It’s becoming damned difficult for people like me who want to see America become great again to refrain from pointing out that Donald Trump and his people are hot flaming garbage piles that are making America worse again.
This Jeannine Pirro thing, for instance.
She is Trump’s appointee – and is currently U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Here is what she said the other day, in case you missed it:
“You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you’re a law abiding (gun) owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back. And that makes all the difference.”
Mark her words? Sounds a little threatening. A little eager. She doesn’t care whether you are a law abiding gun owner. She wags her finger and says, “You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back.”
Kamala Harris might have said that. Or Abigail “Pants Suit Peron” Spanberger, the new gauleiter of Virginia.
Pirro didn’t have to say any of this. Just as Trump did not have to say anything about Massie’s wife or his marriage. But she – like him – said it anyhow. Good. Now we know who we’re dealing with.
Pirro could have said something like: “DC has some of the most restrictive and unfair gun laws in the country and we’re hoping that will change and are working hard to get them changed, but for now, they are the law in DC and for that reason, I must advise people to abide by them, even if they are legally permitted to carry a gun in the jurisdiction where they live.”
That is what a person who supports aw abiding gun ownership might have said. What we would expect such a person to have said. Instead she said what tells us she is not a friend of law-abiding gun owners. 
And neither is Trump.
His silence – so far – speaks loudly in that regard. Just as his silence regarding another one of his appointees, the director of the FBI, spoke volumes. The latter blasted the man who got blasted by federal goons in Minneapolis because he carried a gun – legally – to a protest. A gun he pointed at no one. A gun he never touched while he was being beaten by a gang of goons after being sprayed with Mace by one of them.
The bug-eyed FBI director went even further, implying that anyone who carries a legally owned and legally carried gun to a protest area invites being shot by federal goons.
Have we traveled back in time to the “Joe Biden” era? Or did we never leave it?
Some apparently think all that matters is whether the Hut! Hut! Hut! is applied by one of their own – against people they do not like. These are people foolish enough to believe the Hut! Hut! Hut! will never be applied to them. 
Trump’s silence is complicity.
He ought to have fired Patel – who is a “patriot” in the same way that the Patriot Act is “patriotic.” He ought to fire this Jeannine Pirro creature, too. Her utterances are inexcusable. Yet he has said nothing. This means he is okay with what she said. Probably because she – like that Patel thing – is loyal and Trump values that above everything else. They are good doggies – so long as they only bark at Trump’s enemies.
He’ll try to politically disembowel a good man like Thomas Massie, who has never once said anything to indicate he is in favor of restricting the right of law-abiding people to possess firearms – but who has said much about the strange foot-dragging of Trump regarding the Epstein Stuff and also this Israel First stuff. 
But Patel can – the director of the FBI – can publicly suggest that anyone who merely carries a legally owned gun where a protest is occurring is basically a criminal and looking to get what Patel thinks he deserves – and remain the director of the FBI. Trump doesn’t so much as publicly repudiate the man.
Strike one.
Then he says nothing – so far – about the utterances made by this Pirro creature. Nothing to distance himself from her.
Strike Two.
Some people can’t see a freight rain coming at them while they try to get their stalled car’s engine running so they can move off the tracks in time. Maybe they think because it’s their train, it won’t run over them.
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Was this, one of you guys in front of the town council giving them Hell about tax increases, on this JP Sears YouTube bit?
‘Why This is a Masterclass of Mockery (City Council Didn’t Like It)’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM6Xpw7ZKw0
Did Pirro catch D.C. derangement syndrome?
You don’t, “catch it” rather, you build it.
Like you build a virus or a bio weapon. Build back better.
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RE: “The can kicking into the future can go on for a long, long time.”
Until,… it can’t.
Is today, ” for a long long time”? Who knows? Maybe, next year?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/run-it-hot-trump-fed-coming-currency-debasement
Anyway, one bit, about, ~ “the Billion guns” never factored in is, the “Discombobulator” and who controls it.
That Might make 1 Billion = none? Idk. Who does?
…One Ring, to rule them all.
“These are people foolish enough to believe the Hut! Hut! Hut! will never be applied to them.”
Yep. This is exactly what I told one of my coworkers a couple of weeks ago. He said that the government has no reason to come after him. I told him that they DON’T need a (legitimate) reason! He just turned and walked away.
To say that we’re screwed at this point, would be somewhat of an understatement. Logic and reasoning have officially been replaced with “My team is better than your team!”.
Oh yes, I’ve encountered this, too “He said that the government has no reason to come after him. I told him that they DON’T need a (legitimate) reason!”
It never occurs to them that what is legal today, might not be, the next. (Plus, the collection of a 1000% tax increase?)
They bray, “I have nothing to hide” while never considering that is the same as saying, ” I have nothing/no one I wish to protect”.
= “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:…”
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2014/05/10/quote-of-the-dayaleksandr-i-solzhenitsyn/
Detachment 201 is worth looking into. Formed June of last year. Palantir, Open AI and Meta partnered with the US Military, just as they’ve partnered with the IDF. I didn’t hear anything about it at the time but people are talking about it now.
I’ve mentioned the increase in drone procurement by our DOD starting late last year. ICE is now buying warehouses across the country for detainee storage; strange because I thought they were leaving. I didn’t mention FEMA camps. Did I mention those? Not me.
I had a thought recently after watching a documentary on the communist purge in Bulgaria after WW2. It wasn’t Bulgarians as a people or Communism as an idea that made people so brutal – it was obedience to authority, social approval and “kids to feed”.
It’s unsettling to know that people are capable of the greatest evil if the right buttons are pushed, incentives provided. The uniparty is aware of this. The internet makes the button pushing instantaneous, explaining flash mobs now and worse in the future. I didn’t say a word about Internet of Bodies.
I believe the whole obedience to authority thing, is the result of people wanting to be coddled from cradle to grave (to paraphrase a comment I saw the other day).
Oh, and I looked up “Detachment 201”.
“By bringing PRIVATE-SECTOR know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force LEANER, SMARTER, and MORE LETHAL.” (capitalized for emphasis)
Yeah, we really ARE living in the End Times!
RE: “the whole obedience to authority thing,”
So very very many young minds are conditioned in co-ed prisons, ‘er I mean, public school and Universities, to believe that, Government will take care of it.
“It”.
So, why worry? Why be concerned?
Government will take care of it.
““By bringing PRIVATE-SECTOR know-how into uniform, Det. 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force LEANER, SMARTER, and MORE LETHAL.” (capitalized for emphasis)”
Why wouldn’t you want to have an army that was leaner, smarter and more lethal? I mean, if you are going to have an army, wouldn’t you want one that doesn’t suck?
Try re-reading the paragraph, and think long and hard about what that REALLY means for the rest of us.
From Epstein to Gaza: The depravity of the western elite is now fully exposed Soumaya Ghannoushi
“Gaza was not a deviation from the morality of the financial and political class that oversaw its annihilation. It was their culmination”
“The truth long overlooked in western societies is this: an elite willing to starve populations, flatten cities, and sexually brutalise detainees abroad has no qualms about brutalising those it deems inferior at home.
The boundary between foreign brutality and domestic morality was always imaginary, a comforting fiction sustained by distance, racism, and narrative.
What is handled through statements, censorship, and calibrated expressions of concern abroad is handled through settlements and non-disclosure agreements at home.
The devastation of Gaza by this same elite is not a moral anomaly. It belongs to the same architecture. The same hierarchy of human worth. The same assumption that some lives are fully human, while others are expendable.
Children abused on a private Caribbean island.
Children buried beneath rubble in Gaza.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/epstein-gaza-moral-depravity-elite-fully-exposed
Silence is one thing Trump cannot accomplish, save when he has a mini-stroke or whatever happened for a few days a while back.
No, he’s clearly espoused the 2nd Amendment views of any other New York Democrat or Epstein-circle elitist. He doesn’t want you to have weapons. He’s the bad guy. Duh.
Is anyone really expecting anything of benefit from this unholy, octogenarian toddler, now? The GOP has had the House, Senate and Presidency for more than enough time to push tons of legislation through.
They could’ve repealed the NFA, the Gun Control Act of 1968, the Brady Law, etc. They’ve done NONE of that. The best that was done was to repeal the $200 tax on the purchase of silencers. Big whoop. You still have to undergo a litany of invasive investigation and paperwork to put a tiny muffler on your gun barrel. Meanwhile, they just bypass Congress altogether to give Israel and Saudi Arabia $billions in weapons.
Trump’s sycophant club will be losing the House and Senate very soon due to his continually infuriating actions. There has never been more seething animosity from the socialist side and he has ever-dwindling support from old Red-hats. It’s over.
And they could have repealed the so-called Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922
which effectively makes almost every gun-owning citizen a federal felon. We can thank Republican President George H. W. Bush for that one.
Thomas Massie in August, 2025 re-introduced Ron Paul’s 2007 bill to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act. But Massie’s fellow Republicans, being more loyal to Trump and Israel than to the citizens of the United States, opposed him.
https://massie.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395746
The law books are full of abominations, StraitGate. The bastards nearly always add to them and sparsely repeal anything. We have no “representation”, save for a rare gem like Massie.
The crash of the dollar might come sooner rather than later.
The Venezuela invasion by the USA is an attempt to prop up the “petrodollar”, the unit of currency used worldwide to purchase oil products.
The USA dollar has been the principle currency used to purchase oil products throughout the world. This system was established in 1974 by none other than Henry Kissinger in order to prop up the USA dollar.
THAT is the reason forced regime change is being imposed on Venezuela.
Venezuela has been selling oil to all comers, demanding payment in any currency but petrodollars. This is causing USA interests to react negatively towards Venezuela.
The same situation existed in Libya which was set to demand payment for oil in gold, silver, and other non-USA currencies. This is why the USA assassinated Libya’s leader Ghaddafi.
If the petrodollar goes down, so does the USA federal reserve system. The only thing propping up the USA dollar is its use in petroleum transactions.
If Iran is successful in shutting down the Strait of Hormuz after an israeli attack, Venezuela will be the only large petroleum reserve in the world.
The USA dollar is on life-support, only being worth about 0.22 cents compared to its worth in 1970. It’s use as the petrodollar is the only think keeping it afloat.
“ It’s use as the petrodollar is the only think keeping it afloat.”
That and inertia, but like a gyroscope that’s running down, it has been wobbling wildly for some time.
Hopefully when it finally falls down the empire will find a new host to bleed white.
But I’m not betting on it. Evil wants to rule everything.
“But I’m not betting on it. Evil wants to rule everything.”
Keep in mind that those in the ruling class are willing to go scorched earth and salt the land before giving up the reigns. They’d sooner be overlords to dirt and cockroaches as far as the eye can see than relent.
We must act accordingly.
What the means is not a simple do this, then this. There is no Lone Ranger coming to save us. There is no Lone Ranger who could save us.
There will never be idealized textbook freedom the be had. It will always be messy and imperfect. No matter how genuine alternative voices are (some are real contrarian, some intentionally distracting) the Utopia they sell will never happen.
Bert replies to Ernie- great stuff!
The petrodollar is almost completely unimportant anymore. Back in the ’70s, it could take weeks to arbitrage the difference in currencies. In 1992, Soros proved that with modern trading, he could front-run the pound in hours. Which means you could also front run the dollar in hours.
Now, it’s milliseconds. A trader can quite literally trade Euros for dollars, trade those dollars for oil, and trade that oil back for Euros in a few milliseconds. If he’s willing to take a little risk, and he’s a big enough player, he can even do the reverse, short sell and make money on the distortion other HFT algorithms throw into the matter.
I thought libertarians had something to do with liberty. If a club want to be all male or all white, libertarians would be all for their right to do it. Yet if a group the size of a city or state want to make their own rules re: guns, they are not free to do so? We are fine saying Canada can make their own rules. Why not California? Why would someone in Indiana have any say how Californians choose to live?
This new libertarianism amazes me Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
A club is a voluntary organization. A city or state much less so, and their raison d’etre is to have cops to force compliance with their dictates onto individuals.
They are voluntary, too, at least at the moment. One lives where he does because, when he factors everything into his calculus, the pros outweigh the cons.
This is why the libertarian penchant for non-voting in local matters is shooting yourself in the foot. Obviously, your vote means almost exactly nothing in national matters, but who is on your county commission matters. That’s who is handling all the day-to-day tyranny, like zoning (if it applies), often it decides what your school district spends money on, it decides the rest of your property tax bill, and maybe most importantly, it decides the rules on your sheriff.
Well aware of that Steve. Were on the same side re voting, and I’ve been soundly bushwhacked here many times for stating that simple truth. And yes, not just voting but filling some of those local positions. I’ve been a small town mayor for 20 years, its a crap sandwich but it allows me to keep a lid on the worst of the craziness.
I knew you thought voting was at least the lesser evil, but didn’t know about the mayor thing. I’ve been a county commissioner, and kept the worst crap from happening, and it was largely my threat to run again that got the commissioners to back down on covid lockdowns. We did have to unseat one bitty who insisted on “Teh Science” but we are definitely in a better place if another such comes up.
A mayor, and a county commissioner, walk into a bar…
Ya prolly done some good in yer time, howevah; nothing really changes.
“If voting mattered, they’d outlaw it”.
“I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.” –
Etienne de la Boétie
Prolly bunch of b.s. tho, eh?
https://alt-market.us/its-time-to-accept-that-civil-war-2-0-has-already-started/
More likely to walk into a whorehouse than a bar, but aside from that, you’re drawing the wrong lesson from Sr. de la Boetie.
Power/politics are a part of human nature, someone is going to exercise it. And it is a part of nature because tribal behavior is essential to human survival. The point is to keep it minimal and tightly controlled, because you can no more abolish it than you can abolish the tides or the winds.
De la Boetie’s point is that once enough people are tyrannized, the tyrant no longer has power and can be safely ignored.
“Yet if a group the size of a city or state want to make their own rules re: guns, they are not free to do so?” – Steve
The short answer here is NO. The 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Const. prohibits infringement on keeping and bearing arms, stating:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Article I, Sec 8 of the US Const. provides: “The Congress shall have Power. . .to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States [i.e. Washington, DC].”
Your notion of liberty is entirely inverted here. Stripping one’s natural and constitutionally-protected right to defend himself with a gun is NOT an exercise of “liberty.” Maintaining the ability to defend oneself is.
I used to argue the same thing, but finally had to admit I was wrong. I agree that’s what the wording sounds like it should mean, but the founding generation was the one who brought us Gun-Free Zones in courtrooms. Why were no cases brought to challenge that? I forget the name of the legal principle, but it was cited in Arizona’s challenge to federal authority over immigration — basically, if you don’t challenge a usurpation, and it becomes accepted practice, you forfeit that power.
Any act that’s in contravention of the US Const. is ultra vires and therefore void ab initio. Consider the recent case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade case purporting to establish a “right” to kill your baby is protected and recognized by the U.S. Const.
Oh, sure, the USSC could conceivably do a similar thing for guns, though I do not expect it. Maybe you could do it through legislation, like the license reciprocity that gets talked about during election season and dropped the day after. Other than that, Constitutional Amendment, which has no chance, and collapse, which does, but not in my expected lifespan.
The only realistic way of pulling it off is to be in a state and county that agrees, and is at least on paper willing to stand with you. Even if all they did was pick up the lawyer fees, that could be game-changing.
Your analogy between a private club and a state government is absurd. Membership in a private club is strictly voluntary. If you don’t like the rules of the club, you can decide not to join the club or leave the club at any time. A state government is a coercive monopoly with complete jurisdiction over the territory of the state. If you don’t like the rules of the state government, your only option is to leave the state. The state government is also of course financed by taxes stolen from the residents of the state, unlike a private club, for which club dues are required only of voluntary club members.
“Yet if a group the size of a city or state want to make their own rules re: guns, they are not free to do so?”. So you think that if the state government were to ban private ownership of firearms, this would be consistent with libertarianism? Suppose the state government were to ban home schooling and threaten to arrest any parents who didn’t enroll their kids in government schools. Would this be consistent with libertarianism? Suppose the state government were to impose jab mandates, create concentration camps, and throw all jab refusers into these concentration camps. Would this be consistent with libertarianism?
Laws passed by a state government can be just as tyrannical as laws passed by the federal government. To claim that these are consistent with libertarianism just because they are state laws rather than federal laws is absurd on its face.
The takeover by jews has been going on for a long time. They hide their “jewishness” by changing their names to “Anglicize” themselves.
In the modern day, it started with Woodrow Wilson (who was in a coma at the time) when the Federal Reserve bank system and the IRS were created.
They wormed their way into influential positions, carefully hiding their “jewishness” while becoming judges, lawyers and politicians.
The “coup-de-grace” was the imposition of the “civil-rights (for some)” laws and mandates but only on “the rest of us” further weakening civil society. It was jewish judges who reinforced the whole civil-rights (for some) debacle, while planting false “guilt” on us white gentiles.
To this day, jews do what they want with impunity, hiding behind their phony “holocaust” which to this very day has been successful in deflecting criticism from their sordid behavior.
A prime example of jewish “chutzpah” and outright “in your face” violation of “civil-rights” laws and statutes is that of the many “jews-only” communities that (are allowed to) exist in the USA.
Kiryas Joel New York comes to mind…
If you are a gentile:
You cannot own property or rent property within the incorporated legal boundaries.
You will be told that the community is for “jews only”.
You cannot send your gentile children to the “taxpayer-funded” public schools.
Government social workers are not allowed to look in on the care of jewish children.
Jewish residents of Kiryas Joel receive government “benefits” (welfare, EBT, etc.) out of proportion to their numbers. In fact, 93% of Kiryas Joel residents are receiving some form of “public assistance”.
Many criminal financial, health care, and other schemes and scams are run out of that “jews-only” community.
The courts and city attorneys have all been taken over by this “jewish mafia”. In fact, the county attorney has been compromised as well…
Now if a group of gentiles attempted to do the same, they (we) would be lawfared out of existence.
The only solution is expulsion. Every jew is already assumed to have “dual citizenship” as israel will accept any jew that makes it to israel’s border. Dual citizenship must be strictly outlawed.
The solution is obvious. Germany had the right idea…
You are missing the entire point of having a republic with very little in the way of restrictions on state power (Article I, Section 10) — laboratories of liberty or something like that which I’m too lazy to look up. The thought was that people would leave jurisdictions that were becoming less free, and move to where they have more freedom.
The reason it does not work that way is many, maybe most people don’t truly value freedom. They neither want to do the hard work to roll back infringements, nor move to a state or county which offers more freedom. The whole feedback look short-circuits if not even libertarians are willing to pack up and go where the freedom is.
The key insight in economics, that undergirds every other concept (yes, including supply and demand) is revealed preference. People who talk about wanting freedom but who are unwilling to actually do anything about it other than hope other people will give it to them don’t truly value freedom at all. They would like to have freedom icing on the cake they already have, but can’t be bothered with actually making the frosting.
This is an argument in favor of federalism, which libertarians generally agree with. If a state becomes too tyrannical, residents can leave and move to another state. This is a lot easier than moving to another country. Decentralization of power via individual states in a federal republic is a good thing versus an all powerful central government.
But this was not your original argument. You wrote:
“I thought libertarians had something to do with liberty. If a club want to be all male or all white, libertarians would be all for their right to do it. Yet if a group the size of a city or state want to make their own rules re: guns, they are not free to do so? ”
This implies that, if a city or state government decides to ban guns or passes some other tyrannical law, libertarians should be perfectly okay with it, since the state or city government is just like a private club. And that if libertarians are not okay with it, they are not in favor of liberty. You have this is completely backwards. A tyrannical law is a tyrannical law, whether it is passed by a city government, state government, or the federal government. At best, it is easier to escape the tyranny of a city or state than the tyranny of a nation.
Assuming by tyranny you mean systemized oppression by a ruler or rulers, that’s obviously not the case. If it’s not oppressive enough to roll up your sleeves and work to prevent or undo it, by your own actions you declare it not to be oppression. Not of any significance anyway.
Brush up on your von Mises or your Bible, particularly Proverbs. Failure or refusal to act is itself action.
BTW, I’m not trying to sound like a glowie. I’m not saying to go shoot anyone or blow up buildings to make your point. Eric is doing outreach here. I just don’t think that’s enough to turn the tide. The LP went from something you could talk about in polite company to a laughingstock with that strip act that doofus did a few years back. And “You have to bake the cake but you don’t have to decorate it” Johnson just made it worse. The best thing he said was, “What is a leppo?” I’m sure it was pure accident, but very few Americans other than archaeologists should have had any reason to know what Aleppo was.
All I’m getting at is if you don’t preserve your community, your county, with luck, your state, you have nowhere to fall back to.
I agree with you, Steve – and have been practicing that for years. I consider it one of the high points of my life that not once did I put on a “mask.” Nor obey any “COVID” edicts. I also do not “buckle up” for “safety,” either – and never will. These are small things, yes – but they are a start. And the real start begins in one’s head – when one rejects all of this control freak garbage and the garbage people who push it.
What’s wrong with Trump – he is conman who’s loyalties are elsewhere, and what he said in the campaign are a pile of lies.
Is Trump better than Hillary? I do not think so, they are both part of the underaged sex club. We know Trump is, what about Hillary? (Note: Bill and Hillary and Obamas are no billionaires, but is a wanna be on the fringe)
In this email which originates from Hillary Clinton to her entourage of usual suspects, the use of “pizza” is a female vulva and “hotdog” is the male. A party with pizza and hotdogs is code for females and males, probably underaged. Hillary sends this coded email to the President of the United States, she is afraid of being busted because the party is at the White House, not the pre-agreed upon location. Read it for yourself, MSM says it’s fake, I do not think so.
https://x.com/AwakenedOutlaw/status/2018416964201590790
Is the White House a brothel? Remember this headline?
“Capitol Hill was rocked over the weekend by the circulation of an explicit video of two men apparently having sex in a congressional hearing room.”
So David Icke was right all along, the world is run by a cult, a Satanic cult as Putin calls it, and it is neck deep into torture, underaged sex, torture, and even murder of children. Trump and Hillary are part of that world. You do not get to hold power in this club unless you are compromised and take part. If you want power, you must participate eagerly proving you are a valid member. There is no way in hell it could work otherwise.
I agree with the general consensus that this scandal is so evil we need to burn it all down and start over. Move the capital to Iowa like John Titor claimed.
Why is Israel prompting it’s whores on Capitol Hill to force Bill and Hillary to testify? Because the Clintons are being used as a lever to force Trump to attack Iran. The Clintons know a whole lot more than we have found out in the Epstein emails, and that information, would expose the depths of evil Trump underaged sex participation, trafficking, and child murder.
Trump could resign and not attack Iran. Remember we all make choices, no one can actually force us to act against our conscience or will. But what did sexual degenerate Jeffrey Epstein say about Trump to Larry Summers?
“A newly released email written by Jeffrey Epstein has revealed a blistering private remark about Donald Trump, as millions of documents linked to Epstein were published by the United States Department of Justice. The message, sent on February 8, 2017, was part of a conversation between Epstein and economist Larry Summers, who previously served as US Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University.
Summers is currently on leave from Harvard amid an investigation into his ties to Epstein. In the email, Epstein delivered a harsh personal assessment of Trump, writing: “Recall I’ve told you – I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body. So yes – dangerous.”
‘The Clintons are being used as a lever to force Trump to attack Iran.’ — Yukon Jack
Interesting theory … but a little far-fetched. Our baseline assumption must be that the mafia code of omertà holds, such that the Clintons don’t rat out either themselves or the Orange Oaf. After all, look what happened to Bill’s pal Jeffrey Epstein.
The Clintons’ titanic struggles against committee chair James Comer are perfectly in character: two sordid, pettifogging lawyers, after contesting every detail of the ground rules, can be expected to show up and quibble over what the meaning of ‘is’ is — or plead the Fifth, if need be.
By all the eternal rules of tragic drama and history, the tragic figure of Trumpstein will be brought down — soon. But it is vanishingly unlikely that the geriatric Clintons will be the ones to deliver a shiv to the stomach to the Orange Oaf. Like Trump, they have no principles other than taking care of themselves … and keeping their ‘Arkancides’ safely buried.
Murder charges, you’ll recall, have no statute of limitations. The ghastly, cackling Clinton crone no longer even remembers the full body count of her trail of corpses. But poor Vince Foster is the one that sticks in her mind.
To this day, Hillary glows with pride at the stirring line she crafted in Vince Foster’s suicide note: “I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport” — crowed the huntress to celebrate her kill!
I suspect the fact that some of the truly awful stuff from the Epstein file dump is leaking out about the Orange Turd means they are getting ready to throw him under the bus. His bleating and blustering and bullshit is likely becoming too much of a liability for TPTB.
Agreed, Trump is nearly done, just one more task for Tel Aviv, attack Iran, then they will toss him under the garbage truck, bring in Vance (stooge) for their next act of installing a techno surveillance state.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/02/gary-d-barnett/will-trump-be-removed/
then the midterms, if trump still stands the demoncraps will impeach and remove him
2028 election should be a nail biter
“Trump is nearly done”
Is he? I would say the Democrat Party is in a win/win situation…they get the push of the authoritative state that they adore and the Republicans and Trump get blamed for it.
As Napoleon stated: Quand l’ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l’interrompre.
Hi RG,
From my perspective what most of the people are starting to wake up to is that all of these actors are completely illegitimate, both D & R are exactly the same…also, mere U.S. congresscritters and senators are just hired help. Shades of the court of Louis XVI at Versailles.
…..the Donald’s goose is cooked regardless. As an aside, I see a lot of similarities between Biden and Trump…..the Trumpmeister is showing real signs of mental collapse and people are starting to notice…if the Donald does even a slight act of aggression he will receive a hellish response….the Iranians are done with getting victimized by Israel and the U.S. MIC
Further, besides economic collapse which is coming anyway, we could even see a horrible blowback in our country by peoples from around the world who have been repeatedly kicked by U.S. imperial powers in their own countries…..all of the PtB would gift the world if they were tried, found guilty and punished…shit, and they thought Hitler, Mao and Stalin were bad…..
Well-said, Giuseppe!
Trump’s behavior lately is interesting to me because of my experience with my mother, who had dementia. I saw the signs – manifested by Biden – and I am seeing them again now, in Trump. Specifically, the apparent lack of control over his inner monologue. He regularly says things he’s no doubt thinking without thinking. That is one of the first signs of someone who is beginning to slip into second childhood. It is especially worrisome when the individual has a narcissistic/egomaniacal personality to begin with.
Jeannine Pirro is United States attorney for the District of Columbia, not a judge (thankfully, since judges can serve for life). Eric writes about the disorienting sense of inversion we get when R-party reptiles lecture us like Democrats. (In fact, there is only one Uniparty.) Here’s another ugly inversion playing out:
‘President Trump doubled down on his extraordinary call for the Republican Party to “nationalize” voting in the United States. Mr. Trump said on Tuesday that he believed the federal government should “get involved” in elections that are riddled with “corruption,” reiterating his position that the federal government should usurp state laws by exerting control over local elections.’ — NYT
https://archive.ph/UQfBN#selection-4667.0-4667.255
‘Usurp state laws’ — rich! Under the Democrats’ Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, that’s exactly what the US fedgov did. In a permanent Reconstruction 2.0, the fedgov monitored and ‘pre-cleared’ voting procedures in the South. Not until a Supreme Court decision in 2013 were Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia, along with various counties elsewhere, exempted from federal preclearance for changes to voting laws.
Now the Orange Orangutan wants to reintroduce VRA-style federal occupation. And for a reason: we all saw the corrupt shitshow in Atlanta in November 2020, when observers were sent home, the windows taped over, and then trunkloads of forged ballots were pulled out from under the table skirts for a 3 a.m. vote fraud party. Trouble is, once the US fedgov nationalizes voting, our new communist president in 2029 will introduce vote fraud parties in all 50 states.
The sad lesson of the Civil Right Acts of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 is that abuses in the states should be reformed at the state level, not papered over with an equally corrupt and degenerate nationalization which, in the case of the Civil Rights Act, gave us today’s horror of a parallel federal criminal code — and state and fedgov prosecutors jockeying over which one’s statutes will produce the easiest slam-dunk conviction. Or BOTH, in the case of Derek Chauvin, serving concurrent state and fedgov sentences despite the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition of double jeopardy.
Jim, not sure what you’re complaining about here. On the one hand you’re noting the obvious, blatant, and flagrant fraud and electioneering as seen in Atlanta, Minnesota, California, etc. on the other hand are you saying the feral government should let it be?
Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s doesn’t mean to supinely submit to whatever atrocities Caesar attempts.
But at least setting federal rules for federal elections could eliminate illegal alien voting, provide external supervision for election processes, etc. I’d like to see neutral observers and procedures like the purple ink thumb thing from Iraq happen. Banning electronic voting systems, requiring ID to vote with advance registration, would be a couple of minimum actions which would help a lot.
Elections are a state matter, voting is a privilege. Voting is not a right, travel and carrying military weapons are rights. I don’t see it going back to white male landowners unfortunately, but at least one qualified elector one vote.
The radical, totalitarian, communist left punches far above its weight because of this massive cheating. I’d like to see it stopped.
Federal intervention causes lasting distortions — as in the 1960s civil rights legislation I mentioned, which ended up engendering a parallel federal criminal code.
Any ‘nationalization’ of elections as proposed by Trump would be laced with poison pills that the next Democrat administration will use against us.
The US fedgov is so broken that the best thing we can do is starve it into insignificance — or secede.
By the nature of the thing, the big communist government we are saddled with, along with the full spectrum snooping and spying apparatus, is NOT going to let us peacefully leave or starve it.
Yes, the CRA of 64 was an unmitigated disaster for the country. I’m not supporting nationalization of the elections, but federal standards and supervision are not quite the same thing.
I know of no one who approves what the current Administration is doing. Even my own conservative father is absolutely disgusted. If any network was brave enough to take a poll I think most people would be surprised on how many votes would be tabulated for “I hate both sides.”
There are openings for communication among the Left and Right if anyone is willing to instigate a conversation. Laying on a massage table the other day I ended up in a political discussion with my massage therapist. We agreed with each other more than we didn’t. The most important thing is to find common ground. Know facts, rather than show emotion and let the opposing view talk. TPTB can be brought to their knees, but it will not happen until us, peasants unite.
I agree, RG –
But I think Trump has got to go. There is either something very wrong with him or something much worse. This is not going to end well.
“This is not going to end well.”
Maybe it is not supposed to. We have an Administration so terrible that the country is coming together. The Left (who ignored the Epstein) files for years now admit that the conspiracy of PizzaGate really does exist. TPTB are sick, sick people. Most need to be jailed and the most depraved hung by the end of a rope. Things are trickling out that no one should be ignoring or burying their head in the sand. Who should he we replaced with? JD? Will anything change? Israel and the CIA will still be calling the shots. Instead of Miriam Adelson, Peter Thiel will be in charge…that’s not an upgrade.
Hi RG!
My worry is that, as the country descends into chaos, the “solution” will be an outright police state far beyond the stuff we grumble about here. Both the Red and Blue will – for the most part – scream for it. They will fight over it – and we’ll be caught in the middle.
Trump is going to incite a yuge backlash, I think. He is demoralizing and discrediting “conservatives” and this will hugely redound to the political advantage of the Left. Look at what’s happened in VA already. Imagine what is likely to happen this fall. Then in 2028. Trump is destroying the nationalist-populist movement.
Hi Eric,
Police state? With one billion guns in the hands of the peasants? That is a serious miscalculation by the elite. Governments have been toppled on much less.
What exactly are the Red and Blue fighting for? Are we (as citizens) so blind that we can’t see the unification of those that wish to bleed Middle America until she has no penny to spare? Does anyone think that Ted Cruz and Jasmine Crockett have not smiled at each other while passing through the halls of Congress? The Administrations and Congressional “representatives” leave office with millions oozing out of their wallets, but we shall not question how or from whom? Are we resigning our fate to a small trailer down by the river? This chick isn’t.
Hi RG,
Well – and I hope I am wrong – I see most people meekly turning in their guns, just as most of them meekly wore their “masks.” I agree some of us will not bow. But they’ll just pick us off, one by one. While the majority stand mutely by, mumbling like Ned Beatty in Deliverance: Look, we don’t want any trouble, here.
Again, I hope I am wrong.
Nobody will be turning in their guns except those with an IQ of 40 or less. We have all seen what governments do when they come after the weaponry. No person is spared. Because one hands over their gun does that individual think that the commander in charge won’t put a bullet in one’s head when they turn around and walk away? Fight like a man or crawl like a baby. Those are the only two options.
I agree with RG. Part of my thinking is that it is part of the plan. Well we all know what eventually happens to plans. Shit happens as in what can go wrong. Will go wrong. As you can see I am an optimist.
So am I Ugg, so am I. 😁
I hope you guys are right, Ugg – and that I am very wrong.
That said, it’s why I decided to do the Trans Am transformation, while I still can. I don’t want to “burn” (as Solzhintsyn put) in the camps about what I might have done, while I could have done it…
The car is now back on the ground/off the lift. Flywheel, clutch/pressure plate and bellhousing in. It’s now time – when I get the time – to install the pedals and drill the hole through the floorpan for the clutch actuating rod and then the hole in the driveshaft tunnel for the shifter…
RG, there are only 300 million guns in dirty private hands. You should know that, the government and the media (but I repeat myself) have been telling us so for 40 years now. Just like all military weapons are registered and none are in public hands.
Hi Ernie,
Well, AI clearly states that an upward momentum in gun purchases over the last several years reflects that the USSA now has over 500 million of them. Since I don’t believe AI or my government I am going to stand firm with close to a billion and wait until somebody actually proves me wrong. Something tells me that the average person may own more than 1-2 guns.
Gun purchases are way down of late. Maybe some of it is economic (affordability) but that’s never stopped people before when they perceived a threat. Particularly if the economy collapses. Your savings are worthless, only your hard goods in hand have value.
My guess is it has much more to do with most people not seeing gloom and doom everywhere they look. For good reason. Things are pretty good. Even here the doom is about what might happen, not the current thing.
I cannot speak for anyone else, but once you have a room full of sticks, they become a maintenance headache. Possibly there is some market saturation going on- and prices for old/used/interesting sticks have become stupidly high.
Plausible.
I just don’t argue with the guy I see every week at church who runs the local gun store. He knows more about it than I do.
Indeed, Raider Girl. Who is going to actually admit how many guns (or amount of ammo) they have when questioned for a “survey”? I think your one billion number to be more accurate.
We can’t be surprised that Spanberger won. Whether we like it or not VA is a blue state. Youngkin winning four years ago was the surprise. NOVA, Richmond, and Virginia Beach have too many supported by Uncle Sam whether it be corporate or individual welfare.
“Who should he we replaced with? JD? Will anything change?”
Yes, things are going to change, but be very messy. We no longer consent. They must go. We give them our power, they used it and abused it until we woke up.
It seems to me we are precisely at 68 A.D., on the cusp of the start of Rome’s 4 emperors:
“The Year of the Four Emperors in 69 AD was a period of civil war in Rome marked by the rapid succession of four emperors: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. This tumultuous year followed the death of Emperor Nero and led to significant political instability and the eventual establishment of the Flavian dynasty under Vespasian.”
Imagine this RG, Trump bombing of Iran backfires, B-2s shot down and carriers sunk. Israel destroyed. The Senate impeaches the Orange God King.
“Nero was dethroned after a series of revolts against his rule, particularly led by the provincial governor Galba. Declared a public enemy by the Senate, Nero fled Rome and ultimately committed suicide in 68 AD, marking the end of his reign.”
Trump is definitely a Nero and the public enemy.
Just guessing, but let’s assume that Trump (Nero) gets impeached, that starts the chain of succession. JD Vance takes the throne, but doesn’t last long. Civil war rages in the streets. More presidents, more assassinations, until finally a moral man is installed, like Thomas Massie.
Then everything settles down and we are back to normal, but no longer an empire. The USD is no longer the world’s reserve currency, China now rules the high seas.
“ Trump bombing of Iran backfires, B-2s shot down and carriers sunk. Israel destroyed. The Senate impeaches the Orange God King.” – Yukon Jack
I would love to see that scenario played out, unfortunately too good to be true.
And America, finally transformed into a shining city on the hill after extracting the leech that sucked its blood and slimed its conscience for 78 years, lived happily ever after. 🙂
I read a book on Nero. Talk about the inbreeding that went through there-sheesh. Everyone was related to everyone many times over, to where it was mind boggling trying to keep everyone straight. No surprise Nero was mental. Funny how history repeats itself, and sadly, never in a nice way.
Kind of like every US president except for one (Van Buren) has been related to King John (“Lackland”) of England- including Obama and Trump. Every. Single. One. (except Van Buran).
“Your vote matters” LOL
Hi Shadow,
Have you ever read Seutonius? His profile of the 12 Caesars is a thing worth reading, not just for the history but the insight.
No, I never have, Eric, but I found a book on-line that is about the 12 Caesars. And, it is a long read, too, which is fine by me!
Well, RG, I approve of it more than I disapprove. As to the point of the article, I don’t much care what Pirro or Trump think or say about my guns, or my drones, or my HIND, or my tac nuke, it ain’t a democracy and they don’t get a vote.
Can uniformed thieves steal your guns and kidnap you? Of course, this has always been true. The bigger issue is the jury pool, which is supposed to be the second to last check on this usurpation, has been brainwashed.
Yes the jury has been brainwashed. Which is why it’s getting even more important that you factor whether it’s more CNN or Fox brainwashing when you decide where to live. Yes, you still are on the 3×5 card of allowable opinion, you can think anything you want so long as you stay somewhere between Hillary and Mitt, but if guns are important to you, you definitely want a county that skews more heavily towards Mitt.
Mitt is the worst example you could have picked…
That was Tom Woods. Take it up with him.
First, the spectrum between Hillary and Mitt would fit on 3mm x 5mm card. Second, I’m not sure which end of this exceptionally narrow spectrum each is on. Is there really any difference between the two? I guess one is more shrill than the other. To borrow a shrill, Coke-bottle-lensed phrase: “WHAT DISFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE. . .” 🙂
Agreed, and that was more or less Tom Woods’ point. That libertarians should not end up fitting comfortably somewhere on that 3×5 note card. And yet we do. Regularly. Pull up CNN and see what they’ve been talking about lately. Quite the eye-opener. Or was to me when I did that a couple weeks ago.
We all live on the set of the Truman Show.
Tom Woods created the brilliant line: “No matter who you vote for, you end up with John McCain.”
Jimmy Dore always talks about how regular people of both left and right have more in common than the uniparty/oligarchy wants them to know which is why they are constantly shoving false flags/psyops/deep fakes at them to keep the “little people” at each other’s throats instead of turning on their “masters”.
It is worth remembering that Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party were opposed to much the same things, thus OWS was infiltrated and turned away from economic issues and towards “social justice” by the institutional “left”, and the Tea Party was astroturfed by Conservative Inc and turned into another Red Team cheerleading squad. Can’t have people thinking for themselves.
Astute observation, Metal Queen.
Likewise, “conservatives” and libertarians were beginning to become a problem for an ever-expanding federal leviathan, hence “Build the Wall!” became the battle cry given unto King Cheeto by his handlers. It would divide libertarians and get “conservatives” to cheer for a police state expansion when it moved into the phase of internal operations. “Trust the plan” indeed.
How very true, Metal Queen. A friend of mine a few years back forwarded me a Jimmy Dore clip, and found that I agreed with what he was saying, foul mouth and all. Even though I do not agree with everything he says (and who does?), like you reiterate, I found I had more in common with him than not, and Dore is no conservative/ republi-con fan, either. It reminds me of how, in World War 1, during Christmas both sides had a truce and ate dinner. TPTB realized they could never “allow” that to happen again, lest both sides saw who their real enemy was.
Same here, Shadow!
What I like about Dre is what causes me to like anyone. He isn’t a robot. He thinks. He expresses thoughts. Carlin was similar. These are my kind of people because you can have a conversation with them. This is not possible with people who do not respect facts, who cannot grasp principles (concepts). In other words, the great bulk of humanity.
Brandon Smith has an article today on LRC.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/02/brandon-smith/its-time-to-accept-that-civil-war-2-0-has-already-started/
The synopsis is that as an individual you have to determine which outcome what Trump is doing benefits. The protests are not organic at all, so is Trump enflaming or opposing them? It’s not a clear white hat vs black hat here and reducing it to Orange Man Bad is setting yourself up for a bigger fall if we don’t exploit it for out benefit. Blindly undercutting Noem and Trump without having something else planned could make things exponentially worse.
If the scam persecutions of Trump and allies over them actually telling the truth about election fraud wasn’t enough to make this point, what’s happening in Virginia should be chilling. Lefties have never been warm and cuddly, but after taking power, (weirdly enough, with about the same margins Rs have in DC) they are showing they meant business. They are not going easy on MAGAs, true, but they are not going easy on anyone.
Hi Steve,
Yes, of course – there was fraud. It will not matter after Trump destroys and demoralizes the MAGA movement. Everything we value is going to be tainted by association (made by the Left) with Trump. It does not take a prophet to see this – or what is coming.
Now the bastard is defending Bill god-damned Clinton. It is ruinous.
How very true, Landru. With “allies” and “friends” like these, who needs enemies?
“ Some apparently think all that matters is whether the Hut! Hut! Hut! is applied by one of their own – against people they do not like. These are people foolish enough to believe the Hut! Hut! Hut! will never be applied to them.”
That’s what the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Cubans, Vietnamese, and Iranians thought too.
If “our” side treats us like that just imagine when the other side gets back in.
When the other side gets back into power we’ll be in for a rude surprise. I think it’ll happen in the next mid tern elections. It seems that no matter who you vote for we get more of the same. More money being spent, more laws against freedom, more debauchery. Until some time in the future it will all come crashing down, maybe in about one hundred years from now. The can kicking into the future can go on for a long, long time.