"No new psychodrama will avail to stop what’s coming."
Wanna bet? The left has learned nothing and simply doubles down again and again and again. Then we enter the "cornered animal" phase and things get - shall we say - rather sporting. There are many of us out here in all corners of the country ready for when that occurs. It shall be very, uh, er, clarifying.
With the personas the left has promoted to lead itself, there is NO OTHER option. There is a startling array of incompetents and deceitful, self-interested psychopaths leading the left.
Their ONLY play is to double down, because they are actually incapable of bringing value to this country.
Gavin Newsome is their frontrunner and that guy is a bald faced blathering leftist idiot. He's coming. Are you ready for him?
They double down because they also know that half the fucking country still identify and vote as Democrat! It's very very very hard for people to reject their tribe, even if they know their tribe is wrong.
I can't imagine Greasy Gavin Gekko gaining much traction with anyone. He's about as feckless as they come—with his dinner at French Laundry fresh in our covid-bullied minds.
Lugh, if only... perhaps the wisdom of hindsight, we can more clearly understand the "Tribe" that Christian, White, Hetero, traditional Americans should have formed - instead of what France proposed with that "...tired and poor, yearning to be free". Nope. Eff that.
On Fox this morning, a survey was put up. 24% of adults said they would like to leave the USA if they could. That seems high to me. A subset was over 50% of young women would leave.
Insanity dwells deeply in the young people of the country. They look to the future and it looks grim, per a lot of reasons we talk about weekly. They are looking for a target, a scapegoat and the Dems have done a good job of putting the blame on MAGA. That is why Charlie Kirk had to be eliminated. Young people do not understand shit about life, that is why they are so easily guided by propaganda bullshit. I will not comment on the gender gap.
Young minds.........You have to also factor in the level of disinformation that masquerades as education in our schools. Look at the leader of the union for education, a self-identified Communist. The growing class of teachers all over the USA are left-wing communists/anarchists/perverts/mentally ill. These kids are exactly what the Marxists said was the path to taking down a country. Give us one generation of children they say and we can have a successful revolution. They have had several generations and what do you see on the streets? Many of them are women.
The politicians are only on one side......their own.
"24% of adults said they would like to leave the USA if they could. ... Insanity dwells deeply in the young people of the country. They look to the future and it looks grim, per a lot of reasons we talk about weekly."
Easier there, big fella! It is not "insane" to be young and want to leave a place that is constantly talking about its impending civil war. That's rational.
John, according to this [ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life ], Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Finland, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK, Austria, Belgium, Japan, Ireland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Iceland, Portugal and Italy all surpass the USA in Quality of Life. That's 21 different countries that they could flea to before your predicted, anticipated Civil War 2.0 that are better than your 22nd place is before your Civil War!
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What is "insane" is believing that your morally-, spiritually-, fiscally-broke country is still "exceptional."
Phil, that's quite a list, thank you. It does make.me wonder, though; what would be the "quality of life" in these countries without the $ aid sent to them? Which begs the next question - what would be the improvement in quality of life in the U.S. if we kept our money here?
Where would the 24 percent request refugee status? I’d love to read the answers. Cuba has single payer (socialist) healthcare and the private ownership of guns are banned, but no one is floating rafts south of Key West.
Hahaha! Is this the very first time that you've ever been exposed to polling data?
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"USA is better than Cuba!" "... ... therefore ... ?" "Therefore the USA is better than a shithole decimated by 6+ decades of US economic sanctions." "Right. Good thinking."
There is constant pressure, mostly from the left, to lower the voting age. It's easy to see why: young people's life experience is mostly in establishment-run institutions like schools and colleges, along with constant drama involving their peers. Neither provides much guidance for nationwide issues. A complex world often seems threatening to the younger generation, hence their need to fit in where they find acceptance among the like-minded.
So they are suckers for ideologies and organizations that pour oil on their thrashing anxieties. Of course they're not the only voters looking for group salvation, but practiced manipulators (e.g., politicians and movement leaders) find them especially pliable.
One basic way to reform the system would be to restrict the franchise to those who are more likely to have reached the age of discretion, and whose self-interest involves the effective functioning of society, not just milking it for personal benefit.
I always did like the setup Heinlein proposed in _Starship Troopers_. If you want the franchise, earn it with some sort of service, military or otherwise.
As an Xer, I came of age just as Reagan ascended, and I prospered by snapping up the scraps left by the Boomers. It was not easy, but it wasn't horrible, either. I don't understand the despair of younger generations . . . Not as someone who was graduated into Carter's bleak, stagflated world with farmers in my area killing themselves and their families. Even worse, preceding generations faced conscription and bloody death, not to mention dust bowls and depression. Student loans and housing bubbles pall in comparison.
You have a good point. I believe Charlie Kirk was murdered because he was very effective in spreading the truth about our Republic and the role of limited government in our lives. These young people are our future voters and our future. The Democrats and RINO Republicans can't have critical thinking young people who are educated in regard to the US Constitution and who understand that the intent is to have a small government elected by the people to represent them in Congress a few times a year to vote on individual bills. And after each session they return to their jobs in their cities and towns to live under the bills that they just passed.
The Deep State socialists have used two major methods to change half the American people into Gimme lemmings. The education system and illegal immigration have stupidified the USA. Note that what the Dems et al are attacking the most is the MAGA trying to undo the damage that has been done. ICE and Charlie are both representations of the targeting the Libs are doing. Th reception both are receiving by the people will be voted on next year.
To reiterate: "A color revolution is the surreptitious overthrow of an elected government by concealed parties." Over their first eight years, (and continuing under four years of O'Biden) Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett embedded a layer of Marxists at key positions within the federal bureaucracy. Then these Communist revolutionaries, (living on federal government paychecks), built a complex matrix of NGOs outside the government - to control their useful idiots with jobs and salaries.
And now a 34-year-old Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago, is going to be the next mayor of New York City. The largest city in the United States is about to descend into a state of complete and utter chaos, and everyone can see that this is a story that is not going to have a happy ending.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Our Constitutional Republic is fallen. A hot civil-war between blue and red states is not an impossibility.
"A hot civil-war between blue and red states is not an impossibility." I doubt it will sort out that cleanly. It's more likely that any conflict will occur within states between rural red factions and urban blue factions. In California for instance, most of the blue areas exist in the coastal strip.
They do not want to bring value to the USA. They only want to destroy order. Study the French Revolution. They want to do away with the calendar and change time. Mao was similar. Killing people wearing glasses was a favorite of Mao, and copied by Pol Pot. Destruction of the common good will never be the goal of the Left. Its like the Kill Whitey in SA. It is never to learn from the Whiteman and to become better than the Whiteman. Their only goal is to kill the whitey. Same with Aoc, and rad left. Violence now?? We ain't seen nothing yet
sadly Lugh, very few. Or, the ones on our side who know but are too complacent, lazy, scared into immobility... or what not. There are more than a few of us out here in the hinterlands that do know we're at war, civil and spiritual. And before things go kinetic - which is likely inevitable - we live our lives while awaiting "their" next move. High ground and that...
You know, if they would have waited another 10 years or so, they could have been successful. But impatience and greed - and they made their move too soon. Now, there are lots of folks who will oppose them.- kinetically, violently, and likely viciously - for what "they" have done. The "awakened Saxon" is real; and will surprise both sides...
The left has learned that no matter what they do - crime, sedition, treason - the GOP will not hold them accountable.
If you want to know why the Ds have swung so far left, and taken so much of the country with them, I give you the GOPe’s utter failure to defend the law.
The great challenge is how to get rid of the RINO or GOPe "Bushie" faction of party leadership which still controls too many of the state parties and likely the RNC, the Senate leadership etc.
The Republican voter is MAGA, while the elected Republican is still too often
the old controlled opposition "Democrat Lite."
We've all heard the old line that "a lot of the Republicans in DC are actually Democrats, but there are no Democrats in DC who are actually Republicans."
How about we get rid of the fucking political parties altogether and just start having non-partisan elections. Focus on the candidate and the issues, not on the damned party. God I hate this political party bullshit.
I know Washington despised "the Party man" for good reason. In the early days if I recall correctly the guy who came in second was made Vice President. That would sure tamp things down for at least a little while. It seems we lost that lever that required working together. The shiv in the back of the Republic that really iced it in my opinion is the 17th amendment which neutered the 10th amendment big time.
It's time to revert to voting by those who have an actual stake in the success of our country. Anyone on assistance i.e. welfare do not get a vote. To be a citizen, in good standing for 5-10 years before you get a vote. You must be 21, and own something like a home or some form of actual participation in the success of our country. Letting kids vote was a real dumb idea, especially as we watch education circle the drain.
Washington's farewell address highlights the man's disdain for political parties and foreign entanglements. Our forefathers didn't listen.
You are spot on about the 17th Amendment. That amendment destroyed the Jeffersonians and the States' rights balance of power. Up until that time the Senate represented the STATE, not the people. Since then the Senate is nothing more than a glorified House of Representatives.
Lincoln began the death of the Jeffersonian States' rights people and Woodrow Wilson finished it off. The balance of power has been broken and is all in favor of the Federalist now. Unfortunately the system, as it was designed by the founders, was a compromise between the Jeffersonians, the Federalists and the people and that balance of power has long been crippled.
Glad to read that there are people like you out there who understand this stuff, John Schrauth.
What GOP, the RINOs (led by Bushies and Cheneys) or MAGA, today’s version of the Tea Party? Do you consider Trump and MAGA mainstream GOP? Or the RINOs? Hint, who won in 2024? The term GOP has no meaning for me any more and I am waiting for MAGA to disown the RINO sector, permanently. Trump is starting to show some frailty so better start thinking about who is going to take his place. I will guarantee you, the Left is already trying to demonize his likely successors.
Oh, JohnAZ, again with the whole MAGA mantra? You are stuck in this MAGA fantasy and refuse to face reality. MAGA is the Tea Party 2.0 and what did the Tea Party 1.0 do to bring about change to Americans political system? NOTHING. Zero. Zip. Nada.
The USA is still spending money it doesn't have. Still waging wars in foreign lands that pose no threat to it. Still growing the size of government. Still printing money to monetize its debts.
The Tea Party did nothing. MAGA will do nothing.
Your faith in this MAGA stuff is admirable but it is misplaced. MAGA will not do what it takes to correct America (stop spending money).
Just one question, Cankerpuss. What is an alternative? Where should I put any faith into to resolve the problems that are so obvious. What in our society can stop the power of the globalist owned Deep State?
MAGA, IMHO, is the only possibility as it is really the only anti-Deep State outfit around. MAGA is not only Donald Trump.
You write, "MAGA is the Tea Party 2.0 and what did the Tea Party 1.0 do to bring about change to Americans political system? NOTHING. Zero. Zip. Nada."
I disagree. They were cut-off at the knees by both party's. They were initially successful and TPTB destroyed the movement. MAGA has not accomplished anything close to what the Tea Party was doing as a grass roots movement.
Yes, the GOP are the hypocrites. They are the assigned vocal opposition, in it only for the money promised them by their campaign contributions. They have no interest in truly rectifying or changing the situation in America. I despise Democrats. But I truly hate and loathe all things Republican. At least with a Democrat you know you are going to abortion loving death worshiping satanists. With Republicans you think you are getting the good guys but you are just getting Democrat scum in disguise.
You have to keep in mind the GOP is an organization based on self-interest. These GOP leaders and the majority of the elected are paid to look away and not disrupt what the Dems are doing unless they can get a photo op pretending to care.
On one hand, you're probably right. The left (particularly the young women on the left) are so bugfuck insane, it's very hard to see how this ends without violence... Which is terrible, but it's not at all clear how it can be avoided.
When you have a group of people who are convinced that politics is for validation and affirmation, and are so determined that they are just like "straight white men" that any disparity in outcome is evidence that they are being brutally repressed that they are willing to not only throw everyone else's civil liberties and material wellbeing out the window, they're willing to do so *using those people's own wages* in the form of taxation... Violence, justified or not, is the most likely outcome.
But on the other hand, the girlboss types that are running places like NYC into the ground have no ability to project physical power into the countryside, as they don't have the white house, senate, or house, and contrary to their fantasies, they're not going to go She-Ra on Cletus themselves.
So it seems most likely that the violence will be in the cities.
Why, 15 years ago, I deliberately moved to the country (S. GA) after being a city girl my whole life. Here, guns outnumber people. And it's Trump country. In fact, I met my first Democrat (who admitted to it) a few months ago! (I don't get out much.) I would've enjoyed a discussion, but she refused to even comment. Weird.
Same in LA (Lower Alabama). When you here gunfire, you ignore it - nothing to be concerned about. When you hear a siren you get worried. Exactly the opposite in the city.
I lived in LA for 6 years in the late 70's -----between Satsuma and Creola---when you heard gunfire it only meant that someone has probably just secured some meat for dinner for the rest of the week. Coming from Ohio I think the people did not believe me when I said I loved LA more than where I came from but.....ultimately moved to Texas before settling in the Ozarks.
Girls, that is what they are, are scared to death of the future. Remember the MRS degree in college? Females need males to have security. The Left tells them, nah, you do not need husbands, and we are coming to emasculate the male population so you do not need them. The Girls are being cut loose by society today and they are scared into insanity. They have no one to turn to, both parties are abandoning them. So they are suckers for the Mamdani style “We will take care of you”. I project a huge move by Girls to get hitched in the future as things deteriorate.
I worked with women for half of my working days, dolt. I have huge respect for women who are hard working and supporting their families, but none for crybaby Karens, who are a load on society.
I don't like the women in the HR department who gave mandatory training on misgendering last year. Or the women who demand more women in my industry without any clear objectives, other than affirmation... Basically public thumb sucking for "adults", where no goals or accountability are provided or even requested. Does that count?
Yes, most women have lost it. Just look at the purple hair, the pussy hats, the nose rings, lip rings and tattoos and you'll see it.
Want a good example of what women have become? Check out the two stars to that new movie, the remake of the Wizard of Oz, I can't remember the name right now. One of them is Arianna Grande. I think she's a female of latina origin but when looking at her, one can't be too sure. She's not white but she just looks weird, almost like a bug or something. She is very emaciated. She just doesn't look right. Then at her side is a black chick with facial piercings, shaved head and shaved eye brows wearing some kind of leather dominatrix outfit one would see in a Friday the 13th horror film. Looks scary as hell. Breitbart.com ran an article on these two sweeties ranting about how the Wizard of Oz is "gay as hell" and was written for LTBTEADEZAQ+ crowd. This what women have become. It's hard to watch.
What changed is that all women were granted political power by men via the 19th Amendment. This seems to have been a mistake.
Once women are married and have a male child, they may begin to see the importance of national borders, if only to protect their own sons from hostile invaders who would kill them.
But before that point, women are, as a general rule, greatly aroused by the idea of sexy foreign male invaders who prove themselves physically superior to the local men. This is so deep in the female brain that it's even true among female chimpanzees, and for good evolutionary reason. A woman wants the best (most aggressive) male genes to make sons who can spread her own genes the best.
All of this is utterly unspeakable in polite society precisely because it's so old and so true.
Why is “violence” terrible?? I won’t for a nanosecond hesitate to put a bűllet in the ear of a psycho-tard girl boss as I would anyone else who’s an unrepentant sworn enemy of every thing I hold sacred.
John----let me add one clarifying point to your post. And.....Cletus knows where his bullet will strike the target when shooting at something 25, 50, 100 and 200yards away-- probably 300 yards also.
That's a great second paragraph there. The concept that politics is for validation and affirmation is a HUGE driver in society today, whether politics, our education system or social media.
And once the focus is on feelz, all methods are justified to enforce.
I doubt it will end in violence. More likely as TS Elliott described: “This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
It’s interesting that he wrote that over 100 years ago now. Although it’s rather demoralizing, the entire poem makes a fascinating and prescient read. https://poets.org/poem/hollow-men
I fear your peek at the near future is, unfortunately, accurate, NN. Looking at our world today, one can visualize any number of possible dystopian outcomes, with virtually no path back to the glory days of the post war world of my misspent youth.
Agree that the worst effects of the violence to come will be felt in urban areas - but when the rabble rousers advise those tens of millions of starving urbanites that those dirty farmers have food ...
There are so many guns in the hands of good people in this country, I try to hope that when this happens the good people with guns will rise up and put and end to the insanity. I mean a real end. There will be lots of death. Truth is, some of these people can't be rehabilitated. The only answer will be a swift execution.
Mr. C--- if what Andy mentions comes true and the starving urbanites try to take away what those dirty farmers have, there will be a lot of lead flying and unfortunately a lot of decent urbanites will get killed because I am afraid it will be shoot first and ask questions later. People will not be afraid to go postal on people whom they think are danger to their children, families and food supplies. Luckily for me, my wife and I live a couple hour drive from any large city so......a lot of those urbanites will be winnowed out by the time they get this far from the city. Could get real ugly.
There are a lot of good people out there who are armed to the teeth. I am one of them. We have seen too many end of the world dystopian movies where society de-evolves into Mad Max kind of shit. I don't believe that will happen. There will be roving bands of gangs, sure, but they won't last long. If there is no law, people will take the law into their own hands and large mobs of fair minded people will put down and eliminate the roving bands of gangs. There might be a time of chaos and ugliness but it will be short.
Evil is alive and well in this world but there is still much good out there and many good people who won't put up with the bull shit for very long.
Agreed. The left is regrouping. They will be back in 2026. They will re-take the House and the Senate and we'll spend the next two years watching impeachment after impeachment of Mr. Trump. Book it. The average American voter is just too damned stupid to think outside the two party voting system, or, the system it too corrupted to be fixed by a bunch of people who have no interest in fixing it.
Hard to disagree, but what if the cornered animal is both incompetent and kind of passive-aggressive? How does that play out? I don’t know that anyone has seen a revolution like this.
At this point, indictments mean very little. There is a profound disconnect between knowing and responding. We know Epstein worked for Israel, but nothing changes. The list is not released. Short explanation: The enemy controls our national nervous system, the levers of power.
Very possible that Trump also has a plan to Make Democrats American Again (after gutting the existing crime syndicate with the coming tribunal) by installing a real American as its new leader. RFK Jr?
Jim perfectly describes in very subtle terms why women should not be in political positions and why women should not be voting. He doesn't say it directly, but one gets the point if they contemplate his words.
Men want to keep the order as regular as possible, well, most men. Real men. Not the beta soy boys that women want them to be. Women, however, crave and desire drama, fighting and all the bull shit that helps theme satisfy that inner need to appease everyone.
They have no business in leadership positions. Yeah, I said it.
Guys, esp my darling alphas, have been slacking for years. They’ve become no-fun, shitty lazy partners. Porn and video games may be involved. However, my fellow ladies have gotten pretty ridiculous over the last 50 yrs, including killing preborns and comedy. Respect by and for the opposite sex is at an all time low. Everybody’s greedy. We’ve only had the vote for 100 yrs, we don’t run the banks and don’t have a majority in Congress. But we do work harder at home and in the office. For the most park it’s thankless drudgery. so women can’t take the blame for all the messes. I figure once Trump has retired, women will lose their favorite punching bag substitute for every bad relationship. Jets will cool off. Please don’t start shooting yet. Patience, grasshoppers.
Over 70% of the divorces are initiated by women. Among college graduates, 90%. They're looking for greener pastures; for bad boy traditional men who vote liberal; for horny unicorns. But they are not traditional women and bring little to the table.
Work harder? I don't know about that. You all certainly work less. Don't completely blame you - we all should be taking it more easy. Wasn't that what all this technology was about? Guess not. And your place was in the home in any case, so naturally you want to stay there a lot.
I was referring to men as a general group or voting block. Sure, there are evil men out there who have no business being in politics or leadership position. Just as there are some women out there who are skilled and intelligent leaders, though, I struggle to identify them.
Who shops more? Who DOESN'T reject the fruits of the Conquest of North America over the hapless Indians - even as they damn the Conquerors to whom they owe everything?
Guys, esp my darling alphas, have been slacking for years. They’ve become no-fun, shitty lazy partners. Porn and video games may be involved. However, my fellow ladies have gotten pretty ridiculous over the last 50 yrs, including killing preborns and comedy. Respect by and for the opposite sex is at an all time low. Everybody’s greedy. We women have only had the vote for 100 yrs, we don’t run the banks and don’t have a majority in Congress. But we do work harder at home and in the office. For the most part it’s thankless drudgery. so women can’t take the blame for all the messes. I figure once Trump has retired, women will lose their favorite punching bag substitute for every bad relationship. Jets will cool off. Please don’t start shooting yet. Patience, grasshoppers.
It happened under men, Canker. And that's just the USA since WWII. If we were to list all the wars in mankind's history ... it'd be super-duper long and, statistically, 100% were run by men.
I'm not saying anything about women (in this case) but facts are facts and ... [now I would quote you but stupid, lousy, crummy Substack gives me no easy path to the start of the thread that we are in]. Never mind. Substack sux.
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"The USA has spent its strength and means warring in foreign lands, to be sure." Adding: "... and by 'spent,' I mean taken on insurmountable debt and given those trillions to the oligarchs that run this murderous racket."
Mr. Phil, I agree that we have been in way too many countries business since the 50's and 60's and most of them we should have stayed out of but.......the discussion about men starting all the wars leave a large TRUTH out of their discussion----
The people starting the wars do not want to fight the wars themselves but they force our citizens to do the fighting and most of the citizens could probably not find the shiff-hole country they are sent to, on the map. LBJ's daughters certainly did not volunteer to go to Nam and work in a combat zone as a typist or nurse. Same with all the other Prez we have had. Bill and Hillary Clinton are horrible examples of this. Bill the draft dodger had no issue to drop bombs all over the world and even Hillary was behind the disaster in Libya but do you think she would ever in her shiffy life ever, ever get directly involved ? H, E, double toothpicks, NO. But of course we all know she bragged about dodging bullets on some tarmac in a shiffy country somewhere so.....she likes to play the part but there has to be a guarantee of no chance she could ever get hurt. We have hundreds of those types of people sitting in DC over the last 50+ years and they have no qualms of sending some poor guy or gal from BFE to do their fighting. SHAMEFUL.
The Deep State, mostly Ult-Left and RINO traitors, is being seriously wounded by the Trump group and is reacting in every way they can think of. Think though of why. IMHO, the Deep State is heavily involved in the crime trying to take over this country. That is why they fight deporting the criminals, why they fight killing the drug mules from Venezuela, why they want open borders, why they want to let their “Brothers” out of jail, all aimed at taking back their power base and money source. The Biden Mob was just a small element of a global Mob that runs the show, that provides available drugs and servants to the USA elite. The poster child is Hollywood and much of the rest of the coast of California.
So “fascism” and autocracy are the new buzzwords of the Left to describe a law driven society. Bring it on.
At least in my case of being dirt poor, Martial Law was deployed against my family and myself. No due process, no equal protection of the law, no constitutional, human, parental rights acknowledged by the invading bureaucrats and the courts that protect them. Coercive indefinite detentions on "Probable Cause" excuses to openly attack and punish innocent family's because the "narrative" is more important than natural biological parents in this world. The Machiavellian change agent who was/is a school principal from one of those "untouchable" and therefore unaccountable families only has to drop that magic bullet of "child abuse" and presto, you mobilize an army of vampires to proclaim capitol punishment for those who would dissent from their pre-conceived bias/prejudices/partiality. The rich and their friends know how to avoid accountability while praising their "policy's" and impugning the honor of natural biological parents on any bureaucrats presumption. This is an apartheid of Satanic eugenicist who are posing as "Public Servants". Class warfare at it's ugliest.
There are no rights to life, liberty and/or property under a bureaucratic beat down.
They used a divide and conquer pincer movement on my family. The "Child Abuse" excuse was parlayed into multiple felonies and misdemeanors against my wife and I (who were put on ice with 57 days of coercive detention). Self defense against the attacking state cannot be tolerated.
That's not true, Ely. US Big Prison is so very profitable today (with its world-leading (#1 with a bullet) incarceration rate) from hundreds of thousands of your poor who had no resources and were ultimately found guilty in a court of law where the government prosecutors had to present, for the legal record, their case against the accused.
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Extrajudicial murder on the high seas 1,200+ miles from your border is no way to run the US government. You a-holes used to be the shining freaking light of liberty, youse ...
Mr. Phil, before you start throwing rocks at the U.S. and talking about the Prez trying to defend our country against drug cartels, maybe you should look in your back yard at all of the horrible things that Castro's son ( Trudeau) did to Canada and all the things that he allowed to happen-----some of which are
allowing drugs to come across our long border
allowing known terrorists to come across our border
Trump asked for some assistance from Canada but we were ignored.
cancelling free speech (or all speech not approved by the Marxist leaders of Canada)
Worse covid restrictions that the US
I am a little conflicted about blowing up those boats as well but.....keep in mind they are not fishing boats-----I think you know that---- and those boats are either going to the US or Europe where their contents will kill an untold number of Americans and Euros. The Euro politicians of course could give a shiff about their citizens and besides that they do not have the military to inflict any damage on anyone other than maybe Monaco so I ignore their complaints as well.
"hundreds of thousands of your poor who had no resources and were ultimately found guilty in a court of law where the government prosecutors had to present, for the legal record, their case against the accused."
Yeah...what I said....
"Extrajudicial murder on the high seas 1,200+ miles from your border is no way to run the US government"
It's fascist and it definitely is a more likely explanation for the left's allegations than that you're "attempting to move this country back towards its roots in hard work and moral integrity," eh?
I've clearly shredded your bad strawman that started this whole thread but do you say, "You're right. I was misrepresenting the left's real reasons for them calling Trumpomania fascism"? Of course not. When the strawman argument fails, most Lil Trumpsters, by sheer reflex reflecting their intelligence, double-down with ad hominem attacks. Right on cue.
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I'm a capitalist, Oc. I've an Econ. degree and spent 2+ decades on Bay Street.
Just as is true of EVERY Western nation but the US (while youse constantly bitch and moan about your "broken" health care system, btw), I'm all about free markets yet we also understand that mission-critical requirements of society are best ran socially. Roads, bridges, civic mass transit, airports (security & air-traffic control), tax collection, policing, national defence, universal health care. The US has socialized all but the very last item on that list but instead of joining the rest of the free world, America's MK-Ultra'ed mass-populace brain-washing kicks in, logic flies out the window and they will defend their corrupt Wall Street-ran "broken" system to their death (literally vis-a-vis the hundreds of thousands that died (without their family allowed to see them!) in the shockingly under-investigated tens of thousands bonuses paid for each patient offed by the Fauci murderous scheme/protocol of Remdesivir and intubation).
So there's that.
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Nope. I like doing my research, logic, analysis and conclusions solo and then share my commentary with Lil Trumpsters. I've roused a couple along the way as I try to save souls.
It's fascist to bomb foreign drug dealers bringing their goods onto American shores? For every 5 smugglers blown up, America is likely saving 1,000 or more young people.
First off: you can't go blowing up boats full of civilians 1,200+ miles from your shore extrajudicially AND be a nation under law. That's an A or B kinda thing.
Secondly, in proven oil reserves by country, Trump is existentially threatening #1 - Venezuela, #5 - Canada and now #11 - Nigeria. It sure is convenient to blame the USA fentanyl over-dose crisis on Venezuela and Canada when, really, almost 100% of its multitudes of fentanyl addicts are supplied via Mexico. Purely coincidentally there's all that oil (and water) for the taking. It’s almost like this out-of-character fentanyl-addict concern is the obvious cover story of pure conquest. [It makes ya think ... 🤔]
Oh! And the poor Christians in Nigeria while he rolls out the red carpet for the guy slaughtering Christians in Syria. I guess he’s already sucking on Syria’s oil fields is the big difference between those two sets of Christians, eh?
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It’s ok to face reality, Lil Trumpsters. You’re greedy imperialists who like to eat candy-coated turds.
War was invented by men to impress women by wearing colorful uniforms, all with the underlying motive to yes, you guessed it… it backfired spectacularly when they actually had to fight them. The wars that is; not the women. Which it devolved to eventually.
The women demand it. You've got it backwards. During WW1, young women would go into churches during services, to give any young man in the pews a white feather, a symbol of his cowardice for not being on the front lines, dying for absolutely nothing in "the war to end all wars".
I had a great uncle fight in that war, and probably not because some girl with a white feather was eyeing him at St. John the Baptist. He ended up hospitalized in France with gas and shrapnel wounds. "Don't be scared for me," he wrote his mother. He died at 21 in that hospital of the Spanish flu on—get this—November 10th, 1918.
Modern women typically condemn male aggression but never refuse the fruits of victory. Rank hypocrisy. Glad you are somewhat free of this. In any case, WW1 was idiocy, just like so many other wars. The smartedt people said so at the time and were savaged for their stance.
Well, I always said that violence solves most things, but yes, part of a woman's role in life is to buffer men's aggression and to protect the little kids from men in general. Ask me about the time hubby took the 1 year old into the tractor cab to— well, the row wasn't pretty.
Lugh, from the time the baby was born until it got into school, I never once asked my husband to babysit, change a diaper, cook a meal, get up in the night, or do anything but read a book to the kid. That was my job, and I took it seriously. Unfortunately, he dropped the ball when the child was older, so I was the one taking him to the gun range, buying him tannerite for Christmas, and so forth. My son did find the right male mentors, though, while Dada dozed through his retirement.
I frequently think that, with you, women can not win for losing, so thank you for the crumb of credit.
The neighbor, one of my son's chosen mentors, was buried yesterday with military honors at the regional VA cemetery yesterday and I sat next to my son, one of the pallbearers, and we both sniffled our way through the rifle salute and taps. I was happy that my son recognized the deep meaning of the rites.
Yes, thank you. The Evil is so very great - all the more so for not being recognized. We got women under control with individual exceptions of course. As Freud said, control of female sexuality is a sine qua non of Civilization. So then we said (or was it whispered in our ear?): See how great they are? They're just like us and should have the right to vote, work, fuck who they want, etc. We lost it all. Just like people who look at a peaceful White town and think, Wtf? We don't need these sheriffs and shit.
👍👍 Excellent post, JHK! It’s much easier to understand the actions of the left wing if there is greater clarity to the definition of “saving our democracy”. First, the Dems aren’t referring to the democracy (actually, democratic republic) of the US. Rather, they’re referring to the democracy that exists to provide power and grift to the Democratic Party, hence the term “their” democracy! Trump threatens that power and grift by simply exposing it and the sunlight ☀️ applied to the Dems is causing extreme sunburn, along with the associated pain.
“Their democracy” allows unlimited illegal immigration, boys playing in girls’ sports (and sharing locker rooms), imposition of irrational and costly environmental laws without meaningful benefit, imposition of DEI policies (Didn’t Earn It) and general intolerance and hate directed toward anyone with the temerity to disagree with any policies/positions supported by “their democracy”.
Rational people realize the Dems are insane and their positions are repulsive 🤮. The people of NYC are about to be schooled in the consequences of fully embracing “their democracy” as Mami the Commie creates the biggest US urban cesspool since the fall of Detroit. Think of the cost of this NYC downfall as tuition for the education of the rest of the US.
It will soon become obvious that Democrats should never be given the power to institute any policies, as it will become obvious that many should be confined to mental hospitals where they can no longer endanger themselves or the rest of the US. God help us.
A fine thing about JH Kunstler is that, despite his ongoing series of pungent and perceptive jeremiads worthy of the Old Testament prophet himself, he remains an American optimist at heart--i.e., that law and order will be restored, wrongdoing made right, and sanity prevail.
I hope he's right, yet we all (including Mr Kunstler himself) that such restoration might be a long time coming, more than likely after more disorder and collapse. The Great Simplification might take a while--hence, The Long Emergency.
1. Illegal tariffs? We will see what SCOTUS says. I have no problem with the POTUS trying to equalize the rip-off the world has been doing to the USA for decades. We cannot subsidize the world any more, it is driving us into bankruptcy.
2. Who is shredding the 1st amendment? Antifa, trying to destroy the USA with their destructive “protests”? The media with their totally biased reporting? The Dems shutting down the USA with their medical demands? Leftist madman shooting Kirk?
3. There has not been a declared war since Dec. 8, 1941. Trump has plenty of precedence. The Bretton Woods mentality still exits here, that the USA will care take the world. That needs to stop.
4. The deficit spending has been baked into the federal budget cake by 80 years of tax and spend. Mostly Democrat. Today, there is nowhere to cut without hurting millions. The latest tax and spend fiasco, the shutdown shows how close we are to collapse. We get to do it again in January.
5. You have no proof of this at all.
6. You are a joke on this one. There is no formal reception area, a ballroom, in the White House so he is building one. He is only there three more years, the ballroom is for posterity.
You are a dreamer about the next elections, cleaning up the ballot box elected Trump in ‘24, and the destruction of the Ult-Left will continue in ‘26 and ‘28.
The Federal Government should actually be funding itself with tariffs, not with income taxes.
I can't believe how so many people are getting their panties in a wad about a ballroom being added to the White House. Buildings get old and need to be renovated or removed and replaced. Just because it is the White House doesn't make it some sacred holy ground that can't be touched. People who are obsessing over this stupid ballroom are pissing me off, JohnAZ. There are more important things to obsess over, don't you agree?
Curing deficit spending will hurt millions but it has to happen. There is no alternative. Otherwise they continue to print worthless dollars and inflate our way into the Weimar republic. No nation that has tried to print its way out of its debt and spending problems has ended well.
The Left side has bargained away the spending picture by its “buying the vote” for three generations. The expenditures pie chart is loaded with items that are entitlements, payments to the people that are counted on now for subsistence.
There is so little discretionary funds remaining that no one can manipulate them. No matter what we cut, it will hurt millions.
So there is an item to discuss here, what can be cut without hurting millions and do something about the debt?
The shutdown was just the latest as the Left is busily trying to hide the fact that they are the Tax and Spend folks whose answer to everything is just to spend more and tax the rich. The Rich are NOT bottomless pits of capital.
I think Trump is trying to reduce the debt by levying tariffs on the world, like a toll bridge to the American market. The Supreme Court will likely side with Trump on this matter, as there is no plausible alternative to getting this external tariff revenue.
US manufacturers, as well as foreign ones, are being incentivized to build plants here in the US and hire American workers. Tax policies recently enacted will provide huge deductions for businesses to build these plants while at the same time raise productivity levels which will allow us to grow our way to a far healthier balance sheet.
The pain also needs to be felt in our social welfare system. The SNAP benefits have nearly doubled from pre-covid levels and more able-bodied individuals are receiving benefits for not working. Illegals need to be removed from the safety net that should be reserved for truly deserved American citizens. The left, as JHK and others have shown, is heavily dependent on government handouts and grift. They will scratch and claw, lie and steal, and lash out at all attempts to reform the system.
Whether all of this and far more gets completed, or even moved forward remains to be seen. If we don't stay the course on the reforms needed, we will likely lose our country to the Mamdanis of the world.
I have heard theories that the best thing the USA can do at this point would be to default on the debt. This will create choas in the bond and securities markets and destroy companies and corporations already buried by debt, but, it will purge the debt and free up what remains to start again. Painful, to many but necessary.
The only other alternative is to print our way out of the debt and that robs every citizen of ever cent of value in their savings.
Either way, in the end, we are all going to feel the pain. It has to happen. It will happen, one way or another.
A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public records across a wide sector or a nation. Hudson is a proponent of a debt jubilee, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that it was an alternative to a depression.
You are kidding right? Lauren Boebert? She's nothing more than an attention whore obsessed with her big boobs. Another woman. No more women in leadership. Please.
Holy Shit, Jim, I have never read a more apt description between the male and female voting mentality and why women really shouldn't be voting and why women really shouldn't be in positions of leadership. I know you didn't say or explain this directly, but the way you described the difference is stark and worded in such a way that the slow of mind can understand.
"women taking over the actual machinery of the party has transformed mere politics into never-ending psychodrama and boosted the amplitude of political dirty-fighting to dangerous new levels"
Bingo. There it is. Women love drama. They do. I watch it with my wife, my sisters and my daughters. If there is drama to be held they will find it. I watch it with my female employees. They are constantly calling in sick or late because of home drama while my male employees are here every day, have ample annual leave accruals and are steadily reliable. WOMEN THINK DIFFERENTLY than men do.
"Regular order is something that healthy male psychology takes an interest in, since it entails defense of the culture"
Bingo! There it is again. A healthy man wants things to be in order and functional and he wants and takes effort to protect those things and to keep them functional and orderly.
Most women, other than the intelligent thinkers among them, have no place in politics and they shouldn't be voting. Period. Women, especially American women today, are insane. The mutilate themselves with tattoos and facial piercings and then wander the wastes of America barely clothed showing all their cellulose for all to see. They have no grasp on reality.
An excellent summation of where we are as a nation, and the picture is not pretty. Too many leftist loons and their useful idiots determined to bring down the nation of the most freedom to replace it with their authoritarian version of governance where only the elites and their toadies call the shots. They cannot, and will not win at the ballet box, so their plans for mass insurrections and even civil war remain as their final move. Armed and trained with firearms is a necessity as their assassinations and threats of killings continue. These satanic cretins are not joking. Stay safe and keep your family and friends safe.
Too many people with too much time on their hands and too much "money" to spend.
If Americans had to worry about where their next meal was coming from I think they'd be less inclined to worry about the bullshit they obsess about these days.
We've gone too long without having to sacrifice or work hard for anything and it shows. A decadent, slothful and soulless people Americans have become.
The real and unstoppable war on America is run from the Federal Reserve bank. It will destroy our currency and society with it. It also funds all the dastardly deeds that our government does to us and covers the real sins that would be apparent without he magic of printed money flowing.
But as history proves, that sleight of hand can last only so long. Reality eventually wins and reality will comes in an instant. How did you go broke? Slowly at first and then all at once.
Yes, the printing of foney money will be our undoing. Most people just ignore this big fat stinky elephant that is sitting in the corner of their living rooms. I work hard for my money but my money now buys less and less every year.
They have no intention of stopping the money printing either. They can't. Their only alternative to keep the USA empire afloat is to print the worthless dollars. Mr. Trump himself won't address this money printing. He knows the truth and refuses to do anything about it.
Ron Paul understood and tried but he couldn't get enough support. He's the only one I know of who truly understood the danger of the FED.
Think of it. Since the advent of the FED, by the Woodrow Wilson administration, the USA has been in a constant state of war.
The Fed reacts to the inflation and unemployment caused by the alternating Tax and Spend policy of the Left and the austerity of the Right, The increased problems of today stem from the lack of austerity during the Bush administrations and the second term of Reagan. That is the rise of the Deep State.
Nope. Inflation has one source and it is the creation of "money" from nothing. That creation allows the spending of gov beyond their means and they will never stop until it's over.
The problems all start with the un-Constitutional power the government gave to the Federal Reserve. The gov would not have been able to run perpetual deficits without the printing press. That's why they created it.
Wilson was a Communist. He knew what he signed into law, the destruction of the Republic. I hope he's burning in Hell with John McCain and, if we're lucky, they will be joined shortly by Lindsey Graham.
The Fed was created to print our money into oblivion by the same Communists who now infest all of our bureaucracies.
Woodrow Wilson was a Communists, well they would have used Socialist, but as Lenin stated, the goal of Socialism is Communism.
The Commies are working the long game. The Russians figured them out and then they emigrated to the West. Europe and the Americas are full of them. They infected education, media, gov, big business. They all hate us.
He might live another ten or twenty years. Hell, he might live forever. David Rockefeller lived to 101 and supposedly had at least 6 heart transplants. When your soul is pure evil, you have to extend your time here on earth because you know where you're going when you die.
He probably never goes out where he could be taken out. I mean, have you seen a picture of the guy? He looks like a pasty white ghost under a sagging white sheet.
MAGA and the GOP got the message during the off-year elections in November. Hopefully we'll dig deep and make the adjustments necessary to save our country. Something positive has to happen with the economy for sure.
It’s somewhat unlikely that election results in blue states, like NJ and NY, was much of a surprise. What IS a surprise is that the MAGA movement is being destroyed from within. The loss of a voice like Charlie Kirk has created a void where ‘influencers’ with questionable motives are attempting to take his place.
Anytime you hear the “our democracy” boilerplate know it is an intentional & faux sleight-of-hand; the United States was founded as a representational, constitutional republic not a democracy. The Founders hated democracy because it’s mob rule - there’s no electoral college. In a democracy L.A., Chicago, & NYC would solely & completely pick the president. Democracies always end in dictatorship & that’s what they seek.
With all due respect sir, trump himself is doing a pretty fabulous job of destroying Trumpism all by himself. 0 arrests, 600,000 Chinese students, h1b visas, hiding October jobless reports...most of that is just last week. I can go on and on... supporting Lindsey graham, wars galore, 50 year mortgages. What a disappointment he's been.
JHK infuses his writings with references to the French revolution on a fairly regular basis. Studying this period of time and the sequence of events in Europe can be instructive and bear similarity to the present state of affairs both here and in the Europe (EU) of today.
Look at Mamdani. What is he advocating? Control all aspects of the economy by the government, ie the PTB control everything. The Dems are showing their true face here, socialism IS autocracy, fascism or communism, whatever you want to call it. The affordability issues he is “addressing” has been caused by Leftist policies in Blue states and cities, the giveaway mentality. When the money runs out and the Dems debacle shows itself, the enemy is the “Rich”. Just wait until you see what happens in NYC when Mamdani finds out he has no tools to work with and what is left of the financial support moves to Texas and Florida. BTW, same thing in California.
John puts the rich in quotation marks. Why? The Rich all too often are the enemy. Fascism values them but keeps them on a short leash. John asks impatiently, So are the rich good or not? He doesn't get it. He thinks that they are - and that's fatal.
Bullshit! Your archenemy, the rich, create the jobs and make the economy. Not the stupid government. If the government disappeared tomorrow, no one would care. If Elon Musk et al, disappeared tomorrow, there would be no economy.
Bullshit, Dennis. The government screws up everything it touches, keep them away from my economy, thank you. You are so proud of New Zealand, name me one thing they are globally known for.
Here at home I opined ZM would be the next NYC mayor, met with 'not likely'. Turns out it is a pattern. A few hours North, MA (Healey, Campbell + Dem supermajority legislature and compliant court system) are from the same mould.
The demographic exiting MA is the 25-44 age group.
The pattern: create a problem, then find a grift, graft and state tyranny solution. Point fingers in any direction excluding self. Search for ways to blame DJT for everything, facts don't matter.
So... NYC will be an interesting experiment. Staten Island may yet decouple from the other boroughs.
"What began in 2016 as a simple, high-level plot to take out Donald Trump and squash Trumpism — a grassroots revolt against those very high-level DC insiders"
Trump's dismissal of the Epstein scandal as a "hoax" sure looks like the very opposite of a revolt against insiders. Instead it looks like Trump is protecting them at his own expense.
But maybe you're right and it's a trap for Democrats. Let's hope so, because it's the only way to keep any confidence in Trump.
If it never plays out as a trap, then Trump has proved himself as complicit as any of the insiders in maintaining elite power over the plebes.
Recently, Gilbert Doctorow has been discussing "the conflicts between key organizations in his (Putin's) government, namely the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the FSB, the successor organization to the KGB."
... and over the last few months, Gilbert Doctorow, as well as Trump and/or members of his administration have commented that there is ongoing direct communication between DJT and Vladimir Putin.
So, is Putin up against the equivalent of the US deep state; and are Trump and Putin in a battle against the UN / GLOBALISTS / ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT?
Then consider the various leaders who Trump has recently been engaging.
President Xi Jinping and China express strong support for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, viewing it as a critical framework for global cooperation and development. China has integrated the agenda into its national strategies and positions itself as a key partner in its global implementation, particularly through the Global Development Initiative (GDI).
Key Aspects of Xi Jinping's View
Strong Support and Commitment: Xi has repeatedly affirmed China's commitment to implementing the 2030 Agenda and views it as a significant opportunity for international collaboration. China was among the first countries to release a national plan for implementation.
Alignment with National Strategy: China has integrated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its own medium- and long-term national development strategies, such as its Five-Year Plans, emphasizing "high-quality development" and technological innovation.
Poverty Eradication: China highlights its own success in eradicating extreme poverty as a major contribution to the global agenda, achieving the relevant SDG goal 10 years ahead of schedule. This experience is shared with other developing nations to promote mutual learning.
Global Development Initiative (GDI): Xi introduced the GDI as a way to accelerate momentum on the 2030 Agenda. The GDI aims to steer global development toward a new stage of "balanced, coordinated and inclusive growth" by mobilizing resources and focusing on key areas like poverty reduction, food security, and clean energy partnerships.
South-South Cooperation: China emphasizes deepening South-South cooperation and has upgraded the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund to a Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, committing additional resources to support developing countries.
Prioritized Areas: China suggests that nine key areas should be prioritized for the Agenda's implementation: poverty and hunger eradication, innovation-driven development, industrialization, social security, equity and justice, environmental protection, climate change action, resource utilization, and national governance.
Multilateralism and Global Governance: Xi advocates for strengthening global governance and supporting the UN's central role in international affairs, using the 2030 Agenda as a framework for building a "community of shared future for mankind". China uses platforms like the World Economic Forum and High-level Dialogues on Global Development to promote these views.
In essence, Xi Jinping views the 2030 Agenda as fully aligned with China's domestic priorities and its foreign policy goals of promoting a fairer, more inclusive world order through practical cooperation and shared development.
Yes, tech leaders are embracing the 2030 Agenda's call for sustainability and social responsibility, even as the tech industry focuses on other pressing goals like AI development. While recent attention has been on AI and digital transformation, the expectation that leaders should consider environmental impact, ethical governance, and social good remains a key part of the modern leadership mandate. Many companies recognize that integrating these principles is essential for long-term success and that business can be a "force for good".
Evidence of continued embrace of the 2030 Agenda
Emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility: Many reports on future leadership trends include sustainability and social responsibility as core components of the modern CEO's role, directly aligning with the spirit of the 2030 Agenda.
Business as a force for good: The United Nations and other organizations highlight how embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be a way for businesses to demonstrate leadership and contribute to a better world.
Focus on long-term goals: While specific short-term priorities may shift, the underlying goals of addressing climate change, eradicating poverty, and ensuring peace and justice are seen as universal interests that tech can help achieve.
Potential areas of tension or challenges
Focus on immediate tech priorities: The rapid, urgent development of AI and other technologies can sometimes overshadow long-term sustainability goals, especially when companies face immediate competitive pressures.
Varying levels of commitment: The level of commitment to sustainability and the SDGs can vary significantly between companies, with some actively pursuing them and others facing challenges in implementation.
Political landscape: In some contexts, political shifts can create tension with the commitments to the 2030 Agenda, particularly regarding climate-related goals.
The business case: Although there is a growing consensus that social and environmental responsibility is good for business, integrating these principles can still present challenges for some leaders to fully prioritize over traditional profit-driven metrics.
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Looks to me like "capitalism" trumps the 2030 Agenda for tech leadership.
Donald Trump and his administration reject and denounce the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, viewing it as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
During his administration, a representative at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Edward Heartney, stated that the goals are "a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans".
The 2030 Agenda, adopted by 193 UN member nations in 2015, includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim to:
Eliminate poverty and hunger.
Ensure access to clean water, sanitation, and quality education.
Promote gender equality.
Take urgent action to combat climate change.
The Trump administration's position is a departure from the Obama administration, which had committed the U.S. to meeting the goals. This rejection is consistent with Trump's "America First" approach to international agreements, which included withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and other international initiatives
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman views the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development favorably and actively aligns it with Saudi Arabia's own comprehensive reform plan, Saudi Vision 2030. The two agendas share significant goals, particularly concerning economic diversification, sustainability, and quality of life improvements.
Key aspects of his approach include:
Alignment of Goals: Saudi Vision 2030, the Crown Prince's signature initiative launched in 2016, is designed to diversify the Kingdom's economy away from oil dependence, improve public services, and implement social reforms. These objectives inherently overlap with many of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda, such as those for clean energy, economic growth, and sustainable cities.
Emphasis on Sustainability: The Crown Prince has highlighted the development of renewable resources and environmental stewardship as central to the Kingdom's future, aligning with global shifts toward green energy and sustainable development principles.
International Cooperation: Saudi Arabia actively participates in international forums and initiatives related to the UN's agenda. For example, the "Riyadh Declaration on the Future of Tourism," which was a result of the UN Tourism General Assembly hosted in Riyadh, aims to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development within the tourism sector.
Global Standing: The Crown Prince is leveraging the alignment with the global agenda to enhance Saudi Arabia's international reputation and attract foreign investment. Saudi Arabia is set to host major global events like Expo 2030 and the FIFA World Cup in 2034, which further underscore its commitment to the timelines and goals of its national vision, which mirrors the spirit of the UN agenda.
In summary, Mohammed bin Salman is a strong proponent of the "2030 Agenda" as it pertains to the modernization and diversification of Saudi Arabia, frequently praising the achievements of the national Vision 2030 initiative in meeting these shared goals.
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"In summary, Mohammed bin Salman is a strong proponent of the "2030 Agenda" as it pertains to the modernization and diversification of Saudi Arabia ..." Let that sink in.
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung supports policies that align with aspects of the UN's broader 2030 agenda, particularly regarding climate change, sustainable development, and social welfare, viewing them as essential for the nation's future growth.
His administration's specific stances and policy priorities include:
Climate and Environment: Lee plans an accelerated transition to renewable energy and aims for renewables to account for 40% of South Korea's power generation mix by 2035. His government has established a new Ministry of Climate and Energy and intends to shut down coal plants by 2040, though he does not plan to immediately dismantle existing nuclear power generation capabilities.
Economic Development: Lee aims to transform South Korea into a top-tier economic powerhouse by investing heavily in future industries like artificial intelligence (AI), biohealth, and digital content creation. He views the AI industry as a matter of national economic survival and has put it at the top of the national agenda, aiming for South Korea to become a top-three AI power.
Social Welfare and Equality: He has proposed a "recovery growth happiness" economic strategy that focuses on household vitality and structural economic equity. Key social policies include offering tax deductions for parents, increasing public rental housing for newlyweds, and expanding nursing services and senior-friendly housing for the aging population. He has also focused on a "balanced national development" approach to concentrate less resources in the capital area and promote regional growth.
In summary, President Lee frames his policies in terms of ensuring sustainable national growth and the well-being of the people, which aligns with the spirit of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Javier Milei strongly opposes the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, viewing it as a "socialist" and "globalist" program that infringes on national sovereignty and individual freedoms. He has officially announced Argentina's formal dissent from the agenda at the UN General Assembly.
Key aspects of his stance include:
A "socialist lie": Milei considers the agenda and related initiatives, such as those related to climate change, to be part of a "socialist supranational government programme". He has called climate change a "socialist lie" and a natural, cyclical phenomenon, denying human influence
Threat to sovereignty: He argues that the agenda is an attempt by "international bureaucrats" to impose a specific way of life and regulations on member states, thus undermining national sovereignty and the right to self-determination.
Economic freedom: Milei believes the policies promoted by the agenda, such as zero-emission goals, disrupt natural economic processes and harm poor countries by imposing restrictions on development and trade. He advocates for free enterprise capitalism as the only tool to end poverty.
"Agenda of Freedom": At the UN General Assembly in September 2024, Milei declared that Argentina would abandon its historical neutrality and instead pursue an "agenda of freedom," urging other nations to join him in creating a new, less invasive international framework.
Withdrawal of support: His government has disengaged from many global policy issues related to gender, human rights, climate change, and social justice, adopting new positions that contradict the 2030 Agenda. He had also previously expressed an intent to withdraw Argentina from the Paris Agreement on climate change, though the implementation of this requires parliamentary approval
Viktor Orbán has a nuanced approach to the 2030 Agenda, largely focusing on specific elements and prioritizing Hungarian national interests and sovereignty over global directives. He generally uses the term "2030" to refer to Hungary's specific national development goals rather than the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Key aspects of his stance include:
National Sovereignty: Orbán emphasizes a "sovereign path" for Hungary, focusing on national interest rather than broad "Brussels' ambitions or war-driven agendas". He has framed his government's long-term strategies, including economic and military goals set for around 2030, as part of a "national course building" process, distinct from externally imposed agendas.
Climate Policy: While Hungary has a national climate law committing to climate neutrality by 2050 and a 40% emissions reduction by 2030, Orbán's approach is pragmatic and linked to economic viability. He has stated that climate goals are good in principle but should only be committed to if the financing sources are clear, to avoid imposing "unbearable burdens on voters and households". He promotes climate policy as "Christian democratic-based", focusing on nuclear and solar energy to reach 90% carbon-neutral electricity production by 2030.
Opposition to Globalist Ideologies: Orbán often criticizes what he sees as globalist or liberal international agendas. The UN's Agenda 2030, which encompasses a wide range of social and environmental goals, has become a focal point of criticism for some far-right leaders globally who view it as a project of external influence. Orbán's rhetoric generally aligns with this skepticism towards international initiatives that might challenge his government's policies, particularly on issues like migration and family policy.
Domestic Focus: He has stated that Hungary is on track to meet its own economic and social targets by 2030, such as achieving a specific GNP and increasing the national birth rate through family policies, which he contrasts with Western European approaches like immigration.
In summary, Orbán views the general timeframe of 2030 as a benchmark for Hungarian national strength and self-sufficiency, but he is critical of the broader, internationally-driven UN Agenda 2030, particularly those elements he perceives as undermining national control or economic stability.
"A little less than a month ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was called in by the Trump White House to come up with a peace plan that Vladimir Putin and Russia would consider. So, Armstrong came up with a nearly 200-page plan called “Peace Proposal to Prevent World War III.” Top Trump officials met with Armstrong Friday, and there is still a possibility the US could get a peace deal. Recently, Trump gave Hungary an exemption to buying sanctioned Russian oil. Armstrong says, “This is a positive sign.” The Russians signaled that they are also still interested in “Trump-backed peace talks with Ukraine.” If Europe, NATO and Ukraine won’t go along, then Armstrong is advising President Trump to “get the hell out of NATO.”"
Has the new prime minister of Japan ditched the 2030 Agenda?
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Japan's current Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, has not explicitly "ditched" the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs); however, her administration's recent policy shifts and priorities suggest a potential change in emphasis compared to previous administrations.
Previous Prime Ministers, including Fumio Kishida and Shigeru Ishiba, strongly and publicly committed Japan to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a national movement and a core part of their foreign policy. Japan even established an "SDGs Promotion Headquarters" led by the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Takaichi, who took office on October 21, 2025, has prioritized different policies, including:
Fiscal Austerity and Regulatory Reform: Her government is emphasizing fiscal discipline and reduced government intervention, pulling back from some large-scale government investments in technology that were previously planned.
Increased Defense Spending: She has pledged to accelerate the goal of increasing defense spending to 2% of GDP earlier than the original 2027 target.
Prioritizing Domestic Issues: She is expected to skip the COP30 climate summit to focus on the extraordinary Diet session and domestic economic issues like inflation, a move that analysts say could weaken Japan's influence in international climate talks.
While the previous government's official statements, such as the 2024 Diplomatic Bluebook, reiterated Japan's commitment to achieving the SDGs by 2030 and leading global efforts, recent news coverage of Takaichi's administration has focused more on a shift in economic and defense policies. There are no explicit statements in the search results indicating that she has completely abandoned the entire 2030 Agenda, but her administration appears to be re-evaluating or de-prioritizing certain international and environmental commitments in favor of domestic concerns and different economic strategies.
Have Japanese citizens had their fill of foreigners carving graffiti on their shrines?
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Graffiti at Yasukuni Shrine Reignites Tensions Over Japan's ...
Yes, recent acts of vandalism against shrines, including graffiti by foreigners, have caused significant public concern and outrage in Japan. Many Japanese citizens are fed up with the disrespectful behavior of a minority of tourists, which has led to increased security, calls for stricter penalties, and a broader debate about how to manage the negative impacts of tourism on cultural sites.
Specific incidents: There have been several high-profile cases of vandalism, such as an American tourist carving letters into a pillar at Meiji Shrine and a Canadian teenager carving his name into a pillar at the UNESCO World Heritage site Toshodaiji Temple.
Public reaction: These incidents have sparked outrage on social media and in the news, with many Japanese people expressing that this behavior is disrespectful and damaging to their cultural heritage.
Consequences: The vandalism has led to concrete actions, including enhanced security measures at shrines (like fences and cameras) and calls for stricter enforcement of laws against vandalism. Some smaller shrines have even banned all foreign tourists, as noted by this Unseen Japan article.
Broader context: While the misbehavior of a few foreigners is a major concern, many sources emphasize that this is not representative of all tourists and that Japan still welcomes visitors who show respect for its culture and customs. The issue has become a focal point for discussions on how to balance tourism growth with the preservation of cultural sites and public sentiment.
David Schoen is a prominent American attorney who specializes in federal criminal defense and civil rights law, known for representing high-profile clients including President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial.
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My hope is that he is providing an honest objective assessment.
Tom Pritzker is the cousin of J.B. Pritzker, the current Governor of Illinois.
Both are members of the wealthy and influential Pritzker family, which founded and still largely owns the Hyatt Hotels Corporation, among other business ventures.
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Yes, Governor Pritzker embraces the goals of the 2030 Agenda, particularly through the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), which includes a goal of having one million electric vehicles on Illinois roads by 2030. His administration has also joined the U.S. Climate Alliance, aligning Illinois with the Paris Agreement goals, which are the foundation for the 2030 Agenda.
Yes, both the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU) have embraced the 2030 Agenda and are actively working on its principles, which encompass ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) concepts. The CoE approaches the 2030 Agenda through a human rights-based lens and focuses on areas like gender equality and justice. The EU has also reaffirmed its commitment to the 2030 Agenda through various conclusions and policies, with the European Commission integrating the goals into its work, and the Council of the EU taking steps to regulate ESG ratings.
Council of Europe (CoE)
Human rights-based approach: The CoE integrates the 2030 Agenda using a human rights-based approach, working with its 47 member states to support implementation.
Key SDGs: The CoE's work particularly focuses on several of the 17 SDGs, including Gender Equality (SDG 5), Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16), and Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17).
European Union (EU)
Commitment and integration: The EU has repeatedly reaffirmed its strong commitment to the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, making them a central part of its policy-making.
Implementation: The European Commission is actively implementing the agenda through its programs, and the Council of the EU has adopted conclusions and regulations to support its goals.
ESG regulation: The EU has taken steps to specifically regulate ESG rating agencies, demonstrating a concrete commitment to the "Governance" aspect of ESG, as explained by Eye on ESG.
Integrated strategy: The EU aims to promote an integrated, strategic, and comprehensive approach to implementing the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs
To comprehend the answers, just imagine that every country has a UN feeding trough that is paid for by US!
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Does Google AI embrace the 2030 Agenda?
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Yes, Google AI actively embraces the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, both by using AI to help achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and by setting its own corporate sustainability targets for the same year.
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Is it an oxymoron that Google AI embraces the 2030 Agenda?
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It is not necessarily an oxymoron, as Google frames its AI development as a tool to achieve the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, some may view it as a contradictory concept due to the environmental impact of AI and the general criticism that "sustainable development" itself can be seen as an oxymoron, or find the "embrace" less genuine due to concerns like "greenhushing" or a growing carbon footprint from AI operations.
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If the world were to go 100% Green Energy by the year 2030, would AI, or the human species, be in decline?
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Implementing a 100% green energy system by 2030 would likely not inherently cause a decline in either the human species or AI. The transition would be a significant technological, economic, and logistical challenge, but it's fundamentally about changing energy sources, not existential threats [1].
The democrat party seems now to be composed of two groups; true believers and grifters/opportunists. In the former group, which is by far the largest, are feminists, racialists, sexual deviants and every other lunatic falling within the definition of "social justice warrior." In the latter group are the hard core grifting global elite; the Soros, Clinton, Schumer et al. group who are actually running the show for their personal financial benefit. They view the true believers as disposable cannon fodder to be used along with the shock troops of imported foreigners against the traditional American citizens. Neither group views itself as citizens of America; they are above mere patriotism. They owe their allegiance only to themselves and their petty, private interests.
"No new psychodrama will avail to stop what’s coming."
Wanna bet? The left has learned nothing and simply doubles down again and again and again. Then we enter the "cornered animal" phase and things get - shall we say - rather sporting. There are many of us out here in all corners of the country ready for when that occurs. It shall be very, uh, er, clarifying.
With the personas the left has promoted to lead itself, there is NO OTHER option. There is a startling array of incompetents and deceitful, self-interested psychopaths leading the left.
Their ONLY play is to double down, because they are actually incapable of bringing value to this country.
Gavin Newsome is their frontrunner and that guy is a bald faced blathering leftist idiot. He's coming. Are you ready for him?
They double down because they also know that half the fucking country still identify and vote as Democrat! It's very very very hard for people to reject their tribe, even if they know their tribe is wrong.
Better to vote for the bald-headed (former) Brit who tells the truth, than voting for the good-hair guy who tells bald-faced lies. : )
I can't imagine Greasy Gavin Gekko gaining much traction with anyone. He's about as feckless as they come—with his dinner at French Laundry fresh in our covid-bullied minds.
Beth, your words are too kind. Honestly, I can't think of any salty enough. Scumbag just doesn't do it.
It does seem that way. Sort of like a cult rather than a political party.
"It's very very very hard for people to reject their tribe, even if they know their tribe is wrong."
Yep - and "It takes two to tango."
Some tribes are much stronger in this regard than others. Very few gypsies are ever going to leave that. Ditto Muslims and Jews.
Lugh, if only... perhaps the wisdom of hindsight, we can more clearly understand the "Tribe" that Christian, White, Hetero, traditional Americans should have formed - instead of what France proposed with that "...tired and poor, yearning to be free". Nope. Eff that.
On Fox this morning, a survey was put up. 24% of adults said they would like to leave the USA if they could. That seems high to me. A subset was over 50% of young women would leave.
Insanity dwells deeply in the young people of the country. They look to the future and it looks grim, per a lot of reasons we talk about weekly. They are looking for a target, a scapegoat and the Dems have done a good job of putting the blame on MAGA. That is why Charlie Kirk had to be eliminated. Young people do not understand shit about life, that is why they are so easily guided by propaganda bullshit. I will not comment on the gender gap.
I saw that, and thought it was preposterous, probably fake news.
But insanity it is. Poor parenting and corrupting influences in society/education have wrecked the average young brain.
You are right, young minds are created by their environment and minds younger than 25 are very malleable to the bullshit that swirls around them.
All ages pursue one thing, the Truth. Politicians exist to try to distort the Truth.
Young minds.........You have to also factor in the level of disinformation that masquerades as education in our schools. Look at the leader of the union for education, a self-identified Communist. The growing class of teachers all over the USA are left-wing communists/anarchists/perverts/mentally ill. These kids are exactly what the Marxists said was the path to taking down a country. Give us one generation of children they say and we can have a successful revolution. They have had several generations and what do you see on the streets? Many of them are women.
The politicians are only on one side......their own.
Question is: What are the educators getting out of this? Why are universities so biased left?
The same as religion exists to distort the truth, eh John?
What is "insane" about being young and wanting to flee a country that is constantly yammering on about its impending civil war?
Many of the people that filled the USA were rationally doing the exact same thing eight, ten, twelve decades ago, you know?
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What is "insane" is navel gazing 24x7 while thinking yourself exceptional. That there's bat-shit crazy, Oc.
What is with Canadians and their fleas?
Ha! You got me there, Ely. I will fix my typo/brain-fart right now.
"24% of adults said they would like to leave the USA if they could. ... Insanity dwells deeply in the young people of the country. They look to the future and it looks grim, per a lot of reasons we talk about weekly."
Easier there, big fella! It is not "insane" to be young and want to leave a place that is constantly talking about its impending civil war. That's rational.
As someone who has visited many areas of the world, these kids should be made to check out the alternatives. Attitudes would change.
John, according to this [ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life ], Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, Finland, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK, Austria, Belgium, Japan, Ireland, France, Luxembourg, Spain, Iceland, Portugal and Italy all surpass the USA in Quality of Life. That's 21 different countries that they could flea to before your predicted, anticipated Civil War 2.0 that are better than your 22nd place is before your Civil War!
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What is "insane" is believing that your morally-, spiritually-, fiscally-broke country is still "exceptional."
Well, you got us there, that's for sure. All the more reason to attack?
Phil, that's quite a list, thank you. It does make.me wonder, though; what would be the "quality of life" in these countries without the $ aid sent to them? Which begs the next question - what would be the improvement in quality of life in the U.S. if we kept our money here?
Agreed!! 💯
If Ignorance is Bliss,, why aren't more people happy?!
What is Kamloops like? Is it true what they say about the girls? Maybe we can avoid civil war by attacking Canada?
I just drove through Kamloops once in 2015 and I don't even know what they say about Kamloops gals.
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You will have your civil war if your overlords want it regardless of little ole Canada.
Kamloops Gals Braid Their Armpits.
Where would the 24 percent request refugee status? I’d love to read the answers. Cuba has single payer (socialist) healthcare and the private ownership of guns are banned, but no one is floating rafts south of Key West.
Hahaha! Is this the very first time that you've ever been exposed to polling data?
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"USA is better than Cuba!" "... ... therefore ... ?" "Therefore the USA is better than a shithole decimated by 6+ decades of US economic sanctions." "Right. Good thinking."
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See https://www.kunstler.com/p/our-democracy-im-sure/comment/177254661
There are 21 countries with a better quality of life rating than the USA. [You're right - Cuba is not one of them. Good work!]
There is constant pressure, mostly from the left, to lower the voting age. It's easy to see why: young people's life experience is mostly in establishment-run institutions like schools and colleges, along with constant drama involving their peers. Neither provides much guidance for nationwide issues. A complex world often seems threatening to the younger generation, hence their need to fit in where they find acceptance among the like-minded.
So they are suckers for ideologies and organizations that pour oil on their thrashing anxieties. Of course they're not the only voters looking for group salvation, but practiced manipulators (e.g., politicians and movement leaders) find them especially pliable.
One basic way to reform the system would be to restrict the franchise to those who are more likely to have reached the age of discretion, and whose self-interest involves the effective functioning of society, not just milking it for personal benefit.
I always did like the setup Heinlein proposed in _Starship Troopers_. If you want the franchise, earn it with some sort of service, military or otherwise.
As an Xer, I came of age just as Reagan ascended, and I prospered by snapping up the scraps left by the Boomers. It was not easy, but it wasn't horrible, either. I don't understand the despair of younger generations . . . Not as someone who was graduated into Carter's bleak, stagflated world with farmers in my area killing themselves and their families. Even worse, preceding generations faced conscription and bloody death, not to mention dust bowls and depression. Student loans and housing bubbles pall in comparison.
No knees gut brains.
The Stags fight for the does. The does have their fawns. The fawns grow up to be bucks or does. Is it not perfection, albeit of a low order?
You have a good point. I believe Charlie Kirk was murdered because he was very effective in spreading the truth about our Republic and the role of limited government in our lives. These young people are our future voters and our future. The Democrats and RINO Republicans can't have critical thinking young people who are educated in regard to the US Constitution and who understand that the intent is to have a small government elected by the people to represent them in Congress a few times a year to vote on individual bills. And after each session they return to their jobs in their cities and towns to live under the bills that they just passed.
The Deep State socialists have used two major methods to change half the American people into Gimme lemmings. The education system and illegal immigration have stupidified the USA. Note that what the Dems et al are attacking the most is the MAGA trying to undo the damage that has been done. ICE and Charlie are both representations of the targeting the Libs are doing. Th reception both are receiving by the people will be voted on next year.
Fox News is chicken-shit anymore!
Yup, but depends on WHO you watch.
I think everyone on this side of the argument is ready. Wait until you can see the whites of their eyes.
To reiterate: "A color revolution is the surreptitious overthrow of an elected government by concealed parties." Over their first eight years, (and continuing under four years of O'Biden) Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett embedded a layer of Marxists at key positions within the federal bureaucracy. Then these Communist revolutionaries, (living on federal government paychecks), built a complex matrix of NGOs outside the government - to control their useful idiots with jobs and salaries.
And now a 34-year-old Islamic communist that wasn’t even a U.S. citizen a decade ago, is going to be the next mayor of New York City. The largest city in the United States is about to descend into a state of complete and utter chaos, and everyone can see that this is a story that is not going to have a happy ending.
Wake up and smell the coffee. Our Constitutional Republic is fallen. A hot civil-war between blue and red states is not an impossibility.
There are no blue states, only blue cities.
That's right. Personally the sooner the better. I want to make degenerate communist subhuman filth pay for what they have done and are trying to do.
I am a minister of death praying for war.
24 years later, 9/11 is a proven success. New York now has a jihadi Mayor.
I keep hearing that Mamdani is a jihadist. Please provide your sources.
Is he a believing Muslim?
If so, then he is by necessity a jihadist.
Mamdani IS NOT a jihadist! LOL
The same as Trump IS NOT a fascist.
"A hot civil-war between blue and red states is not an impossibility." I doubt it will sort out that cleanly. It's more likely that any conflict will occur within states between rural red factions and urban blue factions. In California for instance, most of the blue areas exist in the coastal strip.
Rather an inevitability.
In some form or another. The division isn’t by state but by person.
Thank you for reminding me of the "whites of their eyes" quote. It is an apt metaphor for what we are currently going through.
If you can see the white at the top of someone's eye, you can know that they are crazy. This is natural only when the average person is very angry.
They do not want to bring value to the USA. They only want to destroy order. Study the French Revolution. They want to do away with the calendar and change time. Mao was similar. Killing people wearing glasses was a favorite of Mao, and copied by Pol Pot. Destruction of the common good will never be the goal of the Left. Its like the Kill Whitey in SA. It is never to learn from the Whiteman and to become better than the Whiteman. Their only goal is to kill the whitey. Same with Aoc, and rad left. Violence now?? We ain't seen nothing yet
They know we are at war and they intend to win it. How many on our side have this level of clarity?
Great point.
This is existential.
sadly Lugh, very few. Or, the ones on our side who know but are too complacent, lazy, scared into immobility... or what not. There are more than a few of us out here in the hinterlands that do know we're at war, civil and spiritual. And before things go kinetic - which is likely inevitable - we live our lives while awaiting "their" next move. High ground and that...
You know, if they would have waited another 10 years or so, they could have been successful. But impatience and greed - and they made their move too soon. Now, there are lots of folks who will oppose them.- kinetically, violently, and likely viciously - for what "they" have done. The "awakened Saxon" is real; and will surprise both sides...
That's clearly the beauty of the right: no self-interested psychopaths.
LOL
Indeed.
They are protecting the gravy train at all costs….
The left has learned that no matter what they do - crime, sedition, treason - the GOP will not hold them accountable.
If you want to know why the Ds have swung so far left, and taken so much of the country with them, I give you the GOPe’s utter failure to defend the law.
The great challenge is how to get rid of the RINO or GOPe "Bushie" faction of party leadership which still controls too many of the state parties and likely the RNC, the Senate leadership etc.
The Republican voter is MAGA, while the elected Republican is still too often
the old controlled opposition "Democrat Lite."
We've all heard the old line that "a lot of the Republicans in DC are actually Democrats, but there are no Democrats in DC who are actually Republicans."
How about we get rid of the fucking political parties altogether and just start having non-partisan elections. Focus on the candidate and the issues, not on the damned party. God I hate this political party bullshit.
I know Washington despised "the Party man" for good reason. In the early days if I recall correctly the guy who came in second was made Vice President. That would sure tamp things down for at least a little while. It seems we lost that lever that required working together. The shiv in the back of the Republic that really iced it in my opinion is the 17th amendment which neutered the 10th amendment big time.
And the the shiv was twisted by the 19th Amendment, which gave the adult children the right to vote.
It's time to revert to voting by those who have an actual stake in the success of our country. Anyone on assistance i.e. welfare do not get a vote. To be a citizen, in good standing for 5-10 years before you get a vote. You must be 21, and own something like a home or some form of actual participation in the success of our country. Letting kids vote was a real dumb idea, especially as we watch education circle the drain.
Washington's farewell address highlights the man's disdain for political parties and foreign entanglements. Our forefathers didn't listen.
You are spot on about the 17th Amendment. That amendment destroyed the Jeffersonians and the States' rights balance of power. Up until that time the Senate represented the STATE, not the people. Since then the Senate is nothing more than a glorified House of Representatives.
Lincoln began the death of the Jeffersonian States' rights people and Woodrow Wilson finished it off. The balance of power has been broken and is all in favor of the Federalist now. Unfortunately the system, as it was designed by the founders, was a compromise between the Jeffersonians, the Federalists and the people and that balance of power has long been crippled.
Glad to read that there are people like you out there who understand this stuff, John Schrauth.
TERM LIMITS! Only problem is they will fight to the death to stay in power and prevent it from ever coming up for a vote.
The GOP is so craven and compromised that they will never hold anyone to account.
They never have. Why start now?
What GOP, the RINOs (led by Bushies and Cheneys) or MAGA, today’s version of the Tea Party? Do you consider Trump and MAGA mainstream GOP? Or the RINOs? Hint, who won in 2024? The term GOP has no meaning for me any more and I am waiting for MAGA to disown the RINO sector, permanently. Trump is starting to show some frailty so better start thinking about who is going to take his place. I will guarantee you, the Left is already trying to demonize his likely successors.
"Do you consider Trump and MAGA mainstream GOP?"
Oh, JohnAZ, again with the whole MAGA mantra? You are stuck in this MAGA fantasy and refuse to face reality. MAGA is the Tea Party 2.0 and what did the Tea Party 1.0 do to bring about change to Americans political system? NOTHING. Zero. Zip. Nada.
The USA is still spending money it doesn't have. Still waging wars in foreign lands that pose no threat to it. Still growing the size of government. Still printing money to monetize its debts.
The Tea Party did nothing. MAGA will do nothing.
Your faith in this MAGA stuff is admirable but it is misplaced. MAGA will not do what it takes to correct America (stop spending money).
Just one question, Cankerpuss. What is an alternative? Where should I put any faith into to resolve the problems that are so obvious. What in our society can stop the power of the globalist owned Deep State?
MAGA, IMHO, is the only possibility as it is really the only anti-Deep State outfit around. MAGA is not only Donald Trump.
You write, "MAGA is the Tea Party 2.0 and what did the Tea Party 1.0 do to bring about change to Americans political system? NOTHING. Zero. Zip. Nada."
I disagree. They were cut-off at the knees by both party's. They were initially successful and TPTB destroyed the movement. MAGA has not accomplished anything close to what the Tea Party was doing as a grass roots movement.
MAGA is a farce. Miriam Adelson Governs America.
Yes, the GOP are the hypocrites. They are the assigned vocal opposition, in it only for the money promised them by their campaign contributions. They have no interest in truly rectifying or changing the situation in America. I despise Democrats. But I truly hate and loathe all things Republican. At least with a Democrat you know you are going to abortion loving death worshiping satanists. With Republicans you think you are getting the good guys but you are just getting Democrat scum in disguise.
You have to keep in mind the GOP is an organization based on self-interest. These GOP leaders and the majority of the elected are paid to look away and not disrupt what the Dems are doing unless they can get a photo op pretending to care.
Like a child that's never been disciplined, isn't it? They keep pushing.
Who the UniParty Law Enforcers?
On one hand, you're probably right. The left (particularly the young women on the left) are so bugfuck insane, it's very hard to see how this ends without violence... Which is terrible, but it's not at all clear how it can be avoided.
When you have a group of people who are convinced that politics is for validation and affirmation, and are so determined that they are just like "straight white men" that any disparity in outcome is evidence that they are being brutally repressed that they are willing to not only throw everyone else's civil liberties and material wellbeing out the window, they're willing to do so *using those people's own wages* in the form of taxation... Violence, justified or not, is the most likely outcome.
But on the other hand, the girlboss types that are running places like NYC into the ground have no ability to project physical power into the countryside, as they don't have the white house, senate, or house, and contrary to their fantasies, they're not going to go She-Ra on Cletus themselves.
So it seems most likely that the violence will be in the cities.
Why, 15 years ago, I deliberately moved to the country (S. GA) after being a city girl my whole life. Here, guns outnumber people. And it's Trump country. In fact, I met my first Democrat (who admitted to it) a few months ago! (I don't get out much.) I would've enjoyed a discussion, but she refused to even comment. Weird.
Same in LA (Lower Alabama). When you here gunfire, you ignore it - nothing to be concerned about. When you hear a siren you get worried. Exactly the opposite in the city.
I lived in LA for 6 years in the late 70's -----between Satsuma and Creola---when you heard gunfire it only meant that someone has probably just secured some meat for dinner for the rest of the week. Coming from Ohio I think the people did not believe me when I said I loved LA more than where I came from but.....ultimately moved to Texas before settling in the Ozarks.
Girls, that is what they are, are scared to death of the future. Remember the MRS degree in college? Females need males to have security. The Left tells them, nah, you do not need husbands, and we are coming to emasculate the male population so you do not need them. The Girls are being cut loose by society today and they are scared into insanity. They have no one to turn to, both parties are abandoning them. So they are suckers for the Mamdani style “We will take care of you”. I project a huge move by Girls to get hitched in the future as things deteriorate.
Some sort of reversion to the mean is inevitable
Are you a misogynist, John?
A person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women:
I worked with women for half of my working days, dolt. I have huge respect for women who are hard working and supporting their families, but none for crybaby Karens, who are a load on society.
My statement stands.
I don't like the women in the HR department who gave mandatory training on misgendering last year. Or the women who demand more women in my industry without any clear objectives, other than affirmation... Basically public thumb sucking for "adults", where no goals or accountability are provided or even requested. Does that count?
Yes, most women have lost it. Just look at the purple hair, the pussy hats, the nose rings, lip rings and tattoos and you'll see it.
Want a good example of what women have become? Check out the two stars to that new movie, the remake of the Wizard of Oz, I can't remember the name right now. One of them is Arianna Grande. I think she's a female of latina origin but when looking at her, one can't be too sure. She's not white but she just looks weird, almost like a bug or something. She is very emaciated. She just doesn't look right. Then at her side is a black chick with facial piercings, shaved head and shaved eye brows wearing some kind of leather dominatrix outfit one would see in a Friday the 13th horror film. Looks scary as hell. Breitbart.com ran an article on these two sweeties ranting about how the Wizard of Oz is "gay as hell" and was written for LTBTEADEZAQ+ crowd. This what women have become. It's hard to watch.
What changed is that all women were granted political power by men via the 19th Amendment. This seems to have been a mistake.
Once women are married and have a male child, they may begin to see the importance of national borders, if only to protect their own sons from hostile invaders who would kill them.
But before that point, women are, as a general rule, greatly aroused by the idea of sexy foreign male invaders who prove themselves physically superior to the local men. This is so deep in the female brain that it's even true among female chimpanzees, and for good evolutionary reason. A woman wants the best (most aggressive) male genes to make sons who can spread her own genes the best.
All of this is utterly unspeakable in polite society precisely because it's so old and so true.
Bollocks on stilts, as Mark Steyn says.
An insult is not an argument.
What part do you disagree with exactly, and why?
Why I disagree: I don't believe the rape fantasy myth.
Everything after "...women are, as a general rule, greatly aroused by the idea of sexy foreign male invaders..."
Why is “violence” terrible?? I won’t for a nanosecond hesitate to put a bűllet in the ear of a psycho-tard girl boss as I would anyone else who’s an unrepentant sworn enemy of every thing I hold sacred.
Because it spirals out of control, rapidly, and would hurt people I care about, not just idiot girlboss types.
lol …it’s already out of control.
The left is banking on your nutless sentiment.
Get tf back in the kitchen if you’re too squeamish.
Indeed! Cletus isn't her pantywaist gamer "boyfriend" and he has a scoped deer rifle.
Hey there! Believe it or not, my grandfather's name was Cletus
John----let me add one clarifying point to your post. And.....Cletus knows where his bullet will strike the target when shooting at something 25, 50, 100 and 200yards away-- probably 300 yards also.
...and lead by two to three steps.
That's a great second paragraph there. The concept that politics is for validation and affirmation is a HUGE driver in society today, whether politics, our education system or social media.
And once the focus is on feelz, all methods are justified to enforce.
And this is the societal longhouse in action.
I doubt it will end in violence. More likely as TS Elliott described: “This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
It’s interesting that he wrote that over 100 years ago now. Although it’s rather demoralizing, the entire poem makes a fascinating and prescient read. https://poets.org/poem/hollow-men
Whimpering has already happened, bang comes next.
I fear your peek at the near future is, unfortunately, accurate, NN. Looking at our world today, one can visualize any number of possible dystopian outcomes, with virtually no path back to the glory days of the post war world of my misspent youth.
Agree that the worst effects of the violence to come will be felt in urban areas - but when the rabble rousers advise those tens of millions of starving urbanites that those dirty farmers have food ...
Then TSHTF!
There are so many guns in the hands of good people in this country, I try to hope that when this happens the good people with guns will rise up and put and end to the insanity. I mean a real end. There will be lots of death. Truth is, some of these people can't be rehabilitated. The only answer will be a swift execution.
Mr. C--- if what Andy mentions comes true and the starving urbanites try to take away what those dirty farmers have, there will be a lot of lead flying and unfortunately a lot of decent urbanites will get killed because I am afraid it will be shoot first and ask questions later. People will not be afraid to go postal on people whom they think are danger to their children, families and food supplies. Luckily for me, my wife and I live a couple hour drive from any large city so......a lot of those urbanites will be winnowed out by the time they get this far from the city. Could get real ugly.
There are a lot of good people out there who are armed to the teeth. I am one of them. We have seen too many end of the world dystopian movies where society de-evolves into Mad Max kind of shit. I don't believe that will happen. There will be roving bands of gangs, sure, but they won't last long. If there is no law, people will take the law into their own hands and large mobs of fair minded people will put down and eliminate the roving bands of gangs. There might be a time of chaos and ugliness but it will be short.
Evil is alive and well in this world but there is still much good out there and many good people who won't put up with the bull shit for very long.
Good people do good things. And bad people do bad things, Cankerpuss. But for good people to do bad things that takes religion.
TPTB have been pushing for a Civil War. They just may get it. And it will be as they say, "Kinetic".
Yes, sort of a circular firing squad.
Agreed. The left is regrouping. They will be back in 2026. They will re-take the House and the Senate and we'll spend the next two years watching impeachment after impeachment of Mr. Trump. Book it. The average American voter is just too damned stupid to think outside the two party voting system, or, the system it too corrupted to be fixed by a bunch of people who have no interest in fixing it.
Right now, there is no two part system, as both parties disintegrate. New parties forming soon.
I'll take it, lead > psychodrama, every time.
Hard to disagree, but what if the cornered animal is both incompetent and kind of passive-aggressive? How does that play out? I don’t know that anyone has seen a revolution like this.
Brilliantly said, Thomas! ❤️🇺🇸👍🏻
At this point, indictments mean very little. There is a profound disconnect between knowing and responding. We know Epstein worked for Israel, but nothing changes. The list is not released. Short explanation: The enemy controls our national nervous system, the levers of power.
Here we o, everything is Israel's fault, huh, Lugh. Did you notice that DS was dumped by JHK earlier? You might try keeping it civil about Israel.
You identify with Arab losers? What does that make you?
You're walked right into. As I always say, normies think they have to take one side another. The higher third is to take our own side.
The Soviet Union made anti-Semitism a capital crime. The Jews were behind the Russian Revolution you see.
Very possible that Trump also has a plan to Make Democrats American Again (after gutting the existing crime syndicate with the coming tribunal) by installing a real American as its new leader. RFK Jr?
Amen.
"Regular Order". I like it.
We're attempting to move this country back towards its roots in hard work and moral integrity and the left is accusing us of fascism.
Also, your first paragraph summary of what happened to bring color revolution to the US was well-stated.
Jim perfectly describes in very subtle terms why women should not be in political positions and why women should not be voting. He doesn't say it directly, but one gets the point if they contemplate his words.
Men want to keep the order as regular as possible, well, most men. Real men. Not the beta soy boys that women want them to be. Women, however, crave and desire drama, fighting and all the bull shit that helps theme satisfy that inner need to appease everyone.
They have no business in leadership positions. Yeah, I said it.
Oh, give me a break! For starters, who starts the wars? Chew on that for a while.
Guys, esp my darling alphas, have been slacking for years. They’ve become no-fun, shitty lazy partners. Porn and video games may be involved. However, my fellow ladies have gotten pretty ridiculous over the last 50 yrs, including killing preborns and comedy. Respect by and for the opposite sex is at an all time low. Everybody’s greedy. We’ve only had the vote for 100 yrs, we don’t run the banks and don’t have a majority in Congress. But we do work harder at home and in the office. For the most park it’s thankless drudgery. so women can’t take the blame for all the messes. I figure once Trump has retired, women will lose their favorite punching bag substitute for every bad relationship. Jets will cool off. Please don’t start shooting yet. Patience, grasshoppers.
Over 70% of the divorces are initiated by women. Among college graduates, 90%. They're looking for greener pastures; for bad boy traditional men who vote liberal; for horny unicorns. But they are not traditional women and bring little to the table.
Work harder? I don't know about that. You all certainly work less. Don't completely blame you - we all should be taking it more easy. Wasn't that what all this technology was about? Guess not. And your place was in the home in any case, so naturally you want to stay there a lot.
I was referring to men as a general group or voting block. Sure, there are evil men out there who have no business being in politics or leadership position. Just as there are some women out there who are skilled and intelligent leaders, though, I struggle to identify them.
Who shops more? Who DOESN'T reject the fruits of the Conquest of North America over the hapless Indians - even as they damn the Conquerors to whom they owe everything?
Guys, esp my darling alphas, have been slacking for years. They’ve become no-fun, shitty lazy partners. Porn and video games may be involved. However, my fellow ladies have gotten pretty ridiculous over the last 50 yrs, including killing preborns and comedy. Respect by and for the opposite sex is at an all time low. Everybody’s greedy. We women have only had the vote for 100 yrs, we don’t run the banks and don’t have a majority in Congress. But we do work harder at home and in the office. For the most part it’s thankless drudgery. so women can’t take the blame for all the messes. I figure once Trump has retired, women will lose their favorite punching bag substitute for every bad relationship. Jets will cool off. Please don’t start shooting yet. Patience, grasshoppers.
Yes, many women would give their eye teeth for the great deal women had before Feminism.
Right! The last thing that men ever want to do is fight.
There are many men who are idiots, Phil Denter. I was speaking of men as a general mass or voting block if you will.
Ignore Phil Denter - he's a Canadian loon who's all about socialism and loves debating on message boards.
Right. I understood that that is what you were talking about. Please consider this list from America's "general mass[es] or voting block if you will":
Here is a list of the countries bombed and/or invaded by the United States from the end of WW II to present:
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-2021/Bosnia 1994, 1995/Cambodia 1969-70/China 1945-46/Colombia 2025/Congo 1964/Cuba 1959-1961/El Salvador 1980s/Korea 1950-53/Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69/Indonesia 1958/Germany(Nordstream) 2022/Grenada 1983/Iraq 1991-2000s, 2015-/Iran 1987, 2025/Korea 1950-53/Kuwait 1991/Laos 1964-73/Lebanon 1983, 1984/Libya 1986, 2011-/Nicaragua 1980s/Pakistan 2003, 2006-/Palestine 2010/Panama 1989-90/Peru 1965/Somalia 1993, 2007-08, 2010-/Sudan 1998/Syria 2014-/Trinidad & Tobago 2025/Venezuela 2025/Vietnam 1961-73/Yemen 2002, 2009-/Yugoslavia 1999
Honest question, do you think all of this would have been avoided with women in leadership positions?
The USA has spent its strength and means warring in foreign lands, to be sure.
It happened under men, Canker. And that's just the USA since WWII. If we were to list all the wars in mankind's history ... it'd be super-duper long and, statistically, 100% were run by men.
I'm not saying anything about women (in this case) but facts are facts and ... [now I would quote you but stupid, lousy, crummy Substack gives me no easy path to the start of the thread that we are in]. Never mind. Substack sux.
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"The USA has spent its strength and means warring in foreign lands, to be sure." Adding: "... and by 'spent,' I mean taken on insurmountable debt and given those trillions to the oligarchs that run this murderous racket."
Mr. Phil, I agree that we have been in way too many countries business since the 50's and 60's and most of them we should have stayed out of but.......the discussion about men starting all the wars leave a large TRUTH out of their discussion----
The people starting the wars do not want to fight the wars themselves but they force our citizens to do the fighting and most of the citizens could probably not find the shiff-hole country they are sent to, on the map. LBJ's daughters certainly did not volunteer to go to Nam and work in a combat zone as a typist or nurse. Same with all the other Prez we have had. Bill and Hillary Clinton are horrible examples of this. Bill the draft dodger had no issue to drop bombs all over the world and even Hillary was behind the disaster in Libya but do you think she would ever in her shiffy life ever, ever get directly involved ? H, E, double toothpicks, NO. But of course we all know she bragged about dodging bullets on some tarmac in a shiffy country somewhere so.....she likes to play the part but there has to be a guarantee of no chance she could ever get hurt. We have hundreds of those types of people sitting in DC over the last 50+ years and they have no qualms of sending some poor guy or gal from BFE to do their fighting. SHAMEFUL.
You sound like Dad, only less profane.
If you don't want them voting, you shouldn't be reading, watching, or listening to them deliver the news/leftist agitprop no matter how hot they are.
I don't watch them.
I can be more profane if you want :)
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Occam
As is often said, look for the money and power.
The Deep State, mostly Ult-Left and RINO traitors, is being seriously wounded by the Trump group and is reacting in every way they can think of. Think though of why. IMHO, the Deep State is heavily involved in the crime trying to take over this country. That is why they fight deporting the criminals, why they fight killing the drug mules from Venezuela, why they want open borders, why they want to let their “Brothers” out of jail, all aimed at taking back their power base and money source. The Biden Mob was just a small element of a global Mob that runs the show, that provides available drugs and servants to the USA elite. The poster child is Hollywood and much of the rest of the coast of California.
So “fascism” and autocracy are the new buzzwords of the Left to describe a law driven society. Bring it on.
Mr. Kunstler is a master word-smith - and logical.
Are you sure? Maybe "the left" is accusing you of fascism on account of, for example, your extra-judicial extra-territorial bombing of fishing boats.
Fishing boats? They left the scene as soon as the space guns started firing. They switched to meat-only diets!
Under US Law, all people are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Surely you know that.
At least in my case of being dirt poor, Martial Law was deployed against my family and myself. No due process, no equal protection of the law, no constitutional, human, parental rights acknowledged by the invading bureaucrats and the courts that protect them. Coercive indefinite detentions on "Probable Cause" excuses to openly attack and punish innocent family's because the "narrative" is more important than natural biological parents in this world. The Machiavellian change agent who was/is a school principal from one of those "untouchable" and therefore unaccountable families only has to drop that magic bullet of "child abuse" and presto, you mobilize an army of vampires to proclaim capitol punishment for those who would dissent from their pre-conceived bias/prejudices/partiality. The rich and their friends know how to avoid accountability while praising their "policy's" and impugning the honor of natural biological parents on any bureaucrats presumption. This is an apartheid of Satanic eugenicist who are posing as "Public Servants". Class warfare at it's ugliest.
There are no rights to life, liberty and/or property under a bureaucratic beat down.
I'm sorry that you have gone through this. Personally, I fell into Ontario Family Law. Now there's a nest of vipers!
They used a divide and conquer pincer movement on my family. The "Child Abuse" excuse was parlayed into multiple felonies and misdemeanors against my wife and I (who were put on ice with 57 days of coercive detention). Self defense against the attacking state cannot be tolerated.
But, but only if you have the resources to stand in court.
And don't call me Shirley....
That's not true, Ely. US Big Prison is so very profitable today (with its world-leading (#1 with a bullet) incarceration rate) from hundreds of thousands of your poor who had no resources and were ultimately found guilty in a court of law where the government prosecutors had to present, for the legal record, their case against the accused.
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Extrajudicial murder on the high seas 1,200+ miles from your border is no way to run the US government. You a-holes used to be the shining freaking light of liberty, youse ...
What the Hell happened to you?
Mr. Phil, before you start throwing rocks at the U.S. and talking about the Prez trying to defend our country against drug cartels, maybe you should look in your back yard at all of the horrible things that Castro's son ( Trudeau) did to Canada and all the things that he allowed to happen-----some of which are
allowing drugs to come across our long border
allowing known terrorists to come across our border
Trump asked for some assistance from Canada but we were ignored.
cancelling free speech (or all speech not approved by the Marxist leaders of Canada)
Worse covid restrictions that the US
I am a little conflicted about blowing up those boats as well but.....keep in mind they are not fishing boats-----I think you know that---- and those boats are either going to the US or Europe where their contents will kill an untold number of Americans and Euros. The Euro politicians of course could give a shiff about their citizens and besides that they do not have the military to inflict any damage on anyone other than maybe Monaco so I ignore their complaints as well.
"hundreds of thousands of your poor who had no resources and were ultimately found guilty in a court of law where the government prosecutors had to present, for the legal record, their case against the accused."
Yeah...what I said....
"Extrajudicial murder on the high seas 1,200+ miles from your border is no way to run the US government"
...Them's missiles of freedom....
I'll grant the point. That shit is crazy.
But that's not fascism.
It's fascist and it definitely is a more likely explanation for the left's allegations than that you're "attempting to move this country back towards its roots in hard work and moral integrity," eh?
That's what Fascism is, you loon. It's not just a pejorative. You're dumb enough to be a college graduate.
You're not Jarek.
Oh shit, it's our resident Canadian socialist-promoting loon, back again.
It's nearly 11am - Isn't your Tim Horton's gang meeting in a few minutes to talk about those lazy GenZ's and that evil Trump?
I've clearly shredded your bad strawman that started this whole thread but do you say, "You're right. I was misrepresenting the left's real reasons for them calling Trumpomania fascism"? Of course not. When the strawman argument fails, most Lil Trumpsters, by sheer reflex reflecting their intelligence, double-down with ad hominem attacks. Right on cue.
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I'm a capitalist, Oc. I've an Econ. degree and spent 2+ decades on Bay Street.
Just as is true of EVERY Western nation but the US (while youse constantly bitch and moan about your "broken" health care system, btw), I'm all about free markets yet we also understand that mission-critical requirements of society are best ran socially. Roads, bridges, civic mass transit, airports (security & air-traffic control), tax collection, policing, national defence, universal health care. The US has socialized all but the very last item on that list but instead of joining the rest of the free world, America's MK-Ultra'ed mass-populace brain-washing kicks in, logic flies out the window and they will defend their corrupt Wall Street-ran "broken" system to their death (literally vis-a-vis the hundreds of thousands that died (without their family allowed to see them!) in the shockingly under-investigated tens of thousands bonuses paid for each patient offed by the Fauci murderous scheme/protocol of Remdesivir and intubation).
So there's that.
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Nope. I like doing my research, logic, analysis and conclusions solo and then share my commentary with Lil Trumpsters. I've roused a couple along the way as I try to save souls.
Wow. I bet even your cronies at Timmy's is tired of hearing your blather.
Carry on, Loon
It's fascist to bomb foreign drug dealers bringing their goods onto American shores? For every 5 smugglers blown up, America is likely saving 1,000 or more young people.
Yes it is Fascist and yet it's a good thing for the trains to run on time and without criminals preying on people while they do so.
Whoever turned Fascism into a bad thing? The press. You people in other words.
C'mon. Let's be serious here.
First off: you can't go blowing up boats full of civilians 1,200+ miles from your shore extrajudicially AND be a nation under law. That's an A or B kinda thing.
Secondly, in proven oil reserves by country, Trump is existentially threatening #1 - Venezuela, #5 - Canada and now #11 - Nigeria. It sure is convenient to blame the USA fentanyl over-dose crisis on Venezuela and Canada when, really, almost 100% of its multitudes of fentanyl addicts are supplied via Mexico. Purely coincidentally there's all that oil (and water) for the taking. It’s almost like this out-of-character fentanyl-addict concern is the obvious cover story of pure conquest. [It makes ya think ... 🤔]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
Oh! And the poor Christians in Nigeria while he rolls out the red carpet for the guy slaughtering Christians in Syria. I guess he’s already sucking on Syria’s oil fields is the big difference between those two sets of Christians, eh?
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It’s ok to face reality, Lil Trumpsters. You’re greedy imperialists who like to eat candy-coated turds.
Mexico is in our site as well. We're not going to let China poison American kids via their cartel partners Venezuela, Mexico, and as you say, Canada.
War was invented by men to impress women by wearing colorful uniforms, all with the underlying motive to yes, you guessed it… it backfired spectacularly when they actually had to fight them. The wars that is; not the women. Which it devolved to eventually.
Good thinking.
The women demand it. You've got it backwards. During WW1, young women would go into churches during services, to give any young man in the pews a white feather, a symbol of his cowardice for not being on the front lines, dying for absolutely nothing in "the war to end all wars".
I had a great uncle fight in that war, and probably not because some girl with a white feather was eyeing him at St. John the Baptist. He ended up hospitalized in France with gas and shrapnel wounds. "Don't be scared for me," he wrote his mother. He died at 21 in that hospital of the Spanish flu on—get this—November 10th, 1918.
I named my first son after him.
Modern women typically condemn male aggression but never refuse the fruits of victory. Rank hypocrisy. Glad you are somewhat free of this. In any case, WW1 was idiocy, just like so many other wars. The smartedt people said so at the time and were savaged for their stance.
Well, I always said that violence solves most things, but yes, part of a woman's role in life is to buffer men's aggression and to protect the little kids from men in general. Ask me about the time hubby took the 1 year old into the tractor cab to— well, the row wasn't pretty.
Lugh, from the time the baby was born until it got into school, I never once asked my husband to babysit, change a diaper, cook a meal, get up in the night, or do anything but read a book to the kid. That was my job, and I took it seriously. Unfortunately, he dropped the ball when the child was older, so I was the one taking him to the gun range, buying him tannerite for Christmas, and so forth. My son did find the right male mentors, though, while Dada dozed through his retirement.
I frequently think that, with you, women can not win for losing, so thank you for the crumb of credit.
The neighbor, one of my son's chosen mentors, was buried yesterday with military honors at the regional VA cemetery yesterday and I sat next to my son, one of the pallbearers, and we both sniffled our way through the rifle salute and taps. I was happy that my son recognized the deep meaning of the rites.
"Sleep in peace
Soldier brave.
God is nigh."
Yes, thank you. The Evil is so very great - all the more so for not being recognized. We got women under control with individual exceptions of course. As Freud said, control of female sexuality is a sine qua non of Civilization. So then we said (or was it whispered in our ear?): See how great they are? They're just like us and should have the right to vote, work, fuck who they want, etc. We lost it all. Just like people who look at a peaceful White town and think, Wtf? We don't need these sheriffs and shit.
👍👍 Excellent post, JHK! It’s much easier to understand the actions of the left wing if there is greater clarity to the definition of “saving our democracy”. First, the Dems aren’t referring to the democracy (actually, democratic republic) of the US. Rather, they’re referring to the democracy that exists to provide power and grift to the Democratic Party, hence the term “their” democracy! Trump threatens that power and grift by simply exposing it and the sunlight ☀️ applied to the Dems is causing extreme sunburn, along with the associated pain.
“Their democracy” allows unlimited illegal immigration, boys playing in girls’ sports (and sharing locker rooms), imposition of irrational and costly environmental laws without meaningful benefit, imposition of DEI policies (Didn’t Earn It) and general intolerance and hate directed toward anyone with the temerity to disagree with any policies/positions supported by “their democracy”.
Rational people realize the Dems are insane and their positions are repulsive 🤮. The people of NYC are about to be schooled in the consequences of fully embracing “their democracy” as Mami the Commie creates the biggest US urban cesspool since the fall of Detroit. Think of the cost of this NYC downfall as tuition for the education of the rest of the US.
It will soon become obvious that Democrats should never be given the power to institute any policies, as it will become obvious that many should be confined to mental hospitals where they can no longer endanger themselves or the rest of the US. God help us.
A fine thing about JH Kunstler is that, despite his ongoing series of pungent and perceptive jeremiads worthy of the Old Testament prophet himself, he remains an American optimist at heart--i.e., that law and order will be restored, wrongdoing made right, and sanity prevail.
I hope he's right, yet we all (including Mr Kunstler himself) that such restoration might be a long time coming, more than likely after more disorder and collapse. The Great Simplification might take a while--hence, The Long Emergency.
A Happy Wile E. Coyote Thanksgiving to all. TV
Bullshit!
1. Illegal tariffs? We will see what SCOTUS says. I have no problem with the POTUS trying to equalize the rip-off the world has been doing to the USA for decades. We cannot subsidize the world any more, it is driving us into bankruptcy.
2. Who is shredding the 1st amendment? Antifa, trying to destroy the USA with their destructive “protests”? The media with their totally biased reporting? The Dems shutting down the USA with their medical demands? Leftist madman shooting Kirk?
3. There has not been a declared war since Dec. 8, 1941. Trump has plenty of precedence. The Bretton Woods mentality still exits here, that the USA will care take the world. That needs to stop.
4. The deficit spending has been baked into the federal budget cake by 80 years of tax and spend. Mostly Democrat. Today, there is nowhere to cut without hurting millions. The latest tax and spend fiasco, the shutdown shows how close we are to collapse. We get to do it again in January.
5. You have no proof of this at all.
6. You are a joke on this one. There is no formal reception area, a ballroom, in the White House so he is building one. He is only there three more years, the ballroom is for posterity.
You are a dreamer about the next elections, cleaning up the ballot box elected Trump in ‘24, and the destruction of the Ult-Left will continue in ‘26 and ‘28.
The Federal Government should actually be funding itself with tariffs, not with income taxes.
I can't believe how so many people are getting their panties in a wad about a ballroom being added to the White House. Buildings get old and need to be renovated or removed and replaced. Just because it is the White House doesn't make it some sacred holy ground that can't be touched. People who are obsessing over this stupid ballroom are pissing me off, JohnAZ. There are more important things to obsess over, don't you agree?
Curing deficit spending will hurt millions but it has to happen. There is no alternative. Otherwise they continue to print worthless dollars and inflate our way into the Weimar republic. No nation that has tried to print its way out of its debt and spending problems has ended well.
The Left side has bargained away the spending picture by its “buying the vote” for three generations. The expenditures pie chart is loaded with items that are entitlements, payments to the people that are counted on now for subsistence.
There is so little discretionary funds remaining that no one can manipulate them. No matter what we cut, it will hurt millions.
So there is an item to discuss here, what can be cut without hurting millions and do something about the debt?
The shutdown was just the latest as the Left is busily trying to hide the fact that they are the Tax and Spend folks whose answer to everything is just to spend more and tax the rich. The Rich are NOT bottomless pits of capital.
I think Trump is trying to reduce the debt by levying tariffs on the world, like a toll bridge to the American market. The Supreme Court will likely side with Trump on this matter, as there is no plausible alternative to getting this external tariff revenue.
US manufacturers, as well as foreign ones, are being incentivized to build plants here in the US and hire American workers. Tax policies recently enacted will provide huge deductions for businesses to build these plants while at the same time raise productivity levels which will allow us to grow our way to a far healthier balance sheet.
The pain also needs to be felt in our social welfare system. The SNAP benefits have nearly doubled from pre-covid levels and more able-bodied individuals are receiving benefits for not working. Illegals need to be removed from the safety net that should be reserved for truly deserved American citizens. The left, as JHK and others have shown, is heavily dependent on government handouts and grift. They will scratch and claw, lie and steal, and lash out at all attempts to reform the system.
Whether all of this and far more gets completed, or even moved forward remains to be seen. If we don't stay the course on the reforms needed, we will likely lose our country to the Mamdanis of the world.
True.
I have heard theories that the best thing the USA can do at this point would be to default on the debt. This will create choas in the bond and securities markets and destroy companies and corporations already buried by debt, but, it will purge the debt and free up what remains to start again. Painful, to many but necessary.
The only other alternative is to print our way out of the debt and that robs every citizen of ever cent of value in their savings.
Either way, in the end, we are all going to feel the pain. It has to happen. It will happen, one way or another.
Cankerpuss, read American economist Micheal Hudson on a Debt Jubilee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_jubilee
A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public records across a wide sector or a nation. Hudson is a proponent of a debt jubilee, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that it was an alternative to a depression.
No.
I'll offer you are looking at Left<>Right.
It keeps as many as possible off-balance with internecine focus, words and actions.
If it is changed to ↑↓ with freedom opposed to oppression, the real issues come into focus.
Changing the axis changes the perspective.
Unmasking the real culprits churning events with a goal of oppressing others for their own benefit emerges.
Nice to hear from someone who gets it.
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No more piggies look out below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVicUiDJVY
Guess Jim finally got tired of someone idiocy.
Then they'll just pick up where he left off.
Lauren Boebert for President in '28.
You are kidding right? Lauren Boebert? She's nothing more than an attention whore obsessed with her big boobs. Another woman. No more women in leadership. Please.
"No more women in leadership." ~ Cankerpuss
Agreed, unless they have big boobs.
Mr Clark----Lauren is not hard to look at but.....definitely not Prez material.
The rep that replaced Liz Cheny is not as easy to look at but I think she is smart as a whip.
Holy Shit, Jim, I have never read a more apt description between the male and female voting mentality and why women really shouldn't be voting and why women really shouldn't be in positions of leadership. I know you didn't say or explain this directly, but the way you described the difference is stark and worded in such a way that the slow of mind can understand.
"women taking over the actual machinery of the party has transformed mere politics into never-ending psychodrama and boosted the amplitude of political dirty-fighting to dangerous new levels"
Bingo. There it is. Women love drama. They do. I watch it with my wife, my sisters and my daughters. If there is drama to be held they will find it. I watch it with my female employees. They are constantly calling in sick or late because of home drama while my male employees are here every day, have ample annual leave accruals and are steadily reliable. WOMEN THINK DIFFERENTLY than men do.
"Regular order is something that healthy male psychology takes an interest in, since it entails defense of the culture"
Bingo! There it is again. A healthy man wants things to be in order and functional and he wants and takes effort to protect those things and to keep them functional and orderly.
Most women, other than the intelligent thinkers among them, have no place in politics and they shouldn't be voting. Period. Women, especially American women today, are insane. The mutilate themselves with tattoos and facial piercings and then wander the wastes of America barely clothed showing all their cellulose for all to see. They have no grasp on reality.
Excellent write up today, Jim. Thank you!
Oy vey. Give me a break! Granted, there’s a lot of chicken little idiotic women out there but own your shit and fix your messes, gentlemen.
I see his comment hit home, Dear.
Agree and add to that the feminization of males. They want a super majority. Don’t even have to get them over the border.
Brings to mind the song by Don Henley, "All She Wants To Do Is Dance".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eud5AurOxm0
An excellent summation of where we are as a nation, and the picture is not pretty. Too many leftist loons and their useful idiots determined to bring down the nation of the most freedom to replace it with their authoritarian version of governance where only the elites and their toadies call the shots. They cannot, and will not win at the ballet box, so their plans for mass insurrections and even civil war remain as their final move. Armed and trained with firearms is a necessity as their assassinations and threats of killings continue. These satanic cretins are not joking. Stay safe and keep your family and friends safe.
Too many people with too much time on their hands and too much "money" to spend.
If Americans had to worry about where their next meal was coming from I think they'd be less inclined to worry about the bullshit they obsess about these days.
We've gone too long without having to sacrifice or work hard for anything and it shows. A decadent, slothful and soulless people Americans have become.
Leftist loons and rightist goons....take your pick.
The real and unstoppable war on America is run from the Federal Reserve bank. It will destroy our currency and society with it. It also funds all the dastardly deeds that our government does to us and covers the real sins that would be apparent without he magic of printed money flowing.
But as history proves, that sleight of hand can last only so long. Reality eventually wins and reality will comes in an instant. How did you go broke? Slowly at first and then all at once.
Yes, the printing of foney money will be our undoing. Most people just ignore this big fat stinky elephant that is sitting in the corner of their living rooms. I work hard for my money but my money now buys less and less every year.
They have no intention of stopping the money printing either. They can't. Their only alternative to keep the USA empire afloat is to print the worthless dollars. Mr. Trump himself won't address this money printing. He knows the truth and refuses to do anything about it.
Ron Paul understood and tried but he couldn't get enough support. He's the only one I know of who truly understood the danger of the FED.
Think of it. Since the advent of the FED, by the Woodrow Wilson administration, the USA has been in a constant state of war.
The Fed reacts to the inflation and unemployment caused by the alternating Tax and Spend policy of the Left and the austerity of the Right, The increased problems of today stem from the lack of austerity during the Bush administrations and the second term of Reagan. That is the rise of the Deep State.
Nope. Inflation has one source and it is the creation of "money" from nothing. That creation allows the spending of gov beyond their means and they will never stop until it's over.
The problems all start with the un-Constitutional power the government gave to the Federal Reserve. The gov would not have been able to run perpetual deficits without the printing press. That's why they created it.
Wilson was a Communist. He knew what he signed into law, the destruction of the Republic. I hope he's burning in Hell with John McCain and, if we're lucky, they will be joined shortly by Lindsey Graham.
Okay, so what is the inspiration for the Fed to create fiat money? Tax and spend politicians.
The Deep State has one priority, preservation of itself. Overspending money is the pathway. Think it is bad now? Wait for AI.
The Fed was created to print our money into oblivion by the same Communists who now infest all of our bureaucracies.
Woodrow Wilson was a Communists, well they would have used Socialist, but as Lenin stated, the goal of Socialism is Communism.
The Commies are working the long game. The Russians figured them out and then they emigrated to the West. Europe and the Americas are full of them. They infected education, media, gov, big business. They all hate us.
There are a few regulars on this blog that fit your description.
That Soros is still above ground is testament to the failure of covert ops by all Western executives.
He might live another ten or twenty years. Hell, he might live forever. David Rockefeller lived to 101 and supposedly had at least 6 heart transplants. When your soul is pure evil, you have to extend your time here on earth because you know where you're going when you die.
"Only the good die young." - Billy Joel.
Bottom line.
I’m shocked he hasn’t been taken out by some guy fed up whilst out deer hunting.
He probably never goes out where he could be taken out. I mean, have you seen a picture of the guy? He looks like a pasty white ghost under a sagging white sheet.
He is one of many that want a global dictatorship. The USA stands in their way and they are trying to eliminate the obstacle. Simple.
Now that is an assumption I agree with, JohnAZ.
He’s always looked like jabba the hut
We are 25% through the Trump presidency, with some questions as to what may follow (even within ‘MAGA’). I only hope that we don’t run out of time…..
yes, and the Dems tactic is pure "running down the clock."
Until 2026, much of his legacy will depend on next year. So vote.
MAGA and the GOP got the message during the off-year elections in November. Hopefully we'll dig deep and make the adjustments necessary to save our country. Something positive has to happen with the economy for sure.
It’s somewhat unlikely that election results in blue states, like NJ and NY, was much of a surprise. What IS a surprise is that the MAGA movement is being destroyed from within. The loss of a voice like Charlie Kirk has created a void where ‘influencers’ with questionable motives are attempting to take his place.
Anytime you hear the “our democracy” boilerplate know it is an intentional & faux sleight-of-hand; the United States was founded as a representational, constitutional republic not a democracy. The Founders hated democracy because it’s mob rule - there’s no electoral college. In a democracy L.A., Chicago, & NYC would solely & completely pick the president. Democracies always end in dictatorship & that’s what they seek.
Control of you & everything you do.
Even lower than Democracy is rule by a foreign nation. That where we are. It's what dumbocracy led to.
With all due respect sir, trump himself is doing a pretty fabulous job of destroying Trumpism all by himself. 0 arrests, 600,000 Chinese students, h1b visas, hiding October jobless reports...most of that is just last week. I can go on and on... supporting Lindsey graham, wars galore, 50 year mortgages. What a disappointment he's been.
That is all very true. What happened to America First?
"crypto-Jacobin overtones"
JHK infuses his writings with references to the French revolution on a fairly regular basis. Studying this period of time and the sequence of events in Europe can be instructive and bear similarity to the present state of affairs both here and in the Europe (EU) of today.
We've embarked on a rough ride into the future.
The future is here.
Look at Mamdani. What is he advocating? Control all aspects of the economy by the government, ie the PTB control everything. The Dems are showing their true face here, socialism IS autocracy, fascism or communism, whatever you want to call it. The affordability issues he is “addressing” has been caused by Leftist policies in Blue states and cities, the giveaway mentality. When the money runs out and the Dems debacle shows itself, the enemy is the “Rich”. Just wait until you see what happens in NYC when Mamdani finds out he has no tools to work with and what is left of the financial support moves to Texas and Florida. BTW, same thing in California.
John puts the rich in quotation marks. Why? The Rich all too often are the enemy. Fascism values them but keeps them on a short leash. John asks impatiently, So are the rich good or not? He doesn't get it. He thinks that they are - and that's fatal.
Bullshit! Your archenemy, the rich, create the jobs and make the economy. Not the stupid government. If the government disappeared tomorrow, no one would care. If Elon Musk et al, disappeared tomorrow, there would be no economy.
Male bovine excrement.
You are clutching at straws now mate!
Socialism IS NOT autocracy, fascism or communism, John.
You need to start reading different comics my friend.
Bullshit, Dennis. The government screws up everything it touches, keep them away from my economy, thank you. You are so proud of New Zealand, name me one thing they are globally known for.
NZ - where the men are men, and the sheep are scared.
Ruby World Champions'
America's Cup Yachting innovators and Champions.
WW2 deaths as % of population = 0.72. Compared to the USA = 0.32
First to allow woman's voting in 1893.
Geothermal power.
Ernest Rutherford ~ first person to split the atom
Sir Edmund Hilary ~ first to climb Mount Everest.
Successful F1 drivers. Bruce McLaren Founder of the famous Team McLaren
Universal Healthcare.
From a population of 4.5million.
And......shit, I didn't know this was competition:
https://heyexplorer.com/what-is-new-zealand-famous-for/
We are not known for being braggards like the Yanks!
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BTW, YOUR economy is FUCKED thanks to your government.
Is that right after we saved your ass in WW2?
And Seattle.
Here at home I opined ZM would be the next NYC mayor, met with 'not likely'. Turns out it is a pattern. A few hours North, MA (Healey, Campbell + Dem supermajority legislature and compliant court system) are from the same mould.
The demographic exiting MA is the 25-44 age group.
The pattern: create a problem, then find a grift, graft and state tyranny solution. Point fingers in any direction excluding self. Search for ways to blame DJT for everything, facts don't matter.
So... NYC will be an interesting experiment. Staten Island may yet decouple from the other boroughs.
BTW, how's the Hobbs experiment doing down there?
Like the Whites forming their own city in Atlanta, never talking about it in racial terms of course - even though it is.
Kudos Kunstler for a succinct summary and a prescient predidiction.
By the way, it is the Democrat party. Not the ‘Democratic’ party.
Or my preference, Demoncrap Party.
"What began in 2016 as a simple, high-level plot to take out Donald Trump and squash Trumpism — a grassroots revolt against those very high-level DC insiders"
Trump's dismissal of the Epstein scandal as a "hoax" sure looks like the very opposite of a revolt against insiders. Instead it looks like Trump is protecting them at his own expense.
But maybe you're right and it's a trap for Democrats. Let's hope so, because it's the only way to keep any confidence in Trump.
If it never plays out as a trap, then Trump has proved himself as complicit as any of the insiders in maintaining elite power over the plebes.
FWIW
Epstein Helped Democrats Create Russiagate https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/democrats-used-epstein-to-create-russiagate/
Thanks, that's very interesting.
For some background view this information:
== UN / GLOBALISTS / ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT COUP == https://www.kunstler.com/p/dark-tidings/comment/172306379
... and then consider the players:
Recently, Gilbert Doctorow has been discussing "the conflicts between key organizations in his (Putin's) government, namely the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the FSB, the successor organization to the KGB."
‘Judging Freedom’ edition of 12 November: The Russians and their War https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/11/12/judging-freedom-edition-of-12-november-the-russians-and-their-war/
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... and over the last few months, Gilbert Doctorow, as well as Trump and/or members of his administration have commented that there is ongoing direct communication between DJT and Vladimir Putin.
So, is Putin up against the equivalent of the US deep state; and are Trump and Putin in a battle against the UN / GLOBALISTS / ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT?
Then consider the various leaders who Trump has recently been engaging.
AI Overview
President Xi Jinping and China express strong support for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, viewing it as a critical framework for global cooperation and development. China has integrated the agenda into its national strategies and positions itself as a key partner in its global implementation, particularly through the Global Development Initiative (GDI).
Key Aspects of Xi Jinping's View
Strong Support and Commitment: Xi has repeatedly affirmed China's commitment to implementing the 2030 Agenda and views it as a significant opportunity for international collaboration. China was among the first countries to release a national plan for implementation.
Alignment with National Strategy: China has integrated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its own medium- and long-term national development strategies, such as its Five-Year Plans, emphasizing "high-quality development" and technological innovation.
Poverty Eradication: China highlights its own success in eradicating extreme poverty as a major contribution to the global agenda, achieving the relevant SDG goal 10 years ahead of schedule. This experience is shared with other developing nations to promote mutual learning.
Global Development Initiative (GDI): Xi introduced the GDI as a way to accelerate momentum on the 2030 Agenda. The GDI aims to steer global development toward a new stage of "balanced, coordinated and inclusive growth" by mobilizing resources and focusing on key areas like poverty reduction, food security, and clean energy partnerships.
South-South Cooperation: China emphasizes deepening South-South cooperation and has upgraded the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund to a Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, committing additional resources to support developing countries.
Prioritized Areas: China suggests that nine key areas should be prioritized for the Agenda's implementation: poverty and hunger eradication, innovation-driven development, industrialization, social security, equity and justice, environmental protection, climate change action, resource utilization, and national governance.
Multilateralism and Global Governance: Xi advocates for strengthening global governance and supporting the UN's central role in international affairs, using the 2030 Agenda as a framework for building a "community of shared future for mankind". China uses platforms like the World Economic Forum and High-level Dialogues on Global Development to promote these views.
In essence, Xi Jinping views the 2030 Agenda as fully aligned with China's domestic priorities and its foreign policy goals of promoting a fairer, more inclusive world order through practical cooperation and shared development.
AI Overview
Yes, tech leaders are embracing the 2030 Agenda's call for sustainability and social responsibility, even as the tech industry focuses on other pressing goals like AI development. While recent attention has been on AI and digital transformation, the expectation that leaders should consider environmental impact, ethical governance, and social good remains a key part of the modern leadership mandate. Many companies recognize that integrating these principles is essential for long-term success and that business can be a "force for good".
Evidence of continued embrace of the 2030 Agenda
Emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility: Many reports on future leadership trends include sustainability and social responsibility as core components of the modern CEO's role, directly aligning with the spirit of the 2030 Agenda.
Business as a force for good: The United Nations and other organizations highlight how embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be a way for businesses to demonstrate leadership and contribute to a better world.
Focus on long-term goals: While specific short-term priorities may shift, the underlying goals of addressing climate change, eradicating poverty, and ensuring peace and justice are seen as universal interests that tech can help achieve.
Potential areas of tension or challenges
Focus on immediate tech priorities: The rapid, urgent development of AI and other technologies can sometimes overshadow long-term sustainability goals, especially when companies face immediate competitive pressures.
Varying levels of commitment: The level of commitment to sustainability and the SDGs can vary significantly between companies, with some actively pursuing them and others facing challenges in implementation.
Political landscape: In some contexts, political shifts can create tension with the commitments to the 2030 Agenda, particularly regarding climate-related goals.
The business case: Although there is a growing consensus that social and environmental responsibility is good for business, integrating these principles can still present challenges for some leaders to fully prioritize over traditional profit-driven metrics.
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Looks to me like "capitalism" trumps the 2030 Agenda for tech leadership.
AI Overview
Donald Trump and his administration reject and denounce the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, viewing it as a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
During his administration, a representative at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Edward Heartney, stated that the goals are "a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans".
The 2030 Agenda, adopted by 193 UN member nations in 2015, includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that aim to:
Eliminate poverty and hunger.
Ensure access to clean water, sanitation, and quality education.
Promote gender equality.
Take urgent action to combat climate change.
The Trump administration's position is a departure from the Obama administration, which had committed the U.S. to meeting the goals. This rejection is consistent with Trump's "America First" approach to international agreements, which included withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and other international initiatives
AI Overview
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman views the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development favorably and actively aligns it with Saudi Arabia's own comprehensive reform plan, Saudi Vision 2030. The two agendas share significant goals, particularly concerning economic diversification, sustainability, and quality of life improvements.
Key aspects of his approach include:
Alignment of Goals: Saudi Vision 2030, the Crown Prince's signature initiative launched in 2016, is designed to diversify the Kingdom's economy away from oil dependence, improve public services, and implement social reforms. These objectives inherently overlap with many of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the 2030 Agenda, such as those for clean energy, economic growth, and sustainable cities.
Emphasis on Sustainability: The Crown Prince has highlighted the development of renewable resources and environmental stewardship as central to the Kingdom's future, aligning with global shifts toward green energy and sustainable development principles.
International Cooperation: Saudi Arabia actively participates in international forums and initiatives related to the UN's agenda. For example, the "Riyadh Declaration on the Future of Tourism," which was a result of the UN Tourism General Assembly hosted in Riyadh, aims to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development within the tourism sector.
Global Standing: The Crown Prince is leveraging the alignment with the global agenda to enhance Saudi Arabia's international reputation and attract foreign investment. Saudi Arabia is set to host major global events like Expo 2030 and the FIFA World Cup in 2034, which further underscore its commitment to the timelines and goals of its national vision, which mirrors the spirit of the UN agenda.
In summary, Mohammed bin Salman is a strong proponent of the "2030 Agenda" as it pertains to the modernization and diversification of Saudi Arabia, frequently praising the achievements of the national Vision 2030 initiative in meeting these shared goals.
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"In summary, Mohammed bin Salman is a strong proponent of the "2030 Agenda" as it pertains to the modernization and diversification of Saudi Arabia ..." Let that sink in.
AI Overview
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung supports policies that align with aspects of the UN's broader 2030 agenda, particularly regarding climate change, sustainable development, and social welfare, viewing them as essential for the nation's future growth.
His administration's specific stances and policy priorities include:
Climate and Environment: Lee plans an accelerated transition to renewable energy and aims for renewables to account for 40% of South Korea's power generation mix by 2035. His government has established a new Ministry of Climate and Energy and intends to shut down coal plants by 2040, though he does not plan to immediately dismantle existing nuclear power generation capabilities.
Economic Development: Lee aims to transform South Korea into a top-tier economic powerhouse by investing heavily in future industries like artificial intelligence (AI), biohealth, and digital content creation. He views the AI industry as a matter of national economic survival and has put it at the top of the national agenda, aiming for South Korea to become a top-three AI power.
Social Welfare and Equality: He has proposed a "recovery growth happiness" economic strategy that focuses on household vitality and structural economic equity. Key social policies include offering tax deductions for parents, increasing public rental housing for newlyweds, and expanding nursing services and senior-friendly housing for the aging population. He has also focused on a "balanced national development" approach to concentrate less resources in the capital area and promote regional growth.
In summary, President Lee frames his policies in terms of ensuring sustainable national growth and the well-being of the people, which aligns with the spirit of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
How does Javier Milei feel about the 2030 agenda?
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Javier Milei strongly opposes the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, viewing it as a "socialist" and "globalist" program that infringes on national sovereignty and individual freedoms. He has officially announced Argentina's formal dissent from the agenda at the UN General Assembly.
Key aspects of his stance include:
A "socialist lie": Milei considers the agenda and related initiatives, such as those related to climate change, to be part of a "socialist supranational government programme". He has called climate change a "socialist lie" and a natural, cyclical phenomenon, denying human influence
Threat to sovereignty: He argues that the agenda is an attempt by "international bureaucrats" to impose a specific way of life and regulations on member states, thus undermining national sovereignty and the right to self-determination.
Economic freedom: Milei believes the policies promoted by the agenda, such as zero-emission goals, disrupt natural economic processes and harm poor countries by imposing restrictions on development and trade. He advocates for free enterprise capitalism as the only tool to end poverty.
"Agenda of Freedom": At the UN General Assembly in September 2024, Milei declared that Argentina would abandon its historical neutrality and instead pursue an "agenda of freedom," urging other nations to join him in creating a new, less invasive international framework.
Withdrawal of support: His government has disengaged from many global policy issues related to gender, human rights, climate change, and social justice, adopting new positions that contradict the 2030 Agenda. He had also previously expressed an intent to withdraw Argentina from the Paris Agreement on climate change, though the implementation of this requires parliamentary approval
== HUNGARY ==
AI Overview
Viktor Orbán has a nuanced approach to the 2030 Agenda, largely focusing on specific elements and prioritizing Hungarian national interests and sovereignty over global directives. He generally uses the term "2030" to refer to Hungary's specific national development goals rather than the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Key aspects of his stance include:
National Sovereignty: Orbán emphasizes a "sovereign path" for Hungary, focusing on national interest rather than broad "Brussels' ambitions or war-driven agendas". He has framed his government's long-term strategies, including economic and military goals set for around 2030, as part of a "national course building" process, distinct from externally imposed agendas.
Climate Policy: While Hungary has a national climate law committing to climate neutrality by 2050 and a 40% emissions reduction by 2030, Orbán's approach is pragmatic and linked to economic viability. He has stated that climate goals are good in principle but should only be committed to if the financing sources are clear, to avoid imposing "unbearable burdens on voters and households". He promotes climate policy as "Christian democratic-based", focusing on nuclear and solar energy to reach 90% carbon-neutral electricity production by 2030.
Opposition to Globalist Ideologies: Orbán often criticizes what he sees as globalist or liberal international agendas. The UN's Agenda 2030, which encompasses a wide range of social and environmental goals, has become a focal point of criticism for some far-right leaders globally who view it as a project of external influence. Orbán's rhetoric generally aligns with this skepticism towards international initiatives that might challenge his government's policies, particularly on issues like migration and family policy.
Domestic Focus: He has stated that Hungary is on track to meet its own economic and social targets by 2030, such as achieving a specific GNP and increasing the national birth rate through family policies, which he contrasts with Western European approaches like immigration.
In summary, Orbán views the general timeframe of 2030 as a benchmark for Hungarian national strength and self-sufficiency, but he is critical of the broader, internationally-driven UN Agenda 2030, particularly those elements he perceives as undermining national control or economic stability.
== UKRAINE ==
Ukraine Peace Deal or Get the Hell Out of NATO – Martin Armstrong https://usawatchdog.com/ukraine-peace-deal-or-get-the-hell-out-of-nato-martin-armstrong/
"A little less than a month ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was called in by the Trump White House to come up with a peace plan that Vladimir Putin and Russia would consider. So, Armstrong came up with a nearly 200-page plan called “Peace Proposal to Prevent World War III.” Top Trump officials met with Armstrong Friday, and there is still a possibility the US could get a peace deal. Recently, Trump gave Hungary an exemption to buying sanctioned Russian oil. Armstrong says, “This is a positive sign.” The Russians signaled that they are also still interested in “Trump-backed peace talks with Ukraine.” If Europe, NATO and Ukraine won’t go along, then Armstrong is advising President Trump to “get the hell out of NATO.”"
== JAPAN ==
Has the new prime minister of Japan ditched the 2030 Agenda?
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Japan's current Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, has not explicitly "ditched" the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs); however, her administration's recent policy shifts and priorities suggest a potential change in emphasis compared to previous administrations.
Previous Prime Ministers, including Fumio Kishida and Shigeru Ishiba, strongly and publicly committed Japan to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a national movement and a core part of their foreign policy. Japan even established an "SDGs Promotion Headquarters" led by the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Takaichi, who took office on October 21, 2025, has prioritized different policies, including:
Fiscal Austerity and Regulatory Reform: Her government is emphasizing fiscal discipline and reduced government intervention, pulling back from some large-scale government investments in technology that were previously planned.
Increased Defense Spending: She has pledged to accelerate the goal of increasing defense spending to 2% of GDP earlier than the original 2027 target.
Prioritizing Domestic Issues: She is expected to skip the COP30 climate summit to focus on the extraordinary Diet session and domestic economic issues like inflation, a move that analysts say could weaken Japan's influence in international climate talks.
While the previous government's official statements, such as the 2024 Diplomatic Bluebook, reiterated Japan's commitment to achieving the SDGs by 2030 and leading global efforts, recent news coverage of Takaichi's administration has focused more on a shift in economic and defense policies. There are no explicit statements in the search results indicating that she has completely abandoned the entire 2030 Agenda, but her administration appears to be re-evaluating or de-prioritizing certain international and environmental commitments in favor of domestic concerns and different economic strategies.
Have Japanese citizens had their fill of foreigners carving graffiti on their shrines?
AI Overview
Graffiti at Yasukuni Shrine Reignites Tensions Over Japan's ...
Yes, recent acts of vandalism against shrines, including graffiti by foreigners, have caused significant public concern and outrage in Japan. Many Japanese citizens are fed up with the disrespectful behavior of a minority of tourists, which has led to increased security, calls for stricter penalties, and a broader debate about how to manage the negative impacts of tourism on cultural sites.
Specific incidents: There have been several high-profile cases of vandalism, such as an American tourist carving letters into a pillar at Meiji Shrine and a Canadian teenager carving his name into a pillar at the UNESCO World Heritage site Toshodaiji Temple.
Public reaction: These incidents have sparked outrage on social media and in the news, with many Japanese people expressing that this behavior is disrespectful and damaging to their cultural heritage.
Consequences: The vandalism has led to concrete actions, including enhanced security measures at shrines (like fences and cameras) and calls for stricter enforcement of laws against vandalism. Some smaller shrines have even banned all foreign tourists, as noted by this Unseen Japan article.
Broader context: While the misbehavior of a few foreigners is a major concern, many sources emphasize that this is not representative of all tourists and that Japan still welcomes visitors who show respect for its culture and customs. The issue has become a focal point for discussions on how to balance tourism growth with the preservation of cultural sites and public sentiment.
== LEGAL BEAGLE ==
AI Overview
David Schoen is a prominent American attorney who specializes in federal criminal defense and civil rights law, known for representing high-profile clients including President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial.
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My hope is that he is providing an honest objective assessment.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DMIcEJWPcJi/
David Schoen: “Letitia James gloated over Trump’s case—but I believe the appeals court will deliver a very different result. The public rejected lawfare.” https://www.facebook.com/lauraingraham/videos/david-schoen-letitia-james-gloated-over-trumps-casebut-i-believe-the-appeals-cou/1886486778756136/
Billionaire businessman Tom Pritzker
AI Overview
Tom Pritzker is the cousin of J.B. Pritzker, the current Governor of Illinois.
Both are members of the wealthy and influential Pritzker family, which founded and still largely owns the Hyatt Hotels Corporation, among other business ventures.
AI Overview
Yes, Governor Pritzker embraces the goals of the 2030 Agenda, particularly through the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), which includes a goal of having one million electric vehicles on Illinois roads by 2030. His administration has also joined the U.S. Climate Alliance, aligning Illinois with the Paris Agreement goals, which are the foundation for the 2030 Agenda.
MR THORBJØRN JAGLAND
Secretary General of the
Council of Europe
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AI Overview
Yes, both the Council of Europe (CoE) and the European Union (EU) have embraced the 2030 Agenda and are actively working on its principles, which encompass ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) concepts. The CoE approaches the 2030 Agenda through a human rights-based lens and focuses on areas like gender equality and justice. The EU has also reaffirmed its commitment to the 2030 Agenda through various conclusions and policies, with the European Commission integrating the goals into its work, and the Council of the EU taking steps to regulate ESG ratings.
Council of Europe (CoE)
Human rights-based approach: The CoE integrates the 2030 Agenda using a human rights-based approach, working with its 47 member states to support implementation.
Key SDGs: The CoE's work particularly focuses on several of the 17 SDGs, including Gender Equality (SDG 5), Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16), and Partnerships for the Goals (SDG 17).
European Union (EU)
Commitment and integration: The EU has repeatedly reaffirmed its strong commitment to the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, making them a central part of its policy-making.
Implementation: The European Commission is actively implementing the agenda through its programs, and the Council of the EU has adopted conclusions and regulations to support its goals.
ESG regulation: The EU has taken steps to specifically regulate ESG rating agencies, demonstrating a concrete commitment to the "Governance" aspect of ESG, as explained by Eye on ESG.
Integrated strategy: The EU aims to promote an integrated, strategic, and comprehensive approach to implementing the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs
AI stinks.
To comprehend the answers, just imagine that every country has a UN feeding trough that is paid for by US!
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Does Google AI embrace the 2030 Agenda?
AI Overview
Yes, Google AI actively embraces the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, both by using AI to help achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and by setting its own corporate sustainability targets for the same year.
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Is it an oxymoron that Google AI embraces the 2030 Agenda?
AI Overview
It is not necessarily an oxymoron, as Google frames its AI development as a tool to achieve the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, some may view it as a contradictory concept due to the environmental impact of AI and the general criticism that "sustainable development" itself can be seen as an oxymoron, or find the "embrace" less genuine due to concerns like "greenhushing" or a growing carbon footprint from AI operations.
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If the world were to go 100% Green Energy by the year 2030, would AI, or the human species, be in decline?
AI Overview
Implementing a 100% green energy system by 2030 would likely not inherently cause a decline in either the human species or AI. The transition would be a significant technological, economic, and logistical challenge, but it's fundamentally about changing energy sources, not existential threats [1].
The democrat party seems now to be composed of two groups; true believers and grifters/opportunists. In the former group, which is by far the largest, are feminists, racialists, sexual deviants and every other lunatic falling within the definition of "social justice warrior." In the latter group are the hard core grifting global elite; the Soros, Clinton, Schumer et al. group who are actually running the show for their personal financial benefit. They view the true believers as disposable cannon fodder to be used along with the shock troops of imported foreigners against the traditional American citizens. Neither group views itself as citizens of America; they are above mere patriotism. They owe their allegiance only to themselves and their petty, private interests.