The President cannot unilaterally impose tariffs on antique objects (over 100 years old) if Congress has expressly exempted them. But there are narrow exceptions where a president might temporarily override tariff exemptions, depending on the statutory authority Congress has delegated (e.g., national security statutes like Section 232, emergency powers, sanctions, or trade remedies related to unfair practices).
The Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 8) gives Congress the power:
“to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises.”
“to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.”
So tariffs are a legislative power, and antiques have historically been a category that Congress has intentionally exempted. Those of us buying antiquities at a European auction are being hit by tariffs in an entirely unconstitutional manner.
This means the default rule is: If Congress exempted antiques, the President cannot override it on his own.
Personally, I intend to file for a Declaratory Judgment against Trump because his actions are wholly unconstitutional. The Trump administration used an executive order under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose sweeping import tariffs on a wide range of goods — including antiques, decorative arts, and certain historical/cultural objects. Cultural Property News
Under this new regime, items classified under the tariff heading for “antiques” (e.g. Chapter 9706 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule) are reportedly no longer automatically duty-free as “informational materials.” As a result, many in the art, antiques, and cultural-heritage trade have reported that antiquities — previously exempt — are now being charged tariffs when imported into the U.S. If the same ancient coin is sold in NYC, there is no tariff. If it is sold in London, then Trump demanded tariffs. Tariffs are a Marxist Communist tool and is intended to support domestic jobs from being undercut by foreign. Yet antiquities do not involve modern labor competition.
Why that matters — and why it’s controversial
Historically, U.S. trade law has often treated fine art, paintings, sculpture, and certain expressive/cultural works as “informational materials,” giving them some protection from import duties, especially under tools like IEEPA that were designed for sanctions, not general tariffs.
By using IEEPA (an emergency/sanctions statute) to impose broad import tariffs on essentially all imported goods — including antiques and cultural objects — the Trump administration effectively attempted to sweep aside the traditional distinction/exemption and totally disregard Congress entirely.
Trump is Using Drugs to Justify Using IEEPA
The official “fact sheet” accompanying the February 2025 executive-orders states that the “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl” constitutes a national emergency under IEEPA. Under that emergency, the administration imposed — or attempted to impose — tariffs: e.g. 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada; 10% (or more) on China.
Global Trade & Sanctions Law
That marked a dramatic departure: prior to 2025, NO U.S. president had used IEEPA to impose economy-wide tariffs on major trading partners for drug / immigration reasons. That said — whether this unilateral tariff-imposition is lawful remains deeply contested.
As of mid-2025, a major ruling from the United States Court of International Trade found that the executive-order tariffs exceeded the president’s authority under IEEPA, because IEEPA was not intended to grant broad tariff powers. The court held that traditionally only Congress has the constitutional power to regulate tariffs, and that invoking IEEPA to impose sweeping tariffs — including on antiques, art, and cultural goods — may violate that separation of powers.
Therefore: some of the “art and antiquities tariffs” under Trump may be overturned, depending on further court rulings (or how customs enforcement proceeds), meaning the longer-term status of these tariffs — and exemptions — remains uncertain. Antique dealers, collectors, and museums importing “decorative arts, antiques, and cultural objects” are now — at least until the courts fully resolve the issue — facing tariffs where they historically did not.
Whether a given object is exempt depends heavily on classification (paintings/sculpture vs mixed-material antiques), as well as origin, provenance, and how customs officials interpret the rules under the new tariff regime. Because of legal uncertainty and swift regulatory shifts, many in the art world report disruption, delays, and extra costs. So: Yes, Trump did try to include antiquities in tariff coverage, even though traditionally many cultural-heritage imports had exemptions. But that move is now being challenged legally — and some courts have already deemed parts of it unlawful.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on November 5th, 2025, and it is to decide the legality of the tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”). Respondents insisted the Court of International Trade (“CIT”) had exclusive jurisdiction over such challenges, but the federal district court disagreed.
No Article II tariff power exists that Trump can invoke. The Constitution gives the tariff power to Congress, and only Congress can authorize the President to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises.” U.S. Const., art. I, § 8.
Trump points to IEEPA. See, e.g., Executive Orders 14298, 14266, 14259, 14257, 14256, 14245, 14232, 14231, 14195, 14194, 14193. He has done so to impose specific tariffs on some of the Nation’s largest trading partners. E.g., Executive Orders 14193 (Canada), 14194 (Mexico), 14195 (China). He has done so to impose reciprocal rates on other countries to improve America’s balance-of-payments. Executive Order 14257. And he has done so to impose a more-or-less universal floor tariff of ten percent on all foreign goods sold in the United States. Id. Some of those tariffs have been altered or held in abeyance (for now), but not all. What certainly hasn’t changed is the President’s claim that IEEPA gives him a free hand to tariff.
We will see how the court will rule. There are three possibile outcomes. If we were to rule by strict construction, I would strike it down as an abuse of power. Because Trump is citing “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl” as the national security issue to justify using the IEEPA, I do not see how that justies tariffs on any product from Europe, not to mention antiquities.
Trump’s tariffs coming on the downside of the ECM is in line with the recession our model has forecast from 2024 into 2028. These tariffs on top of the stupid sanctions on Russia which will result in higher food costs in addition to energy, does not paint a pretty picture for the world economy into 2028 which will be aggravated by the rising Sovereign Debt Crisis.
QUESTION: Marty, I want to thank you for the WEC. It was the best one I have ever attended. I loved your comment on the perpetual dollar bears since the 1970s and how they have been consistently wrong. I find it curious when someone like __ ___ knows you are, then talks about the fourth turning, which is just an opinion compared to your unprecedented track record over decades. It makes me wonder if they are not secretly working for the very people they pretend to be against. Nobody else has offices around the world. Nobody else ever talked about a two-tier monetary system. I think some are so intimidated by you because you do not support the stupid theories they constantly repeat, like the petrodollar.
My question is the two-tier dollar conspiracy of the 1980s. Why has Europe been so anti-dollar for decades? Do you have a chart on the eurodollar liquidation?
OE
PS: The rumor was that that may have been your last WEC. You filled the hotel. There wasn’t even one empty seat. I heard your virtual tickets far exceeded 500k so much so that the portal to download the reports went down for you never counted on traffic approaching one million viewers. We need you. Tell Scotty to hold off until 2040 please.
ANSWER: They do not even teach a floating exchange rate system in school no less a two-tier monetary system. The US national debt hit $1 trillion dollars in 1981 and the conspiracy theory then was that the the US would move to a two-tier monetary system devauling the Eurodollar, which was all the external dollars and thus the dollars domestically would be would more than a Eurodollar.
Here is the chart showing the massive liquidation of the eurodollar market all on this conspiracy theory. Look, all of these people claiming to be analysts that just put out their opinion lacking any international experience is a serious detriment to trying to ascertain how we move into the years ahead.. The Fourth Turning is a nice theory that they claim in the phase of an 80-100 year cyclical pattern in history called the Saeculum. According to the theory, each Fourth Turning is an era of intense crisis, upheaval, and regeneration where the very fabric of society is torn down and rebuilt. It’s a “great unravelling” followed by a “great transformation.” The problem with this theory is that it lacks the historical depth. It discussed periods that were cherry-picked and is one-dimensional.
The Wars of the Roses (15th Century): Culminating in the rise of the Tudor Dynasty. The Armada Crisis (late 16th Century): The threat from Spain, resolved with the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and the rise of Elizabethan England. The Glorious Revolution (late 17th Century): The overthrow of King James II and the establishment of constitutional monarchy in England. The American Revolution (late 18th Century): The war for independence and the creation of the United States. The American Civil War (mid-19th Century): The existential crisis over the Union and slavery. The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1946)
William Strauss (1947–2007) was an American author, playwright, theater director, and lecturer. He with Neil Howe (born 1951) came up with the social generations regarding a theorized generational cycle in American history. However, while there is a generational cycle, that is only a tiny fraction of what really is behind the rise and fall of empire, nations, and city states. To forecast the future with just this is really ridiculous and dangerous. This is part of the Fish Bowl Economy and all the theories from Keynesianism to Modern Monetary Theory. They are all based on a single theory and they are confined to domestic analysis which leads to more chaos and losses than anything else.
The US did have a two-tier system in the 1870s. There were actually two separate silver dollars – one for international trade and then the domestic dollar.
You are not the first to point this out. I have appeared on national TV in Russia, Europe, and Asia – not in the USA. The movie the Forecaster appears on TV even in Canada, in Europe, and it played on international flights. It was supposed to be on NETFLIX and then they got that mysterious called and backed out. We are not the land of the free and certainly freedom of speech also does not exist in the USA. I have been told that after appearing on a podcast, they got the infamous call not to have me on again. They constantly think that I have influence and it is not the model. So they think they can prevent the forecasts by preventing people from listening. It’s the same plot as what they did with COVID.
The Petrodollar was a classic example of the Fish Bowl theories. When the dollar did not collapse after the end of the gold standard, they had to cover-their-ass because they were WRONG. So, to save face, they claimed that the dollar was now backed by oil rather than gold because oil was priced in dollars. They sold that BS to the press and it was pure sophistry. The percentage of world trade attributed to oil and petroleum products is approximately 8-10% based on the 2022 data. Merchandise Trade in 2022 globally totaled around $25 trillion (WTO data). Of that, crude oil and refined petroleum product exports worldwide were estimated to be between $2.2 and 2.5 trillion (depending on price fluctuations and trade volumes). This includes contributions from OPEC, which are only 40% of crude exports, and non-OPEC exporters like the U.S., Russia, and Canada. The whole Petrodollar theory was absolute nonsense and it diverts people from understanding the importance of the financial capital of the world and thus it is the CONFIDENCE that matters.
This conspiracy theory was all based on the fact that the U.S. secured a crucial deal with Saudi Arabia in 1974, ensuring oil would continue to be priced in dollars in exchange for U.S. military and political support. This cemented the “petrodollar” conspiracy, and people claimed this reinforced the dollar’s status rather than diminishing it.
Just as even China before WWI raised money issuing bonds in British pounds, today emerging market issue bonds in dollars also to raise money. This scenario ultimately failed as an anti-dollar movement. The dollar did not collapse when the oil prices declined nor did it rise in value due to oil prices rising.
In 1988, The Economist published a speculative essay looking 30 years into the future, arguing that a new global currency should and likely would emerge due to the inherent problems with the dominant dollar system. The core of their argument can be broken down into two parts: why the dollar was vulnerable and what they proposed instead.
As I said at the conference, the big conspiracy back they was the two-tier dollar system that resulted in moving eurodollar deposits to domestic US accounts. In the late 1980s, the global economic landscape provided the conspiracy theories with compelling reasons to question the long-term viability of the US dollar as the world’s sole reserve currency. The European Monetary System (EMS) was gaining traction, and there were serious, high-level plans for a single European currency. What they did not know was that the US argued for that at the Plaza Account in an effort to reduce the US trade deficit. The Economist foresaw that a unified currency for a large, economically powerful bloc like the European Community would naturally challenge the dollar’s supremacy.
Massive US “Twin Deficits” would Kill the Dollar
The United States was grappling with both a large budget deficit (the government spending more than it collected) and a large current account deficit (the nation importing more goods, services, and capital than it exported). This meant the US was becoming the world’s largest debtor nation. To finance these deficits, it had to attract a constant flow of foreign capital, which was seen as unsustainable and risky.
Then the 1987 Stock Market Crash (“Black Monday”) was supposed to kill the dollar
The severe crash in October 1987 was fresh in everyone’s minds. It highlighted the volatility and instability of the global financial system, for which the US dollar was the anchor. This led to soul-searching about the system’s fundamental stability. What they did not comprehend was that this was the result of the Plaza Accord and the deliberate attempt to lower the value of the dollar by 40% to reduce the trade deficit.
The Plaza Accord (1985)was another event misunderstood
Just a few years earlier, the world’s major economies had to actively intervene to devalue the US dollar, which had become dangerously overvalued thanks to the shift from the eurodollar to the domestic dollars, which again they were clueless. This, they insisted, demonstrated that the dollar’s value was not set by a perfectly stable market but required managed, political intervention to prevent disorder.
The Proposed Solution: The “Phoenix”
The Economist magazine proposed a solution being always anti-American by nature. They gave this hypothetical new currency a name: the “Phoenix.” Key features of the proposed Phoenix was to be a truly international currency, managed by a global central bank or a similar multinational institution, free from the domestic political interests of any one nation (like the US). They proposed that its value would be based on a basket of goods and currencies, making it more stable and less susceptible to the economic policies of a single country. The name “Phoenix” symbolized its emergence from the ashes of the old, unstable system of national currencies.
Why It Didn’t Happen (The Short-Term Prognosis Was Wrong):
The Economist was wrong about the timeline and the specific vehicle and they failed to comprehend what made the dollar the reserve currency. The “Phoenix” never got off the ground because you cannot have socialist with a gold standard or fixed exchange rate system. The US dollar had (and still has) immense “network effects.” It is the currency of international trade, finance, and central bank reserves. This creates a powerful lock-in effect that is incredibly difficult to dislodge.
Instead of collapsing, the US economy demonstrated remarkable resilience. It embraced technological innovation in the 1990s, and the dollar remained the world’s safest haven during crises (a role it still holds today).
The Euro Became the Challenger, Not the Phoenix:
The Euro, launched in 1999, did indeed become a reserve currency, but it never reached the idea put forth by the Economist because they never consolidated the debt. Thus, central banks had previously held other currencies like pounds and DMarks, no the Euro never could compete with the dollar. The Euro has not replaced the dollar, and it has faced its own significant crises (e.g., the European debt crisis of the 2010s), proving it is not immune to regional political and economic problems that the Economist always pointed out about the dollar while looking the other way to home-spun crises.
No Political Will for a Global Currency:
The world’s major powers, especially the US, have no incentive to cede monetary sovereignty to a global central bank. The political hurdles for creating a true “Phoenix” are monumental. It will require the surrender of individual sovereignty.
The Economist claimed a new world currency was likely because they have always been anti-American and remain blind to the serious flaws in the European system of the late 1980s. Their essay with a specific vision of a “Phoenix” by 2018 did not materialize, the underlying issues they highlighted—the instability of a system reliant on a single national currency and the rise of rival currency blocs—remain central to debates about the future of global finance today.
Then the Phenomenal Economic Growth of West Germany and Japan would created two credible, stable alternative currencies was the next conspiracy theory.
Both the Deutsche Mark (DM) and the Japanese Yen became major reserve currencies. Central banks diversified their reserves into DMs and Yen. The European Monetary System (EMS) was created as a European zone of monetary stability, partially to reduce dependence on the dollar. However, while the DM and Yen did take significant market share as reserve currencies, they never came close to challenging the dollar’s core dominance for global trade and finance. The dollar’s liquidity and the size of the U.S. Treasury market remained unmatched. This was an interesting conspiracy diversification but not a replacement.
The Multipolar World & Strategic De-Dollarization with BRICS:
This is the most active and ongoing “anti-dollar scenario,” driven by geopolitics and technology. It’s not one event but a collection of trends. After facing severe U.S.-led sanctions since 2014 (and especially after 2022), Russia has aggressively de-dollarized its reserves and trade, moving to currencies like the Chinese Yuan and Indian Rupee for energy sales. Thanks to the American NEOCONS threating China after removing Russia from the SWIFT System transforming the world monetary system into a weapon, China joined and became the primary architect of the current de-dollarization push. It is promoting the international use of the Yuan (RMB) through:
Bilateral Currency Swaps: Agreements with dozens of central banks.
Petroyuan: Launching Yuan-denominated oil futures contracts in 2018.
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Encouraging infrastructure financing in Yuan.
BRICS+ Expansion: Creating a bloc focused on developing local currency trade.
Technological & Financial Drivers DIGITAL CURRENCIES to track citizens for taxes:
The development of China’s digital Yuan (e-CNY) and the exploration of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are intended to create a future that tracks every transactions for taxes and to bypass the dollar-based SWIFT system. The use of Sanctions as a Weapon by the Neocons has divided the world economy and seriously undermined the future. The widespread use of U.S. financial sanctions has motivated many countries to explore non-dollar payment systems to avoid potential future exposure.
If we count distinct, major periods where a concerted and credible effort was made to challenge the dollar’s role, the answer is at least four significant waves. What they refuse to understand is what actually makes the dollar the reserve currency. It’s crucial to understand that all previous scenarios have ultimately failed to dethrone the dollar. The U.S. dollar’s dominance is sustained by a powerful network effect: the largest consumer-based economy where everyone must sell to America and this still have to prices their goods in dollars, the sheer depth of U.S. financial markets is unmatched, the dollar’s role as the primary invoicing currency for global trade, and the lack of a single, equally credible alternative.
To put this in perspective, as of the end of the first quarter of 2024 (Q1 2024), the total market capitalization of the European stock markets, including the UK, was approximately:
$18.6 Trillion USD
As of December 31, 2023, the total market capitalization of the US share markets using the Wilshire 5000 was approximately $46.2 trillion.
Since 1971, all these has been is this anti-American view of the dollar with every scenario calling for its demise. They do not understand the sheer depth of the US economy and the backing of any currency is the productivity of its people. In school, they lament on the disparity of wealth and constantly claim that is the great evil. They are obviously influenced by Karl Marx and Lenin. Even Putin said Lenin was just a communist – not a statemen.
Everything is fractal. As the Democrats in the USA and Labour in Europe preach against the rich who actually are the backbone of productivity, they overlook the fact that there is also a disparity of wealth among nations – not just individuals. Under their theories we should all relinguish our wealth and redistribute that to the Third World. That will ensure a Dark Age with zero economic growth and productivity.
Hating the dollar is no different than hating the guy next door because he makes more money and has a nicer car.
Posted originally on Nov 28, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
Everything will crash and burn in 2032. A client approached me at the latest World Economic Conference to ask if the asteroid heading for Earth in 2032 could potentially become the catalyst for the global event our computer has been forecasting.
Back in 2013, asteroid 2013 TV135 was briefly flagged with a tiny probability of impact in August 2032, but further observations slashed that risk and NASA eventually removed it from the official watch list. More recently, the press has latched onto asteroid 2024 YR4. Early estimates put the impact probability around 3% for a possible 2032 encounter, which, of course, produced the usual sensational headlines. As additional data came in, that risk collapsed to roughly one-thousandth of a percent (0.001–0.0017%), with NASA and the European agencies now treating it as a negligible threat to Earth.
This is not “we all die in 2032,” as the math they publish is a tiny risk. Historically, as more observations come in, those probabilities tend to fall even further, as we saw with 2013 TV135.
My models are not built on asteroids, earthquakes, or any one event in isolation. They are built on the observable cyclical behavior of capital, confidence, and human nature. The 8.6-year wave is just the smallest visible unit of a much larger fractal structure: 8.6 years, 51.6 years, 309.6 years, and so on.
We are currently in what I have called the grand Public Wave, a 309.6-year cycle that peaks in 2032.85. That is the equivalent in time to the wave that marked the peak of the Roman Empire around the reign of Marcus Aurelius, which marked the moment when the political system crested and began its long, irreversible decline
2032 will be the culmination of the current 51.6-year wave of the ECM, and the peak of the larger 309.6-year wave. The fact that these asteroid windows keep clustering around the very same year the model has been projecting for decades as the peak of the grand Public Wave is, at minimum, an intriguing coincidence. The arrival of such a threat in 2032 “may simply be destiny and part of the universe’s timing.
Socrates is not screaming “asteroid!” and telling everyone to hide in bunkers. When people asked if 2032 meant “Armageddon” or the end of all life, I said no. The last comparable Sixth Wave picked the peak of Rome; it did not vaporize the planet. Instead, the financial capital of the world migrated over centuries from Rome to Constantinople, then to Europe, Britain, America, and after 2032, it will shift toward Asia and eventually back again.
Posted originally on Nov 25, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
The American judiciary should just be shut down. It all depends on the political affiliation of the presiding judge. First of all, it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to get the grand jury minutes. That is so unprecedented it is one in a billion shot. The judge who dismissed Comey’s indictment was appointed by Biden. There is ZERO chance of a fair trial in the United States anymore. All judges should be replace with AI which will do a far better job and fulfill the promise of EQUAL JUSTICE for all.
The dismissal of an indictment by a judge is ao rare, it is obviously political and exposes how corrupt the judiciary has become. The jury (people) are supposed to make that decision – not a partisan judge. The corruption of the rule of law is systemic and it had been complained about for centuries.
originally on Posted Nov 24, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |
QUESTION: Merz said he told Trump that Germany is “fully in line with Ukraine, that the sovereignty of this country must not be jeopardized.” He also said that the war in Ukraine is a threat to all of Europe. Do you see any hope for Europe avoiding war?
DLK
ANSWER: Unfortunately, NO. The European leaders are ignorant and are the puppets of NATO. They are too stupid to see that the Neocons are manipulating them. This nonsense that Ukraine should not be split is insane. That was the ONLY way to stop the ethnic killing in Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia split in two as well. The Minsk Agreement, which even Germany signed, was to allow the Donbas to vote. Merz refusal to honor the word of Germany is dooming Europe to World War III. If they reall want peace, surrender the Donbas. Else, then sacrifice all of Europe to a third world war. There will NEVER be peace with Russia because people like Kallas hate the Russian people.
The only way for Europe to avoid this war is to stand up and demand that they have a say in creating war. European leaders will lie and put Europe at risk for Ukraine, the most corrupt nation on Earth. Zelensky’s Chief of Staff is now implicated in stealing $100 million. How musch more money will the West hand these people to stuff in their private accounts. They never get enough. Are they paying kickbacks to NATO and Europeans leaders?
The first duty of a head of state is to protect his own people!
Posted originally on CTH on December 2, 2025 | Sundance
Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem endorses plans for a ‘full travel ban’ on countries that are sending ‘killers, leeches and entitlement junkies’ to the United States after a meeting with President Donald Trump.
Noem’s announcement comes after President Trump announced a halt to all immigration from Afghanistan, including decisions on refugee status in the wake of the terrorist attack in the nation’s capital last Wednesday.
President Trump has also vowed to ‘permanently pause migration’ from all Third World countries and has announced that immigrants who hail from 19 countries covered by his travel ban will have their cases re-examined. The countries include Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Haiti, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Venezuela among others.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed, “the Trump Administration will protect our people and preserve our national identity.”
Posted originally on CTH on December 2, 2025 | Sundance
The New York Times has admitted what the White House, President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth previously affirmed.
Despite the manipulative effort of the original CIA report (Washington Post), which was purposefully intended to undermine the authority and legitimacy of the Trump administration, Secretary Pete Hegseth did not order a second strike on the drug carrying narcoterrorism boat. The second strike was authorized by General Bradley as part of the mission objective.
Hegseth’s order was to “destroy” the vessel. The vessel was not completely “destroyed” in the first attack, it was “disabled.” A second attack was ordered independently by General Bradley to render the vessel destroyed and compete the mission.
If the vessel was destroyed the mission was complete. If the vessel was disabled, the mission objective remained active until the vessel was destroyed. This is not complicated to understand.
The CIA mockingbird operation to delegitimize the mission and protect their independent sources of revenue has failed.
(New York Times) – […] According to five U.S. officials, who spoke separately and on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation, Mr. Hegseth, ahead of the Sept. 2 attack, ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.
But, each official said, Mr. Hegseth’s directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out not to fully accomplish all of those things. And, the officials said, his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing that at least two people on the boat survived the first blast.
Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him.
The officials clarified the sequence of events amid the political and legal uproar that has followed a report in The Washington Post last week. It said that Admiral Bradley ordered the second strike to fulfill a directive by Mr. Hegseth to kill everyone. The reaction has included questions about whether Mr. Hegseth specifically ordered an execution of shipwrecked sailors in violation of the laws of war. (more)
Posted originally on CTH on December 1, 2025 | Sundance
Washington DC continues pretending they do not know things. It is insufferable and frustrating. However, they are blind to the reality that a large segment of the American population is aware of the issues and understand the position of Republicans is not part of some mistake or flaw; it is a feature of their intent.
Elise Stefanik notes: “Republicans have the House, Senate, and the White House, yet the deep state is alive and well with the Speaker getting rolled by House Dems attempting to block my provision to require Congressional disclosure when the FBI opens counterintelligence investigations into presidential and federal candidates seeking office.
In a March 2017 open hearing, my questions to former FBI Director James Comey began the unraveling of the Russia Hoax when Comey admitted to not following proper notification procedures with his illegal opening of Crossfire Hurricane. A criminal act that can never happen again.
My provision will strengthen this accountability and transparency to deter this illegal weaponization and it passed out of the House Intelligence Committee in this Congress and previous ones. Yet House Republicans continue to get rolled by the deep state due to opposition by Jamie Raskin.
If Republicans can’t deliver accountability and legislative fixes to arguably the biggest illegal corruption and government weaponization issue of all time, then what are we even doing.
This language is even more essential in light of the continued weaponization of the federal government evidenced by the sweeping Arctic Frost wiretapping scandal and the recent illegal leaks of Steve Witkoff’s conversations with foreign counterparts.
Unless this provision is added back into the bill to prevent illegal political weaponization of the intelligence community in our elections, I am a HARD NO. I have always voted in support of the defense and intelligence authorization bills, but no more.
It is a scandalous disgrace that Republicans are allowing themselves to be rolled by the Dems and deep state on this.” (more)
Republicans are not getting “rolled”, and Mrs. Stefanik knows this.
It’s all so performative, and ‘we the people‘ can see the strings.
This is factually a very dangerous situation, because the abused are now numb to the patterns and consequences of the abusers. The abuser has not yet noticed.
Once the abuser catches on to the audience rolling their eyes and laughing at them, that creates a sense of humiliation directly in the psyche of the abuser…. Things get really ugly.
Posted originally on CTH on December 1, 2025 | Sundance
The White House released a video of First Lady Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations for 2025. Melania blended deep traditional decor with fashion elements from her eyes.
First Lady Melania has an incredible eye for detail and presentation. The Asian butterfly theme used in part of the decor is really something beautiful. Hopefully, the decorations will soon be uploaded to the White House Flickr Account HERE,
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