Idiot liberals still trying to blame the Ruskies for their collapse from power.

Facebook is under attack by its desperate counterparts in congress over $100,000 worth of ads supposed taken out by the Ruskies in order to bring Hillary down.  Do these bozos know how ridiculous they sound with all of this grand standing?  Let's consider the facts:

1)  It's not illegal or even immoral for anyone to take out ads about anything, ever.  Buying an ad is not the same as paying Hillary money for state department access.  If the Ruskies want to drop cash onto American businesses in order to broadcast a specific message to people, let them. 

2) Congress acts like people cannot think for themselves and that any little word whispered can make a person robotically perform an act that they would otherwise not do.  And while it is true that liberals are more susceptible to this, conservatives did not stand up against Hillary because of something the Russians did or did not do. 

3) The silliness of all this makes me suspect more than anything that Facebook decided not to fund the dems very well for the mid terms and so this is what Democtatic Moron Adam Schiff dreamed up to get back at them; the shot across their bow that says "pay up or we will make up a big deal against you".

4) The sum of $100,000 dollars is basically walking around money for presidential campaigns.  That kind of money doesn't buy much attention in elections where $10 billion are being spent on a routine basis.  When I read that $100,000 statement it reminded me of Dr. Evil asking for one milllllllllion dollars in ransom from the world.



5) Excuses will not matter at this point because, as I wrote long before the election even got started, "Hillary will not win despite record spend and those doing the spending will be weakened financially and politically.  It will hurt them so badly that they will think twice before trying it again because I suspect they will go "all in" on Queen Hillary.".  Hillary and the dems have underestimated just how badly their loss has collapsed their financial support base.  The big money will want to fund the winning side and dems have to regroup and reform with a new, more truthy message before they will stand a chance of winning again.

Mauldin:The bubble in government promises.

This week's article from John Mauldin finally gets closer to the root of the matter as he comes to the same conclusions that I reported about in these pages years ago: there is a bubble in government promises.  Of course, it's bigger than that.  There is a bubble in liberalism which is now peaked and heading into decline.  But not before the peak fooled many into accepting government control over our lives, accepting government promises to look after us in our old age, accepting a government monopoly on our personal security (in case of danger, don't actively protect yourself, instead run and hide and let the police do "their job").


While Mauldin has now admitted that his "muddle through" thinking was a miscalculation, he still fails to grasp the bigger picture which is that our herding species cycles / pendulums back and forth between liberalism and conservatism on a regular basis.  He knows that pensions will go bust and that government will not be able to keep its promises but he does not seem to understand that the main enabler of wild swings in this boom bust behavior is the use of fake money and other fake promises to pay instead of using gold and silver physical coins.


To some of you this might still sound ridiculous but the peak of herd liberalism will go hand in hand with the peak in acceptance of fake money and fake promises for future payment (AKA Wimpy Promises).  People will eventually see this liberal lie-fest for what it is and they will increasingly begin to not accept fake paper in exchange for their goods and services.  Confidence in all global fake paper money will collapse and the result will be a period of carnage never before seen on this planet.


None of this had to happen but all of it will certainly happen at some point in time simply because the use of fake money is a Ponzi scheme and no Ponzi ever lasted for ever or can possibly last forever.  At some point a big band of thought leaders will break away.  Some people think they are doing just this by accepting fake bitcoins as money but this will be proven to be a Ponzi and so people will finally realize that all unbacked currency is a Ponzi. 


Advantage physical gold, silver, lead and gunpowder.


Keep in mind people, that Ponzis do not collapse slowly. They collapse with exponential speed.  I hope all my long time readers have realized the correctness of my world view by now and have taken real steps in order to protect themselves from what must eventually transpire.

Hurricane Irma provides lesson on being accountable for your own security.

Hurricane Irma ripped the Virgin Islands a new one leaving massive destruction and loss of infrastructure in its wake.  Those who had to remain because they were on the lower economic rungs which can only exist in an environment of fake money took the opportunity to quickly form gangs that are looting whatever they can, even to the point of kicking in doors of occupied homes.  This article states that St Maarten, an island that used to be home to 77000 residents before Irma and which is split down the middle into French and Netherlands controlled territories, is now on the verge of civil war.

If you bother to read the article, the main weapons that the thugs had were knives and machetes.  But when the cowardly government used public money to hastily vacate themselves from the island before the storm hit, they left behind caches of weapons which quickly fell into the hands of the gangs.  Oh gee, thanks government for helping out!  You were in such a cowardly hurry to secure your own safety that you didn't even have time to make sure your own weapons would not be used against the population you are supposed to be protecting!  What a bunch of fucking pussies!!

One woman in hiding there put out a video in which she said,"I’ve lived in St Martin for more than 20 years… No one fully realizes what’s going on right now - it’s the apocalypse here. The French government is doing nothing – they’re just going on TV, saying they are doing this or that but nothing is being done."
"The police are not well trained…they haven’t lifted a finger to help us out of this mess. Stop showing us footage of destruction here – we know that already… come help us! We want to get out of St Martin! We cannot stay here! People are being killed! We pay our taxes and follow all the rules… Come get us! We cannot stay here! You have to evacuate the people that are here. We are part of France so get off your butts, stop talking rubbish on television – there are not 10 deaths, there are thousands of deaths! So get off your butts and come help us!"

It was only back in 2014 that the cowardly and corrupt government there put on a full court press to eliminate private firearm ownership setting up stiff penalties for those wanting to keep and bear their  own means of self protection.  Criminals just love it when governments disarm their victims in advance of criminal activity!

So there you have it.  Foolish people allow self-serving government to disarm them but when something as simple as a storm blows through, the government looks after itself first and then when it is convenient it might have a chance to look after the people who it disarmed.  Why do people agree to this?  IT'S STUPID and if you agree to it you get what you deserve when you are left unprotected in an crisis.  And in case you haven't noticed, crises seem to be happening more and more often these days and are more and more severe each time. Wait until the fake money system collapses.  Then we will really know what a crisis is.  You think government can save anyone from a situation that it created?  Really??

Anyone who tries to disarm me effectively declares war on me.  Period.  I will not comply and neither should anyone else who can think for themselves.

Anthony Weiner says his sexting habit is a "deep sickness".

Like all liberals who get caught, Anthony Weiner is now saddened by finally being called onto the carpet for his amoral lifestyle.  Of course his sadness has little to do with being sorry about the deeds and more to do with having got caught. There is about a 100% chance that if he were simply let go that he would go out and do it again because of the thrill he gets from it.  No lessons have been learned by him.  Still, he puts on the sad act in a bid for leniency saying his sexting was a deep sickness.

Sorry, Weiner.  Sexting is only a symptom of your real sickness which is unbridled liberalism.  You got caught up in that direction which you sensed the herd was heading and, mingling in with the herd, you believed that you could do whatever you wanted to do. 

In fact a close examination of liberalism will begin to look a heck of a lot like the 5 stages of drunkeness and then the subsequent sobering up:

 Getting drunker:

1. I'm clever
2. I'm attractive (in Weiner's case that also meant "to children")
3. I'm rich
4. I'm invincible
5. I'm invisible

Sobering up:

1. I'm stupid
2. I'm ugly
3. I'm poor
4. I'm fragile
5. I'm conspicuous  (hello Anthony, this is where you are right now!).

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is a pot calling the kettle black.

Jamie Dimon just went on record with a very strange statement.  It's one thing for a person in Mr. Dimon's position to declare that an asset of some kind is currently in a bubble.  Benefiting from bubbles (and their eventual collapse) is how people in his "profession" make their money.  It's just simple market timing to call something a value or a bubble.

But Dimon went a big step further and called bitcoin a "fraud" that will eventually blow up.  He then compared bitcoin to tulips of tulip mania fame.  Tulips were a bubble, not a fraud.  So he thinks bitcoin is worse than tulip mania.

I have just two things to say about that:

1) I think he will turn out to be correct even though I think his motivation for panning the currency is that he is secretly afraid of it.  After all, he is not part of it, not in control of it, does not have insiders in it like he does the US dollar and other sovereign currencies.  He's afraid that it could get really big before it eventually blows up into tulipmania collapse.

2) Mr. Dimon does not say what qualities of bitcoin make it a "fraud" but I dare say that it is, in fact, a bit less fraudulent than the US dollar or any other fake paper money.  Why?  Well, for several reasons.  First, only a finite number of bitcoins can be created.  Second, someone has to do new work to create new bit coins out of the total possible.  It's called mining and it requires investment in computers and software.  What this means is that it cannot be created on a whim in order to solve some problem de jour at the expense of all participants for the benefit of those at the top who get the credit for having done some good.  In other words, it cannot be used to privatize gains and socialize losses.  Additionally, there is no fractional reserve lending system tied to bitcoin (yet).  In other words, special entities cannot create temporary new bitcoins from thin air and loan them out for interest.

The US dollar and other fake paper fiat currencies suffer from all of these deficiencies.  If bitcoins were backed by gold it would be a fine currency.  But neither it nor the dollar nor any government currency is real money because none are backed by any kind of valued commodity.  The US nickel is about the only real money in circulation that I know of because for some strange reason it is still made of nickel and copper instead of being nickel plated pot metal.

In any case, everything that Jamie Dimon said would eventually happen to bitcoin will also happen to all fake paper money because there is no real difference between them because the only difference that counts is whether the currency can be exchanged for a fixed and known quantity of a thing of known value upon demand.

Neither the US dollar nor bitcoin are any better than tulips and Mr Dimon knows it damn well.  He says what he said because he is a shameless liar who will be very lucky to avoid being strung up in the streets when the dollar Ponzi collapses.

US threatens China with an act of economic terrorism.

The global debt Ponzi is a twisted and convoluted things with many parties having different agendas but at the end of the day each party has the same goals: stay in power and keep their people fed.  In fact this is basically just saying the same thing in two different ways because a hungry populace is an angry populace and in fact a desperate one.

The way things are working right now, China needs to keep its people employed.  It has a ton of people, most of which make low wages.  In fact, they don't make enough money to buy most of the stuff they produce.  So their production is exported to those who can pay. 

Sort of.

In fact, all nations of the world are bankrupt and living off their national credit cards.  So when I say "pay" I really mean "promise to pay".  Of course those promises are lies and nobody intends to pay but that is the state of things right now.  Economically speaking, the Chinese people should stop trying to export so much and instead produce what they need in order to feed themselves.  They should only export enough stuff to gain access to the raw materials that they don't already have for themselves.  But their oligarchs cannot get rich under such a fair and honest system and so the people are tricked into building things for others that they themselves cannot afford to consume.  In other words slavery.  That is just how it is right now.

Be that as it may, should China finally decide that dealing with the US as a "customer" in this fraudulent relationship is more trouble than its worth, it will be the US that suffers, not China.  The US is receiving all sorts of quality goods at low prices courtesy of the Chinese and if that stops then US lifestyle will take a BIG step down as supplies dry up and American producers demand much higher prices than Chinese producers.

With this in mind, I think it is crazy that they US is making threats against the hand that feeds it in the form of locking China out of the US controlled SWIFT payment system if China does not follow US demands with respect to North Korea.  Since SWIFT is used to settle payment from the USA and since the USA is a major consumer of Chinese exports, getting locked out of SWIFT would be a massive disaster in the short term for China and could be considered an act of war.  Locking countries out of SWIFT is what we do to terrorist countries, not to those who simply do not want to dance to whatever tune that Uncle Sam wants to play this week.

If this gets too out of hand, China could do like foreign banks have done: it could just decide that the USA is more trouble to deal with than we are worth and then work us out of their business model.

Advantage China in this one IMO.

Michael Moore is over

Michael Moore's Broadway show, "The Terms of My Surrender" is bombing on Broadway and liberal or no liberal, money talks and BS walks.  At just 5 weeks into its engagement he's only able to draw half the expected crowd.  The reason, according to the article is, "most buying Broadway tickets, especially in summer, are tourists from America's heartland who actually embrace the values and politicians, such as President Donald Trump, that Moore mocks."

It used to be that no matter what stupid liberal crap Moore came up with he would find a big audience for it.  That's because the herd, even conservatives, were trending liberal.  Not no more folks.  Now the tide is rapidly turning and we will soon realize that liberals are leaning conservative.  The mood of the herd is changing and it will have far reaching effects on many things, not the least of which is the global debt Ponzi.