COMMENTARY / OPINION / ANALYSIS
1/23/23
The Republican Debt-Circus Charade By Jacob G. Hornberger
January 23, 2023 – It seems like just yesterday that the debt-ceiling circus returned to Washington. Actually, it was October 2021, a little over two years ago. That circus was just like all the ones that preceded it. The mainstream press and other acolytes of the welfare-warfare state issued all sorts of dire predictions if the debt ceiling wasn’t raised. As soon as the debt-ceiling was raised, no one advocated cutting government spending to prepare for the next time that the debt ceiling was reached. Everyone knew that as soon as the new debt ceiling was reached, they could do the same thing again.
In other words, for the past two years, it has been business as usual — federal government expenditures exceeding tax revenues by around $1 trillion per year. And everyone knew that within a couple of years, the debt ceiling would be reached again.
Thus, just like clockwork, it’s déjà vu all over again. In fact, the mainstream press doesn’t even have to write new editorials or op-eds. All they have to do is trot out the ones from 2021 (and before) and use them. No one would be the wiser. Why write new ones when the old ones will work just as well?
But perhaps the most noteworthy thing to notice about the debt-ceiling circus is Republicans. Whenever there is a Republican president, Republicans stay silent about or, even worse, supportive of out-of-control spending and debt. President Trump, for example, added around $8 trillion to the national debt. You could call him the King of Debt. The Republican members of Congress were as quiet as church mice or, even worse, wildly supportive of their big-spender and big-debt leader.
1/22/23
A NATION OF VICTIMS IS DOOMED TO FAIL Daniel Greenfield
January 21, 2023 – America has become a nation of ‘victims’ and ‘survivors’. Everyone is getting over a ‘trauma’ or ‘processing’. They demand special privileges because of the suffering of their ancestors. They trot out studies which prove that they are somehow disadvantaged. They gorge on self-help books and deploy therapy terminology to accuse everyone else of mistreating them.
Our society has turned into a cross between a Marxist academic conference and therapy session where Marxist terminology like “systemic racism” and therapy talk like “gaslighting narcissist” form key parts of the grammar of perpetual victimhood.
Politics has been reduced to victimhood advocacy and we are worse off for it.
Victims are not good people. Postmodern influencer culture conflates ‘victim’ and ‘survivor’, but they are two very different things. Survivors are people who pick themselves up and go on. Victims give up and spend the rest of their lives doing nothing except blaming everyone else.
1/21/23
This Is How the Fed Will Seize Your Money in 2023: Gerald Celente [42:04] Stansberry Research
“I’ve never seen a decline that we’re looking at now, and [NATO] is ramping up the war in Ukraine into World War III,” says trends forecaster and publisher of the Trends Journal, Gerald Celente. “There’s going to be a false flag or a nuclear exchange to make this official,” he grimly predicts on this episode of of Powershift: Outlook 2023. Gerald discusses why people have been content with the Fed feeding them cheap money, “and the Fed may be less aggressive in raising interest rates this year and that’s why gold prices will go up.” “China and Russia have united, the BRICS have united, and there are more of them than us… the United States’ way out is with war,” he tells Daniela Cambone. “We are forecasting that this is going to be the year we go from dirty cash to digital trash… and this is the year [the U.S. government] is going to make a big push towards a digital currency,” Celente states. When they do, “gold is going to go through the roof,” he continues. “When the governments go fully digital, they are going to make it very hard for bitcoin… That’s the only way we see it going down,” Celente predicts. “It’s not about we the people, it’s about the ones running the show,” he concludes.
[Ed.: Celente is great!] [Emphasis added. Capiche?]
Taking Out the Weekly Garbage Cindy Sheehan
Biggest Losers of this Past Week
There is such a rich cornucopia of losers this past week, it’s going to be hard to narrow it down for length!
[Skipping forward] … Trump:
Now, I know there are a few Biden and Trump supporters that follow my Substack. (Welcome). So, in the spirit of being “fair and balanced,” I have to award Trump a Big Loser medal for his continuing support of the Trump Operation Warp Speed toxic injection. That’s bad enough, but his insistence that HE, and ONLY HE saved “20 million” lives by becoming the “worst enemy” of PIG PHARMA as he pushed them to come out with the crime against humanity in a syringe, qualifies him for a Big Loser Award. After, “strong-arming” them, Trump transformed into PIG PHARMA’S best buddy—-he is still out their shilling for them.
So, “congrats” Liberals for lining up for the Trump Toxin!
For the Trumpers still out there, please wake up (or stay asleep—your choice) to the fact that even if you think that Trump has positive aspects, I feel like this one “triumph” that he is still boasting about, erases anything positive. Think of a balancing scale.
[Ed.: At least Trump has not boasted about handing the election over to Biden, when he knows and the whole world knows, that the election was stolen. Now he just pours salt in our wound, saying that he’s going to run in 2024. If we don’t have a theft-proof election system, an uncorrupted judicial system, a functioning economy, and there is nothing left of our country by November 2024, he must mean that he’s going to run after he’s elected, like he ran from office last time we elected him.]
Tucker Carlson Tonight 1/20/23 FULL HD | BREAKING FOX NEWS [38:58] January 20,2023
1/20/23
Va’era – What does God’s name actually mean? RABBI PESACH WOLICKI
Hashem spoke to Moshe and said to him, “I am Hashem.” EXODUS 6:2 (THE ISRAEL BIBLE)
WEEKLY TORAH PORTION (Va’era)
Almighty (El Shaddai), but with My name “the Lord,” (YHVH) I did not make myself known to them. – Exodus 6 : 2-3
JANUARY 19, 2023 – The opening verses of this week’s Torah portion call our attention to God’s names. Let’s sum up the points that God made to Moses here:
- I am YHVH
- I appeared to the patriarchs as El Shaddai
- I did not reveal myself to them as YHVH.
This passage is difficult to understand. After all, we see throughout the book of Genesis that God used the name YHVH in His interactions with the patriarchs. So what did God mean by this cryptic statement to Moses?
To answer this question, we must first understand the true meaning of the Hebrew name YHVH – almost universally translated as “the Lord.”
What does YHVH actually mean?
God’s name, YHVH, also known as the tetragrammaton, appears over 6000 times in the Bible. Throughout most English translations of the Bible this name is translated as “the Lord.” But, in fact, “the Lord” is not a translation of the tetragrammaton at all as YHVH has no meaning in Hebrew outside of being God’s name.
So what does YHVH actually mean?
Let’s talk about money! Tierney’s Real News
Yesterday somebody responded to me on social media, out of the blue, about the pending Global Financial crisis.
She said don’t worry, America won’t need a bailout from the International Monetary Fund if America can’t pay its debt, we will simply do what Germany did after World War II and replace our currency and void our debt. Easy peasey.
I thought, that’s interesting, why is somebody spreading this narrative now? So I looked it up.
After World War II, Germany seized all the deposits and assets in their country, changed their currency, voided the old currency and gave back the people 10 cents on the dollar in a new currency.
Is that the New World Order’s GREAT RESET plan for America? To seize our bank deposits, 401ks, stocks, bonds and assets, pay off our debt and then give us back 10 cents on the dollar in their new trackable “digital currency” so they can start the debt slavery ponzi scheme all over again? And then add insult to injury by telling us they are doing it for our own good to save the planet?
It’s not a crazy conspiracy theory, because that’s exactly what they did before in Germany. It has already happened in Cypress, Greece and Argentina as well. It’s been done many times before and they won’t hesitate to do it again. Even in the US.
Trump Warns GOP Against Cutting Medicare or Social Security Amid Debt Ceiling Fight Breitbart News
Jan 20, 2023 – “While we absolutely need to stop Biden’s out-of-control spending, the pain should be born by Washington bureaucrats, not by hardworking American families and American seniors,” former President Trump said in a 2024 presidential campaign video.
What To Do About the Debt Ceiling Matthew Continetti
Column: Take simple steps toward smaller government
January 20, 2023 – Republicans enter the debt ceiling fight with no leader, no strategy, and no specific proposal. They face a president who refuses to negotiate, a Democratic Senate, and a hostile media. When the Treasury Department’s “extraordinary measures” to avoid default come to an end this spring, markets are sure to tremble, and business and investors will pressure Congress for a quick fix. If the crisis isn’t handled properly, outcomes include a government shutdown, economic contagion, downgraded U.S. debt, and renewed GOP infighting. Oh, yes—in the worst-case scenario, federal spending would remain uncontrolled.
The way out of this briar patch is tricky but navigable. It involves drawing correct lessons from history, settling on a realistic objective in advance, neutralizing inevitable attacks, and taking the long view. That’s a tall order, but not a reason to abandon the cause. The GOP’s renewed interest in limiting the size and scope of the federal government is both warranted and welcome: The $31 trillion national debt is an ugly 124 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Multitrillion-dollar deficits are expected for years to come.
Debt of this size is a mark of national decline. It invites harmful tax increases on work, savings, and investment; requires high interest payments that crowd out spending on defense and erode U.S. primacy; and saddles future generations with burdensome obligations. It is a national security threat that deserves to be taken seriously.
[Ed.: ‘The sky is the limit’, and the sky has no ceiling...
In a trillion seconds there are 31,710 years! In 31 trillion seconds = 983,010 years!] [Emphasis added]
Tucker Carlson: Biden is done [12:34]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson explains why permanent Washington is tired of President Biden’s leadership on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #Tucker
