Election 2020: The Worst Case Scenario Is The Most Likely One

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

The most frequently asked question I get these days is what is going to happen in November, 2020. The election seems to be on the majority of people’s minds even more so that the coronavirus pandemic. In the summer of 2016 I accurately predicted that Donald Trump would enter the White House and met endless opposition to the idea. At the time, an overwhelming number of analysts in the liberty movement assumed Trump would lose, and that Clinton, by hook or by crook, would become president. Obviously this was not the case.

I made the call on a Trump presidency for a number of reasons.  Set aside the fact that the majority of major elections are rigged from within because the elites choose candidates on BOTH sides to run, and lets just look at the simple campaign dynamic at the time.

For one, Clinton was the worst possible candidate that could have been chosen to run against Trump if they had actually intended on “winning”. The DNC had rigged the primary process against Bernie Sanders in order to push Clinton through, yet she was universally hated not just by conservatives but also by moderate liberals. Democrats tend to draw a larger voter base by running “vibrant” candidates that appeal to younger Americans, yet they ran one of the most twisted and decrepit creatures they had on their roster. Though all the polling said Clinton would win in a landslide, the crowds at her campaign events were tiny and devoid of energy. It was clear that she had zero momentum.

It was almost as if she was being set up to lose. But why? Trump’s rhetoric was anti-globalist and his calls to “drain the swamp” were resonating with voters. Would this not greatly damage or expose the establishment agenda?

Here’s what people need to understand…

Sometimes giving an enemy a false sense of security by allowing them a minor victory is the best strategy. The globalists strategize for the long term; not just for the next 4 years, but for the next 40 years. As Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, wrote in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs (pg. 558) in an article titled ‘The Hard Road To World Order’:

In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”

My prediction on Trump becoming president was not only based on Clinton’s inadequacy as a candidate, but also on Trump’s usefulness as a scapegoat for collapse. Keep in mind that the US economy had been struggling to maintain support since the crash of 2008. With all major fundamentals either stagnant or in decline, and with corporate debt, consumer debt and national debt skyrocketing, an enormous bubble was being created in the US economy. This bubble was being inflated by the Federal Reserve through endless stimulus policies to the point that the economy had become addicted to easy money. The system was dependent on it.

Eventually, this bubble was going to pop regardless of how much money was printed by the Fed. The banking elites needed a cover event and a scapegoat for the inevitable collapse they had engineered. With Clinton in office, the globalists would get the blame for the crash. With Trump in office, conservatives and all of our ideals and principles get the blame for the crash.

Trump’s entry into the White House brought hope for many conservatives, but I never put much faith in the eventual outcome once I realized the same elites that had infested previous administrations were now packed into Trump’s cabinet. The fact of the matter is, Trump is surrounded by them.

Dozens of members of the Council on Foreign Relations (a globalist think tank) reside in Trump’s cabinet, along with elites like Pompeo, Mnuchin, Ross, Kudlow, Lighthizer, Fauci, etc. Mike Pompeo is a hardcore neo-con with longtime support for numerous unconstitutional policies including mass surveillance of Americans. Steve Mnuchin is former Goldman Sachs. Wilber Ross is an agent for the Rothschild banking syndicate. Larry Kudlow is former New York Federal Reserve. Robert Lighthizer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. And, Fauci is the guy that gave MILLIONS of dollars to the Level 4 lab in Wuhan, China to research none other than coronavirus transmission from bats to other mammals; the same lab that is probably responsible for the initial pandemic outbreak.

One could debate whether or not Trump is aware that he is being swarmed by globalist parasites, but it is a FACT that these people still have considerable influence over White House policy either way.

This brings us to 2020. We are now in the middle of a viral pandemic; government officials and establishment elites are calling for extensive economic lockdowns in order to “flatten the curve” and slow the infection rate. These lockdowns are accelerating the decline of the already weakened US economy and setting the country up for collapse in the near term. Civil unrest is constantly on the verge of breaking out on both sides of the political divide.

The social justice cultists want chaos in the name of bringing down the system and replacing it with some kind of Marxist Utopia. Conservatives are ready to protest and perhaps even go to war in order to stop the lockdowns and prevent medical tyranny (and I agree with them). This is the background for election 2020, and it’s an epic mess.

For the past few month my suspicion is that there might not be an election at all. But let’s look at the factors that are in place:

1) Joe Biden, the Dem candidate, appears to have stage four dementia. Either that, or he is a very good actor. This is another situation where I am questioning WHY? Why would the establishment run Biden (like they ran Clinton), perhaps the worst possible choice if they hope to rally people against Trump and conservatives?

Maybe Trump is meant to stay in office for another four years, because Biden appears to have no capacity to hold the attention of an audience (again, unless his Alzheimer’s is an act).  That said, if the economic decline is severe enough into November, the election numbers could still be very close because of the backlash against Trump.  Close elections are the easiest for the establishment to manipulate one way or the other.

2) Leftists hate Trump so thoroughly that they would vote for anyone at this point just to get rid of him; but will this fervor be enough to sway moderate Dems to participate if Biden continues his displays of mental frailty?

3) The pandemic lockdowns and viral spread are likely to hit hard by November. Meaning, there is a chance that people will find it difficult to vote at all, unless the votes are handled by mail-in or by electronic means.

4) Electronic or mail-in voting will not be trusted by the public on either side. Whoever wins will be accused of cheating.

5) Civil unrest and violence is almost guaranteed in the lead up to the elections, which could frighten people away from voting booths if they are even in operation.

These factors and more lead me to predict that Election 2020 will be a contested election which ends with Trump staying in office but accused of usurping the democratic process. This outcome is the worst possible outcome and also the most advantageous for the globalist establishment.

The elites are even hinting publicly that this is about to happen. For those of you that have been reading my work for many years, the name “Max Boot” might sound familiar. In my article ‘How Globalists Will Attempt To Control Populations Post Collapse’, published in 2016, I outlined writings by Council on Foreign Relations member Max Boot on the Malaysian Model, a method he describes as the perfect strategy for taking control of a population and destroying an insurgency.

The model calls for the institution of city-sized concentration camps which are used to isolate a rebellion away from the general population. The population in these cities is then subjected to extreme tracking and control measures, while the military is sent out to rural areas to eliminate potential insurgent threats.

Well, Boot is back again, this time writing about how he thinks Donald Trump will try to “hijack” the presidency in 2020.

In an article for the Washington post titled ‘What If Trump Loses But Insists He Won’, Boot outlines a scenario that was “war gamed” by a group called the Transition Integrity Project. The group played out a scenario in which there is a razor thin victory for Joe Biden, followed by actions by Trump to keep control of the presidency through lies and legal wrangling. The group also predicted civil unrest leading to potential “civil war” as the fight over the White House expands.

This article is, I believe, an attempt at predictive programming by the establishment. They are TELLING US exactly what is about to happen. A contested election, civil war, martial law, economic collapse and the US will be destroyed from within.  If conservatives actively support unconstitutional levels of federal power or martial law, then the scenario becomes even worse.  By forsaking our foundational principles in order to “defeat the left”, we would be handing victory to the globalists.  We would be destroying our own movement’s reason for existing while the elites barely have to lift a finger.

The CFR and its long time goal of erasing US sovereignty would then be nearly complete. All that would be left is to ensure they they are the people that get to rebuild America from the ashes of all out domestic conflict and collapse. This cannot be allowed to happen.

I continue to predict that the plan is to destroy the US as we know it and blame conservatives in the process. With so many elites inhabiting Trump’s cabinet, this outcome would be easy for them to engineer. That said, the end game is not in the hands of the elites. It’s in the hands of conservatives.

The temptation for conservatives will be to fully embrace government power in order to stop the leftists, but if we refuse to support martial law measures, if we demand or assert alternative solutions (such as community based security), if we stand by our principles of limited government and if we fight back against the globalists specifically instead of only focusing on the political left, then there is a chance we can stop them from taking control. That said, if we bow to government power and hand over our freedom just to defeat the leftists, then we will lose the greater battle against globalism in the long run.

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138 Comments
Anonymous
Anonymous
July 23, 2020 8:02 am

B.Smith’s alt-market webpage appears to have been hacked or taken down

Ivan
Ivan
  Anonymous
July 23, 2020 10:01 am

Mr Smith comes again with his “I said this and see, it happened, I was correct”.

Good god in heaven it was obvious when Trump came down the escalator he would win the 2016 election.

As for the alt-market website, it’s been down previously and will be again. It’s not a globalist conspiracy to silence Smith.

What makes anyone think Smith didn’t take it down.

The bigger question, Is Smith controlled opposition?

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Ivan
July 23, 2020 2:34 pm

Just one guy’s speculation on what’s happening. There are several other theories or prognostications making as much or more sense to me. Max Boot is a shithead so holding him up as someone of substance loses me right off the bat. More chaff thrown in the wind.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  Ivan
July 24, 2020 2:10 am

It’s a 50-50 guess who wins.
Either way this country this world is so screwed.
In the end everyone apart from the grace of God through personal salvation by faith in Jesus the Messiah will get what we truly deserve and it won’t be pretty no matter how highly we think of ourselves.

Fr. John
Fr. John
  Eyes Wide Shut
July 24, 2020 9:04 am

Even those who think they are ‘saved’ will get what they deserve. Jesus is a not a rabbit’s foot, and we shouldn’t act as though He is.

“The Gospel is a message of ‘good news.’ To whom? To sinners. But to what sort of sinners? To the giddy and unconcerned, to those who give no thought to the claims of God and where they shall spend eternity? Certainly not. The Gospel announces no good tidings to them: it has no music in it to their ears. They are quite deaf to its charms, for they have no sense of need of the Saviour “(p. 357). – A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  Fr. John
July 24, 2020 10:00 am

The definition of Grace is undeserved merit.
We are saved by grace through faith in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus as the Messiah.
Believers deserve death but receive new life.
That is the good news.
Period.
All unbelievers get what they deserve.
Death.
You are highly confused.

Ginger
Ginger
  Eyes Wide Shut
July 24, 2020 6:29 pm

I like your post overtime, but Fr. John is not confused.
Jesus warns that many will say Lord, Lord.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 7: 21-23
This Grace comes with a very high cost.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  Ginger
July 24, 2020 7:12 pm

They are false believers. Most self proclaimed believers in the main stream so called christian churches are false believers and many in modern evangelical churches.
When I say believers I’m referring to true one’s. It likely refers to only around 5% of the world population.

blaine
blaine
  Eyes Wide Shut
July 25, 2020 10:59 pm

Don’t overcomplicate it.

John 3:16

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Eyes Wide Shut
July 24, 2020 7:45 pm

EWS
What part of Johns comment is confusing? Be specific so we know where you are coming from.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  Fleabaggs
July 24, 2020 8:16 pm

“Even those who think they are ‘saved’ will get what they deserve.”

I may be misinterpreting the intent and too hastily disagreed.

If he is referring to false believers above that falsely think they are saved when they are not and not true one’s then he would be correct and I apologise for my misinterpreting his intent.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Eyes Wide Shut
July 24, 2020 8:39 pm

Can’t speak for him but I think he was saying the sme thing. Those seeing Christ as a part time wish granter.
What’s funny for me here is that I thought Fr. John was you, using an alias.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  Fleabaggs
July 27, 2020 6:36 am

I don’t go anonymous often.
Typically only when I have a potty mouth or am in an I hate everyone mood.

Armed Resistance
Armed Resistance
  Ivan
July 25, 2020 12:20 am

Controlled opposition? This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard! There’s zero chance of this as Brandon has been the most transparent writer of independent thought and objective reason for a decade! Who exactly would control him as he has openly stated his disdain for both sides? this is an idiotic comment.

Mushroom Cloud
Mushroom Cloud
  Armed Resistance
July 26, 2020 5:25 pm

What happened to Drudge?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Mushroom Cloud
July 26, 2020 5:39 pm

He took the pieces of silver.

William Williams
William Williams
  Mushroom Cloud
July 27, 2020 1:15 am

Drudge was always a (homosexual) sensationalist. I’m glad he served in the anti-Clinton forces, but it really was all about clicks.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 8:11 am

For what purpose would Joe Biden fake stage 4 alzheimers?

luke2236
luke2236
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 8:40 am

Wait and see who (((they))) pick for his vp and you will see…

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  luke2236
July 23, 2020 9:57 am

I get that but, if Biden is your guy, it’s better for him to not have alzheimers, no? Would the Democrats rather an alzheimers infected Biden or a cogent Biden? Isn’t Biden a commie fuck also?

William Williams
William Williams
  Glock-N-Load
July 27, 2020 1:18 am

Like most republicans, Biden has no “core principles” at all.
Right now, democrat winds are blowing hard left, so that’s the way Biden will blow too.
His very incapacity makes him all the more dangerous.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer
  luke2236
July 23, 2020 11:08 am

I don’t think TPTB even need to be that visible. Joe has completely adopted the Bernie platform…and Bernie is the effective nominee with a “lunch bucket Joe” skin. The VP may or may not take over for Joe but I think the “fix” of socialism is already in. Brandon occasionally finds a nut (being the blind squirrel that he is) and this he did.

Trump is the fall guy for the coming implosion……whether Trump is a dupe or willing participant is kind of irrelevant. The USA is going to become a bankrupt Commie Authoritarian regime and we are the fucking Kulaks!

Going to make Turner Diaries look like Romper Room.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Martel's Hammer
July 23, 2020 12:21 pm

I’m going to have to agree with this comment. Sure sounds likely.

ottomatik
ottomatik
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 5:58 pm

No its not.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Martel's Hammer
July 23, 2020 2:08 pm

You underestimate the fully operational statuses of the Russian and ChiCom Death Stars. In that regard many, many conservatives are aligned with the elites in their hubris.

When you’ve collected ChiCom currency for 12 years (and assuming you did the historical research behind them), you learn to leave that sleeping dragon be unless you can annihilate them.

Oooops, Washington! Fire (ants) in the hole!

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
  luke2236
July 23, 2020 2:47 pm

You and I both know the pick will be Hitliary who will then slide into the driver’s seat due to Biden’s unfortunate slide into stage 5 dementia, shortly after inauguration day on 1/20/21.
And somebody’s gotta say it: “Where’s HUNTER”?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  WestcoastDeplorable
July 23, 2020 3:31 pm

Yes, where is Hunter.

William Williams
William Williams
  WestcoastDeplorable
July 27, 2020 1:20 am

Hillary? No way. Even most democrats hate her.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 9:35 am

Because Biden is the real Keyser Soze.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Anonymous
July 23, 2020 9:58 am

I thought the real Keyser Soze was Soros.

Ivan
Ivan
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 10:03 am

Biden isn’t faking dementia.

He had brain surgery twice in the 70’s and has been an incoherent creeper ever since.

This is not his first presidential candidacy, it is the furthest he’s gotten in the rodeo.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  Ivan
July 23, 2020 12:22 pm

In the 70s or in his 70s?

Ivan
Ivan
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 5:38 pm

I’m a decade off apparently it was two aneurysms in the late 1980’s. No idea when he was born, don’t know the math on his age, don’t much care!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Ivan
July 23, 2020 2:37 pm

Watch how he walks. He moves like a geezer now. He’s going downhill pretty quickly. Pathetic what Progs will attempt.

Robin Banks
Robin Banks
  Ivan
July 25, 2020 5:57 pm

1988 not 70s.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 11:19 am

Biden is merely a placeholder for their real candidate, Big Mike. We will know for sure in about 4 weeks.

S. Bishop
S. Bishop
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 11:22 am

Come now. He’s not at faking Stage 4. I have confirmation from anonymous sources close to the candidate that he is still changing his own Depends…

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Glock-N-Load
July 23, 2020 6:22 pm

wip,
i’ve actually read a plausible scenario about biden staying shut up b/c of his mind problems–i don’t necessarily agree w/it but it goes along the lines of biden has no real issues to debate upon,along w/the fact that he has negatives & is gaffe prone–
though he definitely has some problems,if they aren’t as bad as advertised or they can jack him full of drugs & get him thru one debate w/o major problems,it would be a big boost 4 the dem base & take much wind out of trump’s sails–
imo it’s bs but it’s out there–

Anonymous
Anonymous
  TampaRed
July 25, 2020 5:59 pm

The fucker could not debate when he was at the top of his game. He is stupid and awful.

Vodka
Vodka
July 23, 2020 8:16 am

Voting fraud/contested elections might be their argument of why we all need to be ‘chipped’. Skip the photo ID requirement and go straight to the End Game.

You can’t be too paranoid anymore.

CCRider
CCRider
July 23, 2020 8:17 am

This is what I got:

It appears you don’t have
permission to access this page.
403 Error. Forbidden.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  CCRider
July 23, 2020 9:23 am

Me too, CC. Must be because he is too close to the truth.

Now you can’t share his website so people can check whether he really did pick Trump to win in 2016. I know he did because I used to read alt-market all the time.

Brandon has his faults as some have pointed out but I think he nailed it.

Btw, it’s been reported Feds in Portland failed to protect the Federal courthouse there and rioters set it on fire last night.

CCRider
CCRider
  Mary Christine
July 23, 2020 9:41 am

Hey Mary (or is it Hail Mary?) I feel it differently. I say let these dummo cities burn down. They elected transparent nitwits like de blasio? Live with the consequences. Burn, baby, burn.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  CCRider
July 23, 2020 2:48 pm

Burn it down and they will move “here.” Keep them “there.” Kill the terrorists from the Democrat Militia and the gangbangers and make it safe for them to stay “there” as opposed to “here.”

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Harrington Richardson
July 23, 2020 3:30 pm

Harry
The more permanant solution is to do a Stalingrad except the rear exit goes straight to the slave markets in Latin America where they can mine Emeralds for a bowl of rice.
Refusing that means staying in Stalingrad and eating other useless eaters.

overthecliff
overthecliff
  CCRider
July 24, 2020 1:02 pm

Amen!

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Mary Christine
July 23, 2020 2:46 pm

The Democrat Militia tries to set it on fire every night. I don’t know why they are not shooting anyone playing with matches. They need sniper teams with orders to pot anybody trying to set a fire or throwing a firebomb. Lighting off a building containing people is attempted murder. Time they pay for their criminality. These are the enemies domestic and they need to be killed. A 140 grain Creedmoor in the forehead would look so good on TV and end this right f’ing now. If they come back with guns we have the justification to shoot them all everywhere on sight.
Ghetto dwellers (not the trustees of the ghetto) are begging the President to send federal troops to secure their neighborhoods. Once again I return to the theme of all this shit being rooted in the Democrats losing more than the magic number of 18% of the Black vote to Trump.

ec
ec
  CCRider
July 23, 2020 9:31 am

Pointing out the obvious is a no-no. If you engage in conspiracy theories about race or the ‘flu’ – that’s okay. Taking the long view is too dangerous a topic for public discussion.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  CCRider
July 23, 2020 5:02 pm

Just Google the title and you will find many reposts.

j. eric smith
j. eric smith
July 23, 2020 9:12 am

I too can’t access Altmarket. I thought perhaps I was blocked for an anti Jewish comment.
Brandon is a great force to be reckoned with.

Steve
Steve
July 23, 2020 9:15 am

While this election will be incredibly important in that leftist vs rightist conflict, it’s ultimately meaningless.
The globalists just wait ( and wait they can) another 4 years if necessary(Trump wins) and that will end the Republican party. Not in the literal sense but it will never win another significant election. Demography is destiny and conservatives are toast. The population looks (idiotically) to govt and the FSA will be satisfied with even more bread and circus. End of the Republic ensues.
Socialism is voted in and literal fighting is the only way out.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Steve
July 23, 2020 11:25 am

You nailed it. They have had control of the public indoctrination centers for a couple of generations and have allowed unfettered immigration into the US. Conservatives are older and the China Flu is taking care of the sickly of us.

They will win in ’24, will gain a super majority in both houses and it will be over. First thing to go will be the 1st and 2nd amendments.

William Williams
William Williams
  TN Patriot
July 27, 2020 1:25 am

Well, as long as they let us keep voting, we should be OK.

Llpoh
Llpoh
July 23, 2020 9:36 am

The above is not the worst possible outcome. Not hardly.

Worst possible is Biden chooses a black female commie running mate, gets elected, is rightfully determined incompetent, and voila, black female commie is president.

Seems more likely every day that this could happen.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Llpoh
July 23, 2020 2:09 pm

Biiiiig MIKE 2020!

Ivan
Ivan
  Articles of Confederation
July 23, 2020 5:43 pm

YES!

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Llpoh
July 23, 2020 6:42 pm

pop up polls have been showing up on mainstream sites asking would you vote 4 michelle obama–
somebody is either testing the waters or planting the seed–

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  TampaRed
July 23, 2020 7:36 pm

Red.
Planting the seed. She will be drafted while pretending to resist. OH please don’t throw me in that brier patch. About mid Sep. Ellen and Oprah will co-host a show with much fanfare and demand that Big Mike save us from Trump and the new KKK. His wife Barrietta will announce that she pleaded with him to do his duty.
With a hesitant sigh and an Aw Shucks and a “Well if you really think I should” and a thunderous roar from the stadium sound system mimicking 250 million adoring fans, it’ll be a done deal.
I’m serious.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Fleabaggs
July 23, 2020 7:50 pm

i must admit,you’ve been saying it 4 a long time–
i don’t think she will win if trump has the stones to go after her but she will secure the base,which might save the house & give them the senate–
remember,just b/c you might be correct on this one doesn’t mean that you’re not still usually full of it–

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  TampaRed
July 23, 2020 8:20 pm

Not a snowball’s chance in Hades that *anyone* could beat Big Mike this year. It’ll only be compounded when Latwatta and Cajone both vote 10x each.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  TampaRed
July 23, 2020 9:23 pm

Still full of it? What have I been wrong about that you can prove. Remember, just you thinking it don’t make it so.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Fleabaggs
July 23, 2020 8:18 pm

LOL Barrietta. I would have gone for Beelzebub but hey, Barrietta works!

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
July 23, 2020 9:57 am

It’s unlikely Smith’s site got blocked for what he said in this article. There’s not a thing in here that me and several others haven’t said over and over on TBP for 4 years running. I was the one who said to look at Malaysia for the game plan.
What I think he did wrong is make it too plain that Trump and Hillary were selected and now Him and old Uncle Joe are selected. It’s one thing for contrarians like me to say it but Smith has a large following in the mainstream conservative block. He made it just a little too understandable to the Purple Pilled.

DFJ150
DFJ150
July 23, 2020 10:07 am

We are already much farther down this road than Mr. Smith details. The FEMA “re-education camps” have been built, the thought police are extending their power and reach more each day, and the leftist/globalists are doing everything they can to foment and encourage violent anarchy in our cities (soon to expand to suburban and rural areas). Meanwhile, the “silent majority” does nothing. This will not end well, but may end quite soon.

MN Steel
MN Steel
  DFJ150
July 24, 2020 3:20 pm

That reminds me, I need to load more .300WM and .30-06.

You know, for the really long straight roads through the swamps that you can’t go around after spring thaw.

Anonymous1
Anonymous1
July 23, 2020 10:18 am

I’m sorry but this is simply an idiotic essay

So, the economy was going to crash, because un-employment was at record lows? no, stupid argument.

The evil elites needed a cover story? no, they do what they please, see WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold war, etc. The cover story of 911 was to implement the next phase of eternal war. Covid is just another Flu, but, it provided the Democrat governors with a tool to destroy Trumps low employment numbers, and create chaos, because they couldn’t do it with : Russiagate, impeachment, or blackmail ops.

There is issues with unfunded liabilities, and debt, but these are banking issues, not caused by the general population, and not caused by who is in office when these financial time bomb go off, and not caused by the over reaction to Covid.

The truth is, there was never a recovery after 2008, and the idiot in charge (obama) simple papered over the problem, and kicked the can down the road to Trump. Trump has spent most of his political capital attempting to undue obama era legislation.

This is why the Demos hate and despise him, and are willing to sacrifice the financial livelihood of 30 million Americans.

Just think what they will sacrifice, when they get into power:
you can kiss the Constitution good bye

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Anonymous1
July 23, 2020 11:02 am

Mouse 1
What article were you reading? Not this one for sure. But you certainly made sure someone put in a lenghty Trump campaign ad. Right from the basic issue script they hand out at Maga Rallies.

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer
  Anonymous1
July 23, 2020 11:20 am

On the economy yes shitty low paying jobs that don’t allow you to buy a house were widely available…..folks on average have less than $500 in the bank…..paycheck to paycheck and deeper in Credit Card debt every month….that is not a robust economy. Do some seraching on “Financialization” whereby paper financial instruments (stocks, bonds etc.) have dramtically more valuable than the physical economy where most folks earn a living. Concetration of wealth is a sign of a crony capitalist system of insiders getting rich at everyone else’s expense…..Jews, Wall Street (but I repeat myself), political insiders, the MIC etc. Trump was better than the alternative but this country was hollowed out a long time ago……..

ec
ec
  Martel's Hammer
July 23, 2020 12:01 pm

searching
concentration
dramatically

Martel's Hammer
Martel's Hammer
  ec
July 24, 2020 12:05 am

Its the spell checker…..and my fat fingers!

ec
ec
  Anonymous1
July 23, 2020 12:00 pm

undo

blaine
blaine
  ec
July 23, 2020 7:55 pm

you’re new look is very unassuming

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous1
July 23, 2020 2:51 pm

Unfunded liabilities are a ‘banking’ problem?

Bah…

…they are only the problem of those who won’t be receiving what they were promised and worked to secure.

When pensions and their health care benefits (THE largest unfunded liability) are no longer payable, because deficits WILL matter eventually, nobody is going to point at banks.

Banks were clearly responsible for torching the economy in ’08 by giving money to the unemployed to buy mansions. Everybody understood that real estate prices were being inflated by scam ‘investors’ looking to flip houses, qualifying for loans by claiming undocumented income. Even the dimwitted understood that the lack of due diligence by the banks was the spark that lit the ’08 economic fire.

What few understood was that the banks didn’t care about ‘qualified buyers’ because they didn’t hold the mortgages – which were ‘financialized’ and offloaded onto bigger fools.

Joe Sixpack has no idea what financialization is, or if it is behind the disappearing pension, so just how does pension check evaporation matter to a bank, any bank? Banks, as usual, will receive government bailouts when Joe can’t pay. Not a bank problem.

The evaporation of pensions – corporate and government are a given. Unfunded liabilities are dry kindling for city, county, state and then, finally Federal pensions. The spark that torches them won’t be blamed on banks though the cratering of % rates that make pensions ‘unfundable’ ARE their creation (with ever more profitable spreads between what they pay the Fed to ‘loan’ them money and the interest they charge to me to borrow it).

The failure to pay pensions will be blamed on whoever is POTUS and the party in power, who have no levers to lift the pension overburden that will bury the U.S. in destitution and leave everyone begging for a UBI.

Viola, enter the Socialist Jackboots to save our already sizzling bacon.

ec
ec
  Anonymous
July 23, 2020 3:55 pm

See LLPOH above for the correct spelling of walla, string boy.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ec
July 23, 2020 4:13 pm

chuck your apron, eternal cluck, nobody needs you in their kitchen

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  ec
July 23, 2020 5:16 pm

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Llpoh
Llpoh
  Anonymous
July 23, 2020 8:59 pm

Who is this Viola?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Llpoh
July 23, 2020 9:18 pm

A former pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.
I think it was a play on the word Walla.

Llpoh
Llpoh
  Fleabaggs
July 23, 2020 9:27 pm

Flea – I was referring to the anon poster who mentions Viola in his last sentence. ?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Llpoh
July 24, 2020 11:28 am

a dyslexic sasquatch who predictably trips over diacritics but, voilà! – correctly pronounces your consecutive consonant name by hacking a loogie .

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Anonymous1
July 23, 2020 2:58 pm

Not sure what is bugging the down voters. Your comment is better than the article.

DRUD
DRUD
July 23, 2020 11:01 am

Just underlines why #Unity2020 is the ONLY play. It probably won’t work long term even if it works this year, but it is the only thing worth trying now.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
  DRUD
July 23, 2020 12:27 pm

Please explain #Unity2020.

splurge
splurge
  Glock-N-Load
July 24, 2020 10:25 am
MN Steel
MN Steel
  splurge
July 24, 2020 3:34 pm

IF “Unity2020 candidate does not repeal H-S1965” AND “remove all peoples admitted to country under H-S1965” THEN “end of western civilization”

TINVOWOOT

Jaz
Jaz
July 23, 2020 11:23 am

Has anyone else noticed that people like Rush and Hannity are becoming noticeably more ‘establishment’ these days? I can’t even stand to listen to them at all anymore. If they were ever real (highly questionable) TPTB have some good leverage on them.
They are more of the controlled opposition that is lulling people to into a trap.

Long Time Lurker
Long Time Lurker
  Jaz
July 23, 2020 11:30 am

Yep. Especially Hannity when he came out with his just wear mask tirade. Might as well be Jay Inslee

William Williams
William Williams
  Long Time Lurker
July 27, 2020 1:32 am

Hannity is basically the straight worlds answer to Drudge. Not to be trusted.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Jaz
July 23, 2020 11:41 am

Jaz
They have always been loyal Neocon waterboys.

Jaz
Jaz
  Fleabaggs
July 23, 2020 12:01 pm

Fleabagss, I always thought that of Hannity, I had hope that Rush was not until he started saying that the Bushes were good people several years ago, then I knew for sure. The signs were there, I chose not to believe my own eyes.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Jaz
July 23, 2020 2:08 pm

Jaz.
It’s something we all do but they key is you allowed yourself the flexibility of the mind to snap out of it. He was one of the Godfathers of “You’re throwing away your vote” if you vote independent.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Jaz
July 23, 2020 7:02 pm

Rush Limbaugh has always been and always will be a lardass drug addict with little to no common sense. Remember his war against the Fairness Doctrine? How’s that working out for cuckservatives right about now? He’s plays Connect 4 at best. No ability to play a 162 game season.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Articles of Confederation
July 23, 2020 7:27 pm

w/o rush we would probably already be socialist–

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  TampaRed
July 23, 2020 9:42 pm

Oh good grief, talk about hyperbole. He never thought further ahead than the next election. He supported both Bushes which says enough for me. He’s a wealthy disk jockey who can turn a phrase. Nothing more.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Articles of Confederation
July 23, 2020 10:00 pm

pre internet,rush was all there was on our side–he doesn’t receive anywhere near the credit that he deserves–
why do you think the left hates him so much? ditto trump?

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  TampaRed
July 23, 2020 10:08 pm

Why does the left hate anyone more successful than them? Why is the sky blue?

But that doesn’t mean he isn’t a bloated windbag. He was never on my side. Go to his own website to read all the disgusting niceties he has to say about the Bushes. Go look at his record of being a poll cat Republican. He represents everything my generation hates about the Boomers. He convinced millions of people to slow down the socialism long enough until they were one foot in the grave – because that’s ALL Republican voters have accomplished in decades.

That’s his legacy. He, like most of his generational cohort, are going to suffer from the most painful backlash that any American generation ever has or likely ever will.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Articles of Confederation
July 23, 2020 10:30 pm

AOC.
You’re exactly right. He slowed it down many times with his views on “He’s better than Her”, “You’re throwing away your vote”. He considered Ron Paul a drag on the Party. Just like the Trump apologists are doing today while we rack up incomprehensible debts on our great great grandchildren.
I will have plenty to account for when I stand in front of our Creator but compromising and cowardice are not among them.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Fleabaggs
July 23, 2020 10:39 pm

We will all have to atone for something. But like you, cowardice won’t be it.

Jaz
Jaz
  Fleabaggs
July 24, 2020 1:39 pm

Fleabaggs, Above it all, Rush and Hannity are two of the most narcissist people I have ever seen. Their desire to be influences on a national scale has probably added to the problems versus helping. I say that because as you and AOC say, they downplayed or outright denied what and who were killing America.

Jaz
Jaz
  TampaRed
July 24, 2020 1:31 pm

TampaRed, Remember when Rush used to (probably still does) say: I’ll tel you when to panic” and I’ll tell you what to think” ?

Mushroom Cloud
Mushroom Cloud
  Articles of Confederation
July 26, 2020 5:48 pm

That may be true, but it’s hard to condemn someone when then are making Democrats cry, no matter how fake that person is…

Anonymous
Anonymous
  TampaRed
July 24, 2020 9:27 pm

We ARE already socialist.

William Williams
William Williams
  Anonymous
July 27, 2020 1:37 am

American socialism has been for the well-connected, but now many of the ordinary joes and janes want their free shit too.

There’s n0t enough to go around now, and even less in the near future.

Jaz
Jaz
  Articles of Confederation
July 24, 2020 1:26 pm

AOC, I wonder if Rush went down to the island on his private jet?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Jaz
July 24, 2020 1:52 pm

He doesn’t strike me as sexually driven. I half suspect his marriages might be of the convenience type.

Rather Not Say
Rather Not Say
July 23, 2020 12:49 pm

From a military Operations Order (Opord) perspective (which popularized ‘most likely case’ and ‘worst case’ scenarios), they are NEVER the same.

Why?

Because no matter how bad the most likely course is, it can always, ALWAYS, get worse.

If you’re in such a tough spot that the most likely case is very bad, then you have no design margin, few if any reserves, and all sorts of things can make it much worse very quickly in all sorts of ways. If an officer claimed the most likely case was the worst case, I would chew him out for a failure to consider all the myriad ways it could get worse.

ec
ec
  Rather Not Say
July 23, 2020 2:58 pm

We get it, general but he was saying that the worst imaginable outcome is more likely what we will see. Then he lets you use your imagination to consider all the horrible ramifications of that scenario. If you thought blacks shaming white girls into dating them by calling them racist, what will you do when you son is shamed into dating a tranny to avoid being called sexist?

TampaRed
TampaRed
  ec
July 23, 2020 6:39 pm

is it a hot tranny?

blaine
blaine
  TampaRed
July 23, 2020 7:57 pm

no
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EC -Spelling Nazi
EC -Spelling Nazi
  blaine
July 24, 2020 2:09 pm

That is so disturbing but it kinda reminds me of when my dick achieved self awareness back in high school.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  EC -Spelling Nazi
July 24, 2020 2:38 pm

Why? Were you wearing a dress?

William Williams
William Williams
  EC -Spelling Nazi
July 27, 2020 1:40 am

You mean junior high, right?

22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
22winmag - TBP's Latter Day Shit-poster
July 23, 2020 3:17 pm

In the summer of 2016 I accurately predicted that Donald Trump would enter the White House

In the summer of 2016 I accurately predicted that Brandon’s Oath Keeper buddies were a bunch of .gov actors posing as “Guardians of the Republic.”

I haven’t seen or heard jack shit from Brandon or the fake Oath Keepers Revolution in years.

ec
ec

You had a 50/50 chance of being right about the election, that hardly puts you into the Flea category. LLPOH correctly called the Obama victory, you don’t see him bragging non-stop about it.

Llpoh
Llpoh
  ec
July 23, 2020 9:17 pm

EC – if I brag about all the things I get right, I would not have time to post all the other things I am destined to be right about too.

So I have to time manage – I simply do not have time to brag and also predict. Well, I do try to squeeze in a little time to brag. It irritates those that were wrong so much, I just have to do it on occasion.

Here is the thing, and it works well when you are laying bets, and also when you are predicting outcomes. You have to take the emotion out of it. You have to ignore the outcome you want, and look at the reality.

I paid for my sundries at college by betting on sports with people that could not put their biases aside. I always kept an ear out to find out who were Cowboys, or Celtics, or Yankees fans, and then used that against them at the appropriate time. “Yo, Boysfan, the Steelers are gonna kick the Cowboys’ asses this week!” “Bullshit! I bet you $20 they will not!” Ka-Ching, given the Steelers were 14 point favourites and I get a $20 bet at evens. This was a regular occurrence.

Never bet or predict based on emotion.

My biggest killing ever was on Sugar Ray vs Duran fight 1. Odds were for Leonard around 2:1. Duran was 69-1, Leonard 27-0. I was able to stretch those odds out even more by playing on American emotion. Woohoo! Duran was an all-time great, and I was getting 3:1 and even 4:1??!!! Thank you, Jesus.

I avoided fight 2 like the plague.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Llpoh
July 23, 2020 10:05 pm

do you remember jerry cooney,the huge white boxer who fought larry holmes–cooney was played up as the great white hope–i made a couple of hundred on $10-20 bets w/guys who bought into the racial bs–
you’re correct,leave the emotion out of it–

EC -Spelling Nazi
EC -Spelling Nazi
  TampaRed
July 24, 2020 2:15 pm

You gone play on TBP, you have to leave the emotion out of it.

EC -Spelling Nazi
EC -Spelling Nazi
  Llpoh
July 24, 2020 2:15 pm

You the man, LLPOH!

TampaRed
TampaRed
July 23, 2020 10:10 pm

this is slightly off topic but it is an interview w/2 authors who started off writing about the russia investigation & were able to document that the fraud went back to the beginning of obama’s 1st term–
kinda long but worth listening to–

Fr. John
Fr. John
July 24, 2020 9:02 am
Southern Sage
Southern Sage
July 24, 2020 10:08 am

I get where Smith is coming from. Unfortunately, he is ignorant on the subject of Leftist tactics and strategy. I, too, would like to avoid the situation he describes. Let me say this. History has shown that the only way to stop an organized, powerful attempt by the Left to seize power is by brute force, either “legal” and political brute force, or tanks in the streets. His idea of relying on “community security” and principles of limited government would ensure a catastrophe. It is absolutely critical to maintain control of the national government, its military, and its institutions. If they are allowed just once to pass into the hands of the lunatics now ruling the Democrat Party there will be no turning back. They will claim legitimacy for their Marxist plans and the world will recognize them as the legal government. Conservatives and libertarians will be seen as reactionary rebels and dealt with accordingly.

I do not want Trump to engage in electoral shenanigans or, much less, put the army on the streets or call out a citizen militia. This, however, is where we are. There is no possibility of compromise with the Left. One side or the other will be destroyed. In this game winning is not the important thing, it is the only thing.

We should hope that enough Americans have had their eyes opened by things like Portland to give Trump a convincing victory and that AG Barr has taken steps to stop voter fraud in the Blue states.

If there is any confusion on 3 November, Trump and the American people had better be prepared to do what needs to be done. The “democracy” and “rule of law” train left the station and was derailed by the Democrats long ago.

The best outcome maybe a relatively short conflict followed by the exile of the Leftist ringleaders, as well as stripping their accomplices of their civil rights and assets. A word to the Leftist-supporting CEO’s out there. if you imagine you will be able to enjoy your mansions and private jets after aiding and abetting treason, you are going to be in for a rude shock.

EC -Spelling Nazi
EC -Spelling Nazi
  Southern Sage
July 24, 2020 2:23 pm

Thank you for that. I was explaining to my daughter that the Clintons took the party so far left, they dragged the Republicans onto the JFK Democrat spot; the party of Reagan is no more. We might as well start calling the Democrats communists. I have called them that when talking to the Salvy Queen; it saves time explaining all their moves.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  EC -Spelling Nazi
July 24, 2020 4:16 pm

Agreed. I thought that the other day looking at RINOs. I realized the so-called Republican party is now the Republicans and the non-communist former Democrats, while the Democrats are now National Socialist, Communists and various ultra Prog Democrats.
It is beyond time to start rounding these people up for prosecution. Barr was warning CEO’s that the actions they are taking providing financial support to various communist terror groups is in fact a federal crime. They are transporting explosives, attempting arson on federal property and throwing sharpened PVC tube spears, pellet guns, ball bearing from slingshots and shining lasers which can destroy eyes in police faces.
There is no doubt anywhere outside of an MSNBC fever swamp as to what is going on. These people can stop and pursue legitimate politics or they should be killed right in front of the Portland Federal Courthouse and that despicable filth Mayor Wheeler should be forced on his hands and knees to scrub the blood from the pavement and the graffiti from the walls.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Harrington Richardson
July 24, 2020 9:21 pm

harry,
this thread is about played out–both your’s & sage’s comments need to be seen by a hellacious # of eyes–

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
July 25, 2020 7:57 am

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ursel doran
ursel doran
July 25, 2020 3:07 pm

VERY HIGH probability that these organized confrontations will lead to a quite serious event before the election.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/25/protest-live-blog-portland-chicago-nyc-louisville-updates/5501660002/

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg
July 26, 2020 2:21 am

Why can’t we just all get along.
Black and white are all people, all the same.
It’s soooooo easy !!!!

And for those who can’t get along, like BLM and Antifa, this clip shows what you really are – cowards who will lose when confronted by unity…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSVbPnLaj3o

SeeBee
SeeBee
  ZombieDawg
July 26, 2020 1:25 pm
Lars
Lars
  SeeBee
July 26, 2020 3:58 pm

“…Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony…People are the same wherever you go…”

Honestly, SeeBee, assuming your post is sincere, I believe the sentiments expressed in this air, melodic though it is, are passe, sappy, and untrue. And for us to behave as though they are true, as we have for far too long, will get the innocent and naive among us killed.

SeeBee
SeeBee
  Lars
July 26, 2020 5:13 pm

We all got along pretty well when we tolerated each other. The problems come with forcing acceptance. This sentiment applies to race, creed, color, sexual persuasion, mask wearing and social distancing.

flash
flash
July 26, 2020 2:54 pm

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

flash
flash
July 26, 2020 3:01 pm

Hillary was not an also ran. She won the popular vote and did quite well in Red states too. Never underestimate the stupidity of large populations of people.

You’ll know them by their Googles.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/animated-map-what-america-searched-google-over-last-decade