In the annals of Freudian graphic design, this apropos logo is one for the history books.
As one of the qualified Diversity Equity and Inclusion spokepeople for Mitch McConnell’s DeceptiCon group, Joni Ernst has always had a very specific role to play. Today she announces Ron DeSantis is joining the porkulous parade, an apropos name for a pork-filled United States budgetary process that has replaced regular order since fiscal year 2008.
That is correct folks. All of these debt ceiling arguments, continuing resolutions, stop-gap spending bills, and generally corrupt UniParty spending outcomes, are the result of congress dropping the budget process after fiscal year 2008. For the past fifteen years in a row, specifically as part of the Obama ‘fundamental change’ process, the budgetary order in the U.S. government has been eliminated.
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Everything associated with federal spending is a corrupt and arguably unconstitutional system of base-line budget growth, continuing resolutions, no budget constraints and debt ceiling increases. The media like to play the budget narrative game without ever mentioning the source of the issue.
Can you think of a more apropos logo to represent the interests of Washington DC and the right-wing of the UniParty agenda?
Quite a remarkable and Freudian optic.
We are in an abusive relationship with our government.
I digress…
More unveiling. Let it happen
I wanted to add “sublime!” a propos the porky sign for meatball.
Pork meatballs!
… and kosher too, thanks to the patented DeSantis Magic!
<Pork meatballs!>
Available on Ground Hog Day 🙂
My wife has taken to blending wild boar with either elk or venison, and spices. Surreal…or to quote Kristin above, sublime.
I thought the Sea Island crowd might be meeting to go to Plan B (whatever that is) but I guess the billionaires have made their decision…double down with Top Guv DeSoros!
P.S. I live in Minnesota and half tempted to go down and hold a Trump sign during the motorcade to the event.
gooooooo
STRIP SEARCH!
The notion that we can avoid default by borrowing MORE is absurd.
At some point the balloon must come down.
That bubble will pop sooner, rather than later.
The trick is that the moochers and looters intend to get out with their ill-gotten gains before the crash.
Our challenge should be to make sure none of them escape the hell they have created.
Nothing to be concerned about. When the BRICS nations and half of the rest of the world drops the US dollar as the reserve currency, all of the money stolen from US taxpayers will be just as worthless.
It IS. ALL of this kabuki theater in DC over ‘budgeting’ is like thr band on the Titanic, continueing to play as the ship sinks.
It is not Congress, or the Fed, or the debt cieling that has enabled the obscene profligate spending, it is the “sale” of U.S. Treasuries.
The recognition, by the World, that said Treasuries are the “benchmark” investment, with greatest security, hence lowest risk and therefore where all countries invested their reserves.
81 countries, including some with yuge economies (Brics +) are meeting in RUSSIA, IIRC, to hammer out the details on converting their reserves to gold backed currencies, and dumping their Treasuries.
As they do, countries continueing to hold their reserves in Treasuries will be forced to follow, or see the value of their reserves plummet, so they will race to dump theirs, as well, in a game of financial musical chairs.
At that point, “the parties over” for the U.S. Govts profligate spending, their credit card is cut up, and they WILL be forced to live within our means.
Originally, the U.S. status as reserve currency was justified by those things which constitued American exceptionalism.
As they have systematically eroded and undermined those things (Constitution, rule of law, vibrant middle class with upward mobility) they have destroyed any justification for U.S. Treasuries to BE the Worlds reserve currency.
,…and, as the ship sank into the icey waters,….the band played on.”
Dutchman, you have it exactly right. Well said.
Great analysis and reporting! Thank you!
This currency debasement business, stripping out a nation’s wealth is not the first time.
Before America, were the British, French and Spanish to name a few. Looks like a pattern to me.
…while the Capt made his slow way over to the SS Californian. Good bye Astor, hello Fed Reserve / IRS.
Interesting Alpine Knight…Astor being John Jacob Astor IV, of course… considered to be one of the world’s richest people at his death. I never knew he fought central banking and income taxes.
Agree 💯 Question is, how do we protect ourselves being on the sinking ship?
Exactly, to the last 2 posts. Most of this is what I have said in my above post. This “bill” is more about the moochers and the looters than it is for the American people. We’ve seen it happen more times than I care to remember and it has never really “solved” any problems yet, it simply adds to them by adding more money that will eventually have to be paid back by the working people, not the elitist crowd, for THEY are the moochers.
They all come out of WADC absolutely filthy rich and that is NOT supposed to be the way this works. It’s really astounding to me that the American people either didn’t notice this before or they didn’t care enough to fight back. It’s absolutely appalling. Not to mention galling.
They will all be fine. They all retire with fat pensions and millions of dollars. The rest of us are the ones who suffer.
I hope to be that ornery crab that drags their arse back into the crab pot hell they intend solely for us…
The left will not give up the notions that we can either borrow or print our way to prosperity. We should have learned that lesson well enough by this time. Old “glitch” Mitch has been around long enough to know that.
I think their plan, such as it is, is to use the pending financial collapse, brought on by the loss of reserve status, as the crises they need, to implement CBDC.
After all,when economies crash, Govts. traditionally impose “wage/price controls” to try to “mangage” the either crash of depression, or skyrocketing inflation.
You can see it in Venzuela and other countries givernments responce to hyperinflation, as well as U.S. and other countries responce to the great depression.
Such controls are bulky, aquward to wield. CBDC would be far more,..streamlined and in addition to giving them an enormously powerful tool for forcing compliance, would enable them to effectively manipulate wage/price changes, with less transparency.
I don’t think it will WORK, mind you, but I think thats the PLAN.
I was listening to some Fellow at one of those think tanks (can’t recall his name) discuss the disastrous economic impact it would have on the U.S. if the world shifted away from our dollar as the petro-currency.
When asked about a return to the gold standard, he said THAT would be the only way to save our country.
I was about 8 years old (which would have been 1952) when I was with my mother who was shopping either the Monkey Wards or J. C. Penney in Williston, ND which was about 45 miles from our Montana farm. It was always big adventure to go to Williston and even more so to “go in the big stores”.
I saw something that appealed to me. Mom saw I wanted it and said, “No, Sharon. There’s not enough money for that today.”
My response was reasonable for an 8 year old: “But, Mom, you still have checks left!…”
These authoritian fools still think like that.
Funny what you remember about growing up. I still write checks. Especially after closing PayPal & Venmo.
I do, too. Not for everything, but for many things.
Cash first; checks second; full stop. I’ll be da**ed if I ever concede to a “smart” phone or any other “smart” device being smarter than me. As identified in BSG, they’re all toasters; and even then they can’t toast an English muffin properly.
Kicking the can down the road.
But eventually the road dead-ends.
Typically at the intersection of Weimar Street.
(Tom Wigand / “American Discerner” on Substack)
Ron DePorkulous
The default “Sky is Falling” drumming from the media is fodder for politicos to keep spending. Total BS.
Note also that the very short Joni appears taller than Ron in the picture.
Lol!
Yes. Disgusting display.
The more we are able to see from the curtain pulled back and what some have shown us these people deserve to be in jail while waiting for trial from a true judicial system.
What was wrong with the guacamole bowl?!
THEY ARE ALL GRIFTERS….
Every last one of them.
They don’t get campaign funds unless they do as they are told.
Joni is yet another one who said all the right things on the campaign trail but then flipped the second she got to DC! She didn’t even have enough time to get blackmailed so her “conservatism” was clearly all a lie from the very beginning!
Joni in that first 2014 senatorial race:
Quickly became coiffed to Swamp look, and still more accurately “outlook.”
Her get-up as an Iowa average farmer during 2020 convention was flat out irritating. PDJT should never endorse swampers like this.
True!!!
She looks weird in this photo and he looks like he has food poisoning. This is just sad. Do they really believe there are enough GOP voters that fall for the “we’re taking on the libtards” theater?
The irony is that YES, they ACTUALLY DO!
Because their internal polling, TELLS them so.
It is an ARTICLE OF FAITH, for ALL political consultants that they “trust the data” of their “internals” and EVERY bit of ‘advice’ they give to campaigns is a direct result of this DATA.
They can not concieve that their internal polling data can be wrong, as its such a foundational tenant of their profession; so long as they base their “advice” on the data, and the candidate takes their advice the consultant is “safe” from any criticism or discrediting.
And MAGA DO NOT DO POLLS, hence their data is worthless, as an ever increasing portion of the electorate are self-selecting to remove themselves from the input.
So YES, they really DO believe, as an “article of faith” that MAGA is a small subset of the electorate, that most are not enamored of PDJT cause of his baggage, and would eagerly embrace a “Trump without the baggage” alternative, that championed those “culture wars values” the “bible/gun clingers” find so important.
They are flying blind, and have no idea they are flying right into a yuge mountain.
Hope so!!
And the voters now know Trump’s ‘baggage’ was manufactured by Hilary, Obama and our deep state IC!
She looks almost entirely different (at least the photo) than when she ran for congress the first time.
She campaigned on cutting out the pork in government. What a fxking liar! She has done nothing. How pretty her little “Roast and Ride” picture is. They truly think we are stupid!
Yes, she was the one who exposed the acquisition of funds to study the behavior of some animal—-can’t remember which—on a treadmill? Something like that
This is everything that wrong with our government! Picture says it all! They look so stupid!
No one is interested in going to see this sh*tshow.
amen
Meatball will have the honorary title of “Porkball” for this event. Someone please make sure his apron reads, “Kiss The Porkball.”
Thanks.
“Get your tickets“ is where she really blew it.
It’s one thing if you have an already formed acrowd for a parade –
It’s another thing to ask people to pay specifically to hear DeSantis speak.
Or are the tickets free?
One way or another they have to create an illusion that he has a huge base of support.
Very good point and as all of us here know who the Father of All Illusion is ……everything is an illusion, not just our government, it’s just an illusion and he’s the head of it.
The Devil’s been too busy in these end times collecting souls forever and has not had the time to read Revelations yet to find out that he’s going to lose….. with the demon-crats as his favorite henchmen.
Good point!
Very well said!
Above all – this is a spiritual battle.
GOD WINS!!!
And it also says, “Special Guest: Ron DeeeeSantis.”
They want you to think he’s just regular folk; so they dropped the “Gov.” part.
Cabal is soooo predictable
Good point!
It reminds me of when he was in Iowa wearing grass stained jeans and what I think were rented cowboy boots!
Yes. Plus, they want us to forget that he lied about “serving” FL for another 4 years and that he already HAS ANOTHER JOB.
“Get your tickets” means Register, your Email, your Cell Phone #, and then we will give you a ticket. It’s a database formation.
For fundraising it sounds like.
The tickets would definitely have to be free to have actual takers other than them being bought up to look like huge support.
But even free – unless they started handing them out randomly, the already gathered crowd could be used to make it look like they are there for him.
Like DeSantis does in mall food courts and pizza parlors.
Tickets are $20 per. Money raised goes to a Veteran’s charity.
Another said it was free and their info to be used for a database.
I would imagine that either way if they are getting their contact information it will be used for fundraising
You mean to veteran Phony Joni? From my college days of thin ties, birth control glasses, and Joan Baez, I can bring forth a new Phony Joanie only this time Phony Joni for Ernst. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Is an Ernst endorsement all that popular? Even in Iowa? Most any photos I see of her have Mitch McConnell in them front and center. That can’t be good for republican voter enthusiasm. Maybe she is popular, but I know McConnell isn’t.
OrangeManBad also knows his audience and he’ll attack Ernst as a McConnell stooge. And now with this endorsement, Trump will call out DeSantisManGood as a McConnell stooge too.
My take on Iowans is that they are very much inclined to vote for incumbents (or there is powerful political machinery there that keeps their person in office forever).
Chuck Grassley poster geezer for term limits
Nauseating. Not much makes me sick,either.
I can clean fish & game.in the blink of an eye.
Where would Adam SHIFF get the $16 MILLION dollar fine that MT Green is proposing? These politicians must be loaded.
How truly sad, She threw away any credibility she had when she came into office and decided to side with McConnell and Thurn and a few others that have no back bone she truly has shown she is a coward. and now bringing Desantis into the fold makes her look even worse than before
Agree!
Violate the laws of nature and what happens? Simple question…not so simple to answer, especially by those elected to government. Own a money printing press, got trouble meeting your bills?
Answer: Print more money–plan for inflation, print more money–plan again for more inflation…easy peasey!
Deep in debt…who cares? Tell them to go f**k themselves! Tell the wrong person/group/country and what might happen?
Oh yea…well pal watch this: Incoming…punches, weapons, bombs, war, destruction, end of life. Let’s play hot potato!
Want to hide behind this plan? Simple: Articulate (sophistry at work) a unique economic theory to oppose classical theory which has been in place for a really long time (hint: laws of nature).
Here America, hold my bag of IOUs and a beer! Suckers are born every day and live everywhere…
Obama did not act alone, he was merely the catalyst which exploded this evil game we are still playing!
One man, one vote (registered voters only)–accurate count…anything else is a lie and part of the evil game being played!
Nature is a social construct. Believe what I say and it will change reality.
I’ve said it before, if our “politicians” would just leave things alone, the economy would eventually reset itself. It might sting for a few months or even a year, but it WOULD reset itself without any help from the gubmint. I want to know how these supposedly SMART people in WADC think that borrowing more money, which adds more debt to the already overbloated debt, is going to “solve” anything?? It’s not. It will give the greedy ones time to fill their pockets before we kick them out of WADC but that won’t help the rest of the country either. So HOW IN THE WORLD DOES KEVIN MCCARTHY THINK THIS IS A GOOD TRADE?
Ron DeSantis doesn’t understand the economy either, and most certainly Jodi Ernst doesn’t. Most average Americans have more brains about this than the two of them put together.
TRUMP 2024! It’s just GOTTA HAPPEN. WE THE PEOPLE GOTTA MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
But then they couldn’t get their cut of the government money sent to big business or foreign aid. You did know that’s what they’ve been doing all of this time right?
As an Iowan, that is a real shame. Next time around, we will have to see if someone will primary her. Such a disappointment.
Than focus NOT on elected “Public officials” but on elected State R PARTY OFFICIALS, specifically your State R Party EXECUTIVE BOARD.
THAT is where the real power lies.
I know firsthand that Dutchman is spot on. I served on the MNGOP Executive Committee for my CD at one time…MNGOP is corrupt as hell but we had six out of eight CD representatives who were honorable… but we had a demonic Chair.
Grandma Ernst, pork, corn, and ethanol, brought to you by our beloved Iowans. And now, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. We need a bigger Toto.
Don’t fall for it Ron!
It’s a trap. Just like in the movie Porky’s, once you get over the county line, they’ll own you. Then, the next thing you know, you’ll be in a line up in the principal’s office being identified by Mrs. Balbricker.
Ad Rem, sorry if that link to the Principal’s Office scene from the movie Porky’s was inappropriate.
It just came to me when I saw the reference to Porkulous.
When seeing these pols feeding at the trough, sometimes a good laugh is the best medicine.
Thanks for all you do!
Sorry MM….we always remove movie or music videos unless SD’s post is of a “celebratory” nature….like a rally or special announcement. They take up a lot of bandwidth, and encourage others to do the same.
It was nothing that was personal or inappropriate of your part!
Having a farm on the Mn. Iowa border, you cannot trust any republicans.
Ever. My grandfather taught me this in the 50’s.
“You cannot trust Republicans”?
How about you cannot trust people in general and politicians in particular.
This was her initial campaign platform in 2014:
“I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. So when I get to Washington, I’ll know how to cut pork,”Ernst says in the ad. “Washington’s full of big spenders. Let’s make ’em squeal.”
She is now one of McConnel’s uniparty deputies and just another hog at the DC trough.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2014/03/25/republican-joni-ernst-lets-make-em-squeal-/6860595/
Oh, this is good. Really good!
MAGA can get some mileage out of the gaffes, Freudian slips, and ‘tells’ out of this for future use.
That idiot is stepping into a self-imposed GOPe trap, and they’re all too narcissistically stupid to see it!
I’m salivating over the prospects his attendance at this event will bring.
Seeing those two together reminds me that a group of rhinos is called a “crash.”
Despicable people!
Looks like purposefully. In your faces, MAGA!
“All of these debt ceiling arguments, continuing resolutions, stop-gap spending bills, and generally corrupt UniParty spending outcomes, are the result of congress dropping the budget process after fiscal year 2008.”
Plenty of blame to go around when it comes to destroying the greatest country ever conceived, but the process, as this example shows, was greatly accelerated under BHO.
Jodi should change the name to Trump Backstabbers Ride.
As soon as Ernst got Trumps support and won her most recent te election— she threw him under the bus.
She told Iowans she was going to Washington to clean it up. But when she got to town she joined the rino country clubber uniparty team.
A Roast and Ride. Which one is the pig?
WOW, the buildup continues . . .
0 + 0 = still zero
And 0/0 = ERROR
The way you know this is all Astroturf is at a Townhall, only carefully prepped plants ask the rehearsed questions, and get the rehearsed answers on the Shiney Jangly subjects we are supposed to chase like a cat after a laser pointer.
No body asks:
“Sir, up thru 2020 we had an America First, Main Street not Wall Street, Middle Class directed, Nationalist Economic Policy and Plan.
We had cheap gas, Energy Independence, low inflation on everything, expanding jobs, pay, and productivity.
What type of Economic plan will you give us, and who will it benefit?
And we see that bvb the oligarchs you.met ed with gave you about 75 total votes and $250MM.
We only have votes to give.
Answer Carefully.
A carefully prepped plant is a salad.
LOL! Meatball Ron is made of pork and not hamburger. Italian sausage.
Mind boggling how stupid these people are , Ron doesn’t have a chance in hell .
Ugh that woman is gross….Ernst I mean…….
Meatball too…..
Iowa, like my state Florida, has two RINO senators. It’s amazing how many so called red states have RINO governors and senators.
Thune and Rounds too in SD …………….ICK!
called Congressional offices today to voice my displeasure with our congress COMMIES in SD about their support on the budget deal – it was fun sparring with the turd that answers their phones …..
NOT “amazing at all, very much by design.
Notice how they manipulate election results, in order to keep both the Housexand Senate at very close to 50/50?
Thats just the way the Uniparty wants it, as it enables them to thwart the will of the people, and keep the illusion of a two party system, as their SHARED Uniparty agenda steadily progresses.
Do you honestly think the Republicon party opposed the final step in the Nationalisation of Healthcare that was Obamacare?
If so, you just haven’t been paying attention.Just one example of a SHARED agenda, and the two wings playing their roles.
Because it’s hard work to give your attention not just to what they say, but what they DO! We know this now. But can we say we knew that BEFORE? We were just LUCKY as hell Trump kept his word on everything. We’re very accustomed to being lied to. Now we can see they are ALL liars before Trump… and a select few others.
In the end, it’s all about bringing home the bacon. Many constituents are “conservative” until it’s their ox being gored. Farmers lead the pack. I remember Christy Noem running as a “tea party” candidate the same year Pocahontas ran for the Senate against “big money bankers.” I thought: okay, I’m going to watch these two and see what they really do. Noem voted for one of the largest farm bills ever passed and Warren wouldn’t support Rand Paul’s bill to audit the FED. So much for systemic “reform.”
Will Joni get in trouble for telling the public where RDS is? Sorry not.
I’ve always said it was 2006 that budget Blowout occurred
JWB lost midterms to Schumer and pelosi and turned over the entire Govt in exchange for the “surge” -2006 was the fist busting Budget – pelosi/ Schumer and that greases the way for Obama in 2008a
obama delivered his campaign promise to destroy america.
Fundamentally change doesn’t SOUND like destruction. We just thought electing a man who calls himself black would be the world’s biggest “shut the F up, I’m not racist!” claim. Did we think that would be the end of the argument or did it just become worse?
Ever notice the claims of “systemic racism” are made most often in places run by Democrats? Most often where black Democrats run things? “Like YOU are running the system! If it’s systemically racist and you’re running the system, what are you telling me?!”
Expose, expose, expose!
No Muslims invited?
OINK, OINK….
Speaking of pork did you know that they have been injecting pigs with the mRNA Vaccine since 2018.
Read on…..
https://deeprootsathome.com/how-long-have-you-been-consuming-mrna-injected-pork/
The Sea Island retreat is noon Wed May 31 through noon Fri June 2. Luckily Ron! will have time to get to Iowa on June 3rd. The residents in FL must be ecstatic that Top Guv is focusing like a laser on being governor.///
Over the years Joni Ernst has hardly given lip service to the corruption and two-tiered justice system. She ran on “making them squeal” and the only one’s squealing are her constituents. She was co-opted by Mitch and is firmly in the decepticon category. I know because I’m one of her constituents. I will not vote for her again.
So corrupted, they are irredeamable. Joni Ernst. Fraud.
Governor DeSantis will say all the right things to appeal to the Base. But, he won’t be able to wrench them away from Trump.
We remember that the GOP Candidates always say the right things to get through the primaries. But, there is only one candidate that has ever tried to follow through.
Amen
Actually, he won’t even say the “right things”; because anything he is going to bevprogrammed to say, is first poll tested, by INTERNAL polling, and the people he is trying to appeal to (MAGA) DO NOT DO POLLS.
That rediculous “don’t back up, or down or whatever it is campaign slogan, was the WINNER when they poll tested the 6-7 “BEST” ones their brain trust could come up with.
And, the “likely voters” they polled (virtually none) thought it was ‘the best’; New Coke, anyone?
Two deplorables.
Yet another who uses past military service as reason for Americans’ trust.
-dishonorable 🐷
I like this. You want my trust earn it, otherwise I’m skeptical Vol.
For what it’s worth many normies have it that DeSantis was SEAL/DEVGRU. He was not. DeSantis was a JAG in the U.S. Navy. A JAG. Joni Ernst? Elevated concurrent some dubious circumstances, albeit yet unproven, as detailed by her husband (now divorced) and others proximal her tenure in the Iowa Nat. with which she deployed to KUWAIT and ran occasional resupps into Iraq under heavily armed tough escort. She was raised by Ditch McConnell in the “-R” senate caucus directly after her vote in support of the “Respct Marriage Act”(Trannyslation: in support of McConnell/Schumer/Bai Den). The McCarthy-McConnell normie Dope cadre can always be relied upon for public professions of ignorance and flat wrong information if nothing else. Their preeminent “sources” – Fox Nooze, Twatter, Facecock, newspaper rags in a checkout line, and of course McCarthy-McConnell described “wins”. We’re in DEEP. Worse yet, about 60%-70% at least seem as if they could care less… the same ones when loaded onto boxcars will roll their eyes and mumble “Uh, politics” in the next iteration of Night of the Long Knives.
How did that work out with Eye-Patch McCain?
And the reason Ditch McConnell elevated her in the senate “-R” caucus… a DAY after she caved, among several previous votes, on the “Respect for Marriage Act”. This unit like her co-ilk is an empty soulless vessel. And you know what? IOWA will send it dead back to the senate next election. GREAT pick iowah. I don’t understand why these units opt to append their names with -R. They’d have more support as _d marxists.
She sucks.
As much of a rino as any ‘Republican’ senator.