At a national level there is a unique policy priority that almost every politician, on both sides, will avoid discussing. At a national level a single policy priority determines all other national policy outlooks. That policy is the national economic policy.
The national economic policy of a presidential candidate determines all other national policies that flow from the presidential candidate. The national economic policy impacts the obvious policies like energy and trade, and also determines the lesser obvious policies like regulation and even foreign policy.
It is specifically because a candidate’s national economic outlook impacts all other issues, that most national politicians never talk about it.
It would be impossible to support Main Street USA, a popular talking point, and still support the Paris climate treaty, the transpacific trade partnership (TPP) or the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP).
To avoid the contradictions most democrat and republican politicians avoid discussing their national economic policy. It is an unspoken rule within the billionaire club and donor game, an economic code of omerta amid most political candidates.
President Trump broke the rule and even went so far as to campaign on an America-First economic policy agenda. That core outlook forms the Make America Great Again foundation. MAGA is based on a national economic policy outlook that determines every other national policy as carried by President Trump.
While most Americans may not be able to articulate how the national economic policy impacts them, almost every American feels the consequences through gasoline prices, energy prices, employment, wage rates and the expenses within their everyday lives. To try and hide this reality, often media and economic analysts will say the U.S. President has no control over gasoline prices; however, this is unequivocally false.
Yes, it is true that oil prices are determined by the global market for the product, the supply and the demand. However, the energy policy of the president determines the domestic investment in natural resource development and extraction by oil companies. The energy policy determines domestic supply. The regulatory policy determines the expansion, or lack therein, of oil and gasoline refinery capacity. So yes, it is ultimately the U.S President who determines gasoline prices indirectly through energy and regulatory policy.
If this were not the case, then gasoline would cost nearly the same in almost every nation. It doesn’t. Right now, gasoline in Mexico is almost $1 less than gasoline in the United States, specifically because Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador is not trying to reduce oil resource investment, development and/or gasoline refinery capacity.
President Trump was the first presidential candidate who campaigned on a domestic national economic policy. He even went one step further and stated the T-word, tariffs. Yes, the commerce department holds tools to support a national economic policy.
The tariff tool is another aspect to national economics that most politicians avoid discussing because the toolbox is counter to the interests of Wall Street, multinational corporations and hedge fund managers.
For a reference point you might remember the apoplectic fits from financial and economic punditry to President Trump’s 2017 and 2018 steel and aluminum tariffs.
Economic security is determined by national economic policy. National security is also an outcome of national economic policy. Again, President Trump was also the first modern president to put that outlook to work when he said, “economic security is national security,” and then began constructing a foreign policy agenda using the cornerstone of national economic policy. The result was quite remarkable and led to what eventually became the Trump Doctrine.
It was inherently the US national economic policy that underpinned President Trump challenging NATO to meet their financial obligations. It was national economic policy that drove trade policy and created the north American USMCA trade agreement. It was national economic policy that led to countervailing duties on Chinese and European imports. Which had the remarkable effect of actually lowering prices inside the United States.
We began importing deflation through lower priced goods as the value of the dollar increased and China/EU central banks devalued their currency to avoid the impact of tariffs. Asia and the EU also subsidized their export manufacturing with incentives in order to lower costs as an offset to the tariffs, while simultaneously Asian and European companies began investing in production facilities inside the U.S. as a long-term approach to retaining access to the U.S. market. To put it succinctly, this was MAGAnomics at work.
U.S. wages increased, U.S. job growth increased, U.S. energy prices dropped with increased energy development and a massive cut in regulations, and that in turn lowered the cost of domestic goods. Suddenly we were importing goods at lower prices and generating goods internally at lower prices. More MAGAnomic outcomes, which, not coincidentally, was the exact opposite of all Wall Street claims and predictions.
Making America Great Again, was an outcome of national economic policy. At its core, MAGA is a national economic dynamic within a political movement that is represented by President Donald J Trump.
It is critical to understand, the MAGA economic policy is essentially a national policy completely, and uniquely, under the control of the office of the President. The impact to the lives of Americans is a direct outcome from national economic policy. If a president wants to lead an independently wealthy country, he/she applies a very specific economic outlook to all other policy areas including energy, regulation and foreign policy.
It is also true that opposition to President Donald Trump is uniquely connected to the America-First economic agenda.
Multimillion-dollar lobbyist firms like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, along with dozens of economically established SuperPAC’s funded by Wall Street and multinational corporations, are vehemently opposed to the America-First economic agenda.
All of the national politicians and political candidates taking money from these aforementioned groups necessarily bind themselves to a position that stands against the America-First economic agenda.
In essence, if you take money from the multinationals you cannot deliver on MAGA economic outcomes for banking, trade, finance etc. And that’s exactly where we run into the problem.
Because MAGA national economic priorities conflict with the multinational corporations, hedge funds and the Wall Street donor class, all of the politicians who accept the influence checks from these self-interested groups cannot run on, or deliver, a MAGA national economic agenda.
At a local, county and state level you have direct impact on the political policy agenda in your community. Who you elect to the city council, school board, state house and senate as well as governor’s office has an impact on those local and state priorities. However, national economic policy, national energy and trade policy and national foreign policy are not under your control.
As a result, the same skillset, or policy outlook, that makes a governor a successful state politician doesn’t carry into a federal office, [see the example of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker]. Yes, there are some executive and administration skills that carry over; however, on the bigger issue of steering the national policy agenda, almost every candidate for office comes with the baggage of having accepted donor contributions from a class of people who are paying for economic policy influence.
MAGA cannot be purchased. It is a political outlook that seeks only to enhance the best interests of the American people, regardless of consequence for the multinationals or foreign beneficiaries of globalist U.S. economic policy. Unfortunately, as a result, all of the beneficiaries are aligned to make sure the MAGA economic policy outlook is extinguished. There are literally trillions at stake. This reality underpins the opposition to Donald Trump.
When you understand why the national economic outlook of the President is so important, you can also understand why every political candidate is told not to discuss it by the handlers and campaign managers who are essentially selling their candidate to a millionaire and billionaire donor class who do not want an America-First economic policy agenda.
There is no easy solution for this problem, and ironically this core economic issue is where you find supporters of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in alignment.
Where the Sanders and Trump camps split is on the solution. Team Sanders wants the government to play the role of economic referee (regulation), while Team Trump wants the government to change the rules of the economic game (countervailing duties, tariffs etc).
Before Donald Trump entered politics there was no home for people voting on the issue of a national economic agenda. Both Democrat and Republican candidates had essentially the same worldview on national economic policy because they are all getting money from the same multinational corporate trough. However, President Trump changed that dynamic by presenting an alternative national economic policy called America-First.
For decades middle America was begging the McConnell’s, Ryans, Boehners, Romney’s, McCain’s, Bushes, et al, to make America-Fist economic policies their priority. All of our shouts for help fell upon deaf political ears plugged by corporate donations and influence. Our communities were literally collapsing around us (see rust belt), and yet no national politician would do anything of consequence.
By the time Donald Trump arrived decades of frustration exploded in an eruption of massive applause because he was articulating the central economic issue that was being ignored by the professional political class. The America-First agenda is the restoration agenda. From Trump’s national economic policy, the middle-class erosion stopped. Economic security, specifically U.S. employment stability and wage rates, goes hand in glove with border security and immigration controls.
MAGAnomics is the core of the great MAGA republican coalition, a working-class coalition that cuts through all other distinctions and divisions. It is not republican because of political affiliation, it is “MAGA republican” only because the republican party was the political vehicle selected by Donald Trump to install the policy.
This reality creates a problem for the DC professional political class and the corporate media. Because MAGAnomics is the fundamentally binding principle there is no way to fracture the Trump supporter coalition.
I am a “MAGA republican” by default of my wanting a national economic agenda that looks out for the economic interests of American’s first.
Donald Trump is the irreplaceable Great MAGA King because Donald Trump is the only one who holds that same outlook.
Pretty much how I feel about it bud.
I am a MAGA , America FIRST ……….INDEPENDENT.
Good on ya bud.
Pay attention all you corrupt, self serving, grifting repellent politicians…
He is the tip of our spear.
Yes! President Trump is the the beginning of MAGA, not all of MAGA. He is the shock troop that bears the brunt of the enemies power. God bless him for that. He does not deserve the abuse he takes for us and we do not deserve him. But I, for one am happy to use him.
After his reelection (for the second time), and once he has begun the dismantling of the Uniparty and the Deep States (and by the Deep State I mean the entire bureaucratic mess that is the Federal Government), we must stand in the gap to ensure that most of the three-letter agencies never control us again.
Each state should tell the DOJ, FBI, IRS, DOI, EPA, FTC, Fed, etc. that they are not welcome in their state. The rules they promulgate should be ignored and the statutes that Congress pass that violate the 10th amendment should be ignored. Their presence should be so odious that they should wither and die. They should be raised, demolished and the ground salted, so they should never come back.
I’m with Betsy. ^ You can square it, cube it, and take it to the bank.
Outstanding post, Sundance.
God bless you, and our verifiable, veritable President, #45.
That’s our Bet! Good morning btw.
Good morning to you as well, my friend. I have a feeling our “troops” are increasing.
(Blessings to you, Colkitto and your beautiful hopefully now settled girl🤗)
My favorite member of the Trump team a true Buchananite.
He didn’t lobby, chamber of commerce told him what to do.
I was MAGA long before MAGA became an acronym and a political agenda. Unfortunately I believed and previously voted for some Republicans who campaigned using rhetoric that suggested MAGA principles, only to watch them avoid implementing MAGA policies while extolling the virtues of “free market” trade policies.
Even Rush Limbaugh supported “free market” economic policies that the Republicans advocated. I don’t think he figured it out until Donald Trump articulated MAGA for a year which culminated in his becoming the electorate’s majority choice for the Republican nomination to run for President in 2016.
And along with Rush’s MAGA awakening, tens of millions of Americans realized the truth about the rest of the Republicans who were seeking the presidency: they were ALL lined up under globalist anti-MAGA policies. And they still are, save a few who are continually berated by the GOPe DC crowd and their Democrat and big corporate media cronies.
I think most of use were MAGA before it was a thing.
I didn’t exactly make my meme Just because Hillary called us “Deplorables”
I was already there. Most of us were already there.
That meme wasn’t representative of a new feeling.
It was representative of an OLD feeling. We were tired of it.
And I put it into a picture.
I didn’t create any of it. It had existed for years.
Donald Trump coalesced and quantified what we were all feeling. He gave the Tea Party teeth in that he represented us perfectly and could not be bought off or deterred.
Best summation I’ve ever read.
^^^Exactly! This!^^^
Absolutely!
I think Rand Paul was onto being America First…his father certainly was…then after seeing and getting to know VSGPDJT, Rand started to get closer to MAGA. He may not be full-throated but I’m glad he’s on our side.
“Unfortunately I believed and previously voted Republican “
Well, before Trump stepped up we only had the choice of what we believed to be the lesser of two evils. We had to work with what was given. What IS fortunate is that now we FINALLY have a better choice than their lesser or greater of evil puppets. We FINALLY have someone willing to take all the arrows and fight for OUR best interests.
MAGA!!
Nothing
Can
Stop
What
Is
Coming!
It was called MAFA. Steve Bannon said he came out of the Buchanan/MAFA movement of the 90’s as did I. Cheers btw GB.
Yes!! I had forgotten that Buchanan really spearheaded the movement. I DO remember that he was excoriated by the media AND other Republicans for being “extremist” for doing so, and that mildly angered/ confused me at the time.
Not me. I DON’T think he’s a jerk, and he has GREAT hair! MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get soooooooo freakin’ tired of the little ‘qualifications’ comments. WTF over? To show that the commenter is ‘one of the civilized people?’ When I saw the mannerly way way the President Trump , and the missus, handled themselves with the top tier international heads of state etc. – which he was qualified to do already because of his accomplishments – I was sp grateful that we had an actual man to represent our nation. Please forgive this rant.
Fully agree with your impressions and being proud of President Trump and First Lady Melania. Thank you!
L. Lin Wood
How does anyone with a straight mask, excuse me, I meant face, claim that Americans who Want to Make America Great Again (MAGA) are the enemies of the state???
What??? Are you kidding me???
Those falsely accused Americans (MAGA) ARE the state. Our government is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Our republic is governed by We The People.
Only the REAL enemy of the state would claim that We The People are the enemy of the state.
The REAL enemy of the state is the ruling elite (the political establishment) which wants to control We The People and tell We The People what we can and cannot do.
That is not America.
The enemy has chosen poorly. The enemy has chosen to pick a fight with the wrong people in the wrong country at the wrong time.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
AMERICA FIRST!!!
SAVE AMERICA!!!
Just sayin.’
Lin
http://www.FightBack.law
Couldn’t have articulated it any better myself!
MAGA = Pro God
Pro Country
Period!
The mask joke was decent.
How do they claim we are enemies? Because we are as far as they are concerned.
It’s not rocket surgery, we are the enemy.
the middle class is the enemy.
I don’t care how much we live paycheck to paycheck, we are the enemy. They wan’t done with us types.
A giant poor class is their goal, and we stand in the way.
If you haven’t figured that out by now, maybe pay a little more attention to SD’s articles. I dunno.
I like the “rocket surgery”….made me smile, and you are correct.
Call back to old W lol
That old warmonger had a way with words. Not a good way with em, but a way. 😀
lol…
Tryin’ to fathom brain science.
We are the enemy, yet we provide the funds for their schemes, because we work, we pay taxes.
Such gratitude, am clutching those pearls again!
I will need a gofundme account for new pearls/s!
I’ll get you new pearls hun. Just as long as you get a new AR-15 with em.
…and don’t forget the F-15’s. You’ll be needing them.
LOL
Keln:
All variations of leftism, including the corporatists who plague us now, are feudalists. They want a return to a society of a few rich and powerful, ruling a sea of peasants. If that doesn’t describe Hillary and Biden, what does? The noble’s worthless son, named Hunter, is not subject to the law, like everyone else. That’s feudalism.
Sweet good-hearted conservatives, like Sundance, assume that by persuasively arguing that economic nationalism is better, they win the argument. These ingenuous people can’t see that leftists are not trying to make things better. Build back better does not mean literally better.
Global warming doctrine is intended to reproduce the ancient eternal culture of feudalism. Biomass (meaning wood chips) are included on the list of alternative energy. The leftists literally want a return to the medieval world. Pick up sticks, grandma, I want my porridge.
Start raising goats, because poor people in the third world burn dried dung for fuel – speaking of air pollution.
For reference, ask any untouchable in India how they like their life. Feudalism is SO Middle Ages. Seems like these betters (grifters) in our goob’mint never learned history.
I hope the term feudalism does not escape most but I’m sure it does.
All men are created equal.
Centuries later, this remains the most revolutionary sentence ever written.
The end to feudalism means the end to a society of strict hierarchy.
The end to feudalism remains the end to a culture where the monster Hunter Biden can do whatever he pleases.
Humans must be forever vigilant against their retrograde feudalist impulses.
Yes, good post.
Fighting back is more than what people think. Other tools are available such as nonviolent action
https://www.aeinstein.org
Understand the source of political power and the 198 ways to fight
We the People are stronger than the federal government and it can be disrupted and defeated or otherwise reduced to being our servant, but it takes courage, strategy, tactics, and will in a unified front for which We have the inherent Right to undertake whenever We so choose.
Great post. We complain about our government today, but just imagine what the GOP faced when it first came into existence. Black people wanted to vote in a system that was entirely controlled by the Democrats, even down to the lowliest clerk positions.
Imagine what they faced — threats, starvation, jail, persecution, etc. — and yet they persisted, and the GOP ended up being the powerhouse that it is today, all because the blacks and their allies wouldn’t take “no” for the answer.
They assassinated Lincoln. The tried and failed to assassinate Reagan. They have tried everything but that on Trump.
I still question why only his podium was wiped down at one of the debates.
And actions at
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/03/its-the-midnight-hour-saving-america-now-requires-ruthless-offense/
Free and independent Americans are the enemy the NWO people have targeted since the 1920s at least. America was going to be the hardest hill to climb for them, it this was the one thing that had to be done or they were never going to achieve their NWO goals. They thought they were there and had Hillary won, it was fait accompli.
The harsh treatment of PTrump and of all of us who support him and a free America, is still their numero uno goal. They have a bigger problem now though. Too many of us know what’s going on and are ready to stop it. They have not yet completely taken away our second amendment so that is a huge obstacle.
Keep fighting on MAGA republicans and anyone else who identifies with independence and liberty and freedom. We need to save our country and ourselves from the evil stalking us everyday.
Well played, KAF.
*Fluoride Stare*
“We faceless…faceless…faceless, are all, equals…equals…equals.”
One mask good. Three mask better.
President Trump summarizes this article in one outstanding speech: Trump vs. The Establishment
This one speech explains the intense hatred and loathing from all those who see him as an existential threat.
Here’s the video on Rumble
https://rumble.com/vdh6a1-trump-vs-the-establishment-deep-state.html
But we have lost free elections because of the damn raccoons. Now what?
Remove them masked congressional critters.
Coon skin caps?
Good idea.
The one question no one has a good answer to.
In fact, the question itself is avoided by most – and any supposed answers given are not good ones.
There is an absolute mountain of things you can and should be doing right now.
1. Become as self reliant as you possibly can, in all areas of life. No man is an island, but you can be part of an archipelago. Evaluate your skills and capabilities and fill in gaps. You’re never too old to learn new skills.
1. (a) Stockpile food, source water and filtration.
2. Get your butt in some kind of shape. Yer gonna need it. See your doctor first, etc etc blah blah blah.
3. You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you. If / when war comes, what could you contribute? For every trigger-puller there are approximately 10 support personnel. Transport / supply / intel / counterintel / medical / weapons / maintenance / recruiting / PR. Figure out what you could contribute and prepare to do it better. Your becoming self reliant as in #1 above is a HUGE step in this direction.
Get started on this now. Today.
Read
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/03/its-the-midnight-hour-saving-america-now-requires-ruthless-offense/
Are you saying this is your answer to the fact that we no longer have free and fair elections?
He’s suggesting to get prepared for worse attacks against us by the same people who seized / stole government in the 2020 Fraudulent election.
If you don’t believe that to be necessary or even prudent, please read this:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/03/its-the-midnight-hour-saving-america-now-requires-ruthless-offense/
I was actually just looking for clarification of what he was saying. I didn’t want to assume it was an answer to “what now?” Though I thought it probably was.
I have been very much awakened to the nightmare.
And I too have been doing some preparations. Because I don’t know how far God will have this go to make his point.
I said a prayer a while before The Cabal upped their perpetration of evil in early 2020. In this prayer I asked God to shake up America. Perhaps others prayed something similar.
And he has been faithful. But we all definitely have to have his wisdom and courage and perseverance as his consuming fire sweeps this nation.
Yet as horrible as he has allowed things to become, I thank and praise him that he is purifying our land and helping us return to him as our God and Savior
If MAGA minded independents (I am not a Repuglican) got involved in the vast majority of poll workers and kept track of the actual number of votes cast it would help tremendously. This must include the mail in count. Then, if possible, force a law requiring an actual re-vote if the votes counted exceeds the number of legally registered voters. Not a re-count, a verified re-vote where every previously registered voter can recast their vote.
I think you know the answer to that question.
what would they do if Americans decided to hold their own elections with out the raccoons in charge?…
Taking back ALL OUR POWER……. it’s gotta happen.
The Racoons in the basement are Congressional UniParty members.
WE, the declared enemy of the state, always get a vote. WE are proficient in the use of pen as well as a rifle. Which chosen is determined by a governance that threaten US with our military, mandated injection to remain employed, destroyed small business, nulled our voices, and stole our election.
This government can choose to continue its march against our liberties or mend its ways and continue economic polices that provides national security.
‘it is ultimately the U.S President who determines gasoline prices indirectly through energy and regulatory policy.’ – SunDance
‘Ultimately’ being longer-term (years). In the short term, “Biden” is emptying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for the squalidly partisan purpose of depressing gasoline prices below what they’d otherwise be. SPR sales end in October.
Statutorily, such sales are authorized to mitigate actual physical shortages, which don’t exist now. “Biden” is flouting the SPR statute, just as surely as his student loan relief abuses the 2003 statute which it relies on.
But in our broken justice system, the attorney general doesn’t challenge these gross violations of law. It’s just assumed, accurately, that because the president and attorney general are from the same party, they will act as a team. Quaint notions of the attorney general impartially enforcing the law, not acting out of partisan motives, have been out the window since the days of the execrable Janet Reno.
No one else besides the attorney general has the resources or standing to challenge such abuses. Certainly the RINO wing of the Uniparty will not – they benefit electorally from lower gas prices too.
As you’d expect, with the rule of law visibly crumbling, ‘rule of law’ is the slogan of every Uniparty figure (as in the Keisha Bottoms interview posted yesterday), even as it manifestly disappears.
You’re right. The “lower” high gasoline prices will be gone with the mid-terms. Does anyone really think Biden cares about the little man? Next up is ensuring that none of us can work by “solving” the gas crisis. Look at California. Won’t be able to buy a new gas-powered vehicle but can’t get the electricity to charge an EV. Is that little Newsome (or Pelosi) ploy designed to cause everyone but the elites to give up on transportation other than by foot or by bicycle (and remember, rubber tires need energy for production as well as the metals for the bike itself)? Has it slowed Aunt Nancy from flying the taxpayer funded jet across the country? Nope. Has it stopped Joe and his nurse from flying to Camp Rehobeth almost every weekend? 40% of this shell of a man’s time has been spent on vacations so far but the press barely mentions it. They never failed to mention that President Trump was on the golf course (didn’t matter if it was with diplomats or leaders of other countries at his golf courses, therefore not costing the taxpayers unduly) but barely mentioned the times Obama went out to hack it around at taxpayer expense).
But I digress. Like the CoVid jabs, there was the temporary pain of the needle (the initial gas price hikes to more than double), then temporary relief (prices “dropped dramatically” not even close to Trump levels but the MSM made it seem as though these prices had dropped to all time lows), and just wait for the clots, heart attacks, strokes and other life-threatening effects (the post mid-term gas lines which will make the mid 70s look like gas wars to really choke off the middle and lower classes). There will still be people out there who will shriek with amazement that anything like this was even possible much less happening. These are the sheeple. They should be the first ones to starve. And yes, when the Socialists choke off gas, the food chain comes immediately after that. Just wait. Gates and the WEF club want to depopulate the earth of those that they do not deem “worthy” of living with them. How will they survive without us? They are the raccoons. They are the snakes. Their opinion of themselves is vastly over-inflated.
Well in two years, when Trump opens the pipeline, that will put the oil guys back to work filling the ‘reserves’, if they (the diseased uni-bird) don’t manage to cause any other irreparable damage.
The Rule of Law? What is that strange concept of which one speaks?/s
Right now – the price of natural gas is skyrocketing because so much is being frozen and shipped to Europe to make up for their bad energy choices. We were at the 20 year low under Trump. Now, we will hit the 20 year high under the Occupant. Americans are going to pay 3-4 times more to heat their homes this winter than last. This year, Christmas money will go to Heat. Meanwhile, China is trying to get a long term deal on trillions of Cubic Feet of US Natural Gas
I will say it. Cap the quantity of Natural Gas that can be exported. Save the American people.
“Well in two years, when Trump opens the pipeline, that will put the oil guys back to work filling the ‘reserves’” – Aggiegirl
That’s one scenario. But since the SPR is supposed to be about national security – surviving and fueling the military in case of a hostile oil embargo – it really should be refilled immediately.
Question is whether Brandon will refill it at cheaper or dearer prices than he sold it. Unfortunately, the excess demand for refilling – over and above ordinary consumption – means that all the artificial price reduction from April to October of 2022 must be repaid in 2023 with artificially higher prices.
Thanks, Brandon. You’re an economic prodigy.
Rabid and messy MEAN raccoons is one way to describe the swamp. This is a joyously humorous example!
I give one swamper from WY as an example of the following:
Make no mistake, when attempting to ‘rehome’ an unwilling rabid and angry animal, they will fight back.
“Their” trillions are at stake.
The most important sentence of this article: on the bigger issue of steering the national policy agenda, almost every candidate for office comes with the baggage of having accepted donor contributions from a class of people who are paying for economic policy influence.
When you identify who the donors are, for a particular candidate, it will show you what decisions they are likely to make, while in office. I’ve brushed up against DeSantis supporters who feel that DeSantis is the best and most acceptable alternative to Trump. My advice to them: research to see who his donors are. That will give you an indication of who he will be ‘paying back’ once in office.
There are lists of donors pay to play….Clinton Foundation. Now all legislators have a “tax free” foundation to accept the kickbacks!! They are expecting large pay day……. My husband had to stop working in June because of the oppressive “social security” income tax rate! Double tax over $65,000. Who would write laws except to punish working Americas. Legislators have passed unconstitutional law for 100 years and never to Make America Great.
Anyone not following Sundance’s Twitster is missing an epic barrage of spankings!
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“economic security is national security” – PDJT
Trump mentioned this at the Wilkes-Barre rally, reminding of how he warned ‘Angela’ not to build NordStream2 and become more dependent on Russian gas.
Superficially, he’s right: in the wake of the Ukraine war, NS2 is a stranded investment; NS1 is shut off.
But PDJT also asserted that had he acceded to his deserved second term, the Ukraine war wouldn’t have happened. In that hypothetical scenario, Germany would be better off today with cheap Russian gas than with costly LNG imports from the US, which are acting as a transmission belt to impose Europe’s energy pain on America as well.
Saturday’s demonstration in Prague – 70,000 in the street, demanding a ‘Czechia First’ economic policy – is a harbinger of Europe-wide protests as winter bears down. Some governments will fall. The tantalizing question is whether, if openly nationalist governments succeed social democratic ones, they will renounce NATO unity against Russia on the grounds that ‘economic security is national security.’
Ha! You mentioned governor Walker. Love it. Exactly spot on. Weird peps can’t figure this out.
Trump , or we all die. He’s the only man in our lifetime untied from the corrupt slush fund I call globalism.
Exactly. Walker negated himself and the collateral foll0w-on (for WI) is the Worst Governor Evers.
If only they were raccoons. Flat out dangerous. The exact type of scum Trump has had to deal with his entire life doing business. New York realestate would be brutal. Can you imagine …
He cut his teeth doing business with the best of them, or the worst of them. All the way to the top. Miss Universe …the guy is pure genius. He had the angle. Trump – the ladies man. Super models, that’s his thing. Brilliant!
Had to cut his teeth on the TV also. ‘You’re fired!’ went straight to the top.
I wonder how long he’s had this planned? I mean what are the chances? ALL CLEAN? Come on, no one is that clean. President Trump is. If there was just one thing …they have to make stuff up! Russia Russia Russia! Impeach! Impeach!
He ain’t no raccoon exterminator. I think he’s a genius and a mans man to boot! A lion of a man. He had to be to get this done. Completely surrounded by vermin on all sides. Basement? He should told that story along the lines of …’you visit the capitol and its infested with vermin. Horrible critters like …Hillarycoons and Obamagators – nasty stuff. Who you gonna call?
Don’t say Ghost Busters, yeah I know what you’re thinking lol 😛
What I was thinking that I shouldn’t say anything about the certain demographic dude going on about getting rid of ‘coons.
Oops.
Hillarycoons and Obamagators—Priceless! Still laughing!
I’m in Canada.
I often find raccoons when I put out the garbage. Civil but unyielding, like Democrats.
Coyotes and foxes and other beasts plague us.
In northern Canada, you check for bears at the dump.
In the far north, polar bears appear. Polar bears are twice the size of lions. Yeah, you respect them.
Americans will soon have to deal with such monsters to preserve their democracy. Despite what PBS taught their children, monsters are real.
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I am an Aussie, and I would also like to declare that I am a MAGA Republican.
Trump’s third win cannot come soon enough!
She’ll be right, mate!
Happy you’re here with us MAGAS! Love Aussies!!!
I’m am American, and I want to Make Australia Great Again too! Like Trump always says, he expects the leaders of every country to follow the same economic principles he espouses.
Thanks Maquis, Serena and Calbear84.
#MAGA!! UltraMAGA!! AtomicMAGA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
MAGA Nation , every citizen , everywhere , from tiny baby to little old lady ……… Every One , a Warrior !
” The Eagle born to those who pledged their lives and sacred honor
was smiled upon by GOD , and FREED from chains and iron collar
He is held aloft by UNITY and by History revered ….
For preserving peace through strength His wings now reach across two hundred years !
But for each of those , and one year more , GOD has smiled upon The Corps ….
From Barbary Coast to the Eastern sand , by sword by gun , or by bare hand
So its been and shall be weighed , though many are born , few are made…
FAITHFUL ALWAYS — They shall remain ! ”
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Every . Citizen .
As Rush would say, “ditto.”
The witching hour has passed, again.
The rats and snakes of the commie, dc gang are scurrying back to their holes in the dc swamp.
The democrat / GOPe / media, commie, dc, gang has failed again in thwarting the American people from taking back their country from the illegally certified biden, commie, administration.
“Fraud vitiates everything.” will not be denied.
XX, is that you?
I have known a few, ok–more than a few used car salesmen. Need to sell a convertible in Alaska during a blizzard? Sure, the top is down, a broken pump the problem…but the air conditioning works great! Here is a free umbrella and a pair of gloves, plus some sun tan lotion…now let’s go into the office and sign the papers!
Just watching these people “work” is something to behold. Hope you are on their good side! A shrink might tell you that a real salesman is a person who only seeks to have another say “yes” to his game, that is the payoff for a closer. There are, of course, underlying energies that support such a focus and they may not be healthy at all. But that person needs to play such a game, sales is seduction on many levels.
Joe Biden is no salesman, but he is a “lemon” of the first order, has been for decades and will be till he goes room temp.
Donald Trump loves the rich life, the life where one gets to pick the best of the best. He is a builder, he builds or remodels to a very high standard. He intends to make a “profit”…the only primary goal of a businessman! He intends to enjoy his life as best he can. He loves people for he knows they are the ones who have made his dreams come true. He has catered to the wealthy and the regular while quietly helping those less fortunate. Dig deep and you will realize I am speaking the truth.
Imagine the conversation he would have with his parents where he tells them about becoming our President and what he tried to accomplish and did accomplish!
“Hey Dad and Mom, remember North Korea and how many other presidents talked about that dictatorship and yet did nothing…well, I went over there, crossed that DMZ line, shook Kim’s hand and gave him a CD showing how we could help make his country a “great country” while everyone else said it couldn’t be done and was foolish to try! I had my grand daughter sing in Mandarin to Chairman Xi and his lovely wife, can you imagine that? I gave Israel the recognition of their holy city and tried to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon to destroy Israel. I denied this narcissistic, phony focus on climate change while trying to clean up our waters, provide cheaper energies and make America great again. I tried to get along with everyone, even though I was attacked constantly and smeared by those who should have helped me in my own Country! Mom…I love my family and they love each other, isn’t that great! Then I got waylaid by other politicians who had friends that did not like what I was doing and especially what I intended to do!
However, do you remember all those fights I promoted in Atlantic City years ago? Well, I have hit the canvas in life more than once and have gotten up to go again. I may have one more great fight left inside of me and I intend to try once more.
Thanks Mom and Dad for giving me this kind of spirit towards excellence…I love you!”
Excellent Post!
“The goons are trying to fire me, Mom, but the American patriots and I won’t let them!”
WOWEE!!! Standing ovation for a great, great read! Thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed your article!!
That’s almost how I feel. I say almost because I don’t think of President Trump as a jerk, an egomaniac, or crude. I don’t consider egotist necessarily as a negative, and I don’t care about his hair. I don’t have to qualify my love for Trump with slurs. I’ve never heard anyone preface their admiration of Obama with slurs.
I like Trump just the way he is. So, don’t go changing to try to please anyone.
I love Trump. He’s a God-fearing patriot, selfless and a courageous leader. Plus he cracks me up when he dances!
Best description of MAGA yet Sundance.
We need it in one or two sentences for low info s to grasp.
It truly is citizens first.
It is not oligarchs/big business/huge banks first.
The best government is always pushed to the lowest level. Local is best.
The founders had this right.
The military industrial complex is profit taking in Ukraine; never-ending transfer of wealth from mainstreet to multi nationals.
F..k Cheney/Bush, they were a well disguised “legal” version of the Clinton foundation.
President Trump spoke on “the snake”; once the people see the snake, the people will destroy the snake.
I am MAGA and President Donald Trump made me realize I am My Own Weapon.
We The People are united. United We Stand.
Thank you President Trump for reminding We The People who is in charge.
We The People are the economic engine. We would rather just continue to hold the truck keys, the tractor keys, the shovels, the firehoses, the stethoscopes, the first aid kits, the calculators and pencils, the controls in the cockpit, the ship’s wheel in the pilot house, the controls to the forklift, etc in our hands and live our lives in peace. But we also hold the cradle of liberty in our hands. So, when our great nation is threatened by enemies foreign or domestic, it is our right and duty to protect it from all those who try to destroy it.
Not only do we hold the truths. We hold these truths to be self-evident.
God Bless America.
MAGAFusion
Interesting, Harvey spends hours every day of the week trashing pres.Trump,MAGA ,and whites on WBLS New York, then pens this?
He didn’t, wrong Steve Harvey. It would be better for it to be listed as anonymous, so it didn’t muddy the waters.
I was going to say, no way did Family Feud Steve Harvey say that.
I think he really did pen it and then it was probably was suggested he walk it back. In the end he supported the democrat candidate. Here’s a piece of him meeting with President Trump. His heart was really there trying to help the black community. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/comedian-steve-harvey-meets-donald-trump-n706751
Another wonderful teaching from the Sundance Institute of MAGA Studies.
And just for the record, President Trump is not a jerk or ego-centrist – any more than Rush was.
Both very humble loving men who give/gave everything for God and country.
Strong unwavering truth telling set people free.
Jesus used VERY strong language toward and about enemies of God. And have every confidence about who he was– Unashamedly.
…and Az. Candidate for Governor Kari Lake responded
( without waiting for a ‘poll’ to tell someone what to say )…
because Kari is connected to the hearts and minds of Americans…
OAN reported days ago:
https://www.oann.com/kari-lake-responds-to-bidens-dark-speech-torches-him-for-dividing-the-country/
In short…
Loving thy neighbors by free choice etc…
builds our unity etc….
Kari Lake spoke to nation right after the brandon, Pennsylvania speech.
( how well the media carried or censored it is on them – and their miss controllers).
Thank you Lake, Trump, Sundance, many, Many others without notariety
…peace prevails…
along with virtuous fortitudes etc.
to continue seek out and to timely share the whole truths…
More hands, make less work…
…welcome…
I have used the analogy of the old Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant.
He is a salty veteran who drinks a bit, (too much), and cannot speak without employing colorful metaphors. He will insult you, your spouse, your mother.
The Lieutenant is an educated and refined Marine who, by the very nature of his/her rank, commands respect.
However, when things get heated and the battle is afoot, everyone, (including the lieuternant), line up behind that Old Gunny because they know he is gonna do what it takes to defeat the enemy and bring his people back alive.
Donald Trump, I am proud to say, is my Gunny Sergeant in the coming fight.
There are a lot of independents who voted for Trump and would do so again. I don’t know why you think otherwise
I am MAGA, therefore I reject the old ways for new ways. As St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 5:8, “Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
“If not President Trump then who?”
Our Great American President Donald J Trump must finish his course so that again we can get back to American Exceptionalism, American Pride, love of God, the things these demons have chipped away at for a 110 years.
If you paid attention you could see the country and the West slipping into a Godless globalist oblivion. This was promised and desired by our Alinsky disciples (counter culture) who have grown-up and their devoted spawn that have wrested control of our nation. Note: I use “grown-up” very loosely, more a reflection of age than maturity.
In truth if you remove the bullhorn of the enemy MSM (turn it off) they would represent maybe 10% of the population of that 10%, 1% pull their reins with all manner of lunacy. In fact the crazier the better for the distraction value.
“If not President Trump then who?” Answer: No one, right now.
MAGA! …again.
Someone needs to ask the Biden team to name 3 MAGA policies which are not good for the country.
And for contrast,
set those 3 adjacent to the 30 policies
that are great for America
( which positively ripples across the world )…
Watch WarRoom on RAV(Real America’s Voice), WarRoom.org with Steve Bannon as Host. He also has great people, such as Steve Cortes, Boris Epshteyn, Peter Navarro, etc. They all say that President Donald J. Trump has the Independents, Hispanics, and a lot of the Black male voters.
In addition, RAV (Real America’s Voice) has a full day of FANTASTIC shows for TRUE CONSERVATIVE news!!
As far as a replacement for President Trump, there is none, unless we clone him. 🙂 Maybe his son, Don? Kari Lake, strikes me as a future Donald Trump, NOT DeSantis. He is being controlled as Sundance has mentioned. When something happens, you speak up right then and there, not wait days and then speak. Another uniparty, as he is getting major corporation donors, whereas Donald Trump gets grassroots contributions.
Don’t we all remember when obama would wait days before speaking about some very disturbing events? I remember that very well! That kind of thing coming from a politician is a definite”tell.”
Sturdy Oak Branch/Hemp Rope/2024
RIGHT BEHIND YOU SUNDANCE 100%
SUNDANCE YOU ARE MY GATEKEEPER
MAGA AND PROUD
LOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP
Amazing that he won office the first time under worst conditions than today.
Begone with the no hope dope you’re pushing.
Other countries put their citizens first. Why and when did the US stop doing it?
That list of “other countries” is a rather short one these days.
“Win independents” isn’t that quaint, Dominion couldn’t be reached for comment. Get real.
As opposed to “Charge of the Light Brigade” perhaps a “Pyrrhic Victory” would be a better analogy for the swamp and the swamp rats.
They wrested control through fraud from We the People, but do not have the consent of the governed.
Perhaps the recent opposing rallies in Wilkes-Barre PA would turn your analogy of the “Charge of the Light Brigade” around, in the long run who is charging into certain death?
I’m proud to be an American, yes! But I’m particularly proud to be MAGA American…God knows I love this man, God bless the USA and our President Donald J. Trump.
Trump didn’t lose. It was stolen.
At this point, Republicans may need to be reminded of this more than Democrats.
The optimism of MAGA voters over 2024 seems to be an Emily Litella-like exercise in blocking out the monstrous crime of 2020.
A frank discussion of what to do when Trump is outrageously blocked from running in 2024 (tick, tick) is amazingly missing from the dialogue of MAGA voters.
When your goal is to enslave the people, you have to project a LOT.
Agreed SD.
Sundance,
Interesting piece. I agree with you on the importance of the America First agenda, but disagree that Trump is the “irreplaceable Great MAGA King” and really dislike the cult of personality you have fallen into and are leading others into.
You write that the skill set or policy outlook of a state politician (another swipe at DeSantis) does not carry into federal office. I would submit to you that although Trump’s policy outlook was strong, he did not, and does not, have the skill set to be a chief executive as demonstrated by his personnel selections, his policy vacillations and his total inability to persuade his own party to follow his lead for two years when they controlled both houses of Congress.
I will leave you with two quotes from people who worked with Trump and are generally positive toward him to complete my point:
From Peter Navarro: “That was one of my main beefs with Javanka. It did not matter who was chief of staff. If these two spoiled scions did not get exactly what they wanted in the West Wing during the day, they went straight to the East Wing during the evening to lobby their patriarch. Such meddling might have been all well and good if Javanka had been in sync with Trump’s agenda. But too often, Jared would undermine the president’s tough-on-China policies on behalf of his once and future Wall Street benefactors, while Ivanka would push a steady stream of New York liberal Democratic causes to subvert Trump’s efforts to make America great again.”
And Patrick Byrne:
“I also think Donald Trump has a taste for chaos (someone pointed this out to me as a trait of those who grew up around alcoholism). One of my mentors taught me that the first task in any leadership situation is to determine, “What’s the mission and who is in charge?” One needs clear chains of command to focus an organization. President Trump’s leadership style (which is to throw a problem against the wall and have a crowd swarm in to fix it) seems more appropriate to me to running a marketing company, than it is to someone running an operation with millions of employees.
Significantly, I think Donald Trump is a 74 year old fellow who has lost friends over the years, and like all men of that age, perhaps clings to his remaining friends too closely. I was floating around inside his operation from the wheels up, and I saw what I saw: Rudy was not nearly capable of managing the effort it would have taken to defeat the Deep Rig. Thinking otherwise was an absurdity. I am not even sure Rudy wanted to. Trump clung to Rudy from a place of loyalty, even after Rudy’s disastrous hair-dye-meltdown press conference, telling me twice he would not entertain a solution that did not have Rudy at the helm. Donald Trump paid for his loyalty.”
Our country is at an existential crossroads and we cannot afford to blow another opportunity if God grants the Republicans another opportunity to lead this country. It is time for Trump to play kingmaker instead of the “irreplaceable great MAGA King.”
The people are behind trump. As President Lincoln supposedly said about Grant. ‘I can’t spare him, he fights.’
The leftists and swamp are afraid of Trump. DJT is seen as our weapon.
Great! Let’s use him as a weapon and elect somebody who can effectively implement the MAGA agenda. Running the federal government is a little harder than holding a rally.
“I agree with you on the importance of the America First agenda, but disagree that Trump is the “irreplaceable Great MAGA King” and really dislike the cult of personality you have fallen into and are leading others into.”
Because if you really admire somebody, it has to be a cultish devotion, right?
Nice manipulative technique you’re employing to persuade the gullible sheep to believe as you do. Has that technique ever actually worked for you?
I am seeking to persuade with facts. What do Navarro and Byrne know, that you don’t?
I’m sure it’s just your “cultish devotion” to Navarro and Byrne that makes you see what you want to see instead of what’s really there.
Patrick Byrne is brilliant but has shown his true colors. They are not MAGA.
So we just ignore what he says about Trump’s lack of executive skills. What about Navarro? Is he not MAGA?
Byrne’s “executive skills” got him kicked out of his own company. Sure, listen to the guy that lost it all. That’s a winner, fer shur.
Sounds like you can’t figure out PDJT’s genius because PDJT is too much of a genius.
I am grateful for Trump’s experience and bravery and…business savvy…grateful to be a citizen loved by Trump.
God bless you all on this Labor Day.
I’s say you need to pay more attention to what is going on, but judging by your subsequent comments, you are playing from a biased agenda.
DeSantis traveled to support a MAGA candidate in NY, along the way, stopped to pick up money, and then abandoned the MAGA candidate. The money came from somebody who had given massively to the opponent of MAGA. And he gave the lame excuse that he had to attend a funeral the day after. A funeral that he had known about before leaving to support the MAGA candidate he abandoned after taking money from the anti-MAGA supporter.
DeSantis doesn’t need his family to lobby against America First or MAGA. He wears one of those signs, ‘Will betray America First for Campaign donations.’ And he has already started taking the money.
Superb POST!
And worthy of a Sundance response!
Peter, you should research the ties between Kushner and Matthew Pottinger.
“I wonder if Ron DeSantis can be so easily played to betray the America First agenda”
DeSantis doesn’t need his family to do so as he doesn’t have an America first agenda. The man – a career politician who has never earned a non-government paycheck – voted for TPP.
TPP is treason.
It is crucial now that MAGA Republicans be seen as totally separate from regular Republicans. People like me, who can no longer vote regular Republican because of their unforgivable help in the 2020 election steal, can still vote for MAGA Republicans, while labeling ourselves Independent. A MAGA Party would’ve been better, but oh well… Also, after a certain other party has all but revealed itself as the handmaiden of Satan, what better time for doubters on the Left to make a leap of faith into the MAGA fold? We should be on the lookout for them, with love and encouragement at the ready.
‘oil prices are determined by the global market for the product’ – Sundance
Yes … the US dollar oil price is globally determined.
In individual non-USD countries, the exchange rate versus the dollar then sets oil’s price in the local currency.
Consider Britain. Its pound sterling has dropped from $1.38 per dollar a year ago to $1.15 today. Chart (viewer discretion advised):
https://tinyurl.com/jp8c75r8
This headlong devaluation pushes up the sterling price of oil by an extra 20 percent, over and above crude oil’s rise from about $70 a barrel to $90 a barrel in the past 12 months.
Consequently, Britain recorded 10.1% inflation in its most recent report. With its currency sinking like a stone, British inflation could zoom even higher into double digits this autumn.
Meanwhile, the beleaguered euro has dropped to 99 US cents this morning.
A spectre is haunting Europe.
As SD notes, everything comes down to economics.
That is the control.
The commoners cannot break with the control without losing everything they have based on debt and government subsidy. We learned that they will even accept experimental injections violating the Nuremberg Code and wear harmful slave masks which provide negligible benefit, because of this insecure position.
Don’t make fun of them as “sheeple”, most don’t have other options to maintain their position and they are afraid of losing everything, leaving their children to the wolves.
Likewise, the workers in the healthcare sector cannot break from the medical tyranny lockstep, because of threat of being fired and precipitous fall.
The military-industrial complex is tight-lipped, they are all dependent on the money in that lockstep.
The economic controls keep everyone on board and suppress dissent, as we are driven toward ___.
The term is “manufactured consent”.
So, what about that rallying cry “Government by the people, for the people”?
Is the rally cry, and the rally focus (one man), just hopium at this point?
I like Trump’s personality. I am an independent. Did you see his rally yesterday? All his rallies are like that one, packed with people who really love him. Who besides Trump has that kind of support?
Great analogy
But, wrong Steve Harvey.
Having the picture of the famous comedian is muddying the waters
The CTH is usually excellent with their research, I’m surprised.
Interesting tweet. I, too, have expressed that RsD will be bulldozed by 45 in the primaries. There used to be a great meme on that. Once he’s bulldozed, he will be tagged a loser like the other 17 in ‘16. None of those losers can run again. Nope. I guess RsD can keep the $$$ he doesn’t spend? His retirement fund.
RdS will sit it out in 2024 if President Trump runs. The GOPe will try to defeat Mr. Trump with lower level people and fail. They will then try to lose the general election. It will be 2016 all over again. That is the battle plan to expect. It will not be a replay of 2020.
Bottom line and summarized: 7 or 8 key states, prevent massive election modifications, battle constant revelations that turn out to be false, win at the grass roots and do not depend on the Republican machine.
Remember the Trump ratchet. Most election support swings back and forth. The moving polls are a media trick to generate interest, so they do things to swing support around a center to sell clicks. In 2016, it was a ratchet and not a pendulum. Look for a repeat of this. Mr Trump will start out with a low level of support, possibly in the 30’s. Slowly, but certainly, he will pick up supporters but Trump supporters make a decision to go with Mr. Trump and are then immovable. Every new supporter was a click of the ratchet. All he has to do make certain that support is where it needs to be on the day a person votes. As it was in 2016, it will be a personal thing repeated millions of times. And it will be hard. Doable, but hard.
Great summary of the polls.
The only one I follow is Richard Baris @People’s Pundit. He doesn’t play the fake poller game and his protocols are solid.
RdS is running because he has been assured Trump will NOT be running.
Come Hell or high water, the Ruling Class will not allow Trump to run.
Lot of truth to what you say. Martin Armstrong keeps saying he is questioning whether there will even be a 2024 election…..
The “ruling class” are parasites, Cassius. Squatters. They managed to get in, finagled their schemes to take advantage, and have been bleeding us dry- without regard or decency, leaving us less and less ever since. Parasites will eventually kill their host. And we’re in pretty bad shape, now.
Read the Declaration of Independence again. How I wish the American People had taken it to heart and heeded it, decades ago. It’s not rhetoric. We’ve been living the proof that it’s real for too long. Our founders were such wise and thoughtful men.
President Trump is no parasite. I’m not sure I can even say it’s a symbiotic relationship because what can we give him but to be a responsibility and a pain in his butt? He has given us so much. But we love him and appreciate him and will stick with him through thick and thin, just as he does with us.
The “ruling class” of course hates him because they are corrupt filth and he is clean. The contrast is glaring. (RdS is wannabe “ruling class” and he doesn’t really even try to hide it. UGH!) President Trump is NOT “one of them”. They are takers and users and PDJT is a giver.
Some excellent replies to another excellent Sundance posting.
Enjoy your Labor Day weekend fellow Treepers!
I would support someone other than President Trump in 2024 except that there is no one else.
I hoped that one person with national ambition potential would take the same principled stand on the things that mean the most. No one has. Until one does, there is no one else.
Maybe someone will. Until that happens, I am going with the only tool in my toolbox. When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. Got to find a way to make this hammer work.
The problems we have requires a whole toolbox of tools for different tasks and functions. We have a lot of deconstruction and repair. It would be nice to have an army of specialists at the ready to do this in the best way possible. But we don’t. We have a hammer. A very big hammer.
For now, it will have to work.