I hope OMB, DOGE, and their team of Spergy Nerds and data wonks continue to rip the lid off of all of the corruption, both sides of the aisle. A pox on all of their houses. This is the most fun politics has been in my lifetime.
Maybe we could trim what we spend on fedgov down to... I don't know, say $3 trillion?Remember those days of "small" government back in... [looks up budget data] ahem, 1997, when we only spent $3 trillion?
Does anybody remember how the bodies were stacking up in the streets and homelessness was... uh, nowhere near as bad as it is now? And we, uh, didn't have a military because we were only spending $3 trillion?
It's almost as if you get more of what you subsidize and incentivize.
The real heros are people like you who confronted this "cultural revolution" openly from the beginning and paid the price. Let us hope the US counter- revolution has staying power and spreads north.
It has been absolutely glorious. Each day a new rock is lifted up to expose a rat's nest of corruption. Firing is not enough. Prisons need to be on standby to accept the corrupt, self-dealing liars who brought our nation to this state.
I hope Trump goes after those perpetrating the fraud of 2020. Arrests need to be made.
What Americans do in the USA is their business and no business of mine.
Trump has taken several actions of which, if I were American, I would approve.
However his only approach to life, and it is apparent from his business career is that of emulating Al Capone, but with Barnum's persona.
I admit that this has been the US approach to foreign relations for at least 120 years.
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“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― : D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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Until Trump, the threats and bribes have been carried out in back rooms and private palaces, but it has the only policy that the US has ever followed:
US representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs',''
Brisard said in an interview in Paris.
Hosein Kanani Moghadm, political analyst, said that in his meeting with Bashar al-Assad before the unrest break-out in Syria, Assad had said that the US diplomats had demanded that Syria cut relations with Iran and stops its anti-Israeli policies, “otherwise, the US may deal with Syria in severe terms.”
"Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not whether, but how to destabilize." -
Neoconservative crackpot and international terrorist Michael Ledeen.
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Trump may or may not understand the American MAGA psyche, but the moment he looks across the border he is a total moron.
Donald Trump 2017 : “The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the United Nations is based. They respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries.”
referring no doubt to USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
And then he just went crazy “The United States of America has been among the greatest forces for good in the history of the world, and the greatest defenders of sovereignty, security, and prosperity for all.”
Canada, Mexico, Panama, Russia, China, Europe, Iran, South Africa, his contempt and disdain for any but his voters is plain.
His speech on Gaza has shown the world exactly what respect he has for 'democracy' or any person that is not a MAGA follower.
Wonderful to read , thankyou for being a sensible man in a senseless world , George Wadhington , Abraham Lincoln and now Donald Trump will galso go down in history as having saved Ameria !
Matt, you have been on the side of the angels for a long time. You have been generous in sharing your statistical knowledge and skills. And you are the very model of a snappy dresser. In these and doubtless many other respects you have a remarkably tiny p-value!
I'm sorry that you were an example of how much trouble exercising one's powers of logic and common sense can get you in..But you retained your integrity and common decency, which is the most important thing in this life.....,.I remain mystified by how many seemingly intelligent people could vote for an alcoholic whore who talks gibberish, which I suppose I should have understood from the number who willingly took the deathjab....In any event, your integrity was the main factor in my becoming a paid subscriber....It's the least you deserve...
Because of your referral of the High Trumpism essay, those of us who ran away from Outrage Addiction now have a reliable desk reference to combat all the idiotic defeatist fools. Mike Church, again because of your effort, had lengthy talks about this on his show today.
I love your articles. I never knew what the F curve is, now I recognize it as that image I see sometimes of two lines growing in size to the right, with the blue line suddenly jumping in step change over the red line, right at the end. Thanks for that.
Thank you for this very personal and joyful post. It's really encouraged me.
I hope OMB, DOGE, and their team of Spergy Nerds and data wonks continue to rip the lid off of all of the corruption, both sides of the aisle. A pox on all of their houses. This is the most fun politics has been in my lifetime.
Maybe we could trim what we spend on fedgov down to... I don't know, say $3 trillion?Remember those days of "small" government back in... [looks up budget data] ahem, 1997, when we only spent $3 trillion?
Does anybody remember how the bodies were stacking up in the streets and homelessness was... uh, nowhere near as bad as it is now? And we, uh, didn't have a military because we were only spending $3 trillion?
It's almost as if you get more of what you subsidize and incentivize.
The anti-federalists were right about everything.
The real heros are people like you who confronted this "cultural revolution" openly from the beginning and paid the price. Let us hope the US counter- revolution has staying power and spreads north.
It has been absolutely glorious. Each day a new rock is lifted up to expose a rat's nest of corruption. Firing is not enough. Prisons need to be on standby to accept the corrupt, self-dealing liars who brought our nation to this state.
I hope Trump goes after those perpetrating the fraud of 2020. Arrests need to be made.
What Americans do in the USA is their business and no business of mine.
Trump has taken several actions of which, if I were American, I would approve.
However his only approach to life, and it is apparent from his business career is that of emulating Al Capone, but with Barnum's persona.
I admit that this has been the US approach to foreign relations for at least 120 years.
-
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― : D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
-
Until Trump, the threats and bribes have been carried out in back rooms and private palaces, but it has the only policy that the US has ever followed:
US representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs',''
Brisard said in an interview in Paris.
Hosein Kanani Moghadm, political analyst, said that in his meeting with Bashar al-Assad before the unrest break-out in Syria, Assad had said that the US diplomats had demanded that Syria cut relations with Iran and stops its anti-Israeli policies, “otherwise, the US may deal with Syria in severe terms.”
"Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia; we want things to change. The real issue is not whether, but how to destabilize." -
Neoconservative crackpot and international terrorist Michael Ledeen.
-
Trump may or may not understand the American MAGA psyche, but the moment he looks across the border he is a total moron.
Donald Trump 2017 : “The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the United Nations is based. They respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries.”
referring no doubt to USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
And then he just went crazy “The United States of America has been among the greatest forces for good in the history of the world, and the greatest defenders of sovereignty, security, and prosperity for all.”
Canada, Mexico, Panama, Russia, China, Europe, Iran, South Africa, his contempt and disdain for any but his voters is plain.
His speech on Gaza has shown the world exactly what respect he has for 'democracy' or any person that is not a MAGA follower.
He is carrying on the normal US tradition.
USMC Major General Smedley Butler - 1935
https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Thank you for sharing your story. I knew you were/are a man of courage already. Reading your story just reinforced what I already knew.
"Action! Action! It's the only way of getting things done."
Joanna Trollope - The Rector's Wife
I liked Conundrum's exhortation. Marching orders to support our friends and oppose the enemy.
We desire to live forever in the City of God, but we live right now in the City of Man.
As soldiers here, we must refuse any illegal orders as you have done, because we desire to live in the City of God forever.
"...Remember it well then, this night...
...this great victory...
...so that in the years ahead you can say:
"I was there that night
with Arthur, the king."
For it is the doom of men
that they forget."
From Excalibur, 1981. https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=143826
This is absolutely beautiful. Keep up the great work.
You were pro-Trump many years before I was. I'm man enough to admit when I was wrong.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/convinced-by-captain-k
Wonderful to read , thankyou for being a sensible man in a senseless world , George Wadhington , Abraham Lincoln and now Donald Trump will galso go down in history as having saved Ameria !
Matt, you have been on the side of the angels for a long time. You have been generous in sharing your statistical knowledge and skills. And you are the very model of a snappy dresser. In these and doubtless many other respects you have a remarkably tiny p-value!
Punchline: I was arrested for streaking, but the case was thrown out of court for insufficient evidence.
I'm sorry that you were an example of how much trouble exercising one's powers of logic and common sense can get you in..But you retained your integrity and common decency, which is the most important thing in this life.....,.I remain mystified by how many seemingly intelligent people could vote for an alcoholic whore who talks gibberish, which I suppose I should have understood from the number who willingly took the deathjab....In any event, your integrity was the main factor in my becoming a paid subscriber....It's the least you deserve...
Because of your referral of the High Trumpism essay, those of us who ran away from Outrage Addiction now have a reliable desk reference to combat all the idiotic defeatist fools. Mike Church, again because of your effort, had lengthy talks about this on his show today.
God bless you Matt.
I love your articles. I never knew what the F curve is, now I recognize it as that image I see sometimes of two lines growing in size to the right, with the blue line suddenly jumping in step change over the red line, right at the end. Thanks for that.