August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 by dmcintosh4

TRUMP IS FINISHED 8-19-2017

Well, it didn’t really take long for Trump to sell out and betray all of us who voted for him. The Trump Sellout was a highly visible process. It was a long list of globalists, Wall Street Whores, banksters, Goldman Sach mooches, and neo con warmongers. Over them all ruled our true believer, Steve Bannon. Bannon, who really was the populist core of Trump’s administration, has now resigned, hounded out by the RINO SCUM, Lying Ryan and Mitch the Bitch, McCain et al, the Soros funded hate groups, and the Deep State media. I can’t say I am surprised at this Deep State coup d’e’tat. It is all over for Trump, who will now be gutted by his enemies. Trump is, to quote a book I read about Lord Woolsey many years ago, “Naked to my enemies.” Trump will have nobody to defend him now that he has betrayed and abandoned his supporters. Trump will be left at the mercy of the baying hounds of the media, the Snowflakes and the Democrats. I voted for Trump, since I thought he was the last, best hope for peaceful change in the USA of 2017. In that, I was naive, as were we all. Still, at least I tried and can honestly say the blood of Civil War Two, which is now inevitable, won’t be on my hands.

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE VIOLENCE AND CHAOS THAT NOW LOOMS OVER THE USA.

Several links are below.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-speaks-after-white-house-departure-im-going-to-war-for-trump/

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/08/steve-bannon-tells-weekly-standard-trump-presidency-fought-won-now/

http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-is-out-at-white-house/

Top presidential adviser and nationalist bomb-thrower Steve Bannon is out of a job, the White House said Friday.

“Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Kelly had earlier wrapped up a review of the West Wing staff and the former Breitbart editor, the voice of the alt-right who had the president’s ear, was the first casualty.

“Bannon had one hell of a run,” tweeted Matt Drudge, who first reported the story.

Modal Trigger

Bannon had been on the outs with Trump before for grandstanding and stealing the spotlight, but the president suspected he was one of the main leakers in the administration, trashing his colleagues in news reports.

The notoriously thin-skinned president resented the publicity Bannon had been getting as the supposed mastermind of Trump’s campaign and upset victory.

One White House source told Axios, “His departure may seem turbulent in the media, but inside it will be very smooth. He has no projects or responsibilities to hand off.”

Bannon in recent days gave interviews to publications including the New York Times, in which he defended Trump’s controversial comments in the wake of the racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.

A senior White House official told Axios that it seemed like Bannon was setting himself up to be a martyr — the white nationalist hero canned by the “globalists.”

A source close to Bannon added: “This week is a good window into what Bannon outside the [White House] would look like: A strong defense of POTUS and ‘fire and fury’ for enemies of the Trump agenda. Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”

And Bannon was expected to rejoin Breitbart, which he once said gave a platform to the alt-right.

Trump told reporters at Trump Tower on Tuesday that Bannon was a “good man” and “not a racist.”

“I like Mr. Bannon. He’s a friend of mine. But Mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 17 senators, governors, and I won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that,” Trump said, adding, “but we’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.”

In his interview with the ultra-liberal American Prospect, Bannon contradicted the president’s position on North Korea while trashing his more moderate colleagues for their views on an “economic war” with China.

The danger for Trump is that Bannon will unleash Breitbart and other conservative media against the White House.

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May 13, 2017May 13, 2017 by dmcintosh4

TRUMP OKAYS CHINESE CHICKEN IMPORTS 5-13-2017

About the time Trump does something correct, like sack the traitor Comey, he then does several things wrong, like meeting with the war criminal Henry Kissinger, or opening the USA to imports of toxic Chinese food. My opinion on Comey is buried on this site, from about July of 2016 I think, so I have no issue with Trump sacking that scumbag, nor do I find the hysterical Democratic reaction to it anything but comic entertainment. I was in the US Army back during the original “Saturday Night Massacre” with Nixon and Archibald Cox, so to compare Trump firing Comey to Nixon firing Cox is just another example of Marxist folly.

Trump is willing to allow the import of food products from a China that has produced multiple examples of toxic, lethal food and drug products that have KILLED PEOPLE. This ranges from toxic pet food, toxic milk products, toxic blood pressure medicine among other things. And Trump now wants to import “cooked poultry” and unleash this Chinese filth on grocery store shelves. Trump has gone over the line on this for me: I am definitely off the Trump train. The combination of allowing toxic Chinese food products to be sold in the US, along with a brazen Oval Office meeting with a WAR CRIMINAL LIKE HENRY KISSINGER IS SIMPLY TOO MUCH FOR ME. Kissinger is the one who sold out South Vietnam, the Kurds in Iraq, and the people on East Timor. Kissinger is personally, directly responsible for creating policies that led to the deaths of millions of people in South East Asia, and Iraq for starters. For Trump to meet with him, at the White House is intolerable to me. Face it, Trump is now full neo-con warmonger mode and has sold out to the Deep State.

Anybody who buys and eats ANY Chinese food product is taking their life in their hands. If you don’t believe me, then do some research on how many people Chinese food and medical products have killed over the years. In fact, the idea of importing chickens from the place where the bird flu began is the kind of thing only Trump would think of. I mean are you going to trust you, or your families lives, to Chinese food inspectors and quality control? Seriously? Trump just okayed Chinese food products to be sold when he knows China produces such food products on toxic, contaminated soil, using toxic water, and under conditions of maximum filth and disease. People, why do you think it is China where the bird flu began? It is because they are where the pollution is, the corruption is, and the filth is. You are going to eat a cooked chicken, grown in a filthy, disease ridden “farm,” and processed in a plant full of bacteria and virus? Well, it is called the Darwin Award for a reason. Consider yourself warned, assuming Trump has them even label the “processed poultry” as made in China. All this means for me is I will be even more diligent regarding so called food products from China. As for Trump, I think the Marxists are going to hound him to death and pull him down like a pack of wolves on a Bison. If all I can get out of him is some more conservative judges, some pedophile investigations, and some EO’s repealing the worst of Obama’s folly, then that is the best I can hope for. Trump is no different than Hellary on Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and will likely bait Little Fat Boy into a Korean War. All in all, Trump has fallen prey to his New York City cabal of Kushner and Ivanka, the banksters, Wall Street Whores, and assorted globalist stooges with little prospect that will change. Just don’t eat the Chinese chicken, realize Trump is a loud mouthed, ego driven, New York City huckster, and we will at least have fun until the end happens. Trump is still better than Hellary, but he has proven to be a major sell out on so many levels.

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 by dmcintosh4

PUTIN TRUMPS TRUMP IN SYRIA 5-4-2017

ECONOMICS, ESSAYS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, MILITANT ISLAM, POLITICS, Trump
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Trump isn’t really doing very well this week. First, he got played by Lying Ryan, Schumer and gang into abandoning his core promise of building a border wall. Sorry, but that ain’t going to happen, so we can just add it to the long list of betrayals Trump has done his first 100 days. Still, I voted for him, had some hope for him, and am bitterly frustrated Trump turned out to be a New York City, Liberal Democrat, with a big mouth and an even bigger ego. I guess Trump won’t figure out how badly he has damaged himself until he goes to one his rallies and nobody shows up.

If there is one foreign policy place where Trump staked his reputation, it was Syria. After all, as after dinner entertainment for the Chinese Prime Minister, Trump sent 60 missiles to blow up a Syrian Air Base, based on flawed intelligence from the alphabet agencies that despise him, and lie to him daily. The result was the real adults in Syria; namely, Iran, Russia, Turkey and Assad decided they had enough of Trump’s ego. The result is today’s press release saying that Iran, Turkey, Russia and Assad have now subdivided Syria into “no fly zones,” and the US is no longer a factor in Syria. Trump, or more likely his neo-con warmongers filling his cabinet and agencies, must not have got that memo. Assuming Trump is even being notified of what his neo cons are up to, which is questionable, the US has now deployed significant military assets DIRECTLY ON THE TURKISH BORDER WITH NORTHERN SYRIA. In other words, the US is now in a proxy war with a NATO member run by a raving lunatic, Erdogan, who just got voted as dictator until 2026. Yep, Trump sure negotiated a good deal out of that one.

Putin, well Putin is licking his chops, Iran is sneering at us, and Turkey is digging new artillery positions on its border in preparation for the war they know is coming in Syria. The whole reason all of this overthrow Assad Junior stuff started was because the globalist, neo cons wanted a oil/natural gas pipeline from Quatar to Europe in order to cut off Russian gas and oil deliveries to Europe. From such globalist mind games, we do end up with shooting wars. Well, Putin has just derailed that completely with his no fly zones that prevent the USA from doing much of anything in Syria. Russian and Iranian COMBAT FORCES are now openly deploying into these no fly zones. You can be sure they will be defended with the S-400 air defense systems, which rules out any more Trump missile attacks, or Israeli bombing attacks, although whether Turkey will keep bombing the Kurds is an open question.

Putin is plus one hundred on this, since he has now met all of his goals in Syria. Iran is a plus 200 on Syria, since they not only have met all their goals in Iraq, Syria, but they got that cretin and traitor Obama to pay them several billion dollars in cash and gold. Oh yeah, Iran is a huge winner with this announcement today.

The link is below.

https://www.rt.com/news/387105-syria-talks-safe-zones/

Russia, Iran, Turkey sign agreement on creation of Syria safe zones

Published time: 4 May, 2017 12:08

Ceasefire guarantor states Russia, Iran and Turkey have adopted a memorandum on the creation of four security zones in Syria, during peace talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana.

The de-escalation zones were earlier proposed by Russia. They are aimed at separating extremist groups, including Islamic State terrorists (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front), from the moderate opposition.

Idlib, Latakia and Homs are included in the safe zones, as well as parts of Aleppo, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry. Under the memorandum, any fighting between government forces and armed opposition will cease within the safe zones.

Checkpoints and observation posts are to be positioned along the de-escalation lines within the safe zones, according to the document. They will provide free movement of unarmed civilians and humanitarian access to the areas, under guarantor states’ control.

Russian chief negotiator Aleksandr Lavrentyev stated that Russia is ready to send its observers to the established zones and work more closely with the US and Saudi Arabia on Syria. He also said that a working group on an exchange of captives could be settled by the evening.

Russia proposes 4 de-escalation zones in Syria to restart stalled peace process

However, he lamented the US poor participation in establishing better cooperation.

“Unfortunately, the Americans are still ignoring our attempts to establish closer military cooperation, but we will keep trying,” the Russian chief negotiator said.

The Syrian armed opposition delegation stated it could not accept the memorandum, saying the creation of de-escalation zones would threaten Syria’s territorial integrity. It also stated it will not sign anything while Iran remains among the guarantor states.

“We are against the division of Syria. As for the agreements, we are not a party to that agreement and of course we will never be in favor [of it] as long as Iran is called a guarantor state,” opposition delegate Osama Abu Zaid said.

Some representatives of the Syrian armed opposition walked out of the meeting, according to media reports.

“We don’t accept Iran’s participation as a guarantor state,” one opposition delegation member reportedly shouted during a speech by Kazakhstan’s foreign minister at the signing ceremony.

Most members of the delegation reportedly remained in the room, however.

Iran says it is a massive step toward the de-escalation of the long-standing conflict and bloodshed in Syria.

“We support any initiative aimed at de-escalation of the conflict in Syria, prevention of bloodshed, destruction, leading to the fleeing of the Syrian people from their native territory. We support any step aimed at a ceasefire,” an Iranian Foreign Ministry official told RIA Novosti.

The UN special envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the deal, calling it “an important, promising, positive step in the right direction in the process of de-escalation of the conflict.”

The next round of Syrian peace talks will be hosted by Astana in mid-July, with expert meetings scheduled to be held two weeks beforehand, according to Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov.

“Given the new round of Geneva talks, which is to be held in late May and emphasizing the essential role of the Astana meetings in supplementing and assisting the Geneva process, we call on all members of the international community to contribute to this process and to find a lasting solution to the Syrian conflict,” the minister stated.

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 by dmcintosh4

BYE, BYE MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET 5-3-2017

In between the ongoing social anarchy, Soros funded sedition, congressional folly, looming war with North Korea, we can now add the official collapse of Puerto Rico’s 70 billion dollars worth of debt/bonds. It only takes one rock falling to start an avalanche. While $70 billion, in a sea of derivatives, bonds and debt that rises into the hundreds of trillions, may seem like small fry, Puerto Rico now calls into question the entire US bond market at the city, county, state and federal level. Puerto Rico has brazenly borrowed a truly obscene amount of money, squandered it, and has near zero ability to pay it back from current revenue. Of course, that means Lying Ryan, who has had his corrupt paws over the so called bailout, is going to have to come up with some more money. We see in our liberal cities, and places like the third world cesspool Puerto Rico just what happens after decades of liberal Democratic Party control of finances. The Republicans are equally squalid of course, but it takes a Democratic City Mayor, or governor in the case of PR, to really screw things up.

Obviously, the bonds were mostly sold to pension funds, or bundled into toxic debt bonds, so the people who ended up owning them will get screwed also. What the result of that will be is to call into question whether any municipal bonds can be repaid. It will clearly also limit the ability of government entities, ranging from cities and counties, to utilities, colleges, schools, and pretty much any government blob that wants to fund repair, or overhaul of say, a sewage or water system. Portland, Oregon, after spending a bunch of money to clean up the riot debris, has a school bond for $700 million on the ballot. Well, the backblast from PR may mean the interest rates will be higher. The reason being the risk for people buying municipal bonds just went up and buyers will charge an interest premium to cover that increased risk. Face it, the USA is, and has been for decades now, functionally in default due to the trillions in UNPAYABLE DEBT. Yes, Virginia, the $20 Trillion Federal debt is never going to be paid off, anymore than the vast amount of student loan debt, or bond debt will ever be. PR is merely the shot over the bow of the USS Default. I see it is being called a “restructuring of debt.” LOL It is a default plain and simple.

The link is here.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-03/puerto-rico-seek-bankruptcy-protection-launching-largest-ever-us-municipal-debt-rest

Puerto Rico Files For Bankruptcy Protection In Largest Ever US Municipal Debt Restructuring

Update: PUERTO RICO FEDERAL BOARD FILES BANKRUPTCY CASE IN U.S. COURT

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As per our report last night that following the expiration of the litigation freeze, Puerto Rico’s creditors had filed a barrage of lawsuits against the insolvent Commonwealth a bankruptcy was imminent, moments ago Puerto Rico’s governor announced the commonwealth will request bankruptcy protection of a portion of the island’s $70 billion in debt, setting up a showdown with Wall Street firms owed billions of dollars, in what will be the largest-ever U.S. municipal debt restructuring and further complicating the U.S. territory’s efforts to pull itself out of a financial crisis.

The Puerto Rico restructuring would be far larger than Detroit’s record-setting bankruptcy, with little to no details how long a court proceeding would last or what cuts would are imposed on bondholders. The island’s financial recovery plan covers less than a quarter of the debt payments due over the next decade.

Cited by AP, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Wednesday that a federal control board overseeing the island’s finances has agreed with his request to put the debts before a court. He told reporters that he has requested that the U.S. territory’s federal financial oversight board commence a Title III proceeding under last year’s Puerto Rico rescue law known as PROMESA. Title III is an in-court debt restructuring process similar to U.S. Bankruptcy.

“We have reached this decision because it protects the best interests of the people of Puerto Rico,” Rossello said.

“The board has agreed to submit Title III protection immediately and they will submit it.”

According to the WSJ, “the governor said he would petition Puerto Rico’s federal oversight board to invoke a quasi-bankruptcy law that puts its standoff with creditors before a judge. His decision marks the start to what could be a lengthy legal fight as Wall Street watches closely to see how other indebted municipal governments may fare in confrontations with investors.”

As a reminder, Puerto Rico and its agencies owe $73 billion to creditors, dwarfing the roughly $18 billion owed by the city of Detroit when it entered what was previously the largest municipal bankruptcy in 2013.

Finally, Bloomberg notes that the financial collapse promises to impose deep losses on bondholders who for years snapped up Puerto Rico’s securities, even as the government contended with a shrinking economy and chronic budget shortfalls. U.S. states can’t file for bankruptcy, and investors bought the bonds assured that it wasn’t a legal option for Puerto Rico either.

BBG further adds that Rossello’s latest offers to creditors last week shows the commonwealth believes general obligations should receive a better recovery than its sales-tax bonds. The latest proposal offered as much as 90 cents on the dollar to general-obligation bondholders. One such bond due in 2035, was among the most actively traded at a price of 66, up from 64.7 on Tuesday.

April 26, 2017April 26, 2017 by dmcintosh4

TRUMP SCORES A BIG HIT 4-26-2017

Trump is really starting to annoy me with his constant flip-flops followed by sound policy decisions, intermingled with comments from the Rasputin couple; namely, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. It feels like riding one of those monster roller coasters that leave your stomach in the air while you hurtle down. When Trump is in is populist mode, I like him; when he is in his neo-con warmonger, globalist stooge, bankster, Wall Street whore mode, I dislike him intensely. At any rate, the various links below will highlight Trump’s two steps forward, and one step backward modus operandi.

First, we have Ivanka Trump apparently deciding she is in charge of the refugee program and it is good to allow a tidal wave of Syrian refugees to enter the USA. I must have missed the memo allowing her to make refugee policy. I also missed the memo on Jared Kushner going to Iraq and acting like the Secretary of State. The link is below.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/…ugh-by-itself/

Ivanka Trump: Opening Border to Syrian Refugees ‘Has To Be Part of the Discussion,’ Won’t Be Enough By Itself

During a portion of an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s “Today,” Ivanka Trump said that opening the border to Syrian refugees “has to be part of the discussion, but that’s not going to be enough in and of itself.”

Ivanka said, “I think there is a global humanitarian crisis that’s happening, and we have to come together, and we have to solve it, and –.”

She was then asked, “Does that include opening the borders to Syrian refugees in –?”

Ivanka responded, “That has to be part of the discussion, but that’s not going to be enough in and of itself.”

Next, we have the ongoing budget/shut down the government farce. Trump is again listening to Lying Ryan with the predictable negative results. Trump is apparently okay with no border wall funding, funding of both Obamacare and Planned Parenthood. The link is here.

Flipper-In-Chief: Trump Caves On Obamacare Subsidies To Avoid Government Shutdown

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0…riday-shutdown

Flipper-In-Chief: Trump Caves On Obamacare Subsidies To Avoid Government Shutdown

Finally, some good news from Trump. His newly released tax plan is, in my opinion, brilliant. It fulfills his campaign promise to provide tax relief to the working poor and the middle class. First, a few facts related to who pays Federal Income Tax. The basic income groupings in the USA today are $18,000, 36,000, 72,000, 115,000 and finally, 250,000 dollars. The vast majority of American taxpayers are from these five groups. I believe, as in read it somewhere a while ago, one half of all taxpayers earn less than $36,000 per year. It may even be one half earn less than $18,000. At any rate, some 90 percent of all American taxpayers earn less than $115,000, and it may even be $72,000 per year. The only thing George Bush junior did of any value was to increase the standard deduction and personal exemption to $10,000 way back in 2001 or so. By doing this, he removed a chunk of low income workers, ie the working poor, from the tax rolls. Trump has taken this idea of tax equity and run with it.

As I understand it, and the details are still being hashed out, Trump is going to raise the amount of income that triggers any tax to $24,000 per person. This will allow Trump to remove millions of low income working poor and lower middle class wage earners from paying any federal income tax at all. Further, it will be a significant reduction for married couples with two children. If you do the math, it means every single worker who earns $18,000 or less will owe not one dime in federal taxes. Further, by eliminating all deductions, other than the home and charitable ones, he will vastly simplify filing income taxes. Granted, the high tax states, all blue states by the way, will lose their ability to deduct state taxes from income. I have no problem with that at all.

The result of all this will be people making $18,000 will pay no taxes. People that make $36,000 per year, which is nearly one half of all taxpayers if my figures are correct, will only pay a fifteen percent tax rate on one third of their total income. They will pay taxes on $12,000 dollars out of $36,000. The $72,000 per year will also likely pay either a fifteen percent to twenty five percent rate on only two thirds, $48,000, of their income. I assume everybody over $115,000, or maybe $250,000 will pay the reduced tax rate of 35 percent. Again this is a massive tax reduction of both individuals and families. The typical four person family, Dad, Mom and the two kids will shield the first $96,000 of their income from ANY FEDERAL INCOME TAX. People making under $24,000 will pay NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX AT ALL. People making between $24,000 and $240,000 will also pay less income tax because they will pay a lower rate, on less taxable income. Like I said, this is BRILLIANT. Trump scores damn near a home run on this. The Democrats, well the Democrats are going to choke on their usual “cut the taxes on the rich mantra.” The reason is most of the tax benefits will go to workers earning less than $24,000 per year, which is exactly where the populist Trump needs it to be. The corporate tax rate will be cut from 35 percent to 15 percent. I also have no problem with that because it will bring back literally TRILLIONS of dollars worth of corporate profits stashed in overseas banks. After all, the reason the money is there is because they refuse to pay the current 35 percent tax rate. Again, the corporations may decide to leave the money overseas, but Trump is correct that it is reasonable to assume they will “repatriate” it.

The links are here.

#BREAKING: Trump proposes sweeping tax reform with major cuts to individuals and businesses http://hill.cm/4IM5ZAC

http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/250872445-story

WASHINGTON – (AP) — President Donald Trump is proposing “the biggest tax cut” ever, even as the government struggles with mounting debt, in an effort to fulfill his promises to stimulate job creation and middle class prosperity.

White House officials on Wednesday were to release broad outlines of a tax overhaul that would provide massive tax cuts to businesses big and small. The top tax rate for individuals would drop by a few percentage points, from 39.6 percent to the “mid-30s,” according to an official with knowledge of the plan.

Small businesses would see their top tax rate go from 39.6 percent to the proposed corporate tax rate of 15 percent, said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a Wednesday morning speech.

Mnuchin said the proposed overhaul would amount to “the biggest tax cut” and the “largest tax reform” in U.S. history. He said the lower tax rate for small business owners — a category that under current legal definitions could include doctors, lawyers and even companies such the Trump Organization — would not be used as a loophole for the rich to reduce their tax burden.

But the Treasury secretary declined to say there would be no absolute tax cut for the wealthy, a promise he made last year during a TV interview. “Our objective is simplifying personal taxes,” he said.

The plan will not include provisions to increase spending on infrastructure projects, one possible sweetener that could help gain congressional support.

The proposal faces a massive hurdle in that lower rates would blow a hole in the budget, possibly causing the national debt to soar by more than a trillion dollars over a decade.

Without additional revenue sources to offset the tax cuts, the broad proposal would need Democratic support to clear the required 60 votes in the Senate. Congressional Republicans could pass changes on their own with a simple Senate majority, but that would only be temporary under Senate rules.

Mnuchin said he would like the tax overhaul to be permanent, but “if we have them for 10 years, that’s better than nothing.”

Doomer Doug, a.k.a. Doug McIntosh now has a blog at www.doomerdoug.wordpress.com
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March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 by dmcintosh4

THE IDES OF MARCH 3-15-2017

ECONOMICS, ESSAYS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, POLITICS, Trump
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The Ides of March are going to be especially interesting this year. First, we have the expiration of the US government debt ceiling deal from last fall. The government will lose the ability to issue debt, be reduced to around $200 billion or so, and likely run out of money to spend in early June. In addition to that, Trump is going to have to release whatever hard, physical data he has about the wiretaps on him.

Martin Armstrong explains it here.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/i…ring-election/

It is cleat that there was a June 2016 FISA request by the Obama administration to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. That request, uncharacteristically, is denied as too broad. The rumor is that the Court was very concerned this was a witch hunt by Obama without any evidence that was akin to Watergate.

Then in October 2016 before the election, the Obama administration submitted a new request that was more narrow to the FISA court which targeted a computer server in Trump Tower they alleged would show links to Russian banks. No such evidence was found and indeed it was a witch-hunt. However, the wiretaps continued claiming it was for national security to try to distinguish this from Watergate.

My comments are below.

In the real world, Trump can’t do anything to Obama no matter what his administration did. If you think the Snowflakes and the Democrats are fired up now, just watch what happens if formal criminal charges are laid against Obama. It might very well take down the entire governmental system and unleash massive riots in our major cities for months. Further, Obama knows this and will likely laugh off any Trump threats to hold him accountable, like a special prosecutor, or congressional investigations. It would be the political equivalent of too big to fail, or too dangerous to do.

Trump must have a physical copy of the actual FISA warrants, plus the application, with names on it, of who requested the warrant. Now those underlings are certainly vulnerable to criminal sanctions. Soros is almost certainly involved and subject to criminal sanctions. The news the politicians are now going after the DOJ slush fund indicates they are sniffing around the edges of the scandal looking for a way in, without going after Obama directly.

We are on the edge of a constitutional crisis much worse than Watergate every was. This is/was the use of anti-terror courts for a political reason that is patently illegal and unconstitutional.

Yep, the tidal wave of fecal material on this one is 100 meters high, and moving at the speed of sound. The only real question is how much of the “system” will be left after it hits. Combined with the Pizzagate scandal we are talking a total collapse of government credibility. The consent of the governed is at risk here. Trump must have the hard physical evidence or else he wouldn’t have thrown the hand grenade. He is going to have to put up or shut up, and if he doesn’t have it, his administration will be fatally damaged. If he uses it, he may take down the entire government, and if he doesn’t he will destroy his administration. I think he must have it, and must be willing to use it, which will trigger a constitutional crisis. Trump must have finally figured out he is facing a unified, well planned, well funded, coherent campaign to overthrow the 2016 election results and either impeach him, or render him impotent. Since he has now, apparently, figured that out, he is willing to go nuclear and leave the body parts where they fall.

The March 15th date, the Ides of March, is significant because it is when the debt ceiling expires. It could also be significant because he will release the FISA warrant data too, which would be a double whammy.

NO increase in the debt ceiling would trigger an economic crisis, and release of his facts would trigger a constitutional crisis.

Obama’s “denial” was parsed in legal boilerplate jargon that tells me Trump was indeed tapped. The key issue is whether FISA felt it had probable cause to issue the wiretap order and did so, or whether Obama/ Clapper etc just went ahead and did it anyway, or let it run after they figured out there was no contact between Trump and the Russian banks.

The Russians have a saying: The more you stir a compost pile the more it stinks.