Saturday, May 9, 2026

Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin simply represented three variants of socialism. They subordinated the individual to the State, concentrated power, and were enemies of the free society. The main difference was whether they divided people by class, nation, or race.

Thank you to LinuxHippie

LADYTRON FAN ACCOUNT: "Go Your Own Way" [1976] was written by Lindsey Buckingham during his breakup with Stevie Nicks, amid the total chaos of recording the Rumours album.

"Go Your Own Way" was written by Lindsey Buckingham during his breakup with Stevie Nicks, amid the total chaos of recording the Rumours album. Stevie was so hurt that she asked Lindsey to change the lyrics, but he refused. Even so, Stevie recorded the backing vocals while the couple fought badly in the studio.

COWLIVESMATTER: Exactly. To say she's a "failure" of the system is to ignore how spectacularly beyond her capabilities she has succeeded.

MARIO NAWFAL: 🚨🇺🇸 Massive explosion rocked the Chalmette Refinery near New Orleans. 189,000 barrels a day of capacity. Now offline. [Almost get a sense that we're at war, and the old colonial British powers want their colonies back.]

DANIELLE GANSKY: Withdrawal is a misnomer. This is a neurological injury that can persist for years and may be permanent for some.

I promise you, going out in the sunlight is the best antidepressant.  Do it with your shoes and socks off, wiggle the toes, put your feet on the ground, feel the moisture, the pebbles, the curvatures of the earth, roots of the trees, and overall terrain.  Expose more of your body to the sun.  Go shirtless or wear a tanktop.  Wear shorts. No sunglasses.  Let that sun touch you.  Lay out for 30 minutes on one side, then turn over, let the sun hit your back.  That one-hour walk and rest is the gold standard antidepressant.  Follow this up with a good cheeseburger, maybe some mackerel for potent DHA.

I'm still trapped on the same SSRI I was prescribed as a child.  I cannot come off it because of the severe debilitating withdrawals. Withdrawal is a misnomer. This is a neurological injury that can persist for years and may be permanent for some.  Suffering is so immense many people end up taking their lives in withdrawal.  I first tried to come off antidepressants at 23 years old.  I am now 30. I've been in protracted withdrawal for the last 7 years, all caused by the standard doctor-directed taper that damaged my nervous system.  What happened to me is not rare. My story is just one window into a much larger hidden Public Health crisis that is quietly devastating countless lives.  It's my life's mission to create changes to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else.  The label doesn't warn you that these drugs can fundamentally alter your brain so severely that coming off may be impossible or that even one dose can cause irreversible loss of emotions and the ability to feel love leaving you chemically castrated and mentally lobotomized. When it does happen you're left blindsided, gaslit, and without any medical support.  People have a fundamental right to full and honest information about the harms of SSRIs before they ever take them. When those risks are withheld it's not just unethical, it's a violation of basic human rights.  We cannot give back the years that have been stolen from us.  We cannot undo the lives that have already been devastated but we can prevent this unnecessary suffering from happening to anyone else.  We urgently need black box warnings that clearly warn patients about the true life-altering and sometimes permanent risks, and we need federally endorsed, evidence-based tapering guidelines so people can come off their antidepressants safely without risking a brain injury.  We need research and funding so we can better understand these injuries and provide real support for those who are already suffering.  

Thank you to this Administration and Secretary Kennedy for your leadership and courage and taking on this hidden Public Health crisis as it will truly save countless lives. 

DEAL TEAM 6

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: [Mexico] maintains a younger labor force than Europe, Japan, South Korea, or even China, while remaining deeply connected to the largest consumer economy on earth.

"Mexicans Are Feeling the Economy Grow in Real Time," Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics, May 9, 2026.
Mexico recently attracted more than $36 billion in foreign direct investment while exports surpassed $600 billion annually, making the country one of the largest manufacturing exporters in the world.
Mexico is increasingly benefiting from one of the largest supply chain realignments in modern economic history. Factories are expanding, industrial wages are rising, foreign investment is pouring in, and millions of Mexicans are experiencing growing economic opportunity in real time as capital shifts closer to the United States.

Mexico’s economy is being transformed by nearshoring. For decades corporations concentrated production heavily inside China to maximize cheap labor and globalization efficiencies. Now companies want manufacturing closer to the American market because of geopolitical tensions, shipping disruptions, rising Chinese labor costs, and growing concerns over supply chain security. Mexico sits directly at the center of that transition because it already possesses deep trade integration with the United States through the USMCA framework.


Mexico recently attracted more than $36 billion in foreign direct investment while exports surpassed $600 billion annually, making the country one of the largest manufacturing exporters in the world. Industrial hubs throughout northern Mexico are expanding rapidly as companies tied to automotive production, electronics, aerospace, semiconductors, logistics, and industrial manufacturing continue relocating operations closer to the United States.

Entire regions are being reshaped economically. Industrial construction across northern Mexico surged dramatically as warehouse space, factories, rail infrastructure, and logistics centers expand around Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, Saltillo, and other manufacturing corridors. Demand became so strong in some industrial zones that vacancy rates reportedly fell below 1–2% while industrial rents climbed sharply due to limited available space.

This is real economic activity, not simply financial engineering. Automobile manufacturing remains one of the clearest examples. Mexico now produces more than 4 million vehicles annually and has become one of the world’s largest auto exporters. Companies including Tesla suppliers, BMW, Kia, Toyota, General Motors, and numerous parts manufacturers continue investing billions into Mexican production capacity as North American supply chains deepen further.

Industrial wages are rising alongside the expansion. Manufacturing pay in many regions increased materially over recent years while unemployment remains relatively low in major industrial corridors. Middle-class growth has accelerated in parts of northern and central Mexico as higher-paying industrial jobs expand outward into logistics, engineering, construction, technology, transportation, and consumer spending sectors.

The younger generation increasingly sees opportunity connected directly to this industrial expansion cycle. That psychological shift matters enormously because confidence drives consumption, entrepreneurship, and long-term investment behavior. In many Western countries, younger generations increasingly feel locked out of housing, overwhelmed by debt, or trapped under declining purchasing power. In parts of Mexico, rising industrial activity is creating upward mobility tied directly to production growth and capital inflows.

The peso itself became one of the strongest-performing currencies globally recently, strengthening materially against the dollar while many developed-world currencies weakened. That stability helped contain imported inflation pressures relative to many Western economies struggling with currency deterioration and energy shocks.  

Mexico also benefits from demographics at a time when much of the developed world faces aging population crises. The country maintains a younger labor force than Europe, Japan, South Korea, or even China, while remaining deeply connected to the largest consumer economy on earth.

Mexico is not rising because governments suddenly became brilliant. Mexico is rising because global capital is repositioning itself geographically. The United States remains the primary destination for international capital during periods of global instability, and Mexico increasingly benefits secondarily because corporations want production integrated directly with American markets.

None of this means Mexico lacks problems. Cartel violence remains a serious issue in portions of the country. Infrastructure bottlenecks still exist. Water shortages threaten some industrial regions. Wealth inequality remains significant and parts of southern Mexico continue lagging economically behind the industrial north.

While Europe increasingly deindustrializes itself through energy policy and overregulation, Mexico is industrializing further through manufacturing expansion and trade integration. That distinction is becoming increasingly important globally.

The world economy is fragmenting into regions attracting capital and regions repelling it. Mexico is increasingly landing on the receiving side of those flows because geography, labor costs, demographics, and industrial integration with the United States create advantages that corporations cannot ignore. That is why millions of Mexicans are increasingly feeling economic momentum build around them in real-time.

"Ain't No Parade," by E.M. Burlingame

Friday, May 8, 2026

GREEN BERET NAP TIME: Alex Jones was never on our side. He was always a fat, insane propagandist that tried to profit off of the deaths of American children..

Nick Fuentes was never on the right. He was always a gay Nazi Mexican posing as a white supremacist for a Democrat op. Alex Jones was never on our side. He was always a fat, insane propagandist that tried to profit off of the deaths of American children.. Candace Owens was never a conservative. She was always a duplicitous narcissist that used great men to gain fame and then, once they saw through her mask, burned it all down and was willing to torment her “friend’s” widow to profit from his death. Tucker Carlson was never MAGA. He was always a CIA plant at Fox that hated Trump and was only kept in line by his producers and the network. Now, he sees a market with over two billion potential subscribers, and he’ll say anything to capture it. Joe Kent was never a Republican. He was a soldier turned spook and failed political Democrat in WA who used Trump and MAGA to finally make it into the political arena. The rest of the Halal Right, from “But I’m a good Jew” Dave Smith to the fake and gay Haji Twins, and all of the idiots in between, were always populist rejects that used the insanity of the left and the popularity of MAGA to make themselves rich. Now they are all showing you their true colors. In reality, though, they are no different than the left. They have no values. They have no principles. Fame and fortune, power and influence, that is all they want.

Recognize the op now, and you’ll never miss it later. 

US OIL & GAS ASSOCIATION: 98% US oil and gas companies are classified as small businesses (500 or fewer employees). 70% have less than 10 employees. These small companies drill 90% of all new U.S. oil and natural gas wells and are responsible for the majority of new production brought online each year.

VALERIE ANNE SMITH: In 1994 Japan ended all mandatory vaccines for babies under two years old. The outcome? Japan now has one of the lowest infant mortality rates on the planet.

THOMAS KOLBE: The German economy has been in a full-blown depression for years. Private-sector investment barely covers depreciation costs, and the country is running on fumes. Politicians are now attempting to fill the vacated industrial capacity with arms production and eco-projects

Thank you to Tom Luongo

DR. SUZANNE HUMPHRIES: Get your butt up when the sun comes up and put your feet outside. Stay outside as long as you can, get your clothes off in the sun, get as much sunlight as you can, cold plunge, eat lots of high DHA fish, and stop wearing sunglasses.

TANSU YEGEN: Home life flipped fast after these simple inventions. (Some are MIA)

1865, Sewing Machine.

1905, Electric Iron.

1908, Electric Washing Machine.

1908, Vacuum Cleaner.

1912, Electric Stove.

1919, Stand Mixer.

1921, Radio Receiver.

1926, Automatic Pop-Up Toaster.

1927, Electric Refrigerator.

1937, Automatic Washing Machine.

1937, Blender.

1939, Pressure Cooker.

1946, Television Receiver.

1949, Dishwasher.

1950, Landline Telephone.

1953, Home Thermostat.

1954, Room Air Conditioner.

1955, Automatic Electric Kettle.

1967, Microwave Oven.

1972, Automatic Drip Coffee Maker.

1976, Home Video Recorder.

1977, Personal Computer.

1995, Internet.

2007, SMART Phone.   Self-monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technologies.

2010, Air Fryer.

2014, Voice Assistant.

2022, Generative AI Assistant.

2030, Domestic Humanoid Robot.

LINUXHIPPIE: Full Anti-communi. . . . God's speed Spencer Pratt. God's speed.

LINUXHIPPIE: Marxism. Woke is Marxism. The Marxists have the commanding heights in all fields of social life, they got there b/c we stopped calling it Marxism or debated the "particulars" ie Socialism---Fabian Socialism blah blah

In response to this article, "The Disappearing Male Student: It’s time to stop pathologizing masculinity," Rebekah Wanic, May 6, 2026, I wrote a friend this morning.

That's actually good news.  1) Schools are literal Marxist indoctrination centers. It's the leading lights of the cultural Marxist school, the Frankfurt School, that's been using American institutions to seed communism in every social institution. And these fools or tools are hardcore believers. One teacher I had at PCC was a fan of Theodor Adorno, one of the leading lights of the Frankfurt School. But labeling their plans as communist became a problem, so they positioned themselves as movements, protest movements, like Anti-Racists, or INCAR, Feminism, Antifa, Wokeism.  Each of these are euphemisms for Marxism.  2) even Betty Friedan argued for "Busting the Masculine Mystique."  These people are vandals.  The woman who shot Andy Warhol was a feminist, but a violent one.  Given how Marxism has permeated and redefined American culture, it's hard to even know what American culture is outside of a commercial enterprise, which immigration pimps use to devalue American history and culture even more. 

Right, so not only did Marxists use the other terms to conceal their identity, their full revolutionary force, but it worked so much so that they occupy, as LinuxHippie tells, "the commanding heights in all fields of social life . . . ." 

 

LINUXHIPPIE: So when Republicans "echo" Democrats in using the word Democracy they are "in fact" publicly stating their opposition to the US Constitution and support for the Revolution.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees every state a Republican form of Government. Says so right there in Article 4 Sec 4. Accepting her characterization that there are "democracy" states, that would mean the citizens of those states are being denied their rights under Article 4 Section 4. of a Republican form of Gov't. Which necessarily means those "democracy states" (which exist according to her and are blue" are now Counter-States and stand in opposition to the US Constitution. Thus the President of United States is now "duty bound", by the Constitution he swore an oath to uphold and defend, to take any and all action necessary to ensure ALL States and the citizens thereof, are living under a Republican form of Gov't. This isn't political, it's not red or blue, it's the Constitution or it's not. As an aside, the founders were very clear were they stood on Democracy, see Federalist Chapter 10. Oh, I'd like to point out, Steele is a former RNC Party Chair and a LT Gov of Maryland. Here he is pushing Democracy.....hmm curious. Almost as if.... GOPe : Hegel :: Left : Marx? If the above is true (& it is) then it necessarily follows if people like Steele rose to such prominence in the GOPe, that those who control the Republican Party are aligned with the left on negating the Constitution and are working with a revolutionary movement to do it..... So when Republicans "echo" Democrats in using the word Democracy they are "in fact" publicly stating their opposition to the US Constitution and support for the Revolution.

And it does not matter if they know it or not, only that they do it. 

SVEN SCHARPEN: I was prescribed Zoloft at FIVE YEARS OLD, and I only got off of it last year. 💊

Thank you to Diana West