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Paul Murray's avatar

"With no emergency to justify it, he put armed soldiers on streets...and sent out masked men to pluck up people and take them away."

I guess Mr. Bonner and I are at loggerheads as to what constitutes an "emergency". To me, it was long past an emergency; it was an existential crisis. Because his predecessor, Mr. Biden, had not only failed to "faithfully execute" the laws of the land, and not merely that, he was willfully derelict in that duty and flouted his negligence for the sake of a political agenda, which in my view was calculated to destroy the very country and society of which he was executive. In a speech from Philadelphia, he openly and brazenly called those who opposed his egregious dereliction of duty "the enemy" of the country.

But, hey, this is, or purports to be, America, so each is free to see "it" as he or she sees it, and not only see it, but also openly and freely talk about it. In exchanges of viewpoint, interpretation, and opinion, I endeavor not to take offense, but I do take issue. Best always. PM

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Jimm Roberts's avatar

Biden: You're beating a dead horse. He's history; bad history.

Better if you critique his handlers. They were the ones who pulled the strings.

Their greatest faux pas was having him re-nominated. These unknown people gave us divisiveness and a higher cost of living

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John P Gallien's avatar

Well, if you are at "loggerheads" with Bongo Bill, it is an unfair match. You argue from a perspective of reason, Bongo argues from a perspective of TDS-laced mental disease as the quote from Bongo in your first sentence illustrates.

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Eid's avatar

We are told tariffs are not a tax….and trade deficits are an emergency …we need a new dictionary..

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working stiff's avatar

I think old BBB wanted to end the year with a massive TDS explosion, end the year big!

I will grant a point or two as accurate, but that is about it.

Billy, it seems to be getting worse, we're beginning to worry. So I suggest taking 2 Fukitols every morning for 90 days. This should help. Since your prose is no longer financially connected, try disconnecting for 30 days. No Phone, no lights, no motor cars, not a single luxury! Get as primitive as can be!

These two protocols will certainly help. No Charge!

Have a very Merry Christmas!

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ERIK's avatar

If not for Denning and Dyson, I would cancel this subscription. Bill is turning into a crackpot. I think it's because he lives in Baltimore and thinks what's outside his window is the same everywhere in the USA. Dan, who lives in his nice bolthole in Wyoming, should set him straight. I live on a farm in South Dakota, I too have old dilapidated barns that I thought would be a hazard to my grandchildren, so I got out my backhoe and tore them down, threw a match on the pile, and then dug a hole to bury the remaining nails, hinges, and old cement chunks. Did not tell anyone or need a single permit. All of the rot that Bill complains about exists only in those concentrated blue dots scattered about the country.

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Pieces of  Eight Insights's avatar

I agree. Bill should call Tom and Dan and thank them from the bottom of his heart that BPR still exists. I also would not be subscribing if it wasn’t for them.

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Jim McCollum's avatar

My reason for subscribing is the opposite of yours. I agree with a large percentage of what Bill writes and it's the main reason I subscribe. From what I see, hear and read, the 1/3-1/3-1/3 split in the political views of the country in 1776 are present today where 1/3 of the citizens would agree to Trump declaring himself dictator, 1/3 would disagree and try to make Bernie Sanders or some other leftist clown dictator, and 1/3 wouldn't pay attention or care which one became dictator as long as their government check showed up in their account every month. Most of the Trump lovers here seem to be willing to accept any action he takes as appropriate because he has done a few things right. I for myself am unwilling to excuse the violations of Constitutional rights and the abuses of executive power just because I agree with some of the other policies he has implemented.

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Dennis T.'s avatar

The very reason I haven't voted in god knows when at least 20 years.

Every election cycle was the same choice. The lesser of two evils, go with Harris and we're screwed, go with Trump and we'll feel good when getting screwed that something constructive is happening. I have to disagree with the fractions. I'd put the Trump group at 60% the Looney left at 12.5% and the rest have disconnected. The looney left simply has more time on their hands, controls the media, and education so the narrative. I don't vote but I got your back.

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Jim McCollum's avatar

Your perspective on voting is close to mine. I could not bring myself to vote for either of the clowns put up by the major parties last year. You might be right about the %ages; I was just going by the current polls. Who knows what the truth is these days with AI becoming "the fount of knowledge" for both the delusional left and the crackpot right.

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Eid's avatar

I live in Iowa…not a blue dot by any measure and have the same regulations..In Texas I am cited for one foot of my curb being discolored…30 days to remedy or else

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Pieces of  Eight Insights's avatar

Didn’t you know that a discolored curb is unsafe, per local regulation # 3,293,008, and that the nanny state won’t be able to operate properly if it is remedied post haste?

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drtomcor's avatar

I'm worried that when Baltimore finishes that bridge, Bill might take the plunge.

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Harold Shaeffer's avatar

Your worries are over. Bill and even may you will not be alive by the time they get the bridge finished.

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Sierradenali's avatar

Damn, ain’t that the truth! Well said!

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Ed Burns's avatar

The real problem started with the undeniable situation that a ruling class of "professionals" took over the Federal government, repeatedly lied to the American people, and then launched into a panicky coverup mode that ham-fistedly included openly crooked Lawfare. The people saw it, much to the chagrin of the conspirators and simply voted for change.

This is what has proven so difficult for Bill and half of the democrat voting nation to come to grips with. They were used to bamboozle the public and now no amount of gauzy, historical hagiographic references can undo what the people saw with their own eyes. So, we switched out a corrupted Intel, Justice and Executive for Trump - warts and all.

The very fact that the Lawfare route was so circuitous and pursued on such obviously questionable grounds provided adequate testimony that Trump couldn't be pursued on the basis of any real crimes committed. They thought that they "could fool all the people, all of the time" and they were so wrong.

Consequently, the outing of the lies of the "Steele Dossier", The "Laptop from Hell" and the coverup by the "51 past Intel" (pukes). made this mission to cleanout DC, a most critical endeavor.

Face it, democrats - you were used as useful idiots and now your obstinate denials and continued refusal to acknowledge your own role in supporting the Obama-Biden junta, simply makes all of your current puny efforts - as well as your opinion - totally irrelevant to denizens of the real world.

Deal with it.

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

Aren't the supporters of both teams being used as useful idiots? Case in point - MAGA supporters in general are against government interference in our lives but there was little opposition when Trump introduced Larry Ellison as a leader of Stargate. Ellison extolled the benefits of their AI project - government control of our medical records plus AI cancer diagnosis with a personal mRNA vaccine within 48 hours. Would Obama or Harris have been able to do this without conservative voices shouting "We don't need no more stinkin' mRNA vaccines"?

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Ed Burns's avatar

Thanks for providing a living example of what my point actually addresses.

To whit, a realization that we're living in a nation where fully half of the people are so intellectually compromised that they even see the obvious crimes of the Obama-Biden administration as somehow comparable to some obscure Executive decision or what everyone knows is a commonly held opposition to vaccines by members of both political parties. Talk about desperation. No, is the simple answer, Cartero.

Opposing any parenteral drug not having been previously approved by the FDA, was a reasonable position. I had no such opposition but my point of reference as a BioPharma engineer - and one whose own employer had provided the solution to the cytokine storm problem, had allowed me to proceed to get the vaccine using information that few others would have had access to.

I can fully understand why others would have been circumspect - particularly once being informed that Fauci had been diddling around with Gain Of Function experiments in a Chinese lab. Later, we even find out that he too was lying about his approval of the financing of these experiments.

Approval of the crimes and lies, not especially clever ones at that, is a crime in and of itself - against yourself Allowing our borders to be invaded by foreigners is treason. Not having the intellectual firepower to know that the Laptop (with all the evidence that had surfaced) was indeed Hunter Bidens, is an abysmal failing of intellectual capacity that can only be explained by a gullible cult-like and child-like faith in doing what you've been told by "your betters". I remain embarrassed for all of you.

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

But you didn't address the issue. Larry Ellison talks about personal mRNA vaccines and 24 surveillance. Elon Musk and Peter Theil have the same beliefs as the WEF - UBI, brain or body chips, etc. Perhaps just as Obama was placed in office to quiet the left while the Banksters were bailed out and more bombs were dropped than under Bush, Trump and JD Vance were placed in office to lead the right wing into the total surveillance state slaughterhouse.

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Ed Burns's avatar
9hEdited

😂 ..settle down....settle down...

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William Bogert's avatar

Well put, Ed.

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Ed Burns's avatar
9hEdited

Thanks. Interesting to be queried on MRNA as I’ve been involved with both the CRISPR technology as well as MRNA. The notion of taking a bespoke approach to MRNA, in particular, was one of the stumbling blocks in the cancer research that fed the Cytokine solution that I had spoken to. Covid being in a relatively small family of spiked virus yet cancer being any one of hundreds of potential types.

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Lincolnbulldog's avatar

I was really hoping in the initial paragraphs that Bill Bonner was back to analysis and life lessons with a love for American opportunity. But, it quickly turned into one more TDS diatribe.

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Paul Murray's avatar

And don't overlook the insinuation that Mr. Bonner's unpleasant and typical encounter with his local bureaucracy is also to be understood as Mr. Trump's fault. You'd think Mr. Bonner had temporarily forgotten that he lives in Maryland, a Democrat wasteland (my opinion, you understand, having lived there for 2 of the worst years of my life). Best always. PM

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Carl P's avatar

I must not be old enough to be as cynical as Bill. I still believe we have (and have had) it much better here in the US than those living in England, France, or Germany.

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Paul Murray's avatar

Age has nothing to do with it. I knew as an 11-year old boy in 1963 that the coverup of the Kennedy assassination was total BS. Best always. PM

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

Hi Paul. You became a cynic at an early age. I was ten at the time if the JFK hit but it took me until at least in my late 20s to realize the government was lying to us. Now I have become a loyal alumni of the George Carlin School of Government - The first rule is do not believe anything the government says.

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Paul Murray's avatar

And the other rule: It's a big club, and you ain't in it! Best always. PM

My mistake was reading the Warren "Report". Remember the old Alka-Seltzer commercial? "I can' believe I ate the whole thing." PM

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An Ol' LSO's avatar

Paul and Cartero, glad there are still some of us with a different view. America - at least part of it - seems to be the second coming of JonesTown except they aren't in Guyana. What happened to me was similar as I begin to realize authorities (all types) weren't always truthful and had alternate agendas I became a skeptic and then a cynic. Today it is important to question everything, do some research, and try to stay out of the way. I do go to City Council Meetings - only place I think a peon has any chance of making a difference.

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Bart Nelson's avatar

Bill just can't help himself. I suggest he take a break for the Christmas and New Year Holiday Seasons, reflect, and come back in 2026 with some rational, sensible, and constructive help. 2026 may be my last year with this newsletter unless we get back to where we were, but frankly, I am not sure that it is even Bill writing this information anymore anyway. I can tell from the last 12 months that Bill is not a Stoic, because he believes that everyone else affects our path rather than looking inward at his own virtues. I know that you are older now but center yourself.

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James F's avatar

Bill, you're doing a great job - keep it up. Ignore the posts of the complaining crackpots.

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Paul Murray's avatar

The fire department had to come to the White House to help President William Howard Taft get out of the bathtub. At 6 feet and 340 lbs., that's throwing some serious weight around. President Trump is not in that league. Best always. PM

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Angry Icebergs's avatar

Teddy Roosevelt was spoken of in the same manner...

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Mark H's avatar

"masked men to come in and pluck them away". They are masked so as not to get doxxed or shot or stabbed by the locos in the country that 3 years ago were narcing on people for NOT wearing masks. (like Walz regime in Minnesota)

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Pieces of  Eight Insights's avatar

More to come, Bill ? I’m not waiting with baited breath. Your line, “ The smartest ones, perhaps, stayed out of it. They must have known it was a lost cause from the get go,” is ignorant and shameful. If it wasn’t for the first third, those who supported revolution, you would have probably been a slave shipped off to another third world country by your beneficent (sarcasm) British king to do his bidding. What a life that would have been. Too bad you are not answerable to a board; they would have fired you by now.

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kenneth dame's avatar

Bill baby, I feel so sorry for you that you haven't permanently moved to one of the many other wonderful countries on this planet. Gosh, just think how fantistic it would be to live in China, Russia, North Korea, India, Africa, Cuba , South American countries or especially in your beloved Argentina. Though, maybe you should go to some form of Therapy before you leave. No one suffering from TDS and the terrible US system of goverment like yourself could probably have a normal life (even with your money), suffering like you are. If you decide to permanentoy leave, please keep us informed of your life, when living in any one of these wonderful locations. Heck, you might not even be missed.

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Gordon's avatar

Forget TDS. There's a lot of BDS here. Crazy world. DS all over the place.

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Mike's avatar

The 2.7% CPI sounds like government data shenanigans...

The real CPI was 3.0%!

https://investinglive.com/news/us-november-cpi-27-yy-vs-31-expected-20251218/

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Abe Porter's avatar

BB-I partially agree with your ranting. I disagree with you when were your comment when Obama bombed with out congress. Where were you when Biden removed our troops from Afghanistan in the worst removal of troops in American history. Your distaste for Trump has been very well written by you for more than one year. Stop it. I agree that ‘we the people’ has long been gone. The American governments of the past many years have concentrated on getting votes; they spend more time begging for funds to get reelected than doing their job to take care of ‘we the people’. They have done this by providing as many freebies as possible until ‘we the people’ become slaves to it. To be re-elected and continue to make America great again, Trump has to provide some freebies. His personality may not be very presidential but I say give the man a chance and maybe the benefit of the doubt. We all know he’s not perfect; but none of us are. AP

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

Abe, maybe you should give Bill credit for opposing our intervention in Afghanistan in the first place. Let's remember that Baby Bush's hunt for Osama could have been avoided if we never got involved in Afghanistan in the first place. The Taliban offered to turn over Osama to an independent court if Bush presented evidence. Of course, Bush refused because the evidence was as shaky as that of the Oswald case. Read up on Operation Cyclone. The original Al-Queda was organized by the CIA in 1979 to draw Russia into a debilitating war backing the Afghan government. So let's place the blame on both wings of the War Party.

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Abe Porter's avatar

Cartero-while I agree with you. Our government has sucked for many years, Democrats and Republicans alike. It would be nice of BB would do his reporting fair and balanced. AP

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

Hi Abe. I always thought that Bill was critical of both teams. And here's what Claude says- 'So while Bonner has been harsh on Trump recently, he appears to be equally cynical about both parties and all recent presidents, viewing them as part of the same systemic problem rather than singling out one party for particular criticism."

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Abe Porter's avatar

I see it differently

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Don Hrehirchek's avatar

Yes that is what free speech is about. Both to You Abe and to Cartero. Plus all those the read these write ups. Glad to read all views.

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Kevin Johnson's avatar

If the Constitution was so great, who is elected wouldn’t matter and the USSA wouldn’t be swirling the drain. The CONstitution was just that: a con.

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Paul Murray's avatar

The Constitution is great. Those who were put in charge of protecting, administering, and living up to it? Not so much. Best always. PM

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Jim McCollum's avatar

The sentiments expressed in the Declaration of Independence are among the greatest of all time and the Constitution was a compromise designed to build a government that could carry out those principles in the face of human nature. What we have now and for the past many years is a government being run on some of the worst instincts of human nature. Bill is pointing out this fact regarding the current senior operator just as he did with the former.

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Kevin Johnson's avatar

I'll have what you're smoking.

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