Bill Bonner, "Emergency Bypass"

"Emergency Bypass"

by Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "Auto debt is out of its lane. Carscoops: "Americans Crushed By Auto Loans As Defaults And Repossessions Surge." Many Americans love the feeling of driving a new car, but the price of that thrill is pushing household budgets to the edge. Auto loan delinquencies are spiraling, the nation now owes a staggering $1.66 trillion in auto loans, and some figures show scary similarities to the period right before the 2008 financial crash.

The feds are running into a ditch too. Our friend MN Gordon reports: "The U.S. government is on target to run a budget deficit of $2.2 trillion for FY 2025. Lower interest rates, and thus a lower net interest payment, would only reduce the deficit to around $2 trillion – a difference of just over a half percent of the total $37.5 trillion of outstanding debt. In other words, it would do exactly diddly-squat for the nation’s finances."

Debt...war? Debt...war? US stocks are at record highs. But so far this year, the ‘defense’ segment — as measured by the Dow Jones defense stock index — is up more than twice as much as the Dow itself. Consumers may not be able to afford more autos. But the feds can afford more tanks. And not just the US feds...they’re ‘gunning up’ in Europe even faster than the US. For the first time since WWII, largely on US urging, Europeans will spend more on ‘defense’ than America.

Back in the US, Donald Trump knows that ‘defense’ is not really what the department of that name actually does. The US faces no credible enemy it needs to defend itself against. No country has the military wherewithal to cross the mighty oceans and march on the Homeland. No country has the economic strength to create and supply a fleet that could do so. America’s only real threat is from a missile attack. And only a fraction of the military budget is needed to provide a deterrent. The rest is spent on war...arming for it...preparing for it....and helping a lot of people get rich from it.

The Department of Defense was hypocrisy. The Department of War, alas, is reality. Firepower — a malign partnership of public and private...what Eisenhower called the ‘military-industrial complex’ — is where the money is. It has been America’s defining industry at least since the Iraq War. But there’s more to the story. The US firepower industry depends on the post-1971 fake dollar. It was largely the firepower industry that caused the shift to fake money...and it was the fake money that allowed it to continue to expand.

Lyndon Johnson famously overspent on ‘guns and butter.’ Especially the guns...and especially in Vietnam. The banks in Vietnam were relics of the French colonial empire. So, dollars piled up in Paris. And in 1971, the shrewd finance minister at the time, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, sent a French warship to New York to collect on America’s promise to redeem those dollars at 35 dollars per ounce of gold.

That was the proximate cause of Nixon’s August 15, 1971 proclamation ‘closing the gold window’ at the Treasury department and replacing the good-as-gold dollar with a piece of paper. And since the US could ‘print’ as many pieces of paper as it wanted, it allowed politicians to approve bigger and bigger deficits and bigger and bigger ‘defense’ budgets, much of the money from which -- captured by contractors, lobbyists, politicians, and think tanks — never left the Washington DC area.

And this same dollar, that financed the huge growth in debt and firepower, also gave the US a new weapon. The Trump administration showed the world how the dollar could be used to bludgeon enemies and whip friends to keep them in line. That is what Vladimir Putin is talking about in the quote above.

Trump’s trade wars also revealed to foreign countries that depending on access to US consumers (to dollars!) was less of a sure bet than they thought. Even when the foreigners try to comply with US desires, they can still be victims of shifting trade and immigration policies. The most recent illustration is the ICE attack on Hyundai’s Georgia plant. Hundreds of South Korean workers, who had been posted to the US to boost US manufacturing, are now back at home telling everyone how badly they were treated. Whatever else may come from it, many foreign businesses will surely think twice before locating in the US.

They must wonder too whether keeping dollars in their vaults is such a good idea. Over the last ten years, foreign dollar holdings - between inflation and currency declines - have lost as much as 40% of their value. Even at today’s relatively low inflation levels, the dollar will lose about one-third of its value over the next ten years. No wonder foreign nations are increasingly joining together to by-pass the US...and its currency.

The new gas pipeline from Russia to China, for example, will be paid for, by the Russians, in yuan. It will establish a more-or-less permanent mutual dependency, one on the other. And in the embryonic union between Russia, China, India and Southeast Asia, the biggest consumer market in the world is waiting to be born. These producers, marketers and consumers want to do business with a reserve currency other than the US dollar. Year to date, gold is up 40%. More to come..."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"James Webb Detects Something Alive Inside 3I/ATLAS - It’s Moving Toward Us"

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Space Tube, 9/15/25

"James Webb Detects Something Alive Inside 3I/ATLAS - 

It’s Moving Toward Us" 

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"Alert: France Moves Nuclear Planes to Poland, Russia Prepares for NATO Oil Embargo!"

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Prepper News, 9/15/25

"Alert: France Moves Nuclear Planes to Poland, 

Russia Prepares for NATO Oil Embargo!"

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"Extremely Desperate People Will Cause Chaos Throughout Society; Santa Monica Has Fallen"

Jeremiah Babe, 9/15/25

"Extremely Desperate People Will Cause Chaos

 Throughout Society; Santa Monica Has Fallen"

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"Even Baby Boomers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck"

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Michael Bordenaro, 9/15/25

"Even Baby Boomers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck"

"A lot of young people think that all the baby boomers got it good and they have all the money, and while there is some truth to that, the reality is, a lot of baby boomers are still struggling and living paycheck to paycheck just like everyone else."

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Musical Interlude: 2002, "Stillpoint"

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2002, "Stillpoint"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Riding high in the constellation of Auriga, beautiful, blue vdB 31 is the 31st object in Sidney van den Bergh's 1966 catalog of reflection nebulae. It shares this well-composed celestial still life with dark, obscuring clouds recorded in Edward E. Barnard's 1919 catalog of dark markings in the sky. All are interstellar dust clouds, blocking the light from background stars in the case of Barnard's dark nebulae. For vdB 31, the dust preferentially reflects the bluish starlight from embedded, hot, variable star AB Aurigae.

Exploring the environs of AB Aurigae with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the several million year young star is itself surrounded by flattened dusty disk with evidence for the ongoing formation of a planetary system. AB Aurigae is about 470 light-years away. At that distance this cosmic canvas would span about four light-years.”

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

"When Empires Die"

"When Empires Die"

by Jeff Thomas

"Years ago, Doug Casey stated, "When empires die, they do so with surprising speed." At the time, that comment raised eyebrows, yet he was quite correct in his observation. Ernest Hemingway made a similar comment when a character in his novel "The Sun Also Rises" was asked how he went bankrupt. The answer was, "Gradually, then suddenly." Again, this sounds cryptic, yet it's accurate.

Any empire, at its peak, is all-powerful, but the fragility of an empire that's in decline is hard to grasp, as the visuals tend not to reveal what's soon to come. Great countries are built upon traditional values – industriousness, self-reliance, honor, etc. But empires are distinctly different. Although it may seem to be a moot point, an empire is a great country whose traditional values have led it to become unusually prosperous. There are many countries, both large and small, that are "great" in their formative values, but only a few become empires.

Yes, the prosperity is brought about through traditional values, but a great country becomes an empire only when its prosperity is sufficient to allow it to branch out – to invade other lands – to plunder their assets and subjugate their peoples.

We tend to grasp, through hindsight, that this is what made the Roman Empire possible. And we accept that the Spanish Empire was created through its invasion of the Americas and the plundering of pre-Columbian gold. And we understand that the tiny island of Britain achieved its empire by covering the world with colonies that it had taken by force. In every case, the pattern was the same – expand, conquer, plunder, dominate.

As a British subject, my childhood understanding was that previous empires had come about through nefarious pursuits, but I was encouraged to believe that the British empire was somehow different – that my forefathers sailed the seven seas to liberate distant populations. That, of course, was nonsense.

The British empire is now long over, and the current empire is the United States. Around 1900, the then-great country of the US sought to achieve empire and, at that time, its president, Teddy Roosevelt, was insatiable in his desire to conquer foreign lands, both near (Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Puerto Rico, Cuba) and far (Hawaii, Philippines, Japan).

The results of his efforts were mostly successful, and although the countries taken were not called colonies, they were certainly intended to be vassal states. And there can be no question the US government's methods were no kinder than that of the Huns. Some locations, like Hawaii, went fairly peacefully, whilst others, like the Philippines, required brutal slaughter on a grand scale.

And such tactics change the nature of a "great" country. Yes, it does allow it to become even greater, in terms of domination, but it ceases to be great in terms of its values. In most cases, this plants the seeds of empirical collapse. The empire, even as it's growing, is rotting from within, with deteriorating principles and morality – the very traits that created it.

This, in turn, causes the empire to develop a habit of subjugation – even over its friends and allies abroad – those countries that got on board to take part in the prosperity. While, to some extent, these loyalties by other nations are genuine, they are treated as lesser nations, eventually causing resentment of the empire. As such, in the latter days of the empire, ally nations become toadies. Their hatred for the empire is palpable, but they maintain their obeisance, grudgingly.

Empires are built upon monetary prosperity. We can understand that an empire, in its heyday, attracts all and sundry to its shores. It builds up the ability to dictate to others since the whole world hopes to gain favour. But, towards the end of the empirical period, it's resented by all those who were once genuine allies.

In its latter days, an empire becomes hollowed out. It's burdened with a costly and top-heavy government. The middle class is expected to provide largess to the masses through bread & circuses, providing fealty for the political class. Traditional values are largely gone, and "everyone seeks to live off everyone else." At this point, the empire is a mere superstructure – one that's becoming increasingly unsound. Importantly, the prosperity that made empire possible is replaced by the illusion of prosperity – debt.

Concurrently, the political class becomes increasingly tyrannical in order to hold the collapsing edifice together. In the final stages, tyrannical efforts increase in both frequency and magnitude in order to maintain the subjugation of the masses for as long as possible. It may be beneficial for the reader to read this last line again, as this development is the most recognizable symptom of the final stage prior to the collapse of empire.

This final period is not only difficult to cope with, it's highly confusing for those living within a dying empire.

The edifice still stands. With each election, the electorate hopes that somehow, a champion will spring forth and "put everything back the way it was." But it's important to note that, historically, this never occurs. Whilst the average citizen hopes in vain for his political leaders to "wake up" and stop all the nonsense, he fails to grasp that, to the political leader, the most important pursuit is power. He cares not a whit for the well-being of the populace. The political class has no intention of relinquishing even a small amount of power for the good of the people he was elected to represent.

Historically, in every instance, every empire has collapsed from within. Once the apple is truly rotten, it cannot be un-rotted. And so, if we've been observant in the recent years and decades, we'll acknowledge that the present empire has already passed its sell-by date. Its political structure is wholly corrupted on both sides of the aisle; the economy is doomed due to unpayable debt; the population has become unproductive, and it's now in the process of alienating its former friends through increasingly desperate measures.

And here, we return to our opening paragraphs. In its final stage prior to collapse, the empire sells out its toadies and is therefore no longer of any benefit to them. Suddenly, the empire becomes a liability. And, at this point, those who have had to tolerate the indignity of being toadies look forward to a fall, even a partial one, by the empire.

At present, the US empire maintains an illusion of dominance, but it cannot withstand a test. A defeat in warfare, a collapse in finance, the loss of the dollar's reserve currency status, or any one of a host of triggers that are now looming would be sufficient to drop the US to one knee overnight. All that's needed is for one of the triggers to be pulled.

It matters little what the event will be; it's sufficient to understand that we are now drawing quite near and that the event is unavoidable. Historically, when an empire dies, all the notes suddenly come due. The political class of any empire arrogantly depends upon allies to do as they're told, yet, when a decisive blow is dealt to the empire, those who had once been loyal allies are now as ready to abandon the empire as rats would abandon a sinking ship. When this happens, the crutches that the empire has been counting on to hold it up pull away quickly. The collapse will have occurred "gradually, then suddenly."

Once this is understood, the question for the reader becomes where he wishes to be when the edifice falls; whether he has prepared an alternative situation that will increase the likelihood that he will survive the debacle with his skin on. As history shows, empires don’t end with a graceful decline - they collapse under their own weight of debt, corruption, and overreach. The US is no exception. The warning signs are all around us: mounting deficits, relentless money printing, and a political class desperate to hold on to power."

- https://internationalman.com/

"The Heart Has It's Reasons..."

“Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has it's reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I think, he meant that when passion seizes the heart it invents reasons that seem not only plausible but conclusive to prove that the world is well lost for love. It convinces you that honor is well sacrificed and that shame is a cheap price to pay. Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O’Shea. And if it doesn’t destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one’s life, that one’s brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one’s expended all one’s tenderness, poured out all the riches of one’s soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which one hung one’s dreams, who wasn’t worth a stick of chewing gum.”

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“And it was pointless… to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own lost self. But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell… for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn’t changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is to go on or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”

- Charles Frazier

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“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;

it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

- Sydney J. Harris

"Douglas Macgregor: 500 Years of Dominance Have Come to an End"

Glenn Diesen, 9/15/25

"Douglas Macgregor: 

500 Years of Dominance Have Come to an End" 

"Douglas Macgregor is a retired Colonel and former advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Col. Magregor argues that we are living in historic times as the era of Western dominance has come to an end. If the West wants to thrive, it must adjust to how the world actually and abandon hegemonic dreams"

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"The Collapse Of Everyday Life In America Is Happening Right In Front Of Our Eyes"

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Epic Economist, 9/15/25

"The Collapse Of Everyday Life In America

 Is Happening Right In Front Of Our Eyes"

"The American Dream isn't just dying – it's being murdered in broad daylight by inflation, corporate greed, and a system that has completely abandoned working families. What we're witnessing isn't just an economic downturn; it's the systematic destruction of middle-class life as we know it.

Across social media platforms, ordinary Americans are sharing their stories of financial desperation, and the picture they paint is absolutely devastating. These aren't people asking for handouts or looking for sympathy – these are hardworking families who are drowning despite doing everything they were told would lead to success.

Here's someone who captures the raw reality of what life has become for millions of Americans today. $286 for a car battery and $466 for utilities in a 700-square-foot apartment. What makes this particularly devastating is that they deliberately chose the smallest, cheapest living situation specifically to be financially responsible while paying for education. The system punishes even the most careful financial planning.

Grocery shopping has transformed from a routine errand into a psychological warfare zone where basic human dignity gets stripped away in public. Watch what happens when the economic pressure reaches its breaking point. $15.99 for bacon, $8.99 for lunch meat – at a mainstream grocery chain. When basic protein costs more per pound than many people earn per hour, we're witnessing the complete breakdown of food accessibility for working families. When you scale this up to larger households, the mathematics become absolutely brutal.

What we're witnessing isn't market forces or natural economic cycles. This is coordinated wealth extraction across every sector of the economy. When utility bills hit $466 for tiny apartments, when families spend $688 on basic groceries, when educational achievement leads to $170,000 in growing debt, the entire system has become predatory.

The voices you've heard represent millions of similar stories playing out across America. The rage is justified, the desperation is rational, and the abandonment of traditional financial advice is a logical response to a system that punishes responsibility and rewards extraction.

The collapse isn't coming – it's here. And every declined card, every impossible choice between rent and food, every psychological breakdown over basic costs is evidence that the American Dream didn't die naturally – it was murdered by design."

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Greg Hunter, "Beginning of Panic Rate Cut Cycle – Ed Dowd"

"Beginning of Panic Rate Cut Cycle – Ed Dowd"

by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Former Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com had a storied Wall Street career. He got out of Enron and Lucent long before they crashed and burned. A few of the many other more recent correct calls Dowd has made include: interest rates topping and heading lower (they did), housing tanking and going lower (happening now), massive fraud propping up the Biden economy with illegal immigration (20 million brought in by Biden Admin) and the BLS just restated job creation numbers for 12 months ending in March. The restatement revealed an eye popping 911,000 jobs were fake. Dowd said just after the 2024 election that “Trump inherited a turd of an economy.” Now, Dowd says, “Trump has to deal with a turd of a disaster.” On the phony jobs number alone, Dowd says, “You could say this is statistical fraud or bureaucratic incompetence. Let’s say it’s both. It such an egregious 7 standard deviation. 3.4 standard deviation is the chance of lightning hitting you at least once in your lifetime. It’s not likely. 7 deviation is suggestive of fraud – full stop.”

All the frauds propping up the Biden economy isn’t causing inflation now – just the opposite. Dowd says, “The housing market is rolling over because people can’t afford them. What was keeping a floor in the housing market were rents by the illegal aliens. That’s all going the wrong way. Trump is deporting people, and we closed down the border. Our housing report that we put out a month ago... all the indicators are rolling over, and we are going to have a housing recession. We are going to see inflation go lower because housing is 36% of the economy. We expect to see a sub 2% print on inflation.”

What about the Fed cutting interest rates next week? Dowd says, “They cut rates in the Great Financial Crisis starting in 2007. Our stock market did not bottom until 2009. This is the beginning of what I think is the ‘panic rate cut cycle.’ We are going to see the Fed cutting rates all the way down into this asset deflation that we see coming in this panic rate cut cycle. Cutting into slowing growth does not cause assets to reinflate. They are behind the curve, and they are going to be cutting all the way down as we deflate.”

Dowd still likes gold and says his clients are acquiring gold and land, not crypto. He also says there are big problems coming in the not-so-distant future from China and Europe. Dowd says his forecast of the world going into a “very deep recession” will come true soon. There is much more in the 54-minute interview."

- https://usawatchdog.com/

"Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with money manager and investment expert Ed Dowd, author of the updated book called “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021, 2022 and 2023” for 9.13.25. Dowd contends the “sudden deaths” and disabilities are still happening at epidemic levels. Now, there are 6 million Americans permanently disabled from the CV19 injections!"

- https://rumble.com/

The Daily "Near You?"

Elyria, Ohio, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Knowing..."

“Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”

- Sue Monk Kidd

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

- Arundhati Roy, "The Cost of Living"

"The Ironic, The Tragic Thing..."

“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human beings are inclined to behave in ways that would make animals blush. The ironic, the tragic thing is that we often behave in ignoble fashion from what we consider the highest motives. The animal makes no excuse for killing his prey; the human animal, on the other hand, can invoke God’s blessing when massacring his fellow men. He forgets that God is not on his side but at his side.”

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”

- Henry Miller

"The Most Horrifying Nuclear War Film Ever Made: 100 Lessons from 'Threads'"

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Canadian Prepper, 9/15/25

"The Most Horrifying Nuclear War Film Ever Made:

 100 Lessons from 'Threads'"

I do an in depth view of the most terrifying nuclear war film ever made: 'Threads' by the BBC. I do a scene by scene breakdown of this incredibly accurate depiction of nuclear conflict.

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Dan, I Allegedly, "This is As Bad As 2008!"

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Dan, I Allegedly, 9/15/25

"This is As Bad As 2008!"

"The job market is breaking down, and it's worse than 2008! In today’s video, I uncover the shocking truth about layoffs, the real state of the economy, and why the numbers we’re being fed just don’t add up. From Oregon’s alarming job losses to rising financial struggles across the nation, it’s clear we’re heading into turbulent territory. Are you seeing it where you live? Let’s talk about it. Plus, AI engineers making $900 an hour, Elon Musk’s billion-dollar Tesla stock buy, and even homeless communities with tennis courts - this is the wild reality we’re living in right now. The Fed’s interest rate games and what they mean for YOUR finances? I’ve got you covered. Don’t miss the deep dive into how this all rivals the Great Recession of 2008 and what you can do to protect yourself."

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Travelling With Russell, "I Went to Moscow's Historical Parade of Trams"

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Travelling With Russell, 9/15/25

"I Went to Moscow's Historical Parade of Trams"

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"How It Really Is"

 

"Images, Words & Narratives Matter"

"Images, Words & Narratives Matter"

by Jim Quinn

“There are decades where nothing happens; 

and there are weeks where decades happen.” 

-  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it… well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men.” – Captain – "Cool Hand Luke"

It is fitting that I use a quote from a communist to begin this article because it is the communist ideology of hate, murder, and propaganda that has led us to this point of no return. Charlie Kirk was right. America will never be the same. It might not even closely resemble the America at the start of this century by the time this period of upheaval and crisis resolves itself, with the shedding of much blood and death on a scale not seen since World War II. Charlie Kirk was Cool Hand Luke’d for daring to challenge the status quo and daring to question the psychopathic powers that be in this prison planet of our own making.

The senseless slaughter of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk were the opening salvo in a new U.S. civil war, which is likely to spread to the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Australia and wherever else the globalist elite have planted the seeds of revolution through importing Muslim hordes, criminalizing whiteness, glorifying deviancy, outlawing free speech, bankrupting nations, and promoting WW3. The chaos, confusion, vitriol and mayhem is not happening by chance. It is being manufactured by those constituting the invisible government (aka Deep State) as a means to their end game – Digital IDs, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, 15 Minute Cities (Gulags), Great Taking leading to the Great Reset, and the depopulation of millions with the dehumanization and subjugation of the survivors.

What is happening is not a bug, but a feature in the new world order they envision. The last couple weeks certainly meet Lenin’s criteria of decades happening, as the whirlwind of tragedy, anger, threats, retribution, legacy media lies, political posturing, international coalitions forming into war-like postures, all capped off by the cold blooded murder of “that white girl” by a feral psychotic dangerous black man set loose by a black woman pretending to be a judge, and the assassination of an earnest young christian conservative man who was trying to sway minds and hearts through debate, evidently by an ANTIFA inspired transgender dropout loser who spent his life online with other losers.

I say evidently because I don’t believe anything the government or media tells me. There are dozens of unanswered questions regarding this 22 year old Tyler Robinson as the shooter. Based on what we have been told by the authorities regarding Thomas Crooks, the 20 year-old Butler assassin, I don’t expect any truthful revelations regarding Kirk’s assassin. An official narrative will be concocted, fed to the MSM mouthpieces, and devoured by the ignorant masses as the truth. Questioning the official story will be shouted down as conspiracy theories, even though the conspiracy theorists are now 40 – 0 versus the official stories over the last decade. Our lives don’t matter, but narratives do matter to those pulling the strings.

Even worse was the complete blackout of Iryna’s murder by the far left dying legacy media. The alt-media forced the world to witness the consequences of left wing policies of encouraging crime and refusing to lock up dangerous black men. False narratives are all the left have. The dying legacy left media live up to Huxley’s observations regarding the truth:

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

 – Aldous Huxley

Personally, the images of that beautiful helpless girl staring in stunned terror at the savage beast who just slaughtered her because she was white, and the instantaneous death of Charlie with the blood pouring out of his neck wound have disturbed and haunted me for this entire week. I haven’t been able to sleep. I feel like I’ve been going through the motions at work and at home, as a feeling of foreboding envelopes my consciousnesses. I’m sure others have a similar feeling.

The last time I felt this way was the week following 9/11. I knew the world had changed and the change was not going to be good. The world has once again taken a turn for the worse. There will be no reconciliation between the right and the left. There will be no peace. There will be no turning the other cheek and coming together as a nation. Unification is impossible. You will be required to choose a side, because the violence has only just begun. It will only intensify from this point until there are clear winners and losers.

That young refugee from Ukraine was going home from her shift at a pizza joint. It’s ironic that she would have still been living peacefully in Ukraine if the U.S. had not initiated the hostilities by overthrowing the democratically elected government in 2014, as the neocon/Deep State plan to overthrow Putin by goading him into WW3 was hatched. The millions of deaths and casualties in Ukraine are directly attributable to the dastardly actions of Obama, Biden, Nuland, Graham, McCain and the rest of the warmongering bastards that instigated this war. That racist feral dog that murdered Iryna in cold blood shouldn’t have been on that train either. The left wing communist DAs and judges who released this violent unhinged savage 14 times have her blood on their hands. Both seats should have been empty, but that image of savagery will now encourage a race war.

I know every right leaning talking head, twitter influencer, blogger and politician has been mourning the death of Charlie Kirk on social media at a deafening crescendo, trying to outdo each other in their level of tributes, video compilations, and pictures of his wife and children. He is being treated as a Jesus-like martyr, with connotations of JFK’s Camelot lost. Some said he was destined to be president within the next decade. Maybe so, but we will never know.

Truthfully, until he was murdered this week, I knew very little about the man. I knew he was a popular right leaning commentator, but I had never heard him speak or followed him on twitter. I pretty much lumped him with the other right wing influencers, who make a living off tweets, podcasts, youtubes, and blogging. Everyone’s gotta make a living somehow. They are in a constant battle for likes, retweets, impressions and eyeballs. I’m always suspicious about whether they are paid to support a certain point of view or actually believe what they say.

He was 31 and I’m 62. His Turning Point USA organization was geared to mobilize idealistic young conservative people to embrace conservative family values. After 17 years of trying to change hearts and minds, my site generally attracts cynical old dudes who despise the government and media, knowing change through the ballot box is a fruitless venture. The best we can do now is tribe up with like minded people, gather our preps, make sure we are heavily armed, and buy more ammo. Nothing I’ve seen in the last couple weeks tells me to do otherwise. This train is moving too fast towards the bend, and derailment is a certainty.

From what I could gather, Charlie was an intelligent, loving Christian family man, who loved spirited debates with those who had opposing points of view. His debating skills were clearly top-notch. The left wing loons in the media, on college campuses, and in politics despised him because he was more intelligent and articulate in presenting his viewpoint, as they shrieked at, threatened and cancelled those who supported him. The brainwashing of our indoctrinated youth by left wing communist ideology has convinced millions to actually believe Kirk, Trump, Musk, Carlson, etc., are nazis and fascists – deserving to be murdered for their cause. Their warped ideology kills.

Kirk’s Turning Point USA non-profit is essentially a rounding error compared to the Soros NGOs, Gates Foundation, and USAID grifts funding chaos and hate across the land. I checked their 990 Tax return and total donations were $85M, with Kirk’s annual compensation around $400k. Pelosi makes more than that with one insider stock trade. He surely also made significant income from Twitter, podcasts, books, etc. But, he wasn’t what I would call a grifter.

His views pretty much aligned with mine on most major issues – Ukraine war, the Israeli genocide, bombing Iran for Israel, abortion, tranny degeneracy, woke indoctrination in schools, 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, covid vaccines, masks, Snowden & Assange, and the Deep State . He did not deserve to die and making him a martyr will ultimately backfire on those celebrating his murder. Cancellation goes both ways, they are finding out.

More people have now read and watched his speeches/debates in the last few days than would have ever been introduced to his views over their lifetimes. His death has created more anger and desire for retribution than I’ve witnessed in the course of my life. Will it be a Boston Tea Party/Fort Sumter moment, triggering a revolution/civil war? Time will tell, but we know one thing for sure, Fourth Turnings never de-intensify. I would say in this past week we have experienced an intensification of our ongoing crisis, with the bloodiest and most intense years yet to come. Tragic iconic photos from my lifetime have marked turning points for the country, and I believe the two photos above will sadly mark a new turning point of death and destruction.

I was six months old when my government murdered JFK. The images from the Zapruder film are disturbing and sad, but the murder of our young president because he threatened the CIA/FBI/Deep State changed the course of our country to the detriment of all but those constituting the Deep State and their billionaire benefactors. Our young have been dying, while those running the show have utilized all the propaganda tools at their disposal to breed hate and fear. Keeping the masses focused on their differences, ensures they don’t all realize the true enemy are those pulling the strings and manipulating the masses, as described by Edward Bernays.

"Look at your young men fighting

Look at your women crying

Look at your young men dying

The way they’ve always done before

Look at the hate we’re breeding

Look at the fear we’re feeding

Look at the lives we’re leading

The way we’ve always done before..."

"Civil War", Guns N’ Roses

And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D’you wear a black armband when they shot the man

Who said, “Peace could last forever”?

And in my first memories, they shot Kennedy

I went numb when I learned to see

"Civil War," Guns N’ Roses

Two tragically iconic photos during the Vietnam War were turning points in convincing average Walter Cronkite watching Americans we should not be there, sacrificing our young men, killing women and children, and turning our military against college students protesting against another war fought by the poor to benefit the rich. The American empire has degenerated into Murder Inc., spreading death and destruction across the globe to enrich the military industrial complex and the parasite politicians fueling the war machine with our tax dollars, while burdening our children with an unpayable debt.

"So I never fell for Vietnam

We got the wall in D.C. to remind us all

That you can’t trust freedom when it’s not in your hands

When everybody’s fightin’ for their promised land and

I don’t need your civil war."

"Civil War", Guns N’ Roses

The photos of the World Trade Center towers on fire shortly before collapsing into their footprint became the defining moment of this century, thus far. We know the neo-cons (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz) who used the moron baby Bush to kick-start their agenda by pushing through the pre-written Patriot Act, ushering in the ever expanding surveillance state, have seized control of government and set us on a path to destruction. We’ve been spilling blood across the globe, while adding debt at a hyper-sonic pace, based upon lies, corrupt leadership, and at the behest of a globalist billionaire death cult. And here we stand at the brink of a civil war and global conflict, with unknown but likely terrible consequences.

"Look at the shoes you’re filling

Look at the blood we’re spilling

Look at the world we’re killing

The way we’ve always done before

Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed

Look at the leaders we’ve followed

Look at the lies we’ve swallowed

And I don’t want to hear no more."

"Civil War", Guns N’ Roses

We are currently in an existential battle between good and evil. The murderous bastards who killed Iryna and Charlie were the personification of evil, motivated by the satanic urging of the Soros, Gates, Obama, Clinton cult of death. The Democratic party is infested with evil men and women, hellbent on the destruction of our country through the promotion of depravity, social chaos, and rampant criminality without consequences. The real deplorables in this country who cheered Kirk’s death and felt sorry for the black devil who slaughtered “that white girl” are evil. The despicable excuses for journalists in the far left propaganda media are evil.

All of these people are your enemy. Many of your neighbors, coworkers and family are your enemy. They would not shed a tear at your death. We have passed the point of no return. I wish I could visualize a near term positive outcome, but that is impossible after this week. As another old time cynic declared a century ago, normal people need to hoist the black flag.

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on

 his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” 

-  H.L. Mencken

A current day cynic, and someone the left would also like to kill, captures my thoughts exactly. I will not unite or let bygones be bygones with people who wanted me to die for refusing the covid jab and would spit on my grave based upon my views on the Constitution, unwarranted wars, the welfare state, surveillance state, government spending, and the degeneracy of the left. We are already at war, but most don’t realize it yet.

We’ve tried to live in peace, minding our own business, turning the other cheek, and hoping the crazed leftists would fade away, because their ideas are evil and insane. We just wanted to be left alone, but they forced millions to get jabbed with Big Pharma poison under threat of being fired, hoisted their transgender deviancy upon our children, indoctrinated our young with communist bullshit in government schools, opened our borders to third world invaders, burned our cities while making a drug addicted black criminal their fake martyr, placed low IQ diversity stooges in key positions of power, encouraged criminality with no consequences, stole elections, and now they are killing the best of us. It is now time for all normal people to channel William Munny and do whatever is necessary to defeat the evil forces opposing us. Words matter, but actions speak louder than words."

- https://www.theburningplatform.com/

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"Charlie Kirk Assassination Suspect Lived With

 Transgender Partner, Discord Denies Use"

Bill Bonner, "Plowshares into Swords

Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares, 

a bronze sculpture by Evgeniy Vuchetich in Moscow, Russia.

"Plowshares into Swords"

by Bill Bonner

Poitou, France - "Fox News reports: "Federal budget deficit grows $92B to nearly $2T even as Trump tariffs increase revenue. CBO reports $92B increase from last year driven by Social Security, Medicare and debt interest payments.

Money Talks News adds: "American Household Debt Hits Record $18.4 Trillion As Credit Card Balances Surge Nationwide. With household debt reaching historic highs of nearly $70,000 per adult, families face mounting financial pressure."

Debt, debt, debt...war, war, war? The trumpets are sounding. The pipes are calling. And guns are coming out all over the place.

Abroad...US/Israel desperadoes have opened two new ‘theatres of war.’ The US bombed Iran. And the Israelis bombed Qatar, murdering the negotiators who had been invited to work out a settlement to the Gaza war. In Latin America, the Trump administration whacked a civilian boat, claiming that the US is at war with the occupants. In Europe, meanwhile, the war in the Ukraine continues...Germany guns up...and the fighting threatens to spread.

More ominously, the guns are out in the homeland too. We guessed nearly a quarter of a century ago that the ‘war on terror’ would eventually come home. Many public officials and ‘influencers’ seem to welcome it. A US senator laments that the Trump administration has made war on drug cartels because drugs are the number one killer of young Americans, not those of ‘voting age,’ but of ‘fighting age.’ And many seem to think that it’s time to load the cannon with this ‘fighting age’ fodder.

There’s been no Reichstag fire so far, but comedian Sam Hyde has the matches: “Time to do your f**king job and seize power...if you want to be more than a footnote in the ‘American Collapse’ section of future history books, it's now or never.” And Steve Bannon smells smoke: “We have to have steely resolve,” he said on his ‘War Room’ show. “Charlie Kirk is a casualty of war. We are at war in this country. We are.” “If they won’t leave us in peace, then our choice is to fight or die,” wrote Elon Musk on X.

More from Fox: "They Are at War With Us’: Jesse Watters Responds to Charlie Kirk’s Death. “Trump gets hit in the ear, Charlie [Kirk] gets shot dead...Think about it... it’s happening. You’ve got trans shooters, you’ve got riots in L.A. They are at war with us, whether we want to accept it or, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? And that’s the question we are going to have to ask ourselves.”

But war is not just for the red states. It was Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who laid the groundwork for the war in the Ukraine. And it was Joe Biden who gave the green light to the Israelis to massacre Gaza. Recall, too, Joe Biden’s grotesque ‘hellish blood red’ speech. Then, it was the ‘far right’ that was the enemy: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”

But now, with Trump in office, the foot is in the other shoe. The ‘far left’ is the threat. Stephen Miller: “The Democrat [sic] Party does not fight for, care about, or represent American citizens. It is an entity devoted exclusively [his emphasis] to the defense of hardened criminals, gang-bangers, and illegal, alien killers and terrorists. The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.”

Why so much ‘war talk?’ Is there a connection between so much debt and so much martial madness? Maybe. The empire is in decline. Demographics, regulatory tightening, fake money and the mis-allocation of trillions of dollars (much of it on pointless wars) have sapped the vitality of the economy. The Federal government gets bigger and bigger, but there is no longer enough output to pay for it.

The interest on the debt alone takes more more than a trillion dollars a year. The US faces a financial crisis. And for the first time in history, our children face a poorer future. The welfare state model no longer works; the center - consensual democracy - wobbles towards the extremes. What to do? Beat our plowshares into swords? More to come..."

- https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/

"It’s A Crisis! A Whopping 67 Percent Of American Workers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck In 2025"

"It’s A Crisis! A Whopping 67 Percent Of American

 Workers Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck In 2025"

by Michael Snyder

"When two-thirds of all the workers in your entire country are just barely scraping by from month to month, you have got a major crisis on your hands. For a long time, our standard of living has been going down and the middle class has been shrinking. But in recent years, those two trends have accelerated. We have now reached a point where it takes 5 million dollars to live the American Dream for a lifetime. Needless to say, the vast majority of the population will never come close to making that sort of money. But most Americans continue to strive to live a middle class lifestyle, and as a result most people are teetering on the brink of financial disaster in this day and age.

According to a survey that was recently conducted by PNC Bank, 67 percent of U.S. workers are now living paycheck to paycheck…"A growing share of U.S. workers are struggling to cover expenses as everyday costs continue to weigh heavily on household budgets, according to new survey findings. PNC Bank’s annual Financial Wellness in the Workplace Report shows that 67 percent of workers now say they are living paycheck to paycheck, up from 63 percent in 2024. The report surveyed 1,000 U.S. workers aged 21 to 69 who work full time at companies with more than 100 workers."

There are two very important points that I want to make about this survey. First of all, it only covers people that actually have a job. There are vast numbers of other Americans that are not employed and that are deeply struggling right now. So when you take that into account, this survey is even more shocking.

Secondly, it is clear that we are rapidly moving in the wrong direction. It was bad enough that 63 percent of U.S. workers were living paycheck to paycheck last year, but now we are at 67 percent. A four percent jump in a single year is a very troubling sign.

The primary reason why so many employed Americans are struggling financially is due to the rapidly rising cost of living. For example, the price of coffee has risen by almost 21 percent over the past 12 months…"Coffee drinkers are in for a jolt long before their first sip. Retail coffee prices in the United States in August jumped nearly 21% compared to the same month last year - the largest annual jump since October 1997, according to the latest Consumer Price Index, released Thursday. On a monthly basis, coffee prices rose 4%, the most in 14 years."

The vast majority of the coffee that we drink is imported, and Brazil is the number one source…"Coffee, for instance, is largely imported because there are only a handful of places in the U.S. where the beans can be grown, such as Hawaii and Puerto Rico. About 80% of unroasted coffee imports are sourced from Latin America, primarily from Brazil, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture." Products from Brazil that are shipped to the U.S. now face a 50% tariff, according to the White House. If you drink coffee, you will want to brace yourself, because prices are only going to go higher in the months ahead.

Of course just about everything has become significantly more expensive, and this is pushing many consumers over the edge. I recently wrote about how subprime auto loan delinquencies in the U.S. have risen to an all-time high, and now we have learned that one of the largest subprime auto loan lenders in the U.S. has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy…"A company that provides auto loans to families with poor or no credit has filed for bankruptcy. Tricolor Holdings, a Dallas-based car fixing and credit company, has filed for Chapter 7 - or liquidation - bankruptcy. The filing typically means the company will quickly go out of business."

The company’s demise is a warning sign for the US economy: Americans are racking up a huge amount of debt to keep their cars, while a record amount can’t keep up with the payments. This is just the beginning. There will be more failures. At this stage, most of us can feel the change that is in the air. In fact, it is being reported that consumer confidence “dropped sharply in September”…

"Consumer confidence dropped sharply in September to its lowest level in four months, according to preliminary data released Friday, as Americans expressed growing anxiety about job security and the persistence of high prices. The University of Michigan’s closely watched index of consumer sentiment fell to 55.4 in September from 58.2 in August, missing economists’ expectations and reflecting what survey director Joanne Hsu described as “multiple vulnerabilities in the economy.”

And the confidence that Americans have in being able to find a new job has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded…"In the latest sign of trouble for the U.S. labor market, confidence in the ability to move from one job to another has hit a record low, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey released Monday. Respondents to the central bank’s monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations for August indicated a 44.9% probability of finding another job after losing their current one. The reading tumbled 5.8 percentage points from the prior month and is the lowest in the survey’s history dating back to June 2013."

If you are thriving in this extremely difficult economic environment, good for you. For most of the population, things are very painful at this moment. The ranks of the middle class are steadily thinning out, poverty is growing all around us, and more Americans are homeless than ever before in our entire history.

In Los Angeles, one homeless encampment has become so enormous that it is now being described as a full-blown “city”…"A sprawling homeless encampment in Los Angeles is drawing ire from neighbors who say the makeshift shelter has grown into a full “city” of its own, complete with working electricity and a recreational area featuring a tennis court, garden and barbecue pit. The encampment sits on a vacant Koreatown lot surrounded by apartment buildings and other structures, according to ABC 7. “The reason why people are sleeping here is because you leaders are sleeping on not taking initiative and action to clean this place up,” neighborhood resident Daniel King told the station."

Most Americans are just a few bad breaks from losing everything. In fact, there are already millions of Americans that have lost everything, and those that are on the bottom levels of the economic pyramid are becoming increasingly desperate.

When things really start hitting the fan in this country, vast numbers of extremely desperate people will cause tremendous chaos throughout our society. Things didn’t have to turn out this way. If we would have made much different decisions over the past 50 or 60 years, we would have gotten much different results. But we just kept doing things the wrong way, and now we shall reap what we have sown."

- https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/

Jim Kunstler, "Dressed to Kill"

"Dressed to Kill"

by Jim Kunstler

"You currently have one side willing to talk and extend a 

microphone to anyone, and one side that shoots to kill when they do." 

- Aimee Terese on X

"When Brian De Palma’s movie, "Dressed to Kill," came out in 1980, this was a different country. Like Hitchcock’s "Psycho" before it (1960), both films depicted men seeking to become women who are murderously deranged by their wishful fantasies. Now, our country has become murderously deranged by the same fantasy writ large.

These derangements are acted out now by a segment of the population that calls itself “the trans community.” This is just another manipulation of language, of course, by the same organized agencies working to turn our national life upside-down and inside-out. You call them “Globalists” or “Marxists” or “gnostic anarchists,” but who-or-whatever actually directs this action remains an abiding mystery of our time. (The runner-up abiding mystery is how the news media was hijacked to go along with all that.)

You have learned the past ten years how fragile reality can become in a society under stress. But then there is the reality of things as they actually exist, and the group’s perception of reality, which is not the same. The group’s perception of reality requires a consensus, an agreement, that certain things of this world are so. If the agreement is sturdy, and comports with how things actually exist, then you have a high-functioning society. If the agreement is flimsy and doesn’t comport with how things actually are, you get Clusterf*ck Nation, a society tortured by various compounded derangements.

It is hard to account for exactly how this happened to us, but the most visible manifestations of it these days come out of the political Left, the party that once defended the interests of the working-class, the laborers in their tough, uncomfortable lives seeking fair treatment from the comfortable class that employed and managed them. At least, that’s how things resolved for a while in our industrial society, the classes coexisting in a fruitful, balanced tension. That all peaked in the early 1960s.

Political relations between business and labor grew increasingly irrelevant after that as industry got moved out of our country, so the party of the working-class had to find something else to give its attention to. By the early 1960s, the Democratic Party had already rebranded itself as the party of the civil rights (having been previously the party of Jim Crow and the KKK). It was not an altogether cynical or insincere transformation. It was driven by a dynamic imperative: to prove that America, the self-styled Leader of the Free World after two great and ruinous world wars, was a fair and righteous country, deserving its post-war leadership role. And that imperative rode the tailwind of Franklin Roosevelt’s “progressive” legacy.

Increasingly, though, after the 1960s, the civil rights crusade lost its mojo. It disappointed the zealous. Try as it might, the effort did not lead to a nirvana of racial harmony. In fact, the miserable black underclass seemed to only grow larger and more dysfunctional, the cities they lived in (increasingly run by them) more broken.

The band-aid for that failure was multiculturalism. By the 1980s, the consensus about reality was fracturing, especially about standards of behavior. Too many “people of color” were “justice involved” - they committed crimes. It was an embarrassment to “progressives” (liberal Democrats). Multiculturalism’s premise was that a society could have different standards of behavior and different values for different groups. Henceforth, there was no need for a broad agreement about what sort of behavior was okay and what was not okay - no need for a common culture that applied to everyone.

From there, the Democratic party had to assiduously recruit and sort out all the various multi-cultures in America, and pretend to manage and justify their special needs in order to continue functioning as a national political party. In the 1970s, it was all about feminism, the entry of women into the managerial class, the board rooms, the law firms, the professoriate. Then it was all about gay rights, Stonewall and all that followed. That movement was badly derailed in the 1980s by AIDS, which killed many of its activists and made the group’s sexual activities look less than entirely wholesome.

After about 1985, the liberals had to write off Black men. Too many were crackheads and no accounts. All they had left was the likes of Al Sharpton (of Tawana Brawley infamy) and a few hundred millionaire sports stars. So, the Dems rallied over the plight of Black women... who were soon joined by the indigenous people (formerly “Indians”)... the Pacific Islanders. By the early 21st century, the Democrats had run out of oppressed ethnicities to recruit under the multicultural umbrella. All that remained were the “homeless” (formerly “bums,” “junkies,” and “the mentally ill”).

Actually, the mentally ill had gotten a multicultural jump-start in the 1970s when patients in hospitals for the insane were re-branded as an “oppressed minority.” Thus, the hospitals were all emptied out and closed down and the patients released to “freedom” on the streets with vague promises of “community-based treatment” to follow - it never did, of course. After several major Middle East wars starting with Desert Storm in the 90s, more and more damaged military vets joined the ranks of the homeless. It has apparently never occurred to anyone that re-establishing hospitals for the insane might be necessary.

And so it has gone, from one “marginalized” and “oppressed minority” after another until all that liberalism (and their official org, the Democratic Party) had left in the 2020s was the tiniest subculture in the country: people who fantasized about becoming the opposite sex. That group was much encouraged by the medical establishment so narcissistically enchanted by their surgical skills and manipulations of hormonal chemistry (and the money it generated) that they recruited ever more subjects for their experiments.

The doctors and their therapist partners, in turn, egged-on the teachers, professors, and school administrators to recruit “patients” for “treatment” of the new condition called “gender dysphoria.” The cheerleaders of the political Left coalesced behind all of that, promoted the hell out of it, went as far as inviting “drag queens” (men portraying women as monsters) into the third-grade classrooms. And that is how deranged humans like the characters in "Dressed to Kill" and "Psycho" became the role models for the Democratic Party."

- https://www.kunstler.com/