Biden – America’s Commodus?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics Re-Posted Aug 4, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Commodus (177-192AD), the notorious Roman emperor with whom history has drawn the line for the start of the decline & fall of the Roman Empire, issued this coin of which only two are known to have survived.  The reverse is supposed to symbolize prosperity moving forward, which reminds me of Biden. Here a Youthful Dionysos, nude but for a wreath around his head, seated upright to left, but with his head to the right, on a panther walking to right; Dionysos’ legs are on either side of the panther, he holds a thyrsos in his right hand and rests his left hand on the panther’s neck.

When Commodus was assassinated, the Praetorian Guards were so corrupt that they auctioned off the office of emperor to the highest bidder. That was Didus Julianus who managed to rule for less than five months before he was taken out.

The thyrsos is typically associated with the Greek god Dionysus, or his Roman counterpart Bacchus, and represents a symbol of prosperity, fertility, and hedonism. This reminds me of Biden trying to look youthful, also pretending that he is creating prosperity while sniffing your girls, and moving forward with strength sitting on the back of a panther. It didn’t work out well for Rome with Commodus, and Biden’s insane infrastructure bill is not something that will create prosperity but end up as the tipping point for the decline and fall.

Interestingly, there was a period of conservatism that also preceded Commodus, which included tax reductions. The curious aspect about history is that the very same patterns unfold over and over again, even in the same sequence. From the assassination of Commodus, the nation was plunged into a civil war that lasted for two years.

Kelli Ward Provides an Update on the Legal Loggerheads Within Arizona as Maricopa County Challenges the State Senate


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 3, 2021 | Sundance | 114 Comments

Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward provides an update on the legal battle between the State Senate and Maricopa County during their ongoing battle over the election audit.  Ms. Ward highlights the recent letter from the Maricopa Board of Supervisors and the State Senate response to it.  Apparently, the State Senate is preparing to go back to court against the county officials.

Grandma’s rule applies toward my commentary…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Discusses Corporate Media Narrative Surrounding Florida COVID Response


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 3, 2021 | Sundance | 79 Comments

The Biden administration is specifically targeting Florida and Texas for allowing the principles of constitutional freedom to guide their COVID mitigation efforts.  Over the past two days the White House in general, and Joe Biden specifically, has been targeting Governor Ron DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott.

During a press conference today, in South Florida on environmental issues, Governor DeSantis delivered remarks about his response to a recent surge in COVID positive testing, while recommitting to keeping Florida a free and open state.  As DeSantis notes, the federal mitigation efforts have failed on multiple fronts to stem COVID-19 while simultaneously punishing people; he will not participate in any intervention that provides no benefit and has no basis in science.  Video below prompted to the COVID discussion:

The attacks against Florida and Texas will not diminish as long as the Biden administration need to weaponize COVID fear for their political purposes.  Texas and Florida remaining free, fearless and functioning is against the interests of the White House.

As Barack Obama’s campaign manager and lead political advisor David Plouffe admitted recently, Democrats need massive mail-in ballots and fraud again if they are going to avoid getting wiped out in the 2022 election.   COVID fear is the vehicle to get those priorities in place.  It really is that simple.

Show Your Papers, New York City Announces Vaccination Passport Needed to Eat at Restaurants or Engage in Private Businesses


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 3, 2021 | Sundance | 533 Comments

…”All your freedoms are belong to us.”

Comrade rebels, effective September 13th, anyone living or visiting New York City who has not been vaccinated will be blocked from entering any private venue, restaurant or indoor facility.  Businesses will be required to operate security checkpoints, where people without proof of vaccinated status will be denied entry.

Your engagement with the system of commerce will now be controlled by the New York Ministry of COVID Compliance.

[New York] … “It’s time for people to see vaccination as necessary to living a good and full and healthy life,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing.

“This is crucial, because we know that this will encourage a lot more vaccination.”

The program, which de Blasio dubbed the “Key to NYC Pass,” makes New York the first major US city to create such a mandate, and marks a significant escalation of the city’s efforts to curb the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant. The initiative will launch on Aug. 16, the mayor said.

“It will require vaccination for workers and customers in indoor dining, in indoor fitness facilities, indoor entertainment facilities,” he said from City Hall. “The only way to patronize these businesses indoors is if you’re vaccinated.”  “If you want to participate in society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated,” de Blasio added. (read more)

WATCH:

It will be interesting to see how this is enforced.  It will also be interesting to see if underground networks of rebellious residents will establish a secondary economic system for the non-vaccinated who defy the regime.

CTH has said since the original communist network of Barack Obama was created in Chicago, that if they were successful in fully executing their plan, a fundamental fracturing of society would take place.  A few years later, as we watch the successful seeding of the revolutionary communists around Obama, we warned CTH readers to think carefully about where you live because the cleaving along ideological lines was ultimately going to happen.

The prediction we made upon the launch of The Last Refuge was specifically based on accepting the reality that if the Obama network was successful, there would have to be a natural fracturing of society.  The division and fragmentation away from the communal mindset was a predictable outcome.

Many American people, perhaps barely the majority, will not acquiesce to losing freedom and living under totalitarian rule.  That is why the Obama network wanted to import millions of people who are in alignment with full socialist and governmental control over their lives.

The resistance will live on…. it always does.  But, at a certain point it becomes necessary to move your physical body away from a place where you are under control, and set up your homestead in a place where freedom is still permitted.

That is why we said in 2011, “WHERE WILL YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE“?  We knew this was coming.  Choose wisely….

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Andrew Cuomo Releases Prepared and Produced Remarks Defending His Conduct – Hey I’m Old and I’m Italian, We Touch People


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 3, 2021 | Sundance | 222 Comments

The team behind creepy sexual deviant New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, obviously had several days to prepare their defense against allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation against state employees and private citizens.

After the New York AG released the report showing long-term sexual misconduct against young women, including the groping of young staffers private body parts, the office of the New York Governor released their carefully produced justification via a video statement.

Within the video, Governor Andrew Cuomo says the issues outlined against him are a matter of cultural differences. “Hey, I’m Italian”, he says to people defining Cuomo’s expressions of  “warmth” and compassion as inappropriate in the modern-era.  Cuomo’s team put together a picture montage of Cuomo touching and kissing people throughout his career, and the Governor says in hindsight, maybe he was just too nice a guy.

As Cuomo notes in his justification, the victims: “Read into comments that I made, and draw inferences that I never meant. They ascribe motives I never had; and simply put, they heard things that I just didn’t say.” … “I was trying to help, and obviously I didn’t.”  To explain the groping of young women’s breasts and buttocks, the New York Governor said he does it all the time.

Governor Cuomo explains his cultural connection thusly: “Other complainants raised against me questions that have sought to unfairly characterize and weaponize interactions that I have had with any number of New Yorkers” … “I have been making the same gestures in public all my life. I have learned them from my mother and from my father.” … “I do it with everyone, black and white, young and old, straight and LGBTQ.”  … “I do kiss people, I do embrace people, I do hug people.”  “On occasion I do slip and say sweetheart or darling.”

The media is awaiting creepy Joe Biden to talk about creepy Andrew Cuomo.  However, perhaps not coincidentally, the current occupant of the White House does the same inappropriate groping, kissing, sniffing and touching of little girls and young women in public.  Team Biden has a direct attachment to the issues faced by Team Cuomo.  It will be interesting to see what happens….

No Criminal Consequences – New York AG and State Investigators Find Governor Cuomo Sexually Harassed Current and Former Female Employees and Violated State and Federal Harassment Laws


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 3, 2021 | Sundance | 261 Comments

Perverted, creepy, sick, narcissistic, ego-maniacal New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is laughing hysterically right now as the dual-justice system of New York politics is on full display. Infuriating does not scratch the surface.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James specifically said at the beginning of her remarks releasing the investigative findings of a 5 month investigation: “The independent investigation has concluded, and Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law.”

Moments later one of the investigators, the former federal prosecutor from Manhattan, Joon Kim, said: “We find that the governor, on numerous occasions, engaged in conduct that constitutes unlawful sex based harassment,” as outlined in the extensive investigation [168-page report pdf HERE].

During their press briefing, the investigators Ann Clark and Joon Kim outlined the evidence provided by 11 sexual harassment victims and the 5 month investigation which corroborated those accusations, including the interviews of 179 witnesses.  Yet, despite their words, neither the State Attorney General nor the U.S. Attorneys’ general, will bring any criminal charges against Governor Cuomo.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, said at the conclusion of their press conference:

…”The document is now public, and the matter is civil in nature and does not have any criminal consequences.”

Mainstream media writ large, and CNN specifically, is forced by overwhelming evidence to play the game of optical sadness, visible victim support, pearl-clutching outrage, and solemn face displaying; while simultaneously deflecting, dismissing and downplaying the severity of the issues because, well, after all, this is a major player on the leftist team….

….And despite the overwhelming evidence, the professionally manipulative system of dual-justice never stops protecting their own.  So, move along now.

As the New York AG said at the conclusion of her statement:

…”We were tasked with the responsibility of engaging in an investigation, and we have concluded our investigation, and our work is done!”

Meh, and tomorrow is Wednesday… who cares?!

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Here’s the full press conference, prompted to the beginning:

End Private Donations to FDA & CDC – NOW!


Armstrong Economics Blog/Gov’t Incompetence Re-Posted Aug 3, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

Our greatest problem has been that Bill Gates has his tentacles deeply involved in the CDC and FDA while he has a major shareholding in the vaccine companies. If I was managing a big public fund or just a big private investor, the Federal Reserve, Treasury, and every other central bank in the world would NEVER be allowed to talk to me. Even when I would go to meetings in Europe, I was not allowed to bring a British staff member as he might be biased toward Britain.

This is EXTREMELY UNETHICAL for the FDA and CDC to be involved with Gates. There is no way government agencies should be allowed to take money from any outside source. We pay more than enough taxes to cover their expenses and now we have a nightmare with Fauci engaging in gain-of-function research. Fauci refuses to reveal that perhaps government money did not flow to Wuhan, but money diverted from Gates did. If that were true, then Gates with his financial interests tied to vaccines created the worst INSIDER TRADING scandal in modern history. The SEC will never investigate for they too are compromised. They will attack Musk for comments, but never Bill Gates who need not swim across the Potomac River when he visits Washington, he need only walk upon the water. CNN would support Gates and say he had no choice but to walk upon the water for he does not know how to swim.

End ALL Private Donations to the FDA, CDC, AND UN’s WHO NOW!

Judge Andrew Napolitano Fired by Fox News Following Sexual Harassment Claims by Young Male Staff


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 2, 2021 | Sundance | 68 Comments

Perhaps this explains the weird behavior by Napolitano during Spygate.  Initially, the Fox News analyst recognized the issues of the Obama FBI and intelligence apparatus spying on their political opposition. Then suddenly, Napolitano appeared to do an about face despite mounting evidence that highlighted the spying issue as accurate.

A lawsuit was filed [pdf available here] claiming that Judge Napolitano was sexually harassing young men at Fox News.  The news group did an internal investigation and fired Napolitano, which seems to indicate the harassment claims were grounded in fact.   It makes you wonder if sketchy Napolitano was under the cloud of blackmail for his sexual improprieties?

(Variety)  – Judge Andrew Napolitano, a legal contributor for Fox News, is no longer employed by the network following allegations of sexual harassment.

In a complaint filed on Monday, a 27-year-old Fox News associate producer alleged that Napolitano has “sexually harassed numerous young male employees during his tenure at Fox News.” The plaintiff, whose name is John Fawcett, claims that he reported Napolitano’s misconduct to Fox News’ human resources department but they did not take any immediate action against him.

In a statement to Variety, Fox News said that upon learning of the allegations, the network “immediately investigated the claims and addressed the matter with both parties.” Napolitano has not appeared on air at Fox News for several months. (read more)

I guess if we wait a little while longer we might find out, a similar pathway amid the career of Fox New’s two human cabbage patch dolls:  Brett Baier and Neil Cavuto.

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Responds To Arizona Senate Subpoena – Go Spit, “It’s Time to Move On”


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 2, 2021 | Sundance | 411 Comments

Last week, the Arizona State Senate sent a subpoena to Maricopa County election officials asking for information and voting material the county previously refused to turn over [See Here].

Today, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors responded to the legislative subpoena:

Obviously given the nature of the court rulings that have sustained the position of the state senate, the Maricopa County BoS view the legislative subpoena as legally valid but unenforceable.  They appear to stand in open defiance of the state upper-chamber because the county board perceives no threat from any enforcement mechanism (law enforcement or state attorney).

White House Takes Aim at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Over Lack of COVID Restrictions


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on August 2, 2021 | Sundance | 336 Comments

I’m pretty sure everyone here could predict the White House would need to target any state or region that is not restricting freedom and applying ridiculous COVID rules and regulations.  States that do not force vaccinations, force masks, and generate mandates against their citizens are essentially enemies of the politically reliant dictators.

As a consequence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis allowing his state to remain open and operating as normal, without arbitrary rules, restrictions and mandates, stands in open defiance of the demanded federal overreaction.  The White House cannot have Florida functioning without panic and fear, and still sell their doom and gloom forecast; so DeSantis becomes the enemy.

This is where the David Plouffe messaging comes into the White House press briefing room as Press Secretary Jen Psaki takes direct aim at DeSantis earlier today.  (video prompted) WATCH:

Everything about that soundbite is bait.  This is typical political planning and strategy being deployed with the help of corporate media.  The White House wants to draw DeSantis into a direct conflict so they can use false claims in media to create a totally fabricated narrative.  DeSantis would be well advised not to take the bait.

The Associated Press is already framing the narrative about Ron DeSantis killing people [Article Here] in an effort to support the larger corporate media alignment with the White House and corrupt government agencies.   The alarmist narrative around ‘the delta variant’ is unrecognizable to people who live in the state.

Without the news showcasing doom, gloom and generating anxiety amid those who still don’t comprehend the scale of fake news stories, you’d never know that COVID even existed in the free state of Florida.  The reality destroys the narratives; that’s the reason why DeSantis must be attacked.  Florida is undermining the entire national narrative.

What is happening on a national scale surrounding COVID 2.0, is soviet level propaganda being pushed through the alliance of corporate media and Big Tech.  The really odd thing is how many people seem to believe it.

DeSantis, and any free-state governor that comes under the attack of the White House and media machine, needs to ignore the bait.  The only way to win at this scheme is not to play; to go on the attack; to continually point out how intensely political the motives are, then start applying massive amounts of ridicule upon the House Democrats.

Do not take the bait.  When asked to respond to the White House, the DeSantis team needs to hit back hard explaining WHY the White House needs COVID:

Ex: …”The Democrats are going to lose their seats because they hate this country, and every action they have taken shows how much they despise the people of our nation.  Take a look at the unsecured border; illegal aliens flowing through while Democrats claim to care about COVID spread?  Take a look at our schools in crisis; kids isolated, parents frustrated, the teachers union running the show and education collapsing. 

These Democrats hate the middle-class and ordinary Americans; need proof, take a look at your grocery bill. These people you call Democrats, focused on controlling your life, are entirely detached from you, me and the American people.  They hate the working class; just look at the prices you are paying at the gas pump.  Face it, they hate you, and the American electorate is going to show-up in massive numbers in 2022 and remove them.  Next question”…

This is a battle against multiple enemies.  It is frustrating to see politicians accept the fraudulent premise thereby putting themselves constantly on the defensive.