Perusing the overnight headlines and the Trump Team CONTINUES to expose Waste, Fraud and Abuse, continues dealing Death Blows to our criminal "media", continues to rid our Government of worthless, parasitic "workers", continues to remove domestic enemy "leadership" who have been striving their whole careers to see America reduced, continues to unapologetically RACE down the road to Making America Great Again!! Popcorn, be a'poppin'.
Meanwhile, Bill Bonner and his leftarded acolytes can merely whine, scream and stomp their little feet as the hellscape "utopia" of slaves & "elites" they have dreamed about and worked so diligently for comes crashing down in slow motion. It's a beautiful thing, so STAY POSITIVE - regardless what the "former CIA managers" and "titans of business and finance" say, write or do in response to what we are seeing happen right now.
I used to want to see it all burn down. Now I realize it is MUCH more fun and satisfying to watch it being demolished 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸-𝗯𝘆-𝘂𝗴𝗹𝘆, 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹-𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸...
Who is Bill Bonner? He rails about America then he rails about the fix. The best part of Bonner is his readers and he riles them up and they write some exhilarating things.
America is alive and well. Thank you gentlemen and ladies. Proud to be an American. If the truth hurts…screw em.
The importance of Trump to many of us in other countries is that he succeed in his govt reforms. If he and the Argentinian President can succeed, then hopefully that will show the way to other countries. It is exciting each day watching things that are sensible being said and done. Who knew that the woke paper tiger could so easily have holes poked, cut and slashed in it. All it took wasthy covid, a team of hurt,motivated people, led by an experienced businessman, a weird genius and a team of boy computer nerds. We can only pray they succeed. If they do Trump may be remembered as the greatest president ever.
Reagan and Thatcher freed hundreds of millions.Trump may do more. We can only pray he succeeds and work to get similar results in our countries.
I have family and friends around Ontario. They say this is just because they have elections coming up. The liberals have them all spun up. People know that Ontario depends on tourism for the economy and doing these childish moves may back fire if Americans decide to boycott travel to Canada. They don't realize that the US economy is hundreds of times the size of Canada's. I looked it up and the sate of Massachusetts has a larger economy then Canada. California and Texas have economies many times larger than Canada's. I laugh that they cancelled Netflix because many of the Netflix productions are filmed in Canada and they are just going to cut off their noses to spite their faces. Also, since Netflix are big liberal supporters I am all for it.
Thank you for these details and insights. Of course, the lefties rarely dig deeper than the surface details. They look at the part of the iceberg above the water and automatically assume it's the whole iceberg. They hear that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and assume that any increase in it is going to cause a catastrophe even though it has been steadily declining for millions of years until the recent uptick. They ignore the fact that plants can't live without it. Of course, since access to energy is required for human flourishing, their real goal is to control energy so they can control us. Why else would they be for unreliable wind and solar power and against something that works - nuclear power.
Yes I think wind towers should be banned. Solar only built if some company wants to put up their money and build without any taxpayer subsidies.
The morons in the Labor govt in Australia ,who shadow the US Democrats for stupidity, reject nuclear as too expensive ( sun shine and the wind is free after all) and reject any discussion of it. They then use the back up argument that it would take 10 to 15 years for the govt to write the regulations for a nuclear industry before any could be built.
The labor unions who control the Labor party govt would then take decades to actually build even 1 nuclear reactor.
My 9 year old son wants Trump to come to Australia to run our country when he finishes his term as the president in 4 years.
Smart kid! I appreciate your comments on nuclear power. It's expensive because the regulators make it expensive. I've read where you can build a nuclear power plant in South Korea in three years! I wonder how long it is taking China to build the ten nuclear plants they are reported to be building. Trump needs to change all that and put nuclear on a fast track. Allow them to be built where it makes sense (for example, not on the San Andreas fault).
“For 40 hours, we were handcuffed, our feet tied with chains and were not allowed to move an inch from our seats…the crew would open the door and shove us in…[to the bathroom]”
By modern standards this is rough. By standards across the centuries, this is first class treatment for someone invading a nation.
What would you suggest we do about the 40-50 million that have invaded our nation, taking advantage of it and many directly harming our people?
People coming here, abandoning their families countries their birthright responsibilities are thieves stealing the legacy of suffering and triumph from Americans.
Bill abandoned America long ago. He seems to be a man without a foundation, a loose cannon of malcontent.
XN: You couldn’t be more wrong in your evaluation of BB. You try living in a shit hole country and see how quickly you would change your mind by trying to have a better life somewhere else. The U.S. has never experienced that kind of life. Hopefully, we never will.
Dorothy, who turned these countries into, ahem, “shitholes”? Did God create them that way? And why don’t they clean up their “shitholes”? And since living in a “shithole” is all these people know, what are the chances of someone who violated our sovereign laws FROM THE GET-GO, entering our country criminally, and then engaging in the same behaviors that perpetuated the shitholiness they are fleeing, and creating a NEW shithole here? I’d say the chances are better than 50/50.
I lived in a shit hole country for two years, the poorest Pueblo, in Honduras, 1968-1970. I figured that particular place was worse, for living conditions, than Haiti. I was proud of it and happy. It was only after I came back to America and learned there is a greater poverty than not having money. Usually, shithole countries have shithole ideas that infect shithole people. Even there, in the Ag Coop, the shitholes wanted the best land and if you gave it to them to plow you got shithole results.
I like your comments, Dorothy, but your heart bleeds too much over the worthless. Worthless breads worthless, there is no win win, only lost lost.
Apparently you do not comprehend what “illegal” means. Tell you what, you leftists love to talk the talk. Now walk the walk. Take in a bunch of illegals into your house, clothe and feed and support them at your personal expense. Why expect the US taxpayer to bear this burden caused by criminal border trespassers that you say deserve an “exception “? How dare you!
Dorothy I agree with you to a degree. I do not fault people for trying to better their lives and those of their families. And anyone out there thinking of calling me a libtard better compare what you have sacrificed for this country with my sacrifices. All I am saying is we have a broken immigration system and have had one for a long time. Why Congress hasn’t fixed it is beyond me but goes to politics. We allow very few ;egal immigrants and they are not merit based from what I know. After we deport or even while this goes on as it will take years, we should increase the legal amount of workers we take in as we need laborers. My understanding is we take in less than a half million legal immigrants a year and it is a lottery. If people had a hope of coming in legally it might make a difference. Maybe through military service they could gain legal status. We need to have several approaches to fix this problem.
And Sluggo in most of these countries you ask why don’t they clean up their countries? Most don’t have guns, and I would ask you why didn’t you clean up obama and biden and what hell they enacted??? Talk is cheap. I had my roof replaced after a hail storm and the guys working in 95 degree temps doing it in Kansas didn’t speak English. Hardest workers around. Try getting some of these young kids out there doing that work and you just won’t find them. They would rather play video games. So when all the illegals are gone and your roof needs fixing you might have to wait for months to get a crew here legally and as your ceiling falls in while you are waiting you can think about it. All for getting the criminals out of here, and yes I know if they are illegal they violated the law but hopefully you know what I mean. Convicted of rape or violent crime put them on a deserted island with some seeds and a shovel and a saw and let them have at it.
Cheers, I know 99% of the readers here are patriotic.
Tlasso, if I read between your cryptic lines I guess I should thank you for your service. However, your "broken immigration system" comment is wrongheaded. There are some tweaks needed (making merit more important is one such tweak), but seriously, legal immigration is supposed to be about what benefits the country and our society, not the other way around.
There have been studies done about "work that Americans won't do" and it comes down to compensation. Illegal immigration contributes mightily to this problem because it suppresses wages. The truth is that Americans won't do the work that illegals do at the price the illegals are willing to do it for. That's a significantly different thing.
The millions of black slaves taken by moslem slavers in ships up the east coast of Africa and those taken to the America's were chained in the dark, wet and heat inside wooden ships for many weeks.
The vast numbers of white slaves from eastern Europe/Ukraine/Russia etc had to walk all the way to Turkey or were castrated and then shipped to northern Africa. Poor, hard done by illegal immigrants flying home.
If the "blob" that governed through figureheads Godfather Dementia Joe and Box Wine Lady prevails against Bad Orange Man and his pirate crew, BB's Teutoburg Forest scenario seems certain. Restore the Cheneys and Nulands and Blinkens or some other Blob Team to power?. Nope. Given the Fiscal Iceberg our Ship of State is rapidly approaching, the same outcome seems probable even if BOM and the Pirate Team dismantle the Administrative State blob's funding apparatus and puts a stop to its Forever Wars. But that outcome looks slightly less gloomy, and perhaps the Iceberg can be avoided. Worth a try, anyway.
Finally!!! Bill has written a statement that we can all agree with, "we will all die"; however, some of his other viewpoints seem difficult to comprehend many times. For instance, his "extreme" dislike for president Trump and republicans versus George Soros and democrats, seems disturbing. If I remember correctly, just before, during, and right after World War II, there were photographs of George Soros being proudly displayed in his Nazi youth uniform. Isn't this the same George Soros that has been a prime financial supporter of the Democratic party and candidates for "many" years? It seems strange that Bill has written far more about president Trump and republican shortcomings than about George Soros and his "financial" history, with complete support of the democratic party and it's candidates. This seems strange, when George's actions since WWII appear to have been far more detrimental to the US, than Trump. I'm sure Bill could enlighten this old man, along with you youngsters.
I don't think anyone is claiming USAID money going to Politico or BBC subscriptions is an "effort to bribe or flatter them to get behind their efforts." I'm confident that left-wing-controlled money is being used to simply strengthen and encourage media outlets already solidly behind their agenda.
The full story behind the Ukraine fiasco with Biden "offering" $1bn for "cooperation" from the Ukrainian president was in Biden instructing that the money was to be deposited in a Cypriot bank account for further "distribution" by Ukraine. Cypriot banks use numbered accounts, not unlike the Swiss, the Caymen Islands or other dark money repositories.
What I would like to see now is whether James Comey and his Congressional sleuths have succeeded in tracing money from Cypriot bank accounts back to Hunter Bidens warren of LLC's.
Until then, I will suspect that the Bidens didn't invent this laundering technique and that much of the "aid" we now see going out from Congress, through the USAID offices, had a similar purpose.
If so, Trump may go down as one of our best presidents in history.
Anyone else interested in seeing what Comers commission had been able to connect to the Bidens - or not?
Seems to me, with AG "Garfield the Cat" gone, there would be no reason to keep this information concealed and it would put much of what still divides the nation on the table for everyone to evaluate fairly and perhaps provide further context to the billions doled out by the office of USAID for what appear to me as a series of ridiculous projects.
Let's be clear here, should this suspicion of a pattern of abuse be validated, it would be highly unlikely that only one political party would be involved.
"it would be highly unlikely that only one political party would be involved."
Roger that, Ed - 100% correct. And ALL THE CROOKS from either side and anything in-between should be investigated, prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum allowable punishments. That is the ONLY way to stop us from being right back in the same place in a couple decades...
"You could say that he was selected by God — inasmuch as God and Nature are one..."
Bill! I gathered from your writings you were a Roman Catholic, or some kind of reasonably informed Christian, not an animist! God in His essence is not in common with what His creation is. In the Divine Person of His only begotten Son, He willed to join Himself in perfect righteousness to human nature (the pinnacle of creation) to save it, giving it the opportunity to become Holy, as He is.
As for Pres. Trump, whether the Divine Providence saved him and for a particular purpose, you nor I do not really know.
There are some things, in the mystery of God, you can know. Trumpism is a change of heart among many people and every such change and reformation is from God. Maybe, we will use the grace to accomplish something outstanding. “His truth is marching on.” Every generation has its Battle for the Republic.
Xavier offers a wonderful hope that a very significant reformation in millions of American hearts and minds - and in Donald Trump's - resulted in his election. I share that hope, but it looks and feels foolish to invest a significant portion of my modest life savings on this Battle for the Republic.
The US-Americans are not everywhere acting like a Bull in the China Shop. If needed, your president is capable of displaying impeccable etiquette and he excels at ensuring his very special guests are comfortably seated!
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Lol, J/K Mr. Bonner, I’m a Trump Loyalist, I mean loyal to your services for many many years and will continue doing so to keep the CIA from getting scrapped! 😂
The Son of Fred, the American Savior President Trump brings the world together and closer to peace not seen in over 5000 years, since the beginning of time.
Within the realms of Zaheri Bruxten the liquified dome of turbulence unilaterally pacific the scape model that joint cooperates musket man London quivers. The sky scrapper rattle snake touches the clouds surpass the ozone layer.
Mr. Bonner is not here to confirm your opinion, join your echo chamber, and take sides. After following him for years and reading thousands of his articles, I have found that he always provides empirical commentary based on history, wisdom, critical thinking, and hard facts, counter to groupthink and mainstream narratives.
However, those who fanatically support Trump and think he's the second coming of Christ can't handle the truth. Sure, he's doing many things right, and we're much better off than if Knee Pads Harris or another Democrat or RINO got elected.
The solution to our existential challenges is not in a politician, a bigger government, more spending, or AI/Tech. It's in liberty, free markets, and limited government. Starting with the individual who needs to take personal responsibility in their own lives and circle of influence.
"Sure, he's doing many things right, and we're much better off than if Knee Pads Harris or another Democrat or RINO got elected."
If what you said about Bonner in your second sentence were true, he would acknowledge at least the smallest part of what Trump is actually beginning to accomplish, much less the validity and worthiness of his stated Goals. Yet instead of crickets, we get a continuous lambasting, gaslighting and outright lying about what is really going on.
Maybe Bonner is all about "empirical commentary based on history, wisdom, critical thinking, and hard facts, counter to groupthink and mainstream narratives." - but when it comes to ANYTHING Trump, all that goes straight out the window...
I mostly agree except for the Canada part. Their sovereignty is fully intact because they have always had us to militarily step in if their sovereignty was ever threatened. At least for the last 100 years. All Trump has said is they are not paying their fair share for that guarantee. I hardly think that closing the deficit gap is too much to ask. Maybe the tariffs would automatically adjust annually until it reaches parity or some variation along those lines. Someone really smart could figure out what "fair" means - it is just money after all, not rocket science. And while we are at it don't exempt our NATO "allies" as well.
On the matter of tariffs - I generally agree that tarriffs, bans, sanctions, etc are counter productive -particularly outside of our collective Western "partners". Russian and China have made BRICS countries somewhat immune to the threat. Particularly China. If we get into a trade war with them they will extract in some shape or form a response that will have far more serious economic consequencesfor us, not them. Witness our banning of their getting our high end chips -the US chip makers lossed nearly half their revenue 2 years later. Witness what Biden's sanctions on Russia caused - the rise of BRICS and with Indonesia wanting to join, the majority of the world is an position to not have to worry or even think about what the US might say or do.
As for your view of Trump, he was at least smart enough to align himself with Elon Musk. Neither have anything to prove, don't get paid for doing it and the power is gone in 4 years so holding on to power can't be the reason either. I hope Bill that you are not against him for at least trying to do something different even if you don't like him and don't think that what he is doing will make America better. I think they are at the very least, demonstrating by Musk's young team's sole efforts they have exposed the coruption in the USAID - from the grifters to the amounts and purpose, all laid bare. In plain sight no less because they thought no one would dare look at the books. Perhaps it is the reason the Democrats were so desperately trying to hold onto power. For certain if the election had gone the other way, USAID would never have even come up in a conversation. If Musk and his small group of tech-savvy young people, go through the entire budget line by line only God knows what they might turn up. Maybe the keys to figuring out how we get out of the doomsday you predict. Start with not having anything further to do with the Ukraine war. If he touches it, it will become "his" war and he will fail. That goes for Gaza as well.
As for the rest of the Myth of the Empire, it made some sense, thank you for that history lesson. But then again with your knowledge of history has one succeeded that didn't die by expanding. Personally, I think withdrawing to fortress America, one continent and three oceans seems an appealing goal.
I'm with Bill Bonner. Trump is a fool and is bringing down the proud country of America. I think he should hand over to Whoopi Goldberg and Robert de Niro and their friends as before.
1) You are a bit rough on Yamamoto. He told those above him that he could run roughshod in the Pacific for six months but if the issue was not decided in Japan's favor by then, she was doomed. He was merely the sword of his Emperor, not the Emperor...
b) I worked for GE, off and on, from 1992 until 2019. It was mind boggling how poor their managers were. I used to say that when they were interviewing a management candidate they would take him into a room full of gay guys and tell him to organize a circle jerk. If he was successful he was overqualified...
Well, if you can decide, as a man, to be a woman…why not. Reality seems to have no hold on some people. And those people, for 60 years, have been controlling and ruining America.
Great Day in the Morning, folks!
Perusing the overnight headlines and the Trump Team CONTINUES to expose Waste, Fraud and Abuse, continues dealing Death Blows to our criminal "media", continues to rid our Government of worthless, parasitic "workers", continues to remove domestic enemy "leadership" who have been striving their whole careers to see America reduced, continues to unapologetically RACE down the road to Making America Great Again!! Popcorn, be a'poppin'.
Meanwhile, Bill Bonner and his leftarded acolytes can merely whine, scream and stomp their little feet as the hellscape "utopia" of slaves & "elites" they have dreamed about and worked so diligently for comes crashing down in slow motion. It's a beautiful thing, so STAY POSITIVE - regardless what the "former CIA managers" and "titans of business and finance" say, write or do in response to what we are seeing happen right now.
I used to want to see it all burn down. Now I realize it is MUCH more fun and satisfying to watch it being demolished 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸-𝗯𝘆-𝘂𝗴𝗹𝘆, 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹-𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸...
OMG!!! What a refreshing post after reading Bonner's muddled musings.
Who is Bill Bonner? He rails about America then he rails about the fix. The best part of Bonner is his readers and he riles them up and they write some exhilarating things.
America is alive and well. Thank you gentlemen and ladies. Proud to be an American. If the truth hurts…screw em.
The importance of Trump to many of us in other countries is that he succeed in his govt reforms. If he and the Argentinian President can succeed, then hopefully that will show the way to other countries. It is exciting each day watching things that are sensible being said and done. Who knew that the woke paper tiger could so easily have holes poked, cut and slashed in it. All it took wasthy covid, a team of hurt,motivated people, led by an experienced businessman, a weird genius and a team of boy computer nerds. We can only pray they succeed. If they do Trump may be remembered as the greatest president ever.
Reagan and Thatcher freed hundreds of millions.Trump may do more. We can only pray he succeeds and work to get similar results in our countries.
Probably would screw em . If I could, but I am not bilingual. LOL
Funny how BB quoted the bbc which is on the USAID payroll?😂
"Trump Derangement Syndrome not only includes people who think he’s Hitler but also people who think he’s Jesus." - George Gammon
Well, that’s true. He, as are we all, is a tool, an incomplete part of a whole.
I have family and friends around Ontario. They say this is just because they have elections coming up. The liberals have them all spun up. People know that Ontario depends on tourism for the economy and doing these childish moves may back fire if Americans decide to boycott travel to Canada. They don't realize that the US economy is hundreds of times the size of Canada's. I looked it up and the sate of Massachusetts has a larger economy then Canada. California and Texas have economies many times larger than Canada's. I laugh that they cancelled Netflix because many of the Netflix productions are filmed in Canada and they are just going to cut off their noses to spite their faces. Also, since Netflix are big liberal supporters I am all for it.
Thank you for these details and insights. Of course, the lefties rarely dig deeper than the surface details. They look at the part of the iceberg above the water and automatically assume it's the whole iceberg. They hear that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and assume that any increase in it is going to cause a catastrophe even though it has been steadily declining for millions of years until the recent uptick. They ignore the fact that plants can't live without it. Of course, since access to energy is required for human flourishing, their real goal is to control energy so they can control us. Why else would they be for unreliable wind and solar power and against something that works - nuclear power.
Yes I think wind towers should be banned. Solar only built if some company wants to put up their money and build without any taxpayer subsidies.
The morons in the Labor govt in Australia ,who shadow the US Democrats for stupidity, reject nuclear as too expensive ( sun shine and the wind is free after all) and reject any discussion of it. They then use the back up argument that it would take 10 to 15 years for the govt to write the regulations for a nuclear industry before any could be built.
The labor unions who control the Labor party govt would then take decades to actually build even 1 nuclear reactor.
My 9 year old son wants Trump to come to Australia to run our country when he finishes his term as the president in 4 years.
Smart kid! I appreciate your comments on nuclear power. It's expensive because the regulators make it expensive. I've read where you can build a nuclear power plant in South Korea in three years! I wonder how long it is taking China to build the ten nuclear plants they are reported to be building. Trump needs to change all that and put nuclear on a fast track. Allow them to be built where it makes sense (for example, not on the San Andreas fault).
Yep, the gate swings both ways.
Amen brother!
“For 40 hours, we were handcuffed, our feet tied with chains and were not allowed to move an inch from our seats…the crew would open the door and shove us in…[to the bathroom]”
By modern standards this is rough. By standards across the centuries, this is first class treatment for someone invading a nation.
What would you suggest we do about the 40-50 million that have invaded our nation, taking advantage of it and many directly harming our people?
People coming here, abandoning their families countries their birthright responsibilities are thieves stealing the legacy of suffering and triumph from Americans.
Bill abandoned America long ago. He seems to be a man without a foundation, a loose cannon of malcontent.
XN: You couldn’t be more wrong in your evaluation of BB. You try living in a shit hole country and see how quickly you would change your mind by trying to have a better life somewhere else. The U.S. has never experienced that kind of life. Hopefully, we never will.
Dorothy, who turned these countries into, ahem, “shitholes”? Did God create them that way? And why don’t they clean up their “shitholes”? And since living in a “shithole” is all these people know, what are the chances of someone who violated our sovereign laws FROM THE GET-GO, entering our country criminally, and then engaging in the same behaviors that perpetuated the shitholiness they are fleeing, and creating a NEW shithole here? I’d say the chances are better than 50/50.
I lived in a shit hole country for two years, the poorest Pueblo, in Honduras, 1968-1970. I figured that particular place was worse, for living conditions, than Haiti. I was proud of it and happy. It was only after I came back to America and learned there is a greater poverty than not having money. Usually, shithole countries have shithole ideas that infect shithole people. Even there, in the Ag Coop, the shitholes wanted the best land and if you gave it to them to plow you got shithole results.
I like your comments, Dorothy, but your heart bleeds too much over the worthless. Worthless breads worthless, there is no win win, only lost lost.
Come. Here. Legally. What part of “illegal”, Dorothy, can you and other leftards not understand?
Sluggo: I understand very well what illegal means. I think there are exceptions in some cases.
Apparently you do not comprehend what “illegal” means. Tell you what, you leftists love to talk the talk. Now walk the walk. Take in a bunch of illegals into your house, clothe and feed and support them at your personal expense. Why expect the US taxpayer to bear this burden caused by criminal border trespassers that you say deserve an “exception “? How dare you!
So we had 15 - 20 MILLION "exceptions" during your hero Puddinhead's last 4 years?
Dorothy I agree with you to a degree. I do not fault people for trying to better their lives and those of their families. And anyone out there thinking of calling me a libtard better compare what you have sacrificed for this country with my sacrifices. All I am saying is we have a broken immigration system and have had one for a long time. Why Congress hasn’t fixed it is beyond me but goes to politics. We allow very few ;egal immigrants and they are not merit based from what I know. After we deport or even while this goes on as it will take years, we should increase the legal amount of workers we take in as we need laborers. My understanding is we take in less than a half million legal immigrants a year and it is a lottery. If people had a hope of coming in legally it might make a difference. Maybe through military service they could gain legal status. We need to have several approaches to fix this problem.
And Sluggo in most of these countries you ask why don’t they clean up their countries? Most don’t have guns, and I would ask you why didn’t you clean up obama and biden and what hell they enacted??? Talk is cheap. I had my roof replaced after a hail storm and the guys working in 95 degree temps doing it in Kansas didn’t speak English. Hardest workers around. Try getting some of these young kids out there doing that work and you just won’t find them. They would rather play video games. So when all the illegals are gone and your roof needs fixing you might have to wait for months to get a crew here legally and as your ceiling falls in while you are waiting you can think about it. All for getting the criminals out of here, and yes I know if they are illegal they violated the law but hopefully you know what I mean. Convicted of rape or violent crime put them on a deserted island with some seeds and a shovel and a saw and let them have at it.
Cheers, I know 99% of the readers here are patriotic.
God Bless
Tlasso, if I read between your cryptic lines I guess I should thank you for your service. However, your "broken immigration system" comment is wrongheaded. There are some tweaks needed (making merit more important is one such tweak), but seriously, legal immigration is supposed to be about what benefits the country and our society, not the other way around.
There have been studies done about "work that Americans won't do" and it comes down to compensation. Illegal immigration contributes mightily to this problem because it suppresses wages. The truth is that Americans won't do the work that illegals do at the price the illegals are willing to do it for. That's a significantly different thing.
Tlasso: Can’t argue with any of your points. Thanks for responding.
Peace Corps.
The millions of black slaves taken by moslem slavers in ships up the east coast of Africa and those taken to the America's were chained in the dark, wet and heat inside wooden ships for many weeks.
The vast numbers of white slaves from eastern Europe/Ukraine/Russia etc had to walk all the way to Turkey or were castrated and then shipped to northern Africa. Poor, hard done by illegal immigrants flying home.
If the "blob" that governed through figureheads Godfather Dementia Joe and Box Wine Lady prevails against Bad Orange Man and his pirate crew, BB's Teutoburg Forest scenario seems certain. Restore the Cheneys and Nulands and Blinkens or some other Blob Team to power?. Nope. Given the Fiscal Iceberg our Ship of State is rapidly approaching, the same outcome seems probable even if BOM and the Pirate Team dismantle the Administrative State blob's funding apparatus and puts a stop to its Forever Wars. But that outcome looks slightly less gloomy, and perhaps the Iceberg can be avoided. Worth a try, anyway.
Finally!!! Bill has written a statement that we can all agree with, "we will all die"; however, some of his other viewpoints seem difficult to comprehend many times. For instance, his "extreme" dislike for president Trump and republicans versus George Soros and democrats, seems disturbing. If I remember correctly, just before, during, and right after World War II, there were photographs of George Soros being proudly displayed in his Nazi youth uniform. Isn't this the same George Soros that has been a prime financial supporter of the Democratic party and candidates for "many" years? It seems strange that Bill has written far more about president Trump and republican shortcomings than about George Soros and his "financial" history, with complete support of the democratic party and it's candidates. This seems strange, when George's actions since WWII appear to have been far more detrimental to the US, than Trump. I'm sure Bill could enlighten this old man, along with you youngsters.
I don't think anyone is claiming USAID money going to Politico or BBC subscriptions is an "effort to bribe or flatter them to get behind their efforts." I'm confident that left-wing-controlled money is being used to simply strengthen and encourage media outlets already solidly behind their agenda.
Censorship + sponsorship= a happy populace
The full story behind the Ukraine fiasco with Biden "offering" $1bn for "cooperation" from the Ukrainian president was in Biden instructing that the money was to be deposited in a Cypriot bank account for further "distribution" by Ukraine. Cypriot banks use numbered accounts, not unlike the Swiss, the Caymen Islands or other dark money repositories.
What I would like to see now is whether James Comey and his Congressional sleuths have succeeded in tracing money from Cypriot bank accounts back to Hunter Bidens warren of LLC's.
Until then, I will suspect that the Bidens didn't invent this laundering technique and that much of the "aid" we now see going out from Congress, through the USAID offices, had a similar purpose.
If so, Trump may go down as one of our best presidents in history.
Anyone else interested in seeing what Comers commission had been able to connect to the Bidens - or not?
Seems to me, with AG "Garfield the Cat" gone, there would be no reason to keep this information concealed and it would put much of what still divides the nation on the table for everyone to evaluate fairly and perhaps provide further context to the billions doled out by the office of USAID for what appear to me as a series of ridiculous projects.
Let's be clear here, should this suspicion of a pattern of abuse be validated, it would be highly unlikely that only one political party would be involved.
"it would be highly unlikely that only one political party would be involved."
Roger that, Ed - 100% correct. And ALL THE CROOKS from either side and anything in-between should be investigated, prosecuted and sentenced to the maximum allowable punishments. That is the ONLY way to stop us from being right back in the same place in a couple decades...
A suggestion would be to trace each tranche of USAID funding and get the name of the Congressman who sponsored the spending.
"You could say that he was selected by God — inasmuch as God and Nature are one..."
Bill! I gathered from your writings you were a Roman Catholic, or some kind of reasonably informed Christian, not an animist! God in His essence is not in common with what His creation is. In the Divine Person of His only begotten Son, He willed to join Himself in perfect righteousness to human nature (the pinnacle of creation) to save it, giving it the opportunity to become Holy, as He is.
As for Pres. Trump, whether the Divine Providence saved him and for a particular purpose, you nor I do not really know.
There are some things, in the mystery of God, you can know. Trumpism is a change of heart among many people and every such change and reformation is from God. Maybe, we will use the grace to accomplish something outstanding. “His truth is marching on.” Every generation has its Battle for the Republic.
Xavier offers a wonderful hope that a very significant reformation in millions of American hearts and minds - and in Donald Trump's - resulted in his election. I share that hope, but it looks and feels foolish to invest a significant portion of my modest life savings on this Battle for the Republic.
“when thou shalt be near to thy departure, neglecting everything else thou shalt respect only thy ruling faculty and the divinity within thee,”
— The Complete Harvard Classics. Marcus Aurelius
Love the Stoic.
Remember, one can be happy even in a palace.
Time will help to reveal the Amightys plans a little more.
With Trump consumed by megalomania, it's to the forest we go.
I don't agree with everything Trump does but it is nice to have someone in government that puts Americans first.
Wasted keystrokes, Bob. Jimmy has consistently proven that he is too far gone into the Cult for any-sized dose of Reality to break through...
The US-Americans are not everywhere acting like a Bull in the China Shop. If needed, your president is capable of displaying impeccable etiquette and he excels at ensuring his very special guests are comfortably seated!
I hate to see such ignorance but I will continue to try and save some liberals from their self destructive selves.
Impossible task. The evidence is so obvious that you have to have severe TDS not to see it. You cannot reason with these people.
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DOGE has eliminated the following expenditures:
• 50 million to Gaza for condoms
• 30 million in Bonner Private Research Memberships
Lol, J/K Mr. Bonner, I’m a Trump Loyalist, I mean loyal to your services for many many years and will continue doing so to keep the CIA from getting scrapped! 😂
The Son of Fred, the American Savior President Trump brings the world together and closer to peace not seen in over 5000 years, since the beginning of time.
Within the realms of Zaheri Bruxten the liquified dome of turbulence unilaterally pacific the scape model that joint cooperates musket man London quivers. The sky scrapper rattle snake touches the clouds surpass the ozone layer.
ES: I rely on you to keep us up- to- date. Many thanks ( I think!).
"I’m starting to think this column's tagline should be: 'Good news? Never heard of it.'"
.... or "Musings from the Asylum".
Mr. Bonner is not here to confirm your opinion, join your echo chamber, and take sides. After following him for years and reading thousands of his articles, I have found that he always provides empirical commentary based on history, wisdom, critical thinking, and hard facts, counter to groupthink and mainstream narratives.
However, those who fanatically support Trump and think he's the second coming of Christ can't handle the truth. Sure, he's doing many things right, and we're much better off than if Knee Pads Harris or another Democrat or RINO got elected.
The solution to our existential challenges is not in a politician, a bigger government, more spending, or AI/Tech. It's in liberty, free markets, and limited government. Starting with the individual who needs to take personal responsibility in their own lives and circle of influence.
"Sure, he's doing many things right, and we're much better off than if Knee Pads Harris or another Democrat or RINO got elected."
If what you said about Bonner in your second sentence were true, he would acknowledge at least the smallest part of what Trump is actually beginning to accomplish, much less the validity and worthiness of his stated Goals. Yet instead of crickets, we get a continuous lambasting, gaslighting and outright lying about what is really going on.
Maybe Bonner is all about "empirical commentary based on history, wisdom, critical thinking, and hard facts, counter to groupthink and mainstream narratives." - but when it comes to ANYTHING Trump, all that goes straight out the window...
"but when it comes to ANYTHING Trump, all that goes straight out the window" - Brother StarboardEdge
Truer words have never been written.
I mostly agree except for the Canada part. Their sovereignty is fully intact because they have always had us to militarily step in if their sovereignty was ever threatened. At least for the last 100 years. All Trump has said is they are not paying their fair share for that guarantee. I hardly think that closing the deficit gap is too much to ask. Maybe the tariffs would automatically adjust annually until it reaches parity or some variation along those lines. Someone really smart could figure out what "fair" means - it is just money after all, not rocket science. And while we are at it don't exempt our NATO "allies" as well.
On the matter of tariffs - I generally agree that tarriffs, bans, sanctions, etc are counter productive -particularly outside of our collective Western "partners". Russian and China have made BRICS countries somewhat immune to the threat. Particularly China. If we get into a trade war with them they will extract in some shape or form a response that will have far more serious economic consequencesfor us, not them. Witness our banning of their getting our high end chips -the US chip makers lossed nearly half their revenue 2 years later. Witness what Biden's sanctions on Russia caused - the rise of BRICS and with Indonesia wanting to join, the majority of the world is an position to not have to worry or even think about what the US might say or do.
As for your view of Trump, he was at least smart enough to align himself with Elon Musk. Neither have anything to prove, don't get paid for doing it and the power is gone in 4 years so holding on to power can't be the reason either. I hope Bill that you are not against him for at least trying to do something different even if you don't like him and don't think that what he is doing will make America better. I think they are at the very least, demonstrating by Musk's young team's sole efforts they have exposed the coruption in the USAID - from the grifters to the amounts and purpose, all laid bare. In plain sight no less because they thought no one would dare look at the books. Perhaps it is the reason the Democrats were so desperately trying to hold onto power. For certain if the election had gone the other way, USAID would never have even come up in a conversation. If Musk and his small group of tech-savvy young people, go through the entire budget line by line only God knows what they might turn up. Maybe the keys to figuring out how we get out of the doomsday you predict. Start with not having anything further to do with the Ukraine war. If he touches it, it will become "his" war and he will fail. That goes for Gaza as well.
As for the rest of the Myth of the Empire, it made some sense, thank you for that history lesson. But then again with your knowledge of history has one succeeded that didn't die by expanding. Personally, I think withdrawing to fortress America, one continent and three oceans seems an appealing goal.
What say you and all your readers?
I'm with Bill Bonner. Trump is a fool and is bringing down the proud country of America. I think he should hand over to Whoopi Goldberg and Robert de Niro and their friends as before.
Nah, just joking.
Just checked in and you had me shaking my head so hard I hurt my neck and I'm not sure if my eyes will drop back down where they belong...
:)
1) You are a bit rough on Yamamoto. He told those above him that he could run roughshod in the Pacific for six months but if the issue was not decided in Japan's favor by then, she was doomed. He was merely the sword of his Emperor, not the Emperor...
b) I worked for GE, off and on, from 1992 until 2019. It was mind boggling how poor their managers were. I used to say that when they were interviewing a management candidate they would take him into a room full of gay guys and tell him to organize a circle jerk. If he was successful he was overqualified...
Well Bill, given the alternate realities and the social constructs of our time, I for one have decided not to die.
Good luck with the not dyeing part!
Well, if you can decide, as a man, to be a woman…why not. Reality seems to have no hold on some people. And those people, for 60 years, have been controlling and ruining America.