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The craven, Woke, Germans...busy committing economic suicide while fantasizing about all the EU can loot from Russia after it's destroyed...continues to egg on the "Let's you and him fight" scenario.

CAN NOT talk to Putin - PEACE might ensue, and that means, we can't loot Russian gold! Nor their oil and NG.

I'm running a mental list of former Western nations and regions that should be rendered glow-in-the-dark through the miracle of ICBMs. Davos is on that list; City of London; Brussels. Quite possibly Jerusalem.

Now that the East German DDR commies took over the formerly-free West, and poisoned the land...maybe it's time to impose the Morganthau Plan of 1944, which was to completely de-industrialize Germany...leave the non-mechanized farmers to work, and let those without land or skills, just go as Nature might intend.
 

America goes to war, but Congress is AWOL​

In theory, Congress is a separate and coequal branch of the United States government. The U.S. Constitution, the American republic’s most sacred document, vests extraordinary power in the men and women who occupy seats in the legislature, including writing laws and establishing the tax code, funding federal agencies, and overseeing how the executive branch implements policy. The founders were enlightened enough to realize that power is both intoxicating and corrupting, and it is best spread out over several competing players to ensure everybody in the system is kept honest.

Yet as the nation hits the 250th anniversary of its independence this July 4, this remains a work in progress. Our politics now operate in the gutter, with politicians and candidates slinging substance-free arrows at each other and playing to the most extreme partisans on both ends of the political spectrum. Cooperation across the aisle, once a common occurrence on Capitol Hill, is now a rarity. And Congress, that most hallowed institution, consistently comes up short on one of its most consequential — if not the most consequential — duties: authorizing when the United States goes to war.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...congress-is-awol/ar-AA229wpl?ocid=socialshare
 
^^^

Apart from other differences - the need for this war, or the wisdom of engaging in it, risking critical shipping traffic - totally separate from all this, what we're seeing right now is the danger of a democracy (using the term loosely) entering into a war with a intensely-divided government.

Half the Congress does not support this war. Now for 90 years the States have had no direct input, but I suspect many state leaders do not support it. Probably a majority of voters do not - certainly this isn't popular for MAGA voters, who see it, probably correctly, as a distraction from Trump's OTHER broken pledges.

Soon, Trump is going to be brought up short - and the war will end with TRILLIONS in high-tech munitions, not quickly replaceable, WASTED. With global oil output drastically curtailed, due to the problems in interrupting the gentle easing of crude out of underground patches. With this year's harvest in danger, yes, due to world dependence on synthetic fertilizer, but also do to American jackassery.

And in seven months, Trump will pay. The two parties are Kabuki for the masses, but there is no debate that the identified Jackass Party members are the moar ignorant, moar reckless, moar spendthrift, and moar enamoured of Karl Marx. What we had with pResident Autopen, we will have again in a year, and have HARDER in two years when Trump's term runs out. If he lasts that long.

Because he didn't have the GUTS to just kick out aliens and jail criminals holding office, or former officeholders, who happened to once pretend to friendship.
 
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Trump says UFC 'Claw' cage construction to begin next week at White House​

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that construction of a UFC arena, dubbed “The Claw,” will begin next week on the White House grounds.

The platform will host UFC's historic Freedom 250 fight, scheduled for June 14, the same day Trump turns 80.

"Well, they have some of the greatest champions in the world. The arena, they're going to start building it over the next week, it's right here," Trump told reporters while speaking on the South Lawn. "It'll be about 5,000 feet. They'll have 100,000 people down by the Ellipse with screens, and it's all free. It's going to be great."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...k-at-white-house/ar-AA22bHv1?ocid=socialshare
 
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Military regs versus the easy tolerance shown to civilian, political friends.

It sucks; but when you are in the military, in any level...you may have connections and you may be able to get away with a lot, but when those connections are suddenly cut, and you're held to regulations...you have to be quickly mobile. Literally, here.

If you're in a military-housing situation, you had best not be completely unpacked. It could be something unrelated to your own actions, just the politics of your sponsor or that the political official who appointed you was replaced by one who wants you as a scapegoat.

This goes all up and down. An E-3 can be living a comfortable life in Family Housing on the base, and with a surprise notice from Washington, your ship or your unit could be mobilized in mere hours. That birthday dinner your wife had planned? You won't be there.

It is what it is. Military life is hard on many levels - and this is one MOAR reason why IMHO it's totally unsuitable for wombynz in the ranks.
 
Still the same today, Trump's war on Iran can only benefit Israel while killing and impoverishing Americans...nothing has changed.
 

When the volunteer helping after a hurricane is a white nationalist | 60 Minutes​

May 3, 2026
After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering help. But they also want to recruit and improve their image.


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$25 an hour? Major cities eye massive wage hikes as labor activists seek federal mandate​

The federal government is facing renewed pressure to mandate a $25-an-hour minimum wage across the country as the "affordability crisis" continues to squeeze American families.

"I think there's an increasing cry of frustration, outrage, and disgust. People feel they have to work two and three jobs to make ends meet," One Fair Wage President Saru Jayaraman told Fox News Digital. "They never see their loved ones. They don't even have a life. This is a bipartisan issue among voters."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-federal-mandate/ar-AA22pQyb?ocid=socialshare
 
searcher said:

$25 an hour? Major cities eye massive wage hikes as labor activists seek federal mandate​

The federal government is facing renewed pressure to mandate a $25-an-hour minimum wage across the country as the "affordability crisis" continues to squeeze American families.

"I think there's an increasing cry of frustration, outrage, and disgust. People feel they have to work two and three jobs to make ends meet," One Fair Wage President Saru Jayaraman told Fox News Digital. "They never see their loved ones. They don't even have a life. This is a bipartisan issue among voters."

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-federal-mandate/ar-AA22pQyb?ocid=socialshare
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Obviously, the Left learned NOTHING from Carternomics, aka Stagflation.

Wage floors, COLAs and prices, rise in unison, and who are left behind are people living on fixed income and those trying to save money.

Forgotten is the ABJECT MISERY people felt from 1979-1982.

And we're rushing right back into that Hell. And this time there isn't a Paul Volcker - only a $40 trillion debt that we didn't have, then.
 
Just a little food for thought, nothing more. As with anything I post, take it fwiw and dyodd.

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Trump Strikes Out Again - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

On Friday, Donald Trump was at it again. He posted on Truth Social a photoshopped picture of his face next to those of the four earlier presidents carved in stone on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. At least he was grinning, not displaying his usual snarl or sneer with his little fist raised...
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Interesting opinion piece. If interested, take it fwiw and dyodd.

Inside Trump's operational blueprint no one was supposed to see | Opinion​

Nikita Khrushchev famously said, “We will bury you” (“My vas pokhoronim”) to Western ambassadors in Moscow on November 18, 1956. Seventy years later, it appears that Russia’s goal is being realized.

Putin called Trump last Wednesday and they talked for almost two hours. Fewer than three days later, America announced we’re pulling 5,000 US troops out of the NATO forces in Germany, accomplishing a 60-year-long Russian goal. Trump also ended sanctions on Russian oil, handing the Putin regime billions in revenue, while continuing to block U.S. weapons delivery to Ukraine.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...d-to-see-opinion/ar-AA22uYbw?ocid=socialshare
 
Yeah.

Those water-based bird-choppers, are doing to aquatic life what the land pinwheels are doing to birds and land-life.

Those things don't even pay for THEMSELVES. They're a fake solution - the De-Growthers would have us focus on them, instead of actually increasing generation capacity. Until we're too far gone - like Germany.
 
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