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Confidence is everything. And that ‘capital’ is being eroded rapidly.

The Musk versus Trump fallout (at least for now) has a distinct ‘made for television’ quality to it. But do not be deceived by the entertainment content. The spat illustrates a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the MAGA coalition. It is quite possible that this contradiction will erupt at some further point and may end up triggering the slow decay of Project Trump.

A fulcral moment in the last U.S. election was the switch of Silicon Valley’s ultra-rich Tech oligarchs from their support for the Democrats to Trump. It brought both money and the potential glittering prize that America could seize a monopoly over global data storage; AI; and what Yanis Varoufakis calls ‘cloud capital’ – the purported ability to extract rent (i.e. fees) for access to America’s putative massive data hoard and to Big Tech’s associated platforms. Such a data monopoly, it was believed, would then give the U.S. the ability to manipulate how the world thinks – and to define the products and planforms seen to be ‘cool’.

The notion too was that a monopoly on data centres could potentially be as lucrative as the U.S. monopoly of the dollar used as the principal trade currency – which could provide major capital inflows to offset debt.

The explosive quality to a coalition of Tech Oligarchs with the MAGA Populists, however, is that both factions hold irreconcilable visions – both for dealing with America’s structural debt crisis, as well as that of America’s cultural future.

The ‘Tech Bros’ vision is wildly radical; it is ‘authoritarian libertarianism’. Peter Thiel, for example, argues that a small posse of Oligarchs should rule the empire, unfettered by any democratic limitation; that the future should be based in ‘disruptive technology’; be robotic and AI driven; and that the populace should be tightly ‘managed’ through AI control.

The Trump Economic Team’s vision is quite different: Trump’s own primordial objective – to which geo-politics is subordinate – is to shore up the dollar as the world’s main trading currency. This objective however can only be sustained through addressing America’s unsustainable debt overhang.

The overhang reflects the imbalance that built up after 1970 when the U.S. trade account slipped into deficit: On the one hand, the U.S. has facilitated an exaggeratedly large sphere of global dollar indebtedness to splurge worldwide; but at the same time, this massive inverted pyramid of debt rests on a diminutive and shrinking American production base.

In other words, whilst America benefited enormously from these capital inflows, it can no longer expect to grow itself out of its own, self-created debt-trap.

Team Trump proposes to address this imbalance through devaluing the dollar (perhaps by up to 30%), by corporate tax cuts (to induce a return of overseas manufacturing to the U.S.), and thus bringing about a managed shrinkage of the offshore dollar debt cloud relative to U.S. productive capacity.

To be clear, this does not solve the debt problem – It just buys time.

The Tariff ‘shock and awe’ strategy was intended to frighten the world into making unwise deals to accommodate this schema. The U.S. pressure on states for greater NATO defence spending too, similarly follows U.S. ‘bankruptcy best practice’ for the restructuring of existing creditors.

So far, this has not worked out as planned, due in major part to Chinese resistance. As a result, the U.S. bond-market (debt market) remains today on tenderhooks, with every auction a nail-biter.

Over simplifying things – one can see that the populist MAGA base are insisting on a return to a real human economy and well-paid employment prospects versus the contrasting dystopian view of theTech Bros, who see only a (non-human) disruptive tech, robotic and AI future. These visions are completely at odds with each other.

Knowing this background may explain how Steve Bannon (a supporter of the MAGA populists) can be viscerally opposed to Elon Musk, labelling him an apostate, an ‘illegal migrant’, with the demand that he be deported.

The question is, how did such contradictory visions find themselves joined into a single coalition?

Well, first Trump was obliged to do a deal in order to be elected. He had to do a deal with the U.S. ‘money circus’ (the ultra-rich), not only on how to rescue the U.S. economy, but he then had to ‘square’ this with the panjandrums of the ‘dark’ Establishment who control much of America’s political ‘life’.

These panjandrums serve as the ‘gods’ protecting a ‘sacred’ security architecture: the U.S.’ unqualified, bi-partisan support for Israel and the ancient visceral phobia towards Russia. However, they also harbour deep qualms for the security of America’s financial fortress – which is expressed as ‘China cannot be allowed to win the war for the future of global finance’.

So what brought such disparate parts together?

In a new book, The Haves and the Have-Yachts, Evan Osnos describes how one man, Lee Hanley,significantly shaped American Right-wing politics over recent decades. Steve Bannon, the original architect of Trump’s MAGA platform, called Osnos one of the “unsung heroes” of American history. “He had a real love of the hobbits, the deplorables”, Bannon said, “and he put his money where his mouth was”.

Wessie du Toit writes that Hanley was one of the super-rich. He quotes Osnos who outlines that America’s super-rich are not united in a single faction. They are divided: Forbes reported on the eve of the 2024 election that Kamala Harris had more billionaire donors than Trump (83 versus 52), however “over two-thirds (70%) of billionaire-family contributions went in support of GOP candidates and conservative causes”. Forbes also reports that billionaire political spending is now an astonishing 160 times higher than in 2010.

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What is going on? Du Toit quotes Osnos outlining how Hanley “uncannily prefigured Trump’s electoral strategy” by assembling “a coalition of conservative élites and the white working class”. In brief, members of America’s élite accepted the terms of Trumpism as the price that would need to be paid, were they to have keep the prospect of holding on to their power.

“After Mitt Romney’s defeat in 2012, Hanley commissioned a pollster to look deeper into the underlying mood in the U.S. He was informed that “the level of discontent in this country was beyond anything measurable”. Hanley became convinced that Trump was the only politician capable of channelling this energy in a favourable direction, and set about converting other wealthy donors to the cause. It was a canny investment. Even as Trump gave expression to the anger of Bannon’s “hobbits”, his presidency brought immense material rewards [to these wealthy oligarchs]”.

“Trump is a creature of the money-world, and, specifically, of a period of American thinking about greed, fairness, liberty, and dominance”. This was the ‘other revolution’ to that of the MAGA populists, Osnos points out.

Over the years, “a section of America’s élite has increasingly rejected constraints on their ability to accrue wealth, disavowing the notion that their great resources entail any special responsibility towards their fellow citizens. They have embraced a radical libertarian ethos which casts them simply as private individuals, responsible for their own fate, and entitled to enjoy their riches – as they alone see fit”.

This brings us to the Trumpian riddle that Osnos sets out at the start of his book: “To understand why a voter could revile ‘the élite’ and [yet still] revere the billionaire scion of a New York real estate fortune”. Osnos may be correct in responding to this riddle that the ‘level of discontent’ found by Hanley in 2012 had forced the élites to embrace unpredictable forms of populism in order to maintain their wealth and oligarchies”.

The problem here is obvious: The values of the Populist revolutionaries run counter to those venture-capitalist backers of Trump – such as Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk or Marc Andreessen.

How might this be resolved? The MAGA fear is that the Silicon Valley Oligarchs possibly could rejoin the Democrats in time for the Mid-Term Congressional elections. Or even that Musk could launch a centrist Third Party (an idea that he has already mooted on social media).

What makes these contradictions potentially incendiary is that none of Trump’s main foreign policy planks –dealing with China, bringing Iran and West Asia into normalisation with Israel, and striking a relationship with Russia – are proceeding as planned. Yet Trump needs quick tariff deals, because America’s debt and fiscal situation require it.

These main geo-political proposed deals were predicated on America having negotiating dominance (holding the ‘aces’). Yet events have shown that Trump does not hold the bigger cards. China remains “very tough to deal with”, and Iran and Russia no less so.

In fact, the aces are held not so much by Trump, but by the U.S. Senate which can hold approval of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill hostage to the demands by a majority of Senators who seemingly favour escalation against Russia and ‘no enrichment’ for Iran.

Trump Team’s thinking that the attempted assault on Russia’s nuclear deterrence would pressure Putin into accepting a ceasefire on U.S. terms has backfired roundly.

In spite of his (not very convincing) claims that he, Trump, was not aware of Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers, Russia takes the situation very seriously: Larry Johnson has reported from Moscow that retired General Evgeny Buzhinsky (who served in the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Defence) told him that “Putin was furious”. The General went on to warn that this moment marked the closest that the U.S. and Russia have come to the brink of nuclear war since the Cuban missile crisis.

In Moscow, this episode has opened the question of whether Trump’s true aim – all along – has been to pressure Putin to accept a ceasefire that would weaken him politically, as well as to bind Russia into a situation of endless conflict with Ukraine – a framework that would allow Trump to pivot directly against China (an objective dating to 2016 and one which would be endorsed by all of America’s power centres).

Firstly, Trump must have made the calculation that the U.S. Senate and the dark permanent state would be solidly opposed to any real transformation of relations with Russia – a transformation that would leave the Russian state stronger. And secondly (and more telling) is that Trump has not raised a finger to issue a new Presidential Policy ‘Finding’ cancelling the earlier Biden Administration finding authorising the CIA to pursue the strategic defeat of Russia. Why not? Where too are Trump’s incremental steps toward normalisation of relations?

We do not know.

But his Team’s misreading of the Russian temper has strengthened Russian and many others’ resolve to resist Washington’s attempts to compel outcomes that run against their own interests. Trump’s strategy to maintain the dollar as the primary trading currency, however, depends on the confidence others have in the U.S.

Confidence is everything.

And that ‘capital’ is being eroded rapidly.

(Republished from Strategic Culture Foundation by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. One of Trump’s problems is he is unfortunately not the authoritarian everyone makes him out to be. If he had control over the state apparatus of intelligence and military, he should have no problem bringing a reign of terror on the antipopulist transhuman technocrats of the kind Bannon despises.

    Crooke in a previous article even mentioned Roman proscription of politicians who cannot be pacified. Yet like all others, he will not take the idea any further to its definition in that same context; nor it seems can the softhearted fool Trump. Where is an American (or European) Augustus where he is needed? All we have is usurious oligarchical cretins, various Antoniuses. The Parsians knew how to deal with them: show them what their riches are worth to real power; Antonius was himself executed by pouring molten gold down his throat.

    If they cannot be brought to heel and made to submit through such means as blackmail, long term psyops on them and their family, torture and killing of their loved ones and children if necessary–why do Bannon et al seem incapable of even considering effective opposition to their mortal enemies?–then proscribe and outlaw them: offer reward for any domestically or abroad who will kill them and present proof of death, like the Triumvirate did to their enemies in 43 BC: kill and enslave whomever cannot be pacified; make public examples of their indignity and humiliating destruction.

    For example, Elon Musk has many children. How would he feel to see Abu Ghraib-like imagery of all of them, forming human pyramids; waterboarded; rectally forcefed pasta; fit into coffins full of cockroaches; bound in hoods and strung on electric wires to stand on cardboard boxes lest they fall and are electrocuted? That is America. When I think of America, I imagine the hooded man wires attached standing on the box; that is its true face. Why is it in denial? Why does it refuse to embrace its destiny and deploy its greatest weapons against its worst enemies, who have made it into the deindustrialised shithole country it is? And why does everyone like Crooke never consider what would have to be done to force such people into the ground forever?

    Technology would allow spectacle of all this, besides, like Anglo-Saxons quartering thieves and displaying them on the side of the road; never had England been safer than in that time. Have they learned nothing from their CIA experiments on how to destroy human souls?

    Enhanced interrogation techniques may not deter warlike, aggressive, and barbarian peoples. But there should be no doubt they would strike the darkest fear into the hearts of the transhuman liberal elites, who dream of AI gods and eternal life.

  2. Kalen says:
    @anonymous123asdbd

    Oligarchs can be schooled effectively by a big stick. Cold War was a case in point. It’s was an ideological existential conflict oligarchy couldn’t lose as what it would’ve meant was their own demise. Today what would they lose if Russians, Chinese won. Russian borscht and Chinese food in MacDonalds. Nothing else would’ve changed as both oligarchs would’ve made a deal.

    Instead during Cold War they had to accept sacrifices of their greed and give up on their delusions of grandeur and total control in order to pacify population already angry and supported by Oligarchs’ mortal enemy communists. They had to subordinate their greed and desire to social policies that benefit people while expose them to anti communist propaganda and socio-ideological competition.
    When rent in Soviet Union was 2% of salary they couldn’t charge 25% or they have pay more salary to maintain rent profits. The same way they made most housing affordable. Big stick and people’s power in unity is what May dislodge oligarchy making them more tame.

    The other way is to reject dollar.

    • Thanks: TitusAlone
    • Replies: @N. Joseph Potts
    , @Quinn
  3. ” … the US bond market (debt market) remains today on tenderhooks…”

    Please correct to ” … the US bond market (debt market) remains today on tenterhooks…”

    Tenterhook (noun) (15th Century): “a sharp hooked nail used esp. for fastening cloth on a tenter.” — Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition

    • Agree: martin_2
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    , @rgl
  4. Birthday says:

    Love this fast train wreck.World will be liberated. Peter Thiel will rot in decomposed desert of Negev The data on his health will be available to the library of S Africa and janitor from India . Steve Banon will take the mantle of the movement .May be US can still be saved .

    • Replies: @rgl
  5. anon[180] • Disclaimer says:
    @anonymous123asdbd

    The correct treatment of the oligarchs was prescribed by Xi of China.He showed Ali Baba who matters .The guy was waiting to see a minor official. Here Zuckerberg and Musk are feted by the entire gallery of standing in ovation bribed psychopaths sitting inside the Congress .
    Too long boomers have swallowed the idea that wealth means hard work earned success and divined by Jesus .Western culture has long been monolithic in relation to liberty,wealth,and religion. Corruption dictated the appearances of the public faces of the forces. Boomers received it as God driven human success. DOGE is the latest attempt to siphon off more from these boomers and their kids.

  6. Rich says:

    The “tech bros” win. There’s no stopping them. Just as the industrialists took over the world in their time, these ultra-wealthy tycoons have enough money to buy every congressman 10x over. In a kleptocracy like America, it’s money that matters. The coalition of the White majority and the wealthy tech tycoons is similar to how the old Plantation owners controlled the South. Whites are needed to perform the tasks necessary to keep this new machine going, Hispanics will do the manual labor and blacks will go to prison. Looks like they’re pulling it off to me.

    The Trump-Musk feud appears to have something to do with the Palintir deal. If it’s real. But Theil is in charge and he’ll tell Musk what to do in the end.

  7. Notsofast says:

    this article and all others like it, are a load of codswallop, because it doesn’t address the real problem, that being the federal reserve, which was imposed upon us in 1913, by the banksters that assured us they could do a better job of handling our treasury and mint, to insure a stable value to the dollar and insure full employment, for a slight fee of course.

    the federal reserve, 12 privately owned banks masquerading as a government agency, quickly revealed why they were so interested in maintaining full employment, by then unconstitutionally imposing an income tax on all wages, telling us that this would make the fat cats pay their fair share of the tax bill through a graduated income tax, that then, gradually shifted the burdon to the working class, by giving endless loop holes to grifters like our “president”, the king of bankruptcy.

    they immediately began their series of endless wars, to enrich themselves by building an every larger federal deficit, on which they enrich themselves and the daddy warbucks, that own these private banks. the burden was placed further on to the working class by ever reducing the corporate taxes and increasing the taxes on hourly based workers that cannot hide their income, having their taxes vacuumed out of their paychecks directly.

    these greedy banksters have built a financial house of cards, amassing an unpayable 37 trillion dollar debt that enriches them every step of the way, but has now grown so big they can’t figure out how to pay themselves the vig anymore. we run a 3 trillion deficit every year adding a trillion to the debt every 100 days. all of this talk of reorganizing the debt, is just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.

    they know this is all just kabuki theater and their real solution is to destroy the dollar, make it worth less and less in value until it’s completely worthless, as they transfer their wealth into bitcoin and buy every hard asset they can get their hands on, while the dollar still has any value. this is why we have this shameless grifter in the whitehouse surrounding himself with crypto billionaires and a.i. mavens, to lock us into the financial matrix, that will keep track of their 300 million debt slaves.

    the real question is why we should have to pay interest on our own money in the first place. lincoln asked this question, with the creation of the greenback dollar and was given a bullet in the brain as an answer. some say jfk was about to ask this same question when he received the same answer before he asked. the real issue is one of compound interest but of course, i will be accused of anti-semitism for asking such a question.

    we are currently giving a quarter of the taxes carved out of the backs of the working class, to who? why the federal reserve and their bankster buddies that own and use the fed, as their private savings and loan holding company. that’s right, big brother and the holding company, well there’s your problem right there. but don’t worry your pretty little head, the experts are about to give you the solution, yet another war. we’re making iran an offer they can’t refuse, go to war with us, or we’ll go to war with you.

    so go on, take another little piece of my paycheck baby, you know when you got it, cause it makes you feel good….

  8. I’ve never heard of this Hanley-guy before. But somehow, I suspect he isn’t the (((main force))) that controls Trump anyway.

  9. Trump the disgusting Orange Yid, I’m ashamed to admit, did fool me into voting for him the first time; first time I’d voted in 20+ years.

    But here we are, with Orange Yid 2.0 and as usual, no progress on anything. Fifty million illegals fucking, breeding, consuming revenue with no effort to get them out – and it’s trivially easy to do so…

    1.) Begin to indict and jail employers who employ them; they’d be fired in their millions overnight

    1a.) Those that employ illegals that have murdered someone – execute them for capital crimes

    2.) Same with land lords who rent to them.

    These laws have been on the books since the 50s

    Secondly, no sending money outside of the US w/o a SSN, and all money going to Mexico and the top 4 other immigrant countries is taxed at 50%. Next 10, 25%

    Thirdly, being back exile. You want to protest in this country for invading foreigners, you get deported, stripped of citizenship and your assets sold at auction.

    Last, pass legislation that if you’re caught in the country illegally 90 days from passage, you’re branded with a number / barcode and it’s assumed you’ve consented to 10 years of state labor.

    Oh and no more paid protesting. Make it a 25 year felony, after which see point 3

    One of the secrets of the (((American)))) Empire is that, when America fucks over yet another country and blows shit up, yet doesn’t conquer it or extract it’s resources like traditional colonial empires the reason is very simple: the American people themselves via taxes and inflation are the real subjugated and conquered people as they ook and eek like apes at 500 million dollar bombers blowing hapless brown people to bits, more America FUCK YEAH wars that yet again end in a hilarious retreat.

    Anyways, the solutions to literally 90% of America’s problems are very evident yet … the Orange Yid, Congress, etc… do nothing. No matter what party controls the levers of power. For what, 3 generations now?

    The US is owned lock stock and barrel and you’re not voting your way out, friend. Leviathan will go on until the last shekel is sucked from in and then? Well, collapse is what you make of it

    • Agree: Same old same old, Quinn
  10. Crazy that Crooke is still out here writing about some kind of imaginary “Trump Project” other than Trump flossing his teeth with Netanyahu’s pubes.

    Time to retire, bro.

    • Troll: Vinnyvette
    • Replies: @Quinn
  11. Well, first Trump was obliged to do a deal in order to be elected. He had to do a deal with the U.S. ‘money circus’ (the ultra-rich), not only on how to rescue the U.S. economy, but he then had to ‘square’ this with the panjandrums of the ‘dark’ Establishment who control much of America’s political ‘life’.

    Give me a FUCKING break.

    Deal? Yes.

    With Who?

    JEWS.

  12. Trumpsy-Wumpsy on a wall
    very greatest of them all

    Trumpsy-Wumpsy took a fall
    bust to pieces all-in-all

    forty score of MAGA men
    couldn’t put him together again

    • Troll: Vinnyvette
    • Replies: @Vinnyvette
  13. @A_Hand_Hidden

    From direct personal experience as an employer in California long ago, I’ll tell how this rot evolved for decades.

    Nearly all employers use direct deposit, yet illegals couldn’t get bank accounts, which require picture ID and a valid SSN. So they worked at high levels to allow Mexican passports to be used with no SSN, and then local Mexican consulates will issue an ID with their local address to help with bank accounts and apt. applications.

    Every quarter employers submit their wage data, and SSA replies if the numbers don’t match the name. So they know of the millions of foreigners working illegally, but do nothing but send a quarterly notice that employers must correct it.

    But wages are withheld for income taxes, and foreigners want that money, so they file tax returns with their false SSNs. This is crime! Does the IRS report this to ICE for a raid? No, they send them an ITN they can use as an SSN and send them their refund money and welfare benefits like Earned Income Credit.

    I suspect this still goes on today.

    • Thanks: Rich, A_Hand_Hidden, JPS
    • Replies: @Carlton Meyer
  14. Donald Trump is a child fucker and a jew dick sucker. The United States Secret Service protects a pedophile. Change my mind.

    • Agree: Same old same old
    • Troll: Vinnyvette
    • Replies: @Cloverleaf
    , @Ustasha
  15. @Carlton Meyer

    Let me add this is why corporate titans (through their media) threw a fit when ICE wanted to access to SSA and IRS computers. This would reveal names and addresses of millions of foreigners working in the USA illegally for years. I’m not sure what’s happen since then as Trump hints that illegals are good if they have a job.

  16. ghali says:

    Trump is a cowardly dog on a Jewish leach. Iran now has a choice: to submit to US-Zionist dictates or to emulate North Korea’s defensive policy by developing nuclear weapons as its main defense tool. If it fails to do so, it will remain defenseless and at the mercy of its US-Zionist enemies.

    • Troll: Vinnyvette
    • Replies: @Armageddon
    , @Anonymous
    , @Quinn
  17. Power corrupts, superpower super-corrupts.

  18. @A_Hand_Hidden

    Nothing is possible unless and until the Real Power is named and blamed.

    There has to be a revolution in noticing and saying it like it is.

    There seems to be stirrings of that among the younger generation.

    When boomer Jews and boomer goyim are retired and gone, maybe the younger Jews in power will have to answer to the younger goyim.

    • Agree: Quinn
    • Replies: @anon
    , @anon
  19. There was never a Trump project. Trump, from the first day he entered into the daily life of Americans, has been a Jewish con-artist seeking to enrich himself while serving Israel.

    Trump voters, you asked for this. The rest of us will hold you accountable when the time comes. It’s time for the Jewish lies to end permanently.

    • Agree: Quinn
    • Troll: Vinnyvette
    • Replies: @Vinnyvette
  20. anon[356] • Disclaimer says:

    NATO attacks Iran (unprovoked) on the eve of the unprovoked Barbarossa anniversary (June 22, 1941). Jews were behind both calamities. History regurgitates all the time because the human mind stays the same. E-V-I-L.

  21. @anonymous123asdbd

    It was not Antonius but Valerian who got executed with molten gold poured by the Persians in his throat.

    Oligarchs pushing for a trans-human agenda should be put in their right place by threatening to confiscate their wealth should they persists at their goal to ultimately make humans pliant slaves. The problem is that they are in control of the state. That leaves popular revolution as the only option. Unfortunately, America’s hoi polloi lack any revolutionary spirit like most of their Western brethren. Humanity does face its darkest hour.

    • Replies: @True Blue
  22. Quinn says:

    Trumpism is over. He betrayed America to serve Jews. And everyone can’t help but see it, now or later.

  23. Anon[345] • Disclaimer says:

    Federal Insolvency Crisis Hits in 2027. Baked in the Cake.

    Thats when interest costs consume between 30-35% of Federal Revenue.

    Watch the 10-year. As long at stays above 4% – involvency happens in 2027

    • Replies: @eah
  24. Rush says:

    Thiel is gay and has no connection to the future of humanity.

    • Replies: @Rich
  25. Anonymous[297] • Disclaimer says:

    Death to America!
    Death to UK!
    Death to Israel!

    Never surrender to terrorists and murderers! Fight and free your people!

  26. Anonymous[286] • Disclaimer says:
    @Quinn

    That’s it in a nutshell.

    As of last night we find ourselves forced to simultaneously finance three Jewish wars (Ukraine, Gaza, Iran) while our country is trillions of dollars in debt. How insane is that?

    We all know Israel is America’s greatest enemy on all levels. They are circling the drain and taking the US down with it. Just as Major TJ “King” Kong gleefully rode the launched bomb in the last scene of Dr. Strangelove, that is now Donald Trump whooping and hollering and waving his cowboy hat into the abyss. And he wants to take us along for the ride because, you know, “it’s a beautiful thing.”

    • Agree: Jim H
    • Replies: @Disinfected
  27. Daniel Rich says: • Website

    “Forbes also reports that billionaire political spending is now an astonishing 160 times higher than in 2010.”

    Solution is simple: no more than $1 contributions… that’s per person…

    Oh, and did you know these guys/gals [billionaires] don’t pay a dime in taxes…?

    Wait for the knock on your door when you… miss your down payment :o]

    Go shoot a few… dang.., ehm, tequila shots…

  28. maskazer says:

    Congratulations in advance to all compatriots and free society around the world on Iran’s entry into the group of nuclear-weapon states, and also accept our sincere congratulations on the destruction of the West’s military-espionage-terrorist base in the Middle East, formerly known as Israel. With thanks and respect.

    • Thanks: Armageddon
  29. eah says:
    @Anon

    A nation with the ability to create as much of its own currency as needed (essentially what the US has been doing for many years now) cannot become ‘insolvent’ — it’s a question of what a dollar will buy (purchasing power), including internationally, i.e. exchange rates — also worldwide acceptance of the dollar, e.g. as a medium for international settlement and as a ‘reserve currency.’

    In contrast, Argentina has faced numerous insolvency crises over the years, because they (foolishly) took on a lot of USD debt, via e.g. loans from the IMF — obviously Argentina cannot create US dollars, they have to earn them via trade — with the help of complicit courts, Jewish vulture capitalist/parasite Paul Singer exploited this some years ago.

    • Replies: @Anon
  30. True Blue says:
    @Joe Levantine

    It was not Antonius but Valerian who got executed with molten gold poured by the Persians in his throat.

    Try Marcus Licinius Crassus

    • Thanks: Armageddon
    • Replies: @Armageddon
  31. Ogre says:

    Interesting analysis. It’s very hard to find any information on Lee Hanley, nothing on the usual search engines. An enigma!
    US needs a credible 3rd political party, Musk has the money and the motivation to achieve this and if he does succeed in setting it up before the midterms then maybe the US can survive.

  32. Ogre says:
    @Notsofast

    Absolutely 100%. Crooke and every other ‘sensible’ analyst never mention the unmentionable bank, out of fear, ignorance or something darker. The solution to our problem is simple, close down the unmentionable bank and imprison the owners and management. Would take about a week to sort it out.
    No, this won’t happen of course. Instead, we have to read endless articles spinning shite narratives to avoid the obvious cancer to our lives. Headwrecking and soul destroying, that’s what living in the west is and will continue to be until the end of my time.

    • Agree: kiwk
    • Replies: @Notsofast
  33. @ghali

    No, there is no choice. Iran will obviously never surrender. Why would they? They have always had the upper hand and Trump has done them a huge favor with this foolish and pointless attack. The pro-West reformists have lost all credibility with the public and are in hiding. Pezeshkian, Aragchi, and the rest of them are done. “Reformism” and “liberalism” are now officially dead and buried. Now, everything comes down to blood and soil. Sacred nationalism is the new ruling ideology and the IRGC is in full control.

    Iran will exit the NPT and kick out the IAEA. They will develop their nuclear deterrent and nobody can stop them. They will kick the US out of West Asia once and for all, no matter how long it takes and how many body bags get sent back to the US to be labeled as “traumatic brain injuries”. “Israel” will cease to exist and the Palestinians will be liberated from their oppression and dispossession.

    All thanks to Trump and his infinite stupidity. The Jews made a hell of a choice with this guy. Jews, masters of their own self-destruction.

  34. @True Blue

    And it was the Parthians, not the Persians, who supposedly poured the molten gold to “mock his thirst for wealth,” per Wikipedia. This was during the Parthian period of the Persian Empire (the second empire, after the Achaemenids and before the Sassanids).

    • Replies: @karel
  35. The “Trump Project” never existed. While the American People have been fed up with the Establishment who runs things since at least the start of this century, and Make America Great Again was a promise that resonated, Trump only wanted to join The Club. He is the only President whose worth went down (first term); he wants a legacy as President.

    Even with Insane McCain types such as John Bolton and Mile Pompeo, Trump could not deliver the blood- and treasure-sucking war corruption which is the basis of America. That has changed. Biden delivered HIS and Obama’s Ukraine War (Obama had many!) starting in 2009 when he became VP (and Viceroy of Ukrainian corruption); he solidified his place in the Club (Hitler was also a member) with the 15 months of co-authoring the genocide in Palestine. Trump not only continued the genocide but earned his place at The Table of the Club with HIS war on Iran. US Political Establishment demands WAR, Trump understands that after his ‘well-constructed’ freest and fairest Election loss in 2020.

    America’s manufacturing industry, it’s innovation and high-tech inventions and jobs are gone forever, thanks to Reagan, the Bushes and particularly Bill Clinton. The EFFECTIVE corporate tax rate has been in freefall this whole century (and since Citizens United should be the same as the Individual Income Tax rate). There will always be countries with lower corporate tax rates to attract what are now GLOBAL corporations (Ireland did well with that approach). Like the Greek ship building magnates who pay no taxes, the corporations will move to another country (like Panama or Libya, on paper) if a nation attempts to collect owed taxes. As Leona Helmsley correctly noted Taxes are for Little People.

  36. i wasn’t fooled into votong for the current executive. I knew full that despite having the resources at his disposal to make or advance change in the face of opposition, he tends to fold. iran-israel, the support is to the might in this case so he with the wind, but in the face of wonds that appear to casuse hi hassle , real hassle and thought and wherwithall . . .

    taking on his pals in business on immigration — no grit. Beating up on Iran with Israel in tow or doibg te towing

    doesn’t reure any grit.

    • Replies: @anon
  37. Rob Misek says:

    The problem here is obvious: The values of the Populist revolutionaries run counter to those venture-capitalist backers of

    Sounds like 1776.

    Only this time Jews control both sides, as planned.

  38. Rich says:
    @Rush

    With all the life extension experiments, cloning and test-tube babies, the West’s degenerate ruling class believes the future is “gay” and that reproduction will be carried out by government license and won’t involve normal sexual relations between a husband and wife.

  39. Anonymous[399] • Disclaimer says:
    @Eustace Tilley (not)

    The future of America does not look good – America’s elite love being rich and having the bulk of America as poor. Their kids get into prestigious schools and they can go on expensive vacations while the poor can go eat shit. And with the future generations of poor people being non-Jewish and non- White, they will be guaranteed to be poor forever. Meanwhile there will be the image of China as a truly open society where every Chinaman has equal opportunity. America’s poor better have a good hook shot if they want to be rich. And be at least 6′ 10″.
    How long before the next revolution? Trust me – there will be enough poor Whites to start one.

  40. Anon[207] • Disclaimer says:
    @eah

    A nation with the ability to create as much of its own currency as needed (essentially what the US has been doing for many years now) cannot become ‘insolvent’ — it’s a question of what a dollar will buy (purchasing power)

    So wheelbarrows of cash to buy a loaf of bread ain’t a insolvency crisis ?

    🤣

    • Agree: N. Joseph Potts
    • Replies: @eah
  41. anon[363] • Disclaimer says:
    @Priss Factor

    When boomer Jews and boomer goyim are retired and gone, maybe the younger Jews in power will have to answer to the younger goyim.

    With any luck, the younger generation will see all organized religion for the scam it is, and usher us into an actual age of enlightenment free from the ‘God’ swindle.

    • Agree: Quinn
  42. DDNDN says:

    Trump Attacks Iran… This is why…


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Miro23
  43. Anonymous[226] • Disclaimer says:

    Interesting example of the viewpoint diversity you get under US state indoctrination. Lots of scholastic International Relations type fixation on interests and power balance. But even among vo-tech trained Y Combinator spergs, there’s significant revulsion against US participation in grave Jew supremacist crime. Some ethical reasoning. Light on legalities, thanks to US suppression of the relevant black-letter law.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341639

    As shown by the Oil Platforms and Aerial Incident cases, Iran’s strategy has always been to fight the war to a draw and win the lawfare. Nobody’s looking ahead to ICJ/ICC (or complementary national) adjudication of US joint responsibility for Jew supremacist torture, genocide, and now aggression.

    N.B. this is a world where Eurasia’s legalists have a nonballistic hypersonic missile gap, overwhelmingly dominant industrial base, and tested, qualitatively superior combined arms doctrine. The countermeasures will be fun to watch. At this point the sole remaining prop for CIA impunity is MAD.

  44. shahnameh says:

    Nudge Theory Cognitive Infiltration for Beneficial Cognitive Diversity 2012 Reauthorization of the Smith Mundt Act Behavioral Insghts Teams(BITS) ,Yawn. How did we get here?

  45. GMC says:
    @Notsofast

    Agree, but the problem now is that the Fed , the 2nd and 3rd rogue USGov has already stole soooo mmmmuch money already, that they are entirely monied up and since nobody did shit about it , they will continue to steal as much as they can because much of the planet is still using the dollar as one of the kings in the worlds currency exchanges. I see this when I travel – every country takes the dollar-legally or in the market places – Ru. included. The problem is that I’m part of the Domestic America too and will get F d.

    The domestic USA can, will and is falling faster than a roller coster { as I hear from Chicago } } but that Won’t Matter to the Fed, or the Thieves, because internationally speaking, they are still taking the dollar, giving out the dollar, buying countries with the dollar, using the dollar in laundering cities like Dubai, East Europe, Austria , etc. and this can go on for a long time , even if Domestic USA falls down . The USA doesn’t own the dollar – the Feds do and guys like TRump are not going to start printing our own money. We were Regime Changed – a long time ago – Amigo. I pretty much said what you did – but I feel better that I got it off my chest – lol

    • Agree: werpor, Alfred
    • Replies: @Notsofast
  46. @Le Bouffon du Génocide

    Donald Trump child f-cker and jew dick sucker reading his favourite grimoire.

    • Replies: @Miville
  47. @Armageddon

    Sometimes you sound too damn positive about the outcome. But we shall see.

    • Agree: TitusAlone
  48. karel says:
    @Notsofast

    Good try for reprimanding A. Crook, but what is the point and why is it so important at the moment? I must have read hundreds of articles about the perils of the Federal reserve and I do not truely miss not having read another reference to that problem.

  49. anon[636] • Disclaimer says:
    @Priss Factor

    ” If Americans knew what they ( Israelis ) do inside USA, there would be a pogrom ” Admiral Moorer

  50. karel says:
    @Armageddon

    A fluid gold was always a good investment.

  51. @WelcomeBackSir

    The only thing missing is the dog collar and leash! On Trump of course.

    Is that lobster kosher? As I recall from an old Seinfeld episode, it’s not. Not that Netty’s a legitimate Jew or anything.

    • Replies: @WelcomeBackSir
  52. @Anonymous

    Waiting for the actual assessments tomorrow morning. US is of course calling it a “total success,” but you know how that goes. Not getting the planes shot down would be viewed as a total success these days for the gang that no longer shoots straight. Hopefully it’s just another political stunt by tRump to save his prodigious bacon.

    • Replies: @Jeffrey A Freeman
  53. anon[257] • Disclaimer says:
    @EliteCommInc.

    youre a fucking retard.

    • Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  54. No. Not at all.

    This site is unraveling into total irrelevance, entropy and obsolescence.

    This is old news: Nathan McCormack.

    It yields zero search results.

  55. tkc says:

    This column carries a June 17, 2025, date and the first few comments had dates around that. I write this comment on 6/22/25 after Trump, “the first peace president in my life time,” bombed Iran. Lead story everywhere, including the super Zionist Breitbart, where it had almost 17,000 comments when I logged on with a huge number of them anti-war and anti-Trump. We will have to wait to see where the voters stand, but I think Trump lost a huge portion of his MAGA base. I got drafted in 1970 when sadly men like Trump had hereditary afflictions like bone spurs, which certainly will prevent his draft age son Barron from serving his country in killing Muslims. Only evil people support war. Smart evil people like Trump do it for profit and power, or as Achilles would say, for kleos and time. Stupid evil people support war because of their innate natures as followers.

    • Thanks: Madbadger
  56. David Bowie – I’m Afraid of Americans


    Video Link

  57. @Armageddon

    Iran will exit the NPT and kick out the IAEA. They will develop their nuclear deterrent and nobody can stop them. They will kick the US out of West Asia once and for all, no matter how long it takes and how many body bags get sent back to the US to be labeled as “traumatic brain injuries”. “Israel” will cease to exist and the Palestinians will be liberated from their oppression and dispossession.

    Here’s hoping, but they still need to strengthen their ties to Russia and China. Maybe DC’s latest desperation stunt will be the straw that stirs that drink?

  58. Anonymous[298] • Disclaimer says:
    @ghali

    “Trump is a cowardly dog on a Jewish leach.”

    As per usual, the Paki can neither spell nor forecast properly. America put Iran on a LEASH last night and therefore, that dog ain’t gonna bite… barking is what it’ll do like the rest of the Muzzies from here on to the end of the eternity.

  59. rgl says:
    @Eustace Tilley (not)

    Thanks for that. I was going to offer the correction but decided not to in order to avoid the ‘grammar nazi’ comments. You are a better man/woman than I.

  60. Mohammad Marandi & Pepe Escobar: U.S. STRIKES IRAN… And Iran’s Response Is Pure DESTRUCTION


    Video Link

  61. Miro23 says:
    @DDNDN

    Excellent video. The good news is that non-MSM media is much better developed in 2025 than it was in 2003 and people are much better informed.

    People know a lot more than they did 20 years ago and Israel and the US Jewish dictatorship are not popular.

    Louis XVI, the last King of France before the French Revolution, was executed by guillotine in 1793 after being found guilty of treason by the National Convention. His reign was marked by financial crises, social unrest, and growing dissent against the monarchy. His attempts at reform and his eventual flight from Paris further fueled revolutionary anger, leading to the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic.

    Google A.I.

    • Replies: @Miville
  62. @Anonymous

    Iran just retaliated fool, get off the crack pipe.

  63. rgl says:
    @Birthday

    I have little faith in what you say. Simply put, there is too much hate in america. However that hate is channelled to wrong directions. Whites hate Blacks, Blacks hate Whites, democrats hate republicans and vice versa. TPTB have effectively deflected the hate that should be directed at them unto the ‘lesser masses’, i.e. the divide and conquer thing. It still works, for populations in our own countries as well as in other countries.

    Until the common enemy is defined as it should be, there will be no uprising, no rebellion. It is the obscenely rich that seek the wars and deny people their health and well being. These people have more money than they could ever possibly spend in a lifetime, but will use that money to influence the vote that elects persons that enable them to acquire yet more money.

    Nothing will change until we untermench stop squabbling with each other and unite against the common foe.

    See notsofast above. This poster knows who the common enemy is.

    • Agree: Gore 2004, Cloverleaf
    • Thanks: Robert Bruce
  64. rgl says:

    UnFknBelievable says:

    [Trump] “had to do a deal with the U.S. ‘money circus’ (the ultra-rich) … ”

    ………

    JEWS.

    One in the same. I suspect you know this, but that you are pissed because Crooke did not specifically say this.

    There are the obscenely rich that aren’t of Jewish heritage, but they are a minority.

  65. eah says:
    @Anon

    Technically, no — you can laugh if you want, but it just makes you look stupid.

    By the way, per one metric, debt to GDP, Japan is in much worse shape than the US, yet you never hear about looming ‘insolvency’ for Japan.

    There are better ways to look at this:

    Taxpayers today derive no current benefit from the taxes they pay, which increasingly go to cover interest on the accumulated inter-generational debt — further, it is far-fetched to claim that taxpayers today derive any benefit from previous deficit spending — they have been turned into indentured debt slaves, held hostage by state tyranny exercised via the coercive tax system.

    Also, deficits and the accumulated debt destroy the value of labor, i.e. the value of the daily work people do — every dollar they earn buys less and less.

    The whole system is evil — but it isn’t evil because the US faces looming ‘insolvency’ — it’s evil because it turns citizens into debt slaves, and destroys the value of their labor.

  66. @Kalen

    BOTH oligarchs? Which/who?

  67. Trump’s strategy to maintain the dollar as the primary trading currency, however, depends on the confidence others have in the U.S.

    Confidence or fear. Imho, confidence is long gone and instilling fear works less and less. The US is in dire need of “picking a crappy little country and throwing it against a wall”. Well, Iran doesn’t exactly fit the definition, especially if China and Russia involve themselves more. However, the problem with Iranians is that two and a half millennia later, they still suffer from the same delusions that made them lose the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, and led them to being conquered by Alexander the Great: they are prone to overassuming. Somewhat fortunately for them, their current enemies are affected with the same character flaw.

  68. Anonymous[163] • Disclaimer says:

    All the Langley bots say Trump is bombing Iran to bend over for Bibi’s little dick. Bullshit. Trump is bombing Iran to bend over for DDO Sylvester, who’s been demanding this exact common plan and conspiracy for war through his sockpuppets

    https://libya360.wordpress.com/2025/06/21/oh-look-a-think-tank-manufacturing-consent-to-bomb-iran-with-tactical-nukes/

    Atlantic Council is of course yet another of CIA’s fake NGOs

    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/04/war-mongering-cia-connected-think-tank-calls-for-world-war-iii/

    Bibi is as incidental to this CIA crime as Zelensky. Sylvester can always get another shmuck to front it.

  69. Chris Moore says: • Website

    The ‘Tech Bros’ vision is wildly radical; it is ‘authoritarian libertarianism’. Peter Thiel, for example, argues that a small posse of Oligarchs should rule the empire, unfettered by any democratic limitation; that the future should be based in ‘disruptive technology’; be robotic and AI driven; and that the populace should be tightly ‘managed’ through AI control.

    Of course “liberal” ZOG tech totalitarian (((Peter Thiel))) does. And so does his “liberal” Zionist tech partner in crime (((Alex Karp))). These are ZOG made men who live in a privileged bubble world created by massive government spending (just like Israel) on their warped hebrew “vision” of reality, which is as artificial, delusional and insane as (((Netanyahu’s))). And ultimately, equally violent.

    Like tech totalitarian (((Zuckerberg))), these Zionist grifters can only sustain their fantasy and false reality through massive, taxpayer-funded transfers of wealth to jews and their Judas Class stooges via enslavement of dumb “goyim” cattle.

    That’s you, average folk.

    • Agree: Madbadger
    • Replies: @chris
  70. chris says:
    @Chris Moore

    The ‘Tech Bros’ vision is wildly radical; it is ‘authoritarian libertarianism’.

    Yeah, exactly, it’s libertarianism for me and authoritarianism for thee.

    Though the “libertarianism” is not of an actual but of a parasitical kind, extracting its resources also from thee.

  71. Miville says:
    @Miro23

    The French revolution was not a revolt of the people of France against their elites. If anything it was rather born out of even greater contempt for the peasant mass by the white-collar professions of a few big cities like Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons, while they could avail, so as to crush down the unwilling people when they proved unresponsive to their propaganda, of the aid of hoodlums of Marseilles (not unlike those of right now, of rather Maghrebi descent) who had always considered the hinterland people as just good for pillaging and raiding for galley slaves. Marianne who became the emblematic women of the Republic as a counter-model to Virgin Mary was fashioned after a Jewish Madam of Marseilles. The Enlightenment philosophical movement that was to result in that revolution was rabidly anti-populist and rebuked the nobility and the clergy for not exploiting the populace with all due industrial efficiency like with modern cattle-breeding. The death of Louis XVI was pushed for mostly by the prince Philip of Orleans who was planning to usurp the throne so as to establish a business-friendly monarchy on the British model : he didn’t see Robespierre (Rubinstein clumsily Frenchified) coming and trying to establish an even more villainous Jewish-led Noachide dictatorship (with Robespierre’s personality cult as the great priest of the Jewish Supreme being conceived as pure reason without compassion nor common decency) after the example set by Cromwell more than one century earlier, an experiment which was to last one year and a half until a government by a committee of unelected technocrats was installed that was soon to morph by stages into the Napoleonic Roman-style dictatorship and imperial system.

    • Thanks: werpor
  72. Miville says:
    @Cloverleaf

    He can read with ease both the Talmud and Goebbels and the baby of both is the Art of the Deal. Who told you that that Jewish lout could nor read nor write?

  73. @Disinfected

    Indeed…
    Netanyahu’s fathers last name was Mileikowsky, so he can eat the lobster LOL

    Did you see the movie called : “The Lobster (2015)” ?
    It’s dating in that mindset…

    • Replies: @Disinfected
  74. @Quinn

    Too bad it took him starting WWIII for the MAGAts to see their own noses. People who didn’t have their heads up their asses knew when he attacked Syria in his first term. First term – remember that, MAGAts? You seem to have forgot.

    • Agree: Quinn
  75. @rgl

    That’s a great sentiment if you’re dealing with a foreign occupying force whose numbers are less than 1% of your population. Except we aren’t. The Jews at the top of the totem pole fit that description, but they have armies of goons brainwashed to do their bidding who will never even consider going against them. Just go look at Fox Jews right now for all the chimps clapping at Trump’s illegal and insane warmongering.

    The issue we face is that a majority of “whites” worships a Jewish con-artist as their god and read from a Jewish text repeatedly retranslated by cryptojews. The Christcucks have consistently betrayed the white race since their inception, yet continue to posture themselves as white civilization, when it’s white civilization that they destroyed to seize power.

    I’m done giving the Christcucks any credit. Trump started WWIII to serve the Jews because a bunch of brain-dead redneck Christcucks supported him in spite of all the evidence of what he was, and many of them still do so. Forget about the Jews, they could disappear over night: Christianity is the greatest enemy the white race has ever known. It is the insidious scheme that eats away at us and enslaves us.

    • Agree: werpor
  76. Madbadger says:
    @rgl

    Some of the squabbling untermench cannot be united with by people who have moral standards. I say this as a somewhat low life who does not believe the ends justify the means.

  77. I do wish he had written “tenterhooks” which has a defined meaning.

    As for Trump he is going down the Nixon Off-Ramp even if he escapes impeachment until after the Midterms. He may have fractured his MAGA base but he has made it futile to make agreements with US internationally. It is not just tourists that will stay away from US.

    To hit Russian A-bombers in the runway then Iranian nuclear facilities – in each case abusing International Inspection Treaties to do so – and committing War Crimes in each case – is not very clever if you really wanted to a) protect the earth resources b) prevent nuclear proliferation

    Trump has guaranteed Turkey will go for it as will Brazil and no doubt Algeria. The man is demented. He will face an angry people when energy prices soar and food prices too – Iran is mining the Straits of Hormuz which should boost risk premiums on shipping with that narrow navigable channel subject to Houthi missiles

    Europe will turn on USA – it faces a catastrophic winter ahead with mounting unemployment and angry population

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  78. “To understand why a voter could revile ‘the élite’ and [yet still] revere the billionaire scion of a New York real estate fortune”.
    ***********************************************************************

    I hate the useless super-rich elite but support trump because he is kicking out the illegals. Mexico is our enemy, not iran or china or russia.

  79. DavidC says:

    “the U.S. bond-market (debt market) remains today on tenderhooks”.

    No, it doesn’t, it remains on TENTERHOOKS! At least get the sayings correct!

  80. gaze says:
    @Anonymous

    May I suggest having a 14-inch black lolly in your mouth to increase your IQ.

  81. @anonymous123asdbd

    How does the CIA destroy a soul?? 🤔

  82. @Disinfected

    Were they even shot at at all?? 🤔

    • Replies: @Disinfected
  83. @anon

    Note: I am an advocate of free speech — no issues. however, in sending comments my direction to initiate or respond. I would ask that you refrain from using foul or colorful language.

    That may be. But that doesn’t cange that the current admin. is not managing events, they are merely responders.

    I have not sure whether the current Pres is attempting to devalue the dollar to increase sales of US goods. The economic battle at home and getting US working — real work is the goal. Acually owning products we produce. That is a hige yaks that requires taking on a financial mindset that simply opposes the entire suggestion. Because at the end of the day for that to occur they will make less money and the system will hire citizens.

    I am not distracted by Middle East gymnastics nor is it likely that attacking Iran is going to bring on a nuclear exchange of any kind. The responses by China and Russia bth are indicators that neither is committed to defending their Middle East partners. But China has made it clear tha are all too happy to have the US dance around in the region as long as it keeps them occupied and distracted from Asia.

    Now with respect to isarel’s and US agenda and accusations of nuclear weapos development. I have heard this soundg before. Iraq II. If there is evidece that Iran is a nuclear threat — bring it on. Thus far a lot of talk and no evidence. As for Israeli intel — hmmmm great intel on Pres Sadam — not. In essence what Israel is doing is the game Russia and China want to play spere of influence and “real politik” the might makes it so. Gaza, Palestine, Iran . . . . ) though granted Hamas’s acts instigated the matter) wether it justifies all Isarel does is another matter. But minus any real challenge if one can get away with it – then byall means do it, to one’s end. I don’t have any hatred for israel, theink they have a right to exist and all that — but they have a history of creating chaos and then crying foul play and blaming others. This is not new. It used to be that our CIA thought the tactic strange, but those days are gone.

    As opposed to directing events, we are playing third fiddle to Russia, China Isarel and even Israel. This is the same admin that claimed that Ukraine started the war in the Eastern Block. It’s the current admin that is failing to enforc immigration policy. It is my understand that some sports team blocked ICE doing their job. So that they can hire more and more illegal immigrants to put more money in the pockets of owners, players and Mexico.

    It is my understanding that we have fameed out crucial industries to foreign countries — some actual enemies of the US.

    Congress hasn’t the integrity to divorce itself from money interests which they themselves regulate as they make money from te same.

    A moron I may be, but that does not shift the needle on the issues.

  84. As for those of you who have been advocating for Russia’s war against Ukraine. I am at a loss to understand why you are critiquing Israel, Afterall, they are only employing the strategy of “sphere of influnce” by dominant actors. And one could easily and legitimately argue this is Israel’s sphere to do as they choose, just like Russia.

    Iran poses a treat because she is Muslim, she supports palestine, challemges israeli policy — even if by rhetoric alone — certainly more than Ukraine conduct against Russia — her act is one of self defense.

    This is where Dr. Sachs and Dr. Mearshiemer’s policy position backfires against them. Israel s only doing what they say is appropriate for her space of safety in the region.

  85. Notsofast says:
    @GMC

    i think they are purposely destroying the dollar and the economy. they see the dollar transactions in the brics nations, slipping out of their greedy hands and that’s what all of these wars are about. that’s why the u.s. is trying to tie them all up in proxy wars to destroy them economically, as they have for decades.

    look at the sneak attack on iran that happened just as china completed their railway into iran making them sanctions proof, through brics. the more dirty tricks and war crimes they pull off, the faster the world pulls out of dollar transactions, to protect themselves from ridiculous illegal sanctions and tariffs.

    trump appears to be the stupidest buffoon, to have ever walked the earth, but that’s just the part he’s playing, as he and his masters get ready to totally destroy the economy and loot the place like 90’s russia. somehow every move he makes, damages not only our economy but the entire zioneocon empire. all of this is timed with their crypto currencies they pull from their ass and the great a.i. replacement, which we have seen since the end of the covid bioweapon.

    have you tried to get hold of a human being on the phone in any large company lately and emails are answered with a.i., that never understands what you are asking. drones are now making soldiers even more expendable. soon the vast majority of the workforce will be redundant. billionaires like elon can command legions of bots and appear to be attempting to out position one another, spending billions in a.i.

    today’s gold rush, mines bitcoin and the robber barons have exceeded their predecessors, in their shameless displays of their unfathomable wealth. we are a full blown kakistocracy now, they don’t even attempt to hide it anymore. to think that president, could act in such a mafioso manner, bragging openly about illegally murdering foreign leaders and people not bat an eye, shows you the level of brainwashing achieved in the public in the last couple of decades. america’s brain has been soft boiled.

    • Agree: Robert Bruce
  86. Notsofast says:
    @Ogre

    completely agree with your analysis and that’s the sad part, it could easily be done but they are so entrenched and building new legal protections for themselves everyday. americans are cattle in the feed lot, they have been fattened for decades and now they are going to be ritualistically, financially slaughtered, in a shechita manner.

  87. GoySoy says:

    jews are not smart, but they are not stupid. If they get what they want, they will give the goyim something in return to forget about their atrocities.
    1. If they lose this war, it will be a worldwide conflict.
    2. If they win this war, I expect a debt jubilee to calm the masses.

    Everything is an illusion, and the truth is the only solution.

    • Replies: @GoySoy2
  88. @Notsofast

    One of the best posts I have seen on this website!!!!! It is direct and to the point. No BS!!!!!

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  89. GoySoy2 says:
    @GoySoy

    UNZ: Cheaper than a bartender:


    Video Link

  90. @Anonymous

    It’s Sunday, shouldn’t you be groveling for forgiveness from your dead Jew effigy?

  91. Anonymous[262] • Disclaimer says:

    Laying the groundwork for the postwar high-crimes tribunal, and for revisions to UN Charter Chapter V to prevent bad-faith interpretation for impunity

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20250622/draft-un-security-council-resolution-condemns-us-for-attack-on-iran-1122320179.html

    But first they have to nuke the beltway flat, wipe out the CIA regime. We will strew flowers and sweets!

  92. Initially, Jews tried to take down AMERICA FIRST.

    Then they decided to take it over and fill it up with Israel Firsters.

    Just like the GOP took over the Tea Party, Zionists took over MAGA.

    White race is the most pathetic race on the planet. Their religion is the worship of Jews.
    .

  93. Anonymous[146] • Disclaimer says:

    Pussy coward beltway assholes actually did win one against Iran. They won the global war on civilian airline passengers going to Dubai to shop!

    https://iransview.com/photos-you-may-not-have-seen-iranian-civil-plane-shot-down-by-us-navy/1290/

    When CIA loses this war they started, the ICC should raffle off the honor of hanging those fuckers in the high crimes tribunal.

  94. @WelcomeBackSir

    Yep. Nice comparison. About the time Farrell stopped being beefcake and began polishing his legitimate acting chops.

  95. @Jeffrey A Freeman

    Doesn’t seem so, but that might have been on purpose. If they knew they could absorb the hits – the more I read about the MOB the less impressed I was – they probably didn’t want to risk taking things up a notch.

  96. Tony says:

    Sounds like you the one unravelling. Get yourself some help there before its too late.

  97. The Trump Project now. Trump out-neoconned the neocons.
    Along with Netanyahu, both pulled a Pearl Harbor on Iran that was seeking negotiations.

    With the US acting like this, we should question the Good War narrative of WWII.


    Video Link

  98. Quinn says:
    @Notsofast

    Good summary. Proper punctuation/grammar would be taken much more seriously.

  99. Truth says:

    The Trump Project started “unraveling” roughly about the 3rd time he filed bankruptcy.

  100. Brewer says:

    As a result, the U.S. bond-market (debt market) remains today on tenderhooks, with every auction a nail-biter.

    The correct phrase is tenterhooks, not tenderhooks. This term comes from a time when people used hooks called tenterhooks to stretch cloth.

  101. @Paul Greenwood

    What’s going to happen to those rich Gulf states when they can’t get their oil out? I guess the locals can go back to living in the desert but those huge numbers of expats and subcontinentals could starve unless they get out in time. One solution could be building pipelines to Israel’s Mediterranean coast and exporting from ports there, but that won’t be viable as long as there is a threat of attacks by Iranians and Houthis. I think there are already plans for something like this, and this conflict could be a part of that. Then the Jews will control who gets the Middle Eastern oil, and if they decide that China shouldn’t get it, it won’t. Chaos in Iran, Syria and Iraq or stable pro-Western regimes in these countries would also be desirable to such Jewish plans.

  102. Quinn says:

    I just listened to the author on Judge Napolitano’s show today, 23 June 2025. He used the phrase “Trump was suckered…” (regarding intelligence about Iranian nuclear program).

    That’s all I need to hear, to know I can ignore the author.

    There is such a plethora of openly visible evidence to show Trump is willingly complicit in all he is doing. He is a megalomaniacal buffoon, installed by Jews, because he is easy to “manipulate” and happy to serve his Jewish power masters. He has intentionally deceived the USA and world with lies, and now he is moving forward with serving the Zionist agenda. Anyone calling Trump “tricked” anymore is making excuses for a criminal, and complicit in running cover for the evil.

    • Replies: @Big Z
  103. Quinn says:
    @Kalen

    F communists, totally Jewish. Oligarchic Jews created communism ffs.

  104. @Same old same old

    Trump voters asked for this and you will hold them accountable? Who was your candidate who isn’t bought and paid for by Israel the Jewish lobby, the oligarchy and the deep state? Kamala Harris?

    C’mon man… Who is your savior? Who you running in the next presidential election who’s going to promise to give you what you want and deliver the goods? I’ll be waiting to hold you accountable.

    • Replies: @Same old same old
  105. @Oikeamielinen

    “Trumpsy-Wumpsy on a wall
    very greatest of them all

    Trumpsy-Wumpsy took a fall
    bust to pieces all-in-all

    forty score of MAGA men
    couldn’t put him together again”

    Why don’t you grow the fuck up. You sound like reject from the movie jackass.

    Wait…You are a jackass.

    • Troll: Same old same old
  106. Quinn says:
    @Hulkamania

    I will admit Crooke has a lot of experience in relevant matters, but yes his take on Trump is sorely lacking.

  107. @Vinnyvette

    Stow it, Trumpet. There were many points along the road that this Jewish conman could have been knocked off the back of the truck. His loss in the prior election should have been the end of his story. Instead, he’s our God Emperor now, directly serving his Jewish paymasters. None of this should surprise you because he said this was what he wanted every time he had a chance. None of this should surprise you because he did all the same things in his first term. None of this should surprise you since his children are literal Jewish converts. Yet you were no doubt there every step along the way, especially considering you’re still trying to play defense, “but but but muh Kamala!”

    Here’s a fact you might not like: Kamala would not have started WWIII over Jews wanting more land. Kamala might have done other unpalatable things, but she would likely not have deployed the marines on Ameircans protesting masked goons grabbing people off the street and spiriting them away to foreign prisons without any trial.

    Better than that would have been you retarded MAGAts realizing you were being taken for a ride and organizing to support some other candidate in the primaries. Instead, it was all the Trump Train – straight to the White Auschwitz.

  108. Big Z says:
    @Quinn

    You are of course absolutely correct. There is a faint possibility that he was tricked at some stage, he is exceptionally ignorant.

  109. Lagertha says:

    NO. all of you are men who could NEVER be picked to be part of a B-2 bomber. You just click in your homes. You hire the illegals to mow your lawn & trim bushes.

    • Replies: @Lagertha
  110. Lagertha says:
    @Lagertha

    all of you are words, but no dic. All efffiminate, transy dudes who are not dudes…hahhahahhahahhahha

  111. Hegar says:

    Over simplifying things – one can see that the populist MAGA base are insisting on a return to a real human economy and well-paid employment prospects versus the contrasting dystopian view of theTech Bros, who see only a (non-human) disruptive tech, robotic and AI future. These visions are completely at odds with each other.

    There is zero proof of this “tech bro” future of robots (LOL). It’s the kind of garbage you write when you refuse to write about race and then have to come up with other reasons for why people do what they do. The author doesn’t mention the little detail that Mark Zuckerberg and other “tech bros” are Jews who want Whites to become a minority in every Western nation. Lumping Elon Musk together with them is ridiculous.

  112. “The overhang reflects the imbalance that built up after 1970…”

    Bro, my grandmother would love you. Are you dating?

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