On the Nature of Things

Typhoon wrote: ↑03 Feb 2025 03:56 What's up with the massive tariffs against Mexico and Canada?

"My entire life I’ve been hearing from Canadians about how Americans were disgusting subhuman savages and moral criminals. I get not being happy about the tariffs, but this innocence betrayed act is utterly risible. You HATE us. Did you think we didn’t notice? Good lord.

And another thing- anyone citing intergovernmental cooperation as a sign of “friendship” when both governments do the exact same things for foreigners who hate all of us, American and Canadian alike, need to have a long think about what friendship looks like in the migration era.

And one more- the dark muttering about how Canada will have to increase defense spending in the face of this stab-in-the-back from an erstwhile friend is a complete joke considering Canada has had to be dragged over rocks to even come close to meeting NATO obligations.

We have been ASKING you to increase defense spending in line with the alliance YOU AGREED TO but have not met your obligations under. But while Canada was doing a Trudeau LARP as a giant college campus where defense was icky and fascist, others were picking up the bill.

It’s nice to see that Canada still hates us all enough that they can be slapped back into manhood this easily- congratulations, you survived freshman year- but my god, don’t quote friendship to me when this kind of shit is required to get you to notice the real world."

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑03 Feb 2025 20:08 I assumed Trudeau was talking about prohibition

Typhoon wrote: ↑10 Feb 2025 00:45

FBI Discovers Thousands Of Secret JFK Assassination Records After Trump Order: Report
Trump ordered the review and release of the JFK assassination files last month.

By Ryan Saavedra
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Feb 10, 2025 DailyWire.com
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(Original Caption) Texas Governor John Connally adjusts his tie (foreground) as US President John F Kennedy (left) & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (in pink) settled in rear seats, prepared for motorcade into city from airport, Nov. 22. After a few speaking stops, the President was assassinated in the same car.
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The FBI has discovered thousands of records that were never submitted to a review board overseeing the release of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Axios reported that 2,400 records tied to the assassination were discovered by officials after President Donald Trump ordered that all records be released.

The records were supposed to have been transferred to the JFK Assassination Records Review Board and the National Archives in compliance with the 1992 JFK Records Act.

The still classified records are among 14,000 pages of documents that were uncovered during the review that was ordered by Trump.

“This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination. “The FBI is finally saying, ‘Let’s respond to the president’s order,’ instead of keeping the secrecy going.”

Various U.S. intelligence agencies were requesting that some redactions be made to the records to protect sources and methods.

White House staffers that spoke with the publication said that Trump would “hit the roof” if there were any attempts to prevent the disclosure of the records.

When more JFK files were made public in 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration said 97% of the roughly 5 million pages were public, but around 3,000 documents remained classified and another 30,000 had redactions, CBS News reported last month. Trump has promised since his first term in office to make all of the files public. Questions have swirled for decades around President Kennedy’s assassination, which occurred in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

“A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades,” Trump said as he signed an executive order forcing the release of the JFK files. “And everything will be revealed.”

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑12 Feb 2025 20:14 Inside view of the 4 man Treasury team.
https://open.substack.com/pub/eko/p/override

Springfield, Ohio, potholes that plagued residents for twelve years actually disappeared overnight. Rural Tennessee, where children can finally connect to high-speed internet their parents were promised decades ago. In Michigan, people truly drink clean water while bureaucrats' memos about "studying the problem" gather dust.

This isn't just reform. This isn't just change. This is American governance reimagined.

Just to say Musk should get the Nobel peace prize for this not just once. But every year going forward.

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑13 Feb 2025 02:20

Just to say Musk should get the Nobel peace prize for this not just once. But every year going forward.

This move to a world technocracy is unstoppable, so he just might.

Kash Patel CONFIRMED IN SENATE NEW FBI DIRECTOR as DOGE Helped with Confirmation in Trump's Cabinet

Doc wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 12:38 Democrats are not understanding that tax payers are really pissed off about USAID and the graft in Congress.

[media]https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1736026587704336384[/media]

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 16:08

Doc wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025 12:38 Democrats are not understanding that tax payers are really pissed off about USAID and the graft in Congress.

[media]https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1736026587704336384[/media]

They still think Trump is about US politics and not about a shift in who runs the NWO. They have not figured out that the Dems actively worked to ensure Trump’s election, and that the entire Biden administration was theatre, and that Obama created the agency now renamed DOGE.

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025 03:46 The Democrat name is dead, but they did everything possible to help elect Trump as a proper uniparty candidate. The Dem campaign was not just laughably incompetent, but their social sabotage made Trump a shoe-in. The Dems are good controlled opposition.

Trump was selected by TPTB to handle the bankruptcy and get the new monetary system started. It’s overdue and productive now, but we will see Trump building the social control system soon. First blockchain on federal finances (Transparency! Honesty!) and digital currency on phones.

The Founding Fathers Feared Foreign Influence—And Devised Protections Against It

When the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, they represented a loosely held confederacy of Atlantic states recently freed from British rule. If the American experiment was going to work, the founding fathers knew that they had to insulate their new republic from deep-pocketed interests and old alliances from Europe.

Through a course of heated conversations and compromises, safeguards against foreign influence as a corrupting force were built into the Constitution.

“The founders had just broken free from one empire, and the idea that some other empire was going to swallow them up was a constant source of fear for them,” says Mary Sarah Bilder, law professor and constitutional historian at Boston College Law School, and author of Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention.

American statesmen like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were no strangers to the backroom deals and soap-opera plot lines of 18th-century European politics. Gift-giving was common practice among foreign dignitaries, as was bestowing of titles of nobility on foreign political friends. Intermarriage of royal families was another classic way to bind the interests of two nations together.

If the United States was going to be different, the framers needed a founding document that fully recognized and defended against the corrupting influence of foreign money and power, particularly on the president.

“Article II of the Constitution gives such power to the president to run the executive branch that a president under the influence of a foreign nation would be far more dangerous than any other single individual,” says Stephen Saltzburg, professor at The George Washington University Law School. “That kind of conflict, between loyalty to the United States and loyalty to a foreign nation, would be intolerable.”

Two Key Provisions Protect Against Presidential Corruption

To guard against such conflicts and provide a remedy for a worst-case scenario of presidential corruption, the founders built two key provisions into the Constitution: the so-called “emoluments clause” and the power to impeach a president.

The emoluments clause is laid out in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution: “And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.”

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No gifts, no titles of nobility—the Constitution bars American presidents, ambassadors and elected representatives from even the appearance of quid pro quo. But several members of the Constitutional Convention argued this clause alone wasn’t enough to hedge against corruption of the highest office in the nation. Congress needed a remedy, a way to punish a president who crossed the line.

The Necessity of the Impeachment Clause

In James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention, he says that Gouverneur Morris, author of the Preamble to the Constitution, didn’t originally see the necessity of impeachment until he considered the specter of foreign corruption.

“[The Executive] may be bribed by a greater interest to betray his trust; and no one would say that we ought to expose ourselves to the danger of seeing the first Magistrate in foreign pay without being able to guard against by displacing him,” said Morris. “One would think the King of England well secured against bribery. Yet Charles II was bribed by Louis XIV.”

In the 17 century, Charles II secretly accepted money from the power-hungry French King Louis XIV in exchange for selling off parts of England to France and publicly converting to Catholicism.

Charles II receiving the Duchess of Orleans at Dover, 1670. King Charles II of England and his sister, Henrietta Anne Stuart, negotiated the Secret Treaty of Dover, an alliance between England and France against the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in 1670. Henrietta was very close to Louis XIV of France, who was her brother-in-law. 

By including both the emoluments clause and congressional impeachment powers in the Constitution, the founders believed they had a two-pronged attack against foreign influence. As Edmund Jennings Randolph said at the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788, “It is impossible to guard better against corruption.”

In George Washington’s 1796 farewell address as the first president of the United States, he issued a stern warning against the poisonous influence of foreign governments on the affairs of the young nation.

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."

While Washington resisted foreign influence as president, the framers of the Constitution recognized that the possibility of a corruptible American president was real.

“In the words of the constitutional scholar Cecilia Kenyon, many of the founders were ‘men of little faith,’” says Bilder. “They fundamentally believed that people’s private ambitions and thirst for more power or money were powerful motivators. You couldn't rely on the goodness of human nature. In fact, you had to create these redundant structures to guard against it.”

Typhoon wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025 07:21 Unherd - Yanis Varoufakis | Donald Trump’s economic masterplan - He is plotting an anti-Nixon shock

1900 sq feet on a 6 sq foot lot built in 1950 for only $855,000 with a Zillow estimated value of $1,044,600.

Jobs Report Shows Skyrocketing Unemployment Among Lizard People
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Feb 17, 2025 · BabylonBee.com
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U.S. — As the Department of Government Efficiency continued scouring federal agencies on a crusade to eliminate waste and unnecessary positions, a new jobs report showed skyrocketing unemployment among lizard people.

The study sought to investigate the current employment status of the race of malevolent reptilian overlords populating various levels of government, with results indicating that a record number of the lizard creatures had recently lost their jobs and were now looking for work.

"DOGE has been particularly cruel to the lizards from Zornak VI," lead researcher Dr. Philip Brinkenhoffer said. "While there has been virtually no unemployment among the lizard people since they assumed power behind the scenes, Elon Musk has really wreaked havoc on their positions."

To make matters worse, the now unemployed lizard people have discovered that their impressive resumes filled with years of covert machinations make them overqualified for other jobs.

"They sssssssaid I should look for sssssssomething more sssssssuitable for my ssssssskills," said lizard person Quorvod Akneron. "Apparently my decadesssssss of experiencccccce are not enough to convinccccccce then to give me a chanccccccce. Curssssssse you, Elon Musssssssk!"

Akneron, who sources said had secretly been in charge of multiple U.S. government departments for many years, was now hoping that other nations may have positions available in the field of clandestine power brokerage and global dominance.

At publishing time, Akneron had reportedly been granted an interview with furniture giant IKEA, where he hopes to help make the furniture harder to assemble and more expensive.

The Mar-a-Lago Accords as proposed would be a “classic cram-down”.

Typhoon wrote: ↑07 Mar 2025 03:53 FT - Alphaville | America’s big, beautiful . . .  liability management exercise?

The Mar-a-Lago Accords as proposed would be a “classic cram-down”.

noddy wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025 10:56 The USA joining axis of evil wasn't in my predictions!

While the orange man and tesla monkey distract everyone, the technology giants quietly get their surveillance state paradise.

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑07 Mar 2025 18:18

noddy wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025 10:56 The USA joining axis of evil wasn't in my predictions!

While the orange man and tesla monkey distract everyone, the technology giants quietly get their surveillance state paradise.

The surveillance state has been a fait accompli for a while, but Trump’s overthrow of Sabbatean-Frankist world control has cancelled the WEF plans for neo-feudalism and 15 minute cities.

Trump’s recent statements about stopping the never-ending war based economy and the universal elimination of nukes may indicate he wants to replace the MIC with tech and space exploration.

I’m guessing of course but note how there was no push-back on Trump taking the Panama Canal back and most importantly appointing BlackRock as comptroller.

Trump is in charge on an international level. He is more than just another US president.