{"id":1545721,"date":"2025-07-07T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1545721"},"modified":"2025-07-07T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:20:00","slug":"who-knows-what-to-believe-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/who-knows-what-to-believe-these-days\/1545721\/","title":{"rendered":"“Who Knows What To Believe These Days…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Who Knows What To Believe These Days…”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cage Match!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201c…[W}e are closing in on more disclosures and fixing past wrongs to personnel. We\u2019re making sure this is done correctly. But it\u2019s absolutely getting done.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0– Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI<\/em><\/p>\n

Who knows what to believe these days?<\/strong> Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0to Harvard U. Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane?<\/p>\n

We are told now by the FBI that there is no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation against the politicos of Western Civ, or that a \u201cclient list\u201d existed, or that JE was murdered in his jail cell. It well might be true that there is no evidence, strictly speaking.<\/p>\n

Messrs. Patel and Bongino, coming into office rather late in the Epstein game, were apparently left with big bag of nuthin.<\/strong> What else can they truthfully report? So, they had to put it out there, knowing a whole lot of people would be miffed. \u201cWe\u2019ve got nuthin, sorry.\u201d Were they chagrined to do that? Evidently so. Of course, this Epstein business has been going on for years and years and it is certainly possible that the most damning evidence has been destroyed by interested parties.<\/p>\n

Personally, I find it implausible that absolutely nothing ever leaked, no video of, say, Tony Blair or Bill Clinton violating a child, if it ever happened. Everything else in our world leaks, eventually. And there were supposedly how many cameras around the Epstein properties, and how many thousands of hours of video recordings? There is more video of Bigfoot than of compromised Epstein bigshots. Just sayin\u2019.<\/p>\n

AG Pam Bondi, the FBIs boss, also has some \u2018splainin\u2019 to do. In February, she claimed to have the Epstein client list \u201csitting on my desk right now to review,\u201d and hinted it would be released shortly.<\/strong> That material, when released, turned out to be the old dog-eared flight logs that have been circulating through every news outlet for years. Did she not know the difference between an alleged \u201cclient list\u201d and the old flight logs? Let\u2019s face it: seems kind of dumb. . . seems like the AG got played. . . and now the mob on \u201cX\u201d is having sport with her.<\/p>\n

Among the miffed, apparently, is Elon Musk. <\/strong>At the height of his feud with Mr. Trump, on June 5, Elon put out a message on his \u201cX\u201d platform saying, “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”. This intemperate utterance naturally prompts you to wonder: how (or what) might Elon know about any supposed Epstein evidence? At this point, the FBI might send somebody to inquire. Did Elon, who has more money than even Scrooge McDuck, somehow manage to buy up all those alleged blackmail tapes? Does he otherwise know where they might have disappeared to? Has he ever seen anything? Anyway, he didn\u2019t produce any actual evidence.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Elon losing it, a little bit. His grip, that is. Mr. Trump thinks so. He declared over the weekend that Elon has \u201cgone off the rails\u201d . . . has become \u201ca train wreck.\u201d Well, what you can see in this very public, very regrettable cage-match between two giant public personalities is that Elon has lost his cool and the president has not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For one thing, Elon is apparently incensed over the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) just signed into law because it ends the electric vehicle mandate left over from the \u201cJoe Biden\u201d regime, as well as the whopping $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric cars \u2014 loss of which which is apt to break Tesla\u2019s business model. The bill also calls for sunsetting subsidies for battery production by 2028, meaning Tesla\u2019s Powerwall business is likewise affected. Mr. Trump took pains to explain that he\u2019d informed Elon from the get-go (and repeatedly) that all those subsidies were done for when he got elected.<\/p>\n

Elon was visibly perturbed over the process that produced the OBBB, the proverbial\u00a0political sausage-making<\/em>\u00a0(i.e., a nasty business you\u2019d be appalled to watch).<\/strong> It appeared, he said, to un-do all of his DOGE spending cuts so laboriously made. Mainly, Elon deplored the failure to address the $36-trillion-plus national debt, widely recognized as a time-bomb on a short fuse liable to sink the whole USS United States. I will tell you a harsh truth: nobody will do anything about the national debt. The sheer math of our annual debt service is simply impossible. Our country is heading into some sort of bankruptcy proceeding, some kind of ferocious \u201cwork out\u201d \u2014 as they say in the banking board-rooms.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump is betting that re-industrialization of the USA will produce enough of the right sort of\u00a0growth<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 that is, production of real things of real value, as opposed to mere financial shenanigans \u2014 that the debt reckoning can be overcome somehow. Or mitigated. It\u2019s a bold risk, and many pieces of the scheme are indeed falling into place: tariffs, bigly investment capital from foreigners, a general realignment of trade relations, tax reform, downsizing of government.<\/p>\n

But a virulent opposition, the mad-dog remnants of the Democratic Party, seeks to wreck Mr. Trump\u2019s program (and perhaps the USA altogether), and it is a miracle that the president has gotten this far with his plan. <\/strong>Personally, I\u2019m doubtful that the energy resources will be there to underwrite this reindustrialization, but that is a topic for another day.<\/p>\n

And now Elon, peeved as he is, proposes to bring another big obstacle onto the scene, his proposed new \u201cAmerican Party.\u201d Looks like he is making a tactical blunder, and his distraught emotional demeanor suggests poor decision-making. Frankly, I\u2019ve been concerned about Elon\u2019s soundness-of-mind since he came on-board Mr. Trump\u2019s band-wagon last summer. There was something peculiar about his spastic rompings on stage, his jerky movements, his garbly speeches. You wonder if all the talk about his world-beating \u201cgenius\u201d has messed with his mind.<\/p>\n

Also, frankly, I\u2019ve long thought that attempting to colonize Mars was absurd, or at least premature. Shouldn\u2019t we rather make an effort to demonstrate that we can live on this planet successfully before we venture off to a new one? After all, this Earth is perfectly suited to our needs and Mars is absolutely not. I doubt that even the most extreme transhuman program would avail to implant us up there.<\/p>\n

To cut to the chase: the grandiosity of Elon\u2019s plans, and the oddness of his public performances, suggests to me that he has gone a bit crazy in the pure sense of the word.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This new party he proposes looks like a crazy play by a crazy person. He can throw zillions of dollars into it, and create a whole lot of political mischief, but what would that prove?<\/p>\n

How would that make him any better than such obvious villains as George Soros and Bill Gates?<\/p>\n

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 07\/07\/2025 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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