All political arrangements, being part of life itself, decay over time. Constitutions are re-interpreted. Public mores become more elastic. Bread and circuses tend to replace modest, restrained leader
Yup -- x1000. Along with pretty much every other "government" agency and department as well - theft, waste and criminality be damned.
So how do we go about fixing this fatal flaw in Human Nature - in a Country of 350+ million people and a bloated, corrupt "government" that has been grown to an unsustainable nature by both political parties? I have no idea beyond starting with actions that cut off the money spigot to remove the opportunity/temptation to continue getting fatter (Hello Little DOGE-y.)
I DO know that we had not a prayer if we had continued down the path trod for the last 30 years. It appears that we now have people in power that, at least, recognize the problem. One other thing is FOR SURE - a Little Man at the helm wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of making any significant, beneficial changes.
Hate on Trump all you want - he's our last chance to turn things around. A little objective, honest support from such an influential service and persona like BPR would go a long way to helping the situation - rather than irrationally and deceptively piling on with the rest of the hate-filled propagandists.
PS - "𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘋𝘗 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩). " During the last "administration" I was told repeatedly by virtually everyone in our "media" and financial world that this benchmark no longer applies.
Hi Starboard, Are you on board with the idea that GDP is a bogus number? Best example - health care was 5% of GDP in 1960 but 18.3% of GDP in 2024. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look around and see how much the health of the average American has declined since then. The obesity rate has tripled since then. But a sicker populace means more health care is needed and that boosts GDP!
Yes, I think the way GDP is "figured" is bogus, mainly because they started including government "spending" not so long ago. Plus, to your point, considering how deeply entrenched our "government" is in spending money on certain citizen's healthcare and what a large percentage that represents of the total dollars being spent on healthcare - the numbers get thrown even further into the realm of inaccuracy, IMO...
Well, considering the FACT that no one has EVER produced a valid US Birth Certificate for Barry Soetero, we probably had our extremely low expectations too high to begin with.
Fun Fact: ask 10 random leftardes who Barry Soetero is and you'd be lucky if even one has a clue. The sketchy origin, early life and documented name change of our 44th "president" was but one of the closely-guarded, "media"-ignored aspects of his time in the spotlight doing all he could to divide and destroy us.
It appears obvious that Bill doesn't want a Consitutional democracy. I don't know what he does want but it isn't a Republic. My guess is that the big man really gets under his skin. Maybe the CIA could run the country better by creating wars, overtrowing o
Agree brother Mack, Bill seems to dislike the Big Man but was a fan of the Big Bimbo🤔 and anyone backing the party of mental illness is just another bimbo…
Bill is describing what he sees, not what he wants. On the whole, putting aside the attempt to read Trump's mind (I don't have the slightest idea what the person behind the public performance actually thinks) it does appear that the polity branded "Our Democracy(tm)" better resembles a straight up kleptocracy consisting of competing and perhaps overlapping pirate crews specializing in different species of criminal activity. A Constitutional Republic is not convenient for the kleptocracy so, over time, the Administrative State has emerged with a "Three Felonies a Day" legal and regulatory code that is well sharpened to support lawfare between competing pirate crews, but utterly incapable of administering justice, given an epidemic of abuse of prosecutorial and judicial discretion.
Congratulations for apparently reading Bonner's entire column. I quit halfway through. The drivel of half-truths, biased observations, is just too much.
I voted for Trump all three times. I have never agreed with him 100%. The first two times I voted for him it was mostly a matter of voting against the alternative (as bad as Biden was and Harris could have been, Hillary Clinton would have been exponentially worse).
In this last election I had a revelation. If the powers that run this country from the shadows are so afraid of Trump that they would at least twice attempt to assassinate him, he is the person we need in the White House. He is far from perfect but at least he is not a puppet of the Deep State...
Oh, I think he may be a puppet of the Deep State - just a better one! And it is clear he is a puppet of the Jewish Lobby. But, on the other hand, much preferred to Harris. Unfortunately, a vote against Harris isn’t necessarily a vote for Trump.
If Trump is a "puppet of the Deep State" why would they want to imprison, kill or Epstein him, the latter of which is a combination of the (first) two, a la Big Brother (and the Holding Company?)...
There's nothing wrong with "Big Man" government, so long as the Big Man is a strict constitutionalist. The Dems have always been in love with "Big Man" government. Shall we list them? Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barack Obama, and The Legend in his own (marshmallow) Mind, Joseph Biden, none of whom were constitutionalists, much less strict! We are watching the disintegration of the "Union" in real time. We waited too long (50 years) to get going. It might not have mattered, anyway. Best always. PM
The only disagreement I have is with the notion that under Biden, there was collaborative democracy. When the party in power furthers their agenda by choosing which laws they will just ignore, and which laws to apply heavy handedly...that does not seem to be collaborative democracy . ....JJ
Once again, Bill couldn't be more correct. Ever since the end of WWII the US military-industrial complex has been dreaming up schemes to induce conflict within nations all over the world. Now the chickens have come home to roost: the US never faced a threat from ANY of the 50+ governments it has hated-on/overthrown or the countless "George Washingtons" they have slaughtered among the 22 million people now dead because of the jingoism of our murderous dunces. Now these fanatic, overwhelmingly Judeo-Christians (yes, just as in Hitler's hellscape, religion seems to be a driving force) are reaching the end of their rope. Having spent (wasted/blown-up) in excess of $30 trillion dollars fighting contrived wars following 1945's hollowed victories we now have a stagnant government/nation with a $35 trillion debt costing $1 trillion/year in interest alone and continue wasting another trillion supporting the dunces so intent on converting the brave 1776 signers' dream into the globe's second pariah state.
President Eisenhower saw the "Industrial / Military complex coming to the USA and its effects - he has been proved so right. Once you hit the peak there is only one way and that is down. The question is whether it is managed or calamitous!!
I agree with you and Bill about the military industrial complex. But Bill refuses for some odd reason to lay blame at the feet of the American people. Bill knows quite well that the Pentagon is the U.S.’s largest employer, dwarfing Walmart & Amazon combined. Bill continually blames the Pentagon big boys and their contractor big boys, who he knows only skim the cream off the top. The lion’s share of Pentagon spending goes to employing upwards of 20 million U.S. citizens, if you count partial employment as well as full employment. These so-called “private sector” citizens largely build weapons systems, military equipment, and support our troops in dozens of ways. Our troops are only the tip of the spear where spending is concerned. And these private contractor jobs are good-paying with decent benefits. So try cutting the Pentagon’s budget in half and see a depression occur, not only massive marches on DC by angry defense workers. And this massive job loss would cause a tsunami in the private economy when defense workers had to drastically cut back on their spending, thus leading to even more massive job losses in other private sectors. This would clean up a debt-ridden system, but the TRANSITION PERIOD to accomplish this over about three-to-five years would electorally wipe out the party (GOP or DEM) who tried it.
I think the Pentagon spending spigot could be greatly reduced, but it would have to be done---GRADUALLY---over many years, possibly over a decade, to avoid a depression, and the chaos this would cause. It’s easy for Bill to complain about the $1T annually spent by the Pentagon, but notice he doesn’t provide a concrete solution. What Bill could do here is point out that money moves through an economic system (as well as IOUs, unfortunately), so the Pentagon’s spending in many ways is not totally negative, but most of its spending does not build true/real wealth for a country; it simply creates millions of make-work jobs, which is when Bill is at his best when explaining this. Up to a few years ago, Bill would take on various sectors in the public and private spheres, explaining to readers how some sectors spent money wisely or how they spent money unwisely, mostly to prop up jobs or pay off cronies. A hypothetical example would be The Bridge To Nowhere, where millions were spent to buy materials, and thousands of people were employed to build the bridge, but it went to nowhere, providing no productive use, thus providing no true wealth-building. Thus the best way to analyze spending is by Bill's true wealth-building examination.
Unfortunately, Bill doesn’t do this anymore because it’s obvious he’s so obsessed with President Trump that he can’t think clearly anymore.
Thank you for the well thought out reply. A bridge to nowhere is not the only alternative to manufacturing bombs for the Israeli government to destroy the houses of 3 million Gazans and torture their children with shrapnel. Once again I point to China which uses its newfound wealth to build rivers north (to open new agricultural areas employing tens of thousands), HSTs which incorporate formerly isolated millions of dirt farmers into the economy, factories and mines in Africa which pay formerly unemployed thousands at double the working wage of African enterprises AND enable the Chinese economy to grow also. There is a project that can be done on a tiny portion of the 3-million acre military reservation in Nevada that would create more than a million jobs but the greedy murderous Pentagon wouldn’t dream of giving up its vision of dominating and enslaving the rest of the world in abject poverty. The US is in losing spiral, designed by Truman and the Dulles brothers in about 1948,
F.W. I agree mostly of what You say to be true except for the last sentence. I do not know Bill personally , but by what He writes. The last sentence is certainly Your opinion. I will leave it at that. Thanks for Your mostly well thought out posts.
Is that what we had Bill? "Collaborative democracy?" You mean like men in girls sports? Take this killing vaccine or be fired causing sudden death explosions, censorship by the administration, plagiarism by Harvard president, acceptance into universities measured by hate, doctor's losing their license to practice because they've found better ways to fight covid. or covid released upon the world after gain-of function research is punishable by death according to law. Is that what you mean by collaborative democracy, the department of justice attacking the president in outrageous and absurd claims of justice and taking away rights guaranteed to the administration by the Constitution, is that what you mean by collaborative democracy?
And they would seem to have a slightly-less bogus claim to the land than a brat squirted out by its illegal mother because she was just able to make it over the finish line "border" in time.
Modern Birth"right" Citizenship has been a disgusting, un-Constitutional practice perverted by the scumbag left in our Country. It appears the "supreme" court will soon have a chance to right the wrong of decades on this subject - but in light of the secret 4k videos of John Roberts "entertaining" children and Amy Coney Barret's illegal "adoption" of multiple other sweet little third-worlders - I am NOT very optimistic that the actual intent of the 14th Amendment will prevail...
Agreed. The sheer scale of the illegal migration to the West is unsustainable. Hence, at some point the line will need to be drawn in the sand… by the left as well as the right. And, the argument of compassion will be thrown out the window like all of their failed BS ideology. Shame we just don’t learn from history.
Bill: I have several comments to make regarding this article you wrote. 1. I agree that Trump has a big mouth and many times he says things that are improper and sometimes scary; I hope that it is just rhetoric. 2. I’m not sure if we’re on a downward trend, I hope not. Although nothing done in the past has improved our country; why not try something new. 3. The military industrial complex is TOO big and TOO strong; it needs to be cut down, financially and militarily. 4. The ‘cure’ is make lobbying illegal and have term limits. My comment on Biden will be very lengthy, but I’ll mention a few things. Where were you when Biden open the borders to 20 million illegals (many of them criminals). Where were you when Biden cut our production of oil and depended on other countries for oil (some of them hating the US). Where were you when Biden wanted to using EV’s only. Many more examples, but of course, Biden was so out of touch and numb, almost as if he was from another planet. AP
BB was silent on the dims/Biden's continuous attacks on US Energy because it was/is foundational to the success of his Trade of the Decade.
Drill Baby Drill spells at best break even for the Oil sector as more supply means lower prices. Don't be surprised if we see apathy for war on these pages - it's the only thing under Trump that will blow up the price per barrel. Good for the portfolio don'tchaknow, and the peons will drive less with expensive gas. This is what we'll get with a leftist/globalist/elitist in drag running the BPR show...
Drill baby drill will make this country wealthy again. America will sell oil to the rest of the world (even at cheap prices) and get our deficit down. The average income in Saudi Arabia is high as a result of exports of oil to other countries. We can do the same.
Abe, I have to agree some what of what You said . But drill- ing takes time and all the other economics that have to be considered. This impact may not be felt , for the average citizen, for up to 5 years. Just My view, but I was wrong once!
So far no administration have succeeded in getting America to where it was years ago. Better late than not; 5 years is probably not much. Remember China looks 100 years ahead. AP
BTW, on another note, this administration has had open meetings and press conferences almost daily; so refreshing to see compared to the past administrations.
I must add that the best part of the Bonner Private Research (although mostly BS rhetoric about Trump) is the interaction and discussing differences of opinion of the members/subscribers. This is a learning experience for everyone and who knows sometimes minds can be changed.
We sure get wound up talking about Trump. I don’t think the ideal of America in its original intent is complicated. It’s in the execution that things get messy. Every little step that staggers away from a Constitutional Republic takes us into quagmire and quicksand. We’re stuck now. No matter what Trump or anyone else does, there is some opposition, an opposition that grows in force, ferocity, and volume. It’s hard to be reasonable with selfish vested interests. Most of BB’s argument is based on history. It’s hard to refute unless people think we are better than our ancestors. Considering the facts, that may be hard to refute.
Ah yes, the Big Man returns, orange and bloated like a rotting
jack-o’-lantern in November, mumbling about wind and waves bending to his will while his fans stare at him like he’s a messianic cheeseburger summoned from the grease-stained dreams of a dying empire.
He isn’t leading, and this isn’t politics, it’s a monster truck rally for failed civics students, headlined by a man who thinks NATO is a brand of cologne. They don’t want policy, they want vengeance slathered in nacho cheese, served with a side of tear gas.
And what do they chant?
“He tells it like it is,” as if gibberish wrapped in narcissism qualifies as prophecy. We’re not looking at a president, we’re watching a cult leader in a windbreaker, waving his arms like a drunk auctioneer while democracy slowly suffocates under a mountain of commemorative gold coins and signed subpoenas.
We used to demand competence, now we crave chaos with a comb-over. These aren’t supporters, they’re cultists marinated in Mountain Dew and Facebook rage, hooting like coked-up seals every time the Big Man promises to nuke the EPA or punch a hurricane.
This isn’t a presidency, it’s a traveling apocalypse, a Walmart Reich led by a man who thinks the nuclear football is filled with Skittles. And all the while, the Founding Fathers scream in their graves like haunted car alarms, realizing too late that liberty’s last breath smells like Axe body spray and burnt Constitution.
And while the flag-waving faithful are busy saluting a reality TV necromancer, the real show is happening backstage, where the economy’s pants are around its ankles, the dollar’s on fentanyl, and China is quietly buying the future wholesale. Trump, the alleged dealmaker, is being played like a fiddle made of bald eagle bones and Reagan’s ghost, serenading Xi Jinping with every tariff tantrum and dollar-obliterating policy gaffe.
Meanwhile, the real empire, the one held together by debt, drone strikes, and delusion is quietly bleeding out behind the curtain. The dollar is hanging by a thread woven in Beijing, and every time Trump rage-tweets about tariffs, Xi Jinping reclines deeper into his silk chair and lights another American bond with a smug little smirk.
This isn’t just decline, it’s a flaming parade float of national suicide, sponsored by Raytheon, Chevron, and whatever’s left of dignity. The Military-Industrial Complex doesn’t defend America; it milks it, bones and all, like a necrophiliac accountant billing by the corpse. We spend trillions projecting “power” while our bridges collapse, our vets beg for meds, and our education system teaches algebra with broken chalk and PTSD. America isn’t being invaded, it’s being auctioned off, brick by brick, to the highest bidder while its citizens cheer for the man holding the matchbook. When the crash comes, and it will, it won’t be Russia or Hamas or immigrants with leaf blowers who did us in.
It’ll be this; a conspiracy of willing idiots, cowardly politicians, and firepower executives jerking off in a hot tub full of lobbying cash. When the collapse is complete, when the last drone strike invoice clears and the dollar wheezes its final breath, Trump will be there, confused, shirtless, bronze-streaked, wondering why his casino chip doesn’t cover bread in Beijing.
Hope is the foundation of any and all things good, my brother.
Nah man - dat's my German Short Hair Pointer best buddy, called Penny Raine. Her coat is what is called Patched and Ticked - so I guess she looks a bit like oatmeal...
NATO is a Potemkin village and has been since soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, except for the US contribution that allowed EU to goose social welfare benefits and laugh at the gullible Americans. Now the facade is evident.
Bills Piece.... Blah, Blah, Blah and more Blah.... Bill "Blah" Bonner... Anti-Trump, Anti-American, status quo proponent. Yes, The Biden way. Same topic every morning, what happened to the prolific writer of the past focused on making money. Oh, the politics.
Ralph, I think we'll stick around for awhile. But if you're seriously this unhappy, please contact us privately over at bpr@bonnerprivateresearch.com and we can make an arrangement for the rest of your subscription if you like.
Ya gotta admit - BPR has had a primarily Fatalistic bent since y'all started - and it has only gotten worse in the last 18 months or so. I get it - Reality is Reality and nobody is looking for you to sugarcoat anything. However, the analysis/advice/musings we get from this service are consistently long on Complaining Doom and short on Actionable Solutions...
Well, let's see....I've lived about 25% of my life in 3 different Countries outside the US, and traveled to at least an additional 6 for vacations, sometimes extended. I also have friends and acquaintances from all over the globe.
The world is not ending but, the US as a semi-leader/beacon is. The internet has made it possible to transfer knowledge more equally than ever imaginable before. As it continue to break ties with the country it once admired and that country's dunces, we will see the entire world and its people boom.
Thanks Petra. You have pointed out the first, tinniest tap of the brakes that represents the entire foundation of the Trump Strategy. All the hoopla of the last 100 days has been smoke and mirrors to get us to the point where this action could begin.
There are TRILLIONS due for refi in the next 12 months. Trump saw it, felt it and identified it as the most pressing, existential threat to our Country of his young second term. Nearly EVERYTHING he has done so far has been to pave the way to actually be able TO refinance that huge chunk of our debt. Once accomplished, everything else will be gravy on the side....
While..... I try to keep track of the overall developments I feel much disturbed by some.
REAL ID, The new Head of the CDC (Ex-CIA), the concept of tackling the Autism Issue, by setting up a huge database (NIH-led by the much adored Jay B.) which could definitely used for purposes not benefitting US Citizens once installed and overseen by other individuals than currently.....
Whom ever, Pat Neff, is, he is short on life experience to think BPR, is offering truth, they offer opinions only and hope to be close to what unfolds. And their free ride regarding yellen and biden, followed by personal attacks from Bill, on President Trump, is not truth, it be SICK. A man is trying to clean up some of the socialist's garbage that started with FDR. Any blame is for all that helped create the mess. So Pat Neff, wake up and try to understand a bit of history.
Yes brother Ralph, a man’s reality is based on his life experiences and perception. When his life experiences and understanding of them are mentally and morally corrupt, we have today’s common democrat, Or the party of mental illness 🤔
A very great one , Bill, A great summation of dire straits the Country is in and the cause. Keep up the good work . And I really appreciate the way you write and your use of metaphor to explain complicated events .
"𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦-𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯/𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘌𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺 -- 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯.."
Yup -- x1000. Along with pretty much every other "government" agency and department as well - theft, waste and criminality be damned.
So how do we go about fixing this fatal flaw in Human Nature - in a Country of 350+ million people and a bloated, corrupt "government" that has been grown to an unsustainable nature by both political parties? I have no idea beyond starting with actions that cut off the money spigot to remove the opportunity/temptation to continue getting fatter (Hello Little DOGE-y.)
I DO know that we had not a prayer if we had continued down the path trod for the last 30 years. It appears that we now have people in power that, at least, recognize the problem. One other thing is FOR SURE - a Little Man at the helm wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell of making any significant, beneficial changes.
Hate on Trump all you want - he's our last chance to turn things around. A little objective, honest support from such an influential service and persona like BPR would go a long way to helping the situation - rather than irrationally and deceptively piling on with the rest of the hate-filled propagandists.
PS - "𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘎𝘋𝘗 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩). " During the last "administration" I was told repeatedly by virtually everyone in our "media" and financial world that this benchmark no longer applies.
Try to keep up, Dan...
Hi Starboard, Are you on board with the idea that GDP is a bogus number? Best example - health care was 5% of GDP in 1960 but 18.3% of GDP in 2024. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look around and see how much the health of the average American has declined since then. The obesity rate has tripled since then. But a sicker populace means more health care is needed and that boosts GDP!
Hi Cartero -
Yes, I think the way GDP is "figured" is bogus, mainly because they started including government "spending" not so long ago. Plus, to your point, considering how deeply entrenched our "government" is in spending money on certain citizen's healthcare and what a large percentage that represents of the total dollars being spent on healthcare - the numbers get thrown even further into the realm of inaccuracy, IMO...
Two words, Obama Care 🤔 named after a man who could care less for America, and even less for their health…
Well, considering the FACT that no one has EVER produced a valid US Birth Certificate for Barry Soetero, we probably had our extremely low expectations too high to begin with.
Fun Fact: ask 10 random leftardes who Barry Soetero is and you'd be lucky if even one has a clue. The sketchy origin, early life and documented name change of our 44th "president" was but one of the closely-guarded, "media"-ignored aspects of his time in the spotlight doing all he could to divide and destroy us.
But the Truth is slowly trickling out...
Yes brother, the real Manchurian Candidate or “Islamic” Candidate 🤔
It appears obvious that Bill doesn't want a Consitutional democracy. I don't know what he does want but it isn't a Republic. My guess is that the big man really gets under his skin. Maybe the CIA could run the country better by creating wars, overtrowing o
over throwing other's governments which were democratically elected or shooting our own president when he didn't want nuclear war.
Seems like when it comes to the CIA running the Country, they ascribe to the dimocrat playbook.
"Success" is determined by Intentions, not Results....
Agree brother Mack, Bill seems to dislike the Big Man but was a fan of the Big Bimbo🤔 and anyone backing the party of mental illness is just another bimbo…
Bill is describing what he sees, not what he wants. On the whole, putting aside the attempt to read Trump's mind (I don't have the slightest idea what the person behind the public performance actually thinks) it does appear that the polity branded "Our Democracy(tm)" better resembles a straight up kleptocracy consisting of competing and perhaps overlapping pirate crews specializing in different species of criminal activity. A Constitutional Republic is not convenient for the kleptocracy so, over time, the Administrative State has emerged with a "Three Felonies a Day" legal and regulatory code that is well sharpened to support lawfare between competing pirate crews, but utterly incapable of administering justice, given an epidemic of abuse of prosecutorial and judicial discretion.
Congratulations for apparently reading Bonner's entire column. I quit halfway through. The drivel of half-truths, biased observations, is just too much.
Why do you bother reading Bonner's remarks?
I quit after a paragraph, seeing it was the same opinions just jazzed up to be a little more antagonizing.
Can you please enumerate the half-truths?
I voted for Trump all three times. I have never agreed with him 100%. The first two times I voted for him it was mostly a matter of voting against the alternative (as bad as Biden was and Harris could have been, Hillary Clinton would have been exponentially worse).
In this last election I had a revelation. If the powers that run this country from the shadows are so afraid of Trump that they would at least twice attempt to assassinate him, he is the person we need in the White House. He is far from perfect but at least he is not a puppet of the Deep State...
Oh, I think he may be a puppet of the Deep State - just a better one! And it is clear he is a puppet of the Jewish Lobby. But, on the other hand, much preferred to Harris. Unfortunately, a vote against Harris isn’t necessarily a vote for Trump.
If Trump is a "puppet of the Deep State" why would they want to imprison, kill or Epstein him, the latter of which is a combination of the (first) two, a la Big Brother (and the Holding Company?)...
Thats how I feel about him, the only alternative was the WEF Liberals.
More like WEF totalitarians...
There's nothing wrong with "Big Man" government, so long as the Big Man is a strict constitutionalist. The Dems have always been in love with "Big Man" government. Shall we list them? Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Barack Obama, and The Legend in his own (marshmallow) Mind, Joseph Biden, none of whom were constitutionalists, much less strict! We are watching the disintegration of the "Union" in real time. We waited too long (50 years) to get going. It might not have mattered, anyway. Best always. PM
The only disagreement I have is with the notion that under Biden, there was collaborative democracy. When the party in power furthers their agenda by choosing which laws they will just ignore, and which laws to apply heavy handedly...that does not seem to be collaborative democracy . ....JJ
Once again, Bill couldn't be more correct. Ever since the end of WWII the US military-industrial complex has been dreaming up schemes to induce conflict within nations all over the world. Now the chickens have come home to roost: the US never faced a threat from ANY of the 50+ governments it has hated-on/overthrown or the countless "George Washingtons" they have slaughtered among the 22 million people now dead because of the jingoism of our murderous dunces. Now these fanatic, overwhelmingly Judeo-Christians (yes, just as in Hitler's hellscape, religion seems to be a driving force) are reaching the end of their rope. Having spent (wasted/blown-up) in excess of $30 trillion dollars fighting contrived wars following 1945's hollowed victories we now have a stagnant government/nation with a $35 trillion debt costing $1 trillion/year in interest alone and continue wasting another trillion supporting the dunces so intent on converting the brave 1776 signers' dream into the globe's second pariah state.
President Eisenhower saw the "Industrial / Military complex coming to the USA and its effects - he has been proved so right. Once you hit the peak there is only one way and that is down. The question is whether it is managed or calamitous!!
Mr. Uehling,
I agree with you and Bill about the military industrial complex. But Bill refuses for some odd reason to lay blame at the feet of the American people. Bill knows quite well that the Pentagon is the U.S.’s largest employer, dwarfing Walmart & Amazon combined. Bill continually blames the Pentagon big boys and their contractor big boys, who he knows only skim the cream off the top. The lion’s share of Pentagon spending goes to employing upwards of 20 million U.S. citizens, if you count partial employment as well as full employment. These so-called “private sector” citizens largely build weapons systems, military equipment, and support our troops in dozens of ways. Our troops are only the tip of the spear where spending is concerned. And these private contractor jobs are good-paying with decent benefits. So try cutting the Pentagon’s budget in half and see a depression occur, not only massive marches on DC by angry defense workers. And this massive job loss would cause a tsunami in the private economy when defense workers had to drastically cut back on their spending, thus leading to even more massive job losses in other private sectors. This would clean up a debt-ridden system, but the TRANSITION PERIOD to accomplish this over about three-to-five years would electorally wipe out the party (GOP or DEM) who tried it.
I think the Pentagon spending spigot could be greatly reduced, but it would have to be done---GRADUALLY---over many years, possibly over a decade, to avoid a depression, and the chaos this would cause. It’s easy for Bill to complain about the $1T annually spent by the Pentagon, but notice he doesn’t provide a concrete solution. What Bill could do here is point out that money moves through an economic system (as well as IOUs, unfortunately), so the Pentagon’s spending in many ways is not totally negative, but most of its spending does not build true/real wealth for a country; it simply creates millions of make-work jobs, which is when Bill is at his best when explaining this. Up to a few years ago, Bill would take on various sectors in the public and private spheres, explaining to readers how some sectors spent money wisely or how they spent money unwisely, mostly to prop up jobs or pay off cronies. A hypothetical example would be The Bridge To Nowhere, where millions were spent to buy materials, and thousands of people were employed to build the bridge, but it went to nowhere, providing no productive use, thus providing no true wealth-building. Thus the best way to analyze spending is by Bill's true wealth-building examination.
Unfortunately, Bill doesn’t do this anymore because it’s obvious he’s so obsessed with President Trump that he can’t think clearly anymore.
Excellent post, Frank...
Mr. SE, Thank you very much!
Thank you for the well thought out reply. A bridge to nowhere is not the only alternative to manufacturing bombs for the Israeli government to destroy the houses of 3 million Gazans and torture their children with shrapnel. Once again I point to China which uses its newfound wealth to build rivers north (to open new agricultural areas employing tens of thousands), HSTs which incorporate formerly isolated millions of dirt farmers into the economy, factories and mines in Africa which pay formerly unemployed thousands at double the working wage of African enterprises AND enable the Chinese economy to grow also. There is a project that can be done on a tiny portion of the 3-million acre military reservation in Nevada that would create more than a million jobs but the greedy murderous Pentagon wouldn’t dream of giving up its vision of dominating and enslaving the rest of the world in abject poverty. The US is in losing spiral, designed by Truman and the Dulles brothers in about 1948,
F.W. I agree mostly of what You say to be true except for the last sentence. I do not know Bill personally , but by what He writes. The last sentence is certainly Your opinion. I will leave it at that. Thanks for Your mostly well thought out posts.
Is that what we had Bill? "Collaborative democracy?" You mean like men in girls sports? Take this killing vaccine or be fired causing sudden death explosions, censorship by the administration, plagiarism by Harvard president, acceptance into universities measured by hate, doctor's losing their license to practice because they've found better ways to fight covid. or covid released upon the world after gain-of function research is punishable by death according to law. Is that what you mean by collaborative democracy, the department of justice attacking the president in outrageous and absurd claims of justice and taking away rights guaranteed to the administration by the Constitution, is that what you mean by collaborative democracy?
Come on Bill. Show me one young bonifide citizen deported illegally.
And Bill should instead criticize their parents who illegally crossed the border into the U.S.
Bill has also done everything in his power to keep the ‘originatos’ off his Gaulfin property 🤔
And they would seem to have a slightly-less bogus claim to the land than a brat squirted out by its illegal mother because she was just able to make it over the finish line "border" in time.
Modern Birth"right" Citizenship has been a disgusting, un-Constitutional practice perverted by the scumbag left in our Country. It appears the "supreme" court will soon have a chance to right the wrong of decades on this subject - but in light of the secret 4k videos of John Roberts "entertaining" children and Amy Coney Barret's illegal "adoption" of multiple other sweet little third-worlders - I am NOT very optimistic that the actual intent of the 14th Amendment will prevail...
Agreed. The sheer scale of the illegal migration to the West is unsustainable. Hence, at some point the line will need to be drawn in the sand… by the left as well as the right. And, the argument of compassion will be thrown out the window like all of their failed BS ideology. Shame we just don’t learn from history.
Bill: I have several comments to make regarding this article you wrote. 1. I agree that Trump has a big mouth and many times he says things that are improper and sometimes scary; I hope that it is just rhetoric. 2. I’m not sure if we’re on a downward trend, I hope not. Although nothing done in the past has improved our country; why not try something new. 3. The military industrial complex is TOO big and TOO strong; it needs to be cut down, financially and militarily. 4. The ‘cure’ is make lobbying illegal and have term limits. My comment on Biden will be very lengthy, but I’ll mention a few things. Where were you when Biden open the borders to 20 million illegals (many of them criminals). Where were you when Biden cut our production of oil and depended on other countries for oil (some of them hating the US). Where were you when Biden wanted to using EV’s only. Many more examples, but of course, Biden was so out of touch and numb, almost as if he was from another planet. AP
BB was silent on the dims/Biden's continuous attacks on US Energy because it was/is foundational to the success of his Trade of the Decade.
Drill Baby Drill spells at best break even for the Oil sector as more supply means lower prices. Don't be surprised if we see apathy for war on these pages - it's the only thing under Trump that will blow up the price per barrel. Good for the portfolio don'tchaknow, and the peons will drive less with expensive gas. This is what we'll get with a leftist/globalist/elitist in drag running the BPR show...
Drill baby drill will make this country wealthy again. America will sell oil to the rest of the world (even at cheap prices) and get our deficit down. The average income in Saudi Arabia is high as a result of exports of oil to other countries. We can do the same.
Abe, I have to agree some what of what You said . But drill- ing takes time and all the other economics that have to be considered. This impact may not be felt , for the average citizen, for up to 5 years. Just My view, but I was wrong once!
Don:
So far no administration have succeeded in getting America to where it was years ago. Better late than not; 5 years is probably not much. Remember China looks 100 years ahead. AP
BTW, on another note, this administration has had open meetings and press conferences almost daily; so refreshing to see compared to the past administrations.
Agree, just hope that the general public realizes that the ship takes a while to turn around.
Forlorn Hope, Don. By design Americans no longer have the Patience nor Attention Span to see through to victory.
We're cooked - just haven't reached required internal temperature yet. But the leftardes have BIG plan for this Summer...
Brother Abe, you know where Mr Bill was these past four years! Everywhere but here 🤔
I must add that the best part of the Bonner Private Research (although mostly BS rhetoric about Trump) is the interaction and discussing differences of opinion of the members/subscribers. This is a learning experience for everyone and who knows sometimes minds can be changed.
Excellent point.
Exactly. It's the highlight of my day as I navigate through the daily bombardment of "news".
We sure get wound up talking about Trump. I don’t think the ideal of America in its original intent is complicated. It’s in the execution that things get messy. Every little step that staggers away from a Constitutional Republic takes us into quagmire and quicksand. We’re stuck now. No matter what Trump or anyone else does, there is some opposition, an opposition that grows in force, ferocity, and volume. It’s hard to be reasonable with selfish vested interests. Most of BB’s argument is based on history. It’s hard to refute unless people think we are better than our ancestors. Considering the facts, that may be hard to refute.
Ah yes, the Big Man returns, orange and bloated like a rotting
jack-o’-lantern in November, mumbling about wind and waves bending to his will while his fans stare at him like he’s a messianic cheeseburger summoned from the grease-stained dreams of a dying empire.
He isn’t leading, and this isn’t politics, it’s a monster truck rally for failed civics students, headlined by a man who thinks NATO is a brand of cologne. They don’t want policy, they want vengeance slathered in nacho cheese, served with a side of tear gas.
And what do they chant?
“He tells it like it is,” as if gibberish wrapped in narcissism qualifies as prophecy. We’re not looking at a president, we’re watching a cult leader in a windbreaker, waving his arms like a drunk auctioneer while democracy slowly suffocates under a mountain of commemorative gold coins and signed subpoenas.
We used to demand competence, now we crave chaos with a comb-over. These aren’t supporters, they’re cultists marinated in Mountain Dew and Facebook rage, hooting like coked-up seals every time the Big Man promises to nuke the EPA or punch a hurricane.
This isn’t a presidency, it’s a traveling apocalypse, a Walmart Reich led by a man who thinks the nuclear football is filled with Skittles. And all the while, the Founding Fathers scream in their graves like haunted car alarms, realizing too late that liberty’s last breath smells like Axe body spray and burnt Constitution.
And while the flag-waving faithful are busy saluting a reality TV necromancer, the real show is happening backstage, where the economy’s pants are around its ankles, the dollar’s on fentanyl, and China is quietly buying the future wholesale. Trump, the alleged dealmaker, is being played like a fiddle made of bald eagle bones and Reagan’s ghost, serenading Xi Jinping with every tariff tantrum and dollar-obliterating policy gaffe.
Meanwhile, the real empire, the one held together by debt, drone strikes, and delusion is quietly bleeding out behind the curtain. The dollar is hanging by a thread woven in Beijing, and every time Trump rage-tweets about tariffs, Xi Jinping reclines deeper into his silk chair and lights another American bond with a smug little smirk.
This isn’t just decline, it’s a flaming parade float of national suicide, sponsored by Raytheon, Chevron, and whatever’s left of dignity. The Military-Industrial Complex doesn’t defend America; it milks it, bones and all, like a necrophiliac accountant billing by the corpse. We spend trillions projecting “power” while our bridges collapse, our vets beg for meds, and our education system teaches algebra with broken chalk and PTSD. America isn’t being invaded, it’s being auctioned off, brick by brick, to the highest bidder while its citizens cheer for the man holding the matchbook. When the crash comes, and it will, it won’t be Russia or Hamas or immigrants with leaf blowers who did us in.
It’ll be this; a conspiracy of willing idiots, cowardly politicians, and firepower executives jerking off in a hot tub full of lobbying cash. When the collapse is complete, when the last drone strike invoice clears and the dollar wheezes its final breath, Trump will be there, confused, shirtless, bronze-streaked, wondering why his casino chip doesn’t cover bread in Beijing.
"They don’t want policy, they want vengeance slathered in nacho cheese, served with a side of tear gas."
Sounds like a decent start to me....
The American dream, now deep-fried in delusion and dipped in despair.
Also, is that Oatmeal in your profile pic?
The only soul here who still believes in hope. 😂
Hope is the foundation of any and all things good, my brother.
Nah man - dat's my German Short Hair Pointer best buddy, called Penny Raine. Her coat is what is called Patched and Ticked - so I guess she looks a bit like oatmeal...
You’re a man of faith Start-Man, never lose it! 😃
Nice dog, and that’s a great complete name, Penny Raine!
Ha! Thanks Gypt.
Actually, my Siamese-ish cat gets a CRAZY amount of compliments about her name - it's Tippers Marie.
Ya see, all her tips are black. Legs, ears, face and tail - it just seemed so obvious to me...
NATO is a Potemkin village and has been since soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, except for the US contribution that allowed EU to goose social welfare benefits and laugh at the gullible Americans. Now the facade is evident.
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/04/30/europe-just-proved-trump-right-about-nato-n4939369
Dans piece Informative.
Bills Piece.... Blah, Blah, Blah and more Blah.... Bill "Blah" Bonner... Anti-Trump, Anti-American, status quo proponent. Yes, The Biden way. Same topic every morning, what happened to the prolific writer of the past focused on making money. Oh, the politics.
Oh, one more thing.. Blah and boring.
Stiff , this is idiocy! u need a course on comprehensive reading along with Stary.
How do you really feel? I especially like you pretending to know my needs, and you call me the idiot!
If the shoe fits…..
....she upgrades from her Janitor gig...
You are too unwise to be around. For a couple of years Bill, was loving HIMSELF, now all of
BPR, has joined the World is ending view. You are lost inside your EGO. You have been too wrong
about trying to fix your loving, spending, socialists buddies, to have any decent advice. Time for
BPR to fold and depart.
RALPH W.
Ralph, I think we'll stick around for awhile. But if you're seriously this unhappy, please contact us privately over at bpr@bonnerprivateresearch.com and we can make an arrangement for the rest of your subscription if you like.
Hi Dan -
Ya gotta admit - BPR has had a primarily Fatalistic bent since y'all started - and it has only gotten worse in the last 18 months or so. I get it - Reality is Reality and nobody is looking for you to sugarcoat anything. However, the analysis/advice/musings we get from this service are consistently long on Complaining Doom and short on Actionable Solutions...
Open your eyes. Travel around the world. You'll come back with a different opinion.
Well, let's see....I've lived about 25% of my life in 3 different Countries outside the US, and traveled to at least an additional 6 for vacations, sometimes extended. I also have friends and acquaintances from all over the globe.
Not really seeing your point...
With $37T in debt and continuing deficits I don't believe there are any actionable solutions! Maybe reading BPR has turned me negative too...
Starry , U need to take a comprehensive reading course.
That seems more than fair.
The world is not ending but, the US as a semi-leader/beacon is. The internet has made it possible to transfer knowledge more equally than ever imaginable before. As it continue to break ties with the country it once admired and that country's dunces, we will see the entire world and its people boom.
Ralph e , why aren't U man enough just to shut up and stop reading the brilliance of BPR. Can't take the TRUTH . huh?
Curious, are you talking about Bill or Trump. Hard to figure out
Probably this goes unnoted so please take a look here:
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1917624120017146044
First time the cost of borrowing for Federal Debt turns lower.
Last time this happened, was in 2019/20. Anyone remember who was in charge then as POTUS?
Thanks Petra. You have pointed out the first, tinniest tap of the brakes that represents the entire foundation of the Trump Strategy. All the hoopla of the last 100 days has been smoke and mirrors to get us to the point where this action could begin.
There are TRILLIONS due for refi in the next 12 months. Trump saw it, felt it and identified it as the most pressing, existential threat to our Country of his young second term. Nearly EVERYTHING he has done so far has been to pave the way to actually be able TO refinance that huge chunk of our debt. Once accomplished, everything else will be gravy on the side....
Entirely share your perception.
While..... I try to keep track of the overall developments I feel much disturbed by some.
REAL ID, The new Head of the CDC (Ex-CIA), the concept of tackling the Autism Issue, by setting up a huge database (NIH-led by the much adored Jay B.) which could definitely used for purposes not benefitting US Citizens once installed and overseen by other individuals than currently.....
Whom ever, Pat Neff, is, he is short on life experience to think BPR, is offering truth, they offer opinions only and hope to be close to what unfolds. And their free ride regarding yellen and biden, followed by personal attacks from Bill, on President Trump, is not truth, it be SICK. A man is trying to clean up some of the socialist's garbage that started with FDR. Any blame is for all that helped create the mess. So Pat Neff, wake up and try to understand a bit of history.
RALPH W.
REW: Neff quoted Robert Reich as his source of truth in a comment a few weeks ago. E’Neff said!
Yes brother Ralph, a man’s reality is based on his life experiences and perception. When his life experiences and understanding of them are mentally and morally corrupt, we have today’s common democrat, Or the party of mental illness 🤔
A very great one , Bill, A great summation of dire straits the Country is in and the cause. Keep up the good work . And I really appreciate the way you write and your use of metaphor to explain complicated events .