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Are We Done Yet?
Karl Denninger
Here’s the basic problem: All of this rests, at its core, on screwing everyone at and below the median line of capacity (earnings, intellectual and so on) in America. Replacement of jobs with lower-cost imported people is part of it (Disney’s IT department anyone?) and so are collusive practices, all of which turns into wildly-inflated cost of living at the same time it destroys the wage base.
Further, while this can go on for quite a while it can’t go on forever and the people always have a veto. They’re using it; the birth rate in the US is now 1.62 births per woman in the United States which is the lowest in history (since the government started tracking it in the 1930s.) Unless you intend to start raping women here and outlaw abortion at the same time (good luck with both) you can’t override that veto either.
Between the expectation of a destroyed economic future and a roughly 1 in 100 odds, on the data, ten times worse than it was 30 years ago, of having a child that never is able to live independently why would anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size — or who is creating effective slaves to obtain public benefits — make kids?
Oh by the way what happens to both house and stock prices when all those boomers die and their houses have nobody that will keep bidding up said price simply because there are no new children coming of age who can and will actually earn a paycheck of reasonable size? How about stocks — what happens when older people are asset-stripped (thus forced to sell their portfolios) in old age by the medical******departments in elder care and similar?
How many pill bottles do you have in your medicine cabinet? Ok, to be fair readers of this column may well answer that with “Zero!” but now go over to your friend’s place, take a******and while you’re at it take a look. And how many of those bottles are crazy pills, may I ask?
Now add a certain loss in the midterms and then the Executive in 2028 for the GOP unless Trump and said Administration remove all of the illegal aliens and stop both the offshoring and economic******via monopoly practices, abuse of J-1 and H-1b visa and more — thus forcing down the cost of living.
Do you think the stock market will do well if AOC is President in three years and the cost of power doubles again under a Democrat Administration and Congress that demands more “green” garbage that we have already proved is uneconomic and reliant on slave labor overseas? How well will YOU do when it comes to paying the heat bill? Remember, NY and other places already ban new natural gas use for heating, and that is the lowest-cost heating fuel when temperatures are below freezing BY FAR.
Naw, none of this matters — kill the tariff stuff, offshore more jobs, screw everyone who isn’t a rocket scientist — literally. **** ’em. It’ll all be good and Stonks To The Moon, Alice!
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253225
It’s a feature not a bug. Remember Netanyahu’s quote in the 70s.
One way to solve it is for parents, schools, and churches to teach people to think for themselves. The happiness and pleasure in successfully accomplishing tasks. Simply doing something that benefits yourself and others. This attitude and action far out-weighs laziness that only leads to obesity, poor health and the constant need to be entertained. We must reduce selfishness (having children is so inconvenient). Boys in a lot of schools are treated to be girlish not to be young men. Everyone passes and like Lake Woebegone they’re all exceptional.
The reality of life is almost every employee must be worth more than he/she costs the employer, if not, there is no more employer’s business. When is the last time, or ever you heard that said?
The union leader’s mantra: “More people, doing less, for more money.” is prevalent in almost every government office at any level. What successful, hard-working teenager says, “When I grow up, I want to work for the government.”?
In fewer words, too many of us think we are entitled to our utopia.
Add this, caused by garbage economic theory that isn’t fixed because those in position to do so will not because they benefit greatly from it:
The Winners and Losers in 21st Century America
April 28, 2025
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr25/21st-century-win-lose4-25.html
Statistical games can be played to mask the realities of our neofeudal economy, but “narrative control” can’t obscure the facts or the banquet of consequences that these realities have set.
Not everyone in America gained ground as a result of the rampant hyper-financialization and hyper-globalization of the 21st century. Let’s begin our analysis of who gained ground and who lost ground in the year 2001, when China entered the WTO (World Trade Organization) and offshoring / globalization shifted into high gear and when the Federal Reserve began ramping up its financialization / monetary manipulation–oops, sorry, policy interventions.
The top 1% and the top 10% gained ground. The bottom 90% lost ground, especially the bottom 50%. Wage earners lost ground, while corporate insiders, financiers, speculators using leverage and those lucky enough to be born long enough ago to buy assets at pre-bubble valuations gained ground.
If you want to argue with these facts, argue with the Federal Reserve Database. All these charts are drawn from the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED Database.
Let’s start with the varying multiples generated by asset bubbles since 2001.
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AI Assist: The boom-bust cycle refers to periods of rapid economic growth followed by sharp downturns, which can lead to significant wealth transfers from the working class to the wealthy elite. During booms, asset prices rise, benefiting those who own investments, while busts create opportunities for the wealthy to acquire assets at lower prices.
Democrats always take credit for what was put in place by their predecessors. Since fixing a broken economy doesn’t happen overnight and we have a large percentage of utterly brain dead (and truly dead) voters, AOC being the candidate and getting elected would not surprise me. I never thought I would be glad that I’m old, but here I am.
Did you forget Obama and the recession of 2008-2009?
Really? You absolve Obama from any responsibility for the 2008 recession?
Barack Obama Helped Create The Mortgage Crisis
Political Realities ^ | 09/03/12 | LD Jackson
Posted on 9/3/2012, 6:42:49 PM by LD Jackson
How many times have we heard Barack Obama and the liberal Democrats make statements that try to pin the blame for the mortgage crisis on the Republicans, in general, and President George W. Bush, in particular? About a month ago, the Obama campaign came out with an ad that accused Mitt Romney of wanting to go back to the failed policies that “caused the mess in the first place”. Let’s look at some of the facts and see if Barack Obama is telling the truth, or hiding from his own record.
To do that, I want to look at a couple of articles that have been published, with substantial research on the topic. It’s amazing what you can learn from a little research. For starters, it was not the policies of the Republicans, or George W. Bush, that caused the problems that led to the housing crisis. It was the Democrats who perpetuated it, and who continue to do so today.
I have made this same point, more than once, on Political Realities. No matter what the Democrats would like us to believe, it was their policies that led to the housing crisis and subsequently, the bursting of the housing bubble. Even though some of President Bush’s policies did not pan out, even causing our debt and deficit to grow, it was not his fault the Democrats rejected his warning that trouble was coming. No matter how the liberal Democrats try to spin this issue, the facts can not be avoided. The blame lies directly at the feet of the Democrats.
Having said that, let us look at what Barack Obama’s role was in this. He doesn’t want Americans to know this, but he played more than just a passing role in the crisis. His efforts to increase the number of minority homeowners helped cause this mess. His words, not mine.
Let me make sure you read that correctly. Barack Obama says Mitt Romney wants to go back to the same policies that caused this mess in the first place, but it was his own policies that helped create the mess. What else should we expect from a man who, by his very actions and words, proves he cares little for the truth?
Not only did Barack Obama help create the housing crisis, but as President Obama, he has continued the same policy of pressuring banks to make risky loans. Hasn’t that already proven to have caused this mess? Why would he insist on going back to the same failed policies? Better yet, why would he continue blaming the Republicans, in general, and Mitt Romney, in particular? Actually, I know the answer to that last question. It wouldn’t fit his narrative to tell the truth, therefore another lie has to be told.
In what is an unsurprising move, Obama has since tried to lay the blame at the feet of the mortgage companies. Here is more from The Daily Caller. You would do well to read it all, as it contains information heretofore unreleased to the public.
Even then, Barack Obama was trying out his lines about greed and shifting the blame for policy failures to others. Even then, Barack Obama was unwilling to accept the policies he was advocating had failed and had caused troubles for a lot of businesses and individuals. How familiar does that sound? Not much different from his actions some four years later. And he wants to accuse Mitt Romney of wanting to go backwards and to give him another four years to get it right? I think not.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2926220/posts
IMHO, a silly argument stuck in the flawed view of R vs D, rather than R+D=Uniparty.
No, both republicans and democrats were responsible for the policies that led to the housing market collapse, including W. Bush. It happened because mortgage lenders were required to lend money to people who were unlikely to pay it back (a form of DEI). So to keep their individual institutions from collapsing, the loans were pooled and a market was devloped for them, and they were sold to investors. Eventually, the defaults hit investors hard as too many loans became worthless.
If lenders had been allowed to use their regular, time-proven standards for making loans instead of being forced, based on the race of the borrower, to make what they knew would be bad loans, the housing crisis wouldn’t have happened. These race-based standards for making loans were implemented by the Clinton administration with support of congressional republicans, and they were enthusiastically continued by W. Bush.
Saw the headline that there is a “new” Project Manager for the CA Rail System boondoggle and the “new” manager says the new completion date is 2045.
While pondering that news … and thinking how can more $10’s of Billions be sent to CA … which the CA Government will dutifully REPROGRAM and DIVERT to other uses???
The answer is simple and was passed right before our eyes IN PUBLIC.
The new “Big Beautiful Budget” BILL (CR) has the Budget Line and Money attached to it for this purpose.
Once this BILL is signed, President Trump will LOOSE every court battle to stop the funds, because HE signed the waste into law.
It’s a High-Speed rail system in name only.
Kinda like those Mississippi River bridges in Louisiana that cost zillions of $$$, but once you cross the river, they dead end in the swamp…
Between AI, mRNA gene edits, facial recognition technology (and I’ll refrain from using the B word) their 15-minute workforce city agenda hasn’t skipped a beat. Here come the cattle cars..
Having no idea if this fake or real, as President Trump said in his first term “the news is fake, the leaks are real” could you share a link to where this headline was, or at least the name of the media outlet (such as WSJ, NYT, etc.). Thanks.
AP News, April 30, 2025: “Five years past that deadline, no tracks have been laid and (CEO) Choudri acknowledges it may take nearly two more decades to complete most of the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles segment, even if funding is secured.”
AP News Link: https://apnews.com/article/california-high-speed-rail-ca70a2fe9174ee267bcbf24be201af2f
The real “price tag” has been estimated at $250b to finish to LA.
They are just getting started fleeting the taxpayer.
Jimmie Dean makes great links that taste great with pancakes.
Medical experts say eating dry spaghetti
without little sausages is harmful.
No sauces…No links 🙂
The hubster does Jimmie Dean sausage patties outside on our Blackstone griddle that would make your eyeballs roll up in your head
Gotta try it to believe it
Poor Letitia James running out of room to hide in .
When L’il ‘Titia convicted PDT of Obeying the Law, she mortgaged her own house.
2 Samuel 7
Good is the Word of the Lord!
Sublime
“Sovereignty Beats Journalism” – Guest lineups for Sunday News Shows…
AP link: https://apnews.com/donald-trump-donald-trump-es-mark-warner-tammy-duckworth-jason-smith-1d1a1d84c442bdf0c5f157b453db4517
CNN and CBS loaded for this week’s Dem talking points.
I just watched ARP-A Righteous Perspective conservative site on YT. (It is very good) It showed AOC at her Townhall mtg being shamed by a very vocal young woman who was escorted out. But what was so obvious to me is that Cortez was dressed exactly like Kamala Harris— wearing a pant suit with a long jacket at the top. Unmistakable mimicry. She’s trying WAY WAY too hard and doesn’t have one ounce of authenticity in her sick socialist bones!
She presents herself well, but the timbre of a candidate isn’t pushing words, it’s ideas vetted and defended
She’s never been tested. In that way she’s just like Kamala, all manufactured optics, but nothing under the hood.
Even if there was substance, it would be roundly rejected…not long ago, a great man said America will NEVER be a socialist country, then we re-elected him
“…all manufactured optics…”
Yes! Sandy Cortes grew up in Yorktown Heights and attended the public schools there! Yorktown is a middle to upper middle class Westchester County suburban town, I know this because my husband grew up there.
The marxist party keeps nominating STUPID!
It is beyond my comprehension that this intellectually lightweight woman could even be considered presidential material.
Mao jacket.
Where is this?
St.Pete Beach??
A: Brazil, I believe. But similar events were world-wide.
The VAXX/Virus Bio-Attack was meant to plunge America and then the world into their One World Government-tyranny.
We say to the darkness, YOU HAVE LOST AND WE HAVE WON, TO THE GLORY OF GOD, HALLELUJAH!
Isaiah 13:
Yes, Lord Jesus!
California?
In California police were on horseback to keep beaches closed for Covid…
Q: Why did NewScum Close the Beaches?
A: News article Published April 30, 2020. Event was in response to COVID-19 Lockdown / Separation policy.
Everywhere.
The MS-13 illegal “immigrants” who brutally tortured,mutilated, sexually assaulted, & murdered those Black College kids in Corey Booker’s Democrat cesspool “Hood” got their due process after the murders. They never should have been in our country to begin with. The Democrats were desperate to bury the exposure of their policies by having their Mockingbird media kill the story. Seeing Corey Booker pandering to MS-13 now is quite the height of hypocrisy.
Final defendant in ’07 Newark schoolyard murders gets 195 years
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/final-defendant-in-07-newark-schoolyard-murders-gets-195-years/
The Chinese would save considerable public money through the efficient use of an officer’s service pistol on the way out of the courtroom. 💀
And thee next of kin gets a bill for the bullet.
Wondering what the victim’s families have to say?
Nothing. That’s the point. The purpose is to humiliate them.
“If we lived in Texas or Georgia, this conviction would be old news in 2016”
That is a great point but I can guarantee you the Democrat-CIA controlled NJ media would not go near those families.
Don’t forget…every single time Dems are confronted about illegals voting in federal/presidential elections their response is “it’s illegal and rare”. The good news is that Trump has waited to take the fraud on, all those out there screeching about how crap ain’t getting done must trust his timing on finally addressing how Dems became SO SUCCESSFUL rigging elections. He even reminded us all last Tuesday when he spoke in Michigan that he won a third term, so heed his words. Besides, everyone should know by now the guy is like a dog with a bone, and we still don’t know everything he’s got on election fraud, along with God only knows what else
2007 to 2025 is a helluva long time for what only took at most a coupla years in TX and GA, how convenient “justice” is meted out after the 2024 cycle
Cory Booker Leads House Democrats to El Salvador Over Deportee Garcia, Alleged MS-13 Member
https://deepnewz.com/el-salvador/cory-booker-leads-house-democrats-to-el-salvador-over-deportee-garcia-alleged-ms-6efd6ff6
The MS-13 Massacre Corey Booker Does Not Want Black America to Remember
When Illegal Immigrants Kill Black People, The Media Look Away
https://jackcashill.substack.com/p/the-ms-13-massacre-corey-booker-does
Why not give these Democrats a one-way ticket to the place they apparently really want to be? We don’t need them here.
Ahh yes, who can forget Booker’s Blackface interview with his bromantic love interest Tim Scott! I almost forgot about those two.. they look so happy together! I wonder how Trey Gowdy is taking this?
With a lavender necktie, usually.
That was his tongue, not a necktie…
Maryland POTUS hopeful Wes Moore would fit into this picture with those 2 closeted persons easily. Seems to be a pattern.
sooo happy RINO & DINO have soooo joyful UNI-PARTY time…….clow*s…….
I’m Catholic and care a less about that Pope. He wasn’t a good one! PDJT cared more about the people of the world than FRANCIS ever did. Just because someone gets PICK to run the show doesn’t mean JACK. Hopefully these GLOBALIST religious figures PICK one that actually care about the CHRISTIANS that are being KILLED around the world. Also, Pope Francis open BOARDER stance was and is WRONG! It KILLS the POOR!
I read in the excellent Forward years ago that he was put under (Liberal) psychiatric care in the 70’s. You can make of that what you will.
Sounds like a cultural marxist training camp? Today they simply call it “university.”
Perhaps, I was thinking more like a MK-Ultra like they did to Whitey Bulger and than monitored and protected him who was their “test” project while he launched a decades long reign of murder & terror in Boston. Sterling Reputation Booby Mueller even got involved in protecting him. I theorize Steve Flemmi was also, but the solids I have for Bulger, whose brother was the Democrat Senate President of MA. They were even bumping into ‘retired’ FBI guys running rackets in Fla
Pedophilia?
He was a Jesuit…that’s how they roll…all political.
IMHO–we need a good, solid, holy Franciscan Friar as Pope.
I agree. They also need to fumigate the School Of Darkness disciples who have infiltrated the Catholic Church.
Yes!
Yep. Jesuits are the tip of the spear fighting for all things insanely liberal in the Catholic church. I will be highly surprised if the new Pope is not Francis v. 2.0.
Confronting Jezebel:
Exclusive Interview: Steve Bannon Interviews Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Better than average chance it’s primarily a message delivered by J D Vance from Virginia Guiffree to Bill Clinton and Alex Soros
At least we can assume the Popester wasn’t on his treadmill
https://apnews.com/general-news-0457ddcc5d784bf8b0a3598287407e64
PRESIDENT TRUMP’s TRUTH SOCIAL
WEEK 15 WINS: President Trump’s 100th Day Marked by More Success
This week, President Donald J. Trump celebrated his 100th day in office — and set the course for the next 100 days of growth, prosperity, and success for the American people.
(Click) -> Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 15
☝️… and that’s how “Sovereignty beats Journalism”
“Sovereignty Beats Journalism” is an absolutely perfect title for this piece of artwork!
“ “I wanna thank my Lord, Jesus, for giving me this Kentucky Derby win”
– Jockey Junior Alvarado after winning the Kentucky Derby with his horse Sovereignty”
DC Appeals Court reverses judicial coup against key @RealDonaldTrump moves to lay off workers and cancel grants, activities at Voice of America and other left propaganda agencies.
It’s not an “improper” ruling… it’s just a ruling that was knocked down. The problem is there are no reasonable guardrails on the front-end… by the time it gets to the Appeals Court, the damage has already been done.
Al a “wrap up smear.”
It was a bit more than that, mr. piddles. The district court judges had no jurisdiction over firings and grant cancellations because Congress had set up an alternate method of challenging same – and it doesn’t involve federal judges.
Here is a thread by Margot Cleveland with more details:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1918726388271423522.html
FTA: “BREAKING: HUGE win from Trump Administration and D.C. Circuit enters stay of lower court injunction. Lower court barred Trump Administration from managing Voice of America. D.C. Circuit stayed decision allowing Trump to move forward w/ firings/grant terminations. 1/
“
Hak Turner Radio Show :…Houthis bomb Ben Gurion Airport with hypersonic missiles ….IRON DOME did not detect according HTRS…….
Here we go..
They are intent on getting the Iran part of the 7 nations in 5 year plan. After 9/11 I though they were going to bomb or invade Saudi Arabia, was shocked when they invaded secular Iraq. Then remembered the Project For A New American Century Neocons who were marxist-democrats who migrated over to the Republican party had tried to pitch attacking Iraq in 98 to ChinaGate Clinton and he refused as he was already doing the Neocon project of helping Neo-Nazis,Jihadists (including future Al-Qaeda) and crime cartels (WWII Nazis) bomb,kill and ethnically cleanse/partition Yugoslavia to expand NATO,Islam, & forces hostile to Christians & Russia
How many backup plans ya think they’ve got on #47?
https://images.app.goo.gl/58J3jqWGz1ob484p7
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/united-airlines-halts-flights-to-tel-aviv-is-monitoring-the-situation/
It has been noted here that Rubio as Secretary of State is like a completely different person (in a good MAGA way).
Trying to think through the possibiliites, here’s what I come up with:
I’m basically 50/50 between #1 and #2, and don’t really think #3 or #4 are realistic but throwing them out there as possibilities.
Thoughts? Other possibilities?
Have they really had any losses yet?
He wants to be President of United States and needs MAGA vote to get the numbers.
One must be MAGA to get the MAGA vote. Also, is he Constitutionally qualified? Not that that was a concern in the past/s?
Constitutionally qualified as far as natural born citizen goes? He might be. Marco was born in Miami (1971), but I don’t think his parents had become naturalized citizens yet even though they had been living in Florida pre-Castro.
The Cuban Adjustment Act was passed shortly after Castro came to power in Cuba. There are provisions in that law for Cuban refugees to become citizens. Marco’s situation may be covered by those. Special class of anchor baby, if nothing else.
He does seem to have a ‘resigned’ look nowadays. 🤔
Rubio by the end of the Trump administration
I’ll go with (4) whichever way the wind blows.
To the DC grifters President Trump represents a short term anomaly or blip within their centuries-old system of graft and corruption. Political animals like Rubio are opportunists not ideologues.
In 2014, Rubio was the only Presidential Candidate whose biggest donor attended a Bilderberg meeting.
I wouldn’t rule out #3. After being on the SSCI and dealing with Sen. Warner and the IC on a daily basis, Rubio may have had an epiphany and realized he was working with the bad guys.
I honestly think this started when Rubio was still a Senator and was read in on ARRO. It was at that point, if he didn’t fully understand before, that he realized there are rogue agencies working outside the control of our government and without Congressional oversight.
Maybe there is evidence the deep state installed Castro.
Just a thought. Trump knows Rubio is a player going forward. Trump has brought him in close and Rubio is now at one with the Trump agenda in the publics mind. Rubio is put in a position that in order to protect himself in future elections, he must carry the Trump fire.
Blood in blood out. An initiate must get their hands dirty as collateral against future trust.
“4.” He saw that to win future primary elections, he needed to be MAGA. Years ago, he thought the uniparty was the way to go and it worked for him, for a while. But it stopped working for him, and he didn’t see any prospects of that changing any time soon and also saw what happened to politicians like Nikki Haley.
47 is actually forming
The Apprentice -48.
Steve Bannon: The League of Tyrants – How Global Leaders Are Pushing America to the Edge (1:30:42)
Winston Marshall
3 May 2025
Steve don’t look to good, maybe he should ease off the sauce a bit.
Shave and a haircut might help. He looks like an unmade bed. It distracts from what he has to say.
I don’t believe he drinks much, if at all anymore. Steve is 71 and seems not to be a vane man. He cares more to spend time fighting for freedom and liberty than making sure his hair looks just right every morning. I doubt he gets much sleep.
I correct my word spelling above: “vain”
Does Bannon live on the streets of San Francisco? He would fit right in.
Eccentric people don’t care about clothes. They have greater mental freedom than that.
Yes, most of us just run around nekkid and soak up all that mental freedom… We don’t even have to worry about what clothes to put on every morning…
Pls do post YOUR picture here so we can judge you based on it.
I remember you trashing me for belittling the Ukrainian gnome…And here you are..My, My…
Pulling hair again?
So again we have CIA/NATO Nazi allies attacking Orthodox Churches just like they were doing in Kosovo,Bosnia,Croatia, Macedonia & isolated Monasteries in Serbia on their borders.
Ukrainian Drones Have Been Targeting Historic Orthodox Churches In Russia
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-drones-have-been-targeting-historic-orthodox-churches-russia
As a Cold War warrior, the Russians were a formidable force. Why Russia hasn’t quickly crushed Ukraine is beyond me. So maybe we were fed a bunch of BS back in the 80’s?
While Russian Forces have evolved to become competent and even formidable .. The “massive” Army of the USSR that we “Cold War” Soldiers faced across the Iron Curtain is no more. Russia is NOT the USSR and as the Population of the Federal Russian Republic is a fraction of the USSR. that population and economy will also only support a Force that is a fraction of the Force we faced.
During WWII and the Cold War … the USSR fielded forces that consisted of Divisions, Mechanized Corps, Armies and Fronts (Army Groups)..including entire AIR Armies. The Russian Federal Forces, today, struggle to field a large number of Offensive capable Brigades and Air Squadrons, let alone whole Divisions or larger.
The correlation of forces, including Combat Multipliers, allows Russia only enough marginal superiority to be dominant a few points …. but sufficient to apply enough broad front pressure to retain the initiative by keeping NATO forces in the Ukraine off-balance and in a constant state of slow retreat. If WWII is an indicator …. the slow crumbling of the Large Axis Armies was what eventually broke the East front because there was no large source of replacements …. This is the reason the EU and Ukraine are desperate to “officially” get a larger number EU+US Troops nose to nose with Russian Forces. The Ukraine is running out of troops and the trickle of NATO “volunteers” is insufficient to fill the gap.
The one constant of warfare even in today’s “Hi-Tech” battlefield environment … somebody has to physically man, hold and occupy “a front” to protect the Hi-Tech button pushers.
”I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don’t people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.”
George Kennan
I agree. Ditto China today. It’s the governments, not the people. I thought (hoped) when the Cold War ended and the USSR was broken apart that the US, Europe and Russia would enter a new, better age. NATO should have been dissolved.
“Why Russia hasn’t quickly crushed Ukraine is beyond me.
Putin isn’t into “crushing.”
He believes “crushing” is self defeating. “Crushing” leaves in it’s wake a population with the seeds of hate. Those seeds of hate will eventually sprout, requiring another round of “crushing.” And so on.
Putin is interested in convincing innocent civilians caught in the war he’s not after them. So, when the dust settles there are no remaining seeds of hate.
The Israelis are into “crushing.” They are crushing everybody in Palestine. And they are, of course, seeding the population there with hate. A hate which will arise again at some later date. And so on and so on.
“Crushing” is so ’60’s, ’70’s and ’80’s
Of all the major Western countries with recent elections—the UK, Germany, Canada, and now Australia—only the U.S. rejected the ruling progressive elites.
Only the US was founded on freedom. Only the US has the US Constitution.
We are a completely different breed. Polluted by the breed that is a majority in the countries you mentioned. But we have a will away from the coasts that is unwilling to go quietly in the dark.
Romania is trying.
And Hungary, and Italy, with AFD, Reform and Le Penn gaining,…
Our administration ought to use this country’s incredible strength and influence to assist in any way possible, the Romanian people in seeing that their electoral will be done.
One aspect of the whole Harvard University Saga that I don’t hear anyone addressing is the amount of PROPERTY places like that own… AND PAY NO PROPERTY TAXES ON.
According to the Google AI Machine:
Harvard owns property not only within Cambridge and Boston, but also in Washington D.C., Wyoming, New Hampshire, and even internationally.
In Allston [urban neighborhood of Boston], Harvard owns approximately 358 acres, with 184 acres specifically dedicated to teaching, learning, and research.
Harvard’s status as a nonprofit allows it to avoid paying property taxes on its extensive real estate portfolio.
All the big schools across the country are like this. Yale University… huge property holdings in a small city that has turned into an ABSOLUTE PIT OF DESPAIR over the past few decades… the general rule of thumb is: “don’t go into downtown New Haven unless you absolutely have to”…
Yale owns over 400 properties in New Haven, with a total assessed value exceeding $2.5 billion, according to the New Haven Register.
A large portion of Yale’s property is tax-exempt, including its academic buildings, according to the Yale Daily News. In 2021, Yale’s tax-exempt properties accounted for about 43% of the total value of the city’s tax-exempt properties, according to the Yale Daily News.
And on, and on, and on… Boston University… MIT… you can make a list a mile long…. HUGE property holdings, no taxes…
Columbia University is the largest private landowner in New York City, owning over 320 properties with a combined value of nearly $4 billion.
NYU’s real estate holdings were estimated to be worth around $15 billion in 2018.
Columbia is the “largest private landowner in New York City”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tax exempt, tax exempt, tax exempt, tax exempt, tax exempt…
Some universities pay a “PILOT” (payment in lieu of taxes) but they don’t have to.
I don’t think the average person understands that much about property tax exemptions. They think it just means municipalities don’t get that revenue, but taxes are based on the value of all property, exempt or not.
It’s complicated.
They’ll always tell you that these universities are “good for” a municipality, they bring in people who spend money, etc.
Well so does every resident who does pay taxes.
Worse, the politicians can pander to the temporary residents, the students, who can vote people into office even if they may be be there anymore before the start of that person’s term of office.
Real estate surrounding these tax-free entities often becomes run down, has anyone noticed how many major universities are surrounded by slums?
YEP … all one has to do is compare the Campus Pictures to the reality surrounding campus real estate, either via an internet search or during campus visits.
The look on the faces was the most fascinating part of the college campus visits I used to coordinate and chaperone for prospective college bound soccer players I assisted as well as my own daughters.
Great observation. Here is another observation.
“may conduce to the education of the English and Indian youth of the country” See Harvard Charter
Not one foreign student was contemplated attending Harvard.
Not one Asian,, Israeli, Chinese, Arab or otherwise.
Excellent point. Tax them Mr. President!
Rickards: Either The U.S. And Russia Stand Up To China Or We’re The Sucker in the Poker Game (8:49)
Bannon’s War Room
4 Apr 2025
https://rumble.com/v6svc8x-rickards-either-the-u.s.-and-russia-stand-up-to-china-or-were-the-sucker.html
cid:B83620BD-4A23-4443-A1BE-3BF33FFAFA7F
How long before Schiff is indicted?
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
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@ElonMusk on whether he regrets joining forces with Trump and DOGE:
“No.”
“Basic things need to happen. We need to have a secure border, we need safe cities, and sensible spending.”
“If President Trump had not won, I think the Democrat campaigns to import the vast numbers would have succeeded, and during the Kamala regime, they would have turned America into a one-party state from which we can never escape.”
Video linked….
Hopefully…
Bannon: “The People In Business With The CCP Will Burn In The Lowest Pit Of Hell” (7:57)
Bannon’s War Room
3 May 2025
https://rumble.com/v6sx8pf-bannon-the-people-in-business-with-the-ccp-will-burn-in-the-lowest-pit-of-h.html
LA Port tracking data:
https://signal.portoptimizer.com/
The “CCP” is just a blip in the ancient history of China. In time, they will go the way of the Communist Party in the USSR. Communism is not a sustainable social order: the Soviets realized this, and in time so will the Chinese.
They suppressed “T-Square,” but everybody saw it and understood.
Most US-Bound iPhones Will No Longer Be Made In China, Says Apple | ZeroHedge
The majority of the iPhones heading for the United States in the coming months will be made in India, while Vietnam will be the main production point for products such as iPads and Apple Watches.
During a call with investors discussing the tech giant’s second-quarter results, Cook was asked about how the company planned to adapt to the new U.S. tariff regimen, which significantly targets Chinese-manufactured goods.
“For the June quarter, we do expect the majority of iPhones sold in the U.S. will have India as their country of origin and Vietnam to be the country of origin for almost all iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and AirPods products also sold in the U.S,” Cook said.
Trump has imposed a 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods shipped into the United States, which experts say would have increased the cost of iPhones and other Apple products.
However, the White House provided temporary exemptions to a range of electronic devices and components imported into the United States last month.
Cook said that China would “continue to be the country of origin for the vast majority of total product sales outside the U.S.”
“We have a complex supply chain. There’s always risk in the supply chain,” he said. “What we learned some time ago was that having everything in one location had too much risk with it.”
He also said Apple has started to create a stockpile of products so that the majority of its devices sold in the United States this quarter will not come from China.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/most-us-bound-iphones-will-no-longer-be-made-china-says-apple
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
It was Barack Obama who ordered Hillary Clinton NOT BE PROSECUTED
What happened to “No one is above the law???”
“Chief intelligence correspondent tells us in sworn testimony on Capitol Hill, one of the insiders told lawmakers what she was told — During closed door testimony last summer, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said the Obama administration’s justice department advised the FBI not to pursue the gross negligence statute for Hillary Clinton in the mishandling of classified information”
“The transcript releases show an inherent two tier system”
Video linked….
It’s Lil X’s birthday today.
Growing up so fast.
BTW is that his official name now? Lil X?
May the Fourth be with him.
Sounds like a rapper pseudonym.
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
🚨 Riverside County, California Chad Bianco says Democrats in Sacramento are making deals with lobbyists to NOT solve the homeless problem
“This special interests relationship that between lobbyists and special interests and Sacramento Legislators with the kickbacks and the free trips and the the business trips and everything else, that’s keeping this going”
Cont….
Got this link in another blog and when I read it I was thoroughly entertained by the arguments in the posts written below it. Quite a discussion on this impoundment issue. You might enjoy it and I’d be interested in what people here have to say about it. Read the posts below the article. Some very good arguments. Reminded me a bit of the arguments over the natural born citizen clause in the Constitution and Pres. requirements that went round and round and still are to this day.
https://reason.com/2025/05/03/what-if-the-president-doesnt-want-to-spend-money/?comments=true#comments
I remember this, we used to hear about “expedited removal” all the time:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, closing remarks at the Hill & Valley Forum; 39 minutes in length:
He goes into great detail in how the Trump admin. is thinking and creating long term solutions to our nation’s economy.
So Good!
Below is the rewritten transcript from Howard Lutnick’s closing remarks at the 2025 Hill & Valley Forum, as delivered by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, along with brief remarks from the co-founders of the forum. The transcript uses the exact words from the provided text, identifies speakers, separates questions and answers where present, corrects spelling and grammar, and organizes the content into paragraphs based on subject matter.
Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Anecdote about Trade Negotiations Revealing Hidden Subsidies
We had a trade conversation with a country that sells a lot of cars into America, and we don’t sell hardly any cars into their market. And we were getting nowhere; we were just getting nowhere, and the meeting was coming to an end. And the trade minister, at the end of the meeting, drops his head and goes, “Fine, we’ll give your car manufacturers the same subsidy that we give our car manufacturers.” Bang.
Introduction and Reflections on Cabinet Expertise and Transparency
Good evening. [Applause] What a gorgeous room and what an amazing crowd. So, I am honored to be here this evening to speak with you and to tell you what’s going on. But I have to tell you, today was an incredibly uplifting day for me because, if you all remember, once upon a time, before the election, I was driving the recruiting for a transition. So, I was recruiting all the possible candidates to be members of the Cabinet, and so I really got to know all the members of the Cabinet. And so, today, when we go around the table, and as we did last Cabinet meeting, and you get to hear and see each member of this amazing Cabinet speak, and how knowledgeable they are, how thoughtful they are, how powerfully they represent the President and our country, you know, I can’t be more proud to be associated with them. And actually, I get a little, you know, happy at that. [Applause]
So, and one other thing: I did an All-In Podcast, and then I was talking to David, and he said, “You know, lots of other secretaries are doing an All-In Podcast.” I mean, just think about that—Cabinet secretaries willing to sit for an hour and a half and talk, and for everybody to see and listen and hear. I mean, that’s a level of transparency that is so far afield from any government ever, right? And the power that they’re all capable, sharp, articulate, and knowledgeable should make you, at least when you go to bed at night, think we’re really in good hands. You’ve got an amazing President, you’ve got an amazing Cabinet around him, and that’s why we’re going to deliver. We’re going to deliver for America. So, thank you very much for having me here tonight.
Explanation of the Commerce Department’s “Investment Accelerator” Program
It’s 100 days, right? It’s 100 days, and the Investment Accelerator—so that’s an idea that comes from the Commerce Department. And the idea was, it came first from a truth set out by the President, saying, “If you invest in America a billion dollars, we’ll take care of you.” And I tried to get him to just do 10 billion, but you know, I tried my best. So, we stood up the Investment Accelerator, and what that does is, if you’re investing in America, we will help you with permits, we will help you with regulation, we will help you move your ability to build manufacturing in America, right? And so, we are out there as a recruiter, right, and a service provider for the companies that want to build in America, and we have brought in six trillion dollars of commitments for America. [Applause]
Breakdown of $6 Trillion in Manufacturing Commitments Secured for America
Six trillion dollars—that’s an incredible amount of money. Two and a half trillion in the business of semiconductors. Two and a half trillion, right? I’ve got Jensen’s here—where’s Jensen, right? Jensen, you know, sometimes you call people out and make a little investment, you know, but Jensen, what do you commit, 500 billion? Is that the number? See, now that’s how you get to two and a half trillion, right? Imagine if I was doing an auction: do I have one, do I have two, do I have three? Someone says 500 billion, you’re like, “Way to go!” That’s a way to move the needle forward. So, you’ve got Jensen at 500 billion, we all know TSMC did 165 billion, Apple said 500 billion, Meta said 500 billion, right? And all of a sudden, you’re saying, “Wow, that’s, you covered a lot of ground.” Then, and you haven’t covered them all—SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, Google. I see my friend Ruth over there—Google making giant commitments. These companies, these companies are investing in America, and a key reason that they’re investing in America is because they know that this is the best market in the world, and that there are going to be tariffs that are going to change the way business is done going forward. [Applause]
So, first, I thought what I’ll do first is go through sort of this investment so you get a sense of scale, and then we’ll talk about the tariffs and the model and why we think the way we think. So, you have two and a half trillion in semiconductors. Yesterday, for the 100 days, I flew out to Arizona to the TSMC plant, right, where they’re building 165 billion, and we got them their permit, and they were able to go in the ground already. So, they had trucks behind me, you know, I gave an interview with the trucks behind me moving dirt to build a fab in Arizona.
Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing Investments and Government Partnerships
Two and a half trillion dollars by sovereign wealth funds and governments committed to driving construction and manufacturing coming back to America. Because the deal they’re going to make is, “Look, I have some domestic business. If I invest X or Y or Z in America, like a government, can I make a deal with you?” And, you know, my favorite line to say about President Trump is, “Let the dealmaker make his deals,” right? So, when they say, “What do you think of that?” I go, “Well, it better be a big number.” And when they say a big number, I’m like, “Great, let’s go talk to the boss.” And that’s how you do things that are extraordinary and interesting because we need to build manufacturing here.
The Pharmaceutical Industry Imbalance and Bringing Production Back to America
The pharma business, right, the pharmaceutical business, the medicine business—you all know that we’re the only country that pays for drugs. We’re the only one that pays for medicines. The rest of the world lives as a co-pay on us. I mean, think about that: when we pay $1,000, they pay 50 bucks, right? It’s a co-pay, and they all free-ride on us. So, the power the United States has to go bring it home—bring your manufacturing home because the customer and all the money that pays for you is here. All of it is here. And when you think about that for a minute, you’d say, “Of course, they have to come build here because all the money is here. They can’t stay where they are; they don’t pay any money. There’s no alternative; there’s nowhere else to go. We’re the only country on earth that pays for medicines, pays for R&D, pays to keep the world healthy. We do it.” And so, it is a power. [Applause]
Success Story of Light Truck Tariffs Creating American Manufacturing Dominance
And then, you have another 500 billion, we’ll call it industrials—cars, steel, core manufacturing business of America, right? What you may not have thought about—so, if you go back to Trump’s, President Trump’s first term, he put on a tariff on light trucks. Light trucks, so think of the, you know, the Ram 150, you know, the pickup trucks that are very popular in America. Now, close your eyes and think: every sedan you’ve ever seen, there’s lots of foreign brands; matter of fact, as many foreign brands as there are domestic brands, right? But think of light trucks: can you think of a foreign brand that you’ve seen lately? See, you can’t imagine one because domestic production was driven by President Trump’s tariff of 25% on light trucks. So, if you want to know, does it work? Is this sensible? Just close your eyes or go walk around and say, “Do I see light trucks?” And the answer is, you see domestically manufactured light trucks, and that is amazing. And it should give you the confidence of how this works.
Addressing Non-Tariff Trade Barriers and Unfair Government Subsidies Abroad
Steel, just for a moment—if you want to talk about steel and aluminum, you all know what a blast furnace looks like, right? It’s that red-hot, looks like lava being poured out. Well, what do you think the most expensive input to that business is? Do you think it’s the iron ore that you melt or the monstrous amount of energy and power you need to melt it? It seems all power. Now, why did we used to have 50 blast furnaces and 50 aluminum smelters, and now we have 10? Why do we have 10? Is because if you’re in the steel and aluminum business, you’re competing with foreign governments, not foreign competitors. How much joy would you have if I called you up and said, “The President has decided we’re going to back you as our national champion. You’re now going to kick the crap out of everybody in the world. How about that? We’ll sell you energy for half off. No, that’s not good enough—75% off.” So, the countries that have that kind of support dominate the steel business. They don’t dominate the steel business because we’re not good at it; they dominate the steel business because there’s something else going on.
Okay, we had a trade conversation with a country that sells a lot of cars into America, and we don’t sell hardly any cars into their market. And we were getting nowhere; we were just getting nowhere, and the meeting was coming to an end. And the trade minister, at the end of the meeting, drops his head and goes, “Fine, we’ll give your car manufacturers the same subsidy that we give our car manufacturers.” Bang. If I move my company from one state to another, you call the state’s Economic Development Corporation, and they make you a deal. They pay your taxes up; you know, they give you a tax deal to go. What do you think the Europeans do with the VAT? What do you think they do with the VAT, right? Does it cost them money to give someone back the tax money? Like, if I move to another state and the state gives me a rebate of my tax money, it didn’t cost the state that money; that’s money that I brought into the state.
So, we are competing when we say non-tariff trade barriers. Sometimes they’re regulatory rules that make it impossible for you to do business; sometimes they’re just, you know, they make a quota system or some other system, or you can’t have a dealer, or you can’t do this, or you can’t do that. But many, many times, the reason you can’t succeed in those markets is because you’re not competing with a company; you’re competing with a company who’s got a partner who’s the government. [Applause] And I’m not just talking about China, and that’s what gets our President to say, “Friends and foe,” because our allies, you know, if you think about it, we just weren’t paying attention. We just didn’t have an industrial policy, so they got away with it.
I can sell—like, you know, one of the examples I give is Korea. In 2012, we made a deal with Korea that they could sell cars in America. So, I’m 63; when I was growing up, there was no Hyundai and Kia; these weren’t cars that I was used to seeing. In 2012, they started coming into our market, and the deal was, you could bring in cars, and we’ll sell your market agriculture, whatever people in government made that deal. So, what I had heard was that then McDonald’s tried to bring in French fries, and they were rejected because McDonald’s could not prove the origin of the potato. So, I asked the Korean trade minister, I said, “You know, I heard this story; is this true?” Like, it sounded to me like classic folklore, like it’s not true; that’s just a story. And the trade minister looked at me like I had no idea, and then she didn’t even answer. Then we had another meeting, no answer, and then they made their offer, and in the middle of the second page was, “We will eliminate agricultural origin.” And I said to the guy, “Wow, that was a real story.” And he’s like, “Yes, you know, I get to do this stuff.”
So, you can tell—so, first off, I’m vying for the Cabinet member who’s having the best time, okay? I just want you to know, that’s the contest I’m in: who’s having a better time? So, I’m meeting with the Indian trade minister, okay? I mean, you’re getting the idea; I meet with a lot of trade ministers, in case you’re wondering, like, what does he do all day? He says, “We are religiously—first, they say, we have a lot of farmers; we have to protect our farmers; we have a lot of small farmers; we have to protect our farmers.” And I said, “Yeah, but everybody’s got farmers; they have to protect farmers, and you know, we want to make a proper trade deal.” And he says, “Well, with respect to your row crops, corn, things, we’re religiously opposed to GMO—genetically modified seeds. It’s a religious thing.” And I, you know, but you got to remember, he’s talking to me, and we’re in a meeting, so I said, “So, let me get this straight: you are religiously opposed to genetically modified seeds?” He says, “Yeah.” I said, “So, do all your farmers in India get their seeds from the seed monastery?” Because the monastery is keeping the seeds because they don’t want to intermingle and intermarry with the rest of the seeds of the world. Because if you don’t have a genetically modified seed, the insects will shred your crop. So, I said to him, “Oh, you’re right; you don’t have insects in India.” You know, and then, so what happens is, you get to put these silly concepts aside and get to it.
Breaking Down the $1.2 Trillion Trade Deficit and Potential GDP Growth
So, I’d like to talk about what does it mean to get to it and why. So, we start with a $1.2 trillion trade deficit, okay? $1.2 trillion trade deficit, and people say trade deficits don’t matter. I have a trade deficit with my barber—actually, I shouldn’t use that example; it’s not really a good one for me. I have a trade deficit with my grocery store, right? I just buy stuff from them. That’s ridiculous. Well, if I buy $1.2 trillion more from other people than they buy from me, I am driving their GDP to the tune of $1.2 trillion. I’m driving their GDP. So, if we cut the trade deficit one quarter, $300 billion, meaning if we brought home $300 billion of production, our GDP is about 29 trillion, so let’s just call it 30 for easy math. $300 billion of increased domestic production will grow our GDP 1% a year for the rest of our lives. So, if you want to know why we’re doing it, because if we cut the trade deficit in half, that’s two points GDP growth in our economy.
You see, if you study our economy, why are we, who are so amazing entrepreneurs and so great at so many things, why is our growth rate not dramatically, wildly, impressively above everybody else? And the answer is because after World War II, we decided to export the power of our economy to rebuild Europe, to rebuild Japan. Then we had the Korean War; we’re going to rebuild Korea. And then we had the Vietnam War; we’re going to rebuild Southeast Asia. And we’re always rebuilding, and never once did we think about, “Whoa, how about a little America?”
So, 1% of GDP if we get $300 billion of domestic production. So, what happens is, when we do a trade deal, you’re going to listen now because you’re at this dinner, because one of us on TV is going to say a number: this will be $5 billion of additional market access, this will be $10 billion of additional market access, this will be $15 billion, this will be $20 billion, this could be $50 billion. And when you add that up, you’ll say, “Son of a gun, they’re going to add 1% at a minimum to GDP. That’s amazing.” And what if they charge 10% tariff to the world, and we didn’t even go up a point, which is—it’s definitely going up—you realize that’s $300 billion a year in cash. That’s worth more than one point of GDP; I promise, that’s actually mathematically for the government worth about two and a half points of GDP.
Construction—you remember some guy standing up here just before said the number like some huge number, like $6 trillion. Do you realize you have to hire a lot of construction people, right? I was at the TSMC plant; they said 40,000 construction workers are going to be working for them. They had one fab, which was 15,000 construction workers, but now that they’re building multiple buildings at the same time, they’ll get up to 40,000 workers. That’s GDP in every way you slice it. That’s two points of GDP. So, if you do trade deals, if you do construction, and you have tariffs, you have the greatest growth opportunity for the greatest economy in the world, and we will move demonstrably away from the growth rate of the rest of the world because we’re going to start thinking America first.
Now, when I tell the trade ministers who I talk to, I remind them that America first does not mean America only, and it does not mean America exclusively. It just means, look, we’re running a $2 trillion budget deficit, we’re running a $1.2 trillion trade deficit, we’ve got $36 trillion in debt. The world needs a strong, powerful America to protect the world, to protect the West, and to protect our way of life. So, give us a little time to get our house in order, but we will not do this to hurt you. We are here talking about this to focus, for a change, after 80 years of focusing on you and letting you take advantage of us, how about we just focus a little bit on us to get our house in order, and then we’re not going to take action that hurts you, but we’ve got to make sure that we bring manufacturing home.
The Human Impact of Offshoring on American Communities and Workers
So, let’s talk about manufacturing at home. What does that mean? So, we’re the world’s consumer, right? We’re the customer, right? So, China has just under a $20 trillion GDP, and they buy under—they consume under $10 trillion, okay? And we consume just over $20 trillion. So, we’re the customer of the world; we buy everybody’s things. So, you can’t call your customer up, your dominant number one customer, the most important customer to you in the world, and say, “You’re treating me badly; I don’t want to do business with you.” No, when I was in business, when my best customer called me up and said something, I said, “Yes, sir,” stuff like that. So, I think we have more sway than the news media would have you think. We are the customer of the world, and people, you know, when they say, “Oh, they’re all going to do business with each other.” You know, we’re going to South Korea and Japan are going to be pushed into the arms of China. That’s like, that’d be like a comedy movie. You know, what are they going to sell each other? Their cars? Really? I don’t think so.
So, but because we didn’t have an industrial policy, we let China into the World Trade Organization, right? We let all these other countries have the opportunity, and companies basically figured out—I mean, think of NAFTA for a minute. Just think of NAFTA for a minute. You work at a car plant in Detroit or Ohio, and then the geniuses in Washington make a deal that say you can move your plant to Mexico or Canada as if they’re a state. No worries; they’re like a state, right? You can go back and forth over the border; it’s like going from Alabama to Georgia; it’s just nothing; you just zoom. So, you move to Mexico; labor’s inexpensive. You move to Canada; the union, if you can even have a union deal, because the union deal is so much worse; it’s unbelievable because it’s another country. And so, for the companies that moved, this is genius, but for the people who lived—Friday Night Lights, for the real people of America, this is the definition of a nightmare. Your plant where your father worked and your grandfather worked and where you are planning to work just moved to Mexico, and you are out of work, and you have no possibility of recovery.
Average life expectancy, right? The U.S. is one-third college-educated, two-thirds high school-educated, pretty much same as Europe. Average life expectancy of a high school-educated worker in the United States of America: seven years less. It’s not the water; it’s not the food; it’s not the medicine; it’s despair. If I take your factory away, and you don’t have the money to go train and change and do stuff, you just end up in a bad place, and then they send in fentanyl to finish you off, and you kill the productive people of America, the 18- to 40-year-olds who not only are our future workforce but they will create our future population. So, this is a thoughtful attack on America that finally has an industrial policy base that’s thinking about these things and trying to address them.
How Automation and AI Enable Manufacturing to Return to America Affordably
So, the idea is to bring manufacturing home. I don’t think we could have done it 10 years ago because we’re not going to bring home—and I love, you know, when, before I joined government, I didn’t really understand how this works, but if I say a half a sentence in the wrong order, it’s played in the press in a bad way, right? Everybody knows. Just as an aside, we are not going to take away a single penny from someone in Social Security who deserves the money. We’re the richest country on earth; there’s no way we’re doing that. There’s no way we’re doing that. So, when I said—but everybody who’s ever been in the payments business knows the people who complain the most when a payment’s a day late are generally not the proper customers; they’re generally the fraudsters. So, I said that, and they said, “Oh, he’s saying if you don’t pay them, they’re fraudsters.” I didn’t say that; of course, I didn’t say that; that’s ridiculous. So, I have to be careful of what I say, but I didn’t realize how that works.
Because what I said was that automation will allow contract manufacturing to come to America. Automation and AI will allow contract manufacturing to come to America, and because it’s automated, the mathematical price will be probably a little higher, but not so much higher that a tariff can’t solve the difference and allow that contract manufacturing to come back to America. So, when you bring automated manufacturing back to America, like the TSMC semiconductor plant, right, fab that I was at, which is as high-tech as you could possibly get, there’s 3,500 full-time workers who work there. The person who was running the workforce who gave me the tour had tattoos on both arms and had a big set of rings in his ears, okay? And the boss said, “This guy’s the best.” Because what you need is you need 3,000 or 2,500 technicians who are going to fix the automated thing, they’re going to fix that when it breaks, going to keep the coolant going, making sure the power supply is working, making sure the gas is being mixed correctly—I mean, all those things that are called trade craft.
So, we are going to go on the greatest training program this country has ever seen, where we’re going to go to the community colleges and the local universities and state schools and the vocational schools and the high schools and start teaching people trade craft: electricians, carpenters, plumbers—but not a plumber, someone who does a closed-loop coolant system of a high-tech factory. Jobs that start at $75,000 a year and go up to $125,000, not counting overtime and not counting being the boss, okay? That’s the new industrial revolution of America. It’s not going to be everything, but it’s going to be more things than you think it is because everybody who goes to China, they don’t build a factory; they call a contract manufacturer—Foxconn, Delta, right? They call those companies, and they do business in their factories. They have humans; we will have automation and Americans taking care of that automation, and I promise you, it’s coming.
The Administration’s Vision for American Industrial Policy and Economic Security
So, I hope what I’ve explained tonight is that we have a leader who is focused on industrial policy, a policy that’s going to drive economic growth for the United States of America. It’s going to protect America while it’s building its industrial manufacturing base back. It is focused on us being able to take care of ourselves. We need steel and aluminum for our protection; we need to make semiconductors because it is a key to every button that we push in our lives that works, right? I used to have a little lever—the young people won’t know—when you move the seat of your car, there used to be like a lever, and you would shift it like this, right? Now, you have a button. That button has a chip, and everything has a chip. Cars have 300, 400 chips because you press this button, you press this button, you press this button. They don’t necessarily have the high-tech leading-edge chip that is either in an iPhone or, you know, Jensen will describe that if you want an AI chip because it’s monstrous thinking; it’s a big chip; it’s not a small chip, and it can go into a big data center, not a small data center. People get confused; they think everything’s like a teeny little chip. Some chips are like as big as a refrigerator and way more.
So, the administration is on it; it’s thinking about it; it’s trying to do it correctly. It’s done the way Donald Trump wants to do it, and that is our policy: let the dealmaker make the deals. He is on it; this is what he has spoken about and he has thought about his whole adult life, and I am just thrilled and honored to be part of his team. Thank you very much for having me tonight; I really appreciate it.
Dear TexasTamie,
We have a similar experience regarding past Presidents. The difference is, THIS one truly wants a better America. The others were left alone because they were not rocking the financial/power boat of their puppet masters. Donald Trump saw the marionette’s strings many years ago and cut them accordingly.
Here’s hoping we both can survive long enough to look back and say we voted for that guy and are proud of the results.
All the best.
Geo. W. Bush was.
You can thank Obama for most of the media crap.
One would think, based on all her moves as governor and during her campaign, that she is owned by the Dems and the cartels.
Three mafias run Arizona. McCain, Mexican and Mormon.
Tar and feathering???…..
She was helped by the county recorder of Maricopa County Stephen Richer and by Adrian Fontes.
Ukrainian Drones Have Been Targeting Historic Orthodox Churches In Russia
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-drones-have-been-targeting-historic-orthodox-churches-russia
When is the United States and President Trump going to intervene for Christians?
This is bs. We have an endless budget for anyone claiming to be Jewish but our military sits on it’s hands to defend Christians anywhere in the world much less our border.. Serbia, Bosnia, Bibi chopping heads off in Syria, Gaza, Ukraine and now this monster is targeting 1100 year old churches.
The Ukraine doesn’t have any drones. Those drones are from the United States. This is not acceptable.
Indeed, by invading Iraq, we caused the genocide of Christians in that country, and that outcome could easily have been forseen. Our governing uniparty doesn’t much like Christians.
Ukraine makes lots of drones.
I suspect targeting 100% civilian buildings like churches is a war crime.
We’ve been talking about the Pope and Catholicism on this thread, so this is on topic, IMO.
Can someone confirm this is in fact a real Cardinal
He is a real person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbattista_Pizzaballa
I love PizzaBalla! and I’m cooking Meatzaballa’s today!
Gee, wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Seems to me, from this quote, that he’s a sound thinker.
On May Day my wife saw a bunch of people on the street corner protesting PDJT, Musk, with grandmas against DOGE signs etc.. The town is mostly conservative so we suspect many transported in. She said they were mostly old people, very few if any young people. I don’t think the Ds are winning over the young, just leftover MSNBC/CNN watchers.
You must be thrilled
And Sugarland is going Muslim too.
Then pretty soon we can carve out Texas and give it back to Mexico.
Sure it us, champ.
“See the news”?? Really, DEMcsak?
Maybe they are the same people who attended Beyonce, I mean, Kamala Harris rally! 😉
You try so hard. Bless your heart.
Maybe because daddy taught them to hate President Trump?
If there’s a grain of truth to this convenient story, that is. 🧐
Did they wish they had their hair sniffed by the dementia patient pretending to be President, Joey Scranton?
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins interview by the All-in-Podcast host David Friedberg; 50 minutes in length:
Zelensky/NATO/CIA threatening to murder world leaders attending May 9th celebs in Moscow?
Can’t stop laughing watching Howie Kurtz’s show
Jonathan Turley just told Howie that he thought suing “60 Minutes” was a mistake, and didn’t see a Trump win…they never seem to figure out it’s not win or lose, it’s EXPOSURE
Then he and Stef Kight are whining about WHCA getting bypassed by Karoline Leavitt’s hosting a passel of media influencers
I highly recommend watching Howie’s A-block, whatever you think about Ben Domenech, set it aside for a coupla minutes as he takes Leslie Marshall’s Morticia-Adams-center-hair-part and masterfully turns it into her new buttcrack…good times!
https://truthsocial.com/@TheStormHasArrived17/posts/114305135186570085
Trump calls it treason.
See if this will open?
?ssl=1
Schiff criminality.
not a chance in hell shiff or any DEM get convicted of ANY crime in DC or california.
Let’s start by charging him and see where it goes.
Still waiting for the big reveal about what DOGE found that was earth shattering and would change everything . That was over a month ago .
ICYMI 😎
Val1
May 3, 2025 8:16 pm
2025 “Journalism has lost the lead to Sovereignty.”
🥳
Sovereignty was in 16th place at the 1/2!!
Is Xi Jinping’s Grip on Power in China Slipping? | Heng He
American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times
30 Apr 2025
A recently leaked directive details the Chinese Communist Party’s strategy to respond to Trump’s tariffs.
How is the CCP trying to leverage this moment? Will this be the end of China as the “factory of the world?”
And what’s behind the purges in the military, the apparent removal of two Xi Jinping loyalists, and recent changes in top CCP leadership? Why did two top CCP officials recently swap positions?
Joining Jan today is longtime China analyst and commentator Heng He.
0:00:00 – Introduction: Leaked CCP Directive and US-China Tensions
0:00:54 – The Purpose of the Secret Directive: Ending US Dominance
0:02:14 – China’s Shifting Strategy: From Economic Reform to Global Takeover
0:04:48 – United Front Strategy: Influencing European Countries
0:07:41 – Rationing and Preparation for Potential Isolation
0:09:08 – Leadership Changes and Power Struggles in the CCP
0:11:42 – Understanding the Communist Party’s Power Structure
0:14:03 – The Mafia-like Dynamics of CCP Leadership
0:18:12 – Economic Challenges and Internal Conflicts
0:20:33 – The Three Pillars of China’s Economy
0:22:12 – China’s Manufacturing-Focused Economic Model
0:24:17 – Ghost Cities and Planned Economy Strategies
0:25:36 – Returning to Planned Economy Approaches
0:28:05 – Political Reform and Economic Contradictions
0:34:18 – Military Purges and Leadership Changes
0:38:47 – The Party’s Military: Designed to Protect CCP Power
0:43:22 – The Leaked Directive: Going for Broke
0:46:07 – Impact of US Tariffs on China and Neighboring Countries
0:51:09 – The COVID-19 Accountability Website
0:56:16 – The Most Dangerous (or Important) Time Since World War Two
0:59:31 – Concluding Thoughts on US-China Relations
Another person seeing the truth about the Obamas fake facade. Warning, language.
https://x.com/ElizabethGiddi1/status/1918656212779831449
The Obama’s had to pay for their own food while living in the Whitehouse?!?
The horror 😮💨
Michele probably put away more than he did.
https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/covid-19-vaccines-likely-killed-more?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
This puts thing in perspective…
does any State surveillance help us or keep us safe
think about it, if a terrorist act happens, a target is identified and then our military plus more goes after and removes it from earth.
that method loses lives on the front side, but ends the threat immediately.
a global intel will naturally lead to a global subversion of every country.
the threat is us not following their merging and dumbing of the populations, so they can use us like a playtoy and earth a playground
DOJ Settles Wrongful Death Suit Filed By Jan 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt’s Family
May 04, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-settles-wrongful-death-suit-filed-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitts-family
The Department of Justice has reached a settlement with the family of Ashli Babbitt, the Jan 6 rioter who was unjustifiably shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer’s pistol shot, despite her being unarmed and posing no threat of significant harm to anyone in the vicinity. The news comes weeks after President Trump promised to look into the Department of Justice’s effort to defeat the claim. As of a few months ago, the case had been expected to reach trial phase in July.
On Friday, lawyers representing the DOJ and Babbitt’s family notified a Washington DC judge that they’d reached an agreement in principle. When filing suit early last year, Babbitt’s surviving loved ones sought $30 million in compensation for her being killed by officer Michael Byrd. The value of the pending settlement has not yet been revealed, and family attorneys say precise details are still being worked out. Beyond a potential monetary reward, there’s also the question of to what extent the federal government will acknowledge Byrd’s wrongdoing. Babbitt family lawyer Robert Sticht said he expects a signed agreement within three weeks.
Byrd killed then-35-year-old Babbitt as she attempted to climb through a broken window that was part of an interior doorway close to the House chamber. Though the unarmed, 5’2″, 115-pound Babbitt posed no imminent threat of inflicting death or serious injury as she awkwardly navigated the narrow space — with a furniture barricade still ahead of her — Boyd opted against using any type of nonlethal force, and instead shot her from an ambush position, killing her with a bullet that perforated her trachea and lung.
Lee Smith on David Horowitz
David Horowitz, 1939-2025
A remembrance of the author of the American classic, ‘Radical Son,’ who became a leading voice on the right
He saw the left primarily as a secularized religious movement rather than a political one. “It’s a faith that seeks redemption in this life with itself as the savior,” he said. “It’s such a beautiful dream, what lie would you not tell and what crime would you not commit to realize it?”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/remembering-david-horowitz
A: Apparently, none.
Rest in the Vine: David Horowitz 1939-2025
I came across this article at AT:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/chinese_crabs_infiltrating_the_u_s_comments.html
And sure enough, that nasty little bug, Emerald Ash Borer, came from China too. I lost 3 gorgeous trees, to that nasty little pest. Chyna, the gift that keeps on giving.
The map in the following link is interesting…anyway..(I need a life)…
https://www.emeraldashborer.info/about-eab
A hidden cost of globalism.
And from my favorite author over at AT, Clarice Feldman:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/covid_19_on_my_mind.html
Covid is still heavy on people’s minds, given the number of comments to the article…most articles have far fewer responses…especially during the week.
She was one of the earliest and best reporters on this scam.
A lot of people, in particular the “laptop class”, think they went through the equivalent of WWII courageously and graciously, still.
She is an excellent reporter and investigator. Been following her since the Obama days. AT has some very good writers and reporters.