Is There a Reason U.S. Media Pushing Weird “Biden Plays Mario Kart” Story?


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 16, 2021 by Sundance

If you closely follow the way leftists engineer narratives, specifically when they choose to push a particularly innocuous aspect, you can usually spot an ulterior motive.

In this example several media outlets are really pushing a story about Joe Biden playing the Mario Kart video game with his granddaughter.

It’s just weird…

NEWSWEEK – How did Joe Biden relax during his first Presidents Day weekend as president? By playing MarioKart with his family.

During his weekend retreat at Camp David, Biden and his granddaughter Naomi played the racing video game, and he won. Naomi shared a video to Instagram that showed Biden competing against her on the Arcade GP DX machines, complete with chairs and steering wheels.

Biden sat on the right as Luigi, and Naomi is Princess Peach on the left, GameRant noted. Despite not being at the same gaming level as his granddaughter, the commander-in-chief came out victorious.(READ MORE)

However, if one accepts there’s always a reason for this kind of stuff deep in the details, you might wonder if this isn’t part of an *anti-dementia* effort of narrative building from the WH press office.  Sound crazy?  Actually there’s a reason for that question…

According to scientists the specific Super Mario game could help prevent dementia in patients with symptoms.  Specifically playing Super Mario video games for two months “can improve brain function and help forestall dementia symptoms.” (LINK)

Given that everything around Joe Biden is a Potemkin village, it would not be surprising for the White House to attempt to cover Biden’s cognitive declines and ask the friendly media to report on the video-game issue in a friendly manner…. as a way to water-down the troublesome part of a President losing his marbles.

Biden may not have lost all his marbles, but there’s definitely a hole in the bag.

Support For Third U.S. Political Party Reaches Highest Point in Twenty Years, 63 Percent of Republicans and 70 Percent of Independents Want Third Party Option


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 16, 2021 by Sundance

A hot-button topic now has some interesting polling data from Gallup [pdf result here]. The poll shows that more Americans want a third party option than ever before in the two-decades of polling. Given the very visible exposure of the UniParty, two wings of the same vulture club in Washington DC, this does not come as a surprise.

Gallup – […] Independents are usually much more likely than Republicans or Democrats to favor a third political party, but in the current poll, Republicans are nearly as likely as independents to hold this view, 63% to 70%. That represents a dramatic shift for Republicans since last September when 40% favored a third party.

Republicans’ current level of support for a third party is also the highest Gallup has measured for Republicans or Democrats in Gallup’s trend. The previous high was 54% for Democrats in 2018. Currently, 46% of Democrats endorse a third party, down from 52% in September. (read more)

Obviously there is a lot to contemplate on this issue.  However, one of the key points to the formation of a third party is a cleansing of the state-by-state political apparatus.

As previously mentioned – If President Trump takes that 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 new 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. (more)

Business as Usual in the Biden Administration – Corruption – Corruption – Corruption


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption Re-Posted Feb 16, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Federal Reserve & Fake Conspiracies


Armstrong Economics Blog/Banking Crisis Re-Posted Feb 16, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: I found your history of the Federal Reserve very insightful which nobody else has put together. Can you explain your comment that the ECB could go bankrupt but not the Fed?

Thank you very much.

HB

ANSWER: Here is a full set of $1 bills with each issued by its respective branch. I would like to t5han Kohn C for having this framed and sent to me as a gift. The Federal Reserve is independent whereas it has its own authority to increase or decrease its power to create elastic money. I understand that many see this as evil, but it was absolutely essential. During an economic crash, people hoard their cash and do not spend it. Consequently, banks start to fail because they lent money out long-term as in mortgages but the demands by depositors are immediate. That is why a bank would fail in the midst of a run. Its assets are tied up in loans which they then recall and cannot sell the real estate to get liquid.

Right now we have had that problem where the velocity of money has been declining from 2007 until Trump was elected, but then it took a nose-dive in a waterfall event thanks to COVID lockdowns and rising unemployment. The Fed’s “elastic” money means they can create money in electronic form purchasing in debt which in theory injects cash into the system. However, because Congress has been so corrupt, the requirement to buy government debt has not directly helped the economy as it was originally intended to do in 1913 when it would only by corporate debt. That prevented companies from going bust and laying off people because they did not have the immediate cash.

The ECB requires the approval of all member states whereas the Federal Reserve does not need to go back to Congress to beg for money. Not all central banks are created equal. Yes, the banks were the shareholders because the Fed was supposed to be a bailout for the banks and that was not to involve taxpayer’s money.  However, the politicians could not keep their fingers out of the cookie jar. The government began to take over the Fed and the chairman was then appointed politically and the control of private banks has been reduced. The fake quote that people use that Rothschild said “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.” The problem with this quote is a simple fact it was made up in 1913.

I am unaware of any banknote issued by Rothschilds in the United States or Britain. This quote, which is widely used, appears in a letter of  T.C. Daniel (1857 – 1923) to President W. Wilson dated May 8, 1913. I cannot find any source where Mayer Rothschild ever said such a thing nor can I find any paper money issued by the Rothschild Bank. I would love to buy one if anyone ever discovers it.

Nonetheless, the Bank of England issued banknotes beginning in 1694. In 1921, the Bank of England gained a legal monopoly on the issue of banknotes in England and Wales, a process that started with the Bank Charter Act of 1844 when the ability of other banks to issue notes was restricted. I have an extensive collection of monetary instruments that are historically important. There are no Rothschild notes that I am aware of during this period. Consequently, I cannot find the source of this Rothschild quote, nor can I even find an example of a Rothschild banknote from the period in question. So I fail to see where Rothschild would have made such a boost when he did not have control of any nation’s money supply.

This is the problem. People simply hate bankers, as I have fought against, but at the same time, they are making up things that are not true and I have to wonder if this is deliberately done to create misinformation.

60% of Americans Now Want a 3rd Party – Good Bye Republicans & Democrats


Armstrong Economics Blog/Basic Concepts Re-Posted Feb 16, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Right on time, Our computer has been forecasting the political trends amazingly. I have warned that Socrates targeted 2022 as a Panic Cycle in Politics. The Biden Administration is turning the country upside down claiming climate change must be stopped instantly. Yet the severe cold this winter is also right on time as our models have also called for the high in the global warming trend and a turn back down with colder weather as we saw the peak in the energy output of the sun. This winter, it was so cold in Germany, the electric busses stopped working and the lack of wind combined with snow that has buried solar panels has left people freezing.

Here again, is yet another forecast unfolding that we would see a split in both the Democrats and the Republicans where we may see a merger form into a third party. The latest polls now show that 60% of Americans are fed up with politics and want a third party to stand against both the Republicans and Democrats. Never since the Great Depression has our model projected Panic Cycles in politics for 2022 and 2024.

Socrates has outperformed everyone. Besides forecasting this election was razor-thin, Trump would win in 2016 as well as BREXIT right down to the shift in real estate that prices would decline in urban centers and shift to suburban, it has projected the major trends beyond what any human person could possibly ever do.

Even back in 2010 when we warned we were entering a bull market in equities, Barron’s laughed. They never called for a follow-up because they never believed we would be correct back then. Why? Those in mainstream media do not want to hear how a computer can write reports or forecast things humans cannot. They would not know how they explain every move the market makes with the same old nonsense. So much for advancing technology.

Socrates even picked-up on GameStop. 

There is something about just allowing the data to speak for itself. We are headed into political chaos into 2032. The fiscal mismanagement of government is off the charts and now we have this unholy Triumvirate that has screwed up the entire world because they fear climate change and never bothered to really do the research beyond 1850. They have convinced governments to back their Great Reset and now even Dr. Fauci appears in Schwab’s videos talking about inequality as the real crisis. Where is his expertise or the fact that had Greta Thunberg even appearing on panels for Coronavirus?

So while mainstream media is desperate not to let people even know that a computer can forecast anything, the trend is the trend regardless of whatever I post.

Was Trump Just Naive?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Feb 16, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Dear Martin,
After following the Trump drama since launching his presidential campaign, we have read how he has been angry at his staff, fired one after another of his top men and women, added crazy people like Bolton and Pompeo and others, and is now mad at his defense team in Senate, only one big question remains: As an experienced business leader for a billion-dollar business, how is it possible to fail so miserably with all these appointments? Is he an amateur, a useful idiot for the deep state or is he totally incompetent as a leader? What is your opinion based on all your contacts with people around him?
BN Sweden

ANSWER: From the very beginning, they set out to control Trump. They surrounded him with swamp creatures. I was very disappointed when I saw he even brought in Goldman Sachs. I have said before that I believe Trump was very naive. The loyalties in private business are totally different in Washington. They are never loyal to an individual, it is the swamp that must be sustained. As I have also said before, there used to be a vetting process and I was asked to fly around and meet with people who wanted to run for president. Then I was asked to fly to Texas to meet with Bush Jr, but I was told “this is different,” and they said he was stupid. I was shocked. When I asked why they would make someone stupid president, they responded he had the “name” to win.

I have also stated it was at that time I was asked if I would take the position as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. I declined, for I would have to give up my business. But they were doing the hand-picking of everyone to surround Bush and that included Dick Cheney who was really the de facto president.

Trump is not stupid. He has had too much of an ego in some areas. I believe he was trying to show he did something that did not come from his father. Yet, there is a difference in dealing in the real world and that is the Washington bubble. Trump was naive, as is most of America, in thinking that being president is the same as being the president of a company. It is not. The countless layers of bureaucrats have zero loyalty to you. Just like those who think the head of the CIA suddenly knows all the secrets right down to Area 51. All among the ranks, they know these are political appointments that come and go. They NEVER let the secrets rise to the top, for they are NEVER one of them.

I believe that Trump was naive. When he began to see that people like Bolton were warmongers, he fired them. That was him starting to realize he was surrounded. He then turned to his family. But even Sidney Powell said Trump was surrounded and she could not get in.

This is not unique to Trump. The swamp is there to protect itself. That is why they do not want any outsiders. People have asked me many times if I would ever consider running for president. I laugh because the question in and of itself is naive. It assumes that I could become president and change everything. It just does not work that way. Trump thought he could drain the swamp. But the swamp was working very hard to drown him and it’s not over yet. They are trying to make an example out of Trump to serve as a warning to any non-swamp creatures–think twice before you try to run for office in this town.

I personally do not think it is remotely possible to elect someone to clean-up Washington. When it becomes this bad, history warns there is no solution other than revolution.

Cycle of War Book Nearly Sold Out Again


Armstrong Economics Blog/Products and Services Re-Posted Feb 15, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

We will try to make another printing of the Second Edition of the Cycle of War & the Coronavirus ASAP. For some reason, it just seems my books sell out very fast. Not exactly sure why.

We will have Manipulating the World Economy 5th edition out very shortly. I am finishing the Geometry of Time (in the final editing stage)The Discovery of the Business Cycle (ECM), and the Birth of Free Markets (probably 5 volumes covering post-Dark Age to today). Since traveling is not in the cards in 2021, it looks like having my feet on the ground will allow me to finish what I have been trying to get out for these past few years but gets delayed by various demands. Since I will not take the vaccine, I suspect I will not see Europe again at least until the present form of government remains in power.

Vaccines & Corruption


Armstrong Economics Blog/BigTech Re-Posted Feb 15, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT: Sir,

My sister is the primary caregiver of our 87 year old mother. She called the other day asking if mom should get the COVID vaccine. I told her no. I asked my sister is she ever bought the first model of a car. She said no. Then don’t have mom get the first model of a totally new vaccine type that has never been able to get to full human production in the normal vaccine testing process.

German Deaths of Elderly After Vaccination

Keep up the good work

DK

COMMENT #2 Sir,

Seems that when I sent you the first message it got returned. What’s interesting is that it had the epoch times link on the first send. When I erased the epoch times reference, it didn’t get returned.

Would you look at that

Keep up the good work

DK

REPLY: My mother died at 99 and it was because of the hospital. They refused to release her unless we agreed to a rehab center, which the last time they almost killed her because the doctor there assumes the right to change all her medications. When they kept insisting they would only release her to rehab keeping her in bed all the time which weakened her. my sister asked the hospital supervisor trying to sell rehab again if this was your mother would you do that? She did not respond because it was her job to make money for the hospital. But she just slightly shook her head no. Doctor friends of mine also warn that hospitals are there for the money – not to really help people far too often.

There are serious questions being raised by deaths of elderly who had recovered from COVID19, but died after getting the vaccine. Meanwhile, Instagram has now banned Robert F Kennedy Jr over his Covid vaccine posts. I believe that BigTech and mainstream media should be brought to charge for what they are doing is no different than the New York Times in hiding the 7 million deaths of Ukrainians all because they wanted Communism to prevail in the United States.

They are DELIBERATELY causing deaths which is a crime against humanity by censoring the truth. These people belong in prison, a fate far worse than death. They are censoring emails and doing everything they can to further this terrorist act to alter our very society with fear tactics.

Personally, I will not take any vaccine from these people when they will not allow the truth to be freely discussed.

Lee Smith Nails It, The Elites “Want Us To Know” They Hold all Power and Control


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 15, 2021 by Sundance

Adam Townsend had a great podcast interview with journalist Lee Smith last week, and for the first time Smith eloquently hit on something CTH has discussed for several years.

The “elites” writ large are so open in their current proclamations of being beyond reach, because they want us to know their power removes them from any accountability.

Often we see people ask ‘why are they so openly admitting to their wrongdoing’?  Within the answer I have written frequently ‘they simply do not care’…

It is not a sense of boundless hypocrisy that drives them to showcase their disconnect, the disconnect is purposefully part of the ideological advancement of their goal.  FIRST, the segment, WATCH:

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The question “do the elites care if we know” is accurately answered by “they want people to know.”  The outlook that elites are hypocritical is the wrong nuance to what is visible. Their openness about their untouchable constructs is part of their purpose.

“Elitism” in its most raw and brutal display is a system of people who are beyond reproach according to their own outlook.  They must not be questioned; they are in ultimate control of society, outcomes or (fill_in_the_blank) as an extension of their self-proclaimed magnanimity.  Essentially they are projecting their position inside a club and all those not in the club are outsiders who do not get to provide input or judgement on the club rules.

This might sound like a DUH statement from the literal definition of “elitism”; however, it must be accepted this outlook is one of consumption, not determination.  They believe they represent the ‘greater good’ and by extension control moral authority.  Thus, within their mind, they are above reproach.  The visible outcome is they operate outside the systems they push upon others who are not in the club.

Elites do not have to wear masks (Pelosi hair salon); or elites do not have to abide by group and social distance rules (Newsom at restaurant party); or elites do not have to concern themselves for carbon emissions (Kerry private airline travel); or elites do not have to worry about the justice system (Clinton emails, Comey FBI lies), etc.

This is NOT hypocrisy, this is a fundamental part of creating a classist society.

Those within the club, in this example the DC club, want those outside the club to accept there are two systems of rights and responsibilities.   The club members have all powerful rights and no responsibilities for consequences; the non club members have lesser rights and full responsibility for consequences.  This is the cornerstone of a tiered or classist society outlook.

“Rules for thee and not for me” is more than a catch phrase; it is an actual worldview with a history in political control.  They are not hypocrites, they are living out their creed.

The outlook gained popularity going all the way back to the formation of the Fabian Socialist society.  You might remember George Bernard Shaw saying “at a certain point those [outside the club] will have to justify their existence.”  Shaw was advocating for a genetic cleansing of those undeserving people who take more from society more than they provide in value.

This Fabian Socialist outlook is the most extreme form of “elitism”, the actual extermination of undesirables, but it is essentially along the same continuum as believing their are two sets of rules depending on your place in the hierarchy of society.

This outlook has been modernized to include the latest industry of Big Tech.  Those who control technocracy have merged with those who control the politics of society.  The outcome is elites deciding which voices are allowed to participate in the national conversation, and which voices must be ostracized because they are not compliant to the elitist worldview.

It is critical, actually beyond critical, that people start to accept what they are witnessing is not some misplaced system created by bad actors.  Those bad actors are actually elites who benefit from numbing society to the sheer audacity of their ideology.

Again, we return to this image….

…. And I pray that people will pause, stand back and contemplate just what follows the natural conclusion of events if these ideological “elites” are not confronted.  That image is not far away from where we are today.

Those who understand big picture dynamics are still comfortable sticking their heads in the sand about “motive”. Most people are still clinging to actual beliefs around a principle of ‘rule of law’ that applies to National Leadership.

You’d better change that thinking quickly – or you’ll be asking ‘what happened’ far too late.

There seems to be a willful blindness on the part of the American people, a chosen refusal to acknowledge the implications of the unAmerican and unConstititional behaviors, actions and outcomes we are being served on a daily basis.

It can no longer be presumed to be a matter of “I can’t see what’s happening” because a whole lot of normal Americans really are clean and articulate.

I can’t see it” just doesn’t cut it.

Bullsh!t! You can see it, you are just choosing to reconcile the irreconcilable because it is more comforting to ignore the truth of it. You are scared:

    • You are scared of being labeled
    • You are scared of being belittled
    • You are scared of being Alinsky’d.
    • You are scared of being targeted.
    • You are scared because you have never been here before.
    • You are scared of being right.

Just be honest. Avoidance has become your survival mechanism.

It’s more along the lines of “I see what’s happening, but it’s scary and complicated and confusing, and if I admit that I see it, I will become responsible in a way that I am not if I keep pretending I can’t see it or hear it or maybe I don’t understand it.”

Our Republic has become Kitty Genovese screaming in the darkness, being assaulted repeatedly and viciously, while onlookers sitting in the darkness startle onto their feet–some trying to reach for phones or light switches while others try to hush them, accusing them of exaggerated reactions.

The screams reach some homes where the residents look nervously and silently at one another, really hoping that someone else will call the cops, because obviously something really bad is happening out there.

Now, like then, you, like those people in New York, look around and say well someone is going to do something about this usurpation of power and unconstitutional action. So you pull the comfy blankies of historical public leadership reference over your head, cover your ears, block out the sights and the sounds, and do nothing.

You don’t even accept the fact a woman, Lady Liberty, our republic, is being repeatedly stabbed, carved up and her flesh torn from her body. She is bleeding on your grass and her bloody hand prints are on your trees and sidewalks. You know it, yet you lie there.

Doing what? Really? If not you,….. WHO? Who is “them”?

Remember the visual illusions on big cards, (Rorschach tests) just black and white splotches that required you to “stare just right”– and when you did, you could see the ink-drawn cow in a snow drift? That’s the one we grew up with–yours might have had palm trees in it or something else. But you stared hard, knowing that eventually you would see a clear picture —ah! There it is! For just a minute, but you saw it there–for just a minute.

How many are sitting in the midst of this implosion still believing that if they stare hard enough at the national mess they will still see a Constitutional government and a Representative Republic?

Well, stare as long as you want. The details of a Constitutional Representative Republic will no longer come into focus because it turns out that the Republic was apparently stitched together with dissolvable thread like the surgeons use.

Why don’t we dare say what is so? Are we a bit afraid that if we give up the willful blindness we will perhaps start screaming and not be able to stop? Do we think we have so little courage? Do we really believe that we have no resources to bring to the battle? Or nothing more to contribute to the turning of the battle?

There are patriots who some might say resemble one of those slightly mad orchestra conductors who keep yelling, “More trumpet! More TRUMPET!” Many of you are such slightly mad orchestra leaders. Don’t be alarmed by some of the strange looks you are getting these days.

We Need More Trumpets !”

California, Recall Governor Gavin Newsom Petition Hits 1.5 Million Signature Milestone


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on February 15, 2021 by Sundance

The effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a major milestone accomplishment today as they have gathered over 1.5 million signatures to initiate the recall effort.    However, the patriots who are organizing the recall effort still want to gather an additional 300 to 500 thousand extra signatures to avoid any challenges.

After reaching the milestone, the California GOP announced they would provide the volunteer group with $125,000 in funding to help pay for the remaining campaign effort. This is in addition to the RNC recently providing 250,000 to help better organize the next steps in the recall.

CALIFORNIA – […] Organizers say they have collected over 1.5 million signatures so far, although it’s not clear how many of them will be disqualified because of technical or other errors. Committees behind the recall hope to gather well beyond the required 1.5 million, to ensure it qualifies.

“We expect to collect another 400,000 signatures,” Rescue California campaign manager Anne Dunsmore said in a statement. With the six-figure donation, “we added a substantial line item to our budget.”

The contribution “will guarantee that we bring in enough additional signatures to hold Gavin Newsom accountable,” she added. (read more)