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Oh the vid of Trumpy from Maga Voice (at top post) – brilliant, v. well done.
Today, though, as focussed on personalia — setting aside foreign policy, the BBTB (big beautiful tax bill) re. internal struggles – …
There is no First Lady in the TrumpAdmin II.
Imho DT and Melania are separated, Idk where she lives, but the job, official function, is unoccupied.
(Maybe a first in US history?)
The First Daughter – Ivanka – and her spouse, Jared Kushner, are also AWOL.
As for the other children, idk what they are doing, in any case not reported in international news.
DT is isolated, lonely, no wife, no children, no family support / interest.
Blumenthal (I am not a fan) says that Trump is being deliberately isolated, not given proper info, etc. He states that S. Wiles (chief of Staff) worked previous for Netanyahu.
On Purple, re. article at top post.
Purple is the color of the Overlords since thousands of years. Yes, literally. It was very expensive to produce, only Royalty, top Elites, Supremos, etc. could afford it. (Search > *Tyrian Purple*)
A pic of H + B Clinton sporting purple, 2017, concession speech. Vogue.
(Signalling brave defiance, we will endure, ha ha.)
Kamala Harris, 2021. Cosmopolitan.
(Signalling I’m tops, yes, ha ha.)
Queen Liz. https://tinyurl.com/yc8fakha
Michelle Obama … many others…
Re. the Trump support figures up top. Many polls are quite ‘partial’, some are ‘manipulated’, even without intent to skew, anyway let’s take it on, the results reflect that ‘cheap’ labor depresses long-term nationals / residents salaries, job opportunities, advancement, etc.
Getting rid of the ‘intruders’ ‘illegals’ seems an obvious, simple solution, the hope being, our incomes will rise.
Very real beefs imho as ‘productivity gains’ have been for a long time, say roughly 50 years, shunted to the top 10% – to the 1% – at the expense of the workers doing the job. This is common knowledge, but it leads to zero politically (see the like of Bush, Obiman, Pelosi or Sanders..)
So manhandling and kicking out the ppl one can blame (poor immigrants, etc.) instead of destroying, changing, the system is an easy ‘out’ and allows some citizens to grasp some hope for change.
Targetting some group for xtreme cruelty – incarceration – killing … is a common tactic. Bush opened Gitmo, Trump is opening some new prison? (Idk the details). Trump’s thing though is ‘deportation’, I doubt he beats on the numbers – Obama was tops (one link.)
Getting rid of much cheap imported labor will kill, or reduce, or slowly strangle, many biz in the US who are dependent on it. Agri, fast food, landscaping, home hairdressing, pool maintaince, nail shops, and more, idk. Construction. Agri imho is the biggest choke-point.
So Trumpy is caught between a rock and a hard place. He needs to favor, represent, aid, his base, and at the same time be a Maga Leader who supports the MIC, Big Med, Big Pharma, and increasing Police State (DHS, etc.), cutting social benefits (Medicaid etc.), sending many to their death. (Military funding not taken into account here.)
Candace Owens (see post at top) has taken over an F claim that Brigitte Macron is a man.
This is a kind of ricochet, copy, of the ‘scandal’ that claims Michelle Obama is a man, never had 2 children, etc. (I won’t be adressing this claim here…)
The original story came from a man called Xavier Poussard, who publishes a print-only news sheet, very expensive to buy, and is doing very well.
Recently (but only since afaik 6 months) he has appeared on a few ‘talk shows’ on ‘alt media.’ (I saw one and wasn’t impressed.)
The meme however was taken up by 2 women who were hating on Brigitte Macron.
Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey (independent ‘journos’, use these names for any search) have both been condemned to big fines for — well it isn’t libel, or diffamation, but ‘false information’ or some combo thereof, the legal aspect is murky.
Huff post in F:
The problem with the story is that Brigitte has 3 children, and they look like a perfect mix of her and her ex (now deceased), and none of the ‘conspi’ theorists have been able to account for where these children came from, as not being not children of Brigitte and her husband.
The best they did was to out a woman called Brigitte Auzière (same name as Brigitte Macron before her marriage to the F Pres) who was a regional councillor somewhere — this Bibi never had any children, and she and her husband have also won ‘damages’ for incorrect info, etc.
France has a long history of loving US culture — jazz, whiskey, black ppl doing showie stuff, tabloid journalism, going back to 1920, and this bent seems to be having a heyday!
When the Empire cracks, some of its vassals become hyper agressive (partly on their own account for their own interests), as a valiant loyal spear-head, etc. (e.g. Israel. Which can’t survive without massive US (EU) support.)
Others may bow down and kiss the Emperor’ ring or feet, understanding that only over-the-top flattery may keep a shaky (or right-out ersatz) alliance going strong, aka sworn to! personal subservience. (Rutte, at NATO summit. Beyond Pathetic.)
This works on Trump for maybe 3 hours, 3 days, or 3 weeks, as he, his Admin, are locked into strange shifting agendas, having no long term strategy, no clear goals (that are realistic imho, other story.)
This is not specifically related to Trump, but to US foreign policy in general (let’s say from Obiman on) which veers between armed attacks, bombing, devastation of anyone who provides an easy target, economic sanctions, political manipulations (color revols, scotching elections, installing puppets, manipulating statesmen, buying up huge swathes of land, industries, and more…) which happily seems to be vacillating…?
Trumpy as the last figure to reign? Idk.
What we are witnessing is the winding down of the US Empire. Trump is caught between (his supporters) ‘isolationists’ (no more war, multipolar world, good lucrative biz, with the USA still ‘on top’) and agressive war-mongers with varied motives. Both being approaches to maintain some kind of dominance.
Re. articles at top,
“US mulls easing Iran sanctions.” Iran was the winner in the 12 day skirmish. The USA needs new ties, links, allies, etc. notably w. Russia in 1st place.
Along the same lines, “Let Trump save us from war with Iran” as well as “The damage Iran has inflicted on Israel” (Helmer) both contain the idea that Iran gave Israel a strong but calibrated and cautious warning beating — to ‘save’ the vestiges of Israel, have it survive, it must stop agression, back down, etc.
“Netan. corruption trial should be cancelled” as said by Trump is another move in the same direction, Bibi being ‘pardoned’ might remove his motive for blowing up everything, he could retire to Florida.
The US warned of the coming attacks on Iran, and Iran warned the US that the US base in Qatar was to be blasted, as stated by Jay in “Is Donald Trump really running the Iran show?”
“Trump to consider future UKR aid” RT. The article shows that this is maybe, maybe not, shuffling around stuff. My guess is not, the US will do all it can to ignore, cover up, forget, the loss in Ukraine. One difficulty might be the kick-back mechanism (arms gifts / sales on tick afford kick-backs to the US shareholders, etc.)
Of course all of this leaves Palestinians on the genocide agenda.
The recent 12-Day-War, my take.
June 2025. The US and Iran are negotiating about the ‘nukulear’ matter. The negotiations sre going well.. (There were conflicting reports, however, overall, Iran was amenable to some conditions, etc.)
Bibi goes into a tailspin, and attacks Iran, 13 June, Operation Rising Lion, pointed at Nuke sites, individuals, and more, in Iran. Aim: blow up the US-Iran negotiations, drag the US in on the side of Israel, escalate. Do or die, all out….
This succeeds in part. Iran responds with retaliatory strikes right away (same day or close), Operation Rising Promise. Ballistic missiles, at various sites in Israel, incl. residential, as well as threatening US bases in the region.
TrumpAdmin go into a tailspin and decide to put a swift end to all this. The ostensible ‘bone of contention’ (always an excuse) is the ‘nukulear’ matter.
The 3 ‘nuke’ enrichment sites in Iran must be bombed. Iran is informed in advance, via the Swiss or possibly the Russians, the sites are evacuated, in any case the enriched uranium has already been removed from the sites.
The Iranians (possibly advised by the Russians) decide to let this happen, do not defend, let it go, no real damage, we will see later.
(Trump did the same thing on a research center in Syria.. he was suddenly applauded as a great leader!)So, Trump removes (or hopes to remove) the public reason for Israel’s attack on Iran. ‘Nuke’ stations bombed, problem solved, get over it, finis. The urgency leads Trump to abandon the negotiations with Iran (being branded as untrustworthy, not flash news) but that is not the main issue.
Iran makes a big show of its power to seriously harm Israel, is successful, not only because of Iran’s military power (I can’t describe, not up on that), but because Israel is a sort of ersatz outpost, a tiny strip of territory financed from elsewhere, the Iron Dome doesn’t work, Isr. is extremely vulnerable on many rubrics.
So Israel had to be saved from itself! (As many US supporters of Isr. have said, see D. McGregor.)
Trump tried to…. Save Bibi. As he just recently said, the legal attacks on Bibi are unlawful (or whatever words.)
Thierry Meyssan, in line w. my prev. post. Just one aspect of course.
The confrontation between Israel and Iran does not at all correspond to the image presented by the media. Its roots lie in a period before the Islamic Republic and has no connection with the construction of a nuclear bomb. Its outbreak today is intended to conceal the misdeeds of the Argentinian Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
(…)
Iran was the victim, in 1917-1919, of the largest genocide of the First World War. 6 to 8 million people died of starvation out of a population of 18 to 20 million, or between a quarter and a third of Iranians. Iran, although neutral, was crushed by the British armies, against a backdrop of rivalry with the Bolsheviks and the Ottomans. This horror has left a traumatic memory that is still very present in Iran. There is no doubt for an Iranian that the United Kingdom is his country’s primary enemy.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article222523.htm
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The pretext of **Iran Nuclear enrichment > Nukes** was, is, ridiculous, as we all know. The narrative is window-dressing the ‘public’, TV watchers, etc. However it affords the Creators of this BS a sort of Comfort Zone where they can adhere, believe in, their group-thing, uphold it, etc., and act in function of it…to jbhb, in the last thread.
I have been trying to synthesize analysis of LGBT movement / prop for some time, have posted about it before.
One angle:
How A Handful Of Billionaires Created The Transgender “Movement” – Interview of Jennifer Bilek.
https://jbilek.substack.com/p/how-a-handful-of-billionaires-created
more info at her substack
Re. prev. thread. Persia has never surrendered
— depends in part on the def. of ‘surrender’—
Goog:
Approximately 2 million Persian civilians died during World War I, primarily due to famine and disease, exacerbated by the Armenian genocide and the actions of occupying forces. This period also saw occupation by Turkish, Russian, and British troops, although Persia officially maintained neutrality. 1
wiki:
The fighting also involved local Persian units, who fought against the Entente and Ottoman forces in Iran. The conflict proved to be a devastating experience for Persia. 2
1. Other estimates give much higher nos.
2. The Entente = “Allied powers” F, GB, Rus, later US, Japan.I am no historian so, quotes from goog, wiki. But WW1 is surely relevant in a way.
Topcat above featrued a pic, labelled THIS MONTH IS PRIDE MONTH, link below.
Indeed, and here in Switz. the Big Parade took place. I have been told it was less frequented / had less enthusiastic spectators, as compared to other years. (I was not here and didn’t see it myself. Apologies for the Frenchisms.)
Imho. GAY ‘liberation’ was not a spontaneous movement, it was organised by W powers, who wanted to show that they ‘accepted’ ‘alternative life-styles’ – note, of a non-political nature – and were not ‘bound by tradition’ and ‘condemned discrimination re. sexual practices’ and so on.
The demos, the symbols, rainbows, the showy clothes, etc. were calculated by Ad Agencies and spread around the W (no doubt with some payments here and there, imho… I know of one local case..) to ‘support the cause.’
The PTB behind the scenes had decided that social issues could mask others, and that they, the Elites, could give up some license, some privileges, pre-rogatives, re. sexual relations.
— Note in GB all upper class gays since 1750 had a free hand, OK, Oscar Wilde went to prison, but he was so over the top, an example needed to be made..
Yet, the most harmful sexual exploitation, pedophilia acted on, was, and is, held to the chest as a privilege for the Elites.
Ilargi, all my wishes > your recovery. I’d add, don’t hesitate to ask for help, other story of course.
On “Musk stepping down” at top post.
Musk could not be a billionaire ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘cut Gvmt spending’, the two roles are antithetical.
Now that Tesla’s biz / stock (other Musky ventures not mentioned here) are going down the drain, he has to leave the Gvmt.
Gvmt. money-creation and spending is not there to earn money, but to ‘regulate’ money flows, via interest rates, loans, Gvmt budget, taxes, tariffs, plus, fund essential services, e.g. Education, Infrastructure, etc., via taxation, aka a re-distribution mechansim, without which the US (and other countries) immediately descend into Civil War.
This is a simplistic pov and doesn’t enter the debate about money creation and so forth, it is just the top of the ‘basic’ ledger that anyone can understand, and most ppl act on.
Sure cronyism, waste, corruption exist, in the US and elsewhere, on the ‘state’ teat, but that isn’t really relevant here.
Musk tried both to ‘save Gvmt money’ and I suppose ‘reduce Gvmt debt’ (without having a clue about it’s role and functioning) following a partisan agenda, a ‘small state plan’, cutting essential services as much as possible (that is set to continue imho), and targetting ‘social engineering stuff’ like diversity progs etc., basically entering into quarrels and taking sides about what groups should be favored via. Gvmt. funding.
MSM article Feb. 2025, just one ex.
Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elon-musks-government-dismantling-fight-stop/story?id=118576033
From, at top post, European kakistocracy locked in a Forever War against Russia by Escobar.
To qualify EU actions as self-destructive anti-intellectualism is actually benign. The IQ of people at the top in Brussels is at dismembered worm level, exemplified by the Estonian batshit crazy chick in theory representing the foreign policy of 450 million EU citizens. Brussels has been reduced to a pathetic Estonian propaganda snake pit with a whiff of British accent.
A lot of sympathy for this pov, but what Pepe is missing is that these EU ‘leaders’ (Ursi the Lying, Merz, more radical than Sholz, he just sanctioned NordStream!, Macron, always between two positions, and Meloni, trying to balance whatever, these are the figures one sees in the News, as pro-US, pro-NATO, anti-Russkie types, the Baltics snappers don’t count..) are AFRAID.
Desperate, even. They have been boosted and formatted by the US, still they owe something to the ppl on the ground, they are all acutely aware of what happened to Yugoslavia (balkanised, much killing, they agreed to that as it was just far off and ‘communist’ enough, and well…), to Lybia (again, somewhat removed, Muslim, etc.) .. what comes next?
Those who argue along the lines I am doing here often refer to the occupation of Germany and Italy post WW2 (+ Japan) with da military bases etc. I am not sure this plays much of a role, as compared to soft power, corruption, corp. / personal deals, trade agreements, election manipulation, and so on.
This site purports to list US and all Foreign Milit. bases with a description. Idk how good it is? I checked out 2 I know about, was OK.
COVID.
Link to an F commentator, the first hour is v. good about cov/vaxx. In F.
Posting this as it is a v. good ‘summary.’
<i>COVID-19 | Bilan d’un COUP D’ÉTAT SANITAIRE – 5 ans après | Jean-Dominique Michel </i>
John Campbell on Birth Rates down after Vaxx. About one study in the Czech Republic.
Don’t let them vaccinate you, Muslim warning, July 2020.
On, Germany’s GDP equals that of X countries combined, at top post.
Hitler didn’t have smart mistresses, children, or advisors. Someone should have told him to just create outa nothing, a new entity, EUROPA UBER ALLES, impose a new currency, the UNI-THALER (very stable because SILVER), and lobby, convince, coerce, neighbors to join, touting the hope of jobs and super-prosperity. This would have given him so much LEBENSRAUM he and his buddies would be stuck to find new lucrative PROJEKTE.
/ end sarc. 🙂
Idk the origins / history / links with Trumpy re. Project 2025.
However the Project 2025 tracker:
https://www.project2025.observer/
is extremely interesting.
On the internet is too quick at top post.
Trump brought all this on himself with the endorsing, praising (?) of an AI Vid featuring Don and mate Bibi relaxing in Gaza at a plush venue, on the Med…with Musky gathering dollaris from the skies…Link in case anyone missed this. Btw, there was a big mistake in the vid, Trumpy does not drink beer, he is a teetotaller.
What was, he, Trump, thinking?
I mean, it is one huge step from drawn cartoons in PUNCH featuring FAT POLS in bespoke suits smokin’ Cigars, batting about cryptic / nonsensical one-liners, which can be seen as ‘mild fun’, ‘jokery’, ‘allowed satire’, good for a chuckle, etc. while the ppl caricaturasied (wd?) are nevertheless taken seriously, overall.
To realistic depictions of crazy dream-worlds?
I liked this one from Hatim’s shorts. Vlad, Don, Kim are chased away by Angela the hysterical housewife. Then they share the spoils. 🙂
On Proxies… see US-Russia-UKR links at top post.
In Europe, a question often asked is, does the US have a Foreign Legion?
Like France, officially, has? British Foreign Legion is a patchy story, Idk, lotsa details to look up.
Officially, one has to answer NO to this qu. (Hegemonic super-powers have no need! – say…)
The US Foreign Legion changes names often, e.g. from Mujahideen, to Al Qaida, to ISIS, to etc., now HTS, with for the first time in (recent) history, a US Foreign Legion Appointee is openly installed as ‘head of state’ -> Al Golani in Syria.
What was the support for the Azov Battalion, neo-Nazis, Banderistas, etc. in UKR, from the USuk, going back to say 1995, 2000? Hmm, Idk..?
I know about neo-Nazi movements in Europe, w. personal contacts, somewhat, and I am sure that without financing, support, encouragement, such movements remains just minor ‘club’, ‘cult’, ‘groupie’ type thing which nobody cares about, fears, etc. Admiring Hitler in a weekly beer drinking meet is fine for the participants but no threat to others.
Nima A. interviews John Helmer, vid. 1 hour. 1 May 2025.
John Helmer: Unpacking Trump’s Self-Inflicted Problems: A Deep Dive.
A bit long but Helmer does make some good points, and tries to sort out what is going on at the ‘top’ in the US. At least, it is an effort. (Not that I agree with all …)
from ZH, at top post:
The Kremlin has said that what the newly signed minerals deal between Ukraine and Washington does is effectively force Kiev to pay for all future military aid.
DT is attempting to ‘get back the money’ that was ‘stolen’ from ‘us’ (USA) or ‘given away’ by us, by various culprits, such as, Biden, Zelensky, hoo, European idiotos, maybe even the British, whatever, you get the picture.
Imho these successive ‘mineral deals’ are a side issue. They may make Trumpy look smart, and make a ++ hit in some parts, but the contract is written on stained tissue paper.
(Idk the exact content of the latest agreement …)
UKR is a country with no ‘clear’ internal – external borders, a large part is occupied by Russia and is now, or soon set to be R, de facto, no matter what happens next. Who owns what territory is key in such agreements. Zel. is not a legit. Pres. according to many, any agreement he signs can be scrapped.
What is the pos. of the UKR parliament on this? Hmm…And who is going to organise / pay for / extraction, processing, transporting, selling, xyz ressources? To whom, at what cost, etc.? In a country that still exists and is not ‘at war’, and is not ravaged and mostly destroyed, non functioning? Unlikely…
The French call these kind of moves enfumage – en-smoking the audience, the opponents, etc.
On the Spanish Power outage (at top post.)
Spain and Portugal left, quit, the EU elerctric-energy market in 2024 (or somewhat before.)
This was hardly published in the MSM and commented on because it was an EU-exit of some kind. It went under the radar. Why? Because the European electric energy market is very complicated, it is set up to ‘bring profits’ to certain parties, much of it makes no sense.
IBERIA exiting was a blow, not to be acknowleged. (To be clear, Idk what tech / other glitch created the DOWNING in Iberia just now.)
This is just some background which might be irrelevant. Or not.
see Spain withdrawal, just one article, somewhat complete:
Yanis V. has denounced the EU electr. market as it affected Greece and others.
Europe’s electricity market: the scam of the century? Vid. 1 H. 2 yrs ago.
Trump is trying to prevent / stop / slow the Loss of the US Empire.
He ran (2nd term) as a PEACE Prez. (Well they all do, really, I recall Bush Junior winning because he got the Muslim vote in the US, and then…) Money wasted on stupid International sorties is one easy aim-at point, as is the ‘immigant’ and DEI etc. issue, stuff. But all that is minor as compared to the US debt.
Anyways, to come to the main point, Trump believes that by manipulating or controlling the score-card of money (basically who pays what to whom, why, via what means, under what rules, coerced by what, etc.) and the copey – smokey of narrative can serve to ‘win’, ‘to get a beautiful deal’, and so on, thus re-invigoratin’ US domination – MAGA in real, concrete, terms.
All of which is a flimsy overlay of where the ‘real power’ – in terms of values, resistance, resilience, arms, patience, trickery, production / commodity / land / etc. assets, and more resides. It won’t work.
For the links above to Lobster, you need not subscribe, just click on the title-link, this works for me.
Recent clips, photos I have seen of Trump, he looks bored / distracted / tired / angry, all emotions ineptly hidden behind a dull, stiff, super cosmetically burnished poker face.
Most likely imho he won’t last out his 2nd term. Be kicked out, retire or quit (health, etc.), die, shot.
On the last point. Already three attempts, one by a patsy, Crooks, very interesting about how it was organised / etc., fascinating really, the second by what I can only call A Dem Operative, Ryan Wesley Routh. The third was weird, clumsy or not ‘real’ (link to one MSM article at bottom.)
What I mean by Dem Operative is made clear in this long piece, about 50 p. on Lobster Magazine, it is about Gonzalo Lira so may interest some. V. good read.
Tariffs are an import tax. Widely used, not much discussed. Anyways, implementing them can be clever, useful for the ‘Nation’, if applied with commercial knowledge and political skill, but nowadays in a ‘global’ economy, blanket / big .. huuge / all-over, etc. ‘tariffs’ lead to economic isolation, job loss internally,‘inflation’ aka steeply rising prices for internal buyers. Leading them to pay if coerced, to then cutting pays to other ‘local’ goods…
The Don trumpeted Hopiness that WW Biz will re-locate to the US. To Build Factories..? …Mines? …Supermarket Chain?…Designer Linen Clothes? New speed trains? Give me a break, never happen. Because, amongst other factors: Uncertainty.
Hopes cannot be achieved with Tariffs. So a non-starter, which at least Trump advisors must be aware of, why?
New totalitarian economic isolationism? Pure personal revenge against labelled enemies, internal and external? Preparation for WW 3? All encompassing re-making of the US with White Bozos of the Top Class ruling over the Deplorables and ‘Other’ (not Jews), or total Corp. Take-Over? What?
Ruses to distract attention and confuse everyone to what is really going on?
Or is this just a idiotic lashing-out signalling the imminent end of the US ‘Empire,’ turning off the lights in total chaos?
I can’t give a detailed description, comment, of what happened now to Marine Le Pen, it is very complicated, a long story, the EU financial awards / rules are a jungle (sic), and I have not followed the paper trails.
Recall Francois Fillon was deprived of the Presidency, wiki has it more or less right:
The Fillon affair (also the Penelope Fillon affair or Penelopegate) is a political-financial scandal involving immediate family members of French politician François Fillon being given paid jobs that involved no or very little actual work. The case surfaced during the campaign for the 2017 French presidential election which Fillon, the candidate of the Republicans after winning the primary of the right and centre, was at the time strongly favored to win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillon_affair
Sarkozy was condemned after his Pres., in late 2024, to 3 years imprisonment, with him at present locked in at his home with an ‘electronic bracelet.’ Not exactly the same type of case but close – corruption and influence peddling.
for ex.
All I’m saying here is that such LAWFARE in F is very common, it is a tool used by certain factions.
MLP will appeal, but most likely the case will not be resolved in her favor or / delays / and she will be barred from standing for Pres. in the next election.
In France burning up of cars is traditional protestor act, a ‘we are pissed off’ move.
2023, just 2 links from top o’ goog:
But if you’re in France, there’s one other statistic bound to be reported from the uprising: burned-out cars and other acts of arson. Indeed, police say that at least 2,000 cars were set on fire, and 3,880 other blazes were reported at the protests around the country. And that was just overnight between Thursday and Friday — hundreds, if not thousands of other fires were set the first two nights.
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/why-do-french-burn-cars
The riots that have taken place in France since June 27 have set fire to 2,508 buildings and 12,031 cars.
2025, calmed down now…
Almost 1,000 cars set ablaze during New Year celebrations in France.
https://en.apa.az/europe/almost-1000-vehicles-burned-down-in-france-in-new-year-night-457084
New Years Night is the traditional ‘setting fire to cars’…
F is not the USA, and of course ignitting Teslas is aimed at one company, so that is ‘different’ but seen thru a wider lens, not so much.
I’m guessing that Trump won’t last four years… He may become ill, retire, quit, die, be assassinated.
Trump (2nd term) is a signal of the end of the US Empire, the hailed now failed Pax Americana.
MAGA. America *USA rah rah* has to be made great again, back to were it was Great, when was that? Post WW2 to maybe 1979… Vain hopiness..
Tarifs won’t accomplish anything, Trumpy is just using them to threaten and huff ’n puff, as he the Prez has ontrol of that, no need for Congress Approval.
Tarifs provoke richochet, Canada Cos, others, react with counter measures. Implementing ‘trade wars’ on close neighbors is a huge mistake, it just gets ppl riled up, destroys some ‘companies’, ditches workers who got paid, etc. The wish that ‘Foreign’ cos. will then move their ‘biz’ to the USA is completely illusory.
Some might ‘envisage to do so’ – these would be bribes paid to Trumpy/ USA.
No big foreign Corp or Conglomerate (not to mention small ones) will now invest in the USA because the cost would be incalculable and most likely a loosing prop. Say, set up a factory? Hmm, infrastructure is shit, threat of shutdown exists, insecurity is rife, transport is poor (or non existent), needed imports (materials, etc.) may be unobtainable, too expensive or suddenly blocked (tarifs..), tax struture not stable, workers foreign risk expulsion, etc.
Tarifs have to be used very carefully, very selectively, very gradually, and this is from someone who is way LEFT and for a protectionist and state-run economy, say.
Trumpy’s jabs > trade wars are not coordinated, planned, for any desired or predicted outcome.
Brigitte Macron being secretly a man is a sort of copy-paste by some factions in France of *Michelle Obama is a Man.*
Candace Owens can make some hay. Brigitte being a man – oh a huge cover-up! — etc. is put out there in F with some success, some ppl latch on, follow.
The French adore the US, be it whisky, jazz, denim, killing natives (other topic), Obama (not Trump) etc, some ardently took over this meme of ‘first ladies’ being Trans.
What sex Brigitte – Bibi – actually is, is of no importance whatsoever for ppl world wide. Nor that of Michelle O. This is all Gossip Distraction, Tabloid Screeching…
Tucker Carlson discredited himself with that sortie. Link at top post, *Oh Candace*..
Note all is contradictory with the WOKE Zeitgeist from the US, where anyone can be ‘any sex’, ‘any persona’, you can just be you, order others to call you whatever, etc.
So Trans Ppl are to be sub rosa identified as sneaky pretenders, fakers (Brigitte M. Michelle O.) while others are at the same time to be adulated for their ‘trans’ status? Hmm..
It reminds me of dissident Alain Soral (F-CH national condemned for anti-semitism and much more in F, huge fines, prison sentences…) now living in CH (to avoid the sentences as CH won’t return him to F) being the first person to be condemned for ‘hate speech’ of a certain type.
He called a journalist “a Fat Lesbian” – both true – and that was judged to be hate speech. Being fat is super OK, being a lesbian is cool, groovy, or whatever, so…why is this hate speech? Hmm… 🙂
Re. top post,
Darien Gap crossings.
Docu from Bald ‘n Bankrupt, Benjamin, crossing via the Darien Gap, showing at least some of the nodes, dangers, humanitarian thingies, etc.
Nov. 2023. 49 mins.
Many are asking how Europe / the EU ended up with such stupid leaders? Like it is now dawning on many… Macron gave a crazed speech last Friday… etc.
A quick outline of what happened in F. (Setting aside the history of the EU, other important topic), Long Post, heh ..
President — Defeated Opponent — Expected >> ousted:
Chirac — Jospin (Socialist) — was ostensibly a toss up
Chirac — Le Pen — //Le Pen was boosted up to that position//
Sarkozy — Royal (Socialist) — toss up
Hollande — Sarkozy —- Dominique Strauss-Khan, DSK
Macron —- Le Pen — Francois Fillon
Macron — Le Pen
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Le Pen-s are Father vs. Chirac and Daughter vs. Macron 2x. (Fam Biz.)
Sarkozy has Jewish roots and was an Atlantacist. He beat Royal, common-law wife of Hollande at the time. (Fam Biz on the Socialist wing.)
The expected Socialist successor set to win was DSK, who was head of the International Monetary Fund. He had been dealing with the Chinese (and Indians) in view of changing XYZ to promote a more multi-polar, ‘fairer’, better, more profitable for MANY Int’l banking system. A Globalist .. of some type.
Sex scandal! He was accused of attempted rape of a chambermaid in the Sofitel Hotel, New York, was arrested and imprisoned in Rikers Island. Top F pol, head of IMF, ouch! (DSK had a past reputation of other ‘sex’ stories.) He could no longer stand!
Hollande was propulsed to the top as a ‘safe’ candidate, a future ‘normal’ President (Post the chaotic Sarkozy rule.)
Hollande’s presidency was marred by ‘Islamist’ terrorist attacks (Other story.)
The expected next Pres. was Francois Fillon, a ‘Républicain’, tagged as pro-Russian, from the Chirac mold. (Chirac and Schroeder refused to join the coalition of the willing re. Iraq, > freedom fries, all that.)
Fillon was attacked via a made-up scandal, Penelopegate. He had paid x sums to his wife, to one or two? of his children, for doing ‘work’ that was ridiculous.
True, but elected Parls. in France get a sweet envelope of funds to ‘hire anyone at any time’ for ‘anything’ at all, sugar on the Marie Antoinette cake. Between 1/3 or more of Parls. pay spouses, mistresses, lovers, family members, for ‘work’ that seems insignificant, trivial, or is a real contribution, it has been shown. Fillon got hammered! The MSM demonized him and his wife.
Fillon did not withdraw from the first round. So, enough ‘right-wing’ voters switched from him to Le Pen, ensuring a Macron win. Was all calculated, extremely transparent. Who was behind it – other story.
GB, where Jeremy Corbyn was ‘removed’ for ‘anti-semitism’ is a in many ways a similar story.
And so it goes.
!! Trump insists on ending the ‘War’ in Ukraine, seems very determined. (Mineral ‘deals’ and so on are no guarantee of anything.)
“Thousands of young men, ppl, are dying every week …” – Trump says on some vids. Yes it is total horror.
Meanwhile, children in Gaza are scrabbling in the toxic debris, and will die of starvation.
‘Arab’ peace plan refused:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd4pnxx3o
Electricity to Gaza shut off:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/10/what-does-israel-cutting-off-gazas-power-mean
Israel halts food aid:
More:
This is just from the complaisant MSM.
… there’s too much going on, and those were philosophical. Dr D posted.
Yes, you can say that again, Dr D. But this thread is dead I suppose.
Dr. D surpassed his ‘length of post’ today.
He makes some good points but it becomes hard to pick and choose, respond.
On, at top post,
European leaders want ‘forever war’ in Ukraine – Musk
People such as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen don’t want the conflict with Russia to end, the tech tycoon has argued. — from RT.Ridiculous. European ‘leaders’ that is a London-Paris Axis, with Canada Joining (see last summit thingie) have been cleverly manipulated in the past say 40 – 50 years to do the bidding of the US, and those in ‘power’ in the W outside the US are more subservient now than ever.
All oppo has been driven out, discredited, etc. Ex. Jeremy Corbyn, Francois Fillon, Sarah W. in Germany who didn’t make the 5%…etc. Not to mention other ‘corruption’ and ‘deals’ re. Corps…
The Europeans thus fight the good fight for the USA, lackeys who bow down endlessly, thru fear for the most part. (Recall Yugoslavia!) They are terrified of an attack by the US so now will up their attacks on Ukraine, insofar as possible (won’t be able to do much) so will be slowly discredited and let go, or more, as they can’t comply with US demands (e.g. 5% of GDP to US milit cos, taking over the war in UKR with massive troops, young men sent to just die for nothing.…) too bad…
Europe is of course diverse. (The EU no longer plays a role.) Greece, Portugal, Spain, Southern periphery, is another story.
I posted previous that Greenland is not part of the EU, just like Iceland, Norway, the UK, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man. Ireland is the outlier because of its catastrophic relations with Britain, so is rigorously enthusiastically pro-EU (> they have cashed in on various ‘exemptions,’ ‘favors’, etc.) Greenland however is a full member of NATO.
Trump is totally serious about this. It is about shipping lanes, links to the Artic, and more. His last statement to the Full House or whatever it is called is quite clear. Short clip:
He, his team, know Greenland has been making moves towards full independence (from Denmark) -> that it can’t survive independently, -> the US can become the ‘new patron,’ replacing Denmark.
One article on ‘anthropological’ (not *directly* economic) history of Greenland. Feb. 20 2025.
Greenlandic Grievances With Denmark and Trump’s Annexation Plan, J. D. Terwilliger
A very familiar story, colonialist slow ‘domination’ by ‘excusable’ means.
From Top Post, RT reports on Bloomberg piece, re. NatGas.
MSM, left / right oppo, ‘independent analysts,’ so just about everyone, adhered to a mantra that Europe (or the EU) is having to import NLG from the US, that Europe has more or less stopped importing natural gas from Russia (see Nord Stream pipeline blow-up etc.) that German Industry is Being Destroyed, Cos. are moving to the USA!
Wild exaggeration. Gas is just one source of energy, electricity, oil, coal etc. and more are at the top of the flow chart. Setting that aside,
Info. is being manipulated. See for ex. the Swiss European Energy Import Chart (I’m ashamed, really…to be fair it is not Swiss data but taken up from elsewhere..) – like the majority of National sites that track Gas imports it uses the words Europe and EU without distinguishing them.
The title of the first ‘circle’ chart (see at link) is *Gas imports to Europe in recent years.*
The categories include: *Norway* (part of Europe but not the EU), *Russia excluding LNG* (this is mixing up source and type, to show that Russia as a source is less important.) Note, accusations of obfuscation can be explained by blaming a ONE-word error by some dumb intern.
https://energiedashboard.admin.ch/gas/import-europa
There are many far worse exs. around… So?
Figure 5 at link shows EU quarterly imports by source. Post 2022, Russian imports were reduced by between 1/2 and 1/3 (what ‘other LNG’ is Idk?) and have been slowly rising again. USA NLG increased somewhat and then sagged a bit.
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
‘Transits’ from one importing country to another are not tracked. For ex., where did the gas from Azerbaijan to Europe come from? 🙂
The price spike of Nat Gas in Europe WAS very real.
I now better understand this whole mess about the RARE EARTH ‘deals’.
Krainer is informative. 1H 09. https://tinyurl.com/3tjra4ys
However! UKR does not have any rare earths. Found this out consulting Wiki, and then watched,
Kevin W.: 13 mins. https://tinyurl.com/3xuydyef
or see CNN for a short anti-Trump piece:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/27/politics/trump-ukraine-minerals-doubts-resources/index.html
So it looks like all those who wanted the war to continue (NATO, Zelensky, Brits, etc.) just made this up to create the illusion that the ‘war’ would ‘pay for itself’, there would be PROFIT, a rationale, etc. Then Ze went around touting this selling point.. to the Brits (a vague contract signed), and then to Trump, but Trump didn’t fall for it, turning the ‘agreement’ into a (post peace) ’Reconstruction Investment Fund’ without any ‘security guarantees’, forcing Ze to refuse to sign.
text of the prop (same as I posted before)
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/02/26/7205922/
