I won't be posting today and probably tomorrow, I'm under the weather with the worst sore throat I've had in my life.
Update: Well, it's 4:53 AM Thursday and I'm not getting any better, in fact I'm getting worse, in spite of the antibiotics. There will be no further posts for this week.
Update: It's Friday 2:19 PM and I'm improving, but there will be no posts until next Friday or Saturday.
Best wishes to all, and have a good week end.
Rich
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The Democrats are now in disarray over their lost election, pointing fingers at each other, and I'm really getting a kick out of George Clooney. He's being blamed for the Democrats forcing Biden out of the race, but now we find he's all upset at his big buddy, Barack Obama, who apparently was behind his oped pushing Biden out, and now he's been left high and dry by Obama to take the heat over that all by himself. Well, the arrogant snot deserves it, after all, it's the scorpion and the fox story.
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Glib aloofness looks a lot like stupidity when ignorant celebrities can’t hide behind their pop-culture mystiques and glamour shots......they are no more than an odd collection of doomsayers, snake oil salesmen, carnival barkers, streetwalkers, has-beens, pseudo-intellectuals, hormone-raging adolescents, and empty suits.......Hollyweirdos, fake scientists, lip-syncing twerkers, aging rock stars, and teenaged “influencers”
Americans have definitely seen through the celebrity class’s layers of plastic surgery and recognized Hollywood for what it is: a feeding ground for lost and damaged souls. Voters have rejected the political pablum of Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Mark Ruffalo, and other Tinseltown snobs because their opinions hold no weight. Americans can think for themselves. The good people of “flyover country” have nothing to learn from the vain pontifications of coastal “elites.”
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Since the November 5 election, you’ve probably seen a lot of Republican senators on television yakking away about Trump’s landslide victory and perhaps their own election/re-election. Right-leaning commentators should have asked some of them why they weren’t in Congress to STOP radical progressive judges from being confirmed.
With Vice President Kamala Harris vacationing in Hawaii, Republicans might have had the votes to stop some nominations IF all the Republicans showed up to do the job they were elected to do. For instance, on November 18, the Senate approved radical Democrat Embry Kidd for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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This leftist judge will make decisions that will affect Alabama, Florida and Georgia. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was livid that Republican senators were absent from Congress to vote this awful nominee down. DeSantis posted on X: "This leftist judge would have been voted down and the seat on the important 11th Circuit would have been filled by Donald Trump next year had Republicans showed up. Now, the leftist judge will have a lifetime appointment and the people of FL, AL and GA will suffer the consequences."
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy Speaking about senators who don’t show up for Senate judicial votes: “They (judicial nominees) did horrible jobs in committee, and we had the votes to prevent them from being confirmed, but some of the folks on our side couldn’t be here, and it’s frustrating.” —
December 1, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty
Here’s what I’ve written so far as part of my multi-part series on Argentina’s libertarian president.
For today’s column, let’s look at what is happening with red tape.
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We can start by confirming that excessive regulation is a major problem. According to Economic Freedom of the World, Argentina ranks a lowly #148 out of 162 countries.
This means that investors, entrepreneurs, workers, and consumers have to navigate all sorts of burdensome rules as they engage (or try to engage) in mutually beneficial exchange.
In the past, I’ve referred to red tape as an obstacle course that makes it harder to get from Point A to Point B. And Argentina’s regulatory burden is one of the worst in the world.
Milei’s stated goal is to tear down that obstacle course.
And he certainly has started strong.
Here are some excerpts from a report in the Latin American Post.
President Javier Milei’s team has made significant strides in dismantling the rules that hinder free market competition. These changes are not just policy shifts, but a significant push towards a more capitalist Argentina, reducing government control and fostering economic growth.
…Milei’s government eliminated 43 outdated rules that tightly controlled private businesses. These rules included price controls on items like beef and milk and unnecessary tasks for businesses and schools. The government cut old rules that set unfair prices and created extra work. One significant change was ending the import licensing system, which cost $5 million yearly. They also stopped the DJCP program, which requires over a million reports from businesses annually. …Milei’s team is actively promoting the ‘Ley Hojarasca’ (“Leaf Litter Law”), a bold initiative aimed at removing 70 laws that hinder freedom and ownership. This move is expected to significantly enhance the business environment… Milei’s changes considerably lowered bureaucratic barriers, which hurt Argentina’s economy.
In a column for the Financial Times, Walter Molano, the Chief Economist for BCP Securities, is favorably impressed by Milei’s agenda.
Here is some of what he wrote.
…it is micro-level policies…that may finally be changing Argentina’s historically awful economic trajectory. …Milei…has broken the mould of previous stabilisation programmes by focusing on microeconomics and institutional reform. Under the leadership of economist Federico Sturzenegger, the government has begun to dismantle decades-old webs of regulation, intermediaries, middlemen and tariffs that stymied innovation, productivity and competition. As a result, inflationary pressures have ebbed as transaction costs have declined. …
This approach, enacted at the micro level rather than the macro, has been replicated throughout the country, eliminating many of the bottlenecks that have made life so difficult and expensive for millions of ordinary Argentines. …real change is occurring at the micro level, allowing the population to break free of the shackles imposed by the political system.
Last but not least, here are some passages from a story in the Economist.
…an extraordinary experiment is under way. Javier Milei has been president of Argentina for a year. He campaigned wielding a chainsaw…his economic programme is serious and one of the most radical doses of free-market medicine since Thatcherism. …Mr Milei believes in free trade and free markets, not protectionism; fiscal discipline, not reckless borrowing; and, instead of spinning popular fantasies, brutal public truth-telling. …
Argentina…so far the only country in modern economic history to have tumbled from rich-world status back into the middle-income bracket. Mr Milei was elected with a mandate to reverse this decline. …There has been a bonfire of red tape, liberating markets from housing rentals to airlines. The results are encouraging.
These three articles are very encouraging, though we don’t have any concrete way of measuring the level of progress. A few days, I issued a back-of-the-envelope guess that Milei would improve Argentina’s regulatory score by a full two points, from 4.8 to 6.8.
But I made that prediction without knowing how much he can do unilaterally and how much of his agenda will require legislative approval.
If he has free rein, I have faith that Argentina would improve dramatically and probably surpass the scores of the three least-regulated jurisdictions, which are Hong Kong (8.86), New Zealand (8.78), and Singapore (8.73).
What is the best path forward for this troubled agency?
By John Droz jr.,Dec 02, 2024 @ Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues
There is almost universal agreement — and solid evidence — that the US K-12 education system is an abject failure from multiple important perspectives. This is not good for the children (who are the victims), or for America.
The solutions proposed for this have ranged from:
a) scrapping the entire K-12 public school system, to
b) eliminating the federal Department of Education (e.g., here). Although the rationale behind these is understandable, neither of these suggestions are wise, practical, or effective resolutions to the dire situation we are in.
Consider, for example, the idea of eliminating the Department of Education. What we would be left with is fifty (50) State Education Departments. Radically reforming 50 State Education Departments would be an extraordinarily expensive, Herculean project that would take at least twenty years — if ever — to come to fruition. In the meantime, the US is left with 50 different education systems. How is that good for the country? Who would take on this Sisyphean task? And who would pay for it?
My recommendation (as an education outsider) is to solve this — affordably, effectively, and relatively quickly — by fundamentally changing the Department of Education. The idea is that the Department would become a powerful game-changing force for good (which would be a radical change).
The new Department of Education would properly do major things like:
a) A good example is what’s going on regarding extremely problematic books being in K-12 school libraries (see here and here). The fundamental problem is that the ALA does not recognize the issue of age-appropriateness! The Department should officially go on record endorsing the significance of age-appropriateness in K-12 classes, libraries, and associated matters.
This idea is already societally accepted in the US. A good example is that the rating systems for movies and also for TV, are based on age-appropriateness. The movie website says “Established in 1968, the film rating system provides parents with the information needed to determine if a film is appropriate for their children.” Exactly the same thing applies to books being considered for K-12 school classes and libraries!
To make a profound improvement in K-12 education, the Department should specify that they can not provide any money to a State that does not have an appropriate official written policy regarding the age-appropriateness of materials associated with their K-12 schools. [Towards that same end the Department should oppose legislation that undermines the concept of age-appropriateness — like this.]
b) A different example is that the Department should take an official stand against the scourge of SEL that has infested public schools nationwide. Their position should be along the lines of this.
c) Yet another example (of several) is that the Department should weigh in on teacher certification. The education mills are pushing out progressive graduates (e.g., see here) who have few Critical Thinking skills. No State can fix this, but the Department may be able to.
BTW the best chance we have for substantially reforming the Department, is to have a good collection of “outsiders” (not from the education establishment) participating in the process. People who have few pre-conceived ideas of what can and can not be done, are more likely to be advancing more creative improvements (like above).
All of the current K-12 education system’s weaknesses are being taken advantage of by anti-American, Left-leaning ideology advocates. The corruption of the K-12 Science curricula is a perfect example of how American students are being Pied Pipered to a woefully inadequate education.
Worse — MUCH WORSE — is that most of these miseducated graduates soon become voting citizens. What is our future if it is being determined by citizens who have no Critical Thinking skills, and have been thoroughly propagandized by Left-leaning ideology???
This clearly says that leaving our children’s education up to 50 different States IS NOT WORKING — and will likely NEVER WORK!
An updated Department of Education should step into this void and provide constructive and effective K-12 education leadership. Now is the time to do exactly that!
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The heartland celebrated Thanksgiving this past week with family and friends and found time to discuss the most current political ridiculousness among somber and sentimental moments and a few big surprises. Who knew Meta-man Mark Zuckerberg would sit and conspire for the future with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago? Or that everyone who’s anyone on the Biden team – notably without Kamala Harris – would happily celebrate a four-year reckoning. The not-so-surprising moment was when a Democratic state lawmaker sought a way out of the next four years without relocating to another country. That was the kicker.
When Trump clinched the temporary title of president-elect, New York State Assemblywoman Sen. Liz Krueger had a thought bubble over her head: A Northeastern secession from the union. New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut can just join Canada! “It’s not unreasonable to think outside of the box,” Krueger, chairwoman of the Senate Finance Committee, told Politico with a straight face.
Jesse McColl in Plano, TX, asked: “Hmm. Where have we seen this before?”
But Krueger had a plan to shift the boundaries, although neither Canada nor the other three states on the list had been asked if they wanted any part of the idea:
“I know that Canada has basically said, ‘Yeah, we’re not letting you all in.’ As individuals, they basically made it clear. But that’s why I thought, ‘Oh, why do I have to leave this country? I love this country, and if Trump wins a second term, it’s not actually my fault or people in New York.’ So I thought I would suggest to Canada that instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, which is pretty hard because there’s a lot of us, that they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada, and I offered, even though I hadn’t gotten agreement from other states yet, that I thought New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, would combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of Canada.”
Living large in the Mississippi Delta, David Ming couldn’t stand the irony of an issue that had Harris losing soundly: Illegal immigration. “Funny how she made the comment about crossing the border illegally into Canada. What’s the difference between that and what’s going on at the southern border of our county? Party of inclusion and unity, my foot.”
Jill Rose in Mechanicsburg, OH, referred to US history and assumed Krueger was absent that year in Seventh grade, saying, “Didn’t we solve this issue in the 1860s?
“Being from the south, I can attest that you are not allowed to leave,” offered Tamera Zornes Anderson from Booneville, Arkansas.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is optimistic about Trump’s second term and is rumored to be ready to “support the national renewal of America.” Didn’t we just censor the living daylights out of political speech with angry fact-checkers running amok on his platform? Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday to talk. There were early signs that the media giant was shifting gears near the time he publicly praised Trump for rising defiantly after being winged in the ear by an assassin’s bullet.
“Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.” Yes, they’ve had a few talks, Trump and Zuck. “Mark, obviously, he has his own interests, and he has his own company, and he has his own agenda. But he’s made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under President Trump’s leadership.”
Rick Metz in Warren, OH, is not too sure about this: “Either he had a Jesus moment and got some sense – which is a great thing – or sumthin’s shady, we will see. Don’t trust him yet. If he’s serious about change, prove it…all that fact-check garbage has to go immediately; let people think for themselves.”
Vicki K Brasseaux in Louisiana was crystal clear on her perception of Zuck: “Talk about a suppository type of man. Trust not a person who can’t stand for one thing but falls for everything. Zuckerberg is only watching out for his behind.”
Near the South Lawn fountain, surrounded by his allies, Joe Biden and his family enjoyed a three-course supper, wearing black tie attire to celebrate their final Thanksgiving in the White House. They toasted the man, myth, and legend and congratulated each other on a job well done – even though three weeks prior, the nation delivered a devastating blow to Joe at the ballot box, re-electing his old nemesis rather than his chosen successor.
The president said during his opening remarks: “One thing I’ve always believed about public service and especially the presidency is the importance of asking ourselves, ‘Have we left the country in better shape than we found it?'”
“And tonight, I can say with all my heart the answer to that question is a resounding ‘yes,’ because of you,” he continued. The royal ‘you’ included Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, sitting with former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and Attorney General Merrick Garland. The selfy-flashes must have been blinding.
But guess who was not there to bask in the lovefest? That would be Harris, the aforementioned chosen successor who decided to consider her options in California. As Mark Yaske in Lakewood, OH, mused: “The last party on the Titanic.”
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The United States did it! Nearly three months after topping $35 trillion, the national debt crossed the $36 trillion milestone. Perhaps it’s time to pop open a bit of bubbly, dance the Charleston, and run with elephants and donkeys like a scene out of Spain. Based on the forecasts from the Treasury Department, Uncle Sam could add another $1 trillion by early spring. Get in, future generations. It is time to swim in IOUs.
According to the Treasury’s Debt to the Penny dashboard, Washington surpassed the $36 trillion mark on Nov. 21 for the first time on record. To be exact, the national debt reached $36,034,994,586,981.9, up from $35,973,905,978,114.70 on Nov. 20. This means the national debt has surged more than $2 trillion since Jan. 2. It took America 200 years before registering its first $1 trillion of red ink; now it takes a few months.
Republicans and Democrats are not yet finished. Recent forecasts from non-partisan budget watchdog the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggest that the national debt is poised to be like a SpaceX rocket and ascend to $57 trillion in the next decade. If these projections are accurate, Washington has added $34 trillion since the coronavirus pandemic, or $8 billion per day.
The Kobeissi Letter, from a popular financial investment research firm, may have recently summarized the current situation the best on the social media platform X: “At the current pace, US debt could hit $40 trillion within the next 2 years. Calls for major spending cuts are growing, but not being acted on yet. We are on an unsustainable fiscal path.”
All the October inflation reports have now been officially released, and they are not comforting heading into 2025. Put simply, the US economy could be stuck on a sticky inflation substance.
First, the October Consumer Price Index (CPI) report rose to 2.6%, up from 2.4% in September. Core CPI, which removes the volatile energy and food categories, remained at 3.3% for the second straight month. Second, the Producer Price Index (PPI) — a gauge of prices paid for goods and services by businesses — increased to a three-month high of 2.4%. Core PPI also climbed to a higher-than-expected 3.1%. Third, the Fed’s preferred Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) Price Index jumped to 2.3%, and core PCE ticked up to 2.8%.
What has been going on? A few things. The Federal Reserve has been running the printing presses, expanding the money supply every month this year, hitting $21.3 trillion in October, the highest since December 2022. Services also have fueled price pressures, with a whole host of categories rising or remaining elevated, such as shelter, transportation, and medical. Finally, federal spending continues to hover around record levels.
As eminent economist Milton Friedman once said, “Inflation is made by government and no one else.”
Consumers may not have noticed yet, but the coffee futures market has been rocketing this year, soaring 68% on the US ICE Futures exchange. The front-running coffee contract for Arabica, also known as the good stuff, climbed nearly 3% ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. It touched $3.20 per pound during the Nov. 27 trading session, the highest level since 1972.
Disappointing crop prospects in Brazil have been the driving force behind Western Civilization’s fuel spike. The South American nation suffered from dry weather that damaged its coffee-growing infrastructure earlier this year. But while Brazilian farmers are singing in the rain these days, the rainfall has come too late, and levels have been below average.
The European Union also is contributing to coffee’s performance. The European Parliament is debating deforestation regulations, a new policy that would force companies to ensure they are not importing products that were manufactured or grown in deforested or degraded regions after 2020. If the EU follows through on this law, it could devastate coffee and cocoa.
So far, coffee’s gains have been slightly limited after International Coffee Organization (ICO) data show that global exports have risen 12% year-over-year from October to September.
Like a glass of orange juice or a piece of chocolate, that morning fix might be more expensive in 2025.
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Almost exactly 14 years ago, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity released a video explaining why consumer spending does not drive the economy.
Here’s John Papola (a.k.a., Dad Saves America) with similar analysis.
Understanding this issue is not merely a matter of recognizing causality (in other words, a strong economy leads to more consumer spending, not the other way around).
It also helps to understand why Keynesian economics is misguided. Simply stated, you don’t increase national income by having the government divert money from capital markets (investment) in order to artificially stimulate consumption (either directly or indirectly).
For those who want to get wonky, this is why the CF&P video explains the difference between gross domestic income (GDI) and gross domestic product (GDP).
Better policy is more likely if lawmakers focus on how national income is earned (GDI) rather than how it is allocated (GDP).
I’ll conclude by stating that it would be nice to debunk Keynesianism once and for all so that it doesn’t come back to life (like a monster in a horror film) whenever politicians are looking for an excuse to spend more money.
P.S. Since we’re now in the holiday shopping season, click here for John Papola’s economically themed Christmas carols.
P.P.S. If you want to enjoy some cartoons about Keynesian economics, click here, here, here, and here. Here’s some clever mockery of Keynesianism. And, since I’m publicizing John’s excellent work, here’s the famous video showing the Keynes v. Hayek rap contest, followed by the equally enjoyable sequel, which features a boxing match between Keynes and Hayek.
Toxic Ideology
The
Left lost men because it hated them. As the post-election party
struggles to figure out how to fix the problem by investing more into
podcasts, it’s up against its own ideology.
A movement can’t win over people it hates.
The
idea of toxic masculinity is a product of a toxic ideology. Creating
podcasts aimed at men while demonizing men won’t work. Many Gen Z men
saw in Kamala another of the diversity hires who cut ahead of them in
line and then got jobs lecturing them about their privilege.
The
Left did well with young men when it appeared to be offering them
freedom. Now all it offers them is a chance to be used as bad examples
of toxic masculinity. The Left has gone from Animal House to the
‘Panderverse’, yet it expects young men to flock to them as if nothing
has changed. Gen Z men see no reason to be leftists and nothing that the
Left has to offer them.
Unless the Left stops hating men and
offers them something more than a seat in the back of the bus, it will
lose a generation of young men.
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By Rich Kozlovich
Well, it's snowing here in northern Ohio, and it's predicted we may get up to 18 inches over the weekend. That's okay, here in Northern Ohio if you don't like the weather, just stick around it'll change, and next week rain is predicted, which will wash it all away. It's Ohio, we can live with it, that's what makes us strong, and that makes Ohio the center of America's political universe. But that's not the story for the week.
First, all of a sudden the media, Mexico, Canada, Putin, and even Iran are starting to bend. Remember when Reagan became President Iran decided maybe it was a good idea to release the American hostages, after all, Ronald Reagan wasn't that weenie Carter, and they knew it. Well, Donald Trump isn't that nitwit Biden, and they know it, and as a result of this election the Pravda media is dying, and screaming all the way down the drain. Well, too bad, so sad, .....nah.... that's not sad or bad at all, it's triumph. Perhaps a little Hallelujah Chorus is in order here.
Canada says they'll impose their own tariffs. Good luck with that, without America they have no economy. Mexico's president shot off her mouth and then backtracked. In spite of all the hyperbole about WWIII, nuclear arms, and how no one can prevent that from happening, Putin Says He’s Confident Trump Can Navigate the Ukraine Crisis, Repair America-Russia Ties.
There
have been prominent writers who claim Putin doesn't bluff, I think
that's a load of horsepucky. I've paid a lot of attention to him over
the years, and read a lot of Russian history, and he's still practicing
what Russian communists have been practicing since they took over, maskirovka,
unless he has an overwhelming advantage and doesn't need to bluff to
get his way, as when the USSR crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956,
or the Czech revolt known as the Prague Spring in 1968, where nothing
could have stopped Soviet troops from overwhelming those nations.
That's not the case now, and what advantage he had has dissipated
massively, at many levels.
Russia was considered the number two military nation in the world, which has been fighting a war against the 22nd military nation in the world for two years, but he's not going to launch nuclear weapons against Ukraine. He can't take the risk of retaliation, and NATO is talking retaliation, which makes you wonder from where they're getting their natural gas now, and do they really want Warsaw or Berlin to become a nuclear waste land?
But Putin really doesn't want Moscow to become one, and I don't believe he will take that chance. I also believe he's facing some internal political issues that scares him. Is there a Claus von Stauffenberg cabal within his military? Absolutely! Historically, being Caesar is the scariest most dangerous job in the world, or in this case Czar, without the religious trappings.
There's always a Stauffenberg cabal, look
at what happened to the American military establishment. Would they
take action if he attempted to use nukes? I think so. He's not the
chess player we thought he was, but that's when he was dealing with
nitwits like Obama, but I also don't think he's that stupid either. He's
not really all that smart, he's just clever. Even if there's no
retaliation the international consequences will be massive. He's
already destroyed Ukraine far beyond his economic ability to rebuild it,
and nukes would merely make it worse, so where's the victory?
He's failed to defeat Ukraine in two years, and it's clear Russia's military, and especially it's military leadership are not all that after all. Bad leadership, bad training, bad strategy, poor logistics, terrible planning, lousy intelligence, and stupid arrogant conclusions, all of which has been the problem with Russia for 125 years, going back to the the 1904 Russo/Japanese war, which Russia lost, and then WWI, which they lost. They only defeated Germany in WWII because Germany was overstretched.... way over stretched.... and America provided much needed hardware, especially the Dodge truck.
It's been said the
Dodge truck saved the Soviet Union, as that allowed Stalin to quickly
transport men and material around the country, which he was incapable of
doing before that. If Germany had finished off England first, and
hadn't declared war on America, Russia would have lost, badly, even with
the 30 divisions he had stashed in Eastern Russia to repel a feared
Japanese invasion.
This war has exposed just how fragile Russia is economically, industrially, and domestically. As a result, Putin's international credibly is in the toilet, and he needs for this war to go away. He also needs to come out looking good, or at least not as the loser, since in Russia failed leaders aren't well tolerated, and I've no doubt, given the murderous thug he's been, he legitimately fears for his continued existence.
He also knows France and
others are talking about putting boots on the ground, and Trump doesn't
want to keep funding Ukraine any longer. He clearly needs Trump to work
some diplomatic magic as he did with the Abrahamic Accords, and that
will have to be a multinational agreement that binds Russia to Ukrainian
protection, which will require an entire restructuring of Ukraine's
government. Good luck with that, as there are no good guys here, only
one worse guy.
There's been a lot of talk about America dumping the UN, and there are those who oppose that. Well, what we need is clarity. The UN is a platform for the promotion of a system of tyrannous global governance via schemes such as the LOST treaty, the Convention of Biodiversity, their gun control initiatives, the efforts by WHO to be able to take global control in the face of worldwide pandemics, and they will decide what’s a pandemic. The IPCC and the fraud of global warming, Heritage Sites where America has turned over thousands of acres of land over to UN control, constantly chipping away at the Constitution, the only thing that stands in their way. That's history, and that history is incontestable.
Here’s my UN File and it’s not pretty. The UN is a “vile hive of scum and villainy”, and given all the mischief they're up to, along with all the damage they've done and are doing, and will do in the future at so many levels that America can't veto, and have even been a part of, better to walk away. If America walks away, the UN will cease to exist, and the world will be no worse off. But the American taxpayers will save a ton of money. As it is, we’re funding our own destruction.
Scandals abound, as Biden's DOJ attempts to hide an energy scandal that cost America hundreds of millions of dollars, and now it's been exposed how the Biden administration weaponized the Education Department, specifically targeting career colleges and Christian universities. AOC has been caught lying as she's been taking lobbyist cash since 2020, and now it appears ...... wait for it ....watch out now ....here it comes ......The Hill Floats AOC as a potential 2028 presidential candidate..... but it gets better and better,... Hillary Clinton might be running in 2028! Imagine that, misfits, dipsticks, dimwits and halfwits, what a bench.
Years
ago I predicated a massive revolt within the Republican party from the
base, and while my timing was off, the prediction was right on, and I
think we're going to see it playing out big time this 119th Congress,
starting with this Florida House candidate who is already telling "the squad" he's coming after them. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
The Gaetz cabal has been bold, aggressive, and fearless, and we're going to see a lot more of that in the next midterms if over the next two years the new RNC aggressively attacks the voter fraud network, and that needs to start with a massive and broad RICO investigation under the deprivation of rights legal concept.
(A) No public servant, under color of the public servant's office, employment, or authority, shall knowingly deprive, or conspire or attempt to deprive any person of a constitutional or statutory right. (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of interfering with civil rights, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
However, it can be a felony, and the punishment can be severe.
I'm betting there's going to be some very unpleasant midterm Republican primary battles, and those battles are going to start right after Trump is sworn in.
What an interesting week this has been. I have ten commentaries of my own and twenty four by others with some provocative and interesting views. Let's start with these two Cartoons of the Day. Have a good week end!
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