2026 Political Chat
- Thread starter Goldhedge
- Start date
Welcome to the Precious Metals Bug Forums
Welcome to the PMBug forums - a watering hole for folks interested in gold, silver, precious metals, sound money, investing, market and economic news, central bank monetary policies, politics and more.
Why not register an account and join the discussions? When you register an account and log in, you may enjoy additional benefits including no Google ads, market data/charts, access to trade/barter with the community and much more. Registering an account is free - you have nothing to lose!
There was a knife involved, still, I'm happy...
- Messages
- 20,217
- Reaction score
- 11,859
- Points
- 288
Trump's Iran Move Reveals His Master Plan to Destroy Globalization
This video examines the global strategy behind President Trump’s recent actions toward Iran and the broader effort to dismantle the economic and geopolitical system known as globalization. Rather than continuing the framework of endless intervention or ideological warfare, this strategy seeks to reshape the global order around sovereign nation-states, industrial development, and mutually beneficial trade.We explore how events unfolding in the Middle East connect to a much larger transformation affecting China, Russia, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere. The analysis highlights the historical forces that built the globalization system and the emerging policies designed to replace it with a new framework centered on national development and economic sovereignty.
Understanding these shifts is essential for anyone seeking to grasp the strategic changes now underway in international relations and global economics.
- Messages
- 20,217
- Reaction score
- 11,859
- Points
- 288
Holter has always said for years "What happens when credit dies?"
Bill’s Commentary:
“We told you it was all about credit, you will soon see this to be true…”
Deutsche Bank Dumps After Flagging $30 Billion Exposure To Private Credit
Yet another canary in the ever growing coalmine that is private credit appeared this morning as Deustche Bank’s annual report flagged a significant €26 billion ($30 billion) exposure to private credit, an asset class that’s grappling with fund redemptions, scrutiny of underwriting standards and the impact of AI on some borrowers such as software makers.
As the slow-motion train-wreck gathers steam (most recently with Morgan Stanley, Cliffwater, and BlackRock gating investors in their private credit funds), investors are searching various financial entities balance sheets for exposures with the giant German lender itself warning:
Bill’s Commentary:
“Again, it is ALL about credit!”
Failed German 10 Year Government Bond Auction is a ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’
This is a short, but important article.
Short because there is not a ton of info out ‘there’ about the actual particulars of yesterday’s German Government bond auction.
Important, because when a 1st world sovereign power can’t sell enough debt to cover its stated needs, a canary just died in the coal mine-so to speak.
The publications of investing.com, gotrade.comand Bloomberg have articles up about the German Gov’t bond offering of one day ago. And yes, the war does have something to do with inflation and rates going up a bit. The above articles reported the rate of the new bond, but not much else. Big deal.
Read more here…
Bill’s Commentary:
“We told you it was all about credit, you will soon see this to be true…”
Deutsche Bank Dumps After Flagging $30 Billion Exposure To Private Credit
Yet another canary in the ever growing coalmine that is private credit appeared this morning as Deustche Bank’s annual report flagged a significant €26 billion ($30 billion) exposure to private credit, an asset class that’s grappling with fund redemptions, scrutiny of underwriting standards and the impact of AI on some borrowers such as software makers.
As the slow-motion train-wreck gathers steam (most recently with Morgan Stanley, Cliffwater, and BlackRock gating investors in their private credit funds), investors are searching various financial entities balance sheets for exposures with the giant German lender itself warning:
“Failures of a select number of sub-prime lenders in the U.S. increased investor focus on risks associated with private credit and raised wider concerns around underwriting standards and fraud risk.” |
Bill’s Commentary:
“Again, it is ALL about credit!”
Failed German 10 Year Government Bond Auction is a ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’
This is a short, but important article.
Short because there is not a ton of info out ‘there’ about the actual particulars of yesterday’s German Government bond auction.
Important, because when a 1st world sovereign power can’t sell enough debt to cover its stated needs, a canary just died in the coal mine-so to speak.
The publications of investing.com, gotrade.comand Bloomberg have articles up about the German Gov’t bond offering of one day ago. And yes, the war does have something to do with inflation and rates going up a bit. The above articles reported the rate of the new bond, but not much else. Big deal.
Read more here…
I see Trump, starting an unwinnable war in the Persian Gulf, babbling about regime change, making threats openly against heads of foreign nations...and someone tells me Trump is really playing 36-dimension chess, that he's figured out the City of London game, that he's closing down human-trafficking networks.
Are we listening to the same guy? I see Trump as not even willing to prosecute the OPEN CONSPIRATORS of the CIA asset who got either offed or new-identified. Trump is showing no grasp of history, consequence or diplomacy. He can't even out the traitors on his TEAM, like Blondie!
The Trump cultists are just as cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs as are the TDS loons. I for one am tired of BOTH of them.
Trump is out of it, apparently; is doing the DNC's wishes...maybe without grasping it...and once his time is up, he, UNLIKE the Bidens, UNLIKE the Kenyan, UNLIKE Fow Chee or that alien who headed Homeland Security (can't spell his name)...unlike any of them, Trump will be made to pay, and will be framed up with moar.
I'm disgusted with the whole circus.
Slight sidebar.
www.zerohedge.com
One comment... FU you robe wearing Putz and all your corrupt colleagues as well.
John Roberts Calls For Restraint After Years Of Judicial Overreach<!-- --> | ZeroHedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com
One comment... FU you robe wearing Putz and all your corrupt colleagues as well.
- Messages
- 38,619
- Reaction score
- 6,641
- Points
- 288
MS NOW: Slotkin says she's a "no" on Mullin for Homeland Secretary
Premiered 15 hours agoIn an interview with Nicole Wallace at MS NOW, Senator Slotkin discussed the confirmation hearing with Senator Markwayne Mullin for Secretary of Homeland Security and why she is voting no on his nomination. She also talked about the war in Iran and how the price of gas is up in Michigan.
13:19
- Messages
- 38,619
- Reaction score
- 6,641
- Points
- 288
Report to Congress on U.S. Munitions and Missile Defense Amid Iran Conflict
The following is the March 12, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, U.S. Military Operations Against Iran: Munitions and Missile Defense.From the Report
Congress has expressed interest in the status of the U.S. military’s inventories of munitions (e.g., ammunition, bombs, missiles, torpedoes, anti-aircraft weapons, missile interceptors). Since the United States and Israel launched military operations against Iran on February 28, 2026, some Members of Congress have sought information on the stockpiles and availability of U.S. weapons from the Department of Defense (DOD, which is “using a secondary Department of War designation,” under Executive Order 14347 dated September 5, 2025). Some Members have raised concerns about potential shortfalls in munitions, while other Members have said munitions are not an immediate concern. President Donald J. Trump has said U.S. munitions are “virtually unlimited.” DOD officials have said sufficient munitions are available, while maintaining that the status of U.S. stocks is considered “an operational security matter.” In these comments, officials have not differentiated between stocks of air-to-ground and air-to-air munitions versus missiles and missile interceptors.More:
- Messages
- 38,619
- Reaction score
- 6,641
- Points
- 288
Federal Crop Insurance
Spending on farm subsidies is rising after a series of costly expansions in recent years. The subsidies are not an emergency safety net for poor farm families but rather permanent welfare for high-earning businesses. With Congress now considering more farm spending, let’s examine the largest farm subsidy program—crop insurance.The government often calls crop insurance “market based,” but that cannot be true because the program costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year. Also, it is run by a 413-person bureaucracy—the Risk Management Agency—that imposes a 941-page rulebook on the top-down system. The government works with 12 insurance companies that sell policies covering just about every farm contingency. The government subsidizes the companies and pays most of the insurance premiums.
More:
- Messages
- 20,217
- Reaction score
- 11,859
- Points
- 288
Why 2026 Could Be the Most Dangerous and Transformational Year Since World War II | VDH
President Donald Trump has been the catalyst for a lot of the world’s current upheaval—Iranian threat decimated, Donroe Doctrine enforced in Latin America—and both members of his base and his opponents are making sure we know he’s to blame.Three quarters of these conflicts, however, are reaching a resolution, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
“There is a good chance they could turn out with the United States in a preeminent position that we haven’t seen since at least World War II.”
- Messages
- 20,217
- Reaction score
- 11,859
- Points
- 288
BREAKING: Missouri v. Biden just settled.The US government signed a 10-year consent decree today admitting it colluded with Big Tech to silence Americans on COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, and the 2020 election.
The CDC, CISA, and Surgeon General are now court-ordered to stop.
"Calling something misinformation doesn't make it unprotected speech."
They just put that in writing.
We told you so.
- Messages
- 20,217
- Reaction score
- 11,859
- Points
- 288
We just won Missouri v. Biden.
As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people.
Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech.
Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big.
This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked.
For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.
- Messages
- 38,619
- Reaction score
- 6,641
- Points
- 288
Army ups max enlistment age to 42
The update brings the Army in line with the Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard, which all accept recruits up to 42. The Navy accepts recruits up to 41
Shows their desperation.Army ups max enlistment age to 42
The update brings the Army in line with the Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard, which all accept recruits up to 42. The Navy accepts recruits up to 41www.stripes.com
As many of us know from experience...a 40-year-old is gonna have a tough time going through Basic, and then learning military life. At the bottom.
It's physical, but also mental. A grown man has a limited capacity for BS. Even the CPOs, often pushing 40, had little time for that; and they were well up on the food chain. To bring in a civilian at that age and suddenly force him into an entirely-different social structure...first, you're gonna get pushback; and then, you're gonna have fear-rage reactions. To where the older conscript no longer cares. IOW, it'll be Frag Time.
This shows either desperation or a COMPLETE lack of understanding of what military life is, there at the top. These are not decisions made by people who were themselves enlisted servicemen, that's for sure.
Hitler could make the case (by twisting reality, something he was good at) that it was the Aryan peoples BEATING OFF invading outsiders. Which it was, by that point - but only the result of the Nazis' own Endless War policies.
It was, at least superficially, a crisis to defend the Homeland. That's something that motivates people - even the Soviet women, sore from standing in Communist bread lines, took part in launching Molotov Cocktails against Tiger tank brigades. Likewise the Nazis, retreating in the face of the Allies.
We're a long way from that...
- Messages
- 20,217
- Reaction score
- 11,859
- Points
- 288
Last edited:
^^^^^
We run these bubbleheads through the diploma mills...and then give them positions as BOSSES running our industries. Often jobs that involve public opinions - molding them, influencing them, often censoring some of them in mediuh or interWebZ tech.
And they know that little.
I was 15 when the first gasoline crisis hit...we, in several classes, spent a LOT of time talking about it. Our opinions were surely those of children - that's what we were. But we did learn where Venezuela, which was part of our strategic response back then...where it was. Why when we were importing oil from Arabia, were we SELLING crude out of Alaska off the pipeline. We learned of global supply lines and how oil is fungible.
These drugged, drunken imbeciles about to become Leaders of Tomorrow (Kaiser Klaus's term) don't know anything of that. They just know about Ray Sissm and 57 "genders." And how to shut up uncomfortable opinions (and truths).
We run these bubbleheads through the diploma mills...and then give them positions as BOSSES running our industries. Often jobs that involve public opinions - molding them, influencing them, often censoring some of them in mediuh or interWebZ tech.
And they know that little.
I was 15 when the first gasoline crisis hit...we, in several classes, spent a LOT of time talking about it. Our opinions were surely those of children - that's what we were. But we did learn where Venezuela, which was part of our strategic response back then...where it was. Why when we were importing oil from Arabia, were we SELLING crude out of Alaska off the pipeline. We learned of global supply lines and how oil is fungible.
These drugged, drunken imbeciles about to become Leaders of Tomorrow (Kaiser Klaus's term) don't know anything of that. They just know about Ray Sissm and 57 "genders." And how to shut up uncomfortable opinions (and truths).
I'm, 68 and a decorated Gulf War veteran.
With a collapsed lower spine and a pinned hip.
Only a military led by crazies would even consider me for service.
...why, again, did we start stirring up trouble in the Persian Gulf? WHAT sane reason? WHY could this not be addressed diplomatically or with sanctions?
Yeah. Our government is crazy.
As a kid, I recall reading a novel, probably based on the author's experience...of a Japanese-American boy, whose family was being relocated to the camps, and who was at the same time being drafted. Sent to Europe - right into the Battle of the Bulge.
His fellow draftees included a 55-year-old postman who volunteered for front line duty - with the Army Post Office. Instead he got sent in as a GI, with an infantry unit. Upon learning he was to join the front line, he told the NCO, he was just gonna surrender. The sergeant told him..."You'll go into their camps. Your teeth will fall out, your feet will rot off..."
"My teeth fell out years ago," he came back. "And, you wanna smell my feet, now?"
Didn't matter. They got hit by a mortar in transit, and all but the Nisei and one other, a shirker, a no-load...the rest were killed.
Obviously this was a graphic, hands-on anti-war novel. But it shows the craziness of what can happen. Take my own father's experience - grew up in Germany, time in the Hitler Youth, dual citizenship...and where did they send him - right into the front lines, European theatre.
So, no, I don't expect a collapsing government with imbeciles making the rules, to suddenly show sense about who they order into their Eternal War.
That's been the strategy for over 47 years now. So far it hadn't worked.