I didn't realize until today Kevin Warsh - soon to be Fed chairman - is Ron Lauder's son in law (President of the World Jewish Congress & one of Trump's biggest donors). Apparently they are also the masterminds behind the proposed Greenland takeover. Trump always does the bidding of his paymasters.

Reminder that Trump wants to put a BlackRock executive who wants to return to Bernanke-era QE policies in as Federal Reserve Chairman. Does this even need further comment?

I don't even have any problem with people speculating on cryptocurrency provided that's what they want to do. The main disappointment for me about it is that it mostly has, up to the current date, been used primarily, for that purpose, rather than as money. I understand that some of the people in this community are trying to change that. But it has been a slow process. What I don't understand is why crypto people don't get into other forms of investing too. Like why not branch out, and get into other classes of investments? If you had speculated on gold or silver recently, you could have done very well. Doing this would also help crypto people get outside of their bubble, so to speak. Despite pretensions, they are nowhere near the point of "breakaway civilization" yet, nor even outside of the system of control in any meaningful way. To think otherwise is delusion.

Before anyone posts anything from X as if it were fact, remember that AI deep fakes spread virally there AND they do not allow links of any kind without de-boosting your account, so there is every incentive for the site to become a fake news factory. No matter what anyone else says, until they fix this problem, that site is fundamentally flawed and nothing from there can be trusted. You are free to abandon your rational faculties if you choose, I will not.

This is an example of why Kanye is a great artist, as I said some time ago.

Trump: the good, the bad and the ugly. Good -Openly imperialist, e.g. the actions in VZ, Greenland, Iran. Good in the sense that the mask is off. America is now openly, unapologetically imperialist and cannot roll it back. From a realpolitik standpoint, WWIV ( or is it V?) Is here and such actions confirm it. Of course, this is very ominous. -Crackdowns on illegal immigration, though not as thorough as it should be. -Some of RFK's actions regarding vaccines and food. Bad -Zionism. -Idiotic policies reflecting on rushing senility: e.g. inflation is done, not enough talent in this country, I will support amnesty for illegals, etc. This is very bad on a number of levels including popular support for his policies, compromise of national security in an already fraught time, etc. If he keeps this up he could end up in big trouble in a few years, should his support fade among the public and his enemies end up back in power. Ugly -Persecution of his enemies and weaponizing the Feds against them. But they are mostly assholes anyway so I also don't care.

Doing some more reading about the troubles in Iran, I can see it is not all Westerners agitating this time. Iran is experiencing hyperinflation and many of the middle class are getting wiped out by it. There is widespread discontent with the regime. Of course, the Westerners operating within Iran are taking advantage of it to try and push regime change, as thay has been a goal for a long time (since the 1990s PNAC "hot pursuit" doctrine was formulated at least). I still don't think a Western puppet government is the most likely outcome of this situation.