them.

    Ritter: Interview: FeelzFeel, Feely-Feelz. Moralizing, Guilt, Innuendo. Anger, Hate, HATE!!!!. I hate, do you hate!?! Yeah I hate so much I must be right! Hey, did you know leaders of nations R bad m’kay? Saudi Arabia are uniquely corrupt, while the US is ALSO uniquely corrupt. Ah. So first among equals, and Iran is uniquely moral and all ‘round swell guys. We’ve seen this for years! Iran is well known to be mother Theresa worldwide!

    Ritter: Iran can lift their pinky and Saudi will cease to exist. But despite being arch enemies for 1,000 years, somehow never have, and not now either, despite the war. In fact, they can’t seem to hit anything. Why?

    All Saudi refineries are burning, can be destroyed in a couple hours, yet oil is $85, as every trader on planet earth is wrong, but Ritter is right. No facts, details, etc as were the refineries and ships hit with paper smoke bombs again? Or real weapons? Ritter neither asks nor cares. Markets seem to tho.

    Saudi is going to collapse. For not reason. Then be run…by nobody. Iraq he says. Which is 100 miles away, across a sea, a smaller country, and is itself in chaos. So I’ll put that on the board as a Ritter prediction: Saudi is collapsing as we speak, it will be run by no one at all. Or Iraq’s central government will occupy and run it. Full points either way.

    Very smart customer. Everyone knows this will definitely happen. And Iran will be the sole power there, because…all the other nations have ceased to exist, he says? Probably out to Egypt, Libya? Pakistan also vanishes? Same rules, same plan. Go ahead and listen.

    He then again hypothesizes the U.S. land invasion which not a single asset supports. We have made no moves whatsoever. He also knows exactly how many missiles we have down to the one. And also, while saying he’s confused, doesn’t understand what’s going on, and Trump seems insane to him, ALSO he knows exactly what our internal war strategy is. Ah. Re-read that sentence. That’s why we listen to him, because he’s so frustrated and being unable to understand anything that he’s furious and losing his mind.

    …Instead of asking questions. Instead looking. Instead of listening. Why.

    “I always listen to people who are over emotional and losing their mind; it makes me much more selective.” — Spinal Tap

    “War On Iran: – U.S.’ Missile Defense Stock Is Severely Depleted
    These numbers by CSIS, which show what is left in the stockpile of U.S. air-defense missiles, explain Iran’s current strategy.”

    Don’t you remember? We ran out of Missiles during the 12 Day war a year ago and have nothing left. We are disassembling washing machines for their chips and rare earth. That’s why we have no air defense and Iran is flying their copters over us daily.

    “Patriot missiles are down to some 800.”

    And you believe them? Here’s an organization that’s failed every audit ever tried and they not only know how many down to each one how many missile we have, we openly share this with the media, sending a fax to every hostile nation on earth as they count down. 799. 798. Yup. That makes sense. When has the Military ever lied? We’re landing in Europe in Calais, not Omaha in Normandy. Trust us. There is no SR71 Blackbird, that’s a conspiracy theory.

    “The US ran out of targets it could reach without risking valuable aircraft, CENTCOM “

    See what the meta-reality is in that sentence. That up to now we are bombing everything with no risk to aircraft. That’s how you know Iran is winning, that we can bomb them freely and daily with no risk. The other meta-conclusion is that if you want to risk some aircraft, we still have some targets. 3) We also don’t know how much risk. 5% more? 55%? 99%?

    “Now go ahead and rate Socialism and Capitalism.”

    They both suck but one sucks less than everything else that’s been tried.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 29 2026 #246024
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Just double checked, Am I crazy in that both seas are closed and WTI is $82/bbl?

    “The last time Abqaiq (in 2019) was attacked by drones, Brent prices rose 20%. Today, they’re down 7%”

    Again, discuss? Something different certainly seems to be happening.

    USD is at 101.50 but CAN$ is .71, the low end of the range. If it’s wrong that Mexico and Canada need the US and not the other way around (look at the structure, and we beg you not to do this, look just at wage remittances to Mexico) then why is CA$ in danger of cracking lower?

    They’re the good, strong guys, where Mark Carney is about to give us what for, and we are the bad, evil guys about to collapse, and everybody knows it. Every Michael Hudson and Jeff Sachs says the U.S. is about to collapse tomorrow. We lost and Iran is about to take Congress and occupy us. The embarrassment of no longer being a viable world power, with a collapsed military will crush the dollar, and inflation from Tariffs and the war will drive inflation to 9%. EACH. So 18%.

    With oil at $200,000 a barrel, Pepe says. USD 101. Gold way down, Silver way down, Oil way down, 1/3rd of predicted price.

    What’s going on? Inflation is boring, long-term grind, 1/3rd the level under Biden. US$ strong, bond sales going great, oil very reasonable, with good supplies, no hints of fear.

    There is a huge disconnect between what people say and what’s happening. I’ve never seen it this bad, especially in the Alt Space.

    1) Everyone on earth is an idiot.
    OR:
    2) They know something you don’t.

    “We cannot make lasting peace with people who believe that murdering innocents is laudable.”
    Yes, we all agree on something.

    ICC “This bias is not a mere procedural coincidence, but the reflection of an institution that has placed its mechanisms at the service of interests alien to justice and the peoples it claims to protect.

    Coming from a continent that lauds Nazis and is running an active genocide. Two. Or twenty, if you count each nation individually. They stop free speech and overthrow any election that even LOOKS at them crosseyed, including sitting leaders going back to ‘08 (Italy, Greece) then lecture Venezuela while taking their (and Argentina’s) gold.

    So apparently there’s no law, and it’s just whatever I like as the most powerful force can get away with? Okay then! Glad we’re finally on the same page and the mask is off, ICC.

    “we also know that Rubio is largely running Venezuela,”

    Do we? How? If it were so easy shouldn’t we take over the rest of the world immediately? Why doesn’t Russia or China just do what we did? One man, one day: Boom, you run the country. Wow!

    ThenAMiracleHappensStepTwo

    What is Step Two? Where he’s “Running everything” because, like he ain’t doin’ nothin’ and has the time. Yup, not a box of Masa is stocked anywhere in Caracas but Rubio commands it. …Would you like to try again? What you’re saying makes no sense. Refine a little. “I said some stuff, now it’s true.”

    ““In April 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit shut down Boasberg’s contempt inquiry, with the majority describing it as an improper “judicial intrusion into the autonomy of a coequal department.”

    • Judge Boasberg Keeps Ruling Against POTUS, But Keeps Getting Overturned (JTN)

    So he defies and is repremanded by the USSC constantly, a thing which is a career-ender for most judges, to be avoided at all costs, even by throwing the case, and nothing happens. Congress can remove him in about an hour, but they love him, and every Republican there too. I mean, check out the Senate’s SAVE Act.

    So this is not “One rogue judge”. This is Roberts, USSC, Congress, that means your states, etc. Otoh, he has cleanly removed the title of “Most corrupt court in America” from the 2nd District of NY.

    About 20 more levels with Roberts as well. He runs the FISA courts and loved everything that happened, even at this late date, with Trump as President, and all admitted officially.

    “• Prosecuting The Prosecutor: Will Jack Smith Face Criminal Charges? (JTN)

    Well he was never a Prosecutor, so I want him arrested for impersonating a Federal Official and Person of the Court, which would be much funnier and point it back where it belongs: At Congress. Oh and P.S. Back to the FISA court and warrants, with unlimited wiretapping on all political opposition going back to the Patriot Act.

    So you have a random impostor taking out a President. No official office at all. I should do that! So should you! Print a badge at Kinkos, walk into the Federal Building, sit down at a desk. Take out Comey, Fauci, Taylor Swift or whoever you don’t like.
    Then make a J6 Committee that also isn’t legally formed, has no powers, and tamper with and destroy all evidence. All good!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 28 2026 #245993
    Dr. D
    Participant

    See it it will post:
    “So this is what we think of when Cidiots on the coasts say “Muh ‘Merica is the richest most powerful nation!”
    https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dass5ytuvMR

    Since everyone hates Americans and wants us all to die — including 1/3rd of Americans ourselves I guess, this will make them all very happy.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 28 2026 #245952
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So this is what we think of when Cidiots on the coasts say “Muh ‘Merica is the richest most powerful nation!”
    Pic

    Y’all look and sound like Caesar Flickerman. You’re so far from reality, you can no longer see it from there and think you ARE in Reality.

    Flick

    Ha ha! Your death is so funny to us! Guess they were too stupid to rent a Uhaul and learn to code!

    Also in the news today, Baltimore loses half a million residents and is no longer really a city. I blame Trump. “This is MAGA country!” It’s because Republicans have not been in charge for generations that it’s their fault. And the racism. …Which is Blue since no Red people live there.

    You know, you can get off this bus to hell any time you want. In just a few weeks in fact. Stop installing policies that always fail, and do install policies that always work. They do not. Ideology is too strong.

    No-Go-Zone: Rotterdam Imposes Unprecedented Nighttime Exclusion Area”

    They could just enforce the law. But now they’re enforcing another law to enforce the first law.

    “US Military Forced To Let Some Iranian Projectiles Through Its Defenses: NBC
    NBC report says bases & host countries much less protected than previously thought…”

    WHO, “Previously thought”? You, NBC? Okay then you’re fired. This was obvious it was happening, the only question being “And then what?” Oman surrenders to Iran and becomes occupied territory?

    “US One-Way Attack Drone Found Adrift In Hormuz Offers New Look At Western Capabilities
    “Iranian fishermen found an American drone”

    That didn’t take long. So we’re already giving away free drones to the enemy. I’m sure nothing bad will happen.

    “Musk compares AI and robots to “a personal God” that will provide humans”

    Considering my present experience is that anything mechanical is broken, and anything digital is both broken AND evil, we may have some work to do. I have almost never seen anything computerized improve anything, although that may be different if you have 100 GeekSquad techs running around like elves fixing everything so you don’t have to.

    Stephan Miller: He’s not being condescending, they literally do not know this. I suspect that puts them below midwits. He has to do this every day on every subject with them. However, because “Below midwits” they are unable to experience embarrassment and therefore an impulse to do better. We do it again tomorrow. How does this work? They are all hired and kept by the world’s top Oligarchs. Oligarch>CEO>Editor>Reporter. Simple. Why can this happen and not be run over? 1) Financialization = free 0% money for every bad idea 2) Clinton’s erasing of Sherman any competition in Media.

    Money with no value and no competition = “Capitalism” of course.

    “President Trump permanently ended the unfair estate tax,”

    How can he do that? That needs Congress.

    “The world map is being redrawn, and the “Old Guard” is being uprooted and replaced.”

    Yes, and sadly you can’t “Just Leave” or there will be a power vacuum and Mogadishu warlord conditions overnight. …This isn’t fully organic, other players actively jump in and MAKE it that way (France in Africa, eg) but to avoid Mad Max collapse conditions worldwide you need to hand off to someone. Competent.

    Of course if we hated everyone and wanted them to die we could just do this the way Fox News and Progressives ask. Sadly, they are adults and are leaving with a process. I don’t really want to waste the time nor pay the cost. Bonus Tip: it’s discussed in hushed tones that the U.S. does this foremost in Europe, who will all attack each other overnight if we stop being the anchor and counterweight there. It’s one reason Europe wants us there, as useful that way. This is disturbing in two ways.

    “(Zelensky’s) trip to London to meet the coalition of the willing and King Charles; followed two days later with the surprising “drone” attack on the Dormition Cathedral”

    This doesn’t seem to be provable, however I believe something like this is happening.

    “• Iran, Oman Hold Hormuz Talks As US Pauses Airstrikes For Second Day (ZH)

    Again, what seems to be happening is the CIVILIAN Iran is fine with calling a truce and signing something. That doesn’t mean full surrender, it just means they’re normal and find bridges and power plants expensive to repair – by Halliburton and KBR. Every time they do anything in the realm of “normal” though – even stall – the IRGC is paid to undermine and attack. …And the IRGC is 30 non-communicating zones, in the “Mosaic” strategy. This is all obvious and pre-planned to cause maximum damage to Persia for the benefit of “London.” Because just like the CIA is not American or even Anti American, the IRGC likewise does not work for Iran but only themselves.

    So we’re on phase 29 of that. The Civilian Gov then point at the latest IRGC holdouts, and then we blow them up. Rinse, repeat until the IRGC no longer feels like being anti-Iranian. We’re not tired at all and have a lot of bombs. Nothing in the U.S. has been blown up or degraded yet, not even a 7-11.

    “Burnham is an out-and-proud socialist who had already signaled that his government would spend and tax more.”

    Note what’s NOT in his To-Do list: WORK. For a Party of the Worker, the Hammer and Sickle, they never, ever, ever think of doing Work. Where do “Taxes” come from? Only spend them, never make them. If they only focused on WORK – even with the same policies – it might actually work, or a lot better. Instead, it’s the outlook of Theft and Envy, consuming not creating. Capitalism ain’t great and has a lot of faults, but they have to get up and MAKE and DO things to get by.

    No idea in general what’s up with Burnham yet. In general the problems are so grave it would take revolutionary action just to address them badly and merely survive as a nation and people. And he is not that guy. Ireland is already gone and Canada may be.

    Okay, in news, after 150 days or more, we’re FINALLY having oil effects. …Which are STILL not in “the market”. Gold and other indicators are still down, US$, market etc are still UP. …Proving every Fox News and Garland Nixon guys wrong.
    Hey, I respect these guys. But what I don’t respect is when something they say doesn’t’ happen, and not that they make up excuses (they have) don’t bother explaining all the things that don’t fit (they don’t), but DON’T EVEN NOTICE. They don’t even notice Reality, that nothing they predict seems to happen. I guess their viewers don’t’ either? And are also immune to all reality?

    Like Covid reaction, I did not see this coming, or not in the Alternative Audience space who just spent 25 years complaining about it and knowing better.

    Back to oil: not before, but NOW the oil reserves are officially near the bottom, Cushing is, Kazakhstan is stopping, Russia is stopping and having refinery trouble, and we’ve already re-jiggered a lot of flows worldwide. Now the oil from Saudi over the Red Sea is being halted. So the dozen other means that meant they were all wrong and there was no $200,000 a barrel oil as Pepe Escobar promised, didn’t happen (And he didn’t notice). So now…NOW we can see if anything will happen.

    Okay, Yemen it hitting the Red Sea at last. Oil rises 30%. Everyone Cheers! Yay Yemen! We’re so glad to see you shut off the world’s oil, Fox, Nixon, eg Moriarty say! That’ll larn ‘em!!!

    …Except oil is LOW. Yes, it’s high, but it was this high under Biden and other times. It’s like $100. Yes, that’s bad but if you said The Straits are closed, Saudi Arabia is closed, what do you think the price will be? Surely they would have said $200/bbl with gas lines and hoarding, right? Me too actually.

    WHY ISN’T THAT HAPPENING?

    That’s “Reality” boys. So you, we, me, all of us had a prediction, somewhere in this zone, and that isn’t happening at all. Why? That’s all I’m asking.

    Could be it will FINALLY happen, although markets say it isn’t, and after 150 days all Pepe’s Predictions finally come true, although none of them have. But when you’re that wrong, you have to start to wonder if it’s just a timing issue. Seems impossible, doesn’t it? Seems like maybe if you’re that wrong, we’re missing something.

    $100 – and presently for a very short time – is very very LOW for shutting off both seas and the other nations being shut like Russia (sort of) and Kazakhstan too. So far as we know, YES the U.S. is filling and getting rich, but THAT much? Not officially.

    Yet there are the markets. Suppose they rig oil – and I think they do – it’s a bad signal. So they rig gold, silver, gas, Dow, everything else TOO? Wow, we’re really, really saying there’s not a sparrow that falls that isn’t at the command of someone, and we don’t see that elsewhere. They’re all in a melee and chaos, fighting each other. Surely SOMEONE would take a try into attacking their market rigging, break oil by breaking silver or something, get it to its natural market price of $250/bbl.

    Nope. I don’t even see the pressure from trying. Either rigging or un-rigging. Systems normal. Normal daily corruption not world-bending corruption.

    Explain?

    That’s what I get so frustrated about. No one notices. No one notices their predictions make no sense. Then are wrong. Then something like this happens, they doubles down the prediction, that oil should be double with double the seas in trouble, but aren’t. Then they don’t notice again, and double down again. When pointed out to them, they ignore it and stick with whatever they learned in 2002, as if the world hasn’t changed one bit since then.

    Discuss?

    If there’s no oil, why is everyone driving cars more than ever, economy is fine on the street, and no actual effects appear, only allegations in Internet Abstraction-Space?

    This is the best example, but you find it in all the other news areas too, Europe, Bonds, Japan, Ukraine, Cuba, wherever. Nothing happens that is predicted, but no one notices or looks to why.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 26 2026 #245813
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Trump 2028. They’ll probably believe him. I expect it as tomorrow’s NYT headlines.

    “The EU just keeps LOOTING American companies”

    They don’t give a total-total, but looks easily in the $100B+ range. Yes, this is why you have sovereignty and jurisdiction. And then cut off from the bad faith actors and eventually go to war. This is just Britain boarding our ships and conscripting our men like 1812. Yeah, no. If I let you do that, there is no United States. …Which is precisely the plan, with the invaders, they are not National Socialists (tho some are) the Fabians are INTERNATIONAL Socialists. They believe only in their power, oligarchic one-world government, with no nation states counteracting them at all. Which is even worse, if possible.

    They are a little short this month on the Ukrainian genocide? “We Make S—t Up!” We make up some dumb reason you need to give us another bil. $18 Bil. Gosh golly, whatever billion suits us, which is ALL of it. Yes, this is colonialism. European colonialism, worldwide.

    Can’t live this way because you can’t plan anything. There are no rules. It’s just pirates all the way down. Re-framed, this is “Private Property”. Erase private property and life itself does not exist. However, Slavery does, stealing the hours of your life.

    “negotiations were initiated once US gasoline prices reached $4.20 and became materially more urgent as prices neared $4.50. Oil may be a global commodity, but political tolerance for high energy prices remains overwhelmingly domestic.”

    I talk to Leftists all the time, and yes this is true, but really no one in America cares. They are more butt hurt and likely to vote about tweets, or about how Trump is deporting poor harmless pedophiles and persecuting innocent Hunter Biden. (Who needed a pardon). So the sense of the political urgency is very slippery.

    “Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree says the group has launched two “sensitive operations” targeting Saudi Arabia”

    Which Houthis? Which Yemen? Some guy paid off by global arms dealers who has 6 mortars and a camel? See the problem? I’m totally willing to say this is the rebel government, which I consider to be the legitimate government right now, but I’m making the point here. So Comey and McCabe were the same as Trump? They were in his government, they must be official and do only as ordered, right? Are not the Houthis the same?

    More interesting question: Why Now? I would have popped them off for London on Day one. Is it to drag it out exactly as it’s doing? Yemen just lets S.A. bank all that 150 days of revenue and buy weapons. Yes?

    “• Russia Guaranteed To Win Ukraine Conflict – John Mearsheimer (RT)

    We knew that in 2014, decade before the war started. So that wasn’t anybody’s plan or point. The point was to murder Slavs. EUROPE’S point was to MURDER EUROPEANS. By the millions. Good job, Brownie!

    “I think events in Iran and just the course of the war between Ukraine and Russia is creating a situation where Ukraine’s future looks highly bleak,”

    If we don’t look out, something bad might happen.

    “• The Real Reason Why The Media Hates Elon Musk (ZH)

    Musk was their god such a short time ago. Such is the Jacobean mob.

    “Musk has been directly and indirectly accused of promoting racism, fascism, sexism, and even genocide.”

    Meanwhile this is the official policy of Canada and Europe. But that’s the GOOD fascism, sexism, and genocide, where women are assaulted and raped in the streets and the police arrest anyone who interferes. You simply MUST let armed robbers into your house and don’t interfere in Ontario! Bob Ford says. He’s my coke dealer and supporting the Fentanyl lab workforce here.
    Hilarious that the Economist is being criticized for failing all free speech, then censors their own pages for Copyright.

    accusing its director of using the museum as a “political instrument” to accomplish her own ideological goals”

    They’re all ideological goals. However, their issue is that they pretend it’s objective and not a state religion. Break that, and the whole thing deflates.

    “journalism schools teaching that the purpose of journalism is to change society, not to report facts, by bought and paid for narratives that serve organized lobbies,”…that is, journalists obey wealthy oligarchs. You dips. This was already entrenched and endemic in the 90s. We all thought it was far too far then.

    “Iran signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and has not enriched uranium to the level that could be used for nuclear weapons.” –PCR

    At least we’re having discussions and addressing facts. Just pointing that out. I however disagree. About both Israel and the enrichment. I was wrong and they were right that Iran was months from making a bomb – which I knew but believed it was their ultimate, Sampson, and would never use it. FF to 2026 and Clearly they would bomb everyone they can reach, the minute they were able. Big loss on Herr Docktor for missing this. It was hidden in the Iran CIVILIAN and Iran RELIGIOUS would not. True. However, THEY DON’T RUN IRAN. Like Tavistok 2.0, they installed a new improved CIA in Iran, the IRGC, that like our CIA who TRIES to illegally run everything in America, in Iran they actually DO. And are overjoyed with the prospect of getting a nuclear weapon and “using it” to blackmail everyone. And not for Iran, but for Globalists and their weirdo religion.

    You can say we should remove Israel’s nukes, or heck, our own. Yes! You’re right! But some nation gets to be first second and third as we do that.

    Anyway, it’s nice to say that Trump serves Israel. Those are words that were written. Are they true? Why would you think so? Iran doesn’t think so, they don’t mention Israel at all anymore. Odd innit? Trump bashes Israel, removes their funding, gets them pummeled, exposes them and removes their power over America. Some service there! With friends like this! Oh no, not the Briar patch! Trump obeys Israel by insulting and destroying them while strengthening the United States!

    “There is no attempt to impeach Trump, and there are no complaints from law faculties, from bar associations, presstitutes, organized interest groups, university presidents, corporate leaders, Christian denominations.”

    Are you joking? Yeah, Paul, all the aforementioned people love Trump and say so daily. No one’s tried to impeach or arrest him hardly at all except the 2 + 100 times they did. Everyone obeys him instantly, there is no resistance or discussion. Yup. Nailed it.

    “• Is Zohran Mamdani Mentally Ill? (Robert Spencer)

    He’s a Socialist, so yes. His plan is to imitate perfectly what has killed 100 Million people, then say “Oooopsie!” so it’ll all be alright. When that causes his olicharchic backers and his millionaire parents to ALSO get more power, he’ll again say “Oooopsie!” and everyone will believe him. Yes, this is pretty mentally ill.

    “• Mamdani’s Netanyahu Arrest Plan Has No Legal Basis (Victor Davis Hanson

    I’m perfectly happy to arrest Nutsy as well, however it breaks like 100 social conventions going back thousands of years, a dozen laws, and re-writes the entire power structure in the U.S. and worldwide. So no. It’s just a stunt and ill-advised. Much as he deserves it. And Mamdani knows that because the second he says it, an advisor whispers in his ear about it that he sounds like an illiterate boob. So it’s an active political choice. Third, this can only be sold to the people who are somehow, amazingly, even MORE illiterate than he is. Fourth, since he’s a millionaire from a millionaire family, installed by oligarchs and not a thrust of the NY Plumber’s Union, so why do wealthy billionaires that are his only controllers WANT him to say these words that are so impossibly stupid and legally illiterate? There is no “Mamdani”, let’s start with that. Jews were a protected class until a second ago, now Lo! it’s open season! Why? Since ONLY OLIGARCHS IN THE PRESS CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN. Actively. All at once, by conscious choice. One day, by magic, up became down. All on accident, by coincidence, worldwide, just like Covid rules.

    “• Democrats Are Worried The GOP’s Cash Advantage Could Hurt Their Chances (ZH)

    Uhhhh….give the people a policy they want? Like we promise to stop amputating your kids and undercutting wages with fake immigrants? That might help your chances AND your donor base. Who knew? It’s not the money, you fools.

    Iran has prepared “free one-way tickets to hell” for US soldiers in the region in response to each Iranian martyr and warns UK against supporting the Outlaw US Empire!”

    And so did we. Congratulations, you figured out what war is! Now why am I reading this? So this is all emotion and no facts. I can do that too, I can put on Max Afterburner, glory in blowing people into pink mist, do a lot of empty trash talk. So it’s good when they do it? Intelligent? Wanted? Desirable? Helpful? I argue no, it is not. So why is it good and smart when Iran does it? Super excited! Elated! Joyful! Yay! Dead people!

    A lot of people say a lot of things on the internet. ALL THE THINGS!!! …Are any of them TRUE. Are any of their predictions HAPPEN? Nope, Garland’s been non-stop wrong with all the Fox news guys and he’s a smart cat. Remember how we ground invaded Ukraine, Caracas AND Iran not but two months ago? AND nuke Tehran??? Man, those were good times.

    Then Trump – while bombing – was ALSO looking for an off-ramp. So he was on AND off at the same time. And totally emotional, unpredictable, although he had Bessant and insurance set up months ahead of time, Russia knew at Anchorage, and he stopped the war within a day of the Congressional limit, totally on accident! Wow!

    Then Trump Chickened out and surrendered! Yup! War is all over except for 13 more days of bombing again, proving them all wrong AGAIN, with every article AGAIN, and I’m pretty tired of it. How many games do you have to lose before you admit something’s gone wrong? The plan, the paradigm, the predictions aren’t working? It’s no longer 1975, 1990, 2002? That something else is going on?

    Something else is going on. The predictions aren’t working. Your base assumptions — and all those of Nixon, etc, are somehow wrong. That’s fine, it happens all the time. But that means you NOTICE and LOOK for a explanation that works.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 25 2026 #245771
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Iran has already won its war with the United States”

    Yes, I see on the nightly news they are surrounding the White House as we speak.

    Also they Petrodollar has collapsed which is why it’s 101.50 and still inexorably rising, there is a dollar SHORTAGE worldwide, and we sell bonds like candy while all other nations are having trouble.

    Sure pal. How about ONE fact that isn’t the opposite of truth for a change.

    I always trust government press releases, they’re much more reliable. …But only if they’re from Iran or North Korea.

    How about we don’t trust Pentagon Press releases and we don’t trust Iran, Europe, or Canada either, okay?

    They have defined “Iran Winning” as “Iran still exists, their name is not completely wiped from all history books, and there is >1 Iranian left alive somewhere on the planet.” That standard means the U.S. lost. If not, what IS the standard? We seem to disagree and have not defined it.

    Krainer/Petrodollar.
    IS the U.S. defending a Petrodollar trade system? Yes, but not in that way. We are LEAVING “Petrodollar” which is “Empire” and reverting back to a proxy gold standard and sovereignty. …But run and spearheaded by the United States. Got it?

    So that’s FAIR trade with Russia, China, Global South. Got it? That’s why they’re on board. How are we defending a system that will be fair and voluntary? Gee, that sounds goddamn terrible, how dare we? Obviously everyone is pro-slavery (open borders, importing labor) and pro-Socialism, which is the Apex of unfree exchange. So having like-for-like, gold-backed trade is anathema to everyone. Left, Right, Rich, Poor, everyone. It’s straight Bastiat: “Everyone is going to live at the expense of everyone else.”

    So yes, the Petrodollar WAS that trade. And it is ending. And we are ending it. I post new support for that case daily.

    Why? Ohh, probably not for any special beneficence or morality of our own. Or sort of. Because ONCE you are IN that Empire, Strong-Dollar state it eat you out inside, including morality. Then it “always collapses” because it most always expand. This is the case We were shouting in 2001 and being told we were idiots, now is consensus reality. So believe me now when we’re 25 years further on: it’s because the only way OUT of a lie is to TELL THE TRUTH. The only way to get out of collapse of Empire…

    IS TO REPUDIATE EMPIRE.

    Voluntarily.

    The only way to get out of being hollowed and made immoral with a too-strong currency….

    IS TO SET THE CURRENCY FAIRLY.

    We are doing both, daily, against everyone’s screaming toddler hissy fits, stomping feet and crying. Because they BANKED on corrupting us completely, and have SHORTED the collapse that now isn’t coming. That includes me and Bitcoin: Bitcoin rises on the corruption of the government and banking system — the easiest slam dunk in the universe, never reversed. …But what if they reverse it? And jail bankers as they did this week? And stop narco money laundering? And start loaning to Main Street? And lower taxes?

    Ooops. Bitcoin stalls. Gold stalls. Silver stalls. There are no one-sided trades. Not even that one.

    This is impossible for Krainer – or apparently anyone? — to conceive of. The very thought of choosing morality repels them. It’s like an invisibility cloak – perhaps the US Navy should try it. This is why the White Hats win year after year: Sauron cannot, can never, will never, ever conceive that someone would NOT be evil, NOT use the One Ring. It’s illogical. Irrational. This is why they investigate all the Republicans, read all their emails for months and years, then press no charges and assume that the skullduggery must just be hidden somewhere else even deeper and be even worse. The fact they can’t find any evidence only PROVES their case.

    No. You’re just filthy, evil maniacs, incapable of perceiving good.

    They are incapable of even CONSIDERING that no American wants and Empire and never did, and would walk over broken glass to end it – and we are, every day, right now in front of you. Their answer? “No you’re not.” Oh, okay then. “You’re a poopy pants and we hates you forevah.” Oh, okay then. How adult.

    That’s Krainer’s problem, AND the pundits of Fox News who hate America with a blinding, undying hate of the angels. — The fallen ones.

    “The U.S. government EVERY government is involved in criminal activities of the worst and most immoral kind”

    But especially the Canadian one, which is non-stop applauding Nazis, foremost in Eugenics, and running a Irish genocide. That’s AFTER growing bored with being the foremost Fentanyl lab and importer, and drug money launderer, decimating its military and plundering the Canadian people and nation blind.

    I point at Canada so people say: “Oh yeah! They DID do all that and so much more! If CANADA is like that, geez, can you imagine what Germany, France, or Iran are up to?”

    Yes, it’s called “Government”. Limit yours today. We ain’t special. But you ain’t either.

    “Iran has refused to charge any fees for passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and has made the transit free!

    They didn’t “Make it free” they never owned it. Never ever. Oman owns half. They never controlled it, never-ever. They THREATENED that they WOULD, if messed with, and I believed them, but the details matter. Other than that: Point totally taken! Yes, thank you, Iran! And Oman. Very cool, how can we repay you?

    Bonus question: The US Navy is the only viable remaining Navy. What do we get for patrolling the planet, which is really expensive, compared to looking at water with binoculars and leaving people from a deck chair and leaving everyone the f–k alone like Iran, which is really easy and free? For that matter, Egypt does do a little, but nothing like $200k. So if they can charge $200k for almost nothing, how much should we charge per ship for a trillion dollars in Naval Assets?

    So are SO RIGHT. I am SO on your wavelength right now. Are you SURE you want to prosecute your legal case like this? I’m all ears.

    “Transition Protocol is a serious, source-driven geopolitical and economic analysis channel — “

    They claim they’re serious and I read it on the Internet, so ‘nuff said. Shut up and take my money, they would never lie. Who on the internet ever lies for profit?

    Listened now to many interviews with Joe Kent. He’s never said a word on any of them. Okaaaaay…. When is he going to say anything so I can measure his information and position? What did I say about all vibes and no facts or details?

    Trump isn’t seizing money from Iran – they don’t have any. He’s seizing it from LONDON. Where all their BANKS are. You don’t think the IRGC keeps any money in Iran do you? Look at the state of the place! Clearly not, they do not self-invest. They buy London Real Estate and offshore accounts.

    “U.S. is the problem here not Iran Get home U.S. and stay within your borders” Reid

    We are finally having a discussion. Iran just showed they will bomb every nation in the region out to Bulgaria if given a chance, a thing which I did not formerly believe. We cannot be in the region without the express invitation of every Gulf State to prosecute this war. If we leave it will be a collapsed, failed region, helping no one but the British and Europeans who will set on them all like jackals. That is not my goal and preferred outcome. I trust it is not yours. It appears at this point it is not Saudi’s, Oman’s, UAE’s, Kuwait’s, Turkey’s, Bulgaria’s, or even China’s either.

    Why not take direction from the brown people who live there? Or world leaders like Putin and Xi? Welp, they know best what to tell everyone else what to do! Especially if it requires nagging, scolding, and never lifting a finger! Get your own Navy and stop us. I’m not kidding. You know what will happen if everyone has a Navy? The 19th century: everyone will be sovereign, everyone will take care of their own business again without us. Yay! What you’re requesting is a Mogadishu power vacuum, worldwide. No. Sadly, though I want to come home, I don’t actually hate all humans that much. Get a Navy, man it, test it, and I guess sadly we’ll have to go home, won’t we? All it takes is a modicum of work. A teeny-tiny bit. Take up two enfields and a musket. Show us you’ll stand and not fall to Ukraine-murdering Davos.

    “The plague of evil that is assaulting the world is ALL coming from the people who own all the money and power. I think that we all need to talk about WHY that is the case, and come up with a SENSIBLE way to stop that from continuing to happen and getting worse.”

    Yes. You end Empire and move back to fair money and fair exchange. This is what I’m describing daily, step by step. Everyone is mad. “NO! Don’t close the Middle Eastern bases!!!! That’s LOSING!!!” “When we leave why can’t we give the world over to maniacs who are even WORSE than we are???” That’ll end evil for ya!

    No and no. Be an adult. Eat your vegetables.

    “Russia began sinking Enemy Ships off the coast of ROMANIA! The WEST is losing ODESSA!”

    See? Those are the GOOD sinking of ships and mass-murdering of men. Other sinking of ships is the Bad sinking of ships. I am not elated by ANY sinking of ANY ships. So we are on the same page then: it’s okay to sink a bunch of ships you don’t like if you can, to get what you want. Right?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 24 2026 #245708
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Bob Moriarty: Why America Is Entering an End-of-Empire Phase  YouTube 

    Nobody wanted an Empire. This is identical to saying “The People are retaking their country” and “America is regaining her sovereignty.” So end of Empire, which was always a skin suit, and not the end of America. More like another beginning.

    It’s weird Moriarty can’t see this. Perhaps the block is that once you wire that America is only evil, then you cannot see any good. Naturally this used to be the reverse but the Social Engineers have done their job well. Now they see only the evil and none of the promise. So you would do the same in 1862 that America is evil and deserves the greatest loss of life ever, and not that we were fighting to live up to our promises and in just a few months all slaves would be freed. That’s just like now. Do you WANT America to try to be better? Or just kill your kids ‘cause they were bad once? Your choice.

    “IRGC To Trump: Strike Iran’s Infrastructure, We’ll Shut Off The Gulf’s Power

    Sure, except you just demonstrated you’ll bomb every gulf nation, every civilian airport, PLUS Bulgaria. So it looks like they have no choice but to fight you now so they don’t have to fight you later, with nukes and better missiles. You’re proving everyone’s point. Even Trump’s, God forbid.

    Keep going.

    P.S. “What Israel”? Here in America some people still seem to think Iran cares about Israel, this has to do with Israel. Iran here is saying it isn’t. Never mention them.

    We’ve also proven that the Straits aren’t important and Iran’s oil isn’t important. Every minute they are closed, all world money flows re-route around them. Oil appears elsewhere. In a year or two, Iran could shut them forever and have no leverage and no power.

    Maybe this is something worth suffering for, for the Gulf States? I mean, I don’t care, but they might.

    Okay, and Oil price is what today? $90. Far lower than before. After recently being $69.

    Gold? Nowhere. Silver? A war material the China could shut off and hurt us with, ally with Iran? Nowhere. 50% down, no motion.

    “Seven Pipeline Projects That Could Break Iran’s Grip On Hormuz Chokepoint

    Here you go. A few years, and nothing. Iran could pump no oil and would make no difference.

    “EU Is Launching A Mission To Board Russian Shadow Fleet Tankers In The Indian Ocean

    EU ALSO claims sovereignty over the whole planet, along with Iran and the U.S. Oh. Right then. There’s no Rule of Law, so it’s just “Who has an army”. Okay then. Under what jurisdiction can Europe do this? What makes it illegal to “Fly a flag”? Europe themselves are the reason these ships exist, since they’re moving oil from Russia to India to re-sell to Europe, the ‘tards. IF Europe does this, oil prices will rise far HIGHER than at present. …Which is what Europe wants? Then they’ll blame the Americans in Iran for THEM blowing up their pipeline and pirating all the oil ships off the waters.

    Uh-huh.

    “EU Approves Biggest Russia Sanctions Yet After Holdout Greece Secured LNG Exemption

    But nothing could be larger than the Steven Seagal Sanctions! They are Socialists: “Real Sanctions have never been tried.” We just need to remove all the farmers from the land in Ukraine HARDER! That’ll fix’r Holodomor. HARDER!!

    I mean…the alternative is to have a leader or bureaucrat have their ego bruised, so the decision really makes itself.

    “Authorities Arrest Fugitive Behind Alleged $547 Million Medicare Fraud

    Half a BILLION dollars. …But there was no government, no banks, and no organized crime involved anywhere. Just Sum Dum Guy.

    Speaking of, the U.S. just jailed mid-level bankers for money laundering. And also attached assets of the Sinoloa Cartel. Gee, we couldn’t figure this out before?

    James Carville Calls On Democrats To Cave On Voter ID

    Yes. Leads the question, why are they fighting it? Officially it’s because all black people are lazy and illiterate, and all married women are too stupid to know their names. I for one disagree with this view.

    “Financial Repression: How The US Government Will Quietly Confiscate Your Wealth
    …the government has no choice…

    Turns out they had nothing BUT choices. Bessant finds another billion in fraud just about every day. If we weren’t paying that, we could pay down the deficit in no time. There probably IS no deficit. We’re probably revenue neutral EVEN WITH the Military spending.

    So like every other crisis: It was all made up. Just say things. Make S—t up. Too harsh? We’ll use the usual term, they were LYING.

    “First Saudi oil tanker reportedly hit by Houthi missile near Yemen, engulfed in flames.”

    First big hit of actual tanker, from non-random country. I wonder what this brings the total to, of “Seriously damaged or sunk ships” since reporters won’t say so, but have to maximize, that is “Make S—t Up.” 12 maybe? Whereas events and frightening misses is 50?

    Now of course Saudi will just surrender and hand Mecca over to the Shi’ites, ending this thousand year schism. Yup.

    “Houthis Threaten Saudi Aramco (ZH)

    Structural question: what took them so long? Iran ASKED them to not act, let Iran be completely leveled first, with no air defense, entire Navy sunk? Something’s going on here. Having these guys in action was a major reason so avoid an Iran war, so having them not move was very strange. So ARE THEY? Or is it all factional, MI6 can hire a rogue colonel, like in Iran (or our CIA)

    “The group is threatening to carry on with attacks”

    Thanks, journalist, WHAT Group? You had ONE job… Okay, so let’s assume that by definition here, it’s not either Houthi “Government”. Right? So “A couple freelancers who were just paid by Europe”. Right?

    “which group was ultimately behind some of those past, historic attacks remained somewhat of a mystery”

    If they’re either government of Yemen, why would it be a mystery? They both have plans for Yemen and its people, are public, political, and long-standing, right? No? Some Some blue-eyed people popped up from Newcastle wearing a shemagh and they’re all legit? “This never happened”, says Lawrence of Arabia.

    “• There Are Only Two Possible Endgames for Iran (A.j. Christopher)

    Options A, B, and C. …Actually those are not the only options, because you don’t know what’s going on inside at all, who’s funding them, and what the real goals are, as above. Could be all we need to do is knock out one rogue colonel, or play games until England’s bonds don’t sell. We dunno. The one thing we DO know, is the official story is not real. So start there.

    “• Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith to DOJ for Prosecution (Bryan S. Jung)

    “Every email”. So it’s a party-wide fishing expedition. AND it’s not just for criminal cases – although it is – it’s for understanding inside political baseball, to cheat and get an edge. Jack (Not a real prosecutor) plays golf and tells the DNC what they need to know, what they’re talking about, to win short term advantages, while ALSO fishing for a long-term crime.

    …And I guess the GOP was so guilty and full of criminals he couldn’t find even ONE? Nor on Trump either??? What are the odds? Man, that must be frustrating. Seems that they’re all criminals, so they just assume the other side must be too; that’s how they act. Speaking of, every day another thousands of illegals voting, every day another 80 year old in a trailer donates to Act Blue 11 times at day to the tune of $175,000, every day another billion dollar fraud comes to light in CA and MN.
    FBI and Special Prosecutors can’t be arsed.

    Sooo…how will this read in the history books? And that everyone was on about Trump – who they could never define a real crime – vs thousands and thousands and thousands of these nationwide?

    Boasberg: Congress can remove him in about one hour. They do not. Discuss. Bonus tip: Congress is run by the GOP.

    “all the way back to Mao. Do we ever talk about that or the million people who are in concentration camps in China?

    No, but I’ll talk about the million incarcerated here. So…why? Clearly the written law does not match the internal morality of the people.

    Wealth of the – Every – DSA, Squad member, all multi-millionaires to a man. Yes, but they’re immune to all facts and reason. I deal with them all the time, saying, “Hey, just have your normal human suspicion of such people.” Nope. It’s a religion. Pastor Bob wants to be left alone with all the boys because he’s a good man that way, and so on. There is no explanation. You can say to their face, pull of the mask 100 times, over and over, no impact at all.

    As Ayn Rand said in 1949 and McCarthy proved. So what DOES work? This. Addicts have to live it out and decide.

    “• Wiring Kiev for war: Palantir’s Greatest Salesman (RT)

    Very dangerous as “They” always do this, and it was the Spanish Civil War that made everyone confident to have WWII. I suspect this is the same. Those million Optimus bots sold to Kiev as Skynet to walk into Kursk and invade Russia, etc.

    “• Why Were Americans Funding Jobs for Transgender Workers in Nepal? (David Manney)

    For the money, they could have easily created twice as many jobs here, and didn’t.

    Why do we want Helen of Troy to have pale skin? Did Homer explicitly give her that?”

    I believe he did, yes. And also specifically describes the armor, which archaeology has supported. Nolan threw all that reality out which was much cooler, okay, so has Hollywood before. Then says it was historical. Then says it was mythological (it also wasn’t, as well-proven) Pick a lane.


    Either is fine,but don’t yank my crank. Don’t make s—t decisions, then blame me you suck. This movie is not for me, because it’s garbage. It’s post-modern nihilistic Euro-hating.

    Also once again they appear to have purchased seats to whitewash that the sales are a failure. This isn’t made up, it’s a low cost way of creating “buzz” and goes way back. (to the 30s?) They’re just leaning into it strongly, though not as strong as some in the last 5 years. Movie Ushers, like at the Cineplex can’t be fooled. They see ½ a theatre pre-booked, then only 10 live humans walk in every night, so you explain it.

    Thing that I took away from the historic discussion above is WHY tf would they BOTHER? Well, appears to go like this: the Hittites were deeper Anatolians and were causing the coastal Anatolians to be vassal states, very common in the era when a “King” was literally like someone from Ithaca, that is, an island of oh, let’s say 10,000 to be amazingly generous. This is true of say King Arthur as well. So when you arrive with 100 war chariots, that’s not from a town of 10k, it’s from 50 towns of 10k.
    Anyway, so “Greek” (also Anatolian, remember “Turk” culture isn’t 1000BC, there is a steady spectrum of “Greekness” in the area) marries off his daughter to a border Greek king. Who then double-crosses them and flips to be Hittite, behind a wall. Hey! That’s my daughter and now I can’t visit! And you’re a traitor! wtf?

    So they attack. No. And that’s the interesting part. Hittites are in an expansionist phase here. So they are going to keep expanding out to Sparta, who knows?? So do you WANT to wait and fight them in Athens? Heck no! So they round up the Greek allies and fight them in TROY. Hold the Hittites to EXISTING borders, and TROY is the battleground and burn to ashes, NOT Athens and Corinth. And it worked: the battle was there, the city burnt was there, and Greece was protected on the borders.

    So THAT is why it was worth fighting 10 years on the borders, over the sea. And had the support of their people back home. And I mean, Helen, sure, whatever. Good for that too.

    You have to understand this was a tiny, tribal people, same as the Mohicans vs the Delawares vs the Powhatans. Much smaller, in fact. Pocahontas’s father was king of 200k (alliance) which was larger than any colony, larger than Scotland’s Clans, and larger than many areas in Europe. We think of them as “Europeans” because we see the world since 1650, but really they are identical or far smaller than Africa, India, China, America…and just as “Primitive”.

    But that’s hard to express and break through how exactly the same Europe was and is. Because that’s “Reality” and no one cares about it, just to make points on the Internets. I learned by my excitement of communicating such things if they disagree with former beliefs that score points then I’m more likely to get shot in the street for killing sacred cows. RussiaRussiaRussia, 10 masks and social distancing, no apologies, and the Social Engineers know it.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 23 2026 #245630
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The Americans should by now, after these past ten days, be fully convinced that Iran strikes wherever it decides to strike.

    “Wildberries – Russia’s Amazon – Has Seen Four Major Hubs Attacked In Quick Succession

    They can’t strike anything. They can’t even strike an Amazon building in Nebraska.

    “But the Iranians have already long demonstrated they won’t alter course in the face of such threats, especially bluster from Trump over social media, and so this unlikely to be any kind of fix for Washington, as Tehran has vowed to keep control of Hormuz at all costs.”

    What the holy hell are they talking about? It’s not Tweets that anyone expect them to respond to. Because we used more bombs than are stationed in most of Europe? Maybe? And Tehran never controlled the straits. Oman owns their half. So the only way Iran can control it is to invade Oman and change the borders.

    I expect Iran to make everything up, but not the rest of us.

    “The congresswoman concluded that it’s important for all of us to stand up to these radical threats, and she’s right. Our regular readers know that I spend most of my weeks knee-deep in Venezuela and Cuba, and I’ve gotten to know many people who lived in and had to leave these countries. They all tell the same tale: families destroyed, loved ones dying due to lack of food or medicine, friends arrested for daring to speak out, no jobs, poverty, malnourished infants and children, extended power outages, lack of clean drinking water, regime harassment, arbitrary detentions, and kangaroo courts, etc. Why on earth would anyone want to live like that? And don’t tell me it just wasn’t done correctly. The outcome is always the same.”

    Sounds like America since 1970. I rest my case.

    However please refrain from using either hammer or sickle. We know no member nor leadership has ever done real manual labor in their lives. They are the laptop class and their children. Working really puts it out of you.

    “It had become more the socialist caucus, and most of the leadership was socialist Democrats.”

    Just as my personal daily experience. THEY say they are Socialists. All their actions and platforms align with this belief system. Their goals are socialist. Their heroes are socialists, their vocabulary is socialist, their means are socialist, and I get no red flags at all that they are not Socialist or misunderstand the term any more than anyone else has.

    Yet these are not “Real Socialists” who have never been tried. I’m very tired of this argument.

    Now here, political experts: the Democratic party leadership and their spokespeople SAY the same people I believe are Socialist, are Socialist too. So I guess the Left, major politicians don’t know what bear is eating their leg? A black one or a brown one? Pretty sure they can tell accurately.

    Same people who would say, until Stalin and Lenin tweak their foreign and economic policy, they’re not real socialists either. Uh-huh. Does that not seem like…insane levels of apoligensia to you? Way, way, way, way beyond any apologetics Christians have managed in the last 2,000 years? Well, AOC still owns a toothbrush. She’s not really a communist.

    Am I crazy or does DSA stand for Democratic SOCIALISTS of America? (A nation they don’t believe should exist)

    “• American Manufacturing One Year After One Big Beautiful Bill (Chris Queen)

    Just heard 2/3rds of big Canadian firms are opening in America. 1) It’s good for business, Canada is a business s—t show. 2) They don’t want to deal with tariffs, so this puts them over the edge. So congratulations, no Canadian jobs.

    “• Ontario Premier Doug Ford Promises “to Dismantle the U.S” Economy (CTH)

    Wow, um. Well somebody’s economy is being dismantled and it’s not that one. U.S. bonds easy to sell, USD 101.50. Capital is booming into the U.S. worldwide. “Global Capital Flows” as Martin Armstrong would say, is a predictor, since even if they suck, the moon forces cause a tide that lifts all boats, deserved or undeserved. That capital IS flowing, past tense, deserved or undeserved. The End.

    The article is somewhat unfair to Canada who is getting pummeled in oil and lumber for instance. Treated like a colony. That reflects that the situation is complicated, so tell you what, be a sovereign nation, not dependent on us and you can tell us to buzz off. We can do likewise. Everyone is safe and happy. They can’t, so they’re screwed blue.

    Data Centers: I am very skeptical that any center uses 100k homes. Use your head: do you have any idea how many substations feed a small city? 10K? I can believe. But only at peak or something. Nevertheless, this is the same: We let in 25M immigrants. And so you built 100 major cities and houses for them, right? You know, at 200k per city? No? Huh. And with this. So you want 60 cities of 100k built by Friday? Yeah, no. There’s so many ways that’s not happening, I mean besides that it’s retarded and will lose money.

    So I don’t comment since the point is unchanged. 1/10th. And Tech will find a way to make it need 1/10th of that if you’re patient by a year.

    “Michael Hudson: We’re Headed for a Depression Worse Than 2008 | | GEH W/ Radhika Desai

    This has been said since I was a wee lad. Did this happen since…1971 or whatever, or not?

    Krainer: The Region will never be the same” Yes, that’s the whole point, thanks.

    “Pravin Sawhney: Trump’s ‘One Shot, One Bridge’ Ultimatum – Iran Vows US Ally Blackouts”

    Clearly have never met an American or read a book. You could turn every American ally to glass and no one in America would care or notice. So, not really leverage is it? But Iran can’t shoot up a mall? Srs?

    No idea about Pickaxe mountain and so many other things. Watching. No, I do not approve. And?

    “Collapsing US Dollar:” WES

    I hear there is a US dollar shortage overseas, which gives us leverage and makes them look stupid. This is too complicated to cover and can flip flop but it appears very slow, steady pressure of an anaconda on them, not trying to cause a crash. Okay then. Watching.

    There are a lot of people saying a lot of things.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 23 2026 #245554
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Start day with required finger point. It’s Happening! You’ve been lied to. What They don’t want you to know. This changes everything. Oh. My. God. My eyes, my eyes. Make it stop!

    Did you know we were capable of human speech before clickbait, ads, and psychobabble? It’s true!

    “Socialist Mamdani Concedes NYC Can’t Arrest Netanyahu, Breaking Another Campaign Promise

    Why? Because he’s an alien? We only arrest citizens. Everyone else: It’s open season! Do What Thou Wilt.

    According to MES, at this pace, Iran may render the US Muwaffaq al-Salti Air Base in Jordan completely out of service within a couple of weeks! At that point, with the other US bases in the Gulf countries already in tatters, the Outlaw US Empire would be able to launch strikes”

    You’re so right. Saudi Arabia, a Sunni kingdom owning Mecca, will simply bow down and become a complete vassal state to Iran, ready to be bombed at will for all eternity. As will Oman and UAE.

    Yup. It’s all over now!

    The nation with no Navy, Air Force, or Income won. First time ever.

    Iran claims all Omani waters and indeed all the way to the Straits at Denmark and Malacca. The world is eager to agree.

    “IRGC To Trump: Strike Iran’s Infrastructure, We’ll Shut Off The Gulf’s Power”

    I mean, okay then. So Saudi and every nation in the Gulf is hereby a vassal state of Iran forever then. Because that’s what will happen if we – they — just stop. They become the United (Vassal) States of Iran, larger than the EU. I see no downside. Perfectly likely. You’re so right.

    “Houthis declared a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, warning they would attack any ship loading or discharging Saudi oil.

    So the Houthis now have sovereignty over all Saudi Arabia? Or just some of it? They claim this because they’re just all around swell guys, or what? I mean, okay then. (P.S. Israel Who?) Also: I now claim sovereignty over all Yemen…but also Monaco, which I hear is a super-nice place. That’s all it takes and you’re the good guys, so okay then. I am following your moral right and rules here.

    “Bulgaria Draws Iranian Warning Over Hosting US Military Tanker Aircraft”

    Iran runs Bulgaria now, should they get intermediate missiles that can hit them. Thanks for the warning! We’re sure you can be trusted now.

    Okay, you want me to say the U.S. acts the same? Good! Then we can dispense with nonsense and admit it’s all power politics. Them, Us, Everyone, and always has been. There’s no Law. Things written on paper mean nothing. Okay we’re in that world and we’re bigger than they are. Now what? Iran (and everyone) wants to claim they exist as moral actors and the other guy (Us) doesn’t. I think we’ve just proven that’s not true. In China’s 200M I.D.s, Europe’s genocide, Iran’s bombing of everyone they can reach, etc. Okay then, it’s raw power and what armies can Make Me. Good. Finally honest then. And?

    “The sudden death of Graham has sparked intense speculation online. Russia captured sickening footage of Graham engaged in heinous acts”

    I’m skeptical. Because they haven’t also killed all our other leaders who visit.

    “All eight missile systems rely on rare earth elements — there are no exceptions”

    Are you high? This is identical to “The U.S. is disassembling washing machines” argument. Uhhh…I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure there’s not even a shortage at all, much less in ultra-high need, open checkbook matters. Show me. Show me anything where rare earth stopped anything. I think like Peak Oil, AGW, and population, you’ve been scammed for profit. It’s voluntary, meaning it only exists for you, not important people. “Military” is the Important People. No shortage. Heck, there’s so much electronic crap built that shouldn’t be, joke rare magnets produced there’s no shortage even at the Dollar Store level.

    “What’s Driving Germany’s Planned €800 Billion Remilitarization?”

    Does Germany HAVE €800 Billion? I doubt it. And for naysayers, the USD keeps creeping up, Gold is nowhere, with Silver a war material. China can pressure us by halting it, and doesn’t, Oil is average, where it was under Biden, US Bond sales are very strong, our stock market at new records like Apple, while Euro bonds fail near 40% in Germany — the strongest.

    So the U.S. is in zero danger, or it’s very very overrated. (No I don’t prefer this, I just report it.) We could probably LOWER rates and STILL not have inflation from the investment. To the article, unless Germany plans to remilitarize with cash only, they’re screwed. If they can’t sell bonds, what’s the plan?

    “Strip that down and it means a dollar token issued by a private company is now competing, euro for euro, with the savings account at a bank in rural Italy.

    And it seems the US Treasury is the one spearheading this. This is probably happy collateral damage though.

    “Michael Hudson: The U.S. Plan to Revive Geoeconomic Dominance

    Um. The above clearly declares we have unrivaled Geoeconomic Dominance. Much as it burns me. We have this trillion deficit, doubling, and are run by clowns, a dragging economy, hardly any rule of law and STILL we’re so much better people are breaking our door down to get ludicrous interest rates. Yet here we are. This is the “Desperate Defense of the Dollar market” with a USD at 101.50 and still rising with every auction easy and oversubscribed, and everyone else getting pummeled worldwide.

    I mean, it’s desperate for the Rest of the World! I’ll give you that! For us: not so much.

    Call me when Germany’s Bunds are in high demand and everyone wants Japan. Til then there’s no alternatives. You dont’ want that? Easy: suck less than we do. Shouldn’t be hard.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 22 2026 #245473
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Starting out right:
    Toon

    I did post yesterday, but I’ve been busy working, even as I’m still eating $4.99 T Bone steak and $9/lb gourmet coffee.

    “ CNN was just forced to admit to the nation that President Trump has the HIGHEST in-party approval THIS CENTURY out of any 2nd term president”

    Yes, his numbers have been totally collapsing due to the war. It’s inevitable, Mr. Anderson. Now I’m not happy about the war, but I only report these things. Swing voters: don’t care, they are withholding judgment so far. The Left: you can barely hear them since their voices are hoarse from 10+ years of completely false alarms. RussiaRussiaRussia, the economy will collapse. Nuclear war with Korea. Trump obeys Israel.

    “IT’S HAPPENING! “

    By this I can safely assume nothing is happening. No one is panicking.

    “He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments”

    So he works for the CIA. Yes, we already knew that. From birth, as his mother.

    Let’s go around the world: They are the same people in MI6. Who also run Mossad. Who also run the IRGC. Who also are the CCP rebellion for Xi. Who also were the praetorian security force holding Maduro hostage. Who are also Cuba. …And so on. This is how they work, and for 100 years it worked really well. …Mostly because you wouldn’t believe it. Air America. FDR’s Socialist Advisors. McCarthy. $100B in the War on Drugs could be sold and move without banks. Terrorists with box cutters. And so on forever, each dumber than the last. However, now we’re annoyed.

    65% of Americans think the CIA killed Kennedy and is doing likewise daily? Yeah, that’s Obama’s CIA.

    ““As long as American hostilities in the region continue, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed,” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said”

    1) The IRGC is not the government. Why are they being spokesmen here?
    2) Closed except for the 175 ships that got through. So what he means is IRANIAN ships won’t get through. True.
    3) That’s what “Control” means, when you can’t get through but other people can.
    4) This means they have claimed Oman as their own territory.
    5) For Herr Docktor: this was always going to happen, we could always do what we did. The problem is, will it MATTER? How do you fix to the end state from eg, “Bombing”? This is also why everyone presumed automatic boots on the ground. No, I don’t have the answer to this, only that the U.S. HAS a plan, where everyone else denied the Pentagon was capable of writing a plan after 47 years of trying.

    Also, Trump: Shark Week, tweets when they give him enough Cap’n Crunch to be hyperactive.

    OR:

    Team Trump is using foremost supercomputers to plan and execute everything, just as we have since the 90s, obviously would, and every other nation does as well. Your choice.

    “..eliminating the U.S. Senate outright, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court with executive and judicial bodies that Congress picks, granting mass amnesty to every illegal alien currently in the country, and defunding the Department of War…”

    This is just….Erasing the entire United States. And the Constitution. And all Human Rights worldwide I guess. Reminds me of the story of the Russian general returning home in 1917 to see all of Moscow gone mad with progressivism, letting essentially AntiFa into the Tsar’s Court and everywhere, because when has a wolf ever bitten anyone? They had no sense of reality whatsoever, about anything. Even their own lives. And so it went. They were all killed ’cause, Mobs do that.

    Same here. So you erase the entire U.S. and replace it with…? Hadn’t got that far in my thinking yet. That would be “Work”, we only deal with “Hate”. I’m only here for the hate of everyone and everything and it FEELZ SO GOOD!!!

    Work is for somebody else, the Russian Peasants n’ stuff. That is, anyone wearing a Red Hat. (Ironically, this was true and was a symbol of the French Revolution) “The hat symbolizing the French Revolution is the Phrygian cap (also known as the bonnet rouge or liberty cap”

    “Kennedy laid out exactly what the socialist left intends to do once it has full control of the party. “The commies have a giant saddle, and they’re on the horse, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we’re coming in to take your party. And we’re burning the fort down. We’re burning all of it down,’” she said. The goal, as she described it, is not incremental reform. “That means that the Constitution, as we know it, does not exist; nor does capitalism,”

    So no Rule of Law. And they’re stealing all your property. Wait! If there’s no private property, I’ll just steal it back from you! Yeah, that’s not how it works: When I steal property, it’s the GOOD stealing; when you steal it back, it’s MINE and we shoot you.

    Ah. So there’s all SORTS of private property. Just that all private property is YOURS. We have excessively strong personal property rights, but only for you. Got it. And the guy with the property gets the guns. Gee, sounds like Capitalism. Only worse.

    “• Democratic Leaders Join Socialists in Criticizing Capitalism (Turley)

    Picture: The DNC and DSA can’t use either a hammer OR a sickle as their symbols: both of them are WORK and they don’t do that. They’re college people, cube hamsters, and government workers. They’d probably faint if they SAW a picture of work in a book. …Another thing they don’t use.

    Anyway, yeah, Russian Revolution 2.0. They don’t seem to be able to transition to a Plan B, and thank god they’re so moronic like that. We need all the help we can get.

    “Senate Intelligence Community Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, as they relate to the seizure of Fulton County, GA, election records”

    Ad hominem. No facts, no details. It’s their hallmark, which means they are lying. And why would you be lying, what’s the point?? A: Because they are protecting corruption and do not want the Truth accepted and revealed. That’s it. Done in One. Read any news article, 90% of every Fox Expert, etc. All ad hominem, no details, all innuendo, accusation. RussiaRussiaRussia.

    You know them by their fruits. Are any of their predictions good? Did anything they say in the last 10 years happen? Trump wasn’t going to win. But then he wasn’t going to leave. And he was going to crash the economy, but also have a nuclear war. He was going to round up the gays and put them as his right hand man in the Cabinet, I guess? And round up all the brown non-Christian women and make them Cabinet Directors?

    Yup. Nailed it. They totally, totally nailed it. But this time they’re right!

    Yes the FBI is totally corrupt and should be disbanded. That’s why we’re pissed. What part of “Mueller used Whitey Bulger as his personal hit man” and “90% of all terror was at the behest of the FBI (Says the NYTimes)” did you not get?

    ““Nobody’s forcing the melting pot to melt anymore—it just sits there, lukewarm, while everyone pretends it’s still working.”

    Nobody ever did do this. Yet it still worked.

    ““I’m going to read to you some of the names” — Trump is in FULL WAR MODE”

    By which he means nothing happened and no one was arrested. …As Hitler would.

    SpaceX interstellar:

    No, you can get there, it would just take a very very long time. Why are you in such a hurry?

    No2
    They are all going to tell everyone what to do, while no one is going to be above them and tell THEM what to do. Ask Uncle Joe how that worked out in practice. I mean, whoever remained and was not put against the wall.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 21 2026 #245462
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Trump Vows Iran Will Pay ‘Many Times Over’ For US Troop Deaths, As Mediators Push 10-Day Ceasefire

    Mission accomplished then, your vengeance means nothing to me, and make you look very small. Since Americans are killed all the time, this is not the reason. It’s not the reason so why say it?

    “NYC Street Vendors Now Openly Selling Illegal Prescription Pills Across 10 Blocks”

    Socialism and big government at work. Everything is illegal, so everything is in the black market and legal because there’s no enforcement…for the right folks. If I go over and do that, what do you think will happen? It’s OKAY for drug users to rob and immigrants to rape because “It’s all part of the PLAN”. As they take their system of government from The Joker.

    “FBI Calls Incendiary Attack On Manhattan Federal Building An “Anti-Government Attack”

    They’re certainly very bad at this. Interviews “What will happen when they break out their last weapon, Operation Gladio style Terror?” Uhhhh…don’t care? Don’t be afraid? “Terror” only operates if you respond with “Fear”. An internal emotional state. So, um, don’t? Train up and Shoot the f—k out of them instead? That’s a response of cold determination and fury, the same as for any other enemy? That’s the level of cohesion for WWII, where we don’t WANT to be shot, and watch to prevent our neighbors from being harmed as well. Since police are never around and Secret Service helps shooters along – most of whom were already on the FBI lists and interviews – then that leaves a “nearby guy in the mall”. That is, YOU.

    Stop being a victim, it’s not their job, it’s YOUR job. YOU are the government. It is YOUR country.

    “Cuban President Warns “McCarthyism Is Back” As US Begins Fight Against Marxist Subversion Networks”

    We don’t have any subversion networks! Why would we lie? And Antifa and the DSA, who openly say they are Marxists using Marxist means, aren’t real communists at all who have never been tried! The “S” in DSA doesn’t mean , you know, “Socialism” or anything. There are no Socialists in school, on campus or anywhere, 99% just SAY that they are as a gag.

    ““I’m not living in Communist America… I’ve read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don’t tell me I’m not seeing what I am seeing,” Bill Maher told ABC News

    If you want more, “Libs of TikTok” has made a international career of merely quoting them in their own words. Including like Hasan, who SPECIFICALLY broke the law TO aid Cuba.

    Okay, suppose they find these Marxists. What do we generally do to them? Make them Senator, Secretary of State, head of Google, superintendent, etc. …I suspect they’ll be fine.

    ““Air war alone cannot dislodge a large military/regime, hence the dilemma of restraint vs. quagmire and new forever war…”

    This is entirely true, thus the problem. However, it depends what your goals are.

    “I’m confused. The USA has the most powerful military on Earth. We’ve bombed the HELL out of Iran for 4 months. Trump says their Air Force, Navy, and nearly all of their missile capabilities are destroyed. …so how is Iran still capable of hitting US bases right now???

    Okay, let me use tiny words: I live in the U.S. and I
    can bomb Ft. Bragg. Soooo…apparently not very hard then, is it? Your life and career depend on “Not Noticing” things. Not noticing really, really hard.

    Yes, there is never a time the IRA can’t bomb something in their own country or one 60 miles away. Oh well. Now is it RELEVANT?

    “Pay Your Share” cartoon. Uhhh, no. We are not going to China. We have nothing to float there with and no reason to do so when we arrive. This has been a longstanding NeoCon meme because their strategy depnds on the U.S. fighting Russia and China and all of us destroy ourselves while Globalists in Europe laugh. Then they chop up each of our countries into smaller ones, like Kaja Kallas said. No thank you. None of us will be doing that.

    Burn Bags: What makes you think Trump isn’t stuffing real documents BACK into the Burn Bags? Things that Were destroyed, but we have a copy from, say, the NSA. Or Trump’s own removal in 2019.

    “because even before, they weren’t working so well for a lot of folks,” Um, sort of? So it worked for 90% of the country, with 10% left out. Now it FAILS for 90% of the country, and works for 10%. Much better, thanks. Utopians at work. Must be we need to try harder.

    Cathie Wood thinks taxis make $1T a year in revenue. I suspect they do not. She is extremely bad at math and one of the world’s worst traders.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 20 2026 #245303
    Dr. D
    Participant

    There is no “West” Alistair. There is You, and there is Me, and we are radically different.

    You believe in Stalinist end of all human rights. And we believe in the Enlightenment. We are not the same.

    Keep that s–t in Britain.

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