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Shipping Nations Agree on World’s First Global Carbon Tax
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/04/11/shipping-nations-agree-on-worlds-first-global-carbon-tax
More ridiculous ideas from the green energy scam.
What a crock.
I wonder if this is getting pushed through to offset tariffs?
All the more reason to encourage domestic production though this will figure into our exports.
I wonder if chyna’s output of pollution will be reduced, due to tariffs?
China will be exempt of all carbon taxes.
Good morning, Colkitto. Please see my anecdote down thread of an example of virtue signaling amidst their confusion!
Ty my friend!
They bought the Tesla to virtue signal to their friends.
They sell them or destroy them for the exact same reason.
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They have NO virtues
Zurprised they aren’t keying their own cars.
Gotta replace the trillions in grift they are losing from USAID.
How long before they resort to outright theft from individual Americans citizens on a massive scale?
Boo hoo to our politicians who will lose their cut of the tax dollars they exchanged for bribes.
Am wondering how and where the auto insurance industry fits into this…you know they will…to their and not the insured’s benefit?
Yikes. Good point.
All insurance, not just auto.
The entire industry, I suspect will be part of the cleanse.
Think about how insurance and regulations influence/exert power and control over so much.
A puddle in your backyard is now “suddenly” deemed a waterway and is subject to over-reaching regulations. Regulations that change how “things” are insured.
It’s all tied together. That entire “power and control” Gordian Knot is slowly and steadily being “untied”. Untied by the Biggest Most Beautiful administration in all of our lifetimes.
Lee Zeldin from EPA is slashing through over-burdensome regulations “like a tremendous machine”.
“Gordian Knot is slowly and steadily being untied”
Thank goodness! They had planned to do what they are doing now in CA. Make insurance so unprofitable that insurers pack up and go home. Then they create a “state wide insurance pool“ that they control and that they can grift off of.
You don’t “own” your home if the taxes and insurance make you a life-long renter to the gov.
So true! We had a great champion here in Tennessee that tried with many of our legislators to do away this UnConstitutional tax. Phil Valentine was a Conservative nationally syndicated radio talk show host. He dominated the airways for years strategically lobbying to do away it. I do miss his show. He passed away from Covid and the Democrats shamelessly used his death to argue FOR those poisonous Covid vaccines and boosters.
I pray that Florida passes that legislation to lead the way for the rest of the country.
Texas is working in this direction as well.
CA FAIR will only pay out to a certain amount of what they have available and THEN they tell the insurance companies doing business in CA to go collect the rest from their customers in higher rates.
I wonder if that mole hill I have will be considered a mountain for tax purposes? OMG…I just realized what I did…made a mountain out of a molehill…
Exactly! That puddle in your yard now becomes reason for you to need flood insurance, which is outrageous, on top of your home insurance. My flood insurance is $2200 per year. We have filed one claim in 30 years. And then there is so much they don’t cover, like appliances.
Here in Florida, politicians give the insurance companies anything and everything they lobby for…
The politicians make the insurance mandatory; the residents have to buy it, and the insurance “premiums” go up each and every time a storm is forecast…
Meanwhile, our “governor” desantis sits on his butt and does nothing to stop it…
It’s always the lawyers or the insurance companies that get enriched somehow, isn’t it? Just imagine how many billable hours requiring due process for illegals to be deported will generate.
See the history of Preston Tucker.
USAID is outright theft from Americans.
It’s already taking place.
The whole “DOGE” thing is being done to “Highlight” that theft to We the People, the taxpayers who have been funding it.
The Theft is from the American taxpayers.
That is true and should not be lost in the discussion.
But I am referring to more personal theft, like waking up and finding your entire bank account transferred off shore, 401k’s somehow crashed with manipulation, theft of real estate deeds, phishing scams, fake ATM withdrawals made in your name.
As they get desperate, they won’t just stop.
Elon Musk was doing a great job identifying and pointing out government waste and fraud…
And then our “congress” votes to continues funding the very departments/agencies that Elon found were wasting our taxpayer $$$.
China wins again.
Speaking of carbon taxes and the climate scam. Mark Kelly has slipped about why he really got rid of his Tesla and why he bought in the first place. He didn’t buy it to “save the planet”. He bought because he wanted to virtue signal to his buddies in DC, he liked the performance, and it was fast. He sold it because Elon Musk called him names, Elon is cutting pet projects, and he again wanted to virtue signal.
“Mark Kelly Tells on Himself When Asked Why He Traded His Tesla for a Gas-Guzzling SUV”
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/04/11/mark-kelly-tells-on-himself-when-asked-why-he-traded-his-tesla-for-gas-guzzling-suv-n2187767
We also learned his usual car in AZ is the exact same gas guzzler he just purchased for DC. Hypocritical asshat!
Another one out of touch with average folk…
Most people I know, and I hang with average folk, do not have the financial wherewithal to buy such a vehicle and sell it on a whim, even my more affluent lib type acquaintances…
Can’t think of a single person I know who would ever buy one for any reason, even if they were dirt cheap.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is NOT an organization of “shipping nations”. See link below. There are 176 members who are same nations as UN Members. It is a UN Organization and it is a sub-committee of the IMO foisting the Carbon Taxes on the world is the MPEC (an environmental protection committee). ALL money garnered, if any will to the UN and not some nebulous committee. This is another attempt by the UN to Levee a TAX, just like the WHO.
Notice:
No mention of this being a UN Tax.
No mention that it was the MPEC (sub-committee) and not the IMO trying to levee tax.
No mention of the vote on the tax, if any was allowed.
International Maritime Organization – Wikipedia
Good to know. Thanks.
Part of the letter from President Trump, speaks to “reciprocal measures”…time to raise the rent?:
“President Trump has made it clear that the U.S. will not accept any international environmental agreement that unduly or unfairly burdens the U.S. or the interest of the American people,” the administration said in a letter to the IMO on Wednesday.
“Accordingly, we must be clear the U.S. rejects any and all efforts to impose economic measures against its ships based on GHG emissions or fuel choice,” the letter said.
“Should such a blatantly unfair measure go forward, our government will consider reciprocal measures so as to offset any fees charged to U.S. ships and compensate the American people for any other economic harm from any adopted GHG emissions measures,” the letter threatened.”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/04/11/shipping-nations-agree-on-worlds-first-global-carbon-tax/
I guess all those nations are agreeing to screw us.
Missed your reply before adding those excerpts 😮
Do note however that there was a list of nations who disagreed.
The U.N is much like USAID; same ‘ business model” as it were alomg with the Clinton Global grift.
20% actually does SOME charity, as cover for and justification of the other 80% which is grift.
We need to kick that evil organization and it’s tentacles off our land and out of our institutions.
What happens if the USA just doesn’t pay?
“The World’s First Global Carbon Tax”
That phrase reminds me of a recent comment/interview by Victor Davis Hanson regarding California.
He said California is the most heavily regulated and at the same time the most lawless state/place by far.
He uses his family farm as an example. As a law abiding farmer, he is subject to the heavy regulations and frequent inspections to ensure he is compliant. He always is and it’s an easy inspection.
At the same time, his immigrant neighbors are never inspected and are never subject to the over-burdensome regulations (complete lawlessness). When he questions the inspectors, they roll their eyes and intimate that they don’t even think about ensuring his lawless neighbors get into compliance. They never get inspected.
They just pick on the law abiding good guys. Different set of rules I guess.
All farmers are equal, but some farmers are more equal than others.
MAGA Minuteman: It’s the same with every profession and trade class in California. The naturally law abiding and compliant professionals and tradesmen fund the habitual law breakers and non-compliant. The agencies and departments that make the regulations and enforce the compliance exist to raise funds for salaries and benefits, primarily to ensure that the staff and administrative infrastructure to collect money remains in place.
Meanwhile, lobbyists for professional organizations and trade groups collect more money from the professionals and tradesmen, to pay salaries for lobbyists who benefit from more regulation and more compliance burden.
My work life is a never-ending battle against these forces of no good.
First it came for the shipping industry, but I didn’t work in the shipping industry…
Oopsie…did not see your link…see my post…BB conveniently does not mention the UN.
MNN Show Biz Minute
BREAKING…
*MONSTER NATIONS AGREE TO TAX INVISIBLE MAN
“We Didn’t See That Coming!”
Troublemaker10: The globalist carbon scam is infuriating.
Raise the tariffs!
The United States was notably absent from the meeting, which the Trump administration dismissed as “blatantly unfair.”
“President Trump has made it clear that the U.S. will not accept any international environmental agreement that unduly or unfairly burdens the U.S. or the interest of the American people,” the administration said in a letter to the IMO on Wednesday.
“Accordingly, we must be clear the U.S. rejects any and all efforts to impose economic measures against its ships based on GHG emissions or fuel choice,” the letter said.
“Should such a blatantly unfair measure go forward, our government will consider reciprocal measures so as to offset any fees charged to U.S. ships and compensate the American people for any other economic harm from any adopted GHG emissions measures,” the letter threatened.
Another reason to move manufacturing back to our shores and rebuild our maritime fleet.
More garbage from the “UN”… I wish our politicians had enough sense to get us out of the UN and get the UN out of the USA…
Ah yes, secular Indulgences. I’m sure the money being laundered is really helping the earth.
China Raises Tariffs to 125%, Prepares to Flood the World with Cheap Exports
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/11/china-raises-tariffs-to-125-prepares-to-flood-the-world-with-cheap-exports
Sen. Rick Scott Urges Americans to ‘Stop Buying Anything Made in Communist China — Buy American Instead!’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/11/sen-rick-scott-urges-americans-stop-buying-anything-made-communist-china-buy-american-instead
“Sen. Rick Scott Urges Americans to ‘Stop Buying Anything Made in Communist China — Buy American Instead!’”
Nice soundbite…we’ve all heard it over and over. But it’s impactable. Show me a list of alternate products made in America that are equal or lower in price than what we buy from China. Many items we buy aren’t even produced in the U.S. so competition is impossible.
I doubt Rick Scott does household shopping.
True. It’s difficult to compete with the cost of products made with slave labor. Americans should retain their right to also purchase their way into bondage via a crushing trade deficit and loss of middle class jobs in the USA.
Seriously, I’m also going to miss buying cheap things from China, but we have to keep the long-term picture in mind.
The problem is not just price. It’s a matter of finding most anything that is still made in the USA.
Once the short sighted stupidity of shipping manufacturing to an enemy is finally realized by enough people, the victim nation is trapped for some time into continuing to fund its enemy because such products are no longer produced domestically.
The CCP has proved the great truth of the old commie adage, “A capitalist will sell you the rope you hang him with” (due to inherently short sighted, short term profit seeking) to which I will add, “when BOUGHT governments allow them to.” Plus, we actually BUY the rope they hang us with after Wall Street financed the creation of their rope factories and provided, voluntarily or otherwise, the rope making IP.
And it’s even worse than that. Reversing the continuing internal damage to the US caused by China and allowed by Wall Street and their bought pols is going to take a lot, LOT more than just new trade agreements. We are deeply, DEEPLY compromised.
How Your Money Is Being Used to Fund China’s Military at a Massive Scale: Roger Robinson
American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times
11 Apr 2025
This is the full version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Roger Robinson. The interview was first released on Epoch TV on April 3, 2025.
Tens of millions of Americans are unwittingly investing in Chinese companies involved in military weapon production, surveillance technologies, and egregious human rights abuses, says former Reagan adviser Roger Robinson.
Through a complex web of investment vehicles and regulatory loopholes, Americans are pouring trillions of dollars into companies that directly threaten American national security, including ones blacklisted by the U.S. government—often without even knowing. Chinese companies often make up the bulk of index funds like emerging markets funds that many Americans invest in.
“You have … companies that are responsible for manufacturing China’s most advanced weapon systems,” Robinson says. “We’re funding, in some ways, our own demise.”
During the Reagan administration, Robinson served as senior director of international economic affairs at the National Security Council, where he played a linchpin role in Reagan’s economic strategy against the Soviet Union. He’s the co-founder of the Prague Security Studies Institute and former Chairman of the Congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
0:00:00 – Introduction to Chinese Companies in U.S. Capital Markets
0:01:33 – Roger Robinson’s Perspective on the Financial Scandal
0:02:46 – Trillions of Dollars Flowing to Communist China
0:08:17 – Problematic Investment Vehicles and Auditing Issues
0:16:38 – A-Shares and Chinese Stock Exchanges
0:22:25 – America First Investment Memorandum
0:31:01 – The Scale of the Financial Scandal
0:39:05 – Reciprocity in Financial Systems
0:49:31 – Investor Action and Awareness
0:54:39 – President Trump’s Stance on China
0:58:07 – Roger Robinson’s Background and Economic Strategy
1:04:59 – Historical Parallels and Military Buildup
1:10:53 – Impact of U.S. Financial Flows
1:14:11 – Pursuing Peace Through Financial Strategy
1:22:04 – Transparency in Investment Portfolios
1:23:49 – Call to Action Against Problematic Investments
And as anti-CCP investor Kyle Bass has said and others who have written books about this subject have implied, whether we knew it or not, we have always been at war with China because they have ALWAYS been at war against us.
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower – 2016 (the contents of the book prove that it WASN’T a “secret,” that it was just stupidly missed and/or ignored)
One of the U.S. government’s leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country’s rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world’s leading superpower.
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China’s rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the “China Dream” is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot?
By Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, was closely involved with Nixon’s opening to China and now deeply regrets that.
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Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept – 2019 (they weren’t “sleeping”; the mountains of cash to be made blocked their vision)
by Robert Spalding retired USAF Brigadier General, B-2 stealth bomber pilot, former U.S. Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché to China and Senior Director for Strategic Planning, National Security Council.
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Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win – 2022
by Peter Schweizer
I’ve said it many times…Nixon/Kissinger’s rapprochement with China is one of the most significant foreign policy disasters in American history. I can’t think of one good thing that came out of it.
China raproachment
Russia knockback (post Gorbacov)
Iraq
Libya
Ukraine War (US prompted it…wanted it).
The list of USA f foreign policy f*ck ups is pretty long.
And yet the Deep State critters go back home at night , look in te mirror, and tell themselves they are super great.
Mind blowing.
A few years back my sister and I made a load of beautiful, old fashioned, homemade/handmade Christmas ornaments and gifts to sell at Christmas markets.
Sold nothing at the first market. No one was interested.
I took everything to two more markets and sold two or three things and that was it.
Packed everything up and tucked them away.
This may be the year to try selling them again, and include organic herbal tea made from foraging Minnesota wildflowers, Wild Lettuce Tincture made from foraging Minnesota weeds, fresh ticked feather pillows made from old feather pillows and comforters that have been sanitized (and no one else wanted), hand knit mittens, scarves, neck warmers, and a long ago favorite, Crazy Quilts.
My husband and I have been saving life essentials for about 6 years now, for a time such as you describe. I have inside the house covered, hubby has the outside covered.
At least we pray we do, and pray we can bless others along the way, too.
I think you will do well. God Bless
Thank you. We don’t do it to make big money, heck, we don’t do it to even break even. We just sit around talking and in the background make stuff we like, which ends up “seeming” to be a good business venture, too.
Good morning Raven. I wish you were closer to me, I would buy your things. I love hand made crafts, etc. I am a quilter and have accumulated quite a bit of fabric (100% cotton, USA made). I will always buy USA made or I don’t need it. You and your husband have a wonderful and blessed weekend.
And I would love to buy from you, ma’am. Hand-made quilted blankets are favorites of mine.
Oh thank you Cristina. I usually do not sell my quilts. I make them for new babies, and young girls that are preparing to marry. Never really thought about selling them.
It is my art. Others paint, take photos, draw, etc. I throw fabric on the floor and choose which ones I think will make a beautiful quilt. It takes me a while, as I hand quilt them.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Good morning, PattheNavyBrat! I wish we were closer to one another, too, ’cause then I’d just give you some of our handmade crafts!
I went to a bread making class in someone’s home last weekend and decided to bring along a few different little things I make to give away to the host and other attendees.
I made a big batch of Jewelweed anti-itch oil last year and put it in cute vintage apothecary jars to give as gifts (here’s a link to someone’s ebay listing showing just the stopper of the jars I used — I have the jars and stoppers https://www.ebay.com/itm/175411177251), and here’s a link showing what Jewelweed looks like (https://www.thespruce.com/growing-jewelweed-plants-5088278). Jewelweed spreads naturally and grows like crazy in northern Minnesota. It is known to grow near Poison Ivy (yeap, we have that, too), and it was discovered that Jewelweed is a great anti-itch remedy for Poison Ivy (and lots of other) itch. So making an anti-itch oil in a Poison Ivy thriving area seemed like a smart thing to do.
The other thing(s) I brought were Flower Sugars. Have a dear Chinese friend who loves Peonies and told me that she’d seen Peony Sugar. When she and her family traveled to China for a month last summer I watched their house and plants, and I pulled all the healthy pink flower petals off her large peonies and made Peony Sugar for her. Then I made Lilac Sugar and DayLily Sugar and put them in cute little jars to give away.
Funny thing was that most people didn’t want to take any of the things I’d made and brought, until I walked around asking people if they wanted any of them when the class was over.
I don’t think I’m like other people, ’cause I would have been “itchin'” to get one-of-each ASAP just to try them.
Your fabric stash sounds wonderful. Reminds me of Little House on the Prairie. If things go bonkers in this world, you will have something that every little girl will want — a new dress hand made by mom (auntie/grandma), when no one else has a new dress for anything.
That sounds like fun to me!
Hope you have a blessed weekend, too, Pat!
Raven, I am quite familiar with Jewelweed tincture for poison ivy. I’ve also made Wild Lettuce tincture. I’ve got a lot of Wild Lettuce growing around my yard and pasture.
My old mare horse had arthritis and when I let her out to the pasture, she would seek out the wild lettuce. That is when I researched it.
During my research, I read that during the Civil War when they ran out of opium for the wounded soldiers, they used Wild Lettuce as a pain reliever.
The world of flora has so many benefits if one takes the time to research.
I enjoy talking to you. Thank you.
Very cool to learn that your horse has the ability to seek out what is good for her. God’s glory shows through all the creatures He makes.
When I first learned about Wild Lettuce I only went back as far as the early 1900s, when doctors were prescribing Wild Lettuce tincture at the same rate as Opium (Laudanum). But by the 1930s Wild Lettuce was out and Opium was in.
Opium, addictive and from a plant that does not grow freely everywhere you go.
Wild Lettuce, non-habit forming and from a plant that most of us have in one variety or another near by.
We’d have a lot to do together if we lived closer!
Whoops, correction, you and your sister.
Raven: It’s always a good idea to promote “Made in the USA.”
I completely agree with you!!!
“allowed by Wall Street and their bought pols is going to take a lot, LOT more than just new trade agreements.”
I just wrote a long post but lost when my phone died) on why I think that current corporate structure is the root of this problem and that I think we need to reimagine a new and better business vehicle that still promotes the enterprise of corporations without allowing things like 2008 to be VERY profitable to all but the taxpayer.
Hence, the tariffs, which are so high China can not absorb them, so A) in the short term, that “cheap chinese crap” will now be expensive chimese crap, even as manufacturers storm back into the U.S. to begin producing here.
The $ that has been fumneled to Universities where its wasted, needs to be diverted to Community Colleges and Trade Schools that work WITH the companies coming in to train up a workforce.
Great idea! Train up the new workers and get something back from educational funding. Win win for everyone!
Mike Lindell’s My Store has American Made stuff.. it’s a start.. Skeletor is an idiot.
I look at it this way, I prefer to pay a bit more if it means keeping someone employed or more employment and therefore less paid out in unemployment.
I still pay a local “milkman” to deliver our milk in the UK, even though it costs quite a bit more than buying from the supermarket
Good morning lookingforinfo. I really miss not being able to get my milk delivered. While growing up, we had a milkman deliver every morning. In the winter I’d get up and take the frozen cream off the top and eat it like ice cream. Mom and Grandmom would get so mad at me! Good memories. Have a blessed weekend.
PatttheNavyBrat: Our milkbox was by the back door, in our kitchen. I still remember the metal box and the sound it made when the lid closed. My dad was too thrifty to buy chocolate milk from the milkman. All we got was skim milk, with the foiled carboard cap.
Billrla, yes the metal milk box did have that distinct sound.
Have a blessed and wonderful weekend.
“I doubt Rick Scott does household shopping.” Exactly. Washington is so far removed from Main Street. And the embarrassing part is that they don’t realize it.
His comment shows how out of touch he is with shopping in America. I couldn’t find a simple electric can opener made here in the USA.
Go to an antique or flea market and find you an old Swing-Away manual can opener.
I found an (old ) one new in the box. Screwed itonto the corner cabinet.
Very easy to operate and lifts right out of the bracket for easy cleaning.
Made in St Louis, Mo
Paid $5 for it 20 plus years ago
Second hand beats Chyna
Thrift stores. I find lots of great items NOT made in China.
So what you’re saying is that you can be bought with cheap crap…
Just quit buying anything for now. Repair and repurpose.
Yes, that is what I have been doing for quite a few years. I take care of my needs rather than what I want. Downsizing is working great for me.
Very late to the party pal!!
I would and pay extra for it. Problem is, I looked for security cameras and they are all China made. It is very frustrating.
I also am looking for security camera/systems as well as outside lighting not made in china…..
it is impossible, but I am still looking.
I do not purchase in walmart or amazon as even the brand names are obviously not English….
I certainly do not want to purchase anything that can “explode” on signal like those pagers….lol…
“Let your fingers do the walking”
https://daveburroughs.com/made-in-usa-security-cameras/
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=us+made+security+camera&ia=web
Probably out of my price range. I guess I just use binoculars.
Desperate China Pleads with E.U. to ‘Jointly Resist Unilateral Bullying’ of Trump Tariffs
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/04/11/desperate-china-pleads-with-e-u-to-jointly-resist-unilateral-bullying-of-trump-tariffs
The Uyghurs were unavailable for comment. /s
That is a heartbreaking thing to think of, but true.
Ultimately, the Globullusts currently leading the EU are just as much in President Trumps sights as the CCP running China, whether they form an alliance or not.
For now, the EU has decided not to try going “toe to toe” with President Trump by trying to get into an escalating tariff excelleration, but it doesn’t matter.
China and the EU have each been ripping off the U.S for 1/2 trillion$, each for 30 years, and now its over…and neither regime IMHO can survive.
Regime change thru tariffs, instead if thru Color revolutions; instrad of costing billions, it brings in billions, and instead of being directed by unelected, corrupt globullust beurocrats, its directed by President Trump.
Jeremiah 29
11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘plans for peace and not for calamity, to give you a future and a hope.
Your plans are perfect, Father God!
Good points. EU needs to be extra careful as the member states will
have powerful people and industries seeing grand new US opportunities that make leaving the EU seem attractive.
morning Treepers………………………….be well
Good Morning! So peaceful, the beauty of God’s light shining through his trees.
Morning sir. Always appreciate your beautiful pictures.
Morning bjorkdream
Beautiful
Thank you.
I hope you are doing well.
Have a great day.
Good morning bjorkdream. So beautiful and peaceful. Thank you. Have a blessed weekend.
President Donald J Trump’s Republicans.
Morning Colkitto. This is a bigger story than most people think. The midterm GOP radio ads will right themselves especially in Communist won congressional districts that President Trump also won.
Now we just need to secure elections! I wake everyday hoping this is the one in which Sundance lays out his expose of the Clyburn/AME vote hustling scheme.
Morning, ty for the comment. Treeper Seth has been pounding election security with some great info and memes. I too share his concerns as I watched how the 1996 GOP Primaries were stolen from Pat Buchanan and his “Make America First Again” Populist anti-Globalist campaign insurgency. I’ve been waiting for Donald J Trump since then
Was Buchanan Robbed in Louisiana, Iowa, Arizona?
https://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins/tim96-03a.html
Bear in mind the GOP has been dictaying election outcomes, up to and including throwing the election to the Dems, rather than allowing a populist/nationalist to win, since WAY before Buchannan,…Remember Barry?
…and keeping margins in both chambers slim. To reverse any vote when dire.
ah yes, the secure elections caveat. It applies to everything Trump is doing and the GOP is doing that’s good for Americans.
These “big blue” cities are not as blue as people think and neither are the big blue states. If Trump and the GOP don’t aggressively go after the vote fraud, all he is doing now to make America great will be pissing in the wind. It won’t survive one week into the next administration. That’s a hard fact to chew on.
The States aren’t Blue, they are just painted that way.
But thats STATE R Party that is where that happens, and there is little PDJT can do about that; its up to US, and with half of our soldiers being conscienceous objectors, and insisting on registering as “Indies” out of spite, which means they can’t attend miuch less vote at County and State Conventions, we are handicapped in attemprs to vote out the RINOS and put MAGA into key, leadership positions.
DOA when it gets to the Senate. Wish that wasn’t so.
It doesn’t matter if it’s DOA or not … force those SOB RINO’s to make a choice, with primaries just around the corner.
You mean to tell us that Kamala wasn’t there lobbying the Democrats for one of her “proposals” just a few months ago?
That actually needs to go into the ads next election cycle.
Remember when the dem presidential candidate said no tax on tips? This is how much they intended to honor that.
The one “Republican” no vote was Thomas Massie.
Not worth looking up the 3 “not voting democrats” who were allowed to do so for show and local election purposes.
Kind of interesting results when you type “Congressional vote to remove taxes on tips and overtime” in any search engine that appear.
Tons of “fact check” articles are the first to appear … ALL worded exactly the same.
ALL those “fact checks” spun to say the democrats did NOT vote against “removing the tax” but were actually voting no vs the rest of the resolution.
CFR managed IC run Op Mockingbird fake news media. IMO one of our top enemies. TY Doc
That’s how I know what is true. If I google and all that comes up is fact checking and diversion, that is my answer.
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Just go to the official source!
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives – Vote Details
Is Massie now involved with that odious Christina Pushaw? I noticed after his wife’s death last summer (NOT EVEN A YEAR!!) he hot footed it back to D.C. in 2 weeks. And he has drastically changed his appearance which is a definite indication of a new love interest. Anyone got receipts?
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No need for fact checkers. Check the official record.💁♀️🤷♀️
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives – Vote Details
🤣 🤣 Now for the humor……
According to the official record…2 voted against—Massie and Spartz.
and article about the vote….Spartz even tweeted about not voting for the bill
her statement is in article.
Indiana’s Victoria Spartz votes against Trump budget, citing deficit
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So who was the one Republican who voted NO? No one has released that information. Was it Massey? He votes against PTrump whenever possible which is always.
I wonder if there are any people on this site from Kentucky? Please explain your choice of Reps and Senators..
You know it was Massie.
Not sure🤷♀️💁♀️
In article is tweet by her.💁♀️🤷♀️
Indiana’s Victoria Spartz votes against Trump budget, citing deficit
💁♀️ 🤷♀️ Then there is the “official “ record that states on the
roll call who voted against.
It lists 2 Republicans— Spartz and Massie.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives – Vote Details
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According to “official” record it was 2 votes.
Spartz and Massie.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives – Vote Details
In article is her tweet saying she didn’t vote for it and other statements 💁♀️🤷♀️
Indiana’s Victoria Spartz votes against Trump budget, citing deficit
Lol I looked it up and the mainstream media says “it could hurt the working class!”
Yeah imagine keeping more of your earnings. Might be a Democrat.
Most mentally ill Liberal-Marxist-Democrats want totalitarianism.
Never Forget..
And frankly, never forgive.
Never ever!
I lived in So. CA during the Covid mass hysteria (Do any of you remember the dude who was paddle boarding on the ocean and the cops were following him on the beach to arrest him???? This was in my community.) and will never ever forget how I was treated by people who I thought were sane decent people (and considered somewhat “friends”). I was invited/highly discouraged from attending my client’s 70th birthday party and told “if not vaccinated, please just send your well wishes to the birthday boy.” This from someone who felt so superior and virtuous by checking in people at a drive through vaccination site. It bugged the sh*t out of her that I wouldn’t “go along to get along.” I cheerfully declined the invitation to the birthday party because I knew even though she felt “pressure” to invite me, we BOTH were relieved that I didn’t go.
And oh by the way, this person who was triple vaxxed, contracted Covid and DID NOT disclose it to me. She exposed me to the virus and I did test positive. Since I was on a preventative ivermectin regime, I was only “sick” for 48 hours but out of respect voluntarily isolated for 10 days.
This is someone who would never in a million years admit that she was wrong on so many levels. I can’t stand people who are unwilling to admit they’re not perfect while expecting perfection from everyone else.
So much happier that I’ve left the state of CA. I’ve left some really good friends behind, but the majority of them drank the Kool-Aid. I just couldn’t live like that anymore.
And dear Treepers…these were your family, friends, co-workers, random strangers you passed on the sidewalks and roads…
Never forget.
I’ll never forget the time my husband and I went into McDonald’s at the start of the insanity.
I wasn’t wearing a mask and my husband was wearing a loose fitting bandana with it resting under his nose — as he ordered our food.
A “Karen” told him to pull his mask up. He told her No. Then she yelled at him to pull his mask up. There are few men who would speak to my husband the way, and here this crazy woman is doing it.
He told her, “Kiss my ass,” and in return she screamed, ‘F___ you, blah blah blah’ as she walked out the door.
I just looked at my husband and said, “Welcome to McDonald’s!”
“Tariffs, to protect manufacturers and jobs, were the Republican Party’s path to power and prosperity in the 19th and 20th centuries, before the rise of the Rockefeller Eastern liberal establishment and its embrace of the British-bred heresy of unfettered free trade.” Pat Buchanan
Black Americans Throw Support Behind Massive Migrant Detention Facility that Democrats Seek to Shut Down
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/10/black-americans-throw-support-behind-massive-migrant-detention-facility-that-democrats-seek-to-shut-down
Too easy to escape from. Needs to be off shore.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedlock_(film)
“The film follows a diamond thief sent to a prison which uses new technology linked explosive neck collars to keep its prisoners from escaping.”
Ya know…. I’m not sure I like that idea much.
There is an island off the coast of San Francisco…
Yep … and Alcatraz Island is still Federal Land to boot … managed by the US Parks Service.
India Sees ‘Opportunity of a Lifetime’ in Trump’s Trade Policy
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2025/04/10/india-sees-opportunity-lifetime-trumps-trade-policy
Those that come in good faith will be rewarded, those that do not are going to regret it.
“The Tariff of 1890 bears the name of Ohio Congressman and future President William McKinley, who said that a foreign manufacturer “has no right or claim to equality with our own. … He pays no taxes. He performs no civil duties.”
That is economic patriotism, putting America and Americans first.” Pat Buchanan
Speaking of…and wondering ‘about that Big Beautiful Desk’….
was anything every announced publicly about ‘the problem’ with it?
It was bugged, they knew every word he said. It was removed.
Little X gave it a blessing just before by wiping his booger on it.
This is the biggest danger for China!!
I remember, that in Trump’s first term, Ross suddenly had all this stuff with Buddhas, etc., available. It happened overnight.
The danger for China is that supply chains, once established don’t just evaporate.
The Traitors who hate Heritage America and want to destroy it, PDJT has called “The Deep State” The Council On Foreign Relations is near the top of this Deep State and has done much of the work to destroy our manufacturing, which was the foundation of our prosperity, security, and independence via “Free Trade” done by their direct member puppets GHWB, Clinton, or through administrations full of them like the other Bush whose administration was full of CFR and war criminal Neocons, and Obama-Biden.
DEI list for puppet Obama from the Council On Foreign Relations
Obama Makes First Appearance in Wikileaks, Receives Admin List From Big Banker
https://observer.com/2016/10/obama-makes-first-appearance-in-wikileaks-receives-admin-list-from-big-banker/
Michael Froman President, Council on Foreign Relations
https://www.cfr.org/expert/michael-froman
“ The email provides concrete evidence that a big banker played a significant role in choosing key staff members of Obama’s administration.
. . .
on October 6, 2008, Froman sent Podesta an outline of top cabinet positions. “The cabinet list ended up being almost entirely on the money.”
Things that make you go hmmmm
Civilian fraud infographic. According to the GAO, fedgov losses to fraud are estimated to be between $233 billion and $521 billion annually.
Add the actual losses experienced by US Government Agencies (especially IRS, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid): Fraud, Waste, Abuse, et al … and the total floats well above a cool $1.5 TRILLION
So, we’re talking a whole sector of the economy, thats going to be largely shut down.
And think of all the downstream effects,…ccould THIS trigger a depression.
All of the insane left and other corruptopians will most definitely be depressed that their money tree is chopped down.
Campaigns?
Act blue
Earlier this week, I made one of occasional forays into what was once known as Beantown for a couple days.
Upon returning, one of the most direct routes is through the portal formerly known as Cambridge, right through the center of the New England ‘resistance’. From Harvard Yard, Massachusetts Avenue runs straight for about 1 mile and as one approaches Porter Square, a billboard dominates the view at the traffic light next to the Stah Market Plaza (assuming it is still Star Market).
Back before President Trump’s re-election, after he made derisive comments about the governance of Puerto Rico, the Commies, utilizing the billboard with the assistance of the repealed Smith-Mundt Act, projected an image of a comely young woman and the words Puerto Rico.
This time, it read, RADICALS RUIN AMERICA.
I nodded my head, “Uh, uh, I understand this concept, though not your intent.”
Here I was in the village where the acolyte of the Radical, Saul Alinsky, hived for a time.
Radicals, such as the Kenyan, Senator Pocahontas, the Nanotechnologists, the Geoengineeringists and other assorted grifters have brought America to its knees.
Radicals employ psychological projection to blame their targets for their own actions.
Later in the morning, near home on the North Shore, upon finishing a job, I found myself temporarily on a small country road in a line of cars as a paving contractor was in action. Not being particularly brand aware of motor vehicles, I noted that the car ahead displayed a sticker on it’s left bumper, I Feel Shame For Driving this Vehicle!
IMO there’s nothing worse than a Limousine Liberal Socialist from New England like that hypocrite creep Sheldon Whitehouse who Gipper had the best meme of Obama that I’ve ever seen.
Yes, Colkitto, there is a plague of LLS in these parts 😩
He’s the worst.
If the Democratic Wing of the Univulture is philosophically consistent, they could none better than nominate Senator Whitehouse for their 2028 electoral loss, MTeresa!
You mean Sheldon Howell III?
“Say, old boy–could I have that sunscreen since you won’t be needing it?”
Rest in the Vine: My Negro: Getting Sanders Between Your Toes
at Sheldon Whitehouse’s Lily-White’s Only Beach Club
TY Gipper!
At least they had the sticker on the correct side of the bumper…..Trouble is, lefties switch sides so often, they don’t know where they belong. AND, they think they out number MAGA. If they do, and I don’t think so, we are in deep trouble.
I’ve got a car on my bumper sticker, Dixie.
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Bohemian Greenwich Village not so liberal anymore as crime, drugs push residents to beg for more cops
https://nypost.com/2025/04/12/us-news/nyc-neighborhood-not-so-liberal-anymore-this-is-not-dignity/
NY Parole Board’s lefty members — including one who married a murderer — make $190K and have freed 43 cop killers
https://nypost.com/2025/04/12/us-news/new-yorks-parole-board-stacked-with-lefty-cronies-earning-190k/
Not as easy as one might think.
How to Spot Made in the USA
February 6, 2025
https://allamerican.org/research/how-to-find-made-in-usa/
Thank you for posting this link. It was very informative and I will be using their guidelines when I make a purchase. Have a wonderful weekend.
They not like us… newish music parody:
Bill Maher does an epilogue about his dinner with President Trump.
13:13 minutes long. Warning Graphic language.
Early in 2016 I met Donald Trump while he was out on the campaign trail.
He was the most generous, kind and caring individual, and he treated me — a lowly nobody who stood in below freezing temps for almost 8 hours just to see him — as if I were the most important person on earth.
President Trump is a humble man who sees the best in everyone he meets.
He is also the leader of the free world.
He must show the world he is not a soy boy, and that is what he does every day, and what leftists hate.
Nah….the whole world knows already, especially the middle east (Suleiman and some guy who was handed a photo of his house)…he says what he means, means what he says and knows his plans are spot on.
That is why the whole world is beating a tariff path to his door….
I love that about him, too!
As expected … He says one thing to the President’s face but always wait at least a few days … until Maher retreats to the paid safety of his studio before assessing his intents and mind set.
Same as with his “criticisms” of democrats.
He is a two faced scum through and through. There is a reason that even Fox News used to refer to him as “Pig Maher”.
I bite and it was boring. Smart move by Trump to not create conflict. Pretty sure everything was recorded, so if he tried to make up shit, Trump could nail him. Kinda thought Trump was wasting his time. Maher’s pride in himself really shows. Probably the last clip I will watch of him. He reminds me of the kids we could not stand back in high school. Howard Stern fits that cat. too. They do what they do because they need attention.
I saw this video and was not impressed. Maher still speaks from a snotty POV as though he is still superior to the Bad Orange Man.
Maher still looks down upon MAGA. But he doesn’t think that Trump is a bad man. He just thinks that Trump has years to go before he reaches the level of enlightenment that Maher has achieved.
Wasn’t as graphic as Maher can be.
He missed something- the Trump he doesn’t see in the media? Maybe because the media doesn’t allow him to see it?
It isn’t even so much as they lie or make stuff up, they will show a partial clip and then put a headline that isn’t what the clip was about.
Maher should understand this, but maybe he doesn’t, because he doesn’t get coverage of every single thing he says and does, for comparison.
Also, Maher doesn’t LOOK.
I am praying today for the indirect talks between US and Iran. I have been reading so many things that each side has said and reports from sources. There are several factors that have made the talks more possible and give me hope that agreements can be reached.
Some government officials in Iran are encouraging direct talks and if today’s talks are successful there is willingness to hold direct talks. Iran has concerns because the people of Iran do not want a war. A war, therefore, could lead to instability for the current leadership. A lessening of sanctions would be beneficial for the country. They will not react well to threats to their sovereignty.
On the other side, US people do not want an expensive war with Iran. Yesterday I read that CENTCOM sources have admitted that the bombing of Yemen has been minimally successful if it can be said to be successful at all. Yemen was the trial run for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, using the heaviest bunker buster bombs. Iran’s military sites are much deeper and more heavily reinforced than those in Yemen. In addition, the US is aware of the ties between Iran and Russia and China. Another factor is the price of oil/energy when the US wants the price to go down. The US does not want a nuclear-armed Iran which would be beneficial to middle east peace.
So each side has a vested interest in having peace, rather than war. Agreement rather than threats.
I pray for peace.
Iran has the fastest growing Christian church. Afghanistan is number 2. Many, many Muslims are reporting dream encounters with Lord Jesus, praise God!
2 Peter 3:
9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Our God is Love!
Repost that Sheldon White Obama as Gilligan meme again Gipper. I still laugh thinking about it
while muslims come to the U.S. to influence americans with their islamist ideology. And some americans are stupid enough to fall for it.
We let them build Mosques which serve as training grounds for jihad. Just like AME churches.
Right on target. That’s why Spartacus Booker & the NJ/Newark Democrats sued the NYPD for their survelliance of Newark’s mosques after 9/11. They were worried they would get caught colluding with their Muslim Democrat terrorist buddies
+ Europeans 2.
Yes!
I have been doing some research lately 👩🏫 👩🏫
Fascinating…I haven’t had so much fun
since we were breaking through the Russian
propaganda narrative! 😁😁
Iran has some of the most beautiful Churches,
some are very ancient- each are unique
and beautiful!
There are currently 600 Christian Churches and
according to this article…1 million Christians in Iran!
✝️ ✝️ 👏 👏 👏
6 Famous Churches in Iran | TAPPersia
I believe the long time Jewish community in Iran gets representation in their form of parliament. The majority of Iranians are not Arabs. They are Shia majority. The fake Islam of Sunni Wahabism which is controlled by our enemies the globalists, hate the Shia’s and any associated with them. Their chant in Syria was “Christians to Lebanon, Alawites to the grave” and they are funded, trained,armed,equipped feed by the IC-Saudi Wahabbi pipeline. Once you understand this many things become clearer. BK would explain this better than me. The implications are shocking and encompass all three religions.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “Negotiations with the US were held in a constructive atmosphere based on mutual respect. It was agreed that the talks will continue next week.”
Peace. Its about time, just in general, for ‘generational changes’ to affect Iran and their mullah run Theocracy.
Am wondering if they have their own versions of ‘Millenials’, Gen X, Y or Z?
I believe the Yemen raids were successful because they have asked for a deal… they won’t attack any more US ships if the US will stop bombing them.
I also pray for peace 🙏🙏🙏
I am just learning….aka…trying to
break through all the BS…propaganda
about Iran🤬😡🤬
The country is Not what the propaganda
machine has been promoting for decades.
Jeez….after all the propaganda about Russia…
I wasn’t too surprised…🤬
Iran is beautiful!
They were helping Dr Assad fight off the IC-Saudi-UAE-Turkey etc Sunni Wahabbbi terrorists including the ones they told us did 9/11. I said all along once the Syrian stage of Clean Break began that if the War On Terror was real, we should have been allied with Secular Syria. Syria helped us after 9/11 and has a large and old Christian & other minority communities that the Assad family has long protected. Allot of the Armenian Christians fleeing from the Holocaust against them found refuge in Syria.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mark-carney-vows-to-provide-sterilizing-puberty-blockers-to-children-without-exception/
How Chinese Imports Are Leveraged In Cyberattacks
Apr 11, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/how-chinese-imports-are-leveraged-cyberattacks
Excerpt:
Chinese Malware Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones
Sending Americans’ most sensitive personal information directly to China probably wasn’t what the Federal Communications Commission had in mind when it decided to subsidize affordable mobile phones for millions of low-income Americans.
That’s exactly what happened, however.
Beginning in 2015, a wide range of budget Android phones manufactured by American company BLU in China were systematically preloaded with malware by suspected Chinese state-backed actors.
Those phones were found by cybersecurity company Kryptowire to have been preloaded with malicious software by the Shanghai Adups Technology Company, an opaque IT services company established in China in 2012, with which BLU had contracted to provide service updates for its devices.
The Adups malware operated at the most foundational level of the phones, including in the wireless update and settings apps, meaning that the malware could not be removed without rendering the phones unusable.
For years, Adups collected granular location data, contact lists, logs for calls and texts, and even the full contents of texts from Americans’ phones. Some of the phones even allowed remote actors believed to be based in China to take screenshots or otherwise seize control of the devices.
To make matters worse, all that data were encrypted and sent back to a server in China, where Chinese Communist Party (CCP) law mandates that information is a national resource, effectively transferring Americans’ most personal data directly to the regime.
That doesn’t happen without our government looking the other way.
“Those phones were found by cybersecurity company Kryptowire to have been preloaded with malicious software“
The government could have easily added random quality control on their purchase to prevent this.
If you notice, this truth is never talked about, even their wording calling them liberals,progressives, Democrats and never calling them what they really are marxists,communists, totalitarians. Its the Hegelian Dialectic, of having two parties faking opposition while really working together. PDJT has been exposing this. Even the Con Inc Fabian Faux News media side. Ty for your comment, I enjoy hearing personal stories of people running into this HD setup of fake right vs fake left
Vol_XXVIII_No_6_Sep_2002.pdf (ymaws.com) Virgina Bar, Hon. D. Arthur Kelsey:
In 1857, the Dred Scot case came before the Supreme Court. Chief Justice and Democrat Roger Taney wished to wreck the new Republican Party and settle the slavery issue on terms favorable to the South. When the Court’s majority under Taney asserted that the black man had no citizenship rights “that any white man was bound to respect”, that was too much for Associate Justice Benjamin Curtis.
Curtis eviscerated the majority’s opinion in his dissent.
Methodically, Curtis proved that the voting and citizenship rights of black freemen had been recognized by at least five states at our Founding; and that Congress had acted fourteen separate times under seven different presidents, beginning with Washington, to limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
As a matter of principle, he and fellow dissenter Justice John McLean then resigned from the court.
Justice Benjamin Curtis, ‘Dred Scott’ dissent:
“To engraft on any instrument a substantive exception not found in it, must be admitted to be a matter attended with great difficulty. And the difficulty increases with the importance of the instrument, and the magnitude and complexity of the interests involved in its construction. To allow this to be done with the Constitution, upon reasons purely political, renders its judicial interpretation impossible because judicial tribunals, as such, cannot decide upon political considerations. Political reasons have not the requisite certainty to afford rules of juridical interpretation. They are different in different men. They are different in the same men at different times.
And when a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution; we are under the government of individual men, who for the time being have power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of what it ought to mean. When such a method of interpretation of the Constitution obtains, in place of a republican Government, with limited and defined powers, we have a Government which is merely an exponent of the will of Congress; or what, in my opinion, would not be preferable, an exponent of the individual political opinions of the members of this court.“…….
Why is this important to us today?
In the cultural waters in which we all now navigate, we’re beginning to lose sight of the shoreline, our safety; the Constitution, for which our Founders labored so long and fought so hard.
Too many people assume that the proper role of judges is to wander the legal landscape, “doing good”. As More told Roper, that is a pernicious, liberty-killing doctrine, contrary to the very concept of self-rule and the Consent of the Governed.
We barely even know what actual Constitutional jurisprudence look like anymore.
Justice Curtis’ dissent shows us what real Law and real judges look like.
He made his case by grounding it in the actual words and meanings of the Constitution–the “Actual” Constitution. He cites historical precedent, Congressional actions, The Declaration, The Federalist Papers, the state ratifying conventions, Blackstone’s Commentaries, the Magna Carta. He quotes Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Morris.
You’ll not find Justice Curtis cite a ‘Living Constitution’ anywhere. No deference did he give to any contemporary, unelected European tribunals, bodies to whom no American ever consented to be ruled. No sweeping pronouncements of Philosopher-Kings, such as the famed ‘Sweet Mystery of Life’ dictum: “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”
If that’s in your Constitution, you may be French.
In Justice Curtis’ wide-ranging dissent, he speaks of treaty law, limited government, the role of courts and of Natural Law… yet his penumbra never emanates.
So pause to remember what happened to our nation the last time the courts ran amok, “doing good” because they alone knew goodness, flattening all the laws in their mad rush to catch the Devil. It was disaster.
We don’t need kings. We are fit to rule ourselves. We, the People are not moral ogres. We don’t need to be shunted aside, our opinions discounted, words put in our mouths by those who wish to short-circuit the agreed-upon process. The whole purpose of Our Charter is stop such concentrations of unaccountable power.
The Court was never meant to be a Nitzchean “will-to-power”-grab by those who know what they want and mean to have it, and impose it on us by whatever wordy pretext is nearest at hand.
No. Let’s make for that shoreline instead. Our safety. Our rock. Our beacon;
Our Constitution. Our Actual Constitution. …….
“What is this “Hawaii Judge”-meme of which you speak?”
ps; If we assert the Absolute Supremacy of Supreme Court Rulings, we are saying we should return the Runaway Slaves to their owners. Lincoln refused–and so should we.
Rest in the Vine: A Man For This Season: Justice Benjamin Curtis and Our Constitution
Excellent!
A favorite part of mine from the article:
“Remember this: every filthy scheme they have used against President Trump and his team, they hope one day to use regularly upon everyday citizens. It’s the Deep State Broken Windows Theory at the Seth Rich Memorial Justice Building. They will be forced to commit new crimes to cover-up the old crimes ad infintum, as we see this very day.
And that is why there must be a Reckoning.”
YES, a reckoning in needed without doubt.
It doesn’t stop until we make it stop. That is why I will scream from the rooftops that the new DOJ/FBI needs scalps to send the message.
JMO.
The “vast majority of the multi-thousands of federal employees” who weaponized the biden’s Executive Branch of the federal government against Americans for the past 8 years are still in the 2025 Trump Executive Branch of the federal government …… largely in the DOJ and the 3-letter agencies ….. and they continue to ply their treasonous wares, dangerously unabated.
Executive action by the Commander-in-Chief is urgently required to finish a critical task of the 2025 MAGA / America First Executive Branch: Removing those responsible for weaponized the Executive Branch of the federal government against its citizens for the past 8 years.
The planned removal of the biden Executive Branch, treasonous thugs during the 2025 Executive Branch transition never got off the ground.
Elon tried to bring D.O.G.E. into those departments but was kept out by the cabinet and department heads ….. leaving the vast number of employees, who weaponized the Executive Branch of the federal government against its citizens for the past 8 years, within the walls.
It is obvious that the heads of the 2025 Trump Executive Branch DOJ and the 3-letter agencies are protecting the treasonous biden employees from being fired, for cause.
No doubt, the b-bondi, patel, ratcliff, management trio are performing below the “‘acceptable performance” level to bring law-and-order back to the 2025 Executive Branch ……… their # 1 transition JOB.
It has gotten so bad that Tom Fitton and his team at Judicial Watch have felt the need to file suits this week against b-bondi.
The problem has risen to the level of Executive Action by the Commander-in-Chief.
That Executive Action would entail ordering the immediate removal of the multi-thousands of federal employees” who weaponized the biden’s Executive Branch of the federal government against Americans for the past 8 years. ….. using all means and personnel at his command across the broad spectrum of the Executive Branch ….. irrespective of the b-bondi, patel, ratcliff, management trio’s objections.
MAGA isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
We should acknowledge that America is in a civil war as well as a trade war. There’s no point in dancing around the fact that Trump’s opposition would relish a financial crisis to get rid of him or tie him up in courts again.
And that team Trump at the FBI and DOJ are investigating sources of stunning wealth in the congress aligned with evidence discovered by DOGE at USAID and other departments.
Foreign influence is probaly connected to both parties and many prominent businesses. None this stuff is good.
Its a GLOBULL Spiritual, cultural war being fought on many fronts, economic, psychological, political, and of coarse Spiritual, for the soul and future of humanity.
I mean, if we’re gonna aknowledge, might aa well do it up right!
Of course he did because it’s absolutely hilarious. “Will the person who robbed the local bank please come forward to register himself with the government.”
The illegal alien tip line is almost as hilarious. I’m sure it won’t be overwhelmed with false tips.
I’ve posted multiple times that modifying the one paragraph in a US Code that effectively forbids employers from verifying that the IDs of illegals aren’t fraudulent and another US Code in existence since the 50s which, if actually enforced, would mean prison time for any governor, mayor, or NGO moving or harboring illegals, would be very fast ways to fix the illegals problem. However, those would crash the economy, so they don’t do them.
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward
A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government
April 10, 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-allows-requirement-us-illegally-register-move-forward-120695687
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Failure to register will hasten any “legal proceedings” to which they claim to be entitled when caught, as well as enable the confiscation of their assets.
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It doesn’t have to crash the economy. Using green cards and requirements requiring aliens not be using public assistance programs and other things like requiring employers to provide emergency health care pools for “named” immediate alien family members could fix it.
Employers don’t like this idea because they currently don’t have to pay a living wage when they can buy politicians to force the middle class taxpayers to keep their payroll costs down.
You don’t think that they know where almost all of the illegals are? They get SNAP, welfare, SS, SSDI, State IDs, Free Housing, Free medical care, Free schooling, Child Tax Credit on Tax Returns (that money has to be wired to a bank account), Student Loans, and more.
Of course, many of them are not going to volunteer themselves to leave but many will feel the noose tightening and choose to leave. Those remaining will start to feel nervous and they may think about it and leave.
This causes illegals to leave in gradual numbers so that employers can start raising wages to hire Americans. In the end, if they want the 15% corporate tax rate then they have to hire Americans.
Psyops can work both ways, right?
They can hire H1B to get around paying Americans more.
We are already seeing that.
And I have posted numerous times, its not about method, its about WILL.
The Anerican people, in large majority have the will to have secure borders and elections..
The political class, and elites, by a large majority do NOT, in fact their WILL is strongly against either.
Hence, putting a lot of effort into methods, and how to’s, without addressing the fundamental roadblock of political will is a waste of effort.
For instance, your suggesting two simple changes to Federal law, which would require a majority of Congress and a President to sign; political will, …or in this case won’t, is currently lacking.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), which is trying to levee a world wide carbon tax, is NOT some independent organization of “shipping nations”. See link below. There are 176 members who are same nations as UN Members. It is a UN Organization and it is a sub-committee of the IMO foisting the Carbon Taxes on the world is the MPEC (an environmental protection committee). ALL money garnered, if any, will go to the UN and not some nebulous committee. This is another attempt by the UN to Levee a TAX, just like the WHO.
Notice:
No mention of this being a UN Tax.
No mention that it was the MPEC (sub-committee) and not the IMO trying to levee tax.
No mention of the vote on the tax, if any was allowed.
International Maritime Organization – Wikipedia
Tom Fitton is suing the Justice Department and FBI for the Epstein files and information on Epstein’s death and information on why the release has been delayed. Bondi and Kash are likeable enough but they have to clean out the stables.
He is on Warroom this morning telling Trump to appoint a Special Prosecutor from outside Main Justice to look into Lawfare.
They should at least have to explain how the Epstein files could possibly be a matter for national security. Someone should ask Tulsi that right now.
Also ask Bondi why she said she had all that stuff on her desk.
I am having a hellva time find this hearing on cspan. It like they on purpose are hiding it. Found it on the Senate Page
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-nominations-aaron-lukas-be-principal-deputy-director-national-intelligence
As a reminder. The Democrats consistently tried to Level the Playing Field with China. They attempted to pass a Bill with that very name for 9 years, 2015-2023 without ever doing so. They even wanted to change the De Minimus rule of allowing goods under $800 in the country without duties. Now they are all out screeching that President Trump’s tariffs and negotiations with China are bad, or as all of their MSM propagandists are yelling, “CHAOTIC”. This is an article from Politico in 2022.
You will live in interesting times.
“With Trump gone, Republicans look to weaken his China tariffs”
Excerpts:
House Democrats, labor allies and populist groups that supported Trump’s tariffs are all lobbying for the more aggressive trade provisions included in the U.S. COMPETES Act the chamber approved in February. Among other things, the bill would impose tariffs on small-value imports from China, strengthen federal tariff tools against Beijing, renew relief funding for victims of offshoring, and impose new government screening on U.S. firms that invest in the Chinese mainland.
Today, the provision allows any package worth under $800 to enter the U.S. without tariffs, increased from $200 in 2016. Meant to lower prices for consumers and small businesses, the law has been used by fast fashion companies like Shein to flood the American market with cheap, Chinese-made clothes. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), the head of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on trade who has championed rolling back the provision, estimates more than 2 million packages enter the U.S. duty-free under the provision each day, about 80 percent of them from China.
The stricter trade provisions in House Democrats’ bill are also supported by a number of labor unions including the AFL-CIO, Steelworkers, Teamsters and labor-aligned groups like the Alliance for American Manufacturing, as well as domestic corporate groups like the National Council of Textile Organizations and U.S. Footwear Manufacturers Association. All of those groups signed a letter to lawmakers urging them to fight for a provision in the House legislation that would impose tariffs on small-value imports from China.
The tariff provision is a key priority for House Democrats in the coming conference committee negotiations, said a Democratic staffer with knowledge of the plans. So is renewing and expanding Trade Adjustment Assistance, a $22 billion program to provide relief payments to workers whose jobs have been sent overseas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/competes-act-china-tariffs-republicans-00026990
One of the largest themes I’ve noticed is the huge disconnect between business/Wall Street and Main Street, especially how it relates to China. We have sleazy corporatists and the mainstream media screaming nonstop about how we need cheap goods from them, and the world will come to an end if we disrupt trade. How did people survive in the 60s, 70s, and 80s? For all this nonsense, it seems like America did a pretty good job of manufacturing what it needed. Apparently now, that’s a strategic impossibility.
What person in their right mind doesn’t want to leave China? Say good riddance, and we never want to hear from you again. I’ve made it well known that I want their entire economy to collapse. I don’t care what happens to them, it’s not our problem. They are evil and ruthless, and I want to be ruthless right back. That is the only language they understand. They lie, cheat, and steal and cause us nothing but problems. I couldn’t care less about helping Xi “save face.” Almost every economic and military issue we encounter somehow involves China, and I’m convinced we’re seeing the high cost of a low price.
What’s unfortunate is how resistant and arrogant our business community is. Instead of saying we see the negative sentiment, we’re going to transition out of there, they just go on TV and lecture us. We’re too stupid to understand the importance of China in the economic picture. As much I hate to admit this, I get that the concept of complete reshoring back to America is a near impossibility at this point, but there are other options. I work for a manufacturing company, so I understand the general mentality. Almost any other Asian country or Mexico would be friendlier. The problem is that they have the carrot of 1 billion people being dangled in front of them, and they’re too greedy to abandon that potential market.
We have to apply significant pressure or nothing is going to change. This morning, the news broke that the tariffs will exempt many electronics (smartphones, TVs, computer chips, etc). I understand why this is happening, but it’s another factor that will make it business as usual for many companies. We have to change the mindset and general perception of consumers. I swear that we should start a Super PAC on this forum and run nothing but YouTube and TikTok ads hammering China and sleazy politicians. That seems like the only way to get it through people’s heads. Seeing an ad saying that China is not our friend 24×7 and perhaps the paradigm will shift, especially with younger generations.
I do hope that President Trump applies significant public pressure on these companies and shames the ones who don’t take action. Shift out of China or else. Incentivize them, give them tax breaks, whatever is needed to get it done. It’s a matter of national security. My biggest concern is probably his comments about wanting to make a deal with China. There’s not a lot I know for sure, but one thing I can tell you is that a trade deal with them will be a mistake. A big one. The reason I say this is because they don’t honor agreements. Take a look at the trade deal that was done in President Trump’s first term. Does anyone remember the actual details of what was signed? It turned out to be a toothless disaster. They fulfilled none of the terms, and they were not penalized in any way for not doing so. They can waste three weeks negotiating a new deal, but this one will be no different. They’ll be laughing at us on their way back to China. I hope that President Trump follows the Peter Navarro strategy and keeps high tariffs on them. This will cause a seismic shift out of the country, and it’s the only possible avenue I see for success.
I haven’t heard him mention anything about rare earth mining and processing recently. That’s something that needs to happen ASAP. We have substantial reserves in California, Wyoming, Texas, Alaska, Colorado, Montana, Utah, and likely other states. It’s time to tap those. Get the EPA to rubber stamp the plans and get moving. The sooner we have processing capability, the better. If we become proficient again in this area, I would expect to see manufacturing flourish again in America.
This is my rant for the day. I hope we see great progress in the coming weeks/months.
Well said: “seeing the high cost of a low price.”
Just a note of clarity:
“takeaway” = UK Speak for take out or left overs.
“White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt prays before facing reporters”
“Lord Jesus, please give us the strength, the knowledge, the ability to articulate our words and have fun and be confident. In Jesus’ name. Amen,”
She’s perky in a good way.
St Michael’s prayer might be appropriate
I read the following article, from BB, link follows…and went further…looking up the “International Maritime Organization”…the UN’s dirty and grifty paws are all over it. No where, BB mentions the affiliation.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/04/11/shipping-nations-agree-on-worlds-first-global-carbon-tax/
https://www.imo.org/en/About/Pages/Default.aspx
https://www.dco.uscg.mil/IMO/
Yep … I dropped a note on BB stating the same, which included my comment above.
I saw that…ah am late to the party…
By no means at all, are you late.
Allot of folks do not go back to read entire threads, so repeating stuff is never a bad thing.
Well, thank you…am getting older and don’t want to be accused of having dementia, LOL.
Food for thought…
I wonder what the curriculum at King’s Point, Maine Maritime or California Maritime are teaching in regards to shipping and climate? At one point, KP had drank the kool aide.
Anybody know?
I pointed this out at the time and had exactly the same suspicion as now. They implied that Trump justified this, but we all know what it was actually all about, don’t we?
Dozens of House Democrats want Biden to give up sole authority to launch nuclear weapons
‘Vesting 1 person with this authority entails real risks,’ the letter reads
February 24, 2021
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-biden-rescind-sole-nuclear-capabilities
“Vesting one person with this authority entails real risks,” the letter from Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., and obtained by Politico reads. “Past presidents have threatened to attack other countries with nuclear weapons or exhibited behavior that caused other officials to express concern about the president’s judgment.”
In conjunction with the Doge activity the Administration should empower the Army Core of Engineers to aggressively hire prospectors and turn them loose in Alaska. Seward bought Alaska for America, so why shouldn’t the American people benefit from the fortune in gold still in the ground as posed to private enterprises reaping the rewards. Conservative estimates indicate that $60,000,000,000 dollars of gold is still left in the state. The process for getting this gold is to flood the state with Army Core of Engineers prospectors looking for the valleys full of gold. Then send in the miners. The initial investment would be for helicopters and small planes, as well as prospector training. This gold belongs to the American citizens. Let’s go get it!!
Is this what Jim Rickards is talking about? A treasure purchased and laid up for our benefit by our government in the 1800’s and held back, POTUS is about to unleash it? And its value would pay our national debt 4 times over?
He sounded kind of nuts, but this would fit his description.
We have the gold?
And the true reason for ANWR wasn’t to protect the reindeer, but to stop us from knowing about or mining the gold?
Is that what you are saying?
Not aware of the points you are making. Just had the idea while watching one of the Gold Mining shows. I figured why shouldn’t the American citizens benefit from what is rightfully ours. Plus I am convinced that the odds are that there is a mountain of Gold out there.
I would prefer them facilitating a bit more capitalist approach.
Ripping through the state of Alaska is not an ideal policy. This needs to be well planned and thought out before committing to it.
The bay next to the Swamp is looking a little rough today.
Wes Moore is really effing up Maryland is all I have to say.
No “Moore” Taxes
My daughter just had someone hack her account at one of those online shopping sites.
I’m wondering if this was random, or does it have anything to do with the trade war?
It begins!
Make sure to lock all accounts at the credit agencies. I keep a permanent lock on mine and make exceptions when I need credit.
Hard to say, it happens every day
Yes, it could be just coincidence.
I wonder whether there is or was an ICE detention request out for this defendant, and whether every person quoted in the story knows a fact they are all resolutely ignoring.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/04/verdict-in-for-man-who-ran-over-montgomery-co-officer-while-going-more-than-100-mph/
This should have an interesting Impact on the bonds being floated by China Inc. to make up for the losses China Inc. is incurring via subsidies and currency manipulation being done to counter the Tariff’s and low USD value.
Of note … Germany is trying the bond thing as well.
Would be interesting to see how many of these Bonds are being bought by US Based Financial Companies.
Also, are US Financial Companies adding China Inc. Bonds to their ETF’s to dilute the losses. Paging Ms. Bondi and the SEC.
The President needs to rescind the Biden EO allowing China Inc. to trade and be traded on US Markets.
If the EU is dumb enough to assist China Inc. in the Tariff War … just think of the losses the EU would incur buying these bonds … which is the method of assistance China Inc. will push.
Real ID is also probably not constitutional, but those cases were never heard on the merits.
-When they made the law they didn’t enforce, so courts decided you had no standing to challenge it.
-After they started enforcing it, courts refused to let it be challenged because it’s been the law for >decade and you need to show a higher level of harm.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/reservations-saturday-april-12-2025?publication_id=463409&post_id=161178430&isFreemail=true&r=33sue3&triedRedirect=true
Always worth reading. RE “the Roosevelt Reservation,” how about Fort Roosevelt? Make it permanent.
Trump Exempts Computers, Handsets (Smartphones), Chips From Reciprocal Tariff Blitz | ZeroHedge
First, President Trump paused reciprocal tariffs for non-retaliating countries (e.g., China) for 90 days last week. Now, updated guidance from CBP reveals that some of the highest-value trade—particularly a wide range of electronics—is excluded from the reciprocal tariffs.
Among the 20 tariff codes listed for exemption, three stand out in particular:
8471 – Automatic data processing machines and units thereof (e.g., laptops, desktops, servers).
8517.13.00 – Smartphones and other telecommunication apparatus for cellular networks.
8542 – Electronic integrated circuits (e.g., microprocessors, memory chips).
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-exempts-computers-handsets-chips-reciprocal-tariff-blitz
Why a bailout for Apple?
There is an interesting phenomenon that has now crept across even RT News and Al Jazeera over the past few weeks, which seems to be worth noting. The same that has changed the face and character of those paragon of “conservatism”: Newsmax, Breighbart and Gateway Pundit … that being the use of cut and paste articles from the likes of Reuters, CNN, and other like minded sources … WITHOUT Editorial Comment.
Even the Yin and Yang “The American Spectator”, which normally posts equal numbers of RED and BLUE articles has taken a decidedly neverTrump path when it comes to important issues such as Tariffs, Economy and the Constitutional Authority of the President … with only two writers being consistently Pro-President Trump (Scott Mckay and Melissa MacKenzy).
IMHO most, both rino’s and libs, cannot find a real understanding in the government business model our President is using to fix the country, is outside of the way of the last 50 years of govt function. It is so different than the statist model which is tax and regulate while kicking the can down the road.
What I see our POTUS doing is making the other guys ‘work’ to prove themselves worthy of our great big beautiful greenback and market. They/them/those out there now have to ‘think’ about about how to get what they have been getting with ‘business as usual’.
So trying to understand is so very hard for these medias…and rather than seek understanding, they object?
I gave up on the spectator, newsmax and townhall, long ago. TGP, and BB, I scan headlines but notice important data is often not mentioned.
Ever wonder what happened to Nikki Haley? Nah, me neither.
Let us count the ways in which this story is completely insane
https://nypost.com/2025/04/12/us-news/woman-has-abortion-after-incorrect-paternity-test-lawsuit/
Assumption of the risk that she was acting on incorrect information?
How about the damages were unforeseeable – the lab could not foresee her choosing to kill a viable fetus based on the information provided?
Intervening cause?
Unclean hands doctrine?(that is a real thing, but rarely so pertinent as here).
I would grant a motion to dismiss.
So she goes out and has sex with someone else during some “3 week relationship hiatus” ? Such integrity and morals.
Never listen to professional economists who shill for the status quo. America’s loss of industrial sector jobs has been a disaster, and its owing to the relentless pro-inflation money printing policies of the Federal Reserve.
Think of the ramifications of the DMVs’ involvement.
Real ID is an unconstitutional NATIONAL ID system that TSA and DMVs want to digitize, put on your phone, and access remotely.
Social Credit Scoring.
They have proven they cannot be trusted with libraries, pharmacy boards, election offices and NATO. Until the Reckoning, it’s a NO!
That’s exactly what it is, and I’m wondering why Homan doesn’t put a stop to it.
He seems like an intelligent man to me.
For the millionth time: I want Trump to succeed, that matters also for me in Germany, to have a sympathetic political movement in charge at centre of empire. My concern is that tariffs will destroy MAGA and usher in a century of the most shitlibious woketardery you can imagine.
I am MAGA and believe the opposite. It is, in fact, the lack of tariffs which will destroy our country.
He lost the plot at “empire.”
I guess that Sovereign Alliance concept hasn’t sunk in.
Fortress America.
Germans will need to pick up their pitchforks and solve their own problems.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Captain Keshel:
I’m hearing it is LIKELY the NC Supreme Court race decided by 700+ ballots in November for the appropriately named Democrat RIGGS is going to be overturned, with the Republican candidate being declared the victor once illegally counted or otherwise invalidated ballots are discarded.
Will analyze when able.
https://t.me/ElectionHQ2024/12698
Some updates from FBI HQ:
-Major initiatives are underway to ensure your neighborhoods and communities are noticeably safer. While we remain focused on our all of our missions (counterterrorism, countering foreign intelligence efforts, federal crime), we are working overtime across the country to take violent criminals, gang members, drug pushers, and the scum abusing our children, off of our streets. They are doing incredible damage and the Director and I want them in prison or deported. Absolutely no excuses.
-The Director and I have instructed our leaders in the field offices to use their social media accounts, local television, podcasts, and radio to communicate to you the results of these significant operations. I encourage you to follow the local FBI field office social media accounts and you will see the results for yourself. We’re not doing this to create media celebrities, we’re doing this because we work for you. And you deserve to see and hear what your hard-earned money is being used for.
-The Director and I are working on a number of initiatives to ensure that the mistakes of the past are never repeated. Everything from recruiting, to evaluation, to training, is being scrubbed and reviewed. We fully understand that some of the actions and initiatives we’ve taken may not immediately appear to fit into the puzzle. But accountability requires three things – people, information, and people WITH information. I’ll say again, I’m NOT asking you to “trust me,” I’m asking you to look at the results. And those results will continue to pour out of the FBI.
God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
-Dan
7:21 AM · Apr 11, 2025
twitter com/FBIDDBongino/status/1910654478245662896
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Do you see what’s missing?
Indictments?
No, what’s missing is any comment from DDFBI on the Crossfire Hurricane documents’ implications.
“Everything from recruiting, to evaluation, to training, is being scrubbed and reviewed” so “the mistakes of the past are never repeated”
Utterly insufficient!
Don’t pretend that past ten years didn’t happen. Don’t allow the coup plotters to walk away. Wrong doers must be PROSECUTED.
This was in Patel’s acceptance speech when he was sworn in. He never mentioned arrests. It raised my eyebrow then and this statement by Bongino is a continuation of what Patel said.
No mention of prosecutions of current and former DOJ/FBI persons. No mention of anything along those lines, not even investigation.
Ten years of attempts to frame and depose a president never happened.
Those who conceal are just as guilty as those who commit.
I still would not answer their knock on my door.
They need to get over the “social media” garbage.
A large portion of the American public doesn’t have and doesn’t want social media accounts and as a result of the massive corruption and privacy invasions won’t get one. If you want to communicate what your doing, put it on your website, organize it by state and area.
We can’t have our biggest trading partner also the biggest thieves, which is currently the case.
China will never stop. They simply cannot think for themselves.
My solution – “All Chinese citizens are banned from government jobs, American universities, research facilities and projects, scientific symposiums and meetings, and public sector jobs. Further, the only visas allowed for them are 3 day business visas.”
Disappointing to see tariff carve-outs start to appear for phones and laptop electronics … would have been good to put the brakes on these (almost) direct-to-landfill items.
My gov agency provides employees with cell-phones and laptops. This is usually necessary equipment for the job, but then they mandate the cell-phone be discarded and replaced every 2 two years, laptops every 3 years.
There is no reason for this at all. Obviously supporting the hamster wheel approach to consumer electronics that companies have instilled in people. The old stuff is junk, you NEEED the latest version, now in pink AND blue. Cause its 10% faster so can better handle the increasingly inefficient software we put on it to better monitor you.
They always say its security, that’s what’s better, but not really.. Who created the security issue in the first place? Why buy more from them? They never really fix it.
Most of the laptops could last for 10+ years and the new ones aren’t significantly different despite all the trumpeting that they are. No significant new cell-phone features that matter in 10+ years.
But Apple etc have “arranged” with government the mandatory update cycle hamster wheel. Was hoping tariffs would break that cycle of trash, but by gosh its so important to keep the slave labor assembly lines in China going so Apple stock doesn’t decrease … really undercuts the administration’s position.
On Friday, AAPL closed up $7.73 at a price per share of $198.15.
China has the “Belt and Road initiative”.
The big question is, “Who is funding China?” Who is financing the build up in China with one powerplant a week being built? Who is financing their expansion to all corners of the earth with that “Belt and Road initiative”?
Is it the same group who once upon a time built up the U.S.A.? Did that group simply pull up their stakes from the U.S.A. and start the same build up with China?
Is China and the Chinese people the problem? Or is it the ones financing their build up?
Who is the target of the retaliatory tariffs against China? Who loses the most from the tariffs? Is it the ones who are now so heavily invested in China and their emergence?
“Know yourself and know your enemy and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” – Sun Tzu
Fortunately the U.S.A. has the “Wheel and Deal initiative” being orchestrated by the man who wrote “The Art of the Deal”. How lucky are we?
Somehow I think he knows. Why do I get the feeling that a deal will be worked out where only the “true enemy” loses and everyone else wins?
Interesting business, folks. Let’s see what happens.
DOGE Takes Over Key Webste That Handles Distribution of $500bn in Federal Grants
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-grants-website-nih-b2732203.html
Another article over at NYP today about what political future may await Kamala, and as usual they go on about the 2028 Presidential race and maybe the 2026 California governor race. She should just get real and not even think about running for President in 2028. The last time the Democrats nominated an already once-failed Presidential nominee was Adlai Stevenson way back in 1956, and they probably only did that because they knew no one they could possibly nominate had a prayer against Eisenhower that year. Kamala and any remaining supporters are delusional if they think the Democrat party will even think about nominating her in 2028 or ever again.
As far as the next California governor race, she would be just about as delusional. There are far too many ambitious and prominent (at least in California) Democrats who are planning a go for that nomination and Kamala would not stand a chance. She is just not gifted or smart enough to get such a nomination on her own and she doesn’t have Clyburn or long-retired Willy in a position to help push her beyond her talents. And she doesn’t stand a chance running against Padilla in the next Senate race in 2026 either. He is a popular incumbent and won’t want to give up his seat.
If she wants to get back into office, she might have a chance at a House seat if she can get herself into a safe district, or maybe get elected as a mayor somewhere (she would not be any worse than any other Democrat mayor), but that is about the most she can hope for. She should content herself being out of politics living on her unearned government pensions and her husband’s millions.
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Maybe she could run for Governor of Canada . . .
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@MarioNawfal
🇨🇳 CHINESE GIANTS BURN $2.7B TO STOP MARKET BLEEDING AS TRUMP TARIFFS CRUSH STOCKS
China’s corporate heavyweights are frantically buying back their own shares as Trump’s tariff announcement sent markets into freefall, with battery maker CATL alone dumping $1.1B into propping up its stock price.
Beijing unleashed its $1.3T sovereign wealth fund while the central bank promised emergency support to prevent total collapse across the mainland’s $10T market.
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