Bill, you state Obama deported more illegals without the hoopla, that probably is true but what your TDS fails to mention is the complicit media that rubber stamped everything he did, nor the paid rabble rousers that are there only to disrupt.
Bill's assessments today of the manner and methods by which Trump is accelerating the decline of the American Empire were suburb.
Especially his comments about illegal aliens.
Millions of illegal aliens have been expelled for more than a half century by Democratic and Republican presidents.
But until Trump unleashed his ersatz army onto our streets to find them, no American has died. His armed ICE has killed two to date. Likely more to come.
Frankly, what could we expect from a draft dodger convicted of a felony and of sexually molesting a woman not to mention his poor business judgements requiring him to declare bankruptcy six times.
And why in the world is he frustrating the release of the Epstein files?
Bill you are rather naive I feel. If ICE agents went politely and unmasked to their task they would be doxed by agents of the left and their families attacked. What we are seeing is not the over zealousness of team Trump but the makings of a civil war on our streets by the communist left. These people are not ordinary citizens protesting peacefully...these are paid agitators and agents of destruction. The NGOs that fund them do so using stolen tax dollars thereby ensuring Americans pay for their own demise. The circle of fraud by Somalians has two eventual destinations...Somalia where it funds Al Queda affiliates and The Democrats and their NGOs. They are fighting on the streets in order to hold onto their funding. If the illegals are removed and the fraud shut down then a major source of political funds are lost AND the ruse of putting illegals on the voters roll to rig elections in their favour is toast.
On the international front, adding bases to Greenland and building out their infrastructure and economy without clear ownership or defined American interest makes no sense. The Danes cannot afford to secure nor develop Greenland. It ought to belong to America. It makes no sense otherwise. Imagine for a second what would be going on right now if America didn't have clean and clear title to Alaska and some bases and mineral and oil developments? While Trumps style and approach often upsets the status quo the reality is that America needs stronger guarantees than it has right now for all the military expenses it carries.
Russell, Good points. And almost all this phony nonsense (i.e., rioting & protesting in U.S. third-world cities) is to try to work up a lot of nutty women living safely in the suburbs so they will vote Democrat if they don't already. These women are unfortunately prone (brainwashed) toward "virtue signaling." This is hypocritical because these women supposedly love all the little black and brown people in the violent, drug-infested, welfare-damaged cities as long as these folks never live remotely near them. Just try putting public ("affordable") housing in these women's safe suburbs where jobs are plentiful and schools are good, and hear them scream. Or push financial reparations for the little black people they supposedly love so much, then hear them scream even louder.
Frank i think that there is a difference here. Many of these rioters are paid agitators...they operate as a militia travelling from one demonstration to another under orders. This is much more sinister and orchestrated than some misguided left wing cat women
Obama deported millions with the support of the left and their NGO mafia. Trump has cut off the grift machine and is flying solo while the NGO mafia has mobilized with military tactics to defeat him and put deportations at risk.
The 20 million new dem voters in those cities, many of them Muslim leeches, will distort congress for decades if they are not rooted out by any means.
And his defense of the Americas is quite appropriate considering what a shitshow eunuch Europe has become
Sorry but the war department has always been a grift machine and Trump is ramping it up. It has given us the $38 trillion debt and 37 million dead foreigners for no other reason than parading USA arrogance and control. Fortunately, for world health and progress that all changed the day the dollar collapsed and gold went over $4000.
to illustrate just how full of bs the Europeans are, the U.K. planned to give the strategic Chagos Islands where the U.S. has its most important Indian Ocean base to Mauritius and pay £30b for the privilege! The fact that the Chagossians are totally against the deal and that the Mauritians have zero claim to the Chagos seems to have no bearing at all on the British decision, or EU support for the deal. So why if these great statesmen of principle in Europe never done anything with or for Greenland so opposed to America the only country that has paid for its defence since 1945 owning the island?
I agree with Trump. It should belong to America. It is strategically important to the West. This is not some issue where you want to ask the Greenlanders what they want to do! they don't have the money to defend themselves and develop their country. It would just be taken by Russia and China.
I am very disappointed that hypocritical leaders in Europe especially the U.K. didn't immediately support Americas claim. It's in their interest to do so.
(strangely they want America in Ukraine but not in Greenland!!) why? ....
So the Greenlanders don't have a day in their future? Here's a question; if you were a citizen of Greenland would you want to become a colony of the US? Greenlanders have national healthcare and subsidized higher education. Would you give that up?
of course i would....but life doesn't work that way...there are people in Alberta that want to separate from Canada. That doesn't mean they can do it. My point is that if Greenland is so strategically valuable then the Greenlanders may need to simply agree...we cannot risk the security of the West on what a few islanders want to do.
I was in the US military back in the 70s and I wouldn't want any US bases built near me if I were a Greenlander. Maybe you should consult the people of Greenland? Injecting millions in government money into an economy sounds like socialism or maybe MMT. Prices for the locals will skyrocket and they will end up like the natives of Puerto Rico or Hawaii where the locals can no longer afford to live.
Why are you upset that Greenlanders are moochers off Denmark? That's between those two countries. There are plenty of nations that can't defend themselves from an attack by a major power - just look what happened to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan just this century. But against whom are they defending themselves. How many foreign military bases do Russia and China have?
Are you equally upset that Israel has been mooching off the US for years? A country that can afford national health care shouldn't mooch off us, should they?
How do you accept those two beliefs - Greenlanders are mooching off Denmark, meanwhile Israelis enjoy national health and subsidized higher education plus have a debt/GDP ratio half of ours but Israel isn't mooching off US taxpayers?
I have seen footage of many Greenlanders who would welcome joining the U.S. But that isn't the point...Trump is always prescient...almost everything he predicts comes to pass. He believes that Greenland is critical to Western security. Let's say he is right and the difference between WWIII and peace is the completion of the golden dome, securing of the rare earth deposits and control of the northern passage and shipping routes. I want America to get that done. I don't want to risk WWIII....so I don't think it's a good idea to let some arctic people or some out of touch EU elites who have been indoctrinated by communist dogma decide the fate of the west. That is insanity. Trump is willing to make Greenlanders an offer they can't refuse financially so let that be the way this happens.
Have you seen the demonstrations in Greenland against becoming a colony of the US? Have you seen the polls indicating that only 6% want to be US citizens? Now, every 4th of July Americans celebrate the end of America being a British colony but now some Americans would celebrate Greenland becoming a colony of the US. Cognitive dissonance, perhaps?
Canadian here. We are glad to receive cheaper goods from elsewhere: that is the whole point of Free Trade. Practically everything in dollar stores is from overseas, and their stocks are booming as we take advantage of them to lower our cost of living.
We pay for them from our abundance of natural resources and farm goods: beef, canola, lentils, wheat, soybeans, potash, and now oil and LNG, as two major pipelines on the west coast recently came into operation.
Cooperation and win-win deals are the way to go, not isolating yourself from the rest of the world.
Well, come this July the USA has had a 250 year head start with Europe and Canada, something must not be working! Oh wait a minute, all we need to do is hit them with another "Tariff". Now that's a good plan.
Patrick, when did you become a huge supporter of Ukraine? The civil war there began in 2014 after the US coup and the Azov Battalion was regularly bombing the civilian population of the Donbass region. Speaking of Satan's Soldier did you know that Zelensky has closed down opposition media and has honored Stefan Bandera a Nazi collaborator. Did you know before becoming president Zelensky was a TV comedian who danced like Beyonce and pretended to play the piano with his penis on show?
Maybe the Nazis are still putting a gun to Zelensky's head. The Nazis of the Azov Battalion that is. I love how a lot of US people jumped on the Stand With Ukraine bandwagon after the Russian invasion but didn't say anything about the Azov Boys bombing civilians in Eastern Ukraine. Imagine if Russia or China was involved in a coup in Mexico and installed their puppet there, started arming their military and installing bioweapon labs, and started bombing Mexicans near the US border for refusing to cooperate with the new regime. What would the position of the US be?
Patrick, have you ever heard Putin speak? He is truly a statesman that I have not seen in my country in my life. He is defending the sovereignty of Russia. This is simply his 1962 missile crisis regarding Cuba. Putin has done nothing wrong. Russia does not have open borders, tell me a man can have a baby or have cities that are crumbling apart. Putin is wildly supported by the Russian people after 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed America still had to have an enemy so they could keep up the military industrial budget. Russ should became that enemy. Just my opinion from reading John Mercier and Pepe Escobar.
To quote your quote: "(By some counts, the Obama administration deported more illegal immigrants, with none of the hoopla.)" It's easy when you detain the entrants at the border then put them in the "Obama cages" awaiting deportation. The difference that no one seems to refer to is that Biden let a huge wave just come in, then resettled them throughout the country, all on the US taxpayer dime. So now ICE and CBP have to surge resources to enter the different cities and remove illegals. The luxury Obama had of detention at the border is non existent in Trump's case.
I voted for Trump because of his promises, like most did. I expected Patel and Bongino to deliver. I suspect that while their intentions may have been honest, once installed they all got visits from reps of those really in charge who told them the way things are going to go. I've come to realize by listening to Catherine Austin Fitts and Simon Dixon that politicians, including Trump, are just puppets. We are unwitting residents of The Truman Show orchastrated by those REALLY in charge. Color revolutions, MKUltra, Iran-Contra, JFK, Russia Collusion, Hunter's laptop, Epstein.
A Rothschild once alledgedly said in sum and substance "give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it's laws." BANKS control the money. Pull up charts of M2/XAUUSD, DJI/XAUUSD, and SPX/XAUUSD and see just how connected the indexes are to M2. The Fed's major shareholders are the commercial banks (JP Morgan, BOA, etc), the Fed is a major shareholder of the BIS which openly discusses their plans to enslave us all even further by replacing the current debt based Ponzi scheme with even worse programmable, survielable CBDC's. All the chaos is orchastrated to achieve that end and Trump isn't stopping it, but is just the fall guy. This started in 1913, not when Trump got elected.
Nothing like the good o’l US of A. Where the Ministry of Fear issues press releases the way bakeries issue muffins. Fresh every morning. Still warm. Full of empty calories.
It’s beautiful and ambitious. It wants to be feared, respected, dominant, and also somehow loved. That’s a tall order for a country that keeps yelling at its friends and mugging itself in public.
So foreigners used to store their gold in the US, that was trust, but now they’re saying, “Maybe let’s not leave our valuables with the lunatic who keeps threatening the neighborhood.”
That’s not betrayal. That’s instinct.
Trump thinks foreigners leaving is disloyalty, nope, it’s called gravity. When you push everyone away, eventually you’re alone. It’s not strategy, it’s physics with a flag.
And the domestic terror thing? That’s my favorite punchline. When a state gets scared of its own reflection, it starts calling the mirror dangerous.
I am stunned. Why do ya'all MAGAs read poor ol' Bill's musings? I just don't get it. You think he is a bumblin' idiot and doesn't have a lick of sense. But you rush to these Comments to scream about his musings..........have you ever thought about considering his views from a fresh outlook? I know I am an idiot too...........just gives me a laugh reading all the hogwash slung here. Of course, just this ol' man's mutterings..........
Right on Ol Guy , I was wanting to write a much more scathing reply to all these ignorant republinut commentors on Bills writings, especially this new one Patrick g. Where the hell did he come from? I can't write like U and Bill . I know U can give these idiots more hell and I hope U can devote more time to it. AND I am sure there are many more readers like U out there who could be taking down all these prolific idiots.
Bill, you are right, as usual, and your inevitable naysayers are an illustration of how divided the country has become in recent years. The meaning of conservative has changed over these many years and right wing now means something different from my long ago youth. I am so glad you have kept your perspective and discernment! Appreciate your moments of truth every morning. Thanks!
I'll jump in here, Bill, to add a little nuance to your inference that the demonstrations (rioting, insurrection) we're seeing in US Streets is a result of the mask-wearing ICE agents and Obama did not have the same resulting demonstrations because his ICE agents were more polite and didn't wear masks.
Step back a bit. Obama was the "light-bringer." He could do no wrong. Trump, OTOH, is Hitler, twice-impeached, and a felon. At least these are the judgements of our ever-so-unbiased media barons. In any case, when starting from these social bases, one can see that anti-government demonstrations are more to be expected under Trump than Obama.
Then add to this what we are just now learning about the organizing of the demonstrators. They are communicating through online networks with classic command-and-control setting up respective targets, assignments and roles for specific demonstrators. They are not San Francisco hippies with flowers and incense dancing through the streets: they are armed with commercial fireworks, bottles of frozen water, and other dual-purpose devices. They are instructed to harass ICE workers incessantly, both to make the officers' job more difficult and to wear them down.
Compare what is happening in Minnesota, for example, with what is happening in Tennessee, Florida or Texas, where Ice agents are making the same arrests without being hounded by a small army of demonstrators bent on foiling their efforts and making their life difficult. You don't read about the same demonstrations in TN, FL, or TX -- not because immigrants with criminal convictions are being allowed to roam free, but because the governors of those states have decided to cooperate rather than allow professional instigators to organize demonstrations with imported cadres.
So I would argue that your using this as an example of Trump's leading us toward our own destruction while Obama did not is, shall we say, a little jejune. The social upheaval in Minneapolis as not an example of where we are headed as a nation, and it is not all Trump's doing.
Oh, and by the way, you've surely been tracking the manner in which Xi is decapitating his military establishment and solidifying one-man rule there. Coupled with the demographic decline of his nation, should Carney be getting nervous about his overtures to that nation? I would be.
Bill, it's hopeless! Your conspiracy warmongering readers are too fanatic to understand even the most basic motivations of human behavior. They are so partisan-oriented that they fail to see how Trump is out to destroy much of what America has stood for during the past couple centuries. If a Democratic president had sent masked thugs to shoot two of the crazies in Charlottesville, they would have demanded full revolution, but when those same untrained armed and masked thugs are put on the street to shoot completely non-violent protestors, they applaud. "Do unto others" has absolutely no meaning to these phony Christian fanatics. And such a concept has even less meaning for their predecessors, so by merely observing the hateful comments herein, one can understand the demand of the mobs in Jerusalem to inflict maximum pain against Jesus for merely commenting on obvious societal realities of that time. Obviously your reader mobs "know" they are better than you and are unable to notice that tables have merely been reversed. Fortunately, because they are so extreme in their views and name-calling, even their own partisan "brothers" are beginning to peel away and the end result of Trump's (and Rubio's, and Miller's, and Noem's) insanity and disgusting behavior will be a much better, freer and more tolerant world. Their obvious over-the-top hypocrisy, suspicion and crudeness are actually doing humanity a favor in the long run.
you have to be kidding Ed. Bidens FEMA team left Americans to fend for themselves in N.Carolina after the most devastating hurricane in living memory because they were likely MAGA supporters. The Dems cooked up a ridiculous conspiracy theory about J6 and arrested and destroyed the lives of many good American patriots for no reason other than their support for Trump and Democracy. MAGA supporters have been attacked imprisoned and abandoned all over the country by Democrats. White Americans have been vilified and denied jobs and access to education because of the colour of their skin.
Trump was attacked repeatedly by fake legal cases and they even attempted to kill him twice that we know of in order to deny democracy . Elections were rigged and illegals imported many of whom were violent criminals who murdered and raped Americans....all to subvert Democracy.
So don't come with your complete nonsense about Trump. Masked thugs is a Democrat theme...and the only reason ICE is masked is to stop these lunatics attacking children and women related to ICE agents...
So don't lecture us about democracy...we know exactly what the Dems are like.
Proud to say I’m one of a relatively few 85 year-olds who’s never been prescribed a single med. Thanks anyway and I’m really sorry you believe in them and have to take them.
Thanks a lot Patrick. I personally stay away any kind of alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, drugs and (especially) pharmaceuticals, although I support the polio vaccine, having seen the pre-vaccine effects during my school years. Except for my tendency of jumping to conclusions, I'm definitely not getting enough exercise. Maybe I need to go to Minneapolis?
Just get up the courage to blurt up the word “zero” and you’ll have it right. This strategy worked in 1930’s Nazi Germany but won’t work in your 2020’s Nazi White House.
I notice you’re writing from Rancho Santana. As an owner there, we are now completely disenfranchised vassals of Pinnacle with no HOA and no voice at all.
This has the quiet logic of Burn After Reading: everyone convinced they’re executing a brilliant plan, while the sum of their “smart” moves produces faster unraveling. It’s striking how confidently the unintended consequences pile up.
No. Obama did not report more illegals. For propaganda purposes he counted those who were turned back at the border as deportations. Bill knows it. But he needs to skew the facts to fit his narrative.
Bill, you state Obama deported more illegals without the hoopla, that probably is true but what your TDS fails to mention is the complicit media that rubber stamped everything he did, nor the paid rabble rousers that are there only to disrupt.
Thank you for saving me the time. I was going to write something similar.
Bill's assessments today of the manner and methods by which Trump is accelerating the decline of the American Empire were suburb.
Especially his comments about illegal aliens.
Millions of illegal aliens have been expelled for more than a half century by Democratic and Republican presidents.
But until Trump unleashed his ersatz army onto our streets to find them, no American has died. His armed ICE has killed two to date. Likely more to come.
Frankly, what could we expect from a draft dodger convicted of a felony and of sexually molesting a woman not to mention his poor business judgements requiring him to declare bankruptcy six times.
And why in the world is he frustrating the release of the Epstein files?
His impeachment by the House is all but assured.
Yeah, obumma had the D behind his dirty deeds, of course no one but those pesky R's complained
Bill you are rather naive I feel. If ICE agents went politely and unmasked to their task they would be doxed by agents of the left and their families attacked. What we are seeing is not the over zealousness of team Trump but the makings of a civil war on our streets by the communist left. These people are not ordinary citizens protesting peacefully...these are paid agitators and agents of destruction. The NGOs that fund them do so using stolen tax dollars thereby ensuring Americans pay for their own demise. The circle of fraud by Somalians has two eventual destinations...Somalia where it funds Al Queda affiliates and The Democrats and their NGOs. They are fighting on the streets in order to hold onto their funding. If the illegals are removed and the fraud shut down then a major source of political funds are lost AND the ruse of putting illegals on the voters roll to rig elections in their favour is toast.
On the international front, adding bases to Greenland and building out their infrastructure and economy without clear ownership or defined American interest makes no sense. The Danes cannot afford to secure nor develop Greenland. It ought to belong to America. It makes no sense otherwise. Imagine for a second what would be going on right now if America didn't have clean and clear title to Alaska and some bases and mineral and oil developments? While Trumps style and approach often upsets the status quo the reality is that America needs stronger guarantees than it has right now for all the military expenses it carries.
Thank you for your rational analysis. Something we don't get from Bongo Bill.
NAIVE or complicit?
Russell, Good points. And almost all this phony nonsense (i.e., rioting & protesting in U.S. third-world cities) is to try to work up a lot of nutty women living safely in the suburbs so they will vote Democrat if they don't already. These women are unfortunately prone (brainwashed) toward "virtue signaling." This is hypocritical because these women supposedly love all the little black and brown people in the violent, drug-infested, welfare-damaged cities as long as these folks never live remotely near them. Just try putting public ("affordable") housing in these women's safe suburbs where jobs are plentiful and schools are good, and hear them scream. Or push financial reparations for the little black people they supposedly love so much, then hear them scream even louder.
Frank i think that there is a difference here. Many of these rioters are paid agitators...they operate as a militia travelling from one demonstration to another under orders. This is much more sinister and orchestrated than some misguided left wing cat women
Misogyny is alive and well see!
Just like a woman to say "I'm not mad at you dude", then 30 seconds later try to run you over with her car.
Obama deported millions with the support of the left and their NGO mafia. Trump has cut off the grift machine and is flying solo while the NGO mafia has mobilized with military tactics to defeat him and put deportations at risk.
The 20 million new dem voters in those cities, many of them Muslim leeches, will distort congress for decades if they are not rooted out by any means.
And his defense of the Americas is quite appropriate considering what a shitshow eunuch Europe has become
Sorry but the war department has always been a grift machine and Trump is ramping it up. It has given us the $38 trillion debt and 37 million dead foreigners for no other reason than parading USA arrogance and control. Fortunately, for world health and progress that all changed the day the dollar collapsed and gold went over $4000.
to illustrate just how full of bs the Europeans are, the U.K. planned to give the strategic Chagos Islands where the U.S. has its most important Indian Ocean base to Mauritius and pay £30b for the privilege! The fact that the Chagossians are totally against the deal and that the Mauritians have zero claim to the Chagos seems to have no bearing at all on the British decision, or EU support for the deal. So why if these great statesmen of principle in Europe never done anything with or for Greenland so opposed to America the only country that has paid for its defence since 1945 owning the island?
I agree with Trump. It should belong to America. It is strategically important to the West. This is not some issue where you want to ask the Greenlanders what they want to do! they don't have the money to defend themselves and develop their country. It would just be taken by Russia and China.
I am very disappointed that hypocritical leaders in Europe especially the U.K. didn't immediately support Americas claim. It's in their interest to do so.
(strangely they want America in Ukraine but not in Greenland!!) why? ....
Bongo Bill only reports stuff that are anti-Trump.
So the Greenlanders don't have a day in their future? Here's a question; if you were a citizen of Greenland would you want to become a colony of the US? Greenlanders have national healthcare and subsidized higher education. Would you give that up?
of course i would....but life doesn't work that way...there are people in Alberta that want to separate from Canada. That doesn't mean they can do it. My point is that if Greenland is so strategically valuable then the Greenlanders may need to simply agree...we cannot risk the security of the West on what a few islanders want to do.
I guess they can go to Oxford, the first 15 minute city.
How is that experiment going thus far ?
have not heard an answer.
In OZ they are planning to trial 15 minute zones.
Most people seem to have no idea what it is all about.
I was in the US military back in the 70s and I wouldn't want any US bases built near me if I were a Greenlander. Maybe you should consult the people of Greenland? Injecting millions in government money into an economy sounds like socialism or maybe MMT. Prices for the locals will skyrocket and they will end up like the natives of Puerto Rico or Hawaii where the locals can no longer afford to live.
Why are you upset that Greenlanders are moochers off Denmark? That's between those two countries. There are plenty of nations that can't defend themselves from an attack by a major power - just look what happened to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan just this century. But against whom are they defending themselves. How many foreign military bases do Russia and China have?
Are you equally upset that Israel has been mooching off the US for years? A country that can afford national health care shouldn't mooch off us, should they?
Actual question regarding Israel.
How do you accept those two beliefs - Greenlanders are mooching off Denmark, meanwhile Israelis enjoy national health and subsidized higher education plus have a debt/GDP ratio half of ours but Israel isn't mooching off US taxpayers?
If U are VERY pro JEW, then U have more than ONE allegiance.
I have seen footage of many Greenlanders who would welcome joining the U.S. But that isn't the point...Trump is always prescient...almost everything he predicts comes to pass. He believes that Greenland is critical to Western security. Let's say he is right and the difference between WWIII and peace is the completion of the golden dome, securing of the rare earth deposits and control of the northern passage and shipping routes. I want America to get that done. I don't want to risk WWIII....so I don't think it's a good idea to let some arctic people or some out of touch EU elites who have been indoctrinated by communist dogma decide the fate of the west. That is insanity. Trump is willing to make Greenlanders an offer they can't refuse financially so let that be the way this happens.
Secure western dominance of our hemisphere!
Have you seen the demonstrations in Greenland against becoming a colony of the US? Have you seen the polls indicating that only 6% want to be US citizens? Now, every 4th of July Americans celebrate the end of America being a British colony but now some Americans would celebrate Greenland becoming a colony of the US. Cognitive dissonance, perhaps?
Excellent question! One of many Bill hasn't thought to ask.
Canadian here. We are glad to receive cheaper goods from elsewhere: that is the whole point of Free Trade. Practically everything in dollar stores is from overseas, and their stocks are booming as we take advantage of them to lower our cost of living.
We pay for them from our abundance of natural resources and farm goods: beef, canola, lentils, wheat, soybeans, potash, and now oil and LNG, as two major pipelines on the west coast recently came into operation.
Cooperation and win-win deals are the way to go, not isolating yourself from the rest of the world.
...U.S. here, been there (with China), done that (with China); it doesn't end well....
And yet USA still trades with China. Huh?
Seems either there is no choice (monopoly) and folks are willing to buy cheap at the expense of U.S. sovereignty (Wallymart).
Trade with China has dropped 20% since 2025.
Well, come this July the USA has had a 250 year head start with Europe and Canada, something must not be working! Oh wait a minute, all we need to do is hit them with another "Tariff". Now that's a good plan.
...they could eliminate their VATs... that would be a fair start.
Ain't gonna happen though...
Patrick, when did you become a huge supporter of Ukraine? The civil war there began in 2014 after the US coup and the Azov Battalion was regularly bombing the civilian population of the Donbass region. Speaking of Satan's Soldier did you know that Zelensky has closed down opposition media and has honored Stefan Bandera a Nazi collaborator. Did you know before becoming president Zelensky was a TV comedian who danced like Beyonce and pretended to play the piano with his penis on show?
Maybe the Nazis are still putting a gun to Zelensky's head. The Nazis of the Azov Battalion that is. I love how a lot of US people jumped on the Stand With Ukraine bandwagon after the Russian invasion but didn't say anything about the Azov Boys bombing civilians in Eastern Ukraine. Imagine if Russia or China was involved in a coup in Mexico and installed their puppet there, started arming their military and installing bioweapon labs, and started bombing Mexicans near the US border for refusing to cooperate with the new regime. What would the position of the US be?
... I am curious Patrick, why is it if Putin were to settle Ukraine with the territories now under Russian control, would it be a disaster?
The blood would stop and rebuilding would begin.
This would be a good thing....no?
Patrick, have you ever heard Putin speak? He is truly a statesman that I have not seen in my country in my life. He is defending the sovereignty of Russia. This is simply his 1962 missile crisis regarding Cuba. Putin has done nothing wrong. Russia does not have open borders, tell me a man can have a baby or have cities that are crumbling apart. Putin is wildly supported by the Russian people after 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed America still had to have an enemy so they could keep up the military industrial budget. Russ should became that enemy. Just my opinion from reading John Mercier and Pepe Escobar.
To quote your quote: "(By some counts, the Obama administration deported more illegal immigrants, with none of the hoopla.)" It's easy when you detain the entrants at the border then put them in the "Obama cages" awaiting deportation. The difference that no one seems to refer to is that Biden let a huge wave just come in, then resettled them throughout the country, all on the US taxpayer dime. So now ICE and CBP have to surge resources to enter the different cities and remove illegals. The luxury Obama had of detention at the border is non existent in Trump's case.
I voted for Trump because of his promises, like most did. I expected Patel and Bongino to deliver. I suspect that while their intentions may have been honest, once installed they all got visits from reps of those really in charge who told them the way things are going to go. I've come to realize by listening to Catherine Austin Fitts and Simon Dixon that politicians, including Trump, are just puppets. We are unwitting residents of The Truman Show orchastrated by those REALLY in charge. Color revolutions, MKUltra, Iran-Contra, JFK, Russia Collusion, Hunter's laptop, Epstein.
A Rothschild once alledgedly said in sum and substance "give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it's laws." BANKS control the money. Pull up charts of M2/XAUUSD, DJI/XAUUSD, and SPX/XAUUSD and see just how connected the indexes are to M2. The Fed's major shareholders are the commercial banks (JP Morgan, BOA, etc), the Fed is a major shareholder of the BIS which openly discusses their plans to enslave us all even further by replacing the current debt based Ponzi scheme with even worse programmable, survielable CBDC's. All the chaos is orchastrated to achieve that end and Trump isn't stopping it, but is just the fall guy. This started in 1913, not when Trump got elected.
Not sure what you are saying but I think you are correct.
Nothing like the good o’l US of A. Where the Ministry of Fear issues press releases the way bakeries issue muffins. Fresh every morning. Still warm. Full of empty calories.
It’s beautiful and ambitious. It wants to be feared, respected, dominant, and also somehow loved. That’s a tall order for a country that keeps yelling at its friends and mugging itself in public.
So foreigners used to store their gold in the US, that was trust, but now they’re saying, “Maybe let’s not leave our valuables with the lunatic who keeps threatening the neighborhood.”
That’s not betrayal. That’s instinct.
Trump thinks foreigners leaving is disloyalty, nope, it’s called gravity. When you push everyone away, eventually you’re alone. It’s not strategy, it’s physics with a flag.
And the domestic terror thing? That’s my favorite punchline. When a state gets scared of its own reflection, it starts calling the mirror dangerous.
Gold hitting absurd numbers isn’t panic, it’s a scoreboard. Confidence down, noise up, reality unimpressed.
The US isn’t playing chess, it’s flipping tables and calling it innovation. History isn’t mad, history is amused, and it’s taking notes.
I am stunned. Why do ya'all MAGAs read poor ol' Bill's musings? I just don't get it. You think he is a bumblin' idiot and doesn't have a lick of sense. But you rush to these Comments to scream about his musings..........have you ever thought about considering his views from a fresh outlook? I know I am an idiot too...........just gives me a laugh reading all the hogwash slung here. Of course, just this ol' man's mutterings..........
I'm with you Ol' LSO. But it does get tiring!
Right on Ol Guy , I was wanting to write a much more scathing reply to all these ignorant republinut commentors on Bills writings, especially this new one Patrick g. Where the hell did he come from? I can't write like U and Bill . I know U can give these idiots more hell and I hope U can devote more time to it. AND I am sure there are many more readers like U out there who could be taking down all these prolific idiots.
Bill, you are right, as usual, and your inevitable naysayers are an illustration of how divided the country has become in recent years. The meaning of conservative has changed over these many years and right wing now means something different from my long ago youth. I am so glad you have kept your perspective and discernment! Appreciate your moments of truth every morning. Thanks!
Bill, it seems to me that our European partners are taking a page out of The Art of The Deal with their interactions with the Chinese.
I'll jump in here, Bill, to add a little nuance to your inference that the demonstrations (rioting, insurrection) we're seeing in US Streets is a result of the mask-wearing ICE agents and Obama did not have the same resulting demonstrations because his ICE agents were more polite and didn't wear masks.
Step back a bit. Obama was the "light-bringer." He could do no wrong. Trump, OTOH, is Hitler, twice-impeached, and a felon. At least these are the judgements of our ever-so-unbiased media barons. In any case, when starting from these social bases, one can see that anti-government demonstrations are more to be expected under Trump than Obama.
Then add to this what we are just now learning about the organizing of the demonstrators. They are communicating through online networks with classic command-and-control setting up respective targets, assignments and roles for specific demonstrators. They are not San Francisco hippies with flowers and incense dancing through the streets: they are armed with commercial fireworks, bottles of frozen water, and other dual-purpose devices. They are instructed to harass ICE workers incessantly, both to make the officers' job more difficult and to wear them down.
Compare what is happening in Minnesota, for example, with what is happening in Tennessee, Florida or Texas, where Ice agents are making the same arrests without being hounded by a small army of demonstrators bent on foiling their efforts and making their life difficult. You don't read about the same demonstrations in TN, FL, or TX -- not because immigrants with criminal convictions are being allowed to roam free, but because the governors of those states have decided to cooperate rather than allow professional instigators to organize demonstrations with imported cadres.
So I would argue that your using this as an example of Trump's leading us toward our own destruction while Obama did not is, shall we say, a little jejune. The social upheaval in Minneapolis as not an example of where we are headed as a nation, and it is not all Trump's doing.
Oh, and by the way, you've surely been tracking the manner in which Xi is decapitating his military establishment and solidifying one-man rule there. Coupled with the demographic decline of his nation, should Carney be getting nervous about his overtures to that nation? I would be.
Bill, it's hopeless! Your conspiracy warmongering readers are too fanatic to understand even the most basic motivations of human behavior. They are so partisan-oriented that they fail to see how Trump is out to destroy much of what America has stood for during the past couple centuries. If a Democratic president had sent masked thugs to shoot two of the crazies in Charlottesville, they would have demanded full revolution, but when those same untrained armed and masked thugs are put on the street to shoot completely non-violent protestors, they applaud. "Do unto others" has absolutely no meaning to these phony Christian fanatics. And such a concept has even less meaning for their predecessors, so by merely observing the hateful comments herein, one can understand the demand of the mobs in Jerusalem to inflict maximum pain against Jesus for merely commenting on obvious societal realities of that time. Obviously your reader mobs "know" they are better than you and are unable to notice that tables have merely been reversed. Fortunately, because they are so extreme in their views and name-calling, even their own partisan "brothers" are beginning to peel away and the end result of Trump's (and Rubio's, and Miller's, and Noem's) insanity and disgusting behavior will be a much better, freer and more tolerant world. Their obvious over-the-top hypocrisy, suspicion and crudeness are actually doing humanity a favor in the long run.
you have to be kidding Ed. Bidens FEMA team left Americans to fend for themselves in N.Carolina after the most devastating hurricane in living memory because they were likely MAGA supporters. The Dems cooked up a ridiculous conspiracy theory about J6 and arrested and destroyed the lives of many good American patriots for no reason other than their support for Trump and Democracy. MAGA supporters have been attacked imprisoned and abandoned all over the country by Democrats. White Americans have been vilified and denied jobs and access to education because of the colour of their skin.
Trump was attacked repeatedly by fake legal cases and they even attempted to kill him twice that we know of in order to deny democracy . Elections were rigged and illegals imported many of whom were violent criminals who murdered and raped Americans....all to subvert Democracy.
So don't come with your complete nonsense about Trump. Masked thugs is a Democrat theme...and the only reason ICE is masked is to stop these lunatics attacking children and women related to ICE agents...
So don't lecture us about democracy...we know exactly what the Dems are like.
You really should get back on your meds....
Proud to say I’m one of a relatively few 85 year-olds who’s never been prescribed a single med. Thanks anyway and I’m really sorry you believe in them and have to take them.
Thanks a lot Patrick. I personally stay away any kind of alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, drugs and (especially) pharmaceuticals, although I support the polio vaccine, having seen the pre-vaccine effects during my school years. Except for my tendency of jumping to conclusions, I'm definitely not getting enough exercise. Maybe I need to go to Minneapolis?
Ur sorry alright!
"completely non-violent protesters"......??
Comparative, my dear. How many mass thugs have the tens of thousands of protesters killed?
Masked
Comparative maybe, truthful...not so much.
Just get up the courage to blurt up the word “zero” and you’ll have it right. This strategy worked in 1930’s Nazi Germany but won’t work in your 2020’s Nazi White House.
A great one, ED, Keep it up. Best logical explanation of the whole abortion I have read, OLGuy is good U might be better.
I notice you’re writing from Rancho Santana. As an owner there, we are now completely disenfranchised vassals of Pinnacle with no HOA and no voice at all.
SO?
This has the quiet logic of Burn After Reading: everyone convinced they’re executing a brilliant plan, while the sum of their “smart” moves produces faster unraveling. It’s striking how confidently the unintended consequences pile up.
No. Obama did not report more illegals. For propaganda purposes he counted those who were turned back at the border as deportations. Bill knows it. But he needs to skew the facts to fit his narrative.
Bill, now you’re calling ICE agents thugs? Where did you get that, CNN? Man, you know you’ve become part of the problem now, right?