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.
Is that you Karl Rove? Trump won Independents in droves. He also took millions of black men and Hispanic men votes. HIS PERSONALITY is what keeps him fighting against those who wish us to be dead. HIS PERSONALITY is the major factor in his willingness to destroy them. I love his personality.
Your talking points are so dated. Those were “before Trump” when the RINOs had us convinced that they needed to be centrists and appeal to Independents. That was the CON game that they played. They had us convinced that We the MAGA people were not in the majority. Come to find out, there are a lot of MAGA people in the democrat party who fell for the lies of their party leaders and there a a gazillion MAGA people in the RINO party.
Biden has lost millions of Independent voters. They are headed right over to MAGA-Trump.
Thank you, Sundance, for your MAGA-affirming articles.
I think President Trump is an intelligent, handsome, blessing to America.
I like his manner of speaking, his sense of humor, his razor sharp focus on solving problems and his love of Americans and America.
I love President and Melania Trump and their family.
Almighty God bless President Trump and America.
America First economic policy makes the most sense for everyone but the criminals worldwide.
Except for the very young skulls full of mush, we all remember the left screaming about Bush Hitler and wars and the rich and elite and all that went with it, they were right.
Then along came Barry and that all got squashed with racism bs and the first black president, which I though Billy Jeff was but whatever.
Then Trump and we finally could not deny the sad history of the evil in this country. It’s in our face and when it wanes we get the evil red theatrics of the demented pedophile.
The messaging has to be what a complete wasteland full of windmills we have become and that if we do not turn it around, not only do the rich get richer, we are prosecuted or dead if we do not comply.
One world misery or America First.
National Economic Policy, as the author calls it, is very similar to Fiscal Policy. I like what the author says, but would simplify his message. The author wants to retain the government’s influence on the economy. It does so by regulating and taxing private business and citizens and implementing new laws. I think the most efficient, and successful, solution is for much less government invasion of the private marketplace, the private economy. Give us a set of laws, like the Constitution that everyone follows, and we citizens will build a strong resilient private economy without the government’s “help” and thereby, a strong nation. But allow government to interfere in free markets, and we get a lopsided economy that will crash.
I think Capitalism is a natural result of a free society. Both thrive on freedom of choice. The indivisible unit that is the foundation of a free society is the individual. Further, I think that our nations greatest strength, even greater than the military, is the power of a free economy based on the individual.
“I think THE most efficient….”
Perhaps expand thinking by putting aside self imposed binary, either/or limits; at least temporarily.
Please consider the possibility that SIMPLIFICATION, at this point, could lead to a fatal and unnecessary AMPUTATION ie removal of something vital.
Why dont we ever hear about this from the MSM? Coming to a city near you!
What the hell ? What will they do when there is a Wax shortage , you know that’s coming , oh wait , don’t want to go there . What part of Italy was this ?
NYCjoe: Whale blubber (spermacetti sounds more Italian) is the fuel of the future.
Of coure, in Italy, there’s always olive oil (imported from Tunisia).
Actually I was alluding to a Soylent Green type source ….
Up next… a candle shortage.
Good point, jus wundrin.
They’re covering it like the European protests over power and energy, Canadian truckers’ protest, the Dutch farmers’ protest, Sri Lanka’s situation, etc.
Journalism has been driven underground, where folks like Sundance, Emerald Robinson, Sheryl Atkisson, Andy Ngo, and Lara Logan are working so hard to bring sunlight.
Modern day news outlets just take their stories from their centralized and controlled source (Associated Propaganda) and run with it. Everyone wants to be an influencer… no one wants to get to the truth.
“No one wants to get to the truth”.
Fortunately, that’s totally NOT true.
Source: YOU.
I agree with everything YOU said except your 8 word cojclusion” that your previous words refute.
Perhaps revisit what you know then revise your conclusion?
Perhaps embrace your inner Paul Revere to help spread what journalist Truth Tellers are saying rather than emulating opinion posting “influencers”?
God bless all Truth Seekers, Truth Speakers and Truth spreading “Midnight Riders”.
“The Racoons have got to go”
DeSantis can’t be all bad. The Left is now calling a Fascist:
https://nalert.blogspot.com/2022/09/democratic-socialist-professor-eric.html
DeSantis is a POS
He “cant be all bad” cuz “the Left” called him a “facist”.
Please consider developing more Realpolitik maturity around how you view politics and fine tuning how you make guesses about politicians.
Reading Sundances blogs, pondering what he’s saying then applying that to what you’re seeing will help alot.
In reality, they call every Republican a fascist. Often they’re correct. Those are the Republicans they’re aligned with.
Since they call every Republican a ” fascist”, that pejorative is both expected by and irrelevant to savvy truth seekers.
Too bad Harvey didn’t write that and has said multiple times he isn’t a trump supporter.
POPULISM is WE the PEOPLE, our CONSTITUTION is a populist document and governing law. Embrace it.
No additional comment necessary.
He is also the only candidate who we know will stand tall when the deep state tries to destroy him and even comes after his family.
Great post! Indeed! Just look at the crew attacking PT. There couldn’t be a greater endorsement ! 😂
I’d really like PT at his next rally to strongly endorse the idea of implementing Term Limits for Congress.
We can do it either through winning the House and Senate in the next election or via the Convention of States amendment.
So many Americans are completely disenchanted with DC and these slimy, evil, corrupt politicians that I think this MAGA policy plank would be huge incentive to vote for PT.
It’s not Steve Harvey the comedian. That was debunked years ago.
Steve Harvey’s Racoon Rant is perfect. It is from 2016, but even more relevant now.
We want people like US to run our country. That’s why Trump. He loves US.
Thank you Sundance, I needed the econ lesson to fine tune my America 1st MAGA talking points.
Regarding the pix of Trump with Jeb! and RDS. I enlarged their faces and looked at them for a long time. Two different looks:
I saw fear in Jeb’s eyes and a smile or smirk via a turned down mouth. A mind already made up.
For RDS, he looked like he was absorbing / involved and earnest in digesting what Trump was saying. Seemed to be into what was being said.
RDS needs to speak with President Trump more. I want to see that.
Ron may have been listening at the time, but other “things” have gotten in the way since then. He already knows the score and I don’t think listening again will help. He has already made his decision.
I think DeSantis doesn’t know how much he doesn’t know….unless, of course, he was, like Obama, singled out early in college to one day be the voice of the opposition party in dC.
Jeb thinks he is morally superior. He is a total moron.
He was sure he was going to win because the big money behind him told him so.
That is not RDS it is MR.
RDS is in the photo with PDJT at a dinner table.
The very reliable EV!
I wonder if most roadside assistance programs have EV chargers, and I wonder how long it takes. I know some will bring you gas, it would take less than a minute to pour enough into the tank to allow you to drive to the nearest gas station to finish filling.
Good Lord, Serena, you are making too much sense. Hush!
Just light a match to it, save the anticipation of future combustion issues.
Someone mentioned here a few weeks ago the absolute chaos in Florida if everyone had to evacuate for a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane, with an unpredictable path, using EV cars having limited range. Image tens of thousands of vehicles with flat batteries stranded on I-95, I-75, and the turnpike. The infrastructure just isn’t there to rapidly charge so many vehicles.
And those dead EVs are blocking the gas vehicle traffic
Oh yah, that’s an excellent point. And now I’m remembering a really bad snowstorm in Chicago that ended up causing a massive jam on Lakeshore Drive. People were stuck in their cars in frigid windy snowy weather. Running the heater would have drained the battery even more quickly, I’m sure.
How ironic yet appropriate. Looks mighty like a Washington DC license plate on that dead battery.
I know where this coal fired electric plant is. Next to it is the coal mine that supplies it. Most of it’s electricity goes to the east coast, Wash DC area. Irony defined!
Exactly. Also the ghastly monstrosities AKA windmills are located nearby. Were the DC electric vehicle passengers “tourist, “environmentalist” or tax sucking “investors” scouting things out for more of this “Green Goobermint Handouts”. Note the wind farm at Davis WV and others nearby are appx. 120 miles from Washington, District of Criminals…… Just thinking out loud for the purpose of traveling in an electric vehicle in a remote, mountainous area such as this??????? 🤔
I despise those monstrosities. Travel to Elkins, WV, Randolph County and see those horrid things lining the pristine mountaintops. Travel on to Davis or Thomas in Tucker Couty or Mt. Storm, WV in Grant county to see these boondoggles up close. Take a drive down Corridor H (not in an electric vehicle) toward or from Moorefield, WV, Hardy County and look at those abominable alien “War of the Worlds” looking spinning machines (some not spinning due to failure) lining the distant mountaintops. 🤢 🤮 And on and on.
As we all know here at the Treehouse, The New Green Deal is a fraud. These electric cars are a bigger boondoggle than the windmills and solar panel scam. However, right here in WV, our great Senator Manchin/s and Great Governor “Baby Dog” Justice 🙄 have received millions more Federal taxpayer money to build more of these ghastly things. This is not to mention the “environmental” friendly🙄 solar projects that cost millions of more dollars to produce very little electricity compared to a reliable base load coal fired plant with 60 to 90 days of fuel on the ground at any given time.
We have had 16 solar panels for power since 2013. Every winter we have to switch back to our local energy provider since there is not a lot of sun in the winter time. If we didn’t have 2 freezer and an electric pump for the well we might make it. But I also in the winter use a chicken water heater or else I am going to the barn 3 times a day to break the ice on the water, since you can’t use a waterer if it freezes. That is for convience but the freezers and well pump are necessities. We have gotten our power consumption down to less than 300 Kw / month. Had to give up a bunch of things but then we realized we really didn’t need them. Another big draw now is the starlink, it has a built in anti freeze device to keep it from freezing up, good idea but not for those who are on solar. Solar does work for us most of the time but it was pricey and well it don’t work when the sun don’t shine. Dehydrating a lot of things also draws a lot of power and that is where we are now. Asked hubby the other day if we could get a freeze drier only to be used in the summer months and he said depends on the price of them. We will see. Trying to get everything ready for the crash that is coming. God does say to be prepared, in more ways than one. First with Him then with supplies.
DMZ…….HAH!
A GOOD EV – would re-charge as it goes – like a regular car battery!
A GOOD EV – would not catch fire and burn slap up!
A GOOD EV – new battery would not cost 1/2 as much as the EV!
And have a solar panel on the roof charging the battery
Mike Huckabee on Electric Vehicles:
“With gas prices at record highs, a new Consumer Reports survey found that 36% of Americans say they are planning to buy or lease an EV, or are considering it. I suspect this is the real reason why gas prices are at record highs.
But they might want to try renting one first, to make sure they know what they’re getting into. We’re seeing a growing number of stories lately about people who’ve put the electric vehicles that President Biden is trying to force us to drive to practical testing, with shockingly bad results. I told you about the trailer towing test, where the estimated range immediately started dropping until the driver had to turn around and come back before the electric pickup died.”
[…]
“Nightmares from the EV Experiment
We’ve also seen several stories of nightmare long distance trips in rented EVs that turned into days of panicked searches for charging stations. But there are too many stories to keep up with them all, so here’s just a quick round-up of a few of the more recent:
In the new JD Power Initial Quality Study, the EV brand Polestar ranked last among 36 brands, with Tesla tied at #30.
It’s reported that GM’s new Hummer EV produces more CO2 per mile driven than some gas-powered sedans.”
MORE – https://stream.org/a-new-ev-report-is-worth-reading/
We have several friends here who have talked about going solar until they find out how much work it is and how much they must cut back on their use of electrical appliances.
Too many of them thought it would be easy peasy, just slap some solar panels up and change on over.
It told them to look into it first, if it was that easy every one would do it.
We have solar on a recreational cabin in the mountains and it is work and a lot of expense and we must do without many electrical appliances while we are there.
Since it is for rec use and not every day it is fine but not the way I would want to live day in and day out.
Solar now takes much upkeep and work and unless there are experienced work men in your area or you are handy yourself you could be in a pickle.
Manchin, are you aware of the news?
The swamp is worried. That is one of the reasons Biden did that speech in Philly.
Joe wanted to scare Trump supporters from talking to their friends and neighbors, especially in PA.
Trump’s rally on Saturday gave supporters a shot in the arm. Large areas of the Arena were set aside for supporters, political allies, donors and volunteers.
They went from empty an hour before Trump started speaking to SRO just before Trump entered.
Another thing that many didn’t notice was the number of police who watched the event from way up in the 301 & 302 level. Nosebleed seats. No one else was up there.
I’m pretty sure they weren’t there for security, but hanging out until the event was over to direct traffic. I don’t think they had to be there, but chose to be there.
There was plenty of security, various levels, and I’m pretty sure I even caught some plain clothes ones wandering around.
The traffic control before and after the event was excellent. Obviously they are used to events there.
Awesome.
i saw them up there, even took a pic.
Traffic Control was better at Biden’s Hate Speech!
It takes very little effort to guide a few dozen paid employees that were there just for overtime pay.
I think the person who wrote the speech and the people who did the staging are such psychopaths that they didn’t even foresee that Biden’s “Red Sermon” would be the target of so much mocking. 🙂 They can’t even comprehend how outrageous they are. But they should have known after Hillary’s “deplorables” comment blew up in her face. lol
That just made me think … we totally appropriated the term “deplorable” and many people started using it in their social media and forum user names. 🙂 I don’t think anyone wants to do that with “fascist” and that’s probably why Biden’s handlers chose that word, but it’s such a ludicrous term to apply half of the U.S. population. Dems are nuts. People need to stop voting for them!
” Dems are nuts. People need to stop voting for them!”
The problem is, I believe they get votes when people do not actually vote for them.
81 million votes?
I do not believe it was from 81 million actual VOTERS.
THOSE votes are from
Democrats know a dozen or more ways to cheat in elections. They are good at it and have lots of experience. They have cheated since the days of Huey P Long, Gene Talmadge, the Chicago Mob Bosses.
Sibyl, Mayor Daley (Chicago) delivered the cemetery vote for Chicago/Cook County that swung Illinois for JFK and got him elected in 1960.
The most that cadaver probably got was maybe 50 million. The rest were fake.
The plandemic was solely to steal the election. Killing off small businesses was an extra perk.
My comment was addressed to people in this forum who think giving a seat to a Dem is better than re-electing a RINO. Or refusing to vote for Oz just because they don’t like him or trust him, so they’re willing to give the precious Senate seat to a Dem. People need to recognize that while RINOs are bad, Dems are psychopaths now.
I see no difference between a RINO and a Democrat, except a Democrat is openly your enemy, while a RINO is covertly your enemy, and harder to detect, and therefore much more dangerous.
An enemy is an enemy.
They are not directing this at us but God. They don’t even realize it.
These ridiculous people stand by a regime of criminals and even watch the satanic overtones yet ignore what is in their faces.
When you know God you see truth and lies. These people are void of any Godly contact they cannot tell the difference, hate blinds them.
Where does responsibility start? Where does judgement begin?
I pray daily for the country and also ask forgiveness for being asleep at the wheel so to speak. Obama is when I really started waking up, until then I was a registered Democrat, not any more, we moved out of south jersey aka new germany, to the redoubt area and when we registered here it was as republican. But we learned our lesson and no longer vote party line but research the people and decide who we feel is best. Took a long time for me to wake up but I did and I know a lot of others did also.
The entire scenery and wording was VERY intentional. Part of their scheme to motivate their lunatic base that froths from their mouth on anything Trump. Secondly they intend to scare any moderates/independents from leaning toward Republicans, since they wouldn’t DARE associate with MAGA fascists.
VERY INTENTIONAL.
Ah, but I think we ARE willingly appropriating his (speach writers) “MAGA-REPUBLICANS” and should also embrace his “Mainstream Repubublicans” as an insulting, derisive term for GOPe RINOS.
I am a MAGA-REPUBLICAN, and will NOT support Mainstream Republicans who willingly work with Joe Biden.
If a politician isn’t touting MAGA, AMERICA FIRST economic policies, they are plotting to screw me, and America “with our pants on” and are the enemy.
I think that you are on to something. If we start calling ourselves “MAGA-Republicans” we are TAKING the word “Republican” from the RINOs. That puts THEM on notice that first, we start with a word but after that, we take the whole power structure from them and send them to the ash heap of history.
Those leadership positions in the House & Senate have to go MAGA.
So true Dutchman.
If anything, Biden’s Satan Speech has strengthened the MAGA strong.
We will not back down and never flinch.
God Bless America First.
The topic of Leadership – and the lack of it in America today – reminded me of the parallel problem in the last 200 + years of the Western (and Eastern) Roman Empire.
Keep that time-frame in mind: the Roman state slowly declined – with occasional pauses, and maybe short-lived recoveries – for about the entire history of the U.S.A.
After the Goths easily captured and looted Rome in 410 A.D., the Huns came into Europe (they were NOT Germanic, but Turkic-Asiatic).
A young Roman aristocrat was sent as a hostage to the Goths and then to the Huns (as a way to guarantee truces): his name was Aëtius (the “E” is pronounced).
Having lived among the barbarians, Aëtius was uniquely prepared to use what he had learned about them against them later.
His military career before 450 A.D. was brilliant: he was the one who finally stopped Attila and the Huns and pacified various other Germanic tribes. Historians later and people in his own time saw in Aëtius the possibility that the Roman state and civilization might be re-born.
Unfortunately, Aëtius was surrounded by petty, stupid, mediocre, and murderous politicians.
In his middle 60’s, he seemed ready to re-establish the western Roman state, although it would be a semi-barbarized area. Keep in mind that he was never an emperor, and was always a general working for – in some cases – idiotically jealous emperors.
This great general, deemed The Last of the Romans, was called to a conference by Emperor Valentinian III. At the conference, when his back was turned, this cowardly emperor stabbed Aëtius – according to one witness, literally stabbed him in the back and assassinated him!
You see, this mediocrity was afraid that Aëtius would want to be the emperor!
A senator at the conference who witnessed the murder exclaimed: “Sire, you have just cut of your right hand with your left!”
The empire disappeared 20 years later.
You see, the rise of mediocrities into the vacuum of competent leadership plagued the empire for over 200 years.
Today, what do we see? A parallel ocean of jealous, corrupt, self-serving, and (quite possibly) murderous politicians throughout the West, not just here!
They are quite willing to accept the decay around them for their own short-term aggrandizement, quite parallel with their political ancestors from the last 200 years of the Roman Empire.
Yes, although not a military man like Aëtius, President Trump is surrounded by envious, treacherous, treasonous enemies of lower intelligence, who would like to see him destroyed rather than to see him succeed in resurrecting America for the purpose of their own worldly riches.
No one replaced Aëtius.
Who could replace President Trump? Where are the other true CONSERVATIVE leaders?
There are not many!
Thank you for the history lesson Ausonius… I always appreciate your posts!
It’s a somber reminder that even when someone seems destined for great things, lesser humans can derail that potential. Fortunately, that isn’t always the case.
I really like Kari Lake, Peter Navarro, Marjorie Taylor-Greene as leaders… we have a few other good folks but I’ve watched these three stand tall in the face of intense fire and not waver. DeSantis was on the list but I’m starting to wonder if he’s been manufactured.
I’ll be the first to say that he’s done good things in Florida but that economic policy that Sundance has written about is my number one concern.
Thanks for the comment!
There is not much contemporary information on Aëtius due to the chaotic nature of his era and of the subsequent eras. One of the best books about him and the late Empire out now is by British historian Ian Hughes: Aëtius: Attila’s Nemesis.
As candidates for Conservative leadership I would nominate here in Ohio James “Jim” Jordan and state legislator Nino Vitale.
I would add to this mix of possibilities the Sen. Ron Johnson who seems to have grown into independently thinking for himself, and acting upon such thoughts over the past two years, listening to and giving a platform for the silenced physicians, researchers as well as individuals harmed during the mind-boggling pandemic activities.
President Trumps sons; Eric and Don.
No for the simple fact – No More Dynasties! Finally getting rid of the Democrat ones, why would we want Republican ones?
Beware the fakes, intended to defuse.
Personally, I do not believe we have ONE MAGA Senator, currently.
NOT Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul .
These fakes SAY things we all so desperately want to hear somebody *!ANYOBODY!* say, so that when they say it, our EMOTION evoked by hearing the words, is transferred to the speaker.
Best example of many, was Grahams 3 min. speech at the end of Kavanaugh, the “God help us if you get power” speech.
LOVE the words, but don’t transfer that feeling to the speaker.
As soon as that hearing concluded, Graham began working with those SAME Democrats he had so excorciated, in a National Red Letter law.
I believe we have a GOOD CHANCE of getting at least ONE MAGA Senator in Nov.
And, I believe we have a good chance of getting at least ONE MAGA Governor.
And one of the strengths of MAGA, is one MAGA in office, by every thing they do, EXPOSES all who are R but NOT MAGA.
Even if they campaign and lose the election, they expose the truth and the rot.
I am confident if WE get even ONE U.S. Senator that is MAGA, WE will not be talking about these faux Senators, any more.
And ONE MAGA Governor, such as KL or in Pennslyvania, and all talk of Desantis as VP in 2024, POTUS in 2028, or as “the future of the MAGA movement will cease.
The R’ spent $30 million to try to derail KL in the Az primary, and the Uniparty will probably spent several times that to try to keep her from winning in the General.
And no doubt the figures are similar in Pennsylvania, with Doug Mastriano. BECAUSE of the damage ONE MAGA Governor can do, to their transparent plan to TRY to defuse the Maga movement, with faux candidates.
In terms of $, MAGA Candidates have a greater than 10/1 advantage.
In terms of their power to shape the narrative, a MAGA Candidate, just by running, is ‘worth’ more than 10 GOPe Rinos, and if they actually serve, they (like PDJT) are devastating against the Uniparty in ways difficult to measure.
You always enlighten Ausonius. Thank-you. God Bless.
My two cents on RDS….and I am not politically savvy…but…
if manufactured, he is beholden….to???
If its his own ideas…???
Hey Aggiegirl. It’s just my own suspicions as one can see the moves on the chessboard of late and Sundance has done a great job of bringing them up when he sees them… even though it causes some in-fighting amongst us here in the comments.
The folks that want Donald Trump out of the picture very much include the Republican establishment. This is no secret.
There are plans A through Z on how to stop him and contingency after contingency calculated… and no, those didn’t start yesterday. They’ve been plotting solutions since 2015.
If the base won’t abandon him, what to do?
How about manufacture the perfect candidate, get him into position, and orchestrate a series of wins that would appeal to MAGA (just say no to child grooming, throw a bone to election concerns, parents in the classrooms) and make him a prime candidate… once you get the other guy off the stage (whatever it takes), he’s a shoo-in.
They can play the slow burn… it’s not like it’s the only strategy they would have in play.
But as Sundance has written, it’s that economic policy that should really concern you… and we don’t really know where DeSantis will stand/deliver from a National perspective. His donor list and the fact that everyone from Ben Shapiro to Faux News is pushing DeSantis just makes my Spidey-sense tingle.
If the folks that are so dead-set against a Trump Presidency are all in for a DeSantis Presidency, what does that tell you?
I don’t think it’s about mean tweets. It’s the Tea Party all over again. If you can’t beat it into submission, get your agents inside and beat it from within.
Then again, I’m not much fun at parties these days.
It’s just my suspicious, questioning nature though I do admit to not trusting anything remotely Republican establishment… they’ve lied to us way too many times.
I don’t want to go back to the Republicon Party before President Trump. I’m sick of those polished, professional liars. Remember, the last person we tried to elect President before VSGPDJT was Mitt Romney.
Well I will tell you, if DeSantis decides to run for president in 24 after Trump announces he is running, then that right there will tell you that DeSantis is in the splitter strategy. In other words, he’s bought and paid for by the elites.
Indeed that is my red line. I do not believe DeSantis runs if PDJT runs. RDS is smart, and he knows his chances of beating President Trump for the nomination would be minuscule.
Agree. Ron would rather live to play another day, and not get forever branded like one of his predecessors, the inestimable “Low Energy Jeb”.
If RDS is already enjoying his cut from The Big Club’s funds then he will do what he is told to do even if it is run against PDJT. Remember when Paulie Ryan got dozens of “republicans” to retire so that the democrats could take over? Those “republicans” departed without a whimper.
Once they own you, you have to do what they tell you. Or, my guess, is that you get prosecuted for corruption and made an example for the others.
WE do NOT need any more evidence, to KNOW what RD is.
Restrain any strong emotional responce about RDS, so as to be able to apply critical thinking.
Once you do, the evidence is overwhelming.
Hence, frankly ANY comments I see here, either still “making the case” for Dezantis, OR saying ‘I’m still not sure’ or “if he does THIS, then will know!” can only be coming from those who are still swayed by emotions, or are rolcons.
WHAT were his statements on the 2020 election?
Specifically, did he call it out, as a STEAL?
NO.
Has he instituted MAJOR election reform package in Florida, TO INCLUDE cleaning up election rolls, AND making them TRANSPARENT?
NO.
Even before you get to where is his $ coming from, who is advising him and what are they advising, and what his National economic policies would be,..the answer is resolved.
Vote for him for Governor?
Sure, why not. But annoit him as “the future of MAGA”?
HELL NO!
To the head of the class, SIR!
Mad Mike:
I’m already in moderation on this site..
I adore Donald Trump, and I feel this splendid man has already done enough for his country.
Jn contrast, the Second Amendment couch Rambos here are always a day late and and a dollar short.
The American establishment remains astounded that they pulled off the greatest crime in human history: the theft of the 2020 election.
I think these goofs will stumble into revolution – young southern men will touch off the revolution over gas and gas prices.
The elderly fools who think the Second Amendment has magical powers will show up at some point. Where’s the fire?
That’s a mighty broad brush you are using. Are you new to the South or are you just not tamed yet?
He has rece tly re eived campaign Co tributions from the C of C and other establishment repubs. Such a disappointment!
Aggiegirl, do a search on DeSantis in the upper right search bar and you’ll see the articles Sundance has written about DeSantis, which are all excellent, and the comments are very enlightening too.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Ita vero! Who will guard the guards themselves?!
THAT question faces every society!
An old question, no firm answer, except Jesus. A Guardian’s faith, through Grace, keeps them true to the people. God’s gift of freedom and grace. You are the Guardians, you are the Guardian’s watchers.
Are there any is the question?
Massey maybe?
Maybe Gaetz?
Maybe Jordan?
Not many is correct.
No more of these please. We need new and firm sounding people that have been talking the same language along with Trump. Jordan has been in there way too long, same with Massey and Gaetz I believe likes money and has his own favorite lobbyists.
I was wondering about Peter Navarro. Could or would he want to follow into Trumps shoes?
Jordan has been a great asset. I would love to see him as Speaker. Have you ever watched him during hearings? He’s extremely sharp and unafraid. Here’s just one of many many examples:
That last video I posted is a MUST WATCH. Even if you have watched it before, watch it again. Jordan is awesome.
Thank you for all the links!
Yes, so far Mr. Jordan has seemed to be on our side!
I love the exchange just after 2:08 in the Mueller video. Jordan had asked Mueller to name the person who told George Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Mueller: I can’t get into the evidentiary filings. [Mueller can barely get the word “filings” out, very much like Biden]
Jordan: Yes you can ‘cuz you wrote about it! You gave us the answer! Page 192 of the report! You tell us who told him! Joseph Mifsud. Joseph Mifsud’s the guy who told Papadopoulos, the mysterious professor who lives in Rome and London, works and teaches at two different universities, this is the guy who told Papadopoulos. He’s the guy who starts it all, and when the FBI interviews him he lies three times, and yet you don’t charge him with a crime. You charge Rick Gates for false statements, you charge Paul Manafort for false statements, you charge Michael Cohen with false statements, you charge Michael Flynn, a three star general, with false statements. But the guy who put the country through this whole saga, starts it all, for three years we’ve lived this now, he lies and you guys don’t charge him. And I’m curious as to why.
No question/maybe on Thomas Massie.
He’s definitely one of the good guys.
His positions, that I’ve read anyway, have turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
Off the top of my head I seem to recall Trump would not endorse him. Now, I’d be shocked if Trump did not endorse him.
Should have looked it up prior to posting…….in fact, Trump endorsed him this past Spring.
yeeeeeeeees he is MAGA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are those who have been inspired by DJT and those who will try to copy DJT but in the last century has there ever been a Donald John Trump? I don’t expect to ever get the opportunity again to vote for such a man of incredible courage, strength, knowledge, vision, charisma and determination.
For DJT’s sake I wish he’d go home and play golf but for our sake – I want him to run again because we desperately need him.
I feel awful wanting him to run again, after what he and his family have been through I feel I don’t have a right to ask him to sacrifice more. And I worry that our own side can’t even get the House and Senate majorities back into GOP hands, which is a horrible way to support Trump’s 2024 run. I hope he waits until after the mid-terms to announce, and if we fail to get GOP majorities he decides it’s not worth running. Why would he want to?
I do agree…he will wait until after the mid-terms. Not that far away now.
Thank you! Something new for me…!
I, too, always enjoy and appreciate your posts.
Churchill pointed out the importance of studying history.
Few do.
“Few do.”
Amen!
As we see the mistakes from the past repeated, it is obvious that our politicians know little about history or – worse -are willing to repeat a mistake from the past for a short-term reward.
I think it’s a combination of both of those, Ausonius.
With a slightly heavier weight being applied to their desire for short-term reward.
Tragically.
Ausonius,
I too read all of your posts. You are one very intelligent and informed person.
I would also submit that our current politicians (maybe not all, but I feel the majority)
know little about the Bible. That is also an invaluable historical reference, at least it is to me.
Just my opinion as I watch them operate.
Blessings to you!
Nice.
Trump is not conservative. He is MAGA. Sometimes he produces results that a pleasing to conservatives.
That is an excellent point.
FYI Ausonius: Hugh Byas covers very much the same ground only in Japan during the 1930s in his book: Government by Assassination (1942).
I will look into that: many thanks!
DeSantis absorbed it then sold himself out for a dollar bill.
This one decision has cost him any chance to the presidency in the future.
MAGA or nothing!
DeSantis is now backed in a corner, especially if he’s asked if he supports MAGA.
He thinks he doesn’t need MAGA now.
Boy, is he in for the surprise of his life.
If he doesn’t realize how powerful MAGA is and how
President Trump rallied to get him the governorship,
we don’t need him as POTUS.
Flashback … Not just on home ground .. there are still other nations in support of President Trump; particularly the few leaders who sincerely do the best to take care of their citizens; while citizens from as far as Australia and some European countries tell of how they too need Trump to be back in the WH.
PM Modi and President Trump attend ‘Howdy Modi’ – Indian community event in Houston
DeSantis shouldn’t “Have” to be “asked”.
FRDS
Accurate assessment.
If the efforts against Trump succeed, and they demonize him enough, call him (and us) a fascist enough, and find a way to “legally” prevent him from running for office…….
It is only a matter of time til the media or democrats (what is the difference?) ask Desantis if he supports MAGA.
He will, from his perspective and the perspectives of his corporate financial backers, HAVE to disrespect and disavow MAGA, Trump, and by extension, those of us who voted for Trump and support him.
Now that I ponder it, is he REALLY backed into a corner?
Or did he position himself there willingly thinking it would work out to his advantage?
This will be the equivalent of the moment when “constitutional scholar” and 2016 presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, said that the attacks by rabid lefties against MAGA rally attendees was the fault of Donald J Trump. Yes, it was the words of DJT that upset the commie left so much so that the commie left had no choice but to beat up, spit upon, harass, threaten with violence, and harm Trump rally attendees.
Lyin’ Ted Cruz (and his Big Club handlers) decided that was his moment to distance himself from the MAGA peasants. Let’s see when/if RDS is forced to denounce PDJT.
DeSantis’ problem is no one knows who he is out in the real world. He can huff and puff and blow down a house in FL but when the primary comes along (without Trump) he will be one of 10 candidates.
Special Master appointed
Now … who will the Master be?
That will tell the tale of this chapter.
N/M
If you’re a Dem and can say preposterous things with a straight face, and can convince people you believe what you’re saying, you suggest America’s Mayor, former US attorney from the DC, Rudolph Giuliani.
(just kidding of course!)
(feeling tipsy about the news!)
DOJ will appeal or insure someone VERY sympathetic to “their” cause is installed.
Good , do you think that inventory that included 16 or so EMPTY folders with a top secret title on them would have been accurately described if not for President Trump’s action – Not at all – Would have been LEAKED for a breathless MSM Headline as “Sources say that Investigators Found SIXTEEN folders marked top secret there”…… it is so easy to manipulate the truth if nobody checks on them ….
Wow , last sentence there ‘Government enjoined from using .. for Criminal investigative purposes pending …” ?!
Judge: Because Trump is a former President .. “The stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own. A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude”
Wow !
A DC district court couldn’t find or want to find that kind of common sense , equitable logic in a million years … sadly
BTW some of the arguments put forth by Gov’t in resisting the motion were over the top – throwing the kitchen sink- extreme – example -they claimed that For President Trump to try to get back documents OWNED by the US GOV’t ( an assumption/presumption TBD right there ) was “like a Cocaine dealer who has pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine asking for his $145,000 profit back from the Gov’t “ ?! Ok ?! Little irony alert there- with Hunter being in the news lately , maybe they shouldn’t be using a cocaine analogy…just saying
Hard to see how this doesn’t lead to poisoned fruit.
We SAW and read things we shouldn’t have, but after the SM told us to, we just made ourselves forget, like the lawyer priviledge materials, regarding the RICO lawsuit, where we inserted ourselves as a defendant.
And the seperate lawsuit for 4th amendment violation.
“And authorities have declined to say what was in those 16 folders that were seized for security purposes.” Yes the leak game is sooo easy for people with no honor …
My concern is that they have had plenty of time to put whatever they want into those folders.
They were listed on inventory as being EMPTY , that bell has been rung on that part anyway , I believe
I’m more concerned about what may have been removed.
there were FIFTY empty folders on the inventory empty of contents with classified stamps
A key development.
Ah! I just gave a loud shoutout from the heart after seeing that. You get a big hug from CA! Thx!
Thread hijacker alert.😬
Make yourself great and the country will follow.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2016/12/17/a-third-dimension-in-american-economics/
Perhaps, this could be “Reposted”.
Good one… I was still wet behind the ears when Sundance posted that.
Thank you for bringing it back up… some great insight into Main Street versus Wall Street.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/page/2/?s=economic+train
Mea Culpa
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/03/18/part-i-coronavirus-as-a-global-economic-reset/
DeSantis is enjoying success in Florida because he has a super majority in both state houses. I doubt we would see his popularity where it is now if he had a hostile opposition to deal with.
Excellent point.
DeSantis is overrated big time.
Not sure he is. He has great instincts, and is doing wonderful things for Florida. He just wants to compete with President Trump on a national level, and is now beholden to the establishment.
So that’s not going to work.
His supermajority approved redrawing Florida voting districts, sent it to DeSantis who promptly vetoed it and told them to do better.
Reminds me of John McCain giving that thumb down to repealing Obamacare … because he thought they could “do better”.
And the snake Rand Paul, whom will rot in hell for opposing Trump the first two years.
AND THEY DID BETTER! KUDOS!
Likely! But he did take advantage of it. Credit where credit is due!
There are 23 states under GOP control in both houses and governorship (trifecta). Dems have 14 and the balance are split. Plenty of governors with horsepower they CHOOSE not to leverage. While not super majorities, that status isn’t a pre-requisite to enact good legislation. Bottom up pressure works….
Neither DeSantis nor anyone else in politics would have been able to withstand all that has happened to President Trump over the past 6 or 7 years …. made up stories of Russian prostitutes with DeSantis in Russia? How would he have handled that one? How about not one but TWO “impeachments”? How about having his wife’s and children’s personal things rummaged through and his house left a mess after 9 hours by the FBI? HOW WOULD ANYONE HAVE HANDLED ALL THIS?
One can only believe that President Trump has the hand of God at his back. Thank God.
Yeah that supermajority must have PHDs in ignoring constituents. Florida politics were the laughing stock of the country until 3 years ago. The Good Ol’ Boy network reigns supreme here. They don’t take kindly to “backseat driver” input from the voters.
or even a hostile GOPe set of legislators
A good point, however compare it to Az. which uniquely has a 1 vote MAGA majority, but prior to the current elections had a Speaker and Senate President that were GOPe.
Got the audit, cause leadership couldn’t block it.
However, leadership did NOT push for legal remedies to be used against the County Board of Supervisors, and as leadership mischarachterised the results.
11 seperate election reform bills were blocked from getting a floor vote, because they would have passed, and Gov couldn’t be SEEN as vetoing.
DID successfully push through the first in the Nation Statewide School Choice.
Having campaigned on it for 20+ years, they couldn’t BE SEEN to be blocking, and GOPe Gov had to sign for the same reason.
Speaker was censured BY the state Republican party, (and lossed reelection) as was a County Recorder and County Board of Supervisors member.
Point being, an “R” majority isn’t the same as a MAGA majority, but unless you”compare and contrast” you might not notice, and in order to compare and contrast, we need a State with a MAGA Governor, AND a MAGA majority legislature.
And we don’t have that, yet. The battle is ongoing, but with control of State R parties wrested away from the GOPe types, like Betsy Devos in Michigan, our chances are good.
The HUGE elephant in the room that no one dares mention: The National Debt, an existential threat to the Economic integrity of the United States. More so now that we are entering a “Multi-Polar” era in Geo-Politics, in other words most of the world moving away from the U.S. Dollar as the currency of the international financial system and global trade! Now I am an arch conservative more conservative than Trump, and Trump HAS NOT addressed what NEEDS to be done about the national debt! If THAT is not addressed every other issue is just changing the window dressings on the “sinking Titanic” in this instance the United States!
That is not our biggest problem. There are numerous other more important problems right now.
Just think how much money we would save if grants were stopped totally. Then agencies start to be dismantled and buildings sold off to pay down debt. The government opens land up to mining and drilling to lay down debt.
Only politicians putting in 20 years gets a pension. That would save a bundle. There must be a million ways to stop them from creaming money from everything they touch. They should all be audited and their wealth confiscated if they had criminal activity.
How about getting rid of all state and national pension plans? Let them get a 401(k) that they can invest in and the gov’t can match at about 3%. Similar to most corporate plans. Many gov’t workers are in for 25 years, then retire at age 50 and start drawing a fat pension for life. If they live to be 90, they will withdraw many more dollars than they put in to their pension plan.
How about term limits? I don’t want ANYBODY to be in office 20 years!
There should be no politicians putting in 20 years.
And there is no reason for Congress to meet in DC.
They should stay home and meet via Zoom.
That way they will be more accessible to their constituents, and less accessible to lobbyists.
You might have softened the snark by providing an example or two.
Here’s one: forcing green sh*t down our throats and destroying our energy independence.
In many ways it is, as well as the corruption that has lead to it. No nation in History has been able to survive and overcome insurmountable debt.
Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
…..and this a result why is our republic as …US CORPORATION since 1871 not a Const.Republic… governed by City of London…3 our president wanted changed it- JFK …..killed, RWR almost just 2 monrts in the office and we all know about PDJT….
In fact, our Republic has a number of critical problems to address in short order.
What debt is that you are talking about?
The debt created by globalists/elitists and placed on the USA citizen that they robbed and sent the money to their allies and friends in foreign countries.
Taking loans from countries and then handing them that money from the loans and placing that “debt” on the USA citizen?
Sure, you are responsible for personal debt, but why are you paying the corrupt government to rob you, give your money away to those who never should have received it, and then claim you are in debt while they borrow money from a country that they then give that “loan” to at the taxpayers expense.
Time to state the obvious, the “National Debt” is all elitist and corporate debt of the deep state and their efforts to destroy the country using theft and LIES to blame the victims.
He tried to reduce the size of the federal govt but your republicans shiv’d him in the back.
This is how PDJT put into motion a plan that would have cut the national debt:
Return to the USA great paying jobs (higher income tax revenue),
Incentivize businesses returning to the USA (higher corporate business taxes),
Drilling for our own oil/gas (money in the USA stays in the USA=money spent in the USA= more jobs in the USA= more income tax revenue),
Tariffs (incentivizes businesses to move back to the USA=more jobs=more income tax revenue),
Cut regulations for business in the USA (lower costs=more profit=more business taxes OR lower costs=hire more employees=more income tax revenue),
Cut income tax rates (more money in our pockets= more money to spend around town= more jobs=more income tax revenue),
Build the Wall (less competition for low income Americans for jobs=more income tax revenue, less money getting sent “back home”, fewer Americans on public assistance),
Trade deals that benefit the USA.
Lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
Requiring hospitals and doctors to post publicly their prices. (competition lowers prices=more money in our pockets),
So, yes, he TRIED to address the national debt by DOING SOMETHING about it rather than just give a concerned white board speech like Paul Ryan “the fiscal conservative”.
I could go on and on. Congress spends the money. If he had vetoed any of their spending and “shut down the government” they would have destroyed him. Just like covid: d***ed if he did, d***ed if he didn’t.
“take money from the multinationals and you cannot deliver on MAGA economic issues around banking, trade, finance etc.”
There is a famous quote from Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric from 1981-2001, and one of the all-around heavy breathers of American capitalism as practiced by multinational corporations. It goes something like this: “Ideally, you’d have every [manufacturing] plant you own on a barge to move with currencies and changes in the economy.”
That, in a nutshell, describes the betrayal of America, the country of their founding, by American multinational corporations during the 80’s and 90’s.
By 9/11 America was already pretty much gutted. Tens of trillions of dollars of American Middle Class wealth had already been transferred offshore and those left behind in dead and dying towns all across America had no clue what had happened to them.
The wealth of a small town was in the values of the businesses and real estate there. Every manufacturing job supports an average of 10 other jobs through the local spending and re-spending the payroll. So, when the local plant was closed and its operation shipped to China, the 400 manufacturing jobs that were lost there caused the loss of FOUR THOUSAND additional jobs. Businesses closed, property values tanked, and all the wealth once stored there evaporated into thin air. It reappeared in China where the new plant was built.
Thanks, Jack. MF’er.
American multinational companies betrayed American workers and American citizens generally, and they were incentivized to do it by government policies that rewarded their betrayal through NAFTA and tariff-free cheap foreign goods, with TPP on the horizon to deliver the political coup de grace by eliminating American national sovereignty.
Take money from multinational companies and you have declared your fealty to them. NOT to American citizens. You cannot have it both ways. It … is … that … simple.
Oh, and by the way, yes, we CAN deport 25 million illegal aliens.
Trump 2024
NAFTA also opened the floodgates for hard dope with the 18 wheelers and traincars pouring in from meh-ee-ko.
Very interesting comment trapper.
“Yes, we CAN deport 25 million illegal aliens”.
Yes we can fix our economic problems.
YES WE CAN.
It is so refreshing to read that.
The last five years or so my husband was telling me that Roe vs Wade would be repealed and I said never ever
Never, never, never ever would our country go back on abortion the strongest belief of the evil left
And the SCOTUS did it, or the closest thing to it by sending it to the states to rule on.
We can solve our countries financial and social problems if we have the will.
We can do it, and it was music to my ears to read your post after so many here say we are doomed and all going to die.
It’s becoming clear to me that Trump is only going to matter if we are ready to be his weapon … to be our own weapon. We can’t just rely only on him to fix this. We can’t rely on the ballot box to fix this. Things have gone too far for that to be certain. The other side IS going to try and steal the election. They ARE going to try and use the DOJ, FBI, police and military against him and us. They ARE going to use the media to lie to and propagandize the populace. They will create an excuse to lock down the country again. So if we’re serious about wanting to MAGA, then there may be only one way to prevent it. You know what I’m talking about. And that may take real sacrifice on the part of a relative few. A sacrifice just a big as the one the so-called Greatest Generation made. The only question is do enough of us have what it will take?
We can fix this at the ballot box. But because people gave away the House and Senate majorities to the Dems we backslid quite a bit. It will probably take 3 consecutive election cycles (mid-terms and presidential) to see a significant improvement but there will be improvement every 2 years if people follow the simple advice of 1) attempt to oust RINOs during the primaries and 2) vote all-GOP in the general elections. #1 goal should be to remove Dems from power, #2 (close behind #1) should be to remove RINOs.
Mitch isn’t up for re-election until 2026. We need to press Kentucky voters hard and try to help them come up with an alternative if he decides to run again. Can you imagine how thrilled we’d all be if he were primaried?? We were quite thrilled with Liz Cheney being primaried, doing it to Mitch is like our holy grail right now. 🙂
I am in Kentucky. Don’t worry about Mitch. Worry about his hand picked replacement, Thune. Mitch is past his “sell by” date. Word in Kentucky circles is that he will not run again.
It has to be made so unpleasant that Mr. Thune will want to “retire to spend more time with his family”.
There has got to be dirt somewhere…KY needs to start digging.
I once tried to email the turtle and apparently, he does not respond to those who are not of his constituents, in spite of being top turtle of the senate…
Aggie, Just look up some Kentucky business address and use that. It works.
Save your strength. I am in KY and have emailed him on a few occasions. All I got in return was some canned response, blah blah blah b.s. I still email Rand. Have told him what I thought about his vote to certify 2020. He sends out a weekly newsletter. Actually goes around the state meeting with people and local businesses, and holds Town Halls. Does Pro Bono eye surgeries here in Paducah with my ophthalmologist. Beijing Boy rarely pokes his head out of his turtle shell in this state. No one wants to see or hear from him.
I have contacted Mitch’s office several times and they always respond. It is usually meaningless boilerplate, but they do respond. I have had meetings with staff on three occasions as a Kentucky representative of a local organization. They are always gracious and inviting. He plays constituent service perfectly. It is one of the reasons he is difficult to defeat. I have met him twice. He was friendly and gave me more time than I expected. I once saw him at the airport and introduced myself and family. He sent my son letter. Written by staff for certain but sounded personal.
I meant what I said to fka Serena. There are a lot of mediocre Republican senators without conservative credentials. Mitch is one of them. He is Republican leader because a majority of Republican senators want him as their leader. If you want to get rid of Mitch or his lapdog as leader, we need more conservative senators. That is on a lot of states and not just Kentucky.
We have the same problem here with out liberal elected jerks.
They are oily and smooth as butter.
They are sympathetic and considerate and make me sick.
They are laughing all the way to the parking lot when they come to see the peasants.
We really upset their apple cart when we replaced the Rino Tipton with Lauren Boebert here in the 3rd District in Colorado.
Tipton was pretty sure he was going to win and barely campaigned while she worked here rear end off.
I was surprised myself she won but over the moon.
Tipton seems to have disappeared, good riddance.
I’m in Kentucky as well.
He has not had a credible primary opponent in so long that I do not believe he has EVER had one.
Do not believe that is an accident.
Sickening to say it, but he’s always better than the democrat alternative.
There are STILL Trump flags and stickers around where I am.
There were NEVER Mitch flags.
I will never vote for him again, ever. Trump is still around in Western KY and likely to remain so.
Don’t give up a six year Senate term to a Dem. Even a RINO can be useful sometimes. McConnell is the person who shut down the 2019 impeachment trial.
Good point VibeMan.
The Enemy has many soldiers and when one goes there will be another and another and another to take their place.
When McConnell retires some one will fill his shoes who might be even worse.
It is not the person it is the ideology.
That is the fight.
It would be even better if we could get dirt on him so he is forced to resign. This corrupt man must have a big bag of dirty laundry. Surely there are some good detectives out there who can be purchased for big bucks.
Unfortunately I think your wrong. Why? Because who tabulates the final count? The STATE via it’s vendors like Dominion.
The bigger worry should be the people who, for example, don’t want to vote for Oz because they don’t like him, and they’re willing to give that precious Senate seat to a Dem.
“The bigger worry should be the people who, for example, don’t want to vote for Oz because they don’t like him, and they’re willing to give that precious Senate seat to a Dem.”
There were good reasons not to trust Oz and vote for his MAGA opponent. He’s already proven some of those reasons valid and he’s hasn’t even been elected … if that’s even going to happen. I think most people who voted against him in the primary will probably support him because Trump wanted him, but don’t delude yourself into thinking he’s a MAGA republican. He likely just another RINO. In any case, people not voting is not the problem. Trump got 74 million votes in 2020. Do you really think Biden got 81 million, much less 74 million? They won because of CHEATING. And you’ve just skirted around that.
I totally understand not voting for Oz in the primary.
But people had better vote for him in the general election and not lose that precious Senate seat, a SIX YEAR TERM, to a Dem. We have 50 GOP Senators right now and it’s going to be tough to get 51. We need the majority. People need to stop voting emotionally (“Waaah, I don’t like Oz”) and start voting strategically (“We’re going to win back the GOP majority”). Even a RINO is better than any Dem.
Still skirting the unfixed cheating issue. You think they’ll only cheat in Presidential elections if they have the capability?
“The bigger worry”….
Agreed.
Personally, I’m trying to train myself to transform worries into prayers.
The famous Serenity Prayer, easily found on line, has been helpful.
Hopefully the Serenity Prayer will help others learn to parry these “heart attacks” with prayers which allows God to work with us and through us.
Currently Barnette and Barnettes are in my prayers. Their hearts and minds have been subjected to highly coordinated psyop attacks and many still haven’t recovered.
Hopefully they will recover enough to pass their test on November 8 with flying red, white and blue colors.
Hopefully, President Trumps rally in PA with Mastriano and Oz started touching and healing their psyop damaged hearts.
#Pray4PA.
Good idea Cozette.
This is a Spiritual Battle for our Country as much as it is a political one.
That awful Satan Speech that Biden gave last Thursday identified the Enemy as much as it defined We The People.
If hatred for Dems is not greater than hatred for RINOs, a presumably convervative voter is somewhere in la-la land. It will always be one or the other that will sit in a given House or Senate seat unless people take seriously and vote during the primary process.
We have some of those people right here in this forum. It’s scary. They’ll actually give a seat (and a majority) to the Dems because they don’t want to vote for a Republican they dislike.
I concur, it will take 6 years to clean up the Senate, although we might do the house in 4.
Precincts are the KEY to local, county and state GOP power. Savvy MAGA Republicans have been gaining control of these precincts.
This MAGA grassroots operation has been successful enough to trigger recent seething hit pieces by the National Corporate Media.
Here’s a link from President Trump asking for EVERYONES help https://theprecinctstrategy.com.
Please. Read it. Share it. Do it. Keep praying. And VOTE.
“It will probably take 3 consecutive election cycles (mid-terms and presidential) to see a significant improvement”
Sorry but I think you’re dreaming if you think we have 3 consecutive election cycles to fix this. Because the cheating that went on in 2020 hasn’t really been fixed. In fact, I suspect you’ll see even more of in 2022 and 2024. And with the DOJ and FBI not investigating, and the mainstream media telling the public there’s no voter fraud, and the Mitch and his friends still in power in Congress, they’ll get away with most of it, just like they did in 2020. Now I’m not saying “don’t vote”. Absolutely vote, but realize that when you find the next election fixed, and the one after that, you’d better be prepared to be a 3%er, if you want to actually save the Republic.
If people vote as I (and others) recommend, we will see improvement every 2 years. More RINOs getting primaried (this is happening already this year), more GOP candidates winning general elections. Steve Bannon has apparently done the analysis and thinks the GOP can win a filibuster-proof super majority in 2024, wouldn’t that be cool?
You’re still skirting the cheating issue. And by the way, the shenanigans of Bannon have been a boon, propaganda wise, for democRATS. Trump may have fired him for good reason.
Besides the ballot box we have to try to stop supporting the global corporations. If 70 million start choosing to spend money away from the globalist we can have a huge impact.
Spend it where? The globalists make most everything most people need and use. They are already trapped. And the government is slowly making sure you can’t go elsewhere. Consider what they’re doing to that Amish farmer as an example. And the government is going to get what’s left of your money as they tax and redistribute it … as with the college debt forgiveness program.
They think they don’t have to keep you (us) happy any longer … and they’re probably right. Socialist governments around the world have rarely never kept their people happy. They kept them controlled … and they’re in the process of setting up the systems to control us. The only thing now standing in the way of that is Trump and the threat of the 2nd Amendment … and they’re working hard to take both away.
Very enlightening, but I continue to hold to the position that tariffs are taxes on the people of the country imposing the tariffs (prove me wrong). There may be other aspects to the issue that are more important than that the tariffs hurt the people they’re supposed to serve, but I can’t see them and would welcome help from someone who can.
Why was Trump reducing taxes with the tariffs? Why was the greatest progress of the United States with tariffs and no income tax? Why was Trump talking about no income tax by the end of his term? Why do Countries oppose tariffs if it is so bad for the Country imposing tariffs?
Frank Clarke: China had to absorb the tariffs because they could not risk losing business. China’s labor costs are no longer as competitive as in the past. Tariffs can be effective tools of economoic policy, but, it all depends on the the nature of global markets. In some cases, tariffs “work.” In other cases, they backfire.
So, you are correct in the narrow picture, that it basically raises costs of goods that are imported from the nation that has the tariffs imposed on them. But there are other things that need to be taken into account and this is not a full list by any means but two points to get the thinking moving. One it hurts the country that tariffs are imposed on, because of competition with other countries, as we saw with China, they had to reduce prices on goods that could come from elsewhere. So in effect the tax on us was less than the tariff costs. Next we need to look at the how does it affect us, first and foremost, it can bring manufacturing back, since we can compete against the tariff prices, i.e. protectionism. This helps our overall economy and gets people off the goverement feeding trough. So it can be a positive view even through you may be paying a higher price on the goods with the tariff. This brings more spending into the economy of our country instead of outside it, and reduces taxes as more jobs are made available. So the picture is not a black and white but a shades of grey discussion, there are more things that get impacted and it runs trough the whole supply chain with benefits that help offset the immediate tariff costs that are imposed.
I want tariffs to be punitive, so much so that it encourages businesses to set up manufacturing here in the USA. I want it to be the reverse of the government using punitive taxation to encourage companies to leave the USA.
This is my own thoughts on an economy. If you mine a rock, smelt it into steel, make a widget with it, market it, sell it, you have a value added economy, a diverse economy. With each process you have added value to the previous process. It employs people from the bottom to the top and creates an environment of upward mobility.
If you import the widget, you have a value borrowed economy, a service economy. When you are a borrower, you are indebted and debt is the currency of the slave. In a service economy the bottom expands, the middle shrinks and the top consolidates power.
Frank… I see it as a method to level the playing field. As long as it’s cheaper to import a product from China than make it here, folks will keep importing them.
I understood tariffs on steel (for example) to help spur home grown production.
I totally understand where you’re coming from… any higher cost to produce the product WILL get passed on to the customer.
I think it’s not so much about getting you a better price as a consumer but keeping the manufacturing jobs stateside and all the benefits that entails, as well us making us more self-reliant as a Nation. A Nation with nothing but service industry jobs scares me personally.
I’m not an econ guy, that’s just my take.
I remember the dire predictions of runaway inflation from Trump’s tariffs.
Every news outlet screaming about the disaster to come and each different outlet was using the exact same words almost as if scripted.
Sundance is correct. Nations responded to the tariffs by absorbing the extra costs as much as they could to help their manufacturers maintain market share in the US.
Also, companies did begin investing in production facilities inside the U.S.
A tremendous boost to this return of manufacturing came from lower energy costs.
This in combination with the tariffs was very effective.
For a facility like Intel’s huge Ocotillo campus in Arizona, the monthly energy bill is staggering.
Low cost energy is a huge consideration when deciding where to locate a new manufacturing facility, no matter what you’re making.
Not giving a damn about domestic energy production like our current DC administration is a stupid thing to do.
Not if your objective is to make the US a third or fourth world nation.
Can’t chalk up all of the stupid decisions to chance. Appears to be a plan is being followed.
From an internet source:
Tariffs have three primary functions: to serve as a source of revenue, to protect domestic industries, and to remedy trade distortions (punitive function).
That middle reason, protecting domestic industries, is IMO the most important. Think about steel, how can we compete with China dumping their cheap steel into the US?
What happened with China product pricing after Tariffs proves you wrong.
Ace of Spades site has a good piece today on why free trade sounds great in theory but doesn’t work in practice. Essentially, even if people pay a bit more for goods domestically manufactured, it’s worth it to the country as a whole because it keeps good middle class jobs and the benefits they bring. The kind of trade deals we have now are of great benefit to a select few but harmful to everyone else. Those slightly lower prices come attached with increased public spending due to more people at or near poverty level.
Tariffs are a MAGA policy that benefits Main Street. God almighty Frank.
I recall the primordial soup which birthed the MAGA Weapon—a financial crisis, Barak Obama bailing out the losers, and the rise of TEA Party populism.
Less than three weeks later Andrew Breitbart was dead. In a 2011 Fox News interview, Andrew said, “Celebrity is everything in this country.” He warned the Republican establishment—“If these guys don’t learn how to play the media … we’re going to probably get a celebrity candidate.”
Andrew was specifically pointing out Donald Trump’s media savvy and his plans for a presidential run. Andrew’s laughter must be booming through heaven every time Donald Trump calls out—‘The’ Fake News.
It took every bit of that media savvy to defeat the Left in 2016. What we didn’t know was how much ‘Occupy’—or it’s later mutations AntiFa and BLM—would be co-opted within the ‘hammer and anvil’ of the ‘fourth branch’ monster, which could not help but expose it’s hulking self in reaction to Donald Trump.
President Trump turned out to be more conservative than Andrew believed him to be. To think that Andrew Breitbart would not have been 100% behind Trump is just inconceivable, especially when you re-listen to his ‘two paths’ speech at CPAC 2012.
I’ve always imagined Andrew the perfect Press Secretary for President Donald J Trump. That would have been something really special to see.
Andrew is missed. Like Trump he was fearless and that got him killed IMO.
The only politician I ever saw go after the media was Pat Buchanan, but he was to refined. PDJT is able to out Alinsky the Alinsky’s. Its amazing. I just watched “the Art Of The Insult” free on Roku and its amazing to rewatch candidate Trump clear the fake opposition to crooked Hillary in the 2016 primaries. A real treat to watch. Highly recommend StanH. get ready to laugh your azz off. Cheers
I’m a MAGA unaffiliated…my ideology is ‘diverse’ but personal liberty and God are my mainstays
If you support the following talking points (someone posted yesterday) then you are MAGA affiliated. If you don’t , then you’re not a true Republican or fully on board with God and liberty.The more PT can clearly articulate what MAGA stands for while asking the rhetorical question – How is this bad for Americans, the better.
1) MAGA stands behind the US Constitution as our guiding fundamental rights and doctrine.
2) MAGA believes in LEGAL immigration where ALL immigrants come through the front door
3) MAGA believes in the rule of law for all and FUNDING of our Police
4) MAGA believes in putting its citizens first and ahead of the personal interests of DC politicians
5) MAGA believes in America being energy independent and using our natural resources
6) MAGA believes in God and the right to Life
7) MAGA believes in Americans having freedom of choice, speech and the right to protect themselves and their property.
8) MAGA believes in creating a strong economy where good manufacturing jobs are based in America
9) MAGA believes in low taxes and less government control over your life
10) MAGA believes in fair trade with other countries and where all countries pay their fair share for NATO and their defense.
Clearly their are many more but you get my point.
How are ANY of these positions bad or anti American or hate speech?
By going line by line it exposes just how absurd and crazy the left is.
So what about MAGA does your diverse ideology not include? Additionally, please list your “diverse” ideology talking points that are not MAGA.
MAGA is an intense hatred and loathing for GOP politicians.
Most of you dummies think MAGA is ‘conservative’ form of the GOP.
That is why MAGA loathes DeSantis.
MAGA is Populist. The Uniparty had taken it so far left, it was no longer the right. In fact it was as much of an oppositgion party as was the UK conservative party under war criminal Kissinger’s pedophile comrade Edward Heath who helped destroy real conservatives like Enoch Powell
Wrong – only dummies think like you do. MAGA is making America a great country to live in. End of story.
Dmaya, if you like:
1) zero inflation
2) energy independence
3) secure borders
4) super low unemployment, good jobs, better pay
5) lower income tax
6) peace with our enemies (even if it’s a bit tense)
etc
then you ARE MAGA.
Without a successor MAGA cannot go on. We better be in the end times, Sundance.
We’ll all be keeping an eye out with discerning eye for true MAGA leadership options down the road for the 2028 presidential run. Someone upthread mentioned a few names. MTG is great but not sure she could attract a large enuf tent to win the presidency in 2028. Kari Lake is worth watching, esp if she wins the AZ governorship but is currently untested.
Re the Senate leadership, Rick Scott seems to want to take on McConnell / Thune. He’s put out an action list (https://rescueamerica.com/12-point-plan/) that looks promising esp compared to McConnell. But last year Sundance posted that Scott had announced he would support Lisa Murkowski’s reelection (not good at all).
Anyway, we’re a lot more savvy now and Sundance has helped up clarify what to look for in evaluating a politician. We don’t have to settle, we can find a great MAGA candidate for 2028. Right now though the mid-terms are approching . .
Not only MAGA but independently wealthy. Once a candidate holds out their palm to finance a campaign, they be MAGA no more.
Wealth surely helps.
Alternatively, perhaps our pool of MAGA leaders will also come from people able to pull in massive grassroots small donor and volunteer support. Perhaps we will become more adept at leveraging inexpensive effective alternatives to the monied old style approach to presidential campaigns. I am reminded of a series of books titled Guerilla Marketing.
Just thinking out loud. We’re in a political war, but during the Revolutionary War, patriots used guerilla tactics because they did not have the funds to wage war w the methods used by the British.
Of course separate from the cost of funding a presidential campaign comes the issue of funding lawyers for the inevitable onslaught of lawfare against any MAGA leaders who are not independently wealthy . Wonder if our movement would be open to crowdfunding a lawfare fund or crowdsourcing an army of volunteer lawyers. For now we are fortunate to have President Trump’s presence, but it’s good to consider what is needed to enable future true MAGA candidates to succeed.
Independently wealthy and willing to lose it for the sake of the county.
Much like our Founding Fathers did….
Unfortunately, you are so correct.
Go to DC pure, stay there for a while most get corrupted.
There are no more MAGA politicians.
MAGA is a philosophy that Trump developed over 40 years that is foreign to everyone else and can not be replicated.
We had Reagan then MAGA 35 years apart. After Trump you will have to wait decades for a new force to emerge.
“Without a successor”
USpending perhaps ones last PRESENT fretting about a future that may not happen?
Greeting about a future that’s unlikely to happen if one is too distracted to be laser FOCUSED on doing what they can do right NOW?
Perhaps fret less about the future by praying and doing more right now.
Whoopsie: Fretting, not greeting.
Without a successor MAGA cannot go on.
Trump hasn’t even announced yet but people are already all doomy and gloomy. 🙂
I was at a wedding this past weekend with many MAGA folks in attendance. I spoke with quite a few who unfortunately believed that the election of Donald J. Trump in 2016 would be the last time that American voters would ever again be “permitted” to elect a President.
Let me hazard a guess — none of them have taken any action towards negating that permission. No running for local office, no participation in school meetings, no volunteering at the polls, no volunteering with local law enforcement agencies? They just commiserated over glasses of champagne? The conversations must have been really frustrating for you.
That’s an understatement. But seriously many said they are not going to give up without a fight. It wasn’t all doom and gloom.
There are many who are doing but not talking about it on the internet.
For good reason.
And like your friends at the wedding they are also cautious about yakking about it to just any one now days.
We are now a bit like my family in France during WWII who worked in the Resistance, we keep things close and quiet.
We tell a bit to some and the bit we tell loud and proud is common knowledge to all so to speak.
Not a good idea to tell the enemy what you are planning.
Thank you.
OPSEC is important.
This is so well written. Simple yet covers the main bases. An article to share. I love how he shows that love of money is at the root of the opposition to Maga. I also liked his statement which pertains to issues we have with not just DeSantis, but basically any politician who isn’t a billionaire outsider not needing donors:
“…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.”
“And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong, or looked at and called a liar.” Steve Harvey
Again, really well written.
I have seen multiple citations that the Steve Harvey quote is not from the Steve Harvey pictured.
It would be good to have this verified for sure, one way or the other.
Thanks again, Sundance, for your incisive insight. I think you’re nearly as essential to the MAGA movement as PDJT himself.
FJB
All the people I have talked with over the past 6-years not one has ever heard of “Sundance”. It is unfortunate they have not, but it is the reality it is.
True. CTH is not itself mainstream.
But many ‘tastemakers’ quietly lurk here.
And some of those are mainstream.
The echo resonates stronger with smart minds.
I am not saying CTH is not important. I am saying it is unfortunate it is not read by every American. Some posters seem to naively think it is.
“Some posters seem to naively think” CTH is read “by every American”.
Who is naively posting destructively woeful hyperbole?
I have no idea who it is or even if it is. Who said anything about “destructive” other than you.
I try to spread the word when I comment at other sites.
Instead we had to endure the hopeless republican media for 30 years. Tricker and Bannon included.
I think there is a term for the phenomena by which people overestimate the importance of their experiences.
That will come in to play if DeSantis runs in a primary. No one but political junkies know who he is.
Some people also keep quiet in groups because outside of the Treehouse DeSantis is liked.
So the silent majority stays quiet until they are not.
We are reaching the point where we will not be shouted down.
Perhaps reassessing verb tense choices will improve feels about “the reality”.
The Fortunate reality is that NOW every one of those people you’ve “talked with over the past 6 years” has heard of Sundance, thanks to YOU. 😘
Kudos, for embracing your inner Paul Revere and spreading the news about Sundance wherever you go.
Is it just me, but I don’t like the way DeSantis is looking at Trump in that picture. He is glaring at him. Hmmmm.
Wow! Now that is what I call a stretch.
DeSantis reminds me of a certain cell phone left behind in the Oval.
To me it looks like the eyes of someone who was just told a truth that he was not expecting to hear and now has to absorb it and make of it what he will.
Yes, and he has a derringer pointed at him under the table. This site has gone crazy.
Questionable attribution to THE Steve Harvey:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-steve-harvey-false-quote/fact-check-misattributed-steve-harvey-quote-about-supporting-trump-idUSKBN26L3KU
Yes, I have sent an e-mail to the Treehouse’s operators about the Steve Harvey problem, and many others have smelled something wrong with it.
You cannot find when and where and for whom Steve Harvey supposedly wrote this.
His website has n o t h i n g about it! Very odd, since the essay seems so insistent!
https://steveharvey.com/
Besides our Econ lesson, let’s dance away our Labor Day with President Trump too.
He’s so much fun!
Enjoy.
Donald Trump is one of the most pivotal figures in American history. Not 20 years from now, not 50 years from now, but one century from today, this fact will be recognized. Historians will say this was a dark time in American history when evil forces nearly brought the country to its knees. Historians will note that one man sacrificed everything to save it. What will be the ending for this story? Who knows.
All the treasonous crooked, criminals sitting in GITMO will know.
The post-Lincoln model for dealing with them is better.
One of those nooses had a “Surratt” ed edge.
That was a “Dad” pun if ever I heard one!
What historians might say a century from now depends very much upon how the story ends.
“Historians will say this was a dark time in American history when evil forces nearly brought the country to its knees.”
That could be interpreted two ways, again depending upon how the story ends and who gets to write the history.
Imo
WE, each of us, are creating our “ending for this story”.
God won before “this story” began. Each of us has been invited to His victory party.
Our choices during our life create who we are and reveal our true answer to Gods invitation.
What a glorious time to be alive. What amazing adventures we’ve each been offered.
One thing we can all do is write our own personal journals for our own families to read after we are gone.
I have enjoyed reading letters and things from my great great grands.
Not only the things they wrote about history and how they re-acted to what was going on during a certain time but personal stories.
Take the time to write things down now.
It might make a lot of difference to a grand child.
I don’t know how to put it more bluntly.
Donald Trump won the entire Rust Belt, extending into Michigan — and the Presidency — the moment he promised to repeal NAFTA. That won it.
That was the pivotal economic issue to retail voters that had been deeply festering for over thirty years. The institutionalized economic sell-out and dismantling of the American industrial economy.
Ron DeSantis voted to fast-track TPP. Ron DeSantis can never replace Donald Trump as a national candidate.
Social issues do not swing national elections at kitchen-table level. Economics does.
Why bother with the “Bad Guys” intended Trump/DeSantis wedge. I guess it works, there certainly are enough people still distracted by it. The goal is to “Drain the Swamp” and Trump is still on course. DeSantis or Joe Blutts has nothing to do with it as both are like everyone else “bystanders”.
We are sounding the alarm for a splitter strategy at the GOP presidential primary and for background to understand the coming republican media blitz for DeSantis.
Right now Gov. DeSantis is wholly owned by the swamp.
Exactly right and NAFTA was why the Republican Revolution of 1994 happened in which CFR Speaker Newt Gingrich made sure to destroy for his fellow CFR traitor Clinton. Than the steal of the 1996 primaries and tens of millions of illegal Chinese campaign contributions to the Clintons & Democrat Campaign Finance Committee. And than topping it off with the WTO creation and Clinton pushing to get China in under many member nation’s protests. So China did very well illegally/criminally shoveling money to Clinton & the DNC. It paid off very well for them and screwed us. And the Gingrich’s & Lott’s made sure to cover up the real Clinton/DNC crimes which had treason at the top of the list
A little history lesson on why this type of thing sounds a lot like propaganda to me…
Tea Party = Republican
MAGA = Republican
RINO= Republican
PEROT = Republican
Goldwater= Republican
60 years (that I can recall) of “we’re gonna get’em THIS time”.
I am NOT a Republican for a reason, it’s because I am a Conservative.
As long as everyone can be re-huddled and re-convinced to keep failing Republican… Nothing will change.
Bravo!
By the way, Goldwater was a libertarian shoe-horned into the republican party.
Reagan was an outsider of epic proportions shoe-horned in.
Perot was the first MAGA candidate.
Tea Party, well, hell.
Trump is being coopted by republicans, some of which think he is a conservative.
Trump was a coalition builder like Reagan. There wasn’t a Reagan II and there won’t be a Trump II.
“Sounds like propaganda to me”
Offering “A little (civics) lesson” in hopes it will improve hearing and thinking about what’s heard.
From President Trump https://theprecinctstrategy.com.
“Were gonna get em THIS time”
Confusing and therefore denigrating skirmish and battle victories with the war being finally won forever?
This confusion can poison emotions, distort analysis and prevent taking helpful action.
This poisoning, distortion and pervesion paralysis is the desired outcome of malevolent temptations and their 24/7 psyop attacks on our hearts and minds.
What is the price of freedom? According to our Founders, the price is ETERNAL vigilance which is ACTIVE rather the TV viewer, internet poster passive.
The bible says that this war has been won but will continue until Christs Return so everyone has a chance to reveal, through their choices in life, whether they’ve accepted or rejected their invitation to His victory party.
Best wishes. Hope to see everyone at The Party. 😘
“Nothing will change”.
Fortunately, you can change and when you start changing then everything will start changing too.
God bless you and God bless every MAGA Heart, especially those who don’t yet realize they are a MAGA Heart.
Revolt or collapse… But magic isn’t the answer to this.
Magic isn’t the answer, but Jesus is.
Here is a piece I came across through the Ace of Spades site. FTA: “The world of Econ 101 is an idealized version of a pre-industrial agrarian society… The premodern agrarian economics of Econ 101 needs to be replaced by the modern industrial economics of Econ 202.”
In short, as Sundance has been trying to drill into us, we are fed economic fairy tales of free trade and free markets by Conservative, Inc. politicians who have been bought and paid for by the multinational corporate managers who know it’s all a scam.
https://compactmag.com/article/the-idiocy-of-econ-101
I ordered something from Target about a month ago and a couple of days ago had to get a refund because it never showed up. Just now I read that the FedEx system is on verge of collapse because of the rising costs and I wouldn’t be surprised if this was why I didn’t get my order.
This is no small matter when you extrapolate it to the entire economy.
Good, accurate, straightforward analysis. That’s why I support this site financially (and YOU should too if you do not already, fellow Treepers).
Thank you, Sundance!
I am very glad to read this excellent affirmation of MAGA
and it underscores that what President Biden has been saying about MAGA is totally nonsensical, horribly so.
I love seeing the photos from the debates . . . Jeb working his way to the wing, away from the #1 position.
Everyone of you people blow your cover with the very first sentence. It’s always a positive with a deep dive into negative Trump.
We’re a MAGA coalition and not going to be swayed for a second by anything you say.
Perhaps try another venue which would fit better with anti Trumpers. This is not it.
My God Sundance, that quote was mis-attributed to Steve Harvey. He didn’t say it, and has been quoted as saying he is not a Trump supporter. Such a great write-up on the MAGA economic doctrine, followed by a false meme originating at Infowars. This should be corrected.
How do we know it’s false? I checked too, but I’m not sure I believe the leftist so-called fact checkers. So HOW DO YOU know it’s not true? You do not explain and just saying it’s not true isn’t good enough.
Bannon had MAGA financial advisor (perhaps the Sec of Treasury under the next Trump term), Peter Navarro, for most of his show today.
Economics for America! As Navarro explained, the Chamber of Commerce absolutely hated him. Still do.
These lobbying groups want to put the ideological warriors with success reaching people in the media and the economic warriors like Narraro in jail, prison, if they can.
The Dems and many GOP are just the puppets of the global interests wanting to put them away.
Bannon got fired for leaking and threatening the Trump kids.