Walls are Back, McCarthy's Gone
The SBF, FTX and the Wardrobe
Busy week in the Matrix. Let’s get to it.
The ‘big’ news of the week was the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
There are certain tells one can employ to skip the news cycle altogether and just see how certain individuals and institutions who are perfect contrarian takes react to the news. If the Washington Post and people like Jennifer Rubin or MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan react with fevered pearl clutching, I know it’s a ‘good thing’.
In this case, Bloomberg radio (yes, sadly even Bloomberg which once did a brilliant job on economic news is now a Democratic machine and ESG fluffer) did a segment right after McCarthy got the boot where the host and guests were practically hyperventilating.
Had we engaged in a drinking game where you take a shot everytime someone says, “hard-right,”extremists” or “far-right”, you would’ve died of alcohol poisoning in the first 3 minutes.
And it was much the same vein in every news outlet as the Biden Administration whipped their MSM troops in line and had them parrot the same lines over and over about “chaos” and “hard right extremists”.
Chaos? Really? You’ve got 10 million invaders crossing the border at Biden’s invitation, massive crime waves sweeping the cities, we’re playing poke the bear with a nuclear power in Ukraine, and the economy is a trainwreck of no growth and high inflation. But removing a Uniparty stooge who has broken every promise he made when elected is ‘chaos’?
McCarthy promised to release the J6 tapes and stop the funding of 87,000 new IRS agents.
He failed miserably in both these tasks. To top it off, Republicans are nearly unanimous on closing the border and stopping funding of the Ukraine money laundering machine and he hasn’t done a darn thing about either.
So when the MSM clowns who didn’t make a peep about the border, crime or anything else screech ‘chaos’, take it with a grain of salt. Or better yet a shot of 20 year Macallan.
Brian Cates sums it up best:
“Trump openly having an election stolen from him in broad daylight: not chaos
Two utterly fake impeachments of Trump over Ukraine & then 'inciting an insurrection': not chaos
Out of control DA's trying to either send Trump to prison for 700 years for contesting that election theft legally and lawfully, or attempting to use civil courts to seize and liquidate all his assets: not chaos.
J6 people being locked up for years & held without trial, then sentenced to long prison terms: not chaos
A wide open border with human/drug/sex/organ trafficking increasing to mind boggling levels: not chaos
Printing money like mofos and inflation going through the roof while energy production in suppressed: not chaos
A weaponized DOJ/FBI & local law enforcement indicting a former President 4 times on bullshit charges, plus a fake Special Counsel investigation after raiding that President's home: not chaos
Federal officials lying to the public with increasing desperation about COVID 19 origins and the vaccines & masks for going on 3 years: not chaos
Federal govt getting caught red handed illegally censoring millions of Americans by strong arming social media companies behind the scenes in a massive Censorship Regime making use of dozens of well funded NGOs: not chaos
Shipping the most corrupt regime in Eastern Europe $120 billion taxpayer dollars while our country literally is being reduced to a shithole: not chaos.
Defund-the-police Soros DA's & Mayors literally turning their cities into violent crime war zones: not chaos.
But THIS F*CKING CAREER POLITICIAN who kept breaking his word and going behind his own coalition's back to do deals to grease all the right skids so all this fucking BUSINESS AS USUAL could continue loses his job and all of a sudden certain "Conservative" [Inc.] people are wailing about how 'chaos' has broken out, and how outrageous and unsustainable our present situation is?
SHUT THE F*CK UP.
You're not fooling anybody who's been paying attention.”
Ronna McDaniel and Mitch McConnell your next. Start representing the people who elected you to do just that or you’re time is limited as well. Ignore the mainstream liberal AND conservative press on this. It’s time for some accountability and representation.
And when it comes to the out of control spending, it may be time to give Uncle Warren’s solution a try. But in order to do that, you’d need representatives that are working for the American people, and not their own interests.
Just Another Brick in the Wall…
Not sure whether I should laugh, cry or be furious at the latest attempt at gaslighting and admission from Biden and his flunkies that they are by 2 or 3 standard deviations the absolute worst President in American History (if not global history).
The latest clown show? Biden announcing they will begin (or re-begin) construction of a wall on the Southern Border. I’ll be quick here as it doesn’t even merit elaboration it’s so mind numbingly stupid and destructive what’s occurred over the last 3 years.
First, Biden and the Democrats did everything possible to turn Trump’s common sense plan to build a wall into the most outrageous, racist and xenophobic policy decision in the history of our country (including slavery probably if you asked them).
Then when elected, Team O-Biden threw open the border and invited the entire world to illegally storm our border. More than 10 million illegals at a cost of hundreds of billions have taken him up on the offer. Last month, I covered the hypocritical reactions of leftist, blue city mayors and governors.
Now that American cities are being overrun and we’re seeing a massive crime spike and drain of city coffers, Biden has decided, “Hey, you know what? The original Trump plan wasn’t really all that bad” and announced that his Administration would begin construction again of a border wall.
Even if immigration stopped completely today (it won’t, as this is a laughably cynical political ploy), the damage has already been done. If a Republican wins in 2024, one of the first policy decisions should be to actually stem the tide and then begin mass deportation of anyone who came in illegally during Biden’s reign of incompetence.
The original budget estimate for the wall was somewhere in the $5B range. We’ve sent 30x times that amount to Ukraine already for a proxy war that bloodlusting Neocons and globalist Dems helped start. This is why people hate government and their representatives in Congress are polling at around a 16% favorability rating (who the hell are these 16%?).
Mentally, the worst part of all of this is listening to KJP and other Admin mouthpieces openly lie to the public and pretend that Biden has been tough on immigration and that it’s Republicans fault that we have an open border. Anyone past the 5th grade knows this is a galling, open-faced lie, and yet they have no qualms about looking the press and the American people in the eye and peddling this BS. They can get away with it too because we lack a MSM and White House Press with any shade of integrity or objectivity.
This is impeachable behavior. And it’s embarrassing that Mayorkas (or Biden) still has a job.
On the bright side, the government reportedly auctioned off $300 million of border wall materials from the Trump administration for $2 million dollars. Now they have to repurchase all of those materials at full price. And you wonder why people hate government and paying taxes…
Nobel Prize Nonsense
While the Nobel Prize committee instantly devalued the prize and all the work they’ve done over the prior 100 years by nominating Barack Obama for the Peace Prize before he even became President and began droning brown people en masse (“hey, he was black - good enough for us”), they’ve almost managed to outdo themselves by awarding Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman the Nobel Prize this year for their work helping to develop MRNA technology.
Even a generous evaluation would rate the MRNA vaccines as "the most disastrous medical intervention in history."
So of course the psychotic Globalists have to give them a medal.
Despite the ludicrousness of awarding a Prize for a technology that has helped maim or kill millions, the Committee openly acknowledged the political aspect of the award by noting that the the Prize for Medicine was given to mRNA researchers in part to increase COVID vaccine uptake. “Giving a Nobel Prize for this COVID-19 vaccine may make hesitant people take the vaccine.”
Here’s an idea. Another way to curb vaccine hesitancy or ‘intelligent skepticism’ would be to actually release all the data and then openly debate it. Or openly acknowledge the failed promise of the vaccine and where the public health experts could have done better. They won’t do either because they can’t. The data is atrocious, and the shots should be pulled from the market.
Mr. Pfizer
One of the more delightful moments of the week was when Aaron Rodgers referred to paid Pfizer spokesheep Travis Kelce as, “Mr. Pfizer.”
Travis has been moonlighting on his day job as Taylor Swift’s girlfriend to do commercials for Pfizer.
Kelce responded several days later by noting sheepishly, ““I mean, I've always been, you know, once I got the vaccine… I got it because of you know, keeping myself safe, keeping my family safe, the people in this building. So yeah, I stand by it 1000% and fully comfortable with him calling me Mr. Pfizer.”
Newsflash for Travis and other athletes who must’ve been passed along in high school and college to make sure they were eligible to play: You didn’t protect anyone, not even yourself. Apparently Travis hasn’t bothered to read a paper over the last 2 years.
The vaccine doesn’t stop infection or transmission (Pfizer even admitted a year after the fact that it was never tested on transmission despite Fauci, Pfizer’s CEO and other public health stalwarts bragging that it did just that).
After Damar Hamlin dropped dead on the field last year, I’d have to imagine uptake of the ‘new and improved’ booster in the NFL is approaching zero (where is Damar by the way? Haven’t seen him get too much time this year…Thought he was cleared to play and it was just a fluke accident, not a severe effect of the vaccine that has been plaguing or killing young athletes around the globe the last 2 years).
In the general population, just 4% of people took the last booster and now that Covid is little more than a cold for healthy, young people (at least those who still have a functioning immune system), I’d bet booster uptake is close to zero in the NFL.
Do us all a favor Travis and live by your principles. I publicly dare you to show proof you actually got the booster. Smart money says he’s a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.
One thing is for sure, he’s getting his heart broken either way.
On the Covid front, kudos to Governor Greg Abbott for joining Florida, Tennessee and other states that have declared the insanity of 2021 dead and gone.
Here’s a few quick notes on other Covid related news that broke this week. Any of these news pieces would be a “Story of the Decade” just a few short years ago. These days it’s just another week in Pandemic Genocide news. And still no accountability. I’ve said it a half dozen times or more here - this is the most important issue. Either the architects get held accountable, or they simply run the playbook again and learn from their mistakes.
Pfizer apparently pulled a ‘bait and switch’ in their trials.
The vaccine manufacturing process that was approved was different from one used to produce the vaccine that distributed throughout the world. I haven’t dug into this enough but if what appears to be true is verified, it’s another indication that the vaccine trials, manufacturing and distribution were fraudulent from start to finish. I’ve said if for two year - Pfizer and Moderna are zeroes. I don’t know how they survive the truth coming to light.
Here’s a thread with the information.
A landmark paper was released that shows COVID vaccine has 1/800 severe adverse event rate.
Rotavirus vaccine was pulled from market for 1/10,000 adverse events
Swine flu vaccine was pulled for 1/100,000
As far as vaccines go, the COVID vaccine adverse event rate is historically the highest ever recorded.
Other notable tweets.
Tweet regarding rise in aggressive colon cancers.
One last Covid note.
And finally, the CDC Ends COVID-19 Vaccination Cards
The pandemic-era proof of vaccination cards, which once determined who could participate in society, are ending.
"CDC no longer distributes the white CDC COVID-19 Vaccination cards and does not maintain vaccination records," the CDC stated in the updated frequently asked questions section of its website.
Hopefully, they're relegated to the ash heap of history and looked at with the same level of scorn as the German Nazi Swastika.
FBI Weaponization Continues
First, it was parents concerned over woke teachers grooming their children in school that were deemed ‘domestic terrorists’ by Merrick Garland and the FBI.
Then it was Catholic churches and pro-life activists that were targeted.
And in the latest iteration of ‘Let’s declare war on Americans’, Joe Biden has instructed the DOJ to begin targeting MAGA conservatives as domestic extremists.
According to Newsweek, close to 30% of the country is now on par with Hezbollah and other Jihadists.
"Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country” - President Biden announced this week.
Says the man weaponizing his DOJ to bring or foment 5 separate cases against his chief political opponent, former President Donald Trump who is trouncing him in the polls.
That was last Tuesday Joe. The very next day Joe was calling for "unity and bipartisanship."
You can take your unity and stick it you know where.
There will be no peace in our time. You already broke the social compact. Vaccine mandates, calling parents domestic extremists, speech after speech like a tinpot dictator bellowing about MAGA and threatening regular Americans with violence…unity my ass.
One of the more stunning sections of the Newsweek article shows that even during MONTHS of Leftwing violence that targeted federal bldgs, courthouses, police stations, and police officers in 2020 during the fiery but peaceful George Floyd protests when leftists were burning and murdering in cities across the US, the FBI focused primarily on Trump supporters: https://newsweek.com/2023/10/13/exclusive-fbi-targets-trump-followers-2024-election-nears-1831836.html
I’ve always officially been with Vivek on this. Shut the FBI down. It’s unsalvageable. Eradicate it and start over.
There, fixed it for ya.
And for those holier-than thou Republicans who can’t stand Trump, you better wake up and smell the coffee. Trump may not be the best candidate or my preferred, but if he’s the nominee you better believe I’ll be voting for him. We have to vote like our lives depend on it in 2024, because they just might.
These people would give us the wall if they could.
Even two-time Presidential candidate loser Hillary Clinton said the quiet part out loud. Within a 50 second clip we see gaslighting, projection & unhinged totalitarianism. The trifecta! She’s being perfectly clear - You’re heading for the gulag if the Dems win. Act accordingly.
SBF, FTX and the Wardrobe
My friend Amanda Cassett dismantles Michael Lewis’ new book on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX.
Here’s the money quote: ”If you want a bedtime story about a boy from a nice family who gets lost in the woods, allow me to recommend "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe," because as far as a realistic portrayal of web3, "Going Infinite" is also in Narnia, and reading C. S. Lewis is substantially more fun.”
I guess it’s true. Live long enough, and all your idols will disappoint you. Lewis was hardly an idol of mine, but his original handful of books centered around finance, MoneyBall and the BlindSide (which I’d bet most was made up after reading his recent stuff) were all excellent.
Then he got some fame and started going to all the right cocktail parties in LA, SF and DC…and that’s the death of original thinking.
His last two books about Undoing Democracy (govt bureaucracies are amazing!) and the Pandemic were pure, low grade government propaganda. It’s hard for me to take him serious after those. Both were completely uncritical and fawning over the competency of government.
He’s typical of the ruling class propagandists - still pretending they were right in the face of utter failure.
So many of the Boomer generation seems to be out of touch with reality. Either they were overcome with fear by the Covid propaganda and that distorted their thinking or they just grew up in a very different world and are having trouble accepting that the days of journalistic integrity, public service, and the Pledge of Allegiance don’t look anything like the on the ground reality of today.
For instance, I started reading Neil Howe “The Fourth Turning is Here” and he doesn’t make it out of the first chapter without repeating standard government propaganda talking points about Covid and politics.
People who believe the news are at such a massive disadvantage— they flounder around in the world having no idea what’s true.
Lewis probably believes SBF is a good guy just like he probably believes all kinds of other false stuff the media fed him — and since everyone in his bubble is the same, he will never even know.
Regardless, the SBF and FTX trial is of much less interest to me than you would expect. Even though I’ve been in the digital asset space for close to 9 years, I was in the criminal justice system before that. And I know how these things end.
There’s no scenario on earth where SBF doesn’t do a multi-decade prison sentence. Unless, he bribes a juror or the people he used to donate heavily too intervene to do the same). The evidence is overwhelming and he’s a fucktard to boot. He’ll be lucky if he doesn’t get 30 years+.
Here’s an excerpt from Lewis’ book for those interested.
Letitia
In the latest insane judicial decision in the NY AG fraud case against the Trump Organization, former President Trump was hit with a gag order.
The judge, who made this curious decision, has become somewhat of a sensation on social media, especially given his rather "unique" perspective on Mar-a-Lago's valuation. And by unique, I mean missing the fair market value of the property by at least 20X if not more.
Now, while gag orders might occasionally tiptoe within the bounds of the Constitution, their application should be judicious. It'll be a spectacle for higher courts to mull over.
But, if we're handing out muzzles, shouldn't one be fitted for the prosecution too? After all, Ms. Letitia seemed quite vocal on Twitter about her elementary school diorama-level insights into the case.
Here’s a quick point:
Letitia is over here acting like Trump walked into his corner bank and filled out a loan form.
Every single valuation was prepared by professionals. Even better, the people offering the loans are the most sophisticated financial players out there, and its not like they just took the Trump team’s word for it. In deals like this, the lender does hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions in due diligence.
These aren’t naïve novices but seasoned financial connoisseurs. They didn't just take Trump's word, they combed through every detail. And guess what? They saw no red flags and even profited from the venture.
But now, we have a prosecutor with starry-eyed ambitions, tap dancing on legality. One would hope an appellate court would play the voice of reason. But in today's landscape? Who knows?
Either way, mark my words. Her career doesn’t survive this case.
Costco Gold
In a sign of today’s economic chaos, Costco recently announced they would be selling gold bars and instantly sold out. There’s probably better places to buy your gold (yes, you should own some physical and/or paper gold), but the convenience of Costco and reliability makes it relatively frictionless.
Offering gold bars is a response to a segment of their membership base looking for tangible investment opportunities, especially during uncertain economic times. By selling gold, a traditionally stable investment, Costco is catering to savvy investors among its members while diversifying its product offerings.
You can now buy your groceries & clothes on trip to Costco, get vaccinated, book a trip, buy some auto insurance (or a car) and load up on hard money gold while hitting the samples on a Saturday afternoon. Is there anything Costco can’t do??
So grab a $1900 1 ounce piece of art/hard money and a $1.50 hot dog and soda. It’s the best value combo out there. And yes Gen Z, that’s what fast food cost us Gen Xers growing up…
Oh Canada
China starting to get some blowback for their rampant censorship.
Just kidding. This is Canada.
And while Trudeau is probably doing his citizens a favor by blocking CNN, in all seriousness, are there any citizens who actually support this totalitarian nonsense?
As if it wasn’t embarrassing enough when they gave a standing ovation to an actual Nazi…
Sam Harris on Israel and Her Enemies
Sam Harris may have lost his mind over the last 7 years due to TDS; however, he nails it here.
Transcript and Audio from podcast below.
“The truth is that there is an obvious, undeniable, and hugely consequential moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The Israelis are surrounded by people who have explicitly genocidal intentions towards them. The charter of Hamas is explicitly genocidal. It looks forward to a time, based on Koranic prophesy, when the earth itself will cry out for Jewish blood, where the trees and the stones will say “O Muslim, there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him.” This is a political document. We are talking about a government that was voted into power by a majority of Palestinians.
The discourse in the Muslim world about Jews is utterly shocking. Not only is there widespread Holocaust denial—there’s Holocaust denial that then asserts that we will do it for real if given the chance. The only thing more obnoxious than denying the Holocaust is to say that it should have happened; it didn’t happen, but if we get the chance, we will accomplish it. There are children’s shows in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere that teach five-year-olds about the glories of martyrdom and about the necessity of killing Jews.
And this gets to the heart of the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. And this is something I discussed in The End of Faith. To see this moral difference, you have to ask what each side would do if they had the power to do it.
What would the Jews do to the Palestinians if they could do anything they wanted? Well, we know the answer to that question, because they can do more or less anything they want. The Israeli army could kill everyone in Gaza tomorrow. So what does that mean? Well, it means that, when they drop a bomb on a beach and kill four Palestinian children, as happened last week, this is almost certainly an accident. They’re not targeting children. They could target as many children as they want. Every time a Palestinian child dies, Israel edges ever closer to becoming an international pariah. So the Israelis take great pains not to kill children and other noncombatants.
What do we know of the Palestinians? What would the Palestinians do to the Jews in Israel if the power imbalance were reversed? Well, they have told us what they would do. For some reason, Israel’s critics just don’t want to believe the worst about a group like Hamas, even when it declares the worst of itself. We’ve already had a Holocaust and several other genocides in the 20th century. People are capable of committing genocide. When they tell us they intend to commit genocide, we should listen.
There is every reason to believe that the Palestinians would kill all the Jews in Israel if they could. Would every Palestinian support genocide? Of course not. But vast numbers of them—and of Muslims throughout the world—would. Needless to say, the Palestinians in general, not just Hamas, have a history of targeting innocent noncombatants in the most shocking ways possible. They’ve blown themselves up on buses and in restaurants. They’ve massacred teenagers. They’ve murdered Olympic athletes. They now shoot rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas. And again, the charter of their government in Gaza explicitly tells us that they want to annihilate the Jews—not just in Israel but everywhere.”
What I’m Reading and Watching…
The SEC goes after Congress for insider trading! Just kidding, they're investigating Elon Musk for purchasing Twitter after Biden Said It Was ‘Worth Being Looked At’ No one individual has done more in the cause of freedom than Musk. Opening up Twitter to freedom of speech has changed the order of the world, so of course the Democrats must crush him.
Sasha Stone with some interesting thoughts on Christianity as the new counterculture.
Commercial of the Year
Best of Twitter
Memetic Warfare
Parting Words…
That’s it for this week folks. Hope you enjoyed and as always, please share it with a friend if you did. In vires numeris.