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Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets 1872

 

A Good Morning in America (Paul Craig Roberts)
If The Election Outcome Is As I Expected .. (Bill Ackman)
Trump’s Win Is A Victory For The Non-Brainwashed Americans (Marsden)
Trump Has Sweeping Plans for His 2nd Administration (ET)
Musk Reveals Plans For Trump Government (RT)
The US Should Establish A Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (Corva)
Trump Comeback Also Engineered A Significant Exodus From Democrat Party (JTN)
The Thrill is Gone (Turley)
DOJ Moving To Wind Down Trump Criminal Cases (NBC)
Rachel Maddow Threatens Musk Over ‘Russia Ties’ (RT)
84-year-old Pelosi Projected To Win Reelection (RT)
Trump to Seek ‘Pragmatic’ Deals, No Budget Money to Sustain Ukraine (Sp.)
Dave Smith: Will Trump Be Able To End The War In Ukraine? (ZH)
Biden To Speed Up Arms Deliveries To Ukraine – Media (RT)
Von der Leyen To Prepare EU For War – Defense Commission Nominee (RT)
How British Media Is Turning On Zelensky. And Why (Jay)
German Government Has Collapsed (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“America now has a chance for renewal if Trump doesn’t blow it in forgiving his enemies, who still intend to destroy him.”

A Good Morning in America (Paul Craig Roberts)

I awoke this morning to Donald Trump’s victory. Apparently, the election was not close enough for the Democrats and media to steal it as they did in 2020. Trump’s victory is not only a defeat for Democrats but also a defeat for the ruling elite that pulls the strings of both political parties and a defeat for the American media that serves as an enforcer for the official narratives that serve the agendas of the elite. Trump’s victory is also a victory for the American people who love their country and respect the Constitution. It is their victory over the left-wing intellectuals and university law schools who have been working diligently to overturn the First and Fourth Amendments that are in the way of their revolutionary intentions that are clearly anti-American.

Trump’s determination and strength are rare. Trump was attacked viciously from day one of his first term. Hillary Clinton, the CIA, and the FBI fabricated a “Russian dossier” that alleged that Trump aided by “Russian interference in the election” stole the election from Hillary Clinton. Women were produced to make sexual allegations. The ruling elite made two attempts to impeach Trump. When Trump’s term expired, false claims buttressed by concocted allegations of mishandling national security documents and instigating an “insurrection” were turned into indictments. Democrat prosecutors and judges weaponized law to pursue the former president. The FBI staged a raid on Trump’s home. The corrupt American media poured lie upon lie.

Trump stood up to all of this. The people stayed with him, and he regained the office that had been stolen from him by utterly corrupt people. Trump seems to have won all sectors of the electorate except for college educated white liberal-left women, the most brainwashed and indoctrinated element in American society. I pity any man who marries one of them. America now has a chance for renewal if Trump doesn’t blow it in forgiving his enemies, who still intend to destroy him. The Democrat Party is no longer a political party. It is an ideological party with ideological agendas. It sees itself as a revolutionary force and has no intention of political comprise. If Trump repeats the mistakes of his first term, his victory will be pissed away.

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X thread.

“If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM..”

If The Election Outcome Is As I Expected .. (Bill Ackman)

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth. Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did. If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM. The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter.

Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media. The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript. As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again.

They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and@joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference. When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public. The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president.

It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy. The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people. Honest Abe said it best: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

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“Are we done yet with the anti-Trump fake news now that the majority of voters see through it? Probably not, huh?”

Trump’s Win Is A Victory For The Non-Brainwashed Americans (Marsden)

Blowout alert! I guess average Americans don’t like being infantilized. At least Trump trusted them to be able to take a joke, unlike his opponents. So when’s Liz Cheney’s date with the firing squad already? Are we done yet with the anti-Trump fake news now that the majority of voters see through it? Probably not, huh? With the exception of those in a handful of states, Americans united to send former US President Donald Trump back to the White House and handed him carte blanche with Republican control of the Senate and likely the House as well. Not bad for a guy the establishment tried to brand as the reincarnation of Hitler. Did Hitler also have giant Israeli flags at his Madison Square Garden rally? Or hang out at the Jewish wall in Israel or with Hebrew-inscribed tablets in a yarmulke? That should have been the Democrats’ first sign that their branding attempt was off.

Yet, just like the fitting title of the upcoming Harris biography co-authored by Chelsea Clinton: She Persisted. Maybe next time, instead of persisting with their idiocy, they’ll come up with an actual agenda and a candidate who addresses questions and issues on point rather than punting them in favor of talking points and platitudes that leave voters guessing as to what to even expect if ever elected – beyond the usual establishment status quo, which, of course, sucks. Just ask the overwhelming majority of Americans who say that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Presumably, the Democrats figured that they could make a whole campaign about abortion rights – against a guy who, frankly, doesn’t actually seem too interested in the topic, which was recently re-opened by the courts.

It’s telling that, according to CNN exit polls, Harris won the female vote by five points less than Biden did in 2020 and three points less than even Hillary Clinton did against Trump in 2016, when abortion wasn’t even an issue. Certain categories of voters really capture the story of this election. The first is white women with college degrees, 11% more of whom voted for Harris than for Biden in 2020. Institutional establishment brainwashing and virtue signaling apparently works more effectively on well-formatted brains, female or otherwise. The message from the party hacks and their celebrity surrogates was that abortion was really all that should matter to women, reducing them to one-dimensional caricatures of actual human beings. But it turns out that many more women than they figured don’t like being talked down to and treated as little more than a walking uterus – even by other women.

Which would explain why white women with no degree voted overwhelmingly for Trump by 25 points over Harris, and even voters of color with no degree, generally considered a lock by Democrats, still voted by 14 points less for Harris than for Biden four years ago. The youngest voters, aged 18-29, who you’d figure would be most directly affected by reproductive rights issues, either as women themselves or their white-knighting male counterparts who were constantly told by Democrats that they had to cast their vote primarily in support of the reproductive rights of the women in their life, actually ended up shifting their vote to Trump by 11 points compared to 2020.

The bottom line is that women living real lives with a multitude of concerns and interests don’t like being paternalized, which is what the Democrats constantly do. Just because it’s a woman and her surrogates who are doing the talking down to them, doesn’t make it any more appealing. It just makes you a useful idiot of the patriarchal establishment – the same one that’s trying to emotionally manipulate women’s electoral choices to maintain the status quo that disadvantages women in every other possible way that actually matters to all of their lives, from cost of living to foreign wars in which their sons are sent to die and other countries’ sons are subjected to the same. All so Uncle Sam can turn a profit. It’s the guy you keep calling a misogynist who wants to take him on.

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“..the United States has 20 to 25 million illegal immigrants in the country. “What do we do with them? I think the first thing that we do is we start with the criminal migrants.”

Trump Has Sweeping Plans for His 2nd Administration (ET)

Immigration Since 2015, Trump has made curbing illegal immigration a cornerstone of his campaigns. As president, he built or reconstructed about 400 miles of border barrier along the U.S.–Mexico border and implemented a number of rules curbing illegal migration into the country. During the campaign, Trump often said that he would initiate the largest “mass deportation” effort in U.S. history if elected. Recently, he also warned Mexico that he would impose a 25 percent tariff targeting the country if it fails to curb illegal immigration and that he would raise that tariff if Mexico doesn’t comply. Also, he’s suggested more enhanced screenings for immigrants, ending birthright citizenship—which may require a constitutional amendment—and reimposing certain policies enacted during his first term such as the “remain in Mexico” protocol.

Tom Homan, a former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who is expected to join the new administration, told media outlets last year that the scale of deportations depends on what resources are available. During a “60 Minutes” interview in October, Homan was asked about whether families would be separated. Homan responded, “Families can be deported together.” Vice President-elect JD Vance said in his debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Oct. 1 that deporting criminals would be a second Trump administration’s initial focus. “You’ve got to reimplement Donald Trump’s border policies, build the wall, reimplement deportations,” Vance said, adding that the United States has 20 to 25 million illegal immigrants in the country. “What do we do with them? I think the first thing that we do is we start with the criminal migrants.”

Taxes and Regulations Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump has promised to curb federal regulations that he said would limit the creation of new U.S. jobs. He also has pledged to keep intact a 2017 tax cut that he supported and signed while in office. His team has also proposed a further round of individual and corporate tax cuts beyond those initiated in his first term. Trump has pledged to reduce the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 15 percent for companies that make their products in the United States. In a bid to win Nevada, Trump earlier this year pledged to end the taxation of tips and overtime wages to aid some service workers and waiters. He has pledged not to tax or cut Social Security benefits. Trump also has said that as president, he would pressure the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates but wouldn’t make any demands on the central bank. Some of his proposals would require congressional action. As of Wednesday morning, the GOP is projected to retake the Senate, but the picture around the House is murkier.

Tariffs In multiple campaign stops this year, Trump floated the idea of a 10 percent or more tariff on all goods imported into the United States, which he said would eliminate the country’s trade deficit. He has also said he should have the authority to set higher tariffs on countries that have put tariffs on U.S. imports. He has threatened to impose a 200 percent tariff on some imported cars, saying he is determined in particular to keep cars from Mexico from coming into the country. Trump has targeted China in particular. He proposes phasing out Chinese imports of goods such as electronics, steel, and pharmaceuticals over four years. He seeks to prohibit Chinese companies from owning U.S. real estate and infrastructure in the energy and tech sectors. “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is ‘tariffs,’” Trump said in an interview with John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, in October. “It’s my favorite word.”

He added at the time, “You see these empty, old, beautiful steel mills and factories that are empty and falling down,” referring to facilities that used to make goods in the United States. “We’re going to bring the companies back. We’re going to lower taxes for companies that are going to make their products in the USA. And we’re going to protect those companies with strong tariffs,” Trump said. Micklethwait said that some economists have projected that the former president’s economic policies, including tariffs, could add trillions to the U.S. deficit. But Trump said that a number of countries, including “allies” have “taken advantage of us, more so than our enemies. ”

More Drilling The former president said that he wants to cut federal regulations on drilling for oil and natural gas, a move that he says would lower energy costs and inflation. In multiple instances, Trump said he would reauthorize drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which was suspended under the Biden administration. Meanwhile, he would pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Accords, a worldwide plan that claims to reduce carbon emissions. Trump also said he would roll back some federal policies around electric vehicles. In his campaign, Trump has often said that gas prices were much lower under his administration than they have been under the Biden administration. He has suggested that prices would again fall when he takes office.

“When I left office … gasoline had reached $1.87 a gallon. We actually had many months where it was lower than that,” Trump told reporters over the summer. “But we hit $1.87, which was a perfect place, an absolutely beautiful number.” According to AAA, the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline stands at around $3.10. The highest recorded average price for a gallon was on June 14, 2022, when it reached $5.01, AAA figures show. The federal Energy Information Administration’s data show that the average annual price for a gallon of gasoline did not exceed $3 under the first Trump administration.

Social Policies Trump has pledged to require U.S. colleges and universities to “defend American tradition and Western civilization” and to purge them of diversity and inclusion programs, which he and Republicans have said are leftist in nature. He said he would direct the Justice Department to pursue civil rights cases against schools that engage in racial discrimination. At K–12 schools, Trump would support programs allowing parents to use public funds for private or religious instruction. Trump also wants to abolish the federal Department of Education and leave states in control of schooling.

Regarding abortion, Trump has said that a federal ban on abortion is not needed and that the issue should be resolved by states. He’s also said he backs rules that advance in vitro fertilization, birth control, and prenatal care. In campaign events and interviews, Trump has been critical of schools allowing transgender individuals to compete in women’s sports, saying that he would impose a ban on such practices. “It’s a man playing in the game,” Trump said at an October town hall event. “Look at what’s happened in swimming. Look at the records that are being broken.”

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A lot of public “servants” have good reason to be nervous.

Musk Reveals Plans For Trump Government (RT)

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he will seek to improve government efficiency by reducing the number of federal agencies if he is given a role in Donald Trump’s administration. Musk, a Trump supporter, made the remarks during an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s online show, broadcast from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday. Despite initially proclaiming political neutrality, Musk officially endorsed Trump after an assassination attempt on the president-elect in July. Trump promised the Tesla CEO that he would establish a special “government efficiency” commission, dubbed the DOGE, to be headed by the billionaire if he wins the election. Speaking with Carlson, the tech billionaire said that he would like to help Trump make the US government more efficient.

“I’d be happy to help improve government efficiency,” Musk said. “We’ve got a gigantic government bureaucracy, we’ve got overregulation, we’ve got agencies that have overlapping responsibilities… this translates into real costs to people, they’re hidden costs but they are very substantial.” Musk has invested millions of dollars in supporting Trump. According to media reports, he donated at least $118 million to the Republican’s political action committee, a group that focused on voter outreach. Speaking at a Trump rally last month, Musk pledged to help the Republican slash US annual budget spending by “at least $2 trillion” as part of a review of federal agencies that he would carry out if Trump returns to the White House. “Your tax money is being wasted and the Department of Government Efficiency is going to fix that,” Musk stated. The tech billionaire has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the US debt, warning just last week that the country is spiraling toward bankruptcy and will quickly go bust if Washington doesn’t curb its spending.

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“We embrace change in the United States. We can tell the world that we’re aware of Bitcoin’s numerous positive attributes and that we want to use them to our advantage..”

The US Should Establish A Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (Corva)

Yesterday, the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) released a 53-page report on the pros of the United States establishing a strategic bitcoin reserve (SBR). As Bitcoin Magazine’s Frank Corva details below, the authors of the report touched on four key benefits of holding bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset:

• Economic and monetary stability – bitcoin is a hedge against currency debasement and debt instability

• Geopolitical competition – the US could gain a strategic advantage over other countries that are contemplating starting a bitcoin reserve and can reinforce the US’ influence over global financial standards

• Energy and climate – Bitcoin mining can be leveraged to accelerate the movement toward renewable energy

• Financial inclusion and human rights – the US can promote both the concepts of individual freedom and financial inclusion for both US citizens and those abroad

While I agree that the US’ establishing an SBR would have these benefits, I also think it would send a certain message loud and clear: We embrace change in the United States. We can tell the world that we’re aware of Bitcoin’s numerous positive attributes and that we want to use them to our advantage. In doing so, we can shift the narrative around Bitcoin from something to be feared and controlled to something that should be embraced and utilized, and we can stand behind a tool that can be used to increase the financial buoyancy of both people and institutions around the globe instead of standing in its way.

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Following the example of Tulsi, RFK et al. They made it look acceptable.

Trump Comeback Also Engineered A Significant Exodus From Democrat Party (JTN)

Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night, securing a likely return trip to the White House by beating back a relentless tide of media, Big Tech and Democrat opposition that stretched from the courthouse to the social media sphere Trump was poised to become only the second American president to secure non-consecutive terms but he did so against far greater odds than Grover Cleveland a century earlier after being impeached and acquitted twice, indicted four times, facing two assassination attempts and enduring an avalanche of lawfare unparalleled in the nation’s history. But even more consequential than his personal journey to President-Elect 47, Trump engineered a once-in-a-generation political realignment, one more deep and pervasive than his 2016 shocker as he peeled away long-rooted constituencies from the Democrat Party.

The electoral movement may soon be known as D-Exit, the American equivalent of Great Britain’s Brexit departure from the European Union as black males, Hispanic voters and young voters showed up more strongly from Trump and less fervently for Harris compared to Joe Biden or Barack Obama. Arabs and Muslims also underperformed for Harris. The shifts were small but compelling, crumbling a coalition born in the Kennedy-Johnson era and key to the Obama-Biden dynasty that dominated 12 of the last 16 years. The shifts toward Trump were jarring for Democrats. Trump cut the Democrat margin of victory in half in one of America’s darkest blue states, New York, and by two thirds in Democrat-stronghold Illinois. He won Florida – scene of the 2020 hanging election – by 15 points, all but erasing the Sunshine State as a battleground.

He won Georgia and North Carolina and was poised to take Arizona and Nevada. Pennsylvania was called for Trump and Wisconsin and Michigan were leaning strongly in his direction. He won a Senate majority and was in decent position to keep the U.S. House, which would make Washington an all red town in 2025. Perhaps most painful of all to blue America, Trump was in a position to win the popular vote, something Democrats have long used as a cudgel to delegitimize earlier GOP victories, including Trump’s in 2016. Mark Penn, the strategist behind the Clinton dynasty, succinctly described D-Exit early Wednesday morning. “The Trump edge is turning into a Trump trifecta. It looks like despite a good effort in a short period of time, Harris is falling short especially with young people and turnout in core urban areas. Black and especially Latino voters showed some shifts,” he noted on X.

“Trump has brought home with working class and created a new coalition of governing but the country remains divided and whoever wins must remember it’s time to genuinely reach out to the many moderate voters looking for the right leadership,” he added. Trump did it by talking directly to constituencies Republicans often ignored in the past, and that Democrats long took for granted. He did it by inviting recovering Democrats or stubborn independents to his big stage: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, ex-Rep and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan to name a few. He went to places like the Bronx and Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden in New York to signal he wanted to be all Americans’ president. And when Democrats talked about ethereal ideological terms like ESG, CRT, and DEI, Trump talked about the kitchen table, the grocery cart and the gas tank. He warned of energy poverty, recognizing some were having a hard time to pay utility bills.

He made the EV revolution a debate about exporting jobs to China and the liberal transgender movement a debate about the safety and dignity of women’s sports and the sanctity of parents’ rights. Democrats did a historic switcheroo atop the ticket, subbing a younger female Harris for an aging Biden. But they didn’t change the debate. Trump chose the issues of insecurity, inflation and insanity and Democrats offered few specifics to counter. In the end, Trump’s prior record of economic growth in his first term seemed preferrable to Harris’ vagaries. Trump’s optimism that the nation’s woes could be solved was more appealing than Harris’ dark insistence that fascism, extremism and Hitler-like characters would destroy democracy.

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“Smith’s prosecutions ended with the 270th Electoral College vote secured around 2 a.m. Wednesday.”

The Thrill is Gone (Turley)

After years of thrill-kill prosecutions, the thrill is gone for lawfare warriors. Election Day’s greatest losers may be special counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Donald Trump’s victory was the largest jury verdict that some of us anticipated for years of unrelenting weaponization of the legal system. Smith’s prosecutions ended with the 270th Electoral College vote secured around 2 a.m. Wednesday. His unrelenting efforts to convict Trump and then, when prevented from holding a trial, to release damaging material before the election have collapsed with the blue wall in the Midwest. Trump has said he plans to fire Smith on Day 1. That means the end of both the January 6 and the classified documents cases. That leaves James and Bragg as residue of long-forgotten lawfare battles, but even there Trump’s prospects look good.

James was able to secure a fellow lawfare warrior in Justice Arthur Engoron, who imposed a grotesque $455 million in fines and interest. That ruling is pending an appeal that is expected to be a partial or even total victory for Trump. Unlike Engoron, the appellate judges expressed great skepticism in September over the size of the penalty and even the use of this law. Trump faced half a billion dollars in penalty in a case where no one lost a dime, and the alleged victim banks wanted more business with Trump and his company. Separately, there is a hearing scheduled in front of Judge Juan Merchan for Nov. 11 on the “hush money” case involving Stormy Daniels, and a possible sentencing on Nov. 26. If Merchan seeks to jail Trump, it is unlikely to be carried out, as Trump appeals the case and the many alleged errors committed by the judge.

Merchan made an utter mess of a case that should never have been filed, let alone tried. Even commentators like CNN’s senior legal analyst, Elie Honig, have denounced the case as selective prosecution and unfounded. The case should result in a conditional discharge with no jail time if Merchan can resist the temptation to unjustly punish Trump, a level of restraint that has largely proven difficult for him in the case. Merchan created layers of appealable errors in the case. Putting those alleged errors aside, any sentencing to jail would create its own constitutional conflict with Trump’s performance of his federal duties. The question is whether the election will bring a moment of sobriety for New Yorkers who have spent years in a full rage-driven celebration of lawfare.

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Turley gets it. NBC not so much.

DOJ Moving To Wind Down Trump Criminal Cases (NBC)

Justice Department officials have been evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office to comply with long-standing department policy that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News. The latest discussions stand in contrast with the pre-election legal posture of special counsel Jack Smith, who in recent weeks took significant steps in the election interference case against Trump without regard to the electoral calendar. But the sources say DOJ officials have come to grips with the fact that no trial is possible anytime soon in either the Jan. 6 case or the classified documents matter — both of which are mired in legal issues that would likely prompt an appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, even if Trump had lost the election.

Now that Trump will become president again, DOJ officials see no room to pursue either criminal case against him — and no point in continuing to litigate them in the weeks before he takes office, the people said. “Sensible, inevitable and unfortunate,” said former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg, an NBC News contributor. How Trump’s legal jeopardy has unfolded over the past year, in terms of both the criminal charges and his sweeping election victory, is unprecedented. The sources said it will be up to Smith to decide exactly how to unwind the charges and many questions remain unanswered. Could the prosecutions resume after Trump leaves office or would they be time-barred? What happens to the evidence? What about the two other defendants charged with helping Trump hide classified documents? Will the special counsel write a report, as special counsels usually do?

At the same time, Trump’s legal team is weighing its own next steps for how to resolve the outstanding federal cases in his favor now that he is the projected winner of the election. The ultimate goal is to get all the federal and state cases wiped out completely — the strategic call is how best to accomplish that task, according to a person familiar with the discussions. If the Trump side, for example, moved again in court to dismiss the charges in Washington related to election interference, then the Justice Department could use its legal response to explain its position on not moving forward with that case. Trump’s New York criminal case presents different challenges with a felony conviction and sentencing hearing scheduled for Nov. 26. The immediate goal of Trump’s legal team is to get that postponed indefinitely or otherwise dismissed.

The Georgia election interference case against Trump remains tied up on appeals over ethical issues surrounding the district attorney. “The American people have re-elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate to Make America Great Again,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “It is now abundantly clear that Americans want an immediate end to the weaponization of our justice system, so we can, as President Trump said in his historic speech last night, unify our country and work together for the betterment of our nation.” The DOJ’s thinking on Trump’s federal cases flows from a 2000 memo by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which affirmed a Watergate-era conclusion that a prosecution of a sitting president would “unduly interfere in a direct or formal sense with the conduct of the presidency.”

“In light of the effect that an indictment would have on the operations of the executive branch, ‘an impeachment proceeding is the only appropriate way to deal with a President while in office,’” the memo concluded, quoting the earlier conclusion. The practical reality of Trump’s electoral victory Tuesday is that he is unlikely ever to face legal consequences in relation to the serious federal criminal charges brought against him by career Justice Department prosecutors working with career FBI agents. Some commentators have said the charges were arguably more serious than the conduct in the Watergate scandal that cost Richard Nixon the presidency and left him banished from politics. In the case accusing Trump of conspiring to illegally overturn the 2020 election, he is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.

In the classified documents case, he is charged with willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, lying to investigators and withholding documents in a federal investigation. “The idea that you could win an election to avoid justice just cuts so deeply against my expectations for our legal system and for our politics too,” said Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney and NBC News contributor. “But the voters have spoken, and that’s where we are.” She added that it has never been a foregone conclusion that Trump would be convicted — that would be up to a jury. “What bothers me so deeply is that he’s avoided the quintessential part of American justice — letting a jury decide, based on the evidence.”

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“Rachel Maddow is a crazy person,” Musk said, describing her as “frothing-at-the-mouth crazy fascist, basically, sort of pretending to be a liberal.”

Rachel Maddow Threatens Musk Over ‘Russia Ties’ (RT)

Elon Musk can’t possibly keep his US government contracts because of his alleged secret contacts with “America’s worst enemy,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has said. The Wall Street Journal claimed last week that Musk had communicated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and withheld the services of his Starlink network to Ukraine’s military. Both Musk and Moscow have dismissed the report as fake news. Maddow, however, proceeded as if the Journal’s reporting was a proven fact in her election day show on Tuesday evening. “You really can’t have the head of a company that is the primary rocket launcher for the defense department and NASA, you can’t have the head of that company in secret communications with America’s worst enemy while America’s enemy is actively waging a war against one of our allies, especially once you learn that he’s using his businesses to help the other side, to help Russia in that war,” Maddow said.

“Now that we know what we know about Elon Musk, this election – regardless of who wins – has produced a national security problem,” she continued, arguing that it will likely produce “tons of drama.” “So, buckle up. Even if [Donald] Trump doesn’t win, the Defense Department and NASA are gonna need a new arrangement for all their rockets and for all the multi-billion-dollar contracts Elon Musk’s companies have with the US government,” Maddow said. Either the government will have to get out of those contracts, or Musk’s companies “will have to unwind from him.” Musk has denied the Journal’s claims, pointing out that Starlink was “the BACKBONE of Ukrainian military communications at the front lines, because everything else has been blown up or jammed by Russia.” The founder of SpaceX and owner of X (formerly Twitter) addressed Maddow’s comments shortly afterward, speaking to journalist Tucker Carlson in a livestream from Mar-a-Lago.

“Rachel Maddow is a crazy person,” Musk said, describing her as “frothing-at-the-mouth crazy fascist, basically, sort of pretending to be a liberal.” Asked how much pressure he has been under because of his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Musk resorted to a joke. “Well, apart from multiple Democrats saying they want to put me in jail, take away government contracts from my companies, nationalize my companies, deport me as an illegal, and have me arrested for apparently being Putin’s best friend, nothing besides those things,” he said. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the Journal’s claims were untrue, “most likely linked” to Musk’s support for Trump, and should not be taken seriously. While the official count of votes in the US presidential election is still pending, Trump has secured the needed 270 electoral votes, according to multiple media organizations.

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“..while promoting her latest book this August, Pelosi called it her “goal in life” for Trump to “never step in the White House again.”

84-year-old Pelosi Projected To Win Reelection (RT)

Former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi could return to Congress next year for a landmark 20th term, The Hill reported on Wednesday, citing voting projections. Congressional elections are being held along with the race for the White House, with 34 of 100 seats in the Senate and all 435 in the House of Representatives up for grabs. According to the report, the 84-year-old Democrat is expected to win reelection to the House in California’s 11th Congressional District, which includes most of San Francisco. The report came after 50% of the votes were counted, with Pelosi securing over 80%. First elected to Congress in 1987, Pelosi became the first woman to serve as House speaker, a role she held twice. She has also been the longest-serving leader in the Democratic Party’s history in Congress.

Pelosi publicly encouraged incumbent President Joe Biden to drop his reelection plans, which led to him quitting the race as the Democratic candidate and being replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris. Reports of Pelosi’s win come as the final votes are being counted in the presidential race. While the official results of the election have yet to be announced, Trump has already secured wins in key battleground states and passed the threshold of 270 electoral college votes required to take the White House, according to media projections. Pelosi is among the fiercest critics of Trump. She has called him a “snake-oil salesman” and “the creature from the Black Lagoon,” and led Democratic efforts during impeachment proceedings against Trump in his previous term in office. Speaking to reporters while promoting her latest book this August, Pelosi called it her “goal in life” for Trump to “never step in the White House again.”

Trump railed against Pelosi in his campaign’s closing speech on Tuesday, recalling her efforts to impeach him. He said Pelosi is an “evil, sick, crazy, horrible human being” and “trouble for our country,” adding that he wanted to call her the “B-word.” In an interview on Fox News last month, he called Pelosi America’s “enemy from within.” According to the latest media reports, the Republicans have won control of the Senate for the first time in four years. It is still unclear which party will control the House of Representatives, as there are too many races that have yet to be called.

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“..the Biden administration and its European acolytes fueling NATO’s proxy war “are history.”

Trump to Seek ‘Pragmatic’ Deals, No Budget Money to Sustain Ukraine (Sp.)

Throughout his election campaign, Donald Trump consistently expressed his reluctance to continue funding the Zelensky regime in Ukraine. Following his declaration of victory in the US presidential race, Trump addressed his supporters in a celebratory speech, promising to “stop wars” across the globe. As the 47th US president, Donald Trump will not guarantee the US budget “to keep Ukraine afloat,” strategic analyst Paolo Raffone told Sputnik. He conjectured that the Biden administration and its European acolytes fueling NATO’s proxy war “are history.” “Trump does not see any advantage for the US to continue spending enormous budgets and political capital in Ukraine. If a deal with Russia and Ukraine cannot be reached, it is possible that Trump will push for a ‘frozen conflict policy’ as a sort of damage control… Europeans will have to cover those costs. It will probably be the end of the EU,” the director of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels speculated.

On the foreign policy front, the Republican is likely to display openness to “pragmatic” solutions with allies and foes to achieve “maximum advantage” for the US, he surmised, adding: “I expect a great bargaining in which Trump will keep the centrality of the US as the ‘indispensable interlocutor’ in bilateral relations, also within the framework of multipolarity. Probably, there will be much less hysteria about Russia, Iran, China. The probable objective is ‘rebalancing the interchange’ with all these countries. They may not become friends, but deals are possible in mutual interest.” In his pursuit of a national interest agenda, Trump may redefine America’s contributions to NATO, emphasizing that US protection for Europe “is not a free ride,” Raffone noted. “Trump will guarantee the Europeans the military shield, but each European state will have to contribute much more to NATO. The previous US administrations asked to raise European military expenditure above 2% GDP. Such a target will probably be insufficient during the new Trump administration,” said Raffone.

It is difficult for Trump to “accept any idea of European strategic autonomy,” emphasized the pundit. He supposed that a new Trump administration would brandish “a combination of trade, tariffs, security levy to force the Europeans to increase their military budgets and buy more American.” “European energy and technology dependency is a fact… Europe must find space for compromise to deal with not only the US, but also with Russia, China and the Middle East. The current ideological positions in the EU Commission, Paris and Berlin are not encouraging,” stressed the pundit. Looking ahead to the US elections of 2028, none of the “old guard” will be running, conjectured Raffone, suggesting that “new forces will emerge during the current Trump term.” “The Trump administration will probably be a transition time. The outcome will be visible in US politics over the next decade. Currently, the two US parties live a populist momentum. Time will tell if politics will arise again in the US,” he concluded.

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“..if he listens to Tucker Carlson, and ‘Bobby’ Kennedy, and Vivek Ramaswamy, and all the smart people around him – then yes, he could negotiate an end to that war.”

Dave Smith: Will Trump Be Able To End The War In Ukraine? (ZH)

At a recent pre-election speaking and podcast event, comedian and Libertarian political commentator Dave Smith expressed his view that it is very realistic that the next President Donald Trump could successfully negotiate an end to the Ukraine war. Smith’s view is optimistic, as he articulated that he believes Trump’s expressed desire to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza is genuine. But Smith also laid out that much depends on who Trump puts around him in top national security positions. Below is the hard-hitting segment featuring the prominent commentator addressing the question: will Trump be able to end the war in Ukraine? Below are Dave Smith’s words from the segment on Trump and Ukraine below …

“Why the hell are we even expanding our military alliance to Ukraine? And listen, Donald Trump always says that the war ‘never would have happened if I was president, and I would negotiate an end to this.’ And I gotta say I think he’s right about that. I don’t think the war would have happened if he was president – I think he will negotiate an end to it. I don’t think he’s right that Hamas wouldn’t have attacked Israel if he was president – that seems kind of ridiculous to me. But he’s right: the Ukraine war could be over tomorrow if American wanted to negotiated a peace to it. Vladimir Putin has been trying to the entire time… Well the question becomes who does Donald Trump put around him? If Donald Trump puts Mike Pompeo, aka Liz Cheney’s pick for Defense Secretary… if he puts John Bolton, aka Hillary Clinton’s pick for national security adviser – then maybe not, maybe it doesn’t happen. But if he listens to Tucker Carlson, and ‘Bobby’ Kennedy, and Vivek Ramaswamy, and all the smart people around him – then yes, he could negotiate an end to that war.”

Indeed, the question ultimately becomes: will Trump really keep the ‘swamp’ out of his administration this time around? We hope so.

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“Politico described the plan as “the only option” to maintain the flow of weapons to Ukraine, although its sources acknowledged “immense” challenges..”

Biden To Speed Up Arms Deliveries To Ukraine – Media (RT)

The White House intends to expedite up to $9 billion in new military aid in a last-ditch effort to bolster Ukraine against Russia, before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, according to sources within the outgoing administration. The plan is driven by concerns that Trump, who has criticized President Joe Biden’s generous support for Kiev, may halt or significantly reduce US taxpayer-funded aid, as reported by sources speaking to Reuters and Politico on Wednesday. “The administration plans to push forward… to put Ukraine in the strongest position possible,” a senior official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Politico described the plan as “the only option” to maintain the flow of weapons to Ukraine, although its sources acknowledged “immense” challenges. US officials worry that even if Biden approves new aid, it could take the Pentagon months to actually deliver munitions and equipment to Ukraine, and the next commander-in-chief could halt shipments at any time.

It remains unclear whether the US military would be willing to draw more deeply from its stockpiles – risking its own readiness – to expedite the deliveries. Since February 2022, the US Congress has approved more than $174 billion to support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. The latest tranche of $61 billion was delayed for several months amid a standoff between Republicans and the White House. Of that package, only $4.3 billion remains, along with another $2 billion allocated for new contracts with the US arms industry. With $2.8 billion in previously announced shipments, the White House has just over $9 billion available for emergency supplies to Kiev. Trump’s victory will not change Washington’s antagonistic stance towards Moscow, but will make it more difficult for Kiev to access American taxpayers’ money, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

“As a dyed-in-the-wool businessman, he hates wasting money on all sorts of freeloaders and tagalongs: On wacko allies, misguided grandiose charity projects, and insatiable international organizations,” Medvedev wrote in a Telegram post. “The only question is, how much will Trump be forced to fork out on the war? He’s stubborn, but the system is more powerful.” Trump has said that Ukraine cannot win against Russia militarily and has criticized Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky as “the greatest salesman in history,” who secures billions every time he visits Washington without getting any closer to victory. Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours if reelected. In his victory speech, Trump reiterated: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”

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“..the EU has already spent nearly €120 billion ($128.8 billion) on supporting Ukraine, with another €74 billion pledged but yet to be allocated..”

Von der Leyen To Prepare EU For War – Defense Commission Nominee (RT)

A top priority for the next European Commission will be making Europe self-reliant and ready for war, as the US is likely to focus on China in the coming decades, said Andrius Kubilius, the nominee for the EU’s new top defense post. Kubilius made this statement at his confirmation hearing in Brussels on Wednesday, after he was nominated to become the first-ever EU Commissioner for Defense and Space. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen designated the former Lithuanian prime minister for the position in September. The new Commission is expected to take office by December 1. “Defense is one of the top priorities for the next Commission,” Kubilius told MEPs. “Von der Leyen’s mission letter tasks me with helping Europe prepare for the most extreme military contingencies, which means preparing for the possibility of Russian aggression.”

While it is difficult to predict the policies of the upcoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump, “we can anticipate that in the coming decades, the U.S. is likely to increase its focus on the strategic challenge posed by China,” Kubilius said. This shift “necessitates a more self-reliant European defense structure,” he added. “Adversaries and strategic rivals are rapidly outpacing us,” with Russia and China far ahead in defense spending, Kubilius noted. He claimed that Russia will spend more on defense than all of the bloc’s 27 states combined, in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP). In the meantime, the best defense strategy for the EU would be to continue funding Ukraine, he stated.

Since 2022, the EU has already spent nearly €120 billion ($128.8 billion) on supporting Ukraine, with another €74 billion pledged but yet to be allocated, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. As emphasized by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the best investment in European security is investing in the security of Ukraine. Officials in Brussels are waiting for the US election results to determine their next steps in supporting Ukraine, Deutsche Welle reported earlier this week. During his reelection campaign, Trump has repeatedly suggested he would curtail funding for Kiev and focus on domestic American issues. The outgoing Biden administration intends to fast-track billions in military aid to Ukraine to reinforce Kiev’s military before Trump takes office in January, Reuters and Politico reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.

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“Kursk is the ultimate meat grinder for Ukraine soldiers. No one comes back alive.”

How British Media Is Turning On Zelensky. And Why (Jay)

It’s a little-known fact that the two British media giants, The Economist and The Financial Times, enjoy a very cosy relationship with the European Commission, so much so that one could almost imagine them all being one family. Each does its own bidding for one another and each assists one another with its aspirations, its viewpoint. And it’s fake news. And so, when you read in The Economist that the war is not going at all well for Ukraine and its hapless president you can more or less assume that this is the interpretation also of the very highest echelons of the EU. Since the war started, Ukraine’s president has had the full support of western media, which has agreed to go along with the fake news racket which his people organize; curtailing the freedom of western journalists, blocking them from getting hard news stories, data, statistics but above all taking them by the hand and leading them to the stories which they want reported.

This game reached epic proportions in recent months as a parody of journalism reached its apex when the war turned on Zelensky in the summer of this year. Journalists didn’t report on it in such a way. Many stayed in Kiev and other large cities and were so desperate for a story which wouldn’t upset their hosts that they peddled the same one over and over again of the conscripts being bundled into the backs of vans. It was literally all they could do to keep active. But this business model of late appears to have run aground. Both the Economist and the BBC have each reported on the frontlines and really told it how it is: bleak. No one can turn a blind eye any more to the advancement of Russian forces. The capture of Selydove might be played down by the Kiez media machine whose list of hilarious fake news stories is too long to publish; but Pokrovsk, which is the next target for Russian forces, will be a considerable victory which might topple the entire confidence of Zelensky and his cabal of advisors and sycophants.

Pokrovsk is a town which is a transport hub, which supplies thousands of Ukrainian troops. If it is taken, it would effectively mean the mass surrender of most of them, or their hasty retreat as they won’t be able to eat or replenish their ammunition stocks. This itself will have a devastating blow on Ukrainian troops’ morale and we might well see a domino effect which accelerates Russia’s advance from a kilometer or two in a day to scores. How will western media report the fall of this city? If The Economist and BBC reports are anything to go by, with some zeal one would imagine. It’s as though big media, in particular British, is anxious to stay on the right side of history when things start to fall down and emerge from the dust as wise old men with that “I told you so” sparkle in their eyes. It’s also about collective guilt. Western Media has blood on its hands as the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers sent to the “meat grinder” is partly attributed to the support U.S. and UK media gave Zelensky.

What we are witnessing now from Zelensky is a panic mode which is accelerating at the same pace. His so-called “victory plan” hasn’t been taken seriously by any western leaders and he looks stupid now, alienated. His recent outburst about Biden leaking to the press about the ludicrous idea of using U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles might have been a defining moment which history writers obsess over then they write his eulogy. For now, the panic isn’t really even about the battlefield, although it must be hard for Zelensky to read the dispatches each day of the losses in Kursk which could be considered Ukraine’s own Battle of the Bulge where German troops fought hard at the end of WWII against larger, bigger numbers of allied soldiers in the Ardennes and ultimately lost. In many ways Kursk was a trap which Zelensky set for himself, as the failure to capture the nuclear power plant pales into insignificance compared to the losses of men. Kursk is the ultimate meat grinder for Ukraine soldiers. No one comes back alive.

The real panic for Zelensky is now about his own political credibility. He is only thinking now how to survive the inevitable loss to Russia and stay a president. He knows only too well that if a quick ceasefire happens under Trump’s leadership, the Martial Law status of the country will be cancelled and presidential elections will be obligatory. Under Harris, the pain will only be drawn out longer, but with even more lost ground, lost bargaining leverage as she will force Putin to shift gear with his advance and head for Kiev. The irony of The Economist piece and its timing is that it prepares the ground for a massive blame game which starts with those who have been doing it like pros for decades – The European Commission – and amateurs who have just started to learn how it works, like Zelensky. The Economist is just warming up.

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Economy is breaking down.

German Government Has Collapsed (RT)

Germany’s ‘traffic-light’ coalition has fallen apart, leaving Olaf Scholz at the helm of a minority government consisting solely of his Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens. This follows the Chancellor’s dismissal of Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner from the position of Finance Minister. After failed crisis talks on Wednesday night, the Chancellor dismissed the Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Christian Lindner from the position of Finance Minister. In response, the FDP’s parliamentary group leader, Christian Durr, announced that the party is withdrawing all its ministers from Scholz’s government, formally ending the three-way coalition. The Greens expressed regret over this development but stated they wish to remain part of a minority government, emphasizing the need for the EU – and Germany in particular – to demonstrate its capacity for action following Donald Trump’s election as US President.

“I want to say for us that this feels wrong and not right tonight – almost tragic on a day like this, when Germany must show unity and the ability to act in Europe,” said Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck in a joint press statement with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday night. “This is not a good day for Germany and also not a good day for Europe,” Baerbock added. Finance Minister Christian Lindner was fired after he reportedly proposed early elections when the leaders of the three coalition parties once again failed to find common ground on how to address the multibillion-euro deficit in next year’s budget. “All too often, Minister Lindner has blocked laws in an inappropriate manner,” Scholz stated, accusing Lindner of refusing to ease spending rules which among other things would allow for more aid to Ukraine.

Lindner, in turn, accused the Chancellor of ignoring the real “economic concerns” of the German people. “Olaf Scholz has long failed to recognize the need for a new economic awakening in our country,” Lindner said. Scholz said he now wants to reach out to opposition leader Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democrats to offer him the “opportunity” to collaborate with his government, adding that in light of the US elections, this is “perhaps more urgent than ever.” Meanwhile, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) opposition party welcomed the coalition’s collapse as a long-overdue “liberation” for Germany.

“After months of gridlock and countless self-centered therapy sessions, we now urgently need a fundamental political fresh start to lead the economy and the country as a whole out of the severe crisis into which it has been plunged by the ideology-driven policies of the SPD, Greens, and FDP,” said AfD parliamentary leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla in a statement on X. Scholz announced that the Bundestag will hold a vote of confidence on January 15. According to the German constitution, if the Chancellor fails to secure sufficient support, he may formally request the President to dissolve the 733-seat lower house and call new elections within 60 days. This could push Germany’s parliamentary elections from next fall to March 2025.

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    Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets 1872   • A Good Morning in America (Paul Craig Roberts) • If The Election Outcome Is As I
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 7 2024]

    #173605
    Germ
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    Ilargi – without doubt you have for years created, every day without fail, the single best news and information site on the web. It is an heroic, and remarkable achievement.

    To catch and portray the zeitgeist in real time, as you do, is quite remarkable.

    Kudos to you – from “Batshit Bonkers Britain”!

    #173606
    ByronBishop
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    The Automatic Earth is the site I go to first thing every morning. I am on the East Coast of Canada so I expect that I see it shortly after Ilargi puts it up in Greece. It is absolutely a finely curated collection of clips and stories. I just wish that more readers would contribute. $5 per month is probably my best investment.

    #173607
    Dr. D
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    “The Worldly Pain of Young Americans
    Among Millennials and members of Generation Z, fully one-in-three individuals suffer from some kind of mental disorder.

    Although I often take issue with the premise, you can think of it like programming them. Their programming is saturated with lies and contradictions, which causes internal stresses and discomfort, that is, Mental Disorders. Their minds are not in “order”. This is all intentional, and is a textbook form of torture.

    WHY torture? Oh for the fun of it, of course, but also because it establishes the hooks of mental mind control.

    Armstrong: Gold high, should drop now (locally) since a Trump victory suggests no WWIII. He said that a Kamala victory would mean instant WWIII, so we escaped that same as Hillary. A direct campaign promise. Oh and Americans, voting against war every time. Yup, that’s how you know we like war; we’re tricky like that.

    “Chancellor Olaf Scholz just fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner, putting at risk the collapse of the German ruling coalition between the SPD and the Greens after three years.” — Armstrong

    Maybe you can confirm this, but he was required to put out a budget, but had to disagree with both because Green Party and everyone else establishment run Socialist economics that don’t work at all, even a little? Therefore it’s impossible to create a rational budget without contradicting them? Yeah, they all ran out of Other People’s Money.

    Nor is that a surprise. Here are three things they violently disagree with that are insane: One, you have to create goods before you use them. Two, Goods are created using ENERGY, and Three, WORK. If no one is employed, and there is no Energy, there is no economy, and there are no wealth and no goods. Good day, sir.

    This is against the premise of almost every party and every economy on earth right now, which is why they are all fundamentally insane, a foundation of why they are killing everyone. 1) To steal their stuff because they can’t make it. 2) Because they JUST KNOW you’re holding out on them like a meanie and won’t Do What You’re Told, and make magic shoes out of pixie dust for them. Therefore you must be punished.

    Biden, “Congrats on losing to Hitler again”. Need to put that on a Tshirt.

    ““If Donald Trump is elected president, it means that they can confirm, without any Democratic votes, any appointment he makes to his Cabinet”

    This was key, as last time he couldn’t, and also McConnell and like 2-10 RINOs made sure they could only get Bolton and Pompeo in. This is according to Armstrong, that it doesn’t matter what he does or wants, because up to a point, THEY pick his cabinet, his staff, everything around him radiating out. And that’s STILL beyond that who is he going to pick? They either know nothing, OR they are swamp creatures themselves, a serious problem.

    So that he can even get a NORMAL cabinet pick in – not like People who will erase the Fed and defund 5 Departments – is a substantial win. He can sort of set the tide and high water mark for the bureaucracy and anti-populism. (Set by Wilson and FDR) …But of course we should all give up now because it doesn’t matter and it’s hopeless.

    “If Trump wins that Epstein client list is gonna become public” – Elon Musk

    Promises promises. Still waiting on, um, literally everything. All JFK stuff, UFOs, CIA ops, AND all the Epstein Weinstein, Manhattan DA, Nexium, and everything else he already had LAST time. AND everyone in America already knew about the P Diddy stuff, but no investigations or releases. Etc, ad nauseum.

    Shut your lie-hole and put up the ante.

    UN Statement: I mean in one way what she says is true, however, I just decided Docktorstan exists, and as a former American I have a lot of guns. My friends are “The People”, that is, the People exist. So you can’t say anything to us. You can’t judge me! We exist. And you can’t shoot or discipline us, we have rights as “a People” now. Um, no, the UN will NOT be saying that. There IS a legal structure, and not only is it past realpolitik, it is literally enforced. By them. Crimea Election. Vs Serbian election. For example. UN decides “Self determination” is okay for some and not others. Basques, Andalusians: not okay. Hong Kong or Taiwan: perfectly okay. They just make it up. I follow the politics that follows the money.

    “When Trump’s term expired, false claims buttressed by concocted allegations of mishandling national security documents and instigating an “insurrection” were turned into indictments.”

    Speaking of, they are dropping all his cases. Huh? Sir, either those cases are real and must continue to be prosecuted, OR they were all made up for political reasons and you need to be arrested and jailed. There’s no middle ground.

    ““If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM..”

    Yeah, except we’ve been at this a decade, or a lifetime, your choice, and facts and reality never matter. Facts and reality never matter!!!. Has that not sunk in yet? You’re worse than the Democrats on this. I don’t know if you need to BEAT them, bludgeon them with your fists, but whatever it is you need to find and do it.

    ““..the United States has 20 to 25 million illegal immigrants in the country. “What do we do with them? I think the first thing that we do is we start with the criminal migrants.”

    Which crimes? I think you mean those that commit robberies, murders, rapes, etc. Because “illegally crossing” is “Illegal” and a felony too, surprise! I agree, btw, as it’s inarguable that if you commit a crime WHILE here, obviously you have no basis to stay. But it’s going to be a lot easier: drop the money, we have no welfare, there are already no jobs, so they’ll go home on their own. I’ll buy them plane tickets, which I shouldn’t have to, but whatever.

    “• The US Should Establish A Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (Corva)

    We probably already do. Satoshi was probably a government project. Bet. Don’t lose your minds though, try to leave cartoons: WHICH government? The White Hat government or the Black Hat government? Crypto is off the ranch and irreversible, so it’s it’s a Black Hat op (unlike CBDCs) then they’re all morons.

    Donald Trump pulled off the most improbable comeback in American political history Tuesday night,”

    Not really. He was popular, got elected, remained popular, went up a few points. And?

    “Trump cut the Democrat margin of victory in half in one of America’s darkest blue states, New York, and by two thirds in Democrat-stronghold Illinois.”

    Maybe. Did anyone check if NY recorded like 50 million votes?

    “• Rachel Maddow Threatens Musk Over ‘Russia Ties’ (RT)

    Jimmy Dore followed NBC Scarborough, where after they lost (pre-final) he re-listed like all 20 (recent) lies about Trump, you know on top of the hundred and hundreds previously. Top is of course that “Russia” is running everything. That he promised to assassinate Cheney and everyone else he ever met. (I don’t mind.)

    Maddow says this, if I were Elon, I’d sue her instantly. I mean, that is SO over the top. She literally says, “He’s on the phone with the Kremlin daily” and stuff. You literally cannot tolerate that sort of thing. What is Libel for and does it still exist if this goes on?

    “..while promoting her latest book this August, Pelosi called it her “goal in life” for Trump to “never step in the White House again.”

    Donald Trump. Beating more women.

    “• Biden To Speed Up Arms Deliveries To Ukraine – Media (RT)

    What arms? Kiev sent their air defense guys to the front because, why staff them with no missiles?

    “• Von der Leyen To Prepare EU For War – Defense Commission Nominee (RT)

    Obviously you’re kidding, right? EU: “We have literally nothing.” Okay, where’s your goal? “Literally everything.” Okay, that might be kind of a long road. It would take decades, BeLyin’ will long have retired of old age, all the countries will be unrecognizable since they will all be industrialized, etc. I don’t see that happening. Like for 40 reasons, but also think of the immigrants, no social welfare (to pay for it), the energy needs, industrialists having political power because they own the steel plants, etc.

    Fishing: we can do that, but like everything else in America it’s illegal. Even for a camera shot. So are all the squirrels, who are also shot.

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    Dr. D
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    Here’s a meme both I can’t believe I’m posting, and can’t believe I also HAVE to post:

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    “Okay we tried woman’s sufferage and discovered their primary political concern is killing their own babies. Can we call this a failed experiment and move on now?

    Okay, like wtf? The only core tenet of all women voters is to kill their babies at birth? No other issues matter and that’s the only thing all women secretly desire? I admit did not see that coming. That was not what I thought all girls were made of when I went to school. And worse, the only thing left is that the MEN have to stop them? The men, those guys, really? Okay then, I guess.

    Why is that? For Phoenix, those arguments were made and most of the country agrees with them, even if in a soft way, and even if logically or morally indefensible. They seem to know that earth is not a black or white place. However, everything said and done from the first word belies the exact opposite. So we’re at a place now with what four states having post-birth abortions? And the premise is two: that women have nothing to do with pregnancy, it’s all the men, and they have no responsibility before, during, or after. This is highly disturbing to me because, even after I ask or bring it up, they’re still like, “But if the woman got pregnant…” Got pregnant HOW? You’re a woman (I ask them) literally HOW? Only one way: you were in the room. Tsst tstt, no sparks, does not compute, which I literally cannot understand. “…But the men…” they will continue. As if you hadn’t spoken. Is THIS what they teach their daughters now?

    Naturally this includes the man who was there too, but everybody knows that. That’s never disputed in anyone’s arguments. He also has responsibilities, but whatever he wants or does is irrelevant if the woman isn’t there too. The Sub-meta reality on this is that women are little children, untrustworthy, easily led, who will do whatever anybody says. I find that both deeply disturbing AND that is the meta-reality of the WOMEN, not the men. “Sleep with me.” “Okay!” …They just can’t help it! And bear no responsibility whatsoever. Now if it’s the WOMEN arguing this, IS that true? They should know right? They’re the experts. Shouldn’t I update my reality and just believe them?

    The second part is, foundationally, it’s murder. It either is or it isn’t. The legal and function premise is “Any woman can kill whoever she likes if they’re annoying to her.” But there’s no Right to murder. Obviously. IF you have a cause to murder, let’s say there’s an intruder in your home, how did that happen?

    As above, you not only LET them in, accidentally. You totally were overwhelming aware you were letting them in, and did so actively and enthusiastically, knowing you (both) may be signing a long-term contract with them. So you got drunk, signed a long-term housing contract with a disabled immigrant, and now want to KILL him because you don’t like the terms? Jesus and Mary: DON’T SIGN THE CONTRACT. Don’t get drunk and you two let this immigrant into your house. OBVIOUSLY you can’t kill this Human #3 after that. This would never happen, we’d never have the discussion if anything like fair behavior were followed, everyone would be perfectly safe.

    This goes beyond that MEN can’t kill their unborn child, obviously. Only women can, and do often and enthusiastically. And that we’re in a legal world where belies all the victim stuff: literally every law allows for rape and incest, and half the states allow past viability and 2-4 allow AFTER birth. Which tells you where their minds and morals are at.

    What will we tell our children 50 years from now, explaining this to them? That we were the most violent, deranged, murderous, heartless, thoughtless, careless, abusive culture ever to live? I’m afraid so. In certain ways this puts the slave trade to shame, and we just walk around feeling it’s fully okay, and all the women involved – none of which can help themselves at all – are perfectly fine, wonderful people, just as Plantation Owner’s Wives were, having that naughty stable boy whipped to death. It’s really breathtaking.

    You can’t get drunk, drive home, clip a pedestrian, and think “Well, I’ll just kill him so he doesn’t sue me now” OBVIOUSLY. But you can if you’re a woman. If you’re a man, you can’t kill him, and will just get sued. We look at all this and go, “Yup, that makes perfect sense to me, don’t know what you’re talking about.” And these are all named and framed as “Rights”.

    So is it your body? Sure. BUT IT’S ALSO THEIRS. Don’t sign the contract and you won’t have a roomer trying to take up space in your body. He didn’t do that: YOU did. Once you do, you can’t just kill them. Bodily autonomy doesn’t work that way, and I find it highly disturbing I have to explain that.

    “If It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing, It Probably Is” — Haaretz”

    Huh, would that be the Haaretz that is Jewish? Reporting against the genocide consistently again? Along with Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders?

    Not sure this reflects well on us, but keep this in mind:

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    Aspnaz: your response is “YOU” Americans. Who? I bring this up because it’s central to all your arguments, and is generally what makes them in error. YOU. Who, EVERY American? You’ve been here, ever? You’ve talked to every single one?

    You mean SOME Americans? A majority of Americans? Americans in the elite and managerial class we would all rise up and shoot tomorrow if we could get away with it? The Male Americans, the Female ones? The Immigrant ones? The Southern ones, the Northern ones, the rich ones, the poor ones? Who? WHO believe this list of things you attribute to “Americans”, that is to say “You”. “You do this. YOU think this.”

    Do we? Um, no we don’t. We’re being occupied by a government that is radically and violently against every wishes of the people, and haven’t been able to unseat these alien colonists yet. So yeah “They” do this. But “They” are not “Us” although of course like any occupied government, some minority is a big sympathizer with the occupier’s ideas and actions.

    That’s back to yesterday, with fighting the US and kicking us out around the world. They’re like “They’ll bomb and kill us.” Yeah, and? …But that reminded me that WE ARE RIGHT HERE INSIDE, right where they’re most powerful, and they ARE killing us by the tens or hundred thousands. AND WE KEEP FIGHTING THEM, year after year. So what’s your excuse again? We’re being murdered like rats and we still fight them. I’d think if you’re 10,000 miles away, inside another country, you’d have way better odds and lower casualties than we do.

    But that’s the thing again: Blame America. Don’t trouble yourself to lift a finger to help. Just leave all the work to us and complain we ain’t doin’ it right. Also to Celtic: again, what have you been DOING? You’re complaining, what are you DOING? “Oh these other people” f—k the other people, they ain’t your Daddy, what did YOU do today to help? Tell everyone to give up again?

    We only, only win when we give up. Like today. I’m so glad we gave up before winning that election and having free speech again.

    #173609
    EoinW
    Participant

    Has the euphoria died down yet?

    Yes the globalists have lost their puppet government in DC. A pretty good investment as they got 4 years of undermining America socially. Now that time is up, shall they shrug their shoulders, accept they almost succeeded in destroying America and crawl quietly back to Davos?

    However time is not up. The Biden regime still has two months to go. Now that the globalists have lost the game, it’s time for them to kick the board over.

    Seems pretty obvious what comes next: war with Iran. That will shatter all illusions in the western world fast. With the ponzi scheme masquerading as an economy comes to an end the globalists will Build Back Better. Too bad they’ve never built a thing in their lives and don’t have a clue how to build anything.

    This doesn’t have to be Trump’s fault. If Trump, however, puts on his Hulk Hogan shirt and starts trash talking Iran, making ridiculous threats, then he will own this disaster. 5 will get you 10 if you can find me an advance thinking western politician who can consider issues beyond the immediate moment.

    #173610
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Nick Fuentes explains his assessment of Trump’s performance
    in the video below, which he recorded on the eve of November 5.

    this young political commentator is saying so many things that need to be said.
    Most often, however, this genre of speaking truth to power
    cannot come through loud and clear
    because of the intimidation, repression, deplatforming, censorship and worse.

    Fuentes should be given lots of latitude
    to put together all the components
    of the big picture as he sees fit.

    Like him or hate him,
    Fuentes is a voice that effectively captures
    some of the major political choices of these times.

    https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/bannon-fuentes-and-the-trump-presidency

    #173611
    EoinW
    Participant

    What is pathetic about the abortion issue is that it affects such a small minority in America. Like Gay Rights, it shouldn’t be an issue at all! It’s just another hustle to divide society.

    Like the BLM garbage. Blacks make up 13% of the population in American. Not 50% like the media pretends. Just 13%. BTW in Canada 20% of the population are French-Canadians. Also within Israel’s 1967 borders 20% of the people are Palestinians.

    Yet in America the entire country is expected to revolve around this 13% minority group.

    Just like all women must vote on one issue which likely will never directly impact their lives.

    Lucky the West has a retarded education system which keeps the assembly line of brainwashed students rolling along.

    #173612
    aspnaz
    Participant

    TAE is American news and gossip; TAE tabloid’s recent Trumpy-mania has encouraged me to look elsewhere for actual news. There are lots of interesting sites out there.

    #173613
    tboc
    Participant

    the tide is receding, we will find out who in the Senate is swimming naked

    McConnell and Graham will be fun to watch

    nakedly beholden to corruption and the MIC

    #173614
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “America now has a chance for renewal if Trump doesn’t blow it in forgiving his enemies, who still intend to destroy him.”

    100% agree about giving his enemies NO QUARTER

    Kill them all, let God sort them out…..

    They’re not “sub-human”

    They’re NOT human.

    A den of vermin and vipers, especially Nuland

    He should drink some wine from her hollowed out skull...

    Just sayin’

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    To Victory!

    Cheers, Za Zdarovje!

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    #173615
    Oroboros
    Participant

    RFK jr

    Please do something about this shit…

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #173617
    poppie
    Participant

    If you dont want to attach an auto pay to your bank account to support Ilargi, the one time donation at the upper left of this page works fine.

    #173618
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Cage Fight!

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #173620
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Allow Me Madamn…

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    #173621
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pepe triumphs over Screeching Purple Haired Karen

    Oh the Humanity!

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #173626
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I guess since it’s hard to go into Pine Gap and boot out the Americans here in Oz I’ll have to drop the boot in here.
    Herr Docktor I believe you are being a bit cheeky. We are fighting but reality exists and like your high water mark or crossing bear country you make calculated risks based in reality. Telling the US to ‘fuck off’ is not to be done without serious consideration.
    Not all systems work in the same way. Europeans in the new world went native because ahhhhhhhhh – America. Soil, Rain, Timber, food, fodder, fuel, space, like 3 Europe’s worth of cool shit. Good on you. You escaped the aristocrats and fought for it and now get to brag about how cool you all are. We were literally set up as penal slave system to genocide and steal for leverage. In a giant desert – like the driest continent in the world, so yeah it might take a little longer when there aren’t as many places to run. Also Aussies are pussies. I hate to admit it. I might immigrate to the Appalachians before long.
    No one I have met or talked to has heard of peanut the squirrel in oz and doesn’t care that they didn’t know and is completely happy with censorship.

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #173628
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Okay we tried woman’s sufferage and discovered their primary political concern is killing their own babies. Can we call this a failed experiment and move on now?

    One current young woman’s pov:

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    #173629
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A survey by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University reported findings that won’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention.

    Among Millennials and members of Generation Z, fully one-in-three individuals suffer from some kind of mental disorder.

    Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and suicidal thoughts afflict them, and the mental problems frequently manifest in physical symptoms.

    Seven out of ten individuals under 40 years of age who responded to Center questionnaires stated that they “lack a sense of purpose and meaning in life.”

    Only 13 percent of Generation Z and 22 percent of Millennials believe that “absolute moral truth exists and is an objective reality.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/worldly-pain-young-americans

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    #173633
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Steve Bannon tearing the Demonrats a New Asshole

    https://x.com/i/status/1854366328745812107

    #173634
    tboc
    Participant

    i bet that the parable of the mote and beam is about to be played out on the global stage in real time
    the mememeisters and the conservatively correct have set a “tuff row to hoe” for themself

    “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;….”

    #173635
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    “Okay we tried woman’s sufferage and discovered their primary political concern is killing their own babies.

    Um, no.
    Women don’t like losing bodily sovereignty due to pregnancy. It is that simple. God trusts women with fetuses — if god made women as they are: physically weaker, but with a stronger tendency than men to form resilient social connections — then god trusts women, as they are, to be the intelligences that direct the process of fetal gestation. Women are the mature minds in the equation, and they do not need men nor the government to make their decisions for them simply because an unborn baby is involved. Women do not like the prospect of becoming less important legally than the unborn child in their womb.

    We are never going to agree with all women who seek out abortion on the reasons and justifications for that abortion. Let it go. Let god be the arbiter of that decision, not man — ultimately, it is between the woman and god who gave her the ability to conceive in the first place. If you detest abortion — as I do, as many women do who, notwithstanding, do not want the government meddling in their bodies — then help to create a society where women in “oops” pregnancy situations feel comfortable giving birth and then either choosing to raise the child or give it up for adoption, and where both of those options are viable for the woman so that she can make the choice that she prefers without coercion.

    #173636
    zerosum
    Participant

    Thanks RIM. My comments are a summary of what RIM blogged.

    Give it up. Concede the fight. Democrats. Main Street Media. Hillary Clinton, the CIA, and the FBI.

    Stop The Confrontations. Fabrications. Interferences. False claims Allegations. Lies. Secrets. Defamations. Misleading. Word Salad.

    Compromise. The people have spoken, 51%, Peaceful transfer of power.

    Change is coming. It’s a new way, no more your way. It’s the highway for you. The country is headed in the wrong direction.

    The new way is peace. Make America Great Again.

    Half, 51%, of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media.
    It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate.
    The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate.
    These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy.
    With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy.
    The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic.
    It needs a complete reboot.
    The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people.
    Honest Abe said it best:
    You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
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    • Trump Has Sweeping Plans for His 2nd Administration (ET)
    (Needs to convince 51 senators, 270 house representatives)

    Immigration
    Taxes and Regulations
    Tariffs
    More Drilling
    Social Policies
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    Coalition of governing
    • Musk Reveals Plans For Trump Government (RT)
    (Needs to convince 51 senators, 270 house representatives)

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, ex-Rep and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan to name a few.
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    Donald Trump’s victory was the largest jury verdict, ( 51 senators, 270 house representatives), that some of us anticipated for years of unrelenting weaponization of the legal system.
    Smith’s prosecutions ended with the 270th Electoral College vote secured around 2 a.m. Wednesday.
    That means the end of both the January 6 and the classified documents cases.
    • DOJ Moving To Wind Down Trump Criminal Cases (NBC)

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    “Rachel Maddow is a crazy person,” Musk said, describing her as “frothing-at-the-mouth crazy fascist, basically, sort of pretending to be a liberal.”

    • Rachel Maddow Threatens Musk Over ‘Russia Ties’ (RT)

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    “enemy from within.”
    “..while promoting her latest book this August, Pelosi called it her “goal in life” for Trump to “never step in the White House again.”

    • 84-year-old Pelosi Projected To Win Reelection (RT)
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    “..the Biden administration and its European acolytes fueling NATO’s proxy war “are history.”

    • Trump to Seek ‘Pragmatic’ Deals, No Budget Money to Sustain Ukraine (Sp.)
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    “..if he listens to Tucker Carlson, and ‘Bobby’ Kennedy, and Vivek Ramaswamy, and all the smart people around him – then yes, he could negotiate an end to that war.”

    • Dave Smith: Will Trump Be Able To End The War In Ukraine? (ZH)
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    “enemy from within.”

    • Biden To Speed Up Arms Deliveries To Ukraine – Media (RT)

    The White House intends to expedite up to $9 billion in new military aid in a last-ditch effort to bolster Ukraine against Russia, before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January,
    Trump reiterated: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
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    Economy is breaking down.

    • German Government Has Collapsed (RT)

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    #173637
    jb-hb
    Participant

    What’ll we do about immigrants breaking the law?

    Don’t governments freeze funds? Like, for driving a truck, for instance?

    All those debit cards could be frozen.

    All those NGO’s are not only breaking the law in supporting the invasion, but conspiring TO break the law. All their funds could be frozen too, couldn’t they?

    The government and NGO office buildings full of conspiring felons could be raided, the people inside them swept up for active illegal activities for the past decade, continually conspiring new crimes for the past decade.

    Everyone in all those offices coordinating the pipelines from all over the world feeding into the southern border, tied up at least temporarily trying to explain themselves and calling on court-appointed lawyers for help (funds frozen…) The 1,000’s miles multiple logistics chains would be frozen or at least zombified.

    Idunno, just thinking of that one viral image of some illegal immigrant’s loaded debit card receipt with $15,000 in snap funds plus $3,000 cash and wondering – what if trying to use it came back with an error message?

    Too hard to track down? The government can’t find its own budgeting? NSA can’t run an algo and pinpoint it in 5 minutes?

    #173638
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Women don’t like losing bodily sovereignty due to pregnancy.

    A pregnancy definitely establishes lifelong loss of bodily sovereignty for a man.

    #173639
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Doc, by the time I slog thru all your superfluous bullshit, it’s too late to go save the world.

    #173640
    John Day
    Participant

    Soros Puppet LA DA Replaced https://www.zerohedge.com/political/soros-puppet-la-da-replaced

    George Soros’s puppet Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón failed his reelection on Tuesday when city residents decided to choose someone who would make their town safe again, Nathan Hochman.

    #173641
    John Day
    Participant

    Thank You, Phoenixvoice:
    If I may be so crude, getting a woman pregnant to abandon or enslave her is a predatory action, like trapping animals in a steel trap.
    Women have a right to get out of that trap, and society is better off in the long run, even though a woman must harm herself to get out of the trap.

    #173642
    John Day
    Participant

    Senior Harris Advisor Deletes X Account As “Massive Scandal” Brews Over $20 Million In Campaign Debt
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/senior-harris-advisor-deletes-x-account-massive-scandal-brews-over-20-million-campaign-debt

    #173643
    those darned kids
    Participant

    two stories, BOTH FROM THE SAME CURSED DAY:

    SCHOOL TRAGEDY Tragedy as teenage girl, 15, dies suddenly at Scots school

    https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/13817185/teenage-girl-dead-jedburgh-grammar-school-borders/

    “Police were called to Jedburgh Grammar School, but it is understood there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.”

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    Heartbreak as boy, 15, dies after collapsing suddenly during school football game

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-heartbreak-boy-15-dies-34053188

    “It added he collapsed during the football game on Tuesday night and sadly died “despite all the efforts of the staff and the emergency services.” School leaders said they shared the news with “deep sadness” and the “thoughts and condolences” of the school community were with the boy’s family and friends.”

    #173644
    tboc
    Participant

    how many Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian and Yemeni citizens are you prepared to sacrifice in defence of Israel?
    my number is zero

    six B-52 to the Middle East and a dozen F-22 – bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
    and then one has to open the Staits of Hormuz
    and restore the petroleum export infrastructure from The UAE to Kuwait.

    here’s our offer: we can murder your citizens and steal your property or we can murder your citizens and steal your property
    and if you don’t believe us ask the Iraqis, the Syrians and the Libyans.

    Only 13 percent of Generation Z and 22 percent of Millennials believe that “absolute moral truth exists and is an objective reality.”
    Wow! ! ! ! that is a vast improvement over the Boomers.
    Boomers who have belived their entire adult life that might makes right and believe to this moment they are exceptional and irreplaceable. The cherry on top is the belief “We Had to Nuke” Hiroshima and Nagasaki to prepare ourselves to support a genocide in the Middle East.

    this year the participation trophies will be Darwin Awards

    #173645
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I understand the arguments which are good ones, but you’re making my point:

    You voluntarily gave up bodily autonomy when you HAD SEX. The night before.

    Why is that relevant? Not only do we start the clock with “Let’s not worry about who robbed the bank, it’s all empty now…” but THAT’S WHAT ALWAYS HAPPENS TO ME. To the Men. They have 100% guarantee to give up all bodily autonomy, forever. They don’t get a happy option.

    So half of us have ALWAYS had this risk, at least for this generation, maybe since 1970. Also making a point that the men are so irrelevant non-entities in society, it doesn’t even occur to think of them. The women are inconvenienced or even enslaved for nine months? The men are so enslaved for TWENTY YEARS. And also have no happy rights in the meantime as that occurs.

    Again, you contracted to hold up this man over a cliff’s edge by an umbilical cord. But it’s boring so your “bodily autonomy” means you should wander off and go away. I get autonomy when I do NOT dive into the water to save a drowning man. That’s ethically and legally true although I and we may disagree with it in most cases. However, you dove out, grabbed the swimmer then held them underwater after. You see the active vs passive case and active vs passive rights here?

    The day and discussion starts on THURSDAY, not Friday night at 12, for the both of them.

    Believe me, discovering every young woman from school will kill their children is depressing as h–l and I am happy to drop the discussion as soon as I can. It’s here that it’s “Merely political” “to divide us” and this is perfectly true: however I can tell he’s not in the dating pool where it’s like, “Hmm, will my girlfriend murder all our children, or what?” Probably: true life partner material. “How about 8 of 10 of her close friends? Would they also strangle and dismember a baby and applaud?” It’s astonishing and gruesome. Also true: what brought this up wasn’t ethics but politics: that Men had a list of issues, war, economy, speech, etc, and women had only one issue: 80% voting for abortion. As common as this is, this is still BEFORE most of them have ever been in trouble and had to act on it.

    Okay, what else does this, or the overall 80% mean? A: All of society is using it as birth control. Statistically, I don’t see how any other conclusion is possible. 80% of women don’t expect to be pregnant from rape. However, they DO expect to sleep with scores of un-marriageble men, men with whom they haven’t the slightest intent to be serious, have an accident, and use murder to get out of it. How can I possibly condone that?

    We know that actions have consequences, everybody knows. Choosing on Thursday to go out Friday is one of them. Pregnancy exists and it has consequences that are infinitely serious, as you well know. So? What can I tell everyone? Then take it seriously as a war or a heart attack. This ain’t no CBGB’s, this ain’t no foolin’ around. Sleep with people you would marry forever. There’s no shortcut here. I didn’t make reality and I can’t lie about or re-make it for you; that’s how it is. But we don’t use murder as a solution, and as a option/solution for only half the people.

    So what do you think of all the girls who are 15 and blossoming into womanhood, loving their first boys, writing their names together on paper? Should we tell them this serious, marriage and motherhood is wonderful, serious, worthwhile, difficult thing? Or so we say, “Live your best life now, kill anyone who gets in your way.” Is that really feminine? And is that good for the culture and all of us?

    Thanks to this approach, I see almost no functional mothers, who then transmit their grave mental illness to children. And the same or worse for fathers.

    #173646
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Do you think women have a right to abort a baby up until it’s first breath?

    Up until it’s head is poking out of it’s mother at 9 months Plus?

    Some states and feminists are shooting for that as a goal.

    You mean women needs 9 months + to get her act together to decide whether to kill the baby?

    Even a baby that if delivery early by cesarean could just start breathing immediately.

    Rape, incest, horrible birth defect is reasonable

    First trimester is 3 months. If you can’t decide by then, you shouldn’t legally be able to I’m sorry. Take some responsibility for your action.

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