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    Arnold Böcklin The Isle of the Dead III 1883   • Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (PCR) • Trump’s Foreign Policy Tea
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 15 2024]

    #174438
    tboc
    Participant

    Matt Gaetz, Elon Musk, Mike Huckabee, Pete Hegseth
    fundamentalist talmudic christian zionism
    romantic transhumanist obsession
    “those who bless genocide will be blessed” – Mars

    Constantine I 325 AD
    2025
    1700
    let the numerology begin

    never read any part of The Ramayana, The Tao or any Rumi and know everything about reality
    all of human history prior to the Industrial Revolution myth and fable
    “We built this city on Rock and Roll” – Starship

    nano fabric turfing – and it’s not even green

    #174439
    poppie
    Participant

    Looking for a source to doom scroll the appointments. This is sort of a start.
    https://presidentialtransition.org/transition-resources/presidential-transition-guide/presidential-appointments/
    An interesting part will be the voting rolls of the senate.

    #174441
    John Day
    Participant

    Good bunch of articles today, a good news day. Hope you are doing well, Ilargi.

    #174444
    poppie
    Participant

    While I am logged in, I forgot to tell the story that goes with the picture. When I saw the picture I just had to have it. I tracked down the artist and contacted him. He said he was getting a lot of traffic about it. The Economist owned the rights. If he got permission he would let me know. So it appears the Economist thought they were slandering Trumpy but the work was very popular. Being an autisttard I couldnt let it go. I checked many hits of many searches. days. I found the web page of the art director of the Economist where the cover art of every issue the director had approved had a source write up and a master grade digital copy in the open with no copyright. Personal pride in other peoples work. With an abundance of ethics I did not download a copy. Nor did I have posters made for my friends.
    trumpy

    #174445
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Arnold Böcklin The Isle of the Dead III 1883

    All three are amazing. But speaking of myth and archetype: https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-cauldron-of-reality

    “Trump Will Be The Nail In ESG’s Coffin: Such was the topic of a new Bloomberg op-ed piece”

    He has nothing to do with it. More like a marker. However, this is Al Gore’s multi-trillion plan of wealth transfer TO friends and away from enemies. WHILE killing all humans, as we see in Germany right now. #Winning.
    We’re merely moved from mass-murdering, world-wide-genocide extreme to, let’s-not-also-PAY-for-the-privilege extreme. There’s quite a ways to go.

    “FBI Official Who Oversaw J6 Pipe Bomb Probe Lied About Receiving ‘Corrupted’ Evidence

    What a shock! You mean we always KNEW who it was talking on a cell phone, planting bombs, in one of the world’s most surveilled cities? But that would mean the government was LYING!

    “Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.” –The Atlantic

    Gee, who told you that? And what New England-based magazine said it’ll all be okay? Major multi-national corporations are experts saving you and would never misbehave? Your data is safe with the woldwide global panopticon?

    Speaking of:
    “Public debate is afflicted by short-term thinking – how did history abdicate its role of inspiring the longer view?” –Aeon

    You. You did that. I’ve watched magazines do this less and less every hour of my life. We said, “but somebody has to tell the longer story and it’s dumbing people down.” They said, “The New York Times is now at an 8th grade level, and that’s too high because USA Today is at a 4th Grade level and are eating our lunch. More potential readers. And people don’t like to work.” I kid you not. Same as Churches did. “This morality and consequences stuff, mean, boring, and outdated, amirite? What you really need to fill the seats is to NOT have a religion in here…” Uh, no, because drinks are better at the club and bowling is more fun. Channeling Stark Industries, you’re now a Weapons Company…that doesn’t produce weapons. You’re an information company…that doesn’t provide information.

    I would just say, “Sure, but SOMEBODY has to be that smarter paper: sell those readers.” This is like the Doonesbury model: a cartoon that is in 100% of papers nationwide, but inscrutable and undecipherable. And funny? Not like Dilbert funny, but depends on your point of view. Here’s the thing: it’s popular BECAUSE it’s smart. You DO have to get up to speed with the code, the information underneath it, that is, daily trends and politics. It’s smart but not for everyone. Just like dumb is not for everyone.

    So who was right? Well dumb podcasts are probably more popular, but smart podcasts have an enormous base. Even very, very very long-seeing ones like Althist. The most popular podcast on earth is arguably in the upper 75% smart: Joe Rogan. Who SHOULD be the lower 45% dumb as a boxer.

    “…How did HISTORY abdicate?” — Abstraction. Passive tense. No one did that. History Professors are still writing history theses. YOU, the media, magazines and publishers did that. We watched you do it then complain about how dumb Americans were getting. Decade after decade. Classic. Classic Boomers. “How’d these kids get all these participation trophies, the snowflake idiots?” Um, Newsflash: Kids don’t give THEMSELVES trophies. Boomer administrators do. So as narcissists, they have to be the ONLY smart people in the room, in the family. Even if they have to DESTROY all the other members, take away their books and keep them from reading. Aeon.

    Conclusion: this is not an accident.

    “U.S. – Following the news that the CEO of Polymarket had his phone and electronics seized by government officials, FBI To Raid Homes Of All 75,000,000 People Who Conspired To Elect Trump “ –Bbee

    “Democrats Denounce Satan As ‘Too Moderate’ BBee

    C’mon, that’s too harsh!

    “Kamala Reminds Voters Killing Your Babies Is On The Ballot” –Bbee

    And the #1 Issue. Okay maybe not.

    But it’s not THAT far, right?

    “Unclear If Angry-Looking Bald Person A Neo-Nazi Or Leftist Woman” –Bbee

    Oh yeah, women are skinheads now.

    “To Protest Coronation Of Aragorn, Orcs Announce Sex Strike” –Bbee

    Okay, okay you two: get a subscription if you want to do that in public.

    Speaking of our new Non-stop Skinheads, smashing and rioting in the streets, Sargon points out shaving your head, cloistering yourself in an ever-tiny echo chamber and taking a vow of chastity is perfectly normal and has been done for 1,000 years: they’re called “Nuns.” That is, Woke is a religion, or essentially a Cult. As only yesterday, who was it, the editor of the Guardian said she was cutting off all her friends and family for the holidays, perhaps forever? They’re not Churchianity enough and only attend once a day, the bigots. Don’t they know they hold mass TWICE a day? What are you Satan’s minion? And you could be at Church club reading between masses too, you unwashed heathen scum. You deplorable pustules of unworthiness. You could be Just. Like. Me.

    https://babylonbee.com/video/satan-devastated-after-kamala-loses-election

    And Freedom Toons: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-FiPgHhdvqM

    (Link break)

    #174446
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Rogan-Trump.

    Yeah, because they’re all f—g cowards. So THEY want to endorse Trump, like 20%-40% of their artist FRIENDS want to endorse Trump, but no one, THEY won’t know because they’re fundamentally cowardly and dishonest. Yeah, that’s great for your art! Cue Standup comedians now. “We hate Trump, amirite? Everyone is stupid, amirite? Huh? Huh?” Yeah, that’s the LOWEST comedy, the worst, not worthy of a elementary school. You don’t have to go TO Trump, but these limitations are the opportunity to show genius, by mocking what is fundamental to all life and humanity. Like “The Great Dictator” or something. The magic allure and innate classiness of Post-Code Hollywood. Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It”, which rings to the ages. But I mean W.A.P. Totally will too, amirite?

    You know how to stop all this? A: Don’t Be a Coward. That’s it. That’s it for all men. Oh, am I going gender on this one? Okay, how do all Women stop this? A: Defend your husbands and children. That’s it. Trashing your family and disowning them for the holidays is the #Opposite of how women (classically) win here. Act like that for a moment, and everyone hates your guts forever. Same as men being roll-over cowards. Compare with a matriarch who does the Opposite, and keeps love with her whole family, despite all. Who wins?

    “Charlie Kirk says that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter saved freedom of speech, elected Donald Trump, and saved Western Civilization.”

    Jeez, overstate your case much? Oh wait: The Guardian is LEAVING Twitter, rage-quitting, because bad people exist and wrote stuff. …Not like in the paper or online versions. No. What they’re doing is they HAVE to leave. They HAVE to. Why? BECAUSE ALL TWITTER EXPOSES THEM AS FRAUDS, SHILLS, and PAID LIARS ALL DAY. They literally CAN’T stay, because 100% of their comment responses are how everything they print isn’t true. They’re exposed.

    Oh. Right.

    So you have a problem with propaganda: there has to be an Iron Curtain. A Berlin Wall. There can be NO gaps, of any kind, anywhere in it, ever. They have to win 100%, every throw. Meanwhile, all Truth has to do is leak in anywhere and they win. Hey you might be working against the Tao and the Will of Heaven here, maybe? Like maybe a strategy that requires infinite energy input, at an infinitely increasing rate collapses after a while? You Humanist Idiots? GOD, the Universe, is larger than you are? You have LESS energy, it has more?

    Yeah, that SOUNDS like hyperbole, but in a way it’s not. And so a day after Musk was backing out, Twitter Execs SUED HIM TO MAKE HIM BUY, he said “Okay then” and was on time-track for the election. But Musk never did no good stuff. Like the Turtles, it’s only Bad all the way down.

    “1840 French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville accurately predicted what kind of tyranny democratic modern nations would face”

    And he was right (as about most things). He also said if “America ceased to be good, it would no longer be Great.”

    “Under the leadership of @elonmusk & @VivekGRamaswamy, @DOGE will now put a stop to that.”

    No they won’t. WE will or no one will. That’s OUR job, not theirs.

    Yeah, cluephone: speaking of abdicating to bureaucracies to trust they are working for you so you can ignore it all again and sit at home? That problem is not fixed by swapping Comey for Musk. It doesn’t matter WHICH bureaucracy parasites you, it’s anti-Liberty.

    ““It will be ironic if Kennedy restores our health but Trump’s foreign policy team destroys us in war.”

    Yeah, well, problem: They still have a s—t ton of power. The only way to GET them to stop killing Americans by the millions is TO tell them we need healthy kids for a war. …We did exactly this after everyone was too anemic and starving for WWI. The PROBLEM is to double-cross them after and NOT have the war. Since we can get them to sign on to health in the short term, let them. Oh you want to FIGHT them, and STOP the warhawks by having a nation too unhealthy to walk a mile? Wow. #Winning. You’re a genius. No.

    “• Trump’s Foreign Policy Team May ‘Double Down on Stupid’ – Larry Johnson (Sp.)

    And then we’ll lose? And have to come home? Gee, sounds terrible. He’s so dumb.

    Elon -Doge (DogeCoin is up 100%): https://babylonbee.com/news/department-of-government-efficiency-identifies-535-government-workers-who-havent-done-any-work-for-years

    Tulsi: Are you supposed to hold your gun that far forward? Let me know, I’ve seen some weird handgun grips too.

    “one of the biggest comebacks since Lazarus..”

    Everybody’s saying this, but it’s not that unusual. We have what, two Presidents in 45? That’s 5% odds, very average, same as hair color? I think this may be because they all use Parliamentary systems where you become a pest and liability if you outstay your welcome, which isn’t at all like ours. Even so, I think this happens regularly in Italy, I wonder what they compare to. “We Make S—t Up” cuz it feels good. This average, center-left President, a rich guy from NY, boy, so weird and odd, right? Unprecedented. The only way he could be MORE average is to be from Ohio. (Eight Presidents)

    ““President Trump should work to eliminate the need for the Fed to keep interest rates low. He can do this by fighting for massive spending cuts, starting with the military-industrial complex..”

    Luongo has already said they can and plan to do this (he thinks: of course he is not on the inside). Wall Street, that is, barely our industrialists, but let’s pretend, need to bring CONGRESS and the Infinite Bureaucracy to heel. …Or they will “Go direct” and install worldwide Soviet Socialist state with a CBDC and no property rights. Duh. So the budget – now $1 Trillion every FIFTY days – plus 5x the budget INTEREST payments, well, the FED, that is: The Wall Street Banks, are in charge. They can have Powell raise to 10% overnight and then Interest payments bankrupt Congress in 10 days. You don’t USE the threat – like Brunson – it may be enough to HAVE the threat to keep them in line. Do you want to tango with Wall Street, boys? As Bane said, “Do you feel powerful now?”

    Back to Paul, IF we can get an economy, and IF we can drop $2T from the budget (should be child’s play) THEN we can not only boom, not only attract investment, but SCREW EUROPE HOLLOW with maybe a mere 5%, 7% rates — not 17% -25% rates like we deserve. What happens if all the U.S. and North America have an economy, Emerging-Market, Global South is still in a funk, and Europe is a crater? Oh yeah WE EAT THEIR LUNCH. All investment capital comes here, the US$ stays (mostly) intact. You want German Bonds, with no economy, a bankruptcy, and a continental war at 2%, or U.S. Treasuries with a raging bounceback economy at 5%? Uh, yeah: No bonds for you. Europe is all debt and deficit and collapses. …Which is okay, since that’s what they had planned for us. No Mercy until you stop being the fool and taking about us eating bugs. G. F. Y.

    “Two days after Donald Trump became the first American since Grover Cleveland to win nonconsecutive presidential elections,”

    Note, no comments anywhere about assassinating him anymore. Huh. Yeah, he cut a deal. The other side didn’t surrender, but they cut a deal. Rubio knows.

    “• Trump Team To Nuke EV Tax Credit As Musk’s Price-War Endgame Looms (ZH)

    But I thought you said he wouldn’t/couldn’t do this? Yeah, was the same thing WalMart did in promoting the minimum wage: they knew they could withstand it but their competitors couldn’t. That was WHILE they were helping their employees get government food stamps. So: I subsidize WalMart via the Government! In so many ways. Also my State, country, and town gave them free money they stole from Joe’s Diner. Capitalism!

    “• FEC Chairman: Biden DOJ Broke Federal Policies with Letter Targeting Musk (AmG)

    And nobody went to jail. Oh wait: no, Grandma did. She touched the velvet ropes in the rotunda, the Terrorist!

    “• Trump Vows To ‘Work Very Hard’ On Ukraine (RT)

    Why would he work hard? It’ll be all over on the first day.

    “Astounding revelations from a Ukrainian MP on the scale of Dictator Zelenskys corruption “

    Yeah, news is, UK is swapping out Zelensky. …Which demonstrates he’s not real and never has been.

    ““President Biden could push the process of admitting Ukraine to NATO, and the current Congress or a future Congress could vote on it even after he is no longer in office.”

    You mean the incoming REPUBLICAN Congress? Uh…

    “• Ukrainian State-run Agency Scrubs Posts Bashing Tulsi Gabbard (RT)

    Awk-Ward! DNI – Director of Information, is head of Disinformation. Sure, why not? They said the same thing where President Trump reads classified documents all day, but Chad at Buzzfeed says Trump is stupid and doesn’t know what’s going on. Chad would know!

    “Mike Huckabee, Trump’s pick for Ambassador to Israel, says the modern nation of Israel was created by the hand of Almighty God. He proclaims eternal belief in an Old Testament command: “God says those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed”

    Much as I defend Christians, I cannot abide this s—t. Yeah: God ALSO destroyed Israel several times for being a dick. GOD is the one who cursed Israel personally, there are whole BOOKS in the Bible about it, Jeremiah for example. You might have noticed? Since you keep a copy handy?

    Former perspective: this is WHY God scattered Israel after Christ and why it’s okay to dump on them and abuse them for centuries. So…no new books of the Bible were printed – what happened? Oh, like the Supreme Court, “We Make S—t Up!” We just changed our minds! One day it’s a legal law, totally logical, next day it’s completely foolish and cray-cray. Then this came to mind,
    “I keep following the Science that’s following the money.” Totally unrelated, but maybe that helps.

    “these Western powers – particularly Washington and the European Council – have expressed doubts about the election’s legitimacy, even calling for an investigation into its conduct.”

    GFY, it’s not your election. Shut your lie-hole, it’s THEIR election. Butt out. And this is AFTER running some of the worst elections in a century, all over the West.

    “• French Prosecutors Seek Prison Term And Election Ban For Le Pen (RT)

    And AfD. Free, Fair elections.

    New Zealand: Did the Haka work? A: Nope, or they’d still be doing it daily.

    Sooo…what does this Camerman think he’s going to DO with the rhino when they catch him?

    “Old salt mine in Romania

    But there ain’t no underground bases, and the military ones are really, really small. …Because an Eastern European company, using men with hand tools, can make one like this.

    Keep up with Musk, Ramaswamy, and the whole bunch. The accusations against them are (mostly) true. However, neither Asnaz nor Dr. Rich will get up and do anything, leaving us only these candidates and figures to choose from. Complaining is easy and cost free. Why isn’t Dr. Rich in the running for DoD? Why hasn’t he been tirelessly on the Fox circuit getting famous before lesser men?

    What I hear is: “They’re all bad.” Okay. “There’s no one good.” Um, less okay. Maybe fill in this part.

    JKRolling
    https://www.thefunstons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/And_then_a_miracle_happens_cartoon-400×219.jpg

    #174447
    tboc
    Participant

    scientific materialist technocratic hedonism – bless yo heart

    #174448
    John Day
    Participant

    @Poppie: Get t-shirts made. Red and black screens on a white shirt will not be too expensive in 100 lots.

    #174450
    poppie
    Participant

    DD. You said let you know. That is a nominal grip for a hand gun. It supports a couple of important functions. It preserves stability shot to shot reducing inter shot time. It enables retargeting scans concurrent with the shot which requires enough IQ to multitask.
    Poppie, 1st Lt, 28th infantry, 1974-1984.

    #174451

    So it starts like this:
    There’s a poisoned lipstick kiss,
    And alliances unholy band together.
    What gets made must get wasted!
    When the humble folks have tasted
    Any luxuries- like time for sunny weather.

    After years of gloat,
    And a vast amount of bloat-
    While the capital accrues to those most greedy,
    It becomes so unsettled
    The dissenters end up kettled
    And the boiled up bits are dished out to the needy.

    So the drums of war
    Just get beaten more and more-
    ‘Cause a war resets the books and population.
    What’s accrued is protected
    As society’s dissected:
    This is how the Hidden reboot civilization.

    #174452
    zerosum
    Participant

    Suck it up!
    Majority, 51%, – “The Country going in the right direction.”

    Selective hearing occurs when you can clearly hear information that’s you agree with but purposely ignore the parts that you find negative.
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    1. • Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (PCR)

    Breaking News: Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services

    We will now see if the Republican Senate is with Trump or against Trump and the American people.
    If the Senate consents to recess appointment of Trump’s team, they are with the President.

    The nomination of Kennedy is the most powerful of all of Trump’s appointments, with Matt Gaetz’s being second.
    ————

    RAY McGOVERN: Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’?


    2. • Will Gabbard Be Able to Direct the Intelligence ‘Community’? (Ray McGovern)
    By Ray McGovern

    The next director of national intelligence needs courage, political smarts and strong presidential backing to fulfill her duty to oversee and provide advice on covert action.

    Maybe Tulsi Gabbard can take the reins and make the community work. It will take a miracle; let’s hope for one.
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    Ukrainian ‘anti-disinfo’ agency scrubs criticism of Trump’s intel chief pick
    3. Kiev’s Center for Countering Disinformation had accused Tulsi Gabbard of working “for Kremlin money”
    The posts were removed on Thursday morning, Strana.ua said.
    https://swentr.site/news/607664-ukrainian-agency-deletes-tulsi-allegations/
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    4. • What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again? (Paul Craig Roberts)

    Realistically, What Are Trump’s Chances to Make American Great Again?

    When I was in the US Treasury, I had to tell my executive secretary that I did not want any more appointments with lobbyists telling me how I was to formulate policy to serve them.

    Being of years of experience, she told me: you won’t get the directorships, you won’t get the consultant fees.
    I told her I was there to serve the president and that was our job.

    It is going to be a challenge for the administration Trump has assembled to make America great again.

    Trump is there to be tough for America.
    War is a likely outcome.
    The threatened world already sees it coming.

    ————-
    now that Trump is elected, the proxy war against Russia will be over quickly, only for the American warmongers to start another war, say, against Iran.

    5. • Trump Vows To ‘Work Very Hard’ On Ukraine (RT)

    https://swentr.site/news/607673-trump-vows-work-hard-ukraine/
    “..the goals of its military operation – including Ukrainian neutrality, demilitarization, and denazification – must be met..”
    President Vladimir Putin has signaled that Russia is willing to immediately declare a ceasefire and start peace talks as soon as Kiev begins withdrawing troops from the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, which voted in referendums to join the country in autumn 2022.
    Moscow has also ruled out talks with Kiev as long as Ukrainian troops occupy part of the border region of Kursk.

    Trump has nominated several critics of Ukraine aid for top government positions, including Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Matt Gaetz for attorney general.
    The nominations must be confirmed by the Senate, which the Republicans regained control over in this year’s election.
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    #174453
    Oroboros
    Participant

    How could someone ban the World’s Coolest Dog?

    We need more D.O.G.E.

    .

    #174454
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Most Everything in Life boils down to this…..

    The Heart of Reality

    Einstein finally realizes that Time is Money

    .

    #174455
    John Day
    Participant

    Q: What do you get when you cross a huckster with a Macabee?
    A: …

    #174456
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trump has bypassed. Doing his own selections
    https://presidentialtransition.org/
    2024 Presidential Transition Updates

    Incoming administrations have roughly 75 days between Election Day and Inauguration Day to prepare to govern. Our resources below outline what happens during this phase of a presidential transition, provide real-time updates on the current process and offer support to career federal employees who are navigating this time of change.

    Ready to Serve®: Resources for Prospective Appointees

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    Given the power, influence and vast resources of the federal government, both in the United States and abroad, trust in the integrity of presidential appointees and their commitment to public service is paramount.

    Ready to Serve is a centralized resource that guides aspiring appointees through every step of the complex political appointment process. Get an early start and prepare.

    Key Steps in the Appointments Process
    Each presidential administration may fill approximately 4,000 political appointments to help carry out the president’s agenda. People who fill these roles are held to high standards of integrity and undergo a rigorous vetting process.

    #174457
    The Black
    Participant

    At this point all I really want to see is Trump and his cabinet perform a MAGA HAKA on January 20. I think it would send a strong and unforgettable message of unity. Instant worldwide virality.

    #174458
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FRitbjFL90
    Inevitable Collapse Of Ukrainian Army Russians Launch Major Offensive In Zaporizhzhia MS 2024.11.15

    #174459
    zerosum
    Participant

    Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be an enema on the fed.

    (An enema involves inserting liquid directly into your rectum to help you poop. Most people use them to relieve constipation that hasn’t improved with other treatments and as a colon cleanse to prepare for a colonoscopy. )
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    a colonoscopy

    https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/trump-todd-blanche-deputy-attorney-general
    Trump names his defense lawyers for top DOJ and solicitor general roles

    President-elect Trump announced Thursday he will nominate attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who’ve both represented him in several criminal cases, to No. 2 and No. 3 spots in the Department of Justice.

    The latest: Dean John Sauer, another of Trump’s attorneys, was tapped for solicitor general after representing Trump in his Jan. 6 case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that presidents have immunity for “official acts.”

    The big picture: Trump has vowed to reform the DOJ and will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as attorney general to oversee this during his second term.

    Trump wants Blanche to serve as deputy attorney general and said in a statement Thursday the lead attorney in his New York hush money trial “will be a crucial leader in the Justice Department, fixing what has been a broken System of Justice for far too long.”
    Zoom in: Bove will serve as principal associate deputy attorney general and as acting deputy attorney general while Blanche is in the process of being confirmed by the Senate, Trump said.

    “Emil is a tough and strong attorney, who will be a crucial part of the Justice Department, rooting out corruption and crime,” he added.
    Trump called Sauer a “deeply accomplished, masterful appellate attorney,” and acknowledged the role he played in the Supreme Court immunity ruling.
    “Most recently, John was the lead counsel representing me in the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States, winning a Historic Victory on Presidential Immunity, which was key to defeating the unConstitutional campaign of Lawfare against me and the entire MAGA Movement,” he said in a statement.
    Go deeper: Trump nominates Jay Clayton to head powerful prosecutorial office

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    #174464
    jb-hb
    Participant

    We’re going to work hard on Ukraine now?

    I suspect it’s just a matter of: Ukraine is in Russia’s sphere of influence, not NATO’s, not the EU’s, not the US’s, not the UK’s etc.

    Like if the Japanese are continually sending planes in to “work hard on resolving the Okinawa situation”

    Okay, but we don’t call this area “The Okinawa situation” we call it 5th Fleet’s Zone of Operations. We’ve got so much AA now, our ships are almost too topheavy from the additional AA we bolted onto the decks above and beyond original design. We don’t so much hit the pilot or the engine anymore so much as erode incoming planes away to nothing with a wall of every calibre coordinated from every ship. Call flying into that “working hard” or whatever you want until you run out of planes or stop.

    #174465
    tboc
    Participant

    Dr D you do not understand guerilla warfare.
    or honor, or duty, or the cost to humanity of iniquity
    A reenacatment of the The Miller’s Tale! I shall be Absolom..

    Your arguments carry all of the weight of a Littoral Combat Ship.
    Would it be a bridge to far for you to provide a summary list of your publications and a list of your appearances on The Lame Stream Media.
    We know you are right, you tell us everyday. Show and tell, pahdnah, not tell and tell

    Name one time the US consensus was correct and China and Russia were defeated or even thwarted.
    (The seeds of our consensus concering Afghanistan were planted in 1988 and bore fruit in April 2021.)
    Start with Korea in 1950 and let Ukraine in 2025 end the challenge.
    Ah the nostalgia for that time when we would stop Sino-Soviet agression in Southeast Asia.
    and a moment of silence in memory of the graduates of The School of The Americas

    Post a number representing the cost to restore the Rust Belt to full capacity. Name the capital management firms that will make thirty year investments in infrastructure. Name one thing that has been positive in the US economy since T Boone Pickens started corporate raiding. Define the difference between venture capitalism, leeches and blood letting. Are you suggesting a Marshall Plan for the United States? Put a number on the total liability of the derivatives market. Present a method to assuage the cascading horror of margin calls in the event of a 20% market correction.
    Soap on a rope, go to usdebtclock – org

    Percentage of state revenue supplied by US federal government:
    Louisiana 52.27%
    Hawaii 27.13%
    Overall 20% of state revenue from federal sources.
    Government Employees 2023 (millions):
    Federal – 2.93
    State, Local – 19.58
    Only 15% of government employment is by the federal government.
    The Department of Labor request for Employment and Training FY2024 $11,826,658,000
    Worker Protection Agencies Budget FY2024 $2,314,412,000
    Deficit Funded?
    How will any increase in unemployment compensation and job training costs not lead to increased deficit spending?
    Please explain how removing two trillion dollars of life support from the economy will
    increase revenue
    decrease interest payments
    increase GDP
    increase total worker compensation
    Reduce the DoD budget
    increase private sector employment
    brighten The Non Farm Payroll reports

    Throw millions of US citizens, who followed their self interest, to the curb to satisfy the self interest of a bunch of teat sucking parasites who should take care of themself?
    More efficient at what? Class warfare.
    Increased efficiency in murdering widows and children?
    A moron with a PHD is, you guessed it, a moron with a PHD
    and who has been in charge of building the consensus? Kissinger’s experts and morons with PHDs
    expert – has been drip under pressure
    Does not take a rocket surgeon to know who’s lunch is going to get eaten.

    Name one productive allocation of capital provided by the asset markets, One will be enough.
    A non-productive service economy remains a non-productive service economy until ouroboros is complete.

    You say you lost your faith
    but that’s not where it’s at
    You had no faith to lose
    and you know it
    ……………………………….
    Positively 4th Street

    “you have to be asleep to believe it” – Carlin

    #174466
    zerosum
    Participant

    News from the other side
    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/15/737271/69-Mossad-affiliated-terrorists-eliminated,-captured-amid-drill-in-southeast-Iran
    Nearly 70 Mossad-affiliated terrorists killed or captured in southeast Iran
    Friday, 15 November 2024 10:30 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 15 November 2024 11:33 AM ]

    #174467
    John Day
    Participant

    Nice Rat Patrol and Rat Patrol Jr. images at that link, Zerosum:

    rat-patrol
    Durn, picture no take…

    #174468
    zerosum
    Participant

    If you want news go read …
    Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will be an enema on the Pentagon

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/fourths-time-the-pentagon-is-faking-the-books-for-ukraine.html#comments
    November 15, 2024
    Pentagon Again Applies Budget Lies To Deliver More Weapons To Ukraine – Jul 26 2024, MoA

    Fourth Time The Pentagon Is Faking The Books For Ukraine
    For a fourth time the Pentagon is ‘finding money’ outside of the budget that can be spend on Ukraine.

    I had previously noticed three occasions in which the Pentagon, on order of the Biden administration, used some or ‘accounting error’ gimmicks to ‘find’ more money for Ukraine.

    Here is now another, the fourth, incident of creative budget accounting in favor of money for war in Ukraine:

    https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/11/14/guessing-the-future-for-aukus-and-ice-00189683

    MONEY TALKS: The Biden administration has more money to help Ukraine than originally thought. All reports previously indicated that there was $4.3 billion left in the Presidential Drawdown Authority account, which reimburses the U.S. armed forces for munitions and equipment sent to Ukraine.

    Turns out, the number is actually $7.1 billion, thanks to some revised accounting the Pentagon has done, DOD officials tell your anchor. That extra $2.8 billion isn’t just found money. The way things work is that the Pentagon calculates how much buying replacement goods for what it sends Ukraine will cost. The number crunchers at the Pentagon ran through the lists and discovered that replacement for some items cost less than anticipated.

    The plan is for the administration to spend down that whole $7.1 billion by Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, which is a pretty tall order given the cadence of aid packages being announced roughly every two weeks work between $200 million and $500 million. Those numbers are going to have to go way up, but even then deliveries of that equipment would continue well into the Trump administration, which could turn off the spigot at any time.
    Creative accounting like this, i.e. faking the books, is a no-no for commercial entity as it might well end with time spent in jail.

    I’ll repeat myself:

    Any commercial company doing what the Pentagon is doing here would be asking for serious trouble.
    One wonder if and when Congress will wake up to this.

    ————

    #174469
    John Day
    Participant

    Because there are no dogs in Africa? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/welsh-government-told-create-dog-free-zones-public-areas-fight-racism
    The environmental group Climate Cymru BAME has issued a report instructing the government to create “dog-free areas in local green spaces” as part of an “anti-racist” drive to make the country more “inclusive”.

    The advice was reinforced by another group, the North Wales Africa Society, which complained that “one black African female stated that she feels unsafe with the presence of dogs” during a focus group meeting.

    #174470
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1857089671391576481
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces “every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed [to Ukraine] between now and January 20th” when Trump takes office.
    7:54 AM · Nov 14, 2024
    1.9M Views

    #174471
    zerosum
    Participant

    Well, it looks like Musk will have something to investigate as soon as he gets to the office after confirmation as this supposed accounting smacks of inefficiency. I also wonder how Trump will manage to get Congress to overturn the rule about keeping so many aircraft carriers on hand, which is a massive hole into which billions are poured annually for an obsolete weapons system.

    Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 15 2024

    #174472
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2023/11/16/pentagon-fails-sixth-audit-with-number-of-passing-grades-stagnant/
    Pentagon fails sixth audit, with number of passing grades stagnant
    By Noah Robertson
    Nov 15, 2023

    #174473
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    ICYMI: Four out of three Trump’s cabinet nominees and/or appointees poses at least whole bunch of characteristics of a venomous snake!

    Good news! One of them could have been Mike Pompeo:

    … but I digress grossly,

    F.S.

    #174481
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Irrationality Studies [ of Western behaviour ]

    Two part vid by Professors Glenn Diesen and Pascal Lottaz

    F.S.

    #174482
    citizenx
    Participant

    Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport.

    They did enforce this…it was not just a plan. Seattle was the first city in the US to lockdown and the last to “reopen” – it was Liberal hell and insanity. What I experienced and witnessed from 2020-23 from the cult is unfathomable to most of you, count yourself fortunate. 2024 election just fueled their insanity and hatred.

    Vax cards were mandatory for both employment and entry to all public/ private spaces. Libtard Gov Inslee disarmed the public with a weapons and magazine ban. They went full authoritarian group think hive mind consensus ‘reality’. They closed hiking trails and banned being in the Mountains alone….

    I will never forgive or forget. Any and all retribution is justified. And now they cry, oh how they cry about Trump and hating America. They are disgusting hypocritical sub human filth.

    Don’t Be a Coward. That’s it for all men. Okay, how do all Women stop this? A: Defend your husbands and children.

    Behind every great man is an even better woman- Remember that one?
    Democrat Liberal women are disgusting, they hate men, torture their children, and blame men as racist and sexist for Trump winning. They are so fucking tone deaf and mentally ill…the real mind virus.

    When the vax cards became reality I knew it was an act of war and it still continues. When you are behind enemy lines= a partisan, guerilla fighter, dissident, rebel- Continuing to fight and resist with intelligence AND courage are critical- not just courage. Exposing yourself as pureblood around a million of these fuckers was self immolation- better to wait and throw the molotov ie Trumps art than to not throw at all.

    Musk and Rogan saved free speech which Liberals hate.
    Never forget, liberals want to control OR destroy YOU- or both.
    Liberals also hate truth- which is exactly why they want to control speech.

    From the sword of the crusader to the missionary spin
    From the atom of creation to the secrets deep within
    Illusions and delusions lead us where we shouldn’t go
    Time to disconnect from clutter, time to hit the road

    Ride out to a bold new horizon
    Where the sun may be shinin’
    On a place you’ve never seen

    Ride out lift your soul and your spirit
    Take a chance and get near it
    Everybody needs a dream

    Is the media for real do we fake or do we feel
    Do we base all our appeal on a model or a myth
    It’s a market correction it’s addiction resurrection
    It’s the last thing you mention before you knock it stiff

    Ride out where the hills meet the valleys
    Far from campaigns and rallies
    And the things we do for oil

    Ride out mix the real and imagined
    With the lost and abandoned
    And bring it to a boil

    It takes your breath away
    The way we pay and pay and pay and pay

    You can take it to the masses you can run it up a pole
    You can conquer all resistance and believe you’re in control
    But the world will be watchin’ there’s a crack in every lie
    When it opens like a chasm you can kiss it all goodbye

    Ride out to the high copper canyons
    Past the shacks and the mansions
    Where the rivers never end

    Ride out past the peaks and the mesas
    To the wide open spaces
    You may never see again

    Ride out to a brand new horizon
    Where the sun may be shinin’
    On a place you’ve never seen

    Ride out lift your soul lift your spirt
    Take a chance and get near it
    Everybody needs a dream

    #174483
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    <b>Operation SpaceX-400</b> [unrepentant sinners, no peace nor rest!]

    SpaceX plans to sharply increase the number of flights of its yuuge, yuuge new rocket during Trump’s second term.

    Gwynne Shotwell, president at SpaceX declared Friday: …400 launches of <i>Starship</i> – as the vehicle is called, over the next four years!

    F.S.

    #174484

    My mate says Elon could suggest that we could build fighter jets like rockets- where you can land them and us them again.

    #174485
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I suspect the concerns about what will happen if the spigot for wildly printed money is turned down or off is analogous to education.

    If we test our teachers for competency while requiring a passing grade to test, we could have x% teachers fired and how will we educate without teachers.

    …when actually, we’re discovering for the first time how many teachers we actually HAD.

    How much of the federal dollars pouring into the state fund corruption and waste? How much fraud is there in disabilities, unemployment, etc? So if the printed money slows down, we find out how much STUFF we actually had all along.

    But taking a step back further, there’s something really REALLY wrong with our money. There are clearly heaps and heaps of it, galactic sized, being used in a way that essentially creates a command economy, overrules any market action.

    Or thought of a different way, wherever the endless waterfall of money is coming from – not just government – it’s like roundup. You spray EVERYTHING including the stuff you want to live, but then you did something that makes just the things you wanted to live survive (monsanto crops)

    So you spray everything with infinite money, make sure only your chosen winners stand next to the spigot while everything else perishes despite any all of their free market actions. Everything but your GMO soybeans dies.

    So particular people being replaced or retiring from active power won’t cut it. Redistributing money won’t cut it. The money itself has to die. I don’t want to steal all those trillions out there for myself, nor set myself up as dictator re-distributing it morally, I want to put it in a big pile and burn it all.

    #174492
    poppie
    Participant

    jb-hb
    you really need to put your resume into the Trumpy transition team.
    Very respectfully
    Poppie

    #174493
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “..Tesla – the largest EV automaker in the US and the only one not reliant on EV credits for survival..”

    Yes, the EV subsidy, but what about all the other subsidies such as the battery manufacturing subsidies? Will they be going too, in which case how will Tesla survive given that it cannot make a profit without these subsidies? The tarrifs on foreign EVs have been set so high that the market price of domestic made electric vehicles in the USA have been able to rise due to the destruction of cheap competition; this allows the inefficient home industries to survive, subsidising their inefficiency through artificial rigging of prices. Tesla yet again proving that it cannot survive without the help of the government teat.

    #174494
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “Gaetz is no milk toast. He is a strong individual, the kind of person needed in such a critical office. My question is: does he have the seasoning..”

    A nice idea but how will Gaetz handle the internal politics of running a huge division of the government. Will he know how to fire the people that need to go in order to create a team loyal to his leadership? I very much doubt it. Will he do a Trump, try to convert the team owned by the previous leader, and fail. Same with Tulsi Gabbard. My guess is that these appointments will crash due to a total lack of experience in senior management. We saw the same with Trump in 2016, total lack of experience resulted in him being blindsided by everyone.

    #174495
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Alastair Crooke early with his latest weekly article, … states that Israeli media terms orange hair simian’s team of nominees and appointees as “a ‘dream team’ for Netanyahu”

    There are no “Easy Wars” left to fight, but do not mistake the longing for one

    F.S

    #174496
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Figmund Sreud said

    <b>Operation SpaceX-400</b> [unrepentant sinners, no peace nor rest!]

    SpaceX plans to sharply increase the number of flights of its yuuge, yuuge new rocket during Trump’s second term.

    Gwynne Shotwell, president at SpaceX declared Friday: …400 launches of <i>Starship</i> – as the vehicle is called, over the next four years!

    So much for budget cuts, one teat closes, another opens up. The USA just can’t tighten it’s belt, too much living in comfort, getting what you want, you will run up the credit card until one day it will all suddenly stop and reality will become real again; until then, reality is unreal, reality is whatever the oligarchs want it to be.

    #174497
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Trump revealed

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