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“I Didn’t Declare War on the Establishment; It Declared War on Me”

The Gateway Pundit has an article that initially you want to “rah! rah! rah!” around. Frank Miele expands on the premise of the title, conservatives facing Big Tech censorship of their ideas. Being denied banking services. Payment systems. Credit cards and so on (the fiends! cue the frothing at the mouth!). Then you start thinking, well aren’t we supposed to have people fighting on our side so illegal stuff like this doesn’t happen?

Who would that be? If we are being attacked mainly from the left, is there someone on the right looking out for us? Well, no frankly, we don’t. That’s the forest that most people will never see. Too many damn trees! The Republicans don’t fight for you, they never have and they never will. Try and name an accomplishment that the Republicans had the past 100 years? I’ve tried that experiment several times, can’t do it.

I’m not going to rehash all that. But that is the paradigm that until people get over, they will forever be spinning their wheels. Its just hard for me to fathom. They keep throwing their time and money into something (the Republican Party) that just does not work. There is no other way to put it. You got to get past the false dichotomy, the D vs R myth. Frank Miele in the article above keeps waiting for the Knight on the White Stallion to come in and fight for him, not gonna happen.

Constitution Party
PO Box 1782
Lancaster, PA 17608

Shifting sands

Immediately after November 3 the freedom wing of America’s population was pretty down I must say. But now 3 months later I’m seeing a shift. Trump didn’t pull the curtain back on the Deep State, he ripped it off the curtain rod. All the corruption and illegalities committed in the election came gushing out. The Reddit heroes at ‘wallstreetbets’ did the same thing with the financial community. Wall Street has been a farce for a long time if not forever, and that has been made quite clear.

The King is riding down the street naked, and more and more people see it. Nekkid as a jay bird. We’re getting down to fundamentals. Many such as Max Keiser, who was on the ground floor of bitcoin, think we are at a pivotal moment in history. One of the affects of having the curtain pulled back on the Deep State and the dollar, even the normies are seeing it. They could continue the Big Lie as long as all they had to dismiss were a few “conspiracy nuts”, but when the man on the street sees it…

It always comes down to “follow the money”. Another fundamental that recently collapsed was freedom of speech. When former president Trump was kicked off of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, that opened some eyes. You couple that with every video released on Biden gets way more Thumbs Down then Thumbs Up, you know he didn’t win. Which brings me to the two nuggets below that I found on Gab:

“It is disorienting—in a good way—to encounter a social platform that doesn’t hate us, doesn’t hate Christians; beyond that a social platform whose founder is a brother in Christ who seems eager to promote and platform Christian pastors. Thank you for building this space and for fighting hard to keep it. You were in my prayers this morning as I drove to church. May the Lord of Hosts keep you, protect you from those who hate you and would slander you, and may He be your shield and reward.” – Brian Sauvé

“As the suffocating blanket of tyranny settles in on us, let us remember the stages that our evangelical leaders have brought us through: 1.) There will not be any need to fight. 2.) There may come a time when it necessary to fight. 3.) It is too early to fight. 4.) It is too late to fight. This is a post-Christian era.” – Douglas Wilson

I’ve been on Gab for nearly 3 years now. Until recently I hadn’t seen the intellectual heft there that I do now. I don’t have that intellectual heft, but I do have good observation skills. There is something afoot. 50 years ago there was a change in America. I’m sensing another one now. The link above for Max Keiser is to a very good video that explains it.

The millennial’s aren’t stupid. They have been the ‘gamer‘ generation. Its not by accident that GameStop was their first target. That’s what they do. As Stacy explains in that video, their world was games. They’ve been figuring out games since they were 5. They know this is all a game and that they have the ability to bring down Goliath. They have the tech savvy, they have the numbers, they have the anger.

A “free market of ideas” (Gab) can be very powerful. AstroTurfed social media like Facebook and Twitter could crumble overnight as they are built on the sands of censorship (apologies).

2 former Fed Chairs on Citadel payroll

The GameStop saga continues. It just came out new Treasury Secretary and former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is into Citadel for $810,000 lump. Ben Bernanke (former Fed) is actually on their continuing payroll (Citadel, who owns Robinhood, who shutdown the trading of GameStop). With talk of the SEC “unwinding” the GameStop trades and relieving those Reddit users of their millions, for Yellen not to recuse herself from the proceeding as conflicted, is criminal.

What amazes me most about all this, is not that the Deep State fucks over the ordinary Joe, or that the 1% ‘ers on Wall Street fucks over the ordinary Joe, no its that they don’t even bother to hide it anymore! They fear nothing! And Congress (in my case Grassley, Ernst and Feenstra) ain’t gonna do a damn thing! At best they will pass a piece of fluff with no teeth. We’re fucked.

Replace Congress with mannequins!

My genius knows no bounds! Its incredible! Yesterday trading platform Robinhood and others halted trading for GameStop, AMC and a few others. The hedge funds who were short selling them (making money on self fulfilling price declines because of their leverage), had been getting kicked in the nuts by a trading group on Reddit called wallstreetbets. Wallstreetbets had been buying GME for sometime, taking the price from $4 to $400.

Because various hedge funds had made the leveraged bets that prices would fall, they were losing multiples when the price rose. Great stuff. Love it. Sons a bitches like them were trying to make GameStop go bankrupt by taking their stock price to zero. Instead, a snot-nosed group of 20 somethings with a Robinhood app on their smart phone were kicking Wall Streets ass.

Well hold on, the powers that be weren’t going to let Wall Street lose (“private rewards public risk policy”). So they colluded with Robinhood and others to stop trading yesterday. With the inability to buy, the upward momentum of GME halted. Not only that, but they changed the margin rules midday, then said, “Whoa! You’re not in compliance with cash on hand rules, we’re going to sell your holdings!”

The price of GME yesterday was between $112 and $489. Guess when Robinhood did the forced liquidation of their holdings? Yeah, at $118. Their customers lost a rough $370 a share because of this rule change. When Wall Street can’t compete, they just change the rules (kind of like Democrats at election time).

So the point is nothing is going to happen to these Wall Street mother fuckers. The financial press isn’t going to dig into it. Congress isn’t going to do anything. We the people are on our own. That’s when I realized, we don’t need Congress, we need 535 mannequins!

There is nothing more worthless on God’s green earth than Congress. Okay maybe mosquitoes. Mosquitoes and Congress, God’s 2 biggest mistakes. We should replace Congress with mannequins. Think about it. Wall Street is getting away with murder and Congress is not going to do a damn thing. Mannequins wouldn’t do a damn thing either, but there is so much less cost involved with them.

Mannequins don’t need food, security, housing, medical, flying back and forth to their districts, retirements, elections, never a day off. We could just switch wigs on the mannequins every 2 and 6 years and pretend they were different. When the press had questions for them we could just pull a string on the back and they could regurgitate various cliches. The Republican mannequins could say, “I’m going to bring Iowa values to Washington!” The Democrat ones could say, “We’re going to hold corporations accountable!”

There wouldn’t be any sex scandals with mannequins. Mannequins don’t take payoffs from lobbyists. When constituents visited Washington think of the photo ops?! Mannequins never have a bad hair day. They always have a killer smile. They always have a flat stomach. All the girl mannequins could look like Barbie, all the boy ones like Ken! Mannequins don’t need huge staffs, just someone to change their clothes every couple a days. I don’t see a downside.

Very interesting!

I’d kind of heard of GameStop, pretty sure I’ve seen them at the malls. I’d kind of heard of Reddit, no idea what it was. Then this morning I hear that the 3 million or so stock traders in a group on Reddit called ‘wallstreetbets’ had kicked a couple of hedge funds in the nuts and made them lose money short-selling GameStop. I cheered.

For the folks at CNBC and Wall Street establishment types, the way the game is supposed to work is you give them money and they give you nothing in return. You’re not supposed to make money, you’re supposed to get fleeced. I am not shitting you, Bloomberg and Barron’s are demanding the SEC protect the professionals from these big bad retail investors! No shit!

Its ludicrous. A bunch of wiz kids in their twenties have learned to beat Wall Street with the aptly named Robin Hood App and a smartphone, and Wall Street goes crying to mommy!

[Today 1/27/21 they halted trading when Blackberry BB rose 42%, can’t have regular people making money. The other 3 wallstreetbets are playing are GME, AMC and NOK. Anytime Wall Street gets kicked in the nuts, its a good day.]

1/27/21 update at 8:00 pm: Reddit closed down the group at about 5:30 pm central. At about 7:30 pm a “subgroup” of it opened back up. For how long I don’t know. A mirror group was opened up on Gab and at ‘Win’ whatever that is. Its reported hedge funds lost $14 billion dollars today. Which is why they lashed out at the Reddit group. One main thrust is that GameStop (GME) is the main thrust and various members of the group are saying Blackberry (BB) Nokia (NOK) and AMC Entertainment (AMC) are distractions. Who can say for sure? Some have suggested the short positions just aren’t there for the last 3.

The numbers don’t lie

This is a great set of numbers I got from an account called ‘Major Patriot’ on Gab:

These data points are indisputable. Even USA Today had to admit they are all correct:

Total number of votes:
• Obama at 69,000,000
• Trump at 74,000,000
• Biden at 81,000,000

Then how?

Number of counties each candidate won:
• Obama 873
• Trump 2,547
• Biden 509

Bellwether counties each candidate won:
• Obama 18 of 19
• Trump 18 of 19
• Biden 1 of 19

Florida, Ohio & Iowa:
• Obama Won Them All
• Trump Won Them All
• Biden Lost Them All

Which candidate’s political party won seats in the House of Representatives?:
• Obama Democrats Won Seats
• Trump Republicans Won Seats
• Biden Democrats Won NO Seats

Its called the Constitution Party

Ross Perot had to have his own party, so he created the Reform Party. Howard Phillips of New Hampshire had to have his own party, so he created the US Taxpayers Party, which changed its name in 1996 to the Constitution Party. The Maharishis in Fairfield, Iowa had to have their own party so they created the Natural Law Party. Which ended up kind of merging with the Reform Party. Then you’ve always had the Libertarian Party running around in circles smoking a joint. The only one that makes sense is the Constitution Party. Ohhhhhh, but not for Trump, he has to invent yet another splinter group because its all about him.

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PO Box 1782
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17608
Toll Free: 1-800-283-8647

$28 trillion dollar debt?

When President Trump took over from the Kenyan the national debt was barely under $20 trillion dollars. By the time the ink was dry on his inauguration papers, it was $20,000,000,000,000. I just checked at the National Debt Clock, and its currently $27,824,391,700,432. That’s over a third in just 4 years. You couple more “stimulus” spending with commie Joe’s natural tendencies, and in another 4 years you’re looking at an additional $10 trillion, easy. So by the time 2025 rolls around we’re looking at being within spitting distance of $40 trillion dollars.

There have been debt doomsayers for decades (‘Bankruptcy 1995’). And that was when the debt was at a whole $5 trillion! Has the limit to financial malfeasance finally been reached? Is fiscal Armageddon here? I’d have to say so. O’Bama doubled the debt in 8 years. Trump probably added 38% in just 4 years. You got to figure China Joe beats that without breaking a sweat. I’m beginning to think he could be over $40 T in just 4 years (it will be $30 T by fall).

There has to be a currency reset. The new dollar paying something like 60% on the old. Just the budget deficit is $3.7 trillion. That’s why banks haven’t paid interest for 20 years, if we had to pay interest on top of the debt, the entire system collapses.

[Oh my gosh I just remembered something else! Medicare spending goes deficit in 2024, SSA bleeds red in 2026! It all goes exponential then! I was completely wrong in Biden adding $10 T, its going to be $20 T. I completely forgot that.]

Norms have no idea about any of Hunter’s escapades.

There’ll be 2 bellwethers with Dems

The Commiecrats have already set into motion the things you knew they would. Amnesty for Mexicans, any chance of holding China responsible for releasing a deadly pandemic upon the world, and stopping oil production. But the two I’m waiting to see if they actually do is raise the minimum wage and bailout the Post Office.

Like the little Republican pet projects that seem to never quite get done, there’s no excuse for the Dems. Raise the damn minimum wage, its been 12 years. And rather than let a valuable public service go belly-up, bailout the Post Office. You’ve made these promises for decades, now do it.

The irony with the minimum wage is that if you started to require employers to pay a living wage, two side benefits happen. It takes away the incentive to hire illegals, poorly trained people who can’t speak the language. You might as well hire Americans then, and it gets people off the welfare roles.

And with the Postal bailout they’ve promised those public sector unions forever, “Oh we’ll do it, we just need the Senate”, or the presidency, or the House, or whatever other excuse not to do what they said they would.

Even though Biden said taxes for the middle class wouldn’t go up, they have to. I think there are 2 ways he’ll raise taxes without quote “raising rates”. They’ll decrease the standard deduction, thus exposing more of your wages to taxation. And secondly, in Washington speak, SSA and Medicare Tax aren’t technically federal taxes. So when they raise the rates on them, it literally won’t be raising “federal taxes”, even though they go in the same pot.

Oh, and let’s see if they make the rich “pay their fair share”.

Why January 6 rattled their cage

What shocked the nation about the Jan 6 Capitol riots was who was doing it. They’re used to Democrats rioting the past 5 years, but having decent people do it shocked the crap out of them. It rattled their cage that people with jobs, families, retirement plans and that bathed regular would do that. Nobody is shocked about crime in the ghetto, but when it comes to the suburbs….

People are unable to be shocked by a party that advocates killing babies. That pushes boys to use the girl’s room. For men to wear dresses and run on the girl’s track team. They expect bad behavior out of Democrats. But when Republicans do it, hold on now! They hate Christians and white people, but they know 99 times out of 100 they can expect civilized behavior. It rocked their world to see good people behaving like them.