The uniparty is back in action, as predicted. 
We’ve Restored Regular Order
No Backdoor Deals
How many Democrats did it take?
How many earmark bribes?
The Way the System Is Designed
“For the FIRST TIME in years, Congress is actually doing the work the way the system was designed.”
Thanks. I’ll make some notes.
“We passed all 12 FY26 appropriations bills, ending the era of bloated omnibuses and CRs.”
This will pass the Senate the way it really is.
Q: What’s that?
A: A bloated omnibus bill.
Please note the House packaged six bills together as one, and will send it to the Senate as a one big omnibus bill.
A Triumph
Before we declare a triumph Mr. Speaker, can you please address the earmarks?
We Cut Spending
Spending cuts? Where precisely? Measured against what?
CBO’s baseline projections (pre-any new legislation) already include expected discretionary funding levels, with the overall FY 2026 deficit projected around $1.7–$2 trillion.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act reconciliation package from 2025 added trillions to deficits over a decade.
Earmarks
- ETHANOL. One pressure point was about a push by farm state lawmakers for year-round E15 gasoline – to help midwestern corn farmers. “33 percent of all U.S. corn produced is used for ethanol,” said Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA), who held out for promises of action on ethanol by the Speaker.
- EARMARKS. Conservatives were unhappy with a number of earmarks in this final package, as they were allowed to offer an amendment to get rid of nearly 1,000 Senate earmarks. That lost on a vote of 291-136.
- GOP GRUMBLING. 76 House Republicans refused to go along with the Freedom Caucus, as the earmarks easily survived. “With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?” asked Rep. Keith Self (R-TX).
- EARMARK LIST. Of course, the Congress makes it nearly impossible to give you a nice list of earmarks. Thankfully, the National Taxpayers Union Federation spent the time to put together an Excel spreadsheet of the 7,611 earmarks in the 2026 funding bills.
The bullet points on Earmarks are from Jamie Dupree’s substack. Thanks!
The vote to kill 1,000 earmarks failed 291-136.
You vote for mine and I’ll vote for yours.
Well it’s only $14 billion. It could have been much worse. But does anyone think these $2 trillion deficits don’t matter?
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Addendum
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More Pardons
Who’s the swamp now?
When was the last time a politician was characterized as a statesman?
Christians seem to lie very easily. It doesn’t matter what the subject (earmarks etc.) the devout always prove who they are. Where are the Epstein files?
epstein files ain’t seeing the light of day unless a new SNOWDEN at CIA or mossad or NSA or Russian puts them out there on wikileaks……………to believe otherwise is quite naive. if you think the CIA is gonna put out photos of trump and clinton and bill gates and hundreds of powerful men raping young people, there is a bridge down the end of flatbush avenue for sale.
You can’t assume what’s in the files. It’s a good guess that there is quite a bit there though. It’s curious that the media has given up on the story and the video of the military slaughtering shipwrecked survivors.
why the fuck can’t we assume when we know the types of humans epstein and ghilane….. and trump and clinton…….are.
You can assume but you may be wrong. However, I’d love to see a video of an obese, Viagra fueled 75 year old politician frolicking with a young nymph. not likely.
I ALWAYS ASSUME I’M WRONG IN LIFE. but i can still make assumptions on the things i believe. Trump and epstein best pals for decades. most likely trump raped young women. the maga cult is really so funny to me. it’s like charlie manson family LSD hippy chics who loved charlie forever and ever……..
abraham, the patriarch of all 3 religions, jew, christian or muslim, was the greatest liar and grifter of all time. i’ve always thought that says something.
I was thinking of starting a religion because of the easy money. Then, the gold trade appeared, and the money was much easier.
The dc spendthrift miscreants have to keep the party going while increasing the future tax burdens of today’s younger generations.
The Federal government has more in common with organized crime than it does differences.
A Congressional bill with 0% fraud is a bill with 0% chance of passing.
The COMEX has already raised margin requirements twice in the last two weeks on silver. Those shakeouts did not work. This evening I saw that hundreds of longer dated COMEX silver contracts rolled backwards into the January and February deliveries.
From my perspective that is a “HOLY SHIT” signal as they may stand for delivery starting on the 27th of January. IMO there is no reason to roll a contract backwards unless you want the metal. Normal process is to roll contracts forward…
I researched this too late in the day to adjust my positions, but come Monday I’ll be making some trades (placing some bets) in the options market.
Iguanas are falling out of trees in Florida, trees are blowing up in Michigan, will traders are jumping out of windows in NYC on the 28th? Lotsa shit flying around these daze!
GLTA!
thank you for that info. sounds like a great week ahead. per the gold/silver ratio. used to be a thing for centuries when both were used for the same reasons. i think since industrial age of past few centuries, that has gone out the window. just my understanding. the best book hands down on gold is bernstein’s ‘POWER OF GOLD”. IRONICALLY he worked at the fed in the great depression. his book on insurance “against the gods” is also the best for that industry.
The ratio of silver to gold in the earths crust is about 19 to 1. During the Roman Empire, that was the valuation differential that their coinage was based on. In the 1600’s through the late 1800’s 15 to 1 was the law in much of Europe and Asia for coinage. After the Federal Reserve was formed, the ratio floated as high as 120 to 1 in the US. It has averaged 70 to 1 since the Fed was created. Right now, it is 50 to 1 and falling fast.
A falling gold to silver ratio has a high correlation to economic upheaval, financial crisis and volatility. You may be able to fill in some details about that ratio during the dissolution of the USSR?
Thanks for the book recommendations, I love a good read!
Enjoy!
Historical Evolution of the Gold/Silver Ratio
$14 billion is pocket change in the scheme of things.
Compare that to the $200 billion committed to additional ICE funding.
(I have no problem with immigration enforcement, but all the signs are there that they will eventually serve as a federal police force used against citizens.)
i think we already crossed that rubicon. after 9.11.01 the amerikan people all became grovelling boot lickers for domestic federal police to snoop on phones, emails, and on the streets. i’ve seen the national guard posted at major hubs in nyc since that day 25 years ago. pax dumbfuckistan is completely over as any semblance of a free people. it’s a petting zoo of idiots at best. bombs away kids. our betters have lands to bomb. glad we all vote for this.
And the average American rube doesn’t have a clue as to what is going on.
How long until gold hits $10,000?
if you get the direction correct you are lucky. time and price is in the realm of fortune telling grifters on sell side wall street and nit wit websites. the dow/gold ratio is at 10 and heading lower it seems. could go one to one. if the donald defaults on treasuries of foreign owned or does a debt jubilee, we could go to a dow/gold ratio of .01
Hell of a arbitrage. Buy treasuries from foreigners at a discount and sell for full price to the Treasury. Billions to be made, so I am sure Taco will go for it
good point. hadn’t thought of that angle.
Gold/Silver ratio is at 50 to one. Headed for 15 to one?
Got mining stocks?
Maybe it will be a bitcoin and hit 100k/ounce? I hope so, I bought gold etf’s back when the covid shutdown started.
I can’t wait for all the hate and vitriol that will come with the austerity when it hits. People will really long for the good ol’ days when that happens.
I also believe we are about to enter an age of austerity, including cuts to Social Security. Good thing we are building out a domestic security force complete with detention facilities to deal with any unrest. The same people now cheering on ICE will be cheering on the round-up of “domestic terrorists”.
‘Domestic Terrorists’ will be those who are refusing to pay their taxes or those applying for overseas citizenship.
Domestic Heroes will have a big ass garden or specialized farm for local food production.
Kosher pork?
They sell fishless fish, so why not?
Silver broke $100, at $102 as I type this. The rumors on the Internets are that Comex will void silver contracts….if that happens…..oh boy!
Yeah, regarding Mish’s question:
“But does anyone think these $2 trillion deficits don’t matter?”
Both $4985 Gold and $103 (Hi-yo)Silver are definitely saying deficits don’t matter.
sarc
Well the good thing is that the government can break down the door to your home and search for all the gold and silver they need once the order to confiscate it comes up.
You reap what you sow MAGA morons.
Got exit strategy?
Yeah, they’re not gonna just lay off all those additional ICE agents once the deportations are over. The federal employee union would fight that.
why would usa gov look for gold. no amerikans own it. much more likely they just confiscate IRAs first, then regular stock portfolios. for the empire’s safety of course.
Plenty of Americans own gold. If I were the government I would start by reading gold websites and their forums to see who posts frequently about owning gold. We all know who the gold bugs are here.
Then subpoena the IP addresses or simply force the website owners to hand over the data or get shipped to El Salvador.
Then visit every gold/coin dealer, pawn shop and start collecting names.
Once I have all the names and addresses, it’s RAID time. Go get’em boys!
I’m sure Palantir already has this data somewhere in their database.
I’m sure if I ask AI it can come up with 100 other ways to do this more efficient combing through US mint records or credit card / /banking transactions.
And IRA money won’t help when paper money is worthless, that’s why they need gold and silver. Isn’t that the whole point of owning gold and silver? Paper becomes worthless!
percentage of amerikans that own gold in relation to their net worths or amount per the ustreasury etc……..is teeny tiny compared to when gold was money and FDR gave people one month to turn in their gold or face prosecution. the rest of that story i know you know. btw FDR allowed non citizens in our land to own it. 8 months later FDR devalued gold from 20usd which he paid to the people who turned it in to 35usd. that’s a 75% devaluation. today trump and company could make ownership of any number of stocks illegal. and do the same thing. or much worse. go study what happened in USSR changing to Russia and company……….that’s more akin here i believe. hope i’m wrong. i eyewitnessed russia in the 90s. when the currency is debased by the thousand percents it gets dicey. lots of pain. and of course some folks made billions and power. i had an oligarch as a client. he survived Putin’s purge after 1999. in 1998 they devalued 500% even after a decade of misery for the ruble and the people. the young folks were ok, as they were already broke. hope this helps. i of course hope i’m wrong. don’t want to see people suffer. the amerikan empire has made millions of innocent souls pay the ultimate price and suffering.
ps. what you type is for sure a possibility. the problem with many greedy men, whether gold bugs or not, is they don’t understand that we are all at risk of losing everything, no matter how hard you plan. the dudes i grew up with who were bond traders at cantor fitzerald………found out the hard way on 9.11.01. those were men who were masters of the universe. until they weren’t. talk about a hard choice. jump 100 stories or burn to death from jet fuel inferno. RIP dozens of my childhood pals.
You don’t hide it in the house.
Yep
MAGA heads have been the long term “Stackers” of physical gold and silver. I’m the nitwit that stayed in mining stocks for dollar denominated profits. We will see how that works out…
I’m loathe to buy physical at these prices… Reminds me of that song Stuck In The Middle With You.
Referring to most of American investors. No Silver, No Gold. Their brokers talked them out of it to put their savings into commissionable mutual funds. Oh well, at least I bought the miners in size two+ years ago snd speculated on silver miners last spring after the credit downgrade of US debt, learning of the structural shortage in silver production and the four year drawdown of inventory.
Now I know what it feels like to drive a financial dragster… I just hope I know when to pull the chute so I don’t fly into the cornfield and take a tumble!
gold is just money. it’s not the price of the ounce of gold in your possession. IT IS JUST HOW MANY OUNCES OF GOLD YOU HAVE IN YOUR POSSESSION. has been true since ancient egypt and roman times. money. jpm the man was correct. the USD and stocks and r/e…… are just currency. in weimar germany or confederate charleston at end of war, one could by buildings for one ounce of gold, as the currency became worthless. same with USSR from around1988 to about 2000.
Bingo! We have a winner!
+100
hopes and prayers the comex does that.
We really are going to ride this thing off a cliff.
Yes you are, what’s your plan?
wait to see where the safe place will be after the coming civil war and perhaps world war.
Does your plan call for trading lead for gold and silver, at your front door.
Diversifing now?
This agreement of both Sides makes me laugh. Honor among Theives maybe?
Like when Criminal groups follow a code of honor where both sides will benefit and both sides will cover for each other for that crime. Only the taxpayers get screwed.
Thieves
bipartisanship – you vote for my nonsense and i’ll vote for yours and don’t say a word to the rubes who put us here.
the so called rubes love the imperial presidency and never ending spending and world wide warfare. has been going on for over a century now.
like the hells angels and mongels splitting CA in half for their crime rings.