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October 22, 2024
Election Musings

The current presidential election cycle is the least attractive I have ever watched.

Donald Trump is doing his usual talk giving promises which no one believes he will keep.

Kamala Harris is as disagreeable as many have feared. She is basically an empty vessel with a tendency to authoritarianism. The vessel is ready to be filled with whatever new war project the neo-conservatives – see Liz Cheney – are planning for.

Biden was and is clearly beyond the point of pursuing another presidency. Moving him aside was the best thing the Democrats could do. Offering Harris as a replacement – without any campaign, vote or legitimization – was the worst thing they could do. They will rue this mistake.

My hunch is that Trump will win the election. What policies will follow will largely depend on the people he will select to run the show. He had previously chosen people who were opposing and sabotaging his policies. He lacked the authority and/or will to rein them in. I do not believe that he has learned from it.

Whoever may win the presidency will anyway not make a big difference.

I expect the new president to double down on the anti-Russian project in Ukraine and on support for the genocide the Zionist are committed to finish. The U.S. will continue to be bogged down in Europe and west-Asia. The 'pivot to Asia' to counter China's rise will continue to stall. The economic standing of the U.S. will continue to deteriorate.

This is good news for China, Russia, the BRICS project and those involved in it. As the old world order continues to drag itself down the new one gains time and space to evolve from it.

Comments

Not Ewe@1604
Interesting side-note on that Bu$h Crime Clan you cited. GHW Bu$h, son of a declared aider and abetter of the enemy in WWII, graduated Yale at the same time as the Agency was established. He was an early hiree, as a disproportionate number of early hires were Elis, and most preferably Skull n’ Bonesies. It is almost certain that he ran the Bay of Pigs operation in ’61 and then graduated to be the shotcaller at Dallas on 11-22-63.
Headquarters building in Langley is named after George Herbert Walker Bush…as is the U$N’s largest aircraft carrier. That’s all one needs to know.

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 22 2024 18:17 utc | 101

Don’t vote for any of these monsters!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 22 2024 18:17 utc | 102

For the faithful believers in a Trump engendered nirvana … one of his first acts post inauguration was to personally approve the murder by drone, assasination, overseas, of an unconvicted/less ever even charged American citizen, absent any due process whatsoever(Constitution ?) ’cause ? He was the son of a ‘designated’ ‘Terrorist’. No, the Dems & KamelToe can FOAD along with the whole f*rking farce too.

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2024 18:19 utc | 103

@Archetypex | Oct 22 2024 18:17 utc | 101
If it is true it is in multiple (80+) pieces it must be something physical.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 22 2024 18:21 utc | 104

Are you following America at all???
Trump is our only hope.
I’m removing MOA from my daily bookmarks.
You are oblivious and all further perspectives of yours are now highly suspect.

Posted by: Marco Sparco | Oct 22 2024 18:22 utc | 105

Jure@1802
True enough about the history of aggression by the ruptured republic. The Lenapi people, who occupied most of the Delaware river basin, were driven out of their homes by Washington’s troops even DURING the American Revolution and hyped up after independence was established. The Lenapis, better known as the Delaware tribe, described the land’s largest land-speculator as the “destroyer of villages”. The Izzies are attempting the same removal policies as those of the post Constitutional government’s first president.
Incidentally, under the Articles of Confederation, the very first American president was a Norwegian descended man name of John Hansen. The fukkin Federalists weaseled their way into setting up the United States of America under a constitution which they plotted out. Many Americans were not amused over that and held out on ratification by the states until the Bill of Rights was included as the first ten Amendments to said document.
From the get-go there have been two Americas: One dominated by land speculators and Philadelphia and New York banksters, both closely connected with City of London banksters. The other America is once again in an upsurge as the Great Awakening develops apace.

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 22 2024 18:27 utc | 106

@Ossi, #30:

As a German, I have rarely come across such uninterested political losers, unthinkable in Europe.

I agree with all you said about geopolitical ignorance in America (including Canada), but if Europeans are any better, how do you explain the corps of pygmies elected in Europe, especially the old western Europe???

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Oct 22 2024 18:29 utc | 107

I did a search and found several articles on the satellite. Also of note, a Russian satellite broke apart on June 28 of this year. Space News.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 22 2024 18:31 utc | 108

Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 22 2024 18:17 utc | 102
That is an interesting angle I never considered before, the Arbusto with brains linked to that fatal November date. Our presstitutes always add to Putin the qualifier KGB agent, but daddy’s CV is not mentioned.

Posted by: Paco | Oct 22 2024 18:34 utc | 109

@ aristodemos | Oct 22 2024 18:27 utc | 107
Indeed.
See: So called Whiskey Rebellion 1791-1794, with George Washington(President) suppressing by force of arms, representing the landholders/banksters, demobilized veterans & citizens.
@ Marco Sparco | Oct 22 2024 18:22 utc | 106
Dearest, please do take care, and be gentle with yourself. Oh yeah, try not to have the saloon doors hit ya in the ass on the way out.

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2024 18:35 utc | 110

The collapse of the Roman Empire became common knowledge when the Roman emperor Valerian was captured by the Persian king Shapur in AD260. He was captured in what is today south east Turkey. An area that was a part of historic Syria.
It would be fitting if Netanyahu were captured by the Persians. That would definitely signal the end of the Empire of Chaos.

Posted by: Alfred (Hurghada) | Oct 22 2024 18:35 utc | 111

@ chris #52
At least you’re lucky enough, being Canadian, to emigrate to Cuba if you wanted. We in the ‘land of the free’ can’t legally do that.

Posted by: motorslug | Oct 22 2024 18:38 utc | 112

@Kooshy, #57:

…the reason is non of this two deep state candidates are really counting on the people’s vote, they rather just counting who the deep security state will select. The new candidate will again will be coming out a mail box with easy manipulation of mailed ballots.

You hit that one on the nose.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Oct 22 2024 18:38 utc | 113

Sorry I meant that for chris #71

Posted by: motorslug | Oct 22 2024 18:39 utc | 114

Not voting in this Empire anymore.

Posted by: lindaj | Oct 22 2024 18:41 utc | 115

My hunch is that Trump will win the election too. What policies will follow are dictated not by him but by his sponsors, people from the intelligence agencies, etc. who will also dictate who needs to head the cabinets. Like John Bolton or Hillary under Obama… those fiends were not chosen by their elected presidents but imposed by unelected people residing in higher echelons. In Europe it’s not much different. The US president is a ceremonial role. Like a secretary in front of the building pretending to run to the show. If they stop following the script, they get replaced which happened only once in the sixties. Trump will continue following his script while his pockets continue to get stacked. Zero doubt.

Posted by: xor | Oct 22 2024 18:43 utc | 116

Yawn yawn yawn. US soap opera 24/7 with Thump in the lead role will be interesting to say the least, plenty of midnight tweets after gorging on Mc shit food and diet diabetes coke will see to that.
Everything else you said B is correct, nothing will change, misery will still be heaped on the world because the natives haven’t got the balls to revolt.

Posted by: Ogre | Oct 22 2024 18:45 utc | 117

We can’t be sure who won until after 2-4 am and the “surprise” swing ballots are found and added. However, as a Yurupean, I think we should refuse to recognise the results and then name some virtually unknown person for the job. (As the US often does in other countries). I would have added that the assets of the US could then be transferred or seized and put into friendly hands, but I am not sure they still have any real ones left.
/s

Posted by: Stonebird | Oct 22 2024 18:46 utc | 118

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 22 2024 18:21 utc | 105
I’m not so sure. There is a lot of equipment using electrical power and batteries on board.
If something could be made to burn or explode and burst its hull you might get those fragments.
If its orbit changed it would start burning and breaking up on reentry, no?

Posted by: Archetypex | Oct 22 2024 18:53 utc | 119

@jure
I asked Native Americans about immigration and they said it is tantamount to genocide. Yes, it is the only issue, since I am the target.
The Arab nations could deal with Israel if they wanted.

Posted by: onetwothree | Oct 22 2024 18:53 utc | 120

re: intelsat 33e
Maybe if we are lucky that is the pre-arrival announcement from the coming overlords who have deemed humanity to immature and insane to be loosed on the galaxy.

Posted by: motorslug | Oct 22 2024 18:57 utc | 121

Oh, meant to say, I intend to vote for Jill, too.
Posted by: librul | Oct 22 2024 16:02 utc | 19

Then you’ll get 4 years of MAGA lesser Evil …

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Oct 22 2024 18:57 utc | 122

The only honest candidate for Congress, Dennis Kucinich, is the only person I would trust to be president.

Posted by: chet380 | Oct 22 2024 18:59 utc | 123

I don’t know, b. You sort of disagree with the US media (2 months ago). Joe Biden is fiery and sharp as a tack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5bz8dC7-k
FIERY!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 22 2024 18:59 utc | 124

Yes, it is the only issue, since I am the target.
Posted by: onetwothree | Oct 22 2024 18:53 utc | 121
Ah, prey, tell. Have you been attacked by immigrants? Also, you seemed to fully ignore my statement on *why* those immigrants are coming there?
Were you aware that the Dumpster in all earnesty considered invading Venezuela?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-venezuela-invasion-crisis-rex-tillerson-advisers-meeting-a8430571.html

Posted by: jure | Oct 22 2024 19:00 utc | 125

Washington Permanent (1963/67-) was a coalition formed by three political parties
the imperial party, the Zionist party, the corporatocratic party
the changes that have occurred (1997-) have been two: on the one hand, a great rapport between the three and, on the other hand, the incorporation of a fourth member: the colossal media bubble built on tons and tons of silence and more silence.
Washington Permanent lives above the ups and downs of the political media show industry for the entertainment and confusion of the plebs
but as an inevitable product of deception it has created two cultures, two identities
America is fractured into two cultural identities, it is the consequence of hiding reality

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:00 utc | 126

Europe will HATE MAGA Part II …
Putin will prolly gain his desired North Atlantic breakup …

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Oct 22 2024 19:00 utc | 127

35 trillion votes?
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 22 2024 19:00 utc | 128

No, MOA, Trump will not double down in the Ukraine, as he has said and the Pentagon wouldn’t allow it even if he did…Kamala is a low IQ drunkard who knows nothing and would let the neocons run riot….And if he lets Elon and RFK do their things, he will be the best President in many years….

Posted by: Pyrrhus | Oct 22 2024 19:03 utc | 129

Europe

The puppets of the ridiculous club of European Eunuchs
just today, this very morning, i heard their horror at the Donald
The servile European prostitutes cannot stand the rudeness of the Sadducees and prefer the theatre and lies of the Pharisees

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:07 utc | 130

Hear, hear chet #124!!!!!!!

Posted by: motorslug | Oct 22 2024 19:07 utc | 131

@ Paco 110 –
Pappy Bush’s “Company” pedigree was often noted in the past, but has been hushed up for a while now. Not surprising that Reagan was saddled with him as VP — the deep state not too confident they could keep control of that populist former actor. The attempted assassination was undoubtedly a set up to remind Ronnie just who was boss. He completely toed the MIC/Deep State line after that, and GHW wound up prez thereafter. And m not mistaken, the shooter was a distant Bush clan relative.

Posted by: Adriatic Hillbilly | Oct 22 2024 19:07 utc | 132

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Oct 22 2024 18:29 utc | 108
how do you explain the corps of pygmies elected in Europe, especially the old western Europe???
Its easy, Empire Zionism is privately held ( no part of it is public or part of government yet it has many, many agents in very high places in most governments and at the heads of most multi national corporations). Neuro and behavioral psychology are used to engineer the global and local information environments so that access to competing information is denied. Within the psycho engineered information environment one finds private media owners producing narratives designed to control and regulate audience thinking.
When there is no other information available, why would not audiences accept false narratives and how would an audience separate fact from fable?
Preventing false and misleading narratives is one reason why it is necessary to join all the people in the world into one common communications link but preventing people from communicating with each other between nations has been a major contributor to initiating war between groups and nations. The people in each nation state are given different narratives on the same topic, as time goes on the different groups polarize and soon thereafter war develops.

Posted by: snake | Oct 22 2024 19:09 utc | 133

@ aristodemos | Oct 22 2024 18:17 utc | 102
interesting connections i was unaware of.. thanks…

Posted by: james | Oct 22 2024 19:10 utc | 134

The servile European prostitutes cannot stand the rudeness of the Sadducees and prefer the theatre and lies of the Pharisees
Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:07 utc | 131
Well isn’t it a problem on *your* side when you yourselves only ever make it an election between two despicable sides? Once your empire is out of the picture and goes down, we won’t have to think of you anymore.

Posted by: jure | Oct 22 2024 19:10 utc | 135

@Posted by: Me | Oct 22 2024 17:26 utc | 72
You should travel more, then maybe you would be able to make comparisons with actual nice places to live. Florida is an over-built shit hole, completely car dependent and looking down the barrel of climate change. Just right wing oligarchy vs. liberal oligarchy.

Posted by: Roger | Oct 22 2024 19:15 utc | 136

“how do you explain the corps of pygmies elected in Europe, especially the old western Europe???”

Because Zio-master on the one hand does not want to take risks and chooses puppets and rag dolls and on the other hand because his power (coercive, narrative and to incite the desire to belong to the group with power) allows them the luxury of laughing at the cattle.

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:15 utc | 137

Will win the one with the best after-work team.
If the woman wins, nothing will change.
If the man wins, the Gaza population will be exterminated, Southern Lebanon will be annexed and colonisations will incresase in Cisjordania. He may start a war against Iran.

Posted by: Naive | Oct 22 2024 19:21 utc | 138

@jure
Mass immigration is occurring for one reason: The ethnic compatriots of Israelis living in the US are pushing it. Both groups have the same goal–the destruction of nations–with necessarily different strategies. Americans today are being replaced at a vastly greater pace than Native Americans ever were. All of this is obvious. I won’t engage further.

Posted by: onetwothree | Oct 22 2024 19:24 utc | 139

It must be taken into account that Zionism is the essence of archaic Judaism and its fundamental idea is to enslave
That is why the power of the Sadducean aristocracy collapsed (-70)
In fact, the Romans considered that the rebel leader, the Yahia of that time, was not an aristocrat from Jerusalem like Flavius ​​Josephus, but the leader of “an army of slaves and bandits”
(The other rebels were “the Idumean army”, “the Galileans”, and the “Sicarii”, many of whom were “galaunites”)

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:26 utc | 140

Posted by: onetwothree | Oct 22 2024 19:24 utc | 140
If by “pushing it” you mean people like Abrams (Reagan, Bush, Trump), Nuland (Bush, Biden), and the other “chosen people” that seem to span every other US regime, sabotaging the countries from which the migrants are coming, I’m in full agreement. However, I get the impression you might think a bigger wall and zero-admittance policy (except for the white and “white” gentile compradors from Venezuela and Cuba, of course) would be sufficient to stem the tide. It’s unprecedented, but entirely predictable – which I did here as far back as Trump’s 3rd year in office – that these people would flee the countries which Uncle Scam wrecked in Latin America and Haiti – and that they’d come to the US, which is the only country in this hemisphere that doesn’t host an American embassy. I think we all know the relevant quotation on that.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 22 2024 19:29 utc | 141

just today, this very morning, i heard their horror at the Donald
Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:07 utc | 131

Indeed, if he wins it will be a pleasure to read and hear their lamentations and moaning.
One stupid commentator always says: Until the election of her… pause… or him. Everyone can understand the message.
It looks like several swing States are prefering him_ AZ, NV, PA, MI, NC and GA with WI even. But everyone knows that to place trust in the polls is ludicrous.

Posted by: Naive | Oct 22 2024 19:31 utc | 142

It is inevitable to remember when “the Idumean army” arrived at the Temple-city, and said
– “we Idumeans will defend the common homeland and the house of Hashem”
and said and done they slaughtered the Sadducean aristocracy of Jerusalem
and in the process one of the prophecies of “the school of the Nazarenes” was fulfilled

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:33 utc | 143

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 22 2024 19:29 utc | 142
Both thumbs up for that post!

Posted by: jure | Oct 22 2024 19:33 utc | 144

BREAKING: Joe Rogan to host Donald Trump at his studio in Austin, TX for a 2-hr sit down interview.
Rogan’s Bernie Sanders interview boosted the latter’s numbers in polls, IIRC, and got his message out to a lot of people who otherwise are/were not engaged with mainstream media. One only wonders if Trump can remain coherent and cogent for that long and how well (or if) his handlers have prepped him for the appearance.
Tentatively scheduled for Friday, October 25 according to an anonymous source who is privy to the conversation, but who was not granted permission to speak to media in an official capacity.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 22 2024 19:35 utc | 145

Last time you posted about the election I said something along the lines of “Harris will win because she’s not Trump, Biden did and Harris isn’t actively sundowning”.
I was wrong, you were right.
This is far more of a shitshow than I’d predicted. I’ve also personally managed to convince a few friends to vote 3rd party due to Gaza.

Posted by: luther7718 | Oct 22 2024 19:51 utc | 147

Apologies if I’ve missed it, could well have passed by me, but which candidate has promised to sort out the F-35 project/saga?

DOD reassess F-35 sustainment to determine government and contractor responsibility, identify required technical data, and make final decisions on sustainment changes.

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-25-107870.pdf (27 pages).

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Oct 22 2024 19:53 utc | 148

Rusticus Maximus Brutus, candidate of the Zionist Pharisees, and …
Brutus Maximus Rusticus, candidate of the Zionist Sadducees …
My prediction about who will be in charge of wearing the mask is irrelevant
The Yiddish Empire (1963/67-, 1997-), last version of the Roman Empire, will continue on its blind and inertial course

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 19:55 utc | 149

Trump is a blowhard a-hole but I sure do like his team better. Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr, Elon…that team could make a difference.
Problem is at least a quarter of the population get a check from the gvt and another quarter work or contract with taxpayer $.
Elon cut 80% of X headcount and RFK Jr will hopefully scatter those crap-stirring alphabet soup agencies to the wind. Tulsi won’t tolerate the military abuse.
Jill Stein may be the only peace candidate and that is pretty debatable given her recent words. Regardless that is a wasted vote to oppose screaming toward WWIII.

Posted by: cc | Oct 22 2024 20:03 utc | 150

“My hunch is that Trump will win the election.”
Almost everyone I talk to has the same feeling. However, the Dems are the closest to the intelligence agencies at this point, which would make fixing the outcome much easier. They don’t have to stuff ballot boxes. Like all tech in the US, those voting machines have back doors that can be easily opened by intelligence. For what it’s worth, I think musk recently made this point too.
So, you have to wonder, if both candidates are so similar in terms of foreign policy, why would intelligence fix it for the Dems?
This is where I disagree with your assessment. Trump is a lying blowhard, but I think intelligence sees his promise to end the Ukraine debacle as credible. That would represent a very significant difference between the two candidates.
Yeah he’s a lying Zionist dildo, but he very well could bring Ukraine to a close.
If he does win and end the Ukraine gravy train, then intelligence wanted it to happen. It would be a very convenient way of escaping the disaster they created in Ukraine. They just tell their European vassals: we tried, but Trump!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Oct 22 2024 20:25 utc | 151

Newbie @75: “What trap can they, and most importantly should they, trip on trump or harris?”
Definitely start with the Philippines. Wait until they try another provocation (really, the Empire cannot help it and the vassals don’t get a say), then tow that shipwreck that Filipino boy scouts are camping on off the Renai Jiao reef. Rescue the boy scouts when it sinks and drop them off in a Philippines port. China can then declare the South China Sea temporarily off-limits to foreign military vessels while they do some military exercises. The Empire will then go bonkers with their bogus “freedom of navigation” provocations, at which point China legally sinks a couple US destroyers down near Nanwei Dao. At that point it is on like Donkey Kong, but without the Empire having any justification for taking the fight to the Chinese mainland. It will be a pure naval slugfest, and the Empire won’t fare well.

Posted by: William Gruff | Oct 22 2024 20:27 utc | 152

Mike Droy, fm south america I fully agree with you. Mr Trump has nt deteriorated even improved in some points. While added stubborness in others. The US and world situation have deteriorated a lot which can lead him, his potential admin to unmanageable drain whirls.

Posted by: augusto | Oct 22 2024 20:28 utc | 153

Posted by: qparker | Oct 22 2024 16:33 utc | 37
Take your antisemtisim and shove it.

Posted by: JAB | Oct 22 2024 20:44 utc | 154

Take your antisemtisim and shove it.
Posted by: JAB | Oct 22 2024 20:44 utc | 155

Posted by: qparker | Oct 22 2024 20:52 utc | 155

I see the vast majority of commentary’s focused on Outlaw US Empire Imperial Policy with very little mention of domestic policy. Most including myself have noted that Imperial Policy will continue along the same lines as now. Yet, what can those of us stuck within the Empire expect domestically? The Duopoly is clearly anti-labor and that will continue. The banksters and their FIRE sector allies have a death grip on the federal government, so I expect no reforms changing that behavior to materialize. The MIC corruption will continue as now. The fact that interest on the debt will soon hit $1 Trillion annually, we can expect more cuts to what remains of social support policies. And nothing will be done to reform the horrendous state of healthcare and its costs. In other words, the future will continue along its current trajectory as more businesses close shop due to rising costs and dwindling customer bases.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, 45-year-old Shari’s restaurant chain closed its 42 remaining Oregon locations last Sunday. The family-owned chain once had 95 locations. The announced Social Security COLA of 2.5% is robbery as we’ve witnessed one of the most blatant acts of price frauds ever as Gasoline prices have dropped below $3/gal locally in some Oregon locations from their nationwide average high of $5.02/gal on 14 June 2022. Same goes for interest rate manipulation. Look for both to rise again as soon as the election’s over. And over in Baltimore, how’s the reconstruction of the bridge going? Are the roads in Western North Carolina cleared yet and power reaching residents? I’m sure barflies can add to that short list. I’m willing to bet that every US-based barfly has had its Congressional Rep promise to be more responsive to needs and problems just as they have for all previous elections when nothing’s done after. Yes, my household will vote as there’re some good initiatives that need to be passed, but I have zero positive expectations form any of the candidates, state or federal.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 22 2024 20:54 utc | 156

Take your antisemtisim and shove it.
Posted by: JAB | Oct 22 2024 20:44 utc | 155
Simple facts sure bring out the Zionist in you.

Posted by: qparker | Oct 22 2024 20:54 utc | 157

Trump has been actually quite Presidential during this campaign, more than I thought he was capable of. I see promise in that. He is a showman who still likes to perform on the stage and the Al Smith Dinner roast and his McDonald’s fry cook performance show that.
JD Vance seems to have a significant influence on him which means the Silicon Valley capitalists who do get their money through Wall Street will have influence. He told RFKjr that he would give him free reign, assume HHS and beyond. Kash Patel will clean out DoJ. DoD and DoS are a big guess but Tulsi Gabbard would not be around if there were no expectations for her.
-b is right in that what the Donald says and what he does are two different things. Time will tell. I am guessing that he will be the first adult in the room with Putin since a long time.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 22 2024 20:55 utc | 158

Anti-Buddhist
Anti-Buddhist is anything that a Zionist doesn’t like.
If a Zionist doesn’t like garlic soup then garlic soup is anti-Buddhist.
and for the same reason the ideas of human rights, democracy and the very idea of ​​civilization are anti-Buddhist ideas because they go against what the rag doll in the hands of Aramaic ventriloquists says in the book of Deuteronomy, which establishes a radical distinction between a dominant people, a “HerrenVolk”, and a population, “the people of the la d” (“am ha’eretz”) that must be subjugated and enslaved
the same reality can be anti-Buddhist, and of course truth and justice are anti-Buddhist
the reality is that the fanatic and violent Zionists who arrived (1914-) from Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Byelorussia and who unleashed terror (1936-) on the people of “the land of Canaan” hated everything Semitic
and would have liked the land of Canaan to be an island between Norway and Denmark
the great Temple was not built by a rabbi from Ukraine, but by an Arab king, Herod “the Great”, son of “the Idumean” and a princess of Petra

Posted by: Simon | Oct 22 2024 21:00 utc | 159

It would not surprise me if, shortly after trump was pronounced winner of the election, that there was another, this time successful, assassination attempt. Maybe they will wait until the inauguration, after he is sworn in. In any case, Vance becoming president soon is not difficult to imagine.

Posted by: Samu | Oct 22 2024 21:00 utc | 160

karlof1 @157, Well, California is determined to run the refineries out with excessive regulation. Chevron has left and Phillips 66 plans to. There is that. PGE has power safety shutoffs quite frequently. One just a couple of days ago. Never used to happen. We also have the largest gas tax, but the roads are still bad.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 22 2024 21:11 utc | 161

If Harris “wins” two thirds of the electorate won’t believe it and probably will not go quietly into the night.
If Trump (literally Hitler according to Democrats / media) wins there will be an orchestrated uprising organised by all those in the current Goverment and its supporters who have broken the law and may face prosecution and prison.
The media vilification of Trump will prevent his acceptance by Democrat supporters.
It does not seem likely either that the US is capable of having an election that is not outrageously and openly rigged.
There is no happy ending

Posted by: CitizenSmith | Oct 22 2024 21:11 utc | 162

@ karlof1 | Oct 22 2024 20:54 utc | 157
re: I see the vast majority of commentary’s focused on Outlaw US Empire Imperial Policy with very little mention of domestic policy.
There’s a video about that shows Trump in one of his emotional episodes where his first domestic action will be large tariffs on all the imported goods that appeal to him, especially China ones of course. So what would that do to the free trade in goods that we’ve benefited from, like the PC I’m banging on for one example. I remember my first computer was about $4,000 and is now it can be less than a thousand. . . High cost increases? Look for it.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 22 2024 21:24 utc | 163

@ William Gruff | Oct 22 2024 20:27 utc | 153
re: Definitely start with the Philippines. . .
Yeah, I’ve been watching the interesting East China Sea also, especially the comedic Philippines which is a US puppy-dog again. Nice scenario you’ve got there.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 22 2024 21:30 utc | 164

Kooshy | Oct 22 2024 17:02 utc | 57
…will again will be coming out a mail box with easy manipulation of mailed ballots.

Should have saved the link… yt yesterday had a piece on a man retrieving mail-in ballots from a storm drain somewhere in (I think) California.
§~ Aaannnd here we go!
mk | Oct 22 2024 17:04 utc | 59
…assassination attempts on Trump.
Trump is spouting that Iran was behind the assassination attempts.
Some may think Trump is being smart, as outing the Deep State when he’s at his most vulnerable would be crazy.
Unfortunately, Trump isn’t being “smart”. He really thinks Iran is responsible… because he killed Soleimani; and because Israel told him it was Iran.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 22 2024 21:40 utc | 165

robjira | Oct 22 2024 17:49 utc | 91
As for DT and KH, I hearken back to Julian Assange’s opinion; it’s like choosing between gonorrhea or syphilis.
And given the sexual history of both …. An analogy most apt

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 22 2024 21:44 utc | 166

Take your antisemtisim and shove it.
Posted by: JAB | Oct 22 2024 20:44 utc | 155
Lol, not one of the people mentioned has any semitic lineage whatsoever.

Posted by: Archetypex | Oct 22 2024 21:46 utc | 167

“Whoever may win the presidency will anyway not make a big difference.”
+1
‘Nuf said.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Oct 22 2024 21:51 utc | 168

Immaculate deception | Oct 22 2024 21:11 utc | 162–
Thanks for your reply. I’m a California native but moved to Oregon in 2003 as the signs of dysfunction were everywhere. Oregon has its problems too but not as dysfunctional as California’s.
Don Bacon | Oct 22 2024 21:24 utc | 164–
Thanks for your reply, Don. Yeah, I wish I could predict which one of my 20+ year-old appliances will need replacing first. Wife’s government employees union won a 5% COLA which was closer to what it needed to be. We’re fortunate to having only R&M costs, although I await this year’s property tax hit.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 22 2024 21:54 utc | 169

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 22 2024 21:44 utc | 167
Syphilis is worse.

Posted by: Naive | Oct 22 2024 21:55 utc | 170

SNL took out Kamala, worth noting as a bell weather.
The hysterics will keep it up but the country as a whole has been turned off the Biden-Harris mistreatment. MSM is slowly dying and will have to try to reconfigure itself.
There will be turnover among the govvies. The SES will be most affected, the political appointees will control that. There is a reason for modest optimism.
The fact that the country has turned more conservate all by itself shows the resilience of Americans, misled as they are all the time.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 22 2024 21:57 utc | 171

“The amount of people claiming that President Trump lacks the authority to “rein them in” is genuinely surprising. If anyone remembers, not only did he refuse to get involved in a massive Syria war, his SecDef resigned over it. Meanwhile, the renegotiated North American free trade deal was done in one term, indicating exactly how easy it always would have been for any other politician to do likewise.
Most non-Americans are unaware of what Senate confirmation is or why it limits the actions of any President without a link to the two-party system. But it’s been eight years since Trump first got the Presidency. He’s had a lot of time to think, and the assassination attempts are making it much easier to choose violence to resolve problems. Like the problem os a large, expensive, hopelessly corrupt political class.”
Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Oct 22 2024 15:45 utc | 3
Best post I have read today.
Although I am leery of trump’s Zionist leaning I still believe he will keep Israel on a much shorter leash than the Biden administration.
Many of the poster here have TDSyndrome or they are voting for Jill Stein which is a waste of their franchise.
Three were no wars when Trump was prez; he knows the opposing the SMO was a bad idea; the obvious fact that the WASHINGTON POLITCAL INSIDERS FROM EVERY STRIPE INTENSELY HATE HIM MAKES ME BELIEVE HE IS DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

Posted by: canuck | Oct 22 2024 21:57 utc | 172

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 22 2024 19:29 utc | 142
Tom. The wall iirc was a clinton thing. They put walls in the natural/safer places to cross the border. Forcing immigration into less desirable/unsafe crossings. Perhaps thats why donald is so smitten with the idea. Agreed that until they stop the rape of the south they should take it all.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Oct 22 2024 21:58 utc | 173

The fact that interest on the debt will soon hit $1 Trillion annually?
What does that mean ?
Ask Michael Hudson. There is no national debt only national savings. After all that’s what a treasury is a savings certificate. So interest to everyone who holds treasuries will hit a $1 Trillion annually. suddenly we’ll find that there is no debt, just Banks, Pension Funds and individuals with sizeable ‘in credit’ deposits with a term coupon attached. It’s rising fast because we have an ageing population requiring savings and is the population increasing at the same time.
All confirmed by Michael Hudson.
And like all savings it disappears when the person owing it stops saving and starts spending. Servicing such spending is, of course, how other people earn an income. Of course cutting interest rates will reduce the interest income people get.
The ‘cost’ of government borrowing is zero, by default, and always has been. When you own your own bank it can’t be anything else. Nobody who owned their own bank would borrow from anywhere else, so why does your government?
Paying out interest is therefore a political choice -Monetarist policies are funded by an increase in mortgage rates. They intend to swap the Inflation Tax for the Monetarist Mortgage Tax – poor people pay over more interest that is then given to rich people for safe keeping, as interest on their deposits. That is supposed to reduce aggregate demand.
Eliminating further government debt interest payments by simply stopping issuing treasuries will remove the oversupply of treasuries in the market at present (which is what is causing prices to fall and yields to go up) and reduce the income ‘people with money’ get from them. That then reduces the size of the Mortgage Tax required to stop inflation.
Just stop issuing treasuries and set the interest rate at zero and don’t touch it. It is a left over from the gold standard anyway. Allow people to save in granny bonds that the Post office used to do until Thatcher and Regan stopped it.
Here’s how Japan is dealing with it. Their debt to GDP of 260%. With an ageing population requiring savings.
Here:
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=62072
Every large developed country is heading the same way. Can’t run away from it.
Anybody know How do Russians save for a pension what with a debt to GDP of less than 20% ? It would be ironic If Russians are now forced to save with private sector pension schemes that invest in US treasuries
” ” The Russian Federation has undergone a major reform of the pension system which has resulted in a shift from a single, publicly managed system to one supplemented by a mandatory, privately managed occupational funded component and voluntary pension arrangements. The reform aimed to tackle a set of problems of demographic, social and economic order inherent to retirement income provision and was viewed as a way to improve old-age security of retirees in Russia by ensuring long-term financial and fiscal stability of the pension system and adequacy of pension benefits.
Most prominent among the challenges is the need to further strengthen the pension system regulatory capacity and enforcement powers of the authorities in charge of the oversight of private pension institutions. ”

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 22 2024 22:07 utc | 174

@ karlof1 | Oct 22 2024 21:54 utc | 170
re: Oregon has its problems too but not as dysfunctional as California’s. . .
I’m a 25-year inhabitant of SoCal and love it to pieces. High desert, clean air and water, quiet, scenic, birds to be fed every morning, good medical scene nearby — damned colon cancer — and last but not least it’s inexpensive. Healthy again next year, I expect, and I do have my Benchmark map of Oregon campgrounds for our camper-van. Many places (color-coded) are first-come, first served, my cup of tea. And the annual bluegrass festival in Darrington WA isn’t far from that. Always pleased to be back in Southern California, you betcha.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Oct 22 2024 22:11 utc | 175

@ canuck | Oct 22 2024 21:57 utc | 173
i guess you figure trump wasn’t responsible for solimanis murder, or that he didn’t move the usa embassy to jerusalem like a good jewish servant?? you fascinate me canuck! and i ain’t suffering from tds either.. cheers..

Posted by: james | Oct 22 2024 22:13 utc | 176

Very, very , very few Russians save for a pension using Russian government bonds. With a debt to GDP ratio of less than 20%.
What are they invested in then ?
The British use Gilts, the American’s treasuries, the Japanese, Japanese bonds. A mixture of them all etc, etc, etc.
What are Russian private pension funds investing Russians in as it certainly isn’t Russian bonds with a debt to GDP ratio of less than 20% of GDP ?

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 22 2024 22:23 utc | 177

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-22/fed-cuts-helter-skelter-in-bond-markets-as-doubts-harden
In the last few months, it’s striking that the 10-year yield has traced the Trump odds according to Polymarket — an offshore market that may be over-influenced by a few large bettors, but which seems to be driving opinion on Wall Street.
Good enough hint. It does not indicate how the government work. There is a discussion starting about servicing the debt.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 22 2024 22:23 utc | 178

Whoever may win the presidency will anyway not make a big difference.
The deep state intelligence (pardon for the oxymoron) talking heads are fairly quite compared to the last two election cycles. Trump is anti NEOCON but pro Zionists. A divergence in thought as typically those ideas are united. Trump has an outsider team assembled planning the changing of deck chairs on the Titanic, I like some of those people.
I can tell you this whole taking the tansgenderist sex change to your children in school behind the parents back is a big big issue with people from south of the border who have moved here. Above all things is a hill to die on for many of them.
There will be no difference if the Kamal wins. If Trumpelstein wins there will be a big change in government. He is not taking off his ass; he believes that stuff and will hit the ground running.

Posted by: circumspect | Oct 22 2024 22:30 utc | 179

CitizenSmith 163 – Yup, very good analysis……
If DJT wins BLM and Antifa and various Trotskyites radicals will attempt many mini urban insurrections, much like what we witnessed in May/June 2020, only on a much larger scale. These armed groups will attempt to stop the inauguration of the President, by making DC a fire pocket.
If Kamyhoe Harris is elected I expect no major incident to prevent her from taking office. However I expect in some state capitals, efforts will be made to void certain federal edicts, laws and regulations she will issue by executive order, leading to potential confrontations between state forces and federal officers. I do not expect armed groups, and or militas to rise up and seize territory, most right forces in the US do not willingly violate the law……..they are after all largely local police, firefighters and their supporters….however if Kamyhoe or her enabled federal bureaucrats attempt some dramatic far left movement, say the forced confiscation via mandatory buy back of all semi auto firearms, or an attempt to round up and jail DjT supporters, then there would be a dramatic mass armed uprising against federal authorities.
Stay tuned this could get very messy very quickly….remember there are 400 million semi auto privately held firearms in the US………this is not like Ireland, UK, Australia or NZ……folks know how to use these weapons due to frequent practice at gun clubs and ranges, and in firearms sporting effors……and they will use them if under duress.

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 22 2024 22:36 utc | 180

Seems to me the circus entertainment Trump brings could quite likely be deep state planned. His policies are not that much different, he bows before Israel, and even better he brings massive division or rather fuels that which is already there. Even removing him last time was all in the script. At any rate we will likely soon see from his actions. It’s like the old shell game, keep the crowd distracted and they won’t see the sleight of hand.

Posted by: Organic | Oct 22 2024 22:36 utc | 181

I heard Trump recently say, that when he becomes president, he will end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours.
If he becomes president it will be interesting to see how he talks himself out of that promise…

Posted by: NoName | Oct 22 2024 22:43 utc | 182

@ canuck | Oct 22 2024 21:57 utc | 173
Hmmm, No TDS here. Going ALL CAPS, is same as going ‘Full Retard’, instant 0/100 for me.
@ james | Oct 22 2024 22:13 utc | 177
Yup. Though wouldn’t characterize it as, fascination… 😉
Cheers
PS Appears Dearest Willie Manchester may have, withdrawn. Perhaps it’s merely a public holiday in UK ?

Posted by: Outraged | Oct 22 2024 22:49 utc | 183

I’m willing to bet that every US-based barfly has had its Congressional Rep promise to be more responsive to needs and problems just as they have for all previous elections when nothing’s done after.
Karloff1 @ 157
My representative promised to support Israel before anything else. I am confident he will keep that promise.

Posted by: Matt | Oct 22 2024 22:50 utc | 184

The ignorance about Trump is absurd. Every President MUST GET HIS APPOINTEES PASSED BY THE U.S. SENATE. Period, full stop.
Most, but not all, the Jackasswipes, Bolton, Pompeo, etc. were picked by that POS McConnell. And don’t forget the D.C. airbreathers who are also on the blackbox payroll of the CIA and FBI.
Did you forget what the FBI did to Mike Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Advisor, gone in the blink of an eye.
If Trump wins and if he lives from now until the 4 year term is over, he has some good help (this time) to fix problems.
Foreign Affairs? Trump is a pragmatist, he will want to wrap up Ukraine. How to do it is the $Trillion question.
Israel? Trump is going to lean heavily towards Israel, but he now knows not just a bit, but 100% of the advice from the swamp from the highest to the lowest level, is crap. Self-serving crap, but crap nonetheless.
And his Cabinet and the D.C. shearing crew are being put together outside of D.C. and D.C. will only know on the first day of the admin.
Notices will be given to everyone if the FBI or any other Jackboot Agency wants “to come over for a chat” the answer is send a written memo to Attorney General Helen Waite.

Posted by: kupkee | Oct 22 2024 22:53 utc | 185

Good enough hint. It does not indicate how the government work. There is a discussion starting about servicing the debt.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 22 2024 22:23 utc | 179
Plot the 10 year yield v’s the oil price.
Hey presto , another conspiracy theory, colleration without causation. 10 year yield follows the oil price whoopy doo.
There’s no servicing the debt. Again this myth applies to eurozone countries not fully sovereign nation states.
You swap $’s in your pocket ——–> US treasury.
Increase the debt.
Then when you retire or the coupon comes due
You swap your US treasury ———-> $’s in your pocket.
Decrease the debt.
It is a 2 column excel spreadsheet operation at the FED.
In other words, the US government’s promise is only that a non-interest bearing reserve balance will be substituted for an interest bearing Treasury security. This is not a potential source of financial stress for the government.
What the government promises is that at maturity the treasury security account at the Fed will be debited, and your bank’s reserve account at the Fed will be credited for the balance due.
Ta da, paying the debt !
When People stop saving and start spending what they once held in a US treasury security. That could be pension funds, banks, businesses , foreigners who net export to the US.
At the moment it is rising fast because you have an ageing population requiring savings.
“UK debt is over £2 Trillion, unsustainable & rising fast”
It’s balanced by £2 trillion of Gilt edge savings certificates- Gilts, entirely sustainable as it is Sterling and obviously rising fast because we have an ageing population requiring savings.
The UK debt is over £2 Trillion is the liability part of the government balance sheet.
£2 trillion of Gilt edge savings certificates- Gilts is the asset part of the government balance sheet.
Balance sheets balance. Monetary silencers only ever look at the liability side of the balance. Ignore what the public hold, on the asset side of the balance sheet.
That dumb debt clock is a national savings clock. It ticks due to interest on the treasuries held by the non government sectors.
It is all the $’s ever created that haven’t been used to pay taxes yet. That’s all it is. People’s savings held as treasuries.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 22 2024 22:55 utc | 186

For all his warts you really want Trump to win.
Posted by: Me | Oct 22 2024 16:49 utc | 49
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I agree with this take.
In most respects (esp. Israel) Trump and Harris are the same.
Except that that Harris is basically a Barbie with dreams of grandeur, a dimwit who will love playing with the controls of power, her new toys. EEEEK.
Tim Walz is an obvious train wreck. I am also offended by pressure to vote for Harris because of her gender and color from the usual subjects who see absolutely nothing wrong with Harris or the piss=in-your-face way she was elevated.
She is an opportunistic fraud.
Anyone who doubts this should listen to Tucker Carlson’s excellent, long interview of Harmeet Dhillon, who has the goods on the empty but conniving and ambitious vessel KAHmalla (as the name should be pronounced).
I hate Trump’s Zionism and the presence of Ivanka and Jared in his kitchen cabinet.
There are a few areas where Harris is a guaranteed disaster and Trump MIGHT not be:
1. Free speech/hands off social media
2. “Climate change” (stop the green blob/Net Zero scam)
3. Stop influx of migrants.
4. Stop outflow of arms to Ukraine
5. MAYBE rein in Bibi and the Gaza genocide (very big MAYBE, I know, but someone might tell him that MAGA and supporting Zionism are, or is, an oxymoron)
Although in 2016 still a registered Dem, I was disgusted by the constant efforts to destroy him and his presidency. I left the Dem Party at that time. I think the Covid op was partly designed to destroy his chance for a second term by constant ops that included totally ridiculing not only him personally but the office that he held. Trump did turn out to be right about a few things. And the election mechanics that were changed because of Covid (mail-in ballots), combined with the surge of millions of illegals, has significantly changed the election terrain for the worse.
Re Stein, yes, a vote for her is purely a protest vote against the duopoly/Uniparty. I live in a blue state, so in a sense my vote doesn’t matter. Given that, I have pretty much decided that a Trump vote is a bigger eff-you to the Democratic party itself, and so that is probably the way I’ll vote. That is, take a little bite out of the idea of Democratic hegemony and the accompanying ideological assumptions in this state. This state is spending millions and millions of dollars on housing illegal “sanctuary” migrants—it may be that the less urban, “redder” parts of the state who are fed up with this pack a surprise for the Dems. Also in down-ballot races.

Posted by: Jane | Oct 22 2024 22:59 utc | 187

Lt. Col Karen Kwiatkowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8bCPb3TFSk
“Do these elections matter? Who governs the government?”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 22 2024 23:02 utc | 188

If he becomes president it will be interesting to see how he talks himself out of that promise…
Posted by: NoName | Oct 22 2024 22:43 utc | 183
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How did he get Mexico to pay for his wall?
It was the very best wall, everyone said so.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 22 2024 23:03 utc | 189

British are pushing for Kamala Harris because they do not like that Trump will not fund British created NATO to the extent USA is doing now.
There is a long history of British interference in US general elections
British interference in American elections.
 fact- In the 1988 American election B.B.C. had invited the chief drug dealer of BAT-i.e. british american tobacco-(who of course is an englishman) and there was another American there. During discussion of Ducassis’ candidature the B.B.C. anchor man suggested to the American that the opponent of bush was hardly an American as he looked to dark and was Greek, the country of geek being too much near Africa. It really happened. This shows a few things. According to B.B.C. not only Blacks were not American but also all those who the english agents have labelled ethnic Americans. In fact B.B.C. openly said (in that program-usually B.B.C. does not reveal its evil intention so easily) that the American means actually anglo-saxons. The whole propaganda and racial slur was provided by BBC.the way George H.W. Bush finished off Michael Dukakis in 1988. Lee Atwater, Bush’s smear manager, picked up Al Gore’s use of Horton – the black rapist furloughed for a weekend, under a law passed by Gov. Dukakis – and retooled it, throwing in slurs about Dukakis as being some foreign outsiderDon’t confuse that white includes Germans either. The same English agents (in America) who created a monstrous film like “birth of nation“ are the same people who crated prohibition only because many German immigrants were drinking bear and they did not like it. It is the same england sympathiser crowd who went on killing blacks, Irish,etc -now how come about that every President who wanted to take stand independent of Britain in America on Domestic or Foreign has either been made impotent or killed(Abraham Lincoln, Kennedy, Robert Kennedy)To understand that one has to remember British propaganda machinary(all sorts of media,BBB.,Papars, govt,etc) and brititish agents in America .Britain has always acted like a heyena(or dog) who let two or Three Lions(OF Europe like France, GermansSpanishItalians-all aristrocatic races campared to pirate turned shopkeepers of England)fight amongst and then the kill(loot) would be enjoyed by the heyana. 

Posted by: Sam | Oct 22 2024 23:07 utc | 190

I disagree with you B.
Dems will steal the election again. It will be less believable than the last time. Trump will no longer be the “Great Nemesis” as he will surrender further political aspirations. The Dems/MSM will drop him from their collective memory faster than they dropped Afghanistan.
And it is a poison pill. It is a poison pill because the US economy is currently held together with shoe polish. The Dems would have been smarter to let Trump have four more years. Let him repair the damage they did, take all the blame onto himself and perhaps come back with an “I told you so!” in the next election cycle.
However they will not. They will steal the election, sit on the throne, demand everyone blame Russia/Syria/Iran while the nation crumbles and they will blame the American people the entire way to the ground.

Posted by: MaryPeck | Oct 22 2024 23:11 utc | 191

How did he get Mexico to pay for his wall?
It was the very best wall, everyone said so.
Posted by: Acco Hengst | Oct 22 2024 23:03 utc | 190
I don’t know. I’m not interested in US-American domestic politics.

Posted by: NoName | Oct 22 2024 23:14 utc | 192

By the people Trump has surrounded himself with this time – RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Elon Musk, with Gabbard and Kennedy being in on recruiting cabinet members (Col. Douglas Macgregor for Sec. of Defense?), I think he is on the right track. These people are all iconoclasts like himself. Sort of an A Team of Superstars planning to make this country great again.

Posted by: Mikent | Oct 22 2024 23:20 utc | 193

I have been following Trump from November 2015. Back then all the news in New Zealand was aggressively anti Trump, (it still is!) but I watched a couple rallies and what I saw there did not fit with that news. I researched one of his speeches and told my family that Trump would win. They all thought I was mad.
My point is that I have depth to my perception of Trump as a politician.
We need to make a distinction between Ukraine and Israel. Trump never supported the former and has always supported the latter. I think that he will have no compunction about doing whatever is needed to end the Ukraine war.
But Israel is a special case. Trump will always want to support Israel, but he will not like the ruthless and murderous methods being used. He will be conflicted and he does not like that!!! Something may break but I make no predictions.

Posted by: Blackeyebart | Oct 22 2024 23:20 utc | 194

“Donald Trump is doing his usual talk giving promises which no one believes he will keep.”
b, I live here and unfortunately I am surrounded by a whole lot of folks who actually do believe DT, of course, most of them are also appalled at the course the US is set upon and desperately want change here – unfortunately, it is a partisan view largely of Conservative faux Christians and they fully and blindly support our support of Israel and its barbarity and inhumanity…They also mostly fall for the terrorism scam and believe Iran, Russia, China, NK, Venezuela and more need to be overthrown and subjugated.
Not that anyone is going to make a change happen here by voting… There are no choices which exhibit ethics and conscience or even a scintilla of statesmanship. Politics here is “Face”, not substance. There is an awful lot of willfully blind partisanship and an unwillingness to do what is necessary for actual change. From my perspective, that is for all the people to get over the partisan fog and dissolve the whole thing and only through that then take it back from the mostly faceless gangsters which clearly have taken over. The system here now is so thoroughly corrupt in all its parts there is no other viable path besides starting with dissolution.

Posted by: DoesItReallyMatter | Oct 22 2024 23:28 utc | 195

Don @176, Actually where I live isn’t too bad either. Lots of birds and wildlife. Clean air. Most of the people are nice. Mountains and lakes.

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Oct 22 2024 23:29 utc | 196

BRICS is more important than the US president.
Eurozone countries have to service their debt as they can no longer issue their own coin and have to find Euro’s to service it.
The global South have to service their debt as their debt is in $’s and have to find $’s to service it.
It is why gold bugs post that dumb debt clock on b’s site every week. Issuing debt is a left over from the gold standard and you needed to find gold to service it.
BRICS fixes all that and shoves that dumb debt clock where the sun don’t shine. They are going to use flexible fiat currencies and their debt ( savings) will be in the same flexible fiat currencies. Read the BRICS report.
All of these myths come from the gold stabdard, fixed exchange rate era. Only apply to eurozone countries or other countries who are not fully sovereign.
It is what BRICS is all about. Help smaller countries become more sovereign.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Oct 22 2024 23:29 utc | 197

Three were no wars when Trump was prez; he knows the opposing the SMO was a bad idea;
Posted by: canuck | Oct 22 2024 21:57 utc | 173

LOL!!!
War in Afghanistan, war in Syria with the theft of Syrian oil, he dropped more bombs than Obama, Irak occupation, acknowledged the Golan annexation by Israel, war in Ukraine and arming massively the ukronazis, Haley, Bolton, Pompeo we cheat, we lie, we steal, no complete release of the JFK files…

Posted by: Naive | Oct 22 2024 23:34 utc | 198

You are correct, Sir. Whichever fool sits in the White House, nothing much will change. Pres. Trump might well fight a new impeachment every week, one for every contractor he has failed to pay, one for each felony conviction, etc. Pres. Harris? War-war-war.
S. Korea is more likely to attack Japan than China. Taiwan and the mainland will manage to get along, if the USA would only leave them alone. Maybe the KMT and the CCP van be two almost identical corrupt machines, like Dems and GOP in the USA.

Posted by: lester | Oct 22 2024 23:37 utc | 199

Non Jews are not allowed to mention Israels small and entirely accidental killing of civilians in Gaza let alone stop USA manufactured weapons from being given to Israel. Any non Jew that doesn’t whole hardily get on the kill all the Muslim bandwagon is a terrorist supporter at the very least and subject to action against there persons themselves. Thus the only logical choice are Jewish candidates as they are the only ones allowed to bring attention to Israels small and entirely accidental killing of civilians in Gaza. Only a Jewish president will be able to confront a congress 100% owned by Israel. Only a Jewish president stands a chance of protecting innocent lives in Gaza without being assassinated by Mossad. Only a Jewish president is allowed to not be owned by Israel. Stein is the only logical choice. I would proudly vote for Max Blumenthal.
The various other attributes of the candidates is not important because they are foreign agents. If you exclude foreign agents from the choice whats left is obvious. Is this steering choices to where there are none? Yes.
We have a responsibility as US citizens to not elect Foreign agents. We have a responsibility to protect innocent lives as a function of our values. Another issue is if Gaza can be Gazaed then the USA can too. International standards of behavior must be upheld if they are not world society which is quite fragile right now has the possibility of degrading.
Of the issues we are facing IMO the greatest we are facing is the destruction of the fabric of world society. I think we can agree we dont want to be “gazaed”. The only people who can address the crimes being committed in Gaza are Jewish.

Posted by: Wholelottaloving | Oct 22 2024 23:38 utc | 200