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“Buzzard’s gotta eat, same as worms [spit]”
— Outlaw Josey Wales

John McCain is dead.  Good.

There are few figures in American politics more odious than John McCain.

McCain was chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee.  The main vector of our aggressive and ruinous foreign policy.

He served on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee overseeing everything we see today as needing reform.

And he blocked all of it.

He was, in short, no maverick.

John McCain was the ultimate member of the Status Quo. 

He worked hard to block any reform to our foreign policy of subjugation and control.  He oversaw and championed the worst legislation of the past generation.  Through him the expansion of the surveillance state flourished.

The Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act name only a couple. Through McCain the annual National Defense Authorization Act was a vector for the worst expansion of Deep State and MIC power through last minute riders and in recent years, cynical moves to block or stymie Donald Trump.

And being the vindictive little troll that he was, a pampered Admiral’s son who was the puppet of every major power-broker in D.C., he went after political opponents with the ferocity of a wolverine.

But, make no mistake, this man was a weasel and a snitch.

His death, however, is emblematic of the sea-change occurring in global politics.  Lying, racist psychopaths with dreams of global domination like McCain are yesterday’s news.

The generational shift away from Cold Warriors who have over-stayed their welcome to assist their feckless Baby Boomer children to destroy everything that the U.S. was supposed to stand for cannot be stopped at this point.

But, believe me, they will continue to try.

It’s no secret that John McCain hated Russians.  He also hated Iranians. It was a hatred so deep it meant embracing as a ‘freedom fighter’ anyone who stood against them.

Ukrainian Nazis? Check.

Head-chopping Salafist Animals in Syria? Check

Mujahadeen?  Check.

Hillary Clinton?  Check.

Likely this was because McCain betrayed his country in Vietnam as a captured high-value target to the Russians.

And that shame drove the next 40 years of his political career, along with his being spared the details of his treason going public if he served the goals of the globalist elites intent on destroying America.

So, his vile treatment of Donald Trump came as no surprise.  Trump calling him out publicly as weak for being captured and implying the truth about McCain drove McCain to apoplexy.

It’s why he passed on the ridiculous Steele dossier to the FBI.  It’s why he voted against Obamacare reform and tax cuts.  It’s why he gleefully put forth the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act last year.

The legacy of which is handing the U.S. Treasury and Office of Foreign Asset Control the power to impose sanctions on anyone or any country for pretty much any reason.

With that name the bill’s sponsors no longer felt it necessary to hide behind Bill Browder’s completely insane story about Sergei Magnitsky like they did in 2012.

John McCain did whatever his handlers told him to do.

And, because he was sticking it to Trump, whom he hated, he did it with a malicious sneer.

This is why he refused to relinquish his seat and it is why the rules need to be changed to allow Senators to be recalled.

So, what’s next?

What’s next is a big show of public grief by the world’s most disgusting people, lionizing one of their own while we are supposed to be shamed into not denigrating the memory of a sick, twisted, venal little tyrant whose actions are responsible for the death and displacement of tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people.

Well, sorry to disappoint you, I’m not that enlightened.  Watch the video if you don’t believe me.

Why these mid-terms are so important comes down to the committees he’s a member of.  It comes down to who will rise to the chairmanship of the Armed Services Committee.

McCain was one of the most powerful men in D.C.

And he’s dead.

And his refusal to give up his seat has stymied any change.  It’s why they are pushing so hard for a Trump impeachment.  If Trump remakes the Republicans along center-right libertarian lines, i.e. filled with more people like Rand Paul than Mitt Romney, Trump can shuffle the committee decks along with the party hierarchy.

That’s why there has to be a Blue Wave in November. 

That’s why George Soros is whining in public. 

That’s why Alex Jones was de-platformed.

That’s why Michael Cohen plead guilty to something that isn’t a crime.

The only thing I’m sad about is that John McCain didn’t live long enough to see it all come crashing down.
That would have been some small measure of karmic justice for his legacy of death.

Good riddance.

Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.

One of the most insidious ways politicians expand government is by creating new programs to “solve” problems created by politicians. For example, government interference in health care increased health care costs, making it difficult or even impossible for many to obtain affordable, quality care. The effects of these prior interventions were used to justify Obamacare.

Now, the failures of Obamacare are being used to justify further government intervention in health care. This does not just include the renewed push for socialized medicine. It also includes supporting new laws mandating price transparency. The lack of transparency in health care pricing is a direct result of government policies encouraging overreliance on third-party payers.

This phenomenon is also observed in foreign policy. American military interventions result in blowback that is used to justify more military intervention. The result is an ever-expanding warfare state and curtailments on our liberty in the name of security.

Another example of this is related to the reaction to President Trump’s tariffs. Many of America’s leading trading partners have imposed “retaliatory” tariffs on US goods. Many of these tariffs target agriculture exports. These tariffs could be devastating for American farmers, since exports compose as much as 20 percent of the average farmer’s income.

President Trump has responded to the hardships imposed on farmers by these retaliatory tariffs with a 12 billion dollars farm bailout program. The program has three elements: direct payments to farmers, use of federal funds to buy surplus crops and distribute them to food banks and nutrition programs, and a new federal effort to promote American agriculture overseas.

This program will not fix the problems caused by Tramp’s tariffs. For one thing, the payments are unlikely to equal the money farmers will lose from this trade war. Also, government marketing programs benefit large agribusiness but do nothing to help small farmers. In fact, by giving another advantage to large agribusiness, the program may make it more difficult for small farmers to compete in the global marketplace.

Distributing surplus food to programs serving the needy may seem like a worthwhile use of government funds. However, the federal government has neither constitutional nor moral authority to use money taken by force from taxpayers for charitable purposes. Government-funded welfare programs also crowd out much more effective and compassionate private efforts. Of course, if government regulations such as the minimum wage and occupational licensing did not destroy job opportunities, government farm programs did not increase food prices, and the Federal Reserve’s inflationary policies did not continuously erode purchasing power, the demand for food aid would be much less. By increasing spending and debt, the agriculture bailout will do much more to create poverty than to help the needy.

Agriculture is hardly the only industry suffering from the new trade war. Industries — such as automobile manufacturing — that depend on imports for affordable materials are suffering along with American exporters. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (who supports tariffs) has called for bailouts of industries negatively impacted by tariffs. He is likely to be joined in his advocacy by crony capitalists seeking another government handout.

More bailouts will only add to the trade war’s economic damage by increasing government spending and hastening the welfare-warfare state’s collapse and the rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status. Instead of trying to fix tariffs-caused damage through more corporate welfare, President Trump and Congress should pursue a policy of free markets and free trade for all and bailouts for none.

From Lewrockwell.com, here.