“. . . [W}e are closing in on more disclosures and fixing past wrongs to personnel. We’re making sure this is done correctly. But it’s absolutely getting done.” Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI
Politics fades into nothing when measured against the tragic loss of life right now in the flooding going on in Texas Hill Country.
Personality spats by the self-centered pale in comparison to the gut-wrenching loss of lives young and old at a peaceful location meant for fellowship and personal renewal. Sickeningly turned into a mass graveyard of twisted trees and precious lives and futures washed away into heaps of stench and death.
In the grand scheme of things... politics means so damn little in our lives. We are propagandized into believing this is so damned important. But when we take stock of what really matters to us if we are honest about it is how we lived and what we experienced and how we served and who we loved.
Let the politicians and the ego-drenched have their fun. While too many others are searching for loved ones right now and burying their death.
May God be with all those touched by this trajedy.
Yes, the tragedy in Texas is awful, but your comment is sententious and beside the point. Whatever else is going on in our country, politics abides and that is the purpose of this blog. So, please, Roundball, don't affect to lecture me.
This was not directed at you. This was directed at the Spirit of the Times in general. We all know what The Point is. This has been written about by you and others already extensively. My showing a bit of human kindness should not be framed as partisan or an attack on anyone. That is not the spirit from which it was intended. Why would I presume to lecture you? You are a brilliant writer who writes from a clear sense of who you are and what you believe. Why would I lecture that? I compliment that.
OK, we'll accept your good intentions, Roundball. But please re-read your comment. It belittles JHK's blog by making a false comparison with a natural disaster. I could make the same comment every week by comparing JHK's political blog against some current tragedy and say "See? Politics are irrelevant!" The point is we come to this blog specifically to read about politics, not natural disasters. (excuse duplication please. My comment is a reply to Roundball, not a stand-alone comment)
Exactly! Commenter sounds like a dem. With the caveat that I have a deep pit in my stomach over the Texas event if for no other reason than I am off the empathy scale, the reality is that unless I plan to checkout, politics matters. & to that degree, you (James) owe me some level of royalties for having plagiarized my precise thoughts, I.e. the conspiracies that aren’t, the real reason Musk is pi**—want to bet how unimportant the deficit would be if the electric tax incentives had been untouched?—, the fact that short of completely shutting down the government, there is no way we are going to ‘not spend’ our way out of this even though I agree this is a Thelma & Louise moment, & Elon has always struck me as having space alien-itis. Ultimately, the contrast between Trump & Musk could not be more stark, which is why Musk will fail albeit will add unnecessary BS in the process. I am reminded of that infamous line from the founding fathers about pledging their lives, fortune & sacred honor. Trump has put himself on the line for America for which there is no level of earthly return or compensation. Anyway great post!
Seriously, Sheila! Trump put "himself" on the line for America. Startled at the sheer ignorance of that statement. Trump has done nothing he campaigned on - he is owned by the Zionist Lobby. There is absolutely no way to "spend" our way out of this chaos. Trump is in the Parlor of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg telling everyone - I have all the answers, don't man the lifeboats, I'll fix it all. So delusional........
Curious to know, exactly what country have you been living in for the last 77 months? Surely not in America. # 47 has done ALL he has promised and more, IMO
Trump is backed by the International Bankers. There will be much change, most of it for the worse.
Billionaire Mark Cuban has expressed interest in Elon's party - the kiss of death if ever there were. In any case, Elon's no philosopher and can't see things from any other pov other than his own or that of his class. He was totally on board with bringing in millions of Indians to replace us in the few good jobs that remain.
We already have a fine alternative. It's called the Constitution Party.
No new party will be permitted to be a factor, unless one of the existing parties ceases to exist. I'd prefer to see the donkeys dissolved altogether, but we must lose one or the other in order for a new path to become even a possibility. In that event, by whatever name, it would need to be a Labor Party.
My question is, why do we seem to want to build on floodplains, or beaches where hurricanes blow in? Those young ladies were encamped in an area that was prime for flooding. Thunderstorm derechos happen in the hill country of Texas, who authorized the building and continued existence do a girl’s camp where 26 feet of water could happen. Do we not learn from Katrina or subsequent water events? The Egyptians used flooding to keep their fields fertile, we seem to like to drown and bury people by putting them into the line of danger.
The insurance companies are starting to control the idiocy of building on floodplains or hurricane beaches or wildfire prone forests, but only because their business model is being threatened.
Trump says he wants common sense to control decision making in the future instead of Leftist insanity. I hope that paradigm takes over.
Not only do we build in these areas, but after an area is wiped out by flooding, we insist on re-building in those areas. Refusing to learn an important lesson that these areas might be better served being in a perpetual conservation easement than land used for constant human occupation. Humans are bizarre creatures.
Good point. How does society predict 100 year floods with only 100 years of data? In some ways, science is a joke. There are very few real facts about much of anything. Our entire “lore” is based on theory, which is being changed constantly. Just look at what is happening with the Webb telescope and the Big Bang. It is difficult to understand how galaxies, fully formed, could exist before the Big Bang, but aha, there they are.
If you only built on completely safe places, you wouldn't be able to build anywhere. My advice, you didn't ask for, get right with God because the world is not safe and never will be. There is no way to keep bad things from happening all the time.
That is not true. The insurance companies are already starting to stop coverages in dangerous areas. That means if it floods or burns, it will not be replaced. LA is facing this right now as much of the Palisades fiasco is not being rebuilt.
God has nothing to do with this. He gave us wisdom and reason to figure out that building in dangerous areas has consequences. It is human stupidity that builds there anyway. The girl’s camp was built right on the river. This disaster was inevitable and the people doing the camp development there should be prosecuted.
When we moved to Texas in 1983 I was amazed at the scope of the floods that seemed to happen about every year in the Hill Country of central Texas. These floods are not unknown and not unexpected. Over the last 20 years millions of people from other states have moved to Texas and clearly they have not been paying attention. However for the last 3-4 years, at least, central Texas has been in the midst of a severe drought and these floods did not happen to the same degree of severity. I am not sure how long this camp has been in existence and not sure if the owners were even from Texas but if so, I agree that the people who developed the camp or owned it should have known 100% about these floods and should never have allowed anyone to camp right beside the river unless someone is staying up all night making sure the weather was clear. In the mid-80s our family was camping at Garner State Park and we set up our tent probably 10 feet above the river level and at 10 PM a park ranger came thru the camp site on a loud speaker telling everyone to get out of the area and to high ground because a severe thunderstorm had just appeared. We were in a tent so we thru all our tent stuff and camping gear in our van and got out. The storm was not as severe as expected so there was no flood but....better safe than sorry. This area is truly a beautiful area but......everyone that lives there should know these storms appear and disappear without warning. Stupidity that anyone is surprised by this kind of thing happening. It happened all thru the 80s, 90. 00s, and 10s so.....not unexpected.
Yes, it's not like flash floods are unknown in the mountain west...In fact, they happen much more often than people suspect...At the first sign of heavy rain, these camps should have been evacuated as a standard precaution...But some of the negligent counselors have paid the ultimate price for their lack of caution...
I can’t help thinking that private property rights trumped common sense. Was there some way coercive licensing requirements could have forced at least some of the cabins to higher ground? I smell lawsuits against the city of Kerrville for failing to install sirens like so many towns on the Guad-a-loop as it’s colloquially called, and other rivers prone to rampage, have done. The state is notoriously regulation averse and there are ongoing issues between Austin (our capital) and local governments as to how state laws can dictate policy on a local level. And then there are the receipts for cloud seeding operations during a time of drought…
Areas that flood from rivers have fertile soil- handy for growing food. Every area has natural disasters that it is prone to- flood, wildfire, earthquake, blizzards, heat, drought, tornados...
Name your place. I'll tell you why moving all the people there won't work.
There are fires, floods, earthquakes, tornados, mud slides, hurricanes, heat waves, dust storms, meteor strikes, plane crashes, car wrecks, and every other natural and man made disaster on every square inch of the planet.
Use an example, Miami. As close to sea level as possible, and directly in the path of hurricane alley. So we know that eventually Miami, between warming oceans and sea level rises, and hurricanes, will be under water. So what do we do about it.
As I have said elsewhere, the insurance companies may stop the insanity, as they continue withholding coverage on buildings in harm’s way.
Oh yeah, Leftists, insurance companies are not like the government welfare system that can just print more money. They do not have bottomless pockets and may be the market that prevents stupidity in the long run.
Mr. AZ----one small correction. The eco freak, global warming nuts want us to believe that the sea levels are rising uncontrollably the world over BUT......OVER the last 100+ years the sea level is rising at a relatively co nstant rate of approx 1 millimeter per year (1000th of a meter----not very much) so......Miami will not be under water for quite a while so we have time to mitigate any issues unless something changes dramatically.
Even islands in the south Pacific that have never been more than 3 or 4 feet above sea level are all still there.
True dat. We pay waaay more for homeowner's insurance here in metro New Orleans. For those who can afford it (many just "self insure" which is basically "one Rosary and three Our Fathers"). But don't discount the cultural factor in America's unique outposts like South Louisiana. "I made it through Betsy" ('65) or "I made it through Camille" ('69) can still be heard in the deep swamp. The non-economic calculus of "home".
You're right RS. There's been talk of weather modification, which, if true, shouldn't come as a surprise. When it's all said and done, they'll "make sure this never happens again" (until it does). Hearing that worn out excuse one more time, I'll lose my religion.
When will anyone with half a brain acknowledge that these many weather 'events' are not normal? We have cloud seeding, weather modification, HAARP, DEWS and who exactly is in control of all that??? This just seems to go from bad to worse. Then we have Musk who quite clearly IS off the rails. His evil, illegal shenanigans in Memphis are proof of his insane agenda. He MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. He paid and bought off an entire city to the detriment of its citizens. He most certainly is seriously dangerous.
Someone has asked RFKj about the weather modification, of which there are many entities involved, in Texas and Oklahoma (two areas I personally observe as it occurs) and he replied that he couldn’t locate who was doing it. Lots of companies are doing it. Private companies and the military. I watch them attack the sky ruining the blue skies and huge puffy clouds, leaving the whole sky grey and cloudless. This goes on ALL the time. It is not hard to find the names of the companies or the military bases.
I had reservations about Musk from the time of his first involvement with the Trump campaign. Isn't he constantly walking the line of market manipulation with his social media posts?
When he first came on the scene with Tesla, I wondered if he might turn out to be the modern-day DeLorean.
My take on Musk is that he's an amoral genius, not an evil one. He's not out to hurt people per se. On the other hand, he won't let hurting them (through environmental pollution from his factories, for instance, or electronic pollution from his ubiquitous networks) get in the way of his grandiose schemes
I had quite the discussion on CFN yesterday with "Don" on this very topic.
"Don" somehow seemed to "reason" that because it is known that increases in the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere will cause increases in our temperature, TPTB cannot possibly be engaged in weather modification!
I was merely presenting your apparent reasoning. You've had ample opportunity to dispel my take on your argument.
Of course they are two separate topics. That's why you trying to refute TPTB flexing their weather-control muscles by mentioning CO2 level increases was a laughable argument yesterday. "These are two separate topics" indeed. [There. Now I quoted you.]
Again, you've had ample opportunity to dispel my take on your argument.
No balls, two strikes. Are you at least gonna go down swinging?
It is quite revealing how everyone is reacting to a simple expression of concern for people who have lost children and other loved ones as well as homes and property going on RIGHT NOW. The ills of Washington DC and USA Empire and all the rogues who shape it will go on year and after year. Most of us could recite all this by heart by now. But somehow an expression of honest caring for people is turned into a personal attack on some people and a political statement for others... or just bad intent assigned to me. Very, very interesting to witness...
I thank those who have read my posts here over the years. Since my words now seem to be taken by many as things I do not intend... I will vacate this space with my profound thanks to Our Host as someone whose writing talents I have always admired along with his evolving political point of view. My thanks and best wishes to you all.
Hang in, RS, don't throw in the towel just yet. We are fortunate to live in interesting times, and your comments are always poignant and well thought out, even if sometimes tangential to the topic of the day. If you do check out, I get it, godspeed, but know you've left some very insightful impressions over the years.
While I can agree to a point about your sentiment politicians and their malfeasance affect all of the population esp. if NOAA was playing games with weather mods as Gen.Flynn has posted.I have kept up with the tragedy in TX more so than any other bit of news of late but I do come here for the political alignment of what is happening.
I am grateful to all of the heros like Gen. Flynn who are raising concerns surrounding the existential issue of weather modification. (As JHK's article notes, we're currently living on a planet perfectly designed for our survival - I certainly have no wish to live on Mars, even were it plausible.) - With any death there is a ripple effect of pain which spreads and potentially destroys additional lives, and if the death was unnecessary and/or due to negligence, the pain is excruciatingly compounded. - Even if it didn't cause this particular '100 year event,' the global geoengineering warfare is cooking our collective goose and has got to stop.
It sounds pretty good. But of course they are lying. They want to kill diversity by breeding all the races together to create a mongrel with no culture or tradition, willing to take orders and to sacrifice even the remains of their humanity to the Technocrats.
Yeah, It’s never flooded in Texas before. In fact, Stevie Ray Vaughn made it his mission to revive an old blues classic originally written by Larry Davis back in 1958. I believe the song is Texas Drizzle. It couldn’t have been Texas Flood because everyone knows Texas doesn’t get rain.
Yep. In all my years as a millennial I’ve never seen such severe weather…and it’s getting worse!!! Foxy Loxy, Please save us!!
Lisa General Flynn has documents up of NOAA conducting weather modification over on TG which the NOAA contract expires on 10/31/25 for rain/hail suppression.He is asking when was the last mod made?
What's going on with you Roundball? You've always been one of the commenters I have enjoyed reading. Lately, you've turned into more of a complainer, constantly bitching about and poking at our host. What the hell man?
Frankly I was disappointed by Roundball's comment today. I don't come to Clusterfuck to be reminded of what is really important, Tom Clark. I get that at church. I come to Clusterfuck to learn more about the political maelstrom that is the USA. Roundball has been one of my favorites to read in the past but lately he seems like he's just a cranky old.........Cankerpuss.
Nail hit on head. Trump knows the only thing we can do to unass the UniParty foolishness of the last 40 years is to grow the economy which he did in Trump 45: cheap energy is the basis of our lives. They kicked him out of orifice for it in 2020. What is never recognized is that congress is at the heart of all foolishness as they haven't passed a legitimate budget since 2007 for several reasons; the $900B 'stimulus' of 2008 has been added to the 'budget' every year since then and NGO's flourished. They are trying to blame Trump, but the UniParty benefits from all of this theft.
Bingo, Bingo, Bingo! "Congress is at the heart of all foolishness as they haven't passed a legitimate budget since 2007"
Yes yes yes, Danimal 28, Americans should be pissing and farting in rage over the dismal failure that is the United States Congress and many of them continue to point fingers at the President and blame him for what ails the USA. Not understanding or ignoring the fact that the President cannot make law nor can the President spend a dime without the authorization of the fucking US Congress.
The Presidency isn't a monarch. The President exists to execute the will of the US Congress. The US Congress has failed to perform its Constitutional duties and it has failed miserably to keep the Presidency in check. In every aspect, the US Congress is a horrific, absolute, miserable failure.
When we see a Congress critter we should be throwing tomatoes and rotten cabbage, booing, hissing and shunning the fucker for doing such a shitty job by us Americans. Instead we interview them pretend that they know all and see all. Such an embarrassment.
Yep. My wife was unhappy with some of the Big Bankrupting Bill this weekend. I tried to remind her that Congress wrote it.
I suppose POTUS could veto it, but then there’s no budget at all when the fiscal year has once again started without one. It’s not like Congress is apt to come back with improvements after such a veto.
"The 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act', or OBBBA, was written by a team of policy contributors at Policy Magazine, including Douglas Porter, who is also the Chief Economist for BMO. The bill was successfully passed through both the Senate, with a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President, and the House of Representatives, before being signed into law on the July 4 deadline." - AI Overview on Google
Trump, of course, won't veto his own bill.
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Here's a pickle that all youse Lil Trumpsters still will not address:
Trump made providing Larry Ellison & Peter Thiel (anagram: The Reptile) a half of a TRILLION[!] dollars to develop AI (that will make 2025’s ChatGPT look like kindergarten) a top priority immediately following his creepy Apotheosis of George Washington Illuminati inauguration (where he did not put his hand on the Bible!).
Trump then wrote into his Big Beautiful Bill [bbb - 666] that not one of the 50 states in the union can impede this new beast in the slightest.
I’m under no illusions that any of those politicians love me. I only feel that Pres. Trump shares an interest in NOT running the country into the ground ASAP. I like some of his policies, and dislike others.
"The US Congress has failed to perform its Constitutional duties and it has failed miserably to keep the Presidency in check."
Your various POTUSes have unilaterally waged war on the rest of earth since WW II far, far more egregiously than any monarch so I wouldn't be getting all holier-than-thou about it.
Your constitution is brilliant but TPTB have usurped Congress to allow the Executive Branch monarch-like power and that "is where the rubber meets the road."
What in my comment is "holier-than-thou" as you stated? I was simply stating that the President isn't a King, that his only role is to execute the will of Congress.
I think I agree with most of what you say but you always seem to be on the attack. You have a very confrontive style about you.
Are you saying that Americans do not have a holier-than-thou attitude towards monarchies? Sure fooled me.
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As clearly defined in your brilliant Constitution, POTUS' role is supposed to be to execute the will of Congress but TPTB have slowly but steadily changed that so that now, in practice, your POTUS wields far more unilateral power than any monarch on earth.
You are correct in that all these things - lack of cheap energy and a dysfunctional government work together to destroy what is left of this country. It will need to get a lot worse before people begin to realize that something needs to be done real soon now.
The government is dysfunctional only to the People's interests, but not to their politician's lobbyist paymasters.
Trump is also doing another key thing: removing TSSCI security clearances from many folks who use them to secure wealth and continue the 'dysfunction'. 'Alternative energy', continuous war, regime changes, perpetual medical 'treatments and vaccines', illegal chemicals in food, etc.
If he(and his administration) can successfully overthrow enough of "The Machine" to finally get back to oil, gas, and nuclear it will be the key.
The government as it currently exists is an illegitimate government because it has lost the faith of the majority of the governed. Without the faith of the governed the government can no longer govern. As such it resorts to coercion and force to gain obedience and that further erodes the confidence of the governed. This government we currently have is built on a sandy foundation. It will fall.
Disagree, we need every form of energy we can dredge up or invent. TLE says we are going to run out of affordable fossil fuels in this century, we should be working on alternatives NOW. A really good question, if the planet is warming, why aren’t we trying to harness one of that heat, turning it into usable energy. Nuclear is mandatory to continue our future. Fission or fusion is a big question although I have watched people hawk fusion for 70 years with little accomplished. Harness the heat. In the meantime, drill-baby-drill, it is our only alternative.
If we are going to run out of fossil fuels in this century then perhaps we should not be supporting the likes of AI which requires insanely massive amounts of energy to run it's programs, like more energy than the entire planet is currently using? Not to forget that it also destroys the environment and surrounding water supplies. Which is exactly what's been done illegally and underhandedly to Memphis by Elmo Musk. SMDH
TLE says we are going to run out of affordable fossil fuels in this century,
I have to disagree with you on that one John that was being said last century but to water oil is the second most common fluid on Earth and Rush was always quick to point that out.
Coal, like oil and gas, is finite and will run out eventually. That is the rub, we are making decisions today that will affect humans hundreds of years down the road.
For years I've been reading that Mr. Musk doesn't know what he's doing, and is crazy. And yet - he just keeps on doing and getting richer and more influential. As I've learned from the Jolly Heretic, the folks who make revolutionary breakthroughs share two traits: outlier high IQ, and low agreeableness.
Ruth? WTF? EVs, Tesla leader, Musk. Pay Pal, Musk. Battery storage for solar, Musk. Neura-link Musk, Boring company Musk, Space-X Musk, the US’s only way to orbit spacecraft, Robots, Musk, this man s re-writing the way we do business, one more, an old one. Your ability to use MAPS to locate businesses, and find you way there, originally part of X.com, Musk. The stop to Twitter BS and introduction to “X”, Musk. OpenAI was originally supported by Musk, but a difference of opinion over the use of AI caused him to leave. Currently the operator of ChatGPT. Oh yeah, Starlink, the space borne WI-FI system that will obsolete land borne wireless and cable internet connection Musk.
Yes, he gets the rich to subsidise him by selling them their fantasies, but it was pointed out that all of Musk's efforts lead to one theme: Mars.
Fuelless vehicles and power, borers for underground chambering, neura-link remote robot operation, space - all of these will be necessary to colonize Mars.
Inflate stock prices? He does not give one damn about stock prices as he keeps inventing stuff. His Tesla stock bounces all over the place with his technological shenanigans. he remains the richest man in the world.
Oh, Ruth you never took the time to think you went right to yapping and sarcasm. One can easily find fault, but what happened to finding the good and the successful? You can dislike him, disagree with him that's ok, but why the attempt to diminish any of his achievements in so doing?
Time to face the truth. Simply put, we have far too many marxists, or communists if you prefer, in our government and in our country. The so-called socialists are merely a stepping stone to communism which they fully understand. Comrade Hussein was the grand move by the communists to gain power and install their supporters in our government and to effect change in our culture, legal system, and eradicate our freedoms. Trump was the antidote to their marxist coup and thus the seemingly insane hatred of he and his followers. The Hildebeast was to follow comrade Hussein and cement the takeover by the marxists, but she was not saleable. Thus the stolen election of 2020 where Biden even bragged about the most fraudulent election ever, which was promptly buried by the MSM. At a cost of many millions and too much anguish, Trump has again prevailed against the deep state and the communist moves, but the fight is not over, and in fact is just getting started. Without cleaning the traitors out of our government and enforcing legal responsibility, the leftist coup will continue, but now with more fire and fury and destruction than we have seen. This is not a political quarrel, but a real war for this nation. Time to act like it.
Along with Mayorkas, Clapper, Comey, comrade Hussein, and others who were definitely committing treason, and continue to do so. Brennan admitted to be a communist prior to his appointment, doubtless to deflect any charges of being a communist, which he most certainly was and is. Frankly, we have several marxists in congress and perhaps even on the Surpreme Court, as their appointments were made by leftists/marxists.
Comrade Hussein was the grand move by the communists to gain power and install their supporters in our government and to effect change in our culture, legal system, and eradicate our freedoms.
And or boy Hussein went about and purged the military(s) of the real Generals and imposed those that wanted a culture experiment!
Trump has again prevailed against the deep state and the communist moves, but the fight is not over, and in fact is just getting started
That's somehow I think the JE story is a projection of some more smoke and mirrors to calm a certain group?I could be way off base...but I surmise?
Miriamnae - saw your comment on weather modification, and then it disappeared. Happens now and then for some unknown reason. I was on a flight out of Kalispell, MT, into D/FW, TX Airport, a few hours ahead of that storm. D/FW was on the outskirts of the storm, but odd there was no inclement weather at all. The storm ramped up awful quickly.
Yep, I've had my dose(s) both online and offline. Janos, you know that exposing the truth is a war of attrition, but in the end, the truth always prevails, so it's a war worth fighting. Properly trained, those that come after us, will carry on the fight. Hoka hey!
As far as the Epstein files go, I think Patel and Bongino weighed what can be gained against a potential firestorm of distortions. One photo of Trump hanging out with Epstein in 1995 doing nothing at a night club is more damaging than 35 hours of footage of B-list celebs on an island that isn’t enough to lead to an arrest (we just witnessed what it took to “not” bring down Diddy). Who really gives a fuck about Tom Hanks or Oprah or Prince Harry or any of them? How likely is it that there's anything there to nail them? However, Trump being the most powerful person alive today, if there’s any mention anywhere (and I mean anything), boy oh boy, anything they might have on anyone else suddenly sinks and is weighed against it. You know how these things go.
Look at the effect Musk’s comment had. Does he know what the fuck he’s talking about or does it matter? Just him saying that created a firestorm. All that has to happen from there is one scintilla of evidence that alleges 30 years ago, Trump and Epstein took a taxi cab together from Studio 54 to an after-hours guests-only club, and this whole Epstein saga becomes about Trump. And I don’t care if they have closed-circuit footage of Oprah eating a baby’s foot; Trump goes down before she does.
And I’m not saying it’s that precisely, I’m saying it’s something like that that is keeping this buried. “Let sleeping dogs lie.”
At least that made me laugh as sick as it is! She was on a strict, weight-loss, diet at the time and she is sooooo rich. Let's cool it and clean up this nation. There is a lot of work to do. And, we have got to get the "15 watt-ers" up to speed. Accountability.
True that Michael. And RE: the Diddy trial.... I knew from the start that Diddy would walk, when James Comey's daughter was appointed Lead prosecutor. I understand that Diddy received a standing ovation from fellow inmates.
They had enough to get her is what happened to Ghislaine Maxwell. If there was enough to get someone else with, they’d go public with it. Footage of someone at a pool party or on an island isn’t enough. And even if they did have a smoking gun, they have to weigh whether or not it’s worth the time, money, and political capital to go through with it. That’s why I mentioned P. Diddy. There is a bigger fish to fry thing going on here. Look, we all know Bill Clinton was on that island. They may have something that looks like something on him. Do you know how damaging it would be for them to go after Bill Clinton even with rock-solid evidence and to have it potentially blow up in their faces? The blowback, the collateral damage? Is Trump willing to stake the fragility of his “popularity” on that? Think bigger picture, because that’s what they’re thinking.
I think there are people that care. If there is a foreign intelligence service that is working to control people in our government, our government should not just sweep it under the rugs. Yet that's exactly what our government has done.
"May" have something on Clinton? You're joking right? And if you think that Prince (sic) Harry is such a throwaway then you're not seeing the whole picture, his involvement goes very deep and I've been following it from day one. Truth comes out eventually and like it or not that seems to be what's happening now.
Listen, I’m on your side, Mr. Truth, but there are more things being weighed than finding dirt on Prince Harry. This isn’t TMZ, this is strategic leverage against an opposition that has already tried to kill Trump twice. What they don’t know you have is a stronger position than releasing a titillating photo of Prince Harry diddling a minor, a charge that he has the finances, cache and power to beat while flipping the narrative. Ever play poker? Don’t over estimate your hand.
My position has always been that the OBBB was/is a policy bill/law masquerading as a budget bill. The goal was to pass deportation and border security while avoiding a democrat filibuster. Mission accomplished.
The National debt is a huge problem, but demographic transformation is an existential one. We can survive bankruptcy. We cannot survive the Third World moving in permanently. So, I support it.
As JHK has repeatedly said, we do not know how to run an economy without growth at is roots. That is what scares the Shit out of the crowd in DC, how can we acknowledge an economic world without more dollars this year than last? The BBB is a good example, it puts more dollars into play this year to keep things going. What would happen if the budget hawks got their way and really cut 5% out of the federal budget?
IMHO, chaos and catastrophe. Trump is betting on the growth of the economy with controlled dollar increases will grow us out of the deficit (not debt). If it does not, we are done and soon.
As the Globalists could tell you, the Earth is finite so infinite growth isn't an option. They wouldn't bother at this point, knowing the stupidity of the average man.
Mars is a fantasy -- imagine the energy necessary. But you are correct: if we can't manage this planet, wouldn't we just infect Mars like the rapacious virus we are, and slay that host too?
I also agree the debt bomb is ticking, and there are huge forces that will prevent its disarmament because of the tragedy of the commons -- too many snouts savor that trough.
Nothing about Mars is suitable for human habitation. It's a lifeless, cold rock in space.
There are those who doubt we have even been on the moon. If we are going to colonize Mars, why not colonize the moon first. Afterall, isn't Mars about the same size as the moon?
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives of all they desired and chose. Women are infertile away from "Mother Earth"?
Mars is not suitable for human habitation due to the simple fact that it has ans extremely weak and fading magnetic field due to the composition of it's planetary core.
Big Hint: Need the magnetic field to protect life against incoming radiation: solar or cosmic. Try Jupiter instead.
Mars is a little bigger than the moon, and has water (ice) and somewhat of an atmosphere. However, atmospheric drag and a gravity well are problems for space flight.
Mining asteroids to make off world outposts might be less impractical, as it’s easier to come and go. “Less impractical” …
My bet is there is more plastic garbage on earth than currency in circulation. The "debt" is blinking electronic numbers that no one has time to keep track of. They are too busy buying things that are wrapped 3 times and transacting. It probably took Pam Bondi longer to open up her new makeup than review what was "on her desk."
Is the plan to move the plastic garbage to Mars or leave it here?
What would happen to the world if the USA and China both defaulted on their debt? Just pretended that it doesn’t exist? Who will get hurt?
I ask this “dumb” question because it seems that debt is just added on and no one really notices or cares. If the US Treasury Bond just ceased to exist, what would happen?
What exactly do the bonds of both countries do? Jus’ askin’.
I know some of the answers, mostly related to retirement, but that is far from all.
It is going to happen eventually, I would like to know what is coming as it will definitely affect the Long Emergency.
It's not clear if the US or China can ever default their debt. Both countries can always pay back their debt with an inflated currency. You will always get every single cent back, it just won't be worth a plugged nickel.
The real problem isn't a default but getting the next sucker to buy your worthless debt while at the sametime keeping a lid on civil unrest, but that's what wars are for.
Mars is on the radar because it appears there are serious remnants there of an ancient civilization with superior tech. Probes in the 1970's mysteriously went dark immediately when 'flying' over the locations. Has nothing to do with starting some perfect life...
Imagine if any other billionaire was starting a political party: Bill Gates, The Soros Team of George and Alex (who have been meddling with political parties for decades, etc. I'm not going to celebrate *any* billionaire starting a political party, creating a "vaccine", or anything else. I would prefer these billionaires keep their noses out of politics and medicine and go about their lives, and spend their money while leaving all of us alone.
They certainly view themselves as Gods, to be sure. Still, in the end, when they have to vacate their bowels, they do so the same way as the rest of us. I will never worship a human being. I don't care the money or power they hold. In the end, they got lucky, found a niche and profited from it. However, they still eat, drink, sleep and shit the same way the rest of us do and they also get old and die, just like the rest of us.
Yes, Cankerpuss, they do. What they have that we lack is power and the access to those who set the stage for the world we live in. That access gives them a say in how to control us, deceive us and enslave us. I think many of us are trying hard to figure out the combination to the shackles we are bound to.
You are correct, and the reason they have that power is because too many other human beings worship them, put them on a pedestal, and believe everything they say because they have lots of worldly money. It's pathetic that so many people are so lost in their own lives that they look to the maker of an electric car or to a computer software guru for guidance on everything else. Says a lot about the fatal flaws of humanity.
The dinosaurs got millions of years on this rock. Do you think Humanity will get that far?
Correct. Trump has been giving them more power which motivates them further. He put Palantir in charge of our collating our data and this is the fastest route to enslavement and for furthering their power. Trump is working to placate us, not free us from these shackles.
I can't buy that Cos for I believe that or Lord Christ Almighty is playing his hand ATTM and part of the reason Trump is were he is remember... 7/13/24?If what you say was the absolute truth then we may as well meet or Lord standing and fighting then I will have peace.
It may be that the existence and disposition of the Epstein tapes will remain forever in the realm of conjecture, but that’s still good sport. Knowing as we do the names on the flights to Pedophile Island it would be silly to suppose that such busy people would devote time to that many trips just for free drinks at the bar, rather than for illicit sexual experiences that would be too risky to indulge in back home. It seems reasonable, then, to assume that ruinously incriminating videos were, in fact, made of these guys.
At the time of Epstein’s indictment it was believed that he had entrusted copies of the videos with a number of reliable associates as insurance against prosecution , or being murdered. Indeed, given that his training in blackmail came directly or indirectly from Mossad, he would have been foolishly negligent not to have done so. Given their immense potential value for extortion, it would be unreasonable to suppose that the recordings were all destroyed. Either they are still in the possession of those associates, or they are in the hands of others, official or unofficial, who have since confiscated them.
For the existence of those recordings to be denied today, there can be only one explanation: whoever has them benefits from keeping their content secret. Either they benefit by being very well rewarded for doing so, by avoiding a terrible fate if they fail to do so, or both. This would presumably apply to Patel, Bongino, Bondi, perhaps others.
Important people of this sort don’t like to appear foolish in public. Surely they would not have claimed to have incriminating material to make public if that had not been the case at the time. The most persuasive explanation is that in recent weeks they have been bribed and/or threatened to change their story. Given the current state of American politics, that’s not difficult to believe at all.
Consider that Elon Musk is incapable of participating in love, marriage, and parenthood (and I don't mean dragging a random kid around for publicity). His personal relationships are all conducted in a business-like fashion.
He can participate only in the machinations of Big Business and Big Government, and only while he holds the best hand of cards at the table. His inability to follow the unwritten rules will be his ultimate downfall.
He may never be poor, but he will never be loved, either. And he will not win public support. Not for all the money in the world would I want to be him.
Brilliant comment. As I have said before, there is just something that is not right about that dude. Can't identify it. He just seems like he doesn't have a soul.
No one is perfect. But you have to give Musk credit. To be willing to stand up for the fiscal sanity that we conservatives advocate, but do nothing to implement. He has done more as a private citizen than any elected representative or executive. Let’s give Credit where credit is due.
The key is with the girl in jail. She must be really afraid or truly evil not to tell the truth. You know the Clintons are deeply involved. Good hunting. Please get the truth out.
Politics fades into nothing when measured against the tragic loss of life right now in the flooding going on in Texas Hill Country.
Personality spats by the self-centered pale in comparison to the gut-wrenching loss of lives young and old at a peaceful location meant for fellowship and personal renewal. Sickeningly turned into a mass graveyard of twisted trees and precious lives and futures washed away into heaps of stench and death.
In the grand scheme of things... politics means so damn little in our lives. We are propagandized into believing this is so damned important. But when we take stock of what really matters to us if we are honest about it is how we lived and what we experienced and how we served and who we loved.
Let the politicians and the ego-drenched have their fun. While too many others are searching for loved ones right now and burying their death.
May God be with all those touched by this trajedy.
Yes, the tragedy in Texas is awful, but your comment is sententious and beside the point. Whatever else is going on in our country, politics abides and that is the purpose of this blog. So, please, Roundball, don't affect to lecture me.
This was not directed at you. This was directed at the Spirit of the Times in general. We all know what The Point is. This has been written about by you and others already extensively. My showing a bit of human kindness should not be framed as partisan or an attack on anyone. That is not the spirit from which it was intended. Why would I presume to lecture you? You are a brilliant writer who writes from a clear sense of who you are and what you believe. Why would I lecture that? I compliment that.
OK, we'll accept your good intentions, Roundball. But please re-read your comment. It belittles JHK's blog by making a false comparison with a natural disaster. I could make the same comment every week by comparing JHK's political blog against some current tragedy and say "See? Politics are irrelevant!" The point is we come to this blog specifically to read about politics, not natural disasters. (excuse duplication please. My comment is a reply to Roundball, not a stand-alone comment)
Exactly! Commenter sounds like a dem. With the caveat that I have a deep pit in my stomach over the Texas event if for no other reason than I am off the empathy scale, the reality is that unless I plan to checkout, politics matters. & to that degree, you (James) owe me some level of royalties for having plagiarized my precise thoughts, I.e. the conspiracies that aren’t, the real reason Musk is pi**—want to bet how unimportant the deficit would be if the electric tax incentives had been untouched?—, the fact that short of completely shutting down the government, there is no way we are going to ‘not spend’ our way out of this even though I agree this is a Thelma & Louise moment, & Elon has always struck me as having space alien-itis. Ultimately, the contrast between Trump & Musk could not be more stark, which is why Musk will fail albeit will add unnecessary BS in the process. I am reminded of that infamous line from the founding fathers about pledging their lives, fortune & sacred honor. Trump has put himself on the line for America for which there is no level of earthly return or compensation. Anyway great post!
Seriously, Sheila! Trump put "himself" on the line for America. Startled at the sheer ignorance of that statement. Trump has done nothing he campaigned on - he is owned by the Zionist Lobby. There is absolutely no way to "spend" our way out of this chaos. Trump is in the Parlor of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg telling everyone - I have all the answers, don't man the lifeboats, I'll fix it all. So delusional........
Trump deranged much?
Curious to know, exactly what country have you been living in for the last 77 months? Surely not in America. # 47 has done ALL he has promised and more, IMO
Trump is backed by the International Bankers. There will be much change, most of it for the worse.
Billionaire Mark Cuban has expressed interest in Elon's party - the kiss of death if ever there were. In any case, Elon's no philosopher and can't see things from any other pov other than his own or that of his class. He was totally on board with bringing in millions of Indians to replace us in the few good jobs that remain.
We already have a fine alternative. It's called the Constitution Party.
No new party will be permitted to be a factor, unless one of the existing parties ceases to exist. I'd prefer to see the donkeys dissolved altogether, but we must lose one or the other in order for a new path to become even a possibility. In that event, by whatever name, it would need to be a Labor Party.
My question is, why do we seem to want to build on floodplains, or beaches where hurricanes blow in? Those young ladies were encamped in an area that was prime for flooding. Thunderstorm derechos happen in the hill country of Texas, who authorized the building and continued existence do a girl’s camp where 26 feet of water could happen. Do we not learn from Katrina or subsequent water events? The Egyptians used flooding to keep their fields fertile, we seem to like to drown and bury people by putting them into the line of danger.
The insurance companies are starting to control the idiocy of building on floodplains or hurricane beaches or wildfire prone forests, but only because their business model is being threatened.
Trump says he wants common sense to control decision making in the future instead of Leftist insanity. I hope that paradigm takes over.
Not only do we build in these areas, but after an area is wiped out by flooding, we insist on re-building in those areas. Refusing to learn an important lesson that these areas might be better served being in a perpetual conservation easement than land used for constant human occupation. Humans are bizarre creatures.
Is the logic that they are clear for the next 100 year flood because they just had it? Taking science to stupid.
Good point. How does society predict 100 year floods with only 100 years of data? In some ways, science is a joke. There are very few real facts about much of anything. Our entire “lore” is based on theory, which is being changed constantly. Just look at what is happening with the Webb telescope and the Big Bang. It is difficult to understand how galaxies, fully formed, could exist before the Big Bang, but aha, there they are.
Haha, check out the history of the Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N.C. (built in the early 1970's). I'm surprised it's till there.
If you only built on completely safe places, you wouldn't be able to build anywhere. My advice, you didn't ask for, get right with God because the world is not safe and never will be. There is no way to keep bad things from happening all the time.
That is not true. The insurance companies are already starting to stop coverages in dangerous areas. That means if it floods or burns, it will not be replaced. LA is facing this right now as much of the Palisades fiasco is not being rebuilt.
God has nothing to do with this. He gave us wisdom and reason to figure out that building in dangerous areas has consequences. It is human stupidity that builds there anyway. The girl’s camp was built right on the river. This disaster was inevitable and the people doing the camp development there should be prosecuted.
When we moved to Texas in 1983 I was amazed at the scope of the floods that seemed to happen about every year in the Hill Country of central Texas. These floods are not unknown and not unexpected. Over the last 20 years millions of people from other states have moved to Texas and clearly they have not been paying attention. However for the last 3-4 years, at least, central Texas has been in the midst of a severe drought and these floods did not happen to the same degree of severity. I am not sure how long this camp has been in existence and not sure if the owners were even from Texas but if so, I agree that the people who developed the camp or owned it should have known 100% about these floods and should never have allowed anyone to camp right beside the river unless someone is staying up all night making sure the weather was clear. In the mid-80s our family was camping at Garner State Park and we set up our tent probably 10 feet above the river level and at 10 PM a park ranger came thru the camp site on a loud speaker telling everyone to get out of the area and to high ground because a severe thunderstorm had just appeared. We were in a tent so we thru all our tent stuff and camping gear in our van and got out. The storm was not as severe as expected so there was no flood but....better safe than sorry. This area is truly a beautiful area but......everyone that lives there should know these storms appear and disappear without warning. Stupidity that anyone is surprised by this kind of thing happening. It happened all thru the 80s, 90. 00s, and 10s so.....not unexpected.
Yes, it's not like flash floods are unknown in the mountain west...In fact, they happen much more often than people suspect...At the first sign of heavy rain, these camps should have been evacuated as a standard precaution...But some of the negligent counselors have paid the ultimate price for their lack of caution...
The interesting thing seems to be that there isn't a record of a river ever rising 26 feet in 45 minutes.
Makes you wonder.
I can’t help thinking that private property rights trumped common sense. Was there some way coercive licensing requirements could have forced at least some of the cabins to higher ground? I smell lawsuits against the city of Kerrville for failing to install sirens like so many towns on the Guad-a-loop as it’s colloquially called, and other rivers prone to rampage, have done. The state is notoriously regulation averse and there are ongoing issues between Austin (our capital) and local governments as to how state laws can dictate policy on a local level. And then there are the receipts for cloud seeding operations during a time of drought…
Shhhh. Don't wake up the Libertarian children. And Government bureaucracies often lack commonsense too - or respect for individual rights.
Areas that flood from rivers have fertile soil- handy for growing food. Every area has natural disasters that it is prone to- flood, wildfire, earthquake, blizzards, heat, drought, tornados...
Name your place. I'll tell you why moving all the people there won't work.
John going to let you in on a little secret.
There are fires, floods, earthquakes, tornados, mud slides, hurricanes, heat waves, dust storms, meteor strikes, plane crashes, car wrecks, and every other natural and man made disaster on every square inch of the planet.
No where is actually safe.
Deepwater ports, economically and strategically still important.
Okay, Rick, you are right.
Use an example, Miami. As close to sea level as possible, and directly in the path of hurricane alley. So we know that eventually Miami, between warming oceans and sea level rises, and hurricanes, will be under water. So what do we do about it.
As I have said elsewhere, the insurance companies may stop the insanity, as they continue withholding coverage on buildings in harm’s way.
Oh yeah, Leftists, insurance companies are not like the government welfare system that can just print more money. They do not have bottomless pockets and may be the market that prevents stupidity in the long run.
Mr. AZ----one small correction. The eco freak, global warming nuts want us to believe that the sea levels are rising uncontrollably the world over BUT......OVER the last 100+ years the sea level is rising at a relatively co nstant rate of approx 1 millimeter per year (1000th of a meter----not very much) so......Miami will not be under water for quite a while so we have time to mitigate any issues unless something changes dramatically.
Even islands in the south Pacific that have never been more than 3 or 4 feet above sea level are all still there.
Are you going to join Elon's party? If not, why not?
True dat. We pay waaay more for homeowner's insurance here in metro New Orleans. For those who can afford it (many just "self insure" which is basically "one Rosary and three Our Fathers"). But don't discount the cultural factor in America's unique outposts like South Louisiana. "I made it through Betsy" ('65) or "I made it through Camille" ('69) can still be heard in the deep swamp. The non-economic calculus of "home".
Believe it or not some of this is actually people syphoning off the sand from way off shore for concrete.
They can't use desert sand as it is rounder and does not lock into place.
Much of this is from damning up creeks and rivers starving beaches of sand.
Excellent summary, Bird.
You're right RS. There's been talk of weather modification, which, if true, shouldn't come as a surprise. When it's all said and done, they'll "make sure this never happens again" (until it does). Hearing that worn out excuse one more time, I'll lose my religion.
When will anyone with half a brain acknowledge that these many weather 'events' are not normal? We have cloud seeding, weather modification, HAARP, DEWS and who exactly is in control of all that??? This just seems to go from bad to worse. Then we have Musk who quite clearly IS off the rails. His evil, illegal shenanigans in Memphis are proof of his insane agenda. He MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. He paid and bought off an entire city to the detriment of its citizens. He most certainly is seriously dangerous.
Someone has asked RFKj about the weather modification, of which there are many entities involved, in Texas and Oklahoma (two areas I personally observe as it occurs) and he replied that he couldn’t locate who was doing it. Lots of companies are doing it. Private companies and the military. I watch them attack the sky ruining the blue skies and huge puffy clouds, leaving the whole sky grey and cloudless. This goes on ALL the time. It is not hard to find the names of the companies or the military bases.
DARPA is the main culprit, and yes, I've observed the same here in the northern U.S.
When? Now, I have half a brain, and I agree these events are not normal.
Agree on Musk too. Always had just a little reservation about him. He's genius for sure, but maybe an evil genius. Time will tell.
I had reservations about Musk from the time of his first involvement with the Trump campaign. Isn't he constantly walking the line of market manipulation with his social media posts?
When he first came on the scene with Tesla, I wondered if he might turn out to be the modern-day DeLorean.
My take on Musk is that he's an amoral genius, not an evil one. He's not out to hurt people per se. On the other hand, he won't let hurting them (through environmental pollution from his factories, for instance, or electronic pollution from his ubiquitous networks) get in the way of his grandiose schemes
I had quite the discussion on CFN yesterday with "Don" on this very topic.
"Don" somehow seemed to "reason" that because it is known that increases in the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere will cause increases in our temperature, TPTB cannot possibly be engaged in weather modification!
I shit you not.
These are two separate topics.
Don’t misquote me, Phil.
I never quoted you at all, GD.
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I was merely presenting your apparent reasoning. You've had ample opportunity to dispel my take on your argument.
Of course they are two separate topics. That's why you trying to refute TPTB flexing their weather-control muscles by mentioning CO2 level increases was a laughable argument yesterday. "These are two separate topics" indeed. [There. Now I quoted you.]
Again, you've had ample opportunity to dispel my take on your argument.
No balls, two strikes. Are you at least gonna go down swinging?
It is quite revealing how everyone is reacting to a simple expression of concern for people who have lost children and other loved ones as well as homes and property going on RIGHT NOW. The ills of Washington DC and USA Empire and all the rogues who shape it will go on year and after year. Most of us could recite all this by heart by now. But somehow an expression of honest caring for people is turned into a personal attack on some people and a political statement for others... or just bad intent assigned to me. Very, very interesting to witness...
I thank those who have read my posts here over the years. Since my words now seem to be taken by many as things I do not intend... I will vacate this space with my profound thanks to Our Host as someone whose writing talents I have always admired along with his evolving political point of view. My thanks and best wishes to you all.
Don't go. Look at all of the interesting back and forth your comment has generated!
Hang in, RS, don't throw in the towel just yet. We are fortunate to live in interesting times, and your comments are always poignant and well thought out, even if sometimes tangential to the topic of the day. If you do check out, I get it, godspeed, but know you've left some very insightful impressions over the years.
While I can agree to a point about your sentiment politicians and their malfeasance affect all of the population esp. if NOAA was playing games with weather mods as Gen.Flynn has posted.I have kept up with the tragedy in TX more so than any other bit of news of late but I do come here for the political alignment of what is happening.
I am grateful to all of the heros like Gen. Flynn who are raising concerns surrounding the existential issue of weather modification. (As JHK's article notes, we're currently living on a planet perfectly designed for our survival - I certainly have no wish to live on Mars, even were it plausible.) - With any death there is a ripple effect of pain which spreads and potentially destroys additional lives, and if the death was unnecessary and/or due to negligence, the pain is excruciatingly compounded. - Even if it didn't cause this particular '100 year event,' the global geoengineering warfare is cooking our collective goose and has got to stop.
It is not negligence. It is murder. TPTB are purposefully cooking our collective goose.
Their Georgia Guidestones were very specific:
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.
It sounds pretty good. But of course they are lying. They want to kill diversity by breeding all the races together to create a mongrel with no culture or tradition, willing to take orders and to sacrifice even the remains of their humanity to the Technocrats.
I guess the question is... are we at war with an external enemy or an internal enemy? Because we ARE at war.
Yeah, It’s never flooded in Texas before. In fact, Stevie Ray Vaughn made it his mission to revive an old blues classic originally written by Larry Davis back in 1958. I believe the song is Texas Drizzle. It couldn’t have been Texas Flood because everyone knows Texas doesn’t get rain.
Yep. In all my years as a millennial I’ve never seen such severe weather…and it’s getting worse!!! Foxy Loxy, Please save us!!
Lisa General Flynn has documents up of NOAA conducting weather modification over on TG which the NOAA contract expires on 10/31/25 for rain/hail suppression.He is asking when was the last mod made?
What is TG? Where do I find TG? Link?
What's going on with you Roundball? You've always been one of the commenters I have enjoyed reading. Lately, you've turned into more of a complainer, constantly bitching about and poking at our host. What the hell man?
The floods won't kill millions. Politics can.
So true and so well said.
Thanks for reminding Clusterfuck Nation of what's really important, Roundball.
Frankly I was disappointed by Roundball's comment today. I don't come to Clusterfuck to be reminded of what is really important, Tom Clark. I get that at church. I come to Clusterfuck to learn more about the political maelstrom that is the USA. Roundball has been one of my favorites to read in the past but lately he seems like he's just a cranky old.........Cankerpuss.
Thoughts and prayers would not save any of those tragically lost lives in Texas.
But fully finding the NWS offices might have.
Unfortunately, politics never fades into nothing and regardless of what else happens, it's always a gargantuan issue that overshadows everything else.
Nail hit on head. Trump knows the only thing we can do to unass the UniParty foolishness of the last 40 years is to grow the economy which he did in Trump 45: cheap energy is the basis of our lives. They kicked him out of orifice for it in 2020. What is never recognized is that congress is at the heart of all foolishness as they haven't passed a legitimate budget since 2007 for several reasons; the $900B 'stimulus' of 2008 has been added to the 'budget' every year since then and NGO's flourished. They are trying to blame Trump, but the UniParty benefits from all of this theft.
Bingo, Bingo, Bingo! "Congress is at the heart of all foolishness as they haven't passed a legitimate budget since 2007"
Yes yes yes, Danimal 28, Americans should be pissing and farting in rage over the dismal failure that is the United States Congress and many of them continue to point fingers at the President and blame him for what ails the USA. Not understanding or ignoring the fact that the President cannot make law nor can the President spend a dime without the authorization of the fucking US Congress.
The Presidency isn't a monarch. The President exists to execute the will of the US Congress. The US Congress has failed to perform its Constitutional duties and it has failed miserably to keep the Presidency in check. In every aspect, the US Congress is a horrific, absolute, miserable failure.
When we see a Congress critter we should be throwing tomatoes and rotten cabbage, booing, hissing and shunning the fucker for doing such a shitty job by us Americans. Instead we interview them pretend that they know all and see all. Such an embarrassment.
Yep. My wife was unhappy with some of the Big Bankrupting Bill this weekend. I tried to remind her that Congress wrote it.
I suppose POTUS could veto it, but then there’s no budget at all when the fiscal year has once again started without one. It’s not like Congress is apt to come back with improvements after such a veto.
What was the name of this blog again? Oh, right.
There is a lot of very goodness in the 'bill' as well, get the economy righted right now and work on cuts later. Check this out for examples:
https://x.com/unseen1_unseen/status/1941364286686654661
"The 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act', or OBBBA, was written by a team of policy contributors at Policy Magazine, including Douglas Porter, who is also the Chief Economist for BMO. The bill was successfully passed through both the Senate, with a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President, and the House of Representatives, before being signed into law on the July 4 deadline." - AI Overview on Google
Trump, of course, won't veto his own bill.
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Here's a pickle that all youse Lil Trumpsters still will not address:
Trump made providing Larry Ellison & Peter Thiel (anagram: The Reptile) a half of a TRILLION[!] dollars to develop AI (that will make 2025’s ChatGPT look like kindergarten) a top priority immediately following his creepy Apotheosis of George Washington Illuminati inauguration (where he did not put his hand on the Bible!).
Trump then wrote into his Big Beautiful Bill [bbb - 666] that not one of the 50 states in the union can impede this new beast in the slightest.
But he wuvs you. Pretty sure.
I’m under no illusions that any of those politicians love me. I only feel that Pres. Trump shares an interest in NOT running the country into the ground ASAP. I like some of his policies, and dislike others.
"The Presidency isn't a monarch."
"The US Congress has failed to perform its Constitutional duties and it has failed miserably to keep the Presidency in check."
Your various POTUSes have unilaterally waged war on the rest of earth since WW II far, far more egregiously than any monarch so I wouldn't be getting all holier-than-thou about it.
Your constitution is brilliant but TPTB have usurped Congress to allow the Executive Branch monarch-like power and that "is where the rubber meets the road."
What in my comment is "holier-than-thou" as you stated? I was simply stating that the President isn't a King, that his only role is to execute the will of Congress.
I think I agree with most of what you say but you always seem to be on the attack. You have a very confrontive style about you.
Are you saying that Americans do not have a holier-than-thou attitude towards monarchies? Sure fooled me.
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As clearly defined in your brilliant Constitution, POTUS' role is supposed to be to execute the will of Congress but TPTB have slowly but steadily changed that so that now, in practice, your POTUS wields far more unilateral power than any monarch on earth.
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Yes, I can be too confrontational. Apologies.
You are correct in that all these things - lack of cheap energy and a dysfunctional government work together to destroy what is left of this country. It will need to get a lot worse before people begin to realize that something needs to be done real soon now.
The government is dysfunctional only to the People's interests, but not to their politician's lobbyist paymasters.
Trump is also doing another key thing: removing TSSCI security clearances from many folks who use them to secure wealth and continue the 'dysfunction'. 'Alternative energy', continuous war, regime changes, perpetual medical 'treatments and vaccines', illegal chemicals in food, etc.
If he(and his administration) can successfully overthrow enough of "The Machine" to finally get back to oil, gas, and nuclear it will be the key.
The government as it currently exists is an illegitimate government because it has lost the faith of the majority of the governed. Without the faith of the governed the government can no longer govern. As such it resorts to coercion and force to gain obedience and that further erodes the confidence of the governed. This government we currently have is built on a sandy foundation. It will fall.
Disagree, we need every form of energy we can dredge up or invent. TLE says we are going to run out of affordable fossil fuels in this century, we should be working on alternatives NOW. A really good question, if the planet is warming, why aren’t we trying to harness one of that heat, turning it into usable energy. Nuclear is mandatory to continue our future. Fission or fusion is a big question although I have watched people hawk fusion for 70 years with little accomplished. Harness the heat. In the meantime, drill-baby-drill, it is our only alternative.
John, you keep ignoring TPTB's real solution to energy shortage: depopulation.
If we are going to run out of fossil fuels in this century then perhaps we should not be supporting the likes of AI which requires insanely massive amounts of energy to run it's programs, like more energy than the entire planet is currently using? Not to forget that it also destroys the environment and surrounding water supplies. Which is exactly what's been done illegally and underhandedly to Memphis by Elmo Musk. SMDH
TLE says we are going to run out of affordable fossil fuels in this century,
I have to disagree with you on that one John that was being said last century but to water oil is the second most common fluid on Earth and Rush was always quick to point that out.
And coal. Apparently we have a lot of coal.
Yes, BUT
Coal, like oil and gas, is finite and will run out eventually. That is the rub, we are making decisions today that will affect humans hundreds of years down the road.
For years I've been reading that Mr. Musk doesn't know what he's doing, and is crazy. And yet - he just keeps on doing and getting richer and more influential. As I've learned from the Jolly Heretic, the folks who make revolutionary breakthroughs share two traits: outlier high IQ, and low agreeableness.
Take some time, Ruth to think about it and you’ll find the answer to your question. It’s not hard.
Ruth? WTF? EVs, Tesla leader, Musk. Pay Pal, Musk. Battery storage for solar, Musk. Neura-link Musk, Boring company Musk, Space-X Musk, the US’s only way to orbit spacecraft, Robots, Musk, this man s re-writing the way we do business, one more, an old one. Your ability to use MAPS to locate businesses, and find you way there, originally part of X.com, Musk. The stop to Twitter BS and introduction to “X”, Musk. OpenAI was originally supported by Musk, but a difference of opinion over the use of AI caused him to leave. Currently the operator of ChatGPT. Oh yeah, Starlink, the space borne WI-FI system that will obsolete land borne wireless and cable internet connection Musk.
JohnAZ, most of Musk's wealth comes from government subsidies and contracts. The man may have some good ideas but he's a leach on the US taxpayer.
Yes, he gets the rich to subsidise him by selling them their fantasies, but it was pointed out that all of Musk's efforts lead to one theme: Mars.
Fuelless vehicles and power, borers for underground chambering, neura-link remote robot operation, space - all of these will be necessary to colonize Mars.
You are very close, Ruth Gordon. I got you.
Do you think you insult me by calling me a Fanboy of Musk.
Uh, thank you for the compliment, who is your “hero”?
Inflate stock prices? He does not give one damn about stock prices as he keeps inventing stuff. His Tesla stock bounces all over the place with his technological shenanigans. he remains the richest man in the world.
Oh, Ruth you never took the time to think you went right to yapping and sarcasm. One can easily find fault, but what happened to finding the good and the successful? You can dislike him, disagree with him that's ok, but why the attempt to diminish any of his achievements in so doing?
He pushed satellite internet successfully and massive through put globally.
Time to face the truth. Simply put, we have far too many marxists, or communists if you prefer, in our government and in our country. The so-called socialists are merely a stepping stone to communism which they fully understand. Comrade Hussein was the grand move by the communists to gain power and install their supporters in our government and to effect change in our culture, legal system, and eradicate our freedoms. Trump was the antidote to their marxist coup and thus the seemingly insane hatred of he and his followers. The Hildebeast was to follow comrade Hussein and cement the takeover by the marxists, but she was not saleable. Thus the stolen election of 2020 where Biden even bragged about the most fraudulent election ever, which was promptly buried by the MSM. At a cost of many millions and too much anguish, Trump has again prevailed against the deep state and the communist moves, but the fight is not over, and in fact is just getting started. Without cleaning the traitors out of our government and enforcing legal responsibility, the leftist coup will continue, but now with more fire and fury and destruction than we have seen. This is not a political quarrel, but a real war for this nation. Time to act like it.
Maybe we should start with charging former CIA director John Brennan with treason.
Along with Mayorkas, Clapper, Comey, comrade Hussein, and others who were definitely committing treason, and continue to do so. Brennan admitted to be a communist prior to his appointment, doubtless to deflect any charges of being a communist, which he most certainly was and is. Frankly, we have several marxists in congress and perhaps even on the Surpreme Court, as their appointments were made by leftists/marxists.
A great start! Slam dunk! Death by public hanging or firing squad.
And the Capitalists fund the Communists. They are the head and the Communists are the tail. Read some John Birch literature for a break down.
Comrade Hussein was the grand move by the communists to gain power and install their supporters in our government and to effect change in our culture, legal system, and eradicate our freedoms.
And or boy Hussein went about and purged the military(s) of the real Generals and imposed those that wanted a culture experiment!
Trump has again prevailed against the deep state and the communist moves, but the fight is not over, and in fact is just getting started
That's somehow I think the JE story is a projection of some more smoke and mirrors to calm a certain group?I could be way off base...but I surmise?
Miriamnae - saw your comment on weather modification, and then it disappeared. Happens now and then for some unknown reason. I was on a flight out of Kalispell, MT, into D/FW, TX Airport, a few hours ahead of that storm. D/FW was on the outskirts of the storm, but odd there was no inclement weather at all. The storm ramped up awful quickly.
Now and then? Constantly. AI is already affecting our online lives. Soo the offline as well.
Yep, I've had my dose(s) both online and offline. Janos, you know that exposing the truth is a war of attrition, but in the end, the truth always prevails, so it's a war worth fighting. Properly trained, those that come after us, will carry on the fight. Hoka hey!
As far as the Epstein files go, I think Patel and Bongino weighed what can be gained against a potential firestorm of distortions. One photo of Trump hanging out with Epstein in 1995 doing nothing at a night club is more damaging than 35 hours of footage of B-list celebs on an island that isn’t enough to lead to an arrest (we just witnessed what it took to “not” bring down Diddy). Who really gives a fuck about Tom Hanks or Oprah or Prince Harry or any of them? How likely is it that there's anything there to nail them? However, Trump being the most powerful person alive today, if there’s any mention anywhere (and I mean anything), boy oh boy, anything they might have on anyone else suddenly sinks and is weighed against it. You know how these things go.
Look at the effect Musk’s comment had. Does he know what the fuck he’s talking about or does it matter? Just him saying that created a firestorm. All that has to happen from there is one scintilla of evidence that alleges 30 years ago, Trump and Epstein took a taxi cab together from Studio 54 to an after-hours guests-only club, and this whole Epstein saga becomes about Trump. And I don’t care if they have closed-circuit footage of Oprah eating a baby’s foot; Trump goes down before she does.
And I’m not saying it’s that precisely, I’m saying it’s something like that that is keeping this buried. “Let sleeping dogs lie.”
"they have closed-circuit footage of Oprah eating a baby’s foot..."
I KNEW IT!
At least that made me laugh as sick as it is! She was on a strict, weight-loss, diet at the time and she is sooooo rich. Let's cool it and clean up this nation. There is a lot of work to do. And, we have got to get the "15 watt-ers" up to speed. Accountability.
True that Michael. And RE: the Diddy trial.... I knew from the start that Diddy would walk, when James Comey's daughter was appointed Lead prosecutor. I understand that Diddy received a standing ovation from fellow inmates.
That is sick.
Diddy? Clinton? Poster children for the real morality of the Left mostly Deep State crowd.
So, what happened to Ghislaine Maxwell?
They had enough to get her is what happened to Ghislaine Maxwell. If there was enough to get someone else with, they’d go public with it. Footage of someone at a pool party or on an island isn’t enough. And even if they did have a smoking gun, they have to weigh whether or not it’s worth the time, money, and political capital to go through with it. That’s why I mentioned P. Diddy. There is a bigger fish to fry thing going on here. Look, we all know Bill Clinton was on that island. They may have something that looks like something on him. Do you know how damaging it would be for them to go after Bill Clinton even with rock-solid evidence and to have it potentially blow up in their faces? The blowback, the collateral damage? Is Trump willing to stake the fragility of his “popularity” on that? Think bigger picture, because that’s what they’re thinking.
Wink, wink Clinton, wink wink cigars, wink wink little black dress, wink wink state patrol, wink wink Epstein.
Nobody really cares.
Exactly. Bigger fish to fry. Clinton is already a zombie and his wife is dead weight politically.
I think there are people that care. If there is a foreign intelligence service that is working to control people in our government, our government should not just sweep it under the rugs. Yet that's exactly what our government has done.
I wonder why?
"May" have something on Clinton? You're joking right? And if you think that Prince (sic) Harry is such a throwaway then you're not seeing the whole picture, his involvement goes very deep and I've been following it from day one. Truth comes out eventually and like it or not that seems to be what's happening now.
Listen, I’m on your side, Mr. Truth, but there are more things being weighed than finding dirt on Prince Harry. This isn’t TMZ, this is strategic leverage against an opposition that has already tried to kill Trump twice. What they don’t know you have is a stronger position than releasing a titillating photo of Prince Harry diddling a minor, a charge that he has the finances, cache and power to beat while flipping the narrative. Ever play poker? Don’t over estimate your hand.
From someone who launched their Substack an hour ago.
The FBI reports now that she never existed either.
Ghislaine sex trafficked children to no one.
Isn't it cool how that works?
BTW... DOJ Barbie outright lied to us, and then had the "binder of info" photo op. I don't enjoy having the government outright lie to me.
"I don't enjoy having the government outright lie to me.”
No? It’s worse when they tell you “the truth."
Thought the same, why isn’t she being released?
My position has always been that the OBBB was/is a policy bill/law masquerading as a budget bill. The goal was to pass deportation and border security while avoiding a democrat filibuster. Mission accomplished.
The National debt is a huge problem, but demographic transformation is an existential one. We can survive bankruptcy. We cannot survive the Third World moving in permanently. So, I support it.
As JHK has repeatedly said, we do not know how to run an economy without growth at is roots. That is what scares the Shit out of the crowd in DC, how can we acknowledge an economic world without more dollars this year than last? The BBB is a good example, it puts more dollars into play this year to keep things going. What would happen if the budget hawks got their way and really cut 5% out of the federal budget?
IMHO, chaos and catastrophe. Trump is betting on the growth of the economy with controlled dollar increases will grow us out of the deficit (not debt). If it does not, we are done and soon.
Ponzi schemes rely on growth…just sayin’.
As the Globalists could tell you, the Earth is finite so infinite growth isn't an option. They wouldn't bother at this point, knowing the stupidity of the average man.
I bet you’d vote to close the US patent office as was proposed in the early 20th century.
“We’ve invented all that can be invented! Time to close shop and go home.”
As Tucker says, AI should be strangled in its crib. But you think all new inventions are gee whiz good.
Mars is a fantasy -- imagine the energy necessary. But you are correct: if we can't manage this planet, wouldn't we just infect Mars like the rapacious virus we are, and slay that host too?
I also agree the debt bomb is ticking, and there are huge forces that will prevent its disarmament because of the tragedy of the commons -- too many snouts savor that trough.
Nothing about Mars is suitable for human habitation. It's a lifeless, cold rock in space.
There are those who doubt we have even been on the moon. If we are going to colonize Mars, why not colonize the moon first. Afterall, isn't Mars about the same size as the moon?
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives of all they desired and chose. Women are infertile away from "Mother Earth"?
Mars is not suitable for human habitation due to the simple fact that it has ans extremely weak and fading magnetic field due to the composition of it's planetary core.
Big Hint: Need the magnetic field to protect life against incoming radiation: solar or cosmic. Try Jupiter instead.
Jupiter is way too big with immense gravity. Also way too hot and has no surface. Unless you meant it's moon
Yes, a few of it's 97 moons lie well within the protective shock wave of the magnetic field.
Mars is a little bigger than the moon, and has water (ice) and somewhat of an atmosphere. However, atmospheric drag and a gravity well are problems for space flight.
Mining asteroids to make off world outposts might be less impractical, as it’s easier to come and go. “Less impractical” …
My bet is there is more plastic garbage on earth than currency in circulation. The "debt" is blinking electronic numbers that no one has time to keep track of. They are too busy buying things that are wrapped 3 times and transacting. It probably took Pam Bondi longer to open up her new makeup than review what was "on her desk."
Is the plan to move the plastic garbage to Mars or leave it here?
A question, albeit maybe a stupid one.
What would happen to the world if the USA and China both defaulted on their debt? Just pretended that it doesn’t exist? Who will get hurt?
I ask this “dumb” question because it seems that debt is just added on and no one really notices or cares. If the US Treasury Bond just ceased to exist, what would happen?
What exactly do the bonds of both countries do? Jus’ askin’.
I know some of the answers, mostly related to retirement, but that is far from all.
It is going to happen eventually, I would like to know what is coming as it will definitely affect the Long Emergency.
John,
It's not clear if the US or China can ever default their debt. Both countries can always pay back their debt with an inflated currency. You will always get every single cent back, it just won't be worth a plugged nickel.
The real problem isn't a default but getting the next sucker to buy your worthless debt while at the sametime keeping a lid on civil unrest, but that's what wars are for.
Mars is on the radar because it appears there are serious remnants there of an ancient civilization with superior tech. Probes in the 1970's mysteriously went dark immediately when 'flying' over the locations. Has nothing to do with starting some perfect life...
Lets be surprised if and when good comes from them. I am not giving up hope. And please James, "Mr Trump" is President Trump. Thank you.
Arnold -- "Mr. Trump" is by no means disrespectful. No lectures from you, either.
Mr. Kunstler, this comment is sensitive and petty. You are a better author than you think. No need to defend yourself.
Esther, if I were JHK I’d find a way to slap some of his “fans”!
Imagine if any other billionaire was starting a political party: Bill Gates, The Soros Team of George and Alex (who have been meddling with political parties for decades, etc. I'm not going to celebrate *any* billionaire starting a political party, creating a "vaccine", or anything else. I would prefer these billionaires keep their noses out of politics and medicine and go about their lives, and spend their money while leaving all of us alone.
They are gods on earth, didn’t you know?
They certainly view themselves as Gods, to be sure. Still, in the end, when they have to vacate their bowels, they do so the same way as the rest of us. I will never worship a human being. I don't care the money or power they hold. In the end, they got lucky, found a niche and profited from it. However, they still eat, drink, sleep and shit the same way the rest of us do and they also get old and die, just like the rest of us.
No human is worthy of being worshipped. Period.
Yes, Cankerpuss, they do. What they have that we lack is power and the access to those who set the stage for the world we live in. That access gives them a say in how to control us, deceive us and enslave us. I think many of us are trying hard to figure out the combination to the shackles we are bound to.
You are correct, and the reason they have that power is because too many other human beings worship them, put them on a pedestal, and believe everything they say because they have lots of worldly money. It's pathetic that so many people are so lost in their own lives that they look to the maker of an electric car or to a computer software guru for guidance on everything else. Says a lot about the fatal flaws of humanity.
The dinosaurs got millions of years on this rock. Do you think Humanity will get that far?
Yep, remember that to these people, money is power. Money is not an issue, the power is their motivation.
Correct. Trump has been giving them more power which motivates them further. He put Palantir in charge of our collating our data and this is the fastest route to enslavement and for furthering their power. Trump is working to placate us, not free us from these shackles.
I can't buy that Cos for I believe that or Lord Christ Almighty is playing his hand ATTM and part of the reason Trump is were he is remember... 7/13/24?If what you say was the absolute truth then we may as well meet or Lord standing and fighting then I will have peace.
Very telling as always. Thank you.
Poor Elon. Too digital to understand that amazing world of grays and opposite of the black and white where he lives in his “brilliance”
Poor Elon my ass. He's pure evil.
u dont get satire pal
I guess not. It's not always obvious when surrounded by ignorance.
Billionaires run amok is the lead story for the 21st Century in America.
Billionaires = Cabal
I think that the person with the real dirt was John McAfee. They offed him in a Spanish jail cell.
Agree, after they ran him out of Belize. Always a lot moving under the rug around McAfee. He may have had a lot of backdoors in his security software.
It may be that the existence and disposition of the Epstein tapes will remain forever in the realm of conjecture, but that’s still good sport. Knowing as we do the names on the flights to Pedophile Island it would be silly to suppose that such busy people would devote time to that many trips just for free drinks at the bar, rather than for illicit sexual experiences that would be too risky to indulge in back home. It seems reasonable, then, to assume that ruinously incriminating videos were, in fact, made of these guys.
At the time of Epstein’s indictment it was believed that he had entrusted copies of the videos with a number of reliable associates as insurance against prosecution , or being murdered. Indeed, given that his training in blackmail came directly or indirectly from Mossad, he would have been foolishly negligent not to have done so. Given their immense potential value for extortion, it would be unreasonable to suppose that the recordings were all destroyed. Either they are still in the possession of those associates, or they are in the hands of others, official or unofficial, who have since confiscated them.
For the existence of those recordings to be denied today, there can be only one explanation: whoever has them benefits from keeping their content secret. Either they benefit by being very well rewarded for doing so, by avoiding a terrible fate if they fail to do so, or both. This would presumably apply to Patel, Bongino, Bondi, perhaps others.
Important people of this sort don’t like to appear foolish in public. Surely they would not have claimed to have incriminating material to make public if that had not been the case at the time. The most persuasive explanation is that in recent weeks they have been bribed and/or threatened to change their story. Given the current state of American politics, that’s not difficult to believe at all.
Consider that Elon Musk is incapable of participating in love, marriage, and parenthood (and I don't mean dragging a random kid around for publicity). His personal relationships are all conducted in a business-like fashion.
He can participate only in the machinations of Big Business and Big Government, and only while he holds the best hand of cards at the table. His inability to follow the unwritten rules will be his ultimate downfall.
He may never be poor, but he will never be loved, either. And he will not win public support. Not for all the money in the world would I want to be him.
Brilliant comment. As I have said before, there is just something that is not right about that dude. Can't identify it. He just seems like he doesn't have a soul.
Sociopath
No one is perfect. But you have to give Musk credit. To be willing to stand up for the fiscal sanity that we conservatives advocate, but do nothing to implement. He has done more as a private citizen than any elected representative or executive. Let’s give Credit where credit is due.
I guess you are unaware as to what he's done in Memphis. Please look it up for yourself.
Watch out, cutting too deep is what caused Hoover to make the Great Depression. We do not know how to run an zero or negative growth economy.
Well we had best learn, eh? The Long Emergency is coming, John. The Globalists know it and want to contract the economy while staying on top.
Japan's had low to no growth since 1990, hasn't it?
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=-JP
Agreed, we have a banking system which all but 'blows up' if growth ends, because there's then no means to repay the debts and the interest.
Change the banking system and a zero- or even de-growth economy is possible.
He's a monster.
The key is with the girl in jail. She must be really afraid or truly evil not to tell the truth. You know the Clintons are deeply involved. Good hunting. Please get the truth out.
Where ever unexplained death occurs, the Clinton’s seem to lurk in the background.