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2024-03-20 07:50 by Karl Denninger
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Enough.

Mexico is now announcing that it is fomenting an invasion by foreign nations into ours.  That is an act of war so **** them, militarily, right now.  And yes, unlike the "nice" rules of war some like I don't and would not honor them in any way, shape or form: This means their officials and government are all fair game.  Were I in a position to do so I would make very clear that if you start a war you will be personally targeted.

But Mexico’s government said Tuesday it would not “under any circumstances” accept the return of any migrants to its territory from the state of Texas. Mexico is not required to accept deportations of anyone except Mexican citizens.

The United States is not required to accept entry of anyone other than through regular process and it is time to stop this bull**** and stop playing like Mexico is some nuclear-armed power that has sovereignty over America.  It does not.  **** them, **** their cash flow, **** their goods transfer, screw them all and let them deal with the "migrants" -- and fentanyl precursors -- they let into their nation in the first place.  In addition we have no obligation to allow funds transfer out of the US into Mexico at all.  There is no such thing as a "sovereign right" to remittances; confiscate all of them to offset the cost of their invasion on US citizens.

It is perfectly reasonable for the United States -- or any State in the United States -- to treat this as a declaration of war and an act of invasion, directly, and post up Americans on the border with orders to prevent entry through other than regular means by whatever is necessary.

At the same time it is time to embargo all goods and services attempting to enter the United States from Mexico.  All of them.  **** Ford, GM and the rest who sent labor over there under false pretense starting in the 1990s claiming that Mexican workers would wind up with parity wages to the US.  That was a lie, we now know it was a lie, its 20 years later and it is time to shut that **** down.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the law “harmful and unconstitutional” and said it would burden law enforcement while creating confusion. She called on congressional Republicans to settle the issue with a federal border security bill.

**** you **** and **** Biden, Mayokas and every single member of Congress.  It is illegal at a federal felony level to in any way assist illegal entry.  8 USC §1324 stands as Federal Law and makes clear that anyone who harbors, assists in entry or transport of an illegal alien has committed a felony, anyone employing 10 or more of them over the space of 12 months has committed a felony, and anyone who in any way assists an illegal immigrant who kills an American is subject to life in prison while any person who assists an illegal that commits an act of bodily harm on an American has a nice enhancement on their felony doubling the penalty to 20 years.  There is no need for any further legislation; the laws are already on the books.

Arrest every landlord, employer, NGO employee, director and officer who is involved in this crap.  All of them -- right here, right now.  If Trump had done that when Mollie Tibbetts was murdered the farmer who employed and housed her killer would be serving his life sentence, so would all of his administrative staff (if any) and nobody would take the risk of employing or assisting said people who might commit such a crime because if they did they'd go to prison for life as well.  Laken Riley would be alive today had Trump taken that action so that rat bastard is personally responsible for her death as is Biden, Mayorkas and the rest.

Enforce the ******ned law or we the people should remove the entire putrid stack of the *******s who refuse, holding every single one of them personally responsible for every unpunished felony on a summary basis.  After all if the government will not enforce the law that is already on the books and doesn't believe they are required use the courts to try and punish said people as required by law then why should not the citizens of this nation consider one felony for each one the government deliberately ignores aimed directly at every single person who is involved in said refusal and/or anyone who profits from them, on a summary and personal basis, a reasonable response?

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2024-03-19 07:42 by Karl Denninger
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This really pisses me off.

 

How about if we just speak some truth for a few minutes, eh?

  • This person is a man who happens to be gay.  That is, he is attracted to men.
  • Heterosexual men are attracted to women.

Said person was somehow convinced that if he "transitioned" he would become a woman.  That's not possible.  He looks like a woman but is not a woman.  Believing that he is a woman is akin to me believing I'm a Black Man.  No matter what I believe the facts are that I'm a White Man and nothing that can be done from the instant of my conception forward can or will change that.

Said person is now utterly ****ed because neither a heterosexual or gay man will want him, as he is not their preferred sexual partner either in person, appearance or both.

What's worse is that there's nothing he can do about it since he cut his dick and testicles off, which is of course irreversible.  He has no ordinary adult sexual function, including both physical and the emotional/mental engagement characteristic of either sex and cannot regain it as the neural connections necessary for his former male response have been destroyed and they're different than those of a female so no practice of medical art can fashion them.

The people who coddled this man's delusion failed to inform him on a fair basis that while plastic surgery can always alter one's appearance one's genetics cannot be altered and much of sexual attraction is genetic and thus pheromone based, we do not have anything approaching a reasonable understanding of this or exactly how and why it works, we know it is tampered with through hormonal drugs (e.g. women's chemical birth control) and we have no means to reproduce or reliably regulate it among any human.  Indeed much of that process appears to exist for the specific reason that it improves genetic compatibility among mates which of course is a pointless exercise for him as his "female parts" are non-functional for reproduction.

Who would undergo any of this if they were told that all of this is fact and nothing you can do will ever change it no matter how far we advance in the future when it comes to medicine?

I have no idea but from the above it is very clear that this guy was lied to repeatedly both by people in society and multiple professionals who had not just a professional but LEGAL duty to tell him the truth.  Some people might, even with full and fair disclosure, act in this manner anyway and as adults you're free to do whatever you want to your own person provided you get honest and full information.  Specifically any entity "addressing" people who claim they might be or are "trans" must be required to prove all of four below points, and the mental competence of the person advised to understand them, before any of the below occurs or they must be held accountable for all negative outcomes, including criminal felony assault or, if the person ultimately kills themselves, manslaughter Not fines shifted to some insurer or corporation, criminal felony penalties.  Since in our legal system adulthood is required to legally contract this means no person under the age of 18 may, under any circumstances, be provided any of this unless the persons doing so -- all of them -- accept said personal liability.

  • Taking hormones to "suppress" your sexual characteristics may permanently preclude ever bearing or siring children.  You must assume and agree that this is acceptable just as a man who has a vasectomy is told that the procedure is permanent and, while you can attempt to reverse it, that reversal may not succeed and in fact he must sign a document so-stating.

  • "Bottom" surgery will, in every case, permanently preclude both having or siring children and permanently preclude you from ever having a normal adult human sexual response.  There are zero exceptions to this fact and you must consent to this; you are removing functional sexual parts of your body and replacing them with cosmetic approximations that are not and never will be functional as is a natural penis or vagina.

  • "Top" surgery, likewise, obviously does not produce functional breasts nor ones that have a female sexual response if stimulated.  That's not possible; ask any woman who has had reconstruction after a mastectomy; many lose all arousal from breast stimulation.  Since a man never had female breasts by definition he cannot acquire what he never had and while many men do find their breast area to be arousing, it is not the same as a female response and never will beno matter how much is spent on a pair of fake*****.  A woman who has hers removed may lose all sensation but whether that occurs or not she will definitely not have the same response as a man to stimulation of that part of the body.

  • Persons who are heterosexual of either sex, by definition, want heterosexual partners.  If you undergo this process you will never be attractive to any material percentage of those individuals for any sort of permanent adult relationship because you are not in the group of humans they find sexually attractive.  You are still genetically of the same sex as you were born and there's nothing you can do about that; only your appearance can be changed and as a result virtually all heterosexual persons will find your chosen appearance to be deliberately deceitful -- an act of deliberate misrepresentation -- and be turned off by it.

Understand another aspect of this: If you do this the only person who will want you sexually is likely to be another person who has also mutilated themselves.  You will not be attractive to a heterosexual person and probably not to someone who is gay either because your appearance does not match your sex!  Worse, if you do hook up with someone else who also "transitioned" neither of you will be able to obtain ordinary adult sexual satisfaction since both of you have voluntarily destroyed that capacity.  I have no idea what this portends for you in the longer term but I'll lay a sizeable wager it isn't anything good!  Some people have no real desire to pair-bond at all and if that's you then all is good -- but that's a small minority of the population, at least when you're younger.  Calling people who don't find you attractive a "bigot" after you deliberately ruined your physical and sexual congruence won't fix this -- what it will do is get you excluded socially and economically rather than just romantically.

Finally there is another, larger problem from a societal perspective: Men and women have to mate in order for humans to continue.  For each person there must be slightly more than one child born during said person's lifetime, of/from them, on a statistical average.  If there are not, over enough time, humans cease to exist.  Therefore the deliberate leading of children toward this sort of decision is a crime against humanity and must be punished as such without fail in every case.

No, one person will not make the human species cease to exist but neither will slaughtering a huge number of Rwandans or Jews.  Nonetheless we recognized those acts as crimes against humanity and as such we must recognize this as the same -- because it is.

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2024-03-18 07:00 by Karl Denninger
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... the biggest criminal act ever perpetrated upon the American people, which led directly and indirectly to over one million deaths and still counting, by the way, originated.  The persons originating it knew they were lying; they have admitted that in fact they had zero objective evidence to support their position and were angling for time to manufacture said support.

I am talking about, of course, "Two weeks to slow the spread".

The damage done to our society here in the United States is literally worthy of the death penalty for every single person involved in it.  Four years on not one criminal charge has been laid by anyone making quite-clear that if there is to actually be accountability it will have to come through the individual actions of persons who are willing to take the person risk of prosecution (or worse.)  Our society has proved itself in the four years since of literally being full of simpering wimps without a single pair of balls between all of those who were either personally harmed or had a loved one harmed or killed.

The damage to children's education alone is worthy of mass-executions.  Sixty million children were irrevocably damaged in their educational process; each to some varying degree, but all to some extent.  None will ever "fully recover" from this and the economic impact of that damage will extend out for the next five or more decades.

Speaking of economic damage the federal budget was permanently increased by 47% immediately.  That Covid was a pure pretext to do this and it had nothing to do with a virus is proved by the fact that four years later that has not been retracted and in fact less than 7% of the FY2020 spending has been removed.  Here are the final spending figures through the end of Fiscal 2023:

FY 2019: $4.447 trillion
FY 2020: $6.552 trillion
FY 2021: $6.818 trillion
FY 2022: $6.272 trillion
FY 2023: $6.134 trillion

Five months into FY 2024 at present run rates we will spend $6.441 trillion.

This is a cumulative addition of roughly $10 trillion which is about 50% of one year's GDP and, big shock, accounts for roughly a 50% cumulative inflation rate which is about what people have experienced.  In some parts of expense profiles (e.g. housing) its even worse, being close to or in some cases more than a double.  Car and homeowners insurance, for example, is coming up with 20% increases in most areas of the country this year alone and some, such as Florida, are much worse.  Stealing $10 trillion which cannot be recovered is arguably responsible on a direct and indirect basis for additional mortality and morbidity hitting millions of Americans and, over the last four years, more deaths in total than the alleged 6 million slaughtered by the Nazis.

Now Biden wants a budget of more than seven trillion.

It is not, of course, just the Federal budget that has gone vertical.  Consumer debt has as well -- specifically credit cards -- has gone basically straight up since the middle of 2021.  This has occurred into rapidly increasing interest rates as well which of course means that the payment requirement for said debt has risen dramatically.

Whatever set of beliefs you have about the virus itself what is not in question is that the fiscal response and government profligacy was wildly unreasonable and covid was a mere pretext.  Whether you happen to be a Trump or Biden supporter the fact remains that both were and are happy to ruin both the nation's finances and those of every single citizen in an orgy of debt-fueled lies.

Who's going to stop this?

Certainly not our existing political class; there is no political opposition to this path of action nor its causes, including illegal immigration, exporting of jobs, crazed claims of "climate emergencies" and "sustainable energy" that produces nutjob-level cost spikes and the literal insanity of our so-called "health care" system which is better-characterized as nothing more than using fear to financially******you straight into a hole 6' deep.

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2024-03-16 07:00 by Karl Denninger
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Come and get it!

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2024-03-15 07:00 by Karl Denninger
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Looking at who is screaming about the TikTok situation tells you much.

Let's take Elon Musk.  He thinks it sets a "dangerous" precedent.

What's his problem with it?  Well, I can think of a few.  "X" is full of "ads" from companies that appear to be drop-shipping things you can get on Alibaba -- a Chinese Amazon, if you will.  What if the retaliation for this is they pull the ads?  Or worse, what if they ban Tesla sales or battery and component production for Tesla?  China could, you know -- its not like they don't have their own EV manufacturers....

How about Congress?  Who's actually getting buttered by Xi?  Why does Thomas Massie have a problem with this?

Let me be clear: The bill is extremely explicit on the gating factors required to be deemed dangerous.  A requirement -- not one of many in an "or" fashion, but a requirement that must be met -- is that 20% or more control must be in one a set of nations listed under Title 10 that are barred from defense-related purchases and sales.  Those nations are Russia, Iran, North Korea and China.

To add another nation you'd have to add them to Title 10.  If another nation deserves to be added to Title 10, so be it, but that's the gating factor and adding them also adds them to being barred from a wide variety of defense and dual-use related purchases and sales.

Can the President override this?  No.  Not only must that gating requirement be met but in addition the listing of such a firm and its product(s) are subject to judicial review; this does not enable pure executive action, and beyond ownership of firms controlled or domiciled in those four nations you can't go after an app, web or otherwise, at all.

Those arguing this is like the "Patriot Act" are lying.  The Patriot Act was one was chock full of loopholes, such as "second and third association" games and thus could be used against Americans.  This bill has explicit prohibitions against any attempt to extend its punitive measures beyond the firm(s) involved in the actual issue which all must be domiciled in a nation listed as "antagonists" under a separate defense-related law.

Would it bar a US firm from providing services to such a deemed violator?  Yes; ByteDance cannot get around the constraint by buying Internet services from a US domiciled company.  That's good, not bad.

We should be divesting far more from China, not just blocking a service.  But let's cut the crap -- this company is directly targeting influence at minors.  It is abusing First Amendment rights that exist only on US soil through and to US persons; no person or US company gets the same rights in China!  China routinely demands censorship of US firms operating there, including information providers and even movie studios in order to distribute things to their population.

Ask yourself why all the so-called "TikTok" challenges to do stupid things like eat Tide Pods aren't on Facebook?  Probably because Facebook knows damn well that if such a thing started happening on a routine basis Congress would come after them -- potentially including revoking Section 230, especially when said kids start getting seriously injured or killed.

Never mind the data mining.  There's plenty of that sort of abusive crap that goes on right here in America.  Just because we refuse to hold people accountable for that crap here doesn't mean we should sponsor and allow children to be exploited across national borders.

China is an adversary, and a dangerous one.  We damn well ought to revoke MFN status and hit them with wage, environmental parity and currency parity tariffs (so they cannot play debt-based games to evade the other two) such that it makes no sense to try to arbitrage labor and environmental damage for US concerns.  Of course everyone who currently is abusing Americans via that, and who donate heavily to political campaigns, would scream -- but we must do it before China decides to do it the other way and we find ourselves in a situation where they choose to take some territory and we have no choice but to let them.

If we do not cut this crap out that day is coming and when it arrives it will be ruinously bad for the US.

Yes, it would be very challenging for us to do it now -- but now beats tomorrow, and thus we should do it right here, right now, and today.

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