"It looks like the accounting will begin in earnest now. We are going to find out who was acting behind the empty figure of “Joe Biden,” and who ran the auto-pen. And working backward from there, this will all unspool in one, long, appalling thread of treason."
Respectfully, it's 60+ years since the JFK assassination and we're still trying to "find out" the who/what/where on it. Why would this be any different? While there is always a lot of steam and noise, nothing happens. No one of note is held to account. Ever. It is Kabuki theater all the time.
Makes and enforces the rules. Remember that a large group of GOP folks are Deep Staters and will side with the socialists. This is going to be a hard ride for the MAGA pro-America folks that will take time. A good start will be the 2026 elections in the House, if the MAGA folks retain or increase their majority, it will be a positive step to undo what the Dems plus Bushes have done to this country.
Very good points, John. I would look at what comes next slightly differently. America in 2025 is like the 13 colonies in 1775 - 1776. 1/3 of the citizenry are pro-independence, 1/3 loyalist, and 1/3 outside of either camp. Today we've got about 1/3 MAGA and 1/3 more or less on the left (with a small percentage of them hard-core neo Marxist left). Obviously the rest are independent. My point in harkening back to the Revolution is purposeful as it may very well take a second American Revolution of sorts to regain all that we've lost (which is a great deal) and expel those who wish to continue down the road of deconstructing this Constitutional Republic, which is sinking fast beneath the waves. As long as those who use the Constitution to destroy the Constitution are allowed to run amok, the president's task shall be sisyphean in the long run. The body must rid itself of the disease in order to recover.
Yes, IMHO, the only real solution down the road is a separation of the country into two or more philosophical zones. Peacefully, hopefully. Look to the Western end of Canada for a model on how to do it.
It won’t be peaceful…it never is. Besides, justice means punishment for those who destroyed this nation forever. There is no recovery from what they have done. Biden’s 15 million illegals was the final nail in America’s coffin. Their kids will all vote democrat.
There were already 40 million or so illegals here before the openly open borders of Biden. Why would anyone assimilate to a failed nation and the culture of a dying people? The Groucho principle: I don't want to join any club that would have me as a member.
Where have you been, the immigrants have been getting phony documentation with stolen SSNs for decades. LA is one of the worst, and NY has been trying to get the vote to illegals in local and state elections for a while. Trump has yet to show what he is going to do with the illegal non-criminals, millions of them.
Besides, READ what I wrote, which was that their KIDS (born here, DUH) will vote democrat for life. They will be birthright US citizens. That how being an anchor baby works…
Vancouver, IMHO, in in the process of being taken over by the Chinese currently 20% of the population and growing fast. BC. like our West Coast, is entralled with its liberalism and is a hot bed for change as a consequence. Alberta is a bulwark against the liberal changes in East and West Canada and is a vanguard for the separatists. Canada is just as divided as the USA is.
That would be great! All the eastern and western states will go to Canada! But what the center will eat? The rich ones are democratic states, they keep the money. California and New York are rich states, what will you do only with the peasants in the middle? Yes, hey will all vote for Trump, although after the big beautiful bill will hit them even that is hard to swallow.
The big, beautiful bill? Does anyone know what is in it. Is Medicaid going to get hit like the Dems want you to believe? Are the Trump tax cuts from 2017 going to continue? Are the spending cuts going to cut into meat or just hit the grift? Does this bill supercede all the judicial bullshit that is happening to DOGE? We have been complaining about 36 trillion in debt for a while, so why does a bill that starts a more conservative approach to government all of a sudden a bad thing? The gimmes of the country are going to get hit, and perhaps some of the illegals will go home as a result of cutbacks.
I do agree that the NAU, North American Union is going to change things a great deal. Remember too that the heartland is where the skilled folks are, the coasts can have their financial centers. When the SHTF, the coasts are going to dry up.
The children are going to get hit, the old people and the veterans! But it will not pass, watch it. Most of the republican voters are on benefits. That will cut your base to nothing!
"California and New York are rich states, what will you do only with the peasants in the middle?"
California and New York are so screaming rich that residents are bailing out of them by the hundreds of thousands. Meanwhile the peasants in the middle grow the food and extract the resources for the bi-coastal cloud dwellers.
Yeah, New York and California do not have agriculture... They starve! Where do the hundreds of thousands go, to the moon? Or do they move out of cities to suburbs and rural places to have a better life? How do you know, Do you live in New York or do you hear this, as all the other lies, on Fox?
Meanwhile, the farmers in the middle are going bankrupt not having people to work their farms… they left. The East and West states make the money for your benefits, good luck doing it alone!
I think the largest segment of the population is... uninterested. BLM burning down a city? It happens. Riots? Not in my front yard, so it's OK. Fiery peaceful protests? The tv says it's OK, so it's OK.
Unless sh*t impacts people directly, people don't care. Sportsball, OnlyFans, Kardashians... whatever.
Shibumi----worked for a while in Rome---bread and circus' ----
It is a shame that so many people are totally oblivious but.......the left side of the bell curve has to be populated by someone. Marxists and stupid people----but I repeat myself.
If you read and believe the Bible, you will see that Jesus spent quite a lot of time casting out demons from people were possessed so....... I believe there are still demons roaming around and causing some people to appear to be bat shiff crazy.
No Republicans will EVER lead this country again after what Trump is doing to the Constitution, the judiciary, the institutions, and the people. You will all pay for it. The old republicans were decent conservatives, from old families with values. This band of hungry thugs wants only money and power while having no respect for laws or people. They have no concept of common sense and decency.
You will all lose big next time. America was designed to be a democratic republic, not a dictatorship or a kingdom. You bet the old Republicans will come to the Democrats, there is not a big difference, and between the left and the Trumps, they all prefer the first.
When the thugs with flags and bimbos with crosses will disappear America will be again a decent place to live.
They are all Criminals, cutting food from children and putting them in cages, cutting benefits from veterans and old people, you call them qualified to lead a country? And for what? To give more money to some other idiots who don’t need more money? They live on poor people’s backs!
People paid taxes and contributions to SS and Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP, it is not state’s money, it is not charity! It is people’s money paid by them for later, to retire!
There is a law for that, on tiers according to the income. The problem is that the rich pay nothing. If they pay their share there is no need to cut anything. Right now, all the employees pay a % of their salary for benefits: Medicaree Medicaid and SNAP. We pay now for the ones that need it, and later we get what the next generation will pay. This is not a handover, is money saved for us, not from the government.
You should look outside of your bubble. The only way democrats can win is with voter fraud. The majority of the population is fed up with y’all’s nonsensical hatred.
Useful idiots all of you.
Since when have lefty liberals care about the constitution? That play book will not work. It’s laughable.
Unlike you, the useless idiots, Americans are in majority democrats. And now after the beautiful bill, the abomination they voted, your lot lost even the base. Farmers are losing their farms, they go bankrupt because they lost the workers!
The veterans, elders, and children will lose Medicaid, they will die! You get out of your ass and read what they voted yesterday, it is a shame for the human race. The Constitution is the LAW of the land, read history, and people died for it. If you don’t like it move to Russia, where you belong.
The gang of thugs that we have as government made America a barbaric republic not a Republican one, we are the laughing stock of the planet, a shameful Cleptocrasy!
Universal income? They take the food from children, what money for universal income? You are delusional, they lie and steal from day one. Trump will not be there in 2030, he has dementia and they will get rid of him fast.
Gallup. On December 17, 2020, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 25% identified as Republicans, and 41% as Independent.
That poll seems about correct unlike well everything you post.
Maga will lose big in 2026. What they do now has closed their chance to lead again. Watch it. They hurt their base cutting Medicaid for poor people, veterans, old people, and children, it will not end well.
You are obviously a target for the liberal media, nothing has been done to cut anything yet, you do not have a clue what will be done with the Big, beautiful bill. You are just hawking what the idiot media is telling you. I hope you are wrong about 2026. If the people are so stupid and dependent to elect in another round of idiotic Dems into power, the country is done.
I read and see both sides and I know it's not done yet but they want to do it. I hope the house will stop it. The 2026 will be for a new generation of Democrats, they are growing now, and they will win. This country has a majority of Democrats.
The alternative is horrible for the people - Miller, Vance, Noem, Patel, Bondi, Hehseth, Rubio, and Kennedy, all incompetent and ill-intended for the country.
He has 24 people from Fox, it’s a reality show not a government!
With Trump being as vindictive as he is do you really think many involved in all of this ARE not going to get trolled, drug through the coals and then publicly humiliated with a trial and conviction?
If so it might help to pay attention to Trump, he likes paybacks and one upmanship.
That’s kinda what justice is at its core; vengeance for the aggrieved without the negatives of the mob but remembering that the mob is always there in case ‘justice’ becomes routinely denied.
You mention Trump’s vindictiveness as if that’s a bad thing. When it comes to whatever revenge he unleashes on the Democrats and Deep Staters, it won’t be severe enough.
Trump has made no secret of his belief that you hit back twice as hard as you were hit in retaliating wrongs. He'll do it within the rule of law, but he'll do it if he can - and he has a lot of backup to manifest it. It was a theme in the confirmation hearings of Bondi, Patel, et al. However, do not forget, there is a 5 yr statute of limitations on many of the crimes committed; the culprits can't help themselves. They will reoffend, just like any criminal.
He is too stupid to do anything significant. Talks a lot of non sense but does nothing! He will have to respond to the promises from the election that he cannot keep first. No one will believe him after that.
If Trump is human he has the normal desire to pay back the many who undermined him. And he put Kash Patel in there who was also a victim of lawfare and corruption. I can feel his anger.
Kash has come out with firm conviction that Epstein committed suicide? Really? With a shower curtain, while all the guards who were supposed to supervise, protect him, were on a break with the cameras shut off! Ugh-Ugh
Kash very likely understands that there is no way he’ll be able to support and prosecute a case of murder where Epstein is concerned therefore let the suicide issue run and focused on the cases that can be made in regard to the treasonous bastards that were tearing the country apart.
Truth is truth. Once you start lying by omission, it's a slippery slope. Both Kash Patel and Bongino know the truth. You start by mandating a grand jury, supenia the guards, and start from there.
If Epstein is still alive, it is because he has records and control files on all the major political figures like Bill Clinton; whose entire entourage, including law partners, close associates, police escorts, et al, have mysteriously died; or at least the majority of them. Over 100 at last count! The Epstein case is to politics as Diddy's case is to the entertainment industry. Of course it is far more important and extraordinarily compelling because it could bring down the titans of government and major corporations. So please, don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining. Truth, Transparency, and Trust.
If Kash and the rest have not figured out that Epstein is still very much alive, there is little hope for the investigative powers of the Justice Dept.: a single grainy photo of him being taken out of the prison, with facial feature mismatches to boot. A man in federal custody- so why no FOIA demands for autopsy photos? Anyone? The lack of basic curiosity and rigor is appalling. Ditto the JFK and RFK murders- and we thought RFK Jr. was on top of things for once. Pam Bondi has also amazingly turned deaf-mute.
It was maddening to see Patel and Bongino confirm the suicide. They seemed as though they were not convinced and forcing themselves. But that might be just wishful thinking on my part. No murder, no trial. No trial, no discovery. I'd like to know what they really think and what their plans are. Remember that Epstein was CIA/Mossad. Whitney knows.
I agree with Mel (below) as there is no advantage to saying Epstein was murdered, but there is some advantage to playing one's cards close and keeping one's mouth shut sans proof. Patel seems to like absolutes. Then there is the possibility that his position will reveal others who can be prosecuted. I would not underestimate him any more than I would Trump.
What do you think the DNC did for eight years under Obama and four years under the people who ran the government for Biden as he slurped ice cream and fondled children every chance he got?
Hey Cosmo! Nice to 'see' you over here. I'm afraid MW unceremoniously threw me off his substack, which, I guess is ok w me. Poof! You're gone! Kind of a kick in the pants, but kind of a relief too. Its a big world!
What? When did that happen and what prompted that? I think you had an opinion, one in many ways I shared, but we differed on some points, but that's part of having dialogue and coming to an understanding without acrimony. I was wondering why your voice has been missing lately. Is that a permanent ban or did he just delete your comments? I'd like to see your return.
I don't know why I have been banned. As I said to Cosmo I was given no warning or explanation. I suppose its even possible that the ban was a glitch.
But the ban, or 'pause', if you will, has given me a chance to reflect...on lots of stuff. I do agree that MW has run an exceptional site which in so many ways has helped me ...and many other thoughtful readers...understand what is happening in our world.
Over the years, though, I have disagreed...strongly...upon occasion with MW's conclusions and have said so. In a few instances MW has reponded in what I felt was a disrespectful and even insulting way, which I've found bothersome, since I hardly ever express an opinion which is based on a clear and indisputable misunderstanding of the facts.
Recently, I have increasingly disagreed with his views regarding Trump's intentions regarding ending the wars and the related question of the degree of responsibility of "Jews" for the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine -- and I have directly and indirectly said so. I certainly don't discount the perspective...and power... of many individual Jews and Jewish organizations in connection with the formation of our foreign policy and aspects of our foreign policy I disagree with.
I have disagreed with his characterizations of an Anglo-Zionist monolith and with his characterizations of public opinion in Israel. I believe these are far more complex and nuanced situations than MW would have it. My views on these matters are related to my continuing support for Trump, who I simply do not believe -- at the end of the day -- is controlled by some kind of Anglo-Zionist monolith.
However, do I believe Trump is facing intense political infighting as well as extreme opposition on numerous fronts? Yes, absolutely. But until Trump fails (lets say in November 2026) I have to support him in the belief that he does have my and many millions of normal Americans' best interests at heart.
Perhaps these disagreements w MW got under his skin. I don't know. In the meantime I'm finding new places to go and learn and sometimes express my opinion and this is all good. But its nice to hear from you guys.
I guess it was about a week or 10 days ago...He didn't tell me why...or give me warning. I just went to post and a little red box came up saying I was blocked. Then I noticed that I had been 'unsubscribed'. I thought of complaining or resubscribing and then I thought, Nah...I spend far too much time here. I might better just move on.
I'll admit that I have learned a lot over the past six or seven years on the site, but I might also have to admit that I was increasingly seeing things differently than MW. I never felt that it was acrimonious or personal on my part...just a different POV.
I will say that one of the reasons MW doesn't take subscriptions may be that he retains the ability to control his audience. That had never occurred to me.
As you may see there are others wondering about you as noted by IJM's comments. I thought disagreement always eemed to be handled well and the regulars are always respectful. While, I found you and I at odds on some facets of what's going we agreed more than we disagreed and that is healthy. I learned much from your views that always gave me pause and forced me to check my motives and emotions. give it some time and stop by even if you can't comment now, that might change. Best regards, Cosmo T
Trump vindictive??? All of us election sorters and sifters know that if Trump had gone after Hillary, as he surely could have (home server, Clinton Foundation Whistle Blowers, Russia, Russia, Russia) we would not have had the time for this whole ugly mess to unfold. The 2020 election "results" were the catalyst of all the analysis. And, Boy! do we have the analysis. You might want to look into that.
I get so sad when I think of those sailors...still. I have a DVD of the documentary on my shelf along side "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (ages ago my father told me to read it). What a coward! I haven't watched or read either one.
That was why the company that made the voting machines sued them. How many millions they paid for slender?
He had nothing on Hilary, if he could he would have done something. It is all BS to keep you all busy and satisfied that he is a generous, magnanimous leader when in fact he is a small despicable character.
You mean the “I won the popular vote” Hillary? We have a “I am a 2nd-placer candidate” over here with those machines.
U.S. Senate run of 2020, 2nd place with about 900K total votes cast statewide; garnered 45.6%
Governor’s race of 2022, 2nd place with about 700K total votes cast statewide; garnered 45.6%
Same guy.
2016 was programmed too but they weren’t ready for the tsunami. In 2020 they had to shut down and adjust. Remember those flooded toilets in Atlanta? You probably don’t. Anyway, that shut down was named the Edison Zero.
There are no political opponents. That is the point. It is an act to stir you up. It has been one controlled group yanking the leashes of the "voters." Take a look at "The Bus Problem."
Before "Trump showed up" we had JFK assassinated and Nixon escorted out only to become Anthony Fauci's lab rats.
Ha! At this point I like payback and one upsmanship, too. I am not alone. However, I doubt anything will ever come of anything. Maintaining a semblance of the status quo is too important to our “selected” officials.
The true powers will never let the status quo change. I'm not talking about the Clintons, Obamas and Bushes. I'm talking about the real money. The old generational money. The really big bankers. The Rothschild, Rockefellers, Morgans, Chases, Carnegies. Those elite family groups are the people pulling the strings from their obscure mansions of the world. Hidden to the rest of us but controlling all of it. We see what they want us to see. We learn what they want us to learn. The secret combinations run so deep we will never truly find out who or what they are.
We just need to be open to what Trump's ultimate form of payback may look like, taking into account that "the Zionist majority in both parties" may have the power to thwart his agenda.
Gilbert Doctorow International relations, Russian affairs
Unfortunately so. The narrative is detailed and largely accurate, but the accounting never really happens. And that has been the pattern for many decades. Unelected powers and influences behind the throne didn’t just start with Biden. The series of high profile political assassinations of the 1960s put any would-be public figures on notice. But history demonstrates that nothing lasts forever. Some sort of national implosion and failure will probably be the way it all finally ends.
It will be different because Trump is different. He wants vindication and a legacy, so he won’t be afraid to “violate norms” by exposing scandals and corruption. He’ll have the law and the majority of the public on his side. And when it takes out some corrupt Uniparty Republicans, so much the better for him (and us).
He has to do this carefully, because he only gets one chance. Nevertheless, he’s a showman who had a successful reality show. I expect a series of bombshells starting sometime before the midterms and lasting for the rest of his term.
Team Trump may be keeping the powder dry before the mid-terms to keep the America First agenda intact. Dan and Kash seem to be getting the ducks in a row. The 2020 loss was a blessing in disguise to expose the hubris and grift. I think in 2016 DJT didn't realize the depth of the issues and law fare that was about to be unleashed on him and his supporters. Someone is going to be made an example of for the treasonous behavior. Smaller players on the stand outing the upper players would work well, IMO. Like you say they have one shot at this, we shall see.
I almost completely agree with you here but my niggling doubt is summed up in the question, “Where are the promised un-redacted Epstein Files?” Within how many days of Trump’s election was this supposed to happen?
No insult intended but when the excuse for the delay of justice is prefaced by, “It’s complicated,” or similar wording it’s most likely to be part of your Kabuki theater productions to delay and ultimately avoid justice. The only theater I want to see now are mass public executions and those around the world.
The Swamp is deep, wide, and has been doing shady things for generations. You think that can get dealt with in a few months or even a few years? It’s a much bigger deal than busting Mafia families, and that can take years.
Plus, remember Trump’s showmanship. What would be the most dramatic and impactful times for major busts? During the 2026 and 2028 election seasons. I expect some before the end of the year, but I suspect he’ll be saving some big news for those periods.
That timeline applies only if the ‘civilized’ approach can still work to eliminate the massively entrenched corruption problem. I’ve seen said civilized approaches promised and attempted most of my life, a few seriously. None of them had any appreciable long term positive impact, none. All simply resulted in delays in removing the problem, all them.
Now I’m going to see if this response to your comment here gets blocked like my other ones did.
He does not have the majority of the country, and with what he does he will lose the base. He ignores the law, another thing that will bite his ass later. The show works on the low-class Republicans, the ones in Congress and the House do not believe him anymore, they will vote with the Democrats. His legacy will be similar to Hitler’s adding the con man that he is, and adding his team of incompetents. Hitler had evil people around, monsters but not incompetents.
He has the majority on specific issues, like deportations and ending DEI. That’s a key part of his strategy: to take the popular side of issues. The courts will eventually settle down and mostly agree he’s just following the law. He not only hasn’t lost his base, he hasn’t lost his swing voters.
Not true, he is down in the polls, and Republicans are voting with Democrats on their bill! We’ll see how the House will do. The Big Beautiful Bill is an abomination, un-American, against the people, a criminal act of inhumanity and ill intentions.
If you listen only to Fox you live a big lie. I know he does not like CBS, ABC, and others because they have real reporters, telling the truth. We know well who Trump is, a New Yorker con man, a TV actor, pumped by the producers to look smart and successful. He is not, even that is a lie.
Only promises, none done. I see the Republicans voting with Democrats even on their bill! Prices are up and they will go even higher. You are delusional and do not shop. Gasoline is not down at all, is over $3.00. The middle class supports his golf spending and you are happy about it, stupid. Taxes are on tips too, they have it on the big beautiful bill, as all the promises reversed. He did not deport millions, and never will. He builds prisons to keep them in, it's a better business than deporting, to give to other idiots. Arizona lives from creating prisons full of innocent men. That is the job creation, prisons! Stupid remarks as the person doing them, verify again!
You, Sir, are absolutely correct in every way. It always ‘looks like’ accounting is in progress with no one ever held to account. I’ve witnessed a lifetime’s worth of this smoke and mirrors, as you say Kabuki theater, with the perps nearly always walking.
And you are watching now the biggest theatre of them all. That’s exactly what it is, a big lie for Trump and his thugs to get rich and fool everyone around that they do the work for the people. Accepting bribes and taking money from billionaires to have access to his power is not what a president does in a civilized country.
He made America into a banana republic and the laughingstock of the planet!
I do believe I’m catching whiff of TDS here accompanied by its usual accomplices, hypocrisy and projection or whatever the current terminology is for accusing the other side of doing what your side is doing and has been doing for the last four years at the very least. As I once said of Tricky Dick Nixon in my first presidential election, “He may a crook but at least he’s our (USA’s) crook.” It’s been the lesser of two evils choices ever since.
I feel the much the same about Trump except that his rap sheet is virtually nonexistent compared to that of your zombie meat puppet Biden and his cabal of parasitic treasonous sycophants. He’s the closest thing to a presidential saint that I’ve ever seen. Not even Reagan managed that.
Yeah, no one was so incompetent, vicious, and fake like Trump. None of the Republicans have had a cult of idiots following them and distorting reality, lying, and spreading hate all over the country. Never before was so much barbaric behavior toward people, mostly colored people.
We are a country of shameless idiots in the eyes of the world thanks to this Gang of thugs and bimbos!
2. "Reclaiming History," by Vincent Bugliosi. ( I'd have recommended this first, but at 1,500 pages, it's twice as long as Posner's book. )
3. "Oswald's Game," by Jean Davison. ( It's no longer in print, but there is a plenitude of used copies of a book which should have won a Pulitzer Prize. )
Earnest my foot! It’s a gang of liars and thieves! We are still here. Because you bought the presidency with an apartheid guy’s money does not means you own this country. It will be a short stay or civil war. You are not smarter, on the contrary, you are as dumb as your convicted felon who cannot make a coherent sentence.
Here we go again. In his last post, on Monday, Kunstler breathlessly told us "House members are not immune from prosecution for crimes committed in connection with their official duties. That means you, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, and Bennie Thompson." In fact, he claimed, "plenty of other officials (and non-officials, like the lawfare ninjas, Eisen, Elias, and Weissmann) could go down for what went on since inauguration day, 2021." Today we are told "It looks like the accounting will begin in earnest now. We are going to find out who was acting behind the empty figure of “Joe Biden,” and who ran the auto-pen. And working backward from there, this will all unspool in one, long, appalling thread of treason." Every post, week in and week out, we are told that all these folks are about to be arrested and, for real this time, All the Democrats are going Down, and facing jail! Anyone reading this, please remind me how many prominent Democratic officials have been charged with serious crimes since Trump took office in January? Don't worry, I will wait.
I’ll take the bait - we are only four months into the new administration - there will be prosecutions - just who gets targeted and whether they will succeed is the real question.
I respect your opinion and do enjoy this blog, despite the endless promises of prosecutions for corruption, treason, insider trading, theft, etc., that never happen. You say "there will be prosecutions" of high-level Democrats, and implore me to be patient--I have been hearing that line for the last 10Y, since Trump first announced he was running for office. "Trust the plan" and Sean Hannity says he has "secret sources" "well-placed in the administration" and there are "secret grand juries" "sealed indictments" and it's all about to come out. . .10 years of this. It really gets old. Nothing ever happens to the Democrats, and nothing ever will.
There is a very large part of me that agrees with you Thomas Madden. I really do. The waiting is getting old.
Still, I appreciate Mr. Kunstler and his hopeful predictions of justice being brought down upon these evil fuckers. I accept that the man is not a prophet and cannot predict the future any better than I or you or anyone else. His writings, however, give me hope that one day, something is break and their evil doings, their murders, their whoredoms, their robberies will come to light and they will eventually swing for their crimes.
The problem is one of a psychological phenomena known as "Confirmation Bias" aka wishful thinking. Trump supporters desperately WANT to believe that there will be justice and accountability for corrupt democrats, so when they are told "due to Wikileaks, or Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, or the Benghazi scandal, or FISA courts, or Hunter Biden's laptop" All The Democrats Are About To Go To JAIL, MAN, like Monday morning! They believe these foolish rumors because they WANT them to be true.
Look how long we had to wait for a President like Donald Trump, easily 50 years since JFK assassination. Luck played a very big part in Donald Trump's success, supplementing the public will. Both luck and will are still going strong for America.
I too appreciate Mr. Kunstler and his writings. As for evil doers paying for their crimes. Throughout recorded history, the only time that happens is when common people have had enough and revolt.
"the only time that happens is when common people have had enough and revolt."
... and the only time they ever -- in history -- "have had enough" is when it's economic. When TPTB take down Trump, rest assured it'll be deep enough into his term, and spun in just the right way, that a majority of voters will think the 2nd GFC is fully Trump's fault. The silver lining is that we have roughly a year and a half of a 2-year prep buffer.
Remember that the resistance in Trump's first term didn't become organized and effective enough until the latter two years, although admittedly that was also a result of the 2016 election surprise.
Some retribution may take the form of reputation ruin. Trump won't be the one revealing it. But somebody will. Stuff is leaking out. I hesitate to repeat what I've learned about major players in SCOTUS, Congress; can't recall the exact source. The last 8 deaths of Congress persons are all DEMs. Cancer, they say. Heart attack, they say. Okay. Maybe.
Could be turbo cancer brought on by that fabulous advance in medical science, the clot shot. Damn think is the anti-Ivermectin: it causes exotic fatal illnesses no one has ever seen before, eliminates the ability to reproduce (giving Bill Gates a chubby as a result), fogs the brain -- and yet is a wonder drug. Maybe that will change if AOC or the brother-marrying harpy Ilhan Omar gets sick as a result of taking the shot, er "jab."
That is because they are one with the Republicans. It is all BS. The top cats do not pay for their crimes. Ever. Things that would get you and I to 'ol sparky, gets them a slap on the wrist at most and usually not even that.
You have outlined what appears as rock hard truth,unfortunately. We want justice so much, we keep thinking how vindication would be the result. Looks like the truth is both sides are crooked.
Don't forget: there is a 5-yr. statute of limitations on many of the crimes we want prosecuted. By now, many have expired. The saving grace is these people just can't help themselves. They will re-offend. Trump is playing a long game.
So? That could be just another law that is invoked or ignored as is convenient for whoever’s in authority at the time and Trump’s is in that position now. If Trump is or is becoming truly Machiavellian then the lefty libtards especially in government and the media who have pushed him in that direction truly do have something to be worried about statutes of limitations or not. Besides, I hear that Hillary’s ‘arkansiders’ are looking for a new employer…. Just sayin’.
They lost two major elections and have been outed as liars and cheats in a way they will have a hard time over coming along with the gas lighting media.
Ben----just a suggestion. Please do not use the term gas lighting media. A much better term is LYING, POS, legacy media. When Clinton was Prez, I got so tired of the media and the Pols always using other words for both the Clintons. Both Hillary and Bill would tell us bold faced lies, directly to our face. Why not use the word that everyone understands and knows-----lies or lying. No need to try to sugar coat it and call it something that does not sound quite as bad.
If I had a dime for every time someone said that justice is coming, I would be a millionaire. I've been on top of this stuff since 2000 and no one is held accountable. It is a big circus and endless money can be made lying to the public, telling us what we want to hear.
Only if we have a complaint judiciary. That means firing all of them (some can be rehired I assume). And that means declaring a State of Emergency. And that means having a compliant military. The SAS motto: Who dares, wins. Will Trump dare? Nothing less will do.
The Law must sometimes be what the King says - in times of War. Some cultures had a War King and a regular or Peace King. Trump must be a War King else all is lost.
Yet some people will be told this big complicated story about exactly how, when, and why All the Democrats are Going to Jail, and the date will come, and it will pass, and no one will even be charged with anything, of course. . .and then believe the next lie that says, no, no, we meant NEXT Monday, fer sure this time, man! This has been going on for 10Y, since Trump first announced he was running for President back in 2015. Some people just aren't very smart.
Our host does an admirable job of laying out the facts of the case to make the commission of crimes clear to anyone with an identifiable brain cell and something to rub it against. Like the Ghost of Christmas Future, he shows us the path that could - even should - be taken.
"It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."
Since you took it I will too: Oh so it’s not soon and total enough so it’s a failure?! This is boilerplate trolling and boring as hell… Yet they still use it in a variety of contexts.
Indeed, court cases even simple ones can take years to put together.
Now if you want a court case ill conceived, hastily put together, and doomed to fail keep wandering down the road to ignorance.
Do you not have jury duty wherever you hail from or do you just toss the summons in the trash?
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The time it takes to put together an average felony court case can vary considerably, but it typically ranges from six months to over a year. If a case proceeds to trial, the timeline can substantially increase, with trials potentially lasting weeks or even months depending on the complexity.
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After an arrest and charging, the process can start with a preliminary hearing, which might occur within 60 days if the defendant is in custody, according to the County of San Diego (.gov). The prosecutor then has 15 days to file an information, and the trial must begin within 60 days of the arraignment on the information.
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Note, however, that the deep state didn't wait to go after Trump with lawfare and trials. They threw the kitchen sink at him. It's possible that those of us who feel so impatient have forgotten how a real, serious case is constructed. As for Jim's blog. Yes, it's hopium, but personally, I need it. And he names the names and keeps them in front of us. If he is wrong he won't be able to weasel out of it.
They didn't wait, the result was hasty cases by DEI hires. The response to the identified weaknesses was to send reinforcements from the Imperial City Lawfare Department.
Those cases won't stand long-term. For example, it was a blow-out down in Florida. DEI hire James is on the ropes in both NY & VA. I expect more to follow. CBS is hemorrhaging executives after "The Interview". Ditto ActBlue with all the financial shenanigans. It takes diligence and attention to detail.
Note the James example in NY & VA. It is lack of attention to detail, exacerbated by not being the brightest bulb in the circuit, and just plain laziness.
And that is why the Deep State is dying. It's brain-dead, and all the little cockroaches are leaving its body, running around hysterically and being eaten by geckos. Maybe even Gordon Geckos.
Something few understand. I worked for an attorney on a silicon breast implant case years ago. Two years in, we were still in preparation, gathering data, finding expert witnesses, etc. It's a long slog. "The wheels of justice," etc.
Yep but now, we have a society that can't stand to wait everything must be now now now.
Honestly some good people are so wound around the axle of impatience they are slowly going crazy over all this shit and others are just steeped in the tea of Media bias and bullshit.
The wheels of justice turn slowly. Have patience. And be realistic - not all of the bad actors will be held to account by the courts. We may need to accept their exposure and justice carried out in the court of public opinion.
Alternately it sounds like they are here just to nudge the narrative and have little to no experience in anything other than taking cues from a 3 ring binder at a troll farm….pure speculation….of course.
It saddens me greatly to agree with you (hence my post from earlier). It is rigged from top to bottom. All we can do is shut our collective mouths and pay our taxes like good little serfs.
People call it treason. Is it? Or is it that a cancerous growth of dependence socialism has taken over the zeitgeist of the country. Has the USA become the den of a couple of generations of lazy no-account people who will glom after anybody that offers them a free ride? We are in a country that has two completely opposing economic theories trying to operate the power leadership. Jerking back and forth between the two is weakening the basics of the country every four years. Treason would be against the Constitution, which does not choose between capitalism and socialism, so treason? According to whom?
US Constitution Article III, Section 3: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Which comes down to what is levying war against the States? Is importing millions of immigrants in violation of Congress' rules (illegals), resulting in lost jobs and increased crime, an act of war against the states? Is election cheating, effectively setting aside the states' rights to vote, an act of war against the states? How about slander (destructive lying) against top officials, reducing their ability to do their jobs?
None and no one will be prosecuted for nothing. They would need some proof, just words mean nothing and their relationship with the truth is very thin.
Yes, by this time in the Biden regime, there had been hundreds of arrests, including that of prominent Patriots, not just the J6 folks. That's real power.
Trump has one attribute -- a superpower, really -- that all professional politicians utterly lack. He learns. People forget that he ran in the 2012 Republican primary. He dropped out, so those few who might have remembered automatically concluded that it was just another vanity-boosting exercise for him, so they were blind-sided by his primary win in 2016.
And then he continued learning all through his very difficult, but often successful first term.
And now that he's baaaaaack, his enemies are woefully unprepared for what's coming.
Mr. Trump is a disruptor. Like John the Baptist of old. The Baptist was a disruptor and his disruptions over threw the order of the time and made way for a new order. The result? A major world wide religion. However, The Baptist was eventually beheaded and never saw the fruits of his disruption as it took decades to grow. The same will be said of Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump has awakened many to the filth, grift, murders and corruption of these awful individuals. His disruptions, I believe, will eventually lead to monumental changes but I don't believe I'll be around to see them. I'm 51.
John the Baptist was the last of the Old Covenant. It wasn't his disruption, but the emergence of his cousin Jesus of Nazareth, that was the disruptor, as the New Covenant was sealed in His blood. John came in the spirit of Elijah as prophesied in Malachi before the 400 year prophetic silence, to herald the coming King. The New Covenant order was instituted instantaneously, though the cultural and religious changes came more gradually. John's interaction with the political order of the day was as charismatic and eccentric outsider, cleansing the repentant citizens in preparation for the New Covenant, and as a righteous critic of the degenerate elite who were in power. That's what got his head lifted, not his baptistic activities.
Trump is definitely a disruptor. Though if we're looking for Biblical analogies, I think he's more akin to the apostle Peter. Speaks his mind, often to his own detriment, but sees the truth clearly enough and works earnestly to get there. It was Peter who was imprisoned and escaped the clutches of his enemies. Yet, like all the apostles apart from John (the Apostle not the Baptist), he was martyred for his faith.
Well now that's a frightening thought. Don the Baptist. Who is the savior that he will reveal to us? I looked in Epstein's crypt and his body wasn't there...
Hillary Clinton is a toxic vortex of malfeasance, duplicity, and corruption. She is a virtual maelstrom of mendacity and any who allow themselves to be swept into her realm of influence will pay a heavy price. She's still at it, stirring her cauldron of shit-splaining, dishing out her putrid stew. That said, the Fake Party fully deserves her, but America does not.
Yeah, really! And I thought I was the nemesis of the Hildebeast.
This is probably as good a place as any to admit that I no longer expect the 'Beast to be our last President.
Of course now that I said that, Ol' Hills will do a flying leap outa Hell and put the butt scissors to Trump's neck. Elevated to the Ovarian Office by unanimous acclaim.
Is old Depends in a Pantsuit in Hell? I hadn’t heard that. Can’t see her using the butt scissors though, that full depends would get in the way. I suppose, however, that losing the Presidency twice in a row is a sort of living hell for the nasty old bat.
You forget one major difference. GOD is directly involved this time. Thousands of people worldwide as well as here prayed for Trump to be re-elected. For our country to be given a second chance. For GOD'S involvement in our world. And HE listened. HE is fulfilling HIS promises. Even if you don't have faith in Trump and his team, have faith and believe in GOD. We ALL know how long we have waited on truth going much further back than the Kennedy murder. So compared to all those years and the few months Trump has been in office, this is a blink of an eye time. All those years no one who was president really gave a rat's ass about the American people or the constitution. And that includes Ronald Regan. He repeatedly said he was only an actor and that is what he was. Playing a part. Now we have someone who does care and is trying to clean up over a 100ys of crap from former presidents and politicians. Give the man a break. He is fighting a majority of those same corrupt, evil, lying people that brought us here in the first place. We the people voted for those pos that brought us here. We live to blame the government and politicians but we are at fault. We ALLOWED this to happen to our nation. We ALLOWED the loss of morality. We drove GOD and HIS righteous rules out of our schools, homes, churches and public life. Put the blame where it belongs. Do what GOD tells us to do to heal our land. Humble ourselves. Admit our sins, repent and ask sincerely for forgiveness. Put GOD in first place where HE belongs. Stop worshipping idols. Seek a relationship with HIM. and HE will heal our land.
Carolyn, the undoing of our Country will be our debt. Mr. Trump's new big bill serves only to increase the spending and increase the national debt.
I appreciate your comments, especially the end. Long have I believed that the source of America's problems is the fact that our Country has become a godless country. A depraved people. An immoral people. A people incapable of controlling their carnal desires. A RIGHTEOUS people would NEVER tolerate an unrighteous government. Period. The American people tolerate the filth because they themselves are godless and filthy. The ONLY thing that will save us is a return to righteousness. A return to the nuclear family. A return to personal responsibility. A return to all that is good and godly. If Americans would change themselves, then, and only then, will we see changes in higher places.
So far, what I am seeing in my fellow Americans doesn't give me much hope. People are still living way beyond their means, using credit cards to bolster their fake lives. Divorce and infidelity are rampant. Porn and perversion are out of control. Drugs are killing tens of thousands. Violence and crime are rampant. How is this any different than our government? It's not.
I think it's the US debt that is driving Trump's long game. He plans to shut the US to the outside world for a period, much like the Edo period in Japan. When the USD default happens, Trump hopes to have Maslow's hierarchy of needs in production domestically. Would have been easier to isolate if the border was a continental one, Girt By Sea is a concept we Australians have ingrained in us from kindergarten, and to evolve "from sea to shining sea" to "Girt by Sea" means having a water border around as much of your territory as possible. Easy enough to choke Panama, but you need the rest of North America's continental landmass (e.g. Canada and Greenland) to do that. I guess we'll know if Trump starts mouthing off about taking over those areas. Wait...
And then you were declared an Asian nation to the confusion of everyone. The opening of the borders cleared up that confusion, thank God! Aussies are notoriously bull headed and will defend the destruction of their nation and people. South Africans will become enraged if you question the wisdom of having Black servants - though thousands have been killed by the same.
What do you do when reason alone doesn’t provide a clear answer to life’s big questions, like the purpose of existence or how to handle profound grief?
How does reason fully account for things like love, trust, or moral intuitions, which often guide our decisions but aren’t always reducible to logic?
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.” – 1 Timothy 2:12
Beware of those who claim to interpret God’s “word.”
They don’t know any more than you do.
What they want is not truth, but power.
The bolder their interpretations, the more power they want.
Faith is indistinguishable from stupidity and a licence for liars and charlatans to exploit the fearful, desperate and vulnerable.
Ignorance begets arrogance. Arrogance begets ignorance. The unbreakable loop of being a Christian.
"Humanity worldwide would exponentially benefit from our fellow human beings to strive and commit to follow the noble and ethical endeavour to snap our fellow religious families, friends, neighbours and coworkers out of their sleep of reason. The sleep of reason brings monsters.” - Christopher Hitchens.
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.” ― Sigmund Freud, "The Future of an Illusion"
Look at what religion has done to you, Carolyn.
It's poisoned your mind, made you a completely crazy person.
Do you actually have any thoughts of your own?
I feel so sorry for you and I hope that one day, you'll recover.
Which God? Zeus? Poseidon? Shiva? Ganesh? Rah? Krishna? Jesus? Allah? Or the other 2,992 Gods?
As Christopher Hitchens said about someone who claims they have had their feelings hurt or be offended.
“If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.' I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't. And I'm not running for anything, so I don't have to pretend to agree with people when I don't.” - Christopher Hitchens
Theists like to claim that no amount of evidence is going to be enough for atheists to believe in the existence of God. Whereas a theist's standard of evidence is none whatsoever.
How are we atheists supposed to know what God is if every Christian proffers, "But you see, my God is different?" Or the ones who say their God is unknowable and then proceed to tell us in great detail what they know about their God.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been so incredulous. Once you give a Charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Hence, the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.” - Carl Sagan
These God botherers need to quit with their shit!
Just prove to us that their "God" actually exists.
That's all we ask.
Every religion claim's that theirs is the only true God!
What evidence do they have that their religion is not just other false religion?
Why is their "God" real and all the others are not?
When they understand why they dismiss ALL the other possible 2,982 "Gods", only then will they understand why we atheists dismiss theirs.
Knowledge is not something you simply assert; knowledge is demonstrated.
Do you think that faith and reason are mutually exclusive?
Is it not possible to have faith in a Higher Realm without belonging to a particular institutional church?
Isn’t relying on logical thinking alone to conduct your life a form of religion? Has rational thinking alone solved all humanity troubles?
I hope one day that which is Divine reveals to you. Revelation is the only way it happens and you don’t have to attend a church or exclude rational thinking to experience it. Open yourself to embrace the Mystery!
My God is The Flying Spaghetti Monster, the holy deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.
A Pastafarian prophet of the Venganza forums known as Solipsy received DIVINE REVELATION and wrote The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The book was completed in 2010 and was made available for download.
Some excerpts from The Loose Canon include:
"I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization". - Suggestions 1:1-5
And I have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is my belief that every word in the Loose Canon is true.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster commands us to go onto every internet site comment section, no matter what the subject, and spread the word of him.
And, as with the Judeo-Christian Biblical God, you are not permitted to ever question it. Ever! That is very offensive to us Pastafarians
Word salad. You did not respond to my questions. And when you decide to give a rational and not an emotional respond, can you use your own words and not quotes as crutches?
I was mocking your religion, my dear! LOL You know, as in satire!
Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be mocked.
I don't mock people for being religious. I do however mock those for thinking their personal religion is exempt from mockery.
An all-mighty God that is hurt by being mocked is not all that powerful.
What's wrong using quotes from famous folk, Media?
"Ridicule is the only weapon to be used against unintelligible religious propositions."--Thomas Jefferson.
Responses to your questions in order, in my own words:
*Yes
*Having faith in a Higher Realm ~ what the fuck does that even mean whether one is a church goer or not!
*Relying on logical thinking alone to conduct your life is NOT a religion.
*Rational thinking is the ONLY way to solve all of humanities troubles.
Religion has never filled an empty belly but many empty heads.
*NOBODY can prove that they had a DIVINE INTERVENTION.
'My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na Neener neener nee ner"
"Oh, but there's evidence for Gods existence! There are so many things!"
“There's...... uhh......eeermm ... I saw God’s face and I talk to him!”
Every fucking time.
Personal experience is not a valid reason to believe anything. If it were, we would have no way of determining whose experience reflects reality. Believers cannot rationally reason that personal experiences are the pathway to truth because they don’t accept other people’s experiences as proof of the claims they make with whom they disagree.
"You have to be open to God."
"Okay, don’t we have 3,000 Gods. Which one?"
"No, only to my specific God."
"Okay that leaves about 250 versions of your God. Which one is it?"
"Well... you have to believe!"
Save it for church, Media - nobody wants your mindless spam here :)
You give me the impression that you have never read a counter argument to any of your positions. You need folks to just accept that your claims are true without evidence. If they won't, then they are not open-minded. GMAFB
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” - Bertrand Russell
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved” - Tim Minchin
It's impossible to argue from logic when your opponent basically claims "MAGIC."
"Open your heart to Jesus" is code for you can convince yourself a non-existent being is real if you try hard enough. LOL
The late Clive James said religion is just a marketing tool for a product that does not exist.
That "voice" in your head is not God. It is you pretending to be God. It is your "Ideal" self. Freud called it your "super-ego". In short, we all create "God" in our own image.” God only exists in the minds of people who need him to give answers to questions they want to hear.
You might feel the need for a loving God but that’s a very, very long way from there being one.
“For all addicted religious person who lights a candle for me, then verily it shall be immediately bloweth out by me. I didn't ask for your candle to be lit for me.
I don't want it, I don't need it. Please have your candle back thank you very much.” – the great atheist Cristopher Hitchens
Repent of your preaching. Study science for its reliability, becoming educated in the process! Reality 101
Of course it is faith! 100%. Religion could not exist without faith!
If you disagree, what do you think Religion is, Kathy?
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Faith is what people claim when they have no evidence. That's EXCATLY what religion is!
Religion is the permission slip to set aside rational thinking!
ALL "GOD's" are imaginary. And the cause of untold human misery! Religion is just an evolution of superstition. Any rational and logical person can see that it makes far more sense that all religion is just man made. On the first day man created GOD's.
Theists who base all their religions that are no more than superstition on faith, never ask themselves... "Why is my God REAL when all the others are FALSE?" The odds of GOD being real are non-existent.
Reminds me of my time working at a corporate giant near the top of the Fortune 500 list whose name I shall not say. Layer upon layer of hierarchy, stringent byzantine policies and of course a highly structured working environment. Over time it became apparent that the whole thing was a facade of sorts, with senior management running the whole circus as though they were some sort of virus whose only goal was to insulate and enrich themselves come hell or high water. Policy and rules were for the suckers down on the floor. They were in fact akin to gods...the company could do anything it wanted, when it wanted, and how it wanted. Meanwhile the rank and file slobs were kept poor and stupid, at each other's throats, with a mid-level management running through human capital as Chevy big-block runs through gasoline. My point is that the so-called "blob" whose fall is supposedly imminent is like this aforementioned insulated (and quite dynamic) virus. Innoculations occur from time to time, but it mutates, adapts, and most importantly of all, it survives and (ultimately) ravages all that attempt to eliminate it.
Would love to know which corporate giant you worked for, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter, because any of those "near the top of the Fortune 500 list" probably all function the same way. That's how they got there.
The old Catholic pov: Fallen orders can not be redeemed. They must be permanently suppressed. They didn't take their own medicine anent the Jesuits and they have paid dearly.
Nice recap, Mr K! I understand many are skeptical about accountability. But this time may be different. The "good guys" know that if they let everything slide, as they always have, they'll be in prison in a few years.
Good point. They have four years to get this done. Who knows what the next election brings. If history is any indication the political pendulum will swing back to the Democrats and the Democrats, well, they know how to punish political opponents.
Don't quote me, but I have heard that the Democrats have exhumed Divine and have downloaded Biden's brain to his/her/its mouldering corpse. Sam "Woof Woof!" Brinton is rumored to be its running mate.
"And we'll be gay when Donnie goes marching home..."
Another excellent trove of information to which I will just add a footnote. As it happens I have known Andrew Bates, “Joe Biden’s” White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary, for his entire life. He was a disturbing child. When he was a toddler I had to physically restrain him from charging into our Christmas tree to destroy delicate ornaments.
He received his first high-level training in political perfidy as a full-time volunteer for the Obama campaign, welding his allegiance to the Democratic Party. After working in the disinformation division of the Obama administration he shilled for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (from which President Trump saved us with a veto), was a communications director for Hillary’s 2016 campaign, and Director of Rapid Response (i.e. damage control) for Biden’s fraudulent 2020 campaign.
The day after Biden's brain death was irrefutably revealed by the "debate," Bates declared that "Thursday was simply a bad night from a titan of politics who's literally 'tiring out' his younger aides with his extreme schedule."
Would a world-class gaffe like that end the political career of a D.C. careerist? Not if you’re a Democrat. Bates has recently parlayed his influence into starting his own political consulting firm, “delivering cutting-edge communications expertise to help you tell your story on your terms, overcome crisis, simplify complex subjects, avoid and defuse political issues, and win arguments.”
Winning arguments in Washington doesn’t require veracity, but it’ll cost you.
We need a stillness at Appomattox moment - lasting for months. The grass and trees were never greener! Have you ever had an eternal moment, Dis? I've had so many......
"...turning in the direction of justice is necessarily difficult and delicate"
This beyond a total mess nearly defying description took a long time to build to the present existential debacle facing the once Constitutional Republic. "Difficult and delicate" conveys some of the finesse needed to thread the morass which is the fine needle of justice.
These horrendous conniving individuals and their cohorts have placed enumerable roadblocks, landmines (both legal and the other kind) and other sundry and not-so-sundry impediments on the path to the return of rule of law.
For myself, I decided the satisfaction of watching perp walks was going to be a greatly delayed event. I also admit watching the judges being walked away in cuffs was, though a tease, a sign of the beginning of the long process.
The country, by and large, sat on its collectives hands for decades. Solid cases take time. Better a solid case after a long build than a weak one launched in haste. The legal system works a lot on case law precedence. Solid cases are worth the wait. Their long term reach will have positive impact for decades to come.
Fights are typically won by a flurry of punches. Wars by Blitzkreig, etc. Justice delayed is typically justice denied. The Law is one thing, Lawfare is quite another. Please don't conflate them. Our opponents are playing to win. We're playing to lose. For example: Does every illegal immigrant deserve the full benefit of American law? The answer is obvious, but it's amazing how many people don't get it.
Agree that it will take some time, 'considering the elevated level of derangement among the public.'
For example, I was heartened to view excerpts from Senator Ron Johnson's hearing re: Covid-19 Vax injuries (earlier this week) though, in reality, how many who are fearful of learning the truth will even see them? Why is this information not completely plastered front and center in the news? Again, the media continues to get away with it's sociopathic ruses of deflection and outright lies, contorting half-truths until they appear to mean something entirely different.
At this point, I would like to think that some of my intelligent family members who took the jab fully believing that it was 'the right thing to do,' will finally begin to wake up and genuinely 'do the right thing' by becoming responsible citizens and informing themselves of the facts of the covid debacle.
And let's not ridicule those who finally do come around and courageously admit that they were taken in by the lies from these sociopathic governmental bureaucrats (and their associated parasites in media and the medical 'profession'), but welcome them into the fold of the Awakened.
If you're referring to Hannah Dugan, she'll go before a democrat judge who will promptly dismiss the case as being unconstitutional, as she claims her arrest was. Mark my words.
I can enjoy and respect Jim's optimism, however, it is mostly baseless, meaning, there is zero precedent of anyone at the top being held accountable for anything ever in my lifetime. It's provable, for instance, that the Clinton Foundation is a huge laundering operation, which fronts for actual human trafficking. I mean, one of its high-level operatives, Laura Silsby, was arrested for trying to kidnap Haitian kids, and bailed out by La Clinton. Nothing happened. When HRC "erased" her computers, nothing happened. Pizzagate? Easily proven - no consequences. The of course there is Russiagate where no one has been held accountable, either.
And now, we have Dan Bongino and Kash Patel - with what looks like fear on their faces - openly lying to the media about Epstein's death: "We saw the file. He killed himself." Kash Patel's bizarre, run-around of the question put to them by Maria Bartilomo was spectacularly ridiculous, saying "he's worked as a public defender, prosecutor and has seen firsthand MCC's Special Housing Unit where Epstein died, so he knows a "suicide when you see one." Good lord, they believe we're even more stupid than the Clinton/Obama people think we are.
In any case, the splitting of MAGA has begun, with MANY having instantly lost faith in Patel and Bongino for these ridiculous statements, following up Bondi's big nothing on the Epstein files.
Next, watch Diddy walk... he with the big fat ties to Clinton/Obama (Obama was reportedly at some "freak off" parties).
As I've been saying for a few years now, I will be very happy to eat crow, be wrong, etc. if any of these people ever see a jail cell. But I am not holding my breath and neither should anyone else!
Diddy: we will be numbed by overexposure - with no consequences - until the ratings drop, then the Diddy case will disappear. There will be no justice. Not in this country. Not in this world. Not in this time.
Bongino and Patel have unwittingly revealed the biggest influence on American derangement by who they've chosen to protect with their bug-eyed, laughable revelation about the fate of Jeffrey Epstein, the Mossad-created-and-controlled cherry pot. If you think the Clinton psychopaths and the rest of the treasonous blob can be taken down without them dragging Israel down, as well, you need to think again about how that's gonna play out. We are already hearing about "statute of limitations" on all angles of the coup. Short of Fauci's mass murder by the Germans who is gonna get prosecuted for what? Theft? Fraud? Lying? Statute of limitations.
Oh, and Trump not sending DOGE to the DOD and not pressing to shrink the budget doesn't bode well for any sort of reforms unless he is simply attempting to buy some sort of personal-scale revenge with continued pork. I so want to give the man who they tried to kill at least twice the benefit of the doubt but it seems increasingly that he's simply not gonna get there. He keeps getting played, pushed and manipulated despite all of his best efforts. To be fair, though, it really is up to the People to un-fuck themselves and recover their morality.
Weeks are now years. Remember Musk and Rand Paul talking about auditing Fort Knox a few years ago? Rand said, Let's do it. Then crickets. Someone(s) gave them a word to the wise.
Look at Scott Bessent's crap-eating grin when he is asked whether the gold has been audited and if it is there. Nothing about his response is genuine. Most fake smile and uncanny valley response ever. Creepy, actually. I kind of liked the guy before that but now? Liar. More proof: Check out the YT video from Clearvalue Tax or Chris Martensen or other credible people who fact-check the claims of unbroken seals, large movements of gold without any audit trail and a whole host of other things.
Are the guns and tanks at Fort Knox even loaded? Many soldiers who worked there over the past forty years say no. The fact that no one is allowed to verify it is there is all any normal person needs to hear.
Of course, if they do verify it is there you know who is gonna want it? The families of all the people FDR stole it from. Next time someone talks about 'reparations' tell them, yeah, put me on that list. My family had all of their gold stolen from them in the 1920s.
As I understand it, the Statute of Limitations has already expired for any crimes committed during the 2016 election. It is still ticking on the 2020 election, but will expire in November 2025. Despite the general 5 year limitation for Federal crimes, there are quite a few instances of crimes with no limitation. Like murder, espionage, a lot of terrorism related offenses and actually quite a few others. To see a complete list plus each state's statutes, search for
"The US Federal Statute of Limitations For Federal Crimes". A good legal team should be able to gin up a case against most of the guilty parties regardless of time.
I didn't buy Obamacare in 2016. (It has since been found to be unconstitutional to require US citizens to buy insurance off the private market - hasn't it?) The IRS is still hounding me - and stealing my refunds. Where is MY statute of limitations?
I pasted your reply into Grok on X and here a part of it's answer:
"Since you didn’t have health insurance in 2016, you were subject to the individual mandate penalty, which was enforced by the IRS on tax returns filed in 2017. The penalty for 2016 was the greater of:
2.5% of household income above the filing threshold, capped at the national average cost of a bronze plan ($3,312 for an individual), or
$695 per adult ($347.50 per child under 18), up to a maximum of $2,085 per household.
The IRS could collect this penalty by withholding it from tax refunds but was prohibited from using harsher measures like wage garnishment or liens. If the IRS is still “hounding” you or withholding refunds, it’s likely due to an unpaid penalty from your 2016 tax return or related issues like unfiled returns or disputes over exemptions."
There are several more paragraphs on the statue of limitations and why the IRS maybe still hounding you. Just cut and paste your reply into Grok.
I tried getting through to the IRS to argue about this - but have you tried contacting any organization lately? Automated menus full of irrelevant options. I don't think the IRS even had the option to talk to a person - I mean that's so old-fashioned, who talks to real people anymore?
The IRS will probably spend more than they fined me trying to squeeze blood out of this turnip.
Forget trying direct voice contact, hard copy certified mail is slow but useful evidence in court. The Grok reply even asked about composing a letter for you to the IRS for your situation. Its not a lawyer but worth considering the information for the cost of a cut/paste....
I am sure you are right but I think we are going to get the same bullshit that SCOTUS shoveled out when they totally abrogated their responsibilities after 2020: standing, laches, timing, jurisdiction, aka "statute of limitations." We are already hearing it as a talking point. From your lips to God's ears, though.
My fellow New Yorker, JHK is one brilliant SOB. One of the greatest writers and journalists of our generation. I look forward to every word. Thanks James!
Based on the lack of action and "accountability" following the DOGE revelations, I don't expect these big-talking yet ineffectual limp-dicks to make any decisive moves that would bring consequences to anybody for the nefarious activities of the past 8yrs.
Revelations of perfidy can be useful. Look at all the leftist judges. Every one of them would have lain dormant if the DEMs/DS didn't need to stop Trump - and surprise! Their wives and relatives work for the organizations each judge is trying to save! Compromised. Now we, including the 30% brainwashed, know. Reputations are being ruined and credibility destroyed daily. It's a judicial coup. Can't wait to see how Trump handles them!
The nefarious activities have been occurring since the times of good ole "Honest Abe" and even as far back as "Old Hickory." They run so deep and permeate so much of our society that they will never all be complete uncovered for us to see. Only now, at this time, is it coming to a point.
I never have had any expectations of Mr. Trump resolving or fixing this. Mr. Trump is a "disruptor." He has installed a disruption that has created ripple effects that will eventually result in a tsunami of monumental change.
However, Mr. Trump is still spending money that the nation does not have and is still growing the federal deficit and national debt. This latest big bill he is championing doesn't do anything to reverse America's financial disaster.
The budget is still the Biden budget. New fiscal year sets in at September? It isn't easy to turn the ship of state around. Only with a dictatorship can things happen as fast as everyone would like.
James I think you believe there will be change. Maybe in the collective understanding of the population of political things and openly knowing all the corruption. However after watching the interview on Fox, the 2 men who have power to call out the bullshit, just nervously stated the bullshit cover story. Epstein killed himself, and there was only 1 shooter shooting at trump. The bullshit will never come out officially. These 2 men are terrified of something. https://youtu.be/aJh5p2HfFn8?si=yziwb13wc9TaN6c0
And did you see Alex Jones's response? He is disgusted by Bongino and Kash. You wonder any reformist who eventually obtains power whether his personal career ambitions will get in the way of his reformist instincts. Let us hope that is not the case with these two
How much money did Bongino make on his podcast empire, how much did Kash make on his book (s), v. How much will they make after leaving the FBI on account of contacts made therein? It's a constant problem
IDK, IMO the look on their faces was not of greed. It was a forced recitation of a script that when uttered, caused them immense pain. Primarily from their understanding of their audience's beliefs. My question is what entity has that kind of power to cut the balls off of both of them. Threats to their families? Maybe they got the choice, you resign you die, you tell the truth you die. You lie, you live. Bottom line, there is more to this than just money.
Ol' Billy wanted to escalate the eschaton as enthusiastically as any millennial zionist.
Dickie sent F-4s (with advanced avionics to counter the SAM threat) - and other aid - to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. (After Israel armed 13 F-4s with nukes - a weapon, which of course Israel being a decent, international-law-abiding country, doesn't have...)
Let's quit thinking we have friends in powerful places.
"It looks like the accounting will begin in earnest now. We are going to find out who was acting behind the empty figure of “Joe Biden,” and who ran the auto-pen. And working backward from there, this will all unspool in one, long, appalling thread of treason."
Respectfully, it's 60+ years since the JFK assassination and we're still trying to "find out" the who/what/where on it. Why would this be any different? While there is always a lot of steam and noise, nothing happens. No one of note is held to account. Ever. It is Kabuki theater all the time.
Thomas, remember the Golden Rule.
He(she) who has the gold makes the rules.
Gold = power.
Makes and enforces the rules. Remember that a large group of GOP folks are Deep Staters and will side with the socialists. This is going to be a hard ride for the MAGA pro-America folks that will take time. A good start will be the 2026 elections in the House, if the MAGA folks retain or increase their majority, it will be a positive step to undo what the Dems plus Bushes have done to this country.
Very good points, John. I would look at what comes next slightly differently. America in 2025 is like the 13 colonies in 1775 - 1776. 1/3 of the citizenry are pro-independence, 1/3 loyalist, and 1/3 outside of either camp. Today we've got about 1/3 MAGA and 1/3 more or less on the left (with a small percentage of them hard-core neo Marxist left). Obviously the rest are independent. My point in harkening back to the Revolution is purposeful as it may very well take a second American Revolution of sorts to regain all that we've lost (which is a great deal) and expel those who wish to continue down the road of deconstructing this Constitutional Republic, which is sinking fast beneath the waves. As long as those who use the Constitution to destroy the Constitution are allowed to run amok, the president's task shall be sisyphean in the long run. The body must rid itself of the disease in order to recover.
Yes, IMHO, the only real solution down the road is a separation of the country into two or more philosophical zones. Peacefully, hopefully. Look to the Western end of Canada for a model on how to do it.
It won’t be peaceful…it never is. Besides, justice means punishment for those who destroyed this nation forever. There is no recovery from what they have done. Biden’s 15 million illegals was the final nail in America’s coffin. Their kids will all vote democrat.
There were already 40 million or so illegals here before the openly open borders of Biden. Why would anyone assimilate to a failed nation and the culture of a dying people? The Groucho principle: I don't want to join any club that would have me as a member.
The United States doesn't have that much time.
I agree.
Also, the US will collapse according to the dictates of the globalist plutocrats, not the actions of the US citizens.
The Raptor is coming! In case of Raptor, Kathy's car will be driverless.
No, they cannot vote. The rest of the country will vote democrats as they did before. The immigrants cannot vote!
The immigrants cannot vote?
Where have you been, the immigrants have been getting phony documentation with stolen SSNs for decades. LA is one of the worst, and NY has been trying to get the vote to illegals in local and state elections for a while. Trump has yet to show what he is going to do with the illegal non-criminals, millions of them.
They don’t vote? Thanks for todays best laugh!
Besides, READ what I wrote, which was that their KIDS (born here, DUH) will vote democrat for life. They will be birthright US citizens. That how being an anchor baby works…
you mean like vancouver as a role model, Elizabeth Nickson has opined on this
Vancouver, IMHO, in in the process of being taken over by the Chinese currently 20% of the population and growing fast. BC. like our West Coast, is entralled with its liberalism and is a hot bed for change as a consequence. Alberta is a bulwark against the liberal changes in East and West Canada and is a vanguard for the separatists. Canada is just as divided as the USA is.
That would be great! All the eastern and western states will go to Canada! But what the center will eat? The rich ones are democratic states, they keep the money. California and New York are rich states, what will you do only with the peasants in the middle? Yes, hey will all vote for Trump, although after the big beautiful bill will hit them even that is hard to swallow.
The big, beautiful bill? Does anyone know what is in it. Is Medicaid going to get hit like the Dems want you to believe? Are the Trump tax cuts from 2017 going to continue? Are the spending cuts going to cut into meat or just hit the grift? Does this bill supercede all the judicial bullshit that is happening to DOGE? We have been complaining about 36 trillion in debt for a while, so why does a bill that starts a more conservative approach to government all of a sudden a bad thing? The gimmes of the country are going to get hit, and perhaps some of the illegals will go home as a result of cutbacks.
Good!!!!!! Get to work.
I do agree that the NAU, North American Union is going to change things a great deal. Remember too that the heartland is where the skilled folks are, the coasts can have their financial centers. When the SHTF, the coasts are going to dry up.
The children are going to get hit, the old people and the veterans! But it will not pass, watch it. Most of the republican voters are on benefits. That will cut your base to nothing!
"California and New York are rich states, what will you do only with the peasants in the middle?"
California and New York are so screaming rich that residents are bailing out of them by the hundreds of thousands. Meanwhile the peasants in the middle grow the food and extract the resources for the bi-coastal cloud dwellers.
Yeah, New York and California do not have agriculture... They starve! Where do the hundreds of thousands go, to the moon? Or do they move out of cities to suburbs and rural places to have a better life? How do you know, Do you live in New York or do you hear this, as all the other lies, on Fox?
Meanwhile, the farmers in the middle are going bankrupt not having people to work their farms… they left. The East and West states make the money for your benefits, good luck doing it alone!
Right again.
Everything is going to be just fine as long as the TV is working, HONEST! Just ask my wife!
This seems to be a joke but it's not.
I think the largest segment of the population is... uninterested. BLM burning down a city? It happens. Riots? Not in my front yard, so it's OK. Fiery peaceful protests? The tv says it's OK, so it's OK.
Unless sh*t impacts people directly, people don't care. Sportsball, OnlyFans, Kardashians... whatever.
Shibumi----worked for a while in Rome---bread and circus' ----
It is a shame that so many people are totally oblivious but.......the left side of the bell curve has to be populated by someone. Marxists and stupid people----but I repeat myself.
That was your first mistake.
they are ALL demons. and taking sides is exactly the diviciseness that keeps them running things.
If you read and believe the Bible, you will see that Jesus spent quite a lot of time casting out demons from people were possessed so....... I believe there are still demons roaming around and causing some people to appear to be bat shiff crazy.
No Republicans will EVER lead this country again after what Trump is doing to the Constitution, the judiciary, the institutions, and the people. You will all pay for it. The old republicans were decent conservatives, from old families with values. This band of hungry thugs wants only money and power while having no respect for laws or people. They have no concept of common sense and decency.
You will all lose big next time. America was designed to be a democratic republic, not a dictatorship or a kingdom. You bet the old Republicans will come to the Democrats, there is not a big difference, and between the left and the Trumps, they all prefer the first.
A Lefty wet dream. When the Lefty thugs and thieves are finally dispatched, the USA will be a much better place.
When the thugs with flags and bimbos with crosses will disappear America will be again a decent place to live.
They are all Criminals, cutting food from children and putting them in cages, cutting benefits from veterans and old people, you call them qualified to lead a country? And for what? To give more money to some other idiots who don’t need more money? They live on poor people’s backs!
People paid taxes and contributions to SS and Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP, it is not state’s money, it is not charity! It is people’s money paid by them for later, to retire!
SHAMEFUL IDIOTS!
Keep on entertaining us with your TDS delusions!
How much do you think people should be taxed so others can get Medicaid, SNAP and Medicare?
There is a law for that, on tiers according to the income. The problem is that the rich pay nothing. If they pay their share there is no need to cut anything. Right now, all the employees pay a % of their salary for benefits: Medicaree Medicaid and SNAP. We pay now for the ones that need it, and later we get what the next generation will pay. This is not a handover, is money saved for us, not from the government.
You should look outside of your bubble. The only way democrats can win is with voter fraud. The majority of the population is fed up with y’all’s nonsensical hatred.
Useful idiots all of you.
Since when have lefty liberals care about the constitution? That play book will not work. It’s laughable.
Unlike you, the useless idiots, Americans are in majority democrats. And now after the beautiful bill, the abomination they voted, your lot lost even the base. Farmers are losing their farms, they go bankrupt because they lost the workers!
The veterans, elders, and children will lose Medicaid, they will die! You get out of your ass and read what they voted yesterday, it is a shame for the human race. The Constitution is the LAW of the land, read history, and people died for it. If you don’t like it move to Russia, where you belong.
The gang of thugs that we have as government made America a barbaric republic not a Republican one, we are the laughing stock of the planet, a shameful Cleptocrasy!
Universal income? They take the food from children, what money for universal income? You are delusional, they lie and steal from day one. Trump will not be there in 2030, he has dementia and they will get rid of him fast.
Gallup. On December 17, 2020, Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 25% identified as Republicans, and 41% as Independent.
That poll seems about correct unlike well everything you post.
Also make note of the corollary to the Golden Rule:
He who has the guns gets the gold and makes the rules. Is the main reason why those who want our gold also want our guns 😉.
Maga will lose big in 2026. What they do now has closed their chance to lead again. Watch it. They hurt their base cutting Medicaid for poor people, veterans, old people, and children, it will not end well.
You are obviously a target for the liberal media, nothing has been done to cut anything yet, you do not have a clue what will be done with the Big, beautiful bill. You are just hawking what the idiot media is telling you. I hope you are wrong about 2026. If the people are so stupid and dependent to elect in another round of idiotic Dems into power, the country is done.
I read and see both sides and I know it's not done yet but they want to do it. I hope the house will stop it. The 2026 will be for a new generation of Democrats, they are growing now, and they will win. This country has a majority of Democrats.
The alternative is horrible for the people - Miller, Vance, Noem, Patel, Bondi, Hehseth, Rubio, and Kennedy, all incompetent and ill-intended for the country.
He has 24 people from Fox, it’s a reality show not a government!
How many covid shots have you taken? Just a wild guess, but I'm betting it's quite a few.
Yeah, I will die like you will too. We’ll all die, nothing new here.
With Trump being as vindictive as he is do you really think many involved in all of this ARE not going to get trolled, drug through the coals and then publicly humiliated with a trial and conviction?
If so it might help to pay attention to Trump, he likes paybacks and one upmanship.
Holding people accountable equally to the rule of law is not payback. It is justice.
That’s kinda what justice is at its core; vengeance for the aggrieved without the negatives of the mob but remembering that the mob is always there in case ‘justice’ becomes routinely denied.
Ugh and when has that actually been a thing In America since at least 2008?
You mention Trump’s vindictiveness as if that’s a bad thing. When it comes to whatever revenge he unleashes on the Democrats and Deep Staters, it won’t be severe enough.
Trump has made no secret of his belief that you hit back twice as hard as you were hit in retaliating wrongs. He'll do it within the rule of law, but he'll do it if he can - and he has a lot of backup to manifest it. It was a theme in the confirmation hearings of Bondi, Patel, et al. However, do not forget, there is a 5 yr statute of limitations on many of the crimes committed; the culprits can't help themselves. They will reoffend, just like any criminal.
There is no statute of limitations on treason and that is really what we are talking about.
He is too stupid to do anything significant. Talks a lot of non sense but does nothing! He will have to respond to the promises from the election that he cannot keep first. No one will believe him after that.
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If Trump is human he has the normal desire to pay back the many who undermined him. And he put Kash Patel in there who was also a victim of lawfare and corruption. I can feel his anger.
Kash has come out with firm conviction that Epstein committed suicide? Really? With a shower curtain, while all the guards who were supposed to supervise, protect him, were on a break with the cameras shut off! Ugh-Ugh
Kash very likely understands that there is no way he’ll be able to support and prosecute a case of murder where Epstein is concerned therefore let the suicide issue run and focused on the cases that can be made in regard to the treasonous bastards that were tearing the country apart.
Supporting a lie does not make Patel a truth-seeker.
Patel's infatuation with Israel does not make him a US patriot.
Four more years of bluster and undermining the US from the other side.
Truth is truth. Once you start lying by omission, it's a slippery slope. Both Kash Patel and Bongino know the truth. You start by mandating a grand jury, supenia the guards, and start from there.
If Epstein is still alive, it is because he has records and control files on all the major political figures like Bill Clinton; whose entire entourage, including law partners, close associates, police escorts, et al, have mysteriously died; or at least the majority of them. Over 100 at last count! The Epstein case is to politics as Diddy's case is to the entertainment industry. Of course it is far more important and extraordinarily compelling because it could bring down the titans of government and major corporations. So please, don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining. Truth, Transparency, and Trust.
Bingo! Tell the goddamned fucking truth. All of it! Until they do....they're just two more puppets. It's galling.
Kash: "It's raining!"
"are tearing the country apart" FIFY. This is about as over as the first revolution was in late 1776.
If Kash and the rest have not figured out that Epstein is still very much alive, there is little hope for the investigative powers of the Justice Dept.: a single grainy photo of him being taken out of the prison, with facial feature mismatches to boot. A man in federal custody- so why no FOIA demands for autopsy photos? Anyone? The lack of basic curiosity and rigor is appalling. Ditto the JFK and RFK murders- and we thought RFK Jr. was on top of things for once. Pam Bondi has also amazingly turned deaf-mute.
It was maddening to see Patel and Bongino confirm the suicide. They seemed as though they were not convinced and forcing themselves. But that might be just wishful thinking on my part. No murder, no trial. No trial, no discovery. I'd like to know what they really think and what their plans are. Remember that Epstein was CIA/Mossad. Whitney knows.
The “suicide” thing has reduced my faith in Kash and Bongino to near zero. Who got to them?
Both are Israel firsters. The nation that Epstein "was associated with" was Israel. For all we know, he's on beach in Tel Aviv right now.
I knew Bongino and Patel were full of shit a few years ago. You woke up?
How I wish I were as brilliant as you are.
They wish to live to see another sunrise.
They are smart. It seems that all of that mess will come out with Hillary. See JHK's article above.
The truth will come out about Hillary "we'll Arkancide you if you talk" Clinton? Really?
Ask Seth Rich how being truthful worked out for him.
Trump! He was a close friend of Epstein.
I heard simon sez was a close friend of Epstein.
See how that works?
Saying it does not make it true.
He is in one photo with him, NOT a close friend. Trump kicked the guy out of his country club. Quite a friendship, eh?
I agree with Mel (below) as there is no advantage to saying Epstein was murdered, but there is some advantage to playing one's cards close and keeping one's mouth shut sans proof. Patel seems to like absolutes. Then there is the possibility that his position will reveal others who can be prosecuted. I would not underestimate him any more than I would Trump.
Me: "Damn he's actin' crazy!"
Not-Me: "That shows what a genius he is!"
Indeed, the purported suicide has been shown to be impossible in that kind of cell...
We went through a brief period of history recently in which there was a rash of famous people hanging themselves from doorknobs.
A trend - like "Slenderman", that's all. Nothing strange about that. No investigation necessary...
The USA is a wrap (it has been for quite awhile). Prepare accordingly.
You are entering a surveillance state very soon.
Trump and company were selected for this time😈.
Try to live in the PRESENT.
We have been living in a surveillance state since 9/11. Cameras are everywhere in big cities, on every corner.
Two idiots who will accomplish nothing.
What do you think the DNC did for eight years under Obama and four years under the people who ran the government for Biden as he slurped ice cream and fondled children every chance he got?
Hey Cosmo! Nice to 'see' you over here. I'm afraid MW unceremoniously threw me off his substack, which, I guess is ok w me. Poof! You're gone! Kind of a kick in the pants, but kind of a relief too. Its a big world!
Same here.
What? When did that happen and what prompted that? I think you had an opinion, one in many ways I shared, but we differed on some points, but that's part of having dialogue and coming to an understanding without acrimony. I was wondering why your voice has been missing lately. Is that a permanent ban or did he just delete your comments? I'd like to see your return.
I was thinking I hadn't seen anything by you in a while. I'm sorry that you are banned.
I always respected the general ‘niceness’ in your comments.
Thanks IJM
I don't know why I have been banned. As I said to Cosmo I was given no warning or explanation. I suppose its even possible that the ban was a glitch.
But the ban, or 'pause', if you will, has given me a chance to reflect...on lots of stuff. I do agree that MW has run an exceptional site which in so many ways has helped me ...and many other thoughtful readers...understand what is happening in our world.
Over the years, though, I have disagreed...strongly...upon occasion with MW's conclusions and have said so. In a few instances MW has reponded in what I felt was a disrespectful and even insulting way, which I've found bothersome, since I hardly ever express an opinion which is based on a clear and indisputable misunderstanding of the facts.
Recently, I have increasingly disagreed with his views regarding Trump's intentions regarding ending the wars and the related question of the degree of responsibility of "Jews" for the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine -- and I have directly and indirectly said so. I certainly don't discount the perspective...and power... of many individual Jews and Jewish organizations in connection with the formation of our foreign policy and aspects of our foreign policy I disagree with.
I have disagreed with his characterizations of an Anglo-Zionist monolith and with his characterizations of public opinion in Israel. I believe these are far more complex and nuanced situations than MW would have it. My views on these matters are related to my continuing support for Trump, who I simply do not believe -- at the end of the day -- is controlled by some kind of Anglo-Zionist monolith.
However, do I believe Trump is facing intense political infighting as well as extreme opposition on numerous fronts? Yes, absolutely. But until Trump fails (lets say in November 2026) I have to support him in the belief that he does have my and many millions of normal Americans' best interests at heart.
Perhaps these disagreements w MW got under his skin. I don't know. In the meantime I'm finding new places to go and learn and sometimes express my opinion and this is all good. But its nice to hear from you guys.
It's weighing on me that Cass was banned. Cass was a longtime commenter and he was always respectful.
I agree. I always wonder about those comments that are deleted. What was it that triggered Mark.
I guess it was about a week or 10 days ago...He didn't tell me why...or give me warning. I just went to post and a little red box came up saying I was blocked. Then I noticed that I had been 'unsubscribed'. I thought of complaining or resubscribing and then I thought, Nah...I spend far too much time here. I might better just move on.
I'll admit that I have learned a lot over the past six or seven years on the site, but I might also have to admit that I was increasingly seeing things differently than MW. I never felt that it was acrimonious or personal on my part...just a different POV.
I will say that one of the reasons MW doesn't take subscriptions may be that he retains the ability to control his audience. That had never occurred to me.
Cass,
As you may see there are others wondering about you as noted by IJM's comments. I thought disagreement always eemed to be handled well and the regulars are always respectful. While, I found you and I at odds on some facets of what's going we agreed more than we disagreed and that is healthy. I learned much from your views that always gave me pause and forced me to check my motives and emotions. give it some time and stop by even if you can't comment now, that might change. Best regards, Cosmo T
Who is MW? What did you say?
Shameful comment, uneducated moron!
Stop projecting your failures on others.
Another day another drive by clown.
Majella is that you again?
The clown is in the WH here are the real people.
No, he was voted out!
Joe Biden has been kicked to the curb for the demented piece of shit he is.
The cartoon buffoon has spoken folks this guy is clearly looney tunes.
Trump vindictive??? All of us election sorters and sifters know that if Trump had gone after Hillary, as he surely could have (home server, Clinton Foundation Whistle Blowers, Russia, Russia, Russia) we would not have had the time for this whole ugly mess to unfold. The 2020 election "results" were the catalyst of all the analysis. And, Boy! do we have the analysis. You might want to look into that.
Well said. And if we had hit Israel after they attacked the Liberty, it may have knocked some respect into them.
I get so sad when I think of those sailors...still. I have a DVD of the documentary on my shelf along side "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (ages ago my father told me to read it). What a coward! I haven't watched or read either one.
That was why the company that made the voting machines sued them. How many millions they paid for slender?
He had nothing on Hilary, if he could he would have done something. It is all BS to keep you all busy and satisfied that he is a generous, magnanimous leader when in fact he is a small despicable character.
You mean the “I won the popular vote” Hillary? We have a “I am a 2nd-placer candidate” over here with those machines.
U.S. Senate run of 2020, 2nd place with about 900K total votes cast statewide; garnered 45.6%
Governor’s race of 2022, 2nd place with about 700K total votes cast statewide; garnered 45.6%
Same guy.
2016 was programmed too but they weren’t ready for the tsunami. In 2020 they had to shut down and adjust. Remember those flooded toilets in Atlanta? You probably don’t. Anyway, that shut down was named the Edison Zero.
Here is a graph showing a county in GA
https://rumble.com/v1jfb4s-bibb-county-georgia-2020-election-in-sixty-seconds.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
https://rumble.com/v1ckler-fulton-county-georgia-2020-election-in-60-seconds.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Pfft as if I don't know ALL the details already and man did you miss a bunch of them.
Going after political opponents using lawfare and alphabet leos was something we as Americans did not do until Trump showed up.
Now everything is on the table like a real and true banana Republic.
There are no political opponents. That is the point. It is an act to stir you up. It has been one controlled group yanking the leashes of the "voters." Take a look at "The Bus Problem."
Before "Trump showed up" we had JFK assassinated and Nixon escorted out only to become Anthony Fauci's lab rats.
Some say that and some see something else.
There is a clear difference between Trump and rinos as well as Democrats.
You have your opinion.
https://zarkfiles.substack.com/p/the-bus-problem
https://zarkfiles.substack.com/p/the-bus-problem-part-ii
Ha! At this point I like payback and one upsmanship, too. I am not alone. However, I doubt anything will ever come of anything. Maintaining a semblance of the status quo is too important to our “selected” officials.
The true powers will never let the status quo change. I'm not talking about the Clintons, Obamas and Bushes. I'm talking about the real money. The old generational money. The really big bankers. The Rothschild, Rockefellers, Morgans, Chases, Carnegies. Those elite family groups are the people pulling the strings from their obscure mansions of the world. Hidden to the rest of us but controlling all of it. We see what they want us to see. We learn what they want us to learn. The secret combinations run so deep we will never truly find out who or what they are.
We just need to be open to what Trump's ultimate form of payback may look like, taking into account that "the Zionist majority in both parties" may have the power to thwart his agenda.
Gilbert Doctorow International relations, Russian affairs
Scott Ritter on ‘Judging Freedom,’ 21 May 2025
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/05/22/scott-ritter-on-judging-freedom-21-may-2025/
Payback is the big B
And to that I say, 'you go Trump!' giddy-up!!!!
One can but hope but I’ll believe it when and only when I see it happen and not once second sooner.
Unfortunately so. The narrative is detailed and largely accurate, but the accounting never really happens. And that has been the pattern for many decades. Unelected powers and influences behind the throne didn’t just start with Biden. The series of high profile political assassinations of the 1960s put any would-be public figures on notice. But history demonstrates that nothing lasts forever. Some sort of national implosion and failure will probably be the way it all finally ends.
Pick your choice of truth and justice. Nowadays, you can have it any way you want.
There is no justice without truth.
I’m learning increasingly towards the “Hang ‘em all! Let God sort them out,” persuasion myself. 💀
And that's the problem. No one trusts anymore and they are right. The evil is everywhere and leads the country too!
Real evil is being run out of the DNC party and talking points.
It will be different because Trump is different. He wants vindication and a legacy, so he won’t be afraid to “violate norms” by exposing scandals and corruption. He’ll have the law and the majority of the public on his side. And when it takes out some corrupt Uniparty Republicans, so much the better for him (and us).
He has to do this carefully, because he only gets one chance. Nevertheless, he’s a showman who had a successful reality show. I expect a series of bombshells starting sometime before the midterms and lasting for the rest of his term.
Team Trump may be keeping the powder dry before the mid-terms to keep the America First agenda intact. Dan and Kash seem to be getting the ducks in a row. The 2020 loss was a blessing in disguise to expose the hubris and grift. I think in 2016 DJT didn't realize the depth of the issues and law fare that was about to be unleashed on him and his supporters. Someone is going to be made an example of for the treasonous behavior. Smaller players on the stand outing the upper players would work well, IMO. Like you say they have one shot at this, we shall see.
I almost completely agree with you here but my niggling doubt is summed up in the question, “Where are the promised un-redacted Epstein Files?” Within how many days of Trump’s election was this supposed to happen?
That’s a fair point. I suspect it’s a hugely complicated issue, but then building suspense is part of showmanship.
No insult intended but when the excuse for the delay of justice is prefaced by, “It’s complicated,” or similar wording it’s most likely to be part of your Kabuki theater productions to delay and ultimately avoid justice. The only theater I want to see now are mass public executions and those around the world.
The Swamp is deep, wide, and has been doing shady things for generations. You think that can get dealt with in a few months or even a few years? It’s a much bigger deal than busting Mafia families, and that can take years.
Plus, remember Trump’s showmanship. What would be the most dramatic and impactful times for major busts? During the 2026 and 2028 election seasons. I expect some before the end of the year, but I suspect he’ll be saving some big news for those periods.
That timeline applies only if the ‘civilized’ approach can still work to eliminate the massively entrenched corruption problem. I’ve seen said civilized approaches promised and attempted most of my life, a few seriously. None of them had any appreciable long term positive impact, none. All simply resulted in delays in removing the problem, all them.
Now I’m going to see if this response to your comment here gets blocked like my other ones did.
He does not have the majority of the country, and with what he does he will lose the base. He ignores the law, another thing that will bite his ass later. The show works on the low-class Republicans, the ones in Congress and the House do not believe him anymore, they will vote with the Democrats. His legacy will be similar to Hitler’s adding the con man that he is, and adding his team of incompetents. Hitler had evil people around, monsters but not incompetents.
He has the majority on specific issues, like deportations and ending DEI. That’s a key part of his strategy: to take the popular side of issues. The courts will eventually settle down and mostly agree he’s just following the law. He not only hasn’t lost his base, he hasn’t lost his swing voters.
Not true, he is down in the polls, and Republicans are voting with Democrats on their bill! We’ll see how the House will do. The Big Beautiful Bill is an abomination, un-American, against the people, a criminal act of inhumanity and ill intentions.
If you listen only to Fox you live a big lie. I know he does not like CBS, ABC, and others because they have real reporters, telling the truth. We know well who Trump is, a New Yorker con man, a TV actor, pumped by the producers to look smart and successful. He is not, even that is a lie.
Gas prices down.
Food prices down.
Inflation falling.
Deporting millions of illegal aliens will further the price on everything falling.
Tax burdens on middle class and poor families going down.
No tax on tips and over time!
Jobs creation up.
Democrats are still playing paddy cake with men dressing up as woman and now violent protest in support of Hamas.
People are running from the Democrat party right now.
Your opinion goes against reason and common sense across the board and is wrong leading to only one conclusion you are a troll.
Only promises, none done. I see the Republicans voting with Democrats even on their bill! Prices are up and they will go even higher. You are delusional and do not shop. Gasoline is not down at all, is over $3.00. The middle class supports his golf spending and you are happy about it, stupid. Taxes are on tips too, they have it on the big beautiful bill, as all the promises reversed. He did not deport millions, and never will. He builds prisons to keep them in, it's a better business than deporting, to give to other idiots. Arizona lives from creating prisons full of innocent men. That is the job creation, prisons! Stupid remarks as the person doing them, verify again!
The deluded one calls me deluded you are a buffoon.
Gas is down over .40 a gallon on average across the country.
So, which is it are you a liar or just stupid?
How does one deport 40 million illegal aliens?
One at a time!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/gas-prices-hit-4-year-low-ahead-memorial-day-weekend
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2025-memorial-day-weekend-gas-prices/
Since you lied about the above one can say everything you post is a lie.
You are dismissed as a clown.
You, Sir, are absolutely correct in every way. It always ‘looks like’ accounting is in progress with no one ever held to account. I’ve witnessed a lifetime’s worth of this smoke and mirrors, as you say Kabuki theater, with the perps nearly always walking.
And you are watching now the biggest theatre of them all. That’s exactly what it is, a big lie for Trump and his thugs to get rich and fool everyone around that they do the work for the people. Accepting bribes and taking money from billionaires to have access to his power is not what a president does in a civilized country.
He made America into a banana republic and the laughingstock of the planet!
I do believe I’m catching whiff of TDS here accompanied by its usual accomplices, hypocrisy and projection or whatever the current terminology is for accusing the other side of doing what your side is doing and has been doing for the last four years at the very least. As I once said of Tricky Dick Nixon in my first presidential election, “He may a crook but at least he’s our (USA’s) crook.” It’s been the lesser of two evils choices ever since.
I feel the much the same about Trump except that his rap sheet is virtually nonexistent compared to that of your zombie meat puppet Biden and his cabal of parasitic treasonous sycophants. He’s the closest thing to a presidential saint that I’ve ever seen. Not even Reagan managed that.
Yeah, no one was so incompetent, vicious, and fake like Trump. None of the Republicans have had a cult of idiots following them and distorting reality, lying, and spreading hate all over the country. Never before was so much barbaric behavior toward people, mostly colored people.
We are a country of shameless idiots in the eyes of the world thanks to this Gang of thugs and bimbos!
Put the bong down and quit drinking the water.
Correctamundo
1. "Case Closed," by Gerald Posner.
2. "Reclaiming History," by Vincent Bugliosi. ( I'd have recommended this first, but at 1,500 pages, it's twice as long as Posner's book. )
3. "Oswald's Game," by Jean Davison. ( It's no longer in print, but there is a plenitude of used copies of a book which should have won a Pulitzer Prize. )
4. "Mrs Paine's Garage," by Thomas Mallon.
From your lips to the deity of your choice’s ears. I’ll not be holding my breath.
We can hope!!! Truth is ultimately revealed—it often takes a long time, but we can hope it’s coming soon!!!!
That's 'sturm and noise', not stream and noise
Earnest my foot! It’s a gang of liars and thieves! We are still here. Because you bought the presidency with an apartheid guy’s money does not means you own this country. It will be a short stay or civil war. You are not smarter, on the contrary, you are as dumb as your convicted felon who cannot make a coherent sentence.
Here we go again. In his last post, on Monday, Kunstler breathlessly told us "House members are not immune from prosecution for crimes committed in connection with their official duties. That means you, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, and Bennie Thompson." In fact, he claimed, "plenty of other officials (and non-officials, like the lawfare ninjas, Eisen, Elias, and Weissmann) could go down for what went on since inauguration day, 2021." Today we are told "It looks like the accounting will begin in earnest now. We are going to find out who was acting behind the empty figure of “Joe Biden,” and who ran the auto-pen. And working backward from there, this will all unspool in one, long, appalling thread of treason." Every post, week in and week out, we are told that all these folks are about to be arrested and, for real this time, All the Democrats are going Down, and facing jail! Anyone reading this, please remind me how many prominent Democratic officials have been charged with serious crimes since Trump took office in January? Don't worry, I will wait.
I’ll take the bait - we are only four months into the new administration - there will be prosecutions - just who gets targeted and whether they will succeed is the real question.
I respect your opinion and do enjoy this blog, despite the endless promises of prosecutions for corruption, treason, insider trading, theft, etc., that never happen. You say "there will be prosecutions" of high-level Democrats, and implore me to be patient--I have been hearing that line for the last 10Y, since Trump first announced he was running for office. "Trust the plan" and Sean Hannity says he has "secret sources" "well-placed in the administration" and there are "secret grand juries" "sealed indictments" and it's all about to come out. . .10 years of this. It really gets old. Nothing ever happens to the Democrats, and nothing ever will.
There is a very large part of me that agrees with you Thomas Madden. I really do. The waiting is getting old.
Still, I appreciate Mr. Kunstler and his hopeful predictions of justice being brought down upon these evil fuckers. I accept that the man is not a prophet and cannot predict the future any better than I or you or anyone else. His writings, however, give me hope that one day, something is break and their evil doings, their murders, their whoredoms, their robberies will come to light and they will eventually swing for their crimes.
The problem is one of a psychological phenomena known as "Confirmation Bias" aka wishful thinking. Trump supporters desperately WANT to believe that there will be justice and accountability for corrupt democrats, so when they are told "due to Wikileaks, or Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, or the Benghazi scandal, or FISA courts, or Hunter Biden's laptop" All The Democrats Are About To Go To JAIL, MAN, like Monday morning! They believe these foolish rumors because they WANT them to be true.
sydney powell and election fraud , what happened with that? was it kiboshed with lawfare?
Look how long we had to wait for a President like Donald Trump, easily 50 years since JFK assassination. Luck played a very big part in Donald Trump's success, supplementing the public will. Both luck and will are still going strong for America.
His first day in office? He mandated 500 billion for a program that combines AI and mRNA technology. It's always darkest before it gets even darker.
I too appreciate Mr. Kunstler and his writings. As for evil doers paying for their crimes. Throughout recorded history, the only time that happens is when common people have had enough and revolt.
"the only time that happens is when common people have had enough and revolt."
... and the only time they ever -- in history -- "have had enough" is when it's economic. When TPTB take down Trump, rest assured it'll be deep enough into his term, and spun in just the right way, that a majority of voters will think the 2nd GFC is fully Trump's fault. The silver lining is that we have roughly a year and a half of a 2-year prep buffer.
Remember that the resistance in Trump's first term didn't become organized and effective enough until the latter two years, although admittedly that was also a result of the 2016 election surprise.
If it ever happens, I don't believe it will be when anyone cares, meaning, they'll either die first or be old and out of the news cycle.
Some retribution may take the form of reputation ruin. Trump won't be the one revealing it. But somebody will. Stuff is leaking out. I hesitate to repeat what I've learned about major players in SCOTUS, Congress; can't recall the exact source. The last 8 deaths of Congress persons are all DEMs. Cancer, they say. Heart attack, they say. Okay. Maybe.
Could be turbo cancer brought on by that fabulous advance in medical science, the clot shot. Damn think is the anti-Ivermectin: it causes exotic fatal illnesses no one has ever seen before, eliminates the ability to reproduce (giving Bill Gates a chubby as a result), fogs the brain -- and yet is a wonder drug. Maybe that will change if AOC or the brother-marrying harpy Ilhan Omar gets sick as a result of taking the shot, er "jab."
No one will swing at least not in a public manner they might however swing in a jail cell.
You mean by a doorknob?
Nope Epstein style.
That is because they are one with the Republicans. It is all BS. The top cats do not pay for their crimes. Ever. Things that would get you and I to 'ol sparky, gets them a slap on the wrist at most and usually not even that.
You have outlined what appears as rock hard truth,unfortunately. We want justice so much, we keep thinking how vindication would be the result. Looks like the truth is both sides are crooked.
Don't forget: there is a 5-yr. statute of limitations on many of the crimes we want prosecuted. By now, many have expired. The saving grace is these people just can't help themselves. They will re-offend. Trump is playing a long game.
So? That could be just another law that is invoked or ignored as is convenient for whoever’s in authority at the time and Trump’s is in that position now. If Trump is or is becoming truly Machiavellian then the lefty libtards especially in government and the media who have pushed him in that direction truly do have something to be worried about statutes of limitations or not. Besides, I hear that Hillary’s ‘arkansiders’ are looking for a new employer…. Just sayin’.
Really?
They lost two major elections and have been outed as liars and cheats in a way they will have a hard time over coming along with the gas lighting media.
That is Huge.
https://x22report.com/ds-took-the-bait-trapped-fraud-vitiates-everything-did-trump-reveal-the-plan-ep-3647/
Have a listen.
Ben----just a suggestion. Please do not use the term gas lighting media. A much better term is LYING, POS, legacy media. When Clinton was Prez, I got so tired of the media and the Pols always using other words for both the Clintons. Both Hillary and Bill would tell us bold faced lies, directly to our face. Why not use the word that everyone understands and knows-----lies or lying. No need to try to sugar coat it and call it something that does not sound quite as bad.
If I had a dime for every time someone said that justice is coming, I would be a millionaire. I've been on top of this stuff since 2000 and no one is held accountable. It is a big circus and endless money can be made lying to the public, telling us what we want to hear.
People don't care. If their team is at fault, they excuse it.
Republicans generally face retribution in terms of the law, Democrats are exempt from the law.
It's Chinatown.
Only if we have a complaint judiciary. That means firing all of them (some can be rehired I assume). And that means declaring a State of Emergency. And that means having a compliant military. The SAS motto: Who dares, wins. Will Trump dare? Nothing less will do.
We DO have a compliant judiciary. They do as they are told.
What we need is a judiciary that upholds the law.
Trump might dare. Trump might win. But we will lose. Trump is about Trump, not the US.
The Law must sometimes be what the King says - in times of War. Some cultures had a War King and a regular or Peace King. Trump must be a War King else all is lost.
Don't forget "secret military tribunals" and, of course, "trust the plan."
The plan is to do nothing about it, and for all of us to forget there was a problem.
I’ve had a lifetime of these empty promises and have sworn off investing any belief in them.
Yet some people will be told this big complicated story about exactly how, when, and why All the Democrats are Going to Jail, and the date will come, and it will pass, and no one will even be charged with anything, of course. . .and then believe the next lie that says, no, no, we meant NEXT Monday, fer sure this time, man! This has been going on for 10Y, since Trump first announced he was running for President back in 2015. Some people just aren't very smart.
"Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!"
Kinda glad I didn't hold my breath.
Our host does an admirable job of laying out the facts of the case to make the commission of crimes clear to anyone with an identifiable brain cell and something to rub it against. Like the Ghost of Christmas Future, he shows us the path that could - even should - be taken.
"It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."
It's a lie we don't believe anymore.
The janitor and intern will be the fall guys. Come on no one of any significance is going anywhere but to the next election soiree
Since you took it I will too: Oh so it’s not soon and total enough so it’s a failure?! This is boilerplate trolling and boring as hell… Yet they still use it in a variety of contexts.
Indeed, court cases even simple ones can take years to put together.
Now if you want a court case ill conceived, hastily put together, and doomed to fail keep wandering down the road to ignorance.
Do you not have jury duty wherever you hail from or do you just toss the summons in the trash?
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Note, however, that the deep state didn't wait to go after Trump with lawfare and trials. They threw the kitchen sink at him. It's possible that those of us who feel so impatient have forgotten how a real, serious case is constructed. As for Jim's blog. Yes, it's hopium, but personally, I need it. And he names the names and keeps them in front of us. If he is wrong he won't be able to weasel out of it.
Law takes time. Lawfare doesn't, and is often as, if not more, effective.
Little wonder law is the path less taken.
They didn't wait, the result was hasty cases by DEI hires. The response to the identified weaknesses was to send reinforcements from the Imperial City Lawfare Department.
Those cases won't stand long-term. For example, it was a blow-out down in Florida. DEI hire James is on the ropes in both NY & VA. I expect more to follow. CBS is hemorrhaging executives after "The Interview". Ditto ActBlue with all the financial shenanigans. It takes diligence and attention to detail.
Note the James example in NY & VA. It is lack of attention to detail, exacerbated by not being the brightest bulb in the circuit, and just plain laziness.
And that is why the Deep State is dying. It's brain-dead, and all the little cockroaches are leaving its body, running around hysterically and being eaten by geckos. Maybe even Gordon Geckos.
It is the nation that is dying. Those roaches? They work for the Deep State.
And they failed.
And they failed bigly and thus tipped their terrible hand with a pair of 2's.
Now Obama and gang are revealed.
Trump has about a year to make this happen.
Yes, the preparations will take more than five years. You can bank on it! They do.....
Prezactly.
Something few understand. I worked for an attorney on a silicon breast implant case years ago. Two years in, we were still in preparation, gathering data, finding expert witnesses, etc. It's a long slog. "The wheels of justice," etc.
Yep but now, we have a society that can't stand to wait everything must be now now now.
Honestly some good people are so wound around the axle of impatience they are slowly going crazy over all this shit and others are just steeped in the tea of Media bias and bullshit.
Yes, that's what you make your opponent do. They don't do it that way of course. Lawfare is different than the "Law" per se.
The wheels of justice turn slowly. Have patience. And be realistic - not all of the bad actors will be held to account by the courts. We may need to accept their exposure and justice carried out in the court of public opinion.
I’m coming to prefer the lesser known alternative methods…
Unfortunately, you're wrong.
Case in point: "Lock her up."
Even if Trump wanted to do prosecutions, his Betters will not let him.
Sounds like you have little to no experience in any mechanism of complexity or magnitude - especially in the governmental spectre....
Alternately it sounds like they are here just to nudge the narrative and have little to no experience in anything other than taking cues from a 3 ring binder at a troll farm….pure speculation….of course.
It saddens me greatly to agree with you (hence my post from earlier). It is rigged from top to bottom. All we can do is shut our collective mouths and pay our taxes like good little serfs.
People call it treason. Is it? Or is it that a cancerous growth of dependence socialism has taken over the zeitgeist of the country. Has the USA become the den of a couple of generations of lazy no-account people who will glom after anybody that offers them a free ride? We are in a country that has two completely opposing economic theories trying to operate the power leadership. Jerking back and forth between the two is weakening the basics of the country every four years. Treason would be against the Constitution, which does not choose between capitalism and socialism, so treason? According to whom?
US Constitution Article III, Section 3: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
Which comes down to what is levying war against the States? Is importing millions of immigrants in violation of Congress' rules (illegals), resulting in lost jobs and increased crime, an act of war against the states? Is election cheating, effectively setting aside the states' rights to vote, an act of war against the states? How about slander (destructive lying) against top officials, reducing their ability to do their jobs?
Make me dictator. It’ll be fun.
None and no one will be prosecuted for nothing. They would need some proof, just words mean nothing and their relationship with the truth is very thin.
Massive projection on the cartoon character's part.
Yes, I am a cartoonist, what are you, just dumb?
Dumb is parroting DNC and mainstream media talking points all of which are lies or projections of crimes that Democrats have actually done.
You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts something you appear to be confusing.
We choose our own truth over facts - Joe Biden and now it appears Simon Sez.
Yes, by this time in the Biden regime, there had been hundreds of arrests, including that of prominent Patriots, not just the J6 folks. That's real power.
Trump has one attribute -- a superpower, really -- that all professional politicians utterly lack. He learns. People forget that he ran in the 2012 Republican primary. He dropped out, so those few who might have remembered automatically concluded that it was just another vanity-boosting exercise for him, so they were blind-sided by his primary win in 2016.
And then he continued learning all through his very difficult, but often successful first term.
And now that he's baaaaaack, his enemies are woefully unprepared for what's coming.
And it's coming after them.
They never learn.
Mr. Trump is a disruptor. Like John the Baptist of old. The Baptist was a disruptor and his disruptions over threw the order of the time and made way for a new order. The result? A major world wide religion. However, The Baptist was eventually beheaded and never saw the fruits of his disruption as it took decades to grow. The same will be said of Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump has awakened many to the filth, grift, murders and corruption of these awful individuals. His disruptions, I believe, will eventually lead to monumental changes but I don't believe I'll be around to see them. I'm 51.
John the Baptist was the last of the Old Covenant. It wasn't his disruption, but the emergence of his cousin Jesus of Nazareth, that was the disruptor, as the New Covenant was sealed in His blood. John came in the spirit of Elijah as prophesied in Malachi before the 400 year prophetic silence, to herald the coming King. The New Covenant order was instituted instantaneously, though the cultural and religious changes came more gradually. John's interaction with the political order of the day was as charismatic and eccentric outsider, cleansing the repentant citizens in preparation for the New Covenant, and as a righteous critic of the degenerate elite who were in power. That's what got his head lifted, not his baptistic activities.
Trump is definitely a disruptor. Though if we're looking for Biblical analogies, I think he's more akin to the apostle Peter. Speaks his mind, often to his own detriment, but sees the truth clearly enough and works earnestly to get there. It was Peter who was imprisoned and escaped the clutches of his enemies. Yet, like all the apostles apart from John (the Apostle not the Baptist), he was martyred for his faith.
Well now that's a frightening thought. Don the Baptist. Who is the savior that he will reveal to us? I looked in Epstein's crypt and his body wasn't there...
Nor, apparently, where his client scrolls…
Don the Baptist 😆🤣😂
You’ll make it…it’s here.
great comment! I totally forgot he ran in 2012.
Yeah. So did every other primary candidate.
One can hope, meanwhile, holding one’s breath is not advisable.
It is awesome to behold.
Hillary Clinton is a toxic vortex of malfeasance, duplicity, and corruption. She is a virtual maelstrom of mendacity and any who allow themselves to be swept into her realm of influence will pay a heavy price. She's still at it, stirring her cauldron of shit-splaining, dishing out her putrid stew. That said, the Fake Party fully deserves her, but America does not.
Great description! Just not quite hateful enough 😏
Yeah, really! And I thought I was the nemesis of the Hildebeast.
This is probably as good a place as any to admit that I no longer expect the 'Beast to be our last President.
Of course now that I said that, Ol' Hills will do a flying leap outa Hell and put the butt scissors to Trump's neck. Elevated to the Ovarian Office by unanimous acclaim.
Is old Depends in a Pantsuit in Hell? I hadn’t heard that. Can’t see her using the butt scissors though, that full depends would get in the way. I suppose, however, that losing the Presidency twice in a row is a sort of living hell for the nasty old bat.
You don't have to be dead to be in Hell.
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Purr-fection. 💯❤️
I have always liked the way JHK explains complex situations in a simple way. So they are easy to understand, and i love his use of Subtle Sarcasm.
What sarcasm?
You forget one major difference. GOD is directly involved this time. Thousands of people worldwide as well as here prayed for Trump to be re-elected. For our country to be given a second chance. For GOD'S involvement in our world. And HE listened. HE is fulfilling HIS promises. Even if you don't have faith in Trump and his team, have faith and believe in GOD. We ALL know how long we have waited on truth going much further back than the Kennedy murder. So compared to all those years and the few months Trump has been in office, this is a blink of an eye time. All those years no one who was president really gave a rat's ass about the American people or the constitution. And that includes Ronald Regan. He repeatedly said he was only an actor and that is what he was. Playing a part. Now we have someone who does care and is trying to clean up over a 100ys of crap from former presidents and politicians. Give the man a break. He is fighting a majority of those same corrupt, evil, lying people that brought us here in the first place. We the people voted for those pos that brought us here. We live to blame the government and politicians but we are at fault. We ALLOWED this to happen to our nation. We ALLOWED the loss of morality. We drove GOD and HIS righteous rules out of our schools, homes, churches and public life. Put the blame where it belongs. Do what GOD tells us to do to heal our land. Humble ourselves. Admit our sins, repent and ask sincerely for forgiveness. Put GOD in first place where HE belongs. Stop worshipping idols. Seek a relationship with HIM. and HE will heal our land.
Carolyn, the undoing of our Country will be our debt. Mr. Trump's new big bill serves only to increase the spending and increase the national debt.
I appreciate your comments, especially the end. Long have I believed that the source of America's problems is the fact that our Country has become a godless country. A depraved people. An immoral people. A people incapable of controlling their carnal desires. A RIGHTEOUS people would NEVER tolerate an unrighteous government. Period. The American people tolerate the filth because they themselves are godless and filthy. The ONLY thing that will save us is a return to righteousness. A return to the nuclear family. A return to personal responsibility. A return to all that is good and godly. If Americans would change themselves, then, and only then, will we see changes in higher places.
So far, what I am seeing in my fellow Americans doesn't give me much hope. People are still living way beyond their means, using credit cards to bolster their fake lives. Divorce and infidelity are rampant. Porn and perversion are out of control. Drugs are killing tens of thousands. Violence and crime are rampant. How is this any different than our government? It's not.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Oops!
Only when the vermin are exterminated will there be a chance for the country to come back.
I think it's the US debt that is driving Trump's long game. He plans to shut the US to the outside world for a period, much like the Edo period in Japan. When the USD default happens, Trump hopes to have Maslow's hierarchy of needs in production domestically. Would have been easier to isolate if the border was a continental one, Girt By Sea is a concept we Australians have ingrained in us from kindergarten, and to evolve "from sea to shining sea" to "Girt by Sea" means having a water border around as much of your territory as possible. Easy enough to choke Panama, but you need the rest of North America's continental landmass (e.g. Canada and Greenland) to do that. I guess we'll know if Trump starts mouthing off about taking over those areas. Wait...
Thanks for the info.
And then you were declared an Asian nation to the confusion of everyone. The opening of the borders cleared up that confusion, thank God! Aussies are notoriously bull headed and will defend the destruction of their nation and people. South Africans will become enraged if you question the wisdom of having Black servants - though thousands have been killed by the same.
I'm starting to wonder if Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is part or all of the reason for Musk's exit. He HAD to know this was coming.
Yet, there he was, trying to trim off government waste and largess, and what does Trump do? Increase expenditures EVEN MORE!!!
What do you do when reason alone doesn’t provide a clear answer to life’s big questions, like the purpose of existence or how to handle profound grief?
How does reason fully account for things like love, trust, or moral intuitions, which often guide our decisions but aren’t always reducible to logic?
Carolyn,
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.” – 1 Timothy 2:12
Beware of those who claim to interpret God’s “word.”
They don’t know any more than you do.
What they want is not truth, but power.
The bolder their interpretations, the more power they want.
Faith is indistinguishable from stupidity and a licence for liars and charlatans to exploit the fearful, desperate and vulnerable.
Ignorance begets arrogance. Arrogance begets ignorance. The unbreakable loop of being a Christian.
"Humanity worldwide would exponentially benefit from our fellow human beings to strive and commit to follow the noble and ethical endeavour to snap our fellow religious families, friends, neighbours and coworkers out of their sleep of reason. The sleep of reason brings monsters.” - Christopher Hitchens.
“Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question.” ― Sigmund Freud, "The Future of an Illusion"
Look at what religion has done to you, Carolyn.
It's poisoned your mind, made you a completely crazy person.
Do you actually have any thoughts of your own?
I feel so sorry for you and I hope that one day, you'll recover.
You’re in deep trouble Dennis
Which God? Zeus? Poseidon? Shiva? Ganesh? Rah? Krishna? Jesus? Allah? Or the other 2,992 Gods?
As Christopher Hitchens said about someone who claims they have had their feelings hurt or be offended.
“If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.' I've been told, 'That's offensive' as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment. Not to me they don't. And I'm not running for anything, so I don't have to pretend to agree with people when I don't.” - Christopher Hitchens
Theists like to claim that no amount of evidence is going to be enough for atheists to believe in the existence of God. Whereas a theist's standard of evidence is none whatsoever.
How are we atheists supposed to know what God is if every Christian proffers, "But you see, my God is different?" Or the ones who say their God is unknowable and then proceed to tell us in great detail what they know about their God.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been so incredulous. Once you give a Charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. Hence, the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.” - Carl Sagan
These God botherers need to quit with their shit!
Just prove to us that their "God" actually exists.
That's all we ask.
Every religion claim's that theirs is the only true God!
What evidence do they have that their religion is not just other false religion?
Why is their "God" real and all the others are not?
When they understand why they dismiss ALL the other possible 2,982 "Gods", only then will they understand why we atheists dismiss theirs.
Knowledge is not something you simply assert; knowledge is demonstrated.
The names for water are many, but the reality is one. You need to put your thinking cap on and your dunce cap off.
Good luck, Dennis.
Yep 👍
Do you think that faith and reason are mutually exclusive?
Is it not possible to have faith in a Higher Realm without belonging to a particular institutional church?
Isn’t relying on logical thinking alone to conduct your life a form of religion? Has rational thinking alone solved all humanity troubles?
I hope one day that which is Divine reveals to you. Revelation is the only way it happens and you don’t have to attend a church or exclude rational thinking to experience it. Open yourself to embrace the Mystery!
My God is The Flying Spaghetti Monster, the holy deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.
A Pastafarian prophet of the Venganza forums known as Solipsy received DIVINE REVELATION and wrote The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The book was completed in 2010 and was made available for download.
Some excerpts from The Loose Canon include:
"I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization". - Suggestions 1:1-5
And I have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is my belief that every word in the Loose Canon is true.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster commands us to go onto every internet site comment section, no matter what the subject, and spread the word of him.
And, as with the Judeo-Christian Biblical God, you are not permitted to ever question it. Ever! That is very offensive to us Pastafarians
Word salad. You did not respond to my questions. And when you decide to give a rational and not an emotional respond, can you use your own words and not quotes as crutches?
I was mocking your religion, my dear! LOL You know, as in satire!
Nothing is so sacred that it cannot be mocked.
I don't mock people for being religious. I do however mock those for thinking their personal religion is exempt from mockery.
An all-mighty God that is hurt by being mocked is not all that powerful.
What's wrong using quotes from famous folk, Media?
"Ridicule is the only weapon to be used against unintelligible religious propositions."--Thomas Jefferson.
Responses to your questions in order, in my own words:
*Yes
*Having faith in a Higher Realm ~ what the fuck does that even mean whether one is a church goer or not!
*Relying on logical thinking alone to conduct your life is NOT a religion.
*Rational thinking is the ONLY way to solve all of humanities troubles.
Religion has never filled an empty belly but many empty heads.
*NOBODY can prove that they had a DIVINE INTERVENTION.
'My God has ALL the answers. ''
"Okay, tell me one of the answers.''
"My God doesn't have to tell YOU." "Na na Neener neener nee ner"
"Oh, but there's evidence for Gods existence! There are so many things!"
“There's...... uhh......eeermm ... I saw God’s face and I talk to him!”
Every fucking time.
Personal experience is not a valid reason to believe anything. If it were, we would have no way of determining whose experience reflects reality. Believers cannot rationally reason that personal experiences are the pathway to truth because they don’t accept other people’s experiences as proof of the claims they make with whom they disagree.
"You have to be open to God."
"Okay, don’t we have 3,000 Gods. Which one?"
"No, only to my specific God."
"Okay that leaves about 250 versions of your God. Which one is it?"
"Well... you have to believe!"
Save it for church, Media - nobody wants your mindless spam here :)
You give me the impression that you have never read a counter argument to any of your positions. You need folks to just accept that your claims are true without evidence. If they won't, then they are not open-minded. GMAFB
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."- James Madison
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.” - Bertrand Russell
"Faith" is the excuse people give when they don't have a good reason to believe something. If they had a good reason, they would offer that as justification for their belief, not "faith".
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
"At what point does all of this stuff just break down and become just a lot of stupid shit that someone made up! They fucking made it up folks! It's make-believe!” – George Carlin
“Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved” - Tim Minchin
It's impossible to argue from logic when your opponent basically claims "MAGIC."
"Open your heart to Jesus" is code for you can convince yourself a non-existent being is real if you try hard enough. LOL
The late Clive James said religion is just a marketing tool for a product that does not exist.
That "voice" in your head is not God. It is you pretending to be God. It is your "Ideal" self. Freud called it your "super-ego". In short, we all create "God" in our own image.” God only exists in the minds of people who need him to give answers to questions they want to hear.
You might feel the need for a loving God but that’s a very, very long way from there being one.
“For all addicted religious person who lights a candle for me, then verily it shall be immediately bloweth out by me. I didn't ask for your candle to be lit for me.
I don't want it, I don't need it. Please have your candle back thank you very much.” – the great atheist Cristopher Hitchens
Repent of your preaching. Study science for its reliability, becoming educated in the process! Reality 101
Religion isn't faith.
Of course it is faith! 100%. Religion could not exist without faith!
If you disagree, what do you think Religion is, Kathy?
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of wilful ignorance that follows. Faith is what people claim when they have no evidence. That's EXCATLY what religion is!
Religion is the permission slip to set aside rational thinking!
ALL "GOD's" are imaginary. And the cause of untold human misery! Religion is just an evolution of superstition. Any rational and logical person can see that it makes far more sense that all religion is just man made. On the first day man created GOD's.
Theists who base all their religions that are no more than superstition on faith, never ask themselves... "Why is my God REAL when all the others are FALSE?" The odds of GOD being real are non-existent.
No, it isn't. I don't consider my faith a religion.
What is your faith, then?
What do you have faith in, my dear?
I have faith that farting pixies live in the bottom of my garden.
And I have just as much evidence for that as you do that your GOD exists!
One can believe ANYTHING based on faith.
Atheist Debates - Appeals to Faith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_XBX6lH2hA
Appeals to faith and why they don't and can't add anything of substance to conversations about the foundations of a belief.
"Faith is believing what you know isn't so"~ Mark Twain
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is any belief that is out of proportion to the evidence. Which makes it irrational by definition." ~ David Hume
Reminds me of my time working at a corporate giant near the top of the Fortune 500 list whose name I shall not say. Layer upon layer of hierarchy, stringent byzantine policies and of course a highly structured working environment. Over time it became apparent that the whole thing was a facade of sorts, with senior management running the whole circus as though they were some sort of virus whose only goal was to insulate and enrich themselves come hell or high water. Policy and rules were for the suckers down on the floor. They were in fact akin to gods...the company could do anything it wanted, when it wanted, and how it wanted. Meanwhile the rank and file slobs were kept poor and stupid, at each other's throats, with a mid-level management running through human capital as Chevy big-block runs through gasoline. My point is that the so-called "blob" whose fall is supposedly imminent is like this aforementioned insulated (and quite dynamic) virus. Innoculations occur from time to time, but it mutates, adapts, and most importantly of all, it survives and (ultimately) ravages all that attempt to eliminate it.
Love the analogy.
Would love to know which corporate giant you worked for, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter, because any of those "near the top of the Fortune 500 list" probably all function the same way. That's how they got there.
At the time, the largest automaker in the world.
The old Catholic pov: Fallen orders can not be redeemed. They must be permanently suppressed. They didn't take their own medicine anent the Jesuits and they have paid dearly.
YAY!!! "Anent" again!
When we drive across country, I'm going to give you an ice cream for every 10 NJ license plates you see.
Nice recap, Mr K! I understand many are skeptical about accountability. But this time may be different. The "good guys" know that if they let everything slide, as they always have, they'll be in prison in a few years.
Good point. They have four years to get this done. Who knows what the next election brings. If history is any indication the political pendulum will swing back to the Democrats and the Democrats, well, they know how to punish political opponents.
It'll be Biden's second term on steroids.
Don't quote me, but I have heard that the Democrats have exhumed Divine and have downloaded Biden's brain to his/her/its mouldering corpse. Sam "Woof Woof!" Brinton is rumored to be its running mate.
"And we'll be gay when Donnie goes marching home..."
Another excellent trove of information to which I will just add a footnote. As it happens I have known Andrew Bates, “Joe Biden’s” White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary, for his entire life. He was a disturbing child. When he was a toddler I had to physically restrain him from charging into our Christmas tree to destroy delicate ornaments.
He received his first high-level training in political perfidy as a full-time volunteer for the Obama campaign, welding his allegiance to the Democratic Party. After working in the disinformation division of the Obama administration he shilled for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (from which President Trump saved us with a veto), was a communications director for Hillary’s 2016 campaign, and Director of Rapid Response (i.e. damage control) for Biden’s fraudulent 2020 campaign.
The day after Biden's brain death was irrefutably revealed by the "debate," Bates declared that "Thursday was simply a bad night from a titan of politics who's literally 'tiring out' his younger aides with his extreme schedule."
Would a world-class gaffe like that end the political career of a D.C. careerist? Not if you’re a Democrat. Bates has recently parlayed his influence into starting his own political consulting firm, “delivering cutting-edge communications expertise to help you tell your story on your terms, overcome crisis, simplify complex subjects, avoid and defuse political issues, and win arguments.”
Winning arguments in Washington doesn’t require veracity, but it’ll cost you.
Somewhere Cornpop is smiling as he shaves with a rusty knife.
I forgot about Cornpop!
That is amazing.
We need a stillness at Appomattox moment - lasting for months. The grass and trees were never greener! Have you ever had an eternal moment, Dis? I've had so many......
"...turning in the direction of justice is necessarily difficult and delicate"
This beyond a total mess nearly defying description took a long time to build to the present existential debacle facing the once Constitutional Republic. "Difficult and delicate" conveys some of the finesse needed to thread the morass which is the fine needle of justice.
These horrendous conniving individuals and their cohorts have placed enumerable roadblocks, landmines (both legal and the other kind) and other sundry and not-so-sundry impediments on the path to the return of rule of law.
For myself, I decided the satisfaction of watching perp walks was going to be a greatly delayed event. I also admit watching the judges being walked away in cuffs was, though a tease, a sign of the beginning of the long process.
The country, by and large, sat on its collectives hands for decades. Solid cases take time. Better a solid case after a long build than a weak one launched in haste. The legal system works a lot on case law precedence. Solid cases are worth the wait. Their long term reach will have positive impact for decades to come.
Fights are typically won by a flurry of punches. Wars by Blitzkreig, etc. Justice delayed is typically justice denied. The Law is one thing, Lawfare is quite another. Please don't conflate them. Our opponents are playing to win. We're playing to lose. For example: Does every illegal immigrant deserve the full benefit of American law? The answer is obvious, but it's amazing how many people don't get it.
Wars are won by blitzkreig? Guderian will be glad to hear that one! "What a loooong strange win it's been..."
The fights that I won were won with one punch - or less. It's a berserker thing.
Yes, every illegal alien deserves the benefit of American law: "Here's a bus ticket home. Don't say I never did anything for ya!"
Agree that it will take some time, 'considering the elevated level of derangement among the public.'
For example, I was heartened to view excerpts from Senator Ron Johnson's hearing re: Covid-19 Vax injuries (earlier this week) though, in reality, how many who are fearful of learning the truth will even see them? Why is this information not completely plastered front and center in the news? Again, the media continues to get away with it's sociopathic ruses of deflection and outright lies, contorting half-truths until they appear to mean something entirely different.
At this point, I would like to think that some of my intelligent family members who took the jab fully believing that it was 'the right thing to do,' will finally begin to wake up and genuinely 'do the right thing' by becoming responsible citizens and informing themselves of the facts of the covid debacle.
And let's not ridicule those who finally do come around and courageously admit that they were taken in by the lies from these sociopathic governmental bureaucrats (and their associated parasites in media and the medical 'profession'), but welcome them into the fold of the Awakened.
If you're referring to Hannah Dugan, she'll go before a democrat judge who will promptly dismiss the case as being unconstitutional, as she claims her arrest was. Mark my words.
I can enjoy and respect Jim's optimism, however, it is mostly baseless, meaning, there is zero precedent of anyone at the top being held accountable for anything ever in my lifetime. It's provable, for instance, that the Clinton Foundation is a huge laundering operation, which fronts for actual human trafficking. I mean, one of its high-level operatives, Laura Silsby, was arrested for trying to kidnap Haitian kids, and bailed out by La Clinton. Nothing happened. When HRC "erased" her computers, nothing happened. Pizzagate? Easily proven - no consequences. The of course there is Russiagate where no one has been held accountable, either.
And now, we have Dan Bongino and Kash Patel - with what looks like fear on their faces - openly lying to the media about Epstein's death: "We saw the file. He killed himself." Kash Patel's bizarre, run-around of the question put to them by Maria Bartilomo was spectacularly ridiculous, saying "he's worked as a public defender, prosecutor and has seen firsthand MCC's Special Housing Unit where Epstein died, so he knows a "suicide when you see one." Good lord, they believe we're even more stupid than the Clinton/Obama people think we are.
In any case, the splitting of MAGA has begun, with MANY having instantly lost faith in Patel and Bongino for these ridiculous statements, following up Bondi's big nothing on the Epstein files.
Next, watch Diddy walk... he with the big fat ties to Clinton/Obama (Obama was reportedly at some "freak off" parties).
As I've been saying for a few years now, I will be very happy to eat crow, be wrong, etc. if any of these people ever see a jail cell. But I am not holding my breath and neither should anyone else!
Diddy will walk because he's black. If he were white, it'd be a different story.
Diddy: we will be numbed by overexposure - with no consequences - until the ratings drop, then the Diddy case will disappear. There will be no justice. Not in this country. Not in this world. Not in this time.
Agree completely.
The race-baiting is also part of the psyops, though. If Diddy walks it's because the PTB have a reason - not the color of his skin.
Bongino and Patel have unwittingly revealed the biggest influence on American derangement by who they've chosen to protect with their bug-eyed, laughable revelation about the fate of Jeffrey Epstein, the Mossad-created-and-controlled cherry pot. If you think the Clinton psychopaths and the rest of the treasonous blob can be taken down without them dragging Israel down, as well, you need to think again about how that's gonna play out. We are already hearing about "statute of limitations" on all angles of the coup. Short of Fauci's mass murder by the Germans who is gonna get prosecuted for what? Theft? Fraud? Lying? Statute of limitations.
Oh, and Trump not sending DOGE to the DOD and not pressing to shrink the budget doesn't bode well for any sort of reforms unless he is simply attempting to buy some sort of personal-scale revenge with continued pork. I so want to give the man who they tried to kill at least twice the benefit of the doubt but it seems increasingly that he's simply not gonna get there. He keeps getting played, pushed and manipulated despite all of his best efforts. To be fair, though, it really is up to the People to un-fuck themselves and recover their morality.
Weeks are now years. Remember Musk and Rand Paul talking about auditing Fort Knox a few years ago? Rand said, Let's do it. Then crickets. Someone(s) gave them a word to the wise.
Look at Scott Bessent's crap-eating grin when he is asked whether the gold has been audited and if it is there. Nothing about his response is genuine. Most fake smile and uncanny valley response ever. Creepy, actually. I kind of liked the guy before that but now? Liar. More proof: Check out the YT video from Clearvalue Tax or Chris Martensen or other credible people who fact-check the claims of unbroken seals, large movements of gold without any audit trail and a whole host of other things.
Are the guns and tanks at Fort Knox even loaded? Many soldiers who worked there over the past forty years say no. The fact that no one is allowed to verify it is there is all any normal person needs to hear.
Of course, if they do verify it is there you know who is gonna want it? The families of all the people FDR stole it from. Next time someone talks about 'reparations' tell them, yeah, put me on that list. My family had all of their gold stolen from them in the 1920s.
The precedent was set, wasn't it?
Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZqINNUE_qw
Zach is excellent, very disciplined. He sure knows how to load 1/2 an hour with information!
As I understand it, the Statute of Limitations has already expired for any crimes committed during the 2016 election. It is still ticking on the 2020 election, but will expire in November 2025. Despite the general 5 year limitation for Federal crimes, there are quite a few instances of crimes with no limitation. Like murder, espionage, a lot of terrorism related offenses and actually quite a few others. To see a complete list plus each state's statutes, search for
"The US Federal Statute of Limitations For Federal Crimes". A good legal team should be able to gin up a case against most of the guilty parties regardless of time.
I didn't buy Obamacare in 2016. (It has since been found to be unconstitutional to require US citizens to buy insurance off the private market - hasn't it?) The IRS is still hounding me - and stealing my refunds. Where is MY statute of limitations?
Guess I'm outside the law. Ok...
Ask NOT for what your country can do for you but for what you can do for your country.
I pasted your reply into Grok on X and here a part of it's answer:
"Since you didn’t have health insurance in 2016, you were subject to the individual mandate penalty, which was enforced by the IRS on tax returns filed in 2017. The penalty for 2016 was the greater of:
2.5% of household income above the filing threshold, capped at the national average cost of a bronze plan ($3,312 for an individual), or
$695 per adult ($347.50 per child under 18), up to a maximum of $2,085 per household.
The IRS could collect this penalty by withholding it from tax refunds but was prohibited from using harsher measures like wage garnishment or liens. If the IRS is still “hounding” you or withholding refunds, it’s likely due to an unpaid penalty from your 2016 tax return or related issues like unfiled returns or disputes over exemptions."
There are several more paragraphs on the statue of limitations and why the IRS maybe still hounding you. Just cut and paste your reply into Grok.
Good luck with this.
I tried getting through to the IRS to argue about this - but have you tried contacting any organization lately? Automated menus full of irrelevant options. I don't think the IRS even had the option to talk to a person - I mean that's so old-fashioned, who talks to real people anymore?
The IRS will probably spend more than they fined me trying to squeeze blood out of this turnip.
Forget trying direct voice contact, hard copy certified mail is slow but useful evidence in court. The Grok reply even asked about composing a letter for you to the IRS for your situation. Its not a lawyer but worth considering the information for the cost of a cut/paste....
Best,
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I am sure you are right but I think we are going to get the same bullshit that SCOTUS shoveled out when they totally abrogated their responsibilities after 2020: standing, laches, timing, jurisdiction, aka "statute of limitations." We are already hearing it as a talking point. From your lips to God's ears, though.
My fellow New Yorker, JHK is one brilliant SOB. One of the greatest writers and journalists of our generation. I look forward to every word. Thanks James!
Based on the lack of action and "accountability" following the DOGE revelations, I don't expect these big-talking yet ineffectual limp-dicks to make any decisive moves that would bring consequences to anybody for the nefarious activities of the past 8yrs.
Revelations of perfidy can be useful. Look at all the leftist judges. Every one of them would have lain dormant if the DEMs/DS didn't need to stop Trump - and surprise! Their wives and relatives work for the organizations each judge is trying to save! Compromised. Now we, including the 30% brainwashed, know. Reputations are being ruined and credibility destroyed daily. It's a judicial coup. Can't wait to see how Trump handles them!
The nefarious activities have been occurring since the times of good ole "Honest Abe" and even as far back as "Old Hickory." They run so deep and permeate so much of our society that they will never all be complete uncovered for us to see. Only now, at this time, is it coming to a point.
I never have had any expectations of Mr. Trump resolving or fixing this. Mr. Trump is a "disruptor." He has installed a disruption that has created ripple effects that will eventually result in a tsunami of monumental change.
However, Mr. Trump is still spending money that the nation does not have and is still growing the federal deficit and national debt. This latest big bill he is championing doesn't do anything to reverse America's financial disaster.
The budget is still the Biden budget. New fiscal year sets in at September? It isn't easy to turn the ship of state around. Only with a dictatorship can things happen as fast as everyone would like.
"Only with a dictatorship can things happen as fast as everyone would like."
Ultimately, I think that is exactly what about two-thirds of this country want, they differ only on the flavor.
I think they were made to want it by years of inaction on the part of Congress, among other things.
James I think you believe there will be change. Maybe in the collective understanding of the population of political things and openly knowing all the corruption. However after watching the interview on Fox, the 2 men who have power to call out the bullshit, just nervously stated the bullshit cover story. Epstein killed himself, and there was only 1 shooter shooting at trump. The bullshit will never come out officially. These 2 men are terrified of something. https://youtu.be/aJh5p2HfFn8?si=yziwb13wc9TaN6c0
And did you see Alex Jones's response? He is disgusted by Bongino and Kash. You wonder any reformist who eventually obtains power whether his personal career ambitions will get in the way of his reformist instincts. Let us hope that is not the case with these two
Just watched it. LOL...AJ with the perfect analogy "Please please God I
mean it's like getting up at a dinner
party and taking a dump on a plate and
tell everybody it's chocolate ice cream"
How much money did Bongino make on his podcast empire, how much did Kash make on his book (s), v. How much will they make after leaving the FBI on account of contacts made therein? It's a constant problem
IDK, IMO the look on their faces was not of greed. It was a forced recitation of a script that when uttered, caused them immense pain. Primarily from their understanding of their audience's beliefs. My question is what entity has that kind of power to cut the balls off of both of them. Threats to their families? Maybe they got the choice, you resign you die, you tell the truth you die. You lie, you live. Bottom line, there is more to this than just money.
The 12 disciples trembling the upper room after the crucifixion for fear of the Jews.
Samurai adage: You must fight each battle prepared to die. It's formula for victory.
French adage to aspiring artists: Learn your technique, then forget it. It's a formula for inspiration.
I think that's rather it. It's not like they don't have examples. But these entities are on a higher level than your average elected representative.
Remember the story of Thomas a Beckett. Whose side was he on?
Code Bongino.
Why? As if he didn't do the same thing with Sandy Hook. It still wasn't enough and they sued him for millions - successfully.
Nixon and Billy Graham whispering (whispering!) in the Oval Office about the takeover of America by the Tribe.
Ol' Billy wanted to escalate the eschaton as enthusiastically as any millennial zionist.
Dickie sent F-4s (with advanced avionics to counter the SAM threat) - and other aid - to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. (After Israel armed 13 F-4s with nukes - a weapon, which of course Israel being a decent, international-law-abiding country, doesn't have...)
Let's quit thinking we have friends in powerful places.
Binny says Israel don't have no nukes. I riposted, calling them dummies!
Yes, they are terrified of being kicked off the escalator to wealth and power.
Great read. All true. As my old friend Sammie Cahn used to say, “From your lips to God’s ears.”