I’d like you to consider using your media presence and publicity opportunities to promote Marc Elias and his Democracy Now website and his law firm.
As I have watched Mump delay and procrastinate the criminal legal proceeding against him using the donations that he duped from his low information and ignorant MAGA supporters, increasingly I have come to believe that the future battleground for our democratic beliefs will be the court rooms. Elias is at the forefront of this legal fight.
The destruction done by republicans in the past 50 yrs to our democracy was the prelude to the atrocious attacks on our freedoms by Trump and his MAGA today.
Trump is Putins tool to ‘destroy our democracy from within’ .
It’s happening now .
Suppressing the vote for Democrats has denied us some of our power to remove these authoritarians before they are established in office.
The Heritage Foundation is another entity seeking to reduce our power. Project 2025 gifted to us by the far right Foundations and alleged Christians are bastions of power seeking to depress ours.
These very wealthy people are not concerned about deleting the freedoms of diversity, truth, justice.
They have no use for poor , diverse populations. Black , brown , Native Americans.
Anyone that they leveled to get where they are , is , in their opinion, unnecessary.
Congress should act immediately by attempting a legislative veto of Trump's reorganization of the United States Digital Service, renaming it DOGE and advancing the President's 18-month DOGE agenda. They should argue that his actions are beyond the scope of a President's 'reorganization authority' or similar. This immediate action is crucial to prevent the finalization of this coup.
We don't control Congress -- unless a few Republicans stand up.
Someone screwed (with standing) can take it to court.
Quoting Josh Marshall. Elon Musk and his private-sector employees, are now fanned out across the government. He appears to have taken control of the federal payment system which allows his operatives to stop checks to any private individual in the country and/or examine all their personal financial information. According to The New York Times, Musk has tasked engineers with figuring out how to cut off the flow of funds from the Treasury to programs and priorities he believes conflict with the brief he received from Donald Trump. He has also taken control of some portion of the federal agency computer systems, allowing his operatives to lock federal workers out of key computer systems. We need a lot more reporting on just how he is exerting this power, specifically under what authority and who the people are he’s installed at these government agencies. Some have simply been appointed to new roles the old-fashioned way. But the best information we have about how “DOGE” is working suggests many are employees from his private companies operating with no legal authority at all.
There’s a pretty developed law that you can’t do stuff in the federal government if you’re not an employee of the federal government, or a contractor who is placed under the rules of the federal government. If you do do those things you become a de facto government employee and the law says you come under all sorts of record-keeping and disclosure requirements.
I know we don't control Congress Daniel. What I am saying is that the Democrats who vote with Republicans, on anything, expose themselves. There is no legislation that will come out of the 119th Congress that will benefit the average American. Anything that is put on the table will be MAGA, MUSK or Trump.
Other than that Daniel, we seem to be pretty much fucked, Musk and Trump have found an end run around the Constitution and congress.
Talking with my wife just now, she is of the mind, as I am, that our only hope is that this regime will implode from internal contradictions and competition.And that may well happen, but it will not be overnight, such forces take time to develop and metastisize. A pot doesn't immediately boil when you put it on the stove. An ice cube doesn't immediately melt.
We will suffer, until the regime implodes, and along with us will be the MAGAts.
I can take some satisfaction from the fact that the one group,more than any others, that is responsible for Trump 47, the ummah, now has to eat the results of their own fecklessness.
Your books are great Tom. I have learned so much from you, on your TV Show, your books, on substack.
But voter caging, voter suppression, all the stuff documented by Greg Palast are now ancient history.
If we are being honest with ourselves, the era of even the appearance of a fair and free election are over.
There really needs to be a detailed expose of what happened in Hungary, because that is what is happening here.
Orban and his henchmen have educated, advised, trained the fascist,. Christian Right as to how to take over a democracy.
Joseph Goebbels: “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”
We fight fair, they fight foul.
It is a cage match, we wear gloves and follow Marquis of Queensbury Rules, they are an MMA fighter, we don' have a chance.
Voting does not a democracy make. Russians have he vote, so do Hungarians, so do the Iranians.
Kvetching about voter caging, voter suppression is so yesterday, our only response now is organizing a resistance, throwing a wrench into the gear works, and waiting for the system they created to self destruct as it will.
Hungary doesn't have it's technofeudalists and it's religious, racists, misogynistic fascists who have competing agenda's.
Hungary doesn't have very strong, well organized competing religious cults like we do in America.
These cults have achieved a culture war victory, but it won't last, once the afterglow wears off, they will be demanding recognition, primacy,, access to power and resources and as such Opus Dei will find that the 7 Mountains Dominionists, The New Apostolic Reformation, the Evangelicals, the Mormons are their fierce competitors hence enemies.
The alliance that put Trump and Project 2025 in power, will not hold, unless Trump can repeat Hitlers success.
The industrialists, financiers financed Hitler, they thought they could control him, but the opposite happened he controlled them. The Lutheran and Catholic Church were all too eager to support Hitler, to the point of Hitler approving the appointment of Bishops., and the Bishops fell in line sieg heiling him, like that Anglican priest, Calvin Robinson of Detroit. he has been defrocked, but he is just the first.
I suspect the first cracks will be when the oligarchs around Trump begin to fight for power. We have a somewhat different system than the late Roman Republic, but attempts there to create triumvirates where the powerful shared control quickly fell into anarchy. Eventually one person would become dictator. The same result, but quicker and less violently occurred in Revolutionary France. It is hard to imagine Musk and Trump staying good buddies, or for that matter any of these other Uber Rich horrors playing nice and knowing how to share.
I suppose the Constitutional facade will be maintained, just as in theory the Roman Empire was run by the Senate and the Emperor just happened to have more power than the others. Hitler found a way around all this grasping for control by so dividing and confusing power among the overlapping interests in his circle that nobody else could concentrate it. But Trump isn't smart enough to manage that, except by bumbling into more chaos.
I'm hoping that there already are schisms of MAGAT House members.
1. Minority Republicans
2. Those who support Ukraine vs Putin
3. Those who oppose Musk.
More -- if they represent districts on the border that rely on Mexico and or Canada, and their local businesses are shut down because of tariff policy.
I disagree that focusing on voter caging and suppression is ancient history. If we had stopped the vigilantes and politicians from purging the voter rolls there was a good chance we could have won.
Greg Palast makes a good case of the effect it has on elections. In two years we will have another election and we should be a lot more diligent than we have about purging , suppressing And gerrymandering our voting and ballots. It matters!
Mr. Farrar there is much that is accurate in what you say. My own belief is that the people in control in D.C. will be so captured by their greed and confined by their blind ignorance and devotion to their ideology that they will violate all the warnings Keynes gave to the victorious nations after WW1. And as happened then in 1929 they will bring on a terrible economic crash. But there is a big difference between post WW1-Germany and present day U.S.
While it is true that corporate elites have moved much of the work done on goods and services sold in the U.S. to China and Mexico and .....wherever the labor is cheapest. And this has badly weakened the fundamentals of our economy. It is true that Germany had just suffered the complete destruction of their basic economic infrastructure by foreign infantry invaders during WW1. The Russians were especially hard on the Germans as vengeance for invasion and the wholesale slaughter in the new industrial form of warfare. After WW1 Russian trains rolled into Germany and loaded flat cars with machinery yanked out of German factories and hauled it back to the USSR. The French insisted on controlling the Ruhr and all its abundant natural resources, denying Germans access to it. The victorious nations violated the warnings of Keynes.
Present day America is not in such dire circumstances. There is no foreign army occupying us with hearts full of vengeance.
True, we could go the route of Hungary. But I wonder about this. I shall go so far as to predict that the MAGA crowd will very likely, tank our economy. The most astute billionaire investors are already turning their stocks into liquidity. Even some of Trump's most avid supporters are liquidating their holdings. China is helping to engineer a downturn, dumping hundreds of billions of American securities. That new DeepSeek AI from China has punctured the overly inflated worth of American software companies on a huge scale.
But I cannot predict what the socio-political-economic out come will be. Can anyone?
Gerald, I have said pretty much the same thing. The internal contradictions and infighting, combined with the insane policies of Trump will plunge this country into a depression, but he and Musk will blame minorities.
His tariffs and migration policy will by themselves raise the cost of living and create shortages of one thing that people need. food.
Ant the feud between the technofeudalists and the racist, which has apparently hit a lull, has to escalate unless Bannon, Rogan and Alex Jones tamps it down, which is likely.
I don't disagree with your analyis and no one has a crystal ball, or is psychic.
But what we do know is that Trump has the makings of his own Sturmabeitlung and Schutztaffel, in fhe form of Stewart Rhodes, Nicholas Fuente, Enrique Tarrio and their merry band of Proud Boys, Bugaloo Boyz, militias, aryan cults.. He has basically given them permission to shed blood in his cause, and they are willing to do just that.
Here is a link to Jim Stewartson's Mind War's current offering. I find myself in constant agreement with Jim especially this time:
If in fact billionaire investors liquidating their holdings.China dumping securities is only the beginning of the end..
Trump and Musk are collapsing the whole world economy, the US. is China's market, without American consumers (corporate and individual) china has nothing except a billion hungry people.
i see an internal power struggle, where might makes right, Musk and his technfeudalists may have the upper hand at first, but Trumps S.A. and SS. can cow them and bring them into line, there is plenty of historical precedent from the Roman Empire to the 3rd Reich.
For thetime being in our mercantilist world, where money rules, Musk has the means, the resources and the will to deconstruct Democracy in the world, and install a strong man regime,.
And I am going to take a stab here. Trump, the AfD, Meloni, Orban are tools and fools, they crave power, they crave attention, they crave things and thus are tools and fools easily bought.
Musk was influenced by his father, and his father was enamored of Wehrner Von Braun's book, Mars, A Technical Tale. In the book Mars is led by a dictaror called the Elon.
Elon Musk is named for him. Musk may indeed have a pipe dream of going to Mars, but his real drive is to be The Elon here on Earth.
And he has the money to buy it.
He he has Meloni of Italy, free of charge, Marine le Pen free of charge,Gert Wilders, Free of charge, the UK's Keir Starmer seeks better trade relations with the US but that is going to cost him, and Britain, meanwhile Musk is buying the AfD and that means buying Germany, he already has Hungary , Slovakia, and Moldova via Transnistra.
Musk has already taken control of the U.S., with Trump's blessing. Then again Trump is oblivious to everything the only concerns he has are ego driven, money, adoration, and revenge and Musk and his advisors are more than willing.
There is more to the appointment of Gabbard and Patel that meet the eye.,those two alone have proven that they have no loyalty to the U.S.of A. the Constitution, both are assets of a foreign power or enemies of the U.S. and are enthusiastic agents in it's destruction. IMO both are driven by hated, revenge and self aggrandizement. Gabbard is easy, 1st a Democrat, unappreciated, then an independent, unappreciated, now a Republican and very much appreciated. Kash Patel assessed the cultural/political situation, saw the rise of authoritarianism and racism, and chose to get on the dark side, before the dark side got on him.
You said: There is no foreign power occupying us full of vengeance. I don't think that the two are connected or necessary. Occupying powers want to make full use of a nations resources, vengeance, except very selective vengeance is counter productive.
On the other hand vengeance, revenge, retribution seems to be the driving force behind the Trump regime and is just getting started.
Like the French Revolution, the flying guillotine is lopping off heads at the top, and will be working it's way down, eventually eating their own. One of the groups, least discussed as victims of the French Revolution, were the Huguenots, a Calvinist sect, very insular with commercial contacts and skills, that made them very rich, victimized by Richeliu, then the French Revolution.
The Huguenot story is very interesting.though I did say that they were Calvinistic, what I meant is that share Calvin's idea of pre destination, but Calvinists were very austere, Huguenots were the opposite.
Paul Revere's father, Apollonius Revoire, was a silversmith, a trade he passed onto his own.. Apollonius was also a Huguenot, was basically a Hugueot monopoly, one that the English guilds had no mastery off, and their technique was so superior that the tradesmen of London complained to the King that the Huguenots presented unfair competition and were rebelling.
To settle the complaints of London tradesmen, William III set aside a 1,000 acre patent in what is now Manakin Sabot Independent community inside the city of Richmond, for Huguenots wishing to relocate. Not all relocated to Virginia, some relocated to Boston.
Huguenots had skills, sword making, silversmithing, art, tapestry,, skills picked up in the low countries, when they moved from Catalan to the low countries, after the gold and silver started flowing from the new world.
A communicant of mine, herself of Huguenot/Jewish descent. informed me that the Huguenots are Jews that forced to conform to the 1492, eviction edict of Ferdinand and Isablla, chose to embrac the nascent protestant reformation, rather than converting to Catholicism or leaving Spain.The followed the flow of gold and silver to thelow countries
Spain effectively gained control over the Low Countries, also known as the "Spanish Netherlands," when Emperor Charles V abdicated in 1555, passing the territory to his son Philip II of Spain;
The low countries were probably the most tolerant in Europe, no heavy hand of the Pope was felt.Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Huguenots and Calvinists found a home there. And William of Orange )William III,William was a Protestant and had fought against the Catholic king of France, and when the Catholic son of James I (James II) took to the throne, he put together an Army and invaded England. He probably appreciated the skill and commercial connections of he Huguenots, but was under too much London pressure to do something about the Huguenot problem.
The interesting thing here is ethnic discrimination,there is always an outlander to blame for one's social and economic problems., and always some half assed attempt to solve the problem, which only makes things worse in the long run.
George Pickett (his charge at Gettysburg) was a Huguenot descendant, whose ancestor Piquet bought the land and established a plantation on Turkey Island,on the James River.
Someday,maybe, we will learn the difference between a problem and a difficulty, and when we do, all of this painful nonsense will cease. You can''t solve difficulties, you can only learn to live with them.
I know nothing of their motivation, it sure isn't idealism.
Mr. Farrar, thanks for that tidbit about the muskrat's first name. It sounds like a 1950s comic book, doesn't it? Messianic even. Captain America. Hard to believe. But here we are.
Here we are indeed, Trump just signed an EO directing the Treasury to create an American Sovereign Wealth fund. Unlike Norways which is in Petro dollars, China and Saudis which are a combo of petro dollars, US Government Securities, this one I am sure will be in crypto and thatbenefits Musk and the Trumps, he is really using the national treasury as an ATM.
The Trump administration has eliminated deportations protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States, leaving them vulnerable to be sent back to the South American country in 60 days when the protection expires, according to an official from the Department of Homeland Security.
I don't know this as a fact but some own US businesses, are bankers, etc. The economic capitol of Venezuela is Baghdad By the Sea.
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin
Thom,
I’d like you to consider using your media presence and publicity opportunities to promote Marc Elias and his Democracy Now website and his law firm.
As I have watched Mump delay and procrastinate the criminal legal proceeding against him using the donations that he duped from his low information and ignorant MAGA supporters, increasingly I have come to believe that the future battleground for our democratic beliefs will be the court rooms. Elias is at the forefront of this legal fight.
Thanks.
The destruction done by republicans in the past 50 yrs to our democracy was the prelude to the atrocious attacks on our freedoms by Trump and his MAGA today.
Trump is Putins tool to ‘destroy our democracy from within’ .
It’s happening now .
Suppressing the vote for Democrats has denied us some of our power to remove these authoritarians before they are established in office.
The Heritage Foundation is another entity seeking to reduce our power. Project 2025 gifted to us by the far right Foundations and alleged Christians are bastions of power seeking to depress ours.
These very wealthy people are not concerned about deleting the freedoms of diversity, truth, justice.
They have no use for poor , diverse populations. Black , brown , Native Americans.
Anyone that they leveled to get where they are , is , in their opinion, unnecessary.
No concern for the destruction of same
This is off-topic but urgent.
Congress should act immediately by attempting a legislative veto of Trump's reorganization of the United States Digital Service, renaming it DOGE and advancing the President's 18-month DOGE agenda. They should argue that his actions are beyond the scope of a President's 'reorganization authority' or similar. This immediate action is crucial to prevent the finalization of this coup.
Thank you Gloria, It is now that the Democrats in Congress will expose themselves,.
We don't control Congress -- unless a few Republicans stand up.
Someone screwed (with standing) can take it to court.
Quoting Josh Marshall. Elon Musk and his private-sector employees, are now fanned out across the government. He appears to have taken control of the federal payment system which allows his operatives to stop checks to any private individual in the country and/or examine all their personal financial information. According to The New York Times, Musk has tasked engineers with figuring out how to cut off the flow of funds from the Treasury to programs and priorities he believes conflict with the brief he received from Donald Trump. He has also taken control of some portion of the federal agency computer systems, allowing his operatives to lock federal workers out of key computer systems. We need a lot more reporting on just how he is exerting this power, specifically under what authority and who the people are he’s installed at these government agencies. Some have simply been appointed to new roles the old-fashioned way. But the best information we have about how “DOGE” is working suggests many are employees from his private companies operating with no legal authority at all.
There’s a pretty developed law that you can’t do stuff in the federal government if you’re not an employee of the federal government, or a contractor who is placed under the rules of the federal government. If you do do those things you become a de facto government employee and the law says you come under all sorts of record-keeping and disclosure requirements.
I know we don't control Congress Daniel. What I am saying is that the Democrats who vote with Republicans, on anything, expose themselves. There is no legislation that will come out of the 119th Congress that will benefit the average American. Anything that is put on the table will be MAGA, MUSK or Trump.
Other than that Daniel, we seem to be pretty much fucked, Musk and Trump have found an end run around the Constitution and congress.
Talking with my wife just now, she is of the mind, as I am, that our only hope is that this regime will implode from internal contradictions and competition.And that may well happen, but it will not be overnight, such forces take time to develop and metastisize. A pot doesn't immediately boil when you put it on the stove. An ice cube doesn't immediately melt.
We will suffer, until the regime implodes, and along with us will be the MAGAts.
I can take some satisfaction from the fact that the one group,more than any others, that is responsible for Trump 47, the ummah, now has to eat the results of their own fecklessness.
As I have been saying, we should be contacting Congressional Republicans, many who are vulnerable due to Trump overreach.
Who knows, some may flip.
Your books are great Tom. I have learned so much from you, on your TV Show, your books, on substack.
But voter caging, voter suppression, all the stuff documented by Greg Palast are now ancient history.
If we are being honest with ourselves, the era of even the appearance of a fair and free election are over.
There really needs to be a detailed expose of what happened in Hungary, because that is what is happening here.
Orban and his henchmen have educated, advised, trained the fascist,. Christian Right as to how to take over a democracy.
Joseph Goebbels: “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.”
We fight fair, they fight foul.
It is a cage match, we wear gloves and follow Marquis of Queensbury Rules, they are an MMA fighter, we don' have a chance.
Voting does not a democracy make. Russians have he vote, so do Hungarians, so do the Iranians.
Kvetching about voter caging, voter suppression is so yesterday, our only response now is organizing a resistance, throwing a wrench into the gear works, and waiting for the system they created to self destruct as it will.
Hungary doesn't have it's technofeudalists and it's religious, racists, misogynistic fascists who have competing agenda's.
Hungary doesn't have very strong, well organized competing religious cults like we do in America.
These cults have achieved a culture war victory, but it won't last, once the afterglow wears off, they will be demanding recognition, primacy,, access to power and resources and as such Opus Dei will find that the 7 Mountains Dominionists, The New Apostolic Reformation, the Evangelicals, the Mormons are their fierce competitors hence enemies.
The alliance that put Trump and Project 2025 in power, will not hold, unless Trump can repeat Hitlers success.
The industrialists, financiers financed Hitler, they thought they could control him, but the opposite happened he controlled them. The Lutheran and Catholic Church were all too eager to support Hitler, to the point of Hitler approving the appointment of Bishops., and the Bishops fell in line sieg heiling him, like that Anglican priest, Calvin Robinson of Detroit. he has been defrocked, but he is just the first.
I suspect the first cracks will be when the oligarchs around Trump begin to fight for power. We have a somewhat different system than the late Roman Republic, but attempts there to create triumvirates where the powerful shared control quickly fell into anarchy. Eventually one person would become dictator. The same result, but quicker and less violently occurred in Revolutionary France. It is hard to imagine Musk and Trump staying good buddies, or for that matter any of these other Uber Rich horrors playing nice and knowing how to share.
I suppose the Constitutional facade will be maintained, just as in theory the Roman Empire was run by the Senate and the Emperor just happened to have more power than the others. Hitler found a way around all this grasping for control by so dividing and confusing power among the overlapping interests in his circle that nobody else could concentrate it. But Trump isn't smart enough to manage that, except by bumbling into more chaos.
I'm hoping that there already are schisms of MAGAT House members.
1. Minority Republicans
2. Those who support Ukraine vs Putin
3. Those who oppose Musk.
More -- if they represent districts on the border that rely on Mexico and or Canada, and their local businesses are shut down because of tariff policy.
I disagree that focusing on voter caging and suppression is ancient history. If we had stopped the vigilantes and politicians from purging the voter rolls there was a good chance we could have won.
Greg Palast makes a good case of the effect it has on elections. In two years we will have another election and we should be a lot more diligent than we have about purging , suppressing And gerrymandering our voting and ballots. It matters!
Mr. Farrar there is much that is accurate in what you say. My own belief is that the people in control in D.C. will be so captured by their greed and confined by their blind ignorance and devotion to their ideology that they will violate all the warnings Keynes gave to the victorious nations after WW1. And as happened then in 1929 they will bring on a terrible economic crash. But there is a big difference between post WW1-Germany and present day U.S.
While it is true that corporate elites have moved much of the work done on goods and services sold in the U.S. to China and Mexico and .....wherever the labor is cheapest. And this has badly weakened the fundamentals of our economy. It is true that Germany had just suffered the complete destruction of their basic economic infrastructure by foreign infantry invaders during WW1. The Russians were especially hard on the Germans as vengeance for invasion and the wholesale slaughter in the new industrial form of warfare. After WW1 Russian trains rolled into Germany and loaded flat cars with machinery yanked out of German factories and hauled it back to the USSR. The French insisted on controlling the Ruhr and all its abundant natural resources, denying Germans access to it. The victorious nations violated the warnings of Keynes.
Present day America is not in such dire circumstances. There is no foreign army occupying us with hearts full of vengeance.
True, we could go the route of Hungary. But I wonder about this. I shall go so far as to predict that the MAGA crowd will very likely, tank our economy. The most astute billionaire investors are already turning their stocks into liquidity. Even some of Trump's most avid supporters are liquidating their holdings. China is helping to engineer a downturn, dumping hundreds of billions of American securities. That new DeepSeek AI from China has punctured the overly inflated worth of American software companies on a huge scale.
But I cannot predict what the socio-political-economic out come will be. Can anyone?
Gerald, I have said pretty much the same thing. The internal contradictions and infighting, combined with the insane policies of Trump will plunge this country into a depression, but he and Musk will blame minorities.
His tariffs and migration policy will by themselves raise the cost of living and create shortages of one thing that people need. food.
Ant the feud between the technofeudalists and the racist, which has apparently hit a lull, has to escalate unless Bannon, Rogan and Alex Jones tamps it down, which is likely.
I don't disagree with your analyis and no one has a crystal ball, or is psychic.
But what we do know is that Trump has the makings of his own Sturmabeitlung and Schutztaffel, in fhe form of Stewart Rhodes, Nicholas Fuente, Enrique Tarrio and their merry band of Proud Boys, Bugaloo Boyz, militias, aryan cults.. He has basically given them permission to shed blood in his cause, and they are willing to do just that.
Here is a link to Jim Stewartson's Mind War's current offering. I find myself in constant agreement with Jim especially this time:
https://www.mind-war.com/p/hyper-racism-rage-and-the-twitterization
If in fact billionaire investors liquidating their holdings.China dumping securities is only the beginning of the end..
Trump and Musk are collapsing the whole world economy, the US. is China's market, without American consumers (corporate and individual) china has nothing except a billion hungry people.
i see an internal power struggle, where might makes right, Musk and his technfeudalists may have the upper hand at first, but Trumps S.A. and SS. can cow them and bring them into line, there is plenty of historical precedent from the Roman Empire to the 3rd Reich.
For thetime being in our mercantilist world, where money rules, Musk has the means, the resources and the will to deconstruct Democracy in the world, and install a strong man regime,.
And I am going to take a stab here. Trump, the AfD, Meloni, Orban are tools and fools, they crave power, they crave attention, they crave things and thus are tools and fools easily bought.
Musk was influenced by his father, and his father was enamored of Wehrner Von Braun's book, Mars, A Technical Tale. In the book Mars is led by a dictaror called the Elon.
Elon Musk is named for him. Musk may indeed have a pipe dream of going to Mars, but his real drive is to be The Elon here on Earth.
And he has the money to buy it.
He he has Meloni of Italy, free of charge, Marine le Pen free of charge,Gert Wilders, Free of charge, the UK's Keir Starmer seeks better trade relations with the US but that is going to cost him, and Britain, meanwhile Musk is buying the AfD and that means buying Germany, he already has Hungary , Slovakia, and Moldova via Transnistra.
Musk has already taken control of the U.S., with Trump's blessing. Then again Trump is oblivious to everything the only concerns he has are ego driven, money, adoration, and revenge and Musk and his advisors are more than willing.
There is more to the appointment of Gabbard and Patel that meet the eye.,those two alone have proven that they have no loyalty to the U.S.of A. the Constitution, both are assets of a foreign power or enemies of the U.S. and are enthusiastic agents in it's destruction. IMO both are driven by hated, revenge and self aggrandizement. Gabbard is easy, 1st a Democrat, unappreciated, then an independent, unappreciated, now a Republican and very much appreciated. Kash Patel assessed the cultural/political situation, saw the rise of authoritarianism and racism, and chose to get on the dark side, before the dark side got on him.
You said: There is no foreign power occupying us full of vengeance. I don't think that the two are connected or necessary. Occupying powers want to make full use of a nations resources, vengeance, except very selective vengeance is counter productive.
On the other hand vengeance, revenge, retribution seems to be the driving force behind the Trump regime and is just getting started.
Like the French Revolution, the flying guillotine is lopping off heads at the top, and will be working it's way down, eventually eating their own. One of the groups, least discussed as victims of the French Revolution, were the Huguenots, a Calvinist sect, very insular with commercial contacts and skills, that made them very rich, victimized by Richeliu, then the French Revolution.
The Huguenot story is very interesting.though I did say that they were Calvinistic, what I meant is that share Calvin's idea of pre destination, but Calvinists were very austere, Huguenots were the opposite.
Paul Revere's father, Apollonius Revoire, was a silversmith, a trade he passed onto his own.. Apollonius was also a Huguenot, was basically a Hugueot monopoly, one that the English guilds had no mastery off, and their technique was so superior that the tradesmen of London complained to the King that the Huguenots presented unfair competition and were rebelling.
To settle the complaints of London tradesmen, William III set aside a 1,000 acre patent in what is now Manakin Sabot Independent community inside the city of Richmond, for Huguenots wishing to relocate. Not all relocated to Virginia, some relocated to Boston.
Huguenots had skills, sword making, silversmithing, art, tapestry,, skills picked up in the low countries, when they moved from Catalan to the low countries, after the gold and silver started flowing from the new world.
A communicant of mine, herself of Huguenot/Jewish descent. informed me that the Huguenots are Jews that forced to conform to the 1492, eviction edict of Ferdinand and Isablla, chose to embrac the nascent protestant reformation, rather than converting to Catholicism or leaving Spain.The followed the flow of gold and silver to thelow countries
Spain effectively gained control over the Low Countries, also known as the "Spanish Netherlands," when Emperor Charles V abdicated in 1555, passing the territory to his son Philip II of Spain;
The low countries were probably the most tolerant in Europe, no heavy hand of the Pope was felt.Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Huguenots and Calvinists found a home there. And William of Orange )William III,William was a Protestant and had fought against the Catholic king of France, and when the Catholic son of James I (James II) took to the throne, he put together an Army and invaded England. He probably appreciated the skill and commercial connections of he Huguenots, but was under too much London pressure to do something about the Huguenot problem.
The interesting thing here is ethnic discrimination,there is always an outlander to blame for one's social and economic problems., and always some half assed attempt to solve the problem, which only makes things worse in the long run.
George Pickett (his charge at Gettysburg) was a Huguenot descendant, whose ancestor Piquet bought the land and established a plantation on Turkey Island,on the James River.
Someday,maybe, we will learn the difference between a problem and a difficulty, and when we do, all of this painful nonsense will cease. You can''t solve difficulties, you can only learn to live with them.
I know nothing of their motivation, it sure isn't idealism.
Mr. Farrar, thanks for that tidbit about the muskrat's first name. It sounds like a 1950s comic book, doesn't it? Messianic even. Captain America. Hard to believe. But here we are.
Here we are indeed, Trump just signed an EO directing the Treasury to create an American Sovereign Wealth fund. Unlike Norways which is in Petro dollars, China and Saudis which are a combo of petro dollars, US Government Securities, this one I am sure will be in crypto and thatbenefits Musk and the Trumps, he is really using the national treasury as an ATM.
Agree, Captain my Captain on this too as well. The vote is important. Make it happen then.
So many tricks.
Silly rabbit.
The Trump administration has eliminated deportations protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the United States, leaving them vulnerable to be sent back to the South American country in 60 days when the protection expires, according to an official from the Department of Homeland Security.
I don't know this as a fact but some own US businesses, are bankers, etc. The economic capitol of Venezuela is Baghdad By the Sea.