I agree. I spent most of they day driving, and so I listened to NPR and A1 all day. 1/3rd about abortion. 1/3rd about race and identity politics. 1/3rd about everything else.
That last 3rd included hysterics about all the terrible things Trump might do, how the 'Resistance' can fight Trump in Congress, and what the Democrats missed.
Ralph Nader, a Republican strategist, and a community organizer said some pretty damning things about the Democrat's failures. Which, were quickly glossed over and not mentioned again the rest of the day.
I don't expect the Democrats to learn anything from this election. I expect them to double down, lose by larger margins, and eventually be supplanted by radical upstarts just like Trump did to the Republicans.
"mass illegal migrant invasion meant to install a permanent Democrat voting regime in perpetuity"
Curious thing, it's either not the real reason they are here, or once here they decided they didn't want to be used.
Me being me I go with the first one, because I still feel like there is a war brewing in the US, and all those men that came across the border are here to fight, not vote.
One last thing, Trump has 4 years, and then it's back to the same old same old... unless there are significant changes made to voting integrity.
So that cabal that ran the show with Biden as a front man may just be waiting 4 years.
No one is waiting, they run the show all the time. They write the narrative , and the monkey/actor/puppet in the White House makes sure to read the script to disinform the masses as to what is really going on.
Example: We are at war with Afghanistan because we're hunting Bin Laden
Truth: we are cultivation trillions of $ of heroin in Afghanistan which the CIA flies into the USA and now we have an opiod epidemic which we blame on the Chinese.
I suspect that when the heroin market was disrupted by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan (they committed the ultimate sin by shutting down the poppy fields), the CIA likely shifted to the distribution of Fentanyl (and of course blaming China). It's what keeps the CIA 'independent'.
I don't know if the pdf's are still available at the UN. Their study indicated that cultivation increased a hundred fold from 2003 to 2023. 8 tonnes vs 800 tonnes of heroin. I do speak under correction, but the difference was huge. $ 1.3 trillion pocket money enterprise. Not so on the sly, the internet has been scrubbed of soldiers guarding poppy fields. I think a huge part of that went towards financing ISIS. Which flopped because you know, the Russians. Those 360k mercenaries they lost in that wild oil grabbing endeavour was a bitter pill, especially the greater Israel project in the Levant. High time they kick them out if NE Syria.
And Boko Haram in West Africa, it's all fizzling because of the gnarly Russians. Lots of money to be made with raw materials, arms trade, drugs and oil - it helps to own a bank or two, and a minister or seven.
The Taliban (originally supported by the US) fell out of favour during negotiations over a pipeline crossing the country north-south. They wanted more than was offered so they were cut off and eventually attacked.
Not only that. They had destroyed the poppy fields that the CIA cultivated for its black money. After the US moved into Afghanistan, they restored those fields and protected them with US troops.
""mass illegal migrant invasion meant to install a permanent Democrat voting regime in perpetuity"
Curious thing, it's either not the real reason they are here, or once here they decided they didn't want to be used."
The Dems got hoisted on their own petard. That's what they get for objectifying brown skinned people. They thought they could import Latinos and treat them as a US-style victim group, that all they wanted was welfare and any Dem could buy them off with a dog treat.
Instead they got millions of people who may be poor, but who are largely serious Catholics, the most Catholic people in the world, who are very family oriented, who have an outstanding work ethic, and who are proud of their heritage. They came to the US for jobs, not welfare, and to have a safer place to raise their kids than the narco-gang and corrupt politico dominated countries they left.
When they came to the US they were repelled by the Dem hatred of their religion ("clinging to their bibles," indeed...), repelled by Dem embracement of appalling perversion (trans guys hanging their junk out in girls' locker rooms in high schools is an invitation to a lynching in Tijuana, USA), angry the Dems kept coming up with insane ideas to destroy entry-level jobs ("Let's help gardeners by making the minimum wage for cutting the lawn $100 per hour!") and making sure Latinos know they are so second rate that the only way they can get ahead is by dissing who they are and claiming they are "black," as Harris did with her Indian heritage.
You can replay that with almost every immigrant group the Dems have tried to embrace while in reality repelling, like Arabs, all the Afghan immigrants, Palestinians, and even Asians.
Re: voting integrity, my coastal blue area Maine town had a petition on voter id using picture driver's licenses. It was doing quite well collecting signatures when I was there.
Otoh, few were signing the gun control petition. Which was fun because the karen with the petition had time to try to badger me into signing it & got a polite earful for her trouble. Which gave others a chance to avoid her. I could see them scurry by. 😁
No, they're not terrorists, they just despise ordinary Americans, and most probably rightfully so. The USA would have been so much easier to govern if it didn't have all the blue collar riff raff demanding all their crap- like jobs. Anyone that hasn't made it to American Dream Status yet, should preferably be exported to China, so they can make bone meal from them. Having to deal with poor people when you have loads of money is just so tedious.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."--Barbara Bush
Outstanding election recap. Thanks. As if the USA's standing in the world hadn't sunk low enough, those voting numbers by year should scupper whatever it had left.
"Over and over the self-reflection and soul-searching was evident in every major establishment outlet. NY Times’ front page heralded a national turning point, evoking a ‘populist revolt against [the] elite’s vision of the U.S.”
I doubt there's a soul there, just a media that knows that the wind has changed so they're getting ready for a quick pivot.
On the Oregon ID issue, your map is wrong. You must present photo ID to register to vote at the County Clerk's office along with your residential information so the proper ballot can be sent for you to fill out and return.
Yup, over here at 42 degrees North, 123 West. Republican Red is our color, yet living in the blue bubble. I saw that map elsewhere…odd…but then again I check sources only occasionally as I come here, and other stacks, to learn from the bright bulbs.🧲 🐴❤️
Many people vote for others though without ID despite statements on the envelope saying not to do that.
People need some idea of the signature on file at the county, but no ID to submit the ballot.
So, yes to register, an ID is needed and a sample signature.
I've had my ballot rejected three times because somebody asserted my signature wasn't mine. I signed a form they sent me stating it was my signature. Interestingly, I didn't need an ID to do that.
"You must present photo ID to register to vote" The map was about an ID needed to vote, not to register. Presenting a photo ID to register to vote is very different from presenting a photo ID to vote.
One of the classic ways to steal an election using mail-in ballots is to steal ballots from mailboxes. Fill them out however you like and send them in. There's no proof whatsoever that the ballot was cast by the person who was registered to vote.
Another classic method is to organize ballot filling-in meetings to "help" people with filling out the ballot. A trade union's shop steward organizes a "get out the vote" session where everybody in the union brings their mail in ballot and fills it out with the union's "help" to make sure it's not disqualified by any errors in filling it out. They pitch it as a "make sure every vote is counted" public service, but in reality, everybody with an IQ over 40 knows that if you filled out the ballot for candidates or referendum questions the union doesn't like you better start looking for another job. Political action groups also organize such "help" sessions at retirement homes and other settings. They even go door to door to "help" people with their mail in ballot to make sure every vote counts - their way.
What all those cases have in common is that there is no guarantee the person who filled out the ballot is the registered voter and there's no guarantee if they were the registered voter they cast their ballot with no duress applied.
I live in Russia and while I'm not a citizen (just a resident foreigner), I've gone with my friends who are Russians to see how they vote here. It's straightforward: you have to present your official photo ID, your "internal" passport, and you can only vote in person at the precinct for your residence address. Russians think the US system is insane and an invitation to fraudulent elections.
It's true that Russia is now experimenting with voting online, but they're trying to find ways to do that which avoid the problem of faked identity or voting under duress. Personally, I think it's a mistake and they should stick to having people vote in person or, in extraordinary cases where they have a long term illness that prevents them from going in person to vote, to dispatch mobile voting officers to take the precinct to them.
Color me skeptical that Trump will do much of anything to realign the U.S. toward acting rationally in its own national self-interest (as opposed to the interests of Wall-Street financiers) in matters of foreign policy. Trump filled his first cabinet with J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs men as well as every washed up mediocre general that he could find. Who appoints someone with the nickname "Mad Dog" to any position of importance? The name itself labels the man an idiot.
I agree with the Russian reactions: skeptical but willing to listen if something does really change. Defeating the blue-haired hoards of chaos, drunken, single moms, and the hoochie mommies of the hood at the ballot box is one thing. Taking on the Wall-Street-CIA=FBI-Federal bureaucracy is another in the U.S. is another thing entirely. Trump won the easy battle. Let us see if he can win the hard one. Let's see if he is even willing to fight the hard battle. He was not in his last attempt to move the U.S. away from the precipice.
And finally, the elephant in the room is Israel. Even if Trump is able to stop the nonsensical drive to war with Russia, deal with China via hard-line diplomacy rather than sabre-rattling and chest thumping, and adopt reasonable policies to curb the power of the drug cartels and Communists who seek to undermine the U.S., the fanatical Zionists, and their perverse influence over U.S. foreign policy remain, and Trump has done nothing to put any distance between their positions and his. To my mind, even if he succeeds somehow in establishing a more self-interested and nationalist foreign policy with regard to affairs in Europe and elsewhere, his reluctance to address the influence of fanatical Zionism on his county will doom it and lead it to war with much of the world.
I suppose that depends on who you think was responsible for the assassination attempts. Neither of the would-be assassins had blue hair, were liquored up on box wine, or shook their booties in the attempt. One trained a gunrange with every federal agent in Western PA., and the other was mixed up with every pro-Ukraine NGO and effort in the U.S. . To me, those were warning shots from the deep-state and not agitated lefties.
Ah, but I never mentioned blue hair or lefties. That shot in Pa. was deadly serious, not a warning. If Trump had not turned his head at just that moment it would have been televised brain-splatter.
You think that the U.S. deep-state is just going to leave it at that. "Oh... well.. we took our best shot. I guess we just have to live with Trump and do what he says." Oh... no. The battle has just begun.
When Pompeo appeared at the 4 Nov rally in PA, that was a signal. A deal has been cut between DJT and the DS. So a dog whistle to the John Wicks out there, the contract has been cancelled. DJT has agreed to work with us again.
That is sort of my take on the thing as well. Trump may be 78, angry, unconcerned about consequences to himself, and in no mood to make deals with devils, but he has 5 (is it 5?) children and a host of grandchildren, about whom he seems to care. Taking a shot at Trump may not deter him, but threatening his children and grandchildren? Ask that Kemp fellow down in Georgia what happened to his daughter's boyfriend a few days after he decided to investigate the goings-on in Georgia in 2020.
I would have to see evidence that Trump is willing to go against the CIA-NSA-Wall-Street crowd before I believe it. So far, there has been a lot of talk, and no action at all.
But now Trump has Elon Musk and RFK breathing down his neck, and Musk for sure is not one to be put off with excuses...Musk has a powerful personality, no fear of anyone, and is impatient of laziness or delays...
FYI, the last time America was in big trouble, FDR was elected. He worked with the American communists and socialists to 'save capitalism'. As a result, we have reasonable labor and job safety laws, unemployment insurance, and social security. Not bad touches to help out the crotchety greed head capitalists!
"As a result, we have reasonable labor and job safety laws, unemployment insurance, and social security." That was intended as extreme satire, right?
Ever try living on social security? Maybe if you like living on dog or cat food in the middle of a fentanyl ghetto, sure, but not so realistic otherwise. Then there's also the wonderful feeling of knowing the government has been forcing you to give them money your whole working life which they're going to return to you at such a rigged, fraudulent, low rate of return that it would be illegal for a private company to screw people that way, and illegal to steal money out of the fund to bankrupt it. And then there's how they tax, yet again, when they give you back the money they taxed when you earned it. Plus there's the flat out lie of it being indexed for inflation when in fact it's rigged to always be both behind the rise in inflation and also short of compensating for inflation. In other words, it's a typical socialist fraud.
As for "reasonable labor and job safety laws", their main effect was to empower corrupt unions to grab American industry by the throat and squeeze so hard that any sane entrepreneur made sure to move his or her business either to a right-to-work state or even better, out of the country. They created a built-in constituency to elect a parasite class of socialist Dems who had no talent other than to seize by force the earnings of productive people and to redistribute those earnings to their political supporters. Yep, typical socialist fraud again.
The government is absolutely terrible at doing anything but stealing money from productive people and giving it to parasites. True capitalism does a far better job.
A good example today is Russia's turn to capitalism, which swept out the dead wood of communism and socialism and converted a country which could not feed itself into the world's biggest food exporter. Russia's economy is booming, and one of the biggest problems it has is that it is growing so fast it is experiencing a huge shortage of labor. That's creating an astonishing array of perks and indulgences for labor, far beyond what socialist government schemes create and without the built-in corruption government programs feature. ("Yes, of course we steal from them and give to our friends. That's not a bug, it's a feature!")
That's how capitalism works: the best labor and job safety law around is Adam Smith's "invisible hand": when economies boom because a country genuinely embraces capitalism, employers have to compete to get the labor they need. They compete with each other to provide perks for labor, like shorter work weeks, remote work, and generous maternal leave, and they keep their job environments safer for workers than corrupt governments can. The best unemployment insurance is knowing that you can get a new job the next day if for any reason your current job disappears.
When you look at socialist criticisms of "capitalism," they usually end up stemming from socialist interference in capitalism. For example, when a leviathan government weighs down markets with labyrinthian labor laws and a million fees, that's an invitation to form employer monopolies because only big companies can deal with the infinite over-regulation. That prevents new entrants from getting started, who would poach employees from entrenched companies that might be slower or less generous in treating their employees right.
The problem is crotchety greed head socialists who are bent on running their parasite scams with other people's money. It's not capitalists who are forced by *real* markets to compete in giving their customers what those customers want at a better price while taking care of their labor force to ensure their organization's success.
I don't disagree with your over all assessment, especially your understanding of Pompeo's pressence in a Trump admin or at his rally.
The manner in which you dismiss Gen Mattis is not accurate though. It reflects a misunderstanding of how a call sign or a nom de guerre is assigned in the Marine Corps.
Gen Mattis didn't pick his call sign. In an organization where individual members routinely refer to each other as "Devil Dog" referencing an alleged epithet made by Germans in WWI of attacking Marines in Belleau Wood, it is quite serious and anything but an idiot's moniker. It is a measure of someone who is steadfast in his warrior's duty - specifically in living out his core values as a Marine: Honor, Courage, and Commitment.
That is not a defense of his character as measured by his actions under Pres. Trump. Gen Mattis is quite intelligent, studied, and well versed in the art and science of war. He is no idiot. His service to the Deep State, and betrayal of Pres. Trump is calculated, reasoned, and quite hypocritically unethical, but not the action of an idiot. More specifically, he betrayed his life long oath to his core values and his oath to support and defend the Constitution. He betrayed his honor in a duplicitous and self-serving way. He proved to be dedicated to neo-con goals and personal benefit. That, it seems, is worse than being the action of an idiot.
"Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling. You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
General "Chaos" "Mad Dog" Mattis.
Absolutely the words of an intellectual genius. This is the same man who ordered a wedding party be bombed and who refused to air-evac casualties from his own unit. An air-force pilot had to fly in to do it. Real war hero stuff.
This same guy, who bombed a wedding party, was ordering his troops to grow mustaches and take "culturally sensitivity training" and wave at the locals in Iraq so as to "win hearts and minds." The exact type of jackassery that has characterized the upper echelons of the U.S. military post 1992. I don't care how many times he read Cicero. The man is an idiot.
That ad hominem attack is beneath the merit of your analysis. You're making an arguement about the ethics of his actions e.g. bombing a wedding. That does not make him an idiot. It might make him pathological. In an organization whose primary job is to kill people and be lethally good at it, he was good at it. Almost every order in training begins with "close with and destroy the enemy" that is the job description of every infantryman.
Reading Cicero does not make one smart. Not reading doesn't make one dumb. What makes Gen Mattis smart is his actual IQ which is over 140. He then spent decades apply that inate ability through considerable discipline. To say he is an idiot is to diminish his responsibility, and his capability and not least culpability. His betrail of ethical responsibility was not because he was dumb. It is because he chose evil over good and he knew what he was doing when he did it.
CHAOS was not a nom de guerre or call sign he ever used. That was picked by the media and they thought the acronym was cool at one point when it was their job to dress him up for the public.
In actuality, it was an ironic insult - Colonel Has Another Outstanding Suggestion, speaking to the frustration of junior staff forced to chase down his many unconventional (in context of USMC established standard operating procedures) ideas.
It's an uphill taking on the deep/permanent state and the first indicators for success or failure are who is in his cabinet. If cleaning out the deep state isn't at the top of the list then everything else is going to end in failure. He also has the headwind from being (not unreasonably) an Israel firster... supporting a genocidal state would be cement shoes for any future dealings with the global majority.
Although I share the joy of this outcome of the American elections, which seem to me to have brought us back from the brink of complete submission to the globalist elite, and I'm not even from America, I don't share that much optimism about what the scope of Trump's mandate will be. It is true that the victory of the Republicans is very convincing and that it creates the impression that there is room for radical changes. However, I have to admit that the very personality of Donald Trump does not give me the impression that he is a man who wants to dedicate himself to the total reconstruction of the power system in America. Not to mention whether he, or anyone else, can achieve that in 4 years. In fact, I'm most concerned about the information I heard on Judge Napolitano's YouTube channel about how Trump is considering Mike Pompeo as his Secretary of Defense. The man is neocon to the max and, if this is indeed going to happen, then it does not bode well for the intentions and ultimate reach of Trump's term. But we'll see.
>I agree with the Russian reactions: skeptical but willing to listen if something does really change.
That is not a good position.
There is no conceivable deal to be had here, simply because of how far things have gone.
Russia MUST end Ukraine's statehood and then erase Ukrainian identity on the territory over the subsequent generations. Nothing else suffices as a minimum satisfactory outcome of the war, and it is a minimum satisfactory outcome because even that does nothing about the more general security threat from NATO in Europe. You still have the US bases in Poland and Romania, and everywhere else, and now the prospect of having hypersonic missiles on mobile concealed launch platforms in Finland too is quite real in the coming decade.
But the Ukrainian problem has the added dimension of an independent Ukraine meaning the loss of tens of millions of Russian people, who would be torn away from the motherland and then brainwashed to hate it and fight it.
This should be completely, totally unacceptable to anyone in the Kremlin who cares about Russia and not about the interests of his resource-exporting oligarch buddies.
But nobody in the West will ever agree to just hand off Ukraine to Putin and say "go ahead, occupy it all the way to Lvov, Rovno and Uzhgorod, and do whatever you want there". That will simply never happen under any kind of a deal.
So you have to accomplish it through military means. There is nothing to talk about with anyone.
It's either that, or Putin will go down in history as the third most catastrophic for Russia ruler, after Gorbachev and Nicholas II, perhaps numbers, if his suspect loyalties, incompetence and indecisiveness result in the final dissolution of the country and its full colonization by the West.
But right now very clearly Putin has no intention to fight a real war for serious objectives.
The election proved one thing: the ‘Deep State’ and hidden hostile powers known as the ‘Globalists’ that scheme behind the scenes and secretly run the country are not all-powerful. They can clearly be defeated when the people are fed-up enough.
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Oh brother, what a shallow and unsophisticated take.
The truth is exactly the opposite: those at the upper eschelon derive their wealth & power through central banking. They, more than anyone else, understand the dynamics of fractional reserve lending. The essence, the very core is that debt-money systems must continuously expand or suffer a catastrophic collapse.
The Russian (and Palestinian) gambit was about securing the globe's last remaining stores of natural resources, energy that could be parlayed and leveraged by yet another order of national debt. As I have noted elsewhere, missile technology trumped existing air superiority doctrine, rendering our defeat in Ukraine as fait accompli.
Knowing this, knowing the collapse of the dollar system was literally baked in, the only remaining variables were timing and magnitude. By failing to seize the initiative and control the resulting demolition, the global elite risked losing everything with little possible hope of recovery; thus ending their 1,000 year reich.
Trump was allowed to achieve his victory with stand down orders by the PTB to refrain from any significant election tampering. (Resulting in a 10m vote deficit for Harris vs Biden 4 years prior.) So, why Trump?
Because he has the experience, temperant and mandate to guide the West through the coming bankruptcy process, the structured devaluations, the staged defaults, and wholesale cutting of government expenses (includinng the MIC) in an attempt to clear the books so that deep state leaders can position themselves for the incoming BRICS system.
Correct, no one in government has more hands-on experience in managing defaults and bankruptcies than Trump. As with any large scale restructuring, it will be interesting to see who loses everything and who is made whole.
I'm not sure if I agree, but you earn many points in my book for the quality of the analysis and the play at hand. I too have thought of 'the great restructuring'; when some(ones) debt gets repudiated, some currency gets repriced, when some bonds don't get paid, and when those holding the gold (or Uranium, or farmland, or oil) have the collateral to rebuild again..
Psy-op—? Or J-school—? Whichever, both come w/ maps!
Whacky as this sounds, the State Department placed a $10mn bounty on Russian media network Rybar & a number of its key staffers following alleged attempts to sway the 2024 presidential election.
On 4 November, in a WaPo interview, Rybar founder & director Mikhail Zvinchuk commented on the State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” monetary offer for information about the whereabouts of 9 Rybar employees reportedly involved in 2024's election interference.
Zvinchuk denied reports of his and Rybar’s involvement and used the WaPo interview as an opportunity to portray Rybar as a Western-style “think-tank" that is involved in "defending [Russia’s] informational borders." Zvinchuk also claimed that Rybar has an organized "worldwide" network consisting of over 250 channels in 28 languages and confirmed that Rybar is opening "media schools" in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and Kyrgyzstan.
“We have long studied the West’s approaches to waging information warfare against us,” Zvinchuk said. “Now we have commandeered the tactics.” Rybar boasts 1.3mn subscribers & has 60 employees, some of whom have taught a class in journalistic media @ the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
Fred Kagan of ISW insisted that any portrayal of Rybar as a think-tank is patently false. In his view, the Kremlin holds significant power over all Russian information space and civil society: Rybar’s large-scale operations in Russia and abroad would not be possible without notable direct funding from the Kremlin.
Zvinchuk defends Rybar as a think-tank that is “occasionally critical of Russia”—but in Kagan’s assessment this is likely part of the Kremlin’s wider effort to infiltrate Western and international media via new online-based sources such as Rybar: allow the channel to toss out a couple of meaningless criticisms as a fig-leaf of *objectivity,* the better for it to manipulate useful idiots.
“Rewards for Justice,” the State Department program, reported that Russian defense conglomerate Rostec currently funds the Rybar channel. VVP and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) notably bestowed upon Rybar several state honors.
Although Zvinchuk defended Rybar, the WaPo article nonetheless described the channel as an elaborate propaganda organization, equating it to the Russian troll farm operation--Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency--which got named in the Mueller Report for interfering in the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, Zvinchuk, who studied @ the Suvorov Military School in Moscow, has earned a place for himself on the *Myrotvorets* list, as an “enemy of Ukraine.”
Going off of memory here...but wasn't there a Russian organization that was also named in the Mueller report that actually came here and challenged the accusations against them, and the Mueller team backed off?
The American elites have a bad habit of accusing others of what they do. I doubt very much that Russia has the slightest interest in American elections and consider claims of 'Russian interference' to be wildly prideful conjectures based on imagination, not evidence.
On the other hand, just by defeating the Ukrainians, the Russians have made the Democrats look weak and incompetent, which definitely is 'Russian election interference'.
Well, Musk and Bezo's prove that Trump represent represent the billionaire class. Trump was the ruling class's wet dream since he has no moral compass and will do anything against the "threat of democracy". He will throw the working class under the bus 'cus he just needed them to vote for them and then he can do for himself and other of his ilk like he did the first term. His trifecta means he will do more damage to us in the 99%. By the way, are you in the 1% or paid premium for your messaging?
The democrats are even worse for working class. They are Wall Street shills too and also bring about "tragedy of commons" with their open border policy
We'll see how much really changes. His appointments last time dragged him down. Many even were out to get him and he counldnt see it. For Staring in the Apprentice Trump is worst judgement of talent ever...who is antiwar and hires John Bolton as NSA?
Trump was a first term president in 2016 who just squeaked in. He would've needed help from the Republican old guard, who may have foisted Bolton on him. I'm not making excuses, just wondering if there may have been a back-story.
G'day Carol but do you think the change would be positive. His style is still everyone else is to blame not me so no reflection on past actions, he not a reader so how does he improve? It has always been his way or get out. Plus the older you are the more set in our ways we become.
Ukraine boldly voted in 2019 for a charismatic leader who promised big changes, and indeed Ukraine got some big changes. So while I'm happy to see the woke-ist mob get smacked down, I'm simultaneously dreading that Trump might deliver big changes in USA similar to big chances Zelensky delivered in Ukraine.
Here we go again. News is going to be 90% about Trump, 10% rest of the world. I hope he talks less and does more this time around. He definitely has a special knack for diplomacy - maybe this time he can piss the Iranians off properly, do something really special for the Israelis like help them to demolish the mosque on the hill, and just cut Nato's funding- I'd love to watch Rutte not have any funding against the apparently marching Russians! Pity Stoltenberg isn't there to take the fall. Ideally he would drop a couple of MOABs on some Democrats, cleaning the house. And lastly, he should just take the bloody oil from the Arabs - the whole lot, just bomb those monarchies to bits and take the oil.
It'll be much easier fighting Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait than Russia. What I really hope for is to see Trump order Putin around, telling him to make peace with the Ukraine, because, he is the prez of the USA, the mightiest nation on earth. Here we go again, the apprentice rolled out on world scale....Humpty Dumpty Trumpy.
Seeker they could not do over Ansar Allah with all the help from the US military, they are very vulnerable as we saw with the attack on their oil facilities and their populace despises the US for the support of the Zionazis genocide. Multiple fronts to contend with.
Well the Saudi involvement in the Yemeni civil war is different from an attempt against the kingdom. You may be very surprise that the Saudi population support their leadership more than people think.
The Democrats gave up on the election months ago, they just had to play out the theatre. What they have done is their best to sabotage the US economy for the next administration. Hopefully the republicans will find a way to weather the economic storms ahead at least for the American people's sake. The objective is to contest the 2028 election running on the economic disaster they have choreographed for the next 4 years.
So maybe, just maybe, I won't have to roll my eyes at the inevitable shrieking about "muh antisemuttiezmz!" whenever I bring up the wholly deleterious effects that Leo Strauss and his minions have had on the US and the world? That would be nice.
I am on shelf life, thus I read, a lot. Stacks, Orlov, you know…off the collective narrative. One of the little people. Thanks the muses, God guiding me I think, say little, observe much. Ponder the mysteries, read the ancient texts…some discourse with all types of folks. Spiritual Revolution is afoot. A state that voted Red, living in a blue hub. The howling, wailing and such is evident. I carry on as I am of the land, the river runs clear and I have a beautiful view of the orchards. Each day presents anew, inhale, exhale. I shall carry on until I do…not. Deeply appreciative of your prose, as always. My brother, family across the big pond.❤️🐴🧲
"mass illegal migrant invasion meant to install a permanent Democrat voting regime in perpetuity"
I will agree with Triumphant Ape that the illegals were not brought in to vote NOW. Vance made a comment on his Joe Rogan interview about this that made a great deal of sense. The Representatives in the House are apportioned by State population. No differentiation is made regarding legal and illegal residents. Both are counted. This alters the number of Representatives each state gets. It is FUTURE votes which will be altered; as a complete amnesty, with citizenship, would then leave them able to vote for their "noble benefactors".
They are fighting age men primarily that is why they were allowed in . In the meantime they will fill the lower wage job quotas putting pressure on Americans holding those jobs.
I'll be binge watching all the liberal mental breakdown videos in the next few days.
Whoopi's meltdown on the View is a good place to start ;)
for anyone interested, Vigilant Fox on Twitter has all the juicy video clips in one thread :)
Don't bother. The have learned nothing.
I don't expect them to learn anything. Hence why I enjoy watching them seethe and suffer
I agree. I spent most of they day driving, and so I listened to NPR and A1 all day. 1/3rd about abortion. 1/3rd about race and identity politics. 1/3rd about everything else.
That last 3rd included hysterics about all the terrible things Trump might do, how the 'Resistance' can fight Trump in Congress, and what the Democrats missed.
Ralph Nader, a Republican strategist, and a community organizer said some pretty damning things about the Democrat's failures. Which, were quickly glossed over and not mentioned again the rest of the day.
I don't expect the Democrats to learn anything from this election. I expect them to double down, lose by larger margins, and eventually be supplanted by radical upstarts just like Trump did to the Republicans.
Literally can't get enough
even for that pleasure I cannot overcome the distaste of listening to vain people spout nonsense.
"mass illegal migrant invasion meant to install a permanent Democrat voting regime in perpetuity"
Curious thing, it's either not the real reason they are here, or once here they decided they didn't want to be used.
Me being me I go with the first one, because I still feel like there is a war brewing in the US, and all those men that came across the border are here to fight, not vote.
One last thing, Trump has 4 years, and then it's back to the same old same old... unless there are significant changes made to voting integrity.
So that cabal that ran the show with Biden as a front man may just be waiting 4 years.
Yeah, if voting Democrat was the idea, it would have been better to import "Latinx" women, instead of battalions of military age men.
No one is waiting, they run the show all the time. They write the narrative , and the monkey/actor/puppet in the White House makes sure to read the script to disinform the masses as to what is really going on.
Example: We are at war with Afghanistan because we're hunting Bin Laden
Truth: we are cultivation trillions of $ of heroin in Afghanistan which the CIA flies into the USA and now we have an opiod epidemic which we blame on the Chinese.
Plus a back-door to Russian Fed which maybe was the ultimate reason all the others are ancillary benefits.
The CIA flooded Russia with Afghanistani heroin in the 90ies.
I suspect that when the heroin market was disrupted by the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan (they committed the ultimate sin by shutting down the poppy fields), the CIA likely shifted to the distribution of Fentanyl (and of course blaming China). It's what keeps the CIA 'independent'.
I don't know if the pdf's are still available at the UN. Their study indicated that cultivation increased a hundred fold from 2003 to 2023. 8 tonnes vs 800 tonnes of heroin. I do speak under correction, but the difference was huge. $ 1.3 trillion pocket money enterprise. Not so on the sly, the internet has been scrubbed of soldiers guarding poppy fields. I think a huge part of that went towards financing ISIS. Which flopped because you know, the Russians. Those 360k mercenaries they lost in that wild oil grabbing endeavour was a bitter pill, especially the greater Israel project in the Levant. High time they kick them out if NE Syria.
And Boko Haram in West Africa, it's all fizzling because of the gnarly Russians. Lots of money to be made with raw materials, arms trade, drugs and oil - it helps to own a bank or two, and a minister or seven.
Add human trafficking to the list. Ugly stuff, but hey. It is the reality we live in.
If your theories were correct the Kamunist would be the next president
True...once the illegals are here, it's a case of "what have you done for me lately?"
The Taliban (originally supported by the US) fell out of favour during negotiations over a pipeline crossing the country north-south. They wanted more than was offered so they were cut off and eventually attacked.
A little known fact. Thanks for bringing it up. They were photographed at Bush's ranch a few months before the Deep State/MOSSAD attack in NY 2001.
" . . . the United States we went to
50:57 war in Iraq not for Israel we went war in Iraq for oil and Regional dominance
51:03 now people say well that’s part of the project for New American Century and all this stuff yes that’s peripheral but
51:08 America Goes to War for America”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSppOU68tc
Not only that. They had destroyed the poppy fields that the CIA cultivated for its black money. After the US moved into Afghanistan, they restored those fields and protected them with US troops.
You meant originally created
They are here for a lot of reasons.
1) downward pressure on wages.
2) upward pressure on housing prices.
3) bolster the Democrat's numbers.
4) join the armed forces and/or Antifa, the left's brownshirts. (Because the loyalty of the existing fighting forces to the current elite is in doubt)
Gabbard and Kennedy in '28 is the Dems only proper answer. Unless, of course, they run as Trump's legacy.
""mass illegal migrant invasion meant to install a permanent Democrat voting regime in perpetuity"
Curious thing, it's either not the real reason they are here, or once here they decided they didn't want to be used."
The Dems got hoisted on their own petard. That's what they get for objectifying brown skinned people. They thought they could import Latinos and treat them as a US-style victim group, that all they wanted was welfare and any Dem could buy them off with a dog treat.
Instead they got millions of people who may be poor, but who are largely serious Catholics, the most Catholic people in the world, who are very family oriented, who have an outstanding work ethic, and who are proud of their heritage. They came to the US for jobs, not welfare, and to have a safer place to raise their kids than the narco-gang and corrupt politico dominated countries they left.
When they came to the US they were repelled by the Dem hatred of their religion ("clinging to their bibles," indeed...), repelled by Dem embracement of appalling perversion (trans guys hanging their junk out in girls' locker rooms in high schools is an invitation to a lynching in Tijuana, USA), angry the Dems kept coming up with insane ideas to destroy entry-level jobs ("Let's help gardeners by making the minimum wage for cutting the lawn $100 per hour!") and making sure Latinos know they are so second rate that the only way they can get ahead is by dissing who they are and claiming they are "black," as Harris did with her Indian heritage.
You can replay that with almost every immigrant group the Dems have tried to embrace while in reality repelling, like Arabs, all the Afghan immigrants, Palestinians, and even Asians.
Adios, Dem trash.
Re: voting integrity, my coastal blue area Maine town had a petition on voter id using picture driver's licenses. It was doing quite well collecting signatures when I was there.
Otoh, few were signing the gun control petition. Which was fun because the karen with the petition had time to try to badger me into signing it & got a polite earful for her trouble. Which gave others a chance to avoid her. I could see them scurry by. 😁
Good points.
Plus I expect the cabal has been preparing for this outcome. Too soon to celebrate.
Aren't we seeing that the top echelon of the Democratic Party, starting with Biden, are in fact terrorists? What other evidence is needed?
No, they're not terrorists, they just despise ordinary Americans, and most probably rightfully so. The USA would have been so much easier to govern if it didn't have all the blue collar riff raff demanding all their crap- like jobs. Anyone that hasn't made it to American Dream Status yet, should preferably be exported to China, so they can make bone meal from them. Having to deal with poor people when you have loads of money is just so tedious.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."--Barbara Bush
Outstanding election recap. Thanks. As if the USA's standing in the world hadn't sunk low enough, those voting numbers by year should scupper whatever it had left.
"Over and over the self-reflection and soul-searching was evident in every major establishment outlet. NY Times’ front page heralded a national turning point, evoking a ‘populist revolt against [the] elite’s vision of the U.S.”
I doubt there's a soul there, just a media that knows that the wind has changed so they're getting ready for a quick pivot.
Word. Old lady with a virtual….kat❤️🐈⬛
My comments on the election outcome are here, https://karlof1.substack.com/p/will-trump-be-a-recidivist
On the Oregon ID issue, your map is wrong. You must present photo ID to register to vote at the County Clerk's office along with your residential information so the proper ballot can be sent for you to fill out and return.
Yup, over here at 42 degrees North, 123 West. Republican Red is our color, yet living in the blue bubble. I saw that map elsewhere…odd…but then again I check sources only occasionally as I come here, and other stacks, to learn from the bright bulbs.🧲 🐴❤️
In Oklahoma a voter registration card (no photo) is sufficient to obtain a ballot for in-person voting.
Yes, but how do you get the card?
Many people vote for others though without ID despite statements on the envelope saying not to do that.
People need some idea of the signature on file at the county, but no ID to submit the ballot.
So, yes to register, an ID is needed and a sample signature.
I've had my ballot rejected three times because somebody asserted my signature wasn't mine. I signed a form they sent me stating it was my signature. Interestingly, I didn't need an ID to do that.
"You must present photo ID to register to vote" The map was about an ID needed to vote, not to register. Presenting a photo ID to register to vote is very different from presenting a photo ID to vote.
One of the classic ways to steal an election using mail-in ballots is to steal ballots from mailboxes. Fill them out however you like and send them in. There's no proof whatsoever that the ballot was cast by the person who was registered to vote.
Another classic method is to organize ballot filling-in meetings to "help" people with filling out the ballot. A trade union's shop steward organizes a "get out the vote" session where everybody in the union brings their mail in ballot and fills it out with the union's "help" to make sure it's not disqualified by any errors in filling it out. They pitch it as a "make sure every vote is counted" public service, but in reality, everybody with an IQ over 40 knows that if you filled out the ballot for candidates or referendum questions the union doesn't like you better start looking for another job. Political action groups also organize such "help" sessions at retirement homes and other settings. They even go door to door to "help" people with their mail in ballot to make sure every vote counts - their way.
What all those cases have in common is that there is no guarantee the person who filled out the ballot is the registered voter and there's no guarantee if they were the registered voter they cast their ballot with no duress applied.
I live in Russia and while I'm not a citizen (just a resident foreigner), I've gone with my friends who are Russians to see how they vote here. It's straightforward: you have to present your official photo ID, your "internal" passport, and you can only vote in person at the precinct for your residence address. Russians think the US system is insane and an invitation to fraudulent elections.
It's true that Russia is now experimenting with voting online, but they're trying to find ways to do that which avoid the problem of faked identity or voting under duress. Personally, I think it's a mistake and they should stick to having people vote in person or, in extraordinary cases where they have a long term illness that prevents them from going in person to vote, to dispatch mobile voting officers to take the precinct to them.
Color me skeptical that Trump will do much of anything to realign the U.S. toward acting rationally in its own national self-interest (as opposed to the interests of Wall-Street financiers) in matters of foreign policy. Trump filled his first cabinet with J. P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs men as well as every washed up mediocre general that he could find. Who appoints someone with the nickname "Mad Dog" to any position of importance? The name itself labels the man an idiot.
I agree with the Russian reactions: skeptical but willing to listen if something does really change. Defeating the blue-haired hoards of chaos, drunken, single moms, and the hoochie mommies of the hood at the ballot box is one thing. Taking on the Wall-Street-CIA=FBI-Federal bureaucracy is another in the U.S. is another thing entirely. Trump won the easy battle. Let us see if he can win the hard one. Let's see if he is even willing to fight the hard battle. He was not in his last attempt to move the U.S. away from the precipice.
And finally, the elephant in the room is Israel. Even if Trump is able to stop the nonsensical drive to war with Russia, deal with China via hard-line diplomacy rather than sabre-rattling and chest thumping, and adopt reasonable policies to curb the power of the drug cartels and Communists who seek to undermine the U.S., the fanatical Zionists, and their perverse influence over U.S. foreign policy remain, and Trump has done nothing to put any distance between their positions and his. To my mind, even if he succeeds somehow in establishing a more self-interested and nationalist foreign policy with regard to affairs in Europe and elsewhere, his reluctance to address the influence of fanatical Zionism on his county will doom it and lead it to war with much of the world.
Easy battle? An assassination attempt he avoided by an ear, 3 impeachments, 4 trials, and it was easy? As the Brits say, Bollocks.
I do agree about taking a wait and see attitude, however. It will NOT be an easy battle.
I suppose that depends on who you think was responsible for the assassination attempts. Neither of the would-be assassins had blue hair, were liquored up on box wine, or shook their booties in the attempt. One trained a gunrange with every federal agent in Western PA., and the other was mixed up with every pro-Ukraine NGO and effort in the U.S. . To me, those were warning shots from the deep-state and not agitated lefties.
Ah, but I never mentioned blue hair or lefties. That shot in Pa. was deadly serious, not a warning. If Trump had not turned his head at just that moment it would have been televised brain-splatter.
You think that the U.S. deep-state is just going to leave it at that. "Oh... well.. we took our best shot. I guess we just have to live with Trump and do what he says." Oh... no. The battle has just begun.
When Pompeo appeared at the 4 Nov rally in PA, that was a signal. A deal has been cut between DJT and the DS. So a dog whistle to the John Wicks out there, the contract has been cancelled. DJT has agreed to work with us again.
Only time will tell.
That is sort of my take on the thing as well. Trump may be 78, angry, unconcerned about consequences to himself, and in no mood to make deals with devils, but he has 5 (is it 5?) children and a host of grandchildren, about whom he seems to care. Taking a shot at Trump may not deter him, but threatening his children and grandchildren? Ask that Kemp fellow down in Georgia what happened to his daughter's boyfriend a few days after he decided to investigate the goings-on in Georgia in 2020.
I would have to see evidence that Trump is willing to go against the CIA-NSA-Wall-Street crowd before I believe it. So far, there has been a lot of talk, and no action at all.
We shall see now, won’t we? Tune in Jan 20, 2025…
But now Trump has Elon Musk and RFK breathing down his neck, and Musk for sure is not one to be put off with excuses...Musk has a powerful personality, no fear of anyone, and is impatient of laziness or delays...
FYI, the last time America was in big trouble, FDR was elected. He worked with the American communists and socialists to 'save capitalism'. As a result, we have reasonable labor and job safety laws, unemployment insurance, and social security. Not bad touches to help out the crotchety greed head capitalists!
"As a result, we have reasonable labor and job safety laws, unemployment insurance, and social security." That was intended as extreme satire, right?
Ever try living on social security? Maybe if you like living on dog or cat food in the middle of a fentanyl ghetto, sure, but not so realistic otherwise. Then there's also the wonderful feeling of knowing the government has been forcing you to give them money your whole working life which they're going to return to you at such a rigged, fraudulent, low rate of return that it would be illegal for a private company to screw people that way, and illegal to steal money out of the fund to bankrupt it. And then there's how they tax, yet again, when they give you back the money they taxed when you earned it. Plus there's the flat out lie of it being indexed for inflation when in fact it's rigged to always be both behind the rise in inflation and also short of compensating for inflation. In other words, it's a typical socialist fraud.
As for "reasonable labor and job safety laws", their main effect was to empower corrupt unions to grab American industry by the throat and squeeze so hard that any sane entrepreneur made sure to move his or her business either to a right-to-work state or even better, out of the country. They created a built-in constituency to elect a parasite class of socialist Dems who had no talent other than to seize by force the earnings of productive people and to redistribute those earnings to their political supporters. Yep, typical socialist fraud again.
The government is absolutely terrible at doing anything but stealing money from productive people and giving it to parasites. True capitalism does a far better job.
A good example today is Russia's turn to capitalism, which swept out the dead wood of communism and socialism and converted a country which could not feed itself into the world's biggest food exporter. Russia's economy is booming, and one of the biggest problems it has is that it is growing so fast it is experiencing a huge shortage of labor. That's creating an astonishing array of perks and indulgences for labor, far beyond what socialist government schemes create and without the built-in corruption government programs feature. ("Yes, of course we steal from them and give to our friends. That's not a bug, it's a feature!")
That's how capitalism works: the best labor and job safety law around is Adam Smith's "invisible hand": when economies boom because a country genuinely embraces capitalism, employers have to compete to get the labor they need. They compete with each other to provide perks for labor, like shorter work weeks, remote work, and generous maternal leave, and they keep their job environments safer for workers than corrupt governments can. The best unemployment insurance is knowing that you can get a new job the next day if for any reason your current job disappears.
When you look at socialist criticisms of "capitalism," they usually end up stemming from socialist interference in capitalism. For example, when a leviathan government weighs down markets with labyrinthian labor laws and a million fees, that's an invitation to form employer monopolies because only big companies can deal with the infinite over-regulation. That prevents new entrants from getting started, who would poach employees from entrenched companies that might be slower or less generous in treating their employees right.
The problem is crotchety greed head socialists who are bent on running their parasite scams with other people's money. It's not capitalists who are forced by *real* markets to compete in giving their customers what those customers want at a better price while taking care of their labor force to ensure their organization's success.
I don't disagree with your over all assessment, especially your understanding of Pompeo's pressence in a Trump admin or at his rally.
The manner in which you dismiss Gen Mattis is not accurate though. It reflects a misunderstanding of how a call sign or a nom de guerre is assigned in the Marine Corps.
Gen Mattis didn't pick his call sign. In an organization where individual members routinely refer to each other as "Devil Dog" referencing an alleged epithet made by Germans in WWI of attacking Marines in Belleau Wood, it is quite serious and anything but an idiot's moniker. It is a measure of someone who is steadfast in his warrior's duty - specifically in living out his core values as a Marine: Honor, Courage, and Commitment.
That is not a defense of his character as measured by his actions under Pres. Trump. Gen Mattis is quite intelligent, studied, and well versed in the art and science of war. He is no idiot. His service to the Deep State, and betrayal of Pres. Trump is calculated, reasoned, and quite hypocritically unethical, but not the action of an idiot. More specifically, he betrayed his life long oath to his core values and his oath to support and defend the Constitution. He betrayed his honor in a duplicitous and self-serving way. He proved to be dedicated to neo-con goals and personal benefit. That, it seems, is worse than being the action of an idiot.
"Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling. You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
General "Chaos" "Mad Dog" Mattis.
Absolutely the words of an intellectual genius. This is the same man who ordered a wedding party be bombed and who refused to air-evac casualties from his own unit. An air-force pilot had to fly in to do it. Real war hero stuff.
This same guy, who bombed a wedding party, was ordering his troops to grow mustaches and take "culturally sensitivity training" and wave at the locals in Iraq so as to "win hearts and minds." The exact type of jackassery that has characterized the upper echelons of the U.S. military post 1992. I don't care how many times he read Cicero. The man is an idiot.
That ad hominem attack is beneath the merit of your analysis. You're making an arguement about the ethics of his actions e.g. bombing a wedding. That does not make him an idiot. It might make him pathological. In an organization whose primary job is to kill people and be lethally good at it, he was good at it. Almost every order in training begins with "close with and destroy the enemy" that is the job description of every infantryman.
Reading Cicero does not make one smart. Not reading doesn't make one dumb. What makes Gen Mattis smart is his actual IQ which is over 140. He then spent decades apply that inate ability through considerable discipline. To say he is an idiot is to diminish his responsibility, and his capability and not least culpability. His betrail of ethical responsibility was not because he was dumb. It is because he chose evil over good and he knew what he was doing when he did it.
CHAOS was not a nom de guerre or call sign he ever used. That was picked by the media and they thought the acronym was cool at one point when it was their job to dress him up for the public.
In actuality, it was an ironic insult - Colonel Has Another Outstanding Suggestion, speaking to the frustration of junior staff forced to chase down his many unconventional (in context of USMC established standard operating procedures) ideas.
It's an uphill taking on the deep/permanent state and the first indicators for success or failure are who is in his cabinet. If cleaning out the deep state isn't at the top of the list then everything else is going to end in failure. He also has the headwind from being (not unreasonably) an Israel firster... supporting a genocidal state would be cement shoes for any future dealings with the global majority.
Although I share the joy of this outcome of the American elections, which seem to me to have brought us back from the brink of complete submission to the globalist elite, and I'm not even from America, I don't share that much optimism about what the scope of Trump's mandate will be. It is true that the victory of the Republicans is very convincing and that it creates the impression that there is room for radical changes. However, I have to admit that the very personality of Donald Trump does not give me the impression that he is a man who wants to dedicate himself to the total reconstruction of the power system in America. Not to mention whether he, or anyone else, can achieve that in 4 years. In fact, I'm most concerned about the information I heard on Judge Napolitano's YouTube channel about how Trump is considering Mike Pompeo as his Secretary of Defense. The man is neocon to the max and, if this is indeed going to happen, then it does not bode well for the intentions and ultimate reach of Trump's term. But we'll see.
>I agree with the Russian reactions: skeptical but willing to listen if something does really change.
That is not a good position.
There is no conceivable deal to be had here, simply because of how far things have gone.
Russia MUST end Ukraine's statehood and then erase Ukrainian identity on the territory over the subsequent generations. Nothing else suffices as a minimum satisfactory outcome of the war, and it is a minimum satisfactory outcome because even that does nothing about the more general security threat from NATO in Europe. You still have the US bases in Poland and Romania, and everywhere else, and now the prospect of having hypersonic missiles on mobile concealed launch platforms in Finland too is quite real in the coming decade.
But the Ukrainian problem has the added dimension of an independent Ukraine meaning the loss of tens of millions of Russian people, who would be torn away from the motherland and then brainwashed to hate it and fight it.
This should be completely, totally unacceptable to anyone in the Kremlin who cares about Russia and not about the interests of his resource-exporting oligarch buddies.
But nobody in the West will ever agree to just hand off Ukraine to Putin and say "go ahead, occupy it all the way to Lvov, Rovno and Uzhgorod, and do whatever you want there". That will simply never happen under any kind of a deal.
So you have to accomplish it through military means. There is nothing to talk about with anyone.
It's either that, or Putin will go down in history as the third most catastrophic for Russia ruler, after Gorbachev and Nicholas II, perhaps numbers, if his suspect loyalties, incompetence and indecisiveness result in the final dissolution of the country and its full colonization by the West.
But right now very clearly Putin has no intention to fight a real war for serious objectives.
The election proved one thing: the ‘Deep State’ and hidden hostile powers known as the ‘Globalists’ that scheme behind the scenes and secretly run the country are not all-powerful. They can clearly be defeated when the people are fed-up enough.
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Oh brother, what a shallow and unsophisticated take.
The truth is exactly the opposite: those at the upper eschelon derive their wealth & power through central banking. They, more than anyone else, understand the dynamics of fractional reserve lending. The essence, the very core is that debt-money systems must continuously expand or suffer a catastrophic collapse.
The Russian (and Palestinian) gambit was about securing the globe's last remaining stores of natural resources, energy that could be parlayed and leveraged by yet another order of national debt. As I have noted elsewhere, missile technology trumped existing air superiority doctrine, rendering our defeat in Ukraine as fait accompli.
Knowing this, knowing the collapse of the dollar system was literally baked in, the only remaining variables were timing and magnitude. By failing to seize the initiative and control the resulting demolition, the global elite risked losing everything with little possible hope of recovery; thus ending their 1,000 year reich.
Trump was allowed to achieve his victory with stand down orders by the PTB to refrain from any significant election tampering. (Resulting in a 10m vote deficit for Harris vs Biden 4 years prior.) So, why Trump?
Because he has the experience, temperant and mandate to guide the West through the coming bankruptcy process, the structured devaluations, the staged defaults, and wholesale cutting of government expenses (includinng the MIC) in an attempt to clear the books so that deep state leaders can position themselves for the incoming BRICS system.
Yep
Correct, no one in government has more hands-on experience in managing defaults and bankruptcies than Trump. As with any large scale restructuring, it will be interesting to see who loses everything and who is made whole.
The deep state puppets ie “ leaders” work for the banks. Not all the bank’s employees are that bright and yes boy do they make mistakes- eg Alex Soros
I'm not sure if I agree, but you earn many points in my book for the quality of the analysis and the play at hand. I too have thought of 'the great restructuring'; when some(ones) debt gets repudiated, some currency gets repriced, when some bonds don't get paid, and when those holding the gold (or Uranium, or farmland, or oil) have the collateral to rebuild again..
Psy-op—? Or J-school—? Whichever, both come w/ maps!
Whacky as this sounds, the State Department placed a $10mn bounty on Russian media network Rybar & a number of its key staffers following alleged attempts to sway the 2024 presidential election.
On 4 November, in a WaPo interview, Rybar founder & director Mikhail Zvinchuk commented on the State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” monetary offer for information about the whereabouts of 9 Rybar employees reportedly involved in 2024's election interference.
Zvinchuk denied reports of his and Rybar’s involvement and used the WaPo interview as an opportunity to portray Rybar as a Western-style “think-tank" that is involved in "defending [Russia’s] informational borders." Zvinchuk also claimed that Rybar has an organized "worldwide" network consisting of over 250 channels in 28 languages and confirmed that Rybar is opening "media schools" in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and Kyrgyzstan.
“We have long studied the West’s approaches to waging information warfare against us,” Zvinchuk said. “Now we have commandeered the tactics.” Rybar boasts 1.3mn subscribers & has 60 employees, some of whom have taught a class in journalistic media @ the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO).
Fred Kagan of ISW insisted that any portrayal of Rybar as a think-tank is patently false. In his view, the Kremlin holds significant power over all Russian information space and civil society: Rybar’s large-scale operations in Russia and abroad would not be possible without notable direct funding from the Kremlin.
Zvinchuk defends Rybar as a think-tank that is “occasionally critical of Russia”—but in Kagan’s assessment this is likely part of the Kremlin’s wider effort to infiltrate Western and international media via new online-based sources such as Rybar: allow the channel to toss out a couple of meaningless criticisms as a fig-leaf of *objectivity,* the better for it to manipulate useful idiots.
“Rewards for Justice,” the State Department program, reported that Russian defense conglomerate Rostec currently funds the Rybar channel. VVP and the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) notably bestowed upon Rybar several state honors.
Although Zvinchuk defended Rybar, the WaPo article nonetheless described the channel as an elaborate propaganda organization, equating it to the Russian troll farm operation--Prigozhin’s Internet Research Agency--which got named in the Mueller Report for interfering in the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, Zvinchuk, who studied @ the Suvorov Military School in Moscow, has earned a place for himself on the *Myrotvorets* list, as an “enemy of Ukraine.”
Going off of memory here...but wasn't there a Russian organization that was also named in the Mueller report that actually came here and challenged the accusations against them, and the Mueller team backed off?
The American elites have a bad habit of accusing others of what they do. I doubt very much that Russia has the slightest interest in American elections and consider claims of 'Russian interference' to be wildly prideful conjectures based on imagination, not evidence.
On the other hand, just by defeating the Ukrainians, the Russians have made the Democrats look weak and incompetent, which definitely is 'Russian election interference'.
Well, Musk and Bezo's prove that Trump represent represent the billionaire class. Trump was the ruling class's wet dream since he has no moral compass and will do anything against the "threat of democracy". He will throw the working class under the bus 'cus he just needed them to vote for them and then he can do for himself and other of his ilk like he did the first term. His trifecta means he will do more damage to us in the 99%. By the way, are you in the 1% or paid premium for your messaging?
The democrats are even worse for working class. They are Wall Street shills too and also bring about "tragedy of commons" with their open border policy
G'day St, so it's tweedle dum and tweedle dee it seems.
We'll see how much really changes. His appointments last time dragged him down. Many even were out to get him and he counldnt see it. For Staring in the Apprentice Trump is worst judgement of talent ever...who is antiwar and hires John Bolton as NSA?
Trump was a first term president in 2016 who just squeaked in. He would've needed help from the Republican old guard, who may have foisted Bolton on him. I'm not making excuses, just wondering if there may have been a back-story.
He’s got 4 years. Even if he does nothing at all it’s better than the alternative party winning and destroying us even quicker.
Why oh why do people just look at the past and project it to the future like its a given? Question- have you changed in 8 years? I bet Trump has
G'day Carol but do you think the change would be positive. His style is still everyone else is to blame not me so no reflection on past actions, he not a reader so how does he improve? It has always been his way or get out. Plus the older you are the more set in our ways we become.
Ukraine boldly voted in 2019 for a charismatic leader who promised big changes, and indeed Ukraine got some big changes. So while I'm happy to see the woke-ist mob get smacked down, I'm simultaneously dreading that Trump might deliver big changes in USA similar to big chances Zelensky delivered in Ukraine.
Here we go again. News is going to be 90% about Trump, 10% rest of the world. I hope he talks less and does more this time around. He definitely has a special knack for diplomacy - maybe this time he can piss the Iranians off properly, do something really special for the Israelis like help them to demolish the mosque on the hill, and just cut Nato's funding- I'd love to watch Rutte not have any funding against the apparently marching Russians! Pity Stoltenberg isn't there to take the fall. Ideally he would drop a couple of MOABs on some Democrats, cleaning the house. And lastly, he should just take the bloody oil from the Arabs - the whole lot, just bomb those monarchies to bits and take the oil.
It'll be much easier fighting Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait than Russia. What I really hope for is to see Trump order Putin around, telling him to make peace with the Ukraine, because, he is the prez of the USA, the mightiest nation on earth. Here we go again, the apprentice rolled out on world scale....Humpty Dumpty Trumpy.
Yuck and 😳 yikes
The Gulf monarchys may not be an easy nut to crack as you think. Saudi Arabia is a little more than many people think.
Seeker they could not do over Ansar Allah with all the help from the US military, they are very vulnerable as we saw with the attack on their oil facilities and their populace despises the US for the support of the Zionazis genocide. Multiple fronts to contend with.
Well the Saudi involvement in the Yemeni civil war is different from an attempt against the kingdom. You may be very surprise that the Saudi population support their leadership more than people think.
The Democrats gave up on the election months ago, they just had to play out the theatre. What they have done is their best to sabotage the US economy for the next administration. Hopefully the republicans will find a way to weather the economic storms ahead at least for the American people's sake. The objective is to contest the 2028 election running on the economic disaster they have choreographed for the next 4 years.
Correct observation. Last weeks boost to Ukraine as an exhibit
So maybe, just maybe, I won't have to roll my eyes at the inevitable shrieking about "muh antisemuttiezmz!" whenever I bring up the wholly deleterious effects that Leo Strauss and his minions have had on the US and the world? That would be nice.
I am on shelf life, thus I read, a lot. Stacks, Orlov, you know…off the collective narrative. One of the little people. Thanks the muses, God guiding me I think, say little, observe much. Ponder the mysteries, read the ancient texts…some discourse with all types of folks. Spiritual Revolution is afoot. A state that voted Red, living in a blue hub. The howling, wailing and such is evident. I carry on as I am of the land, the river runs clear and I have a beautiful view of the orchards. Each day presents anew, inhale, exhale. I shall carry on until I do…not. Deeply appreciative of your prose, as always. My brother, family across the big pond.❤️🐴🧲
"mass illegal migrant invasion meant to install a permanent Democrat voting regime in perpetuity"
I will agree with Triumphant Ape that the illegals were not brought in to vote NOW. Vance made a comment on his Joe Rogan interview about this that made a great deal of sense. The Representatives in the House are apportioned by State population. No differentiation is made regarding legal and illegal residents. Both are counted. This alters the number of Representatives each state gets. It is FUTURE votes which will be altered; as a complete amnesty, with citizenship, would then leave them able to vote for their "noble benefactors".
I wonder if that was the plan.
There was a plan?
Who knew!
I didn't. I heard it on YouTube. 😱 It must be true! 😏
Of course it was - Google told me so!
HAHAHAhahaha
They are fighting age men primarily that is why they were allowed in . In the meantime they will fill the lower wage job quotas putting pressure on Americans holding those jobs.