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Craig Whitfield's avatar

The unindoctrinated among us know full well the U.S. Government is FUBAR. It didn't take Elon long to figure that one out. Also, Trump is not a threat to Democracy. We don't have a Democracy in the United States. The last administration's Politburo put the Democracy Ruse to death once and for all. Trump is indeed a threat to the Bureaucracy. The Judicial Activism being waged to preserve their Bureaucracy is on full display for all to see. The people and their government are not one in the same. Its perfectly rational to love your fellow Americans and abhor the U.S. Government. Now a Statist would argue that the people and their government are one in the same. Here's the problem with their thought process; the Statist had to ditch their deductive reasoning abilities to follow their ideology. This is why they're always wrong and will continue to be forever.

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StarboardEdge's avatar

"𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮."

Um, gonna need you to define "nobody", Bill. In your circle, I have no doubt this is true. In the real world, we are laughing at you and yours because we are beginning to see positive results, with much more on the horizon. But please keep it up - I appreciate the consistency you provide in my life. Consistently wrong and increasingly Irrelevant.....

Meanwhile, Patience is a Virtue...

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/05/26/calm-down-conservatives-n2657597#google_vignette

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Tom Tiede's avatar

Just to add to the “nobody list” “Trump can still make threats. But nobody believes that he can follow through on them.”

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/tariffs-in-american-history/

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Steve L's avatar

Yes brother, as I’ve said in the past, this cluster F will take many months to unravel, and Dan is the man, and if he says that Epstein killed himself, he did. It’s so unbelievable how anyone in our top notch government controlled prison could ever be able to take their own lives, especially with such brilliant and loyal government employees, even the most logical people could only doubt that fact. But as we see with most government employees and leaders, only the dumbest and most incompetent individuals are allowed into the pool of government. The deep swamp of corruption, fully supported by a corrupt media. Hired by the DEI fiends who were shoved to high levels through pure corruption. I’m still trying to figure out if Rachel Madcow or Joy Blowhard is Bills new ghostwriter or if Bill has come out of the closet in his old age to show us how deep the swamp gets 🤔

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Richard Boaman's avatar

Nice reference, SE. if Bongino says it was suicide, I’m ok with.

I’d rather he found some other reality, but I’m sure he didn’t cave.

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Eid's avatar

Time will tell who is wrong…so far the courts are ruling against Executive orders as the law of the land…and elections are coming soon

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Kirk Monnie's avatar

You're welcome Bill! I voted for a President who can chew gum and walk. Hope your return to Baltimore reveals less Illegal Aliens and High school students who can read.....or hopefully AT LEAST 1 student, in some schools.

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Ed Uehling's avatar

Only Bill has the skill of projecting so accurately the lessons of the past into the realities of today. Only the neocons believe 1) you can just ignore what is happening before your eyes; 2) that everything is about war and conquering and 3) that nothing really changes--the rest of the world is a bunch of savages invariably at each others' throats and poor us (the US and Israel) are the "chosen" forever victims. The world just changed drastically: Peace-loving, war-hating China is now in charge and only those "trapped" in their twisted memories of countless "victories"--just as Hitler/Paulus, Johnson/Westmoreland, Reagan/North, Trump/Navarro--cause suffering for millions upon millions. In the final process, however, the world becomes a much better place. Shall those who survive(d) thank the warmongers? We Americans are apparently too dumb to learn the first time.

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Steve L's avatar

Yes Ed “We Americans are apparently too dumb to learn the first time.”. Thank you for your honesty🤔

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Ed Uehling's avatar

Yes, it wasn’t enough to spend 2 decades and trillions of dollars to kill 3 million Vietnamese in their own country, drop napalm on children and try to exfoliate the entire jungle country and then get kicked out in the most ignominious fashion possible. We keep repeating the same unbelievably evil and stupid behavior. Our “peace” President has set aside ONE TRILLION DOLLARS to repeat these behaviors in Yemen, Iran, China, Taipei, Philippines, Syria, Gaza, West Bank, Russia, etc. And there are actually people here on this site who apparently have zero problem with that. I think it might be related to (inspired by?) certain religious beliefs.

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Steve L's avatar

I’m sure you are talking about the demented one that just left this mess for the only person capable of cleaning up after decades of the above corruption. You seem to have a distorted understanding of history, and the Democrats that created the mess. But keep on watching MSNBC, and continue your ignorance and delusion of reality, like all the other leftist losers….

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Dorothy's avatar

SL: You should really find a better response instead, The Democrats created the mess. What channels do you watch since you seem to think everyone who doesn't like Trump only watch MSNBC. Ignorance and delusion isn't from watching a certain TV station. It"s people who only blindly follow one party and have a closed mind.

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StarboardEdge's avatar

Congrats, Dottie. You may be the most obtuse, unaware person I know - and THAT is saying something...

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Dorothy's avatar

SE: Look in the mirror..I'm sure you'll see one.

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Angry Icebergs's avatar

...still rampaging through the last days of WWII as if it were some sort of analogous lesson to be gleaned from a racist WWI Gefreiter madman nearly 100 years ago... no mention of Hitler's brilliant victories achieved by fear, intimidation and battle prior to 1942.

What is it specifically about "Nazi stuff" that makes it the preferred TDS strawman?

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Pete Confehr's avatar

Bill - Often think about commenting but you’re far more studied. Now moved to. Applaud your research and perspectives, although it’s now more difficult agreeing with your memos. Correct me if wrong but your footnotes seem to follow only the old media. Do you check in with the likes of the Epoch Times, Jeffery Tucker, Victor Davis Hanson, Tucker Carlson interviews or any of countless voices that may balance out your perspective? It seems you’ve wondered away from economics in favor of political commentary that reveals how biased you appear. Carry on as I respect many voices - hopefully with logic analysis better emphasized as perhaps you did in earlier years.

My father became more liberal as he aged, living to 95, 23 years ago. Empathy for the unfortunate grows as does contempt for callousness. An incentive based and supply and demand economic commentary used to be primary. On politics, unfortunately there is only selfish incentives, criminally so, all nations. Counterintelligence(which of course is ‘legal’ lying or criminal misdirection) reins.

Chess moves to try and reveal corruption or underhanded advantage might better be commended as at least honest attempts. Sean Connery in “The Man Who Would Be King” was entirely unprepared and bumbled miserably. You understand the point. Whether it’s

Milei, Wilders, Marconi or Macron, Zelensky, Newsom.

Old age governments eventually die regardless…they corrupt the economy. Your writing might avoid that if you fight the aging process.

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frank hayes's avatar

thank you, sir.

excellent analysis. If i were not so lazy, i would have said likewise.

DFH

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James F's avatar

"But in his second term, Trump II, the cool heads were replaced with hot heads...and a few plain numbskulls." I'm thinking one of the numbskulls is Peter Navarro, the rogue economist who

thinks tariffs are a good idea. But they evidently appeal to a bully like Trump.

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Mike Ware's avatar

🤣😂😝🥴 oh my goodness, that rascally Trump is a bully! Ha!

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StarboardEdge's avatar

Beta Energy is so 2024…

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Ed Uehling's avatar

Well you got me there. Biden probably did more to promote war with the billions he sent to Ukraine and the lies his Secretary of State told about negotiating a truce in Gaza. That’s the main reason I personally voted for Trump. And I think it’s great that he handed world leadership over to a country hungry to enrich all 8 billion human inhabitants—not keep most of them poverty stricken.

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