Europe’s Last Stand

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OK, so Europe struggles to put its “big boy pants’ on while the Deep State goes to war on Musk. Toss in nearly two dozen charts (and how to look at them as “snow stakes” in wintery mountains) and a grand time will be had by all.

Well, except people trying to make it big in AI. All turns into a very mind-expanding report

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82 thoughts on “Europe’s Last Stand”

    • Yeah thats what DeepStaters be saying as well..

      then gain who needs TRANSPARANCY ? You can trust the 4th Reich..bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah

      Hey Chief – I wanna schedule a Wake Up Call – for when the Epstain lists get released, ya know, right after massive Flock of Feral Pigs lands on Egors frozen lake, for the first of several Touch And Go training runs.

      Cant tell If Ive been Bambozzled or Confuzzled by president Scam Wow, again.

      • Yep , you’ve been bamboozled , as have us all. Reagan said ” trust but verify “. OUR mistake is to trust at all ! Epstein was OBVIOUSLY an Israeli infiltrate and blackmail operation , why should ANYONE believe that Trump or any of the other Whores in our Govt will truly let that cat out of the bag. DON’T TRUST !!

  3. Europes last stand ?

    Dude have you seen WTF is going on down south of Ure ass?
    -https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/texas-rancher-killed-border-ied-attack-cartel-terrorist

    ied attacks in CONUS has forecasted for a looong time by that other Flying Hawaiian – Dick Algire and the Future Forecasting Grp.

    Tween the Chicoms buying up all the nearby RE to busiest Airbase in SW, truckloads of heavy weapons Chowbidan had imported in USA, spidey senses are lil jangled – feels like a BIG darkness approaching.

    Where the hell is the “free-will” ET’s when you could use a helping hand..in breaking FREE this SOUL prison?

    WTF, over?

  4. The rich, powerful and well connected Musk is such a victim of the Deep State.

    On Monday: “The Verizon system is not working and so is putting air travelers at serious risk,” Musk on Monday posted on X, the social media site he has owned since 2022.

    On Wednesday: “WASHINGTON (AP) — A satellite company owned by Elon Musk has the inside track to potentially take over a large federal contract to modernize the nation’s air traffic communications system. Equipment from Musk’s Starlink has been installed in Federal Aviation Administration facilities as a prelude to a takeover of a $2 billion contract held by Verizon, according to government employees, contractors and people familiar with the work.”

    Musk appreciates your concern for his suffering and trauma he’s facing at the hands of the Deep State.

      • That sounded a little fishy to me – so I asked two separate A.I.’s.

        “No, that’s not true. There is no evidence to support the claim that USAID paid Pizza Hut $150 million to renovate and modernize in 1997. This claim has been fact-checked and thoroughly debunked.”

    • from The Hill (a notoriously right wing pub.) :

      [… The agency, on Monday, stated that some remote areas in the U.S. have “long” had problems with providing reliable weather information for the aviation community.

      “That is why the FAA has been considering the use of Starlink since the prior administration to increase reliability at remote sites, including in Alaska,” the FAA wrote on the social platform X. “This week, the FAA is testing one terminal at its facility in Atlantic City and two terminals at non-safety critical sites in Alaska.”…]

      source : https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5163040-faa-testing-elon-musk-starlink-airspace/

      Once the Musk share winds through Corp. structure the (perceived) benefit is pocket change. However, if administering flack to the designated Administration whipping boy gives pleasure? Have at it.

      Look, it’s understood we should continue with a 1990s tech solution to connectivity and send the good stuff to Ukraine. Or?

      Egor

      • find out why the $2 Billion verizon contract that was signed in 2023 is going to be breached by .gov, post the open bid process for upgrading the FAA system. let’s see the RFP, the bids and how the decision was made to choose musk’s company. let’s also find out if musk was able to access any .gov info which may have provided an inside track on the nationwide RFPs.

        not hard stuff.

    • Cost cutters, the price of litigation over Musk’s illegal ‘X’ firings and/or layoffs far exceed a legal severance payment (Twitter/X employees):
      https://www.detroitnews.com/story/tech/2025/02/26/musks-ex-twitter-workers-win-severance-over-layoff-after-fork-in-the-road-email/80531042007/
      Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer representing former employees in arbitrations, wrote in the memo that the 20 cases she’s won so far have cost the company at least twice the amount of contested severance pay because the awards have also included interest, arbitration expenses and legal fees.

      American taxpayer, congrats, you’ll get to pick up the bill for Musk’s illegal firing of Federal employees!
      https://www.wcvb.com/article/elon-musk-lawsuit-federal-workers-layoffs/63901412

      https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-buyout-officially-161518178.html
      Top investment bankers on Barclays’ mergers and acquisitions team were told last year their compensation would be cut by a minimum of 40 percent from the prior year. The bank had multiple hung deals that had hit its overall performance, but X was by far the biggest, sources told the Journal.

      Crash the U.S. economy, deja vu 2008:
      Loans that Elon Musk used to buy Twitter have become the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the financial crisis of 2008-09, according to a report.

      Crash the U.S. economy, deja vu 2008:
      Seven banks involved in the deal, including the likes of Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, gave Musk’s holding company about $13 billion to take the social media giant private in 2022. According to The Wall Street Journal, banks who lend cash for takeovers typically try to sell the debt to other investors fast—but that has not happened with the Twitter deal.

      • Unlike the liberal screed, conservatives (in the financial and social sense) realize that no job, evedn in govt. is a lifetime entitlement. No worka lasts forever, either. Like Buggy Whip makers. I’m sure the libs would piss and moan over those jobs going away, as well.
        But look, when you say “according to a report” that kind of attribution is not credible. The only way we “entitle ourselves” above poorhouse outcvomes is through our dedication to hard work and excellence. Being of a color, a (made up) gender, or a grift of any kind doesn’t work. It’s (as Robert Service wrote) “the hell served for breakfast that’s hard.””
        Democrats of the War (and grifter) stripe were always big on writing, but not so much in the sciences and numbers. I saw it every day when I was running technical colleges. Difference in IQ topology. Some go to language, others do numbers. Engineers (Musk) do numbers,
        Please consider this broadfer view as it is a long running thread over history.

      • WRT the borrowed money for the Twitter deal:

        Just a couple of weeks or so ago a news story ran that one of those original lenders had just off loaded much (all?) of their Twitter Buy loan and had gotten (I think it was) 96 cents on the dollar.

        Since those were VERY HIGH INTEREST loans they actually made out like a bandit with that loan, ended up making a lot of money on the deal though they did have to hold it for several years vs turning it in a more typical 6 to 18 month period.

        Muck clearly overpaid for Twitter, why he tried to renegotiate the deal before it closed but the Courts wouldn’t allow him, but since he has cut 80% of his labor (people) and is finally getting advertising back (after his lawsuit about the secret effort to keep advertisers away run indirectly by the US Govt and/or it’s minions) Twitter actually now has reasonable cash flow to work with.

  5. re: a ‘Concert of Europe’
    feat: light brigade

    Folks,
    President Zelensky has posted his support for the ‘Crimean Platform’ splinter group. It’s accompanied by an undated picture of a CP crowd mobbing the group’s hq in Kyiv.

    “Wikipedia” pictures President Z. at the same locale attired in a suit four years ago today. He was attending the venue’s opening in more peaceful circumstances.

    Here is a link to the “new” ‘Crimea Platform’ website. Onward links to statements of a supportive representative from the European Parliament may be found therein:

    https://crimea-platform.org/en/

      • because according to the article you posted he donated $1,500,000 to rebuild a community center used by kids for sports and art. he wanted to see the site of the previous community center that was bombed into rubble by the pacifist russian army three years ago. seems pretty noble to me. and you make up crap to demean him.

        re: what pedophiles look like. ‘takes one to know one.’

        • well, what do ya know,,, someone just mentions a story about a pedo and up jumps @liddle truth to protest,,,
          pedos of the feather flock together,,,,
          Makes me wonder , war produces orphans, making it easy to find fodder for the pedos, just put out bait, a gathering place.
          1.3 million is small investment for the potential profit to be made.

          I spend money on dry cat to bait starlings,,,, I don’t get, but just a small percentage of the ones that visit my bait,,, 80 last week during to cold snap and snow are no longer with the flock, but who even notices,,, war orphans attract pedos,,, easy mark/target
          takes one to protect one,,, pedos that is

      • BCN,
        At a guess the Baron may have leap-frogged from a visit to his previously sponsored childrens’ bacterialogical institute founded a couple of years ago in Lviv. Certainly one can only imagine that the Ukraine First Couple can have any special needs met by the House of Lords Peer. The latter’s knowledge of UK backroom politics and shenanigans perhaps would furnish an entire farm with dirt. I daresay that might be why msm filmed former PM Mr. Boris Johnson from the war zone streets of Kyiv the other day rather than in a relaxed retirement pose from a lovely Caribbean island beach.

        Thank you for your kindly supplied link above from Channel 5 whose formative years were guided by the Baron. The station’s concurrent coverage of yesterday’s interception of three illegal immigrants, 2 Americans and 1 Canadian, from the Lev Behar (Pure Heart) cult. Apparently the three are being returned to Guatamala to deal with child rape charges.

        I do hope things settle down in your neighborhood quickly so you can enjoy uninterrupted peace. Hold the quiet as we join DJ George for a “Sound of Music” finale at the following Youtube link. The children climb to safety against a backdrop of Charlemagne’s magical, mystery mountain – Der Unsterberg.

        https://youtu.be/jvDFoF9sfQA

    • re: “The (real war) will not be televised”
      feat: disinfo

      Folks,
      Russian-leaning media outlet “Wartimedia” published a video with an advice alleging it depicted “a Chinese” in a Ukraine battle theatre. The soldier’s uniform appeared to bear a fake Russian Spetsnaz badge logo translating as “enough power, honor, curtains”.

      The two lines of chinese characters at the top of the video frames read as follows:
      “This is a legal behind-the-scenes video taken beside an elementary school. Please do not imitate it in China.
      #film and television props. Please do not imitate professional movements.”

      Here is the “Wartimedia” link:

      https://t.me/wartimedia/92931

  6. TSLA wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for all the tax breaks it got. The difference between Biden grifters and Trump grifters – the Trump grifters are right out in the open.

      • Tesla (TSLA) came first.

        Tesla, Inc. was founded on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Elon Musk joined later as an early investor and took over leadership.
        Federal Carbon Credits (as part of U.S. cap-and-trade programs) began taking shape after the 2009 Waxman-Markey bill, though voluntary carbon credit markets existed before that. The first major U.S. federal cap-and-trade effort started under California’s system in 2013, and broader federal programs have evolved since.
        Conclusion:
        Tesla predates federal carbon credit programs by about 6-10 years, depending on which program you count.
        However, Tesla has significantly benefited from selling carbon credits to other automakers, generating billions in revenue.
        If you’re thinking in terms of investment or market timing, Tesla got a head start, but federal carbon credits are now a growing economic force.

    • First Epstein dump is tomorrow. Bondi’s team is censoring only things which can be used to identify victims. All flight logs will be unedited.

      The AG’s Office is going through 10s of thousands of hours of video (Epstein apparently had every room in every one of his domiciles bugged) and may release masked (PG-rated) video clips. The only ones I’ve seen were from the “dungeon” – catacombs under the mansion on his island. No sex. In fact I can’t remember if the children were even nude. What I do remember is they were treated like herded animals. ‘Twas very sick, very disturbing, and it left me with no desire to rewatch any of the clips to grok more detail…

      • ?????
        I just read that when they went to get the Epstein lists..that those agency workers working to destroy the lists had been successful and the lists no longer exist..
        Just look to see which agency employees got a nice bonus check deposited recently..

        • The flight logs and list of participants , while important , is not the major issue that needs to be revealed. The MAJOR issue is who or what group was organizing and financing the operation , and the answer is obvious. WAKE THE FUCK UP.

  8. Yesterday I posted this – but I need to add a caveat here:

    The “Expectations Index,” which tracks consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions, also fell to 72.9 in February from 82 last month. Historically, a reading below 80 in this index signals a recession in the coming year.

    This Index has been watched closely., but – it has dropped below the 80 mark, doom-n-gloom point, on a couple occasions in the past few years and no recession has appeared.

    It is a good one to watch., but I don’t believe it is the solid indicator it once was.

    • dLynn : lots of indicators seem less prescient of late. Still, it’s reasonable that would happen during bubbly peaks due to attention diverted to the latest whiz bangery. I giggle watching crypto added to so many Chyrons now that it’s in vogue again. The VIX used to be a solid indicator that seems less instructive? I still suppose that’s due to momo kids playing -0- DTE options. Why not just sit at the table and pick red / black? I dunno. The world belongs to the young until history rhymes … Egor

      • I agree. What once was………..,

        The old tried-n-true indicators seem to have lost their punch., and to me – are not very reliable anymore. Vix included.

        I attribute this loss of “the old reliable”., [ take your pick..,] to modern day computer algorithm trading / control.., and so much damn money available.

        An analyst said a few months back, that.., “12 major U.S. investment houses [ think Blackrock ] control the stock market., the rest of us are simply transient gamblers.”

        The Top – in many areas / sectors do look very “bubbly”.., a lot of them – but we have been playing this game for a while now., and I do not know what the trigger will be to create the correction that has been ‘looming’ for quite some time. [ 20%, or better]

        They now also control Bitcoin.

      • Even Gold., according to the latest Elliott Wave “forecast” shows that it could be topping right here and, on the way down.

      • “indicators” … nothing more that bait the casino (Wall Street) uses to keep people in the game, no more, no less ………… and guess what, it works and will keep working as long as folks think they know best ……. as the casino rakes in their share year after year after year …. ugggg, good luck all

        • Slight case of bullshit.

          With my math and “indicators” I am up just over 82% in my trading account so far this year.

          Do I “know best”? Nope. But with my “indicators” I do pretty damn good.

  9. March is always a busy month around here. My birthday.,”The Mrs” birthday., our Anniversary.., The annual “I don’t give a damn what the weather is doing” – barbecue-bash with all my local trading partners. [ It’s usually a biggie.] And this year I have two projects [ one big, one small-ish.] to squeeze in there somewhere.., plus all the Spring ‘clean-n-prep’ of the raised vegetable beds [ frozen ground – weather dependent – still looking at small rototillers ] Get the green house going for full sprout production., and my annual Supplement Review.., which takes more time each year. [As I get more informed and ask better questions.] Along with all the daily-daily stuff., and three, or four novels., a possible big stakes private game invite. [ The tension mounts.!] Told a ‘semi-friend’, occasional shooting partner, that I would do an action-job and rebuild his 1911 45acp – which is a real time-sink, as I am ‘very’ attentive and focused when dealing with someone’s EDC. And of course., whittle-away on the “Honey-Do-List”. Ohh.., one more ‘thing’. Possible new theoretical math research project on the horizon – but I am a little hesitant on this one – this kind of research really messes with my personal time-line.., as in: “I forget that time even exists!” – “The Mrs” doesn’t like it very much either, as I disappear into the Twilight Zone ‘math haze’. But the subject is very interesting and very close to something I have been pondering for a few years – seems they are waiting for the funding to be approved., and confirmation on mainframe scheduling., and the various vendors to sign the coffee-&-donuts with fresh taco delivery guarantees.
    .., and of course, there’s – Day light Savings Time is in there somewhere., just to mess with me.

    Gotta love Spring !

    • Would like to hear your supplement review… annual visit to doctor coming up in a few weeks…they have no idea what supplements could help. I’ve been a C, Z, D guy for years and L-carnitine for some nitric oxide. Hopefully others will post their ideal supplement help…sure it varies. Like your take on markets always…do trade SPY several times each week…

      • I wrote a whole book on Longevity – Dr. Between Your Ears – and from that, here’s out current supplement list.
        NMN
        NAD+
        PQQ
        Urolithin A
        Resveratrol
        Pterostilbene
        Quercetin + Zinc
        Vitamin D3 + K2
        Omega-3 DHA
        Raspberry Ketones
        B-Complex
        C60 Fullerenes
        TMG (Trimethylglycine)
        AKG (Alpha-Ketoglutarate)
        Panax Ginseng
        Rapamycin (Prescription)
        CoQ10 (Ubiquinol)
        Curcumin
        Magnesium L-Threonate
        Citicoline
        Berberine
        Spermidine
        Astaxanthin
        Fisetin
        DHEA
        Alpha Lipoic Acid
        Baby Aspirin
        Phosphatidylserine
        Apigenin
        GlyNAC
        5-HTP
        Lion’s Mane

        The “dialed back” is in the book – we continue evolving this. But it AI’s out as having a potentially large impact on both lifespan and healthspan. There are skip days and alt. days (spermidine/fisetin and baby aspirin/curcumin are two that come to mind as alts)
        Also see today’s remains on e-spa (which will post about 7:45 AM)

        D’Lynn hopefully will give you his “short stack” version, too.
        geo

      • If you have a chart built and a ‘feel’ for SPY it is a good one to trade.
        .
        George’s list is very comprehensive and thorough – covers damn near everything., though I do not see any pre / pro biotics, vitamin ‘C’ or Glutathione., or fish oil [ get only the best grade fish oil., or it’s kind of useless.]
        Since your Med-People do not know supplements – “you” need to do the research and work. Copy and paste all that is listed here., then look each one up for what it does., and how it may benefit you.
        George lists Quercetin + Zinc. I do not do that. I take both of them, but separately., to control the amount/potency of each.
        You have to do the research and the math. It “will” pay off in the end. A little overwhelming at first, but once you dig-in and get going, it does get easier., and you will be better informed., and understand the terminology better.
        Side Note: I do not take all the supplements George has listed here.

        Take care with the Baby Aspirin regime. A lot of new research and evidence is pointing to the fact that it may not be as beneficial to those over 70 as previously thought., due to the potential of internal bleeding. I take one every-other-day. No longer daily.

        Go to work – and good luck

  13. Ok … back to the “Have I got a Real Estate Deal for YOU!! One used bridge in the heart of New York is available for sale and YOU, yes YOU, are the lucky person being given this once in a lifetime opportunity to … LOSE YOUR SHIRT!”

    I have talked about the Commercial Real Estate crisis, and how they have been shoveling everything they can over it to hide it now for a year. In my life I have now seen several of these CRE cycles come and go and they all follow the same pattern:

    *Banks over lend based upon Pie In The Sky Appraisals, appraisals that have no reality to anything real on this planet

    *After the borrower bleeds all the excess cash out of the property and the loans (making themselves rich) voila suddenly unanticipated vacancies start appearing in the property or properties. Who could know that the leases were going to expire? Absolutely unknowable information. Nobody ever knows when a lease is going to expire!

    *As vacancies appear and releasing problems show up, well rents have to be lowered to entice new tenants, “IF” they can find anybody at all to lease the space. Downard the rents spiral, but nobody is worried since like with Wine the old buildings are just getting better with age and no maintenance so in just a short while rents will not just go back up but rise ABOVE what that Pie In The Sky Appraisal said were a guaranteed amount

    *As tenants leave and rents drop … suddenly almost all the cash flow coming in, from those still paying (never evict someone in a problem property who is already in because there is nobody to replace them and they MIGHT pay eventually – ah the dreams of real estate guys – is all going to pay the building operating expenses.

    *Loan payments now can’t be made, but don’t worry, your favorite lender will LEND YOU MORE MONEY so you can pay the loan you already have but can’t pay!! Bank Regulators are happy. The loan is in compliance!

    *Now some time elapses and the bank examiners are starting to actually read some documents and are sniffing around, don’t worry they will NEVER visit the property in person to see what the true story is … time for some serious loan modifications, say one that has NO PAYMENTS for the next 6 month and then the owner will make double payments! Looks good on paper, to the Bank Examiner, all the paperwork is in order so the loan is categorized as a “Performing Loan”! (even though the owner can’t pay a single penny on it since all cash is going out for building operating expenses).

    OH and as you are going through all of that NEW Appraisals are ordered up which show a value that now is even HIGHER than the last one which was used to get the loan that the owner can’t pay.

    Then ONE DAY … one day … a bank examiner finally realizes that this darn loan and about 100 others in the institution’s portfolio hasn’t had a single penny paid on them for over two years, BUT THE PAPERWORK ALL LOOKS GREAT!.

    Suddenly a CRISIS arises … just “Out of the Blue”. The bank regulator is asking REAL questions now, not just looking at paper documents.
    Everybody is saying “Nobody could see this loan problem coming. IMPOSSIBLE to foresee. Everybody agrees on that!!

    And then the bank collapses into a pile of shit, or maybe it is an insurance company, or maybe it is a bond fund. If it is a big enough Shit Storm shoot even a brokerage firm, which probably helped structure and sell many of those loans, may be rendered insolvent. Yep even some sharks may be eaten (don’t worry other sharks will quickly replace them)

    Amyway the link is to a GREAT Zero Hedge Article that goes into what is developing presently in the CRE realm. One has to understand it takes literally YEARS for all the shenanigans to end when it come to a CRE collapse. For a single property they can hold off it even showing up as being insolvent for up to TWO YEARS without a single penny being paid on the loan!

    The CRE market started having serious trouble about a year after Covid started but because of “embedded leases” it didn’t start showing up as cash flow problems for owners until a couple of years later. Now we are getting to be about 2 year AFTER those cash flow problems began to hit and all the wall paper in China can no longer paper over all the shenanigans the CRE owners /syndicators /lenders have been doing to bamboozle everybody about the problem(s)

    Get ready for MASS credit impairment events to start cropping up in a couple of months and then getting worse and worse through the summer into the fall.

    Hang on tight … going to be a WILD RIDE!! Could be bigger than 2008!

    “Subprime Redux: Commercial Real Estate Bond Distress Hits Another Record High”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/subprime-redux-commercial-real-estate-bond-distress-hits-another-record-high

  14. George,

    I sent the the link you posted (Homestead Exemptions by U.S. State and Territory) to my friend in New York City. You are so right to be where you are.

    He replied:

    “NY is ruined. You have to see in all the boroughs how there are thousands of speed and red light cameras. All over Howard Beach, Queens on not only a main boulevard, these things are on the residential avenues. Go over 30 mph and bang you get a ticket.

    The leadership in NYS is insane and what is more insane are the morons that vote this junk in year after year.”

    • Yo JC,

      Whats Youse Ure boy Grumpy Ass(dont blame him 4 being grumpy) Stewart got on the “Man in Red Hat/Cape/Shirt” ?

      *Comes from Hopi prophecy, after 1st group of “Peoples”(nazi’s) Shake the World with new Science and powerful weapons, bringing it to the edge of Destruction.
      Next group comes from the West – led by this Red Hat wearing Leader – they have been given the assignment(Great Spirit) of cleaning up the World and they will have some compassion and love for the Peeps here in CONUS.

      Should they fail to clean up this godforsaken planet, then a 3rd group will come from East – they be unstoppable and show NO MERCY to ANYONE.

      What strikes is the Red MAGA Hat tRUMP has been seen/pictured/video of him wearing..The Leader in a Red Hat . Only thing missing from admin are some high level Bhuddists priests.

      Think we have a direct hit hear, but as I exist at the wrong/bad end of a Fourier Transform, in what I call “make believe time” it is hard to See clearly sometimes, even with my Eyes closed.

      Check out the heels these Cats are wearing..can see G dog stepping out back in the day (70’s) with is platform shoes…Boogie Fever ?
      3 dog night – https://youtu.be/xnyh6i9NvmE?si=-TXvoMiA4ICdmlsu

  15. As an addendum to the Grok 3 conversation with Glenn Beck already posted, this very short statement from a medical doctor confirms one of my biggest fears with AI.

    “What I worry about is people intentionally inserting information into the system that’s just wrong. I don’t worry about people doing it with good intent but about people who are doing it with malintent, who want to hurt people.”

    I have had a couple of responses recently from Chat GPT that I considered biased to the left.

    https://click.mail.medscape.com/?qs=c626d3f018219c0bec0694f42c9a63e48733582275d39b52667ef3e4a00d48661e63669c18f9f2239251798fdea9d62881f1a3426ad74356

    • I don’t recall if Beck mentioned, but “Grok-4” is in beta and “Grok-5” is in alpha. Back when I was building computers, I used to betatest a couple hundred apps and utilities per week. I’ve been toying with the idea of contacting the dev team to offer my (admittedly seasoned) services and trying to sell my age, experience, and life-POV as advantages. Playing with Grok-5 might be worth unretiring for…

  16. I absolutly approve of the tards whining away,,,cheers
    it is the sign, we are winning,,,
    I wonder what the the 29th secretary of defense was doing in GITMO?
    https://x.com/SecDef/status/1894539887531237841

    anyway I did a liddle more digging on @truth’s saying, ‘fold the map’ as part of his giving orientation to ?
    this is what google freely offers up

    “Troubled Youths Map
    The term “fold the map” in relation to troubled youths refers to the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI), which includes various facilities and programs aimed at struggling teenagers. These programs, such as youth residential treatment centers, wilderness programs, boot camps, and therapeutic boarding schools, claim to rehabilitate and teach troubled teenagers through various practices.

    The phrase “fold the map” metaphorically suggests the manipulation or alteration of a teenager’s life path, often against their will, by placing them in these programs. Parents may enroll their children in these programs due to perceived behavioral issues or contravening family expectations.
    However, these programs have faced numerous scandals involving child abuse, institutional corruption, and deaths, making the industry highly controversial
    [7].

    Former residents of these facilities often report being forcibly transported to them by teen escort companies, a practice known as “gooning,” which has been criticized on ethical and legal grounds [27][28].

    Troubled Teen Industry (TTI): A multi-billion dollar industry that includes various facilities and programs aimed at struggling teenagers, often controversial due to allegations of abuse and lack of regulation.
    Synanon: A drug rehabilitation program founded in 1958 that popularized “tough love” attack therapy and influenced many troubled teen programs [11][12].
    CEDU Educational Services: A company founded by a former Synanon member that operated therapeutic boarding schools and behavior modification programs until 2005, when it went out of business amid lawsuits and regulatory crackdowns [16][17].
    Élan School: A therapeutic boarding school founded in 1970 that closed down in 2011 amid persistent allegations of abuse [18][19].
    World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP): An umbrella organization of facilities meant for rehabilitating troubled teenagers that was shut down due to widespread allegations of physical and psychological abuse [20][22].
    These programs have been criticized for failing to offer evidence-based therapies and for using controversial practices such as forced labor, stress positions, and solitary confinement [8][23][46].
    https://search.brave.com/search?q=%27fold+the+map%27+troubled+youths&source=llmSuggest&summary=1&conversation=40641423ca35ee354fe9a4

    more reading,,,

    https://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/blog/2022/04/troubled-teen-industry-its-effects-oral-history

    https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a61678972/troubled-teen-industry-explained/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_teen_industry

  17. Why the Democrats, “never-Trumpers,” mainstream “media,” and other America-haters are in continual meltdown…

    THIS is a PORTION of what has happened so far this week, in just the Executive Branch:

    President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to uphold a 2019 order requiring insurers and hospitals to disclose costs. The order emphasizes and mandates disclosure of overall prices, not estimates, helping standardize price information and enforcing compliance. Health plans must also post negotiated rates, out-of-network payments, and prescription drug costs while maintaining an online tool for consumer access.

    Trump’s 2019 order required hospitals to display pricing for 300 services and provide a machine-readable file of all rates. Now, in 2025, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and HHS have 90 days to create an enforcement framework based on this pursuit of full transparency in an age where medical care costs continue to rise.
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    Additionally, Trump revealed plans for an immigration “Gold Card.” It’s a $5 million purchasable green card providing work authorization and a path to citizenship, replacing the EB-5 program. The initiative aims to reduce the deficit by attracting wealthy investors, job creators, and global talent, eliminating green card lotteries in favor of direct investment. Gold Card holders would be vetted and pay full U.S. taxes on domestic income but none on foreign earnings.

    Trump estimates selling 1 million cards could generate $5 trillion, while 10 million could eliminate the national debt with $50 trillion. He asserts the plan is legal without congressional approval, as it pertains to green cards, not automatic citizenship, and notes similar programs exist in other countries.
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    The White House announced it would determine which media outlets, including the Oval Office and Air Force One, have access to presidential press pools rather than mainstream journalist groups. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated the White House Correspondents’ Association would no longer have sole control over press pool organization, with access now decided daily by the administration. Many are praising the decision as something long overdue, mainly because of the biased reporting rhetoric of the mainstream press, as well as their collectivism in purposeful journalistic deception to paint the Trump administration in the most negative light possible.

    For example, The Associated Press reported that over 20 civil service employees resigned from Elon Musk’s DOGE to protest their opposition to the agency’s recent actions. Musk debunked the claim, labeling it “fake news,” explaining the employees were Democratic holdovers who refused to return to the office and would have been fired anyway.
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    Trump signed an executive order that suspends security clearances for Covington & Burling LLP employees linked to former special counsel Jack Smith. After signing, he tossed the pen and joked: “Send it to Jack Smith!”

    Blackwater CEO Erik Prince has proposed a $25 billion plan to the Trump administration to handle mass deportations. His plan includes using military bases as processing centers and a fleet of 100 planes to deport 500,000 people per month, aiming to remove 12 million by the 2026 midterms.

    Trump’s Department of Agriculture is moving to block illegal aliens from receiving food stamps while also supporting the proposed ban on using benefits for junk food and sugary drinks.

    In Saint Paul, Minnesota — a designated “sanctuary city” — ICE has arrested three convicted illegal alien child predators, paving the way for their deportation.

    Kristi Noem is ending the use of the “CBP One” app for migrant flights, except for self-deportation. Her decision follows journalist Breanna Morello’s report exposing the Biden administration’s secretive method of fast-tracking migrants through airport security without valid ID.

    Noem also confirmed she found the ICE raid leakers and fired them from their posts.

    Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, has issued directives to terminate employment and revoke the security clearances of over 100 intelligence officials from agencies like the NSA, CIA, and DIA. These officials were involved in chatrooms discussing explicit sexual topics during work hours.

    The FBI is formally investigating former director James Comey for running an off-the-books honeypot operation to infiltrate Trump’s 2016 campaign with undercover agents.

    DOGE canceled more wasteful spending projects, including $520 million for ESG investments in Africa, $69 million to the Eurasia Foundation for “digital transformation activity,” and $32 million toward programs including “media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova.”

    The Trump administration placed National Center for Education Statistics Commissioner Peggy Carr on leave weeks after national test scores hit two-decade lows. Carr, appointed by Biden in 2021, previously led NCES’s Assessment Division for nearly 20 years.

    I c/p’ed this stuff from several sources (including whitehouse.gov) and then culled & condensed it. My original list was much longer.

    Does anyone besides Nicole Wallace and the trailer trash on “The View” still long for the return of Joe Biden…?

    BTW, MSNBC shitcanned Rachel Maddow’s staff, effective when she goes back to a one night a week show, in April. I’m sure it has nothing to do with Maddow all but calling her bosses at Comcast, Microsoft, and NBC “racist” for canning the most-racist mouth on cable TV.

  18. Bitcoin is down another $4,000 today. Looks as though the forecast for a $70,000 to $73,000 support may be true.

    Currently at $83,030.00

    • Perhaps the cutbacks in govt payola have reduced the demand for token laundromat transactions. Shifting from a secrecy-obsessed, brown shirt payola-greased leftist totalitarian shadow-government kleptocracy to a free state economy should have all sorts of unforeseen, bizarre, and entertaining consequences. That DOGE can hunt.

  19. “Estimates suggest that, since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, the Biden administration has overseen total U.S. assistance to Ukraine on the order of roughly $175 billion.”

    The Trump Administration estimates this figure at $350 billion. When asked, Zelensky stated he did not know and could not find out where the OTHER $175 BILLION WENT.

    This at least hints that the Trump number of $350bln is the more-accurate number. Welcome to Bidenomics…

    • ray, why do you continue to believe people who have lied to you over and over and over again? is that what you do IRL? it’s fun to make stuff up. that’s why trump does it so often and then his flying monkeys run with it. there’s a pattern here. trump lies (there’s 20 million people over the age of 120 collecting social security, there’s one who is 350 years old) , flying monkeys run with it, trump uses lies to justify cuts.

      remember all of the military aid to ukraine is corporate welfare for the arms dealers. all of that money went into the pockets of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry

      https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47869

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o

      https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-checking-trumps-claims-amount-us-aid-ukraine/story?id=119167409

      • The left controls wikipedia.
        Kyivpost is hard line pro Zenlensky The Kyiv Post is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. In November 2021, following an editorial disagreement, the Kyiv Post fired all of its reporters, many of whom founded and joined the Kyiv Independent.
        BBC is the country pushing greater war in Ukraine
        And ABC? not the most reliable.
        So explain how it’s all Ray who’s being lied to?

        • To clarify, so you don’t stroke out when I say Wiki is left: The idea that “the left” controls Wikipedia is a bit of a simplification. Wikipedia is a collaborative platform, edited by volunteers from all over the world. Its content reflects the biases, perspectives, and motivations of those who choose to edit it, rather than being dictated by any single ideological group. Studies and analyses over the years—like from researchers tracking editor patterns—suggest that Wikipedia’s active contributors lean slightly left of center on average, especially on political or cultural topics. This comes from the demographics of who’s likely to spend time editing: younger, educated, often urban folks, who tend to skew progressive.

        • And on the Kyiv Post: Critics, especially from outside Ukraine, might see it as biased toward Kyiv’s narrative, rarely giving space to Russian viewpoints or peace proposals that favor Moscow. Its audience—international readers and Ukrainians alike—likely expects this stance, given its role as a Ukrainian outlet during a war of aggression. Whether that makes it “pro-war” depends on how you define the term: it’s not cheering for war in general, but it’s definitely not cheering for Ukraine to lay down arms either.We do remember the water shutoffs to Crimea and the racist nature of the Western backed coup govt in Kiev, however.

        • George is correct, and more so when you consider that some of the ‘volunteers’ are paid by a “Soros” style donor to sit and watch Wiki all day and crush any counter view point, overwrite and erase any dissent.

        • ok GU, I’ll play. you didn’t like any of my four links because…lol. what’d you think of ray’s link evidencing $350Billion in payments??? but you”re willing to believe it without any source or citation, while you whine about my links. again, self confirming bias fallacy. can anyone substantiate $350billion? please do.

          how’s this link? $66Billion in military aid, which by the way all went into the pockets of US arms merchants.
          https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-political-military-affairs/releases/2025/01/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine

          the country is in the toilet because y’all would rather believe lies than the Truth

        • sorry BCN, i don’t speak that language. can you get an english speaker to translate for you? have another drink, smoke and snort! it’s paying wonderful dividends for your cognition.

      • Ahahahah

        just wait till Raymondo starts “lying” about Ure precious obongo’d climate bullscheisse – some of the WORST Science my eyes have ever been abused with.. IDIOCACY.

        Ahahah -can hardly wait to hear the “tardicrats” start howling!

        Rock and Roll EPA Admin Lee Zeldin – ROCK AND F-ing ROLL!

    • I am betting arms vendors and Ukraine Generals didn’t get all or even most of the missing bucks.
      I am sure, that when AI starts tracing, they will find a loop from Ukraine Government to Aid Orgs to NGOs to oh, let say Education organizations, to skipping a few steps, US Sin-ators Campaign Funds and personal education Foundations etc, etc, etc.

  20. George,

    Tesla ended below its 7 Nov 2024 ending close.

    Some folks may be in the favor of the 80 year reversal of US NATO policy and the US institutional destruction chaos that is transpiring; it is not good for geopolitical stability and it is not good for equity/commodity market stability. Maybe a quasi replay of Oct 1987 is in the cards…

    • 1987 that would square with Trump modeling himself as a Reagan Republican. It would complete the pattern…. MAGA

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