In addition to Howard Lutnick, Peter Navarro and Kevin Hassett explaining the nuances of Section 232 tariff exemptions, White House Senior Policy Advisor, Stephen Miller, appears on Fox News to deliver the same message.
Steel, Aluminum, Automobiles, Pharmaceuticals and components for semiconductor manufacturing all fall under the Section 232 “National Security” tariff umbrella. Meaning, the products within each of those sectors of manufacturing are handled ¹differently from all other tariffs as executed. WATCH:
[¹NOTE: This approach could present a problem in future lawsuits, because the administration is now beginning to define what is classified as a ‘national security’ product. Lawfare operatives will likely say in court that all other tariff sectors (not 232) are controlled by congress, not the President; at least that will be their predictable argument. The administration will counter by arguing all other sector tariffs are directed in response to the Fentanyl crisis, which is again described as a “national security” threat.]
President Trump released the following statement on Truth Social:
NOBODY is getting “off the hook” for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non-Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst! There was no Tariff “exception” announced on Friday.
These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff “bucket.” The Fake News knows this but refuses to report it. We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.
What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States, and that we will not be held hostage by other Countries, especially hostile trading Nations like China, which will do everything within its power to disrespect the American People. We also cannot let them continue to abuse us on Trade, like they have for decades, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!
The Golden Age of America, which includes the upcoming Tax and Regulation Cuts, a substantial amount of which was just approved by the House and Senate, will mean more and better paying Jobs, making products in our Nation, and treating other Countries, in particular China, the same way they have treated us. The bottom line is that our Country will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! (read more)
Insufferable lawfare. Who or what is behind the likes of Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissman, Mary McCord/Sheldon Snook, Marc Elias, et al? These people do not operate without marching orders. Are they Mossad/CIA? They are certainly members of a certain race/religion. When will the people that give the lawfare special ops marching orders. Show us those people, so we can know tgem
Lawfare is a non-issue. We are at war. In a wartime situation, a President, as Commander in Chief, has “significant” powers. Our current President, #45-47, is a wartime President.
I’ll just use the word “significant” because I don’t know the proper term for it under the “War Powers Act” and the recently updated “Law of War Manual”.
Big picture, we are not operating in “ordinary” times. We are and have been “at war” and are operating on a wartime footing.
When you step back and look at what’s been taking place, it becomes very obvious that we are at war. How could we not be at war?
Some things taking place may not fully make sense when not viewed through the proper lens. However, when viewed through that lens of “We are at war and I am a wartime President”, then everything makes sense. Everything.
“Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt establishment with a new government…”
As far as Lawfare, just look at all the “pro-bono legal services” law firms have agreed to with to this Admin. It’s around $100 million per firm and much higher for some firms. And the number of firms “offering it”/making a settlement for it are stacking up like cord wood. Ask yourself, why would they do that in “ordinary” times?
What “power” does President Trump and his admin have that would cause all these firms to settle and offer $100’s of millions in pro-bono services?
Stephen Miller is one of the best legal minds and communicators. He delivers the message so well.
The most important clarification is this;
The Government of The United States Of America has declared war{poverty, drugs, terror} on We The People…
Make no mistake…
POTUS has chosen to security of the Government over the security of the unalienable Rights of The People.
Dr. Miller continues to professionally prescribe and dispense a daily dose of common sense {red pill}.
God does not make mistakes…
We do.
And God always gives US a way of escape when faced with any form of tyranny or perceived oppression {spirit of antichrist}.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Agreed, but there is a bright spot in all this. One that shows hope for our country.
It’s the “corrupt criminals” who have invaded, infiltrated and weaponized “The Government of the United States of America” who have declared war…
The Government isn’t itself bad. It’s the people who weaponized it against its citizens who are bad. Just like a gun. A gun itself doesn’t kill. It’s the person who uses it as a weapon who kills.
“Mis-management” is being replaced with “new management”.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli’s.
Similarly, remove the corrupt criminals, keep the Government of the United States of America.
Reclaiming control of our Government and our country from “a ruthless conspiracy” as President Kennedy named it, is the only way to secure the Rights of the citizens.
Take back the Government and return it to the citizens. Just as President Trump stated in his 2016 Inaugural Address.
It is being done in accordance with the “Rule of Law and the US Constitution”.
Use the Constitution to defend the Constitution in this Constitutional Republic.
What a Revolutionary idea? Or should I use the proper term, “counter-Revolutionary”. A return to Normalcy.
To put things into perspective and for historical context…
Know this,
1) God has simply utilized the “key of David” {me}…
2) To “open the windows of heaven” {sovereign wealth /National dividend}…
And to
3) “Pour US out a blessing that there is not room enough {Crew’s Bank and Trust} to contain it.”
Again,
Exhibit A
We The People
Exhibit B
Government
Exhibit C
Federal Reserve Bank
This was an AB conversation.
God does not make mistakes,
We do.
The Federal Reserve Bank is no longer of any relevance to The People.
10% APY on cash.
Local and regional banks overflowing with available affordable capital {public Monies} where it is most desperately needed…
Economically speaking,
From the “bottom” up.
We are still living in disaster conditions.
This should not be.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
And then there’s…
“Behold, I have given him {David} for a witness to The People, a leader and commander to the people.”
Isa 55:4
And
We The People are the sovereign authority under the Constitution of The United States Of America.
One knows a true gift from God, when one knows the solutions have already been provided, both legally and practically, and no longer require one’s existence to see His plan into fruition.
“By the work, one knows the workman.”
La Fontaine {I think}
File this under
The Truth has no agenda.
If the US Treasury takes one red cent of “public Monies”…
And
And misappropriates it for the continued extortion/ransom {interest} of the National dividend…
By a corrupt and complicit criminal entity,
The Federal Reserve Bank,
Then the Treasury Secretary should face no less punishment than any other traitor to The United States Of America.
Aiding and abetting the enemy is an Act of Treason.
No quarter.
No mas.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
David Kitting and MAGA Minuteman should get a room.
To correct my own recent mistakes in conflating “create” and “produce”…
$$ produced in the private sector is called profit…
And is accretive to the value of the currency.
$$ created by Government is called debt…
And is dilutive to the value of the currency.
CAPITALISM :
The economic condition wherein The People own the “capital” {public Monies}…
And
The Government owns the “ism”.
The United States exports Capitalism.
Buh bye
Chyna.
Buh bye
Federal Reserve Bank.
Buh bye
Globalist/moneychanger spirit of antichrist {D/Hamas} type Losers.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Framing it as, we have been in a Cold Civil War against foreign socialist ideologues who have invaded all branches of our government, primarily Judicial. Through Lawfare, our conservative faction was near defeat. The socialists, under the moniker Liberal Democrat , over a 30 year period, had grabbed extra-constitutional powers to surveil and jail their political enemies, advanced election fraud to ensure they remain in power, and masked as Republicans to disrupt any counterstrikes. This Uniparty has entrenched through Senior Executive Service (SES) regulations with judicial injunctions to counter any Executive resistance.
That’s a great point of how the SES and judicial injunctions “attempt” to counter…
Stephen Miller described this very thing in his “outside the White House presser” a few weeks ago.
It was a 9 or 11 minute presser. I think it was about Boasberg and a few other judges. Sundance posted it here.
In that presser, Stephen Miller explained how those two groups encircle and collapse to protect each other. Suffice to say, “the good guys know and are on it”.
My bad. It was a 15:27 minute presser.
Here it is:
He describes the unelected bureaucracy and the unelected judiciary at the 12:37 mark, where they protect each other and the circle shrinks.
My apologies for the multiple posts. I was timed out before being able to add the place in this presser where he discusses it.
Gosh, he is so good!
We are at war on many fronts, not just with trade.
We are at war with every force which seeks to destroy this nation as founded…
Socially, culturally, economically, morally, and spiritually, the last being the strong footings which have sustained our country for hundreds of years but which have been slowly, deliberately undermined to the point that we are in the gravest danger of our complete collapse as One Nation, Under God, Indivisible.
Whether or not President Trump recognizes the overall peril we face is unknown, but I suspect he does.
He is only one man appointed (I truly believe) to begin our rebuild…if possible, the future unknowable…but has chosen like minded lieutenants such as Stephen Miller to join him in doing his best to accomplish his multi faceted mission.
We are fighting a war which has come to our soil…not in the way we think of historical wars, but a war all the same. An existential one by my reckoning.
I know we (who remember those long ago days when America was a thing to be celebrated, to be proud of by all born here or who came here with the intent to call themselves “Americans”) are wistful for those times, which while not perfect still exist in our memories.
” You can’t go home again,” Thomas Wolfe once wrote…and this is true. Nothing stays the same, the only unchangeable fact in life.
But we can fight for all we are worth to take the best of what remains and, with God’s merciful help, begin to restore what we were once upon a time for the sakes of those who follow us…and those who sacrificed everything to keep the noble ideas enshrined in our founding documents inviolable.
President Trump remembers. This is what he is attempting to do, starting with this economic front, ceded by presidents and forces who have gone before.
One battle at a time.
God go before him and those he has chosen to assist him in restoring our America.
Let’s pray with all our hearts for this.
President Trump is NOT alone, and following his standing up,, many others have been encouraged to join him in standing up to fight against this enemy, both domestically and abroad.
Some have fallen, casualties of this war, Bolsanaro internatiinally, Tina Peters, Sidney, Rudy and a whole host of others being our “fallen martyers”.
However, if the eneny hoped that these fallen heroes would discourage others from standinf up, they are sorely mistaken;
Danial Noboa just won in Ecuador, giving us two Countries in SA, all 27 EU Countries have National /Populist parties, polling ahead or even with the globullust established and entrenched elitists, each of which has a Leader (Farage, Le Penn, etc ) standing up and willing to risk it all for liberty.
President Trump now has his Worldwide political movement, unlike anything in history.
He has allies in Orban, Putin, Bukele, and many other World leaders, as well as leaders not yet in power, and many “ordinary people” around the world.
Alone in this country, dutch.
As far as the rest of the world, yes, his influence has been inspiring for populations too long subdued by godless monsters.
As I have stated many, many times, this is what I’ve prayed for.
The Global Reset is happening, but not in the way which has been planned by soulless tyrants harking back to the days of such evil creatures as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc…
This is a Global Reset according to President Trump, the man they ridiculed and dismissed as no threat to their inhuman agendas.
But the fates of the citizens of those countries rests in their hands alone.
President Trump can awaken their patriotic fervor, long restrained; and yes, we are beginning to see the rebirth of it elsewhere. As yet, however, there is no one person I’ve seen other than our president with the innate power to serve as a worldwide voice for (as you name them) the “ordinary” man and woman who are counted as unnecessary detritus under the jackbooted heels of (again I call them) monsters.
And so now we wait and watch…and hope that the seeds of nascent freedom planted in other countries will likewise inspire more to follow.
We will cheer them on from the sidelines with our prayers…and be grateful that Almighty God has spared the life of our homegrown fighter to man our battlements so that he can be an example and a force for everything raw evil has sought to destroy.
The only way to “run” America is through a direct link to the people.
Not through the mouths of journalists & others who twist his words and meanings.
All they give us is misunderstandings, lies, and misrepresentations.
“No, I’m not letting any of the companies “off the hook”. There was no Tariff “exception”.
That is clear a water.
That’s why he started Truth Social. It’s a direct link to the people in real time.
I heard the naming for Truth Social was copyrighted in 2014. I don’t have proof of that. I just heard it mentioned somewhere. If it is in fact true, that would give you an idea of the scope and magnitude of “The Plan”.
In a war, “Comms” are very important. The soldiers/corpsmen with the big radios on their backs and tall antennas sticking up were targeted first. I worked with a Marine who was a radio guy in Vietnam. He’s the one who told me about being targeted first.
Truth Social is a major form of “Comms”.
Behind them? Money from hoffman and soros, among other super rich leftists.
Let’s get off of the anti Semitic garbage and just stick to the facts
They are GLOBULLUSTS, just the latest iteration of a psuedo-ideology that gets “defeated” …rebrands itself and then retuurns to challenge the next generation.
We call it CONmunism, although Collectivism is probably more accutare. The Con is that the individual gives their liberties up to the all knowing State, run by technocrats who will divvy up the limited resources in a most judiscious way, beneficial to ALL.
It favors centralisation of coarse, and CONTROL and it can not stand up to any competition, so it suppresses it visciously.
And no, it knows no national boundaries, since the nation state is an anethema to it, an impediment to its goal of One World Government.
To Clay More
Know what your are looking at. Please reconsider the character, values and world view of the individuals you list. There, in plain sight is your answer. When I was young I watched a very interesting and entertaining gangster movie from the Classic Files of Hollywood black and white. In the movie the gangsters were being given a lot of trouble by a young newspaper reporter who kept printing the truth about them. A mob underling seeking advancement attempted to “buy off” the young reporter to silence him. It failed an more damning press appeared in the news about the gang. The “Mob Boss” then called in the underling and had a discussion with him about “virtuous young men” and “true believers.” There is only one way to deal with them according to the Mob Boss: kill them. They are not for sale at any price and no logic or reason will convince them to change. The scene concludes with the plans to take the reporter for a ride…
I’m not suggesting that anyone on your list is either “virtuous” or “young.” Nor am I suggesting that anyone take your list of “true believers” for a “ride.” I am positing they are so devoted to their Progressive/Marxist/Authoritarian world view and values system that they are not working for anyone. They are true believers promoting their world view in a very skilled game of who should have control, power and dominance. They will gladly accept money to further their goals but if they received zero support from anyone else they would still continue working to force their goals on the US citizenry. Real Progressives are true believers that ordinary citizens are too ignorant to care for themselves and need an enlightened bureaucracy to make decisions for them.
Blame the Jews when you need a scapegoat huh??..🖕🏻
Steven Miller is the best! Great interview!! Thank you.
‘ What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States, and that we will not be held hostage by other Countries, especially hostile trading Nations like China,…’
The problem is that it would take much more than 3 years to restore US industry to the necessary strength, meanwhile we ARE beholden to other countries – especially China.
The focus on the monetary side – tariffs etc. – obscures the critical strategic side.
“Would” take more than 3 years, not “will”, because the scope of the US problem includes education, fundamental to everything including industry, and this too is beyond fixing at this stage.
‘ “America’s higher education system is in urgent need of reform. Too many graduates are entering the workforce unprepared, leaving critical sectors—like our defense industrial base—struggling to find skilled talent.” ‘
from
https://www.heritage.org/press/new-heritage-report-warns-deteriorating-us-defense-industrial-base-amid-most-hostile-global
The education system reflects the identity class “equity” quotas that started with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, along with societal degeneration in the US starting in the 1960’s, paralleling the industrial decline accelerating since the 1980’s. Offshoring was not just to increase profit, it was also because of loss of competencies in the US, and as the Heritage Report observes, this education-competencies problem is endemic now.
And the plandemic with forced “remote learning” made the education problem even worse: Overworked instructors happily adopted automated online instruction and test systems that are profoundly dysfunctional and inadequate, including testing systems that do not provide feedback for student learning and instead encourage students to cheat using Chegg etc.
The education system is simply beyond reform.
Meanwhile, China et al are leaving the US behind in science, engineering, and industry.
This cannot be remedied in a few years. If ever.
Could it be that the Trump cabinet does not understand this endemic education-competency problem? Musk, Thiel, and the other Tech Magnates understand, it is one reason they advocate for the H-1B program to staff their companies. (The other being sheer greed, as the H-1B workers can be exploited like slaves.)
So what is the “5D chess” with the tariffs? Some suggest they are designed like all other Trump admin actions, apparently with a misleading face hiding ulterior goals that all point toward a diminished US under complete control as part of a coming “multi-polar” order. (A totalitarian vassal state, by definition.)
Facade: Tariffs will rebuild US industry.
Reality: Tariffs will further degrade the US economy because US industry cannot substantially rebuild. While further separating the world economy into US vs. non-US, steering the US down to a diminished state as the China-led axis strengthens its trade and economic ties.
Someone is black pilling…
Always the pat labels.
You point out reality that doesn’t align with wishful thinking? You’re black pilling.
How about discussion of the objective points, rather than labeling the observer?
It’s a foolish circular argument.
All efforts to restore US primacy in manufacturing or any other area will fail because the US educational system cannot provide the required human capital. Let’s put aside the obvious counter of AI oriented technologies. Let’s also put aside the notion that the author of the argument offers no supporting empirical data on what the deficit actually might be. The argument does not address all the paths that can be pursued to increase required human capital – to include industry provided training. It simply forecasts doom. It’s a vapid argument that does not consider alternative paths. There’s always solutions – and the pricing mechanism (wages) has a healthy way of restoring supply to demand.
The key variable is time.
Exactly.
“What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States.”
THAT was exposed DECADES ago, especially about the strategic items getting the huge tariff exemptions, to anyone who paid any attention, meaning a tiny percentage of US citizens, and this is definitely no surprise either to the Wall Street slugs and their BOUGHT pols who got us here.
Agree 100% with emeth on the lead time to fix this being way beyond Trump’s term, but disagree on the nation’s inability to do it.
However the huge tariffs were intended to economically FORCE Wall Street to rebuild industry here and, as I said, this dependence on China is no revelation to them. So, what forces them now?
Turn education back to the States, and encourage public/private partnerships, between companies that set up in an area, and the local high school and community colleges in the area.
How do you think India, China, Viet Nam got all of the trained workforce?
Our top 5 percent of STEM graduates is every bit as good as the top 5 percent of any country you care to name. Innovation and creative problem solving are baked in to the American psyche, unlike the rote learning elsewhere.
The educational outcomes of inner city kids drag us down when the numbers are tabulated.
The problem Emeth describes is not, as you say, the top 5%, it is the ability and putting it bluntly, the motivation, of the average pupils.
We have the same issue here in the UK. A couple of generations of the good life and the subconscious need to work hard to achieve more has gone. It is not needed anymore as it is on a plate. Here it is pretty bad, many with jobs. at all levels have real difficulty turning out for work let alone understanding the phrase ‘take responsibility’.
Meanwhile the work ethic and need for education is very alive and well in the rest of the World.
Innovation and problem solving skills have been largely crushed by dumbed-down oppressive K-12 government schools, run by overbearing teachers and administrators mostly dominated by women.
Along with contemporary helicopter parenting which deprives children of opportunities to develop independent thinking skills. All of the above resulting from the feminization of America which also stemmed from the societal changes of the 1970’s and cannot be corrected now.
(The profoundly negative affects on boys are another dimension as well.)
Those hallowed American ingenuity traits are not gone, but largely diminished.
Similarly, there are talented scientists and engineers in America, but the percentage is dwindling, and China has been vastly outpacing here too. The signs are obvious, such as the latest Chinese fighter jet, but there are studies for those who cannot see.
One of many:
https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth/
The new Chinese Fighter Jet displays the abject stealing of technology and the application of corruption in building the product. The corruption of CCP will keep them from greatness.
The CCP demands compliance and in most cases the compliance is obtained through fake measurements. There is nothing in China that is as it is reported. It is the old garbage in garbage out. Until they change that nothing will ever work.
China rose from poverty through the largesse and stupidity of the West. For China to thrive the West needed to commit suicide. Thank God for President Trump.
Not pro-China here by any means, but the fighter jet adds to countless examples:
They steal IP but also innovate now. They are building things, incorporating innovations, with very good quality, scale and speed vastly exceeding the US and increasing.
The US is lagging badly. Talk is cheap, while people here display hubris the Chinese are leaving us way behind in overall manufacturing and tech.
Guess where the device you are using to read this came from? Either China, or nearby drawing on China-centric supply ecosystems. The US simply cannot do this, and will not be able to do this. If you think it will you do not understand the requirements and scale vs. US capabilities.
If those devices start disappearing from the US because replacements are cut off by China, who will prevail? China is building ties to the rest of the world, the tariffs will accelerate that, they can do without the US market but the US cannot do without the smartphones, computers, and other tech made by China.
To touch on just one strategic advantage example of many.
They are building things, incorporating innovations, with very good quality, scale and speed vastly exceeding the US and increasing.
Where are you seeing this increase in quality? (Don’t get me started on the refrigerator whose freezer handle fell off after a month of use.)
Also, who is “they” in this scenario? I do see a difference in quality between goods churned out in the CCP than in ones from Taiwan (which to me seems to only hope of future freedom for the Chinese people).
But I simply don’t get what you mean by an increase in quality in either case.
The Chinese cannot innovate leading edge chip manufacturing capabilities.
In ordinary consumer goods, say golf bags, the aesthetics are acceptable but the longevity poor.
It’s a a country that cannot feed its citizens – a driving force behind its aggressive international posture….embedded in its military strategic policies for decades.
Uh huh. And what experience can the Chinese claim in the military leadership domain? None.
Most of their senior officers acquire titles not through expertise but through connections and payments.
They still had to rely on Russian expertise when it came to innovating advanced jet engines.
China is a country in deep economic and demographic do do. And Trump knows it. They are a formidable threat precisely because their system is faltering.
The US can easily reclaim its manufacturing primacy – over some period of time. New infrastructure planning, construction, etc., can take upwards of 3-5 years. There’s nothing inevitable about any of this. It gets down to commitment and leadership.
The Chinese Communists are following in the footsteps of the Soviets.
When confronted with new technologies, the Soviets stole it.
Their strategic bomber, the Tupolev Tu-4, was an exact copy of the B-29, of which they had obtained when a few landed/crashed in Soviet territory during the bombing campaign of Japan.
Every last rivet hole 🕳 and spar was reverse-engineered, just changed to metric measurements.
Comparable Soviet engines (Shvetsov) replaced the Wright engines… And the .50 caliber guns were changed to 23mm cannon.
They had them flying by 1947, and eventually built over 800 of them.
This was years before the USSR was expected to have a similar aircraft.
The first Soviet atomic bomb, (‘Joe-1’ or ‘First Lightning’) resulted from espionage of the Manhattan Project.
It was nearly an exact copy of the plutonium implosion device detonated in July 1945 at Alamogordo.
The first detonation took place in 1949, years before it was expected the Soviets would have a nuclear weapon.
In each case, the Soviets bypassed years of study and research 🔬, millions of $$$ spent, thousands of man-hours in testing,
And Knew their efforts would work – because someone (the US) had already succeeded.
Are the current Chinese efforts similar?
Somewhat. The CCP (which is synonymous with the Chinese government) is notorious for stealing intellectual property and technology, in any and all ways.
It’s probable that the thousands of Chinese
‘Students’ who come to the US each year are sending info back home.
One other point:
Cheating on this scale confers some obvious advantages:
1) You get the results
FAST.
2) you save time, money, and effort.
3) You know the end products will Work.
4) You stay competitive with your adversary.
However – about point 4:
Yes, you stay competitive – but in the extreme long run – you may be giving up something hard to define – an intellectual rigor and an ability to innovate and create.
When I help my daughter do her 5th grade math homework,
I try very hard to have her understand the concepts.
I show her the steps to solving improper fractions, solving for x, graphing on the x-y axis, percentages, division, etc.
I ask her if she understands… and almost invariably, she’ll say “yes”… yet I know that in some exercises, she’s just copying my steps.
She really doesn’t see the logic or understand the process.
It takes a while to get her to the level that she recognizes the problem, and can confidently proceed
to solve it.
In a way, that’s what the old Soviets did – and the current Chinese, do – copy someone else’s work.
Great for getting an ‘A’ on a test – but isn’t going to help, if you need it in life.
Who wants an engineering student who graduates, but can’t successfully design a railroad bridge?
The Chinese are keeping up – but may find it more difficult to leapfrog past an adversary – since they depend on that adversary’s research.
Like the cheating student who copies the smart kid’s test paper 📝 or homework – they wind up exposing themselves, when they make the exact same mistakes on their paper.
The Chinese culture
(In my very humble opinion) values education and learning.
The Confucian model of the Chinese emphasized specific types of learning, and rote memorization.
It did not seem to reward innovative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Individual initiative was not highly regarded, but looked upon as disruptive to an orderly society.
The CCP has only doubled down on conformity and belief in The Party
(per Orwell).
A system (now a social credit system!) that mandates absolute conformity, will not produce an Orville or Wilbur Wright… an Alexander Graham Bell… a Nikolas Tesla… a Robert Goddard.
They may exist… but can never flourish in such a society… there simply is no outlet for their talents.
The Soviets turned out engineers by the thousands in the ‘60s and ‘70s… but it wasn’t enough to keep their system from collapsing.
That in no way implies the Chinese are not dangerous – they are an enormous threat!
But we should not lose faith that we as a nation are able to meet the challenge.
They ccan not innovate: the kind of thinking that leads to “the next big thing” is the exact same kind of thinking that, in China leads to being harvested for your organs.
Innovative thinking is the exact opposite of the group think the CCP insists on, and programs its citisens for, and culls any who don’t comply.
It steals because it HAS to.
This, and a system which encourages endemic corruption and yes constant lieing, are its aquilles heels.
I agree, Dutchman.
The Chinese are more interested in your organs than your ideas.
I cannot imagine what it must be like to grow up and live in Mainland China 🇨🇳
While not as psychotic as North Korea 🇰🇵 ,
In its own way it’s a culture that keeps an iron lid on the dreams and hopes of its average citizens.
The worst part to me is that so many Chinese grow up without Any concept of Liberty as we have (and hopefully will continue to have) here.
They have already been ‘pre-programed’ to think and
Act in certain ways.
And you’re right, too – lying and deceit in dealing with others is not looked down on, but considered
‘Smart’
and
‘Crafty’.
The Chinese also (as you know) have created a very difficult problem for themselves:
The one-child policy.
While it’s now history, it created an imbalance between male and female births that cannot be undone.
Nearly 40 years of a bone-headed policy (not opposed by
anyone) has led to millions of men unable to find a wife.
And family ‘trees’ that have no branches.
If that one child (usually a male) dies… the family dies with him.
In a culture that reveres ancestors and ancestor worship… what does that mean?
The oldest group of ‘Emperor Babies’ is now about 45 years old… the youngest are about 9.
China has cut off its population growth – and will start to contract.
I’ve read that “China will grow old before it grows rich”.
CCP-Xi may have limited options in dealing with our President.
I can’t begin to know what those options are… but I can guess that Xi will try hard to break the new policy of ‘Containment’ DJT is constructing… not a wall of military bases As we did with the USSR… but a wall of tariffs around the CCP.
That jet will fail just like all the other crap they send here. Get rid of ridiculous rules and regulations and US manufacturing will be unleashed very quickly.
The corruption of CCP will keep them from greatness.
I have heard that summed up this way:
You will never get ahead in life always trying to get over.
Not my experience inside the MIC. There are plenty talented folks inside the complex. American R&D has met the challenges time and again. The human capital doesn’t show up a lot of the time because the process doesn’t work well. Anyone inside the colossus knows that tech transition is often the stumbling block – largely based on financial constraints or other, non performative, barriers. Hiring practices are another dysfunctional aspect: many large IT companies hire a surfeit of computer scientists (at very nice salaries) as a “rainy” day policy.
It’s not an intractable problem – any more than ramping up defense base production was leading into WWII. We have experienced cultural and political forces that substituted service oriented opportunities at the expense of technical opportunities for decades, which played up income transfer and entitlement over merit and production. The argument being presented may not even reflect reality. Over 30 thirty years in high tech demonstrated to me there is a large reservoir of talent that never marched through the school system to acquire its elevated hacking skill levels – levels that required knowledge to deep architecture levels and sound understanding of how protocols/software actually work and are coded.
The end of times arguments are always over-hyped; and never accurate.
I got one of the first degrees in “computer science,” but it didn’t teach me anything that I hadn’t already taught myself. Nonetheless, it didn’t teach me get me my first job – setting up a new computer center at that University! (“PC’s” were mere toys then …)
Please don’t entirely blame “your school” for “your failure.” If you are resourceful and determined, you won’t fail.
What is the MIC?
Military Industrial Complex
stemmed from the societal changes of the 1970’s
More like the 1960s as the major starting point.
And this is the fundamental root of all of it having made it’s highly successful “long march through the institutions”:
2017/02/25: Jordan Peterson: Postmodernism: How and why it must be fought (12:00)
and cannot be corrected now
Only in more time than we have. Deprogramming a culture subverted over decades takes a long time. In the following, replace Soviet Union with China:
Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion (13:36)
1,612,735 views Jun 21, 2020
“,…cannot be corrected now.”
We have us a tag team, nabobs of negativity trying to wear us down.
Children are hard wired to LEARN, all they need is a little guidance regarding WHAT they learn.
The Societal disruptions created by the Globullusts can be undone, and reversing them can reverse the process.
All is not lost…
Dutchman,
I agree!
I look at all the progress that AZ has made
in promoting school choice and STEM schools.
I believe we are ahead of the game here in AZ.
Everywhere I look there is a new STEM or
Learning Academy opening up- even here in
my small town.
During our Christmas parade I was pleasantly
surprised at the number of STEM, Parochial,
Learning Academy, and Private Schools who
were in that parade👏👏👍 And that doesn’t
even include the people here who homeschool!
👩🏫 👩🏫 👩🏫 If you aren’t part of the solution-
Then you are part of the problem 👩🏫👩🏫
🤷♀️ 💁♀️
I can only speak for Tennessee Education but Statewide, City, County, Big City, Small City the education numbers are TERRIBLE. Public Education is a disaster.
We must also be cognizant of the curriculum being taught.
I would venture to guess the curricula at MIT is far different than at a small and ‘local’ university or for profit school.
Actually, “not so much!”
Ya think?
The problem there is ideology…..just like almost all the “elites”.
What proportion of the top 5% of our STEM graduates are visiting students (mostly from China)?
‘The education system is simply beyond reform.’ I think the education system will do some kind of self-correction. Enrollment is down and colleges are closing, businesses are looking are avoiding the ivy league graduates.
People are being offered a inferior product at a ridiculous price. 🤔
My out-of-state degree cost a benevolent candy company $13,000. Today, a degree at that same school costs $350,000 and up. The “lab fee” for a course that meets one day a week is $8,000. So, no, it is perfectly obvious why people are instead going into trades. And making a very good living there.
The “physical plant” of a college is fundamentally the same as that of an elementary school. Which, at the moment, is still free. Likewise, the educational process is identical.
So, the prices being charged have zero to do with the cost of providing the product, nor the potential benefits thereof.
These vast “student loans” are actually being used by Wall Street to “back” tril(!)lions of dollars’ worth of “securities.” (So-called “SLABS.”) When they realized that they could no longer securitize “subprime” (worthless …) mortgages. This is why they explicitly made sure that the debts could not be discharged in bankruptcy.
I retire from teaching in June.
Today, I would not enroll my child in a public school — or even many private schools.
Yes, maybe all the innovation will spill over into 8 years of the Vance presidency……the US will be ROLLING by then. Good times.
This is the same line I have been typing: changing the US production will be a cultural shift.
Therefore education will be affected as well.
Too bad education has mostly been busy with making sure everything conforms to DEI instead of on merits and educational performance.
Engineering and science have been hollowed out these last decade(s), with the science major usually being a backelors on 2 key buzzwords such as “Safe and Effective” (medical degree), “Fair and Equal” (economics degree)
This paragraph was part sarcasm / part tragedy /s 😀
Onshoring critical industry will not be a 1-term transformation, but will require a plan and a straregy and hard effort.
In nowadays society long term and hard effort arent really embedded values in the West anymore.
Its not impossible but there will be headwinds amongst which culutral, education, wages, debt …
I commend your post of a view that takes a more wholesome view of the problem.
US industrial might became just that during WWII. We need a sense of urgency and we can do it again.
We can’t wait for the education system to get turned around, which will take years, maybe a generation. What businesses can do is train people.
How old were WWII pilots? Early 20s. They were flying in and leading flights of hundreds of planes. They were trained to do that. How old are pilots today? Lots in their 20s.
This will not be easy but it can be done without having to wait for this or that. Where are the millionaires and billionaires? They can put up money. Get rid of ridiculous zoning laws and environmental rules. Unleash the potential we have available in this country right now. U.S. Steel was going to invest over a billion $$$$ to upgrade the Clairton Works coke facility but ultimately decided not to because Allegheny County f*%#@d around and could not provide approval. The plant will eventually close putting even more people out of work. Shameful.
Average age for military pilot is 33 years old.
Optimal age is 25-34. And the average age
is 39 years old.
With the technology today, and the cost of
our planes, you have to be pretty smart to
fly one—including having a Bachelor’s Degree
and have the military rank to be eligible for
the 2.5-3 year training.
And the same goes even for our tanks and other
military equipment. A lot of training is involved.
We no longer have a …plug and play….put the key
in and go -military.
This is worth reading…….
Bombshell Reports: “German Weapons Not Made for War”
Don’t agree that while we’re rebuilding, we’re still beholding to China. That’s why the tariffs are being so individually chosen to each other that wants to talk. They will become our new trading partners. Exciting actually. On Tophatter, I loved being able to buy from other countries. Sorry it left.
If you can’t produce steel and aluminum, then you can’t build ships, planes, tanks, weapons, etc. If you can’t produce those, then you can’t win a war. If you can’t win a war, then you don’t have a country.
Same with medicine in battling bio-warfare as we recently learned with COVID.
Same with critical electronics needed for those ships, planes, tanks, weapons, etc.
National Security. Economic Security is National Security.
Then cue the Andrew Breitbart clip…”WAR!”
There simply is no other word for it – war. People can understand conventional war, but can’t get their minds around this ….beast….we are dealing with.. The enemy is not only global, but within our gates. The Trojan horse created by all the institutions mentioned on this thread. Don’t lose track of the fact that the political class has sold us done the river. We used to enforce ITAR’s regulations that said that technology used for national defense could not be made offshore. Now we have product made in China that ends up in fighter jets…..others….
Exactly!
Most of our military equipment has technology
in it…
Even drone warfare- you have to have a tablet or laptop
to operate it.
And we don’t produce those vital components here
in our country.🤬
Even our chip manufacturing here in AZ-
it took years to get it up and running. And only
the first phase has been completed. Second
phase will be operational 2028. Great link for
more information.
TSMC Arizona – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
And the Russian-Ukraine conflict has revealed
how fast technology and design needs to be developed
and adapted.
Turtle Tanks 🐢🐢🐢! 👏👏👍💥
When a group of bored Russian miner troops
found a way to protect their tanks from drone attacks 😁
Now Tanks are being fitted with cages to protect them
from drones. 🤷♀️💁♀️
💥Necessity is the mother of invention.💥
And yeah, our corrupt politicians sold us down
the river.
They put profit above product.
Here is a great article…..
Bombshell Reports: “German Weapons Not Made for War”
In the 1940’s, we could and did produce a heavy bomber every hour. Beginning with ORE that we mined.
MAGA
If steel, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals qualify for Section 232 national security tariffs, why isn’t our food supply treated the same way?
Foreign ownership now controls over 50% of U.S. beef processing. One of those companies is Chinese-controlled. As one rancher said, “They don’t have to stop shipping us food. They just have to stop processing ours.”
This isn’t just consolidation—it’s a national security risk.
If food isn’t protected under Section 232, then what is?
It’s time we treat the food supply like the critical infrastructure it is.
Local Sprawl-Mart wanted $2.49 for one can of Del-Monte peaches!
A can of peaches under a generic label – from Greece – was close to $2.00!
Florida has pillaged most of its orange groves in favor of thousands of acres of 5-story apartment buildings built as fast as sprouting toadstools with the same lack of sturdiness and lifespan. As a result, a brand of orange juice called Florida’s Natural, which used to claim it was 100% Florida orange juice, had to change their product to mix in orange juice from Brazil and Mexico.
We have driven throughout Florida in recent years and the urban sprawl, its attendant destruction of trees of all kinds, and the degradation of the environment are immense.
A classic globalist pricing strategy Sundance broke down well works like this:
1. Grow the product (e.g., oranges) in the U.S.
2. Sell just enough domestically to hit the top of the U.S. demand curve—where price and volume intersect for maximum profit
3. Once U.S. demand softens (or price begins to drop), shift remaining inventory to the next-highest profit market—say Europe, Japan, etc.
4. If a market is already oversupplied, they won’t discount—because lower prices in that market reset consumer expectations long-term
5. So instead, they’ll destroy or dump the excess (plow under crops, let produce rot, etc.) to preserve pricing discipline globally
G’morning Ausonius. Have to interject regarding Florida. Yes, Orange groves have been sold off but not for “pure” greed. The problem is the Asian Citrus Psyllid and the Citrus Greening it brought with it. They have completely decimated the citrus industry and have caused farmers to sell off their lands or go hungry. The developers that flocked here are like locusts: Greedy, low-life, moral lacking carpetbaggers.
If there is ever a cure found for Citrus Greening, I doubt the industry will ever get back to 25% of its former glory as the best lands have been paved over for a parking lot. 😭
True: the damage from Asia/China causes more than the loss of American production, it has also brought their pests to our continent via the millions of “containers” on ships, which are transferred to trucks roving throughout the country, trucks which are spreading the diseases.
You remind me of the old song: “Pave paradise, put up a parking lot!”
Actually, this fall when the trees come in again, “FN” will probably once again be producing “not from concentrate” domestic juice. Supplies vary by season, while salable product must be shipped year round.
I hope that you are right: the report from 2022 above seems to indicate that 100% Florida juice will become increasingly hard to find.
Addendum: checked a can of peaches at Kroger’s discount outlet: $1.25.
PRODUCT OF CHINA
Ah, so in other words, we’re so dependent upon a mortal enemy for “national security” items that we can’t place major tariffs on them. NOT a surprise that they actually have us by the nads in that crucial area. There are books on the subject. I’ve read them.
And how does this then economically FORCE the move of associated industries to the US since anyone who has read anything on the subject for decades has already known about this for decades and the situation won’t change by 90 days from now?
US Manufacturing and jobs were offshored to China because China lined the pockets of our reps like McConnell et al.
The 2017 “Myth of Modern Global Markets” post didn’t just expose the system—it clarified it. For many of us, it was the first time we truly understood what was happening. Global trade wasn’t about competition or efficiency. It was about control—multinational corporations and banks manipulating supply chains, lobbying governments, and extracting national wealth while selling the illusion of free markets.
Fast-forward to 2025, and Stephen Miller’s Section 232 strategy offers the clearest response yet. Steel, autos, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals are now treated as national security assets, protected through targeted tariffs and regulatory safeguards. It’s the beginning of a reversal—one that finally puts national interest ahead of global profit schemes.
But it’s still incomplete.
The same logic being applied to semiconductors must now be applied to food. Foreign control of our food system—from meat processing to fertilizer inputs—is a national security risk. Smithfield is Chinese-owned. Two of the four companies that control 85% of U.S. beef processing are foreign. And we’re still pretending food isn’t a critical asset?
We haven’t learned the lesson if food isn’t designated under Section 232.
If you’ve ever wondered how the U.S. lost control of its own industries—or why so many “global markets” seem rigged against American workers—go back and read the August 16, 2017, post, The Myth of Modern Global Markets. It’s not just a blog entry. It’s a blueprint for understanding how multinational corporations, backed by global banks and shielded by bad trade policy, quietly took control of everything from food to manufacturing.
It doesn’t shout. It explains.
Once you read it, a lot of what’s happening today—Section 232, tariff fights, and the push to bring back domestic production—makes much more sense.
The Myth of Modern “Global Markets” – Understanding Why Renegotiating National Trade is So Critical…. – The Last Refuge
There are very few political operators inside America for whom I have a gut level respect. Alas for us all most are whores and traitors, a few with whom Heritage America can have transient alignment of self-interest, temporary alliance. But Stephen Miller is one of the good guys. Mad respect …
In Trump’s second Term, I do have more confidence TRUMP can improve stuff, and Trump will not be like Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton.
MAGA is hoping Trump can set this country right again.
Bannon ranting this morning about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick being a Musk plant whose every TV appearance is a disaster. One wonders what Peter Navarro is saying to Bannon via backchannels.
I missed that but Bannon has finally awakened to the fact Patel and Barbie, I mean Bondi, are not doing anything. He had Tom Fitton on his show I thinks Saturday and he is suing the DOJ over the Epstein files.
Also, he is not happy about PTrump blinking to China over tariff’s.
Well I agree with him on everything. I can’t believe PTrump blinked..China is not going to negotiate over anything at this point as they are willing to go kinetic war.
In the meantime, I have not checked my 401k for a week…there goes my small, but needed, cushion.
Theres a reason Bannon is on the OUTSIDE, and spending 4 mos. in Jail doesn’t change my opinion of him aa being a blow hard, a lose cannon and all about himself.
Much like Matt Gaetz in that respect.
JMHO ..
True, that.
Is you is or is you ain’t a tariff?
Or has you found some trariff new?
As Economic Decurity is National Security, evety “sector” becomes vital.
Sectors means jobs, and so once again we are looking at the Govt. to detiemine “essential” jobs, and non-essebntial jobs, just like with Covid.
Whixh jobs are deemed ‘essential’ so that that industry enjoys the protections of Govt. Tariffs against outside competition, and which jubs hence industries do not?
And of coarse such a sitiation opens itself up to bribery by industry or labor, to GAIN such protections, and so of Coarse Congress wants to get their filthy hands on the levers.
For them, its all about the lucre, abd they have been sekling protection to various industries and factions for a long time.
Reminds me of Pat Buchanan, a man before his time.