Guest Post by Bill Bonner
The show is Trump, and it is sold-out performances everywhere.
– Donald J. Trump, Playboy magazine, 1990
YOUGHAL, IRELAND – Commentators and political analysts have consistently misread our president.
They try to understand him using traditional political categories. Is he a conservative or a liberal? Is he a Republican or a Democrat? A big spender or a tightwad? Jeffersonian or Hamiltonian? An empire builder… or a constitutionalist?
Those who dislike him say that he is a conniving, self-obsessed moron who has no idea what he is doing. Those who like him say that he is a shrewd, instinctive patriot who stands up for what is good and right in the face of desperate opposition.
Neither of them give the man enough credit. He is more than that… and less.
He is the man for whom the stage was set… He had merely to show up on time, strut to the center, and pronounce the lines written for him.
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Power to Coerce
What follows is not so much a rumination on the character of America’s chief executive, but on America itself… how it has evolved from a modest Republic into a global empire… and how the Greatest Show on Earth always seems to find its leading man – the one who will seize the limelight… and bring the house down.
Let’s begin by turning back to economist Milton Friedman and reminding ourselves why we are bothering to look at all.
We will see that politics and markets are linked – inversely. The more politics you have, the less markets seem to matter. Here is Mr. Friedman, writing in New Individualist Review:
The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly… separates economic power from political power and in this way, enables the one to offset the other… Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow man. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.
The feds have the power to coerce. That is, they have guns… and they don’t mind using them.
Markets don’t like to be told what to do. When they are bullied, they take it badly. They dissemble. They lie. They dodge and feint… and double back to kick the bully in the derrière.
That is, even with a gun to their heads, they do what they’re supposed to do… They mediate between the gods and men… between what is and what could be… between the wonder-world of hopes and dreams and the real world as it is.
Grand Larceny
Today, in America, armed police power is probably a greater threat to your money than freelance thieves. Yesterday’s Washington Post:
A 64-year-old Cleveland man is suing U.S. Customs and Border Protection after agents strip-searched him at an airport in October and took more than $58,000 in cash from him without charging him with any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week in Ohio.
Customs agents seized the money through a process known as civil asset forfeiture, a law enforcement technique that allows authorities to take cash and property from people who are never convicted or even charged with a crime. The practice is widespread at the federal level. In 2017, federal authorities seized more than $2 billion in assets from people, a net loss similar in size to annual losses from residential burglaries in the United States.
But these thefts are petty robberies. The grand larceny rarely involves the boys in blue uniforms. Instead, it is carried out by guys in suits. Author Allan C. Brownfeld:
No matter which party holds power in Washington, crony capitalism – the subsidization of private business with taxpayer funds – remains alive and well. Under our current political system, politicians – Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative – have an incentive to raise the large sums of money needed to campaign successfully for office. To get those special interests with the needed funds to contribute to do so, these politicians do their bidding in return. These special interests contribute to both parties. Thus, no matter who wins, they have a friend in office.
And as author Steven Brill points out:
Money has come to dominate everything so completely that the people we send up to D.C. to represent us have been reduced to begging on the phone for campaign cash up to five hours a day and spending their evenings taking checks at fundraisers organized by those swarming lobbyists.
A gerrymandering process has rigged easy wins for most of them, as long as they fend off primary challengers – which ensures that they will gravitate toward the special interest positions of their donors and their party’s base, while racking up mounting deficits to pay for goods and services that cost more than budgeted, rarely work as promised, and are seldom delivered on time.
Flatter, Bribe, Threaten
There are some 20 registered lobbyists in Washington for every elected representative. And there are hundreds more influence peddlers.
They flatter, bribe, and threaten… all aiming to get the feds to use their police power to take something from someone else… and give it to them.
Elon Musk, continues Brownfeld, may or may not be a brilliant engineer. But he is master of the swamp fauna.
His business model depends heavily on tax favors and government contracts. Tesla spends more than $1 million per year lobbying. And it pays off.
The cars benefit from “$280 million in federal tax incentives, including a $7,500 federal tax break” per car. And SpaceX does 85% of its business with the feds.
As for Musk’s solar panel company, SolarCity, Brownfeld explains:
It has still not turned an annual profit despite receiving over $490 million in grants from the Treasury Department over the years, with the government covering 30% of its installation costs. Elon Musk may tell himself that he is engaged in capitalism but, in fact, he and the many other recipients of government subsidies and protection are really engaged in a form of socialism.
Socialism? Nah… more like late, degenerate empire parasitism. This is the show that’s playing now.
More to come next week… including what happened to all those nice people who wrote the last tax bill!
The trumpster has lots of debt/favors to repay. He will not dissapoint his masters. Jump trump! Ok,how high?
Some examples of this in practice?
Trump was elected because there was hope that since he was already wealthy he would be different. In reality he is just as indebted to the swamp but in different ways. He was our last hope for our nation.America will be turned into a third world shithole unless some states have the will to succeed and keep Jews out but I doubt they will. I hate these weak willed son of a bitches .Where is Hitler when you need him?
Without Jews whites could solve the black race problem real quickly.
It is about who controls the narrative. Marxists control what words mean and what words one can say. A Denver radio host used to say that. I grew up when negro was the norm between colored and black. Now it is African American. Blacks can say nigger all day long. My white neighbors kid plays rap music all day. It’s NIGGER,NIGGER, NIGGER, MF, N, MF…I’m all niggered out. red pilled should take back the narrative and use the words that that are offensive so they become non offensive by overuse.
People can talk and surmise about it all. It’s so much simpler, really. All one needs to say to 95% of the American population, who for a lack of a better word are peons, is bend over and you ain’t going to get any Vaseline.
Other truthful people who act and talk in civilized tones would talk about America’s Roman Imperial Decline.
Since I am a rather crass and highly educated person I would agree that both are dead pan correct.
What’s really funny. We are socialist in our form of government but even the socialist amongst don’t even realize it yet. Pretty slick by the powers that be. Problem is, when we do figure it out we will be full on communists.
*I* elected Donald J. Trump so that I could – and can – hear my enemies squealing like piggies in the slaughterhouse while the Devil duels on his banjo. Squeal piggie, squeal!
The fate of democracy is crony capitalism and tyranny which is well described by Hans-Hermann Hoppe in “Democracy: The God that Failed”. America has evolved from a constitutional republic with dispersed and very limited government to an Evil Empire living parasitically on stolen wealth at home and abroad. The government is now an occupation government waging a war of destruction against the American people. Trump is the swamp and but in any case he is just shuffling the chairs on the deck of the Titanic as it slowly slides into a cold and watery grave in the north Atlantic.
Mr. Bonner stops short of identifying the so-called parasitic elite. The US “elite” is dominated by an alien and largely hostile Jewish “elite” who now controls the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Congress, the Main Stream and Social Media (MSSM), and Hollywood. No question, the creation of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve by Rothschild bankers was a pivotal milestone in the decline of America which was followed shortly by income taxes and endless wars funded with trillions of dollars created out of thin air. The Jewish Question figures prominently in the Decline of America as it did in the Decline of Russia when the Jewish Bolsheviks ran that country into the ground. And let’s not forget that the rise of Nazism was a reaction to the Jewish takeover of Germany after WWI and Russia after 1917. One of the main reasons there is a growing gap between the “elite” and the people is that the elite is largely an alien elite who shares few of the values of the American people. In fact, it is even worse than that. This parasitic elite is working overtime on the destruction of America and the European people who built America using a number of tools including the mass invasion of totally incompatible people from the third-world. Jordan Peterson wonders why the Nazis are hated today but not the Marxists/Bolsheviks/communists who still occupy positions of power in universities, the media and Hollywood. The answer which he refuses to acknowledge is because the Nazis were a reaction by the German people against the Jewish control of Germany whereas Marxists/Bolsheviks in Russia who caused the extermination of over 60 million Russians were dominantly Jews.
Monika Schaefer…
Ursula Haverbeck…
BOTH are 80+ year-old grandmothers who are doing “hard-time” in German maximum-security prisons for questioning the jewish holocaust™.
What are the jewish holocaust ™ promoters afraid of?
If sunlight is indeed “the greatest disinfectant” to expose the TRUTH, what are holohoax (oops, I mean holocaust ™) promoters afraid of?
There is NOT ONE DOCUMENT outlining any extermination plan for jews or others. In fact, prominent Zionists collaborated with the German government and formulated plans at the highest level of the German government for the “transfer” of jews to what was then known as Palestine. Absolutely nothing about extermination.
Official International Red Cross figures for all camp “deaths” total around 731,000–NOT “6 million”. In fact, population totals pre-WW2 and post-WW2 show an INCREASE in the jewish population in post-WW2 Europe immediately after the cessation of the war…
If a country were hell-bent on genocide, WHY WOULD IT KEEP RECORDS?? WHY would it build “camps” hundreds (if not thousands) of miles away with sanitary facilities, housing, medical, recreational and other ancillary facilities? Would it not have been easier to just “eliminate” them without going through all of this trouble? Why would they expend massive effort on logistical movement utilizing their limited energy resources if the goal was extermination? Things do not “add up”…
Something BIG “stinks” in this whole jewish “holocaust ™” deal. It is no secret that jewish Zionists made “deals” with the German government in order to make life “uncomfortable” for jewish Germans. In fact, it was jewish Zionist leaders who first proposed that all jews wear the “yellow Star of David” armband so that they could be easily identified. German jews considered themselves Germans first and had no desire to emigrate.
The establishment of a “homeland” along with the 6,000,000 figure was a Zionist “dream” since the 1800s. Many periodicals of the day starting with the 1800s touted the “six-million” figure.
What better way to encourage “emigration” to a foreign land than to make things difficult for the “cream of German society” (jews)?? The TRUTH about the so-called jewish “holocaust ™” is out . . .
As cremation of ONE human body takes hours, the amount of time claimed by holocaust ™ promoters is a physical, scientific and statistical impossibility. Their claims also do not account for the “downtime” that crematoria require for maintenance, etc. In addition, there are no mass burial sites that are commensurate with the claims of “six-million” or even “one-million”. There is also a jewish prohibition on excavation of claimed possible burial sites. WHY?? Because THEY DO NOT EXIST. There is even a prohibition on the use of ground penetrating radar to search for burial sites. WHY?? If millions were gassed and cremated, the activities would have lasted well into the 1950s.
The so-called jewish “holocaust ™” has been turned into a de-facto “religion” in which no deviation from orthodoxy is permitted. In fact, in most European countries, independent investigation into jewish “holocaust ™” truths is strictly forbidden under pain of fines and imprisonment. In the USA, things are not quite as bad, only job loss and personal and professional destruction at the hands of those of the “tribe” that FEAR the real truth of the jewish “holocaust ™” being exposed is evident. TRUTH CANNOT BE USED AS A DEFENSE OR ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE IN THE “KANGAROO COURTS” THAT PROSECUTE THOSE WHO DARE TO INVESTIGATE THIS HISTORICAL EVENT. A question for you “holocaust ™” promoters–why are there laws that criminalize the search for truth?? What are you afraid of??
When the truth about this historical event comes out, it will change much of the world’s perception about those that are using this event as a “cash cow” that “keeps on giving”. . . “there’s NO business like “SHOAH business”. Zionist complicity in this event is carefully “covered up”.
A good example of present-day censorship is the fate that awaits those that dare question “official” jewish “holocaust” orthodoxy. Most European countries have criminalized ANY line of thought that deviates from the “official” jewish “holocaust” story. WHY?? In fact, TRUTH is no defense when it comes to “all things holocaust ™”. Ask noted WW2 researcher David Irving, who was forced to recant TRUTH in order to avoid punishment.
The latest “vicitms” of “holocaustianity ™” are Ursula Haverbeck and Monika Schaefer, both 80 plus-year-old grandmothers who have been prosecuted and sentenced to maximum-security prison in Germany for “incorrect thoughts”.
If people only knew of the planning that took place (among those of the “chosen”) to engineer the jewish “holocaust”, there would be a pogrom of massive size. You see, the jewish “holocaust” was necessary in order to force the establishment of a jewish state. In this case, the ENDS justified the MEANS. There have been many “holocausts” of much greater misery throughout human history, yet the jewish “holocaust ™” is the only one that counts . . . It is interesting to note that the term “holocaust ™” to mean “mass extermination” was never used during or immediately after WW2, only coming to vogue in the 1960s, when it was noted that “guilt” could be assigned and reparations could be procured.
Look at the “commercialization of the so-called jewish “holocaust ™” while the much larger communist (true) holocaust is conveniently forgotten. To assure a continuing supply of jewish “holocaust ™” “survivors”, jews are tattooing their ATM (oops, I mean “camp” numbers) on their children and grandchildren. In addition, jewish psychologists have come up with a new concept, and “disease”–”holocaust ™ “transference syndrome”. You see, children and grandchildren of jewish “holocaust ™” survivors are infected with this “disease” and should also be considered “holocaust ™” survivors, eligible for “holocaust ™” reparations. Accprding to these jewish psychiatrists, even unrelated individuals can be “infected” with this “malady”.
Since the Zionist jews declared war on Germany in 1933 (yes, 1933), the Germans had no choice but to complete the Zionist plan of marginalizing German jews (to say the least).. This fulfilled the Zionist plan of forcing German jews to emigrate to Palestine while making the world grant jews a “homeland”–Israel. It is interesting to note that the German boycott of jewish businesses lasted for one day, whil the jewish boycott (actually the jews’ declaration of war on Germany) started in 1933 and lasted until the summation of WW2.
Zionists have been predicting a jewish “homeland” for the last two-hundred years while predicting a “holocaust ™” of 6 million for the same amount of time. The ACTUAL number of non-combatant deaths in the European theater of operations is approximately 731,000, NOT 6 million (official International Red Cross figures). The International Red Cross had full access to all of the camps for the duration of the war, yet reported NOT ONE INSTANCE of extermination or mass murder.
Regarding that “holocaust ™” “showplace” Auschwitz, there are engineering inconsistencies in the design of the so-called “gas chambers”. The doors are not of a gas-tight design; it would have been impossible to retrieve the bodies, and there is no means to ventilate the rooms after the so-called “gassing” took place”. There is a “gas chamber” chimney that is not connected to anything. From an engineering standpoint, these are very serious errors that would have caused the deaths of the “operators” of these supposed “gas chambers”. As Germans were excellent engineers, it is difficult to observe the glaring engineering errors that presently exist in these “camps”.
American execution expert, Fred Leuchter travelled to Auschwitz, surreptitiously obtained samples from the purported “gas chambers”, had them tested and published his results. The absence of Prussian blue (ferricyanide) in ALL of the samples, save one, was PROOF that the “gas chambers” did not exist. The one positive sample was taken from a room used to disinfect clothing. In fact, the “chimney” for the supposed “gas chamber” does not connect to anything.
Mr. Leuchter’s was rewarded for his search for TRUTH by his professional and personal character assassination by those of the “tribe”. He lost all of his federal and state contracts, and was prosecuted under an obscure Massachusetts “law” for “practicing engineering without a license”–a law which had never been used vindictively before or since. . .After his report was published, he was harassed by Israeli “deep state” types (mossad) who he successfully “outed”.
It is no secret that after WW2, the Soviets attempted to “create” the “death camps” for propaganda purposes. Yes, there was extreme deprivation and suffering–many people perished. The prime cause of death was typhus. As allied bombings destroyed most of the infrastructure, typhus was at epidemic levels. THIS is what caused the massive amounts of human deaths . . .NOT gassing.
It is interesting to note that, before the camps were “liberated” by the “allies”, the camp occupants chose to flee with the German troops, rather than be “liberated” by the Russian “allies”.
It is said that “the light of day is the best disinfectant in the search for truth” Unfortunately this quote does not apply to “all things holocaust ™”. It appears that there are those “holocaust ™” promoters who are afraid of the TRUTH. Hence the prosecution and incarceration of those who dare question aspects of this historical event.
I urge all “holocaust ™” believers to check these things out for yourselves–IF YOU DARE. You will not like what you find…
Less than 2 years ago I stayed in Germany in Wannsee with a German woman in her mid 70s. We went to see the building where the Wannsee conference was held where the supposed “final solution” was formulated. There was no copy of the document proving it but plenty of concentration camp pictures and anti jew pictures from many decades. This woman was so guilt ridden growing up after the war that she and her husband went to Israel to work on a kibbutz.
Because Twitter’s competitors put him up to it. Because in many ways he’s almost as morally bankrupt and leaderless as HRC, just expressed differently.