“Platitudes”, that’s the best word to describe what the DeSantis campaign previously claimed would be a substantive economic policy outline from the Florida governor. As the policy was unveiled in New Hampshire yesterday, I watched it all {Direct Rumble Link Here} to see what it would cover and how DeSantis would deliver it. Summary, major fail.
First, I must admit to coming to any economic policy outline as presented with a laser focus. You tell me you have an economic policy, and you have my full attention. Why? Because the economic policy of a federal candidate will ultimately determine monetary policy, fiscal policy and foreign policy. It is the only national policy we cannot affect from a local level, yet we are necessarily impacted by it and cannot avoid it.
MAGA starts with MAGAnomics. So, to say I get into the weeds on this, would be a soft understatement.
Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, what Ron DeSantis outlined yesterday was a series of 10-point meaningless platitudes. If the UniParty policy teams of Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris got together over a weekend with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, they would create a think-tank-driven UniParty economic policy outline very similar to what Ron DeSantis presented yesterday.
Platitudes, soundbites and structurally incoherent gibberish – presented with a word assembly that amounts to nothing.
“We will declare our economic independence from the failed elites that have orchestrated American decline, from the reckless federal spending that has inflated prices and plunged this nation to the brink of bankruptcy.” ~ Ron DeSantis 7/31/23
Declare away doofus, you can declare all you want but it takes an actual set of targeted actions to move from declaration to outcome. Those same “failed elites that have orchestrated American decline” are the same people financing your run for office.
I’m sure somewhere in a Pete Buttigieg kind of way, that soundbite might have seemed like a good sentence; but in reality, it’s gibberish and parseltongue.
You can see the 10-point outline above. Generally speaking, when the ten points are outlined the speech and accompanying policy therein would describe exactly what action takes place in each of the points…. Nope, not for DeSantis it doesn’t. Instead, what DeSantis does in his policy framework is take each of the ten points and then describe what they mean.
DeSantis describes what is referenced by each of his ten points, he does not outline the specific action that takes place within them. That’s how you can tell when a think-tank puts meaningless platitudes into a format for a candidate to speak. In this instance the think tank is the stunningly typical Club for Growth, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the multinationals who are funding the DeSantis campaign operation.
Take point #1 as an example, dealing with China. Here’s the policy:
- DeSantis will end our abusive relationship with the CCP, reverse our ever-increasing trade deficits, ban imports of goods made from stolen intellectual property, strengthen protections to stop child and forced labor, and end China’s preferential trade status.
- DeSantis will demand that American companies act in accordance with American interests — which means preventing companies from sharing critical technologies with China and banning the sale of strategic assets like farmland to CCP members and their affiliates.
- DeSantis will incentivize the repatriation of U.S. capital from China through strategic tax abatements and aligning market incentives with strategic goals to help secure our supply chains and invest in America.
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“DeSantis will end our abusive relationship with China.” How? Doesn’t say.
“DeSantis will demand”…. How? Doesn’t say.
“DeSantis will incentivize”…. How? Doesn’t say.
See the problem?
The era of hopeful optimism that a Republican candidate will actually take an action to fulfill the policy “demand” is over. The rustbelt sits there, staring at any Republican politician who would dare say the Republican Party has protected Main Street from the vulture capitalism of Wall Street.
This DeSantis economic policy is an assembly of meaningless platitudes with no substantive action presented as policy to back up the intention. Worse still, not only is there no action outlined, but there’s also no action that could be outlined that is not against the interests of the very people who put the outline together.
The people constructing this language (for DeSantis to read) have no intent, thought or purpose of actually doing anything to act upon any of the economic issues. Within all of the remaining nine points it’s the same. It’s all meaningless gibberish.
Compare the DeSantis policy to the Trump policy. Here’s Trump’s “AGENDA 47” China plan:
♦ENDING RELIANCE ON CHINA: President Trump’s America First trade policy will completely eliminate U.S. dependence on China–the primary beneficiary of Democrats’ globalist agenda.
In addition to universal baseline tariffs on most foreign goods, President Trump’s plan will reclaim our economic independence from China. President Trump will revoke China’s Most Favored Nation trade status and adopt a 4-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports of essential goods—everything from electronics to steel to pharmaceuticals. This will include strong protections to ensure China cannot circumvent restrictions by passing goods through conduit countries.
President Trump will establish new rules to stop U.S. companies from investing in China and stop China from buying up America, allowing only those investments that serve American interests.
President Trump will ban federal contracts for any company that outsources to China. (link)
See the difference? The DeSantis campaign assembles talking points, while the Trump China plan is direct, specific and actionable.
The DeSantis economic plan is well described by this segment by Steve Bannon {Direct Rumble Link}:
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Fortunately, we do not have to guess which candidate has the right path. We have President Trump’s actual economic policy results to look at and see how the expansion of the economy was creating the type of growth that would sustain Social Security and Medicare. This was/is MAGAnomics at work.
…. Make America Great Again!
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 saying 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 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 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.
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…
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part I
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part II
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part III
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part IV
Author’s note as said in 2016: “If I absolutely did not believe this economic model was doable, I would never expand the concept and place advocacy upon it. I am an absolute believer that we can, as a nation, reignite a solid manufacturing base and generate an expanding middle class.” Yes, I bet on Trump, and he was right.
I see the Parade of empty Platitudes as the reason people despise politicians.
It’s the grand parade of lifeless packaging!
(with apologies to peak prog era Genesis).
I see a parade of psychologically insane and unfit people in the offices of our “representatives” committing treason against the USA, it’s citizenry, and it’s Constitution they swore an oath to uphold and protect!
There is a reason there is only one punishment for treason. And even they know it. That’s why they double down and fight like their lives depend upon it, because they really do.
….’tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…’
I watched the Nixon/Kennedy televised debate from 1960. For years I’ve been told Nixon looked terrible on TV, Kennedy looked great. I can tell you – I didn’t see anything wrong with the way Nixon looked. Kennedy didn’t look any better, or worse. One thing I did notice though – the talking points and platitudes each candidate spewed in 1960 could just as easily be used today.
some guy admitted that they put the lights over where Nixon was sitting
so he would sweat
He forgot to mention that everyone will have chocolate pudding for dessert.
How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Sorry. I forgot, your bugs it is now.
You! Stand still laddy!
Hey, you there
With the glasses
I want you
I want you in the front
Carry the news
“If you don’t eat your meat(ball), you can’t have any pudding”
Ron is for good things! He’s against bad things!
Ron wants nice stuff! He doesn’t want crummy stuff!
Vote for Ron, because reasons!
I listened to that Bannon take down this morning. It was great!
Bannon noted that any regular follower of his program would be a magnitude greater than DuhSanctus, without notes.
Can you imagine Sundance taking that stage?
They would have to schedule bathroom breaks as his presentation would be several orders of magnitude greater, and far more extensive!
And I hate to say, but that audience wouldn’t be as large,they wouldn’t sit thru it.
I would, and do, sit thru hours of pods, reams of articles, and boil it down to bullet points for friends. But the friends would never do it, they would never read a site like this. I’m like the Reader’s Digest version of Sundance and other sites for them.
And that’s ok – there are different target audiences, and different groups can absorb and handle different levels of info or detail, based on their background or patience.
Trump economic policy in one simple sentence: “I will put Americans back to work to make America Great Again!”
Question: How would Trump approach so called “climate change” if asked?
Drill baby, Drill. Energy independence through use of all sources including fossil fuels.He recognizes climate emergency is a hoax and kills jobs.
Agreed.
He should put Sarah Palin in as climate czar.
In her opening press conference she could announce with great fanfare, “Drill rigs, start your engines.”
Drill Baby Drill and Nuke Baby Nuke!
Fission, Fusion, Exploited and Engineered Hydrocarbons for everyone!!
This enables the USA to disengage militarily from the Middle East and shift to the Southern Border.
… after the Seals take down and hold Mayorkas, in Gitmo, until his trial date.
Hopefully speedy trials, and speedy death if convicted.
I imagine the same way any rational human being would address fairy sprinkles and pixie dust.
I think he should address it as just another fear-inducing control element to be neutralized.
DJT’s 2016-2020 actions are the reference point and specifics for sentence one. With respect to the question, DJT would remind everyone to put a jacket, etc., on when the winter arrives and the temperatures drop and likewise when summer arrives with increasing temperatures, DJT would remind everyone to drink plenty of fluids to remain hydrated. That somewhat summarizes MAGA climate change policy versus the current uni-party (including their paid employee, Ron DeSantis) build back better/green energy climate change policy/hoax money laundering programs involving trillions of dollars that feeds the coffers of the globalists.
If it were to be a real thing human being adapt spectacularly. Build more air conditioning units. In light of studies at the University of Chicago showing that cold temperature deaths outnumber heat related deaths and that more lives have been saved through fewer cold related deaths than lives lost due to heat related deaths I would encourage people to embrace warmth and build air conditioning units.
Also, what is the correct temperature? We are still coming out of an ice age. What should the temperature be?
Yet the Derps are claiming that Chicago is sinking due to Global Warming!!
Climate change is a hoax. Trump would stop funding it. Call it fake news.
Duckbill Platidudes are on their way out.
Now THAT is an insult to duckbilled platypuses everywhere!
And it’s FANTASTIC to hear!!!
thank you! 🙂
Is that why Pushaw looks so wrong?
She’s actually a platinum dude?
😁
Sounds and looks like Meatball has given up in his own mind.
That was the most uninspired, worse than poorly delivered speech I have heard.
He’s already given up.
Ron seems to want out. It was sold to him as a slam dunk after all….not the case! It’s amazing to see the” elite” GOPe roll out the same kind of 2016 strategies to take down PT, only to see them fail in an even more spectacular manner and they still are clueless as to why. See Unity party, even if every lie you repeat about PT was true, he’d still be way , way preferable to you!😂
Even if the scum jails President Trump, he still beats Meatball by 30 points.
At least.
MAGA is bigger than just our leader–why don’t these GOPe duds like poor, stupid wannabe star Ron see that?
We would never in a million years have supported u Ron! It’s like staying at the Bates motel instead of a fabulous Trump high rise.
I think we should refer the backstabber Pence as “Lord of the Flies”.
He was CFR Bush to Reagan. Making sure the CFR could “guide” Reagan. I’m sure he was instrumental in the “Anti-Apartheid Act” because the South African government was a huge impediment to the China takeover of Africa
This is “Democracy” “Critical Race Theory” “Black Economic Empowerment -Affirmative Action” South Africa. Sound familiar? It should Five Farm Attacks in Four Days in South Africa, One Dead, Woman Tortured
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/five-farm-attacks-four-days-south-africa-one/
I think that fly moment is evidence of Mike Pence using a lot of adrenachrome.
The O’Jays done sang that years ago:
“They smile in your face and all they wanna do is take your place.”
It’s really to bad they don’t see that President Trump is irreplaceable.
I’m not disputing the cartoon at all … but what did Cotton do? The rest of them I’m aware of their treachery.
Why?
Because of the TASTE, of course…..vile and bitter, with a rancid finish ……
It’s not the rich that is the problem, but the weak willed envious and greedy SOCIALISTS demanding the rich’s stuff using government force to strip people of their properties.
It’s like Democrats and Socialists are and will always be the PARTY OF SLAVES AND SLAVERY!
Always demanding others work to supply them with food, shelter, clothing, money, and all living needs while they sit around and plan crime waves.
It’s ultimately our turning away from God and His Laws. We didn’t realize that that turning started happening at the end of WW2. Pride goeth before a fall. I hope and pray our country turns back to Him soon; yesterday would be good.
the issue with the rich is that they think because they have money they are smarter than everyone else
Someone should write a book about The Sundowning of the Elite,a guaranteed Best Seller.
Come on baby, eat the rich, put the bite on the son of a bitch. R.I.P. Lemmy
We should eat our government first.
Desantis cant even hold on to the PAC THAT WENT WITH HIM OVER PRESIDENT TRUMP THEY ARE QUITING HIM FLAWED CANDiDATE
their words not mine. LOL> he is just another empty suit that thinks that all he did in Florida would get him into the white house.
he was not really what people would consider a retired vet he worked as a jag officer and just another lying lawyer
Empty suit is right.
Another Rear Echelon Mother F_____ or REMF for short.
I argue that everything Desantis “accomplished” in Florida was a psyop to trick you into choosing him over President Trump for the 2024 election.
“Yes folks, we have the receipts.”
Yeah, so do we. From everyone: Biden, McConnell, Pelosi, Bannon, Musk, all the bloggers, etc.
There would be a revolt if people saw what was going on.
Some pretty sick @#$% going on, everyone has an agenda.
There is an apparent visible “style” in his comments. In this he is performances, while a bit better nuanced, aren’t all that different from what RFKjr is doing. This is basically performance art—you have someone who is a good actor putting together a public “character” that may or may not represent who the actor really is. Of the two, it’s their behind-the-scenes connections that tell the tale. DeSantis does a good job as governor but makes his “deals” with the GOP/E (the “Big Ugly”—thank you Sundance) while RFKjr can make gently conservative promises—the while he remains a committed environmentalist (another “Big Ugly). Would he side with John Kerry’s climate change agenda? Of course he would.
And then there’s Trump. Trump is a consummate performance-art actor. Probably it several steps better at this form than either of the above. The difference? Trump’s track record as president showed his true nature. Granted he didn’t always have good people (the generals for instance) working for him, but his full support of conservative values consistently showed in his issue-to-issue actions as president. Effectively and from the first, there was a clear partnership between Trump’s performance-art and the MAGA movement. We should make no mistake—from the first Trump was our guy. And he always made sure we in the MAGA movement always knew that.
Basically, the MAGA movement went looking for an assassin. And in Trump we found our man. GO TRUMP!!!
RFK Jr is married to actor Cheryl Hines, Bobby offered to announce that he had separated with his wife, as an effort to shield her from scrutiny of his political statements. Next day she takes to twitter to explain her political views are different from her husband. Boo Hoo!
What weaklings, makes me admire Melania even more, she is one tough woman, she has never weakened.
Didn’t know that. Bunch of wimps!
Yep. Drop dead gorgeous and can bite ten-penny nails in two!
Last time I saw a mouth like Cheryl Hines’ it had a hook in it.
I had to go look at a photo of hers and the teeth made me think of a bridle, bit, and saddle.
RFK Jr wants to lock people up over “climate change”. Globalist.
I still say, the DeSantis Top Gov. ad was his Michael Dukakis moment in the tank. Small man – big shoes.
There are picture online of both of them side by side wearing helmets.
They’re hilarious!
Sounds a lot like President Trump’s “Promises Made, Promises Kept” list of accomplishments from his first term.
We are looking forward to more of those accomplishments in his upcoming second term.
We are looking for the “Real Thing” and will accept no cheap substitutes.
Sorry Rob but no thanks.
Trump already brought China to heel, so why doesn’t Meatball throw his support behind him? He won’t because this little pissant is salivating at the thought of our POTUS being thrown in the gulag.
At the end of the day when he takes off his elevator boots this petty little man becomes even smaller.
Meatball does not think that the Trump’s China Tariffs worked…
https://thepostmillennial.com/ron-desantis-tells-wealthy-donors-trumps-china-tariffs-were-not-effective-report
This is nail on the head. The general consensus of the conservative electorate have rightfully come to the conclusion that the GOP does nothing other then put up a Maginot Line that Democrats easily go over, thru and around. Let the meatball Ron’s and the Mitt Romney’s of the world speak in platitudes and grand language. When in fact it’s quite simple. The GOP is nothing but a bunch of bullshitter’s.
BINGO!!! Our guy from Queens might be devisive, although I don’t see that at all myself, but he is an honest straight-shooter, who likes revenge when he can get it. Sucks to be anybody in the DC Uniparty!!!
Trump’s a construction guy. A tradie. Construction is a dirty business to be in. Has to wear a suit because of his empire.
Mindless oafs run the gop.
Oh no, don’t be fooled. They are very mindful of what they’re doing and who they’re doing it for. It just has nothing to do with America’s interest.
Also the US trade deficit with China declined in 2019 and 2020, another example of Trump’s policies succeeding.
There was very open discussion among Democratic strategists in early 2020 that none of the candidates would gain traction against him because the economy was just that strong. All they could hope to focus on was Congress and then move on to 2024.
Thus the need to activate the first stage of the Chapel Hill Bioweapon … the attack herr Doktor Fauci announced in 2017.
Platitudes = taking BS!
TRUMP/LAKE 2024. REVENGE! RECKONING! REBUILDING!
Trump/Lake 2024 t-shirts are selling on eBay already.
DeSantis thinks himself a part of the Washington DC elite and those who consider themselves to be the heirs of Plato’s philosopher kings whose chief tactic is to engage in and rely on DECEPTION. We aren’t supposed to be smart enough, engaged enough, care enough, etc, etc, etc, to notice. Sadly, they are largely correct because too many are fooled.
Right. And as Sundance pointed out a long time ago, the GOP/e has been playing a good game of pretend-to-be-conservative while actually tacitly supporting progressive politics. They will torpedo a Trump campaign, loose to Biden or Harris, so long as they can retain their power. These are the people DeSantis has partnered with.
I don’t think DeSantis is necessarily evil—he’s just playing the American version of realpolotik. He just partnered with the wrong crew and the choice turned around and bit him.
Lol look into Desantis eye’s and see his hatred for MAGA working class conservatives. Desantis is evil. He knew who he was getting into bed with.
He’s a boob hungry for power. Dirty little secret is they wanted him out of Florida. Now Floridians don’t want him back. The man w/o a home LOL!
Literally true because D doesn’t own a home anymore. He’s bunked up in the governor’s mansion like a college kid in a dorm and will get the heave ho when his term is up.
This is a husband and father of three kids. When and why did Casey allow this? Probably her power hunger.
Just the basic irresponsibility of this guy. Trump does not have these problems…
Trump already had vast amounts of wealth when he ascended the throne. The way it should be… not political grifters.
Who or what stands to gain if the American economy stinks?
WEF Marxist/Communist “Great Reset” elites……..or so they think.
Globalists that have no allegiance to any country, and have a vested financial interest in seeing China eclipse the US.
I noticed the platitudes just by reading his ten point list. It was talking points. No meat. Just RAH RAH bull crud. How people are taken in by this clown is beyond me. If the left was smart they would have propped up Desantis. Instead they attacked him. Only helping President Trump further.
For nearly taking over the world, these commies suck at messaging. They control almost all mediums of communication and they are still awful at promoting their own candidates, whether outward or secret such as Meatball. This is the one thing we really have going for us.
Because they do not know Truth. Nor do they have a sense of humor!
No meat from a candidate with no balls.
#8 “reining in the Federal Reserve”
I think he meant “reigning” in the Federal Reserve.
Almost every administration wants to reign in the Fed,
to tell them what to do, as it affects all other economic policy and activity.
but The Fed needs to be put on a shorter leash by Congress (as the voice of the people).
Their historical focus on maintaining a 2% rate of inflation, with occasional forays above or below that number as “conditions” warrant, has led to a constant devaluation of American’s savings and earnings, their COLAs, their pensions.
The first thing President Trump must do in January 2025 is appoint Ron Paul to audit The Fed. To neuter and de-fang them, otherwise The Fed will continue to do the bidding of the Bankers, not The People.
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The Federal Reserve mandate needs to be canceled and the powers put back to the Treasury where it belongs. After the Deep State is destroyed otherwise they will continue their mischief in the Treasury.
Sundance, I’m curious for your take on Tim Scott siding with Kamala Harris on the Florida history book thing. If he’s just one of the RNC guys sent to dirty up Trump, why this move? Think they are moving on from DeSantis, or does the premise need reflection?
Tim Scott is a traitor and there is no truth in him.
Nothing else is really needed until such time as he can be a forgotten footnote after his just punishment.
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.” – Thomas Jefferson
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
Tim Scott should be replaced and does not belong anywhere near the WH. He’s known as a puffball because he’s spineless. And let’s not ever forget he endorsed commie Murkowski in 2022.
American States need to outlaw ranked-choice voting ASAP
Some folks are responding, but none are addressing Sundance’s argument that Scott is one of the Sea Island RNC stooges running to do DeSantis’ dirty work. Why would he attack DeSantis now? It does not line up.
For Ron it’s wishful thinking with no action!
“We should not fear a government shutdown. Most of what we do up here is bad anyway,”
Quoting Rep. Bob Good of Virginia
“It is the only national policy we cannot affect from a local level, yet we are necessarily impacted by it and cannot avoid it.”
or, as they like to say over dry martinis.
“It is the one national policy that citizens will be unable to avoid at the local level, impacting them to any extent we need.”
The key difference between Trump and DeSantis is that Trump has spent his life in the Main Street economy and DeSantis has spent his life learning the stock and trade of the political class. Trump does politics in order to have the ability to affect trade policy and push the levers of supply and demand, so we can all look forward to improvements in the real economy that he understands better.
DeSantis hasn’t gotten past first base and is still in politics trying to find a side door to implementing adjustments that will not harm the Wall Street economy and his own political financing. You cannot fix the economy that most of us are a part of, by being dependent on the economy that deliberately creates inflation using government largess to invest in the financial markets.
No real wealth ever gets produced unless the supply of goods and services improves as result of satisfying the demand for more and better goods and services. Production of goods and provision of services is always done by working people who, as Sundance likes to say, get shit done all day.
With this basic distinction, Donald J Trump is the only candidate the working middle class can consider! Right you are, Sundance.
He betrayed Trump, abandoned Florida, takes money from some questionable characters while others cash out, and he thinks a few platitudes will help him. I don’t think so!
I plugged in “give me an safe economic plan that will not upset Uni-Party donors” yesterday and that I got was the DeSantis 10 point plan for Economic Freedom.
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Thank you for this!
Politician-speak “declares” vague nice-sounding goals, but almost never specific actions that will achieve clear concrete results.
TRUMP!
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Thank you Sundance! You nailed it yet again! None of these “academic” objectives are actionable and by design not measurable if one were to try to measure the success of a presidency. The measurable components remain hidden and already dictated by DeSantis’ billionaire donors, destruction of the MAGA movement being chief among them.
So let’s add a little old information to this:
It is worth taking a closer look at the Sequoia group of companies, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital China, and their particularly their founder Neil Shen. This is the key to the connection with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Mr. Guo Wengui made comments about Sequoia and Neil Nanpeng Shen: “…Neil Shen is the major partner of Sequoia Capital, and the Shen family is one of the most powerful in the United States. Nine out of eleven families are his partners, and now it is about the White House, I can’t say his name anymore. Thomas, the boss of Silicon Valley, Eric Smith, the former CEO of Google, and Zuckerberg, the former CEO of FB, were all speechless when they met Neil Shen, including Hong Kong Superman and Rachel Lee, because Shen is the real godfather of the Internet. …” …
In 2005 Neil Shen established Sequoia Capital China as an affiliate to the U.S. firm … Sequoia Capital invests in both public and private companies. It specializes in incubation, seed stage, startup stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies. Sequoia Capital has invested in over 1000 companies since 1972, including Apple, Google, Oracle, Nvidia, GitHub, PayPal, LinkedIn, Stripe, Bird, YouTube, Instagram, Yahoo!, PicsArt, Klarna and WhatsApp. … By 2017, Sequoia Capital had originated 68 initial public offerings and 203 acquisitions. …
Neil Shen is not only the founding and managing partner of Sequoia Capital China, he also serves as Global Steward of Sequoia Capital. Neil Shen is a Member of the 13th CPPCC National Committee. … In September 2015, Neil Shen was received by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the China – U.S. Internet Industry Forum in Seattle, Washington, USA. In 2016, the New York Times reported that Neil Shen was ranked at #9 on the CB Insights listing of the world’s top venture capitalists. …
Dominion Voting Systems, founded in 2002 in Toronto, is a company that sells electronic voting hardware and software in the United States and Canada. Dominion Voting Systems is one of the three major voting software products that was used in the 2020 U.S. election, along with systems from Election System & Software (ES&S) and Hart InterCivic.
https://wentworthreport.com/2020/11/25/the-link-between-dominion-sequoia-smartmatic-and-the-ccp
Sequoia Capital has donated $2 million to Ron DeSantis’ super PAC. AND, Sequoia Capital has invested in over 1000 companies since 1972, including Apple, Google, Oracle, Nvidia, GitHub, PayPal, LinkedIn, Stripe, Bird, YouTube, Instagram, Yahoo!, PicsArt, Klarna and WhatsApp. … By 2017, Sequoia Capital had originated 68 initial public offerings and 203 acquisitions.
Is there anyone who does know that Google is protected by the U.S. Government and apparently owned in part by Sequoia Capital. So Sequoia Capital donated $2 million to Ron DeSantis with the CCP controlling Sequoia Capital. Just like the CCP investing in Huneter and Joe Biden.
A great song from the 60s comes to mind when I see/hear DeSantis. ‘I’m Your Puppet’ by James and Bobby Purify.
This should be DeSantis’ campaign song.
DeSantis tries to convince us that he will defy those people who fund is campaign, who own him. We have a choice this time. Finally.
I yawn every time I see any of the elves, and the village idiot from the land of D… lol
Taking us all for being stupid and fools, when most are neither.
Rules based order for Abe’s “Free and Open Indo-Pacific,” while Japan commences building a new fast-breeder reactor.
You forgot Gov. DeCents’ Economic Bullet Point #11:
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Trans-Pacific Jabberwock
LOL reminds me of a fake campaign commercial from a comedy show. Full of double-edged platitudes.
“America needs a leader. America has Ron DeSantis.”
“Tell me what you want to hear, and I’ll say it.”
As clear as anyone can be knocking over these sandcastle platitudes. No details, no accountability. Right up there with DEI. Diversity, equity, inclusion. What is it and what does it mean for people. In both cases there is no specificity because the reality will be bad.
This is how Ron! declares to “protect our borders…”
Creating a Fair Labor Market by Securing the Border and Enforcing our Laws
DeSantis will create a fair labor market by securing the border, enforcing our laws, eliminating chain migration and the diversity visa lottery, and limiting unskilled immigration. DeSantis will make it a top priority of his administration to destroy the fentanyl market in America. The American immigration system will serve Americans — not multinational corporate elites.
If you’re looking for more policy on the border than this, you won’t find the word “border” uttered again…
He wants to limit “unskilled immigration”………
Just unskilled “immigration”?
Notice how he can’t even say the words “illegal alien”?
He’s so afraid of using the term “tariffs”. Can’t get those donors angry. Why are you wasting our time Ronnie? He has no ideas. Just empty platitudes.
SD: The radio mouthpiece for The Sea Island Club, Erick Erickson, is hosting “The Gathering” in the Atlanta metro shortly. This is the talkfest EE organized with the able assistance of the Never-Trump wing of the GOP and its big dollar payday people.
Something tells me that the 2019 voter roll irregularities in Cobb and Fulton Counties will not be on their agenda. I also wonder how many representatives of CEIR will attend – they’re surely going to be seated with Kemp and Raffensperger.
I pay $10/month for access to EE’s blog, as keeping a close watch on dangerous fools with microphones is a smart strategy. You may wish to use one of your anonymous backchannel email address and sign up, as well. “The Gathering” promises to be as occultish as its name suggests.
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-2023-gathering-agenda
Georgia used to be a penal colony. Makes sense huh…
DeSwampass’s GOPe ten (talking) points summed up; SOS……….Same Old 💩…..different day.
GOPe pumping out the bilge in the hopes that the base will say, “Hey, this is like the good old days of Bush 1, Dole, Bush 2, Mccain, Romney, I like it!”
GOP has been serving up s**t sandwiches for as long as I can remember, I would crawl over broken glass to help DJT destroy it.
If he truly believed item #4, he would end his campaign now.
4. ENDING ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE STANDARDS AND POLITICAL ENGINEERING BY LARGE
INVESTORS
His campaign IS political engineering by large investors.
Trump’s Agenda 47:
https://www.larouchepac.com/trump_s_agenda_47
President Trump Delivers Remarks At Nevada Volunteer Recruitment Center
“This is just a small gathering…” @1:03:43
https://rumble.com/v2ywwzg-president-trump-delivers-remarks-at-nevada-volunteer-recruitment-center.html
‘larouche pac’, like in Lyndon LaRouche political action committee? Some of us with long memories and don’t recall that ‘cat’ with such fondness …
In 1988 my dad took me to vote in my first presidential election. For several decades I let him believe I had voted for Laroche due to a very large blow-up argument as dad’s and daughters have sometimes. He deserved it!
I did come clean before he passed away which he acknowledged was a relief.
Lol
From the looks of their website it appears that they are running a pac trying to ride on the coat tails of Trump while using the LaRouche name. Probably banking on enough people not remembering ol’ Lyndon, or at least that enough time has passed that history is more easily clouded.
No, I pulled it up when the Steele “dossier” was first released, because LaRouche’s representative was reported to have met with Putin. LaRouche was already warning then (Jan. 2017) that the deep state would do to Trump what they had done to him.
That is why when LaRouche’s representative was claimed to have met with Putin in Russia the Steele “dosier”, it rang bells. Go to the LaRouche PAC site, and watch the video entitled “LaRouche Case- Robert Mueller’s first hit job.” LaRouche PAC pegged/warned what they would do to Trump in advance.
https://www.larouchepac.com/w1
Correct as I just questioned that myself.
Do NOT be fooled.
Do the research please.
Question:
I recall Lyndon Larouche as being connected to
s o r o s.
Search the name please
It reminds me of the “policy wonk” Paul Ryan. He was a Wonder Boy, the One who would bring economic sanity to government. The actuality is that he lead no reforms, no improvement, and lacked the balls to confront anyone. He was a grifter, just as they all are.
Ryan and Romney bonded over weiners.
So did Barry and Big Mike
As I read somewhere earlier, Ryan entered Congress a pauper and left with 7 cool millions.
They make me sick just looking at them.
Most of them do Blue Collar… they get shipped C.O.D. to D.C. and then when the check clears they deliver for the Uniparty
As they all do
but…..his six pack! Remember that?
Now we get to see RFK jrs
Yes!