[EnergyUnlimited]

This video is brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1hnEzoVpHeA

[EnergyUnlimited]

There is a proposal of $250 bill with Trump on it - as the most valuable president.
https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/26/us-lawm ... umps-face/
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-2 ... al-2036325
I am getting concerned about mental health of American president.
Developing events are resembling stories with inept emperor and crafty yes-men glorifying how great and intelligent he is - to secure favors and personal profits.
He has also said today that "European Union was formed to screw America".
https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump ... s-13317606
United States are becoming to be a sad farce - and I don't say it maliciously.
I just observe with much disbelief what is actually going on.

[careinke]

At least we can interact with this President, unlike whoever was running the last term of the "Censorship, Steal, and Lie Executive."

Peace

[theluckycountry]

Trump, is the one. The prophecy must be fulfilled



Quotes from the movie:

On American politics- "Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without"
Of Trump, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg- "What do all men with power want? More power"
Of the average voter- "I don't like the idea that I’m not in control of my life"
Where most people stumble- "Remember... all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more"

Of course by the 3rd movie in the franchise we discover that the "One" was not meant to solve anything. He was just part of another system of control. To bring the whole matrix rebellion to a head and precipitate the destruction of Zion. Of course later there came the 4th in the franchise, a WOKE matrix where Neo and Trinity are trapped in a delusion but where Trinity is now "The One"

It's an endless jerk circle and the pods stay full of comatose consumers providing the energy to run the big machine. Very apt that part, since it's all about Energy isn't it. The Energy of oil for us, but for the rest of recorded history, the Energy of Slaves basically. What was the difference between a Negro slave on a plantation and a dirt poor subsistence farmer in the wastelands of America. Very little aside from the illusion that one was free.

Paid Retirement? Enjoy it while and if you can, because it's going away with all the other oil powered stuff.

[Newfie]

I AM enjoying retirement, very much thank you. At 74 I am on my 9th year.

Canceled my Netflix subscription. I hust watch the news instead.

A bit more seriously I think by June there will be a substantial back lash and the tide will change as the Congress Critters figure out that Trump association is hurtful to re-election chances.

Ot will take that long for those in the middle not paying attention to get adequately riled.

My best guess.

[EnergyUnlimited]

@Newfie,
I am not sure.
You are perhaps used to old ways of doing American politics.
IMO these are gone.
Trump will assemble crowds of yes-men and won't relent.
Critters you mention will be fished out and dealt with in most brutal way if necessary.
And if Trump is openly challenged you may see anything, including deployment of US Army against rebels/rebel states.
Idiocracy is a fun to watch from far away but it can also be very dangerous.

Western world as we know it have ceased to exist, blown up by United States.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'I') AM enjoying retirement, very much thank you. At 74 I am on my 9th year.

Canceled my Netflix subscription. I hust watch the news instead.

A bit more seriously I think by June there will be a substantial back lash and the tide will change as the Congress Critters figure out that Trump association is hurtful to re-election chances.

Ot will take that long for those in the middle not paying attention to get adequately riled.
My best guess.

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '[')b]Western world as we know it have ceased to exist, blown up by United States.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '[')b]Western world as we know it have ceased to exist, blown up by United States.

[Newfie]

Carinke,

I see it a bit different.

I agree with your assessment about the pendulum swinging right. And the Dam Dems are blind and dead to it. OTOH what we have, MAGA, is not really either traditional R or Conservative. It is the doppelgänger of the Loonie Left. And I don’t think that is what people want either.

I see this past election as “The Great Repudiation” where significant portions of the population were fed up with BOTH traditional parties, and Trump just happened to fall into this.

Most people, IMHO, voted for thr guy they remembered in the first term. Trump had an opportunity to create a new party and set the country on a new direction. But it is clear that is not within his capabilities. I personally don’t see him as the Great Satan. My observation is that in these last 4 years he has had a significant mental decline with 2 characteristics. First he is suffering dementia. It is clear his memory slipping badly, One notable recent example is he called the previous President who signed a trade deal with Mexico and Canada an “Idiot.” That idiot was himself. I find it hard to lay that off to trolling. Secondly he has delusions, quoting Bonaparte and styling himself as a Royal, having toadies enter a bill for his third term, etc. etc. That is not what people voted for or expected. Nor is that a pendulum swing. I believe his chaos, if not his policies, will cause a 2008 style economic crash, or worse.

IF I am right I think you will see sign by the end of summer. Then people will turn on him, he is not a sympathetic character and will get as good as he got. What will come of this I can not predict.

I do think we have a huge sucking political vacume and someone will jump on that as an opposition leader. Much will depend upon the quality of that person.

Enough of my thoughts. My guesses are seldom correct which is why I use a money manager. All that is sure is that we live in interesting times and we both see to be in relatively safe spaces.

[theluckycountry]

It's a nationalist authoritarian government, they are springing up all over the world just like in the 1930's. In that sense EnergyUnlimited is right, you probably haven't seen anything yet! But the funding is the key. America needs to default on it's debt if it hopes to go forward much further. If it doesn't it will be broke like Britain was coming into WWI and WWII. People assume they can just print money, but that leads to hyper inflation. No, they still have to flog the debt to get their operating costs and that means crippling interest payments now. They are boxed in.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '
')Most people, IMHO, voted for thr guy they remembered in the first term.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'I')t's a nationalist authoritarian government, they are springing up all over the world just like in the 1930's. In that sense EnergyUnlimited is right, you probably haven't seen anything yet! But the funding is the key. America needs to default on it's debt if it hopes to go forward much further. If it doesn't it will be broke like Britain was coming into WWI and WWII. People assume they can just print money, but that leads to hyper inflation. No, they still have to flog the debt to get their operating costs and that means crippling interest payments now. They are boxed in.

[theluckycountry]

Hitler had big backers, the corporations, even American corporations operating there, were behind him. They wanted profits and he delivered. The Vatican was behind him and that's more important than many would believe. Also bankers.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')erman financial operations worldwide were facilitated by banks such as the Bank for International Settlements, Chase and Morgan, and Union Banking Corporation. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. acted for German tycoon Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler's rise to power.

[theluckycountry]

Fat, Black and privileged



congresswoman Hit With Federal Charges Over Clash At ICE Detention Facility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYF0wTbG9Ug&t=60s

Oink Oink

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'I') AM enjoying retirement, very much thank you. At 74 I am on my 9th year.

Canceled my Netflix subscription. I hust watch the news instead.

A bit more seriously I think by June there will be a substantial back lash and the tide will change as the Congress Critters figure out that Trump association is hurtful to re-election chances.

Ot will take that long for those in the middle not paying attention to get adequately riled.

My best guess.

[theluckycountry]

Sick in the head Leftists travel to Egypt to do a publicity march to the Gaza border. They didn't even get out of Cairo. They pulled a "sit in" stunt and were beaten by angry Egyptians
arrested, then promptly deported.

A pleasure to watch.
https://x.com/l3v1at4an/status/1933677331937181878

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... sted-egypt

[theluckycountry]

Drug addled Boomer yuppies and a variety of other devil worshipers get another taste of mother nature at the recent burning man festival out on the dusty plains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0QH4_qOmSU
If you just want to see the sexy girl dancing, 7:40s

[AgentR11]

The desert is, if anything, unpredictable, but usually unpredictably unfun. Sandstorm followed by a good blob of rain. Welcome to the mudpit. It won't stop raining here either, but at least we didn't have any of the 100F+ days in August. That was nice.

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'Y')our guess has not panned out so well, care to make another?