On July 10, 1832, U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States, in effect ending formal central banking in the United States until the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
Or both.
So when Axios scooped everybody, Monday, with the story that the FBI had closed the Epstein case, most rolled their eyes. Not that they didn’t believe Axios. They didn’t believe the aptness of judgment in closing the case.
Even if Epstein did actually commit suicide, it was still a huge criminal justice failure for that act to not have been prevented. And for the notorious Epstein files (remember that the Attorney General had said she had them on her desk) to suddenly go poof! . . . does not inspire confidence.
Frankly, there’s no reason to trust the government. Especially on this.
Why? We all pretty much believe the initial reports. We remember the image of Bill Clinton — it is surely seared into many a brain, alas for those brains — posing in a blue dress, portrait hung up prominently in Epstein’s trap, I mean, townhouse.
The ties to Israeli intelligence and politics and U.S. spymasters has been fairly well established — at least Whitney Webb’s readers seem certain — and that brings us to the bottom line:
Donald Trump is not shining light upon the Stygian Deep State here, nor “draining the swamp.”
“I can’t believe you’re asking a question on Epstein,” the president said, interposing himself between a reporter and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Trump eagerly added context: all the “successes” and “tragedies” of the current day. Videos? Computer files? Victims? Lolita Island? Brushed aside.
As if unimportant.
Thus America’s unexpected encounter with the dark, Deep State. They insist we blithely accept that there is nothing to see here.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn’t change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly.
Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Discipline (2009), p. 216.
On July 9, 1776, General George Washington had the Declaration of Independence read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan. Meanwhile, thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepared for the Battle of Long Island.
“With McDonald Rivet heading to Congress,” a Michigan Advance headline asked last November, “who will fill her open Michigan Senate seat?”
When the Legislature convened in early January, Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, had yet to call the election.
“After 85 days with no action, Whitmer still won’t call special election to fill McDonald-Rivet’s former Senate seat,” reads a January 30th headline in The Midwesterner.
“If there’s an opening on the Democrat side,” GOP chairman and State Senator Jim Runestad said of Gov. Whitmer in February, “she’s ‘Johnny on the spot,’ appointing someone within days.”
In the past, Whitmer has averaged just 17 days to set a special election, in one case calling it within 24 hours of the vacancy . . . when it helped Democrats.
“Whitmer confirms 35th district special election will happen,” WCMU Radio titled its early April story . . . showing remarkable restraint not to add the word “someday.”
“At some point there will be one,” the governor had offered, “but I don’t have an announcement to make yet.”
“145 Days and Counting” topped a Michigan News Source article in late May. The state’s Lieutenant Governor explained that he had “spent time in the district” and thinks “people are certainly ready for it.”
It’s now July, 186 days counting and still no representation for Michigan’s 35th state senate district.
Michigan Democrats have a one-seat Senate majority at present, 19-18. If the 35th goes Republican, it would even up the Senate. While the district did vote for a Democrat for Congress last November, it also went for President Trump. Gov. Whitmer does not trust those people to vote her way.
Deny political representation to 270,000 people? Whitmer’s up for it if doing so serves her partisan interests.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
Note: The Michigan Freedom Fund website, RestoreMiVoice.org, asks: “How long will the Great Lakes Bay Region be without a voice in the State Senate?” Call Governor Witmer at (517) 335-7858 or email her at Gretchen.Whitmer@michigan.gov and demand an answer.
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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
James A. Garfield, as quoted in Garfield of Ohio: The Available Man (1970) by John M. Tyler. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot on July 2, 1881, and died of the wound and iatrogenic interventions on September 19 of that year.
July 8, 1776 — Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell, pictured) were rung after John Nixon (1733–1808) delivered the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. He read it on the steps of Pennsylvania State House, now Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.
Maybe, just sometimes, we let fools dig themselves deeper into their folly.
Take New Yorkers. The city’s government has been dysfunctional for ages. But now it’s potentially taking the starkest left turn yet, towards . . . communism.
Mayoral candidate Rep. Zorhan Mamdani may call himself a “democratic socialist” and quote Martin Luther King piously, but he also admits that seizing the means of production is the ultimate goal . . . just not politically acceptable.
Yet.
That’s communism. Will New Yorkers vote for a commie?
Maybe running under the Democratic banner is cover enough for many voters. Seems safe. Seeking to help “the poor” by attacking “the rich” and “the whites” (as I wrote last Monday) is certainly not unfamiliar.
And neither is his reaction to rising food prices: blame something called “capitalism.”
Then set up government-run grocery stores!
While our first instinct is to oppose him with everything we’ve got, comedian Steven Crowder counsels otherwise. “Maybe he’s exactly what New York City deserves,” says Crowder. Let Mamdani make New York an object lesson in what not to do.
New Yorkers can vote in this “teachable moment” for the whole nation: pop the corn and watch the Big Apple rot under Mamdani — with food cheaper everywhere else, under Trump.
Or so Crowder argues.
Embrace the old motto, “mundus vult decipi” (the world wants to be deceived), and let one city run further down the length of rope . . . until they’ve done enough damage.
To learn. Finally.
If one city wants communism, let it have it.
Good and hard.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
July 3 — The Big Decommodification — a communist housing plan for socialist NYC.
July 1 — If Mamdani Wins — the likely results of electing a socialist mayor.
June 30 — Socialist Intifada — the problematic philosophy of NYC’s political phenom.
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I would rather be beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong.
President James A. Garfield, Maxims of James Abram Garfield (1880), compiled by William Ralston Balch, p. 1.
In 1456, a retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
In 1928 on July 7, sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
On this date in 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into law.