Gold Goats 'n Guns Podcast

While presidential politics are all the rage here in the U.S. on the other side of the world Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making a mess of things in a place called Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan.And while that may not seem all that important in the grand scheme of things, this ages old conflict is actually both interesting and important to the future of the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and Central Asia.Everyone from the U.S. to France to Russia to Iran and Israel have interests in this conflict from pipelines to political power plays and Erdogan, as always, thinks he sees an opportunity for himself to expand Turkey's influence in the region, make a few friends and betray a few more.It's nothing new, but it also finally reveals the motivations of all the players, what their incentives are and who's pulling who's chain as it were.Show Notes:The Duran on the latest Nagorno-Karabakh ployhttps://youtu.be/t8sBl28H_B0Luongo - Armenia Heats Up as the Proxy War Continueshttps://tomluongo.me/2018/04/23/armenia-heats-up-as-the-proxy-war-continues/Luongo - Pipeline Wars: Realpolitik meets Geographyhttps://tomluongo.me/2018/01/28/pipeline-wars-realpolitik-meets-geography/

Eulogizing tyrants is simply the wrong thing to do. Ginsburg was a tyrant of the worst kind, one who thought of herself as the Hero of her own story. It is that type of thinking that allows tyrants to justify any and all behavior no matter how rotten. Her clinging to power was an object lesson to her disciples that power is all that matters because all ends justify the means to achieve it. I won't eulogize her or her "amazing life," since it left the country even more divided on the edge of a real Civil War for control over the levers of the power in D.C.A power none of the people there should wield. Like John McCain before her, she knew what she was doing and why, and her spite was clear to the world. Hopefully, President Trump nominates the right person to replace her to begin reversing the degradation of our civil society. Show Notes:Barnes and Frei Discuss RBG Replacement Strategyhttps://youtu.be/WXdvK7QxytoJohn McCain is Dead, Good Riddancehttps://tomluongo.me/2018/08/27/john-mccain-dead-traitor-good-riddance/Brave referral code:http://www.brave.com/tom405

This week I sit down with the Editor-in-Chief of The Duran, Alexander Mercouris, to discuss how the latest twists in the Brexit saga are having far-ranging influences on not only American politics but most especially European politics. There is a fascinating parallel between the political fortunes of Boris Johnson in the U.K. and Donald Trump in the U.S. Both have the extraordinary opportunity to crush their 'liberal' opposition who have far over-reached in their attempts to undermine the governments and societies of the U.S. and U.K.This over-reach is having spill over into Europe where German Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking more and more over-matched as she navigates the final betrayal of the German people while trying to hold together political strength to get Nordstream 2 completed to the satisfaction of powerful German industrialists.Show Notes:The Duranhttp://www.Theduran.comDuran Video: Merkel's Search for a Way out of Navalny Messhttps://youtu.be/ZchmxHzArz8Johnson Pushes the EU to the Brink over Brexithttps://tomluongo.me/2020/09/09/johnson-pushes-eu-brink-brexit/

The Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik-V represents a threat to the plans of The Davos Crowd to effect a Great Reset on the world through economic and social destruction.The vilification and rejection of this vaccine should be all the proof you need to finally be convinced that most of the response to COVID-19 was a media-created psy-op to effect political change and concentrate power further in the hands of very dangerous people.Instead of welcoming the vaccine, which is based on other safe and effective vaccines for MERS and Ebola, our political leadership are angry and embarrassing themselves with their ignorance and knee-jerk reactionism.It honestly doesn't matter whether the vaccine works or not, what's clear is that its mere presence has them screeching in apoplexy.Show NotesSputnik V questions ANSWERED: Head of team financing world’s first Covid-19 vaccine explains formula to criticshttps://www.rt.com/russia/500087-worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-questions/Brave Referral Codehttp://www.brave.com/tom405

We seem to be turning a corner on the Meaning Crisis which has been building for nearly 300 years. And it may have found its way into popular culture in the most unlikely of places, Doom Patrol.As Hollywood struggles with a new normal where they are marginalized in an economic depression, the emphasis on stories that move us rather than wow us is what they will have to do to survive. And that means coming to real terms with the observation "Get Woke, Go Broke!" This meaning crisis, like all things political, is downstream of a concerted effort to destroy and dismiss culture as something valuable to us. It informs all aspects of our political struggle against the technocrats of The Davos Crowd, the European Union, the U.S. Deep State and the Chinese Communist Party.Nearly 30 years ago Grant Morrison took a comic on the edge of extinction and gave birth to something truly magical which was the first real attempt to use the comic book as a means to refute the emptiness of post-modern Marxism. Today the TV show may be on the verge of something equally important.Show Notes:Animal Man #5 - The Coyote Gospelhttps://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/animal-man-5-the-coyote-gospel/#jp-carousel-12422 (view as an image series)Alistair Crooke: The Dissolution of Universal Liberalismhttps://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/31/the-dissolution-of-liberal-universalism/Doom Patrol TV Series:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8416494/The Ethics of Libertyhttps://mises.org/library/ethics-liberty

Now that the Democratic Convention is over and they have revealed their lack of policy proposals for the coming term it's clear that they know they cannot beat President Trump in a fair election.So, now the only path to victory for the Democrats is to invoke a 20th Amendment process after refusing to concede the election by inauguration day. This would bring about elevating Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the White House and create complete chaos as to who is actually the President. Pelosi's recent media appearances make this abundantly clear as does the Democratic messaging that Trump is trying to steal the election through mucking with the U.S. Postal Service. Will it work? Should it work? Good questions....Show Notes:Brave Referral Codehttp://www.brave.com/tom405Pelosi Calls Republicans "Enemies of the State"https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-calls-republicans-domestic-enemies-stateHillary Calls on Biden Not to Concedehttps://www.rt.com/usa/498935-clinton-biden-defeat-elections/?ocid=uxbndlbing20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitutionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

President Trump just can't help himself. When you have an opponent as dumb as the folks at the DNC he has to take advantage of them. His pardoning suffragette icon Susan B. Anthony was a stroke of political genius and proves that he's very much committed to his re-election campaign.It also proves that he's his own best strategist and possibly the world's most accomplished troll. This week I go over the 8 reasons why Trump used the Left's own TDS against them in a way that exposes them even more while hijacking the coronation of Joe Biden as the worst candidate for president since Bob Dole.Show Notes:Brave Referral Linkhttp://www.brave.com/tom405Why Susan B. Anthony Doesn't Deserve your votehttps://twitter.com/TFL1728/status/1295874714859180033

Donald Trump's four executive orders from the past weekend may be constitutionally questionable but they are unquestionably brilliant political theatre. Trump may have just won the election by turning the usual Democratic bogeyman of Social Security into a coup de grace for the ages.Social Security isn't just the most onerous and regressive of taxes on the working poor it is the most racist as well when viewed through the lens of demographics. By suspending tax collection through year end and threatening to make it permanent on his re-election Trump is telling everyone he's serious about changing the way we do business in America.And that business should be done locally, at reasonable costs and without the rampant social engineering of clueless power-mad oligarchs who hate the working poor and middle classes.Show Notes:Trump Destroys Abusive Democrats in Stimulus Showdownhttps://tomluongo.me/2020/08/11/trump-destroys-abusive-democrats-stimulus-showdown/

With the politicians in Seattle hell bent on removing President Trump from power they have now advanced legislation to do away with their self-evidently racist police department. This move is a mix of cynical political theatre and insipid over-reaction to what are real problems of unfairness in the current American system.But these are not people ready to accept responsibility for the freedom they demand. Their blame-shifting the city's problems ion systemic racism is all the evidence we need to convict them of a kind of willful cluelessness that can only originate with the ideologically blind.They are not ready for the responsibility of real freedom. And the solution is not scapegoating the cops but rather blaming themselves for demanding others to pay the price for their broken promises.Show Notes:The Big Lie: The EU is Fixed, The Dollar is Dying and COVID Will Kill Youhttps://tomluongo.me/2020/07/29/big-lie-eu-fixed-dollar-is-dying-covid-will-kill-you/Seattle Moves to Replace Policehttps://nypost.com/2020/07/31/seattle-city-council-move-to-abolish-police-department-with-new-bill/

Today's talk grew out of an interview I did earlier touching on the reasons why I thought Bayer bought agribusiness giant Monsanto. This led me to a man named Mischa Popoff who gives a sterling talk on how Bayer is building a wall around the future of not only its Roundup business but the whole of the food supply for the world. Show Notes:COVID-19 and Roundup: An Immuno-Comprised Marriage from Hellhttps://culturewars.com/news/covid-19-and-roundup