FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN – The Burning Platform - (Confirmed - DaGOP voter truly represents DaSHTUPID Party! - CL)

(But there is hope: Uncensored.AI on X: "75% of 45 and under voted for Massie, there just weren’t enough of them. Many were probably working 1 of their 3 jobs." / X - https://x.com/GoUncensored/status/2056925261635993901 - CL)

The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.

Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn’t repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?

The Boomers — with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda — gave their answer.

Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.......

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/20/final-nail-in-the-coffin/#more-409556 

....But since we’re not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.

As Glenn Greenwald put it, “If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.

“There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous.”

I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.

Main Character Syndrome - by Vox Day - The Boomers haven't finished changing the world yet

 This is a sobering reminder that the Boomers haven’t finished increasing the difficulty setting for the succeeding generations.

The reality of the boomer phenomena is that they are the main characters of history and we just have to wait our turn. Every decision made for the past 60 years was at the behest of maximizing the boomer experience. In their time America had such unprecedented wealth that there were literally no wrong decisions, they could only fail upwards......

....When their kids stopped having children what did they do? They imported endless hordes of mindless drones to work below market wages to keep the economy going.

When a housing crisis caused by overlending to retards and immigrants (done to maximize boomer stock value) threatened the security of the banks managing their portfolios what did they do? They bailed the banks out.....

The tragedy of the boomer is that they have literally no vision beyond themselves.

No other generation was able to rig the world in a way they did.

No other generation holds the wealth of nations in the palms of their hands, and what will they do with it? They will spend every cent on health and hospice care so they can drag themselves by cane and IV bag onto their 30th cruise before dying as they recite the mantra of their time “I was at woodstock...”

“Data from the Federal Reserve highlights that when the average Boomer household turned 35 years old, the generation already controlled 21% of all U.S. wealth. For context, Millennials owned just 3% of the nation’s wealth at that exact same age milestone.”.....

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/main-character-syndrome?publication_id=2265630&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

...That’s the situation with which we’re faced. There is nothing we can do about what happened in the past. But what we can do, and what we should do, is reject every value, every assumption, and every belief that the Boomers bought into, and with which they devastated both American society and Western civilization.

We can’t fix or bring back the world that they changed, but we can rebuild what’s left into something that approximates it. This will involve rejecting GenX apathy and nihilism, Millennial neo-boomerisms, GenZ sensitivity, and returning to a Depression-era mindset.

And it can definitely be done.

Ezra and the Judaizer Error - by Rev. Matthew Littlefield

 https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/ezra-and-the-judaizer-error?publication_id=1182452&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

This is what the Judaizer error does. It makes an incorrect application of who God’s people are, based more on ethnicity than on faith, and it bears destructive fruit.

It is also clear that Jesus critiqued the Jewish religious leaders attitudes towards the Samaritans as well. In fact he has the definitive critique. He uses the example of a hypothetical “Good Samaritan” to challenge the Jews of his day about the proper way of loving our neighbour (Luke 10:25-37). And he deliberately places himself in a situation to both minister to and through a Samaritan woman in John 4. What I mean by ministering through her is that she goes and tells many Samaritans about this amazing man she encountered and then brings them back to him to receive salvation. And of course he tells the Apostles in the Lukan Great Commision in Acts that the gospel is to be proclaimed in Samaria as a priority, after extending their ministry outside of Judah, “8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Jesus was not anti-Samaritan, like his own people often were.

I think it is entirely valid to see this New Testament commentary on the place of the Samaritans as a critique not just on how Jews viewed Samaritans in Jesus’ day, but also as a critique on how this conflict between these two people claiming descent from Abraham and faith in the same God began. Jesus was critiquing the Judaizing error before Paul even understood the gospel. But the Old Testament was critiquing it even earlier, because it is the living word of God which Jesus fulfills and shows us how to understand and apply properly.

An incorrect ethnocentric application of the gospel or faith in God is destructive. It led to a centuries long conflict between the Jewish people and the Samaritans, and it is today leading to a now century or so long conflict between the Jewish people and Palestinians. In fact, some of the similarities are actually remarkable between these two situations.

As Christians we need to resist any genetically based claims to the promises of God. This Judaizer error is persistent and comes about in many forms. But consistently the Bible rejects it and shows the damage that it causes. That Jesus made a point of affirming the Samaritans, a people the Jewish nation almost universally looked down upon, should give us a powerful insight into how God sees this error and why we should reject it.

When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test

 The shouting match broke down along the expected lines. Boomers – including spiritual boomers – loudly agreed with O’Leary’s remarks. If you only spend $2 a day on lunch, they insisted, the resulting $26 a day that you save adds up to $9490 a year; after 5 years, you’ve got the down payment for a $250,000 house. Checkmate, you financially illiterate layabouts!

Zoomers, millennials, and Gen-X replied that $250,000 will get you a leaky shack in rural Arkansas with black mold in the unfinished basement; that by the time you save up the money for the down-payment, that shack will be going for $500,000; that recent immigrants receive government assistance to get onto the property ladder (along with preferential employment) and so do not have to spend years of their lives saving up at all. Disaffected youth (and these days, that is just ‘the youth’) generally heaped scorn on the idea that it’s even possible to save in this economy, or that there’s anything worth saving. “If you live on instant noodles and margarine sandwiches for twenty years, you too, my son, can one day afford a van down by the river.”

Full text:

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/when-the-experimenter-fails-the-marshmallow?publication_id=841240&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

Running Out of Steam - Vox Popoli - (Will this become a model for resistance when DaUS reinstitutes the draft? - CL)

 https://voxday.net/2026/05/21/running-out-of-steam/ 

Is Ukraine reaching its recruitment limit? This is the key factor in both our models. There are some indications that this is the case. A week ago, Branko Marcetic (using Ukrainian sources) provided some relevant numbers in a Responsible Statecraft article, Ukraine’s conscription crisis is getting increasingly bloody; While outside voices insist the war can still be won on the battlefield, young men in the country are violently resisting recruiters to stay out of it. Here are some numbers supporting this conclusion.

The number of complaints over possible violations committed by enlistment officers, received by Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets:

2022 — 18
2023 — 514
2024 — 3312
2025 — 6127

The number of violent attacks against enlistment officers shows the same trend: from 5 in 2022 to 117 in just the first four months of this year.

One can hardly blame the young Ukrainians for attacking the “enlistment officers” who are really straight-up kidnappers. At the end of the day, the odds of surviving a violent encounter with these rear-echelon thugs is a lot higher than surviving one with frontline Russian troops.

Young European men have probably already figured that out, which is why I expect any attempt by any European country to enact a draft besides Russophobic Poland and Finland to meet with literally violent resistance. Why would any European man fight to defend against civilized Russia instead of rapey third-world invaders?

Peak SUV? - (DaRealQuestion - WTF are Americans gonna do about it besides bleating BAAAAAH? - CL)

  It is only about four months into this stupid, evil war that Trump decided to launch and it is only about two months since gas prices got not just uncomfortably high but unsustainably high. It is annoying to have to pay 50 cents more for a gallon of gas because a reckless, arrogant man decided to launch a war for no good reason. It is unsustainable when it costs twice as much to fill up – and we’re now very close to that point. The cost of gas averaged about $2.80 around Christmas – just a little more than four months ago. It is currently – as of May 19 – about $4.50 per gallon.

A little more than four months ago, it only cost about $60 to put 22 gallons of regular unleaded in a large, V8-powered SUV such as a Chevy Tahoe. It currently costs about $100 to fill the same tank. If we have not arrived at the point of unsustainability, we’re surely close to it. Its too early to know exactly how soon the bottom will fall out but it is inevitable that it’s going to fall out. The used car lots will fill up with large SUVs with V8 engines – the fire-sale prices notwithstanding because (again) even if it is affordable to buy one, most people still won;t be able to (or want to) feed one.

Then the market for new ones will collapse – and when it does, it will probably result in the collapse of several vehicle manufacturers that have become completely dependent on the profits made selling large SUVs (as well as large trucks).

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/eric-peters/peak-suv/ 

NVidia (Finally) Admits The Obvious - Denninger

 Their "monopoly" is gone.

No, their stock price didn't crash, but they all but admitted Huawei is going to be the lead in China when it comes to the chips run there -- particularly for AI, but not only for AI.  Their CEO, in other words, admitted in public what anyone who actually read any of the material related to Huawei, China and others over the last several years already knew (and which I've pointed out repeatedly.)

Whistling past the market's detonation everyone is.

Why?

Because the same is going to happen domestically, and "AI" isn't going to actually be what people believe......

......Even people who I know are quite intelligent have bought into the BS of those pumping this stuff: The tasks that we as humans find trivial -- and I remind you that the human brain consumes about 20 watts to do everything it does, most of which is consumed keeping your organism alive -- are those which computers require terawatts of power to emulate and they still cannot manage it because there is in fact no actual inference going on.  We don't know how the brain does it (even if the brain is in the head of a cat) and thus we can't reproduce it.......

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255447 

.....Oh by the way this does not demonstrate out-of-scope thought since it is simply a search through existing facts -- albeit a very fast one which is what computers are good at.

But the claims of firms like Microsoft's recent pronouncement that 60% of all jobs -- all white collar work -- will be replaced by AI within the next 18 months -- do not pass the giggle test.

That is not going to happen and yet the entirety of the market's current levels are based on that being true.

It is not true.

No computer has ever acted out of scope.

Not even once in the history of computing, yet humans do it every single day.

That humans do so is why with roughly 20 hours of training and a tenth of a kilowatt-hour of energy expenditure a 16 year old human can operate a motor vehicle with 99.9% success thereafter (and improving) while the computer, which cannot, is forced to have a corpus of billions of miles of travel in order to understand that a semi trailer across the road is dangerous -- and when the corpus is missing the current specific danger it decapitates you by driving under said trailer because it cannot actually infer anything.

The "AI" is not hallucinating; it is following its programming.

Oh Look, Truth On Iran! (But do we want to hear it! - CL)

 https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255443 

Incidentally there is no evading the recession (or worse) that this adventure is going to cause.  It is already roughly half as long as the 1974 oil embargo that led to eight years of economic Hell in America.  I came of age during it and I remember every bit of it.  Attempting to attenuate it with "rate cuts" and more government spending, given our fiscal position, debt, and the exponential increase in financing and costs that will generate, if it is tried, will guarantee a 1930s-style outcome and lead to the very real possibility of our government collapsing.

That must not be done and we must not, as Americans, permit any attempt at it.  In fact the opposite; we must gut the medical monster like a fish right here, right now, put a permanent stop to the now-exponential and parabolic increase in CMS spending and the extraction that sector imposes on everyone else.  That is the only way to get the federal budget, state budgets and personal balance sheets of the American people under control and at the same time all cross-subsidies on energy and similar, including any and all that are attempted to be put in place for "AI" and similar must be barred.

There is no other alternative to what is an obvious and impending economic disaster if we do not do so.

Observations from the Xi-Trump summit, by Hua Bin - The Unz Review

 Much ado about nothing

Full text:

https://www.unz.com/bhua/observations-from-the-xi-trump-summit/ 

There is no getting around about the fact the US is an oligarchy

If there is still any residual illusion among some Chinese that the US is a “democracy” to be replicated, the passenger list on Air Force One puts that to rest for good.

Chinese netizens have noticed there are 5 billionaires among the 17 corporate chieftains accompanying Trump to Beijing – Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Larry Fink (Blackrock), and Steve Schwarzman (Blackstone).

According to Forbes, there are between 12 to 15 billionaires among Trump’s cabinet members and advisors, not including Trump himself.

The delegation to Beijing represents the interest of Corporate America at the most elite level from tech (Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Micron, Qualcomm) to Wall Street (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Visa, Blackrock) to Big Ag and aerospace (Cargill, Boeing, GE Aerospace).

These celebrity/billionaire CEOs are not your average corporate worker bees on the trip to do a few deals. They are the literal ruling class of the US.

The US government today is captured by oligarchic interest thoroughly. It is led by a real estate billionaire who is getting richer through crypto deals, insider trading, and various “pay to play” schemes.

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The state exists to serve the interests of these oligarchs.

Beijing also invited several high-profile business executives to the state dinner including Lei Jun (Xiaomi), Liang Rubo (ByteDance), Yang Yuanqing (Lenovo), and Cao Hui (Fuyao Glass).

These are also self-made billionaires, but none has any political influence over Xi or the Chinese government.

They have no conduits to power such as lobbies, think tanks, political donations, and SuperPACs.

There was a time when some Chinese lived with the illusion that “democracy” is better than one party rule and the US is a democracy.

But “rule by the rich” is plutocracy, not a democracy. The two don’t co-exist, meaning you cannot be a plutocracy and a democracy at the same time.

Trump’s merry gang of bandits on Air Force One has shown to these unsuspecting Chinese who really rule the US.

It makes one wonder – who is thinking now it is better to be ruled by Trump, Larry Fink, and Elon Musk than by Xi and the CPC?

Excising the Corporate Cancer - Vox Popoli - ( First rule - erase your entire HR dept! - CL)

 This CEO did the right thing in firing his entire HR team, even if he still harbors misplaced confidence in the utility of Human Relations for the corpocracy:

Bolt’s CEO has defended his decision to fire the company’s entire HR team, claiming they had been ‘creating problems that didn’t exist’. Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and chief executive of US fintech firm Bolt, said the department was scrapped as part of sweeping layoffs aimed at returning the struggling business to ‘start-up mode’.....

https://voxday.net/2026/05/20/excising-the-corporate-cancer/ 

....Eliminating the HR department in its entirety was one of my top recommendations in Corporate Cancer. Like the legal department, it is entirely unproductive. But unlike the legal department, it is unnecessary, it does not mitigate risk, and it is actively counterproductive. The average company would see better results from paying their HR employees to stay home full-time without having any contact with anyone in the organization for any reason.

DEEP TRUMP: The conman who saved America from the Thucydides Trap, by Laurent Guyénot - The Unz Review - (Ladies and gentlemen, meet the object of our delusions! - CL)

 How can one not feel sorry and ashamed today for having believed in Trump? I’ll be honest: although I hold no responsibility in Trump’s election, I feel ashamed for having placed any hope in him.

The Trump phenomenon resembles a form of collective hypnosis. It has a religious dimension that makes it unique in American political history. For the believer, every failure, every scandal, every lie is proof that Trump is fighting against the Deep State, the Fake News, the Swamp, the Washington elite, the Democrats, the New World Order, the FBI, and who knows what else. The Q psy-op was particularly successful in tapping into the religious imagination of Americans who were distrustful of the government. This is well explained by Marjorie Taylor Green, who admits she “fell for that in late 2017 and 2018”:

it’s basically a cult. … What it does, it takes a layer of truth and then it twists it into a lie. … Q was very successful. It was probably one of the most successful psychological operations I’ve ever seen because it did use the layer of truth and the things that people were most passionate about and was able to use that and twist their belief to pull their full faith and trust into … an anonymous person or an anonymous entity.

Full text: https://www.unz.com/article/deep-trump-the-conman-who-saved-america-from-the-thucydides-trap/ 

...There is no trace in his books of a word of wisdom or a touch of humor. In fact, Trump has no literary or philosophical culture, and it shows.

What is also clear in Trump’s books is his narcissism. Every sentence comes down to: “I’m the best and I know everything about everything.” Trump isn’t just a salesman; he’s also the product.

Following the opening of Trump Tower in Manhattan in 1983, the massive promotion of his book The Art of the Deal turned Trump into a celebrity. Tony Schwartz, the book’s co-author—who, according to Schwartz, actually wrote the entire book (with Trump’s contribution limited to deleting the least flattering passages)—has said since 2016 that he is haunted by guilt for having helped Trump become president. Trump, he says, lies constantly without the slightest inhibition or guilt. “There is an emptiness inside Trump. There’s an absence of a soul. There’s an absence of a heart.”

The third element that helped craft Trump’s image as a billionaire hero—the equivalent of a saint in the religion of money—is the reality TV show The Apprentice, co-produced by Trump himself and airing since 2004, in which Trump essentially sells himself.