Bill, I voted for the lesser of two evils. Sometimes the good a person does out ways the bad they do. I don't like many of the things I read, some of your examples today among them, but I firmly believe we are better off today than if the Harris was elected as president. Your opening today, "When the money goes everything else rots". I fear we are not far from this outcome. Don't sell any hard assets.
I understand your position but isn't the lesser of two evils still evil? To me it's like deciding whether to eat at McDonald's or Wendy's. No matter which one you choose you are still going to be eating slop.
Eating ideology, that’s why you shouldn’t vote for either one. One wants to tell you not to have an abortion, the other one doesn’t want you to own a gun. In each case you want to tell me what to do. It doesn’t matter what you’re poison is, you wanna tell somebody else what the they need to do, so that’s how you base your vote. Instead of voting for nobody, or God forbid, a candidate that will allow you to get an abortion and that will allow you to carry a gun, you eat the ideology. Since everybody wants to tell somebody else what to do, in one form or another, we are stuck in a two party system, neither of which seems to be worried about controlling our tax dollars. The result, we have successfully traded Biden and sons trading favors for Trump in sons trading favors. Yup, my vote has as much chance in determining outcomes as does the federal government eliminating its national debt tomorrow. So to determine my fate, it’s best to keep my head down and save real assets in a place where nobody can take them from me. Unfortunately, for the this, the odds of that are pretty slim given that our youth are hell bent on a Mao Zedong type of revolution.
Angry Ice, great line about eating ideology! Now, all we have to do is get Trump to bless a political cuisine, sanctified dietary for MAGA! GREAT idea! Doonesbury gave us Trump-brand Insults, and now we can tell DJT to publish a dietary guide and pronounce it officially blessed and sanctified for the true believer. I'm so there, as "they" say. Best always. PM
Well, CA, it's like being condemned to death and given the choice of a bullet in the head or skinned alive and drowned in a vat of salt water. No matter which one you choose, you're still going to die, but most sensible people would choose the former rather than the latter.
But I've chosen to follow my esteemed professor of Political Science, George Carlin, and took the third option - Vote for Nobody. Nobody cares about you. Nobody will stop deficit spending and endless wars. Nobody will change the course of the USS Titanic!
All very true. This ship of state is going to meet that iceberg at some point.
But the question is what comes after the collision? Will we turn into a full blown communist/socialist/fascist dictatorship, or will we resurrect a constitutional republic.
I guarantee you that if the far left factions in this country are able to seize power nationally as they have in some states and blue cities, you will ultimately see death and destruction on a scale that will make that iceberg collision seem like a door-ding in a Walmart parking lot.
So regardless of the fact that both sides suck, it's nevertheless a fact that one side sucks a whole lot more than the other side.
And that is why voting for the lesser of two evils has at least some merit.
You’re a fool for voting at all and so is anyone else that casts a ballot. Why give these crooks legitimacy to rule over you? Most people do it because they’re promised something for “free” or because they can’t fix their own lives so need Papa to do it for them
That's just sloppy thinking. You especially have a right to complain if you didn't vote for the government that creates and perpetuates the problems and failures we see around us. Whereas if you did vote then you have no right to complain because you're responsible for choosing these idiots (whether Biden or Trump or whomever -- they are all crooks) even after they lied to you... again ("drain the swamp", "lower deficits", "stop the wars")... you are like a gullible child that supports red team over blue team, not realizing the whole game is rigged and you're just a stupid pawn.
Bill, I'm not surprised by your insightful observations of the artful methods by which Trump & Family are exploiting his office for financial gain. (However, you missed the gift of the Boeing 747).
But, frankly, what would you expect from a man with a ready-fire-aim disposition who is a convicted felon, tax cheat, philanderer; a man found guilty of sexual assault who orchestrated a violent attempt to overthrow the US government.
To add insult to injury, he would not be in office had Biden's spouse and close advisors admitted early on that he was mentally slipping.
Yeah, he Yeah, he does that delusional thing once in a while. He pretends both parties are the same. Both parties are pigs. But at this current time the democrats are slightly worse than the republicans. I just do not like open borders. That's why I voted for the fool in the office at this time.
Both parties spend money we don't have. They print money to pay for their "give away money to get votes" spending. Printing money IS inflation and they couldn't do it to excess before Nixon cut out the gold backing in 1971.
Yeah, he Yeah, he does that delusional thing once in a while. He pretends both parties are the same. Both parties are pigs. But at this current time the democrats are slightly worse than the republicans. I just do not like open borders. That's why I voted for the fool in the office at this time.
The corruption of this administration makes Biden and Obama look like rank amateurs. As Bill asks, where is the outrage? And as for draining the swamp, it has been expanded to serve Trump and his cronies.
Because all the parties are in on the game, in most countries, hence the popular "uniparty" description.
In any case, it doesnt have to be illegal to be wrong. Selling cheap (no doubt Made in PRC) watches for $460 isnt befitting of a President. Sports teams yes, but we shoukd never support a political party or politician. We shoukd hold them to account instead.
Oh my god Bill, this missive is absolutely whataboutism, it is truly pitiful. You berate the proletariat who vote their values, the same values that are derived from a polical system filled with lies and false promises. The polical system that is designed to trick the folks who work for a living, those whose time is filled with family and work, not having the energy nor the time to vet the lies and promises of the poltical class whom through systemic corruption must do what they do to stay in office in order to make the preponderance of their incomes off-the-books or front running the market. You Bill make fun of the Americans who work for a living, shameful.
Also Peter Navarro was found in contemp of court by the Biden administration and was incarcerated for four months while the independent Attorney General Eric Holder "wing man" to Barrock "the savior" Obama was in contempt of court and faced nothing more than a footnote.
Also Bill you throw shade on the Trump administration and the Trump family, for as you state "purported" front running the market as reported by the let legacy media, yet never a comment about a Hunter and Burisma.
According to the Great Elon's Grok Bill has criticized the Biden Regime -"He’s criticized how the Biden administration piled on trillions in debt, kept spending like there’s no tomorrow, and fed the same dysfunctional system both parties support."
But isn't Trump going beyond the realm with his scams - has any president while in office ever sold as much junk as Trump? Classic example: the $59.99 Bible printed in China for $3 a pop. Especially knowing that the Trump Administration paints China as an existential threat to the US.
I bought one of his ties to be able to passive-aggressively gross out all my liberal friends and acquaintances at parties and such. Does that count? Best always. PM
Well it is called capitalism and anyone can play. China is not an existential threat, a concept that is overused and mostly misused. Also the only threat that China presents is a smarter and more organized capitalism than the good old USA, which is beset croney capitalism and market front running by the the politicos.
My problem is this: Trump repeatedly talks negatively about China. Here's an example: “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing. It's the greatest theft in the history of the world".
I don't know about you, but if I were being raped, I certainly would've want to have business relations with the rapist. Trump, on the hand, has no problem doing business with China if he can make a fast buck. Making it by selling Bibles is even't more cringe worthy.
Cartero, are you taking the discussion too literally possibly? Come on, this is politics making the truth look like a lie and the lie looking like the truth. It is power disguised to look like empathy with money being the bonus.
Ya know Bill, I get, it everyone is making money but are they making money selling influence to the Chinese or from the ex mayor of Moscow like the family that went before them. I don’t like it when politicians make money from their position but the Trumps and their friends were businessmen already and had established themselves in many aspects of commerce. Not exactly sure but somehow feel like it’s better than what the Bidens were doing.
Oh you bad bad man you are BB ! whatever are you doing pointing out all these exaggerated claims against our self proclaimed "saviour" .. this is just terrible and his followers will be bereft of their loincloths to cover their inherent stupidity hanging between their legs .. eventually they won't even be able to use that little part of their anatomy that 'thinks' all on its own and where their entire brains/pleasure comes from .. oh my BB you are now in deep sh*t and they will send out their warriors to castigate you and attack your absolute sense of being able to still sift out the BS from the fog of their fried brains being tortured by your daily does of truth telling .. RIP all those cloned wonders that seek to destroy any words of truth ..
Quote: We now have the strange spectacle of free people demanding—sometimes with tears of gratitude—to be robbed again. And we must assume at least a few among them can still add two and two without using their fingers.
For two generations now, roughly 40–60% of the population has been conceptually stunted in the first years of schooling by the “whole word” method of teaching reading. For decades, phonics was the norm; fortunately, it is finally making a return. But the damage is visible: many people struggle to form abstract concepts or think in principles, leaving them blind to the broader picture.
It will take another 15 to 20 years before this begins to improve. Too long for us to see the full benefit.
Gramsci just like Marx was sent by the devil to divide and conquer civility and economic development based on lack of accountability over greed trained gigs.
Trump ran on the slogan "Make America Great Again" when it was really all about making Trump great again.
Can't have one without the other, ask Joe
we asked 'Joe' and he was astounded that the TRUMpet has exceeded him in every way .. yep you got it from both ends as you deserve ..
AND he is striking out on all accounts.
AND I voted for him to boot.
Bill, I voted for the lesser of two evils. Sometimes the good a person does out ways the bad they do. I don't like many of the things I read, some of your examples today among them, but I firmly believe we are better off today than if the Harris was elected as president. Your opening today, "When the money goes everything else rots". I fear we are not far from this outcome. Don't sell any hard assets.
Jim Marshall
I understand your position but isn't the lesser of two evils still evil? To me it's like deciding whether to eat at McDonald's or Wendy's. No matter which one you choose you are still going to be eating slop.
I hear this a lot, choosing the lessor of two evils is still a choice.
Is it a "choice" or a "determination"?
One can "choose" not to choose...
But can one determine not to determine?
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If "choices" have already been made...
Isn't it to determine rather than to choose?
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One determines something, not necessarily by choice.
But one chooses something usually by determination.
If you have "decided" to eat fast food, that's a choice.
That choice determines you will eat at a drive-thru food joint and not at a sushi bar.
Wendy's vs McD's become options...
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Harris vs Trump; we "determined" who would be President.
The "peoples" choices were already established.
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And then there's the choices you make that are determined for you...
Kosher vs Halal
No matter which is chosen, you will still be eating ideology...
Eating ideology, that’s why you shouldn’t vote for either one. One wants to tell you not to have an abortion, the other one doesn’t want you to own a gun. In each case you want to tell me what to do. It doesn’t matter what you’re poison is, you wanna tell somebody else what the they need to do, so that’s how you base your vote. Instead of voting for nobody, or God forbid, a candidate that will allow you to get an abortion and that will allow you to carry a gun, you eat the ideology. Since everybody wants to tell somebody else what to do, in one form or another, we are stuck in a two party system, neither of which seems to be worried about controlling our tax dollars. The result, we have successfully traded Biden and sons trading favors for Trump in sons trading favors. Yup, my vote has as much chance in determining outcomes as does the federal government eliminating its national debt tomorrow. So to determine my fate, it’s best to keep my head down and save real assets in a place where nobody can take them from me. Unfortunately, for the this, the odds of that are pretty slim given that our youth are hell bent on a Mao Zedong type of revolution.
Living behind the lines in California, we understand all too well how our vote is meaningless...
Seems I am heading a one-man crusade trying to educate folks and the media.
The proper term for "mail-in" should be:
UNSOLICITED or SOLICITED ballots.
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There should never-ever be unsolicited ballots...
Angry Ice, great line about eating ideology! Now, all we have to do is get Trump to bless a political cuisine, sanctified dietary for MAGA! GREAT idea! Doonesbury gave us Trump-brand Insults, and now we can tell DJT to publish a dietary guide and pronounce it officially blessed and sanctified for the true believer. I'm so there, as "they" say. Best always. PM
... I believe Trump thinks with five McMuffin's and two Fish Filet sandwiches he too can feed the masses.
Well, CA, it's like being condemned to death and given the choice of a bullet in the head or skinned alive and drowned in a vat of salt water. No matter which one you choose, you're still going to die, but most sensible people would choose the former rather than the latter.
I did.
But I've chosen to follow my esteemed professor of Political Science, George Carlin, and took the third option - Vote for Nobody. Nobody cares about you. Nobody will stop deficit spending and endless wars. Nobody will change the course of the USS Titanic!
All very true. This ship of state is going to meet that iceberg at some point.
But the question is what comes after the collision? Will we turn into a full blown communist/socialist/fascist dictatorship, or will we resurrect a constitutional republic.
I guarantee you that if the far left factions in this country are able to seize power nationally as they have in some states and blue cities, you will ultimately see death and destruction on a scale that will make that iceberg collision seem like a door-ding in a Walmart parking lot.
So regardless of the fact that both sides suck, it's nevertheless a fact that one side sucks a whole lot more than the other side.
And that is why voting for the lesser of two evils has at least some merit.
Yes but not following is a choice! (All in fun!) Carlin turned out to be an unintended prophet. Amazing. Best always. PM
Yes, but to be sure it is the "slop" of my choosing. The slop is what the polticos are offering, so choose your slop or opt out.
You’re a fool for voting at all and so is anyone else that casts a ballot. Why give these crooks legitimacy to rule over you? Most people do it because they’re promised something for “free” or because they can’t fix their own lives so need Papa to do it for them
I figure if you don't vote you don't have the right to complain.
That's just sloppy thinking. You especially have a right to complain if you didn't vote for the government that creates and perpetuates the problems and failures we see around us. Whereas if you did vote then you have no right to complain because you're responsible for choosing these idiots (whether Biden or Trump or whomever -- they are all crooks) even after they lied to you... again ("drain the swamp", "lower deficits", "stop the wars")... you are like a gullible child that supports red team over blue team, not realizing the whole game is rigged and you're just a stupid pawn.
I thoroughly hate And detest both parties. I just don't like open borders. Maybe you do.
must be your RED cap .. delusions are catching eh
Bill, I'm not surprised by your insightful observations of the artful methods by which Trump & Family are exploiting his office for financial gain. (However, you missed the gift of the Boeing 747).
But, frankly, what would you expect from a man with a ready-fire-aim disposition who is a convicted felon, tax cheat, philanderer; a man found guilty of sexual assault who orchestrated a violent attempt to overthrow the US government.
To add insult to injury, he would not be in office had Biden's spouse and close advisors admitted early on that he was mentally slipping.
Slipping?
Yeah, he Yeah, he does that delusional thing once in a while. He pretends both parties are the same. Both parties are pigs. But at this current time the democrats are slightly worse than the republicans. I just do not like open borders. That's why I voted for the fool in the office at this time.
Both parties spend money we don't have. They print money to pay for their "give away money to get votes" spending. Printing money IS inflation and they couldn't do it to excess before Nixon cut out the gold backing in 1971.
Yeah, he Yeah, he does that delusional thing once in a while. He pretends both parties are the same. Both parties are pigs. But at this current time the democrats are slightly worse than the republicans. I just do not like open borders. That's why I voted for the fool in the office at this time.
The corruption of this administration makes Biden and Obama look like rank amateurs. As Bill asks, where is the outrage? And as for draining the swamp, it has been expanded to serve Trump and his cronies.
Corruption? Court room proof please as I don't see any Senators or House Dems. crying on TV about corruption??
Because all the parties are in on the game, in most countries, hence the popular "uniparty" description.
In any case, it doesnt have to be illegal to be wrong. Selling cheap (no doubt Made in PRC) watches for $460 isnt befitting of a President. Sports teams yes, but we shoukd never support a political party or politician. We shoukd hold them to account instead.
As I began reading the article I thought Bill was referencing the Biden family...
Smart comment; I laughed out loud.
Me too, but I guffawed at "eating ideology". Best always. PM
Oh my god Bill, this missive is absolutely whataboutism, it is truly pitiful. You berate the proletariat who vote their values, the same values that are derived from a polical system filled with lies and false promises. The polical system that is designed to trick the folks who work for a living, those whose time is filled with family and work, not having the energy nor the time to vet the lies and promises of the poltical class whom through systemic corruption must do what they do to stay in office in order to make the preponderance of their incomes off-the-books or front running the market. You Bill make fun of the Americans who work for a living, shameful.
Also Peter Navarro was found in contemp of court by the Biden administration and was incarcerated for four months while the independent Attorney General Eric Holder "wing man" to Barrock "the savior" Obama was in contempt of court and faced nothing more than a footnote.
Also Bill you throw shade on the Trump administration and the Trump family, for as you state "purported" front running the market as reported by the let legacy media, yet never a comment about a Hunter and Burisma.
Very good sport today!
According to the Great Elon's Grok Bill has criticized the Biden Regime -"He’s criticized how the Biden administration piled on trillions in debt, kept spending like there’s no tomorrow, and fed the same dysfunctional system both parties support."
But isn't Trump going beyond the realm with his scams - has any president while in office ever sold as much junk as Trump? Classic example: the $59.99 Bible printed in China for $3 a pop. Especially knowing that the Trump Administration paints China as an existential threat to the US.
I bought one of his ties to be able to passive-aggressively gross out all my liberal friends and acquaintances at parties and such. Does that count? Best always. PM
Well it is called capitalism and anyone can play. China is not an existential threat, a concept that is overused and mostly misused. Also the only threat that China presents is a smarter and more organized capitalism than the good old USA, which is beset croney capitalism and market front running by the the politicos.
Tom -- The issue is not profit; its generating it while in office.
Better if he exploit his stature as "former" president than as our current one.
Opting for the latter course is illegal (as if that has any meaning for this incorrigibly corrupt person)
My problem is this: Trump repeatedly talks negatively about China. Here's an example: “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing. It's the greatest theft in the history of the world".
I don't know about you, but if I were being raped, I certainly would've want to have business relations with the rapist. Trump, on the hand, has no problem doing business with China if he can make a fast buck. Making it by selling Bibles is even't more cringe worthy.
Cartero, are you taking the discussion too literally possibly? Come on, this is politics making the truth look like a lie and the lie looking like the truth. It is power disguised to look like empathy with money being the bonus.
"And no one has ever had so much influence to sell as the 46th president of the USA." Freudian slip or slip into incoherence? Do better.
Ya know Bill, I get, it everyone is making money but are they making money selling influence to the Chinese or from the ex mayor of Moscow like the family that went before them. I don’t like it when politicians make money from their position but the Trumps and their friends were businessmen already and had established themselves in many aspects of commerce. Not exactly sure but somehow feel like it’s better than what the Bidens were doing.
I think you meant the 47th president. Biden was #46. Or maybe you didn't--I don't know.
And speaking of funny money, George Noble and Michael Burry show us how NVIDIA and its friends multiply the joke. All legal, all illegitimate. Who will pay the price? All of us. https://substack.com/@georgenoble/note/c-270741554?r=vo5f1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Oh you bad bad man you are BB ! whatever are you doing pointing out all these exaggerated claims against our self proclaimed "saviour" .. this is just terrible and his followers will be bereft of their loincloths to cover their inherent stupidity hanging between their legs .. eventually they won't even be able to use that little part of their anatomy that 'thinks' all on its own and where their entire brains/pleasure comes from .. oh my BB you are now in deep sh*t and they will send out their warriors to castigate you and attack your absolute sense of being able to still sift out the BS from the fog of their fried brains being tortured by your daily does of truth telling .. RIP all those cloned wonders that seek to destroy any words of truth ..
I just find it remarkable that smart people think they have a choice in modern politics. Whoever you vote for, a politician wins.
Relax... they'll never know which of his properties he's visiting when. He'll manage. Best always. PM
On my end of the planet all is relaxed .. it’s your end making all the noise/waves but no worries you got it right where it belongs ..
"The new political gospel: public office is private graft."
-Mark Twain
Bill, you really hit the nail on the head.
Quote: We now have the strange spectacle of free people demanding—sometimes with tears of gratitude—to be robbed again. And we must assume at least a few among them can still add two and two without using their fingers.
For two generations now, roughly 40–60% of the population has been conceptually stunted in the first years of schooling by the “whole word” method of teaching reading. For decades, phonics was the norm; fortunately, it is finally making a return. But the damage is visible: many people struggle to form abstract concepts or think in principles, leaving them blind to the broader picture.
It will take another 15 to 20 years before this begins to improve. Too long for us to see the full benefit.
Gramsci just like Marx was sent by the devil to divide and conquer civility and economic development based on lack of accountability over greed trained gigs.