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’”
Easy, Bessee, easy, or you were going to pull that string of pearls right off your neck. The article states that they are estimating it’s going to be $300,000 a year in additional expenses.
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“Gives you the opportunity to apply for local and/or state grants and incentives for electric vehicles”
There we go – state grants and incentives!
And California is how far in debt?
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A new John Deere 410 backhoe will set you back $200,000.
Obviously it’s going to cost a lot to replace equipment in the future – diesel or electric.
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All this new equipment to reduce CO2 by a tiny amount.
It won’t make a difference to the climate. Take my word for it.
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“All this new equipment to reduce CO2 by a tiny amount.”
By the time you factor in the extra cost (all money has a carbon footprint), the total life-cycle CO2 output of the vehicles, and the recycling of the batteries – there is no reduction.
The promised increase of CO2 from India and China alone completely wipe out any projected reduction from Europe and the US.
Mandated electric vehicles are an economic disaster. Ask Ford and GM.
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“This is an example of Bayes Theorem in action.”
“These additional facts put the upside-down flag in a different light. As a general matter, perhaps we might have thought that Martha-Ann Alito did not know its meaning. But when the flag is flown in direct response to anti-Trump attacks and specifically linked to January 6th, the probabilities shift significantly. It strains credulity to suppose that she did not know she was using a pro-Trump symbol when she was responding to an anti-Trump assault—indeed, given the additional facts we now have, we are more likely to think that she almost certainly chose the symbol precisely because she did know its meaning and wanted to invoke it in response. Knowing the context changes the probability.
It is generous of Martha-Ann Alito’s defenders to posit that she might have been ignorant of what she was saying. But like Monty Hall’s contestant, in light of the additional facts provided by the context of her actions, they would be wise to change their choice.”
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/alitos-monty-hall-problem-flag-upside-down-jan-6?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Real MAGA 0117pm – Upside down flag as “an insurrectionist symbol”? Not at all. Old Glory flown upside down has always been a call for help or assistance. Moreover, “the U.S. flag code, which is not legally enforceable, specifically says that the flag is not to be inverted “except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property.” Such display of the flag had NOTHING to do with insurrection, but had everything to do with Ms Alito’s desire to express her dire distress about the unwarranted attacks her candidate was the target of by the nation’s leftwing cadres. It is only our Left, indoctrinating the ignorant and imbecilic, that has attributed these new anti-Trump meanings to the inverted flag.
And the reference to the Monty Hall problem illustrates that the author at best has a very rudimentary understanding of Bayes, and no understanding at all about the disconnect between Monty Hall and the intent of the flag display.
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So George do you believe there is no validity to any of the criminal charges against Trump?
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No validity whatsoever, Punch, of the ones in the trial that has just had the prosecutor rest.
They were all BS charges. Doesn’t mean the jury won’t take the easy way out.
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Gregory
It is only your opinion that they were BS charges. The Prosecution believes otherwise. What information do you have to support your contention?
How about the other criminal charges? There are 88 criminal offenses against him in four criminal cases.
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Try reading Dersh or another great lawyer without an axe to grind.
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Gregory
Do your BS charges apply all the 88 charges Gregory?
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Lerch committed treason sucking up to those mutha mullahs –
But Grassley and Johnson received unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures which they say show that “while the Obama-Biden administration publicly committed to ‘preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons by raising the cost of Iran’s defiance of the international community,’ then-Secretary of State John Kerry actively interfered with the Federal Bureau of Investigation executing arrest warrants on individuals in the U.S. illegally supporting Iranian efforts, including financial efforts, to develop weapons of mass destruction and its ballistic missile program.”
The records, according to the senators, show that the Justice Department and FBI leadership, including then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey “failed to take the necessary steps to stop Kerry’s obstructive efforts against law enforcement.”
One email — an unclassified FBI email from August 25, 2017 — detailed at least eight instances connected to the Iran nuclear deal where “the FBI/DOJ/USG could have moved forward with the cases but the State Department chose to block them.”
According to the records, in six of these instances, the FBI “lost the opportunity to arrest the main subject.”
The email says that one of the subjects the FBI was unable to arrest was “on the Terrorism Watch List” and another “returned to Iran.”
The email further says that the State Department “blocked” one planned FBI arrest while the subject was “mid-flight and the subject was forced to leave the US immediately upon arrival.”
The email also claims at least two targets were arrested only after “State lifted their block…since the new [Trump] Administration took office.”
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/obama-state-dept-blocked-fbi-185625894.html
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George Rebane 22 May 2024 at 02:03 PM
I suggest you respond the the author of The Bulwark article.
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“Gregory
It is only your opinion that they were BS charges.”
Further proof that Paul simply does not venture far from a few lefty headlines.
The feds wouldn’t even prosecute Trump for this crap and the statute of limitations ran out on the other charges. The DA is just throwing mud against the wall and draging Trump through the trial during a campaign season and hopes he can get a jury of Trump haters to convict. If he does it absolutely will be thrown out on appeal – but that won’t take place till after the election. How convenient.
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“I suggest you respond the the author of The Bulwark article.”
Yeah – because the lefty clown that posted the link to the article has no rebuttal.
The article is full of possibly, maybe, could be, and we don’t have a shred of proof as to the intentions.
There was no insurrection. Get over it.
Unless you want us to believe Trump wanted federal troops in place to block his “insurrection”.
Hilarious!
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Scotts 6:32 is further proof that he has no respect for the process of law. Trump has been accuse of breaking the law and it is up to the jury to determine his innocence or guilt.
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The pendulum is swinging back to normal after the soros DA’s create chaos filled shitholes. –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/progressive-oregon-district-attorney-ousted-tough-crime-challenger
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“Scotts 6:32 is further proof that he has no respect for the process of law.”
Objecting to a DA bringing bogus charges is “no respect for the law”???!!
OK, Matlock.
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What exactly is bogus about the charges Scott? Can you explain that…
Isn’t it the job of the jury to determine that?
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Ignorant does as ignorant is @ 837 LOL
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Paul 8:37 – No Paul, the jury wouldn’t be allowed to tell the DA his charges are bogus.
I’ll let J Hinderaker explain it in clear terms:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/trump-goes-on-trial.php
He’s a trial lawyer with over 40 years of experience.
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Here’s more for Paul:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/trump-indictment-as-bad-as-we-thought.php
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File this under “the end is near”.
Drudge is running plenty of scare headlines this morning. This one is hilarious:
“Power use in Texas was on track to break the record for the month of May for a second time this week on Friday and could top that again over the Memorial Day weekend as homes and businesses crank up their air conditioners to escape a heat wave.”
Forecast shows absolutely normal weather for the end of May in the DFW area. Texas has a “heat wave” starting in May and it goes through October every year. Since the population has been booming for a while and they do sell e-cars there then of course they will break records for electricity use.
DUH.
Now lets add millions of illegals and everyone in e-cars as the Dems want and then what will happen to the use of electricity?
Oh, no! MORE records broken!
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From House hearings yesterday, revealing new info about Fauci & one of his hirelings, Dr. David Morens. Little of the actual content of the FOIA’d emails was redacted, other than email addresses or phone numbers. I counted 15 of his emails in this press release from the House Oversight Committee.
It shows how little ethical structure there was in the NIH leaders’ spinal cords.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/new-covid-select-memo-details-allegations-of-wrongdoing-and-illegal-activity-by-dr-faucis-senior-scientific-advisor/
Yes, that’s right, FOIA is now officially a verb, as used in one of David Morens’ emails.
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Posted by: Scott O | 23 May 2024 at 07:57 AM
Forecast shows absolutely normal weather for the end of May in the DFW area. Texas has a “heat wave” starting in May and it goes through October every year.
Sometimes longer if my time in basic training was any indication!
Gotta hand it to them though….this kind of thing works wonders with the duggy’s, jeffy’s and psulies residing in your former neck of the woods!
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Posted by: Scott O | 23 May 2024 at 07:57 AM
re: Terror headlines
I seem to remember persistent consternation due to the lack of hurricane activity over the last 20 years!
“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brace-yourself-florida-latest-preseason-143302922.html
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Sample of 1 of the emails written by Morens. The press release is from the House Oversight Committee, so there is a 5% chance something may happen to him or Fauci or Frank Collins.
“i learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so i think we are all safe” Morens wrote in an email (February 24, 2021, 9:21 AM). “Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.”
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Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 23 May 2024 at 08:28 AM
“i learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so i think we are all safe” Morens wrote in an email (February 24, 2021, 9:21 AM). “Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.”
“….so there is a 5% chance something may happen to him or Fauci or Frank Collins.”
Oh I hope so!
You’d think these bucket heads would learn to stop sending email!
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“You’d think these bucket heads would learn to stop sending email!”
Or use aliases like Biden.
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Real MAGA 613pm – I don’t have to respond to every leftwinger with distorted views, but only to those on these pages who believe and cite such tripe. Were you interested in the verity of your sources, you would be the one to first question them.
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What happens when you lie for years and get caught! –
CNN suffered its worst ratings among primetime viewers in the most coveted demographic by advertisers — dealing a gut punch to embattled new boss Mark Thompson.
The cable channel, which touts itself as “the most trusted name in news,” drew just 83,000 viewers aged 25 to 54 during the week of May 13-19 from 8 to 11 p.m. — its lowest-rated week since 1991, according to Nielsen.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/cnn-primetime-ratings-hit-three-172507650.html
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George Rebane | 23 May 2024 at 09:55 AM
Did you read the article that I referenced?
Here is the first part of the article. Perhaps you can enlighten us to the errors the author makes.
“FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR with the premise of the game: A contestant is confronted with three concealed choices, one of which is a winning choice (e.g., a car) and the other two of which are losing choices (e.g., a donkey). The contestant randomly chooses one of the possibilities—“I’ll take door number one, Monty.” At that point, Monty Hall, who knows where the good prize is hidden, opens one of the two unchosen doors to reveal a donkey and asks the contestant if he wants to change his choice. Most do not, but the mathematically correct answer is that you should change.
This is an example of Bayes Theorem in action. Named after Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher, the theorem is based on the realization that the probability of an event occurring can be calculated based on one’s prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. In a vacuum of information, we might, for example, predict a person’s life expectancy based on the average for all Americans alive today. But if we add in other known factors—the person’s age, gender, etc.—our statistical model changes. In short, Bayes Theorem is the idea that probabilities change the more information you have and that you should take new information into account and reassess your probabilities based on that information.
That’s what is happening to Monty Hall’s contestant. The guest now has more information—that one specific door did not have and never had the car behind it. That new information changes the odds substantially. And if you work it out, his best result is to change his choice and pick the other door. It’s not a guaranteed win, but changing increases his odds substantially.
Here’s another example: Some time ago I had a neighbor who was a quiet, slightly nerdy sort. In the vacuum of information about him beyond our everyday interactions, I’d never have thought of him as a criminal. But one day the FBI raided his house. And that one piece of information changed the probabilities—given his nerdy nature plus the fact of an FBI investigation, I was pretty confident in supposing he was under suspicion for some sort of computer-related criminal act. It turned out that was the case. New information changed the probabilities.”
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“What exactly is bogus about the charges Scott? Can you explain that…
Isn’t it the job of the jury to determine that?”
-Punchy
With a Judge and a Persecutor in cahoots? And a jury selected from a pool of folk who hate the accused? And a star witness known to be a liar?
Have you watched any of the Dershows on the whole hot mess?
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Looks like its the end for liberal late night talk shows –
Monday’s installment of Greg Gutfeld’s hit show averaged a whopping 2.9 million total viewers with 342,000 in the advertiser-coveted demo ages 25-54.
“Gutfeld!” also trounced the liberal late-night shows with CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” averaging just 1.8 million total viewers, followed by ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with 1.6 million average total viewers and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with 1.2 million.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-gutfeld-scores-biggest-214145502.html
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Thats just 2 of God knows who creepy grampa joe and the socialists let in –
One of two Jordanian nationals who attempted to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia earlier this month crossed into the U.S. illegally in April before being released, while the other was a foreign student whose status was terminated in January, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Both individuals were apprehended on May 3, 2024, after they attempted to breach the Marine Corp base.
A spokesperson for the base said two people in a box truck were stopped at a gate, with the driver allegedly telling military police officers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon.
“In keeping with Department of Justice policy, the FBI can neither confirm nor deny conducting specific investigations,” an FBI spokesperson said. “It is also our policy to neither confirm nor deny whether specific individuals are on a watchlist.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is now facing scrutiny over the incident.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-confirms-jordanians-attempted-breach-marine-corps-base-quantico-both-us-illegally
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Gregory writes:
With a Judge and a Persecutor in cahoots? And a jury selected from a pool of folk who hate the accused? And a star witness known to be a liar?”
Speaking of liars Gregory do you believe Trump when he says he didn’t have sex with Stormy D?
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George
When you refer to us returning to a “culturally unified sovereign nation-state” does that mean we should unify as Christians?
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Typical Paul – the subject is the fraudulent law-fare trial. Paul wants proof and it is provided. Paul then just reverts to Trump, Trump, Trump.
TDS – it’s real, folks. It totally destroys the brain.
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Punchy, what does that matter? Trump isn’t charged with bonking Spermy D…
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Gregory 8:49 –
Paul doesn’t even know what Trump is charged with.
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Posted by: Scott O | 23 May 2024 at 09:03 PM
Paul doesn’t even know what Trump is charged with.
I guess I can’t believe we’re still talking about Punch’s hobby?!
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Paul is a good place-holder here for the average low-information voter run around by the nose by the major news outlets. He exhibits nothing but TDS and some lefty headline sound bites.
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Another “the end is near” story. Apparently a large chunk of the population is gliding into retirement with only enough monthly income for an SS-funded flop house sort of existence and not the easy street of life on the fairway or shuffle board on an ocean cruise.
The howler is that the crux of this particular article is that poor Larry Fink isn’t getting a large enough stream of dough into his investment funds.
The solution proffered is a fed govt mandated money grab out of folks’ paychecks. Of course that doesn’t mean it will necessarily all go to BlackRock – but just maybe there will be an uptick of available funds for the financial monster.
We are told that “capitalists” will be for this sort of plan, but they kinda left out the free market prefix.
And of course this is to “help” the average American who would other wise fritter his money away on mortgage payments and food and gasoline and what not.
Just remember:
It’s for the children.
Everyone is doing swell because someone else owes them money.
and
You will own nothing and be happy!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/america-s-38-trillion-retirement-pool-is-nowhere-near-enough/ar-BB1mY9CC
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Posted by: Scott O | 24 May 2024 at 07:40 AM
He exhibits nothing but TDS and some lefty headline sound bites.
Yes…..and the boundless energy of the truly mentally disturbed.
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fish, Scott, Gregory
Of course Trump isn’t being charged with having sex with Stormy D. Never said he was. It just shows what a scummy character is and he’s a liar by denying it. For your review this is what Trump is being accused of. There are 34 counts in the indictment. You can follow the link. If you don’t I’ll send them all for you to see.
https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf
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FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE
Ooooooh. Scary stuff.
So, what did the gory details given by Spermy do to justify FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE?
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….the boundless energy of the truly mentally disturbed.
….and thanks in advance for agreeing with me.
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That’s what the trial is for Gregory. The Jury will make that decision. She is just one of several who testified. In case you didn’t know it that’s how our system works.
Did you read the indictments by any chance?
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Our system requires a clear statement of what the accused is accused of.
Marxist justice is show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.
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