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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Elon Musk says George Soros reminds him of Jewish supervillain Magneto and he 'hates humanity... wants to erode the very fabric of civilization' - three days after the billionaire sold all his Tesla stock
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Soros, a Hungarian-born Billionaire, heads the Open Society Foundation and is a Holocaust survivor
    ...not just your standard Holocaust survivor, who was in a concentration camp, or in hiding, or joined the Partizans. No, Mr. Soros worked directly for the Nazis, he said, finding and turning in other Jews, and getting paid well for it. The most exciting time of his life, he said in an interview. Claiming victim status is an insult to not only the Jews he got murdered, but anyone who has survived horrors.
  • Musk compared the 92-year-old to the X-Men villain who 'fights to help mutants replace humans as the world's dominant species'

  • It comes after a study found that anti-Semitic tweets soared 105 percent after Musk's takeover

Update at 11:02 from the Times of Israel:
Musk attacks ADL for saying his anti-Soros tweets will embolden antisemites
Twitter CEO says watchdog should ‘drop the A’ and be called the Defamation League, as ties between US billionaire and major Jewish organization have rapidly deteriorated.
The ADL has morphed into a standard issue leftwing enforcer, with ever fewer Jews involved at any level of the organization. It’s time to lance the boil of labelling objections to the scabrous George Soros as a Jewish victim of the Holocaust instead of the gleeful enforcer that he has claimed himself to be.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...anti-Semitic tweets soared 105 percent... Directed at whom. Soros or Musk?
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 05/17/2023 9:21 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
America's men are in crisis and it's rooted in one big lie
By Sen. Josh Hawley

[FoxNews] Of all the things this country needs—stronger borders, better-paying jobs, some basic safety on our streets—above all, America needs stronger men. The left has spent decades running men down, blaming them for everything from climate change to "the patriarchy." They’re wrong. Strong men aren’t the problem. For America, stronger, better men are the solution.

All is not well with men in this country. The numbers tell the tale. Men are lonelier than ever before. They’re dropping out of the labor force in greater numbers than ever before. They’re struggling more with drug abuse and alcohol. They increasingly forego a college education, even as they delay getting married and having kids.

If any other demographic group was struggling to this extent, we’d call it a national crisis. And it is.

But the left doesn’t see it that way. They blame boys and men for the sins of the world. They say all masculinity is "toxic," that simply to be a man is to make the world a worse place. They propose to do away with "traditional masculinity" altogether.

The left’s campaign to re-educate men begins as early as preschool, where too many boys are punished for aggressive play and, if they don’t comply, medicated out of their boyishness. As young men, they’re denied the manufacturing jobs that allowed their fathers to earn good wages—the governing class having long ago shipped those jobs overseas—and set adrift on college campuses filled with activists who despise them. And popular culture relentlessly bangs this same drum: when men aren’t morons, they’re actively evil.

At bottom, this critique of men is rooted in a lie: that men shouldn’t be leaders, creators, and heroes, but just consumers looking out for themselves.

The truth is just the opposite. We need men to step up.
Hear, hear!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All is not well with men in this country.

As was stated so succinctly here by someone...to paraphrase:

"Born a male, made a man."
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2023 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Until women decide and proclaim loudly that they desire strong men, this will never happen. Currently, women are still caught up in the lie that they need to be better versions of men. Voila! Men competing in women's sports and dominating.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/17/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  But if your goal is to destroy America so it can be rebuilt as a socialist police state, everything is going according to plan.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/17/2023 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  How many of those males in that chemical abuse category were raised by women?

Sex and the City was probably the single most anti-woman piece of propaganda released.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/17/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I blame secondary effects of deodorant.
A man should smell like a man, not flowers.

Aluminized...no wait...maybe that's dementia.

Beer, in aluminum cans. Poisoning the next generation!

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||


Economy
US system of global dominance risks collapsing in a matter of months May 16, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] If it is impossible to raise the ceiling of the US national debt, a technical default will threaten as early as the first days of June. There are other predictions, according to which the US Treasury will still have enough free funds until mid-June. And there will come new tax revenues, which should be enough for another month and a half. This is how the US government has to live - literally from paycheck to paycheck.

Panic is rising in America around the threat of a technical default. According to the US Treasury, the country will run out of money in early June, and a default from a hypothetical scenario will become quite possible. But the longer you watch the default drama, the more what is happening resembles only a carefully staged political performance, which at the very last moment will end, as they like in Hollywood, with a “happy ending”.

The situation around the default escalated due to a technical procedure called the debt ceiling.

It began to be introduced at the beginning of the 20th century to limit government spending in the US budget. However, this was not achieved, the debts of the American government continued to grow, and for a long time Congress disciplinedly raised the ceiling of the national debt approximately every year and a half.

For the first time, problems with the debt ceiling happened in 2011.

Immediately after their victory in the congressional elections, the Republicans delivered an ultimatum to the administration of Barack Obama. Either they will go to reduce government spending, or legislators will no longer raise the ceiling of the national debt and bring the matter to default.

After a long debate, the Republicans and Democrats still managed to find a certain compromise. But for several weeks the country was in a nervous state, and Standard & Poor's even downgraded the US credit rating.

Now, 12 years later, history is repeating itself.

The Republicans won the congressional elections again - and they again want to reduce government spending. Since January, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives has refused to raise the national debt ceiling, demanding meaningful concessions from the White House.

Republicans are concerned about quite objective problems with a sharp increase in US government spending.

The US budget deficit could reach a record $2 trillion this year. This was caused both by an increase in defense spending and by indexing social benefits to inflation, which is currently at a high level of 5% in the United States.

However, the Joe Biden team flatly refuses to make any compromises with the Republicans. She is quite satisfied with the current very high level of government spending of more than 6 trillion dollars. And Democrats accuse Republicans of wanting to take away social benefits and benefits from low-income Americans.

Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy's first meeting with Biden took place in February. Then they didn’t have any contact for three months. And they saw each other face to face again only in mid-May, when the approaching deadline with an increase in the national debt ceiling is already making many in America nervous.

Republicans seek to cut spending on "green programs", one of the priorities of the Democratic Party, and on international assistance to other countries, which is also very important to the White House. The total savings could be just over $100 billion this year, which is just a drop in the ocean in terms of the entire US budget. After all, no one in Washington wants to touch the main areas of spending - including the defense industry and the social sector. However, even for such small spending cuts, the White House is not ready to go.

Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

According to the most alarmist forecasts, if it is impossible to raise the ceiling of the US national debt, a technical default will threaten as early as the first days of June.

There are other predictions, according to which the US Treasury will still have enough free funds until mid-June. And there will come new tax revenues, which should be enough for another month and a half.

This is how the US government has to live - literally from paycheck to paycheck, not being able to borrow until the national debt ceiling rises.

At the same time, no one really knows what will happen if a default is declared - estimates of the consequences for the United States range from quite mild to the most catastrophic.

American economists often argue about whether there have been defaults in US history.

The official version says that they did not happen. Although individual episodes during the 1812 conflict with Britain or the Civil War, when there were delays in debt servicing, can be interpreted as a default. The last incident occurred in 1979, when due to a technical failure for a short period of time the US Treasury did not pay interest on some bonds.

However, now the situation is much more serious.

Over the past decades, the world economy has become globalized and hyper-financialized.

The US technical default, if it does occur, will cause a real shock therapy in all corners of the planet. And especially among the closest allies of the United States, be it Japan, the United Kingdom and the EU countries, which have significant investments in US Treasury bonds.

It is not for nothing that now credit default swaps on US Treasury securities - a kind of insurance against default - have increased in price tenfold. And in terms of cost, they already bypass the default insurance of countries like Brazil, Mexico and Greece, where there are traditionally many problems in the financial sector. And Moody's raised the probability of a US default to 10%.

And the closer the deadline, the higher the chances of America's credit rating being downgraded, which will lead to even more panic on the stock markets.

A US technical default is guaranteed to result in the loss of hundreds of thousands or even millions of domestic jobs. It will almost certainly plunge America into a new recession, which is already beginning against the backdrop of the current economic stagnation. Financial markets around the world will collapse, and the dollar will also collapse. And, most importantly, this will be a huge blow to the US reputation as a reliable borrower with a stable economy and a well-functioning political system.

It will turn out that the economy is not stable, and the political system does not work, since the two branches of government - Congress and the White House - are not able to make decisions on raising the national debt ceiling.

Other countries will begin to sharply rethink their relationship with the United States, at least refusing to invest more in US bonds.

The entire US military machine, with 700 bases in 130 countries and 12 aircraft carriers, will also be in an unclear position.

After all, money for its maintenance will cease to flow, there will be nothing to buy fuel for tanks, fighters or ships and pay salaries to military personnel.

The processes of de-dollarization will sharply accelerate, because confidence in the American currency will be completely undermined.

Against the backdrop of such financial turmoil, the West will simply have to forget about further support for Ukraine. The US system of global dominance, built over decades, is in danger of collapsing in a matter of months.

However, despite all the drama of the situation, there are big doubts that the US will bring the matter to default right now.

Congress and the White House are currently participating in the famous American game - which of the cowboys blinks first, he loses. Therefore, it is worth waiting for the intrigue around raising the debt ceiling to last until the very hour X. And at the last moment, it suddenly turns out that the contradictions between the parties have been resolved, they still managed to agree and avoid a default.

But in this case, Washington will only shelve the problem with a huge state budget deficit and a rapidly growing public debt.

This year, the US could spend up to $1.5 trillion on paying interest on its debt, which is almost 20% of the entire budget.

According to forecasts, by 2033 the US national debt will grow from the current $30 trillion to $50 trillion. In this case, up to half of the entire state budget will have to be spent on its maintenance. This will put the US at the level of many Latin American countries, living from default to default.

It is not for nothing that the former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is seriously suggesting that Washington right now declare a default, settle the issue with its debts and move on to a balanced budget. Trump thinks like a real businessman who has repeatedly declared bankruptcy of his companies that bring losses.

In the short term, this will lead to major shocks, but in the long run it would even play into the hands of the United States.

But among the political class of Washington, no one thinks for a long time - if the public debt is enough for their lifetime, then it's fine. But by their actions, they only bring the collapse of the US debt pyramid closer - and then America will face a default that is not at all technical, but already quite real.

May 16, 2023
Malek Dudakov

Posted by: badanov || 05/17/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bet on the Ruble and Russia collapsing first.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/17/2023 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  And I'm afraid Kevin McCarthy is right when he says that the Biden administration will "bumble into a default."

They really have no idea what they are doing. I am reminded of the comparison of being tied to a chair while a 3-year-old plays with a loaded pistol.
Posted by: Tom || 05/17/2023 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Never underestimate Joe Biden's ability to fuck things up.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/17/2023 14:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Is it me, or has every damn dummy
Become at some point Billy Mumy
And ditched his toy gun
For a genuine one?
[gut-shot Liberty clutches her tummy]
Posted by: Shavish McCoy6193 || 05/17/2023 19:40 Comments || Top||


Europe
Things not going well for women or anyone else, in Sweden
[Twitter] Sweden was basically a homogeneous country in the 1970s with almost no rape. Mass migration from the Third World has resulted in this.

Related: Imperialist Multiculturalism: Erasing Swedish History. Viking artifacts being destroyed - YouTube. You'll be able to make the connection.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2023 00:59 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Liberal women reaping from what they sow. Feelings, wo-o-o feelings, Wo-o-o, feelings..
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/17/2023 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Last year they finally elected a government including the Sweden Democrats, who are serious about immigration. Hope it's not too little, too late.
Posted by: Tom || 05/17/2023 11:09 Comments || Top||

#3  They finally allowed the Israeli foreign minister in for a visit the other day, so the new partners in government are having a real effect, Tom.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/17/2023 22:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Will Abortion Kill the GOP?
[RCP] Republicans seem determined to die on the hill called abortion in 2024 — and they may take the country down with them. Abortion is a litmus test for millions of swing voters: nothing else matters if a candidate does not agree with them on it. This is not good news for the GOP: The results of the 2022 midterm elections — and current polling — show that there are significantly more pro-choice independent voters than pro-life independents.

As a result, immigration, the state of the nation’s economy and the identity of the GOP 2024 presidential nominee may not matter all that much, as President Biden and his publicists in the press ride the abortion issue to victory.

Democrats will then falsely claim their victory is a mandate for radical policies that are dividing and undermining our country, including unsustainable spending, suffocating regulation, open borders, lax law enforcement, and an unquenchable commitment to DEI, ESG, and all the other letters of the woke revolution....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/17/2023 03:07 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For the Stupid Party, yes.

You scream loud and clear - IT'S A STATE ISSUE.

Then you play their game highlighting CA and NY's abortion law allowing infanticide. Tack on the mutilation of children in their current agenda. Then make it a clear vote for Good vs Evil.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/17/2023 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Killing babies is a winning political strategy. Good grief. This is not the country I grew up in.
Posted by: Tom || 05/17/2023 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Will Abortion Kill the GOP?

It surely kills the unborn.
Posted by: Mad Eye Big Foot8215 || 05/17/2023 18:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Life is in the blood. Killing a fetus with a beating heart is murder. plain as day.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 05/17/2023 19:47 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Dr. Pierre Kory: Deadly Conflicts of Interest and the Global Coverup of a Failed Medical Experiment (YouTube)
[ET] "Looking at the data from a totality of sources, I mean, the signals were absolutely alarming ... You saw a failed medical experiment being covered up on a global scale," says Dr. Pierre Kory.

We discuss the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, what Dr. Kory describes as a decades-long war on repurposed drugs, and the information warfare tactics that have been deployed these last 3 years. And we also take a look at an interesting and perhaps not well-known part of Dr. Kory’s medical experience—he was an expert medical witness for the George Floyd civil case.

Dr. Pierre Kory is a pulmonary and critical care medicine specialist and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC).

"Bigger than Big Pharma."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2023 01:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, wading past the initial Saint GF segment is painful but worth the effort.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2023 1:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2023-05-17
  Two Palestinians get life sentences for Elad terror attack
Tue 2023-05-16
  Come on in! Moment US Army soldier opens gate to let huge horde of migrants onto PRIVATE Texas property after Biden allowed Title 42 to expire
Mon 2023-05-15
  33 civilians killed in Burkina Faso attack
Sun 2023-05-14
  6 terrorists killed, 7 including soldiers martyred as clearance operation in Balochistan concludes: ISPR
Sat 2023-05-13
  Prigozhin says Russian troops are “fleeing” near Ukraine’s Bakhmut.
Fri 2023-05-12
  Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as fighting goes on, truce efforts falter, 26 Paleos toes up
Thu 2023-05-11
  Hundreds Of Rockets Fired Into Israel As Tensions In The Area Escalate
Wed 2023-05-10
  Ousted Pakistan PM Imran Khan arrested, sparking protests
Tue 2023-05-09
  Terrorists Attack Nigerian Baptist Church Service In Kaduna, Abduct 40 Worshippers
Mon 2023-05-08
  Renewed clashes erupt between army and paramilitary forces in South Darfur
Sun 2023-05-07
  Organ Harvesting: Nigerian Lawyer Writes British Monarch, King Charles, Seeks Prerogative Of Mercy For Senator Ekweremadu
Sat 2023-05-06
  Chief of Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), has been assassinated
Fri 2023-05-05
  Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev calls for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed
Thu 2023-05-04
  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seize tanker in Strait of Hormuz, for 2nd time in a week
Wed 2023-05-03
  Over 100 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in under 24 hours


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