Karl Denninger and Tom Luongo both have provocative posts up about the Midterms and the implications for the future. Let me start with KD, who first offers a compelling summary of the implications of the FTX scandal. In the first place, KD sets out a political principle with regard to elections:
OK, a few hours sleep after a double shot of vodka, and I'm looking at one more twelve hour shift in a cold rain on a sore knee.
And I think back to old Professor Covey's Roman history class, and one of the reading assignments was The Jugurthine War by Sallust. That one stuck with me long after, and there was a moment...and I was just a kid when I read this. Jugurtha bribed influential Romans to do his bidding, to pursue policies that favored him and his ambitions, and to overlook his crimes. The Numidian tail was wagging the Roman dog. (I didn't know that phrase back then) And it always stuck with me - that scene where Jugurtha after, another round of bribing the Romans was riding out of the city, to return to his kingdom. And he looked back at the mighty city of Rome and said "Yonder is a city up for sale. And heaven help her if she ever finds a buyer"
I think Washington found a buyer, and I think the whore came cheap.
I just copied this off Zerohedge , a commentary by Suds on an article entitled "Trump Says McConnell 'Blew The Midterms'"
"The Dems winning is a blessing in disguise. The stock market is going south and the political party in power, mainly the president pays dearly in the next election. So hang on to your hat Dems you can't spend your way out of this one."
Mark, I'm working some brutal hours and I'm too tired and wasted at the end of a long cold day to say anything profound, or even very interesting. Thanks for your posts on this subject.
KD's a smart guy but he's so hysterically averse to calling out shenanigans that he makes himself useless in some situations. People pointed out to him the ridiculous manipulation of the silver futures market and KD just put his fingers in his ears and shouted at the top of his lungs. The D's "win" 34 out of 34 or 34 out of 35 tossup races and KD just accepts the framework of his enemies and talks about how the R's didn't campaign right. How do you campaign against computer and other manipulation?
As the debris settles from the midterms, things are much clearer. Firstly, the current GOP did not even bother fighting the elections and, apart from some stalwart State level members, offers no hope for saving the country from the bolsheviks in the Dem party. Secondly, there is no point spending the next two years pontificating about who the GOP can put in the WH because the US voting system is completely compromised and corrupted. Unless this is fixed - and the GOP and judicial system has shown no interest in this - any election that matters will be a waste of time. Thirdly, Donald Trump is not fit to lead the GOP/Maga movement. He cannot tame his ego or his tongue, and has shown no evidence of growth or political maturation. As for the latest scandal, it will only cause a constitutional scandal if it is reported by the MSM and enters the consciousness of the zombie like greater public. Otherwise, it will be filed away in the same dusty FBI cabinet as all the other scandals that should have brought down the Biden admin. What needs to happen is to stop all pointless blathering about 2024 and other distractions, while the successful Red states strengthen their links with each other, develop alternative industries and supply chains and make sure their national guards are in a high state of efficiency.
There are now too many pathways to electoral dominance for the Dems. Filthy voter registration rolls and abundant mail-in ballots sloshing through the system enable real ballots to be submitted for fake voters. Voter information databases allow political operatives to check on which voters have not yet voted so as to maximize "voter participation." Election procedures of all kinds that have been mandated by state law are now regularly ignored by bureaucrats--including the retention of <s>records</s> evidence. Fiddling with ballot printers, running out of ink, running out of ballots, omitting candidate names from ballots. Not to mention black box code of voting machines that produces "interesting" results.
Time to pack it in and start work on writing my great American novel.
Politics, politics, politics. Trump was highly successful in dealing with the Washington that he had. He pushed intervectin and even bleach for surfaces, but the medical community was having none of it. He did say if you must have a vaccine at least let it get done quickly so we can get back to business, and never made it a mandate. He spent money on an improved economy, making us energy exporters, and an improved military, both of these accomplishments have since been destroyed by the current regime. So he wasn't perfect. "What does it matter now", as Hillary would say, when we are heading for the biggest economic collapse and Great Depression in history.
The Parallel Election 2020 by Gregory Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes describes in exhaustive detail how every single pivot county is stolen, using pivot country Delaware, Penn. But every county is stolen, even in red counties, red votes are thrown away so that conservatives don't get too confident.
I really wonder whether FTX was founded explicitly as a money laundering vehicle for the Dem party. Where things went wrong was that Sammy couldn't keep his hands off other people's money.
We Texans must send letters, e-mails, phone calls to state Senators and Representatives. They need to be told in no uncertain terms to get the job they were elected to do done in next years legislative session. Continued interference by the speaker as occurred last session must be prevented by his removal. Abbott got my vote, not because he is really great, rather because the alternatives were really awful, I nearly passed out as I held my nose while filling in the rectangle next to his name.
But KD is correct, because Trump continues to tout his role in foisting this toxin on the public through his Operation Warp Speed. Bypassing the most elementary safety checks.
The "logistical process" is controlled by the federal government--FDA, CDC, etc. Not the pharma companies. The "success of the logistical process" involved bypassing safety protocols.
Whether Trump is ignorant about the "safety" of the vaccine - or not - doesn't override the evidence to the contrary. So are you really advocating that they are safe? I have multiple nieces that are passed now because of the vaccine. The sudden deaths of the healthy but vaccinated young are becoming more and more frequent.
And I hope I'm misreading the intention of your post.
OK, a few hours sleep after a double shot of vodka, and I'm looking at one more twelve hour shift in a cold rain on a sore knee.
And I think back to old Professor Covey's Roman history class, and one of the reading assignments was The Jugurthine War by Sallust. That one stuck with me long after, and there was a moment...and I was just a kid when I read this. Jugurtha bribed influential Romans to do his bidding, to pursue policies that favored him and his ambitions, and to overlook his crimes. The Numidian tail was wagging the Roman dog. (I didn't know that phrase back then) And it always stuck with me - that scene where Jugurtha after, another round of bribing the Romans was riding out of the city, to return to his kingdom. And he looked back at the mighty city of Rome and said "Yonder is a city up for sale. And heaven help her if she ever finds a buyer"
I think Washington found a buyer, and I think the whore came cheap.
The price is a bit of leverage in election campaigns. In the big scheme of corruption that's very cheap, when you consider what that price obtains.
I just copied this off Zerohedge , a commentary by Suds on an article entitled "Trump Says McConnell 'Blew The Midterms'"
"The Dems winning is a blessing in disguise. The stock market is going south and the political party in power, mainly the president pays dearly in the next election. So hang on to your hat Dems you can't spend your way out of this one."
My sentiments exactly.
We may not survive another 2 years of wide open borders and pillaging of the treasury.
Mark, I'm working some brutal hours and I'm too tired and wasted at the end of a long cold day to say anything profound, or even very interesting. Thanks for your posts on this subject.
I hope you get some rest soon, Cord. From a fellow wage slave!
No problem.
China and Ukrainian influence, which is more in our congress?
KD's a smart guy but he's so hysterically averse to calling out shenanigans that he makes himself useless in some situations. People pointed out to him the ridiculous manipulation of the silver futures market and KD just put his fingers in his ears and shouted at the top of his lungs. The D's "win" 34 out of 34 or 34 out of 35 tossup races and KD just accepts the framework of his enemies and talks about how the R's didn't campaign right. How do you campaign against computer and other manipulation?
Agreed. His shrill, expletive-laden hysterics put me off. However, he's often right.
As the debris settles from the midterms, things are much clearer. Firstly, the current GOP did not even bother fighting the elections and, apart from some stalwart State level members, offers no hope for saving the country from the bolsheviks in the Dem party. Secondly, there is no point spending the next two years pontificating about who the GOP can put in the WH because the US voting system is completely compromised and corrupted. Unless this is fixed - and the GOP and judicial system has shown no interest in this - any election that matters will be a waste of time. Thirdly, Donald Trump is not fit to lead the GOP/Maga movement. He cannot tame his ego or his tongue, and has shown no evidence of growth or political maturation. As for the latest scandal, it will only cause a constitutional scandal if it is reported by the MSM and enters the consciousness of the zombie like greater public. Otherwise, it will be filed away in the same dusty FBI cabinet as all the other scandals that should have brought down the Biden admin. What needs to happen is to stop all pointless blathering about 2024 and other distractions, while the successful Red states strengthen their links with each other, develop alternative industries and supply chains and make sure their national guards are in a high state of efficiency.
There are now too many pathways to electoral dominance for the Dems. Filthy voter registration rolls and abundant mail-in ballots sloshing through the system enable real ballots to be submitted for fake voters. Voter information databases allow political operatives to check on which voters have not yet voted so as to maximize "voter participation." Election procedures of all kinds that have been mandated by state law are now regularly ignored by bureaucrats--including the retention of <s>records</s> evidence. Fiddling with ballot printers, running out of ink, running out of ballots, omitting candidate names from ballots. Not to mention black box code of voting machines that produces "interesting" results.
Time to pack it in and start work on writing my great American novel.
Politics, politics, politics. Trump was highly successful in dealing with the Washington that he had. He pushed intervectin and even bleach for surfaces, but the medical community was having none of it. He did say if you must have a vaccine at least let it get done quickly so we can get back to business, and never made it a mandate. He spent money on an improved economy, making us energy exporters, and an improved military, both of these accomplishments have since been destroyed by the current regime. So he wasn't perfect. "What does it matter now", as Hillary would say, when we are heading for the biggest economic collapse and Great Depression in history.
The Parallel Election 2020 by Gregory Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes describes in exhaustive detail how every single pivot county is stolen, using pivot country Delaware, Penn. But every county is stolen, even in red counties, red votes are thrown away so that conservatives don't get too confident.
So who(whom) in our gov't goes after the FTX fix? Zhou's FEC? FTC? FCC? come on man...
I really wonder whether FTX was founded explicitly as a money laundering vehicle for the Dem party. Where things went wrong was that Sammy couldn't keep his hands off other people's money.
This is the heart of the problem. It's very simple: if voter fraud is not fixed, the Dems will steal every election.
We Texans must send letters, e-mails, phone calls to state Senators and Representatives. They need to be told in no uncertain terms to get the job they were elected to do done in next years legislative session. Continued interference by the speaker as occurred last session must be prevented by his removal. Abbott got my vote, not because he is really great, rather because the alternatives were really awful, I nearly passed out as I held my nose while filling in the rectangle next to his name.
https://texasscorecard.com/commentary/texas-first/
Won't change a thing, unfortunately.
I just dont see emails, letters and phone calls as a meaningful response to the level of corruption now metastasized on the body political.
The time for talking is over, imho.
But KD is correct, because Trump continues to tout his role in foisting this toxin on the public through his Operation Warp Speed. Bypassing the most elementary safety checks.
The "logistical process" is controlled by the federal government--FDA, CDC, etc. Not the pharma companies. The "success of the logistical process" involved bypassing safety protocols.
That is splitting hairs. Does anyone think Trump would have boasted, and continues to boast, about wonderful vaccines delivered via OWS?
--if he had any doubt about their safety/efficacy?
Whether Trump is ignorant about the "safety" of the vaccine - or not - doesn't override the evidence to the contrary. So are you really advocating that they are safe? I have multiple nieces that are passed now because of the vaccine. The sudden deaths of the healthy but vaccinated young are becoming more and more frequent.
And I hope I'm misreading the intention of your post.
You are. I consider these non-vaccine vaccines experimental drugs.
Banned for idiocy.