The horse is out of the barn
Although I do have constitutional questions about how the current Trump regime and DOGE are implementing their cost cutting strategies, there is one thing for certain; there’s no going back. The populace is sick and tired of government corruption and AI is being shown as something that can address government and corporate waste.
Musk’s use of AI and computer technology to weed out government redundancy and profligacy truly seems to be working, at least according to what I’m reading, and from what I am observing anecdotally.
Federally employed millionaires are a thing of the past
To wit, my sister as well as my close friend both retired in the past two weeks from well paying long-term government employment.
My sister worked at the IRS for 35 years and my friend collected an easy paycheck with sweet benefits at the GSA for at least that long. Both had been working from home since early 2020, when the covid pandemic first unfolded.
Despite his retiring and job not being replaced, my friend’s retirement package seems very generous. He told me his guaranteed pension and annuities from all sources, including Social Security, amount to $156,000 annually and he and his family get their medical insurance coverage for life at the same rate he was paying. The DOGE department figured it was much cheaper to pay a generous separation package than to keep him employed pushing papers at GSA.
His family is worth several million dollars and that’s what can happen when someone hits the federal government employment bonanza. His salary allowed his family to invest in negative cash flowing properties for years, which have escalated in value from the very profligacy the federal government engineered in the first place.
The same goes for my sister. They both told me they will get part-time gigs to stay busy. Both are libtards and were tired of doom scrolling for their research after Trump was ensconced back into power.
AI will trim the fat everywhere
I suspect AI will be used increasingly in so many more areas. I discuss this issue with my school psychologist wife that her job will eventually be replaced with an AI chatbot. Many medical doctor positions will be replaced by AI chatbots that will give consistent answers across a broad range of areas. No more second opinions will be needed.
Yes, psychologists and therapists will be gradually replaced by AI chatbots on Zoom calls. Big pharma will provide all the necessary pharmaceuticals to assuage all of the anxiety. Soma for everyone.
Many government employees will be proven to be redundant and after all of the kinks are ironed out going after the low hanging fruit in the federal government, the same algorithms will be used in the local jurisdictions as well as in the private sector. Nothing will be left untouched and any inefficiency will be wrung out.
While there will always be a need for people to plow the snow and pick up the trash, huge swaths of administrative staff will be let go permanently. In the Brave New World, epsilon grunts will be hired to do the dirty work while the vast majority of the population wallow in debt servitude and self gratification.
AI will trim all the fat off the bone in every endeavor and its use in the federal government is just the first example of how this advanced technology can be used to trim every redundancy. Even if this means we have become redundant.
Yes, in the Great Reset, AI will determine that most of humanity is redundant. That includes you and me.
Many stores have declared bankruptcy but still operational like nothing has changed. JcPennys, Big Lots, Sears, and many smaller well know mall retailers. Leasing agreements seem to cause much of the pain and not consumer confidence. The capital management firms that have the loan covenants with these places take over ownership, but leave most of the management staff in tact. I would assume some of the dollar type stores will be next, including Kohl’s very high prices for the junk they sell.
The Truth About White South African Refugees
South African schvartzes rallying to kill the whites. Don’t believe the synagogue owned media that say otherwise.
https://youtu.be/LqTUkcpFmFw?si=YpxYvXoZi-hm0J3r
The only thing that saves the white people are their higher IQs and sense of ingenuity and resourcefulness. Blacks blame whitey for all their mistakes, but their worst enemies stare them in the mirror.
In fact, the Jew synagogue and judeo-christian institutions blame the white Israelites for all of the world’s problems, but the last day iterations of these damnable organized church institutions don’t even know it. Even the Israelites blame the Israelites for the world’s problems.
President Trump does recognize the Afrikaner persecution and has signed an executive order to offer refugee status to White South Africans.
Keep in mind that the synagogue controlled judeo-christian institutions like the Catholic Church that tampered with the scriptures to create the Jews as God’s chosen is nowhere to be found when it comes to helping the white man. The Catholic church and its MAMZER offshoots are the end time whores and are communist to the core. That’s the great deception of the naive dumbasses who claim to be Christian.
YHVH hates religion.
I’m sorry to break the bad news, but we only have a couple years left. If you haven’t figured that one out yet, I can’t help you anymore. Despite what the Jew communist Catholic Church says, The Book of Revelation is the real deal and it’s only beginning to occur.
I see the squall in a distant sky and I’m beginning to feel the direct winds.
Putin will never end his fighting and has shown no compunction for throwing the average Russian to the sharks in his quest to gobble up Eastern Europe.
How Trump’s Ukraine plan could push Putin into war
https://youtu.be/zpFDte9Cf0g?si=Zcryy_Yv9xoQeDVr
“Mr. Putin has studied Mr. Trump, knows his ways and knows how to play him.”
Trump’s outlined plan to end the war in Ukraine would push Putin to make probing attacks on Russia’s other neighbors unless the US can quickly provide solid security guarantees for Ukraine and NATO, warns Journalist and former OSCE spokesperson Michael Bociurkiw.
Trump is going to concentrate his energies on the Western hemisphere.
I agree and fully understand what you are talking about. I have been focusing my study on Revelation for the past 6 months or so because I realized my understanding was inadequate. So many people get Revelation wrong and I never really clearly understood it, the temporal progression or the type references to scripture. I encounter mostly Paul quoters who have read Revelation but never read OT. Honestly, I haven’t even read most of Paul, only Hebrews and Romans. I heard plenty of Paul in Catholic church back in the day.
The Mark pertains to so few people that I think 95% of humanity will take it and do not even acknowledge that they have basically already opted in, taking the actual Mark is an administrative detail and the beast system does not care about them because it already has them. It is only Gods people that are in the crosshairs – Jews rejected Jesus so we have nothing in common with them except OT. Keeping the commandments is the essence of Gods authority, 8 or 9 out of 10 is not sufficient – it’s all or nothing and the Catholics and Protestants are at best 9 out of 10.
“If ye love me, keep my commandments”
John 14:15 KJV
The worst part is that the Jews reject the entire Bible. They definitely reject Jesus, but the Jews aren’t even Israelites. The Bible isn’t even about them, except when describing them as the administrators for the adversary, which is the devil.
Yeah, I get that too. I am going under the assumption that there might be remnant of Judah amd Benjamin when I say Jews but they may be fully absorbed into Zionist Faux Jews anyway. Nearly every Rabbi is a practitioner of Kabbalah, so your assesment is more likely correct.
Core Retail Sales (MoM) (Jan)
Act: -0.4% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.7%
Export Price Index (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 1.3% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.5%
Import Price Index (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.3% Cons: 0.4% Prev: 0.2%
Retail Control (MoM) (Jan)
Act: -0.8% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.8%
Retail Sales (MoM) (Jan)
Act: -0.9% Cons: -0.2% Prev: 0.7%
Retail Sales Ex Gas/Autos (MoM) (Jan)
Act: -0.5% Cons: Prev: 0.5%
The inexperienced Trump is throwing Europe under the bus. It seems as if the three major spheres of influence are coming together very quickly. Britain will align with the Oceania block of the United States and western hemisphere. Europe will be submerged into the Eurasian sphere. It seems Oceania will fight East Asia later in the decade. Global war is coming and will most likely occur during Trump’s presidency. Putin cannot be trusted in any endeavor and he is the worst person to rely on. The alt media need to stop regarding Putin as some sort of Master diplomat. Putin is a scumbag and will burn in hell. Nobody can trust Putin, especially his army generals….
AFP – Europe can’t assume US troop presence ‘will last forever’: Hegseth
‘Now is the time to invest because you can’t make an assumption that America’s presence will last forever,’ said Hegseth
Warsaw (AFP) – US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday warned NATO allies in Europe against assuming that the American troop presence on the continent would “last forever”, as he urged them to spend more on defence.
“Now is the time to invest because you can’t make an assumption that America’s presence will last forever,” Hegseth told reporters alongside his Polish counterpart in Warsaw.
He was visiting Poland on his maiden trip to Europe as a top official in President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump has repeatedly called on NATO members to increase their military expenditure.
Hegseth praised “model ally” Poland — a country on NATO’s eastern flank that neighbours both Russia and Ukraine — for its defence spending.
Warsaw aims to spend 4.7 percent of its annual economic output on defence in 2025, well above the alliance’s current minimum level of two percent.
Trump has previously said that should be more than doubled to five percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
Poland’s Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said Europe’s current arms production capacity was “not enough”.
“Europe needs to wake up,” he added. “Europe needs to invest in the arms industry.”
Hegseth defended Trump’s efforts to launch negotiations on the Ukraine war with Russia’s leader.
And when asked if he trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin to live up to any potential agreement, Hegseth told reporters, “You don’t have to trust somebody in order to negotiate with them”.
Trump on Wednesday blindsided Ukraine and Washington’s European allies by agreeing to launch talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict in his first publicly announced phone call with Putin since returning to power.
The same day, Hegseth said it was not realistic for Ukraine to regain all its land, or become a member of NATO.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready for direct talks with Russia once Kyiv had reached a common position with the United States and Europe on how to end the nearly three-year war.
This is America First diplomacy. Europe will increase their military spending and so will Canada! The world is getting ready for war, as Stone has said repeatedly. Keep your eyes on fake Israel. The land developer in chief will will continue to help them take territory and I suspect it will happen rather quickly.
This is an entertaining interview with Steve Bannon.
Highlights include: how Trump won, libs will go to prison, libs stealing basically the whole deficit each year, MAGA will investigate the covid scam, the CIA knew it came from Wuhan but said it was a conspiracy theory, J6 prosecutors will be investigated and probably go to jail, J6 prosecutors BEGGED biden to pardon them because they knew they committed criminal actions and were scared of Mr. T, dems are “cancer” and need to be cured, Bannon loves Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage and UK needs to get rid of immigrants, ICE boss wants to go hardcore and get rid of all illegal immigrants (millions of them), the rot in America has been growing for decades and will destroy the country if not fixed, dems slowing down confirmations to stop MAGA, Vivek is a P.O.S. for saying Americans are lazy and useless and he sucks, USAID is just a tiny tip of the iceberg, and much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3bS1ekLzCw
Regarding the Steve Bannon post. Bannon says a lot of good things but he’s a zionist asset. Tommy Robinson even more so. Farage is a Freemason who will never talk about who’s (((funding & facilitating))) immigration into the white, Christian, West. You reference ICE boss Tom Homan. I like him a lot. Hopefully he’s not a zionist.
Even the BRICS nations know they still cannot yet replace the dollar….
Brazil nixes BRICS currency, eyes less reliance on ‘mighty’ dollar
February 13, 2025 9:14 AM EST Updated 7 hours ago
Summary;
•Brazil’s BRICS presidency won’t push for common currency this year
•Agenda includes easing international payments, reducing dollar dependence
•BRICS summit in July to discuss cross-border payment initiatives
https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/brazil-nixes-brics-currency-eyes-less-reliance-mighty-dollar-2025-02-13/
Trump warns BRICS nations could face 100% tariffs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that BRICS nations could face 100% tariffs from the United States “if they want to play games with the dollar.”
“If any trading gets through, it’ll be 100% tariff, at least,” he said in response to a question about the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – setting up their own currency.
The art of the deal as Modi visits Washington….
Trump calls for ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on nations that levy tariffs on the US
(tariffs will be adjusted to compensate for VATs and export nation industry subsidies)
President Donald Trump announced new tariffs in an executive order.
•US President Donald Trump has called for reciprocal tariffs on other countries.
•Trump recently ordered 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum and an added 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
•Economists warn Trump’s tariffs may raise inflation and hurt US consumers.
•President Donald Trump has called for “reciprocal tariffs” on countries that impose such levies on American goods.
“On trade, I have decided, for purposes of fairness, that I will charge a reciprocal tariff, meaning whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them. No more, no less,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Thursday.
He added that other countries have been “charging us vastly more than we charge them, but those days are over.”
In similar remarks on Wednesday teasing the tariffs announcement, Trump said the “world has taken advantage of the US for many years.”
“If they are charging us 130% and we’re charging them nothing, it’s not going to stay that way,” Trump had said on Monday.
Trump’s new directive comes just as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands in the US on Wednesday for a two-day visit.
Trump has called India a “tariff king” in his first term and has repeatedly complained about the country’s levies on imports.
India’s average tariff is above 10%, compared to the US’s average tariff of 2.3% in 2023.
Since taking office, Trump has been widening his trade war against trading partners.
On Monday, Trump imposed 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. The tariffs, which are set to take effect on March 12, could contribute to price hikes in construction, cars, and travel.
Earlier this month, Trump also placed a 10% tariff on imports from China. In response, Beijing announced retaliatory tariffs on coal, crude oil, agricultural machinery, and some vehicles.
Shortly after taking office, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on most goods from Canada and Mexico. He later announced that those tariffs would be delayed 30 days after he reached a deal with both countries to strengthen border security.
Economists and analysts are grappling with the impact of Trump’s tariffs, which are expected to increase inflation.
John Veroneau, a former deputy US trade representative, said Trump should clarify his trade agenda.
“Tariffs will not increase US manufacturing: technology, rather than trade, has been primarily responsible for the fifty-year decline in manufacturing jobs,” wrote Veroneau, who is a partner in the Covington & Burling law firm, in a February 11 post on the Council on Foreign Relations website.
Instead, employment has declined as factories can operate with more machines and fewer people, he added.
“Tariffs hurt American consumers and export-oriented manufacturers who lose sales when US trading partners impose their new tariffs in response,” wrote Veroneau.
Trump is rocking the world! This already seems like a major reset. This in less than a month. A mega shift is occurring and the old rules will not apply. We are getting very close major prophetic events I suspect.
Putin has gobbled up about 20% of Ukraine’s area. He will not stop until Shiloh comes.
Any economist worth his salt knows that the BRIC Nations cannot formulate their own currency under current circumstances. Their trade between each other is inefficient as the member nations cannot figure out how to replace the dollar. This has been an ongoing situation for at least the 20 years I’ve followed it. Nothing’s changed.
I think Trump’s biggest potential stumbling block will be domestic inflation. Trump was voted into office, because of the inflation caused by the Democrats and the Democrats inability to recognize it.
If Trump cannot slow down inflation, and this week’s data came in hotter than expected, much of his agenda will go into the trash heap. Trump can think he can run a dictatorship, but if inflation and bond yields continue to move higher, Trump’s programs are all over.
Imagine a scenario where we see mortgage rates above 8%. That will not figure in well at all. If mortgage rates move higher from here, much of what Trump wants to do on the economic front will wither in the sun.
It’s always been about the economy to the voter and if Trump can’t figure out a way to help the wage earners, we’ll see DEI and all the other crap come back in spades.
I’m desperately trying to get rid of all my black tenants and the properties in Black areas. I have two black tenants who I am having difficult times moving out. I charge so much less than market rent for these two tenants, because they’re black, that I don’t know how I’m ever going to get rid of them. I wish they would stop paying their rent on time as it would provide me a reason to file an eviction. But they hide behind Maryland and County laws.
We need to get rid of these types of tenants while we still have the upper hand. If we get a MAMZER back in office, landlords will be broiled on a spot.
I am sure the Democrats are waiting in the wings for a weak spot in Trump and they could come back with a vengeance along with corporate America changing their tune towards DEI, LBGQT and all the other leftist crap. It will really suck when this leftist garbage makes a comeback as it will comeback that much stronger. Right now they could be regrouping. This is all part of the Hegelian dialectic to keep humanity distracted so they don’t notice the implementation of the beast system.
The best defense against this is to get out of the blue areas.
RFK Jr was just sworn in as HHS secretary. I guess that’s a good thing. We all know he hates injections, but had to backtrack during confirmation hearings.
During his confirmation speech, Kennedy added that at a time when “60% of our people are sick” and “77% percent of our children cannot qualify for military service,” America needs a “man on a white horse” to get us on the right track.
A man on a white horse, interesting choice of words there.
Interesting choice of words. Good catch…
Overall, I’m glad he was confirmed and his wife didn’t abandon him.
The first man on the white horse will be coming soon; perhaps by the end of this decade. The people still need to get sicker and more war needs to spread first. When the people are good and ready, that man on that white horse will appear with the answers.
The Antichrist will appear disguised as a man on a white horse, however, he really is the devil on a black horse. The real man on the white horse will be Jesus Christ and will come later after the tribulations.
However, Jesus Christ probably won’t appear like a man on a white horse except to those who have Jesus in their hearts.
Hotter than expected….
PPI (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.4% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.5%
PPI (YoY) (Jan)
Act: 3.5% Cons: 3.2% Prev: 3.3%
PPI ex. Food/Energy/Transport (YoY) (Jan)
Act: 3.4% Cons: 3.2% Prev: 3.3%
PPI ex. Food/Energy/Transport (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.3% Cons: 0.2% Prev: 0.4%
Core PPI (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.3% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.4%
Core PPI (YoY) (Jan)
Act: 3.6% Cons: 3.3% Prev: 3.7%
Initial Jobless Claims
Act: 213K Cons: 217K Prev: 220K
Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg.
Act: 216.00K Cons: Prev: 217.00K
Continuing Jobless Claims
Act: 1,850K Cons: 1,880K Prev: 1,886K
A reader asked me if a Ponzi scheme scenario could bring down the Fed. Here was my response. The Fed’s losses were more drastic last year before the FED funds rate began to be cut. However, the capital losses remain…..
Yes. It is possible. The FED isn’t borrowing anymore at 5.4%, but that’s about 100 basis points less now. Nevertheless, the FED is losing money on its Bond portfolio as the yield curve moves higher.
Here is the rub, any interest income and capital gains the FED earns above and beyond its operating expenses is remitted back to the US Treasury. In essence, the Fed is not supposed to be operating for profit.
However, the contra also prevails. If the Federal Reserve loses money on an operating basis and its bond portfolio sustains capital losses, the US Treasury is supposed to make it whole. Thus, any sustained losses that accrue with the Fed is supposed to be covered by the US Treasury.
And the Ponzi scheme will continue as the taxpayers keep it afloat.
Good luck, DOGE….
FROM US TREASURY 2/12/2025
A deficit occurs when the federal government’s spending exceeds its revenues.
The federal government has spent $840 billion more than it has collected in fiscal year (FY) 2025, resulting in a national deficit.
$840 billion
Fiscal year-to-date (since October 2024) total updated monthly using the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) dataset.
Compared to the national deficit of $532 billion for the same period last year (Oct 2023 – Jan 2024), our national deficit has increased by $308 billion.
$308 B
∆ 58%
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-deficit/
Damning Evidence On Ms Tulsi Gabbard
Cults, Communism, Corruption!
She identified as Hindu and Communist. What better way to affect change than by pretending to be Republican and MAGA.
https://rense.com/general97/Damning-Evidence-On-Ms-Tulsi.php
Federal Budget Balance (Jan)
Act: -129.0B Cons: -88.1B Prev: -87.0B
Trump loves to keep his enemies close or this whole thing could be a charade.
Holy Moly! Huge disappointment (unless you’re the asset owner and landlord). CPI data really higher across the board.
The wager got the shaft again, as real earnings come in lower than expected. Nominal earnings may be okay, but they are certainly not keeping up with inflation.
Core CPI (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.4% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.2%
Core CPI (YoY) (Jan)
Act: 3.3% Cons: 3.1% Prev: 3.2%
Core CPI Index (Jan)
Act: 324.74 Cons: Prev: 323.30
CPI (YoY) (Jan)
Act: 3.0% Cons: 2.9% Prev: 2.9%
CPI (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.5% Cons: 0.3% Prev: 0.4%
CPI Index, n.s.a. (Jan)
Act: 317.67 Cons: 317.46 Prev: 315.61
CPI Index, s.a (Jan)
Act: 319.09 Cons: Prev: 317.60
CPI, n.s.a (MoM) (Jan)
Act: 0.65% Cons: Prev: 0.04%
Real Earnings (MoM) (Jan)
Act: -0.3% Cons: -0.1% Prev: -0.4%
Today is not a good day to buy the dips. I think today’s CPI data is going to cause a washout. Not good, unless you’re the landlord. 🤣🤣🤣
The people are burning, because they believe the Jews are God’s chosen. That hoax was perpetrated by the controlled universal religion, the Catholic Church going back 1,700 years.
Talk about the great deception!
My comments spam is up to about 50 spam comments a day. Russia, Bulgaria, China are the big sources.
There seems to be consensus that the church was at Pergamos from approx. 313-538. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Babylonian High Priests fled to Pergamos when the Medes destroyed Babylon. Papal authority was cemented at Nicaea in 325 – that much is not disputed.
I was wrong… Buy every dip. The USD will be dumped around the world and will continue finding their way back into assets.
It sure seems like Trump and his cronies are in the process of tearing down the “old system” so the new can emerge! I would suspect, as a real estate investor, he knows you have to make a mess in demo, before you get the new!
This is a Seeking Alpha article. Notice that no politicians criticize the Fed anymore. Nobody criticizes the synagogue owner in DC. But then again, the Catholic and judeo-christian churches idolize the Jew as the chosen as well. These religious institutions will even tamper with scripture to please the Jews and make it a reality. Just like the media of today rewriting history.
The Jews are the chosen, whether they run the Federal Reserve or are working with the Romans to translate the Catholic Bible that will be used by all judeo-christian institutions.
The Soros-backed homosexual, Bessent, says the UST will target the 10 year UST yield instead of seeking low overnight rates.
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“With our policy stance now significantly less restrictive than it had been and the economy remaining strong, we do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Monday during his semiannual monetary policy testimony on Capitol Hill. He’s back for Round 2 today, so make sure to check the latest headlines on Seeking Alpha.
Quote: “If the economy remains strong and inflation does not continue to move sustainably toward 2%, we can maintain policy restraint for longer,” Powell told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. “If the labor market were to weaken unexpectedly or inflation were to fall more quickly than anticipated, we can ease policy accordingly. We are attentive to the risks to both sides of our dual mandate, and policy is well positioned to deal with the risks and uncertainties that we face.”
It all means that the central bank is in wait-and-see mode, and policy will be quickly dictated by the upcoming data. On that note, the Consumer Price Index for January will be released at 8:30 AM ET – and will be more notable than usual as it will be the reference point for costs going into 2025. Similarly, any inflation prints from here will be linked to the performance of the Trump administration, which has vowed to “bring down the U.S. cost of living” and “end the devastating inflation crisis.” See a CPI preview
What to watch: Pressure had already been alleviated on Powell after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the 10-year Treasury yield (US10Y) would be the focus in bringing down borrowing costs instead of Trump’s prior “demand that interest rates drop immediately.” In the past, Powell has also been targeted for falling behind the curve on inflation (remember transitory?), but it seems that majority lawmakers are now willing to move on and even lent him support during yesterday’s grilling. “It seems to me that you and some of your colleagues deserve some credit,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) declared. “I’m not saying things are perfect, but I never imagined that our landing could be this soft.”
A while ago, Stone, you sent a a link of JD Vance homosexuality. Can you resend it again? I couldn’t locate it.
Thanks,
Jack Rosenberg
This was a comment I posted last July….
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Where there’s smoke….
I received an email with this YouTube video link regarding JD Vance and his closeted homosexuality.
Breaking News: the truth will come out of the closet!!
https://www.youtube.com/live/4DtPsdwk5z8?si=lOxrAvFvNJb9HBFM
I don’t necessarily endorse anything this gentleman says, but what he says makes sense. Given that we previously observed how Vance was best buddies with Peter Thiel, we intimated that Vance was truly homosexual. Vance previously mentioned how he struggled with homosexuality when he was a youngster. Perhaps that’s why he married an Indian woman, it was probably easier for him to keep his sexuality a secret. If Vance married a Caucasian European descended woman, he would have been outed immediately.
IDK his wife seems to genuinely love him. She was happy and proud of him during his inauguration.
Michelle Obama is also a tranny and Obama is queer. Just ask Larry Sinclair. Personally, I would rather not want to think about any of this, but Jack asked about it.
I am most certain that Vance’s wife truly loves him. That doesn’t change much. Vance evidently mentioned he struggled with it when he was young. Maybe he was groomed as a youngster.
Well he didn’t have a dad, so perhaps.
Russia and Turkey basically are bartering, since there’s no common currency they can use, other than the USD. This is a very inefficient way to trade between nations.
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Russia, Turkey Discuss Gas Swap to Pay for Delayed Nuclear Plant
(Bloomberg) — Russia is in talks to use natural gas to pay for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Turkey, according to people in both countries with knowledge of the matter, as an alternative to cross-border transfers that are being held up by sanctions.
Russia proposed that Turkey take over some of the building costs of the $20 billion Akkuyu plant from state-run developer Rosatom, the people said, asking not to be identified as the talks are private. Rosatom would pay the equivalent amount in rubles to gas exporter Gazprom PJSC, which would in turn deduct it from Ankara’s monthly import bill for the fuel.
The proposed swap would offer an alternative to conventional international bank transfers from Russia to Turkey that have funded the megaproject so far.
Neither Rosatom, Gazprom nor the Akkuyu project itself are sanctioned, but payments to and from Russia have increasingly faced delays because foreign banks fear exposure to US penalties, particularly since June when Washington said it would clamp down on third-country financial institutions that deal with Russia’s war economy.
It’s the latest example of Russia’s creative ways to get around efforts by Washington and its allies to isolate Moscow over the war in Ukraine. It also shows how western sanctions have hampered a flagship energy project in Turkey, a key NATO ally that’s sought to position itself as a neutral broker between Russia and Ukraine.
Turkey’s gas payments to Russia typically range between €300 million to €800 million per month, depending on consumption, one of the people said.
Rosatom and Turkey’s energy ministry declined to comment. Gazprom didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The US froze $2 billion of Russian payments to Turkey for Akkuyu in 2024 on suspicion that the transfers were being used to circumvent sanctions on Russia’s central bank, the Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 2, citing people familiar with the matter.
Rosatom expects the issue of “funds that have been unjustly withheld through third parties’ influence” to be resolved, a company spokeswoman told the paper.
Akkuyu, Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, has already been delayed multiple times. Commissioning of the first of the 4,800MW plant’s four reactors may now be pushed back to 2026 from the currently scheduled 2025, according to Turkish officials.
Rosatom had already been forced to seek alternative parts from China for the project after an initial order with Germany’s Siemens Energy AG fell through due to US export controls.
Russia is Turkey’s top gas supplier, providing 42% of all its imports in 2023, the latest available full-year data, according to Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority.
Turkey got a sanctions exemption from the US late last year to allow it to continue importing Russian gas after Gazprom’s banking arm was sanctioned.
Once completed, Akkuyu is expected to supply 10% of Turkey’s electricity demand. Ankara wants to build two more full-scale plants as well as small modular reactors to generate a total 20,000MW of nuclear power by 2050, and has held talks with Russia, China and South Korea for the projects.
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We are still in the beginning phase, it’s going to take awhile to implement the AI infranstructure in certain industries. Although the robo voices that we respond to on service calls seem to be more accurate so it’s going on there. AI mania didn’t seem to start until last year and it was mostly ChatGPT chatter, but now it’s everywhere and everyone is talking about AI all of a sudden. I remember the yahoo chat room bots 20 years ago, you would ask a question and they would give the same answers, so it’s come along ways. Then there is the idea that it’s always been here and they are just now releasing it to the public.
The more I think about this I would have to say it’s brilliant. For the past couple of years we have heard a lot about how AI is left learning, woke and politically correct, now it is rooting out corruption and waste brought mainly by the Democrats.
While I question the legality of what DOGE is doing to accomplish their task, I admire what DOGE is trying to accomplish in cutting government waste. Too many people in the government were getting rich off the system while the hardworking lower income wage earner supports these fat cats through taxes. It is time to cut these fat cats out of the government and cut taxes too. If Trump does it right, the fat cats can be cut out while the social handouts remain intact.
Reagan did it wrong back in the early 80s by cutting back social handouts while leaving the government bureaucrats intact. Reagan’s party paid dearly for that in the 1982 midterms as the Republicans lost big.
I see AI replacing a lot of high paying professional jobs in the Government and private sector as well. The creator business owner and low paying grunt workers will be the only people working in the business. This is why a lot of tech firms are laying off people. Their jobs are being replaced by AI computers. There probably will be high paying techies to oversea the AI and program it until it catches on, but once AI catches on learning things on its own then the high paying professional is gone.
High paying human professionals in private industry and government will soon be a thing of the past. The high paying techie and scientist job will soon be gone. A predecessor to this trend was the middle level business managers getting axed by the replacement of computers in the 90s.
Those who are not asset owners by now will soon be shut out of any possibility of acquiring assets. The window of opportunity to rise to asset owners is quickly closing.
My tenants are left to figure out how to make money and navigate the AI reset. As a landlord, I already know how I’ll earn income.
Here is your push back in the form of a government shut down threat! On Sunday, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) suggested that Republicans looking to continue government spending past March 14 are going to withhold support, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson without allies against fiscally conservative Republican lawmakers who have repeatedly voiced strenuous opposition to out-of-control spending.
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode, The Obsolete Man! How long before certain beliefs are rendered, obsolete!
I get at least 30 spam comments a day. This is why I have to manually approve many of the comments that contain the links.
More than half of the spam come from Russian and Chinese IP addresses.
And who knows what groups or people are doing this on foreign soil.