Rep. Houlahan is one of the six courageous Democrats who challenged members of the armed services and intelligence community to stand up for our laws and our Constitution
Excellent interview and just what I needed this afternoon. The agenda makes perfect sense. It aligns with my values and sets out in clear language an agenda worth fighting for and working towards. In fact, it is long overdue. It is so refreshing to know that there are intelligent people in Congress, and the more interviews like this that we see, the better we will all feel. It is a pleasure to support leaders like Houlahan. Thank you.
Sharing my post on Resist and Unsubscribe to give people another immediate way to apply pressure on Trump and his minions through Corporate America.
From Scott Galloway's The Pivot Podcast, ~50K was unsubscribe from at least one of the listed services. The goal is 100,000 or more for the pressure to be felt. More people will also lead to more negative media attention and there are few things Corporate America likes less than negative media.
The more the merrier and please keep sharing with others. Do what you can. Unsubscribing from just one of the listed services is of great help. Thanks.
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The another area that is not getting enough attention is the complete silence of Corporate America. What is the purpose of "f*ck you money", if you don't tell this Administration to f*ck off? We need to call out their silence and inaction and put real pressure on them. It is time for them to stand up, be accountable, and tell this Administration to stop this un-American actions.
Please check out this site. resistandunsubscribe.com This is an organized, sane way for the average person to apply the only pressure that Corporate America understands, money. Simply unsubscribe from as many of the listed services as you can. Does not matter on how many you can unsubscribe from, just one is great. Each of us have are own circumstances, do what you/ your household can do. The key is duration. It needs to be a minimum of a month. Hope you will check it out, act and share.
FYI: Don't think this kind of pressure campaign doesn't work? The most recent example of how well this works is when ABC cancelled Kimmel, million of subscribers cancel Hulu. All of a sudden Kimmel is back on the air.
Simon, Another great conversation with a very important member of Congress. I'm glad I got to meet Chrissy Houlahan. A courageous Democrat who stood up for our laws and the Constitution. In other words, She Kicked Ass! And, this New Democrat Coalition and Crafting of a new Affordability Agenda to "Restore the American Dream" is someone who cares about our Country, and we will be hearing a lot more about Her, and from Her.
Christy Houlahan is an inspiring, exemplary member of Congress. What a resume!
What struck me on a personal level was how she talked about her father, a holocaust survivor who talked to her about his experiences. I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen. I was born in a dictatorship that existed for over 40 years. The country was liberated in 1973. My own father was active in secret during the years of my early childhood. A cousin of ours was a political prisoner for five years and suffered routine beatings. He took several for protecting my father and not revealing his information - they had the same last name. It's especially sad for me to have switched, so to speak, my native country, which was then a dictatorship and now a democracy, for one that is turning into into one before our eyes.
Keep fighting for us, Congresswoman. I was born in a dictatorship. I don't want to die in one.
Phenomenal as always. If you haven’t seen Sen Murphy’s short powerhouse speech in response to such madness, it is definitely worth watching. I’m continuing to call all my reps everyday and remind them that anything they do must be accompanied by a denunciation of this horrendous administration. Thank you Simon for this wonderful community!!
Simon, the amount of funding for DHS passed in BBB is a done deal. While we stopped the incremental perhaps. Are we not dead with what they already have to lock up the country? This is still a staggering cloud before us.
This and accountability are what I think, and I believe what most people are alluding to here including you Simon, can be the two pronged approach to communicate what Democrats, and constitution loving candidates and office holders, stand for.
Affordability, and Accountability.
We can't lose sight of the affordability message and thankfully, especially with the TX state senate flip, we aren't. That message is true, rings clear across party lines that we need to get to win this year, and shows how we can improve everyone's life in this time of economic stress.
Accountability is the other thing, and what's been put out here since January has been key! Hold DHS, particularly ICE and CPB accountable and bring them back in line with the constitution. Hold the Administration accountable for the damage they are doing against our citizens, people who should be here, and our interests around the world. Hold the president accountable for his crimes and the powerful in relation to how they directly harm us, especially with Epstein. And hold ourselves accountable to work to restore it and IMPROVE it once we get back to power.
Thank you for this great interview. Rep Houlahan is my representative so she was on my list to call about the two warehouse concentration camp prisons in Pennsylvania. Her office assured me she was against the prisons, as did all the state officials I got on the phone. Representative Houlahan has always been a courageous fighter for the Constitution and her constituents. I hope the legal action against her does not bankrupt her.
Great interview, and yes, the 5 items in the NDC's Affordability Agenda align pretty darn closely with my personal priorities. Seriously, who could argue with them?!? However, I do hope that this group becomes more audacious over time. For instance, I've become increasingly convinced that we need to move toward Medicare for All. The political branches of our government continually toy with the lives of millions of Americans, all the while subsidizing with our taxpayer dollars huge corporations that then ration our healthcare while reaping massive profits...again with our taxpayer dollars. Healthcare should be a basic right, not a privilege, and the notion that the government would ration healthcare, while the private sector wouldn't, is simply laughable on the face of it!
Anyway, I've written before that perfection is the enemy of the possible, and I know that this isn't a debate for today. It'll have to wait until some semblance of sanity returns to DC, but I just wanted to toss this out to the crowd for consideration!
“[I]f it were up to [Stephen] Miller, there’d only be 100 million people in this country, and they’d all look like Miller.” - Donald J. Trump (2024)
“We shouldn’t let outrage at Trump’s awfulness obscure the more unsettling reality that he is largely an expression, rather than the cause, of a shifting world order”
- Vlad Vexler, Oxford-trained political philosopher
Again, The Daily Beast has an excellent segment from a longer interview with Dr. Mary L. Trump about her uncle’s obvious deficiencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUNGCCR4nE&list=TLPQMzAxMjIwMjV5egg_4KZRew. WE ARE IN THE REALM OF DAMAGED PERSONALITY TYPE - NOT POLITICS. More clinicians should be interviewed. The MSM and their advertisers should be taken to task for covering the manifest mental and physical failings of Dolos. What is up with his hands?
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!
CANNABALISM, CANNABALISM, CANNABALISM?
HORSES, HORSES, HORSES?
M.A.R.L. = Make America Russia Like.
As an empathy exercise, download an air-alert app for Ukraine on iOS or Android. The Tsar cannot survive with peace in Russia. In many ways, he is already losing internally (e.g. the FSB and military leadership are now fighting each other for societal spoils of their "Mafia State"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmU7OPIv4J4. Based in Kyiv, Smart has a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on Russian politics.
EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN!
“Again, it all goes back to I think the person running the country right now is a DEAD PEDOPHILE [emphasis mine].”
- Professor Scott Galloway (NYU), Founder of Prof G Media
ON REPEAT FROM MARCH 2025 ABOUT THE RUSSIAN “HONEY DO” LIST FOR DOLOS (Part 1):
First, take a look at (and LISTEN to) this 2-minute interview with a BRAVE YOUNG AMERICAN VOLUNTEER MEDIC ON THE FRONTLINES of the Russian attack on Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvIYp41Wrg&list=TLPQMTgwMzIwMjV80y8DdiE1-w. Second, ask yourself if you would trust her safety to the tender mercies of the Tsar or Dolos? I know my answer. Also, if they could spare her, Rebekah Maciorowski would make a great advocate for Ukraine on the home front.
Previously, I said that the allegiance of Dolos to his Tsar makes him predictable. Other observers agree on this predictability as well. Soon, we will have to ask if the USA is sharing its mail about Ukraine with Russia. So, here is Peter Zeihan’s take on the (for more timely updates, take a look at his Patreon: patreon.com/PeterZeihan) Russian “Honey Do” list for Ukrainian surrender (forget peace) that will be part of a bilateral arrangement between Dolos and the Tsar (they have a call this morning) to “defang” Ukraine for later conquest by Russia. Please note that any mistakes in “translation” are my own with these rough transcriptions:
1. No restrictions on the type of Russian forces on their side of the line of control.
2. A demilitarized zone on the Ukrainian side of the line of control.
3. No NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine’s territory at all.
4. Remanding the Ukrainian leadership for trial in Russia for … (your guess?).
5. A public admission that the war was the fault of the Ukrainians.
6. Relative to #5, the Ukrainians need to pay war reparations.
7. The US needs to state that the war was also Western Europe’s idea to help with the war reparations.
8. The US will provide financial assistance to rebuild the hydrocarbon infrastructure across Ukraine and the Black Sea [see my other note about the new USA Sovereign Wealth Fund controlled by Dolos].
9. To give Russia their old market back, the US must no longer provide LNG to Europe.
10. The USA should bar Europe from providing military aid to Ukraine.
11. The USA will impose secondary sanctions on any European country that provides arms to Ukraine.
12. The USA will publicly declare all lands that the Russians have taken recently from their neighboring countries as sovereign Russian territory, and these lands can never revert to their original countries.
13. A US ban on all weapons transfers and civilian assistance to Ukraine.
14. A ban on all weapons transfers and civilian assistance to Ukraine from Europe.
15. Russia must have a presence on all points of entry in Ukraine for customs monitoring by Moscow.
16. The USA will provide intelligence sharing to Russia about European activities relative to Ukraine [Mike Walz has recently broached intelligence sharing with Russia].
17. Managing the deindustrialization of Ukraine so that they cannot develop indigenous weapons.
Per Zeihan, by completing all or most of the above list, this scenario would effectively place the USA outside of NATO (the dream of all dreams for the Tsar). Once separated from NATO, there would be no “Article 5” protections (i.e. military aid assurances), and the smaller Baltic and East European members of NATO would fall like a deck of cards to Russia in the near future. Yes, there is more:
18. The USA will spy on NATO for Russia to help with their future plans of attack.
19. All Russian news outlets should be allowed to operate in the USA (please watch Russian Media Monitor on YouTube) without restrictions.
20. All agricultural products from Canada should be banned and replaced with Russian produce (are we halfway there with the tariff regime of Dolos?).
21. Decommission our icebreakers (we have two) and abandon any US efforts in the Arctic. Leave this area to Russia.
22. Wipe out all Russian debt held in the USA, and allow all Russian firms to return without restrictions to the US capital markets.
23. Have future Russian debt be backstopped by the sovereign credit ranking of the USA.
24. Have the USA offer financial guarantees to ask US firms to return and invest in Russia [I shared some Bloomberg coverage on investors wanting to return to Russia last Thursday - coincidence?].
25. US firms should set up in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to solidify the commitment to Russian development.
26. Russians want RFK jr. to help remove the demographic advantage of the USA by reducing the life expectancy of US youngsters (yes, end generalized vaccinations since the Department of Education will no longer be around to mandate vaccinations). Make America Russia Like (MARL).
27. Break the Federal Reserve System, and enhance the use of cryptocurrencies instead of the dollar (as Russia has done to get around sanctions).
28. Use the FBI to go after financial institutions that provide stability [I shared in another post about how “rule of law” has its own intrinsic value to financial markets] under the guise of being against the directives of the Dolos administration.
29. Arrest industrial development in the NAFTA/USMCA region by having a contradictory tariff policy and threatening war with your trading partners (currently, no one wants to manufacture in Russia).
30. Destroy the American agricultural miracle by banning synthetic pesticides and fertilizers to substantially reduce yields. This scenario would enhance Russia’s agricultural position (not unlike destroying Ukraine’s output earlier in the conflict).
31. End American restrictions on high-end chip manufacturing to China to give Russia and China production opportunities and alternative sourcing options (in the war with Ukraine, chips have been harder for Russia to access).
32. Break up the USA and UK alliance which allows for the sharing of bases in former British colonies around the world (creating more freedom of movement for Russian mischief-makers).
33. Have the USA unilaterally reduce its nuclear arsenal, as Dolos has mentioned in the past (supposedly, nuclear research scientists are presently getting fired by Leon and his “incels”).
34. Create a new arms reduction pact to prohibit nuclear weapons from the US Navy, and allow for intrusive inspections of US ships (please notice that the Ukrainians have sunken a large proportion of the Russian Navy without having a navy).
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S.: DEMOCRATS (AND PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE) NEED TO HAVE “TOWN HALLS” IN REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS - ASAP. YOUR OPPONENTS HAVE WILLINGLY CONCEDED THE FIELD.
P.P.P.S.: Simon has often mentioned the earnest six-million patriots from the last cycle. This is a large pool of thoughtful energy/talent. SO, DEMOCRATS SHOULD ALLOW VETTED-VOLUNTEERS TO AUGMENT THEIR PAID OFFICE STAFF MEMBERS IN ORDER TO COVER THE INCOMING TSUNAMI OF COMMUNICATIONS (AND OTHER CONCERNS) FROM CITIZENS IN GENERAL AND CONSTITUENTS IN PARTICULAR!!
Simon, thank you for interviewing Chrissie Houaihan. As a long time Southeastern PA resident, I am so proud of what she has and is doing. I have friends in Phoenixville am I am so thankful this is who is representing them in Congress. Southeastern PA has some great House reps! Yeah, Mary Gay Scanlon and Madeline Dean!
I greatly appreciate the comments below addressing the topic of accountability. I believe this is central to what has been happening for many years in Congress, and not just since Trump took office again. And it isn't just Republicans who need to be accountable. Stock trading is one example. Even though many Democrats tout affordability, there are many who are taking advantage of their position by investing because of the information they are privy to. This is also corrupt, and we need to hold ALL politicians to be accountable for this behavior. And the list goes on. I am not naive. I know this has been happening for years with no one blowing the whistle to make a difference.
I listen to your interviews and read your posts every day. If I miss some, I go back when possible. You have created a wonderful platform for educating so many people, and I tell my friends and family all the time to STOP listening/reading the traditional news, and start with you and others on Substack. This is keeping me sane. Thank you!!
Well, then, put your proposals on the table! Not utopian ones, but concrete proposals you think you can get Democrats to unite behind.
Excellent interview and just what I needed this afternoon. The agenda makes perfect sense. It aligns with my values and sets out in clear language an agenda worth fighting for and working towards. In fact, it is long overdue. It is so refreshing to know that there are intelligent people in Congress, and the more interviews like this that we see, the better we will all feel. It is a pleasure to support leaders like Houlahan. Thank you.
Sharing my post on Resist and Unsubscribe to give people another immediate way to apply pressure on Trump and his minions through Corporate America.
From Scott Galloway's The Pivot Podcast, ~50K was unsubscribe from at least one of the listed services. The goal is 100,000 or more for the pressure to be felt. More people will also lead to more negative media attention and there are few things Corporate America likes less than negative media.
The more the merrier and please keep sharing with others. Do what you can. Unsubscribing from just one of the listed services is of great help. Thanks.
********************************************
The another area that is not getting enough attention is the complete silence of Corporate America. What is the purpose of "f*ck you money", if you don't tell this Administration to f*ck off? We need to call out their silence and inaction and put real pressure on them. It is time for them to stand up, be accountable, and tell this Administration to stop this un-American actions.
Please check out this site. resistandunsubscribe.com This is an organized, sane way for the average person to apply the only pressure that Corporate America understands, money. Simply unsubscribe from as many of the listed services as you can. Does not matter on how many you can unsubscribe from, just one is great. Each of us have are own circumstances, do what you/ your household can do. The key is duration. It needs to be a minimum of a month. Hope you will check it out, act and share.
FYI: Don't think this kind of pressure campaign doesn't work? The most recent example of how well this works is when ABC cancelled Kimmel, million of subscribers cancel Hulu. All of a sudden Kimmel is back on the air.
Scott Galloway, who is behind this plan-of-action, explains his reasoning in greater detail in this podcast, Pivot (his co-host is Kara Swisher). Take a listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719?i=1000747336642
Excellent conversation. Heartwarming to see responsible, smart, courageous people like Congresswoman Houlahan leading and doing their jobs.
Simon, Another great conversation with a very important member of Congress. I'm glad I got to meet Chrissy Houlahan. A courageous Democrat who stood up for our laws and the Constitution. In other words, She Kicked Ass! And, this New Democrat Coalition and Crafting of a new Affordability Agenda to "Restore the American Dream" is someone who cares about our Country, and we will be hearing a lot more about Her, and from Her.
I was happy to see there is a caucus working on a serious ‘affordibility’ plan using easy to understand language.
Christy Houlahan is an inspiring, exemplary member of Congress. What a resume!
What struck me on a personal level was how she talked about her father, a holocaust survivor who talked to her about his experiences. I'm a naturalized U.S. citizen. I was born in a dictatorship that existed for over 40 years. The country was liberated in 1973. My own father was active in secret during the years of my early childhood. A cousin of ours was a political prisoner for five years and suffered routine beatings. He took several for protecting my father and not revealing his information - they had the same last name. It's especially sad for me to have switched, so to speak, my native country, which was then a dictatorship and now a democracy, for one that is turning into into one before our eyes.
Keep fighting for us, Congresswoman. I was born in a dictatorship. I don't want to die in one.
Phenomenal as always. If you haven’t seen Sen Murphy’s short powerhouse speech in response to such madness, it is definitely worth watching. I’m continuing to call all my reps everyday and remind them that anything they do must be accompanied by a denunciation of this horrendous administration. Thank you Simon for this wonderful community!!
https://youtu.be/523CjPV5hK4?si=3C2GnLrvr4ELWUEG
Simon, the amount of funding for DHS passed in BBB is a done deal. While we stopped the incremental perhaps. Are we not dead with what they already have to lock up the country? This is still a staggering cloud before us.
Don't know if this is premature, maybe it needs to come later, but it seems the last arm of their agenda should be accountability
This and accountability are what I think, and I believe what most people are alluding to here including you Simon, can be the two pronged approach to communicate what Democrats, and constitution loving candidates and office holders, stand for.
Affordability, and Accountability.
We can't lose sight of the affordability message and thankfully, especially with the TX state senate flip, we aren't. That message is true, rings clear across party lines that we need to get to win this year, and shows how we can improve everyone's life in this time of economic stress.
Accountability is the other thing, and what's been put out here since January has been key! Hold DHS, particularly ICE and CPB accountable and bring them back in line with the constitution. Hold the Administration accountable for the damage they are doing against our citizens, people who should be here, and our interests around the world. Hold the president accountable for his crimes and the powerful in relation to how they directly harm us, especially with Epstein. And hold ourselves accountable to work to restore it and IMPROVE it once we get back to power.
Thank you for this great interview. Rep Houlahan is my representative so she was on my list to call about the two warehouse concentration camp prisons in Pennsylvania. Her office assured me she was against the prisons, as did all the state officials I got on the phone. Representative Houlahan has always been a courageous fighter for the Constitution and her constituents. I hope the legal action against her does not bankrupt her.
Great interview, and yes, the 5 items in the NDC's Affordability Agenda align pretty darn closely with my personal priorities. Seriously, who could argue with them?!? However, I do hope that this group becomes more audacious over time. For instance, I've become increasingly convinced that we need to move toward Medicare for All. The political branches of our government continually toy with the lives of millions of Americans, all the while subsidizing with our taxpayer dollars huge corporations that then ration our healthcare while reaping massive profits...again with our taxpayer dollars. Healthcare should be a basic right, not a privilege, and the notion that the government would ration healthcare, while the private sector wouldn't, is simply laughable on the face of it!
Anyway, I've written before that perfection is the enemy of the possible, and I know that this isn't a debate for today. It'll have to wait until some semblance of sanity returns to DC, but I just wanted to toss this out to the crowd for consideration!
Hello from Urbana MD
ON REPEAT:
“[I]f it were up to [Stephen] Miller, there’d only be 100 million people in this country, and they’d all look like Miller.” - Donald J. Trump (2024)
“We shouldn’t let outrage at Trump’s awfulness obscure the more unsettling reality that he is largely an expression, rather than the cause, of a shifting world order”
- Vlad Vexler, Oxford-trained political philosopher
Again, The Daily Beast has an excellent segment from a longer interview with Dr. Mary L. Trump about her uncle’s obvious deficiencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQUNGCCR4nE&list=TLPQMzAxMjIwMjV5egg_4KZRew. WE ARE IN THE REALM OF DAMAGED PERSONALITY TYPE - NOT POLITICS. More clinicians should be interviewed. The MSM and their advertisers should be taken to task for covering the manifest mental and physical failings of Dolos. What is up with his hands?
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!
CANNABALISM, CANNABALISM, CANNABALISM?
HORSES, HORSES, HORSES?
M.A.R.L. = Make America Russia Like.
As an empathy exercise, download an air-alert app for Ukraine on iOS or Android. The Tsar cannot survive with peace in Russia. In many ways, he is already losing internally (e.g. the FSB and military leadership are now fighting each other for societal spoils of their "Mafia State"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmU7OPIv4J4. Based in Kyiv, Smart has a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on Russian politics.
EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN!
“Again, it all goes back to I think the person running the country right now is a DEAD PEDOPHILE [emphasis mine].”
- Professor Scott Galloway (NYU), Founder of Prof G Media
ON REPEAT FROM MARCH 2025 ABOUT THE RUSSIAN “HONEY DO” LIST FOR DOLOS (Part 1):
The NETWORK STATE - For the best synopsis of the objectives of the “Tech Lords”, please listen to this 45-minute podcast and share widely (these folks are going to leave a huge blast radius - if we let them): https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-nerd-reich-podcast-episode-1-the-network-state-2/ .
Project 2025 Trackers:
https://www.project2025.observer .
https://substack.com/@project2025progress .
https://substack.com/@ahmedbaba/p-158109308 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPElaGebGPc (timestamps 13:10 and 55:07).
Simon et al.:
First, take a look at (and LISTEN to) this 2-minute interview with a BRAVE YOUNG AMERICAN VOLUNTEER MEDIC ON THE FRONTLINES of the Russian attack on Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvIYp41Wrg&list=TLPQMTgwMzIwMjV80y8DdiE1-w. Second, ask yourself if you would trust her safety to the tender mercies of the Tsar or Dolos? I know my answer. Also, if they could spare her, Rebekah Maciorowski would make a great advocate for Ukraine on the home front.
Previously, I said that the allegiance of Dolos to his Tsar makes him predictable. Other observers agree on this predictability as well. Soon, we will have to ask if the USA is sharing its mail about Ukraine with Russia. So, here is Peter Zeihan’s take on the (for more timely updates, take a look at his Patreon: patreon.com/PeterZeihan) Russian “Honey Do” list for Ukrainian surrender (forget peace) that will be part of a bilateral arrangement between Dolos and the Tsar (they have a call this morning) to “defang” Ukraine for later conquest by Russia. Please note that any mistakes in “translation” are my own with these rough transcriptions:
1. No restrictions on the type of Russian forces on their side of the line of control.
2. A demilitarized zone on the Ukrainian side of the line of control.
3. No NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine’s territory at all.
4. Remanding the Ukrainian leadership for trial in Russia for … (your guess?).
5. A public admission that the war was the fault of the Ukrainians.
6. Relative to #5, the Ukrainians need to pay war reparations.
7. The US needs to state that the war was also Western Europe’s idea to help with the war reparations.
8. The US will provide financial assistance to rebuild the hydrocarbon infrastructure across Ukraine and the Black Sea [see my other note about the new USA Sovereign Wealth Fund controlled by Dolos].
9. To give Russia their old market back, the US must no longer provide LNG to Europe.
10. The USA should bar Europe from providing military aid to Ukraine.
11. The USA will impose secondary sanctions on any European country that provides arms to Ukraine.
12. The USA will publicly declare all lands that the Russians have taken recently from their neighboring countries as sovereign Russian territory, and these lands can never revert to their original countries.
13. A US ban on all weapons transfers and civilian assistance to Ukraine.
14. A ban on all weapons transfers and civilian assistance to Ukraine from Europe.
15. Russia must have a presence on all points of entry in Ukraine for customs monitoring by Moscow.
16. The USA will provide intelligence sharing to Russia about European activities relative to Ukraine [Mike Walz has recently broached intelligence sharing with Russia].
17. Managing the deindustrialization of Ukraine so that they cannot develop indigenous weapons.
Per Zeihan, by completing all or most of the above list, this scenario would effectively place the USA outside of NATO (the dream of all dreams for the Tsar). Once separated from NATO, there would be no “Article 5” protections (i.e. military aid assurances), and the smaller Baltic and East European members of NATO would fall like a deck of cards to Russia in the near future. Yes, there is more:
18. The USA will spy on NATO for Russia to help with their future plans of attack.
19. All Russian news outlets should be allowed to operate in the USA (please watch Russian Media Monitor on YouTube) without restrictions.
20. All agricultural products from Canada should be banned and replaced with Russian produce (are we halfway there with the tariff regime of Dolos?).
21. Decommission our icebreakers (we have two) and abandon any US efforts in the Arctic. Leave this area to Russia.
22. Wipe out all Russian debt held in the USA, and allow all Russian firms to return without restrictions to the US capital markets.
23. Have future Russian debt be backstopped by the sovereign credit ranking of the USA.
24. Have the USA offer financial guarantees to ask US firms to return and invest in Russia [I shared some Bloomberg coverage on investors wanting to return to Russia last Thursday - coincidence?].
25. US firms should set up in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to solidify the commitment to Russian development.
26. Russians want RFK jr. to help remove the demographic advantage of the USA by reducing the life expectancy of US youngsters (yes, end generalized vaccinations since the Department of Education will no longer be around to mandate vaccinations). Make America Russia Like (MARL).
27. Break the Federal Reserve System, and enhance the use of cryptocurrencies instead of the dollar (as Russia has done to get around sanctions).
28. Use the FBI to go after financial institutions that provide stability [I shared in another post about how “rule of law” has its own intrinsic value to financial markets] under the guise of being against the directives of the Dolos administration.
29. Arrest industrial development in the NAFTA/USMCA region by having a contradictory tariff policy and threatening war with your trading partners (currently, no one wants to manufacture in Russia).
30. Destroy the American agricultural miracle by banning synthetic pesticides and fertilizers to substantially reduce yields. This scenario would enhance Russia’s agricultural position (not unlike destroying Ukraine’s output earlier in the conflict).
31. End American restrictions on high-end chip manufacturing to China to give Russia and China production opportunities and alternative sourcing options (in the war with Ukraine, chips have been harder for Russia to access).
32. Break up the USA and UK alliance which allows for the sharing of bases in former British colonies around the world (creating more freedom of movement for Russian mischief-makers).
33. Have the USA unilaterally reduce its nuclear arsenal, as Dolos has mentioned in the past (supposedly, nuclear research scientists are presently getting fired by Leon and his “incels”).
34. Create a new arms reduction pact to prohibit nuclear weapons from the US Navy, and allow for intrusive inspections of US ships (please notice that the Ukrainians have sunken a large proportion of the Russian Navy without having a navy).
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST (via nonviolence).
P.S.: Do the following now! FIRST, TEACH CIVICS. Second, register voters. THIRD, TEACH CIVICS. Rinse. Repeat.
P.P.S.: DEMOCRATS (AND PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE) NEED TO HAVE “TOWN HALLS” IN REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS - ASAP. YOUR OPPONENTS HAVE WILLINGLY CONCEDED THE FIELD.
P.P.P.S.: Simon has often mentioned the earnest six-million patriots from the last cycle. This is a large pool of thoughtful energy/talent. SO, DEMOCRATS SHOULD ALLOW VETTED-VOLUNTEERS TO AUGMENT THEIR PAID OFFICE STAFF MEMBERS IN ORDER TO COVER THE INCOMING TSUNAMI OF COMMUNICATIONS (AND OTHER CONCERNS) FROM CITIZENS IN GENERAL AND CONSTITUENTS IN PARTICULAR!!
Simon, thank you for interviewing Chrissie Houaihan. As a long time Southeastern PA resident, I am so proud of what she has and is doing. I have friends in Phoenixville am I am so thankful this is who is representing them in Congress. Southeastern PA has some great House reps! Yeah, Mary Gay Scanlon and Madeline Dean!
I greatly appreciate the comments below addressing the topic of accountability. I believe this is central to what has been happening for many years in Congress, and not just since Trump took office again. And it isn't just Republicans who need to be accountable. Stock trading is one example. Even though many Democrats tout affordability, there are many who are taking advantage of their position by investing because of the information they are privy to. This is also corrupt, and we need to hold ALL politicians to be accountable for this behavior. And the list goes on. I am not naive. I know this has been happening for years with no one blowing the whistle to make a difference.
I listen to your interviews and read your posts every day. If I miss some, I go back when possible. You have created a wonderful platform for educating so many people, and I tell my friends and family all the time to STOP listening/reading the traditional news, and start with you and others on Substack. This is keeping me sane. Thank you!!