I believe that most of the Money went to the Health Insurance sector for bribing Doctors and Hospitals, then to the States to pay off Workers -effectively bribing them, and of course Educators and Their Institutions, then the Media and the Marketplace, in that order.
The money that the Military received is just a big Black Hole to me.
Naturally We The People were the last on the list.
But they didn't help us small business owners who were forced to close. I will NEVER forgive what they did to me. I am pissed that Trump signed the CARES Act. I read it in 2020 and knew it was a money maker for the medical industrial complex and big business. Along with a ton of politicians.
Our business was also crushed. We were in hospitality and tourism, and probably could've handled "two weeks to flatten the curve" but not two years. My partner no longer has the inclination to start over, only to have Them pull the rug out from under us again. We were also pissed that the CARES ACt gave 3.4 billion to bill gates' GAVI.
I feel your pain and I am so sorry. I have always been a strong, resilient person but these 5+ years have destroyed me emotionally, physically and financially. I HATE my government.
Pax Americana? Uppsala University in Sweden identifies 285 distinct armed conflicts having taken place since 1946. The typical number of conflicts each year is between 30 and 50 with armed conflicts divided into three categories: "state-based", "non-state", and "one-sided" conflicts.
It will be. A world without wars. We still have something to look forward to. Everyone deserves a second chance. Our human kind, too. And if not deserved, we are invited to take it as a present.
When Letitia James says students and teachers are counting on Covid money to succeed, how would that success be measured? An inner city school where more than half the students are literate? Schools again matching the achievement levels of 1964? U.S. students moving up from 41st in the world to 40th? Harvard no longer needing remedial math classes for first year students? A Supreme Court Justice able to define the word "woman" and knowing men can't get pregnant?
The propaganda media highlights every judicial injunction that attempts to stop Trump's attempts to end waste. This keeps the bluesky cohort happy, but they seldom report the majority of these injunctions are stayed on appeal.
Very well said John. We need to learn from history at this point to survive really. The problem I see in many Americans and elites specially it their arrogance-we are a rich country, we are great, we can afford it- type of mentality. The other day I was watching a news about Israel taking over Gaza but that new wasn't really a new what it was grave was what the general who was being interviewed said and that is more budget for the USA military complex so we can defend ourselves of mainly China creating a Dome around. How he extrapolated what is happening in Israel with us investing in more security??? I thought we were very well covered with all the money we give to the military complex but it looks like China can overcomes us.
This shows me that nothing had changed and China is the new Russia and we must invest more money in defense. I am waiting as many millions of Americans for Trump to end the war in Ukraine and Israel, but of course that is not happening. It looks like we are enabling the missiles of the Ukrainians (they cannot do it without us because that is the way our missiles work) so we really did not take out support from them, only in talking. I am afraid that this will not end well and Trump is not the "naive" person he was "allegedly" in his first presidency, but since he chose Vance I stop trusting him and then with the other people he surrounded that nobody talks about, is complicated. He threw some bones to us in the beginning but I think that was for the spectacle effect (there is a very good book by a french who talks about the spectacle in societies) but the serious issues still are without resolved or worst.
The conspiracy theorists talk about the elites want a WWIII to reset the world (only the West is being destroyed, I don't hear that all the regulations as carbon print and all that non-sense have been imposed in China or Russia or other countries) maybe they are right but thanks to the pandemic people are looking at things differently, they understand now that what happens in the world affect us directly and that we are all connected and we must stop be living in a bubble.
It's not just the CARES Act funding, there was also the ESSER funding. The schools were given until 2025 to spend it. They were told not to blow it on salaries that would then be permanent in the budget, or other unwise things, but most did not listen, so now they've institutionalized a new, higher level of spending.
It was all an effort to lull the people into feelings of wellness and complacency. It can't be too bad if we have all this money to spend. It was part of the psy-op. The DoD meant for the reality of the situation -- children and adults were being poisoned -- to be obscured. It was all bout control and deceit.
Massachusettds had $4.2 billion left over, so they were goinjg to give everyone $500. What good is that?
I am recommending to reader check out this article on American Thinker today called 'DOGE Is Doing the Clean-Up Leftists Can’t Stand'. In it the author Joan Swirsky brings a wonderful analogy to the table. This conspiracy operation that is now being exposed is so vast, and involved with so many pockets, it makes Bernie Maddoff look like he was just lucky.
So that's iroic, Trump created the money pipeline to the "schools" and now the same Trump is trying to stop that same pipeline. But really what the REALissue is, is "truancy laws". Truancy laws are BULLSHIT and it's nobody's fucking business how or why I educate my children. This is fucking ass 2025 and there is no fucking need for pathetic low bar piece of shit "public education". And there is no fucking need for truancy "laws" as well, and FUCK the police who enforce these bastard truancy laws. Actually if we want to get REAL and speak the fucking TRUTH, the reason for the vast majority of humanity's problems are fucking ass piece of shit POLICE. It's the fucking police who enforce the bullshit and dam every single one of these mother fuckers. Humanity needs to figure out a way how to ABOLISH the mother fucking police. These dumbass police are ALWAYS looking for trouble, if they're not looking and looking and looking and looking and looking and looking for DRUGS, they're looking for expired tags, or "suspicious" activity, or burned out license plate bulbs - I was pulled over once for a burned out license plate bulb - but here's the thing - you could STILL see the mother fucking license plate because it has TWO bulbs. It's just slightly less illuminated at night. Total BULLSHIT stop. Now brakes lights not working ??, OK, I get that, but a fucking license plate bulb - when there's two of them ?? Then of course these sons of bitches have to shine their BILLION lumen flashlight in your car again {can you guess ??} looking and looking FOR DRUGS. These fucking mother fuckers think that every mother fucker is on fucking drugs !! I'm so tired of that shit. Why can't these cockbite pieces of shit just go get another fucking job ?? Resign the fucking police force and go do something fucking productive like wash dishes or clean toilets or pick up the garbage. But sorry for the tangent, but Truancy "laws" is the root cause for the education problems. At the very least you should not be compelled to attend "school" and take a risk of being in a Uvalde type Pumped up Kicks "event". All public schools are, are PRISONS for minors, all complete with the yellow prison bus, and nowadays the minors have to wear a NWO "ID" badge. Imagine that, they force the minor to report to kid prison, but to get inside kid prison, you have to show an "ID". No wonder the world is so fucked up.
That chimeric predator in the book of a certain John written on a Greek island is still alive, even though it was seen as slain long ago. It is the patience of God, we learn. We are called to present ourselves pure and ready for a new time. The number is still not fulfilled, yet. The call remains. Lest we not fall but stand upright and unblemished. There is a great work awaiting to be done: a mankind to be lead to a peace as it has never been before.
As usual, thoughtful and concise. My mind toys with the question: what if we (the United States) had to live within our means for one year (NO deficit spending; existing payments on existing debt continuing to be paid). What would that look like ? Just let your mind play on that for a few moments. One of my initial thoughts is: unimaginable. In the sense that my imaginative mind can't get started.
I just saw Shapiro’s self congratulatory message for his success in getting the money released. Obviously, he didn’t mention that it was Covid Relief money nor that it wasn’t his lawsuit alone that resulted in money being available to PA. Boy, even the people who you think might be legit are just as deceptive as the next politician.
I believe that most of the Money went to the Health Insurance sector for bribing Doctors and Hospitals, then to the States to pay off Workers -effectively bribing them, and of course Educators and Their Institutions, then the Media and the Marketplace, in that order.
The money that the Military received is just a big Black Hole to me.
Naturally We The People were the last on the list.
But they didn't help us small business owners who were forced to close. I will NEVER forgive what they did to me. I am pissed that Trump signed the CARES Act. I read it in 2020 and knew it was a money maker for the medical industrial complex and big business. Along with a ton of politicians.
Our business was also crushed. We were in hospitality and tourism, and probably could've handled "two weeks to flatten the curve" but not two years. My partner no longer has the inclination to start over, only to have Them pull the rug out from under us again. We were also pissed that the CARES ACt gave 3.4 billion to bill gates' GAVI.
I feel your pain and I am so sorry. I have always been a strong, resilient person but these 5+ years have destroyed me emotionally, physically and financially. I HATE my government.
The "boss" (people) get paid last. Payday is coming.
Pax Americana? Uppsala University in Sweden identifies 285 distinct armed conflicts having taken place since 1946. The typical number of conflicts each year is between 30 and 50 with armed conflicts divided into three categories: "state-based", "non-state", and "one-sided" conflicts.
Thanks for link to Uppsala data.
Without compassion and mercy war is inevitable. We fight for survival from the outset, life consumes life. I can't imagine a world without war.
It will be. A world without wars. We still have something to look forward to. Everyone deserves a second chance. Our human kind, too. And if not deserved, we are invited to take it as a present.
When Letitia James says students and teachers are counting on Covid money to succeed, how would that success be measured? An inner city school where more than half the students are literate? Schools again matching the achievement levels of 1964? U.S. students moving up from 41st in the world to 40th? Harvard no longer needing remedial math classes for first year students? A Supreme Court Justice able to define the word "woman" and knowing men can't get pregnant?
The propaganda media highlights every judicial injunction that attempts to stop Trump's attempts to end waste. This keeps the bluesky cohort happy, but they seldom report the majority of these injunctions are stayed on appeal.
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Very well said John. We need to learn from history at this point to survive really. The problem I see in many Americans and elites specially it their arrogance-we are a rich country, we are great, we can afford it- type of mentality. The other day I was watching a news about Israel taking over Gaza but that new wasn't really a new what it was grave was what the general who was being interviewed said and that is more budget for the USA military complex so we can defend ourselves of mainly China creating a Dome around. How he extrapolated what is happening in Israel with us investing in more security??? I thought we were very well covered with all the money we give to the military complex but it looks like China can overcomes us.
This shows me that nothing had changed and China is the new Russia and we must invest more money in defense. I am waiting as many millions of Americans for Trump to end the war in Ukraine and Israel, but of course that is not happening. It looks like we are enabling the missiles of the Ukrainians (they cannot do it without us because that is the way our missiles work) so we really did not take out support from them, only in talking. I am afraid that this will not end well and Trump is not the "naive" person he was "allegedly" in his first presidency, but since he chose Vance I stop trusting him and then with the other people he surrounded that nobody talks about, is complicated. He threw some bones to us in the beginning but I think that was for the spectacle effect (there is a very good book by a french who talks about the spectacle in societies) but the serious issues still are without resolved or worst.
The conspiracy theorists talk about the elites want a WWIII to reset the world (only the West is being destroyed, I don't hear that all the regulations as carbon print and all that non-sense have been imposed in China or Russia or other countries) maybe they are right but thanks to the pandemic people are looking at things differently, they understand now that what happens in the world affect us directly and that we are all connected and we must stop be living in a bubble.
My question is, has president Trump autonomy?
We NEED a bloody revolution!! Sorry, NOT sorry! It is the only way we will ever again see ACCOUNTABILITY in this nation!!
Blood is coming.
I just love the way you weave historical events into your writing, thanks as always John
It's not just the CARES Act funding, there was also the ESSER funding. The schools were given until 2025 to spend it. They were told not to blow it on salaries that would then be permanent in the budget, or other unwise things, but most did not listen, so now they've institutionalized a new, higher level of spending.
It was all an effort to lull the people into feelings of wellness and complacency. It can't be too bad if we have all this money to spend. It was part of the psy-op. The DoD meant for the reality of the situation -- children and adults were being poisoned -- to be obscured. It was all bout control and deceit.
Massachusettds had $4.2 billion left over, so they were goinjg to give everyone $500. What good is that?
I am recommending to reader check out this article on American Thinker today called 'DOGE Is Doing the Clean-Up Leftists Can’t Stand'. In it the author Joan Swirsky brings a wonderful analogy to the table. This conspiracy operation that is now being exposed is so vast, and involved with so many pockets, it makes Bernie Maddoff look like he was just lucky.
So that's iroic, Trump created the money pipeline to the "schools" and now the same Trump is trying to stop that same pipeline. But really what the REALissue is, is "truancy laws". Truancy laws are BULLSHIT and it's nobody's fucking business how or why I educate my children. This is fucking ass 2025 and there is no fucking need for pathetic low bar piece of shit "public education". And there is no fucking need for truancy "laws" as well, and FUCK the police who enforce these bastard truancy laws. Actually if we want to get REAL and speak the fucking TRUTH, the reason for the vast majority of humanity's problems are fucking ass piece of shit POLICE. It's the fucking police who enforce the bullshit and dam every single one of these mother fuckers. Humanity needs to figure out a way how to ABOLISH the mother fucking police. These dumbass police are ALWAYS looking for trouble, if they're not looking and looking and looking and looking and looking and looking for DRUGS, they're looking for expired tags, or "suspicious" activity, or burned out license plate bulbs - I was pulled over once for a burned out license plate bulb - but here's the thing - you could STILL see the mother fucking license plate because it has TWO bulbs. It's just slightly less illuminated at night. Total BULLSHIT stop. Now brakes lights not working ??, OK, I get that, but a fucking license plate bulb - when there's two of them ?? Then of course these sons of bitches have to shine their BILLION lumen flashlight in your car again {can you guess ??} looking and looking FOR DRUGS. These fucking mother fuckers think that every mother fucker is on fucking drugs !! I'm so tired of that shit. Why can't these cockbite pieces of shit just go get another fucking job ?? Resign the fucking police force and go do something fucking productive like wash dishes or clean toilets or pick up the garbage. But sorry for the tangent, but Truancy "laws" is the root cause for the education problems. At the very least you should not be compelled to attend "school" and take a risk of being in a Uvalde type Pumped up Kicks "event". All public schools are, are PRISONS for minors, all complete with the yellow prison bus, and nowadays the minors have to wear a NWO "ID" badge. Imagine that, they force the minor to report to kid prison, but to get inside kid prison, you have to show an "ID". No wonder the world is so fucked up.
That chimeric predator in the book of a certain John written on a Greek island is still alive, even though it was seen as slain long ago. It is the patience of God, we learn. We are called to present ourselves pure and ready for a new time. The number is still not fulfilled, yet. The call remains. Lest we not fall but stand upright and unblemished. There is a great work awaiting to be done: a mankind to be lead to a peace as it has never been before.
As usual, thoughtful and concise. My mind toys with the question: what if we (the United States) had to live within our means for one year (NO deficit spending; existing payments on existing debt continuing to be paid). What would that look like ? Just let your mind play on that for a few moments. One of my initial thoughts is: unimaginable. In the sense that my imaginative mind can't get started.
OK, then I had a moment of Dark Humor: First reactions to the year of living without deficits.
1) Trump announces that he will FORCE the exit of JayPOW.
2) The Courageous Discourses Club captures Bessent, sits him down, and gives him a strong dose of truth serum, and gets him talking.
I just saw Shapiro’s self congratulatory message for his success in getting the money released. Obviously, he didn’t mention that it was Covid Relief money nor that it wasn’t his lawsuit alone that resulted in money being available to PA. Boy, even the people who you think might be legit are just as deceptive as the next politician.
Like forests, societies must also burn, to be renewed.......
So is fire.