I’ll start with a thought that occurred to me about the Home Front. Over the last few days we’ve taken note of what seem to be clear preparations of the Deep State and the Political Establishment to thwart a Trump return to the White House—and possibly to remove him immediately if he succeeds in spite of their machinations. These preparations include hints of implementing a Covid Regime 2.0 as well as the CIA prepping Russia Hoax 2.0 and legal maneuvering to prevent Trump from appearing on the ballot of certain states. What occurred to me, listening to the pushback, especially, to the idea of Covide Regime 2.0—clearly intended to scramble electoral procedures and enable fraud, just as in 2020—is that this attempt at a repeat of 2020 could prove to be far more difficult than the Ruling Class imagines.
"...for the SCOTUS to step aside a second time would amount to renouncing the Court’s duty to defend the Constitution." Not only that, it will destroy SCOTUS itself. If the Marxists win, they see to that. I hope the Justices realize this
Totally agree it would destroy the Court, assuming it then led to four more years of Ds in the White House. And like you, I have no idea if five Justices see it the same way and/or even care. Thomas and Alito, sure, but from there ... who knows?
Dear Mr Wauck - whenever you start a post along the lines of "a thought occurred to me" it sparks interest; what follows unfolds as insightful bounty - many thanks. The Afghan war being won by the Taliban is different on many levels to the impending western loss to Russia in the Ukraine war. The former was a bug-out, the western loss a matter of giving up; the later a lopsided whopping, demonstrating broad Western military/political inferiorities. And yet, ... a hidden malignant political muscle connects the tendons and ligaments of each loss. In the context of the answer to the question 'who is really running Zhou' being the O (and whomever behind Obama that may imply), there is a striking consistency in each outcome = a shattering of trust in any reliance on the USA to provide credible support, guarantees, or assistance. The tell is the destruction of trust, an O calling card.
Let me preface my remarks with two quotes, one I copied from a comment, "They asked themselves whether they could, but did not ask themselves whether they should", and an old Wall Street adage, "Trees don't grow to the sky." As you state, "this attempt at a repeat of 2020 could prove to be far more difficult than the Ruling Class imagines." If these legal maneuvers against Trump are indeed intended to prevent him from becoming President again, they only call attention to irregularities in the 2020 election, the J6 probable 'Reichstag fire' and the plight of those illegally detained without habeaus corpus and under appalling conditions. It would have been better advised to perfect their 'expertise' in vote counting and not mess with a heavy-handed attempt to influence public opinion and Trump's candidature. As for the dollar, we have a precarious economy, an impossible debt and an alienated work force. Dare I mention that a serious market crash is possible. The Titanic too was unsinkable until it sank. That would create a shortage of dollars, and possible deflation. With this in mind, how minor seem all of the problems Putin and Russia are facing now.
Scotus will need to make some decisions, or the judicial branch will lose a huge amount of credibility with mainstream Americans. Those that know someone with negative experiences with the supposedly “fair” and “impartial” justice system know the system often railroads people. Trump is too large a media presence to hide the corruption / bias of the so called justice system.
It’s not the dollar so much that will suffer, but the Euro. It will die. BRICS currency, whatever that emerges, will be healthy competition for the US$, and some very deft banks will emerge in order to compete with Brown Brothers, as this is very old school merchant banking. The TBTFs have foresaken this field versus “structured product”. EU will go first into confiscatory practices as they run out of cash. The US is already benefiting from this as foreign buyers of Treasuries at auctions has been at records for years. The foreign “smart money” knows what’s coming from the ruling class, and have been preparing.
The ruble is already pegged to gold. As more join in, competition will force other countries hands, as they will have to do so to compete, including the US.
Time will tell, but this is a globally positive occurrence, as it now stands.
Yeah, I can see that, but "Time will tell." I think the global positivity will slowly unwind--I'm not the one to suggest timelines. That gives the US time to get its financial house in order, which is what Powell seems to be trying to force. Will it work?
Depends on which movie you're watching, doesn't it? I think the global "Street" has been freaking out about the unwind of financialization and the pyramids of debt that they built. BRICS is crushing that on ramp for them. So the Glencores do not have access to the Greensills of the world any longer. And hence my bringing up Brown Bros....
Right. I wasn't disagreeing. Simply suggesting that the "global positivity" you describe doesn't equate to an indefinite extension of business as usual. I believe the USG will need to adapt to the new global environment, but that the US does have time to do so.
I see no evidence that the US will use that time to get its financial house in order, any more than I see evidence that it will get its political and cultural house in order. The US is like Europe: all the current leaders have to go in order for any positive change to be undertaken. And even then, it won't necessarily happen.
I wish that I shared your optimism about the Robert’s court entering into the fray when the deep staters launch their next attack, but I just can’t muster that much confidence Mark. If the fiasco in 2020 that was called “ the most fair and honest election ever” didn’t even create a ripple in the SCOTUS
pond, I’m not convinced that Election Theft part Duex will be any different. Happy to be proven wrong, but don’t see it happening.
While I’ll grant you that a lot of folks have seen through all the subterfuge since the last Covid drill, I’m equally convinced that there are a lot of “good Nazis” out there who would gladly turn in those of us who choose to resist. With a doddering old fool play acting as President, he could be sent shuffling out to bang on his podium and say that “the science deniers” are a grave threat and they cannot be allowed to endanger the health and safety of everyone else in the country. He declares a national emergency and by executive order either forcibly vaccinating or incarcerating those who do not submit. This one is for all the marbles and they know it, so I don’t think that we need to worry about the Marquis of Queensbury rules playing any role at all in their plans to win at any and all costs.
One observation about SCOTUS and the 2020 election: I need to better understand which cases if any made it to their doorstep as to which SCOTUS had jurisdiction and could have actually acted. SCOTUS is not a court of first resort except for disputes between states and other narrow cases - in all other respects it is strictly appellate and even then accepting a case is a matter of being granted that privilege. SCOTUS doesn’t just dispense justice from On High sua sponte. I felt there was not enough time to build a case based on tested facts which were then part of a record to send up. The state courts never let any case be tried to my knowledge. And I’ll guess federal cases have eventually served that purpose also never made it out of the delivery room, so to speak, on procedural grounds. So while constantly criticized for inaction in the face of the obvious fraud that was the 2020 Installation of Zhou, I’m not sure SCOTUS failed due to lack of will, but more likely to the time it takes for a justiciable matter to make it to their doorstep before being moot.
In the Duran Robert Barnes podcast he mentions the games played in Ga by the judicial system on Trumps election challenge. Be nice if it finally gets into court. Amazing.
The crew part bothers me too. I have heard they were part of the Wagner organization and then others report they were not. However, Russia is fighting an existential war and things are not always nice. It is quite possible that with all of the Wagner Command together on this plane, it was an opportunity that could not be missed.
I would not put the perps of the earlier plane bombing on the same level of sophistication with the Russian state. If the Russian security services carried this out I would assume that the explosives were remotely detonated and that it was done over open country as a result of monitoring of the flight.
"doesn't it sound like this is becoming a very complex operation"
Because it was! That's why I maintain it was run by state security agencies, for whom this would be no stretch at all. It's the same reasoning that applies to Nordstream--why it had to be CIA rather than six men in a yacht.
Got the Chicago accent going. Well done. Just listened to part of the podcast on Savage!
Dunno about the Chicago accent--I can't bear to listen to myself. My wife told me I started out sounding "nasal" but got a bit better.
nah
"...for the SCOTUS to step aside a second time would amount to renouncing the Court’s duty to defend the Constitution." Not only that, it will destroy SCOTUS itself. If the Marxists win, they see to that. I hope the Justices realize this
Totally agree it would destroy the Court, assuming it then led to four more years of Ds in the White House. And like you, I have no idea if five Justices see it the same way and/or even care. Thomas and Alito, sure, but from there ... who knows?
Dear Mr Wauck - whenever you start a post along the lines of "a thought occurred to me" it sparks interest; what follows unfolds as insightful bounty - many thanks. The Afghan war being won by the Taliban is different on many levels to the impending western loss to Russia in the Ukraine war. The former was a bug-out, the western loss a matter of giving up; the later a lopsided whopping, demonstrating broad Western military/political inferiorities. And yet, ... a hidden malignant political muscle connects the tendons and ligaments of each loss. In the context of the answer to the question 'who is really running Zhou' being the O (and whomever behind Obama that may imply), there is a striking consistency in each outcome = a shattering of trust in any reliance on the USA to provide credible support, guarantees, or assistance. The tell is the destruction of trust, an O calling card.
Afghanistan was actually more of a whopping than a bug-out. We (USA, UK) were whipped by the Taliban's tactics and had no way of defeating them.
Let me preface my remarks with two quotes, one I copied from a comment, "They asked themselves whether they could, but did not ask themselves whether they should", and an old Wall Street adage, "Trees don't grow to the sky." As you state, "this attempt at a repeat of 2020 could prove to be far more difficult than the Ruling Class imagines." If these legal maneuvers against Trump are indeed intended to prevent him from becoming President again, they only call attention to irregularities in the 2020 election, the J6 probable 'Reichstag fire' and the plight of those illegally detained without habeaus corpus and under appalling conditions. It would have been better advised to perfect their 'expertise' in vote counting and not mess with a heavy-handed attempt to influence public opinion and Trump's candidature. As for the dollar, we have a precarious economy, an impossible debt and an alienated work force. Dare I mention that a serious market crash is possible. The Titanic too was unsinkable until it sank. That would create a shortage of dollars, and possible deflation. With this in mind, how minor seem all of the problems Putin and Russia are facing now.
Mark you are a “Savage” rock star. Thanks to Ray too. Well done all!
“As a matter of historical fact, Christianity is Europe’s identity. But the EU has renounced that identity.”
True that. Except, Europe began its renunciation of Christianity five centuries ago. The EU merely crowned the edifice.
I finally finished the Duran from August 21, wow.
Scotus will need to make some decisions, or the judicial branch will lose a huge amount of credibility with mainstream Americans. Those that know someone with negative experiences with the supposedly “fair” and “impartial” justice system know the system often railroads people. Trump is too large a media presence to hide the corruption / bias of the so called justice system.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-duran-trump-indictments-biden-scandals-w-robert-barnes/
It’s not the dollar so much that will suffer, but the Euro. It will die. BRICS currency, whatever that emerges, will be healthy competition for the US$, and some very deft banks will emerge in order to compete with Brown Brothers, as this is very old school merchant banking. The TBTFs have foresaken this field versus “structured product”. EU will go first into confiscatory practices as they run out of cash. The US is already benefiting from this as foreign buyers of Treasuries at auctions has been at records for years. The foreign “smart money” knows what’s coming from the ruling class, and have been preparing.
The ruble is already pegged to gold. As more join in, competition will force other countries hands, as they will have to do so to compete, including the US.
Time will tell, but this is a globally positive occurrence, as it now stands.
Yeah, I can see that, but "Time will tell." I think the global positivity will slowly unwind--I'm not the one to suggest timelines. That gives the US time to get its financial house in order, which is what Powell seems to be trying to force. Will it work?
Depends on which movie you're watching, doesn't it? I think the global "Street" has been freaking out about the unwind of financialization and the pyramids of debt that they built. BRICS is crushing that on ramp for them. So the Glencores do not have access to the Greensills of the world any longer. And hence my bringing up Brown Bros....
Right. I wasn't disagreeing. Simply suggesting that the "global positivity" you describe doesn't equate to an indefinite extension of business as usual. I believe the USG will need to adapt to the new global environment, but that the US does have time to do so.
US government will follow after the U.S. biz community has set its own “norms”.
And since we both largely agree, let’s move on from this thread. Thank you for your response.
I see no evidence that the US will use that time to get its financial house in order, any more than I see evidence that it will get its political and cultural house in order. The US is like Europe: all the current leaders have to go in order for any positive change to be undertaken. And even then, it won't necessarily happen.
I wish that I shared your optimism about the Robert’s court entering into the fray when the deep staters launch their next attack, but I just can’t muster that much confidence Mark. If the fiasco in 2020 that was called “ the most fair and honest election ever” didn’t even create a ripple in the SCOTUS
pond, I’m not convinced that Election Theft part Duex will be any different. Happy to be proven wrong, but don’t see it happening.
While I’ll grant you that a lot of folks have seen through all the subterfuge since the last Covid drill, I’m equally convinced that there are a lot of “good Nazis” out there who would gladly turn in those of us who choose to resist. With a doddering old fool play acting as President, he could be sent shuffling out to bang on his podium and say that “the science deniers” are a grave threat and they cannot be allowed to endanger the health and safety of everyone else in the country. He declares a national emergency and by executive order either forcibly vaccinating or incarcerating those who do not submit. This one is for all the marbles and they know it, so I don’t think that we need to worry about the Marquis of Queensbury rules playing any role at all in their plans to win at any and all costs.
One observation about SCOTUS and the 2020 election: I need to better understand which cases if any made it to their doorstep as to which SCOTUS had jurisdiction and could have actually acted. SCOTUS is not a court of first resort except for disputes between states and other narrow cases - in all other respects it is strictly appellate and even then accepting a case is a matter of being granted that privilege. SCOTUS doesn’t just dispense justice from On High sua sponte. I felt there was not enough time to build a case based on tested facts which were then part of a record to send up. The state courts never let any case be tried to my knowledge. And I’ll guess federal cases have eventually served that purpose also never made it out of the delivery room, so to speak, on procedural grounds. So while constantly criticized for inaction in the face of the obvious fraud that was the 2020 Installation of Zhou, I’m not sure SCOTUS failed due to lack of will, but more likely to the time it takes for a justiciable matter to make it to their doorstep before being moot.
In the Duran Robert Barnes podcast he mentions the games played in Ga by the judicial system on Trumps election challenge. Be nice if it finally gets into court. Amazing.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/the-duran-trump-indictments-biden-scandals-w-robert-barnes/
I don’t listen to Savage very often anymore, but I’ll sure look for your episode with him tomorrow. Good luck, Mark.
No tears for Prigozhin, but a bit tough on the crew.
The crew part bothers me too. I have heard they were part of the Wagner organization and then others report they were not. However, Russia is fighting an existential war and things are not always nice. It is quite possible that with all of the Wagner Command together on this plane, it was an opportunity that could not be missed.
I would not put the perps of the earlier plane bombing on the same level of sophistication with the Russian state. If the Russian security services carried this out I would assume that the explosives were remotely detonated and that it was done over open country as a result of monitoring of the flight.
"doesn't it sound like this is becoming a very complex operation"
Because it was! That's why I maintain it was run by state security agencies, for whom this would be no stretch at all. It's the same reasoning that applies to Nordstream--why it had to be CIA rather than six men in a yacht.
In the desert or mixed into the WEF? And if so, Canada will fall too. The desert seems like a better bet for us all