Chuck Schumer Threatens Deadline, Without Votes, of January 17 to Change Senate Rules for Legislation


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 190 Comments

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is using the J6 ‘threat to our democracy‘ narrative in an effort to gain support for legislation that will permit the federal takeover of elections.  In a letter today, Schumer sets a deadline date of January 17 for a change in the Senate rules to remove the filibuster.

Schumer writes this letter without actually having the needed number of votes to change the rules, but he’s attempting to create pressure on fellow Democrats.   Full propaganda letter below, but here’s the part that matters:

WASHINGTON DC –  Chuck Schumer is attempting a filibuster Hail Mary as Democrats’ agenda on both elections reform and President Joe Biden’s economic plans remains stalled at the beginning of a critical midterm election year.

The Senate majority leader warned Monday that the Senate will debate and vote on changes to the chamber’s rules by January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, unless Republicans get out of the way on elections reform. His threat seems inevitable, since Republicans are almost certain to block Democrats’ next attempt to bring up their priority legislation. (read more)

As we previously noted, the entire roadmap for Democrats in the 2022 mid-term election is predicated on exploitation of the J6 ‘danger to democracy‘ narrative.  They have multiple approaches, most of which will evidence as efforts in stupidity, toward using the J6 narrative.

With the current landscape of diminished support for Biden and Democrats, and with the Biden administration increasingly looking ridiculous as they try and rebrand their messaging, the political outlook simply does not look *good for their success.  However, it’s likely they will keep trying.

*Note of caution – it must always be remembered, no political group has more experience than Republicans at turning an easy win into a convoluted hot mess of failure, simply because almost half the GOP idiots are closet Democrats.  There are approximately 16 to 18 Republican senators less conservative than Democrat Senator Joe Manchin.

Good News, Joe Biden Announced He Just Discovered Grocery Inflation Might Be a Problem


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 303 Comments

Comrades, the White House occupant announced today that someone told his wife’s sister about grocery store inflation.  The surprising incident happened when a guest made the comment while visiting over the holidays.

Apparently, there are these places, ‘grocery stores’ he thinks they might be called, where people go to get ingredients for cooking food and stuff.  Mr. Biden shared his surprise upon hearing about the issue.  In a rather remarkable result, Joe Biden now states his administration will begin to focus on what policies might help the types of people who have to go to these food store places.  WATCH

Imagine what might happen if Biden finds out the temperature inside is made different from the temperature outside by something called electricity, oil or gas.

Wait…. nah, never mind…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Responds to Democrat Criticism of Him Caring for Wife During Cancer Treatments


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 144 Comments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been criticized over the Christmas/New Year holiday for attending the chemotherapy treatments of his wife Casey, and not triggering a higher level of panic in his state as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads.

Yes, as ridiculous as it sounds, pathetic democrats, media and other ideological gnats have been critical of the Florida governor, and today he responded to their nonsense.  During a press conference on the latest actions of his administration to enhance COVID therapeutic options, DeSantis responded to the criticism of his time management. WATCH:

Full remarks and presser below:

Transcript of Joe Rogan Interviewing Dr. Robert Malone


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 3, 2022 | Sundance | 292 Comments

The consequences of a viral interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone continue to reverberate.   Google, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook have all removed the interview from their platforms and banned the content sharing. Obviously, the content of the interview has been deemed subversive to the interests of U.S. government officials and Big Tech.

However, that said, Texas republican congressman Troy Nehls (TX-CD22) has placed the transcript of the interview into the public record.

The transcript is available on Nehls’ website HERE, also available in pdf download/upload format HERE, and we have copied it to a sharable pdf format HERE and embed below.

The entire transcript of the 3-hour interview is 43 pages.

Hope you find this useful as a resource.  The rebellion continues….

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From Amsterdam Protester


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: dear Marty

your reflection on Amsterdam protests is interesting

true, the lockdowns are absolute tyranny
true, this government is nothing different than an extension of the WEF illuminati
true, this demonstration was forbidden just days before by (WEF) Major F(H)alsema because she insisted a maximum of 2,500 people to join, while 25,000 were expected to show up

what strikes me is the media attention :
* media reported the organisation did not want to cooperate to organise a safe demo (which is a blatant lie)
* afterwards they made sure the whole world knows about the violence that took place

BUT we were there in Amsterdam yesterday
and it was an amazing experience : good weather, good vibe, great musicians, great talks and yes a very very positive vibe of people who do not want to do anything with this government any longer

so why does government media focus on this negativity ?
1. because it is the ultimate argument to release the army on the people
2. to scare people away from the demo’s
3. to ignore & repress the strong positive vibe of those who are standing up

actually, this country (Netherlands) has way too many people who just blindly follow orders, just like the nazi’s
but the gathering of the few who do not, is starting to gain traction

what needs to be reported in the media is this positive vibe !
because yesterday we made a very very important progression :
*** we performed the forbidden demonstration ***
that is a major major major step forward

this is what needs to enter the news
and all this focus on (government organised) negativity of a few is not worth mentioning
and if we mention, we need to make sure people understand these are government organised incidents

we were there with family
and of course we did not go to the forbidden square
why should we ?
if i want to fight, i’ll go without family, and bring a leopard tank, not bare hands against armed police
if i want to fight, i’ll make sure I’ll win

but we came there to demonstrate peacefully
and if this square is forbidden and loaded with military police,
you simply go to the next square

we need to raise this positive vibe until all dutch people gain the courage to just go from one city to the next, day by day and lockdown everything by doing it, so we purge this WEF shit into the toilet

we need that positive vibe

it was not about some (government organised) incidents,
which are just to enable the future application of the army and further destruction of our country

REPLY: I have receiver numerous reports from people who attended the Amsterdam protest. It certainly appears that the government INTENDED to be a cruel as possible indeed to show people they should stay home and never protest to further this conspiracy about ending freedom and any right to vote for politicians which is on the agenda.

US Trade Deficit Widens 17.5% in November


Armstrong Economics Blog/World Trade Re-Posted Jan 3, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

The US Trade deficit widened 17.5% in November, setting a new record. According to the US Commerce Department, the trade gap in goods increased from $83.2 billion in October to $97.8 billion in November. The number surpassed September’s posting of $97 billion.

Exports declined by 2.1%; however, imports are rising. The US imported $252.4 billion this November, a 4.7% MoM increase, with autos, industrial supplies, consumer goods, and food all experiencing notable gains. In addition, retail inventories rose 2%, while wholesale inventories rose 1.2%.

The US trade deficit has been high for years, and the gap continued to expand throughout 2021. January 2021 started off the new year by shattering the last deficit record posted in 2006. High trade deficits hurt America’s GDP standing, although the economy has been recovering faster than other developed nations.

Amsterdam Police Unleash Dogs on Protesters


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

The Netherlands moved into a complete lockdown on December 19 destroying the holiday season of both Christmas and New Year festivities. The government ordered the closure of all but essential stores, as well as restaurants, hairdressers, gyms, museums, and other public places including religion until at least January 14, and any public gatherings of more than two people were prohibited. All of this over Omicron which is a variant of the coronavirus that has been proven to be very mild and a typical tyrannical reaction by governments throughout Europe.

People have captured footage posting it online showing how the police attacked protestors beating defenseless people and then released police dogs to terrorize protesters. The Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema issued an emergency ordinance giving the police the power to clear the central Museum Square by any means. The protesters marched playing music and holding yellow umbrellas in a sign of opposition to the government measures.

These are no longer politicians who represent the people for they have crossed over into ruthless tyranny. There is absolutely no justification for lockdowns and destroying jobs over Omicron. Europe has entered complete tyranny and this is not going to end nicely. They have utterly destroyed the very foundation of civilization and historically these are actions that justify revolution. The police in Amsterdam have proven themselves indistinguishable from the Nazis they once hated.

Stanley Milgram’s research of  Obedience to Authority. demonstrates that the Amersterdam police are doing precisely what the Nazis did justifying their actions with the same claim that they too were just following orders. Why? This is being employed to combat civil unrest. It is also intended to separate the mindless sheep who obey whatever the government, says which complies with Stanley Milgram’s studies.

The Germans put on trial after World War II said that they were just following orders. This inspired Milgram to investigate because many argued that the Germans were just different and could kill the Jews without remorse. At the Nuremberg Trials, those Germans simply said they were just following orders.

Stanley was perhaps the most important psychologist of all time as far as I am concerned. Instead of coming up with a theory, Stanley actually investigates and arrived at a conclusion nobody suspected was even possible. He hired actors to pretend to be shocked by a person whenever they lied. Stanley took random people off the street in the United States and elsewhere to see if the Germans were really a different species. He discovered that people would shock others in a torture setting as long as they were told that was what they had to do.

Stanley concluded his studies which stunned the world. Here we are once again with the police acting the very same as the Nazis during World War II void of all morality or conscience. As long as the police defend the ruthless politicians without questioning any morality, then tyranny will prevail. The police are ensuring the decline and fall of Europe. They are not only acting ruthlessly, they have no regard for their own country aside from drawing pleasure from inflicting pain on others.

Italy & Hoarding Dollars


Armstrong Economics Blog/Italy Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT T FROM ITALY: Hi, in the blog “the war on cash and the dollar” you say as you said
other times that salvation is only in the paper dollar. Here in Italy
if I have paper dollars I have the problem that I can NOT spend them,
I can NOT use them. I agree that it pays to accumulate paper dollars
and I would like to, I know you are right. But here how can I use them
for a living?

Thank you!

REPLY: Yes, you are correct. On a day-to-day basis, you have to use a local currency that is moving toward digital. Paper dollars are being hoarded, not spent except in rare transactions. The same is taking place buying collectibles, real estate, and equities.

What has also been taking place behind the curtain from reliable sources is that European governments have been lobbying the Biden Administration to clamp down on Europeans buying US real estate. The Biden Administration is putting in restrictions to track money moving into real estate. That is being justified with money laundering. In Miami, there has been a major influx of foreign capital moving into real estate and this is being characterized as drug money from South America. In truth, much has been coming from Europe.

The War on Cash & the Dollar


Armstrong Economics Blog/Euro € Re-Posted Jan 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong

I have warned that Europe is the epic center for the decline and fall of Western Culture and economic strength. While the US has not yet joined Europe, the Democrats are licking their lips and trying desperately to figure out how to kill cash forcing everything to be digital in search of cash. In Europe, 18 EU countries are now restricting the use of cash and they are desperately trying to terminate cash all for control and taxes. Now it is just presumed that paying in cash means you are engaged in money laundering for that definition has been expanded to just tax avoidance.

Once upon a time, Belgium had an upper limit of €15,000 for transactions in cash. In 2012, they lowered that to €5,000, and then in 2014, they brought it down to €3,000. Bulgaria has outlawed cash payments of around €5,100 euros (10,000 Bulgarian levs) since 2016. A proposed law that has been pending since 2017 will lower that to just €500. The central bank informed the politicians it would not comply with such a low limit. The politicians even went as far as the use of the 500 euro note would have been a punishable criminal offense.

Over in Denmark since July 1, 2021, any payment of up to about 2,700 euros (20,000 Danish kroner [DKK]) is allowed whereas the previous limit was DKK 50,000 since 2013. Prior to that, the limit was from 2006 was DKK 100,000 and once more they claim this is all about combatting money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

France, the origin of communist theory, has been trying to outlaw cash for years. Today, a cash payment limitation stands at €1,000 since 2015. That was lowered from a limitation of €3,000 which was implemented in 2010. In Greece, as of the end of 2016, the upper limit on cash was just €500. Here we have a government that was as corrupt as it could be and screwed the nation by entering a conspiracy with Goldman Sachs to manipulate their debt to enter the Eurozone.  Hence, the government wanted to lower the limit to €300 which would have seriously disrupted tourism and even the ECB objected. The government has imposed laws whereby Greek taxpayers must prove that they spend at least 30% of their taxable income in electronic form. If you failed to prove that 30% of your income is spent by debit/credit card, you will have to pay a penalty tax of 22% on the difference.

In Italy, the government imposed a limit on cash transactions of €2000. However, as of January 1, 2022, the government has lowered that to €1,000 proving that money laundering is no longer drugs, but not paying taxes. Throughout Europe, these trends reveal that the pretend politicians who are supposed to “represent” the people, regard the people as criminals. They have used terrorism as the justification to go after every person in the country. This is why governments have been pushing for 5G to ensure the extinction of cash and to make all payment systems instantaneous.

In the Netherlands, the government moved to introduce a cash limit of €3,000 also claiming that this was intended to be “measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing more effectively”. Spain introduced a law in 2012 on the prevention of tax fraud in Article 7 which forbids making cash purchases of €2,500 or more. That was lowered to €1,000 as of November 2021.

In Germany, there is no limit on cash payments for the purchase of goods. However, consumers who want to pay amounts that are greater than 10,000 Euro in cash, have to show their ID card and the merchant/vendor must document their name, place of birth, date of birth, and home address as well as their nationality.

Using terrorism, all European governments are hunting cash and PRESUME people who pay in cash are engaged in money laundering they now define as simply not paying taxes. I have been warning that part of the strength behind the dollar is the fact that (1) it has never been canceled, but (2) it is the cash reserve of the world with 70% of paper dollars circulating outside the United States as the hedge against their own governments.

Media Begins Their Week Long J6 Attack on Democracy Narrative Engineering Effort


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on January 2, 2022 | Sundance | 178 Comments

Despite the predictability and transparency of the propaganda effort, the media and democrats are going all-in.  All the broadcast Sunday Talk shows were filled with the “democracy in danger” talking points using the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests to drive the agenda.

We can likely expect an entire week of building apoplexy culminating in some form of DC release.  The Lawfare crew and the J6 committee members have been producing this pantomime for almost a year, and it kicks off the 2022 Democrat mid-year election effort.

Along with the traditional democrat pearl-clutchers the republican wing of the UniParty is putting forth the insufferables: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Pete Meijer and the one-eyed Cheney, Dan Crenshaw.   Additionally, the collapse of the ‘winter of death’ narrative combined with the inability of a new canine in the White House to rebrand the occupant, means even more emphasis will be placed on the J6 nonsense this week.

You might have heard that congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (MTG) was permanently removed from Twitter today under the auspices of breaking the approved speech rules for the Rona. However, it seems more likely -or at least more convenient- that her voice was removed due to the forward operational needs of the J6 engineering team.

It’s not going out on a limb to say the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico most likely have their J6 supportive articles written and in the queue for sequentially planned distribution all week.  Certainly, they will launch the first round of articles, based on J6 committee leaks, starting tomorrow.

ABC kicked out a J6 poll today pushing the storyline that most republicans agree the events of January 6th were an attack against democracy. {LINK} And of course, President Trump is to blame for everything that took place.  Democrats are using this opportunity to try and get rid of the outsider threat once and for all.

Not to be outdone, the entire editorial board of the New York Times also claimed today, “the survival of the American republic depends on looking backward to that day.” {LINK} A little dramatic flair from the professional couch fainters.

The democrats must distract to something, must point to something, because there’s literally not a single positive accomplishment for them to refer to on anything.   Gas prices have doubled, energy prices have skyrocketed, home heating costs have doubled, inflation at the grocery store is crushing every worker and, if you believe their fearmongering, COVID is worse than ever despite all the triple-vaxxed, boosted, double-maskers running around shouting at everyone to hide in the bunkers.

Think about it.  They really need the J6 narrative, because there’s literally not a good outcome the leftists can talk about.  The day after the J6 anniversary, on Friday January 7th, a new batch of December employment and economic statistics will be released.

Absent the FBI pulling the trigger on a mass casualty event they have in the queue, and absent a domestic terror event the FBI have prepared for political deployment, they really need the J6 narrative to suck up the oxygen and launch them into the 2022 mid-terms.   Watch out for whatever the DOJ/FBI and J6 committee have in mind.

Do not underestimate how the ‘six ways to Sunday‘ Fourth Branch of Government will coordinate inside government, and externally with partners like Lawfare, in an effort to protect itself.   An intercepted kidnapping plot of Nancy Pelosi or Kamala Harris would not surprise me in the least.  Nor would some kind of FBI-created death threat toward a high-profile Democrat government official.

If the J6 momentum stalls, the DOJ/FBI/Fourth Branch will need some big headline grabbing operation for everyone to focus on.  As the New York Times stated, “The survival of the American republic” depends on it.

Look out for something akin to the FBI operation using Cesar Syoc and his October 2018 ACME pipe bombs filled with “energetic material that may become combustible when subjected to heat or friction,” something like that.

Once you see the strings on the marionettes, it’s impossible to return to that moment when you did not see them.