President Donald Trump will be holding a celebration of his 100 days in office during a stop in Michigan. It makes sense to pick Michigan as the auto industry is representative of the Trump global trade reset and tariff program.
So far, eleven new or expanded U.S. automotive factories have been announced as major automakers seek to establish production lines in the USA to avoid 25% auto tariffs. The latest announcement was from Toyota, for expanded facilities in West Virginia.
“Toyota Motor Corporation’s North American manufacturing subsidiary, Toyota North America Inc, announced this week that it plans to invest a further US$88 million in its West Virginia plant in the US to assemble its next generation of hybrid transaxles.” {source}
Additionally, South Korea is on the losing end of negotiation leverage due in large part to their position within the auto sector. Japan has already had preliminary discussions with the Trump administration on a new free trade agreement. Now we see South Korea coming to the table for the agreement outline today.
(Reuters) – A South Korean delegation will meet U.S. counterparts on Thursday for an opening round of trade talks, with cooperation on shipbuilding and energy expected to be on the agenda, and possibly shared defence costs, as Seoul seeks lower tariffs.
South Korea, which faces 25% U.S. reciprocal tariffs, is among the first countries the Trump administration has initiated trade talks with, after its first face-to-face discussions last week with Japan, another key Asian ally slapped with 24% tariffs. (more)
Will Michigan’s great Governor Whitmer still be hiding her face behind a stack of file folders? You know, so there’s not a photo of her and President Trump.
Is she a bigger turd than Walz? That dolt just promised to protect MN from Trump’s ‘chaos’ which is the Dems latest branding exercise. He has led MN into budget deficit which means more taxes.
Minnesota needs an enema…I’m mean DOGE!
New Ulm MN here:
Waltz is a pedophile, a thief via NGOs, a CCP agent, and mentally ill…and just plain weird.
He grew up in West Point, Nebraska which I’ve been to and, like Walz’ family, they don’t claim him either.
Whitmer, I believe, is a niece to $oros.
Tampon Tim married his beard on Tiananmen Day.
Not to celebrate the Tank Man, but to celebrate the Tanks.
Fake marriage on Tiananmen Day…
Tanks for the mammaries 🙂
He’s got Turret Syndrome so tread lightly.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Shooting from high places?
I have a neighbor who grew up near Walz and pretty much said there are more disgusting stories about him than are publicly known. (The neighbor was ready to tell; I didn’t want to hear.)
Oh, too bad – but pour the tea when ready!
Don’t forget Tampon Timmy’s “STOLEN VALOR” claims!
I’m four years regular Army veteran and even I forgot that…thanks Earl T.
At the Minnesota State Fair, a group that has a booth handed out Walz Lies “fans” that people carried around. There was always 30-50 people in line the day I was at the fair. The fans were everywhere.
Most commonsense people hate Walz and they know why they hate Walz.
Greetings, Arminius! I like your name. New Ulm, MN, is my hometown–and I know precisely who the first Arminius was and what he did for the German tribes against Roman legions. (Arminius, aka “Hermann the German” is the town’s patron.)
For everyone else: The Ambush That Changed History
Prost alle!
The strategy that Arminius used against the Roman legions is considered one of the great battle tactics ever in warfare. It is studied at West Point.
I don’t know if you ever get back to New Ulm, Black Irish Rose. I’d love to meet. You may email me at [email protected]
For everyone else, New Ulm is home of Schell’s beer…one of the best beers in America and 2nd oldest family owned brewery after Yuengling.
Wasn’t that city the end of the James/Younger crime gang as well?
No, Madelia…south of New Ulm by 10-12 miles.
New Ulm, MN is a real place! Just watched a very cute Harry Connick, Jr./Renee Zellwegger movie set in New Ulm – and I wondered whether it was real.
fun movie
Like he “protected” Minneapolis?
I’ve lived in Minneapolis my entire life. I’m leaving Friday. I no longer recognize my hometown. | The College Fix
You headed south?
That’s a 2021 post by a young college student from Tim and Winnie Mandela-Walz’s burning tire paradise.
I’m south-headed, though.
We lived in Stillwater and almost bought a condo downtown Mpls in 2013. Chose north Dallas/Frisco area instead. Looking back, God was on our side. Good luck Gipper.
We would love to have you in Florida. We need more of you than the blue.
Yep.
x
Formerly Twitter…
Awww.
On my way!
North Central Florida could use another Patriot..
The old swimmin’ hole…
“Way down upon the Ichetuknee…”
I have a second magnitude spring 5 mins by johnboat from the compound ..
Head way south. We’d love to have you in NC.
We escaped 6 years ago👍
Not sure about that. Then again, I haven’t studied measuring technique for turd sizes. Not sure who’s the winner. Thanks
>> [Michigan’s Governor Whitmer] just promised to protect MN from Trump’s ‘chaos’
I assume she is not talking about Antifa and BLM.
Or the chaos that ensues when their Governor participates in a fake kidnapping plot to entrap political opponents.
Yep, Democrats are in a temporary (?) position of having their marketing people either clueless DC relics, or insane juvenile delinquents. I pray it lasts long enough for their malignant cartel to go down the tubes completely.
It’s a toss-up, but for different reasons, in my opinion.
Walz
“If Jesus were alive today…”
chaos
-Nikki Haley told CBS that Americans want to “leave the chaos of the past”
branding
“Build Brand Terror” – Trantifa
-Mary Moriarty, who is the first LGBT person to serve as the Hennepin County Attorney according to Wikipedia, DEFENDS her decision not to criminally charge the MN State employee who vandalized multiple Teslas causing over $20,000 in damages.”
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1915224725761991009
True Justice is retribution.
Exhibit A
Pardon of NV Judge Michele Fiore (R)
Exhibit B
Arrest of NM Judge Juan Cano (D/Hamas)
Judge Fiore got the “treatment” that FLOTUS got. {Goon squad panty raid}
For the life of me, I cannot imagine any man holding in esteem an agency {FBI} that performs such criminal acts of deviancy.
The FBI hit me in ’99…
Then again in ’09…
Took my original IP {®} certification signed by President Clinton…
Then Obama the destroyer had his goons steal my God given domain {Internet}, infringed on MY ®, defaming MY God given Word {my ® clearly protects word “and design”}, and used my IP for a porn site.
So,
I cannot feel what the “ladies” must have felt…
But my suggestion would be for POTUS to move to Mira Lago…
And have SecDef prepare two nukes…
One for DC…
And one for Tehran.
But that’s just me…
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Oh, and the NM Judge makes friends with Tren de Agua {sp?}…
Just like “tampon Tim” makes friends with school shooters.
That looks more like a Philadelphia vote counting center in 2020 ! Probably the same type counting center set up there !
What a loser.
I love it!
Thanks for the photo!
Thank you, Governor Whitmer, for shielding us from your face.
That is an iconic picture of the personification of shame.
The file folders 📂 were an improvement over her crazy eyes 👀 and face 😈.
“I don’t understand…why doesn’t anybody want to kidnap me?”
Quite frankly, I stil believe that whole deal was her idea.
kinky.
Adrenochrome much, Vampire Whitmer?
My first impression .
A photo of
EVIL
personified.
That will be awkward, because the auto unions are euphoric over Trump stepping up bigly to stop the bleeding that NAFTA has wrought.
Knowing our VSGPDJT, he will likely announce something big on Selfridge AFB too, adding to the joy.
Interesting to see how Mons-Meg walks this tight rope, between needed union support vs her TDS crazed overlord$$.
Maybe JD should pay her a visit.
I will just throw this out there — I think the Pope was already dead when JD gave him the evil eye. He was just propped up until after Easter for some reason.
Faceless pronouns hide behind mask mandates.
-Whitmer Kidnap Plot Defendant Files Complaint of Judicial Misconduct
https://x.com/KandKFilm/status/1869869127604809973
Crossfire Hurricane 2: Build Back Terror
Ghislaine Maxwell is apparently in jail for pimping children to nobody. Why has no one been arrested? Why has no one been indicted? Why has no one been named as a suspect? Why?!?!?
Oopy, wrong thread!
While we’re OT, what does it mean if my comments keep getting deleted?
Odd: I placed a comment here 30 minutes ago or so, and it is now gone!
It was #4 or #5 perhaps.
I will try again (from memory) to place it here.
If it was a reply to another post, it disappears along with all subordinate posts when Ad_rem deletes a post above yours but in the same thread. I’ve had it happen a few times.
Plus tonight I got a reply to one of my posts, but when I went to page 3 on the presidential thread to see it, it was gone. So either “the Gipper lives” deleted his post that he had sent to me (possibly in error, judging by the content of his reply) or the entire sub thread was deleted.
Dear contributor/admin, This is a test-message to see if it, too, is summarily rejected for print. Sometimes, it is the person, not the comment that raises that insidious “red flag” that indicates the Thumb of disapproval has descended and rejected the commentator. Make no matter of it, worse things are happening on the earth that should concern us in greater measure than arbitrary censorship on an information website. I like to take a screenshot prior to posting, to remind me how awful I am. Hope your day is a blessing to others.
Not if a Detroit auto exec is involved.
Why?!?!?
The less is known, the more is speculated.
-Great frauds in history: Robert Maxwell
https://moneyweek.com/505757/great-frauds-in-history-robert-maxwell
My red pilled Michiganders are going to be happy.
Thank you for making what I said would happen come to fruition, President Trump, Sir!
I love what you do for me, TOY-OTA! I love what your cars used to look like, TOY-OTA!
Sadly, Toyota is walking the styling path established by Hyundai and Kia: Cars designed by 12-year old boys with feverish imaginations.
Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Johnny Lightning cars look better.
2003 Dodge with a Cummins and a 2011 Saab, will patch forever.
My daughter has a 2006 Toyota 4runner 4×4 that she bought new after graduation from the academy and assigned to her first ship in Portsmouth. It is an incredible vehicle with over 200,000 miles and looks great. She jokes that she is keeping it for her 5 year old daughter when she starts to drive! It’s built solid and runs great!
They may not be stylish but my 2002 Toyota Scion is still running well (knock on wood).
I’m keeping my 2014 Camry as long as it will run.
Same here.
I hope their management gets off this hybrid kick and back to plain old fossil fuel cars.
More choices benefit the consumer.
Hybrid variants should be available for those that want to buy them just the same as more conventional gasoline or diesel options.
If there’s actual demand for it, they will sell without requiring market distorting subsidies.
Except they started producing only hybrids now.
That’s not choice.
Take away the other people’s money involved in all of it and the automakers will only manufacture what sells.
Any corporation can only operate for so long without a positive balance sheet. That also means that there is no such thing as too big to fail. By extension the government needs to get out of the business of picking winners and losers in the marketplace.
God already provided the solution…
As
“The works were finished from the foundation of the world.”
Heb 4:3
CAPITALISM :
The economic condition wherein The People own the “capital” {public Monies}…
And
The Government owns the “ism”.
We The People are the sovereign authority under The Constitution of the United States.
Any US citizen who voluntarily pays THIS Federal Government one red cent of their earnings is a traitor and is complicit in aiding and abetting an enemy of The United States of America.
The Federal Government declared war {poverty, drugs, terror} on US.
God’s own Truth.
Take it or leave it.
So did Porsche….go figure.
Why don’t we talk about how China controls strategic supply necessary for the US to function now, including the US military?
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/goldmans-china-tech-tour-underscores-one-message-america-must-reclaim-these-supply
China built
‘… a deeply interconnected production ecosystem centered around advanced electronics manufacturing, semiconductor integration, and software-hardware co-optimization. ‘
… which cannot be duplicated in the US, or “friendshored”. Let alone in 3 years.
OK, forget it. Go back to imagining the tariffs will restore US industry and the US to former greatness.
(Pay no attention to Trump now shifting the reason for China tariffs to fentanyl, as he backs the tariffs down.)
President Trump always had fentanyl from China, and its partners Canada and Mexico, in the forefront.
Where have you been?
Every time I read a comment about how we can’t do something like “cannot be duplicated in the US” or can’t be done in “3 years”, I wonder where people think about where all the “stuff” they’re talking about originated in the first place? That then always puts a smile on my face because I’m reminded of the best lines ever in a Sundance article:
“We’re not good, we’re just rucky!”
Because I grew up with and know exactly the kinds of people Sundance was talking about.
President Trump doesn’t recognise “can’t” his whole life is rife with stories of how he has done the impossible, doing things that “can’t” be done.
“Can’t have a flag, 50′ above the ground at MAL, because the code and County officials say he “can’t”,…but he does.
Can’t ever get that Ice Skating rink up and running, in NYC.
Can’t become President, and surelt can’t get it twice…
He was duly three-elected.
If the military used leveraged finance and supported small scale production facilities for immediate military needs with an eye towards rapid upscale for commercial production we could get off the hook in a year and commercially viable in three
I, too, remember that article about the working women and men of Florida Power and Light excelling in their work, squatybody. It’s about real American expertise and know how. Thanks for reminding me about that article.
It’s curious to me….why don’t the automakers produce cars without all the gizmos and gadgets that require Chinese inputs? Cars would be cheaper, less distracting, and still get the job done. My guess is there’d be good demand for simpler, less expensive vehicles.
Excellent question, Teton! Living in FL and always close to water, I’ve been wanting a vehicle with old-fashioned roll-down windows. Much safer in the event someone runs me off the road and I wind up in the Gulf (of America) and need to crack a window open to normalize the water pressure.
One of the reasons I carry a railroad spike in the car.
The surveillance states likes those electronic thingys…..easy trackability.
You almost answered your own question. Makers (or should I say, the venture capital outfits that own them)(looking at you Stellantis) have no interest in producing cheap reliable easy to service cars. Their only interest is profit margin and squeezing the consumer for every buck they can. And that road has led them to their current place, where many industry observers predict that Chrysler will be extinct by the end of the year, and Dodge not far behind.
I grew up in the Motor City in the 60’s and 70’s, when Detroit steel was king. There used to be a saying, “As GM goes, so goes the country.” Now Detroit is an empty husk of its former self, with the city bulldozing entire blocks of abandoned homes, and population dwindling down to less than 250,000.
And we all know why. Darwin’s law, adapt or perish. They failed to adapt, and now….
I remember Mayor Coleman Young in the late 70’s, cordially inviting all white people to leave Detroit. I, and many others, accepted his invitation. The running joke was that there was a billboard at the state line with Ohio, “Last one to leave, please turn off the lights.”
It’s all so tragic. I remember Detroit as a great place to live, work, and play back then. A living, energetic city with a heartbeat and a soul, and now it is dead. And it is just one of the formerly great cities in the so-called”Rust Belt,” with many others in the Northeast and Midwest suffering the same fate. And again, we all know why.
Hey Jeff, you may have grown up in Detroit, but have you been here lately? Definitely not dead, and I encourage you to come back and check it out before you fall back on the old cliches.
In 1997 my husband and I couldn’t find a restaurant to host our firstborn’s baptism dinner near the sublimely beautiful Sweetest Heart of Mary church, now the city has been named a Top 6 “foodie destination” by National Geographic.
Population in 2024 grew to over 633,000.
Not everything is perfect, but the city is making a great comeback for sure: investment grade bond status for the first time since 2009 … and did you miss seeing last year’s largest ever NFL Draft with 775,000 people visiting over 3 days? Don’t give up!!
And all those gorgeous, artistically captivating buildings (library, train station, opera house, etc). I may have missed a few.
Good question. My 2015 Chrysler required muscle memory ONLY to adjust the temperature/fan speed without taking my eyes off the road. My 2022 Ford requires that I take my eyes off the road to find the temperature control on the screen, then press the screen several times to make the adjustments. I do, though, like that the 2022 Ford warns hubby when he’s driving and straying too close to the lane border. Warning suggests he’s tired and should pull over to take a nap. 🙂
I keep turning off the junk that will kill me looking at the screen to tell me I’m in a near collision. The warning damned near killed us.
I would really enjoy the option of purchasing a vehicle that does not spy on me: a truck that gets me to and fro is what I want, not an outsized mobile computing device.
Amen.
Americans…..through their hard work and ingenuity just get “rucky”. Mostly just old fashioned hard work. Just what the patriots did in Western NC when they got the Democrats and FEMA out of the way!!!!!!!!
It’s absolutely idiotic to pretend we should not start somewhere and bring production back.
We now understand that classical economic theory totally ignores strategic implications of being a “services” economy with hollowed out production capacity.
Please do your best to stop with the absurd Trump commentary.
If we become a service economy we will surely be serviced in the future.
When the mother gets tired of flying back and forth stuffing worms down the gullets of her fletching young. She decides it’s time they learn to fly and feed themselves; she stirs the nest.
Trump will force the United States to start taking care of her own needs and stop foolishly depending on rival nations
It was idiotic to watch essential trade leave our shores.
For a security-obsessed country, no one seemed too worried about the fact that if we were attacked, we wouldn’t be able to make enough weapons to defend ourselves.
Or be able to get medication in the event they let loose another “Chy-na” virus!
You don’t recall the shrieks and shouts of the essentially cancelled conservatives, like Perot and Buchanan?
They aren’t worried about it because, to the powers that be, this is the desired outcome. It is claimed that the US won WWII because we had one more general than Germany – General Motors. Well, the (WEF and their handlers) want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Klaus resigned the day after Easter. With any luck, we won’t have to worry about the WEF Schmucks much longer.
but what if its his reason for living?
It reminds me of the people who need to lose 100 pounds but then don’t start doing what needs to be done to achieve that goal because it will take a year to get it done. So they quit.
College takes 4 years, gestating a baby takes 9 months, training for the Olympics takes decades, saving for a down payment for a home takes years, and building an empire takes decades and yet, people do it. They start the journey even though they may not see results for months, years, or decades.
“It takes too long” is an excuse for the weak.
So what is YOUR answer? I know that you have no answer or that answer is keep doing what we have been doing. The path we have been on is one that leads in disaster.
ok, we have exceeded the troll count for today, go back under your rock
Rick, is that you?
No big deal.
China only makes what it can copy.
I believe the correct term is: Counterfeit.
Pay no attention to the dorks behind the
ironsiliconcurtainwall.Crossfire Hurricane 4: In Crowdstrike We Trust
The ship building component of what our nation needs to re-home is huge. Looking forward to seeing how these South Korea meetings develop.
Shipbuilding, auto manufacturing, ammunition production, weapons r&d etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum.
Sundance, or someone, posted a car picture not too long ago…picturing something like 6 or 8 foreign car brands and 3 American brands. That is one part of the automotive problem.
A big part of the automotive problem is overregulation, by both the Fed and State governments.
CARB (California Air Resources Board) emissions requirements are much more stringent then federal EPA standards under the Clean Air Act and all.
It imposes significant costs on all the other States, above even the Federal regulations.
Ditto newer regulations on commercial vehicles causing bottlenecks with goods transported through California.
R F Burns: CARB is a California shake-down organization that taxes drivers up the wazoo.
Exactly right friend.
Likely would drop at least a few thousand on the cost of a new car by not letting them exceed the Federal standards as it stands.
And unions that keep pricing themselves out of the market by telling assembly-line workers that they’re worth $100K+ per year, plus full pension at retirement at 55, ×/full fee-for-service free Healthcare.
Unions, like every other human organization, including churches and charities, have always been targeted by malevolents.
The same is true for every human being.
Obviously an individuals or groups ability to successfully resist malevolent infiltration has also always varied.
Hence the importance of spiritual, emotional and mental health which requires life long vigilance and regular routines to maintain.
All our heavy industry from mining to smelting and ore refining. It is the whole manufacturing universe that needs to be brought back on line.
The Federalist: SC’s Play To Nullify Tariffs In 1832 Failed. Newsom’s Will Too:
“South Carolina, peeved over the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 — derisively called the “Tariff of Abominations” — declared them null and void within its borders. The state’s economy, tied to slave-driven cotton exports, chafed under duties that protected northern industry but raised costs for southern planters. Calhoun, then vice president, penned the intellectual case for nullification, arguing states could override federal laws they deemed unconstitutional. Andrew Jackson called this treasonous nonsense. He issued a Proclamation of Force, threatening troops, and Congress passed a compromise tariff to cool the feud. South Carolina backed down, but the episode laid bare a dangerous question: Can states defy federal authority rooted in the Constitution? Gavin Newsom, on a different day, would say that the Civil War answered that one with a resounding “no.”
Fast forward to 2025, and enter Newsom, California’s self-anointed guardian of the “resistance.” On April 16, Newsom announced a lawsuit to halt Trump’s tariffs, which slap a 10 percent baseline on imports and far steeper levies on goods from China. Trump justifies these under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 law granting presidents broad authority in national emergencies.
Newsom, flanked by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, claims the tariffs are “unlawful” and will wreak “chaos” on California’s economy — think higher prices for almonds, wine, and Hollywood flicks as other nations hike their tariffs in response. Sound familiar? Like South Carolina, California is griping about federal policy hitting its economic interests. Like Calhoun, Newsom is betting on state power to thwart Washington. And like 1832, this is a clash over who gets to call the shots.
The parallels are uncanny, and the irony is thicker than a blanket of Sacramento Tule fog. Newsom, a Democrat who’s spent years preaching federal supremacy on everything from climate to immigration, now cloaks himself in the mantle of state sovereignty to dodge Trump’s trade agenda.
Let’s be clear: States don’t have rights; they have powers, delegated by the Constitution. Only people have rights, a truth the Founders etched into our framework. Newsom’s rhetoric, implying California can opt out of federal policy like some sovereign republic, misreads the Constitution as badly as Calhoun did.” …….
I’d say “recognized” instead of “delegated” since the States created the Constitution.
But if States can opt out of Immigration and Tariffs, they can opt out of IRS and EPA, too.
BTW, Candy Date Newsom, who scrubbed San Fran clean for his Chinese Owners, is lately pretending he’s not a Firebug Radical, yet won’t lift a finger to repeal any of his satanic communist policies.
“Please give my compliments to my friends in your State, and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach.”–Actual President Andrew Jackson
Have a Nice Day!
Thank you for that link.
Oh and I said; if only hanging were fashionable today.
MHGA- Make Hanging Great Again!
You might be able to skip that part, and go directly to draw and quarter.
Correct.
This is not to say that States powers are negligable, they are pretty awsome actually.
Unfortunately “our side” does not excercise “States rights” i.e..POWERS, nearly as often as they could.
Much of the Fed. Govt. overreach COULD be trimmed back, by State A.G.’s filing suit in Federal Court, based on 10A.
Those powers not delegated to the Fed. Gov. are retained by the States, and the people.
There is NO Federal authority over regulating medicine, which is why when States declare Ivermectine to be OTC, the FDA is silent,…also why MJ has been legalised in a # of States. And why any Stste COULD ban the clotshots, if they had the WILL.
States have absolute authority over the issueing of business licences, and can make whatever requirements as they deem neccesary, including all companies submit e-verify compliance documents for all employees, with every quarterly report, and keep such documents available at the workplace, available on demand, or lose their licence/pay a big fine.
The SCOTUS would uphold such a State regulation, as being wholly Constitutional.
These are just two examples of how States POWERS, acting as agents for WE, the People, can use 10A to push back against Federal overreach.
Well-Stated, Dutch!
No wonder President Trump chose to hang President Andrew Jackson’s portrait in the Oval Office when he first arrived in 2017, made it be known that he was reading an autobiography about Old Hickory, then made a pilgrimage to The Heritage to lay a wreath at the mausoleum where Andrew is buried.
Now that President Trump has returned to the Oval Office so has Andrews portrait.
“I was born for storms. The calms don’t suit me” — Andrew Jackson
And DJT.
Notice what no one is talking about, or even asking questions about?
How are trade negotiations going, with the EU?
As PDJT has pointed out, they have been ripping off the U.S. just as badly as CHYNA, …AND they are being a major impediment to peace in Ukraine.
And already, a lot of German industry are moving here to avoid the tariffs…and the high priced, unrekiable energy in Germany…
Perhaps its true that “no one is talking about” EU/US trade talks who is am EU official, or perhaps its not.
However, many online opiners ARE watching, talking and asking lots of questions.
Perhaps PDJTs actual primary “target” is the NWO’s EU and their creature, the CCP, rather than Xi’s China
re: shipbuilding
Navy Scraps Biden-Era ‘Climate Action’ Plan
Good. I have no idea what the Biden-Era Climate Action plan was but given the soup brains supporting our potato brained President it was bound to be totally Anti American and detrimental to our Navy, our ship building capabilities, and our taxes/debt burden.
South Korea through its low birthrate is dying. They may as well move it all back to the US.
Trump needs to open our borders to industrious people from all over the world while getting the 40 million illegals removed along with the Sharia Muslims that do not want to assimilate.
They have a submarine museum in coastal Georgia. Went there years ago, and bought a calender
that showed submarines being launched after completion. During Ww2. The vast majority of the
subs shown were built in ……….. Wisconsin.
How cool would it be to be building commercial ships, freighters etc on the Great Lakes?
My dad’s LST was one of four LSTs launched on the same day. Consider this, one of many shipyards on the Ohio river launching four ships a day, seven days a week. It’s all about INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY.
Some thoughts about shipbuilding, it takes more then just industrial capacity. It takes a motivated and skilled workforce.
A bit of context might serve well here, so here goes.
Before the (temporary) shutdown of the DDG 51 program, Bath Iron Works managed to achieve a 1 year build time for an Arleigh Burke destroyer from cutting the first steel for the hull, to final delivery of a finished destroyer to the US Navy.
Since the restart of the DDG 51 program after that business with the DDG 1000’s, the company has been struggling with regaining that peak schedule.
The issue has been that nearly all of the original workforce had since moved on, or retired. It is difficult to retain skilled tradesmen without a substantial increase in compensation with the standard of living such as it is in the State of Maine.
Second attempt to place this comment here:
The phrase “giant sucking sound” was used by Ross Perot c. 30+ years ago to describe the free-trade agreements back then.
The near mania for “Free Trade” ignored the historical precedent of Great Britain, which had free-traded itself into mediocrity – and into Socialism – in the 19th and into the 20th centuries.
This coincided with the starry-eyed idea that opening China to the world of Free Trade would turn them into a capitalist-loving democracy.
That naive premise ignored a rule from many decades ago and proven again and again:
“You can trust the Communists to be Communists!”
President TRUMP, aware of this past History – I do like the way he has referred to President McKinley – wants to re-establish Fair Trade, as Free Trade without limits has wrecked America over the last 50 years.
His enemies, willing idiots, know this, and oppose him at every turn, claiming that disaster awaits us from his policies.
But look around: the disasters are already here!
Our enemies know this, but, like looting barbarians, they are willing to profit in the short term from our civilization’s destruction.
President TRUMP wants to expel the barbarians and close the gates against them!
It is more than high time to do precisely that and re-establish the virtues which made America great!
Amen to that, Ausonius. Ausonius daily demonstrates a perspective knowledge of history
compatible with President Trump. Whose prescience is daily more evident. Ausonius
is a big part of my day; God Bless !
Oh my, I am humbled and honored! Many thanks for the kind comments!
I should add: we have seen throughout History that “Capitalism” has various false versions, and we have evidence from the last decades that globalist, crony capitalism is NOT capitalism.
One of the distortions of Capitalism is the gambling nature of our contemporary stock market.
To be sure, there is always a “gamble” involved, when one invests in a company. However, why are banks and other “financial institutions” dealing with “shorts” and “naked short selling,” basically gambling for a company to go downhill?!
Then we have the traders who micromanage their purchases, buying and then selling a stock within one day (so-called “day-trading”).
How is any of that involved in true investing in America’s Future?
Obviously, it is get-rich-quick gambling, and has nothing to do with helping America, not unlike the states pushing lotteries to get rich quick, lubricating and fertilizing an “I-don’t-need-to-work” atmosphere, than which a more deleterious one would be hard to find!
Really agree with your statements on short selling and day trading. Left out hedge funds.
The “News” (local) always has ongoing coverage of the stock market. Notice that the insane rises
of the NYSE has not benefitted the general public ONE IOTA over the last 3 decades?
The only thing more annoying is the lottery. Particularly when you are in line at a gas station and
some loser is taking ten minutes buying every ticket in sight.
My contribution to DOGE was a suggestion to place a sin tax on these side bet transactions (derivatives, puts, and shorts), since they truly are plain ole gambling bets. This could raise a ton of money which should be applied only to debt and social security.
Excellent idea: tax gambling of any kind and, as with anything which carries a tax, you will get less of it!
Loved Perot. He really knew his stuff.
His work with Iran Hostages was top-notch.
real patriot wise businessman…shrub/clinton derail him…
“Loved Perot”.
So did my brother.
At the time, the Tres Amigos opposing NAFTA were Perot, Ralph Nader and Donald Trump.
Fortunately, while on his death bed, Perot was able to write a check to help re elect PDJT.
Well said Sir. There is a coordinated effort by his many enemies & the propaganda press. One has to look no further than this mornings Yahoo finance page. Every article is tariff gloom & doom. Our country is in a death spiral both morally & financially. President Trump led by God’s hand is literally saving us.
100 days that shook the world and put the communist party into a death defying tailspin. Well done Mr. President , God Speed.
I’m looking forward to when DOGE goes state by state looking for election fraud putting those states with the most heinous leaders first. That’s why Hilary lost. Not just men, but so many women, no matter which side of the aisle, couldn’t stand her. Whitmer is the same. I can’t see her getting in without cheating.
And from what I’ve read, Hillary had the election fraud machine working in her favor, but the perpetrators underestimated, and there was also some critical anti-fraud intervention.
Audit NASA, CIA and the Fed… that’s where the gold + platinum mines of waste fraud and abuse wait to be dredged
If I could have 5 minutes with President Trump, aside from saying thank you, I’d ask him to look into Casey Putsch, who has developed a diesel car that gets 100 mpg, and goes from 0-60 in under 5 seconds. I think that Putsch’s ideas would revolutionize our auto industry, and make us a global leader in this regard. I hope that someone, somewhere introduces the president to this.
I just looked this guy up, and listened to the beginning of his interview with Tucker. Fascinating.
Even more than his specific ideas, is his views on how engineering is taught, and how it is done.
He is right there with the Wright Bros., Edison, etc.
This guy, Casey Putsch, is so cool.
Putsch used to sell 50 cc motor bikes at Sears in the 60’s..had one, alot of fun on the farm
We need something new and different from the internal combustion engine, something next generational. Hydrogen?
Not sure about hydrogen: Takes a lot of energy to crack the hydrogen from the water molecule, there is difficulty in storing hydrogen since the molecule is so small, and finally, it generates quite a bit more heat when converted to energy than does the normal ICE.
Maybe the person who should look into Putsch is Elon Musk since he is in the manufacturing sector right now. President Trump has a bit of a mess on his hands trying to correct the deliberate attacks on American infrastructure and economy perpetrated by the Biden cabal.
You should look up the water engine technology Toyota is developing. Musk has said recently it will be the death of the EV market if commercialized.
MAGA. Pass the Winnamins!!
👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Just as an hour with a pretty girl seems like minutes, 100 days of a Trump Presidency seems like no time at all!
The Democrats have been poisoning our soup for so many years they keep trying to convince us that having a stomach ache 24/7 is normal.
America is like a patient recovering from the double pneumonia of Obama and Biden and the better we get the more we see that they are the ones who were making us sick!
Trump’s tariffs are the key to an American prosperity such as we haven’t experienced since I was a boy in the Fabulous Fifties…so we can all eat soup again!
I hope this means American workers. Michigan is close to Canada, and Canadian workers’s visas have unlimited renewals.
No problem, statehood is looking like a lady about to give birth
To dems/rinos….if printing $$$ would end poverty printing diplomas would end stupidity… well well it does not work…
I see 2 tariff solutions:
1. Trump tells all countries he will implement 0% tariffs on country when they implement 0% tariffs to begin free trade finally.
2. Trump tells all countries he will implement 10% tariffs on country when they implement 0% tariffs to recoup unfair trade practices against the US. The 10% will remain in effect according to how long that country has charged tariffs on the US. At least we can recoup some of US loss of revenue cause by countries charging us tariffs since day one.
Trump’s goal is to bring critical manufacturing back to the US. My hope is that much less crital manufacturing moves back also.
Foreign Countries that run surpluses against the US need to purchase more US goods or move their manufacturing to the US. The main goal is to get manufacturing back to the US
Tariffs are only one of the weapons used by other governments against the US. Slave and near-slave labor is another as well as government subsidies to crucial industries. We aren’t into slave labor here in the US anymore and subsidies are just an invitation to Government control of which companies prosper and which don’t.
God bless President Trump. The master dealmaker.
Smart.. lock in the battleground states.
Smart bussiness leaders are usually ahead of the game and embracing the return of manufacturing to America.
https://rumble.com/v6si6mj-elon-musks-secret-michigan-empire.html
Economies rise and fall and still a nation’s people can weather the storm and survive. But when a nation rots morally, so that what was once understood to be wrong is now celebrated as right, and the public worship of God is almost apologetic, then it’s in its last stages.
I give all thanks to God and heartfelt thanks to President Trump for for his unapologetic celebration of this country’s Christian roots. His stand against the new relativism, that would have us betray reality and pretend that men and women are interchangeable, is as important as anything he is doing on the economic front with tariffs.
It has been a good 100 days.
Nothing smells better than WINNING in the morning!
Winning? I guess until you see yet another judge rule against Trump and he obeying the ruling like a good little boy and doing nothing but complaining on social media
Pres Trump just signed EO that says he can be a judge so that he can be President of the USA
You don’t know the Trump ropa-dope do ya. PDJT has mojo coming outta his ears.
How many times do you need to hear “Trump was right again”?? The complaints you speak about come hot and ready right off his social media company. Apparently he’s got you hooked. Thanks for playing the game!
complaining
Complain Back Better
-President Trump Talks ‘Judicial Insurrection’
https://rumble.com/v6sih9x-president-trump-talks-to-glenn-beck-about-the-judicial-insurrection.html
Make Insurrection Judicial Again
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/08/18/lou-dobbs-and-devin-nunes-discuss-kevin-clinesmith-and-judge-boasberg/
This is all good and encouraging but at some point, sooner than later, these plants need to become operational and staffed by US citizens.
MNN BREAKING NEWS…
* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES VICIOUS AND SHOCKING NEW POLICY THAT PEOPLE SHOULD PAY BACK CAR AND HOME LOANS, TOO
Ka$h for Klunkers Used Car Manager Barry Obamboozler.
I watch Alex Christoforou pretty often. Today he was rather critical of President Trump’s conduct in the Ukraine situation (about 5:00 to 14:00).
I suppose this won’t be well-received here, so I’ll say pre-emptively that I’ve been a supporter of President Trump since before his first term, and I still am. I’d be interested in other treepers’ thoughts about Christoforou’s comments.
Your boy Zelenskyy doesn’t want peace. He wants money. He couldn’t care less about the people being killed.
Buraq is the one that did nothing when Russia took Crimea. He did send some blankets though.
Christoforou is totally pro-Russian/Putin.
The apology should not be needed.
You can be FOR someone, but that does not have to equal acting as a mindless drone and cheerleading every word they say.
There’s a difference, although that tends to get lost in todays society.
Reality is: Even the best people have bad plans sometimes.
Even the smartest people have dumb ideas.. sometimes.
And even the mightiest of empires, fall on their face.. sometimes.
It’s to society’s benefit if that gets called out.
Similar to how one would say a year ago “Gee I think we should have negotiations with Russia to end this war” and then people would go “Well you are just a putin puppet arent you? You are in bed with the Russians. You are with the KGB arent you! Lets lock you up for treason!”
But basically that “Lets find a way out – preferably fact based and mutual benefit – as civilized people” Now THAT would be just a common sense point of view.
But nope, war is peace, up is down, left is right nowadays.
People have a hard time separating their (sometimes fanatical) ideologies from their facts nowadays.
But maybe if people become more self-aware, things can improve.
Meanwhile dont apologize. Unless you did it on purpose.
Thanks for the comments. (I meant to post this in the ‘presidential politics’ thread, but got it wrong.)
Reality post. I would like to see some statistics about what auto manufacturing tarrifs are doing to the average car price at the dealer / second hand market.
Including the made in US cars.
My expectation would be the avg. car price to go up. If they have not gone up now, I would expect over the very near future.
Because:
If you had a made-in-US car and a similar made-in-Japan car, of similar specs.
And the Japan car would go up 25% in price.
Can we assume the US car will go up 10% in price…
A US Car manufacturer would think “I can sell my car 10% more expensive, as It would still be 15% cheaper than the Japan car.”
Higher car prices could mean less car sales.
Less car sales could mean layoffs.
Or is the thinking that a capitalistic based company with shareholders does not work that way?
The other case, people will continue to buy the more expensive car.
But as result they will have less purchasing power (higher loan, more interest payments) to spend on other things. (Food, entertainment, life)
So the car tariffs might be robbing one person to pay another.
I think this is sound economics.
So Trump could be on a path to make all cars in the US more expensive by 5, 10, 15% and we will need to see about knock on effects (auto loans, car demand, economy) . Not a reason to cheer just yet after 100 days, until we can see what happened in a years time.
Gas will be cheap though 🙂
Also thought on the factories:
All those nice shiny new car assembly factories tend to not pay for themselves. investors have to invest and recover their costs.
* The factories are not built overnight
* Need to find similar equally qualified staff, which does not happen overnight
* but ultimately have to be recouped in the car price as well.
Another reason to think car prices will go up faster with tariffs, rather than without.
In order for that to work, all the cars that are US made would have to increase their prices in order not to lose market share. This option was cut off as soon as FORD came out with employee pricing for all. All others will have to follow suit or risk losing market share.
I would say capitalism works like this typically:
* The price of a product is the most that people are willing to pay for it.
If I can sell you a gizmo for 15 dollars and get 15 dollars, I am not selling it to you for 10 dollars. (I could but I would be taking $5 dollars out of my wallet, $5 dollars my shareholders would want)
As opposed to:
* the price of a product is the maximum / ceiling of what my competitors are charging.
Therefore the tailwind is more likely to be my competitors raising their prices in unison, rather than lowering their prices in unison. I just think that is more likely to happen.
Sure you can try to “undercut” the market, and get more market share, but that is never a long term viable strategy for a financially healthy company.
The key word is also: “Similarly priced, equal specs”
If a Ford F150 is comparable to a equally decked out Silverado.. Then their prices would be similar and being similar they are also likely to go up and down together in price.
If the F150 became 10,000 more expensive then the Silverado would not take long to become equally expensive.
Notwithstanding marketing. Pretty much the entire year is “Ford Employee Pricing” or “Toyota Red Tag Days”
Which have to do with consumer persuasion more so than economics / pricing dynamics.
(What you get discounted the unware customer will likely end up paying in dealer fees,)
Popular Toyota and Lexas models like the 4RUNNER, Land Cruiser and GX450 have a $10,000 premium over sticker even before the tariff went into effect. In fact, most dealers couldn’t even keep them on the lot because they had a waiting list of buyers for every vehicle. My son was on the list for a new Land Cruiser in black. He got a call at 4pm from the Toyota salesman last month who said he had just got one delivered but it was grey. My son said he’d take it drove directly there with a check for the deposit and by the time he was leaving several potential buyers were arriving. He bought it!
Does anyone remember the benefit (reduced cost) to consumers,
when there is mass production / assembly lines
for making products?
hmmm…
there is talk (and investments going on) for producing more vehicles etc. within the usa…
What could that mean in the longer term…?
And could it be that someone might also think short term, to try to establish a stronger
demand for its product (both short and long term) ?
hmmm….
Establishing equal trade (via tariffs / negotiations) can be so good for we the people.
We he invite Whitless again
“If free trade Republicans today had listened to what Karl Marx had said on the subject, they would know why Bernie Sanders and socialism in general has gained popularity. Marx advocated for free trade because
The Forgotten American System
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/01/forgotten-american-system-thomas-maino.html
system
Marx wasn’t a marxist or an economist, he was a communist.
Karl Mooch was liberal with other people’s money and conservative with his own.
“Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.” – Leon Trotsky
Some Germans are more French than others.
https://lawliberty.org/classic/a-german-reflection-on-the-american-revolution/
Celebration is in Michigan. This could be an opportunity for Trump to troll Whitmer. As far as I can see all the new announced expansions in US automobile production are aiming at anywhere other than Michigan. All the automotive expansion is happening in spite of the ineptitude of the auto industry executives still based in Detroit and the anti-business policies of blue-state governments.
Speaking of trade and attempted agreements – an interesting take on events elsewhere.
Attempts to lever the EU into their web is also ongoing…
(source Bloomberg)
“As the world’s major economies, China and Europe will jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday, adding that it would welcome more European members of parliament to visit China, without addressing reports on sanctions being lifted.
President Xi Jinping is seeking to repair ties with the European Union, painting China as the more reliable partner as Donald Trump alienates the bloc over issues from tariffs to defense.
Faced with an effective trade embargo from the US, Chinese policymakers and business leaders are searching for new markets in Europe and beyond. To help smooth those ties, Xi is preparing to lift sanctions on several EU lawmakers, according to one European official — a largely symbolic gesture of good will as the measures had little impact.
While leaders in Europe remain fiercely opposed to Beijing’s support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, they’ve indicated a willingness to move forward on some issues. EU officials are considering minimum price quotas on Chinese electric cars, in place of tariffs as high as 45.3% imposed last year over complaints of an export glut.
“Beijing would ideally like to detach Europe from the US and essentially make it a kind of natural shield for China’s ambitions,” said Rana Mitter, ST Lee chair in US-Asia relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. “But while the EU may be wary of America, it’s not going to abandon the American market or its traditional orientation in favor of China, which many regard as extremely unreliable trading partner.”
Meanwhile in the US, the crazy anti-American Dims are actually threatening other nations to not negotiate with the current executive branch – which is a definite violation of the law…
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has threatened nations that, in his words, “enabled authoritarianism in our country,” warning that Democrats will not view foreign leaders favorably when his party regains power.
Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, referenced El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele’s support for former President Donald Trump’s deportation policies.
“If and when we come back to power – and we will – we are not gonna look kindly upon people who facilitated authoritarianism in our country,” Raskin said on Pod Save America with host Tommy Vietor, according to the New York Post. Vietor, a former spokesman for President Barack Obama, shared that a Latin American policy researcher advised Democrats to “threaten action against any foreign government complicit in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens.”
“We’ve got to become the leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the descent into fascism in America,” the House Democrat added. “These people really believe that democracy is defunct. They say we live in a constitutional America.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/high-ranking-democrat-hints-revenge-against-countries-working-trump
flashback
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/08/05/congressman-jamie-raskin-seriously-and-strategically-promises-to-incite-a-civil-war-by-blocking-trump-from-office-if-president-trump-wins-in-november/
“Socialism, fascism, and communism, and all these other isms are variants of the same thing and that’s collectivism.”
-G Edward Griffin Joins Live At 92 Years Young
One if by Ukraine, 2 if by Asia…
UKranada is a threat to democracy.
After WWII and partition, British-India became Pakistan and India.
Millions displaced depending on religion and contention of Kashmir continues.
When is “Arrest the pedophiles and traitors” focus?
When is the 100 day celebration?
I am so tired of people who make excuses for why we can’t reshore production. They don’t realize it, but they’re buying the propaganda from large companies. The reality is…they don’t want to reshore their operations. In their eyes, they already have an established supply chain, and they don’t want to change it. Change costs money, and they’re greedy. They have no allegiance to our country which is quite sad. They’ll be the first ones crying about intellectual property theft when their molds and tooling get confiscated.
I know a number of liberals, and they all use the same propaganda: It’s too expensive, we don’t have the capabilities, it would take too long to get going. Do they hear themselves? For people who ostensibly hate large corporations, they sure do a good job of defending them. I work for a manufacturing company, and I can tell you that anything is possible. We have very strong plastic, paper, and metal manufacturing capabilities in this country, and there’s no reason that we can’t develop electronics expertise.
I expect Democrats to oppose American manufacturing, but it’s pretty sad when I see it on our side too. There’s a
poster here named California Joe who whines nonstop about tariffs. Nearly every post is him crying about how costs will go up. These people are too myopic to see that short-term pain brings long-term gain. I wish they would spend their time obsessing about how incompetent it is to rely on a foreign adversary for your tech manufacturing. The whole China issue is a disaster and what you call the “high cost of a low price.”
I would rather see a gradual decoupling from China than a trade deal that they won’t honor. You can rest assured that anything they sign won’t be in good faith. They lie, cheat, and steal and will continue their same old tactics, just as we saw with the first trade deal. I do hope that President Trump shifts his focus from a “deal” to pressuring and incentivizing manufacturers to move their supply chains. That has a much larger return on investment for our country. In addition, we need to get rare earth processing facilities up and running as soon as possible. That should be an urgent policy directive. It’s already known that China will be running a larger deficit to defray tariff ramifications. If we keep the pressure on them, we have the ability to destabilize the entire country.