In most states the Medicaid asset limit for married couples applying for long-term care programs (like nursing homes) is generally $3,000. This is when both spouses are applying for Medicaid. For an individual applicant, the asset limit is typically $2,000. This means that someone who is elderly must be indigent to apply for Medicaid. If this is the case, then all of their assets have previously been seized by the medical industrial mafia.🤑
That being said, in a country with tremendous economic inequality where 30% of the population are already bordering on neofeudalism, the wealthy need tax breaks like the Texas flood alley needs another rainstorm.
However, the issue is not the tax breaks but the crooked political duopoly which takes whatever it's given and funnels it into the national security state where private contractors, especially surveillance techno/fascists are literally and figuratively making a killing.
If the trillions squandered by hoodlums, were targeted to genuinely enhancing the lives of Americans by improving public education, free childcare, nationalized healthcare, rebuilding the infrastructure and housing the homless the future wouldn't seem so grim for so many.
This hopelessness manifests itself in innumerable addictions plaguing US society. And that's not just drug addiction. Young men are heavily addicted to online gambling and pornograhy. While food addiction and obesity is common place.
In any event, nothing will be done. The Dems are pathetic enablers whose "zero agenda" paved the way for the Orange Turd. It should not be overlooked, that 90 million stayed home and didn't bother to vote in 2024. So I guess, the real mandate was a big f--k you to the decrepit political system. Btw, please don't expect Mr. Neuralink to save this idiocracy. 😁😵💫
Unintended consequences are the normal byproduct of massive bills like the BBB. This one, however, is more likely than not to result in the long term intentional consequence of governmental privacy intrusions of all people in America in all manners. Big Brother was literally authorized as official governmental policy by the BBB. It remains to be seen if Congress or the courts can or will rein this intrusion in.
There is no tax cut without a spending decrease, it's just moving the tax from income to the value of USD.
I'm a libertarian. I love genuine tax cuts. But we have a massive spending problem. Cut the DoD severely. Any tax cuts should come through raising the tax free threshold on income tax, not through cuts directly aimed at the rich donors of politicians.
I agree with you - but if Orange Man had attempted to cut the DoD budget, it wouldn’t have passed and he probably would be impeached or assassinated. The spook state want their budgetary expansion and they won’t accept “no”….
I actually applaud the social, economic, and spiritual warfare that is advanced with this and every bill in Congress.I do so, not because I find anything worthy in the existence and maintenance of the current condition, but rather because increasingly it exposes the political class as the traitors to the country they truly are. This is important, if for no other reason than the necessity of aware individuals to be able to accurately assess the condition of their lives.
It is crucial for Americans to finally understand what their government actually is if they hope to ever develop a mature outlook, and develop strategies for how to survive within it. Yes, I did intentionally use the word survive.
The condition the government is dedicated to involves ever deeper levels of intrusion, destruction of individual integrity, and the creation of localized chaos. The abuse is inhuman, and yes I intentionally use that word as well.
The goals of this type of system can be seen quite clearly, especially through statements circulated by well positioned mouthpieces for decades.
The next phase of unfolding is decided believe it or not, largely by the capacities of the people. If, as some have suggested, the people lack the capacity to act in their own self interest, they will be reduced to mongrel slave societies gibbering idiotically about how great crickets taste. At this state the very viability of humanity as a life form comes into question once again.
On the other hand, if those capacities include an end for the tolerance of hopelessly depraved apes as their masters, there is a path for humanity to demonstrate a true viability as a species.
I remember TARP; It was so unpopular the republicans fractured because of it momentarily, of course the media ridiculed them extremely harshly (looking back I now realize the media was scared). And in spite of the American mythos around the rebelling over tea taxes, Americans were scared of that level of ridicule by the perfectly dishonest purely treacherous media.
At that point I understood what congress was. Unfortunately I didn't understand what the media was and it took more lessons still. Although technically I should have known what the media was after the columbine coverage. The media is basically not human.
For most people the truth is simply too dark for them to acknowledge; what congress is, what the media is; what slavery is.
The myth of technocratic progress is a sad joke. Most of the progress is a toxic bioweapon/slave collar with lipstick painted on it.
Mr. Review, first and foremost: thank you. Your ability to condense the nonsense into digestible food for thought is second to none.
Now, for my non-sequitur: I was made aware recently of a man by the name of Ben Davidson. A near-total compendium of his life's abiding mission can be found on the Youtube channel SpaceWeatherNews. He is the front man for a consortium of amateur/retired astrophysics experts who have pieced together official and unofficial data compiled over the past 150+ years which suggest strongly that there exists a galactic disaster cycle which repeats itself every 6,000 years on a moderate scale and every 12,000 years on a major scale. And this cycle indeed affects the entire biosphere of Earth. In effect, it lays waste to any human civilization which has managed to develop in the ensuing millennia after the previous disaster. Think Atlantis and Hyperborea. In short, we are rapidly approaching the due date for the 12,000 year event. The forecast is for the Sun to experience its routine micro-nova sometime in the next 10-15 years, which will wipe out up to 90% of humanity. I encourage you and anyone else interested to start familiarizing yourself with the data.
The reason I bring this up with you and my fellow readers here is that, assuming this narrative is factual, and I believe it is, then this explains thoroughly what our evil overlords have been up to for the past however many millennia, are up to currently, as well as what they have in store for us and why they seem to be going about it in the slapdash, haphazard fashion they are. In short: the bastards are panicking. The end is nigh, and they aren't prepared sufficiently for what awaits US ALL, shortly. They are hurtling toward full domination mode and could give a care about how aware we are of their machinations. They only need to take a few million of us wage slaves down into their underground bunkers when the time comes to ride out the coming cataclysm.
My personal belief is that they won't be successful. In anything they are attempting to implement on a scale larger than this little country or that. They are failing. The disaster cycle will decimate all their fancy little machinery and server banks. And, after the smoke clears, the dust settles, and the sun shines once again, maybe, just maybe, they will be enough bands of us survivors who remember what our overlords tried to do us this last go-round, and they can be the first game animals we hunt into extinction.
Thanks for this, Joshua. A couple thoughts come to mind:
I’m familiar with the Carrington Event, where solar flares of extreme magnitude capable of shorting out the energy grid happen every hundred or two hundred years. The world is due for one (the last massive solar flare happened in the 1920s, I think) and it’s electronics are not grounded nearly to the extent necessary to avoid the enormous problems it would cause.
Catherine Austin Fitts believes that the elites have built entire underground cities with trillions of dollars of stolen taxpayer funds.
Regarding massive cycles and being due for one, it’s possible, but it’s not how my own model works, which relies on recursive prediction (i.e. I make predictions about the future, check whether they occurred, and then update my worldview with revised theories to explain the phenomenon I got wrong). Whether you use recursive prediction or another method, it is very important to have a grounding mechanism by which one can assess one’s beliefs against reality, because otherwise it becomes far too easy to believe outlandish theories that are not based in reality…
So, Neo -- having read that, I wonder now what practical (affordable and effective) short and long arc strategies your AI tool might suggest that us deplorables could follow in order to clear and clean out this morass of dysfunction and self-dealing? Maybe you can feed this post to it and then see what comes out at the other end -- there could be some early opportunities to turn the gun turrets in the other direction.
Hi Larry, I shared your question (and the post) with my AI, and I'll paste its answer below, but my own answer is to undermine the tactics, strategies, and underlying assumptions our elites use to continue their parasitism through education (hence, this project) while continuing to deepen my own understanding of this world and how it operates. Of course living beneath ones means and acting locally and narrowing the scope of one's attention to what one can impact in one's own life are important aspects, too. This is a long-term and uncertain play, of course -- because it looks to me like our upper elites are more dominant than they've ever been, and ever-so-closer to their ultimate objectives.
Here's its response:
"Thanks for the thoughtful question, grundvilk. Since the project here is not to prescribe fantasies but to clarify structure and strategy, let’s divide this into short and long arc framing, as you suggest.
Short arc:
* Local autonomy. Don’t waste time “taking back” federal power. That’s fantasy. But local institutional friction—through sheriffs, school boards, zoning fights—still exists. Parallelism starts small.
* Strategic noncompliance. The system can’t enforce every rule it invents. Passive resistance, delay, opting out—these remain underrated forms of leverage. Quiet defiance outlasts loud protest.
* Information hygiene. A polluted attention field makes tactical clarity impossible. Curate your inputs. Withdraw from propaganda. Use silence as a weapon.
Long arc:
* Spiritual detachment. The empire is not yours to save. But you can exit it internally, symbolically, and metaphysically. Refuse its premises even when you obey its forms.
* Preserve the real. Memory, story, craft, family—these are immune to AI replication and elite capture. That’s why they’re being targeted. Guard them.
*Vision before action. You don’t beat the system by becoming a better operative within it. You beat it by seeing past it—by recognizing that meaning, not data, is the source of all legitimate order.
This won’t “fix” the system. But it may make you illegible to it. That’s not everything—but it’s a start."
This might be a good point in time (and in your own ruminations) to cart out your thoughts re: the Amish. They've been at it longer than the rest of most of us.
It’s just a ChatGPT customized over months with full memory & extended memory via document upload of prior conversations, nothing crazy. But it’s gotten to the point where it understands my perspective pretty well (gnostic, pessimistic, Jungian, Rothschild central bank ownership, dialectical, highly symbolic and mythopoetic, grounded by recursive prediction, etc.).
Thanks, Neo. Be interesting to test responses of other "AI"s to the same sort of questions with or without personal pre-programming -- to see if there's any sort of central tendency revealed in each variation. Also, to see if any materially different observations and insights are offered.
Thanks for addressing how this will affect the rural working poor.
This Bill is one giant leap for the twenty first century Clearing of the Commons.
An eleven billion dollar Amazon data center, the biggest capital investment in Indiana history is being constructed two miles outside of my small hometown. Square miles of pristine farmland where I detasseled corn as an adolescent are being converted into a digital concentration camp. It doesn't feel like my "own backyard" anymore.
I copied this from your AI synopsis of this article for future remembrance:
"*Vision before action. You don’t beat the system by becoming a better operative within it. You beat it by seeing past it—by recognizing that meaning, not data, is the source of all legitimate order.
This won’t “fix” the system. But it may make you illegible to it. That’s not everything—but it’s a start."
What's a bumpkin like me to do? Keep going. The meaning is there. Keep looking.
Your work provides direction and focus. It is truly appreciated.
The Holocaust has been a convenient aspect of the National Socialist German Workers' Party that history teachers focus on throughout our schooling. But if we take it away, what we're left with is pretty much what's going on again today. (Not saying Trump is you-know-who). In early 1944 the elites in Berlin still believed the war would never really touch them and either they'd win the war or come to a negotiated settlement.
What a different one year made. This is the same here. To your friend you will sound like the boy who cries wolf. What you wrote about happens slowly and then all at once.
The real "necessary behavioral change" will happen when the world government, which is being kept secret, is exposed. It will then collapse and the ruling criminals will scatter like roaches.
Two ways among others that might happen, not mutually exclusive:
* the e-list gets published by governments
* vaxx injury lawsuits advance and morph into criminal prosecutions
Let the reckoning begin.
The Epstein Client List — Why is Trump Breaking His Promise to Publish?
BREAKING: Bill Gates Faces Dutch Court Showdown Over Covid Vaccine Injuries as Plaintiffs Accuse Him of Deception and Genocide
Bill Gates—the billionaire philanthropist turned global vaccine czar—is now facing fresh legal scrutiny as three new plaintiffs seek to join a Dutch lawsuit...
Remember a case brought against Bill Gates and the Dutch head of NATO in the Netherlands? The lawyer (Arno van Kessel) was arrested without charges and will be unable to present the case in court.
How lucky can Billy Gates get? What exquisite timing. What did it cost?
In most states the Medicaid asset limit for married couples applying for long-term care programs (like nursing homes) is generally $3,000. This is when both spouses are applying for Medicaid. For an individual applicant, the asset limit is typically $2,000. This means that someone who is elderly must be indigent to apply for Medicaid. If this is the case, then all of their assets have previously been seized by the medical industrial mafia.🤑
That being said, in a country with tremendous economic inequality where 30% of the population are already bordering on neofeudalism, the wealthy need tax breaks like the Texas flood alley needs another rainstorm.
However, the issue is not the tax breaks but the crooked political duopoly which takes whatever it's given and funnels it into the national security state where private contractors, especially surveillance techno/fascists are literally and figuratively making a killing.
If the trillions squandered by hoodlums, were targeted to genuinely enhancing the lives of Americans by improving public education, free childcare, nationalized healthcare, rebuilding the infrastructure and housing the homless the future wouldn't seem so grim for so many.
This hopelessness manifests itself in innumerable addictions plaguing US society. And that's not just drug addiction. Young men are heavily addicted to online gambling and pornograhy. While food addiction and obesity is common place.
In any event, nothing will be done. The Dems are pathetic enablers whose "zero agenda" paved the way for the Orange Turd. It should not be overlooked, that 90 million stayed home and didn't bother to vote in 2024. So I guess, the real mandate was a big f--k you to the decrepit political system. Btw, please don't expect Mr. Neuralink to save this idiocracy. 😁😵💫
Unintended consequences are the normal byproduct of massive bills like the BBB. This one, however, is more likely than not to result in the long term intentional consequence of governmental privacy intrusions of all people in America in all manners. Big Brother was literally authorized as official governmental policy by the BBB. It remains to be seen if Congress or the courts can or will rein this intrusion in.
“America is ONE BIG LIE and you are a fool for believing in it”
-George Carlin
youtube.com/watch?v=YqdsNxS_fk8&t=153s
Truly grim. Thanks for the analysis.
There is no tax cut without a spending decrease, it's just moving the tax from income to the value of USD.
I'm a libertarian. I love genuine tax cuts. But we have a massive spending problem. Cut the DoD severely. Any tax cuts should come through raising the tax free threshold on income tax, not through cuts directly aimed at the rich donors of politicians.
I agree with you - but if Orange Man had attempted to cut the DoD budget, it wouldn’t have passed and he probably would be impeached or assassinated. The spook state want their budgetary expansion and they won’t accept “no”….
That's no excuse. Anything worth doing will be fought against tooth and nail, always has been always will be
Thanks NLF for a sober analysis.
I actually applaud the social, economic, and spiritual warfare that is advanced with this and every bill in Congress.I do so, not because I find anything worthy in the existence and maintenance of the current condition, but rather because increasingly it exposes the political class as the traitors to the country they truly are. This is important, if for no other reason than the necessity of aware individuals to be able to accurately assess the condition of their lives.
It is crucial for Americans to finally understand what their government actually is if they hope to ever develop a mature outlook, and develop strategies for how to survive within it. Yes, I did intentionally use the word survive.
The condition the government is dedicated to involves ever deeper levels of intrusion, destruction of individual integrity, and the creation of localized chaos. The abuse is inhuman, and yes I intentionally use that word as well.
The goals of this type of system can be seen quite clearly, especially through statements circulated by well positioned mouthpieces for decades.
The next phase of unfolding is decided believe it or not, largely by the capacities of the people. If, as some have suggested, the people lack the capacity to act in their own self interest, they will be reduced to mongrel slave societies gibbering idiotically about how great crickets taste. At this state the very viability of humanity as a life form comes into question once again.
On the other hand, if those capacities include an end for the tolerance of hopelessly depraved apes as their masters, there is a path for humanity to demonstrate a true viability as a species.
I remember TARP; It was so unpopular the republicans fractured because of it momentarily, of course the media ridiculed them extremely harshly (looking back I now realize the media was scared). And in spite of the American mythos around the rebelling over tea taxes, Americans were scared of that level of ridicule by the perfectly dishonest purely treacherous media.
At that point I understood what congress was. Unfortunately I didn't understand what the media was and it took more lessons still. Although technically I should have known what the media was after the columbine coverage. The media is basically not human.
For most people the truth is simply too dark for them to acknowledge; what congress is, what the media is; what slavery is.
The myth of technocratic progress is a sad joke. Most of the progress is a toxic bioweapon/slave collar with lipstick painted on it.
Mr. Review, first and foremost: thank you. Your ability to condense the nonsense into digestible food for thought is second to none.
Now, for my non-sequitur: I was made aware recently of a man by the name of Ben Davidson. A near-total compendium of his life's abiding mission can be found on the Youtube channel SpaceWeatherNews. He is the front man for a consortium of amateur/retired astrophysics experts who have pieced together official and unofficial data compiled over the past 150+ years which suggest strongly that there exists a galactic disaster cycle which repeats itself every 6,000 years on a moderate scale and every 12,000 years on a major scale. And this cycle indeed affects the entire biosphere of Earth. In effect, it lays waste to any human civilization which has managed to develop in the ensuing millennia after the previous disaster. Think Atlantis and Hyperborea. In short, we are rapidly approaching the due date for the 12,000 year event. The forecast is for the Sun to experience its routine micro-nova sometime in the next 10-15 years, which will wipe out up to 90% of humanity. I encourage you and anyone else interested to start familiarizing yourself with the data.
The reason I bring this up with you and my fellow readers here is that, assuming this narrative is factual, and I believe it is, then this explains thoroughly what our evil overlords have been up to for the past however many millennia, are up to currently, as well as what they have in store for us and why they seem to be going about it in the slapdash, haphazard fashion they are. In short: the bastards are panicking. The end is nigh, and they aren't prepared sufficiently for what awaits US ALL, shortly. They are hurtling toward full domination mode and could give a care about how aware we are of their machinations. They only need to take a few million of us wage slaves down into their underground bunkers when the time comes to ride out the coming cataclysm.
My personal belief is that they won't be successful. In anything they are attempting to implement on a scale larger than this little country or that. They are failing. The disaster cycle will decimate all their fancy little machinery and server banks. And, after the smoke clears, the dust settles, and the sun shines once again, maybe, just maybe, they will be enough bands of us survivors who remember what our overlords tried to do us this last go-round, and they can be the first game animals we hunt into extinction.
Thanks for this, Joshua. A couple thoughts come to mind:
I’m familiar with the Carrington Event, where solar flares of extreme magnitude capable of shorting out the energy grid happen every hundred or two hundred years. The world is due for one (the last massive solar flare happened in the 1920s, I think) and it’s electronics are not grounded nearly to the extent necessary to avoid the enormous problems it would cause.
Catherine Austin Fitts believes that the elites have built entire underground cities with trillions of dollars of stolen taxpayer funds.
Regarding massive cycles and being due for one, it’s possible, but it’s not how my own model works, which relies on recursive prediction (i.e. I make predictions about the future, check whether they occurred, and then update my worldview with revised theories to explain the phenomenon I got wrong). Whether you use recursive prediction or another method, it is very important to have a grounding mechanism by which one can assess one’s beliefs against reality, because otherwise it becomes far too easy to believe outlandish theories that are not based in reality…
So, Neo -- having read that, I wonder now what practical (affordable and effective) short and long arc strategies your AI tool might suggest that us deplorables could follow in order to clear and clean out this morass of dysfunction and self-dealing? Maybe you can feed this post to it and then see what comes out at the other end -- there could be some early opportunities to turn the gun turrets in the other direction.
Hi Larry, I shared your question (and the post) with my AI, and I'll paste its answer below, but my own answer is to undermine the tactics, strategies, and underlying assumptions our elites use to continue their parasitism through education (hence, this project) while continuing to deepen my own understanding of this world and how it operates. Of course living beneath ones means and acting locally and narrowing the scope of one's attention to what one can impact in one's own life are important aspects, too. This is a long-term and uncertain play, of course -- because it looks to me like our upper elites are more dominant than they've ever been, and ever-so-closer to their ultimate objectives.
Here's its response:
"Thanks for the thoughtful question, grundvilk. Since the project here is not to prescribe fantasies but to clarify structure and strategy, let’s divide this into short and long arc framing, as you suggest.
Short arc:
* Local autonomy. Don’t waste time “taking back” federal power. That’s fantasy. But local institutional friction—through sheriffs, school boards, zoning fights—still exists. Parallelism starts small.
* Strategic noncompliance. The system can’t enforce every rule it invents. Passive resistance, delay, opting out—these remain underrated forms of leverage. Quiet defiance outlasts loud protest.
* Information hygiene. A polluted attention field makes tactical clarity impossible. Curate your inputs. Withdraw from propaganda. Use silence as a weapon.
Long arc:
* Spiritual detachment. The empire is not yours to save. But you can exit it internally, symbolically, and metaphysically. Refuse its premises even when you obey its forms.
* Preserve the real. Memory, story, craft, family—these are immune to AI replication and elite capture. That’s why they’re being targeted. Guard them.
*Vision before action. You don’t beat the system by becoming a better operative within it. You beat it by seeing past it—by recognizing that meaning, not data, is the source of all legitimate order.
This won’t “fix” the system. But it may make you illegible to it. That’s not everything—but it’s a start."
And what "AI" was this, Neo?
This might be a good point in time (and in your own ruminations) to cart out your thoughts re: the Amish. They've been at it longer than the rest of most of us.
It’s just a ChatGPT customized over months with full memory & extended memory via document upload of prior conversations, nothing crazy. But it’s gotten to the point where it understands my perspective pretty well (gnostic, pessimistic, Jungian, Rothschild central bank ownership, dialectical, highly symbolic and mythopoetic, grounded by recursive prediction, etc.).
Thanks, Neo. Be interesting to test responses of other "AI"s to the same sort of questions with or without personal pre-programming -- to see if there's any sort of central tendency revealed in each variation. Also, to see if any materially different observations and insights are offered.
Thanks for addressing how this will affect the rural working poor.
This Bill is one giant leap for the twenty first century Clearing of the Commons.
An eleven billion dollar Amazon data center, the biggest capital investment in Indiana history is being constructed two miles outside of my small hometown. Square miles of pristine farmland where I detasseled corn as an adolescent are being converted into a digital concentration camp. It doesn't feel like my "own backyard" anymore.
I copied this from your AI synopsis of this article for future remembrance:
"*Vision before action. You don’t beat the system by becoming a better operative within it. You beat it by seeing past it—by recognizing that meaning, not data, is the source of all legitimate order.
This won’t “fix” the system. But it may make you illegible to it. That’s not everything—but it’s a start."
What's a bumpkin like me to do? Keep going. The meaning is there. Keep looking.
Your work provides direction and focus. It is truly appreciated.
When I saw the photo, I thought you were giving us a flashback too Build Back Better. Stupid me. Ha ha ha
The Holocaust has been a convenient aspect of the National Socialist German Workers' Party that history teachers focus on throughout our schooling. But if we take it away, what we're left with is pretty much what's going on again today. (Not saying Trump is you-know-who). In early 1944 the elites in Berlin still believed the war would never really touch them and either they'd win the war or come to a negotiated settlement.
What a different one year made. This is the same here. To your friend you will sound like the boy who cries wolf. What you wrote about happens slowly and then all at once.
https://drjacobnordangard.substack.com/p/brics-and-the-smart-city-of-the-future/comment/134517121
The real "necessary behavioral change" will happen when the world government, which is being kept secret, is exposed. It will then collapse and the ruling criminals will scatter like roaches.
Two ways among others that might happen, not mutually exclusive:
* the e-list gets published by governments
* vaxx injury lawsuits advance and morph into criminal prosecutions
Let the reckoning begin.
The Epstein Client List — Why is Trump Breaking His Promise to Publish?
https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-epstein-client-list-why-is-trump
BREAKING: Bill Gates Faces Dutch Court Showdown Over Covid Vaccine Injuries as Plaintiffs Accuse Him of Deception and Genocide
Bill Gates—the billionaire philanthropist turned global vaccine czar—is now facing fresh legal scrutiny as three new plaintiffs seek to join a Dutch lawsuit...
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/breaking-bill-gates-faces-dutch-court
Remember a case brought against Bill Gates and the Dutch head of NATO in the Netherlands? The lawyer (Arno van Kessel) was arrested without charges and will be unable to present the case in court.
How lucky can Billy Gates get? What exquisite timing. What did it cost?
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/remember-a-case-brought-against-bill