Note: Last night Paul and I talked about what it means to be a dissident and why the people we call the left believe the weird things they do. Watch here.
Most of the week has been talk about the “Big Beautiful Bill” that is winding its way through the gauntlet that is Congress. The hold up, as is always the case, is the Republicans are devoting their time to how best to use this opportunity to screw over their own voters. To be a Republican means looking for opportunities to remind your voters that the political system is hopeless. It is now looking like the Republican Senate will hand their president a major loss.
While many of the oligarchs have swung to the side of angels, the donor class in general remains locked into the old nation wrecking model where both parties are focused on undermining and destroying the majority population. The cultural atmosphere in Washington is radioactively hostile to the average American. The broad support for Trump and his policies is simply seen as proof that the people opposing Trump are the good guys in this long twilight struggle.
At some point, the effort will shift to peeling off some Democrats in the Senate to get the votes for the bill, which means giving even more away to the forces of darkness than was already in the bill. The end result will be something that has a few crumbs for the majority and mountains of stuff for the bad guys. The result of the “sausage maker” that is Congress will be a mighty turd sandwich with those few crumbs for the majority sprinkled on top like sesame seeds.
In fairness, some of those crumbs are good crumbs. There is $46 billion to build the wall Trump promised a decade ago. Given how incensed both parties were over this idea when it was proposed, this should be viewed as progress. There is a bunch of money in the bill to expand the forces and facilities needed to expel the invaders. The claim is that the additional resources will let the government expel up to one million invaders every year, not including the people nabbed at the border.
That is one of the many lies Washington has fed us over the years. They claimed that every year one to two million people were deported, when the number was actually around three hundred thousand. The additional million or so were people refused at the border for any reason. If Boobingo from Ghana did not have the right stamp on his passport and was rejected at the airport in Ghana, then that was counted in the deportation numbers.
There are tax cuts that actually favor people who work for a living. There is the “no tax on tips” change, which is a big deal. It also rolls back the reporting requirements from services like PayPal. Currently, if you get more than $600 through PayPal, you get a 1099 and then it is up to you to prove to the IRS that the money sent to you from a friend was not income. The “gig economy”, people who make money a few bucks at a time, will get serious tax relief.
One thing not mentioned in the media, because it requires a high school education to understand, is the planned rollback of energy regulations. The point of these changes is to allow the administration to kill off the Gaia nonsense in the energy sector to pave the way for new energy production. In one of his pressers, Trump casually mentioned the goal to add 400 GW from nuclear by 2050. That would mean quadrupling the amount of electric we get from nuclear power.
Along with the immigration measures in the bill, this is where you get a hint of what is vexing the oligarchs who are backing Trump. They look at AI and see the cubicle farms in their businesses being filled by robots instead of humans. That means they will need vastly more electricity than they currently have, and it means they need to find something to keep these unemployed people busy. The army of Indians stashed around the country will have to go back.
It is a bit ironic, in a way, as for decades people have argued that we do not need more people as automation is reducing the value of labor. Normal people in the regular world could see it, but the oligarchs did not see it. Instead, they saw the need for armies of Hindus to cheaply write code and administer the vast financial skimming models used by the financial sector. With AI, they can now see what automation means in their lives, so they are swinging around to the moral position.
Of course, the fact that even with oligarch support this bill is struggling speaks to the problems of the political system. The massive amounts of new spending and the failure to include the savings found by DOGE is a good reminder that the system cannot be reformed though the normal means. It will take a fiscal crisis and then emergency powers to fix the government’s finances. Most likely it will require a Robespierre to pave the way for genuine reform.
In the end, despite the Republican perfidy and conservative cuckery, the existence of this bill hints that some powerful people are serious about avoiding disaster. It is one of those tiny steps in the sane direction on some issues that will either be viewed as too little too late or the start of the great reordering. Of course, either way, there will be a great reordering no matter what. The question that hangs over all of this is whether it comes by the pen or by the sword.
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The level of betrayal to average Americans is off the charts. Of course we get some things we always wanted but too late in the long run. Did I hear right, a trillion for defense?
Elon will always be alright but even he has to feel mightily used after all of this.
Sure, tell me one more time the old quote that there is much ruin in a nation.
How else will we defend Israel, counter Russian aggression and make war with China if we don’t increase defense spending? If anything the Senate will probably add money to the defense budget. As if there is an actual budget, ha ha.
We live in an Empire, don’t you know. This isn’t Lithuania and I don’t work in an office in Kaunas.
My neighbors are from India, Puerto Rico, and Vietnam. My boss is Nigerian. I have friends and family who voted for Biden and Kamala.
We should temper expectations. We are never going to get 100 or even 50% of what we want. The fact that Z doesn’t absolutely hate the BBB, and neither do a lot of New Right content creators, means that it’s as good as we could possibly get.
For better or worse, Trump is my barometer. If he signs off on it, that means it’s okay. Otherwise, he would go nuclear and it would be fairly easy to crush Republican opposition because nobody likes them. They have no base.
You’re very trusting, Nick. Remember when he was going to cut the military budget in half?
Well, he hasn’t started any wars. I’m sure the powers that bee will fix all that once he’s gone.
He hasn’t started any wars? He’s done worse than that: he’s continued and energised wars he was elected to stop. And there’s no guarantee with this buffoon that he won’t do something extremely stupid with Iran.
Don’t forget we are currently on track to do something stupid with China and we just did something very stupid with Russia.
We are well on our way to a multi-front WW3 and potential nuclear holocaust.
Some careful detente with Russia over the past few years would have reaped large gains. Cooperation is better for everybody except the MIC and corporations like Blackrock.
Cooperation — including freezing out China — might actually aid the American citizenry!
But no.
Instead we pretend they’re the Bad Guys and our globohomo agenda is righteous, it’s all so tiresome.
The fact is that the U.S. is essentially ungovernable, which is why the elites are looting it instead of trying to govern it in the classical/Aristotelian sense of being the “best citizen,” creating the “best regime,” and all of that. It’s not a bunch of pre-industrial white Protestants any more, scattered across thirteen or twenty or even 48 states with a handful of Negroes and Indians to deal with on the margins. It’s literally impossible to govern by “the will of the people” because we have imported so many foreigners and created so many identity groups it isn’t one people… Read more »
It’s a bullshit bill and should be killed. Musk was played for a fool.
Trump is returning to his true form, that is a hapless blowhard.
The point of the exercise is to get what we can from the GOP while destroying them in the process.
1 trillion bucks is exactly the interest we pay to service the national debt. They seem to like that number.
Just skimmed a YT video where the guy correctly notes the “big beautiful bill” contains lots of crap but – as Zman says – a few good crumbs. Take the tax cuts (the only thing Congress ever passes with a preset sunset clause) and put you and your family first. No, they aren’t ‘good’ for the overall economic ‘health’ of AINO, but f**k AINO. Trump and most dems want to raise the debt limit by $3 trillion over the next decade. In ten years’ time, the total debt plus interest will be over $75 trillion. AINO is toast. Just prepare… Read more »
This ^^^. Right on the money. This is all I am interested in now and have been for a while. There is no saving AINO. Just waiting for the fires and the brown hoards to chimp out. Powder is dry and popcorn ready.
In the end, I expect the Senate to strip out anything even remotely related to Trump’s agenda and it just ends up being a permanent extension of the TCJA as well as codifying the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal law. In other words, all Trump can get through Congress then and now is a tax bill. As Z always mentions, you cannot expect the system to reform the system. But this will increase noticing, everyone can see just how perfidious, anti-White, and anti-American the Republican Party is. It seems they are still just trying to wait out Trump, which… Read more »
Yeah, we’re at a point in our history where we’ve got the anti-white Republican Party and the anti-anti-anti anti anti anti white Democrat party.
Makes sense. I’d note that the Dem’s forever considered the Blacks to be in their thrall—where else are/were they to go? Now that Blacks and other minorities are targeted by the Rep’s, the Whites are in the same position via a vis the Rep’s. Where are we to go? That’s what happens when the demographics change and Whites are just another minority among minorities. It will inevitably become worse.
It would be nice if a genuine populist “restoration” party could be built as the GOP dies and the Democrats become even more insane. The idea would be to rally the 3.5 original ethnies (Whites, Blacks, Native Americans, and then the 0.5 is some of the Spanish speakers who were part of the Old West). The rallying would be around a core of populist issues, basically, re-industrialization, isolationism, nationalism, and a rejection of QWERTY ideology. You know, a party that would actually take the side of the vast majority of actual normal, heterosexual people living in this country instead of… Read more »
Minor nitpick: “anti anti” is a double negative amounting to a positive, so while I agree with your intended characterization of the Democrats, you’ll want to be sure you end up with an odd number of anti’s. I count only six.
I was just on a rant and trying to be emphatic, but I get where you’re coming from.
Ah, you beat me to it, Corky.
One party is America Last and the other one is Israel First.
The whole system needs to die horribly.
Would love to agree with you, but the cuckservative movement isn’t totally dead as long as any Boomers . . . and Charlie Kirk et al . . . remain among the living.
Conservatism has been a shambling zombie since Trump came down the escalator. It’s why so many cons have unmasked themselves as being just liberals, and also why so many liberals have thrown in with the deep state and endless war.
It exists in the sense that there are magazines that pump out stuff and get donors and have conferences and politicians who self-identify as conservatives but it’s a dead force.
If you do the numbers, 1,000,000/year isn’t even treading water. It’s just sinking more slowly. Which, now that I think of it, is classic Republican Party.
Ouch.
This. People just don’t comprehend the real numbers. I still see idiots claiming AINO is 70% White.
There’s likely 80-100m illegal alien invaders here. There was never going to be a legit way to remove them. Anyone who believed it was a fool. AINO is finished.
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is proof that this country is dead. The system will collapse, either from its corrupt, fetid bloated weight of so many beaks looking to get wet, or from a populace that finally realized that new leaders and a new system are needed for proper and moral governance. Our system is like the old tale of the Taco Bell that was infested by vermin to a degree that the franchisee realized it’d be cheaper to tear down the structure and build a new one than exterminate the vermin living and breeding in his restaurant. One way or… Read more »
Yep. Trump was the last hope that a single POTUS can turn things around. After only 5 months we can see that he not only failed but didn’t even try. The US and collective West is beyond political, economic and social reform and will be “cured” by disintegration and collapse.
He was never going to turn things around. At best all he was going to do was stanch the bleeding temporarily and be a placeholder for whoever really does change the system in the future.
One of the many things Trump has not adequately explained about what he’s doing and why is that many of his moves (especially DOGE and the tariffs) have been directed at taking on the deficits that the country has casually run for decades and preventing a “debt death spiral”. Perhaps he hasn’t talked about this because there’s a lot of Maff involved and Merkans are notoriously bad at Maff so he went with his usual razzle-dazzle and showmanship approach. Just for shits and giggles I made a little computer model in a spreadsheet starting with a debt of $35T (roughly… Read more »
Speaking of a reordering, the Republican Vice President just openly insulted National Review. Which was fitting the day after John Fund wrote “The Conservative Case for Harvey Milk” for them. Yet the GOP establishment still trudges on thinking the Trump era will end and they will return to their rightful place atop the party.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1930059772872495237
We’re approaching a time when National Review will write “The Conservative Case for Putting Conservatives in Camps.”
According to the comments, Fund’s defense of Milk was that he supported Barry Goldwater and once opposed a tax increase in San Francisco. If Fund is willing to put his name to that, I would say there isn’t anything he could be told to write that he would refuse.NR editors would love to have their former readers replaced by third worlders.
How remarkable is it that battles over issues 60 years ago still serve as templates in the minds of people like Fund as relevant to the current historical context. Goldwater was dealing with problems that no longer exist, answers to which are useless in our own time, and he would probably be the first to say so, as he was a furniture salesman with little philosophical or historical bent. These clowns have gummed up conservatism for 40 years with their inane hero worship. Totally impractical fools.
That’s basically correct. Goldwater and the USSR and San FranCrisco tax rates mean nothing now. Perversion, depravity and abnormality, which are what Harvey Milk symbolizes, lie at the heart of the war against Western civilization. Fund, National Review and conservatives ride with the savages massing at the gates, and they have been for about 20 years now.
Yea, Fund’s message is that Milk is basically just Reagan with a rent boy, and who cares about the rent boy? What Fund never grapples with, and what they never grapple with whenever they talk about how MLK Jr. was actually conservative, is if this is the case, then why are they liberal heroes? Liberals mostly hate Goldwater and Reagan, so if Milk was a conservative hero like they were, then why don’t they hate him?
It just shows how intellectually bankrupt this whole con movement is.
Joke’s on them. Third Worlders don’t read.
Goldwater was 1/4 Jewish, pro-fag and pro-abortion. And he’s been a “conservative” Republican icon for six decades, so… there ya go.
The only attention National Review gets at this point is negative so expect its clownish trolling to increase.
The Conservative Case for AOC
“The Conservative Case for Harvey Milk”
Saw you mention this and okay I just had to read it. So of course it turns out that Harvey Milk was a low-tax free-market conservative! OF COURSE! This is why the Obama cabal put his name on it… to honor his conservatism and free market principles! That is why people still talk about this pervert today, because of his staunch small-business bonafides.
These people do not understand the friend-enemy distinction and never will. Or, maybe we just are actually their enemy.
I could only read the comments as the article was paywalled, I think Fund understands friend enemy well enough to consider us the enemy.
Harvey the ‘Orrible considered Genghis Khan a commie. Figured Reagan for a Hollywood pinko. People aren’t informed about that. Harv is simply misunderstood by lesser lights.
‘These people do not understand the friend-enemy distinction and never will’
Well sure they do. Somebody gets tossed outside the city walls, into the feral void, along with the dogs.
Or, maybe we just are actually their enemy.
BINGO! On their best day they are embarrassed by us.
There is the Evil Party and the Stupid Party. Guess which one is filled with the ilk of Fund.
I was a center-right Democrat until that phrase became an oxymoron and the zeitgeist made me a refusenik. Since I live in a one-party town, I try to vote for the odd (relatively) sane Dem when possible. Otherwise I tend to vote for Repub candidates. I remain an independent, though, since I’m not ready to openly admit or display anything proclaiming: I’m With Stupid.
Try and keep up, Ostei. It’s one party now: the Evil Stupid Party
I’ve concluded that National Review has been controlled opposition for decades.
I dare say the “opposition” itself has been controlled for the past 20 years.
Harvey Milk was a disgusting pederast in addition to being mentally ill. It’s an absolute disgrace that a replenishment ship was named for him to please disgusting sodomites.
The real way to handle this “problem” is to change policy back traditional naming, wherein individuals were of naval hero’s rather than political figures.
One should order a review of all current names and recommend renaming for all that do not meet traditional naming schemes. Hell, even the Soviets did this after Stalin.
You know why that logical naming system (SSBNs replaced BBs for state names) went by the wayside? Politics.
Admiral Hyman Rickover said “fish don’t vote” when he started the practice of naming submarines after congresscritters that voted for his programs, like South Carolina’s Mendel Rivers.
Then came the SSN-688 class that became the Los Angeles class. The city names were intended to rope congresscritters into voting for their funding. It wasn’t offensive.
Then we stopped naming aircraft carriers after famous battles (Saratoga, Yorktown, Lexington) and famous ships (Ranger, Essex) and naming them instead after worthless politicians.
The latter proclivity is…not unknown to Harvey Milk’s tribe, which manifests itself in the former–among other behaviors. My kind has its allotment of socio- and psychopaths, but ours tend toward violent “nationalism” rather than deviant conduct, financial chicanery, “aesthetic” nihilism or political intrigue.
True, but the worst thing about Milk is that he let his dumbass get shot, giving the world DiFi.
This is a very cogent take on the situation. A reasonable retort is that the BBB keeps spending at $7 trillion per year when the FedGov budget was $5T pre-Covid. Does anyone here think the Federal government was too small in 2019 at $5T? Yes there are some nice Easter eggs in the BBB, like the border wall and the “no tax on tips” Zman refers to, but overall, it keeps us marching to bankruptcy. Sadly, our choice seems to be to choose bankruptcy overrun by cholos or bankruptcy ruled by AI, H1B pajeets and feral Somalis. I pray we… Read more »
The BBB is like Trump 2.0 in general: a few crumbs for the MAGA peasants and big payouts for the scummy donor class.
Long before we reach Robespierre Time, the point of doing so will have evaporated. What’s to save? Why should I need to keep it, since what is kept has been so adulterated, to paraphrase from “Gerontion?” We all know how this is going to end. Demographically, the writing is on the wall.
The question that hangs over all of this is whether it comes by the pen or by the sword.
My vote is the sword. I am not aware of any empire in history on a downward trajectory reversed by administrative changes. But there was a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth on the way down. At least a good old-fashioned Pinochet-style house cleaning might at least provide some chance of some possible future for our people. Low chance, but at least there’s a chance. The alternative is the boot stamping on our face forever.
I really do wish this would happen. I don’t think too many of them need to hang from lampposts. Find about a half dozen people that can be your Ceaușescus and make examples out of them. That would be a good start.
Naw, start with about 3 million. Or even double that. But oh noes, that would be the sacred number. I’ll settle for 5 million as a good start.
I think you spent too much time in the Balkans. Now you’re thinking like we do. 🙂
Chuck, er I mean Luigi, Mangione cleaned one dusty corner. With enough like him repetitively sweeping away, we could make the house presentable. It takes a village to clean house or something.
I’m a former skydiver and still own two rigs. I would be honored to videotape those Pinocheted on their way down from the helicopters to a Chilean landing. Americans could kick back with a Russian Valley Pinot and watch justice administer with high entertainment value. Happy to oblige.
I’m for that in theory, but in reality it’s never very neat and tidy and predictable. When it comes to that the goons in charge are going to fuck up anyone they don’t like and that would be people like us as well as the lefties. How many people here are cops or soldiers right now? When the SHTF you’re either wearing their uniform or you’re not. I met a dude from Croatia once who had emigrated here. During the unpleasantness of the 1990s he had to go back for some family matters and was promptly arrested and the cops… Read more »
“There is $46 billion to build the wall Trump promised a decade ago”
It costs 46 billion to build a wall? Jesus Christ
Isn’t that close to the entire cost of the Russian military budget? A thought occurred to me yesterday. Ukraine is like the American stock market. Without government support, both would be much smaller then they currently are! 😉
There is no way the Indian oligarchs in silicon Valley and Wall Street will allow the Indians to be sent back home or for H1B to die. They, unlike Whites, are loyal to their people.
There are a lot of very intelligent people working within the dissident community and many of them are speaking out on the various platforms accorded by the internet, e.g. blogs, podcasts, messaging apps like X/Gab, and email. Almost all of this activity is directed at revelation and analysis, often accompanied by prognostication. A day will come when this resource must be redirected toward solutions rather than endless study. At minimum, that would include contingency planning. You can train yourself to make this transition efficiently. We prevail with our intelligent first.
As long as they can print as many Weimar dollars as they want, we’ll be fine. Of course, a hamburger at Wendy’s might be $25 and minimum wage at $45 an hour, but people are too stupid to hold them to account.
There will be an inevitable collapse as the inflation accelerates. Your Weimar comparison is incomplete/inaccurate. The situation in Weimar Germany was so off the rails that there are pictures of wheelbarrows full of money and reports of companies paying workers at *noon* so they could take off and buy food before the afternoon price rises. Of course, we now have digital currency so wheelbarrows are unnecessary. However, there are any number of modern examples of hyperinflation—such as Argentina/Zimbabwe—where the system is so perturbed as to be unworkable with their own currency as a mechanism of exchange among the populace. I… Read more »
The Argentinians were hot to get their hands on dollars because of the worthlessness of their own currency.
The lesson of history seems to be invest in wheelbarrows
When a burger costs $25, which it already does at any place that employs white people who aren’t on parole, the minimum wage will be the same as it is today. The Republican Party’s role in the economic show is to make you believe that wages and inflation are correlated, and to ensure that they’re not. They’ve trained us to get excited at news of the government not taxing something. Taxes come from people, not from things. Who is paid in tips? Not young white fathers. Not you. Do sommeliers vote Republican? Do strippers? Of course not. And they never… Read more »
Well, look on the bright side, Hemid. All those waitresses will now be able to afford many more facial piercings and tatts…
Elected republicans are fools and greedy. Their perfect society is made up of sub-minimum wage serfs making products and services dirt cheap to be sold dearly to the people of the country. They can’t seem to grok that workers who make nothing can’t afford their over-priced crap. If they get their way consumerism dies because everyone is on subsistence wages. No ownership, no buying except bare necessities and a lot of anarchy. They think they’ll be fine but eventually the favelas will come for them.
I found some boneless ribeyes marked down to $11.71 a pound yesterday and snapped them up. If you had suggested that to me two years ago I would have called you isane. I think I last got my younger kid Wendy’s fries in 2022.
You eat ribeyes?
I shot three deer last fall.
I’m sure she meant deer ribeyes…
BBB also stands for, “Build Back Better.”
Gotta love the Golden Don’s penchant for trolling.
“There is $46 billion to build the wall Trump promised a decade ago. Given how incensed both parties were over this idea when it was proposed, this should be viewed as progress. ” Should it? When Trump 1 took office, the estimated cost was in single digits—$8-12B. The CBO estimated the cost at double that, $24B. Trump 1 completed about 500miles of new wall. Now Trump 2 wants, or will be allocated, $46B to finish less wall! This is progress? My suspicion is that this is less progress than “pork”. The entire bill is a farce with some “peanuts” thrown in to placate the rubes—but even… Read more »
You forget that Biden tore down the Trump wall and other border fencing out of spite. IIRC, they even donated the scrap to some degenerate cause.
To our point, yes, is 99% of the usual bullshit, but normally it is 110% of the usual bullshit. Hence my line about these crumbs being the sesame seeds decorating the turd sandwich.
For all their intellectual shortcomings, blacks long ago accepted the most Democrats would provide them amounted to crumbs. Whites are delusional if they think the GOP even would be that generous. Give it nothing and take the sparse crumbs, peasants. That is the best the system will be able to offer until it goes tits up in the near future.
An informative piece and nothing wrong with pointing out positives, even in a rathole like D.C. We gotta remember that they are mere employees, but not OUR employees as we were taught and so goofily assumed. Business-as-usual tho, be not hypnotized by the whirling wheels. Goddess Columbia’s District stills hates my guts and those of my brethren, for our offense of existing while male, while white even! but especially for being Christian — their enemy-religion. I contend for God’s holy patriarchy and they are retrograde minions of Mother Right, to ripoff the wonderful philologist J.J. Bachofen. I’ll admit it was… Read more »
Interesting the Trump / Musk feud went nuclear in about half a day. Trump musing about canceling the contracts with Space X, and Musk saying that Trump is in the Epstein files and that’s the reason they will never be public. Along with Musk threatening to start a new political party that would hand control of Congress to the Democrats easily.
It looks like the Trump Admin is now over. Get ready for President Jeffries.
Has he called Elon a loser yet?
No, but they’ll undoubtedly be “hell to pay” and Musk is “going crazy”
Trump is looking at Elon very carefully.
he said elon had “worn thin” and had been asked to leave. which musk said was a lie.
I too am “in the Epstein files,” if they’re thorough. We know some of the same people.
Elon is just high and stupid and saying he’ll do things he won’t do—he never does anything—just like always.
And Trump has never been president.
Fun day!
But will the army of Indian cube warmers be sent home? Or, will the empire horse trade their remittance payments for India staying onside as a geopolitical counterweight to China? The modus operandi of the utterly bizarre GAE to this point has been to choose destroying the empire they are running by giving it away to its supposed clients. When Zhongdong, Shankar, Ismael, Doron, Srinivas and Zhingyi are no longer interviewing Americans for jobs at American companies I will believe it. Moreover, will they go back home if or when the jobs are gone? From a DFW suburb or a… Read more »
There is zero chance the Indians will be sent home. Some may go voluntarily but that will be it.
I always say, “Ask them.” Or, look what they’re saying. (Nobody should talk to any of them.)
No Indian will leave the West voluntarily. They consider their presence here—their knowingly unwelcome and destructive presence—a racial crusade.
Which is to say, they’ve fully accepted the terms they’ve been offered by our governments and businesses. Look what they say.
“This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto” by Suketu Mehta, 2019.
The first rule of U.S. Immigration policy is that virtually no one ever goes home.
This Scheiss stinks. The money managers all stink. The state and federal governments always have been and will always be the enemy of the people. The skim is skimmed off the citizens. Blank them and the BBB they road in on. Caning should always preclude any punishments but I seriously doubt anyone will ever be held accountable for anything. Ever.
“This Scheiss stinks.”
Problem fundamentally is, “Nobody thinks their own farts stink!”
I’m sure they like their own brand. Me, not so much.
Non-American here: why is this all in one bill? Seems to be begging for everyone to add his own pork in order to pass it. Why not a hundred bills each debated on their merits? That way each politician could be judged by how they voted on immigration enforcement, military industrial complex to the moon, etc.
That’s the point, so that The Blob’s entire wish list can be enacted without pushback or debate. Moreover, breaking it up into smaller bills would require congress critters to spend time doing their jobs, which would interfere with their primary activity, fundraising.
Echoes of the degeneracy and laziness of the Roman Senate in the late republic. Early emperors would offer them responsibilities but they’d refuse, preferring to complain from the sidelines. Later emperors ignored them completely.
I thought Sen. Johnson made a reasonable point. The feds are basically continuing Covid era spending years after the pandemic ended. Congress should go through the BBB line-by-line and remove or modify the programs that are wasteful or absurd (with the DOGE info handy) until the spending is reduced to something within reason. That would also mean that they would actually read the bill. Congresswoman MTG was shocked to learn that a ban on state regulation of AI was in the bill. It was pointed out to her that, had she read the bill, she would not have been shocked.… Read more »
No current Congressman or Senator has every read any bill voted for or against. The bills themselves are generally unreadable anyway.
ha ha, yeah, all the folks complaining about how the bills are never read should give it a try sometime
That is what they get paid for though. Plumbing can be tough but we still expect plumbers to do it.
Perhaps their staffers could give them the Cliff Notes version?
The BBB for idiots?
Senator Johnson has made many reasonable, sound points in recent years.
The trouble is that we no longer live in a reasonable society.
The show will go on as long as the bond market lets it. Granted, we’re already seeing a few cracks. Whether those will be contained or grow is anyone’s guess, but demanding that the bond market absorb ~$9 trillion a year in US govt debt ($2 trillion deficit, $7 trillion rollover debt) is asking a lot. It was ~$6 trillion just a few years ago.
Can a govt survive paying a third of its revenue in interest payments? What if that goes to 40%? The odds aren’t good, but when the day of reckoning arrives is unknowable.
And the longer it goes on the bigger the nuclear explosion when it all crashes.
When is unknown. Imminence is. That’s the day propaganda outlets report that what is happening isn’t reeeaaally a default, or. in the alternative, “assskually, default isn’t such a bad thing.”
There is unlikely to be a sudden, total default. There will be a little bit of defaulting here, and a little bit of defaulting there. Probably hardly anyone will notice at first. Maybe there will be an article about it on Zerohedge. Arguably this has already happened (just a teeny bit).
I’m sticking with the 2030-2035 range I’ve seen mentioned in a number of places the past few years. Even with the financial legerdemain – the debt + interest is unsustainable.
It is at least educational to watch, in real time, the greatest experiment in deficit spending in world history. Complete with markets that allow you to place your bets as to whether, how, and when it will become “unsustainable.” But it’s difficult at best, and foolish at worst, to bet against a rigged market. As Soros told David Rogers Webb, author of The Great Taking, “you don’t know what they can do.” Even someone as well placed as Jaime Dimon, when predicting a bond market blowup, doesn’t know if it’s in six months or six years. Or if he does… Read more »
zman you gotta comment on what’s going on between trump and musk!! this is unprecedented (at least since the civil war). if anyone can launch a new political party, it’s musk. trump is coming off as more deranged than biden…
Buncha carny folk and clowns. Some Bastilles need storming.
If not a Robespierre, perhaps a Louis Napoleon.
At this point i’d take plain old Napoleon, I can picture him turning the cannons on the woke as we speak 😉
“A whiff of grapeshot”
If the CBO was an accounting firm making financial projections for the private sector they’d have gone out of business July 13, 1974.
Ho Ree Chit (Korean). I didn’t believe Elon would pull a Fredo Corleone:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022
While not a surprise, I had thought he’d keep his mouth shut. And John Roberts?
As a fellow Xer, I’m with Elon.
I just hope he has his own Iron Man suit. Or scarier people than Erik Prince on speed dial and a huge retainer.
Things must be even worse then we here think:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anonymous-biden-staffers-go-scorched-earth-after-incompetent-karine-jean-pierre-defects
It is becoming more obvious by the day that A) the Anti-federalists were correct, B) that any form of democracy will devolve to vote-buying by the richest lobbyists, and, C) – that ultimately, Hoppe is correct (Democracy: The God that Failed). As long as office holders are willing to give-away our future to get elected and re-elected, the popular vote will be deleterious to a free and prosperous future. A hereditary monarchy, OTOH, with a family doing its best to preserve the nation’s natural and man-made capital – and with a much longer time horizon than the next election, one… Read more »
I just saw this tweet from some congressman named Brandon Gill. Mass migration is this generation’s single most pressing issue.By bypassing the Senate’s 60 vote threshold, OBBB gives Republicans unprecedented border security and deportation funding WITHOUT negotiating with Democrats, who invariably demand amnesty.That alone is the win of the century.What are we getting?– Full construction of the border wall– 900 miles of river barriers– Upgraded technology to detect smugglers and drug traffickers– Billions of dollars for Border Patrol– 10,000 new ICE agents– Detention capacity for at least 100,000 aliens per day– $20 billion for the Coast Guard to help secure… Read more »
Because the BBB is a reconciliation bill. That’s the only way to pass something like this in the Senate with only 50 votes, not 60. The rescissions will come after. Most of the criticism of this bill from “the right” is extremely disingenuous.
“Emergency powers”
Sulla Felix, pray for us.
I don’t know if there will be a re-ordering. Yes the Oligarchs are serious, and they view the burgeoning “Democracy” of the ever expanding Managerial bureaucracy as a direct threat because it is a direct threat. BACKERS of the Dems got the same treatment Musk got from Trump. The back of the hand: Ackman, Marc Andreesen, Zuck, Bezos, etc. The GOP can’t and won’t rein in the bureaucracy (that was what DOGE was all about) because they ARE the bureaucracy. Mitch, Thune, Cornyn, all the rest are the swamp. Their friends, cronies, backers, are all the Managerial swamp that aims… Read more »
Disclaimer: I oppose this huge state spending. Starve the beast. That said, I suspect the spend-fest will have less immediate impact on the dollar than many predict. It can’t be likened to either Weimar nor Zimbabwe – in those cases the regimes had debt problems denominated in something other than their own currency. Weimar printed marks to buy reparation gold. Zimbabwe owed in dollats IIRC, or backed their scrip with a fixed, known supply of dollars that made the value math easy. I look at recent price rises, especially during Covid, and supply constraints make more sense as an explanation,… Read more »
Egg prices rising is due to the hype of the chicken flu, and the deliberate slaughter of tens of thousands of chickens. Not happening in Canada and Mexico, fwiw. Housing supply is the biggest in five years and there are far more sellers than buyers. And overall house prices are not dropping. Demand cannot be sustained when people are broke/bankrupt. The only ones who profit are the bankers . . . and the repo man.
The Musk / Trump feud is due to the deficit spending. It would never change and can never change because the Uniparty will not allow it. Courts will not allow it. Press will not allow it. Permanent Bureaucracy will not allow it. Trump probably did not know about the CIA blowing up Russia’s nuclear bombers, he does not have real power. Even Democratic Presidents not senile don’t have real power. If Obama had tried to stop the CIA waging War against Russia, they would have removed him. Musk is a guy who bought into rah-rah America, and reform, and thought… Read more »
“…some issues that will either be viewed as too little too late or the start of the great reordering…The question that hangs over all of this is whether it comes by the pen or by the sword.” I haven’t posted a comment since Jan. when there was a post about Trump back in office and at the time I felt bad about being still black pilled about him… And now, oh boy I’m real proud of myself for finally not being fooled on the system actually changing for the good. I’m happy that now I know for sure where all… Read more »
Based and Black Pilled.
The Sword.
AI can be used to scan these giant porkulus bills to find out what’s in them before they pass, per Nancy. So there is that. But really, Trump is a lame duck. With the margin in the House, its a race between a District Court Judge removing Trump and Vance and installing Kamala or Jasmine Crockett, and the new Dem House and Senate impeaching and convicting both and installing President Hakeem Jeffries and VP Jasmine Crockett. The “White Man” problem will be solved by the draft (taking men up to age 60 or beyond as in Ukraine) and sending them… Read more »
Don’t forget the Iranian and Chinese Fronts!
On the other hand, at the pace events are moving, we may see mass releases of canned sunshine in months, if not weeks.
The Republican party cannot be entirely blamed for its lack of spine. We’re living in a left wing dominated world that is hostile to free speech, hostile to individual initiative. To operate in the shadow of such an umbrella takes guts, and politicians as a class are not known for their moral courage. The best one can hope from the Republicans is that they get taken over and transformed by men of vision. It has to be a man, because the chances of a woman leading the charge are zero.
— Greg (my blog: http://www.dark.sport.blog)
Greg Nikolic: “the chances of a woman leading the charge are zero”
Greta’s back in the news today [apparently she’s gonna go all Joan of Arc on the j00z].
For the longest time, Greta looked like she was only about 9 years.
But suddenly, almost overnight, she’s starting to look like she’s a perimenopausal 49-year-old.
I’m very very worried about her.
On the positive side, she has finally found a cause that could at least be argued to be deserving of attention
Agreed. The climate stuff was BS. Genocide is worthier of her attention.
she has nice boobs
Do puppets have tiddies? I hadn’t considered.
Anyway I think she’ll chunk out soon. How dare I?!
Gretel is 22 now, I say she impacts the Wall at 28. Got my money on 28 come on Greta! dig into those donuts.
A common attribute of Swedish women!
Said Stevie Wonder
She slowly morphs into Angela Merkel-
She’s definitely got the square head.
One of SpongeBob’s cousins? I hear they are very absorbing.
What are the Vegas bookies giving as the odds on when she converts to Islam?
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a terrible condition, apparently a lifelong afliction. Thoughts and prayers.
What happened to her? That head squared off nicely, couple years and she’ll look like she’s 90. Although I wish her well in this endeavor.