Senate Impeachment Trial for Insurrection – Day Two, 12:00pm Livestream


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 10, 2021 by Sundance

The second day of former President Trump’s second impeachment trial continues in the Senate. President Trump is being charged with one article claiming incitement of an insurrection prior to the Jan. 6th Capitol chaos. [Livestream Links Below]

The insufferable political exercise is scheduled to begin at Noon ET.

CSPAN Livestream – PBS Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream – FBN Livestream

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Biden’s Executive Orders


Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 8, 2021 AT 9:50 AM

“I don’t even know what I am signing” Fraud in Chief Joe Biden

Who is ordering Biden’s flood of executive orders? Why, the invigorated Deep State Swamp, of course.

Biden is a puppet chosen by the Swamp. He certainly wasn’t chosen by many voters. In early 2020, Biden came in 4th in Iowa during the Democratic primary. He finished 5th in New Hampshire. Sleepy Joe looked finished. His debate performances were a dismal embarrassment.

Yet the Deep State chose him and that was that. They knew he was corrupt and would carry out another term for Obama, who is likely one of Biden’s string pullers. Hillary pulls the strings on Kamala. They didn’t care what the voters wanted. The Swamp obviously did everything necessary to assure a Biden victory. They outspent Trump by a wide margin on campaign ads. They shamelessly cheated and stole the election when it was clear Trump would win by a landslide.

The plethora of executive orders are necessary for the Swamp to remove as many of Trump’s accomplishments as possible just in case something happens and Biden is removed from office. Everyone knows the election was stolen—even Democrats. Only they call it ‘fortifying’ the election.

It’s unlikely a general revolution will occur by the people to remove Joe’s regime. Americans may be angry, but they’re kept distanced and fearful. Most won’t even remove their slave masks of submission. Perhaps the last hope resides with the Supreme Court. If only they’d get off their duffs, examine the massive amount of evidence and mete out some justice. Then maybe China Joe will be removed.

This could also be why Pelosi is so eager to impeach Trump. She doesn’t want him to be able to take his rightful place in the White House for his second term.

—Ben Garrison

Opinion v Fact


Armstrong Economics Blog/Basic Concepts Re-Posted Feb 10, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Marty,

Each day I read reports from so called reputable people expressing what they think might happen given the backdrop today. It is laughable. Most do this based on superficial analysis or cursory comparisons with things that appear to line up, appear to rhythm, to paraphrase M Twain. What a joke.

I say this here because as I relearn what I once thought I knew, analyze my mistakes using real data…it brings me back to you and your marvelous study of history, your database, which is incomparable, and your willingness…let’s call it humility, to let Socrates make the call. Just remarkable.

What this has done for me is save countless hours reading nonsense and instead focusing on the data. Not trying to push my opinions on a trade and expect the market will follow, but respect what is there and not force things. Nothing is absolute, no one is always right. But today there are so many people who are flat out wrong, who claim to be right…just give them time, it explains why the government fails repeatedly…because these are the people who, like Keynsians or socialists claim…just give it more money…it will work. Right. History always seems to tell a different story.

MS

REPLY: Thank you. What I try to get across is what I have learned from my clients. Because I was perhaps the only international analyst in foreign exchange back in the 70s and 80s, we ended up with the largest client base that was so diverse that it compelled me to look at the world through everyone else’s eyes. I remember doing an institutional conference in Zurich probably around 1982-1983. People started flying in to attend from around the world. There were people from the USA and Canada as well as Germany who traveled to Zurich.

I remember doing a forecast on gold after I had provided a forecast in Swiss francs. I had said that gold would rise in dollars, but that the dollar would decline against the Swiss. The Swiss aptly said if they bought gold they would lose. I realized at that time that forecasts had to be based upon the individual currency. The above chart showed the start difference in a forecast for gold based upon the currency.

Everything I have learned has come from my clients. I have designed Socrates to be an international tool so everyone around the world can do their own technical analysis and use our tools on any market around the world expressed in their own currency.

I was a history buff. I am not the all knowledgable soothsayer. My studies are probably the most comprehensive when it comes to economics and monetary history. I am not the one who cares about every war and how they won or lost if it had no relevance to the monetary system and economics of the time.

I bought my first Roman coin probably around 1963 for $10. I was fascinated that I could actually have a piece of history. I then learned that much of history was not only preserved by the coins, but it was confirmed by the coinage.

For example, we know when Titus opened the Colosseum because he issued a coin to announcing it. We know that Brutus did assassinate Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (15th) in 44 BC because he issued a coin bragging about it. Probably the rarest of all Roman coins is the Saturninus gold aureus. It is one of two in existence which proved the academics all wrong and the book “Historia Augusta” was real.

Roman coins enabled me to reconstruct the world monetary system to answer the question — how did Rome fall? This eliminated all the opinions. I did not stop with Rome. I reconstructed the entire world. It was to ELIMINATE opinion, which to me was biased and worthless. I have mentioned that in high school I had to read “The Great Crash of 1929” by Galbraith. Never in there did he ever talk about the sovereign defaults, which I only discovered by coming across a copy of Herbert Hoover’s memoirs in an antique store in London. That meant I could not trust the history books and I had to investigate the raw sources.

I am trying to put this all together in a book which will probably be 5 or 6 volumes. But it has to be authoritative for it is breaking new ground on a global scale.

Resistance is NOT Futile


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Feb 10, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Despite Wikipedia, Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, and the rest of the Marxist philosophy press, despite them all promoting the virus to impose an authoritarian socialist regime over the entire world conspiring against democracy and human rights, which include freedom of speech, people are starting to fight back. Many are canceling subscriptions to Facebook and many are moving to Duck Duck for searching the internet. Then there are those who have abandoned WhatsApp by the millions heading to Signal or Telegram. By calling any resistance just a “conspiracy theory” these real conspirators have been censoring the truth and doing everything they can to support silencing all opposition. Interestingly, that was the very role the press played during the Russian Revolution.

In Europe, Civitas is a resistance movement that now has 34 sections in France. But it is also developing in other countries. Civitas Belgium was officially announced last week. Switzerland should follow in the coming days. And a branch in Quebec is also in preparation.

Resistance is building against the rise of this tyranny supported by mainstream media. Even in Tampa, there is a local race for mayor in a small town, and they described the Democrats as “progressive” v the Republican they paint as a violent “Trump supporter.” The bias is absolutely everywhere and the press feels that anyone who dares to resist this Marxist agenda must be silenced.

Well, Shakespeare wrote in the tax rebellion that the first thing they would do is “kill all the lawyers,” which were government prosecutors since there were no private lawyers. I fear that when rebellion breaks out, they will be dragging journalists out to the street and hanging them as well. I seriously doubt it will be safe working for any of the mainstream media in the years ahead. Already, Facebook has warned its employees not to wear even clothing with a Facebook logo. Zuckerberg better hire an entire army to protect him in the future. His personal arrogance will be his undoing.

Six Republicans Who Voted to Impeach Trump Led by Mitt Romney – Of Course


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Senate wrapped up initial arguments on Tuesday and is set to begin hearing evidence Wednesday in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. History will remember every member who voted that this proceeding is constitutional. There is NO precedent for such a farse and now when the Republicans get back in power they can go back and impeach Obamas for ordering the surveillance of Trump in 2016 which was worse than what Nixon did. Or perhaps we impeach George Washington because he owned slaves?  The House was supposed to be like a Grand Jury. They never presented any evidence nor did they present a single witness. They simply did this to try to prevent Trump from running in 2024. The Constitute does not given Congress the power to retroactively impeach awnyone. The plain language is clear and the Chief Justice refused to participate which in and of itself shows there is no basis for this nonsense. If Trumpo is guilt of insurrection, he should have been charged and that is for the courts to decide.

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5

The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Article 1, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside; And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Judgement in Cases of Impreachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgement and Punishment, according to Law.

Article 2, Section 4

The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The interpretation being used is in itself illegal. If it does not expressly say anything about a past president, then they assume they can. This is not the way to interpret the constitution. Since it does not satet that the president may not exercise the common law right of king to Prima Nocta/Noctum, then he too can demand to sleep with every bride on her weding noght to ensure she was a virgin since it is not expressly forbiden. BTW, that evolved into the marriage certificate because you would pay the king not to sleep with your bride which became the license over time.

Trump’s lawyers – David Schoen and Bruce Castor – contended that there is no legal justification to hold a trial for a president who is no longer in office. But senators sided with House managers prosecuting the case. The vote was 56-44 with six Republicans joining every Democrat to go forward with the trial. Those six Republicans might as well join the Democrats for what they have just done is guarantreed that the Republican Party will split. Trump was elected simply because he stepped into a trend which had been moving for decades – the anti-establishment that is fed up with the corruption in Washington that this now raises tro ne heights.

Wednesday is expected to be the first opportunity for impeachment managers, the House Democrats prosecuting the case, to present what they say is new evidence to convict the former president on a single article that he incited a pro-Trump mob to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021. They never presented anything in the House which was a complete denial of due process of law. Here ares the six Republican senators who voted that the impeachment trial was consistent with the Constitution confirming they are nothing more than swamp creatures themselves. Since he cannot be removed from office, the only purposes of voting with the Democrats is to deny Trump the right to run in 2024.

  • Sen. Susan Collins of Maine
  • Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
  • Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah
  • Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska
  • Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

Biden Declares – America is Back – to Defend EU Against Russia


Armstrong Economics Blog/Geopolitical Re-Posted Feb 10, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Biden has reversed everything that Trump has done. Even with respect to Russia and NATO. Biden has said the US will be more effective in dealing with Russia and will work in coalition and coordination of NATO with other like-minded partners. Joe Biden has declared “America is back” to help Europe protect itself against Russian aggression. “The message I want the world to hear today: America is back,” he declared at the State Department in Washington on February 4.

Superbowl & Florida – Thank God!


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease Re-Posted Feb 9, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

People have written in to ask how was the Super Bowl. In Florida, we are EXTREMELY lucky to have a republican governor DeSantis who has saved the state from the draconian antics of the Democratic States. He allowed us to hold our World Economic Conference and we did not have to wear masks in the room or at the cocktail party. I did not get COVID nor did any of my staff. Florida has beat every state that lockdown, destroyed the businesses, wiping out culture that will never return to New York City. Our death rate was less than in New York and we did not have a governor who ordered COVID patients to be sent into nursing homes killing untold seniors, and then Governor Cuomo bans prosecuting nursing homes for killing family members while others have tried to sue him for abuse of power. Cuomo has tried to hide the deaths he caused by ordering COVID patients should be taken into nursing homes. The number of deaths may be underreported by as much as 50%. It is amazing Cuomo is not dragged out of office by his feet. I am so glad I moved to Florida.

The crazy anti-freedom press and Democratic states point out the governor had no mask. He said how was he supposed to have a beer? Nobody in the press will dare investigate if masks do anything. The box I bought states clearly it will NOT prevent any disease. So what all of this nonsense?

One email said of the vaccines prove to be lethal after a year in the next viral season, it will reduce the population of the progressives and at least make Gates’ day until he realizes he exterminated the sheep. I had a routine visit to a doctor yesterday and they asked if I wanted the vaccine. I said no way! I told him my cousin was a front-line Nurse in New Jersey who caught COVID, got over it, and then was ordered to take the vaccine. She had a stroke after the first dose, recovered, and then refused the second. He then said there are adverse reactions in some people. My response is yes, but they will not do the proper research to determine who should not be given the vaccine. Skipping the animal trials and using people violates the Nuremberg agreement to ban human experimentation.

DeceptiCons Perplexed, President Trump Support Not Waning – Retribution to GOP Increasingly Likely


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2021 by Sundance

Interestingly Politico is picking up on a fear amid the GOPe (establishment) that President Trump will likely not only survive the second insufferable impeachment effort, but he is likely to exit stronger than ever…. and that means retaliation against the DeceptiCon class of republicans.

This is the blind spot of the UniParty, their inability to see that smart Americans have identified their motives and are prepared to destroy them.

This is the aspect CTH warned about the day after the November election.  The GOPe is so fraught with elitist perspectives, it continues to assemble as a hopeless echo-chamber,  and they never see what is happening at the grassroots level in Middle-America.

(Via Politico) […] Not even Trump’s closest allies can believe the turn in fortunes. “He’s Teflon, right. It’s been a month since the Capitol riot and I would say, for the most part, the GOP has coalesced back behind him,” said a former Trump campaign official.

[…] Already, Trump aides contend, the impeachment process has proved beneficial to the ex-president — exposing disloyalty within the party’s ranks and igniting grassroots backlash against Republicans who have attempted to nudge the GOP base away from Trump.

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse spent last week fending off constituent criticisms and censures from state party officials after he compared Trumpism to “a civic cancer for the nation.” And Trump’s allies believe the ex-president’s impending impeachment trial will further illuminate who the turncoats are.

“It’s going to help expose more bad apples that he can primary if any senators vote to convict,” added the former campaign official.

While ensconced at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Trump has remained in touch with political allies and advisers. But he has intentionally kept a low profile, something that will likely continue this week.

A[…] ides expect that to change once the trial wraps up though, with Trump gradually reemerging in public and turning his attention toward seeking revenge against Republicans who, he believes, crossed him after he left office.

The format in which he pursues retribution is less clear. (read more)

If President Trump takes the MAGA army into a new political party of his choosing, that new party is structurally set to lay waste to any candidate within both wings of the Democrat and Republican assembly. A Trump inspired political party can wipe out the illusion of the Democrat/Republican two-party system; specifically because much of the Trump movement consists of former democrats and brand new voters.

The MAGA coalition is the most diverse, widest and deepest part of the entire American electorate. President Trump’s army consists of every creed, color, race, gender, ethnicity and orientation. It is a truly color-blind coalition of middle America patriots and middle-class voters that cuts through the political special interest groups.

Quite simply Trump’s MAGA army is the ultimate political splitter party.

Additionally, no republican will ever hold office in the next decade without the blessing of President Trump; and President Trump could lay waste to the system if the GOP acquiesces to the transparent fraud that exists behind the Biden-Harris sham.

Beyond the politics… this 75 million vote assembly are consumers of products, goods and services generated by the same elites that hold them in contempt. If President Trump transfers and directs that energy, entities and even entire industries can be wiped out.

There is no precedent here. Seventy-five million angry Americans resolved to a common objective is not something to be trifled with.

We do not yet know where this current political crisis and ongoing battle is going to end; but we do know that 75,000,000 Americans will not accept the outcome of a political process transparently filled with fraud and manipulation. That makes President Trump a very dangerous entity to the DC system, regardless of whether they admit what surrounds them.

There is no reference point for 75 million Americans being disenfranchised by Wall Street, bribery, corporations, media and big tech. That 75 million person army is fuel for a stunning and cataclysmic shift in the American landscape.

Six Republican Senators Align With Democrats Claiming Impeachment of Former President is Constitutional, It Ain’t


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2021 by Sundance

Highlighting the insufferable alignment of the two wings of the UniParty bird, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell allowed, permitted, and grinned as six GOP senators concurred with leftist democrats that impeachment of a former President is constitutional… Pro Tip: it ain’t.

Republican Senators: Bill Cassidy (LA), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Mitt Romney (UT), Susan Collings (ME), Ben Sasse (NE) and Pat Toomey (PA) aligned with the usurpation:

To see evidence of the constitutional quagmire one only has to look at Chief Justice John Roberts’ refusal to participate in the impeachment trial.  Despite his own ideological progressiveness, even Roberts couldn’t bring himself to compromise the baseline of the Judicial Branch role in determining constitutional issues around impeachment.

The entire system in DC is operating outside the constitutional framework… FUBAR.

Senate Impeachment Trial for Insurrection, Day One – 1:00pm Livestream


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 9, 2021 by Sundance

The ridiculously political impeachment trial of President Trump begins today at 1:00pm with a four-hour open session debate on the constitutionality of impeaching a former president. [Livestream Links Below]

PBS Livestream Link – CSPAN Livestream Link

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