♦ The Primanti Brothers restaurant chain is apparently owned and operated by hardcore left-wing activists.  [Details on Restaurant Here]

About a month ago, it was reported in the Daily Mail the restaurant chain kicked out all of the regular dining patrons so they could stage actors as a campaign event for Kamals Harris in the Pittsburgh area.

The Harris campaign bussed in the press pool and a group of campaign supporters, essentially actors, to stage a photo shoot meet and greet and manufacture the appearance of support for Kamals Harris.

The August event was presented as “ordinary diners,” but was in fact a group of Harris campaign workers.  Essentially this was typical astroturf sold as organic or authentic campaigning; it wasn’t.  Everything around Kamala Harris is fake, manufactured and astroturf performance.

Staff at the restaurant told patrons they would have to leave at 4:00pm due to a ‘private event’ which turned out to be a campaign stop for Kamala Harris.

♦ In a remarkable contrast, today the same restaurant chain blocked republican VP nominee JD Vance from entering the building and campaigning.

A video taken by a diner within Primanti Brothers was posted on Twitter and quickly went viral.  Apparently, most of the people inside the establishment immediately cancelled their orders as soon as they realized what was happening,

The barred JD Vance was undeterred and remained outside the building to thank people as they left.  The video shows JD Vance telling those who were outraged that he paid for cancelled meals, left a tip and reminded the operator of the restaurant of the “no tax on tips” pledge from the campaign.

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Vice Presidential nominee Senator JD Vance, appears on Meet the Press for an argumentative debate on Trump policy.  On the issue of tariffs, this might have been JD Vance’s first opportunity to set the record straight about what tariffs did in the first Trump administration.

Unfortunately, because JD Vance did not have the data to refute the NBC talking points, he missed an opportunity to set the record straight.  Tariffs did not raise prices and consumers did not pay tariff rates in the first Trump administration.  Factually, the exact opposite happened.  Prices dropped when Trump tariffs were put into place, the reasons are explained after the interview. WATCH:  

Our own analysis of U.S. consumer prices in 2019 showed that prices of imported goods actually declined despite the tariffs. A recent report from CPA takes a look at the impact to Chinese exports to the U.S.  [SEE DATA HERE] Bottom line, the tariffs worked to reduce Chinese imports.

CPA – […] Since the Section 301 tariffs were imposed, the share of imports from China has steadily declined from 21.6% in 2017 the year prior to the tariffs to 16.5%, a decline of 5.1%. No other country has lost as much share of total U.S. import penetration over the past five years.

In terms of total import value, Mexico gained the most from the tariffs, adding $110.8 billion. Vietnam gained the second most in import value by $78.4 billion and by far gained the most of total share of U.S. imports. In 2017, Vietnam accounted for about 2% of U.S. imports at $46.5 billion. In 2022, the U.S. imported $127.5 billion in goods from Vietnam, and the share of the total nearly doubled to 3.9%. Other countries in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia all saw significant increases in their value of imports by the U.S. (read more)

With the 2024 election here, it is worth revisiting the actual tariff outcome to American consumers in order to dispel the popular myths about tariffs raising prices here at home.  This might be the cited data you want to bookmark for later reference.

It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..

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Vice-Presidential nominee JD Vance made the Sunday talk circuit today with appearances on several news programs.  In the interest of convenience and reader time, the three primary interviews are below.  WATCH:

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Earlier today, President Trump gave a press conference from Mar-a-Lago in Florida.  Unlike the Kamala/Walz heavily controlled and scripted relationship with their allies in media, President Trump and JD Vance will take any/all questions regardless of topic.

President Trump delivered some short remarks then stood in front of the media and took questions from the assembled press pool for over an hour.  WATCH:

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President Donald J. Trump, and his running mate J.D. Vance, will be in Atlanta today for a rally at Georgia State University Convocation Center.  Doors for the rally open at 1 pm, and the rally is scheduled to begin at 3 pm.  Thousands of people showed up early in the morning ahead of the rally.  Vance is scheduled to speak at 4 pm, and President Trump is scheduled to speak at 5 pm.

LIVESTREAM LINKS…

Right Side on YouTube –  Right Side on Rumble –  Fox 5 Atlanta – C-SPAN live at 6pm

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Tonight, President Donald Trump and Vice-Presidential nominee JD Vance will be holding a joint rally in St Cloud, Minnesota, scheduled for 8:00pm ET.  Livestream Links Below:

RSBN YouTube Livestream – RSBN Rumble Livestream – Trump Campaign Livestream

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Fox News waited until today to put forth the segments of the President Trump interview with host Jesse Watters.  The interview is presented below in three segments.

In the first segment, President Trump outlines some background information about the Secret Service and the FBI from his perspective as it pertains to the attempted assassination on his life.  President Trump also promises to declassify and/or release all files related to the assassination attempt. “There should be nothing to hide,” President Trump said. WATCH:

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In the second segment, President Trump outlines his conversation with now resigned Director Kimberly Cheatle.

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You don’t have to always agree with the datapoints, but don’t discount them either. As I wrote at the time.

The JP Morgan 5 Year Strategic Plan 2024 – Considering that CEO Jamie Dimon would review this type of document and give direct approval, and considering the recent statements of political strategic advocacy by the CEO of JPMorgan {SEE HERE and SEE HERE}, this 2024 -albeit familiar sounding- prediction, was, well, rather curious:

[SOURCE, pdf – page 39]

Subtle… like a brick through a window. 

Who are the MAGA Technocrats recommending for Treasury Secretary again?

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Not surprisingly, a few people viewed my research presentation of JD Vance through a prism of negativity. [SEE HERE] We have many new readers who are not as in-tune with the details of how the bad parts of the DC surveillance state work.  So, let me take you behind the scenes a little and expand for context.

Nothing written about the data set, the facts within the JD Vance storyline, is incorrect.  Everything is cited, accurate and factually true. However, when you get into the intent and consequence part, that’s when people start to become emotional.  Some clarity is needed.

Commenter Freedom Ring provides a good example.  FR says, “JD has an association with Theil [sp?] & Musk; this could be worded to be a positive or negative, but the article paints it as a negative.”

This is correct. The research article positions the relationship between JD Vance and Peter Thiel as a serious challenge, here’s why.

Since his original endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, a good thing, billionaire tech executive Peter Thiel has expanded his company, Palantir Technology, to be the leading edge of a data-processing system.  The Palantir tech is designed to use artificial intelligence (AI) to crawl through massive sets of surveillance data, phone data, facial recognition data, metadata (writ large) etc.

In essence Palantir Tech is receiving government contracts (Defense and Intel) to use the Palantir AI tools to analyze/filter a massive amount of electronic data, and take action based on results from the data, or what might be called SIGNIT (Signals Intelligence).  There are billions at stake in this relationship.

In short, Thiel has a vested financial interest in providing AI surveillance filtration tools to the U.S. government.

Ok fine. That’s just a simple acceptance of what Thiel’s company does now. And Thiel recruited JD Vance back in 2012/2013 while at Yale law school, and personally financed JD’s entry into the world of politics in 2020/2021.  I won’t repeat all the citations but suffice to say, without Thiel there is no Senator/VP Vance.  Thiel leveraged his relationship with Donald Trump to get JD Vance the Ohio primary endorsement in 2022, and the rest is history.  Fair enough. Nothing disputed.

Here’s where things get sticky….

Thiel’s company Palantir Tech provides the AI metadata analytic tools used by the U.S. government in their national security efforts.  The government access to that metadata comes, in part, as an outcome of the legislative FISA authorization.  As a consequence, eliminating, say… FISA(702) surveillance processes, is against the financial interests of Peter Thiel.  If the U.S. government cannot access the dataset, the U.S. govt doesn’t need Palantir’s AI filtration tech.  That’s just the nature of the relationship.

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President Donald Trump and Vice-President nominee JD Vance hold their first MAGA unification rally together today at 5:00pm ET.  The event is being held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the attendance is anticipated to be very big.

This is the first MAGA rally since the attempted assassination of President Trump exactly a week ago in Pennsylvania.  This is also the first rally since President Trump announced his 2024 campaign running mate, Senator JD Vance (selected from within team Thiel/Musk).  President Trump and JD Vance will appear together. The goal of the Trump campaign is to retain the unification of the republican party as rebranded under the 2024 MAGA banner.

The rally start time is 5:00pm ET, with pre-rally speakers ongoing.  Livestream Links Below

RSBN YouTube Livestream – RSBN Rumble Livestream – Trump Campaign Rumble Livestream

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