"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to serve your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
John 8:43-44
"It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, lies, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed at first, and limp along on hope for awhile with a flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they eventually fall into ruin of their own designs."
Demosthenes, Bartleby, 1917
"What is offensive is that they lie, and worship their own lying."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishmen, December 1866
"'No man can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.' The Pharisees, who were money loving and covetous, heard all these things and sneered at him. And Jesus said, 'You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts.'"
Luke 16:13-14
“Then the rich man said, ‘I beg you, Father Abraham, send Lazarus to my father’s house. For I have five brothers for him to warn, so that they also will not come to this place of desolation and torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them listen to them.’
But the rich man again said, ‘No, Father Abraham, but if someone from the dead comes back and speaks to them, they will repent.’ And Abraham said, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they listen if someone tells them who has risen from the dead!’”
Luke 16:27-31
"Cromwell: Sir Richard is appointed Attorney General for Wales.
Thomas More: For Wales. Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world— but for Wales?"
Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons
As you may have heard the CPI number for US consumer inflation came in dovish this morning.
Stocks rallied like is was 1999. Or 1929.
JP Morgan led the banking sector higher with record trading profits.
What a surprise.
Bitcoin took back 100,000.
There will be a stock option expiration on Friday.
VIX fell down smashing into its moving averages.
Gold and silver rallied.
The Dollar came back to unchanged from its early morning losses.
More gold leaked out of the Comex Hong Kong warehouses.
Biden is going to give his farewell speech tonight.
Donny is going to be inaugurated in the near future.
Declarations of a cease fire in Gaza cheered the spokesmodels.
They were just bubbly this afternoon.
The outgoing crew, Blinken, Biden, and Sullivan, have been giving their farewell interviews and speeches this week. No doubt prepping for their next lives in the private and academic sector.
Professional deceivers and delusionists, one and all.
Are you not entertained?
Have a pleasant evening.
