The verdict didn’t matter. The case itself was just more evidence of a decline. The trial of Donald J. Trump was no renewal; it marked a further slide towards corruption, dysfunction and chaos.
Actually, Bill, your statement, “no one if above the law” is incorrect. If you are a prominent democrat say like Hillary, then you are above the law. Much of what you opine is okay with me even though I may disagree with you. But, you need to amend your essay to include the one-sided application of the law towards the conservatives and the absence of the law’s application to liberals. That, Bill, is what pisses off most of the American public who don’t side with either extreme.
Half, and that half is growing, LIKES what you describe. We are heading toward permanent marginalization, if not already there. 60 years of indoctrination of the younger generation has finally turned their tide. Best always. PM
I couldn't agree with you more, our government, especially under the present Administration has turned to a pile of s*** right before our eyes. Worthless, scum sucking traitors to everything this country stands for. Half of this country's politicians should be stood against the wall and shot dead !!
According to Alan Dershowitz who has been ostracized by the left because he helped Trump with constitutional issues in his impeachment trial, it is impossible for Donald Trump to get a fair trial in NYC. It is 90% registered democrats and none of the jurors could have returned to a normal life if they had not convicted Trump. Further, former prosecutors and constitutional law professors like Turley say the trial was unfair and there are numerous grounds for reversal. I don’t like Donald Trump but even people I don’t like should get a fair trial. He did not.
Right. Two Americas. Third World America comprised of about four dozen U.S. cities; and First World America, comprised of the suburbs and small-town/rural areas. Notice the trial judge wouldn't allow a change of venue to the suburbs. Speaks volumes. And the RINO (Establishment-selected) special prosecutor wouldn't prosecute Pres. Biden because he's too senile to stand trial. All this nonsense is Beyond Third World.
But if the Dems touch the suburbs in a negative way, where almost all important elections are decided, they are political dog meat. So the destructive Left is checked to a certain extent. But this debt-for-jobs bubble will eventually pop, costing millions of suburbanites their jobs; or, the globalist Fed will step in and radically reduce interest rates and pump QE like never before to artificially prop up jobs. But this will cause hyper-inflation. So either scenario is pretty awful. And scary, because will the U.S. explode into mass violence when it happens? Pacified suburbanites better wake up!
Yes rkf, the gleeful howling and laughter is the ultimate proof of a demented and corrupt people, who cheer the destruction of the same country that provided them everything they own, as we see In many cities, robbing and looting until not one business survives. Ignorance and stupidity on an unprecedented scale. Yes rkf, the “culture rot” or the new American democrat. Both have the same stench of the death of America 😷
Don’t spare the other party or many in the bureaucracy Steve L. Through fear, ignorance, disengagement, and malevolent intent, we are all complicit in the dismemberment of a society. Sadly, the whole world is experiencing this turmoil. What little optimism remaining in me hopes this could be the stirring of the stream that clears the waters. My breathing apparatus, however, is nearly depleted.
And I don’t spare the RINO, as we know these creatures are the furthest thing from a conservative American. Those creatures are as vile and corrupt as the creatures from the DC lagoon. Yes rkf, the “whole world” is in turmoil because we accepted a corrupt election and an unprecedented coup on our last administration. Never a Trump fan, but we all know this world terror was caused by the RINOs, most of the democrats and the communists who control them. If you’re counting on a hero or movement to clean the swamp waters, you’re experiencing the same delusional dreams of most Americans. Not going to happen when the communist control most systems and government in America. Your “breathing apparatus” has expired due to the common ignorance and corruption that just takes our breath away 😷
Not counting on heroes, white knights, or Libertarians. The historical fact is empires rise and they fall. Our’s is on the downward trend, “the twilight side of the hill.” What brings change is collapse. Out of chaos comes something different, something not necessarily better.
Exactly rlf, and that coming collapse is what I’ve been warning about for most of my time on this site, because you know what comes out the other side is going to be real ugly.
not necessarily, the compost heap in my back yard often sprout the most beautiful flowers .. even amongst all this shi* the beauty of life will survive and rise again .. if not in humans than some other species ..
Sallie,I personally think America is over. As anyone on this site knows, I’ve been explaining my strategy on how myself, family and friends have been preparing for years. Doesn’t mean anything, as the once great Mike Tyson says, “Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face”. This coming event will be more like getting hit by a truck. Can’t purge the communist from America because they control her now. It will be the good who will be purged, as we see everything is In reverse, men are women, women are men, illegals get everything for free, Americans lose everything paying for them, theft and robbery are considered equity, lawlessness rules and crime is rewarded as justice. Good is bad and bad is good. Communism. The only hope I see is our second amendment, the rest is up to those who honestly believe in it🤔
Steve, you may be right. Half of our country has socialist tendencies. Many want free stuff. They believe in socialist "public" education, Social Security (soon to be an oxymoron since they will find out there is no guaranteed security) and Medicare, including many of the so-called conservatives. Atlas is Shrugging and unless more Americans wake up and realize that prosperity only comes from rational thinking and the subsequent actions, then we will eventually go down the drain. I haven't totally given up. I would like to think that while many Americans don't understand the issue on a fundamental philosophical level, many have a gut feeling of what is right. If so, they will have to do battle against the progressive fascist nihilist horde to win our country back. I hope the battle is a battle of ideas as the left is intellectually bankrupt, but many on the right cannot fully articulate the case for individual rights on a fundamental level.
I hate to bring up “The Gulag” but it’s a long book with many asides you look up on Wikipedia.
A crazy time, 30 million killed, orchestrated by Stalin and in the 1930’s they went after the original Bolsheviks.
Two times in the 20th century, Nazis and Soviets. Never happened on such a scale before, mass killing, horrible crimes committed by the committed.
Remember when they were calling for the death of anti vaxers. It got a little crazy.
It’s been crazy, about 10 million dead in US wars. No one cares that 500 thousand Ukrainian soldiers are dead; kill more Russians. We collated body counts in Vietnam; Mai Lai , no one batted an eye.
Genocidal annihilation in Gaza, women and children, everyone supports it, justifies it. And it’s orchestrated by a theocracy. People wail at the wall for more killing.
The Trump conviction and presidency proves there is a crazy deep state that democracy ceased to exist on a November day in 1963.
Americans are primed to be murderers; they already are.
It’s only a matter of time before we are the Gulag. These phenomena, in the modern world, only get worse. Most of us will joyfully join in or sit on our hands in fear and ignorance.
Bill. most of your opinions I tend to agree with and some I do not. Most of the talking heads that I read, yours included, falsely believe that this Trump legal issue is new news. It is not. If you are a small business owner and operator like myself, this Judicial corruption for me started in 1997. For others maybe sooner. The Judiciary has been politically corrupt for a very long time. It did not just happen because of their dislike for Trump. The system is rotten with rotten lawyers which is exactly what the Judiciary is made up of from top to bottom. There is a favorite quote from Albert Einstein I sourced from the Epoch Times and is "WE CAN'T SOLVE TODAY'S PROBLEMS WITH THE MENTALITY THAT CREATED THEM" I have a website that, I think, describes the source of the problem and how voters can fix it. see www.StopLawyersNow.org. Best regards, Mike
I got punched in the face when I sold my small business in the early 1990's. How was I punched you may ask? After fighting our local, county, state and Federal governments for decades over city codes, OSHA rules, EPA rules, tax deduction issues, property taxes issues, real-estate fees & sale taxes, etc...
I discoved that my partners in my business was the governments. How you say? I was taxed over 50% on my capital gains by "my" governments. Hence, they gained more that I did for my blood, sweat and tears over decades of work and all they did was make my life more difficult and costly. Disgusting, why should they benefit at that level for doing nothing but being present. Yes, America is great and better that most other countries, but it has it's warts and taxes, corruption, lack of ethics, lack of fairness, etc.
Mr DeFouw, that sobering statement (business partners) is indeed a painful, punch in the face. Often preceded by repeated body blows. Not the least of which are not inconsequential, benign, tax audits which come with a hefty price tag punch in order to defend one’s GAAP.
Long gone are the days when Judge Learned Hand’s tax rulings; those days are a distant, fond memory. Yet Hand’s rulings are “case law,”, our elected 542 just cannot stand it: "Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes."
Mr McMaster, you’ve touched on a tentacle of a raw nerve of countless Americans who cannot fathom how their liberties are encroached upon. Thank you.
For purposes of this example, the actual increase of many decades, in regulations has been exponential. 10’s of thousands of obstacles and obstructions are put in the path of and effect nearly every American.
As of August 2022 (yes, in just 2 years) there have been over 3,500 proposed rules published in the Federal Register since January 1, 2021 (https://www.federalregister.gov/). These rules will eventually be codified into the CFR once they become effective.
It only gets worse. The hierarchy of the CFR goes like this; Titles: The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to federal regulation. Chapters: Each title is divided into chapters, which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Parts: Each chapter is further subdivided into parts that cover specific regulatory areas.
Sections: Parts are organized into [§] sections, and most citations to the CFR refer to material at the section level. Large parts may be subdivided into subparts, which are denoted by letters of the alphabet (A-Z).
15 titles alone have been added to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations since 2020. Since 2024, there have been approximately 22,000 additions to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
My fellow readers, do you have some unused paint, solvent, gasoline, motor oil, whatever[?]
We’d better check into whether or not it is properly stored and the proximity of the FIRE EXTINGUISHER(s) and if properly maintained\certified
And heaven help us with those flashlight batteries AND that emergency backup solar battery; we had better know exactly whether or not that battery has a very high (or low) rate of thermal runaway, especially if the G-men come around to inquire about inventory of ammunition and explosives (AE).
The purpose of the relentless attacks from the political left against Donald Trump are to extinguish Populism as a political movement once and forever. They don’t really hate Donald Trump the man(he was once one of them and regularly rubbed shoulders in their circles). They hate, they loathe, what he came to represent, out of seeming nowhere, in 2015. January 6 was intended to be a stake in the heart to the idea of public uprising, putting fear in the hearts of every disgruntled grass roots populist that they too could be ‘disappeared’, never to see there families again, or at least for a very long time. They were in charge and would prove it. The Rule of Law was gone along with the US Constitution. Might now made ineluctable Right, and they would prove it over and over again in case there were any who had not yet gotten the memo. And Donald Trump’s trial and conviction would be no different. It would signal who was in charge, that there really was only one Sheriff in town, and he was in town to stay.
The interesting aspect of this trial is that democrats ( or as I have relabeled them the degenerates) will tell you that justice is served. For those who believe that this was a fair trial I would point out that the judge is a Biden supporter, his daughter a member of the democratic machine who was making money off the case and Alvin Bragg who ran on getting Trump. So if you believe this was fair you are in serious need of therapy. New York has become a cess pool and why anybody lives or visits there is beyond me. I had an interesting conversation with a friend who asked if I was going to vote for a convicted felon. My reply was that I would rather vote for a convicted felon who knows what he is doing than a moron who can’t tell me what day of the week it is.
Even my sister who is great Biden supporter and voted for him, told me last week she could not vote Biden this time around - he is too senile, mentally unstaple, to be president, let alone president for another terms. Craziness. She can't vote for Trump bc of how he talks and the his ethics concerning women. She she is going to write-in a person for her vote this year. Wonder how many others will do the same thing?
It's pretty clear that the system is F--cked but the big question is what can I do to protect myself and my kin.
We are doing pretty well based on the mores of the old society but are faced with many situations that are out of control and which Bill points out on a daily basis.
What I feel I need is some good usable guidance and siting on a bag of gold in a bolthole is not a solution that is practical for us.
JW: you can't do anything; the system is rigged. Even Bill Bonner admits it. What you must do, in my opinion, is prepare for the next, new "normal", which is fascism, the marriage of big government and big business. Even that is not complete; fascism is, forever and always, a way station to communism. But don't worry; you'll own nothing and like it, because this time (wink, wink) communism will be implemented CORRECTLY. Best always. PM
LOL! You are right, of course, but you're thinking like someone who values an individual life. Communists don't. Individuals are not important - they are to be sacrificed for the cause - hence, the number that can be sacrificed is infinite. The philosophers of the left have stated this many times in many ways. This is why the American Progressives explain things in terms of the group you "belong" to. You are not a unique individual - you are just a cog in the "will" of the group. You do not determine what you should think or do, the group determines what you should think and do....... You are nothing, the group is everything. Hence, you are expendable.
Well, we know for a fact that 20,000,000 was NOT enough. So, I guess, we start counting from there. Not a happy thought, but denial carries a high price. Best always. PM
Yes Dave, Living in NY, that fate is almost certain. The lawlessness and breakdown of the democrat cities is something out of a Stephen King book. “Escape from New York” is no longer Fiction 🤔
The train station would be more satisfying for guys like you and me, but it might be better if he had to suffer every minute of his miserable existence.
Headline: Trump ‘OK’ with jail but supporters would be at ‘breaking point’ It would be tough for the public to take and they would not stand for it, says former president.
Best Regards,
Mark
P.S. maybe one of my trips n/b 15 I ought to stop for a steak to celebrate the progress of our evacuation from the warm State of tyranny🤣
You're welcome any time. I've now perfected the art of Sous Vide cooked steaks. They're better than 99 percent of the steak houses in this town if I do say so myself.
They say Yellowstone is a super volcano that some day will erupt again and destroy most of America as we know it. Those in Yellowstone will be the first to go.
Progressives use the law as their sword, but only on their opponents not other Progressives or their stooges. No one is above the law, except sock puppet Joe and family.
The truth is they are all actors hired by FBI/CIA/NIS/DHS/et. al. central casting and merely participating in another vignette of the ongoing Bread and Circuses psyop.
But unfortunately the mindless masses can't face much less handle the truth so the shit show goes on while the Amerikan empire dangles on the edge of the abyss.
So, vote harder, early, and often because after this next election things will get better; pinky promise!
The trial decision was never really in question. Who doesn't think that if any jurors found Trump not guilty (via a hug jury) there would be a 'death warrant' on their head. The jurors all knew it, so voting to convict Trump was a no brainer. Vote to convict or die! Proof: The 'Clinton Hit Squad' has taken out (killed) over 100 victims who dared to cross the Clintons and not one of the those murders have been solved; hence, no one has ever been convicted of any of the Clinton murders.
EDeF: Clinton's Hit Squad: where is your proof that there were Clinton murders? Please inform us. I'm sure You can find anything if you look hard enough. Doesn't mean it's true. Some people even make things up...hope that's not you!
I have read dozens of articles about that facts of those murders and several books about those who were murdered. In fact, one British author who a book about each murder, said his life was now most likely at risk. Guess what, a year later he was murdered as well. Believe what you want to believe. Facts speak louder than words! Fact is NONE of these killings were ever solved, no one has been indicted or charged or tried - they were all done by professional "HIT" people with NO one arrested. Interesting isn't it??
Bill the saddest part is that you don't see anything wrong with this person or his behaviour .. is this how you raised your children to behave ? are these the sort of business 'techniques' you've taught them or your business associates ? common Bill give it up and stop trying to justify bad immoral unethical and plain criminal behaviour just because it's rampant across the entire empire or spectrum of US dominated western corporations and economies, or else stop going to church or pretending to be an unbiased objective commentator "just trying to connect the dots" as we can all see where the dot's are connecting and it ain't between Stormy's big dot's or even the newest national icon Swifty Taylor .. all this is just distraction in the coliseum of western life to keep the infotainment and gambling crime drug big business cartel's selling all those healthy products that are making Americans and the world rich & healthy, and "GREAT AGAIN" what a sick epitaph for a once great nation .. which is why you live in the emerald isle enjoying your big Macca's eh?
As someone with no dog in this hilarious hunt, may I suggest that there may be no greater meaning than this: Trump broke the law, he got caught, 12 random citizens found the evidence compelling enough to convict him. Everything else is idle speculation. I'm not one of the 6 million judge wannabes who just have to voice their opinion, simply lookin' at the facts....
It probably won't be over until long after Trump has finished his second term, but at some point down the road it WILL be overturned. Would you like to put some money on it? I'd like to receive something a little more substantial from you than just an apology.
Charged with a federal crime in a city court ten years plus after the "petty crime" - which was changed to a 'felony' by the democrats solely to "GET TRUMP"!. I don't disagree he committed the crime, but none of the state AG's nor the Federal AG's would accept the case. Duh?
Eugene:The democrats did not change what you call “petty crime”to a felony. That was done by the legal system. If you read all the counts, you would understand that.
Actually, Bill, your statement, “no one if above the law” is incorrect. If you are a prominent democrat say like Hillary, then you are above the law. Much of what you opine is okay with me even though I may disagree with you. But, you need to amend your essay to include the one-sided application of the law towards the conservatives and the absence of the law’s application to liberals. That, Bill, is what pisses off most of the American public who don’t side with either extreme.
Half, and that half is growing, LIKES what you describe. We are heading toward permanent marginalization, if not already there. 60 years of indoctrination of the younger generation has finally turned their tide. Best always. PM
I couldn't agree with you more, our government, especially under the present Administration has turned to a pile of s*** right before our eyes. Worthless, scum sucking traitors to everything this country stands for. Half of this country's politicians should be stood against the wall and shot dead !!
According to Alan Dershowitz who has been ostracized by the left because he helped Trump with constitutional issues in his impeachment trial, it is impossible for Donald Trump to get a fair trial in NYC. It is 90% registered democrats and none of the jurors could have returned to a normal life if they had not convicted Trump. Further, former prosecutors and constitutional law professors like Turley say the trial was unfair and there are numerous grounds for reversal. I don’t like Donald Trump but even people I don’t like should get a fair trial. He did not.
Right. Two Americas. Third World America comprised of about four dozen U.S. cities; and First World America, comprised of the suburbs and small-town/rural areas. Notice the trial judge wouldn't allow a change of venue to the suburbs. Speaks volumes. And the RINO (Establishment-selected) special prosecutor wouldn't prosecute Pres. Biden because he's too senile to stand trial. All this nonsense is Beyond Third World.
But if the Dems touch the suburbs in a negative way, where almost all important elections are decided, they are political dog meat. So the destructive Left is checked to a certain extent. But this debt-for-jobs bubble will eventually pop, costing millions of suburbanites their jobs; or, the globalist Fed will step in and radically reduce interest rates and pump QE like never before to artificially prop up jobs. But this will cause hyper-inflation. So either scenario is pretty awful. And scary, because will the U.S. explode into mass violence when it happens? Pacified suburbanites better wake up!
Another symptom of a sick society is the gleeful howling over another’s misfortune. The “cultural rot” continues to spread.
Yes rkf, the gleeful howling and laughter is the ultimate proof of a demented and corrupt people, who cheer the destruction of the same country that provided them everything they own, as we see In many cities, robbing and looting until not one business survives. Ignorance and stupidity on an unprecedented scale. Yes rkf, the “culture rot” or the new American democrat. Both have the same stench of the death of America 😷
Don’t spare the other party or many in the bureaucracy Steve L. Through fear, ignorance, disengagement, and malevolent intent, we are all complicit in the dismemberment of a society. Sadly, the whole world is experiencing this turmoil. What little optimism remaining in me hopes this could be the stirring of the stream that clears the waters. My breathing apparatus, however, is nearly depleted.
And I don’t spare the RINO, as we know these creatures are the furthest thing from a conservative American. Those creatures are as vile and corrupt as the creatures from the DC lagoon. Yes rkf, the “whole world” is in turmoil because we accepted a corrupt election and an unprecedented coup on our last administration. Never a Trump fan, but we all know this world terror was caused by the RINOs, most of the democrats and the communists who control them. If you’re counting on a hero or movement to clean the swamp waters, you’re experiencing the same delusional dreams of most Americans. Not going to happen when the communist control most systems and government in America. Your “breathing apparatus” has expired due to the common ignorance and corruption that just takes our breath away 😷
Not counting on heroes, white knights, or Libertarians. The historical fact is empires rise and they fall. Our’s is on the downward trend, “the twilight side of the hill.” What brings change is collapse. Out of chaos comes something different, something not necessarily better.
Exactly rlf, and that coming collapse is what I’ve been warning about for most of my time on this site, because you know what comes out the other side is going to be real ugly.
not necessarily, the compost heap in my back yard often sprout the most beautiful flowers .. even amongst all this shi* the beauty of life will survive and rise again .. if not in humans than some other species ..
Steve L,
What would be your best guess as to how to rid the USA of the communists who control it?
Sallie,I personally think America is over. As anyone on this site knows, I’ve been explaining my strategy on how myself, family and friends have been preparing for years. Doesn’t mean anything, as the once great Mike Tyson says, “Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face”. This coming event will be more like getting hit by a truck. Can’t purge the communist from America because they control her now. It will be the good who will be purged, as we see everything is In reverse, men are women, women are men, illegals get everything for free, Americans lose everything paying for them, theft and robbery are considered equity, lawlessness rules and crime is rewarded as justice. Good is bad and bad is good. Communism. The only hope I see is our second amendment, the rest is up to those who honestly believe in it🤔
Steve, you may be right. Half of our country has socialist tendencies. Many want free stuff. They believe in socialist "public" education, Social Security (soon to be an oxymoron since they will find out there is no guaranteed security) and Medicare, including many of the so-called conservatives. Atlas is Shrugging and unless more Americans wake up and realize that prosperity only comes from rational thinking and the subsequent actions, then we will eventually go down the drain. I haven't totally given up. I would like to think that while many Americans don't understand the issue on a fundamental philosophical level, many have a gut feeling of what is right. If so, they will have to do battle against the progressive fascist nihilist horde to win our country back. I hope the battle is a battle of ideas as the left is intellectually bankrupt, but many on the right cannot fully articulate the case for individual rights on a fundamental level.
Thanks, Steve L. I surely don’t know the answer. But yours makes me sad 😔
we are not all "gleeful " about it some are sorrowful .. like Bill .. and move to greener pastures ..
I hate to bring up “The Gulag” but it’s a long book with many asides you look up on Wikipedia.
A crazy time, 30 million killed, orchestrated by Stalin and in the 1930’s they went after the original Bolsheviks.
Two times in the 20th century, Nazis and Soviets. Never happened on such a scale before, mass killing, horrible crimes committed by the committed.
Remember when they were calling for the death of anti vaxers. It got a little crazy.
It’s been crazy, about 10 million dead in US wars. No one cares that 500 thousand Ukrainian soldiers are dead; kill more Russians. We collated body counts in Vietnam; Mai Lai , no one batted an eye.
Genocidal annihilation in Gaza, women and children, everyone supports it, justifies it. And it’s orchestrated by a theocracy. People wail at the wall for more killing.
The Trump conviction and presidency proves there is a crazy deep state that democracy ceased to exist on a November day in 1963.
Americans are primed to be murderers; they already are.
It’s only a matter of time before we are the Gulag. These phenomena, in the modern world, only get worse. Most of us will joyfully join in or sit on our hands in fear and ignorance.
Bill. most of your opinions I tend to agree with and some I do not. Most of the talking heads that I read, yours included, falsely believe that this Trump legal issue is new news. It is not. If you are a small business owner and operator like myself, this Judicial corruption for me started in 1997. For others maybe sooner. The Judiciary has been politically corrupt for a very long time. It did not just happen because of their dislike for Trump. The system is rotten with rotten lawyers which is exactly what the Judiciary is made up of from top to bottom. There is a favorite quote from Albert Einstein I sourced from the Epoch Times and is "WE CAN'T SOLVE TODAY'S PROBLEMS WITH THE MENTALITY THAT CREATED THEM" I have a website that, I think, describes the source of the problem and how voters can fix it. see www.StopLawyersNow.org. Best regards, Mike
I got punched in the face when I sold my small business in the early 1990's. How was I punched you may ask? After fighting our local, county, state and Federal governments for decades over city codes, OSHA rules, EPA rules, tax deduction issues, property taxes issues, real-estate fees & sale taxes, etc...
I discoved that my partners in my business was the governments. How you say? I was taxed over 50% on my capital gains by "my" governments. Hence, they gained more that I did for my blood, sweat and tears over decades of work and all they did was make my life more difficult and costly. Disgusting, why should they benefit at that level for doing nothing but being present. Yes, America is great and better that most other countries, but it has it's warts and taxes, corruption, lack of ethics, lack of fairness, etc.
Mr DeFouw, that sobering statement (business partners) is indeed a painful, punch in the face. Often preceded by repeated body blows. Not the least of which are not inconsequential, benign, tax audits which come with a hefty price tag punch in order to defend one’s GAAP.
Long gone are the days when Judge Learned Hand’s tax rulings; those days are a distant, fond memory. Yet Hand’s rulings are “case law,”, our elected 542 just cannot stand it: "Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes."
May be good for the 542, not the proles.
Mr McMaster, you’ve touched on a tentacle of a raw nerve of countless Americans who cannot fathom how their liberties are encroached upon. Thank you.
For purposes of this example, the actual increase of many decades, in regulations has been exponential. 10’s of thousands of obstacles and obstructions are put in the path of and effect nearly every American.
As of August 2022 (yes, in just 2 years) there have been over 3,500 proposed rules published in the Federal Register since January 1, 2021 (https://www.federalregister.gov/). These rules will eventually be codified into the CFR once they become effective.
It only gets worse. The hierarchy of the CFR goes like this; Titles: The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to federal regulation. Chapters: Each title is divided into chapters, which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Parts: Each chapter is further subdivided into parts that cover specific regulatory areas.
Sections: Parts are organized into [§] sections, and most citations to the CFR refer to material at the section level. Large parts may be subdivided into subparts, which are denoted by letters of the alphabet (A-Z).
15 titles alone have been added to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations since 2020. Since 2024, there have been approximately 22,000 additions to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
My fellow readers, do you have some unused paint, solvent, gasoline, motor oil, whatever[?]
We’d better check into whether or not it is properly stored and the proximity of the FIRE EXTINGUISHER(s) and if properly maintained\certified
And heaven help us with those flashlight batteries AND that emergency backup solar battery; we had better know exactly whether or not that battery has a very high (or low) rate of thermal runaway, especially if the G-men come around to inquire about inventory of ammunition and explosives (AE).
The purpose of the relentless attacks from the political left against Donald Trump are to extinguish Populism as a political movement once and forever. They don’t really hate Donald Trump the man(he was once one of them and regularly rubbed shoulders in their circles). They hate, they loathe, what he came to represent, out of seeming nowhere, in 2015. January 6 was intended to be a stake in the heart to the idea of public uprising, putting fear in the hearts of every disgruntled grass roots populist that they too could be ‘disappeared’, never to see there families again, or at least for a very long time. They were in charge and would prove it. The Rule of Law was gone along with the US Constitution. Might now made ineluctable Right, and they would prove it over and over again in case there were any who had not yet gotten the memo. And Donald Trump’s trial and conviction would be no different. It would signal who was in charge, that there really was only one Sheriff in town, and he was in town to stay.
The interesting aspect of this trial is that democrats ( or as I have relabeled them the degenerates) will tell you that justice is served. For those who believe that this was a fair trial I would point out that the judge is a Biden supporter, his daughter a member of the democratic machine who was making money off the case and Alvin Bragg who ran on getting Trump. So if you believe this was fair you are in serious need of therapy. New York has become a cess pool and why anybody lives or visits there is beyond me. I had an interesting conversation with a friend who asked if I was going to vote for a convicted felon. My reply was that I would rather vote for a convicted felon who knows what he is doing than a moron who can’t tell me what day of the week it is.
Even my sister who is great Biden supporter and voted for him, told me last week she could not vote Biden this time around - he is too senile, mentally unstaple, to be president, let alone president for another terms. Craziness. She can't vote for Trump bc of how he talks and the his ethics concerning women. She she is going to write-in a person for her vote this year. Wonder how many others will do the same thing?
ED: What a waste of her vote!
I agree.
It's pretty clear that the system is F--cked but the big question is what can I do to protect myself and my kin.
We are doing pretty well based on the mores of the old society but are faced with many situations that are out of control and which Bill points out on a daily basis.
What I feel I need is some good usable guidance and siting on a bag of gold in a bolthole is not a solution that is practical for us.
JW: you can't do anything; the system is rigged. Even Bill Bonner admits it. What you must do, in my opinion, is prepare for the next, new "normal", which is fascism, the marriage of big government and big business. Even that is not complete; fascism is, forever and always, a way station to communism. But don't worry; you'll own nothing and like it, because this time (wink, wink) communism will be implemented CORRECTLY. Best always. PM
You’re right, of course. I was just wondering, how many people does it take to fill a mass grave before communism is done right?
LOL! You are right, of course, but you're thinking like someone who values an individual life. Communists don't. Individuals are not important - they are to be sacrificed for the cause - hence, the number that can be sacrificed is infinite. The philosophers of the left have stated this many times in many ways. This is why the American Progressives explain things in terms of the group you "belong" to. You are not a unique individual - you are just a cog in the "will" of the group. You do not determine what you should think or do, the group determines what you should think and do....... You are nothing, the group is everything. Hence, you are expendable.
Right! But they’ll have to spare a few. Won’t they exhaust their supply of subjects? Internecine war can be so frustrating after a while. 😎
Well, we know for a fact that 20,000,000 was NOT enough. So, I guess, we start counting from there. Not a happy thought, but denial carries a high price. Best always. PM
Stalin thought that 90% of the population was the correct amount.
Klaus has a similar number in mind !
Such good-hearted souls they were. And don’t forget democrat favorites like Mao & Castro.
Someone needs to take the corrupt, conflicted, conniving judge out behind a woodshed and relieve him of his ability to walk and talk.
Yes Dave, Living in NY, that fate is almost certain. The lawlessness and breakdown of the democrat cities is something out of a Stephen King book. “Escape from New York” is no longer Fiction 🤔
Well amigo, that is being generous, thank you. A remedial tutelage tune up is warranted.
Others have a mind to have a companion accompany all of the necessary one way ticked passengers to the Yellowstone train station.
The train station would be more satisfying for guys like you and me, but it might be better if he had to suffer every minute of his miserable existence.
Indeed. The whole of the NY racketeer pack.
Hot off the presses in the UK’s most prestigious news source here
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/02/trump-ok-with-jail-but-supportersat-breaking-point/ - Spoiler 🤫 The Telegraph revealed that Secret Service chiefs are working out plans to facilitate Trump’s round-the-clock protection if he is sentenced to prison.
Headline: Trump ‘OK’ with jail but supporters would be at ‘breaking point’ It would be tough for the public to take and they would not stand for it, says former president.
Best Regards,
Mark
P.S. maybe one of my trips n/b 15 I ought to stop for a steak to celebrate the progress of our evacuation from the warm State of tyranny🤣
You're welcome any time. I've now perfected the art of Sous Vide cooked steaks. They're better than 99 percent of the steak houses in this town if I do say so myself.
They say Yellowstone is a super volcano that some day will erupt again and destroy most of America as we know it. Those in Yellowstone will be the first to go.
So, he who has the power and the money wins, and it is certainly not the prole!
The prole just pays for it. Eventually.
Maybe, just maybe, a Prole Party in addition to Tea, Independent, and Libertines and Libertarians.
Progressives use the law as their sword, but only on their opponents not other Progressives or their stooges. No one is above the law, except sock puppet Joe and family.
Thank you 'Gone Fishing' I hope many others read your CFR explanation. It is very enlightening.
Mike
The truth is they are all actors hired by FBI/CIA/NIS/DHS/et. al. central casting and merely participating in another vignette of the ongoing Bread and Circuses psyop.
But unfortunately the mindless masses can't face much less handle the truth so the shit show goes on while the Amerikan empire dangles on the edge of the abyss.
So, vote harder, early, and often because after this next election things will get better; pinky promise!
Miles Mathis has been saying this for a long time
http://mileswmathis.com/trials.pdf
http://mileswmathis.com/chut.pdf
Yes, and unfortunately most people are not emotionally equipped to even ponder what he puts forward, much less accept it.
Good OSInt links. Thanks for including those.
The trial decision was never really in question. Who doesn't think that if any jurors found Trump not guilty (via a hug jury) there would be a 'death warrant' on their head. The jurors all knew it, so voting to convict Trump was a no brainer. Vote to convict or die! Proof: The 'Clinton Hit Squad' has taken out (killed) over 100 victims who dared to cross the Clintons and not one of the those murders have been solved; hence, no one has ever been convicted of any of the Clinton murders.
EDeF: Clinton's Hit Squad: where is your proof that there were Clinton murders? Please inform us. I'm sure You can find anything if you look hard enough. Doesn't mean it's true. Some people even make things up...hope that's not you!
I have read dozens of articles about that facts of those murders and several books about those who were murdered. In fact, one British author who a book about each murder, said his life was now most likely at risk. Guess what, a year later he was murdered as well. Believe what you want to believe. Facts speak louder than words! Fact is NONE of these killings were ever solved, no one has been indicted or charged or tried - they were all done by professional "HIT" people with NO one arrested. Interesting isn't it??
Bill the saddest part is that you don't see anything wrong with this person or his behaviour .. is this how you raised your children to behave ? are these the sort of business 'techniques' you've taught them or your business associates ? common Bill give it up and stop trying to justify bad immoral unethical and plain criminal behaviour just because it's rampant across the entire empire or spectrum of US dominated western corporations and economies, or else stop going to church or pretending to be an unbiased objective commentator "just trying to connect the dots" as we can all see where the dot's are connecting and it ain't between Stormy's big dot's or even the newest national icon Swifty Taylor .. all this is just distraction in the coliseum of western life to keep the infotainment and gambling crime drug big business cartel's selling all those healthy products that are making Americans and the world rich & healthy, and "GREAT AGAIN" what a sick epitaph for a once great nation .. which is why you live in the emerald isle enjoying your big Macca's eh?
As someone with no dog in this hilarious hunt, may I suggest that there may be no greater meaning than this: Trump broke the law, he got caught, 12 random citizens found the evidence compelling enough to convict him. Everything else is idle speculation. I'm not one of the 6 million judge wannabes who just have to voice their opinion, simply lookin' at the facts....
Here's a real fact for you, Doug.
The verdict against Trump will eventually be overturned, which will prove that your "facts" were anything but.
Invector: Not likely. You can send me an apology after it's all over.
It probably won't be over until long after Trump has finished his second term, but at some point down the road it WILL be overturned. Would you like to put some money on it? I'd like to receive something a little more substantial from you than just an apology.
Invector, that won't be necessary on my part; but you can send me one when it doesn't happen for Trump..
Obviously you don't have much confidence in your prediction.
Investor: No, I have a lot of confidence in my prediction.
Charged with a federal crime in a city court ten years plus after the "petty crime" - which was changed to a 'felony' by the democrats solely to "GET TRUMP"!. I don't disagree he committed the crime, but none of the state AG's nor the Federal AG's would accept the case. Duh?
Eugene:The democrats did not change what you call “petty crime”to a felony. That was done by the legal system. If you read all the counts, you would understand that.