To make a call back to the seminal 90’s TV series Babylon 5, which I expect series creator JMS, now a complete shitlib, will destroy with his reboot (Definition: “to make worse and add diversity” — H/T Kevin Smith), the Democrats have a massive hole in their strategy to destroy capital formation in the US for the foreseeable future.
This week Sen. Joe Manchin (D?-WV) personally blew up no less than five terrible taxes that were signature pieces of the ‘Build Back Better’ bill attached to this year’s budget. It was a masterful performance of standing up, being #ungovernable, and simply saying, “You know what? No.”
Now, don’t get me wrong, I fully expect Manchin to cave at some point, just like Kyrsten Sinema has on a few things. But now that Manchin has forced Democratic “leadership” to strip out everything the Progressives want, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trapped in a hedge maze of her own design.
And it left Biden going empty-handed for COP26 in Glasgow, the Climate Summit where the world’s leaders get to harangue us about our selfishness for not wanting to freeze to death in winter or, you know, eat.
He was supposed to show up with a Davos-approved plan to gut the ability of American companies to create wealth of any significance while ensuring our tax system was as much in alignment with the commies technocrats in Europe as possible.
Pelosi took her big swing yesterday at the Progressives and missed badly, daring them to vote against the bill hours after Biden bumbled his way through trying to explain why $1.75 trillion equals zero.
The vote never happened and now we have a palpable civil war within the Democratic party. And nothing could be better for the future of humanity.
The Democrats, as my partner Dexter White put it recently in our podcast, aren’t a party but rather “a coalition of the aggrieved.” Because of this there is no one policy idea that unites them
Rather they are only animated by the absence of a policy while simply aggregating all those who believe the media that it’s self-righteous to hate Republicans.
In short, the Democrats don’t stand for anything but rather are simply another victims support group.
That’s where the hole in their minds resides, when you then try to stand for something, in this case global communism run by Eurocrats from Brussels, you have no clear messaging as to what you want to achieve, other than, “burn the heretics at the stake!”. And that doesn’t really play well without looking completely insane to everyone who isn’t a “purple-haired cat lady on a cocktail of antidepressants ranting about white supremacy.”
And because of that it creates a hole not only in strategy but in conception. They have a massive blind spot thinking that the rules they’ve always known are still in place.
Pelosi only sees this in terms of her own biases — hating Republicans, besting tyrannical men, being top dog, slitting throats, etc. She’s not seeing nor caring about the bigger picture, this is all about winning the political battle because that’s all she knows.
Schumer has become a laughingstock not only within his own party but in general. He’s been exposed as such a shill for internationalist and intelligence agency forces within our government that he hasn’t sat down on a chair without a hole in it for years, lest he break the hand stuck up his ass making him speak.
Mitch McConnell has outplayed both of them in every conceivable way.
The Progressives thought they had this locked up because DNC leadership was given their marching orders from Davos which was their agenda all along. All each group had to do was virtue signal to their aggrieved supporters and the two factions would Straussian Two-Step (Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis) their way to victory.
The main problem with this is that the Democrats were arguing against themselves and forgetting about what the rest of the country actually thought about this.
It’s like they are daring us to stop them shooting themselves in the head. And this torture won’t stop until we get to the debt ceiling drop dead date in December.
And that manifested itself as two people, Manchin and Sinema, who stood up and said, “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!” These bills are not only unnecessary but they are designed to ensure 1) no Democrats in swing states/districts gets elected ever again and 2) sells the country out for an agenda that is clearly not in any American’s best interest.
You can’t run a government solely on ideological blindness, bullying and Kompromat. If you do you get what’s going on today on Capitol Hill.
Notice how dysfunctional everyone sounds.
Thursday night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, wrote a letter to fellow congressional Dems saying, “[Biden] inspired us with his vision and dazzled us with his thorough knowledge of the specifics of the Build Back Better Framework.”
Seriously Nancy? There’s a word to describe Biden today and it most certainly ain’t ‘dazzling.’ Then again, that just may be the booze goggles talking.
Moreover, you can’t stage a successful coup against a people just awake enough to see through the plans no matter how many you silence, lie about, arm-twist or just flat-out kill.
Sinema and Manchin may eventually cave here but the delays they have cost Davos in getting these bills passed, if they ever do, has been nearly as valuable as the things got forced out of them, c.f. Biden going to COP26 with his Depends in his hands.
These bills were supposed to be passed this summer. This was supposed to be over. The Fed’s narrative then was ‘inflation is transitory.’ Now only the one clinging desperately to that old chestnut is ECB President Christine Lagarde, who’s “soul searching” I’m sure has everyone in the Euro-zone comforted while they realize that for the first time in their lives they really do wish Santa would put coal in their stockings this Christmas.
Oh, who am I kidding? He won’t be allowed into Europe without a stupid vax pass.
Everyone who isn’t anyone to the Democrats is now worried about inflation. White House Press Secretary Psaki, not even smart enough to be considered a midwit, would, like an animal, rather chew her own leg off than admit any policy error, continues to try and take credit for the ‘supply chain’ breakdowns because everyone is spending again….
… well if that’s the case, Jenn, why do we need $4.5 trillion in new spending and taxes?
“Umm… yeah [begins packing up her papers] let me circle back to you on that…”
Really? How about you circle back to the hole you crawled out of you condescending twat!
And that’s the absurdity of this entire affair. These people aren’t just clowns, they are willful clowns.
Sinema is smart enough to realize this and has played them perfectly now for months. I don’t think she’ll ever sign off on these bills. Even if she eventually does, she has personally cost Pelosi and Davos months they didn’t have and more than $3 trillion in spending they were planning on using to buy favors, judges, police chiefs, mayors, immigrants and quislings for the next 10 years.
The taxes and ideas that Manchin forced onto the cutting room floor of this really bad movie were literally the end of America as a haven for building wealth. Taxing unrealized capital gains is simply backdoor nationalization of all strategically-important companies and would ensure that any new competition would be undermined before it ever became big enough to challenge the existing ones.
Stop thinking like an unquenchably envious Marxist for just five seconds and you’ll realize that everyone involved in this circus truly does believe you’ll be better off ‘owning nothing’ because ‘you didn’t build that’ anyway.
The hole in their minds is the simplest idea of all … what if someone on Capitol Hill thought for themselves, did some games theory and realized they had more real power than everyone else strutting around like they own the place?
Call me not cynical enough if you want, but with the events of this week, I’m more convinced than ever that these bills never get passed. Pelosi has no leverage, even on the language, no less the tax rates and the pork.
If I’m right and Powell is draining Europe dry. He will let rates rise crushing the ECB. Then by the time he steps down, assuming he’s not reappointed, it may not even matter if Obama and Davos get their way and Lael Brainard takes over for him.
The Clown Car may already be on fire and the audience already left the big top.
Don’t think that’s possible?
Lagarde looked like the person out of her depth she actually is answering questions about stagflation in the Euro-zone. All it took was some bad European inflation data to cause the euro to sink into Friday’s close. The European Parliament is now suing the European Commission for not punishing Hungary and Poland for still thinking they’re independent countries. And the eurodollar market is now calling everyone’s bluff forecasting rate hikes in Europe while Lagarde is waffling on ending PEPP (the latest version of QE).
These are the parasites the Democrats are really trying to save while simultaneously try to keep their coalition together long enough to keep us around as the host for them to feed on.
Mind the hole in the floor of the Capitol, Nancy, it wasn’t caused by Trump supporters throwing a tantrum on January 6th. You dug that one all by yourself.
Ack Ack.
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I don’t think you will ever need to worry, Tom, about not being cynical enough, even if you are accused of it.
Good to know, :)
We are a 4th Reich Nazi police state with fake elections run my Gen James Jones [Jones Group] Gen McCrystal [brainwashing media chief in Afghanistan [and cheered by Jones VP and Fox host Gillian Turner) now mind-fucking Sheeple here.
And of course with Dominion voting firm operating from a Soros-owned facility in CANADA, no one with an IQ over 70 (except you apparently) thinks this charade is real.
Oh and BTW, We are all being forced to take spike protein death jabs or no job no movement and no end to slave masks until we die.
And the country is 97 percent mentally retarded clowns so dumbed down by Marxist government ‘schools’ and global CHICOM partner monopolies (who wont let anyone speak in the modern public square unless we suck their knob on all things) that no fact is discernable and al lies are worshiped on CNN cue. The only ‘news they care about is how big Kim Kardashians ass got and what ass wipe is on the idiot adult kindergarten school play (a.k.a. Masked Singer) tonight.
Demographically, what you call ‘swing states’ used to be pro-American enclaves and are now pink Marxist as opposed to red Marxist. And ‘red states’ like texas, the 30 percent of their voters who were not born here vote for government-is-god and cartel-bought hacks. Mexicans (who unfortunately dont vote like Cubans) are adding to voter rolls at 9 TIMES the rate of the rest of the state. Add government workers for Beto and Austin Marxists and its a wrap.
It is inevitable and imminent that Texas becomes California politically. (think 2022). Voting is a sham here too, but less fraudulent than nationwide. Symbolically it still matters a bit. Forget that now!
The demographic tsunami that has been building for decades ensures that within a few months, the Neo-Nazis worshiping Schwab and the global monopolies (while mimicking Marxist babble) will then be so dominant – and ready to throw you in an oven – that even you may wake up and smell the shit.
On second thought, happy lie worshiping delusionals like you never change. You will go into the ovens and say ‘oh great! a beach vacation!. Sad.
“No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up”.
Lily Tomlin
Two things seem to play in my mind about this. First, it’s the Davos centralized gov mentality. Second, the inability of the Davos folks to not only financially terrorize and strip the people of wealth, but also to psychological terrorize to populace into vaccinating.
To my first point, these people are a might makes right type. They believe control of the top, ie; Prez, Senate, House, gives them everything they needed to win. ( It certainly did in parliamentary systems, which may be a hint on the originators of this farce.) In a parliamentary or typical European gov, control of the top, gives you almost unlimited power relative to the US. The plan breaks down when the issues got to the state level and collapsed . Problematically they didn’t control enough states. They thought they did control all the important one, NY, NJ, Mi, IL, CA, with this control they believed they could strangle the economy and the country to their will. It failed when Red States rebelled and the then the narrative collapsed. The Emperor had no clothes.
To the second point, they believed people would run out of money, being unable to work and burn through money and become desperate for Nanny Gov. Again the inability to control or cajole the Red States collapsed this plan. Hence the push for the pass now, problem is information travels fast in this new world, faster then they can control and bend. When rebellion is successful in one place it emboldens those questioning things. I think you hit it correctly, in this article.
Exactly. Political decentralization is the only thing that can save humanity. The austrians (economists) knew all along.
Good.
O/T ZeroHedge has published the second part of Whitney Webb’s “Covid-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle” which includes a link to part 1. Very thorough exposure of Moderna.
Wootendw….link to article… long, but great example of crony capitalism at work…thanks for this …
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/investigative-reports/covid-19-moderna-gets-its-miracle/
And then there is this one….goes back into history several decades…hard to verify any of this…
https://nworeport.me/2021/05/26/moderna-ceo-worked-under-pharma-billionaire-who-is-great-friends-with-chinese-dictator-xi-jinping-and-pushed-for-wuhan-virology-lab/
Tom you made a great point in your discussion with that English cat a couple months ago: Crypto can’t be stopped because the tech is too “various” or multi-headed. And thus … from this it’s easy to conclude that Davos and its US henchmen won’t be able to make your access to your own dollars contingent on you getting a satanic death-juice injection. The dollar has to remain competitive relative to crypto.
So in a real sense all these globalist dolts have a new competitor they didn’t have before. It will be up to them to keep their currencies attractive — not the other way around.
A strategy….
https://www.bitcoinsuisse.com/cryptofranc
“Twat” what a great word.
I’m very partial to it.
“Twat” Great word.
I am sorry but you are going t have to dumb down this message for at least half the congress and almost all Democrats. Glad you are calling out the Puppetmasters in Brussels! Davos plan is much too shallow. They must have been counting too much on Senile Biden and Drunkard Pelosi. Hate to give the Obummer any credit al all for the damage he has done.
..in short, the Democrats don’t stand for anything but rather are simply another victims support group….
Victim relief fund coming soon…
https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/biden-administration-in-talks-to-pay-450000-per-person-to-immigrants-separated-at-border/
J. Michael Straczynski a “shitlib”? I would be interested to see your evidence.
This is interesting: https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/01/ten-things-every-reader-tic-know-jms.html
Do check out the comments to the above-linked piece wherein JMS himself appears to jump in. I personally have not seen any signs of shitlibery from JMS.
I do agree that a Babylon 5 reboot would seem to be totally superfluous. The original was about as good as TV gets (quite good in this case). I’ll trust Straczynski’s judgement until I see proof that his ethic, with which I do not agree in all of its particulars, but do respect, has been compromised.
Agreed.
But I would add the WHOLE bureaucracy of the G20 has the same HOLE in their minds.
For the umpteenth time, these losers gathered for the G20 “meeting” and decided on a bunch of crap that won’t actually get implemented. There was a lot of grand standing, pomp and circumstance, silly walks (done seriously, not for comedy effect). There was zero substance.
Then 400 private jets descended into Glasgow Scotland, where a bunch of selfish pricks discussed all the sacrifices and lifestyle cuts the little people should be forced to make. The airport ran out of space to park all the private jets. Many world leaders had their security “advance” teams show up in massive transport jets filled with armored SUVs, rolling private surgical suites, special forces vehicles, and of course, the armored limo for the pompous one him/herself.
These vehicles will spend the entire week idling, just outside the building, under the pretense that they might (or might not) have to evacuate in a hurry for security purposes. 450 heavily armored limos, each sporting a V10 engine to move all that armor, with engines idling for 8 days. That must be their contribution for the environment.
The armada of private jets, transport jets, and support staff jets all run on magic pixie dust… or at least that is what the pompous pricks tell us.
None of the things these losers agreed amongst themselves at fantasy camp in 09 got implemented, because the other 8 billion people on the planet did not agree to any such nonsense. We weren’t even asked if we wanted our gasoline prices to double, our home heating costs up 50%, our food costs up 30%, and miles of shopping aisles empty like the economy is run by marxists.
But lets be honest, if we were asked to fly on a private jet to a Scottish castle to eat 5-star catered meals everyday for a week, all charged to the idiot taxpayers while we got paid to attend — we would all take that bribe. Ya’ know, suffer through 5-star meals and limos and a private 747…. for the environment.
We’d have to listen to that Gretta freak for an hour, but we would be so bombed on $500 bottle wine we wouldn’t have any idea what she said. Anyway, we have staffers to figure out if she said anything relevant. Most staffers are busy fetching and catering to my every whim, but a couple of them are supposed to be taking notes.
Rules and taxes and sacrifices are for the little people, not the political class!!!
*** LETS GO BRANDON!!!! ***