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Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour
Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour
Praying !
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Amen
SO SAY WE ALL!!
Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏 Praying for President Trump and our country 🙏 🙏🙏
Amen !
AMEN
🙏 🙏 Amen🙏🙏
AMEN!
Amen 🙏🏻
Amen. Go God beat the devil.
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THE GAME PLAN
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it.
He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough.
They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it.
You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
By the truths they stomp on shall ye know them.
Blessings to Stillwater, Maquis and Dutchman!🙏💕
Blessings to those working to untangle maneuvers to block MAGA from moving forward! ❤️🤍💙
ABUSE COMES IN MANY FORMS.
Battered Conservatives No More – By Sundance
1. We admit we were unaware of our Republican abusers – Our elections have become manipulated.
2. We accept that only a power greater than ourselves can restore our republic.
3. We make a decision to focus our effort and our life to the care of a loving God.
4. We have made a searching and fearless inventory of our prior beliefs.
5. We have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being flaw in our political belief.
6. We are entirely ready to have God free us from defects of character, break our victim mindset and strengthen our resolve.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our false assumptions.
8. We have made a list of all political abusers, and we commit to holding them all accountable.
9. We accept the need to confront the republican abusers, if even when doing so hurts their feelings.10. We continued to take personal inventory and if we accept victimization again, we promptly admit it.
11. We seek through prayer and deliberation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for righteous knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had an emotional, intellectual and spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we pledge to carry this message to others who are abused, and to practice these principles of awakening in all our political affairs.
Ukraine frontlines update…..
Military Situation In Ukraine On March 29, 2025 (Maps Update)South Front
Thunder ⚡️ Massive Drone Strike 💥 Counterattacks Near Chasiv Yar & Toretsk ⚔️ Rozlyv Falls 🛡️ MS 2025.03.29
🧊 🧊 ICE NEWS!🧊🧊
Louisville, Kentucky…..
What a mix! Mexico, India,Cuba,ElSalvador,Guatemala…
Same with charges…Sexual misconduct with minor,drugs,firearms,DUI and driving without a license
ICE arrests 81 illegal aliens as part of joint federal law enforcement operation in Kentucky, of which 25 also charged with felony criminal offenses | ICE
Northern fence jumpers…this was interesting!
Indian man residing in California sentenced to prison for scheme to smuggle aliens into the US, following ICE, USBP investigation | ICE
Charlotte,NC….13 with aggravated felonies or other violent offenses, 3 illegal firearms offenses, 2 MS 13, 1 assault Federal Officer, 5 property crimes, 11 DWI. 😳
ICE, law enforcement partners arrest 24 illegal criminal alien offenders during Charlotte enforcement operation | ICE
😳 😳 😳 Why you should never drink the water!🤣🤢
Mexico experts say body parts dumped in well come from 41 individuals | Mexico | The Guardian
It’s so wonderful and rewarding to have mature, educated, truly talented and skilled good-natured people back in power to guide this nation forward once again.
Abusers, be they political or domestic, all utilized the same tactics to maintain power and control over their victim.
“This Is WAY Bigger Than Anyone Realizes (video)… | Victor Davis Hanson”
“Disruptive change”….
Bottom line…
“Keep Calm and MAGA On”.
Ground report about immigration. tl;dr: There are noticeably less foreign men in the neighborhood since Inauguration Day.
There’s a nearby Mexican supermarket that I have visited for years. Pre-Trump 2.0, there was always a crowd of foreign men waiting around the customer service desk than handles money wiring services. Post-Inauguration Day, the men are gone and there’s never a line at the customer service desk anymore. I’ve seen one woman use the desk since January and no other customers. I gave it the benefit of the doubt for awhile. Maybe bad winter weather was keeping people away, or maybe I was visiting at off times. But even on a beautiful spring Saturday, the customer service desk was still empty. Either those foreign men are gone or they’re too scared to leave the house. Whatever Trump is doing is working in my neighborhood.
Just as we can never really know the # of “gottaways” that came in, we will never really know the # of self-deporters, but I bet its a lot.
I know I sure wouldn’t be happy, if I moved to a foreign country, just for economic reasons ..
and seeing videos of ICE raids may be all I would need to head home…
Why not cash out $11K in EBT benefits at friendly ATMs, dump their jacked up diesel work truck or Dodge/Honda minivan / older Toyota Camry purchased with taxpayer funded vehicle allowances at Buy here, Pay here car lots for $7500 more than they are worth and with all the cash stashed in the sock drawer working for unscrupulous American employers while not paying rent because of housing allowances and a fat tax return courtesy of their special tax ID numbers claiming 18 unrelated dependents.
I’d say most of them have a decent nut to return to their ratholes of origin.
What a very spot on description. In my area there are construction projects going on that are almost all illegal aliens. Disappointed in the lack of raids to date – but know it may take time. In the meantime, various methods of discouragement continue…
The amount of US wealth that has left the US is staggering.
I want them all to self-deport..and I mean all!
Free healthcare, free phones free dental and more. These benefits extend to family members who are flown here free of charge. I witnessed an elderly woman dressed exactly like you would see a peasant from Central America dressed in a National Geographic photo, (was about 4 foot something ;and about as round as she was tall) , being escorted into my dentists office by her obviously proud illegal immigrant son.
She was specially escorted back to the dental area ahead of several of us in the waiting room.
So not only our taxpayers who struggle to pay pay their own dental bills with their crappy dental insurance paying for the illegals insurance, we are flying in mama and grandma and paying for theirs as well. So no, as long as this continues they will not self deport.
I should add for those who aren’t aware, the medical and dental care they receive is free of charge. No worries about a bill.
I’ll never forget watching a young male lose $12,000 at the blackjack table. Where did he get the money you ask? It was loaded up on his “covid lockdown relief” card.
I didn’t get $12,000.
Dutchman,
DHS Launches CBP Home App with Self-Deport Reporting Feature | Homeland Security
There is a self deport App….and we probably will be getting
numbers from DHS…
Will just be part of the numbers, since as you noted,
the gotta ways won’t be included.
A large number of those got aways are the criminals
who might have been arrested if they came across,
and the chance that they would have been apprehended
at a crossing location…BP station or processing station.
So they opted for coming across with coyotes
to get them through the holes in the wall and
transport them via coyote vehicles.
They will probably be listed in the criminal alien
busts numbers.
Kudos to you for being so observant,
and noticing the change! 👏👏👍👊
Will be interesting to watch and monitor.
Locally, we’ve got a Mexican restaurant owned and staffed by real, (‘real’ meaning recent arrivals) legal Mexicans that are quite nice people actually, the place is popular.
I heard that they were forced to close down for a few weeks or so to re-group because of staffing issues so bad, they couldn’t open up.
I’m assuming that much of staff had to be illegals that were paying cash under the table to all fled..
I read last night that there are likely far more self deporting than what we’re being made aware of.
This meme said that many are now smuggling themselves back home using those same coyotes that got them here because they want to avoid the cost of the deportations being put upon them..
So there is that too.
I’ve read that if they self deport, and save us the trouble of deporting them formerly, they can return properly.
So many are, but I didn’t know that they are also on the hook to pay for the cost of that deportation.
I saw this in a Meme, I have have no idea if it’s true, but given the position of this administration that works so hard to save money, it makes sense that it’s true.
We hear a lot about the southern border being secure now, I’d like to know how things look there as far as people going back to Mexico.. we never hear about that part of this.
Do the border agents not allow they in but then wave goodbye as they leave?
How exactly are these people getting back into Mexico from here?
I’d like to know all this.
Now that they have stashed so much cash under the table, they are likely flying back as they are unlikely to want to walk back.
There is an App for that!
DHS Launches CBP Home App with Self-Deport Reporting Feature | Homeland Security
Then they get a plane ride back!
Hundreds of Venezuelans deported by the United States arrive in Venezuela – YouTube
take away their welfare and they leave
what a concept
DHS Launches CBP Home App with Self-Deport Reporting Feature | Homeland Security
Here next to the border, was not uncommon to
see a groups of 10 plus sitting on the main
highway going into Mexico.
Waiting for BP to come and pick them up.
🤷♀️ 🤣 🤣 Now they have a phone app.
Yup…there is actually a Self-Deport App!
Enjoy prison Aubrey!
I’ve been watching you!
Go Trump go! This is what counts. The person who hides behind anonymous accounts. (And @elonmusk I told you so.)
AUSTIN, Texas – The Department of Justice announced the unsealing of charges against Canadian national Aubrey Cottle, 37, of Oshawa, Ontario, in connection with the theft of data relating to the Texas Republican Party in 2021.
Canadian authorities arrested Cottle on Wednesday and are pursuing charges under Canadian law. A criminal complaint filed in the Western District of Texas alleges Cottle gained unauthorized access to a third-party hosting company’s computer system to deface and download a backup of Texas Republican Party’s web server, which contained personal identifying information.
The information was distributed and made available for download online.
Cottle allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack on social media.
A search of Cottle’s electronic devices revealed he was in possession of the data stolen from the Texas Republican Party. Cottle has been charged with unlawfully transferring, possessing, or using a means of identification with the intent to commit, or aid or abet, or in connection with, unlawful activity under state or federal law. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Acting U.S. Attorney Margaret Leachman for the Western District of Texas made the announcement. The FBI Austin Cyber Task Force is investigating the case, with valuable assistance from the Ontario Provincial Police and the Durham Regional Police Service.
https://nitter.poast.org/pepesgrandma/status/1905822206770160061#m
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/united-states-unseals-charges-theft-texas-republican-party-data
This is the same scumbag who hacked and doxxed the Canadian trucker protest’s GiveSendGo fundraiser. Hope he gets a one way ticket to an El Salvadoran prison or Gitmo.
Also Parler to get to Jim Watkins. He was in an Atlantic article where he claimed to be a founder of “Anonymous”, had a show on Reddit… his vids were wackadoodle. I’m pretty sure it’s the same guy… he had at least 1 GoFundMe’s, I was poking around on the guy a long time, very long time ago… after the Canadian trucker GiveSendGo hack.
Aubrey Cottle
I remember this worm. He was very verbal a the time, and made quite a few videos and posts.
Rainbow hair and shrieking like a chihuahua, whilst bragging that he doxed the truckers…
Run of the mill nihilist lowlife.
Wiki actually has a pretty good dust up on this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Cottle
A Ballot Initiative, “Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act” introduced in CA.
….” The proposal would amend the state’s Health and Safety Code to curb insurers’ ability to deny or delay medical treatments recommended by physicians.”……
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/luigi-mangione-act-california-libs-honor-accused-murderer/
Why not the Charles Manson Mental Health Care Act?
Honor evil at your peril, California.
Must Feel So Good to virtue signal.
When I heard about this guy Mangione, my mind went right to Chuck Mangione. Thank you for sharing!
Hmmm,…interestingly this law would NOT effect medicare.
Not because of any specific exenptions in the law, but because “private” insurance requires the provider to get permission BEFORE hand, Midicare says “do whatever you want, THEN submit the bill and we’ll decide whether to pay it or not.”
With the best insurance and medical care in the World no one can fix spinal injuries worth a tinker’s damn.
They say they can but they just make things worse. If you surf , skateboard, snowboard, ride dirt bikes, horses or play the football the most ridiculous game ever invented you run the very high risk of jamming yourself up, permanent like.
I don’t think anyone else’s insurance rates should go up for already half assed “health care” because some “Trust-afarian” predictably hurt himself riding big waves,
Now do diabites.
The Healthcare system, isn’t.
It isn’t about health, you have to be sick to actually access it; the first step in accessing the system is them detirmining you are sick or injured..
And, THEY DON’T CARE; your body represents a gold mine, and the focus of their attention is entireluy on extracting as much gold from it as they possibly can, before the mine collapses.
Notice how with these chronic conditions (that they don’t cure but only treat, that they know (or say/pretend they know) what CAUSES the condition, bjut not what causes what causes the condition?
“What causes heart attacks/strokes?”
“Arterial plaque builds up, blocking an artery to the heart or brain”
“O.k., but what causes the arterial plaque?”
“er, cholesterol, diet, excercise, genetics, lifestyle,..er”
“O.k., what causes diabetes?”
“Oh, thats easy! The body doesn’t make enough insulin.”
“And, what CAUSES the body to not make enough insulin?”
“er, um lifestyle, diet, lack of excercise, genetics…um.”
Notice how they always fall back on blaming the patient?
Its your lifestyle, your diet, your genetics, in other words YOUR fault, and something THEY CAN’T CONTROL, and therefore not their responsibility!
Same thing for Cancer, its uncontrolled cell growth, and thet have a bunch of answers as to what causes uncontrolled cell growth, all of them wrong..and ultimately blaming you.
If ever there was a system that needed to be collapsed entirely, as it is top to bottom corrupted and only a burn down, salt the ash and start over will do,..it is the “healthcare system” of organised iautogenic death and disability.
I’ve been saying it for at least two decades, it’s a sickcare system, not a healthcare system. No money to be made from healthy folks, or in keeping them healthy. I’ve worked in insurance for 30 years.
Does anybody even know what Luigi Mangione’s motivation was?
Apparently his health coverage was through another company.
Was he trying to get into a new line of work as a hitman? He has a couple of degrees in IT. Did his back injury and subsequent surgery make it difficult to sit or stand in front of a computer for long hours?
The little bit of the story I’ve heard does not draw a direct line between United Healthcare or the CEO and Luigi Mangione.
Odd times.
There were rumors that the United CEO who was assassinated, was to testify before Congress, with regards to the antics in health care. Someone’s patsy?
Didn’t we read here that the United CEO was set to testify against Nan The Terrible??
I honestly don’t recall who he was to testify against…I did a google and brave search and not getting what I searched for (imagine that…ain’t AI wonderful/sarc). UHC also has a ‘holdings company’, so who knows?
His testimony was to be about the cyberattack his company experienced.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2024/unitedhealth-ceo-andrew-witty-to-testify-before-congress-on-cyberattack/
The cyberattack is affecting employees of hospitals who are now filing their tax returns only to find out fraudulent returns have already been filed.
Watsonville Community Hospital still hasn’t notified all those affected by a November data breach; employees are reporting tax refund fraud – DataBreaches.Net (< click to view)
My girlfriend who works at this hospital has heard from other nurses that they have had returns filed already due to the breach. She and others, who normally have a refund of $6-8,000 yearly, are now finding the returns have already been sent out. IRS has informed them to not expect any action for 400, yes FOUR HUNDRED, days!
She is filing late next week and will then find out if her info has been compromised as well. Not the best financial strategy but she uses her tax withholdings as a forced “savings” plan and relies on the money to hold her over through the next year.
That’s the thing, he did get medical care, and the insurance company is not responsible for the types of treatments available, only for whether they will pay or not.
He would have had to research who this guy even was, and it was suspicious to me that people like Liz Warren started screeching about health insurance companies when she was one of the people who wanted this awful system we have.
It was some kind of blame-shifting or coverup, but I can’t think why.
It may have simply been adherence to “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
Health insurance was in the news cycle – so Lizzy jumped on it like tick on a hound dog. “Look at me, I’m fighting for you against those bad people.”
These politicians ALWAYS cause a problem and then, virtue signal to pretend to “fix” a problem.
Maybe if we did not give free health care to illegals then that would not force the problem of resource allocation to a violent conclusion.
Once again, illegals caused most of these problems. If we get them out of the USA then we can fix much of the damage that has been done.
I am tired of sitting in a doctor’s office with an illegal mother and her 5 children taking up 6 chairs.
At FDA:
….” Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine official and a key figure in the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, has been ousted from his post.”……
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/fdas-top-vaccine-official-peter-marks-forced-told/
Vaccine Guru Peter Marks Resigns From FDA
FDA Director of Biologics Evaluation and Research writes vaccine catechism resignation letter after purportedly being told to beat it.
JOHN LEAKE
MAR 29, 2025
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/vaccine-guru-peter-marks-resigns
“…The whiny resignation letter of Peter Marks, Director for the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, is a catechism—that is, “a series of fixed answers or precepts used for instruction in other situations.”…”
Japan does NOT use the MMR vaccine; to be clear, they DO use seperate vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella, but their tracking system for adverse events detecting unacceptable levels of serious adverse events, and so they banned it, years ago.
Point being its NOT just the covid vax, its guardasil, its MMR, and yes its the polio vax, with some saying they are just calling polio something else, when it occurs.
The whole “healthcare” system is, far more than the FBI, a system that is corrupted beyond repair.
And now we know. Now we have but another “shovel ready” job to clean up.
This one appears to be as long overdue to address as NATO.
I’m questioning this about Japan, mainly because I have good ( Japanese) friends who live there. Their married daughter, husband and child (about 8 years old) were stationed in Bangkok during Covid and the company decided to send dependents back to Japan. Before she left the airport in Tokyo, upon arrival, both she and daughter were vaccinated and then a special van took them to a designated motel where they went into quarantine, meals delivered to the room, and no visitors, for several days before being allowed to continue to their home.
That was then, this is now?
From my reading the Japanese are generally sceptical of vaccines; they DO use them, and yes initially got caught up in the whole covid panic, being so close to china, they masked up for inxstance…but pretty early on embraced Ivermectin.
So, that was “during Covid”, check with your friends, and see what the current protecol is.
Good point about the timing. I’ve sent so many anti-vaccine articles to them (both highly educated engineers from U of Tokyo), I’m quite sure they’ve been “converted.” In addition, the male (who did take several injections), shortly thereafter developed lung cancer and has been undergoing treatment the past 18 months. I know they never took Ivermectin. Not sure about the daughter. Her husband returned from Bangkok but works for a large company and does exactly what he is told to do during his 60-80 work hours a week. They will never be convinced to not wear masks.it’s an engrained cultural mindset of decades and, IMHO , a society- control mechanism.
Vaccines introduce toxicity. They do not— and have never— prevented disease.
Tariffs = Two weeks to stop the spread.
What’s wrong with prosperity, Mr President? A 25% tariff on imported cars at a time with car loans at 7.9% is going to drive up inflation and kill the auto industry in the US, Korea, Japan and Europe.
According to Peter Navarro, 75% of the cars sold in the US are imported and 50% of Ford, GM and Chrysler cars are manufactured in Mexico and Canada.
Construction of a new KIA car plant in the US takes 3 years but that’s an ASSEMBLY plant. The engine, drive train, transmission, and computers are made in Korea and sent here for assembly. It will take years to make those complex components here.
Foreign car companies employ hundreds of thousands of Americans at Toyota, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, BMW and Land Rover American owned dealerships in the US. Toyota and Mercedes Benz dealerships alone employ over 100,000 Americans who sell, finance and service those cars. Do we want 300,000 Americans lose their jobs now to create 300,000 jobs three, four or five years from now? What’s wrong with a 5% tariff that brings billions of dollars?
How’s ending the Ukrainie War, getting the price of oil under $50, inflation at 2% and interest rates at 3% so Americans have prosperity for a while before turning the economy into a meat grinder like we had with the Covid disaster! This whole tariff debacle is like Covid-19 2.0 for the economy!
Watch how automated and computerized a new Land Rover factory is in Slovakia. Robots have replaced most workers. It’s not a 1960s Detroit assembly line with hundreds of workers anymore…
Weak foreign currencies mitigate the tariff impact on US consumers. For all of the time you spend in the comment section here dooming about tariffs, you could have read and re-read Sundance’s MAGAnomics posts by now that address these issues.
Since California has basically become a third world cesspool, maybe you should focus you’re ire upon the powers that be ruining what was once a beacon of American entrepreneurism, and was a place where everyone had a chance to make their dreams come true.
CJ has always been a little slow on the uptake, especially more complex issues,…
I gotta say I had to read Sundances MAGANOMICS 101 article MANY, many times, before I finally “got it”,…you know the one about “lemons and widgets” and “the exfiltration of wealth”?
I would read till my eyes glased over,…next time I would get a little further, etc.
My point is, perhaps Joe didn’t put in the time, or just doesn’t get it.
Actually, he’s not alone. There are a BUNCH of talking head urinolists spewing anti-tariff, anti-protectionist b.s. all day every day.
I heard it the whole time I was growing up, how tariffs were bad, etc.
And I believed it without question, until I learned American exceptionalism means we win any trade war we engage in, much like the Casino, where the House always wins, and that everyone else has big tariffs agahinst our products, and they don’t seem to be suffering for it.
Actually Joe, the only transient pain we will suffer, is they will devalue their currency against the dollar, which will make their goods cheaper and our products, sold their more expensive due to the exchange rate.
Making it slightly harder for our companies to export.
@Dutch-Sometimes I think CJ is Gavin Newscum? CJ isn’t thinking about the national security implications of our loss of manufacturing and innovation. When manufacturing goes overseas so does our intellectual property and so does our security as a consequence. Just a few things that CJ is missing in his/her musings..
Globalism…ain’t it grand/sarc?
And all these companies make trillions of us….’their trillions at stake’.
The Michigan Consumer Sentiment report is making rounds this week, because we are seeing an all-time divide in expectation split by political party. Table 5B shows that the Democrats wildly underestimated inflation during Biden’s reign (by 3x), and wildly overestimated inflation during Trump’s first term and now his second. So, when I see anything that liberals are posting about expected inflation these days, I discount them because of their general inability to look at economics from an impartial unbiased viewpoint. TDS has completely skewed their forecasts.
https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/fetchdoc.php?docid=78144
My point was that suffering through two years of Covid-19 destruction of the economy where thousands of businesses especially restaurants closed and then four years of Bidenomics we really deserve to give the economy a break.
What’s wrong with ending the Ukrainie War, getting the price of oil under $50, inflation at 2% and interest rates at 3% so Americans have prosperity for a while?
The wholesale price of eggs is already down 50 %.
Oil is down significantly; gasoline and diesel are down which will bring all other things down.
We did not get in this shape overnight and we will not get out of it overnight.
How about the individual pain of a dental office maintaining the expensive leasing of equipment contracts and no patients for 2 years in the state of California? Imagine what that does to a person’s business? No covid grants only extortionist loans to stay afloat.
Tariffs.” Safe and effective”.
Poster, Auminer, is always good for a few globalist, neo-con, BS economics Talking Points. Between Auminer and Cal Joe there is a lot of BS to wallow through.
I know you are pretending but I’ll take the bait.
All tariffs are created equal. However, some tariffs are more equal than others.
If tariffs are deemed so bad, then I’m sure you wouldn’t object to other countries ALL stopping their tariffs/trade barriers against the U.S., would you?
If you do, then you agree whole heartedly with our favorite President.
No tariffs for anyone. That’s the whole point. However, if you do tariff us and have been ripping us off with them for a long time, then we’ll NOW have a “reciprocal” tariff right back at you. We’ll keep it in place until you drop yours.
See how that works. Pretty simple.
It’s just a long overdue leveling of the playing field. Finally!
That’s not going to happen. PDJT wants to replace the income tax with tariffs.
He knows other countries will never give them up completely 😉
Yes it is going to happen.
Common sense and common good business practices are on tap. The USA is the biggest Consumer of goods. We have that Leverage. We may not have used our buying power as Leverage before. Now we will.
We own the entire battlespace. We have been giving away and getting ripped off for way too long. That time is coming to an end. And it will end quickly.
Everyone knows it.
We don’t need them. They need us. See how that works.
The entire world is changing as a result. Get on board or get run over.
The smart ones know and are getting on board. In just two months, our favorite President has already secured promises of $4 trillion worth of on-shoring of manufacturing in the U.S. $4 trillion. That’s a 4 followed by twelve zeros. And that was in just two months.
The Golden Age indeed.
Ok. Fair enough I guess.
But what does all that have to do with what you said earlier… “No tariffs for anyone”… how will PDJT achieve his goal of replacing the income tax with tariffs if the goal is no tariffs?
I don’t know the full scope of attempting to replace income tax with tariffs or offsetting some income tax with tariffs. I don’t know the numbers for that. I’m guessing few if any would have that math completely worked out.
At the very least, I would expect our tax bill will be going down significantly with DOGE discovered and cleaned up waste, fraud and abuse inefficiencies. They are only two months in and they are at ~$200 billion in savings to date.
Combine that with revenue gained from a huge increase in manufacturing in the U.S. and we start to move the needle.
I’m not sure where I read it but Vietnam has made conciliatory moves in regards to cooperating with lowering or eliminating tariffs.
The rest of the world LOVES tariffs on the USA. That is how their leaders were able to become rich AND have socialism.
They have to decide going forward how they are going to pay for their freeloading.
I believe that it was Howard Lutnick that stated that PDJT is headed towards No Income Tax on those making less than $150,000 a year which is most of us.
Also, bringing businesses and manufacturing back to the USA is going to create great paying jobs. His goal is a 15% corporate tax rate which will encourage even more businesses to return to the USA. They will pay corporate taxes and those who choose to import will pay tariffs.
In the meantime, Americans will have more money in their pockets and will shop, buy, vacation, and spend money at these American businesses who will pay 15% corporate tax rate.
PDJT wants to get the federal government out of the wallets of the citizens and get it back to deriving its funding through business. The only way that will work is if government encourages business to build and remain in the USA because that is their cash cow. More businesses that succeed means more money for the Treasury. He is incentivizing build/make in the USA, hire Americans, and a low corporate tax rate.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. PDJT knows exactly what he is doing and I am so grateful for that.
I am interested to see what happens, myself.
Anyone who claims to know is full of it.
We all want good things for the country, but if the tariffs do blow up, I hope the PEOPLE hold PT accountable – this was his decision.
PT has a track record of good ideas but super poor execution.
carl stevens,
Yeah, he had a great idea with that ice rink in NYC, but really f’d up the execution.
And all those golf coarses hotels and resorts,…
And his whole first term,…
Is for to laugh, and you leave an opening like that, and expect me not to walk thru it?
Maga Minuteman,
Actually reciprocal tariffs is NOT the end goal, nor is using rc’s to bring all tarifs down to essentially -0- the goal, because there is no way that could replace income taxes.
Bottom line is the U.S. has an inherent advantage over every other country in the World, so why shouldn’t we exploit it to our advantage, while insuring we will retain it?
The advantage is, because of a large and strong middle class, we buy way WAY more sh*t, per capita and in total, than any other country.
And, do to Gods blessings, geography etc. there is nothing we need, that we can’t produce, our selves.
Since all countries WANT to sell into our market, and we don’t HAVE to buy any of their sh*t, we can and should charge them a premium, for the priviledge; enough to insure their imported product does not undercut our domestically produced one, costing us jobs.
THATS the eventually goal with tariffs; to keep prices of foreign goods comparable with domestically produced ones, then if the foreign product is percieved as “better” due to quality or features, so be it.
A side benefit is that the tariffs collected would be more than sufficient to fund an efficient Federal Government not pursueing forever wars, and due tovfull employment, and healthy lifestyle not needing massive healthcare/welfare drains on our economy.
And, because of American Exceptionalism, WE are the only ones who can do that, and if other countries resent it, they can embrace the recipe of personal liberties and “capitalism” that make upward mobility possible, which leads to a large, strong middle class.
Exporting our system by example.
IMHO, and in a nutshell.
BTW, just saw PDJT may be suggesting no one over 65 y.o. should have to pay property tax?
If so, would be YUGE!
I presume he isn’t talking about billionaires, but retirees below a certain level of income.
No income tax on tips, overtime, social security, or property tax if over 65,…
Property tax is immoral, nobody should have to pay one.
Unfortunately PDJT has little control over local property taxes.
Howard Lutnick has said that PDJT is headed towards No Income Tax on people making less than $150,000 per year.
Don’t know how that could happen, property taxes are up to the states. My husband retired last year, our property taxes went up another 20% this year (thanks, WI). No relief for retirees here and they are rapidly taxing us out. Hoping to eventually relocate to Arkansas.
Don’t you have a senior exemption? If hubby and I didn’t have that, we wouldn’t be able to stay in our home since we’re now retired.
And don’t forget the Taj Mahal. That was Trumps greatest Execution.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Really ignorant comment, Carl.
Some of your facts are correct, and others are not.
Hyundai/Kia does in fact manufacture engines and other components in the US in addition to South Korea.
So, many of the Kia vehicles made/assembled in the US do in fact hace US manufactured engines.
https://www.hmmausa.com/
In addition, you likely will see a further shift to US engine production.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/ex-fcc-chairs-from-both-parties-say-cbs-news-distortion-investigation-is-bogus/
“CBS this week urged the FCC to deny or dismiss the complaint and close the proceeding without delay. “As commenters across the ideological spectrum overwhelmingly agree, the transcript and unedited interview footage demonstrate that CBS engaged in commonplace editorial practices—specifically, by deciding what material from a lengthy sit-down interview would air in a time-limited television format,” CBS said. “A chorus of ideologically diverse commenters likewise agree that any adverse action against CBS concerning this matter would violate the First Amendment and chill speech, all while creating the prospect that the Commission will serve as the arbiter of acceptable journalism going forward.”
no, the answer is very clear, when you interview a candidate for elected office, in this case the nutcase for President (how did we ever get to a place in the universe when KOCmala jackwagon would be the democrat nominee is beyond ridiculous), then simply broadcast the interview as it was. in the raw with no editing to falsely replace questions and answers to manufacture a more reliable and stable candidate. it’s very simple. CBS intentionally attempted to influence this election by falsely manipulating “the tape” in order to develop a character that does not exist. has never existed.
imagine if you all painted put me on the show…asked me a few questions, and I said a bunch of really racist nasty things. then in editing, behind the scenes you painted my face black (or white, or whatever), and the edited what I said so it sounded like I was anti-racist. Or if I was a criminal being interviewd and I admitted to my involvement in a crime, but then you go into editing and take out that part so the audience (and presumably the jury…yeah they watch the news), presumed empathy for an innocent man.
the only question at this point is : what else did CBS edit that they have no disclosed? and what about these other so called representatives of “free speech”…how much involvement have they had in the past doctoring interview and the news in similar ways?
yeah, I think this law suit is much much more than just cleaning up kowmala. This case might just blow the lid off of decades of fraud.
God Bless America
I understand what they are saying, and what you are saying…
Kari Lake, with her background had a very savvy way of handling the press.
First off, she thought up every possible “gotcha” question they would ask, and had a prepared one-liner to respond with.
Second, she did SOME press conferences, but then she also would offer 1 on 1 interviews, and when they showed up, they would see Kari had her OWN camera crew there, to film the entire interview, so that if they truncated her statements in such a way to misrepresent what she said (which they tried, several times!) she would post, on her website both versions for all to see, and judge for themselves.
And, thats the point, is its a matter of judgement, whether they are cutting short for time, or distorting (positively or negatively) what someone is saying…
However, first off while such editing is o.k. for 1 on 1 with a sports star, famous person for whatever reason, etc. I agree Poliricians SHOULD be interviewed unedited.
Secondly, they are of coarse lieing, as thats not at all what they did, putting a completely different, not merely shortened, answer.
As bad as if they asked her two different yes/no questions, and switched her answers so she says no to what she actually said yes to.
Actually, podcasts has been shown to be a much better way, and I wish broadcast/cable would die, already.
Tidbit: Kari Lake’s professional cameraman is her husband.
well said Dman – well said
Michael Jackson did the same when interviewed.. As a side note, I have it under good authority to know that Michael’s father had him castrated to keep his voice. Over lay that with the accusations that man went through. He was tortured…
Castrato…..
Farinelli being the most famous.
Centuries old history regarding the Castrati.
Quite tragic.
Castrato – Wikipedia
President Trump did the same with Comey de Clown.
Comey went on and on about his interview with President Trump.
President Trump warned Comey, “Watch what you say about the interview. You were not the only one who has a recording of it.”
Comey de Clown quickly shut up and went away with his head down and his thumb up his ass looking for some curtains to hide behind. He knew he Comeyed himself.
Yes, that WAS a brilliently simple move, that worked. Even if Comey was 90% sure he was bluffing, 19% was more than enough to insure Comey did not lie about what was said…
I am not sure how the outcome of the lawsuit and investigation by the FCC. I just don’t know the law well enough in this area to make a judgement.
what I hope happens from it is that voters begin to understand that making decisions based on what they see on the main stream maniac channels are about as dependable as talking to that prince in ethiopia about some great riches./
it’s the exposure of the fraudulent and conniving practice of editing.
remember when it became known that Donna Brazille (sp?) admitted she was giving questions AND the answers to Hillary? that did have an impact on the old hag.
I see this as a similar opportunity and bonus bingo is cbs has to pay a LOT of money and sends the interviewers out to pasture.
I know people who I work with who believe their own lying eyes. they refuse to accept that kowmala was the plague and the reason for defeat…a pure and simple dumb dumb. It makes them mad I am sure to hang their hopes on such a mental midget. the cackler. It’s that extreme hate of orange man bad. But over time, I do believe at least some of them, probably the younger generation, will see this case and realize the depths of complete fraud the media was in trying to build a fictional character as her avatar. In the end, they will see they actually got cheated from any chance of competition….they put a fool out there and that is why they lost. (of course, I am of the mind that President Trump would have won no matter what candidate the DEMONS wanted to try out. But that will also probably become more clear to some of the Dem voters over time also….that they have no reason to actually be democrats…the party isn’t just broken, it’s based on cruel lies)
God Bless America
“probably the younger generation” I’m surprised how conservative my 14 year old grandson is, so maybe there is reason to hope!!!
I think he wins the court case, if he gets an unbiased judge and jury.
What the FCC rules,…?
But, this defence, which is all they got, is a distortion of the truth, and they can look at edited and unedited version and see its not just a shortened version of her answer, its an abswer to a completely different question, and not edited for time, but because she totally flubbed the answer to an important question.
Good morning,
The thirty somethings we know ( and there is a significant number of them)
Get there information from podcasts etc. and don’t watch, never mind believe any MSM propaganda.
Cheers!
Agreed, my children are among said demographic as are their friends. Quite refreshing, gives one some hope.
Apparently it is okay for all politicians to lie. I guess they find that somewhere in the Constitution. Integrity comes from the heart and soul. The only place you find a hint is in the vow, “I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” in selected court proceedings. I think the vow should come at the beginning of any public service, but I guess that is asking too much. How did we ever institute the backwards system of the “speech and debate clause” portion of Congressional operations? I don’t see anything in there about sanctioned and institutional lies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/spacex-offers-starlink-myanmar-thailand-after-1000-dead-massive-earthquake
While their Junta still bombs their own citizens.
US Senate committee investigating AMP for alleged Hamas connections
US Senate investigates American Muslims for Palestine over alleged Hamas ties and campus links, raising concerns about student safety and extremist influence.
4th column in the US
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848086
I THINK the expression is 5th columnists?
George Christensen
@NationFirstAust
Dublin used to be one of the safest cities in the world.
Now it’s a violent, broken, gang-ridden mess.
This is the story of how mass immigration, globalism, and sell-out politicians destroyed Ireland’s capital city.
A warning for the West.
1/18
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1905878930219000009.html
So thankful we have President Trump
and Tom Homan and his team.👏👏
More people are becoming aware of the real
threat within our borders- and are working hard
to eliminate it!
A long way to go— but our streets are becoming safer
every day!
I hadn’t posted this story yet
Boston…..crimes against children,homicide,firearms , drugs, assaults….. 😳
And from a lot of different countries! 😳😳
ICE, law enforcement partners arrest 370 alien offenders during enhanced operation in Massachusetts | ICE
Truly Sad…
“…mass immigration, globalism”- we’re getting rid of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants, but we aren’t touching the mass immigration and globalism, which seem to be increasing, and we can expect amnesty for many of the illegals, if not most.
These places got the way they are mostly through legal immigration.
No more legal than that which occurred when Brandon was in charge (i.e. globalist WEF politicians who ALLOWED mass illegal immigration). In the case of the EU and UK, it’s flotillas of illegal aliens crashing onto their shores.
Our Coast Guard are seeing large increase
in illegals coming in through our
shores!! 🚤🚤
In some cases, they are driving the boats
right up to our beaches, jumping out and
running!
This 7 days ago! Great clips!
Insane what they are doing to come in
via water…..and we have a lot of shoreline!
Migrants Give Up… as US Destroyer Deploys To Border – YouTube
Migrants Give Up… as US Destroyer Deploys To Border – YouTube
The same kind of expose could be done on most large EU cities and definitely on most UK ones.
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/higher-education/johns-hopkins-ice-detainment-students-T7R24V7VIZEOPNXJHK24PPW62Y
Tucker Carlson survived a plane crash in the Middle East in 2003. He tells the story…
https://youtube.com/shorts/ozk1nHjMym8?si=Ii8JpSsxIXuM67i8
Nick Freitas and Markwayne Mullins discuss the practicalities of funding bills and how rescission can be used to help straighten out the mess the last administration left. It is a fairly easy to follow nuts and bolts discussion.
Without even watching it, the answer to the headline question is – definitely. Won’t even buy us a drink first.
In Ireland…
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Enoch Burke
@EnochBurke
BREAKING: ENOCH BURKE’S BANK ACCOUNT NOW HAS €0.00 BALANCE AFTER COURTS RAID €40,617.69
Teacher Enoch Burke refused to endorse transgenderism in his school. His entire bank account has now been seized by the Irish Courts.
The Courts have also directed that the Irish Attorney General Rossa Fanning may apply to seize any other assets owned by Enoch Burke.
Cont…and video linked…
Enoch Burke’s €40,000 bank account to be cleared as state moves to recover contempt fines
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/enoch-burke-s-40-000-bank-account-to-be-cleared-as-state-moves-to-recover-contempt-fines/ar-AA1BD9iy?ocid
Mark 10
29 And Jesus replied, “Let me assure you that no one has ever given up anything—home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or property—for love of me and to tell others the Good News, 30 who won’t be given back, a hundred times over, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land—with persecutions!
“All these will be his here on earth, and in the world to come he shall have eternal life. 31 But many people who seem to be important now will be the least important then; and many who are considered least here shall be greatest there.”
Yes, Lord Jesus!
The IRS does the same thing here to people that owe for taxes.
So owing taxes and refusing to confirm and conform to insanity are the same thing?
Werlll, generally they “freeze” the acct. so that any $’s going in, continue to go in, (like direct deposits) but any checks you write, bounce.
That way they continue to suck up any income you have…
At least at the “middle class” level, I know a couple of people that went thru it, its an administrative law proceedure.
You get a letter saying you owe,…don’t respond and your checks start bouncing, debit card is declined.
And yes, if you have tangible assets, they get siezed.
American auto companies built crappy gas-guzzeling bombs so Americans bought German and Japanese cars with better gas mileage and much higher quality. Foreign car manufacturers weren’t ripping off America for years. They just had a better product at a better value!
It doesn’t take long to move the machines back here. Concrete slab buildings go up pretty quick in Sping and Summer if needed. Adding a 2nd shift is an easy 2x deliverables gain.
In 1980, I designed machines that manufactured electronic components. Our company built the machines and started shipped them to Mexico where production ran. That was the early days of manufacturing being stolen from the US.
Post NAFT PDJT-45, manufactures set down a path 8 years ago, to reshore every little component. Their plans might have gotten a bit dusty, but they are moving production back here big time now.
A month or so ago, clues from the Administration and President Trump lead me to believe that they expect the transition to be mostly done by September.
That seemed overly ambitious to me then, but seeing how our VSG President Trump is conducting the orchestra, I wouldn’t bet against him.
Think of what happened, in terms of retooling and upping industrial manufacturing, in the build up to and during WW2.
Just as a comparison/example of whats possible, especially if permitting is expidited.
Some people have previously witnessed our gov’t trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
In the latter 70’s, it was hoax gas shortages
> which raised fuel prices ( oil companies made more money, which paid politcians
> which created a demand for smaller, less fuel consuming vehicles
> which increased imports of vehicles, while us car companies tried to reduce vehicle weight / and worked to re-tool to make smaller engines
> which got some consumers to realize that a low cost, longer lasting ( less rust ), more fuel efficient vehicles could be found by reluctantly giving up their loyalty to a US vehicle manufacturer
> which sadly got the us giving away their purchasing power to other countries
> which incrementally got the u.s. to become a service economy and less so a manufacturing economy
>
Which made the u.s. more reliant on other countries and the u s. being less independent
> which is a national security issue, and an unbalanceable budget problem.
Reversing that decades long problem that started with a hoax of oil shortage
is happening…
( with re$instancefrom those that benefitted from the hoax ).
And many know, that is not the only hoax that’s been implemented onto people – by u.s. ( and other globali$t entities ).
(- got to bail out auto industry with u.s. debt increase,
– gotta to have goober until health care ( while health declines )
– gotta have more money for edu cay shun, while learning declines
– Russia collusion while ignoring c c p infiltrations
– c-virus
– elec-shuns
– gotta allow abortions / while allowing illegal immigrants to tap into gov’t miss spending
etc )
We can do better – without playing
pretend –
with truths.
Using their own #’s, it is not possible to confirm the U.N.’s estimate that the earths populatiin just topped 8 Billion people..
The whole focus on “MPG” is not in an individual or households best interests, you wantbto look at $ per mile, NOT miles per gallon.
Yes, we exist largely in a fantasyvworld, a Matrix…
Well, I once had “The Ultimate Driving Machine”….BMW. When it ran…I got 45 mpg on the highway. (Also had a little VW sedan back in the early 90’s…no problems with it…)
But the Beemer…”When it ran”….and that rapidly became ‘a crap shoot’….and it always failed along the road…never in the driveway.
….was always in the shop for repairs. The tech made double or close to it, per hour, what an American auto worker made. It was bankrupting me in repairs…literally.
I went back to Ford and will never go foreign again, knowingly. Other than batteries and tires, routine maintenance, I have been blessed by God and Ford.
Now, sadly…I am shopping for a new fridge…just noticed some hairline almost invisible cracks on the inside wall of the fridge…Kenmore…real Sears (Coldspot or Whirlpool)…mid 90’s….its been struggling since Thanksgiving…never any problems until now…
The quality and sturdiness of what is available today, is rather sad…and there is no comparison to back then.
Bring back made in America by Americans for Americans.
Beware of Samsung. Nice warranty, but no parts available. Months to get repaired. Research any brand you’re considering. The product reviews reveal the truth.
Am staying with Whirlpool. I have not heard good things about Samsung…
That’s the only model frig/freezer I’ve ever owned and they have always lasted decades without issue + when needing a repair parts are readily available.
Too, many appliances are too complex (relatively), which drives down reliability. Don’t need wifi, cameras, lcd displays, or the rest.
I think Whirlpool is made by the same Chinese company that bought GE Appliance Division.
GE fridge here, it’s 10+ years old and not a problem.
Onshoring alone will not give you the result that you are looking for.
A lot of Maytag products like refrigerators are already being made in the US. They don’t necessarily have better quality ratings than foreign-made products.
The manufacturers are using the cheapest (i.e lowest quality) Chinese parts, and cheapest materials- like plastic vs metal or thin gauge metal vs thicker gauge metal (which results in “non-sturdiness”). Also thicker metals will add a lot of weight which will result in higher shipping cost. EVERYTHING is done to optimize cost and maximize profits.
To get what you want you would need to pay more for higher quality parts and materials… and I mean significantly more.
Yes. But once PARTS and PRODUCTS are tariffed then the price of these imports go up.
It may take a while but building in the USA using cheap imported parts does not allow businesses to participate in the 15% corporate tax rate the PDJT is going to implement. That also includes making the parts in the USA from cheap imported steel and metals. It has to ALL be made in the USA.
Smart businesses will hurry up and create manufacturing plants that make the parts from US steel and other materials. Those parts will go to appliance manufacturers here in the USA. THEY get to enjoy the 15% corporate tax rate. That is a lot of money saved. That means that more businesses will choose their route which mean more choices for the consumer and more competition for the manufacturers who have to keep their prices in line so as to sell their products.
Once upon a time we used to be self-sufficient in the USA. Then our leaders decided to sell out to the Chinese and told up that cheap garbage was the way to go.
It depends. Some components/jobs might come to the US, some won’t regardless of tariffs. The last company that I worked for (they make automotive parts and wiring) has many manufacturing plants in Mexico, paying their employees about $2 / hour. Even if tariffs are jacked up to 100% those kinds of jobs simply aren’t coming here with American workers demanding more than $15 / hour with tons of benefits on top of that, plus all kinds environmental and other regulations to boot. If anything it would just motivate the company to move those jobs to even lower-cost countries with no regulations whatsoever. Or possibly they would onshore those components to US-based manufacturing plants which are fully automated (robotics)… in which case still no benefit to US workers.
Just bought a new LG side by side so all good for now.
But in the last few cold days we had here, my 4 or 5 year old furnace quit. Probably the blower but since we’re in the period before AC we are letting it slide.
My last heater/AC was 20+ and never crapped out (till the end).
Five years ago when I bought my current home, the kitchen was totally remodeled and all the appliances are Whirlpool, made in the USA. No problems. I also had a Whirlpool Fridge, about 7 years old I brought with me, also USA made, and have not had any problems with it.
Has Whirlpool stopped making USA made products?
BMW – big money waster
Definitely not a money waster. One of my teens drives my wife’s 2017 X5. Not a single issue with it thus far, and currently at 110k+ miles. Don’t abuse it, take it in for regular maintenance.
I have driven Audis for the past 20 years, and they’ve both been solid.
You couldn’t pay me to step into an American car. German cars are on another level.
I am on my 4th bmw. They have all been great cars. Had two of them for 12 years before getting newer. Their safety records are superior and they really are a drivers car. I love them. I agree Carl, I wouldn’t drive American simply because they are made poorly.
Have you seen this interview?
We have been deliberately suppressed.
@California Joe-Automobiles are proportional to the size of the country and the size of the road network.
Between the lack of innovation in American cars as well as the high cost of union labor, American car manufacturing suffered. They have to build sound, dependable cars and offer a reasonable price, forget all the bells and whistles! I don’t need Siri in my car.
You may think foreign cars are better but I LOVE the old muscle cars. From my ’66 Mustang to my ’69 Roadrunner, to my ’81 Z28. I did have to grow up a few years later. There was nothing better for getting around in Houston traffic than that Z28 though. Now I’m out in the Piney Woods of East Texas 30 miles from the nearest gas or grocery store and I’m loving my “new to me” 2023 Jeep Gladiator. I don’t need no stinkin’ German car.
America made good economy cars, as well.
One of my favorites is mid-60’s plymouth valient, with slant 6 and push button auto trans,…simple, easy to work on, solid and dependable…economical.
Your myopic persistence reminds me of a chihuahua Joe.
It isn’t about the companies – it’s about the tariffs against American exports.
BTW – I’ll take an old “gas guzzling” American car made out of steel and built like a tank any day over the made with paper mache junk that depend upon dozens of electronic modules to operate. Also, your quality argument is a false one – some Japanese cars have become reliable over the years, but the EU stuff is pure junk, including most German cars.
See my post above. German cars are tanks and reliable as long as you take care if them.
American cars are overpriced garbage. $80k for a Yukon? PASS
Yep
You have extremely poor reading comprehension Carl. Try again and note nothing was said about newer American cars or SUVs.
Your experience with your BMWs is contrary to everything those I know who have owned them and BMW mechanics will profess to. Then again, you probably don’t see an issue with dumping thousands into replacement parts on a regular basis or don’t keep them beyond 4 years. To each their own.
American car companies, so full of themselves, suppressed or ignored innovation, rather than embracing it.
Examples abound, from the windshield wiper switch, to the Tucker, Cord, DeLorean, etc. American car companies have a long and storied history of stupidity, and using the gov. to help them, the key one bejing Demming, who tried to sell them on “Just in Time” and when they ignored him, he went to the Japanese and Germans, who embraced his concept.
Companies with a bloated, arrogant management deserve to lose market share due to bad decisions, that has nothing to do with trade, more to do with anti-trust and corruption. They had that hubris because they were able to elicit corrupt government to preserve their monopoly.
Noone has mentioned government regulation.
They have gasoline and diesel cars all over the world that get 40 miles per gallon, but the government will not allow them to be sold here.
The main reason American auto makers went to big SUVs is the CAFE standards. If you look in the door of your SUV it will most likely say truck. Different rules.
Tell me how JIT worked for everybody over the last 4 years Dutch…
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
They seem to be rallying around a rerun of the 2017 playbook—push a flood of fake stories to take down a big name, trigger investigations, and set off a chain reaction. What they don’t get is that media-triggered firings aren’t happening this time. Those aren’t the rules anymore.
Cont…
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Sean Parnell
@SeanParnellATSD
This story is simply not true.
Jenn Hegseth has never attended a meeting where sensitive information or classified information was discussed.
Cont…
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Maybe the better way is to deprive the Circuits of jurisdiction over nationwide injunctions UNLESS they take them en banc.
That forces the Circuits to discipline the district judges because of the toll it would exact on the Circuits.
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Margot Cleveland
@ProfMJCleveland
“Potential” brainstorm: Just remembered while SCOTUS now has near complete discretion over appeals it takes, previously some had to be heard. So, statute requiring SCOTUS to hear expedited appeal in any case w/ nationwide injunction entered against federal government. Solution?
3:32 PM · Mar 29, 2025
The lawfare is never going away because Trump/MAGA represents the will of the people. The ultimate goal is to negate MAGA/Trump by putting Trump in jail. Putting Trump in jail is not at all far fetched. Crush MAGA by putting Trump in jail. We are two years from impeachment if the GOP does not get behind MAGA.
A friend in PA who works furnaces anealing fuel lines just told me that the company she works for has work in progress stacked everywhere, and are issuing mandatory overtime scheduling to deal with the backlog.
Back in the 1980s when everything was made here, I pleasantly remember working Saturday overtime at 2x my normal 3rd shift 1.5x hourly rate. 3 days pay for one extra night. And customers happily paid the premium.
DOUGLAS MURRAY:
How the West can defeat the evil death cults that murder and maim with glee, writes DOUGLAS MURRAY who has stared into the eyes of Hamas brutes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14549227/How-West-defeat-evil-death-cults-DOUGLAS-MURRAY.html
We have a few evil death cults who
are in now in my country 🇺🇸 now….
The ones who in their country worship
The Bony Lady, child sacrifices, human
trafficking, fentanyl…skin people alive..
and other horrific acts…..
Douglas Murray can worry about his
part of the West…we will worry about
ours.
🌎◀️ we are here🇺🇸
Douglas Murray deserves high praise. He is a brave soul.
Canadian Banks Tied to Chinese Fentanyl Laundering Risk U.S. Treasury Sanctions After Cartel Terror Designation
https://www.thebureau.news/p/canadian-banks-tied-to-chinese-fentanyl
“The Tesla day of protest completely backfired today!
God bless MAGA! 🇺🇸”….
Video linked…
🤐
HA HA LOL
USAID was definitely Male.
Or at least appears that way from imagery on the front door.
R u sayin that Sammy Powers isn’t a woman?
Am I the only one that sees a phallic symbol pointing down?
Lol that is too funny!
@Dutch-Nope!! That’s why I almost choked on my coffee when I commented above ^^^
There are so many ways that a person can interpret this image. Ha ha ha.
Did the real men of DOGE take them down and lock them out?
Did the beta males of the DC swamp get castrated before entering the building? Or did DOGE do it and hang the trophy on the front door?
I love it.
FLASHBACK: Jasmine Crockett Attacked Byron Donalds for Interracial Marriage: ‘You Married a White Woman’
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/flashback-jasmine-crockett-attacked-byron-donalds-for-interracial-marriage-you-married-a-white-woman
This sort of thing “is not ok”. She needs to be censured.
The gentlewoman from Texas needs to remember that her constituents are diverse.
The first sentence of linked article:
“Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) once attacked Rep. Byron Donalds (R., Fla.) for having a white wife, saying Donalds “married a white woman and so you think that whitewashed you.” It’s unclear whether Crockett believes Kamala Harris is “whitewashed” for marrying a white man.”
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/flashback-jasmine-crockett-attacked-byron-donalds-for-interracial-marriage-you-married-a-white-woman/
Crockofsheet racccissss.
The edge of the seat wait for April 2, Liberation Day, is on, and apparently frantic phone calls are being made all around DC trying to lobby administration insiders over what tariffs will be announced . . .
But, what if President Trump is having a little fun?
What if . . . Liberation Day means real liberation, from the Administrative State? What if a SCOTUS decision is what is in the works?
Just a thought.
Not trying to hijack the thought, but it is for sure my liberation day. Leaving this place and moving to my favorite place…the ocean and the crystal coast in NC. Bye y’all!
$36.66 trillion in debt.
https://usdebtclock.org/
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
Good morning, Frank!
Howdy!
Federal Judge halts shutdown of Voice Of America
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-halts-shutdown-voice-america
Ya know, the fact of the matter here is that we must reduce the size of this government because look at what our level of debt is.
Politics aside, we cannot afford it all.. Period.
This level of debt is a national security risk.. perhaps that is how Trump should be presenting this- because it’s true.
Congress has absolutely got to act to do something about what these judges are doing.. or we’re coming after Congress !!
I think it’s interesting that the judges have turned the combined Judicial and Executive branches into another Congress. Effectively, we now have two branches of government, neither of which can accomplish anything.
No, they would like to have “four hundred plus little Presidents.” Your city council, your state legislature, your Congress passes “a law.” But then, one Judge, somewhere, makes a “ruling.” You are not ruled by laws – you are ruled by rulings. Until you no longer accept it. Then, it stops.
Don’t count on a Judge in the SCOTUS to tell another Judge that (s)he doesn’t have power. Ain’t gonna happen. They all crave power too much.
That’s the goal…accomplish nothing.
They are coordinating with someone.
A quick look at disposable vs discretionary income (haha mentions Dept of Ed…but I digress)…
Big gov needs to tighten their belt, much like those at the kitchen table.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/033015/what-difference-between-disposable-income-and-discretionary-income.asp
A judge can force a country to go bankrupt? Who knew?
Again, this is on Robert’s head. If he doesn’t take action and reign in these communist judges, we are cooked. The defiance of SCOTUS rulings and the usurping of the Executive by the radical deep state judges has now spread everywhere and involved everything. This is yet another example.
It cannot continue.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-blocks-oregon-city-center-scotus-homelessness-ruling-from-enforcing-ban-encampments
If he does not fix the problem, Trump is going to start declaring the rulings “unconstitutional” on his own Article 2 authority.
Ultimate goal is Trump behind bars. Nobody is above the law. They will crow. Lose in Wisconsin, it’s game over. Only option is for GOP to back Trump in Congress and we all KNOW (even if we don’t like to admit it) that the Uniparty GOP division hate/fear PDJT far more than the Tesla vandals. PDJT needs us to chase ballots and get out the vote in Wisconsin and Florida.
The problem predates the Age of Trump. It has just ramped up in the extreme.
The thing is, these district Judges are, or could be said to be usurping a power of SCOTUS, with these NATIONAL Injunctions and TRO’s.
When Scotus renders a ruling, like Chevron, for instance, it applies NATIONWIDE, and becomes the “law of the land”.
So, unless Roberts thinking or rationale is that he is just delegating that SCOTUS power to the inferior courts, he needs to ‘step up’ to preserve this authority for SCOTUS.
at least, thats one way of looking at it.
Wouldn’t actually be necessary. Trump could be the VP, but control Vance, just as the senile CCP puppet pervert was controlled. That wouldn’t rile up our domestic commies as much since it wouldn’t be so blatant.
How Trump could be president until 2037 due to a simple loophole in the Constitution
29 March 2025
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14536307/Trump-term-2037-simple-loophole-Constitution.html
‘I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear…’
Moments later, with a knowing smile, the new President of the United States declares: ‘I resign.’
His running mate embraces him in a bear hug. The crowd of hundreds of thousands on the National Mall erupts in cheers of ‘Trump, Trump, Trump’ and ‘Four More Years.’
Donald Trump has become President for a third time.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, or a MAGA flight of fancy. After all, as everyone with a passing knowledge of the Constitution knows, the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms.
But could a scenario where Trump remains in the White House beyond that really happen? The surprising answer from experts is – yes.
In fact, the path for Trump to serve a third term – and potentially a fourth until January 2037 when he would be aged 90 – is not only possible, it is simple, thanks to a glaring loophole in the amendment.
The key phrase in the Amendment is – ‘No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…’
It is argued that means a twice-elected president would not be barred from later reassuming the office due to the resignation, or death, of another president.
Trump could therefore run for Vice President, with Vance as an openly recognized nominal figure at the top of the ticket.
Once he is sworn in Vance could then resign, allowing his Vice President – Trump – to step into the office.
1 – I don’t think Vance has a shot in 2028.
2 – Didn’t people have a problem with Old Joe as President? You think people would be okay with an 85 year-old Trump?
I hate puppies.
DOGE daily accomplishments:
https://www.doge.gov/
morning Treepers………………………………….be well
Morning bjorkdream
Wow 🤩 awesome.
To God be the glory.
Thank you.
Have a great day.
Imagine a shriveling political opponent composed exclusively of abject “resistance”, being led around according to a subtly pre-fabricated game plan by a master gamer who’s preconditioned said opponent to go PRECISELY where he needed them to go….while simultaneously disarming them in front of said opponent’s shriveling base….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/white-house-correspondents-association-cancels-comedians-performance-annual/
Pretty sure the only way to improve the optics of the above scenario would be Judge John Roberts sitting on the dais wearing his best
I-Flunked-Trump’s-Impeachment face
The MMR shots being used contain a lab altered version of the measles virus which is highly contagious. Call it what you want, but in non-pretending terms it’s bio-warfare and since it’s for an altered virus, one has to question its efficacy against the naturally occurring version.
Oh – and it sheds like the mRNA C19 vaccine, infecting all those around.
Texas administered 15,000 more measles vaccinations this year compared to 2024—and now there’s a growing measles outbreak that has surpassed the total number of cases reported across the entire United States last year.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/texas-gave-15000-more-mmr-shots-this
ps. Mr. MAHA approved this insanity.
Saw Club for Growth Steve Moore the other day. Isn’t he a rino.
Maybe you could give a couple examples?
Moore is not a raging MAGA guy…but on almost every economic or financial issue, he is about as good as it gets.
Well here are three from Sundance – link below. He seems to be saying Trump needs to stop talking about Tariffs. I disagree. He also is a Freedman Flat Earth guy. I am not. A company I worked for gave away a 10 M contract I help win to India while we laid off people in our office. The company was promoting the Flat Earth book.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/02/facing-irrelevance-david-mcintosh-and-club-for-growth-reverse-course-now-support-maga-and-trump/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/31/follow-the-bouncing-ball-desantis-superpac-paid-club-for-growth-superpac-to-target-donald-trump-but-wait/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/29/vivek-ramaswamy-aligns-with-mcconnell-desantis-club-for-growth-and-wall-street-promoting-u-s-to-reenter-tpp-trade-agreement/
Know nothing about Moore, but I just do not believe in “MAGA-LITE”, or that a politician can support President Trumps America First policies, but not embrace President Trump.
For me, the two are inextricably linked, and anyone perporting to support the economic policies, but thinking anyone else could oe would
actually enact them, is crazy or lieing.
IMHO,..
Stephen Moore (born February 16, 1960) is an American conservative writer and television commentator on economic issues. He co-founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. Moore is a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. He worked at The Heritage Foundation from 1983 to 1987 and again since 2014. Moore advised Herman Cain’s 2012 presidential campaign and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Moore advocates tax cuts and other supply-side policies. Moore’s columns have appeared in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The Weekly Standard and National Review. Along with Larry Kudlow, Moore advised the Trump administration during the writing and passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. On March 15, 2019, President Donald Trump announced that Moore would be nominated to serve as a governor of the Federal Reserve. On May 2, 2019, Moore withdrew his name from consideration amid bipartisan resistance in the Senate.
Here is boy howdy interviewing Moore.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/politics/video/the-lead-steve-moore-economy-president-trump-stocks-debt-ceiling-tapper
Politico is a left rage, but has a few nuggets.
When his name was floated for the Federal Reserve, Georgia Senator David Perdue declared that he was “highly qualified for the position on the Fed,” while Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse gushed that he was “a sunny optimist and a thoughtful economist.”
Perdue and Sasse were Never Trumpers. I am thinking Moore got played by Trump. I think Trump is playing along with Club for Growth like appointing him to Fed. Res, knowing he would not make it.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/02/stephen-moore-withdrawal-federal-reserve-washington-226789/
Out of control leftist state government in Maryland continues on their path of insanity, talking “reparations” and creating new taxes to steal from their state residents – including an addition 6% sales tax on mattresses.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/far-left-maryland-democrats-just-passed-sleep-tax-next-thinking-tax
It shows two things – rehabilitation of leftists (Dims) isn’t possible and there are a ton of brainwashed voters that are so far gone they continue to vote for self inflicted pain.
I retired early in MD. At least I have unburdened myself somewhat from their ridiculous taxes, levies and fees.
Well, with a thinking tax……..lefties would never owe any. In fact, they would probably be given our tax money.
If they include all those fancy new memory foam and cooling mattresses that are adjustable…some of them run about $2500 dollars…that’s $150 dollars extra in cost/tax.
$2500 for a mattress? *laughing*
Mattresses and mattress-buying are another racket.
Yep.
Just the sheer proliferation of mattress companies in the last 10 years attests to that.
As bad as some Dim run states are, they don’t hold a candle to many of the EU countries, including our “allies.” Most are aware of the insanity going on in the UK, the elimination of free speech, the racist sentencing policies, the arrests for standing outside and praying.
Now Germany is returning to its totalitarian roots, intent upon outlawing “lies” (i.e. truth that exposes heinous government policies and prevarications).
A young conservative politician was arrested for having the audacity to publishing gang rape statistics related to immigration from Afghanistan. The publisher of a conservative magazine had their house raided, the magazine banned, and his property confiscated – including even things like his computer chair. Heil!
https://rmx.news/article/new-german-government-wants-to-ban-lies/
Why do we consider these cretins our allies again?
Paraphrasing VP Vance in Munich;
“,…if you continue to suppress/ignore your own people, we (America) can’t help you.”
Watched the “Flynn” documentary recently, its worth a watch. It was a good refresher on a few names I had forgotten, like Judge Emmet Sullivan.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30413525/
“The F-1 program was designed to foster “mutual understanding” and “international exchange.”Student visa holders are here to get an education in a spirit of good will. It’s a Cold War program to spread American values.”
“It’s essentially a foreign exchange program”
https://x.com/pointdumechabad/status/1905429540987699645
This is what I remember about foreign students in our universities, This was the original intent of these visas.
Various foreign actors and other parties exploited these programs, and today we have multi-faceted racketeering at our institutes of higher learning, and the foreign student racket(s) is one of the major ones.
Somehow having a few foreign kids going to school with our kids, which is a form of education, morphed into our kids being required to bow down to certain other cultures. That’s just one of the rackets.
With the infusion of foreign students, you would also see large infusions of money. You’d see that at state schools with large numbers of Chinese students.
This hasn’t been good for America and Americans.
Unfortunately we have an administration sold on the idea that the F1 visa is bringing in “the best and the brightest”, and apparently that American students just don’t have the chops, because we do not take the right courses, and also that we don’t raise our kids right(!). Both are flat-out lies, but as far as taking the right courses goes, that becomes true after a while, because the kids who did spend the money and do the hard work to get the degrees have found themselves on the losing end employment-wise, because they aren’t Indian.
Now, because one particular group is being disadvantaged by the flood of subsidized foreigners, we are attempting to fix the whole putrid stinking corrupt anti-American practice piecemeal, by throwing a few of the bad actors out, and adopting some sort of speech codes.
I could go on all day about how this doesn’t begin to fix the problem, but what for?
They don’t want these rackets fixed; they just don’t want us to notice.
F1 student visa is structured to circumvent regular immigrant visa requirements. It is possibly the MOST abused visa class. No policing, the schools obstruct any legitimate oversite, because they get paid. Failure by design.
This is correct. The Higher Ed Industrial Complex loves foreign students because they pay FULL retail pricing on tuition.
The legal system needs to be scrapped and start over.
Make an entirely new system, that is efficient and best for America and Americans.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/wisconsin-appeals-court-declines-block-elon-musks-announced/
Part of me doesn’t like this approach. But it is really no different than the Dems promising handouts to curry votes. Its just more in your face.
But I’m in the “whatever it takes” and “no sh!ts given” mentality now. They made the rules, not us.
Wisconsin republican voters have a long-standing bad habit of not turning-out at the voting booth when it really matters. There was a WI supreme court race a few years ago where the conservative candidate got trounced. Granted, he was a very poor campaigner and a proven election loser, but he was still way better than the empty-headed communist broad that won by a huge margin.
You would think the republican voters in that state would understand how much the state supreme court can impact their lives, maybe more so than Trump ever could. How can you not show-up while the democrats in Madison and Milwaukee are stuffing ballot boxes with manufactured votes?
Wisconsin is a toss up if R’s show up. That’s with zero election fraud.
Rules and laws clearly don’t matter anymore.
Knowing Musk, he’ll still find a way to stiff those people.
NOT just NPR.
Defund the CPB
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Jan 28, 2025
https://www.malone.news/p/defund-the-cpb
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) receives a yearly congressional appropriation of about $575 Million. Funding for public television comes from the government (at all levels) and the private sector in roughly equal amounts. Approximately 75% of the CPB’s funding goes to public television, while 25% goes to public radio. About 70% of funding for local NPR stations comes from government sources.
This in and of itself is astounding. How can over a half billion dollars a year from the US government go to supporting left-wing media organizations?
Absolutely destroys her.
‘How Much Reparations Have You Personally Paid?’: Rep. Gill Confronts NPR CEO With Her Past Tweets (5:24)
Forbes Breaking News
That’s a good point.
Back when I used to watch public television, I would see the commercials about how certain shows were paid for by a grant from some very wealthy person.
So, if the best stuff was being paid for by rich people, why did the other stuff cost so much?
Maybe it does, IDK, but it should be looked into, shouldn’t it?
Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn dissect NPR’s insane bias (5:49)
Jonathan Steigman
29 Mar 2025
The [NPR] sponsors, they were what we now call NGOs or, you know, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation. Now, we’ve come to see that those places were not the kind of objective and politically neutral institutions that we may have thought at the time… Through some life change, I didn’t listen to NPR for a few years and then a few years ago I turned it back on and it was unlistenable. Every single story had been stretched on the rack to yield a point about American racism, jingoism, stupidity or just general inferiority to what we might be or should have been. It was a guilt trip par excellence and it was endless and it was ridiculous because it was sort of like the opposite of Church Lady, Dana Carvey’s skits on Saturday Night Live where he could sort of find any phenomena and relate it to the devil. Well, NPR could tell any story, I mean they could talk about a 20 car pileup in fog on a freeway in southern Utah and it would turn out to be a story about gender or it would be turn out to be a story about, you know, slavery.
So glad that Matt Taibbi graduated from Mother Jones. He is a journalistic gem.
My subscription to his Substack renewed a few weeks ago. I didn’t have to think twice about paying again even though so much of of what his Racket News puts out can be found on Rumble.
The fathers of both Matt Taibbi and Tucker Carlson were sons of single mothers and offered up for adoption. I enjoy seeing them do well.
Language warning.
How Much The Left Was Sent in DOGE Findings.. | Joe Rogan (5:22)
The country that started the Industrial Revolution will no longer produce steel…
Geopolitical harikari
If there’s any measurable collective memory undergirding the pan-European foundation of Western civilization, it better rehab those scrawny appendages propping up what’s left before Belt-and-Road finishes paving right over the top of it
There isn’t, and we need to stop underwriting the madness over there. A decade ago I would have said that they need to feel the consequences so that they can change course. Now all I can do is weep over the ruins of our civilizational cradle and look forward to a very different world.
I’m going to give you an example of why the U.S. is de-industrializing. Since 2005, the population of the U.S. has increased 15.5 percent, from 295.5 million to 341.5 million. In the same time frame, electricity production in the U.S. from all sources has been flatlined at 4,000 billion kilowatt hours.
To support a larger population, electric utilities have made supplies to industrial customers interruptible during peak usage periods. Even if a factory has its own generators, if it is connected to the grid, its power is interruptible. Because factories, like aluminum smelters, need uninterruptible supplies of power to operate, they have had to close down and move offshore.
Windmills won’t fix this. Mini-nukes won’t fix this. Tariffs won’t fix this. Only investment in big, new thermal plants and the associated electrical distribution infrastructure can fix this problem. When we switched public policy from energy production to energy conservation, we essentially embarked upon a deindustrialization policy.
Would disagree with your mini-nuke assessment, which are very viable for industrial power sourcing.
The grid operators would divert the power from the mini-nuke to the grid during peak hours, interrupting the power to the factory, even if the factory owned the mini-nuke. Residential demand is always first in line for the power.
The EU and CCP are the locus of all globalists ambitions. De industrialization and globalism versus re industrialization and nationalism, the people have spoken in voting for MAGA. I would be happy to have that debate every day. In the BRICS vs. globalists debate, the United States more naturally lines up with the natural resources rich BRICS. Therefore the PDJT tariff package fits perfectly to save the dollar, buoyed by gold, and fortress America. Long live the Monroe doctrine, adios NATO, fare thee well.
Red Pilled…
Ian Carroll – The Dark Truth About the CIA (7:11)
Liberty Vault
29 Mar 2025
Right from the start, it’s been the CIA acting on behalf of their corporate interests, on behalf of organized crime interests, on behalf of the people that are at the top of their networks, whatever their personal interests are. It’s it’s been a real [ __ ] show right from the start… the way that Elon and DOGE are and the current administration are taking, it is only one angle of it as they’re going after wasted money through these corrupt programs, which is huge, but it’s part of this whole picture that is sort of the intelligence agency, like the deep state, like blob that’s been hiding behind the show that is Congress and American politics… I thought I was going to be starting my channel to like talk about financial crimes, like the GameStop world… but in researching how our government works, how money works and everything, I just realized that that blob, that intelligence agency, organized crime network, deep state, that is so important to understanding how the world works that I just naturally that’s what I kind of always have been reporting on. And that it’s all tied together because USAID is just a bunch of shell companies for laundering money into like either black budget programs or corporate programs or like just straight up fraudulent programs to enrich wealthy people.
Dude, it’s really fascinating because I’ve had mafia guys on the podcast… who say the the government is a criminal organization.
100%. I mean, one of the biggest red pills for me was just learning the history of intelligence agencies and how right from the very founding of the CIA, before we even founded the CIA, we were already in bed with the mob and the mafia during World War II. And right from the beginning, the whole point of intelligence agencies really not stated, but realistically it was to access organized crime as a conduit for government operations. And they and really intelligence agencies function in order to set up those sort of like obscure shell companies and corporate networks that allow you to access corporate and criminal networks so that you can do things you’re not supposed to be doing because if you’re allowed to be doing it, you would just send a military or send like a government government asset or send a diplomat, whatever, right?…the brief version is that Truman, the president that signed the CIA into reality right after World War II wanted it to be like a newspaper. He wanted it to be like just my information briefing. But the founder of the CIA, Alan Dulles, and all the people around him, they thought that intelligence gathering was like peasant work and they they thought it was [ __ ] and they were just utilizing that to get Truman on the hook because they wanted covert operations because they were all corporate lawyers. And really what founding the CIA was corporations being like, “F*** yeah, we can get the government to sanction violence on our behalf.” And so one of the first operations we did that’s really famous is we overthrew the government of Guatemala on behalf of United Fruit because Guatemala was [ __ ] with United Fruit’s land there. Allen Dulles who’s like the godfather of the CIA, he was a lawyer for this law firm that represented that fruit company. And so it’s right from the start it’s been the CIA acting on behalf of their corporate interests, on behalf of organized crime interests, on behalf of the people that are at the top of their networks, whatever their personal interests are. It’s it’s been a real [ __ ] show right from the start. And Guatemala is just one of numerous examples… So Truman signs the CIA into law and he the CIA always had funding problems…and that quickly turned into drug smuggling. And so the CIA in Vietnam was helping to cultivate the heroin in the poppy fields in Laos and Vietnam. Um, and they were smuggling that and getting black budget money from that. They were doing the Iran Contra scandal, which was cocaine trafficking, um, which has largely been exposed now from Central and South America. And it’s not really been fully exposed yet, but Afghanistan was the exact same operation where we go in over like the Taliban comes in and takes over Afghanistan and they outlaw opium cultivation and they burn all the fields down. They they destroy 90 to 95% of opium production in Afghanistan. And at the time Afghanistan was the world’s top opiate producer. And so that’s like big pharma hates that, the drug smugglers hate that, the CIA hates that. And all of a sudden we go to war in Afghanistan and then we have US special forces guarding the poppy fields. And on the Joe Rogan show, he actually showed the clip of uh man, I forget the reporter’s name, [ __ ] total clown going and interviewing a marine about like, “So, how does it feel to be guarding opium fields? This is like we have to do this out of respect for their culture because it’s like the most ridiculous interview ever because it was right in front of all of our faces.” And right then the opioid epidemic kicked off and totally annihilated my whole generation… It’s the same pattern over and over and over is sell drugs and traffic humans and traffic guns and do all these things in the in the shadows that you can kind of explain is for like national interest but needs to be kind of black operations. But those funds are getting funneled into black bank accounts that are then funding more operations. And you get this just like compartmentalization on compartmentalization on compartmentalization where even most of the CIA doesn’t know what they’re up to. Most of the special forces don’t know what they were up to. Um because it’s need to know and you just like it only takes one guy at the top to sort of like pull a lot of strings to help his buddies out and suddenly dude the deep state gets out of control. Yeah. And I thought I was going to [ __ ] research GameStop and suddenly I’m like, “Okay, so our government has been in bed with human traffickers and organized crime like drug smugglers from the beginning.”
It really does seem England, London in particular, has fallen into the hands of foreign invaders. I don’t think it’s recoverable. The UK is changed forever now. We are at least fighting for our heritage and culture. Those people left in Britain who are part of the heritage have stopped fighting and/or are outnumbered. It’s such a sad ending for the very birth place of democracy and independence.
“The director of the New Culture Forum underscores the rapid pace at which the demographic shift, often referred to as demographic replacement, has occurred. In 1961, white British residents made up 97% of London’s population; today, that figure has plummeted to approximately 37%—and continues to decline at a rapid pace, Whittle observes.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/97-37-think-tank-director-peter-whittle-dramatic/
BREAKING: President Trump has ordered that several historical monuments and statues across the country be restored after many were removed during the Biden administration.