In Part I of this article I discussed why the “Us versus Them” mindset permeates society and how Trump has become a lightning rod for hate. Now I will assess his progress in fighting the Deep State and try to peer into a murky future.
In addition to not being Hillary, the main reasons I voted for Trump was he promised to build the wall, he promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, he promised to end our foreign military interventions, he said he would bring fiscal sanity to the budget, he said the Federal Reserve had blown an immense stock market bubble, he questioned the fake economic data spouted by government drones, and he called out the fake news bullshit media. When I regularly assess his progress on these issues, the standard response from Trump acolytes is “Would you rather have Hillary?”. No, I would not. But that doesn’t get Trump off the hook for his failures in my book.
He can blame establishment Republicans and left-wing Democrats, but he had both houses for two years and did not get money appropriated to build the wall. Mexico didn’t pay for it. There are more illegal immigrants pouring over the border now than under Obama. The U.S. government is now dumping these illegals in cities across America. Trump bloviates at his weekly rallies, but this has been a miserable failure. He can blame the decaying rotting corpse of McCain for his failure to repeal Obamacare, but he failed. The medical industrial complex is still in control; premiums, co-pays and deductibles are higher than ever; bureaucracy expands; and the quality of care continues to decline. Another major fail.
He has massively increased our subsidies to the military industrial complex, while supporting the wars of the murdering House of Saud and the Israelis. He has surrounded himself with unhinged war mongering neo-cons itching for war with Iran, Russia and China. The appeals to patriotism are incessant on commercials, sporting events, and in the news. The great businessman adapted quickly to Washington DC math. Cut taxes for mega-corporations and billionaires, while increasing military spending by hundreds of billions, and not cutting anything, shockingly is leading to a $1.2 trillion deficit this year. He missed balancing the budget by just a smidgen. Of course, the Trump apologists now say debt doesn’t matter. But it does, and it will.
The most disappointing flip flop from Trump has been his complete reversal regarding the Federal Reserve. He declared the stock market as a big fat ugly bubble when the Dow was 18,000 in the summer of 2016. And he attributed the bubble to the recklessly low interest rates perpetuated by the Fed. Now he tweets daily about the great market at 26,000 and ridicules and scorns the Federal Reserve for raising rates to 2.5%.
He acts like a Wall Street shyster pumping a worthless Uber IPO with his blatant attempts to goose the market with fake news about the “imminent” trade deal with China. With a global recession imminent, he desperately needs a rising stock market to keep the plebs believing his great economy narrative.
I wrote articles month after month during the Obama administration proving the BLS and BEA were producing fake manipulated data to paint an untrue positive picture of the economy. Trump railed about the fake numbers during the campaign. Now he worships at the altar of BLS bullshit. The unemployment numbers, CPI and GDP are now unquestioned. Don’t dare question the tremendous economy narrative, or the Trump sycophants will attack.
Does anyone with two brain cells actually believe your everyday inflation is less than 2%? Home prices are at all-time highs. Apartment rent is at an all-time high. Car prices are at an all-time high. Tuition costs are at an all-time high. Healthcare costs are at an all-time high. Gas prices are up 25% this year and 25% since Trump took office. The price of beef and pork is up double digits. The corporate food companies reduce package sizes while keeping the price the same.
The price of electronic gadgets you buy every few years falls (until Trump’s tariffs start to bite) and of course, your wages stagnate at 2% or less growth. Anyone living in the real world knows their real inflation is north of 5%. Record credit card debt is a function of stagnant wages and rising prices for everything else. And if real inflation is north of 5%, then the fake GDP numbers would show negative growth in the economy.
If we are now supposed to believe the BLS then let’s examine the best jobs market ever narrative. Direct from the BLS website, 4.5 million jobs have been added in the 27 months of Trump’s presidency, or 167,000 per month. In a blow to the Trumpeteers, 4.8 million jobs were added in the last 27 months of the Obama presidency, or 178,000 per month. Bummer for the narrative. But the unemployment rate has fallen from 4.8% to 3.6%, as 1.8 million more people “voluntarily” left the workforce. There were 102 million working age Americans not working in January 2017 and there are still 102 million not working. Men in their prime earning years of 45 to 54 have seen 300,000 more job losses since Trump ascended the throne. Not exactly as spectacular as the narrative spun every day on the interwebs. But, rooting for the home team will continue unabated.
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.” ― Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks wrote those words in the early 1990s. The thin veneer of lies and illusions has become thick coating of blatant lies and delusions. Avaricious greed rules the world and manufactured divisiveness is used by the Deep State to keep the masses ignorant of their true purpose. The red meat issues like abortion, transgender freaks, the drug war, reparations, wedding cakes for gays, diversity quotas, SAT adversity adjustments, college admission scandals, mass shootings, the war on terror, false flags and other social justice bullshit keep the anger flowing on social media and in the fake news mainstream media, as the opposing teams battle for followers, likes and expansion of their personal brands. It all seems so contrived and managed. It’s almost as if we are living in a reality TV show with evil producers and directors making sure the actors follow the plot and play their parts.
When we aren’t waging battle on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or our favorite blogs, we are fed massive doses of propaganda by 24-hour news networks, 600 channels of mindless entertainment on the boob tube, sports heroes to worship, and corporate processed poison disguised as food. We’ve got thousands of retail stores where we can spend money, we don’t have on shit we don’t need. We must be connected to our iGadgets 24 hours per day or we would undergo withdrawal symptoms on par with heroin addicts.
What will Kanye and Kim name their latest mulatto? How about the latest royal baby? Could AOC really be that vapid? Will Mueller indict Trump? Will Barr prosecute the coup conspirators? What does Q say will happen next? Bill Hicks thought our country had gone to hell twenty-five years ago. He would roll over in his grave if he saw how far our culture has degraded. And still we think we’re free. We are free to do as our keepers instruct or allow.
“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here are 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!” ― Bill Hicks
We’ve got a populace so dumbed down and indoctrinated with social justice gibberish by government schools that a large proportion actually believe socialism will lead to prosperity. Just like Venezuela and Cuba. The reason young people are turning to socialism is because they aren’t actually experiencing free market capitalism. We are trapped in a paradigm of crony capitalism or corporate fascist capitalism. The few at the top reap the vast majority of rigged benefits, while the average worker gets screwed. This current state of affairs will not be fixed at the ballot box.
But the show must go on. The freakshow of pedophiles, whores, communists, fake Mexicans and baby killers running for president as Democrats should scare the living shit out of every critical thinking normal American. They make Trump look like a superstar in comparison. No matter who is selected by the oligarchs to represent the Democrat team, the outcome will hinge on three or four swing states, with no definitive victor likely until the day after the election – if then.
This begs the question – does any of this matter? Is this just the Trump reality show presidency, following the ups and downs of surveillance state antagonists Comey, Brennan, Clapper and Mueller as their attempted coup, at the behest of Obama, to install Hillary as president fails – with their imminent arrests as traitors to the Constitution? For two years there has been much sound and fury from both sides, but no one of substance is ever perp walked.
After ten thousand Trump tweets I’m growing weary of the unfulfilled promises, threats, stock market manipulation, and exaggerations about our amazing economy. I find myself tuning everyone and everything out. I’d rather do yard work and tend to my small garden than debate with narrative believers on both sides of the fence. Your freedom of choice is an illusion, as the Deep State grows bolder in their efforts to maintain their power, control and riches. It appears we are approaching a moment when all pretense will be cast aside and the scenery will taken down.
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa
I want to believe Trump is wearing the white hat and will defeat his Deep State coup antagonists, freeing the country from the grip of wealthy oligarchs and their well- compensated minions in government, the media, military, mega-corps, and Wall Street. As with most things happening in the world today, Orwell’s 1984 captures the zeitgeist of this stage of the Fourth Turning. Is Donald Trump the Emmanuel Goldstein character in 1984?
If so, is he really the opposition to The Party (Deep State) or is he controlled opposition serving his purpose as the propaganda tele-screens direct their two minutes (more like 24 hours) of hate in his direction? Is Trump truly fighting the Deep State or is he a created distraction, while the Deep State faceless manipulators continue to pillage the wealth of the world while waging never ending wars against the enemy of the month? The dialogue from Goldstein in the 1984 film is reminiscent of Trump’s campaign speeches and inaugural address. He clearly presented everything we hated about the establishment (aka The Party). He has garnered millions of dedicated followers, while serving as a lightning rod of hate by the Deep State and their easily manipulated lemming-like acolytes.
“Nothing the Party says is true. Nothing the Party does is good. Even the war itself isn’t real. The Party wants you to believe we are at war so as to channel your aggression away from their rightful target: The Party. Big Brother is not real. He is pure fiction, created by the Party. The real rulers of the State are unknown, faceless manipulators who, because they are not known are able to wield power without let or hindrance. People of Oceania, you are being duped. The Party doesn’t serve the people — it serves itself. We are not at war with Eurasia. You are being made into obedient, stupid slaves of the Party. Open your eyes. See the evil that is happening to you. The Party drops bombs on its own citizens. It is the Party, not the Eurasians, who are our enemies. Rise up. Throw off the yoke. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, People of Oceania.” – Emmanuel Goldstein – 1984 Film
The Goldstein character is shrouded in mystery. His actual existence is left in doubt. O’Brien gives indications he is a fictitious character used by the Party to justify their overbearing surveillance state and elimination of civil liberties. We know Trump is a real person, but his previous experience was as a self-promoting real estate developer and reality TV star. He is a showman extraordinaire.
Goldstein served the purpose of the Party as a scapegoat for anything wrong with society. The masses were told he was conspiring to overthrow the regime and sabotaging the smooth operations of the nation. The people were instructed to direct extreme contempt towards Goldstein when he appeared on their tele-screens at 11:00 am daily.
Trump most certainly generates extreme contempt from his opposition. His provocative rhetoric and daily tweets unite his enemies and focuses their vitriolic anger in his direction. The talking heads on our tele-screens rage at him all day long, resorting to fake news in order to try and bring him down.
But, while this daily dose of hate rages, The Party/Deep State continues to wage war against Eurasia (Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Venezuela, Russia, China) with an ever growing parasitic military industrial complex, the Ponzi debt scheme swells to titanic proportions as the Wall Street cabal and their central bank puppets continue their pillaging of Main Street, illegals continue to invade across our porous borders, the incessant propaganda dumbs down, misleads and misinforms the ignorant masses, and the Party apparatchiks do their despicable duty at the altar of mammon. It certainly appears as if nothing changes regarding the truly major issues confronting our country.
Is Trump one of Us or one of Them? I do not know, but I’m preparing for either eventuality. There will be no glorious leader who will pilot us to victory over the evil doers. Worshiping ego-maniacal individuals or the Party is a losing proposition. Joining together with like-minded individuals in your local community is your best bet. Are you ready for the approaching storms? Time is growing short.
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“Is Trump one of Us or one of Them? I do not know, but I’m preparing for either eventuality.” Great stuff, Jim. You know I’m much more Trumpetier than you are, but I still believe in judging results as compared to cult of personality. I see a mixed bag right now, but I’m willing to give him the time and give him a final grade later. Great piece of writing, free of all bullshit
I think 2 years is too short of a time period to come down on Trump. Give Trump at least 1 more year. Then let’s grade him.
Given the opposition by both parties, the Deep State, and some of our so-called allied countries, best to give Trump until the end of his 2nd term and evaluate then. IMHO, he’s done more than credited for in 2+ years than could be expected, considering that opposition.
But here at TBP land, the negative rules the day.
“best to give Trump until the end of his 2nd term..”
Ray of Sunshine is sly. There is no money back guarantee, buddy. There’s a reason the phrase ‘nip it in the bud’ was invented.
From here on out, everyone that votes will be nipping the lessor of two buds.
Trump, or another ‘swamp-drainer’, will still get the conservative checkmark
Trump has faced an additional impediment that NO PRESIDENT has ever faced. Trump has been blocked 37 times by district judges issuing nationwide (unconstitutional in my opinion) injunctions of his policies, orders, and passed legislation. In the entire 20th century there were 23 such injunctions.
We now face an additional outrage of Dhimmicrat states banding together to obviate our votes by declaring their states will give their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote, even if their states have voted for the other guy. If this shit is not thrown out by the Supreme Court, civil war or a national breakup is inevitable.
I am rooting for a national breakup. I have more in common with the average Swiss than I do with the average Yankee. In fact, I’d rather go broke than ever do business with them. Keep it local, even if it means sacrificing profits.
Man, it’d be beautiful to see an entire bloc of states boycott any business with New York. Not that that will really happen.
I don’t know how to address that sentiment. If the country breaks up, are we still Americans? More to the point,
You are more to his point on AoC’s point than he was.
The reason we will be Balkanized is that nobody gives a damn about any part of this country except theirs. I have no idea what the ‘average American’ is any more, only that I don’t want to live under any of their rules and I surely don’t give a rat’s ass what happens to them.
And I don’t want what the ‘average American’ is going to get.
Bingo, succinct and brilliant.
My Lord, my wife, my babies, my neighbors. That’s “America” to me, the one I can live with. Fuck just about everything north of Lexington KY, west of the Mississippi R., and east of Lynchburg VA.
I refuse to conduct business out of my home state. Don’t feel like dealing with interstate commerce and certainly don’t want to sell to assholes who vote to make it more difficult for me to DO business.
I am TIRED of NYC and DC mouthing off, stealing from the middle class and poor, killing foreigners I’ve never met. Nothing would please me more than a countrywide boycott of food deliveries to both metros. Starve the Marxists. Not into submission…just starve them, period.
Scott Russo sums it up best:
And what’s he up against? Let’s see a compliant swamp media carrying water for the left. Demoturds bereft of any sanity? Yes, it’s obvious they want to strike a deal with him. If he fucks off and dies they will leave him alone. Rino swampers who pray the occult prayers to Mc Stain. Considering this I am impressed that he has the energy to carry on. He is carrying through on his promise to take down the chi coms. And what does that entail. Chinese communists own half of Washington. The mueller stench is still upon but over, now the battle begins. I am certainly willing to give him a year to put some dirtbags in jail.
I certainly understand the jaundice attitudes. His biggest mistake has been personnel, understandbale he was fooled by Session’s. Lots of folks were fooled by him. Others are not so easy to understand, but I think he is learning. It’s been a rough first two years. But ask yourself this, after two years of Orange Man Bad mantra every fricken day 24/7 the man can pull a 45 % approval?
Trump supporters of all people Quoting “Poll numbers!”
Hahaha Priceless!
I guess that’s like President Trump touting the great unemployment numbers in contrast to candidate Trump repeatedly stating the unemployment numbers were fake news.
The reason it is meaningful, Mr Plato, is that the polls are weighted heavily in favor of the Left. Considering that fact, along with the MFM 24/7 mantra of Orange Man Bad, Trump pulling a 45-49 percent favorable rating among Lo-Fo and No-Fo voters is remarkable. If the polls did not over-sample Democrats, and if the Media was not hardcore Leftist itself, Trump would likely be polling a good 20 or 25 points higher. Even the MFM itself has gone on record saying that their influence in elections alone is worth at least 10-15 percentage points in election results.
TPP, Paris Treaty , Judges throughtout, coal business, oil drilling, cut regulations galore, tax cut at least for businesses, trade treaties, EU weak, NATO changes,many CEOs, queens, kings, directors, congress people resigned, Bayer/Monsanto and Boeing, vaccines questioned, human/sex trafficking indictments, Brazil, Italy, Eastern Europe, Farage populists, climate change BS, no to socialism, Hollywood indictments, Fake news credibility zero, Abortion bad, God good….
Like Tom Waits sez: “God’s away on business.”
Trump got his Zapruder Briefing and the rest is history. That would explain all the broken promises, rotten budget statistics, and perpetual military involvement the whole world over. The Evil Fuckers will continue to do whatever the hell they want irrespective who is in the Oval Office.
At this juncture it is the only explanation that makes any sense.
Took the words rite out my mouff
Speaking of Zapruder…this is VERY interesting:
Just because it is very interesting (if a little long), he’s smoking, and that great uniform.
West Coast, Those guys look like pure Con men. Good ones for sure. I have seen better in Las Vegas. I wonder what Penn and Teller would say about them.
AND the Zapruder film was altered by the government at the Kodak plant that night or so I heard (read recently) frames removed. It still does not change the motive or assign responsibility. We know a bunch of lies were told.
We are all patsies.
Con-fidence game for Con-finance players. eh?
It is easy to dismiss this as more men who stare at goats. This remote viewing thing. Psy*chics (is that also called feminine intuition) do solve crimes. So there is something to it.
Yes. Just Yes.
I thought that having the opportunity to vote for a non-politician once in my life was great, even though I found Trump disgusting. Now i have no hope – in the shredded Constitution, the American people, or the supposed power above. I’m afraid, disgusted, appalled, dismayed and angry. I’m counting on fellow baby boomers going out in a blaze of glory when they no longer have anything to lose.
I share your sentiments, of course. Glad to know I am not alone in my contempt. A Gen Xer here. Boomers? Blaze of glory? That imagery has lots of potential for a Hollywood movie at least. With special guest appearances by John Wayne. 🙂
” I’m counting on fellow baby boomers going out in a blaze of glory…”
I feel it might be more of a Soylent Green type ending with air conditioning and our favorite videos playing, entertaining us to our end.
I’ll trade you the orange conman for the Canadian fag and three beaver pelts.
Haha you can keep your fag and beaver pelts up there… Nice try, though.
Solid visceral point, even though it really doesn’t matter. I had the same realization about Obama when I realized the Prime Minister of Australia was Julia Gillard, the lass who delivered the Misogyny Speech. Gentlemen would never have allowed her to shoot off her mouth like that in public, which is pretty much the true definition of gentlemen.
I viewed Trump as a water pump on the US Titanic. The ship is going down, but I would still rather the icy waters be pushed off for a little bit longer regardless. The US could have prepared lifeboats, but clearly most of those with alot of power and money didn’t really care. I suppose the matrix example works as well to some degree, to some small degree more people have been red pilled. That doesn’t mean the reality of our country or our world is a pleasant one. I suppose we will see how long the hologram economy and the mad money can keep things stumbling along. No one can get elected talking about serious cuts to the budget, they can’t even get elected talking about balancing the budget anymore. Its the spend like crazy, vs. the just crazy (the cow genocide warrior types).
The “approaching storm” just what that ends up being is the scary thing. Do we actually have another reset, or a new cycle to go into eventually, or is it more like a hard crash? So many unknowns still, just what we know is bad enough without natural disasters, wars, and all the rest to make things worse. What’s sad Is Trump is by far the best President in my lifetime and the most honest. And he still sells alot of lies and isn’t that great at Washington politics, and he isn’t changing washington with his tweets. This may be the best we get, and that’s pretty sad. But egomaniacs and authoritarians are the types that most often seek this level of Gov’t work. The rest of us just want to be left alone to live our lives.
After he wins in 2020 he really is going to drain the swamp. Black is beautiful. Your check is in the mail. Those jeans don’t make you look fat. Honest, I mean it, just vote harder.
Yep, and IF he wins in 2020, and fails yet again to do any swamp draining, we will hear that he is saving up the big moves for right before the 2022 midterm elections. And people on here and elsewhere will STILL be saving dumb shit like “trust the plan” or other such nonsense. Most will have hopefully woken up to the fact that the Q thing is bullshit, so maybe we will be having X or Z or something by then. But sure, that swamp will get drained, any day now.
Gator.
Right. the new X or Z drop will be that he’s just getting things ready for Pence and then for absolute certain honest Injun(No offense intended Llpoh) those indictments will be delivered and Billary will both be in jail along with Obummer and his husband Mike. By that time Jared will be Prime minister of Israel and Ivanka will be Mayor of New Jerusalem.
Alright, where’s that bottle of blue pills? these red ones give me headaches, upset my stomach, depress me, open my eyes, raise my blood pressure and are downers….i want me some fat, dumb and happy, real tired of being woke, i want to bury my head….stop the world i want to get off….pills.
What a Pussy. ;-P
I did not know mygirl was that kind of girl. It’s always the quiet ones.
yup, i’m a quiet one alright. no, i’m simply tired. tired of lies, tired of false promises, tired of ‘same shit, different day’ and ‘meet the new boss, same as the old boss’…..
Hang around… coyote needs a sidekick when Bea Attitudes isn’t available.
Yes, queefs will get you every time.
Not always. Some of us loud ones surprised you too. Just sayin’
Here’s the deal… am writing a proposal to launch a PR event for Flat Stucky and another character which may or may not be able to propel itself around the globe on military airplanes due to some folks being important retired red ropes and stuff.
Do you grasp what Esprit de Corps really means to me?
Can I write Quetzalcoatl in for a trip south of the border?
Trust me… the farmgirl’s got legs and knows how to use them.
Dang, we even got a flash of panties.
Mmmmmnnnnn… Granny grits!!!
Who said that the comments contribute nothing?
lol….thanks, i needed that
You’re speaking of fukitols… They come in a variety of flavors. Problem is, they’re just temporary.
i will take two..for now….
Heard a similar line in a movie, “I drink to drown my problems, only I found out later that the little bastards can swim.”
those polywogs emerge as Rodan
Those jeans really don’t make you look fat. For real, this time.
Flea, I know you didn’t like this person, whoever she is, the first time. Give it another chance. We all are going to be wrong, at least some of the time. She sums up Trumps broken promises
in just over a minute and does it well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cok2fEjQOo
Mary C..
I don’t like the computer voices. The words are fine.
About those Jeans. Why do you Gals insist on asking loaded questions us men know aren’t really questions after the first time we fall for the “Honey Can We Talk!!”(exclamation intended)?
Right? I know better than to ask those questions unless I’m just messing with someone. I can’t answer for my twisted sisters. We know they are a mess.
Worth a listen. I agree.
No… your ass makes your ass look fat.
Billy Joel summed it up well… great piece Admin.
Billy Joel pretty much summed it up…
Some fuckheads are never happy, move to France and STFU.
gatsby is crazy insane in the brain
@ Mistico,
Good one…i like this one too
So we should be OK with having some conman piss down our backs and tell us its raining? Not me. He has done NOTHING that benefits the fly over Americans that put him in office.
That sounds an awful lot like “would you rather have hillary?” I fucking HATE that question. As though being ‘not hillary’ means he should get away with doing NOTHING he was put in office to do, and we should continue to defend him. A question asked by those to intellectually and emotionally insecure to admit they put far too much faith in a campaign slogan than they should have, and are now afraid to admit they were duped. You people need to get past the huge emotional investment you’ve made in Trump and move on. Its not a good look. You ever make fun of the left for fawning over Obama when he was running? Look in the mirror.
So many liberals, so little time.
is that Gatsby or Batsinurbelfry?
trust the plan and vote harder.
Sad and predictable….haha…anytime you disagree you are a “Never trumper” or libtard or whatever the next witty echo from the chambers will be.
Let me guess, you live in ‘Frisco.
Hahaha, the Central Valley, but I do believe I saw them in concert in the Bay.
Plato, I was addressing Gats2by Gay. I know you live in NorCal.
Gotcha, I thought you were making a comment about the music video I posted haha
That was music?
I thought it was your ‘Debate’ Class.
I suppose a mosh pit could be considered a debate class
If your brain were a mosh pit, everybody would be passing soiled underwear over your head.
Dung,
Make sure to take your meds….and if you aren’t on any, START immediately!
I’m medicating with coffee now, organic Espresso.
Dig a little deeper into your port-o-let of insults and maybe you’ll find a lame tire that hasn’t been retreaded here a thousand times.
Probably not, but you’ll enjoy your aromas almost as much as I enjoy those wafting from my coffee
Plato “PUBIS” is an Ever-Tard…
Of course you saps that we’re sucked in by this carnival barker have been pooned one mo time. No doubt it won’t be the last time either. Voting is a mental disorder.
When it really set in on me that JFK was whacked I knew democracy was a scam. If there are people so powerful that they could pull off a hit like this and get away with it then it’s they who call the shots. You voted for JFK? TFB. You got LBJ, more MIC and Vietnam.
Joe Rogan had a pretty good discussion with Tulsi Gabbard last week. He nudged up against the JFK lesson to all pols but didn’t deliver the punch. Here is the real question: We know from John Perkins that the Black Hand gives pols 2 choices: Do our bidding and you’ll live the life of a billionaire or stand in our way and we’ll grassy knoll your ass. Tell me Ms Gabbard when you get that ultimatum how will you answer?
Tulsi Gun-Grabbard, ask her why? We know why.
“Is Trump Emmanuel Goldstein?”________Admin
Does Emmanuel Goldstein or Trump actually exist? BEST questions EVER on TBP……….+10,000 ADMIN !!!!
YES, DJT is Goldstein and NO neither actually exist, Goldstein was created for the party and Trump was created by the Kosher Nostra.
NOW you are cookin’ Admin. Rattle them pots and pans man………..
O Big Brother, Where Art Thou?
Well, hell, I’m about to lose faith in T4C. She said it was all going to work out. But gosh, doesn’t Trump look great as Big Brother! He’s like a modern day Max Frost or Marlon Brando. Good thing we gave him the tools and the power. His vocal chords are so energizing, every nerve in my body reacts; must obey Trump. Dispel all doubt and follow the Great White.
The real shape of things to come
I told Tim the Mailman Tanner I was not typing another string of tracking numbers into a little box using a magnifying glass. The contents, carefully listed as old books, I valued at ten bucks, tops. The words on the pages?
Priceless.
USPS.com
What a great idea for me to get rid of the junk in my garage. Give me your addresses everybody, I got burned out bulbs, old shoes, broken tools, assorted home improvement leftovers; paint cans, insulation and tile…
I am really surprised you never brought up Quetzalcoatl, the trickster of the Mayan world, when the Q business was ongoing.
I am fairly sure that bird is in your family tree somewhere.
I borrowed a book from a college library for so long I had to buy it. It was so old they only charged me $10. I had it in my bag in case they wanted a hundred. Ten was reasonable for a lost book nobody wanted to read except me.
I’d found it in the basement, stored on shelves so dusty I had to bring a roll of paper towels from the storeroom there. (I usually can find my way around a library).
It is a book about the Myths, Legends and History of the Ancient Tribes of the Americas.
If I could get my taxidermist pal to stuff a parrot, I’d send one of those. He draws the line at turkeys.
That is the plumed serpent, a diety and not a trickster like Loki or Kokopelli.
My point, Plato, is that despite his youth, Max Frost became the very despot he campaigned against. Oh sure, they use scare tactics in the film making a government of yutes seem like the apocalypse. Yet the older Trump is no better than the relatively young Obama.
The story is always the same, there are no bizarre plot twists in the story. A candidate makes sweet sounding promises, gets elected and develops a debilitating inability to carry through. He blames the Congress. Only Max Frost (and Hitler) was able to get rid of that problem.
Trump is essentially a replay of Obama. Onumbnuts wasted his 100 day honeymoon period and got none of his promised Immigration Reform even considered. Later, the media spent considerable time excusing Trump’s failed 100 days – it was congress’ fault because they hated the outsider. It was this guy, no that guy. Little by little the promises became cloudy as the media developed cataracts and could not focus on the real issues.
The tweet circus dominated the media. And they loved it. Everybody engaged in a circle jerk of blame the other guy. Trump blamed the loser of the day and the media blamed the tweets for their inability to publish real news. The Great Treasury Robbery continued as the opioid fantasy relieved Trumpland of any concern.
Commenters on a certain blog became involved on matters of hygeine and whether the other commenter was into dick. Nobody wanted to face the music, address the truth of the article, certainly not the choirboys for the Church of Trump. They believed or were afraid not to believe; they would be called race or party traitors and banished from home.
They decamped as soon as they saw Admin was not going to chant Lock Her Up or sing the praises of the golden child. If this were an Uncola article with little people grabbing thread out of thin air (1Q84) you could expect 600 or so comments before dinner and another 200 after having robot sex with the old lady. But it’s Admin speaking truth to powerless podunks, that generated 100 unrelated comments, mostly pity fuck comments from what I can see, shit even a rank noob like TJF note it.
I think you guys really want to push Admin onto his garden. HF didn’t pull any punches, he even advised how good it can be to get back to the soil. That’s cold-blooded, dude.
I don’t want to “push Admin to his garden” if that means he won’t be writing any more… Gardening and being in nature is very therapeutic especially considering the content this blog sloshes through on a daily basis!
Damn, I got 2 votes. This is why I avoid posting serious comments, they quickly go down the memory hole in people’s minds. It’s the Yokes jokes they like.
The quadriplegic Trumpeteers couldn’t muster even one down-thumb. I’m slipping. What’s that Yokes said? A prophet is not without honor save on his own blog.
Peeps just want to hear make believe fairy tales replete with pixie dust. I’ll be back, they have a really important Kanye and Kimka article and I want to savor every nuance of the meaning of the new baby’s name. It’s exciting!
They’ve used North and South West. Maybe they will get creative and follow Archie’s lead with something like Shark West, that would be cool, Baby Shark.
You should be: Syndicated; UPI’d, Bloomberg’d, BBC’d, and Leslie Stahl’d.
Because everybody WANTS to “hear make believe fairy tales replete with pixie dust.”
Except me.
I want deeper revelations included in your insightful commentary about “Commenters on a certain blog became involved on matters of hygeine and whether the other commenter was into dick…”
Which dirty-dick loving commenters here were you addressing, besides PubicPlate?
You, my friend, have a filthy vocabulary. Your good ideas are like picking corn or peanuts out of a turd. You are obviously much smarter than I am. However, it is a daunting task to try to understand your comments. I usually peruse them and file them away mentally under L for later.
Skip over the corn and peanuts in my turds.
Pick out the coffee beans. They’re golden.
I figured that if the best coffee in the world gets shit out of monkeys and ferrets while they listen to banjo, they’d be exquisite if I excreted them!
https://youtu.be/Ojo95S6piw8
“Joining together with like-minded individuals in your local community is your best bet.”
Nuff said; doin’ it!
Let us know how many “like-minded individuals in your local community” you find, Diogenes.
I’ve been trolling these Ozarks for a while and have found quite a few. Most locked and loaded.
I know my claim seems a stretch to some; that other people have a mind like mine. Or even that people like my mind.
My patch of dirt in a Cascade mountain valley surrounds me with people with minds exactly like mine. They all like their own minds and if you don’t, get the fuck out. It’s really a simple way of living that requires nobody to apologize for what they think or say, or how they live while staying out of each other’s way and offering help when extra hands are needed.
I can walk into their houses without knocking (after making friends with their dogs) . I am not expected to contribute to the meals they serve, or to help with the dishes, but I do both.
Every time I visit with my closest neighbors (Texas transplants), I feel like Doctor Doolittle sitting in their living room. Their four dogs, two cats, parrot and potbellied pig burry me in a pile of wiggles to remind me that I’m family. We all tease each other relentlessly and laugh continuously.
We’re like-minded.
Harry Truman supposedly said “All Politics is Local.”
I doubt he said it first.
” I find myself tuning everyone and everything out. I’d rather do yard work …”
Yup. This happened to me about a year ago. I must be older & grumpier or something. Please everybody & nobody’s happy; please yourself & at least you’re happy. Pain in my lower extremities & neck is getting worse; got some new, big $$, meds so can breathe like a 20 yr. old again; but I’m just fucking tired… mostly tired of all the bullshit. Still a little hope in the back of my noggin that things will turn out OK, but wouldn’t bet $5 (your average plug nickel with inflation) on it happening.
When the budget deficit shrinks, I’ll start believing. Maybe.
When a Super-Nova burns your toast?
Excellent post Admin. As for your question “Is Trump one of Us or one of Them?”, I don’t know if this was true originally when he was a candidate, but I am virtually certain that now he is either part of the Deep State or is being controlled by the Deep State (through blackmail or threats). No one could do as fine a job as he has done filling up the swamp and reneging on his campaign promises unless they were controlled by the Deep State. If and when he actually locks up Hillary I might reconsider my opinion.
He can talk like an average person. Trump didn’t have enough votes without a few Democrats to get things passed. Old guard dipshit Republicans still haven’t really jumped on board. I look forward to the Democrats speaking at debates and confirming how stupid they all are.
Well, I don’t have anything to add except frustration enhancement. But I shan’t do that. I’ll just say that I hope this 4th turning leads to something better.
Cheers…??????????????????????????????
Kinda like the Third Reich led to something better.
We turned two former WWII enemies into allies, then allied with them against our ally who sacrificed the most to defeat them when they were our enemies.
All better now.
Dio,
There you go again talking like nation states run the world and aren’t in a subordinate role to the ever adapting and manipulating “capital machine”
Take it easy on DDung, he got dumped by an establishment chick and he is totally confused. He is not sure if he’s straight or gay, liberal or conservative, pro state or anti establishment.
An upvote for the song selection. Possibly the original rap song. Maybe an older earlier one exists. If anyone knows, it would be you, amigo. Es verdad.
JQ, yet another lean, mean batch of words that fully encapsulates what many ’round here feel.
Archived to file. Printed. And, Thanks for giving license to do that. Cheers.
I believe this is the first rap song: (notice the bragging, self-important crowing in front of some dumb bitches)
Then Lamech said to his wives:
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
wives of Lamech, listen to my speech.
For I have slain a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.
24If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
I am all thing, when I can remember where I put them.
Here we go again.
You are positing straw arguments for me that I haven’t made, and convincing yourself that your rebuttal isn’t you ‘wack-a-moling’ yourself into stupid postures.
Why do you insist on beating your own thick skull while pretending to deflect my bat?
Please explain, Herodotus, how the ‘capitol machine’ persuaded the world’s mightiest Nation, a collection of sophisticated Athenian faggots, to fall throat first onto Spartan dicks? Or, in your case, face-first into a plate of their pubic hair.
Bereft of any ‘researchable’ tidbits to respond with, you’ll revert to squeezing pus from your infected notions of how people are subjugated, and the only dots you’ll connect are the squeezed pimples on your face.
DDung,
You said,
Really? Is that so? So when you said,
You weren’t referring to the nation state, the United States of America?, and Japan and Germany, as though the people of those nations had any say in when the war started or stopped…
This is why I said what I did,
“WE, the people,” have rulers and aren’t part of the Big Club George Carlin warned about…
There you go again, convincing yourself and nobody else, that you’ve made a cogent rebuttal.
You haven’t in any way, rebutted my claim that two WWII enemies became allies against a WWII ally. You seem to think that money-changers in our temple all collude with each other to fool us. That gives people a lot more credit than they deserve. Most don’t know they are being duped. You, for instance.
When are you going to pull a curtain on your illusory, omnipotent ‘Capitol Machine’ with a believable chronicle? Never. Can’t be done, because it isn’t true.
If Adam Smith were our arbiter, he would ask you do demonstrate, historically, how any of the ‘members’ of this fictitious ‘Capitol Machine’ fit their gears together, when it is easily proven, historically, that they are the most rapacious competitors, devouring each other in any moment of weakness. That’s a well oiled, self-eating machine you have paper- mached for us.
You give your “capital Machine’ credit for colluding to make every Empire fall on its own sword when, individually, they always act in their own interests.
Just like you, me, and everyone who has ever been born without immaculate conception. Educate me.
Please explain the mysterious, coordinated workings of your ‘Capitol Machine’ so the stupid, easily duped can understand.
Whether you understand it or not doesn’t make it NOT a cogent rebuttal.
There are many books out there like “None Dare Call it Conspiracy ” that detail the social forces like secret societies and influential families that can be considered one part of this machine….of course there are various factions vying for more power, assets and prestige….sure, but the CLUB George Carlin eluded to does have RULES…just like the mafia…. the Damon Vrabel video from admins first part to this article explains the economic structure of this “capital machine”….the same machine referred to by Eisenhower as the Military Industrial Complex or who Wilson warned “none dare speak above a whisper in condemnation of it” or who JFK referred to as a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy “…
Woodrow Wilson
Here is an excerpt of JFKs famous “secret society” speech
JFK
BTW, this isn’t for Dio Dung, but for others who might come to this site in search of Truth and understanding.
Review your whiteboard lesson that you say should be a revelation for everyone. One of your economic genius’ sharper insights was that if Imperial Banks’ aren’t slicing each other throats, they are sharpening their knives in preparation to do so.
Banks conniving to devour each other are incapable of ‘conspiring’ to ‘devour the people’. It requires no conspiracy. They can fight each other and fleece us at the same time. People are stupid, always have been. Proclaiming there’s a grand conspiracy to herd them is laughable. Today, idiots are easily led to their own destruction by frequently sating their ADD appetites for trivia.
You, and whatever you derive from your unimpeachable sources, proclaim in the same voice as ‘Government Conspiracy’ advocates, we are being conspired against.
Show me an ‘informed expert’ who has walked the corridors of power and proclaims that the national governments are controlled by a ‘Capital Cartel’, and I’ll show you someone who has never worked a single day at the managerial level of any government or large corporation.
Ask any manager in any arena anywhere, “How much can you accomplish with a workforce that doesn’t follow your direction?” None.
I’m a 40 year veteran of Government infighting, from siloed interests that compete for budget dollars, new hires, and ‘My Brilliant Idea first’ career advancement. Nobody follows a leader in government or large corporations unless it promises advancement.
No way any ‘Capital Cartel’ can herd a bunch of bureaucratic buffaloes into following their conspiracy, on an implementation basis. I’ve seen directives cleverly ignored in so many ways its clearly the only wellspring of creative thought in government employees.
Large corporations are no different. Not understanding that indicates a shallow resume, bereft of experience in either.
“Nobody follows a leader in government or large corporations unless it promises advancement.
No way any ‘Capital Cartel’ can herd a bunch of bureaucratic buffaloes into following their conspiracy, on an implementation basis.”
Hmm, it seems to me if you hold all the cards (capital machine) you could set all the incentives also, no? I don’t think you have to let everyone in on the ultimate goal in order to make it happen.
My opinion is Mammon is being held on high. And Mammon has all the capital/$$$.
Your premise “Capital Cartel’ controlling the proletariat through ‘incentives’ presumes that those at the top, who eat well from the crony capitalist trough, control the direction of human events of those below them. They don’t.
There’s no coordinated ‘plan’ – undefined, but implemented with bribes and blackmail that drills deeper than the ‘upper crust”. Any of them herding you around in a conspiracy? Seems to me there’s a lot of people here doing exactly as they please.
Whatever this ‘Capital Cartel’ accomplishes, it’ always add hock, rarely according to plan. ‘Small scale, large impact; sure. Kennedy gone.
Otherwise, when too many people are involved, somebody always fucks up the plan.
I’ve labored in many government abattoirs. I’ve walked through its increasingly deeper sludge of lowest common denominator.
Not one person here refutes the horrible effects of ‘Affirmative Action’ on morale, productivity and ability to face new challenges. Government leads the way in dumbing down the work force with ever-lazier, gender-questionable, uni-behavioral drones, unconcerned about much except filling their increasingly boring days with work chit-chat and gang-protesting any boss who insists they work for a living.
Please show me A card, anyone’s cards, ONE fucking incentive that leads the masses (98%) of government buffalo in any coordinated fashion, much less one that aligns with global conspiracy.
Mayors cannot even get their city departments to coordinate on serious, critical issues. The Executives and Managers below them have their own innumerable internecine battles limit anyone’s ability to coordinate anything. Finding someone to blame is critical to success.
Dilbert comics are real life in bureaucracies. Nobody can “lead’ them. Nobody.
Conspiracy my ass.
DDung,
Marx suggested that the poor are a “reactionary class”, first, because of their closeness to being destitute, that they eventually went along with whoever took over power during times of revolution and crises.
The poor are typically referred to as the “unconscious class”, thus reactionary. Without the education, motivation (don’t bite the hand that feeds you mentality) and resources to deal with the power elite….
Social engineering through policy implementation and Holly Wood land helps to pacify, dull the senses and ensure the multitudes of poor remain unconscious and continue to be reactionary.
I’m sure just by paraphrasing Marx from his Communist Manifesto i will be name called a libtard, communist, socialist, SJW and yada yada yada from the trolls, shills and willfully ignorant who refuse to at least understand what the other side has been taught.
To those morans i say, let the thumbs down commence!!
This is why public relations and advertising are multi billion dollar industries…thr programming and dissimenation needed to manipulate coerce and influence the masses…as Edward Bernays wrote in his book “Propaganda”:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
Dio,
You strike me as A highly intelligent fellow, yet with your comments I wonder whether You are being woefully willfully ignorant or intentionally retarded…
Former FBI Director and Master Mason, J. Edgar Hoover, referencing the “Communist conspiracy ” said this….and I think it fits you to a Tee
If you need reminding what kind of herd the “Capital Cartel’ cartel cowboys are conspiring to guide to their butchery, try mailing a book to a foreign country. Remember when all it took was one stamp?
Now its easier for an illegal invader to get a passport.
Things must be going according to plan.
Changing tactics, trying to use your “expertise ” to regain respectability…
Calling Dr. “Brownstone ” anyone…
Skeletons dangling in closets, ba ba blackmail….
i know that in business, information and leverage are key and often times the same thing and can be used to coerce others into compliance….that and non disclosure agreements, contracts, and dangling the carrot of human nature’s lust of greed, power and wealth ….
Take Bill Bonner’s closing statement here today (with my insert):
“And why do we annoy our readers (with theories that our denouement is NOT a globally coordinated conspiracy) – who might prefer to hear that the Chinese are stealing their technology… the Mexicans are stealing their jobs… and the Russians are stealing their elections – by insisting that the real thieves are in Washington, not overseas?”
Bill’s got to be right. There isn’t enough room in Washington for all the thieves working in the banking industry, carefully coordinated behind the scenes by a Mastermind Elite who attend each other’s children’s Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
There was a time they could all fit into the Vatican.
Adersaries to Allies: Japan and Germany, were bought with the Marshall Plan and in Germany’s case their fear of USSR was a big motivator. I suppose you are referring to USSR as the ally we turned Germany and Japan against.
Recall that USSR attacked Poland simultaneously with German in 1939.
I guess you forgot about the iron curtain around eastern Europe for FIFTY years, wht splitting of Germany and BERLIN during a horrible USSR occupation… Hardly an ally – a mere marriage of convenience.
I agree with everything you wrote. It doesn’t cleave the factors under dispute between me and PubicPlate.
I’d appreciate some help from anyone who can document a ‘Global Conspiracy’ comprised of ‘Elite Financial interests’ (Capital Cartel) that, in coordinated concert, control the tide of human events.
EVERY financial ‘consortium’ is, as you put it, ‘Hardly an ally – a mere marriage of convenience.’ I’d add, ‘sure to end in acrimonious divorce’. Every financial ‘brotherhood’ is a Cain and Abel contest.
I’ll stick with Adam Smith’s proclamation that the “Unseen Hand” of EVERYONE acting in their own self-interest is what moves human tides in cycles of history.
PP’s insistence that his Phaedo shadows are evidence of ‘All-controlling’ overlords is nothing more than a child’s certainty that a boogeyman is hiding in his closet.
Alex ,I’ll take Privately Owned Central Banks {that are in every friggen country } for $2000.00 . What a daily double? cool
Just a thought ,but why is a Privately Owned Central Bank in virtually every single country ? Connect the dots with your own research . And pretty much you will have an answer as to how and why shit happens .
Might want to prepare accordingly after a little bit of data aquired .
Just a cook lol be well
Morning in America may be mourning in america. Somebody set the alarm clock!
Hungary or Poland are looking better and better. Chile is a place to consider as well as long as you’re far from the cities. This place is toast.
There is a elephant in the room the Global Warming Useful Idiots don’t see. The Eddy Minimum has begun and famine (actually all Four Horsemen) will start possibly the Winter of 2019-20. The Sun Spot Cycles avg 11.1 years and SPC #24 recently went to a minimum, and the Sun went into Hibernation (cooled), and Winter 2018-19 was a record breaker; the next two or three should break records going back 400 years. Cosmic Rays (CRs) are at all time record HIGHS (CRs are inversely proportional to Sun Spots) and our atmosphere (which is like a Bubble Chamber) now has extra clouds and rain. In a year or so though, the Earth’s atmosphere will be drained, become colder and dryer (ie, a general global drought). When this happens, economies and governments collapse, northern populations migrate south and conflicts result. The Eddy Minimum should last about 30 years and also be punctuated with more earthquakes and volcanoes. Be a Prepper not a Schlepper.
Robert is right. Scientists who know something – like Valentina Zharkova – have been sounding the alarm about the Grand Solar Minimum for some time. There is disagreement about how cold it will get or for how long, but all agree on the cooling principle. This cooling will affect all our lives worldwide. Meanwhile, I have to note I am not disappointed in Trump. He was an outsider businessman and I do not think he really understood the extreme depth of the Deep State or how much power this monolith has or how far it will go to protect itself. I think he has learned fast, and I also think he is perfectly aware that as someone else wrote, he was parachuted onto deck of the Titanic. Given the extreme, criminal opposition he faces every single day, I think he has been remarkably successful. I think he understands this country needs to rebuild its industrial base if it is to survive, and, I think he realizes that we are dancing on the head of a pin with respect to our currency and our hideously out of control government. So I continue to support him. And no, I am not an ignorant fool. Really, we are lucky that the ‘other side,’ if I may describe the Democrats that way, has been such a complete and total disaster since the 2016 election. Yes, they took back the House (see Paul Ryan’s incompetent leadership….) But Trump, almost alone, fought for a larger majority in the Senate and he got it. He has fought harder to stop illegal immigration that any President in my lifetime with the exception of Eisenhower, who was not battling the 9th Circuit traitors when he bused illegals back across the border. He stopped the TPP. He pulled us out of the disastrous Paris Accord. He is reshaping the federal courts. He has drastically cut destructive regulations and given us a fighting chance to get our energy house in order. He has wreaked havoc on the mainstream press. He has infuriated the traitorous Chamber of Commerce. And he has made mistakes. I’ll take his mistakes and his bombast and his tweet storms any day and twice on Sundays over his opposition. After all, they only want to utterly destroy this country. Let them depart for their bunkers in New Zealand. I will go down to the dock and wave goodbye to them.
Finally, remember what Teddy Roosevelt said: “It is not the critic that counts. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”
He has infuriated the traitorous Chamber of Commerce.
Them fuckers, I knew it.
Today, our political arenas are chock-full of critics who know how to do nothing else.
Our political leaders are 99% attorneys (Archetype Critics) who rode somebody’s coattails to power without ever working a paying job that demanded results. They’ve never learned how to do that and couldn’t if they tried.
Point out one, just one, whose “face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”?
Right. Nobody counts.
“Be a Prepper not a Schlepper”.
robert…your the man!
Great article Robert! The climate fascisits do not care about facts and truth- so much that they do not even consider the solar activity or the fact that 98% of carbon emissions occur NATURALLY. I would add as further motivation, the carrington event of 1859 – to prepare personally and to finally harden the national electrical grid.
Am I ready? I don’t think anyone can say they’re completely ready. I’m not. I played around with prepping in the Bush days. I began in earnest Jan 2009. I bought emergency foods and supplies, but that wasn’t enough to comfort me. I added chickens and rabbits to my efforts. Then I took a hard look at my gardening. I decided to stop buying store goods as soon as the garden produced. I wanted to see if I could make it to the next season. I failed miserably. I added more the next year and more the year after. I currently maintain three gardens that total around 3400 sq. ft. I have five additional grow areas that aren’t large enough to call a garden. Growing peas along 35ft chicken coop enclosure is an example of my grow areas. I also utilize 20 gal grow bags for potatoes. These days I produce enough to get to the next season and then some. I have enough extra garden space to try an experiment or two and enough extra product to give some to the neighbors.
In addition to gardens and grow areas, I added 4000 sq. ft. of green plot this year. The plots will attract different kinds of fowl, but the primary goal is to be able to hunt deer from my deck. I have a number of other things I’ve put in place over the last ten years. They aren’t as important as my primary point: That is, “These things didn’t happen overnight. It took me a long time to get here.”
Y’all have a good ‘un out there.
Right on, right on olderndirt. Keep keep’n on.
Good job.
Sounds like all you need is a still with an appropriate ATF permit.
Bon chance et laisser le bon temps roulez.
Oldern- Most admirable efforts and results, you are a great example to us all.
Thanks all.
I do have a still. I made it several years ago, but it’s for distilling wild medicinal plants. I haven’t used it in some time as I’ve learned that making tinctures is much easier.
Awesome production. Have you capitalized on volunteers? I’m not sure if it’s because we use composted manures to build soil and that’s how we spread the seeds, but the squashes, tomatoes and peppers that sprout up wild all over tend to be more productive than anything we plant directly. Those are the ones we mostly use for seed. I also capitalize on border fences along pastures and grow climbers there, pumpkins on the steep hillsides where you can’t mow.
I just read an interesting piece that said roots emit a chemical that stimulates serotonin release in humans. That’s right, when we dig in the soil we feel good because something in the soil is making us feel good. When you think about it, it sure seems plausible.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/soil-fertilizers/antidepressant-microbes-soil.htm
I have some volunteers, but hadn’t thought about it with tomatoes, peppers, and the like. Your volunteer method might solve a problem for me. Every year I have fits hardening off tomato and pepper seedlings. Volunteers might solve that problem.
That’s an interesting thought about dirt. I spent an hour or so on hands and knees weeding seedling carrots this morning. Weeding was calming as usual. I always thought it was being outdoors in the early morning, plants wet with dew, and a peaceful quiet in the air. Now I know it’s the dirt.
Thanks Admin, looks like a fair assessment to me. Every 4 (or 8) years we American voters believe some new pol has the mettle to make a difference, and every 4 years we are disappointed that we voted for a restoration but instead ended up with the same old shit. Those Democrats! Those Republicans! How easy we forget. The two-party uniparty plantation requires true believers on both sides, so they deliver up more and more despicable choices for us to vote against. Better not step one foot off the plantation lest the “bad guys” win. They’re all bad guys, and the parameters of the game guarantee it.
TC, you’re absolutely right under normal circumstances. But Trump wasn’t normal circumstances in that he wasn’t a career politician and appeared to be an enemy of the Deep State, so I thought there was a fair chance he might keep a lot of his campaign promises, but obviously I got fooled. But I won’t get fooled again.
Pie, as successful as Trump was in private life, facing unions and corrupt local politicians, he never faced anything like the Deep State. He has made mistakes (after all he is human) especially in the area of who he hired to fill critical positions (Sessions, for example). He has no doubt received credible death threats against himself and his family. He has probably been threatened with relentless prosecution and prison after he leaves office (if not before). I do not think he set out to ‘fool’ anybody when he came down the escalator in 2015. He really thought he could change the course that the Left has us on. He has been largely isolated. Not even his own party supports or defends him. He has only us out here, and we so far have been little more than keyboard warriors.
As long as I live I will always be grateful to Trump for saving us from Hillary. She is NOT our president and never will be. That may not be all that much, but it is not nothing.
Admin,
Imho your finest article written under the Trump Presidency!
Can’t argue with any of your extremely valid observations!
Bravo!
I’ll second that Plato!
In 1984, Orwell’s character Winston Smith estimated he first heard of Big Brother in the 1960s but he couldn’t know for sure. And given that the mutability of the past, as one of the sacred principles of the INSOC Party, destroyed any understanding of actual history – the possibility remained that both Big Brother and Emmanuel Goldstein were mere projections on the screens.
The Outer Party members were managed via the other two sacred principles of Newspeak and Doublethink. The former being thought control via language (Political Correctness anyone?) and the latter as its result (emotionalism). Does that not perfectly pinpoint leftist politics today throughout the realm of Snowflakedom?
In part 1, chapter 8, of “1984” Winston speculated the “Proles” (because of their greater numbers) were the only hope of overcoming the Party. Sadly, however, the doomed protagonist also realized the Proles wouldn’t rebel unless they became conscious and they could never become conscious until after they rebelled.
Ironically, this is the exact catch-22 we find ourselves in today; and it does not bode well for our future.
What I took from Jim’s well-constructed and honest assessment above, is the fact that Trump has revealed how the proverbial gloves have come off just as the allegorical train derails.
And, perhaps, in the end, that may have been the movie we were meant to see all along.
OMG….Haven’t seen you in a while, but I picked up a boxed set of old television commercials for a dollar.
A dollar.
On that set is a section on soft drinks and I had no idea Mel Blanc and the entire Bugs Bunny Crowd (including Elmer Fudd!!!!!) were such big fans of the Uncola.
Did you?
I’ll see if I can’t copy/rip a segment of one of the really awesome ones that has Uncola signs all over instead of rabbit season signs.
Grooch thinks some of them were regionally made, since he doesn’t remember them either. I only had one channel as a kid, two if the storm clouds help carry the signal, so I didn’t watch much television or commercials.
I suppose that is why I’m so entertained by them now.
And, Mel Blanc was the Frito Bandito too!
vegans and their red meat issues………
Take heart. VP Pence says “all options are on the table” for Venezuela. So I guess they aren’t easily embarrassed because that last foray made them look like bumbling fools.
More things to warm your heart. The embassy in Iraq is being evacuated and Exxon has removed it’s staff from there, too. So we have more comedy coming to keep us laughing.
I gotta go build an ark. We apparently are having monsoons here.
I started this trip in 2016 hoping Trump was the defender of the common man. In 2018 I began to wonder if Trump was real or a puppet of the deep state. Today I don’t care, as it looks like they will run this train until the illusion can no longer be held together.
The one thing I wonder about are the people who were targeted by Mueller, to turn states evidence against Trump and swear he colluded with the Russians for reduced sentences. They, with the exception of Cohen, held their ground and I would ask why? This is the one question that bothers me. I am pretty much convinced that Trump was turned by the deep state as evidenced by all of all of his broken promises, but how the ones around him held out still has me mystified. Flynn and others lost a great deal in not giving in; I wonder if they saw something in Trump that gave them the boldness to stand against the special counsels attempts to turn them?
Maybe this is my last small hope that something good may still come out of this.
In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Two Minutes’ Hate is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting the Party’s enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them.
In case anyone is interested, here is what Goldstein actually says in that scene (you can’t make it out, cause the crowd is shouting over it, but that’s what he says according to the subtitles)
“Nothing the Party says is true. Nothing the Party does is good. Even the war itself isn’t real. The Party wants you to believe we are at war so as to channel your aggression away from their rightful target: the Party. Big Brother is not real. He is pure fiction, created by the Party. The real rulers of the State are unknown, faceless manipulators who, because they are not known are able to wield power without let or hindrance. People of Oceania, you are being duped. The Party doesn’t serve the people — it serves itself. We are not at war with Eurasia. You are being made into obedient, stupid slaves of the Party. Open your eyes. See the evil that is happening to you. The Party drops bombs on its own citizens. It is the Party, not the Eurasians, who are our enemies.”
If you think the USA did nothing to provoke Eurasia…I mean Japan…into bombing Pearl Harbor, you might be a low-information voter.
By December 1941, over 90 percent of Japan’s oil supply was cut off, as was nearly 70 percent of its overall trade.
No Choice but War: The United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in the Pacific, by Roland H. Worth, Jr.
If you think the USA has been at war in Afghanistan for 18 years searching for Osama bin Laden, or because of terrorism, you might be a low-information voter.
Afghanistan shares its Western border with Iran and its Persian Gulf oil, and is connected on its Eastern border with China, the world’s largest consumer of oil.
If you think that the US government grants Americans our rights in The Bill of Rights, you might be a low-information voter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-06/hedgelesshorsemans-revolution…
If you cannot see a causal relationship between terrorism and our troops killing people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, and Libya, you might be a low-information voter.
Why, now, should Americans support our troops?
The ancient fallacy that all who wore a uniform, fought hard and followed orders are worthy of some special honor or glory or are even “heroes,” whether they fought for freedom or fought to defend slavery, marched under Grant or Lee, Hitler, Stalin or McArthur, fought to defend their homes, fought for oil or to spread empire, or even fought against and killed U.S. soldiers!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-31/what-have-you-done-me-lately&…;
And the wealthy men were enthralled by Chris Kyle…The American Sniper
We do not have the natural right to attack others, imprison others, and to take or destroy others property…even if it is profitable to do so…and even if not doing so may endanger our nation’s ability to enforce the petrol dollar.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-27/and-wealthy-men-were-enthrall…
If you think that the government is not to blame for the rising prices of tuition, food, vehicles, rent, and stock markets, you might be a low-information voter.
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”
-Milton Friedman
If you don’t think that our taxes are providing AAA-rated, tax-free, passive income, for the very wealthy, you might be a low-information voter.
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.”
– Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“interest on the U.S. public debt is on track to reach a record $591 billion this fiscal year”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-01/minsky-moment-starting-2024-a…
[Entire article with graphics and working links here:]
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-10/voting-big-brother-you-might-be-low-information-voter
The above linked article of 10 days ago jibes really well with your article Jim. Thank you for this part 2!
4thTurner,
+1000 ?
Fantastical!
If you think this
Or……..this
Isn’t enough proof Trump voters were duped, you might be a “low-information voter”!
Plato – This could turn into a VERY IMPORTANT thread. Pull back that green curtain!
P.S.- The men in black in the oval orifice are not a religious group and Jared666 is one of them.
What would happen if a mafia presented itself as a religious group…….hmmm.
Answer: they could steal all the wealth in the world …….keep voting.
You mean, the pictures PubicPlate presented to all us ‘duped voters’ documents Trump’s collusion with the ‘Capital Machine’… to subjugate us?
What a dumb fuck I am; don’t know how I missed it. 666 is on all their coins, and they insist on being very rude – wearing hats in the Oval Office. Clearly they have subjugated Trump into Israel’s pussified bitch.
Shame on Orange Man for making all of us ‘duped voters’ the Jew ‘Capitol Machine’ slavering submissives. A nation that once stood tall and proud, now on their knees.
Thank you, BL, I never realized I wasn’t woke until you peeled my eyes open. Can I get up now?
Dio,
Hahahaha! Still butt hurt, I see!
Exactly what a “low information voter ” might say.
Find a butt plug and shovee it in your ass so we don’t have to keep hearing you trumping…
It’s starting to run down your legs!
Is it just mine, or do you opt for any old, dripping butthole when you are intellectually dehydrated?
Classy.
What do they say, a picture is worth a 1000 words…
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Where is T4C reassuring us that Q says “Trust the plan”….he is saving “them for last.”
Q is a psy-ops attempt to give meaning to our Bran Stark of a president. I’m sure his military prep school yearbook voted him least likely to get elected president.
Quetzacoatl was a tricky dude too. Are you tricky or do you just think you are?
Diogenes became famous for carrying a burning candle through the market during the day, looking for a voter who wasn’t duped. He looked straight at you and kept going.
Dio..
Why would an independent non Jew wear a Jewish foreskin beanie and kiss the Jewish Blarney Stone in Jewru$alem?
For the same reason that, at 13, I rolled in the aisle of a Pentecostal Church, speaking in tongues, while trying to avoid being smothered by 300 pound biscuits of smoldering southern womanhood.
It seemed like the smart thing do at the time.
And I enjoy putting on a show whatever I am wearing.
Get out much?
excellent information…
And, of course, the “low information voter” is by design, not by accident.
Public schooling has created a disastrous public.
Most, if not all of our wars could be added to your list, 4th Turner. I’ll address one.
The link is to a film made by the inventor of animated cartoons. It’s of the sinking of the Lusitania. Prior to the film, Americans considered WWI to be “their war.” Soon after the film, WWI became our war as well. The film is pure propaganda. It tells a tale about a ship full of innocents that were killed by those dastardly Germans. Germany attempted to justify their actions by stating the Lusitania was loaded with ordnance. American and English officials profusely denied that.
Moving forward to current times: Recently English officials warned a salvage team about the Lusitania. Their warning? The belly was laden with tons of ordnance.
Oldy..
Germany even placed ads in our papers warning us not to book passage on Her.
Just like today, we fall for the same false flags as before. Remember the Maine and Assad is Gassing his own people and Iran is Evil because Bolton wouldn’t lie and I mailed you a check yesterday for sure.
4th Turner- That was beyond excellent, keep it rolling. The truth really will set us free.
If anyone wonders how one finds “like-minded” people in the community and doesn’t like to go to real church to meet them afterward, try the local VFW or DAV offices and see when the old soldiers get together to have a cold one.
I like old soldiers. They may be broken down and in wheelchairs, and sometimes, they smell bad.
They also reek of Sacred Honor.
Is that a new hootch? I wonder if Lager reeks of Sacred Honor gin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3x2iesKDbA
When I see real results in the wages going up taxes going down and factories and other businesses paying real wages and benefits on par with what most government employees receive I may try to believe President Trump Again !
The largest employers in the country use part time employees and of course the old independent contractor bull shit like amazon delivery suckers destroying your own transportation for the corporate mission . The fact that even low end airline pilots qualify for welfare assistance let alone the part time Wal-Mart employee .
Even McCormick the spice company in Maryland , taxpayers subsidize an otherwise failure of a light rail system to transport their labor . The spice company is not the only one benefiting this way just one of the bigger fish in that pond . Local politicians will babble how great this is and tax your cell phone to make up an $80 MILLON short fall in the budget never mentioning the $80 MILLON given to an investment group to create more minimum wage part time jobs , forgot to mention the groups head owns an NFL team .
See how socialism really works for those financially on top !
I know not what chain of events or circumstances will fall into succession to create a total collapse of our American economy and society but make no mistake the shit can and will hit the fan !
May it pass quickly !
Anyone who thinks we as a nation are prepared to take on a real war with capable advisories better wake the hell up ! You have know clue what our nation will be floundering it’s way into and the true devastation That will quite probably be in our own living rooms , it will not stop at some border or your door step !
Nice article Jim.
The comments here at times seem like a transcript of the chatter going on in cafeteria of a mental ward at lunchtime during a full moon. Lots of people saying lots of things, mostly out loud to themselves. No one really engaged in a meaningful conversation. It is entertaining if not occasionally confusing. [Now I have to duck from all the projectiles hurled by the shit throwing monkeys.]
If you’ve lived in America for any amount of time you develop a few delusions….
Now? Really? Well, fuck me!
I have to give you an upthumb?
Yes. Because you got this market covered, Master of self-delusion.
I gotta give it up. You are THE Merlin of Illusion.
Please tell us more. Lift your hem and show something real.
TiaJuanaFloozy is talking to himself again
I believe God is using an imperfect President Trump to defy and enrage the globalists and whip them into a satanic frenzy and a high noon type showdown in the 2020 elections.
He will then at some point suddenly remove His true church and His Spirit giving the globalists what they truly desire.
A global NWO, a false prophet and messiah.
And then great Judgement as the world has never before seen.
Then Jesus will return to earth with His saints to wipe the slate clean and begin a perfect do-over.
I guess that makes it all ok, then.
I do not believe Trump entered the race as controlled opposition. That does not mean he hasn’t come under some control since he got there.
During those first 2 years, there was no way the rinos were going to give him border control and a wall. They don’t want borders, and never did. Remember the Gand of 8? Rinos only go against dinos when it’s safe to go against them, and vice versa. That’s why it’s the minority party who tends to speak out about fiscal responsibility, no more wars, etc.
The sociopaths on both sides of the aisle know how to play the masses. Normal people do not view their fellow man as “the masses”
So far, it looks doubtful that the people were able to keep a republic. I guess we’ll find out when this 4th turning finishes. I have encountered some bright and decent young people, so I’ll hang on to that as some hope. And speaking of hope, I do hope, despite his drawbacks, that Trump gets reelected. The commie dinos bring nothing to the table that interests me. Tulsi may talk a good game about ending wars, but we’ve heard that song before. So yawn.
Blind Boy from Alabama…
Buy a better quality dope, that shit you’re taking ain’t working.
Jeebus is our janitor?
There is a best selling book in these two articles!
Notice the paucity of panegyric plaudits. The silence from the Trumptards is deafening. The commentary is constrained and irrelevant to the topic. There is a polite hush in the room as Admin steps off the stage and the maestro of ceremonies shows him the exit into the alley. From the alley, Admin can hear the party resume as celebrants wonder openly about the profitability of war with Iran and trade war with China.
Trumptards? Silence is defaning? What is left to say?
Ranch Woman stepped up and said it best. There was no significant information exchanged here in the comments section. The reply’s have been trite, ill informed, stock drivel, that I could get anytime I want on MSNBC.
You fancy yourself an intellectual, but honestly, you posses every humiliating quality that Trump does in spades, it is obviously why you despise him so, oh, except for envy, you have far more of that.
How was that?
Nice!
I know it must have taxed your wobbly legs to strap on a pair and do justice to the response, I appreciate the effort. The rest of the Trumpeteers have developed a case of dingle balls.
Donkey’s Balls just keep getting bigger and bigger.
I do my best, it’s a tough crowd. See you at the next rumble.
Good stuff Admin. I passed over to “the work in the yard and quit caring” stage at the end of Bush/beginning of Obama. I think, for me at least, it is much like the stages of grief. The America of my grandparents died long ago. Even the America of the 70’s I grew up in was long dead by the 90’s.
For the most part I don’t even get mad anymore. Nothing I can do will change where this shit-show ends. I do have faith in God and know that I can do a little to make the lives of my friends and family better until I can’t.
This is one of my favorite songs and the lyrics have summed up our situation to me since 2005 or so.
https://youtu.be/-Xic5LfFNVc
One Giant festering neon distraction….better learn to swim…hahaha
I hear Tool is finally going to release a new album this year! Can’t wait!
Great article and as always well written. If I could write like this I would want to have a blog just like Jim the Admin.
“Are you ready for the approaching storms? Time is growing short.” I have been in that mode of thinking for many years, at least since the zero got elevated to king and savior of the left. My perception of time has changed quite a lot since the second coronation of the zero. It seems that the massive levers of control of the PTB and almost complete subjugation of the uni-party to this global syndicate have better clock management than imagined.
I still pay great attention to the happenings, but have mostly pulled back from discussions with others since the clock keeps running but doesn’t seem to get close to time expiring on this mess. I wonder why we keep hearing that soon this will be happening (declassifying the documents), or that will be happening (indictments coming down), but it is always next week. When does next week ever arrive?
Personally, I don’t think any of the big players will see any real consequences (jail) for their vile actions.
So, is Trump one of us or one of them? Probably neither! His intentions were probably good when he jumped in and most likely didn’t think he could win but it would be good for business either way. He has made some good accomplishments but on any of the big promises (as Jim mentioned) not so much. It does seem as if he is definitely controlled. It matters not if it is because of threats, lavish rewards, or some other method he will not be keeping many if any of the big promises. Sure, he is not cankles but he is also not Ronald Reagan.
Outstanding 1-2 punch Admin. Enjoyed both!
On the road, but wanted to put this up again, one of the best re-caps of the ugly truth of the last 200 years, tremendous footnotes and sources.
Sending a copy to some family and friends who need their eyes opened and a historical black pill swallowed.
THE KILLING OF UNCLE SAM
Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable–including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive “invisible” global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the downfall begin and who were the predators that the “land of the free and home of the brave” fell victim to? And is all hope lost?
This book captures details of the last 200 years of American history that mainstream media does not want you to know. It dissects the “legalized” system of the private central banks that has gone unchecked, and delivers gut-wrenching truths about the real domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. With over 1000 footnotes and quotes from former presidents, prime ministers, and state officials, it will equip you with the facts that the elites have covered up for centuries and empower you to stand up for the truth.
A well-written and cited recitation of past events as they actually happened (vs. “history”). Don’t have time to read “Tragedy and Hope,” “Foundations,” “The Creature From Jekyll Island,” “The Forgotten Man,” and “Truth is a Lonely Warrior”? Read this. It’s perfect for the unaware. Granted, it’ll be more a review for those who have bookshelves full of revisionist history, it’s still a great read. I really appreciate the thorough citations – which make it a great tool for further research.
serendipitous! still ruminating ‘the truth does not exist’ and comments which followed… I wonder if you’d elaborate on ‘the truth’ for which this book empowers us to stand?
safe travels
wishes,
Dealing with a serious family illness (mom) but thanks for the invite.
Mark,
Well wishes coming your way.
praying for your mom and family <3
Best wishes.
Trump is fighting virtually the entire government and media with both hands tied….and you expect miracles in 3 years?
GV…
Geevum, brah! You go! Drop IN!!!!!
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying to the Trump’s a Traitor crybabies.
Trump paddled into a wave that was way out of his league, got pitched over the falls into the impact zone, and has been getting hammer-stroked against a cheese-grater reef ever since.
His reef rash is going to look pretty good to voters in 2020, and he’ll stick the takeoff next time.
He’ll draw a line we all would like to see – probably straight into the jaws of the ‘Great White’ capital cartel, yes?
DD,
You’re stinking up this whole fuckung place. Down dog, down.
Gimme a dog bone 1st… then maybe.
Otherwise, I piss on the couch.
Well, Donkey Balls?
Are you going to continue our Ann Landers lesson in TBP decorum?
Please point to where my comments went over our well-stablished boundary for booboos.
I want to improve all my manners!
I have you an upvote…there’s yer bone.
I love you man.
I’ll curl up on my blanket now.
What about a leg hump? DB deserves that much at least.
He deserves much more than a leg hump, but I can’t get my legs around his enormous, thigh- bruising balls.
I really would like to hear him OOonnhhhhHHHEEEEeee!!!
Us against Them.
Who duped us into hating caricatures of each other?
Who blinded us to the humanity in each of the people whose convictions we abhor; to the truth that we are all brothers and sisters?
I’m not going to be persuaded that some coordinated, Jew-dominated, “Capital Cartel” did that to anyone. We do it to ourselves and it is as natural as birds, and bees and deer banding together by species.
We’ve become a nation of innumerable species and that’s not a bad thing. It’s a terrible thing when people of differing opinions cannot breach them with goodwill. Nobody can anymore. That should cast a sad shadow in every heart.
I don’t pussyfoot around with my views and neither does anyone else here who doesn’t enjoy running through a gauntlet of incinerating intellect and esteem-thrashing ridicule. I love it.
May I have another, please?
Sorry Jim you are expecting too much. In a war you face many enemies, Trump faces a mountain of shit and only has a spoon to dig it out. The Deep State is powerful and relentless. You need to dance, work around the corner, and pick your battles. You cannot win the war with one fight but try to win something daily, and drive the enemy crazy. Keep the faith he is the only stud in the field.
BD, BL was asking about you, thought you’d gone soft.
🙂
“try to win something daily, and drive the enemy crazy”
Who leaked my Marching Orders?
Blackpilled
One thing that angered me was when both houses of congress managed to come together and pass the bill to end the support for the destruction of Yemen, but Trump vetoed it.
And the undeniable “Israel first” agenda. Do you realize that Israel has NO DEBT whatsoever?! None. But WE are going further into debt, selling our future generations FURTHER down the river, by paying them 10 million dollars A DAY!?
I will tell you that the homeless Americans have grown enormously and they arent just drug addicts, and losers. Trump keeps pumping these illegals in faster than any other president. And he keeps saying he wants more. For what?!
Not that theres a BETTER OPTION. There is NOT a better candidate to vote in which will bring change.
And WE, of all people, ought to know that well enough by now! There is a time for everything, and the time right now is to stand up for our future. Not the future of third world refugees, not Israel. Us.
Voting is NOT the answer. Action is. Baby boomers are the original protestors, the hippy generation with the morality to demand BETTER from the government.
We need you now.
I’m busy bogarting a spleef.
Call the Baby Boomer’s flagbearer, PeeWee Herman.
He’s a serious guy; he’ll generate lots of excitement with a Global Warning.
He won’t screw America; he’ll unscrew it.
I would suggest that base inflation is at least 6%. The money supply is still being inflated and the deficits are about a trillion dollars a year. Immigration is out of hand and the President has not exercised the power he possesses to curb immigration. The courts are not a problem because all their rulings to date have been unconstitutional and they can be ignored. The border can be closed to all but legitimate traffic, end of story. Unless he does as he said he will not get close to a second term.
I agree with you 100%, except your last sentence. If he loses, it’s 2nd place. Can’t get closer.
I’ve wondered myself, why he doesn’t use the military (Navy Seabees) to built the wall in concert with the Corps of Engineers. He controls both and nobody could stop him. I say a 2nd term is more important to Trump than anything he could do for this country. It probably colors his every ego-maniacal thought. He has to keep his 2nd term powder dry and play the ‘rigged’ ball game with some parts of the ‘Establishment’, Deep State’ or whatever you call it, until he’s a two-time winner. With that in the bag, there’s no telling what he will do.
It’s no different than Obama’s pledge that the 1st thing he would do is close Gitmo and end rendition. He easily could’ve by shipping all jihadists to the maximum security military prison at Leavenworth. Nobody has ever escaped. He was CiC and nobody could’ve thrown up a legal roadblock. He increased rendition and gave the Taliban 5 generals in exchange for a fucking muzzie-loving deserter. If Trump did anything like that, he’d be hounded to his political grave. Still, after the ‘hope’ disappeared because Obama’s promised ‘change’ only made things worse, He was re-elected.
So, who will kick Trump into 2nd place in 2020?
I don’t see an GLBWXYZ candidate that could beat PeeWee Herman. Or one that the vast block of military (and the communities that support them) will vote for, except perhaps Tulsi, currently being trolled as having support from Putin apologists.
He is using the Corps of Engineers
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2019/03/26/border-wall-el-paso-and-arizona-approval-army-corps-engineers/3281489002/
Thank you for that. Seems they’ve only started planning for warehouses.
I’ve worked extensively with the Corp of Engineers, within their processes for planning, design, and bidding construction contracts. They take a lot of time before ground is broken.
The CoE would be hard-pushed to award a construction contract for 57 miles of roads needed to build the wall… sooner than 18 months. Too late for a Wall ‘checkmark’ during the next election.
Yes I would literally have Hillary. All Trump has done is shunt our energy into what basically amounts to a black hole. He is empowering his opposition, while returning absolutely nothing to those who voted for him. That makes him worse than Hillary. At least with Hillary, the blame for the coming shitstorm could be placed on the establishment. Obviously Trump IS the establishment, but it will never be acknowledged or spun that way. In the end he will have done more harm than Hillary.
From the article:
“Don’t dare question the tremendous economy narrative, or the Trump sycophants will attack.”
I will not attack, the piece was as well done as any I have read in the past 10 years, in fact, the article was an excellent continuation of the wreckage you have laid out continuously, since I came over from Financial Sense.
Your work is why I believe, as I assume Trump does, that it is now beyond repair, and he is the Bankruptcy President. If that is in fact the case, much of what you listed makes sense. All of his financial actions make more sense when viewed in this light.
Fuck it.
We are bankrupt, might as well max out the rest of the credit cards and get a dependable car before the reset.
And also he had to juice the shooters, for protection, from abroad and here domestically, during the melt down.
It all lines up perfectly for the approaching Crisis in this 4th Turning.
Americas Bankruptcy will be the noted Crisis trigger.
The High Table has selected Trump to clean up, prepare, and manage this event.
As has increased in popularity here recently, securing food, water, shelter, power, protection, gold, cash, crypto, and communication should be shifted into 5th gear. It could certainly get bumpy.
As always, thank you for the one in a million platform, and Enjoy the Show!
I know we disagree on some things, but I appreciate your open mindedness to what I laid out.
Most of the main sites who link to my articles refused to do so with this article because they classified it as anti-Trump.
Steve Quayle, Whatfinger, Lew Rockwell, and 321Gold did not link to it.
Only ZeroHedge posted it. They have posted every article I’ve sent them for 9 years.
To their own detriment, and golf clap for Zerohedge, definitely targets in an age of lies.
Western Rifle Shooters posted it this morning. They are like minded.
I saw it on Dollar Collapse yesterday. Quayle linked your last article. I can’t believe he didn’t link this one.
I forgot to add that Woodpile Report linked you with a synopsis.
If Hillary had won, Victoria Nuland would’ve been Secretary of State.
She makes Hillary look like Snow White, “Fuck the E.U., we paid $5 Billion for the Ukraine and it’s resources now belong to Joe Biden’s son.”
What are Trump’s favorite Moments of Glory? Everybody knows.
Saying to a loser, on world-wide TV, “You’re FIRED!”
It defined his powerful presence; it demeaned anyone who displeased him. He was always the Alpha Male, Top-Dog, Decider in Chief.
What’s Trump’s worst nightmare? Waking up on November 4th to world-wide headlines, “You’re FIRED!” emblazoned with Obama’s superior, smirking face, “I was a TWO-time POTUS. He couldn’t hack it!”
Trump has been forced to pick Lieutenants to implement his policies from a ‘pre-selected’ list of Trojan Horse losers. He cannot fire them, but their machinations can get him fired.
How does the world’s biggest ego play those cards if re-election is the only thing saving his legacy, his “all-important ‘Brand’? There are some boats he cannot rock without being dumped overboard in 2020.
Like any president seeking to be reelected, he will support the weakest opponent. Beto and AOC will get large campaign contributions from undisclosed sources and PACs. The 2020 rationale for Trump will be, at least he’s not Beto. Lather Rinse Repeat.
Good reading. Are we too belabored by waiting for history to repeat itself. In trouble, yes. Can come out of it, maybe. Are we applying good solutions for optimum results.
This country had such a great start and foundation, how many are trying to steer us towards that uceberg under their flag of
‘change is good’ until it is too late and we see that the results of their change.
Jim & TBP group: Great article. I think Trump is not one of the good guys. Look at these actions/results – beyond what you noted.
1) Orange Man signs three blow- out the budget worse than Barry-O – WHICH FEEDS THE SWAMP.
2) The WH is a reality show – look at the cast of idiots he has – beyond Bolton, Pompeo and Kudlow. None of the cabinet level “team” are CONSERVATIVE – not reigning in their departments or agencies. DHS – Nielsson bitch – highest levels of illegals evah! FBI – Let’s put Swamp-thing Wray in there.
3) No indictments of Hillary, Holder, Rice, Claptrapper, Brennan, Even Fairy O. NONE! Uranium One and J Biden China deals. Hell, let’s look at McConnell’s family ties with China as well. Pushing this ‘disparate impact’ shit from Holder/Barry days so we don’t over prosecute minorities.
4) EPA: CAFE rules are pushing the car industry to all-elecrics fleets; Coal electricity plants are still shutting down; we “mandate” renewable electricity – meaning we are still pushing wind/solar really hard. And costs will be pushed onto the consumer.
5) Even the legislation Paul weasle Ryan carted out and could not pass was garbage – and Trump was pushing it as good; ie Obumma care, immigration – more swamp clap traps.
6) WORST OF ALL: Trump has not fought the RNC to gain control with conservatives who would help get good candidates on primary ballots. State level is just as bad. IN NC, we get an idiot like Thom Tillis who outspent (think chamber of commerce/open borders) Greg Bannon – a very good conservative in the primary. Lindsey Graham gets relected and NO ONE LIKES THAT ASSHOLE. Trumper supported Luther Strange in AL, instead of Moore who would have won, but was “gorsuched” – before we know neil gorsuch! Think Martha McSalley – John Mccain in drag – could not even get elected for Flake’s seat!
7) BTW, his two supreme court appointments are wobbly at best. Both punted on their first big decisions.
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