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rKf's avatar

Very disheartening, not only because it’s true, but because it’s a story many times told. What’s,that old statement about repetition & insanity? It’s not insane for those who benefit, just for us plebes who keep supporting them.

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Andrew TORRANCE's avatar

"A sinister lover". It reminds me of the Book of Proverbs: ch 7 vv 26-27

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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Dennis T.'s avatar

To note, relating metaphors of her house and death and more obviously including the whore of Babylon, speak to a system where religion, politics, and militarism are married. In effect USA and the West fit the bill as does Christianity, Islam, and Orthodox Judaism. The moral majority, former playboy presidents praying to Jesus in the Rose Garden, or our current Roman catholic commander and chief who can't stop lying, Imam's running governments bent on killing Jews and everyone else afterward, and Netanyahu's government built of conservatives, and Orthodox rabbis, protected by the IDF.

Man's way leads to destruction, David understood this to be the fact. Yes, David/Dowd wrote the Proverbs not as Christianity believes Solomon. The prose were written from a father with love to his son to bestow wisdom and preserve the Towrah as guidance in governing.

Solomon acted to destroy what Dowd had united, Solomon's son went on to continue the work of Solomon which ended in the destruction of a united Israel and the Northern kingdom.

If you study the Proverbs and the Psalms of Dowd you'll see the author of both was Dowd.

Biblical scholars are not ones to admit they are wrong, in fact most of what religious people believe is easily show to be false using the same bible they claim is inerrant or at least inspired by God.

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Gone Fishin’'s avatar

Very Nice Closer Today Mr Bonner!

The corruption that leads Washington to misspend money it doesn’t actually have leads it to undermine the ‘services’ — such as national security — that it is supposed to provide. It also seems to distort the whole economy into a strange, unnatural thing — like a sinister lover, who flatters her victim, and leads him to his ruin.

Anyone feel inclined to put forth the effort to pick up the phone to make few phone calls? No? Okay.

▫️Several states have taken action over the last two years in an effort to block the implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States.

Indiana was the first state to pass legislation relating to central bank digital currency. Enacted in 2023, the law explicitly excludes a CBDC from the definition of money under the state's Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The law amends the definition of money to specify, “The term does not include a central bank digital currency that is currently adopted, or that may be adopted, by the United States government, a foreign government, a foreign reserve, or a foreign sanctioned central bank.”

A similar law was enacted in Florida last year, and this year South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah followed suit.

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Paul Murray's avatar

The mental condition of "learned helplessness" is upon us. We have become so accustomed to big government that we are no longer capable of initiative and production. We don't think we can identify and solve our own problems, so we don't. Only government can do that. What happened before there was government? Was there ever a time when there wasn't government? See the problem here? Best always. PM

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Frank's avatar

" come on man" this is a great idea. Mandate electric vehicles. Make the cost of the vehicles and electricity so high only government officials can afford them which makes everyone else forced to take public transportation. You have to admit to the beauty and elegance of this plan, especially if you are a government official and can vote for this.

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Liam's avatar

PLEASE PARDON CAPS ALMOST BLIND

DEAR BILL,

EXCELLENT, AND SO WIDE RANGING IT WOULD TAKE ME FROM NOW UNTIL AFTER ELECTION DAY TO RESPOND TO JUST HALF THE ISSUES YOU HAVE RAISED. SO, I SHALL KEEP THIS SHORT, SIMPLE, AND SIMPLY SPOKEN---THE DOUBLE KISS TREATMENT...AND, TIGHTLY FOCUSED.

FIRST, ON CORRUPTION. THE SOLUTION. BAN

ALL POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. THEY ARE BRIBES . SURE, THEY ARE LEGAL---AND WHO PASSED THE LAWS THAT MADE THEM LEGAL ? THE SAME CROOKS WHO MADE THEM LEGAL? RIDICULOUS. LAUGHABLE. INSANE?

MORE LATER TODAY. I PROMISE'

SINCERELY,

LIAM

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Worm Farmer extraordinaire's avatar

Hey Liam. Stop apologizing my friend, we all know you have low vision. It’s just nice that you are part of this community. God bless you my friend.

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Liam's avatar

TO WORM FARMER: THANKS FOR YOUR VERY KIND MESSAGE. I RECEIVE COMPLAINTS WHEN I FAIL TO GIVE THE ADVANCE. APOLOGY. SO,

FOR NOW, I WILL CONTINUE TO GIVE IT.

SINCERELY,

LIAM

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Liam's avatar

the last sentence is in error. i meant to say: "the same crooks who get the bribes". also, see my new comment above on WW3.

liam

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Konstantin Zalad's avatar

The deal did not worked in 2022, because it would have required a US security garanty. Then Ukraine could have accepted the deal. But the US refused.

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Mackinac's avatar

Isn't it funny how all the socialist/Democratic narrative is failing, from climate change to wokism to WW III. Maybe it was built upon false pretenses like wokism to CO2 warming. Or maybe it was strictly a political approach to buying votes. Certainly the spending is ! Maybe it is failing because it is central planning at its corrupted worst.

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Abe Porter's avatar

Bill:

I enjoyed this article. I agree with you. Our government is corrupt to the core. Most of the government people in Washington DC needs to be removed and replaced. But How? A Revolution ???. Gotta go ‘moron’ is speaking.

AP

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Paul Murray's avatar

When "wars" or "targeted military actions" cease to be about winning and achieved objectives and more about contracts, profits, and kickbacks, it's only a matter of time before the whole mess goes to hell. Those who pursue these policies and aims believe they will be "victors" via wealth, control, and privilege only to witness their own eventual irrelevance and marginalization. There is no health in us. Best always. PM

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John Rodney Blair's avatar

I am learning a lot. Very interesting !

John R Blair

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Jimm Roberts's avatar

The Russo-Ukraine War, like the Spanish Civil War, is a proving ground for weapons. So far, it appears future wars on our planet will feature cheap, lethal drones; not M-1 tanks or piloted airplanes

The surprise to me is the effectiveness of infantry; in this case, Russian infantry. The only solution for countries with small populations from which to create an infantry is robots, but only robots that are impervious to electro-magnetic attack and that explode if tampered

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Dennis T.'s avatar

You got to figure the Chinese Communist party controls all pricing and industry. Raise EV taxes and they will raise prices on other things manufactured we consume, and that might be the reason for the EV tax. What other Chinese goods imported into the US to the elites profit from that will now spike?

Biden would be better served to allow Chinese EV's to be sold, most catch fire on a random unknown basis. They're near impossible to put out, and collateral damage could be very profitable to the construction and medical industry. I've always marveled at the BATF and FBI there's nothing in the public realm more dangerous and potentially explosive than Lithium. With EV's littering the auto auction industry, it would be very simple to construct a bomb of consequence while remaining anonymous. Some lithium and a dash of water is all that is needed for an explosive fire. Might one install a means to short circuit a lithium battery while it's parked in the Pentagon garage or next to a government officials home? We'll worry about that later along with everything that might happen in the future.

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Paul Murray's avatar

"Government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."

Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address, 20 January 1981.

"When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?" -- Pete Seeger

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Cartero Atómico's avatar

Great quote from Reagan, if only he would have practiced what he preached. Good old "conservative" Ronnie tripled the national debt under his watch. Another funny thing about government being the problem, Ronnie had no problem with our government spending billions in El Salvador to ensure the military regime there remained in power.

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Paul Murray's avatar

Yes, definitely "do as I say, and not as I do." My quote from President Reagan was not meant to lionize the man but to make my point that the government that governs least, governs best. I am probably in the minority by holding this opinion. Thanks for your reply. Best always. PM

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Kevin Beck's avatar

I remember some previous government-created motorized vehicles. They went by such monikers as Trabant and Yugo.. They were so useless that they couldn't navigate past the junkyards where almost all of them were deposited.

At the same time, I observe how many vehicles designed and built by American manufacturers are still on the streets in Cuba, 60+ years after they were originally shipped there. Designed and built in the years before the government became so intent upon destroying the automobile industry in the US.

I wonder if Joke Briben' even notices that most of these new-fangled electronic vehicles are being built in new-fangled factories outside of Michigan.

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John D's avatar

People in the industry know that Russia is 10 years ahead in military technology. They also have the production base that the West has lost. GDP is a poor indicator for gauging wealth. We also need to define what the wealth of a nation truly is. In any case, it seems that Russia and China are planning a new world order, leaving the collective West to waste resources on their obsession with Ukraine. Could it be that we are now witnessing two major "megapolitics" trends: the rise of the East and the decline of the West?

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Kevin Johnson's avatar

Given the Ukraine war is both profitable and a white gentile meat grinder well, win-win.

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Liam's avatar

YES. WAR IS A MEAT GRINRER. AND, AN INCENERATOR. AND A MICROWAVE OVEN A LA HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI.

YES, WAR IS HELL. HADES, PERDITION, INFERNO, HOLOCAUST. GENOCIDE. RAPE. MURDER. . DESTRUCTION.

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