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Some speculation…
…and for the first time since before many, perhaps any of us were born, there is real desire to drag it into the light and expunge it from our lives.
This in regards to the effort of exposing, in more detail than ever, the corruption to be found in the spending of the United States government.
But why? That’s the question I keep asking myself. Why this effort? Why now? Why is it happening? Why, so relatively speaking, quietly?
Not that I am complaining. At least, not much. For the most part, I am on their team…or, at least, I like what they are doing.
But why are they doing it? They have never done so in my life. And I have lived a pretty long life.
My guess…
Too many powerful people desire it. And not for my benefit or yours, but theirs. Too many powerful people have figured out that the only foundation on which they can stay on top is the good old U.S. of A. Nowhere else. On the global playing field, perhaps only China presents another long-term possibility, but no one in China cares about American billionaires; China is not a plausible option.
The foundation has to be saved, no matter the cost. Because it seems that there is no other foundation on which they can sustain and grow their own personal empires.
I think this is what’s happening. It explains Musk and the rest of the gazillionaires perfectly. There is no other foundation on which they can build their tower of babel, so they want to save the only one that will serve.
Who will use their military to defend their intellectual property if not the USA? Who will pay to launch their rockets if not the USA? Who will ensure their social media and search engines and video channels will continue to grow if not the USA? Where else other than the USA can they build and protect their wealth? Who will protect the Zionist state if not the USA?
The answer is simple. No one else.
Conclusion
For once, we have the billionaires on our side. Not strategically, but tactically. And if that’s all I can get (as if I have a say in the matter), I will take it. The next 12 – 18 months will tell the tale.
This is why I really like reading you.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eric. I think you have been around about as long as anyone, and I appreciate it.
DeleteI think you are correct on this topic. Libertarians and the "new elites" are aligned because the Establishment has become so dysfunctional and unstable and tyrannical. In this phase, the "new elites" are dissidents from the Establishment so we populist dissidents are aligned with them, mostly. This is why so many different groups feel represented by them. You have libertarians, Christian Nationalists, normie Christians, fascists, monarchists, hard core right wingers, and hardcore Catholics all more or less happy with the new Trump/Musk coalition.
ReplyDeleteI suspect at some point that won't be the case after reading Rothbard's Betrayal Of The American Right. It was interesting to read that all those disparate groups were represented in Buckley's National Review cadre. But then as they gained power they jettisoned the more fringe groups, starting with libertarians but by 1970ish, they were the Conservative Arem of the Establishment and all dissident groups on the right were kicked out of the club. So much so that Rothbard started his "I'm a leftist" stage.
That doesn't have to be the case this time and I think there is a wider liberty movement now that could help keep us at the table. If Ron Paul really does get to audit the Fed with Musk, and if the IRS really is audited and there is a plan to get rid of income tax, those would all be signs for optimism.
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"I suspect at some point that won't be the case after reading Rothbard's Betrayal Of The American Right."
DeleteThis is likely, or at least possible. Musk implanting chips in our brains, the division over H1b visas, and, always, the Zionist issue.
It will be much harder for the right-wing establishment to purge the unwanted fringe groups like libertarians, trad Catholics, Orthobros, and paleocons now that we have access to X and other social media platforms where anybody's opinion can be launched into the public consciousness if it goes viral. A guy named Middle-earth Mixer ratio-ed the sitting president of the US with a Faramir meme on X. It was glorious. There is also a lot of right-wing push back against the right's new obeisance to Israel, and not just from Groyper idiots and Tate-tards.
DeleteBack then all they had were National Review, the Weekly Standard, and Buckley's "Firing Line" (an excellent show by the way), and these were easily used as gatekeeping institutions. Now the sources of information are many-headed and chaotic, if still somewhat controlled by the algorithms of X, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
"There is also a lot of right-wing push back against the right's new obeisance to Israel, and not just from Groyper idiots and Tate-tards."
DeleteThis issue will come to a head sooner or later. As we have seen in the US, certainly ever since the first time Trump was elected: contradictions cannot continue forever.
Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine, he wants peace everywhere...except for Palestinians.
Vance rightly chastises Europeans for their lack of free speech, which Vance says Americans cherish. What goes unsaid is the topic on which free speech is made illegal, or at least cancellable in America.
Contradictions cannot continue forever.
Israel is seemingly given a glaring and unjust "hall pass" by the DOGE efforts and by the Trump admin. The noticing will accelerate. Lol
DeleteInteresting thought. You might have latched onto it.
ReplyDelete"If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” -- Psalm 11:3, Berean Standard Bible
More to the point of this discussion, if the foundations are destroyed, what can the elites do to maintain their lifestyle?
Here's hoping there are enough of them who have thought this through and decided to change course.
A long, long time ago, I read something, somewhere, along this line. Because inflation destroys economies, in the end the powers-that-be have to make a choice between inflating their way out of the hole, destroying the economy in the process, OR, making radical changes to curb and stop the inflation, which would destroy the current system and throw the economy into a severe recession, but allow for it to correct and revive. This may be such a time.
ReplyDeleteEither way, people will be hurt, but the lesser harm will come about IF the inflation is stopped and deficit spending by the government is brought to a halt. We can experience the recession now, with the expectation that we will emerge from it in a relatively short time, OR, we will experience it later when everything has been put through the wringer of inflation and there is nothing left. There is no escape from the correction.
Good business sense, common sense, and pragmatism may have actually prevailed among those who pull the strings. One can hope.
Roger, over the last couple of days i have been watching Tom Luongo. I recall reading him some time ago, but never could quite follow his arguments. Today I much better understand him
DeleteTo make a long story short, we are living through a battle of some "powers that be" against another group of "powers that be." Call it New York bankers against globalist, internationalist factions.
"We" (those who view Trump as taking back some control of what happens in the US and to the dollar) would prefer the New York bankers, given these options. The battle is between and amongst giants, and none of us are capable to engage in this fight.
I am greatly simplifying his points, but I think that is it in a nutshell.
I am greatly summarizing
Luongo also says it would be a bad thing to end the Fed, if I remember correctly, so I take his words with a grain of salt. I also have no faith that the current admin is going to curb inflation, given that their most recent spending bill (which Thomas Massie courageously rejected) was going to add hundreds of billions to the deficit, and would only cut the debt marginally in the future by looking (with rose-colored glasses) forward to increasing productivity after 3 to 5 years or something. It's just the same old song and dance. The fiscal conservatives are in charge now, and they inevitably find reasons to increase the budget.
DeleteATL, a simple thing to have done, which wasn't done: tell each department to cut ten percent of their budget for next year, and work with DOGE and OMB to figure it out.
Delete12-18 months. Even now I read that the administration is touting July 4, 2026 as the day by which they want to see $1 trillion in spending cuts.
Better yet, give the departments the budget they spent in 2015 - $2 trillion less than current. It isn't like the federal government was starved for resources ten years ago.
Bionic,
DeleteYes exactly. The GOP is in charge with renewed fervor to slash the budget and drain the swamp, and yet they propose increased budgets...
It's so frustrating. I think there definitely are some wins occurring too. It's not exactly business as usual. Still glad I voted for Trump, but I am worried to see what comes of his Gaza plan. And worried to see if "anti-Semitic" content or any criticism of Jews or Israel online becomes a criminal offense.
The switch from Bill Gates to Elon Musk as our nation's billionaire mascot makes me think of a genius quote I saw on X recently that went like this:
ReplyDelete"The bait and switch from "We're overpopulated, so please stop having kids!" to "We need a billion Americans, but you aren't having kids, so we'll just import a billion brown people from third world countries" is one of the most sinister things I've seen in my lifetime." - Cordial Russian Bot
It's almost like the goal of environmentalism was never to reduce the population of earth but just to reduce the population of white Christians and their culture of resistance to tyranny.
I remember just this past Christmas Elon was calling us all "subtards" for not wanting to be replaced by a hoard of H1B Indians he supposedly needs to get us to Mars. Of all the misguided vainglorious pursuits this one has to be the most absurd.
I do think you are right though. The American elites needed to regain the trust of the American people, because all power rests to some degree on the consent of those who support it from below (even in monarchies). If enough people stop lifting the tyrant up, he will fall of his own weight. And this is precisely what was happening post-Covid in the US. Trust in the regime's mouthpieces are rock bottoming and for good reason. Dave Smith humiliated Chris Cuomo on the PBD podcast. The Covid narrative has cratered.
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." - Etienne de La Boetie stated in his "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude"
Where we go from here I do not know, but one thing is for sure. The most pro-Israel administration in history is not going to give us the real Epstein files which likely show that Epstein's Island was a Mossad intel op extorting powerful Western politicians with a fetish for raping jail-bait teens.
The Epstein files...likely just as explosive as would be revealing the truth about nine 11...or JFK (for which we may now be told there were two gunman but nothing more).
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