Ronald McDonald Trump, the Clown-In-Chief

(With apologies to Real Ronald McDonald.)

“President” Donald Trump is a clown. An ignoramus, and someone who seems to be hell-bent on ruining America, or at least totally reversing the economic prosperity from the tax cuts he signed into law (that will expire anyway — WHY didn’t they make that permanent? Morons.), and causing the next economic downturn. ObamaTrump.

He wants to impose tariffs i.e. fines to punish American consumers for their purchasing choices that The Donald doesn’t like, and to punish American producers for their capital goods purchases that The Donald doesn’t like. So imposing tariffs on China, then China retaliates, and then Mexico, then India, etc. etc.

Trump just doesn’t get what America is all about, or he does get it but has contempt for it. And that is freedom. Freedom means economic freedom. The freedom to spend your own money on whatever you want, from wherever you want to buy it from. And if the rulers don’t like it, they can go jump in a lake.

Trump is also a vicious drug warrior, and a warrior on immigration and foreigners coming to America to work, go to school, start businesses, and so on. If you’re worried about the “wrong” kinds of people coming to America across the border, and worried about drugs being trafficked across the border, then end U.S. government foreign interventionism and militarism in Central and South America. And end the war on drugs. Repeal every law on the books that pertains to drugs, close down the DEA (and ICE, DHS, TSA, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., etc.).

One main reason why the flood of immigrants from Central and South America is the U.S. government’s war on drugs. Yes, it’s your fault, Donald. Prohibition causes a black market which incentivizes low-lifes to want to get rich by exploiting people’s weakness. Prohibition empowers and feeds drug pushers, traffickers, cartels, drug lords and gangs including MS-13. End the drug war and end prohibition and those things will be gone quickly.

What is it with these bureaucrats? These worshipers of government central planning, like Donald Trump? These sick statists are all the same. They can’t leave people alone. They either want to force something on you and mandate and compel you to do something, or they want to prohibit you from doing something that’s no one else’s business, or they want to tax you i.e. steal more from you or impose economic policies that will cause prices to go up on the things you need to buy.

Government central planning is a very bad thing, and it needs to end.

I was going to write “send the clown back to the private sector,” but that would give us a “President Mike Pence.” Another vicious drug warrior, anti-foreigner anti-immigration fanatic, bloodthirsty neocon warvangelical warmonger. I don’t know what’s worse.

News and Commentary

Paul Craig Roberts says that whiteness is the new evil, and says that white peoples and their achievements are headed for the trash bin of history.

Robert Wenzel says that Harvard students are giving up on economic theory for politically correct data collection as economics.

And Glenn Greenwald believes that the indictment of Julian Assange is a blueprint for making journalists into felons.

The Ruling Bureaucrats of Amerika Want to Be More Like the Soviet Union and China

The authoritarian regime in Washington is targeting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange with the “Espionage Act,” as though he was “spying on America on behalf of another country” with his revealing to the American people the war crimes committed by the U.S. military and other criminality and corruption of U.S. bureaucrats and politicians like Hillary Clinton.

The Soviet-like apparatchiks had already convicted and imprisoned Bradley Manning, now known as Chelsea Manning, for “Espionage.”

No, Julian Assange was not spying, and his WikiLeaks are not publishing leaks on behalf of foreign regimes but on behalf of the American people and people in other countries whose rulers are acting criminally and corruptly. And that was exactly Manning’s motivation for leaking the material to WikiLeaks. People have a right to know about their rulers’ crimes and corruption.

With the use of the Espionage Act, with its provisions which clearly violate the First Amendment, the corrupt bureaucrats of the U.S. government want to criminalize the exposure of its own criminality and corruption. As I have said before, turn the lights on them and they scamper like the little cockroaches that they are.

If the criminals in Washington keep doing this, the publishing of information that exposes them (including their war-aggression and the military parts of the regime), which is a way of criticizing the regime, then eventually any criticism of the government, its bureaucrats and their awful policies, and the military, will be punished either through the criminal justice system or through the military courts.

And with “pre-crime” mentality that many bureaucrats and police seem to have now, they will be going after those they think might be a “threat” to them. With the way things are going now, that will probably be the case. The China regime is engaged in social media scores and mass surveillance to find those not behaving in ways that are  “algorithmically- determined” government-approved behaviors.

So now the fascists and criminals of the U.S. Congress are proposing the TAPS Act, the “Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety Act,” which will create a “Joint Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Task Force” to identify anyone who is a potential threat. Apparently, everyone including children will be “assessed” to “identify individuals that exhibit patterns of dangerous behavior that may precede an act of targeted violence,” according to Sen. Macro Rubio.

And just who will decide who is a “threat”? Why, “threat assessment experts from multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, in addition to state and local law enforcement as well as mental health service professionals,” according to Rubio. Hmm, those bureaucrats have such a great record, what could possibly go wrong?

With the surge in nationalism and fascism/socialism in Amerika, and around the world in fact, governments will make it a crime to criticize them and their idiocy and their criminality. They are indicating that they will use “espionage” or “sedition” to criminalize dissent and disobedience. This is already being done on the college campuses all across Amerika.

And everyone will have a “threat assessment,” to pre-determine if they might be a “threat” i.e. a critic of the regime, a dissenter, a political opponent, someone who really is a threat to the power of the elites. Not good.

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Carey Wedler says that the best way to honor fallen soldiers is to stop sending troops to war.

Whitney Webb on Micro$oft’s “ElectionGuard” being a trojan horse for a military-industrial takeover of U.S. elections.

Joe Lauria says that the tide of public opinion is turning in Julian Assange’s favor.

Matt Agorist with an article on police conspiracy to cover up Catholic church child sex ring.

Jacob Hornberger says that Iraq War veterans waged an illegal war.

Honoring the Dupes Who Were Unnecessarily Led to Their Deaths by Corrupt, Lying Bureaucrats

Dave DeCamp of Antiwar.com with a news article on U.S. Army unpleasantly surprised after asking veterans about the impact of serving. Examples of some of the vets’ comments in survey: “26 brothers dead. Only 8 in theater. Psyche ward myself after 3 attempts. Everything we accomplished in Mosul was wasted. Every life we gave was spat on. That’s how serving impacted me.” “Let’s see. Lost the functional use of a hand, developed a rare movement disorder and cancer both likely from burn pit exposure, enjoy sleeping 3 to 4 hours most nights due to nightmares and during the day random anxiety attacks all due to PTSD, 7 herniated discs, arthritis…” “My son served and did one tour of OEF, he made it back, re-enlisted, and shot himself in the head.” (Thanks, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.)

Another news item. No joke: bloodthirsty warvangelical Mike Pence tells West Point graduates: “It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life. You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen.” (Yay!) And: “Some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere … When that day comes, I know you will move to the sound of the guns.” (WHEN that day comes? These people are sick.)

Also, Robert Wenzel has a thing or two to say about Memorial Day. And so does Laurence Vance.

And Peter Certo says that pardoning war criminals is a monstrous way to honor Memorial Day.

News and Commentary

Lee Friday asks, Does the State care more about tax evasion than murder?

Brian Miller writes about the history of the militarization of police.

Zero Hedge with an article on Obama intel chiefs panicking: Trump to declassify Russiagate docs.

Sayer Ji writes that “measles” caused by MMR vaccine reaction, acknowledged by New Hampshire state officials.

Joe Lauria on the new Julian Assange “Espionage Act” indictment.

Mike Masnick on the new Assange indictment making insane, unprecedented use of Espionage Act on things journalists do all the time.

Scott Shackford on new espionage charges against Assange: bad for journalists, worse for citizens.

Zero Hedge with an article on a CIA whistleblower who says that Julian Assange will be railroaded by the “hanging” judge.

Craig Murray discusses the Swedish arrest warrant for Assange.

Jeff Deist on Envy, Inc.

Wendy McElroy on the parallel universes that are America.

Mac Slavo says that young people are increasingly blaming “climate change” for not saving for retirement.

Bill Tallen confronts the myths about “arming teachers.”

Gary Barnett writes about the ongoing destruction of the minds of children.

And Brandon Smith on academic elitists inventing a new way to rig voting.

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Thomas Knapp on war crimes pardons: a terrible Memorial Day idea.

Richard Ebeling says that freedom is why immigrants come to America.

Butler Shaffer is against the collectivist mindset.

And Gene Healy says that impeachment should be on the table if Trump bombs Iran (How about impeaching him as well for the damage his trade fascism is causing, and his immigration police state, too.)

Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, and Irwin Schiff’s Legacy of the Freedom of the Press

As the U.S. government persecutes and imprisons Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning for their dissidence and their informing the American people of the crimes committed by their rulers, the Trump administration is threatening yet another war, against Iran, for no good reason.

Over the decades and centuries, we can see why the agents of the United State don’t like the freedom of the Press. And the U.S. government’s imprisonment of dissidents doesn’t just apply to the government’s foreign policy, but has applied to its domestic policy as well.

Carl Watner writes about the silencing of dissent in this article at the Voluntaryist, using tax protester/dissident Irwin Schiff as an example. Irwin was sentenced to jail for years and years for not filing taxes. But really, it was his tax-opposition activism and his best-selling books that were the real reasons why Schiff was confined to prison for so many years.

Irwin Schiff’s books, The Biggest Con: How the Government Is Fleecing You, How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes, The Great Income Tax Hoax: Why You Can Immediately Stop Paying This Illegally Enforced Tax, and The Federal Mafia: How It Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes, exposed U.S. government’s fraudulent income tax, and turned him into a political prisoner. (And no, I am not suggesting or encouraging anyone to be a tax protester or to withhold income taxes. I myself have not done and would not do anything illegal. I also hardly have much of an income.)

It was Schiff’s book, Federal Mafia, that was supposedly banned by the judge. According to Wikipedia, “the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found the book to be fraudulent and upheld an injunction issued by a U.S. District Court in Nevada under 26 U.S.C. § 7408 against Irwin Schiff and associates Cynthia Neun and Lawrence Cohen against the sale of this book by those persons.” However, Schiff has been able to give the book away for free on his website (although, as you can see by clicking on the link in the previous paragraph, it is available now at Amazon).

And I believe the current situation with Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is a similar situation. Just as the feds don’t want the American people to know the truth about their illicit apparatus of theft and plunder, in the Assange/Manning case the feds don’t want you to know about the war crimes and other evil crimes of the U.S. government — so, they are imprisoning Assange and Manning.

The Schiff case and the judge’s literally banning one of Schiff’s books was a case not as much about the income tax but freedom of speech and freedom of the Press.

While Carl Watner does not address the WikiLeaks case, in regards to the freedom of the Press Watner does address the Irwin Schiff case. Watner writes,

In Schiff’s case, the judge tried to prevent Schiff from “poisoning the minds of the people.” There was no way that the government could allow Schiff to refuse to pay his taxes, and get away with it. The Bolsheviks of the Russian Revolution were the first to use the term “poison” with regard to “contaminating” people’s minds. It was they who labeled the capitalist press “poisoners of the mind of the people.”

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State hegemony and the ability to command obedience actually grow out of ideas. It is ideology, not force or its threat, which causes most people to obey. That is why governments are so concerned about the unrestricted exposure of their people to a wide variety of ideas, particularly to those ideas which question its legitimacy. It would be suicide for a State to stand idle while it was being criticized and its power base was being undercut. If the State is to remain in control, it can never reconcile itself to unrestrained freedom of the press. Whether the State is trying to retain its legitimacy or fight for its life, as in time of war, it must generally control what the people think.

So, as the Trump administration seems to be threatening to attack Iran, and for no good reason just as the Bush administration attacked Iraq and Afghanistan, there are a lot of people including those shameful members of the compliant news media who obediently believe the feds’ outright propaganda and lies to justify another war of aggression.

So, we need truth tellers like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, like Irwin Schiff, to use their freedom of the Press to let the American people know the truth of the criminal racket that is their U.S. government.

News and Commentary

Zero Hedge with an article on which Obama bureaucrat is lying and which is telling the truth, Comey the commie or Lynch, or McCabe?

Mac Slavo on the U.S. Navy who wants to spy on Americans by archiving billions of social media posts.

Natalie Dowzicky on Joe Biden: warmonger.

Walter Williams on socialist promises promises.

And William L. Anderson writes about teaching in China.

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Paul Craig Roberts has this post on how the Assange/Manning cases discredit humanity, and he sure is not afraid to say what’s on his mind here. Corrupt U.S. national security state bureaucrats and judges are trying to pressure and coerce Manning to falsely testify against Assange, in other words to commit perjury, just as they were trying to coerce Jerome Corsi to commit perjury as part of the “Trump-Russia collusions” false accusations. Here, the agents of the U.S. regime want revenge against Manning and Assange for revealing the war crimes of the military.

Jon Rappoport’s WordPress.com blog is still down. But a blogger or twitter commenter linked to an archived article of his, from July of 2015: “Vaccines: an ideal covert op to genetically re-engineer humans.”

Gareth Porter asks, Do Iranian “threats” signal organized U.S.-Israel subterfuge?

Thomas Knapp says that a U.S. war on Iran would be evil, stupid, and self-damaging.

Ann Garrison reviews professor Stephen F. Cohen’s book, War with Russia?

And Laurence Vance says that Roe v. Wade did not legalize abortion in the United State. (Hmmm. Vance says that abortion actually was already legal in some states but with restrictions, prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. Especially in New York, which had the most liberal abortion policy.)

Donald Trump the Socialist

Tom Knapp: Donald Trump, socialist.

Trump Imprisons the Truth-Tellers But Wants to Pardon Murderers

It appears that the military-worshiping drone-murder-in-chief Donald Trump wants to pardon some military personnel who are either accused or convicted of murdering innocent civilians.

Meanwhile, Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, is being held in prison, as is Julian Assange, for their having revealed to the American people and to the world the various war crimes that the U.S. military had committed in Afghanistan and Iraq and other places where U.S. bureaucrats have no moral or constitutional authority to be, as well as revealing the diplomatic corruption of U.S. and other government officials.

An important, extensive new article details the Iraq War part of the WikiLeaks releases for which the U.S. and U.K. governments want to persecute the aforementioned truth-tellers.

So, the moral degenerate Trump believes that murderers of innocent people must get away with their crimes, but those who shine the light on them are to be tortured, imprisoned, and killed. (Trump being the authoritarian fascist was apparent for years, so no surprise there.)

News and Commentary

José Niño on why the elites look down on manual labor.

Robert Wenzel discusses Alex Tabarrok’s preferring more government interventionism than less in Venezuela, and Tabarrok’s misunderstanding of what is socialist and what is anarchist.

Jacob Hornberger says, Impeach Trump but only for the right reason.

Per Bylund says that tariffs are attacks on property rights and freedom.

Laurence Vance asks, Who actually pays for tariffs?

Robert Murphy debunks 3 modern arguments for tariffs.

Ron Paul says that the Violence Against Women Act does violence to the Constitution.

And Ammo.com with an article on the corresponding rise of antidepressants and mass shootings.

On Censorship of the Truth and Science

In reference to my recent post on investigative reporter Jon Rappoport’s WordPress.com blog taken down by the truth censors a week ago, he has written an update on that which is appearing on Activist Post. One important topic that he writes about is the vaccine issue, and I was speculating that that might be why the truth censors are censoring his blog now.

On his recent update, Rappoport writes

Why did they censor me? Was it my articles about toxic vaccines, about freedom of the individual vs. the State, about the CIA, about Obama, about Trump, about political liars, about medical drugs killing millions of people? Lots to choose from. Who really cares what it was exactly? It was CENSORSHIP.

I wasn’t laying out charts for building H-bombs. WordPress shut down my blog without notice or warning or explanation. However, I see no reason to stop writing. So I’m keeping on. I’ve got people employing “other means” to get the blog back up. Regardless, here I am.

And he writes, regarding the difference between being informed/knowledgeable and censorship:

In the 1950s, we had, in the US, a Red Scare. It consisted of Communist ideology. The question was, should students be allowed to read the Communist Manifesto, or should Marx’s pamphlet be burned and banned? The knee-jerk reaction was: ban the booklet. The minority opinion was: let students read it and understand it. But of course, the American school system hadn’t prepared pupils to analyze ANYTHING.

So there was no solution. The whole Red Scare faded away eventually, as a “kinder, gentler” Leftist ideology spread through the country like ink on a blotter.

EDUCATION SHOULD PREPARE PEOPLE TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS THROUGH THOUGHT AND LOGIC.

Censorship is the coward’s way out.

Censorship works when evil people accumulate enough power. This power CAN BE affected when a strong enough public reaction occurs. That’s called a clue.

As I wrote in my initial post on Jon Rappoport’s blog being taken down, in the news and on mainstream media we hear a lot of hysteria and propaganda on the vaccine issue. Especially now with the measles outbreak. Hysterical news media and establishment pharma-paid doctors are beating the drums with false information that the measles outbreak is being caused by unvaccinated people, yet the opposite is true. Studies are finding that the measles outbreaks are more among vaccinated populations, and because the vaccine itself is not effective.

The pharmaceutical industry definitely has a stranglehold on today’s establishment “doctors,” while those who cite studies questioning the vaccines or other pharmaceutical drugs are stifled.

Another item of propaganda is that studies have “debunked” the assertion that vaccines have caused injuries, especially in children, whose brains are still in important developing stages. I’ve linked to this before, but Sharyl Attkisson has this article on what the news isn’t saying about vaccine-autism studies. She details several studies, one after another. Yet, the typical response from the hypnotized and propagandized zombies is, “But that’s been debunked.” No, it’s not “debunked.”

And it isn’t just autism, but various kinds of cognitive issues, conditions and diseases including Alzheimer’s that could be in part related to vaccines. One explanation for this is the adjuvants used in vaccines, especially aluminum.

Would all the debunkers out there like to explain why the government has paid out over $4 billion in compensation for vaccine injuries, if there’s no problem with vaccines?

So, besides fascists like NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio ordering unvaccinated children to stay in even though they are not sick and pose no danger to anyone, we have the propagandists with their information control to censor the truth about this one issue, which seems to be soooo controversial that many people on both sides — the fascist side versus the freedom side — arguing for really no good reason.

And finally, it really is a matter of the right to informed choice and consent. So regarding those who want to make vaccines mandatory by law and who want to criminalize those who don’t get a vaccine, I will quote Tom Knapp on this, which I did before.

Debate Proposition:

Resolved, that there is no difference in principle between sticking a needle in someone’s body without his or her permission and sticking a penis in someone’s body without his or her permission.

More Important Articles

Carl Watner with an article on the State’s control over the medical industry: Life, liberty and quackery from a voluntaryist perspective.

Dr. Mercola asks, What’s the truth behind MMR vaccine testing?

Dr. Marilyn Singleton says that Medicare for All kills doctors’ freedom of conscience.

George F. Smith on the importance of exposing and challenging the monopoly of the State.

Mac Slavo on “cultural schizophrenia”: U.S. media no longer report facts, but appeal to emotions.

And Eric Margolis says that Trump should stop playing with fire.