There Will Be More Violence -- Socialism Calls for It

posted by Robert Merz at American Thinker 

Despite all the excuses and finger pointing, liberals/socialists don’t think that they  the last  -- they think that the people just . As : “People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.” To influence these people, : “We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” We have seen this tactic repeated in the negative stories about Trump and his supporters over the past decade. This is where totalitarianism starts. It ends with gulags and death.

U.S. socialists have been sowing Lenin’s hate, revulsion, and scorn at even a higher rate since the last election. They have been so successful that a recent poll indicated that 55% of them thought that  would be justifiable.

To understand the thoughts, methodologies, and goals of modern leftists, you have to go back to the beginning and look at Lenin, the founder of the first socialist state.

The quest for power is what motivates today’s socialists just as it did Lenin. Their agenda today is to attack their capitalist/bourgeois enemies to gain power no matter what the human cost. Some of the Left’s favorite issues were in Lenin’s crosshairs in the 19th century and socialists return to the same Marxist playbook. 

Lenin was very clear on what he wanted to do to his political enemies. He called for a “” with no mercy for the enemies of socialism. He also said that any who opposed his armed uprising were enemies, , and cowards. The Red Terror of the Russian Revolution and civil war cost between . 

By 2020, things hadn’t changed.  wanted to kill the ‘rich’ in an armed rebellion, favored the execution of moderate liberals, gulags for Trump supporters, and violence if Sanders lost the election. The s, (Glavnoye Upravleniye LAGerey) were started under Lenin and greatly expanded under Stalin.

2025 saw Trump’s victory called an “.” And, as with Lenin, Democrats have been told they have to be ready to  for the “cause.” A that liberals are at “war.” University staffers have said that Musk and DOGE employees are wanted . 

At the same time, news “fact checkers” have said that the supposed , aren’t really threats at all. They even question whether attacks on Teslas, owners, and dealerships are actually . 

Still, Democrats want to be seen as “” by the masses -- at least when they’re on camera. However, what did Lenin say about patriotism?

About his own country, Lenin said: “I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.” Similarly, many ‘modern’ left-wingers see themselves as citizens of the world, not as Americans. Additionally, many students in left-wing schools are being taught by these “world citizens” to hate their own country.

How did it come to this? Why do some Americans love anti-American propaganda? This perception of the U.S. is worldwide, and it is no accident. It is the result of an unrelenting disinformation and reflexive control campaign that was crafted and orchestrated by the best in the USSR (and likely China as well). Many of the propaganda and disinformation themes that are seen in the press today have their roots in Moscow’s massive Cold War propaganda apparatus. In many cases the groups that pushed and funded anti-U.S. themes during the Cold War are the same groups that propagate anti-U.S. messages and themes today.

Listed below are a dozen propaganda themes that are still used today. These representative samples could have been taken out of almost any modern “news” story. 

1. The biggest threat to world peace (civilization and humanity) comes from the U.S. war machine.
2. U.S. militarist policy means to conduct international affairs from a position of strength. 
3. Washington’s (or the President’s) worldview is simplistic and dangerous.
4. The U.S. is pursuing a policy of aggression and confrontation.
5. The U.S. military doctrine is based on the dangerous concept of a pre-emptive strike. 
6. The cult of crude force has become central to U.S. policy 
7. Nuclear arms have given the U.S. an arrogant attitude. 
8. U.S. neo-globalism shows a total contempt for the recognized principles of international relations.
9. U.S. actions have calamitous consequences for all nations.
10. The U.S. is stubborn and selfish.
11. U.S. actions will not enhance U.S. security or make the U.S. stronger.
12. The U.S. must get the consent of NATO and Western Europe before acting.

If these themes look familiar, they should. They all came out of two Cold War-era Soviet booklets: “Whence the Threat to Peace,” published in 1987 and “Star Wars: Delusions and Dangers,” published in 1985 -- and they weren’t new then either. At the that time they were aimed at Ronald Reagan. Now Trump is the target. The problem is that the effect of these themes over the decades has been cumulative.

In his 1899 book, The Psychology of Socialism, Gustave Le Bon said “A man is not a Socialist without hating some person or thing.” Socialism is built on envy, hate, and violence. And gee, do the Liberals love to hate Trump. They will use every old propaganda trick in the book as well as new social media tricks, lies, and violence to influence and intimidate voters 

When viewing modern ‘news’ please consider the fact that Soviet-style propaganda operations use consistent messages put out over long periods of time to incrementally change people’s perceptions. The messages emerge from several outlets so they can corroborate each other. Supporting themes are often put out in sequence to lead the audience to the desired conclusions. People believe the lies, thinking that they figured things out themselves using the “evidence” they were given. The engineered “facts” cement the half-truths and falsehoods delivered over months or years and stir up Lenin’s desired hatred and violence.

As an example of Soviet tactics, look at all the recent coast-to-coast anti-Trump demonstrations, protests, riots, prison invasions, and other photo-ops. The ones that are dutifully highlighted by the compliant major media. These seem to be based on the Soviet model called Agitprop (agitation propaganda). Agitprop uses street theater, art, movies, demonstrations, and violence to spread the Left’s political messages, stir up emptions, and create anger at class enemies. These days that seems to be anyone they call a Trumper, or an “oligarch.” Funny how Musk is part of the oligarchy because he’s rich, while $oros is not. Plus, you can see the same terminology and wording across the board in left-leaning news outlets. It’s almost like their messages are being coordinated by a single entity -- how Soviet.

Lastly, one might also consider today’s dangerous “lawfare” to really be a dictatorship of the judiciary. It’s liberal power to be used as a socialist last stand for when Americans vote “wrong.”

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Trump Is Changing the World (Whether You Like Him or Not)

posted by Ricochet Cafe at American Thinker 

In the olden days, the world was run on a feudal system.  There were a handful of mostly inter-related nobles who lived in palaces, wore fancy clothes, and ate sumptuous food.  They were served by a large class of serfs who did the unpleasant things like digging latrines, plowing fields, slaughtering animals, tanning leather, and all of the other work needed for the nobles to live in luxury.  In return, the nobles kept the serfs from starving but generally oppressed them and sometimes did so gratuitously for their own amusement.  Serfs had no rights and very little money and were frequently abused, although they were not technically slaves.  The world knew only three classes: the undeservedly rich, the undeservedly poor, and a very tiny class of jesters, clowns, actors, and prostitutes who escaped being serfs by selling out to the nobility.  The currency of the realm was power.

This lasted until Cosimo de Medici and his heirs, including the aptly named Lorenzo the Magnificent, came up with a better system.  Not interested in being serfs, they discovered the dirty little secret behind feudalism — namely, that the inbred, intellectually disabled nobility class was very bad at handling money.  The Medicis literally made bank (seriously: They invented double-entry bookkeeping and modern finance), and an emerging merchant class changed history.

The currency of this new realm was actual currency.  By strategically lending money to the impoverished fools in their palaces, the Medicis ran the world and created a burgeoning and prosperous middle class.  Kings often went, hat in hand, to beg a Medici for money.  Nobility didn’t die out, but a creative, innovative, hardworking middle class emerged, and every serf who had the right stuff was able to join in.

The Deep State, or cabal, or whatever you want to call it is a form of neo-feudalism that allows for elites (who are often related to one another) to join shadowy groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg group, the World Economic Forum, and other ones we don’t know the names of in an effort to restore that old-fashioned economy, driven on political power alone.  They are trying to promote neo-feudalism by taxing the middle class into oblivion, rewriting financial laws in their own favor, and seizing every lever of power they can.  They expanded the jester and fool class to include the press and the universities and obedient political lackeys.  They installed the right people, bought the elections, paid off the judges, and tried to seize power again.  These neo-feudalist goons play at being modern, but what they really want is the old world order: a handful of elites ruling over a bunch of serfs.  Bruce Springsteen, George Clooney, Robert De Niro, and other celebrities can still hang out with the elites as long as they don’t get out of line.

In order to achieve neo-feudalism, these aspiring overlords need to get rid of about 7.5B of the earth’s 8B people.  It’s called the depopulation agenda, and it’s much more pervasive than we think (but that’s another story for another day).  They also need absolute loyalists to rebuild the nefarious inbred nobility, and everybody else needs to be kept poor and fenced in.  They are returning to their roots: It’s all about power.

When these people or their lackeys try to do foreign policy, it’s a foreign policy driven by war, exploitation, corruption, money-laundering, and fear.  They rattle sabers and threaten nuclear annihilation.  They stage color revolutions and shake down foreign governments.  If they don’t like whom a nation elects, they try to destroy that person.  And when people oppose them, they, bring Kafkaesque charges, as Joe Biden did against the people and Trump.

Lawfare is a tool of the neo-feudalists.  Joe Biden and his minions sent innocent people to prison, let criminals run free, and made malevolent cartels rich beyond belief with an open border.  He let over half a million unaccompanied minor children come in over the border and go missing.  Three hundred Americans die every day of a drug overdose from an illicit drug.  This is all out of the neo-feudalist playbook.  First they ruin everything, then they make us frightened, then they impose punitive taxes.  They try to kill most of us off, and finally they let a few of us live modest, constrained lives in dedicated service to them, provided we agree to own nothing, eat bugs, and be happy.

Enter Donald Trump.  Many people right now are confused with Trump’s politics.  He’s running around to strange countries (like Qatar and Syria) and making deals; he is antagonizing presumably friendly countries like Canada.  He wants Greenland.  He is talking tariffs and trade deficits and peace treaties.

Too much is happening, and to the average person it all seems disconnected, fragmented.  How can we play nice with Syria?  Why are we trying to stop the war in Ukraine?  Don’t we want that war to last forever?  And who cares how many people are dying there?  What exactly is a tariff?  The media are so confused that they’ve fallen back on the only lies they know work well: Trump and Elon are cutting much needed federal programs.  (They’re only “much needed” if you’re a grifter committing fraud.)

Trump is ushering in a new sort of politics.  It’s not the neo-feudalism of the globalists and their American wing, the Democrat party.  Nor is it the robust and sometimes ruthless politics of the Medici middle class.  It’s something altogether new.  I call it commerce.

Trump has recognized that the common ground we all have is that we do not want to starve or suffer.  We want to have happy lives.  We want nice things.  We want safe streets.  We want to enjoy our brief say on this planet.  This applies to people in Qatar or Syria or Ukraine or Romania or Taiwan.  We all want peace.  And, strangely, most of us want work — that is, we all want a chance to be productive, innovative, and successful.

So Trump rolls in and starts making deals.  There are business angles to most of this.  Countries can see in what Trump is offering.  Nobody has ever approached them in this way — that is, as equals and worthy of respect.  In listening to Trump, these former enemies and former ignored nations can see that there are ways they can make money by following Trump’s logic.  This is prosperity and justice, but for everyone and not just a few overlords.  And it’s more than just the cash; it’s about building a good life in a safe place.  It’s about having kids enjoy a better life than their parents.  It’s about having a world where we can be strong and healthy and safe.

Trump wants to end wars.  He wants to build commercial bridges with all different parts of the world.  He wants prosperity — not just for himself, but also for others.

No neo-feudalist or Democrat has ever said anything remotely like that and meant it.

Unlike neo-feudalism, in this era of commerce, innovation and hard work will actually pay off.  But in order to have a society based on creativity, innovation, business, technology, and advancement, you need peace.  That’s how the peace accords factor in.  But you also need communities safe from criminals.  You need fair courts and just laws.  That’s where the fair dealing and the tariffs come in.  And you need to stop rattling sabers and shut down the dopey Democrat rhetoric that drives division and hampers creativity and innovation.  Identity politics is just hatred and racism in a new package.  

(The PRIDE movement is a ridiculous distraction.  No matter what you think about PRIDE, it’s a tiny group of people in the world, and we have to stop making it the focal point of all human existence.)

We need to get down to business for real people.  Purple-haired nose ring people, your 15 minutes are up.

And unlike the neo-feudalists, Trump is reaching out to people of inconvenient nationalities, ethnicities, and races.  Trump sees the potential for mutually beneficial deals, not identity politics.  Not that long ago, many American businesses hesitated to allow politics or religion to intrude into the workplace.  A restaurant owner or a movie star or a businessman hesitated to talk too much about politics for the simple reason that the discussion might antagonize their customers or drive away an otherwise great potential business partner.

Neo-feudalists want population control, racism, and hatred.  It makes us unwashed masses easier to own.  The Medici mercantile society broke that, because they knew that you had to get along with people to make money, even if you did not always support their ideology.

Trump takes it a giant step beyond that.  He has found common ground.  With this new agenda, Trump has taken the currency of the realm from power (neo-feudalists) to money (Medici-style mercantilism) to commerce.

Is there a way for all of us in the world to get along, to thrive, to build, to innovate, to improve?  I don’t know, but this sure comes close.  The neo-feudalists are finding that ruling with a iron hand doesn’t work.  The mercantile middle class found themselves being taxed into poverty and driven into prison or unemployment for resisting the neo-feudalists.

It's time for a new approach, and we are witnessing something historic.

Trump sees — in ways so few other politicians have seen — that prosperity and freedom and peace all go together.  You may or may not like Trump; I’m not here to dissuade you for your opinion.  But he’s doing something very new.  This is nothing short of a revolution.

The Democrats won’t see it until it’s much too late.

This Is What the FBI Should Focus On

posted by Derek Hunter at Townhall 

Where are the Jeffrey Epstein files? Who planted the pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committees on January 5th, 2021? Whose cocaine was left in a locker at the White House? These are interesting things, mostly, but they aren’t what I’d like the Federal Bureau of Investigation to divert resources to get to the bottom of. Sure, I’d like those questions to be answered, but they won’t impact the lives of as many Americans as exposing, charging, and dismantling the militant wing of the progressive left would. I’d like the FBI to focus on ANTIFA.

I’ve got to be honest, I couldn’t care less who brought the cocaine into the White House during the Biden administration. I mean, I suspect I know, and I suspect you know, or we at least have a pretty good guess. But so what? That pardon wiped it all clean anyway. 

As far as Epstein goes, he killed himself and is in hell. If there are other people, the government can charge for sexually abusing children, throw the book at them, and beat them with it. I don’t need the “files” released – charge people, and I’ll learn about it that way. 

With the pipe bombs, I would like to know who planted them, and who that person in the videos is. But even if we do find out who it was and why they did it, my life is unlikely to change in any dramatic way. I want them brought to justice because they’re terrorists, but that’s the extent of my interest. If it turns out to be someone known or an interesting reason, that might change, but otherwise, I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it.

These things are interesting, but not on the top of my important list. It’s more of interest to people who live “very online” lives. Nothing against it or them, I hope the truth comes out, but I’d much rather have the FBI, for as long as Republicans have the ability to direct and use its resources, take a look how ANTIFA communicates, organizes and gets its money so its members can travel the country to riot wherever the left wants there to be protests and riots. 

Why? Because I believe there could be a RICO case that would expose and take down the violent institutional left. RICO stands for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and it was instrumental in destroying the mafia. It basically means that if one person in a conspiracy or criminal organization is responsible for a crime, every member is. Basically, the getaway driver and the guy who helped plan the bank robbery but who wasn’t inside the bank are just as guilty of murder as the guy inside the bank if he kills a teller. That’s very basic, but it's the gist of what RICO is and can do.

I want to know who funds ANTIFA and how they communicate and coordinate. I want the people who throw the bricks at police or trash buildings to be prosecuted for that violence, as well as the people who supply them with the cash to do it. They can all rot in prison together.

I want to know if rich liberals are funding a violent gang of goons and sending them out to attack Americans and cities, don’t you?

The Biden administration was never going to investigate them; they were their Brownshirts. Why have charges been dropped against so many of these people? Is that a coordinated action across the country with prosecutors and campaign donors? Why were pallets of bricks and other projectiles planted on the streets around cities where these mobs were “marching”? Were those planted there or were we lied to about their existence?

I would like to know.

I think we need to know, for the good of the republic.

And I also believe this is our best, and possibly only, chance to find out if there is more to this group and these people, or if it just happens to be a massive series of coincidences. Evidence will continue to disappear with time, connections will be wiped clean, and memories will fade. The longer it takes, the more likely those bastards will get away with all of it. What’s the point of a “Department of Justice” if bringing justice to the millions of people who’ve had their cities terrorized and destroyed by these people is not a priority?

That’s what I’d like to see. Sure, going after all the other pieces of garbage and jackasses too, but the bastards still goose stepping their way across campuses and cities and those that fund and enable them would do more than all the rest, maybe combined.

It could be that I’m wrong, maybe there isn’t a network of rich leftists laundering money through God knows what to move violent leftists around the country to sow disorder and terrorize people, but I don’t think I am. They’re getting their plane tickets, hotels, food, and bail money from somewhere. Seems like a pretty big possible criminal conspiracy to me. What do you say, FBI?

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Why I'm Enjoying These Trump Days More Than Ever

Matt Vespa reporting for Townhall 

When you think things will come off the tracks, Donald Trump rebounds. We’ve seen it time and again. He thrives in high-stress environments and has become one of the most astute politicians in the country. He’s transformed not just the Republican Party but the entire landscape. The old Democratic Party playbook of winning elections needs to be trashed. It doesn’t work. When everyone thought that April would bring economic death, things rebounded, big league. Yet, another thing has me beaming for the future but also a bit wary.

We have the Obama coalition. I would've died laughing if you told me that during my sophomore year of college when Barack Obama won the 2008 election. There was no way. Democrats were ‘cool,’ they had an unbeatable coalition, their operatives were the gold standard, and their voter outreach operations were top-notch. As Republicans, everything about our party remained stuck in the caveman era. 

Sure, we have Voter Vault, but that was old-school. The GOP let things atrophy, and they allowed themselves to become victims of the great unicorn of politics: the permanent political majority. After 9/11, there was this narrative that the GOP would remain in power forever due to national security issues. Bush invaded Iraq, the occupation went miserably (until the 2007 surge), and the 2006 midterms became a killing field for the GOP. The Iraq War obliterated the neoconservative wing of the party, exposing the limits of American power and the lofty goal of establishing a base of American power by exporting liberal democratic values to the Middle East. 

Obama’s team had behavioral scientists involved in touching voters who otherwise Democrats might have overlooked. It worked. This was before American academia had become ‘woke’ and engulfed with pro-Hamas clowns. I remember those dark days, however, when we were subjected to 18 months about how the GOP is dead and the ‘end of conservatism’ was on the horizon. 

In less than a generation, the Democratic Party has become so debased that they’re spending $20 million on how to talk to dudes again. They think biological males can be women, adore vicious criminal illegal aliens, and have an agenda so exclusionary, niche, and esoteric that only the dense, hyper-progressive, and insane can understand it. They’ve lost working-class voters, white and non-white, young voters, a significant number of black men, and Hispanics by the fist-full. The Hispanic shift is why Trump won the popular vote. He won the Latino vote in 16 states. 

We’re lucky that when the Left started to become inundated with the snobby Acela Corridor types, they opted to move away, stunningly, from an issue where liberals have long held primacy: health care. They abandoned that to flood the nation with illegals, so then we would have to pass mass amnesty and a pathway to citizenship, two issues that never polled well with Latino voters. 

It's amazing that post-2012, Republicans have become the defenders of women’s rights/sports by simply acknowledging what a woman is and the party of the working and middle classes. We’re a multiracial working-class party that is unbeatable, but here’s the catch: what about the next election? 

I won’t fall into the trap of thinking the Democrats are dead, though they could be in for an extended stay in the wilderness if they keep dying on these horrible public policy hills. Like the GOP, what can happen when a charismatic leader takes the reins is amazing. Who that will be for liberals is unknown, but we must prepare for that day. We also must figure out the future of the Trump coalition. As Hillary Clinton learned in 2016, these aren’t transferable. And we’ve already seen what happens to GOP turnout when Trump isn’t on the ballot. 

There are many ways to skin the electoral cat, and I will miss the days when the Rust Belt and the blue wall states were in play for us when Trump was at the top of the ticket. Until 2016, the GOP only won Pennsylvania, for example, in 1988. We’ve won it twice in the past three presidential elections. You could never expect that with the GOP of old. Enjoy the Trump days, Republicans. We have a leader with supporters that dot everywhere on the map, especially in places where national elections are decided.

We have a lot on the docket, not least how to keep the White House in 2028. It’s a long way off, but we must start thinking now. Public opinion is shiftable sand, meaning permanent political majorities can never exist. Both parties got bit by that fantasy. Both parties have traded coalitions and forced each side to shred their respective election playbooks. It’s funny how things play out, but here we are. 

All glory is fleeting. But for now, enjoy the moment; we might not have this sort of success for another generation.

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Biden Lashes Out at Jake Tapper Over Book: 'I Could Beat the Hell Out of Both of Them'

Sarah Arnold reporting for Townhall 

In his first public appearance since revealing his prostate cancer diagnosis, former President Joe Biden took the opportunity to lash out at CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who recently co-authored the book Original Sin. The book details the behind-the-scenes decline of Biden’s health during his presidency and reveals how Democratic Party insiders truly felt about his leadership and the party’s future.

Following a speech in Delaware on Friday, Biden was asked about Tapper’s book, co-authored with Axios reporter Alex Thompson. In response, Biden asserted his mental sharpness, saying he could “beat the hell out of both of them.”

“You can see that I’m mentally incompetent and I can’t walk, and I can beat the hell out of both of them,” the 82-year-old president told reporters. 

Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 race after being pressured by fellow Democrats, was then asked by reporters what he would say to his party members questioning his decision to run for reelection. 

“Why didn’t they run against me then?” Biden said. “Because I’d have beaten them.”

“I’m very proud, I’ll put my record as president against any president at all,” he continued. 

During an interview on the Stephen A. Smith Show, Tapper revealed that several Democratic sources he and Thompson spoke to about the cover-up of Biden's health decline didn’t express remorse. He said that no one in the White House has openly admitted that running the former president for re-election might have been a mistake. He shared that a top White House aide told him Biden couldn’t have done the same short interview in 2023 that he did in 2022, which he found to be a shocking and revealing admission.

“We never got somebody that said, 'We should never have done this. I can't believe we did it. In retrospect, it was a mistake. How arrogant we were.' I mean, even, you know, there was a top aide, a top White House aide, who acknowledged to me that this short 10-15 minute interview I did with Joe Biden in October 2022, he would not have been capable of doing in October 2023. That admission was stunning to me," he said. 

Tapper, who has compared the Biden cover-up to being potentially worse than Watergate, said that during one of his pre-election interviews for his book, a source described the situation by saying all the former president had to do was win the election and "occasionally show proof of life." At the same time, those around him would run the country. 

He said Democrats didn’t care about Biden’s mental fitness as long as he could defeat President Donald Trump, adding that he thought that mindset was “crazy.”

Democrats Pledge to Open Witch Hunt on Musk If They Retake the House in 2026, in Major Fit of TDS

Mike Miller reporting for RedState 

As New York Yankees Great Yogi Berra famously quipped, it feels like déjà vu all over again. 

Several House Democrats have recently pledged to pursue investigations and impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump and figures in his administration if they regain control of the House in the 2026 midterm elections.

I know — nothing new. However, this story is; and it's the most ridiculous example yet that Trump Derangement Syndrome is an incurable mental disease.

Some Democrat lawmakers are also vowing to launch aggressive investigative campaigns against prominent Trump supporters, including, of course, Elon Musk, who voluntarily and without compensation headed up Trump's launch of DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) before recently announcing he was returning to the private sector. Which, incidentally, was baked into the deal between Musk and Trump from the outset — vs. the nonsense on social media I won't waste my recounting, here.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) recently declared Musk has committed crimes and would be a primary focus of House Democrats' efforts. Even worse, at one point in Subramanyam's silly declaration that Musk has committed crimes, she couldn't have sounded more wishy-washy if she tried(emphasis, mine).

[C]ertainly, I think some crimes may have been committed over the past 3 or 4 months, and they are going to come to light one way or another, even if it takes us getting into power again, but we will subpoena people and find out.

Translation:

"We don't know if Musk committed any crimes at all, but we hate the fraud he's revealing so we're going to assume he's guilty; then we'll do everything we can to dig up someone or something we can use as pretend-evidence that of course he committed crimes! Lots of 'em!"

Author and political commentator Jonathan Turley weighed in on the Democrats' planned witch hunt in a Friday column:

There is no evidence of any criminal conduct by Musk. Indeed, DOGE has largely won in its fights to gain access to records in the search for fraud and waste.

Nevertheless, after calling for Musk to be “taken down,” Democratic rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Tx.) is also calling for Musk to be investigated over DOGE once Democrats take power.

It is otherworldly to see Democrats raising prosecution threats against the effort to reduce the size and waste of government. One can certainly be critical of some of the cuts under DOGE but few would disagree that Musk helped find billions in waste, including some shocking revelations about the inefficiencies of our government.

There is a return to the same script from pledges of prosecutions to impeachments. Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has even reimagined the “defund the police” campaign into an “Abolish ICE” campaign.

The Democrats are an example of how, if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Resisting immigration enforcement, downsizing government, and other issues are only moving the party further from the center of this country.

As you likely recall, House Democrats unsuccessfully tried to impeach Trump—twice—during his first term. Then, throughout the 2024 general election campaign, Democrats, including then-President Joe Biden, called Trump everything from "Hitler" to a "fascist" to a "white supremacist" to an "oligarch"—and likely worse; not only with zero success; but also likely leading to an even more decisive win for Trump and several down-ballot Republicans than they otherwise might have enjoyed.

Same ol', same ol' — and it's likely to get worse, not better, as 2025 rolls on.

The Bottom Line

It cannot be overstated how the devastating grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome has consumed the Democrat Party. While social media keyboard jockeys on our side gleefully declare Democrat lawmakers "stupid" and other such descriptors, Democrat lawmakers are far from stupid.

Misguided? Yes. Overcome with bitterness? You bet. Have they reached a point where their hatred of Trump is more powerful than their love of country? Absolutely.

But when career politicians—most of whom have strong egos and generally believe they're the smartest person in the room at any given time—intentionally continue to behave in a manner that not only clearly is unraveling their party before our eyes, but also in some cases leading to their own political careers crashing and burning--that's pure insanity, not simple ignorance.

As always, let's hope the Democrats continue to self-immolate—at least until the 2028 general election.

We are on the Path to World War III – Thank You Trump

 Just observation form Croatia, it is just unbelievable how much lies MSM and Senators like Lindsey Graham are spreading about war in Ukraine.

Lindsey just visited Ukraine and labeled peace talks as a joke and he is saying that Russians are not trying to negotiate. As well he is voicing support for War against Russia and he is saying that Ukraine is not losing war. In my opinion at this stage of the war this is such an obvious lie. It is hard to understand and accept that someone as a USA senator can be so mean and hateful. What price we as USA will have to pay for such a senatorial behavior? For him to spread War Agenda vs Russia and China even thou he is hiding behind statements that he is supporting the peace talks that Trump is pushing, is just very mean.

I am now in Croatia and have to say that nobody here believes that war will spread. Whenever I mention that war will spread and it will escalate in to 2027 people here think that I am crazy. I think that lots of Europeans are the same they will be super surprised when this thing explodes during next year per Socrates.

Regards,

GD

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COMMENT #2: Hello, Mr. Armstrong;

Thank you for doing podcasts here in Serbia. I can say that we are getting very concerned when Macron is telling Asia to forget about China and focus on Ukraine, and then Merz is handing NATO missiles to Ukraine, which will attack Moscow. The mood here is viewing the EU and NATO as the aggressors. You know that NATO bombed us into submission because Serbia is generally pro-Russia, since we saw NATO in action, and you are correct, never trust a Ukrainian. Your quote from Churchill is correct that the truth needs a bodyguard of lies to protect it.

Thank you for your courage. So few have that today.

VO

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REPLY: The European press is doing everything to downplay the spread of the war. They keep claiming Ukraine is winning and that Russia is failing. They run stories that make it sound as if Putin fears being hanged, as if a single person is waging this entire war. Zelensky tried to assassinate Putin on May 20th. They know the truth. Putin is the ONLY adult in the room, who may not be on Cocaine. Remove Putin, and you will have World War III, for the guys behind him are Russian Neocons.

The European press pretends this war is only about Ukraine. Yet, several European leaders have described the Russia-Ukraine war as a “proxy war,” but the most prominent and consistent figure using this terminology is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.  Back in July 2022, in a radio interview, he explicitly stated:

“This is a proxy war: the infrastructure is Ukrainian, but the money and weapons come from America, and the soldiers are Ukrainian.”

Orbán framed the conflict as a battle between the U.S./NATO and Russia, arguing that Ukraine is a “battleground” for larger powers. He has consistently echoed this view, criticizing Western arms deliveries to Ukraine and EU sanctions against Russia. He claims Hungary seeks to “stay out of this war” to protect its national interests.

French President Emmanuel Macron (June 2022) suggested avoiding humiliating Russia, warning that the conflict risked becoming a “proxy war” if diplomatic solutions were ignored. However, he later attempted to back out, clarifying his support for Ukraine’s sovereignty.

Leaders of both Serbia and Belarus (non-EU) have also used similar language, warning that this has been a deliberate strategy to wage war against Russia. The fake news tries to mislead the public, claiming that it is a war of Russian aggression against Ukrainian sovereignty. If that was the case, Putin could have taken all of Ukraine instead of just protecting the Russians in the Donbas, for which he gets criticism from the hardline Russians.

Orbán’s stance has isolated Hungary within the EU/NATO, with critics accusing him of parroting Kremlin propaganda and undermining European unity. However, the EU needs this war and has not taken any measures to resolve the conflict or promote peace. Merkel even admitted that Germany and France never intended to honor the Minsk Agreement that would have prevented this war. Moreover, the NEOCON #1 rule is to avoid communication, ensuring there will never be peace. This is why not a single European leader will talk to Putin. It took Trump to open communications, and they are doing their best to push Trump into this war.

Sun Tzu in his Art of War states that sowing doubt, fear, and discord within the enemy camp is key. However, this is what the fake News and European politicians are doing to their own people, pretending that this war is confined to Ukraine vs Russia and will not spread, yet instituting drafts and pushing for NATO troops to enter Ukraine. A blind man can see that the Fake News narrative is indeed fake when the governments are doing the exact opposite. Putin was fooled once with the Mink Agreement that the West refused to honor, so he would be a fool to agree to any peace deal while they are constantly rearming Ukraine and boosting all their military preparations.

Sun Tzu prioritized indirect knowledge gathering (espionage) and strategic deception over open communication or negotiation with the enemy. His focus was on gaining an overwhelming informational and psychological advantage to win efficiently, often by making the enemy act against their own interests based on false beliefs. Direct communication was generally seen as a potential vulnerability or a lesser tool compared to the power of deception and superior intelligence.

Sun Tzu also advocated Winning Without Fighting. This is the NATO/EU strategy of using Eastern Europeans as pawns to reduce Russia, so they can later walk in without a fight. They are clearly positioning to force Russia to submit or make disastrous mistakes, making battle unnecessary between the EU, letting Eastern Europeans die for the EU’s objectives. This is why they interfered in the Romanian elections, so they too can use Romanians as pawns in this battle to conquer Russia. They do not care if a single Romanian survives. Trump will NEVER get a peace deal unless he wakes the hell up, for he is being played again by American NEOCONS. They cleverly got the two neutral countries during previous wars to put their citizens at risk for their goals – Switzerland and Sweden.

The UK Conservative Party leader, Kemi Badenoch, made a plain statement on Sky News:

“Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK, just like Ukraine is on behalf of Western Europe against Russia. We have to get serious.”

 

While several figures have used the term, behind the curtain, most European leaders and NATO admit the Ukraine war is a “proxy war,” reflecting their unique stance within the EU. This framing remains highly contentious and is widely seen as undermining Ukraine’s legitimacy in defending its territory.

I have supported Trump because he was against the war. I fear he has made a severe wrong turn and has taken advice from NEOCONS who are still in the closet. His harsh words against Putin are outright provocative, and this is not about negotiating a business deal. Suppose he cannot open his eyes and see that it is the EU and NATO who are sabotaging any peace deal with Russia because they want war and do not give a shit about their own people. In that case, we are watching World War III in the making as our ECM model turns on Monday, June 2nd.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, on Tuesday, appeared to warn Trump about the possibility of World War III as he is escalating tensions between the nuclear powers. He wrote on the social platform X: “Regarding Trump’s words about Putin ‘playing with fire’ and ‘really bad things’ happening to Russia. I only know of one REALLY BAD thing — WWIII,” Medvedev wrote Tuesday  “I hope Trump understands this,” he added.

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Medvedev has pointed out Trump’s inflammatory threats on Truth Social. Trump wrote that Putin was “playing with fire” after Sunday’s deadly Russian air strikes on Ukraine. I thought Trump had better instincts than this, but I suppose I was wrong. There can be no peace when the EU is stabbing Trump in the back and has even admitted that, as long as  Kaja Kallas, the ruthless, bloodthirsty Neocon in charge of EU foreign policy, has outright said that the EU will not honor any peace deal Trump creates.

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Trump will walks us into World War III with this bullshit. Kaja Kallas has openly stated that Russia is too big and it must be broken up. I do not know who is feeding Trump geopolitical advice, but they are manipulating him into World War III. I had hoped I could at last defeat my own computer, but I will fail again. This is not going to end well for the entire world.

Republican lawmakers have encouraged Trump to place additional sanctions on Russia, arguing that economic pressure could cause the Kremlin to ease up on the battlefield. Sanctions have NEVER worked even once in history, like Communism. All they do is confirm to the Russian people that they are a piece of shit and the West is trying to get them to overthrow their government for what purpose? To allow Macron and his horde of pirates to invade Russia and strip mine its natural resources to propel the EU to the pinnacle of power and subordinate North America as its vasal state? Europe has nothing of value to encourage Russia to invade. But Europe has tried to take Russia numerous times, from the days of Peter the Great to Napoleon, Hitler, and not this proxy war exploiting Ukraine.

Trump, who vowed to end the war in last year’s presidential campaign, and against whom the Neocons launched a criminal investigation to stop him, cannot see beyond the BS of those telling him he can stop the war. Even Dich Cheney endorsed Kamala for president because he did as she was told. The NEOCONS are in complete control of the EU. They are in Paris and London. If Trump does not know this, then he is being fed FAKE NEWS and it is not CNN, but Neocon sympathizers in his own ranks.

Trump responded when asked whether he was considering sanctions on Russia and Putin, Trump said, “Absolutely. He’s killing a lot of people. I don’t know what’s wrong with him. What the hell happened to him, right?” “He’s killing a lot of people, and I’m not happy with that.”

Trump has stepped up his criticism of Putin when he should be looking in his side and rear mirrors. Stating publicly that Putin has gone absolutely CRAZY was not conducive to a working relationship. I would slam the door on his ass.

If Trump cannot see what Europe is doing, then there is ZERO hope for peace, and the USA will be involved in World War III along with Canada. Putin would have to be insane to agree to any peace deal with Trump, while Europe does not want peace and is using Ukraine as a proxy war, and they do not care if a single Ukrainian survives as long as they take one Russian with them.

Putin should agree to peace when EVERY EU leader, except Hungary, is pushing for World War III? I do not know who is advising Trump, but they are a Neocon still in the closet who can taste Russian blood. The EU will collapse if it does not resort to war to try to unify its members.  The EU needs war to stay together, for they can feel the power slipping through their fingers. Every podcast I do in Europe now asks: “WHEN will the EU breakup?” Not IF.

Trump is on the wrong side, and he will be the president of a bloodbath. China will join Russia because they know this is a war against NATO, not Ukraine. They are currently building an underground fortress 10x the size of the Pentagon to withstand a nuclear war. Russia also has such an underground facility. There is ZERO interest in any peace deal in Europe, so Trump is on the wrong side of the negotiations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected Trump’s proposal of a follow-up at the Vatican, where the president met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in April.

Then we have developments coming from Capitol Hill as House GOP members, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) say the U.S. should pull out of the war, despite a push from Trump and Senate Republicans for more sanctions on Moscow. The Hill reported Greene’s comments:

“With President Trump, both countries could be pursuing a peace deal that would lead to historic trade deals. That would be overwhelmingly incredible for the people of their countries. But instead, they are both crazy and pursue war. Shame on both of these countries and shame on any politician that wants to continue to engage America in more meddling actions in more foreign wars.” 

“I along with most Americans want nothing to do with either of these countries while they are at war with one another. And I’ll extend that to any country that wants to engage in war with others. The people of the world want peace and prosperity and that’s what I support.”

 

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Then there is the Neocon Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who is eager to impose harsh sanctions on Russia, which has more than 80 co-sponsors. Graham would be in prison for a hate crime if he weren’t a Senator. Suppose he said that in London, he would be thrown in a dungeon to rot. And this is the impartial advice that Trump is listening to? I hope to God he is not. But I fear my computer will be right again. We are going down the path that leads to hell.

We released this report in 2017, predicting that China would surpass the United States as the Financial Capital of the world by 2032.  Everything appears to be on schedule, and there is nothing I can do to defeat my computer, as always.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/we-are-on-the-path-to-world-war-iii-thank-you-trump/