George Rebane
Were we to discuss really serious topics beyond Trump’s trials and Biden’s lies, I can think of one no more important than that brought up by Victor Davis Hanson in a recent interview (here). We have extensively covered the various national and geo-strategic factors that portend to end America’s run as the world’s leading democratic republic, economy, and white hat world hegemon. However, most of our neighbors neither care nor are aware of what’s happening. As witnessed on these pages, if anything, they are more interested in Stormy Daniel’s testimony and various topical policy atrocities launched by our doddering idiot for president and Democrats at all levels of government (especially California).
This is not to say that there is no traction to the warnings issued by our more thoughtful political leaders and commentators (e.g. here) – so far, a sparsely populated bunch. Today more people are starting to take notice that there is now in the offing a likely “extinction” of the United States we have known. Letter writers (here) to serious publications like the WSJ acknowledge the current deterioration of America’s defense posture and industrial might, and are showing concern.
Material arguments summarize as follows –
- The US industrial base to make things from ships to medicines to machine tools is essentially gone.
- Our military is tragically under-manned and woke-corrupted with traditional cadres of enlistees no longer willing to join, let alone make military their career. Our country can no longer find enough people willing to fight for it.
- Our unimaginable national debt and reckless social spending programs are destroying the dollar and unseating it as the preferred currency for international commerce.
- Our open borders and illegal alien import policies are destroying the remnants of America’s public cultural cohesion with new levels of unassimilating multi-culturality never before witnessed in a sustainable and geographically compact jurisdiction.
- Our traditional allies in Europe and Asia are aware of America’s weak (non-existent?) leadership and feckless foreign policy, and are seeking alternative geo-strategic relationships that serve their national interests.
- Our electorate is split and largely ignorant of the issues facing the nation; and are in no shape to unify and support reasonably coherent policies to attempt a return to a usefully educated, economically healthy, fiscally sound, geographically secure, and culturally unified sovereign nation-state. Over half of us don’t care and want an autocratic global government run by elites, and the remainder want to return to a liberal constitutional government based on free-market capitalism.
- By passing laws, regulations, and prohibitive tax rates in a transforming neo-Marxist society, we no longer educate a sufficient cadre of high-end (STEM) workers with needed skillsets or provide them the means to produce wealth in an open-market capitalist economy.
So instead –
rebanesruminations.com 
254 responses to “‘The End is Near’”
Posted by: Scott O | 18 May 2024 at 05:37 PM
Paul is going soft in the melon just like his hero Biden.
I just assumed his minder was slacking off…playing “Words with Friends”….Sodoku….etc. Not watching where psul was web browsing or what he was posting.
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fish
Yes in his twisted mind he is still President. Sad but true. Don’t you ever listen to him when he rambles on about how the election was stolen? Do you regard Biden as the legitimate President of the United Sates and if not who is?
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Direct quote from Trump fish. Are you part of the 82% that believe the election was rigged and Trump is our actual President?
“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that it was a rigged election,” Trump said March 2 during a rally at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. “You can’t have a country with that. A poll came out: 82%. But they go after the people — they don’t go after the people that rig the election, they go after the people (that are) looking.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/2900213/trump-claims-82-percent-understand-2020-election-rigged/
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In order of your Trump obsession…..
Yes in his twisted mind he is still President. Sad but true.
Yes but your response to Scott was not written from his perspective it was written from yours and you clearly stated…..“For once I agree with you wjen (sic) you characterize Trump as a ” corrupt, senile, perverted sack of molecules who currently occupies the White House”.
He doesn’t “currently occupy the White House”. Do you still thinks that he does?
….and thanks in advance for agreeing with me.
Don’t you ever listen to him when he rambles on about how the election was stolen?
Now that he is no longer president I don’t pay a great deal of attention to him any more. I’m certainly not obsessed with him like you are.
….and thanks in advance for agreeing with me.
Do you regard Biden as the legitimate President of the United Sates and if not who is?
Asked and answered within the first two weeks after the transfer of power. I’m sure you don’t remember….you don’t seem to remember much at all these days…..discussions between you and George where you would repeatedly re-ask questions after he had provided perfectly clear and cogent responses, my name, answers provided on myriad topics by other posters where it was explicitly suggested that you write the answer down somewhere so the same ground wouldn’t need to be covered again, and again, and still again!
….and thanks in advance for agreeing with me.
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Now that he is no longer president I don’t pay a great deal of attention to him any more.
Sorry….horrible sentence! Not just regular bad….Emery level bad!
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Hmmmm….
Progressivism…..Individual Juan levels of obesity……so many possibilities!
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240517-the-human-brain-has-been-shrinking-and-no-one-quite-knows-why
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Trump is flipping out. I think the end is near for his campaign. Here’s his latest rant from a NRA convention for gun owners in Texas.
“Darah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary under Donald Trump, blasted the former president on Sunday for some of his comments that he made about President Joe Biden at the National Rifle Association (NRA) Convention in Dallas.
“If President Joe Biden was a Republican, he would have been given the electric chair, they would have brought back the death penalty,” Trump told the crowd on Saturday at the NRA’s annual meeting.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-blasted-sarah-matthews-joe-biden-electric-chair-remarks-1902273
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I think the end is near for his campaign.
Based on this statement from lefty Todd alone one would have to assume that the former president is a shoo in to win the 2024 presidential election.
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Yep, the campaign is nearing the end all right.
Punchy is calling it. You betcha!
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Your guy Trump guy is flipping out Gregory. You gotta be a nutcase to say something like that.
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My “guy Trump guy is flipping out”?
The only one who seems to be flipping out is you, Punch.
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Funny how the po ol ponytail of ignorance is mute on the lawfare failures. LOL
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Ha ha – “Your guy Trump guy(sic) is flipping out…”
And yet –
He’d still be a better choice for POTUS than any Dem.
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Whats worse than a shithole city, oakland. Here is a novel thought, enforce the law idiots. –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/oakland-locals-blame-homeless-encampment-city-removing-traffic-lights-stop-copper-thieves
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An honor graduate of the Shaprton – Jessee Jackson university of grift –
Former Facebook and Nike DEI manager sentenced to 5 years in prison for fraud scheme
Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, admitted to stealing millions from Facebook and Nike in kickback schemes
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/former-facebook-nike-dei-manager-sentenced-to-5-years-prison-for-fraud-scheme
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 19 May 2024 at 11:05 PM
Don’t know why Nike and Facebook are complaining…..DEI has never been anything other than an Affirmative Action grift. A chance for progressive whites to publicly feel good about themselves.
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Hopefully ‘The End is is Near’ for the shrunken-brained MAGA mental cases who continue to reminisce, falsely, about how great Trump is and how America was at its zenith was under his reign.
We all remember the economic shock the world experienced in 2008 at the end of the Bush term, and how the Obama administration worked to get the economy back on track with the pre-MAGA whining all the way through his administration as the stock market continued to rise and the economy improved.
Trump took the reins from Obama and shepherded a rising economy, giving back to the rich, until Covid hit resulting in an even greater economic shock to the world economy. Biden then took the reins from Trump and, like his predecessors, worked to successfully bring the economy back with the stock market continuing to hit all-time highs.
…and clown show MAGAs continue to whine…while wasting fuel driving around in circles with their false flag festooned pick-em-up trucks dressed in funny red caps, and parade around courthouses dressed in matchy-matchy red ties, and blue suits.
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Posted by: Real Old Fart Photographers or Morbidly Obese Queens of the Sierra Foothills | 20 May 2024 at 09:11 AM
Fixed that for you…..
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the 911 insanity…
The 2008 crash was precipitated by Clinton’s ushering in of free money for houses… let the poor get into homes they can’t afford so they can get on the capital escalator, too.
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How do you figure that Gregory?
Clinton’s Presidency ended 8 years before the 2008 crash Gregory. Bush was President since 2000 and controlled the House and Senate most of the time.
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Under Clinton, folks got hooked on easy terms on home loans and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got hooked on being able to sell the substandard paper sliced and diced, bundled together.
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I guess Punch ended up remembering the subprime mortgage mess that started with Clinton.
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“…and how the Obama administration worked to get the economy back on track”
Yes – we remember Obama screwing over GM bond holders, making cozy deals with insiders, letting crooks off the hook.
In the end, Obama’s economy was barely moving forward. When Trump claimed he would do better, Obama mocked him – how’d that work out?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2016/12/02/flashback-obama-mocks-trump-asks-if-he-has-a-magic-wand-to-keep-carrier-jobs-in-us-n2253723
“…who continue to reminisce, falsely, about how great Trump is…”
Yeah – Appointed good solid conservative supremes, no war in Ukraine or Palestine, low inflation…
Just false reminisces –
Are we, in the US, and those in the world better off now or under Trump?
Before you answer, maybe check the death count in Palestine and the Ukraine.
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Posted by: Scott O | 20 May 2024 at 05:07 PM
“…and how the Obama administration worked to get the economy back on track”
Yes – we remember Obama screwing over GM bond holders, making cozy deals with insiders, letting crooks off the hook.
Well that’s kind of like “getting the economy back on track”…..and just look at what his leadership did for the Greek Fishermen’s cap making & wearing industries.
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The end really is near…..
I’m sure Trump is “flipping out” though….lefty Todd said so.
What a maroon!
https://mishtalk.com/politics/trump-drama-courtroom-cleared-and-a-defense-motion-to-dismiss/
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Guess they aint black creepy grampa joe –
NYT Interviews 2 Dozen Black Philadelphia Voters, Just 8 Are Voting for Biden
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/05/20/nyt-interviews-2-dozen-black-philadelphians-8-voting-biden/
And in the name of piling on –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-is-denying-reality-he-s-losing-this-election/ar-BB1mJjE8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=53cbcf8748ba4cfdb5ebe86f4523e64d&ei=114
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So Scott was the economy when Trump left office better or worse than the one he inherited from Obama?
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Posted by: Punchy Bot | 20 May 2024 at 08:38 PM
At some point you’d think that embarrassment (about making the same idiotic arguments again and again) would kick in…..?
And thanks in advance for agreeing with me!
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fish emoji 8:52 – Psul is beyond rational thought and embarrassment.
He’s a Biden Butt-Licker and has proven terminal TDS.
He now claims he knows what Trump is thinking.
Sad.
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Posted by: Scott O | 20 May 2024 at 09:31 PM
He now claims he knows what Trump is thinking.
psulnac the 5150 candidate
https://imgflip.com/tag/carnac+the+magnificent
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Once again Scott
Was the economy when Trump left office better or worse than the one he inherited from Obama?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 May 2024 at 05:42 AM
Did Obama leave with an economy gripped by a world shutting pandemic? No….
Did Trump cause the pandemic? No….
Is your head still in the plastic bag….? Probably.
Like I said Punch…..at some point embarrassment has to kick in….and thanks in advance for agreeing with me.
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“Once again…..”
Yes – for the umteenth time.
And also once again – ever hear about that time our nation went insane and decided to hide under the bed for a couple of years?
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‘The End is Near’
Trump’s defense team rests their case.
All hat, no cattle Trump was not allowed off his leash to testify.
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fish, Scott
So what you’re saying is there was a reason for the dismal economy Biden inherited. I wasn’t asking for a reason only a comparison of the numbers. Simple question if you can handle that. Once again:
Was the economy when Trump left office better or worse than the one he inherited from Obama?
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“for the dismal economy Biden inherited.”
Wasn’t dismal – it was rebounding quite strongly until Biden won. Then, due to Biden’s actions the stock market went into the tank and federal “bailout” money was needlessly spent driving up our debt.
Biden has been wrecking our country ever since with deficit spending merely to buy votes.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 May 2024 at 12:50 PM
Was the economy when Trump left office better or worse than the one he inherited from Obama?
Hey….Matlock™ is back in town with his “yes or no” pretending he’s an attorney questions!
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“Trump was not allowed off his leash to testify”
Any good trial lawyer would tell you that Trump should not testify as there is nothing he could have said to sway the jurors that already want to find him guilty even before the trial began.
Can anyone out there explain to us what crime was supposedly committed?
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Scott
Trump signed and supported the “bailout” money legislation you referred to. That is common knowledge and I’m surprised you didn’t know about it.
“President Trump has signed the largest-ever US financial stimulus package, worth $2tn (£1.7tn), as the country grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52070718
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No Paul – I’m talking about the fed money spent under the Biden admin. By the time Biden took office there was no longer any need to continue spending covid bailout money. In fact a lot of states and cities spent the dough on all sorts of other things. And the “anti-inflation” spending was lunacy and made inflation worse. Just because the money was authorized, didn’t mean it needed to be spent.
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But Scott Trump authorized the money to be spent bu signing the bill. Also Trump ran up nearly 7 trillion in national debt during his 4 years in office. Debt increased by around 6.6 Trillion in only four years compared to Obama who ran up 7.6 Trillion in eight years.
https://www.investopedia.com/us-debt-by-president-dollar-and-percentage-7371225
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“Trump authorized the money to be spent”
You didn’t even read my post, did you Paul.
Blaming Trump for our nation’s collective insanity of shutting down the economy and living on printed money is ignorant nonsense. Had Trump vetoed the bill it would have been over-ridden.
Biden claims our economy is so great we have to pay off student debt because they can’t get jobs. Inflation is rampant. In fact – our economy is now so wonderful that we’re running a trillion in debt every hundred days. Why is that, Paul? It’s not because the IRS is getting less revenue.
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Scott
You write:
“Had Trump vetoed the bill it would have been over-ridden.”
Trump was President and the Repubs controlled the Senate when he signed the Bills authorizing the spending of the money that led to the debt. Trump was weak and ineffective and had no leadership ability.
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The money Trump “spent” was formally authorized by the Congress, but Punchy’s in-depth analsys of blame left that part out.
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Scott
The fact is that Trump wanted more stimulus money then that in in the Bill.
“Trump suggests he won’t sign relief bill into law unless Congress makes changes including increasing stimulus checks to $2,000”
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/22/trump-covid-relief-congress-stimulus/
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I am sure that the oh so noble ponytail of ignorance’s fiscal concerns prompted him to send back his stimulus check as soon as it was in his grubby little hands. LOL
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Creepy grampa joe has lost them –
Democrats in tough races are breaking with Biden over border security, liquified natural gas exports, the Israel-Hamas war and tariffs on Chinese goods.
They’re staying competitive in the polls despite Biden’s low approval ratings and lagging position relative to Trump, but they are worried the president’s political brand will start weighing them down as Election Day nears.
“If you go out there and do a focus group, the focus groups all say, ‘He’s 200 years old. You got to be kidding me.’
A second Democratic senator, when asked about Biden’s poll numbers, said the president’s age is a persistent concern among voters.
“Biden’s showing his age in ways weirdly more than Trump,” said the senator, who noted that Trump, 77, is only four years younger than Biden, 81.
“People keep saying, ‘Why didn’t he take a pass, he’s just so tired?’” the senator said of constituents who are baffled over Biden’s decision to run for a second term. “That is such a prevalent feeling.”
Biden sometimes appears to walk stiffly or with a shuffling gait, which Republican-aligned critics love to point out in social media posts.
The lawmaker also cited the high costs of basic goods and services as another political headwind facing Biden.
“People are shocked at the cost of a house and the cost of drugs,
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/alarmed-democrats-flee-biden-ailing-093000951.html
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Much of the white house staff are like the guy at the end of the circus parade cleaning up the shit all the time but hey they are in show biz! –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-five-white-house-makes-nine-corrections-to-biden-s-naacp-speech/vi-BB1mO6BQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=1404b3226cef4f0295b2364c6fbb46c8&ei=126
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Creepy grampa joe is the gaff that keeps on giving gibberish –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/21/video-biden-malfunctions-touts-signing-the-pacandlpacatlackack/
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So what about when its cold like so many municipalities have learned the hard way that its not ready for prime time. So signing a blank check when we have the county drawing down 20 million from reserves this year and no one knows the price of this! Then you have all the blackouts that the grid cannot handle now. LOL
The county is also planning to add 159 charging stations at 16 locations. But the installation cost estimates are not included. However, a full transition to zero emission vehicles could have a projected fuel savings of 16-million dollars.
https://knco.com/zero-emission-vehicles-ahead-for-nevada-county/
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