so where was yours and your buddies when it came to McCarthy, you and your buddy stayed quiet because it was a Republican
Are you talking to me or dudebro,
I gave my opinion, Chaos is good, let them fight
I gave you my opinion, as far as everyone else, I am assuming they have things to do rather than sit on this thread 24/7 like you
With that said, it is time for dinner
Let the Chaos rule
There was multiple times to give your Opinion on the McCarthy matter, lmao,.
But you and your buddies would go back complaining about the Democracts, and blah blah blah.
Enjoy your dinner.
@Dennis3450…SmallPaul’s world is so small and insecure he has no concept of time zones, light and dark, day and night, left and right or right or wrong… This thread is his pulpit for his messed up reality…
Hence he responds to any variation on his distorted world view 24/7
“where was yours…” What are you are Redneck or something even less intelligent??
McCarthy being side-lined and replaced, Boebert’s theatre shenanigans, Santos’s CV fraud, Trump being found guilty of a few random misdemeanour’s will not destroy the fabric of society and life as you know it in the United States…
An open Southern Border with drugs, weapons and tens of thousands of illegal’s flowing across it every day will change the US for ever…
Unfortunately… Both @SmallPaul and his accomplice in delusion @dudebro are oblivious to the subsequent destruction to the American way of life as they know it…
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Hey Dennis there’s your sidekick, Mr TDS himself or Mr. If the democract did it and blah blah, I was done with this clown a long time ago.
You ignorant Muppet… You can’t even spell Democrat…
Give it away… You’re a lost cause…
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McCarthy could have negotiated with Democrats for their support in order to guarantee that he kept the position, but he did not, telling CNBC Tuesday morning that Democrats will “decide whatever they’re going to do. And we will live with whatever happens.” Gaetz, however, reached out to Democrats to try and ensure their votes against McCarthy.
I like people on both sides of this debate. My Rep voted to keep him. I don’t have a problem with that. Debate is good, especially when it comes to spending.
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What part of their way of life will be destroyed because of the border?
I’m thinking most Americans probably think about it but what’s going on doesn’t really affects them unless they live in a border state.
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@samewise You’re not thinking…!! Out of sight… Out of mind is not a defence strategy…
Many qualified skilled people and entrepreneurs who applied for Visa’s legally have to wait months and months maybe even a year or longer to have their paperwork sorted…
Then these people just crossing boarders illegally and can settle in NYC… 
It’s 2023 nothing surprising anymore. What a shame, a great country is massively affected by its poor leadership!
"We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked…” Barack Obama, 2005.
"I voted, when I was a Senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in…” Hillary Clinton, 2015…
Enough said…
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You’re saying this is because of illegals at the border? I thoughts visas take months and years anyway. Like that’s the normal time frame, even before all the border stuff.
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Then these people just crossing boarders illegally and can settle in NYC… 
Why should the qualified / entrepreneurs have to wait months to move to the US…?? While tens of thousands of unvetted illegal’s queue jump every month into the United States via the Biden Express…
I hope I line up behind you at McDonalds next time I’m there…
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First they try to let Fetterman dress in gym clothes. Then Bowman pulls the alarm…
Democrats think they are in an elementary school playground…
The Trumpster has his say on Congress’s Radical Leftist Lunatic’s…
Sounds like the jailed J6 Martyrs will be pardoned if Trump gets the office of President back…
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Those guys deserve credit, you have to give them credit where it is due
GOP Senator Indefinitely Suspended from Caucus for Trying to Impeach DA Fani Willis Over Trump Indictment In Georgia: ‘Causing Unnecessary Tension and Hostility’
The GOP Senate Caucus announced it’s indefinitely suspending Georgia Sen. Colton Moore for demanding a special session to impeach Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis for the election interference indictment she brought against Donald Trump.
Moore made a concerted but wholly ineffective attempt within the Senate to gather support for Willis’ impeachment, which Senate Republicans called “impossible” in a statement they released about Moore’s suspension.
“Despite the fact that 32 of 33 Republican State Senators, the Governor, Lt. Governor, Speaker of the House, and the Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party agree that a Special Session to take action against the Fulton County District Attorney is impossible, Senator Moore has a right to his opinion,” the statement read. “However, during his advocacy for his ill-conceived proposal, Senator Moore has knowingly misled people across Georgia and our nation, causing unnecessary tension and hostility, while putting his caucus colleagues and their families at risk of personal harm.”
Even Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called his attempts a “grifter scam” and “political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment.” Kemp also made it clear that Willis has not exhibited conduct that would warrant her removal or the defunding of her office.
This essay was posted on the Sovereign Man website, and emailed to subscribers, two days ago. It was timely then. Given the disfunction in Congress, which came to a head today, this essay is even more timely.
It’s a long essay. If you don’t have the attention span to consider a little history, just skip it. There are other things to read here. This thread is full of sound-bytes, one-liners, and pissing contests — enough to amuse even the most impatient reader.
SOVEREIGN MAN
IT’S TIME TO SEPARATE LEGEND FROM REALITY
October 2, 2023
Byzas of Megara must have been positively dumbfounded when he first set foot on the banks of the Bosporus River.
It was the year 667 BC, more than 2,700 years ago, and Byzas was on a mission from the Greek mainland to find new colonies.
His fleet had just landed on the European side of modern day Istanbul. And as he gazed across the river to the Asian side, Byzas could see another small settlement-- a tiny colony known as Chalcedon.
From a strategic and maritime perspective, the Asian side of the river was obviously inferior. There was no protective terrain, no natural harbors. And the ground was more of a swamp.
Byzas thought the settlers at Chalcedon must have been blind to build their settlement on the wrong side of the river, when they could have just as easily built on the vastly superior European side.
But he wasn’t about to let the Chalcedons fix their mistake; so Byzas immediately seized the land and established a new colony. It became known to history by many names-- Byzantium. Constantinople. And now Istanbul.
One of his first priorities was to build a wall… to protect from the Chalcedons just in case they got any bright ideas and tried to seize the European side for themselves.
And over time, the walls of Byzantium grew. Later rulers added dozens of towers and gates. The walls were reinforced and thickened. New walls were added.
By the time Byzantium became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 300s AD (and was renamed Constantinople), the city’s walls were already impressive. But Rome’s imperial government continued to invest further in the city’s defenses.
Eventually the Walls of Constantinople became legendary; kings and military commanders around the world simply accepted as truth that the city’s walls were impenetrable. And it remained this way for more than 1,000 years.
But the legend finally died on May 29, 1453. After a prolonged siege, the armies of Ottoman leader Mehmed II did what everyone had thought was impossible: he breached the walls of Constantinople and sacked the city.
In retrospect this shouldn’t have been a surprise. By the 1400s, the Byzantine Empire was bankrupt and nearly collapsed. Everyone knew it. Especially the Ottomans.
But there’s something inherently emotional about watching a legend die, so the loss at Constantinople was a shocking event at the time.
History is full of similar stories, as is our popular culture.
Muhammed Ali was 38 years old when he climbed into the ring to face a much younger Larry Holmes in October 1980.
Everyone knew that Ali was slower, weaker, and well past his prime. But he was also a legend… so, despite all rational evidence, people still believed Ali could win. The odds in Las Vegas, in fact, were quite close.
Reality set in when the bell rang; Larry Holmes savagely pummeled Ali for ten straight rounds until Ali’s trainer finally threw in the towel to stop the fight.
A young Sylvester Stallone was in attendance and watched the fight from the first row; it was so brutal he later described the fight as “watching an autopsy on a man who’s still alive.”
Even when it should be obvious, legends still die hard.
It’s difficult to not feel the same way about the Legend of America. People around the world… including hundreds of millions in the United States… don’t want the legend to die.
But the rational data is too obvious to ignore.
Late Saturday night, after narrowly avoiding another shutdown, the US government closed its 2023 fiscal year. And while the final data won’t be published for a few weeks, it looks like the deficit for the year will be close to $2 trillion. And gross interest on the debt will total nearly $900 billion.
That’s on a national debt that now exceeds $33 trillion-- an increase of more than $10 trillion (around 50%) from before the pandemic in October 2019.
It’s extraordinary how little the people in charge seem to care.
In fact, not only will this catastrophe continue to be ignored, I’m almost certain that the White House will actually brag about these results; they’ll make some bizarre claim that these abysmal numbers prove that their idiotic policies are working.
And their propagandists in the mainstream media will dutifully repeat this fiction with a straight face to the American public.
Yet even the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the problem will quickly become much worse.
Just consider that spending for this current fiscal year (which started yesterday) is projected to reach $6.4 trillion. However only about $900 billion of that is “discretionary”, non-defense spending.
In other words, almost all the money that the government spends is either mandatory entitlement programs (like Social Security and Medicare), interest on the debt, or defense.
Conclusion? There are very few options to make a significant dent in the deficit problem. They’ll either have to cut benefits to Social Security recipients. Or slash military spending. Or default on the debt.
It’s doubtful that any politician has the will to do any of those things. So the fallback option, of course, will be to do what governments in trouble have almost invariably done throughout history: print more money.
The Federal Reserve will almost certainly have to reverse course… and not only STOP the interest rate hikes, but reverse them and slash rates back to zero. They might even make interest rates negative, just to give extra, needed support to the federal government.
The impact on the dollar in this case will be substantial, including inflation, and the loss of its dominant global reserve status.
And this brings me back to the ‘legend’ of America’s invincibility.
The legend has already been pierced multiple times over the past few years from a series of national humiliations-- the embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan, the President shaking hands with thin air, the constant debt ceiling and government shutdown fiascos.
Any rational observer can easily see that America is past its peak, like Muhammed Ali in 1980. Yet most people still want to cling to the legend of invincibility… and they’ll continue to do so until it finally crumbles for good.
Now, I’ll be the first to acknowledge that the US still has a narrow window to solve its problems. It’s also true that the US is not alone in having gargantuan challenges.
Europe is suffering major fiscal imbalances too, not to mention a migration crisis and war in its backyard. China has its own economic, banking, and demographic emergencies.
But none of that is a sensible reason to ignore such obvious threats. It seems foolish to pin one’s hopes and dreams on politicians who shake hands with thin air, refuse to work together, nor rationally discuss problems and priorities.
And this is why having a Plan B is so critical.
History is an ample guidebook to the future consequences of these challenges. More inflation. Higher taxes. Social chaos. Potentially even war.
Yet while it’s clear we cannot rely on government to fix the problems of their own making, a solid Plan B can mitigate the consequences.
The basics are simple: don’t keep all of your eggs in one basket. Have a place to go. Diversify jurisdictions. Own real assets. Implement simple, legal strategies to reduce your taxes. Protect your assets. Think long term.
There are plenty of solutions out there as well.
But the first step is separating legend from reality.
To your freedom,
Simon Black, Founder
Sovereign Man
Simon Black is the pen-name of James Hickman, the founder of
Sovereign Research.
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Exactly. But he doubled down, like he had a plan for the documents that he said he was allowed to keep. /s
Again, scamming the government and the people.
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A great essay… Displaying Western Society’s misguided belief in the Gambler’s fallacy…
The Gamblers or “hot hand fallacy” is the notion where people believe that after a string of successes, an individual or entity is more likely to have continued success . Psychologists believe that the hot hand is a fallacy that stems from the representative heuristic (rule of thumb), as identified by behavioural economics.
It was the failure of this continuation fallacy that played a part in the last economic melt down… The GFC… As described by Dr. Richard H. Thaler in the Movie the Big Short…
The same fallacy that powers the Real Estate, Stock, Bond, Credit Markets and most of the developed Global economies…
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It keeps getting worse, he always plays victim to his own actions
Fox Host Points Out Insanity of Trump’s Bank Fraud Trial ‘Jury’ Claim
Despite Donald Trump’s courthouse complaint Monday that his bank fraud trial in New York is being decided by a judge rather than a jury, it was the former president’s own lawyers who agreed to such an arrangement, Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov pointed out on The Five.
Trump, who voluntarily attended Monday’s proceedings, griped to the press afterwards that it is “very unfair that I don’t have a jury.” Judge Arthur Engoron ruled last week that Trump, his top executives, and his heirs were liable for “persistent and repeated fraud,” and he will now decide on the financial penalties.
Of the bench trial, Tarlov said, “it also seems that [Trump] doesn’t—and this has happened to him before—have a top-notch legal team with him.”
“He has the one lawyer who he had to pay in advance because he stiffs everybody,” she said, apparently referencing Trump’s payment last September to Chris Kise, who was initially expected to defend Trump in his Mar-a-Lago documents case.
“But it seemed that she forgot—or just, I don’t know what happened—to check the box saying that they wanted a jury trial,” Tarlov added, “and then Donald Trump is complaining to the cameras and on Truth Social that it is un-American to have a trial without a jury when his own crackpot team asks for that.”
Judge Engoron himself also noted Monday that Trump’s lawyers “never asked” for a jury trial—something that drew a matter-of-fact response from some legal experts.
Fox Host Points Out Insanity of Trump’s Bank Fraud Trial ‘Jury’ Claim
Pelosi Evicted: McCarthy Reportedly Taking Office Space After Ouster Vote…
“Gaetz has no sway in the House” - Pelosi on CNN 2 days ago… Vodka will do that to you…
McCarthy is entitled to the space as the fired Speaker. She’s now the twice removed speaker so she has to move… Simple…
Trumpster would make an excellent Speaker… Democrats would be left incandescent…
He keeps embarrassing himself. lmao
This is what happens when you think you know American Politics.