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Fatrat said:
The rich ALWAYS find a way out, ask Captain Bonespurs...
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Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

We went through this. We STOPPED doing it because IT DOES NOT WORK.

Can't raise recruits for the military? Ask WHY.

Could it maybe be...that the public doesn't support this current Depopulation effort in the Forever War program?

Could it also be...if you push this further, with drafts (and of course various Preppie Exemptions) and lots of body-bags coming home, and no discernible progress, no benefit coming out of the carnage...could it be, maybe some sort of political uprising or revolution might come to be?

And this when the Untied Skates is losing its Preserve Currency benefit. The dollar is being revealed to be what it has been for 55 years...NOTHING.

Good luck with that. The midwits calling the shots, are just too cool for school...are insulated from decisions negative to their own wishes.
 
Casey Jones said:
The midwits calling the shots, are just too cool for school...are insulated from decisions negative to their own wishes
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Anyone remember Johnson's "Brightest and Best" McNamara at the head of that parade of fools.

Again, they felt free to do ANY-FUGGIN'-THING because The Machine kept spitting out warm bodies to feed into the maw.

We had a positive result to our near-resolution only because Johnson stopped in time - his own health, not his conscience. Nixon was transitional, Ford a stooge, and Peanut left us ready - for a short time - for something approaching economic and political conservatism.
 

Defending TrumpRx Scam, RFK Jr. Absurdly Claims Trump ‘Has His Own Way of Calculating’ Percentages​

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday tried to defend President Donald Trump’s mathematically absurd claims about prescription drug prices by saying the president has his own unique method of calculating percentages.

During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) grilled Kennedy about the president’s repeated false claims that he has slashed the prices of prescription drugs by as much as 600%, which would mean that pharmaceutical companies are paying consumers to take their medications.

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Defending TrumpRx Scam, RFK Jr. Absurdly Claims Trump 'Has His Own Way of Calculating' Percentages | Common Dreams

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends Trump's false claims on drug prices, defying basic mathematics.
www.commondreams.org
 
Doug Casey's Take

Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

Trumps Next Move​

Apr 24, 2026 Doug Casey's Take
Matt promotes the Crisis Investing newsletter and VIP private placements, citing past returns and highlighting Midnight Sun’s gains and the free Experts Roundtable featuring Arizona Eagle Mining. Doug and Matt discuss Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy and criticize a proposed government bailout as state capitalism, then argue the FAA and TSA should be abolished or privatized. They question Trump’s claims about saving eight Iranian girls from execution, debate marijuana reclassification, and emphasize personal responsibility and cultural causes of drug use. In listener Q&A, they cover the importance of economics and psychology, skepticism about modern psychiatry, the value of intrapreneurship, risks of invading Iran, defining the deep state, best healthcare abroad (Switzerland, Thailand, Argentina), where private gold is concentrated (China), property vs self-investment, Roth IRA asset choice, private placement minimums, border interrogation, shareholder voting, helium investing limits, tungsten’s strategic value, skepticism on South Africa REITs, and the film Barnum World’s critique of political rhetoric.

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Because they're not rich; they're cronies of government officials.

And/or, they're puppets putting on agitprop.

The aim here is not to increase taxes on "the rich." At over 60-percent total of income, the take is confiscatory and the disincentive to work/produce/stay in the tax jurisdiction, high.

The aim here is to soften the public to bring the cutoff DOWN, so what's left of the "middle class" will ALSO accept, they hope, over half their production seized by government taskmasters.
 

Republican lawmaker spills details on underground Trump resistance network within GOP​

There is a silent GOP resistance with congress, according to a Republican lawmaker who says six to a dozen colleagues privately admitted they'd defy Donald Trump under certain circumstances.

Rep. Thomas Massie is claiming the existence of a shadow network of Republicans in Congress who privately confess they would vote according to their constituents' wishes rather than party dictates—but only if Massie can survive his primary challenge and prove that defying Trump carries no fatal political consequences, according to a new report from The Atlantic.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...twork-within-gop/ar-AA21IR6A?ocid=socialshare
 

Opinion: Trump has taken the 'public' out of public servant​

This month, President Trump threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell if he does not resign when his term as chair ends. He has blasted Powell as “incompetent,” “crooked,” a “jerk,” “a TOTAL LOSER,” and “TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL.”

Likely acting at the president’s behest, federal prosecutors investigated whether Powell had misled Congress about the cost of renovations to the Fed’s headquarters. Finding “essentially zero evidence” that Powell committed a crime, the federal judge overseeing the case indicated that efforts to subpoena Fed records were intended “to pressure [Powell] into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.”

Trump’s campaign to replace Powell with a more pliable Fed chair is part of his systematic effort to turn “public servants” in the federal government into presidential puppets.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...f-public-servant/ar-AA21LkdZ?ocid=socialshare
 
That retard Trump can't fire Powell, he really is stupid...
 
Fatrat said:
That retard Trump can't fire Powell, he really is stupid...
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I don't think the President has the authority to fire him.

The structure/fiction is that the Fuddrel Preserve is independent of the government. Of course it was created by CONgress and the charter calls for the President to nominate the Chairman, and Congress to ratify; but I don't believe he can be terminated unilaterally. It would probably require either a Congressional vote and/or the impetus/approval of the owning member banks.

Surely it's spelled out in the charter...but...I lost my copy.
 

Trump family business ventures cashing in on the presidency​

"FOUNDATION FUTURE INDUSTRIES LANDS $24 MILLION PENTAGON CONTRACT" screamed the Fox Business Network chyron Thursday morning. Host Maria Bartiromo teed up her segment, explaining that the defense tech startup was developing "autonomous humanoid robots" to help troops "breach enemy sites more safely."

Bartiromo's guest? Eric Trump, Foundation Future Industries' chief strategy adviser who also happens to be the son of the man in charge of the government that doled out the eight-figure contract. The host congratulated Trump and Foundation Future's founder Sankaet Pathat - also a guest - on landing such a lucrative payday. No mention was made of the clear ethics quandary involved in the president's administration funneling millions in taxpayer funds toward his family through federal contracts. Then again, the amount given to Foundation Future is barely a drop in the swimming pool of wealth the Trump family has accumulated by leveraging their patriarch's position over the last 18 months. They clearly feel no need to hide.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...n-the-presidency/ar-AA21Qa2m?ocid=socialshare
 

Philly Sheriff Rochelle Bilal asks City Council for 54% budget increase, more than any other city agency​

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal says chronic staffing shortages and other problems in her department could be resolved with $19.3 million in new funding.

At a budget hearing Tuesday, Bilal asked City Council to allocate $54.9 million to her office in the forthcoming fiscal year, or a 54% increase over the office’s current budget of $35.5 million.

That is the largest requested funding bump, percentagewise, of any department in the city this year.

“We need staffing,” Bilal said. “We need funding.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...ther-city-agency/ar-AA21X1Ua?ocid=socialshare
 
Yah. They been so effective on stopping crime so far, with what they have had.

Why does Philadelphia even NEED a large Sheriff's Department? It's a serious question. When it comes to urban life, I know Ohio best, and up until the last decade or so, the Sheriff in Cuyahoga County, which is Cleveland and most suburbs...HAD no authority. My understanding of it was, the Sheriff had limited authority within municipal corporation boundaries - and since all of Cuyahoga County consisted of incorporated cities (last two townships incorporated in the 1980s) all that was left for the Sheriff was, evictions, operation of County Jail and security for County Courts.

For several decades the sheriff was a clown named Ralph Kreiger - his pinnacle of accomplishment was, being photographed, intoxicated, at a department picnic event, urinating on a tree. For the four decades I lived in the county, the argument was, mostly, "Do you want THAT SHERIFF to have actual road patrols?" Answer: Hellno.

My understanding was, it was a state law, not a local regulation - as municipalities could not co-opt the superior authority of the County Sheriff. So it was so set up in Columbus, which meant other cities probably were covered the same way.

So. Philadelphia, a massive urban hellscape, plus all the suburban cities ringing it...all with municipal police...PLUS the PA State Police...needs increased Sheriff Department funding, why?
 

Federal judge demands to know if the DOJ will defend America or Trump​

A U.S. federal judge is questioning which side the Justice Department is on in the era of President Donald Trump.

New York Times reporter Andrew Duehren wrote on Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams probed the DOJ on something legal analysts have wondered for a year: who exactly is the client of the department?

Bloomberg Law previously reported that when all 93 US attorneys’ offices met for their weekly video chat in January, a 33-year-old Justice Department aide, Aakash Singh, announced that Trump is their “chief client."

Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that it leaked his tax returns to the New York Times in 2019 and that the department should have done more to protect him.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...america-or-trump/ar-AA2209tO?ocid=socialshare
 
Opinion piece

Calmes: Americans aren't buying Trump's schtick anymore​

The British monarch came before Congress to jointly celebrate the 250th anniversary of the former American colonies throwing off his “five-times-great-grandfather” to become the independent United States. But the speech by King Charles III was enough to make Americans want to swap their current president, a wannabe king, for the real thing again.

Just kidding, of course. Yet Charles, in his 28-minute homage on Wednesday to the two countries’ shared ideals and tenets — democracy, the rule of law and checks and balances on executive power by an independent judiciary and legislature — and his affirmation of the mutual benefits of alliances like NATO, free trade, diversity and action against climate change, delivered the sort of stirring performance that President Trump is incapable of. And not just because Trump lacks the king’s eloquence, but because he is daily attacking the very legacies that Charles honored.

It took a king to remind a shamedly complicit Republican-controlled Congress that its constitutional role, drawn by America’s founders from the Magna Carta, is to ensure that U.S. governance is “not by the will of one, but by the deliberation of many, representing the living mosaic of the United States.” (Democrats led the standing ovation.)

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...-schtick-anymore/ar-AA224xfT?ocid=socialshare
 

America Is a Cyberpunk Dystopia​

Apr 29, 2026

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They Call It A Billionaires Tax, But It’s An Everybody Tax​

Apr 29, 2026
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Where was this Fuddrel Kangaroo when Autopen erased the nations borders?
 
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