Armstrong Economics Blog/Forecasts Re-Posted Jan 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION #1: OK. Now what? The Democrats seem to be just vindictive and do not represent all the people. Any thoughts on the future?

FC

QUESTION #2:  Hello Martin.
You and Socrates are the only sane people/AI in a totally insane world for the time being. Thanks for that.
From a Swedish perspective, it is completely absurd what we see unfolding in Washington DC among these corrupt politicians. If Trump leaves without some security guarantees, they will probably chase him and his entire family all the way to hell with various accusations, lawsuits, and maybe even arrests. Maybe he can make an art of the deal with Pence and let him step in 24 hours before noon 20th and pardon Trump and his family against all possible accusations or maybe even make an art of the deal with Biden, for the good of the country, etc.

What do you think and what does Socrates say?

BN

ANSWER: Trump’s biggest flaw is he does not know when to stop. Think a rally would show he had support was not necessary because he had the support and a number of Republicans were going to contest the vote despite the fact it would not win. All the conspiracy theories that Pence would just unilaterally declare Trump the winner were absurd. That was a fringe opinion at best. I stated that once the Supreme Court rejected the Texas suit it was over. The absurd statements that they were telling him how to bring the suit were obviously made up by people that do not understand the law. I do think he should step down, cut a deal with Pence, get a pardon for him and his family. The press will never allow him to come back.

However, the Democrats are exhibiting the same flaw at the very start of their term as Trump. The political winds have shifted masterfully and I would not doubt that someone orchestrated the breach of the Capitol knowing it would discredit all Trump supporters and open a clear path for the Democrats to act like dictators. Rarely does it get more favorable for a party than the Democrats now enjoy! Besides winning control of the White House and both the House and Senate, Joe Biden will get the Cabinet and judges he wants and the path is open to tax changes as well as rules in the Senate to silence the Republicans completely. Media is their lapdog and can be counted on to cheer whatever Biden says and every move he makes. They interfered in the election far more than they accused the Russians. Likewise, BigTech is expecting their payoff in the form of entering banking.

I have warned that “Trumpism” pre-existed Trump – it is the anti-establishment movement that can be traced back to Andrew Jackson. The Republican Party is in shambles because they blame everything on Trump and in the process will disavow the very reforms people have sought. The computer shows an absolutely disastrous two years ahead. The Democrats are blinded by their dictatorial power when in fact they never won a mandate. Nevertheless,  they will push forward to change the face of America and in the process, this is not going to be so easy and they are celebrating right now.

House Democrats failed Monday in their first bid to punish President Trump after his supporters were allowed into the Capitol they wish to characterize as an insurrection when it seemed more like a Woodstock fest with people taking selfies rather than actually overthrowing the government unarmed. Nevertheless, Pelosi is being very vindictive not to just demoralize Trump, but by attempting to make him the first president ever to be impeached twice, she is really trying to discredit. the anti-establishment sentiments in the nation.

Our computer is showing a very choppy year ahead. On top of that, the economy will continue to decline into 2022. What we will see is what I have warned about. Republics are the WORST form of government for they pretend they are democratic, but they are ruthless tyrannical regimes. I continue to warn that you should not be allowed to change the system structurally without a 2/3rd vote. Even to amend the Constitution requires 38 states out of 50 of 76%. Congress should not be allowed to change the rules to end filibusters to usher in an authoritative dictatorship with 50.4% of the vote. This will still lead to violence and the Supreme Court should have ruled on the evidence yes or no. Refusing to take the case leaves both sides convinced about the other. That is not a government that will represent everyone.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 12, 2021 by Sundance

Vice President Mike Pence has rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demand that cabinet members of the Trump administration invoke the 25th Amendment:

Speaker Pelosi will now move forward with article of impeachment in the house tomorrow.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 12, 2021 by Sundance

It should come as no surprise the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (CoC) would join hands with leftist democrats & begin withholding financial support for congressional representatives who supported President Trump.   You might remember in August of 2020 when the CoC admitted to supporting far-left democrats in the 2020 election cycle.

WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the powerful pro-business [multinational] lobbying group, said Tuesday it will halt political contributions to certain lawmakers following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.

“There are some members that by their actions will have forfeited the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Period, full stop,” Neil Bradley, chief policy officer at the Chamber, said in a press conference.

[…] “It’s also a mistake not to recognize the elected officials who really stood up in very trying and difficult circumstances and we’re going to continue to operate a program that supports them and helps them in our efforts to lead our country,” he said. (read more)

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Re-Posted from GrrrGraphics.com JAN 11, 2021 AT 6:48 PM

Big Tech Tyrants

While luxuriating in Tahiti, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a shameful but bold decision: He removed thousands of conservative voices from his platform, including GrrrGraphics. Our mass violation? We were all pro-Trump. Dorsey lied and said we were promoting violence while he allowed ‘hang Pence’ messages to stay.

Not to be outdone, Jeff Bezos also ‘cleansed’ the Twitter alternative, Parler, from his company’s cloud servers. Trump supporters are now being smeared as ’terrorists’ by the far left mega billionaires.

BREAKING @GRRRGRAPHICS HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER FOLLOW US ON GAB SAME ID @GRRRGRAPHICS

Throughout 2020, Facebook was busy censoring conservative voices on their platform. Mark Zuckerberg is good friends with China’s President Xi. Zuckerberg speaks Chinese. He asked Xi to name his child. Zuckerberg clearly interfered with the election by refusing to allow any comments or links to Hunter’s notorious laptop. Facebook went the Hillary route of lying and said (with zero proof) that it was ‘Russian disinformation.’

Try using Google for any searches of conservative opinions and you’ll see page after page of leftist opinions stating why conservatives are wrong. Goggle does evil and it’s now nothing more than a socialist propaganda arm—not a search engine.

Many on the left claim it’s perfectly fine for these CEOs to burn conservative opinions. After all, they are private companies and can do whatever they want. Not exactly. They are publicly-held companies. Today Twitter’s stock got slammed and rightfully so. Let’s hope the mega billionaires are all taken down a peg or two, but more importantly, we all need to point out the hypocrisy of the left for blatantly violating our First Amendment.

The lefty mega billionaires know their plans for us are unpopular. Their ideas don’t stand up in the marketplace of ideas, so they want to limit and control that marketplace. They know this is not aligned with our Constitution, but they don’t care. They admire the Chicom system more. Hence their naked display of reckless power.

They must be awfully afraid if they’re resorting to silencing millions of Americans.

—Ben Garrison

Armstrong Economics Blog/Tyranny Re-Posted Jan 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

It is clear that the police opened the doors and stood by as they allowed protestors into the Capitol. They have now charged some police for allowing people in. That is not grounds to impeach Trump. But Pelosi is doing this to try to tar and feather him to prevent him from ever running again. She is also trying to demoralize anyone who voted for him – a very standard psychological warfare tactic to crush the Republican Party into dust.

This is the same routine they pulled off for 9/11. I have laid it out that while the terrorists hijacked the planes, the government knew that was coming and allowed it to take place to gain tremendous power. The first crew of terrorists were in MCC and even drew the Twin Towers on the wall with planes going into them. It was the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employee Mr. Kumb who provided the recreation materials they used. The BOP came down to 10 south and filmed everything. They knew what was coming down and used it to expand their power allowing it to happen.

I already receive hate mail blaming everything on Trump supporters, so lock-up 50% of the country. The hatred is pouring out, so I do not see how there will be reconciliation going forward when our computer has Panic Cycles in politics in 2022. That’s why we have Socrates — it will take a computer to shift through all this nonsense.

Project Northwoods was the same scheme, which is on the pro-government site Wikipedia. Kill Americans and blame Cuba to justify an invasion. This “siege” of the Capitol did not appear to be breaking down doors. It will be used to push through the Domestic Terrorist Act and, once again, increase the power of the state, which was written ahead of this event.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on January 11, 2021 by Sundance

With the JoeBama administration looming, suddenly New York totalitarian Governor Andrew Cuomo has a reversal in position:

If you read that and said… “wha, wait.. huh?”, you would not be alone.   After initiating lock-down measures that collapsed the New York economy because there was no other option…. suddenly the risks of economic collapse are worse than the COVID-19 threat, which is the same message President Trump has been sharing for months. What gives?

[…] New York has used just half of its roughly one million vaccine doses so far, and Cuomo said New York won’t have enough doses for roughly four million eligible New Yorkers until mid-April, based on the state’s federal allotment of 300,000 vaccines per week.

[…] “We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass,” Cuomo said.  (read more)

The timing of this seems to be connected to the shift in administration; which would imply, publicly, that COVID shutdowns are indeed -as most have said- very politically motivated.

It will be interesting to see how California Governor Gavin Newsom responds to the shift in position from Cuomo.

The economic damage has been catastrophic, but all of the totalitarian governors have used the COVID threat to justify their action.  This shift today is in direct contrast to several months of narrative drum-beating.  Is this the inflection point where we discover that COVID was weaponized for maximum political value?

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Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Jan 11, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Do you think this was meant to be like a 911 event to use against the people with Domestic Terrorism legislation?

VB

ANSWER: Yes. There was an effort to even take hostages and people had plastic ties to do that. If you look at this video, it was the real Trump supporters who did not go along with that agenda and actually fought them off. The mainstream press will not cover that because it does not support their narrative. This was a major effort to discredit not just Trump, but 50% of the country and to bring about submission. It did not turn out to be as bad as they hoped to justify the Domestic Terrorist Act just as they used 911 to push through the Patriot Act which lowered the surveillance of money transfers from $10,000 to $3,500.

The Domestic Terrorism Act legislation was already prepared. They are against “populism” and they are calling for the removal of those on the Hill who supported Trump. You even had John Kerry state that the danger was “populism” and this Great Reset had to also address that. In other words, the end of any democratic right to affect government. In Europe, you have no right to vote for the European Commission or for the head of the EU. You vote only for Parliament which cannot overrule the Commission. They criticize China and call it a communist government because the people do not vote, but I see no real difference with the political system in Europe. Now with the ability to change votes, what elections are have been reduced to a theatre play.

These people have a problem. I warned the WEC that they have a very short fuse. They are trying to pull off this takeover of the nation in 2021 and we already have Biden saying he will eliminate the NRA and they will seek to hunt down people with guns. Biden is already calling this “Domestic Terrorism” and the legislation will authorize imprisonment even for speech. This will be the end of the United States as we have known it. They will stack the Hill and turn on the Supreme Court.

At the WEC I warned that their Agenda 2030 would be brought forward and it will attempt to put in motion by 2022. They know they must use this momentum now to push forward as fast as possible. Granted, they are probably using our models since they tried so hard to get me to join their club over the decades. Looking at our model, 2022 is the short fuse. They do not have until 2030. We have never had Panic Cycles in our political models like this since the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression.

Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Jan 12, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Now we have the FBI warning that there may be an armed assault against Biden during the inauguration. This is getting really crazy. I really hope that is NOT the case but I would not put it past someone deliberately doing so to blame Trump supporters to drive 50% of the country underground. On the other hand, there are crazy people who might try something stupid like that which will do nothing for the nation but divide the nation even more.  Any such act will be supporting the Domestic Terrorist Act passage virtually unanimously as was the Patriot Act. My concern is that our computer is projecting rising civil unrest and absolute chaos during the midterm election in 2022.

The Democrats are already looking to impose sanctions on anyone who supported Trump on Capitol Hill. This is in direct conflict with Biden’s theme:

Joe Biden announces ‘America United’ as inauguration theme

The only way to calm the waters is to demonstrate that he will NOT follow the directive of the World Economic Forum and stay middle of the road. Any drastic measures will NOT unite the nation and certainly not mandatory vaccines. Ending capital gains tax and imposing a wealth tax will be burdensome to every one. Even the poor would have to file a wealth tax form to prove they are poor. The further conspiracy theories that Trump has signed the Insurrection Act does not help matters. There is no evidence of such a move and Pelosi has been contacting the military brass to ensure that does not take place. It was last invoked in 1992 by George H.W. Bush during the unrest in Los Angeles after the acquittal of police officers who beat Rodney King. Claims he will arrest the VP and the leaders in Congress do not seem to have any validity. It is not likely that the military would follow such an order anyhow.

Meanwhile, there is a wholesale departure from BigTech. Twitter has lost so far 12% of its traffic since banning Trump. Even Angla Merkel, the head of Germany, has called Twitter’s actions “problematic” to put it mildly. Nevertheless, Twitter seems to think even the US Constitution offends their guidelines. Their actions have been far worse than the accusations of Rissian interference in 2016. BigTech could care less since the Democrats have promised them access to banking online (see IMF). The basic tenets of a Free Society is that I must defend your right to say what I may disagree with. That is the freedom of speech which is no longer respected. As one reader commented:

Regarding the BIG-TECH suppression of conservative political speech and its squashing of a rising competitor, Parler, we’ve seen all this before. BIG-TECH is now a Soviet political commissar with the business monopoly power of Standard-Oil.
The suppression of conservative political speech, as practiced by Twitter and Facebook, benefits the progressive views of their leaders to the determent of competing ideologies. Exhibit ‘A’ is the censorship of a legitimate newspaper story by the oldest running American paper in existence founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton, The NY Post, prior to a presidential election to mitigate the damage Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal imparted to their preferred candidate, Joe Biden.
Google and Apple, cutting off Parler’s access at the front-end in their app stores, is equivalent to a Standard-Oil type conglomerate denying access to oil well drillers. Amazon, on the back-end, revoked Parler’s access to its servers; this is analogous to Standard-Oil cutting off a growing competitor’s access to refiners.
I am shocked this is happening in the United States of America and am saddened that as is oft the case, history repeats itself. It appears we will have to experience the lessons of tyranny through experience due to a profound failure in the education of history to our youth. Let’s make Orwell fiction again.
RW

Obviously, we will have to look at the computer forecasts for 2021 which will be really interesting in the midst of all this drama. I do not look forward to them using this virus and a claimed new strain to lockdown the country nationally to defeat a virus that is really intended to reduce CO2. This is right out of the psychological warfare manual. As I have reported before, there was more 4x the number of people who died during the 1969 Hong Kong Flu and they did not act like this locking down the world. They even had Woodstock in the middle of that pandemic.

The economic damage is off the charts with corporate chains saying they are leaving NYC or closing operations. We still see the economy declining into 2022. Another round of lockdowns will ensure there is nothing “normal” to return to just a John Kerry who will be in charge of the climate said.

Here is the COVID Restriction Map. Select your country.

Posted originally on The Conservative tree house on January 11, 2021 by Sundance

It is not just Donald Trump and his 100+ million supporters of freedom and liberty being targeted, Big Tech is now moving against any voice that would be problematic for the goals and objectives of JoeBama.  Today Facebook targets Ron Paul.

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The totalitarian enterprises are global in scale.  As many have noted, this will not stop with just targeting President Trump and his supporters.  Big Tech is now advancing against all voices they deem adverse to their ideological agenda.   This is only the beginning.

We can well expect to see this approach metastasize quickly and spread to other nations (Brazil, Poland, Hungary) where nationalist and populist movements are visible.

Extreme control is a reaction to fear.  The globalists, writ large, are fearful of the population.  We are at the inflection point.