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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.

More:

www.commondreams.org

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.
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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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searcher said:
time.com

Why a Group of Super-Rich Americans Are in Washington Pleading to Pay More in Taxes

"It beats pitchfork rebellions and the guillotine," said the great-grandson of meat magnate Oscar Mayer.
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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.

More:

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