One more robbery, one more DUI death, one more embezzlement.
One More 9@p5.
And so many people will scream enough! that there will not be enough lawyers, enough “mainstream media”, enough virtue signalers, enough social justice warriors, enough faculty lounge lizards, or enough progressive politicians and bureaucrats waving their authority around like golden scepters to stop it.
“It” being what happened to the Communists in Indonesia in 1965.
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
I wonder just how many “Democrats” recognize those words and where they might be found, or even the context.
I daresay it’s well outside their bubble.
Knowing facts like these is actually a gauge of assimilation into US culture.
It would seem not all the aliens are born elsewhere.
January 21, 2026 at 7:29 am
MasterDiver
“That which cannot be endured, must be cured.”
–Old Russian proverb.
It’s worth watching for. People know about the 3 Boxes, which are the methods of correction. Some time ago I realized there are 3 Charlies, the avatars of incitement.
First was Hebdo.
Second was Kirk.
When the 3rd box is breached, Martel will arrive.
I always thought it was four boxes
Soap
Jury
Ballot
Cartridge
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 pm
PeregrineJohn
Ah yes. For some reason the Jury part falls out of my head when I’m listing them. 4 boxes, certainly. But we only get 3 Charlies, and the last is the FO part of the program, if it hasn’t been averted by then.
January 21, 2026 at 1:44 pm
JTC
@ eon,
“Borne”.
But yes sir that tipping point is coming hard and fast, seems like the driving components of the left are pushing for it doesn’t it? They know not what they do, but they are keen to FAFO.
Thought Trump’s election would eliminate our need and call for the past several years to prepare for separation into a new Republic. But it doesn’t seem we will be allowed to delay.
I dunno, having seen a few of the movies, the ‘bourne solution’ might be more correct 😉 I wish I’d have made that little pun
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 pm
eon
I didn’t realize it was one, I was reverting to Shakespearean English.
😉
cheers
eon
January 22, 2026 at 12:35 am
JTC
I knew not an intentional pun of course, but I actually like the accidental Shakespearean speech component better, although it would typically be “bourn”. in that context.
January 21, 2026 at 6:51 pm
Timothy Moyer
Yikes, Eon, I went and researched that. I forgot that from Civics and American History in Junior High. Thanks for posting. Articles say that was BRUTAL !
Well, what if the plan is to ignite a civil war? Or push President Trump into Declaring the Insurrection Act? Maybe they have a huge collection of lawyers ready to tie up the whole country and impeach President Trump, forcing him into being the dictator they claim he is?
Maybe they end up using the 25th Amendment, forcing him out and probably into prison. IF, they can accomplish taking over, we can pretend to work while they pretend to take care of us. Besides killing everyone they choose to.
“And I see the danger in either case will arise principally from the conduct and views of two very unprincipled parties in the United States-two fires, between which the honest and substantial people have long found themselves situated.”
― Richard Henry Lee, The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
That cadre of “lawyers” might want to take a closer look at what happened to Charlie Kirk, and consider whether their blind trust in due process will make them bulletproof. Justice can sometimes arrive from half a mile away at three times the speed of sound, and the verdict isn’t subject to appeal (at least on this side of eternity).
This is from a site I follow – FO:
InFocus: Dalio: It’s Now Happening
In a post yesterday, legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio wrote that the “existing fiat monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order are all breaking down.”
“It’s now happening. The existing fiat monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order are all breaking down, so we are at the brink of wars. It all is happening because of the Big Cycle that is driven by the five big forces [the big debt cycle, breakdown of internal order, breakdown of external order, acts of nature, and technology].”
I first started following Ray Dalio almost exactly 10 years ago when I saw him during a CNBC interview. He was at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, telling the channel that he thought the United States was headed for civil war. Later, he would make the case that it was breaking down largely as a conflict of capitalists versus socialists.
I started researching Dalio, and learned that his hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, was the world’s largest and for years the world’s most successful. In other words, Ray Dalio is adept at making bets with billions of dollars of other people’s money in an industry where performance is measurable. Bad hedge fund managers don’t last long.
Since 2016, I’ve read four of Dalio’s books: Principles (2017), Principles for Navigating Big Debt Cycles (2018), Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (2021), and Why Countries Go Broke (2025). The last three have focused on the big picture challenges the United States is facing. Dalio paints the picture that three forces are more or less cyclical, that they can be measured, and that expectations of the future can be made based on where the U.S. is in each cycle. Those three cyclical forces are:
The Overall Big Debt Cycle, which lasts about 80 years (based on 45 modern debt cycles) and covers five phases: hard money > fiat system driven by interest rates > fiat system with debt monetization > fiat system with both debt monetization and a big fiscal deficit > and finally a “Big Deleveraging” crisis. Dalio believes the U.S. is currently in the fourth phase, and previously forecast an 80% chance the U.S. will experience this final crisis phase within the next 10 years (from 2025). He makes this prediction in his last book, How Countries Go Broke.
The Cycle of Internal Order and Disorder, a domestic political cycle that runs from peace to conflict.
The Cycle of External Order and Disorder, a cycle of geopolitical harmony and conflict.
Dalio believes these three main cycles are ending simultaneously, which is leading to the breakdown of the U.S. monetary order, U.S. domestic order, and U.S.-led international order. And it’s hard to say he’s wrong because we’re seeing substantial strain on all three.
As for Dalio’s prediction that the world is on the brink of war, I’ll reprise the main conclusion of an excellent book called Economic Interdependence and War, which found that negative trade expectations between economically-interdependent great powers actually ends in war nearly 90% of the time (26 out of 30 case studies). Concludes the author: “[W]hen great powers have positive expectations of the future trade environment, they want to remain at peace in order to secure the economic benefits… When, however, these expectations turn negative, leaders are likely to fear a loss of access to raw materials and markets, giving them an incentive to initiate crises to protect their commercial interests.”
There may be a tendency for some to blame President Trump for this. Dalio is adamant that these events are cyclical, meaning they were going to happen, anyway, and would likely argue that one influential person (such as a president) could extend or hasten the end of any cycle, but could not stop one entirely. It seems to me, more likely than not, that the Trump administration understands that the external order was already breaking down, and is therefore making plans to weather the transition. The latest National Security Strategy lays it out fairly plainly: the United States is creating Fortress North America and hardening the Western Hemisphere against foreign encroachment. It seems to say that our hemisphere can be relatively self-sufficient, but we have to start setting the conditions now. And I think that’s why we’re seeing what happened with Maduro in Venezuela, and some of the right wing presidential victories in Latin America, and these carrot/stick negotiations on Greenland.
Lastly, there’s been a lot of talk about the collapse of the U.S dollar and empire, or at least its global military presence. That world order is going away. I want to encourage you to consider an alternative future: the U.S. military does withdraw most of its global presence back to the Western Hemisphere while we dollarize parts of Latin America, and the U.S. simply becomes a hemispheric power. That seems to be the desired, realistic end state from the Trump administration.
Early Warning members can read my 10-page chapter-by-chapter book summary for How Countries Go Broke here. As always, thank you for the support of our mission. – M.S.
“positive expectations of the future trade environment, they want to remain at peace” reminds me very strongly of something I read recently, a similar pattern on an individual scale. Seeing the potential of a pleasant, useful life with attainable goals keeps young adults in a free market mood; but a decadent and adulterated market (which said yoots ignorantly refer to as “capitalism,” less ignorantly as “late stage capitalism”) makes them likely to believe the lies of collectivism.
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I suspect there’s a tipping point coming.
One more robbery, one more DUI death, one more embezzlement.
One More 9@p5.
And so many people will scream enough! that there will not be enough lawyers, enough “mainstream media”, enough virtue signalers, enough social justice warriors, enough faculty lounge lizards, or enough progressive politicians and bureaucrats waving their authority around like golden scepters to stop it.
“It” being what happened to the Communists in Indonesia in 1965.
There is only so much that can be bourne.
clear ether
eon
Kipling spoke of this over a century ago when he penned “The Beginnings”
Jefferson wrote:
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
I wonder just how many “Democrats” recognize those words and where they might be found, or even the context.
I daresay it’s well outside their bubble.
Knowing facts like these is actually a gauge of assimilation into US culture.
It would seem not all the aliens are born elsewhere.
“That which cannot be endured, must be cured.”
–Old Russian proverb.
Zar Belk!
It’s worth watching for. People know about the 3 Boxes, which are the methods of correction. Some time ago I realized there are 3 Charlies, the avatars of incitement.
First was Hebdo.
Second was Kirk.
When the 3rd box is breached, Martel will arrive.
I always thought it was four boxes
Soap
Jury
Ballot
Cartridge
Ah yes. For some reason the Jury part falls out of my head when I’m listing them. 4 boxes, certainly. But we only get 3 Charlies, and the last is the FO part of the program, if it hasn’t been averted by then.
@ eon,
“Borne”.
But yes sir that tipping point is coming hard and fast, seems like the driving components of the left are pushing for it doesn’t it? They know not what they do, but they are keen to FAFO.
Thought Trump’s election would eliminate our need and call for the past several years to prepare for separation into a new Republic. But it doesn’t seem we will be allowed to delay.
So be it.
I dunno, having seen a few of the movies, the ‘bourne solution’ might be more correct 😉 I wish I’d have made that little pun
I didn’t realize it was one, I was reverting to Shakespearean English.
😉
cheers
eon
I knew not an intentional pun of course, but I actually like the accidental Shakespearean speech component better, although it would typically be “bourn”. in that context.
Yikes, Eon, I went and researched that. I forgot that from Civics and American History in Junior High. Thanks for posting. Articles say that was BRUTAL !
Because voting the National Socialist German Workers Party out of office worked so well for us back in 1944.
Remember when we voted the Soviet Politburo out of office back in 1991?
heart strings, plucked
What we elect to do is key here.
Well, what if the plan is to ignite a civil war? Or push President Trump into Declaring the Insurrection Act? Maybe they have a huge collection of lawyers ready to tie up the whole country and impeach President Trump, forcing him into being the dictator they claim he is?
Maybe they end up using the 25th Amendment, forcing him out and probably into prison. IF, they can accomplish taking over, we can pretend to work while they pretend to take care of us. Besides killing everyone they choose to.
IF, I’m reading this as it is intended, it is just One of the arguments against President Trump. https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1262/
“It would seem not all aliens are born elsewhere.”
Going to borrow that one, John. Thanks!
“And I see the danger in either case will arise principally from the conduct and views of two very unprincipled parties in the United States-two fires, between which the honest and substantial people have long found themselves situated.”
― Richard Henry Lee, The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
That cadre of “lawyers” might want to take a closer look at what happened to Charlie Kirk, and consider whether their blind trust in due process will make them bulletproof. Justice can sometimes arrive from half a mile away at three times the speed of sound, and the verdict isn’t subject to appeal (at least on this side of eternity).
This is from a site I follow – FO:
InFocus: Dalio: It’s Now Happening
In a post yesterday, legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio wrote that the “existing fiat monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order are all breaking down.”
“It’s now happening. The existing fiat monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order are all breaking down, so we are at the brink of wars. It all is happening because of the Big Cycle that is driven by the five big forces [the big debt cycle, breakdown of internal order, breakdown of external order, acts of nature, and technology].”
I first started following Ray Dalio almost exactly 10 years ago when I saw him during a CNBC interview. He was at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, telling the channel that he thought the United States was headed for civil war. Later, he would make the case that it was breaking down largely as a conflict of capitalists versus socialists.
I started researching Dalio, and learned that his hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, was the world’s largest and for years the world’s most successful. In other words, Ray Dalio is adept at making bets with billions of dollars of other people’s money in an industry where performance is measurable. Bad hedge fund managers don’t last long.
Since 2016, I’ve read four of Dalio’s books: Principles (2017), Principles for Navigating Big Debt Cycles (2018), Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (2021), and Why Countries Go Broke (2025). The last three have focused on the big picture challenges the United States is facing. Dalio paints the picture that three forces are more or less cyclical, that they can be measured, and that expectations of the future can be made based on where the U.S. is in each cycle. Those three cyclical forces are:
The Overall Big Debt Cycle, which lasts about 80 years (based on 45 modern debt cycles) and covers five phases: hard money > fiat system driven by interest rates > fiat system with debt monetization > fiat system with both debt monetization and a big fiscal deficit > and finally a “Big Deleveraging” crisis. Dalio believes the U.S. is currently in the fourth phase, and previously forecast an 80% chance the U.S. will experience this final crisis phase within the next 10 years (from 2025). He makes this prediction in his last book, How Countries Go Broke.
The Cycle of Internal Order and Disorder, a domestic political cycle that runs from peace to conflict.
The Cycle of External Order and Disorder, a cycle of geopolitical harmony and conflict.
Dalio believes these three main cycles are ending simultaneously, which is leading to the breakdown of the U.S. monetary order, U.S. domestic order, and U.S.-led international order. And it’s hard to say he’s wrong because we’re seeing substantial strain on all three.
As for Dalio’s prediction that the world is on the brink of war, I’ll reprise the main conclusion of an excellent book called Economic Interdependence and War, which found that negative trade expectations between economically-interdependent great powers actually ends in war nearly 90% of the time (26 out of 30 case studies). Concludes the author: “[W]hen great powers have positive expectations of the future trade environment, they want to remain at peace in order to secure the economic benefits… When, however, these expectations turn negative, leaders are likely to fear a loss of access to raw materials and markets, giving them an incentive to initiate crises to protect their commercial interests.”
There may be a tendency for some to blame President Trump for this. Dalio is adamant that these events are cyclical, meaning they were going to happen, anyway, and would likely argue that one influential person (such as a president) could extend or hasten the end of any cycle, but could not stop one entirely. It seems to me, more likely than not, that the Trump administration understands that the external order was already breaking down, and is therefore making plans to weather the transition. The latest National Security Strategy lays it out fairly plainly: the United States is creating Fortress North America and hardening the Western Hemisphere against foreign encroachment. It seems to say that our hemisphere can be relatively self-sufficient, but we have to start setting the conditions now. And I think that’s why we’re seeing what happened with Maduro in Venezuela, and some of the right wing presidential victories in Latin America, and these carrot/stick negotiations on Greenland.
Lastly, there’s been a lot of talk about the collapse of the U.S dollar and empire, or at least its global military presence. That world order is going away. I want to encourage you to consider an alternative future: the U.S. military does withdraw most of its global presence back to the Western Hemisphere while we dollarize parts of Latin America, and the U.S. simply becomes a hemispheric power. That seems to be the desired, realistic end state from the Trump administration.
Early Warning members can read my 10-page chapter-by-chapter book summary for How Countries Go Broke here. As always, thank you for the support of our mission. – M.S.
“positive expectations of the future trade environment, they want to remain at peace” reminds me very strongly of something I read recently, a similar pattern on an individual scale. Seeing the potential of a pleasant, useful life with attainable goals keeps young adults in a free market mood; but a decadent and adulterated market (which said yoots ignorantly refer to as “capitalism,” less ignorantly as “late stage capitalism”) makes them likely to believe the lies of collectivism.