A bastion of privilege, power and positivism, Harvard cultivates a pernicious weed: the person who believes he can use his brain to know what others should do and use the government to make them do it
Hmmmm. Weeds of that variety grow in LOTS of places other than Harvard, yet they are almost always watered and fertilized by leftist "thinking" and "ideology." It's not the Right (generally) that is constantly dictating behavior and demanding how everyone else live - nor is it the Right that resorts to violence when they don't get their way.* Basic and Pertinent Facts, but apparently invisible to 20%+ of our population.
It seems as though Donald Trump and Bill Bonner have one large thing in common - each has a rock-solid group of die-hard supporters for whom their "Dear Leader" can do no wrong - no matter what.
Sagely or Stupidly, I don't count myself in either camp - but I can plainly see who is rooting for America to win, and who is rooting for America to, at the least, not win.
Thank you, Dan, for a Ray of Rationality and the Humbleness of a man who knows there are things he doesn't know.
I've been waiting my whole life for something, anything, to begin tearing down the corrupt, rigged, criminal, degenerate and despicable status quo my forebears allowed to slither into controlling most places that matter. Hopefully this wrecking ball damage will begin to spread and impact ALL the areas we need to demolish and rebuild - maybe even some we didn't yet realize were harming us.
Be careful what you wish for? Perhaps - but if you care 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 about Freedom, Liberty, your Children and the Future, to meekly accept continuing on the path we were staggering down is neither a virtuous nor viable alternative...
Freedom......you can now commit a violent crime by "not" doing anything. That is what our Supreme Court recently decided. Still Covid jabs being pushed - how can that "not" be shutdown? The genocide in the Middle East by Israel/U.S. continues unabated and is apparently ramping up again - how does Trump continue to support that? What happened to the Peace President? Propaganda, Propaganda, and more Propanganda. As the ol' saying goes - "the more things change the more they stay the same". Any arrests yet for anything? Nope. So sad.........just different BS.......
As a Jew I resent your BS about the genocide in the Israeli/Hamas war. Hamas was what started this; Hamas is responsible for the continuation of the war; it is Hamas that has ruined the Palestinian community. It is Hamas that is continuing this war. It could have ended months ago if the Palestenians returned the hostages and stopped bombing Israel.
Abe, opinions, opinions, opinions. I get it - you are a Jew so next you'll tell me I am anti-semitic. If being against the continuing genocide is anti-semitic - then so be it. Frankly, though, I don't care nor does the vast majority of the World......It is a horrific genocide and there is no moral or ethical justification for it whatsoever. Killing innocent people In Gaza, Lebanon, Syria is not justified. That's my opinion and you are welcomed to resent it but that doesn't make you right. Just makes you have a different opinion.
WONDERING what you call a genocide? Last I checked it was the systematic extinguishing of a culture, you know like the Jews in the 40's. IF this was a genocide in Gaza why are they arguing over where the nearly 2MM local Arabs (Palestine never existed, no I am not a jew)will be relocated? Why are they moving 1.5 MM of them from the south to the north? Genocide? I don't think so, retaliation, absolutely. But then again, when 9/11 occurred we did the same only worst - we indiscriminately bombed Afghanistan, then went back into Iraq blaming Saddam. So...get your facts straight, bottom line, had those radical Arabs not infiltrated and killed babies, burned people alive and rape and tortured not only Israelis but Americas as well - had they chosen to live and let live they would not be in this position. You poke the bear, you get what's coming.
As always - working stiff - opinions, opinions, and opinions. Different people, Different views. Facts - are you sure your facts are correct? If so, how so? Are you sure the IDF just had a lapse the fateful day in October or was it a planned lapse by the IDF? Unfortunately, one day there may be a discussion of retaliation coming back the other way and for certain they'll be different opinions on whether that is justified. As to the U.S. and our endless wars - not a fan on those either and they are turning the World against the U.S. Chaos ahead........
How do you know for certain? Where you there? Or could you, possibly, being drinking the cool-aid? Lee Harvey Oswald - everyone knows kill JFK - take a gander at Operation Northwoods. There is evil in the U.S. Government and in the Israeli Government. If you can't - for a flicker of time - even momentarily wonder, then....??? We live in different worlds.
Ah, so you are a conspiracy addict! Got it, All of the past experiences have what, played out? SO you need a new one? I could tell ya the sources of my data, but then I would have to have you...well you know :-). Not be me of course, my days of getting my hands dirty are behind me.... Hell, I can probably still swim in and infiltrate no problem, but then what, I would probably have to stop and take a piss. LOL, All I can say is my data sources - well, they just don't get any better.
Stay Positive - up until the time we need to grab the ammo boxes and hit the rooftops. Then double-down on Positivity. The alternative isn't an option...
SE - exactly. Life is short and other than preparing as you point-out, might as well take a deep breath, settle back, and smell the roses. Nobody is asking us nor do they care what we think; after all, they are behind the curtain in the Land of Oz.
I don’t know if you are an anti semite nor do I care. I didn’t see you give your comments on the Hamas massacre of innocent Jewish civilians in October by Hamas terrorists (voted in the government by the Palestinian community.
The sad truth is that Trump most likely wouldn't have been re-elected if it wasn't for AIPAC. He's gonna show them some love, but I think he's smart enough to know that U.S. boots on the ground is a bridge too far. Parasitic States like the EU, Israel, and Ukraine can sink Trump's domestic agenda in a heartbeat and I believe he knows that. Most Americans are fed up with these Parasitic States so there would be hell to pay if Trump pivots from the domestic agenda.
You have now reached my limit. So you think the massacre in Israel was fabricated by the US and Israel. Please don’t communicate with me anymore, you are a head in the sand moron. AP
Yep - can't imagine Israel isn't all white hats and goodness. So, let's start calling names. I find that interesting.......can't stand anybody not seeing how righteous Israel has been and continues to be - well, except the vast majority of the rest of the World. Must be a lot of sand in the world. And, in the same breathe, can't even imagine or consider there might be sinister forces in Israel and the U.S. You do provide a chuckle and smile from this ol' man. Wow!
Harvard's cultural & intellectual DNA arises from Boston's colonial days... Dour, self-righteous, know-it-all, theocratic Puritanism. When I attended long ago (back at "that" Harvard, not "this" current incarnation), the place to learn about hard-money economics was the Geology Department, where the mining professor was a gold bug. Down the street at the Economics Department, it was all math-wannabes with their formulas and voodoo incantations about monetary policymaking.
My Econ professor told his students long ago that there are 2 kinds of economists, those that don’t know anything about math and those that don’t know anything about Economics.
Regarding Navarro and tariffs, you sound like another looney leftist, experts at half truths sized to fit an agenda. It takes only a little research to discover Navarro is referring to the fact that Chinese goods were being shipped through Vietnamese ports thereby avoiding tariffs. That door just slammed shut. Not important enough to mention?
Truth - and more than just the Shipping part. There was a documentary several years ago that VERIFIED the tags in most Chinese-produced textiles and clothing were printed with "Made in Vietnam" or "Made in Malaysia" labels, explicitly to avoid the US tariffs.
Straight-up FRAUD - but what else do you expect from communists and dimocrats?
Right on….the ports and older history of two communist countries in bed together to work their ploy.….Something that Bill seems to avoid mentioning and rather, he chooses labeling stupidity on Navarro.…
according to ChatGP...
“Yes, there have been documented cases of Chinese companies trying to avoid U.S. tariffs by funneling their products through Vietnam. This usually involves shipping goods from China to Vietnam, where they are either lightly processed or simply relabeled as “Made in Vietnam” before being exported to the United States.
Vietnamese authorities have acknowledged the issue and have cracked down on these practices, especially after the U.S. began imposing tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods during the U.S.-China trade war. The U.S. has also investigated and penalized companies that were caught participating in this kind of tariff evasion.
So while this isn’t a state-sanctioned funneling operation, there have been cases where companies used Vietnam as a workaround to avoid tariffs. Both Vietnam and the U.S. have been trying to clamp down on these fraudulent rerouting efforts.”
So the Vietnam “funnel like “ operation avoids tariffs and likely explains Narvarro’s concern about getting Vietnam to stop tariff restrictions on us, and his reluctance to remove them against Vietnam until they stop playing their dodge ball game with us…..Navarro is not going to be snookered by China trading partners and he should get a commendation from Bill….but instead gets the Harvard grad stupider than hell award as does his boss the Wharton grad……
Please, once and for all, wouldn't it be nice to hear Bill tell something about the geo- politico environment that wasn't purposely slanted. He could start with rigorous questioning, winnowing and sifting, and avoid the value judgements, and let us decide…..kudos to Dyson/Dennings for both the former and ultimately the latter….
Well said TT !! I really wish BB would read some of Dan's missives and maybe learn some things.... but alas, in real life the teacher almost never will let it appear that he has learned something from his inferior... more likely to find some reason to 'let him go'.... just another of life's little tragedies... 🙃
Another truth that I was unaware of, thanks SE! One more reason why I get more good information from the people in the comments section than the bilge Bonner’s been pumping!
I just learned today that China will only allow 20 American made films to be plyede in chinese theaters. All of which have to reflect positive flee on the c c p. Not sure if any of you have noticed but there are a lot of chinese produce films in this country. All over the place in theaters on the web , etc.
Meanwhile, they threaten "retaliation" against Trumpism by potentially BANNING any and all Productos de Hollywood. Like that won't make 90% of our Country stand up and cheer. :)
Also delicious in this situation is the fact that the elite of Pedowood have NO WHERE to go for complaint nor remedy - they HATE the only guy that could possible help them regain that market and have not been shy about it over the last 8 years. Yum-Yum - the Irony...
Also I want to describe non terrific barriers, a specifically sights Examples of competitive or comparative advantage. None of which arkansas considered to be non tariff barriers. It's regu
lations quotas and more recently lawsuits by the EU against our biggest companies.
Despite multiple containment attempts—legal, electoral, psychological—Subject 45 remains untouchable. He does not operate within the boundaries of law, morality, or fact. He transcends them. He does not “win” in the conventional sense. He absorbs opposition, metabolizes outrage, and converts shame into strength.
Field reports confirm: He cannot be impeached, censored, silenced, or outvoted. Each effort to dismantle him has only amplified his broadcast signal.
China fears his unpredictability but mimics his model.
Europe sneers in public and imitates in private.
California screams the loudest—yet remains addicted to the show.
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INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:
Subject 45 now functions as a living algorithm of dominance.
He speaks and counties kneel.
Facts detonate on impact. Courts dissolve.
He is not bound by truth—truth is bound by Him.
Every indictment has become scripture.
Every accusation, a sacrament.
Attempts to shame Him have created a fervent class immune to shame—known internally as “The Red Choir.”
Reality itself fractures in His presence.
Historians beg for correction.
He edits time.
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RECOMMENDATION:
• Cease direct engagement.
• Reinforce domestic illusion of control.
• Prepare contingency plans for Post-Truth Governance.
• NOTE: Subject 45 cannot be defeated. Only accepted or denied.
And denial has already collapsed.
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FINAL NOTE:
This is not a political figure.
This is a global reformatting event.
A system override.
A red script written in permanent marker across the face of Western order.
Because in this age—power no longer belongs to the righteous, or the intelligent, or the majority.
Bill, I'm only going to comment on your first statement here. First I must say I have a son-in-law a Dr. who graduated from Harvard undergraduate and medical school so I've seen his definite intelligence coming from that point of view. I've been extremely impressed. But now let me move to the "priviledge, power and positivism" aspect providing the pernicious weed aspect of your view.
I have been thinking about the US government leadership. Let's just say the climate change, covid vaccines, mandated masks, forced vaccination and subsequent virulent cancers, censorship, main stream media, mandated masks, closure of businesses, men in women's sports, girls are men and men are girls, pronoun forcing, leftist creation of antifa and shipping leftists to campaign rallies as a show of support for communistic ideas and finally the Grand Daddy of them all WARS (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia/ Yugoslavia, Syria, Ukraine, Israel etc. etc.). My interpretation of it all, coming from a lowly university concentrating on engineering knowledge, is HUBRIS, HUBRIS, HUBRIS! The CIA is probably the primary example of HUBRIS, ego and astonishing incompetence. Do you realize they have an investment arm all their own? I guess they are so smart they simply don't have enough to do running around like spies, shooting presidents, creating wars, they must get into investments. This one entity of government shows the astonishing pervasiveness of hubris and incompetence. Did the CIA think they were really going to win a war with Russia? Did they realize Russia has nuclear weapons? They've said everyone else has "weapons of mass destruction" but they somehow missed this fact for Russia. The EU leadership and American leadership with vast spy information, I have to assume, thought they were going to win a war with Russia?
My view is the EU, British and American leadership simply have too much hubris, epitomized by Davos and the WEF. "Privilege, Power and Positivism ( i have to question positivism but I assume you mean with respect to themselves)". I agree with you 100% that this is probably the most important part of the failure of Western Civilization. Western leaders have almost every single aspect of their narrative wrong: energy, hate, sexuality, disease and finally their ultimate stupidity - war. It all comes down to their believing they are the important designated, apparently by God?, leaders of the world. While literally a homeless woman would likely have done better than the last 40 years of their leadership, since she probably would have done nothing.. So my suggestion is that we develop a new Republic where the primary objective is to have no leader. My reasoning is simple. Our leaders have gotten everything wrong and despite this complete failure in terms of government the US still survives. I've come to think that the reason why we survive is because the common man makes many of his own economic decisions, for the most part, allowing the country to move forward despite a continuous string of mistakes by its leaders. Think about the wars, the narrative by the left and now the reaction against it possibly. I can't help but think it is freedom alone that brings progress.
I think, in My mind that You want capitalism , that is true capitalism, no government interference. I would get on that train and never look back. Thanks for Your missive, Mackinac.
We are building that small-scale all over different parts of our Country. No Records, No Receipts, No Taxes. Contracts are Handshakes, Liars and Losers are shunned...
Hubris - yes. Stupidity - no. They know EXACTLY what they have been doing and what they are planning to continue (ramp-up) doing. They don't believe Trump can slow them down, but they do acknowledge he is the first in many decades to even potentially be a threat to their games - so they Hate him beyond all rationality.
Take the scenic route into Bill Bonner's published background sometime, with a special stop at the "Connections to US Intelligence Agencies" Overlook. While there, take a load off and sit for a spell on the "Past Business Connections with "former" CIA Executives" Memorial Bench. It will go a LONG way toward explaining why we are seeing much of the inarticulate, logic-less, hypocritical garbage he is spewing on us now...
Interesting Starboard. Agree completely with your first paragraph.
There is something strange about his persistence against Trump. He can't contain himself even with our audience of diehard Trumpers despising the elite globalists / totalitarians / war mongers. I think tariffs are the only thing that is universally condemned by academic economists., which allows Bill to comment. I don't care about academics. Seems like after what we've experienced they are more jealous and a huge problem for the country and also allowing a huge increase in the cost of education.
Thanks for that info SE! That does help bring things into focus... and perhaps explains what we've been enduring from BB. As I suspected... he is one of them.
"A bastion of privilege, power and positivism, Harvard cultivates a pernicious weed: the person who believes he can use his brain to know what others should do and use the government to make them do it.'
I just read an article yesterday saying that harvard for the first time ever has begun remedial mathematics classes As the incoming classes can handle the basics of algebra geometry calculus et cetera. Apparently the selection process is not as robust it is used to be.
Apparently much of the manufacturing in Viet Nam is owned by China. Is trump trying to negotiate a reduction in the Chinese manufacturing prices in Viet Nam so China doesn't benefit or avoid the tariffs being imposed on them.
yeah i have a daughter who “earned” a PhD in 7 years from HARVARD in genetics no less & drank the kool aid & gave her 2 sons Mrna vaccines in 2022 bexause the Brookline public schools mandated it! Sad but true. i had a one & done J&J.
The best 20 minutes you can spend today. Plenty here that one would think Bill Bonner would be standing up and cheering for. Yet instead, we get transparent half-truths and juvenile insults.
I started to watch, but then I am not a fan of "movies". If it was a written diction, I certainly would have read it as I can revert back to the diction. But thanks any how.
It's Memes and short clips - but to each his own. It is content that comes out weekly and very often shows you facts that only saw the light of day in a few other places and/or got instantly memory-holed.
In my opinion, no one gives a crap from which university they graduate; including Harvard. Most of these people are mono different than us. Suffice it to say that what Trump wants to do besides creating a level field; this will result in less negative trade balances. Haven’t you been complaining for years about the trillions of deficit. Be fair and wait and see. AP
Agree . Wait and see. I have stated many a time , Mr. T. has until Jan. 20/2026 to show the turn around , at least some form of positive refinement. One Year is enough time to show positives in My opinion. But tariffs , in My opinion are not the way as this adds confusion and inflation. I do not know how many trade agreements there are in this world, but look at these and then move forward. As always there will be ways around them as there are ways to avoid paying taxes. Human nature , Ya know.
What do most people do today; what do they own? I imagine that China is what I witnessed as a boy. Charles Schwab was a child laborer, he went to work for Carnegie Steel, the largest low-cost producer situated in Steel Town Pittsburg and other places; he rose to the second position next to Carnegie. He was a genius, a steel man, no formal education but was one that Roosevelt called on to push American war production, 70,000 planes a year and a like fantastic number of of other implements of destruction. American production was prodigious, mystifying. America invented everything, manufactured everything.
Standard oil, Rockefeller, before the broke it up controlled oil worldwide. Maybe, there would never have been two world wars if oil was produced in various places, especially Russia, and distributed equitably and cheaply by Rockefeller. But the elite, governments always want control and advantage.
JP Morgan, the financial boys, bought Carnegie Steel; they changed the name, US Steel, made Charles Schwab president. Eventually they clashed and Schwab was fired. He bought a small company in Bethlehem, PA. He made it into the largest steel producer in the world.
He built a plant in my neighborhood, Sparrow’s Point, Md; it employed 35,000. He built a whole town and street cars running to it, then highways. It was prodigious, awe inspiring.
Schwab had a philosophy, the higher up you rose the closer you were to the production. The biggest houses, the highest paid bosses, had 13 blast furnaces in their back yard. Occasionally delivering stuff I would find myself 60 yards from those blast furnaces and one after another at intervals they would spew molten steel into ingots on railroad cars to be transferred to the rolling mills. Those mills ran 24 hours a day, three shifts. It was awesome. All over America, in small towns it was awesome.
Today it is all dead and the Townes are all Ghosts like the roaring old west, like the plains Townes, the old farming communities. The people languish, have Mountain Dew moth and die of fentanyl. It’s mass genocide and they just let 12 million more, uneducated, forlorn people in.
The American dream is dead, some bastards killed it.
The bastards own everything, produce nothing.
They own the stock market, 1% owns 60% but they control the passive investors. It is the source of their power, it signifies nothing, just corruption.
It’s all corruption and people are nothing to this 1%. They deal in genocide and control, the destruction of America. Destroy Americans, that antiquated sense of freedom, divine rights, control the world.
They want to control the world, it’s all the bastards have, they have no soul.
Their mantra lies, war after war, save the world for democracy. Their main tool, FREE TRADE.
Extrapolate what was, contemplate what is and decide what future you're willing to fight for.
“The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war, is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power.”
-Karl Marx
Marx got this one right. This is a great read for anyone who truly wants to understand the genesis of the Civil War.
While Bonner's column today contains an occasional fact and a smattering of logic, it is mainly a baseless ad hominem attack on Peter Navarro. There is really nothing to grab onto here on why Navarro is wrong (or right for that matter). Nothing but insults.
Hmmmm. Weeds of that variety grow in LOTS of places other than Harvard, yet they are almost always watered and fertilized by leftist "thinking" and "ideology." It's not the Right (generally) that is constantly dictating behavior and demanding how everyone else live - nor is it the Right that resorts to violence when they don't get their way.* Basic and Pertinent Facts, but apparently invisible to 20%+ of our population.
It seems as though Donald Trump and Bill Bonner have one large thing in common - each has a rock-solid group of die-hard supporters for whom their "Dear Leader" can do no wrong - no matter what.
Sagely or Stupidly, I don't count myself in either camp - but I can plainly see who is rooting for America to win, and who is rooting for America to, at the least, not win.
PS - "𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱–𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦–𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 (𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴) 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴…𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯."
Thank you, Dan, for a Ray of Rationality and the Humbleness of a man who knows there are things he doesn't know.
I've been waiting my whole life for something, anything, to begin tearing down the corrupt, rigged, criminal, degenerate and despicable status quo my forebears allowed to slither into controlling most places that matter. Hopefully this wrecking ball damage will begin to spread and impact ALL the areas we need to demolish and rebuild - maybe even some we didn't yet realize were harming us.
Be careful what you wish for? Perhaps - but if you care 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 about Freedom, Liberty, your Children and the Future, to meekly accept continuing on the path we were staggering down is neither a virtuous nor viable alternative...
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Freedom......you can now commit a violent crime by "not" doing anything. That is what our Supreme Court recently decided. Still Covid jabs being pushed - how can that "not" be shutdown? The genocide in the Middle East by Israel/U.S. continues unabated and is apparently ramping up again - how does Trump continue to support that? What happened to the Peace President? Propaganda, Propaganda, and more Propanganda. As the ol' saying goes - "the more things change the more they stay the same". Any arrests yet for anything? Nope. So sad.........just different BS.......
As a Jew I resent your BS about the genocide in the Israeli/Hamas war. Hamas was what started this; Hamas is responsible for the continuation of the war; it is Hamas that has ruined the Palestinian community. It is Hamas that is continuing this war. It could have ended months ago if the Palestenians returned the hostages and stopped bombing Israel.
Abe, opinions, opinions, opinions. I get it - you are a Jew so next you'll tell me I am anti-semitic. If being against the continuing genocide is anti-semitic - then so be it. Frankly, though, I don't care nor does the vast majority of the World......It is a horrific genocide and there is no moral or ethical justification for it whatsoever. Killing innocent people In Gaza, Lebanon, Syria is not justified. That's my opinion and you are welcomed to resent it but that doesn't make you right. Just makes you have a different opinion.
Spot-on, Abe!
WONDERING what you call a genocide? Last I checked it was the systematic extinguishing of a culture, you know like the Jews in the 40's. IF this was a genocide in Gaza why are they arguing over where the nearly 2MM local Arabs (Palestine never existed, no I am not a jew)will be relocated? Why are they moving 1.5 MM of them from the south to the north? Genocide? I don't think so, retaliation, absolutely. But then again, when 9/11 occurred we did the same only worst - we indiscriminately bombed Afghanistan, then went back into Iraq blaming Saddam. So...get your facts straight, bottom line, had those radical Arabs not infiltrated and killed babies, burned people alive and rape and tortured not only Israelis but Americas as well - had they chosen to live and let live they would not be in this position. You poke the bear, you get what's coming.
As always - working stiff - opinions, opinions, and opinions. Different people, Different views. Facts - are you sure your facts are correct? If so, how so? Are you sure the IDF just had a lapse the fateful day in October or was it a planned lapse by the IDF? Unfortunately, one day there may be a discussion of retaliation coming back the other way and for certain they'll be different opinions on whether that is justified. As to the U.S. and our endless wars - not a fan on those either and they are turning the World against the U.S. Chaos ahead........
I can’t believe you are blaming the IDF. It was Hamas that killed, burned and raped innocent civilians, including women and children.
How do you know for certain? Where you there? Or could you, possibly, being drinking the cool-aid? Lee Harvey Oswald - everyone knows kill JFK - take a gander at Operation Northwoods. There is evil in the U.S. Government and in the Israeli Government. If you can't - for a flicker of time - even momentarily wonder, then....??? We live in different worlds.
Ah, so you are a conspiracy addict! Got it, All of the past experiences have what, played out? SO you need a new one? I could tell ya the sources of my data, but then I would have to have you...well you know :-). Not be me of course, my days of getting my hands dirty are behind me.... Hell, I can probably still swim in and infiltrate no problem, but then what, I would probably have to stop and take a piss. LOL, All I can say is my data sources - well, they just don't get any better.
Well said
I more than hear you, 'Ol Man.
Stay Positive - up until the time we need to grab the ammo boxes and hit the rooftops. Then double-down on Positivity. The alternative isn't an option...
SE - exactly. Life is short and other than preparing as you point-out, might as well take a deep breath, settle back, and smell the roses. Nobody is asking us nor do they care what we think; after all, they are behind the curtain in the Land of Oz.
Hey how come we haven't heard any positive comments on that gold to dow ratio? Weren't weexpecting and praying for this market disruption?
Shhhhhhh - feebly stirring up Trump Hate among the smooth-brained is WAY more important....
I don’t know if you are an anti semite nor do I care. I didn’t see you give your comments on the Hamas massacre of innocent Jewish civilians in October by Hamas terrorists (voted in the government by the Palestinian community.
Was Hamas created by the Israeli government?
Too close to call, but Tie goes to the Runner.
Regardless - it doesn't in ANY WAY justify 07OCT...
For sure, and I know who I would rather have as a neighbour
The sad truth is that Trump most likely wouldn't have been re-elected if it wasn't for AIPAC. He's gonna show them some love, but I think he's smart enough to know that U.S. boots on the ground is a bridge too far. Parasitic States like the EU, Israel, and Ukraine can sink Trump's domestic agenda in a heartbeat and I believe he knows that. Most Americans are fed up with these Parasitic States so there would be hell to pay if Trump pivots from the domestic agenda.
Yup - don't look now, but something fishy going on in the skies over Afghanistan....
Ugh!
The world?? You appear to be the great measurer that you can speak for the rest of the world. Let’s stop this back and forth nonsense.
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You have now reached my limit. So you think the massacre in Israel was fabricated by the US and Israel. Please don’t communicate with me anymore, you are a head in the sand moron. AP
Yep - can't imagine Israel isn't all white hats and goodness. So, let's start calling names. I find that interesting.......can't stand anybody not seeing how righteous Israel has been and continues to be - well, except the vast majority of the rest of the World. Must be a lot of sand in the world. And, in the same breathe, can't even imagine or consider there might be sinister forces in Israel and the U.S. You do provide a chuckle and smile from this ol' man. Wow!
Harvard's cultural & intellectual DNA arises from Boston's colonial days... Dour, self-righteous, know-it-all, theocratic Puritanism. When I attended long ago (back at "that" Harvard, not "this" current incarnation), the place to learn about hard-money economics was the Geology Department, where the mining professor was a gold bug. Down the street at the Economics Department, it was all math-wannabes with their formulas and voodoo incantations about monetary policymaking.
My Econ professor told his students long ago that there are 2 kinds of economists, those that don’t know anything about math and those that don’t know anything about Economics.
Well said!
Regarding Navarro and tariffs, you sound like another looney leftist, experts at half truths sized to fit an agenda. It takes only a little research to discover Navarro is referring to the fact that Chinese goods were being shipped through Vietnamese ports thereby avoiding tariffs. That door just slammed shut. Not important enough to mention?
Truth - and more than just the Shipping part. There was a documentary several years ago that VERIFIED the tags in most Chinese-produced textiles and clothing were printed with "Made in Vietnam" or "Made in Malaysia" labels, explicitly to avoid the US tariffs.
Straight-up FRAUD - but what else do you expect from communists and dimocrats?
Right on….the ports and older history of two communist countries in bed together to work their ploy.….Something that Bill seems to avoid mentioning and rather, he chooses labeling stupidity on Navarro.…
according to ChatGP...
“Yes, there have been documented cases of Chinese companies trying to avoid U.S. tariffs by funneling their products through Vietnam. This usually involves shipping goods from China to Vietnam, where they are either lightly processed or simply relabeled as “Made in Vietnam” before being exported to the United States.
Vietnamese authorities have acknowledged the issue and have cracked down on these practices, especially after the U.S. began imposing tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods during the U.S.-China trade war. The U.S. has also investigated and penalized companies that were caught participating in this kind of tariff evasion.
So while this isn’t a state-sanctioned funneling operation, there have been cases where companies used Vietnam as a workaround to avoid tariffs. Both Vietnam and the U.S. have been trying to clamp down on these fraudulent rerouting efforts.”
So the Vietnam “funnel like “ operation avoids tariffs and likely explains Narvarro’s concern about getting Vietnam to stop tariff restrictions on us, and his reluctance to remove them against Vietnam until they stop playing their dodge ball game with us…..Navarro is not going to be snookered by China trading partners and he should get a commendation from Bill….but instead gets the Harvard grad stupider than hell award as does his boss the Wharton grad……
Please, once and for all, wouldn't it be nice to hear Bill tell something about the geo- politico environment that wasn't purposely slanted. He could start with rigorous questioning, winnowing and sifting, and avoid the value judgements, and let us decide…..kudos to Dyson/Dennings for both the former and ultimately the latter….
"Vietnamese authorities have acknowledged the issue and have cracked down on these practices," -- Sure thing, Chatster.
"So while this isn’t a state-sanctioned funneling operation," -- Doubly sure of THAT, Chatty ol' boy.
LMAO. Funny how you have succinctly illustrated the opposite ends of the BIAS Spectrum for both ChatGPT and our Host.
Neither, it appears, is Trustworthy...
Well said TT !! I really wish BB would read some of Dan's missives and maybe learn some things.... but alas, in real life the teacher almost never will let it appear that he has learned something from his inferior... more likely to find some reason to 'let him go'.... just another of life's little tragedies... 🙃
Another truth that I was unaware of, thanks SE! One more reason why I get more good information from the people in the comments section than the bilge Bonner’s been pumping!
I just learned today that China will only allow 20 American made films to be plyede in chinese theaters. All of which have to reflect positive flee on the c c p. Not sure if any of you have noticed but there are a lot of chinese produce films in this country. All over the place in theaters on the web , etc.
Meanwhile, they threaten "retaliation" against Trumpism by potentially BANNING any and all Productos de Hollywood. Like that won't make 90% of our Country stand up and cheer. :)
Also delicious in this situation is the fact that the elite of Pedowood have NO WHERE to go for complaint nor remedy - they HATE the only guy that could possible help them regain that market and have not been shy about it over the last 8 years. Yum-Yum - the Irony...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/china-mulling-ban-hollywood-film-releases-trump-tariffs-1236184531/
Thank you Kam for that information. I was wondering what that was actually happening. Bonner “cleverly”?, leaves out that little tidbit!
Interesting
Also I want to describe non terrific barriers, a specifically sights Examples of competitive or comparative advantage. None of which arkansas considered to be non tariff barriers. It's regu
lations quotas and more recently lawsuits by the EU against our biggest companies.
TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY
UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE — CLASSIFIED PENTAGON ARCHIVE
DOC ID: TRMP-∞ / LEVEL OMEGA CLEARANCE REQUIRED
SUBJECT: PHENOMENON DESIGNATE “45” — DOMINION PROTOCOL
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SUMMARY:
Despite multiple containment attempts—legal, electoral, psychological—Subject 45 remains untouchable. He does not operate within the boundaries of law, morality, or fact. He transcends them. He does not “win” in the conventional sense. He absorbs opposition, metabolizes outrage, and converts shame into strength.
Field reports confirm: He cannot be impeached, censored, silenced, or outvoted. Each effort to dismantle him has only amplified his broadcast signal.
China fears his unpredictability but mimics his model.
Europe sneers in public and imitates in private.
California screams the loudest—yet remains addicted to the show.
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INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING:
Subject 45 now functions as a living algorithm of dominance.
He speaks and counties kneel.
Facts detonate on impact. Courts dissolve.
He is not bound by truth—truth is bound by Him.
Every indictment has become scripture.
Every accusation, a sacrament.
Attempts to shame Him have created a fervent class immune to shame—known internally as “The Red Choir.”
Reality itself fractures in His presence.
Historians beg for correction.
He edits time.
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RECOMMENDATION:
• Cease direct engagement.
• Reinforce domestic illusion of control.
• Prepare contingency plans for Post-Truth Governance.
• NOTE: Subject 45 cannot be defeated. Only accepted or denied.
And denial has already collapsed.
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FINAL NOTE:
This is not a political figure.
This is a global reformatting event.
A system override.
A red script written in permanent marker across the face of Western order.
Because in this age—power no longer belongs to the righteous, or the intelligent, or the majority.
It belongs to whoever cannot be erased.
And He cannot be erased.
END TRANSMISSION.
"This is not a political figure.
This is a global reformatting event."
^^^^^𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦^^^^^
And I am BEYOND THANKFUL to God Almighty for allowing me to be breathing while it happens.....
Great post. Trump, right? Or Chuck Norris? Keep on truckin’.
Ha! I thought the same thing when I was reading.....
Oh, I so wish you were writing the columns instead of Billy Boy.
I told him to start his own thing.....
HAHAHA!
Chuck Norris can divide by zero!
Bill, I'm only going to comment on your first statement here. First I must say I have a son-in-law a Dr. who graduated from Harvard undergraduate and medical school so I've seen his definite intelligence coming from that point of view. I've been extremely impressed. But now let me move to the "priviledge, power and positivism" aspect providing the pernicious weed aspect of your view.
I have been thinking about the US government leadership. Let's just say the climate change, covid vaccines, mandated masks, forced vaccination and subsequent virulent cancers, censorship, main stream media, mandated masks, closure of businesses, men in women's sports, girls are men and men are girls, pronoun forcing, leftist creation of antifa and shipping leftists to campaign rallies as a show of support for communistic ideas and finally the Grand Daddy of them all WARS (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia/ Yugoslavia, Syria, Ukraine, Israel etc. etc.). My interpretation of it all, coming from a lowly university concentrating on engineering knowledge, is HUBRIS, HUBRIS, HUBRIS! The CIA is probably the primary example of HUBRIS, ego and astonishing incompetence. Do you realize they have an investment arm all their own? I guess they are so smart they simply don't have enough to do running around like spies, shooting presidents, creating wars, they must get into investments. This one entity of government shows the astonishing pervasiveness of hubris and incompetence. Did the CIA think they were really going to win a war with Russia? Did they realize Russia has nuclear weapons? They've said everyone else has "weapons of mass destruction" but they somehow missed this fact for Russia. The EU leadership and American leadership with vast spy information, I have to assume, thought they were going to win a war with Russia?
My view is the EU, British and American leadership simply have too much hubris, epitomized by Davos and the WEF. "Privilege, Power and Positivism ( i have to question positivism but I assume you mean with respect to themselves)". I agree with you 100% that this is probably the most important part of the failure of Western Civilization. Western leaders have almost every single aspect of their narrative wrong: energy, hate, sexuality, disease and finally their ultimate stupidity - war. It all comes down to their believing they are the important designated, apparently by God?, leaders of the world. While literally a homeless woman would likely have done better than the last 40 years of their leadership, since she probably would have done nothing.. So my suggestion is that we develop a new Republic where the primary objective is to have no leader. My reasoning is simple. Our leaders have gotten everything wrong and despite this complete failure in terms of government the US still survives. I've come to think that the reason why we survive is because the common man makes many of his own economic decisions, for the most part, allowing the country to move forward despite a continuous string of mistakes by its leaders. Think about the wars, the narrative by the left and now the reaction against it possibly. I can't help but think it is freedom alone that brings progress.
I think, in My mind that You want capitalism , that is true capitalism, no government interference. I would get on that train and never look back. Thanks for Your missive, Mackinac.
We are building that small-scale all over different parts of our Country. No Records, No Receipts, No Taxes. Contracts are Handshakes, Liars and Losers are shunned...
Thanks
Hubris - yes. Stupidity - no. They know EXACTLY what they have been doing and what they are planning to continue (ramp-up) doing. They don't believe Trump can slow them down, but they do acknowledge he is the first in many decades to even potentially be a threat to their games - so they Hate him beyond all rationality.
Take the scenic route into Bill Bonner's published background sometime, with a special stop at the "Connections to US Intelligence Agencies" Overlook. While there, take a load off and sit for a spell on the "Past Business Connections with "former" CIA Executives" Memorial Bench. It will go a LONG way toward explaining why we are seeing much of the inarticulate, logic-less, hypocritical garbage he is spewing on us now...
Interesting Starboard. Agree completely with your first paragraph.
There is something strange about his persistence against Trump. He can't contain himself even with our audience of diehard Trumpers despising the elite globalists / totalitarians / war mongers. I think tariffs are the only thing that is universally condemned by academic economists., which allows Bill to comment. I don't care about academics. Seems like after what we've experienced they are more jealous and a huge problem for the country and also allowing a huge increase in the cost of education.
I'll have to take a look. Thanks,
Thanks for that info SE! That does help bring things into focus... and perhaps explains what we've been enduring from BB. As I suspected... he is one of them.
"A bastion of privilege, power and positivism, Harvard cultivates a pernicious weed: the person who believes he can use his brain to know what others should do and use the government to make them do it.'
Outstanding!
I just read an article yesterday saying that harvard for the first time ever has begun remedial mathematics classes As the incoming classes can handle the basics of algebra geometry calculus et cetera. Apparently the selection process is not as robust it is used to be.
But look at all the different colors and headgears!
Disgraceful that H has remedial arithmetic. Admissions Committee should all be fired.
Apparently much of the manufacturing in Viet Nam is owned by China. Is trump trying to negotiate a reduction in the Chinese manufacturing prices in Viet Nam so China doesn't benefit or avoid the tariffs being imposed on them.
Harvard made good decisions about bringing in the best students, too. You can be the best and still need a remedial math class. https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/opinion/harvard-univ-the-ivy-league-teaching-remedial-math/
As the old saying goes " many are educated, but many have not learned".
And many of those educated have learned the wrong things. Oh my husband wants to have a baby. Or better yet israel is committing genocide.....
yeah i have a daughter who “earned” a PhD in 7 years from HARVARD in genetics no less & drank the kool aid & gave her 2 sons Mrna vaccines in 2022 bexause the Brookline public schools mandated it! Sad but true. i had a one & done J&J.
And I had none.
Never disappoints.
The best 20 minutes you can spend today. Plenty here that one would think Bill Bonner would be standing up and cheering for. Yet instead, we get transparent half-truths and juvenile insults.
Inoculate yourself with Truth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4caEETlqn4
Awesome clip, SE! Thanks for posting
Great link!!
I started to watch, but then I am not a fan of "movies". If it was a written diction, I certainly would have read it as I can revert back to the diction. But thanks any how.
It's Memes and short clips - but to each his own. It is content that comes out weekly and very often shows you facts that only saw the light of day in a few other places and/or got instantly memory-holed.
PS - the soundtrack is always pretty good, too...
Thanks .
Bill:
In my opinion, no one gives a crap from which university they graduate; including Harvard. Most of these people are mono different than us. Suffice it to say that what Trump wants to do besides creating a level field; this will result in less negative trade balances. Haven’t you been complaining for years about the trillions of deficit. Be fair and wait and see. AP
Agree . Wait and see. I have stated many a time , Mr. T. has until Jan. 20/2026 to show the turn around , at least some form of positive refinement. One Year is enough time to show positives in My opinion. But tariffs , in My opinion are not the way as this adds confusion and inflation. I do not know how many trade agreements there are in this world, but look at these and then move forward. As always there will be ways around them as there are ways to avoid paying taxes. Human nature , Ya know.
It’s a steep climb, in many cases, to ascend above a formal education.
What do most people do today; what do they own? I imagine that China is what I witnessed as a boy. Charles Schwab was a child laborer, he went to work for Carnegie Steel, the largest low-cost producer situated in Steel Town Pittsburg and other places; he rose to the second position next to Carnegie. He was a genius, a steel man, no formal education but was one that Roosevelt called on to push American war production, 70,000 planes a year and a like fantastic number of of other implements of destruction. American production was prodigious, mystifying. America invented everything, manufactured everything.
Standard oil, Rockefeller, before the broke it up controlled oil worldwide. Maybe, there would never have been two world wars if oil was produced in various places, especially Russia, and distributed equitably and cheaply by Rockefeller. But the elite, governments always want control and advantage.
JP Morgan, the financial boys, bought Carnegie Steel; they changed the name, US Steel, made Charles Schwab president. Eventually they clashed and Schwab was fired. He bought a small company in Bethlehem, PA. He made it into the largest steel producer in the world.
He built a plant in my neighborhood, Sparrow’s Point, Md; it employed 35,000. He built a whole town and street cars running to it, then highways. It was prodigious, awe inspiring.
Schwab had a philosophy, the higher up you rose the closer you were to the production. The biggest houses, the highest paid bosses, had 13 blast furnaces in their back yard. Occasionally delivering stuff I would find myself 60 yards from those blast furnaces and one after another at intervals they would spew molten steel into ingots on railroad cars to be transferred to the rolling mills. Those mills ran 24 hours a day, three shifts. It was awesome. All over America, in small towns it was awesome.
Today it is all dead and the Townes are all Ghosts like the roaring old west, like the plains Townes, the old farming communities. The people languish, have Mountain Dew moth and die of fentanyl. It’s mass genocide and they just let 12 million more, uneducated, forlorn people in.
The American dream is dead, some bastards killed it.
The bastards own everything, produce nothing.
They own the stock market, 1% owns 60% but they control the passive investors. It is the source of their power, it signifies nothing, just corruption.
It’s all corruption and people are nothing to this 1%. They deal in genocide and control, the destruction of America. Destroy Americans, that antiquated sense of freedom, divine rights, control the world.
They want to control the world, it’s all the bastards have, they have no soul.
Their mantra lies, war after war, save the world for democracy. Their main tool, FREE TRADE.
Extrapolate what was, contemplate what is and decide what future you're willing to fight for.
I am thankful you are here, with your experience, and commenting, sir.
It almost sounds like you gave President Trump your password and told him to "have a go at it"...
Thanks
“The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war, is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power.”
-Karl Marx
Marx got this one right. This is a great read for anyone who truly wants to understand the genesis of the Civil War.
https://www.timesexaminer.com/mike-scruggs/8856-the-morrill-tariff
The first lines in this today's ..... call it as you like...
have a rare quality. Haven't heard anything stupid from Thomas Sowell yet. And don't expect to in future.
While Bonner's column today contains an occasional fact and a smattering of logic, it is mainly a baseless ad hominem attack on Peter Navarro. There is really nothing to grab onto here on why Navarro is wrong (or right for that matter). Nothing but insults.
Must be a day ending in "Y"...
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