The Trump in the Hat


Re-posted from GrrrGraphics.com FEB 15, 2021 AT 2:45 PM

Two scoops, Two Impeachments, Two Acquittals!

The impeachment clown show has come to an end and once again Nancy Pelosi is 0-2.

Trump will go down in American history as the only President to be impeached and acquitted twice and he came out of it a living inspiration for the MAGA movement.

Apologies to Dr. Suess!

President Trump Releases Statement on Senator Mitch McConnell: “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack”


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

President Trump appears to have triggered the Big Ugly, the confrontation against the DeceptiCon wing of the Uniparty, with a full-throated rebuke of Senator Mitch McConnell.

This statement from President Donald Trump is a good indicator of what lies ahead:

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War it is then!… Giddy up.

REMINDER – […] Several DeceptiCon senators have already announced they will not run for re-election in 2020 [Shelby, Toomey, Burr, Portman and Johnson].  In the 2022 Senate races there are 34 seats up for grabs.  14 are held by Democrats and 20 are held by tenuous Republicans.  [Breakdown Here] Due to vulnerability, their lack of support amid the republican base, and their insufferable 2020 behavior outing them as DeceptiCons it is almost guaranteed the GOP will lose seats in the 2022 mid-term election. Those exiting senators, among others, know what McConnell’s objective is.  They also know this time the damage is far greater than previous times McConnell set about to destroy the base of the party.

Most casual political observers have absolutely no idea how McConnell works.  However, for over a decade CTH has been trying –mostly failing– to awaken the base of common sense voters.  In 2010, 2011 and 2012 the #1 priority for McConnell was to destroy the threat represented by the Tea Party.  In 2022 we are seeing an exact replay of the same intents and purposes, only this time the target is President Trump’s MAGA movement.

It is a motive and agenda all wrapped up in the senate power structure.  McConnell does not fear being in the minority; the color of the flag atop the spire of the UniParty senate does not matter to those underneath it.  McConnell maneuvers with just as much power in the minority as he does in the majority; factually, he makes more money selling his DeceptiCon caucus votes to Chuck Schumer (on behalf of Wall Street) than he does in the majority where he is forced to purchase them.  The entire thing is a rigged-game. (read more)

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.