The elites of both parties represent the same group—themselves. They squabble over cultural issues. On matters of real importance, the two things that will ruin us, war and money, they both want more.
Seems like the similarities between the Democrats and Republicans have been with us for a long time. Can anyone dispute this Huey Long quote from 1932: "They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen".
Whatever Huey might have been that was a great quote. But I would dispute the biggest pig of them all. He can't compare with guys like Obama who made a fortune giving speeches to Wall Street after having bailed out the crooked Banksters. Or Cheney who made a fortune from his illegal invasion of Iraq.
After reading the comments, I don't think Bill is attacking Trump; I think he is telling us that no matter who is in charge, we get the same thing. More war, more spending, more deficits. It is a flaw of any government, no matter democracy, republic, communist; it is a flaw of man when he is spending someone else's money. Until we get back to a small government, it won't change.
Agree! And, unfortunately, the way to a small government is through the crash and burn of the American Empire. No matter what you hope for - it is coming. Many run to denial to help them sleep through the night. Denial is just a short term con-game. Won't stop the chaos ahead.
LSO. So true. No one can change what is coming. All family should prepare as best they can! I would still rather have Trump as he has never called me a racist. I am still curious to see what Vivek and Elon could possibly do. We will see.
NAFTA caused Mexico to be the third largest trading partner behind China and Canada. Manufacturing from around the world moved to Canada and Mexico and China is moving in. It is probably the biggest economic stimulus program and job transfer in world history… all at the expense of Americans… then you have 50 million illegals remitting money.
Brother Xave, NAFTA was that reprobate Clinton's deal, not that he invented it; he was told to promote it by the Insiders, but it's still his flagship "accomplishment" other than indulging himself in sexual favors, and cigars, in the Oval Office and lying to the world about it. NAFTA was a destructive program and the opposite of "America First." You know this, and I know this, and $5 buys one of us a cup of a beverage formerly known as coffee at Starbucks (which I avoid like The Plague, because it is the embodiment of corporatism).
Regarding 50 million ex-pat remittances, this is what happens when you kill the middle class. Millions of former workers go on welfare in its many forms and learn to subsist thereon, and you have to import workers who will put up this sham for the chance to send some money back home, where things are even worse. This all was done to further the agenda of the Insiders. President Trump rages against this, which is why all the Establishment Types hate him.
Even if President Trump accomplishes NOTHING, he has exposed the bastards, itself an accomplishment. All Mr. Bonner seems to care about is the dreaded Big Loss on which he fixates and over which he loses sleep and sanity. Best always. PM
I am camping; yesterday morning, I bought two egg McMuffins, two large coffees and it cost $16. I never go to Starbucks unless traveling and need internet, never understood why the concept was so successful. Seems, unions are killing them, compromised of entitlement college grads with no skills.
Trump is the best thing, in my opinion, in my literate lifetime. Only Trump could have outed the deep stupid state. “Fight, fight, fight! Is apt. And we needed it!
Seriously Xavier? Trump "outed" the deep stupid state. Wow! There is absolutely no way the "deep stupid state" is going anywhere. Oh, sure, Trump blows is trumpet - sanctions here, sanctions there, sanctions everywhere. Take over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada. Kill Hamas if they don't bow down. How can anyone take all that seriously?
I agree that Trump outed the deep state. I certainly wasn't paying attention before Trump and I doubt most people were. Witnessing what they did to him made it clear it is running the show. Acknowledging a problem is the first step to dealing with it.
Hey Richard. I am with you. I always voted Republican, but never paid too much attention. I started paying attention in 09 after we were all down so much money and the banks were given almost $1 trillion. Disgusting. Then Trump finished off my total political education. They are all pigs just a few decent Republicans.
Trump outed them as in you know whom they are. Mostly they are us, your friendly neighbors as the Gulags were managed by every day citizens making a ruble. Just like Nazis in the death camps or Jews in Palestine.
State sanctioned mobs are willful murderers. They believe they do it for God and country… dollars help, only obeying orders from the holies on high.
A synopsis of what Trump may or may not accomplish is the stable fare of Mr. Bonner's talking points, as usual. Sir, what would you do or have you done to advance your thoughts of what should be done in place of what has been proposed, basically through Trump's myriad of talented nominees?
Well, for a start - my thoughts since you asked Bill, would be to let things play out through Trump's cabinet picks after they are confirmed, what their expertise might lend to change what has happened by lesser presidential picks - to wit, Biden's horrible spate of nominees and their lackluster liberal efforts. Trump is not afraid to admit mistakes he might have made in any of his picks and fire people. How many people were fired by the previous administration, hmm?
C'mon Bill, give it a shot if you think you might do the country a favor.
Bill is a smart guy who I believe has his mind in the right place. I too would like specific recommendations. Maybe for doge which is perhaps a false flag operation. But I want to know what you would do if you were in charge. Just a few bullet points.
I'm guessing maybe by Greenland sounds like a good deal. Let's ask Tom Dyson.
I'm happy if Bill and Team are focusing all their attention on what WE should do with our own dominions. The rest of us can humor ourselves offering the government mobsters our thoughtful advice.
My expectation is shifting regarding Trump’s second term. My view had been that it was not going to look very different from his first term. Now I believe that the Democrats are just beginning to wish they had let him win in 2020. If that sentiment unfolds it will be because of just how very different things have become from 4 years ago, and not in a good way for the Democrats and the global powers that they represent. And the shift this time is not all about Donald Trump, when one could argue in 2016 that it most certainly was. This time it is not even all about politics. Civil society, on the right, has a team on the playing field for the first time in a very long time. This is significant on many levels. A very large part of the battle we are in is about taking power away from the government. In that sense I agree with Bill 100%. It is not about either party. It is about rebuilding a strong civil society before it is destroyed with elites and non-elites that have power and influence(political AND civil power) and that use it to decentralize everywhere. This will mean many things, some of them political, including constitutional sheriffs and least magistrate power politics. It is a trend. It needs to continue and get much, much stronger. It is not top down, it never could be. We shall see.
It seems that the current effort must be to get rid of the elites, Davosians, globalists or current leadership in the US, EU and world. They are the problem. They created the debt and wars the world is faced with. Bill is right in my opinion on debt and wars Sure, the people elected these collectivist parasites but that is beside the point right now. The point is we need them out of the way before we can address the problems they have caused. Then after removing them from having any say we can confront the debt problem they created and we can stop the wars. Right now they and the media they own and control are constantly lying and confusing issues and misrepresenting various nation's problems. Why? Because they want control! They are actually stating that fact, straight out, Hilary Clinton and the climate change ahole.
Also the US should primarily work on it's own problems i.e. lead the way for the rest of the world and that is happening with Trump, Putin and the rejection of Macron, Scholz, Trudeau, the WEF and other globalists. It's essentially impossible to get rid of 35T in debt with a 25T economy here in the US or anywhere else, period. But you sure aren't going to correct the problems they've created doing nothing and especially giving them the podium. So the first step has commenced getting rid of them and then we can confront the impossible. Trump take the lead you've been given and for the rest either get on board or get out of the way if you want something better.
Here we go again, youngsters, with the best laid plans of mice and "rich" men. Like the California fires, the winds are containable until they are not: then, some rich people's homes get destroyed along with many "average" people's . When our debt bomb finally explodes, some "rich boys" may find a safe place to hide (like the King and Queen of France}, may not be as easy as planned.
Exactly. There is no saving it. Some just can't stomach the truth of what America's future is. Denial through hope becomes the swan song. One day - suddenly - it will become clear. Too late to prepare. Reminds me of the Charge of the Light Brigade - "into the Valley of Death rode the 600".
Well, Bonner makes many good points today and even throws a few crumbs Trump's way. But then, of course, while acknowledging his TDS problem, he double downs on his assertion that the second Trump term will be no different than the first. I disagree. His cabinet picks are much better than last time. In retrospect, we are fortunate that Trump "lost" in 2020, since I believe it not only exposed the Democrats for who they are (Progressive Fascist Nihilist Leftists) but also gave Trump a new perspective on what needs to be done. I expect Trump to come out with "both guns blazing" and if he doesn't, he will have missed a once in a lifetime opportunity to get America back on track. He has made a good start with his cabinet picks as well as with the concept of DOGE with Elon and Vivek. I am cautiously optimistic.
Mr. Gallien, I agree that Bill made some good points. But anymore he seems to many times undermine these points. For example, he needlessly denigrates cultural issues in the U.S., implying that only financial issues are important. Yet look at U.S. third-world cities, which some folks might call Dem-run cities, or Urban America. They are hell-holes because of serious cultural issues such as welfare dependency, female-led households, crime-not-work pays, wokeness, DEI, etc. Look at California and its radical cultural policies. These have led to fiscal irresponsibility; and, the continued runoff of middle-class residents. And its radical environmental and DEI policies, for example, have recently led to problems trying to mitigate serious fires in and around Los Angeles.
The biggest problem I have with Bill is that he refuses to blame a majority of the American people for America’s problems. He acts like they are these innocent lambs lured to the slaughter by evil politicians and govt./corporate big shots. But the idea that a majority of them would vote to slash the debt is ludicrous. They (and Bill) know that slashing debt would mean massively eliminating jobs, possibly their own jobs; and, they would go nuclear if this were to happen. Look at all the Americans who are themselves heavily in debt. I’m not talking about government- or company-debt. I contend that a majority of Americans love debt or at least don't think it's a problem.
I agree with a lot of what you have to say. Half of our country adheres to the Democrat dogma of the welfare state. Congress gets low approval ratings (if that is to be believed), yet the same people are voted in year after year. So, what is it exactly that they are disagreeing with? While Trump is far from perfect, it amazes me that Harris got as many votes as she did.
I do disagree on a couple of points. For example, that slashing debt would "mean massively eliminating jobs". Well, you are right in the short run as government jobs would be eliminated and those companies and institutions (the green lobby, the idiotic research grants, and other favored sectors of our economy) would not get government handouts and therefore encounter problems. And there would be resistance to that. However, the growth of the economy in other sectors, especially those that have all the unnecessary regulations eliminated, would grow. In the long run, we would be better off. But that would entail change.
I also agree with you that Bonner's constant harping on the elites controlling the rest of us is way overblown. We are not pawns (although some of us are), but the progressives have taken over our schools and are turning out a certain degree of government loving socialists who are compliant to whatever the government wants to do. This is only countered when the kids are taught good values at home wherever that happens.
So, I agree that progressive ideology has had a major corrupting influence on our culture. The only way to solve this is to return to rational thinking based on the facts of reality and realize that there is no free lunch. Human flourishing depends on humans being productive by observing and understanding the facts of reality, realizing that we require individual rights and therefore a free market to flourish, and act accordingly. There are no short cuts. Americans must be taught the value of individual rights and a free market. An uninformed and ignorant populace will look to the government to solve their problems.
Can you expand on the opinion that his picks are better this time? Is Scott Bessent any better than Steve "look at my blonde trophy wife" Mnuchin? Bessent was the right hand man of George Soros for years. As far as DOGE Elon Musk is a guy who made billions off taxpayer subsidies. I guess he could be good because he knows where some of the scams are. But do you trust a guy who shared beliefs with Klaus Schwab and the WEF like UBI, Carbon Tax Credits, brain chips, digital ideas?
Just trying to find out why Trump supporters like his picks. This is from a perspective of someone who detests both parties. I just don't understand how right leaning voters have no problem with the appointment of someone like Bessent who made his money working for Vampire George Soros. Or the involvement of Musk who Trump once belittled and said he would have got down on his knees and begged for more subsidies from the donkey US taxpayers.
Cartero. Remember the tranny stealing luggage at various airports? The tranny. admiral? I hate them both as you do with these people or a click or two improved.
Campaign promises always change like, “I will end the Ukraine War in 24 hours”;at least Trump is talking end and never should have happened and no NATO.
I am against no tax on tips, it is as unfair as rescinding student loans and,in a service economy, might comprise 30% of tax revenue.
I also hate, “Israel should finish the job” of killing 2.5 million people.
Rail against policy and action, inaction or stupid action… but not the man.
With Trump, you never know what you’re going to get, he is prodigious in talk and probably has the attribute of flexibility. It’s refreshing and needed, always interesting.
Ross Rereau famously said during the election campaign "Listen to that giant succing sound." It's america's standard of living and well paying jobs , leaving our country. Also, don't forget under Clinton.We gave china Are silent submarine technology through toshiba if I recall correctly. Clinton also gave china most favored nation trading status.... Further hobbling our country and destroying many union jobs. And unions still support these folks. The rank and file were asleep and duped. Still are
Bill’s attacks on Trump ignore reality - would he have instead supported Harris? It’s great to trash all politicians as self-serving idiots, but it doesn’t offer much of a solution. Even e US Trump’s creation of DOGE team, which purports to at least try to reduce government, has met with only criticism & cynicism from Bill. Maybe we should all follow Bill and leave the US with our multimillions — oh wait, not all of us are so fortunate. Bill, please save us with your mighty, cynical pen!
Thankyou Bill and like all hopeful people I would like to think that Trump and Co. want to turn things around but....." The perfect situation, from the Rockefellers' point of view, is to combine their economic muscle and their political oomph so that one hand washes the other. They have mastered to a frightening degree the art of using economic power to build political power which enhances economic power even further and so on, ad infinitum. We have seen that the Rockefellers have spent GENERATIONS developing an economic consortium that is the sleekest, smoothest, and most powerful combine on earth.(including education, religion, media and therefore public opinion) The incredible powerful political complex the Rockefellers have put together makes their economic activities look like the naive simplicity of a backwoods general store, and consists of organisations with are thoroughly interlocked with and financed by the House of Rockefeller - ...trite cliche about the many arms of the octopus being controlled by the same brain - Gary Allen "The Rockefeller File" page 51. (1st printing: 1976)
The Rockefellers are the epitome of the nation's permanent Establishment: governments change, economics fluctuate, foreign alliances shift - the Rockefellers prevail. Walter Cronkite CBS Reports "The Rockefellers''.
.....Practically every lawyer, banker, professor, general, journalist and bureaucrat who has had any influence on the foreign policy of the last six Presidents - from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon - (JFK then assassinated) has spent some time in the Harold Pratt House, a four story mansion on the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street, donated 26 years ago by Mr Pratt's widow (an heir to the Standard Oil fortune) to the Council of Foreign Relations Inc. ... If you can walk - or be carried - into the Pratt House, it usually means that you are a partner in an investment bank or law firm - with occasional "trouble shooting" assignments in government. You believe in foreign aid, NATO, and a bipartisan foreign policy. YOU'VE BEEN PRETTY MUCH RUNNING THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS, AND YOU KNOW IT! (page 54)
Bill, Bill, Bill…. Love your analysis but c’mon Trump has “says” he wants to reduce wars, spending, regulations, and yes taxes. He wants less government. Maybe he will not deliver and you will be right… but at least we have a leader saying the right things who can be held accountable if he doesn’t deliver. I understand your cynicism and relauctance to buy into the new Republican Party… but at least recognize there is a chance in the next 24 months
Talk is cheap. Last time he said he was going to reduce the national debt and we got a $7 trillion increase. He talks about reducing wars at the same time he doesn't rule out force to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland. Perhaps Trump is just another politician full of bullshit and hot air.
His threats seem to get pretty good results so far and he is not even Pres. yet. He will not do either threat by force but get a good response from each country.
Here's the problema. We have a exploding National debt for which both parties are responsible. Have you heard anything about how Trump plans to reduce it? But from a personal level, I detest draft dodgers who talk tough about going to war whether it's Trump, Biden, Clinton, Cheney ,etc. When these chicken hawks dodged the draft some poor or working class stiff had to go in their place. But I'd be fine with Trump and his kids leading a mission to retake the Panama Canal. We could televise the event and use the proceeds to pay down the debt.
CA: Fat chance the money would be used to pay down the debt. I’m sure the money would be used for other uses. Has anyone looked into the economy of Panama?
Maybe you are right Bill, things here will continue to slide.
But your writing lately exposes your game a bit. You position yourself like the typical FRB voter. In fact, I see striking parallels between Fed Gov Waller’s posturing this morning and your own. You and he both talk excessively about the sky falling. And if you are both wrong, you both will STILL benefit. The rest of us have to maintain some semblance of optimism, to carve out meaningful lives and economic wins. To lead our families and to encourage our children.
It is good that you spend most of your days on the “old sod”. You belong there!
Seems like the similarities between the Democrats and Republicans have been with us for a long time. Can anyone dispute this Huey Long quote from 1932: "They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen".
Huey should know he was the biggest pig of them all.
Whatever Huey might have been that was a great quote. But I would dispute the biggest pig of them all. He can't compare with guys like Obama who made a fortune giving speeches to Wall Street after having bailed out the crooked Banksters. Or Cheney who made a fortune from his illegal invasion of Iraq.
After reading the comments, I don't think Bill is attacking Trump; I think he is telling us that no matter who is in charge, we get the same thing. More war, more spending, more deficits. It is a flaw of any government, no matter democracy, republic, communist; it is a flaw of man when he is spending someone else's money. Until we get back to a small government, it won't change.
Agree! And, unfortunately, the way to a small government is through the crash and burn of the American Empire. No matter what you hope for - it is coming. Many run to denial to help them sleep through the night. Denial is just a short term con-game. Won't stop the chaos ahead.
LSO. So true. No one can change what is coming. All family should prepare as best they can! I would still rather have Trump as he has never called me a racist. I am still curious to see what Vivek and Elon could possibly do. We will see.
Agree, Worm. Can't imagine having Harris elected. What is ineffable to me is over 70 million people voted for her. 70 million.........
AOL: Maybe they knew something you didn’t. Research, research research.
NAFTA caused Mexico to be the third largest trading partner behind China and Canada. Manufacturing from around the world moved to Canada and Mexico and China is moving in. It is probably the biggest economic stimulus program and job transfer in world history… all at the expense of Americans… then you have 50 million illegals remitting money.
I guess the Uni- Party benefited?
Brother Xave, NAFTA was that reprobate Clinton's deal, not that he invented it; he was told to promote it by the Insiders, but it's still his flagship "accomplishment" other than indulging himself in sexual favors, and cigars, in the Oval Office and lying to the world about it. NAFTA was a destructive program and the opposite of "America First." You know this, and I know this, and $5 buys one of us a cup of a beverage formerly known as coffee at Starbucks (which I avoid like The Plague, because it is the embodiment of corporatism).
Regarding 50 million ex-pat remittances, this is what happens when you kill the middle class. Millions of former workers go on welfare in its many forms and learn to subsist thereon, and you have to import workers who will put up this sham for the chance to send some money back home, where things are even worse. This all was done to further the agenda of the Insiders. President Trump rages against this, which is why all the Establishment Types hate him.
Even if President Trump accomplishes NOTHING, he has exposed the bastards, itself an accomplishment. All Mr. Bonner seems to care about is the dreaded Big Loss on which he fixates and over which he loses sleep and sanity. Best always. PM
I am camping; yesterday morning, I bought two egg McMuffins, two large coffees and it cost $16. I never go to Starbucks unless traveling and need internet, never understood why the concept was so successful. Seems, unions are killing them, compromised of entitlement college grads with no skills.
Trump is the best thing, in my opinion, in my literate lifetime. Only Trump could have outed the deep stupid state. “Fight, fight, fight! Is apt. And we needed it!
Seriously Xavier? Trump "outed" the deep stupid state. Wow! There is absolutely no way the "deep stupid state" is going anywhere. Oh, sure, Trump blows is trumpet - sanctions here, sanctions there, sanctions everywhere. Take over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada. Kill Hamas if they don't bow down. How can anyone take all that seriously?
I agree that Trump outed the deep state. I certainly wasn't paying attention before Trump and I doubt most people were. Witnessing what they did to him made it clear it is running the show. Acknowledging a problem is the first step to dealing with it.
Hey Richard. I am with you. I always voted Republican, but never paid too much attention. I started paying attention in 09 after we were all down so much money and the banks were given almost $1 trillion. Disgusting. Then Trump finished off my total political education. They are all pigs just a few decent Republicans.
Trump outed them as in you know whom they are. Mostly they are us, your friendly neighbors as the Gulags were managed by every day citizens making a ruble. Just like Nazis in the death camps or Jews in Palestine.
State sanctioned mobs are willful murderers. They believe they do it for God and country… dollars help, only obeying orders from the holies on high.
Yes, Paul, I do love the fact that he exposed everything!
Ross pussy
That was actually a transcription that was meant to say Ross Perot.
😂😂😂 Bill I think we understood that. I did vote for him back in 92.
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Sure glad somebody posted what that meant, as I almost was going to ask my kids if it new “lingo”.
A synopsis of what Trump may or may not accomplish is the stable fare of Mr. Bonner's talking points, as usual. Sir, what would you do or have you done to advance your thoughts of what should be done in place of what has been proposed, basically through Trump's myriad of talented nominees?
Well, for a start - my thoughts since you asked Bill, would be to let things play out through Trump's cabinet picks after they are confirmed, what their expertise might lend to change what has happened by lesser presidential picks - to wit, Biden's horrible spate of nominees and their lackluster liberal efforts. Trump is not afraid to admit mistakes he might have made in any of his picks and fire people. How many people were fired by the previous administration, hmm?
C'mon Bill, give it a shot if you think you might do the country a favor.
I await Mr. Trump's recognition and public acknowledgement of the disaster of OWS and allowing the DOD to impose censorship and vaxx mandates.
I am not holding my breath.
Bill is a smart guy who I believe has his mind in the right place. I too would like specific recommendations. Maybe for doge which is perhaps a false flag operation. But I want to know what you would do if you were in charge. Just a few bullet points.
I'm guessing maybe by Greenland sounds like a good deal. Let's ask Tom Dyson.
I'm happy if Bill and Team are focusing all their attention on what WE should do with our own dominions. The rest of us can humor ourselves offering the government mobsters our thoughtful advice.
My expectation is shifting regarding Trump’s second term. My view had been that it was not going to look very different from his first term. Now I believe that the Democrats are just beginning to wish they had let him win in 2020. If that sentiment unfolds it will be because of just how very different things have become from 4 years ago, and not in a good way for the Democrats and the global powers that they represent. And the shift this time is not all about Donald Trump, when one could argue in 2016 that it most certainly was. This time it is not even all about politics. Civil society, on the right, has a team on the playing field for the first time in a very long time. This is significant on many levels. A very large part of the battle we are in is about taking power away from the government. In that sense I agree with Bill 100%. It is not about either party. It is about rebuilding a strong civil society before it is destroyed with elites and non-elites that have power and influence(political AND civil power) and that use it to decentralize everywhere. This will mean many things, some of them political, including constitutional sheriffs and least magistrate power politics. It is a trend. It needs to continue and get much, much stronger. It is not top down, it never could be. We shall see.
It seems that the current effort must be to get rid of the elites, Davosians, globalists or current leadership in the US, EU and world. They are the problem. They created the debt and wars the world is faced with. Bill is right in my opinion on debt and wars Sure, the people elected these collectivist parasites but that is beside the point right now. The point is we need them out of the way before we can address the problems they have caused. Then after removing them from having any say we can confront the debt problem they created and we can stop the wars. Right now they and the media they own and control are constantly lying and confusing issues and misrepresenting various nation's problems. Why? Because they want control! They are actually stating that fact, straight out, Hilary Clinton and the climate change ahole.
Also the US should primarily work on it's own problems i.e. lead the way for the rest of the world and that is happening with Trump, Putin and the rejection of Macron, Scholz, Trudeau, the WEF and other globalists. It's essentially impossible to get rid of 35T in debt with a 25T economy here in the US or anywhere else, period. But you sure aren't going to correct the problems they've created doing nothing and especially giving them the podium. So the first step has commenced getting rid of them and then we can confront the impossible. Trump take the lead you've been given and for the rest either get on board or get out of the way if you want something better.
Here we go again, youngsters, with the best laid plans of mice and "rich" men. Like the California fires, the winds are containable until they are not: then, some rich people's homes get destroyed along with many "average" people's . When our debt bomb finally explodes, some "rich boys" may find a safe place to hide (like the King and Queen of France}, may not be as easy as planned.
Why have all these california voters wondered why the fire insurance has been canceled?
Bill: I’m in California and no one is dumb enough Not to know.
Exactly. There is no saving it. Some just can't stomach the truth of what America's future is. Denial through hope becomes the swan song. One day - suddenly - it will become clear. Too late to prepare. Reminds me of the Charge of the Light Brigade - "into the Valley of Death rode the 600".
Well, Bonner makes many good points today and even throws a few crumbs Trump's way. But then, of course, while acknowledging his TDS problem, he double downs on his assertion that the second Trump term will be no different than the first. I disagree. His cabinet picks are much better than last time. In retrospect, we are fortunate that Trump "lost" in 2020, since I believe it not only exposed the Democrats for who they are (Progressive Fascist Nihilist Leftists) but also gave Trump a new perspective on what needs to be done. I expect Trump to come out with "both guns blazing" and if he doesn't, he will have missed a once in a lifetime opportunity to get America back on track. He has made a good start with his cabinet picks as well as with the concept of DOGE with Elon and Vivek. I am cautiously optimistic.
Mr. Gallien, I agree that Bill made some good points. But anymore he seems to many times undermine these points. For example, he needlessly denigrates cultural issues in the U.S., implying that only financial issues are important. Yet look at U.S. third-world cities, which some folks might call Dem-run cities, or Urban America. They are hell-holes because of serious cultural issues such as welfare dependency, female-led households, crime-not-work pays, wokeness, DEI, etc. Look at California and its radical cultural policies. These have led to fiscal irresponsibility; and, the continued runoff of middle-class residents. And its radical environmental and DEI policies, for example, have recently led to problems trying to mitigate serious fires in and around Los Angeles.
The biggest problem I have with Bill is that he refuses to blame a majority of the American people for America’s problems. He acts like they are these innocent lambs lured to the slaughter by evil politicians and govt./corporate big shots. But the idea that a majority of them would vote to slash the debt is ludicrous. They (and Bill) know that slashing debt would mean massively eliminating jobs, possibly their own jobs; and, they would go nuclear if this were to happen. Look at all the Americans who are themselves heavily in debt. I’m not talking about government- or company-debt. I contend that a majority of Americans love debt or at least don't think it's a problem.
Frank,
I agree with a lot of what you have to say. Half of our country adheres to the Democrat dogma of the welfare state. Congress gets low approval ratings (if that is to be believed), yet the same people are voted in year after year. So, what is it exactly that they are disagreeing with? While Trump is far from perfect, it amazes me that Harris got as many votes as she did.
I do disagree on a couple of points. For example, that slashing debt would "mean massively eliminating jobs". Well, you are right in the short run as government jobs would be eliminated and those companies and institutions (the green lobby, the idiotic research grants, and other favored sectors of our economy) would not get government handouts and therefore encounter problems. And there would be resistance to that. However, the growth of the economy in other sectors, especially those that have all the unnecessary regulations eliminated, would grow. In the long run, we would be better off. But that would entail change.
I also agree with you that Bonner's constant harping on the elites controlling the rest of us is way overblown. We are not pawns (although some of us are), but the progressives have taken over our schools and are turning out a certain degree of government loving socialists who are compliant to whatever the government wants to do. This is only countered when the kids are taught good values at home wherever that happens.
So, I agree that progressive ideology has had a major corrupting influence on our culture. The only way to solve this is to return to rational thinking based on the facts of reality and realize that there is no free lunch. Human flourishing depends on humans being productive by observing and understanding the facts of reality, realizing that we require individual rights and therefore a free market to flourish, and act accordingly. There are no short cuts. Americans must be taught the value of individual rights and a free market. An uninformed and ignorant populace will look to the government to solve their problems.
Can you expand on the opinion that his picks are better this time? Is Scott Bessent any better than Steve "look at my blonde trophy wife" Mnuchin? Bessent was the right hand man of George Soros for years. As far as DOGE Elon Musk is a guy who made billions off taxpayer subsidies. I guess he could be good because he knows where some of the scams are. But do you trust a guy who shared beliefs with Klaus Schwab and the WEF like UBI, Carbon Tax Credits, brain chips, digital ideas?
Why would I waste my time and do that for you? Are you not capable of doing your own analysis? I couldn't care less if you disagree.
Just trying to find out why Trump supporters like his picks. This is from a perspective of someone who detests both parties. I just don't understand how right leaning voters have no problem with the appointment of someone like Bessent who made his money working for Vampire George Soros. Or the involvement of Musk who Trump once belittled and said he would have got down on his knees and begged for more subsidies from the donkey US taxpayers.
Cartero. Remember the tranny stealing luggage at various airports? The tranny. admiral? I hate them both as you do with these people or a click or two improved.
Campaign promises always change like, “I will end the Ukraine War in 24 hours”;at least Trump is talking end and never should have happened and no NATO.
I am against no tax on tips, it is as unfair as rescinding student loans and,in a service economy, might comprise 30% of tax revenue.
I also hate, “Israel should finish the job” of killing 2.5 million people.
Rail against policy and action, inaction or stupid action… but not the man.
With Trump, you never know what you’re going to get, he is prodigious in talk and probably has the attribute of flexibility. It’s refreshing and needed, always interesting.
Is there anyone you believe could save the U.S? Maybe you?
It appears hope is all we have left but alas, hope is not a plan...
Incorporated in such, maybe, huh?
Ross Rereau famously said during the election campaign "Listen to that giant succing sound." It's america's standard of living and well paying jobs , leaving our country. Also, don't forget under Clinton.We gave china Are silent submarine technology through toshiba if I recall correctly. Clinton also gave china most favored nation trading status.... Further hobbling our country and destroying many union jobs. And unions still support these folks. The rank and file were asleep and duped. Still are
Bill’s attacks on Trump ignore reality - would he have instead supported Harris? It’s great to trash all politicians as self-serving idiots, but it doesn’t offer much of a solution. Even e US Trump’s creation of DOGE team, which purports to at least try to reduce government, has met with only criticism & cynicism from Bill. Maybe we should all follow Bill and leave the US with our multimillions — oh wait, not all of us are so fortunate. Bill, please save us with your mighty, cynical pen!
Thankyou Bill and like all hopeful people I would like to think that Trump and Co. want to turn things around but....." The perfect situation, from the Rockefellers' point of view, is to combine their economic muscle and their political oomph so that one hand washes the other. They have mastered to a frightening degree the art of using economic power to build political power which enhances economic power even further and so on, ad infinitum. We have seen that the Rockefellers have spent GENERATIONS developing an economic consortium that is the sleekest, smoothest, and most powerful combine on earth.(including education, religion, media and therefore public opinion) The incredible powerful political complex the Rockefellers have put together makes their economic activities look like the naive simplicity of a backwoods general store, and consists of organisations with are thoroughly interlocked with and financed by the House of Rockefeller - ...trite cliche about the many arms of the octopus being controlled by the same brain - Gary Allen "The Rockefeller File" page 51. (1st printing: 1976)
The Rockefellers are the epitome of the nation's permanent Establishment: governments change, economics fluctuate, foreign alliances shift - the Rockefellers prevail. Walter Cronkite CBS Reports "The Rockefellers''.
.....Practically every lawyer, banker, professor, general, journalist and bureaucrat who has had any influence on the foreign policy of the last six Presidents - from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon - (JFK then assassinated) has spent some time in the Harold Pratt House, a four story mansion on the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street, donated 26 years ago by Mr Pratt's widow (an heir to the Standard Oil fortune) to the Council of Foreign Relations Inc. ... If you can walk - or be carried - into the Pratt House, it usually means that you are a partner in an investment bank or law firm - with occasional "trouble shooting" assignments in government. You believe in foreign aid, NATO, and a bipartisan foreign policy. YOU'VE BEEN PRETTY MUCH RUNNING THINGS IN THIS COUNTRY FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS, AND YOU KNOW IT! (page 54)
Bill, Bill, Bill…. Love your analysis but c’mon Trump has “says” he wants to reduce wars, spending, regulations, and yes taxes. He wants less government. Maybe he will not deliver and you will be right… but at least we have a leader saying the right things who can be held accountable if he doesn’t deliver. I understand your cynicism and relauctance to buy into the new Republican Party… but at least recognize there is a chance in the next 24 months
There is no chance, unfortunately.
Why would you say that?
Math.
Paying attention and common sense.
Doesn’t “hope spring eternal”?
Talk is cheap. Last time he said he was going to reduce the national debt and we got a $7 trillion increase. He talks about reducing wars at the same time he doesn't rule out force to take over the Panama Canal and Greenland. Perhaps Trump is just another politician full of bullshit and hot air.
His threats seem to get pretty good results so far and he is not even Pres. yet. He will not do either threat by force but get a good response from each country.
Here's the problema. We have a exploding National debt for which both parties are responsible. Have you heard anything about how Trump plans to reduce it? But from a personal level, I detest draft dodgers who talk tough about going to war whether it's Trump, Biden, Clinton, Cheney ,etc. When these chicken hawks dodged the draft some poor or working class stiff had to go in their place. But I'd be fine with Trump and his kids leading a mission to retake the Panama Canal. We could televise the event and use the proceeds to pay down the debt.
CA: Fat chance the money would be used to pay down the debt. I’m sure the money would be used for other uses. Has anyone looked into the economy of Panama?
Glum speaks (again)!
Maybe you are right Bill, things here will continue to slide.
But your writing lately exposes your game a bit. You position yourself like the typical FRB voter. In fact, I see striking parallels between Fed Gov Waller’s posturing this morning and your own. You and he both talk excessively about the sky falling. And if you are both wrong, you both will STILL benefit. The rest of us have to maintain some semblance of optimism, to carve out meaningful lives and economic wins. To lead our families and to encourage our children.
It is good that you spend most of your days on the “old sod”. You belong there!
One government with two heads.