The rules of engagement are the ones that tell you you’re not supposed to murder prisoners, attack civilians, or initiate force, among other things. They are not foolproof...as Hegseth demonstrates.
In response to Bill's challenge to figure out if our current president will achieve glory, here's Reagan era OMB director's opinion, one that I share:
"There is more history percolating up in the current Iranian madness than just another failed Forever War.
It’s going to be the end of the Trumpified GOP.
Replacing it will be a motley menagerie of Dem statists, spenders, regulators, lifers, wokests and outright freaks likely to be swept back into power in the elections just ahead.
Sadly, that will likely mark the end of capitalist prosperity and constitutional liberty in America as we have known it, too."
Agree.....the Constitution has become a relic and as the Raven quoted - "Nothing more!" Corruption and greed have become the rule of the day. Rules - any rules - are not required. Trump, Israel, and the U.S. Government seem to think there is no limit to whatever they can do. "Whatever is required!" Going to be an ugly world ahead including hyper-inflation, demise of the US$, and bankruptcy of the U.S. The printing of fiat money is going to be unbelievable. Stay tuned.......it isn't looking good ahead. The World it is a-changin' and not in a good way for the West.
God help us, but you may be right. Most people aren't particularly bright, are easily swayed and are even less savvy about the world at large. Witness how many blame "inflated costs" on Trump, simply because he occupies the WH.
They're completely oblivious to what Bidens 20% inflation has wrought and how the resulting wage growth pressure is embedded in the inflation we're witnessing right now,
"Witness how many blame "inflated costs" on Trump, simply because he occupies the WH". The blaming of wage growth, and Biden are going to be way down the "cause of inflation list" if the Hormus Straits stay closed. We might get away with blaming Iran, but ????
You’re correct as well. The arguments against Trump are ever-changing. Should he poop the bed in Iran, his critics may finally have something that they could legitimately sink their teeth into. However, I think he’ll prevail. If we back away and let the Israelis do the clean-up, it will be a victory. If the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) align themselves in opposition to an Iran that has now foolishly alienated all of them, that would be a victory as well.
Inflation is defined as too much money chasing too few goods. Obama’s own economist Larry Summers warned about the inflation that Biden’s IRA - on top of Trumps emergency Covid funding - would cause. The 20% hike in electricity rates on top of that. If you look at the ENR inflation index the 2025 Building Cost Index, a reliable proxy for general inflation, came in at 0.5% material and 3.5% Labor. This is an indicator of escalation in wage rates.
Hope not, but a market crash and other economic calamities, which are a very strong possibility (even without any military action in Iran) would do it.
Most economic cycles run, from peak to trough, anywhere from eleven to thirteen year cycles. Our last down cycle was the 2008 RE crash - eighteen years ago. So, statistically, we're overdue for a market correction. Should be interesting to see how Trumps BBB stimulus, re-shoring of manufacturing, energy policy, etc. - translates economically.
I think the one thing here that we all can agree on is that our national debt and deficit, led by a firehose fiscal stimulus stream, from both parties, is a real problem, and one that has no one willing to pull the plug on the money printing press.
The twin combination of Baby Boomers in need and a population implosion of reduced family formation, certainly doesn't bode well for any easy solutions, now or in the foreseeable future.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Trump is now dealing with the predictable product of a series of extremely "weak men".
Some of whom had simply turned a blind eye. Our Euro friends to preserve their trade deals, refrained from any criticism altogether. Others, such as Barack Obama, tried to pay off the bully with planeloads of cash. The amiable dunce, Biden, was simply oblivious to reality - as his ignominious flight from Afghanistan aptly demonstrated - None of it worked and all of it telegraphed weakness. So the bad guys just kept on - and things just got worse.
In fact, as we all know "if you subsidize something, you will get more of it". Even terrorism works that way.
Trump is a strong and visionary leader now acting to counter decades of callow and craven acts by others here and elsewhere. Will he succeed? I certainly hope so. If so, we may then reset to "good times" once again. An era of relative peace.
However, that being said, the words of Machiavelli counseling the Medicis' now come to mind, - especially apropos when dealing with populations of death cult primitives - "it is better to be feared than loved".
Those of us that have traveled extensively in hostile places know that human mentality varies. Human evolution across all populations doesn't act in lockstep. Some cultures see kindness as weakness to be exploited. The Iranian Mullahs, Communists, Narco-state potentates come to mind and those are precisely the ones with whom Trump is now dealing.
I've had root-bound American "Progressive types" assure me that "studies show" that capital punishment doesn't prevent bad actors from bad deeds as if wishing a relativist world would bring it about. If they were correct, then the post-Friday prayers followed by ritual lashings, amputations and beheadings in conservative Islamic ME nations wouldn't act as the deterrent to crime that it certainly does.
Yet, if one simply walks through the village Souk on market day and witness the open display of Gold and valuables of all types, with no fear of theft, you will easily understand how others deal with their own primitives, to the desired effect.
Or, if you prefer something pithier but to the same point; "if you treat your dog like a human, he will treat you like a dog".
Mr. Burns, I wonder if you're familiar with the work of Addison Wiggin, who is one of Bill's best friends. Mr. Wiggin has been writing some very in-depth analyses about the Iran matter, and its ties to China. Ditto for Breitbart's John Carney. Both write free analyzes. And both men have been doing some very rigorous analyses of the matter at hand, putting many things in context. I would recommend reading them. Once you read them, then it will be like night and day when reading Bill's cherry picking, generalizing, and quoting of far-left persons and news orgs.
Bill used to analyze major matters as these two men do now; but, sadly, since about two-plus years ago, his essays have been regularly declining in quality.
If the analysis you’re speaking to cites the priorities, in order, of reasserting our control over the Panama Canal, then Venezuela, now Iran - all of which effect China’s reach in our western hemisphere and China and Cuban oil supplies. Russia’s Drone supplier - yes, I’m aware of all of this and there is no way that all of this hasn’t been purposefully pursued and in proper sequence as well.
One should only fight when no other choice exists. It is interesting that it's being reported the Israel dragged us into this conflict, in other words, it wasn't our choice. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei aged 86 had terminal cancer. Frankly, Iran's biggest mistake was that they didn't develop a nuke (best 1945 technology), but it wasn't a priority. Getting rid of the sanctions was. It's still early days of the conflict and at some point we will send in the troops. China is still an unaccounted for variable, I'm waiting for Trump to cancel his upcoming trip.
Like the pithy pressitutes who know no bounds imposing on a moral frame work confirming their personal biases. Perhaps Men in positions of power including those who's "services" sought in trust in regard to the well being of indviduals, deserve the most extreme condmentation from its respected community members. Government and those who supported this and the frankstein freak show over the past 5 years, requires an investigation followed by a trial and if found guilty, death penalty. And or prison for a very long time until further notice.
Ladies and gentlemen, what a country we’ve built here. We’ve got rain for eight months straight and somehow the only thing growing is government speeches.
Look at Donald, that’s not a president, that’s a walking weather forecast for disaster. Cloudy with a chance of missiles, followed by scattered press conferences.
They say rain makes the flowers grow. That’s sweet and really poetic, but in DC, the rain doesn’t grow flowers, it grows committees, and committees produce reports, reports produce policies, policies produce wars. It’s the food chain of stupidity.
Meanwhile President Trump stands there connecting dots like a toddler with a crayon. “Look everybody, I connected a dot! It’s called geopolitics!”
Sorry pal, that’s not geopolitics, that’s finger painting with explosives.
His Team nods like pigeons in a park.
“Yes yes yes Sir, very wise move Mr. President.”
You know what that’s called?
Democracy with a concussion.
President Trump says the world is chaos, and somehow his solution is to add more chaos.
That’s like a guy who sees a house fire and says, “Quick, somebody bring gasoline, I have a vision!”
Trump wants to be one of the “Big Men” of history. Caesar, Napoleon, the mustache guy nobody invites to barbecues. Buddy, calm down.
You’re not Caesar, you’re the assistant manager of Armageddon.
His loyalist keep saying ‘Well maybe this rain will bring beautiful flowers.”Yeah sure, if the flowers are land mines. Trump talks about winning. Winning! Every politician loves winning.
But the current Administration’s scoreboard looks like this:
War: ✔️
Inflation: ✔
Chaos: ✔
Common sense: missing, presumed drowned.
And the citizens keep watching the news like it’s a reality show.
“Tonight on War Island: Three countries enter, nobody knows why.”
The scariest part?
President Trump doesn’t look like a villain, he looks like a guy who wandered into the control room and said, “What does this big red button do?” And his cabinet said, “press it again Sir, it polls very well.”
History’s gonna remember him alright.
Usually when history remembers a guy like Trump, it starts the sentence with, “Well… that didn’t work out.”
You know what I like about this Administration though? Optimism!
The country’s collapsing, the news says the world’s on fire, and the Administration says, “Maybe flowers will grow”, that’s great, I like flowers too, usually we put them on graves.
Trump says he’s bringing greatness. And I believe him, because whenever Caesars promise greatness, one thing is guaranteed, the undertakers are gonna do great.
He wants to be the Big Man, but he’s closer to a weather balloon filled with ego. In Washington, the rain never stops, but at least the umbrellas are selling great.
What didn't work out was BIDEN! Did you pay any attention at all to the inflation then? Were you sleeping during all four years? My goodness, man! What are you thinking about the immediate past? Oh, I see - you WEREN'T thinking!
Friend, you’re screaming about inflation like the President keeps a big red “Price of Eggs” lever in the Oval Office and forgot to turn it back after breakfast. “Were you sleeping?”, you ask, I appreciate the concern about my sleep schedule. That’s very kind, not a lotta people check in on a man’s REM cycle during a political discussion. That’s the kind of compassion you usually only see from nurses and people selling mattresses. The economy isn’t a lever, it’s a grotesque cathedral of banks, markets, supply chains, oil cartels, and twelve well-fed gentlemen in suits who treat the public like a herd of mildly literate goats. And while you’re howling the name of one politician like it’s a sacred chant that will lower grocery prices, the real machinery keeps grinding away quietly in the basement, counting money with the calm indifference of a mortician folding socks.
Again, I must correct your listed items of anti-Trump actions: War, Inflation, Chaos, Common Sense. War? You should be referring to illegal entry to US with tons of dope which Trump has ended. Without Trump, you would have those tons of drugs still coming into the US. Inflation would have continued and worsened. The Chaos caused by illegal entries has been shut down by Trump. You must be reading the specifics of the Biden administration. I can't think of a single thing which Biden did which was better than what Trump has done. If you don't see that, you're living in a make-believe world. Good luck with that.
It’s funny how every political argument eventually turns into a fairy tale with a strongman hero.
One guy rides into town and suddenly the drugs disappear, the borders seal themselves up, inflation packs its bags, chaos politely exits through the gift shop.
It’s like politics written by Disney for grown-ups with mortgages. Folks love that story because it’s comforting. The world’s messy, complicated, full of moving parts, but people would rather believe there’s a single cowboy sitting in the Oval Office with a big cosmic thermostat labeled War, Drugs, Economy, Reality. Turn the knob and everything behaves.
Meanwhile the real world keeps chugging along like a drunk locomotive while citizens argue over which engineer deserves the credit for gravity.
That’s the magic trick of politics, convince people that history is a one-man puppet show while the machinery of the whole system keeps grinding away behind the curtain.
Appreciate the clarification of your basis for critiquing our current Jefe. It is and has been on point. Perhaps all will end well for the US and the world, but that’s hard to see today. Paul wrote to the Philippians, pray about everything, worry about nothing. That’s easy to say, not so easy to do.
If we could ask the occupants at Auschwitz, Dachau, etc. about how the Germans/Nazis accepted the rules of engagement I wonder what their thoughts on the subject would be?
Good place to start, but don’t forget to include the residents of London during relentless bomb and rocket attacks, the widespread killing of civilians in occupied territories (e.g. the einsatzgruppen operations), starvation tactics in occupied Russian territories which killed millions, forced labor of POW’s and civilians, deaths of POW’s due to inhumane conditions, and dozens of others of the most severe violations of human rights and international law in history.
I'm having a difficult time believing Bonner writes every missive any more. There is a definite difference in writing style and quality when the topics are actual economics and his personal adventures from ones like today where they read like some kid that spent most of his time in college protesting for abortion and Palestine wrote them.
You do know that England bombed Germany first and several times before Germany responded despite Hitlers attempts get them to stop. They totally ignored him. You might like reading the English historian David Irvings 2 vol history "Churchill's War". I think you might find things aren't always what they seem or are presented to us. Remember, it's the victor that gets to write the history. Does he always tell the truth? I think not.
Civilians died in Germany for sure. Dresden was not accidental. However: Englands primary focus was military and industrial sites. Germany’s main focus was the killing of civilians up to and including the firing of 3000 V2 rockets into London even after the war was lost. Your bullshit history - including your holocaust denial - disqualifies you from credibility and in all likelihood also disqualifies you from humanity.
Claiming that Iran has posed very little threat to America ignores the very real threat posed by the increasing invasion and very obvious strategy represented by radical Islam inside our borders. This is a 5th generation warfare strategy that has largely been sponsored and underwritten by Iran. Why so many pundits can only understand raining shrapnel where threats are concerned is an ongoing mystery.
I doubt any civilized person wants war. Unfortunately not everybody is civilized. When Bill comments "As far as we know, they made no serious attempt to murder Churchill or Roosevelt." It makes me wonder then what war actually is. What it is not, I'm reasonably convinced, is not to see if you can kill all the young men in the opposing country. They are not the source of the problem, didn't start it and probably don't want to be killed. It's the leadership that creates the war atmosphere. Neither Churchill nor Roosevelt wanted to conquer Europe and run it for a thousand years (The Thousand Year Reich). Nor did they want to exterminate entire groups of people. But today we are facing two countries, Russian and China, who's leaders believe they should dominate the world, and one country who's leaders are screaming death to America and death to Israel, while the whole time building weapons and deliver systems to do that. So why should we wait until they are stronger than us, just so we can then try to kill all their young men first? Not to mention the drug cartels, now stronger than many governments, and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and others. At what point do we counter them? I get what Bill wants; too bad the communists, the religious fanatics and drug lords don't want the same thing.
Bill , A great attempt to explain your writings on the ignorant exploits of their "Great Leader" to a bunch of Ur Magagot Republinut readers. I would hope they would all unsubscribe as a couple have said they would. It would be great to hear from them, if they stuck to the subject of your articles and not go off on their tangents of U being a TDS , commie,leftist and crying about all the miss deeds of previous POTUS s .
So, Iran was not a threat to America? The great Satan was not a target for terrorism? Iran was not the single most powerful supporter of that terrorism? Bill, what the heck are you saying?
“Our guess — based on the dots we’ve connected so far — is that the future is going to be marked by inflation, chaos, bankruptcy, war…and higher nominal interest rates.”
I could NOT agree more. Demokrats, RINO’s, UniParty, “entitled” Americans…all to blame. (I know, I know: all you Type-1 TDS’ers blame it all on Trump. Whatever works for you.)
The only questions are:
1. How painful will the collapse be?
2. What will the nation look like in the aftermath?
Well... although the death gas camps, city sieges, mass hangings, shooting folks in layers inside pits, rapes, mass starvation and working detainees to death...
And just in case grandma can’t believe her traumatized lying eyes, the gas chambers (though dynamited to pieces by the Nazis as the allies approached) are still available for inspection at Birkenau.
“Upon shifty foundations they balanced ingenious ladders to reach the stars,” said of the Germans on p. 27 of “Last and First Men” by Olaf Stapledon; scarily prophetic of these current times. Sometimes one might suggest actions require no foundations, or deep thought, before they are taken.
In response to Bill's challenge to figure out if our current president will achieve glory, here's Reagan era OMB director's opinion, one that I share:
"There is more history percolating up in the current Iranian madness than just another failed Forever War.
It’s going to be the end of the Trumpified GOP.
Replacing it will be a motley menagerie of Dem statists, spenders, regulators, lifers, wokests and outright freaks likely to be swept back into power in the elections just ahead.
Sadly, that will likely mark the end of capitalist prosperity and constitutional liberty in America as we have known it, too."
Agree.....the Constitution has become a relic and as the Raven quoted - "Nothing more!" Corruption and greed have become the rule of the day. Rules - any rules - are not required. Trump, Israel, and the U.S. Government seem to think there is no limit to whatever they can do. "Whatever is required!" Going to be an ugly world ahead including hyper-inflation, demise of the US$, and bankruptcy of the U.S. The printing of fiat money is going to be unbelievable. Stay tuned.......it isn't looking good ahead. The World it is a-changin' and not in a good way for the West.
God help us, but you may be right. Most people aren't particularly bright, are easily swayed and are even less savvy about the world at large. Witness how many blame "inflated costs" on Trump, simply because he occupies the WH.
They're completely oblivious to what Bidens 20% inflation has wrought and how the resulting wage growth pressure is embedded in the inflation we're witnessing right now,
"Witness how many blame "inflated costs" on Trump, simply because he occupies the WH". The blaming of wage growth, and Biden are going to be way down the "cause of inflation list" if the Hormus Straits stay closed. We might get away with blaming Iran, but ????
You’re correct as well. The arguments against Trump are ever-changing. Should he poop the bed in Iran, his critics may finally have something that they could legitimately sink their teeth into. However, I think he’ll prevail. If we back away and let the Israelis do the clean-up, it will be a victory. If the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) align themselves in opposition to an Iran that has now foolishly alienated all of them, that would be a victory as well.
20 percent inflation…exaggeration…9 was the highest and under 3 percent in fourth year..,
No exaggeration. The cumulative inflation for Biden’s four years was 20%. I think the exact amount was 19.7% which rounds to 20%
Remember it was the Federal Reserve that said it was transitory and kept rates very low to contribute to the inflation
Inflation is defined as too much money chasing too few goods. Obama’s own economist Larry Summers warned about the inflation that Biden’s IRA - on top of Trumps emergency Covid funding - would cause. The 20% hike in electricity rates on top of that. If you look at the ENR inflation index the 2025 Building Cost Index, a reliable proxy for general inflation, came in at 0.5% material and 3.5% Labor. This is an indicator of escalation in wage rates.
Hope not, but a market crash and other economic calamities, which are a very strong possibility (even without any military action in Iran) would do it.
Most economic cycles run, from peak to trough, anywhere from eleven to thirteen year cycles. Our last down cycle was the 2008 RE crash - eighteen years ago. So, statistically, we're overdue for a market correction. Should be interesting to see how Trumps BBB stimulus, re-shoring of manufacturing, energy policy, etc. - translates economically.
I think the one thing here that we all can agree on is that our national debt and deficit, led by a firehose fiscal stimulus stream, from both parties, is a real problem, and one that has no one willing to pull the plug on the money printing press.
The twin combination of Baby Boomers in need and a population implosion of reduced family formation, certainly doesn't bode well for any easy solutions, now or in the foreseeable future.
Oh, so the GOP is going to return to being the lovable losers. Interesting.
The quote below provides better insight:
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain
Trump is now dealing with the predictable product of a series of extremely "weak men".
Some of whom had simply turned a blind eye. Our Euro friends to preserve their trade deals, refrained from any criticism altogether. Others, such as Barack Obama, tried to pay off the bully with planeloads of cash. The amiable dunce, Biden, was simply oblivious to reality - as his ignominious flight from Afghanistan aptly demonstrated - None of it worked and all of it telegraphed weakness. So the bad guys just kept on - and things just got worse.
In fact, as we all know "if you subsidize something, you will get more of it". Even terrorism works that way.
Trump is a strong and visionary leader now acting to counter decades of callow and craven acts by others here and elsewhere. Will he succeed? I certainly hope so. If so, we may then reset to "good times" once again. An era of relative peace.
However, that being said, the words of Machiavelli counseling the Medicis' now come to mind, - especially apropos when dealing with populations of death cult primitives - "it is better to be feared than loved".
Those of us that have traveled extensively in hostile places know that human mentality varies. Human evolution across all populations doesn't act in lockstep. Some cultures see kindness as weakness to be exploited. The Iranian Mullahs, Communists, Narco-state potentates come to mind and those are precisely the ones with whom Trump is now dealing.
I've had root-bound American "Progressive types" assure me that "studies show" that capital punishment doesn't prevent bad actors from bad deeds as if wishing a relativist world would bring it about. If they were correct, then the post-Friday prayers followed by ritual lashings, amputations and beheadings in conservative Islamic ME nations wouldn't act as the deterrent to crime that it certainly does.
Yet, if one simply walks through the village Souk on market day and witness the open display of Gold and valuables of all types, with no fear of theft, you will easily understand how others deal with their own primitives, to the desired effect.
Or, if you prefer something pithier but to the same point; "if you treat your dog like a human, he will treat you like a dog".
Mr. Burns, I wonder if you're familiar with the work of Addison Wiggin, who is one of Bill's best friends. Mr. Wiggin has been writing some very in-depth analyses about the Iran matter, and its ties to China. Ditto for Breitbart's John Carney. Both write free analyzes. And both men have been doing some very rigorous analyses of the matter at hand, putting many things in context. I would recommend reading them. Once you read them, then it will be like night and day when reading Bill's cherry picking, generalizing, and quoting of far-left persons and news orgs.
Bill used to analyze major matters as these two men do now; but, sadly, since about two-plus years ago, his essays have been regularly declining in quality.
If the analysis you’re speaking to cites the priorities, in order, of reasserting our control over the Panama Canal, then Venezuela, now Iran - all of which effect China’s reach in our western hemisphere and China and Cuban oil supplies. Russia’s Drone supplier - yes, I’m aware of all of this and there is no way that all of this hasn’t been purposefully pursued and in proper sequence as well.
Me thinks he introduced AI about that time as a matter of expediency... The tenor changed in addition to the substance
Pithy is good but you need the long form to understand the Pithy form.
Very pithy but excellent!
One should only fight when no other choice exists. It is interesting that it's being reported the Israel dragged us into this conflict, in other words, it wasn't our choice. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei aged 86 had terminal cancer. Frankly, Iran's biggest mistake was that they didn't develop a nuke (best 1945 technology), but it wasn't a priority. Getting rid of the sanctions was. It's still early days of the conflict and at some point we will send in the troops. China is still an unaccounted for variable, I'm waiting for Trump to cancel his upcoming trip.
Like the pithy pressitutes who know no bounds imposing on a moral frame work confirming their personal biases. Perhaps Men in positions of power including those who's "services" sought in trust in regard to the well being of indviduals, deserve the most extreme condmentation from its respected community members. Government and those who supported this and the frankstein freak show over the past 5 years, requires an investigation followed by a trial and if found guilty, death penalty. And or prison for a very long time until further notice.
I support the Rules of Engagement employed by The United States. Clearly, Mr. Bonner would subscribe to those preferred by The Ayatollah.
Ladies and gentlemen, what a country we’ve built here. We’ve got rain for eight months straight and somehow the only thing growing is government speeches.
Look at Donald, that’s not a president, that’s a walking weather forecast for disaster. Cloudy with a chance of missiles, followed by scattered press conferences.
They say rain makes the flowers grow. That’s sweet and really poetic, but in DC, the rain doesn’t grow flowers, it grows committees, and committees produce reports, reports produce policies, policies produce wars. It’s the food chain of stupidity.
Meanwhile President Trump stands there connecting dots like a toddler with a crayon. “Look everybody, I connected a dot! It’s called geopolitics!”
Sorry pal, that’s not geopolitics, that’s finger painting with explosives.
His Team nods like pigeons in a park.
“Yes yes yes Sir, very wise move Mr. President.”
You know what that’s called?
Democracy with a concussion.
President Trump says the world is chaos, and somehow his solution is to add more chaos.
That’s like a guy who sees a house fire and says, “Quick, somebody bring gasoline, I have a vision!”
Trump wants to be one of the “Big Men” of history. Caesar, Napoleon, the mustache guy nobody invites to barbecues. Buddy, calm down.
You’re not Caesar, you’re the assistant manager of Armageddon.
His loyalist keep saying ‘Well maybe this rain will bring beautiful flowers.”Yeah sure, if the flowers are land mines. Trump talks about winning. Winning! Every politician loves winning.
But the current Administration’s scoreboard looks like this:
War: ✔️
Inflation: ✔
Chaos: ✔
Common sense: missing, presumed drowned.
And the citizens keep watching the news like it’s a reality show.
“Tonight on War Island: Three countries enter, nobody knows why.”
The scariest part?
President Trump doesn’t look like a villain, he looks like a guy who wandered into the control room and said, “What does this big red button do?” And his cabinet said, “press it again Sir, it polls very well.”
History’s gonna remember him alright.
Usually when history remembers a guy like Trump, it starts the sentence with, “Well… that didn’t work out.”
You know what I like about this Administration though? Optimism!
The country’s collapsing, the news says the world’s on fire, and the Administration says, “Maybe flowers will grow”, that’s great, I like flowers too, usually we put them on graves.
Trump says he’s bringing greatness. And I believe him, because whenever Caesars promise greatness, one thing is guaranteed, the undertakers are gonna do great.
He wants to be the Big Man, but he’s closer to a weather balloon filled with ego. In Washington, the rain never stops, but at least the umbrellas are selling great.
What didn't work out was BIDEN! Did you pay any attention at all to the inflation then? Were you sleeping during all four years? My goodness, man! What are you thinking about the immediate past? Oh, I see - you WEREN'T thinking!
Friend, you’re screaming about inflation like the President keeps a big red “Price of Eggs” lever in the Oval Office and forgot to turn it back after breakfast. “Were you sleeping?”, you ask, I appreciate the concern about my sleep schedule. That’s very kind, not a lotta people check in on a man’s REM cycle during a political discussion. That’s the kind of compassion you usually only see from nurses and people selling mattresses. The economy isn’t a lever, it’s a grotesque cathedral of banks, markets, supply chains, oil cartels, and twelve well-fed gentlemen in suits who treat the public like a herd of mildly literate goats. And while you’re howling the name of one politician like it’s a sacred chant that will lower grocery prices, the real machinery keeps grinding away quietly in the basement, counting money with the calm indifference of a mortician folding socks.
Again, I must correct your listed items of anti-Trump actions: War, Inflation, Chaos, Common Sense. War? You should be referring to illegal entry to US with tons of dope which Trump has ended. Without Trump, you would have those tons of drugs still coming into the US. Inflation would have continued and worsened. The Chaos caused by illegal entries has been shut down by Trump. You must be reading the specifics of the Biden administration. I can't think of a single thing which Biden did which was better than what Trump has done. If you don't see that, you're living in a make-believe world. Good luck with that.
But what about......and what about... and what about....
OK, enough for me. I'm headed to the pool since the sun came up again today and I'm still "dreaming the dream".
It’s funny how every political argument eventually turns into a fairy tale with a strongman hero.
One guy rides into town and suddenly the drugs disappear, the borders seal themselves up, inflation packs its bags, chaos politely exits through the gift shop.
It’s like politics written by Disney for grown-ups with mortgages. Folks love that story because it’s comforting. The world’s messy, complicated, full of moving parts, but people would rather believe there’s a single cowboy sitting in the Oval Office with a big cosmic thermostat labeled War, Drugs, Economy, Reality. Turn the knob and everything behaves.
Meanwhile the real world keeps chugging along like a drunk locomotive while citizens argue over which engineer deserves the credit for gravity.
That’s the magic trick of politics, convince people that history is a one-man puppet show while the machinery of the whole system keeps grinding away behind the curtain.
You are such - such - such an I-want-the-last-word kind of person. All well done. Wrong, but well done. : - )
Appreciate the clarification of your basis for critiquing our current Jefe. It is and has been on point. Perhaps all will end well for the US and the world, but that’s hard to see today. Paul wrote to the Philippians, pray about everything, worry about nothing. That’s easy to say, not so easy to do.
Bill believes the Nazis generally accepted the rules of engagement. Atrocities were the exception according to Bill. Holy shit!
If we could ask the occupants at Auschwitz, Dachau, etc. about how the Germans/Nazis accepted the rules of engagement I wonder what their thoughts on the subject would be?
Good place to start, but don’t forget to include the residents of London during relentless bomb and rocket attacks, the widespread killing of civilians in occupied territories (e.g. the einsatzgruppen operations), starvation tactics in occupied Russian territories which killed millions, forced labor of POW’s and civilians, deaths of POW’s due to inhumane conditions, and dozens of others of the most severe violations of human rights and international law in history.
All good points, most of which our dear editor glosses over or ignores entirely.
Leaves one to wonder what form of motivation could possibly motivate such galactic denial of basic facts?
I'm having a difficult time believing Bonner writes every missive any more. There is a definite difference in writing style and quality when the topics are actual economics and his personal adventures from ones like today where they read like some kid that spent most of his time in college protesting for abortion and Palestine wrote them.
You do know that England bombed Germany first and several times before Germany responded despite Hitlers attempts get them to stop. They totally ignored him. You might like reading the English historian David Irvings 2 vol history "Churchill's War". I think you might find things aren't always what they seem or are presented to us. Remember, it's the victor that gets to write the history. Does he always tell the truth? I think not.
Civilians died in Germany for sure. Dresden was not accidental. However: Englands primary focus was military and industrial sites. Germany’s main focus was the killing of civilians up to and including the firing of 3000 V2 rockets into London even after the war was lost. Your bullshit history - including your holocaust denial - disqualifies you from credibility and in all likelihood also disqualifies you from humanity.
KA BOOM!!!
Rules in the modern world are optional.
Might is right!
And to top it off, moral values have been deigned irrelevant!
Happy days !
History is written by the victors, and taken as gospel by those they lord over.
And so, here we are...
Claiming that Iran has posed very little threat to America ignores the very real threat posed by the increasing invasion and very obvious strategy represented by radical Islam inside our borders. This is a 5th generation warfare strategy that has largely been sponsored and underwritten by Iran. Why so many pundits can only understand raining shrapnel where threats are concerned is an ongoing mystery.
I doubt any civilized person wants war. Unfortunately not everybody is civilized. When Bill comments "As far as we know, they made no serious attempt to murder Churchill or Roosevelt." It makes me wonder then what war actually is. What it is not, I'm reasonably convinced, is not to see if you can kill all the young men in the opposing country. They are not the source of the problem, didn't start it and probably don't want to be killed. It's the leadership that creates the war atmosphere. Neither Churchill nor Roosevelt wanted to conquer Europe and run it for a thousand years (The Thousand Year Reich). Nor did they want to exterminate entire groups of people. But today we are facing two countries, Russian and China, who's leaders believe they should dominate the world, and one country who's leaders are screaming death to America and death to Israel, while the whole time building weapons and deliver systems to do that. So why should we wait until they are stronger than us, just so we can then try to kill all their young men first? Not to mention the drug cartels, now stronger than many governments, and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and others. At what point do we counter them? I get what Bill wants; too bad the communists, the religious fanatics and drug lords don't want the same thing.
Bill , A great attempt to explain your writings on the ignorant exploits of their "Great Leader" to a bunch of Ur Magagot Republinut readers. I would hope they would all unsubscribe as a couple have said they would. It would be great to hear from them, if they stuck to the subject of your articles and not go off on their tangents of U being a TDS , commie,leftist and crying about all the miss deeds of previous POTUS s .
So, Iran was not a threat to America? The great Satan was not a target for terrorism? Iran was not the single most powerful supporter of that terrorism? Bill, what the heck are you saying?
“Our guess — based on the dots we’ve connected so far — is that the future is going to be marked by inflation, chaos, bankruptcy, war…and higher nominal interest rates.”
I could NOT agree more. Demokrats, RINO’s, UniParty, “entitled” Americans…all to blame. (I know, I know: all you Type-1 TDS’ers blame it all on Trump. Whatever works for you.)
The only questions are:
1. How painful will the collapse be?
2. What will the nation look like in the aftermath?
Extremely painful. Avoid all major population centers.
My thoughts, as well.
Operation "Long Jump".
Look it up...
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Well... although the death gas camps, city sieges, mass hangings, shooting folks in layers inside pits, rapes, mass starvation and working detainees to death...
The Nazi's did not use chemical weapons...
Only if you don’t consider Zyklon B to be a chemical weapon.
... ooops,
I stand corrected.
Nazi's didn't use chemical weapons on the battlefield.
Only in the showers...
That's a Jewish lie. There were no such showers and it's been well prove.
...tell that to my grandmother who was forced to walk through Dachau in 1945.
And just in case grandma can’t believe her traumatized lying eyes, the gas chambers (though dynamited to pieces by the Nazis as the allies approached) are still available for inspection at Birkenau.
...also available for inspection in Dachau.
Good to see you fully establish yourself as a malignant jackass and fool.
...hope that was meant for "Chris".
Absolutely.
“Upon shifty foundations they balanced ingenious ladders to reach the stars,” said of the Germans on p. 27 of “Last and First Men” by Olaf Stapledon; scarily prophetic of these current times. Sometimes one might suggest actions require no foundations, or deep thought, before they are taken.
Powerful earthquake rocks Iran as US and Israeli strikes keep falling
God must not like them.
Well seeing as Iran have been around for 2500 years - he must like something about them.
Do you think god likes your pedo president and an administration of lying degenerates?
Seems God went out of his way and intervened twice against potential assassins just to punish the folks that don't care for Trump....
Perhaps you should consider switching Gods?
Who is Ina Hassan?
https://x.com/InaHassan3/status/2028643764680446320
I found this.