Ron, I feel the same way after hearing Matt's predictions that I use to feel hearing Michael Cohen on MSNBC. Both are supremely confident that Trump can't win and will end up in jail. I'm not sure if Cohen still feels that way anymore because I don't  see him as much. I did ask Matt why he was so confident. I suggested my hope was that Trump  would fly so far off the deep end,(which he seems to be doing)that everybody would finally recognize that. He didn't respond. It sounds like I'm like you in that I don't have near the faith in the intelligence of the average American that Matt has.

But on the other hand, I do think now that Biden has woken from hibernation, the ads he's running I think are pretty effective and I think the ace in hole  for the Democrats is the Dobb' s  decision. That's a total loser for the Repubs that the Dems can keep pounding home.

I tend to agree with Matt because Trump is just unwinding before our very eyes.

But will  people see that and come to a point where they finally say "that's enough!'? "

I don't think any of the RK cult here are going to budge!.

I thought we were getting another day away from the political discussions because Ron liked Cliff's Twilight Zone piece.  Which was great. I didn't recall that older guy goading on the kid like that. What was he, crazy?

(That guy for some reason reminded me of Gary Shandling later.)

It did have a good ending with that  woman therapist, was she?

More leftist virtue signalling!

https://preview.redd.it/7xxkpt76wh6b1.gif?width=480&format=mp4&v=enabled&s=2dd6bff81fede797afaf78ddbf6effb204b5ed54

heh heh

Brock on!

As for RK's current boy like "revelation " that Biden is a greater threat to Democracy than Trump.  This has been the problem all along.

The inferior element seems so harmless and inviting that a man delights in it.

It looks so small and inwardly weak that he imagines he may dally with it and not come to harm.

The inferior man rises only because the superior man does not regard him as dangerous and so lends him power.

If he were resisted from the first, he could never gain influence.

5 hours ago, Sandy Larsen said:

 

You mean, he's running for Congress.

 

Oops, you're right., my bad Sandy! I corrected. Thank you

KK:This is a political post that has nothing to do with JFKA. 

KK, has anyone told you you look like Steven Carell?

OK KK, Maybe we can tie this in to the historic power of the JFK ,RFK legacy!

Certainly the tie of RK to his Father and Uncle are prescient to his candidacy, and those questions are much more relevant to the RK candidacy than many other RK posts made here in the past.

The MAGA cult is sort of a charismatic leader cult, where the RK cult is a blood cult that wouldn't exist without the JFK, RFK legacy. Even though the charge is so baseless that Biden has used his office to persecute or abridge RK's free speech rights. The RK cult will glom on to statements like that just as the MAGA cult will. .

We do see a lot of similarities in phenomena between the 2 cults in that there was at first a great charismatic entrenchment to both the Trump and RK candidacy and gradually their candidates went further out into the fringe of their belief systems saying  more and more outrageous things only to have their cults still cling to them.

Examples 1. The RK Anti vax message,  At first his followers would dismiss RK anti vax statements by saying RK isn't truly anti vax, only certain specific vaccines, but that's been proven wrong when he said below that that he couldn't give a example of a good vaccine, when the truth  is, vaccines, though not perfect,  have saved millions of people's lives! But the response will be, "Gee whiz, it's just one topic. Not enough to disqualify him. "

2. Many of the  cult are driven here by the idea that all modern disputes would be magically solved by any Kennedy bloodline,  certainly any dispute with Russia like the recent Putin invasion of Ukraine would be solved because JFK and Khrushchev essentially put the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation to then  build an understanding of peace that would have prevailed if JFK lived.  Ok, maybe if we had Kennedy's in office for 50 years, the present situation in Ukraine wouldn't have happened, but of course that isn't to say that if JFK had inherited the Putin invasion of 2022, he could, with the power of his peaceful intentions, have transformed the situation into a peaceful one. The RKers pretty much feel  RK should give Putin the Donbass region, just like they project JFK would.  They also naturally thought RK would be a great peacemaker in the current Israel Hamas War only to find RK has made the most detailed, articulate defense of the current Israeli genocide of any current politician, and I'm sure that must have taken some wind out of their sails but it hasn't caused any here to cry, "That is last straw."

And now this, RK's BS  statement about Biden here. I knew this was always going to happen. He's not surging in any polls, has no real chance of winning and he knows from this point on, he's not likely to pull in many more disaffected  Trump voters so he's going to take away from Biden.

Before I could understand RK's followers embraced him as a new type of politician, above the fray,  maybe with a few out of mainstream beliefs, but at at least he's outspoken and honest. But this is really a cynical, very calculated political move.  So there's another unpeeling of the onion.

I thought RK's appointment of Dennis Kucinich as his campaign manager was one of the few good moves he's made. Now Kucinich has had enough and is running for Congress.

Since there are no ideological constraints for RK's followers, Where does it stop?

Starts at 4:15

RFK says Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Trump.

What an idiotic thing to say! Look at the fear and intimidation Trump is able to pull off taking over an entire party of sycophants!

I think the gains RK makes from this point are at the expense of Biden. His stands on the vaccine issue won't matter to those voters. Just like they don't matter to the RK diehards here.

If Biden can't muster any more balls with Bibi, I could see him lose Michigan easy. It gets kind of absurd rationalizing selling arms to Israel to sabotage your efforts at humanitarian relief in Gaza, and then complaining about it!

Only the U.S. could steer themselves into  such a position.

11 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

This is getting ridiculous... We have a new, sophomoric forum member who doesn't know the difference between journalistic fecal material and shinola.  And he loves to flood the zone with fecal material.

Whew! Well done!

Excellent Robert!

Kimberly Guilfoyle, from youthful idealism to , fill in the blanks-----------   ------------

Kimberly Guilfoyle, from youthful idealism to  glutted despair!

Yeah, Ali McGraw got mad with you
For givin' head to Steve McQueen

I don't know where to draw the line
Yeah, I'll make bets that you're gonna get
John Wayne before he dies

SFer SFer SFer SFer S

On 3/27/2024 at 11:15 AM, W. Niederhut said:

Hey, some rare good news today...  

Election Year Audience Erosion Continues for Right Wing Websites — TheRighting: Alerting mainstream audiences about headlines from the right

Right Wing Election Year Traffic Erosion Continues; MSM Falters Too

 

That's fascinating W. but inappropriately titled as all the big media is eclipsed! Even the NYT doesn't even move the needle anymore except among a very small percentage of Democrat elites. The NYT and WAPO are literally begging me with cut rate subscriptions! It's a bit sad  as they are among the best writing, and still have some good journalism.Unfortunately, when you're left to online alt. media, you get a lot of skewed sources as we are seeing on the JFKA side.

Interesting to see only Newsmax is growing! I assume that's probably from disaffected Fox viewers.

However, one good thing about the dissolution is the further marginalization of government attempts to infiltrate media. Operation Mockingbird had been steadily eroding even before the advent of Social Media, and isn't a fraction of the  influence it was when we were growing up, but the irony is, now through Social Media and alternative websites, The Phrase "Operation Mockingbird" has just become a dog whistle phrase for the MAGA and the Alt Right and their masters who seek to dismantle the "administrative state". 

13 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said:

 

Just to be clear Doug, that is among similar images, that are fakes.

Though funny!

41 minutes ago, Cliff Varnell said:

uhh no Cliff, I was the first  Bernie supporter here

42 minutes ago, Cliff Varnell said:

Gotta link?

I sure do, I got 20 hours of video links. 40 hours of quotes from articles. And literally everything I've written since 2016!

I'm sure you'll have the time.

Now if that doesn't impress you, nothing else will.

3 hours ago, Cliff Varnell said:

I was the first Bernie supporter on the Ed Forum.

uhh no Cliff, i was

heh heh

1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:

Given the upper estimate in every case that's a 368 swing, giving Bernie a 9 delegate win.

yeah, that's what I noticed, what a nail biter!.----how convenient!

I was thinking, does anyone have 11, 720 votes?

jeje jej jej jej jej     (that's Spanish)

3 hours ago, Keven Hofeling said:

You must not have been paying attention. Can't imagine how you missed it. Regardless, the numbers you quoted are bullshit:

Yeah man, bullshit!

Cliff:Fair enough.

I understand you're being gracious here Cliff. But the popular number of votes you recited are not bullsh-t. Under even alleged tampering they are more accurate than a delegate count which is  extrapolated from popular vote, but is even less exact because certain states have winner take all  laws that distort  the electoral vote totals even further..

Obviously, he's  making an argument for the electoral college over the popular vote.

Must be from a red state.

Stop being such a Bernie traitor, Cliff!

1 hour ago, Cliff Varnell said:

 

20 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

So,help me understand this.

Overnight, Trump went to one of the 500 richest people in the world.

He owns 60% of the stock in Truth Social.

If he gets a waiver and can sell early, or if he has to wait six months, he starts selling off his stock, which will create a huge sell off and the stock will plunge in value. Thousands of people stand to lose their shirts. The company will probably go bankrupt.

Last year the company had $3 mIllion in revenue and $49 million in losses. It has never earned a profit. Could this stock speculation lead to a stock market crash? 

Can Trump and the small handful of inside cronies be charged with insider trading? Are they artificially propping up the stock of a worthless company?

I think I read that one of the owners of the Digital Aquisitions Group is also one of the owners of TikTok, or at least, one of its major investors.

TikTok' parent company is ByteDance. ByteDance is a privately-held global company, with roughly 60 percent owned by global institutional investors (such as Blackrock, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group.

The CEO of the Susquehanna International Group is a man by the name of Jeffrey S. Yass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Yass#:~:text=Jeffrey S. Yass (born 1956,the richest man in Pennsylvania.&text=He is the co-founder,a major investor in TikTok.

"Jeffrey S. Yass (born 1956) is an American billionaire businessman. According to Forbes, Yass had a net worth of $28.5 billion in 2023. Yass is the richest man in Pennsylvania. He is the co-founder and managing director of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and a major investor in TikTok."

"As of March 2024, he is the largest donor in the 2024 US election cycle, having donated $46 million to Republican groups and campaigns, primarily to rivals of Donald Trump.^[2] After Yass and Trump met in March 2024, Trump went from supporting a ban on TikTok to opposing a ban.^[2] At the same time, Yass's SIG bought a substantial share in Trump's company Truth Social, providing Trump with a massive influx of money at a time when he faced mountainous legal expenses.^[3]"

Are TikTok and Truth Social about to become the main sources of news in the social media world?

Steve Thomas

 

 

Steve, Trump can sell his stock now. All he needs is an ok from other shareholders which largely include his family. When a big shareholder wants to sell large lots of his stock. They usually use brokers who  dribble out smaller sell orders  over  a few weeks to not directly alert the markets,  or they will sell anonymously through "dark pools". But by law  after a couple of days it takes to clear sale, all sales are public so  it will be well known an insider of DJT is selling, which would trigger a wave of selling. He could certainly leave  a lot of his fellow share holders in s lurch, but  we know he's not beyond that, and he's been doing it to anyone whose trusted him all his life.

At this this time all shares of DJT have  been sold short so shorts are very expensive and the borrowing fees are currently 210% of the price, which it would seem to be that you'd be banking on the stock losing 3/4 of it's current share price just to break even.

It's interesting to hear CNN reporting that  Truth Social was up so much in it's opening day, they had to halt trading, which was  false and left the completely wrong impression. It  opened around 70 and in 10 minutes was up to 80 only to abruptly retrace  then  go lower down to 65. At that point, a trading halt was initiated to avoid panic selling, nor buying!   It was off the exchange for I think about 10 minutes and the halt did stop the panic selling, as when trading resumed,  it steadily advanced up to the low 70's and hung there for awhile.

I don't know if you guys heard. But Trump's "truth social" had it's IPO today. It's a horrible company that's never made a profit.

IPO's are  licenses to print money for the owners and backers who got in early like Trump. But Trump can't sell any of his shares for 6 months unless he requests a special waver. So he can't use the money to pay off his debts.

The stock opened way up , and peaked over 50% from it's opening price, buoyed by short term pump and dump  buyers. Within an hour it peaked at 80 to never to come back again and the stock ended up by the end of the day at 62.

My guess is because the business's  fundamentals stink.  In 6 months, when Trump is able to sell his shares. I wouldn't expect it to be worth $30 dollars a share, if that.

17 hours ago, Roger Odisio said:

RO:  Ok. I've been holding back this comment because I can anticipate its reception.  But it's still worth making you aware of it. Putin recently said he had actually  preferred Hillary in the 2016 election, for a very simple reason.  He didn't like her. He didn't agree with her.  But he had worked with her for a couple of decades and thought he understood her.  He could work with her.  On the other hand, he saw Trump as utterly unpredictable.  That uncertainty was dangerous.

You seem to forget Roger, you're the one  said you "held back" but offered the post because you thought it was "worth making us aware of it" . Now you''re saying you had no particular faith then in Putin's statement, only that it was "plausible" and you weren't trying to convey his impartiality.

What were you trying to convey then?  Why was it at all "worthwhile to make us aware of it " then.?

9 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said:

Roger, Do you believe Putin's assertion that he had nothing whatsoever to do with Prighozin's death as well? .

You didn't answer the question above, Roger.

*Ok, so you're not at all curious. Putin offers you his 2016 expectation of Trump Vs. Hilary to make him look impartial as to who the next President was to be in 2016, which begged the question of any inquiring mind, "what was the reality of in fact  dealing with Trump as President?"  If we accept your faith in what Putin says, you could always expect any politician to give you an insight that  wouldn't make Trump look bad if he anticipated he might be working with him.

Robert, A few years back, I actually played this clip here in a thread  Jim. Di was in. So he should remember it. I do think it was his finest hour  that I'm aware of.  

Galloway (not my name ,all a's here!) goes in front of the American Congress and exposes the American WMD "pack of lies"before them..It was very satisfying for me.

Starts at 21:36.

So it sounds like you're still pro brexit., Robert?

30 minutes ago, Roger Odisio said:

RO:  Ok. I've been holding back this comment because I can anticipate its reception.  But it's still worth making you aware of it. Putin recently said he had actually  preferred Hillary in the 2016 election, for a very simple reason.  He didn't like her. He didn't agree with her.  But he had worked with her for a couple of decades and thought he understood her.  He could work with her.  On the other hand, he saw Trump as utterly unpredictable.  That uncertainty was dangerous.

Wow Roger, I can see why you were holding back, because that's a real bombshell!  Did he then say anything about what the reality was when he did end up working with Trump as President?  Because that would be important, would it not?

Do you believe Putin's assertion that he had nothing whatsoever to do with Prighozin's death as well? .

Of course, just ignore all previous statements made by Trump and his sons. They mean nothing right.?

Again, a lot of members on the forum in their hypotheses never seem to focus on economic necessity. Even in light of recent developments.

Is this too current? Not 60 years old. (where it's proven we can get complete clarity, right??)

Then given our lead character's proclivities since.

You guys couldn't sleuth your way out of a paper bag!

8 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Who knew (back in 2021) I would be so magnificently prescient regarding Mr Buffalo Horns!

 Who knew?

None of us.

"Magnificently Prescient"  this is the sort of omniscience  and the insistence they know ,more than everyone around them that is typical of the multi conspiracied.

There was nothing prescient about your coverage of Buffalo Horns anymore than any other rube left to piece together fragmented msm images from Thailand.

He was never billed as a  ringleader but more as a representative of the "lost soul "contingent of people at the 1/6 riots.  His sentence was a bit extreme for my liking only because he had a defiant high profile,which is unfortunate, but happens.

7 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Is Mr Buffalo Horns the story of Jan. 6 writ small? Or large? 

Time will tell. Maybe. We have been waiting 60 years on the JFKA. 

What a narcissist spin, actually comparing Chansley to the JFKA and his his historical importance as something we'll be waiting 60 years for! And of course, Ben credits himself as being the only one so "prescient " to see the connection all along! As a prolific conspirophile ,  Ben sees himself as much smarter than everyone around him. Is that why you moved to Thailand Ben?

heh heh

7 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

Mr Buffalo Horns, the "insurrectionist" who threatened to bring down the entire federal government. The very Poster Boy for the occupation of the Capitol.

Yes continue to embellish the story, Ben. All the more we'll pay homage to you 60 years from now, when the truth is revealed and all of us will finally admit Ben was right all along! If only his words can be marked here forever, for the future historians.

One thing you could always count on from Ron Paul was that he would be honest with you, that if he ever was to get in power he'd tell you he'd starve  the government of money  and dismantle any safety net  but then later he'd  be surprised when  the private sector didn't jump in head first to save the economy with their mega trickles  only to find he threw not only the U.S. but consequently maybe the entire world economy into a depression. JMO

This is probably the least original and least authentic and most political thing I've ever heard him say. I don't see his conversion as anything that consequential.

As far as Ben: Anybody who was here in 2021 knows Jacob Chansley was Ben's 2021  Man of the Year, and following Ben's writing style, you can only imagine how repetitive that was!

And Ben's 2021 Woman of the Year was dragon lady, LIz Cheney. Ben felt a terrible sense of betrayal when Cheney broke with his Republicans and decide she was going to take a stand against the 1/6 riots. Apart from that , I could applaud that Ben was taking a stand that Cheney , like her Dad was a neocon hawk, but  the events of the last 2 years have told me Ben hasn't met a war he didn't like. Ben's entitled to his viewpoint on those matters, but I found no consistency.

Similarly, Ben has such an "open mind," he'd continually brag that he would never watch the 1/6 House hearings.

16 hours ago, Michael Crane said:

Man,oh man.... I must admit that it is so disappointing to hear Pat talk now.

Pat,I have been a member on this forum since 2005,and I have put you up there on such a high pedestal.You are so admired.You are up there with David Lifton in my eyes as such prominent researchers.I don't know if it's the cancer or other illnesses that has corrupted your mind.

I just don't know what to say or how to say it.But it is so disappointing.

That is all.