“This sort of derangment is a novel psychopathology in the human species. . . a synthesis of low-IQ feminized brain scramble & neurotic lunacy." JD Haltigan on X
The greatest mental retardation in history is POLITICS. Pick the blue or the red pills...either way, you will be endlessly bombarded with lies and propaganda. Never will you ever see a light at the end of the "political" tunnel...unless you are passing into the next life perhaps.
Yes. It’s all theater. Fake. Propaganda. Keeping the population distracted and fearful, so they be more easily controlled. As for Congress, don’t get me started. They’re corrupted to the core. They care about two things: money and votes.
In the US House of Representatives there are 217 Republicans and 214 Democrats.
Out of the 214 Democrats there isn't a single one of them, not ONE, that has a unique thought, that has a unique district to represent, a desire to think for themselves. Not ONE. Instead, 214 of them sit there with their thumbs up their asses and wait for the party bosses to tell them what to do. If they don't do it, they don't get their committee assignments, don't get the endorsement and don't get paid. Amen to the lucrative lobbying and talking head positions at MSNBC and CNN after they resign.
It's not much better out of the 217 Republicans. As always there are a handful of Republicans who like power too much and side too often with the brainless Democratic robots and screw everything up. These people are the worst of the worst. The shit clogging the toilet. The dregs of the dregs.
The US Congress is a dismal failure. A colossal waste of space and resources. Americans should be marching on the Congressional office buildings and removing these fuckers and stringing them up. They don't represent anything but their wallets and their careers.
So what do we the people do? Vote? Nope. Too corrupted. March on Washington? Nope. We end up in prison with no charges. Not pay taxes? And lose everything we've worked for. Contact our Congressional Representatives? Our message will end with some nubile aide that the representative is sleeping with. Rely on the States? The States are as corrupt as the US Congress.
In other words, we are screwed. There is always a John Thune out there to replace a rotting carcass like Mitch McConnell.
I feel like I'm an unscripted extra in the latest remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The No Kings demo in my little village was an illustration of what Stephen King called "sunlit horror ". I'm 75. I thought I knew these people. Some of these zombies teach my grandchildren in the local school. I recognized the clerk from the post office and the checkout lady from the Family Market. I will never trust them again.
Yes, YES--I invoke The Invasion of the Body Snatchers repeatedly. I'm watching for the pod people--do not go to sleep. The woke sleep and become aliens.
I know how you feel, Tenquid. I was early to the Body Snatcher party because I work in biotech/pharma, and was a true believer about the horrors of the past abominations and our committment to never again. I thought the Nuremberg trials meant something, that we'd put a stake in the ground about using experimental meds on people without their consent, that Tuskeegee and the radioactive milkshakes to pregnant white trash mothers at Vanderbilt hospital were from our unelightened past. Only to find what I thought was an ethical industry ( a few bad apples notwithstanding) completely mowed down by a little social pressure.
Doctors being paid bounties on patients, patients put on respirators and shit drugs (talking to you, remdesivir) without their consent, elderly people sequested from their families (the cruelest kind of death sentence), while scientists knuckled under and doctors and nurses did dance moves in hallways while the monetized dying died alone. Scientists lecturing on the need to accept dogma without data and never argue. What country is this? Who are these people?
It is as if you are a devout Buddhist and then you spy the dalai lama and all the holy men you revered, through a window, smocking crystal meth and torturing puppies to death. I'm not over it and don't think I ever will be. I am glad to see clearly, but I mourn for the world as I thought it was.
They say the truth will set you free. But the lesser known corollary is that first it will kick your ass so hard you might not survive it.
Gwennie, somehow I knew we had something in common. I worked in animal medical research for almost 20 years, retiring in 2016. When the Covid thing blew up, I immediately knew it was a scam. When you work with nonhuman primates, you know your PPE. We wore self-contained breathing apparatus when handing NHPs. I still have my Cercopithicene Herpes Virus 1 warning card in my wallet. And everyone knows Coronaviruses are the common cold, right?
You are wiser than me. I didn't recognize it as a scam right away, I was just very confused why we were abandoning everything we said about how experimental meds are used. I was a total ding dong thinking it was an oversight rather than ill intent. Then I reached out to everyone around the planet that I thought could help us course correct on this issue, which was an epic fail. Glad you escaped in 2016 and I salute your excellent timimg.
I was thinking of commenting. Best I could come up with: it sounds a lot like Massachusetts.
Whenever I hear (fill in the blank) say contact your congressman and senator, my internal response is 'ya right, contact Warren and Markey, that'll get things moving.
The only answer that makes sense to me, wkenn, is a complete and utter political and economical collapse. The system cannot be changed. It's too corrupted, the rot and decay are too deep, the cancer has spread too far. The only way to purge this is to bring it all down and rebuild from the debris left behind. The people have no voice or representation. Period. They steal our money with impunity, mock us, revile us, and hate us while they enrich themselves for life. It must come down for anything to change.
Bingo. It won't be fun but it is necessary. There are still a disturbing number of people who care for nothing but themselves. These will not wake up to reality until it bitch slaps them, HARD. Near death experience.
Ha, so true. Honestly, I don't think anyone is stupid enough to use a nuke other than the USA. There are those who believe nuclear bombs don't even exist, that all the testing and use of the bombs was theatrically created to keep the people in fear. Kind of like the moon landings.
Yes, thinking about it, the USA Today is approaching 18th century monarchial thinking. Not with kings and nobility, but with central government and the elite. When the government supports the elite and not the people, representative government ceases to exist. That is what is happening in Congress, no longer representatives of the people, but an enabler for the elite through lobbyists and direct representation. The president today is a member of the elite, but also a rebel to their cause. He tries to work against the elitist government but it is still in control and he keeps shooting blanks against them thanks to an elitist judiciary.
The USA needs a Jeffersonian turnover in government. The Founders gave no tools to do that in the Constitution. Quite the contrary.
Right now, Trump is trying to stop the illicit birthright law in SCOTUS. He will probably not be successful and millions of illicit tourist citizens will continue to be created by the globalists. As the elite feeds on these people, they will have won another battle against the populist movement. A shame.
We had better get on it right quick, Canker. TPTB are one final false flag/black op from deploying their AI in a draconian lockdown that would boggle even Orwell's brain.
Or The Brooklyn Schoolmarm (Schmuck Schumer) and Farmer (Kirsten) Gillibrand (a self-styled "farmer" who was a lawyer before she became a pol -- definitely not a legit farmer like Harry Truman).
Yeah, like me in illinois—contact Durbin and Duckworth? They would probably put me on their lists of ultra right wing deplorables, marked for a camp of some sort when they bomb themselves back into power. Literally. What’s left for them?
Janet, I lived all my life in Illinois until 2021 when we moved to North Carolina. Duckworth nor Durbin have ever done anything good for the people, but have enriched themselves at the expense of the people of Illinois. They are useless as 99% of the pols there. I know where you’re coming from. Good luck to you.
True, there ia always a John Thune (a corrupt thug and liar is ever there were one) to replace a rotting carcass like the ever-corrupt globalist goon Mitch McConnell. Our only defense is to try to end the political careers of Thune and Mitch McConnell, Murkowski, Tillis, Collins, Capito. Maybe that's not possible given that election results are no longer determined by the actual vote. But we all should, at every turn, obstruct, oppose and destroy these six evil corrupt and wholly criminal RINOs.
Cankerpuss, you are 100% spot on. We haven’t had honest representation in my lifetime & probably all the way back to my grandparents. I’m pretty much fed up with voting. Vote one criminal out & another in. There is only one way to end this screwing over of Americans but I don’t want a visit from the black Suburbans in my driveway.
I'll bet there are some Congresscritters who, when they get elected, go back that cesspool known as DC with an intent to do good and to represent their districts. Unfortunately, they are quickly corrupted by the filth that exists therein and rather than do good they end up being just another cog in the gears of corruption, decadence, crime and filth.
I believe that is true. When I lived in Lake County,Illinois we had a Congressman named Fitzgerald. He was from a banking family but was honest. He could never get anything done as he was always shot down. He had an incorruptible soul. He finally chose not to run again.
We had a Senator from my State, his name was Jake Garn and was a very good and decent human being. He didn't last long in the US Senate. Served one or two terms and didn't run again. When asked why he demured and said something to the effect of "It's not for me." Good and honest people don't thrive in the US Congress.
What would be ironic is if Iran, in its last gasp, lobbed its last long-distance missiles towards our east coast and solved our politician ‘problem’ for us.
We free their people, they free ours. We both get to start over and hopefully, this time, get it right.
physicist Ted Postal on the extremely high probability that Iran already has nuclear weapons ready for hypersonic missile delivery that are entirely capable of annihilating the Israeli population:
Even the existing religious fatah does not prohibit using such weapons in a retaliatory response just as Iran has responded to all US/Israeli escalations in this conflict to date.
It is also essential to recognize that Iran has:
1) All necessary equipment and supplies for manufacture of 10 -12 or more deliverable nuclear bombs in its deeply buried tunnel and multiple underground city fortressed network.
2) There is zero need For Iran to test such a device as he describes and illustrates to be 100% assured of its detonation.
3) Properly targeted this capability is more than enough to eliminate the entire population of Israel in the cascading effect of one destruction attack. And Iranian scientists have already shown in this Goat Fuck That they can target within meters!
Postal goes on to describe how they would be used and the cataclysmic effects that would result in for Israel.
Conclusion: Only a suicidal death cult with a self-annihilation motive would ever ignore these realities. Or treat Iran as anything less than a nuclear capable state with a viable effective nuclear deterrent.
So my follow up to that is simple. If Iran is nuke capable and assuming their hatred for Israel is real and is not propaganda, why haven't they used those weapons? Think about it. If they have the nukes, if they have the capability to ship those nukes, why have they not used them? If I listen to the Hannitys of the world Iran is pure evil, bent on world domination. Here I am reading a statement that says Iran is nuke armed and capable but the nukes aren't flying. Why? Restraint perhaps? If there is restraint then perhaps Iran isn't as crazy as we are told to believe.
Ben, the damage in Israel’s cities is devastating. But no one should be surprised since Israelis see themselves as victims. That is the self-image of the overwhelming majority of the Jewish Israeli population.
Despite draconian penalties of five years in prison for publishing reports on attacks and destruction, thousands of images and videos can be found online that document what, from a Western perspective, is not supposed to exist.
Since Friday, parts of Tel Aviv have been in the dark: the power supply is suffering. It is also striking that the Israeli air defense system, which was already struggling from the start, has practically ground to a halt. Patricia Marins, an independent analyst focusing on defense and security in Europe and Eurasia, reports that eight out of ten (80%) of Iranian missiles hitting Israel are hitting their targets.
On top of that, Hezbollah has intensified its missile attacks in recent days. The Israelis are thus being fired upon from two sides—and now the Houthis are joining in. And soon other nations against genocide.
It's only a matter of time before the American majority demand that ALL their wasteful, immoral, and useless military pulls out of the Middle East. And the apartheid ethnosupremacist experiment of Israel, created by the stupid Brits, collapses after only 75-years.
I’m totally frustrated as a former democrat who defected in 2021. Now, being out of it, I see the whole decomposing carcass of the cult and know it’s been a very long time getting there. I will do my usual protest vote AGAINST the DEMwits and not exactly FOR the GOP. Too chicken to fight for us and Trump. But losing scares the crap out of me. This is our only chance.
With the “creative” elections going on, I am not sure if the DC crowd even cares about votes. Remember that the numbskulls that JHK is writing about vote.
BTW, are we just seeing the effects of TLE? Are we that close to the supply/demand cliff that a war in the Middle East can do the damage in the markets that is happening?
No, the "DC crowd'" doesn't care about votes. Election results are no longer decided by actual votes. Elections are rigged, manipulated and corrupt. The question is when will we, as people, revolt and destroy the political goons and thugs who have seized our government and now steal our tax dollars at will. Let us never forget that every single Registrar of of Elections in every swing election district in the United States is a corrupt and wholly criminal Democrat Party political machine thug.
I'm just realizing that he blocked me as well. I thought he had been banned. How could he do this to me? How can I do it to him? Not that I would or will.
I particularly enjoyed seeing Trump, as Scott Adams would say, "Picking the money up that was left on the table" by a frightened Lloyds of London. It happened so quickly that you knew it was pre-planned. Brilliant.
The reality is that Communist China is behind almost all of it. The brain-dead No Kings Boomer leftist grandmothers (if they are grandmothers who squirted out a couple of puppies before they became frigid or lesbian, or are just bitter old man-hating women) are being bankrolled by ChiComm billionaire Singham and the CCP; Communist China and its toady North Korea are arming Iran with missiles, etc.; Communist China continues to pump fentanyl into America via the Mexican cartels (committing wholesale genocide against feckless Americans--as if unleashing the COVID pandemic on the world wasn't enough); the Communist Chinese have bought and paid for most of the Democrat Party hooligan politicians; and the former Communist Chinese proxy Venezuela helped to rig the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections in favor of the Democrats, often quite successfully.
Now, the Chi-Comms are all whacked off because their oil supply from Iran is being effectively cut off, and they might have to face the possibility that the U.S. will soon hold significant control over who, what, and where can go through the Straits of Hormuz. Few people can see (or do see but don't want to see) that President Trump's overall objective here is to fuck over Communist China--which Communist China so richly deserves--while not directly confronting China. Trump is also likely trying to convince Putin that burning all of Russia's military assets in the Ukraine War is foolishly weakening Russia's ability to defend itself against Communist China. Russia and America may not like each other--just like the Soviet Union and the U.S. didn't like each other in World War II--but Russia has much more to fear from China than it does from the U.S. Communist China is behaving bubby-buddy with Russia just like Nazi Germany was playing buddy-buddy with the Soviet Union right before Germany attacked the USSR. My surmise is that Communist China will invade Russia when Russia reaches the point that it is weak enough.
Finally, no one should doubt that Communist China is a totally genocidal regime. China does not need people--it needs land and natural resources. It will mass murder any country's inhabitants that it conquers as soon as it is able to do so efficiently and effectively--the 2025 version of Hitler's "Living Space" policies. What better target than its resource-rich, relatively low-population neighbor, Russia? Meanwhile, China will continue to try to overthrow the U.S. Government using its toadies here in the U.S., which includes much of the Democrat Party itself that is owned by the Communist Party.
Good Lord. After reading your post, which is well written, by the way, I am now convinced even more than ever that we should have listened to the admonishments of George Washington, when, in his farewell address, he strongly advised our fore fathers to have open trade with all but to avoid all foreign entanglements. What a complete and total mess this world is and the USA, my home, is right smack-dab in the middle of it all.
The problem is, how do we do that, have UN restrictive trade with other countries without entanglements? Especially when those countries are our enemies?
I agree with every word Freedom. This is about China & energy control. The hate-Israel fanatics are always misled into thinking "the Jews" made us do it. Trump is in charge.
Most articulate comment today. If China is willing to harvest organs from the living among them (plenty of evidence that they are), they will stop at NOTHING to gain and retain power and their desired hegemony.
China isn’t a Country it’s A Criminal Organization with King Pings, Dons and their CCP National and Local Soldiers who Control the Enslaved Population for the benefit of the Party Apparatchiks.
They are a desperate and a Dangerous Group who know that their strength is saber rattling, aggressive International Intellectual Theft, Payoffs and Bribery at the highest levels of other countries Governments and their Monetary Pliable Representatives.
They will stop at nothing to keep their Facade threatening to defend themselves from their billions of their enslaved citizens.
They ave already worked with their Criminal Counterparts in the West with their coordinated Planed Pandemic!
We The People, have foes everywhere we look from China to our own Political Parties and their Representatives.
The real time Wack-A-Mole Game of Survival isn’t going away, we in the interim have to control the mallet!
There are fools out there that will talk about China and Russia influence until they're blue in the face, and not say a word about the utter domination that Israel has over our country.
China wants to colonize the United States, for the reasons you stated. They have too many people and not enough arable land. I believe there are Chinese troops in the United States waiting for the signal. The food recalls feed them, since they must be fed off the books.
I'm not so sure about the Straits part. OTOH Russia weakening itself with the Ukraine situation is spot on. Back in the Cold War era there were a few dustups on the Sino-Soviet border. Russia has massive land with resources but a small population compared to size. The CCP apparently has the workforce numbers to exploit the land mass and resources.
"Eerie lackawanna" and a reference to "myrmidons" in the same post! We are not worthy. But, by all means, please continue to favor us with your literary effulgence. I look forward to every bit of word play and all the arcane references that you can muster, dear James. And in another positive development, the Iranians have promised to bomb American universities if we don't immediately cease our military operations. If only!
A republic cannot survive without civic virtue, and the American republic has not enough of that stuff. It drowns instead in oceans of ignorance and vanity (i.e. self-enrichment).
Yes. The diseases of Capitalism and "Free Dumb" have triumphed. People actually feel morally triumphant when they devote themselves to getting rich as if nothing else matters.
Exactly. People have been trading and selling goods for millennia. Capitalism, as we've known it, isn't "buying and selling private goods." That's rhetoric.
Capitalism as it actually exists, Is "profit as the highest good. " we don't have a box for "this is less efficient, more expensive, but the right choice." That's a concept that simple doesn't exist for us. Market efficiency has more zealots than any religion ever did.
Oh c’mon now. Capitalism “as it actually exists” isn’t even close to a market based economy. It is a creation of regulation, government choosing winners and losers and government sponsored fractional reserve banking money creation. Among other sins.
Well, right. That's my point. "As it actually exists" is the way it is, because the proponents of it, haven't taken proper account of human nature, the Good, or the nature of vice.
"That's not real capitalism" sounds and awful lot like "real communism hasn't been tried."
They both are stupid for the same reason. No accounting for hierarchy, the common good, or human nature. The very nature of a corruption free, unregulated, market based economy...is fiction. It has never existed. Because of human nature.
You make conclusions unstated. Corruption was prominent in my post. A free society still requires laws. And overregulation is not a request for “unregulated” markets.
If you stated corporatism is based on profit “is the highest good” you would be closer to the truth though even corporations must provide a product someone is willing to pay for. The corruption as current, is when they collude with government to game the system. Eliminating competition, setting prices and sweetheart dealing. Human nature at its worst.
That's fair pushback. Had you said "it's a creation of OVERregulation" as opposed to "it's a creation of regulation" I would have responded differently. That's not a criticism, I just thought you were taking a much stronger position than you were.
I think that hard work, is determining the correct regulation, to apply at the right time, for the right reason.
But one of the problems we have it that part of our ethos, as Plato pointed out, is an understanding of freedom that is "no one can tell me what to do." Which is also the attitude of the tyrant. Which is why the collude...
Maybe yes, maybe no. Don't know how you could possibly know how much civic virtue there is and how it compares to the broad swath of fallen humanity throughout history.
sigh ... looks like JHK is gonna continue carrying the long-defunct "Two-Party" narrative 'til the day he croaks. "Donkeys - bad!! Elephants - good!!!" Way past the time to wake up, JHK!
Read my lips: It's a UNI-Party, all working for the same Globalist Masters! They just want people to think that one side's "bad", the other "good", and you must pick a side. The tragedy is that people continue falling for it, thereby aiding their objective to "keep 'em divided and infighting". Meanwhile, they continue pursuing the Globalist agenda as a unified entity against we the people.
My goal isn't to "look brilliant", but merely to voice what is well known by informed individuals.
All anyone has to do is examine critically, sans bias, the voting in Congress. *Globalist* objectives (nearly) always get the votes, most often requiring that some reds vote with the blues, or vice versa. Interesting how that happens - always "just enough" turncoats.
You mean well, but have absorbed and are invested in the two-party narrative far too much for your discernment to function properly.
The Globalist Cabal has captured *enough* of our Congress so that they essentially control what Congress does. They don't need every single one captured, just enough to be certain that their agenda gets to advance - they've achieved that.
I won't try to convince you, just encourage you to view things with that perspective in mind. Do that and watch as "perplexing" events suddenly become easily explainable.
Uniparty is a misnomer. There are two groups contesting in the Congress, one believing that government is the boss, and another that says that the people are the boss. The former is the Deep State that has managed to take control of both the Federal government and many of the states, and the latter is the populist group known as MAGA. Dem and GOP are obsolete. Just ask the RINOs or John Fetterman their opinions. I hope the country realigns itself into two legitimate parties with real differences between them. I also hope that the population wises up. The socialists are just about in perpetual control.
The GOP voters are largely MAGA yet when push comes to shove on issues MAGA holds dear, the establishment weasel trash like McConnell/Thune screw us over at every turn. As I said, of the 535, Burchett and maybe two dozen others max are trying to be true to their voters.
Agreed, but in 1856 and 1860, the GOP took over the country by putting out a platform that made sense. There is no helping the idiot Left, but populist control could stop the death of America.
MAGA populists have proposed reforms that make sense, yet are frustrated continuously by RINOs like Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis et al in the Senate. MAGA should be the future but MAGA is vehemently anti grift and corruption, at least in theory, and this is a no starter for all of the Republican grandees who have mysteriously become multi-millionaires while in office just like their Democrat homies The evidence of this is in the horrified reactions over attempting to use the DOGE algorithms to detect thieving and phony voter rolls. Even though horrific financial crimes were uncovered such as USAID and all the rest, they couldn't stop it fast enough.
Review the headlines from one year ago and you will notice virtually every bombshell of corruption has since been memory holed.
Nope, sorry, I do not buy that ancient narrative. Once upon a time it was a valid argument, not any longer. The Globalist Cabal has essentially wrapped-up the US in every essential sector. Of course, you may believe as you wish.
I think in order to find the group who think the people are the boss you'd need a microscope, seems to me that the air in Washington DC is corrosive to one's morals
Per chance, the IQ level of far too many people in Congress simply is not high enough to even know of globalist objectives....listen to these people....they are not smart....
Could not agree more. Even those with high IQ lack *wisdom* and/or discernment. And then, of course, there are those that have simply "sold their soul" for the purpose of obtaining power, fame and riches.
Elizabeth Warren is just plain stupid….if I hadn’t thought it before, when she started her whining about text message colors for Apple, and how she felt like a second class citizen….SMFH….she or a staffer could have googled (small g) why that is…(Apple to Apple is sent via a different system than Apple to non-Apple (SMS))….She is just DUMB as is that Hawaii broad.
You think that AOC is the dumbest person in Congress? Because she tended bar? That poor girl is indoctrinated....but listen to Warren, the Hawaii woman, many of the men, the list goes on. There are plenty of contenders in Congress for being just plain dumb with equally dumb staffers....and plenty of really bright bar tenders...
It is hard to dispute the line that "There are many Republicans who are actually Democrats in DC, but there are no Democrats in DC who are actually Republicans." Except for the dozen or two members like Tim Burchett, it looks like the other 500+ in both houses are for sale or have very bad ulterior motives.
Do you ever tire of talking out your ass, or are you the male Maisie Hirono -- someone so fucking stupid that you just can't help but say stupid shit?
I just can't fucking deal with someone who is so obsessed with hating Jews that it's about the only thing you ever talk about. And you claim to be a Christian -- a faith that the Bible says is merely a branch grafted onto the main tree of Judaism. Christ died for your sins of His own free will, then rose to eternal life after three days and three nights in the Garden Tomb. (As an aside, Friday evening to daybreak Sunday doesn't fit 3 days and 3 nights; however, a secondary Sabbath for a holy day falling in the middle of the week would accommodate that requirement, as Christ's own words were that He'd be in the tomb just as long as Jonah was in the whale. If he wasn't in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights, He didn't fulfill His own prophecy, and therefore was a fraud. I don't think He was a fraud.) If you refuse to accept that Jesus was Jewish and that the Father is YHWH, God of the Jews, because you have an all-consuming hatred of all Jews, I don't know what to tell you, other than there's a parable about a debtor whose punishment was commuted by a king. However, after his release from debtor's prison, the man went around roughing up people who owed him money. Upon hearing this, the king was furious and had the man thrown back into prison. Which is to say, you're skating on thin ice with somebody at an infinitely higher pay grade than mine when you persecute people for their ethnicity.
Christ said that the new wine (His teachings) had to be put in a new wineskin (religion) because it would burst the old one of Judaism. He said, Soon they will drive you out of the synagogues and consider killing you a good deed. How did you miss this? What kind of Bible are you reading?
Jesus ministry struck at the Jerusalem cult created by the Sanhedrin, who had created a subculture to the Jewish religion favoring wealth and power over true faith in Yahweh. The center of his ministry was in the North, the center of the ten tribes of Israel and the “enemy” of the Jerusalem cult.
11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
All Israel Will Be Saved
25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way[a] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is[b] my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”[c]
28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now[d] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.
Baloney. The Jews for Jesus movement is making deep inroads into Judaism and the Orthodox hate it. Your hater blindness cannot accept the fact that Jews are like the rest of us, totally clueless.
A nice thought, but in the end it does not matter if you drink blue poison or red poison -- both are poison and both will kill you just as dead. I'm waiting for a non-poison, not for the "lesser of two evils". Why are we forced to choose between EVILS - one "lesser" than the other?
Besides the Boomer No Kings crowd, my small CA city is duffer RINO central … they want their country club back! Oh, for the days of Reagan! (Whose ranch was in my city’s mountains.) Sometimes our local retired CIA operative (so he claims) will take a pause from martinis at the country club and tap out one of his columns in which he tells Trump how it ought to be done. Meanwhile, an Elon launch this morning from our nearby airforce base was successful, but our governor has chased him away because we need that bullet train from Modesto to Bakersfield running and Elon just won’t do the green thing. Everyone enjoy their Monday.
It's so obviously a money laundering operation and was never going to be completed, or even started for that matter. Supposedly the proposition "passed" by a narrow margin, which means it didn't pass. There's an army of "consultants" making 400-500k a year for doing nothing. Meanwhile the "No Kings" crowd remains blissfully unaware of any of it. Thanks again to the criminally dishonest MSM
A perfect example of the grift and enrichment of friends and supporters, as shown by the HSR in Cal., is the $700,000 Rice is supposedly being paid to run the monstrosity of Hussein Obama library in Chicago. Those Dimms do indeed take care of each other.
How do we get the infrastructure we do need? How come Asia can build high speed rail? Or Europe. This is what government should be doing, building the infrastructure that aids the economy and the people. I read the TLE the first time in response to JHK saying we need a much better railroad system, which I agree with. The real problem with the high speed rail in California is Newsom and the crooks in Sacramento. If Trump has built it, it would already be done and under budget. To a Democrat, infrastructure is primarily social welfare. “Not a rail has been laid”? True, but most of the construction involves separating the HSR trains from the road network to avoid high speed crashes. Look at a typical freeway project, it takes forever to build the supports and road bases, the roads themselves are fast. Laying and welding the rails will be small potatoes compared to what has been done.
I am in favor of building HSR all over the USA. The airways are getting too crowded and a secret is that is HSR is allowed to move at its 200+mph potential, it will compete on long distance routes. When California pulls this off and shows its capabilities, it will kick off a major build of HSR. Think Texas, think the Midwest, think Florida to NYC, the key is successful separation of the roadbed from the background roadways to allow full speed operation. Mag lev and the Boring company are next for urban development. It is a dream but a good one.
Ditto the whole military/industrial complex. A for profit venture - thus both inefficient and demonic. Why can't we make weapons to just defend our nation? Why isn't that enough?
They should have planned the Disorient Express to travel between Oakland and San Bernardino. Lots of people want to get away from each, and pretty much anywhere along the route. When they arrived, they'd want to get away again. The train from nowhere to nowhere would never lack for passengers. Unfortunately some would become suicidal, giving new meaning to the term "bullet train."
Unbelievable how the New York Times has carried water for the Iranian regime. Absolutely agree with all you wrote. They hate America and want to destroy it. They love fascism, if they even know what it means, and they are on the side of Hitler, policy wise - siding with the bad guys while telling themselves they are good.
The greatest lie perpetrated in the post World War II era--purposely by Socialists--has been that conservative capitalists are Fascists. In fact, Communist/Socialist and Fascist/Socialist ideologies are nearly identical: they both believe in a centrally (government-dictated) "planned" economy, both ideologies hate free market capitalism, both are anti-freedom, both believe that the people serve the government and not the other other way around, both espouse racism and bigotry (with the only difference being what ethnic, racial, or religious group is to be victimized by the regime). The basic difference between Communist/Socialist and Fascist/Socialist ideology is that the Fascist/Socialists will tolerate large corporatists to own property and make a profit only so long as the corporatists pledge total allegiance to the regime and to be heavily controlled by the regime. The Communist/Socialists believe that the state should own and control ALL property. And, even the Fascist/Socialist Hitler confided that he believed that private ownership of property by the corporatists would be only a "temporary condition", and that the government would eventually "nationalize" all private property. Now, if that sounds something like the WEF mantra, "You will own nothing and you will be happy," you would be correct. Socialism in all its forms is inherently evil and anti-freedom. And anyone who embraces Socialism is profoundly evil, whether they think or realize that they are or not.
"The Communist/Socialists believe that the state should own and control ALL property."
The state of the USA does own and control ALL property, F4C. It's called "property tax." Every one of us who owns property has to pay this tax or the government can place liens on the property and eventually foreclose or put the property up for tax sale. In other words, the US government owns every inch of land in the USA. We own absolutely nothing. We are renters only, serfs subject to our government Lords.
What gets my panties in a wad is most Americans care not and willfully pay that property tax. Well, at least those who are smart enough to know that the banks pay the tax out of their monthly escrow. Most Americans have no clue how much tax they pay because of those insidious little things called "withholdings" and "escrows."
They are so clever, aren't they? We are so stupid, aren't we?
They also don’t understand how money printing has stolen the value of money, debts signed for in their name have stolen the future, and regulation(intimidation) of businesses has stolen the jobs. That’s why working people are living in their cars and can’t afford much food or any healthcare. When the welfare and food stamps run out- it’s going to be Mad Max.
Money printing......AKA the "silent tax." They print the money and inject it into the system. The banks and those who receive the newly minted money enjoy the extra money at today's prices. As the money trickles down the additional dollars are competing for the same amount of resources causing prices to rise. By the time that newly minted money makes it to the people prices have already increased. Money printing takes that 100 dollars you have in the bank and makes it even worth less than it was before.
It is evil. Few there be that give a damn. As long as they can watch the NFL and the NBA and buy a sports jersey with some other man's name on their back, hey, that's all that matters.
Money printing is basically thieves reaching into your wallet, bank accounts, and investments and stealing money (by stealing its value) without leaving any traces- except inflation, well-funded criminals and a coin shortage.
Not many people understand basic economics. My sister in law once complained that her money from the gov't was not enough and when I interjected that the gov't cannot fund everything and her honest answer was that well.......they could just print some more. She has no idea that we are wildly printing money or borrowing money that does not exist-----as fast as our bureaucracy can make it happen. And......she thinks inflation happens because people running businesses raise their prices.
Sadly 10's of millions of her fellow citizens are just like her.
Musk is NOT controlled by the government, he is in continuous competition with them. DOGE, SpaceX, Tesla, X all are in opposition to the bureaucracy.
Yes, half the people in the USA are stupid, believing that a corrupt government thinks or cares about them. Trump’s big victory in 2024 gives hope, but now we see the reaction of the gimmes to the hard knocks required to right the ship, in 2026, this fall, we will see if Americans are worth the worry.
You realize that the social media is under assault by the government for control of what we hear? The kids are the legality, but it is control of content that is the meat of the matter.
He is an embarrassment to NASA who fights Space X for dollars, the cabinet dumped Musk when DOGE started eating up their public dollars,
Tesla is his image, solar everywhere, cars, houses, boats, battery storage. Now, AI where he is fighting the no holds barred approach of the Google et al crowd. Musk knows what is coming with AI, and is afraid of it.
He is an individual entrepreneur, and we need many more of him.
My son said that when he was four. Me: telling him we couldn't do something because we didn't have enough money. Him. deep sigh. But Mom, just. go. to. the bank. and. get. more. money. Sigh.
No. The Fascists believe in private property, the Communist don't. Shame on you for being so dense.
But yes! The also believe that Corporations need to be guided and to play ball with the nation. If they do, they will be honored (not taken over). If they don't, they can get the fuck out.
We lost millions in the world fighting the elitist fascists. Those veterans are gone, but they would be sick to see what this country’s population has evolved into.
Corporations in fascism, as well as communism are like the house slaves on the plantation of old. Still slaves, just with better clothes, room and board. But perhaps there is the illusion for freedom?
In both, corruption destroys so much. Aren’t they both just evil power grabs in different garb?
But Corporations doing whatever they want, that's freedom! Instead of choosing elected officials who take an oath of office, let's be ruled by nameless, faceless executives, loyal only to the shareholders.
I think it’s important to hold any large groups (corporations, unions, government groups, NGO’s, press monopolies etc)accountable to the same laws average people are subjected to. The problem of corruption is a systemic one. The people elect corrupt people unknowingly, and listen to propaganda from corrupt press unknowingly, and those who are corrupt KNOWINGLY seek to corrupt and fool the people even more. It’s a circular system, like so many, and hard to get out of. Even if you have a will to get healthy, few people want to make the painful steps necessary- which is why they are dying. Trump seems to me to be trying to address corruption in SO many areas- but it has to be done carefully. Like a physician working on a critically ill patient. I just read an article the other day that said that a lot of overweight people, like John Candy, died after losing weight too fast. And another article said that people were most likely to die from blood pressure problems right after starting blood pressure meds. Trump doesn’t want our country to collapse- but many do. I pray for God’s mercy and guidance. The problem is not capitalism, it’s corruption. But capitalism, with necessary intervention against aggressive monopolies, creates more of a separation of powers that protects our freedoms. Communism and socialism are wrong, because at their heart they are legalized stealing. And yes, I know socialism has infected our country badly.
Freedom 4, I agree, but even Russia has always had carve outs for powerful gangsters. That’s how you know an evil regime- the only way you can have “freedom” is if you’re a criminal - either in actuality or because of dissent.
I’m not surprised by them per se, just that they’re still doing it in 2026. They are probably funded by stolen money, because I doubt there are that many subscribers. And it’s still unbelievable- their headlines and articles are utterly unbelievable. So many people lie, and many live in what I call, “Opposite Land” or “Upside Down World”. Good is evil to them and evil is good. Racism is anti-racism and murder is “healthcare”. They are drowning because they are swimming away from the true light.
Before the Sovs and Nazis split -- you do remember they were allies before Operation Barbarossa, don't you? -- the Times was orgasmic over both Hitler and Stalin -- and Mussolini as well. (As an aside, ever notice the similarity between the jut-jawed profiles of Il Duce and The Kenyan, aka The Choom King?)
The Sulzbergers, who own America's favorite birdcage liner, actively suppressed information about your brown-shirted heroes rounding up Jews, even though they are Jews themselves.
Your boy Adolf was a favorite of the Junkers, who thought they could control him as he rebuilt the German empire lost in the Treaty of Versailles. They were slightly wrong.
Churchill wasn't a sellout till he came back to power and continued Eden's policies that he previously had criticized.
Kathy Hochul and Letitia James are in Albany, Alvin Bragg and Mamdani (and a fuckton of sociopaths, including many Wall Street types) are in New York, the maniacs who populate Ithaca, and the roving gangs of criminal thugs who terrorize Rochester and the dying city of Elmira are closer to me than Canada. Plus the PM of Canada was one of the higher-ups in the WEF, so of course he'll side with anyone against us -- at least, until we elect another lying, nut bag Democrat piece of shit in 2028 to complete our destruction.
Irony painfully thick this weekend as I drove past our small town's lunatic gathering of No Kings protesters. Egads, we are talking Washington State here where our legislature and governor have behaved worse than Marie Antoinette. Not only do we pay an extra 60 cents per gallon of gas for 'Climate Intiatives' (and mind you this tax also applies to heating oil--and I live in a town where we can't have natural gas because we are coastal) but despite our state constitutional protections against a state income tax, we've now got one, along with higher property tax and capital gain tax. We've also had our legislature decree that cities and towns will have no say in bureaucrats and NGOs who decide to build junkie hotels in our towns. We get a public bus terminal in the midst of downtown right next to the high school which is a magnet for every junkie traveling up and down the road from Olympia to Astoria and the city is told we have no say.
But, by all means, go out and spend your Saturday protesting the elusive King of your fevered brain while ignoring all those governing us in our state.
Who chose the leaders who create the havoc. The German people were in lockstep with Hitler’s goons and deserved no protection. Today, much of Iran’s population despise the Mullahs as much as we do. So, maybe they deserve some protection. I wonder though, where are they, week five and no Shah’s son and no organized opposition. Maybe it is those nice Mullahs killing those citizens wantonly that is stopping the opposition.
Hmmm, I wonder, estimates say that 30 -40000 protestors have been executed by the Mullahs. Seems to me that Iran has killed many times the citizenry of Iran than the Allies have.
Preceding all mentioned above, the notion that men can become women just by saying so, was an obvious clue that outright insanity is now the order of the day. If that absurdity can be believed, almost anything else is then possible.
You don’t have to agree with every word to feel the signal underneath this.
Something is off—and people are coping in very different ways. Some double down on the script. Others start seeing the cracks.
When both parties look weak, distracted, or unwilling to act, that’s when the ground starts shifting under everything else—finance, foreign policy, even basic trust.
Add in external pressure and economic stress, and you’ve got a system running hot on all fronts.
Feels less like politics… and more like a structure losing coherence.
The greatest mental retardation in history is POLITICS. Pick the blue or the red pills...either way, you will be endlessly bombarded with lies and propaganda. Never will you ever see a light at the end of the "political" tunnel...unless you are passing into the next life perhaps.
Yes. It’s all theater. Fake. Propaganda. Keeping the population distracted and fearful, so they be more easily controlled. As for Congress, don’t get me started. They’re corrupted to the core. They care about two things: money and votes.
In the US House of Representatives there are 217 Republicans and 214 Democrats.
Out of the 214 Democrats there isn't a single one of them, not ONE, that has a unique thought, that has a unique district to represent, a desire to think for themselves. Not ONE. Instead, 214 of them sit there with their thumbs up their asses and wait for the party bosses to tell them what to do. If they don't do it, they don't get their committee assignments, don't get the endorsement and don't get paid. Amen to the lucrative lobbying and talking head positions at MSNBC and CNN after they resign.
It's not much better out of the 217 Republicans. As always there are a handful of Republicans who like power too much and side too often with the brainless Democratic robots and screw everything up. These people are the worst of the worst. The shit clogging the toilet. The dregs of the dregs.
The US Congress is a dismal failure. A colossal waste of space and resources. Americans should be marching on the Congressional office buildings and removing these fuckers and stringing them up. They don't represent anything but their wallets and their careers.
So what do we the people do? Vote? Nope. Too corrupted. March on Washington? Nope. We end up in prison with no charges. Not pay taxes? And lose everything we've worked for. Contact our Congressional Representatives? Our message will end with some nubile aide that the representative is sleeping with. Rely on the States? The States are as corrupt as the US Congress.
In other words, we are screwed. There is always a John Thune out there to replace a rotting carcass like Mitch McConnell.
I feel like I'm an unscripted extra in the latest remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The No Kings demo in my little village was an illustration of what Stephen King called "sunlit horror ". I'm 75. I thought I knew these people. Some of these zombies teach my grandchildren in the local school. I recognized the clerk from the post office and the checkout lady from the Family Market. I will never trust them again.
Yes, YES--I invoke The Invasion of the Body Snatchers repeatedly. I'm watching for the pod people--do not go to sleep. The woke sleep and become aliens.
The pods are def out there.
I know how you feel, Tenquid. I was early to the Body Snatcher party because I work in biotech/pharma, and was a true believer about the horrors of the past abominations and our committment to never again. I thought the Nuremberg trials meant something, that we'd put a stake in the ground about using experimental meds on people without their consent, that Tuskeegee and the radioactive milkshakes to pregnant white trash mothers at Vanderbilt hospital were from our unelightened past. Only to find what I thought was an ethical industry ( a few bad apples notwithstanding) completely mowed down by a little social pressure.
Doctors being paid bounties on patients, patients put on respirators and shit drugs (talking to you, remdesivir) without their consent, elderly people sequested from their families (the cruelest kind of death sentence), while scientists knuckled under and doctors and nurses did dance moves in hallways while the monetized dying died alone. Scientists lecturing on the need to accept dogma without data and never argue. What country is this? Who are these people?
It is as if you are a devout Buddhist and then you spy the dalai lama and all the holy men you revered, through a window, smocking crystal meth and torturing puppies to death. I'm not over it and don't think I ever will be. I am glad to see clearly, but I mourn for the world as I thought it was.
They say the truth will set you free. But the lesser known corollary is that first it will kick your ass so hard you might not survive it.
Gwennie, somehow I knew we had something in common. I worked in animal medical research for almost 20 years, retiring in 2016. When the Covid thing blew up, I immediately knew it was a scam. When you work with nonhuman primates, you know your PPE. We wore self-contained breathing apparatus when handing NHPs. I still have my Cercopithicene Herpes Virus 1 warning card in my wallet. And everyone knows Coronaviruses are the common cold, right?
You are wiser than me. I didn't recognize it as a scam right away, I was just very confused why we were abandoning everything we said about how experimental meds are used. I was a total ding dong thinking it was an oversight rather than ill intent. Then I reached out to everyone around the planet that I thought could help us course correct on this issue, which was an epic fail. Glad you escaped in 2016 and I salute your excellent timimg.
I guess King's book, Tommyknockers, is sort of like a regurgitation of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
I was thinking of commenting. Best I could come up with: it sounds a lot like Massachusetts.
Whenever I hear (fill in the blank) say contact your congressman and senator, my internal response is 'ya right, contact Warren and Markey, that'll get things moving.
The only answer that makes sense to me, wkenn, is a complete and utter political and economical collapse. The system cannot be changed. It's too corrupted, the rot and decay are too deep, the cancer has spread too far. The only way to purge this is to bring it all down and rebuild from the debris left behind. The people have no voice or representation. Period. They steal our money with impunity, mock us, revile us, and hate us while they enrich themselves for life. It must come down for anything to change.
Jefferson's opinion was a cleansing every 20 or so years was a good idea. We're way overdue.
Thomas Jefferson, who wants to listen to that old rich slave porking white dude. (note strong sarcasm).
That was the purpose of elections at one time. Even that can be corrupted.
Bingo. It won't be fun but it is necessary. There are still a disturbing number of people who care for nothing but themselves. These will not wake up to reality until it bitch slaps them, HARD. Near death experience.
Exactly why they won't release all the files bc the entire collapse will be the outcome. Bring it on!
A 12-kt nuke detonated over Washington would accomplish that.
Ha, so true. Honestly, I don't think anyone is stupid enough to use a nuke other than the USA. There are those who believe nuclear bombs don't even exist, that all the testing and use of the bombs was theatrically created to keep the people in fear. Kind of like the moon landings.
I don't know what to believe anymore.
Yes, thinking about it, the USA Today is approaching 18th century monarchial thinking. Not with kings and nobility, but with central government and the elite. When the government supports the elite and not the people, representative government ceases to exist. That is what is happening in Congress, no longer representatives of the people, but an enabler for the elite through lobbyists and direct representation. The president today is a member of the elite, but also a rebel to their cause. He tries to work against the elitist government but it is still in control and he keeps shooting blanks against them thanks to an elitist judiciary.
The USA needs a Jeffersonian turnover in government. The Founders gave no tools to do that in the Constitution. Quite the contrary.
Right now, Trump is trying to stop the illicit birthright law in SCOTUS. He will probably not be successful and millions of illicit tourist citizens will continue to be created by the globalists. As the elite feeds on these people, they will have won another battle against the populist movement. A shame.
They are bringing it down on themselves. Chaos for all unfortunately. Out of chaos opportunity.
We had better get on it right quick, Canker. TPTB are one final false flag/black op from deploying their AI in a draconian lockdown that would boggle even Orwell's brain.
Hell, my children don't even listen to me and my wife looks at me like I am big green bug.
If only I was king of the world, PD. If only I was king of the world. Even then, nobody would listen to me :)
Same with us in WA state. No Kings = No Brains.
Or The Brooklyn Schoolmarm (Schmuck Schumer) and Farmer (Kirsten) Gillibrand (a self-styled "farmer" who was a lawyer before she became a pol -- definitely not a legit farmer like Harry Truman).
Yeah, like me in illinois—contact Durbin and Duckworth? They would probably put me on their lists of ultra right wing deplorables, marked for a camp of some sort when they bomb themselves back into power. Literally. What’s left for them?
Janet, I lived all my life in Illinois until 2021 when we moved to North Carolina. Duckworth nor Durbin have ever done anything good for the people, but have enriched themselves at the expense of the people of Illinois. They are useless as 99% of the pols there. I know where you’re coming from. Good luck to you.
Warren and Markey represent me about as much as Trump does now.
True, there ia always a John Thune (a corrupt thug and liar is ever there were one) to replace a rotting carcass like the ever-corrupt globalist goon Mitch McConnell. Our only defense is to try to end the political careers of Thune and Mitch McConnell, Murkowski, Tillis, Collins, Capito. Maybe that's not possible given that election results are no longer determined by the actual vote. But we all should, at every turn, obstruct, oppose and destroy these six evil corrupt and wholly criminal RINOs.
Not entirely true Fetterman, dare I say it breaks ranks as far as thinking goes, who knows.
Thinking is all nice, fun and dandy, but how does he vote? Does he ever break ranks when it comes to voting? If he does, I'd welcome the knowledge.
Fetterman 2.0
Yes! Fetterman has turned out to be an honest reasonable man who pursues the public interest as best as he can determine it.
He votes his beliefs, not a party line. Something rare in DC.
Cankerpuss, you are 100% spot on. We haven’t had honest representation in my lifetime & probably all the way back to my grandparents. I’m pretty much fed up with voting. Vote one criminal out & another in. There is only one way to end this screwing over of Americans but I don’t want a visit from the black Suburbans in my driveway.
I'll bet there are some Congresscritters who, when they get elected, go back that cesspool known as DC with an intent to do good and to represent their districts. Unfortunately, they are quickly corrupted by the filth that exists therein and rather than do good they end up being just another cog in the gears of corruption, decadence, crime and filth.
I believe that is true. When I lived in Lake County,Illinois we had a Congressman named Fitzgerald. He was from a banking family but was honest. He could never get anything done as he was always shot down. He had an incorruptible soul. He finally chose not to run again.
We had a Senator from my State, his name was Jake Garn and was a very good and decent human being. He didn't last long in the US Senate. Served one or two terms and didn't run again. When asked why he demured and said something to the effect of "It's not for me." Good and honest people don't thrive in the US Congress.
They are corrupted by the seniority system. Remember Mr. smith goes to Washington. A Capra-esk statement in the early 1900s.
What would be ironic is if Iran, in its last gasp, lobbed its last long-distance missiles towards our east coast and solved our politician ‘problem’ for us.
We free their people, they free ours. We both get to start over and hopefully, this time, get it right.
BTW, what DID happen to the aide who was found dead on the floor of Joke Scharborough's congressional office not long before he bolted for Mess-NBC?
Cankerpuss my friend,
physicist Ted Postal on the extremely high probability that Iran already has nuclear weapons ready for hypersonic missile delivery that are entirely capable of annihilating the Israeli population:
https://youtu.be/JtUobr7xGz4?si=am3XO8hvbmG6ukNA
Even the existing religious fatah does not prohibit using such weapons in a retaliatory response just as Iran has responded to all US/Israeli escalations in this conflict to date.
It is also essential to recognize that Iran has:
1) All necessary equipment and supplies for manufacture of 10 -12 or more deliverable nuclear bombs in its deeply buried tunnel and multiple underground city fortressed network.
2) There is zero need For Iran to test such a device as he describes and illustrates to be 100% assured of its detonation.
3) Properly targeted this capability is more than enough to eliminate the entire population of Israel in the cascading effect of one destruction attack. And Iranian scientists have already shown in this Goat Fuck That they can target within meters!
Postal goes on to describe how they would be used and the cataclysmic effects that would result in for Israel.
Conclusion: Only a suicidal death cult with a self-annihilation motive would ever ignore these realities. Or treat Iran as anything less than a nuclear capable state with a viable effective nuclear deterrent.
So my follow up to that is simple. If Iran is nuke capable and assuming their hatred for Israel is real and is not propaganda, why haven't they used those weapons? Think about it. If they have the nukes, if they have the capability to ship those nukes, why have they not used them? If I listen to the Hannitys of the world Iran is pure evil, bent on world domination. Here I am reading a statement that says Iran is nuke armed and capable but the nukes aren't flying. Why? Restraint perhaps? If there is restraint then perhaps Iran isn't as crazy as we are told to believe.
Answer, Dennis is reading the National Enquirer and its sister, the NYT.
Do you still believe in Santa Claus? Your fairy tales are entertaining.
They virtually take money from Israel. Some take money from China too. Or other countries. This should be illegal - all of it.
I agree with you all foreign funding for American politicians should be banned.
Ben, the damage in Israel’s cities is devastating. But no one should be surprised since Israelis see themselves as victims. That is the self-image of the overwhelming majority of the Jewish Israeli population.
Despite draconian penalties of five years in prison for publishing reports on attacks and destruction, thousands of images and videos can be found online that document what, from a Western perspective, is not supposed to exist.
Since Friday, parts of Tel Aviv have been in the dark: the power supply is suffering. It is also striking that the Israeli air defense system, which was already struggling from the start, has practically ground to a halt. Patricia Marins, an independent analyst focusing on defense and security in Europe and Eurasia, reports that eight out of ten (80%) of Iranian missiles hitting Israel are hitting their targets.
On top of that, Hezbollah has intensified its missile attacks in recent days. The Israelis are thus being fired upon from two sides—and now the Houthis are joining in. And soon other nations against genocide.
It's only a matter of time before the American majority demand that ALL their wasteful, immoral, and useless military pulls out of the Middle East. And the apartheid ethnosupremacist experiment of Israel, created by the stupid Brits, collapses after only 75-years.
We shall see.
Want to bet Israel out lives you?
And that includes AIPAC needless to say.
Keep voting for those elected representatives!
Yes, because it has served us so well. (note heavy sarcasm).
I’m totally frustrated as a former democrat who defected in 2021. Now, being out of it, I see the whole decomposing carcass of the cult and know it’s been a very long time getting there. I will do my usual protest vote AGAINST the DEMwits and not exactly FOR the GOP. Too chicken to fight for us and Trump. But losing scares the crap out of me. This is our only chance.
Three things, actually. Money and votes as a means to serve Israel. Sad but true.
With the “creative” elections going on, I am not sure if the DC crowd even cares about votes. Remember that the numbskulls that JHK is writing about vote.
BTW, are we just seeing the effects of TLE? Are we that close to the supply/demand cliff that a war in the Middle East can do the damage in the markets that is happening?
No, the "DC crowd'" doesn't care about votes. Election results are no longer decided by actual votes. Elections are rigged, manipulated and corrupt. The question is when will we, as people, revolt and destroy the political goons and thugs who have seized our government and now steal our tax dollars at will. Let us never forget that every single Registrar of of Elections in every swing election district in the United States is a corrupt and wholly criminal Democrat Party political machine thug.
What is TLE?
JHK’s book, The Long Emergency.
I think we've been in the act of going over the energy cliff, which is about the same thing. Without energy nothing moves.
There are a lot of deforested areas around the Mediterranean. It dates back to the Bronze Age, they needed the wood to run the furnaces.
Easter Island
Yep. They've gotta have the votes to get more of the money.
I think you meant: "They care about one thing: money."
Clearly, as long as they refuse to pass the SAVE Act, votes are not a problem.
...and getting home on time for the Easter Bunny 🐰
The Elephants vs. The Donkeys: '24 Midterms
"The most important midterms in history!"
Red v Blue
Frick v Frack
Tweedledum & Tweedledee
The Elephants and donkeys are irrelevant today. It is the Ult-Left gimmes vs. the populist independents.
Dumb & Dumber
Phil,
Why am I seeing your posts? I was blocked.
In a gesture of peace, I recently unblocked every block I had (about half a dozen characters). We'll see how it goes from here.
Cheers, Ely!
Phil,
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Apparently, the only peace on earth is on this site.
Thanks, Ely. It's good to hear from you as well. 😃
Note: Of course you can always block me. It's a two-way street.
I'm just realizing that he blocked me as well. I thought he had been banned. How could he do this to me? How can I do it to him? Not that I would or will.
You dared to prove him wrong!
Blocking people is detrimental to the entire site but when someone gets really crude or nasty a weeklong block is a good thing.
How about a two week withdrawal as a psych break.
That works as well.
Protesting on behalf of illegal immigrants is crazy work.
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/no-kings-or-running-on-trump-derangement
There’s always Fetterman.
I particularly enjoyed seeing Trump, as Scott Adams would say, "Picking the money up that was left on the table" by a frightened Lloyds of London. It happened so quickly that you knew it was pre-planned. Brilliant.
Yes, Trump surely has a nose for that.
The reality is that Communist China is behind almost all of it. The brain-dead No Kings Boomer leftist grandmothers (if they are grandmothers who squirted out a couple of puppies before they became frigid or lesbian, or are just bitter old man-hating women) are being bankrolled by ChiComm billionaire Singham and the CCP; Communist China and its toady North Korea are arming Iran with missiles, etc.; Communist China continues to pump fentanyl into America via the Mexican cartels (committing wholesale genocide against feckless Americans--as if unleashing the COVID pandemic on the world wasn't enough); the Communist Chinese have bought and paid for most of the Democrat Party hooligan politicians; and the former Communist Chinese proxy Venezuela helped to rig the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections in favor of the Democrats, often quite successfully.
Now, the Chi-Comms are all whacked off because their oil supply from Iran is being effectively cut off, and they might have to face the possibility that the U.S. will soon hold significant control over who, what, and where can go through the Straits of Hormuz. Few people can see (or do see but don't want to see) that President Trump's overall objective here is to fuck over Communist China--which Communist China so richly deserves--while not directly confronting China. Trump is also likely trying to convince Putin that burning all of Russia's military assets in the Ukraine War is foolishly weakening Russia's ability to defend itself against Communist China. Russia and America may not like each other--just like the Soviet Union and the U.S. didn't like each other in World War II--but Russia has much more to fear from China than it does from the U.S. Communist China is behaving bubby-buddy with Russia just like Nazi Germany was playing buddy-buddy with the Soviet Union right before Germany attacked the USSR. My surmise is that Communist China will invade Russia when Russia reaches the point that it is weak enough.
Finally, no one should doubt that Communist China is a totally genocidal regime. China does not need people--it needs land and natural resources. It will mass murder any country's inhabitants that it conquers as soon as it is able to do so efficiently and effectively--the 2025 version of Hitler's "Living Space" policies. What better target than its resource-rich, relatively low-population neighbor, Russia? Meanwhile, China will continue to try to overthrow the U.S. Government using its toadies here in the U.S., which includes much of the Democrat Party itself that is owned by the Communist Party.
Good Lord. After reading your post, which is well written, by the way, I am now convinced even more than ever that we should have listened to the admonishments of George Washington, when, in his farewell address, he strongly advised our fore fathers to have open trade with all but to avoid all foreign entanglements. What a complete and total mess this world is and the USA, my home, is right smack-dab in the middle of it all.
God help us.
“They are rioting in Africa, there is strife in Iran, what nature doesn’t do to us, will be done by our fellow man.” “The Merry Minuet”.
Cankerpuss
The problem is, how do we do that, have UN restrictive trade with other countries without entanglements? Especially when those countries are our enemies?
I agree with every word Freedom. This is about China & energy control. The hate-Israel fanatics are always misled into thinking "the Jews" made us do it. Trump is in charge.
It’s possible we the (U.S.) people have more than 2 adversaries.
Yes, and one controls our political process.
No. There can only be ONE! Simple minds demand it.
Yes, the Rothschilds are Chinese. And the Chinese control Hollywood. Schumer? Chinese. Israel? A Chinese colony.
AMEN Alice
Most articulate comment today. If China is willing to harvest organs from the living among them (plenty of evidence that they are), they will stop at NOTHING to gain and retain power and their desired hegemony.
China isn’t a Country it’s A Criminal Organization with King Pings, Dons and their CCP National and Local Soldiers who Control the Enslaved Population for the benefit of the Party Apparatchiks.
They are a desperate and a Dangerous Group who know that their strength is saber rattling, aggressive International Intellectual Theft, Payoffs and Bribery at the highest levels of other countries Governments and their Monetary Pliable Representatives.
They will stop at nothing to keep their Facade threatening to defend themselves from their billions of their enslaved citizens.
They ave already worked with their Criminal Counterparts in the West with their coordinated Planed Pandemic!
We The People, have foes everywhere we look from China to our own Political Parties and their Representatives.
The real time Wack-A-Mole Game of Survival isn’t going away, we in the interim have to control the mallet!
There are fools out there that will talk about China and Russia influence until they're blue in the face, and not say a word about the utter domination that Israel has over our country.
China wants to colonize the United States, for the reasons you stated. They have too many people and not enough arable land. I believe there are Chinese troops in the United States waiting for the signal. The food recalls feed them, since they must be fed off the books.
Biden let in 50K Chinese at the southern border, mostly men - no vetting
It kinda sounds like the back story of "1984"....
Pot, kettle, black.
Excellent summation, Freedom, of the state of geopolitical affairs.
I'm not so sure about the Straits part. OTOH Russia weakening itself with the Ukraine situation is spot on. Back in the Cold War era there were a few dustups on the Sino-Soviet border. Russia has massive land with resources but a small population compared to size. The CCP apparently has the workforce numbers to exploit the land mass and resources.
"Eerie lackawanna" and a reference to "myrmidons" in the same post! We are not worthy. But, by all means, please continue to favor us with your literary effulgence. I look forward to every bit of word play and all the arcane references that you can muster, dear James. And in another positive development, the Iranians have promised to bomb American universities if we don't immediately cease our military operations. If only!
Hmmm, is that an indication of where the globalistic inspired Iran cells are located, in our universities?
A republic cannot survive without civic virtue, and the American republic has not enough of that stuff. It drowns instead in oceans of ignorance and vanity (i.e. self-enrichment).
It is dying.
It's so dead that not even Miracle Max could save it.
Yes. The diseases of Capitalism and "Free Dumb" have triumphed. People actually feel morally triumphant when they devote themselves to getting rich as if nothing else matters.
Exactly. People have been trading and selling goods for millennia. Capitalism, as we've known it, isn't "buying and selling private goods." That's rhetoric.
Capitalism as it actually exists, Is "profit as the highest good. " we don't have a box for "this is less efficient, more expensive, but the right choice." That's a concept that simple doesn't exist for us. Market efficiency has more zealots than any religion ever did.
Oh c’mon now. Capitalism “as it actually exists” isn’t even close to a market based economy. It is a creation of regulation, government choosing winners and losers and government sponsored fractional reserve banking money creation. Among other sins.
Well, right. That's my point. "As it actually exists" is the way it is, because the proponents of it, haven't taken proper account of human nature, the Good, or the nature of vice.
"That's not real capitalism" sounds and awful lot like "real communism hasn't been tried."
They both are stupid for the same reason. No accounting for hierarchy, the common good, or human nature. The very nature of a corruption free, unregulated, market based economy...is fiction. It has never existed. Because of human nature.
You make conclusions unstated. Corruption was prominent in my post. A free society still requires laws. And overregulation is not a request for “unregulated” markets.
If you stated corporatism is based on profit “is the highest good” you would be closer to the truth though even corporations must provide a product someone is willing to pay for. The corruption as current, is when they collude with government to game the system. Eliminating competition, setting prices and sweetheart dealing. Human nature at its worst.
Is it your opinion we can’t do anything about it?
That's fair pushback. Had you said "it's a creation of OVERregulation" as opposed to "it's a creation of regulation" I would have responded differently. That's not a criticism, I just thought you were taking a much stronger position than you were.
I think that hard work, is determining the correct regulation, to apply at the right time, for the right reason.
But one of the problems we have it that part of our ethos, as Plato pointed out, is an understanding of freedom that is "no one can tell me what to do." Which is also the attitude of the tyrant. Which is why the collude...
Maybe yes, maybe no. Don't know how you could possibly know how much civic virtue there is and how it compares to the broad swath of fallen humanity throughout history.
sigh ... looks like JHK is gonna continue carrying the long-defunct "Two-Party" narrative 'til the day he croaks. "Donkeys - bad!! Elephants - good!!!" Way past the time to wake up, JHK!
Read my lips: It's a UNI-Party, all working for the same Globalist Masters! They just want people to think that one side's "bad", the other "good", and you must pick a side. The tragedy is that people continue falling for it, thereby aiding their objective to "keep 'em divided and infighting". Meanwhile, they continue pursuing the Globalist agenda as a unified entity against we the people.
Way to go, JHK!!
Jorge--
"Uniparty" is a a tired, simpleminded cliche. It just doesn't make you look brilliant.
My goal isn't to "look brilliant", but merely to voice what is well known by informed individuals.
All anyone has to do is examine critically, sans bias, the voting in Congress. *Globalist* objectives (nearly) always get the votes, most often requiring that some reds vote with the blues, or vice versa. Interesting how that happens - always "just enough" turncoats.
You mean well, but have absorbed and are invested in the two-party narrative far too much for your discernment to function properly.
The Globalist Cabal has captured *enough* of our Congress so that they essentially control what Congress does. They don't need every single one captured, just enough to be certain that their agenda gets to advance - they've achieved that.
I won't try to convince you, just encourage you to view things with that perspective in mind. Do that and watch as "perplexing" events suddenly become easily explainable.
Uniparty is a misnomer. There are two groups contesting in the Congress, one believing that government is the boss, and another that says that the people are the boss. The former is the Deep State that has managed to take control of both the Federal government and many of the states, and the latter is the populist group known as MAGA. Dem and GOP are obsolete. Just ask the RINOs or John Fetterman their opinions. I hope the country realigns itself into two legitimate parties with real differences between them. I also hope that the population wises up. The socialists are just about in perpetual control.
The GOP voters are largely MAGA yet when push comes to shove on issues MAGA holds dear, the establishment weasel trash like McConnell/Thune screw us over at every turn. As I said, of the 535, Burchett and maybe two dozen others max are trying to be true to their voters.
Agreed, but in 1856 and 1860, the GOP took over the country by putting out a platform that made sense. There is no helping the idiot Left, but populist control could stop the death of America.
MAGA populists have proposed reforms that make sense, yet are frustrated continuously by RINOs like Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis et al in the Senate. MAGA should be the future but MAGA is vehemently anti grift and corruption, at least in theory, and this is a no starter for all of the Republican grandees who have mysteriously become multi-millionaires while in office just like their Democrat homies The evidence of this is in the horrified reactions over attempting to use the DOGE algorithms to detect thieving and phony voter rolls. Even though horrific financial crimes were uncovered such as USAID and all the rest, they couldn't stop it fast enough.
Review the headlines from one year ago and you will notice virtually every bombshell of corruption has since been memory holed.
Nope, sorry, I do not buy that ancient narrative. Once upon a time it was a valid argument, not any longer. The Globalist Cabal has essentially wrapped-up the US in every essential sector. Of course, you may believe as you wish.
And radical Islam is right behind them.
I think in order to find the group who think the people are the boss you'd need a microscope, seems to me that the air in Washington DC is corrosive to one's morals
Per chance, the IQ level of far too many people in Congress simply is not high enough to even know of globalist objectives....listen to these people....they are not smart....
Could not agree more. Even those with high IQ lack *wisdom* and/or discernment. And then, of course, there are those that have simply "sold their soul" for the purpose of obtaining power, fame and riches.
Elizabeth Warren is just plain stupid….if I hadn’t thought it before, when she started her whining about text message colors for Apple, and how she felt like a second class citizen….SMFH….she or a staffer could have googled (small g) why that is…(Apple to Apple is sent via a different system than Apple to non-Apple (SMS))….She is just DUMB as is that Hawaii broad.
When we elect bar tenders, you get what you deserve.
You think that AOC is the dumbest person in Congress? Because she tended bar? That poor girl is indoctrinated....but listen to Warren, the Hawaii woman, many of the men, the list goes on. There are plenty of contenders in Congress for being just plain dumb with equally dumb staffers....and plenty of really bright bar tenders...
I don't believe she ever said anything as stupid as "if we put to many troops on Guam, it might tip over." -Hank Johnson
Now that is some world-class stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dkqUy7mUk
Oh no, not the dumbest, she has lots of company.
It is hard to dispute the line that "There are many Republicans who are actually Democrats in DC, but there are no Democrats in DC who are actually Republicans." Except for the dozen or two members like Tim Burchett, it looks like the other 500+ in both houses are for sale or have very bad ulterior motives.
He forgot to blame the Jews as well
Lugh will be along shortly to fill that void.
Don't forget idiots like FOSP and the Anarchist stranger bedfellow.
Queerest name on this site, I might add.
Oh, that canard is easily gleaned through in the mindlessness of the uni-party comment.
Jews can do no wrong according to Jews.
What JEW talking bout Willis? You truly are a special kind of retard.
Do you ever tire of talking out your ass, or are you the male Maisie Hirono -- someone so fucking stupid that you just can't help but say stupid shit?
I just can't fucking deal with someone who is so obsessed with hating Jews that it's about the only thing you ever talk about. And you claim to be a Christian -- a faith that the Bible says is merely a branch grafted onto the main tree of Judaism. Christ died for your sins of His own free will, then rose to eternal life after three days and three nights in the Garden Tomb. (As an aside, Friday evening to daybreak Sunday doesn't fit 3 days and 3 nights; however, a secondary Sabbath for a holy day falling in the middle of the week would accommodate that requirement, as Christ's own words were that He'd be in the tomb just as long as Jonah was in the whale. If he wasn't in the tomb for 3 days and 3 nights, He didn't fulfill His own prophecy, and therefore was a fraud. I don't think He was a fraud.) If you refuse to accept that Jesus was Jewish and that the Father is YHWH, God of the Jews, because you have an all-consuming hatred of all Jews, I don't know what to tell you, other than there's a parable about a debtor whose punishment was commuted by a king. However, after his release from debtor's prison, the man went around roughing up people who owed him money. Upon hearing this, the king was furious and had the man thrown back into prison. Which is to say, you're skating on thin ice with somebody at an infinitely higher pay grade than mine when you persecute people for their ethnicity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fL-zaZwX_Uk
I should be in favor of this?
Christ said that the new wine (His teachings) had to be put in a new wineskin (religion) because it would burst the old one of Judaism. He said, Soon they will drive you out of the synagogues and consider killing you a good deed. How did you miss this? What kind of Bible are you reading?
Jesus ministry struck at the Jerusalem cult created by the Sanhedrin, who had created a subculture to the Jewish religion favoring wealth and power over true faith in Yahweh. The center of his ministry was in the North, the center of the ten tribes of Israel and the “enemy” of the Jerusalem cult.
Romans 11:11-31
New International Version
Ingrafted Branches
11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!
13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
All Israel Will Be Saved
25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way[a] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:
“The deliverer will come from Zion;
he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is[b] my covenant with them
when I take away their sins.”[c]
28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now[d] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.
Even that comment is flat-out dead wrong, sweeping statements of stupidity.
Every Jew is just like every other Jew, they are in lockstep on every issue.
/rolls eyes
Well they have real debates amongst themselves. But present a united front against everyone else.
Baloney. The Jews for Jesus movement is making deep inroads into Judaism and the Orthodox hate it. Your hater blindness cannot accept the fact that Jews are like the rest of us, totally clueless.
Sure. And I can fly and have the ability of move planets out of their orbits.
Hahah, he doubles down on stupid.
George could borrow Elon's brain and still not look "brilliant".
Fill in the blank: "You can't fix ___."
Primaries matter. Even if you belong to “the other guy’s party”, some of the people in each are better or worse.
A Fetterman, or a Warren?
A Massie, or a Graham?
A nice thought, but in the end it does not matter if you drink blue poison or red poison -- both are poison and both will kill you just as dead. I'm waiting for a non-poison, not for the "lesser of two evils". Why are we forced to choose between EVILS - one "lesser" than the other?
We are on the right path. Don’t let those bastards convince you otherwise!
Well reviewed, sir. Thank you.
Besides the Boomer No Kings crowd, my small CA city is duffer RINO central … they want their country club back! Oh, for the days of Reagan! (Whose ranch was in my city’s mountains.) Sometimes our local retired CIA operative (so he claims) will take a pause from martinis at the country club and tap out one of his columns in which he tells Trump how it ought to be done. Meanwhile, an Elon launch this morning from our nearby airforce base was successful, but our governor has chased him away because we need that bullet train from Modesto to Bakersfield running and Elon just won’t do the green thing. Everyone enjoy their Monday.
Years behind and tens of billions over budget.
Anyone even remotely associated with that boondoggle deserves a month in court and years in the slammer.
The bullet train to nowhere!
A bullet to the California budget and our greasy haired fake teeth having Governor deserves his very own lampost!
It's so obviously a money laundering operation and was never going to be completed, or even started for that matter. Supposedly the proposition "passed" by a narrow margin, which means it didn't pass. There's an army of "consultants" making 400-500k a year for doing nothing. Meanwhile the "No Kings" crowd remains blissfully unaware of any of it. Thanks again to the criminally dishonest MSM
A perfect example of the grift and enrichment of friends and supporters, as shown by the HSR in Cal., is the $700,000 Rice is supposedly being paid to run the monstrosity of Hussein Obama library in Chicago. Those Dimms do indeed take care of each other.
However,
How do we get the infrastructure we do need? How come Asia can build high speed rail? Or Europe. This is what government should be doing, building the infrastructure that aids the economy and the people. I read the TLE the first time in response to JHK saying we need a much better railroad system, which I agree with. The real problem with the high speed rail in California is Newsom and the crooks in Sacramento. If Trump has built it, it would already be done and under budget. To a Democrat, infrastructure is primarily social welfare. “Not a rail has been laid”? True, but most of the construction involves separating the HSR trains from the road network to avoid high speed crashes. Look at a typical freeway project, it takes forever to build the supports and road bases, the roads themselves are fast. Laying and welding the rails will be small potatoes compared to what has been done.
I am in favor of building HSR all over the USA. The airways are getting too crowded and a secret is that is HSR is allowed to move at its 200+mph potential, it will compete on long distance routes. When California pulls this off and shows its capabilities, it will kick off a major build of HSR. Think Texas, think the Midwest, think Florida to NYC, the key is successful separation of the roadbed from the background roadways to allow full speed operation. Mag lev and the Boring company are next for urban development. It is a dream but a good one.
Ditto the whole military/industrial complex. A for profit venture - thus both inefficient and demonic. Why can't we make weapons to just defend our nation? Why isn't that enough?
Because a very destroyed and corrupted would gave them permission in 1945-1946 to grub for US dollars, that is why. NATO is still grubbing.
May be cheaper and quicker to bore tunnels underground than to deal with the condemnation\EPA BS of obtaining surface rail right-of-way.
Of course, some claim those subterranean tunnels already exist, just not set up for rapid\cheap\safe proletariat passenger transport...
Elon is too busy doing the AI data centers thing. God help us.
They should have planned the Disorient Express to travel between Oakland and San Bernardino. Lots of people want to get away from each, and pretty much anywhere along the route. When they arrived, they'd want to get away again. The train from nowhere to nowhere would never lack for passengers. Unfortunately some would become suicidal, giving new meaning to the term "bullet train."
Unbelievable how the New York Times has carried water for the Iranian regime. Absolutely agree with all you wrote. They hate America and want to destroy it. They love fascism, if they even know what it means, and they are on the side of Hitler, policy wise - siding with the bad guys while telling themselves they are good.
The greatest lie perpetrated in the post World War II era--purposely by Socialists--has been that conservative capitalists are Fascists. In fact, Communist/Socialist and Fascist/Socialist ideologies are nearly identical: they both believe in a centrally (government-dictated) "planned" economy, both ideologies hate free market capitalism, both are anti-freedom, both believe that the people serve the government and not the other other way around, both espouse racism and bigotry (with the only difference being what ethnic, racial, or religious group is to be victimized by the regime). The basic difference between Communist/Socialist and Fascist/Socialist ideology is that the Fascist/Socialists will tolerate large corporatists to own property and make a profit only so long as the corporatists pledge total allegiance to the regime and to be heavily controlled by the regime. The Communist/Socialists believe that the state should own and control ALL property. And, even the Fascist/Socialist Hitler confided that he believed that private ownership of property by the corporatists would be only a "temporary condition", and that the government would eventually "nationalize" all private property. Now, if that sounds something like the WEF mantra, "You will own nothing and you will be happy," you would be correct. Socialism in all its forms is inherently evil and anti-freedom. And anyone who embraces Socialism is profoundly evil, whether they think or realize that they are or not.
"The Communist/Socialists believe that the state should own and control ALL property."
The state of the USA does own and control ALL property, F4C. It's called "property tax." Every one of us who owns property has to pay this tax or the government can place liens on the property and eventually foreclose or put the property up for tax sale. In other words, the US government owns every inch of land in the USA. We own absolutely nothing. We are renters only, serfs subject to our government Lords.
What gets my panties in a wad is most Americans care not and willfully pay that property tax. Well, at least those who are smart enough to know that the banks pay the tax out of their monthly escrow. Most Americans have no clue how much tax they pay because of those insidious little things called "withholdings" and "escrows."
They are so clever, aren't they? We are so stupid, aren't we?
They also don’t understand how money printing has stolen the value of money, debts signed for in their name have stolen the future, and regulation(intimidation) of businesses has stolen the jobs. That’s why working people are living in their cars and can’t afford much food or any healthcare. When the welfare and food stamps run out- it’s going to be Mad Max.
Money printing......AKA the "silent tax." They print the money and inject it into the system. The banks and those who receive the newly minted money enjoy the extra money at today's prices. As the money trickles down the additional dollars are competing for the same amount of resources causing prices to rise. By the time that newly minted money makes it to the people prices have already increased. Money printing takes that 100 dollars you have in the bank and makes it even worth less than it was before.
It is evil. Few there be that give a damn. As long as they can watch the NFL and the NBA and buy a sports jersey with some other man's name on their back, hey, that's all that matters.
Yup, and remember it is the result of politics. And stupidity. What do you think, you think the Deep State might be feeding on the stupidity?
Absolutely!
Money printing is basically thieves reaching into your wallet, bank accounts, and investments and stealing money (by stealing its value) without leaving any traces- except inflation, well-funded criminals and a coin shortage.
How any of those bumpkins understand basic economics? Or want to? They are gimmes, and do not care where their livelihood comes from.
Not many people understand basic economics. My sister in law once complained that her money from the gov't was not enough and when I interjected that the gov't cannot fund everything and her honest answer was that well.......they could just print some more. She has no idea that we are wildly printing money or borrowing money that does not exist-----as fast as our bureaucracy can make it happen. And......she thinks inflation happens because people running businesses raise their prices.
Sadly 10's of millions of her fellow citizens are just like her.
100s of millions.
Musk is NOT controlled by the government, he is in continuous competition with them. DOGE, SpaceX, Tesla, X all are in opposition to the bureaucracy.
Yes, half the people in the USA are stupid, believing that a corrupt government thinks or cares about them. Trump’s big victory in 2024 gives hope, but now we see the reaction of the gimmes to the hard knocks required to right the ship, in 2026, this fall, we will see if Americans are worth the worry.
You realize that the social media is under assault by the government for control of what we hear? The kids are the legality, but it is control of content that is the meat of the matter.
"Musk is NOT controlled by the government"
Where did you get that, JohnAZ. Most of Musk's wealth has come from government contracts.
He is an embarrassment to NASA who fights Space X for dollars, the cabinet dumped Musk when DOGE started eating up their public dollars,
Tesla is his image, solar everywhere, cars, houses, boats, battery storage. Now, AI where he is fighting the no holds barred approach of the Google et al crowd. Musk knows what is coming with AI, and is afraid of it.
He is an individual entrepreneur, and we need many more of him.
He wants to put chips in people's heads just like the "bad" guys do. He is another faction or iteration of the same thing.
I'm not saying Musk isn't an entrepreneur, brilliant or creative. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in
government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits. Someone who receives this kind of money from the government definitely has strings attached.
Yes, many years ago I ran into someone who said exactly that, they can just print some more.
My son said that when he was four. Me: telling him we couldn't do something because we didn't have enough money. Him. deep sigh. But Mom, just. go. to. the bank. and. get. more. money. Sigh.
No. The Fascists believe in private property, the Communist don't. Shame on you for being so dense.
But yes! The also believe that Corporations need to be guided and to play ball with the nation. If they do, they will be honored (not taken over). If they don't, they can get the fuck out.
Corporation guided by who? Government?
Hahahahahaha.
Fascism: The unification of business, banking, and government power, as defined by Il Duce.
We lost millions in the world fighting the elitist fascists. Those veterans are gone, but they would be sick to see what this country’s population has evolved into.
Corporations in fascism, as well as communism are like the house slaves on the plantation of old. Still slaves, just with better clothes, room and board. But perhaps there is the illusion for freedom?
In both, corruption destroys so much. Aren’t they both just evil power grabs in different garb?
But Corporations doing whatever they want, that's freedom! Instead of choosing elected officials who take an oath of office, let's be ruled by nameless, faceless executives, loyal only to the shareholders.
I think it’s important to hold any large groups (corporations, unions, government groups, NGO’s, press monopolies etc)accountable to the same laws average people are subjected to. The problem of corruption is a systemic one. The people elect corrupt people unknowingly, and listen to propaganda from corrupt press unknowingly, and those who are corrupt KNOWINGLY seek to corrupt and fool the people even more. It’s a circular system, like so many, and hard to get out of. Even if you have a will to get healthy, few people want to make the painful steps necessary- which is why they are dying. Trump seems to me to be trying to address corruption in SO many areas- but it has to be done carefully. Like a physician working on a critically ill patient. I just read an article the other day that said that a lot of overweight people, like John Candy, died after losing weight too fast. And another article said that people were most likely to die from blood pressure problems right after starting blood pressure meds. Trump doesn’t want our country to collapse- but many do. I pray for God’s mercy and guidance. The problem is not capitalism, it’s corruption. But capitalism, with necessary intervention against aggressive monopolies, creates more of a separation of powers that protects our freedoms. Communism and socialism are wrong, because at their heart they are legalized stealing. And yes, I know socialism has infected our country badly.
I refuse to read wall-of-type comments. God has commanded it.
Freedom 4, I agree, but even Russia has always had carve outs for powerful gangsters. That’s how you know an evil regime- the only way you can have “freedom” is if you’re a criminal - either in actuality or because of dissent.
It was said that in England, if you stole a spoon, they would hang you, but if you stole a country, they would knight you.
Unlike us, right?
You have to remember, NYT carried water for both Hitler and Stalin, so why are you surprised they're still supporting America's enemies?
I’m not surprised by them per se, just that they’re still doing it in 2026. They are probably funded by stolen money, because I doubt there are that many subscribers. And it’s still unbelievable- their headlines and articles are utterly unbelievable. So many people lie, and many live in what I call, “Opposite Land” or “Upside Down World”. Good is evil to them and evil is good. Racism is anti-racism and murder is “healthcare”. They are drowning because they are swimming away from the true light.
They were on Stalin's side. And since Stalin was against Hitler, so were they. Can you try a bit harder?
Before the Sovs and Nazis split -- you do remember they were allies before Operation Barbarossa, don't you? -- the Times was orgasmic over both Hitler and Stalin -- and Mussolini as well. (As an aside, ever notice the similarity between the jut-jawed profiles of Il Duce and The Kenyan, aka The Choom King?)
The Sulzbergers, who own America's favorite birdcage liner, actively suppressed information about your brown-shirted heroes rounding up Jews, even though they are Jews themselves.
The Fuhrer played them for suckers then. They thought they could control him! Putin did the same thing.
In contrast, Trump and Churchill sold out to them.
Your boy Adolf was a favorite of the Junkers, who thought they could control him as he rebuilt the German empire lost in the Treaty of Versailles. They were slightly wrong.
Churchill wasn't a sellout till he came back to power and continued Eden's policies that he previously had criticized.
Trump -- well, whatever you want to believe.
Hey, the premier of Canada came out supporting Iran. Enemies are closer than you think.
Kathy Hochul and Letitia James are in Albany, Alvin Bragg and Mamdani (and a fuckton of sociopaths, including many Wall Street types) are in New York, the maniacs who populate Ithaca, and the roving gangs of criminal thugs who terrorize Rochester and the dying city of Elmira are closer to me than Canada. Plus the PM of Canada was one of the higher-ups in the WEF, so of course he'll side with anyone against us -- at least, until we elect another lying, nut bag Democrat piece of shit in 2028 to complete our destruction.
RINOs are democRATs who couldn't get elected as the democRATs that they are.
That is a truth.
Irony painfully thick this weekend as I drove past our small town's lunatic gathering of No Kings protesters. Egads, we are talking Washington State here where our legislature and governor have behaved worse than Marie Antoinette. Not only do we pay an extra 60 cents per gallon of gas for 'Climate Intiatives' (and mind you this tax also applies to heating oil--and I live in a town where we can't have natural gas because we are coastal) but despite our state constitutional protections against a state income tax, we've now got one, along with higher property tax and capital gain tax. We've also had our legislature decree that cities and towns will have no say in bureaucrats and NGOs who decide to build junkie hotels in our towns. We get a public bus terminal in the midst of downtown right next to the high school which is a magnet for every junkie traveling up and down the road from Olympia to Astoria and the city is told we have no say.
But, by all means, go out and spend your Saturday protesting the elusive King of your fevered brain while ignoring all those governing us in our state.
And keep voting for the Senator for Boeing - Patty Murray.
The little lady in tennis shoes who was going to change WA DC
LOL LOL
Yes, those MF'ing lefties hate us but we but we're the ones with the equipment to win the battle.
Destroying civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Bombing power plants and desalination plants are war crimes. Why are you cheering on war crimes?
Another believer in nice war. There is no such thing.
Hubris is so very ugly.
Mirrors I bet you have none in the house as you type this over and over.
Who chose the leaders who create the havoc. The German people were in lockstep with Hitler’s goons and deserved no protection. Today, much of Iran’s population despise the Mullahs as much as we do. So, maybe they deserve some protection. I wonder though, where are they, week five and no Shah’s son and no organized opposition. Maybe it is those nice Mullahs killing those citizens wantonly that is stopping the opposition.
Hmmm, I wonder, estimates say that 30 -40000 protestors have been executed by the Mullahs. Seems to me that Iran has killed many times the citizenry of Iran than the Allies have.
By some estimates, a million since 1979.
Preceding all mentioned above, the notion that men can become women just by saying so, was an obvious clue that outright insanity is now the order of the day. If that absurdity can be believed, almost anything else is then possible.
You don’t have to agree with every word to feel the signal underneath this.
Something is off—and people are coping in very different ways. Some double down on the script. Others start seeing the cracks.
When both parties look weak, distracted, or unwilling to act, that’s when the ground starts shifting under everything else—finance, foreign policy, even basic trust.
Add in external pressure and economic stress, and you’ve got a system running hot on all fronts.
Feels less like politics… and more like a structure losing coherence.
Lone Wolf