This is the big one. The Economic Policy is the distinct and singular policy at the core of Make America Great Again. The MAGA coalition is centered around the principles of America First economics, and Ron DeSantis has just admitted he does not support them.
CTH has long warned about Ron DeSantis’ economic policy being driven by the donors who fund him. When he was in congress, DeSantis voted in support of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for President Obama, and DeSantis voted in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP).
These are the trade policies supported by the Club for Growth who was congressman DeSantis’ biggest funder. The Club for Growth also held the pre-announcement donor fundraiser in February of this year in support of DeSantis ’24.
The Wall Street billionaire, hedge fund, multinational corporate alliance, that assembles at Sea Island and funds Ron DeSantis, are fully against America First trade and economic policies. DeSantis has just made an admission of his alignment with that corporate “globalist” outlook to a private confab of donors in California.
The DeSantis campaign is in full panic and retreat mode now that his establishment position is exposed. The statements during the secret meeting were leaked.
[CALIFORNIA] […] The Republican snuck in and out of the Coalinga landmark undetected by the public nor the media, by design. He flew in and out of the nearby Coalinga airport, ushered to the back loading docks by unmarked Fresno County Sheriff’s vehicles.
The Central Valley lunch stop for 60 donors — paying $3,300 — was in between a breakfast event in Sacramento, and an evening in southern California. The only indication that something special was going on was a “private event” sign. Most of the questions for the security guard related to the location of the restrooms.
[…] John Harris, the rancher and entrepreneur, hosted the DeSantis event at his eponymous resort, along with Fresno developer Richard F. Spencer. Harris was unable to attend, but Spencer did grant a rare media interview with GV Wire.
[…] The Florida governor also talked about global supply chain problems and China, and “how to make life better for the people here in the United States,” Maher said. Others reported that DeSantis said Trump’s tariffs were “not effective.” (read more)
More about the donor event is HERE – “Around 50 people joined DeSantis for lunch at Harris Ranch in Coalinga, which was hosted by Harris Farms Chairman John Harris and Richard Spencer, the owner of Fresno-based Harris Construction.” (link)
In addition, while in California, DeSantis also went to another Big Club fundraiser. “Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis’s Silicon Valley Peninsula fundraiser was hosted by John Hamilton, a real estate investor who has donated tens of thousands to RINOs and former presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and John McCain.” (more)
Ron DeSantis aligning against the core values of America First economics is a HUGE warning flare. We have discussed this issue on these pages and in every platform we can reach for a long time. The DeSantis team is trying desperately to recover from sunlight upon their donor influence, but they cannot refute the words of their candidate in support of those donor priorities.
Keep in mind also that Donald Trump recently announced the sweeping “Economic Agenda 47“, which includes baseline tariffs against all imported goods.
♦UNIVERSAL BASELINE TARIFFS: President Trump has announced a plan to replace the Biden system of punishing domestic producers and rewarding outsourcers with a new system that rewards domestic production while taxing foreign companies.
Rather than raising taxes on American producers, President Trump will impose tariffs on FOREIGN producers through a system of universal baseline tariffs on most imported goods. Higher tariffs will increase incrementally if other countries manipulate their currency or otherwise engage in unfair trading practices. (link)
Candidate Ron DeSantis now stands in opposition to this approach, and the current tariffs against imported Chinese goods which have been exceptionally effective. So effective, even the Biden administration has admitted their value.
As long as Donald J. Trump singularly represents the only counterforce against this UniParty globalist construct, he will continue to be targeted by the system of financial controllers who fund the political system. For the sake of brevity, this alignment of multinational corporate and financial economic interests is called the “Big Club.”
As part of the strategic political effort, the Republican wing of the Big Club needs to carve up the supporters of Donald Trump into smaller, easier to target, pieces. This is where the value of the culture war, what is now considered as ‘wokeism’, plays into the strategy of those who seek to control political outcomes and remove the threat that Trump represents to their financial interests.
In many ways, this is why we are seeing prominent Republican officeholders pushing the culture war as a tool for their own political advancement. The same Big Club members who are directly fighting against the America-First economic agenda, are the same Big Club members who are funding the Republican politicians to push the culture war.
The corporations, billionaires and multinationals who are funding the Republican candidates do not have any vested interest in the culture war. For them the social issues are a tool, technique or insurance policy to guarantee security of the interest that does matter – their financial status.
There are trillions at stake, literally trillions. Additionally, decades of their prior investment interests are contingent upon the ‘service driven economy’ being maintained.
Dollars drive the U.S. global trade and financial exchanges. The multinationals, both corporations and banks, have pre-deployed investments all around the globe. However, many of those investments are entirely contingent upon the retention of the U.S. economic system they pre-established before the investment was made. President Donald J. Trump represents the threat to that entire financial system.
Once you understand this, then a great deal of the more nuanced and granular U.S. political moves, almost all of which are funded by the corporations and billionaires who are attached to the global investment process, begin to make sense.
Every non-Trump candidate, funded to create the opposition to America First, is part of this process to use anti-wokeism as a strategy.
With this level of money at stake, do not be surprised when you look at how much is being spent to construct the system that guarantees the continuation of globalism. The money spent in funding the Republican candidates to advance the distracting cultural war pales in comparison to the amount of money at risk in the 2024 election outcome.
We know it works, because we have the results to cite.
It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..
Right before the pandemic would hit a few months later, despite two years of doomsayer predictions from Wall Street’s professional punditry, all of them said Trump’s 2017 steel and aluminum tariffs on China, Canada and the EU would create massive inflation – it just wasn’t happening!
Overall, year-over-year inflation was hovering around 1.7 percent [Table-A BLS]; yup, that was our inflation rate. The rate in the latter half of 2019 was firmed up with less month-over-month fluctuation, and the rate basically remained consistent. [See Below] The U.S. economy was on a smooth glide path, strong, stable, and Main Street was growing with MAGAnomics at work.
A couple of important points. First, unleashing the energy sector to drive down overall costs to consumers and industry outputs was a key part of President Trump’s America First MAGAnomic initiative. Lower energy prices help the worker economy, middle class and average American more than any other sector.
Which brings us to the second important point. Notice how food prices had very low year-over-year inflation, 0.5 percent. That is a combination of two key issues: low energy costs, and the fracturing of Big Ag’s hold on the farm production and the export dynamic:
(BLS) […] The index for food at home declined for the third month in a row, falling 0.2 percent. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs decreased 0.7 percent in August as the index for eggs fell 2.6 percent. The index for fruits and vegetables, which rose in July, fell 0.5 percent in August; the index for fresh fruits declined 1.4 percent, but the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.4 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products fell 0.3 percent in August after rising 0.3 percent in July. (link)
For the previous twenty years, food prices had been increasingly controlled by Big Ag, and not by normal supply and demand. The commodity market became a ‘controlled market’. U.S. food outputs (farm production) was controlled and exported to keep the U.S. consumer paying optimal prices.
President Trump’s trade reset was disrupting this process. As farm products were less exported, the cost of the food in our supermarket became reconnected to a ‘more normal’ supply and demand cycle. Food prices dropped, and our pantry costs were lowered.
The Commerce Dept. then announced that retail sales climbed by 0.4 percent in August 2019, twice as high as the 0.2 percent analysts had predicted. The result highlighted retail sales strength of more than 4 percent year-over-year. These excellent results came on the heels of blowout data in July, when households boosted purchases of cars and clothing.
The better-than-expected number stemmed largely from a 1.8 percent jump in spending vehicles. Online sales, meanwhile, also continued to climb, rising 1.6 percent. That’s similar to July 2019, when Amazon held its two-day blowout Prime Day sale. (link)
Despite the efforts to remove and impeach President Trump, it did not look like middle class America was overly concerned about the noise coming from the pundits. Likely that’s because blue collar wages were higher, Main Street inflation was lower, and overall consumer confidence was strong. Yes, MAGAnomics was working.
Additionally, remember all those MSM hours and newspaper column inches where the professional financial pundits were claiming Trump’s tariffs were going to cause massive increases in prices of consumer goods?
Well, exactly the opposite happened [BLS report] Import prices were continuing to drop:
This was a really interesting dynamic that no one in the professional punditry would dare explain.
Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products. [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.] However, when the EU and China responded by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.
Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper. Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere. All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.
This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.
This price result is exactly the opposite of what the economic experts and Wall Street pundits predicted back in 2017 and 2018 when they were pushing the rapid price increase narrative.
Because all the export dependent economies were reacting with such urgency to retain their access to the U.S. market, aggregate import prices were actually lower than they were when the Trump tariffs began:
[…] Prices for imports from China edged down 0.1 percent in August following decreases of 0.2 percent in both July and June. Import prices from China have not advanced on a monthly basis since ticking up 0.1 percent in May 2018. The price index for imports from China fell 1.6 percent for the year ended in August.
[…] Import prices from the European Union fell 0.2 percent in August and 0.3 percent over the past 12 months.
So yes, we know President Trump can save Social Security and Medicare by expanding the economy with his America First economic policy. We do not need to guess if it is possible or listen to pundits theorize about his approach being some random ‘catch phrase’ disconnected from reality. Yes folks, we have the receipts.
This was MAGAnomics at work, and this is entirely what created the middle class MAGA coalition. No other Republican candidate has this economic policy in their outlook, because all other candidates are purchased by the Wall Street multinationals.
America First MAGAnomics is unique to President Trump, because he is the only one independent enough to implement them.
That’s just the reality of the situation. They hate him for it…
The Meatball goes down!!
Yep. Everyone and anyone who supports him now gets no respect from me.
I’ve personally shamed and talked about a dozen Desanctus supporters off the ledge. These are the milquetoast types that just need the alpha ultra MAGA types to lead them.
And our specialization ought to be adjusted towards self-sufficiency (and really pursued that way as a matter of policy because it makes sense for human security and happiness); instead of vainly trying to place it all under control. Then we would be seeing the fulfillment of human potential, and we wouldn’t be vulnerable but durable. Survival will dictate this anyway but if we would just stop kicking against the prick we could reach incredible heights along the way and avoid a lot of very real human tragedy.
The policy tragedy is it’s so easy to achieve, just let the Monetary Policy of the United States regulate itself on a level playing field.
Instead we have the self-anointed “geniuses” trying to take on an impossibility, and throwing sand in the gears they prevent events from following the path of least resistance and falling into place naturally and in a timely manner.
Same!!
Yep. The weaker ones that have been persuaded by the false “Trump baggage” and “St Ron is SSSOOO electable.”
Good for you that you’re responding to them with reason and facts.
Kudos!
What do we do about it? This is the question everyone asks here. Here is the example, here is your answer.
The answer is you and millions of others like you that you educate.
That list of names is very, very long.
Vote MAGA candidates only. We have to look hard to find the pretenders.
N/M
And Clay Travis says today he does not care who wins as long as it is a Republican. Travis is a fellow Globalist Traveler.
I stopped listening to those two clowns a few months ago when they began to push Meatball while throwing a few stealthily snide remarks about President Trump.
CIA Buck Sextant and sports clown and Fux Snews lover Clay Travis are worthless RINO GOPe frauds in my book.
It is impossible to have any respect for anyone that mentions the word DeSantis. It is like having the red laser dot on your forehead.
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Yes. And this is not just about Meatball.
It is very very important that MAGA folks understand that the ONLY issue that counts right now is implementing Trump’s economic policy.
No matter how important ANY social issue is. Even abortion. These are deliberately-planted wedge issues to get people distracted, to get people arguing with each other, to glom votes for splitter candidates from one-issue voters.
Because we can kiss it all goodbye if the country itself goes down the drain.
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Agreed. Totally. Exactly. Well Said.
outhouse council,
Its EASY. BECAUSE of PDJT’s ECONOMIC policies, he is the ONLY one that can credibly take the position that he won’t touch SS/Medicare.
Wiyh his record OF “Economic achievement” in his first term, he can credibly say, as he did in the recent Fox interview with Brett, that he will quickly turn the economy around with oil and tariffs, to fund SS/Medicare.
Not even the only true “splitter” Vivel the pretender, can say that.
The one issue that is common to all ordinary folk is the outrageous cost of food. And with that, if calmly explained as outlined by Sundance, we can get more voters on board.
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Meatball is covered in sour sauce, w/mold on it.
Meatballs give me heartburn.
So DeSantis will sell policy decisions for money.
Just like Joe Biden.
Xi Jinping is going to strike sooner rather than later, and DeSantis doesn’t have the toughness it takes to deal with tyrants at home or abroad
(especially abroad.)
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“So”?,….”SO?”
Of COARSE he will sell policy decisions for $, just like ANY professional politician, why else would anyone go into “politics” as a career choice?
Just like Joe, Nanzi, Liz, Lindsey, Mitch, Mitt,…”and the list goes on”.
I just said that in my post above. That DeFraud CHOSE to be a politician as a career. Didn’t choose a military or law career.
St Ron & wife are white trash grifters. They want to be one of the fabulously wealthy off of the American taxpayer and off of forever wars.
Remember that DeFraud’s first flip flop was on Ukraine. When Tucker asked him, he called it a territorial dispute to please MAGA. A couple of days later, under orders from his neo-con donors… DeFraud switched up and said “full & swift” support to/for Ukraine…just got to account for the money.
I’ve come to loathe the grifter. I’m a HARD PASS in 28 too!
Only people Ron DeMeatball is NOT beholden to are the MAGA voters. The meatball is out of the bag and NO one likes ’em.
This meat ball is extremely mushy.
It’s a bland factory-made defrosted meatball. Not spicy and delicious.
Slimy processed fat Meatball.
Like the one at the end of the song that starts “On top of old smoky, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed.”
And all the woke opposing positions,..
And all the billioaires donations,..
Couldn’t put “Americas Governors image,…
Back together again!
Ron DeDumpty?
Love it!!
A lab created meatball. 🤮‘bout as phony as you can get.
Toxic too
Pussy Footin’ Meatball strikes again!
MAGAAAA!!!!
“Caffeinated MAGA”!
Is there any other kind of MAGA?
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Ha!
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De$anti$
That’s the one I’ve been waiting on. Mind if I borrow it?
It needs a hiss sound at the end … like a snake …. a pit viper …
DeSanti$$$$$
more like: De¥anti¥
but most voters will have no idea what the ¥ means.
Prayers are being answered.
We all NEED to continue to fast and pray.
Just like at Jericho, the walls will be coming down.
Praise God!
Convert or crush our enemies Lord, those against our faith, our families, land and country.
Maybe it is the hubris of those in DC, isolated as they have made themselves from those they look down upon (if they bother to look at all) which causes them to show their hands.
But there is some part of me, in watching the missteps and the own goals from players in the Uniparty, which believes something…or Someone..is causing their feet to slip and their tongues to loosen.
“They” think they’re in control. I tend to believe otherwise.
Pray!
God promised never to abandon His people, the lowly, downtrodden, the worker who barely gets by while the rich feast.
His power is everlasting and beyond our imagination. And he does move mountains.
As a hopeful entertainment, watch the movie Little Boy by Jakob Salvati.
We all need that faith.
God bless Betsy jones!
I do, my friend. And for precisely the ones you mention, as well as others who are in sore need of hope through faith that Almighty God has not abandoned them.
He is never too early nor too late…beyond our feeble understanding. All in His hands. If it is not in His time, it will not happen.
But if it is? Nothing can stop it. So we wait…watch…and have immutable faith that through His mercies, fresh every morning, He is doing better things for us and all his flock than we can hope or pray for.
I will certainly look for this movie, Quoheleth. I thank you very much for the recommendation. Could certainly use a hopeful movie the likes of which are in very short supply.
And as always I continue to wish for you all the best life has to give.
DeSantis will sell middle-America out – that’s what his donors want. Just ask about TPP.
PS: Cortes looks like a total grifter, along with the Cruzbots.
Cortes is a total grifter. He has certainly proved that.
http://chicagoareafire.com/blog/2023/06/fire-service-news-64/#comments
Sharing this in this thread just because it speaks to some Florida issues left behind because DeSantis departed.
You know what I found really interesting about that article. They hired a De$anti$ ally and put him in place at $400,000 per year yet they retained the original administrator as a special consultant. Everybody is getting paid but the firemen apparently.
“The Republican snuck in and out of the Coalinga landmark undetected by the public nor the media, by design. He flew in and out of the nearby Coalinga airport, ushered to the back loading docks by unmarked Fresno County Sheriff’s vehicles.”
This implies a level of public interest in Meatball which does not exist. One cannot hide from non-existent crowds.
More seriously, what does it say about a candidate that he is constantly attending campaign events in which everyone enters the venue via the loading dock? This is exactly what happened at Sea Island. It will continue to happen in other places.
It is the behavior of a prostitute, not a leader.
It is also the behavior of a candidate that cannot outnumber protesters with supporters.
Nice observation. Loading Dock Ron.
Nicely said!
Admin, my comment disappeared; that is why I wrote it a second time.
I think more of a gang of thugs, planning their next heist.
“Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products. [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.] However, when the EU and China respond by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.
Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper. Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere. All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.
This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.”
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^^^^^ I’ve definitely become smarter by reading here. ^^^^^
MAGA!
PDJT REVERSED the “exfitration of wealth” which profited the multinationals, while plundering America.
And THEY did NOT like that!
Makes one wonder how many trillions they plundered from America to date.
Tens of trillions? More possibly? Could be shocking for some to know the truth.
PDJT said CHINA and the EU each “ripped of” America for 1/2 TRILLION/YEAR, for 30 years.
So, roughly $30 TRILLION.
And that doesn’t count the untold and uncountable trillions for pointless wars,..foreign aid scams, open (“broken” by design) Southern border, or intentional inflation.
“Render unto Caesar,..”
Trump”s Agenda 47 says he’ll apply more tariffs if exporters to the US devalue their currency.
They have no choice but to devalue if they want US business. Therefore the value of deflation that will be imported is going to be larger than in 2019.
So inflation may not only go away, we may have deflation instead. Wouldn’t that be great!
It’s only the borrowers who hate deflation
They have another choice: Import more US goods. China refuses, and tells multinationals to move there. Nope. You both get tarriffed.
After a brief flurry of fake tough on China, trying to scare them into supporting his Ukraine war, Biden is now kowtowing to China. I guess they yanked the blackmail chain, and Biden rolled over. No need to blackmail The Meatball. They already own him.
McConnell endorses him. It’s all you really need to know.
The uniparty is never going to let DeSantis win a Presidential election, he’s there to pretend R’s have an alternate to President Trump.
They might. If the pushback against the current regime is strong enough to make 4 more years of it uncomfortable for business, but not big enough to justify martial laws and the use of the military against the people, TPTB may very well install the husband of Jill DeSantis as figurehead. Keep watching.
Yes, they have made SO MUCH progress, for THEIR agenda (by reversung all PDJT’s policies) but in the process, p.o.’d the electorate.
I can see them willingly trying to manipulate for a RDS “win” to give us the appearance of a win, thereby diffusing our anger, so we’ll go back to sleep and let them get on with pillaging America.
After all, R or D,.. THEY DON’T CARE!
Exactly!
The words “Secret Meeting” is an Oxymoron!
Oh gosh, baseline tariffs against all imported goods.
It means reindustrializing the heartland by reversing the rust belt and creating domestic jobs. Definitely worth it.
If a few of those climate cultists heads explode in the process, all the better for America to be a top tier producer again.
At the end of the article, Sundance points to the “real world” effect of PDJT’s MAGANOMICS, policies, and how it plays directly into the campaign.
In 2016, PDJT stated policy position that no other candidate would echo, on immigration as they had all “taken the pledge” to adhere to the RNC’s lame “demographics is destiny” based “comprehensive immigration reform with path to citisenship”, whereas PDJT said ,”Build the WALL!”.
In 2024, once again he has already staked out “no changes to SS/Medicare, a position ONLY he can credibly take, BECAUSE his MAGANONICS policies make it a tenable position.
All others have/will say “We need to raise SS retirement age, and Medicare premiums, cause “we” just can’t AFFORD it.”
Given the Ukraine spending gluttony, debt crises charade, and that “THEY” have had 30+ yrars to address this ‘crises’ their position is absurd, even for those who have no understanding of MAGAnomics.
Once again, By his POLICY positions, PDJT innoculates himself against any attempt at dilluting his support, or “peeling off” or “splitting” it.
Even Vivek can not credibly echo PDJT’S position on SS/ Medicare, it will expose him for the articulate flim flam artist that he is.
POLITICALLY, I just don’t see how PDJT could be better positioned at this point in the campaign.
When the dollar loses its reserve status, all of this comes tumbling down. Expect to see all retirement accounts ($33 trillion) to be seized and replaced by govt annuities. This is the only pathway to prevent a complete meltdown when the dollar in no longer the reserve currency.
We’re on that track, although I think it will be a longer term event. It’s already started, in fact. Biden is accelerating it now.
They may well “raid” retirement accts, but the main way they will “not let the crises go to waste” is to use it to justify CBDC.
THAT is the key thing they MUST have, to circumvent 2A, and move from a “soft” to “hard” Tyranny.
Hence, my personal “line in the sand” and my reason for investing in barterable “currency” that I could use AS currency, rather than a “retirement account”.
If your bank acct got frozen, could YOU “survive” and for how long?
July 1 FJB and the Fed start their digital currency trial run.
Yup, remember, the rich dint have retirement accounts. They have corps, trusts and foundations. They have always been after our retirement. They want us poor. When we are poor and indebted, we are easily controlled.
Can’t recall how many times I tried to explain the tariff angle had us importing deflation. It’s now clear inflation is a function of economic policy (more specifically energy). To read this quote was refreshing and everyone needs to “get it”.
SD: “This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation”.
It’s no different than buying home at the inflated prices where you’re buying depreciation.
At this rate, RDS will garner more dem voters than MAGA voters…
Dem voters never vote R. They don’t (can’t) concern themselves with policies, they only know party.
I’ll posit that it’s all theatre… watch what they continue to do with the polls such as what they are doing with with the swelling number of Indy’s. Theatre…while subtle there’s a reason for that.
ILOT,
Except that he is making a big deal, on supposedly fighting “wokeness” and has tried to positiin himself as “MAGA”.
And while he doesn’t fool MAGA, the libtards that think Fox news is ultra-MAGA (yes, they really do, lol!) WILL believe his line of bull, and never vote for him.
Besides, their is a (shhhh,..) s-e-c-r-e-t shift, another wave of walk-aways, perhaps call them run-aways, from the Dem party.
Dutch. Last sentence is happening now. Have you seen how they’re positioning the growth of Indy’s? We need to get their attention for brief moments…ie stop watching advertisements which of course would happen if they cut cable. Americans LOVE being “sold” on most everything. We need to stop buying what they’re selling…
The # that self ID as dem is dropping…I think when biden said God save the queen he meant God save the Indy’s…
I do not understand how destroying the largest economy in the world, our economy, can help the overall global economy. What is the benefit to globalists? It just doesn’t make sense to me. If the US economy goes down the sewer, don’t all other economies get flushed right along with us?
American submission in the event of depression level economic problems would be the outcome they’re after. Gives the a route to demand guns be gone.
And then Schwab, the WEF and the UN can “build back better”. You have to destroy something first before you rebuild it.
Simple answer—THEY DON’T CARE…
How much have they given DeSantis?
New Equation: DeSantis + GOPe – MAGA = Trump
President Trump’s full Agenda 47:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47
I’m in a conservative, but not too conservative, and pretty populated area of SC, 20 miles northwest of Charleston. I already get DeSantis mailings (straight to the shredding bin). I can’t wait until one of more of these door to door people they are training come to my house! I’m going to have note cards so we can discuss/debate their talking points. CTH articles will definitely help me when I create those cards since I’ll be able to cite specific instances of when Ronnie Boy made statements and showed his true colors and how he and his supporters are working against MAGA.
I think I’ll enjoy being in an early primary state for 2024.
im getting neverending Text messages from DeSanti$$$$ despite me reporting them as JUNK
Try texting STOP back to them. That stopped texts to me.
I just hit delete and spam
I unfollowed Cortes on Truth as soon as I found out he was going to work for DeSantis. He’s dead to me and so is Ron. Even if Ron is the only choice, I will not vote for him.
Victor Davis Hanson working for DeSantis too
I saw the VDH Newsmax interview video and article with Eric Bolling. I always thought this guy was spot on. However, he is another one who is out of touch and clueless about what MAGA voters are all about. This quote sums up his 🐮💩 talking about Democrats: “They’re kind of schizophrenic about [DeSantis]; sometimes they’re praising him, and then now they go after him as [being] more conservative than Trump,”
If you have ever driven by Coalinga on Highway 5 (a couple of miles from the Harris Ranch), the cowshit smells so bad that all airflow through the vehicle is cutoff and you literally gag; and it’s the only place where you can drive as fast as you want because the Highway Patrol does not patrol that area of the highway. I can’t think of a better place for the Meatball to have lunch…his stench blended right in.
Careful … my >100 mph ticket was painful – just South of there. My Beemer doesn’t even breathe hard till 130 mph. But I don’t drive 5 anymore. It’s a two lane shitshow with trucker convoys blocking both lanes … and idiot San Francisco drivers doing 65 mph in the left lane. Psssst … SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT. It’s the BASIC SPEED LAW. Only on I-5 in the Central Valley do I encounter azzwholes who don’t understand the concept of separating speeds for safety. And Psssst … you are the “Road Monitor” … and you are not entitled to maintaining your cruise control when someone comes up from behind … driving FASTER than you. You NEED to move over … it’s THE LAW.
I’ve driven all across this country … and these PRICK drivers only exist on the West Coast. Everyone in flyover country are polite, smart, and understand the BASIC SPEED LAW.
Phew … you gave me the opportunity to vent. And yeah … I drive 99 when I go to LA … it’s mostly 3-lanes the whole way … BIG DIFFERENCE.
A Fool’s Gambit
This guy is a great democrat!
Benedict Meatball at it again
Another mask pulled off. Bravo! The GOPe just imploded.
The problem I see is Kennedy. There are people here who are/were Trump supporters who are enthralled with Kennedy. So discouraging…so stupid. They have no idea who Kennedy is except he is anti-vaccine….so sad.
I keep saying I would like to see him in a position in HHS where his knowledge can influence policy.
Not if he is going to lie to PTrump.
Yes. It does not matter how much knowledge RFK Jr brings to the job IF HE DESPISES PDJT.
Most of them are looking for a SCAPEGOAT; IF I can blame “Trump” I can avoid facing the reality that nobody was literally held down and forced to take the jab.
If you or a loved on suffered from taking it, sorry but many of us SAW it for what it was, early on.
As for RFK JR, intially I THOUGHT he might be an “Insurance policy” but I no longer think so.
He is starting to “red-pill” but he is still so naive, TPTB will chew him up long before he wises up.
Exactly. I was never forced in any way to get the vaccine; I would be fired or quit my job before that happened. So, they made the decision to get vaccinated because they are weak and , you know, my job etc. I have turned down jobs because I would be forced to do things that violated my morals/ethic.
Kennedy thinks if you don’t support climate change policies you are traitor an although he does not believe in execution, you should be inprisoned for life. He has a long way to go…
That Globull Warming, Climate Change garbage from RFK JR was enough in his past to keep me a million miles away from him. He is “red pilled” on the Wuhan Jab, but that is all. Everything else he is Obama lite IMO.
The polls don’t reflect this as a problem. President Trump has a commanding lead….period.
Harris Ranch Inn – only place in the valley for this sort of event. Good to know, because the younger generation of owners did start straying from bedrock old conservative values recently.
That explains it – another generational shift, just like the new generation ownership succession at the FOX News organization. No wonder everything feels like sixes and nines lately.
Harris Ranch used to have a great restaurant – worth a stop and even a destination stay, but that went way, way down hill too. Beware of “California Farmers” in Gucci overalls.
AND OMG just dropped their first story about Blackrock buying politicians!!!! WOW!!
None of this, Blackrock or Meatball, is surprising.
I hope and PRAY this info wakes MORE people up!!!
On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table,
And on to the floor,
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.
It rolled in the garden,
And under a bush,
And then my poor meatball,
Was nothing but mush.
This part of the Central Valley is also Kevin McCarthy country -no wonder he has been forced to be all over the place.
Victor Davis Hansen also hails from this neck of the woods, so agrarian value bedrock still lives. But something is getting lost in translation to the younger generations.
What does he think about the Communist Chinese manufacturing destroying their environment with no safeguards whatsoever?
What does he think about displacing the American middle class with the ChiCom slave class? What? Learn to code? Pssst. He’s probably gonna radically expand H1b Visas to bring more Hindu automatons who will work forever, not complain, and for lower wages … Right?
What does he think about making the communist Chinese richer and more powerful than the US with a battle-ready military where woke soldiers are disappeared.
I really despise these people with every fiber of my being right down into my inner core.
If they were all taken out tomorrow, I wouldn’t shed the first tear for them or their families.
Ron DeSantis… Just another feather, ( now a bright shade of RINO) of the Uniparty wing.
This afternoon I had a very interesting conversation with a young man who-surprisingly-had very similar political opinions and thoughts as I do. What impressed me most was that we both agreed that voting integrity is dead; voting is now merely a fig leaf or guise to give the appearance of democracy. We can vote all we want, but those in charge choose who will lead.
As Sundance continually reminds us, there are trillions at stake. So it boggles the mind that those who benefit from those trillions would allow Trump to access the White House again. The first time was a mistake for which the elites were surprised.
It’s doubtful they will allow such a surprise again. So what then?
We are a constitutional republic not a democracy.
Scolds and martinets are SOOOO vexing.
I KNOW that, Fred.
Besides, if you READ my comment carefully, you will see that I did NOT refer to our Republic as a democracy, only the PROCESS of democracy–which is OUR process.
SMH…..
I used to visit a gun free zone (their play on words) site everyday, but was kicked off because I didn’t worship at DeSantimonious’s feet. Even after paying to join. Zealots are not nice people.
I would not go to a gun free zone especially if it is posted in the window. Good way to die.
GREAT article-
And such perfect graphs and memes!
BOOM is right‼️🔥💥‼️💥‼️🔥
Looks like Trump is the one who loves us. And I base that on his policies that help us. My IRA has lost half of its value right now and under Trump it was surging! I loved him for that! And still do! We’ve all be suffering together with him ever since the 2020 Communist fraud election! And what’s DeSantis’ answer to if Trump was cheated out of that election? I bet you anything! He says just like Barr there’s no evidence Trump won. DeSantis is more of a gutless pig than Barr. And I want to know what all the other Republican candidates think if Biden really won. They’re all freaking traitors!
‘Most of the questions for the security guard related to the location of the restrooms.’
Most likely, this where you will find the influencers….Flushing perhaps?
Cutting lines, no doubt.
Yes.
DeRino is pro China, WEF globalist like his backers!
His recent “Live Local Act” is the same Framework as WEF 15 minute cities!!! They are designed to lockdown people easier!!!
Is the common American voter intelligent enough to even care? That even ten million would be dumb or vindictive enough to have voted for Biden in 2020, let alone the alleged number, leaves me with little hope.
I was impressed with DeFraud for about 5 minutes. St Ron is the consummate politician. This guy chose to be a full time politician, not a military career, not a law career. DeFraud is trying to set himself up to increase his personal wealth at the expense of the ordinary MAGA citizen. It has been apparent for some time that St Ron relishes the thought of dividing Trump’s base. If DeFraud loved the country so much, had so much concern for the future of the US…he would have never challenged Trump. Thankfully, the majority of MAGA know what’s what.
Thank you Sundance for the “Evidence” that some people require when trying to point out WHO DeFraud really is. You are correct that TPTB are using the so-called anti-woke agenda to make people believe St Ron is America First. I’ve been pointing out that is ONE issue & many of St Ron’s so-called wins are now tied up in litigation in FL and federal courts and may very well end up in the Loss column. Personally, I can’t stand the sweaty-shiny foreheaded deceitful globalist bas*ard. His wife is just as bad. Has anyone listened to her? Loud, shrill & doesn’t stop to take a breath when speaking. These two are grifters of the highest order…willing to sell our country out in exchange for them becoming fabulously wealthy. One last thing: MAGA thoroughly rejects DeFraud and he doesn’t ever make it to the WH!
Ron DeFraudus???
Let’s start a list of the RINOS the have to go.
John Cornyn is at the op
HOW IS IT NO ONE HAS THE RECORDING
Sure it is reported.
An I bet the FOOL
said it
BUT in this day an age
every body has a REAL GOOD CELL PHONE
And the pick up MICS ALL WORK
REALLY GOOD
https://chinaeconomicreview.com/citadel-securities-ups-china-presence/
yes, that ken griffin: the largest single billionaire donor currently for meatball, and also funded his earlier political career carrying him over the line to governor of Florida.
also noting: in my research and background snooping about the origins of SARS-COV-2, in the 2019 timeline, there is this single US market making company that had just opened an office in Shanghai..In august citadel securities takes out a massive short position…and makes a massive profit…(it has done this prior in 2015, with a 100 Million dollar settlement owed to ccp for trading violations)…but in 2019, august and again in November, it is allowed to handle short selling for a massive number of global banks and even CCP party members….and no violations cited this time. There reason I was interested in this in late december is because one of my hobbies is to track AIS transponders for commercial ships in and out of china…This helps to get clues about futures trading. As I was seeing a record number of ships parked in china ports, the AIS confirmed a sell position for various companies and to take short positions in certain future commodities. Before I did that, I was interested in knowing if there was future markets volatility …and indeed there was. Bear in mind, this was the first clue I had encountered that sent me on a rabbit hole to learn why china was publishing a record number of foreign worker manufacturing employment contract ads. The two did not correlate…if the factories were at a stand still, why would there be a need to hire massive numbers of foreign workers. My inition guess what that china was having some kind of country wide protest or even a revolution. It would turn out, in less than a week, the first rumors that a virus was causing death and that china was assumed it would be temporary and needed to have a plan b to replace the dead. It was amateur hour detective work. Just happened to have this hobby of looking at AIS transponder maps to get a sense of what the commercial shipping fleet operating.
God Bless America
Wonder when Ken Griffith will see his can of Chef Boy RD is past its use by date?
If DeSantis continues to slide in the polls…
Donors will shopping for a Meatball Sub 🙂
That’s a goot one Wordman. 🤣
people like griffin are agnostic about candidates…bear in mind, griffin was “democrat” in chicago…things did not work out there and he saw the opportunity in Florida to promote meatballs. So he did. Simple as that.
when meatballs can’t deliver, he will just press him to make state law changes and tax deals to get paid back…or maybe even induce meatballs to continue to sour President Trump when he gets back into the White House. But most certainly griffin WILL GET PAID. It’s one of those universal laws. taxes, death, and billionaires always get paid for donations. Don’t be shocked when griffin begins donating heavily to President Trump. These people with their money are not loyal to a party or person or principle. It’s all about how to protect money and to make money…often at the same time. He’s a hedge trader…it’s in his DNA
He will never donate to President Trump. He will donate to the Democrat candidate as he probably already planned to do when his globalist DeSantis doesn’t pan out for him.
Facts and truth are very powerful weapons.
Keep punching, Regitiger. Hopefully more folks will connect the dots.
I am most certain the attorneys will begin to take USG and specific people to account for their roles in the deaths of millions. Even if “the people” do not understand any of this, there will be court cases and soon.
So either way, more information will come out.
For me, the agenda is not just justice, but to apply pressure on the USG to stop gain of function research and to sign international treaties to make it criminal to do so.
it’s just too dangerous….the benefits of predicting virus evolution in the wild and developing vaccines and therap drugs do not outweigh the very real risks that these weaponized pathogens are going to kill millions again..Billions even?
God Bless America
That sound incredibly interesting. I would enjoy reading about your ship diary (and trading diary too) from that experience I bet it is extremely insightful. That would be a great study.
I would love to hear/read your thoughts on this complete disconnect we are seeing now. VX has a low of 16.45 while we wait for some drop in the market.
Keep posting, please.
the current current spot and swap market is low neutral on volatility mostly because central banks have not followed the recent US fed interest rate decisions. Things are kind of in disarray as commercial traders are covering positions…it’s a great time to see small opportunities though. just on a smaller scale with far less exposure. I think in the coming months we will see a bigger trend that is durable and central banks effect at least pausing interest rate hikes, and possible lowering them.
(the AIS tracking is just one of many factors that I use to help determine where the market is heading and also the reasons why….the only reason I mentioned AIS only in the comment is because I had never seen so many vessels parked before that time. Over the ten years prior, port and vessel operations was a dependable clock….but parked for a long period of time…inferring there was no cargo…that the ports were not operational. I also use other factors that are open source too. Rail, air travel data…..this was a pretty easy analysis because it was a pandemic in the making (That I did not know at the time) and while china was trying to hide it and the US IC was not making a peep about it either…you KNOW something really big is going on. anecdote: the way that the press and investigative reporters were able to break the news that the US was about to launch it first military strike in Iraq? watching the thousands and thousands of pizza boxes collect at the garage bins outside the pentagon, langley, white house and capitol hill. It’s basic detective work in real time. You might not know what that means when you observe it, but you know there is something big shaping up. Ships parked in chinese busiest ports, for days and days on end: there is either a civil protest the state is hiding, or a revolution…so you look at those “other” things and start moving into the details…all open source. It’s quite surprising how much intel can be gleaned from OS.
I am not a big trader. I’ve not made much money doing it. I trade currency in the spot market as a simple way to
God Bless America
I appreciate and agree with you
Thank you for that reply. I primarily conduct research for my job and I am always intrigued by seeing evidence of a larger event like the “pizza boxes in the bin”.
I am fascinated by the manner in which the various markets operate both dependently and independently. And then applying the macro events to the micro interactions within the market is beautiful.
I may be way off. But, Interest rates seem highly dependent upon central bank liquidity decisions (QE, QT, Reverse Repo, etc). Unfortunately, the currency market escapes me at this time. I find that I am not effective at identifying the arbitrage opportunities…YET.
The journey for discovering knowledge is the joy of the trip.
God bless you.
One can make similar decisions about the current and forecast levels of economic activity using railcar inventories: How many are in motion and how many are parked – and where – at a given point in time. The gross tonnage in motion from week to week is also useful information.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RAILFRTCARLOADSD11
https://www.stb.gov/reports-data/rail-service-data/
https://www.progressiverailroading.com/rail_industry_trends/news/Reports-Automotive-industry-concerned-about-rail-car-shortage–69502
Is Desantis also against the export duty that China levies on its own products?
Not expecting anyone to ask.
Not expecting Desantis to understand the question.
Good point, Emet. I don’t think a lot of people understand economics the way President Trump and his economic advisors do. It hasn’t been taught that way in colleges since the 80s. And in many ways that misunderstanding of basic economics was a big part of the fuel for the woke nonsense. Because you didn’t have to be that good at business to win when you no longer had to pay wages. That left a lot of room for people to wiggle in and say fund this instead ofconcentrating on your business. Watch Tesla. An absolute juggernaut, probably the most valuable Industrial company in the world when all is said and done. What did they do that was so different? They focused on the business. On developing and producing innovative products that people want. Lobbying budget zero. Advertising budget zero.
very few people understand just how intelligent and engaged President Trump is with his knowledge of global markets. One does not become a Billionaire in the real estate development segment involving many global assets without understanding very well how to do those deals.
I can only imagine what he economic team does to provide him with bleeding edge intel.
God Bless America
Yeah, his instincts are unbelievable aren’t they? At his level, after that many years of experience in that world, he’s just not easy to fool.
one lesson to draw from President Trump…Trump Enterprises: you don’t have to be a huge fish in the world to find opportunities. This scales down nicely, if you understand that being big is often undesirable versus being small and agile, subject to few or no shareholders and far less arbitrary and unnecessary bureaucracies common in the giant corporations. Being agile, and swift, and independent minded is a plus in a world that has gone mad over ideology that serves no bottom line benefits. See target and bud light for reference.
did anyone hear take short sell positions on either?
I did.
did anyone take short sell position on twitter 1.0 during the period when it was going through elon acquisition.
I did.
sometimes, the fundamentals of a company are so conspicuously obvious.
this is particularly true given almost all publicly traded companies are many magnitudes of price over earnings.
being a short sellor is probably the most effective and reliable strategy in the last several years.
of course it takes some experience and knowledge to do such trades. Some have asked me for advice….and that advice based on my experience: prepare to lose the first 100 trades. Make them small and do not excessive perform margin trading. 100 trades will either tell you what you need to know about how to learn, or whether you are cut out to do short selling. Think of it like all things financial…as a business…prepare to fail. Always understand you are going to lose. This mentality allows you to focus on learning. And disconnected the emotional attachment of money.
God Bless America
Might I ask what is “short selling”?
People want a Tesla skalectric car? Really?
Sure. My book-smart brother and his insanely lefty wife have one – they are both insanely ignorant of reality.
Ha!
😁