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Republican platform is largely silent on proposals to reduce federal spending.

The 2024 Republican platform promises that, if Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans gain complete control of Congress, they will reduce inflation. The platform contains some proposals, such as reducing regulations and extending the 2017 tax reductions, that may help lower prices in some sectors and spur economic growth. However, the GOP platform does not address how the Federal Reserve’s enabling of spendaholic politicians contributes to price inflation.

Other than an obligatory promise to cut “wasteful” spending, and a pledge to eliminate the Department of Education, the Republican platform is largely silent on proposals to reduce federal spending.

The GOP’s apparent desire to increase military spending is a disappointment to those of us who hoped the increased skepticism of foreign intervention among Republican voters would dampen Republican enthusiasm for the military-industrial complex. The platform also opposes any reduction in Social Security and Medicare. So, the “fiscally responsible” Republicans want to increase spending on one of the largest items in federal spending (“defense”) while opposing cuts in two others (Social Security and Medicare). Interest on the national debt, another of the top spending items, will continue growing under a Republican government. The only way Republicans may look like champions of small government is by comparison with the Democrats.

While it is disappointing that the Republican platform rejects fiscal responsibility, it is not surprising. President Trump increased the national debt by between seven and eight trillion dollars. While spending did explode with the covid lockdowns, the debt increased by trillions between Trump’s inauguration and the covid-inspired spending spree. Spending increased during Trump’s first two years in office, when Republicans controlled Congress. This is not the first time a Republican president has betrayed his promise to cut spending: Both President Bushes, as well as President Reagan, campaigned on pledges to cut spending then increased spending and debt while in office.

Politicians could not increase the national debt unless the Federal Reserve monetizes the debt by purchasing Treasury bonds and increasing the money supply to keep interest rates low. The need to monetize the debt is the main reason the central bank must keep interest rates from rising to anywhere near market levels. According to Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Brian Riedl, every one percent increase in interest rates increases federal interest payments by 35 trillion dollars spread out over three decades.

It is no coincidence that the rise of the debt-based economy with ever-growing levels of consumer, business, and (especially) government debt — along with the accelerated decline of the dollar’s purchasing power, which reduces Americans’ standards of living — all occurred after President Nixon severed the last link between the dollar and gold. Yet, the Republican platform does not call for Congress to pass the Audit the Fed legislation, much less create a free market in money by legalizing competing currencies. Of course, the platform does not endorse ending the Fed’s ability to monetize federal debt by forbidding the Fed to purchase federal debt instruments.

It remains up to those of us who know the truth to keep spreading the message that the real key to making America great again is to make money real again by auditing and ending the Fed.

This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.

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The palace coup against Biden reveals the managed nature of American democracy

Looks like I’m one for two when it comes to big predictions about US politics.

Yes, Donald Trump’s opponents tried to assassinate him, just like I predicted back in December, but no, Biden is not going to be the Democrat candidate for president.

You win some, you lose some, I guess.

I thought the admission of a “Biden oligarchy,” made a few weeks ago in the most casual manner by Axios after the calamity that was Biden’s debate performance, would be a chance to put managed democracy on the ballot for the very first time in American history. The ticket would have been something like, “Anything but Trump,” and voters would have been encouraged to welcome a shady unelected oligarchy running a senile president, simply because it would mean—well, anything but Trump.

Anything but four more years of Orange Man Bad.

Anything but four more years of American fascism and the return of the Trumpian redcaps to power.

The “Biden oligarchy,” according to Axios, was a “group of lifelong loyalists” that included his wife Dr Jill Biden, his sister, his close confidant Ted Kaufman and “a small band of advisors.” These people, Axios boldly proclaimed, would be the ones to make the decision for the President whether he would drop out o the race.

“The only way President Biden steps aside, despite his debate debacle, is if the same small group of lifelong loyalists who enabled his run suddenly — and shockingly — decides it’s time for him to call it quits.” 

If the Biden oligarchy didn’t want Biden to go, he wouldn’t. Simple as.

The US has been heading in the direction of managed democracy for some time—we can debate exactly how long, later—and I thought having an acknowledged puppet president in the White House, a man whose only real concerns were ice cream, naps, and sniffing little girls’ hair, would be the perfect opportunity to put the seal on the deal.

The seal on the steal, rather.

After all, we had the “Secret History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the election”: the brazen admission that not only is there really a deep state but it really did conspire and collude to make sure Trump didn’t win the election and then couldn’t do anything about it. This admission revealed, retrospectively, that American democracy was being handled by a coalition of the “wise” and “good”—by people who know better than the American people what’s right for their country—so why not a prospective measure too? Why not just get it out there in the open?

Anyway, that’s not happening now. The Biden oligarchy has been deposed in nothing less than a palace coup, barely 24 hours after Joe Biden told his aides that it was still “full steam ahead” with Biden-Harris 2024.

A few weeks ago, I’m sure you’ll remember, Biden told the world that only “God almighty” could convince him to drop out. According to Politico, the President’s mind was changed on Saturday when he was presented with “damning new information” in a meeting with two of his closest allies, Steve Ricchetti and Mike Donilon.

Does that make Steve and Mike God in Joe Biden’s world? I suppose it depends on the level of medication the President is on. I’m sure his handlers probably know exactly what and how much of it they need to make the poor old fool do and believe whatever it is that’s required of him, including that he’s actually the President of the United States, running the whole show, and not back in Delaware sixty years ago giving Corn Pop a good seeing to.

Frankly, though, I doubt anything of the sort happened. Biden wasn’t won over by argumentation. It’s quite obvious that the US has been subject to a coup—a palace coup, as I say—worthy of a Third World country or the Soviet Union at its inglorious end. Think of Gorbachev trapped at his dacha in the Crimea by KGB agents and you’re on the right track.

Biden hasn’t been seen in public since Wednesday, when he was diagnosed with COVID-19. When the announcement came, there was no press conference. No photograph. Just a statement typed out on Twitter by whoever it is who runs the President’s account.  Dr Jill Biden responded to the statement with a heart emoji, for God’s sake. Joe Biden’s brother, Frank, even darkly suggested, in an interview with CBS, that his brother didn’t have long left to live.

Joe Biden really might die, and soon. How convenient, now he’s outlived his political use. His position as President is untenable, so death is almost certainly the least messy option.

I may have got the specifics of my prediction wrong, but the fundamentals are still there. This is still a demonstration of the managed nature of American democracy. For one thing, it’s an enormous slap in the face of the American people—of the millions of people who actually did vote for Joe Biden in 2020, and of all those Democrats who selected him as their candidate in the primaries, back in March.

It’s clear that the will of the American people will not be respected and that whoever gets chosen to be the Democrat presidential nominee will be chosen in a manner that’s totally out of keeping with established norms.

We can see this in the battle over endorsements that’s currently taking place. “Joe Biden,” supported by the Clintons and billionaire powerbrokers like the Soroses, has thrown his support behind Kamala Harris, but the Obamas are clearly having none of it.

In a long statement posted to Medium, Obama praised Biden as “one of America’s most consequential presidents” and said his decision to remove himself from proceedings reminds us “that he’s a patriot of the highest order.” But he also made it crystal clear that nothing has been decided with regard to Biden’s replacement.

“We will be navigating uncharted waters in the days ahead. But I have extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”

The leaders of our party. Create a process.

In a bathroom somewhere in the Hamptons, Big Mike is girding his loins.

If the last few weeks have taught us anything, it’s that this election season is going to be unlike anything seen before. There are still three months to go until election day. Nothing is settled. Everything is to play for—the future of American democracy really is at stake.

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We Are In The Most Dangerous Times, Warns Stock Market Expert Edward Dowd

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From the letterhead at the top to the signature at the bottom, Biden breaking up with the 2024 Presidential campaign over social media stokes skepticism.

Following Joe Biden resigning from the 2024 Presidential race via a social media post on Sunday, internet users have questioned the authenticity of the President’s signature on the letter.

It was pointed out that the signature of the President is different on the resignation letter than on his last five executive orders.

Wikipedia lists a signature for Biden that is similar to the executive orders, but not to the resignation letter signature.

It is also reported that individuals with neurological degenerative conditions such as Alzheimers slowly lose their ability to sign their name, with signatures getting worse and worse over time. A forged signature would likely look off immediately.

There is also speculation surrounding Biden’s activities due to his empty schedule for this week, according to the White House events page only listing a Kamala Harris event Monday.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

According to Roll Call’s Factbase, Biden has had no scheduled events for some time now.

https://rollcall.com/factbase/biden/topic/calendar/

Others have pointed out that the resignation letter had a suspiciously different letterhead to the standard White House letters written by the President.

Missing is the image of the White House with the words ‘The White House Washington’ below it.

Many have likened Biden’s resignation over social media to a romantic relationship break up over text.

Others claim that the situation with Biden is dire, that the elderly ice cream-loving man has entered the terminal stage of his illness, leading to the abrupt breakup and inability to be used publicly any further.

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Biden to Step Down: You Heard it Here First

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The researchers referred to this government-induced death as an ‘assault’ and a ‘catastrophe’.

A 521-page study published Friday analyzed excess mortality in 125 countries during the Covid pandemic (2020-2023) and discovered that the majority of the death was caused by the government’s response of lockdowns and vaccination mandates, not the Covid virus.

“We describe plausible mechanisms and argue that the three primary causes of death associated with the excess all-cause mortality during (and after) the Covid period are: (1) Biological (including psychological) stress from mandates such as lockdowns and associated socio-economic structural changes. (2) Non-COVID-19-vaccine medical interventions such as mechanical ventilators and drugs (including denial of treatment with antibiotics). (3) COVID-19 vaccine injection rollouts, including repeated rollouts on the same populations,” the study said on page 4.

The researchers referred to this government-induced death as an ‘assault’ and a ‘catastrophe’.

“We understand the Covid-period mortality catastrophe to be precisely what happens when governments cause global disruptions and assaults against populations,” the study said on page 5. “We emphasize the importance of biological stress from sudden and profound structural societal changes and of medical assaults (including denial of treatment for bacterial pneumonias, repeated vaccine injections, etc.). We estimate that such a campaign of disruptions and assaults in a modern world will produce a global all-ages mortality rate. of >0.1 % of population per year, as was also the case in the 1918 mortality catastrophe.”

The researchers quantified the summary of the 125 country’s excess morbidity data.

“Our calculated excess mortality rate (0.392 ± 0.002 %) corresponds to 30.9 ± 0.2 million excess deaths projected to have occurred globally for the 3-year period 2020-2022, from all causes of excess mortality during this period,” the study said on page 2. “We also calculate the population-wide risk of death per injection (vDFR) by dose number (1st dose, 2nd dose, boosters) (actually, by time period), and by age (in a subset of European countries). Using the median value of all-ages vDFR for 2021-2022 for the 78 countries with sufficient data gives an estimated projected global all-ages excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts up to 30 December 2022: 16.9 million COVID-19-vaccine-associated deaths.”

There was also no efficacy seen with the Covid vaccines.

“No evidence of the large vaccine rollouts ever being associated with reductions in excess all-cause mortality,” the study said on page 4.

In fact, it’s doubtful anyone would have been aware of the ‘pandemic’ had they not been told by corporate media or government agents.

“We conclude that nothing special would have occurred in terms of mortality had a pandemic not been declared and had the declaration not been acted upon,” the study said on page 316.

A previous study published June 2, 2020 showed similar data regarding all-cause mortality, referring to it as a ‘likely signature of mass homicide by government response’.

Both studies were conducted by Canada’s Correlation Research in the Public’s Interest not-for-profit corporation.

The organization has published a number of studies on the fraud of the Covid masks to the dangers of the Covid vaccines.

The researchers said that potentially 30 million people lost their lives due to the governmental Covid response, not 17 million like was previously projected.

“Here we obtain 30.9 ± 0.2 million projected excess deaths globally for the 3-year period 2020-2022, which is almost twice as many deaths as the 17 million deaths that have previously been projected globally to be associated with the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts,” the study said on page 228.

The Covid shots are known to make people retarded, increase in lethality after repeated doses and double the death rate of Covid patients while vaccinated kids face a 4,423 percent higher all-cause mortality rate and 74 percent of the vaccinated who’ve died were killed by the shots, yet the death rate is still higher than what is reported and it also increases Covid infection rates and all cause mortality in addition to increasing the death numbers and resulting in tons of bizarre and unusual skin disorders, massive increases of insane and gross turbocancers, colon cancers, reproductive destruction, miscarriages, paralyzation, Parkinson’s,  tinnitus, hepatitis, blood clots in the brain, non-serious disorders, death by neurological disorders, increased excess death rates, autoimmune disorders in the thyroid, as well as deadly headaches, seizures and heart inflammation including in children, while also causing the vaccinated people’s skin to ‘erupt’, in addition to a multitude of serious ailments seen in massive population studies while also containing hundreds of times the allowable levels of DNA contamination leading to mutagenic effects, contaminating the blood supply, as well as permanently altering the DNA of the vaccinated and their offspring, but while some batches are worse than others and Moderna kills 30 percent more than Pfizer, all the injections are still killing people and are expected to kill people for a very long time into the future.

In the U.S. the CDC recommends that all Americans receive their Covid shot and that young children receive extra, as well as that all Americans now receive another shot, despite receiving them previously, while Canada recommends another Covid shot for the pregnant, indigenous, ‘racialized’ & ‘equity-deserving’.

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Biden to Step Down: You Heard it Here First

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“You can forgive people for wondering if we are really living Weekend at Bernie’s right now,” said Fox host Dana Perino

Fox hosts Brett Baier and Dana Perino expressed concern for President Biden on their show yesterday, asking for proof that the President is actually still alive.

“Not physically seeing him—even address a camera in Delaware, let alone an Oval Office statement like LBJ did when he dropped out in March of 1968—it is disconcerting, isn’t it?” Baier asked his fellow host.

“Brett, they didn’t even release a White House still photograph. Nothing! I hope he’s fine. You can forgive people for wondering if we are really living Weekend at Bernie’s right now. Like, proof of life, please.”

Perino continued:

“We want him to be a person that can stand on his own two feet and look the American people in the eye and explain why he’s leaving. Because, without that, your allies, your adversaries, your enemies, your military, your voters are going to ask, ‘Wait, why are you withdrawing? Is it because of health, and if so let us know, so we can pray for you.’ Is it because you were afraid you were going to lose? That’s what Jared Moskowitz just said, the Congressman from Florida.”

President Biden still has COVID-19, and hasn’t been seen publicly since his diagnosis last Wednesday.

Biden’s brother, Frank, has now confirmed that the President’s decision to withdraw was in part motivated by health concerns.

Frank Biden spoke to CBS News and said that he was “incredible proud” of his brother, calling him a “hero.”

In doing so, however, Frank Biden appeared to suggest that his brother’s health may be significantly worsening, using the ominous phrase “whatever time we have left”—which some have taken to mean the President may die.

“I’m incredibly proud of my brother. Selfishly, I will have him back to enjoy whatever time we have left. He is a genuine hero. Country over self. It sounds corny in our cynical political environment, but neither he nor I are cynical. The goal remains the same: defeat Trump and continue the work Joe has done. My hope is that the party rallies around this heroic act.”

When asked directly whether his brother’s “health and vitality” played a major role in his decision to drop out, Frank Biden answered, “In my humble opinion, absolutely.”

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We Are In The Most Dangerous Times, Warns Stock Market Expert Edward Dowd

‘Who is running our Country right now?’ asks Trump.

Donald Trump went on a social media spree after the news broke on Sunday that Joe Biden will exit the presidential race as the Democrat Party’s candidate.

Sleepy Joe made the decision while he allegedly battled COVID-19 at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, mansion.

Trump called Biden “a threat to Democracy” and suggested he “never had Covid” in the first place.

“Who is running our Country right now?” Trump asked in another post. “It’s not Crooked Joe, he has no idea where he is. If he can’t run for office, he can’t run our Country!!!”

The GOP presidential nominee also pointed out the Democrats “stole the race from Biden after he won it in the primaries” by forcing him out of the race.

“These people are the real THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!” he said.

On Sunday evening, Trump joked that Biden would “wake up and forget that he dropped out of the race.”

In a Monday morning follow-up message, Trump mocked Biden, writing, “It’s a new day and Joe Biden doesn’t remember quitting the race yesterday! He is demanding his campaign schedule and arranging talks with Presidents Xi of China, and Putin of Russia, concerning the possible start of World War 3. Biden is ‘sharp, decisive, energetic, angry, and ready to go!’”

While the Democrats scramble to assemble a presidential ticket weeks out from the party’s convention, the Trump/Vance campaign is already holding rallies across the country.

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